skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never understood the sarcastic, smarmy, dismissive tone people take when talking about these kinds of issues.

The parent poster obviously was not implying getting banned on Twitter is in any way similar to the government imprisoning you for your speech, yet you straw-man him while being on some kind of unearned intellectual high-horse.

He is, however, stating the fact that being banned from the platform is having your ability to participate in discourse removed or limited. While the platform may have the right to do so, it doesn't change the fact that there are varying degrees of censorship, and it's not the black-and-white "prosecution/execution or nothing."
True. But they did hurt some of that goodwill with the "Trust Me Bro Warranty" in regards to the $250 backpack they sell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdxVtAiYeL0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsX3tUA-wJk
That’s fascinating.

> As soon as we can, we will book time on Webb to observe this strange and wonderful world.

How does that work? Is there a hotline you call to book time? Is it free or paid? How is the instrument not booked solid for the next few years?
both sides, because theres only two sides to any issue
After taking the time to educate myself on the topic, I am far more concerned about climate change than any other one issue. At this point, I am pretty much a single issue voter for any political candidate that takes it seriously. In the short term, it will cause incomprehensible amounts of human suffering and economic damage. In the long term, it's an existential threat to humanity.
> Cancel culture is not the result of free speech, it's the result of a toxic social environment.

> Here are some actionable solutions that don't require limiting free speech:

> 1. Improve labor laws so craven employers can't just dump their employee because they said something online (unrelated to the company on their personal time) and people are complaining.

Well that would mean changing the laws so that people can't be fired for essentially any reason like it is at the moment. Or are you proposing people should be able to get fired for any reason except for saying reprehensible things online?

> 2. Regulate social media algorithms to prevent the feedback loops that lead to events like a woman with two followers becoming the target of 20 million people.

Generally a good idea, how? Also does that include female journalists being targeted by a horde of guys who are supposedly concerned about gaming journalism?

> 3. Change media incentives to improve the quality of journalism and decrease click-bait and outrage-chasing.

I could get behind this, but how would we do that. More media financed through taxes/fees?
Bigtable folks wrote a follow-up paper to the original, but it was turned down by the conference's reviewers for not being novel enough or something like that, so the team just went ”ok, whatever..." and moved on. Years later, there were a couple of talks by Carter and Phaneendhar at the HBase conference that might have been hosted at Google NY.
WebView is not an APEX module, it predates them.
as someone who vacations regularly throughout mexico (tijuana, rosarito, mexico city, chihuahua and baja amongst the destinations) i find these sorts of comments silly at best.

there is no "mexican civil war" there was the Cristero, the reform, and the revolutionary war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Civil_War

while organized criminal homicides are rising, it is nowhere near sixty-thousand. it has never been close.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_drug_war#Casualties

the civilian casualties of the Syrian civil war numbered nearly 230,000 which is nearly quadruple your assessment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Syrian_civil...
My favorite thing of his is the Chipophone

https://www.linusakesson.net/chipophone/index.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAuPIgD-TM0
Maybe it's because I live in Sweden but I know a lot of people in the company that I work at that work between 50-90%. I myself plan to go down to 80% sometime in the near-ish future (current plan is 2025). Definitely not the norm tough.
>3. What data do you collect about me?
We may collect information from you during your use of the Services, including your name, username, password, e-mail address, postal address, phone number, mobile phone number, payment information, gender, birth year, location, and other information you provide or post on our Services or allow us to access

Do you want an iris scan too?
Wonderfully written, but for my shame I expected a different storyline and put it down a year or so ago after only reading 60 pages or so and haven't gone back to it. I keep packing it one times away, but... .

One day I might learn how to have a kid AND read books :/
Is this really how time dilation works?
They're very closely linked problems. The easiest way to solve homelessness is to give the homeless a place they can call home. Which is a lot cheaper if housing is already in abundant supply.
It was the other way around. Works weeks were 48 hours or more until Henry Ford enacted a five-day 40-hour week in his factory in 1926[0]. Later, in 1939, laws were passed that officially established the new only-40-hour week as the norm, with 32 hours as the official mark of full- vs part-time, and anything over 40 being deemed "overtime."

At least in the United States, that's the trend.

0. https://www.truthorfiction.com/henry-ford-invented-the-5-day...
Unlikely, though dogs can appear stupid due to being dogs, hence having different drives in life. This may apply to anything besides dogs.
That's what the existing Linux app is.
Yes, the latency improvement is very true
Misko is right of course, but it remains to be seen if Qwik will be everything it promises to be.
Except it’s all basically clever tricks to cause gradient diffusion to do what is needed.
How did you arrive at 3 days? Why not 2? Why not 1? Why work at all when we can just print ourselves money until it all collapses? Do you own a business where you've allowed your employees to work different sized workweeks and were able to evaluate the changes in productivity? What data do you have to back up any of your viewpoints that's more substantive than just believing whatever people on reddit or elsewhere on the internet told you is true?
Out of curiosity, do you have experience raising kids, or do you plan to?
Researchers find spaceflight may be associated with DNA mutations
Thanks for that info, I'll check it out.
Well, I suppose I fit into this category, and the answer is no, it does not.
Intolerance.. of what? Intolerance of their brother playing with matches under his bed? Intolerance of being bullied?

