skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole thing is strange to me. It's targeted at software engineers, and the dominant theme is that you should be wary of toxic positivity and a number of specific indicators that you should be able to see from your desk as an engineer. The discussion in here is also focused on that.

But if you are an early employee with equity, you are not just an engineer. You are, figuratively, a shareholder. One of the reasons they give you stock options as opposed to actual shares is that shareholders have a ton of rights against companies, and can e.g. sue for investor fraud, vote the board out, get quarterly reports with financial & performance statements therein backed by federal law and the threat of investor fraud lawsuits. You, on the other hand, are given the financial exposure to the company's performance without any of the attached rights. And they will happily lie to you in order to keep you happy & get you to project enough positivity to hide flaws & keep outside investment flowing until it all collapses.

So as an employee, you should be trying to claw back some of what being a shareholder would get you, given you are so heavily exposed. I've worked at companies where there is a monthly meeting, nearly everyone present, where the entire company's business position, prospects and challenges are discussed openly. The employees (largely) didn't even have equity. Any cracks (like an imminent complete collapse in the next three days) would show very early on, but there were none, because the employees were empowered to do something about any challenges.

So, yes, there are warning signs, and your response isn't a binary choice between staying and leaving. I would like people to come away with a better model of this than "if they are hiring exclusively from big tech, that's a red flag, get out of there". You can demand more transparency if you know what transparency looks like. If you are content to sit at your desk and happily churn out React components, satisfied with management sending enough emojis at you via slack, then you can't protect yourself at all.
Possibly, but that might also be a windows/device thing because Dolby Atmos tracks I listen to on my Apple Music/iPhone sound _Amazing_
$200 a year gives you ACM membership with free access to the DL library (amongst other things including a monthly hardcopy of communications of the ACM). Great value IMHO.
Wow, thanks for responding about this!

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`font-display:swap` is great

Font-display on CSS-Tricks:
https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/f/font-display/

MDN:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face/...

Can I Use:
https://caniuse.com/css-font-rendering-controls

Last iOS for my iPad 4:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history#11.1

^^^^ October 31, 2017

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I don't expect things to work well in these circumstances.

Completely out of scope.

I do wonder, though, what the wide world out there -- the non-computer-programmers --
might take away from all this.

A web browser is the USB-C of software.

It plugs into everything, and most people have no mental model of why things fail the way they do.

Thanks very much for gwern.net, an inspiration for non-blogging me.
Suggestion: in the list of stats, after absolute numbers include a percentage, eg "Contains JavaScript: 567 (82%)".

And, agree, very interesting and fun! Thanks for compiling and presenting it!

edit: here they are!

Contains JavaScript: 567 (81%)
Github Pages: 146 (21%)
Cloudflare: 141 (20%)
Nginx: 114 (16%)
Netlify: 83 (11%)
Apache: 70 (10%)
Vercel: 50 (7%)
Bootstrap: 45 (6.5%)
Gatsby: 30 (4.3%)
Nextjs: 28 (4%)
Amazon S3: 27 (3.9%)
Wordpress: 22 (3.2%)
Cloudfront: 17 (2.5%)
Express: 16 (2.3%)
PHP: 14 (2%)
Caddy: 9 (1.3%)
Litespeed: 8 (1.5%)
Open Resty: 8 (1.5%)
Google App Engine: 3 (0.43%)
FlyIO: 3 (0.43%)
MicorosftIIS: 3 (0.43%)
Drupal: 2 (0.29%)
Tailwind: 2 (0.29%)
Lighttpd: 2 (0.29%)
Godlighty: 1 (0.14%)
Perl: 1 (0.14%)
Neocities: 1 (0.14%)
Asp.NET: 1 (0.14%)
Gatsby Cloud: 1 (0.14%)
Openbsd Httpd: 1 (0.14%)
It’s OSS you are no one’s guinea pig. If you don’t want to participate you don’t have to use it if the ones who participate want to try other things switch and don’t complain like a old male whore on the sidelines.
If you view Rust as a high-level language, then yes, there's probably a slight overload of sigils, operators and characters. However, Rust was not outright designed to replace languages like Python, Java or JavaScript but systems level languages like C++. Given that is has no runtime and a fair few compile time guarantees, as a programmer you need to tell the compiler explicitly what something is and how it is owned. If you come from a language with a runtime and start using Rust as if it is another high-level language you will hit the borrow checker wall at some point.

