skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sorry, but knowing the way many countries count unemployment, that doesn't mean shit. In my country, you're only part of the unemployment statistics if you receive unemployment benefits and only that.

There are standardised ways to measure unemployment and all major countries provide the necessary data to measure them in a comparable way, even if they might choose to highlight different measurement types.

So when the OECD reports on unemployment rates they do so in a harmonised way that uses the same definition for all. e.g. https://data.oecd.org/unemp/unemployment-rate.htm

Another example is that Eurostat defines actively working as having at least one hour of work a week, just in order to create a useful basis for comparison. The Netherlands defines it as at least 12 hours a week, so the commonly published Dutch number will be different than the Eurostat one. It doesn't matter though because the underlying data is still available for a direct comparison.
All the intelligent creatures of present earth took at least the 2-4 billion years to come into their existence. The universe 13 billion years old but maybe the early universe was too hostile to allow progress, maybe it required many billion years to have the occasional planet with a wide and useful variety of elements.

"the leap to exponential tool" - the current human leap to exponential resource consumption seems to be colliding with the limited and fragile structure of the earth (IE, CO2 pollution is pushing to catastrophic global warming). A fair number of decision makers seem to expect some tech fix to appear when every indication is it won't. My point is "getting to stars" would require technological progress in a situation where a species learns to curb an appetite for exponential growth, something human beings certainly haven't achieved.
I recall the time in the 90s when some friends and I left a floppy of Doom as a tip for our waiter.
I'd really really prefer an approach that built an improved information infrastructure rather than establishing yet another police force. I suspect that better information is antithetical to the current powers that be. That isn't to say that they aren't aligned with truth more often that not, but that they wish to keep the option for a false official truth open.
Just because you've banned scooters doesn't mean the morons operating them went away, or stopped traveling.

And I'd much rather deal with a moron on a scooter than a moron in a car. I'd daresay that statistics on both deaths and injuries caused by alternative modes of transportation are with me on this.

I mean, I get it. Scooters are a little scary and annoying and take up space. People don't like them.

All these same criticisms apply for cars, but dialed up to 11.
Everyone raised seed funding recently, I wonder what was even their idea of monetization.
I've used a Linux desktop for years, back in the KDE 3.x days (2005 something) where everything worked well. Then KDE 4 came, GTK 3 and Gnome and that's when I left because it was just unusable and went to Windows.

ChromeOS and Android are nice but are not desktop user interfaces.

I do have a Macbook Pro but only use it for testing purposes. It works well but I only use it for running Safari so can't really say how it works for a power user.
I've found #131516 to be a decent compromise between pitch black and gruvbox's "hard dark" (#1d2021).
Do you think that anything at all should be done to fight foreign actor disinformation?
> What would be your suggestion to this problem? Just ignore it?

Nobody is ignoring it. Platforms are detecting this and providing more content around it, informing the user. This is annoying to some, but far better than banning or shadow banning the content.

There are plenty of solutions. The good ones revolve around providing MORE information, not suppressing the information you don't like.
There was a lot less googling for sure.
Breakfast in America – The Cost of Convenience
>This was it, even into the 90s you could reasonable "fully understand" what the machine was doing, even with something like Windows 95 and the early internet. That started to fall apart around that time and now there are so many abstraction layers you have to choose what you specialize in.

This doesn't really track. 30 years ago computers were, more or less, the same as they are now. The only major addition has been graphics cards. Other than that we've swapped some peripherals. Don't really see how someone could "fully understand" the modem, video drivers, USB controllers, motherboard firmware, processor instruction sets, and the half dozen or so more things that went into a desktop.
The CEO's actions are a reflection of the company. I'm not sure I "care more about it" than I am simply aware of their past actions when making decisions on whether to use their product or not.
Securing the Software Supply Chain (For Suppliers) [pdf]
Dylibs is for including 3rd party code at build time, maybe a client to consume an API.

ExtensionKit allows you to expose realtime UI or information, coming from an installed app instead of a 3rd party service.

That way you don't have to expose your API or build an SDK. You just have functions in your app that can be invoked.

Also the feature is only provided if the user has that app installed. So the experience is curated.
Quippy Answer: Bloat-tastic manager/worker ratios, plus meetings and other busywork.
This is fascism.

Also,

> malinformation (factual information shared, typically out of context, with harmful intent)

lol
As an example to further illustrate your point, it is possible for a business to purchase key employee insurance. As an employee we do not have the same privilege.
> Who are these people who are still using Facebook every day?

