skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think ease of use is part of it, but in my opinion there's also something else: reach. Sure, you could spend a week or two coding your own personal website... but how many people are going to actually see it? A lot of people don't leave their social media walled gardens nowadays. A tweet has a much higher chance of actually being seen by people with much less hassle.
Not exploit closed borders. Everybody here is acting like they had no choice but to employ Kenyan workers specifically.
More than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets are worthless, analysis shows
“Disabilities” is an extremely wide spectrum, and it’s pointless to try to group people on that scale.
Sans-serif type for printed documents?
Airtable is the closest to what you are saying because it has data relationships. However, what did you find insufficient about Google Forms or similar?
Every so often essays posted to HN really hit home and this is one of those times. I feel like this topic has been central to a lot of frustrations I've had in recent years.

A lot of the discussion here seems to be focused on individual agency and how much people are responsible for their circumstances or not, but for me many of the underlying issues are really about lack of understanding on the advice-givers.

Sometimes someone is capable of changing their circumstances, but just doesn't know how to go about it. They just never were taught how, or whatever, and when they turn to others for help, they get bad advice. The people they turn to might really care about the person and want to help, but just aren't good mentors.

The avocado toast example is important as a flawed position not necessarily because of broader issues about individual versus societal responsibility, but because it illustrates how completely ignorant people can be about their fellow humans' circumstances. This has a whole host of consequences that are extremely powerful, including not providing advice that would actually help, to not recognizing that good people sometimes just make mistakes, that good or bad mentoring actually does matter, and so forth and so on.

So maybe someone is entirely capable of improving their financial situation. But is telling them it's because they're eating avocado toast too much really going to help them? No, because the worldview that avocado toast is causing financial ruin is just as flawed as the worldview that everyone is a completely helpless victim. Cruel optimism isn't just cruel optimism, it's ignorant optimism, and proves the point by its very nature that the system is broken in some way: a person who believes avocado toast is the source of financial distress themselves probably is not sound in their financial reasoning, and if they are not in financial distress, it's probably not because of their sound financial reasoning, but rather, other factors.

If you cannot correctly identify the systemic impediments to someone improving their situation, and offer realistic advice to them in those circumstances, you're part of the problem, or at least, you're not recognizing the problem. Avocado toast is kind of a perfect example of opportunity costs applied to moral reasoning or something: it's not that it blames the victim, it's that the advice is actively harmful if for no other reason that decent advice is not being given, and then becomes an example of the very thing it's trying to argue against.
In theory, yes, but at some wage level it wouldn't make sense to choose Kenya over India. At another threshold it wouldn't make sense to choose India over the US.

There is overhead to sending jobs to poor, unstable countries in timezones far from headquarters. If we insist that everyone, worldwide should be paid the same wages we are in the US, what incentive do companies have for not just hiring locally and avoiding those costs? If we step it back and say "okay, you should at least pay what you would in India", then why not just hire in India, which is a far more predictable environment than Kenya?
Not sure how easy self-hosting those are, but any paid-for and/or online offering by a third party is useless. This should have been clear long ago, but the LastPass breach should have made it obvious.
I first heard it back in the days when I was still on 56kbps modem and Clinton was facing his impeachment trial.

After so many years especially after the success of linux + wine, I don't think anyone needs a Windows NT clone. I know they share code/knowledge, there is just no practical reason to have a full clone of the NT kernel.

I'd further argue that Microsoft should stop developing its windows OS kernel altogether, running wsl2 on top of a boring windows kernel is never the solution. They should build Windows on top of the Linux kernel, I mean let Windows be a good Linux Window Manager.
> Like, my main problem is meeting women at all. Second main problem is impressing them enough to give me a chance to showcase my attractive qualities, which unlike my unattractive qualities, are not in plain view.

Going to the gym helps with both of these problems. The gym is a place you can meet people, being fit makes you more confident and makes it easier to meet people, and being fit gives you attractive qualities that are in plain view.
The option exists in C# / WPF, too, so not handling it and just blocking the main thread is bad programming.
>Will be an absolute boon for VR.

Ehhh... The latency would need to get lower than camera based systems but it might be useful to some degree.
You can't link Spotify to it? What does the voice assistant on a speaker do if not "Siri play Shooting Star by Bag Raiders"?

Surely you can link Apple Music?
Went to a better place, one hopes. Maybe one where he is appreciated, and not considered mad.
The argument would be sustainability I believe.
Ask HN: Can I work a part-time job to start a company?
I'm saving up as much as I could to quit my job and have enough runway to build something that I could fundraise for. However, I don't want to waste a year doing petty work on the startup.

Can I work a part time job (4 hr work day), making a bit of money and having more time for my startup? or is it as draining and challenging as a full-time job?

