skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Horse management is a real degree at Oneonta University in Upstate NY. Horses are a significant industry and a lot of people make a living at it.

My wife studied Animal Science at the Ag School at Cornell and now she runs a riding academy, at least one of her students moved on to studying horse management at Oneonta. I wouldn't knock it.
There is nothing wrong with the title. It IS their style, and their publication, and their right to write in whatever style they choose, including ones that are perfectly understood and appreciated by some people, even if you are not among them.
Also managers that think "time spent with butt on a chair where I can see him" is a good metric for estimated productivity.
But yeah you've got a ton of competing dynamics which make the problem hard.
I'd prefer if they kept the y-axis starting at zero for a more realistic representation.
Taxicabs only had a monopoly (not exact the right word, but a constrained market) in a few cities.
Questions to maybe consider:

* If you're relatively new, are they giving you starter tasks?

* Are the other team member's tasks harder, less-straightforward, involving less-familiar tech, slowed/blocked by dependencies, less amenable to just crunching through mechanically, etc.?

* Are the other team members doing higher-quality work? (A big corp. might have very different ideas of what software engineering is than you did in a one-person-tech-team startups. Are you a one-person tech debt machine?)

* Do the other team members have more responsibilities separate from this code?

* Is the team in a catch-your-breath period, after a big push to ship something, and people also taking summer vacations, etc.?

* Is there a morale problem going on that you haven't picked up on? Were there layoffs recently? Or do people know something you don't know, like that the project is going to be canceled? Is this a team or company that people want to be in? Is everyone interviewing or practicing Leetcode?

* Why is the tech lead or people manager not on top of this, if it's a problem? (Or maybe they are, but they're handling it discreetly, one-on-one with people, rather than embarrassing people in front of the team?)

These questions also suggest one way to broach the topic with a tech lead or people manager, if you don't yet know whether it's safe to speak more candidly: you could ask how your work is fitting the conventions of the organization, are you blowing through tasks too quickly, is there something you should be doing differently, etc.
Argentina was 100 years ago one of the richest countries on the planet. I'm not saying that such a decline will will happen to the UK, but it is myopic to suggest that it is impossible. It's only "impossible" if we actively stop it happening.
Thats the one!!
Sorry I should have qualified that, for extreme cases of ADHD.
Turtles all the way down isn't it? At some point, someone has to take responsibility.
Business Connect is sadly a total joke. I can't correct the name of a business I manage and just get the error "Thoroughfare or fullThoroughfare must not be empty, Thoroughfare or fullThoroughfare must not be empty"

Google Maps is far better for businesses to manage and get their information out. That's why their maps are dominating.
Our class system keeps it that way too. I can imagine the idea of paying someone 6 digits fills many company owners with disgust
> Moving here, I was surprised to see how carelessly Americans would “quit their job, take a break for a few months, figure things out.”

> Or reading about the 70s, with stories of 20-somethings leavings their jobs to go hitchhike through California.

> In France — with a 20%+ youth unemployment rate and incessant, neurotic talk about it — one does not quit their jobs to “figure things out”

https://twitter.com/Altimor/status/1668138067088080896
That may have been an experience, but it was not my experience at all. I have found taxis to just be better than Ubers/Lyfts. And yes, that includes when they were new.

I found taxis waiting in taxi stands in known locations of busy areas, or they would come if you call. If they had to come, I found them far reliable in terms of "when the vehicle would get there" than Uber or Lyft. Both of which promise arrivals and then often have to recalculate.

I found taxis to be more predictable in price. I could get a pretty accurate estimate from a taxi driver. Meanwhile, Uber and Lyft only gave you their estimate and had no problem silently charging you more. (I believe that has been fixed).

And cabs ability to take cash was great. Yes, rarely they tried "the machine is not working", but that was rare and easy to deal with like you said. Meanwhile, if you wanted to do something non-standard (e.g. make multiple stops[0]) you could, either by paying a small cash extra or because they were a person not a machine they could handle it.

Meanwhile, the reason there was so much taxi regulation was that without it traffic becomes unbearable. There would be hour long traffic jams of ubers going to pick people up near the front door whenever an event let out, as opposed to people walking to where the taxis had to pick them up.[0] But in general they are horrible for traffic.

[0] Uber/Lyft can handle that now, but could not earlier
Bugzilla: Disable `media.av1.enabled` in Firefox for better battery life
One of the major complaints against Firefox on MacOS is that it consumes more battery. A major reason behind this is that Apple Silicon (and Intel processors <11th gen, AMD pre-RTX6000 series, and NVIDIA pre-3000 series) don't support hardware AV1 decoding, which is FF's default. Thus, playing AV1 videos results in high CPU load, which consequently drains the battery faster than Safari and Chrome which usually resort to hardware supported codecs.

