skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the root problems here is that a concept like "character" is extremely underdefined. What you want to do in terms of counting the memory a string will take up, indicating a particular spot in the string, mapping to arrow keys or the backspace key in a visual program, knowing how far to indent to drop a caret in a visual error report, knowing the width of the string in a visual (especially fixed-width) text display. For ASCII text, you can use the same value to represent all possible slightly different definitions, but in non-ASCII, you need to use different definitions, and there's no one true definition that solves all use cases (no, not even grapheme clusters).
I think it very much depends on where you live. I live in a suburb of a medium sized city that is not a tech hub so WFH is a top priority for me. I don't want to have to uproot my family and move for a job. If I already lived in a NYC or SF I could completely understand. With WFH though I am able to pay mid city suburb housing prices while working for a company in Manhattan and getting NYC pay.

Most of the tech jobs are in an area of town that is an hour commute each way so no way I am going to do that. End up leaving for work at 8 and not getting home until 6 or 6:30. With WFH I can actually dedicate exactly 40 hours a week to work and no more. Plus get away with it.

So for my WFH is the number 1 item. Pay is top as well but if I cant WFH or have to move then the pay doesn't really matter.

Although I would absolutely love to have a local office I could go into once or twice a week.
> Keep up the good work mr/ms downvoter

It’s they/them downvoter actually.

But seriously, as far as I can tell it’s not possible to downvote people who have replied directly to me. It’s just other people downvoting you because what you’re saying is unpopular.

You’re certainly not pissing me off. That’s why I’m trying to calmly explain your errors. But it sounds like you’ve made up your mind and take disagreement as some kind of encouragement.
> not willing to pay to another company for a product that's actually their competition.

This. Companies are cutting costs. Teams may not be the best to use, but it doesn't make sense to have multiple chat solutions.
No, the comment is claiming that if they're engaging in a high volume of critique then they're not engaging in scholarship as an AI researcher.

My point is that's false.
[Edit: It appears there were at least two suits filed by the same patent troll. The first was in east Texas and was dropped by February 13, 2020 (https://web.archive.org/web/20200305135828/https://mycroft.a...). However, five days later, on February 18, 2020, the same patent troll entity filed a second suit in Kansas City (https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2020/03/30/mycro...). According to the latter article, their projected costs to fighting the suit were already at least ~1/4 million$ three years ago (March 2020).]
> In order for children to be able to commit to 2 hours extra of their time BEFORE their parents get home (5pm), class would have to end by 3pm

Why would they need to be able to complete their sports before their parents get home?
If the above is all true, that would prepare pupils for future jobs --whether self-employed or working a corporate job.

One cannot run (successfully) a corner bakery without being able to handle routine and carry out mundane tasks or without getting up early and doing basic chores as well as being able to interact with others, keep track of your finances, etc. Corp job is much of the same.

You're getting moulded to have the potential to be a productive human being. The alternative is to have people find out what works and not on their own.

Even drugs dealers and macs know the importance of all the above.

Now, sure some people for various reasons cannot conform and revert to more "chimp self" and don't do well in civilization. But even if they became foragers and lived off the land, they'd have to learn routines, have attention to detail, patience and so on.
People take civil service jobs just because they'll get that kind of treatment: they're impossible to fire, and they'll get a pension just because they stayed around.

You could say that's inefficient and it is, but given what pathetically little the civil service can offer you, "job security" really needs to be part of it.
I'm perfectly fine with this. Many times, I don't need the energy later; I need it right now.
Did you post this to HN at the time? I've read this article before, but I'm not sure when. Either way, thanks for your contributions!
gzip/brotli handles this very well, but it still is text to parse through.

Some form of declarative CSS module scripts would help a lot. A feature request for that here: https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/939
They actually have the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant but I think it is not completed yet. However it was very close to the areas affected.
Tech lay-offs are a golden opportunity for the public sector
The key to using a proportional font is to give up alignment completely, and only use indentation.

Once you do that, it no longer matters whether you use a proportional or monospaced font.

The Black formatter for Python is an interesting example. It strictly uses indentation only and never uses alignment.

As a result, Black-formatted code is equally readable in any font, monospaced or proportional. I use my own customized proportional font called Trebuchet++, and Black code looks great in it.

If you didn't know I was using a proportional font, you might not even notice that it wasn't monospaced.

As you may guess, Trebuchet++ started out as Trebuchet MS, which I found I really enjoy reading on a high-DPI display. Then I started tweaking things in FontForge:

Trebuchet MS has a terrible tilde character that looks too much like a minus sign. So I put in a better defined glyph for that.

One problem in a proportional font if you use names_with_underscores as required by too many coding standards: the underscore character is much too wide compared to a period. This gives a visual grouping that is the opposite of what you want, for example in foo_bar.moo_car(), "bar" and "moo" are closer together than "foo" and "bar" or "moo" and "car". This is misleading visually.

