skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My basic answer is “they’re trying to rush stuff out the door because the people running bing have no idea what they’re doing” :) given that the things I propose don’t need any new inventions, I’d say they’re good to discuss and coming in the next few years for sure.

And I totally agree that a) a search engine that doesn’t cite its sources is useless, and b) you almost never want to chat with google like it’s a person. So you’re spot on. But the point I was trying to make is that the main use case is in stuff like automated summaries, specialized page rankings, expanding quick informal queries into longer formal-logic ones, etc.
These companies overhired and now they are realizing that the positive cash flow to justify all of these new employees isn't existing. None of these layoffs are focused on laying off their most expensive people. The severance packages have been very good meaning that the laid off employees have a long time to find another well paying job.
You can let users report crashes. You can even prepare the data for them. You can even provide a wizard that automatically opens on crashes to help upload that data. But you need to obtain informed consent. Sending data behind the user's back without ASKING FIRST is not ok. Stop doing it.
I wish them the best finding a new job at an ethically and morally good company.
From my understanding the "E" in DEI stands for equity. Equity favours equality of outcome over equality of opportunity.

How does the commenter you're responding to have it wrong and what is DEI really about if it doesn't include equity?
I never gave up on thunderbird and hope it will rise again to represent "power, protection, and strength for the user". Thunderbird, in contrast with the sibling "browser" is still a desktop app that asks the user to have some agency and exercise it.

Here are my two cents in hashtags and slogans for the future of thunderbird: embrace activitypub/fediverse, expand rss functionality, reinvent bookmarks, think about audio/podcasts, improve filtering and smart search. Leverage open source ecosystems and tools for next generation content management. In sum, become the local app where people spend quality time to organize their online life and experience the digital ocean.

Yeah, you could improve on the looks. But keep in mind: "In architecture, functionalism is the principle that software[/buildings] should be designed based solely on their purpose and function". If the purpose and function are beautiful, people will think thunderbird is beautiful. On the other hand no amount of eye-candy can hide the lack of purpose.
There is Blue Bottle Coffee for something like this: https://bluebottlecoffee.com/us/eng/subscriptions?tb=coffee-...

My wife is a serious coffee drinker so I got her a nice grinder, espresso machine, and Blue Bottle Coffee subscription in 2021. We canceled the subscription after a few months because it was hard to tune the deliveries just right. We either ended up with too many beans still on-hand when the next delivery arrived (and you don't want them to just sit there, because the whole point is freshness) or we'd run out a day or two before the next delivery, especially when the delivery arrived a day or two later than promised. It was easier to just pick up another bag of beans at a local store on the day when we needed them. My wife also said the beans at the local store were better, fresher, etc.
I wonder if that's a part of the issue. There's almost no fixed grammar. Especially the basic things, many programs do the thing as an option.

Imagine if python functions /classes had their own add implementation.

You aren't just looking for foo + bar.
You've also got baz(foo, bar, add), biz(add, foo, bar), buz(foo, bar).add().

Some people will use one. Some another, they'll be subtle incompatilities, etc.
Yes, it's a brutal calculus, but inflation is also really corrosive for labour, since wage rises tend to take a while to respond to inflation and... cause more inflation.

They are stuck on the horns of a dilemma they created 10 years ago with 10 years of sustained QE and ZIRP, which led to the asset bubble we now see deflating.
Firing someone is a lot of work in general. It’s easily the worst part of my job. You always have to do the paperwork at a big company. EEOC or discrimination claims or not (you always assume they will file one at some point).

Anyone who says this is the reason a person isn’t fired is probably lying or doesn’t know the facts on the ground.
This does not change the ambiguity of the language, nor does it remove the need for a prelexer.

Quoting the talk, very quickly...

