skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
too much data. I have an android phone and swiping constantly produces the wrong words unless I swipe very slowly. it was great many years ago, i noticed that a lot of the words it suggests are words other people might be using. so I feel they are training it with dataset from a large swat of users and that's the issue. if they limited it to the most common words in dictionary then words you typed, it would be great. I suspect this is how the original worked but they got the idea to make it better by training it with "all the words"
> However, after turning them off, I found that it's basically Chrome

Why not just use Chromium directly if you're immediately shutting off those features?
I imagine they would not suggest moving to Chrome and instead would suggest moving to Firefox.
Why would I tell a childfree friend about the joys of parenthood? Who would do that?

To somebody who's just Wrong on the Internet, though, I would happily say that it's not the most important thing. It's the only thing.

Good luck!
To be fair, audio quality and the ability to communicate with remote people goes up much more when everyone dials in. You can still look at each other in the room and whiteboard just fine.
It's a little annoying but to be fair because most error messaging is garbage, its easy to start to ignore them. How often is the error message shown, and the little fix given, actually going to solve the problem in modern web development? 10% of the time? 25% of the time? I'd be shocked if its that high.
Digital media drive affective polarization through partisan sorting
And I would suggest that the wording of "very likely" implies statistics.

The people that need to understand this are the product people, not the developers, who are the ones treated as if they cannot understand.
> I’m not even sure if you are asking this seriously. You make a safety assesment. People who do this kind of engineering task go through the systems methodically and they write up the dangers, hazards and the mitigations.

There is a fundamental difference between "we have assessed the risk and here it is below some threshold where we are confident that no further safety measures are required" and "this place is safe, no accidents can happen here."

> Cabada, a ten-year veteran at the company, shouldn’t have been near the valve when it hit maximum pressure, according to people with knowledge of the accident, *but it ramped up faster than expected, blowing a shield off the valve* and knocking him unconscious.

A lockout would have done nothing. The test didn't start early, the test went wrong, and a place that was supposed to be safe at the time suddenly wasn't. The fact a safety shield blew off means they recognized that they went through the effort of identifying potential safety issues and implementing safeguards, but those safeguards were inadequate.

> Asking the grieving family to remove a picture of the hurt worker which depicts him in context of his work is a PR tactic.

The article doesn't say that the picture change was requested by spacex, only that it occured after the start of the family's legal proceedings against the company.

> But not talking about incidents is a PR tactic.

I mean in the sense that anything can influence public opinion, sure. But obviously what I am saying is that you're not supposed to take safety measures to improve your image in the public sphere, you take safety measures to ensure the wellbeing of your employees. A company that is serious about safety, instead of PR, will do what is effective (ie collecting evidence and making an informed, rational decision) instead of what is popular (doing something for the sake of being seen doing something which seems sensible to a person unfamiliar with the situation - like a lockout).
I've had this prompt given to me in interviews.
"Trump, who just stole nuclear secrets and sold them to Saudi Arabia."

Source? You are stating as fact something that the government has not even indicted Trump for. In general your post is very partisan.
Also open offices are the norm in many places -- so any company wanting a non-open office has to face going counter culture alone; apart from having to figure out logistics involved in setting up cubicles and offices. Some of us don't even know what non-open office looks like. Closest I have seen is the rooms of high ranking execs, doctors and professors lol.
Terminology matters. VCs are absolutely not writing €20k checks in Europe. Angel investors are.
General-Purpose Pre-Trained Models in Robotics
It's less that and more that you're not maximizing retirement savings at that point, which is something that stresses a lot of folks out.

Also, even within software, I can't imagine trying to find a job with a 6-month gap on my resume. I'm not in the bay area, and even working remotely, competition is brutal. A gap on your resume is a great reason to get immediately rejected by wherever you're applying to.

Not all of us are in the niches of software where jobs are easy to come by. Not everything is web dev.
> But why did Brave have to put it into their browser and did not publish it as a plugin?

I don't know if they do that in this case, but one could assume having access to non-public internal APIs might improve filtering capabilities/performance.

For example if brave was to implement manifest v3, it wouldn't impact their built-in ad/cookie blocking features.
ARM based IoT devices and developer workstations
Just ignore the "virtual particles" part. Most of the mass comes from the binding energy. As in the rest masses of the individual quarks is small compared to total mass of proton.

Virtual particles themselves can always be ignored as they are not physical. They're purely a computational method in some approaches. They don't exist in others at all. And even when they are part of the method what kind they are depends. Looking at momentum space? Your virtual particles can have any position. Looking at position? Your virtual particles can have any momentum.

