skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't do that when Firefox simply isn't good enough. Vivaldi beats it in features and what I need from browser as a power-user.
Why wouldn't people buy it? It's put forth by reputable science whereas the "meat is good for you" position is mostly preached by the jordan petersons of this world. At least I have better things to allocate my energies than figure out whether obvious charlatans are actually correct.
Very similar to me! Double degree in EE/IT, my first job out of uni was with a small company building gps chips. I actually spent a lot of time writing testing software. A couple of years in it went down the drain and I just naturally transitioned in to a software role (paid a lot better).
From the article: The only thing they did wrong was not more explicitly mention the monitoring. So it wasn't illegal to monitor communications, rather it was illegal to fire someone for using their work account for private communication without sufficiently warning them. All they have to do is make you sign some document on day 1 and they're covered. Also they were not awarded any damages or anything, so it's not like you'd get a payday after being fired.

>Commenting on the ruling, Pam Cowburn, the communications director at in London, said: “The European court’s ruling is welcome. In some workplaces, it may be necessary for emails to be monitored, but if employers are going to do so, they should make staff explicitly aware of it.”

>Despite finding that Bărbulescu’s rights under article 8 of the convention had been violated, the court declined to award him any compensation, saying the ruling was “sufficient just satisfaction”.
Lol...taking the high moral ground in this situation is naive in the extreme.
You'd think so but it's much cheaper to bemoan a lack of skills than it is to raise salaries.
Not the parent commenter, but I believe the idea is that if the webpage uses a framework like React or Angular, then the server doesn't need to send html, it can just send the bare minimum data necessary (in JSON) and the client turns it into html and displays it.

In other words, HTML is just the standard format that the browser uses. But if you use frameworks or define your own application specific formats, you can send less information over the wire and have it properly decoded and displayed by your client-side javascript.
It's only not welcoming to those who wish to close the source.

It's the paradox of tolerance: you must not tolerate those who find others intolerable.
Attention all designers: That skeuomorphic, non-flat design that you might think is unstylish but in reality is so very usable… this book explains why.

In the UI of the 2000’s, the UI is visible, the chrome is visible and it has meaning and utility. Buttons are easily found and pushed because they visibly look like they are extending from the display. That’s an affordance. The window corner used to have a “rough” texture just like exterior stairs have texture strips to keep your feet from slipping. They indicated that the friction from your mouse-pointer on the screen will move the window corner.

These designs allowed user decisions about UI function to exist in the subconscious where they weren’t a distraction from the actual problem at hand.

The bar these days seems to be “is it possible for the user to eventually accomplish their task?) as opposed to “how can we demand even less of the users’ brain for the task to be accomplished?”

I am anticipating this will not be a popular response, but I can’t help but think wrt/ UI design, we’ve collectively thrown out the baby with the bath water for vanity and it’s going to take some criticism to get it back.

Reading this book and studying the UI designs it inspired (ex: early to late 2000’s Mac UI) is IMO the best education a young UI-designer can get.

Edit: I don’t want to lay too much at the feet of designers because it’s probably Product Managers that also need to read this book and care about it.
It seems to be your idea, that America is prosperous despite freedom, and that we must carefully dole out the freedom lest we lose our edge.

I believe that America was founded on the idea that we could be great because we are free, and that giving our people the opportunity to thrive and be productive will only, in the long run, make our prosperity that much greater.

It's been said that the Constitution is not a suicide pact. You would interpret this, I think, to mean that we should toss out the Bill of Rights anytime it seems inconvenient to our short-term ends. But I see it as a statement that, even when it seems contradictory, investing in the people rather than the power over them will lead to a greater nation even when that seems counterintuitive.
Reciprocity is so fundamental to nature that people can’t stop doing it:

Most of the studies about “people are irrational” are times psychologists fail to realize that people are acting on an iterated (rather than single round) game — and enforcing reciprocity through their “irrational” acts.

We know at an instinctive level that reciprocity is necessary in game theory — eg, Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma.
The Salt Fix outlines how restricting sodium intake causes kidney issues and disturbs insulin response. It is causing iodine deficiency as well, which leads to thyroid problems. The author suggests HFCS and white sugar caused the obesity epidemic along with the associated health problems. This has been suppressed for decades by the industry. The Mediterranean diet is only a basic hypothesis.
Eh. That’s kinda like “don’t put all your money in dollars”

If the US Dollar goes to zero or the only rendering engine bit rots, other things are happening such that I won’t be too concerned about not having money or not being able to browse the web.
I was going to write just this! rclone is a lifesaver!
I bet the money that will be wasted on this project (before it inevitable get shelved) will be way more than the costs of just buying out the land affected by the noise from helicopter organ transport so people that are bothered by it can move (and maybe resell the land at a discount to those who don't mind the noise, whether it's due to better soundproofing or converting it to office space that wouldn't mind it).