Which command outputs \\?

echo "\\\"
echo "\\\\"
echo "\\\\\\"

You may see this as a non-event, but the rest of us are not quite comfortable with this.
Sorry, but why wouldn't he just blow up the Baltic Pipe then? What use is the threat itself when you admit losing the Nord Stream did cost them something? Seems like a stretch.
Next batch of Thiel fellows announced
Maybe they should try delivering the person and make the drink at the door. Lmao
My God, I'm so tired of this response.

It's not a person. It's software. It shouldn't be wrong just like humans.

Imagine opening your banking app and your total savings is wrong. Would you say, "It's okay, people make mistakes, too!" or would you be pissed that your bank's software is incorrect? Why are we pretending like this is any different?
Lmfao. Do you know how hiring works at a large company? When your management chain has won a few headcount marbles during this quarter’s game of Hungry Hungry Hippos, it’s not in your interest to blithely challenge them on it.
I've used Thunderbird exclusively for desktop mail for many years. To my knowledge, it still sucks less than any other free and open option, but that's not much of a bar.

Over time, Thunderbird has become slower and less reliable, most notably in the area of search. While the advanced search tools are excellent, the results are lousy. Email that I know exists is often unfindable until I force Thunderbird to re-index my whole mailbox.

Seeing F/OSS devs of (what I consider to be) a critical app like Thunderbird talk about "modernizing the interface" is the worst. The interface is fine and there are far bigger problems -- problems related to actual functionality as opposed to prettiness -- that desperately need work.

And to echo others' comments: courting the "average user" is worse than a waste of resources, it's an active turning away from the core users and supporters.
One thing to takeaway is that wired is so much better than wifi.

At home I am just using the ISP router but I have my work laptop,desktop, consoles and TV wired with ethernet and it is amazing compared to wifi. No more dropouts, random ping spikes/lag etc.

Just ISP router with 4 gigabit ports + one Netgear GS108 dumb gigabit switch.
Especially when that choice is made for you by others. One grandfather did not wish to go into a home but his daughters insisted and put him there.
I don’t think your theory explains angry rich people or cutthroat billionaires or self-indulgent winners or any successful person who’s ever evolved from being mean to being nice.

We’re celebrating Kareem for how unique he is in his outlook because it’s so rare.
Crime also tends to peak in the summer in the US.

My personal headcanon simplification of this very complex relationship is that humanity is sort of like an ideal gas such that when you pump energy into it, chaotic patterns of increased activity occur.
Extensions are not really a problem, cause Thunderbird have made it to scare off many over the years. They change rules, api, etc. many extension are not maintained, not compatible, whatever. I stopped installing and using Thunderbird extensions, it took me too much time and nerves on updates.
ChatGPT Is a Blurry Mirror of Ourselves: Why Google Is Losing Ground to OpenAI
> £33k

That seems… incredibly low for a licensed profession
JMAP failed, let it go already.
They sent you an email and had a meeting about it. That's telling you.
> Get-ChildItem . | Sort-Object -Property Length

> where is a file and what is the biggest in a folder

You don't need to use the full commands and parameters. The commands have aliases, and parameters can be arbitrarily short (and case-insensitive) as long as they are unambiguous:

gci . | sort Length

gci . -r -inc <filename>

Furthermore, the PowerShell interpreter has an extremely powerful autocomplete, so these should be straightforward to look up.
You’re 100% correct but it’s easy to dismiss because it devalues individual perception of how one thinks their company values them. Most of us aren’t special is the reality. Few are special and irreplaceable.
I'm not really on here much, normal people noticed services like whatever chat in gmail being killed, the search sucking, and YouTube getting ad everywhere sucked. Some google products are loved though like Chromecast and Google fiber when it was around.
Most people don't care. But I'm betting that a disproportionate number of people who are going to order coffee do.
Yeah, I’m really not looking forward to the period where we’re basically just hoping the entire planet learns the importance of validating provenance.
Deliveroo lays off 9% of staff
This looks like it'd be great for D&D
He writes fiction as well, he cowrote some novels and comics based on the Mycroft Holmes character.
I would've guessed GitLab would be unlikely to join the layoffs party right now, just on culture and internal/hiring image reasons.

