skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can only assume people who complain about Ikea—price, assembly instructions, quality, et c.—have never experienced other flat-pack furniture, like what Wal-Mart or Target stock, which is worse on all of those measures. Or most bulky, ugly, fake-fancy big box furniture, even not flat-packed.

I can only beat them on quality-per-dollar by going used, as you note—mid-century-modern used furniture is expensive (and is what a lot of Ikea stuff is designed after) but anything earlier or later is usually very cheap.

Brands that consistently provide better quality for non-flat-pack furniture tend to be way more expensive than Ikea, outside the range of what most normal folks are even considering.

And yeah, it's true that their cheapest tier is practically disposable, but it's hard to complain when an end table costs $20 or whatever. Of course it's not gonna last decades, at that price.
Fira Code iScript

https://github.com/kencrocken/FiraCodeiScript
Welcome to ‘Web3.’ What’s That?
https://wikiless.org/ is probably what you are looking for. There are also extensions that automatically redirect Wikipedia links
> There is no way competent managers would let 15% of the workforce slip so hard

Possible, even likely, that 900 layoffs probably encompasses some less than competent managerial staff?
If you really care about deliverability rate, there is often some impact from doing that.
I've found Sumo tends to reveal a lot of cultural biases in people that I otherwise consider very worldly / educated etc. Even those that tend to adore Japanese culture.

I developed an interest in it while I was living in LA and super broke. I wanted to start following baseball again to feel a connection to the Bay Area which I was very homesick for but discovered how expensive following American sports was. I couldn't pay for a service like ESPN and pirating seemed to negate the point of being a fan.

By chance I discovered that we got NHK (Japanese public broadcast) for free in our apartment, and amongst it's shows were 30 minute summaries of Sumo tournaments that happen daily for 15 days every other month.

I started watching them with curiosity, but found that there was a poetic simplicity and complexity to the matches. They could last only a few seconds and every movement / gesture mattered immensely. There were no complex rules or props involved. Each pairing only had one match (no two out of three etc) wrestlers couldn't punch or kick each other and the first one on the clay or out of the ring lost. And there were no obnoxious advertisements or commercial distractions other than a bale of envelopes full of financial contributions handed to some wrestlers after winning.

The sport seemed to be respectful of my time and aesthetic sensibilities. Every part of it seemed to be artistically considered and hand-crafted with great care. And indeed most important items from the clay platform to the belts worn by the wrestlers are hand-crafted in largely the same way they have been for hundreds of years, often with deep roots in Shinto tradition.

In any case the sport has brought me a lot of joy over the past 5 years and has made me feel rooted to a broader culture of the pacific rim as many of the best wretlers are from outside Japan. I'm sad to see Hakuho retiring. He is the best Yokozuna to have ever lived by almost an order of magnitude and it is unlikely we will get to see another like him in our lifetimes or perhaps ever again.

hakuho's last tournament > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkNFbyfmKV8

history of sumo > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQSEW1NFRwo&t=193s

hakuho documentary > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcT5AtFa67k
Their extensive test library is proprietary, so they ensure the path of least resistance for companies is to hire themselves to make improvements to the library.

That has helped ensure there are no forks given quality would be inferior.

It also kept SQLite out of the browser since there are no competing implementations of it.
Ask HN: What are some must read books?
Life is too short to read crummy books. So after reading the review on Blade Runner 2049 which touched on PKD and Nabokov I have decided get Pale Fire. I am curious what you would recommend on top of that (I was also planning to get A Confederacy of Dunces). That said, take a penny leave a penny, if you haven’t read A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again or Gibsons’ Neuromancer, try and make time. They’re exquisite!
But the anxiety of waiting all day, as you watch your coworkers slowly drop, and send their farewell emails... wondering if you'll be next... I'd rather find out all at once.
Of course they are.

Everyone is double dipping anymore. Pay for the app, but you're really the product being sold. Any app that can get location access is probably doing something you don't like with it. Your "Smart TV" is hoovering up as much as it can to send upstream (including using content recognition algorithms on the DVD and game console inputs), your "connected car" is almost certainly doing the same thing, your OSes are probably doing it... the whole of the modern tech industry is rotten, and nowhere is this more clear than the cell phone data mining industry.

There's big money in this sort of backend data analytics... deception? deceit? Whatever you want to call it.

> He did confirm that X-Mode buys data from Life360 and that it is one of “approximately one dozen data partners.” Hulls added that the company would be supportive of legislation that would require public disclosure of such partners.

You don't "accidentally" end up with a dozen data partners unless your goal is data collection and sale.

