skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just a generic special, that's not a coupon. A coupon is exactly what it sounds like - it literally requires a coupon to redeem, either a physical coupons or a digital "coupon."

When I worked at a restaurant we had both - specials that everyone got and coupons deals that you needed a piece of paper for. They were similar as it was just typing a code into the register, the big difference is typing in the coupon code without a piece of paper was considered stealing and anyone who did that was fired on the spot. You also couldn't redeem multiple coupons at once where you could get any number of open specials you wanted. We always directed customers towards specials.

The coupons were a significantly better deal than the general specials available to anyone. The coupons were mailed to every house in a ~20 mile radius once a month.
The phone wasn't their boss. Uber's bilionaire management was their boss. Phone was the scapegoat.
Universities today seem to be focusing on quantity of education not quality

There goal is to get as much student loan money that they can, they do not seem to care about the quality of education the students are getting

This goes for all levels of universities, and all degree programs.
How do you switch from PocketCasts podcast to Audible book and back to Spotify or YouTube Music audio on a Tesla screen?

That's the main usecase for CarPlay for me.
I’m in the same boat. I’ve felt the author’s panic when on the highway in a rental car with a shitty touchscreen UI and I can’t imagine paying money for a car that forces that on me in the name of … apps? I really want driving my car to be about driving my car, guys, not about what kind of bs you can fit on the screen while ignoring the basics.

It is ironic to me that carmakers are so enamored with the smartphone experience that they want it to take over the dashboard, when we are explicitly disallowed from using them while driving for safety reasons.
But that should be a choice, not sort of forced on you by bad design.
Efimov State
> Sometimes it feels like every innovation of the last 15 years has been a step backwards.

A step backwards, for which party in the exchange?

The past 15 years have seen vastly huge improvements in the ability of user interfaces and such to collect widespread behavioral data that can be mined for prediction products! That you're upset with thus and such change, as noted by your interaction with the device and accelerometer data, is really important for better predicting what will sell to you!

But, yes, the past 15 years have seen a turn of consumer tech against the consumer. Now, the question isn't (shouldn't be?) "What can this thing do for me?" - it's, "What am I giving up by using this thing?"
> That's.... that's just silly. How would you deliver, say, Trello as a boring website? Or Google Maps? Or Grafana? Do you really think the developers of these apps are grossly negligent?

Of those, I've used only Google Maps. Like Google itself, GMaps was great when it started! And they continue adding new knowledge to it that makes it more useful. But, like Google itself (though not as bad), when it comes to the interface it feels like there's mostly change just for the sake of change, with little thought given to whether it's good or bad change, so long as it's new.

(I compare it to the StackExchange empire, which seems to suffer a similar churn mostly for the sake of the appearance of motion and of novelty.)
It doesn't mention vaccines as sterilizing vectors as being prohibited so he could talk about this with impunity:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12346214/
Most used controls should be behind physical buttons. Touchscreen UX in cars is terrible. Furthermore, it is a safety hazard.
Oh please like legacy automakers are resistant to implenting consumer hostile features to increase their revenues.

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-05-ford-infotainment-screen...
> When they simplified the UI, they also removed the degrees symbol and the fan.

This, I believe, is the real point of failure. The value of reorganizing the icons into sub-menus can be debated, but some of the details that were removed in the course of this change appear to have been critical.

There is a concept in UX design called "information scent" – the combination of spatial, contextual, and cultural cues that clue a user in to where they can find what they're looking for. Simply keeping the fan icon next to the temperature display/button might have been enough to make the mental connection for the OP (and likely countless others).

Of course, this is the kind of thing that tends to shake out in user testing, and I'm very surprised that this appears not to have shown up in the testing I would assume Tesla must do with any change to the dashboard, certainly one this fundamental.
That's a different topic -- how much power one person should be allowed to have. It's still the person's power.
It could be trouble hiring remote workers anywhere if no due dilligence is done properly. I worked with both EE and Indians and it was okay. Folks did their job decently, they were paid less (but also didn’t have to take all the bullshit open office, noise and fractal like work hours interrupted by interminable meetings.
Yours is a pathetic rhetorical attempt to reduce a complex issue to your narrow-minded ontology. You are like the dude who, during the plague of 1630 in Italy, was arguing that Aristotle had said that everything is either a substance or an accident (where "accident" has a technical meaning that I won't discuss here). He then argued that the plague cannot be a substance, and it cannot be an accident either, and therefore the plague does not exist. QED.

Small minds discuss people. Great minds discuss ideas.
You probably can't rent one right now to try, but I purchased a Hyundai Ioniq 5 and I think this car is the one to convince drivers of the EV future. It's just futuristic enough to be interesting and fun and traditional enough to be safe and comfortable.
“Enterprise Search” - where non-technical, self-styled experts turn FUD about how Google’s index works into career security.
Right, and where do the renters live? Someone needs to own the houses. Not every renter is on the cusp of buying.

