skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the PMC "we." Similar to the royal "we," except with more pleading.
I thought it was an upside down version of "the beatings will continue until morale improves."
Yes, I understood your argument. However, your brain does not primarily use head movement to judge location. It primarily uses interaural time difference. Head movement may have some effect (your brain is a neural network trained to use all signals available to it), but ITD is the main factor, at least for most people.

Moreover, it's not clear that 4 point sources of audio can accurately reproduce real-world effects for the purpose of head movements, either.
Yea, but those came about after I'd built the wrapper for quickly launching different profiles of either Chrome or FF.

FF containers are more work than the 2 clicks I do now, powered by some Python I wrote like 15 years ago (with minor maintenance).
Though the terms are used interchangeably, it is currently believed that psychopathy generally comes from genetic factors, such as parts of the brain not developing fully, while sociopathy results from an interruption in personality development by abuse or trauma in childhood. Sociopaths have less consistent behavior than psychopaths. Psychopaths are more controlled and charming. Their manipulation is more detached. They plan ahead. Sociopaths experience anxiety and find rage far harder to control, and they have a harder time assimilating. Inconsistencies between their words and their lives are often easier to detect.
Each customer feels differently, but to me what makes Amazon the go-to solution for most consumerist problems is it's logistics network, and how fast and reliable it became.

There were a couple of times where the time I had to wait between clicking "buy" and receiving the package on my doorstep was not measured in days but hours.

Amazon's logistics network has improved constantly. The shopping experience is getting better, not worse.

Sure, sometimes I can't spot the difference between Amazon and AliExpress. So many cheap, shady products with autogenerated brand names and obviously all from the same factory. Low quality stuff whose seller is eager to bribe you to not get a bad review after you return the item. Yes, that's a problem. But if you stick with Amazon-managed products you always get refunds.

And you know what? You also can decide to not go for the cheap stuff and buy things from reputable sellers.

So knock-offs are a problem but you can actually avoid those, and the ones you didn't you can always return them. And with Amazon's logistics, things get resolved in a few days.

It's a shame about exploiting every single worker though.
> The work of running, building, and maintaining the world we all inhabit must still be done

the magic that UBI proponents bank on is automation and increased productivity of the remaining workers. And also taxing the wealthy.
There are so many different ones already that one more doesn't matter very much. If you are a poor country getting rid of them matters, but UK is rich/important enough that plenty of companies will find it worthwhile to navigate and so they don't loose much. Poor countries are a small market and so if it hard to navigate companies will give up as there are not enough rich people there to be worth the effort, and so banding together means your rich are combined with the rich in other poor countries and so it is more likely that you have enough that it is worth navigating the regulations.

Don't get me wrong, Brexit was a bad thing. My reply is strictly about things that are made by large companies outside of Europe. Skip any of those qualifiers and things change.
Adults don't care about impressing their peers by and large, whereas teenagers/young adults are singularly obsessed with it. At least I decided to stop caring about making it seem like I wasn't boring and I'm happier for it.
I can’t replicate this. Maybe it’s because I’m logged into Google when I search?
From the same author that did Cosmopolitan C and... Occupy Wall Street?

Damn, I don't do enough things
Ah, yes. My journey has not ended in me being a millionaire, but I do okay.

https://joeldare.com/how-to-lose-money-with-25-years-of-fail...
Ask HN: Anyone else getting more SPAM pass through the Gmail filter?
In the past 24 hours, 4 obvious SPAM messages went to my inbox on Gmail. Anyone else seeing this?

Did they tweak the algorithm, or did a farm figure something out?
Big Tech groups disclose $10B in charges from job culls and cost cutting
Cloudflare is really transparant about things ( eg. outages).

Reality is that Cloudflare serves 60% of the internet and this issue popped up. They are checking it internally what happened, as I understand from jgrahamc.
The pictures of real groundhogs are all there in the individual profiles, it just turns out that half of them are stuffed.
Maybe the biggest beneficiary of AI will be lawyers.
That is incorrect. By default, it installs in the background and then displays the behaviour reported by GP. You probably have it set to not install before prompting you.
Suggesting that people are inherently boring and don't conform out of social pressure but rather the random chance of evolution?
YouTube’s livestream co-hosting feature is rolling out on iOS and Android
100% this. I would add that it's also hard to find an item being unique. When I search for let's say "Braun Alarm clock", I get the same item (so I guess? because it looks the same) 8 times. So which one should I buy? What's the difference?
I just can't be bothered to figure out the different sellers/prices/terms/delivery times etc for such a simple thing.

