skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, but maybe we should just stop giving all of Elon Musk half-assed thoughts so much airtime? Just ignore the guy for a minute and the world will be a better place, "liberal democracies" included

By parroting his tweets to drive clicks to your own blog you're contributing to the problem, just like journalists putting him (and, formerly, Trump) on "breaking news" articles 24/7/365
China puts most US software on a blacklist by default.
On Reading Books – Hermann Hesse, 1920
I am digitizing Hesse's collection of essays titled My Belief.

I loved this essay and thought I would share it with you all. I will post the final product (corrected and organized EPUB) later on, but for now I am busy reading and proofreading the OCR output.

Enjoy :)
> At least on paper they need to have a reason,

No they don't.

They need a reason to get a warrant. But if they simply buy the data from a broker, they don't need any reason at all, and there is utterly no oversight.
Trotting out the paradox of tolerance isn't an auto-win for pro-censorship "anti-facism" arguments.

Imagine, one day, one of your own beliefs becomes lumped under the umbrella of facism. Imagine that you disagree with this categorization, but nonetheless, the categorization is made.

How would you feel about someone telling you about the paradox of tolerance in this case? Don't you think it's a bit more complicated than this?
> I can articulate precisely what problem I am trying to solve.

It's appropriate to put this one first because it shows up in so many of the problems that follow.

Easier said than done when there's a deadline pistol pointing at your head. You gotta get stuff done. Show progress. Writing any kind of specification is just a slippery slope to Waterfall, geez. There's no time of any of that namby-pamby talking to and watching users BS. They don't know what they want anyway! Real developers ship!!
Most ponder this. Some figure it out, some later than others, and some don't at all.

You make your purpose, whatever it may be. What's important though is to acknowledge what you do for a living doesn't make you who you are. Even if you just enjoy your time while you're here alive, you're giving your life purpose.

My personal decision on the matter has been to help others through building tools within the abilities of my current and future skills that I have/will develop. It makes me happy to see others better off, in addition to the possibility that they can pay it forward if they so wish to.

Aside from personal offerings bringing a sense of fulfillment, I'd just like to enjoy what our planet and cultures have to offer, and time with loved ones while we all still can.
Oh god yes. Facebook and Messenger have so many such bugs, coupled with general slowness and clunkiness. Having 80k employees would sound so much more reasonable if all of Meta's services worked really well; right now it seems more like they do the bare minimum.

I don't know if these things become fundamentally hard to fix at their scale, like it's possible that a "hide" button becomes too hard to properly implement if your feed suggestion algorithm has to handle millions of users at the same time. It's possible, but sounds hard to believe, because a lot of the quality has degraded in only a couple of years, and they haven't become orders of magnitude larger in that time.

Of course, it would be very reasonable to claim that they simply don't care. But their websites do keep changing, so it's also not like they have decided to halt development of this part of the UX and simply focused on doing advertising right.

Personally, I still suspect that regardless of their motives, there's a high degree of corporate inefficiency.
Can someone dive more deeply into this? I'm asking because it seems to me that there is more to this than what you just described. Sony AOSP is constantly upgrading the kernel, but the camera is always mediocre at best.

If it was just the ISP there should have been a way in the past to take the ISP blob from similar chipset phones in the past and just use it with an updated base no? But that by itself doesn't seem to be enough to get the cam working decently.
Agreed, the new position for the delete key is the biggest barrier for me.

But in general it’s surprising how much muscle memory I have for QWERTY on the phone. I’ve been a Dvorak user since 1996, but I didn’t last 5 minutes with Dvorak on iOS.
Lol why was Joe Rogan your random pick?
Within a span of one week Elon tweeted about two democracies conceding territory to autocratic regimes. An everything app that he would control is just an extension of the same mindset.
I'm beginning to understand, how is it (and thus, why is it) that decentralization is doomed to fail under our current culture.

decentralization, like what you describe in cab services, dilutes power. that's it. that's the only reason necessary to explain why it'll never be allowed to stay decentralized (and decentralizing). in many countries/cities, cab liceneses are quite a corrupt business; it comes down to who you know that can hook you up with one (kinda like drugs but without the raw illegality). typically the driver does not own neither the cab nor the licence; they're just some poor employee without many options.

>It would be fully decentralized, except for the payment part. If you have everyone on your platform you don’t need to issue tokens and other bullshit. Just build something useful and they will come.

sounds naive, you know who will also come if you start to get popular with your platform? the government/police who really act quite like a mob. them people who want/need/like to be powerful. because any such platform which is popular has power, power ripe for 'centralizing'; just say it's for safey and legality instead of 'centralizing'.
> how many paid FT devs are being added per feature

Well, considering this is a fun project being worked on by volunteers (some of whom are sponsored by the community), I'm going to go out on a limb and say the answer to this question will always be "zero".
Ditto, this is what I thought it was -- the title says "by songS they contain", not "by a song they contain".

