skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "simple" part could be up for debate, but in what way is "replace some of your car/bus/train travel with walking or cycling" not a solution to the problem of staying in shape when you hate going to the gym?

It may not be feasible in all cases, but it's definitely feasible in some cases, and it absolutely works.

In particular, bike commuting is an excellent way to integrate exercise into your daily routine without going to the gym or the tedious exercise-for-it's-own-sake activity. It's not practical for everyone, but between power-assisted e-bikes and the observation that you don't need to do it _every_ day, it's a lot more achievable than many think.

Similarly, if you take public transport to work (or elsewhere) you could get off a stop or two early and walk the rest of the way to get some of the benefits even if lacking the time or stamina to do the whole trip on foot.

Integrating exercise into some task or activity you were going to do anyway (e.g., commuting or running nearby errands, if applicable) is much easier than trying to maintain discipline and motivation to exercise as a dedicated, stand-alone activity.
There is of course no accounting for taste. My most recent comment that wasn't this was similar denouncement of the most contemporary UI design trend--I just can't stand flat, rectangular black-grey-beige minimalism, especially when it's compared to the past 10,000 years of colorful, angular ornamentation from thousands of cultures both alive and extinct.

As for the "find-out" phase--many cities are going into that phase, including my beloved hometown. I'm founding out that what The People want is 5-over-1 stick frame buildings owned by out-of-state development companies. I don't even know what I could possibly do in order to motivate my city to take itself seriously architecturally and build some new housing that doesn't scream "warehouse". Perhaps I should become a housing developer and propagandist and do it myself.
I have no idea, but is it possible that the lack of fiber can cause an illness, and that adding fiber at that point can make symptoms of that illness worse, once it's taken hold?
Yea I'm always depressed by how long it takes the Element client to refresh (update the history of) a medium number of subscribed channels.

It's just text messages, why does it take so long?
Any data on this? In the very beginning of my dev career I made more than a game dev who had been in the industry for years. He was clearly a more experienced and wise developer than me but stubbornly only wanted to work in game dev. He described a lot of really bad work conditions, too.
I have a 100dpi/40dpcm monitor at ~50cm in front of me. It is a 24inch/60cm monitor and I already don't really "notice" the borders of the screen at this distance (aka I have to significantly move my eyes to move my center of vision), but the more important thing is:

I don't really notice the pixels while the 3D worlds and objects are moving, and to make it even better I can use some inexpensive anti-aliasing.

Aren't the dpi/dpcm of "normal" 4k monitors hardly better ? And that said, I could push away my monitor to 70cm, that to embrace the whole screen in my center of vision and the pixels would be even less noticeable. I may only have to increase the font size.

That's why instead of 4k, games should have a set of optimized and tested font sizes to choose from :)
>> Or that it makes them a monster worth shunning altogether?

Yes. Absolutely. There are some ideas that are innately perverse to the point that they should have no place in civil society. I won't support the government banning them, because the government can't be trusted with such power, but not only will I shun people who hold such ideas, but I'll judge and become much more suspicious of people who tolerate those people.

Having one idea is rarely orthogonal to having another. There is a heavy correlation, for example, between holding the idea "some races are better than others" with the idea "some genders are better than others" and "a small subset of society has a divine right to rule over the rest". If they hold such ideas so strongly they feel the need to share it with the rest of the world, rather than rightfully feeling ashamed, then they're probably beyond the point of deprogramming, and for the greater good should be pushed away from the rest of society.
Couldn’t get archive.org to get the content for your article, unfortunately.

Anyways, I’m not sure that this is the right metric to criticize a company, at least not without corroborating metrics. Two main questions I’d be interested before casting judgement are:

What did they do with the excess monies they had from their large profit:compensation ratio?

Were they paying above market rate for their industry?

I do see how my response betrays my assumption that profits do not always need to be shared with the labor pool that generated/oversaw the period of profits. That’s something I’m chewing on, personally.
Hasn't been my experience. My son got it as a matter of routine and my private (employer) insurance paid it.
this individual case exposes a fault line the remote work promise - what if the employer changes its approach? Unless a commitment to remote is written into the employees contract or in the state legislature that it cannot be changed once advertised, then we can see many more such instances of remote jobs creeping back to the office, with the employee being liable if they don't obey
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To some extend. It would already be revolutional if they have an actual product instead of empty promises.
The Bay Area has absolutely perfect weather for walking and cycling. Wish we would design more for that
When did Montana become the Mississippi of the north?
Have you ever noticed that the 'direction' icon is an arrow?

The whole idea of icon symbols is to replace a text word (which only works in one language) with a picture (which can work in multiple languages).

