skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today I decided to check out the state of Microsoft Edge after installing Windows 11 and it felt like I am fighting the browser to stop throwing stuff on me in order to focus and just do the work I want to do. News section, sports, suggestions flooded me. The address bar tapping both bookmarks and history spits a dozen lines on every keypress assuming things.

I'm not even diagnosed with ADHD and I'm still tired that I have to spent time configuring things to fix a user experience more aligned with the company behind the browser than my needs. And I only covered the things I am allowed to touch with a little googling, not the ones I just have to accept as inevitable.

A browser that helps me go straight into what I want? Sign me up!
No. The Rolling Stone debacle literally just happened.

The idea "most of the story" is traced backed to one bad article, from two days ago, when it's been a story for over a month is ridiculous nut-picking.
In my first business, I spent a lot of time doing my own bookkeeping under the guise of saving money. I've used Xero, Gnu, Wave, etc. At some point, I calculated the effective hourly rate I could earn building my business. Moving to a traditional bookkeeper and QuickBooks was a logical result of that analysis.
Ironic that an extra "w" snuck into your post :)
"I have now knowledge"
For those who don't know what this is, the Manned Orbiting Laboratory was a plan in the 1960s to create a manned space station with a large telescope in it, for the purpose of reconnaissance. Essentially, a manned spy satellite.

The reason for this was that, at the time, spy satellites would take pictures on film, which would then be landed in capsules and interpreted - hence, there would be a significant delay between when a photo was taken, and when it could be used. The idea would be that the astronauts would be able to take pictures and interpret film on-orbit, and relay back the results.

As the ability to scan film in orbit was developed, and eventually electronic devices like CCDs, the MOL was cancelled before it became operation. Several of the MOL Astronauts transferred over to NASA, and eventually flew on the Space Shuttle.
> It is if it spurs development of the underlying tech.

How does that work? For example, if leave a lightbulb on all day long, does that spur adoption or development of renewable energy sources?
https://archive.is/D5NuP
I think he's specifically alluding to doing something like Bayesian exploration/exploitation -- which would be very interesting. Unfortunately, you'd need to hire at huge scale to assess the outcome of the experiment, and - as he mentions - it would be hard to get hiring departments to accept.
> Algorithms do whatever humans program them to do, which can be delete, warn, email, slack, or call phones.

I think it's worth noting that algorithms like these are deployed specifically to take employees out of the loop, and adding a communications step would almost certainly pull them back in.
Those are the small businesses. Dunkin Donuts, convenience stores, 7 elevens, motel 6s, holiday inn expresses, subway, jimmy johns.

They are all franchised to individual owners or a small group of partners and usually have 5 to 25 employees or so at most. In these businesses, being a "manager" simply means being the fall guy for the owners and the on call person. Many times it is the owner themselves, but over the years, they can move themselves up. I saw that happen much more years ago though, new entrants do not seem to be able to move up.
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My old company used to hire broke, desperate, and underachieving college students out of the local university for that exact reason - desperate people are often the most dedicated people.

The scheme worked something like how the New England Patriots run things: keep a solid core of veterans well-paid and happy, then use them to train the hell out of new hires. Later, make sure those new hires get excellent jobs elsewhere in 4-6 years and repeat the cycle, ensuring that you never have to pay for premium talent since you can develop it at budget cost in-house.

When I say "train the hell out of", I mean each new dev had a senior dev dedicated to just them who would criticize everything about their code and workmanship like a Mr. Miyagi. Every email that dev sent also got CC'd to that senior dev and the senior dev always knew what they were working on, how long such a thing should take them, and knew what questions/difficulties were likely to come up and when during the process of that item. Good mentorship cannot be substituted for during the training process.

The system fell apart once management got flipped and forgot what made them successful in the first place.
Invalid under Alice.

We don't care about the "prior art" filter, because the patentability filter already failed.
Maybe parent is referring to the conviction of Lagarde, former managing director of the IMF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Lagarde#Conviction_o...
One of the few actually useful functions recruiting companies can do is get the job salary range in agreement with the candidates desires before wasting anybody's time.
Can you give us more details of what situations you have difficulty in or want to conquer? When I was younger I enjoyed working at height, now I am in poorer shape and am nervous in more situations. Try acclimation, slowly pushing the envelope. Make sure you understand, not just on a theoretical level, that if you can feel confident at three feet, thirty feet only requires a bit more care, nothing more. And remember, it doesn't hurt to fall, it's just the sudden stop.
Bungee jumping. It sounds stupid but after that I realised I wasn't scared of heights, I'm actually scared of falling, really scared.
>Zimbabwe tried that and failed (no organic farming needed there).

