skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, questions like those are a trap. A direct answer is going to lead to being asked to build some backwards solution to a problem.

My response to that type of question tends to be along the lines of "what are you hoping to achieve?"
I'm not saying that you're wrong (or right). There is a LOT of scary stuff going on right now, for a lot of people.

I'm just asking you to slow down a bit, and take care of how you are now.

Otherwise, you'll never get to the point of any of the other stuff mattering anyway - and likely make it a lot worse for yourself in the meantime.
Sure, as someone who actually really likes x11 I think the distinction is easy to make. x11 is a feature-complete display protocol that has lots of bells and whistles; it's great for people who want an old-school desktop experience, but there are a lot of anachronisms that make it difficult to support for modern devices. For one, the compositor situation is a mess which makes it really difficult (if not impossible) to lock yourself at a smooth refresh rate. For two, the overlapping window model built into x11 display servers doesn't really reflect the fullscreen-app paradigm that most people expect from a smartphone. Finally, gesture support is a wreck on x11 unfortunately and held back by a number of issues (not the least of which being horrible stutter). There's a reason the community waited until Wayland to start building Linux phone stuff.

I say this as someone who likes Xorg more than most people. x11 is great if your workload can take advantage of it's feature-completeness. Most users would happily trade in VNC support for a locked 60fps interface and gesture support though.
Most great people are not good persons
Don't conclude it's that hard for everyone until you've spoken to a good subset of different people.

You're conscientious and willing to dig in to the details to fix a problem. Plenty of people aren't, and plenty of those are doing the same job as you. Look up from your own little world and try to figure out what other people are doing, how they're doing it, and why. This applies generally: If you fixate on a specific language or toolkit, you'll miss others which fix or obviate bugs you were resigned to living with. Same with OSes and environments. It even applies to relationships, which is why a big hallmark of abuse is isolating the victim.
That is impressive. A goal I will try to aspire to. I may not achieve it and I may not always ask questions - but remaining alert, active, aware, that is pretty badass, and I would like to be that way too.
I think there's a way to communicate with the CEO of a company that's not direct contradiction in a very public forum.

I don't think that means he necessarily wants sycophants.

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect respectful communication from your employees, and to not be publicly contradicted.

We're in a strange phase in the U.S. where this is a lesson that many young people are learning the hard way.
But I'm not the one posturing here.
Cohost is a Fediverse microblogging server (basically it's mastodon/pleorama).
Hm. I am an American, but maybe that American optimism stuff explains some friction I have had at work. I find that being optimistic when important things aren't working is stupid and increases risk.
FCC National Broadband Map
Not quite like sparse checkouts; you can mix-and-match revisions of files in the checkout.
You hate them that much?
Offtopic comment for the submitter: would you mind emailing hn@ycombinator.com? I would like to send you a repost invite.
Did I read that right? 1B in assets? Mozilla is a unicorn?

Edit: and 43M less on software engineering.
I'm sure Musk is going to be left with an extremely motivated workforce.

Seriously, people should just work whatever hours they want now (or don't want), look for other jobs, until they get caught.

It's always the same with the bean counters, you can measure cost, salaries, etc, but you can't really measure happiness and motivation (well perhaps with surveys). In the end you are perhaps left with lower cost, fewer people, but these people are not motivated to to anything or do anything well.

I wanted to believe that Elon had a plan. I now believe he has not the faintest idea about how to run a software company.

And maybe that's a US problem... I see the same with construction and service workers, nobody has pride in their work left, just doing the minimum, hoping to get away with it... because their leaders are telling them that cost is all that matters.
Ask HN: Places to find FOSS projects looking for specific help?
Short of navigating through Github repos, is there a great way to identify FOSS projects looking for specific contributions based on languages or skills?
Apple ended up not implementing that iirc. While Google Photos has had it the whole time.

Googles is actually worse. Apple was only going to match against known CSAM images while google has ML to identify new images which resulted in one parent being arrested for a medical image of their own child.
"... the park already included the Welsh names on English-language documents followed by the English names in parentheses. However, the name Snowdonia is set in law, therefore the authority has the legal requirement to also use it in official statutory documents. Some Welsh-language campaigners have stated they would want the names to be scrapped entirely. The authority announced they are to conduct a review of the authority's branding in 2023 taking into account the new approach to Welsh place names."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowdonia#:~:text=the%20park%2...
I know I should be amazed by this, but whenever something like this pops up I get just a little bit sombre. With everything humans have accomplished, it still seems absolutely miniscule when looking at the scale of everything out there. More so, there's a sense of loneliness. Yes we have each other, but beyond that? We're all we've got for now, maybe ever. I just wish I could live long enough to know.
> Let's be serious, it was a very complex task done on a short timeline.

