skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The world needs this in a way where they can install a browser like any other, and just start using it. No wallets, no angle. Just let it be a free tool of communication, collaboration and knowledge sharing.

If you don't care about identity, payments, etc then is there a reason you couldn't do that with this browser? But also, as much as I don't like the near-monopoly situation, we do have a pretty usable mature set of options for that already in Chrome and Firefox.
I think that depends a lot on what your definition of "close" is. If you have notes and lengths, you can generate a fairly big space just from that. I'm no music expert but you could ask whether transposing the notes up and down the scale counts as a new "thing", along with any number of other ways of generating a new tune from an existing one.
My regular workweek is 35h (unionizing helps) and if it would be possible to have working IT processes and reduce some managment overhead, i could be productive the level in 30h (and actually i am).

Shorter workweeks makes people focus.
A Hired Imposter's Secrets #3 = (Handling Developer Burnout)
Yup

It is a horrible and unusable business model/architecture.

1) Requiring subscription to access when it is not technically required is onerous and very questionable value, especially for tools that I'll use intermittently.

2) Requiring online access instead of local & native apps makes the false assumption that I'm always connected. Often my most productive times are on 6-hour flights (& no, the onboard wifi is not reliable) or away at locations where there is no connectivity.

3) Performance will always suck compared to a fully local app - all the optimizations a developer could do to make it run acceptably could also be applied to a local app to make it really snappy

4) Any SAAS carries significant extra risk that does not exist local native app - that the software /service could disappear any time due to a host of business reasons. Sure, native app companies can also go out of biz or discontinue products, but I still have the software and can upgrade on MY schedule.

5) MOST CRITICALLY, entire classes of very attractive customers are LEGALLY locked out of using your apps. In my industry, there is an entire new class of information called CUI — Confidential Unclassified Information — anything related to DOD projects that isn't quite classified, but there are very strong restrictions on what can be exposed in what way. My wife's industry is legal, and they have almost nothing that could be put on a SAAS, even billing information. And of course same with medical.

Of course there are some apps where the online SAAS is close to essential, like real-time collaboration / conferencing.

However anything else, and it looks strongly like the business model is extractive and rent-seeking, instead of providing value. (and this also applies even to IOT devices - I should be able to access those via the IP, not only through your service...)
>A nice new car in 1993 was maybe $10k

That's $20K in today's money, so depends on how you define "nice". A nice late model used Honda Civic.

$20K then is $40K now, so that's a bit of an underestimate for home prices, I think. [As it happens, my home was built about then, and the value has stayed in line with inflation figures]

P.S. that Honda Civic had one airbag, crank windows, didn't necessarily have a passenger side mirror, a tachometer, or a wiper on the rear hatch. And A/C was a dealer installed option. Don't ask about side impact protection.
You’re describing production motivated by need.
Carter ended the Iranian hostage crisis. https://www.vox.com/2016/1/25/10826056/reagan-iran-hostage-n...
Actual work like coding and drawing has become much easier with WfH. People work, like managing and coordinating, has become much harder now that you can’t just walk up to people and have conversations with them anymore.

If anything, middle managers are more important than that were before. I’m sure upper management will just see them as a cost-cutting measure though and write specious articles like this to justify their idiocy.
Printing Circuits on Nanomagnets Yields a New Breed of AI
Tell HN: "Racing Car" emoji on iOS/iPadOS/macOS has a Swift logo
see yourselves: https://emojipedia.org/racing-car/
> Incidentally, that's the same in India.

