skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually kind of thankful for Ubuntu's move towards Snaps.

Once I realised they were not for me I started distro hopping and ended learning far more day to day system administration skills than ever.

To this day, I've never once found myself remotely tempted to use anything like a Snap or Flatpak.
false, there's a real compounding advantage to the threads you gather over the course of a day, letting go of them can set you back

not to mention the night hours are the ones where nobody interrupts you
I don't know what artificial sweeteners are used in NZ, but they trigger my asthma.

I mostly stick to soda water (only carbon dioxide, no flavorings) these days.
I can't think of a single person I work with or have worked with recently who meets this description.
It could also be that there is a mismatch in skills.
I only broke my Diablo 2 addiction in college when I used one of those tools that drives your character on Mephisto runs to scum drops.

In the course of one night running it unattended, I got the two items I'd been looking for for weeks. Cheating at the game broke me out of the Skinner box overnight.
Agree we're not in a recession, but I'm not sure I'd say we're in a strong place. The impression I've got from the articles I've read is that no one knows what the fuck is going on. Some indicators look great (like unemployment), but others look bad (like inflation).
"Deeply depressing" is the total lack of worker solidarity on display here.
There is actually little to no evidence that either of those are operating with imperial ambitions over national security interests
Is people leaving an area that's about to get hit by a hurricane mass hysteria?

Was it not mass hysteria when FB, a company that everyone openly hates and who's main product is clearly dying was hiring by the thousands so they could "expand"?
Records of gay military sackings deleted by Ministry of Defence
Inflation do to supply side constraints is not just mass hysteria.

High inflation → need to reduce demand → slower economy → layoffs.
I imagine this is to make Torvalds happy.
Too difficult. Their install instructions are also too complicated and involve reading about 5 lines of comments and 4 shell commands.

It should NEVER be more than 1 line of shell or 2 mouse clicks to install anything. This is 2022, not 1995.

It's faster to just search for "signal" in the snap store and hit "Install".
Observed electric charge of insect swarms contributes to atmospheric electricity
This thread was a delightful read.

Just NOT in twitter. I gave up on twitter and signed out of it years ago and refuse to sign back in.

I spent a good hour of my life looking for ways to read this thread. I personally know Yishan and value the opinions he cares to share so I new this would be interesting if I could just manage to read it.

Replacing the url to nitter.net helped but honestly it was most cohesive in threadreaderapp although it missed some of the referenced sidebar discussions (like the appeal to Elon to not waste his mental energy on things that aren’t real atom problems).
> It all comes down to some guy telling me how to talk.

Nobody is "telling you how to talk."
People are free to choose their terms for voluntary social interactions. You don't have a right to inflict yourself on others who wish not to interact with you.
I doubt these are at all related to Twitter layoffs, we've been seeing announcements of layoffs from tech companies a few times a week for a few weeks now.
That might be true, but first, how many are going to actually try the headsets? Second, the 3D factor "gets old hat" over time, many say. It's like riding a roller coaster 50 times. The 51st becomes routine. (I've done it as a teen.)
I'm curious how this was measured in 2008 when the go-to places for job searching were Monster, Dice and Craigslist.
How is murdering someone in peacetime ethical? I don't like the Ayalotah, but becoming an even bigger p.o.s. than him could hardly be a step forward?
No, it’s not. Copyright and trademarks are two completely different things with different rules that apply to them.
I think Google Translate is still struggling with Thai language as I often get a lot of funny looks when I translate something into Thai and the English I get back sounds like a strange poem.

Example: in my favorite coffee shop and the barista asks to use my phone to translate something. The English that comes out is "Drugs are high in the mountains"

But maybe that was what he was actually trying to say, as that does seem appropriate for Thailand... However I was not inquiring about drugs, and when I was confused and translated just "drugs" he vehemently denied talking about that.
https://ahrefs.com/seo start here for SEO basics. Learn what drives rankings (solid on page, content that people will link to) then get a handle on how building backlinks works-- then farm that out.