Alternatively: Virtual particle just means that if you have a certain kind of field, what kind of "particles" you need to sum up to get that kind of field. The field itself is the physical thing. Viewing it mathematically as sum of virtual particles is just a mathematical viewpoint.
There's an even bigger (or at least, more on-point) problem with the audience though.

In the pre-DAW days, "audio engineering" was a specific task and skill set that was quite distinct from "playing music". Many DAWs were created to assist with audio engineering, assuming usage by someone who understands that domain.

Fast forward to recent times, and there's some widespread belief that a DAW should be a tool for musicians, even for musicians who don't know anything (or at least, not much) about audio engineering. "I just want to record my ideas".

So then someone cooks up some relatively simple DAW-like application for such people. They start using it, and within a few weeks or months, they find themselves unavoidably learning something about audio engineering. They want more from the application, and within a relatively short period of time, they need and/or want the full DAW.

The same thing is happening, to a lesser degree in the podcasting/radio production world.
I was talking about popup windows.

You can block websites from asking for notification permissions.

Cookie banners and email signup prompts are part of the page. I don't consider them popups.
If you think being a parent is as physically grueling as combat then I'd suggest you either meet some parents or get into some fights because you have a serious misunderstanding of one or the other.

In any case, outside of the extremes there really isn't much physical difference between 40s and 20s unless you have health issues or you don't exercise. I'm 45 and lift about what I did when I was 25. My cardio is better (boxing, muay thai) and I don't need as much sleep as I used to when I was a kid. You don't want to step in the ring with a guy in his 20s/30s because your reaction times are ~80-150ms slower but that has very little impact on your ability to change a diaper.

Step outside, touch some grass, and meet people in the real world.
I don't think they will ever understand what this is all about. This is a different level than our brains represent.
Sorry, I'm not taking your arguments very seriously. You're arguing that no there's deception in automatically silently changing links to contain Brave referral links, or to making it look like donations are going to a creator when they in reality don't. I disagree, but if you genuinely believe that there's no deception involved in any of that, our disagreement boils down to a simple difference in opinion about what constitutes deception, which I don't think it's fruitful to argue about.

My only bias here is against browsers which change links out from under their users to benefit the browser vendor or make it look like the user's donations are going to someone who's not receiving them. Nothing more, nothing less.
I could have worded that better. I think it is in indication that burnout is headed your way. When you don't want to a do a job anymore that you used to like doing (bored if it) and you are being forced to continue doing it, burnout is about to happen.
> My spouse is 39 so the window has closed for biological children, more or less.

Hem, not. Not closed, and you should talk with her about your feelings. Today is better.
You should donate this to Searx/ng, which is an open source meta search engine designed to search many things in the same time.

https://github.com/searxng/searxng
> it does not require a lot of extra investment to support ships and aircrafts.

Are you sure about that? I have a friend who worked in airspace comms his whole career (including at Gogo) and he described some of the challenges of the engineering problem (these systems have to be airgapped from the critical systems on the plane, the certification processes, the antennas have to be super highly directional to talk with satelites high overhead while both the plane and the satellite are moving at tremendous speed, etc). Maybe your "not a lot of extra investment" is relative, but it seems like there's still a bunch of work to make these things work on planes.
This depends a lot on the phrasing of the question, because there can be a big difference between "unplanned" and "undesired."

When people actively want not to have children, they tend to be fastidious about using their contraceptives as intended, but they're less careful when they are less opposed to the idea.

Even if someone gets pregnant earlier than they had actually "planned," many are quickly delighted after the first bout of surprise and the slight stress of moving up the related plans, though this is not always captured in surveys.
Yes choosing a browser to take away my choice is also a choice. Not one I would make, but to each their own, I guess.
This study explains that ‘filter bubbles’ are probably not real.

While filter bubble are an appealing concept, the evidence increasingly shows that polarization increases with the internet because you have to deal with opposing views.
DNA kits are actually a good idea. When children are ripped apart by gunfire in their classrooms, you're going to want a good means of identification afterwards.
This would be fabulous for switching between brave, duck duck go, and Google. I love the UX, finally something worthwhile in the browser space. Available for purchase at any point?
In the same vein, Ars Technica did an amazing story on analog computers in the US Navy a few years ago:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/gears...
How does this work? Do you have a fixed list of websites you visit and never stray from? Do you avoid clicking on links you don't recognize? How do you use HN, which by its very essence points you at new, unrecognized web sites every day?
I suspect commute/transport is the larger factor among the two you shared. The extracurricular usually comes down to eating and drinking. I'm sure particularly in the mid-west the options are more limited, but in a large enough city there's somewhere to go - it just might not be worth it. You'll still have to commute home in the end, and if you can't just walk to the fun destination from work then that's more time lost.

