skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to dunk on Phabricator, but did anyone actually enjoy using it? I always thought it was a mess anyway. Jenkins was also... "jankins". Of course this is all hindsight, but wow it doesn't even seem that long ago.
It’s my go-to browser for porn, and Bing is also the best porn search engine.
The problem is simpler than your framing alludes. There are other modes of transit that are much safer with far fewer negative externalities than private cars, like walking, bike, bus, and rail. We repeatedly make a political decision in the US not to prioritize them. This spending for street safety is a step in the other direction, but by and large does very little to change the dominance of public spending on private cars in the US.
Our customers do not upload data but rather scanned documents or native PDFs. We do a full text OCR and allow them to do full text search/retrieval for the documents eliminating the need for manual indexing. The documents and data that has been OCRed are not public. High level security is inherent with this offering (MFA).
Yep. That’s what I was thinking of.
I really don't think that you want null in a modern language, at the runtime level there will eventually be a zeroed out reference field - but a programmer shouldn't have to deal with that.

So I think we largely agree.

(I left example syntax in another comment.)
What’s missing here is a notion of intersectionality, which explicitly is about how people are not just a singular identity, but an “intersection” of many - some of which may confer privilege, some of which may be discriminated against.

Ignoring this body of work makes the linked article a straw man argument with some cherry picked examples that don’t even make a point (why am I supposed to care that AOC tweets about some people at the exclusion of others?)
Educating.

Total fertility rate (TFR) is lower with longer average education for females, higher GDP per capita, higher contraceptive prevalence rate, and stronger family planning programs.

What exactly are you doing to increase | decrease the human population?
He also said he doesn't bathe every day. Hard pass.
"just eat healthy, bro"

- you
Yeah. This seems like a dream job for mediocre developers who are just at google for the paycheck and the creds. And considering the layoffs, they don't seem to have a shortage of those.
pretty sure that just removes it for current user. the app still sits around on the image bloating things up that way. although it does save a little space.
as a matter of interest what, as vaguely as you like, do you work on? because you seem uninformed to me and it is not obvious to me that you know what you are talking about. there is one tech giant that has always been based in seattle. well, make that two.
I spent hours on ChatGPT asking questions about black holes. Like really dumb ones. I learned a lot!
They don't have all the utility. In fact, they're grossly overused for the utility they do provide.

There was a great article on here the other day about the evolution of pickup trucks, the user-survey statistics about how trucks are typically used was pretty eye opening. As was the size of the forward facing blindspot for your everyday stock F-150. Kids don't stand a chance.
How might telepathy work outside the realm of sci-fi?
Link? Sounds neat.
How is not throwing away millions in compensation - or for this example, almost all compensation - not taking responsibility?

I’ve yet to see any line employee willing to take a major pay-cut because they screwed something up.
But we aren't talking about most workloads.
ISO frustrated: When 3‑letter language codes become 2
As much as I hate the App Store and want competition, for the sake of all the non tech loved ones in my life, I sincerely hope that either doesn’t happen, or that it is difficult enough to get people to “add” additional stores.
> This is what Karl Marx calls "exploitation."

Karl Marx himself knew he was peddling bullshit; he once told Engels, "I have of course so worded my proposition as to be right either way."

The real tragedy is that several generations of intellectuals swallowed his bullshit hook, line, and sinker, and in the 20th century well north of a hundred million people died as a result. I would hope we have figured out by now that that philosophy doesn't work.

> Capitalists acquire wealth, passively, by owning things.

Then by that definition, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, etc. are not capitalists, because they created things, they didn't just passively sit there and acquire ownership of things that already existed.

(Btw, even ChatGPT appears to get this since, in the very passage you italicized, it talks about "investment".)
Because the cities and states that need the money aren't necessarily the ones with the money.

The richer states and cities subsidize the poorer states and cities via this exchange.

This should be considered a good thing.
Even if all this does is convinces people to try Bing for the novelty of using the ChatGPT features, it may cause a significant inroad to Google's dominance from whatever percentage then discover they are just fine with Bing as their search engine. Will be fascinating to see what happens.
Written in 2015, with ESR's typical naive-utopian ideas about "hacker culture". The whole point of TFA is that the corporations that employ the people who, at this point, make up "hacker culture" have shown their hand, and it looks very different when you can see the cards instead of the backs of their hand.