You could also write the function above as `fn avg_len(vecs: Vec<Vec2>) -> f64 {`, and I personally would write the TS one as `const avgLen = (vecs: Array<Vec2>): number`. However, there's a difference between the ownership of a `Vec` and `&[]`, something a language like TS doesn't need to worry about but Rust does.
I love that pricing plan.
It was called AdNauseam, I think
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We are a small experienced team and super product focused. Parts of us have built and sold a similar business before. Our vision is to build a very flexible Product (API-First, headless, Cloud Native) that works for big grocery retailers as well as for slower moving retailers (ie. electronics, etc.).

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You can contact me (Founder) directly if you are interested: magnus@retailmediatools.com
Get a better job, you’re underpaid if you have the skill set to work in tech. Don’t take it out on everyone else because you’re selling your skills at below market value.

> Maybe if those guys gave away 50% of their salaries to support good causes, I’d feel better about it

Do you give away 50% of your salary? How would you feel about someone who only clears $30k claiming you don’t need that money and that you should give away 50%?

Introspect why you have tall poppy syndrome, it’s toxic and will hold you back.
This. Now if only people start investing in UI\UX on linux desktop.
Lots of people in this thread complaining about user hostility and bad UX. I wholeheartedly agree. Twitter does not have your best interests at heart, and this ever-worsening dark pattern shows that very clearly.

Why, then, do you subject yourself to it? I simply can't understand why someone would go through the trouble of using nitter, constantly clearing cookies, or using browser extensions _just to use a service that is hostile to them_. Especially because you and I both know that these workarounds aren't going to work forever, and soon enough you'll be scrambling for another hole in the wall.

Cut the cord. You don't need twitter. You don't need reddit, which has been employing similar patterns recently. The internet exists beyond these walled gardens. Take some time to reflect on your relationship to this technology and the people/ideas whose presence in your life/mind is dependent on it.
It did not cease to exist just because a few apparatchiks were shuffled.

Bortnikov has started his career in KGB, continued through FSK and is now the head og FSB. Perfect continuity.

Patrushev, the previous head of FSB before getting appointed to the Security Council also started as a KGB officer, continued in FSK until it was reformed into FSB.

Thousands upon thousands of lower ranks also continued working in the same organization, same offices, park on the same lots and refer to themselves as Chekists. To this day.
Zas Editor developer here. I think it’s important to address a problem a few people have mentioned so far: no data is collected other than your Mac’s serial number, which used to be used for finding how many computers a license is used on (we no longer do that)

We’re going to add a privacy policy in the website. We haven’t already done that because we didn’t really expect this much attention within hours of releasing. Honestly, we were expecting few downloads and more technical feedback.
Looks promising. Price is very reasonable. Now trying it out. Unless I find a major issue I'm very likely to buy it.

Is there any chance of supporting other languages? I'm asking because I'm one of the (probably few?) people who would be happy if Odin was added to the list of supported languages. (It should be easy to parse, even has library support for parsing and extracting docs).
I think it's the company that shits on the cinema movie viewing experience by spamming before every movie.
Scarcity in my mind is a function of both supply and demand. Both low supply and high demand result in scarcity. In this case, supply and demand are both increasing, but one is way outpacing the other due to zoning laws. Even with perfect market efficiency, you still cannot make up for lack of supply caused by greedy home owners who don't allow any new constructions.
ESL = English as a second language?
plastic in the lungs is not from any other vector.
This really echoes with me too, I have a semi-big (but not so popular, at least not any more) application [1] that has gone through GTK+ 1.x, ported to 2.x, ported to GTK3, that I feel I "should" port to GTK4 since it's out.

