skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If by "minor UI tweaks" you mean "destroyed the platform" then, yes, it has had some work done.

Their most recent announcement is the reintroduction of the ability to drag-and-drop receipts onto expenses. Not in the list view where everyone used to do it, mind you, but maybe someday they will bring that feature back as well. Maybe they will eventually bring back their outlook program that lets you upload an email as a receipt too!
maybe for you, but if this person was living on a >$100mn lifestyle, then that 10x decline will actually hurt them!
Friend who spent time there 2008-10 has a great line: "the air is a prison".
We need to do a better job caring for our forests. We need to put more resources into thinning them out, clearing debris and undergrowth, and clearing areas closest to developed areas. Preventative maintenance designed to reduce the impact of fires.

Unfortunately we can't, because Trump brought it up one day in his patented ham-handed way. Now people just talk about "raking forests" and laugh it off.
Being online and making it your entire personality and reality are two very different things.
Is this from South Park? Sounds familiar
I got a brand new router recently, IPv6 was still disabled by default! I honestly can't understand the reasoning, I don't even buy the internet visibility argument because the default incoming connection rules for IPv6 after I enabled it were deny-all. We really have a long way to go still in getting equipment everywhere enabled on it.
It is likely enough money to get an MVP working to pitch to investors. Obviously not if you have a family to take of as well.
Fun fact: Ian Fleming wrote more than James Bond books. He also wrote "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".
Now? In 2022? Gee thanks I guess
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this makes architecture particularly important, in a way that other forms of art is not

painters are free to create ugly works of art all they like, to a first order of appoximation we are in a position to ignore them

not so with the built environment

a long conversation...
If you cannot yourself come up with a truly original idea, consider this; There is always the opportunity and option to do a thing better than it's been done before. Choose a thing that excites you, but you see possibilities for improvement, or a unique way of doing it that may be better than those who have gone before. "Stand on the shoulders of giants" if that benefits you, but do it in the way that only you can do.
Shoot first, think of ideas later
You can also get spaced repetition through homework and revisiting material through lectures. I'm not denying that tests also don't do this (also forcing studying) but let's be honest that most course structures aren't created in a format that promote actual spaced repetition. You're moving the goal post a bit. If it is up to the student and not the teacher then the test is irrelevant to the discussion.
The entire precondition for being able to do that is that you're not aware of it. Ever.
> The designation "PC", as used in much of personal computer history, has not meant "personal computer" generally, but rather an x86 computer capable of running the same software that a contemporary IBM PC could. The term was initially in contrast to the variety of home computer systems available in the early 1980s, such as the Apple II, TRS-80, and Commodore 64. Later, the term was primarily used in contrast to Apple's Macintosh computers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible
why do you say so? genuinely wondering, do you have any source or are you related to any work regarding it?
(contrarian)

Nothin. I don't want to spend time on my job/career/expertise in my free time. I do have some books on it (visual effects), but they're gathering dust.
Which is not useful information in this discussion.
airlines are like this as well.

they hire during the boom times and furlough during bust times. hundreds of thousands of people were furloughed during COVID, for example.

it's even worse for pilots since their seniority resets, which can set them back compensation-wise for their entire careers if they are unlucky

it's the unwritten rule. trade a stable paycheck and a predictable lifestyle for fungability.
> But let's focus on a specific criticism: what I took from the article is that the job market is shrinking and the evidence is that job offers and internships rescinded. We also know about broad layoffs.

I’d argue this take isn’t a particularly insightful bit of tech journalism, and what I didn’t like about the article is that it relied on too much anecdotal evidence. There’s still a massive number of CS grads that are finding great paying great jobs. I felt it paints a dire picture based on a few interviews where in reality most CS grads even now probably have it better than grads of most other fields had it even in the “good times.”

> It would be interesting to hear your claims as a "knowledgeable tech insider" then a rant on journalism in general.

I have to start by saying it’s not fair or accurate to equate a dislike of the lacking quality of most tech journalism as a general rant on all journalism.

That said, in the space I work in (that has a lot of systems, compilers and algo work involved) the hiring both for new grads and experienced folks is still quite strong. What I see on the ground is far less extreme than what the article says.
listening*
Write and speak.

Have an online presence in some area. Open source something related to what you want to work on.

Help them find you.
This is probably the most real comment I've read today.
Similar experience in Vietnam.

It is a totally different type of pollution than California burning fires too... a lot of it is burning trash (plastic), industrial and/or automotive (motorbikes and diesel trucks).

I got used to changing clothes and taking a shower every time I came back to the house because I smelled so awful from the exhaust and pollution.

