skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, it's a real thing.

Lockdown was a catalyst for offline to online. Tech was the epicenter of this. This also fueled deliveries, which requires tracking and optimization (of packages and the hordes of new delivery people). Then other related stuff - remote communication, payments, etc, etc. There was just endless tech stuff to do. Even hardware stuff like drones had more demand.

There was also a sudden drop in things that rich people could invest in. Early 2021, a lot of companies decided capital was cheap and companies with good revenue started raising money, then hiring/expanding. Crypto boomed and bust again, but it fueled some more startups who made money off crypto infrastructure.

A lot of tech workers were forced to come to office during the pandemic. A factory worker might be a lot more tolerant to this. But I found it highly insulting and inefficient to risk my family's lives for something of lower productivity, and that was the last straw. Plus offices were poorly maintained and being downgraded at this point. I decided I did not want to return to office after the next lockdown and started job hunting at this point.

Mid-late 2020, people started quitting jobs. The surge in demand combined with the drop in supply created a kind of vacuum.

This probably wasn't felt in richer countries, but remote work meant that it suddenly made sense to outsource to other countries. In developing countries, we had a double surge from developed countries. Australians decided to outsource to Malaysia and other companies. Suddenly Malaysian companies were competing with Australian wages, making more people quit. I was personally getting offered 2.5x wages and the interview bar was much, much lower than usual. A good job used to take weeks of interviews, and now it was a weekend.

Mid 2021, remote/hybrid work was already offered up front. I basically rejected all interview offers that didn't allow remote, unless on site was necessary (e.g. drones or factory machinery). My sister was an intern and did the same - normally interns would be told to screw off for any disagreement.

By Aug 2021, I'd have a very good company inviting me to interview with them almost every week. Oil conglomerates, brands like Nokia and Motorola, Fortune 500, unicorns offering top tier wages and vacation time, small companies that pay well for routine maintenance work. Companies that rejected me in the past were suddenly offering the jobs again (you know that thing where they say they'd keep your resume on file?)

Eventually I did end up with a dream job, where I get to focus on making the users happy.

tl;dr: market forces created a lot of good jobs. So people are resigning and moving closer to theirs, which isn't necessarily better pay. Developing countries have a windfall thanks to remote, followed by startups, but the extra demand means everyone else feels it too.
I don't have access to the Zulip chat, but the other benchmarks are basically testing allocating in a hot loop. I'm not surprised that doesn't scale linearly, and it's certainly not representative of real world code I've ever written.

If you have code you wrote to achieve something and hit a wall with scaling, I'm happy to take a look.
It generally takes me 3-6 months to find a job. I have the luxury of not disclosing disability before being hired but that hasn’t helped much.
Cars routinely kill people unlike bicycles.

The only reason you’re more afraid of bikes than cars is because you’re socialized to accept cars.
No, Stallman was right about pretty much everything. It's impressive how far into the future he saw, much earlier than many of us, including myself. There is no computing freedom without software freedom, and there is no software freedom without hardware freedom.

Control of data is a related problem. It's absolutely relevant but it's not in any way opposed to computing freedom. In fact, they are aligned. Computing freedom helps us retain control of our data even when faced with hostile corporations.
If you follow the "If you have updates to the chart, please submit as a GitHub issue." link, you can see that there are a few dozen open issues and the page was last updated 2 years ago.
So in order to keep the free market working, we have to make it... less free?

I thought the definition of a free market is one that is free of government/outside regulation and interference. But it's also a market that is free of monopolies, apparently, and the only way to get rid of a monopoly is via government/outside regulation and interference. Isn't that a contradiction?

Perhaps we should use another name for a market where we restrict monopolies -- that site you linked talks about "competitive markets".
Yeah I dont get the first commenter, Lenovo is great !
When cities don’t prioritize dedicated bike infrastructure, the sidewalk is the de-facto bike lane. Sure, cyclists are supposed to ride in traffic but that’s also super dangerous in a city like NYC.

The failure here is on the part of city planners, not the cyclists. And enforcing traffic laws against an even moderately skilled cyclist is difficult: I remember easily outrunning the bike cops when I was younger because I was simply in much better shape than them and could handle a bike a lot better in an urban environment.
Bookmarking this thread. Lots of good recommendations to chase down. Thanks
Tangent: what’s the point of these “international standards” when I have to pay to know the standard I’m following? Sure, I can use final drafts, but I shouldn’t have to.

It honestly seems like a racket. Businesses collaborate to write a standard that costs hundreds of dollars, and then brand new small businesses can’t afford to assert that they follow them.
It flow since it's from FB as well
We are under restrictions from fear of short covid killing, not long covid killing.
How do you have an array with different types of objects? You either have to repeat the schema or have to reference the schema.
Not too rare in parts of the southern USA in the summer. But you also have the return bike trip home in the afternoon... and by then it might be 40.
It's certainly frustrating, but the nice thing about RSS is that it's somewhat machine-readable, so we can fix some it automatically.

