skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea if it's a good or bad thing. Having single engine for a web developer is a good thing. Having no competition is a bad thing. Having engine controlled by a greedy ad-driven corporation is a bad thing. Blink is open source and theoretically could be forked by anyone, so that's a good thing. Blink is the most advanced engine, so that's a good thing.

It's better than IE situation, that's for sure.
It's a greater kind of tyranny to monopolize land use and build walls to block the free association of people, and limit what a person can do with their own land.
> "Science" has a special status, and that has been abused to push religious belief ("science tells us").

This is less the fault of scientists and more the fault of science writers in the media. This should not be a part of the debate when it comes to public policy like this.

What he's saying:

> The legislation’s sponsor says by banning scientific theories, the policy aims to prevent kids from being taught things that aren’t true.

Is a talking point from the Creationist playbook. I wouldn't be surprised if evolution and biology was the only impacted curriculum. It of course is based on the (intentional) misunderstanding of what is meant in casual English as a "Theory" (i.e. an unproven hypothesis) versus what is referred to in scientific lingo as a "Theory" (i.e. the accepted model of how things work, because it makes excellent predictions).

These people need to have this explained to them in a public forum, and forced to explain why they insist on pushing an incorrect view of the issue.
The tech industry begs to differ
That specific example is spatial, though. Assuming left to right writing, "next" is on the "forward" side, and "back" on the "back" side.
Rebuttal

https://aninjusticemag.com/are-50-of-trans-women-in-prison-s...

Largely the point being that this sample would only include prisoners with serious long punishment crimes, like sex crimes. It’s hardly a random sample.

Probability of sex crime given you’re in prison for a serious crime is not a reliable indicator of baseline probability of a sex crime.
If it means average latency is 100ms instead of 1s or whatever the huge GPT model can currently serve to millions of content users, that matters a lot for search.
> All of these institutions have a vested interest in making a PR disaster go away.

This is true, but they do have counter pressure from the risk of lawsuits, and conservative donors. No university is lightly getting rid of a high-profile researcher who has brought in a ton of money. They may conclude that it’s worth it but I’m certain a lot of people debated what to do internally first.

> To contrast, billionaires assume that they are going to get a return. If they believe that the money is going to all be wasted because the principal is a skirt chasing horndog, they are not going to invest.

Perhaps, but consider that the return might be something hard to quantify. For someone at Bill Ackman‘a net worth this kind of money is like someone here giving someone an iPad. If you had a personal or philosophical interest, that’s a gamble but not a big one and I’m sure he’s going to find a tax advantageous way for his foundation even if it’s otherwise a bust.

Now, I don’t know the guy so I can’t say whether he’s guilty and that’s what the legal process is for in any case but I will note that so far there seems to be a much greater number of guys who actually did the things they were accused of than who were falsely accused. The career risk and difficulty of reporting harassment has a strong disincentive.
I work in the insurance biz and we generally don't want to be nimble and follow best practices. That sounds crazy right? Well, best practices change over time, and fads (at least in IT if not all types of mgmt.) are far too common.

Our team has a motto of "avoiding the cutting edge" because we don't want to bleed. We still have mainframes, because the cost of migration is prohibitive. We largely host on-prem though we have some initiatives to see how the various clouds might work for us. But these initiatives have been going on for 5-6 years. Mostly because our CTO doesn't want to miss out on the cool things.

We generally don't do layoffs, 2008 was the first time in the company's history, and that was like .005% of our company staff. We're very conservative, and when you have ten figures under management, you need to be.
Based upon the statement of one of the sponsors, the intent seems to be to not allow the teaching of very well supported scientific theories that fly in the face of religion.
I think it's so funny how almost all new housing is incredibly ugly. You could convert a lot of NIMBYs to MIMBYs (Maybe In My Back Yard) if developers picked a style to build other than "box with cheap siding that juts right up to the edge of the lot".

I am aware that many currently-loved styles were considered atrocious when they were invented, and I direct your attention to the thousands of disgusting strip malls, regular malls, and faux-brutalist office buildings from the 50s-70s that the public is at best apathetic towards as proof that simply because some styles became loved, not all styles will do so.
If people want absolute control over the land in their town, they can buy the land and put a fence around it.
That’s why open source is so nice right?
Way more than fifteen years. They’ve been $59.99 at least since the nineties.
> Why? Games are easier to develop today than they’ve ever been. The only class of game that can push the $69.99 envelope are those making AAA games.

Nobody is selling indie games for $60/$69.99 (except maybe physical releases to cover manufacturing costs, and collectors edition type stuff).