I really want to see if anyone else has Left Hand Free and Pop Muzik on a playlist together, and if they've found any _other_ songs that contain eeny-meeny-miney-moe in the lyrics and made a playlist of them like I have...

(Here's another oddball one, if you're a puzzle type. Bring The Magic - Steve Wynn. So It Goes - Nick Lowe. Roadrunner Once - Jonathan Richman. Heavy Metal - Sammy Hagar.)
Maybe it's not quite hand-positioned for every screen, but with the level of detail necessary in the constraints for a constraint solver to be able to do it, I think that might as well be considered hand-positioning in some sense.

Also, it's only anecdotal, but in ~10 years of installing day-1 betas of iOS, I've yet to see an autolayout bug on the keyboard. Admittedly I'm using British English which I'm sure sees a lot of QA testing, but incorrect constraints would probably be a hot spot for issues, and I've seen autolayout bugs in a ton of other software, so my guess is still that it's not really that automated.
Prop bets like this have been big in the U.K. for a long time and are available on betting sites in the U.S.

Sports betting attracts some sophisticated players who make money like card counters because the odds are variable and it is possible to have better judgement than the crowd, although few bettors are going to succeed at that. Prop bets, however, are for suckers.
East EU countries are doing rather well. Lack of infrastructure is good for investment. A bit like gentrifying neighbourhoods where over time things improve and your investments grow with them.
I would agree and I find it sad/odd that it never really managed to get any active developer community traction.
Why would jumpers (specifically, DuPont connectors) be unreliable, or even unsafe? They're literally the method used in every single computer PC case in existence and work fine. I've never had one fail.

I agree, breadboard is slightly problematic, but that could be fixed quickly with a soldered perfboard setup or a quick custom PCB and remove the breadboard component.

The voltages we're talking about here is all 5V, and anything it's connected to should be pretty limited in current carrying capability.
Which of these two gentlemen understands the zeitgeist better?
Because there's a good chance they use the same username on other services. If you didn't already know that, now you might.
I had the same thought about the 200% thing. Actually I think it is either empty boasting or a difference of terminology. I understand giving 100% to mean: I give as much as I possible can. Giving 200%(or anything above 100%) sustainably for all your career sounds impossible by definition to me.

As an aside(since you used him for the author) I found it interesting that the author (according to her LinkedIn profile) is a woman. My initial prejudice was that giving so much more than everything to your work sounded like something that is only possible if you have a partner taking care of everything at home. And I immediately assumed this must be due to traditional family roles.
This is really a useful tool
"The medium is the message."

- McLuhan
The opposite sex. Done.
I wonder if there's any interplay here with the "radically flat" organizations of our generation, especially in tech.

For better or worse, when I first started out, and the first 2 companies I worked, there were something like 10-15 layers from me to the CEO. This created a hypothetical ladder of responsibilities and titles I felt I could climb, with rungs 3-5 years apart, getting wider the higher you go.

In more recent roles, I have been in 3000 person organizations where even as an IC, I am known to, and speak with, people in the C-suite short of the CEO. I work for someone with 50 people in org, who works for someone with 1500 in their org, who works for the CEO.

A lot of these radically flat orgs expect ICs as "senior engineers" or "staff engineers" or some other made up title to do some ad-hoc mix of IC, people management, project management, etc.

In effect a lot of us get asked to do a job we don't have, and in fact, will never have, given the 50:1, 1500:1, and 3000:1 ratios from IC to each of the 3 levels on the ladder.

The second dimension is that software project lifecycles have always been shorter than traditional engineering, and have become shorter. This leads to a lot of hopping between firms as your project hits peak and is on the disinvest cycle.
What's your position?

Person of colour sounds very similar to coloured person, so presumably you'd want to avoid either of those terms.

But it reads like you're saying the opposite.
And at the same time ... only variation of conformism ?

Stable Diffusion opens a lot a avenues and yet it is somewhat "restricted" to what it "knows/understands". Put differently, if cars it exposed to is black can it paint them pink ? What about even higher level construct ? It can not innovate can it ? Not yet ?

Anyways, fascinating.
Low graphics doesn't imply low quality.
> but how is it monetized?

Banks that use WhatsApp for customer support, or restaurant chains that take orders via WhastsApp bots, pay WhatsApp partners for API access.

The payment goes to the WhatsApp partner. What I'm not sure is, if it is distributed between Meta and the WhatsApp Api provider.
I understand the nostalgia but a website that appease a very broad audience yet cannot come up a viable business plan is doom to fail. Ok there is wikipedia but who else?
Yes, I agree. Will be bad for many people.

