skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially if you happen to not be a US citizen, in which case there are no actual safeguards anyhow.

IMHO this mirrors nicely the situation of a US citizen being concerned that the Chines govt won't protect their rights. This is how most of the world sees the US "checks" and "balances".
There are good people on both sides.

The only bad people here are those who sign you up on remote work and then start calling people back to the office.
There is one but it's in a weird place, the dropdown on the right above the job listings (defaults to All)
A few years old VM might break when you update it if you ever have to restore it.
> Let web apps programmatically trigger the Add to Dock flow, since the Share icon and the File menu install ways are hard to discover.

Please, for the sake of all decency, no!
We do NOT need new ways for web sites to badger users.

(Sorry to focus on this one thing. This was a great and informative article, with 99% good ideas. I just had a visceral reaction to the idea of yet more ways for sites to harass me as a user.)
Arguing about surveillance oppression Olympics in who has it worst and downvoting each other over it is like missing the forest for the trees.
It was probably some weird legal reason that they couldn't do this before.
The issue is that psychologists still do not understand the non-statistical premises of their statistical applications.

Without a causal model of a human mind (and its relationship to the world) -- what exactly is there a "statistics" of?

You cannot really have a scientific psychology; the necessary experiments are impossible or unethical.
This is the same use: evading local laws. You just think it's good when it's a government you don't like.
What is your process for restoration testing? If you test restoring from backups frequently you can afford less durable backup media. If you test restoring only after a few years when shit has hit the fan you will want to pay for higher durability.
It's not about really about if they are worse. China having all my Tik Tok data is preferable then the US having any of my data. China isn't going to come disappear me in the US. The US might.
I've certainly benefited from knowing about floating point error. I likely would have spent a lot of time confused about why certain kinds of math kept coming out wrong without know about the underlying representation of floats, how it results in error, why this tradeoff is good for most scenarios, and other options.

The problem is that this is the sort of foundational knowledge that isn't easily gained through the learn-as-needed approach that applies to higher level things. Most people can notice when they don't know how to use a library. It's probably not obvious to most people who don't already know about it that their computer can handle numbers wrong.
Yes, hence one of the reasons why WinRT came to be, as COM evolution.

You get .NET metadata, IInspectable, and an improved type system, basically .NET CLS.

It doesn't expose everything C++ can do, but enough C with classes, OOP ABI and generics.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/winrt-cref/winmd-files

Basically what COM vNext was going to be, if it wasn't for .NET pivot (see Ext-VOS).

However the tooling is as clunky as using ATL.
GPT-4 with Bing search ability, slightly lobotomized, but free
Are beauty standards the same as what an individual finds attractive?

Someone could very easily select partners on what the society standard is and disregard their own personal feelings or they could do the opposite.

Seems to me there's an important distinction to make.
no true remote worker would be distracted at home
Yes and: wrt journalism, corporate media cares more about access than holding power to account.

Therefore corporate media ends up defending the status quo, by default or by design.
A hundred people per day are still dying of covid in the US, and even if you don't die from it, every fresh covid infection is rolling the dice with long covid. Masks and testing for a mass gathering involving lots of out of towners is obviously still appropriate.
You wrote:

> Isn't iterative improvement what all science is about?

Yes and no. There's more to science, but iterative improvement is a large part of it.

My issue with psychology (and other soft sciences, e.g. sociology, economics) isn't so much its striving to find answers, but its adopting a one-sided worldview before that striving, thereby coloring their findings with that one side.

Look at what you wrote--'I know it [psychology] is typically viewed as a 'liberal' field'. That's because it IS a liberal (well, a politically Progressive) field--its instructors, its researchers, its practitioners largely are self-admittedly liberal (and further Left on the political spectrum.) And when they hire, they hire like-minds.[1] (Which is a thing humans do--no one wants to work with people they... dislike... for some reason.)

And so, because they've no opposing worldview in their ranks to say 'no', well... can their findings be trusted? [2]

[1] A commentary on the perceived political homogeneity at the University--https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/the_value_...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26785836/
I believe it is also the case in large parts of the EU and yes, that is the reason why.
> optimal programs are very inhuman

sounds revolutionary
> Would you leave an orphan in the war zone or move them to a safe place?

No, I would reunite them with their families. Intentionally refusing to do so and leaving them with Russian families to raise as Russians is genocide. You don't get to whitewash that.

This is not some people on Facebook; the UN has condemned it, the ICC issued arrest warrants, it's widely documented. Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russia... for some sources.

Same with the other stuff. Your rhetoric doesn't change the facts.
> My point is that there's no evidence that anything USEFUL or IMPORTANT has come from a system that has gotten so much hype

Geez. We are talking about pebbles on a wooden plank. They are not even colourful!