I'll offer a guiding principle that's been serving me well: If you can imagine how the data is being abused, it certainly is. If you can't come up with a possible way for some bit of data to be abused... someone else is more creative than you and has found a way to monetize it.
Have you tried hiring someone to do marketing for you? Or finding a cofounder? If you're not willing to try those then perhaps you care more about the building part than the making money part and are worried that making money will put unneeded stress and support load on your back when you'd instead like to be building.
What is there to believe? There is a video of it happening in the article
I remember an interview whereby he mentioned sqlite was initially built for software on warships.
> I would argue that curl is safety critical.

O.O

That opinion scares me. Genuinely. Have you seen its protocol list grow in recent years? It has taken on a hundred thousand easter eggs worth of overhead to add 26 protocols, of which you probably use 2, but you consider it safety critical?
Clearest Photograph of the Sun
Can we trust this news? Who is edelson?
Attempt at the “why is everything changing too fast?”:
When it is so easy to add new features, and get feedback to fix problems later (Early Access games on Steam, for example), why not? We’ve conditions ourselves to consuming the flood of novelty, so my guess is that this inclination corrupts our Making as well. Why bother editing my book when the publisher wants 300 pages, even though I can tell the story in 100?

Gripe: the Discord app feels too invasive when all I want to do is talk with my friends and play a game together, but it’s what works for us, and with so many people using it, that’s a lot of valuable data to gather in the interest of making the service even better, ideally staying just above the annoyance threshold of each subgroup enough to keep users hooked. The audio’s great, so I just use it in a webapp, thus also avoiding having to open a browser to update Discord on Linux when the auto-updater can’t do it.

Flood of novelty: I still get the little vestiges of a thrill when I update software. If nothing looks different, were there any changes made? Is this part of why we’re seeing so much change, along with trying to please everyone?
It works, but probably not in the way you want. It'll OCR the content within the image, but you'd need to copy+paste the text out of the scanned image if you want plaintext.

https://www.macstories.net/stories/macos-monterey-the-macsto...
Like I said, if you are physically so sick that you don't wish to live longer, suicide is not something that happens in affect.

And by then have people help you and be around you.

Not in a plastic bathtub with a lid, so you get to wave out.
Isn't biggest issue in this debacle is that Better tracks its employee's activities? To quote the CEO: “You guys know that at least 250 of the people terminated were working an average of 2 hours a day while clocking 8 hours+ a day in the payroll system? They were stealing from you and stealing from our customers who pay the bills that pay our bills. Get educated,” "
> First thing that happens when implementing agile are estimations

I'm usually the first to chime in that all estimates are lies, but small estimates (i.e., per-issue, not per-project) easier than big ones.
Nobody below the C-level would have any real responsibility in a case like this.
I think this is overthinking it.

Mark Zuckerberg is the head of the world's most mundane tech company at the moment, so he changed the name and the focus of the company to try and dig out of this hole.
That's true of most software though, even when you're staring at their GUI. It's part of the normal operation of the software, where do you draw the line?
Yes it’s gotten pretty egregious. I generally get 30 seconds of non-skippable ads every 5 mins or so. I haven’t watched broadcast TV in probably 10 years so maybe I’m not remembering how bad it is, but I have a hard time watching YouTube with how frequent (and poorly targeted) the ads are.
Let's see
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/28/facebook-changes-company-nam...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/technology/facebook-meta-...
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59083601

Though you have a point, I know a lot of people who don't know that Alphabet is the parent of Google.
IMHO the answer is the tech version of bullshit jobs.

You know the concept - jobs that exist just to exist and pay for someone's living, though they produce nothing of actual value, and it takes effort to actually remove so no one does.

With software it goes something like this:

1) A product is built, something that solves a real issue. It's new, rough around the edges and has only the basic critical features.

2) Funding is found and a large team is hired to implement what's needed and fix all the rough edges.

3) The team comes up with good, new ideas that actually improve the product experience for everyone, so in the eyes of management and the investors they have merit.

4) After the first 10 good ideas are implemented, the next ideas are... not as helpful, but some users still like them and nobody wants to fire anyone who's been doing really good work so far.

5) Fast forward a couple of years, the team is huge and there is really no headroom to improve the product. Everyone tries to come up with bullshit ideas and force their ideas through, just to have something to show come performance review time. The users stay with their tried and true product, and they're so invested at this point that a few regressions make them bitter - but not enough to leave.

6) Rinse and repeat.

I've been on that team. The engineers there are often mentally older, comfortable, and smart - or at least were smart. Many of them are sure what they do is important. But they're wrong. They now hold bullshit jobs.
Not sure about “protection” … and the other benefits like reducing “brain fog” improved cognition, improved sleep, and the list of bs goes on… whenever you see 5G protection it’s always a rabbit hole.
How is it even legal to fire someone on a Zoom call? Don't know about the US, but every European legislation I know of requires firing notice to be in written form. In Germany even E-Mail or text message is not enough, it has to be written in a piece of paper.
"Class action suit filed against Facebook's Parent company, Meta" Easy fix. Just look at Google / Alphabet reporting.
I'm almost certain this is a joke. Right?
Understanding exactly how much of modern health systems/guidelines are based off of capitalism incentivized research which then get some form of regulatory stamps of approval is appalling.