In India anyone earning Rs. 75K a month, (around 1K USD) can easily afford house help for cleaning dishes, and sweeping floor and cooking food. My personal expenses on these 3 things are Rs. 7500 per month (around $100).
perhaps they don't want the datasets that they use to train the AI to be watered down by other AI generated content. after all alot of the text data was sourced from the internet.
If, aside from tiredness, you are physically able to work out, then you must do that first. It sounds like you’re off to a good start, plus the shower to “mark the boundary” is a good idea. Yes, all suggestions are YMMV, but personally I’ve found it’s just something you have to confront and accept as you get older (I’m 39): you’re going to either hurt from working out or hurt from not working out, so might as well do the former. And specifically for the reason you’re getting at: general energy levels. While you’re still going to feel sore and tired from working out, your mind will be a little sharper and net-net you’ll have more physical energy & executive function as well.

Diet is probably also a big factor but I’ll let others (likely) expand on the other two standard prongs of this genre of advice (diet & sleep).
Twitter was granted a patent on "pull down to refresh". Patent law is a different areas of intellectual property law from copyright.

The songwriting case is a copyright case. The analogy for Twitter would be copying source code, but not with full fidelity. If it's not "obviously wrong" that's because it's not verbatim; it's up to the court to decide whether there is enough similarity between the two for infringement to have occurred.
I’ve said this many times before but keep in mind that people were strongly opposed to the 40hr workweek and it ultimately led to higher productivity. Less illness and injury, primarily.

Source: The Rise and Fall of American Growth.
You pretty much have to buy an apartment in Berlin, that's been the case for the past 10 years or so. Landlords took them off the market and put them up for sale.

You might still be able to find something decent for around 100k euro, I'm not sure.
The article doesn’t even mention “middle manager”?

It also does not make any sense. Increased WFH requires more effort to connect people, communicate context, mentor people, bridge silos, … all part of the job description of a middle manager
bruh you spent all of your first post writing a rant attacking one of your grad students don't act all high and mighty now
Of course you can do many stuff, except access control and server side validation. Spreadsheets rather shine with quick planning / analytics.
> Yup as a manager you don’t do much

Not doing your job well if this is the case. Quality managers do everything `codezero` mentioned above (hiring, onboarding, long term planning, and mentorship) along with being a corporate therapist and much more.

A lazy manager looks like the ER where they only handle shit when people come to them with blood and guts, a quality manager is regularly assessing the daily/weekly situation and anticipating obstacles or implementing fixes so engineering can run an unimpeded race. They're essentially the emotional chaos buffer for engineering, the goal being engineers come to work and feel the autonomy, freedom, and energy to execute well.
Kids.

That's it, really, and I love it. Nothing makes me snap out of it like being assigned a role from Paw Patrol by my two year old, and going off on some rescue mission. It's pure bliss.
We can get a sense of how an IC’s productivity changed during lock down. But it’s harder to tell how the effectiveness of management or leadership might have changed over a one or two year period.
This is an article from several years ago. It's not an interview with Frank Oz. He's barely quoted in the piece and used as title clickbait. The piece is mostly parental anecdotes and whinging.

Oz's longer rant [1] was about Disney, who don't want Oz touching their Muppets. His Sesame street quote was a minor aside.

And neither this op ed nor Oz's SXSW comments talk about why the Muppets, and especially Sesame Street, are the way they are. CTW turned Sesame Street into a well-honed marketing/child psychology machine. Everything they did, well before Disney's involvement, involved so much testing and measuring and manipulation that . . . Ok, so for context in software terms, who here remembers the news about Google choosing a shade of blue? [2] It's like that but for how to introduce tough subjects to kids. And market the show and associated products to them. Unlike when the show started in the 60s, toddlers are now a market!

Well before the early 2000s when Disney took over, Sesame Street turned into the data-driven committee-ruled kind of place that might make "jazz" but only suitable for elevators. Or toddlers who didn't know better. Committees don't make art. They do make Disney assets, though, so that was a good match.

[1] https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/sxsw/2019-03-13/sxsw-p...

[2] https://bharathbalasubramanian.medium.com/data-driven-decisi...
> Why is this fundamentally wrong?

It's the unchecked nature of the power.