If you make houses more expensive for landlords and don’t introduce some other source of housing, at best it’ll be a wash: lower prices for houses but extra taxes meaning landlords charge more or less the same rent. Or maybe prices won’t move much but landlords will charge more rent to cover their higher costs.
"Universities aren't reliably producing CS graduates that can code."

And companies stereotype all graduates as worth nothing to them.

I had a couple simple Android apps when I graduated. Even though they were simple, it would show that I could follow best practices, code, test, and deliver something. I had a decent GPA (3.5), clubs, etc. I still had a hard time finding companies that would even give me an interview.

So sure, a degree doesn't mean too much (my masters has done nothing for me). But it seems companies have simply given up and are exacerbating the very problem they are creating.
I'm sure the decision was "data driven" based on real life usage.

It's a bit disturbing they're able to make such drastic level of changes without heads up.

Can you imagine, taking your Honda Accord in for an oil change, and you find out that dealer completely re-arranged your center console?

I wish more features tied to safety should be available via physical switches. Even Model 3 has a physical hazard light switch.
Paying more money doesn't mean you're investing into entry level employees necessarily.
Fantastic. This can be used for superior compressors, eg.
Or to break random number generators.
Shameless plug: I built something similar, also in Go, but with Matrix instead of XMPP. https://github.com/majewsky/script2matrix
This is not true. I work in a FAANG-like company. Talent shortage is real - we are having to hire entry level grads where we originally wanted experienced candidates. We are even going out of the way to hire candidates from non-traditional backgrounds and train them.
My point was, what is envy, then, other than the motivational force behind trying to negotiate better for yourself? Most people have some form of it.

The claim that "people should just learn not to be envious" is a classist BS, because without some form of envy, nobody would be motivated to ask for better remuneration.

Drivers can negotiate too, through collective action. Of course they worry about billionaires, because billionaires worry about them in the first place - the billionaires invented Amazon or Uber, which employ these drivers and are the primary cause of their working conditions.
>>It was obvious it will happen with remote work.

Not to many, Many still believe that remote work for programmers simply means lower cost of living for them while keeping their high salaries...

They are about the learn the lesson US steal workers, and other blue collar works in many American industries did when globalization hit them....
Ask HN: Can FHE solve the PoW energy problem?
Hi there,

I had an interesting idea on how to perform useful compute with proof of work. We could wrap a problem using Homomorphic Encryption techniques. Each node gets a different problem to solve. If the solution matches a certain pattern, they can write the next block (similar to already existing methods).

The key difference is that the research institution interested in submitting a job would pay a fee, and that fee is split among all miners that worked in solving the puzzle - creating a second, STEADY source of revenue to GPU miners!

This would put a massive number of GPUs out there into service of science, while increasing the revenue of miners. Efficiency would improve overtime as FHE algorithms evolve. ASIC miners would be very welcome.

Please criticize.
The headline says "pillaging," which is a kind of stealing by force. But actually (as the less editorialized HN headline says) what the US companies are doing is hiring Latin America's tech talent, paying a fair price instead of the shitty prices Latin American companies are used to paying. Unsurprisingly these companies think of Latin American developers as their property, so they see it as "pillaging". Because I'm a liberal I don't see it that way.

Governments often also see this as "pillaging", since they're answerable to powerful company founders who lose out, not the everyday people who benefit. In a lot of cases they put major roadblocks in the way of people who export technical services in this way.

For example, here in Argentina, you are required to convert your earnings immediately into pesos at the official rate, which is half the real rate. That's pillaging. In effect this is a 50% export tariff, used not to provide government services but to subsidize importation and travel abroad for rich Argentines, making most exportation wildly unprofitable; programming services have low enough costs that they can still remain afloat, at least until the programmers move abroad, but any export business with a substantial cost of sales is unviable. Bitcoin is a common way for such developers to get paid here in Argentina. I don't know about other countries.

Argentina has a strong crab-bucket or zero-sum mentality, justified by the belief that anyone who is rich got that way by screwing over other people, so as long as the government can direct attention to the exporters instead of the importers, there's strong public support for confiscatory policies like the fake exchange rate --- even when they harm the poor instead of helping them.

It's probably true that people like López Conde can get away with paying their employees 20% of the market rate as long as those employees don't speak English --- but probably not for very long. Spanish is the most-spoken second language in every state in the US, and in New Mexico where I grew up half the population speaks it.
They want the maximum amount of short term profit possible. Build things fast, sell them, next project.

Not a graduate but instead an industry veteran. If what you say is accurate then Im happy to have my bias of “maybe it’s time I go the mercenary route” confirmed.