Go is super cool game, but it is that. Just a game. We are not talking about curing cancer, or solving world hunger, or reversing climate change here. So by the very formulation a Go playing AI can be cool, or interesting, or promising. But could it really be useful/important with all-caps? It sounds like you have too high expectations here.
lol everyone seems to be baffled in this thread. i am just adressing his claim that guile and nix are equally obscure. which to me is just plain silly
I find it works great in natural light and I agree a backlight would fix the problems with low contrast … but the weeks-long battery life is nice too. Personally I find the long battery life more useful than a backlight. You can always use a reading light same as you would with printed materials.
> Does using Slack as a Safari Web App reduce resource consumption vs the Electron app?

Yes. Yes it does.

This is why “native” apps that use the operating system’s default WebView for the corresponding platform run seamlessly compared to apps packaged with Electron.

Safari is has much better performance than any other web browser on macOS, and this change will allow users to access those benefits.
John MacCarthy knew that not every computer is an IBM 704, and that users want higher level languages developed on one system to be usable on another.

He stuck with those names because there is no problem with them. They are hard to improve upon in a ways that are only subjectively better while being objectively worse. For instance first and rest are subjectively better for some uses and for some people, while being objectively worse (wastefuly longer for something commonly needed, and falsely associating when the objects aren't used as linear lists). Thus at best we can adopt them as synonyms (and we have).

The were inspired by FLPL ("Fortran List Processing Language"): a Fortran library for list manipulation. FLPL, for mysterious reasons, used pretty horrible names like XCARF and XCDRF. MacCarthy must have been thinking about good naming, because he thankfully dropped the X...F.

I think if they were called something else, I'd still want them to be three-letter identifiers (not just one or two, to avoid clashes) which differ only in the middle letter, so a pattern similar to cadr, cddr ... is possible.

In quantum mechanics there is a <a|b> notation where a is the "bra" and b is the "ket". That doesn't have the right property for cadr, and would be the the target of bra and fig leaf jokes.

In TAOCP, I seem to recall, Knuth calls the fields of binary list cells alink and blink. Not sure if he wants us to pronounce that as blink (of an eye) or bee link. The names are a bit long, but aaabalink is possible. If shortened to alk and blk, that would work.

If both middle letters were vowels, that would be more conducive for the words being pronounceable. That restricts us to aiueo and y. The car using a high vowel is nice, so let's go with i.

How about: dit and dot? The dot is in the ... dot position!

One problem is that cdar becomes doit, which looks like "do it".
Bricked like fried? or just can't log-in / OS scrambled / reinstall the OS?
Their approach has definitely changed my mental image of the company, and I'm happy that a successful tech company is following such a strategy. My worst fear is a wave of cargo-culting MBAs pointing towards Musks approach to Twitter and copying it for the whole sector. Apple currently is the shining example against that.
This is from 2013 and has been discussed before:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6696649

Good read still though.
You can sshfs or cifs to it. Latency hurts but it's good.
Me too. Not just the format (in hindsight, printed magazines have huge advantages that apparently can't be replicated electronically), but the content itself was so much better than most things I see online.
Backblaze is really nice, I used it for large backups (cold backups)
Bridge Circuits [pdf]
I have never understood why Microsoft didn't do this with Microsoft Edge. So many people use Google as their homepage, and Google has a "Please download Chrome" notification the homepage, always, whenever you aren't using Chrome.

Considering Microsoft Edge is based on Chrome... what's to prevent Microsoft Edge from telling Google, "Hey there, I'm Chrome!" just to screw with the notification?

Or heck, why not have a built-in lightweight Ad-Blocker that detects "We recommend Chrome" popups and hides them?
Are SSBs popular again? I remember them being all the rage with Mozilla Prism or Fluid.
Then why aren't they already doing that with CCTV and facial recognition?
You are running code on your CPU in ring 0 all the time? No. The same way a sandbox gives a whitelist approach to security — this app by default should have no filesystem access. It does want to open a file — ask the user whether it should be able to or not.

Security is upheld, user control is given, everyone is happy.
pssp pssp pssp x 500,000
Fully agree. I'd say that there should be an agreed-upon way for users to opt out of any kind of obnoxious banner/"dickbar" but it'd probably be obeyed about as often as the "do not track" flag was.
Reddit insists on being “fairly paid” amid API price protest plans, layoffs
> remember when homepages were a thing?

