skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thunderbird had already a good email UX, what it now doesn't really has (anymore!) is performance, this post makes me honestly worried that the project will go in the totally wrong direction, alienating all power users.

Swapping out the C++ pop/imap/... implementation with a JS one is bogus IMO, yeah JS engines are fast nowadays, but still order of magnitude slower than compiled code.

Not to go for the meme, but what I really don't get is why not go for rust if a rewrite is anyway planned and your share the codebase with the product that caused the invention of that language, and showed that its possible to integrate it for subsystems?!

Fact is that my whole Thunderbird hangs and freezes completely ~15 times a day, on my 128 GiB DDR5, fast, PCIe 4 attached TLC NVMe storage and a Alder Lake top model i7 CPU. Look, a input text field, configured for plain text, just must not hang on such a machine, even not on a 15y old one - it's a god damn text input field, if that hangs you just make some things horribly wrongs, it's so irritating and just not healthy for anybodies blood pressure - save local in sync and save to drafts async.

Then there are the crashes, resize some reply window while it loads something in the main one? boom, crashed.

Mail is a big topic add work, for one we got a product that handles mail and for another we use mail in our development flow _a lot_, just like a lot of other Open Source projects. I know quite a few people that use, or well, used, Thunderbird as their mail reader, and more thanks to CalDav and Matrix implementation, ... basically only touching git send-email besides Thunderbird for mail related stuff.

None, literally zero, of them complained about the UI or UX from a few years ago, like never. Well a few that tried out recent betas did about adding some odd side bars, hiding down menus, making a lot of things harder to find.

To conclude my, already cut short, rant (sorry, this one was brewing since a bit): Now I got the aerc client set up, waiting on stand by for the final blow of sensless UI shuffle-around-and-make-unuseable-for-power-user updates; as then I'll have to say good bye to the (former) GOAT mail client - never thought this would happen :-(
I think that's the part that many naysayers don't appreciate. When the average family is already under incredible pressure it does not take much to trigger a deep recession. Even if one or two percent of people lose their job right now that is going to translate into a lot of missed debt service, foreclosures, etc.
I'm quite confused because almost all conversation in my company's slack happens in threads. Maybe your impression of Slack was formed in a time when they didn't have threads?
Have the Board draw straws and execute the person who draws short. Anything short of this admittedly harsh measure will be written off as the cost of doing business and probably overturned by lobbying, bribery, legal arguments in court, etc. There is value in a punishment that cannot be undone.
It is! You can specify on its prompt that it should "request additional info via search query, using the following syntax: [[search terms here]], before coming to a final conclusion" then you integrate it with a traditional knowledge base textual look up, and run it again with that information concatenated
I feel like this is a good argument to not allow mega mergers and consolidations. Github/LinkedIn etc could have both been operating as Public companies and not have to deal with this BS.
On my (Android) phone: In order to use bluetooth headphones, I have to FIRST open the "join meeting" screen, connect the device (or turn off, then turn back on if I was already using it), then join.

Only app that has this issue with bluetooth audio. WTF.
I can understand where he (Hotez) is coming from, especially in view of his personal history of having an autistic child. We need to take seriously and combat the disinformation that pours in through social media like a flood over scorched plains.

But when this fight increasingly becomes partisan and/or self-interested it becomes hard to discern what is merely propaganda using the "hoax" and "conspiracy theory" bludgeon, and what is the noble fight. Nowhere is this clearer than regarding the "lab leak" theory (that a Wuhan lab leak is the ultimate covid-19 source, something which if true likely would make continued Gain of Function research nigh impossible).

Leading scientists like Peter Daszak even Hotez himself that have been at the forefront of talking down this verily possible hypothesis have been proven to have serious conflicts of interest in the matter. [0] [1]

Anti-science sentiments is a problem, but for Hotez to come complaining about it in such a context becomes problematic itself to say the least.

[0] https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2414
[1] https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/critic-of-congressional-p...
Just checked, press the calendar and click meet now.
I agree with selling to corporations. However, most big law lawyers will need a higher level of PDF functionality. At a quick glance, I notice that the tools can't manipulate bookmarks, which are required for electronic filing in most courts.
Insulin is expensive for the same reasons that epi pens are expensive[1] and why Martin Shkreli could increase the price of Daraprim by 50x without worrying about losing market share[2]. The FDA restricts the manufacture and importation of these drugs. Often there is only one manufacturer who has managed to jump through all the bureaucratic hoops, giving them a monopoly on the drug.

1. https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/08/29/reverse-voxsplaining-d...

2. https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/24/the-problems-with-gene...
I've never used Teams. Why does everybody hate it?
> Programmers were expected to stay either 1 year or 10 years, and you'd be compensated according to which bucket you were falling into

How did this work? You got a raise after 10 years?
Can you elaborate on Valve? Why would Valve not do this? What makes it different?
How Levels.fyi scaled to millions of users with Google Sheets as a back end
I tried Zulip with the rust community and it completely ruined slacks “threads” for me.