The script I use to fetch RSS will optionally perform two extra steps: fetching the full-text (finding the link using a given XPath expression), then de-cluttering that HTML (removing banners, menu bars, etc.).

The result is another RSS feed, which can be published somewhere, subscribed-to in a reader, etc. (I actually transform them to Maildir, since my preferred reader is mu4e)
Beautifully haunting post that cuts at the heart of workplace existentialism. While it may be anecdata like so many other posts in this discussion, I believe it grasps an emotional truth experienced by many remote workers in this time, whether resigned or not.
Or they are just former Firefox users who went where the previous CEO from Firefox went, after he got kicked out from Mozilla for non-technical reasons in 2014.

Because it seems whatever technical “vision” Mozilla used to have back then have more or less vanished, while Brave seems to have quite a bit of it.

Edit: Back in the days I loved Firefox because it was made by the Mozilla foundation, which stood for things I found important, which I trusted and “loved”.

Today Firefox is still made by the Mozilla foundation, but that entity has little in common with the Mozilla of old besides the name.

In that regard holding on to Firefox “because Mozilla” is IMO largely holding on to a delusion or a lie.

I was myself in denial over this for a long period of time before I realized that my “love” for Firefox was no longer real. I was just using it out of a misplaced sense of obligation, not because it genuinely made me excited, like it used to back in the days.

Mozilla failed in its mission. Let’s hope someone else can find their place.
I disagree with everything you say, but:

“ They were the first "ethical" tech company,”

What does that even mean? Unless you equate “ethical” with manipulating their dominant social position to shove a worldview you happen to agree with.

Which is a very… narrow understanding of ethics. As well as convenient, and, historically, trite (socially advantaged person agrees w/ the worldview a social institution imposes that reinforces and explains their privilege)
You mean, Apache Arrow?
You're asking a lot of an average user, though, if there are two options on the table and one is always going to be worse. We don't tell people with AM/FM radios "Just stay on the AM stations; you get used to the AC wire hum over time."

And to tip the scales on the Google hegemony, we need average users on board.
You might be interested this this then:

https://frame.work
There are many who do argue that lobbying as a whole should be abolished.

I personally don't quite agree with that. I think there is a place for "transparent" lobbying - e.g. openly stating the concerns of your interest group as part of normal public debate. However, this is a power that must be available to all interest groups. Additionally, groups must be willing to make compromises or accept if their arguments are dismissed by the public.

What I think is not ok is for a group to use power, connections and manipulation to push through their interests even against public opinion. That's what bribery or obstructive tactics are doing.
> Telemetry and spyware differ only in the way collected data is used.

No, they first and foremost differ in the kind of data is collected. Spying is not spying if you anonymously collect information about how frequently a feature/future/option is used only.
I think at my current work place that I'll soon leave management was caught completely off-guard by wfh. They used to have wfh occasionally but people were mostly using the time for 20% stuff so to say. Technically it's not that demanding but socially (or rather politically) and they completely failed to translate this into the online sphere. More than half of the original team either changed internally or left. For another team it was even more. Personally the time has been stressful and I'm looking forward to spend a few months working on some creative projects.

Also the job market has really changed I think. Salaries seem to have increased and wfh seems more accepted.
Some musea need more than 4 digits to describe their collection...
People always say this sort of stuff, but I feel like never really ask, is there any reason why Microsoft would do this?

Desktop revenue from apps is small and will get smaller. MS gets that the web will continue to grow larger.

I just don’t believe the App Store angle. I don’t think Satya does either. The cloud runs the company now. They did this for a different reason. I just feel like people aren’t even trying to reason through what it is.
> GNU/Linux doesn't work well, and... It never has. Not once.

Those from the past didn't fall under a Linux certification program though. That seems to be a main point of the rant:

> And you take risks too. When you sell “certified” ThinkPads with Linux, do you understand you are actually certifying that this machine will run correctly with drivers written by people who had to guess how the hardware should be used because vendors like you didn’t properly document it in the first place? Isn’t this mind-boggling?
...they specifically mentioned that as the exception.
> Author appears to be complaining (among many other things) that attempting to retrofit machines that came pre-installed with Windows to run GNU/Linux doesn't work well, and... It never has. Not once. I can name zero experiences in my lifetime doing that where it was relatively painless.

As usual, YMMV, but I've been running Linux with almost no issues on an HP ProBook. The only thing that doesn't work is the fingerprint reader. Bluetooth, custom secure boot keys, Wi-Fi, great battery life [0], sleep, hibernation, etc. worked without any fiddling on Arch Linux.

