skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> for the safety of our community we may remove accounts that are closely associated with people who aren't allowed to use Airbnb.

Personally I find rule by condescending tech companies disgusting
It is not propaganda when it has been continuously ade repeatedly demonstrated, and is getting worse over the past decade. E.g., the Republicans had a memmber controlling the US House of Representatives in the last week who publicly spouts Qanon "theories" and claims that California wildfires have nothing to do with climate change but are actually caused by "Jewish Space Lasers". This is not some random fringe statehouse rep from an East Nowhere district, this is someone accepted into national party leadership. Another of the major R leaders is actively banning books in his state, and is a leading presidential candidate. The former President of the party propounded multiple anti-vaccination and unfounded, actually dangerous fake cures to a deadly pandemic. When he finally said something positive about vaccines at his rallies, he was roundly booed. The entire party and it's media are courting and herding anti-science.

There is no equivalency. The leaders are cynically broadcasting anti-science and pandering to anti-science stupidity. This is so bad that they are literally killing their own constituents by the hundreds of thousands [0][1]+++.

It is not demonization, it is literal truth. attempting to say otherwise is false equivalence.

[0] https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/study-finds-large-gap-in-...

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-in-republi...
Slowness of all kinds have the major goal for Matrix to fix in the last few months, they recently presented very impressive improvements at FOSDEM.

https://video.fosdem.org/2023/Janson/matrix20.mp4
RPGs were more expensive than other games due to a combination of high development cost, high cartridge cost (RPGs took a lot of ROM storage), and relatively small market (action games were more popular).
Raising wages _can_ increase inflation because the workers will use them to buy more goods, which might be supply limited.

But Japan's inflation problem is that they don't have enough of it, so that's fine…
Some organizations have tried to limit manager-bloat by offering an alternative track for ICs (senior-> staff -> principle -> whatever). But the expectations at those levels have been hard to define and individual output seems to plateau or even degrade back to 'senior' level or even less when these high ranking ICs are asked to join a plethora of meetings on behalf of the team.
The Cult of Self-Improvement
I'd argue ignoring how important home ownership is and will be in the future makes them dressed up NIMBYs given that they are already homeowners.
One thing I don’t get… I read blogs and articles for the experience I feel when I read them. There’s a look and feel to these sites.

Conversing with chatGPT is just giving me information and facts. I don’t see it replacing the experience of engaging with a website.
Guilds and unions aren’t in place to prevent nepotism, which is difficult to prevent and happens in all industries. Really, that’s just a network effect, albeit a bad one.

Labor organizations exist to turn disparate sources of a supply (labor) into a more monolithic source that can control some or all of the access to that supply, driving up the price, which is good the members. They may have controls in place to try to prevent nepotism or other bad hiring practices, but at the end of the day that can be a difficult problem to detect and prevent.
Yes, it is as safe as your local council decides, which in the US is somewhere between really unsafe and Mad Max.
And on the downside a malicious browser could ignore same origin policy and other security measures.
EverWind gets approval for North America's first green hydrogen facility
I disagree with your premise. I do T want the cheapest thing automatically, especially if, as it often is, the difference is crappiness is more than the difference in price.
I don't have a cite, but I saw a graph in the WSJ decades ago that laid "productivity" and "total worker compensation" on the same graph, and they neatly overlaid each other.

In any case, neglecting the value of employee benefits makes comparing salary to productivity a completely worthless statistic. What needs to be included are the values of:

1. health insurance

2. retirement benefits

3. stock options

4. so-called employer contributions

5. all payroll taxes

6. 401k employer contributions

7. stock purchase plans

8. sick leave

9. vacation

10. severance pay

11. bonuses

12. profit sharing

These can add up to 50% more than the salary.
Many native apps are better. Of course web people like to use web tech for everything. I like native mobile (kotlin/swift) a lot better for mobile dev.
Wasn't it only Ubisoft? The entire idea doesn't work, which most real game companies would've noticed. You can't just "add your items to a different game".
For years I sent a blank UA string. It worked surprisingly well until about 2010. Only real issue was some Tomcat servers would just barf out stack traces.

UA switcher is a pretty popular addon in the Mozilla ecosystem. So it may well be more popular than UA stats alone can surmise. (Though probably not enough to matter to businesses too lazy to test anything besides the top two.)
Agree. Only thing I want to add is that it's not just SEO ruining search, it's contradictory incentives. A user wants the quickest path to an answer but Google actually wants you to engage as long as possible so that you can look at ads.

If you'd now create a short/brief web page with the perfect answer to a particular question without any ads, Google would fully dismiss your page.

