skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that someone internally may think Chrome is more user friendly and that is why people don't use Firefox, which I don't think is true. Both have always been pretty good, especially since Quantum when Firefox merged the search bar and address bar (which is easier for most people I think).
>> It's a weird article. I think this idea of 'Russian math' is very nebulous

It felt a bit like a promotional piece. They really want to drill the phrase "Russian Math" into your head, presumably to promote the schools teaching it. That doesn't invalidate the notion that they teach math better than US public schools, I'm just offering a plausible explanation for the feel of the article.
The same applies to absolutely all employee protections, right?

Rather than providing paid holiday, paying overheads like social security, and following other anti-discrimination laws, you could always hire your local workers as non-employee contractors via a foreign jurisdiction. Most companies don't, for lots of good reasons. Remote work makes such tricks a little easier, but not dramatically so.
Advocacy groups ramp up pressure on lawmakers to take action on climate change
Nope, Apple announced this tech is coming to 3rd party apps via API.

iCloud was just the start, it wasn't the end.
Yeah I can confirm this. We did it in our company too and it was really fun!
Why do you think this is the starting point of a structured introduction?
Yes indeed, at that price you could hoover up all the talent in India, China, Russia, Ukraine etc
Why does being abroad 'too much' matter to Google Fi?
This book is an excellent introduction to assembler design. I worked through it myself a while back and used the ideas to write my own assembler and loader for my calculator's embedded CPU.
How does this compare to existing tools like Scale AI?
Huh? I don't see how the need for collective action follows?

Why would I or should I sabotage a trend that spreads wealth to poorer parts of the world?

> ..., because no company willingly pays people based on the value they provide.

That's what competition is for.
Why disable 5G? I was following everything until that point, but I'm not sure the reason for that choice.
The path to re-enchantment
Interesting to contrast with guix pack (https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-pack....), which doesn't make these all-in-one self-extracting binaries but does maake tarballs and docker images (itself a kinda interesting contrast to nix's package-based docker image capabilities).
I think of it more as minimizing the worst harm a system is causing—the human cost of the best the system delivers. The Veil discourages one from letting those get too out-of-whack.
I imagine the effect is similar for the job market in small US towns? If you're in the middle of Idaho or whatever you've suddenly gone from having a single tech employer within a 1h radius to having hundreds of remote opportunities
Why would the company splurge on executives, and not drive down their wages, too, if that's so easy?

Executive cost money, too. They are also employees.
Yeah, and we have to remember that Americans might not be the true literal-target audience for this. Catching a few CP creeps in the USA might be sort of like a field demonstration of a weapons system. After the demo the system goes on sale to its true customers, namely regimes with "re-education camps" or who like to dispose of critical journalists with bone saws.

Many other American companies have done business with totalitarian regimes over the years. Maybe there's too much money in that market for Apple to pass up. Given the growth of totalitarian strong men across the world it's probably a growth market these days.

Payment may not be overt. It could also come in the form of access to markets. The deal might be that Apple must demonstrate the ability to help a regime hunt down dissidents before it can sell domestically, or they could be offered a break from otherwise onerous import or sales taxes.
The US is the same.
Ask HN: Non-sci-fi fiction recommendations?
I love science fiction, but I've been reading too much and am a little burnt out! When I look for recommendations based on my tastes, I only get more sci-fi results. Do you have any recommendations for interesting reads from other genres that would suit a sci-fi fan?

(My recent favorites have been the Three Body Problem series, Permutation City by Greg Egan, Hail Mary by Andy Weir, and The Man who fell to Earth by Walter Tevis.)

Thanks!
My benefits package pays for a pair of glasses every year, and my prescription doesn't change much. One year I get a "free" pair of progressive bifocals (with an upcharge of $100-200), the next a "free" pair of prescription sunglasses ($100-200 upcharge) or computer monovision glasses (really free).

So I budget $100-200 from my HSA per year for glasses, and have spares at home, the office, and in the car. When they're 5-6 years old, I donate them to a charity that redistributes them.

Not "tiny" I guess, but surprising luxury for $16/month.
> If that means that the rate is too low for people in NYC why should the company care as long as they can get enough people from Stamford and other places with lower costs of living than NYC?

Exactly. Google doesn't care, and as any other "good" company out there: money comes first, employees are peons.

The thing I hope we are discussing here is: what (Google) employees can do about it? Can they do something at all? And if they can't, well, this basically means that in the near future every IT company out there will be doing the same. Sad, but hey, if we let companies do this sort of things, well, we deserve it.
This is out of date. It took less than a week for Apple to announce this tech is coming to "3rd party apps".
SoftBank pauses China investing as crackdown roils portfolio
I believe it is in Google's and Microsoft's interest to keep bookmarks crippled. Every time you forgo using your bookmarks to lookup something, you instead use their search services, which indirectly translates to money in their pocket.
One very common misconception that higher specific impulse (ISP) is always good. Electric propulsion is different from chemical.

