skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
priors matter, right?
There is a silver lining. This DEI thing is now causing massive influx of sub-par employees in big tech. This is not because minority is sub-par but because hiring practices incentivize sacrificing quality over diversity to make your numbers and get your bonuses. Everyone winks at others and they say we don't sacrifice quality but it is not possible when you have limited window for headcount and your VP is sending you constant reminders for making your numbers and everyones bonuses are at stake. In my estimate, big tech already had 60% of employees just costing around and now this DEI will push them to almost 80% employees that are mediocre and unable to compete with the best. This is how startups like Google and Microsoft were born that toppled big techs of the day called Yahoo and IBM. A lot of talent will simply not even get opportunity to be interviewed at big tech. Guess what they are going to do?
Los Angeles, but I've had similar clauses everywhere I've lived and with multiple USPS (Starry, Charter, Time Warner, Verizon, university housing, etc)
I'm pretty sure it rapidly sees the end of the Universe.
That’s really exciting for me. I can’t wait to try it out. Thank you very much.

If there is a MacOS server that can do seamless to a Linux host then I could potentially put all my world into a single bspwm multi monitor linux desktop.

Edit: Possibly this commercial product could work for accessing MacOS windows from Linux? anyone know? https://support.parsec.app/hc/en-us/articles/4407194154253-F...
This is non sequitur, but I'll humor you:

Don't work somewhere interesting. Walk the maze of the traditional establishment, and enjoy your quiet workday. There are so many opportunities for you to do that.

Myself, I don't want to be driveling stupidly many hours a day over whatever apparati I might be charged with the operation of. I want stimulation and novelty. I want to be curious and satisfy it. I want to be confused and amazed. The many, many hours I'll spend at work, I want them to be edifying. Not some sacrifice to a faceless quorum of buzzards that I might live another day.

This whole wage labor regime is a fairly new thing, and it hasn't been rightly tested in all its degrees of freedom. Something Hobbesian about the direction and shape it has taken, it's sad and cynical and skeptical but without faith.
There's absolutely no way this is true.
Of course they can
Yes. The purpose of science is supposed to be finding the truth.

The identical paper being rejected more often based on the celebrity of the author isn't that.
it's a modern version of asp.net web forms.
It's just that experiments in astroparticle physics are expensive and have lots of people on them. Like, how is the IceCube Collaboration supposed to write an anonymous paper? Even the most cursory description of the detector would give it away...
I'm confused on how his position on open carry or whatever has anything to do with a hobbyist computer. Care to elaborate?
There's no shortage of window management apps on MacOS, though I think the limitations of the API make it hard for them to be anywhere near as fluid and snappy as Linux's tiling WMs. Amethyst and Yabai are the two automatic tiling WMs I'm aware of on MacOS, along with a hammerspoon tiling wm that I can't recall the name of. Magnet, Moom, BetterTouchTool (and BetterSnapTool), Rectangle, and countless others are all quite good if you want to manually move windows around.

A lot of it just unreliable for reasons I can't discern. I have keybindings in my hammerspoon config to switch between applications based on their position on screen relative to the active window, but sometimes it just doesn't work and even when it does it's quite slow. It feels like it should not only work but should be extremely fast given that MacOS knows exactly where every window is placed and its dimensions that can be accessed by hammerspoon, but unfortunately it's neither fast nor reliable.

I'm currently using a mix of hammerspoon and amethyst which is working okay but not great and everything is a bit slow. Changing spaces is slow, modestly improved by reduce motion settings. Yabai can get rid of the delay between switching spaces but only if you disable SIP.

Glad they exist and I'm glad that third party applications can interact with MacOS' window management, but I do wish some of it were snappier. Moving single windows is quite fast but anything more than that it feels sluggish.
Security by obscurity is futility.
“ developers to instantly and reliably operate Web3-based systems without the need for expensive and complex infrastructure. ”

Ie without worrying about any of that pesky decentralization!
and while steam was the only app store for pc that mattered for 15 years there’s more players in that space. valves only future in game distribution is to lose market share to epic store, microsoft store, battlenet, origin, gog, etc
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It's the userbase. Steam works well enough, hasn't changed really at all in years (a feature in and of itself), and has mostly everything a user would ever want or need.

Why then install an alternative client?

Source: I tried to compete with steam once. Tech was better. Nobody cared.
Another reading of that data is that about half of gamers are on laptops and the other half upgrade their GPUs every 5-6 years.
Yeah that's exactly what makes it complicated. It's an Asus RT-AX86U which does have some support for IPv6 handling, but I still don't understand it fully which is why I keep putting it off, but I also don't want to keep paying $5 AUD a month for a static IPv4 address
that is indeed a good feature.
> I'm pretty skeptical

Feel free to provide an better source. You made a claim that looked like a bad guess and it was pretty easy to find a source showing that you were wrong. What data is your claim based on?