Its the equivalent between a pot noodle and a steak dinner.

Zulip has a lot of other issues though, the app and on-boarding… but I really struggle to enjoy slack now.

teams, however, is a total dumpster fire for serious communication outside of video meetings and some minor ad-hoc 1:1 interactions.
It lacks money and time.
You're dead on. Isn't it wild that despite our seemingly impressive intelligence, such insights never seem to rise to the level of... second nature.

I forgot to add something to my original post.
>>"I remember feeling shocked when this article appeared in the Atlantic in 2008..."

At the time I was shocked that the question was even being asked!
"All these safety regulations slow down the free market! Anyone should be able to make and sell insulin! If it's poisonous, people just won't buy that!"
Does it at least pick a good spot for it in Sharepoint? A bit off topic but at my last job we used the Webex - Sharepoint "integration" and it worked the same way but it would just prompt you for where to share it from in the folder structure, but from the root. Inevitably people would just create a folder and share it, but the default permissions on the folder would mean nobody had access to it but the sharer. So you'd add the people in the room (manually) and then when someone new joined the room you'd need to manually add them as well, every time... We were a little surprised that the integration wouldn't automatically grant access to anyone in the room.

Terrible UX.
Funny to see it at the top of HN 7 years after I made it! My kids still play with it from times to times (one of the game that lasted the longest in the family)
Hence the need for an investigation. I don't think there is collusion, but I wouldn't be surprised.

My conspiracy (let me put the tinfoil hat on) is that corporates and mega rich people wanted the recession badly because they can benefit from it. But it didn't happen so they're doing the layoffs and increasing prices to manufacture the recession despite their all-time high profits.
>Who is proposing the use of ChatGPT, in its current form, for search?

The dozens of posts I've seen here saying "this is going to replace google!" for starters.
Maybe the 10% quit over that, and they spun it as layoffs.
Doesn't sound like a very good photographer, they should know how to angle their lights correctly.
Biologists are very good at handling political controversy.

A big reason is that biology is a very nuanced science.
California governor Newsom announced this plan seven months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32021868 (216 comments)

I clicked on the Vox link, hoping to see an update. There wasn't one, although I'm guessing that the 2022 announcement was about the budget being approved and now in 2023, they just started writing an RFP.
I would consider taking a pay cut and moving to a cheap suburb and work for the government or a bank before working for a big tech company that uses Teams. I would only use Teams on a small group or some kind of very highly paid consultant gig.
Having seen this several times in family and close relatives it does not appear as painful as you'd think. Often times the people responsible for the care of the person dying will provide them small amounts of water, typically via a syringe, to keep their mouth wet in order to not provoke a thirst response. Food is easy enough to ignore and most people can indefinitely ignore hunger right up until they die.

It seems clear to me you have never seen this procedure done. It was rather traumatic for me having to be one of the people responsible for the final caregiving (it does not seem logical to provide such comforts as small water or medicine to someone committed to dying) but it was important for closure. I hope you dont have to witness it or make this choice yourself.

Personally, I find doctor assisted suicide to be both unethical and amoral. While people may disagree with me I see no difference between MAID and paying someone to hang you as instantaneous death is guaranteed in both ways and it is done by a sanctioned murderer. VSED is entirely in the dying person's control, and thus to me is not unethical nor amoral as the control of life is in the person who owns that life.
The compression & blur analogy also applies to human minds as well. If you focus on fidelity, you have to increase storage and specialize in a narrow domain. If you want a bit of everything, then blurring and destructive compression is the only way. E.g. a "book smart" vs "street smart" difference.

"mastery" can be considered a hyper efficient destructive compression (experts are often unable to articulate or teach to beginners) that reduces latency of response to such extreme levels that they seem to be predicting the future or reacting at godlike speeds.
Sure there's plenty? Some reqs are ridiculously detailed and specific. Oh you have Python 3.10.7 installed, sorry we can't hire you we use 3.10.6 here. Next! Oh we want someone with 4 years experience, you only have 3 yrs 11 months call back later. Next!
The Unknown Story of Palo Alto's First Startup
Leland Stanford's horse farm was more like an experimental engine lab, and his "Palo Alto System" set the Valley's course. An excerpt from the new book PALO ALTO: A HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA, CAPITALISM, AND THE WORLD
Especially in this economic / VC climate. We're not where we were a year ago, and credit/investment is a much different proposition.
> how do you combat the fact that ...

Why must this be "combatted" at all?
I’m not attributing it to little-s science, I’m attributing it to “believe in science” - people are using “science” to mean something different than the scientific method and following evidence where it takes you. It’s being used as a proxy for authority.

