skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An uncle of mine was the family's computer guy. He died over 10 years ago, and I got about 2 PCs from the late 90s from cleaning out his house. They sat for a while, and I was able to get the Pentium 2 going. It now has a Pentium 3, and I turn it on every few months to retrocompute.

My parents never had a computer strictly from that vintage but almost everyone else did, and I dreamed of them. Our home PC jumped from a Pentium MMX 233 (socket 7) to a Duron 1.2 (socket A).
I switched to Firefox from Chrome years ago because Chrome was slower. Specially, when there were many tabs opened, switching tabs in Chrome were usually prefaced with a blank white screen for about 2 seconds.

I've been staying with Firefox not for the performance (today Chrome loads Google sites like YouTube faster), but mainly for Tree Style Tab extension. I couldn't imagine opening more than a dozen of tabs without it.
Banning nsfw makes the platform more valuable to ads.

it just means that Twitter has it's niche that's harder to replace
One of the things that's interesting here is what's the fundamental difference between using your phone to order a cab using your voice, and using your phone to order a cab with your fingers ( an app ).

Pricing mechanisms could be the same - pre-agreed price etc.

The real key difference is the realtime feedback of where the cab is in terms of coming to pick you up. ie the diminishing of the anxiety of that uncertain wait.

That's it - that's the only thing traditional cab firms couldn't provide - and now many of them now have their own apps - as apps aren't that hard.
Obviously you gotta work with what you got and it might be the best business decision to hire some junior devs with no experience outside of JS/TS and build your CLI tool in that.

But that's never going to be the best tool for CLI development, and someone with no experience outside of JS/TS (or any single language) is never going to be the best engineer.
Isn't that the point? Today does not tell about tomorrow. Maybe Microsoft isn't in the Top N anymore in a couple of years.
I vastly peter CFFI for simple things in C with python, but pybind11 isn’t so bad for C++. Swig has always been annoying.
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> For example, it takes me 20 minutes to go from 1 side of the city to the other. Using the bus routes, its 2 hours. This is the predominant reason why people don't use public transit - 6 times longer.

That's a problem that cities solve by using dedicated bus lanes. We should work on making public transportation faster and car transportation slower to change which mode of transportation that people are incentivized to use. Car owners are heavily subsidized by monopolizing the roads for an extremely inefficient per person mode of transportation. Cities subsidize them for any parking that is free. We all pay for the externalities of air pollution, climate change, and city space wasted on street parking and public/private parking lots/garages.
Some people are soldiers, others snipers. Both are important to win the war.
25k is not a good salary in London at all.

Some engineering graduates get paid astonishingly low amounts of money but they are also typically the kind of dime-a-dozen grads with no particularly interesting skills.
I'm the same. In the rare case I do have a lot of tabs open it tends to be a queue that I work through in order anyways so having them not fit on screen isn't a problem. My theory is that once I get over 20 tabs or so it will be quicker to just re-open the document (just type a few words in the URL bar and history-search will find it) than actually locate and click it. I'm glad that Firefox is flexible enough for tab hoarders and tab closers. Having a horizontal tab bar that doesn't take up too much space is perfect for me.
Sure but don’t let perfection be the enemy of progress.

Cast a wide net, 50% discount for students, municipalities can hook people up with free or discounted passes depending on their municipal tax returns, it can all be automated even.

Some who don’t need discounts will get them and some who need them won’t but they will get better quality of service however. And if they don’t manage to get themselves a discount by any means, if the alternative is buying a car they’re saving anyway.

The absolute amount of money collected isn’t really the point, just that there is some of it and it is a non-negligible portion of the total.
You confused me for OP.

I spend most of my free time with housework, socializing and hobbies but there just isn't enough meaningful stuff I care to do outside of working hours to overcome the 8 hours a day of meaningless work I do for my employer.

It’s clear other people are able to manage but I have been trying for years and all I ever manage to get out of it is depression.

