skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Framing degrowth as a choice (against continued economic growth / business as usual (BAU)), rather than as a planned de-escallation as an alternative to an unplanned catastrophic collapse and/or descent into some post-prosperity feudalistic gilded era in which a vanishingly small fraction of global haves might enjoy something approximating present high-consumption lifestyles but the overwhelming majority do not and never will ... is ignoring the fundamental reality of the degrowth / steady state argument which is that planetary boundaries exist. There are limits to resource availability, as we've known for a long time, as well as to sink capacities --- the ability of the environment to absorb the effluvia of our activities without undergoing a catastrophic shift.

There are also quite probably systemic responses, including (though I'd suggest not limited to) the emergence of global epidemics and pandemics of disease and dysfunction. Kyle Harper's recent book, The Fate of Rome, advances the case that diseases co-evolve with civilisation. This itself becomes an interesting counterpoint to the well-worn argument that science, technology, and progress have relieved humans of the evils of infectious disease. It was progress, population growth, commerce, and urbanisation which created those plagues in the first place. As Jarred Diamond noted in Guns, Germs, and Steel, it was the Old World with its crowded cities and vast commercial networks which introduced plagues to the New (with a very few possible exceptions, and those largely very slow-moving insults).

Though of course, diseases of the tropics were well-known. Those however are overwhelmingly zoonotic and parasite-based rather than trasmitting directly between humans, and reflect the same dynamics (huge populations and intense intercourse) though of other species, typically insects. Diseases of sanitation and hygiene, notably cholera, would be the other principle exception, though that was introduced to Europe largely from the Indian subcontinent.

Again, the point isn't that degrowth is an option to BAU, it's an option to a far worse collapse or oppressive wealth concentration with massive disenfranchisement. The fact that discussing the issue in these terms an on this basis is so readily derailed is itself among the profound challenges in achieving a non-worst-case outcome. I've pointed before to the work of William Ophuls (Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity, Plato's Revenge) and Thomas Homer-Dixon (various) before, I'll recommend them without reservation here again.
This is not correct. WKWebView can be made to report back clicks and URL loads, inject JS etc. Eg here is the doc for the navigation delegate: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wknavigatio...
I actively try to avoid fashion trends and instead buy nice clothes that are difficult to place in time… anything that would look normal in a movie from 50 years ago and 2 years ago is ideal. This ensures that I won’t feel social pressure to replace it before it’s even 5 years old.
They're just linux, provide your own. There are many options.
The sibling already mentioned the axioms of thermodynamics that forbid it. Another way to see that this is forbidden is Etendue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etendue#Conservation_of_etendu...
IIRC Amazon does stack ranking too.
Very well written, very funny. Even though I don't eat much red meat, the article makes me want an Argentine steak. Although I'm not sure how happy I would be with the rest of Argentine cuisine.
a well paying job with low expectations sounds great, but actually sucks after a while. i’ve been there a couple times. it’s just not fulfilling. it brought out a weird mixture of guilt and sadness in me. i was getting great reviews, and by every measure was doing my job well.

when i’ve moved on from those jobs i’ve been happier, grown more, and it’s led to more money.
I would assume you have to use stock. Excel/Office ships with a VBA IDE that you get to with alt-F11 (and I think by viewing macro source through the menus.)
Wouldn't you effectively get those features by just not using FKs? You'd get your broken-reference marker by `where foreign_id not in (select id from foreign_table)`. You could create that as a view or materialized view.
I don’t know what you’re trying to say? Are you saying they discontinued a product that was big in India? How is this reverse imperialism? What is reverse imperialism?
Another concern that is very prevailing is rewards. I could work 2 times harder in my current position, however what is that going to bring me?

Promotion or bigger bonus - it’s the same as playing stock options with your time, you are better off playing office politics for a much better RoI.

Self value? Senior engineer in FAANG is almost never going to have REAL impact, so I can only enjoy thinking that someone cares about that tiny piece of software that I work with. Again, getting drunk is a better RoI.
Same with self improvement… where side project usually allows one to grow more

So, what is the benefit of working harder?
A summary if you're short on time:

Mobile app webviews (like those used by e.g. instagram, twitter) are in many ways a modern re-incarnation of the old exploitative frame embedding problem; but in this case, apps use webviews to track user behavior + keep them in their app.

To deal with the frame issue X-Frame-Options: DENY was developed so websites could opt out, but there is currently no recourse for users or website owners in the webview case.

The problem could be solved on the mobile OS level by having it interpret the presence of X-Frame-Options: DENY as disallowing webviews for particular sites, and instead open the OS default browser.

Conclusion:

> Our best bet is regulatory intervention, along the lines of what Open Web Advocacy is doing. In collecting my thoughts here, I hope to start this conversation. The modern version of TotalNews must be reined in.