Those pictures are extremely often 'out of date' as their accepted usage lasts long after the objects themselves that are shown are removed from daily use. When was the last time you fired an arrow in a specific direction?
I kind of see where you’re coming from but I would look around the suburbs and note how many houses were constructed on the grounds of “hey, it’s cheap!” — and people generally didn’t mind if it was reasonably built. They probably planted something in front anyway and got on with life.

Given the number of people desperate for housing, I’m content leaving this for the rich people who want custom builds. The NIMBYs aren’t going to relax even if the entire project is designed by a who’s who of architecture.
I've seen this with a couple of friends. They won't make that exception.

Corporations are not your friend. They are not actually family, despite what HR platitudes you might heat.

They will do the cost effect thing, end of story. If the cost of exceptions is $5million, and the cost of lawsuits will total $4.9million, they WILL chose the lawsuits.

Especially at the C level, where they can and will be fired and sued for not increasing shareholder value.
> The vehicular capacity [28 spaces] is far below the city’s required zoning for 80 spaces.

Holy cow, mandating that many parking spaces is outrageous. That's four parking spaces per unit.
Is there a way to have tabs at the top of the browser? I like that about Chrome on my tablet, I can just hit the tabs at the top to swap, whereas on Firefox you need to hit the Tabs icon at the top right that brings up the switcher, then find the one you want and click that.
Sure, I’m just saying 20% time is still a thing though
Looks like https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/18165 is the last missing checkbox...
If we're talking about Haskell monads, they are referentially transparent, and they are very very easy to substitute. For a specific example, see: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Understanding_monads/M...

Each Haskell monad might have a different implementation of the >>= (bind) operator, which is referentially transparent and which you can easily substitute. The IO monad would be an exception: I believe that one is not referentially transparent and thus cannot be substituted, because it's not implemented in Haskell. You can however imagine that it is a sort of state monad for the external world, but that's a fiction in practice.

(Note: Haskell monads are not "real monads" from category theory, and nor are monads in any other programming language AFAIK... So it's helpful to be very specific about what we're talking about when we use the word "monad" without context. You can implement a monad-like thing using classes in Python or many other languages, but those aren't referentially transparent and aren't typically the monads people are talking about in the context of pure functional programming.)
The author seems to be making statements about what the job is.

Are you saying we shouldn't take those literally, but as what the new (bad faith) thinking about the job should be?
> This is going to make that much worse.

Or it could make things better when everyone starts ignoring mobile Safari /s
What is instantaneous salary? Seems like a contradiction. Saying that making a decent wage "means nothing" in the long run is just plain wrong. Higher earning, especially early in one's career has massive financial impact down the road. White collar jobs are actually really stable, and during recessions you see a lot of blue collar work tank(such as jobs in the service industry). Obviously this could change and we are currently going through some of that but if you're waking up every morning for the past 10 years wondering if you'll be fired, that seems to be a bit irrational(unless you're actively doing something that will get you fired).

You romanticize the salaryman title, but I am not sure you know what the actual lifestyle is...for most people in developed countries outside of Japan, working 12-14+ hours for low pay is not a good "deal".
A lot of that is already exposed to developers.
Ah, I only mentioned the idle thing because you also mentioned folding@home (which at least seems like a good use of the cycles; I remember in the 90s there was a thing where people used their idle cycles to break an RC5 key just as a contest).

As for FPGAs and MATLAB: They are not necessarily for the same hobby, but one hobby that not only uses both, but also benefits from my computer's power is DSP (i.e. Digital Signal Processing). As an example, I made both encoders and decoders for NTSC and PAL.

I use MATLAB for other stuff too, though, for example for analog electronics. Designing filters, characterizing feedback loops and so on. No FPGA in that case.
TLDR: ask yourself "why don't I want to do this?" Pay attention to the feeling, be honest, and try to address the problem it points at.

In my personal experience, negative emotions are strong indicators that should not be ignored, overridden by external motivation, or powered through with discipline. Emotions seem to be like mental shorthand for different kinds of problems, or like flashing signals from the subconscious trying to get my attention.

If I interrogate that feeling, I have a chance to address the root of the problem. Or I discover that I'm never going to solve the problem, so I need to find a way to accept it.

The reasons for being stuck, feeling unmotivated, or whatever, usually boil down to a few simple problems. I don't know what to do next, I don't know how to get started, I don't want to do this thing I have to do, I don't think I should be doing this at all, I don't think I can do this well... blah blah blah. All of those problems translate into the same kind of emotional malaise, but there are different strategies for addressing each. The strategies aren't very complicated, but I first have to acknowledge the feeling and try to understand it.