I left right before covid and this is definitely one of the things that is keeping me from going back after covid. It isn't healthy at all.
Pretty sure he was surprised no parents had blown one of the CPS people heads clean off in their front lawn when they came around to take their kids.
There are road bridges I pass in the UK where I think, wow that is really nice. These aren't big things, but they are beautifully designed non the less. They were of course built many years ago.

I do wonder if there is a bit of survivorship bias here. The pretty objects survive, the ugly ones do not. Though there are also changes in taste. In the UK people today like the rows or terraced houses. They were built to be the cheapest possible dwellings, but the style is now popular.
Except that Android has had E2E encrypted backups since 2018 https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/google-and-android-h...
It's not an assumption. Apple has earned a decent reputation for being pro privacy through their actions over decades.
In California Newsom actually lied about this with zero media pushback.
https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/06/23/newsom-misled-t...

'Newsom overstated, by an astounding 690%, the number of acres treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns in the very forestry projects he said needed to be prioritized to protect the state’s most vulnerable communities. Newsom has claimed that 35 “priority projects” carried out as a result of his executive order resulted in fire prevention work on 90,000 acres. But the state’s own data show the actual number is 11,399.'

This is outrageous on so many levels, but the media is far more interested in the relentless drum beat around climate anxiety than they are in pushing for any practical measures.

Meanwhile the Sierra club are heavily invested in burning wood to make electricity. What a mess!

Look up 'biomass' here:

https://planetofthehumans.com/fact-check-bible/
Python is dynamic and everything is ultimately some sort of object (including functions and classes) and can be modified. Taking the features mentioned one by one:

> the ability to redefine functions

In Python you have two options here, you can either update the module to have a new function:

>>> mymodule.myfunc = mynewfunc

But any existing references to `myfunc` will not be updated (e.g. if you did `import myfunc from mymoudle` instead of `import mymodule`).

Alternatively you can update the function __code__:

>>> def f1(): return 1
...
>>> def f2(): return 2
...
>>> def f3(): return f1()
...
>>> f3()
1
>>> f1.__code__ = f2.__code__
>>> f3()
2

> and whole classes at runtime,

You can take a similar approach with Python classes:

>>> class A: pass
...
>>> class B(A): pass
...
>>> b = B()
>>> A._a = '_a'
>>> A.a = lambda self: self._a
>>> b.a()
'_a'

You can also update SomeClass.__bases__ should you wish.

> the ability to write new functions (/variables/classes etc) in the process of those redefinitions.

As python is dynamic this can all be done at runtime. If you're not in a REPL you can call compile/exec/__import__ from your code.

> Its debuggers are written in Lisp (completely extensible by you at runtime) offering a REPL right at the debug site.

The Python debugger is written in Python and can be switched out. It's python code so like anything else can be changed at runtime. If you want something flashier than pdb you could use the IPython debugger: https://pypi.org/project/ipdb/

Edit: Want to modify an existing running python program but you didn't think to expose Python's dynamic extensibility before hand? No worries, just use parasite and inject arbitrary code into a running python process! https://pyrasite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Appears to contain Google trackers.

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/
For Twitter, there's Nitter.

Is there any decent lean client for Discord? Chat only, no voice or whatnot.
Is this actually how it's practiced? I know this is the professed meaning of the term/movement but when it comes to the implementation it seems to be turning into something much different. Also, in this definition of beauty where do you draw the line for "ugly" or is it now a word without a meaning?
I don’t think it’s that odd. It’s just that probably you, like many others, see Emacs as a programming editor / IDE, while RMS sees the much broader applicability of this software.

Nowadays if you want WYSIWYG you don’t even own the data anymore, it’s a Microsoft or Google editor as a SaaS in the browser. So Emacs covering this use case too would be extremely powerful and coherent from the software freedom angle.
What EU firms? The EU is starved in big tech, and doesn’t have nearly the international impact as Silicon Valley/ US. Many EU companies that get big move to the US (eg Spotify).

If the EU was host to surveillance advertising I’m sure the narrative would be that companies should provide services cheaply instead for the social good. While you can have whatever opinions you want on invasive tracking tech, the reality is that the EU never had their share of profits from it and have always been more critical of US based companies. Yes they’re protectionist.

Edit: it can be good for consumers and good for national protectionism. I’m not questioning if it’s good for consumers but it is definitely good for nationalism.
Plaid doesn't pay dividends and his salary is most likely peanuts compared to his shares in the company, whose valuation just tanked.
Like, I'm sorry, but this has no connection to anything in mainstream physics. There is no indication that causality is connected to observation. You appear to think that "observation" is a process involving awareness, which is just not what the word means, in the context of QM.

