skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>. The fishing industry doesn't take that care over next years stock.

Many nations do exactly that for fisheries within their territorial waters.
I clearly stated in my comment that I was supporting the use of face masks.
>I don't want to be callous towards the abuelitas and students and remote-working

but their suffering is a sacrifice you are willing to make for the good of our blessed tax authorities.
I think you would benefit from an "Introduction to Computer Networks" type class

It will teach you what a switch and a router do, the difference between LANs and WANs, what DHCP and DNS do. The different ISO/OSI layers involve, TCP vs UDP.

Then you'll be able to setup a home network without issues, because you'll know the different moving pieces and how they fit together.

This is a textbook that's used in such classes

https://intronetworks.cs.luc.edu/current2/html/

From the syllabus, this Coursera class looks OK:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/computer-networking
Big tech is largely staffed by people they "imported" for the job (don't mean that in a bad way, as it includes me).

Why pay to get H1B and shipping for someone from India when you can just hire that same person in place and not only save on that, but also salary?

Offshoring in my experience does not usually work on an individual basis.
People literally get fired everyday with EEOC claims. In fact it’s quite the opposite. Most people who file EEOC claims lose their job.

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2021/07/63-workers-who-fil...
I took that as being their joke.
You aren't a true believer in science, are you? I bet you have a STEM degree or two, you naughty heretic.
I grew up in the Netherlands as a "niet-Westers allochtoon", with 2 (not "functionally" but utterly) illiterate parents. I have spent significant shares of my life in both the bottom and top quintiles of the income distribution, and I still have friends in both segments today (including one who is currently waiting for compensation in the Toeslagenaffaire). I think I can claim a broader perspective on this issue than most posters here.
Is it? Presumably said person was a tax paying citizen that had paid more than their share throughout their life, the same goes for the children. How would it be a colossal misuse of government funds for people to get what they paid for?
Seattle would be a better choice—still a relatively high cost of living but no state income tax yet.
Thread Hijack:

Is there a capable alternative to Microsoft's Outlook client, that has good translation of emails built in? This is for Windows.

Outlook is so slow, and it opens a small side pane for translation. It has a horrible UI.
This was the sense I got as well, though I have only started playing w/ Meilisearch. Clustering was one of the top 3 features that let Elasticsearch take over the market so quickly. In the playing around w/ Meilisearch I've done, it seems more like a replacement for something like Sphinx so far.
> there will be less ads being displayed

The top minds of the world are working on delivering you ads, I wouldn't be so sure
Why not deliver freshly roasted beans after it has aired for 2 days, but before 2 weeks pass. With Specialty beans then you can allow the office to brew their own coffee on the spot.
dear Mozilla, no matter what you do to the UI, it will not make the general population interested in your products. you're just pissing your Google cash away while also pissing off the only userbase you have - powerusers
I think they will be, eventually, but have a fair way to go on the accuracy front first.
I feel like I should take a shower after I watch a Peter Hotez interview. I'd probably do the opposite of whatever he said just based on the vibe I get from him.

Science is just a rigorous process for the investigation of natural phenomena. I have no problem with that, for the record.
They deserve the same opportunity. They have already been unjustly denied it by the time they reach university, and no amount of pretending their B+ is as good as someone else's A+ is going to undo that. University slots are scarce, and therefore giving a spot to one person means taking it from another. Jim doesn't get to take Steve's first place sprint trophy just because Jim's chainsmoking stepdad diminished his lung capacity.
Nothing.

Some critics of Hotez are antisemites. Therefore according to the principles of guilt by association, critics of scientism are generally antisemites. It follows that it is all hatespeech worthy of censorship.

https://jonathanturley.org/2021/08/04/baylor-professor-calls...

>Baylor Professor Calls for Prosecution of Criticism of Fauci and Other Scientists as Hate Crime

>Yet, what is healthy debate to some is criminal dissent to others. Dr. Peter Hotez, a professor of pediatrics and molecular virology at Baylor College of Medicine is calling for federal hate-crime protections to be extended to cover criticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci and other scientists.
If it's so good, why arent you still working there?
I don't think the comment is claiming the layoffs are a bad idea per se, it is merely claiming the cited reason is disingenuous.
We opened a package of over 4000 ladybugs in our kitchen...

Point is, the bad ideas can always be worse ＼ ( ^ o ^ ) ／
Depends on how complicated the branches are. One solution to branching on GPUs is to compute every branch, which is only a constant-time increase in computation. I find it hard to believe there are many cases where n^2 would be faster than lg(n) for large n.
Authenticating with AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory and LDAP (2020)
Don’t mistake the fallibility of chatgpt for a problem with the entire field. It would be like saying transistors don’t have much of a future because they are too big to fit many in a device.