Me. Most everyone I know. Move from the tech bubble to the suburban parent bubble and I think you'll that nothing is replacing FB anytime soon. The school pages are there, the kid's clubs and activities and team pages are all there. The neighborhood pages are all there, NextDoor exists of course but it tends to be poor imitation of the FB group.

I know what stereotypes exist but I also don't see toxic Karens, nasty open bigoty and racism, or lying political propaganda. Maybe it's just not a SoCal thing? Or maybe I am a toxic racist Karen and I'm blind to it? Today is full of cute Halloween photos, reports on last weekend's high school sports team's results ( our marching band won the regionals!), and not much else. If there's a vicious underbelly than I am blind to it.

You get out of FB what you put in. The ads I see are all geeky T-shirts and practical cross body bags ( I haven't found a good one yet )

I find reddit horribly toxic and depressing and am surprised it doesn't get more attention. The front page tells us only that we are doomed, our country is doomed, our planet is doomed, and reminds us of how much smarter we are than everyone else. I really wish I had the self control to stay away from it.

Stereotype alert: I do know some parents who've dropped FB but it is always the dads. It's often easier for them as they rarely have to keep track of what day is wacky hair day.
You still don't know if they'll pay you $XXX. You only know that they claim that there exists some hypothetical employee to whom they'd in good faith imagine paying $XXX.
As I mentioned in sibling response, it is somewhat easy to get those speeds in any hilly place. Keeping them for extended times is, of course, out of the question. And my return commute has me well below that. Again for obvious reasons. :D

Now, I fully agree with the spirit of your post. Even the spots I'm talking about are short bursts.
I think that would boil down to whether a non-US citizen using, say, reddit, would be entitled to First Amendment rights.
I've read that doctors now spend as much as 50% of their time documenting their work. Companies such as Epic, which provide the software that hospitals use to build databases of patient data, have been big winners in the new world of hospitals-depending-on-software. But did the doctors become more productive? By almost any measure, they became less productive.

People in tech keep thinking more tech will solve problems and they keep underestimating the flexibility of the old models. For instance, most large companies used to be run by armies of secretaries, and the senior secretaries functioned as what we would now call "project managers" -- they made calendars, oversaw who was working on what, followed up to keep track on whether work was being done, and kept a close eye on what money was being spent. The crucial thing about having humans overseeing such work is that humans can take a flexible approach to the rules: they know when to break them. By contrast, systems that are highly dependent on software tend to be more rigid. Software doesn't know when its rules should be broken.

The flexibility of the old system is constantly underestimated, the rigidness of the new systems is often misunderstood.

In his book "The Design Of Design" Fred Brooks talks about the power of trust, and he contrasts that situations where everything needs to be first negotiated and specified in a contract. High trust systems are flexible and fast, whereas a system where every detail needs to be specified in a contract is slow and rigid. We should stop and ask ourselves, our favorite Agile methodology resembles which of these? Are specifying things with needless detail?
I hate to be that guy, but isn't this an Android feature?
IMO the hardest part about rolling out other forms of public transportation like scooters is creating a public ecosystem that will properly support multiple modes.

The public part is important because an ecosystem is not one individual entity like Bird/Lime/etc where everything for particular mode of travel has to funnel through.

The escooter experiment has basically shown lacking an ecosystem causes problems. And the same thing would happen if “escooter” is replaced with “ebikes” or “eskateboards” or “emopeds”. They would still be scattered everywhere, get in people’s way, etc.

So far the only real ecosystem for transportation we have comes down to cars once again (unless you live in NYC with the subway). There’s not enough momentum to holistically address multi-mode transportation meshed in public life and not just think in terms of “cars and car alternatives”.
They have a place and can be used effectively to solve actual problems. Old line businesses with too many units and complicated business arrangements can actually benefit from being torn apart and rebuilt effectively.

The problem is, when the Fed gives out exceptionally cheap interest, it makes it incredibly easy to apply this strategy even when the underlying business would not benefit from it.

We simply left the tap on _way_ too long.
It was effective Jan 1, 2021.

This is the complaint form if you find an employer not following the law:

https://cdle.colorado.gov/sites/cdle/files/Equal%20Pay%20Com...
orm%20Dec%202020_Distributed.pdf

Fact sheet:

https://cdle.colorado.gov/sites/cdle/files/documents/Equal_P...

Actual Law:

https://cdle.colorado.gov/sites/cdle/files/7%20CCR%201103-13...

Other links:

https://cdle.colorado.gov/laws-regulations-guidance
And this right here is why it's taken us so long to figure out that we even have terrestrial aliens with cultures and languages.

If you're not willing to believe it's possible, then you can't even begin to devise ways to determine if it's real.