So I used FontForge to add a bit of space on each side of the dot, and add negative space on each side of the underscore. In the example above, this pulls the "foo" and "bar" in "foo_bar" closer to each other, and similary for "moo_car". At the same time, it adds some separation between "bar" and "moo".

The difference is subtle, but in terms of visual grouping it avoids having the code read like this:

foo bar moo car

So it reads more like this:

foo bar moo car

I have a couple of other tweaks I haven't gotten to yet. In particular I want to add a bit of margin on the inside of parentheses and square brackets. In my own code where I get to choose the style, I've always uses a space inside those. I find this offers a real improvement in readability. But if I can't do that, at least I can fix it with some font tweaks!
Ignoring the condescending tone here, I'd guess the GP probably would describe himself as part of the depressing adult world. I'd consider the full scope of what all of us (adults) are up to as the adult world. And one of our responsibilities is to shield kids from it and ease them into it slowly. Society is set up that way, and we have the concept of a minor for good reason.

I don't think my list would be exactly the same as the GP's list, but the point I think is that kids are less shielded from the full bore of life right now and are worse off for it.
The reason that sports dictate school start times isn't difficulty in scheduling practices (since you could, at least on paper, put those practices before school starts rather than after). The problem is that sports are competitive between school districts, so you need shared non-school but school-adjacent time blocks between neighboring districts to schedule games in. Shifting one district much later (to run 9-5, for example) would make it impossible for that school to compete with others after school, which is going to be a practical nonstarter.

In my mind, this is one of the biggest obstacles to changing school timing significantly. Most other objections are internal to a school district, so a single motivated school board could tackle and fix them, but this problem requires coordination between many different school districts all at once.
Nice. Recasting "prefer MIT" to "afraid of copyleft."

I'm pretty sure we've had this discussion before on lobste.rs, yet you continue to mischaracterize and lump all opposition of copyleft into some irrational position based on fear, or that we somehow can't think for ourselves because our employers don't like copyleft.

My full position: https://github.com/BurntSushi/notes/blob/master/2020-10-29_l...
This is not true. Indian courts are very much functional and is not elected by politicians. So they are not as hamstrung as any US courts if you are going to start comparing. Only issue is the long delays involved.
Hmm funny thing, if it had been opt-in (maybe by finding and clicking a semi-hidden button) I probably would've been intrigued and searched for all the variations. Just a thought.
I don't think all Fiber optic is free from the effects of geomagnetic storms like the Carrington event. Lots of "fiber" also has copper along with it for critical telemetry and for powering repeaters placed directly into the cable assembly. If the repeaters burn up, the cable still fails.

That being said, if a geomagnetic storm takes out fiber laid on the bottom of the ocean we're probably all going to be needing new chromosomes shortly anyhow.
I don't use it for work, but I enjoy using Discord well enough for personal things (mostly gaming/tech, surprise surprise).

Every time I go from Discord to (full screen) Google Chat I cringe, it just feels so much more clunky for some reason. And I work at Google, so if anything I should be biased in its favor.
My school bus arrived at the school at 7:05 every morning. We were allowed in the building at 7:15. At 7:28 we were allowed to go to our lockers. Classes began at 7:30. My bus time varied by year, but the earliest pickup time I had was 6:20.
Slack sucks, Mattermost sucks, Discord sucks, but don't act like Teams doesn't suck notably more than the competition.
It's not only you.

I have two broken "Fallback" tabs in the Web view I use, and have for weeks now!
i think it also depend on the social group/context. in some place the word bottom kinda lost some of his "sexual" connotation and become just a "fun" world for submissive/unassertive.

(to be clear i also think is okay not to like this kind of language)
Putting aside the long-term concerns such as building skills, maintainability, team dynamics and so on, there's a simple effort-based cost-benefit analysis you can do. To responsibly use a bit of software Not Invented Here, you have to

(a) understand what it does

(b) research the available alternatives

(c) check that you're happy with its dependencies

(d) deal with any licensing issues

(e) check for known issues and bugs

(f) if possible, take it for a test run

which is likely to be a nontrivial amount of work. If it's less effort to just write it, you may be better off just writing it.
In the Friday nights lights states, we lift every other morning at 6am, practice ends at 6pm
>>Companies that are capable of succeeding with remote workers are going to have an advantage as they will have less real estate costs,

COVID did not change the economic metrics on that, so I am not sure why this is a continual talking about for justification of WFH in these "new times"

There have always been full time WFH organizations, and there have always been non-WFH organizations.

I dont see this having a huge impact on if an organization stays WFH post covid or not.