Intolerance itself is amoral. Intolerance of bad things is good. Intolerance of good things is bad. Part of raising a kid is teaching them which things should be tolerated and which things not to tolerate. Absolute tolerance isn't virtuous, it makes you a wet noodle with no spine.
Twitter gives in to user requests for edit button
and when websites are kind of apps, but not really so you need the SEO benefits of regular websites yet the interaction of apps....then you get into the fun bits
Israel is the ultimate pragmatic nation? You mean the religious police state that has illegal nuclear weapons and did its best to provoke an apocalyptic conflict between the US and Iran?

The apartheid state that is dominated by far right extremist that are still living by a 19th century colonialist doctrine?
Of course, but that’s completely orthogonal. Nobody believes their own side’s media because it’s less easy to debunk; people instead believe that media because it’s the media from their own side, and as such tells people on that side what they want to hear and believe.
It's also the place where bloggers are routinely killed for blogging about crime. Also, any new law enforcement agent announcing they're going to do something about crime is murdered within 24hrs or so.

"Editor's note: Because of concerns over their ongoing safety in Mexico, the name of the reporter who wrote this story is not listed."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/11/29/mexica...
Swing dancing is indeed a great one. Although I did run into the issue that, eventually it didn’t seem likely to REALLY be my thing, and for men there is actually a definite level of competitiveness to be aware of. That said, people were diverse, friendly, and the vibe is very cheerful and healthy
Currently working at smallish startup (~20 people) that gives every other Monday off. Been enjoying it, especially during summer.
Chromebooks are being anti-trusted out of schools globally.

I think Desktop Linux came, won, left, and nobody wants to admit it.
That’s because AGI is all about taking investor money and making it your own, which really doesn’t require complex code.
High Contrast Imaging of the Exoplanet HIP 65426 b from 2-16 μm
If you read the article their appeal to the state supreme court actually increased the judgement from $31 million to $36 million, so continuing to appeal may have been a poor choice.
And pick whichever one comes to mind easier.

I am generally very good at taking tests but that was learned behavior. My origin story was a conversation about timed math tests with multiplication tables, and I was hit with the twin observations that you don’t have to do the answers in order, and if you can’t recall 7x9 but you can recall 9x7 it’s the same answer.

All of a sudden I wanted to know what other tricks there were and boy did I look for all of them.
The cost to tax payers isn't a hit to the overall economy though. The government spending replaced fees that would ordinarily be payed by taxpayers and tourists.
> they will just make everyone part time.

The implicit threat here is withdrawal of benefits - specifically health care insurance
I'm very excited to see the new work on debugging. I'd always been a sort of simple "printf" type debugger, but the recent John Carmack interview about his process has had me rethinking things.

With all the investment the Elixir folks have been putting in Livebook lately, I wonder if that's a natural avenue for exploration. Livebook is super cool, and I use it as a scratchpad for trying things out, but I feel like it could have some pretty powerful debugging functionality as well.

edit: silly me! I got too excited and jumped the gun. Scrolling down a bit more now, the article actually does talk about that some.
There’s a lot of background thinking that happens with knowledge work. Spending 3 hours at a desk and 5 hours milling about in the office isn’t necessarily “not being productive”. It’s pretty often that I’ll get stuck on a problem, distract myself on HN for a few minutes, then pump out a solution in minutes or otherwise have an epiphany.

Similarly, talking to coworkers, even (especially) at unrelated parts of a company can be super valuable, even if it codes as “unproductive time wasting”.

TLDR your definition of work might be too constrained.
Attributing the 5 day work week to Henry Ford is not placing the credit correctly. He may have been the first big CEO, but it was the work of labor rights activists and unions.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/sep/09/viral-imag...
Lol. How can you not find Captain Jean-Luc Picard [0] attractive!? (Irrespective of what team you play on)

[0] https://imagecdn.handitv.com/KDqbG-1644609552-816-blog-picar...
The OP notes they’re referring explicitly to jobs with a 5 day work week, so your comments re: service industry, etc. are valid, they’re already excluded.

