skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, 'flax is right, and wage slave is the right way to put it.

Those Google and Facebook workers are one bad boss from their lives going to shit. And, whether you like to believe it's the case or not, bad references do happen sometimes and, if word (or rumor) gets out that you were fired "for cause" (which doesn't actually mean anything, but sounds bad) you are basically fucked.

"Middle class" is an illusion. The cultural armor you think you have is paper-thin in a real conflict. If you're a worker, you're on the side of the proletariat; there's no honor in persisting in delusion to the contrary.
Someone please train an algorithm on this dataset and make a chatbot that generates these on demand.
Doesn't discord block non-native client users?

I don't use the service itself but I was thinking about it. Some misguided FOSS projects are using it. But I wanted to use the matrix bridge as I don't want the native client on my computer. So I'm wondering if this banning is still going on. If these guys invested time into building this client I guess it's not a big problem anymore?
It’s all moot. Facebook was happy to rake in the bucks to be a tool of Russian propagandists.

If anything, TikTok is a national resource as at least you know that the propaganda bias will be towards whatever the PRC wants. Facebook will sell itself to anyone - KGB, prostate pills, whatever.
How much money and time on investigating each: drug crimes or murders?

How does the way american police investigate drug crimes in some communities impact the way that community cooperates with other investigations?

But anyhow, drugs should be entirely legal no matter which way you slice it. Humans should have bodily autonomy, prohibition causes far more harm than it ever prevented
You said women categorically cannot have an affair for purely physical reasons. Do you really think out of the billions of women that have lived on earth that exactly zero had an affair for physical reasons?
Why does it have to just be about spying? The mental health issues related to use of this app are downright insidious not to mention well documented.
That's why we have software testers. Most of the stuff I build nowadays is server backend stuff and mobile. For server backend this runs on strong machines. No problem.

For mobile I use a device.

For desktop stuff we have a minimum machine which we test. Also IDE's have profilers integrated where you can see if you take up too much RAM or CPU. There's no need to suffer slow performance to create apps that run in constrained resources. You can have more than one computer too. Even as a one person shop.
Wow I never said women are just like men, did I?
Agree! I wonder if a sitcom using only artificial voices is coming soon
This has got to be a "The Onion" story that somehow got missed placed.
Mercurial @ Facebook & Mozilla, per Wikipedia:

> Although Mercurial was not selected to manage the Linux kernel sources, it has been adopted by several organizations, including Facebook, the W3C, and Mozilla. Facebook is using the Rust programming language to write Mononoke, a Mercurial server specifically designed to support large multi-project repositories.

Mercurial @ Google:

> Speaking of Google, their Mercurial rollout on the massive Google monorepo
continues. Apparently their users are very pleased with Mercurial - so
much so that they initially thought their user sentiment numbers were wrong
because they were so high! Google's contribution approach with Mercurial is
to upstream as many of their modifications and custom extensions as
possible: they seem to want to run a vanilla Mercurial out-of-the-box as
possible. Their feature contributions so far have been very well received
upstream and they've been contributing a number of performance improvements
as well. Their contributions should translate to a better Mercurial
experience for all.

https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.version-control/c/hh...

GitHub is a fine place to stash free code for free. Adding Linus Torvalds' good name to "free storage" is an unbeatable combination for mindshare, but does not change the fact that mercurial is far more ergonomic for the typical cases, and handles facebook/google scale well enough.
> Actions like this, (or sprinkling iron fillings in the ocean to breed carbon-fixing cyanobacteria or aluminium dust in the atmosphere to reflect back sunlight) are all valid geo-engineering

So, your're esentially suggesting fighting pollution by creating even more pollution of even more kinds?