The barrier for entry may be lower, but AAA game development costs are massively higher now than they were ~10+ years ago.
Those who considered this are close to inept on what goes into controlling traffic flow in various cities. Even if this draft of an idea was given consideration to move to the next phase, even school kids could work out the cost involved is totally prohibitive to install such a system and place safeguards that the new traffic system isn't abused.
Given how quickly they were deleted, it’s almost certainly AutoModerator. Either Samsung configured AutoModerator to require manual approval on all questions — and they just only approved ones they intended to reply to — or it went a bit haywire and they didn’t catch up with it.

Given brands are typically quite controlling of the content they put out — this AMA was on their profile — I’d be almost certain that they had a plan to only approve comments they replied to and they didn’t get to reply to as many as they hoped due to time constraints.

We (nerds) forget that in most cases, people engaging with Reddit etc. in a professional capacity have other work to do, they probably spent an hour or 2 in total replying to questions, which is only enough time to review and reply to a few dozen at best.

I’d be shocked if this was intentional removal by Samsung due to the content of the questions — nobody at Samsung would bother deleting all these comments even if they didn’t like them, that would be far too much effort.
Ever since Firefox from Android removed the ability to install any extension, I now have to edit it manually every f***ing time.

Surely someone who works on Firefox for Android is reading this, please add that extension back!
GhostBSD is a great starter. It is a integrated mate desktop on top of FreeBSD
> These people need to have this explained to them in a public forum, and forced to explain why they insist on pushing an incorrect view of the issue.

In this country, you can't force a politician to explain anything. He probably knows he's full of shit, but he's tied his traincar to winning the culture war.
> while people are still in consideration, we have an obligation (we don't always meet) to be responsive, because people are pending their career decisions on our own decisions.

I had been receiving very quick responses but haven't heard back in a bit over a week.

Last email said I was moving to the final round for the platform position. It said you'd follow with a couple more emails with further instructions but haven't received them. Sent a couple of pings over email.

Reaching out over HN in case this is a bug on your hiring tools or my email setup. I understand that sometimes things get busy behind the scenes. Just need an ACK to know if I'm still under consideration and make better informed career decisions.
There must be a higher bar (making it harder to blindly click 'yes') for user consent on the web because there's so much less intentionality behind what arbitary code your device will execute. Visiting any popular news website will run untrusted JS delivered through 10 different intermediaries in advertisements.

I think any complaint directed towards Apple's development on Safari can also be directed towards their actual native platform. Terrible/non-existent documentation, frequently breaking APIs, and a completely hostile app store and bug reporting/feedback process.
> but for some reason every single Linux distro that claims to love freedom has to do this too ... If I wanted to do the same with DWARF I'd need to link some GPL library or write 10,000 lines of byzantine code to figure out which function called the one that's crashing.

I mean, presumably you just answered your own question: while corporate software might not be able to link GPL code, Linux software — that mostly already is GPLed — certainly can. In fact, that's presumably why the library you're referencing (libdwarf?) is under the GPL in the first place — it was created by a Linux developer, for use in their own and others' FOSS Linux software, where it easily solves this problem for them. And because they have this easy solution to this problem on hand, they don't really see the need to turn on frame pointers in their projects' Makefiles.
Visa/MC do the conversion, but it’s not unusual for banks to tack on extra fees. Additionally banks can choose to settle in multiple currencies, and handle the FX themselves.

VISA/MC do offer the spot rate. But the idea of a spot rate is a little iffy anyway, as it assumes that there’s a counterparty willing to sell/buy at that price, and at the volume you want to transact at. When you’re operating at MC/VISA scale, that isn’t a given, and neither of them are interested in taking on FX risk. So their spot prices will be close, but likely not identical to spot prices you might find at other FX providers. Over the long term though, I would expect any delta to balance out.
The Approaching Disintegration of Academia
Science is testing theories + examining data. That's it. It's a process.

Yes, people can 'creativly' interpret data, and put their biases into it. But the cure for that is ..... more science. More research. More testing, more theories. Form concensus. Critically evaluate outliers or non-mainstream results or ideas, don't just dismiss it. Don't let folks dismiss science + research becuase they don't agree with it, or it's politically or religiously inconvinent. Teach the process, and ask them to defend their position with provable data.
I actually really like it haha. But either way my opinion is their property, their call. So long as it's safe.

[edit] It's NIMBY's own fault if they don't like what gets built. They had their chance to participate in the process by designing a reasonable and fair housing element. They said no, and chose violence. It's time to enter the 'find-out' phase.
It’s ok if they are the ones to do it. Safe old big tech. It’s not ok if these nefarious nerds with bad memories do it.
>Zuck has it right. All the worst managers/directors/VPs in engineering I've seen are people who don't contribute anything to the codebase. They actively discourage managers who want to write code from writing code. They

Wow. And these "good" managers coding, how do they meaningfully pursue strategical tasks that benefit the team and organization? Do they have time for these, 1:1s, team meetings, unblocking the blocked, translating the untranslated, and generally, um, managing?