But also, the "SWJs" that ESR is talking about have almost nothing to do with the class warfare described in TFA. If you think they do, you don't understand SWJs or the marxist-sense of class warfare.
Seems like it's only the main screen that was adjusted for Linux mobile, no full Linux mobile support yet. Hopefully the rest will follow.
Never under estimate Microsoft's ability to screw a "first mover advantage up" they have done this many times before. They really need to keep this thing focused and not try and use it to try and switch everyone to edge, push bing news, and install weird browser extensions....
Hi, I'm one of the members of the technical oversight committee of the Gitea project, and am employed to work on Gitea. The reason why the project itself is still on GitHub is due to the massive amount of metadata (20K+ issues and PRs, and all the comments, reactions, and other metadata attached to them) around the project, and the ratelimiting that is slowing the export. All the non-primary repos have long since moved to gitea.com.
> It used to be kind of like being a brain surgeon, and it's becoming more like being a plumber.

That's quite a dramatic change. Maybe it is inevitable because most jobs not involve computers.

> In the capitalist game, being an employee is never going to be a way to garner any real amount of wealth

In the capitalist game, being an employee is the only avaliable starting position to 95% of the population. It it does not allow a way to garner any real amount of wealth, then we cannot have social mobility and best people getting to the top. Then we are all poorer.
all good but he forgot the most important thing: unionization
> My code will have fewer defects

Well, I agree it will have fewer memory bugs. But fewer issues altogether… you're just bragging now.

Your application will have awful keyboard navigation, will not support normal well established shortcuts, will contain vulnerable js that you will never bother to replace…
> I wonder how much effort it is combine the iOS UI layer and the non-iOS blink layer.

These browsers all compile and work on macOS. Getting them to work on iOS involves lots of fiddly details like forcing the browsers into single-process mode, integrating it with their existing mobile UI, etc

but core technologies like rendering won't be much different
> I will call it a statistical anomaly, but the worst engineers are now in 'people management' positions.

Is that a bad thing? The person worst at writing code is removed from doing it, and the (same) person managing engineers has at least done it. Unless the managers are pushing technical decisions on the team (does not sound like it), why wouldn't you want the worst engineers to become the people managers?

To say nothing of the common idea that engineering skill and people skill don't coexist often in the same people.

> , so I took my own advice

Always good! I've taken other people's advice over my own to my determent before. Of course I've also taken other people's advice and it worked out way better than my dumb ideas. Blending them is hard.

Any commonly given out advice you benefited from flatly ignoring?

> and was able to see some of them in the audience from the stage.

Sorry, the article implies this is an announcement of the program. It seemed like it was going to be done individually-ish. Was it a massive meeting instead?
> serve entire world and doesn't need to spin up and shutdown VMs to meet global customer demand?

You said it yourself. Not all applications need to serve entire world, therefore demand will be lower when people go to sleep.

Even with global applications there are regulations that require you to host applications and data in specific regions. Imagine an application that is used by customers in Europe, Australia, and the US. They need to be served from regional data centres, and one cluster will be mostly sleeping when the other is running (because of timezones). With dedicated servers you would waste 60-70% of your resources, while using something like EC2/Fargate you can scale down to almost 0 when your region is sleeping.
I don't think you can separate the behavior of the voting public from the conditions imposed on them by the capital class and the propaganda they feed us through their media properties.
Fully automated self-driving puts the brainpower equivalent of a squirrel at the wheel of a 2-ton vehicle.

Automated mapping sends drivers down railroad tracks and impassible abandoned roads.

We'll eventually figure that AI chatbots similarly degrade the social and intellectual commons. Enjoy your AI advisor, the bar and professional boards exist to protect the public, however imperfectly, from exactly the unpredictable charlatanism embodied by your jack-of-all-trades AI assistant.
The fist roadblock on using bing is that when you search for something in bing.com and select chat under the search box it pops up a brain dead message to install the bing app!! I am not going to install an app on my phone just to do some search.
Looks awesome. I'll need to borrow my wife's iPhone tomorrow.

Where is the privacy policy?

wen eta Android?
Ok so we want to go down that path, where every single one of those statements by CloudFlare was proven to be wrong....

https://corinnacohn.substack.com/p/the-world-should-not-need...

https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/why-keffals-really-took...

https://wahf.substack.com/p/the-kiwi-in-the-coalmine-part-i

https://destinygg.substack.com/p/keffals-a-case-study-on-int...

Just a start, and with out getting to all the later issue around the GoFundMe, and several other things...

I am fully informed on the issue, and how CloudFlare caved to social pressure and refused to stand on principle, there was no "emergency situation"
I'm sorry, I don't mean to be dismissive, but I just can't read that as anything other than "doing it correctly makes it harder."

That sentiment is not IMHO a particularly potent argument for _anything_ related to engineering.

Accuracy, not convenience, should be the goal. If you need to make consuming the data more convenient, that should be the focus.