Recent history of Zimbabwe (<http://imgur.com/a/VdQdD>)
The other disclosure establishes prior art for other people and sets you up for more patents in the future with the same prior art date (continuations).

The claims are the legally enforceable part.
Not really. To me the novelty in the first claim is that they have a system which automatically determines an optimal memory layout, even in the face of new combinations of components within a newly created entity. A typical hand-crafted ECS system wouldn't likely infringe -- it's more likely that the memory layout was defined in advance.

I guess this will be a major roadblock to Unreal Engine offering such an automated ECS system, which is a real shame. There are certain types of games which do need ECS to make viable use of computing resources (simulations, etc). You don't see many of those on Unreal now and I guess you won't for the foreseeable future if this patent holds.
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Fiat currencies can go to zero in an instant via political changes. (Ex, see indian demonitization in 2016).

All forms of money have risks. I think the diversification of supporting BOTH USD and BTC seems to get a bit of the best of both worlds.
Ask HN: How do you deal with/recover from burnout?
I see that is going on with "Metro cash & carry" - while they don't cater to simple consumers but small businesses they start to provide tech services to those small businesses not only supplies.

I can imagine part of Target/Walmart business to be like Amazon so they sell their tech to smaller or local players because they would have loads of knowledge in that specific area of ordering and fulfillment.

It is not counter argument as such - but idea that they could become Amazon competitors in some areas and be tech companies.
"It doesn't explain all the variance" is very a generous way to say "it explains one seventh of the variance".

And re: free lunch-- keep in mind that empirical reality isn't affected by our internal sense of fairness. It is possible that we will find free lunches in our existence. Nuclear energy is arguably a kind of free lunch.

That said, my last comment was specifically contrasting more sustained M2 expansion, or an expansion of a higher order of magnitude. We don't know exactly what would happen then, but there's a decent possibility of high inflation in that case.
VoCoVo | Full Stack Software Engineers (mid, senior) | Full Time | Remote UK only | https://vocovo.com

If you've been round a supermarket or out-of-town retail park anywhere in the UK or Europe, you've probably shopped at one of our customers. We're the company that give staff at those stores headsets to improve their communications and safety. Roughly 6000 stores to be precise, with around 60,000 headsets.

We're a Deloitte Fast 50 employer (https://www.deloitte.co.uk/fast50/winners/2019/winner-profil...) that is still growing ridiculously fast and 2021/22 is the year we're taking our products to the USA, where we could easily double our store count with a single customer sale.

We're a Javascript/Typescript stack top to bottom, with MQTT, K8s, Azure, React and more.

We're looking for great senior engineers with a wealth of experience, ideally in the appliance space (set top boxes, smart X, IoT devices etc) and enthusiastic middle-level engineers willing to get stuck in.

The tech team is only small (8 UK, 17 Belarus) so your contribution would have a huge impact on both people and products.

Contact: dave.cranwell@vocovo.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/davecranwell/ | hr@vocovo.com
Everyone has their pet film and it so happens that the first Matrix movie is mine. Anyway, I stopped watching movies over a decade ago and i can't pinpoint the precise straw that did the trick.

Maybe it was the million other straws underneath it.
This is not true. 6 year old is year 1 in Chinese primary school. Apparently it is going to be taught at year 3, year 5 in primary school, year 2 in secondary school and year 1 in high school.

I haven't read the text, my assumption is that it would be similar to Mao's, Deng's and Jiang's Thought. Why I consider it is about the government? For example, Deng's thought would set modernization as the priority for country's development. Xi's thought would set new priority. It is just how Chinese government works.
EPO has destroyed the law with "as such" or "technical effect", and they are lobbying hard to get the UPC in place, so that software patents are fully "valid" accross Europe.
What I see as explanations of the chip shortage is a combination of factors.

One immediate cause was that some manufacturers reduced their chip orders month in advance since they expected less demand but then the demand didn't decrease and they had to scramble, increasing general demand. Another immediate cause was that Covid has made some production lines shutdown or become unreliable.

But the reason that now a year or more on, we have problems, seems require more explaining. Larger causes I've heard; The chip supply chain is extremely long, long enough so you get a whipsaw effect or anti-whipsaw effect. A whipsaw effect means by the time demand catches up with supply, it goes beyond it and manufacturers lose money. But what seems to be happening is an anti-whipsaw effect - suppliers are avoiding any panic measures to catch up with demand and so lose money but this means the catching up is a long process.

This is something of a product of a highly capital intensive economy pushing manufacturers to only produce, invest and consume in a narrow range. Limiting investment in capital equipment is a way to make the investment you make is 100% utilized. Limiting consumption to the lowest priced items is a way to make sure all of your production is profitable. It seems like a new phenomena. Instead of a "deflationary spiral" these factors pushed to their extreme could result in a "decreasing production spiral" where physical continually declines despite demand. We're not there yet, of course but it seems like an interesting economic phenomena.
+1 oltra - I’ve been using it recently for focus blocks and organizing my day for impact.

