skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If he wants to work as programmer, he should talk to the people in his network who hire programmers.

If he can't get a programmer job through his network, then it is unlikely he will be considered hireable by random companies.

Whether or not he should learn programming is mostly orthogonal.
Do tell, how so?
There are already alternatives out there (like New Pipe). Vanced was taken down because they tried to monetise it via an NFT which crossed a line.
A friend shared this, and my response then was that the author should go tell his plan to a line cook and see what response he gets :P

For those who haven't been around kitchen culture, it's common to joke about having nightmares about the sound of the ticket printer.
My customers are the best QA team :)
This is actually a huge pet peeve of mine; when people ask for a citation for reasoning, and then smugly declaring victory when no such citation is provided, as if you even could "cite" analysis.
After sharing this in https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/tn8why/the_end_of_th... , a commenter pointed out an issue going into more detailed discussion around these buttons and some of the tradeoffs to consider in having outlines or not: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libadwaita/-/issues/228
> There should be a adversarial, yet respectful, relationship between dev and QA where dev tries to get their software released and QA is finding reasons why it shouldn't be released.

The mutual respect aspect is key. If the dynamic isn't right, people end up feeling attacked and it can create a contentious environment. Same goes for code review work.
Mariupol computer retro museum has been destroyed
If anyone is interested, I have a couple of implementations of booting under UEFI and getting a bunch of info about the system (don't expect a functioning system, they just boot and dump some info):

Nim: https://github.com/khaledh/axiom

Zig: https://github.com/khaledh/axiom-zig (this one goes into depth in disassembling ACPI DSDT bytecode)
If it helps, I had to sit through all that stuff at Amazon as well. I was in the bit that makes consumer electronics and never dealt with contracts in any way, yet still had to spend time learning not to make or take bribes from wholesalers or international businesses or governments. Every. Single. Year.

Initially the training software was badly written so you could just open up DevTools and type "v = document.querySelector('video'); v.currentTime = v.duration - 1000;" or similar and just bop through the sections. Later they seemed to track time on the server, so really the most I could do is turn off the window focus check and leave the tab open in a second monitor. So annoying.
My understanding is that these concerns are, at best, overblown. [1] explains it better than I could.

[1] https://katymontgomerie.medium.com/addressing-concerns-over-...
Anecdotally I don't think my parents could learn to program at a hireable level in their 60s.
I think that would be an odd transition indeed.

With that said, I understand a certain apprehension with this... in a future sense.

It may lead to a time where more and more things are essentially leased. Maybe to that eventual end.

This may attract a lot of favor, cheaper things are nice. The investors are happy because of recurring revenue. In exchange however, we lose control.

There's a good metaphor I can't quite remember, but it's based around a pile of marbles. Each one alone isn't of much interest, but it's a big pile
Er... does this help?

https://adium.im/screenshots/

I still have it installed. It was very useful in the PowerPC era.

Pidgin still is useful: it talks to a whole bunch of services that are still alive... IRC, Telegram, Skype, Google Hangouts, Slack, Rocket.chat, XMPP, ICQ, etc.

Sadly Adium can't use Pidgin or Libpurple plugins directly. This severely reduces its usefulness today.
U.S. Real Estate Secrecy Links Global Corruption, Domestic Inequality
> The fix might be a new API that reveals true coordinates…

We already have this with `ResizeObserver` using the `device-pixel-content-box` option. [1]

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ResizeObser...
As I recall from my economics, one of the usual theories is that bands/venues/sports events/service stations in remote locations/etc. don't in the main want to gain the reputation for being the a*holes who will rip you off given the slightest opportunity.

It's at least possibly bad for long-tern business. And in the case of small businesses, the owners may just not want to be that person.

For events, "list prices" are often gotten around by (in addition to ticket brokers being a thing) by various types of VIP seating, extras, and so forth which raise prices to closer to market levels while leaving normal ticket list prices--assuming you can get one.
Am curious about how this compares to RSVP (rapid serial visualization perception) reading. (Or Android options?)
Though it's often derided on HN, scree-scraping is the integration method that requires the list cooperation from the other party. I'd love to have something like Pidgin that ran stock copies of these messaging apps in their own virtual machines and aggregated the data.
I find this comment very classist and detached from reality.

Most minimum wage earners are not in poverty because they are taking too many vacations and buying too many luxury items: they are in poverty because rents are consuming 40-60% of their income, costs of essentials to live and commute to work are rapidly rising, and a single medical debt can wipe out all of their savings in an instant.

Avocado toast is not destroying the middle class - corporate greed is.

