skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "The university existed before capitalism"

Seeming "capitalism" was said to be coined by Karl Marx, this much is obvious.

> "Without public investment, universities are compelled to play by private sector rules, i.e., to operate like businesses."

Ok, so is the issue that "science" now has to play the same rules as everyone else? (there was some sort of saying of "ivory tower academics" - I guess the ivory tower isn't as strong anymore?)

I agree wholeheartedly that science and academia should get public funding, more public funding the better, 110%. My wife's entire family is a family of scientists and I wanted to be a scientist too, when I was younger.

Not sure where that public spending money should really come from.. not "Take from the poor, give to the academics."

Should the title rather be:

"Academia is now threatened by economics like everything else" ?
Notice that the comments used to generate the code via GitHub Copilot are just another very inefficient programming language.
> New needs, new expectations, new styles in design.

The article focus on the settings control panel. What new needs and expectations does the new settings control panel in 2022 have compared to 2010?
Nobody seems able to find the Times article being quoted nor the author.
I feel the same about GitHub issues. We’ve regressed to a place on the internet that the only way to know what the right answer to a problem is by painstakingly scrolling and counting the number of heart and thumbs up emojis.
We have a family of Crows who comes every morning, calls my wife, who gives them some treats and then go about their day. Sometimes they return at noon for lunch. We started leaving them puzzles to get to their food but they solved these pretty quickly. We now need to up our game. Originally it was just a couple. At some point only one came, which meant the other was watching their egg/offspring. Sure enough some time later kiddo joined them. Amazing bird.
> > ...has a color gamut ideally reaching 60,000

> given the rest of the text («four color pigments - cyan, magenta, yellow, and white - [are] used to achieve a full color gamut at each pixel»).

What units did you think the 60,000 color gamut represents? Because going from that to number of colors per pixel and assuming bit depth for each color is not a reasonable jump.

For example, I can have a printer that prints the most intense CMYK but only those 4 colors and then I can claim I have a huge gamut but it just has 4 colors per pixel with 1 bit depth.
New EU law could require iMessage and WhatsApp to work with other platforms
> Divided between two people, that's $637 per month. If we go with the rule that 1/3 of your wages should go to housing, that means you'd need to make $1911 per month to afford that apartment. If you worked 40 hours a week, and there are (on average) 4.3 weeks per month, that means you'd need to make $11.11 per hour to afford that apartment.

Apologies for the approximation nit and acknowledged that it was all back of the envelope, but $11.11/hr struck me as low at face value.

Upping the ante a bit, let's further assume single standard deduction earner with a $1911 net monthly income requirement (because you can't actually pay with money you don't have), which roughly implies 12% marginal tax bracket. Let's also account for fixed 6.2% social security withholding, and fixed 1.45% medicare withholding.

Squaring against this standard 2022 IRS Publication 15-T withholding method[1], we come to the following arithmetic expression to determine gross monthly income requirement:

(grossMonthly - fixed10pc - marginal12pc - ssWithholding - mcWithholding = netMonthly)

x - 85.60 - 0.12(x - 1935) - 0.062x - 0.0145x = 1911

Crunching the numbers (~$2196 gross monthly income) while using your proposed 4.3 weeks per month scalar, it's more like $12.77/hr (or $11.11 being -13.0% in relative error).

To be sure, this assumes complete omission of common tax-advantaged benefits such as deferred 401(k) retirement savings and medical/dental insurance coverage.

> The minimum wage in Florida is currently $8.65 per hour.

Florida's prevailing minimum wage is in fact $10/hr[2], with scheduled increases at $1 every year towards a $15/hr target by 2026[3].

[1] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p15t.pdf ref PDF p. 59

[2] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/state#fl

[3] https://floridajobs.org/docs/default-source/business-growth-...

