skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were different time allotments per task, yes. In the Raterhub era, each task had an "Average Estimated Time" (AET) set by Google. A typical 5x5 side-by-side search result comparison task would have been 9 minutes, for example. I may be forgetting something but I don't think we ever saw the individual URL rating tasks (which I think I recall were 1.5 mins? maybe it was 2. It's been so long) after the Raterhub switch.

AETs were usually reasonable until the Ruth Porat era. After Porat, they seemed to be getting pretty aggressive about reducing them as far as possible to the point of absurdity. We could release tasks for insufficient AET. I suspect they added automated tooling in the Porat era to "optimize" AET in their favor. With only a few exceptions I can remember, AETs only went down, not up.

If you were flagged by the bot, there was nothing you could do except wait for Leapforce to review you. That could take anywhere from a few hours to several days depending on how busy they were. I wouldn't say there was any meaningful appeal route; I mean, you could email their quality team, and maybe you could plead for leniency, but I don't know anyone had any real success with that. (I don't have personal experience with that; as I said, I was a PA/senior, which was a quality-based designation, so it follows that I tended to be pretty good at the job! But I always felt bad for other raters in chat who had to deal with that, seeing their livelihoods put at risk in such an arbitrary and robotic manner. If someone isn't a good fit for the job, then yes, it's not going to work out, but I do believe they should be given feedback and guidance on how to improve and a fair chance to do so.)
You can probably take a drone with a load of seeds much easier to remote areas than shipping large numbers of few year old trees.
These "Windows" laptops make perfectly fine Linux machines. (Even web browsing with Firefox tends to be very manageable on as little as 4GB RAM and even a slow CPU.) It's still unreasonably hard to install an alternative OS on a Chromebook and not end up with a useless toy that will literally prompt you to wipe its storage clean at every subsequent boot unless you quickly press some obscure key combination. Yes, there might be some ways to replace the firmware and stop it from doing that, but it's just not a sensible design overall.
I hope this tech catches on, we have a ton people who like to tear around my neighborhood at 4AM in cars with exhaust mods.

A few times it’s been loud enough to wake up my infant, at which point I’d probably vote to upgrade it a capital crime…
See some of the other comments here, there's actually a procedure to request deleted pages (that are otherwise not problematic).
Yes please. All of the straight pipe truck idiots, “loud pipes save lives” motorcycles and other various inconsiderate morons just ruin quality of life in cities. In places like SF, it won’t discriminate (exclusively) by class either. One of the worst offenders in my old neighborhood was some deplorable in a modified Lamborghini SUV.
I drink just a can to celebrate when my code is working... so I never get drunk.
Thanks, appreciate it. Good luck on your goal!
Drinking an coding has never worked well for me, but a little bit of marijuana (legal for adults in my state) can help me get some good code written.
One of the better (most ergonomic) laptops I've used was an Acer "WinBook", which was a fanless windows laptop (probably based on their chromebooks) that happened to be extremely Linux friendly.

Any idea if they're making similar non-chromebook versions of these?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability#Why_we_ha... explains their reasons (edit: for soft-deleting articles, not for inaccessible history).
Could also be the other way.

It could be that he wasn’t doing his job well remotely and hence the push to get him in.
> We all remember when facebook.com became unreachable and they had to use a saw to get to the server?

No one remembers that, because it didn't happen. It was misreported, but the correction never went as viral.
Here you are https://we.tl/t-ZTuByGWJrr
I’m glad I live in a rural area where we don’t need to worry about getting random tickets mailed to us.
That was a nice history lesson actually. I remember being confused at the error message, looking it up, being confused at the explanation... because I hadn't learned static calls yet. I may not have even understood classes at that point, but that was way back in the day.

If PHP support has to handle the same stupid question about the meaning of a very unnecessary term that's confusing people and causing more support requests than anything else... then it made sense to change it.

I'm glad I read the blog post; it clears up a LOT of thoughts I had about the error... calling it childish seems off. Maybe you had a dog in the fight at some point?
That's dell basically ripping consumers off.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Celeron-7300-Processor-B...

Is the latest celeron which should be more or less equal to a 6th gen i7 while using a lot less power. They are selling a 3 year old celeron in a 2021/2022 chromebook which is inexcusable.

Acer sells a chromebook with an i5 that's routinely $430 refurbished (yes it's a refurb but it's basically always available) https://acerrecertified.com/chromebooks/?_bc_fsnf=1&Processo...
I would pay good money for a way to rid my muzzle and neck of hair. Unfortunately, the results I've seen from laser removal just leave things lighter, not gone.
First question is easy: yes, the widget tree can be updated. That's generally done by diffing data stored in view nodes, but in fact the View trait is open-ended and you can implement the rebuild method to do anything you like. And yes, selection state lives in widgets and it is absolutely a goal to have that persist.