In chemical propulsion, you have the energy in the propellants. There higher ISP is better.

In electric propulsion, you use an external power source. Usually your propellant or reaction mass is inert, like Xenon. There, if you up the specific impulse but keep acceleration and delta vee the same, your power source mass increases. At some point your power source mass is a lot bigger than your propellant mass. Hence, your total mass for the same misaion would be less with lower specific impulse.

So in electric propulsion there can be too high ISP for a given mission and power source technology.
Common API security issues explained interactively
You're likely talking about a Bussard ramjet. The book should be Tau Zero.
I lived in Lhasa with my ex girlfriend for a while (2016~2017). In a strange occasion via a Tibetan friend of mine I met a British photographer in his 60s/70s who was one of the few foreigners granted permanent residency in Tibet. (He showed me his residency ID and it was a yellow-ish paper issued in the 1980s.)

Anyway long story short, he jokingly told me that my friend (who's a doctor in a Tibetan hospital) is one of the few remaining good men in Lhasa as most local (middle-age) men just drink and play ཤོ (Sho, a Tibetan gambling dice game) everyday.

This reminded me of the theory that the increase in opium addiction during Qing dynasty was partly due to how deteriorating and none-spiritually-inspiring the late Chinese imperial system was. People were not motiviated in the first place so a regular activity that relieves stress became more of a coping mechanism.

Social-economically, Lhasa does become more and more like another modern Chinese city. Less and less spiritualism can be found in the local's acitivties. Everything is more and more money-oriented. (You can still see Tibetan pilgrimages near Potala Palace but these are not the local Lhasa population).

As a programmer and someone who studies Buddhism, I'm actually surprised how few Tibetan programmers there are. I have always seen coding as a form of meditation.

Since Tibet is under Chinese ruling now (whether we like it or not), I do hope there are more Chinese/Tibetan intuitives to introduce programming to meditation practitioners.
> What's the statement here?

That gun control laws are still being enforced, no matter who breaks them? That you can't get away with breaking the law just because you commit a crime that most people don't think is that bad?

> The law was written to prosecute people who are up to no good.

We're talking about someone who confessed to the crime he was sentenced for, and last time I checked, the law is supposed to be equally applied, no matter who you are. Intent does indeed matter, and if this had been some moron with intent to use the tank, we wouldn't be talking about a suspended 14-day prison sentence and a fine.

> If you want to drive around and destroy things there are more cost effective options

Definitely. I'd argue that the relative scarcity of tanks, however, is clearly correlated to the fact that military hardware ownership is pretty much limited to the military. I could -- in theory -- kill someone with a hammer I bought for 1€ at a flea market. That does not mean we should abolish gun control laws because "there's cheaper ways of doing it anyway". Nor should we allow private tank ownership, because I could clearly cause damage more cost-efficiently with a bulldozer.

That being said, I agree that this particular individual doesn't seem to have been a threat at all. Someone potentially stealing the stuff from the old man, however, wouldn't even have to think about things like costs.

> I think it's just as likely that the fine was sized so that between being forced to liquidate everything and paying the fines he will die penniless.

Well, he's been given two years to sell or donate the tank and the AA gun to a collector. There are definitely people who are interested. The final price depends on supply/demand and I'm not an expert when it comes to collecting military hardware.

Whether he'll die penniless or not, well, he was able to afford a tank and an AA gun, as well as a number of other weapons, and ammunition. Apart from that, he also had room for it all. That indicates he does have some money available (assuming he didn't spend it all on the hardware and resorted to living of instant noodles).
Yes. And how do you determine which two jobs are similar enough to warrant the same salary by law? Where do you draw the lines?
You can never go faster than c, so you can never reach anything that's being moved faster away.
I’m old enough to remember this being a threat a few decades ago. Most of those roles came back to the US. If it was that easy, they would’ve moved long before Covid.
It's likely a mater of what you're used to.

I start to feel uncomfortable when I see an explicit loop.

But that's actually very weird as I write Scala a lot where you use "for" (instead of "do-notation") for monadic computations.

My brain starts smoking when someone uses a "for" as an regular loop! That causes usually a few seconds of complete confusion. :-D
Salesforce+
In The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, soldiers are sent out on relativistic journeys to fight a war with aliens. Each time they come back, Earth culture has changed, and eventually it becomes unrecognizable to the soldiers, and Earthlings forget or stop caring about the war.

It was an allegory for the U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam, in which Haldeman fought.
I think you're vastly overestimating the amount of power employees at Google have. It's one of the most desirable places to work in the world and they routinely turn down quality candidates (similar to ivy league schools).