“Believe in science” was used to defend the (wrong) stuff in my comment, it’s a proxy for believe authority or believe media.

If we want people to understand the value of science we should share the evidence and explain what the hypothesis is with the nuance and uncertainty present rather than patronizingly play 3D-chess because we assume the public is too dumb to know what’s good for them.

Some people and institutions did this, but most did not.

Science as an institution is no stranger to this kind of bullshit either: radical mastectomy and halsted’s “theories” of cancer, skinner and behaviorism (really all of psychology due to the replication crisis), mendel’s peas being ignored for 40yrs, phrenology, etc. When it becomes believe the authority instead of about the evidence bad things happen.
Could be worse, could be Google Chat
What does closing all offices mean? Do they go full remote or employees are going to move to Microsoft offices
> you can't punish me or my family or my doctor for doing it.

In the end stages of dying, it's a common but obviously little-talked about process to give patients quite a bit of opiates - not enough to kill outright from OD, but enough to ease suffering significantly while also hastening death.
I love you HN. Never change.
They won't. The impact of interest rates on home markets is too great for these tiny layoffs to be significant.
I think what makes AlphaZero's recursion work is the objective evaluation provided by the game rules. Language models have no access to any such thing. I wouldn't even count user-based metrics of "was this result satisfactory": that still doesn't measure truth.

I generally respect the heck out of Chiang but I think it's silly to expect anyone to be happy feeding a language model's output back into it, unless that output has somehow been modified by the real world.
Judging by some of the comments, the behavior and self-worth of the "enlightened" is just as reprehensible as your usual FoxNews dad parroting BS.

The "enlightened" should know better since they are.. enlightened. Yet, the "plebs" found out they have exactly the same vices and reprehensible atitudes, plus the usual dismissive attitudes towards everyone "beneath" them.

Many of the "not plebs" do exactly what you described and that's what "changed", the illusion of the benevolent white coat "egg head" was broken. And I think it's a good thing, just by principle. Highly educated people are just as nasty, flawed people as anyone else and if I make a statement, it should be judged by the statement's merits and not by who I am.

The practice of science is something it can be done by everyone, as long as they.. follow the scientific method. Not even scientists follow the scientific method all the time, because they are.. flawed, lazy, greedy, dishonest sometimes. Just like everyone else.
What happened to good old infiltration? Or put a bounty on traffickers. Trade passports or permanent residence for information leading to an arrest.
I used to make my Gentoo installs as close as I could get to grayscale, for everything except content. Looked awesome, but like all other fiddly customizations, I basically gave it up after a while. Too much effort for too little reward.

[EDIT] Uh, the connection being that I would also collect grayscale icon sets, since sometimes the best results came from mix-and-matching those, as some might lack good icons (or any at all) for some programs.
If I wanted to expand my bit of cynicism into an argument, it might be:

- I strongly suspect that much of what I consider "me" physically exists inside my skull. That's a huge philosophical debate, but look at any Oliver Sacks book for cases of how physical brain damage can change a person's consciousness.

- Human intelligence is a brand new evolutionary innovation. We share an ancestor with chimps 6 to 8 million years ago. That suggests that human intelligence evolved in less than 500,000 generations, with the bulk of what we recognize as culture in the last 25,000 to 50,000 generations. Therefore, there's an upper limit on how much new "complexity" evolution could create in order to make humans intelligent. To use a simplistic technical metaphor, updating from chimps to H sapiens is probably a small-but-clever patch, not a total rewrite.

- Or to put it another way: most of what we do is probably clever applications of a few good tricks, applied to chimp-like ancestor.

- Specifically, I suspect that biological equivalents to LLMs are one of the "good tricks" that distinguish us from chimps. And similar mechanism likely underlie much of human creativity.

- Our biological LLMs are better than whatever Google and OpenAI are doing. I learned a foreign language to a respectable level as an adult with about 2-4 million words of input and some awkward practice. GPT and similar models, however, require vastly larger input to pull off their tricks. But I think they're on the correct path.

It's immaterial to me whether GPT "thinks." It has no consciousness, no continuity, and barely anything resembling goals. I could argue that it occasionally understands things. And it can create well enough to write funny little stories in Latin, things which exist nowhere in its input. Hell, it can do a pretty fair pastische of Dumas.

So my hypothesis is that GPT's creativity is a weaker than human creativity. But it's still probably doing something deeply similar to what we do.

The final piece of my hypothesis is that copyright maximalism has been pushed very hard by media companies and some IP lawyers for decades now. I've spoken to lawyers who believed that intellual property was great and we should create many new kinds of IP. Many of the things these people wanted sounded like horrible dystopias to me.

