skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article mentions "correcting" searches as an instance of this. I find that particularly infuriating on Amazon. I often search for a specific thing, let's say, "CRI 95 LED light bulb", and it'll return thing that it determines are close enough. In this case, a CRI 96 or CRI 98 bulb would be fine, but it determines that because a CRI 80 bulb also has the same word in it, that it's close enough. (For context, the "color rendering index" expresses about how close an LED bulb is to an incandescent, and CRI 80 is just a standard cheapo bulb.)

I often end up returning things because I searched for something specific, and Amazon returned a bunch of things that were not that. (And it shows that for similarity search, that the "corrections" do need to have domain-specific awareness.)
> This is a giant self-own and a very long winded way of saying "Linux will ignore the best implementation of a thing because we/they don't like the license."

It has nothing to do with "dislike." It's illegal to put ZFS into the Linux kernel. Just as illegal as putting a pirate copy of Microsoft's NTFS in there.

This is because of the choice of license by the owners of ZFS code!

You're blaming Linux but Linux license was chosen long before ZFS even existed. ZFS license was specifically chosen for the purpose of keeping code out of Linux.
I'm honestly not sure what Instagram is used for, never had an accent, but I still make new friends without it. I use sms to talk to the ones with no mutual online chat services.
My 7yo is absolutely thrilled by scratch on Lego Mindstorms Robot Innovator [1]. The physicality of it is engaging. Granted, I'm generally a very restrictive parent about mobile/console gaming.

1: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/robot-inventor-51515
> worst Covid deaths per capita

I think the point is that the countries that have worse deaths-per-capita are poor (eastern european states), conspicuously dysfunctional (Belgium), or both dysfunctional and unlucky (Italy).

The UK was positioned to do well (it's an island, has a national health service, very low vaccine hesitancy, had lots of warning), and yet did badly both on deaths and the economy. The story of the UK and covid was one of unforced errors, not of an impossible challenge.

PS: probably most importantly, the UK has a relatively young population (median age 40, vs Italy at 46, Germany at 49, etc).
>> supposed to be

Unfortunately, there's been a general decline in reading comprehension since the '50s. Things that would have been understood to be fiction are now read as unironic fact. Backwoods literalist christianity and backwoods literalist islam burst on the scene at around the same time that academia embraced a malformed version of deconstructionism. Back in the 90s we were so sick of irony we just wanted it to die. Turns out this is how it happened.
It's completely ridiculous as a choice for present day usage however.
But we already have definitions:

Customization: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/customization

Personalization: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/personalization

If I can't tweak something like I want, then it's not personalized.
I kind of have to agree with the guy there, it would be kind of trash if everyone just inlined assembly instructions. Manual SIMD already feels a bit like cheating. Ideally, there should be two solution categories, idiomatic solutions and optimised solutions. I would prefer if the idiomatic solutions matched what the average programmer would write.

I think we worry about performance far too much when choosing a language. However, when performance is important, it's important to recognise the different classes of languages, say {Go, Rust, C} vs {Python, JS, Ruby} in terms of speed and memory footprint vs productivity.
Yes, but psychologically speaking, the difference between "somewhat randomly" and "totally randomly" is huge. With the latter, you lose the incentives, because it doesn't matter what you do. In capitalism, there is a lot of randomness on who gets rich, much more than in grant reviewing, and while capitalism can be criticised from many angles, even the staunchest anti-capitalists wouldn't deny that it's great at incentivising people to try to make money...

The variant you mention would be better than pure randomness, but at least for me, it wouldn't work either. First of all, in order to become "excellent" at research you typically have to start at "good enough", so the "excellent" category would also be hugely conditioned by the randomness - how do you build up an excellent CV if you repeatedly lose the grant lottery? Secondly, although incentives wouldn't be totally lost, for me it still wouldn't work psychologically. I can come to terms with the fact that there is a large random factor in grant reviewing, it's not something I like but that's just life and very difficult to avoid, but I wouldn't be able to accept seeing the researcher next door scoring a grant while I'm left without it due to a pure lottery, to be honest. I think I would go to industry.