I just can't do meaningless work for 8 hours a day.
I'd agree. If the organization is dysfunctional, there's nothing you can do. These problems start at the top.
I'd put it this way.

If you paid for the bus 100% with your fare it would be completely scalable. If transit demand doubled, revenue would double and they could run twice as many buses.

A fixed amount of public spending (typically 75% of expenses in many transit systems) is not scalable. You could double or triple bus ridership but service deteriorates because you don't get buses. The municipality, bus company, etc. have every incentive for transit promotion to fail because more people taking transit blows up their budget.

Note there is a good case for subsidization in that people riding the bus create benefits for others: 20 people riding the bus can take 20 cars off the road which makes life better for drivers, pedestrians, etc.
That's a great solution to the "mistake" for you. And while it's great to be able to launch and run your own company, not everyone wants the stress that comes with that. I've also "practiced" skills at work to improve myself, though I haven't launched a company.

I've also worked with many colleagues who were great at their jobs, but that's all it was for them - a job. Their passions (which was sometimes just their family) lied elsewhere. They were just working to support that and were perfectly happy with their lives. I wouldn't try to take that from them.
TFR 1.53 and falling fast: https://www.statista.com/statistics/284042/fertility-rate-in...

I don't see how you propose to maintain the same level of prosperity when fewer productive workers need to support more unproductive seniors.
Apple does have a "street view" of sorts in areas where they have driven vehicles around the area, but it's limited now to only some cities. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/look-around-places-ip... It is possible to use Google's data through Apple Maps via a third-party app. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/streets-street-view-browser/id...
Uni is capped at £9000 a year and is free in Scotland
“Forced” to use Google Maps in the car because it’s on the big screen, and recently I’ve been disappointed by how bad it is at navigation in the Bay area, taking me down pothole and slow streets with lots of turns. Even taking me to crossings without traffic lights making it difficult and slower to cross when traffic is heavy. And then as others have already explained, there are virtually no street names on the map (no matter how much you zoom), so it is very difficult to find the street I want to drive on. Or maybe that’s Tesla’s fault. Not sure.

One minor gripe I have with Apple Maps is that it doesn’t show my favorite locations in a quick and easy pickable ux… so I end up having to search for “home”.
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> Thiel's quote from the article "You create a monopoly when you invent something new".

I guess the issue is that, at some point, SV venture capitalists got more money than creativity. Some of that money went into stupid products like a juice machine, some of it went into companies that were dedicated to killing the competition rather than create a new market. Ultimately, the "competition sucks" part outlived the rest of the article.
Blitzscaling means growing quickly. Using capital to fund growth is good for everyone. That's how we got spacecraft and nuclear bombs (ehhh...).

Dumping is a tactic that can be used whether you are blitzscaling or not.

Multiple competitors can blitscale.
Blitzscaling or not, the problem is when a market has no competition. This is century old solved economic and legal theory.
Will we see another generation of 8gb/256ssds?

Where the 8gb means you'll be making massive, unprecedented writes to your SSD due to aggressive swap usage when just web browsing (my m1 air wrote approx 1 TB/day for a week until I returned mine), and a smaller ssd to wear out even faster?

Will the aggressive sabotage of their products' longevity continue?

I figure in another year or two, we'll start seeing news coverage of lage numbers of m1s failing from ssd failure, and apple will just say "you're using it wrong"
I'd rewrite that into a few sentences, because it's glued 4 binaries together.

The researchers evaluated effectiveness of ADepT versus CBT, looking at both building well-being and reducing depression. The evaluation measured effectiveness at the end of treatment, and over longer-term follow-up. The results indicate that ADepT was definitely not worse than CBT, and has the potential to be better.
I first heard the Voder as the first sample on the Klatt Record [1]. Unfortunately, there it's credited solely to Homer Dudley; neither Bell Telephone Laboratory nor women like Helen Harper who operated the machine were mentioned.

