skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Migrating contacts and calendars is easy, thanks to open standards (unless you're migrating in bulk)

Ehhhhh, Workspace has a half-assed EAS implementation that works until it doesn't (just had a client where it stopped exporting all his phone numbers, the data was still in Google but their EAS just wasn't outputting it). It's hardly an open standard but theoretically works for Outlook users migrating to Exchange.

Going anywhere else with an Outlook desktop user that actually follows the open standards (CardDav/CalDav) is extreme pain because Outlook lacks native support, so you need to use a plugin that will pull the data but not present it in the same way. The earlier mentioned client I moved to Fastmail and I still haven't figured out how to get his 'contact folders' to show and sync in Outlook without heavily customizing the views. Otherwise works in Android with DavX and iOS natively.
Obviously.

Give people autonomy to get their work done from wherever...they love it, and then you just decide to rip that away? Yeah, I wouldn't be happy either, and that's without thinking of sitting in my car for 2 hours every day. Screw that.

No wonder workers are unhappy, they found a work-life balance that worked for them, and it was taken away. People who moved away from high COL places to work remotely in lower COL areas only to be forced back to high COL places in a time of rampant inflation and astronomical real estate costs are being forced to come back to fully in-person, yeah, I'd be pissed off too.
I wonder how far fetched it would be to have just the syntax of Typescript on the browser without type-checking. We'd have to use tsc locally only for the typechecking, without the need of a build process, but that would be enough for me.

I know there's JSDoc but the normal syntax is so much better.

EDIT: Looks like there's a proposal: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations
There's a lot more to YouTube than political videos. I'd estimate over 90% of "reviews" for exercise equipment are automated videos based on data scraped from Amazon. These used to get downvoted heavily, so you could quickly see which videos were worth watching and which ones were created by bots. Now you have to slog through a dozen bot videos to find even one created by a human, giving their actual review. But fuck those of us who use YouTube for something other than political porn because some politician got their feelings hurt by a high dislike count.
They use a chicken gun, but yes… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun
Weren't these balloons at the altitude level that civilian aircraft fly? How exactly is it legal to do what these guys claim to have been doing? This is bizarre stuff.

This guy should be thankful he's not in prison yet, even though he should be.
In what sense is fossil hydrogen renewable?
The very obvious implication of this post is that the employer said one thing and meant another.
This is a very poor quality article. Mining the earth for fuel when wind and solar are already the cheapest form of power is really stupid.
Care to name one or 2?
Testing cross platform developed apps would be an other reason
the Deno V8 wrapper doesn't have the same marketing ring
What is the point of 4K tabs though? If everything is open, nothing might as well be open because it serves no utility in tracking what you’re working on, right?

I often get into the 30-50 tab range, and the majority of those are unused and I have to do a purge because I’ve long forgotten the context where I need them. I can believe someone might do similarly with more tabs, but no that many more XD.
Zoho is great, if you only need email and basics. O365 and GSuite are still unmatched as a package though. Still think O365 is the best deal (for SMBs+), though it's a bit more.
I'm not sure how you define "legitimate", but surely what matters is whether people find the technology (in whatever guise - from ChatGPT to Copilot) useful for their own needs. Lots of people seem to have amazingly quickly started using this tech as a productivity tool, for a whole variety of use cases from text generation/summarization of various forms to programming to research/discovery (cf search), etc.

A natural language interface and the ability to maintain context over a conversation makes it incredibly easy to interact with.

Have you tried to do anything productive with it? If you're just using it as a front end for search then IMO you're missing most of the potential.
Web Push is probably the worst feature ever introduced to the web. I see way too many spammy notififications on PC's of my non-technical friends and parents. Glad that Apple has decided to only allow Web Push for websites added to the home screen.
OpenAI Proposes Government Restrict AI Chips to Prevent Propaganda Explosion
There are plenty of apps or features that remain Windows exclusive. In Microsoft's office suite, things like PowerBI only offer Windows desktop apps. And even within apps like Powerpoint there are features that don't exist in the Mac version (like grids). There are certainly equivalent or better alternatives to both of these examples available on Mac, but if your company uses these products Parallels could be a better alternative to having a second PC.
Wait! In a restructuring it's illegal to fire someone who is pregnant? That's nonsense.
I found the Internet got a lot more valuable for me when I decided to deliberately take the most charitable interpretation of what I read.

> > If someone is really really good would you hire their wife? How about their friends?

> What!? Why on Earth would you ever even entertain the possibility of institutionalized nepotism?

It's a thought experiment. You likely spend the majority of your waking day at work. It seems like if you're trying to optimize your total quality of life, it would be great to have that time also include some of your close friends or partners.

