skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bonus topic near and dear to my heart: Ducting design is a biggie, but a neglected issue, and the biggest sin I see in residential HVAC, is ignoring a design's peak heating or cooling energy demands and installing oversized heat pumps.

The bigger is better mentality in that area results in (sometimes dramatically) shorter run cycles with an unnecessarily large compressor. It's not good for your electric bill or the equipment, and you get a monster motor dimming your lights every 10 minutes.

If I had a dollar for every time an HVAC contractor offered me a quote including an upgrade option for a heat pump three times larger than is needed...
Wow... You have something here.

I immediately felt... this is the best search interface I've used yet.

I love that I can switch between images and regular search without the extra clicks and forward and back navigation.

Didn't see if you had a news source as well, but imagine that is perfect as well.

The only problem is, I don't know how you move forward from here.
Noticing that the above stream of consciousness might have come across as crotchety - that was not my intention! A better way to phrase this might have been "the benefits of memory safety and human conveniences of a modern language can be worth giving up a bit of control, even in cases where it might be legitimately beneficial", which was supposed to be praise for the Rust model :-)
I like it! Nowadays I usually prefix my search with ddg's bang command to narrow my search to a subset of websites. I made a tiny browser extension to include tohe commonly searched sites. What you did is bang command on steroids. Thanks for building it!
That's possibly indicating a bad UI / information architecture if you are unable to tell that.
is it something the virus didnt do before? if yes, thats Gain of function.

if its something that the virus already did, but now does it to greater extent that is attenuation of function
The people who already have absolute control over what you do and don't see in your feed.

The algorithms of these platforms have been extremely effective at enabling the dissemination of lies and misinformation. When you consider that they're also designed to essentially reinforce any particular view you might have then it becomes clear why we've seen such extreme polarisation.

I have absolutely zero problems with those algorithms being altered to break people out of those filter bubbles and/or limit the reach of people with a history of making wildly unsubstantiated claims.
> The many problems […]

…, hard-links are incompatible with programs that attempt "atomic" file saves instead of rewriting a file in-place, …
The safety protocols have been deemed satisfactory. You overestimate the risk.

New variants are created all the time by natural transmission. Including the recombination of two different strains. So the controlled, artificial recombination is like a grain of sand in a bucket of sand. And even if it "escapes", the escaped variant would still have to evolve and prove itself.

Experts don't see this as a risk.
Very cool. I wish it sorted all results in order of recency, or had an option for that.
There's a political angle to a lot of the work around internet freedom, and a surprising number of people/lobbyists operate on the touch point between browsers and public policy. Faction-choosing is, I guess, a side effect of that dynamic.
> * If you are on a short haul flight, it's going to be disconnected for takeoff/landing so you will get a solid 30m

I worked on inflight wifi for Qantas, where they share the highest trafficked route in the world - the 60 minute light between Sydney and Melbourne. It was a huge win for the project when we got clearance to enable wifi on the ground for takeoff.
Not really. By then either we’ll live to 300 (or potentially forever, depending on how you define living), and/or have essentially auto-executing micro-factories and perfect markets so ideas become products with little effort, or we’ll all be batteries for our AI overlords, in which case this discussion is moot.
It will work for a small fraction of high-IQ kids, especially those who are talented and very interested in math. That's not a reason to discard the program. Parents of such children should know of https://artofproblemsolving.com/.
There's limits to how short you can make the perceptual hash. The more you compress it, the more information you lose.

The ML image classification models can be used to extract a good descriptor that can be further reduced into a compact signature.

https://github.com/starkdg/pyphashml

For indexing, I've had some success with distance-based indexing. Here's a comparison of some structures I used:

https://github.com/starkdg/hftrie#comparison

Feel free to contact me, if you want to discuss this further.
Instead, don't visit sites that don't care about it's users.
> Hire one person

Go back and re-read :)

They [believe that they] don't need to hire anyone. They already have a staff of ops folks that run their cloud operations. And those folks will run their on-prem operations.
oh yeah I get it, I’d just love to see the list of words out of sheer curiousity
If a side project isn't a company and then someone else buys it and turns it into a company, I'd argue the purchaser is the founder.

If you take open source software or some white label solution and sell it, you're a founder.

If a company goes bankrupt, you buy the assets and then launch a new company. Founder.
No, I don't. Two things:

- Your browser already makes "your internet" different than mine. You will see different different content and (at stores) pricing in Chrome than you do Firefox on a bunch of major sites. Try it, it is pretty obvious.

- Second, the article is specifically referring to Facebook's "algorithm". This is frustrating, because we can't talk knowledgeably about what they actually did after Jan 6. But why anyone assumes the "more conflict" slider is somehow "more honest" is beyond me - it is a black box whose function feeds Facebook money. They were not tuning for honest before, and they weren't after. But of course, they were talking about FB, not their own product.