Going into an agency and saying "handle my marketing" will mean they will change goalposts (social this month, seo next, ppc after that-- typically focusing on billing you as much as possible while delivering bare minimum results) as necessary and can lead to wasted time/money vs. you handling the critical one off things like title/h1s matching terms with search volume/intent then having ongoing items like content/backlinks handled by a 3rd party.
Different strokes. I literally use ghci + plain text editor and are in no way tooling bound no matter the project scale.

I'd say 25% of my Haskelling happens at a computer though.
It's gotta be something more to than that, even 50-50% sugar would be a great product in its own right.
The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Government
Shadows from the Walls of Death (1874)
It's literally the mandate of the Fed and the only levers they have are rate changes and threats of future rate changes.

Something something the measure becomes the means or something.
The old Jawbone Up fit the bill somewhat, but I don't remember exactly what features it had. I thought it was a great product and hoped to see more like it.
Why not use sms? No need to install apps.

My parents use that. I use that.
> It seems to me that the presence of that community on your site has effects that spread beyond the community itself, it shapes the way people interact even outside the soft-banned subreddit.

Reddit, itself, is, or at least used to be, a variety of diverse communities. I don't care about either /r/FatPeopleHate or /r/FatPeopleLove I don't consider myself a part of those communities. I subscribe to subreddits I want to track, and I am not a member of the ones that I don't.

Surely people on the disagreeable side of the psychological spectrum will gravitate towards some communities and people on the opposite side of that spectrum will gravitate towards other communities. Some communities are cross-cutting, and so have to be moderated in a different way altogether (which Reddit already accommodates). Other than that, communities have their own social protocols. Creating blanket rules / bans / restrictions across communities restricts the organic nature of human interaction and hamstrings it in a rather depressing way.

Many problems arise in the battle for "front page" or "trending" screens that try to blend content from multiple communities and invite competition or "raids" or what have you from opposing sides. Personally I hate such things, I have no desire to be manipulated by them and use browser extensions to block them. But given that they exist, it's again mainly a moderation / preferences problem. Give the control to the user over what they want to see.
> We’re never going to say that there are too many people working

I’ll admit that was a poorly-worded statement. But it still doesn’t convey the Fed targeting a higher unemployment rate. It isn’t. It’s targeting lower price growth, and keeping an eye on the labor market to avoid overtightening.
Title is inaccurate. It uses TeX algorithms, seems (LuaLa)TeX syntax too, and "modern standards". But those don't justify calling it a rewrite. "Modern TeX-inspired system" is a better fit.
This is exactly why companies go to unlimited PTO. They don't want the accrual on their balance sheets.
Another Garmin Fenix user here - the screen is what separates it from being a Pebble replacement the most. Most Garmin watches use a screen that is roughly on par with the Pebble Time, not the superior high-contrast Pebble 2. And if you get a higher-end Garmin with sapphire, the screen gets even more washed out.

Never tried the Garmin Instinct though - its monochrome screen looks better, but the rest of the watch has a distinctly downmarket feel.
This is the most exciting feature of Sile to me -- since I currently rely on a slow and memory hungry Java toolchain to convert docbook to pdf with fop -- but I just tried it on two docbook documents (a book and also a short article) and it failed to convert both. Apparently the docbook support is currently very incomplete:

https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile/issues/1338
Some people won't, some people will. Some people might unionize some people won't.
Just because you think one way doesn't mean others do.
When the context of the discussion is twitter moderation in the wake of Musk's takeover and who his team is, it's already political. For Yishan to pump up Sacks and his confidence in him to fix moderation, without acknowledging that today he is a political operator, is close to dishonest. Contributing this information is hopefully helpful.
Could someone summarize the findings?
That's how the economy works basically. We cycle between overenthusiasm and sheer panic.
AGPLv3 allows one to add trademark terms that, when violated, revoke the copyright license.
very simple and addictive.
Don't eat sugar, don't eat sugar substitutes
Storage is using S3. We use AWS S3 at Nhost, but you can use Minio (open source) if you self-host.