Now, if you're trying to entice a particular person to work at your company, is this a perk you would put on the table? Probably not. But I find it interesting to consider what ideas are just unthinkable (as in we don't even think to think it, not that we morally object to thinking it) because of a deeply ingrained notion of work/life separation.

My father and his wife own a business together. That experience is clearly profoundly valuable to both of them. Perhaps the nepotism makes this a negative experience for some of their own employees. But maybe not. There are plenty of other famous examples of partners working together. Should we deny people like my dad and stepmom even the possibility of this kind of life? What do we lose by having a black and white approach to nepotism?

> Why do friendship and professional life have to overlap at all?

Because the minutes of our life are finite. If we can spend some of those minutes at work and with close friends, we've enriched our lives and increased the number of experiences we can put in it.

Why do we assume that we should spend most of our waking lives with people we don't particularly care about? That goes against the way humans have lived for almost the entirety of our evolutionary history.

> This is a childish, black-and-white, lazy take, and it has no place in the professional world. You should not have "enemies" at work.

The article isn't clear about this, but it's not necessary to strictly interpret all of these questions about the workplace.

> On the other hand, there are people literally advocating for genocide in the world.

Do any of those people know what you oppose them? You aren't their enemy if they don't know who you are.

Should they? What does it say about the causes you support if the people directly opposed to them don't even know you exist? Should they at least know about groups you support that oppose them?
No job, no need, and the house is entirely legal, including the septic system and other infrastructure I’ve built, and I have a kid. Also good fucking luck to anyone wanting to get a bulldozer there - it’s on a 45 degree hill slope with no road access. The truck was €4,000, and it’s a hilux. I could set it on fire and it would be fine.

The property taxes are €40 a year for the house, the mill, the ruined medieval village, and the 15ha of land.

My passive income is seven figures, because rather than fritter away on crap, I invested in a diverse range of stuff, from equities to real estate to small businesses/startups. I’m noodling about with a few new ventures of my own as I have time on my hands.

And yes, emigration is useful. I draw an income from expensive economies and moved to a cheap country where quality of life is king.

To be clear, this is the current state - I worked my arse off for 15 years and lived a pretty monkish existence, and now reap the rewards.
looks like HN demand might have brought the site down :P

This site can’t be reached
Not at all like consumption as defined in the pre digital world. For example, if I create a digital comic and publish it to one website and all 8 billion people alive read that comic, UNIVERSAL consumption - I still just made one thing, one time and published it once. It also still exists for all future humans to consume and can be consumed repeatedly without limit.
Most cities in the Bay with IZ have close to 10% with a few close to 20%. Indeed, 20% IZ only usually works in high income areas where the market rate for housing is high enough to make the affordable unit requirements profitable. Most Builder's Remedy housing will therefore be proposed in high income areas.
Good question...uh.. a geological timeframe?
I've used Elixir full time for the past 6 years.

I've written Rust full time for the past 3 years.

What does this mean? You've been working 80+ hours a week for the last three years?
> Truly secure systems don’t require trust.

This blatant absolutist statement is completely false. It exactly means, that there is no computer which is secure today. It also means, that it’s pointless to care about security on any phone in existence, because it cannot be achieved that currently.
> I'd have expected most people on HN to understand the relative roles of the US federal and state governments

You probably didn’t mean it that way, but man, that’s some ‘Murica fuck yeah material.

I know that different US states have some degree of autonomy, and I think they have a similar system in Brazil, and I’m pretty sure Switzerland also does it. Why exactly do you expect me to know anything but the bare minimum about the different levels of government in a country seven thousand kilometers away?
'full self driving' is an even more incorrect term, then, if you want to be pedantic. if the car mfg takes zero liability/accountability, then it is zero self-driving.

you can, in fact, 'recall' software. this is semantically accurate description of what is happening.
python is rarely streamed across HTTP, I believe that's the reason js is treeshaked.
Correct me if I'm misrepresenting you here, but are you claiming that the reason that something is invented is always the reason why it continues to be used?
yeah, but do they use a delivery service or do they order from the supermarket and the supermarket delivers?
I have my taylor-made kernel compiled with all and only the drivers I need, without an initram and with EFISTUB, directly called by the UEFI as its first boot option. That's how I manage to boot in 5 seconds.

Then I have some distro-supplied kernels, with initram, modules, non-standard parameters AND grub, just for those times when I need something exotic. I have to stop the normal boot with Esc and select the second boot option from the UEFI menu, that points to grub. It's clumsy and slow but I just need it once in a blue moon.
Fired with the excuse of layoffs.
Yeah, the style is so consistent across all the screenshots I've seen. I could believe that any particular one is a fake but it's not plausible to me that all or most of them are.
Deno solves all of this, too bad they don't support Solid.js.
You don't have to release it as vapor. Otherwise energy is energy and depositing it into the atmosphere raises the equilibrium liquid/vapor point.
I don't understand...

