skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are a ton of middle managers at big tech companies who exist only to get promoted and to empire build. You could, in my opinion, take everyone from L7 (M3 at Google, M2 at Facebook) to VP and fire 75% of them and be perfectly fine.

> Both of these companies are now in what I call permanent reorg churn. Every few months you'll get an email saying your mananger's manager's manager's manager now reports to a new manager as part of a broad reorg. You've never met any of these people. This is a meme internally.

> But what you have to understand is that reorgs are a way of avoiding the appearance of failure while appearing to be doing something. Don't get me wrong. Bad organizational structure can set you up for failure and a good org structure can help you succeed but reorg churn is none of this.

So many nails being hit on heads. Bravo. I see a lot of discussion in these threads around how hard it is to measure IC productivity, but nearly nothing about how to measure middle manager productivity (spoiler: you can't because their credit is based on work done by the people below them). In the middle of this hiring freeze stuff I got yet another reorg email from my company about my great-great-grand-boss, who I've never met, switching around to add a new layer of middle management new hires. Each of these is worth at least 5 IC headcount, probably more. I don't see a lot of criticism aimed at how _that_ band of the headcount doesn't match productivity...
So, money laundering, fraud and enabling cyber criminal activity is 'idealism'?

Also: GitHub is a private company. It's their real estate, they can do what they want with it. If they wanted to keep it up, they could have.

They didn't want to.
Disney surpasses Netflix in global paid streaming subscribers
JSON Server: Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds
> But if the company itself isn't the actual customer, you don't lose anything by upsetting their legal/marketing team!

Well, those badge-worthy companies can preemptively ban your product as well as future business development/co-marketing opportunities. If you never see yourself having an actual relationship of any kind with those companies, and your ethical bar is that low, then you may decide it's worth it.

Certainly, many crypto companies are practicing this form of wishful thinking right now.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/29/23284330/helium-crypto-me...
The SQL for describing "resources that contain other resources" gets a bit unidiomatic, but defining a query for those that have e.g. an engine and four wheels is quite easy. Then you can add that as a custom view, so that your inferred data is in turn available and queryable on an equal basis with raw input to the knowledge base.
> to make this work, you need to introduce some trusted party, and then if you're going to trust them anyway you might as well have just had them run a database.

Having some elements of centralization does not negate some of the benefits of building on an open source and permissionless blockchain. I wrote a little more in a sibling comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32418873
Yeah, but it's still kind of a shitty move.
The area served is close to Ann Arbor, MI - so remember Starlink's "satellites are in random-ish orbits around the Earth, not magically hovering over areas with more potential customers" issue.

It's possible that the county is trying to get tough with Comcast here - "stop gouging our residents so badly, or we'll help a local competitor (to you) grow into a real thorn in your bottom line". Starlink isn't credible for that.

And the money is from a "State and Local Fiscal Recovery" fund that the county has access to - so spending it on Starlink would probably be a legal non-starter regardless.
"It's increasingly difficult these days to write scrapers that don't at some point need to execute Javascript on a page - so you need to have a good browser automation tool on hand."

But doesn't this assume which sites are being "scraped". How would anyone know what sites someone else needs to "scrape" unless people name the sites (and the specific pages at the sites as this is not "crawling"). For example, none of the websites with webpages I extract data from require me to use Javascript, i.e., I can retrieve and extract data without using JS.

Also, it is possible to automate text-only browsers that do not run Javascript. "Browser automation" is not necessarily just for Javascript.

Maybe we should have a "scraping challenge" in an effort to provide some evidence on this question. The challenge could be to "scrape" every webpage currently submitted to HN,^1 without using Javascript.^2

If someone manages to scrape a majority of the pages submitted to HN without JS, then we have some evidence that, for HN readers, JS and therefore Javascript-enabled browser automation is generally _not_ required for "scraping".

1. The problem with I see using something more generic like majestic_million.csv is that it is a list of domain names not webpages.

