skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very cool, but dedicated newsreaders (like trn) were easier to use to browse USENET than edbrowse is to browse Hacker News..

If you were forced to surf the web using a teletype, this is your tool.

Edit: actually it's growing on me. My one complaint is that I wish it would retain the printing mode when you follow a link. For example, type "g2" to follow the 2nd link on the line. Right now I should be able to hit Enter or z to display lines from this link, but annoyingly you have to enter something like "1" to start it going.
Apple used to give people the week between Christmas and New Years Day off (maybe they still do, I don't know).

I was was part of a startup that a number of Apple engineers went to; over half of our engineering org was from Apple, and were used to having that time off, our management chain was fine with it, and we just took it as part of our startup's culture.

The New CEO, a real sales guy, had different ideas. "I think that people can be really productive during that week." He was adamant that he wanted to see butts in seats, across the company. Engineers? Not special. (We were working until the early hours of the morning, nearly every day).

We were told by our director not to worry about it, and just not show up if we didn't want to. What was he going to do, fire half of his engineers?

Some people just don't get it.
Ignore lists and block lists exist, though they often have the weakness of not ignoring replies.
Do you still get unlimited PTO like the rest of Salesforce? What about the monthly Friday off the company gets since the beginning of the pandemic?
Oh I completely agree. I was referring to the parent saying that a third party is dictating what to build -- for security this is inevitable. For dependencies this can be solved by caching your .jars or whatever, but at some point you still always have a third party dictating what you're building.
Further update: They haven't been helpful in reinstating it, so the new domain is https://xordle.org and if the old domain ever gets reinstated I will work on a way to transfer game history back.
We will fight climate change
Seems like a retirement home for software.

Kind of like the Apache project.
> big companies have entire teams (internal and consultants) advising them on large changes in the name of productivity, cost reduction, whatever. These teams contrive metrics, KPI, and correlations, between what they do and the success of the business. These teams are paid bonuses, promotions, etc., based on these metrics they themselves contrive.

definitely some misaligned incentives.

do you have an alternative you recommend? Big institutions typically make decisions via "committees of experts" because the alternative decision making in big groups of people is often dictated by a single or cadre of leaders, or total stasis. And small groups of leaders don't scale to the amount of decisions to be made at big groups.
I'm in exactly the same boat. I got tired of waiting around for openai to take me off their waitlist and used DALLE-mini (now craiyon) to generate large batches of concept art for a project I was working on. I picked the ones that, despite being low-res blobs, conveyed the right mood or had an interesting composition of elements. I then layered my favorite elements of those and painted over, adding details wherever I wanted, and came out with something much better than I would've been able to make alone.
Same issues out of Orange County, Irvine, California, US.
A Nagel-ing question
Also there's no vacation accrual, so there's no payout when employees leave. Because of this I always recommend the folks on my team to be proactive about taking vacations and odd days off for personal time, and to keep the amount of vacation they've taken in mind. If they don't use that benefit, it's their loss. If they take advantage of it, I believe it's better for team and individual well-being.
> as a result of the economy

Right, right. Slack just won't make it unless everyone works through the holidays.

I don't know about you all, but to me it's obvious that C-levels use moody economic periods as an excuse to do all the Scroogey things they would actually be more than happy to do in any economic season.

It would make just as much sense, if not more, to drastically cut their outlandish "performance" pay when the economy is down, but I don't think we'll be seeing much of that.
…But who knows this? And who remembers (more than vaguely) those very few rare times Netflix promoted to them anything interactive or game-like?
Cool piece of hardware, however their software TX lock is bullshit. They didn't claim development platform exemption with the fcc like with a hackrf, ettus, etc. Users are forced to use custom firmware to unlock the full potential of the hardware.

The support person astra on their web forums goes around telling people its illegal to discuss things involving TX'ing and capturing rolling codes of a keyfob. I can't tell if it's plain stupidity or gas lighting...
I use the Proton theme with this custom CSS:

https://gist.github.com/wlonkly/6c21134adbdeb6eb257f52076bc3...

and it gives me a nice and minimalist UI consisting of just-dense-enough tab titles, with the current tab highlighted. Looks like so:

https://i.imgur.com/FB59WfX.png
How do you prove to Visa's satisfaction that you called to cancel, for example?
So demand regulation against the tracking. Demanding everyone spread their butt cheeks to Apple because you like something that someone else could do is nonsense.
My sister was an RN at a hospital whose parent company gobbled up some area hospitals.

In her case, they cut her pay 25%, because it would be unfair to pay the other people less. This was right before COVID, and everyone basically quit - like a whole department of nurses en masse.

She came back as a contractor when they were hard up, at one point making $350/hr. All of the normal staff left and it became a contractor mill. When contract people didn’t show, she got $2000-3000 shift bonuses for a 4 hour work commitment to allow the ER to stay open.

