skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I first read this, my intial reaction was "LOL what a silly... of course the simple reason is..." ... and then it turns out, I couldn't actually explain it to myself. I had a couple of reasons lined up, but none of them passed muster when I broke it down.

I suspect the real reason my be overlapping domains of varying precision/accuracy, which tolerate different degrees of error on any specific time measurement, but still need to agree on a shared center of the distribution of that error.

So in our daily lives, we might tolerate a fraction of a second of drift without notice... But there are some specialty domains that do require more precision, and we need the time measurements in both domains to mostly line up, to avoid confusion. So our daily clock needs to be slaved to the more precise clock, even if we don't require that precision in most things.
The great resignation is fascinating. Some people are trapped in jobs with toxic cultures because they really have obligations to meet and a lack of good alternatives. Lots of other people just think this is the case. A toxic manager with a certain kind of charisma (as many high level toxic managers ten to have)can project this fear into the susceptible and they use that power shamelessly. But this kind of fear projection seems to rely on actual physical proximity or at least spending lots of time in an environment that they not you control. It’s amazing how much less scary a jackass manager seems when you are working home in your sweatpants with some Louis Armstrong playing. Can only be good to defang these soul parasites a bit.
What does this drivel even mean? What interest does the music industry specifically have against anything but "passive consumers"? It's a shallow attempt to recast people not paying for their music as some sort active citizenry?

What's the music industry's fear? People making their own remixes and becoming too powerful, rhythmically? No. They don't like people not paying. People don't like paying. Therefore they avoid it. It's not courageous nor morally repugnant, but the motivation is entirely self-interested and the result is mildly negative for the actual people working in creative industries.
An Open Letter to Spotify
Ok, but GTK uses Javascript, which is where most of that toolkit's defects (both security flaws and slowdowns) come from, not C. Calling javascript from Rust isn't going to be a materially different experience than calling javascript from C.
> We need something in-between. Something that maybe defaults to always being on the latest version, but when the user wants, allows them to use an older version. Just like native applications (mostly) do.

But there's no fundamental reason web apps can't do this. Basecamp still offers Basecamp 2 to existing customers. It's just that most companies don't want to go to the trouble of stabilizing their internal API (or keeping the old version around for ever), and so far the market hasn't penalized them for it. As native apps develop more connected capabilities, older versions of them will start to succumb to bitrot as well.
I almost feel like Gaming is better than Scrolling at this point. Of course, Reading a Book is probably better still, and has almost the same escapism potential, but also a lot less bad for your eyes and brain.
Well of course no you don't say anything, but more important that that, look at what your situation here is.

You live in one of the best off places on the planet, at the best point in time to live there, in one of the most advantaged professions to be in at that time, and you are looking at this person who you work with and think you work harder than, and you're thinking "they're a slacker and they probably get paid more than me".

I mean without even discussing the snitching thing, you've just gotta drop that attitude. You're never going to be happy with an attitude like that. Life is good. Enjoy!
If a fact is known, you don't need the contribution of a random person.

If a fact is not known, how can some random person produce it? Out of what.

E.g. in the situation of a crime: only activities like crime scene investigation, and interviewing of witnesses can produce anything that can be called a fact.

Now so from all that have some collection of real facts from the investigation which do not add up to an absolute proof that some particular defendant "dun it".

The next best thing you could do is use some sort of probabilistic reasoning.

Well, what training in probabilistic reasoning do the these random people off the street have?

Probabilities should be quantified in concrete numbers. Instead of some flaky "shadow of a doubt" nonsense, there should be some 99.99% (or whatever standard level) confidence which is somehow calculated.
There is a "I refuse to identity myself" option for most if not all the questions on the form(s). (this also includes the veteran status ones)
This is bad. This is bad for COVID and bad for scientific integrity as a whole.

There needs to be a public response by scientists decrying the bad behavior here. It's the least we can do to try to slow the general public's loss of faith in experts.
That as well. But the extra mass accelerated by entrainment (instead of dumped overboard at low velocity) is still helpful for increasing efficiency.
Other than selling some largely obsolete aircraft and conducting a few joint training missions, the US has definitely NOT been investing heavily in making Taiwan defensible. Especially when you consider that the US Navy will be the primary tool used to defend Taiwan, and the US government has been forcing the Navy to focus on supporting the Army in the mideast, as opposed to oh, deterring other navies?
Isn't your comment confirming what I said?

If 400k (where I am with 250k base) to 500k (where I'd be with a 50:50 split) is the entire range you're mentioning, that's the same as saying "250k - 350k RSUs with 250k base is uncommon" isn't it?