> "We have hardly begun to decipher the language of the raven. Its dictionary so far contains but a few 'words'. Perhaps our analysis has been too coarse-grained to catch the meanings. Our research has been something like that of aliens from outer space who make sonograms of human vocalizations under different situations - eating, playing, loving, fighting, etc. Certain differences noted in frequency, intonation, and loudness are correlated with feelings and emotions. But human sounds convey much more, and perhaps ravens' do, too."

> Our challenge is to put ourselves in the place of those "aliens from outer space" and solve the immensely difficult problem of how to communicate with another intelligent species.

http://np.crows.net/language.html

Consider this: Crows pass knowledge down the generations. There have been studies done on crows where researchers go out and bully them. Then they observe the crows to see if they remember who bullied them. They do remember. And so do their children, and the children of their children. They clearly have a means of pretty abstract communication, because in remembering, they differentiate different people. They have a way of telling their kids "See that human? Yeah, that one. He's an asshole."

> Recent studies have proven that the crow can remember the faces of other birds and even humans. They can differentiate between those who have been kind to them and those who have caused them stress. Crows will even pass this information on to other generations.

https://birdfact.com/articles/do-crows-remember-faces

With Dolphins the existence of a language is even clearer.

In this Nova Science episode they show clear evidence of a language. They have taught the dolphins to create a new trick (something they haven't done before and haven't been taught to do by humans). They've also taught them to do tricks together. Then they put them together - "together", "create". And they did it, they came up with a new trick and they did the exact same trick together.

That absolutely requires language akin to humans.

Relevant section starts at around 8 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwhoLlu8D_g

The evidence is there, we just have to be willing to put aside our own egos and see it.
Scattering is proven to be better
Ah, very good sir. While we're filling out questionnaires, perhaps you could indulge us in answering a few questions yourself:

1. Why are you defending someone who tries to get children access to hormones without the knowledge of their parents or doctors?

2. Can you name one person who demonstrably offed themselves because of what goes on at KF? Please provide evidence.

3. Is it 'hate' to document peoples' horrible activities using their own words?

4. Would you be this snarky if someone was saying these sorts of things about, say, HN?

5. Are you upset that there are people in this world who don't blithely accept the word of Wikipedia and journalists but rather engage in investigative journalism themselves?

Thanks!
Yah, they should have been panicking four years ago. They can probably come back, but i'm betting in order to do it, they will have to temporary shift their higher margin devices to TSMC's more advanced process to keep up or just accept being second fiddle for a while. The question is whether all the cuts required to do that kill the company as they are forced to exist on the low margin devices they have been shunning for the past 15 years.
They absolutely do say "To motivate Bram and others to continue working on Vim please send a donation." It's the second sentence on https://www.vim.org/sponsor/

They GO ON to say that they'll use the money to help kids in Uganda, which is great (both for transparency and the thing itself).
This article and the chart within it reference the rate of change in productivity, but not the raw productivity number.

Without seeing those numbers, my assumption -- and what seems to be implied here -- is that productivity rose in early 2020 with remote work, and it is now dropping to pre-pandemic levels.
Employees often depend on prior employers as references and for social connections. It is rare that anyone would actually walk out without notice, as doing so would almost always hurt their careers even if that job was truly shitty (the old adage to “never burn bridges” does apply!).

Employers do not experience this same effect. Even if lots of people get laid off from a company without notice, there will almost always be people who are willing to take new jobs there.
Marketplace is part of it. In many regions, it's essentially replaced Craigslist for buying/selling random things like lawn equipment and children's toys.

Beyond that, I think it's pretty well documented (and also stands to reason) that the growth is mostly in communities with previously low penetration. If all of your family has reduced facebook usage over the last few years, that means you are in a community with previously high penetration. Of course you won't be able to anecdotally observe growth.
> misinformation (false information spread unintentionally), disinformation (false information spread intentionally), and malinformation (factual information shared, typically out of context

First I heard of 'malinformation'.

I always thought it was the other two at play (misinformation & disinformation), especially disinformation used in propaganda and influence operations.

I also thought disinformation doesn't have to be 'false information'. It can be information used to shape a narrative, factually correct or not.

Anyway this new word 'malinformation' helps if it means we really need to distinguish between all three words.

Also these China-style crackdowns on people shaping political narrative via social media is ridiculous. Nothing wrong with using the net for organized dissent & speaking truth to power.
The facts are:

1. online propaganda and astroturfing are very effective
2. our foreign adversaries are very aware of point #1 and use it for political gain
3. hence, there is rampant misinformation online which fuels polarization and societal instability

So I guess there are two questions here:
1. do you think the combination of factors above is problematic?
2. if so, what can or should be done about it, and by whom?
I doubt treating that as a non-statement will be the most profitable interpretation. Time spent is one of the most important variables in the value of an ad business.
If you can drill a couple holes the size of a 2 euro coin through a wall, you can install one of these or a competitor:

https://innovations.mitsubishi-les.com/en/mr-slim

Installation shouldn't take more than a day (per room).