The second question is more challenging (see the "advanced topic" under identity for a little more background). View id's cannot be re-parented, in other words when a parent relationship is expressed in an id path (by virtue of having the child id follow the parent in a path), that relationship cannot be changed. However, widget ids and view ids are not necessarily the same, though they can be. I think what's needed for your use case is a level of indirection so the view id paths remain stable, but the widget id structure relationships can be changed. I haven't worked out all the details, but think it can be done, and if it's done right it wouldn't require any rebuilding of widget subtrees.
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Only marginally similar (though I imagine you can adapt it to the same purpose), but I also created a GUI tool [1] for quickly making Anki cards when reading foreign language texts. It's also not electron, but rather PyQt, so it conforms to your system theme if you are on Linux.

[1] https://github.com/FreeLanguageTools/vocabsieve
I buy Feather blades at around 44 cents a blade, and I use a new blade every day.

I have coarse hair, so that dulls the blade faster. And shaving a whole head probably counts as like three face shaves (in terms of both blades and shaving soap.)

For soap I use Proraso (which is cheap) or Taylor of Old Bond Street (unscented - they call it "organic" - which is not cheap.)

In the past I stretched blades and spent far less, but the experience was not as enjoyable.
CDs are also digital audio - are you talking about a difference between changing pitch on a hardware CD player and DJ software?
There is very little physical interactions when designing hardware these days. You do most of the work and CAD software and simulations.
Another UI framework that re-renders everything each cycle? Yeah, it's gonna be awesome for todo lists (as long as you don't have more than ~100 todo items). Meanwhile high-performance apps will still be written in retained-mode UI toolkits.
He’s a director and is most likely supposed to be an example.

“If the director isn’t coming in then why should I?”
I wish we'd do something like a revenue neutral noise pollution registration fee, where the top 25% loudest things on the road pay a higher fee which is used to give a discount to the bottom 49%... creating an incentive to drive noise pollution levels continually down.
They also have hiring standards. The U.S. Government threw that out in the 70’s.
> Some cars and many motorcycles, depending on the road and driving style, will easily exceed the 95 and 80 decibel limits straight from the factory. Based on Car and Driver testing, examples include the 2016 Porsche 911 GT3 RS (108 decibels) and the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 and 2019 McLaren 720S Spider, both at 99 decibels.

Seems crazy to me that manufacturers are selling cars that are basically designed to be a nuisance.
It's amazing how bigoted some of the employees are. Having never witnessed the type of racism until recently when it has become en vogue, it's disgusting, and incredible how people admit their bigotry, and how others tolerate it.

It is interesting that the employees seem to realize that before technology allowed for people to work remotely, it was more an issue of individual merit that determined who had which jobs. They'd probably not admit it, but that is consistent with their claims given the circumstances.
NYC too:
https://www.thecity.nyc/2022/2/24/22949795/new-york-rolling-...
I hope you're joking. because otherwise, neo-surveillance fascism here we come.
When Stock Cars Ruled Nascar and Why They Left
Anonymously trashing someone on the internet like this is pathetic.
I really wish human enforcement would happen instead of robotic police state starter edition.

There really aren't that many violators and it's not like speeding where anybody does it, just revoke the registration of any car caught going a certain amount over and make them tow it on the spot and pass an inspection before it can be legally back on the road.

It's usually just one dude in the neighborhood that has an obnoxious car.
From the article, 68% of people had heard about the Chivo wallet, of those, 78% downloaded it, 40% of those people continue to use the app. That's 21.216% of Salvadorians using the app. That's failure 8 months in? A fifth of the country is to some degree or other transacting in bitcoin? What is "critical mass"? Less than one in five people in America use Twitter!

It appears they're using bitcoin as a means of exchange and USD as a store of value, in other cases, the opposite; using the bitcoin wallet as a savings account.

Which, IMO, is the point of all this. The goal wasn't to get people to stop using dollars, if that were the goal, dollars would be removed as a national currency. The goal is to get people to have options.

This is a one time banana republic, these people are skeptical of anything the government does. I'm sure there was plenty of skepticism when the dollar was rolled out too. Of course they're going to move cautiously.

Calling this a failure after 8 months, they won't even call the affordable care act a failure and it's been a decade of healthcare prices going up since then. This is PR, not reporting.
The office space near campus here has some expensive business suites, and by casual chat one day, I found that not one or two, but a whole corner of one floor was rented out to a company making automated traffic cameras, and most of the people in the office were speaking some Slavic language I had never heard before .. this is California. It is obviously a profit center.

whoever owns the right to these automated systems, owns a money-printing machine and everyone involved knows it.
It was a joke, a troll really, that just gave PHP haters something else to deride the language with to people who don't know it that well.
This isn't correct. I was a quality rater. We spent almost all of our time literally ranking websites.
Yes, but my M1 spends all day with the efficiency cores trucking along at about 50%.