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It might be relative to my situation: I have 8 YOE experience, I'm in mobile, and most people I can talk to candidly about salary are similar. So the numbers I hear directly might be tinted by the fact ~8 YOE isn't usually enough for band topping L6 offers

That being said, even Levels.fyi isn't showing me mobile devs negotiating 250k base without giving up anything on RSUs is a common situation (it definitely wasn't when I got my job, but even with the current market craze that feels like a stretch)

If I'm missing something I'm glad to know more, one undersold upside of the current market is you don't absolutely have to job hop to push for more comp
Wouldn't you just have different problems with Chrome?

> Browsers are mission critical, you don't just fuck around with the networking settings on a timed change.

Is that what they did? I thought the problem was a server-side change by a Mozilla vendor. And if they did, how else does Firefox update networking? How does Google do it with Chrome?
Congress Needs to Stop Day Trading, Says Sen. Mark Warner
That is half true. It is gated, but the difficulty of getting a license doesn't match the difficulty of the work. Years of apprenticeship before you can go on your own. Of course some need those years, but not everyone.

There is reason for a license, but they have a system to ensure only so many get one thus keeping supply down
John Mearsheimer: Why Is Ukraine the West's Fault? (2015)
This is almost every secondary character in Ace Attorney
Learned helplessness.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
There is a saying that goes, "the fastest way to demotivate a good employee is to allow them to watch you tolerate a bad one"

Not all managers are aware of this.

Everything you say is true, however, I have also witnessed first hand this sort of thing drain a company of talent.

It's only after everyone else leaves and maybe you leave yourself where you start to question whether watching the whole company lose it's talent was worth being polite.
> If you apply a standardized test, then it becomes feasible to measure and argue the disparate impact.

Yes, the existence of readily available statistics may make the unequal impact easier to show.

> For all their failings, leetcode-style interviews are probably less culturally-sensitive than standardized IQ tests.

“Culturally sensitive”, maybe, but they almost certainly have quite large unequal impacts adverse to protected classes (including “age, if over 40”), though the absence of external data raises the cost of proving the unequal impact. Also, certainly less demonstrably predictive of job performance in software development.

> They probably do have (unintentional) disparate impact

Probably, that, as well, but I don't think the age discrimination function largely is unintentional to start with.
Face masks make people look more attractive, study finds
Read this:

> "But refuting the data which is clear on this across time and many countries requires more than a good story."

We all know correlation does not equal causation because we went to college. Or have read a single thread here. But it's still empirical data and, as such, slightly better than motivated storytelling.
To avoid this, I don't let my mind form words too early. Words can come to mind so effortlessly that I wonder if I'm saying what I really feel.

I refrain from describing what I want to say before I have a chance to search my brain for related concepts to convey or contrast my thoughts. Then I can decide if the thing I'm about to say matches how I feel about the subject.

If you feel like your language is determining your thoughts, then I recommend (aside from possibly bilingualism) just taking more time to choose your words. Supposedly, the "decision-making centers" in the brain tend to activate prior to the parts responsible for understanding and reasoning ... apparently implying that humans usually rationalize decisions we've already made rather than reasoning beforehand.

Then again, I'll digress because I also do that to compensate for my poor communication and multitasking skills, so others may not share my thinking style and limitations.
Can one use UTF8?

The 90s were rough on text encoding, but it seems pretty settled now.
but aren't "good" universities (also) judged by their research output? Or formulated in another way...isn't the majority of the budget of a good university research where tenured staff matters?
Yes the tools are getting more and more accessible to the public. But profitability will be sucked dry for these studios when they need to compete with the more addictive, more profitable games for app store/social media/youtube ads and influencer sponsorships.
In that suburb, 41% of residential properties have solar. In my area (a couple of kilometres away) it's about 45%. The payback period is very favourable even without a reduction in feed-in tariffs, last I checked. So the hold-outs might include people expecting to sell their house within a few years, renters, etc.

Data from: https://pv-map.apvi.org.au/historical#10/-34.9043/138.6463

And it should be even more attractive for commercial properties operating and running A/C or heating during peak sunlight time.
> Case in point: If you get 3 green 2 yellow in the first word, you can solve on the next guess.

That's a very specific edge case, though.

I agree with you that the second word should vary depending on the first result, but picking the best first and second words require lots of analysis. The first word should be picked in order to open up the best options for second word, and while I believe the second word should not contain letters from the first, unless you got extremely lucky, the distribution of letters of remaining available words probably changes which letters you want to cover.

Failing to do the required analysis, my current strategy is to pick two words that cover the 10 most common letters in english, ETAOINSHRD. Sometimes it's "ethos" and "nadir", sometimes "thine" and "roads", etc. So far, it's worked well.
US made deal with Russia in wake of German unification, not to expand NATO/US into Russia's (USSR) sphere of influence. They violated that treaty repeatedly. Now Russia is betting stirring shit in Ukraine is enough for US to decline.