PS: regarding what you mention about marketing, something I would do would be to evaluate people (CVs) rather than project proposals. Proposals are indeed very, very biased by marketing and by how boldly researchers can make grandiose claims (which is likely to be correlated negatively with research integrity). And in CS they often don't even make sense... for example I work in NLP, large language models like BERT came in 2017-2018 and revolutionised the whole field, if I had followed the text of my ongoing grants to the letter I would have been doing obsolete research. (I can see how in other fields like physics, etc., this may not apply).
The hallucination analogy is useful I think in some ways, in that it could allow access to a view of reality that has important parts represented in a meaningful way. But, surely a hallucination requires an underlying consciousness to experience it? So for me it's not very useful in explaining the phenonmenon of consciousness itself. It seems that it's not far removed from the old "theatre" analogy, which requires an unexplained "homunculus" (and probably homunculi ad infinitum).
>Are we truly clean to judge?

We're aware enough to change.
And I'll watch that TV with my 3D glasses.
Numerous reports said that false flags almost have a tradition in Ukraine on every side of the conflict. It seems to be a tactic to control the conflict through publicity. I would guess the information is probably accurate.
Tile and Chipolo added that functionality only after Apple released the AirTag and allowed 3rd parties to use their network(again, that's a concious choice, that's something they allowed and that they can be blamed for).

Samsung Trackers work only with some of their phones - there is absolutely no chance in hell that Samsung sold more of those than Apple has sold iphones globally. I'll eat my own hat if they did.
I would expect him to not have worked anywhere longer than 4 months considering he just graduated and those were internships
Obligatory UserFriendly: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010523
> Identifying something as a dark pattern for no other reason than that it's common doesn't make any sense.

That's not what I am saying, but it might not be clear.

What I mean is, that pattern is so common in "free to play, pay to advance" games that it is now a kind of "noise" pattern -- it has infected all games in the way that Upworthy's headline writing style ("X Will Drop Your Jaw And It Is Amazing") has infected all writing.

These are dark patterns because they manipulate the reader or player into doing something irrational.

The fact that these things are now so commonplace as to be self-satirising doesn't make them good patterns.
That’s when you CC (don’t BCC, you want them to know) yours and theirs managers on the email that says that says plainly, “If you expected this to be done by 5:30 am, you should have sent two days before. Perhaps this can help you be more efficient with your time.” and include a link to a YouTube — or better yet, an internal training video — on effective time management or setting deadlines.

Seriously. You publicly stick the knife in for this shit.
Incidentally, Finland and Sweden constitute something like 20% of the EU's total area, and both have relatively small urban centres scattered all around the place.

It's pretty natural both have somewhat differing regulations in regards to transportation.
Digital costs less but does it makes anything ?

I have a sad feeling that it's mostly low hanging fruits seen in the light of 'digital = progress = future'
I expected to start from a recipe and then have the veganized recipe.
How it works now is a Google search, so I have to find another recipe, if there is. I would skip the Google part and start from a recipe URL and have as a result that specific recipe veganized (ingredients replacement).
It would also prevent people from leaving the website.
Stop with the needless hate.

We are talking about people in the top 8% of the income bracket in US. Not a single engineer in Amazon that has or is getting PIPed is losing their livelihood. If you have Amazon on your resume, no matter what, you will have no issues finding another job, because the acceptance rate by itself to Amazon is <10% of all candidates, which acts as a very good filter and indicator for other companies that your more competent than a large percentage of work force there, so you automatically get a shot at an interview and likely a job offer if you are actually competent.

The biggest drawback of something like this is maybe having to wait an extra few months before buying that sweet BMW M3 that you wanted.