Not griping about capitalism, I think its the best thing out there for the economy, its just that we haven't figured out a way to prevent it from creating authoritative science backed research that somehow always promotes the funding party's product.
Not to mention the CEO spent more time talking about how this is impacting HIM. When you're laying people off, this isn't about you. Noone cares about you, this is about the people getting laid off. You need to be concerned about their feelings, what you're going to do to help THEM.
I guess your ok with the CEO of the company you work for calling you a dumb dolphin? Lol
There is a methodology for meta-analysis

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/about/about-cochrane-reviews

that filters studies before including them. Routinely 50% or more of the studies get thrown out initially because they are obviously invalid, have poor methodology, small sample size, etc.

As I see it, studies that would be rejected by Cochrane shouldn't be accepted by journals and shouldn't be funded.
I just peeked into those monitors and the built in KVM really sells it.

I'm still rocking a 32" Samsung 1080p HDTV from about 2010 at home.
It's definitely unprofessional to talk about it while working there. If it's also unprofessional to talk about it after no longer working there, that means it's unprofessional to ever voice your own opinion of your own work experience at a company, and that's ludicrous.

I'm responsible for vetting possible hires to work under me. What this person did falls well within what I would accept as responsible behavior for someone I was considering hiring. The fact that they note they went out of their way to avoid conferences where they would likely be forced to compromise their morals in some way, either through going against the wished of their employer or being untruthful, speaks very well of their character, if it's to be believed as presented. People that have no problem lying for the company, or badmouthing the company to external people while they work there, are both types of people I would desperately try to avoid.
Probably the least worst way of doing it, but still creates an enormous amount of stress for everyone, regardless of their ultimate status...
> What is the point of fiat money other than greed?

Well I mean, what do you use it for?

> territorial violence monopoly we so kindly call sovereign nations

Literally every civilization is this. It's the first thing you learn in social contract theory and is super easy to derive from first principles. Basically in order to have a more secure society, individuals band together by giving up the use of violence on each other in order to focus their efforts on protecting themselves and their livelihood.

> So what does the traditional economy system gives us?

Literally everything we have. Feel free to cherry-pick some of the worst things but, also I mean hey, I'm enjoying Firefox, HN, and my radiator heat thank you traditional economy.

> Choosing to have a personal war with a system that proposes to do away with the violence monopoly because it requires a nuclear power plant or two of power to operate is an odd position.

Why is it so hard for crypto advocates to come to grips with the current reality of their ecosystem? No one would be upset if crypto all ran on green energy, and if you all really cared about it you'd make it happen. You obviously don't. Which is fine! But you can't have it both ways; you can't belch billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere for your projects and then be like, "well, we're fixing it, we promise". I mean, if you really believe that, shut down until it's fixed.
I'm sorry if that happened to you but entering a meeting hoping for a raise and getting fired instead means there were several big communication issues with your manager.
I imagine it escaped as a gas.
Obviously to spare the poor manager the hassle of being asked if they will have a job in two days or not
But it does like to wink suggestively.
The knowledge about running MySQL in production seems to be more widespread. A lot of web-hosting companies offers it. MySQL is the default for some CMS systems and so on. Postgres is powerful and can be used for pretty much everything but it takes more knowledge.
I don’t see how Facebook is liable for the actions of other adults.maybe evidence comes out that Facebook actively encouraged it. But seems unlikely.
Many credit unions will do this too. (They don’t charge foreign atm fee, and reimburse for the atm’s fee)
Reminds me of IBM and WW2. Maybe a class action suit should be drawn up for IBM also?
Ask HN: Are you allowed to configure Jira to suit your team's needs?
This is my third experience with a big corp not allowing me and my team to configure JIRA to support our development process.

The things that are usually misconfigured include: limited or unsuitable ticket status workflow, redundant or unsuitable ticket fields, unsuitable ticket types, mandatory fields not being mandatory and vice versa, chaotic Components, meaningless Priority and inability to use templates in ticket descriptions.

The excuses I usually hear include: we need to update to a new version first, this would cause a performance issues, other teams like the way it is configured now, or, my all time favourite, JIRA is configured to support project tracking by management, not to support some software development.