But I just can't be bothered to even try to prioritize that since all I read about v4 is anger, weird new libraries with strange names ("libadwaita" sounds like a Disney character library) and stuff.

It really felt back in the day like the developers bringing out GTK+ 2.x where, like, on the case and really doing good clever work to bring out a solid platform for application development, and for a while (at least to me, but I was very biased even then) it was the mainstream/default/major choice in Linux GUI application development. Sure some people liked Qt but GTK felt like the home turf.

[1] The strangely-named "gentoo" file manager; I don't even think the site is up, sorry.
Well, this sucks festering donkey balls.

And not in a good way.
This looks neat, but I don't really understand how it works. I imagine that the DNS record is pointed towards the VPS, and the VPS just forwards all traffic to the actual server via wireguard?
https://web.archive.org/web/20220408000607/http://deepaqua.m...
>> Setting up longer phone call 1:1s where both attendees are walking.

> Please god no.

when both parties explicitly are not setup to do buerocratic work, it gives room for other important things and can reduce the bs burden dramatically.
Sounds like a great deal while it lasted for the engineers working there. They were over paid by a company that was bending over backwards to please them with money, benefits, and pretty much everything they could want. The stock turned out to be worthless of course, which is a bit of a bummer. But that's why salaries were presumably that high.

So, the money ran out and people got fired. So what? If they were any good, they no doubt found other companies to get a good deal with pretty soon after. I see no problem here. There's a shortage of competent engineers. That's the reason companies like this pay so well.

The only issue I see is dumb investors putting money in a company that clearly had no product market fit, a big spending problem, and nowhere near the ARR you would normally associate with a 100M+ C round. I mean, we're a struggling bootstrapped startup and we are getting close to that revenue this year. The investors we talk about (for a seed round) seem to be a lot more picky than was apparently the case for this company. You'd hope investors would do some due diligence. That clearly did not happen, at all. What the hell were they thinking?

Probably a juicy story there of incompetence, greed, stupidity, and various individuals benefiting when they arguably shouldn't have. I imagine the e.g. CEO of this company funneled away plenty for himself before bailing out in a hurry. If he paid his engineers a quarter million per year, I bet his own salary was probably a bit higher.
Yet Another Editor with no option to use vertical tabs. Bummer!
Reference is to Tom Lehrer, making fun of Von Braun's founding and running the Nazi's missile program, before emigrating to the U.S. and helping run _their_ missile program.

OT: He ends with "[I can launch in] German and English, and am learning Chinese.. " - even 75 years ago it was understood by many that the upcoming superpower is China and not Russia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro
Not quite, both spacex and Tesla generate significant revenue. Not lies about the business.
Six hours a week of exercise is sky-high, but 40-60 hours a week of work isn't, right?

In my opinion a lot of people would be served well by holistically thinking about what they're doing here on this planet.
Sounds like what I need is a VPN or Tor in these cases. To such regimes if FF provides a way to bypass their restrictions FF would end up being classed contraband similarly.
Show HN: My Userstyle for HN
Anyone + thoughts on what predictions it makes that can potentially tell this theory apart from the prevalent ones? Would we need to transcend falsifiability as a requirement to get there? (Ref philosopher Dawid's model)
> I'm not sure how an AI is going to deal with high wind or mountain passes.