To answer the question:

Gambling Industry, various US States and the politicians who took bribes (sorry, I mean campaign contributions). That is who thinks it is a good idea :)
> So — suppose we give this sort of combined well-being survey to a random sample of people, and also measure what products and services they've used and purchased. From this dataset, we could make reasonable statistical inferences about the amount of well-being increase or decrease associated with a certain product or service among a certain class of people.

Unfortunately, no, you can't. There are lots and lots of problems. Just a few off the top of my head:

1. The effects of products are not uniform across the population. Alcohol, for example, catalyzes well-being for some people, but for others it has a dramatic negative effect.

2. The effects of consumption on well-being change with the time horizon over which you measure them. Eating ice cream might improve my subjective well-being today, but harm it tomorrow when it has a deleterious effect on my health.

3. Externalities. Owning a private jet might improve my subjective well-being, but harm everyone else's with its noise and emissions.

Measuring economic output is actually a not-entirely-unreasonable proxy for measuring well-being because in a free market people presumably make rational choices and spend their money in a way that maximizes their well-being. The problem is not that the proxy is wrong, the problem is that people turn out not to be very good at making these choices. It's not entirely their fault. A big part of the problem is information asymmetry: producers know a lot more about the potential negative outcomes of their products than consumers do.

I think a much better way to tackle this problem is with education and stronger consumer disclosure laws rather than trying to change the metric to something as poorly defined as "well-being catalysis".
Agreed. Given the headline main thrust it's a shame so many are effectively forced to using one out the duopoly already.

Some compulsively "modern" countries have in practice made subjugation before either Google or Apple mandatory for full functionality in society. Identification, payment, access to information about common goods, etc, have already been burdened with an abundance of friction for someone who's not constantly carrying one of these tracking and monitoring devices.
Mullvad VPN: Android leaks connectivity check traffic
Part of the issue (at least in public discourse) seems to be the conflation of "revenue" in the narrow sense of being measured in money, with "utility" or "value" or "welfare" in the broad sense.
I think the basis of your comment is incorrect. Employees have never had more freedom. Work from home is now widespread. Working hours are more flexible than ever. Workplace benefits have improved drastically over the last 10 years. Percentage of workers with access to maternity/paternity leave is increasing year-over-year.

> There has been an erosion and change in the nature of an employee-employer relationship.

This however, is correct. I believe the cause is counterintuitive. Workers simply have more choice today.

For the last five years (excluding a brief hiccup during the worst of COVID lockdowns) demand for workers has outstripped supply. Low earners can choose between ultra-flexible gig work (Uber, etc) or endless less flexible options. Knowledge workers/tech have enjoyed a hot market where recruiters largely come to them once. The result of this? Average tenure at companies is decreasing. There is always a better opportunity around the corner. Why work hard at your current role for a 10% raise (at best) when you can focus on improving your interview skills and get a 30% raise at the next company?

Young people aren't "quiet quitting", they're just no longer subject to the Stockholm syndrome workers have exhibited over the last 20 years. They realize that maximizing their income means gaining 18 months of experience and moving on. If companies want to get 100% effort out of their employees, they should make sure that internal opportunities are as good as, if not better than, external opportunities.
Sake is a task runner for local and remote hosts
I don't know about that case, but a2_4am was locked out of his Twitter account until he agreed yo delete a video of a computer booting up, because it was flagged as porn. This went through a lot of appeals and internal escalation at Twitter, but there was no recourse. https://mobile.twitter.com/textfiles/status/1536378776094908...

Another recent case https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32202481
I'm in a similar situation like you are, but i haven't attributed it to being eccentric or weird. It is because im not a low-friction person, in a social sense.
Succeeding in the AI competition with China: A strategy for action
This was a more balanced post than I expected. I'm probably older than the median here on HN and I think it's a generational thing. My parents were of the generation when folks tended to work for a company for a majority of their career and work hard to try to stay. But they grew up influenced by their parent who lived through great depression (technically mine did too but they were young) - jobs were a lifeline. So I'm a couple of generations removed from that and, even though I'm still biased towards 'work hard, job is important' my attitudes have been shifting as well (even though I'm in tech, my wife is a schoolteacher and also works incredibly hard).

I did not enter the workforce at an age where I was constantly deluged with 24 hour news and media feeds that the world is a terrible place. I've talked to multiple folks in the past 5 years or so who were just entering the workforce and they were even wondering what the point in getting married, having kids, etc. was. I have to believe that's a factor as well.
> LLVM is written in C++, but that's basically fine. A memory safety exploit in [LLVM] might be annoying, but it's not a vector for taking over people's machines like a browser is.

