skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can screen readers still not read text in images?

They shouldn't have to do OCR, a description of the image should be provided, there is even an attribute for that on the web, it's called "alt", or use picture/caption. Twitter and its shitty UI has no excuse.
Our Chinese overlords are apparently very powerful
The major players are not doing it the way you describe. Tesla's driving system is not a giant model trained to imitate a human brain. There are separate perception, planning, and control algorithms.
Why covering empty fields with mirrors is not discussed? It's all been calculated, it's costly but will work.
Wish more sites could be like this. I spent a few minutes just trying to find the ingredient list on a recipe earlier today.

It was hiding behind a "click to see more" that was gently tucked between someone's life story and a pile of ads.
I wonder if something like an agent could help with that.

In many freelance-heavy professions, like music and acting, having an agent handle this part of business seems to be the default. Is there something similar in tech?
I've set up my new M1 MacBook Pro using Nix and it's been going relatively well. Home Manager manages global tooling like Neovim, random CLI tools, and config files while I've set up `default.nix` files to use with `nix-shell` per-project. The set up of each project can be a little tedious as I still find the language confusing but once everything is set up the reliable re-creation is excellent. I love the feeling of opening the nix shell and feeling like I have each tool I need for that project without worry of polluting my user space or conflicts between projects.
The metaverse is a new kind of globalization
That is not an issue. You can generate new spoken language with not much more than a word.
Unsure, because I thought it was a fair question. I ended up replying. The short answer is that I'm not 100% sure what my original input was.

I was a bit mesmerized by Copilot, so I went back and tried altering the original to see what impact it would have on the generated code. Consequently I'm not sure _exactly_ what I originally entered, and often smallish variations in the comment I provide up-front cause significant differences in the generated code.

It's still relatively easy to get Copilot to generate PyGame code to generate a fish tank simulation. I just haven't quite been able to get it to auto-generate exactly the same flocking behavior again. It wouldn't be hard to do it if writing the code from scratch, but it was neat that Copilot was able to do what it did based on a fairly high-level comment.
> In Quebec, Canada you still see a lot of that mindset where a successful entrepreneur is more associated with a slimy businessman than a smart person.

Historically, didn't the employees speak French and the bosses English?

From what I understood, there was very much a glass ceiling and discrimination, similar to what was going on here in the south. Capital wouldn't be loaned across ethnic lines for instance.

That might contribute to the perception of entrepreneurs being shady: they historically were there to fleece the locals, not build and prosper.
Containers isolate more than just cookies, they isolate all local storage. So each container acts like 3rd-party cookies are enabled, they get saved, everything works even when silly website authors use 3rd-party services for authenticaton, etc. But it's all isolated, so the sites in one container don't see any of the storage in another.
Coworking dla geeków z przymrużeniem oka – Coworking Poland
its crazy how high in the list anti antidepressants are. In my case, I was diagnosed with hypogonadism. A simple prescription of testosterone cured my depression.

Makes me think how often people have been prescribed antidepressants when it could really be a hormonal problem.
Yes, that is literally what so many libertarians on HN and elsewhere think. Who cares if people die or suffer as long as I am not inconvenienced. You see the mental contortions they go through in this thread alone. It's death by petulance as much as pestilence.
I can't find a list of removed features, but I'm gonna take a wild guess that it includes proprietary codecs. It's the same reason why the chromium binaries in most distro repos are smaller than the official ones, but also useless for normal users that want to experience all content on the net.
This is almost point-for-point identical (minus the offer talk) to the other Stripe interviewing stories I've heard lately. (Context: Management positions. Not sure about IC roles).

From the outside, I wonder if Stripe has reached the point of notoriety where they can get away with poor hiring and even workplace practices because nobody wants to admit getting rejected by Stripe. Every negative anecdote I've seen has been shared under anonymity or strict confidentiality. I assume Stripe knows they're a hot commodity and therefore can get away with negative interview practices.
Interesting ideas. If I understand what you are saying, it's that we don't have a great way of attributing cause/effect, and therefore it's difficult to assign merits or demerits in society?

1) "Reality is always multicausal" i.e. the "responsible causes" of an event are a myriad of factors and 2) the law / insurance system have to assume that there is just 1-2 causes, so that blame and deserts can be meted out?

I'm curious what you think about alternate "unified theories of modernity's problems", such as Georgism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism) or racial inequity / colonialism, and how might you attempt to convince a believer of these alternate views that your theory is more correct.
It competes with a two socket machine.

On one hand chiplets win because you can fit it in a laptop form factor and it probably costs less than the dual socket motherboard and two CPUs. There is also the psychology that you feel like a Master Knerd if you have a two socket machine.