I actually misplaced the magsafe cable before I had to charge it the first time. The little cores make the right perf/watt tradeoff for all but the heaviest workloads, such as slack. Sometimes slack pops onto a performance core for a few seconds at a time.
I’m pretty sure there is no stopping it at this point. People give up the rights not just for security but for a minor increase in comfort at this point.
A probable take I heard from an insider: companies used to boast about their new AI developments for investors, but now are very hush-hush to avoid regulatory scrutiny
It will be worth it. I would also accept banning internal combustion engines instead.
Zero growth can also mean that it is not possible to be more or less efficient. If labor efficiency is not correlated with productivity - then there may not be any economic incentive to well organize labor.

As an example - historically agricultural productivity was not a question of labor organization, or labor efficiency. A farmer could only grow but so much food with the land aloted, available water, and crop/fertilizer technology of the time. This amount was relatively close to subsistence.

The sowing of crops could be made more efficient in terms of person hours. But, without a production surplus, and no additional land to cultivate - there wasn’t much else for the individuals to do with the surplus hours.

Similarly, in a modern society labor productivity can be decoupled with economic output. Google search will be the dominant search engine regardless if it’s engineering team is efficient or inefficient.
Exactly. Also it's not secure.

I kinda liked smartcards for authentication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Authentication_Program

This stuff is simple, works offline and is hard to hack.

I understand it still has some shortcomings, such as permitting MITM attacks.

I hope the new FIDO standard gets a variety of implementations, including dumb keys, etc.
Huh I didn’t even think of that.

If threads count, the Xeon Phi 7210 64 core 256 thread would be even better at $125. Still x86
Next post by author will be how one should wait before teaching the rm command to kids, and to always have a backup of all valuable files.
With the exception (arguably) of the vette, those are uncommon high end sportscars. Much like with the speed limit, the owners are expected to be a little more cognizant of law abiding.
We all still do a lot of lab work
> If Gore sold his megamansion they'd say "hey you are still flying", if he stopped flying they'd say "hey you're still driving a car"

This is not true at all. People aren't stupid. They know the difference between Mega mansions/private jets and driving a car. Sure, there might be a few trolls online that will still say "But you don't grow your own vegetables". But it would definitely not become a nation wide focus in a way that living as hypocritically as Al Gore does.

You're comment comes off as really dismissive. Almost like you're saying "the people calling him out for his mega mansion are just as bad as people who would call him out for not growing his own vegetables".
Unlawful Termination?
Cars generally aren’t even that loud when compared to some Harley Davidsons. They’re literally continuous fireworks in the street and will trigger anti theft systems.
It's hard to measure loudness that way. Many cars seem to be capable of being quiet or loud. Which way do you think they'll be during certification?
Some models were cheaper than that. As an example you can see here[1] this particular model was 30 pounds in 1992, which is equivalent to about 50 dollars[2].

Depending on the time or place they may have been a bit more expensive so it makes sense that in your case you had to spend $100... but let's not forget that a stand-alone sampler was at least 10 times more expensive, so the Amiga was still a way cheaper option than e.g. an Atari ST + MIDI-connected stand-alone sampler.

Also we have to consider that there were sample libraries distributed on floppy - so with an Amiga you could still have "cool sounds" even without a sampler interface - the main point being that audio playback on Amiga was higher quality than most competitors.

[1] https://youtu.be/i9MXYZh1jcs?t=184

[2] https://fxtop.com/en/historical-exchange-rates.php?YA=1&C1=G...
It’s simpler than that. Insecure managers feel anxious when their employees have the freedom to set their own work conditions and hours. It’s about controlling how and when work is done.
This may be a "lying with statistics" deal, I'm sure many of those vehicles are that loud only when you really open the throttle which would be really reckless in neighborhoods and city streets where this kind of thing matters the most. The quoted cars are only possible to enjoy to their full potential on a track unless you're driving like an extreme asshole.
"ML is starting to fizzle out as a “savior” of the industry after lofty promises were never fulfilled."

What? Siri, text completion, all the health- and activity-tracking features of Apple Watch, computational photography, Photos app, Face ID, and many, many more depend on machine learning. And let's not forget the Neural Engine in M1.
I imagine powershell could do this quite well with it’s typed output.