People aren't poor because they are lazy and stupid, as ultra-capitalist pundits would like you to believe to prevent you feeling empathy. America is systemically broken in a way that it is no longer 'the land of opportunity': poverty today is a trap that hardly anyone can escape by simply working hard and spending wisely.
It’s definitely possible to do, but being a junior dev in his early 60s after being a C-level executive for years is likely to be a tough transition mentally.

If he hasn’t wanted to program before now, and is primarily doing it because he’s seeing ageism in executive roles, I would recommend against this path (pretty strongly).

If he’s always been interested in it, dabbled in and enjoyed perfecting Excel workbooks and now wants to make the jump, that’s a different story.

In the former case, keep being an executive, especially if he’s got a track record of leading companies that are generally well-regarded. Even with ageism, I think he’ll find that easier and likely more rewarding.
Who is Nick Land important to?
No, Apple has a tiny lobbying operation and does not do corporate PAC contributions at all.

The real explanation is that Apple makes computers so they can legally control software however they want. When Microsoft got in trouble in the 1990s, they did not make computers, they were only a supplier. So they got in trouble for interfering with other suppliers. This is one reason Microsoft now makes and sells computers directly to consumers.
He's asking the same question I'm asking: "Why"? The scientist who conducted the study is saying his findings raises more questions, as any good study is likely to do. - I'm not sure why so many people want to read between the lines versus picking up the line of inquiry and doing further studies. There are any number of reasons why we could see heart issues from covid. Simply saying 'well, it must be direct damage to the heart, case closed' is completely reductive.
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Working for a crypto startup can be a negative on your resume/CV as well.
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There are flavors of consulting that are not programming.

Business consulting, mentorship, project analysis - basically providing an outside perspective - are all valuable skills that businesses or people will pay for.

Others have offered good advice in the form of becoming a PM.

An alternative pitch: Your Dad starts HisLastName Consulting LLC, goes around to local businesses, and asks if they would like a strategic analysis or expert financial analysis done for $$$. A few take him up on the offer, he does a deep dive on their business and financials for a month or two, and delivers a presentation with recommendations. Done, onto the next client or a vacation.
I'm not sure I understand the objection. I agree that standardizing to a normal distribution might be arbitrary, but how could one argue what the true transform of the distribution is? After all, a log-normally distributed variable is just exp() of a normally distributed one. Would anything be different if instead of IQ, we called it log-IQ?
She's still alive. Not every artist can be Banksy while still alive.
> You are viewing remote work through the particular circumstance of the pandemic.

Those particular circumstances of the pandemic haven't been with us for almost a year, now, ever since mass vaccination started. I hated WFH in 2020, and I hated WFH in 2021, and I still hate WFH today. Despite having no pandemic restrictions on what I can do today.

And even prior to vaccination, if you wanted to go out and do stuff, most establishments/businesses/travel options/etc were open since late 2020.
This is rather clever satire.
So in summary, it is a bad test for a rare case? Am I missing anything?
There's already a plethora of shells that fit that domain:

+ Nu Shell
+ NGS
+ Powershell
+ Oil Shell
+ Elvish
+ Murex (which is one I'd written)

Not to mention all the LISP, Python, and other such high level language REPLs come shells.

But they solve a different problem. This seems to be more like what Typescript is to Javascript: a alternative "safer" language where your end point is limited to supporting a different language. So you need to compile down to a known portable base language.
I recently became much less enamored with my $99 Brother. There are certain paper types that it has issues pulling from the paper tray, but it can use it from the manual feed. However, the manual feed will not pull it straight and everything comes out at an angle.
> If your business model is ads

But... The point is exactly that the business model is either ads or you pay directly. Your response is that because there's the ad option ( which let's face it, the vast majority of people prefer), you wouldn't pay to remove ads? That doesn't really make any sense.

You can't rail against ad-based business models and not accept the only possible alternative.
Only insofar as ensuring that the software doesn't crash in production, or otherwise cause an event that would cause on-call to be paged. If the customer has a bug, and an issue is opened in the bug tracker, what does the developer care? Forty hours a week is forty hours a week. The developer isn't responsible for delivering business features on-time, and middle management can't be held responsible for delays that are "inevitable" and "outside their control".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhl4YS3TQkA&t=1s
If you are running an AM4 system, it might be the fTPM issue
https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-11-10-stuttering-issu...
As you observed before, real mode is also privileged. Both before and immediately after enabling protected mode, the code segment you are running from is already "ring 0" (even if it wasn't loaded from a GDT descriptor), and so it is allowed to transfer control to the "proper" kernel code segment.
This sounds like a good idea to me. My shallow understating of the Node ecosystem makes me think of tree-shaking. Is that something else? I was under the impression that it allowed not shipping pieces of the dependencies which are unused, which should help with limiting the surface area to vet.

