skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The concern about danger really does not follow your hypothetical situation. Anyway, our view of capitalism would suggest that the failure of companies that use labor less efficiently is a net good.

I think the question we are all considering is why OpenAI behaves differently overseas than they might when trying to poach a smart engineer from a competitor in the Us.
I think you're half right, but missing a big piece of the puzzle.

I agree with you that people's spending habits don't make sense. I see young people complaining about having to live with their parents when near their 30s who still think a two week vacation with a nice rental and eating out ever night is a basic human right. I'm constantly horrified how many people simply cannot cook their own food. The wouldn't know how to make a good rice and beans dish if they had to.

But the part you're missing is that our current system cannot survive without this spending. That FAANG job that paid you so well, where do you think all that cash came from? My friends making money for insta are basically making that money selling avocado toast.

If people started living like their great depression era relatives they wouldn't be able to afford houses because our entire economic system would break down.
The whole ownership and borrowing system is a type of automatic memory management. It just happens at compile time instead of runtime like most automatic memory management systems.

Manual memory management is possible in Rust, but is not typically something developers need to interact with. There is typically no need to manually free objects when you are done with them. You just let the system destroy the objects automatically when they go out of scope.
The answer is that Amazon pays well and carries prestige on your resume, just not compared to other FAANG or other USA startups that are at the forefront of tech.

The company also has significant growth opportunities compared to mid-sized startups or legacy companies hiring tech workers.

There are also many really talented people and mentors there. The forced attrition makes it mostly suck however.
Would you have a problem if a bunch of billionaires moved into your neighborhood? What do you think would happen to the prices around you? Why do you think people in, say, Lisbon, are so dismayed at the amount of "digital nomads" moving into their cities at the same time as their housing prices rise wayyy above their average wage?

> to me, it goes back to the argument about remote workers should be paid less than the in office worker.

Can you make a stronger link here? Because I'm not seeing the connection other than wages are involved.
They did pay out employees for their remaining bank of PTO when they announced the switch, so this should have limited financial impact.
> Could there be a tech recession? Yes. Was there a bubble in valuations? Absolutely. Did Meta overhire? Probably.

I'm glad we agree

> But is that why they are laying people off? Of course not. Meta has plenty of money. These companies are all making money.

How does this follow any logic at all. He does not even dispute that overhiring took place.
Should companies continue with a stupid hiring frenzy until they run out of money? This is the logical implication.

> They are doing it because other companies are doing it.

How is this explanation better than any other? This is such a strong claim and he offers ZERO evidence for it. And gross overgeneralizations like "oh, there are cases in which..." are argumental rubbish.
This infuriates me because this is bad science and plainly opinionated.
Bad take. These people are not prohibited from saying where they work, a Linkedin search would turn up thousands of Lab employees.
I have been hearing about the protocol for at least 2 years but never heard of a crypto company.

I would say the name is rather unfortunate in the sense that any search will lead you first to the NASA program and zodiac signs.
You cannot speak coherently about geopolitics without discussing currency politics and financial hegemony. What defines US geopolitical relationships is not whether a country is "authoritarian" but how it relates to the petrodollar/IMF/World Bank global financial system. A government can behave however it wants and never be bothered by the US as long as it submits its economy to this system. This explains why some oil-rich countries are sworn enemies of the US and some aren't much better than "freedom and democracy".

What defines China specifically as a malign actor from the US perspective is that it is offering countries outside the West a second choice for how to finance and pursue development. The mere presence of this competition is a mortal threat to the entire established order.
News flash - everyone in the US hates nazis and bigots except nazis and bigots. These people live in their own echo chambers and are totally divorced from the rest of society because they are social pariahs. The more they are pushed to the fringe the more extreme their rhetoric becomes because they feel invalidated and resentful.

You talking about how bizarre this is a brilliant irony. The truth is America is not systemically racist and is not white supremecist, and damn sure not in comparison with the rest of the world. Youre surprise here is due to the error of your prior assumptions, not because the fact is even remotely surprising.
> (influencers) getting ripped apart on Reddit

Refers to the aptly-named subredd, 'Linkedin Lunatics' </r/LinkedInLunatics>
I don't think my English vocabulary extends enough to properly describe the surreal mix of stupefaction and disgust this very concept creates on me.
Current and future role of Haber–Bosch ammonia in a carbon-free energy env(2020)
I was unpleasantly surprised when I installed Dart last weekend and received a warning about it reporting back to Google Analytics by default(?!), so I can definitely sympathize with the concern.
Interesting, wasn't aware LBNL had different requirements.
Fusion reactors: Not what they’re cracked up to be (2017)
Well said.

> snarky, reddit-style tone.

