skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>laid off tech workers

In government or union heavy industry they’d still be forced to pay them.

Let’s keep that in mind as we see Twitter still running completely fine months later after firing so many.

Not everyone has inherent value, many are being paid but not actually creating value the other side of the transaction and it’s silly to pretend that’s fine.
I do think that you are overthinking it.

That mouse is not shaped to the right hand. There is no reason to assign significance to it in my opinion.
Ask HN: Is the domain name even important?
I understand that "brand" is important for every product. Same goes for start-up. But I wonder is a domain name really so important when it comes to people finding a content?

If you have a social network/news portal is is even important if the name is some random sequence of characters, some quirky name, or domain that you have paid $1,000,000.00.

I'm refereeing to new domain names. Not about buying one to get their domain raking, existing traffic, etc.

People find the websites and content by searching for it, right? Do people really type the who URL or do they let autocomplete do the job?

What's your take on this? This article has prompted me to think about this https://fundersclub.com/blog/2017/05/03/dot-com-domains/.
> MIT license

How is letting me know that apple can use it without contributing back going to affect my decision on which coreutil to use?
China holding ARM’s local subsidiary hostage
Yes. It is their old monopolist vendor lock-in tactics to intentionally make their software and product bad on other platforms and then blaming other platforms for this making a false appearance of their own platforms being better. There is a similar way in them badly supporting open formats (e.g. Open Document Format for office documents). They support them just enough to say that they support them but the support is so buggy and bad that again if you use their software product then you also have to use their own closed formats. So yes, they are backsliding into flowered prison. In fact they always were and nothing has changed. They are just better at propaganda and fooling people that they are not as evil as they truly are.
People under 30 don't use the "circular clock" anyway. Mars will do fine without it.
"* I want to call my friend in Germany. It's the same time here as there. It rises at 13:00 here, but she's a quarter of the way way around the world. I have to look up their typical waking hours. She's an early bird, so is she on the early side of that, likely. What time does the sun rise there? How much does that change over the seasons?"

In both cases you need to do some maths. You know early birds wake up at 11 where you live. If you know she's 8h ahead, just add 8. So, 19 is when you should call.

For calling people nothing really change. Adapting when moving somewhere else is the tricky bit. If I move to another city or country I just adjust my clock and automatically know when things will be open, working hours, etc. Otherwise, whenever you move you have to keep mentally reminding yourself that the work day starts at 12 here, not 7 like I'm used to and so on.
OpenAI will no longer use customer data to train its models by default
I'd love to know who "we" refers to in that sentence. ;-)
I tried some of those but I'm not a fan of the frilly stuff they add by default to the outputs. I was having a hard time with the output of one of these rust tools (I think it was an ls replacement) that was pretty printing and tabulating stuff. Its nice to read I agree but it was a pain to copy and paste outputs and the option for a normal output was not default.
STL file and video explaining how it was made: https://unchartedx.com/site/2023/02/19/new-video-updates-to-...

Kudos to Ben van Kerkwyk (UnchartedX) and his team.
Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely – TechTarget
I generally agree with you, but it looks like there cases where governments like the City of Chicago and Australia do a terrible job of balancing short term versus long term economics.
I guess they meant if it's by design for this dystopia, or if it's by design for the OpenAI ChatGPT model. It's by OpenAI design.
There are the two famous Russian Questions:

"What is to be done?"[1]

"Who is to blame?"

As you have guessed correctly, the latter does not give you anything meaningful. If you take a phone off a depressed teenager, you get a suicidal teenager. What are you going to do about that?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_to_Be_Done%3F_(novel)
The international date line is where you go from GMT-12 to GMT+11 or something similar.

So, no matter what time zone you pick as the reference, by definition the international date line is 12 hours away from your reference.
I personally enjoy it. And it makes me play the actual games less. You get to have more enjoyment in other more productive works (for example cooking healthy meals).
Hi Bill! I applied for the senior frontend position about a month ago, and was rejected at the first step.

I think it was towards the end of the posting, so: is this a new position, and would it be possible to get feedback on why I was rejected?

I thought I fit the role pretty well, so it would be useful to have more details so I could improve my CV :)
Yes.

Especially annoying when looking up something in a const& map.

The alternative approach could have been to make operator[]= and operator[] different.
I would like to sample my genome to have an idea of my ancestry history but I'm not comfortable with giving it away to companies
Ancient DNA Upends European Prehistory – Science – AAAS
Something something Beware of the Leopard...
We are living with similar computers to the Xerox Palo Alto. Steve Jobs got inspired the Palo Alto.

