skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know what exactly the truth is, but I’m one of the tech workers living in the Seattle area.

I’ll start off by saying that I work 60 hours a week, at least. My stress and anxiety levels are manageable now, but only because I found ways of managing them. They’re not reasonable though and most importantly, they’re not sustainable.

Based on the neighborhood I live in and my compensation, I am extremely privileged. I don’t have money concerns that my parents had. Most things that I might need, I can buy them without having to think too much or without putting a dent in my net worth.

But my job is not sustainable. So, I live way below my means and avoid any lifestyle creep.

I would like to own a home, a nice one. Not a $1M property that’s not even comparable to my parents home. Given my compensation and many, many years of savings, this would be reasonable. I looked at several houses over the weekend. One dump after another, going for $1.3MM at the minimum. One actually had an offer accepted, merely hours after we toured it. They told us the buyer offered $1.6MM.

But Seattle has become a lawless dump. The east side has started homes for $1.4MM where the inspection report shows you that you’re basically just paying for the land.

If I have to be a renter my whole damn life and can’t even afford a house, what is the god damn point? Yeah I get paid very well, but I am a pawn of people who earn significantly more. And it’s not that I’m just comparing myself, but even after all this work and money I can’t comfortably buy a house - then where does this leave the majority of this country?

I don’t know.
> But I would say that it's the HN commenters being incredibly obnoxious, not wikipedia being wrong for giving you the mobile site when you specifically ask for it.

But it's kinda crazy that if I'm on my phone I can't just share a URL to a page with someone who happens to be using a desktop. While I'm not sure if this is made explicit in any of the RFCs or standard docs, in my view a URL should be a locator for a resource that is agnostic of the user agent.
I feel like both you and parent are ignoring operational + reputation costs of being naughty boys. If we are saying the bad behavior should not be profitable the fine should be above (ill gotten gains - operational costs it took to acquire them + whatever interest those ill gotten gains received before the culprit got caught).

Reputational losses are also a thing, agencies and whistleblowers will be paying a lot more attention to this sort of thing from JPMorgan from now on. Maybe a lesser effect would be morally conscious people (in finance haha) choosing not to work there.

Of course it is also possible that Chase PR machine greases the right hands to negate all of the downsides, and then you have a point that current political/regulatory climate is allowing this is be a profitable business model.
Every energy company that I know of makes substantial R&D investments in an effort to patent the most likely technology paths forward. They all hope to develop a portfolio of patents that will allow them to sue any new competitor that becomes a threat.
Title changed to that from "Coreutils Rewritten in Rust". Thanks for the heads-up!
Used in some machines that were pretty cool at the time, like the tiny Jornada 680[1]. There was a Linux distro called Jlime that could run on these. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jlime

[1] https://ed154c547559d2878d6a-e584b6b63c3a42919fe0cc5066a1430...
That's rough. My last company put a meeting on everyone's schedule for 5 minutes in the future. As we walked to where the meeting was we realized our invites had different rooms. I'm not sure if anyone accidentally followed the crowd without noting they were assigned to a different room but I'm sure that would have been awkward. I was one of the people laid off (I just hit my 3 months there) but interestingly enough was hired back the following Monday (layoffs on Friday) because another engineer who wasn't laid off was actually just about to put in his 2 weeks notice and he recommend me to fill his position. Needless to say, I'm like a cat on a hot tin roof anytime I get a last minute meeting invite.
I read that also, but it wasn't clear to me that the disgorgement was the profit, I assumed it was just what they had on hand from their takings, like if you rob a bank and get caught with $5k left then they would disgorge you of the $5k and then deal with the rest later.
I feel like you sorta added evidence to the idea that it is a broader movement. It’s not that everyone is just saying “I quit” - but those in bad jobs/bad teams/working for low wages are the ones supposedly making moves and I think your anecdotes align with that. Just say’n is all.
In 2021 nobody on the sellside in a trading seat is making $50m a year or anywhere close to that.
Looks amazing! Although I wish there were a TTS. It's a lacking feature for wiki nowadays.
To really do QA for a gaming company, in a way you could leverage automation effectively, the key would be process, and structuring things in a way where you are using design patterns that let your tools cross-cut the portfolio of product.

