skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well as the article mentions, we’re already paying enough to buy universal health care so the metric is more than money.

It’s also about only letting people have what they “deserve” and not tolerating giving anything for free to those who didn’t “earn” it because that’s “socialism”. “Deserve” is measured by whether they already have it or not. No it doesn’t actually make sense and yes it’s selfish and short sighted but it’s they American way. Even if providing a service to everyone lifts all boats, it’s simply not done.
Apple Maps is great, one thing they could improve though (on iPhone) would be to nail down the location of the input boxes. Currently they jump around when content finishes loading, which often leads to the user pressing the wrong button.

Google Maps when you're driving in Brooklyn: Instead of "Take a right on Avenue Q", it'll say something like: "Take a right on Thomas L. Jefferson Remembrance Honorary Memorial Boulevard Avenue Q"
Corporate propaganda?
Vox Media stops using Chorus, proprietary CMS, for its own websites
Dodging regulation, aka cheating, disqualifies a party from a competition. And today we have rideshare drivers refusing to drive into bad neighborhoods just like cabbies did before regulation - consumers are worse off in that example and there are others.
As a JavaScript developer my priorities are limited to visual render and DOM access. Going back 5+ years ago Chrome was able to access the DOM at about 45m ops/s on my desktop and Firefox was achieving about 850m ops/s on the same hardware. On my laptop (faster memory) Chrome was getting up to 55m ops/s while Firefox was around 1.4b ops/s.

Now Firefox numbers have remained constant, but Chrome struggles to hit 20m ops/s in my desktop. Chrome has sacrificed front end performance across the board for modest performance improvements to query string access of the DOM. Pretty unfortunate.
I want to make architecture diagrams more natural in the future. This is far from perfect but here's my quick attempt at producing something like this in Flowchart Fun - https://flowchart.fun/n#EoUwhgxgLgBA3gKBjYB7ArlEAnJMDCqAtgA6...
When pointed uphill, lift your foot off the brake and gas it while at the same time working the clutch. If you're precise with the clutch, you'll move forwards without sliding backwards too much. If you're not, you'll fall backwards, into the car behind you. If you're not very skilled with the clutch, you can cheat and use the handbrake, but you'll get judged for that.
> "Silicon Valley" is not a monolithic actor, and certainly not a scam on some general level

True to a degree, but there is absolutely a Silicon Valley mindset and ethos that is very common. And that mindset is largely accepting of scammy behavior and often even celebrates it.
> Less appealing and useful

Further instrumentalization of art to produce a median state of being appealing is IMO not a laudable goal. Everything Adorno predicted about the general course of the culture industry in Capitalist economies was more or less correct and AI art is just accelerating these trends.

Map this same logic to how we use language in creative works: would it ever be desirable to reduce all of language’s diversity and variability to a similar state? How is that distinguishable from the kind of Orwellian horrors that Americans love to decry?
you didn't mention that, so it was easy to miss.

and if you had mentioned it, my response would have been: "so why did you bother to comment?"
The Biden administration is tackling smart devices with new cybersecurity label
I'm interested in this idea, as possibly a good thing.

I'm definitely pro "personal data poisoning," e.g, absent legislation and/or incentives with teeth - we should all be working on ways to confound and confuse and generally screw up the companies who are sucking up all the personal info.

This kind of runs parallel to that. Google search has been pretty bad for some time now, might be worth "burning this thing down to save it."
No wonder, the tab bar is open only. Managing multiple tabs is a no-go with it, or lets say, a wonderful journey into Firefox UI.
That's the spirit. And you're welcome, you'll find that you feel much better when not upsetting yourself about things like this.
> GitHub dispenses a lot of dopamine and it makes me change how I work to get those nice little green squares.

Yerwhat? This is not remotely my experience with GitHub at all. I never look at my green squares. In fact I rarely even look at anyone's profile page (why would I?)

I use GitHub every day and it has never once occurred to me that anyone could think of GitHub as addictive/gamified or a "dopamine dispenser".
People have tried, but all the local minimums perform about the same so there's no point trying to find a global minimum. A much better strategy is to train multiple models and use all of them at inference time to score better
To be honest I'm so baffled by the idea that the US has better worker's rights than the UK that I scarcely know where to begin.

For what it's worth, Sweden and Denmark do not have minimum wages even today. So no, it's not a hugely useful proxy, otherwise according to you the US may have better worker's rights than Denmark (trivially false).
Yes, they are. I am just a 401K investor, and when I learned about SPACs, I went "wait WHAT?".