There are plenty of people in smaller tech markets that would work remotely at Google at the reduced rates because it would still result in pay bumps
2-hour commute? I'll take the pay cut anytime, like is too short... (and maybe start looking for another job, easier to do with all that "extra" time)
Guix, apt, yum, etc. are effectively language-independent package managers. They can and do provide large numbers of Python, Rust, Go, R, etc. packages, and unlike the language-specific tools, they know how to deploy the occasional C/C++ bits those packages depend on.

The problem is not so much technical but rather social in my view. For one, it's quite "natural" for language developers to try to grow their community around its very own tools, even if those tools effectively "cut corners".

The other "social issue" has to do with practices: packagers and users of the generic GNU/Linux tools I mentioned have different expectations in terms of having a curated package set, ensuring common conventions are followed, building software from source, and so on. This is at odds with the practices encouraged by some of the language-specific package managers.

Npm does not try to manage complexity, as explained at https://dustycloud.org/blog/javascript-packaging-dystopia/, Java packages often come with opaque jars that nobody builds from source, sometimes due to circular dependencies, and so forth.
If people own a house anyway, working in it during the day doesn't really add much in the energy use. Maybe there's a few degrees more heating or cooling at the margins. Maybe there are more trips to a store--on the other hand, restaurants and cafeterias aren't necessarily super-efficient.
I went from terrible at timed tests of regurgitating basic arithmetic facts to one of the better math students in my school once the curriculum moved on to requiring some understanding of what was going on.
> I've thought about this space quite a bit, and all options suck... I agree that this isn't the best for privacy nuts like me. But the iPhone isn't a blackphone, it's a luxury handbag.

Privacy isn't a toy for nerds, though. It's not even a luxury item. It's a need and a right of all people. There is a good option: keep people's stuff private. It's the only option.
Ok! Sorry about the violent agreement message then. Yes, there is definitely a balance to be found between individual freedom and collective well being here.

I guess what I'm getting at is that if people drive less, they'll realize that their car-centered lifestyles don't work anymore, and will have to find alternatives. Let's hope that's easier than what I envision :)
Why? They keep claiming being earth loving green hippies while mandating shredding of perfectly repairable/reusable products. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBqSOA9wRPk Doesnt seem to bother too many of their clients.
It is not an argument, it is a link to a Wikipedia page.
Well, Germany has (or used to have) a tax subsidy for commuting, too.

See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendlerpauschale (might need Google Translate).
If Google felt that WFH had no negative effect on productivity, they could go the route of Twitter and others. The C-level clearly disagrees that this arrangement is ideal for the company, and are disincentivizing it with pay cuts.
The majority of people do need a car even in Europe.

In France, unless you live in central Paris you do. In the UK, unless you live in central London yo do. Now, if you live around Paris or London you may be able to commute to work by public transport, and many people do, indeed, but many also commute by car, and the vast majority do outside of these areas. I'm sure the same applies to many other countries.

Edit: By the way I am French and living in England, so I know full well from experience how important cars are for the majority despite small islands of some town centres where people can do without.

> you live in an individual house

On the other hand, living in an individual house with a garden is much nicer than living in a flat and many people (including in Europe) either do that or aspire to that.

I'm usually getting a lot of flack here for saying this, but if preserving the environment means severe constraints on people's lives (housing, diet, transport, etc) then perhaps the way forward is to reduce the global population to a point where that everyone can enjoy life while still preserving the environment.

My vision of an ideal future is everyone able to live in nature, in a house with a large garden, rather than in tower blocks, in pods, only eating what's allowed.
If Location is in the contract, and location should be considered an aspect of compensation, then its value should be int he contract and location itself should be an element of compensation.

Base pay: $X

Location pay: $Y

Benefits: $

Options: $

This way you can see what the company is valuing you as an employee and valuing the location as compensation.
We have feature that customer can order many products from multiple merchants in the local market. This order is treated as one order.
We give the sign for customer to inform which products that labelled as non halal. Thanks
Turing Patterns Turn Up in a Tiny Crystal
Even worse, iTunes deleted my Music and all my precious playlists, and because it was stored in the cloud it wasn’t included in my Macbook backups…

I was so pissed of, i’ve avoided iTunes & Apple Music ever since.
If I illegally obtained an item, was sentenced to a fine and to sell said item, and the proceeds of the sale covered the fine, then I'd say I got off lightly. In this particular case the fine wasn't handed out solely for the two items that the perpetrator was sentenced to sell, it was also about illegally obtained machine guns, automatic pistols and lots of ammunition.
Buildings generally lose or gain heat throughout the day, proportional to the indoor-outdoor temperature differential. So a building that maintains livable temperatures for say, 12h a day, will still have those energy leaks when the owner is out, and they would have to compensate in the evening the exact amount of energy lost or gained to get back to comfortable temperatures.

