skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I meant it facetiously, but I’m definitely not kidding.

It’s my device, so I can choose what code executes on it. If I choose to block code from executing, that must mean I did not consent to its execution, because otherwise why would I need to block it?

I owe no debt to Google, especially since YouTube is often a non-consensual venue, in the sense that content I want to watch, which Google did not create, is only available on Google’s website.

I was not an active participant in the economic conditions that led to Google’s monopolization of the video hosting market. So if I am only watching a video on YouTube because it’s only hosted on YouTube, but I would have watched it if it were hosted elsewhere, then I am only passively responsible for the choice of watching it on YouTube.

I do not owe anything to Google in this case, because it implies I benefit from the existence of YouTube, but any benefit I derive is actually from the content, not the host of it.

The suggestion that I benefit from Google’s monopoly on video hosting presupposes the idea that free-to-watch video hosts cannot exist without serving advertisements. I don’t believe that, and I always choose alternative hosts over YouTube in the rare case where a video is hosted on both, or banned from YouTube.

I don’t use SponsorBlock, although I do manually scrub past promotional content.
Another nothing-burger article with no new information or insight, just repeating scary quotes and PR statements from others to fill column inches.
Nope. The Oder starts (barely) in the Czech Republic and the other 99.999% flows through Poland, ending in the Baltic Sea. The Baltic states are north of it (and also not the fascist paradises OP wishes they were) while the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania are south of it. Geography fail.
Because, in the absence of other evidence, it's the best take I have.

Also, if the SpaceX president's statement is false, then the fired people probably have a lawsuit to file. Would the SpaceX president be that dumb? Maybe.
Agreed. But subways cost so much more, $1 billion per mile in many cases. The Boring tunnels look to be around $10 million per mile.
For anyone claiming NYT quality has gone downhill should try and read this article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/05/08/arts/design/d...

This article has single handedly ignited my interest in arts and paintings. This is just an example but in general what I find great about NYT is the way they do storytelling with mixture of interactive visualization and text-based news and facts.
Very rarely is there a single checkbox on a screen by itself with no other inputs or info. This seems unusable in most situations where I would be using checkboxes. Also didn't show the reverse at all. Checkboxes are uncheckable too which will require more animations. Doesn't seem like just reversing these animations would work well.
Yes please. Let me turn that off. It is now becoming harder and harder to turn all those time wasting animations everywhere

Android for example has clearly a bunch of bugs where some stupid slow animations cannot be tured off. Yes even with turning off animations in accessibility and via the developper options.

On iOS, it doesn't seem to be possible to turn any of them off. You can merely "reduce motion". But it still wastes up to second in the worst case.

What about gtk3 or 4. Now there is some crap animation everywhere in gtk applications and I don't know how to turn that off.

Computers are so fast. Most software is already bad enough that it manages to slow down our beautiful hardware. Let's not make it even slower with animations.

Sure have optional animations if that helps newcomers understand better the flow of your application. But make it optional please. Pretty please?
Please: slaves could not even think of leaving their jobs.

We are not slaves, but our bosses are not our parents either.
They probably do in crappy places. I am an H1B, work in HFT and can say that in big tech and HFT's, H1B's are paid fairly well, probably in the top tier.

BTW, the L1 visa is even worse. The people bought in via that visa are also paid below market rates, and they are not even allowed to change companies on that visa.

My issue is that people love to shit talk about us, and forget there are other visas, like the L1, that are crappier. Worse is, when some lump all of us "H1B? They are probably low paid", and then I and many of my friends chuckle when we look at we are paid.
It might be interesting to expose it as a browser extension that provides a summary without leaving a site. Many non-news sites link out to news articles as references. Reducing the amount of time reading the references would be nice, but I'm unsure how it'd work in practice. It might be worth experimenting with.
> Kickstarter may survive since they enjoy near monopoly status, but otherwise how can they compete given that high performers in tech are allergic to unions?

"high performers" aren't going to be satisfied by Kickstarter's compensation at first place thus won't apply there.

Also good luck arguing to your boss you are a "high performer" in a company that has "progressive performance evaluation", by what measure?

This is a none issue.
I don't know about you but I think there's something wrong with programs that incentivize not working and gaining experience.
It is obscenely ridiculous to say that people complaining about a missing usability feature that every other tool on the market has, marks somebody as a channer.

As clearly stated in the article, there had been an open issue for almost a decade, and PRs rejected.

When windows is beating you in usability, you have a serious problem.
Of course there is. If you piss someone off while they're cancelling, it's less likely you'll get repeat business. People cancel and then renew subscriptions on all kinds of things all the time.
So If it's a shared belief / mission and it's not your perspective it's a cult? Are you saying people should just work for the money and not the company? That doesn't seem to make sense. If your goal, is more capital, you want the firm you're a part of to succeed to take part in that.