What does blocking ads and third-party cookies have to do with it? How does doing that affect the usefulness of real-world data collection?
I don't know if Mr. Bean would be considered developmentally disabled, but I can't get the image of him being driven around while flipping off all the affluent people that support this out of my mind :)
Here's hoping DDG has a special agreement with them
I have 156 windows in firefox (it tells you the number when you shut down), with (my estimate) 20-30 tabs in each.

So 3900 tabs.
We are simply pointing out there was a time when the surface one could write on was so precious, people used to cover previous works and re-use it instead of obtaining new ones (vellum, etc). So -- you're not wrong about the explosive growth. We're just pointing out the abundance of even writing instruments occurred at a certain point in history.
This is just misusing your browser. That's what bookmarks or reading lists are for.
I second this. I have friends who consulted an employment lawyer in similar circumstances - and were able to negotiate additional severance.
No it’s just completely untrue. This is a common tactic today to say something was created for <racist|sexist|homophobic> purposes so the entire concept is bad naturally.

See how activists say policing was invented to catch slaves or some ridiculous claim. There’s a bunch of others.
> Ever since then I have not understood why most distros don't switch to this setup.

The persistence of GRUB for x86-64 systems is both fascinating and irritating; the original driver for users paying the price of the complexity of GRUB was the idea that it would bring consistency across architectures and be an overall reduction in complexity for distro maintainers. Instead the bootloaders for non-x86 architectures are generally not-GRUB (zipl, various ARM options which are sometimes SoC specific, and so on), while x86 users are stuck with the byzantine complexity of GRUB.
Sure, we all got fucked by that but just think of the political porn addicts who now get to have their feelings protected. Ensuring the integrity of their ideological bubbles is much more important than preventing videos with dangerous instructions in them from being promoted.
It's not illegal to fire someone who is pregnant. It's illegal to fire someone because they're pregnant. You have to be able to point to another reason, such as performance.

Meaning, if you're doing layoffs, and you thought to yourself, "Let's fire person X! They're about to have a kid and won't even be around for two months. That'd be a waste of money!", you would be breaking the law.
Luminaries Argue for the Interconnect We Could Have Already Had
He was burned at the stake by Cyrus after his ill-advised invasion of Persia?

I have no plans on any oracular conquests.
Reminds me of the joke where an engineer is testing cockpit windshield resistance to bird-strike by firing dead chickens at it from a special cannon. The windshields keep shattering and they wonder why.

One engineer suggests that they probably defrost the chicken first.
I haven't really loved Mac OS in a while, so I could see you could want the very nice Mac hardware but a different operating system. I never really did Windows-on-Mac much, besides some very occasional Boot Camp usage, but I did run Linux on a couple different Mac laptops for several years.

I don't think it really makes much sense now though... no particularly good reason not to just get a Dell XPS or something in that ballpark for your Linux or Windows needs and avoid the hassle.

The sheer absurdity of running Linux tools on WSL inside Parallels inside a Mac host might be worth something, too. (Or actually, can you even do that, with two levels of virtualization? I seem to remember this is an issue, maybe specifically on the new ARM chips.)
Nice. This is like yarn, but for youtube.
It will be quite the challenge. Coincidentally, I just noticed today that several RVs appear to be permanently parked around the YC office these days.

https://twitter.com/vyrotek/status/1626253173978456064
Site is hugged to death / dead for now.

Too bad there isn't a service which automatically queues all of hn/new to archive.org and archive.today for snapshotting.

Edit: @brokenmachine: LOL, good one. Thanks, I needed that.
Putting water into the air at low altitudes doesn't do much for global warming. The best way to reduce the effects of water vapor at high altitudes is... to reduce warming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#Role_of_water_v...
>hilariously awful moderation

I don’t see how anyone can hold this opinion in the current day. Early 2000s forums made a rule of ensuring things didn’t devolve into flame wars. Modern discussion technology incentivized them
and turned our society into a giant flame war
If you bothered to read it's a ~3-mile radius from the plant, but sure. If you want to test your theory, go ahead and buy a drone and try flying it only 300ft above a nuclear power plant. As soon as you're found out, you'll promptly be arrested (if your drone doesn't already automatically shut off due to GPS geofencing).
In a civilized nation, that certainly would be the case. You're probably right that parent meant USA instead.
"They literally changed the definition of 'recession' for political convenience"

They did no such thing.
I think the biggest problem is that people don't properly account for how much tech has to spend to fend off competitors. these are often ignored with statements like 'well they are losing money to grow their market share, but look at the growth!' I even seen people say the same things I heard during the dotcom.

dotcom : "it doesn't matter how much money they are losing, what counts is users"

dotcom2: "it doesn't matter how much money they are losing, what counts is TAM (total addressable market)
Oh my god I interviewed with that company and it was one of the most unprofessional experiences I've ever had.
Portugal ends Golden Visas, curtails Airbnb rentals to address housing crisis
They really do re-spawn if being homeless now means being given a nice, new, clean place to live. Why wouldn’t they?
In Firefox you type "%" into the url bar, which will search all tabs.