You do not need to be an investment prodigy to know how this was going to go - a tsunami of fraud, a few walk away with riches and the investors get screwed. The people who bought SPAC de-regulation knew what they were doing, and the corrupt revolving door that is the SEC was in on it.
A Look at Pendo’s Discovery Tech Stack
If you read the readme, it clearly covers this, it delivers to Maildir or blob storage like S3, your choice.
Why ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ still matters at 50
Exactly. I hate this too. I'd rather keep my github activity private. It's nobody's business to know if I commit 30 times per hour or once per week.

On the other hand I recently encountered a very interesting hiring process. I think this is the first time in 20 years when I'm encountering some "new idea in recruitment" and I actually think it's good for everyone.

I'm talking about coding/other task based challenges you complete on your own. I recently got something like this sent by a recruiter. (2 coding challenges, one - writing a email to a junior colleague telling them how to troubleshoot an imaginary backend issue). I was very pleasantly surprised that web based system had over 20 languages you could choose from to complete the challenges and once I've completed it around midnight my time, by 7am it was already scored (by humans and pretty well).

I much prefer this kind of stuff to traditional "share your screen via video all and code live" or pre-covid, write your code with a pen on a whiteboard...

As for cheating possibility... They openly allow one to use Google etc, but there is barely enough time to complete the task, so someone extensively searching on Google, or trying to use chatgpt for the task would run out of time tweaking the prompt very quickly.
The same was true for the holy grail too. Other financiers included (iirc) led zeppelin and other British rock greats.

The top marginal rate of income tax was ~90% and this heavily encouraged investments like this. It meant that there was more space for creative risk taking as well as more commercial/industrial capital investment.
This is why I'll likely never work in an office again. So much theater, posturing, and bs. I'd rather be judged strictly on my results, which remote work maximizes.

When offices were still a thing at least one could have some alone time to focus and a sense of privacy. Open offices are awful and straight dystopian unless you're actually a startup with < 20 employees. Why employees put up with that is beyond me, but I'm glad that COVID put offices out of fashion. Just wish I could get some apology letters for the office grunts and Uncle Toms who used to make a big deal out of WFH to make themselves seem relevant.
What the fuck business is it of the government or other people not directly involved in the sex act what birth control I am using so long as it is not harmful to the people using it or the public at large?
Have my pay reflect wins I achieve.

As things stand, my incentives are to appear busy to my boss and otherwise do as little as possible. If I achieve something, there should be cash money in my pocket above having done nothing.

Currently, my incentive is to be overemployed and figure out how to seem just above mediocre. Key word being "seem." I am very dedicated to doing as little work as possible to allow for more overemployment.

Tackling a hard problem has the same pay as spending all day "consulting stakeholders" and getting bogged down in Scrum process.
I'm confused, isn't an employee tribunal free? Or do you mean it wasn't between 2014-2017 and has become free since?
> Much as we might like to think of organizations as rational machines - the reality is that companies are social organizations and people interacting with people is the way decisions are made and how work gets done.

My experience is largely opposite to this. I agree that we usually need to coordinate to take action in modern organizations, but this coordination is often a formality tacked onto the more meaningful individual work that preceded it.

1. Important decisions aren't made in a meeting unless at least one person has thought through the options beforehand and come prepared to explain the pros and cons of each and why their recommendation makes sense.

2. Work doesn't get done in a meeting unless prerequisite individual work was done beforehand. There has to be some thing to discuss in the meeting. An individual has to prepare that thing.

Decisions can be made and work done with short, few, and informal meetings, but not without serious individual preparation and production.
Same, except I found that even the one-line changes just to have committed something were useful for keeping me in touch with whatever project I was choosing to work on. It also gave me extra motivation to fix relatively trivial problems that would otherwise annoy me a little but not enough to otherwise justify the effort to `cd $project_dir && git pull && nano $relevant_file && make test $$ git commit`. A lot of unit tests and documentation improvements got written this way, a few minutes per day.
One bit of feedback - on mobile there’s doesn’t seem to be an easy way to go to your homepage from the linked post. Clicking on the “FF” logo brings up a menu but none of those take you to the root page. And of course manually editing the URL is awkward on mobile.
Well, you did start your comment with "I live by a simple rule".
The system design is unique and interesting. It's a shame that the user experience doesn't align with how I want to use my computer, so I'll keep using desktop Linux and implement a bit of sandboxing myself. For the average consumer it could probably replace Windows for a lot of use cases and improve security due to its strict locked down and hard to exploit nature.
Merely "having a point" is not "a reason for his abusiveness". I think I "have a point" for almost any HN comment I post (or at least, I'd like to think so) and have just as much "reason" to be a jerk as Drepper had. This applies to most posts on HN.
I always tip well because I get that tips are misplaced wages, but the tip economy is so messed up.