Edit: forgot there was a frame separate from iframe
> It's complete willful ignorance to mock or dismiss this.

It's complete willful ignorance to participate in this well-funded paid fearmongering campaign driven by a Musk opponent who ran for office just so he couldn't be sued for libel and defamation for his statements.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/dan-odowd-senate-c...

The paid anti-Tesla ad I just saw on YouTube is also an advertisement for the guy's own software company. Self-driving cars are the future and are already saving lives. (https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-autopilot-eight-times-less-l...) Promoting this Luddite anti-self-driving fearmongering campaign will directly lead to more deaths.
They haven’t deprecated web views at all: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkwebview

WKWebView can indeed be used to spy on users - clicks can be intercepted, URLs sniffed, and custom JS injected (including a way to call back to the app’s runtime via a WebKit message passing mechanism). Considering all other iOS browsers (ok maybe some still run UIWebView) have been made using this component (because App Store reviews enforce this), it’s clear that it has to provide extensive control over displayed contents.
What makes horses special. If you can find some eccentric millionaire who's willing to stump up prize money for any sort of race, crowds and gamblers alike will start to take things seriously. I have been to dachshund races. People will bet on anything.
That's amazing. I would love to see a blog post for instance talking more about the math that went into taming the unique visual blending properties of the IBM PC! Because the way you all hacked shade blocks is just as impressive as all the hacks you put into things like the crt and ram. Most importantly, the shade blocks are readily available for creative applications today thanks to unicode.
I have to presume his marketing costs will be close to zero. On tge other hand, in my area (central NJ) both Comcast and Verizon spend a ton on marketing.

He'll also have zero churn. So that's got to help the bottomline.

Finally, I'm willing to bet it helps raise local home prices as those who had to have proper broadband were effectively excluded from that market. The point being, some homes will be able and will to pay more.

Certainly the future will be different, the comparison to traditional ISPs might not be reliable either.
I think it's pretty common that when someone says "nobody does X", that's shorthand for "there is probably a very small number of people who do X, but not enough to make much of a difference".

Sure, there are some people who abuse WFH, but I suspect it is far fewer people than Zuckerberg and Pichai suggest, and there are other, more important reasons for productivity losses. Reasons that have more to do with management and poor strategy than the actions of individual employees.
>> I don’t want them to use bullying, intimidation, authoritarianism, or violence to force others to adopt (or pretend to adopt) their viewpoint.

> Are you really equating "not choosing to buy stuff" and "not choosing to watch/attend stuff" with violence?

No, and I’m genuinely confused as to how you arrived at that interpretation of my statement.

> Listen, I get it - you think you're entitled to a revenue stream, that whatever nonsense you build deserves money.

How did you arrive at this conclusion? It has no relation whatsoever to what I wrote.
The FAQ says 500~1500 km.

Which is pretty short... You rarely break a normal bike chain.
That’s why I just do 3-5 min syncs 3-4 times a week one on one with my direct reports with flex to lengthen if a deeper topic comes up. Uses more of my time but less zoning out and more chance to actually unblock blockers. Downside is I need to tell people to communicate if there is value in team collaboration, but we have other opportunities for fostering that.
A simple plan for repairing our society (2020)
Excel is fine. E-Sports, however, just jumped a shark.
Go and visit people.

Set up dedicated 1:1 times with everyone, don't rely on serendipitous chances to connect.

If you spend some time building a relationship in person, you can keep it going remotely. It's a lot harder to build a deep relationship remotely.
I moved jobs recently and this has been a minor issue for me. I get invited to all the meetings, including those where neither my input nor attendance is required, but I don't know that until a few minutes in. At that point I either sit and listen to something barely related to my role or awkwardly drop off.
I agree about the eye rolling absurdity there. But I also suspect stuff like the opening up of various bits of RaspberryPi firmware blobs wouldn’t have happened without people who share his philosophy there. Same with hardware (and software) like Bunnie Huangs Precursor, a piece of as close as practically fully upon source hardware, where the cpu is implemented as an open source FPGA, and the Xous OS for it is written ground up in Rust. That’s a hell of a complex project, and a fascinating , that in my opinion would probably never have been worth anyones time to even start on, if they didn’t share (and possibly exceed) some of Stallman’s philosophical absurdity.

Like I said, I acknowledge the “ extreme fringe wing nut GPL virality advocating loudmouths” and appreciate their existence, if only as a balance to the “make Larry Ellison infinitely rich and powerful” kind of alternatives.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/08/excel-esports-on-espn...
I think the main issue will be that smaller producers and studios won’t be able to make successful content because all of the users and subscriptions will be held by the big players. And even if they can get a licensing deal to put their content on another platform, it won’t be as favourable as Disney gets on their own platform.
I do web and app dev, but I was always interested enough in servo, pathfinder, druid, tauri, etc... to keep tabs on them.