Then again, I also thought Google might've been a holdout among the FAANG companies. Before, I figured someone working at Google could assume that, if they focus on the company and do great work (or focus on the perf/promo metrics/criteria that Google seems to want), that Google will take care of them.

Now, for both companies, I wonder whether, rather than lighting a fire under anyone who needs it, layoffs erode the unusual trust and intangible appeal they might've enjoyed.

(Obviously, Google will still have the selling point of paying very well (or pay OK, if RSUs and bonuses don't recover). And I suppose Leetcode interviews make more sense, if you imagine it coming from a musty old complacent Fortune 100 bureaucracy. And GitLab, though not known in the US for pay, will still hire people around the world, with transparency on at least non-layoffs things.)
The example I have in mind arent in an oppressed class because they have money but are very likely victims of rassism.

Nor are black people are oppressors because of lack of numbers in that particular case.

These people are antisemitics though they experience very similar to what Jews feel in Germany today.
> the very useful feature of showing the complete conversation history (across all accounts)

Isn't this the same as the unified inbox feature in Thunderbird? All your accounts can be displayed sorted and threaded together.
I feel again like you're not comprehending what I wrote, and I'm going to assume you're not intentionally being dishonest in doing so.

> without mindlessly discarding everything else the person said.

It's a good thing I didn't do that.

> That will be a very successful way to never have to challenge any of your opinions since nobody is infallible.

Funny because I don't have a strong opinion either way on how badly Musk has behaved relative to the Twitter acquisition, so there is no opinion of mine to even protect. Again, you don't seem to understand what the following statement means: "I don't trust what you're saying and will have to corroborate it with other sources". Because it definitely doesn't mean what you think it means.
The solar polar vortex isn't something new. It does it every 11 years, near the solar maximum.
You could cut small pieces off yourself now and fry them up. They'll regrow so what's the difference?

If that bothers you, maybe you ought to reconsider what you're saying?
Remember "cell phones will fry your brain"

There is a huge overlap between '5f panic', anti-vax, panic, and all kinds of other panics. A lot of people who wind up things like the Qanon cult end up there because they had some sort of technological or political anxiety, networked with other people who had similar uncertainties, and were drawn into a radicalization funnel. There is plenty of financial and political capital to be made by fleecing such people.

Flat earth nonsense is another example of the same phenomenon. If you go down that rabbit hole you find a warren of religious fundamentalism, built on the idea that earth ain't flat, space is fake, the Bible explains the stars are tiny lights mounted on a firmament, NASA is a satanic conspiracy, and it's time to take up arms against the forces of evil.

All radical funnels follow the same sort of pattern, which is derived from sales and marketing: goofballs > grifters > true believers > organizers> extremists > martyrs/terrorists. Of course, you can make similar observations about partisan politics, geopolitics and so on; institutions function as funnels for the production of future elites who maintain the status quo through increasingly coercive means. Radicalization funnels differ mainly in terms of transparency, accountability, visibility, and speed of transition.
Good tool to have for users of PDF documents.I missed seeing the WASM locally manipulated notifier perhaps it can be more clearly identified. Certainly can see usage and it will be good to have digital signing capabilities and adding any "version" edited signed attribution of the generated pdf file(author).

Perhaps reword as Secure,private, fast and free local in browser PDF tools?

Congratulations.

Look forward to learn from the source code.
Are there any companies using local, open source email clients, or just tech enthusiasts?

It's not 2005 anymore, the world doesn't need your little message reader.
I don't think OpenAI ever promised to provide all of their tech for free.
This is clearly bad law. Not only is it unknowable and unenforceable, but it serves to reduce oversight if actually followed. Society is better off when we pay attention to how it runs and this type of law directly criminalizes that.

And it shows a basic misunderstanding of government, if it's paid for by your tax money it clearly involves you.

