skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat unrelated, but for folks who might enjoy living like a vagrant in Japan, it is also worth checking their extensive network of mountain huts [1].

They are a little pricey (JPY 8,000+ per night, meals included), fairly strict in terms of lights out, wake up time, etc, and can get pretty cozy when you're sharing a room with upwards of 20 other people. But also some of the best, most memorable experiences of my life for being able to climb up to 3,000m elevation and just relax and take in the stunning views while offering the convenience of warm meals, toilets, bedding, and a often times a vending machine full of beer.

[1] https://thejapanalps.com/en/cottage-hotel/cottage-camping/
Difficult things are often the most worthwhile. Things also become easier once they are a habit.
Indeed. We thought that the AI threat was killer robots. But it is actually the cancer of information which looks reputable but is incorrect in unpredictable ways.
But it still illustrates the pitfalls some employees fall into.
Very hard to imagine a scenario where Google's larger data set, gigantic computer infrastructure, more advanced technology, larger user base, and better talent don't keep Bing from overtaking it.
Depending on the company saying I don't believe X gets relayed back up your chain with eventual unpleasant consequences (hey so and so doesn't agree with this management decision so they must be a misfit and can't be trusted to put the company first)
You’re greatly overstating the problem of using Safari. Google’s devrel team has astroturfed a lot about that but if you’re the average working web developer it’s been easy to support all of the evergreen browsers for years - the big win was dropping IE11 support — and you’ll see a significant performance or battery life win by dropping Chrome, which the average user will appreciate a lot more than not having WebMIDI or sites nagging them to enable push notifications.

The mistake here is seeing only one company abusing its market position when it’s really two. While I don’t like how Apple handled this — Firefox deserved better — it’s also the case that Google used their dominant positions in search, email, maps, and video to promote Chrome. I’d be a lot more comfortable allowing Chrome on iOS if it was accompanied by regulatory action banning that and requiring Google to do real QA on other browsers and not use proprietary Chrome APIs on their production sites, which held back Firefox and Safari performance on YouTube for ages because they were using the web components standard instead.
I actually hope Google gains complete dominance over the Web, and that in response, a meaningful coalition of powerful companies moves to do something better.

The whole thing - web browsers, web servers, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc - is so incredibly stupid, from a regular person's point of view. Programmers love all this shit, because Programmers just want to sit in a cave and play with their legos. But normal humans just want to do something. They just want to compute X, or move Y, or talk to Z. They don't want to hear excuses from Programmers about how hand-crafting 15 bazillion frameworks in googledy-gook languages is The Future. They do not care. They just want their life to be easier. And it takes a metric shit-ton of bullshit to make the Web useful enough to just get shit done.

Start a server. Install an operating system. Install a web server. Install an application. Design an HTML, CSS, and JavaScript web application user interface. Design a server-side application processor. Handle the storage, indexing, retrieval, transformation, authentication, authorization, encryption, deployment, backup, load balancing, and everything else. Learn 30 different tools and systems and frameworks and 10 different languages and 500 different paradigms and make something so complex that Leonardo would call you a genius if you could somehow explain it all.

All for little Jimmy to tell his teacher he's got the measles and is staying home from school. Or Margaret to order a replacement driver's license from the DMV. Or Kumar to order a pizza.

There are much better ways we could be using technology to solve people's problems than the jumble of bullshit we have today. But the jumble is propped up by trillions of dollars, hundreds of millions of jobs, and entire nations worth of infrastructure. Until one player dominates it all and controls it, nobody has a reason to upset the apple cart.

I hope Google does become the evil empire, so the rebels will see the chains on their hands and finally begin the fight.
What was your experience like with GSOC? Gitea has applied to it this year, and are hoping to be able to make it a good experience for any contributor that is matched (hopefully we are accepted as well).
AOC isnt exactly a shining light of intersectionalism. In fact, she kind of prides herself in tribalism. Consider this tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/aoc/status/1103163478024601601 Rather than trying to share ground with others she's being reminded that she regularly drowns out other people's voices. She went on to do exactly that after this.

If your point is that not all leftists are intersectionalists and not all people who use intersectionalist words actually have the values, then I'd respond with, "duh".

Intersectionality isn't about telling one person's story or exemplifying one person's pain. It's about showing that these things are interconnected and effect people differently, and ways in which you probably wouldn't expect. It does the absolute opposite of a hierarchy.
Is this a ChatGPT response too?
That data is pure fantasy.
Would you rather share a grade with slow cars or have actual physical barriers between you and fast cars? Exactly. Separating traffic of different types/speeds is paramount to safety. We've known this for going on 150yr.
Again, with the huge benefit of hindsight, it looks to me like there was unlimited water and at least a few days of food in the cabin, but I really have no idea how often people come by there. Some have suggested starting a smoky fire, maybe with a car tire. Another option would be to leave the family up at the cabin, and have the dad head down to the valley alone at night or very early in the morning to get help. He'd be able to move a lot faster without a four year old in tow.
Middle square. ;)
> I will note that so far there seems to be a much greater number of guys who actually did the things they were accused of than who were falsely accused.