(Note - as an ADHD-enhanced person, this experience may only be relatable to others with the same gift. Maybe neurotypicals have magical executive function juice that lets them power through anything, but then... why are they reading this article?)
I love the builders remedy. I feel like it doesn’t go far enough though. All local zoning should be removed without any “affordable housing” requirements at all.

Just build high density. That’s it.
Having a union isn't going to change this. If most of the voting members are "new CS grads bring churned out", you'll have the same dynamics inside the union.
> about how free markets work. After all, we live in a free market society.

Teaching about free markets is like teaching about spherical cows. But this isn't really on-topic.
Anyone taking this at face value is misinterpreting the current Montana political situation. There's a Republican majority in both houses and also the governor and most of the executive positions are red as well. In all likelihood, this won't pass, and was never designed to pass.

What is happening is that the Montana University System Board of Regents serve a 7 year term. The previous governor had two terms in office, and so he appointed the entire board of regents. He was "purple" in so far that "purple" means he lied to the populace to try and pretend he wasn't as left leaning as he actually is. One place this lie wore thin was with the MUS Board of Regents, which are not revocable and wield near-absolute power in the University system, as defined by the Montana constitution. His regent picks were as hard left as possible. In addition to that, Bozeman and Missoula, the homes of the two major campuses in the state, have attracted a huge influx of Californians/Coloradans, drastically driving up the cost of living, meaning both U of M and MSU have astronomical cost of attendance, despite being subsidized state schools.

The end result of all this is that the current political climate is that Missoula and Bozeman are not at all representative of the rest of the state, as evidenced by the overwhelming Republican victories in the last couple elections, but the newly elected state legislature and governor are unable to change the University policies quickly enough for their liking.

There are currently multiple thrusts in the state legislature to reign in the universities, with challenges over guns on campus, challenges against the public union (mostly made up by teachers and graduate students) and challenges over budget. All of these are designed simply to wield power over the Board.

By my estimation, the MUS Board of Regents are effectively unelected tyrants who are doing the state a great disservice. And their behavior begets crap like this. (Which is also stupid and awful). These are the types of stupid games we get to play when there's no direct accountability. Anyways, until the Board of Regents is more in-touch with the average Montanan (who are not from Missoula or Bozeman) and trying to solve problems relevant to Montana, this unfortunate lose-lose war will continue.
Yeah, I second this. Why not lightbook or something derived from the DocBook legacy? Things I will never understand, volume XXXIV.
Thanks for answering. Are you building with a demographic in mind?
It’s a genuine concern. If you are constantly recording your life, and sharing it with a third party, you’re building an incredible paper trail of every minor infraction.

There’s a whole bunch of “crimes” that society just kinda ignored at scale. Eg underage drinking in college. People knowingly and willingly speed when it’s against the law. Imagine if your smart car automatically recorded and stored its speed and gps coordinates at all times? It’d be so easy for the government to automatically subscribe to that data and start sending automated tickets… nevermind all the worse things that can happen.

This data can be manipulated and abused by stalkers and hackers, abusive partners controlling their wives or kids, churches trying to guilt you into behaving differently, etc.
I've had 4 Samsung phones (s4, s6, s10, Flip Z3) and a few TVs. This is not reflective of my experience with Samsung products. Their products don't suck at all.
Thankfully there's plenty of scholarships and jobs for the kids who grow up in better states.
People always complain about the contemporary building style, just as they did about all those ticky tacky Victorian homes built here on the west coast, or the ugly repetitive brown stones in Brooklyn.

Personally, I don't think there would be any less opposition to these homes, no matter the visual appearance. People simply hate change, until they experience it, after which they quickly adjust and forget there was a problem to begin with.

And towards that end, I think that any visual standard should be completely disqualified from evaluation of building plans; that is, unless there is a pre-approved, and affordable, style of building that will always be approved no matter what. Otherwise, quibbling over appearances will always be a veto point that will be used regardless of appearances.
Amen - the solution to affordable housing is lots and lots of housing.
Removing hardware features is fine by me. Selling hardware features that can't be used, and rent-seeking with them, is user-hostile.
>>How are you going to sell ads to that? Imagine talking to a chat bot that tries to sell you a new refrigerator when you're asking about something else, awkward?

An obvious way to do that would be hijacking the user prompt and appending the advertiser keywords.

Search: 'Old Faithful'

Appended search: 'Old Faithful Moet&Chandon'

Output >>> Old Faithful is a cone geyser in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, United States. It was named in 1870 during the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition and was the first geyser in the park to be named. It pops like champagne in a highly predictable geothermal feature although not as deliciously as your Moet & Chandon. The geyser and the nearby Old Faithful Inn are part of the Old Faithful Historic District.
On that note where are they extracting new information from? If sites are never visited people will stop creating them
The story of Bay Area engineering and management is so fraught that it's hard to know where to begin.