Surely the market is there, right?
If you're a good engineer in Latin America you're not settling for less money than your first-world counterparts.

Argentina and Brazil's engineering talent is _outstanding_, and these people are not settling for mediocre companies or mediocre salaries.
I don't really get the saving or convenience of Markdown, esp., if you are already used to typing HTM. (HTML for simple things is easy and short enough, and fancy things are beyond Markdown anyways.)

Here's my stack:

Hosted webspace (yes, like it's the 1990s!) Apache/Unix, simple PHP templates for headers and footers, basic navigation, etc w/o JS, for the blog a custom (server-side) script generating virtual article locations, navigation, meta data, basic chrome, and a RRS feed from a simple data-file and reading static HTML for the content from static files. BBEdit for editing. No analytics. (The webspace comes with Webalizer, but this stopped working some 10 years ago. I don't care.)

And yes, there are special pages with full-fledged JS apps, as well, or blog posts featuring complex things, so nothing is chiseled in stone. If there's a purpose to it. However, a visitor should be able to get an idea what a page is about without JS.
I'm equally skilled at illegible writing in block letters or cursive, thanks.

My third grade teacher thought I'd turn out ok, because I'd have a secretary. Sadly, secretaries were out of fashion by the time I graduated college.
> Color is arguably easier to develop than b&w, you need a constant temperature and time but you don’t have to worry about pushing or pulling.

Color may be easier nowadays because sous vide cooking gear is fairly inexpensive, and lets you keep temperatures constant. It was much harder to do this in the past, so B&W was easier (chemical-wise).

"Worrying" about pushing and pulling with B&W is an advantage to some because it lets you tweak your final print compared to what your exposure is.

Per Bruce Barnbaum, put your shadows in Zone IV so you don't lose information, and then print it down to Zone III:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlnt5yFArWo

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_System
You can read a previous series by the same author about that :

https://acoup.blog/2021/06/11/collections-the-queens-latin-o...
I am very surprised by all the negative comments regarding the Tesla UI. To me if you have any sense of taste, Tesla is the only option for you. All the car UIs are awful. Cars today are almost as bad as phones were before the iPhone. Tesla's UI is not perfect by any means, but at least it's not disgusting like everyone's else.
I do not know about USSR, but AFAIK at least in Czechoslovakia the communist leaders do not really have big personal property. They have enormous political power and also access to property through their functions (assigned appartments and official cars), but not in form of direct ownership.
If I wanted to get a tech masters degree, my company would pay for it. If I want to learn a new technology, my manager will absolutely allow me to spend time doing that. I’m constantly working on projects that force me to learn new technologies. I feel like my company had no problems with my becoming more valuable. It’s mostly up to me.
But a zipper on a tree I assume.
Interesting. There's a trend now regarding this type of service.
How are you on leetcode?
I want my buttons and knobs back for basic controls.
I was going to say I miss the age in video games where there were well known players like Sid Meier or Will Wright, but then I noticed the article was written by Geoff Keighley who I still know of today for running the game awards. Kinda funny.
And I'm usually a defender of most interface updates, I know most people resist change especially when it impacts their muscle memory. But I think that change is good for the brain.

That being said, the new interface is terrible. So many things now take 3 taps as opposed to one.

I wonder if Tesla made the mistake of using A/B testing instead of vision-driven design like Apple. (Side note, just finished reading "Creative Selection" by Ken Kocienda of Apple, an interesting read on Apple's approach to design and why it is so successful as opposed to Google's).
oh there’s a pretty sophisticated network for buying arcade cabinets in the US, Sega cabs included. Wired did a writeup on this a couple weeks ago [1]. they really aren’t cheap though. there are a few reasons for the big players to not want these sold on the open market though, like licensing/copyright headaches, which will probably be amplified as people reverse-engineer the game and mod/add their own content.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/gritty-underground-network-bring...
It is, more than EVER, time to return to SIMPLICITY. As it's been said, most applications aren't that special and shouldn't demand overly specialized developers. Much like it used to be during back in the day, the old times of xBase languages and other contemporary technologies. Even though, nowadays even a simple CRUD app is expected to have "improved" UX, modern UI, mobile support, front and backend developers and other unnecessary intricacies which adds to overall projects costs while adding zero value to end-products. That has to stop and the conditions for ending this collective self-delusion are better than ever.
I don't. I just do one or the other. If I'm listening to podcasts then it'll play over bluetooth and I can control it with the onscreen controls. I don't jump back and forth between podcasts and spotify
If you don't present the downside, you are betting your career that your coworkers don't know the downside or aren't willing to present it in order to take you down. There is a great story about this in In The Plex book, about an exec who sabotaged another by encouraging him to propose a project and then embarrassing him in the meeting with the founders.
Not as long as I own my own computer. Does my computer use CPU to display your ad? Yes. Do I get to control my computer? Yes, we're not a socialist state yet, nor are we a fascist state. It's mine. I will do what I please.
The threading support was lacking on SBCL, that's the reason we started on CCL. It is of course there on LW or we wouldn't be able to deliver.

