skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "answers" from Google Search have always been totally useless, always. You search a question like "What could be the problem if my software is doing X but not Y" and every single time you'll get an answer that says "What to do if your software is doing X and Y".
Did they ever add actual vertical tab support? When they migrated to webextensions TreeStyleTabs was pretty hamstrung because it couldn't replace the actual tab UI anymore.
The Fear of Wasted Effort
Not wanting to run it via a cloud service was probably a big factor, assuming google translate goes via the cloud.

Google has no qualms about sucking up all your data.
I am also interested in the API boundary. It seems that there are too options:

1. Rely on system call stability. This is like Linux containers but unlike Linux macOS doesn't provide a stable system call API. So this would break when the system updates with a change that modifies the system call API.

2. Install the host libraries into the container at runtime. This should provide as much stability as macOS apps usually have. It may also be beneficial as you wouldn't be embedding these into every container.

It seems like 2 would be preferable. However it may be a bit weird when building as the libraries you build against would be updated without the container being aware, but this is unlikely to break anything unless they are copying them to new paths which seems unlikely.
>Surveillance is something done by states and police forces

I will have to disagree here, that is not the dictionary definition of the word. So attempting to call out a serious abuse of language while doing the same thing is definitely an interesting take.

Just like governments can abuse their position, so do corporations. Google absolutely has surveilled society at large and been caught and fined for doing so.
1) My company wanted to downsize and asked for volunteers. I volunteered for a nice package of almost 12 months of pay. They've forcefully terminated 1000+ this year in software, maybe more to go.

2) This gave me a chance to take a sabbatical and gives me a chance to leave IT. Been in the industry for 15 years. The pay is good but IMHO isn't fulfilling. Potentially doing something more tangible. Honestly I could even 'retire' if I want. I'm only 40 but I can work with my wife on her business, take some part time job for benefits...or anything else besides a 40+ hour grind sitting behind a monitor.

3) I haven't told many people I've left my job. My parents still think I work. This makes it a little hard to enjoy my time off, actually as I feel a little bit of guilt.
No. But people in my area were laid off. This is usually not a huge deal in western europe because of the notice period. In Germany it's usually 3 months, so if the company tells you "You're out" (which is extremely unlikely btw, you are laid off either if a) you did something terrible, or b) company goes bankrupt), you still have 3 (full) calendar months to find a job and all. Since the 3 months notice period is quite standard in the country, when you apply for a job, they understand that you may join only 3 months from now.

The main (perhaps the only) reason I would never work for American companies is the lack of any laws that prevent them from firing me without notice. It's just so backwards.
Europeans Love Green Policies–Until the Bill Comes Due
Man Quora has such terrible usability issues and this does not help it at all.
Haha. I first read that headline as "Hans Niemann dies using vibrating sex toy"
The range is up to six thousand dollars, not six dollars.
Ransomware encrypts files on the disk also.

The business pays to unencrypt the files and achieve business as usual operations.

The business doesn't need to trust the attackers not to further share data to get their upside, though I'm sure that helps.
Having spelunked through some Google announcements on this, it looks like they planned to do so back when Android 11 was in development (https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/02/Android-11... ), but I can’t find any evidence that image decoders are included in the current Android Mainline system updates that ship via Google Play - video codecs are, but not image ones apparently.

The image decoders are in android.graphics (https://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/pac... ) & that API subset is not listed in the Android Mainline system modules that are catalogued here: https://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/modular-system

It looks as if they planned to include image decoders, but that was dropped sometime during the Android 11 development cycle, unless I’ve missed something (which is certainly possible).

Edit: the final dev release announcement for Android 11 keeps the same paragraph about the native image decoder. So maybe it is there & I’m just not finding it? https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/09/android11-...
He's saying that. His contention was the projects looks bad because "has always been underfunded to make it look bad."

Ignoring, of course, that there are so many other factors that make those look bad, that would continue to make them look bad even if they were properly funded (whatever that absurd number might be).

I just summarized what he was saying.
Curious, I'm someone mentioned me the Azores having direct connection to North America. And maybe it does but not for consumer connection.
Probably true, but as deputy PM and as a person also intimately acquainted with this issue she should have been very involved. She is of Canadian-Ukrainian background, lived there for some years post-Soviet, fluent in both Russian and Ukrainian, and has extensive networks there.

It's unclear to me in general why she hasn't been more prominent on this file in general (Ukrainian-Canadian relations during the war). Except that there have been controversies about some of her family's Ukrainian nationalist past, and maybe they're keeping her out of the limelight on this for that reason.