EDIT: Whoops, accidentally used table values for two-or-more jobs scaling; corrected.
Age is an upper bound on experience and is related to experience and education if not equal. The average 19 year old, all else equal, will have less experience and education than the average 45 year old in the same field. There are exceptions of course - but they are only exceptions.

I'm curious given your view that employers shouldn't be able to hire teens to do low wage jobs what you think about immigration. Is it the same thing, that we shouldn't allow low skill immigrants because they will compete for minimum wage jobs, or do you have a different view there and if so, why?
You would benefit from the “Button Shapes” option in accessibility! It underlines or outlines text-only “buttons.”
Same, I had my books from 1986 (when I was 16) bought from Caltech's bookstore while I was there at a summer program (YESS, Young Engineer Summer Scholars) that went on for months where I learned 2-3 semesters worth of undergrad physics/calculus. Such a wonderful summer nerd program for the day and age. Best summer camp ever! So many stories. Lost the books in a move in the late 1990's, still a bit sad about it. One of these days I'll add them back to my shelf.
Better to have random old people print currency whenever they feel like it, right?
Libertarians oppose fraud. Software that deletes your files on purpose, in a context where people reasonably expect it not to delete your files on purpose, is fraud unless thete's a notice on it prominent enough to make the expectation not reasonable.
Ask HN: Why hasn't web dev evolved to be like mobile/desktop app dev yet?
Any insights on this?
I'm not sure anyone would be surprised that IPFS's performance would be worse than FTP or any other protocol when it comes to transfers between two (or three) hosts.

The benefits of distributes systems becomes bigger the larger the network. Replicate the same results with 100 nodes and we'll see.

I still think torrents would be even more efficient though, than both FTP and IPFS.
That's sort of what happened with ElementaryOS, isn't it?
I know people living in those famously cheap Midwest areas people online always propose as the obvious solution to avoid high rents. Rents even in nowhere areas have blown up recently.

And remote work really won’t change rents much for normal people. People want to live where their family and friends are, where some good restaurants are, where some good weekend activities are, where some nice nature is an hour or two away, where a good hospital isn’t too far, and where grocery stores stock good food. Any one of these and landlords decide it’s okay to raise prices 30% a year.

People theoretically have a choice, but every landlord everywhere is doing this. People leave one town with rapidly increasing rents and go to the next, and those landlords do the same while the people in the already expensive town never lower prices. There is no escape or alternative.
I may be alone here, but maybe there are mountains of functionality never tackled in Gnome. Basic things like trackpad gestures are just now arriving for example.

Meanwhile, the visual design has been hashed over and over: I've lost count. Why is L&F consistently prioritized over basic capabilities?
Well, yes. My point was simply that the title misrepresents the article, because it is ambiguous. "The illusion of evidence based medicine" can be interpreted as a statement of how the aim of evidence based medicine is illusory. The short introductory paragraph, "Evidence based medicine has been corrupted by corporate interests [etc]" furthers this idea, having a somewhat definite tone, as if this corruption were fatal to any proper scientific inquiry.

The rest of the article dissipates this confusion rather quickly.

Stepping back a little, how would one react to a title such as "The illusion of medicine", making the same general argument?
MDN is literally the documentation for everything front-end web that is built-in to browsers and a little more. I hope all of the income from this goes back into MDN. If there's a project that deserves my eternal gratitude, MDN is up there as a web developer.

Thank you to everyone who has ever worked on MDN or contributed at any capacity.
When I try to quit coffee the "withdrawal" doesn't go away. I went without for a MONTH and felt consistently like garbage the whole time. It's too bad too because my doctor says I gotta try to lower my BP.
You would seem to have a very low pain threshold.
There is nonetheless something extremely valuable about being able to write at different levels of abstraction when developing code.

Copilot lets you do that in a way that is way beyond what a normal programming language would let you do, which of course has its own, very rigid, abstractions.

For some parts of the code you'll want to dive in and write every single line in painstaking detail. For others `# give me the industry standard analysis of this dataset` is maybe enough for your purposes. And being able to have that ability, even if you think of it as just another programming language in itself, is huge.
>What have other CEOs done to justify their salaries?