2. We would likely need to agree on what data would need to be extracted from each submitted page.
We're okay with it when we see exceptional results.

When, instead, you see a school shooter's search history includes "I'm going to shoot up X school" and the FBI claims that they couldn't have foreseen it happening, then it starts to seem as if the results aren't as exceptional as they claim.
> a waste of company money
Well, I wonder how the CEOs, VPs, and other top level people actually spend their time at work. I get that they obviously must be doing something Very Important And Useful[1], because otherwise it would be a supreme waste of company money to pay them for eating Business Lunches...

1 - https://nypost.com/2022/07/01/rotterdam-wont-dismantle-bridg...
What percentage of the population is that person's cutoff for saying "nobody"? My assumption is that it likely was not literal

If 3/80000 people do something, is the behavior significant or relevant?
fair. easiest way for us to spin up authentication, but happy to enable more options if matters to enough people.
Roads were originally paved for bicycles, before cars. https://www.cyclinguk.org/cycle/roads-built-cars https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2013/apr/1... https://roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/
I'd really either like someone to find a new dark matter particle or to fix most of the problems with MOND.
I guess the French have GAFAM?
> FSD is not a license to sit back and read a book.

Given then that the F stands for "full", this seems like a simple case of fraud to me.
I wouldn't call it clickbait.

Mozilla's DeepSpeech is so large that you can't really read it and understand it. This one is 10x less code while recognition quality is 75% better (lower relative word error rate).

So this one is small enough that you can read the source code if you want to, while DeepSpeech is not.
How are you using Google services on LineageOS now? Do you have microG preinstalled (LineageOS for microG)[1], did you install GApps, or are you not using Google services at all?

/e/ has microG installed, just like LineageOS for microG. Compared to the proprietary Google Play Services in GApps, microG is a FOSS library that allows apps to access Google services. microG lets you selectively enable/disable push notification access for individual apps that depend on Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging, and also lets you choose a location provider other than Google. On the other hand, microG is not compatible with all apps that depend on Google Play Services. For example, Android Auto and Google Pay are not supported.

Also, /e/ and LineageOS support different versions for different devices. Since LineageOS supports Android 12 on OnePlus 6T,[2] while /e/ has that device on Android 11 (R),[3] LineageOS for microG may be a better choice on that device. Both /e/ and LineageOS support Android 11 on the OnePlus 3T.[4][5]

[1] https://lineage.microg.org

[2] https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/enchilada/

[3] https://doc.e.foundation/devices/enchilada

[4] https://doc.e.foundation/devices/oneplus3

[5] https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/oneplus3/
I don't understand why he doesn't use a microwave link for some of the single-endpoint long runs. (I don't doubt there was a reason; just want to know it,)
Yes; if you go out thinking, "I don't have to care about the condition of my bike or what to do if it breaks down because there are bus routes along the way, or I can call a friend," then you're not a serious cyclist.
The demoscene has been doing this for a while, I wonder if the basic techniques (doing it in a shader) are the same?

https://youtu.be/-ZxPhDC-r3w
I must have missed the part where the Jan 6th insurrectionists had machine guns and bombs and took hostages. Pretty alarming, if true. Do you have sources for how these two events are at all similar beyond that both involved unlawful entry into a government building?
TL;DR, Zuck & Pichai demonstrating how NOT to lead.

I can see the Cheyenne Dialysis commercial now...

---

<a black-and-white screen portrays a boss screaming at employees>

Narrator: "Do your employees seem disengaged? Is it 'getting harder to get all the employees to attend a meeting'¹?"

<a wild Zuck appears in full color>

Zuck: Then COME ON DOWN to Cheyenne Dialysis for a copy of my hot new leadership book: "This Place Isn’t For You!"¹

<dramatic pause to let that sink in>

Zuck: Check out what Microsoft's own dear leader, Pichai, had to say about the new book...