I certainly hope the Slack folks do something similar.
List of Hacker Search Engines
It's depressing how there's so little VR for Apple. Maybe they'll blow us all way with the iPhone of VR soon but at the moment my Macs have no VR love.

To make this related, I was prompted to this thought by the fact that the list of supported platforms does not include macOS
… and companies complain they cannot find enough talent.
I realized the cloud ownership problem a few years back and bought a Synology NAS so I can own my own cloud, really happy with the decision
Gitlab is a big name with a big headcount and a big… I don’t want to sound rude here, but a big ego, too.

What does my org use it for? A git repository to which we can push and pull, CI, and code review. I constantly feel like I’m missing a party of awesome features and stuff and I feel that way because what Gitlab does for me compared with the perception it projects into the world seem different by several orders of magnitude. What are all these amazing features they are building, which require such a huge team, that I’m missing? I don’t want ACLs. I don’t need per project visibility. We already have task tracking and a wiki. Will Gitlab offer to run my payroll, when I already have software to do that? Is there a calendar app and have they built their own date selector widgets? Those are shark jumping moments for any project so I hope it’s not that bad.

Gitlab feels a bit like a microwave oven that has a popcorn mode, alarm clock, and built in calculator when all I want is X hundred watts for Y seconds.

Ps: poking around their sales site, Gitlab is going after Jira, I guess. Oof.
I'll 2nd the code quality. I dug into the Mines code a while back as I wanted to use its puzzle generation algorithm to throw together a text-based version of the game. This turned out to be very easy to do.
There are studies about magnesium supplementation helping with adhd
To say that a build system has nothing to do with dependencies is pretty telling about the OCaml tooling mindset.From Maven to Cargo, almost every modern build system integrates dep management. Only C/C++ is still lagging in that regard.
It really calls for streamlining small claims court filings for smaller losses, but your point stands about larger losses. Probably room for the CFPB and FTC to work together to provide for this in some capacity.
People keep saying this (especially here, lately) but it's a nonsense strawman argument. People can do stupid and sufficiently unreadable things in any language. Further, at sufficient scale - a large, long lived proprietary codebase - it hardly matters, it becomes the local dialect.
Off topic, but I wanted to share with people who might appreciate it. I just bought a big TRS-80 Color Color Computer sticker for my new MacBook and I could not be happier with it. It looks just like a modern take on the original silver CoCo. (I used that one at school, though my first computer was the second generation white model.)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CgJLL2ou5TL
There are many, many, many pharmacy drugs that can stop suicidal thoughts fast and don't have the track record of the "modern antidepressants". Long, long, long track records. Small dose lithium and lamotrigine come to mind right away. But how they work--nope, not clear. Okay, we'll agree it's not serotonin, how does that help us? Would it help if American doctors could prescribe 3 weeks for a spa holiday like European doctors? Maybe, for low-level depression, but not for suicidal thoughts, that just won't cut it. There is bipolar I and bipolar II and so big differences. Schizophrenia, big difference. But again, knowing that it isn't serotonin, that's nice, now what?
Apple’s Butterfly Keyboard Fiasco Leads to a $50M Settlement
I disagree completely. We've had this ability to create photorealistic fiction for decades now. You can go see how impressive the capability is by paying $12 at your local movie theater. The only thing that's changed is the ease and cost of doing it, but that has also been dropping for decades. Having people think that it's not possible right now is what is dangerous, because it's absolutely possible right now, no AI needed.

Even if this is released quickly, the internet would be flooded with crazy images, and people would quickly learn to have a critical eye to the media that they see, which should already be the case, because photorealistic fiction is already possible, as everyone experiences with every blockbuster movie. Only a slight shift in perspective is required to realize that every image and video you see aren't any different than frames/clips of Thor: Love And Thunder.
Here are a couple I've used recently:

Majestic diffusion - https://github.com/multimodalart/majesty-diffusion

Centipede diffusion - https://colab.research.google.com/github/Zalring/Centipede_D...
The LVT is meant to stay neutral and let the market figure it out. That would probably mean more density compared to today (where lots of traditional houses take up massive amounts of space while paying artificially low tax), but if people are willing to pay a fair price for a big place then that's what will get built.
This was still true 5 years ago but lots of big budget films are mastered in 4k now that storage and raw compute power have caught up.

Disney notably dragged their feet, but starting this year all their new MCU movies are finally being mastered with a 4k intermediate.
The weird world of the kind-of-deontologist
Product Launch : Lets Connect – Discover your vibe
Hello Folks, we are launching our social discovery platform called "Lets Connect", which aims at providing you with a positive, meaningful, and sustained connection with others from your surrounding or globally.