And who decided the timeline?
I can recommend the book “Androids” for an in-depth look at the origins of Android and the team that built it:

https://www.amazon.com/Androids-Built-Android-Operating-Syst...

The definition of a phone OS was very different in 2005 when Google acquired Android Inc.

It was a tight platform originally, but so was Windows NT, and look at Windows today… That’s just the nature of success in the open OS space when you’re serving lots of hardware vendors.
Ask HN: Any “Chrome Web Store's Favorites of 2022” Extensions?
Yesterday, I've received an email from the Chrome Extension team [chrome-favorites-of-the-year@google.com] informing the one of my extensions has been selected for Chrome Web Store’s end of year list, Favorites of 2022. Chrome wants to recognize outstanding extensions that make the browser experience great for users.

The email further states, "As part of Favorites of 2022, Chrome will feature your extension in a special collection on the Chrome Web Store home page, announce this collection on our social platforms and with press on Wednesday December 14, and send a commemorative gift to the extension publisher."

Firstly, is this legit? Has anyone received a similar email?

Email Screenshot at https://imgur.com/a/4aPeUoV
What does VirGL support for decoding acceleration? Not having that in my libvirt/qemu VMs has been a bit of a sort point for me. QXL as far as I know doesn't do anything at all here.
Are you asking in terms of gravitation or as a star?

By mass, the sun is 71% Hydrogen and 27.1% Helium, the last 1.9% or so being heavier elements (much of that being oxygen.

I’m no expert, but I suspect a mass of 25 ronna-Reagans would not make a very good star. I imagine it might collapse into a dense Oxygen and Carbon rich sphere, and in that environment various chemical reactions might turn it into some other kind of material.

But maybe I’m way off.
GPT Labs UPG
I've seen it thrown around that one potential thing she could do is play stadium shows, since many (most?) stadiums aren't owned by TM. Not all stadiums work (or even work well) for this, though - but it's an interesting theory.

(I unfortunately don't know enough to weigh in past repeating the theory, but maybe it drums up some interesting discussion here)
https://archive.ph/dLR60
The plague killed people of all ages, it didn't just reduce the relative proportion of young people.
>proceeded to do the oddest form of theatrical racism and subsequent victim position seeking

I read this and I don't know which side of the spectrum this was about :P
Think of accountants like an IT department. They’re both zero value add to most people until something breaks or c-level ignores their input.
I think there are plenty of engineers who would find the challenge of running a massive global service with a very small team to be inherently interesting in itself, regardless of the specific tasks involved. Some folks also enjoy high stakes rescue operations--the team that saved healthcare.gov comes to mind as one example.
"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines quite badly lately. Could you please stop doing that?
Thanks, that is a good analysis. Considering the mix of (often bespoke) coins and tokens, seems like a sure bet that some legal minded forensic techies are going to be able to build careers off this too.
Sure, but the parent comment simply pointed out the blatant gender discrimination at play here. That point stands.
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I'd be interested to see the data. Also to commenters opinion - coasted after montesorri afterwards until college -- so many gave them and early boost and not necessarily need to keep the work ethic in high school which would bring them back to average per your comment -- (alternate theory)
Dating back to 1824, the term social justice refers to justice on a societal level.[11] From the early 1990s to the early 2000s, social-justice warrior was used as a neutral or complimentary phrase, as when a 1991 Montreal Gazette article describes union activist Michel Chartrand as a "Quebec nationalist and social-justice warrior".[1]

Katherine Martin, the head of U.S. dictionaries at Oxford University Press, said in 2015 that "[a]ll of the examples I've seen until quite recently are lionizing the person".[1] As of 2015, the Oxford English Dictionary had not done a full search for the earliest usage.[1] Merriam-Webster dates the earliest use of the term to 1945.[6]

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According to Martin, the term switched from primarily positive to negative around 2011, when it was first used as an insult on Twitter.[1] The term first appeared on Urban Dictionary in 2011 and on the Something Awful forums in 2013.[7] According to Know Your Meme, the pejorative term "keyboard warrior", which describes a person who is unreasonably angry and hides behind their keyboard, may be a precursor to the "social justice warrior".[7] The negative connotation has primarily been aimed at those espousing views adhering to social progressivism, cultural inclusivity, or feminism.[12][1][2] Scott Selisker writes in New Literary History that the SJW is often criticised as the "stereotype of the feminist as unreasonable, sanctimonious, biased, and self-aggrandizing".[12] Use of the term has also been described as attempting to degrade the motivations of the person accused of being an SJW, implying that their motives are "for personal validation rather than out of any deep-seated conviction".[3][9] Allegra Ringo in Vice writes that "in other words, SJWs don't hold strong principles, but they pretend to. The problem is, that's not a real category of people. It's simply a way to dismiss anyone who brings up social justice."[9]

The term's negative use became mainstream due to the 2014 Gamergate harassment campaign ...