To me this does not match the first word, only the latter part:

> intelligent long term society wide changes
Source? Isn't it basically the same process as biochar, which has been proposed as a carbon capture technology (the idea being that you bury the resulting charcoal instead of burning it)?
I never seem to have a good sense for whether a post is motivated by an agenda or not, so it's though for me to understand what you are referencing and recommend I should ignore.
Can you permalink those post you consider to be CCP bots?
I would guess companies that had no hope of showing a profit, and just running on either debt or VC
Love this <3
all full of videos that were first popular on TikTok a month ago
38% say they feel proud to be Americans; lowest Gallup ever recorded
disk failure and os upgrades are a non-issue with the right technology stack.... but then you have other problems (more complicated setup)
Three above posters should be ashamed.

This isn't reddit, nobody thinks you all are clever.

If "dancing on the graves of dead children" actually meant something, posting snarky one-liners from the safety of your privileged lives to jerk each other off for invisible points that nobody else can even see, would probably count.
It's fashionable in some corners to pontificate on breaking up Big Tech these days.

On Facebook, I'm honestly not concerned. Just look at the last few years where facebook.com fades into irrelevance (with IG not that far behind) while TikTok has surged and honestly poses an existential threat to FB's business (IMHO). That problem, if you consider it one, will take care of it self.

On Google, I'm not concerned either. Google dominates search because it's quite simply better than everyone else. Using another search engine is easy. Making that alternative search engine obviously isn't but the modern doctrine of US antitrust is not to protect competitors from competition; it's to protect consumers from anticompetitive behaviour. You can argue all sorts of anticompetitive behaviour. I'm not yet convinced by any of it.

As an aside, it'd be foolish to engage in killing our own golden geese while Chinese competitors rise in influence, especially given the deep ties between Chinese companies and the CCP and the fact that the Chinese market is typically barred to competitors while Western markets aren't barred to Chinese companies.

And then there's Amazon. To me, Amazon is the clearest case for government action for it's effective monopoly over distribution. Yes you can sell stuff on your own website. You can ship physical products. But in doing so you cannot compete with Amazon's price-points, speed and overall logistics.

On this the Chinese too have had an advantage by taking advantage of the postage union in a way that a domestic supplier cannot.

I'm not sure this has yet reached the level that warrants government action. When it does I'm honestly not sure what we'd even do.
The tax will probably need to go to carbon capture at this point.
I have seen all of these vulnerabilities in widely-deployed products of varying sorts (this was my day job for many years). I don't know who these authors are, I'm just saying that the bugs aren't theoretical.
Not "perfect compression" but any compression. Perfect compression would be equivalent to perfectly digested experiences i.e. that anything that could be deduced from a collection of sensations had been deduced. The link above explains it well.

> In 2000, Hutter proved that finding the optimal behavior of a rational agent is equivalent to compressing its observations. Essentially he proved Occam's Razor, the simplest answer is usually the correct answer. The proof applies to any goal-seeking agent in any unknown environment which can be simulated by a computer. For example, an agent could be a person or computer whose goal is to accumulate money or some other reward signal in an unknown world.

> Formally, the agent and environment are a pair of interacting Turing machines that pass messages back and forth at each time step. In addition, the environment outputs a reward signal (a number) to the agent, and the agent's goal is to maximize the accumulated reward. What Hutter proved is that the optimal behavior of an agent is to guess that the environment is controlled by the shortest program that is consistent with all of the interaction observed so far.

> The problem of finding this program known as AIXI. AIXI implies a solution to optimal algorithmic compression: coding a string as the shortest program that outputs it. The problem is worth studying because it is hard. The general problem is not computable, although Hutter proved that if we assume time bounds t and space bounds l on the environment, then this restricted problem, known as AIXItl, can be solved in O(t2l) time.

edit: I mean, it makes intuitive sense. To have perfect compression of a string would be to have extracted all of the order out of it, every possible pattern, and every possible pattern of patterns etc. It's obviously impossible to know when you've gotten to that point.
> I see no evidence or reason to believe that an effort to reduce solar irradiance distracts from the control of greenhouse gases on a civilizational scale.