From my superficial understanding of how this works, couldn't the "build" phase take note which parts of dependencies are loaded, and then compare those with where the known vulnerabilities are? I realize some issues may be bigger or harder to narrow down, but it still looks like it would be a step in the right direction.
Any preferences for plugins and apps these days? I used to use RSVP tech a decade ago in the Windows phone days, but have not seen great modern clients.
He did ideologically fudge his data, though, to the point that he could, incorrectly, make the claim that he already believed, but that wasn't actually there in the data.

Gould's point was about inadvertant bias in science and he was correct in this case.
The irony is the bribes are, of course, a requirement to operate in the US as a large corporation, but here they’re laundered as “lobbying” and “campaign donations.”
In the banks we have the same. As IT guy, the amount of quarterly trainings and their focus is a bit crazy, most topics I will never ever touch since I don't work in ie Legal and I am so far from ever interacting or even seeing any client.

Most of the trainings are about a fine we got due to being caught doing something bad, say 10 years ago, and part of legal settlement is apart from direct fine, a nice 30-60 min training where they tell you that stealing and lying and cheating is bad.

Those trainings keep re-appearing quite consistently so they are really not that effective.
I think that's more of a quirk than anything, they were able to leave the country before getting charged for the act. They were directly related to someone with the US government (CIA) which muddied the water. If it were a normal citizen, they probably wouldn't be afforded the same special treatment.
Does anyone know if there is a tool or platform that makes it easy to make/publish this type of "leave footnotes on an article"? The UX here is nice and simple, and I think there is utility in sharing feedback this way (vs. blockquotes in email, or Google Docs comments, etc).
The fallacy reside in: "can be performed", witch do not state how they can, because so far most push "smart working" in the form of "get this laptop, this smartphone with a 4/5G plan and you are ready to work". That's obviously tend to fail and works just for people who have corrected the aim perhaps with a docking station, external monitor and external keyboard, having a spare room silent enough etc at personal level at company level it's even worse: most have no idea about remote work. The modern classic solution is having a big enough hw resources to keep a VDI infra asking workers to be on remote desktop all time, and again that's not a good idea even if seems to be the easiest.

Seriously facing such aspects and finally admit that "real" WFH means set up a home office, with relevant furniture, equipment, connections etc and organize the work to be done from remote pushing people on some proprietary platform in the hope to get a quick&done third party solution will not really push up WFH to something structural and good for all parties involved.
Well, if we assume there is a 0% chance of false negatives (which seems implicit in the post, even though the definition of "test accuracy" doesn't make that assumption), then we don't need to consider it.

If we are not making that assumption, then the 50% chance claim at the end is incorrect, since there's a chance that both of the two positive results are false positives and there is a false negative somewhere else in the remaining 99 (out of 101) people.

The 50% chance of it being a false positive (conditional on two positive results being observed) is actually a lower bound, and will increase as a function of the false negative rate.
My guess is YouTube is well aware of the fact that new ones are going to pop up. I'm guessing they did the math and realized that YouTube Vanced became big enough that it was worth shutting down and removing it from the limelight while minimizing the Streisand Effect.

> Maybe the strategy should be, introduce better features instead of taking them away and think about monetizing differently?

As a Vanced user, I do agree that the app is objectively superior than the YouTube app. Customizable toolbars, better dark mode, disabling thumbnails auto-playing, more video control options etc. But 99.99% of people used Vanced to get rid of ads without paying, and that isn't something YouTube can compete against. No amount of "good features" would've caused people to abandon Vanced and switch to vanilla YouTube (well, unless they reduced or removed ads, which would be detrimental to their business and creators).

Every Vanced user should've known that this was a fight club situation, where if Vanced got big enough it would have to die.
> "Standard academic economics analysis is indifferent wether [sic] the producer or consumer gets the profits..."

that's an objective-sounding position to take, but it's certainly not, even from a purely detached, academic perspective. in most situations, consumer surplus is better for a market and for the overall economy, because it provides more choice points for more efficient allocation. in the unfortunately rare case of a relatively fair and competitive market, producer surplus can be a net good, making the overall market and economy more efficient, but in practice, companies have shown time and again to be pretty poor allocators of capital because they necessarily take fewer bets with larger amassed asset pools. however, economists generally (implicitly) assume a priori that markets are relatively fair and competitive in their analyses (akin to assuming frictionless infinite planes).

all that's to say, size does matter, negatively beyond some optimal point on the economies of scale/scope curves. as such, markets are at their best when populated primarily by small- to medium-sized companies, with no artificial barriers to new entrants (e.g., not the airline industry).

no matter the 'prestigiousness' of the journal, seemingly small (implicit) assumptions like this that can have huge implications on results necessitates skepticism toward academic economics.
Are your product managers/owners involved in testing new features? They can play an important role here.