But the good thing with Nhost is that it's open source, so if you want to implement something other than S3 as the core storage layer, you can do so: https://github.com/nhost/hasura-storage
I don't think there is any reason for publishers to force users to download their software from the internet now that the Snap Store and Flathub exists.

I've had so many bad experiences with broken third party packages or worse, "installers".
In this case, rising interest rates have a very direct negative impact on new investments. As new investments contract, demand shrinks for services across the industry. As demand shrinks, fewer employees are needed and companies need to reduce headcount to avoid overspending relative to revenues.

There is a cascading effect, but it would be a mistake to attribute it all to a big psychological mistake. When demand goes down (in this case due to rising rates) there really is less money flowing into companies.
We are certainly in something but what it is hasn't had a word assigned to it yet. Maybe it's stagflation, maybe it's swagflation, I dunno.

Every downturn is like all the others and every downturn is a unique snowflake.
Damn, what a fascinating way to hasten the companies brutal brain drain.
Signal is incredibly user-hostile, especially for a supposedly open source company. I don't know what alternative to recommend, but the decision is not so easy.

As someone whose threat model does not yet involve law enforcement, I'll stick to my own preferred platforms, thank you very much.
There's no stats page but last I checked it was around 5M monthly unique users (depending on how you count them), perhaps 10M page views a day (including a guess at API traffic), and something like 1300 submissions (stories) and 13k comments a day.

The most interesting number is the 1300 submissions because that hasn't grown since 2011 - it just fluctuates. Everything else has been growing more or less linearly for a long time, which is how we like it.
Your videos are awesome. I've watched every one of them multiple times. I love when you go deep into the technical details of the problems / solutions you run into (especially with your code) -- especially in _integration hell_.

I'm sure not-your-entire audience is interested in these things. Have you ever considered making a second channel where you go into more detail about the details of the technical problems / solutions you run into? The videos could be a lot less well produced, I'm just desperate for the info.

Thanks for all you do!
You generalize from executive-level decisions to every rank-and-file employee. I suppose you would refuse to hire anyone who ever lived in San Francisco too.

I can call Trump and his followers many things, but not "politically oppressed." Every single thing he says gets published in every major media outlet. A sitting president doesn't get to operate outside the law or dictate how private companies run their business, a shocking notion to some I suppose.
You can also just select the text, that selection styles has decent contrast
TikTok admits China staff can access European data. FCC urges app ban
Curious what direction you plan on going?

Business Teams planner: assign tasks to others, sync with other task tracking apps

or Family planner: shopping lists, financial planner etc.

or continue on a personal planner route
I have fond memories of rooting early Android devices, and having to constantly rip the battery out when the phone would inevitably lock up.

I have less fond memories of waiting all day for a newer phone to run out of battery when the same thing happened.
Because we have effectively infinite amounts of d-glucose in the biosphere and that's incredibly hard to compete with on cost.
Yep. You have someone who the mythical company “they” think is awesome but their team was disbanded, there’s no ideal and obvious role for them, transfers are mostly on hold anyway, etc. At some point a bunch of people are sorry they couldn’t find a way to keep the person but they can’t really do anything. And parking them somewhere they aren’t really a good fit isn’t ideal anyway.
I’m still confused. In the context of this paper, does “impaired glycemic response” mean blood sugar levels go up but do not come down because insulin production is impaired? Or that insulin levels increase and blood sugars still do not fall? Or that the glycemic response, that is the blood sugar concentrations, do not increase in the first instance?
What makes child porn illegal is the argument that anyone who views or distributes it is re-abusing the victim. Otherwise, it would be justifiably illegal to create but not to view, possess, or distribute. Yet all are illegal in the USA.