How would you say your product compares or differs for the average(or ideal) user?
What does that mean? You will seek out a over educated achiever wife or avoid one?
What’s the Point of Australia?
I could link to a handful of very positive studies for THC, and a handful of negative. Here's a fun recent one showing that THC has potential mTOR1 activation and CNS myelination effects.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32956517/

I could similarly link to about 10 pretty scary studies for caffeine, especially effect on brain structure and sleep quality.

Or should we do sugar?

The dose makes the poison for anything, it's not clear THC isn't beneficial at a lower dose. It's medically prescribed for cancer pain relief, and for a segment of people its anxiolytic effects are incredible.
I have always focused on hiring for attitude and aptitude. If you have the attitude to learn, and the aptitude to grown your skills, then you'll do great at anything you're passionate about.

I literally hired a guy who was a part-time computer hobbyist but, a full time pool man. I told him "hey how would you like to spend 40 hours a week learning more about computers." Today he's working as a leader in his company's security group. He often thanks me for the job, and I always remind him "you did the work, all I did was give you the opportunity".

Sadly as stated in the thread linked, its hard when you have 10k applicants, to treat each as a potentially amazing member of the your team. I still try hard to look for that attitude and aptitude, and if a candidate demonstrates this in our dialog, I will do my best to find a path for them to connect with other opportunities if they're not a strong match for roles I'm filling on my teams.

What I know is we're born to this world knowing how to eat, breathe, cry, and a couple other things. The rest, all of it, we've learned on our way to this day. Just because the person in front of me didn't have the same path as me, doesn't mean they won't learn to have an incredible impact going forward. Searching for this potential and type of partnership at scale is hard. My heart wants to say it can be solved, but my calendar is an evil overlord that only allows me only so many hours a day to invest in growing my teams...
The risk of hiring mediocre people who don't really care is invisible. Eventually, it becomes part of the fabric of the company, and the result, of course, is obvious. I suppose most large organizations can handle this particular risk because they've lucked onto a large cash-cow, such Google's ad-dominance.
It can be simpler to not make a finite state machine. Instead, try the different alternatives one by one, the longest one first.

Instead of

if (next == '>') {
advance()
if (next == '=') {
advance()
return GREATER_EQUAL
} else {
return GREATER
}
}

it can be simpler to do

if (next is ">=")
return GREATER_EQUAL
if (next is ">")
return GREATER

The price is a little bit of performance. It needs more than one character of "lookahead" and may have to re-scan some parts of the input.
> But WhatsApp moderators told ProPublica that the app’s artificial intelligence program sends moderators an inordinate number of harmless posts, like children in bathtubs. Once the flagged content reaches them, ProPublica reports that moderators can see the last five messages in a thread.

It seems like whatever the AI decides is questionable gets sent to moderators automatically, also revealing the thread history (at least partially) as well.
SpaceX Starship 20 gets Raptors, heat shields, Booster 4 moves to the launch pad
i linked the conversation for you to read. I paraphrased. was it the "fuck you" in response to the legal threat that bothered you so much, because i didnt cut much else of substance.
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"But if this issue goes unresolved for a long period of time, my employer might pay me to fix the issue myself and contribute the change upstream. That doesn’t sit well with me. We pay Google a lot of money to use their products, and having to fix bugs in those products ourselves isn’t what we signed up for."

I hear this, but I'm not sure that this is a case of Google expecting customers to fix bugs themselves or "outsourcing" to volunteers. I can think of a lot of instances where people would be thrilled if they even had the ability to fix a persistent issue with software that the company won't fix itself.

If you pay a lot of money to Google and expect customer service, it seems to me that you should be filing a bug with Google around BigQuery if you expect Googlers to fix it vs. the Apache Project. (If Google has committers in that upstream then they can be assigned the work if it's important enough.)

I guess what I'm saying is that filing a bug with the upstream feels like an indirect route if you expect customer service. I'd be filing the bug or discussing the flaw with my account rep / salesperson as close to the vendor as possible.
Are small fires being actively put out in the Pine Barrens? Or have they just not had a natural fire yet?
In Sweden they do the opposite, they have half a dozen parties with almost identical politics. Also very effective.
A fundamentally semantic argument like this seems mostly irrelevant to me. It's like calling Google or Facebook advertising services, which might technically be true but isn't usefully descriptive. Using the author's logic you could call high frequency trading firms tech companies instead of financial services. If his semantics here were correct one might wonder why nobody calls HFTs tech companies. The author ignores the more complicated side of the questions about what makes a company a "tech company" — mushy concepts like internal corporate culture, sources of talent, and participation in the broader tech "ecosystem".