The reality of it is there are a lot of extremely well paid people across the US that wear the emotions on their sleeves and take everything as a slight these days. This is the course correction, you're going to see it more and more.

Just as extremists have been saying about social media if you don't like it, go build your own.
Brex founder here. Let me provide more context on what happened, and how this actually allows us to serve startups better.

In 2018, we launched Brex and started serving the fastest growing companies out there (DoorDash, Airtable, ScaleAI, Flexport, etc). As we expanded in 2020, we decided to start serving small businesses. We onboarded tens of thousands of traditional brick-and-mortar companies to Brex, along with startups. Over time, we realized that our startup customers were growing very fast, and needed BrexHQ to scale with them, but Brex didn’t work as well for larger companies.

Last year, we decided to go back to our core, and shift our resources to make sure startups could scale with Brex. However, we still had tens of thousands of small businesses with very different needs from fast-growing companies. By spreading ourselves too thin, we couldn’t serve either small businesses or startups well:

1) Small businesses didn’t get the products they needed (e.g. working capital solutions).
2) We had to degrade the white-glove level of service we offered to startups, in order to scale to tens of thousands of customers.

As we continued to scale Brex to serve startups (such as 70% of YC companies!), we realized we couldn’t do a great job serving small businesses at the same time. This led us to the painful decision to stop serving traditional small businesses. We decided to draw the line of who’s eligible as any customer who received any investment (accelerator, angel, VC, web3 token, etc).

This has been an incredibly difficult decision for the team, but it allows us to deeply focus on serving startups better. I wish we had been more transparent with the startup community about what this means to them – apologies for all the confusion.

If you believe we made a mistake offboarding you, please let us know at reopen@brex.com
Climate change is turning more of Central Asia into desert
Consequences like... being banned by Twitter perhaps?
How much did musk inherit? All I know is from the Ashley Vance book - he started zip2 in poverty then rolled that into x.com.
Is it mandatory for employees to join the union?
With the NES speedrunning scene being so popular, I wonder if any one has ever made use of this.
The ability of read/write to communicate via errors as well as the actual data transferred is significant - there's a reason Go's i/o model is io.Reader/io.Writer and not chan []byte.

You might as well explain channels in terms of any blocking operation if the bar for "isomorphic" (now backtracked to "intuitively" I guess) is that low.
I have built a thermometer for an automation project with the requirement to be able to measure rate of temperature change 50 times a second with resolution of 0.001K/s (between 50 and 140C).

I can tell you, I spent probably a month just learning how difficult it is to measure temperature and what are all different ways you can screw up the measurement. You can't just stick a thermocouple anywhere you want. Everything has thermal mass, everything is thermal impedance, everywhere there is a thermal gradient. If you have ANY rate of change of temperature, your measurement method will always greatly impact the result regardless of how precise thermocouple and electronics you use.

If they really can get nanokelvin resolution I would be more interested in understanding their measurement method, because resolution is pretty much worthless if you stick it in the wrong place.
Unless you're a woman, then he'll deem you intellectually inferior a priori.
> This is neat, any other projects similar? Notably ones that work perhaps with more of an LSP-like API?

https://valentjn.github.io/ltex/
Yeah, I've considered Walmart, but it kind of defeats the purpose for me. It doesn't do a lot of good to replace one monopolistic behemoth with a different monopolistic behemoth.
Eternity is a long time
SAT comp gives you 5x the solving time to check your proof, which is indicative that checking isn’t so simple (though it is on paper)
Boo blame shifting.
I really like subscribing to the actual Sunday delivery of a physical paper. Choose your poison. Go read it at a local coffee shop or farmers market or something and then watch as people everywhere look at you like your some kind of crazy person.

Old people love it though - plus you can give it to someone else once your done!

Also when was the last time you read The Funnies?
That's not much money at all.
This isn't entirely applicable here - the minority group isn't being picky, they are alleging misconduct.

Also, that linked post is something else. In the span of one really long essay, he went from halal food, to trying to intellectually rehabilitate Brexit, to a maximally-extended version of the Paradox of Tolerance, and then finally to disproving the right-libertarian thesis that market manipulation is impossible. I genuinely can't tell if this is brilliantly considered, or just authoritarian right-wingers trying to specifically feed me propaganda.
Generating a proof and checking it is definitely a step up, but it does have a few issues.

- SAT is in NP, and UNSAT is in CoNP. This means that proofs take a lot of space to store and a lot of time to check. Proofs are usually run with 5x the time limit of the initial solve, and still end up timing out.