Or do they work 80 hours?
Have you received any complaints yet?
Im blind in one eye also, and was thinking the same. But would certainly preffer the lenss to be a litle smaller. But for a first version, seens to have some potential.
Such a low bar "by end of decade". The announcement is an embarrassment in itself. And yet I don't think they'd have it sorted out by then either because they couldn't agree what it's for or not for.
Yep. We will end up with a singular “standard” set up by Google.
Well Zoom does have a lot of limitations on E2EE:

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360048660871-End-t...

No recording and no whiteboard, which for most people in my business (tutoring) would be a complete deal breaker.

How well does E2EE actually work in terms of video quality and coping with poor connections? I can't find any info on that. Bear in mind that you have to enable E2EE, so the vast majority of sessions will NOT have it enabled. I'm guessing it will just be in small sessions with good internet connections.

I don't use Zoom very often, but I had a meeting on it a few days ago and it wasn't great. When I logged into the meeting it had to download the new .exe at 10Mbps, even though I have a 500Mbps connection, then it spent another minute installing it. Not terribly impressed with that, either having to use a .exe in 2023, or the painfully slow connection to their servers.
It is funny to see how many people in the comments here seem to be personally angered by this article. What is at stake for them, I wonder?

Also, unionization, good choice as always. And doing exactly the work you are being paid for, not more, not less.
Nationally the "trust God" guys were kicking around a decade or two before the "believe Science" folks took hold. It's weird to see them coexisting together at the same time.
I was referring more to the additional processes that have been weaponized like CEQA.

In most of the US, additional zoning is welcomed. Zoning for smaller locales is controlled by financial limitations, rather than entrenched interests. Who doesn't want utilities to be brought to their area? For example, Puyallup WA is ~40 mi away from Seattle and there are still residences in Industrial zoned areas waiting for residential zoning to bring them sewer access. It's about the cost, not grassroots opposition.

Most towns can grow in every direction as fast as they can build. The issue is cost of land development and regulation, moreso than NIMBY influence.
The vast majority of it may still be written by humans, but they may not all be impartial humans; companies pretend to be end users and shill their products via reddit comments.
If it's got exposure, complex document requirements will always go for Asciidoc over Markdown. Hell, it's got transclusion and conditionals, Asciidoc satisfies the requirements for most DITA systems. The trick is whether or not people know about Asciidoc, and of course, whether they're allowed to go for a Git+LML stack over a vendor stack.

That last one can be a pretty big deal, as it involves swallowing a fair amount of liability. No one wants to spend the extra cash on writers who know how to git, they'd rather get late middle age chair warmers who've been suckling down a TW2 salary their entire professional life. Leadership would rather leave the tech stuff outside the org.

The trick here is that most of these XML pubs vendors couldn't give ten strained s##ts for liability, and they disappear on pubs teams with depressing regularity. Usually right before some big contract deliverable. How's your low risk option looking now?
> Game devs are the worst paid devs of any industry.

Not really, if you work for a major dev in a US / Canadian compagny you're ok, it's not FANG level but it's higher than your regular web dev.
I mean, it's inevitable for a lot of Americans unless they're willing to devote a significant amount of resources and / or time to try and convince local politicians to spend a bunch of money and fix decades of misguided urban planning, while potentially trying to dodge pushback from local interests who think that changes to make biking safer and more convenient is a zero-sum situation that comes at the expense of others.

I would never bike commute where I live currently, and I don't think that will change any time soon despite it being a relatively left leaning urban area.
My pet peeves in US cities are low frequency rumble, which travels for miles and seems to be inescapable at night, and aircraft noise, which seems to be constant over US cities. (Though one of the few good effects from the covid pandemic seems to have been a reduction in flights.)

And emergency vehicle sirens which also seem to run 24/7, since there's always some kind of emergency somewhere that apparently everyone needs to know about.

It's disappointing that there appears to be little to no effort to reduce noise pollution. Federal regulations are unfunded and unenforced, while any state and local regulations seem to be ineffective.

I would like to see complaints about noise pollution taken seriously, but usually people who complain about noise are either ignored or belittled. It isn't considered an issue of any significance whatsoever, and is at best given the kind of consideration that a tobacco company might have for lung health.
https://twitter.com/discord/status/822874230631100416?lang=e...