Now, can you name specific concerns about what you fear FF might do with their browser to start gaslighting you?
I would really like ad blockers to ratchet up this war, blocking cookie banners, "please subscribe to our newsletter", "5% off, get it now", "we need to talk about your adblocker", "subscribe to our newsletter", and all other forms of popover BS. That stuff makes the web suck! I find it so jarring and rude that now I usually just close the page. If books were like this I would probably have never had the attention span to learn anything. But they have a lot of experience boiling frogs and most people just put up with it.
You're not alone. The remote work people are just very, very vocal here.
Kind of this.

I don't think it's "care less" but I think it's "care appropriately for 40 hours a week."

The concept of "quiet quitting" is a shameful, panicky fraud perpetuated by the power holders in the industry that see their power slipping. "Quiet quitting" has been known as "work to rule" or "fulfilling a contract." My paystub says 40 hours. My original contract says nothing about overtime. I'm not quiet quitting, I'm doing my !@#$ing job.

By being STRICTLY limited to 40 hours, I can do my job at full strength, providing consistent results and quality. And then I'm not so burned out that I go home and do whatever I please with my life. Sometimes that's more coding for me!

My job is a side quest, not a main quest.
>Still Linux is far more popular in general.

I pretty much had the opposite experience.
There’s also a whole “the really smart among the rich people are actually smart enough to recognize the importance of my work” marketing pitch, if you know that (AFAIK at least) he actually lives off of donations to his research project.
I've been pretty dismayed that sometimes when I buy products elsewhere the seller often just buys them off amazon and then ships them to me, basically defeating my whole effort.
It is already legal.

Just follow the rules (tracking is opt in) and no bannner is necessary.

In fact, most of the banners I see are non compliant and shouldn't (IMO) help at all when consumer protection authorities gets around to it.
The edge case compat issues are rare for me, battery life seems the same, and FF is otherwise such a good, fast browser with nice extensions... I like it a lot more than Chrome now
Any UK tabloid website will carry you right back to those days
Is there anywhere to get this kind of experience in the US?
Do you realize that the whole thing is counterproductive, right? 99% of users do not want to know what the fuck a cookie is. Imagine you are right before coitus and in the beginning a little angel would pop up and warn you about STDs. And you must answer with an erect dick that yes, you understand. People want instant gratification. The information RIGHT NOW, the pornstar RIGHT NOW, the best pet food RIGHT NOW. PPl are already hooked on the internet, so why are you trying to tell nose jobs how to behave and endure this fucking practice?

It is not the users' job to know about whether the privacy aspects are shit and he/she is robbed of it. So the browser makers go on and solve this shitstorm together.
> Brave being a cryptocurrency scam

How so?

I think it's reasonable to dislike crypto for any reason you choose, but merely having a crypto wallet feature (that you're free to never use) doesn't mean that something is a scam.

Scam is a pretty powerful word and shouldn't be bandied about so casually.
Can anyone recommend any read on what the story of cookie banners is, why they are there, and so on? It’s the single most annoying thing in today’s browsing, and I wish it would just go.

Really, is anybody glad the thing is there? Why? Asking sincerely
I've had a job where I was the only remote developer, and the experience was terrible. I was excluded from or forgotten for lots of important meetings and social events.

I personally wouldn't want to force everyone to WFH, but I'll never willingly repeat that experience either.
Negative impact in my experience. My kids were given ipads at school. Big downtrend in education quality ensued. Chaos really.

It’s all a hand wavey “tech is good” without doing any research, experimentation or preparation.

https://remakelearning.org/blog/2011/11/30/a-silicon-valley-...
It's cool, I think a 2x2 grid might be a better layout and maybe a summarised view rather than streams e.g no scrolling. Otherwise it's a lot of information to pack into one page. It's good though.
Oh my - I've been waiting to hear this since forever, and you couldn't have said it better. I feel exactly the same way, and I feel like specially the younger tech workers are losing a big chunk of what it means to build work relationships (which are some of the best), and to connect with people. I don't know how to fix it as like you said, most people will scream when you mention work from office/
About 14 years into my career I got stuck on one project, out of control, working sixty to seventy hours a week. Salaried, no overtime. That went on for about seven months, I was miserable. I had a one year old child, she was miserable, my wife was miserable. I was at my wits end. I spoke to my supervisor at the time, and he understood, but told me it was only going to get worse, so I found a new job.

I have made the commitment to myself, from that time, that I only work 40 hours a week. I'll occasionally work a little overtime if I am on a roll on something interesting, or if there is a short term panic at work, but very infrequently, and never, ever, more than fifty hours in a week.

I make that clear when I interview, and I will admit that on individual jobs that has been a deal breaker, but those were the small minority of interviews.