Politicians have upcoming elections to worry about. Tenured professors ... what do they worry about?
Undisclosed imply that it's secret/hidden. By definition, OSS software has no undisclosed functionality.

You're looking for better documentation/a community contract.
> the '79 energy crisis

Which was a continuation of the energy crisis (and rise in oil prices) that began with the '73 Arab oil embargo.
Thanks for the response. It's interesting, my focus was always the 1973 oil crisis; which is repeating in history again right now. I mostly dismissed 1979 as just a post-crisis fluctuation. #nixonsfault for price fixing. You're not allowed to price fix. You know what they're doing with insulin right now?

In Canada we get taught more about the 1979 canadian embassy helped save the US diplomats.

It's interesting I found this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Iranian_Revolution_conspi...

If political wiki is calling it a conspiracy theory... it's probably true.

That's a great bunny story. Goes to show a political bias in the media even back then.

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

Check out this. He publicly admitted to seeing a UFO. You might think he was a crackpot or something but suddenly the navy started revealing UFO videos.

https://www.space.com/ufos-videos-declassified-navy-release....

There's some high ranking elected us politicians who upon this coming out they said there's so much more still classified. Yet nobody is talking about this.
We will likely find out. And it may happen in a way that is fast enough to be very disorienting.
Shower. I work from home, so the ten or fifteen minutes of shower time lets me relax my focus enough to settle into family time. Sometimes I bring a cocktail in there with me.
???

Paw Patrol isn't about individualism. It's about a team. Same for Thomas. ("Order and doing as you're told is important to running a successful train line.")

When Marshall declares "these paws uphold the laws", that's a declaration that he is subordinate to the "common good."

This article, in your terms, is written to tell readers that the "neo-Marxists" are too out-there.

The two quotes you gave are NOT meant to be followed.

The context of your first quote is: 'It's tempting as a parent ... to be disturbed by the notion of our children tuning in for a regular dose of primary-colored authoritarianism" followed by "But, rage as we might, these shows are a source of comfort for our young children, whose id-driven brains seek out the order, stability and even punishment in their entertainment." Followed by quote from 'Tovah Klein, director of the Barnard College Center for Toddler Development' about how children need that.

This is call out that such "tempting" parental views are contrary to what children need.

The second context is "Among these cartoons' many critics exists a subgroup of parents who are OK with some degree of autocracy and Manichean dualistic politics but just wish they would be presented with more nuance." followed this time by quoting "Yalda T. Uhls, a research scientist who studies children and media" showing that these views are not so easy to apply.

I don't see how you can argue that complaints against the authoritarian portrayals in two children's shows can be seen as being opposed to individualism.
This is a ridiculous piece of native advertising.
Looks like the copy got mangled in a few edits. The music is commercial free, but they show you ads.
About ten years ago I was attending San Jose State University and really needed to find a 1 bedroom apartment at a decent price (lol) in the downtown SJ area since I would no longer be living in the dorms.

I tried a few different ways of finding an apartment, but in the end it was one case where the old phrase "it's not what you know, it's who you know" worked in my favor.

During my freshman year I had found and been working a job on campus in one of the department offices (side note: if you're a student, you're best off trying to find a student assistant opening in a department office; at least at SJSU, most paid above minimum wage, were pretty lax and could be used for some study time, and you have so many opportunities to make connections with professionals).

One of my coworkers there had a family and they were living in one of these small ~8 unit apartment buildings downtown. It was a privately-owned building, not one of these newer, fancy conglomerate ones.

She connected me with the management/owner and long story short, I got a decently livable place with rent control for about 1/3 of market rate due to being a lower income student and taking a unit that wasn't recently refurbished (old carpet, old paint, etc.).
Is this another Chromium fork?
> of course, but the hungrier you get the less you have to loose so you act with far more fierce effort accepting more and more extreme consequences.

Definitely true. I just hope people aren't so tolerant of hardship that they miss their window of opportunity.