Discord (@discord): "We use electron for the desktop app, so it’s all javascript and react!"
Hopefully Mozilla takes security seriously with mobile Firefox, finally. Otherwise Apple will appear justified in their regulations. The Android version of Firefox doesn't even support IsolatedProcess yet.
One of my favorite war speeches is from Gladiator. Short but sweet.

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechgl...
Google will soon default to blurring explicit image search results
The have built a huge moat, but that's besides the point. You are making an absurd claim.
I built a Lenny chatbot using GPT-3. Here’s how to build your own
To me, this screams a lack of trust.

By explaining your reasoning in every situation you can will build trust, so that on the rare occasion that you need them to act without sharing, they will trust you enough to do so. For example, when in an execution environment where response time matters.

And in practice, this is how good commanders I've worked with have operated. And this is explicitly a principle of the US Army, by understanding the objective and it's purpose units are able to continue acting to fulfill their objectives even if they are cut off.

The upside of explaining whenever you can let them build a mental model to know how you would likely handle an unexpected situation, allowing them to act in your absence.
We aren't a video as we are recording the DOM directly so can still interact with the UI as well as perform replacements/updates quite easily.
making games is easier but they grew in scope. Also, wouldn't books be cheaper for entertainment?
It's a different thing. Apple doesn't care about implementing them whereas Mozilla wants to strangle Google with their bare hands and would rather die before they implement them out of principle.
Agree. They will forever remain in mind associated with exploding washing machines [1]. Their fridges are a laughingstock. They used to build decent relatively-open mobile devices that lasted a while but that also seems no longer true.

[1]: https://www.consumerreports.org/washing-machines/some-samsun...
A breath of fresh air. The biggest consequence of locking people out of wealth-building opportunities like homeownership is the terminal state of such decisions leaves us looking more like Mexico than Switzerland. Shouldn't we have all have a shared desire to lift society up? It's the same argument for how I'd prefer the average person in society to have more education than not. When people have no opportunity to get ahead, they have nothing to lose, which is net loss for society at large. We want to encourage people to live in good areas.
To be honest, I've never really thought of the architectures I work on as being divided along those lines. I think it may be a more important distinction for larger teams. In general I think in terms of separation of duties and authority; my preference is for loose coupling and lazy loading, separate data stores and applets for separate purposes, what might be called microservices; but referring to SOA I really just mean the sharding of different parts of the stack to independent services (several RDSs, S3 buckets, EC2 instances that run cron tasks to sync disparate data systems, beanstalks for some app frontends, etc). I guess some applications within that paradigm are more "micro" than others. Some have custom APIs and others are bound more tightly to central software functions. But perhaps I don't really understand what others are talking about when they stress this distinction.
I guess. Like they all have the same length commute?
I'd like to see the schools teach something about how free markets work. After all, we live in a free market society.

They should also teach basic accounting. (It really isn't hard, it's not much more than adding and subtracting. People really ought to know the difference between "profit" and "revenue", as they are often conflated.)
My understanding is that the marketing is more subtle - tell a hiking story where footwear is important but dont mention the branx, wait for some one to ask, suddenly you have a product placement that looks and feels natural.
It's more project management than people management. You likely have to lead projects and maybe a team, but you're usually not responsible for anyone's career growth (other than your own).
> Software development is not just about the users

And this says a lot about why people prefer commercial alternatives.
Google ads are clearly located at the top.

Search results themselves are not influenced by how much money you pay them.
Pull to refresh is working for me both on nightly and release. What is not working for you?
Classic Carl Icahn story about firing a building full of people and never discovering what they did - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSatPoD2W-o
> fly in the face of religion

s/religion/a particular interpretation of the first few pages of Genesis/
No caps!
arbitrary hard-coded rules are almost always useless

I disagree; just pointed out how it's not hard to get pure spam by using the filtered stream rules. If I can reliably identify & filter for spam on my creaking desktop with limited compute power and technical/coding skills, I would be happy to operate a silicon backhoe for a modest fee.
That’s because Result is must_use. Nothing to do with async.

In that case, yes, let _ is the usual pattern. But it’s rare that I ever actually want to use that. Typically I either return the error upwards or just unwrap. But if you truly don’t care about whether the operation was successful you can indeed ignore the error.

There are plenty of pain points with Rust but I don’t really think this is one.

Btw, the article you linked argued against the claim that Rust’s syntax is ugly, and instead claims that Rust’s noisyness is due to its semantics, largely in service of performance (which is why production C++ code is often similarly ugly).
Glad to hear your feedback! However, Apple does not allow third-party apps to jump to Photos app.
It baffles me that golang does not have this, which is otherwise a relatively modern language.