<Zuck clears throat to prepare to impersonate Pichai>

"Pichai": "When I said we needed to 'create a culture that is more mission-focused'¹, I knew my employees needed 'more hunger'¹. This book taught me to squash those pesky 'personal projects'¹, so we can focus on our core values as a company: 'leaner, meaner'¹.

<phone number appears on screen>

Zuck: COME ON DOWN or call today to reserve your copy of "This Place Isn’t For You!"¹ On sale for only $19.99! err... only $24.99! err... only $29.99!

---

¹ LMAO that these are actual quotes from the article. Parody can't hold a candle to the absurdity of real life.
Apps that use html for their UI and JS hooks to trigger touch ID, access the keychain etc.
That's why you have duplicated properties on things you went to query on.
Fully agreed! A dedicated bike lane that separates riders from car traffic could make riding experience very enjoyable.

I was born in China during the 80s, when biking was the most common way of transportation. The term "Kingdom of Bicycles" [1] was used as a tag line for China in that era. Most roads had bike lanes which could be just as wide as car lanes. Between the lanes are physical separators: 3-4 ft high, made of metal, reliable and heavy-duty [2].

Now I live in the US, and still enjoy biking cause there're nice bike trails near my place. However, most city roads seem not safe for biking. Biking becomes a recreational activity, and no longer a transportation method for me. I appreciate the nicely maintained bike trails, but I hope the city build more physical bike lane separators, not only painted lines on the ground, that can actually stop some reckless drivers entering bike lanes.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_bicycle#China_a...

[2] Another good reading about the bike history in China: The Rise, Fall, and Restoration of the Kingdom of Bicycles. https://macropolo.org/analysis/the-rise-fall-and-restoration...
Personally, I keep RCS disabled on my phone. After trying it for a while, I found it very, very annoying. I strongly prefer plain text.
It’s one of those things that you can easily learn from books, but is best learned from other hobbyists. I learned directly from someone else, hands on, and my understanding of the technical aspects only came later. If you don’t know anyone who does this, just hang out at your local hydroponics store. The people working there will get you set up and running in no time. You can also save a lot of money searching for DIY solutions.

I suggest having a strict low budget to start, in case you figure out later that this isn’t for you, and building up to more gear later if you like it. That way you won’t throw away a lot of money. Just start really small. You can really get an entire setup going for under $100 if you know what you want to do. You can construct a very small ebb and flow system for this amount of money.

I should point out, that hydroponics is not the ideal situation for every plant. A good example of this is found in the linked article. The author of this article talks about how much they like sage, but this is one plant that does not do as well in hydro as it does in soil, and I found it extremely odd that they wasted all that time trying to grow it this way.

I’ve personally grown massive amounts of sage in a soil filled container both outdoors in San Francisco sun conditions, as well as indoors near a sunny window; I harvested more than I could ever use. It would be a complete waste of time to go hydro with this. I kind of feel bad for the author, because this is something another hobbyist could have told them before they did this.
I worked at a company where I'd have at least 2 or 3 days a week where we had 4 hours of meetings. It was pure hell. Half the time I wouldn't even pay attention. I'd be browsing reddit or HN.

You hit the nail on the head with agile. I remember writing some code only to have the whole thing ripped out "next sprint" because nobody bothered to think a couple weeks ahead. Or starting an integration project with a third party, only to find out they're not ready, so we have no API that actually works. So we waste time mocking it out, only to find out the docs they gave us don't match reality.
How is this a civil matter and not criminal?
> That we couldn’t - for the first time ever - open project files from a previous version into the new version

They put the time and effort at the time to allow importing of iMovie Projects though... Just that was a massive slap in the face of all professionals.
I feel the same way, I think the shirt I have on is probably 5 years old. It doesn't help that "fast fashion" garments are generally lower quality and wears worse than alternatives, but a fair number of people are just done with an outfit after being seen in it a couple times.
Sometimes people just have to see the result of a policy to get it.
Presumably Cloudflare has trademarked their name, and as such has various protections via ICANN: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/trademark-infringement...