This is what the USA has over almost every other country - an acknowledgement that ultimately the people charter the government not the other way around.
“Similar trucks” — I love that we have computers capable of writing such realistic prose but also iOS’s autocorrection system.
Semi-related: my apartment arranged a setup a coffee delivery service.

You ordered the night before, and then between 6-8am a thermos would show up in the lobby labeled with your name. Once done with the thermos, you would leave it at the pickup spot for the next day

We got a month of this for free (!!) and it was great. The thermos was reasonably good at keeping coffee warm, there was actually a good variety of coffee drinks to order, the delivery window was not a big deal (I could wander down at the end of the delivery window and it was always there).

That setup seems to lower the logistical challenges- you know all orders ahead of time, can brew in bulk, can deliver in extreme bulk. I'm not sure how/if they tracked thermos returns though.

But even that failed, the prices were quite steep (~200/month). After the free trial, I stopped using it, and I just checked and it seems like they are out of business. It seems like a difficult, low margin business to be in, in general
Only for UI designers who put aesthetics before usability.
Yeah I always buy a couple of bags of beans to bring the total above the $40-50 threshold they have for free shipping. Then I vacuum seal all but one bag and chuck them in the freezer. Frozen, vacuum-sealed coffee keeps fresh really nicely. I get lots of crema out of it even after a month or two in the freezer.
We use it for our organisation and run our own server via docker also.

Its been flawless on Linux, Mac and Windows for us, so I'm not sure why all the complaints of lag?
> Suppose that a god announced that you were going to die tomorrow “or the day after.” Unless you were a complete coward you wouldn’t kick up a fuss about which day it was—what difference could it make? Now recognize that the difference between years from now and tomorrow is just as small.
I agree, we should definitely avoid binary "culture war" positions because, like everything else, the "culture war" is not a binary issue. Many of the hundreds of millions of people in the country (myself included) hold nuanced views of many issues (like abortion and QI) that don't neatly align with the binary left vs right nonsense en vogue with political partisans and legacy media. All that being said, objective reality has nothing to do with the "culture war". How far along in a pregnancy a woman should be allowed to have an abortion is a matter of legal and political opinion. On the contrary, that genetics play a role in the developments and attributes of human beings is not. It is a scientific fact that you have genetic traits that you inherited from your parents, can be scientifically quantified and measured, and will have an influence on how you develop as a human being. This isn't a legal or political point to be debated, it is a matter of objective reality. There is still much to learn about how much influence genetics have on our various attributes, but there is no debate that the effect exists. We can (or should be) all be able to argue about politics and law without rejecting bits of objective reality that don't jive with what we wish was true.
Yes, the problem is
that HNers consider themselves intellectually superior to Redditors who tend to be the ones that upvote sensationalist articles. Apparently they don’t understand the heavy overlap between their collective behavior.
I don't understand how this sentiment is weird at all and I think you're reading a lot of your own biases into it. The statement talks about where the work gets done and doesn't speak to how efficiently the work gets done.

There's nothing that prevents remote work from not being efficient enough to further the goals of an organization. It also doesn't prevent one from being a leader and teaching younger folk. In fact, I've had to do this a lot and it's much nicer to get people on a video call and share my screen to teach or do team programming than it is to find a meeting/conference room in the office.

Some people don't like interruptions _precisely_ because it prevents from doing an efficient job. And it's more than slightly annoying when you're getting interrupted multiple times per hour.

Yes, _very_ few things are built solely by an individual, but _nothing_ prevents remote work from "Doing work" as you put it or collaboration between teams.
I seem to be using it for free just fine.
I support the right of people to choose to end their life with dignity and it seems sad that people would have to resort to starving themselves to death. If this was legally sanctioned, an injection of opiates could be much quicker and less painful.
Direct hit to the heart *cries in BGP and big enterprise switches*
Want to recommend one of those other email clients for Mac? The threading/conversation support is my biggest gripe apart from the slowness. I am also guilty of rarely deleting things.