> or is it offered membership. And they were invaded preemptively?

Kinda. A member with existing border dispute has little chance of being admitted.
> There's so much more to life than pumping out kids

I think it's pretty hard to argue this is true while literally making "life." Yeah you don't usually get a shiny new car and an unnecessarily large house having kids at 21, but the life you're talking about is a negative for humanity.

What does it matter when you're happy and have everything you need to survive and provide anyways? That's what a "win" is.
Everyone is jumping on the definition of a “small business”, but the thing that stood out to me was the clause “[license for commercial use is good] indefinitely, if the licensor or their legal successor does not offer a fair commercial license for the software within 32 days of written request”

“Fair commercial license”? Well fair is in the eye of the beholder isn’t it? Seems like the author would need a lawyer filing a C&D 33 days after negotiations started, as the initial license cost is going to immediately be dismissed as “unfair” just as a negotiating tactic.
You could probably have fun with

Player 1) create a predictable process that can guess wordle words

Player 2) given the full code of 1 find a word that will not be found by that process in 6 steps

The game is over if someone can decide a process that catches all valid 5 letter words in 6 steps.
I wonder if the kernel's license covers any device tree overlays you create for a board. Technically, the kernel provides the device tree compiler. You write one, compile it, and supply it to the kernel at boot time (or compile it in).

The end goal of Linux for ARM would be to completely avoid needing anything other than the upstream kernel (all drivers and CPU quirks being upstream), the .config for the kernel, and a device tree overlay.
Yes, much like violins and wine, there is a lot of dynamic range in lens pricing. As someone who used to buy/rent that stuff professionally (now doing it in a different pricing ballpark on a personal level), IMHO the pricing does not always correlate to tangible differences in the output.
Make Mac's key-binding(yes the option-command-thing) work across non-Mac will be a good first step, after all, on the Desktop level, Mac is not even the mainstream yet, and I hope it will never be.

I tried really hard to embrace apple ecosystem since last August with a $4000 macbook pro(assigned by my employer with no other alternatives), now I apply for an exchange to any non-Mac laptop(or desktop), be it a windows or linux one. I don't want to touch Apple's product for the rest of my life.

I could list a top-10 reasons why I "hate" Mac, but I will just stop here, anything more on the subject is a waste of time.
Numerous HN submissions, including within the past year.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Originally published in 1996, I believe.
Aaaaand done, only 4h later! Antialiased, motion blurred, with colour and nonrectangular projection.

https://forum.electromage.com/t/yet-another-approach-to-text...

I'll be posting the code just as soon as it's cleaned up. It runs at ~30fps but there's quite a bit of redundancy.
Schneir talked about putting contraband on the blockchain.

How many copies of youtube-dl and DeCSS and PlayStation 5 private keys and such need to get put onto the blockchain before the Music Industry tries to sue it out of existence?
"a meaningless phrase"

"Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation" 2007, page 263-4

https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/2007-0...
>Web app developers don’t need permission to deploy their code.

I think there's one ultra-nitpicky distinction I'd make here: people shipping things in a browser don't need to sign stuff.

People shipping Electron apps should probably sign their stuff. They're in the same boat as desktop app authors here. Desktop authors can also choose not to sign/notarize - many do.

The difference is that I've noticed far more Electron-based devs don't care about this and just opt not to. I don't mind signing/notarizing, but with how it's done outside of Xcode, I can't fault people for not wanting to put up with it.

Note that I'm just defining the distinction for Electron vs Desktop; I generally agree with the rest of the points made here.

Edit: formatting.
Let's say there was a text editor available under this license, and I as an individual obtained a copy for my personal use on my hobby projects. That's free.

I work from home, using my personal computer for work. (I do that because (1) I have a better computer than what my employer would issue, and (2) the best place to have a computer in my house doesn't really have room for another computer).

If I would like to edit some work files, it appears I need to buy a commercial license.

That seems kind of weird to me, because the license allows small businesses to use it commercially using the free license. I can't think of any good reason that it should be OK for a business making up to $1 million/year in revenue and having up to 99 employees to use it for free, but I (who is one person and makes way less than $1 million/year) need a commercial license to occasionally use the editor commercially.

If a license is going to be free for small businesses but not free for large businesses, I'd make it so individuals can use it under the small business terms if they wish.
> No reason why it couldn't sail back though.

Multiplying the number of parallel maintenance tracks and associated support costs is not “no reason”.
At the end of this...

> Why did this happen in the first place?