Or Trudeau sees her as a threat, and is doing to her what Chretien did to Paul Martin (keep them close but under wraps), I dunno.

In any case, she should have been involved, and would have known better. You hope.

There was a time a couple years ago when she was the clear "natural" successor to Trudeau. Since then her star seems to have faded, and he doesn't seem to know when to get off the stage, either.
It’s only been a few years. I don’t think we owe our selves to call all experiments at such a short time frame. People are acting like this is some chemical reaction they should be able to observe in an afternoon instead of something slow and pernicious like large American businesses when they know they are being watched.

Edit: also several states have net neutrality laws on the books, so if you are typing this from California it’s no wonder you aren’t seeing the end of the world:
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/californias-net-neutralit...
It's been available as an extension for a while. Great that it's better integrated with the browser now though!
https://archive.ph/hubIV

subtitle: "Voters in the region worry about climate change. But they also like their cars."

'LONDON—For years, Europe has been at the forefront of the global drive to curb carbon emissions and slow climate change, pledging to reach net zero emissions by 2050. Overwhelming numbers of Europeans say they like the idea.

Now, however, a small but growing backlash suggests a more complicated truth: Voters may like the idea more than the reality. As the time draws near to take concrete actions and the costs of the transition become more visible, some members of the public and politicians will get cold feet.

This week, the U.K. said it would delay a planned ban on the sale of new gasoline-powered cars and vans to 2035 from 2030, and ease plans to force households to scrap their gas-powered boilers for pricier but cleaner heat pumps. It also promised never to impose a carbon tax on meat or aviation, two other sources of emissions.

“The risk here for those of us who care about reaching net zero by 2050 is if we continue down this path, we risk losing the consent of the British people,” Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said, arguing that politicians hadn’t been honest with working families about the costs.

Germany, run by a coalition that includes the Green Party, also recently watered down its plans to ban new gas heaters for homes after a backlash from homeowners and opposition politicians. Poland’s government, facing October elections, is suing the European Union over some aspects of its climate targets, including a 2035 ban on the sale of new petrol cars.

In the Netherlands, a pro-farmers political party that emerged out of protests against the government’s plans to limit nitrogen emissions won the highest share of seats in regional elections earlier this year. The surprise victory cast a spotlight on a movement that has pushed back against European and Dutch environmental policies.'
Also happened at Microsoft before their layoffs.
I agree with your interpretation.

My point is that Airbnb is like 2 or 3 star now. We obviously aren’t going to have Elon Musk personally teach people to drive the in house Tesla. But when the listing includes use of the house car and it ends up being a motorcycle with no gas that doesn’t start once you fuel it and is shared by a 200 person condo association, it’s nowhere near 5 star.

It’s one thing when people are just stupid and don’t know what quality is or should be. It’s another when they are conscious of where they should aim and point away from it.
AVX10.1 is just Granite Rapids' AVX-512 renamed.

Granite Rapids has a few extra AVX-512 instructions (including those added by Tiger Lake, but omitted in Sapphire Rapids and Alder Lake), so Sapphire Rapids does not support all of AVX10.1. Therefore neither Sapphire Rapids nor Emerald Rapids may turn on the AVX10 CPUID bits.

Nevertheless, the differences between the AVX-512 instruction sets of Granite Rapids and Sapphire Rapids are small and of little importance.
I'm really glad you appreciate that!
There is too much paperwork involved with performance related firings and layoffs happen so fast and so wide it's usually done by lottery.

Can confirm this. My employer dropped about 10% of staff in order to back fill those positions with contractors from low-cost centers (India, Hungary, Costa Rica). Managers were not consulted in the decisions, and simply told they were losing employees $x, $y, and $z.
>that extension for Google Translate was really clunky

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/traduzir-pagi...

This works exactly like the respective Chrome feature.

>this is coming so late

Because it isn't the same thing. This is done locally. (Not the linked extension but the Firefox built-in.)
Yes, that is an intrinsic property of all models. They are imperfect, and we accept it as long as the models are useful for some purposes.

My map has a text written on it saying “Pacific Ocean”, yet I would not complain if I went to this place an couldn’t find a giant object in the ocean that would look like a letter P from the skies.
Because we should have strong priors disfavoring regulation, and this is a stalking horse for yet more internet regulation.
> We, currently, have a ton of nice things that they don’t have (thanks Bootstrap)

Originally named Twitter Blueprint.
Yes stevia is the worst.
The whole vibrating sex toy thing was a joke in a single comment by some random person in Twitch chat.

Amazing how it blew up and spread over the globe.
I don't think it's bogus.