If anything, this kind of stuff should be viewed as games, because that's all this is. Supply/demand of labor mixed in with a few political and psychological things. The manager is not even close to being an asshole, he is just playing the game like all the employees are. Lets not pretend that the majority of people wanting to work at Amazon care enough about changing the world, they just want that MAANG salary.
I'm baffled there is such obvious hairsplitting on this on HN, of all places, against a notable educational book about the freakin Holocaust. One of my college roommates was assigned this text in a contemporary literature course as it was and is a contemporary historical fiction graphic novel.
This is something that bothers me often about the US-centric view about DEI. I got lectured by a white guy from the US a couple of times wrt. not focusing enough on skin color and gender/sex when e.g. hiring, but somehow he was totally blind to the fact that e.g. a black woman from New York or London is not necessarily disadvantaged compared to a white male who grew up in rural Romania for example. But nobody really cares of the latter.

The same person explained that a 5% wage gap between women and men in a certain field needs immediate action but it's 'fair' that there's a 70% wage gap between his salary and the salary of someone from Eastern Europe (working in the same role at the same company).

Oh well.
This is similar to Google Rewards?
There are pretty terrible managers from all races tbh. You tend to have a lot more Indians in tech so it’s statistically more likely you’re gonna run into quite a few bad ones.
> but has instead produced slightly less than huge choice variety at some moments in time. I'm not sold that's a disaster.

Yeah, the ship has a hole which visibly widens, but we are not underwater yet, so that's not a disaster.
> First, because the vaccines are 80-95% effective in any specific individual (if boosted, potentially much less if not) and that isn’t good enough for society as a whole until the vaccine uptake is higher.

That's a theoretical model. A hypothesis, most likely unattainable. Conveniently so, because it creates the whole lot of scapegoats.

> Second, I’ve never really understood why people are all that upset about mask mandates. It’s just clothing.

It is not. The net is full of accounts of people telling out precisely what is wrong with masks for them. On HN, on reddit, anywhere. If you wanted to understand, you have plenty of material to read. You, most likely, simply couldn't be bothered. That, or we're just different species.

> (Curiously, last-but-one time I wrote something similar here, someone took so much offence they tried to anonymously wish harm upon me via comments on my blog).

I'm sorry to hear that. They shouldn't have done it. However, this comment of yours is very dismissive to the concerns that some people perceive as fight-or-flight matter. Some choose to fight, event in such inappropriate and misdirected way.
I think at this point 'Groups' are single-handedly keeping fb alive.
I've always thought the winning format would be akin to ski goggles as well. If Apple does it well, I can see it becoming popular.
> Industry will only ever fund things that are easy to monetize in the very short term.

Usually. ASML worked on something for two decades, and now, against all odds, EUV works :)

But, of course, it is notable because it is far from the normal case. And it was, more or less, an engineering problem, which required some support from scientists.
Same question i have had in my mind for a long time.
Recurring payments

- Components from DevExpress (C# and JavaScript)

- Office 365

- Azure

- Add In Express (for building Office Add Ins)

One off payments

- Balsamiq

- Navicat for Sqlite

- Snagit

I used to have a lot more one off desktop apps, but I found that as I migrated to new PCs I never bothered to install them as the free alternatives were as good or good enough.
>Solar recycling is still rudimentary because the vast majority of PV modules that have ever been produced are still in use.

The problems with it's recycling are a bit more inherent than that.

>The shorter lifespan of PV is actually a good thing for solar.

It's downright silly to say that PV degrading is good for it. The improvements don't stop because they have to be replaced quicker. More people would adopt it if they lasted longer since the ROI is higher, etc
I might replace my pc in less than a decade but I'm not jumping to get on a roof again and invest 10's of thousands of euros.
>Some of them settle for that shitty commute

Perhaps some people don't think a 10 minute commute is possible either because they don't think that a city with a 10 minute radius is a real city, or they think living close to a highway implies an undesirable neighborhood.