You could totally automate tests around the web service client layers of the game, but what most people think of in gaming QA is actually playing the game. That would slot in as a System test, which is your most expensive, least scalable, latest in the process form of testing, and nigh impossible to make substantive groundreshaping changes from the input of, as that experience is reliant on everything being the way it is.

If you were embedded with the engine design group, you might be able to get some wins in terms of influencing architecture choices so as to make downstream automation testing more likely/doable, but from my understanding that's like being on the team that develops the crypto libraries everyone else just adopts and uses in the manner you prescribe.

Plus, as a longtime QA, if game developers are as resistant to feedback as corpo ones are, and with management structures almost guaranteeing you'll be underneath the Engineering group, cutting you off at the knees the first time the words "crunch time" are implied, given the rates most get in that vertical, I'd stay away from it unless your one purpose in life is to get confronted with disappointment after disappointment as economic/fiscal concerns destroy and deface what could have been over and over again.

Then again, you wouldn't be in QA if you didn't already have a tolerance to that sort of thing.

Now where'd I put that bottle?
IIUC people have already run MD (which is the field I used to work in) on XLA, https://twitter.com/sschoenholz/status/1334997741185814530
In these cases it's almost always better (unless you are a numerical genius) to port to the engine, than to try to make a better algorithm that runs on a smaller engine.
Safari is abandonware, it's about time to realize
Ah. In the Play store there's a main country which can be changed once a year[1], then there are payment methods ( you can't share Stadia, for instance, with anyone who has any payment method in a different country). The billing address changes nothing in this regard.

1 https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7431675?hl=en&c...
Path loss.
So you "find it hard and time-consuming to write content for my social media accounts". What are you using your accounts for? And is it that important for you to have a stream of postings? Why not just write and publish short posts occasionally, and not use a spambot?
>The $17/hr she gets is considered the top end of the pay range for her job… $17/hr! She’s got a college degree!

is $17/hr supposed to be outrageously low? According to[1], the median wage in NC is $35,750/year, or $17.19/hr. Someone with a college degree making median wage, in a job that pays below median wage[2] doesn't seem too outrageous.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

[2] https://www.bls.gov/oes/2020/may/oes_nat.htm, comparing "Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education" $15.35 median hourly wage, against "all occupations" with $20.17 median hourly wage.
That process node is not just "rather old", it is literally 20 years old. Sure, it's nice that these old processes are being opened up, but for anything finer you're still going to run into the patent concerns that the article talks about.
Right and it uses a trampoline under the hood.
I think noone argues against ads being useful, when dosed properly. Same like sleeping pills for example. The problem is that ad-based business can not resist the temptation to "overdose" the user. This is how we got in the situation that infuriates so many people (almost a billion devices use an ad-blocker). People just do not want to see so many ads everywhere.

Let's take Brave for example. Open home page of brave.com and you get:

"The best privacy online

Browse privately. Search privately. And ditch Big Tech."

And a nice screenshot.

The problem is this is not what Brave works/looks like when you open it the first time.

By their own research [1], on your first run Brave will immediately "phone home" 80(!) times. The original post discussed here talks about mundane features like installing an extension not working without contacting their servers about it.

Then, the user is immediately welcomed by ads for several crypto services right there in the browser on the right hand side (curiously hidden on their home page screenshot). I guess that:

"Browser that shares your private information with us and shows you ads you do not really want" would not fly well as a tagline.

Having this behavior turned on by default is where user frustration begins and is later then just amplified by even worse behavior, again incentivized by the fact that the business model is simply dependent on ads, like the other big tech.

[1] https://brave.com/popular-browsers-first-run/
These are wonderful suggestions.