That's the tragedy of Google, never breaking away from that perversion.
Firefox is my default browser on Android for couple of years now. It supports uBlock Origin, and I cannot browse internet without it anymore. I don't have major trouble with it, except 1-2 cases per quarter, when it is faster to open Chrome than turn the ad blocking off and then back on.

Another case for Chrome for me is full page translation. It is very neat and mostly of decent quality.
Oh, absolutely agree. Some people really THRIVE when they become parents, and hooray for them. It’s different for everyone.
Isn’t that the entire purpose of being a manager? If I were just going to repeat the company line and not advocate for my team then I might as well be a rock.
> (in large part)

Cost of raw material going up (largely due to moving resource extraction away from slave labor) is a much bigger driver of inflation than wages. If 10% of a product's price is to pay for the overhead of personnel costs, a 10% wage increase only increases the price of the product 1%.
You’re not alone, but there’s a specific experience to participating in the launch buzz of a new AAA game, just like there is with a new blockbuster film.

Even if the buzz for the game or film turns sour, or you personally hate it, there’s something to enjoy in being a part of a big cultural event in your community. Each launch/opening is as much about the festival as much as it is about the product.

There will always be people willing to pay to attend that festival, and always companies willing to compete for the opportunity to host it.
Recently Japan is in the midst of a "camping boom", and car camping is quite popular. Whenever I visit highway rest stops in the early morning, there always seems to be at least one person/group sleeping in their car (easily identified by the covers they put over their windows for privacy and insulation). And a nearby campsite is always hopping on the weekends, during the temperate months at least. So I would say the general attitude is quite supportive in terms of infrastructure, laws, etc.

But yeah if folks are not well behaved, especially with regards to properly disposing of trash and human waste, it would not be well received.

Edit: For fun I just googled "キャンプブーム" (camp boom) and found this article calling it annoying, and complaining specifically about people with bad manners not keeping campsites clean, being noisy at night, and starting fires where they are prohibited [1]. Note this is more from the perspective of veteran campers complaining about newbs, and more directed at Japanese people rather than foreign visitors. But yeah maybe you are on to something.

[1] https://ramunecamp.com/campboom-uzai/
There is no US sales tax. You're thinking of state and local sales tax, which in most states (maybe all that charge a sales tax, I don't know) generally added on top of the sticker price. I wish it were included (when possible), because it can be frustrating -- especially to those of us who live in states that do not have a sales tax.
Been in that situation before too. Damn that sucks.
Now go tell a farmer he’s too lazy because he uses a tractor.
Factored in with translation costs (or god forbid an included manual) and it's crazy these things even made it to the US in the first place. No wonder NES/SNES RPGs are in such short supply.
Not legal advice. n=1

A colleague (infosec engineer) took a remote job. I told them to bake into the offer letter it was fully remote. Employer agreed after strongly pushing back, desperate for talent. Employer told them it was no longer remote. Employment attorney called their counsel by way of HR regarding the change in employment terms and constructive dismissal. Role remained remote. Financial services employer. Get it in writing, trust no one’s word, companies are not your friend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal
Yeah I have a family member with Samsung appliances. The microwave actually often runs for a moment after you close its door (when the microwave time has completed and you opened the door and got your item out, and then closed the door). The fridge is the worst-designed fridge I've ever used in my life. It's split vertically, and the icemaker/water-dispenser takes up a seriously large portion of the freezer side. It's mind-boggling. Half the cells on the LCD of the oven don't work. The oven light switches on and off repeatedly as you open the oven door. All of these appliances are a handful of years old...

Oh I have a Samsung monitor, and pretty much exactly at a year, it developed a problem where, if you turn it on after it was off for some time, it gets this really strange "displays nothing but weird clouds of blurred colours" effect. Exactly like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMoHEJaNd10 Sad stuff. Never buying another product from them again.
Purchase from worker owned co-ops, then you wouldn't have to worry about about where the money went.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Twin
They definitely don't literally owe us anything, but I think it becomes a question of company reputation. It's definitely going to make me think twice about jumping on any all-time-high hiring surges in the future at certain companies. As for "who are we as employees to say...", I think the answer is that to a large degree, we're the limited resource that gets to say what kind of hiring/firing practices we're willing to put up with. That's a bit diminished at this precise moment, but it's not gone. If you can command a $300k salary, you're in demand enough to be able to filter out companies that will treat you as seasonal work.
Citation needed.

Looking like notepad is not what you or whatever high-on-their-own-farts developers want. Looking consistent with all the other software on my computer is what I, and many others, want.

Sadly there are too many people like you in our industry so it will continue to suck.
Probably in the same way that companies go about determining it now: programming tests, certifications, diplomas, etc.
Reference types probably can’t be made non-billable by default as that would break too much. But

String! myString = “Definitely not null”;

doesn’t look too bad.