Disabling AV1 by default on unsupported hardware could very well improve the battery life for a lot of Firefox users on Mac, Windows and Linux.
Why keep the syntax? It's one of the least impressive part of Python
I dunno if I’d call a decade “recent” when it’s like… 1/3 of the lifetime of the form factor!

But, yes. It’s a form factor thing really, as people want smaller, thinner, lighter, laptops. Memory (and battery) removability gets sacrificed as those aren’t a priority for most customers
One can care about their job without caring what their peers are doing. Do your work, do it the best you can, and let management deal with everyone else (or not).
This really stood out for me: 'We also think it is beneficial to show instead of tell wherever possible. We recommend using icons, images, and GIFs to keep it visually engaging and provide visual signposts — helping readers quickly navigate to the details that are important to them.'

We know that things like bulleted lists, headings, and paragraph structure can have a massive impact on readability... and I think those visual touches go even further.

Of course, just using icons doesn't do anything (And can make it worse), but if they are relevant, then it adds another layer of data. +1 on images and Gifs - I find it much easier to evaluate a project if I have some idea of what it looks like (Assumign it has a UI).
Unemployment benefits exist through UC. Most people who are unemployed, in practice, also claim a number of other benefits that substantially boost your income i.e. housing benefit (so your rent is paid), ESA (another £100/week)...this has created another set of issues where lots of people have become economically inactive rather than "unemployed"...great statistically but not so great for people...but yes, the welfare state for adults who can work in the UK is unbelievably huge (£100bn/year, almost no age groups are net contributors into the tax system anymore...I believe 30-40 are the only net contributors...I don't think the level of government support for consumption has ever been so large in the UK, and few examples in other countries...possibly Nordics before their implosion in the early 90s).
> Blitzscaling means growing quickly.

Blitzscaling, when dressed up by the VC class, is more along the lines of "prioritizing growth over efficiency". And all the halo projects from its advocates pretended or are pretending that profit margins don't exist until everyone else is dead; your focus on efficiency can wait until everyone else has been strangled because they can't pretend that making money is optional.

I feel that you are attempting to thinly slice some very wispy hairs.
you can't just wistfully imagine effortlessly passing String objects around

To clarify, I didn’t mean it. No new style API/ABI. Only unboxing a string into (str, len) in/out-params and boxing it back from returns.
Allow immigration? Seems like there are tens of millions of people in the world who would be overjoyed to have a chance to move to the UK.
That's pretty much the reason for me as well. The day some other browser makes tree-style tabs, firefox will probably lose a user.
Masters and Phd requirements should include repeating another research and checking whether they can recreate the results
I'm happy to answer any questions folks have around this product. We've released all of the main specifications at this point, along with documentation and CAD on GitHub for the new module systems.
So much of this. Public transit has to be a better alternative to driving a car. Time is the biggest factor to getting people to use it. I used to take the express bus into my office in the city. Since they had dedicated lanes it took me the same amount of time, all for $2.75. Driving is $10+ in tolls, $20 in parking, and fuel.

My coworkers thought I was crazy taking the bus thinking it was full of homeless. It was mostly lawyers, judges, jurists going to the federal court as well as medical staff at the nearby hospital. Based on the designer suits alone I can guarantee almost everyone had a European car or large body SUV sitting at home.

Free is a good start but if it still takes 2+ hours to get to a $15/hr job it's still a bad deal.
I made a fork with few more features, it might even work on your phone browser:

https://jmiskovic.github.io/voicebox
Firefox containers are great but this is better imo:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc...
It's seems like an extraordinarily bad idea to report on something like this. It's like reporting on a not guilty verdict, the effect is the opposite of what justice wants
I see what you’re saying. I agree that abstract metaphors confuse people. But clearly, the way we are teaching monads right now isn’t very effective for most people.

Haskell comes from a population that loves to understand things from the ground up, and most people learn by doing.

So, what if, instead of an abstract burrito metaphor, we taught people 4 monads: List, Maybe, State, and IO. We explain how do syntax does “something different” for each of them, and how IO is very similar to promises, but the others aren’t. Then we let them play with those for a few weeks, submit some PRs, let the panic of not understanding subside, and then teach them the theory?

Think about how JavaScript developers learn promises. They don’t understand how they work under the hood at all when they first start using them. Then, when they need to go deeper and look under the hood, that theory is connected to their practice, and makes much more sense to them.
How does this agency determine who can meaningfully participate in the study? Are they going to have the expertise to make that determination for _every_ study that could possibly be conducted?

What is the difference (to a layperson) between cherry-picking participants and rejecting participants because they do not meet your study's criteria?

Who funds this agency?