Remember? I still have mine. :)
I'm not at all living in the Guix world, so please forgive my ignorance here. (I actually kind of gave up on the dumpster fire that are native binaries and happily live in my JVM bubble these days) But based on your article, I think you can take things a bit further to their natural conclusion

The last step is dealing with CMake. You can actually produce correct/reproduceabile crossplatform, crossarchicture builds WITH diamond dependencies and all that jazz if you integrate with the Hunter dependency manager. I think it's the only way you can get to a point where you don't end up with redundant dependencies at different version numbers

I wrote this high-level article about it years ago: https://kxygk.github.io/hunterintro.html

I mean, I actually frankly don't see a clear line between CMake "build orchestration" tools and dependency managers like Guix. Ideally Guix would just take over the function of CMake entirely - but it's missing crucial pieces. I think fundamentally you have 90% of the pieces there. You've already specified the whole dependency tree and dealt with linking/paths. The last 10% is extracting what CMake calls the "toolchain file" - ie. the specification for how you what you build done (target OS, architecture, compiler, linker and compilation/linking flags).

Ultimately it feels like with a bit more abstraction GUIX could be a truly crossplatform build/package manager. One could imagine for instance passing it a -debug flag and having it propagate to all dependencies and build your whole world with symbols. Debugging would become "full stack". Or passing in another flag and building one huge static binary with all dependencies and then doing PGO on it. Building crossplatform would become a breeze. Introducing a new architecture would be simply a matter of specifying a new toolchain file

I spent way too much time on reproduceabile CMake builds. We had our library reprucibly building for a huge amount of targets from Windows to iPhone 9 with a dozen dependencies that had diamond dependencies and it all worked beautifully. But I was kind of horrified that almost nobody in the C/C++ world really care about this. The tools were there and no one was using them (granted Hunter, while easy to use, has a bit of learning curve)

Ultimately I think it's something that needs to be solved at a "higher level" of the package manager bc cross language monsters like PyTorch are the norm now a days
> sitting on a pile of a dozen laptops accumulated over the years.

low power consumption and can probably run a couple of VMs, albeit not super well but well enough
I had a South African friend in middle and high school. They fled the country when it became popular to put a tire around a white person's neck, full it with gasoline, and light it. Mandela's wife promoted doing this.

They gained American citizenship. She became my African American friend. Everyone told me I was terrible for talking that way.
Great looking project. IMO it's good to see AI being used to teach as opposed to just plucking out the answer or generating a first draft (better if AI can add jobs rather than destroy them!). I hope you're on to something...
Are you in Europe? Because if you're in America, I think you're making jemmyw's point for them...
Carrot juice is a good idea.
Antioxidants help. I’ve found NAC and vitamin c help. After a few days an anti-inflammatory will help.

And don’t exercise at all. If you’re head hurts and your heart starts racing just lay in bed and wait it out.
no but you'll be added to the database.
More threads generating working images from QR code which still work:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/141hg9x/co...

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/143qz65/my...

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/143w30f/th...

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/143u5x6/my...
Exactly, setup scripts or some other way to automate the stuff you need from the bare OS, and skip backing up that whole OS, pagefile, etc.
Nepotism means hiring friends or family. The advantage there is that you start out with a greater level of trust, depending on how long you've known the person. This must be weighed against the disadvantage that there are likely more skilled individuals to be found. When dealing with delicate matters (i.e. when small mistakes cause big problems), reliability becomes more important.
There was more to the Microsoft antitrust case than just bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows. But on that point, the funny thing is that they probably wouldn't have gotten in trouble if they had just built a web browser into the operating system from the beginning. When they first released IE they actually charged for it and sold it in shrink wrapped boxed at retail stores. Then to compete with Netscape Navigator they started giving it away for free before finally adding it to Windows. In retrospect it seems obvious that every consumer desktop OS should include a built in browser.
Set up a physical server on hetzner with a bunch of large disks. Then use zfs send. Job done :)
WinFindr is an easy to use, yet powerful data searching tool for Windows
The article is paywalled - but why would you ever want to do that?
Interesting concept but I’d prefer it to be more selective on what counts as a high-paying job. The bottom range is for a lot of these posts. I wouldn’t consider high-paying, when you take into account the number of years of experience they require. Tesla’s ranges are so wide that they provide very little information on what you can expect. The most egregious post had a range of 82 about $150,000 asking for 8+ years of experience.
Don't you learn about number bases in maths lessons in school in the US? We did that in the late 60s in England.
I'm not sure how long ago you used Guix, but in my experience, modern day nonguix is very up to date with Firefox and upstream Linux. Combined with things like Guix shell, time machine, and pinning specific commits, I find things have not broken for me in ways that I couldn't easily resolve in a few minutes in a long time.
This is probably a stupid question regarding the equipment, but it seems to be a good addition for the user, even if additional hardware underneath is required - why is CO not more common on these devices?

Additionally, where are all the ppbv CO detection capabilities? (most are ppm, likely to not be a scare to humans but always reading "0", but it makes determining sensitivity or any response at all pretty difficult)
Also vouching for them.
Opposite for me. Nix syntax is much more pleasant to use and while Nix error messages are by no means perfect, still more fun than digging through multiple layers of Scheme.