Then you are not paying attention.

We need to shut these liars down and stop thinking that we can make huge changes to complex systems that we do not understand and have predictable results, let alone good results
That's what makes C programming fun: doing what the compiler/language people say you shouldn't be doing and seeing if it works anyways. At least, it works on my machine...
This aeticle/book seem not to grasp what a monopoly really is. It wasn't long ago when people levied these same claims against Walmart only to see that evaporate as competition arose.
Runs in the family for me. My hair stylist told me that many men don’t brush their hair enough and large parts of their head aren’t stimulated enough which makes the roots weak which can exaggerate the issue. I started brushing every day after that. She also told me that tea tree shampoos are beneficial to the issue, so I now use those exclusively, but couldn’t say if it’s working. She also mentioned the more heavy hormonal type medications with undesirable sets of side effects which I’ll just pass on ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If I have no budget then I'm probably not a professional. Would you expect a contractor to build your house with just a hammer just because he ran out of cash buying the materials?

I accept that some people live in poorer countries. I work with a lot of them and spend a great deal of time abroad. Even they have more powerful machines than the median and they get great discounts for those machines. Maybe not a machine as powerful as this but somethings that can still make the IDE fly.
If the scale of influence is the problem, the same restrictions should be applied to billionaires or corporations pushing paid speech.

> I believe a tax paying citizen has the right to expect our government protect their speech. I don’t extend that right to the PRC army intelligence branch.

Is there anyone else who shouldn't expect this protection? Fifth columnists (however you define them)? Immigrants? Criminals? Permanent residents? Visitors? Non-tax-payers? Bad people in general? Corporations? Traitors, wreckers, and saboteurs?

These same arguments are the fig leaf used in modern day Russia, to justify its crackdown on speech. The people saying bad speech are subjects of foreign powers acting against the interests of the nation, etc, etc.
How do you know the sample is representative? If I look at the data posted by the OP there are about 450 clojure jobs a year; if we assume that developers switch jobs all three years in median we get about 1350 clojure jobs in total; if we assume a very good response rate for the survey, about 3% of these developers or about 40 responded; this is even less than the number of states in the US.
Why isn't it fair? They run the service. What gives other people the right to tell them how to run it? If you don't like their terms, there are about 100 alternative projects you can use.

There are pretty clear, practical reasons you might want to control the client of a commercial network service.
I just want a slack CLI client
From an IR realist perspective this doesn't matter so much; wars aren't fought between the people of nations-- they're fought between the armies of different nations. Historically the financial class doesn't really care so much about things like, "people's expectation of privacy" and the like (...) I'm one of the few people that studies this that would kind of say, "who cares?" I state this rhetorically.
Stream Inference
Just looks like he wants a grocery store and Apple Maps is still Apple Maps bad. What's the actual beef with him?
yes we have one self hosted runner right now to bypass a few of the problems we had. Going through the corporate bureaucracy to get the runner running in the first place was a nightmare, and it didn't solve all our problems, and now we're also responsible for patching and doing all the paperwork for that runner. Which was the same problem we had with Jenkins in the first place, just without all the other headaches. If I have to patch and secure it anyways with the security team breathing down our necks every other week I rather stick with Jenkins.
Don't underestimate the power of people trying to hide any ailment that's seen as a sign of aging...
Japanese profanity is difficult to translate literally. For example, there are verbs that encode grades of respect ("to eat" can be any of meshiagaru, taberu, kuu) plus verb conjugations that express contempt (yaru > yagare), so you end up with phrases like kuiyagare that on a literal level mean "eat" but would need to be translated "Fucking eat!".

In the other direction, you can't map English cursing word by word either. "Asshole" may be ketsu no ana, but the listener would hear that as "buttocks opening", not a personal insult. Which is not to say there aren't scatological insults in Japanese, kusottare (lit. shit-dripper) being a personal favorite.

