skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These opinions seem to be fueled mostly by chatter in the right-wing media sphere, especially Tucker Carlson in recent days.

I don't listen to Tucker Carlson, but I have been listening to what you have been telling me in this thread. From your own first-hand testimony I have learned:

- You have first-hand knowledge of faculty applicants who have been rejected on the basis of their belief that universal pronoun protocols are not necessary, or that they personally prefer not to volunteer their own pronouns.

- You do not count this as a political litmus test, instead you accuse the applicant of being political by having an opinion that is different from what students are demanding.

- You acknowledge that the institution is extending asymmetric affordances, and picking winners and losers on a charged topic, but rationalize this by citing market forces and a philosophy that the customer is always right.

Even if I had heard nothing else, that right there is the case for an illiberal trend. Some opinions are endorsed while others are rejected in the hiring process, and this is not based on any appeal to truth, fairness, or equal protection, but rather the arbitrary demands of the customer.

Respectfully, the fact that you would tell me all of this openly, but then think that I need right-wing agitation to consider this an illiberal trend, just reinforces to me how much of an echo chamber academia must have become. I'm sorry, but no amount of condescension on your part will convince me that this is ok.

> You yourself said that you are dismissive of positive first-hand accounts because you assume they are just politically biased.

I told you that I would credit such accounts if they came from someone who had significant disagreements with the dominant thinking on these subjects, and was able to be hired without hiding this.

It is little credit to the fairness of a process if the people who are aligned with the ruling school of thought find the process to be unburdensome.
This sounds great. They still have work to do though before this can be a commercial product if they only get 200 cycles out of it. Once they solve the durability problem this should be a great product for upgrading windows in commercial and residential uses.
> Want to recommend one of those other email clients for Mac?

... is Mail not OK?
Satoshi as far as I know never indicated he meant bitcoin to be an ultimate solution and not an incremental stepping stone. It seems weird to expect some anonymous guy to create a perfect end-all and be a failure if he merely ended up with something with some merits that can be improved on.
Call me when Slack allows collaborative editing of powerpoint presentations and excel spreadsheets. I think there is little overlap between the part of the companies which benefit from Teams and the part that wants to use Slack.
You can almost picture the Executive team at Disney on one of their private yachts on an island somewhere being fed food and drinks cackling at each other about how they'll be able to convince people they "Had to" layoff workers.
For many things yes, most landing pages are dishonest SEO trying to get sales.

But i think that "suggest me something" is going to be a big selling point too. Decision-making is tiring, and people are willing to give that power to a machine. Look at how tiktok, youtube and even facebook now are working, it's slowly becoming like a TV stream that you passively watch. "Tell me what to do tomorrow" is going to be a common question in a year or so
Sure, it makes sense to start with the friendly conversation and escalate to a C&D if that proves to be needed.

Deliberately infringing someone's trademark with a domain name seems to me like a dicey way to look for attention, though. But hey, "it's a bold strategy, Cotton, let's see if it pays off for 'em."
> This isn't everyone, but it is a fair number of people

As my list indicates, anyone who has this has an easier time of it, but they quite possibly paid more for their house if they live near their employer.\

> Most people are in a long term marriage like relationship

Are they? Why does this matter?

> I think most people could check enough of those boxes if their tried just a little

Most of them need relatively little effort if they have a tech job - that's my situation. They get far, far more difficult if they have a blue collar / low paying job / kids with issues / health issues of their own.
>My claim is that they are choosing not to enroll in CS programs

You're the one with the baseless claim that black people as an entire cohort have "vastly different levels of interest" in CS. I provided several reasons and citations that they're still facing the consequences of systemic racism, and that it's not really a "choice" or "interest".

Your continued claim offers nothing other than conjecture without critical thinking as to why this is happening, despite having evidence presented to you. You provide nothing to backup your claims, yet demand that others offer evidence for claims they never made.

You're now trying to move goalposts towards by only looking at the university level when that was never my argument, and shows you're not trying to argue in good faith.

I'm done.
Here you go :

https://haiweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/HAI_ACCISS_fac...

It looks like most patents are expired. I hope this should open the way for effective analogue insulin to be manufactured generically.
Except it can't. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34648167
Thanks for the work you do. Handling controversial things is difficult.
Should release the novel anyhow.
Let’s propose a Faustian (or is it anti-Faustian?) deal of sorts:
One can go in for rejuvenation and get a younger body and brain, but:
One has to sign over all worldly possessions either to one’s heirs or to the state. In other words - to start afresh.

Otherwise one can imagine a world dominated by the same multibillionaires and politicians - forever.