To be clear using the word "correctly' is putting a lot more confidence behind my opinion than I ever intended, i.e. I am open to counterpoints, and do not portend to think a one size fits all policy is realistic.
I suspect the macOS version is more useful for that than the Android version.
Could it be from people sitting on their butt all day? Not like, not working, but just physically constantly sitting? I don't think our ancestors spent most of their waking hours sitting down.
I've never worked for a truly large company, so maybe I lack perspective. But the idea that a company could incorrectly hire THOUSANDS of people over a few years boggles my small-company mind. Hiring is so exhausting, so time intensive and so boring. And it does nothing (directly) for the bottom line - instead it costs a ton of money! Given the ultra-mega-hyper-elaborate interview process at a lot of these companies, we're talking literal fortunes on top of fortunes worth of manpower (er, personpower?).

Imagine paying hundreds of people to hire thousands of other people and then saying "oops, we overshot by 6,000 hires!". How can any person in a leadership role that is responsible for that kind of misfire possibly keep their job?
He also paid 4x the price. And took out his frustration and vindication on employees. Doesn't come across as someone with sound judgement or vision
> Skills are not capital in the communist vocabulary.

I have no interest in the communist vocabulary. Communism killed more than a hundred million people in the 20th century. I would hope we have figured out by now that communism doesn't work.

> all the workers in the world are bona-fide capitalists, since they are using their skills to get paid.

In the sense that most of their pay is return on capital, not "labor", yes, that is exactly right.

However, the extent to which workers realize this, and act accordingly, in order to maximize the return on the capital they own (their skills), varies extremely widely.
Link to Github: https://github.com/sqrl-lang/sqrl
For most of us, a 50% increase in a very small number is still a very small number. The absolute risk only becomes significant at fairly advanced ages. And most of that increased risk comes not from aging per se, but rather from chronic medical conditions like obesity, type-2 diabetes, and heart failure that are highly correlated with age. We can do a lot to prevent such conditions.

Stating that aging is terrible seems so odd. It's just an inevitable fact of life, like the weather.
I imagine a lot of IT folks or those in compliance would be promoted very fast and then quickly leave the company before the hidden costs caught up with them.
Because Google would be pushing it hard? E.g. when you click a link in the YouTube app, it doesn't open it in Safari, rather it shows you a "helpful" dark-pattern prompt about opening it with:

- Chrome (mind you, I don't have it installed, so this would send me to the AppStore)

- the "Google" app (again, not installed)

- Safari (which does not open Safari, rather an in-app WKWebView, so that Sundar can still milk your precious eyeballs)

- and finally at the bottom the "Default browser app" (this is what you want)

Of course, there's no setting to save this choice once and for all, so this is done each and every time you try opening a link in the YouTube app. Wait, actually, I'm 99% sure it would suddenly remember your choice if you had installed one of their browsers. From that moment they would duly open all links in Chrome/Google, without this annoying prompt.

I bet every Google app does this on iOS to get you install their crap. Disgusting practice.
And it sounds better than "assembly line worker."
The issues in question aren't something you'd ignore just due to lack of a native engine - Firefox on iOS matters for market share reasons, they need to care about that stuff regardless of what's running under the hood.
No need, I had the same initial reaction as I scrolled through the list, going from "oh that's a lot of security issues... and virtually all C issues, too... ugh why do we still do this"
> They are concerned that young people are not drinking as much as before, not the other way around.

That's a dark concern to have :(
why settle for advertisements or user subscription when they could have the Chat AI make transactions for the user and take a cut from the seller. They could publish an API spec for many transaction categories and providers would be in line to sell products and services.
I did in another comment in this thread. Also this topic is already on the line so putting in too much content and information would run a foul of the political leanings and bias of a large part of rest of the HN community resulting in mass flagging of my postings...
It happens. Let's not pretend that everything we do changes the world or is even meaningful. It pays our bills and lets us do what matters to us.

On a less cynical tone, 6-18 months on a project, then we change company, or get fired, or the company shuts down for good. Some of my startup customers pivoted or shut down. I got paid, not my problem.

Anyway, it's better to work on successful projects. They expand the business.
This did not change the inherently adversarial nature. It just obscured it by adding a veneer of "see? our interests are the same as your interests!", despite this being true of just one (small) aspect of the union of all interests.
Someone should build a nerdsnipe engine. It posts your question on an appropriate forum, uses ChatGPT to formulate a bogus response, then sends you all the replies angrily correcting the first answer.
Yes, this is exactly the case. Lots of data, and low ratelimits don't mix. All except for the main repo have already migrated to gitea.com