Point is if I have to attach to remote hosts anyway I might just as well continue to use Emacs Slime rather than learn the ropes of LW's own remote debugger. Also LW license allows for unlimited redistribution of deliverables (that you can't however attach to) but the compiler itself is licensed per seat.
Thank you. I literally went bankrupt due to going to the hospital when I had no health insurance. I had no idea how to bring up that point to this person, since it's obviously a sensitive issue with them and they've seen some heavy stuff. Nonetheless, we each live in our own realities, and mine is that the healthcare system was an enormous burden on my life.
Not going to lie, as soon as you mentioned LC I was disinterested. But your suggestion sounds good. A few easy/medium questions and maybe the ability to Google sounds fair. I sort of enjoy basic fizz bang code screenings.
Apple has done some pretty ugly stuff related to the App store monopoly and fighting the right to repair but having monopolistic tendencies has always been baked in to a company that wants you to run both its hardware and software, and that is not the same thing as being MBAized (ie greed/evil and technical prowess can be orthagonal). Their recent processor success proves they are not another IBM.
What kind of companies in Brazil though? I feel like the level of brazilian engineers outside high growth tech companies is very low. Most of them will literally fail "Fizz-Buzz" style coding tests. Good devs are either making a very good salary in Brazil (30-50k USD) or 2-3X that working remotely for an American company
Let's see if I get this right:

(0. Install uBlock Origin)

1. Re-enable web fonts

2. In the main UO settings, check "Block remote fonts"?

3. Refresh a page

4. Click the UO icon, and then "more" until I see an icon titled "Click to no longer block remote fonts on this site"

5. Click

6. Refresh the page

Repeat 4-6 for relevant sites.

Any caveats?
This is boilerplate for Apple. Any time anybody questions any of their policies, they cry and moan that it will impact their security.

Really, the most secure business model of all is a dictatorship. But customers want and deserve a bit of freedom, even if that freedom comes with risks.
Have you come across the Ekam build system? [1]

There’s no DSL. The build system just has a primitive text-based IPC mechanism over stdout/stdin that the rules write to/read from (ie use whatever language you want) and it has hermetic build support. The only stuff baked in is file discovery/watching and executable linking.

[1] https://github.com/capnproto/ekam
I think you're saying that musicians should not be able to have input to where their music is distributed? That's a fairly radical position. If that's not what you mean, could you expand or revise?
Its already a touchscreen... can you make it any more dangerous? YES! LETS ADD THE "..." icon to open a context menu!
> I know most people resist change especially when it impacts their muscle memory. But I think that change is good for the brain.

In a car you want muscle memory, not "good for the brain"
Because it kills momentum for the project that will win you glory.

That's why the US has an adversarial court system, to align incentives.
Move to a different country. I think you’ll find other cultures’ may have more interesting social constructs that rejuvenate your lust for life and ability to grow your social system.
>without significant price increases for the outputs,

You say this as if it would be abnormal.

Food prices go up with (are part of) inflation, too.
> Yes can confirm, in the USSR we had no political polarization.

Well, yes. People in concord hated the regime.
Learning about a load of random stuff in primary school is incredibly important. How else do children find out what they're interested in?
He's delisted because he asked. It's his music and he asked the platform to take his music off. Other artists can ask Spotify to do the same for any reason they want, and Spotify is free to acquiesce to those requests so long as the contract(s) they have in place with labels/artists allows for it.

All Spotify did in this instance was respect the request of an artist in regards to what they do with that artist's music, plain and simple.
v11 update was the straw that broke this Tesla owner's back. We just purchased a new EV from another manufacturer and are selling the Tesla.

I'm so glad there are an increasingly larger range of EVs to choose from. In Australia the choices are comparatively limited still, but more and more are becoming available. When we got our Tesla the choices were really Tesla or cars with really limited range.

I used to think I'd get used to the touch screen and muscle memory would allow me to do things while driving easily. Hasn't happened - I use the steering wheel buttons for changing the temperature, but everything else requires taking my eyes off the road for too long.

Test drove the new car and was surprised by how better physical buttons were. The cognitive load to drive it was so much less. After years of Tesla touch screen land, I think I'd forgotten how much easier and usable traditional interfaces are.
I spend 90+% of my time on the web reading and writing. Only 5 - 10% using web "apps".

The web stack leaned too heavily into application development, but its primary use is still in delivering rich text.
I’m not up for buying an SAE standard today so I hope someone else is, or already has it, and can do so for the discussion’s sake :)