This is like a scifi story maybe, but none of what you've said has any rigorous meaning. "sphere of causality" would be a cool band name, though.
That sounds obvious until you realize that you can’t get away with just fixing the obvious parts of allocating large optional caches, you have to defend for every single allocation you do to fail. In every library you use, for every string you copy, for every structure you create. That’s a lot harder than handwaving about how someone else might be able to fix some cases.
> You can’t be pretty or you’re considered incompetent and shallow

That's not a gendered stereotype, though, that's all technology people.
Not only that, but the film of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang had Gert Frobe, who played Goldfinger, as Baron Bomburst of Vulgaria.
Hopefully this version will add the prompting ability that the original Whisper has. In the original Whisoer, you would be able to give it a prompt for the recognition like "Please respond with only one of the following words: A, B, or C." It wouldn't be foolproof, but it helps.

https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/117#discussion...
Code switching is completely natural to me, I would not know how to express myself with just one language to some people. What did you learn about it that impacted you the most?
The Brave browser has around 60 million MAUs and has Tor bundled with it, so Tor traffic is unlikely to stand out as much as before.
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No. The light from these jets travels many many magnitudes farther than the actual material. You wouldn't want to be within a few million light years of it but these particles have mass and will be slowed by all of the matter they interact with in space. The vacuum of space still has roughly an atom per cubic centimeter, which really adds up over the distances we're talking about here.

Edit: Left out a fairly important word. few million light years*
You're conspicuously failing to account for the burden on society, the economy, and the environment that your children and their descendants will inflict, which is exponentially larger than a single non-breeder's finite contribution.

And you're also not addressing the fact that maximizing the number of humans on the earth is too much of a good thing, and makes life much worse for an exponentially larger number of people in the long run. Fewer people will suffer the sooner we slow and even gradually reverse population growth.

And you're incorrectly assuming that the only alternative to exponential population growth is sudden extinction, when it's much more likely that sudden extinction is actually the most likely result of overpopulation, due to ecological and climactic collapse and war.

If parents really altruistically cared for the wellbeing of their children and their descendants in the long term, and they're not just self-servingly and short-sightedly breeding in order to make their old age and retirement easier, then they should have fewer children to reduce the destruction they inflict of the environment from overpopulation, and stop driving their children to and from school in gas guzzling SUV minivans, when they could just as well ride their bikes or take a bus or public transit.
They do. Parent just wants to back up directly to a Time Machine backup, rather than backing up to computer, then backing that up to TM.

A reasonable desire, but clearly niche enough that it's unlikely to come to pass. (Particularly since, given what little I've seen of how Time Machine works, it would likely require some quite significant dev work on Apple's end to enable.)
If you're not manually setting voltages on different pins then at some level it's an abstraction.
Only skimmed thru, but seems to neglect to talk about the capacitive charging needed to energise the transmission network, grid where I live is isolated and needs 25MW plus just to bring the transmission network up.
> everyone has a butler that they don't need to even talk to.

Aristocracy in some parts of the world didn't talk to staff, they would just announce in the presence of the servant that something was needed and expect that it be provided.
You and GP both need to take a step back and consider the context since both of you seem to conveniently forget one very important thing: why would anyone get harrassed by software developers on LinkedIn as just another workerbee? Now multiply that by whatever factor you believe a software developer is a gorgeous woman. Maybe now it makes sense why people are skeptical.

With your line of reasoning, people would be defending phishing emails because "some representatives have bad grammar skills". Think of how lubricous that would be in a discussion on phishing.
This is the equivalent to "why does modern music suck" (said by every generation of the next generation's music)

At first I agreed with you but then I clicked the submission article and saw those ugly mouse statue things.
> It’s just that transition is expensive

It’s impossible to finish a transition when the old version has no end of life in sight.
I'd like to put forth the idea that taste is cultivated. Might seem like I'm splitting hairs but I don't like the idea that 'taste' is something you're born with - that its innate - you either got it or you don't. Its like saying some people can cook and others can't, etc etc. That's a story we like to comfort ourselves with. I disagree with the premise /almost/ entirely.( I promise I'm fun at parties. An individual claiming they "just can't do X" is shorthand but "There are people who are born incapable to do X, no matter the effort" is where I take issue)

Like any talent, its a pursued interest. I seriously think the world would be a better, more beautiful place if people were willing to push back on social norms and peer pressure more often; Especially when the stakes are so low.

I'm not the one to do it but I'm willing to bet we could agree on an aesthetic that is based around Flip-Flops and Socks - the Japanese might want to have a word or socks with those Adidas sandals.