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice_warrior>

Numerous sources cited, notably:

<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/10...>

<https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-soci...>

<https://web.archive.org/web/20160102031743/http://recode.net...>

See also "Social Justice": <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice>
I think mahogany’s comment is more important but I just want to add: how many subsidies they get doesn’t relate at all to what research they might fund.

They’re deeply tied to the meat industry so would benefit more from increased consumption.
This: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Farmer%27s_Market . Helped a few thousand people get their meds before we all got arrested. No regrets.
Agree completely. My point was that I feel like it doesn't actually take so much effort to maintain that we have to feel strung out all the time. I imagine we could continue to survive and thrive quite effectively with far less effort directed in the right way.

We seem to continue to hustle to survive but the notion of survival is ingrown and only really has meaning within the context of humanity. The broader notion of survival, against the elements, seems like a solved problem.
I built https://topstonks.com, it was one of the early sources of information during the meme stock craze, and a primary source for several major news outlets.
> Twitter must had some bloat, but there's no way that 80% of the workforce was bloat.

I firmly believe, lets say 80%, of Twitter is bloat. But sacking them like this wont prove anything due to practicalities. You just can't unwind a mess like Musk is doing. If some employees sole productive task in a week is to reset a server that still has to be done and it will take a lot of work to figure out which button to press when the site falls over.
Do we need to have a single letter? Is it acceptable to combine prefixes?

Eg: 1 QB (quettabyte) == 1,000,000 YB (yottabytes) == 1 MYB (mega-yottabyte)

Without the new prefixes, we could have gone to 1 YYB (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or 10^48 bytes)
If you aren't aware already: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Essay:Second-option_bias
Reddit effectively farms out moderation to volunteers. It's a lot like feudalism. Subreddit mods put in the labor of the day to day moderation of the sub in exchange for the ability to wield power over the subreddit. When a subreddit is shirking in it's moderation duties, or otherwise doing something the central power doesn't like the subreddit is deleted.
Maybe. Yes, the constrained supply caused a lot of people to overpay for cars, and the average monthly payment for a car surged over the last year. The deep sub prime folks will be struggling, especially as layoffs happen and people with no savings are stuck with a $700/m car payment. Repossessions have already started picking up, and there are reports of huge parking lots being filled with repo'd cars, and those cars failing to sell at auction. Obviously, if the big players can control supply enough, then I don't think there will be a fire sale. But it remains to be seen if they can accomplish that (I'd be surprised, I'll bet they'll have to liquidate and like you say, it'll all come crashing down). In any case, the Carvanas and Carmax type places, as well as unemployed consumers that have a big car payment on a soon-to-be-worth-a-whole-lot-less car are really in deep shit. Smells kind of like 2008, but this time with cars instead of houses.

Source: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/market-monitor...
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Title sounds like the basis for a yo momma joke.
But there are no tax benefits. If you get 10M in RSU that vest in 5 years and in 5 years when they vest they are now worth 20M, you get taxed for 20M of income and not 10M income + 10M cap gains.
Doesn't it feel a bit insane to do things in that order though?

Most car sellers I've encountered will allow a prospective buyer to take a car to their mechanic to to be looked over BEFORE purchase.

The biggest downside here is if you trade your existing car into Carvana. Sure you've got 7 days to get that newly-purchased car inspected, but what happens when you get the inspection results back and decide you want to unwind the transaction - Carvana will take back the car you purchased but they will not bring your trade-in back to you. Not to mention the general paperwork hassle and the hit to your credit score (if you're financing), all for a car you're not keeping.
I'm not in it for the rightness and wrongness and virtue and exercises of justice to the carrots, I'm in it for your request as to whether peeling a carrot counts as processing, which it does, as sometimes the most banal of examples illustrate a tapestry of lived complexity.

Carry on, friend.
Once a media is accepted and known by the multitude it becomes performative, a spectacle where authenticity vanished preempted by new social rules. Beaudrillard's hyperreality describes the situation where we don't live in reality anymore but in the image of the reality we build, akin to an AI learning from data generated by another AI. It seems our current internet culture - heavily centralized, and universally used - is hyperreal, a performative space bound by rules of how to act, how to be accepted, what to say and not to say. In this kind of constructs I believe authenticity vanishes.