(Not that you can’t just base raw bytes via unix shells but it’s awfully error prone).
That only really makes sense where there's a tradeoff: with carbon taxes, you can at least understand why carbon-based energy sources are being used. With loud cars, there's no benefit to tradeoff against! IMO, bans make more sense. That said, your proposal is better than nothing, and I would be in favor of anything that reduces the amount of noise pollution.
Honestly been eating less just due to not wanting to spend 15-20$ a lb. Just took a lot of effort and time to find good low/no meat recipes.
Based on personal experience I don't see communal societies scaling. When you have a small homogeneous group of individuals trust isn't a issue because people are bound by blood, culture, ethnicity and everyone knows each other intimately but for larger groups instead of a big family you have multiple groups fighting for power and resources. So unless the society have mechanisms to deal with it it's fated to fail. Our present societies have many in place: private property, courts arbitration, elected representatives, etc.
I’m absolutely joking about the death penalty.

I’m not at all joking about the auto ticket. If we won’t enforce it why make it illegal? And with a nuisance violation, what’s the difference between sticking a cop there and a camera?

I’m not in favor of camera tickets for anything serious or judgement based, but sounds like a nice minor deterrent for nuisance.
My dream come true!
If you can become an enemy of the union simply by being good at your individual-contributor job, maybe that's why unions haven't really taken off in software engineering.
If you want to teach a kid the command line, I highly recommend ‘sl’ as a first command - my two-year-old had never forgotten it: https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl
I hope you tell who you eventually hire it's a shitty salary because it sounds they would only take the job if they don't know what they're worth.
People tend to modify their motorcycles to be louder. A legitimate reason to do this is for highway safety, but you can do that and be able to drive quiet where it will bother people... lots of people like the noise and drive obnoxiously because it's fun and don't care about the neighbors.
A surprising aspect is that the lightfield merely appears to be 4D. If you stop and think about it, all of the information can be captured in the 2D plane of the aperture. So effectively, it is just a 2D image!

This is akin to a hologram, which looks truly 3D, with depth of field, refocusing, and the works, but is physically a 2D photographic plate. Literally just a sheet. The hologram captures the 2D slice through the EM field the same way that a lightfield captures a 2D slice through the aperture.

The key thing is that the phase information must be captured also, which in the case of holograms requires a resolution finer than the wavelength of light. Lightfield imaging does it differently, but the same concepts apply.
To their credit, storage systems try as hard as they can to speed things up for algorithms oblivious to their real functuoning.

NVMe devices introduce caches made with fast SLC flash and even banks of battery-backed RAM. They expose the familiar disk-like intetface while keeping a log-based structure internally. They expose contiguous space and mostly hide the latency due to the internal reallocation of faulty cells. They queue and reorder operations sent to them (OoO executuon).

But sometimes divining the user intent is impossible, and they expose stuff like the truncation command.
I also created a somewhat similar tool [1] for quickly making Anki cards when reading foreign language texts. It's not electron, but rather PyQt, so it conforms to your system theme if you are on Linux.

However, it comes with a number of downsides:

- Distributing the app is a pain and breaks every now and then when you add a dependency that may not behave correctly or require additional hacks with your packaging tool of choice (in my case, cx_freeze).

- The interface is without a doubt less customizable compared to using a Web-based framework. However, I like this because I believe the user should be able to decide what the app should look like based on their system Qt themes. I also simply don't enjoy front-end work too much.

[1] https://github.com/FreeLanguageTools/vocabsieve
So speed cameras are fascist?
> Spreading seeds from the air you're basically spreading bird food.

"These pods are manufactured using waste biomass, providing a carbon rich coating that protects the seeds from birds, insects and rodents."
A police or bylaw officer could also do their job and enforce the rules. It doesn't need some kind of automated enforcement to solve it, and doesn't come with the same dystopian automated surveillance and ticketing.
Rebels with a Costco member card!
Whether you favor in office or remote, you have to admit our cost structures have fundamentally reoriented the last 2 years.

Think of the commuting costs, living near/far from the office, the different types of day care options, etc etc that have shifted in the last two years. Imagine being told you’re going to get a 10% cut in pay due to the need to go in the office? That’s what RTO probably feels like to peoples pocket books.
As long as it's biodegradable it's not littering. It's not like individual wrapped Snickers or something. Just a cookie or cracker.
What kind of problems are you predicting? Have they appeared in England, which is a fairly similar country to the US, but is much more open to using mass CCTV infrastructure?
I can’t have an open trash fire in my yard either, we need rules about pollution when we live together
I'd rather they put the extra $200 into the keyboard, display, passive cooling, audio and webcam.

Even "garbage" arm CPUs are fine these days. All my real work happens when I remote into a machine that's faster than a $3500 workstation laptop. The remaining heavy workload is the web browser (and, perhaps, corporate email client / other crapware)
Yes with quite a lot of defense for some reason.
You know, if it were anyone else I would probably ignore this comment, but you seem to do your homework, to put it mildly. Are you saying he's, uh, misrepresenting himself?

(I like Schmidhuber but I'm not knowledgeable enough to really evaluate his work or claims.)