More sensors? It shouldn't be too difficult to detect cross-wind or shear forces: I'm not in robotics, but I can think of several different ways to do this (sensing sideways forces applied by trailer to the coupling, or laser emitter/sensor pair or even a camera on the truck with high-contrast markers affixed onto the trailer
I prefer to avoid Mozilla as much as Google. I use DoT (which I think is a better alternative than DoH) against uncensoreddns.org and Quad9.
This enabled itself after an update a few years ago and I thought my headphones had broken.
https://akilesh.net/about.html
The Affinity Suite does the same and they're still around, even though there's massive competition in Adobe CS competitors.
Those numbers don’t line up with the actual failure rates though unless you’re joining relatively mature startups.
In the case of Doctor Who it also didn't help the video tapes from that era were expensive and reusable. Lots of tapes were reused for other productions.

On the other hand, it's simply impossible to preserve everything produced. Who's going to watch all of youtube again from the beginning to search for interesting material?
How did you get started with copilot?
I have been and lived on several continents. In my experience the metrics system is a widely used de facto and de jure standard taught in schools around the world.

Despite all of Esperanto's qualities, I am yet to bump into a fluent speaker in the flesh.

Stating they are similar seems like a troll to me.
The tone of that article makes sure that I stop reading after 2 paragraphs.
Commonwealth Digital Health Awards 2022
Not most. Inside cameras are still controversial, but outside cameras are almost standard. It's mostly for avoiding lawsuits rather than anything else.

Also, all of the AI/ML is terrible (like almost everywhere else).
you mean snap packages? I think the calculator is written in vala was pretty performant when I've used it the past
As for systemd... while I believe that there have been questionable decisions (why was a replacement of ntpd needed?), at least it's gotten easier to introduce dependencies as part of software startups - e.g. it's relatively trivial to add a dependency on an NFS mount for a server program, which was ... a complex mess to put it lightly before.

My biggest gripe with systemd unit files is that there are at least four ways of specifying dependencies (Wants, BindsTo, After, Requires) and the semantics are not easily understandable.
In Cal it's an infrastructure issue - how to get roads and utilities (sewer, water, gas, electric) to relatively remote areas, how that is organized (incorporated/unincorporated areas) before even thinking about building structures
If you want to sort out this problem then you will need to address the concerns about "those people".

There are some very real concerns that people have. Violence. Drugs. Noise. School quality. People want a good environment in which to bring up their kids and these are all crucial. Fortunately they could be solved in other ways than expensive housing. Unfortunately people have a very justified fear that they wont be.
What happens when the promoted person is rotated off the committee?
Has anybody developed an app-nag-blocker yet?

Or even better, why can't we say goodbye to the 'mobile web' and have the option for mobile browsers to always load the real (desktop) site?
Looks like a good start. I need VIM-mode to be able to use it as a daily driver.

The ordering of files and directories is a bit chaotic compared to VSCode. I get a "Go is not installed" popup every time I click a .go file which is weird since it's installed and available for the terminal opened in the editor. I would love more language support as well, Elixir would've been awesome.
https://simon-frey.com

Just a little portfolio site :)
I think people have been trained to feel helpless about what companies do to them, especially when it comes to tech companies. It's very much not just a problem with tech, but tech gives companies new and easy ways to force things on their users long after the sale is completed. Everyone's been conditioned to accept things like sudden and unexpected changes. The websites they visit do it, so does the software on their computers, their consoles, and their cell phones.

There was some grumbling from uppity Windows users when forced updates/upgrades and reboots were pushed onto them, and I thought things might start to change but those things are still around (although the reboot thing was walked back a little) and now people are slowly being made to get used to hosting all their data on 3rd party servers and never being sure if/when it will be suddenly and unexpectedly be removed and inaccessible. Today there are stories of people who had their YT video or their repository removed, or lost access to books/music/games/movies they paid to be able to download/stream/play etc. Car companies are now disabling or pay-walling off features people already had when they purchased the vehicle.
This is actually really helpful! I use figma for a lot of projects and find it a little frustrating that you can't preview fonts (although you can install a plugin for this). Have you considered adding filters by font style/family?
So there was a (I hope flattering) joke behind Simpkins’ back that anyone of his broad-spectrum superiority, as he’s both a world-class hacker and conventionally handsome and consistently articulate that he must be carrying a “lizard”. His nickname was “the Iguana”.