Also, there is the option to commute out to the suburbs in a major metro area where the commute inward is hell. Plenty of office parks and such that people work at.
Browsers Reimagined
.. until the civilians demand their politicians' heads roll in the aisles for having funded something the citizens aren't cool with.

We can't say, though, until the secrets are uncovered.
Looks like a D21 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_D-21
Color Maximite II boots into BASIC, good graphics library, fast interpreter.

https://geoffg.net/maximite.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQA8lowEKOo
I‘ve been scratching my head too, with the invisible hand. But the itch doesn’t seem to go away.
I know that TrueNAS/FreeNAS add a scrub by default. Possibly ZFS on Linux does now too.

LinusTechTips recently did a video about how they installed ZFS on Linux and didn't have a scrub cron. They started to lose data before noticing.

https://youtu.be/Npu7jkJk5nM
Glassdoor is filled with Spam from fake accounts and smurfs though. I knew for a fact that a company I worked for had people monitoring their Glassdoor page, with the recruiting team being given the task of Smurfing some good reviews.

Blind is pretty great but probably overly cynical. It’s not been “discovered” just yet.
Not to mention these toys are usually not kept secret from adversaries, but rather from the unsuspecting public who are funding the toys. Citizens' resistance to military-industrial misadventure is the biggest enemy the Defense Department has acknowledged it has to deal with ..
We chose ASCIIDoc for our documentation because it's a modern, feature-rich markup language that makes writing technical documentation really pleasant. To be honest, we didn't even consider OpenDoc as an option. Wasn't it discontinued a long time ago?

(I am the author btw)
I guess linkedin has a different vibe over here. I've seen some self-congratulatory and groveling posts, but nowhere near this level of influencer-style humblebragging.
I’ve noticed Apple and Elon fans are some of the worst for this in particular.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/business-59863...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/29/lens-te...
Nothing comes close. I feel like there is a lot of emphasis on content discovery but none on people discovery. The biggest problem I have right now is its hard to find like minded people. Maybe subreddits come close but they are not as social as I want them to be. Like I don't really know these people. Our bond seldom goes beyond our shared interest in the subreddit topic. But in real life people meet over a shared topic but it expands into a more fulfilling relationship.

After writing all this out I feel like what I want is ok cupid but for finding friends. The problem with that seems to be every time someone tries to do that they have one leg in the dating world (and I understand why, its lucrative). For once can someone actually put people discovery at the center of their product?
You should try to consider it from the company's perspective as well-- hiring an engineer is very expensive, takes a long time, and any new engineer has takes time before they can start to fully contribute to a codebase.

If you're a manager in a situation where an employee has a problem and aren't meeting the job requirements, you'd probably much rather that they fix the problem and contribute to the team than fire them.

That doesn't mean that all of these plans are done in good faith, or that some managers aren't terrible. And for an employee on a PIP, they should think hard about leaving the company (or at least the team); it'll be better for their career.

But I don't think one can say that it's nothing more than a legal way to fire someone (especially since you can fire someone in most states in the US without cause, and spurious allegations of racial or other discrimination would need documentation that would be hard to produce if it didn't actually happen).
Yup - e.g. and IIRC, Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd are unifying their store brands in Germany.
I would like to hear about that aswell.
Yes, I also posted the progress there. The 8bit cpu example runs perfectly in my “game”.

I’m rewriting it to Unity and there I can run the 8 bit cpu from that blog with about 14000 ticks per second.

We’re planning to create a game around it with few dozen of levels, including controlling robots, traffic lights, a bowling pin sorter and tanks/units in a tiny top-down shooter (where programs from players play against each other).

Edit: if you download the cpu image from the blog and upload it to the game, you can see it run. It’s visually a bit broken because the game in its current state isn’t really designed to have such a big canvas, but it runs perfectly fine.

Edit 2: the CPU running in unity web build here: https://charperbonaroo.github.io/microengineer-build/
We do need to overcorrect, it's the underprivileged that are the main victim of this soaring crime. The people in power (DAs/media/politicians) now have more sympathy for criminals than their actual victims of crime.