I'm a relationship manager at a commercial bank, what kind of part-time jobs can I get?
I use mine all the time and haven’t had these issues. Just the occasional Siri misunderstanding. My family loves it for playing music and a few other simple tasks like timers.
The timelines and numbers around Amazon blurry. I believe they are:

* Nov 14, 2022: 10k layoffs coming soon

* Jan 5, 2023: Correction. 18k layoffs coming soon

* Jan 18, 2023: 18k layoffs commence

The article headline seems to imply it’s a fresh round of 18k as opposed to the same we’ve known about.
Did you mean to include a query parameter with your link?

Such as: https://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=5921135
Wi-Fi Sensing can potentially enable identification of humans carrying _no_ devices.
Sorry but did you read the article? There were some clear examples in which the workers were subjected to this content.

"That month, Sama began pilot work for a separate project for OpenAI: collecting sexual and violent images—some of them illegal under U.S. law—to deliver to OpenAI"

"Sama delivered OpenAI a sample batch of 1,400 images. Some of those images were categorized as “C4”—OpenAI’s internal label denoting child sexual abuse—according to the document. Also included in the batch were “C3” images (including bestiality, rape, and sexual slavery,) and “V3” images depicting graphic detail of death, violence or serious physical injury, according to the billing document."
Plenty of profitable companies in Europe. It might be easier to become profitable in the US since you have less of a safety net, but that's a price US voters are willing to pay. Pointing to corrupt developing countries whenever socialized healthcare is brought up is disingenuous.
The web stuff on Spolight is one of the first things I turn off on any new Mac. Siri is disabled, suggestions from the web are disabled, spotlight is only allowed to look at apps and files, etc. My mac works wonderfully after so that it returns results of what I expect when searched. Search is a lot less hard when you restrain it to searching only what you care about.
"Temporary" plans are 1-12 months so you can buy ones that last until the next open enrollment, and if you're healthy you buy another (12 month) temporary plan. If you develop a condition you buy the regular plan.
No, you are misreading it. They cannot limit benefits due to your condition, but that doesn't mean that they have to cover treatment for your condition.

If you have a disease or syndrome, the treatments for that condition (whether pharmaceutical, outpatient, or inpatient) may simply not be on the list of benefits provided by the insurance plans offered.

It's legally distinct from, but analogous to, a nodiscrimination clause. They can't refuse to cover your mammogram (which they cover for everyone else) just because your initial diagnosis for Vamipiric Brain Syndrome occurred before your plan went into effect. But they can choose to say they they don't cover Nosferatudone for anyone (when Nosferatudone happens to be the only effective treatment for Vamipiric Brain Syndrome).

(There are, separately, certain treatments that all insurance plans must cover by law, although that's separate from the ACA, and it's a very limited set).
copilot not enough for you? why?
There are also numerous examples to show how many people have no understanding of what he/she is actually saying. Specifically so in programming. Code snippets created by human programmers are generally only more reliable than that created by copilot by a small margin. Human programmers rarely have deep insight into the code they write unlike mathematicians often having deep insight about their theories. The fact that programmers constantly create bugs is due to their lack of understanding of the code they wrote. The only way we can stay significantly ahead of AI code generators is to program with formal methods where deep insights are directly expressed in the code whose correctness are also guaranteed by compilers at the same time.
So have HomePods. What is them automatically noticing another HomePod and offering to setup a stereo pair.
Enter some weird cyber-defense suit which masks bodily movements when you sit still...
Rules of decision making, founder market fit, and more
Join me on this episode of The Technical Founder as we chat with Julianna Lamb - CTO of Stytch - and discuss what it's like to build a Unicorn.
That's what I get for making predictions!

What pronouncements do you mean? Who in the left is making them? What does it mean to cancel someone? I guess you mean things like a celebrity saying something unsavory and then a fan campaign on Twitter getting them written off of a show? I can't say how I understand that to have anything to do with political economy (except in that literally everything happening on the planet does) and definitely not the left.

Also, my understanding is that being written off of a show is on the harsher end of things that have been called "being cancelled". Most are really just instances where somebody has had something (or lots of things) mean written about them. By this measure, I was cancelled several times on LiveJournal in middle school, Nixon was cancelled repeatedly in hundreds of newspapers, and Ea-nasir was cancelled in a clay tablet in like 1700 BCE.

Anyway, this kind of stuff hardly seems to matter at all, and I can't find any way to connect it to leftism. Or do I misunderstand?
Yes. Windows could be a better wine than wine.
When I left Microsoft I believe the cost I was quoted for COBRA was thousands a month - not quite as much as my salary when I was working there but enough that it would have rapidly depleted my savings if I didn't find another job immediately.
Ask HN: We are doing customer survey for our upcoming product. Anyone up for it?
Many managers, HRs, and founders struggle with effectively communicating with their team, keeping track of work updates, and scheduling meetings. As a result, there is often a communication gap that leads to missed deadlines, low productivity, and a lack of team engagement.
grim reading. hopefully this won't become a wider trend in the sector.
> traumatized and scarred for life.