Misconfigured JIRA leads to all kinds of time waste, including cloning tickets with the correct template, or using fake sprints or labels as buckets for tickets that are ready for grooming, waiting for UX, blocked etc.
When to Use Context Methods: Field and Diary Studies
Automating turbulence modelling by multi-agent reinforcement learning
Good job! How’d they remove the novel technology?
I’m confused by this comment. Are you arguing that the GP is engaged in unethical behavior, engaged in bad business, being insensitive, cluttering the thread with a low-value contribution, or some door #N that I’m failing to see?
Since you mentioned it, the reason I didn't engage with your argument about the word "steal" because I think it's frankly ridiculous and clearly not worth arguing about. We share no common ground, so we will never agree.
These all add up to a story where Facebook is doing bad things having a negative impact on the world, but that's a very different question than whether they violated any legal obligations. The plaintiff's primary theory of harm seems to be that Facebook allowed people to publish "extreme and outrageous hate speech, misinformation, and conspiracy theories", and publishing things like that would be legally protected in the US even if Mark Zuckerberg himself were the one writing them.
Alchemist became Chemist. Dageuerreotypist became photographer, which has only recently gone away.

Town crier is now the guy flipping a sign for the new burger joint.
I've just looked into this, it seems Chrome displays that because of the "tabs" permission:

> "Technically this permission allows observing the history via chrome.tabs.onUpdated, but not read the previously existing history, so the phrasing is not entirely correct, strictly speaking."

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64063754/chrome-extensio...

To be clear, the extension doesn't access your browsing history at all. The "tabs" permission is just used to find Wikipedia tabs and enable/disable the new design when using the toggle from the browser popup.

The permissions requested (in the manifest.json file) are:

"permissions": [
"tabs",
"storage",
"*://*.wikipedia.org/*"
]

I will change that to "activeTab" in the next update which should fix it.
A Brief History of the Internet: Why We Never Had a Chance
It's a bit different in that space because the "new markets" are seen as a thread that will cannibalize the core business. It becomes a major political issue within the organization.

Not to mention the reputation of the organization might make it difficult to attract and retain the types of innovators and professionals it needs to succeed.

Whereas with FogBugz, they were investing in complementary products, not destroying their own market.
Having played this game a few times, I have noticed that it is a very effective tool for shifting the blame onto people not participating.
There are seven trees.
Wouldn't be true for England which has gone the last millenia (almost) without invasion.
> SQLite doesn't support functional indexing

SQLite has "Indexes On Expressions"[1] since 2015. I'm assuming functional indexing in Postgres is the same. So I think the syntax would be:

CREATE INDEX idx_t_bar ON json_extract(data, '$.bar');

[1]: https://www.sqlite.org/expridx.html

> Also PostgreSQL has many operators[2] which makes using JSON fields easier.

This does look a little more convenient to write than SQLite's JSON syntax, but I don't see any fundamental difference here.
A few years ago a German telco company did that to their uk subsidiary:

1 First made the uk subsidiary bankrupt and went into administration

2 Called every one to a mass meeting said your redundant

3 oh there's no £ - pick up the RB2 form to claim statutory redundancy from the UK tax payer.
>had my primary Gmail account locked last week for daring to use a VPN,

yikes I check my gmail behind a VPN semi regularly. Now I'm worried.
they're all just doing their jobs, of course
There’s definitely a lot of “our users are sheep” and “everyone else is dumb” going on in this post.

Well, we disagree then. I see his post as making some definitely very harsh critiques -- but still short of the threshold of outright insulting people.
Well, you can agree, and they can continue being upset about other people's life choices. Letting the pop vox dictate your speech isn't wise.
From my vantage point, the wars the US gets into are solely designed to grind young American lives into windfall profits for a defense industry that prioritizes contract value over mission goals. Which is why we had no definition of success in either place.

There is no righteousness on the world stage, only exploitation. The US has simply put itself ahead of its allies too many times for the world to trust us anymore.
It is likely there were HR reps or even managers of the fired individuals. Those managers could have spoken with the people. There doesn't need to be a zoom meeting of almost a thousand people getting fired.
Text becomes less readable at large widths. I sometimes use the mobile Wikipedia on desktop for that reason, especially on ultrawide monitors.
As a Texan who has perused dispensaries in CO, OR and CA, I have never had such an unpleasant experience. In fact, the largest and most professional feeling dispensary was in SoCal. It felt like an apple store. There was no anteroom, and products were displayed in arrayed glass cases and hanging in walls.

Several places I have been to have a small waiting area that you must be let to pass, but that is more common in my experience in smaller towns.

I can't comment on the prices, since I have never bought bud illegally. But the in-store experiences have been just fine, and I don't have to hang out at a bar and try not to look like a cop to find a stranger selling.

Edit, the CA experience was 2-3 years ago, so maybe things have gotten worse or maybe in places where rule of law is less enforced, things have changed.
Warrant officers in technical fields are able to remain more technically focused, but they are largely pushed into management too. At CW3 the Army says that they are field-grade officers who are basically interchangeable with an O-4.

The other issue is that many warrant officers still just have a high school diploma, or a check-the-block degree from an online diploma mill. They have deep institutional knowledge and vocational experience, but they aren't going to do technical innovation. This isn't like hiring a senior researcher or engineer.