So we now dispense "stochastic justice"? You're probably guilty because you are in a specific group so we'll just proclaim it by fiat?

Sadly, a lot of people think just like you do. And they get very upset when they are on the wrong side of the pointy stick because someone with authority claims they are in the wrong group.

You will always be in the wrong group for somebody. The only difference is that there is no defense if your beliefs are in charge and those people get power over you.
WASP? You mean they don't have enough Catholics or Germanic students? You mean to tell me Harvard/MIT can't recruit foreigners? I see MIT's first year student survey shows Asian American as the highest group at 40%. Internationals are 11%.
Spent the entire last year voluntarily unemployed and being friendly and open in a cafe throughout the day, based on the same reasoning as yours.

Putting any more time into this seems like a waste of life.
You can release on every headset but 90% of your market is Oculus and they'll collect 15-30% commission on every sale.
same here, I used https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/Robot.htm...
It's just another basic economic effect of having too much money supply in the system. Governments printing too much money at a fast rate is the core reason of why inflation happens.
True, but at the same time I'd wager its rather difficult to appreciate the grand mystery of nature while you're sloshing around in a pee soaked diaper.
I don't think OpenAI is trained on any copyrighted, for-sale books. GPT-3 at least uses books1 and books2. Books1 seems to be Bookcorpus[0], Books2 seems to be Libgen[1]. There is some unclarity about the purity of licensing in Bookcorpus affecting 200-400 of the 11,000 books[2]

0. https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/bookcorpus

1. https://librarygenesis.pro/

2. https://towardsdatascience.com/dirty-secrets-of-bookcorpus-a...

Are you suggesting that free / public domain material shouldn't be used for training, or were you not familiar with the training set?
German defense minister makes unannounced visit to Kyiv
What does "IC" mean in this context?
Is that Motion Capture and Copy and the cute suffix -pi, together to make Mocopi..?
People say that Notepad++ runs perfectly under Wine on Linux.
A lot of distance approximation for humans is done with parallax. (not everyone, I worked with a guy who's brain wouldn't do distance approximation via parallax and so when he went to 3d movies with friends he wore an eyepatch)

If you completely obscure one eye's vision that no longer works and you've lost your depth perception.

Even having one eye blurry is sufficient for parallax to work. (I have very different prescriptions for each eye and if I take my glasses off I can still do distance vision even though one eye can't read any text further away than about 2 feet)

So try it - put an eye patch on for a day and see how many door frames you walk into... or the headache you may get trying to use focusing an eye at different distances (and that's fairly tiring for the lens muscle to be doing all day if it isn't properly exercised).
What's really annoying is that they could have sidestepped the whole problem by simply putting a simple physical on/off switch on them, instead of the soft on/off button they use. No one uses these cheapo calipers for more than a few minutes at a time anyway, so the battery would probably last a lifetime with a normal switch and no one would notice that it's a power hog.
i don’t think they’ve had a console that bleeds money in the sense that playstations/xboxes have, though they’ve had quite a few flops over the past 20 years
you can look up some links to back up your claim that this Bozeman movement is from rural places, but I really doubt that's the case for this one.
Fact: The plate hit the floor and broke. Theory: The plate will always hit the floor and break. Conditions: On Earth.
It’s not a “gray zone”. Derivative works are flatly covered by copyright law and this definitely doesn’t meet any of the fair use criteria either.
Great comfort for when the real one is WALL-E world! :)
Years ago, in a thread about copyright, I left a grumpy comment on how RIAA would copyright your voice and then charge you for using it. The grumpy oracle in me was right. Now imagine the future where all employment contracts are plagued with a "voice & image" clause that tells you to grant a perpetual, non-revokable, transferrable, sub-licenseable and royalty-free right to your your voice and image.
Writing more will not make you a better writer. The rub is you have to learn to write stuff that people will want to read, or even better yet, pay to read.
Then they should get fired, just like they would by doing no work in an office. Remote work doesn't somehow remove the obligation to work or for the employer to drop unproductive employees.
I sometimes load up music from RuneScape on YouTube and it takes me back to the simplicity of that time like nothing else. Absolute time warp.
A human with 20 years of savings would just be considered financially sound and (barely) safe to retire.

Yet a business with over 6,000 employees with the same financial security is exceptional.