I share the blame there. Sorry. I'd like to make the point in a better way, but im busy and my hands hurt, so i said this and hope some are amused as much as annoyed.
The reason is that Apple wants a cut of the Spotify subscription money when users sign up for Spotify on an iOS or iPadOS device. IMHO, it's a bad look for Apple. They should either get out of the music business or stop taking a cut of the money from apps that compete with Apple services.
Stopping trying to stay alive sounds pretty neat unless you really enjoy life, but you have to keep in mind that you can only succeed with that once.

I‘d recommend trying to lobotomize yourself with a few psychopharmaca prescribed by a psychiatrist first. What‘s the worst that could happen?

You probably haven‘t tried everything yet and you can always try to stop trying to stay alive at a later point.

You should probably call your countries crisis hotline. You can ask google how to commit suicide to get the number.
The chip is directionally aware. It would be able to tell you that your item is in a specific direction. (e.g., using Find My will give you an arrow that points toward your devices)
How many transistor shrink steps can we still reasonably expect before it becomes insane or unreliable?

I wonder at which scale ion doping has to become near perfect in order to get the expected reliable behavior?
Ask HN: Will Apple sell any of new MacBook Pro's outside the US?
The new 14" and 16" MacBook Pro's that were just released have some... interesting price tags. In the EU, the 14" starts at $2800 and the 16" starts at $3500. Seems like Apple using EU to subsidise the US market. Will Apple actually manage to sell any of these laptops in Europe?
If for the local market $1.32-$2/hour take-home is good compared to alternatives (of which I have no idea, but local claims seem to support that, listing comparable rates but for gross not take-home), then yes, it's fair, and it would harm the workers if we'd prohibit that, because they would have to take a worse local job.
“Almost all of our interfaces and systems are designed to go from action to action, we’ll now need interfaces to go from objective to objective efficiently”

Profound, I wonder if this shift will need to happen beyond just apps
Seems pretty heavy handed for something that happens at the cadence of Australian passport renewal (10 years in most cases). I believe I replace my printer at least that often.
I agree, it's a little weird that some very basic quality of life features are missing from such a popular and relatively mature product.

Folder management in particular seems to have been an afterthought. You create a subfolder by setting its name to its full path in the hierarchy, including all its parents. And thus, in order to rename a folder you have to manually go through every single subfolder and rename the particular parent in its name.

Other annoyances off the top of my head are things like the inability to change the type of a custom field from e.g. text to hidden without deleting it and creating a new field. Or the browser extension forgetting everything you just typed into the new item form (unless you remember to pop out the window) when pasting a generated password on the site you're trying to register to.

After switching from KeepassXC to Bitwarden for its better auto-fill detection and convenient synchronization, I can't help but feel that it's also been a downgrade in more ways than expected.
The reasoning is nonsense.

It's just about being safe for work.

As a man I can get away with a beach shot of me and a hypothetical son both without tops on. On my work desk.

My hypothetical wife and daughter? Not so much.
I find them quite organic-normative.
> What licence is typst under?

We will open source in March, probably with a permissive license, but that's not yet definitively decided.

> Will it be able to reference page numbers from a different book dynamically? (so if book-a and book-b are in the same directory, one can reference another's sections)

This is not currently implemented, but also shouldn't be fundamentally impossible.

> Will there be support for intelligent floating images?

There will be floating containers (also with text flowing around). We will probably keep the amount of "intelligence" low for more predicatability. So you would specify top or bottom and it would be placed on the next page with free space.

> Will it accept 'every-page' commands, so I can use that #rect command to show a chapter's name on side-tabs?

Yes, every-page headers, footers, foregrounds, and backgrounds are already available and a way to query for the current chapter name is coming in a future update.

> Will error messages tell me hbox underfull badness 10000 at least 3000 times per compile?

No!
Show HN: View Your Social Networks on an iPod
Hey HN!

This is iPod Social, an interactive iPod interface made with JavaScript. (thanks to Tanner Villarete).

With iPod Social you can view Hacker News, view Tweets from a specific user, view Instagram from a specific user, and watch YouTube's most popular videos.

I hope it adds a bit of nostalgia to the experience of using the web.

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions, I'd love to hear your feedback.
Don't fret, surveillance is still baked right in. The video player is bad so that one installs the app, whose video player, and ability to spy on the user, is much superior to that of the browser.

The various ol., old., and i. subdomains, which still allow access to a functional reddit with a functional video player, are there to keep the old-school power users from revolting, for now, anyway.
Yes, that's what lead to Zelenskiy being elected. Lots happened in the 8 years since this article was written...
“Many tech companies are suffering — and laying off — due to the economy”

That’s one way to characterize companies making billions of dollars in profits.
Worth noting that already did this to support SQL Server on Linux [1].