Then we also have The Mother of all demos which was influental for the Xerox Palo Alto.

The mother of all demos:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
https://youtu.be/yJDv-zdhzMY
Instead of ugly green bubble, android users will be shown as ugly yellow bubbles, reminding everyone of urine
> And third, in-person interaction is a network effect. If 20% of people would rather be on their phones, that reduces everyone else’s options for in-person hangouts by 20%.

That should only be a problem if you can only hang out with a fixed group. If you live in a city of five million people, it shouldn't make much of a difference if one million of them would rather be on their phones then hang out in person. That's still four million people to hang out with. The only question is how to find those people. Meetups are one way.
Show HN: Gabber – Visualizing constant-Q transforms in the browser
I only recently heard of the "green bubble stigma", it's not a thing here in the Netherlands at least. People use Whatsapp.
Probably, but even Windows would break in this scenario. It interprets the hardware clock as being in local time and derives UTC from that (you can change that with a registry change, but it isn't very reliable in my experience)
It's not an excuse - it's just the way it is. If kids don't have parental encouragement or involvement at home, they won't see the value in education. I taught in a rural district in the South that epitomized this. Cultural/familial attitudes towards education matter a lot more than anything the school can do. After all, kids still spend more time with their parents and family than they do at school; those attitudes rub off.

And it's not passing the buck to the parents; we're not asking the parents to teach them, merely to be involved, take an interest in the kid's education and show them the value of an education and encourage them to do the stuff they learn outside. The school can't do it all, nor should it have to (I'd argue teachers are already doing a lot more than they were ever trained to do because parents often don't have time to do it in our current society).
Stability, readable code and unchanging flags.

GNU project code is infamously cluttered and hard to grok (mostly since it's a pretty old codebase and GNU has always favored having too many chefs in the kitchen over fewer, but competent, chefs).

FreeBSD code is also usually much more stable than the Linux counterparts; tends to be less buggy from my experience at least.

GNU also has gotten in the habit over the years of randomly shifting flags around for no real reason other than to make sure that they stay as the coreutils. They have the effective monopoly on usage (I want to say that BusyBox is the only realistic other competition due to how frequently it's used on smaller resource devices), so that way other implementers are forced to adapt. There's also have a tedency of making their software have really weird Unix pipe interop. The most infamous example I can think of is that there's one GNU coreutils command with the "human-readable" flag, which doesn't do what it usually does (adjust the output of commands displaying filesizes and the like to kb/mb/gb) but instead reformats the output to be usable in a different GNU command which also has a "human-readable" flag that works as expected.

There's a couple of reasons to not want to use the GNU coreutils specifically at least.
Doesn't sound like a France vs US issue but more like a really shitty experience at a shitty company.
AutoFlight completes one of the world’s longest eVTOL flights
I have a UTC clock in my Mac menu bar already. I expect I always will.
More worried for the programmers. As we saw with copilot junior levels are definitely directly in the firing line here
> wrestle control of copyright out of the hands of Disney, Warner Brothers,

With generative AI, more content will be made on a per-year basis than all of recorded human history prior.

I don't think the kids will give a damn about Star Wars when they can make their own "Space Pirates vs Steampunk Captain Nemo 20XX: Ultimate Dad Joke Battle The Stakes Have Never Been Higher 2"
The main benefit of iMessage over all the other messaging platforms is there's a lot less spam. I hope this decision doesn't threaten that.
Was curious to understand the original Japanese version of this line, emphasis added to the relevant portion:

> it's a clean, modern RISC architecture without all the legacy crud of MIPS

Particularly the word "crud", and its implied denigration. Indeed, amusingly, the original Japanese translates:

> but I think it is a sophisticated RISC ISA with some negative legacies gone
NASA DART data prove viability of asteroid deflection for planetary defense
We had a lot of progress in artificial wombs i wonder whats the status in 2023
So effectively a quarter? Since they were sharing...
Considering what happened during the last 2660 or so years, I think whether payment systems improved the world is still up for debate.
Except where it's -10 or +14 hours away from reference due to jogging around countries or island groups.

See:

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
Exercise is a long term solution for sure. The act of doing vs thinking can be liberating.
Humanity needs constraint.

Beautiful art is created with constraint - here's a statue I carved purely out of one of the most difficult materials, marble.

The most significant speeches of our time are delivered once, not on repeat.