Having said that, I personally would very much like some rejuvenation, so I hope my jibe doesn’t cost me my youthful blood transfusion. I was just making a friendly joke!
Outsourcing is bigger than it’s ever been in all sectors of atleast technology.
You can turn off auto-updates or build off a present revision. Those won't go away.
Pretty sure I agreed with that ages ago... https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jujugoboom#34591865

Hope you got what you wanted out of this
Being fat can be a sign of malnutrition. Americans aren't just fat because they eat too much, many are fat because they live in food deserts or have no time to cook and no access to affordable healthy food.

You're not helping your argument with this example imo.
Apple’s 2½ year old iPhone 12 is 6% faster than the new Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra
For a long time I wished for an e-mail client that shows a side-by-side view of the e-mail your composing and the e-mail you're replying to. I think the majority of people would like such a view, yet nobody offers it. Does anybody know any good solution in macOS?
This is largest hurdle I've seen for Starlink. I know at least 10 people in the foothills of Northern CA that are stuck with 2 choices if they want Starlink. They can either cut down several massive (100ft+) trees or they can pay someone to climb up a tree and mount the dish. The second options comes with a whole other sets of problems and typically still includes cutting some other trees down.
If they did any less, they would fall further behind Google's scare tactics.
Cold calling is a numbers game - better suited for larger orgs with a defined process for driving prospects down the funnel. Not ideal if you are independent.

Your best bet is referrals - from family, friends and especially colleagues in the industry. Make a list of folks you know who may be in some position to advocate for you, then call those folks up and ask them for help. Make sure you are able to clearly articulate the services you are willing and able to offer in a way that makes it easy for them both to understand and share with their contacts.

In the meantime, do some thought leadership - start a blog or do a series of videos helping folks in your area of interest while demonstrating your expertise. Post links to them on LinkedIn and anywhere else your prospective customers are. Don't be afraid to give away "secrets" - most are more willing to hire someone who knows what they're talking about rather than trying it themselves.

Make sure everything you put out there - emails, blog posts, videos, etc. - show how folks can get a hold of you. It can be as simple as including your URL prominently.
I'm so tired of this joke/take whatever it is ..
You’ll need to find the dumbest people possible with corporate purchasing power, given you’re selling vaporware. I’m not sure where I’d look for customers like that.
On the monetary front, a number of companies such as Infosys [1] are lobbying for CDBC schemes, so your assumption is completely plausible. However, in this case I’ve never found the company that’s behind such lobbying.

Have you considered proposing your scheme as a RFC to relevant stakeholders such as WHATWG?

[1] https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/uk-prime-min...
They even had a full-scale replica of the Oval Office there

https://twitter.com/harrymccracken/status/710956599477534720...
> when are they going to understand that the same solution can be applied to housing and other problems?

Housing problem is not an economic problem, it is an effect of vetocracy of city councils and activist groups.
Yeah, I can't be sure. However, the "tech" part of the layoff most likely falls under the R&D expenses, which are relatively small compared to their overall costs. So I don't see, how cutting any number of core development workforce would make a significant difference. At least in the financial sense.

Also, I looked at the wrong year. Currently they are in Q4 2023FY, the statements for the last quarter are here https://ir.gitlab.com/news-releases/news-release-details/git...
In the UK this has been knocked off the table multiple times, and yet somehow it keeps finding it's way back. "They only have to be lucky once, you have to be lucky all the time".
The pandemic was so bad for mental health due to he fact people were locked down and unable to socialize. If it wasn't for that, the majority of people wouldn't have been affected so badly.

It was the social impact and not the disease itself that caused so many problems.
GUI: Claws Mail/Sylpheed

TUI: mbsync+msmtp+Mutt+Maildir
Next-Gen Hydropower Turbines Let Fish Swim Straight Through
That's a fine reason for chunky, toy-like bars and buttons on the sub 1080P displays of yesteryear but a really shitty excuse for continuing to use that sizing when even throwaway computers nowadays have full HD displays.

Are they truly incapable of changing the widget scaling based on resolution and/or input method?

As to the keyboard shortcuts, I am familiar with them, but that's table stakes. Every mainstream DE can be driven more or less comfortably with a keyboard. That doesn't excuse the use of a full-screen, context-destroying application switcher/launcher that even Microsoft realized was a bad idea on the desktop nearly 10 years ago with the launch of 8.1. Said company even realized that touch and mouse are fundamentally different input methods and adjust UI accordingly! If only the Gnome developers were so up to date!
Is this GitHub acting independently or is it Microsoft informing them that they needed to lose 10% but they could do it on their own time frame?
If I can add to the original question - anyone starting their own business since getting laid off?
I agree, that is annoying. It seems as though they are preparing to release 1.0 soon, so we'll find out soon enough.
Reflecting a common theme in our healthcare system, the problem of insulin costs is very unevenly distributed: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/out-of-pocket-spen....