This does not stop the FBI from being a major child porn distributor, despite that meaning the FBI is re-abusing thousands of victims under this rubric.
Amazon Is Pausing Hiring for Corporate Workforce
I've been a reader and participant of the Bogleheads forum (on investing and personal finance) for well over a decade, and I think it's a shining example of good moderation in practice. My observation is that the key is preventing discussion from getting heated; really moderating the temperature (or noise intensity, excitement, etc.) of the place. Threads on topics that are known to get heated (including topics that can be relevant to investing and personal finance, such as politics and macroeconomics and cryptocurrencies in recent times) immediately get locked. Threads on topics that start out OK but end up getting heated also get locked, or the heated content gets surgically removed if main discussion can be salvaged. So the focus is entirely on high-quality information and thoughtful, low-emotion points and counter-points to think about. The merits of the discussions continue to attract and retain new fantastic participants who make them even better. Edited to add: The practice of moderation here at HN is similar, and has similar effects, which is why I'm here.

If they started removing low-emotion information and discussions that just didn't fit the Bogleheads philosophy, I think that would cross the line into censorship.

Anyway, it's clear that the Bogleheads forum model is the polar opposite of where Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit have gone to suck in the masses and increase their engagement by highlighting the most heated stuff and throwing gasoline onto the fire with likes, votes, and retweets. I think the mainstream social media companies have put themselves into a bind with this.
Coincidentally, the current book I'm reading came from a recommendation by a lot of people on HN to the question of how to be a better sales person:

Fanatical Prospecting/Wiley by Jeb Blount

I'm half way through and it's a good read so far.
She was type 1 diabetic, so perhaps not relevant: https://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/blog/an-american-ninj...
> He's expecting the act of raising interest rates to increase unemployment to 4.4%

> He directly says he's waiting to see softening of the labor market before stopping the rate hikes

Yes, because we don’t want to ruin the labor market. Right now, rates can be raised without spiking unemployment. The Fed is trying to estimate when that stops happening.

A clear signal that the limit has been reached is the labor market actually softening. That doesn’t mean the Fed is trying to raise unemployment. It’s trying to lower inflation, and thinks unemployment may rise as a result of that, though to date it has not.
> Once we understood that, it was obvious that we should pivot to building that one tool: a tasks+calendars app focused on making people faster.

What is your opinion of this XKCD?

https://xkcd.com/927/
Most important bullet point whenever you are leaving a company:

* Never sign anything!

Unless there is a substantial check attached, you have no reason to sign any agreement with the employer you are leaving. Politely refuse, and if they insist, ask for compensation.
One comment in the Stripe layoff thread was someone who's manager didn't get to put any input into the process.

Honestly its funny reading threads like this with people beating their chest about useless coworkers. Instead of thinking of useless coworkers and colleagues, think about what percent of the entire industry that's working on things with no hard output, no interest in profitability, banking on free money that's drying up...

If you're working somewhere with so many incompetent colleagues you think 13% layoffs is not trimming anyone useful, odds are your entire unit is in trouble.
Type inference changes things. It's awesome that it can beat handwritten C and Fortran code.
Their goal is to reduce inflation. Increasing unemployment, is a side effect of rate hikes but ultimately, reduces demand for consumer goods thus reducing inflation.
Missing the point. Sure pen and paper works great still.
They should have a free tier that you can use up to 100 tasks/mo.
We can't wait to have the native integration ready!
Very bloated and unreliable.
Try Bitburner. It’s an RPG idler game with the flavor of a trip through the matrix, hacking underworlds, and cyberpunk augmentations, all in JavaScript. It’s free.
> The 1% trips

It sounds like I think it's irresponsible to take those trips if it means you choose to purchase a truck despite the lack of need for 99% of your use of it.