How can we seek more organic growth for our app?
Copyright should be limited to 20 years full stop. Nobody deserves to keep making money off of something for longer than two decades.
Negotiating your own salary is negotiating from a point of weakness though?

The company decides whether you eat or not, and you can't live long without eating
I did not get unlimited PTO at Heroku.
I look at the __init__ and initialize methods in the examples here and remember why I don't want to use either of these languages. What useless boilerplate, just to define a simple type.
I co-sign everything written here as
I still run software I wrote for Linux in 1998.
It runs in a LXC container with all the old libraries and it must run in an Xvnc session with a window manager of the era because there is a Qt1 widget that opens a kind of drop down menu that just doesn't work with any modern window managers.

I probably wouldn't bother to try to port it to modern versions of Qt or whatnot even if I hadn't lost the source code 15y ago.

So yes, it happens, it's possible, it sucks
Which in turn may be a reference to the time when a movie showed an actual dolphin as a hacking device: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F7OM59U4-z0
This is one of those stories you read where you thought it was just you but then realize it’s happening to a bunch of people
I took a course tonight by Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini from Nielsen Norman group.

He’s fantastic. The course was great. I came away with a lot of useful tools and a change in my mindset
She was a teacher and she wore a hijab (thankfully she had retired long before they decided that was a problem)
“Having to” is doing a lot of work there.

“Have chosen to” is the correct phrasing.

Given the availability problems and generally poor quality Slack managed before, I can’t see this going well. They’re lucky the competition is Teams, another basket case.
Yep. But when your startup is burning through cash and you're not going to make next month's payroll, you're pretty much force to accept whatever terms you're offered. (Assuming you're offered any.)
It works because they just need to come up with a total value and how it divides between land and house doesn’t matter much. My property taxes also separate out land and it puts the land at like 25% of the total value, but in reality someone would easily pay >50% for my land just to demolish the house and rebuild.
You will always have the option of sticking to Apple's recommended practices (their app store, their payment system, etc.). So what's the issue ?
Woosh, that went right over my head. Yes, I've read of that unsavoury place.
You are basing your logic on conflicting assumptions. First you say that you need "a very generous CEO" to raise salaries as revenues increase, but that isn't just a requirement to get a raise. That is also a requirement to get hired at a higher than market rate. Why would Google hire a developer in the Bay Area when they can have 3 in Akron or a whole team in India? Why are you assuming that just because Google has "high salaries baked into every assumption and model" that they won't go "tweaking these other numbers" as soon as "projections show that some target isn't going to be met"?

Paying everyone the same regardless of their location means that people in the highest cost areas need to compete on salary with people in the lowest cost areas. People in the low cost locations outnumber people in the high cost areas so it will be a race to the bottom. Google isn't going to pay everyone Bay Area salaries. They will pay everyone as little as possible to still reach their target headcount/production.
I recommend everyone ditches social media and cable news
That applies just as well to the suggary sweets though?

Why make healthy options the expensive one?
Not that I support the decision, but to be fair the size of the Slack team is probably a small percentage of whole SalesForce, so applying the same benefit to everyone instead of taking it away from that small team is much harder to justify.
that's one hell of a story!
I do not think any relevant cryptocurrency is using CPUs anymore. Further, most of the top blockchains now run on proof-of-stake consensus.
Such a good forum software. I love stumbling upon a forum that uses it.
LPs in a fund usually - possibly not always - have the same conditions except for the 'anchor' LPs, who are declared up front to the other LPs and who put in a substantially larger chunk of cash and commit before the fund is even officially opened. They are committed to do so and are listed in the rest of the documentation by name. Even the anchor LP agreements that I've seen do not allow those to default on their commitment, though there may be priority assignment in case of returns.

Again, show me. Just. One. Contract. I'll be happy to read the whole thing even if it is 200 pages.

Oh and just to be clear about this: if smaller LPs were on the hook for the full amount but larger LPs could walk at will how big do you think the chances are that those smaller LPs would still want to be part of such a fund?

Because clearly if a large contributor has a reason to back out they may have an even better reason to do the same.

Personally I would not invest in a fund where a larger LP can back out at will.
“As of 10 April 2022, there are about 97 million cases and about 1.4 million deaths in North America; about 88.9 million have recovered from COVID-19, meaning that nearly 11 out of 12 cases have recovered or that the recovery rate is nearly 92%.[5]”

Population of us and Canada about 368m. If 1.4m have died from covid, this is a best case chance of death of 1/262 (0.38%). Using the information from Wikipedia quoted above, there was a 1.4% chance of dying from covid over the course of the pandemic. Both of these numbers are noticeably higher than the 1/5000 quoted in the article and that for hospitalization not death.

The chance of dying in childbirth, based on what I found w/ google, is 0.85/5000 and there does not seem to be an outcry to make births safer. While 1/5000 is a concern, the reduction in deaths and hopefully long covid from vaccination is less than the death rate pre vaccination. And fortunately, covid is presenting a less serious infection rate with omicron.