How do I know if one of the 8 Braun clocks that look the same has some 'extra feature'? So I got to read all descriptions which can be vastly different and hard to compare. This isn't easy and reliable ecommerce anymore. It's messy and frankly if I have to do all this research WITHIN Amazon I might as well extend the scope and do it OUTSIDE of Amazon as well.
It’s been a while since I’ve looked for alternatives, and I remember coming across Ice Weasel and similar forks in the past, but they had slow security updates. I will take a look at Librewolf.
Shout out to all the peeps who never left firefox, and recognized Chrome for what it was. A cynical grab for influence and surveillance dominance it was from the beginning. Chrome always offered technical and ui excellence in exchange for your soul. Personally googles motto "don't be evil" always made me sick because corporations are by their very nature psychopathic. Now their motto is "do the right thing", yes, right by the company. Let's all be clear about what going on here.
I’ll have to give it a shot on my next OpenBSD install!
> And that, my children, is why the world looks so boring.

If you conflate “the world” with “social media”, sure, I guess
Being there and studying it is very different. It wouldn't surprise you to discover that the authors of UNIX were there, would it? And yet, somehow, I believe that I know better than they do -- how comes?

You wouldn't believe it, but things often are easier to judge in hindsight, than when being involved with them...

> willfully

You pretend that I said that UNIX got into its position by being awful inside and out, but what I wrote is that it got into it's position despite being awful inside and out. In other words, you pretend to misunderstand me, and then argue with something I didn't say.
very hot take: I agree.
> It kind of shocked me because I thought of the office worker reading this who will soon lose her job

I'm surprised this wasn't addressed in the interview because it seems to me like a shortsighted take.

You won't replace a 10 person team today with 10 AIs. You will still have a 10 person team but orders of magnitude more productive because they will have AIs to rely on.

Excel didn't leave administrative workers without jobs, it made them more productive.
We had the same rule, and modified it to include type of games. Phone games have time limits, unless it's things like Dragonbox, flow free, or other "educational" games (at least games that require some kind of thinking) approved by us beforehand, including minecraft. Because 99.999% of games for children are just absolute trash stuffed full of ads.

Any PC game that is age appropriate gets a pass, but only if it's evening and we're inside already, or if it's really shitty outside.

As a non-tech person, the one thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to encourage 'tinkering' in an active way. So much technology today is meant to be set and forget. I had my oldest build a linux pc last year, and that seemed to pique his interest, but it was short lived, because so much is just apps and consumption with no backend. Even age appropriate apps for programming and learning about that sort of thing are very boxed in.
Deepfakes Are Becoming a Cottage Industry
I'm not intending to sound overly negative, I really hope he makes progress and think he has a chance (certainly more so than most). As someone who's been in the field for a long time though I constantly see people trivialise the problem of AGI and lose perspective, viewing everything as system design and architecture. Making the required conceptual contributions is a different thing entirely, but it seems his real goal might be the humbler one of scaling and integrating existing ideas.
Firefox, as well as every other browser on iOS, is as fast as Safari since they are all required to use the same WebKit rendering engine. That is, at least with regards to website rendering.
I try to be skeptical about new tech. But I honestly don't see GPT anything like Blockchain. Blockchain was always opposed by the establishment, it was a scrappy hacker thing trying to disrupt traditional finance. By contrast, GPT is born of the monopolies, and it has such immediately obvious applications.
Good sleep hygiene really is a prerequisite for this stuff.

I would recommend removing the phone from the bedroom entirely. If you want to use your phones alarm clock, make sure that no other notifications can come through during your scheduled sleep time and put it on the other side of the room (this also forces you to stand up in the morning because you can't turn off your alarm otherwise).

You say 'no books either', and I agree with it, a bedtime routine works best if the bed is only used for sleeping, but I had great success with first replacing my phone with my ereader and allowing myself to read as much as I want. And then later on I removed the ereader.
That was much easier than just removing the phone at once.
It dawns on me now that perhaps every market and every community is fated to suffer some variation of the Eternal September effect at some certain critical point of capturing majority market share. Every community that matures enough to have argued certain key topics will have decided with confidence on those topics and not kowtowing to the consensus will seem heretical -- the stagnation in some measure spells its doom, Google is thinking how to deal with an increasingly adversarial ground in which many know how to game it with sophisticated SEO thus rendering its main capability a little bit muted, sellers saw that Amazon was a dominant market and sought to exploit the rating system to their advantage, and the end-result is a market saturated with players who were adept at gaming the system.