A huge piece is that it's based on an asymmetry of information. I don't know how much a barista makes so I assume min wage and tip accordingly. Consequently a business owner has less incentive to raise wages because customers are accustomed to subsidizing their payroll. Sadly employees are the pawns in all of this and viewed as having their hands out for being greedy as if they have their hands out or are the ones who program the %s into their Square terminals.

I've also seen a few courageous businesses try and move to fair wages + no tipping, and then reverse course because they weren't able to keep employees. I think the only solution is systemic, like getting rid of the tip minimum wage, but that's unlikely.
It's their job to explain it to you. Most baristas are pretty good at that job. They often love coffee and love talking about coffee.

Everybody behind a tip screen is doing a customer service job. It's not just taking money and giving coffee. It's a hospitality industry. Not everybody is good at it, but a properly-run shop is good at hospitality because they know it's how they make their living.

So really, just ask. I can't promise you that the person behind the counter isn't a jerk, but I suspect you'll be surprised and pleased.
It’s still great if you’re experimenting/prototyping new chips and SoCs. Forth REPL is great for that, but yes, niche.
Great article. Go may have generics, but because old Go code doesn't, and the standard library doesn't, it still feels like the language doesn't sometimes.
> When decisions needed to be made, he was the one people would consult with.

Sounds like a useful employee. Maybe not rushing around constantly allowed him time to actually think through problems.
I recently switched jobs to a company that uses GitLab after a long time of using GitHub and I really don't like it.

It could just be my lack of familiarity, but it feels less polished and more clunky.

Both work similarly enough it doesn't really matter that much to me.
I'd think that these improvements were started years ago but only now enabled
Maybe it would work better if the local government runs the app (contracted out obvs) and bans all the others.

I dont really mind installing a new app for a new city provided the onboarding is easy.

The part that bugs me the most is researching what app to use in what place. It's not straightforward.
Honestly you are the first person I’ve ever heard that prefers chromes tab system. Check out tree style tabs it’ll change your life. I hate chrome now solely due to it
Which is actually good proof that _requiring_ people to wear masks doesn’t help. Mask mandates are pointless even when masks are useful.
How did you notice?
Vox Media will use WordPress VIP instead.
I would agree with this. Most of the work gets done between interactions of people, not during those interactions.
Wouldn't it be nice if people would always follow the serious whitepaper structure: abstract, summary, conclusion, measurement...

But this wouldn't work for programming language ideologies. Not for the OOP proponents, anyway.

The DOD crowd can at least demostrate how CPU love blasting through data layed out in arrays.

The FP crowd can least explain how the languages can be formalised.

PS ML is the most natural application of dod principles, no?
I think societies with arranged marriage tend to be also more patriarchal, were divorce is looked down upon. At least where I am from, we used to be like that 40years ago (my father's oldest siblings were in arranged marriages). Women back then did not have the social liberty to ask for a divorce. A lot of my aunts (and their female friends) were trapped in unwanted (and miserble) marriages, and were conditioned to accept their misery and not to seek a divorce
Receive image descriptions of your surroundings in Magnifier on iPhone
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1716164

My guess is that Firefox was being served AV1 by YouTube. Intel chips prior to 11th gen have no hardware decode support for AV1, and so your CPU was overworked and bottlenecking.

Chrome and Safari probably resorted to H.261/H.263/H.264 encoded video from YouTube, and relied on the hardware decoder.

Easy fix: go to `about:config` and disable `media.av1.enabled`.
> The transfer of lousy tech equity to late-stage investors who have been led to believe it's valuable sure looks like a good blow-off to me.

Uber did $8.8b in revenue last quarter is apparently on track to post operating income profitability by the end of the year. Seems like the company still has plenty of value.

Also, this article makes no mention of ZIRP -- which in hindsight is starting to seem like a very large enabler of the subsidization strategies we've seen over the last decade.
When gradients become auto-correlated, they are not zero mean. In that, case vₜ can grow large and uₜ becomes very small. Maybe try centering the g² term in vₜ like (gₜ-mₜ)². Also, when restarting training, m and v are probably reset to zero.

Might not be related to the phenomena in the paper.
You can have work theater or work surveillance, take your pick. Someone has to make sure the money is being spent well and if you’re not good at making that case you’ll get canned.

All these “I work better from home” folks never mention how they prove it to the company.
How did the e-bike pioneer VanMoof go bankrupt, even as the market boomed?
> That itself would be unconstitutional.
> When technology has no other effect than to cause the same result that might be accomplished by hiring billions of cops to watch everyone, then that effect itself is, without a doubt, unconstitutional.

Which part of the Constitution would this violate?

> Why, though? That's the real question. Do you think the point of it was to just create a few hoops for the authorities to jump through, maybe for shits and giggles? Why do you think this?