Indeed, you can rent and you choose not to for reasons you mentioned, which is a decision others can criticize.
Stedi is a fantastic platform. I absolutely despise EDI with a passion and Stedi has saved me from working with it. All their tooling and solutions for buckets, FTP are so well thought out. What a great company and vision to modernize EDI.
Exactly. The quotes say that the Fed's goal is to control inflation, and that reduced demand for labor is going to be collateral damage. But reducing demand for labor is not the goal; controlling inflation is. The quotes do not say what im-a-baby claims they say.
I'm not a Signal user, however given what is the target audience of Signal, i can totally understand the maintainers not wanting unofficial packages around, even more so if surrounded by a snap environment they have no way to check for security.
Now, unleashing lawyers as first move is debatable for sure, and I won't be the one who defends that move, so probably some more insight from Signal should be expected.
My friends at Big Tech assure me that Twitter slimming down and revving up won't change the way their companies do business, but I'm not at all sure about that. If Twitter is successful (a big if) then the pressure to follow will be tremendous, especially at public companies.
big tech trying to increase unemployment ... except tech is a tiny fraction of the workforce.
stop spreading lies, whatsapp IS end-to-end encrypted, yes they can see metadata but messages are E2EE

some other people mention flaggging when sender or recipient send message for moderation, which has absolutely nothing to do with encryption or safety, obviously if YOU have access to message then you can forward it to whoever you want
Unlike Matrix's implementation, I don't think you can nest WhatsApp communities as easily.

Instead, I think their inspiration has come from alternatives like Discord where multiple chat rooms within a group of people is part of the core app design.

I'd like them to copy the spaces feature, though, because it's quite useful to me personally.
Our tax dollars and a lot of phone calls.
"Becomes a pattern?" Do you not know that Tesla employees work in these conditions too? Musk already established the pattern.
That is exactly how it used to be. Mods _were_ part of the core gameplay. In fact they completely defined all the gameplay and the UI. See quake C, UnrealScript, along with a few others from that era. Counter strike was a mod. So was team fortress.

That era is gone. Devs want more control now and most games have elaborate cash-shop business models. They don't want the gameplay to be modifiable.
sounds like a fun game...
I mean you can be end to end encrypted but still have master keys server side
All that time you've gained on the installation will be lost during the lethargic start of snapped application :P
No idea if it's true, but in my mental model, remote work plays into this as well. Pre-covid, large companies were restricted to hiring the talent in their area. If there weren't enough talented people near the company, they would often end up hiring people who were under qualified, just to fill seats. Remote work made the talent pool bigger which means more qualified candidates. These layoffs are allowing large companies to lay off some of those under qualified local hires.
Also HQ in US, rofl.
Might get absorbed by other companies but at lower rates. The faangs, and especially meta and google, have been starving a lot of startups and less efficient companies of talent.

If your business model wasn’t profitable enough to handle all your engineers having over 250k tc it’s been a bit of a difficult market to hire and retain people in the past few years
The issue is not necessarily just nutrient absorption, but also the body's production of GLP-1: that influences appetite and blood sugar regulation. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33820962/
He's fine. Perhaps you shouldn't police people's language whether it takes 5 seconds or not.
yeah, I prefer apps which have E2EE messages by default and have actual user base
thank you for this comprehensive answer
> Why not make both isomers and feed them to bacteria? Only left-handed remains.

The hard part is synthesis, not separation.
So ... what's the wage cutoff where you're no longer entitled to sane working conditions?

The real "deeply depressing" bit here is how many of us would rather focus on pulling down the top crab than question why we're all in this bucket to begin with.
Could you use your programming skills for something to do with making carbon capture, and/or renewable energy cheaper and easier , even if its unpaid? Could save a lot of lives that way.
That's when you start seeing teams get axed, though you will often have a "reorg" instead, where managers are shuffled around and then a layoff event where the ones they don't want are let go.

Unfortunately the useless and overpaid managers are often the best at brown nosing.