Yes, in the very long run, drone transport for these things would be better due to emissions/etc, but IMO the country has more pressing problems at the moment.
Copy link from your favorite apps like Youtube, Twitch or Vimeo and cast it directly to your desktop.

With Komfy any PC, laptop or Mac can become the center of your home entertainment without any additional hardware.
If the higher value work is in SW that explains the shortage.
Car wings are angled because you're stuck with the direction the wind goes relative to the car (assuming you're driving with all wheels on a surface). Inside a computer, designers have a lot of freedom in where they direct the air flow. So, they plan the layout with space efficiency in mind, taking into account the needs of cooling.
Need to track who said what for libel cases. There are plenty of unfairly scathing Glassdoor reviews. If Glassdoor can’t point to who said it, they’re the one who gets sued.
As much as the US government does questionable and bad things (and it does), the CCP is worse. The US still has at least the semblance of the rule of law. There is still some separation between corporations and the government.

Corporations in China are extensions of the state and tools of foreign policy in a way they just aren't in the West. The US government can also be replaced. That's why China and the US just aren't equivalent here and why something like Tiktok is of greater risk and concern than any US Big Tech app or platform.

Yes, US law enforcement can get access to, say, messages. There's a process for that. Some of it is pretty questionable (eg FISA court, pen registers, NSLs) but at least there's a process. I don't for a second believe that US intelligence has a firehose of everything posted on Twitter and Facebook just because I don't believe the US government has the storage capacity required.

Secondly, China is completely protectionist about access to its market. There are Chinese versions for every app and platform. China uses access to its market as a giant carrot to exact concessions from Western companies but they're chasing a phantom: China will never let any Western company "win" in China.

Part of getting access to China is playing ball with the CCP, which means giving access to data on a whole level above the US government. It means enforcing the Great Firewall and, for example, censoring mention of the Tiannamen Square massacre.

Trade needs to be recipricoal so if China restricts access to the Chinese market, I see no issue with Western countries responding in kind.

The threat model for something like Tiktok is a whole lot worse than any Western equivalent.
Also, power changes hands over time. As we've seen recently, where suddenly period trackers with any server side storage are an actual liability and an extremely dangerous idea.
Nova Launcher has been acquired by Branch
Then your phone will be a quite useless device.
For criminal cases. But this is not.
And in a lot of EU countries. Same result.
Not vaporware, however, not ready for scaling up on to an industrial scale. The main concern remains safety in case of a malfunction. Until that has been addressed, the main benefit seems to be delivery of essentials (e.g. cancer medications) to remote areas where the drone can fly mostly over uninhabited areas.
Bill Gates to donate entire fortune to his foundation
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Tinkering with hardware at home arguably used to be more accessible to the home tinkerer starting with building Heathkits. But hardware got more complex and faster and the necessary gear etc. sort of got out of reach. Arguably things like Raspberry Pis and Arduinos have made it more accessible again at a different level of abstraction. But I don't think there's much debate that software is easier for someone without the resources of a university or company to work on in general.
When I was arrested the police broke the password on my phone in a few minutes.

There's no protection there, legal or otherwise.

All these empty 'hot takes' come from a place of never having been arrested or sat in a room with a load of police, when it's your phone they're trying to break it's a whole different world.

(for the record I was innocent and the police were very nice through the whole thing)
> ... Dark Matter is fiction, which is why we can't detect it.

If you have a better idea that fits all the observations, publish and you'll get a Nobel.
Okay, so the author thinks the Medici thing is a myth (I think his contemporaries do not). But I presume the oddly nationalistic Britishness of the article is the reason why it completely skips over the fact that ice cream as we know it now is an Italian invention. Sure the Indians were doing Kulfi, and the Chinese were doing something with horse milk, but modern sorbets and ice cream were very clearly from Italy. [And they're still the best, after all these years.]
The problem is that none of these things are actually of a high priority. So customers wanting some chips or ice cream will not pay a high enough price to actually be profitable without heavy subsidizing.
Film grain is often added to computor generated output that is to be composited onto live action footage. If it were not, it would look fake. We also add motion blur and depth refocus.

Agreed though, it does feel weird as a vfx artist to be bringing down the quality of cg to that of film stock.
I have never seen proof of this but that is my belief
> The Internet Archive removes an individuals control over when the information remains public.