As far as I know HP doesn't offer these computers with Linux. I'm not even sure you can get them without Windows.

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[0] Great as in "comparable to what Windows gets on the same hardware".
> That said I think adding a trailing comma and comments to json wouldn't be a big stretch.

Sadly, json's designers suffered from the same hubris as the designers of markdown and gemini, when they decided to not include a version number in the file format. So you are kind of hosed if you want to make a change like that.

Before json there was xml (ugh), but before xml there were Lisp S-expressions, which seem to have handled all these issues perfectly well 50 years ago. Yet we keep re-inventing them. Greenspun's tenth law is still with us.
>Correct. It's one thing that the general population doesn't know what a TPM is but I just can't fathom how do governments deal with the fact that their entire nation's computing is about to be run under lock and key controlled by an american company.

And the said company would oblige to help NSA getting access to some users data.

Both China and Russia demand users with sensitive information to use their own operating systems and they also build their own hardware because they don't trust the hardware.
I wouldn't just say possible, I'd say it's highly likely. We have a lot of diseases, infections, and illnesses that most likely have long term side effects but they're also likely small and poorly observed. I've had other illnesses during my life that I'm confident I never fully recovered from (it's not that the condition is horrible, just that I can tell the difference). I think we give human regenerative ability a bit too much credit. Regeneration is amazing in the big scheme of things but we often don't understand relative regenerative ability compared to baseline production and small variance in functional outcomes.

When star athletes have an injury that's more macroscopic we do expect it to heal but often the athlete can't or doesn't want to return because its higher risk for future damage and it's likely they won't be able to perform at their prior state. With less 'physical' injuries we expect a difference for some reason. Maybe the law of large numbers comes into play and we assume all the diseases and their damage is fully removed and replaced at cellular levels when we often have no idea if that's really occurring at full scale.

Overall, I think this is fine. Medicine doesn't promise full, better than new, recovery so to speak always (at least not from good practitioners). What it does often promise instead is a hope and empirical data of improvement and documented side effects with a lot of probabilities for risk and uncertainty quantification. What I think isn't fine is this notion that recovery is always 'complete.' Its likely, as you point out, we're only observing these sorts of smaller effects with COVID due to the widespread infliction it caused over the population and amount of resources humanity has thrown at it to study it in great detail. I suspect there are many other diseases with negligible fractions of resources for study that have similar unknown consequences.
Apologies if I'm mistaken, but isn't chainlink a solution to the input part of I/O? Or is that what you meant by projects trying to solve the problem?
I wonder if they would share the internal debate where they chose to put the tags in separate files rather than using the tagging built into various filesystems.

I'm aware it's not a slam dunk decision either way, but the details would be interesting.

If you weren't aware, Windows >= 10, most Linux filesystems, and MacOS all support tagging files. With various caveats, ui, and portability issues.
I expect bots on a new unadvertised site within minutes. I've seen it many times. Bots are always scanning, along with script kiddies.
That's not the implication. The term IoT suggests devices not related in any way to networking like a smart toaster, wifi connected coffee pot, or your wristwatch.
The problem is that Ivermectin is off patent, so no drug company can make any money from it. Since there is no money for expensive research studies or clinical trials, all the research studies that get done will be low budget and subject to being called "lousy science".

How about just properly reporting and studying the actual facts from one of the very large real world trials, like the one in India?
You're conflating two separate use cases. The point of the numerical-offset notation is exactly to denote a fixed point in time.

For the birthday party example: it's not a given that I want to reschedule it when the local time zone changes (maybe I want to meet before sundown so we can sit outside? in that case, I would want to adjust the local time, keeping the solar timethe same). Sometimes of course, it is desirable (think of the opening hours of a shop, for example), but that's a separate use case.

Similarly with online events involving international guests: if you move an event to keep the local time unchanged, this change might create conflicts on other people's calendars. It's not necessarily the desired outcome.

Another problem with including a time zone name is that not everybody has the same version of the time zone database. At worst, that means that different people will have different interpretations of which point in time is being described. At best, the result will only be eventually consistent.
> Can't remember last time I saw this type of malware in the wild.

That's exactly because widespread secure boot has made it impractical!