The interesting flipside observation is that in each of these cases, we see the ground fertile then for a new approach to bud out -- a manifestation of Goodhart's law being consummate. New communities arise in the ashes of old ones, ChatGPT is maybe coming to displace Google in some places, what will take place of Amazon now that its rating system and reputation has tarnished?
I always think these announcements are about https://blink.sh/

I don’t know why it’s okay to steal product names like that.
1) HN is maybe one organism if you zoom out enough, but it consists of people with wildly different opinions, you'll have capitalists arguing with anarchists here, any post is bound to have both sides, no sides and every side, all on the same page 2) it's easier to complain about stuff, somehow. Not sure why, or if it's extra prominent on HN in particular, but people tend to start thinking "Why am I against this thing?" and then write their thoughts, rather than "Why do I like this thing?". Maybe it is more engagement to write something that can be challenged, and people like when others engage with them, so they start to implicitly learn to be that way.
The reason you cite is not why stock prices are lower. The reason is in the 3rd bullet:

> US stock futures were lower Friday as Wall Street feared a still-hot economy could give the Fed more room to hike rates.

And more detail on this further down the article.
The snake eats its own tail? This is why layoffs are imprecise, everyone starts pointing fingers. If the cloud cost reduction team only ever increased costs for 2-3 years... then there is a leadership problem for letting it continue. Otherwise the cloud cost reduction team probably was doing something else for leadership.
I want to begin typing a website's name, have firefox recognize it and indicate it to me, and press 'tab' to begin searching.

The lack of that single feature makes firefox unpleasant to use for me.
Methane is present throughout the troposphere -- it has an atmospheric lifetime of something over a decade and becomes well mixed. You'd want to release the chlorine in a sufficiently dilute and dispersed form that it didn't overwhelm the methane in the air it which it was released.
Right. It’s more of a fantasy where they don’t have to give up any of the things they enjoy about the world we inhabit, but the things they don’t enjoy (paying money and doing work) are shifted to the rich and robots.
Ask HN: What are some good YouTube channels providing analysis of world affairs?
I am interested in both news and non-news channels that provide balanced analysis of world affairs in politics, defence/security, finance, economics and technology.

Which channels would you recommend?
For me a good example have always been https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/ which rendered very poorly on Firefox. I see it's better now, but still, try to hover over the table (do couple of mouse movement, some circles or something) and see that it's not as responsive as Chrome is.

Another example is iD[0] Editor on https://www.openstreetmap.org/. But there, to be fair, it's also slow on Chrome but I feel it's a bit slower on Firefox.

[0] https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD
As someone with off the wall opinions— liberal opinions- it usually isn’t worth talking politics. Most laypeople also don’t understand politics well enough for discourse to be positive sum.
Interesting. It is possible I was lucky on items 9 times out of 10. What I seem to be having issue with is timely delivery on items since Covid despite having Prime. I was more strict about it before, but I made a dispensation for Covid since I didn't order that much anymore. FWIW, I am in Chicagoland, which has a hub that is close enough to me so I will admit that the whole situation baffles me sometimes, but I don't know what is really happening behind the scenes..
> I really don't think watching this kind of brain-melting content is healthy for anyone.

I spent two hours yesterday transfixed by the AI-generated Infinite Seinfeld stream. Afterward I felt the mental equivalent of the feeling you get after eating an entire tray of cookies in a single sitting. This algorithmic crap is brain poison.
well, there are worse ways to get by in life. After many years of software engineering, i no longer find the work i do that challenging or meaningful, it is just something to do to pay the bills.
I don’t think your view is all that privileged. I just simply disagree that poor people will spend money in any meaningful way in the meta verse.

I mean think this through, you can’t even pay for the basics of life like food and shelter, and you’re going to dump 25% of your spending on the meta verse?

I mean, I’m guessing you don’t yet have a family as once you do you’ll realize you’ll spend most of your money providing for them and not on virtual fun.
> The Commission is not aware of technical limitations to those devices developed by the industry to evade import duties.

Maybe they should read Hacker News.
I took a class from Saltzer in 2002 or 2003 and it was spectacular. A sort of survey-level runthrough of software architecture and system design. He seemed to really enjoy teaching it too.
UPS spends ~10x more on people than it spends on fuel. And Amazon seems to be doing far less per driver than other carriers. It’s nice that Amazon is saving money on fuel, but that isn’t going to save them… they have to figure out how to run a logistics company first.
I stopped after getting fake items. Yes, getting my money in return was fairly easy. But then I still needed to buy it from somewhere else and had wasted a few days.

And it's quite scary, as some of these items go on/into my body. Like cosmetics, toothpaste, whatever. Or are electronics that can catch fire, like a charger.

Add to that, I don't want to figure out which of 5000 different USB chargers is the best or the cheapest or not a scam. Just give me one I can trust. When I have to do that for every search, the mental load is too high and I just grab it from somewhere else.
There are many such guides out there with each covering slightly different things, this may be a good starting point https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox/Privacy
Definitely. I wouldn't mind a feature that makes it easy to locate a particular tab, though. Often I know I've got it open somewhere but I just can't find it, causing yet another duplicate tab.
This, my system architect friends, is the proper response.