More on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_profanity
I'd like to hear a lawyer (HN has several) corroborate this "Slack must articulate harm" claim, because there is a whole branch of civil law that exists to enforce contracts in the absence of torts; as I understand it, it's called "contract law".
The Venn diagram of responsible gun owners and fiscally irresponsible entitled lazy bones is two disjointed circles.
I don't think that's the issue with agents and producers. It's more complicated than that.

It's probably different in Hollywood in publishing, but the reasons agents are such a weak link in traditional publishing (to the point of nearly ruining the industry) are: (1) inaccessibility (you can't actually query agents who have any pull; you have to know someone even to get read), and (2) locus of power. To be more specific on the latter, the agent knows that connections inside the industry are her power base, whereas authors are basically interchangeable--from a humanistic standpoint, I don't agree; but commercially speaking, it's the case--so she has every incentive to put the publisher's interests ahead of those of her authors, even though her job is the opposite.

Hollywood is probably a bit different because movie stars have a lot more leverage than midlist authors. So, it may be that there's the opposite problem. Literary agents often push authors to lower their expectations and take crappy deals; a Hollywood agent's probably more inclined to push the client toward aggressive decisions while the iron is hot, so to speak.
>a thing created by credit excesses!
How do you leap to "these liars"?

What gives you the epistemic right to dismiss a proposal not on its scientific merits, but on some assumption about the certain moral evil of the people who said it?
You might find "Why America can't build" interesting, posted here a couple of days ago. There were a lot of comments discussing that question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31890048
For a general overview of the topic, see also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCA_Red_List_of_Endangered_Cra...
A company which is uncompetitive and potentially unprofitable. In a cheap money environment, it’s easy to pass the buck on these things.

In startup land, think about the parts of the business that get humored when the company takes a round. Maybe the business doesn’t work, maybe it’s a vanity project for some executive/board member. Without a compelling reason to upset people, these can be allowed to go on for a long time.
I think accelerated weathering is the best option:

https://www.vesta.earth/

During the Permian extinction CO2 was 3000 ppm - weathering rocks is how it was fixed back then. We just need to accelerate that natural process.
In fact, if I recall correctly, it doesn't seem to. I remember writing a tool that analyzed pcap dumps and initially assuming there would be Ethernet frames at the bottom, only to run into the fact that this wasn't true on lo, which had it's own frames, which I assume could vary by OS a bit.
What part of your argument wasn't true of the phone company too?
Unfortunately, the hubris of Man often leads to these kinds of "if we just..." comments. Nearly all of them are completely egotistical--"If I can imagine it, it's real. If I want it to be safe, it's safe." This isn't science at all but rather a religion of the ego.
The planet is heading toward peak human population (people are voluntarily having fewer kids), so there's that, at least.
The glory of battle is always a big lie told by old men to sucker the young.

When there’s weighty debates among Senators about sending men to kill and be killed, watch who the strident patriots are who are out for blood. In general they are fat pasty types who’ve never fought anything more dangerous than a bean burrito. It’s one thing we have in common with the Romans.
I didn't like Trump but that wasn't why I was opposed to the TikTok ban. I was opposed because it was pointless and stupid. If we want to ban Chinese businesses because of human rights abuses, fine, let's start banning imports -- hit 'em where it counts! Let's not waste people's limited time and money banning a silly mobile app.
>It's fashionable in some corners to pontificate on breaking up Big Tech these days.

[...]

>As an aside, it'd be foolish to engage in killing our own golden geese while Chinese competitors rise in influence

Harry Truman said in 1945 about the atomic bomb, "We thank God that it has come to us, instead of to our enemies". I feel the same way about FAANG (including Amazon) and Silicon Valley as a whole (and Wall Street, and Hollywood, and SpaceX/Tesla, and the Ivy League), that they are in the United States.