With respect to food shortages in the rest of the world, I'm not too concerned. Many items are missing from grocery stores in my corner of the world, but basic sustenance doesn't seem threatened. Maybe I can't find chicken one week, or cheese the next, but there is still plenty of beans and bread around to keep stomachs full and I don't anticipate that changing. In Shanghai, the food shortages seem to be to be the direct consequence of the government locking down the city and disrupting supply chains. It's not a food production problem, it's a lockdown/logistics problem. If the rest of the world doesn't follow suite with this sort of zero-covid insanity, then I think we'll be fine.
No, the lawyer's job in a class action is to hold the someone accountable to prevent recurrences. They did a job, so they ought to be paid.

If some company habitually breaks the law and causes damages to a large group of people you can either pray that the Attorney General takes the case (but they won't, they want to advance their political career) or a law firm will take the case out of pure financial interest. I'll go with the law firm.
I think you and GP are both right. The original idea and design of the internet is decentralized, but we're at a point where it's pretty hard to do that. Email being the best example. I'm quite the self-hoster and I've self-hosted email before, but even I pay for it now because unless you own your IP address and have invested years into building reputation, deliverability is abysmal. And one accidental click of "this is spam" by a recipient and your reputation is shot to hell.

So philosophical you're right, it's decentralized. But practically, it's more complicated.
Lacuna low-cost and reliable global connections to sensors and mobile equipment
The pandemic allowed remote work to flourish. Why are people still crowding the cities? And of all the places, specially Berlin. Not even that great of a city.
A lot of my friends fled the city.
Xerxes shouldn't have burned Athens. His father, Darius, in fact had advised him to follow the protocol set by himself and Cyrus.

Dr. Mossadeqh was not running a "democracy". Post WWII Iran's political space was far more complex than the caricature presented since the fall of the Shah, and sans British instigated support for counter-coup to remove Mossadegh with help from USA, a quite significant chunk of Iranian military and society, including the Clergy (who were already using terror in Iran, btw), agreed with the American analysis that Mossadegh would merely precede a Soviet controlled Tudeh takeover of Iran.
Can someone explain the similarities between Shape of You, No Diggity, Feeling Good, and No Scrubs?

I am apparently literally tone deaf in some sense lol
Trying to understand the late 80s and 90s Unix legal battles is a spiraling rapid-hole of confusion.

I have been trying to figure out who got what code from where and was mixed with what code from when and who owned to whom and so on. But I always find more confusion.

Recently I learned about this strange deal between Sun and Novell. Apparently Sun was able to Open Solaris later because of that deal with A&T.

I was looking for a book called the Unix wars that explains all this stuff but its all bits and pieces.
Isn't this hard to make ergonomic in languages without higher-kinded types, because you need to specialize implementations of functions that otherwise could be generic over colors? like the filter() example in the original What Color is your Function post.
>Anyway, "other adults" lie all the time

Yes, and if this is their standard modus operandi the healthy thing to do, if possible, is getting rid of them from your life.

Are you gonna be happy when your kids start playing the game with you? When they are the ones unilaterally deciding what matters and what doesn't?

If the answer is "no" then you aren't respecting them as individuals capable of learning, thought and action. And I got the feeling you won't be happy when they do it with you.

When you constantly play games like that you are also establishing that you can never be trusted, even if they think it matters.
Yes, there's that as well. Things aren't just child-proof, they're full on human-proof. What a smart way to not increase consumption.
What the chart reveals is that there's no general dislike for immigration and more specifically immigrants themselves as your previous comments might suggest.
Even more simply, all engineers are not great engineers, and somebody is employing the ones that aren’t great.
This reminds me of something my son Tom said. ;-P

I, an American, only drop the name if it's going to be useful later, e.g. you're going to meet my girlfriend or son soon, or I'm about to launch into a tale in which it would be inconvenient to refer to people only by title. Or if we're on a level of friendship that socially dictates you can or should be made aware of my family members' names.