Whether you like it or think it's unfair, this was litigated long ago, and Cloudflare's actions are no different than any other big brand hiring a company to search registrars for thier name.

It's worth noting that cloudflaresucks.com and similer *sucks.com names have been protected by the courts in the US as non-infringing. Names like Cloudfare.com or C1oudflare.com probably can be taken down, particularly if they represent themselves as actually being cloudflare.
I agree, but FAANG developers also get paid huge amounts at the same time. A relaxed job with great perks should pay 50-100k. If you earn half a mil in RSUs you really should be grinding, or someone else will take your place.
The US is very big and has very sparsely populated areas, to the point where it would take some time to recoup the cost of the fiber and labor to run it at market rates. Without subsidy, the large telecom companies would rather just not allocate capital to it and issue a stock dividend or something.
Why not both? Work is ~40hrs a week, so it's nicer if you have the option to enjoy it. There are other software jobs with similar pay to Google, but with more rewarding work. Win-win to switch, if that's what you're looking for.

Personally, the type of problems I solve at work are more interesting than I could realistically come up with and work on on my own. Ymmv.
I believe for English, German, Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish there's enough data in CommonVoice to get good results.
Just my opinion of course, but (like drugs and alcohol) putting a reasonable and generic metric on it is really hard, so I would instead ask generic questions that I would ask about other things like:

1. Do you find yourself craving it?

2. Do you continually feel the need to increase your intake? (i.e. developing a tolerance)

3. Would you be embarrassed if a like-minded friend knew about your habit?

4. If you were suddenly cut off from it for a few days, how would it make you feel?
Displacing Comcast in any degree us a major service to the species.
> provided you use an account.

Within 3 days of registering a new account they will prompt you 'for a phone number, because we detected security issues with your usage'. Don't know how having a phone number helps with security issues like that, but again -user hostile-.

I'm not creating a Twitter account just to read their public site, because they are user hostile and privacy invasive.
Physics is the equation, not a scribble of one on a dead tree.
The short answer is I tried - for about three years. Meanwhile, I had the onset of depression, panic attacks, and numerous other physical ailments. It's taken about two years of therapy, but I've finally realized that I am just not the person that can do that.

Funny enough, I have a co-worker who is able to perform in this way and he appears to have no issues with the current status quo. As much as I might wish I could be more tolerant, I've accepted that I'm just built different and I need my job to provide a challenging environment.
will as in does or slated to?
I think a lot of people find Merino wool not to have the same itchy discomfort of traditional wool, I am sadly not one of those people.
Evolution seems to explain most of it. There's humanity as species, where decision making process is quite primitive, hormones drive most of it. And then there's humanity as civilization, where decisions are supposedly driven by culture and obtained knowledge. For millions of years hormones were the only tool for decision making and evolution was the only tool at our disposal for progress.

But now those two are at conflict, and the winner is clear. We are way past those times where evolution has any noticeable effect on our species. More has changed for humanity in the last 100 years than in 50,000 years somewhere in the middle of our history.

With this mindset, treating happiness as the ultimate goal seems ancient and barbaric. We're not cavemen anymore, it's no longer cool.

That said, it does give an easy meaning to those who can't choose the meaning themselves. If you don't have any purpose in life, happiness is the inherited factory default setting.

I decided I don't want to be a boring human being with factory default settings. I'd rather be wrong than boring.
And it’s « stable ». I mean it works and will keep on working for years.
Use it while you can. Can bet they'll disable it soon.
Arguing for greater efficiency or arguing against luxury is so, so different from arguing for degrowth. Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems that degrowth is fundamentally misanthropic. And the core of the misanthropic philosophy is the belief that mankind and nature are two different things.

We will likely die for the lack of philosophy.
> they just need to flip a switch

Do they have to support it going forward ?