Even, on topic with the post, in my opinion Twitter's early attractiveness was the challenge of posting on a subject within the character limit constraint.

Our default state as a species is to find ways to survive. Constraint flexes our brains to develop innovative ways to reach a goal. Information about other people is a significant asset in survival because we're built to learn things from others and to use that knowledge to further out survival. Simply standing in my house and saying "oh wow" will make my kids run to me to ask what it is.

The current information age is tapping on all the systems we've evolved to survive in terms of information gathering, it's just that knowing that someone is eating a delicious meal in the city is not critical to survival - but once you know the information you can't unknow it leading to information overload. We're coaxed into feeling like we should care and we should know but it's a huge tax on the brain to deal with the complexity of the world.

"Could I interest you in everything all of the time." - Bo Burnham
Details on the security update will be posted on March 30th:
https://mattermost.com/security-updates/
Not really. The start/stop system is only activated when the car is put into neutral. This is completely the driver's choice. Most drivers will shift into neutral when they anticipate a longer stop (like when they've just seen the light change red or they've pulled over to take a phone call) and then shift back into gear when they anticipate movement. It's rare to be caught "out of gear" and would generally only happen when the driver isn't paying attention. Nobody shifts into neutral every time the car comes to a complete stop like at a give way sign or in a queue.
Sure, the leap second is a thing. We still represent the day as 24 hours for humans. They didn't seem to be talking about an "under the hood" hand waving of a significant part of the day.
I guess that by phones it means "social media". The amount of hate poured into social media creates a false reality where many teenagers live.

The so called "free speech absolutists" that are just a facade for far-right activists looking to evade responsibilities for their xenophobic and usually violent remarks have created a hostile on-line community.

Any community that lets people spread lies, and hate without consequences is doomed to suffer from anxiety and lose trust in humanity. Teenagers are just the worst affected by this as they are still developing their personalities.

> Another adaptation is probably to take social media less seriously. Twitter isn’t a field of combat where heroes decide the fates of nations — it’s just a silly room where people scream at each other and tell a bunch of lies.

Accepting defeat is not the way. I do not want to live in a society where lies are normalized and citizens are asked to just deal with it. Fix social media or close it. To ask millions of citizens to just accept the most cynical view of the world without being affected is neither realistic nor moral.
Now Inners can sleep easy. But plenty more rocks in the belt you can’t see.
I learned from a sign at a local park that “brachiating” is the verb to describe using arms to swing from branch to branch.
Yeah it’s a great way to reprogram the brain.
I suspect AI is going to make today's teenagers feel a lot worse. How can you imagine a future for yourself when any skill you might learn might be obsolete by the time you learn it?
Passphrase + TPM is best.
I wasn't talking about software development by itself, but human behaviour.
No crucible was involved in the minting of those ancient coins, they are of the kind that were hammered/stamped.

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I ran this on steve jobs 2005 video in stanford. It gave me wrong summary.
The summary says Jobs gave 3 speeches at Stanford, in 2005, 2006, 2007. Please don't trust the chatGPT blindly. It has limitations as of now.

Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

Summary below:

>>.
Steve Jobs delivered three speeches at Stanford University: one in 2005, one in 2006, and one in 2007. The 2005 speech is about trusting that the dots will connect in one's future, and how that gives confidence to follow one's heart. The 2006 speech is about how one's life destiny is something that can be trusted, and how that leads to happiness. The 2007 speech is about death, and how remembering that one will be dead soon allows one to make the biggest decisions in life with less fear.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-43393035

Quite an achievement being bad enough to get interviewed by the anti-terrorist police. Although I imagine if you told US border control that your intent in entering the country was to start fights and promote violence they wouldn't let you in either.
I must have missed something. This article is about the Moon.
It's like looking at their friends through a looking glass (literally) which i suppose does take some emotional toll and frustration on them

But there's also something more grave, the lack of digital skills that dumbed-down phones cannot teach. Post-millenials have just not experienced complex, hierarchical computer interfaces and it shows when they are required to use something that is complex or when they use old software. It isnt what the future was supposed to be
As the world becomes more global, coordinating with people in other times zones will become the norm, not the exception.

I expect time zones will fade away then.

No need to rush it prematurely though
Is increasing inequality not an economic factor? Inequality is a strong predictor of crime, which I think we'd agree is something which makes life objectively worse. So there's at least one economic factor which is causing an objective drop in quality of life.
Yup - we have higher res graphics, and (maybe) quicker networking, but we're doing almost exactly the same things, in almost exactly the same manner. Progress??