Do the members of the reviewing agency have their own biases, and might those biases tarnish the reputation of a study that is actually well-conducted? (hint: this already happens in journals)
Publishing in Science is a definitely harder if you not only have to juggle the science but also the English sentence structure.
There is no worker protection for the first 2 years of your employment with a company, so you're essentially an at will employee (worse actually, you have less rights and still need to give notice).

You also have only laughable unemployment benefits (£85 per week), that don't depend on your contributions.
ZeroNet is dead since the creator NoFish abandoned the project, the ”sucessor” is ZeroNetX.

It is a unique project and worth trying out, the community is somewhat active.
The story:

- VCs get to invest into startups early
- Companies use this money to grow their customer base often by subsidizing customers
- This rapidly increases the valuation of the company
- VCs look to make an exit by selling their equity while the company is aggressively scaling

I don't see what the problem is. Don't buy the shares from the VCs then. These are adults doing adult things and they can make their own choices on if a company is worth buying into or not because all the financial information is public information, or available if its a private deal.

I'm not sure if the article is saying that growing a business rapidly should be banned or that VCs shouldn't be allowed to sell their shares until some criteria has been met?
No mention in the article of false positives. I wonder how many people they stopped and searched to get a result. I also wonder if the areas the suspect was visiting also overlap with poor or minority neighborhoods and what that means for those targetted.
Cab firms were worse than Uber. They were no ones friend.

Black car firms were and are fine but people can't afford quality products anymore.
Apple Maps also credits TomTom as a data source, so could it be OSM > TomTom > Apple in terms of the data flow?
> (my current car dream is to find another 914 and do an electric conversion… not a car where it behooves one to keep the original anything)

Same here, but ones with the wheel on the right side are even harder to find. :-(

Well... I guess that, for a conversion job, I won't need a working engine, or transmission.
It has been fun watching this develop. What does the roadmap look like right now?
Exactly, but I still haven't made my mind if it's okay to do this. I dislike being tracked and I take some measures against that, would it be beneficial to more people by doing this?
Is that even possible in Grub? Last time I checked there was a tool called "Burg" that would animate backgrounds like a gif, but otherwise it was very clunky and not a great experience.
I guess the answer is somewhere in the middle? It's very hard to see how you can improve your life without any goal or plan. After all, what guides your actions?
OTOH, it is probably as easy to get lost in planning / use excessive planning as a means of procrastination. In addition, a goal too ambitious might as well lead to burnout (e.g. your goal is to get a job at FAANG).

Also, I think it's sometimes hard to recognize whether a goal you have is indeed your own goal; or rather a goal "forced" onto you by your social circle or family.
That seems like a good way to lose work if you're not careful. Although I would also argue that any well-designed web app should be able to handle this gracefully so maybe it will lead to better web apps.

Infinite scroll is an especially bad offender here. If I'm 50 screens down on an infinite scroll that is work and a page refresh losing my place should be treated as a data-loss bug.

(an even better idea is not to use infinite scroll at all)
Wasn't implying that! :)
We got spacecraft and nuclear bombs through government investment, not private capital!
It's also badmouthing "game design" which is a serious degree at Ithaca College and something you can do for a career.

For that matter Ithaca College trains people in "sports management" which is similarly a real career. I know a young women who was born missing a hand who is a serious athlete nonetheless and not only playes in college but studies ways to help disabled people participate in sports which is one of the best things you can be doing I think.
Change boils down to two things really:

1. knowing the right thing to do

2. doing it

Does planning help with either? Surprisingly it helps with the second more than the first. For the first, things like reading and finding a mentor helps more.

Often it's iterative too. Doing a thing often helps you figure out what you shouldn't be doing.

Say you wanted to find the perfect spouse. You don't do this by listing characteristics of that person. Nor do you do the research and hire a marriage expert to figure out the perfect spouse. You do it by dating. You reasssess whether you could be dating better people.
I did that too but I encountered fuckery. I forgot what it was though it was a while ago.
Vox is an awful source.
Why do people pretend that alignment of AI is the important problem to solve, rather than alignment of the companies that run AI products with the wellbeing of humanity?
I think that if the UK, for example, is overthrown by/elects a Maoist government or something equally crazy, then sure, they could flush their economy down the toilet.

I don't think that "being out of the EU" is in the same category.
No. It doesn't always hit 112 F. Temperature is a function of sensible and latent heat.

So Dallas, for example, is only 84 F with a humidity of 83% right now at 9:23 AM central. That's a heat index of 95 F. The high temperature will be 100 F but the high of the heat index will be 110 F.

Corpus Christi recently hit a heat index of 125 F.

It all works out the same. It's brutally hot for months somewhere in every Southern state (including California). These states should all allow tint and account for 114 million people.
I hate to go negative. I really do because, usually it doesn't improve the discourse whatsoever.