The reality of human pursuits is that regardless of how we like to think of history, we aren't actually being led by a few Omega-Tier mutant geniuses who gift us with ~ A E S T H E T I C S ~ (Tm) but we collaborate and try things and fail and try again. A culture where more people feel more free to express themselves is one where the Art gets better, IMHO.
> I could see doing IPv6+IPv4 in a corporation and terminate everything on load balancers, allowing anything behind the LB to be any combination of IPv4/IPv6. But IPv6 only? I don't see any big companies doing that in my lifetime.

facebook started migrating to ipv6-only datacenters in 2014 or so. i think all of them are converted at this point. they only support legacy ip at their network edge, & use siit (iirc) to facilitate access.
I said it's the best *I've* ever seen. I never claimed it was the best in the market or that I had seen every other laptop in the market.

I don't know the criteria for rating the display quality, but scoring less than 2% from the best one is still arguably a very good rating.
Every couple of months, I enable dual-stack on my home network, to see if it works. And inevitably I get a terrible experience. Some sites fail to load, others load after a huge delay (presumably because we're waiting for an ip6 timeout of some sort) and some things just don't work right. I'm always too lazy to figure out why these things don't work, but I turn off dual stack and everything works fine again.

I'm a network engineer and I can't make ip6 work seamlessly in my house -- what chance do regular consumers have?
I recently discovered ncdu while troubleshooting a logging issue in one of servers. Something broke and syslog began to inflate unchecked and consumed the entire disk's worth of space. ncdu helped explore the system and find out where the file was. Great tool.
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https://fragment.com/numbers -> "Oops. This service is not available in the United States."

Not a great way to monetize in one of the larger markets.
I'm surprised JSC doesn't get more press. Lots of news/articles about V8, but seems JSC has eclipsed it on perf by some metrics.

Overall though, Bun honestly looks like it has a shot to supplant Node if npm package compatibility reaches a sufficient level. Or at least encourage Node to work much harder on perf. Deno feels a bit too esoteric/theoretical in its approach, vs Bun which looks to be much more focused on ease of use
> In a second victory for privacy advocates, Apple said it was dropping a plan to scan user photos for child sex abuse images. The company had paused that plan shortly after its announcement last year, as security experts argued that it would intrude on user’s device privacy and be subject to abuse.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/07/icloud-...
The 2008 movie 'Delgo' is an interesting case. The independently produced movie lost it's distributor (IIRC, 20th Century Fox) and to get the movie into theaters, producers used its advertising budget on a pay-for-play distributor. The producers hoped that enough people would be curious enough by the name on the theater's marquees to see it and then word of mouth would bring in the crowds. It ended up being the lowest earning wide release (2000+ screens) movie up to that time. It was estimated that each showing averaged two people. It wasn't a very good movie, which probably is why the distributor dropped it, but plenty of bad movies have made back their budgets off of advertising induced first week ticket sales before word of mouth sunk the long tail.
The "hub" model is disappearing; customers travel to the supposed hub via other methods (car, train) or they take direct flights. The super jumbo planes like the 747 rely on hubs for passenger density so it shouldn't be any surprise that most airlines aren't interested.

Having more smaller planes lets you do more direct flights and gives you way more flexibility should you need to change destinations, lease an empty plane to someone else, etc. It also costs you less in fuel when you need to fly it with few or no passengers.

Of course getting _any_ new plane means a years-long backlog right now so the newest trend is to acquire a regional or small airline and dismantle it purely to get the airplanes. Virgin America (by Alaska) and Spirit (by JetBlue) were victims of that strategy and won't be the last.
They have to respect the laws of the countries they operate in but they don't necessarily have to do so silently.

If you go to set up encrypted backups and find out the feature isn't available or get a message saying something like "Feature cannot be activated in China, Turkey, and Russia", that's better than the feature not being available anywhere.
The TM back-up wil include your phone’s backup too. I agree it could be better.

Don’t exclude the back-up folder from TM, though.
I wanted to get back into CAD stuff for 3D printing, what free platforms are out there? In my research, I’ve only come across freeCAD and Fusion360.
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I believe the Tor feature of Brave is an optional setting, so I assume only a small fraction of their MAU use it.
Yes, I did this on my personal network. I'm in Linz (Austria), the nearest tunnel to a german speaking country that's listed on tunnelbroker.net was Berlin (if I remember right). Everything worked rather well, but I then decided against it, because of the GeoIP implications (with one IP being in Austria and one in Germany) and the added latency. It's noticable when SSHing somewhere whether I'm Linz-Linz or Linz-Berlin-Linz, especially when a small lag spike happens, which is rather frequent with the cable-based network our ISP is offering. It wasn't worth it to half-slowdown our network just to not rely on jumping through some dual-stack node in the university.

If anybody from Liwest (our local ISP) reads this - IPv6 would be really nice! :)