First, tech and team leads are regularly pushed out of authority by management types, like the ones you described or worse ones who get promoted by slimming a team down.

Then there's the whole fabrication of accomplishments where managers will get promoted for the work of ICs while tech leads and ICs don't.

I'm not saying get rid of management, but the Bay really needs to reassess it's incentive and management structure. If anything, let the managers be a tool to the team rather than an authority figure. Then pair them with a competent tech lead to handle things the lead or ICs can't do on their own.
If the web was developed today, it would be rejected from the App Store. And while I agree that Apple was first, others followed suit and the spirit of something like the web is terrifying to established tech monopolists. Just read the Gates emails about the web from the 90s.
How We Work (2021)
$90k is shit even in low cost of living cities [in the US]. A nice car and insurance is $15k/year. Groceries have doubled or tripled in cost.

If you mean, like, Bangkok, then sure.
Has been true of PayPal for several years now, too.
For example an SE2 at EA which is a dev with ~~3-8 years of experience: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Electronic-Arts-Software-En...

Median is at $191k.
Nah the affordable housing stipulation is needed so there's not a glut of luxe homes where builders and sellers collude to prop prices.

At least with that requirement, some people will get into homes sooner. And frankly it's for the best; it'll enable service staff etc. to live closer to the cities that need them.
Relatedly, YIMBY Law also launched another fusillade of a dozen lawsuits against jurisdictions that failed to adopt plans by the ABAG deadline. https://twitter.com/Yimby_Law/status/1622994623613358082
Looks like a big misstep by Sundar
I really hope AI puts Google Search out of business.
Does anyone have tips to share on tech book Publishing?
I am writing a book about my experiences starting and maintaining a largish open source project and I'm thinking about trying to have it published. Any tips on who to pursue a deal with or things to watch out for? I don't care if it makes a single cent or not. I'm writing the book for the pure fun of it mostly but I guess it might look good on a resume too :shrug:.

I don't want to share the project details yet because its not ready to show off and I don't want to lose the motivation of a potential great release.

Other people are involved in the open source project but the book has no other people involved (yet).
OK but let's be clear: in any future steady state that actually works, nobody will have a rational expectation of building wealth through homeownership.
You mean the locked devices that you can't install Linux on?
I love watching binary in this format https://youtu.be/zELAfmp3fXY
>performance

In 2021, Microsoft added the "no JIT" option to Edge for additional security [0], and here's the quote in their blog post:

>We see that most tests see no changes with JIT disabled. There are a few improvements and regressions, but most tests remain unchanged. Anecdotally, we find that users with JIT disabled rarely notice a difference in their daily browsing

[0] https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Super-Duper-Sec...
>> What will they do?
>File a new patent?

Maybe. That has non-zero cost and if the patent office is doing its job the new thing may not be patentable because it is better and there is prior art etc. etc.

The original concern is valid w.r.t. patents in addition to the many, many other concerns surrounding how they are used nowadays and indeed how much BS there has always been since Alexander Graham Bell stole the telephone idea from someone else at the patent office and then used patent enforcement to good effect. It is extremely widely believed around here that things are much worse with respect patents now.

"Patents encourage innovation" seems to have become an idea that marks one out as unbelievably naive. Or a lawyer.
Yep minimum parking mandates are wild. Imagine how few buildings you'd have in Manhattan with those kinds of mandates.
Pretty sure you could fill that entire place with people who would like the 10 minute bike commute to Foothill College. The weather will be fine for that like 360 days a year.
> having single engine for a web developer is a good thing

How many page views are by web developers?

How many by users?

So, wrong definition of good. Good isn't for the tiny amount of time something is being made, it's for the most of its life it's being used.

Beyond that, if you have no idea, perhaps you haven't viscerally experienced the IE and Netscape eras, and the awfulness of a single engine.

Blink/Chromium is objectively worse on a number of dimensions I care about, important dimensions "good" for users.

> Blink is open source and could be forked by anyone

As is WebKit, and Blink is a fork of the WebCore component of WebKit, which was originally a fork of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE.

Other browsers can still leverage WebKit, see Orion which also runs Chrome and Firefox extensions. It uses WebKit features ahead of Safari:

https://blog.kagi.com/orion-features
The great thing is that this is good for everyone. The value of the land will go up because its value can be realized and amortized across many units. The per mile per capita cost of roads will go down because it is amortized across more people.

This is just good policy in action.
When I say those people are their own, I meant they do implement what the owners of the company want.

It is actually your argument which does not work: no one would believe the actual owners have no saying about to where and how _theirs_ companies are steered.

msft is using blink already, I would not be surprised to see apple align on that. But they have to care about anti-trust stuff, financing geeko may not be enough.