Also you can right-click the back button to see the history of each tab. Usually that begins with a google search that reminds me what the context was.

I try to keep all tabs for a certain topic in the same window, or two windows if I want to tile them to view both. Obviously, I'm very bad at respecting such limits. :-)
Yes, these papers would be unobjectionable on a blog somewhere. Meanwhile, "x isn't perfect so we should do nothing instead" isn't really a useful policy.
The specialized part is kind of true to some extent but that's getting bogged down into job titles - data analyst, applied scientist, ML engineer, research scientist - some of these are used more often because "data scientist" is too broad and can mean a bunch of different things. But titles, schmitles - the point is that the skills are still very relevant.

And I'm not seeing anything getting automated.
From my naïve point of view it seems obvious that at any point where both an „a“ or a „an“ would fit the model randomly selects one of them and by doing so reduces the set of possible nouns to follow.
Naming the company was the right thing to do. And it's so fun it's literally called Reputation.com.

And of course it has to be some shitty tracking company, completely useless, but it's where all our best minds are working right now.

We score a capitalism trifecta with this post.
...Whoa. There's a gross misunderstanding happening somewhere. I apparently haven't articulated myself well here. Let me try to recap:

1. itake criticized the term "Zero Waste" because zero waste things don't literally produce zero waste. I suggested that was a bit pedantic, because it seemed obvious. Nothing produces zero waste. My hunch is maybe you read more into this statement than was there?!

2. You responded suggesting I must be unfamiliar with New York City?! (It's not clear how you arrived at this?!) I understood you to believe that it's fair to criticize the term Zero Waste for not being literally Zero Waste. Then—as I understood it—you suggested that ZeroWaste programs in NY were status quo, and good examples of Zero Waste.

3. I responded explaining that I did live in NY. Was very familiar with GrowNYC. And that even good examples of Zero Waste (GrowNYC programs) still do literally produce waste, and I was therefore confused by your response. Are you arguing that it's pedantic to criticize the term "Zero Waste" for not literally producing no waste or aren't you?!

I wholeheartedly agree with you! I'm not sure where you think I'm being inconsistent or unfair?! The co-opting of "Zero Waste" by marketing departments used to peddle unnecessary nonsense is rather gross.
> it's not really about tracking you, it's about tracking the habits of shoppers in aggregate, of which you are a participant.

I don't think this is accurate, but it doesn't matter. Even if that's true, it may not be true with the companies they sell or share the data to.
You mind if I ask what country? That's a hell of a tax rate for 15ha + residence.

Unfortunately my dumbass country banned the hilux. Always wanted one.
I mean, it’s valuable to me to sell my startup for more money. Valuable economic activity indeed.

I would say if you are in the business of selling startups, you’re probably in the same boat.
Now you're changing the subject. Knowing something about ML (which is a legitimate, practical field) does not imply any knowledge of "AI safety". Since AI safety (as the grifters use the term) isn't a real thing they're free to make up all sorts of outlandish nonsense, and naive people eat it up. The "AI Impacts" group that you cite is among the worst of the bunch, just some clowns who have the chutzpah to actually ask for donations. Lol.

None of the arguments you've made so far actually touch in any relevant facts, they're just vague arguments from authority. I obviously can't prove that some event will never happen in the future (can't prove a negative). But this stuff is no different than worrying about an alien invasion. Come on.
A thing that I liked when I started out was the fact that you could actually read all of the JavaScript on web pages. You found something interesting? Just fetch the source or open your dev tools (firebug!) and look at the code.

There's probably merit in minification and compressing code though. But for the types of projects OP is talking about it's going to be single digit KB of JS anyways.
I am at a different FAANG. Before striking out to find a new job at a different company, I think you should at least pursue opportunities at different teams inside "frugal :P". There definitely are teams which have less scope and oftentimes more ambitious engineers pass those teams by since they are looking for a promotion.

I would probably start looking at something in IT, infra, or internal tooling. Even something like compilers or whatever where you can more focus on iterating and improving an existing codebase.
> and it does not sound like you have much evidence or reason to prove otherwise

Even without filing the paperwork, being [visibly] almost nine months pregnant is evidence enough to make a scene.

There's a reason everybody conspicuously squawks about their disabilities and sexual orientation these days-- it makes them a walking EEOC complaint. Pregnancy counts.

OP needs to see an employment attorney ASAP.
Misguided Acronym Concoction
You were technically breaking the Windows 11 EULA and not officially supported while doing that but nobody really cared.