[1]: http://www.festvox.org/history/klatt.html
I misread this as "Microsoft Grub Theme" and was definitely interested in the irony. This is super fun, though, and impressive. I didn't know you could do all this in a grub theme.
Good reason to avoid Firefox for development imo. Nothing is more annoying than mysterious cache interventions when you're trying to get a handle on an unrelated problem.
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That sentence doesn't say what you think it says. It says "interventions to promote mask wearing". That's not mask wearing, it's telling people to wear masks. It is both true that wearing masks helps and that it's hard to tell if promoting mask-wearing changed enough behavior to matter. Mostly, those interventions do nothing.
Well most people aren't good linguists certainly.
For anyone else looking for the whole list, here it is:

https://github.com/Lxtharia/minegrub-theme/blob/main/resourc...
It's not the worst country in the G8 for immigrants at least (if we are considering where one might like to move to). The UK for all its (countless) faults is still a far more welcoming place to immigrants than the likes of, for example, Germany.
Apple will take you on the straightforward route that you’d have plotted on a map 30 years ago. The traffic optimization isn’t as aggressive as Google Maps or Waze.

Google will also over-optimize for routes with imperfect information. Here’s an example: Yesterday I was leaving Manhattan for points upstate around 6:30 PM (bad idea) and was routed by Google to the Lincoln tunnel. Google’s route was trash — it magically shaved 20 minutes off the trip by optimizing me onto a side street that would let me cut the line of mayhem to get to the tunnel. The problem is, making a left turn on 10th avenue to get to that road would easily take 20 minutes. Google’s metrics aren’t able to account for that.

Apple’s directions were optimal - West Side Drive to George Washington Bridge. I figured out that I was “getting googled” quickly l, and was able to get out of the gridlock and ultimately arrive at my destination ahead of schedule.
Or the region has other paths in life available for people who enter into tough times than being thrown on the streets.
Probably. Note: this is not a rational belief, just an emotion. I feel that for me, my useful lifespan ends at around 60, meaning I have less than half of that to look forward to (and all of that on a downward quality slope). Objectively, I understand that there are important roles for senior citizens, and I do enjoy the company and services provided by many of such people. Just that trying to imagine myself getting to that age fills me with despair.
FYI, In the UK you cannot go to an employment tribunal unless you worked at a company for 2 years (except if you are explicitly fired for racist or sexist reasons). So for the vast majority of workers, there is no actual difference between the UK and "at will" hire.

https://www.gov.uk/dismissal/what-to-do-if-youre-dismissed#:...
This is such a completely US-centric comment. Go talk to folks in India or China or Vietnam or Europe or Africa, and you'll find that the USSR had much larger cultural and societal impact.
British businesses are not very productive, technology is not a bad way to improve that.
> My point is that, from my experience, "per day" is strictly better than "per hour".

This seems to be a popular and strongly-held opinion on every thread about consulting on HN, but I don’t get it. If I spend 12 hours on-site with a client, I bill them 12 hours, not 1 day. If I decide to take a couple of hours off to walk the cat, I don’t bill the time and don’t feel guilty.
I’ve taken cabs in Canada (Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, always as a tourist/business traveler) and it was exactly as described.

Now that cab companies have somewhat caught up in technology, with pay by phone and app-based booking, I’m prepared to consider them again. Price was never an issue.
The hospital there also isn't the organisation doing the development and shouldn't really care about the OS the appliance uses.

The vendor (Siemens or whoever) should make updating the OS part of their development cycle and certify accordingly. If drivers are relevant part of the product there, they have to take enough ownership on the drivers to ensure they do the right thing.
The 'vaccine deniers' have been calling the 'studies' and 'trials' trash for a long time. The evidence comes out that they're trash, and somehow the 'vaccine deniers' are still wrong?