EDITED TO ADD: Using gmail and fastmail.

'nother edit: should deal gracefully with emailing files to myself. C.f the threading in fastmail's webmail, which is ... weird?
> Also farmers are disproportionately immigrant labor

Huh, this statement is so weird to me that it was a "lightbulb moment" about what words mean to different people online. I wonder how much misunderstanding this causes. I'm guessing your background is urban and coastal? I'd love it if you'd share, I'm genuinely curious.

I would never use the word "farmer" if I was talking about an immigrant laborer picking fruit or whatever. I'd call them migrant laborers or pickers or farm workers.

In the standard dialect of people in the 90% of America designated "flyover country", they'd would use the word "farmer" to mean the people who own and operate farms. Generally a middle-class, small-business-owner type person. Likely educated in some mixture of agriculture, business, finance, real estate. They're highly financially savvy, as they have to manage selling futures vs taking the spot price for their crops balanced against storage costs, land rental agreements, machinery leases or repairs, tax and crop insurance complexities, not to mention the science of how to optimize yield on their specific land.

Calling the laborers "farmers" is like calling an uber driver a tech worker, at least in the dialect of English I speak.
Same. I try to give myself three responses to any particular fallacy, mostly to work through my thinking. Once I have a pretty solid “you are assuming a technical limitation in a first gen product will persist in all future evolutions, when the second gen has already addressed it” response, I try to just smile at the 4th. . . Nth people who discover the exact same topic.
Datamuse API: a word-finding query engine for developers
> The current macroeconomic environment is tough

aka

> Interest rates are high and I am worried about getting my next round of funding or meeting minimum payments on corporate debt.

Because an overwhelming number of corporations take advantage of tax laws that make interest debt deductible, every interest rate hike leads to firing people and decreasing business investment, just to stay profit margin neutral.

If you want to change this, it would really help to change the tax laws.
https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/en...
In this context it is a sign they bend their knees and kiss the ring.

Shareholders have been feeling that the tech workers held too much power, and companies were openly / not-so-openly having a fight with their shareholders, so to speak (especially in cases like Meta).

With the new blood sacrifices, shareholders can rest assured that their profit > everything else.
How to Manufacture a Drug
Unsure why you had to turn this into a dig at Michael Jordan.

And before you say it's not a dig at him, what could possibly be the implication of calling Kareem a true "winner" in comparison to the previous statement about a competitor like Jordan who always wants to win?

Did I miss something where Michael Jordan said he doesn't want to spend time with his kids or grandkids if he has them? Is that what the "fuck them kids" meme is actually about?
Oh yeah I would definitely split them up into little intermediate steps. But then I’d get a bit sad that I don’t have the pipe operator :-)
Pretty sure these are user donations.
It is an amazing book, not just for science fiction fans. The first story, "Tower of Babylon" somehow is like a science fiction story but based on ancient people's cosmology. Great book.
Not sure how deep you intended this joke to go, but the NBA had 23 franchises in 1980 [0] that scored 108 points per game[1].

Now there are 30 franchises scoring 114 points per game.

If you look at the points per game stats, scoring dipped as the number of teams expanded, but rule changes, officiating changes and increases in talent over time led to more points being scored.

So a 1980 point was almost certainly worth more than a 2022 point.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980%E2%80%9381_NBA_season

[1]https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_stats_per_g...

edits: typos
The sharply rising interest rates are a problem if you have a short runway that makes you reliant on debt or investor money, in which case yes you very well may need to cut costs just to keep the lights on.

But if you're Microsoft or Google? You're profitable. You're bringing in money hand over fist. Technically the high interest rates might benefit you because now you have more options of what to do with that giant pile of cash: you can lend it out and get a decent return!

So high interest rates maybe do justify layoffs in some cases. And even perhaps for GitHub specifically, though I'm not sure I understand the complex dynamics of how it generates value for Microsoft anyway...