And that's a good thing in the vast majority of cases. Unless we're talking about sensitive information that was published without the consent of the person in question, all public information should remain public forever.
>the whole backdoor-conspiracy bandwagon

This isn't a correct characterization of the suspicion that Intel microcode has backdoors in it. The suspicion isn't just based on distrust of authority, like flat Earth, etc, but also on the org having means, method, and opportunity to remotely modify the operation of a CPU. And it operates within the domain of the USG, who have demonstrated a keen interest in weaponizing 0-day exploits.

What better way to acquire a novel 0-day than to simply write one known only to you and distribute it from the source? This is a good plan, but it comes with a substantial risk to Intel, or any company who wishes to maintain a trust relationship with its customers.

That said, I don't think anyone doing this is stupid, and for safety they would not install microcode malware on everyone, just some. This means we will find nothing in general CPUs, and anecdotal reports finding "something" can easily be dismissed as malicious or noise.

The truly paranoid need not worry, even if the microcode is seen to be harmless, there is always the possibility that hardware you buy is interdicted, modified, and sent onward, such that your paranoia can remain intact.
I'd love to, but it's simply unusable compared to Chrome when it comes to web development.
"While computer science course take-up had gone up by over 90 percent in the past 50 years, electrical engineering (EE) had declined by the same amount" Well yes, computer science used to be just a specialization of EE. Not that I don't think the EE scene is a little sad these days (I am currently an EE student) but I think this is important that we don't forget that EE has been split into a bunch of specializations.
Create a gmail address from your local McDonald's wifi?
It's easy to believe that until the top dog is on top of you

It is your data they are collecting, not some other dog's.
The world at large will utterly ignore it.
And if you're lazy, there are websites which gives you a summary of it: https://tldrlegal.com/licenses/tags/OSI-Approved

I'm really starting to think that companies violating OSS licenses is often times malice, not ignorance.
Subjective testing is required to verify that the "tools" the codec has make sense. For day-to-day development and tweaking of the implementation developers use SSIM, which works better than PSNR for noisy images.
Only to the states' interests. People were free to apply their own standards. Roe was only restrictive for people with extremely lax standards in the first place. I don't find these limitations on the state interest radical at all.
I’ve been working very closely with one over the past few months and the biggest improvement is clearly defining terms and making sure we always stick to them

We realised we were using the word design for like 4 different things and often two or more interpretations were valid
I am making a second post here.

Dave Packard once asked in a famous speech, "Why do people form or join companies?"

It's not to make money or create wealth, ultimately. That might be the goal, but not the reason.

It is so they can do things together that they couldn't otherwise do on their own.

Because otherwise they would on their own, you might say.

So if you think about that, that says a lot about what work is.
Netflix really should have pushed for multidecade licensing deals with the IP holders.
I think in the here and now, autonomous drones sharing airspace with other aircraft is not really a solved problems. Otherwise agreed.
Even if, well... some intelligence service has developed microcode-level "implants"/malware, they wouldn't necessarily want it to be part of the standard build that gets shipped to all customers, precisely because of the risk of exposure. It's at least as likely that they'd install it on targets as updates, having first secured access by other means (as they'd have to anyway to exploit a backdoor that did ship with the chips). It's possible that some agencies would even be able to access signing keys if that helped simplify "implanting" procedures -- though it might not be necessary, if (like the OPs here) they can arrange microcode-level execution by other means.
What did you post though? A lot of LinkedIn writing is very generic. Think the point of this article is that being honest and maybe a little provocative can be used as a filter, not things that come to mind with LinkedIn posts.
We are talking at cross purposes: your comment is a reasonable refutation of a browser monoculture, something we agree would be bad.

FWIW I am typing my response to you in Graphene.

Ultimately the issue is: what is the harm in using a library maintained by Google to do the webview rendering in a non-Google browser? I just don't see it.
Yeah. One thing. I found that if I spend even an hour in the morning on a passion project, before going to work, it really helps me focus on the soul-sucking office task. I don't know why, but that's the case for me.
Unfortunately, this is not true. An NDA is not a free pass to being able to censor whatever you want, even if the person signing the NDA took a fee, or received payment.

"NDAs do not prohibit people from reporting suspected corrupt conduct to an appropriate authority. The Crime and Corruption Act 2001 and the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2010 provide safeguards that allow people who have signed an NDA to report suspected wrongdoing, including corrupt conduct, maladministration and the misuse of public resources.

Under no circumstances do they oblige people who have signed them to maintain secrecy about suspected wrongdoing. You can still report suspected wrongdoing despite signing an NDA."

[1] https://www.ccc.qld.gov.au/sites/default/files/Docs/Publicat...
Answering the headline question: developers love buzzwords and sticking to ideas instead of doing jobs in a way that fits a situation.