Perhaps there’s something to learn here.
You'd be surprised how many faangers believe BS thing X (say Ads) is a necessary life blood of civilization (seen your li feed recently)?
Being a manager is hard and comes with a boatload of emotional responsibilities[1]. It takes a long term to learn, and our process of training managers is fundamentally broken.

It's not that there's a "set number of great managers", but we fail to train people, and many who could've been simply wash out because they were thrown into the deep end without any support. ("Hey, you're a good IC, you must be a manager")

And before somebody suggests it, no, MBAs are not the answer[2]. And I don't think we're fixing that if we don't manage to move away from a world where the ends justify the means. As a manager, your fundamental job is to care. Not to goose numbers, but to care enough about people that they feel safe enough to take risks and grow. In an environment that lives and dies by "what did you do for the metrics/the quarterly numbers", developing that care without losing the job or becoming a deep cynic is really, really hard.

If you have a good manager, hang on to them. If you're reporting to one, think hard about following them if they leave, because they are rare, and you might not get the experience again. And if you have the opportunity to become a manager, think carefully if the environment will allow you to care enough.

[1] https://fortune.com/2023/02/06/managers-impact-worker-mental...

[2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2962506
90% of a nascent market is not a huge lead

— not sent from my blackberry.
Storing OAuth Tokens
> Surely after 4 years you'd know if they were worth it and convert to an employee

I think in many/most cases, the goal is not to have an additional permanent employee.

Most large, reputable companies completely gutted their hiring numbers for permanent positions after the 1989 crash. They still needed warm bodies to do stuff, so this “dispatch” system became much more common.

An unfortunate side effect of the growth of the dispatch system is that young people rightfully feel much less secure in their long term employment, so they ended up delaying or never making long-term commitments like marriage and having kids.

Imho, the growth of the “dispatch” system has been one of the leading reasons that Japan had the “lost decade” that seems to be working on its fourth decade. The federal government and the large corporations of Japan really dropped the ball on this, and they need to look in the mirror when they wonder out loud about the current societal and economic malaise.
Exclusivity is a two sided coin. Speaking as someone who dealt with the Teamsters Union at a few expos myself, it can be very annoying to not be able to carry your own boxes, or plug in a new power strip. Honestly, it’s maddening.

The flip side (for me, personally) is that I believe that the conference hall would charge me the same fee with the same restrictions, pocketing a large majority of it. It’s no different than going to a stadium and spending $60 on two beers and a hotdog while the person behind the counter makes a fraction of the sale but cleans the space, warms and hauls the food, handles the sale, and puts it together and gives it to me.

So again, there is pain with the teamsters in a convention space (specifically in this context), I fully agree. But if I’m going to have to pay too much for a service I’d rather it went to working class families with stable jobs in the area I’m visiting and doing business in.
Why can't that just be "ability to work with people" full stop, regardless of their background? If society is very, very diverse, then surely we all have to work, live and grow up with different people anyway.
Same here! It was also my first programming "job". I sold 4 copies of my script for 10$ each. My script would play one of the members-only minigames :D
Agree. Their decision is made. The way I manage I tell upper management what risks their decisions have, then don’t let them blame my team for when those eventualities occur. My teams don’t work overtime to meet a deadline when some decisions was made that screwed up the schedule. Those kinds of things. That’s protecting your team.
Individual contributors - as opposed to managers
sure. a Manteca property is still less desirable than SF or a peninsula one, even though sfba is not dense by any means. That's not my fault.
The inflation Japan is experiencing has not been caused in large part by a wage price spiral. It has largely been caused by US and Japanese monetary policy being out of sync.
> But it wasn't so obvious at the time.

Sure it was. That was how it worked before. Hoare created null because of pressure from other programmers to write shitty code that looked like it worked even when it didn't.
I worked on JVMs (in a mostly research capacity) for a good number of years, but I soon gave up on the idea that classes and instances of classes (thus, heap-allocated objects) are the only thing the VM and language should be designed around. But there is a lot of sunk cost in the engineering of the JVM and there seems to be a lot of inertia against adding new primitives like tuples or unboxed types. That limits the source language design somewhat and definitely brings down the performance ceiling, raising the complexity of the engine, ironically (because it has to work extra hard to maintain the fiction of objects with identity).

Well anyway, I diverged from that significantly now; Virgil has value types, tuples, ADTs, and closures and happily unboxes them all.
That sounds amazing, what does your day to day consist of?
Pull to refresh is currently only enabled in Firefox Nightly on Android. There are still some open bugs to be fixed related to pull to refresh gesture breaking some websites.
Or a second-hand Cricut...
What is your review schedule/system?