Using the same timescale as the Wikipedia article, 2008 to 2018, Mozilla's revenue had risen from $78.6 million to $436 million. A more than 400% increase. Does that justify her salary?
Just in case it helps even one other person, caffeine was causing me to have severe anxiety. It took me years to realize it could be the caffeine and to try abstaining. It's a subtle and inconsistent link, but there's no doubt in my mind now that caffeine was the cause (or at least an exacerbating factor). I love caffeine and coffee, so I had to prove it to myself repeatedly before finally accepting it.

If you suffer from anxiety, try quitting caffeine. It will suck for several days (in my wife's case a couple of weeks) but if you eliminate or reduce your anxiety, your life will improve more than realize.
I would not tolerate someone switching my drink on me without my permission
That’s why you need to put all the blame on people high up enough to seemingly have significant responsibility.

It’s a losing battle because ultimately responsibility creeps up to the person at the very top.
Since IPFS's performance is worser than FTP's, a client-server architecture is, apparently, betterer!

I wonder how representative of a real-world scenario a three-node IPFS network is. I thought that file fragments are strewn across more nodes typically, with some redundancy. FTP offers nothing like this.

So far this looks a bit too apples-to-oranges to me. Has anyone actually read the paper?
If we take that argument to the extreme then people without kids shouldn’t pay school taxes at all. Fundamentally I don’t think that is how the system should work. There is something unfair about parents paying once through taxation and again through tuition but I think there is a reasonable case to be made that that is a lesser evil than programs that damage public education.
>there’s a significant demand for aged accounts

I kid you not, I had an offer for $500 to sell my account.
…there's a new serif in town.
Good on Airbus for doing the right thing! It is a healthy sign when a company engages in actual preventative action to fix an issue rather than waiting until the fleet is grounded (I'm looking at you Boeing and your buggy 737 Max).
So your argument and basis for calling vouchers a Scam is because the dollar amount for the voucher is not granular enough? Maybe the dollar allocation could be better, but it doesn't make vouchers a scam. If you'd like more confirmation in your beliefs may I direct you here...

https://dianeravitch.net/

IMO, vouchers have a place in school choice and I would prefer that they are used to give disabled, disadvantaged, and hard to educate children more options. I am a bigger fan of open enrollment and charter schools as zip code\housing affordability should not dictate a child's educational destiny.
Programming languages have syntax and semantics, while text-generators are statistical. So I wouldn't call them a programming language, since "having well-defined semantics" is more fundamental than "is often used in an edit->run loop".
The reason is because colorful designs were ugly AF in virtually all but the very best (or native) applications so users developed an allergic reaction to them. Minimal design felt fresh and it’s harder to fuck it up...sadly it’s also harder to tell icons apart
The value is that they've documented every front-end DOM api for you and done a lot of leg work for free for years. This will fund their efforts and they do more than just web, they've also been adding documentation on doing back-end web development as well. I'm sure the more subscribers they get, the more they can add. I sincerely hope MDN keeps the majority of the income from these efforts. For front-end work I skip Google or Stack Overflow and look through MDN.
Recently I’ve been enjoying serif fonts in more places than I used to, because I instructed Firefox not to allow sites to override my font choices (so I get exclusively Equity for serif, Concourse for sans-serif and Triplicate for monospace), which is quite pleasant and relaxing in general (Google’s foolish/poorly-implemented ligature-based icon font technique is the only notable breakage/uglification I’ve found in the couple of weeks I’ve been doing this), but apparently it’s more common than I realised for people to omit the fallback “sans-serif” or “serif” or “monospace” that they should always have on their font-family stacks, and my fallback default is serif. (e.g. I’m just now looking at a `font-family: 'Lato','Helvetica','Arial';`, and yesterday examined a `font-family: some-web-font, Open Sans;`.)
Meditation – Saint Christopher's Blog
You don't think something that reduces net carbon in the atmosphere is carbon negative, then you're just making up your own definitions of things. Why waste everyone else's time? Seems like a hell of way to go about life.
Have you considered technical writing?
There are some companies who pay as much as $500/article.
The article is really about GTK3 versus GTK4, using the settings pane as an example. My comment is about the larger picture. However, take a look at what it meant to reset your default settings in 2010: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/08/restore-default-gnome-se...