There is a fair number of people who aren’t (sufficiently) vaccinated. If you don’t trust mRNA vaccines, there are a number of alternatives using older vaccination technologies you can use. And omicron tailored vaccines are expected later this year.
You can’t experience violence by using reddit you’re just staring at a computer screen
But you won’t, you’ll get fewer days off.

I’m a strict atheist and recognize Christmas as a general “no work” time. I wouldn’t work at a company that does not also recognize that.
The forums that survive do not and never did depend on advertising revenue, I find. They're either labors of love, supported by donations, or an offshoot of a company/org.
> unlimited vacation

Hahaha. Unlimited vacation actually means vacation only when your manager feels like it - which could be less than you'd get under a fixed vacation allotment. Many such cases.

When something sounds too good to be true, it is.
Like some alien sushi?

https://twitter.com/khirasaki/status/1543111054460272640
> It was established most likely when the entire city was raw land and undeveloped; so it served as a plan for development. There was no NIMBY because people were building their BY. Because there was a plan, you could decide where you wanted to build that BY.

That's not really true. Zoning was usually set up later. Often the existing buildings wouldn't be permitted by the zoning rules but were "grandfathered in". (If we made this practice illegal and insisted that you have to demolish anything that doesn't fit the new zoning laws, that might be one way to keep zoning laws sane). Even if the final state of those people's buildings is legal, often the process by which they were built wouldn't be.

> Once you have developed the land, raised family, lived in a house for decade(s), and the city around you develops and changes. Now, your property maybe better utilized as a multifamily complex or a nuclear reactor, or anything really. But, it's your home and you shouldn't be taxed out of it. Rezoning as a process is may difficult and probably should be. There's a lot of stakeholders/neighbors who are impacted by a change. They should have some say. It just so happens that those people who bought a single family house in a single family neighborhood tend to prefer it to stay that way so they get called NIMBY but it's a completely rational perspective to have if you were in their shoes.

Guess they should've had the foresight to get born earlier? It seems absurdly unfair to say that zoning set up for a population that was half the size should bind the current generation. I get that it's individually rational to want to pull the ladder up behind you, but it's disgusting. (And for the "people shouldn't be forced out of their home" crowd: my generation gets forced out of our homes every 2-3 years because we can't afford to own and have to rent. So I won't shed any tears for boomers getting forced out of their home once in several decades)
Property values for tax calculation purposes are not reassessed round here so you pay on whatever the assessed value was when your bought the property. Sounds nice, but what actually happens is that baby boomers, who bought their houses ages ago, pay essentially no tax on houses. Meanwhile, more recent residents get to foot the bill with sky high property taxes. I know people with previously purchased houses of the order or 5 (yes 5) houses that they are renting out for outrageous rents - all with very low property taxes on them. Please make the normal tax rate lower and actually tax everyone.
> we'd riot and burn down their mansions.

The cops clearly won't let that happen.
I thought this was going to be an article about kidnapping. It wasn't.
AI compute is increasing at a rate faster than Moore's law. Right now if DALL-E 2 takes an 8xA100 box to run inferences, how long before it's on the workstation? 4-5 years?
Could they capture the contents of the process and use the results to their advantage/argument? Or would it work against them? (I’m for archive.org, just curious).
It will hit people at the bottom the most, they are most likely to own under value structures, they are least likely to have funds to redevelop, and are least likely to have funds to sit things out until they can sell at a break even point. A land value tax would benefit corporations more, since they can throw up a bunch of luxury apartments to maximize value utilization to pay the land value tax. Corporations would also be able to buy out at a discount individual owners who are squeezed by the tax.
Of the ones that I know details about in Europe and Asia, not a single one of them are AWS owned and operated. I'm sure the situation is different in the US, and wouldn't be surprised if they own and operate all of their US DCs.
Fourth Brit chiming in to say I’ve only heard ‘dram’ in the context of booze.

Dee-ram, essdee-ram etc for random access memory.
I used to enjoy Netflix until their content started getting boring. I’m afraid FAANG gonna be FAAG soon…
I stand with archive.org
I get antsy/fidgety while listening to podcasts (even interesting ones!), so I like to solve 5x5 Signpost while I listen. It's difficult enough to keep my fingers occupied, but simple enough to not distract me from the content of the podcast.
I've been a fan of Nikoli puzzles since discovering them through the US Puzzle Championship exam years ago. I always wanted more practice but had a hard time finding paper puzzle books to work with. Especially if I didn't want a book with Sudoku. Anyhow, just a few months ago, I discovered two puzzles books at Barnes and Noble!

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/iq-puzzles-1-nikoli/1131029...
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/iq-puzzles-2-nikoli/1131029...