Does Guix have anything similar to Nix flakes yet?
Hardly surprising.
Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video
How we improved the performance of our Salesforce-to-Postgres syncs
Objective failure? Let's take my three last jobs, door to door: currently 40 minutes by car, 1 hour public; the one before 1 hour by car and close to two hours public (and in the opposite direction of the current one); 20 minutes by car, 30 public. Then there were two where public was faster, with roughly one hour public and somewhere between 1.5 and 2 hours by car (traffic can be bitch). All of those were in different directions from where I live, and my spouse works two. Then there are two kids, sports, as I said sports requiring bulky equipment, and all of a sudden are car turns into a really nice thing to have. And no, moving for work is not always an option.

Outdoor sports, with kids: kayaking (we are talking about three of those by now), skiing (you don't use the train carrying skiing gear for three). And then there is solid public transport were I live, easily reachable from home. It is the work end, and the middle point, were things get tricky.

It is nice so that live without a car works, it just doesn't work for me.
I doubt it. There is nothing that states API is required for accessibility. There are common, easy to implement design tools to improve accessibility.

Look at the WCAG guidelines (https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/) for exactly what you should be doing (also for a look at what a truly accessible site looks like).

These are not difficult things to implement and do not require third party, or even first party apps to do. They can easily be integrated into any website.
Is Elon running this company? It's straight out of the Elon/Twitter playbook. Announce a new policy so horrid almost everyone is appalled. Wait a short period of time and then make a small/token exception for a sympathetic community and reap the media rewards. Wait a short time and then roll out former said horrid policy with less outrage because of fatigue and the newly muddied waters. Brilliantly evil.
I agree, it's far less effective.

People will say that remote work lets them focus / write code or whatever, but that's not where the real work happens (or at least, it's only a tiny part of the real work).

The real important work happens when you can play the politics games, identify key players, uncover closely held secret institutional knowledge, and reach across silos to make projects succeed. You need to bypass the red tape and figure out how to get other people to complete the things that are blocking you. You need a way to back-channel delegate things when there is no official chain to do it properly.

Trying to deal with organizational dysfunction is always a challenge, but it's a skillset that any truly productive employee needs. It's hard enough in person - remotely is almost impossible. You won't organically find the right people in a zoom meeting and you definitely won't convince them to help you that way (and vice-versa).

You might think "well my organization isn't dysfunctional!" - well you'd be wrong. All organizations are dysfunctional, it's a matter of degrees and how well the dysfunction can be worked around.
Thanks for that. I cracked up
IceDrive is a pCloud alternative you might want to look into. I personally use pCloud though.
No, learning from history is vital, so we don't repeat the same mistake. The similarities are obvious. Our thought should be about what we're going to do about it. Saying it's not that serious is the thought-terminating cliche.
That is what I meant, roughly.

Though clearly I think most Republican voters are pretty explicit about it. At least the ones I have met. This is kind of the undertone to "America First" really.

EDIT: And I'd add that many often seem to have the attitude that this extends to other countries in the American sphere of influence; even self-style liberals will make comments ot the effect that Canada or France or Germany etc are all benefiting from the US's world dominance and that we basically "owe them one"; as if this isn't in reality a two-sided coin where the US gets ... plenty... in return

Still I'd rather have US dominance than Russian.
I'm very curious what your insurmountable obstacles and bad experiences with home meal preparation are.

Most people can't imagine being unable to use the microwave or boil water.
Because they don't live in China
A plurality of visitors to HN are from the US, the next largest source is 10x smaller.
This post is during peak US hours.
This website is owned and operated by a US based company.

Its not absurd to imagine most post are going to be US focused. In fact it's pretty silly to imagine otherwise.
Heavily dependent on the amount of duplication you have in your data though, yes? Maybe you can work that out ahead of time?
I'm not sure you're being accurate about the laws against boycotting Israel - from what I remember, there's only laws against the federal government hiring workers that boycott Israel. A private citizen (or company) can still boycott Israel to their heart's content, IIRC. I could be wrong on that though.

I'm opposed to laws against boycotting, fwiw.
Yeah. Backblaze or Wasabi would be my choice if you want cloud options. If you want to just toss it onto a drive in your basement, that's probably the cheapest option long-term.
We call these ethical dilemmas for a reason.

For example, Star Trek did an episode where an entire civilization's golden age utopia relied on a single child sacrifice annually. There's no single right answer to that situation; it's an impossible choice. Intentionally kill a kid, or intentionally collapse an entire civilization into war, starvation, and megadeath, but less directly.

We humans can't agree on what's ethical in situations like these. There's good arguments for "never, ever kill an innocent or you lose your way" and there's good arguments for "killing 10 innocents to save 1,000,000 is the right choice". It's possible an AI will make better choices. It's possible we won't like them. It's possible an AI will make shitty choices. It's possible we'll love those.