To confirm I understand them, I'm writing them below and would love a way to get in touch with you.

1. You want to be able to create clips based on parsing show notes. Since you already do the work to identify key moments, we could use that to speed up your clip making process.

2. You want to import content based on the RSS feed. This will make it easier to get content in the tool, and avoid the "where is the file" rigmarole.

Separately, the processing time is slow. We have a way to improve this, and is on the queue!

Thank you!
It looks like WordPress is the only reason I've installed MySQL at all in the past decade. It's like WP and MySQL are each other's "killer app" :D
When there is enough anecdotal evidence, that is consistent, you have to consider that the researcher is missing something. In this case, there might just be a misunderstanding - the economist is considering all jobs, whereas this evidence is coming from experienced tech jobs. The evidence is multi-faceted - people quitting, more hits from recruiters, etc.
Location data is very easy to capture so tons of apps and websites do it, so there is large volumes of it, which makes it very cheap. For example when I run ad campaigns location data in general is literally just free, and if I want precise data (users who have visited this location) it’s max $2 cpm (1 thousand uses).

If I’m spending a few million on an ad campaign, a few thousand for location data is very much worth it.
UPDATE - twitter/@arkann1985 was just hired by Google [1]. Well done, Arkaddii, and fuck you to Bumble.

[1] https://twitter.com/arkann1985/status/1467914399381925888
Looks clean and nice on first glance!

> Modern for Wikipedia only works on desktop or laptop computers

Urgh. Mobile probably represents 90% of Wikipedia traffic. I am on mobile now, of course. I am sad.
We put an AirTag in our kid's backpack. That way we know when the bus left the school and when to go to the bus stop. Don't know what we'll do when our kid is more independently mobile...maybe an Apple Watch for real time communication over wifi.
Would not surprise me if there were people in these businesses who thought, "why would we leave FREE money on the table?" A promotion or two later after palming off their customer's data to whoever had the cash handy, they're off to do the same at another business.

I think they're called MBAs but I don't think it's unique to that style of professional.
Install Firefox Redirector: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/
Add a rule to redirect (https?://)?(\w+\.)m\.wikipedia.org(.*) to $1$2wikipedia.org$3
Then you never have to deal with mobile Wikipedia on desktop again. You can use this for other sites too, like forcing all uses of Reddit to always open in old.reddit.com.
Really? I searched Hotmail here and couldn't find story like this (banning users).
I used to work in automotive software, where the SH-2A was a popular choice for engine controller units, particularly in Japan.

It was the first CPU I encountered that uses branch delay slots [1], meaning that the instruction immediately following a branch instruction is always executed, even when the branch is taken. That took a bit of getting used to, although I understand it's quite common on RISC architectures.

The SH-4 was most notably used in the Sega Dreamcast.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_slot
You only can't do it if:

- the compositor insists of doing (with interpolation, depending on the compositor you use the results do hugely differ in quality)

- scale to "exactly" that fraction.

But if I "as a normal user" ask for a scale factor of 1.33 I do in general not mean "scale exactly to 1.33", neither "scale exactly to 4/3" but what I mean is "make it roughly 4/3 larger as 3/3 is to small and 6/3 to large".

And a lot of program can do that just fine, especially wrt. fonts.

Like e.g. a terminal which is set to font size 12 on 3/3 would just scale the font size by 4/3 and then round. Result is a crisp font roughly 4/3 larger which fulfills all requirements. Only drawback is that:

- it needs to be handled by the application, but so does any HiDPI support

- due to rounding the ratio of font sizes might be of by 1 pixel, irrelevant on a HiDPI screen

- this doesn't help with pictures or other layout, but even they can be handled better by the application then the compositor(1).

Wayland should just give applications the choice to to handle fractional scaling themself, like it does for HiDPI scaling. Any mainly text based program can support that reasonable well (terminal, editor, etc.), so can many games. Also due to HiDPI screens becoming increasingly more common (e.g. 1440p on gaming laptops) it also becomes more common that programs come with a layout/style/prictures for that, in the same way they have one for 4k.