[1]: https://threedots.ovh/slides/Drawbridge.pdf
Those ones are pretty thick, by watch standards, and the teeth aren't the smallest. I think from memory the thickness is about 0.25mm, but I would need to get the calipers out when I get home.

Accutron is where the really small engineering comes in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XugX5zb1rG8 the wheel is about 25mm across (I think) but you can't really see the teeth with the naked eye. (https://www.watchdoctor.biz/accutron/ has more details) but the level of accuracy and detail needed to machine that far outweighs the stuff that rolex do even now.

These index wheels were mass produced, and I still don't know how they did it.
I've had it happen once. I'm still shocked to this day it happened. The whole experience was surreal. They paid me 6 figures, offered the job out of the blue basically on linked in, I started like a week later and then I was assigned basically nothing. I did basically nothing for a 3 month contract and then left. Without pursuing the job, without barely doing anything, and then left without any real comment.

And we're not talking some fluke small company with no controls. This was a fortune 500. The job had no particularly interesting requirements so I guess somebody just said fill the seat for a few months and I was just grabbed. At the time I was doing a lot of international wandering so it was a nice easy refueling top up stateside.
The press was correct, but premature, in November. It apparently ended up being a few thousand in November, so over 10k today.
Yeah? I guess Big Garlic Bread is out there somewhere twisting their mustaches and watching the dollars roll in.
Just don't assume that, if you create the optimal conditions, luck will happen.
Alas, that was pretty much the whole story.
I don't think I understand the ask here. Author's claim is they're concerned about corporate ownership of the languages but the examples they cite of concrete issues is the system "phones home." Well, so does Python every time I pull a pip package in. So does every package manager.

Is there an implied "I don't trust the phone-home features of package management systems supported by corporations" that doesn't apply to non-corporate-supported development ecosystems? Why is that?
No wonder State Department is called Foggy Bottom (I know the real reason) but it lives up to its name.
There is nothing unlimited about unlimited PTO. Its a removal of a paid benefit. When they let you go they don't have to pay for accrued PTO.

There is no contract stating how much PTO you can take, its up to your manager, could be zero, could be four weeks, who knows. Could change when your manager changes.

Its an accounting trick to remove PTO from the accounting books and remove a paid benefit to employees.
--Hi, I'm a PC.

--And I'm a Mac.

The only winning move is not to play Win11
> Now, think of what https really is for, what drove its adoption, and why the modern web needs it. And that's e-commerce!

No, it's keeping the ISPs from spying on, blocking, and adding advertising to any and all data they can get into.

> Well, you achieve that simply by not putting private information on a public network.

You have no idea what information will become sensitive in a few years.

"If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide" fails because I don't know what I'll eventually need to hide.
CNET is reviewing its AI-written articles after being notified of serious errors
Bingo, me too. I like that keepass is file based so I can use any storage medium to make multiple layers of security to access the vault. Even if cloud providers have access to the file or my cloud storage account gets hacked they still have to crack the file to get the passowrds. Also I have been using strongbox pro for a few years now and been very happy, in fact I like it better than what 1password used to be. Worth every penny. KeepassXC has also been great.
postulate: languages that provide the most utility are more likely to be controlled by corporate interests because corporations that depend on those languages have a stake in its future and will invest in it. this includes web standards, openGL, and basically anything with a governing board composed of multiple large entities.
I agree. Sometimes it seems like every "pop" song has enough similarities to something from the past 70 years that there will be copyright issues.

Which means that copyright is broken, at least in terms of what can be ignored as coincidence or "de minimis" similarity.
China blocks foreign apps just cause they're foreign and popular, under the guise of whatever law was deliberately designed for this purpose, and now we're doing the similar thing with TikTok.
Hi everyone! I'm a co-founder of Monoid -- excited to finally launch this on HN. I'll be here to answer any of your questions!
It seems they're implying the opposite but I can see how it would be read as "good" in this context.
A shame they didn’t opt for Public Sans, which was designed by the US Web Design System team. Though I see it only supports Latin characters at the moment, which might make it unsuitable for use at State.

https://public-sans.digital.gov
I am enough of a power user to want to know what potential future use-cases some very expensive device will support. But I guess it's hopeless in a world where most laptop manufacturers can't even implement USB-PD to spec.

I had a little bit of an hostile conversation with a 65W PD powerbank vendor over who violated the spec - the powerbank or my ThinkPad T495. Turns our the answer was simply "yes".
> People concern for "air quality" lately has me wondering how in the world humanity survived to this point, in utter ignorance of the horrid damage everything they could smell was doing to them.

"Lately?" People have been worrying about air quality ever since it became clear that poor air quality was killing people (mid 19th century), and have been legislating it since then.