Do NOT put all your eggs in 1 basket. Build redundancies and failovers so no 1 vendor can shutdown your business.
See my other post, but for many people, "do interesting things on weekends" is a fantasy for at least a specific period of their life that teens tend to comment/judge upon. You work 9-10 hours a day, you commute another 1-2, you pickup your kids after work/school and feed them and get them to bed; and weekend is about actually making connections with your kids and keeping them alive and healthy and taking them to their playdates and activities (not that you can't participate but THAT is not what'll make you seem cool to teenagers:), and then trying to catch up on stuff (impossible!) like fix up the leaky roof and vacuum the living room and wash the dishes and take car for maintenance and go to the doctor since your body is increasingly giving up and catch up with work because your kid was sick two days this week and maybe even get some sleep since your kids alternately wake up every bloody night at 1 3 5am to go potty / vomit / need water / are hungry / are scared / is it morning yet :D

I took 2 months unpaid paternity because I'm lucky and privileged that way, and let me tell you how much more interesting and outgoing and fun and exciting and involved I was :->
It’s a common fantasy that removing the 40 hours per week of work would cause individuals to suddenly become more outgoing, adventurous, and interesting, but if people aren’t already doing those interesting and outgoing things on the weekends then I don’t think they’d suddenly start doing more of them with the job removed.

When work is over aren't there still tasks and chores that need to be done? You're assuming that outside of work is all free time. Maybe I'm painting my house on the weekend, maybe I'm taking my kid to a doctor

The fantasy is that just because you work only 40 hours you should have enough free time to be interesting. I also want to accuse you of assuming your lifestyle translates to everyone
What makes you think they ever waged a war? I never saw any indication.
When you line up to check out, there are six lines side-by-side. The cashier signals you via a screen on the ceiling.

The WF on the UES only has two lines (and no screen).
That is horrible. I quite often click on embedded tweets and then end up spending more time on the site. It's literally a cheap lead in for ad exposure. Musk does not seem to understand how this whole Internet thing works.

"If Musk wants to know about money, I’ll tell him. She launched into a technical explanation of the ­company’s data-center efficiency, curious to see if he would follow along. Instead, he interrupted. “I was writing C programs in the ’90s,” he said dismissively. “I understand how ­computers work.”

https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover...
In beloved memory of n-gate?
> Requiring Manifest v3 has been indefinitely postponed.

From docs [1]: "As of January 17, 2022 the Chrome Web Store has stopped accepting new Manifest V2 extensions."

[1]: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/
User time is the amount of CPU time spent in user mode.
It is aggregated across threads. If you have 8 threads running at 100% in user mode for 1 second, that gives you 8s of user time.

Total CPU time in user mode will normally increase when you add more threads, unless you're getting perfect or better-than-perfect scaling.
Can’t it outsource math questions to a math model?
An interesting example of how the old English class system wasn't just about venal entrenched self-advantage. The upper classes of old really did feel a noblesse oblige, and were killed in the trenches at considerably higher rates in the trenches. Young men of high birth were expected to be officers, and to lead by example - a job that came with a life expectancy measured in days during the darkest hours of the first world war. One doubts if the present bearers of class privilege feel a similar sense of duty.
That's not what "novel" means.

> adjective: novel; new or unusual in an interesting way.
I don't think this is the own you think it might be.

Our oldest child's kindergarten class (at a very rural, poor school) was doing multiplication and division within the first month, because they all attended a pre-k that encouraged the use of educational games, like Prodigy for math.

Like everything, It's what is on the screen and how the child is using it and how involved the parents can be. Number blocks are the same way. They're a great way to learn basic reading and writing, if that's how the parents use it; they are also a great chew toy without some input from the parents.
As a seasoned engineer (compiler background), but beginner in frontend, I'm curious aboutthe lack of expressive power that Svelte incurs.

Could you (or someone) characterize things that are hard to do in Svelte?
Why would I want to hide a message beside a program?
Why would your living standards decrease? You are still valuable to companies, get a decent salary?

And if the living standards of a minor fraction of very well off people decrease and the living standard of many people increase, is that so bad?

Hypothetically, when someone is going from from say 100k to 90k salary per year and another from 0 to 10k of UBI, what has a bigger impact on someone's well-being do you estimate?

Of course it'll never be this clear cut, but for the sake of argument.
Biden Administration Report Recommends Sweeping Changes to Apple's Ecosystem
All of adult life seems like an elaborate status game to me.
Amazon Go stores are the same way - very bright and attractive, definite cool factor to no checkout, food is always fresh - but everything is overpriced and there usually more employees than customers. I usually see one person restocking and two people to answer questions and help with installing the Amazon Go app.

I only bought drinks there because they were the only thing not marked up ridiciously - plus every food item seemed to have quinoa in it and I am not a fan.