They removed liability from manufacturers, and suddenly the CDC schedule exploded with new products. I mean, chicken pox has a vaccine now?
Realistically shouldn't those tasks be given story points too if they're done separaterly from the team?
We had this oftentimes when I was young. You would have them e.g. on your grandma's birthday or other special occasions. I think it was more an old people's thing, but they still sell them in bakeries. This is in the west of the country..
Your memory is hyperbolic.

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
Under two years of employment, which is the majority nowadays, you can essentially be fired at will.

The rest is true, but a absolutely major one that is missing in the UK is unemployment benefits. If you lose your job you basically have no income at all.
If you make users resize the browser window to make a single column of text comfortable to read then websites with multiple columns or sidebar will be cramped. Unfortunately there is no setting to communicate text width preference without also limiting the total viewport space so websites are left to make their own assumptions.
If it weren't for TreeStyleTab, the browser would be barely usable for me. This is the biggest reason that I won't use Chrome at all, and stay away from Edge.
And how did the UK acquire the strength needed to take those colonies? Would-be conquerors are a dime a dozen, empires as successful as the British not so much
You might want to double check whether the second drive is properly
connected, or the display manager will refuse to start. In this case
typing `exit' in the console should still let you log in, unless
it locks up for some reason. (Then you will have to reboot.)

Now that you are logged in, a few things to note:

* The mouse buttons do not work. Pinch the touchpad to click.

* The keyboard layout is a mixture of the US English, Japanese, and Teletype
33 keyboards. By the way, its key labels are German.

* If you need a modifier key, try sequentially going through tab, caps,
control, alt, super. Maybe you will find it.

* The only text editor on the computer is nvi. No, that's not `nvim'.

* Firefox works, but has scripting disabled, routes everything through
Tor and clears cookies on exit. Also, each new tab is opened in a
separate temporary container that routes through a different Tor
circuit.
As an alternative, we have w3m too.

* There is no file browser, just bash in xterm.

Enjoy your new computer!
Odd bet, because mainstream bigco AI is already anti-woke, and targeted specifically by people concerned about structural racism.
If you asked me to draw a cat in a party hat, I would get the number if ears legs and eyes correct, but my fur would be non-existent and there’s no way my cat eyes would glow in a reflection. The AI is thinking differently than humans.
I think you've hit upon some interesting examples. Maybe the way to look at this is cost vs "benefit" (in the broadest sense of the word).

When research has an obvious and immediate negative outcome that's a cost. The difficulty/expense of the research is also a cost.

The "benefit" would be the incentive to know the outcome. This may be profit, military advantage, academic kudos etc.

Maybe the problem with the type of research being discussed here is that there isn't neccesarily any agreement that the outcome is negative. For many people, I suspect this will remove a lot of the weight on the "cost" side of things.

I'm not making a specific point here - I'm actually trying to work this out in my head as I write.
> Wrexham Glyndwr University offered a course on “comics” with a foundation year, which invites those with a “flair for storytelling” and “printmaking, bookbinding, 3D materials, life drawing” to apply.

This article is reaching for negativity.
That would be unlikely. If OP is the exception, not the rule, of their hires, they aren't going to replace the whole team with people like OP. And if they are smart, they aren't going to fire a whole team and rely on one person. Especially one who might be showing signs of frustration being at the company (though, yes, there are many examples in which companies have done this).
Perhaps the team is downsized, but "the rest of the team" probably won't be outright fired.
Small update: Firefox 117 on Android phone 75.4(+-6.4) so still there
I smell parallel construction.
Here is a map to see where people affiliated with apple are contributing to openstreetmap: https://piebro.github.io/openstreetmap-statistics/#e19b
it seems they use OSM data everywhere but in North America and most of Europe.
Camino was actually a separate, but similar slim-down project for Mac. It had Mac OS Cocoa controls, so it fit in better.

Camino was originally named Chimera. It was started by Dave Hyatt, the guy who went to Apple to build Safari and WebKit, which Chrome now uses.
My counter anecdotal example is that this never happened to me or anyone in my social sphere after 10 years of Uber rides, but phone number blacklisting happened to almost everyone I knew. /shrug

In SF, there really isn't "another cab company" other than Yellow Cab.