Just to be clear a program should be able to opt-into "fractional scaling hidpi" mode based on the specific scaling. And I think it also would be fine if wayland or DEs doesn't support arbitrary fractional scaling but just a set of common scaling factors like 11/10, 5/4 (for 4k), 4/3 (for 1440p) maybe 3/2, 7/8.

(1): The compositor is in generally the place least well equipt for doing any scaling. As it only knows the final result "as image". But UI/Layout scaling is not the same as scaling an image. Which yes, doesn't work well for fractions.
Yes, thank you! This idea of "propagation" is a pet-peeve of mine. It's a widespread misconception and hopefully more people will see this post since understanding how DNS works is important foundational knowledge.
100%! Instagram, Tiktok, etc.

This tool is just a small piece of our overall product.

In the actual application, you can create content (like this audiogram) once, and then export it for various dimensions without needing to do any redesigning as well.
Eh well non-Christians exist too.

They all still live beyond the means of dictators and kings of old.

Have any of them considered the real test of Gods is losing themselves to contemporary economic concept, making them poor stewards of the Earth and all His creatures?

Isn’t doing the work to care all this a central theme?

Everyone is moving the goal posts except science. I wonder if that’s a message from God? To care for it all, don’t get lost to contemporary group think. Follow the science.
Probably because of the new scheme of seeking financing for a digging operation, now it's worth a lot more.
You can select which "lists" you want to subscribe to when setting up the extension. One of the popular ones would be EasyList: https://github.com/easylist

Compromising one of these would be as "simple" as getting a PR merged that wasn't reviewed carefully.
I'm not 100% sure why you're being downvoted. While the choice of the word "sell" kind of feels at odds with FOSS, it's honestly not an inaccurate verb.

Everything is an attention game, if people stopped using curl, then it would stop getting donations, and the author(s) would probably have to stop working on it as much. They aren't being "greedy" or anything, but they do have some level of incentive just to have a reasonable living working on curl.
I think the broad movement is exactly people settling less for dumpster fires with low wages...
I would put the Discworld series out there. Not because they will change your life, but just because they're so damn enjoyable to read. A lot of them are also suitable for reading together with children. My daughter (11) and I both loved The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents.
One unique UI feature of Wikipedia is that it has tons of tables that are super wide. They look fine on a monitor with 1080p+ resolution, but reading such articles on mobile has always been horrible experience.

Unfortunately, this "modern" UI (larger font, narrow width) causes the exactly same problem on desktop.
Easily one of my favorite archs, at least as far as the idea of it goes. IMO the most pure classic 5 stage RISC. Divide is split into each cycle's ops, iterate for as long as your results need. It's pretty easy to get to a point where you can just read the hex of the opcodes as three address RISC with 16 bit instructions and 16 registers means the first nybble is the opcode, and the other three nybbles are the registers. And the whole thing feels like someone told some engineers that they have to make a RISC with half the gates of an equivalent MIPS and the mad lads actually did it, and did it well.

A little ascetic for these days though, IMO.
That's still almost half the number Better.com fired (9%), and Goldman Sachs has a procedure, if they do this every year.
I agree. It was lovely to watch, a good-hearted, entertaining, relaxed show with very likable characters and gorgeous photography.

And I will forevermore know to call people operating metal detectors "detectorists."
That's how you gift PRC a firm client state with naval base and infra that circumvents Malacca and mitigates Andaman & Nicobar. US can only maximize logistics with forward staging, which is still tiny compared to Myanmar / PRC land routes, who can support Tatmadaw indefinitely, with little green men if need be. Regardless, unlikely anyone in the region will allow it, least of all India, whose already dealing with border instability and weakening security environment due to western bloc sanctioning Tatmadaw, ruining India's Act East strategy. PRC supported/loyal Tatmadaw is nightmare scenario for India. Also SKorea, Japan, Singapore - basically anyone that's remotely US friendly wants to protect their Myanmar investments, as far as I know, none of them are even on the sanction train.