I don't think Ryzen really takes advantage of it but you can have a really high performance interconnect inside the package. Even there you have a competition between in-package integration and the alternatives. For instance HBM-based GFX cards exist on the market side-by-side with GFX cards that have external GDDR memory.
Brand loyalty/trust is gone and companies wonder why... (Slight tangent; I believe Mozilla are tarnishing the Firefox name this way as well with firefox branded this and that.)
It started as a fork of Konqueror because it was the highest-quality codebase available, probably because it was open-source from the ground up and written in a higher-level language rather than the l33t h4x0rs at Netscape with their 4 different memory allocators.
Couldn't be, the act says:

>(f) Nothing in this section is intended to invalidate a written arbitration agreement that is otherwise enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C. Sec. 1 et seq.).

Google employees to my knowledge usually get lassoed with arbitration agreements. Not unheard of for plaintiff attorneys to sell clients who are bound by arbitration on a lawsuit that cannot survive the motion to dismiss on that basis.
Okay so I kind of see where you're coming from, but I still strongly disagree with you.

You're saying that because world currencies collapse (your claim is the majority of them have within the past 100 years, which I don't have the data on, but let's just assume for the sake of argument that you're right), bitcoin is needed.

But bitcoin collapses not just every 30-100 years, it collapses every 0.5-5 years. [1]

How is that in any way better? Why are we spending all this energy on this?

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/now/7-biggest-bitcoin-crashes-history-...
In Belgium, once you reach a certain pay (roughly from 100k euros yearly onwards), it reduces tax burden for employer and employee when employees become independent contractors.
The only people who could FIRE are those that have saved enough to live on the interest. That definitely doesn't describe "us all," not even close.

Also... I hate the power your username has over my mind. It's never going to give me up
That sucks man.

Can you share what kind of questions you were asked during the interview process?
I've heard a lot of discussion about jitter by knowledgeable-sounding people. Caring a lot about the jitter of their various digital sources. What I don't understand is how does it matter? Why not just put a really stable clock next to your D-A converter? If you have to, add a buffer to transition between clock sources.
Webrings definitely were not useless from the start, but they were useless after a couple of months. For a very short while though, they were great, and there are even some efforts to revive the concept today.
So they start the interview by lying to you in case they need it later?
Ask HN: Has anyone made the jump from manager to IC?
I'm a reatively new manager with a litte over 2 years experience in the role. As I'm looking to change companies, I've been interviewing strcitly for management positions, never really paying any attention to individual contributor (IC) openings.

I just had an old colleague offer up a promising role as an IC in his current company, which has me intrigued but also skeptical. For those who have made the transition back from manager, did you see it as a positive move or a step backwards? Did you eventually go back into management, or find that you should have never made the move to begin with?
I'd definitely go the Nvidia Shield TV (2019) route, I use one for exactly that. It is a tiny box that runs Android TV (which includes Chromecast functionality plus the ability to run apps local) and even the original 2015 model is still getting updates. For control it comes with a hardware remote or you can use your phone or you can cast to it. Supports 4K HDR10, Dolby Vision, and Dolby Atmos as well as full DRM support for Netflix/Amazon/Hulu/etc allowing it to actually receive the 4k versions (or you can just use the Plex app if that's your thing or VLC for local files).

That extractor will passthrough whatever the output is and break out the audio to SPDIF for your soundbar.

Overall it's on the more powerful side and has full hardware acceleration so weird latency issues but you'll want to match the audio offset in the Android TV settings to whatever the display latency of your monitor of choice is to get the audio/video timing to perfectly match (supports both positive and negative offsets in case your soundbar has its own latency problems).
I agree that it's a ridiculous hypothetical and any company shipping something like that should also face punishment.
> I can never find the features easily because I don't know which pane or tab group it's supposed to be in.

In an attempt to be helpful, in case you don't know about it, the shortcut ctrl-shift-a brings up a quick search box of every action, pane, or other ui in IntelliJ. You don't have to drill down to get places, you can just jump there directly.
Elon Musk is today's Robert Moses. People associate him with helping the environment, but he's pushing for growth as his top-line strategy. He may lower emissions from tailpipes, but systemically, he's exacerbating the problems.
> The global pandemic, which started in manufacturing-centric China, continues to disrupt supply chains and draw attention from politicians calling for a reshoring of production. The United States is not alone; calls for reshoring can be heard around the world: in France, Germany, Australia, Japan, and South Korea.

> But is reshoring the answer to a nation’s manufacturing woes? Not completely. Better than reshoring is the broader concept of resilience — a manufacturing sector that can adjust in real time to supply chain disruptions anywhere while minimizing any loss to customers.

> The pandemic is inducing actions by U.S. manufacturers to en­hance the resilience of their supply chains. And the government is not standing idly by.