Hrm, is LLVM no longer used for shader compilation? I think most people wouldn't like it if compiling a shader could delete your home directory.
While I initially balked at buying such spywares, I did break down and buy a Mini 2 last year(it's awesome!!!). I side-loaded the app on an old phone, sans SIM, with a pristine LOS install. Connected it to wifi to register & immediately put the phone in Airplane Mode.

Been meaning to research how to independently flash the drone's firmware offline to wipe collected data, but haven't delved into that yet. Any suggestions welcomed!
Bernanke's memoir is good. Easy to take shots at someone like him, but he was one of the most important decision makers in the world post-financial crisis and the world would likely be worse off today if someone else were in his spot. The memoir explains his decision making process and also some of his past research which was relevant to the GFC (he specialized in the great depression).
I think I understand the intent and indeed the article links Bloomberg article suggesting the same. Musk envisions it as US WeChat. I hate it, but I hate it the same way I hate Paypal.

Idea though is not far fetched and is way more sustainable than effectively running a bot farm mixed with corporate PR and customer service, but there I go being a luddite.
Nim is choice, including choice among a variety of memory management options including manual, markAndSweep style collection, reference counting variants, etc.
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At what point do we realize that anybody can be a critic, anything can be worth criticism, and being a critic is very easy while doing anything of practical value is very difficult?

The moment we realize this, I think that we should stop giving critics so much influence and acting like their criticisms are automatically valid for being criticisms. (Maybe it's just me, but I have increasingly low respect for critics because it is actually such a lazy, easy job that drags down everybody even trying to do something.)
"The attacks lasted eleven weeks and, according to various estimates, in between 1,200 and 2,500 people were killed. Many buildings, businesses, schools, health centres, media headquarters and cultural monuments were severely damaged or destroyed. A group of economists from the G17 Plus party has estimated the total damages to be about 29.6 billion dollars."

Google it. It wasn't the Russians.
This is a bizarre take. You’re saying if you don’t grow the cotton, your textile factory doesn’t count as manufacturing?
Well, there are also already at least dozen free ones that allow to buy ad-less versions

> I find the idea that $1 is a "hard sell" laughable, but unfortunately for software devs that is the world we find ourselves in when trying to monetize an idea.

and it's hard sell because you can just pick any of them, test to your liking and pay for one after using it.
Sometimes,
But a similar "utility" (shameless promotion here) I've made a free open source metronome. No ads and cross-platform.

https://tick.talaviram.com

So if someone like me had incentive for free metronome. I'm pretty sure there are also tuners out there.

Still, 1$ to support an app is really legitimate and sometimes gives more incentives for the developer to maintain it or add features.
I'm in the UK and don't have to login to view.
I saw some of the "hate" (strong word) at my previous job, and it pretty much boiled down to 3 things:

- Bootstrap JQuery

- Not going all-in on customisation with the built-in customisation options, but rather hacking on custom styles on top in our own stylesheets.

- Starting from Bootstrap 3.

I suspect that much of the hate stems from things like this.
The only question that should be asked is "is this fun?"
This article is another one in a long line that continues to “not get it.”

First off, just stop saying “quiet quitting” this way. Doing your job isn’t quiet quitting. We should be suspicious of any term like this that suddenly spreads across mass media.

This is the monopoly guys of the world trying to label and shame people for having boundaries and realizing that their hamster wheel leads nowhere. Working hard for someone else’s gain just wastes the one life we were given to us.

If there is a legitimate use for a term called “quiet quitting,” that would be more like pretending to work and legitimately slacking. Completing the required job generally on time isn’t quiet quitting.

The article treats this introduction of healthy boundaries by the youngest generation as if it’s a problem for companies to solve, and suggests that employers start to recognize employees’ accomplishments more.

If what companies want is extremely dedicated employees, I say, that recognition isn’t nearly enough.

Here’s the thing: younger employees are simply following the incentives that corporations are giving them.

Corporations don’t even incentivize extra hard work despite asking for it! They don’t offer commissions or profit sharing unless you’re in sales. They don’t give out bonuses for putting in extra hours or delivering work early. The equity they offer is worthless bullshit that’s filled with caveats.

Corporations rarely promote from within, they hire outside managers and friends of current management, double the word “rarely” if you’re a woman or minority.

Corporations don’t incentivize long tenures, they’d rather you leave or be laid off so that they can run the company like a pro sports team and optimize their labor force. If a team is misallocated, they’d rather lay off the team and hire a whole set of new employees where they’re needed. Retraining and cross-training don’t fit on their balance sheets.

Finally, corporations don’t keep salary increases paced with inflation or career growth so they incentivize job changes.

If you want me to dedicate my life to your company, you better be doing a whole hell of a lot better. Just because I like the work I do doesn’t mean I have better things I can do with my time that I enjoy more.

I’m out of here by 4. If you don’t like it, find someone else.