What did you end up moving on to after pathfinder?
> Assuming FSD is currently as good as a human driver

That's a massive assumption made without evidence.

> Tesla publishes details about accidents per million miles driven and compares that with Autopilot active and without.

The problems with Tesla's autopilot (different from FSD) statistics have been pointed out before: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/06/teslas-using-autopilot-...
> Self-driving cars are the future and are already saving lives. (https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-autopilot-eight-times-less-l...) Promoting this Luddite anti-self-driving fearmongering campaign will directly lead to more deaths.

I don't have teeth on either party, but I want to see independent results instead of self-reported results. It seems that Tesla isn't that willing to allow independent analysis though.
Can you somehow detect that you're in a webview and instruct users to press the "open in browser" button? Perhaps via the user agent, or some other way?
> The [iOS] Instagram app injects their tracking code into every website shown, including when clicking on ads, enabling them monitor all user interactions

The allegation isn't that Instagram can do this but that they are.
great, now do versailles.

or brest-litovsk.

a bad peace treaty is not an excuse for barbarism.
The way packaging is designed to work in Sematic is for us to hook into your existing dependency management solution to determine what your dependencies are, then build a docker image for you based on those. As you point out, right now we only integrate with bazel for this purpose, but we hope to add more. A simple plugin for requirements.txt -> Docker image is probably next on the TODO list.

> It seems that the entire pipeline will execute as a single (or multiple) k8s pod(s) using the same environment?

single docker image, but multiple pods (when you are using the full cloud mode). This was an intentional decision to avoid confusion around what things could be imported in what places (mimicking more what it would be like in one python instance), and also avoid weird version inconsistencies across the pipeline.

> Any guidelines on what kind of scale Sematic can support today (and the near future)?

Based on some prior tooling experiences, the main bottleneck should be what your Kubernetes cluster can handle.

> I am quite interested in trying out Sematic

Glad to hear it! We'd love to hear about your experiences. You can join our discord if you want help while you're trying it out: https://discord.com/invite/4KZJ6kYVax
I agree that its certainly common, but that is why it was imperative for Google to have had policies in place to require PPE. Someone entering an arc-flash risk cabinet without PPE should have been disciplined or fired by a supervisor.

And thanks for the insight and your personal experiences, interesting to read!

A side note, I'd encourage you to consider introducing some form of buddy system or check in if you're working alone. Beyond electrical hazards, Ive lost a coworker to a heart attack in an unattended area. Stay safe.
The comment I was responding to wasn't about stack ranking, not sure if you meant to reply to someone else.
Possibly confirmation bias but 'Simple' has gotten really trendy and for databases it doesn't get much simpler.

Quite a few posts appealing to the idea of "why are we doing all this nonsense? X does the job just fine".
You call that dead weight? If you're finishing your work on time then you may (gasp) be a decent employee.
No, you can't design a system than operates contrary to how human brains work, and then say that it's the driver's fault that they did exactly what we know human brains do. We learned that from aircraft, and correctly identified from numerous accidents that expecting even super highly trained, in extremely safety critical positions, are not able to do what FSD requires by design.
Can you, metaphysically, define nothing? I ask because I wager you can't, and I am highly suspect that metaphysics has philosophical value.
That article isn’t even about the same CPU.
I think it's interesting to remember too that these asset-backed centralized stablecoins (I'm referring to USDC here) are actually driving centralized control of the chains on which they reside.

Asset-backed stablecoins, being ostensibly on-chain references to real-world value, cannot fork and retain their value across both forks. They provide the overwhelming majority of the actual economic utility of a given chain which means that a fork of any major chain that hosts them is basically impossible. A contentious network decision is at basically the sole discretion of Jeremy Allaire and lord help us Paolo Ardoino.

So not just the government.
Growing up in bbq land, I was still not prepared for Curitiba Brazil. I had protein withdrawal for months after that trip.
And, if written in Perl, it will still compile!
That means I am counted 3 or possibly even 4 times without paying a cent to Disney directly. I have an old Spotify Premium account that came with Hulu for free and now I have a Verizon Unlimited plan that includes free Disney+, ESPN+, and another Hulu subscription. Just goes to show that not all subscribers are created equal.
I suppose this is the dual to the OnlyFans creator who slept with Meta employees to get unbanned https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31447396

I think the takeaway from both of these stories is that Meta employees are easily bribed and perhaps some more internal controls are needed to prevent abuse of these platform features.
Still cheaper than the days of paying €50 for a ONE SEASON DVD box set.
And you had to buy these in an actual record store. As in meat space.

Young people don't know how utterly bleak the past was. It's up to old folks to keep these stories alive.
At Google, which I'm pretty confident the parent comment was describing, promotion is supposed to be recognition that you've already been consistently performing at that level for a long time. So someone newly promoted is not actually up-leveled, they're just no longer down-leveled.
Why Steve Jobs Chose Issey Miyake’s Turtlenecks
Honest don’t disagree. I first heard the saying “Rest and Vest” from googlers.