Disclaimer: I'm one of the members of the technical oversight committee of the Gitea project, and am employed to work on Gitea.
Have you ever noticed that the save icon is a floppy disk?
You will find there is often a big difference between logging into the account and making any change or transaction. Getting the password right might give you account details and some basic transaction history, but it won't allow you to transfer money without 2FA.
They will probably say it’s a security threat to prevent that :)
I've definitely experienced the small dose sleep aid thing. Noticed it from the caffeine I was self-medicating with before being diagnosed. I've assumed that what's happening is that it's suppressing the distractions that are keeping me up.
So have I. I love the people I work with (usually). That doesn’t change the nature of the wage relationship. We workers produce value through our labor which companies pay for in wages. Capital (CEOs, founders, VCs) wants to maximize the ratio of value to cost, therefore they wish to pay us as little as possible while getting maximum efficiency. It has nothing to do with liking your coworkers.
Sure, except for the vast majority of spaces in the US that don't have a tax base that could support any sort of infrastructure network, but still provide vital goods for the country as a whole. The majority of US agricultural output would fall under this category, for one example.
I use it at home and for projects with a closed user group. It does everything we need, including CI (I have Drone setup). Very, very, very good for such a small binary.
I can tell you from experience that you are going to suck at both.

As a code contributor, you’re not going to be able to keep your commitments because of management responsibility and as a manager you’re not going to have time to do either career development for your team or be in the room to play politics for your team.

The only time that I’ve seen that work is when my former CTO would do non production code as a research product or a proof of concept that he would give to someone else to make production ready.

Also, the people you report to aren’t going to be as willing to give you honest feedback.

As an IC, I can give a suggestion to my team and I have to convince them based on my ideas. They will free to push back. As a manager, many won’t.

I work with a lot of people who for whatever reason won’t say anything openly when they feel something is wrong. Even when it’s not their manager - ie a project manager.

I’ve never been afraid to voice my opinion and “disagree and commit” (how do you say where you work without saying where you work). But then again I’m older (49), more financially secure and not here on H1B [1].

[1] That last statement is not meant to rail against H1B visa holders. I think the entire H1B visa system sucks and is inhumane for the people who have to deal with it precisely because they have to deal with shit that they shouldn’t have to.
This is pretty true for a lot of people and organizations.

The best engineers almost without fail are the ones who are passionate about it and don't want to be doing anything else. They'll tend to keep being engineers.

And corporations tend to recognize, value, and promote managers based on team size and growth as key metrics. Can't blame someone for doing what their employer tells them it wants. The problem here is not caused by line managers but by executives who set goals in this way.

And I don't really know what line managers do either. They seem to sell themselves to their reports as "dealing with all the corporate bullshit" which is kind of true, but if the corporation is generating so much bullshit that it needs to employ bullshit wranglers, it seems like the better solution would be fix it at the source rather than clean it up after the fact. I get there will always be some amount of administration and stuff that you don't want your engineers spending lots of time on, but that could be handled with a personal assistant type of role that should be able to handle dozens of engineers per PA, rather than a higher paid manager.
Agreed. But just as a thought experiment: what about a truck driver who owns their own trucking company, employs around a dozen other drivers, and also drives as one of its drivers?

I would guess, theoretically, this is impossible past a certain size of enterprise, but in the meantime I would imagine that they would be both. A capitalist laboring as part of their own means of production.
Well if you include the "download all the js dependencies" step… there it goes any time benefit you might have gained.
Laymen question : do you know how the magic number of "12-15%" gets decided ? Either is just everyone copying each other to please their boards (reasonable hypothetical), or there is one investor that make the same demand everywhere, or there is some regulation behind it, or there is some math ?

I mean, it seems like the stock price would go up too if they laid off 20 or 25, or maybe 50%, and maybe some bold CEO is going to get a huge bonus by taking the full responsibility of firing everyone except the accounting department ?
What if my lessons in existentialism were in bad faith?
a) First I heard of it but apparently in the UK Dvb standard has "improved" making a bunch of hardware less useful. I comment that this is sub-optimal.

b) The majority of the content on free-to-air tv is the BBC. Who levy their own taxation. This is unique and provides the BBC with a massive amount of power to influence anything they want. One would hope they attempt to do it in the interests of the British public and the world in general. [1] See (a) for how that worked out?

[1] Between examples like Saville, WMD, and the current lunatic state of both labour and conservative parties perhaps the BBC isn't really going as well as the public might like for what they pay in additional tax known as the "license fee?" But of course most of the public didn't attend oxbridge so their opinions scarcely matter to the BBC? Now here's Stephen Fry. (And I quite like him, and even many of his performing "friends" but he's hardly representative of anyone much and that seems to be a relatively persistent problem).
Even if you own 51% of the company you're disposable. The company itself is disposable. The CFO at a lot of Zoom's customers is asking why are we paying so much for Zoom when Microsoft will give us Teams for "free". It doesn't matter if Zoom is better, it's still disposable.
I truly cannot see the connection between ESR's criticisms in that essay, and the subject matter of the OP article. Can you you please add some clarifying context?
I am cheering on Mozilla doing this. They are the only bastion of a free internet left: we need a browser option, a good option, which isn't beholden to advertising dollars at every turn.