Irrational might not be the right word; arbitrary is pretty accurate, though. If productivity and output change minimally, why should expectations or pay? Let’s be honest, the typical 5-day office job work week the OP is referencing has a LOT of downtime.
Good luck using even a barebones site like HN without JavaScript.
Many customer-facing occupations provide for extended opening hours, Saturdays and even Sundays. Personally I'd be thrilled if half the organizations I deal with went beyond Mon-Fri 9-5, and to do so they'll need some extra staff.
Because it adds unnecessary bloat for something that's negligibly worth it.
Seems like it is in the interest of public safety and also reduces car emissions at the same time. win-win?

Here in the states, you cannot get in trouble for flashing your headlights to alert oncoming traffic to speed traps, because it helps them do their job (getting people to slow down and obey traffic signs).
It must be nice getting invitations to go out.
- Mandate interoperability to break network effects

- Possibly (more extreme measure, not certain about this one) "common carrier" laws that treat the biggest platforms like public utilities (can't moderate at all). This might make Facebook & co. unviable in their current guises, but would that really be such a bad thing?
We went from 5x7.5 to 4x8 without reducing pay. 4 months into it and so far it's working on all fronts. No loss of momentum or productivity, no reduction in client billing, happier and more effective people.

We had to get much smarter about how to organise time, work asynchronously and write things down to a better level - but it is the way forward make no mistake.
The main elements that would make sense to be mined from outside the Earth are those which on Earth have gone mostly into the inaccesible core of the planet, e.g. nickel, cobalt, germanium, the platinum-group elements. Such elements are indeed abundant in the iron meteorites, but they have low abundance in the lunar rocks.

The lunar rocks have huge quantities of iron, aluminum, titanium, manganese, which would be good for building structures on the Moon, but which are too cheap to be worthwhile to be brought to Earth.

I have not seen any estimate for this but I doubt that the total mass of iron meteorites that have fallen on the Moon is great enough to provide a quantity of valuable metals that would be worthwhile to be transported back to Earth.

Moreover, the iron meteorites that have fallen on the Moon are distributed uniformly over all it surface, they are not concentrated in some place like the ores on Earth. The cost of transportation until a processing place will be very large, because I doubt that there can be more than a few grams of iron meteorites per square meter.

Even with this extremely optimistic supposition, one would need to collect all the meteorites from several hundreds square kilometers to get a ton of cobalt (the average Co content in iron meteorites is a little less than 0.3%). For less abundant elements, like the platinum-group metals, the area will be multiplied by several orders of magnitude.

It is unlikely to find places on the surface of the Moon with significantly different chemical composition than other places, because the Moon has neither volcanoes nor flowing water, to create exploitable mineral concentrations.

The only chance to find a concentrated source of valuable elements on the Moon would be in the mascons (mass concentrations that are likely to be buried asteroids that have impacted the Moon early in the history of the Solar System), if any of the mascons is close enough to the surface to be reachable by digging.

Exploiting a Lunar mascon does not seem easy as their typical burial depth is estimated between 25 km and 125 km. Nevertheless, due to the lower gravity and to the lack of a hot interior, it might be possible to dig much deeper wells on the Moon than on Earth, e.g. maybe to a depth of 20 to 30 km, where some of the mascons could be reached.

There is no guarantee that any of the mascons has a metallic core, but the fact that they have a higher density than the Lunar rocks suggests that this is a possibility.
It doesn't have to store every image - most are essentially duplicates of each other and only serve to reinforce which is the most representative image when multiple choices are linked with some reference text.

It only needs to store a fraction of the images to have a never ending supply of source material (I guess that's kind of obvious since this program works :)
Since when has my boss ever been the arbiter of what is secure or not? My bosses happily turned on "secure links" in exchange so that now you can't see where the link in the email goes without clicking on it and following it.

Meanwhile we continue to have users who click on phishing emails, real and test.
If it's good enough for avionics and nuclear subs, it's probably good enough for most web apps.
As carefully supervised as those kids are, it has made me realize how much more capable children that age are than I gave them credit for. I'm still not sure I'd have done as well when I was that little. I was walking myself to/from primary school at least.
I don't want to sound lazy, but I would be expecting a .dmg for Macs, and I don't seem to find it. Am I blind, or it simply hasn't been prepared yet?
My country has plenty of companies that offer 2 1/2 day weekends ON PAPER. The reality is that unpaid overtime is endemic here and you are likely to work as much there as you would at a place with a regular workweek. I don't want a 4 day workweek where I'm working dozens of hours for free every month. I'd rather see the government use their absurdly high taxes to chase those companies. We can think of a 4 day workweek after that's fixed.
What does productivity have to do with wages, hours, or conditions?

The labour movement, which got us the weekend and the 8-hour workday, has had its power greatly diminished. That is why we don't work less.
This is a very real problem! I didn’t actually work out the protocol here, seems tricky to ask for than a handful of people out, before you might get into trouble

Alternatively, aim to make friends, and meet THEIR friends. This is always the absolutely best way
I'd say probably the Google Cloud Console.
It's not a legal right in my part of Europe but it's super common here for couples that both work and have young kids. The kids go to daycare 3 days per week and each parent takes a day off to cover the rest.