We can pass laws against giving huge settlements to those that choose to illegally fight against law enforcement.
I usually clear mine by a system reinstall and forgetting about them.

No Firefox I don't actually want you to stick them in an account forever. The weight of my unfinished projects is crushing.
LOAD81:

http://github.com/antirez/load81

Pretty much the bees knees to run on older laptops ..
The stolen item needs to slightly vary in each telling. Catch a mole 101.
Cool brochure. I think they might have gone a little nuts with the tiny dots representing "computing"... I would have thrown some fun graphics in those boxes. Maybe some hot secretaries in sunglasses, martinis, olives, stretching toes on the beach while your monster 8k computer churns away in the office...
This is one of the most pathetic answers possible. You give nothing on user bases and adoption of both dart and flutter, internal adoption within google, it's use of Dart and Flutter for the frontend of Fuschia, googles desire to control a widespread language, the open-source nature of Flutter, the list goes on. You just provide a list of PRODUCT's that have been killed off, not an entire language and frameworks. Your idea that google will just kill it off is a meme, and doesn't take into account it's usefulness to google in the wider world.
Bias is only complained about when people passive-aggressively bring their politics into a situation to warp the subject and distract.

There is no such thing as "unbiased" reporting, just as it is impossible to "eliminate racism" or "eliminate rape". Journalists aren't robots. Anyone who tells you they're "unbiased" is either a liar or a fool. Reasonable and accurate reporting, without word weaseling or playing favorites, is honest journalism.
In the past you could set a system wide theme and most applications followed that. These days most applications feel the need to do their own thing.
You can make the story more complex, or you can make it really simple: For the past 2 decades the asumption was that China's outsize growth was just about to stop with an economic crisis and that crisis would be the end of the communist rule. Now that that clearly has not happened, the US has to go war with its upcoming rival.

The first part of the war is non-military: A media campaign, tech sanctions, general sanctions, rallying of allies, destabilization of neighbouring countries etc. China has little way of responding however I predict it won't be enough to stop its growth.
Via https://www.golem.de/news/gary-kildall-der-mann-der-das-pc-b...
You can't call a situation when a country is keeping important fertilizers to itself an "economical warfare".
There is no obligation at all for Russia to sell the maximum possible amount of fetilizers to Europe. It is even not in Russia's interests at all. Do you know of any such obligations?
I like how Tour of Go includes Generics tutorials is simple to grasp on first reading, wasn't difficult as those have been arguing on golang-nut mailing list before Generics was landed.
That doesn't change the value they provide to the people actually making the shows.

As a producer/show runner, who would you rather make a series for, Netflix or a streaming service you've never heard of? Which would you accept less money upfront from?

Suppose you choose Netflix to fund your philosophical sci-fi show? Netflix tell you they will put it at the top of the main menu for everyone who's ever watched the new Star Trek as long as you agree to X. Do you agree to X?
Exactly. Obvious new cold war strategy. News, of course, sets agendas by what it reports on and what it doesn't, and what space is attributed to it. And if the audience is barraged enough, they eat it up, as evidenced by the downvotes and salty comments.

Where are the posts about the US-Saudi genocide in Yemen (you know, the kind that actually kills an entire population and reduces their country to dust - Xinjiang has nice, undestroyed cities without a drone bomber anywhere)? Where are the posts about the US killing Syrians again, including entire families? Where are the posts about Colombian police violence perpetrated with the help of paramilitaries, and the US?

For that matter, where are the posts about the US having the Uyghurs on their terror list (and make no mistake: if the US has someone on their terror list, that makes me wonder what the US might be trying to pull here), and taking them off when it was convenient to use them as a geostrategic pawn to try to destabilize China from within (you know, just the CIA's standard MO for decades)?

No. China bad. Article over.
It would be bought and killed by the capital system just like Glassdoor was.