> My answer is something I call “consistency sin”. Understanding the cause lets us avoid similar situations in the future.

Oh seen this happen. Something like...

Random boss: "Our iOS and Android apps are not consistent!"

Mobile PM/Dev: "But Android users don't care what the iOS app is like. They want the best version of our app for Android"

Random boss" "But our iOS and Android apps are not consistent!"

Mobile PM/Dev: sigh
Oh where to begin?

ASN.1 really demands code generation. Unfortunately lots of nonconforming stuff has to be dealt with. The concept of encoding rules and the module tagging scheme make for a pretty big number of possible representations.

The language semantics of ASN.1 don't really map to anything well, particularly around default fields and structures that can vary.

Newer systems don't have encoding rules and pick a semantics that matches a target language much more closely.
Prime example of this are the Adobe CS apps. As far as my needs are concerned, CS1 or CS2 is more than enough. Very few features added since are of benefit to me, and yet I have to live with these apps becoming ever-slower, ever-larger, ever-muddier balls of mud as a result of those features being added.

At this point for some categories of apps I would gladly pay a subscription for a product that’s feature locked, with 100% of development efforts going into fixing bugs, improving performance, and keeping pace with OS updates.
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/09/21/ex-consensys-ve...

I wonder if she's uses an artificially deep voice...
Interesting that that was around when this shift was happening. I know things have gotten a lot crazier with modern nodes...
> I can't imagine anyone sane picking up ASN.1 for anything modern and deciding that this is what they want to use.

Part of my curiosity stems from Apple using it as part of their bootable file-format: https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/IMG4_File_Format

But as you say, I have to assume they're using it in a very constrained way.
What does "Use Chrome like a pro" actually mean?
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29927332
Is the great Australian holiday out of reach?
Spell check has gotten much worse, many times an early one char fix is undetectable by these "ai" tools

Another thing I've seen is people editing to remove the yellow line in Grammarly, trying to appease the algorithm rather than make good prose
What do you mean by "PC"? I'm guessing Player character, as in someone who makes deliberate decisions.
I second this. Technicolor was amazing and I miss it. It made watching old classic movies from the 60's and 70's more enjoyable. Nothing today compares to the vibrant, rich tones technicolor brings.
Also expect to pay to read the spec.
Yeah, my main intention was to save bandwidth, so I used just about the lowest possible bitrate and the best codec to match :)
I don’t think our government will let interest rates go up. It should have happened a decade ago, but they kept lowering them instead (and watched the bubble grow). It’s political suicide at this point to do it in any meaningful amount.
It's concerning to me that it's even possible for Firefox to be "down". It's should be a web browser, not a service. Web browsers have uses beyond being connected to the internet. Does Firefox even work on a non-internet connected LAN?
Many reasons!

Internationally; Merkel is out and the Greens (staunch anti-Russians) have the foreign affairs meanwhile Nord Stream still stuck, Ukraine is getting increasingly armed with Turkish drones and anti-tank missile systems plus its clamp down on pro-Russia politicians and oligarchs, Biden is probably the last democrat (or non-Trump Republican) willing to sit down with Putin

Domestically; inflation is soaring, purchasing power dwindling, and Kremlin popularity so low after continuous unpopular measures that the government is having second/third thoughts in passing vaccine passes.
Hi, I just wanted to say I have fond memories of using garrysmod.org to download add-ons for gmod back in 2008-2010 or so. They used the same authentication technique by giving the user a token to put on their Steam profile. I'm still wearing mine! As long as the entity in question (HN, Steam) isn't at risk of going bust, I think this is very practical. Best of luck.
No, you can't do that. Once you've been a member of an iMessage group, iOS will not allow participants who have iMessage enabled to switch to MMS with that same group of users, even if everyone deletes and re-creates the thread.
Have been working through this myself.

I built https://retrohacker.github.io/wikiscroll partially as a habit breaker.

I noticed I use social media (mostly) for information discovery. I asked myself what information I’m trying to discover and worked backwards to a healthier relationship with that discovery mechanism from there. Ended up with Wikipedia and then tried to build a similar mechanism as social media scrolling on top.

It’s an alternative to doom scrolling social media for me, where the fun facts are actually fun, little to no social outrage, and there isn’t any FOMO - the same content will always be there tomorrow.
A DE is pointless without the apps that run on Linux.

And that's the problem with the proliferation of DEs. Applications, which range from having no developers actively working on them, to the best teams at Microsoft working on them, have to handle yet another DE, and have to deal with the bugs raised by the users of yet another DE, etc.

UI/UX is hard enough to begin with, but requiring devs to either maintain several UI/UXs, or try and come up with a design that works across the proliferation of DEs is highly counterproductive.