However, I feel like it needs to be said: Microsoft makes bad products[1]! They're overpriced, insecure, slow (it's astounding to me how slow their web properties are), and hard to use. Easily some of the worst UI I've ever seen and, what's worse, they've been like that my entire career. They keep slapping lipstick on the same pigs and claiming to have reinvented themselves.

Their support is so ungodly bad that it literally took one of their reps over a day to figure out what timezone I'm in. Meanwhile, two of my employees' emails were being randomly CC'd to the CEO for no apparent reason. The cause? Nobody knows. It just stopped happening. Even Microsoft couldn't tell me why it happened.

With a $2.5 trillion market cap, it may seem like they're killing it but, I really think they're riding on momentum just like IBM did. Twenty years ago, IBM's market cap was double what is is now and, in my experience, their products are every bit as bad (admittedly, I have almost no exposure to their big iron products).

So, what are our alternatives? I know many people who don't like Apple for various reasons. Linux on the desktop has been promised for 20 years. It's closer than it has ever been to being a solid replacement but I don't know that it's quite there yet.

It saddens me to say, I don't know what the answer is. I just know that we need to get away from Microsoft products and fast.

1: In my experience, the only two exceptions are VS Code and SQL Server.
One of my favourite things about SerenityOS is that the community all but bans "idea guys" for this very reason
A huge part of why this debate is reductive mindsets like these where something that’s ridiculously complicated to the point where nearly every individual involved has their own unique situation, is reduced to “the people who want what I don’t want are just doing it for evil”.
> After bashing on the keyboard for ten seconds or so he commented "THAT is how you shut down your computer?!"

This is exactly why I love to use my Linux machine. When I have a thought, I simply command it to the computer in written language and it immediately obeys.

I don't have to figure out where Johnny Ive hid the toggle switch in an attempt to make things more minimal. In fact, I don't have to figure out where anything is hidden at all because everything is right there at my fingertips. I shutdown the computer by saying "shutdown". I lock it by saying "lock". I open firefox by simply typing "firefox". It's a simple system, but I love it.
There are thousands, tens of thousands who compete for our attention on sites like this one via their hip Substack/Medium blogs. Them’s the breaks.
Most high end ones that have a slim form factor.

Don’t know if you’ve looked at that segment but, maybe it’s not what you loop for, but it started not long after Apple did (HP & Dell’s MacBook Pro design-ripoff series especially)

Also many lower end laptops have done it for a looooong time.
"pointers are the goto of data structures"

> Pointers are like jumps, leading wildly from one part of the data structure
to another. Their introduction into high-level languages has been a step
backwards from which we may never recover — CARH
I didn't realise "not wanting to travel for over an hour each day, unpaid" and "not wanting to go back to the confinement of a tiny home" were forms of selfishness. If only there were some sort of middle ground, eh?
A survey on evaluation of large language models
> Apple said the agreement with Amazon was designed to limit the number of counterfeits sold online. Previously, the company was spending a lot of money and effort to send hundreds of thousands of 'take-down' notices to stop the sale of counterfeited devices, it said.

At least from my experience with Amazon, I can absolutely believe there's a lot of counterfeits of almost anything, and that Amazon selling the product themselves in partnership with the manufacturer is a great way to avoid counterfeits.

Who are these third-party sellers of new iPhones? Where and how are they getting them for cheaper, if they aren't counterfeit? Do we really need government to support and protect their business?
> It’s not an insult. It’s odd that you took it as one

I don’t find that odd. Even if accurate, “naive” tends to have more negative connotations and typically codes as an insult.

I tend to find other ways to communicate that same information to someone when needed, even if it is less direct or less accurate: it ends up being better received. The communication winds up more successful overall.
I derive the function driving this behavior in my third proposition [1]:

“ “Finders keepers” has been a consistent natural law of property inheritance, formally codified as “res nullius” or “nobody’s thing” by the Romans.

…It follows then that the corollary in capital based markets of “Capturing value” (Market Share) in a “Growing market” (Resource abundance) environment, becomes the ethically acceptable way to produce goods or acquire property.

…Therefore across all modern competitive frameworks, Economic, Ecological or Political, “first mover advantage” is assumed, and Monopolization of a resource, or a market, rather than cooperation, becomes the optimal organizational behavior.

“Creating Markets/Value” becomes an optimized resource acquisition strategy, as monopolization of production is most efficient when the market “Creator” controls access to the new market from the outset, minimizing appropriation costs. “Investment capital” is used to generate these new markets at a sufficient scale, while the relative abundance of capital for the “house” will allow the creators to impede competitors from the start, thus ensuring a maximum return on investment. Power law guarantees that existing resource hoards will forever seek returns and accumulate more into increasingly fallow pools of capital. Unrestrained “Free” competition, a reinterpretation of “might makes right,” then must represent the dogma behind forever growth.”

[1] https://kemendo.com/Myth-of-Scarcity.html
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