The twenty four years since then have all been good. Four different employers, all in embedded development, all interesting challenges.
>Have a lot of people realized they don't actually like being among other people,

A lot of people always knew this, but were forced to anyway.
It's tricky. You have to customize it. But any index method needs a fairly low threshold or the search devolves to a linear search. But as you increase the threshold, you quickly reach a cutoff where it's all just completely dissimilar images. So, a threshold of 100 would be utterly pointless.
The actual article notwithstanding, upon reading it two thoughts occured to me:

1. I knew and know plenty of CEOs (some of them were my bosses at some point) and quite a few of them are...Not that impressive? I can think of at least a couple that we (the people under them in the corporate hierarchy) actually thought were idiots

2. As a developer turned founder...Being a CEO is a lot harder than I realized. The part about how not everyone can be an executive - even a bad executive - rings true to my subjective experience. I just don't think "lack of intelligence" is what's preventing a lot of people from being able to perform as executives.
Here's a hot take: Having children just might turn out to be the worst thing that ever happened to you. What if your child turns out to have a rare and horrible disease, characterized by constant pain and suffering and where you spend all of your time and resources caring for them? What if your child has a mental illness and is constantly unhappy and hates you until the day you die? What if you and your partner split up and your partner makes it their full time job to poison your child's mind against you? What if it turns out that you actually hate having children and they make you crazy? Regret can go the other way as well.
You are right about the stars and my statement was unclear. The elves awoke as Varda made new and brighter stars, and it is stated that "their eyes beheld first of all things the stars of heaven. Therefore they have ever loved the starlight"

When looking in the Silmarillion, it seems that they primarilly loved the stars and aspecific preference forthe moon is not mentioned. However, the moon came first (as the elves, compared to the humans) and traveled over the sky several times before the sun first appeared; "Isil was first wrought and made ready, and first rose into the realm of the stars, and was the elder of the new lights, as was Telperion of the Trees. Then for a while the world had moonlight [...] Tilion had traversed the heaven seven times, and thus was in the furthest east, when the vessel of Arien was made ready" and "the Sun was set as a sign for the awakening of Men and the waning of the Elves, but the Moon cherishes their memory"

Why it matters? So, in my opinion, that the elves may be fair or perhaps pale in the skin makes sence symbolically due to their relationship to the night and the stars (and perhaps the moon). Also, in humans, there tends to be a relationship between the sun exposure of an area and skin color but I don't think we know how this affect elves (how their bodies work, some born before the sun was created, living for very long time, etc.)
And totally readable and accessible by any third party
"out of filter bubbles" == "into other filter bubbles". This isn't empowerment, it's hijacking.

Even in 2022, the world wide web is still a hell of a lot more diverse than one single organization. Especially Mozilla.

Should you trust any one website? No. But which websites you frequent is your choice, and it's one of the few dimensions of freedom remaining to the internet. The only job of the browser is to facilitate this freedom, and any divergence from that goal will only diminish what free choice remains.
Can vouch for post-40 mental weirdness that is probably the midlife-crisis instigator. My brother in-law, who's a couple of years older than me, went through something similar a few years ago that nearly cost him his marriage.

To some extent, my brother in-law's experience helped me get through mine because I was able to join the dots and identify my mental bullshit as coming from the same place as his, and try to avoid making the same mistakes.
It's both. I've worked harder then fellow students who had much better results and less hard for better results than other students who failed, and seen the same capacity follow students across classes.

It's the same with physical talents, where I had a particularly vivid example. I golfed almost obsessively for about three years, and then introduced a friend to the game ... who beat me on the back nine of his first round.
You can't handle the facts.

Seriously. If you don't want to believe what 99% of the experts say, and don't know shit about the actual science - which takes years to understand - it's a pretty good bet you're wrong. Lot's of things can't be broken down to a level non-experts can understand.
It's not surprising that people who would do this happen to be the people who want to return to the office.
I am aware of this, please note the aspect of relativity when it comes to comparing with all the other chromium-based browsers.
Changing plans and buying Kherson to the Russian govt instead.
This guy built and hosts a SQLite database via github. Is this helpful?

https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database...
> ...all three countries were quite thoroughly provoked by Nasser.

FYI "provoked" is the exact word used by many to rationalize Putin's invasion of Ukraine. One could just as easily say Nasser was provoked to his actions by decades of foreign domination and exploitation.

This stuff is complex but at the end of day those three countries were clearly wrong to invade a sovereign country.
I’m left wonder at what point does the “give a man a fish/teach a man how to fish” method of pedagogy apply in terms of ‘acting like a human’ in this context?

