skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently left a job that I was 100% checked out of. It was a fine job before Covid but something about the switch to remote absolutely ruined it.

Things that used to take 2-3 hours to plan started taking 6 weeks as management insisted on being deeply involved. Instead of infrequent project check-ins, 18 hours a week was blocked off to management updates. Shortly before I put in my 2 weeks I had project update meeting where my status was something like Accomplishments: held status update meetings on 11/1, 11/3, 11/8, 11/12, 11/15, and 11/18.

That job broke me and I just stopped caring. The new one is much better.
It’s sad to see Ars Technica pushing anti-free speech propaganda. I am not right wing. I am a Marxist and I think Joe Rogan is dumb and boring, so I don’t listen to him. Problem solved. Free speech is one of the few great accomplishments this country has made and it’s just sad to watch people turn against it, especially over petty matters like this.

To be clear, the outcome will inevitably be legal enforcements supported (and written) by the private sector for the purpose of deflecting blame.
Soap itself would not pass your standard to be deemed clean. It can be pretty harmful as well in the environment uncontained.

Most human activities, including all methods of power production except hydro (and it has other problems), would fail this standard.

That is a reason to treat sewage, not ban soap.
Not judging but it doesn't seem like the problem is necessarily with their specific employer (or will get better with another employer).
And it's super readable too. Very concise but descriptive. The author has a friendly tone and the code is easy to follow, even if you're not familiar with javascript syntax. Good fun!
Past related threads:

An ultra-simplified example of a modern compiler written in JavaScript - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22522208 - March 2020 (27 comments)

Super Tiny Compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11395656 - March 2016 (100 comments)
great tool! very similar to Scribehow. does it provide different features than Scribehow https://scribehow.com/ ?
Yes, pure assembler for the early versions of MS-DOS (and its precursors).

Microsoft has open-sourced them:

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
What is this... I don't even...
You made an implicit argument: it took a similar amount of time (13 years) after the invention of the transistor for them to be used to solve real problems. That is clearly wrong. What argument are you trying to make now?
It just seems like that since the rich currently use that to keep the status quo.

I'm reminded of the fact that whatever house of congress the republicans own all of a sudden become the most important legislative body. When the Dems had the house and the Reps had the senate, the house was an afterthought. When reversed, the house were the arbiters of final word on legislation (at least it was based on CNN's characterization for the last 20-odd years).

The state of gerrymandering also reflects this, to reduce the political power of democratic strength in populous cities.

If the rich had their power via cities, then districting would enforce this and the house would be the most powerful.

The federal government has inertia by design since the spoils system was removed. The rich have the means to influence this inertia over time.

Also, do you wonder why elections are so close? The rich pay only enough to form a coalition to maintain the status quo. They buy just enough to win some of the time, and even if they lose, they roadblock changes. They advance the agenda when they win, and resist when they don't.

Over time, that has resulted in the current state of wealth inequality.
>It is in inconvenient that the names are identical

I always assumed that was intentional. Also, are you sure male/female can be genders? If so, how is science supposed to refer to biological sex? You don't see this issue in animal classifications so I'm stumped.

I'm still not sure what gender actually is then. What makes something a gender? Is there a reason geek, or goth or whatever can't be a gender?
Such issues could be mitigated if Android didn't let it happen.
It was pretty much impossible for this to happen with Symbian so there's really no excuse (maybe that's part of the reason it died)
In the old days the extra after-tax $30K you'd make from a promotion like that would improve your quality of living. Not so much now.

You could buy a somewhat nicer car. But now cars all look the same anyway, and are a liability if you live in the city.

You could take a somewhat more elaborate vacation during the 2% of the year you're not chained to your desk at work. But now covid... So if you're just going to sit at home anyway...

You could afford fancier bespoke hand made full business suit and tie, I assure you much more comfy than off the rack if professionally tailored especially after the first ten hours at work. But now uniforms are a sign of lower socioeconomic class not higher so once you can afford your jeans and tee shirt there's one small step up in fit and comfort with designer tee shirts and designer jeans, but the days of the $5000 business suit are over except for a handful of legacy companies. Put on your comfy covid pajamas and VPN in from your bedroom, do all your work in four hours and pretend to be busy the rest of the time, or play video games on the other screen while pretending to pay close attention to meaningless zoom meetings.

You could give more to your family back when people balanced family and career. But now you're not allowed family at those kind of levels, so it would just be more alimony/child support payments or you're childfree or you're lonely and being rich and lonely isn't any better than being poor and lonely.

You could buy fancier furniture to impress people you don't care about when you host parties. But now covid... so why bother earning $14000+ to pay for the $7000 couch if nobody will be impressed by seeing it?