Relevant excerpts on the topic from [The Emerging American Industrial Policy
By Keith B. Belton ](https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/08/the-emerging-amer...)
Given that Chomksy's paradigm (and all the others) have failed so completely at automated language understanding I'm much more inclined to believe that the "language instinct" is a peripheral for an animal and if you want language understanding you need the animal or a simulation of the animal.

Thus I reject Wittgenstein.
https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-energy/

The author's opinion on this topic is that energy arguments are basically bunk, but she doesn't mention the scaling you do. I'm unequipped to judge who's right.
> A human would be like “wait, I think I saw a cyclist, slow down and figure out what this really was”.

This explains why there are only 5.25 million car accidents a year in the US.
It's a business decision. Good luck selling software subscriptions to federal agencies without FedRAMP compliance.

I'm pretty surprised that slack doesn't have a more robust testing network. Is it really that hard to set up another DNS on Route53 for staging these changes? Idk, but that type of thing is the least you can do if you want some FBI agents to discuss active investigations on your chat platform...
You should be able to control the keyboard backlight brightness through the Control Center under Keyboard Brightness. I have mine sitting at on but minimum brightness.
The one named anecdote I've heard about Stripe was from someone who got fired because they said something negative about Elon Musk on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/isosteph/status/1459566899151396867
In case anyone wants to see what this looks like, here's a video I found:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1eg-jgLx5o
Based on this interview, not sure who will be able to afford to buy $STRP when they do decide to go public. Nice for them, sad for the rest of us.
> Where does the idea that prices are a function of value even come from?

Basic economics.

> Even the most basic high school microeconomics course must teach students that prices are the intersection of supply and demand curves.

Demand curve is marginal (internalized) value @ quantity, so saying that prices are the intersection of supply and demand curves is exactly saying that they are a function of value at market-clearing quantity, plus telling you where markey-clearing quantity comes from.
Crypto is an attempt to solve a political problem, untrusted authorities, with a technology. This can never work, and without a political fight any crypto/web3 infrastructure will not catch on in a meaningful way unless it is bent to serve the interests of those authorities.
That's such a fantastic idea to pursue after this pandemic!
I do not see how this is possible for the bottom few income deciles considering healthcare costs. Definitely not possible for many more income deciles if you have children and still want to protect against healthcare costs.
I found the most gains in terms of... latency consistency. I had a VM with a GPU passed through for gaming. With the cores appropriately pinned, especially away from host tasks, there were no more random DPC latency spikes.

With no pinning they'd randomly go into the milliseconds -- with pinning it would stay in the micro second range!

The result of this is games (and likely audio) performing much more favorably.

How much of this is cache coherency/in-fighting, scheduling, or simply host usage; I couldn't tell you. I was just happy to have my VM 'feel' native.

There will always be a benefit with pinning vCPUs on the same NUMA nodes as their devices (VFIO or even SR-IOV). This is becoming increasingly important on hypervisors
I'm always interested in understanding animal neurology, especially in the context of trying to reach more general levels of AI. I find it interesting that modern ANNs perform near human level at some difficult tasks, and yet it seems there are some tasks that insects perform that we'd have no idea how to implement. Animal nervous systems certainly have interesting things to teach us.

It also seems like understanding simpler brains will help in progressively understanding the human brain, even if these brains are very different. Developing a less human-focused toolkit might be what we need; sometimes studying a more general problem is what you need to get past blockers in a more concrete problem.

On that topic I really enjoyed _Other minds_ by Peter Godfrey-Smith, which talks about octopus behavior and some neurology, but I'm interested in recommendations for more technical readings in animal cognition / neurology.
> This article has an expression of concern

> Soon after publication of the above abstract in Circulation, it was brought to the American Heart Association Com-
mittee on Scientific Sessions Program’s attention that there are potential errors in the abstract. Specifically, there are
several typographical errors, there is no data in the abstract regarding myocardial T-cell infiltration, there are no statisti-
cal analyses for significance provided, and the author is not clear that only anecdotal data was used.
How are people with multiple jobs counted? I’d imagine the gig thing is generally not primary.
These other algorithms would be part of the "larger system built around it" that I mention. This larger system has the task of doing what human judgement does.
That is one of many complications. Less time less sleep less ability to relocate
> But if they didn’t, there wouldn’t be any observation bias since the process is then mostly random because they were not really aware of what technique that worked, no?

Not sure I understand the argument. Though something a bit related:

We can assume that the Romans didn't have the modern sophisticated understand to know exactly what they were doing. But we can assume that they had enough experience to eg make something last for a hundred years with very high probability.

After all, they had enough history to be able to observe various things that their ancestors built a hundred years ago.

Now my argument is that if you build something to last a hundred years with very high probability, more often than not, it'll have a reasonably high chance to survive a thousand years.