The Bing openai integration is already dramatically different and better than chatgpt. I’d really advise trying it before forming too many opinions. Certainly don’t mistake any experience you have with chatgpt as indicative.
Only high value species are interesting for the cultivated meat indsutry. The overwhelming majority of salmon is farmed, especially atlantic salmon [1, page 17]. Yellowtail tuna is increasinly farmed as well, but sure wild stocks of tuna are still getting depleted.

Eating chicken or some other meat is not better than eating fish.

1: https://mowi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2022-Salmon-Indu...
They should've had in the casting call, a role for a woman in a sandwich-board sign, on it printed directions to the theater's fire exits. She stands at stage left for the entire performance, and has no lines, requiring no additions or subtractions to Beckett's work.
> Unfortunately it's not that simple. It usually turns out that these lower paid employees are significantly worse,

But it's literally the exact same people, in this case. Big tech currently pays to move them to the US, and then pays them higher salary.

That is very different from spinning up a department in India.
I've used Thunderbird Portable for years to backup my Google Workspace email. Prior to that it was my primary email client. Really hope it survives and thrives, I could care less how it looks.
> if you extrapolate this out several decades then you end up with companies far less competitive on the global scale

Just look at how Google is doing lately...
It seems it's better to be a SaaS provider than a SaaS user. I'm curious how the pendulum will swing as this all plays out.
It's a bit of a curse though, isn't it? If a language becomes popular enough rather than something used only by enthusiasts, then all sorts of crap will appear?

Now there are other issues other than popularity (like you can expect anything written in JavaScript/Python/Java to have a higher probability of a bloated mess, not only because they're popular...).
Modern heat pumps are rated to about -15F.

In Fort McMurray, a large-ish city in northern Alberta, the average low temperature in the coldest month (January) is -7F. The average low temperature is below -15F about 15 days a year on average. That means you’re really using your heat pump for a huge percent of the time.
> The curse: coordinating efforts across a volunteer community was challenging…

> …Since Thunderbird was being contributed to by many volunteer contributors with varying tastes, it resulted in an Inconsistent user interface without a coherent user experience.

Brooks' "The Mythical Man-Month" really never stops giving.

You don't actually get more efficient by moving to a giant decentralized volunteer engineering workforce -- someone has to coordinate all that, or else what you're going to get is a mess, both under the hood and in what is visible. And coordinating all that is hard and resource-intensive, the more so the _more_ developers involved.

Some open source projects manage to do that coordination with a decentralized volunteer coordinating staff (although in many cases, it's not truly "volunteer", it's people being paid by various employers collaborating across organizations/employers -- this was in fact most of original open source success stories). But it's not easy. And requires stability and tenure in that decentralized coordinating staff, to hold the vision, and to have the relationships to work together in a unified way. (A "benevolent dictator" is another way to do it).

The hardest part of developing software that is too much for one person to do by themselves (and that one person never leaves), is always the inter-personal communication, coordination, and shared-mental-model-making-and-sharing, not the coding.

So anyway, without being involved in Thunderbird at all, I totally believe this story, and that bringing it back into an organization of paid employees as a core was necessary to prevent complete disintegration (I mean, other organizational solutions are possible too, but they are all even more challenging, this is the simplest), because... that's how it works.
Kind of a useless comment, but you absolutely should. You'll have no regrets, and probably play with it more than they will!
The Bing Chat answers are traceable. Look at the demo.
Down with the Platform, Up with Developer Enablement
bash -c "" # to run some bash inline

or just

bash -l # to jump to a bash shell

And that's not really a deadline issue. Sounds more of a planning one or an issue of not knowing your tools.
Merit is orthogonal to religion, and not the same thing as opportunity. Everyone deserves an opportunity. Merit is earned.

If you expand that question a bit to include a concrete scenario, the problem quickly becomes apparent:

“Are people who had no choice but to be indoctrinated that pianos are evil less deserving of the award for best emerging pianist?”

That question would depend entirely on whether or not that person learned to play the piano at an advanced level.

We might marvel that someone with such early beliefs about pianos could overcome those beliefs (and this might even increase “merit” in the minds of some), but at no point does it make sense to invert the argument and conclude that children of the anti-piano cult are any more or less deserving of the award regardless of whether or not they ever pursued piano. It’s simply an irrelevant point.

We might draw other conclusions like: anti-piano cults threaten equal opportunity, because they lead some to believe that they shouldn’t try the piano to begin with.

Meritocracy is an equalizing force in that it allows people from all backgrounds to reach success regardless of background. I never finished a degree, but still acquired the skills to succeed, got accepted by a major employer and that’s all that matters. Meritocracy is the thing that actually allowed me to succeed despite my upbringing.

Breaking out of the bubble to begin with is a separate problem entirely, and one that still needs solving.
Why do you need to bring minority into this? Why should a poor white person not get the same help. Why should a rich minority get extra help?