> What kind of intellectual capacity would the average programmer lack compared to an RN?

The ability to pick up on social queues for example. The cognitive ability to recognize when logic isn't appropriate and empathy is more appropriate. The cognitive ability to read between the lines about what someone is really saying about what they need instead of taking their requirements literally. Software developers are nearly four times more likely to have autism than the general population. So you could start there. To be clear, I'm not saying all programmers or even the majority of programmers are bad at all of the above. But claiming that it's all raw IQ and there is no difference in cognitive skills between jobs is disingenuous. I certainly don't want a math genius with poor proprioception as my nurse.

> that's 30 year old data and I doubt the programmer category corresponds closely with the profession today.

As someone who has been programming for more than 30 years, I can assure you that you are wrong about that guess. In fact there are so many more programmers today and the demand is so high, that it would be a far safer bet that the low end of the IQ range is lower today. At bigger companies especially, some programmers barely contribute and still manage to keep their job for years.
> "he will do things like deliberately spell some words British and others American to make it harder for peers to figure out who the paper is from."

This is a good initiative, but a catch is that if he's the only person deliberately spelling some words British and others American, the spelling choice becomes a unique identifier.

Though, it could work as long as no one within the group knows who is using the varied spelling.
That’s odd. I don’t do a lot of peer review, but when I do the authors names are masked. Sometimes I can figure it out based on the citations, but I haven’t reviewed any papers where the author’s name is listed.

That being said an author isn’t published randomly in Nature, so I expect subsequent papers from an author to be better, on average, than non-Nature published authors.
Right, because adding *more* anonymity to our tech is precisely what we need to enable more bad actors to do whatever they want without facing any repercussions.

slow clap

I am all for privacy, but many so-called privacy-centric tech “solutions” are simultaneously crime-enablers. Things need to be fixed at the legislative level, not by opening more pandora’s meta-crypto-app-boxes.
Thank you for this insight. I had no idea that was the reason.
It is nearly impossible to enforce double blind peer review because of the existence of online pre-prints (hosted on arXiv, SSRN, or just the authors' websites). A referee can copy and paste from the text into DuckDuckGo and find the authors.
oh yeah the wall pipes would act as a thermo-siphon so that's neat.

I've seen bananas growing (and fruiting) on the north west coast of scotland using these techniques
Without context it's not a running program and I don't really care about single lines of code in isolation. It's just as bad as math symbols written in isolation of any context but that's my point.

> If any of those symbols are undefined, the editor or compiler will tell me.

I'm pretty sure every single language in the world will tell me that statement in isolation will not compile.
This seems reasonable. As others state, this is hardly an issue specific to Go.

In CoffeeScript (which I think solves this nicely), it looks something like

for i in [0...3] # 3 3 3
setTimeout (() -> console.log "#{i}"), 100

for i in [0...3] # 0 1 2
setTimeout (do (i) -> () -> console.log "#{i}"), 100

for i in [0...3] # 0 1 2
do (i) ->
setTimeout (() -> console.log "#{i}"), 100
> Furthermore, the Capyloon page proposes WebAssembly and IPFS integration as the main priorities of the project, but it is not made immediately clear how this integration works in practice.

Yeah, I remain interested in Capyloon because it's a plausibly-decent-looking smartphone OS that isn't Android, but the IPFS emphasis always struck me as... well, I can kind of understand the "putting the user in control" angle, but pragmatically I would not have started there. Of course, it's a FOSS project by volunteers so if that's what people happen to be interested in then that's what'll happen:)
Hence my conspiracy theory! My wild assumption is that they don't want to deal with our consumer law, and/or they want to punish us for the ACCC forcing them to respect it wrt. Steam.
You can disable the switch animation, which makes it much nicer to use. Just instantly changes the content on all your monitors then. It even works with fullscreen applications on different desktops...
> First, we live in a country of laws.

That are broken all the time. This means nothing. It's a cost of doing business to many corporations and organizations and the corporate veil and some fines usually absolves everyone.

> People will just try to do their job, and if they don't see an explicit (i.e. written) mandate somewhere that they need to prevent nuclear power plants from being built, then they won't do it.

This isn't the case in discussing anything of significance.

A few examples: the 2008 crisis, automakers and emissions, Wells Fargo fake account scandal, DuPont toxic chemical leak and cover up, Monsanto dumping into the ocean.

People are easily manipulated and most of the time they know what they are doing is wrong. The more people that are involved or the more their superiors are enabling it, the easier it is for them to do it.

I'm not informed enough on the topic at hand, but your opening argument is baseless.
yes! Far too many sites have terrible experiences when you 'try to got back to something'. back button shenanigans, full page reloads, unable to retrieve data, and worst: losing something that you were half way through writing or doing.