I despair that we've all got astonishing computer power but it hasn't got us far at all. If anything, we just accept poorer apps and less efficient systems. Though they do look prettier. Sigh.
I think we should talk more specifically than "phones" or "the Internet". For example, the rise of "phones" from 2012 onwards coincided with the dominance of social media.

I know this sounds pedantic but the author lists several studies pointing to social media impact, and still decided to go with that title and a big picture of Steve Jobs. If we forbid smartphones tomorrow and kept the rest of the Internet the same, I doubt anything would be much different at all.
To anyone interested we interviewed Bob recently [0] at Handmade Seattle: The Craft behind Crafting Interpreters

Great author but also a fun conversationalist :)

[0] https://guide.handmade-seattle.com/c/2022/behind-crafting-in...
The article erroneously links to a local file for a publication by Jean Twenge, which is most likely this one: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1176/appi.prcp.2...
Is that a problem worldwide or more localized to the US? I am using Signal, Threema, and WhatsApp and never received spam on any messanger, only occasionally via SMS.
Microsoft unveils AI model that understands image content, solves visual puzzles
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As a comparison: In the UK we've being building a single trainline, 230km of track, the project is 10 years old has tripled in cost to £90B and new estimates are that it will take 10 more years.

If you can ensure that your government ministers aren't using the project as a means to funnel taxes away to private corporations that they're associated with then, I speculate, you can probably avoid this sort of thing. Maybe international projects work better in that sense?
I'm from the UK and they're not well known here versus MOTU..
On the other hand, megawatt chargers might get cheaper rates because they're buying in bulk, and it's (generally) easier for power companies to provide service to one big customer than a hundred or a thousand little customers.

(That's assuming the infrastructure in the area can accommodate it. I expect any heavily-used truck charging stations are going to be located where the utility hookups are comparatively cheap and easy.)
Trade agreements usually contain provisions for dispute resolution. Back before 2016 the big boogeyman was ISDS (investor-state dispute settlement).

If a state made a bad deal they can either renegotiate it (eg. negotiate in a fee to cancel the whole contract) or try for arbitration (and the tribunal might set a fee for cancellation), or assert their sovereignty.

Of course with China everything that reaches political circles becomes a power-play, but at least in the first two cases they are less motivated to respond in kind (ie. levy tariffs or fuck with the business of Australian companies in China).
This is a logical solution but not a full practical solution.

With this approach you'd still need to communicate the current clock number back to clients as otherwise one will get ahead and have all its traffic accepted, and others will fall behind and be unable to get traffic accepted. Even if an error causes a client to bump forwards to retry, by the time it has done that the number it is about to retry with may have been used.

Additionally, the aim is still to get exactly-once delivery, so clients need to be able to differentiate between an error caused by them reusing an ID that was rejected to enforce exactly-once delivery, and an error caused by another client getting that ID.

Basically, this issue is easy to solve with low traffic and reliable persistent storage everywhere, but hard to solve with high traffic, or the acceptance that all persistent storage brings additional reliability challenges.
Strange how you don't seem to realize that all these "ideas for fines" come years or decades after the "efficient and self-regulating free market" ends up what it will always end up: entrenched monopolies, moats, little competition and high barriers of entry.
> New death certificates were introduced which identify whether a woman was pregnant at, or shortly before, their death—regardless of the cause

So pregnancy is not necessary the cause of death? That is very important moment, which is very vaguely covered in the article.
Indeed, Rust's HashMap implements Index<&T> but not IndexMut<&T> meaning you can write this:

let salary = salaries["Jim Bob"]; // Note this panics if "Jim Bob" isn't a key in salaries, by analogy to arrays which panic if you do an out-of-bounds array access

However you can't write this, it won't compile:

salaries["Jim Bob"] += 10_000; // No raise for Jim Bob, this does not compile because that's not a mutable reference.
Anecdotally I never received any spam on the other proprietary messaging platforms, except SMS.
Yeah, my point being that 1 minute passing is 60 seconds both on Earth and the moon. We have a Lunar calendar and the moon is tidally locked to Earth so it seems trivial to convert Earth time to Moon time. The terms "Earth time" and "Moon time" seem weird to me in themselves, in my view it's "Human time".

I understand having a separate time for Mars or other planets as they have their own cycles.
Being locked into Facebooks app vs. Apple's app isn't such a great positive now, is it?