I'm going to assume good faith on this question. The US Constitution mainly applies to the Federal government. The vast majority of these police units are at the state and local levels. The US Constitution enumerates the powers of the federal government, and then delegates all the remaining to the States.
This is the correct answer. Typically if something is done at an ivy league, other US and UK universities follow. Perhaps the other countries would follow as well shortly after that, or there would just be a divide between 'real' research and 'not', similar to when many of my friends stop reading after the word 'Hindawi'.
What languages do you need to support? Off the shelf models don't work well on non-Latin languages. You may need to train your own.
I might avoid this over in the UK to some degree, but I've got some colleagues who work over in Arizona. They all pretty much do this, or working in split shifts so they can avoid the Summer heat. If even the Europeans are going to be doing this soon (they sort of already do on the Iberian peninsula with their siestas), I'm pretty sure Arizona is going to become unlivable in a short amount of time.
Also https://virtusaga.com, my hobby project since 2019. Maybe could merge these two.

Sorry for hijacking :)
I agree, the browser has gotten better over the years. But I was lured away to Chrome because of its integration with Google services. I stopped using most of them and about a year and a half ago switched back over to Firefox. Sadly, there are some sites that seem to render perfectly in Chrome, but not at all in Firefox.

Also, FF was late to add meaningful JS debugging tools.

And I had kind of a bad experience working for Mozilla. Still... I have respect for the Firefox team and don't have a problem using the browser.

I'm a bit of an outlier, but it's a data point.
I‘ve been billing hourly for over ten years now, and I agree that it is cursed.

But as much as I’d like to switch to daily/weekly billing, it feels like I would never allow myself to leave the desk to run errands, play with the kids etc - because I promised to work the (whole?) day/week.

Even if you don’t actively tell clients when exactly you do work, clients can see your away/offline status in Slack/Teams, or they might call you out of the blue, which would feel to me like being caught with pants down - talking about a failed deployment on the phone in the supermarket?

And I’d be worried then that the client comes to the conclusion “Oh that guy, bills the whole week but doesn’t even work in the afternoon. What a slacker!”.

How do you or other people handle this?
De-googled as in not tied to a Google account and its web services. Look at something like ungoogled-chromium.
Also https://awsy.netlify.com/!
Windows internally uses string+length struct, null terminated string API is just compatibility interface on top of it.
Firefox has been my browser of choice since I switched from Internet Explorer as a child.

However, I've found their refusal to implement or offer alternatives to WebSerial and screen-casting utterly depressing. It's made a number of tasks more difficult and inconvenient and makes Firefox a less useful tool overall.

On the WebSerial discussion ticket, an educator articulates how this decision essentially forces what was a Firefox based classroom onto Chrome. I'll be sticking with Firefox but missing functionality drives users away.

It doesn't help that their reasoning for not implementing WebSerial feels extremely paternalistic and runs counter to the ethos of user empowerment at the core of most open source projects.
> Even better, AR/VR headsets with electrodes can not only record your brain activity, but they can also stimulate it with the screens and know exactly how you react to this or that image, this or that sound. What is your reaction to this politician? How you feel when you see this advertisement for this new car? What kind of man/woman you prefer (which can then be used to make tailored ads) and so on... In neurosciences, this practice is known as probing: analysing how your brain reacts to controlled stimuli.
> except my TV ha

I was sad when they discontinued Firefox for my TV (even though it was mostly an Amazon-funded workaround to get youtube on FireTV which went away when YouTube started working...).
> gah, why does Markdown allow arbitrary HTML...

MarkDown is a misleading name.
Exactly. Its important to see this stratified across subfields. If the vast majority are in homeopathy then maybe who cares? If a substantial portion are in, oh lets say Alzheimers treatment then maybe that's more of a problem?
Cloud, Container Escape, and Alexon
Google Maps a) uses the wrong source language for street names, preferring the minority language over the majority b) butchers the street names pronunciation so badly I don't have clue what it's saying 80% of the time

For me Apple Maps is the clear winner, just because I like to have my phone in english - doing voice commands in my native language feels silly and is more error prone.

Additionally Apple Maps UI and voice is clearer on when to swap lanes, which is a life-saver in busy intersections where you haven't been before.

As a hack I use the Irish english voice for Siri, it pronounces street names correctly about 95% of the time and the rest is still legible.
> and as described, consumers are not harmed.

Hard disagree here. The government has chosen to interpret "harm" in a very, very specific way. The reasoning is that if it causes prices to go down, then there is a benefit, not harm.

But harm comes in all sorts of forms, and a lot of harm is done by companies even if their actions cause prices to fall.

> The article argues the harm is actually to investors

Investors do get harmed, but I think the larger harm is actually to ordinary people.