Are you a SaaS practicing continuous delivery? Can customers report bugs rapidly? Can you fix them rapidly? If you can reduce the turn around time of fixing a bug to less than 1 hour, you can use your customers to QA.

If so, you should not have a QA department. They only slow things down.

Of course, this depends on the type of business you are in.
Sure you could use remote work to do things, but in practice most people don't. Forcing everyone back into the office without a good reason isn't a good solution, but I think that the option to work in person is an ideal situation to those who like to socialize with others. Personally, I have that flexibility and have started to take advantage of it by working while traveling. But I've observed of my WFH coworkers don't seem to, which goes back to the original point- the alienation is not a function of not going into the office. It's a separate issue that giving that option to people can mitigate.
This is off topic but as someone who grew up in a household that made their living selling things in markets, where prices were openly negotiated, I just want to share a thought:

While you're absolutely allowed to express that a product may not be worth a price, it seems tactless to make such a comment on a thread where the founders are announcing their product. I understand you're replying to someone who feels the product could command a higher price, but to say you're double guessing the price just seems like something you should keep to yourself.

I can only imagine the amount of work this team puts into crafting these translations - similar to how family put a lot of work into the goods they sold.
> I don't follow anything on Twitch much so I googled why this person got banned

The simple answer is: there is no answer. Neither Twitch, nor DrDisrespect did communicate openly why the banned happened, and what happened in the background since then. There are many rumors and claims, most of them came out right after the ban happened and are kinda disproven now, as they came with some heavy prophecies.

It's a big mystery overall, nobody has really come out with an answer, from any side or level. Maybe in some decades we get some answer
The stat that suggests 20% of adults own crypto was a stunning inclusion, considering there was nothing on the methodology used in the survey, other than the sample size ("2,200 people").

If it was online, how we even know it was that many people?
I have never heard of utility to be used as an objective measure. It is subjective, symbolizing an individual’s (perceived) value of a transaction relative to other possible transactions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility

> a utility function that represents a single consumer's preference ordering over a choice set but is not comparable across consumers. This concept of utility is personal and based on choice
The website isn't well maintained anymore since we've kinda passed the days that people used multi-service clients. Here are some screenshots:

https://www.adium.im/screenshots/images/overview.jpg

The area inside the chat window is HTML rendered via WebKit and you can change the theme easily. The Contacts list is also HTML in the middle so that's all theme-able too.

https://images.six.betanews.com/screenshots/1110403338-1.jpg

Here's a Contacts list that's more compact and a chat window without the top toolbar.

https://adium.im/screenshots/images/overvieworange.jpg

Here's a more radical theming where they've gotten rid of the window around the contact list so it's floating.

If you go through the Adium Xtras, you can see all sorts of chat (https://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=search&cat_id=5&sort=...), contact list (https://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=cats&cat_id=4&sort=do...), and other ways of styling Adium.
This is an excellent setup. You're drinking your own champaign!
Kodak spun off Eastman Chemical Company in 1994. It continues to operate a successful chemicals business. It's now bigger (employees, revenue) than its former parent.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/EMN/

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/KODK/
If you spend more than two minutes looking into it you might find a link to cancer. I don't know. That is just the most concerning research I found in the short time I allotted to the task.
That's especially fair, as there's a good-faith way of engaging with such things that they've avoided: "Could you expand on this please?"
The interesting thing is that folks on HN who want to work from the office just say “I can see why you’re remote. Just not for me. I prefer to work in a team that’s all in-office” but folks on HN who want to work remote always go “It’s because you’re lonely that you can’t work remote. I have a loving wife and children. You are miserable and using coworkers as a substitute for social company.”

Like, dude, we get it. This is important to you. So go work where you find that. A bit tiresome to constantly come into these threads and listen to this endless repetitious nonsense.

Christ on a stick. Do you never tire of it?
The prevalence of adaptive immunity to Covid-19 and reinfection after recovery
This is absolutely adorable!
Bribing in Africa is so common it could be considered a business practice
For communism to actually work well, I think you first have to fix human nature. And if you could fix human nature, maybe capitalism would work out better too.
but excessive empathy is crippling for future progress. this is literally the root issue in the US system - way too much consideration for special interests. look at housing as an example.
Onshape also has a free tier [0] and is popular amongst hobbyists and education.

[0] https://www.onshape.com/en/products/free
I got the additional impression that there are bounds to how freely the reader can interpret the narrative. Thus freed from endless mental contortion to make the argument work, the reader can assume that they are not too ignorant to understand the wit of the author but actually able to judge them as lacking. - The author has not made themself beyond reproach by presenting an irrefutable argument.
Revanced is not distributing it. Aissen said this is piracy, not Vanced.