I just want everything to always open in a new tab (or sometimes a new window). gmail yep, music sites yep, youtube yep.
Parts of Houston sinking is the original topic of this HN post, this debating of Houston's success is just a tangent.
Cheapskate users will keep dating (or even just looking) even after finding a good match.
On MacOS you can assign your own shortcuts to switch to specific desktops as well, instead of having to go through each of them individually.

Under Keyboard => Shortcuts => Mission Control it give you an option to assign hotkeys for them. I believe the default shortcuts to move left or right a space is ⌃← and ⌃→.
So when do I use `<div onclick>`? /s

It’s disappointing how developers are so lazy to not even know the basic concept of a link. It’s completely ridiculous yet super common to see click handlers on DIV elements that set the value of location.href

As for A/BUTTON, we really need an attribute that clears the button’s style entirely, safely and forever. Nobody knows how to properly and full drop all useragent styles from a button, try googling it.
Yep. Seattle shuts down when a snowflake falls. People are crashing their cars, nobody is outside, businesses close. It was wild when I lived there.
Interesting comment. Yeah, I've noticed IP datasets are very spotty or in general do not solve the issue of misattribution by nature of ipv4, reassignments etc.

On the other hand, yeah, I've seen services that share this kind of data like Sift and seon.

I'd never thought about this "tainting" aspect though. Good point.
Note to self: Repost valve handbook to harvest hacker karma.

Timer set for y-minus 2yrs.
> People will just try to do their job, and if they don't see an explicit (i.e. written) mandate somewhere that they need to prevent nuclear power plants from being built, then they won't do it.

This argument is naive to how organizations work. There are a million ways to loudly communicate policies around an organization that leads to the alignment of behavior to that policy without ever explicitly stating it. Hiring or promoting mainly anti-development regulators, assigning the loudest pro-development regulators to frustrating busy work with no prospects, raises, “reading between the lines” internal communication and so on. The result is a policy which most align with or leave, that everyone understands, but which can’t be proven in front of a congressional committee.
Many useful UI components were written using jQuery. I no longer write anything in jQuery but I still use it at times because of this.

Give it another 5-10 years and I might find myself saying the same about React.
And yet they still run freight trains that are too long to use the sidings available on the route.
I was told as a young man that if I wanted to get anywhere in life I was going to have to learn to thrive on rejection. Experience has proved it true many times over.

The key of course is framing your experience. I think the submission’s parallel between interviewing and dating is a good observation. In both cases you need to be willing to realize that rejection can be because of something you can control, but it also can be because of something you can’t. Another thing is once you experience it enough rejection loses its sting. The handful of hours you spend pursuing a job or a date just isn’t a serious cost, especially if you learn something from the experience.
This seems to be very much a factor in the gender gaps that exist today.

This gap manifests itself in women applying for less-senior positions than men (on average), and more specific applications being biased in favor of men. It also manifests in promotion cases at big companies: men are more likely to ask, but women are a lot more likely to succeed. Women who would be qualified are less likely to try if they think they might fail. At a previous place where I worked, we had many initiatives to help women on these factors: using broad job applications for specific positions and encouraging attempts at promotions, for example. These initiatives actually worked.

My wife and I experience this in terms of writing. She has an MFA and is an incredible writer, but she rarely submits or publishes her work because she is afraid that people will reject it. I am an average writer (maybe above average, but not near her skill level), and I try to blog approximately monthly and regularly post my work in various online forums. She once tried to console me when one of my blog posts got a few hundred readers, and I didn't realize what she was doing. I was happy to have a few hundred, but she told me that if it were her, she would have been very upset at the reception.
It would be great to see a minimalist version of this that is just completely rock solid.

I don't care about many apps. I need maps, and a camera.

My streaming service can play from a browser tab. Someone could make a decent podcast site that does the same. The OS should make it easy and reliable for such sites to use 10's of GB of local cache space.

Beyond those requirements, I'm mostly good. (A calculator, flashlight app, etc would also be nice.)

Anyway, I hope that (unlike 100% of these open source initiatives so far), they focus on keeping it simple.
I am saying that the value of the demand is not necessarily driven by the number of people demanding it.

You may have a piece of property that only one person in the world wants to live on, but if you get a single buyer willing to give you a million bucks, you have a million dollar property.

Meanwhile, 100 people might want to live in a particular property in a ghetto, but none of them have a million dollars to bid on it. The price will only raise to the maximum amount that the buying pool can afford. More demand doesn't result in higher prices, it results in homelessness and/or people moving to alternate markets.

My point is that $1.5m prices are not a signal that a ton of people want to live in a particular place. It's a signal that people who can obtain $1.5 million dollar loans want to purchase there, and that the demand satisfies the motivated supply. That's it.
Doesn't work for Windows
It depends if it can be patched in drivers or has to be patched in the game.