What bugs me most in this is that ceremonial part. “Pass parameters in urlencoded form, except when GET, then put them into query string”. Wtf? We are clearly doing RPC, not a clerical work. Some APIs may look like documents, e.g. stock market personal order book looks like a collection of signed legal documents, but others do not, e.g. ticker stream, weather info, etc. Can we please stop stretching buzzwords and just settle on RPC, which could be abstracted away into `result = await resource.foo(bar, baz)` instead of processing numerous structured outcomes from network failures to operational errors which have no corresponding http status codes, unless you stretch to the one that sounds similar.
If could have been pushed down the chain. The media companies wanted to provide streaming so they talked with Microsoft. Microsoft realized it would be a valuable feature for thier OS and if they resisted but Apple didn't they would lose market share as HD streaming wasn't available. Then they said the same to Intel. If you don't do it people will buy AMD chips for HD streaming.

So basically it happened because users see the feature and don't realize how hostile it is until they actually try to access their media in an "unsupported" way.

Of course if everyone else resisted streaming services would likely have launched anyways, but that is classic prisoners dilemma.
I can agree with your comment. What's missing is the possibility to, you know, just jump ship.

You might not be married to Python but it sure looks that way for many others. I switched main languages no less than 4 times in my career and each time it was an objective improvement.

The thing that kind of makes me look down on other programmers is them refusing to move on.
The CCP:

-- Put a million Uighurs in camps

-- Persecutes followers of pretty much all religions --- Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Falun Gong, etc

-- Flat-out censors anything that offends them in the slightest

-- Puts whoever they want into detention with no kind of due process, from
small-time activists to billionaires

-- Harvests the organs of (not previously dead) prisoners

-- Had drones peering into apartment windows during the latest COVID lockdown, broadcasting the literal message "control your soul's desire for freedom"

-- and of course is an autocracy in which Xi Jinping has absolute power

The USA is far from perfect but one thing we learned from Trump in 2016 and Bloomberg in 2020 is that money isn't everything in American politics. The parties do have major differences and bad actors can be held accountable.

I'm not American, but this equivalence that some people like to draw between the governments of China and the USA drives me crazy.
The job I used to do as a C/EE at Intel decades ago is now currently being done by PhD physicists. I think the knowledge requirements have changed quite a bit now that everything is running in quantum level problems.

I still build audio amplifiers, filters, and dabble in RF, but my day job is mostly administrative, now.
I was also surprised, but it seems to be true. Wikipedia lists the median disposable income after adjusting for local prices (PPP), and USA is first on that list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...
Why is it more likely?
It’s not like Intel have no competition. They probably figured that if they didn’t cooperate with the media industry, AMD or someone else would, and eat their lunch when suddenly Sony movies can only be played on AMD devices.
This article overstates the distinction between Task MLE and Platform MLE.

From my experience managing data science teams (small teams - max 20 people), I always preferred for my Task MLE team mates to also do the Platform MLE work. I would not hire someone just to be a Platform MLE because they would be too distant from the day-to-day Task MLE needs.

I like the way that Google SREs think about this - there's toil (Task MLE parts of the job) and then there's automation (Platform MLE parts of the job). Every programmer on the team should have toil and should be given enough time and freedom to address their most painful toil through automation.

Distinguishing between Task MLEs and Platform MLEs so strictly is dangerous for anyone that applies this dichotomy in practice.

I guess the article author never explicitly stated that they have to be different people, but I got the sense from reading the article that this was an unstated assumption on their part.
> people generally finish breeding (ages <35) long before they have trouble from cholesterol (ages 40+) or other minor dietary issues

You’re speaking to modern times. Rebeccu, for instance, is a gorgeous town abandoned by Sardinians in the 14th century because of famine. Furthermore, the children of a famished mother are less likely to survive to reproductive age, and a family whose elderly died of famine will be less stable than one with multi-generational structures in place. These prenatal, neonatal and group selection dynamics bias the dice.
Oracle is the #1 contributor to the core of Linux in 5.18
The review that started this legal case was reposted to Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/w2lvgp/zuru_gla...
Orbán will speak at the American meeting of conservatives:

https://jacobin.com/2022/07/cpac-viktor-orban-conservatism-h...
The very opposite. Go and Rust are constantly on HN and get tons of praise. They are both overhyped here.
One of the problems with simple things is that everyone wants more features, and then they stop being simple.
Like Monty Python said: Always look on the bright side of life. Assuming you're right, then your first buyer would be the US Army. You would never have to work a single day in your life ever again. :-)
This is really good! Congrats!

I make algorithmic (infinite) music in a DAW (Reaper) and have been thinking about porting some of it to the browser, but didn't actually do anything about it :-(

Can you describe the architecture a little? Are you using the Web Audio API for the instruments (and timing)? Are tracks static/looping, or dynamic (created on the fly based on random parameters)?