>>and they can get value out of paying for both a wider geographic worker pool

Yea... no. Companies tried that and found out real fast the problems with legal liability, and tax jurisdictions this is why you are seeing even companies that stayed Full time WFH post-covid have started to limit where they can hire from to only states / nations where they have business in already, already have Tax ID's already know and comply with the local employment laws.
We change our clocks every year for the night owls.
Do you realise that if you only work with server-side code, you can't use client-side code?
Low carb doesn't mean you can't eat food with carbs, it means most of your diet is protein and fat, and you restrict carbohydrate consumption.
He can have a low carbohydrate diet while eating vegetables, as long as he eats less vegetables than meat.
One of my friends effectively dropped out of university due to sleep apnea. He just wouldn't be able to get up for lectures or engineering labs, or be so out of it he had difficulty absorbing the material. A shame as he was a sharp guy, and has struggled with things in the decade since due to various knock-on reasons.

We used to laugh about how loud he snored echoing through the house - but looking back this was more a symptom of a medical issue than a joke.

It's a failure of modern western society IMHO where we see people actually needing sleep as "lazy", rather than a requirement to actually be their best.
For those interested, I think chatgpt4google[1] has a much cleaner implementation and works on a wide range of search engines and browsers. They also have an option to switch the searchengine from ChatGPT to OpenAI GPT3

[1] https://chatgpt4google.com/
Same principle but it was different in my schools system. High school starts 30 minutes after elementary and middle school.
Slack is excellent! What don't you like about it?
McKinsey is currently hiring a lot more for experience than they used to. My ex-wife works there as a manufacturing expert based on her decade of on-the-ground experience inside chemical plants. Internal teams really fight to get her on their projects so that its not just "a bunch of ivy league/top uni graduates who are very intelligent but lack any real world experience who ultimately only deliver a slide deck".

The culture may be changing, at least at McKinsey.
Ward Carrol is an ex-USN F-14 pilot. Justin Bronk is likely the most informed air power analyst currently speaking publicly.

The argument presented here is that the Grippen is the best jet for UA as it was designed exactly for this job.
>More flares are expected from this region as it moves across the sun creating occasional degradation of high frequency (3-30 MHz) communication.

that's short wave radio, right?
This is so cool. Simple concept, clean interface. Nice job. I hope it takes off.
My experience working with teams from Anderson (now Accenture) and Deloitte was that they heavily favored youth and attractiveness over knowledge and experience.
I would be surprised if such a generalization is useful, since metabolism varies and is integral to the effects.
Yes? That is kinda my point?
Got any citations to back that up? I remember everyone in high school in Philadelphia commuting via public transit. And what do you meant can't walk to school? The whole city is a grid, completely covered with sidewalks. Go pull up an online map if you've never seen it before. The only thing impeding people from walking everywhere is the fear of getting mugged or worse in certain neighborhoods.
> If my employer required me to use it, I would immediately find another job. It's that bad.

Agree with this. I started adding clauses to my services contracts requiring that it not be used, to this end. One client moved over to Slack as a result.
It was probably more accurate to say before their parents get off.
I think they mean class expression (ie const c = class {}) versus class declaration (class c {}). Both are indeed ES standard though.
Just go to developer options and disable depression, its that simple! /s
Shareholders can also be in it for the short-term in a public market, sometimes more so than management. That's why you get execs trying to juice the stock instead of setting the company up for success
I dunno man, pre-civilisation and education wasn't exactly much fun either. I'd rather be a part of the system that basically gives us everything from food to iPhones and the Internet than fight against it (while avoiding predators in the wild).

This is not to say that education, especially for boys and young men couldn't be made considerably better.
This looks like it's just throwing your Search query directly into ChatGPT and sending you back the result. (Source code[0])

This is less intelligent than what Bing is doing with (presumably) scraping the pages and then generating embeddings to add "context" for your query.

There isn't a "generic" project that I've seen that's doing this yet, but I could see somebody extending this plugin to scrape the first ~5 pages and then feed that into ChatGPT as the "context" for answering the question.

We've been doing something similar with another Open Source project called Buff[1] but it requires scraping the data yourself before you can ask it questions. (We're scraping vulnerability/CVE data and putting it into the Vector database via OpenAI's embeddings API. You can play around with it on our Discord server linked from my profile.)

Is anybody else aware of any other projects to make search more useful?

0: https://github.com/adamlui/userscripts/blob/master/chatgpt/d...

1: https://github.com/getbuff/Buff/
> has no intention of harm doing and you can't even call it gross negligence

You certainly can call it gross negligence if Microsoft totally ignored the likely outcome that people would come to harm because they would reasonably interpret its answers as true.

The intent here is with Microsoft releasing this at all, not intent on any specific answer.

> I'm not sure in what universe you think those are the same thing.

I think many users in this universe will just ask Bing a question and think it's providing factual answers, or at least answers sourced from a website, and not just invented out of whole cloth.