What is it about being a minority that is important?
To elaborate on "piping object instead of a string" Powershell just has lots of quality-of-life features. I think the fundamental problem these days with the shell "do one thing and do it well" concept is that nothing in traditional posix outputs structured data, so every single command and script is a mess of cobbled-together ad hoc parsers and sorters. In Powershell all the builtins emit structured data so there's no need to, for example, write a regex to parse out the mtime of a file. You just do `$file.LastWriteTime`.
exactly!!! yes they are. for thumbnails im using webP which achieves much better compression than the more standard png (like 10:1) which enables us to do a lot more with them. and when navigating fullsize photos, using some intelligent preloading so we never bog out :D

i'll try to get some initial commits pushed up soon. u can follow me here, the project is called montage (open to suggestions on name too lol):

https://github.com/conceptualspace
Is this a completely 'off-line' tool or do does it need some kind of connection to a central server? Does it send any of your data over the network or does all your information remain local (i.e. private)?
This is a perfect example of the popular view on here, and in my humble naive opinion it’s completely mistaken. The point isn’t “can an LLM replace google” the point is “can robots that can speak English and use logic improve the search experience” which I think basically everyone would answer “yes” to. Complaining that it gets stuff wrong when not hooked up to a web of resources to cite is, IMO, completely missing the point.

Also OP (not so much you) is way too caught up in the “chat” aspect - that is the first exciting UX that got popular, but these are much, much more than chatbots. Pretending that they’re human/conscious/in a conversation is fun, but having an invisible partner that knows you and tailors your search results… that’s powerful.

For example, you’ll never have to add “Reddit” again, or at least you’ll only have to tell it once. An LLM can easily identify the kind of questions where you want forum posts, read thousands of posts in a second, summarize all their content, and label each link with other information that helps you decide which threads to read in full.

I can’t wait!
Mean is meaningless. What's the minimum?
They're giving a broad time frame for recession to hit, and they keep moving it back, so eventually they will necessarily be right. In other words, they make predictions that are so vague, they necessarily can't be wrong. This is why their predictions are useless.
I had an issue with Apple Mail taking too much disk space, since it used to download....a lot of mail. Has this been fixed?
Oh no I'm fully aware of the economics of fueling the culture war, but that makes it even more unethical because they're trying to directly profit from destroying the lives of others. It's sociopathic, though sociopathy and wealth seem to be somewhat correlated.
I am quite aware of that.
You're forgetting there's still a huge percentage of people that think suicide is immoral and won't do it.
Was it not centralized in Canada?
thanks for sharing, looks similar to https://www.taskpaper.com/ which is mac only
The above post kindoff answers this. If the religion makes the persuit of learning certain things meaningless, then eventually you will find that the people who adopted that worldview are less capable in those things, than those who didn't.
> flintlock musket era of propaganda to automatic weapons

Can't wait for the AI propaganda era. The other day on Twitter someone was calling out a protest photo in which a cop's globe had the characteristic six fingers of an AI-hallucinated photo.

We can now manufacture "proof" with photos and audio - and soon video - of anything we want! Isn't this great?
A lot of what I saw in the demo video looks like workflowy.com with a slightly different UI on it. It feels a little faster than workflowy, so that's definitely a bonus.
>By this I mean that they seem to actively resist the idea that they need to learn the language to get the most out of it.

That wouldn't be the case if shell was actively resistant to learning it.

First due to the varieties (different shells, POSIX vs additions, GNU vs UNIX/BSD versions, etc).

Second due to the huge non-consistency between app flags, switches, and other aspects, which are essential part of the shell experience. The whole set (POSIX command line userland + shell) was never designed as a coherent whole.

Third due to incredibly bad design of certain shell language aspects and historical cruft, that could very well be improved upon, but will never for compatibility reasons (or will, but in a new shell).

Add to that, that unlike "any other programming language" shell is mostly useful for quick one-offs and any of the myriads of syntax/gotcha/option you've learned from writing a quick command line or script you'll need to lookup time and again (because you've forgotten it after weeks or months later when you need it again).
So? It's not unusual for large donors to become an honorary chair of a company. VCs get this privilege oftentimes.

There is literally nothing in the OpenAI announcement that he's a founder. Websites like Wired and Buzzfeed ran with it because people would shrug if the story went that the founders are Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba. Who? No it can't be them, it's Elon Elon!#
FTA, Iger's goal is the "return [of] creativity to the center of the company."
Whatever the first site that popped up on Google was lied to me :(

Anyway that just makes my point even stronger.
> Google offers quotes

Today it almost exclusively offers quotes from content marketing intended to sell you something. It's like trying to learn by reading the ads in a catalog.
If they are looking for paths going forward, I hope they investigate what PopOS is doing with rust (COSMIC) [0] and Iced [1] (cross platform ui library).