Now, the biggest killers have been mostly legislated out of existence in developed countries (with some exceptions around big old coal plants, which can cause serious regional problems), and attention is turning to those that just knock of a few tens of thousands of people a year, rather than the millions of yesteryear.
Is there something equivalent to Datasette but with duckdb as the sql engine?
I agree, I am also starting to get a bit annoyed at all these posts pointing to everything Mr. Carmack says. I know who he is, I am enjoying these posts on twitter where they have their place, but let's not focus all the nitpickyness of HN on every little bit of trivia the man says.
What a case study in the critical importance of sensible defaults, that they could end up enforced as State Department policy.
Shout-out for the Motorola Defy - I used to have one and it was a great form factor, almost an ideal size. Sadly mine bricked for reasons unknown.
I've wondered in the past what the cultural influence of font legibility is. I'd imagine someone who grew up reading serif fonts would feel much more comfortable reading a document with a serif typeface than someone like myself who doesn't interact much with serif fonts.

For me serif fonts look kind of off and weird. On the other hand monospaced fonts look strangely beautiful to me so I use monospaced fonts on my blog and in other personal writings. I'm guessing that preference isn't biological though, but more likely due to me spending every day reading and writing code. My brain is just best adapted for working with monospaced fonts.

I think about questions like this often when it comes to UI/UX decisions because I think some modern UI/UX is arguably objectively bad in a world where there only exists subjective users. For example, the qwerty keyboard is god awful, but does it make sense for the next Apple Macbook to ship with a dvorak keyboard layout to fix querty's UX issues? Probably not.
I exclusively do dotnet on macos and I consider the experience to be mostly superior
Ask HN: Has anyone worked at a private research institute like Simons or Allen?
Asking again in hopes this that this thread might gain more traction than my last attempt.

This was inspired by the recent post asking about National Labs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34414527

Essentially I'd like to hear from people who have worked at private research institutes, like Simons Foundation or Allen Institute, at any level, and how it compares/contrasts to working in the startup world.

In there much overlap or "cross-polination" from national labs to/from research institutes?
>> If you value the services pritected by recaptcha at less than a penny

> Kindly point where I wrote that.

“At least Kenyan workers get $2 an hour … I haven’t seen a single penny for the hours of my life spent on recaptchas.” [0]

Payment in kind is payment.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34429092
Boy, that's a brave thing to suggest on a forum of people with aspirations of getting cushy jobs at FAANGs to get those uncapped wages. It appears it's going over as well as a lead balloon too.
Strongbox for iOS.
Maybe I'm old, but i dont get it. I'd say signed is more dangerous as the overflow is undefined. And if you read to unsigned, you are just wasting range.
Just going to say it....These companies are run by criminals....all of them are always connected to crime. it's a fact. not an opinion. OpenAI has blood money. It's blood diamonds but information.....same thing....just modernized and remote....
"GCC, in turn, allowed the development of new languages like Perl and python"

wut?
Other companies stopped backfilling a while ago but doesn't mean they plan on laying people off (and you can look at 2008-2010 for reference to see that some companies didn't backfill but didn't have layoffs). Not over-growing and then shrinking through attrition is one way to rightsize a company in tougher times.
The meritocracy measures along the vector of manipulation.
Bitcoin-Mining Heaters for $1k?
It's always so fascinating when content creators put out such diverse content. I mainly recognize Marshall for his work as commentator of Magic: The Gathering tournaments (and other related sundry content), and it shocked me the first time I heard one of his watch-restoration videos -- his voice is so distinctive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6TYApKT1Q4
At least we have it relatively easy (I think you're talking about programming positions?). Imagine working in a mine or something and then what do you do.
Thanks for the links, but I have problems with that visualcapitalist graphic:

- carzoo, walmart, getir, carvana, doordash, hellofresh, tesla, rivian, peloton: not really tech companies. Mostly teched-up logistics companies.

- the twitter layoffs aren't (only) due to "the market", they're due to the unpredictability of its owner.

The source for the data is https://www.trueup.io/layoffs, which is better and also has a source for the black bars in visualcapitalists' graphic.
You can do all of it yourself, it's all based on open standards. Their value proposition is that by paying them, you don't have to DIY.
> I didn't steal your car, right?

Comparing theft to "intellectual" property that can be trivially copied often doesn't make sense and can lead one to wrong conclusions.

> So now software piracy is fine right?

Finally something almost on topic. But that's just begging the question. And it's not software we're talking about, but images.

Training neural networks on massive datasets is a pretty new phenomenon, I don't think anyone can say definitely whether it's copyright infringement or not, because...

> This needs to be tested in court.

Exactly. I'm glad we agree on at least something.

Historically the UK courts have taken a (overly IMHO) strict attitude (eg. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=57171429-4dea... ) to copyrights so I'd guess the outcome won't be too favorable to Stable Diffusion, but it wouldn't it be funny to read your assertions in case they win.