(2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14943146
https://archive.ph/Jndul
ah yeah, the mythical 10x dev. He, who has the permission and authority of management, to completely eviscerate any and all process to get whatever management wants done. I know a guy like that. He recently commit a massive code change without so much as a code review or a Jira ticket. 100s of new files. No one knows what the fuck they do. Wonder of wonders.

People still believe in 10x. People also believe in agile. It's amazing. If you're doing code reviews, proper unit tests, Jira micromanagement bullshit, it's an impossibility to get a 10x dev. We have WIP limits for fucks sake! WIP!! You literally cannot merge enough code to be a 10x without management favoritism.
Why aren't all exclusivity contracts invalid on their face as anticompetitive and contrary to public interest?
It's like a bull market, where 70% of the value of shitty companies is driven by the bull market and the vertical they are in. Same goes for employment: during good(bullish) times, one doesn't need to deliver much and still can coast.
You mean the same MIM whose CFO was Michael Patryn (0xSifu) of QuadrigaCX? That MIM?
It's still just a job. And at the end of the day, unless the company is giving me stock, the only thing that matters to me is whether the company still exists tomorrow. If I'm learning new tech on my own time, that's for MY personal enrichment, not theirs. Sure, I could spend my personal time dreaming up new ideas for the company, but I'm not inclined to spend a second of my time prioritizing them over my own personal interests.

I've built multimillion dollar success stories online and still been laid off as the only developer because they thought they could go into a "maintenance phase." Nobody ever again will ever get more of my time than I am compensated for.
Or play a Disney movie for free.
This was before iframes iirc; just frames. Edit: at least the frame busting js was pre- iframes
I'm always surprised when articles like these don't talk about the meaning behind the original phrase. The semantic web came to be because there existed a need for computers to understand the contents of webpages, which were invariably human-generated.

We now have a huge set of tools for that under the broader AI/ML umbrella - ML is obviously imperfect, but its cautious utilization across various industries is, to me, a step in the right direction. There's simply no need to pigeonhole ourselves into a "semantic web" data model that might not fit a particular topic or application.

I personally think that embeddings (https://milvus.io/docs/v1.1.0/vector.md) will eventually take over semantic search applications. NLP, for better or worse, have seen great success naively throwing text into massive pre-trained models (I say naively because a lot of these models still think Obama or Trump is president). We've also made great progress unifying the architecture of NLP and CV models via transformer architectures, and we're now seeing lots of CV applications follow suit.
The geeks shall inherit the earth.
Seen in a bathroom in an Australian bar/grill: A poster with two flies.

Fly 1: "Bet you I can run up this wall faster than you."

Fly 2: "Bet you you can't."

At the bottom: "They say that Australians will bet on anything, even two flies running up a wall. If you have a gambling problem, call <helpline number>."

Also seen on that same bathroom wall: A poster reading "Win a trip for two to Las Vegas".
in the heat, I wouldn't want thick merino wool on. and in my experience, any thin thread 100 ones don't last that long even when babied. I do like thicker ones for the winter as base layers though
> Proponents of native apps would also likely say: “If you had your own native app, this problem would be solved, because you can register a link handler that will automatically open all soundslice.com URLs in your native app.”

I believe the embedded-style webviews bypass this link-handling anyway.

E - discussion of an article linked to from this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32415470
In the past simple plain web-based text chat worked fairly well for some places I worked at, especially for smaller team rooms.

Today, everyone is using Slack, and I feel it's really killing any social chat because it tries very hard to force you to use those stupid "threads". Someone posts something in the morning and then I reply three hours later with a joke and no one will ever see that except the person who posted it because it "disappeared" in a thread thing. I know you can select "also send to whole channel", but in practice almost no one does that.

Add to that the 6 bots constantly posting stuff and it becomes even worse. Do we really need to see the CI status of every branch every time someone pushes anything?

I think building relationships over remote work is already hard, but if your tools are built to discourage it then it becomes even harder. It's not that it can't be done with e.g. Slack, it's just (even) harder.
Why is the US responsible for Iraq again?
Dash-hounds sound like they'd be fast.
I remember actually rating shows and movies on Netflix. There were stars and I could give as many or as few as I wanted.

Now they give me some stupid thumbs-up/-down thing, and I just give them the finger in response. Ratings on Netflix are useless now.

I do have one huge bit of praise for them: the cancellation process was absolutely painless. Not being snarky, I really appreciated that! (Contrast with trying to cancel SiriusXM, or Spectrum Internet; both painful)
That would erode usability and increase friction though - it'd be really nice if, like the article suggested, it just happened automatically.
> Machine Learning (ML) and Data Science (DS) developers are not software engineers, and vice-versa.

Woof, I'm out.