Can the user “just need to” use another browser?
Ask HN: Folks who were around the 2008 Recession
How does the current recession feel like to you compared to 2008?

Do you feel this is the beginning of the recession or are we in the middle/end of it?
My chain tool weighs 28 grams, and can fit 3 chain tools in a box for a deck of cards. It is the most common form factor for this tool. I wouldn't consider it bulky- are you very small?
Project write-up: Display Spotify lyrics on external display
Hi guys!

When starting out with programming, most of the time you don't get to learn about the though process behind a project implementation . I recently did a project and decided to do a write-up detailing the whole thought process and how I went from point zero to a finished project. I think there is a shortage of similar articles so I am sharing it here in case it helps others :)
You might be eligible to use Google's TPU Research Cloud for free, provided you publicize your results?
https://sites.research.google/trc/about/

Otherwise, perhaps you could ask LAION on #compute-allocation?
And I'm just excited to be able to 'visit' a museum from the internet :-)
What companies have a "near-monopoly on artistic expression online?" I can have a web site up and running in an hour publishing any art I have the right to publish, with just an IP from my ISP and optionally a domain name. I don't need to ask any company's permission.
You can remove the paper filter and clean up liquid spills--plumbing overflows, accidents in the kitchen, etc.
Perseid meteor shower: All you need to know in 2022
totally happy to implement login with tokens. would that be easier for you?
It's always the clip on the magic link. You ever notice that? I've never broken the link itself, always the clip.
Sigh

When the phrase "The King is dead, long life the King" is used, the two kings are different people; the one that just passed and the one that replaced him. If the King is replaced by a Queen then the phrase is "The King is dead, long live the Queen". This is not some life after death thing. You aren't saying the King will live on in the hearts and minds of the people, you're stating your support for the successor.
Oh yeah, I played Genshin for a year as well. It is a very well-polished, high-budget game with some good implementations of gameplay mechanics.

Which makes it the quintessential example of the modern AAA skinnerbox game. Polished gameplay, a good initial hook, and an addictive gameplay loop.

Which is what Justin Kan and Co. are trying to create, but have been largely unsuccessful in doing so.
I agree with you about free will, but we still run society as if it exists. If that's the argument we're going with then we literally shouldn't punish anyone for anything.
The reduction in spending is exactly what the fed wants in order to curtail inflation, it's a feature not a bug.
The rich don’t take much. The vast majority of their wealth is paper. A billionaire who jet sets around and has five homes and a staff might at most consume the resources of a few hundred middle class Americans.

You might approach the footprint of a medium sized town if you built your own orbital lair and lived like a cyberpunk oligarch in space. Maybe.

Of course for some resources there is little difference at all. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos don’t eat much more than you do.

Money is not physical. Start redistributing physical stuff and you’ll find that soaking the rich barely makes a dent.
The number of successful prosecutions, with guilty verdicts and jail time, on offences under whichever anti-terror statutes you're measuring for effectiveness.

If individual acts of terror are being prevented, but none of the people planning them are put in prison, and are free to walk the streets and try another plot, would you say those laws are effective? I wouldn't.
SMS is convenient because everyone has it. With those other services, I have to find out what they use, install it, register for an account, etc. Simpler just to send a text.
But are you talking software development? And if so, is that because key systems like source control/ticketing/chat/meetings etc. are all cloud-hosted and don't require logging into the domain/VPN etc.? If so, I'd still count that as "logging in", in the sense, they're online and interacting with other co-workers.
Whoever dismisses the semantic web and prefers CSV for data exchange can burn in HELL!!!
I'm curious how they know bribery happened. According to the lawsuit details another commenter linked, it outlines a suspicious chain of events but no evidence of actual bribery from what I skimmed through. Maybe that's just how it works and they hope to learn more in discovery though.
It suffers from the same problem as all other Android forks: no updates to binary blobs that actually make phone a phone.