That doesn't mean I approve of everything they do. That doesn't mean I can't or won't decry their putting thumbs on scales toward a certain type of bien-pensant ideology. That does mean that, overall, I am very, very glad that they are American instead of Russian, Chinese, or even British, French, or German.
it exists! https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack
I think the first part of this blog series had the gear selector sending it's state every 30ms - so you are looking at some averaged ~15ms of latency just from this thing.
> What's the methane destruction project you're working on?

search for another comment that mentions bluedotchange
Nothing beats the video "Git for ages 4 and up":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ffBJ4sVUb4
A 10 hour workday is 600 minutes. (Who works an 8 hour workday anymore? So 2019.)

To write 250 individual non response template emails every day. It means she sits down at her desk at 8am, writes an email every 2.4 minutes for 10 hours straight, and then stops working at 6pm.

Seems unlikely.
The iPhone Generation: An Inside Look at a 15-Year Journey
Arrogant, subtle, entitled: 'Toxic' open source GitHub discussions examined
Sadly this is the same sentiment felt by Foss people around proprietary and even stuff like MIT licensed things. MIT is cool and all but it can be used to build proprietary software which is like ideologically troubling.

Guess both sides have strong feeling why something is "bad".

I personally only contribute to agpl software, try to use agpl/sspl and similar licensed software.

Guess the " corporate mentality" and "Foss mentality" don't meet unless it's a corp built around Foss products and ideology.

Look at valve and their deck compared to Nintendo switch.
Well why not. I can definitely see it can be useful. I just added it. Should be live. It's text field. So you can also write long notes if you want. It's up to you.
That does make sense. Of course it's the result of lobbying and not some high-minded concern about privacy or espionage.
Do you consider a Director as a manager of managers?
Scientists are selecting for Paxlovid-resistant SARS-CoV-2 strains
I don't think I've ever seen an employment contract for an exempt position that specifies the number of hours to work. So yes, if somebody is foolish enough to sign that, they might get in trouble. But again, I doubt that's the case here.
Sure. (sorry for late reply)

I guess it's a lot of things. Really, there's a strong incentive to go to Miami for a lot of reasons, so when you stack up all the pros and cons, the politics could give Miami a slight edge.
Nah mate, I disagree. Good content delivered by a good presenter (or should that be great content and a great presenter) make a great presentation. The slide transitions are eminently forgettable.

Consider perhaps the most famous presentation of them all - the iPhone release - I don't think the slide transitions got too much press, and I don't personally recall what they were.

These days my slide transitions are simple - slide 1 replaced instantly with slide 2. In other words no transition at all.

You may prefer a different transition, but to say it's the transitions that make the presentation great is reaching imo.
I accept that I'm not nearly as smart as Linus. Also most Kernel developers know their own relatively narrow module not the entire project.

Again, I programmed without an IDE (in Java too) and manage that completely fine. Just like I can walk barefoot without shoes. Same thing. It's a power tool that provides amazing capabilities.

I go out of the IDE a lot too. I prefer using the native terminal rather than the one builtin the IDE (although some use that and that's fine) we each have our habits.

CTO of my current company is a VIM nut. Uses it a lot. And an IDE. He uses each in the context he sees fit to his needs. I used to see a lot of people at my later days in Oracle (after the Sun acquisition) switching between Emacs and an IDE back and forth. Sometimes even on the same project. Each tool has its own power.

It isn't a zero sum game between the two. I use external editors too for the right things.
Tom Cruise and Will Smith are technically workers. I think there are degrees to proletariat status
> I think they overestimated how many people were willing to live with the 1440p limitation.

The numbers in the article suggest otherwise. Or at least that people would rather have a 1440p console than nothing, and not everyone has a 4k screen yet.

I got a Series S because it's cheap and I didn't want to go through all the waiting. Works pretty fine, aside from the bad OS.
Also game graphics are improving at a much slower pace nowadays, I don't see a reason to go for better hardware. Most games look pretty fine to me, and things that looked terrible 5 years ago are still not much better.