- Proofs are (currently) based on resolution, which means that research on efficient solving techniques which can not be efficiently modelled as resolution is not being prioritised. This is touched on briefly in the first 2 talks of Randy Bryant on: https://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT22/#splogic. I think the talks in general are among the better for understanding a SAT solver like CreuSAT.
> If he realized he can't derive unified theories of social behavior through logic untainted by the real world

This isn't at the root of what we're discussing here. That would be like applying Postel's law to natural language, confirmed by your own experience of receiving maybe a few passing "death threats" per month while bantering, while brushing aside the predicament of someone who receives ongoing death threats from a persistent stalker.

Rather, this topic just seems to be basic hypocrisy. If one cannot stomach a critique written in good faith to make one's company better, it's utterly disingenuous to invoke appeals to free speech elsewhere.
Weird that you're arguing that 3% isn't a CoL raise, when inflation has been pegged to 2.25% for decades, and is currently 8%+
Mac: It Just Works–Terribly
This is probably why Linux has been such a large success. For all the submissions, suggestions, filtering by those lower down the chain...at the end of the day it's Linus that says "Yes" or "No". (And/or chews people out for bad code.)
They have rules loaded that are primarily for writing technical documentation. (I assume the tap/touch is from the Google rules). Most technical documentaition style guides will recommend avoiding first person, but that makes zero sense for e.g. a blog post. Assuming ALL CAPS words are likely to be acronyms is also reasonable in such a context.

Vale also has multiple severity levels, so disabling e.g. the "suggestion" (and maybe even "warning") level while writing live would make a lot of sense.
+1 Economist

- When they cover something I’m knowledgeable about, they get the facts right, so I trust them in other areas

- App lets me listen to the weekly edition read by humans

- Only comes out weekly (so no daily bullshit treadmill, and they have time to get things right)

- Genuinely useful and interesting info. Since I switched from NYT to the Economist it’s like I have supernatural powers to see into the future; nothing surprises me anymore. Recent issues where I knew what was coming months to weeks before others: COVID, post-COVID inflation, Ukraine

I listened to the podcasts for months before paying to subscribe, and the podcasts (The Intelligence and Economist Asks are favorites) cover some of the content of the weekly edition. If you like the podcasts, you’ll love the genuine article.
It's not a strawman argument when you argue against a claim that no one is making. It's a strawman argument when you create a bad argument for a claim that someone actually is making, in order to knock it down.

edit: this is a "cynically muttering to oneself."
No, it is not. https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Ques...
I think you're arguing tangentially to the point being made, which is that: no insubordination happened. They were simply critical of how Musk represented them.

I have to assume they knew when they penned the letter that they would find out whether their leader could take criticism and help them make a better company and product together, or react immaturely and let them know that their time would be better spent elsewhere. Seems they got their answer.

In any case, yeah, Musk owns the company and has the right to fire people for criticizing his business decisions. Bold strategy, we'll see how it turns out for him.
As long as people are even mildly productive, economic growth will handily outpace population growth.

This has been going on for a very long time now, which is why we’re all so wildly rich compared to 100 years ago.

My grandparents remembered a time when completely emptying a jar of peanut butter was essential and lavatory paper was counted by the individual sheet. Today I have homeless people refusing my gifts of food.
Musk father was a pretty successful engineer. The twitter claim that his family is some amazing african slave owning dimond royalty is delusional.

Musk far more helpful gift was the fact that his mother was Canadian.

His father didnt want him to be in the Canada/US and didnt pay for most of it.

Musk certainly has no inhereted wealth, his father is alive.
It’s a bit of a myth that those get upgraded. They lag significantly behind Electron (Chromium) attention-wise.
Yeah, this is not good at all.

Even something arguably well-executed and compatible with "established" style heuristics, like Grammarly, will always be dubious, as they perpetuate the myth of linguistic prescriptivism weaponized by language pedants. All of whom are annoyingly, vocally, interminably incorrect.

But this, this is just baldly idiotic.
Cisco says it won’t fix zero-day RCE in end-of-life VPN routers
My grandfather got his PhD because he lost an argument to Grace Hopper because she had a PhD and he didn't. He was working for the Navy at the time, and he wanted to use a higher level language for some operating system they were building. Grace Hopper thought that higher level languages were only suitable for business applications, not other computing purposes where performance was more important.

This is a link to a paper he wrote about one of the first cross compilers that they had built: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/367436.367477
Same here (daily emails).

I've been getting enough of them to start seeing that most of the emails from amazon are generated in some form. A generated recruiting email is pretty much an immediate turn off for me.

Also, they have been very aggressive... going as far as the same recruiter reaching out on a monthly basis despite me telling them I am not interested.
> high performers in tech are allergic to unions?