I wonder how we might prevent this things to happen. I suspect it's linked with demography and popularity, something something Dunbar's number related.
The easiest way to understand unprocessed food is "nothing bad added, nothing good taken away".

For instance, pure peanut butter is unprocessed. While it runs through a mechanism to change it from peanuts to peanut butter, there is no oil added, nor are any of the healthful nutrients of peanut butter extracted. Opposite to this is peanut butter like JIF which is processed - the mix is diluted with sugar and vegetable oil to make the same amount of food for cheaper.

Same with tofu - it starts as soybeans and is ran through a mechanism to turn it into the blocks of tofu we see in stores, but we do not add sugar or oils to change the contents of that block, nor do we remove nutrients from the soybean (this may not be 100% accurate, but generally speaking, nutrients are not removed in this). However, many vegan meat products put a lot of unhealthy additions into the mix, thus making it processed.
The 2nd most used analysis tool on NSANet in response to the 9/11 commission report that the agencies weren't sharing data.
https://twitter.com/masonrothman/status/1521407937985404928
Because Linux makes for a dogshit OS for phones, battery life would be about two hours, Debian already fails to put your laptop to sleep half of the time when you close the lid and you expect it to work well with your phone that you send to sleep every other minute?

Despite some weird architecture choices (binders are some weird ass things to handle), the deep changes to Android make it a tolerable OS for mobile purposes. Using X11? Sure, I love display servers that choke on high DPI and cannot do half the things modern compositors do efficiently.

LiveData is not part of the UI framework but merely a tool to provide updates to be listened to on the main thread. It's also half deprecated and you should probably be using flows instead. Why is it here? Because half the GUI toolkits on Linux are either absolute pieces of shit (GTK lol) or simply not enough.
Another moral of the story could be that sometimes it's best to have a people solution to a technical problem.
I'm privileged to be in a position where I have a solid cushion in the bank, and I recognize not everyone is in the same place.

But for me personally, there's no way I'd be willing to work there, even for 3x what I make now.

I've worked for egotistical people with unreasonable expectations before, and I'd leave tech before doing it again.

The level of stress feels both artificial and unmaintainable, and it eats at you. I don't need that in my life, and I feel bad for the people who feel like they can't escape it.
I scrolled through Carvana inventory, picked a used car, purchased it, and it was delivered to my driveway like a week later. I live very far from any decent-sized car dealership.

I did all this laying in bed on my phone.

I have some complaints about the quality of their service, but the value prop is pretty amazing.
Media publishers (and I use the term in the broadest sense) knew, going in, that the Internet was designed to distribute and copy information, in many cases completely anonymously. But they embraced the platform and chose that business model because they knew that it would lower their costs dramatically, even once piracy was taken into account, and they've been largely successful.

Also in my experience CEOs really know their businesses, which makes me think they also understand the economics and dynamics of piracy to a greater extent than the rest of us, even pirates. From what observe, I think that they see pirates largely as hobbyists and influencers rather than lost customers or individuals out for economic gain, and are really only concerned with piracy at scale, like in this Z library case.
> ... but the media is following this unlike any other reorg because Twitter is their livlihood.

i think this is a strange read on the importance of twitter for the media. twitter itself, as a technology just doesn't matter. it isn't the tech that creates the network of value, its the people. and we know from centuries of history, people will just shift to the next spot over--the bar that was popular last week is just... empty.

the media, like general society, doesn't care which platform they're swarming around. it was myspace for a while, digg for a while, facebook... etc... we just move to the whichever captures a critical mass. the media will just simply move to wherever we all go.

i suspect they're just covering it so much because hes like a jester--that weirdo kid in the hall screaming "look at me. look at me. LOOK AT ME! im a contrarian. im being contrarian! honestly i hate attention. quit staring at me. but LOOK AT ME!" and we all love watching jesters and contrarians fall over. even if they accidentally reach their destination. we still can't help but watch them fumble.
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I could have produced this hash at any point in the past, but after HN's edit window expires, one can be very certain I did not originally produce it at any point after the timestamp. This is far from useless, even if it doesn't cover all possible objections. The objection in the original comment that it does cover is: you just made up this footage/other evidence post-hoc to establish an alibi now that you've been accused, as people frequently do, or you can't prove you didn't make it up post-hoc so we want to get it tossed out as non-reliable.
Why would twitter manage to pivot into something entirely different, when companies who build this as greenfield have stopped, failed, or are still trying very hard to stay afloat?
it's the underlying library for nheko, fwiw.
full disclosure: never used a chrome book.

That said, isn't there some nanny software available to install and block websites except the ones you whitelist? They should also have ability to set access time schedules so you could let them have a free for all after school time is over.