If it's the game, all bets are off. No truly popular game is abandoned though. There's even a FreeCiv. If can be done in the drivers, expect nearly every even remotely popular report coming in to eventually be fixed. This hardware is going into Intel's CPUs sooner than later. Support won't be lacking. The support for this card may dwarf AMD and Nvidia's own support.

Intel is using D3D9On12 and perhaps D3D11On12. I would expect any extremely popular titles like CSGo (DX9C) and LoL (DX11 and offers a legacy DX9 mode) to get hand-tuned by Intel.

For most recent games and going forward, most games target engines, not APIs. Between that trend and DX12, I expect Arc to be just fine. I can find you driver bugs with both Nvidia and AMD today. I've experienced visual bugs with both. I'm using an older branch of Nvidia's drivers right now due to stuttering that occurs on newer branches. There's no outrage because this happens all the time with GPU vendors. Intel puts out a very good dGPU and people are hyper-critical.
Yep, under Accessibility => Display => Toggle the Reduce motion button. It is much better but still not instant. The only way I'm aware of how to make it instantaneous is by disabling SIP and using Yabai [1].

[1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
0% chance of validity.

GitHub watch for those and notify the provider of the API key so it can be revoked, as well as emailing the owner(s) of the repo which contained the key.

if it was in enough places that it got reproduced exactly via neural network, then there is zero chance it escaped their secret-scanners.

they even have some GHAS feature that lets you define your own regexes for secrets and will notify you if any are found.

none of this makes it safe to store secrets in code, though, these things just help tell you when you've done it.
Grubhub is one such site when trying to cmd+click on a restaurant.

It's absurd their engineers haven't fixed something so simple.
Wellp, so much for the need for NTPsec.
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And plenty of LEO’s will bite for it too
I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Erasure
I went to grad school in SLC, it wasn't that bad; I found it better than Austin anyways. I couldn't imagine working in Provo, however.

Without Roe vs. Wade, though, I totally agree that the dynamics of these choices have changed. I don't expect it to last very long, however, due to economic competition, but that's just a guess.
A smug dismissal doesn't change people's minds. You can accept that many people don't go in for their donations being spent this way, try to hide it from them, or write them off as donors. This sort of condescension doesn't do anything.
"people bouncing when the project got hard"

My point, in response to this specific quote from the person I was replying to, is that good people don't bounce when a project gets hard, they in fact do the opposite.

If you disagree with the statement I quoted from the person I was replying to that's fine, I have no bone to pick.
Yes. Because somewhere between the capabilities of normal and quantum computers the basic truth of things being computable means that if it happens with a physical representation we should be able to simulate that in a computer… eventually with enough power, and no guarantee on how close it would be to “real time” either … but absolutely yes.
I think there were issues in the initial 2016 proposal, some were corrected in the subsequent proposals. Just the fact that it has taken some 12000 page application and we're in the 7th year of this process tells you what you need to know.

The entire industry is fucked and the only the way to move forward to abolish NRC, start a new agency that resembles AEC from 1940-1970. Perhaps the next president will.
It's still a thing, they only got rid of the standalone app. Now it's just part of the actual Firefox app though you can apparently use it to autofill in other apps on android at least.
I don't think it was a mistake; they intentionally shipped the 5.7 compiler toolchain with on the current OS standard library (5.6). They just don't have the automated testing to catch stuff like this.
I have one with cherry browns I think. Can’t beat it.
In this case an easy 50% solution seems better than nothing. Some people would just comply with the guideline, some would not think of your workaround and it would make peer reviews a little more equitable even if many broke the rule.
I don't intend to say that this is a stunning failure of management from CEO down quite a few levels at Google.

No, wait, actually I do. This is an embarrassment to everyone involved. Can you even imagine having to be the person who posts this?

Maybe we shouldn't break up the tech giants, apparently they will eventually immolate themselves.
Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy:

> In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals that the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.
It specifically says to turn on Precise Location

https://imgur.com/a/zrs0rQl

For reference, you can click any deal and get a 6 letter code to use in-store at the counter or on their touchscreen ordering booths. But you can't see the code unless you give them precise location.
“prescription pills without a prescription”

How does this work? You’re not required to carry a prescription with you. You’re not even required to keep pills in their original container!

Is there a positive requirement to present a prescription upon request?

I travel with prescribed medications a lot, and the lack of any clear way to prove they are legit is weird.

Now they’re arresting people for what is impossible.
Uh, they're talking about Windows; you're talking about MacOS.
My wild guess is that because most of their revenue isn't recurring it's valued lower.

Given the size of the PC gaming market and the ubiquity of Steam you would think they have >>$1B in revenue though, which makes $7.7B a pretty conservative multiple.

This source says PC gaming is ~$30B, so $1-5B in revenue seems reasonable for Steam: https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2022/05/23/244...
Do you have a choice?