> I guess you know more than Microsoft's lawyers.

No, I was pointing out that Google seemed to be treading more cautiously (the law here as clearly yet to be tested), and that the disclaimers you were proposing aren't 100% ironclad.

Anyways, I was just trying to answer your question on how Microsoft might be sued for libel. But for some reason you're attacking me, claiming I'm "making things up in my head" and that I "know more than Microsoft lawyers". So I'm not going to explain anything else. I've given clear explanations as to how this is a legal gray area, but you don't seem interested.
Thanks for providing. Both the .webm and .mp4:

"No video with supported format and MIME type found."

Not a great UX, but certainly not worth anyone getting upset about, given FOSDEM is seemingly volunteer driven.
On a regular basis I use Teams, Zoom, and Jitsi for video conferencing. Teams isn't the most troublesome of the set.

> I'm sure this is just Microsoft unifying everyone on the same comms platform, but seriously, I don't know anyone who chooses Teams.

In big companies like GitHub people don't typically choose their own video conference platform. It's picked for them.

For Microsoft I can see a huge benefit to using Teams at GitHub. That's cost. Microsoft can use Teams at cost. That's a better price that those outside Microsoft can get it. It's a better deal than paying for Zoom. At a time when expenses are being cut it's hard to justify paying for a competitors platform.
Trying to apply "first principles" approaches to something as complicated as medical billing and reimbursement is a fools' errand. As a quick example before I move onto more pressing things, you ask, "If your ED visit is billed the same whether you're seen by an MD or NP, how would an NP go about saving you money?"

It'd be helpful to know that they aren't billed the same!

From CMS:

> When an emergency department E/M is shared between a physician and a PA or NP from the same group practice and the physician provides the substantive portion of the E/M encounter with the patient, then the service may be billed under either the physician's or the PA's or NP’s UPIN/PIN number. If the physician does not provide the substantive portion of the encounter even if the physician participated in the service by reviewing the patient’s medical record, then the service may only be billed under the PA's or NP’s UPIN/PIN. In this scenario payment will be made at 85 percent of the Medicare physician fee schedule.
If the difference between a device allegedly infringing and not infringing is whether it's running a certain piece of software, then obviously the software is what's patented.
In the first place, the books come authors who write words based on what a muse or ChatGPT tells them.
No, it really matters. We sold servers based on calculated loads. You make your money doing that basic math in that line of work.
There should be two categorizations for students: highly creative students should be placed on a different path to adulthood, everybody else could use the current system. Highly creative people are more likely to be successful dropouts.

To force highly creative people into this routine, is dictatorship of the mind. That's how it was for me.

Edit: I upset the academics :)
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34572794
Every problem is a people problem. Especially when you're told by your client that it's not a people problem.
I like that nowhere on that list is any mention of "stop stripping women of their rights". In fact that list contains a number of suggestions explicitly about using state-violence to strip women of their rights.
Edit: Turned out to be scheduled maintenance, which is now complete.

--

Also the case for .IO and .AC as well as most TLDs managed by Identity Digital (Donuts).

List at https://identity.digital/our-domains/
It's great we still have the possibility to improve the websites without waiting for the upstream to do it.

I hope someone will do a Kagi integration as well. (Unless Kagi will do it themselves?)
The thing people are trying to make it seem like a both sides issue, like Hunter Bidens nudes and the insurrection. The thing where Congress just had a hearing on and all that came out was that the side accusing Twitter of censoring information was actually the only side that requested censoring?
Was this meeting before lunch? Maybe she was just hungry. As terrifying as that is.
Charlie used a quote from George Bernard Shaw's play “In the last analysis, every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.”

I personally wonder how many therapists say “you’re fixed, I don’t need any more of your money”.

The quote on management consultants was just one example of how many professionals act this way towards businesses, and how it wasn't only about money but also a subconscious, psychological tendency.

“The guy tells you what is good for him, and he doesn’t recognize that he’s doing anything wrong any more than that doctor did when he was pulling out all those normal gallbladders.”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv7sLrON7QY

Transcript: https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches/psychology-of-human-mi...
I argue that the school's purpose is to educate. These effects you describe are merely incidental to the process of education. It's not about producing disciplined workers for an industrial era, it just a story we concoct after the fact.

Now, could we reform the system? I supposed we could, but society relied on a set of assumptions on how schools work. If you need to implement reforms, you cannot focus on school systems in isolation.
A sibling thread mentions performance improvements, so maybe?
Yeah this is pretty much my line of thinking. Not making any grand claims, just questioning the conventional wisdom. No doubt that the material conditions, health, and conveniences of today are unparalleled in history, that's just not what I'm talking about right now.
Battle of Los Angeles in 1942 was the biggest weather balloon battle