I can say (for me) it gets "weird" if you just keep referring to "my wife" for too long in a friendship. Sooner or later you'd have to give a name, or it sounds like you're trying to keep things impersonal--mixed signals. "The guy seems like he's my pal, but he keeps referring to his wife as 'my wife' and won't give a name." It feels like I'm not even worthy of knowing the names of people in your family. And maybe I'm not--maybe I'm just your coworker and that's where things end. But if we're hanging out, going on hikes and stuff, it'd be time to put a name to that title.

So though I don't do this (that I'm aware of?), I can imagine Americans putting the name out there early to encourage closeness, that you might think, "Oh, this person really wants to be friends since they already told me their son's name."

I know Americans have the related reputation of being hyper talkative and friendly with people they've never met and are unlikely to meet again. And that's just part of the culture, especially in smaller towns. We consider it to be welcoming, while foreigners might consider it intrusive and rude. I always tone it way down when I'm talking to non-Americans. But if I'm buying groceries, at the very minimum, the clerk and I are going to have a conversation about how our days are going, and probably what our later plans are.

And it would be a little weird to drop a family member's name at that point. But it would actually be acceptable to do so.
If you went into research you did so because you want to solve new problems. With no disrespect to software engineering, most (production) software engineering involves solving old problems over and over again on a daily basis, with genuinely new problems tossed in only from time to time. This is even more the case when you’re maintaining a codebase that’s widely used.

There is nothing wrong with solving old problems: that describes most useful human work. It’s just that finding and solving new problems is a very specialized kind of work, and it’s very hard to do that specialist work if you aren’t spending most of your time on it. You need to keep up with the literature and fight to stay at the forefront of your field and you can’t do that as a 20% time position.

A good analogy here is like the interplay between a general contractor and a licensed electrician. The contractor could do their own wiring in between framing and drywall (and take the necessary tests and certifications to learn the code), but it usually makes more sense to have specialized contractors come in for that work. Unfortunately the problem described by this article is that the software developers (contractors) aren’t using the output of the researchers. Insofar as this is true it should be addressed. However the answer probably is not to have the specialized researchers do more general software development, which will just make everyone less efficient.
Require multi-family complex's to have an indoor party room available for booking?
I didn't go to grad school, but because changing advisors is generally a reset, there's no good outcome for the student in this situation.

Status quo: take job forced by advisor; student doesn't get dream job

Drop out and take dream job: student doesn't get degree they were pursuing

Advisor is fired over this: student must find an advisor that will resume advising on current thesis or more likely find a new advisor and start on a new thesis... But if it becomes known that this student was related to the firing, student may have a hard time finding a new advisor.

Advisor is disciplined over this: advisor may retaliate by no longer cooperating with student's progress, and then you're back to finding a new advisor.

Institution backs advisor and disciplines student for 'causing trouble': maybe find a new institution.

So... If there's no good outcomes for the student, it's tricky.
I use an adblocker, and lots of filtering lists, but most of the `navigator.sendBeacon` requests I was seeing weren't being blocked. Sometimes they were when the URL matched a pattern, but often they weren't. Which makes sense since they aren't ads and by design have nearly zero effect on the user experience.

I still wanted to block them though... so I started killing all `navigator.sendBeacon` requests by replacing it with a no-op function on page load. [0]

I have the no-op function log the results to console and it's fascinating seeing all the sites attempting to use it.Some pages on Amazon will fire a sendBeacon request every second or so.

[0] With this uBlock Origin user script: https://gist.github.com/varenc/7c0c17eea480a03d7c8844d81e608...
Some UA IT companies displayed it on their offices in the rear. Why it's not for an army... Here in UA near the batle's region I am very sad.

https://dou.ua/lenta/articles/starlink-ukrainian-it-companie...
“I’m disturbed by mixed monkey-human embryos, maybe I don’t know enough”