Edit: it’s worth saying that a lot of careful thought around compatibility goes into features like this. That means the core libraries should be able to transition to non-billable types where this is already a run time requirement, and existing compiled jars must continue to work.
I remember super NES games being 450F (french francs) back in the 90s, which would be around ~100€ nowadays. Ain't no games selling for that much.

A PS2 costed 3000F, which would be 640€ nowadays, so a lot more than the PS5's 550€.
It's fascinating as it seems like most modern problems are the result of wrong arguments being just more convincing. Like, they're. A virus well designed to exploit the most number of human logical fallacies and heuristics.
Speak of the devil, leaks are suggesting Nintendo is pricing the new Zelda at $69.99 https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1623119561846579200
the median income in the US is ~35k. 90k in a low cost of living city is a ton. Nationally 90k put you almost into the top 20%.
>teach something about how free markets work

Teach them about bailouts as well.

What should a teacher answer when someone makes the point that Boeing is the only airliner manufacturer in the country?
Many AAA games have microtransactions. Look at FIFA - a 60 dollar game, and for FUT, more money on packs. Apex Legends is a free example of a AAA game with microtransactions. Overwatch initially had cost and dropped it. COD MW2 is another example.

In any case that makes the argument even stronger - the fact that games are offered free, shows that raising the price isn't as profitable as making games with microtransactions and simply making them free. The revenues are simply in another stratosphere.
Those were always outliers. I don’t zoom had very many
The most interesting thing for me is that iOS Safari has said they will support push notifications this year.

And I get it, most of us don't like push notifications, and on the web even more so. But lack of push notification support is the one thing that was forcing a lot of developers from just doing a decent progressive web app and instead forcing them into the App Store. I'm interested to see the growth in PWAs once iOS finally supports web push.

And just to try to head off the "but native apps are better" arguments in advance: yes, they can be, but I hate having to download apps from a company that I'll have a very short-term relationship with (or sometimes even a longer relationship). E.g. I recall.going to a charity event and having to download a (pretty poor) app for their silent auction. Only reason it needed to be an app instead of a website was to send pushes about being outbid, the auction ending, etc
I still think I will read articles for the opinion of the writer, the vibe of the site, and the experience of reading an article. I don’t see chatGPT replacing this for me
Question: How is pgvector applied in this way different from and maybe superior to the PostgreSQL cube extension?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/cube.html

The cube datatype also stores arrays of numbers (cubes or vectors, same thing) and has functions/operators for computing distance. Granted, they're slightly different, with no direct substitute for cosine distance, but on the unit sphere the cosine distance, inner product, and Euclidean distance have direct correspondences.
Two engines down from three.

One to go until the next IE.
From what I have ever seen, even k3s has a reasonably heavy memory requirement for cheap vps instances, vs docker-compose. I think they target different markets.

e: I went to re-check, and running the default get.k3s.com install instructions had k3s using 30-35% of 1GB of memory, without anything running. Thats pretty meaningful on low resource machines like a RPI, NAS, $5/vps etc.

Also FWIW, Hashicorp Nomad uses ~3.5% on the same machine (but provides less than k3s, more than compose).
"The autobahn is a great example: it might be really fast, but how many pedestrians ever have to cross it? How many entrances and exists are you finding per mile?"

Even compared to US interstates, which have similar attributes, the fatality rate is lower.

"But compare this to, say, any of the deadliest roads in the US."

I haven't seen any with more than 4 lanes to cross. Even those have extensive traffic and pedestrian control signals. Do you have some examples?

"It's that too many American roads let you do at least 40"

I've crossed a few with similar speeds. I never felt unsafe though through the use of common sense and traffic/pedestrian controls. It seemed the safety was adequately designed. I'd like to see more info on the actual factors involved in pedestrian deaths. The one with the most attention seems to be alcoho, at about 50% prevalence.
For all the hype it seems pretty generic zombie show. I saw first 2 episodes and stopped.

The very fast and hard to kill zombie is just to much get over. They get infected manage to keep living and be in peak athletic form and some how don’t stop even after getting shot multiple times? Can only suspend belief so much when watching a show.

If HBO can rehash what has been done before and make money why do something better I guess.
Ok? that's why you have the option to disallow them!?
I for one use web-apps that I need notifications from, it's a crucial feature which Apple has sabotaged on purpose for no other reason than self-interest.

If you personally don't want to use a feature, that's fine, but you're putting out a statement like that as if no one should be allowed to use that feature because some devs tend to use it for spam. It just takes like 2 or 3 clicks to remove rights of notification from a specific app, so it's not a big deal either way.
If Google lets LaMDA out in the open, they will see their margins shrink. Lose-lose for Google. Great move by Microsoft.
For what it's worth, it's commonplace in Japan for new release domestic-made games to sell for upwards of 20,000 to 30,000 JPY (roughly $200~$300) USD depending on how much premium flair is tacked on; even base games going upwards of 15,000 JPY (roughly ~$150 USD).