I only started a couple years ago, but review only when I remember pertinent entries.
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Gecko and SpiderMonkey still exist, despite all of the terrible Blink/V8-only implementations out there…
The Great Picture
Nreal Airs mentioned in another comment thread seem viable for the dishes problem. Thought I should mention to you.
I'm reading "Deep Work" by Cal Newport at the moment. He calls out this event specifically in a very negative light. His stance is that it's enforcing a nefarious belief that appearing to be busy is more important than being productive by punishing those who were performing deep work and rewarding those who habitually check their email, etc.

I think I am in agreement with him? Results matter not appearances. EMs should be able to tell who is working productively and access logs are a poor proxy for that.

What do you think?
Individual contribuitor. In most cases, this is roughly "people who write code."

https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/what-is-a...
Thanks for pointing this out!

I guess the test I described is the simplest case of detecting appropriation by AI. Still, I think it would be a good start.
Relevant Novella from Cory Doctorow:

> The way Salima found out that Boulangism had gone bankrupt: her toaster wouldn’t accept her bread.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...
Same! Though I got in much later when it was Simba
The paper does seem to address this:

"Several previous evaluations (Ioannidis, 2021a; Levin et al., 2020; O’Driscoll et al., 2021; Brazeau et al., 2020) have already synthesized information on age-stratified estimates of IFR. Most of those used data from early published studies, and these tended to have information from mostly hard hit countries, thus potentially with inflated IFR estimates. Moreover, several analytical and design choices for these reviews and data syntheses can be contested (Ioannidis, 2021b) and many more potentially informative seroprevalence studies have been published since then."
> if companies find that they are more profitable paying managers more.

Is there any reason to believe this? Other than just assuming that whatever companies do is optimal for their profits?
As the answer points out, Zerg rush is an offensive race-to-first-strike strategy aimed at destroying your adversary's production capacity quickly before it can be built up, while Jefferson's aim was defensive.

Also StarCraft usually starts with each side on an equal footing with no standing armies or resources and only base technology levels.
Trying to reuse their desktop UI code on iOS would be a mistake regardless of browser engine limitations
When you can use it, you should.

My comparison was between:

- JavaScript with no documentation tags

- JavaScript with non-machine readable documentation

- JavaScript with documentation tags
It is painful because it is explicit. In an implicit world every one know it is bs and just move on
Is it queries on live data or data thats been moved usually?
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Olav
I can name quite a few places where they do, and I'd say that more people agree that livestock are animals than those who would admit that embryos are human beings.
Then bring the gym to you - buy your own equipment. Work out in one 30m block, blocks of 2-5m throughout the day, whatever - anything's better than nothing.
lol brilliant.
Makes a decent argument for tech worker unions. The classic HN response is "oh, but they can just find another job", until that defining factor is being followed as a trend by nearly every company in the area.

The companies would have a much harder time telling productive employees to get fucked and come to the office with some collective bargaining.
Even before Carl Sagan's day, you could find some idiot saying idiot things somewhere, if you looked hard enough. You could even find an idiot with a lofty title - somewhere in local government, or maybe middle management at a reasonably-sized company - saying idiot things.

This idiot didn't even get a bill passed - he just submitted one. From the look of things, his district's got about 7000 people in it, and being modern America, there's probably a ~couple percent swing in either direction at play in any election, so this idiot managed to convince maybe a couple hundred other people in Montana that he was the best option - and who knows, the other guy might've been an even bigger idiot.

I agree, there are troubling trends in the country, and I agree that those trends require action. But this idiot isn't a trend, he's an idiot, and no matter how much action we take and how much success we have, there'll always be another idiot out there, proudly crowing their idiocy. My point is that spending any time at all letting your dander get up because an idiot said an idiot thing is wasting time and energy you could better use on other things.

More broadly stated - I get my dander up when the house and senate pass a bill that the president signs. I get my dander up when the state of Texas bans abortions, and the Supreme court upholds it. I get my dander up when the Alameda County Sheriff blows a $300M budget and still neglects inmates to death. But I'll be damned if I'm going to waste my dander on some jackass state senator grandstanding in rural Montana. I've got better things to spend my time on, and so do you.
True, but you assume 2FA is implemented correctly and doesn’t have a bypass. What I’m saying is that they’re often poor at what they do, so I don’t put excessive trust in them.
I’m not claiming anything. Another person seemed to claim they were from CA and CO…. somehow due to the action of some regents… without anything to backup the whole story.

I’m saying that any population increase doesn’t support any given theory. There can be all sorts of reasons for population changes.
I was wondering why software industry didn't take off in Japan like in the USA.

Now I know. It's the employment rules that makes firing people hard once recruited.
The only reliable way is to have the clause negotiated into a union contract which also has a "just cause" termination clause.

One more reason to for tech workers to start organizing.
This may work for individuals, but if Twitter were to implement this, it would work for MAYBE 15 minutes before the bots get around it.
Both can be true examples of authoritarianism.