Scarred for life by reading/labeling text?
There is obviously a big difference between labelling pictures or video and text. I would be open to seeing an actually study, but my prior would be that text must be harmless. I would certainly be open to reading any text, especially if the context is that the text is for training purposes.
TFA: “at the time these workers were employed the minimum wage for a receptionist in Nairobi was $1.52 per hour.”

Also, they were labeling graphic and illegal (in the US) content including child porn.

Seems like paying them around the minimum wage for a receptionist is way way too low to me.
"Results showed a small, but significant advantage in response times for words written in a sans serif font."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20445911.2011.5...

"Sans serif, monospaced and roman font styles significantly improved the reading performance over serif, proportional and italic fonts."

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2513383.2513447

and here a whole book about that question

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53344
The point is to change the structure and try to address systemic problems, rather than putting on your blinders.
Coming soon, on-demand aging.
OMG my pal Mike and I went seriously down the rabbit hole doing this for DOS in the last 80s/early 90s. We went seriously, needlessly baroque and it was GLORIOUS.

My bash prompts have all been dead boring by comparison.
My initial hope was that this would be a front-end for latex.
Why would that make it less reversible? Honestly it's not like it was ever easy to reverse DNA damage. Reversing other kinds of damage might be harder, but unless you have more information it's not clear that it _must_ be.
New programmers can have their dark background when they’ve coded for long enough hours at night with a light background. It’s earned.
I only assume that one Kenyan is more representative than one westerner. I'd happily invite other Kenyans to comment their own perspective!
I'm not the parent commenter but I'm using Siri on my HomePod minis all the time. Turning on / off lights. Regulating the temperature, setting timers, asking for temperature outside, stopping the music.

Unfortunately Siri isn't that great so you'll often run into "Waiting for it", "One moment" and "Working on it" replies.
Competition between employers, I think.
I thought the linux equivalent was the terminal, you can launch programs, manage files, do math, write programs, connect to remote machines, it's pretty great.
Different genes are activated in different cells. That "gene expression" is done by the placement of particular molecules on different parts of the DNA. That's the epigenetics.

Those molecules can get out of place, and not line up correctly anymore. This research shows that that's a major cause of aging, and that it's possible to reverse it.
Why don’t they stick an Airport or Time Capsule in these things? Even with the pretty lousy Siri performance, I’d buy a couple of these if they could simultaneously solve my WiFi and backup needs.

I’m currently limping along with the latest gen Time Capsule and AirPort Express, hoping that Apple gets back in the game…
Could you elaborate? are you talking about something like MIT license? or something like 90s software where you get a key for an app?
While I've never used this particular keyboard, you may find it interesting. Split halves, with an option for a trackpoint on the right half:

https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/
Well what you need is more like an easily accessible source of low entropy.

You can substitute a big concentration of energy (the concentration part is important) to some extent. However the energy usage of a computer (the simplest example of a device that lowers entropy in a flexible way) is many orders of magnitude higher than the theoretical limit.

So I'm not entirely sure how many bits of entropy it takes to reverse ageing, but just the computational power required may release enough heat to melt a few cities. And that's before figuring out how to practically do anything (though arguably with enough computing power you can probably just do some advanced version of percussive maintenance).

Edit: Huh turns out the Landauer limit at room temperature is more or less the reciprocal of Avogadro's constant, so the theoretical limits could be within the realm of what's humanly possible. Still it means you probably need a couple of Watts per bit of information for each molecule, divided by however efficient the system processing the hundreds of zettabytes is.
except that candles don't just produce CO2, they produce soot and many other molecules which have been clearly associated with negative health outcomes.
I find myself to agree with both of you, depending on scope.

When it comes to me and my personal life, I do my best to find what I could be doing differently. I try to find the blame for my problems in myself, because it's the place I can actually make changes.

When thinking about policy or culture, it's the opposite; I seek systemic solutions and look to where there are systemic inefficiencies.

The reason for this fairly bipolar thinking is inertia; I'm only going to be around for so long and I don't have time to wait for the cruise liner of human society to change heading - so I get my run in on the deck. Then I go yell at the captain for getting us lost at sea.
A couple of years ago I seriously considered joining the federal police department in charge of dealing with internet crime here in Germany, so I've thought quite a bit about this topic.