Having done that now for a while, I would probably keep my 4 days even when the kids get older and aren't at home.

The total output in knowledge work doesn't decrease much (if at all) working 4 instead of 5 days. It's much more about what you output then about how much time you spend on it. And working less hours for me meant being more focused in those hours. My targets and bonus remained the same.
> The solution is to let business owners switch to 4 day weeks and then let the free market sort it out.

We do "let" business owners switch to 4 day weeks, most don't. The free market has sorted it out.
> the person who "naively" downloads that table and plays around in excel finds interesting things that the person who was using Pandas hadn't,...

I think they call that serendipity. Never underestimate its power.

https://didgets.substack.com/p/data-science-and-serendipity
As I understand it, you write a proposal:

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-observing-t...
That's absolute nonsense.

Social media platforms are PRIVATE forums. Public discourse is getting up on your soap box and speaking directly to people, or engaging city council meetings and various public boards, or talking to your representatives and communicating with various leaders via mail and email.

THAT is what public discourse is, and absolutely none of it is affected due to decisions by Facebook or Twitter or Tiktok.

You are conflating being seen with being public. They aren't remotely the same.
Big Tech Reconsiders the “Made in China” Way
I've been working a 4-day work week for 80% of what would otherwise be my salary for much of my career, through several different jobs.

With different ways of it coming about, sometimes I start the job like that, sometimes I negotiate into it after being there a bit. The first time it happened it was what my employer actually wanted... but now I love it and it would be hard to go back.

I wish more employers were open to it.

I realize not everyone has the luxury to take 80% of the salary they _could_ be making, and still take care of what they consider necessary expenses... but a lot of software engineers do.

At this point I don't understand how anyone has the "luxury" to work 5 days a week and still have enough time to take care of what needs taking care of without going insane!

I am fully confident I am a more "efficient" worker at 4 days than 5, I get done probably 95% of what I would at full time, for 80% of the salary. It's actually a great deal for the employer. I wish employers were universally open to it.
But in this situation, why don’t I just use Go and it’s templating engine?

Even faster to develop and slimmer when running in production.
Anecdote time: I currently live in Texas, the closest grocery store is a hour walk. While living in Colorado it was a hour and a half, and in Florida it was 2 hours, all of these where easy 5 minute trips by a car and an excursion by foot.
sources:

https://github.com/gabrielsroka/gabrielsroka.github.io/blob/...

https://github.com/gabrielsroka/gabrielsroka.github.io/blob/...
If we take this over a longer timeframe (as in Keynes' famous prediction, say), then one reason may be: we do actually have a lot more leisure than we did a century ago, but we've largely "chosen" to take it as a lengthier retirement instead of a shorter working week. See: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ecca.12439
Let's not forget perhaps their most famous alumnus, Ted Kaczynski aka the Unabomber [1]. It's not clear whether or not they dosed him with psychedelics, but the records of the research done to him were sealed [2], so we only know for sure that they inflicted significant psychological trauma on him.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/06/harvard...

[2] https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2000/7/14/murray-center-s...
Don't worry about it.

It only means that your (purely online, purely digital) presentation in your dating profile isn't as good as it could be. But whether they like your profile text is almost uncorrelated to the fact whether the same women would enjoy spending time with you in real life.

Plus there's ghostwriters, photoshop, and other services to fix your profile if you really want to. Or did you expect others to actually look in real-life like they look in their photoshopped Face-app-ed Tinder pictures? In that case, you've been comparing yourself to other people's aspirational advertising. There's a reason why even for models the RAW files of their photo-shoots are under NDA.

The most contagious stuff in the world is genuine excitement and happiness. And I'd put pheromones at a close 2nd. But both only work if you do some social group activity in-person with others. In my opinion, social media and online dating exist purely to agree on date/time/location to meet in person.
I wish the UI allowed easier reading, selection and copying of the full prompt. "Hover for img-alt" is not mobile friendly nor share-friendly, nor friendly for old eyes.

The project itself is very interesting.
Microsoft Teams is one of the worst desktop apps I've used - on Windows and Mac.

You can see how it's built on layers and layers of badly designed compatibility layers and bad engineering decisions.

Massive CPU hog, unacceptable side effects (disconnecting Bluetooth devices), super laggy UI and overall poor UX are the headlines.

I decided to invest in an alternative VC platform for my business because it was that bad.
That's the thing with free market capitalism - nobody needs to advocate for policies like moving people to urban areas in the name of efficiency. Instead people living in rural areas are forced to migrate to cities to make a living wage, thereby causing the negative scenario you're describing. Free market capitalism allows those with capital to dominate social decisions.