At most you'll have US sorting out of CSGs, close to SLOC choke points, scaring everyone in ASEAN and making mockery of US's PRC containment propaganda, while PRC takes opportunity to gather intelligence and maybe give Myanmar military new PRC military platforms to test in real world scenarios. Which could actually go either way.
it would be interesting to see where else it could've been picked up. like a scatter dispersion map
Id also go lower down to trading managers who really know the day to day operations.
(...he _should_ be using PhotoStructure, but I _may_ be biased...)
Honestly I'd have trust issues if someone increased my salary 50% because it would mean they severely underpaid for several years to get to a point where I am worth a 50% increase.

Not saying that your boss is bad or that you should leave your company, whatever works, but yeah it's something.
If you haven't been aware of the great work of the European NGO "noyb", this should grab your attention.

Facebook's GDPR violations are not just tolerated by the Irish DPC, they are outright protecting Facebook. Until recently, nobody was able to prove that. But noyb finally managed to annoyi the Irish DPC so much that the Irish DPC finally showed they true face by trying to force noyb into signing an NDA for documents that have clearly, and legally proven, a public interest.

These "Advent Reading" sessions are noyb's way to kick back the blanket so everyone can see what the Irish DPC is actually doing here.
Well I can see 20/20 with my new weaker glasses on the Snellen eye chart, so I don't think I just got used to worse vision.

I will be going to the eye doctor soon again and will hopefully get a similar prescription from her as from my own measurements :)

You're right about retinal detachment. I worry less about it now that my eyes are improving and it doesn't feel like I'm on an unstoppable trajectory towards worse eyes and higher risk for retinal detachment anymore.
I heard it can appear quite rapidly, which worried me even when going to routine checkups.
Nice work! The UI is really simple - and love not having to log in to use it. Have you thought about leveraging the ListenNotes API (https://www.listennotes.com/api/) to automatically pull in the podcast episodes via search vs having to upload them?
Sponsor open source code and open source hardware solutions that DIY folks can put together at $300 or below price point.

Gold star if you sponsor an independent test of this solution to verify its effectiveness.

Bonus points for explaining what matters in terms of testing.

Self-serving (which is OK in this context) points for explaining how your product mitigates the problem by demonstrating the DIY metered results.
Kotlin were the first to introduce the idea in my knowledge
https://elizarov.medium.com/deep-recursion-with-coroutines-7...
I mean sure, you can dispute inflation number as being the relevant index, but CPI if anything underrepresents increased costs lots of people experience in Seattle.
In modern life,you have a house as a service™.

Jokes aside, why the prices are so high in some countries?
> In Postgres, by contrast, any schema change, even adding an index with the CONCURRENTLY option, needs to at least momentarily hold a totally exclusive lock that blocks all writes and reads on the table.

It's true that every DDL statement requires a relation-level lock. Though the same is true for even a simple SELECT statement. The important detail is the lock strength for each variety of DDL, and how that affects and interacts with other queries (including other DDL):

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/explicit-locking.html#...

CREATE INDEX (even without CONCURRENTLY) will not block reads, even for a moment (it just blocks write DML). CREATE INDEX (without CONCURRENTLY) won't even block other CREATE INDEX statements that run against the same table.

My guess is that your application appeared to exhibit this behavior, but the true problem was actually how several conflicting locks accumulated, which had the effect of blocking SELECTs for an unreasonably long time. A combination of CREATE INDEX and some other conflicting DDL that really does block reads (e.g., certain kinds of ALTER TABLE) can create the false impression that CREATE INDEX blocks reads in general. But that's not really the case at all. At worst, CREATE INDEX is only one part of the "traffic jam" that caused SELECTs to block in this scenario.