On the one hand they are expensive compared to standard western fare, but on the other they do look more representative of the kind of money game devs should be getting.
I mean you don’t lay off your kids during tough times so anyone who bought into that was a fool anyway
That's a misconception of the open source dynamics. You can't just fork a Google-backed project and expect people to follow you.
They dont need to make up a reason. No longer liking the terms of the contract is a perfectly valid and legal reason to end it.

Most employment contracts all either party to terminate at any time.
I interviewed for FB once and I don’t believe this is the case there. I was told the comp levels ran parallel for ICs and Managers. They do value their ICs it seems. This was one of the main reasons I was interested in working for them. You can see it on levels.fyi
Once Turkiye's best mobile network (Turkcell) introduced a drone cell tower (never has been used, I think because of battery issues?):

https://www.telecomsinfrastructure.com/2019/07/dronecell-tur...
> You mean like that employee Justin Moore that was fired by Google after 16 years throuhg an automated e-mail? [0]

He was laid off with six months severance and I expect they'll ask him to come back after that's over.
They’re definitely not the OG. Anyone remember Skype before Microsoft mothballed them?
> Credentials are not encrypted at rest and stored in plain text

LOL. Advertising something as a security product and doing this is absolutely ridiculous.
The horror. What's this world coming to.
Agree with all of this. It's a lesson to all of us that when looking at a prospective job, we should be cognizant of whether that company has had massive increases in number of employees lately, and whether that company is one of the ones that has a tendency to do massive hiring followed by massive layoffs.
Median household income in the US is 70k. 90k income for an individual isn't shit for any city let alone lower cost ones.
Only because webkit sucks.
KDE nowadays is buggy as hell and quite a lot overrated as a desktop environment, it has bugs everywhere in its main components: Plasma, Dolphin, Kwin. And that's just the X11 version.

The Wayland Plasma thing isn't really as mature software as you could say about Gnome and other Wayland software.

Somewhere in the dev community behind KDE most devs are chasing shinny new things and apparently won't botter to debug spagetti legacy code (the stuff behind 80% of the desktop environment), so serious bugs are a daily thing, even more after upgrades, because of regressions everywhere.

KDE 5.xx (and probably 6.xx, because it is mostly 5.xx code), IMHO is quite now on pair with the infamous version 4 (buggy as hell as well).

The "easy no memory" thing isn't quite right neither, IF the apps, components, whatever run without bugs - unlikely, even for common use cases - that will happen, but more often than not, you'll find your CPU/RAM in really bad shape because some misterious thing - KDE component, library, even the window manager itself - it just has failed somehow.

Or maybe your KDE just freezes over, out of the blue, because no good reason, Plasma could just dissappear in the middle of a rutine desktop task (closing/opening a video, taking a look at the preview window in the panel, etc.).

so, you could take this words as a rant, their not. They're just experience of maybe the last two, three years with KDE. And boy, lots of users could write the very same things.
It sounds like your specimen road is out of code/guidelines.

If you want to do something about it you can lobby for a traffic study
>the best managers I've worked with were not good ICs

Reminds me of baseball. Many of the best managers weren't the best when they were players. Some never even made it to the major leagues. But as a manager/coach they're incredibly well-regarded.
Yeah, I dunno why I let it happen either.

I’d never been like that with any other job. My only guess is the explanation I gave in my other post above/below.

It certainly hasn’t happened since or ever will again, you can be sure of that.

Noone ever goes to there grave saying “If only I’d spent more time at work!”
You can write Web apps. The Web is a fully capable platform.
If the studio has a contract with one of the guilds in Hollywood, the labor is still covered regardless of geographic location. Georgia has a LOT of tax breaks for film production costs which is what makes it attractive for studios.
Not if you have an ASN.1 compiler and library, but otherwise yes.

OpenSSL has hand-coded templates that correspond to ASN.1 modules for PKIX. That hand-coding can have mistakes, but otherwise the OpenSSL template system is pretty solid. Here we had a mistake in that hand-coding. If they had an ASN.1 compiler then that wouldn't have happened because they could have just compiled the modules from RFC 5280.
What politician says they're an advocate for DEI statements in university hiring?
My ideal (new) Switch 2 (U) would be taking advantage of AMDs mobile APUs but I think they're hamstrung with backwards ARM compatibility with how good the Switches library is.
> flooding that occurred when the seas rose after the end of the last glaciation

The planet did this one to itself.
explains why so few people are becoming teachers