This all raises an interesting point. I wonder if attitudes towards WFH can be predicated by zoning / city density. Even before COVID was a thing, Japan's reputation for instance is for the expectation of going out drinking with the boss after work.
But doesn’t this drive home OP’s point further? For people who work in service jobs - healthcare, schools, shopping, and restaurants/cafes, for example - how would you approach working less? People want to go out and eat and places are already struggling to hire. Parents want in person learning for their young kids.
I don't hate talking to real-life people.

I hate having practically no input on WHICH people I have to associate with. I hate the culture and vibe that proliferates in offices, it's like the worst aspects of a library and a cafeteria all at once. I'm tired of people acting like I have no emotional intelligence just because it's not my job to talk. I hate acting like a potted plant all day and feeling the body pains that come from sitting still and being quiet for an unnatural amount of time.

The office is not real life.
Wouldn't that make them software engineers as well?
I'd never heard of grammarly, but like it's idea, will certainly check it out. I'm just using spellcheck in Vim. Thanks for the kind words, though!
Python for orchestration? Count me in, though for end-user facing application binaries on desktop or mobile, it's a bit of a climb.
Bullshit. NSA recruits talent from exclusive universities not hacker conventions. Gen. Alexander would not have attended and spoken unless he was hired to do so.[1] He'll say what he is paid to say. Time to grow up, children. Play time is over, and this is reality.

[1] https://www.speakerbookingagency.com/talent/keith-alexander
>they must login to show activity on their computer every 15 minutes or else be fired.

This is the stupidest thing, I think - I don't care if you're at your computer all the time I am at my computer, I care if you get shit done
As I understand it, the reason Feynman diagrams in quantum electrodynamics (where the primary entities are electrons and photons) can be used to calculate properties very accurately is that the electromagnetic coupling constant (1/137) results in the higher-order terms in a series eventually vanishing away to nothing, while with the strong force the coupling constant is >= 1, so the higher-order terms have to be included, leading to things like infinities (or at the very least, ratios of very large quantities with correspondingly large uncertainties).

The strong force is a bit confusing, as it binds boths quarks with the proton and neutron, as well as binding the neutrons and protons into atomic nuclei, over short ranges (accounting for the upper size limit / stability limit of the largest nuclei). Mesons are the force-carrying entity that bind the neutrons and protons together, but gluons are the force-carrying entity that bind the quarks together, as per this wiki article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_interaction

Is it the case that theoretical strong-force calculations have just hit a dead-end and there's no way out in sight, due to the coupling constant issue?
This sort of reveals the problem I have with this calculus.

"Working from the office is more productive."

"Great do you offer higher rates to offset the costs and share some of that additional productivity?"

"Not really. We offer the market average of all jobs, wfh and wfo. We can't really afford more, renting office space is expensive."

"Would you lease a car for me, count commute time towards the workday and refund my gas and toll costs?"

"No! That wouldn't be cost effective!"

It may be that WFO does make the business a bit more, but it's actually less than the employees cost to get into the office each day. In my experience most employers would happily load their employees with thousands in costs to make a couple extra hundred bucks themselves.
“Data in the Desert” hints at the future of autonomous vehicles
Except, as far as I'm aware, the Jones Act hasn't prevented the collapse of the merchant marine fleet--in other words, it's failed to do its primary goal, and it has some pretty heft costs for everyone who doesn't live in mainland US.
Javascript has little to do with the awful design of that site. Also, as of today, the Discmaster site is down, likely due to the design being heavily search focused.
I've found that in some cases it comes from not being able to understand what you do here as Office Space would say.

If you were a plumber, she'd have an easy answer when talking to her friends about what doubled112 does. Plumber is a job everyone understands at a basic level; most of the trades are because you can point to a finished product. "He builds things like that."

Sometimes an analogy can help; I've definitely told people I'm an internet plumber and that seems to satisfy their curiosity.
This is basically how my company works. We're sort of remote-first in that we have plenty of foreign employees around the world, but we also have a coworking space that people in that city are free to work from. Nobody is forced to work in the office and we have bookable rooms for meetings so nobody is disrupted. It's open plan/hot desks, so I tend to do my coding work from home, but I'm <10 mins from the building so I'll pop in for in person meetings (and the Rocket espresso machine in the kitchen). We also have flexible rules around working abroad eg if you want to visit family and work in another country for a week, that's OK. The tax situation is your problem, but eg I work abroad but I can remote work legally in the UK for 2 weeks a year without affecting my tax liability.
Slight nitpick, but I think it’s worth pointing out that MARAD, a federal agency, is a distinct entity from MTSNAC, a collection of industry folks who made the treason comment.
The Queen Respawned on Fortnite
> Well the magnitude of your response should be calibrated to the magnitude of the grievance.