He spent a lot of time optimizing ‘hg’, and one assumes that the Iguana did what could be done.
This is one of those things people just say like a tourette.

Only study that attempted to quantify pundit accuracy (I know about) found out that Krugman was the most accurate public pundit.

source: Hefferman, S., Klondar, E., & Tummarello, K. 2011. Are talking heads blowing hot air? An analysis of the accuracy of forecasts in the political media.
I don't have the evidence at hand but I am very sure from previous reading that our gait is still more energy efficient than other birds/animals.

It is not about years of evolution it is about purpose.

The downside is that our gait is basically a process of controlled falling, this need a really complex proprioceptive and neural control. The advantage is that we can travel _extremely_ long distances with minimal caloric intake when compared with other animals.

So the claim from these researchers is that this system is efficient without the need for complex control systems (like in a human model). In practice a bird locomotor system is easier to control than a human one, it does not make the bird system more efficient because birds have been on earth longer.
FYI typo on your faq page: "hunderds"
Looking at the video I can't imagine this thing achieving balance while walking. It would fall to the side immediately if you removed the guide that held it upright. This is not a walking robot yet, it's a leg design. The movement looks plausible from the side, but not from the front.

It does look promising, but putting "achieves energy-efficient gait" in the title of their publication seems a bit disingenious. Putting out pictures of the thing standing - but not moving - in nature enviroments also doesn't help. Balance is the hard part.

Has anybody been able to find a download link for the actual publication?
My car's traction-control reacts faster than any human; often the dash light is the only indication I have that the car had lost traction for a fraction of a second and corrected for it. I don't see how automated systems would struggle with "sudden" wind changes that take humans half a second or more to react (which is eons for computers at modern clock speeds).
In OpenNebula we're working on trying to ease these use cases by adding an extra layer of abstraction, so you can migrate load as easy as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IopA_deQK4M&t=1s
I believe that's Windows Sonic for Headphones.
Yeah good point, but I wonder if their products have a larger market and the price point is about double what this is going for. I also noticed they have an add-ons store, not sure if they take a cut there too?
There is a story from Weta Digital that by they time LOTR was in production they were using their first SGI box (used for Heavenly Creatures) as a doorstop.
If you don’t want to offer the freedoms of a licence then pick a different one. To choose one with an established meaning and then remove those freedoms undermines the purpose of having standardised licences. The authors are potentially setting users up for unintended infringement.

I see it as similar to organic food. Once you add non-organic ingredients then it’s not organic any more. You can do what you want but it’s fair enough if everyone else asks you to respect the labels they’ve built to let people make informed decisions.
Given that my father was born and raised in Crete, I've visited the island numerous times.

This place is deep, I always have a very weird feeling when I'm there, it's like starring in those movies, where everyone is happy and joyful, however you know that something mysterious is lurking below all of this.

There are places that still are called by their Minoan names.

If you ever get there, don't miss the archaeological museum in Heraklion. Here is a small sample:

https://ibb.co/P5RWZtZ
https://ibb.co/khqvm8F
I don't know about Qt but at least GTK's docs are terribly bad. Even more so when you want to develop using a language that isn't C.
So choose a different one. You don't have to use your ISP's. The danger is in everyone using the same one, which is what you get if the browser vendors are choosing for everyone.

Better yet, give the browsers a way to detect this (e.g. generate a random domain known not to exist and make sure it gives NXDOMAIN) and switch to the other DNS only if the normal one is broken.
Private Classification using Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Really cool project!

Did you consider using ANTLR instead of tree-sitter parser? Don't know too much about tree-sitter but is seems to be a batteries included approach to building parsers?
The fact that it actually shows no signs of slowing down, is the most worrying part. People really just dont care.

There's a lot of "someone will figure it out"