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Desktop-Iced-Toolkit

[1] https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
How did I insult this guy?
I'm pretty sure that it's not. It's probably useful as a knowledge engine, but not a search engine.
They can always use AI based solutions to unblur the JPEG, like this: https://twitter.com/maxhkw/status/1373063086282739715
I'm not sure that's quite true. I like many others are by no way a Bash expert, and will generally reach for Python if I have to build anything of reasonable complexity.

I (and many, many like me) have however had enough Bash exposure to do day to day maintenance on Bash scripts.
I researched this recently for a dinner party. Naan is usually whole wheat and leavened with yogurt or yeast. Kulcha is made with refined white flour and if leavened, usually with sodium bicarbonate. However, you can find plenty of recipes that break these categories.
> I've now got a small Pi cluster running k8s to deliver a bunch of services at home, and its all really easy to maintain. I've absolutely used the skills and knowledge gained in my day job too, which is nice.

I'm reasonably sure that being able to talk about my home k3s-on-pi's cluster was a positive factor in getting my latest job :)
Well said.

Almost every CEO that uses this line is essentially trying to avoid saying “we foolishly overhired during 2021 and are correcting for that”.

Saying that would mean the CEO is admitting that they made a misguided decision.
> No one other than lawyers or lawyer accessories is going to represent the company to the domain owner about it, though.

Of course. Here's the plausible chain of events:

1. Someone at the co. reads about this on HN
2. They tell their boss who might tell their boss, etc.
3. It finally gets to someone who is responsible for telling the lawyers. But they also say "hey this is kind of cool. We'll send a C&D, but maybe reach out to see if there's anything interesting there."
Exactly.

My own pet theory about this round of layoffs is as follows. The tech companies spent 2021 massively over-estimating the value of boot camp folks and new grads. They spent 2022 learning a tough lesson. I saw this first hand. So much lost time mentoring low-quality hires.

Now they will spend 2023 massively underestimating the value of their senior folks (10+ yoe engineers, scientists with deep domain expertise, experienced people managers, etc.). The problem in 2024-2026 will be that experienced engineers/managers and PhDs who know how to operate well in industry do not grow on trees. Fixing that mistake is going to be a LOT harder than firing a bunch of junior engineers. It may take a decade or longer, and I think the burnt bridges could even be existential for at least one of the FAANGs. (I also bet you'll guess a different one than me, so maybe more than one ;-))

Also: the alternative is not just startups. Smaller companies, sole props, and of course also skiing.

I am getting very close to that "~10 years to infinity" number in my accounts. I might do a startup, probably self-funded, likely keep it small. I know who my first 5 customers will be, the work will be fun, I know I can execute well. Doing this at a FAANG would require pulling in 20+ full timers for a year before shipping our first line of code. Totally not worth the ridiculous pageantry when I can do it on my own or with 1-2 helping hands.

I'll be making a tiny fraction of what I make today, but the work will be enjoyable and I'll be building what I've wanted to build for the last ten years. Also, I will own the damn thing, which is much more tax-efficient than taking a few years of massive paychecks, and that's something I am more sensitive to now that my money is making so much money. If I were laid off today, I'd need at least double my current comp to return to a FAANG. And even then probably wouldn't.
Tipping Is Spreading and It Sucks
Bing AI Rules and Limitations
Allen Carr - Smart Phone Dumb Phone.

Ps. Therapy
If you're really asking in good faith, write me 3 paragraphs on whether or not you agree with my statement.
>Posts about actual oddities (DateTime)

You mean local time zone? Just use UTC everywhere, nothing else will ever work no matter how you design it. DateTimeOffset miiight work too, but you'll extract UTC from it to do anything meaningful anyway, so it may as well be UTC all the way down.
Well "joke" may not exactly be the right word since it's not actually funny, so how about "satire"? The point is, it's definitely not REAL.
You might find this interesting to add functionality to this website: it's a JavaScript version our commercial PDF tools, and can run entirely in the browser. It's AGPL, so you wouldn't need a commercial license for your use case, so long as you release your source, as you say you plan to in another comment:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/coherentpdf
I bought a Netgear WAX218 a few months back for around $100... but a quick look around shows that either the price has gone up significantly or they're not making them anymore? Well, if you manage to find one for a decent price, I highly recommend it.
Yet unemployment is at the lowest levels. So the economy is doing just fine.
I am repeatedly surprised that in Germany some vocal antisemitics are black. (Not so many but everything above 0 is just surprising)
I don't think the top comments was especially insightful, but let's not pretend that in some cases 'text on website' consists of exhortations to and instructions for violence. There is a non-negligible number of people who fantasize on the regular about widespread hangings of people they believe to be traitors. You can go on Twitter right now and find plenty of people tweeting about their desire to 'hang Fauci' just in the last week.
Unfortunately, that's entirely analog. my goal was to do digital computing- with all the reliability and predictability.