As for niche Linux distros, it's been mandated since the beginning that you can install your own Secure Boot keys on Microsoft certified desktop platforms.
I do wonder if NTFS will ever get file tagging. Stuff like this serves to fill a stopgap that honestly shouldn't exist, especially now that many major Linux filesystems have had this functionality baked-in.
It would be preferable if people paid by Google wouldn't astroturf this site every time Google is caught doing something dirty.
Tesco seem to be throwing everything at online shopping despite all signs indicating its never going to be profitable for them.
You can't install W11, not even from ISO, if your computer doesn't meet all the requirements (yes, I tried).
But don't consumers have a right to see options. To me it's like a competitor buy a billboard or the location next store
The main difference is that the AGPL requires you to get a copy of the software source code if you interact with it over the internet. That doesn't mean that the software you use to access it becomes part of a derived work, just that you should have access to it the same way that somebody should have access to it if they had a local copy, where the software is GPL.

As for the LGPL, that one was originally made for libraries (Library GPL), but the FSF changed the name, because they don't want to encourage its use in libraries by default - many libraries are indeed LGPL, but others are not.

If you want to your program to have the best possible commandline support, as an example, you can use the same library as the bash shell does, but only if your program is GPL.
Just FYI:

"The Global Times (simplified Chinese: 环球时报; traditional Chinese: 環球時報; pinyin: Huánqiú Shíbào) is a daily tabloid newspaper under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party's flagship People's Daily newspaper, commenting on international issues from a nationalistic perspective."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Times
> The gloves, produced almost entirely in south and east Asia, rely on a finite supply of natural rubber, highly-specialized factories and niche manufacturing expertise. Ramping up supply couldn't happen quickly and production from trusted, established brands was spoken for years in advance.

In search of a start-up idea? There it is. A medical grade gloves that can replace traditional nitrile gloves.
Just don't forget that it goes both ways. GNU today's is much more relevant than GNU 30 years ago thanks to the Linux community.

Would not surprise me if 80% of recent GNU contributions come from the Linux crowd.
This is exactly why I've moved to de-Google my life as much as possible. The writing has been on the walls for years about Google.

I know it's not enough, but I choose to opt-out as much as possible.
> Are Christians not supposed to care about US laws?

I was mainly referring to African immigrants in southern/eastern Europe. Their situation is completely different from Mexican immigrants in the US, yet there are far right politicians who will happily let them die while attempting to cross the Mediterranean sea to build consent among their far right supporters.
Seriously, there's no such thing as illegal immigration when the alternative for those people is being jailed or shot in their own country.
Because the artist will only sell a limited amount; like a single NFT of their artwork. Therefore, anyone who wants to own it afterwards will need to buy it from you.

It really is very much like the traditional artmarket.
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How were you able to establish proof of her natural immunity, out of curiosity?
Why couldn't it be profitable for them?
At some point, the cooks start stabbing people or become strangely insistent on burning the whole kitchen down.
But this is not related to licensing: anyone can offers support for any piece of software and, as far as I can tell, there is no way to prevent that in a license. Otherwise Oracle would have eliminated Rimini Street years ago (the only thing they got is $90M in the recent lawsuit which is almost nothing).
The post you were replying to isn't replying to an "opinion" or punching down on one. Instead, it is answering the question "Why in the world would anyone actually LIKE the tiny tiny icon-only tabs?"
It's a bit of a weird title because it implies the article is going to be a rebuttal against how great the cycling is, but at the same time the phrase "it's not that fantastic" implies the cycling is still a little fantastic as well.
Hackernews always surprises me, who could believe there are so many synthwave lovers in this forum.

Synthwave is the greatest genre of music as far as I'm concerned.
Uh uh! While I'm obviously no fan of Google and Chrome, afaik the synced data is encrypted, or at least Goog says so. I.e. it's used just for syncing.

Can't remember, though, if it's always encrypted, or just optionally encrypted.
AMP does not require any such thing. Anyone can implement the AMP cache, there are multiple existing AMP caches, and you can serve AMP without a cache, without in any way impairing the function of an AMP page.

https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/main/docs/spec/am...
If we're doing this, Linux is the kernel and it's possible to have a GNU system without the Linux kernel.

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, the Hurd, and even Windows with a GNU userspace (such as Cygwin) all exist.
That's really good news and I'm glad they decided to do that.
I'd pay for a browser like that.
Cycling works in the Netherlands because it's such a flat little country. A model that doesn't necessarily export everywhere.
> 42.7% of internet users worldwide (16-64 years old) use ad blocking tools at least once a month.

That statistic is incredibly misleading. The amount of page views without adblocks is much higher then the insinuated 58%, because they're counting everyone as "using AdBlock" if they've used any device with an AdBlocker installed at any time within a month

And a lot use AdBlock Plus, which also sells your usage statistics and only blocks ads from corps that didn't pay them.
Colloquially the term exponential is generally used for functions where the relevant domain includes an "elbow" and where the local maximum is at least orders of magnitude larger than the local minimum.

Or put another way -- any exponential function can be locally approximated by a linear function, so we might use the term exponential growth for a function where growth is poorly approximated by a linear function over the relevant domain