About 3 in 4 enrollees in ACA plans that use insulin pay $35/month or less out of pocket. For people with private insurance, 4 in 5 pay $35/month or less.

The biggest problem seems to be too many plans, too many choices, and too many ways to fall through the cracks.
Well, the solution to search / archive.

I could argue that those are two very different functions. I could also argue that with a new architecture, Thunderbird could satisfy both functions well. It just doesn't now.
How do people live with themselves charging 20 times the production cost of an essential medicine?
Auto-spellcheckers make me a better writer, it's just a fact, I tend to misspell a lot. I don't know how one of the great literature writers would use ChatGPT, otherwise I would be a great literature writer, but I can tell you that lots of writers around 1920-1950 wrote love letters to their typewriters, from André Breton and other surrealists [1] to Isaac Asimov, Gabriel García Márquez, and so on. And plenty of editors thanked Chester Floyd Carlson, inventor of electrophotography, a thousand times while enlarging the hieroglyphs of writers insisting to write with a pen or pencil. These inventions were certainly helpful. So many recent good books would have never been written without a word processor able to run on a cheap laptop. Even espresso machines were probably extremely important in the making of at least one good book.

So, yes, ChatGPT will probably not be essential in the creation of art, even today you could write a great novel with merely $10 for pencil and paper, but it will be better with ChatGPT or similar tools: faster to find the word, easier to iterate over the possibilities of a phrase, helpful to evaluate parallel scenarios, and other use cases to be found by great writers.

Sure, there might be an issue for the artists themselves: who do you reward, is it "valid" art, and so forth. But as a reader, ChatGPT hints that the greatest works of literature are yet to come: hundreds of times while reading a page I would have wanted to read a hundred more pages about a particular aspect but the author went frustratingly in another direction. In this case, the author might be elevated, from the laborer putting words on paper, to a generator of directions to be followed by the generator of text, in the same manner Michelangelo, Caravaggio, or Gaudi directed the painters, sculptors, and workers to execute accordingly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist_automatism
I used the sabre core libraries to create a slack-backed CardDAV server for a hackathon. Was super-fun to get it working, and the demo was quite powerful - you scan a QR code to OAuth via Slack, and download a iOS mobileconfig that adds the CardDAV profile to your iPhone.

Unfortunately, Android not supporting CardDAV made it a half-way solution, so it wasn't as seamless as you'd like. It was super fun to build using sabre, but it was limited by the CardDAV decisions. You can't make a read-only CardDAV server that easily, for eg - the client will optimistically make local changes, and assume that server is just temporarily down when it returns a non-2xx code.

I might still polish it and release it, since it was a super-cool tool, if only for iOS users.
Hah from reading your original post I already knew you were good. My comment was really meant for those interested in these setups (I get asked about this quite often) without realizing the time and effort needed to maintain it. This can be a real rabbit hole as I started with an Edgerouter and Unifi AP and eventually worked my way up.

I really like your idea of having a separate router that can be used standalone if the main system fails, and might actually consider adopting that for my family as it would be very useful if I'm not available. Currently I'm looking into a virtual HA Opnsense setup on two servers to maintain routing if one fails and cannot restart for whatever reason.
Luminati is expensive
Okay, but generic arguments of this sort won't tell us whether any particular project will succeed. It's going to depend on local conditions.
Sorry you went through this as that sounds like some terrible teenage years. You should of been having the time of your life at that age. When I was 17 I was screwing around more than anything else and basically having a blast 24/7. Was a mediocre C student at best, but ended up jumping through the right hoops after HS and got all but 4 classes of a CS Master's at a well known Upstate NY university completely paid for. This is not meant to brag, but just wanted to bring up that even a total idiot kid like me did well.

I've seen it again and again. Parents and communities pushing on their kid's academics and sports lives to no ends. I was lucky to have well grounded parents that mostly just let me be a kid and figure things out for myself. Unfortunately I don't see this strategy getting bigger any time soon.
That's why I think the hiring freeze that took place at FAANG is the right approach. Companies should not play with people, and it reflects poorly on the decision makers.
Reading these comments, I learned about human analog insulin and how it's considered more modern than older, off-patent versions. I was wondering about human analog insulin's patent status, and from here [1] I learned about the practice of patent ever-greening.[2]

TL;DR: "Evergreening is any of various legal, business, and technological strategies by which producers (often pharmaceutical companies) extend the lifetime of their patents that are about to expire in order to retain revenues from them. Often the practice includes taking out new patents (for example over associated delivery systems or new pharmaceutical mixtures), or by buying out or frustrating competitors, for longer periods of time than would normally be permissible under the law."