This is where I disagree. The magnitude of response should be determined by the likelihood of achieving the desired outcome. Sometimes that requires drawing a really firm line, but usually it does not. And I'd argue that it virtually never involves drawing that line as your first strategy.

Like I said, you should absolutely be willing to make that threat, and to walk away, but I don't think there's any benefit to yourself in leading with it. If your initial attempt fails, then try something more drastic until you either get your desired result or quit.

I don't think you can expect people to be rational all, or even most of the time. Just because something is a fact does not mean it is necessary or beneficial to say it.
Kids make camping even MORE fun.
We have had more parental leaves this year on my team then we have had in the last 5 years combined. Anecdotally confirmed
I'm skeptical of this to be honest.

The global employment market is a free market (of sorts), and so people will happily pay more for employee they perceive to be better whether they are or not. People still buy Rolexes, iPhones, and Teslas despite there being cheaper alternatives that do exact same things. So companies will hire employees they perceive to be better simply because they share a nationality. While I don't think it'll prevent every job from outsourcing, the high earners will flee to the unequal income areas to spend their wealth. If we see more equitable income in both countries (so to speak), it'll be far in the future if at all. Boots on the ground says internet connectivity in service-based economies remains unrivaled compared to the agricultural and industrial economies often touted as the outsourcing alternatives.
This is an excelling CMS: https://forestry.io/

I used it as the editorial interface for a little static blog: https://www.wildernessprime.com/
Thank you! It is like tweetdeck. I forgot about that site. Will be looking at it more for any ideas...

Swurl is using Google search right now... so you could just change your default search to Swurl :) Would love the support
what do you get for $250 a month on ec2? is it 24c/48t dual xeon with 96gb ram, 2x 960gb nvme, with bare metal performance? https://us.ovhcloud.com/bare-metal/infra/infra-4-le/
I don't want an abstraction over all hardware in my life anymore than I want a steering wheel on my bicycle.
O rly... Revisionist historians, as usual when this browser is concerned.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3284076/brave-browser-...
Burnout takes different forms and people create different methods for coping.

Twenty five years ago I began working on a large project that had no chance of success because of an impossible schedule. I was one of just a few senior people who had been asked to support it, while most of the team consisted of new-hires. (The reason for this was the classic "they won't know that it's impossible, so maybe they can do it" strategy.) After about a year and with some success, things began to go wrong. In order to get things done faster, the team had neglected documentation on the first build (of 13). So even though the first build was mostly on time, the whole team was so burned out that most of them had left. (Attrition was over 60% and many engineers became so disillusioned with their career choice that they switched to something else.) The new team was left with no documentation and no experience, but the impossible schedule remained. Management began having daily morning meetings (two hours) as part of our 12 hour day. Every morning we would re-plan the schedule and every day it would slip.

After working in this environment for almost two years, I moved on. Before I worked on this project I had a strong commitment to schedule and I would do whatever it took to make sure things were on time. After working this project I found that I never took any schedule seriously. I would do what I could to get things done, but I wouldn't work excessive hours or stress myself about being late. This coping mechanism has (mostly) helped me both in work and in life, but some program managers have viewed my attitude as insubordinate.

https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2001-06-29-Boeing-Built-ICO-Sat...

https://casetext.com/case/boeing-satellite-sys-intl-inc-v-ic...
Years ago I could simply tell friends and family to install Firefox.

Now I'd have to tell them: install Firefox, then go here and click this, go there and click that, etc.
I don't want to be friends with my coworkers, but I do want to have a relationship with them. WFH has meant that we're basically all just doing our thing, occasionally talking on slack/jira but mostly just blissfully unaware of the interesting challenges others are facing, especially on other teams. Imo collaboration is much more difficult with people you have no relationship with, and video calls absolutely do not work as well as in person whiteboarding,
Quite an incredible compilation of photos on your reddit page, thanks for sharing.
Some VCs blend the line between angel and VC (often the angels are on the board/involved with various VCs).
Essentially by default, Live can take any material and automatically ensure that it matches the tempo (and key) that you're working in. Clip launching is a very powerful way to play around with musical ideas, even if it is not necessarily the best way to produce finished pieces of music (though it can be). Reaper doesn't have this workflow (at least, not builtin). It is this "I can goof around with almost any material and it almost always sound good, or at least interesting" element that I believe made Live so popular.
It's an odd question either way. Does God need a cause? Does the Big Bang need a cause?
That was my take. He’s not being detained and he chose not to comment on an ongoing investigation involving himself. There may not be a big deal here. The Rolling Stone has a history of fabrication and exaggeration, not Meek.