Since I believe that GPT is likely a close analogy to one of the major "tricks" underlying human creativity, and that certain influential IP maximalists will push for anything they can get, I fear that regulation of LLMs would open a potential path to eventually regulating human creativity in novel ways that I would consider terrible. Once an influential legal precedent exists, and there's enough money to be made, there will be strong incentives to apply that precedent in new ways.

As I said, I'm being cynical.
it can be done tru meditative state, peacefully.
That’s a fantastic metaphor.
at that point I'd just use vim in a terminal
In many places if you run a (small) business _well_ that does craft stuff like plumbing, electricity and similar, you're going to have people lining up for your services to no end.

I don't know why that is. But I assume that the combination of excellent trade/craftsmanship and organizational skills is very attractive.

I always hear the same story from my friends who have been working in small service businesses, whether they are gardeners, carpenters, electricians or cleaners etc:

When it's bad (fairly typical) it's the boss being stretched too thin between too many responsibilities, or its a person that has no clue about the actual trade. They are the both the bottleneck for solutions and the cause of compounding issues.

It ends up in overworked, stressed workers, missed deadlines and mistakes that snowball into more such problems.

A trade/service business that is run well, treats their workers well (which is their major asset) and does good work can charge more and will never run out of work. It seems there is no simple formula for this so you end up with a lot of what you describe above.
That's not true at all. The Online Safety Bill simply designates as a priority content that breaks an existing prohibition against aiding, abetting, counselling, and conspiring to carry out offenses under the Immigration Act 1971. Lefty open-borders types can continue to say what they like.

The connection to section 28 is spurious and deserves no rebuttal. The two things have nothing to do with each other.
I'm an independent contractor, I thought lay-offs would translate into lots of small contracts but it hasn't, in fact, my existing co tracts have dried off and not finding any new ones right now.
It's understandable how frustrating it can be to encounter skepticism and misunderstanding about the capabilities of large language models. However, it's important to remember that these models are still relatively new and not everyone is familiar with their potential uses and limitations.

It's also worth noting that these models are not designed to replace human intelligence, but rather to augment it and provide valuable insights and assistance in various tasks. And while connecting them to large knowledge graphs like Google's can be powerful, it's still only one piece of the puzzle.

It can be discouraging to face resistance, but it's important to keep in mind that advancements in technology often encounter initial skepticism before they become widely adopted. Just like the computer revolution in the 90s, it will take time for people to fully understand and appreciate the benefits of large language models.
most of them haven't even stopped hiring. pay close attention to the layoff announcements to see which ones also announce a hiring freeze - most of them haven't. and i've heard of a few people getting offers from companies that have done mass layoffs in recent months.
You forget javelin throwing, because the javelins were redesigned to keep them from possibly going into the stands
FWIW, Encanto (Disney Animation, 2021) and Turning Red (Pixar, 2022) were the most streamed movies on any platform for all of 2022 according to Nielsen. Moana (Disney Animation, 2016) was #4.

It's debatable whether these films feel like "sequel direct to DVD" or not, but I don't think it's debatable that audiences are watching them.

https://www.adweek.com/lostremote/nielsen-top-15-stranger-th...
> it's like cleaning (like any and all maintenance work), you're never done with it

And governments are going to constantly try to regulate the Internet and crack down on it, because it's a threat to them. Look at China where regulation reached its logical conclusion.

I'm just enjoying our little golden age of the web where I don't have to upload a scan of my passport just to read a blog post. These are the good ol' days we will look back on fondly. Make the most of them.
I thought this bill was being dropped as part of the re-shuffle?
> The current government is of a party that has a majority in parliament despite getting a minority of the votes.

if you don’t know how the UK system works, then yes, you are correct.
Open up safe legal routes then, the lack of which is the main reason why the boat smugglers even have a business.

But doing so would get asylum seekers out of the collective conciousness, which has been politically advantageous to the incumbent party.
I don't see this having an effect on the Ukraine war any time soon, but it does make resolving the war even harder.

No matter how it turns out, Russia has destroyed both its military and its international position. Even winning will not significantly improve their situation. The West wants nothing to do with them, and that won't end with their conquest. They can continue eking out a living through China and India, but the world is already learning to live without their fossil fuels, and would live without Ukrainian grain if it became Russian grain.

They're burning through their reserves, and they'll continue to for many years. The West won't open up to them if they win, and if they lose the West will demand reparations before resuming trade. They were a marginal economy before, and will become truly impoverished.

What room does that leave for negotiations? Why would they ever stop fighting, when even a win is so bad and a loss is even worse?

It feels as if the least-worst outcome is a complete collapse and surrender, followed by a Marshall Plan-style rebuilding. It's remarkable that the Allies were willing to do that; I don't know if it's possible today. It was possible then only because Germany admitted utter defeat and to this day acknowledges that defeat.

Is there an approach more like Japan's? I dunno. But it doesn't sound like Russia is going to be willing to admit defeat in a world where they hold nuclear cards.