You could buy somewhat fancier entertainment, the front row seats or the season tickets. But now covid, and generationally everything is just streamed over the internet anyway.

You could pay more for better places to hang out and possibly meet a date, singles night at the bar and all the baby boomer stuff that's pretty much gone now, at least compared to how it was when I was a kid. Online dating eliminated that, and covid pounded nails in that coffin.

I think in 1980 going from $300K to $400K would have had a much larger impact than in 2022 and not just due to inflation.
Here it's the opposite. My ISP's IPv6 network is so bad I've had to request them to disable IPv6 at my router.
I would ask them to think of it as art, collectibles like trading cards and sports cards coins; or even to remember the beanie babies...

Just that it is even more abstract, less physical and might be less persistent. At least those kept in relatively decent environment last. Not that there isn't chance to make money, but it is rather risky and they probably aren't on ground level...
And then there are those of us that hate that everything is made with Electron these days, so I say thank God they're not doing this.
I think the author means, if they ask "any questions for us?" at the top of the hour when the interview is about to end, it implies the interviewer didn't allot any time for the interviewee to ask any questions. According to the author, that implies a lack of courtesy and respect.
It has been tried and has failed. Communism doesn't work on a scale larger than a few hundred people (top end)
OK, we've dewowed the title above.
“noise” is integral to all ML systems. You can view this through many lenses, but generalization can be thought of as decoding a noisy signal.
It can be used for steganography.
>I would a thousand times over rather have my local ISP monitor DNS than Cloudflare.

ISPs lobbied to be able to sell our data. Cloudflare claims that they don't. I trust neither, but I trust Cloudflare %1 more than my scummy ISP.
LLVM was a thing before Apple and Apple are far from the only ones working on it
Cloudflare's DNS violates this: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/DOH-resolver-policy#Blocki...

I had a user of my email server complain about not being able to receive emails from "cock.li". Turns out that this happened because I was using dnscrypt-proxy with cloudflare's dns (as it is the default in my distro) and thus the DKIM check was failing because it was not able to resolve the domain as it is being filtered by cloudflare. I changed to NextDNS after that.
>I bet the lights are blinding oncoming traffic because they "self-adjusted"

That would be quite hilarious, of course if it was not dangerous. It's hard to imagine how they would not switch off the "high beams", if it was lit enough.
Is Putin popular with Russians? It seems like an important consideration.
Can't tell if all the negative responses are a Reddit thing or a CS thing, but, wow. Just ..... wow. What a toxic mess.
I have a mirror like this one

https://www.wayfair.com/decor-pillows/pdp/rebrilliant-clemen...

(Except mine was way cheaper, Ikea probably) oposite my main bathroom mirror. So facing the swing arm mirror I can see the back of my head and since it's through two mirrors the hand actually moves like you'd expect when you look at it.
Old Town is a small part of Alexandria. It's an historic district with a rather extreme past (one of the largest slave markets in the country), so his complaints about signs trying to "prove how right they are" is a mind boggling "missing the whole point" moment. He's painted Alexandria as a lily white suburb when we have many vibrant neighborhoods of all kinds.
Oh yes. I remember the embarrassment / horror of having the admin just creepily poking my shoulder when at the computer and gently saying: "Hey, I promise I will NOT report you for antyhing, if you just tell me what the hell you just did with our network!"

I had no idea what I had done, honestly, I just sent a large ping packet to some IRC-user. Turns out it killed some vital things in the network.

Also the admin leaving anonymous FTP enabled with write access. That was one weekend with an extreme amount of illegal stuff apparently uploaded via the schools FTP, but that was my classmate which was involved in and not me.

This was at the time when people had dial-up at home so the 256kBps connection at school was awesome.
FriesDAO Wants to Start a Crypto-Crowdfunded Fast-Food Franchise
So well that the french one even had a negative learning curve.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...
It is one of my favourite programming languages, pity that after university logic programming competitions I never found a use case where I could profit from it.

Happy birthday Prolog.
Been reading Jurassic Park for the first time and love their shock and awe that InGen had shipped multiple XMPs to their island.
It's costly because the author made it excessively costly in his previous job.
There was a small thread recently (we invited matt_d to repost):

DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29803799 - Jan 2022 (6 comments)
Modern solution:

apt install gammu-smsd
Super charging is less of an issue in Europe as all charging station were made to use standardized plugs meaning there is not an as large advantage in Tesla's network.
> You can achieve anything you want to from a DAO with a corporation plus a twitter poll or SurveyMonkey thing.

How would accept money from thousands of people without being public? How would those ownership stakes be easily transferred?
I think I started using Nomad in 2018 or around there, and first tests I did was with the docker, java and qemu drivers.
Patreon dumps vids on Vimeo, passes fees through to unsuspecting users
It seems that unbeknownst to most of its users, since Patreon has allowed creators to post videos they have been dumping those videos on 'pro' level Vimeo accounts rather than hosting the content themselves (as any self-respecting publisher would do).