Settings panes are still largely confusing on all platforms, commercial included, as you broaden your user base. They've also grown in utility as iOS has pushed the idea of a centralized place for settings for all aspects of the system (apps included), which you're starting to see elements of on other platforms as well. There's plenty of room for improvement, including simplifying everything down so that few settings can make big differences where the heavy lifting is done for you. Linux in particular suffers from this, from a legacy of a million .conf files everywhere that many people blindly copy-pasta'd random configurations they found online (I'm looking at you XFree86).
> impact fewer than 2% of Free tier users within 0.3% of namespaces

Sure most of my projects uploaded are small toy projects, but this change completely turns me off to uploading any larger project that I plan to work on long term and hope for additional contributors.
I'm fairly certain that caffeine addiction is quite common in North America at least.

I myself develop debilitating headaches if I don't have my first coffee by 8:30 or so. I usually require a second around noon.

I have young kids so sometimes you just gotta have that third cup, ya know?

I have a little bialetti stovetop coffee maker. It's not quite espresso but it's thick and strong, just how I like my legal addictive stimulants.
You can cherry pick random examples all you want. doesn't make you right.
> In this example, we’re using the Copilot extension for Visual Studio Code, and a free toxicity dataset that we built;

(Emphasis mine)

Following that link:

> Surge AI is a data labeling platform and workforce. Our labeling team pored over tens of thousands of social media comments to build this toxicity dataset. Each comment was then evaluated by multiple members of our team to determine its severity level.
When you sign short term certificates with your existing keys, you're still using your existing keys, managed in the exact same way, to authenticate. The certificate would just be another layer of indirection. I fail to see how that would be a meaningful change.

One of the primary benefits of the described setup is that there would only be a single long term key. It would be managed more securely because it won't be lying around on each user's personal machines.
> special agents

> an elite and secret group of nuclear couriers, armed government agents employed by the Department of Energy

The DoE has Special Agents, and probably Agents as well. I can understand particular missions being secret, but they can tell us what they were and what they did in general, and they really can't tell us what their group was actually called and what office or division of DoE [1] they worked under, and who, in particular, issued the order sending them to a Superfund site?

Other things bother me about this article, as sad and concerning as its subject is. I'm no expert, but I've never heard of symptoms like that from radiation exposure, and how, exactly, do heavy metals get in their pubic hair if they did not actually consume them? Is it possible to absorb Aluminum through the skin? Can it be inhaled? Someone help me, please.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/organization-chart
Chromium is open source, but I manage configuration using policies which document the default values:

https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/

It is surprisingly easy to disable telemetry in Chromium as well, and when configuring Firefox using a similar method they send just as much telemetry as Chromium by default.
This is a game-changer, even if it doesn't work 100% of the time. I only infrequently need to use notebooks and dataframes, I'd say once every few months. Frequently enough that I have a vague idea of what I need to do but not frequently enough that I can remember syntax.

With this, I don't need to memorize the syntax OR be bottlenecked on looking at documentation or stack overflowing the commands I need.
"New speed cameras push the braking point back a couple of hundred feet"
Ig Nobel candidate?
OpenAI has solved the XY problem
I am in the midst of caffeine dependence, and have been for years. I don't feel bad the next day though, I just need my morning coffee to feel functional. And an afternoon coffee.