Similar to how eg Nasa Rovers on Mars were engineered to have a very high probability to last their official mission length of a few weeks, and thanks to that (over) engineering, they ended up lasting much longer.

There's a saying that "Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands."

The Roman buildings that lasted were pretty much over-engineered, because they didn't have the knowledge to make the fine trade-offs we can today.
But it does and is working. Did you not even read the article this discussion is about?
I guess the short answer is: it depends. What if there are 5 people in the room and it’s not clear who the command is to? What if the person asking for the soda is crying? Surely you wouldn’t just get the soda and walk away…

In a sense, there is information to be had, whether or not you want or need to have it is totally up to you and perhaps the situation. Low stakes situations it probably matters less, negotiating with something big on the line would be a different story.

I think if humans always told the truth or could always express themselves fully in words, then yes, verbal communication would be a bigger chunk. But the truth is that humans can hide behind words or not know quite the right way to express themselves, but it’s much harder to do with tone and body movements.
I'm using Winamp on my Surface Pro 6, switched from foobar2000 for the Media Library feature. (I've been also using Winamp in my teens starting with the first versions up until last ones, then stopped listening to local music files).

It's an amazing low resource player. The YouTube playlists I'm listening to in Firefox consume 1.6GB of RAM and significant CPU, the downloaded opus files with Winamp take up a few megs of RAM (and bunch of disk space on my SD card).

I tried WACUP but it doesn't work well for me. Very complicated UI, too many settings, it also corrupted my real Winamp library.

Regarding the leak - perhaps the founders aren't happy with the direction of the app in the upcoming release (we can notice the ugly website update) so they may have leaked the code. Great news.
None of this, none of it at all, has anything to do with Slack's ability to safely host conversations from the FBI. Whatever challenges they have with that are entirely orthogonal to this stupid performative stunt DNS configuration.

(There's a whole thread here, and more on Twitter, getting into the actual details of what FedRAMP and NIST require here, and engaging with the fact that Slack is the only large tech company in the past several years to have attempted to flip the DNSSEC switch on.)
You would think people would have questions for bike thieves using angle grinders but nope. Just throw on a high-vis yellow jacket.
Were any of those other corporate mottos in the code of conducts they made employees sign?
I doubt lynx is over 5M lines of code...
I use mine as the living room computer. Something I can use with the kids to let them learn about computers and xode. And as a MAME box for playing through the history of video games with them.

I really love having a computer in a shared space. It helps turn “screen time” into “social time”
That's not making excuses as much as providing an explanation for it imo
Gig workers are not self-employed. They don't pass the IRS 20 factor test. And that's why governments are cracking down.
If you're using X, the fluxbox window manager supports tabbed windows: http://fluxbox.org/
all of those companies, including ms, have faced numerous fines and sanctions for anti-trust/anti-competitive behavior. these are some of the worst examples you could have raised. they all cheated, heavily and brazenly.
The bootstrapping process that GCC uses is as follows:

stage 1: build from source using your existing compiler

stage 2: build again from source using the compiler you just built

stage 3: (just for checking): build a stage 3 compiler from the stage 2 compiler. Verify that it is byte-for-byte identical.

extra stages for the paranoid: repeat the process with a different starting compiler, as unrelated as possible. Again, verify that the output is bit-for-bit identical. You then know either that you're good, that the compiler reflects the source, or both starting compilers have the same devious hidden hack, perhaps courtesy of Ken Thompson himself.

GNU Mes achieves that paranoid step: once you verify with GNU Mes that you get the same bits, you don't really have to do this ever again, because you can certify that the compiler you get is reproducible from source and has no tricks.
Standard behavioral questions not particularly challenging. The most striking thing is that there is no drill down: questions are independent of each other and interviewers don’t follow-up on the answers, making it hard to establish a conversation.
Holy smokes, pull up a bag of popcorn, pour a glass of Pinot, and heat up that Volcano! This heavy hitter brings the cultural pith of a Franzen novel and the citation-laden academic register of an SEO educated academic behind a pseudonym. Wokeness, SATs, Xi, culture wars, and Marx -- oh my!
That's unacceptable, in my opinion.

I work at a company that grew more than 10x in under 2 years from a couple dozen engineers to hundreds. I personally interviewed well over 100 engineers. My time was valuable, but not so valuable that I couldn't spend an hour productively with each candidate. And certainly not by making them feel like it's an extended failure. On the super rare occasion that someone was gigantic "no", it's still possible to make the candidate feel valued.

One time, I had to shut down an interview cycle because a candidate was abusive to one of my reports. That's the only time I've cut a round short.
Absolutely not true. Some examples:

In California, you need a special license to drive anything 40 feet or longer.

In Texas, you need a special license to drive anything with max weight over 26,000 lbs.