When Vimeo came calling to look for the payment for excess bandwidth that particularly popular creators used, Patreon just passed the invoice right on through to the content creators, some of whom have been notified that they have a week to pay Vimeo thousands of dollars or have all of their content deleted.

https://twitter.com/hate5six/status/1481500463317012482?s=21

https://www.patreon.com/posts/vimeo-is-holding-61514364
You may get some mileage out of Swish-e[1].

And while it's not it's primary purpose, Lucene comes with some CLI programs[2]. They are there mainly as a demo, but if you feel like writing some code you might be able to adapt that to your needs.

[1]: https://www.esa.org/tiee/search/html/readme.html

[2]: https://lucene.apache.org/core/3_5_0/demo.html
Sounds like a typical corp. You're motivated by doing things right, everyone around is motivated by greed, and quite predictably, they are minimizing your disruption potential. I can see you'd do great as a consultant-advisor to a high-rank exec.
PRO TIP:

If you hover over an icon added to your work area, you can use the mouse scroll wheel to adjust the pitch of that element's sound sample. (I see now this is given given in some instructions above the text area.)

This elevates the tool from a simple toy for toddlers to the pro music audio domain.

Saving uses local files which is silly; you want to save into a URL.
For me the pessimism is really starting to set in. Those most extremely passionate about climate change are ignoring the most immediate solutions and instead waiting future tech and economies of scale for expensive half-steps. If projections are correct, the chance of the global community figuring out the political solution seems nearly impossible.
In the US and Japan the fraction of primary energy supplied by nuclear power is almost negligible (8% [1] and 3% [2]). Even the famously large French nuclear industry only manages 39% [3]. Nuclear power would have to be scaled up by orders of magnitude worldwide in order to make any difference to the global CO2 budget.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/international/data/country/USA/total-ene...

[2] https://www.eia.gov/international/data/country/jpn/total-ene...

[3] https://www.eia.gov/international/data/country/FRA/total-ene...
Except this time around new Jim Crow laws were supported in almost all the Red states setting us back nearly 6 decades on fair voting for minorities. New laws have been passed in Red states to overthrow the will of the state if the state legislature doesn't like the results and will use an transparent "legal" means to tell their electors to vote for rather than who the populace voted for. 2024 could very well be the end of American democracy, yet people here on HN are talking about "both parties are the same"
Well, many of my employees chose to give me testimonials on my LinkedIn, and they had nothing to gain from it.

Here's a couple:

> Chris was the best manager I've ever reported to. Period. He was supportive of his team, always motivating us to deliver excellence, even under daunting schedules set by the people above him. Because of Chris' support and commitment to his team, he fostered a deep loyalty and respect from our department.

> Chris is passionate about developing software and about technology in general. This means he is always in touch with the latest trends and best practices in the industry. However, he is careful not to introduce a new process or methodology to his group unless it has clear benefits and he has considered the input of everyone affected.

Chris has always been very well-respected by his engineers because his management style allows their best skills to shine. It's not simply a hands-off approach; he'll look to remove roadblocks where he can and offer help in any way possible. He is good at identifying an inefficiency and reaching out to help improve it.

More than just management skills, Chris is a kind, understanding, sensible and fair human being. At one point, we had a six-year run where no one left the group. I hadn't really noticed or appreciated this stability until someone from our HR department pointed out how remarkable it was. This could not have happened without someone like Chris managing the group.

But, what do they know? I'm sure they were mistaken. BTW: One of them was from a chap I laid off.
trauma can come from societal causes, such as laws. See "Is COVID-19 an adverse childhood experience (ACE): Implications for screening for primary care"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7306718/
That would be a necessary step due to the deep difference between a traditional computer operating system and a phone/tablet. On the PC the user loads the browser, searches for a software doing X and is presented with choices in theory not filtered by whoever runs the search engine; on Android/iOS the manufacturer owns the only default installed repository interface, and users are instructed to grab apps only from that, skipping search engines, therefore excluding an app from the store equals to making it impossible to find for most users.
If they can scale it up to GPT-3 like sizes, it would be amazing. Foundation models like GPT-3 will be the operating system of tomorrow. But now they are too expensive to run.

They can be trained once and then frozen and you can develop new skills by learning control codes (prompts), or adding a retrieval subsystem (search engine in the loop).