Asking as someone who otherwise generally agrees that there are some truly poorly written errors and exceptions out there, but has also been on the admittedly frustrating end of the constant requests for help deciphering error messages that were very plainly stating what the problem is for someone who didn’t even try looking for the fishing rod.
Just tell me you can’t connect with a big red Error message. I don’t give a damn about polite error messages.
To people that loved their school days the current office culture is probably already great. To people that did not, the office is just as bad. Except it is worse, because it feels like something you inflict on yourself.
Gerrit's database is fully based on git.

https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/note-db...
I'm still working on a reverse of google-desktop-linux-latest, they've left debugging info in it, maybe someone can liberate their old search algorithm.
Make art. Tell stories. Admire the landscape.

And on the other hand, solving problems is often not done by intelligence but by guessing, or intuition.
I'm with you, my jaw drops when I see so much support for brave on hn. Super shady. Do they still replace website ads with their own ad network? (I'm all for blocking ads, but does this really not seem wrong to anyone?
I don't work at Mozilla so I don't know what these 'tools' are that they want to enable by default. That's my point. Do you know?
It's not too late for either of you. Check IVF. Quality of your sperm goes down with age, IVF can select the better sperm and fertilize with a good egg. Your wife still have plenty of eggs. You can take decisions around surrogacy etc. based on other health factors. But I personally know plenty of couples who are having kids in their 40s
FWIW I feel for the OP in most of what s/he says.

Luckily there's a lot of hybrid arrangements now where you can have your cake and eat it so to speak.
Then if you're in the US you shouldn't support de-platforming, because the government protects hate speech here.
Correct. Also content companies goes way over the line when they

- list 200+ companies under legitimate interest or whatever it said (no way they need that)

- make opt out several clicks and opt in one click

- shows the banner often if you opt out, never again if you click the wrong button once
I didn't comment on whether it's smart or not. That would be an impossible assessment considering NDAs can be completely different. I only expressed the sentiment that in some industries it is a common practice and not some unheard of red flag. In my case, it was a non-issue because it meant the people I was talking to were able to share more detailed information about their product, letting me make an informed decision about whether I wanted to work on that thing or not. Not being able to talk about the proprietary tech of a company I'm interviewing for was not a deal-breaker to me.
> The closest work-related argument I've heard is that some people work better when they're free of distractions at the office. That takes us back to companies being collaborative human endeavors. One may feel they work better in isolation, but part of ones job is to interact with others, even if that's not fun.

Have you worked in an open office or cubical farm? My hearing the sales guys isn't 'collaboration', it's distraction. Hearing my coworkers at the much-lauded ping pong table having a great time while I'm trying to get work done isn't collaboration either. Collaboration is often code for 'meetings'. As evidenced by my outlook calendar, those haven't stopped. I find that people who make this argument are those who either spend the majority of their day 'collaborating' or those who have offices they can escape to when they need to think.

> One data point is the BLS released quarterly productivity numbers last month. Productivity is down 4.1% [0]. That's pretty massive.

Mass WFH started in 2020 - I don't think you can link a Q2 2022 productivity decrease to WFH, considering the previous quarter will have had even more WFH. In fact, it's easier to link it to the return to the office.

Edit: Hell, we can even see that non-farm business sector productivity INCREASED in both 2020 and 2021.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod2.t02.htm
Came exactly here to say this. Because of WFH im able to have a awesome job and see my family living in other countries and also my parents at home much more frequently now.

If you want to work in an office you can do that it’s your choice. Many people also have young kids and two working parents making the WFH flexibility ideal. Lots of reasons for WFH exist but they don’t matter. If you do your job and the company is happy why do we even need to have this discussion?
A mostly curated list:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programminggames/comments/d5pg8q/a_...
How is it done? Could you point to the section of code in the source code?
Pretty realistic someone with no argument or useful information to add to the discussion would just throw out there, ‘this sounds unrealistic’ and nothing else.
Which part of Seattle?
I have fantasized about having a sabbatical. I wonder if I'm paying the balance, or the interest, off of my burnout.
As I said in my own post, he and his wife should absolutely talk to a fertility doctor or even several specialists for their specific context. My point was that in general, most women can have children well into their 30s and even 40s, and that much of the claims to the contrary are based on absurdly old information. The link was for a general dose of optimism in case general worries about age itself are the main problem.
> Personally, I haven't seen many good arguments that WFH produces superior work outcomes.

https://www.apollotechnical.com/working-from-home-productivi...

https://resources.owllabs.com/hubfs/SORW/SORW_2021/owl-labs_...

> Several studies over the past few months show productivity while working remotely from home is better than working in an office setting. On average, those who work from home spend 10 minutes less a day being unproductive, work one more day a week, and are 47% more productive.
Medical Campaign Uses GNU Health, OpenSUSE
I worked out that for me, even accounting for energy bills and such, working from home full time would be equivalent to a 15% pay rise. And on top of that, I'd have 2 hours of extra free time every day. I can't understand the kind of person who wouldn't want that.