A relevant quote from the Wikipedia article: "In one study of the prescription drug market, Feldman found that 78% of new patents associated with prescription drugs were for existing drugs."

Depressing AF...

1. https://www.t1international.com/blog/2019/01/20/why-insulin-...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreening
Here's why I like it:

- Dependency tracking

- Not just views, but tables, and incremental tables

- Testing framework

I've worked on a few data teams that have all been "copy/paste SQL from GitHub into the Query Editor" and it's (obviously) pretty bad. DBT is super low-lift and professionalizes your data pipeline basically instantly.
Outlook is more or less fine, but share point and teams are abominations
Might it be, in part, due to moving to newer versions of Firefox or Firefox-derived components under the hood? When Thunderbird was starting out, Firefox would have had something like a 10-15Mb memory footprint with no pages loaded and eaten approximately zero processor cycles while idle. It's, um, a lot bigger and hungrier now.
Especially tech workers in the US were incredibly cocky not realizing they are the working class too. It was inevitable that we will all get hit because of that attitude.
I was laid off in early December. I applied to a couple hundred positions, interviewed with around 10%, and received two offers at the beginning of this month.

The market is pretty rough. I had a lot of good interviews fizzle out into rejections after the final round. I assume this is because I was competing with several other recently laid off engineers. My new salary is 33% less than my previous and I’m getting much less equity. It sucks but I’m happy to be employed.
Is it being force installed?
any reasonably good eng culture recognizes that the language is often the least important aspect of engineering a solution.

A rust engineer that knows why the borrow checker exists and can safely do unsafe operations likely will do fine in C,C++, Go, Java and many others.
I self-host my family's calendar and contacts using sabre/dav, and I've been very happy with it. It provides CalDAV, CardDAV, and per-user WebDAV shares.

For clients, I use Evolution on Linux and DAVx5 [1] on Android.

I wrote a FreeIPA integration plugin [2] to do authentication and group memberships using my local IPA domain.

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/at.bitfire.davdroid/

[2] https://github.com/sacredheartsc/sabredav-freeipa
For those interested I would also check out Andrej Karpathy's YouTube video on building GPT from scratch:

https://youtu.be/kCc8FmEb1nY
We just had a Support Ticket with them that took them over a month just to respond to, claiming they had too much volume!

Surely, they're not 'overstaffed'
I think I can do a decent job of steel-manning this- I might be a bit unfair because I think it's rather morally reprehensible and deeply harmful (and also suspect these are only the stated motives of folks pushing this idea), but I can try.

Everybody generally agrees children going hungry is bad. What we're really arguing about is whether the government should be spending taxpayer funds on feeding them.

In fact, because the overwhelming majority of people see child hunger as bad, private charity would step in to feed those kids who aren't fed by the state. This is better in two ways: first, it's more voluntary (instead of "donations" being compelled by force), and second, private (market-driven) charity can be more efficient than a state monopoly.

So it's not that kids should go hungry, and I (n.b. this is me in-character!) am a bit surprised that you think I seriously believe that. Rather, kids necessarily go hungry if nobody feeds them, and the debate (OOC: note i'm deliberately reframing the harm here as a natural thing!) is really over who should step in if the parents, the natural caretakers, aren't able to support their child. Should the government use taxpayer funds to do so, or is voluntary charity a better option for everybody?

Additionally, there's a moral hazard here where the state effectively subsidizes having kids that a parent might not be able to take care of on their own.
> ii) We will be moving to Microsoft Teams for the sole purpose of video conferencing, saving significant cost and simplifying cross-company and customer conversations. This move will be complete by September 1, 2023. We will remain on Slack as our day-to-day collaboration tool.
Former Head of Heroku Joins Upbound
Furthermore, some very senior employees are in this boat: They kinda have enough savings to just retire, but were hanging on to their jobs to save maybe 10% more or whatever. Now that they're out of a job they are simply saying "Whelllp, I guess I'm now retired." and not really feeling the need to look anymore. I know someone who refused a forced return to office, and when his company tried to call his bluff, he just said "I guess I'm retired now!"
Yes... but how many times can you pull off ANOM? It worked really well once - but by the time there's the 5th, or 6th, or 7th security company that criminals have never heard of and a long string of dead companies, they'll be quite wary.
I was lucky enough to grab a new position through someone I knew fairly quickly. But, in the month it took for the company to actually extend an offer, I didn't have so much as a nibble from anyone else. And I definitely knew people who just got out of the industry.
It doesn't solve that because it doesn't increase throughput on the main chain. Why do you think it solves any real problems and how do you think it does that? So far you just keep repeating the same thing without any understanding of what it actually does.
Show HN: FFmpeg with WebRTC Support
There’s already a de-Microsofted fork called VSCodium. Most people would probably migrate there, and development will proceed independently.