If you shrink this foundation model to a single chip, something small and energy efficient, then you could have all sorts of smart AI on edge devices.
Past related threads:

Black – Uncompromising Python code formatter - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19939806 - May 2019 (244 comments)

Linting 400kLOC of Python Code with Black - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18536731 - Nov 2018 (1 comment)

Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17151813 - May 2018 (255 comments)
At least for Rome Total War and Medieval II, experience does mean a difference. A veteran army will fight for several times longer against overwhelming odds than a newly recruited one before breaking. It also depends on training: even green Roman troops will last longer in prolonged battle than green Gallic ones. Do not remember how later games deal with that. One thing the author of this series stresses is that battle is very emotional and you can't learn from a book that running away is a bad idea.
Fishing gear, + boats, travel, accomodations, sporting events, etc.
I wonder why you don't see "checked out" costco or chickfila employees? Yes, if checked out means unsatisfied with what they are getting in exchange for labor all the antiwork people are that.

There are people that think mistreating others (employee, customer, coworkers) is ok because they are paying for it. There are also people that think suffering is neccesary and anything else is delusional laziness. That's the problem. Given enough peace and prosperity the amount of suffering and labor should go down along with crime, disease and social instability. Provided there is a check on unlimited greed which in the US there isn't.

I think taxes can solve this quite a bit. I am not someone who thinks "there shouldn't be any billionaires" or support taking from the rich and giving to the needy (justifying theft). My proposition is: tax returns and welfare subsidies should be covered by the employer not the government. Everyone should have the same percent of gross wages collected for tax, when they file either they owe the government money or their employer should issue a refund.

This will work well if you also consider another proposition: everyone should have housing in the richest country on the planet. Every county should set a poverty line relative to cost of living, 30% of that is expected to go to housing. Landlords must pay a community housing tax that is 60% if the extra they charge above the 30% of poverty line.

If you make 50k, poverty line is 100k, and you pay 40k/ye in rent, your landlord has to pay 6K tax that will go to building and maintaining free housing in that same county.
To the poster who deleted their reply to my post:

> I'm not sure how anything you said is a reason to discount him. You seem to be suggesting that we shouldn't take his position seriously because he backs up his beliefs with action. And what about the others standing along side him??

Yeah when Democrats and Republicans manage to agree on something, and that something is that you are apparently a not very ethical person (with alleged bullying on top) and the same President who appointed you made you step down.... I indeed stop taking your position, and everything you write/say, seriously. I won't discount the other 3 experts from France, Germany and UK, I'll read the article, but Jaczko's name is a sizeable black stain on the paper.
The problem is the thinking that there is some fixed bucket of speed and a fixed bucket of robustness ingredients and a fixed bucket of product output. That the only way to get any reliability is to displace some speed, or that if you want to move ahead at all you have to throw reliability out entirely.

When in fact these things, and 100 other goals and considerations like being green or hiring fairly or paying interns better etc... merely influence each other a little and don't preclude each other except at absurd hyperbolic extremes.

The different goals DO influence each other. But the output product can in fact have a whole bunch of both speed and reliability, probably at the expense of yet another dimension like cost, but actually the same applies there too, you can possibly have all 3, at least to some degree, if the leadership is insightful enough to figure out a way like employing underutilized people or geography, or gamification or crowdsourcing or alternative incentives, whatever.

Pay more or sacrifice in one dimension to get more in another is merely the obvious and easy way, not the only way dictated by some zero sum law of conservation.
Congratulations to the Black authors! It's a wonderful tool, probably the first one I install when creating a local Python development environment.
Keychron Q2 mechanical keyboard review: Enthusiast luxury at a decent price
I see. Maybe my interpretation of the term is a bit deviated from the norm.
I am at the point where it is something that comes out of Y Combinator or defense companies that solve the problems of climate change. Either tech solves the problem or we fight over what is left.
I don't care what it is that keeps power running. If removing nuclear reactors means that the whole energy grid is at risk, then I prefer having nuclear reactors compared to suddenly having a huge chunk of a population out of power.

No fucking thanks.
So the problem managers solve is the problem of there being other managers?
You can have a look at my mini-Pascal parser, it was a toy exercise for the university almost 30 years ago, and some day I decided to uploaded into github.

https://github.com/pjmlp/Analyzer
I qualify based on what the FAQ says (fewer than 10 users, no commercial use), but see nothing relevant when I log into admin.google.com. Hopefully something will appear for me.

EDIT: A link to the Google Form is at https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/28/google-will-let-legacy-g-s...
This is true, and considering the adversity faced by the poster I think its reasonable to clarify. Why would someone who has dealt with that sort of discrimination reply to a post with such unclear intent? They could be walking into a landmine, even on HN
K-9 mail.
I am sure there are a lot of details that I missed, but this sounds a lot like an IBM i series. If this is free software I can see a market for it. If this is commercial software then . . . well I don't know good luck.
I mean, wouldn't it be an order of magnitude in the US? Going from 8% to 80% is a matter of resource allocation, not technology breakthrough.