High performers in tech do not have a problem with the heirs who own a majority of their corporation's stock telling them what to do, but are allergic to the people alongside them doing the work and creating the wealth from having input.
Depends on how frequently you're interacting with this widget. The annoyance of animations comes from the integral of all time you have to spend watching them; if they're in the critical path of a workflow that you do multiple times a day they get very annoying very quickly.

I've only glanced at this app, but the goal seems to be forming a habit of doing things once a day. If you're only interacting once every 24 hours, I'd take a 1second animation with some charm over a static checkbox.
A near realtime land cover dataset for our constantly changing planet
You don't necessarily need to pipe the water to the electricity, you can move the electricity to where the water is (and if the electrolysis works with seawater, you don't need freshwater either). And then you can turn it into something like Methane or Ammonia for longer term storage. And the long term storage is important to level the power production over the course of months.
I've been using thumb trackball consistently for 15 years now.

I don't think switching devices is what did it.

I did lower my pointing device usage overall at the same time, so that has a confounding effect.
I'd heard that in the army, once you reach General, you get to pick out your own uniform (she made it to some level of admiral during her service)
Will this lead to reduced employment in Kickstarter? Probably
If you were keen on the idea of finding some shortcuts, you would buy a book or search for docs or something though, right?
This still doesn't make them generated files!

You opted to keep translation files out of version control; you could also keep images there, or source files. All this stuff is the (pretty direct) output of non-deterministic human intervention.

(BTW, how do you build an old version of your application? Is lokalise able to give you the appropriate translations for a specific git commit / app version?)
They don't mention that you can write the rules yourself and also pick and choose from existing rules from GitHub.

There is an attempt to build and open source version of Grammarly using vale rules here[1]. Rules are mainly regex based, but some target readability measures[2] or use parts of speech[3].

[1]: https://github.com/testthedocs/Openly

[2]: https://github.com/testthedocs/Openly/blob/master/Openly/Rea...

[3]: https://github.com/errata-ai/vale/issues/356
I subscribe to a big paper in the city I live in (like, the actual sunday paper delivery). I tried to explain MULTIPLE times to their support people that I did not want all of the extra advertisement crap that came with the paper (pretty standard with any paper - not the small amount of ads/classifieds in the paper itself - all of the extra pamphlets they include)

Their support people could just not even comprehend WHAT I was even talking about - they kept circling back to "pop-up ads" and if I had tried a pop-up blocking extension. It was a never ending circle of confusion :-D
That's a lot of what ifs. While technically possible, none seem plausible. Many of those things could of happened outside of the riots as well (Pence dies). It's kind of pointless speculation. I don't think Pence had a serious chance of being killed that day, even if they did get in close proximity. That's just my opinion.
Tesla assembly workers lived and worked in California, no? Rules there are different than Texas, I presume.
Even just ignoring all the cultural topics (which is what most people refer to), here's one on actual attempt at policy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeal_Act_(Virginia)#Tran's_t...

In 2019, Democrats in Virginia tried to pass a bill that would allow abortion at the point of birth. Long past viability, basically just unnecessarily killing the baby.
I understand that that's the conventional wisdom and that I am almost certainly wrong here.

I thought train emergency brakes were capable of fully locking the wheels (to the point where they get significantly damaged/deformed after an emergency stop), so why would the braking pad heat dispersion matter?
> So If it's a shared belief / mission and it's not your perspective it's a cult?

Nope, the word cult has a definition.
While your point around tacit acceptance is a good one I don't know if it follows that it's productive/appropriate to inject this debate into all of these situations. For one, the exact issues you care about could be very different from someone else's and having all these discussions is pretty distracting.

The method in this case, writing an open letter, seems like a way to weaponize network effect and have an outsized influence over say simply talking to your manager or using an internal feedback system. I think SpaceX is right to say this causes social pressure internally to sign on and not be on the wrong side of the "if you're not with us you're against us" attitudes of politics today.
> we've had thousands of years awareness & contact with those cultures.

Who is "We" here? Because I would easily bet this is not the case for most of the population in the world

> Anyone who wasn't a catholic was probably considered subhuman by the truly appalling conquistadors

Thanks God for the superior and enlightened British colonizers,you can see the different policies in current native populations in the US compared to the Spanish-ravaged south.

> news to me.

Spoken like one who has not spent 1 min with people with Native-American ancestors.
Good point. I didn't realize they had already weeded them out.
> Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos saw his warehouse workforce as necessary but replaceable, and feared that workers who remained at the company too long would turn complacent or, worse, disgruntled, according to reporting by the New York Times.

Wow. Think about what this is really saying: Amazon adopts the explicit policy of not wanting their workers to stay on long enough to figure out that they are getting a bad deal.

So it's not that they are running out of people to hire, it's that they are running out of people who have not yet figured out that working for Amazon is a bad deal.

Now I understand why I've been seeing so many commercials lately about how great it is to work for Amazon.