So unless your home has such ridiculously bad insulation that it quickly approaches outside temperature after turning off heating/cooling, you won't see significant energy savings by going outside of the house half the time. Never mind multiple occupants, kids and the elderly, pets, diverging working hours etc.
Yes, the horror that someone might have a competitive streak inside of them. I'm sure the world cowers in fear of Tom Brady when he's enraged on the sidelines after an interception. Who knows what else he's capable of!
Of course not, Apple will simply match the much more reliable Youtube flagging system :P
> HTTPS-First Policy: Firefox Private Browsing windows now attempt to make all connections to websites secure, and fall back to insecure connections only when websites do not support it.

Hmmmm ... Does this mean "HTTPS Everywhere" is no longer needed?[1]

And, of course, it freaks out with the previously saved self-signed cert installed on my WiFi router. ... sigh

[1]:https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
In hindsight, after spending nearly a decade in France (initially for graduate school), it seems very strange to me as well.

I've come away from this with the impression that American schools are the best-funded in the world, and survive by importing the best-educated from elsewhere. This is obviously a bit of a caricature, but I think it's mostly correct.
This will cheer you up - they're trying to fire her again!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58072822

This is another instance:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57156799
The cost of commuting to yourself is extremely high: 1-2 hours of unpaid time driving, requirement that you buy a house (or rent) in extremely high CoL areas, car maintenance/insurance. It probably all ads up to over 20% of your salary over the year.
Local encryption of backups is very easy. I could code a basic implementation in an afternoon that would lack sophisticated security features but would be "correct" and far better than nothing.

There's software out there to do it, but it tends to be geeks-only FOSS tools or obscure "advanced" settings in backup engines on things like NAS devices. None of those things are mainstream.

The fact that a feature like this doesn't come built into things like Dropbox is puzzling until you consider that large companies have probably been heavily pressured against mainstreaming this kind of encryption. The absence of encryption as a standard option (even if not the default) in things like remote storage, cloud file sharing, and e-mail tools can really only be explained this way since I know for a fact that some percentage of business users would love it.
Why wouldn't they? Any "sane" company out there will cut your salary as soon as they find a good excuse to do so. Working from home VS working from the office is the perfect excuse. Productivity doesn't matter because if you go below the minimum bar, you are lay off.
I am curious as well. My guesses are a. 5G allows for metadata collection points b. 5G chips are much more expensive because of patents
> During the beginning of the pandemic there were loads of stories of wildlife coming back to certain areas, pollution disappearing.

Most of that was fake: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dolphins-swans-italy-lockd...

"The dolphins shown in the video, it turns out, were not swimming in the iconic canals of Venice, but off the coast of Sardinia, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. Dolphin sightings in that area are not a new phenomenon, as a 2017 video demonstrates.

National Geographic pointed out that the swan sightings were real, but not described accurately. “The swans in the viral posts regularly appear in the canals of Burano, a small island in the greater Venice metropolitan area, where the photos were taken,” National Geographic reported."
> So fuck productivity. We can manage.

Higher productivity is the way out of this mess.

> There's also a pandemic that's killed 4.3 million people because productivity is apparently more important than containing the outbreak of a deadly disease.

No. See eg the covid sections in https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/adumbrations-of-aducan...
I love articles like this because they remind me how some people live - which reminds me to design with them in mind. Personally, I don't think I've ever had more than 6 tabs open in my life.
> a 25% increase in the amount of their time that's committed to work

I think you mean committed to life rather than work? Remember, people normally commute outside of work hours.

Therefore your math doesn't add up. 2hr commute against 8 hours of work is not a 25% increase.

But I think your point is still valid. Personally I'd "buy" my extra 2 hours of daily life for a 10% decrease in salary. Given that I'm awake for 17 hours, 2 hours saved is 11% of my waking time. Not a bad deal if you value your free time, or say you work on a side project.

Edit: see the correction below. It's still 25%, I was wrong.
This software is wonderful. I often forget it's there until I use a browser without the plugin installed.
Funny to come across this thread. Just a week ago my best friend had been moaning for two years about tidying his garage. I came with two beers intent on a chill weekend watchinh olympics but I happened to run into his wife as she was parking her car in the garage. We spoke for a minute but I decided we'd rather start working on his garage. My friend came out and we started. A few hours later, tired and hungry, his SO served us with a pretty full meal which is both extraordinary and unusual since Ive never been given anything by her in the ten years we've known each other nor have I seen her cooking. I have no doubt my boy got some that night but it was satisfying to just work and do something useful to bond.

I think there is something fundamentally ancient about it, like how young women braid each others hair and probably been doing it since year one of humanity's existence. Maybe we need others to get things done. Maybe the man would jumpstart his passion if someone shared his thing for restoration.

I dont really know.
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