I am slowly reducing the caffeine by switching out the afternoon coffee with two cups, and now one cup of tea. Even that is not easy. When I tried to quit cold turkey, I lasted about a week, and the depression part of the withdrawal symptoms were just too much for me. I felt terrible every day, and it didn't seem to be easing up when I gave up after a week.
Thanks JadeNB. I'm pretty sure that renato_cassutt didn't mean any harm and that the testimonial is from a real user. The context that many are missing here is that a turban is religious headwear like a yarmulke. As a Sikh you have to be authorised to wear one in a ceremony called a "dastaarbandi", and there are rules of conduct while wearing one in public. It's inadvisable to add one to the depiction of a person unless they choose it themselves. This kind of thing (e.g. inappropriate Sikh representation in movies) regularly becomes a political issue in India. In renato_cassutt's case, it's an unnecessary distraction from the actual product.
I had hoped to see one of my favorite recent finds regarding this exact subject mentioned in this article, but I guess not! So here’s a song from a concept album about Basil II the Bulgar Slayer[0] by Judicator.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyjXRSQHR-Y
There are a few different processes for making decaf, actually.
This is a discussion I've had with a number of folks.

To shift to a world of "mostly" remote work in reality means the smaller population of higher paid desk workers working from home, and everyone else having to commute to in person jobs.

Worse if companies don't adjust wages to match local rates (per the protests of many tech workers) we end up with deep income disparity between the remote workers and in person ones. Bringing many of the problems of a place like SF to all the other locations.

It feels like something has to give, or the society that results is awfully dystopian.
"Won't most people just become more isolated than they feel in the city?"

It's possible they'll realize that most of their stress and problems are caused by other people.

Some people even enjoy relative isolation - One Man's Wilderness, Into The Wild, etc are some accounts.
Why Global Supply Chains May Never Be the Same
Sort of. It largely was a copy of Apple, unfortunately. However I think it at least pushed the bar of what might be possible with Linux, and they're no longer around [1]. I'm hoping someone can come and give real high quality work to the FOSS community and take on a wider perspective. They had to basically do their own thing instead of pushing GNOME/KDE along, which may have to be unfortunately the case. It would be better if we could leverage the existing code bases rather than starting from scratch, but there maybe enough major things that need to change and enough resistance from the existing communities to allow for that to happen.

[1] https://lunduke.substack.com/p/elementary-os-is-imploding?s=...
The cascade of attention deficit teenagers is a jwz classic, which I won't link directly because… jwz.
You don’t need a degree to learn programming. There are many, many other jobs besides programming that pay more than minimum wage with varying levels of requirements. People hanging drywall and digging ditches make more than minimum wage.

You think everybody with a job paying more than minimum wage is doing something they love?
If you believe someone should be paid lower because of lower experience and education, then pay them based on their experience and education. Not on their age.

Otherwise, what experience and education do you expect that a brand new adult entering the job market to have that a teenager will not? An adult who needs (at least) minimum wage to be able to survive, and a week ago was a teenager. Who is going to hire such an adult when they could hire the teenager, with identical experience and education, for cheaper?

Low skill immigrants are still getting minimum wage aren't they? You're arguing that teenagers shouldn't even get that much. Or are you suggesting that low skill immigrants shouldn't get minimum wage either?
Do non-techies have a choice, though? Given the lack of theming in many modern apps, its not like users have a choice between flat design and the designs of the 90s and 2000s. What about sticking to old versions? I can only use old versions of software for so long before it becomes infeasible for many reasons (security and interoperability being the biggest reasons), and even on Linux where users have a great deal of control, not all GUI software is themable.

It's not just programmers who complain about modern UI/UX trends. The Nielsen Norman Group, a UI/UX consulting group that was founded by HCI legends Don Norman and Jakob Nielsen, have written articles against the overuse of flat design (https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-design/).
You mean like “trusting” that Zoom won’t secretly install a web server on your computer that reinstalls itself when you uninstall it or trusting that Chrome won’t corrupt your Mac when you turn off System Integrity Protection