Also the idea that Netflix's content strategy is cleanly separable from its tech is totally bogus. Netflix uses some sophisticated tech to decide what content to produce and also has a huge amount of in-house technology involved in the actual production of content.
Is there any fiat currency with better transparency properties than Bitcoin? I don't think so... certainly not to non-banker members of the public.
Not sure about Archetype specifically, but discussions on twitter about this have pointed out talks from GDC going back to at least 2002 when it comes to ECS.
Sounds like the traditional trades system applied to tech.
Banktivity did the same in the last release... Now I'm looking at alternatives.
Preventing illegal sweepstakes, even if accidentally illegal ones, seems like a good rule for YT to enforce. That being said, banning accounts without a process to solve the issue until there’s enough public furor for a moderator to notice is a bad system. If someone repeatedly breaks the rules, fine permaban them. But having a fake appeal process is pretty annoying, and makes me not want to do business with Google in general.
I use Quickbooks Online, an overpriced, poorly designed piece of garbage for the business I run (small business, lots of online transactions). For instance, the official PayPal app is problematic, my accountant says, because of the way transactions are recorded on the QBO ledger (the issue is mentioned here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT5zKWBXtQU). This means manual processes, which sucks for me in terms of extra time and costs (paid to my accountant to manually reconcile these transactions).

QBO is so bad that sometimes the Intuit support people I talk with have trouble figuring out answers to simple questions about how to use the software.

Trying to undo certain transactions is an exercise in frustration for me and my accountant. Once my bank got involved when it upgraded its online front end and back end, and certain transactions wouldn't sync to QBO. Of course, no one in front-line customer support on either side wanted to own the problem and it took weeks to resolve (only after I visited the bank in person with my laptop to show them what I was seeing, and the bank itself was able to get the attention of the integration team at Intuit).

I would dump QBO if I could. I only use it because my accountant insists. It's the same for most small business accountants in the U.S., which really limits the possibilities for new or established competitors.
Looks cool, waiting to try the windows release :)
"Tech company" is a label that is rapidly outliving its utility. We probably need another name for the small segment of the industry that is producing technology as its product.

Looking forward, I'm guessing "tech job" is another label whose days are numbered. Already, "I work in tech" is a fairly nondescriptive phrase. It's the new "I work with a pencil."
In another vein - my initial perception of the oss that these companies provide is that it is high quality. Keep in mind this is before I even vet the code. I have this correlation in my head that code from successful companies that is exposed as open source is high quality. This is also probably a bad idea. While it wouldn’t make sense to expose bad quality code as open source for the bad PR it could generate, I imagine that won’t stop a company from doing it or even ensuring people like myself actually thoroughly reviewing the code before adopting it in some POC. I guess in other words the bar of scrutiny is much lower for code that comes from a recognized company. This has got to be bad - I’m in need of changing that about myself.
Sounds like an opportunity. Especially since a bookkeeper could be anywhere in the world.
Man, I had a similar problem

I watched something right wing, I can't remember what, and for years YouTube was bombarding me with crazy half-truths and memes. I tuned them out just like most of the other bullshit I get bombarded with all day, but I wonder how many people have been radicalized this way..
What's the Firefox version?
Someone help me understand how this is not Fascism. The government forcing you to have a medical procedure seems like the definition.

I’m not arguing for or against it. I’m simply asking us to call it what it is. Let’s not act like liberal democracy is still with us if we’re at “do this or starve”.
As ridiculous as it feels, lack of a headphone jack is a flagship feature now.
Yes, and I assume bitcoin magically fixes this somehow?
Pretty cool. Looks somewhat similar to Dash (https://kapeli.com/dash)
Doesn't every large mature company basically try to solve this problem, namely predictable revenues and expenses?
Right so why not USD coin instead of Bitcoin?
I don't think I ever ran TinyCore without immediately connecting it to the Internet to grab a bunch of packages. Puppy Linux included Perl in its base install at one time (I don't know if it still does), and Damn Small Linux was supposed to have a cut-down version of Perl included as well.
I think it is a great strategy to push maintenance costs on customers as long as they swallow them :) Now seriously it is fine, it makes some room for competition to jump in. Sure as a customer I would like to have a great support for little cost. So I will look for such solutions on the market. I could also whine, but it is not too productive.
Get a pilot's licence. You'd be surprised how many pilots got into it specifically because of this.
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Thus, the need to "doctor-shop" until you get to one with the requisite direct experience.
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I think that the issue goes both ways. Modern conservatives have adopted a strategy of ignoring or exploiting discrimination and inequality. So if someone cares about addressing those issues, then the current progressives are the only game in town.