To echo the parent, they may have been unethical and borderline illegal about scooping marketshare from cab monopolies, but there were no complaints from the consumer.
The problem with the NHS is largely political. If you consider the structure of the NHS within civil/political society, it is clear why reform has been challenging.

The Tories are, for obvious reasons, totally unable to reform it. Labour are willing to do so but are inhibited by the fact that the vast majority of funding comes from unions who oppose any reform.

Worker's rights aren't "worse" than the US. It also depends what you mean, worker's rights in Denmark are "worse" than the US too...that isn't necessarily a bad thing if the system works. One of the biggest issues in the UK is that businesses are nervous about hiring people at all because firing people opens you up to virtually unlimited liability...I don't think this is a good thing, 20% of the UK's adult population are economically inactive.
By that measure it’s just somewhere someone from a devastatingly bad/troubled country wants to come to. That’s a low bar.
While I don't like the feeling of being exploited through unpaid/volunteer labor to improve the app, I do know that most or all of your issues can be resolved by reporting errors through the app. Business data can be changed by users pending a review by Apple, and routes can be reported with a thumbs down/up response upon resolution of the trip. The walk through a military facility is a little harder to report, though. :)
What's proper here? I work in a TS shop, 95% of our in-house CLIs are in written in TS and to date it has been an issue... once a year? If we really need better than TS has to offer then sure, go write some Rust or Go, but most of the time we get a lot of added benefit from the fact that literally any developer in the company can bugfix or extend the CLIs without assistance from these teams.
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My biggest gripe about GMaps is a minor one but when it happens it's crucial:

Sometimes I'll see a road that looks like it may be a good shortcut or something, but it doesn't show the name. So I zoom in, and in, even to the point that the road itself is taking up my entire phone screen. Still no name! Very tedious and aggravating when it's on the fly.
Imho it's not that complicated and it's mostly driven by CRE and desire to have strict control over the worker's time.
A relaxed version of find me the next prime after X, find me some prime a bit larger than X. And just as the next prime after X will always yield the same answer, they want some prime a bit larger than X to also always yield the same answer.
Manually enabling/disabling perf is too slow when you want to profile a part that takes <1ms to execute, but it is an option if nothing better exists. It would be great if you could just isolated interesting code in microbenchmark but we all know that this will skew results.

About code execution profiling, I usually use Intel PT so yes, I know where I want to look.
Everyone involved needs to be in prison ASAP
This puts it quite well.

And a company who has to support remote and non remote kinda have an issue since they now have to know how to work both ways.
I can't think of anyone less qualified to write on the matter than RFK jr, maybe MTG.
This is my biggest beef with their lineup as well. The markup in memory pricing is beyond depressing and I'm not opening my wallet, at best, my employer's.
I lived in France, Luxembourg and the US, compared to the UK all feel like if you stepped 100 years in the future, especially Luxembourg.

I didn't experience much of the social services in the US so I won't expand on them, but in Luxembourg and France you get world class healthcare for free or very cheap (even for foreigners) in a timely manner, you get years of unemployment benefits, public transportation is better and cheaper (free in LU), transportation overall is better and cheaper (UK trains are notoriously horrible), etc.
It’s hard to be a petronation in the Americas.
Is free transportation going to increase or decrease the number of junkies and homeless, not just on public transportation, but in general? It’s a boon for that crowd that can be piled on top of all the other programs that are argued to help, but have only entrenched that population.

Provide transit cards to those with low income budgeted through programs that are tasked with dealing with social welfare, homelessness, and rehabilitation. Let transit programs stick with transit.

I took public transit most work days using various methods in the Seattle metro area for years. The only one I didn’t frequently use (but did occasionally) were busses in the free ride zone outside of the bus tunnel.