Basically, it is a job that needs to be done in society, but one that is torturous, and can leave you with long-term or permanent problems. In essence though, it is not fundamentally different in the way a coal miner would jeopardize their physical health, just with mental health instead. This risk/possible damage should be rewarded with a higher wage, and adequate measures should be put in place to minimize the possible damage, eg. in the case of content moderation with access to therapy and only exposing employees to short intervals of traumatic content.

This is of course how things should be, in reality coal miners working environments only reached a decent level through unions and a long fight for better rights. Content moderators are not paid well anywhere either.
Yeah I found that part a bit opaque as well. What about alignment? Does it just use 4 byte integers but one bit is unused? Isn't that a much more clear way of putting it?
https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2817#comment-826636
All your cells have the same DNA but each cell type deactivated certain DNA regions that don’t apply to it.

The theory here is that as we age the cells epigenetics fuzz out, so that skin cells start to look a bit more like neurons and other cells and vice versa.
Did this happen when you have more than 5 microservices each one with its own database?
Maybe it was U1? There are too many apple chips that it is easy to confuse now.

I can't find anything on the page saying exactly which chip it is. Regardless it was a chip that was missing from the original but is in the Mini that made this feature work.

That would be awesome, I would love some feature that it could actually be room aware and knowing where devices are in that space instead of just relative to your phone when searching for an AirTag.

But I imagine that would likely require a workflow of mapping your space with your phone first.
I don't understand how it makes sense for PepsiCo to want consumers to think that way, because rectifying the fault would involve consumers purchasing less from PepsiCo.
Is there a tool for Linux that can do something similar? i.e. give you somewhere to start to debug random UI hangs?
Blind dates, and this is nothing to do with physical attractiveness, have in my experience been a disillusioning opportunity to find out how little my friends actually know me, to the point where I started refusing to go on them any more around 10 years ago.

I'm now fortunate enough to be getting married to a wonderful woman in a few weeks so (I hope) this will forever more be a non-issue, but I'd always rather get to know someone in a group setting if friends think we might click without the unnecessary pressure of it being a date.
A sane build system + package management solution for C++. I have to cobble it together via CMake + Conan every time and I'm praying I get put on a new Rust project someday, but my position and sizeable comp are mainly for being a "legacy janitor".
As a recent convert to Bitwarden from LastPass, I start to get a bit nervous when I see acquisitions happening. LastPass getting acquired was the beginning of the end for it, IMO, before stagnating into criminal negligence.

Granted this is Bitwarden acquiring rather than being acquired, but I still worry it leads to a trend of building "portfolio value" rather than focusing on the product. I sincerely hope I'm wrong.
Slightly offtopic, but I really find the Bitwarden Clients to be lacking in the feature department. I switched to Bitwarden a few month ago and the client has evolved (for me) ever since.

There are a few basic features missing, such as that if I search for something I wrote in the notes of password, that the client shows the according password. I get that the open-source model implies that everyone can contribute and fix this issue, but if I look at the repo and see 108 open PRs, I don't even bother to check if that's a feature that would be easy to add.
damn, even if you get big, death is still there
JPEG-XL's lossless mode has something called the "squeeze transform" which operates over the image data in 2D. It's a variation of the Haar Transform, which works on a similar principle as DCT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haar_wavelet#Haar_transform

It also has "meta-adaptive filters", which act similarly to PNG's filters except you get to encode a custom decision-tree that defines how pixels are filtered, as a function of their neighboring pixels
Yeah, I never really articulated it before, but Apple is a company with a history of emphasizing discoverability in interfaces. That maybe doesn't work quite as well for a voice interface.

OTOH, thinking of something to try and then being delighted it works (which is how I found the named timers) was a pretty cool experience.
I think what you are saying is that expiration is important. The reasoning "cryptography is razor sharp" is really hard to follow. Cryptography is precise, but what really would help people is understanding why expiration dates matter so much. Most people carry a driver's license, and have to renew it. We all know that nothing magically happened that day to change anything about the driver - so that expiration is bureaucratic. Why is the expiration date on a cert different?

The layers of bureaucracy is a barrier to adoption of better security practices, and is all of our problem because at some point, you are using someone's website or api that is insecure because someone had to get one more approval or get someone to click one more button and did not.
So if they enjoy math, they are as likely to enjoy actuarial finance as they are to like research into category theory or machine learning? If they are good at persuading others to side with them in arguments, they are as likely to enjoy patent law, criminal law, marketing, or politics?

There are some common skills, but all of these professions are extraordinarily different and require completely different aspects of those skills, and entirely different additional skills.
Graph Selector Syntax and Parser
I'm working on a DSL that allows for storing graph data (nodes, edges and attributes on them). Parser written in javascript. Let me know what you think!
That site is an amazing resource, thank you. I was having trouble finding a solitaire for my grandfather's new laptop