Units with coefficients of power greater than 4 (> 400% "efficient") are common these days. Insulation would be nice for many reasons, but that's often much harder.
Yeah, in the cases where they're like "looking for someone anywhere between college hire & sr engineer inclusive" it'd be nice if it was breaking it out by level/pay band, then people could have a much better idea if it was worth their time
This is a strawman argument. We are talking about the US Government censoring the speech of US citizens because they don't like it.
Interestingly the biggest purveyors of organized disinformation are governments. Anyone else remember how the US government had a massive disinformation campaign that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and then orchestrated an invasion?

Even more revealing is that the disinformation campaign was aided and abetted by US media including such supposed stalwarts as the New York Times.
Yes. Focus on education and providing more information, not suppressing the information you don't like.
I've been thinking we need some sort of checks-and-balances system for the administrative branch, if we let it continue at all. Every agency must have a corresponding shadow agency with equal funding and incentives aligned with policing their counterparts. Instead of just the FBI, we would have the blue FBI and the red FBI.

Also, every 20 years, one of the agencies is disbanded entirely and replaced with a new one.
I genuinely wonder how this would work for non-cash portions of the total comp.

Would they have to declare the dollar value of the shares issued? What about non-public companies that offer a significant chunk of the comp in illiquid stock options?Would they have to be included as a part of the salary range?

Disclaimer: I am neither opposed nor in support of this. I don't mind taking that route and seeing how it works out. I see the potential downsides and upsides, and neither seem to be extremely impactful. So it feels like there is little harm in testing it out, even if it ends up being a nothingburger.
Totally agree.

Apple’s API documentation is nearly useless because it usually doesn’t give me any info that I can’t already infer from my IDE (which of course is XCode, sigh).

I usually don’t need a list of classes and methods, I need to know how the pieces fit together to do something useful.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, an example is worth a thousand method signatures.
Sample code (not from Apple): https://iosexample.com/apple-extensionfoundation-extensionki...
systemic burnout, overstimulation in all dimensions of life, the rat race is getting harder and harder
Or one which is committed to not kowtowing to every jurisdiction that comes up with their own custom laws.
I actually think this benefits the employers. I rarely apply for jobs that don't post a salary range just because it's not worth the hassle of trying to figure out what they will pay.
I don't think that's what Hotz is saying at all, but he's saying that he's not person for the job anymore.

He writes: "My two part blog post from 2019 remains a true description of the space."

And this is a quote from (part two of) that blog.[0]

> Nobody will have cars without a safety driver in cities anytime soon. Self driving appears to be like fusion, but instead of being perpetually 50 years away, it’s perpetually 5 years away. It’s 5 years away because that’s what the marketing departments are told, but the truth is finally leaking out. It’s going to be decades before robotaxis are profitable, and these companies are burning way too hot to last decades.

[0] https://blog.comma.ai/a-100x-investment-part-2/
Does that go hand in hand with the growth in administrative work? I would think so.
The confusion and disconnect comes from the fact that the Metaverse, by definition, cannot ever exist. Zuckerberg is chasing a fantasy.

I wrote in more detail about it here [1], but the basic gist is:

1. A real "Metaverse" that isn't just another video game would require every tech company to agree on a single standard for a MMO world, and

2. There are zero financial reasons why any other company would agree to a) wait for a standard to be agreed upon and b) cede the majority of their profits to the owner of this singular Metaverse.

Therefore, a real Metaverse can never happen. Which makes it even sillier that Mark Zuckerberg continues to go all-in on this vision.

[1] https://jeremyreimer.com/rockets-item.lsp?p=287
> Among the information labeled as disinformation was the Hunter Biden laptop which turned out to be true.

What, specifically, was labeled as disinformation but later turned out to be true? Please cite sources so we can be talking about the same things.
Show HN: Explainpaper  – Explain jargon in academic papers with GPT-3
heyo! Explainpaper lets you upload a research paper PDF. If you don't understand a formula or sentence, just highlight it and the tool explains it for you

I built this a few weeks ago to help me read a neuroscience paper, and it works pretty well! I didn't fine-tune GPT-3, but I do take a lot of context from the paper and feed that into the prompt (not the whole paper).

Ppl have uploaded AI, biology, economics, philosophy papers and even law documents. Works in Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French and more as well!