I've seen people who strongly crave for (a feeling of) certainty prefer simplified categorizations and false absolutes to complexity that doesn't offer absolute certainty and discrete clarity.

Similarly, some things aren't readily quantifiable, and in some cases any quantification might be a great oversimplification at best. In those cases wanting a quantified and measurable answer instead of a more complex answer with less (of a feeling of) certainty can amount to wanting a lie. Or at least to wanting an answer that feels a lot more certain and true than it actually is.

I think that's what the post is about.

Of course the title isn't absolutely true either. Of course you can say and find things that are true and (to a good approximation) certain. But that's not really what the post or its title are trying to say.
It's more of foolishness...he would have more from a legal book deal if he wanted money.
You can just read the machine's manual: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37658844
Are these events planned far in advance and then not cancelled?

I would think cancelling most of this type of spending would be more common.
Maybe management didn't know how urgent the need to cut spending was
There's an entire field of study dedicated to these puzzles: epistemology.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/certainty/
It is. and so is WASM, but both probably aren't fast enough
Can you give an example of a "sufficiently complex frontend" which is not behind a login wall, so we can actually all look at and discuss it?
The money is generally spent doing both things surely. One doesn't stop the other
I missed out on the property boom at a personal level because I was not taught the value of debt. So I get your point. We didn't purchase a home because it always seemed like a bubble that simply could not inflate further. All the while, property prices went up, up and up. (referring to Canadian housing)

So mistake made, lesson learned. In a world where money is expensive (fed rate sets the lowerbound), where are the opportunities?
FYI: Possessive its.
"unique radio-electronic weapons based on new physical principles" sounds an awful lot like the breathless tales of secret Russian Tesla death rays that have been circulating since the 80s, if not earlier.

If Russia could "neutralize entire armies with just one short electromagnetic impulse", or even just "disable missile warheads and onboard aircraft electronics miles away", don't you think they'd be using that capability against Ukraine?

The author of that paper was obsessed with the idea of EMP weapons,[1] so I'd take it with an entire shaker full of salt unless you can find solid supporting evidence elsewhere.

[1] https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/washingtontimes/name/pe...
I agree but i'm by no means even remotely an expert. Mixing up f and f(x) seems pretty bad to me.

f = y+3 makes sense
f(x) = y+3 does not make sense (at least to me), f(y) = y+3 makes sense however.

f(x) is a function of x correct? It's articulated as "f of x".

> I wonder why you used ':=' instead of '=' to define 'f'. There is no computation going on, right?

:= is assignment in Pascal iirc, maybe that's where it's coming from.
As long as there are workers 18-65 who are willing to work at a clearing price who aren't currently working because that price isn't offered, there is labor available. Agree relying on retirees to remain in the workforce isn't a long term solution; there is no long term solution when you've built your economy on an ever expanding labor force that is no longer ever expanding. The data does not show we are out of workers entirely, but there are jobs workers are unwilling to take at the current wage on offer.

Will we face a structural labor shortage causing unreasonably low unemployment rates and labor marketplace friction in the near term? Very possibly depending on 55+ workforce exit rates and immigration flow. Are we there yet? I don't believe the data shows that.
Crazy. I don’t know what they gain by super slow rollouts like this. It puts them at a serious disadvantage while ChatGPT gets entrenched in people’s daily workflows and the perception grows that it’s the best.
1. No. Not because I'm a quite special engineer (I'm between the average and median) but one thing that I developed was a decent situational awareness in terms of career management to know the early signs when something is going south and I decided to move first (last 3 experiences I escaped from a mass layoff in a Tech Mid-Cap company, another Scale-up that needed to do layoffs and all stock is underwater and a hostile takeover that ended up with a 65% layoff).

2. I became almost obsessed with company performance in almost all aspects to see early signs of something off. Another thing is that I worked on all of my weaknesses to be more employable (I am a SysAdmin by craft, but I navigate in SRE/DevOps/Operations nowadays).

3. At the time that I was fired some time ago, in my internal circles I was completely open about it, and most of the folks were super supportive. For new job opportunities, I would never place this reason because companies have this kind of stigma and consider you as "undesirable" or "leftover".

All those times I created some excuse like I needed to change cities due to family reasons, the company closed the operation in my city, I changed country, I was doing consulting, etc. This is something, in my experience, that you never open to potential employees.

First because of the stigma already said, second this transfers your leverage in terms of negotiation because the other side knows that you need the work and it incites the other side of the transaction to lowball you financially speaking; and during the job they put you in more pressure to deliver.
“Welcome to Costco. I love you.”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sdNmOOq6T8Y
It's a Skinner box. If the pigeon never gets a reward, it'll lose interest in the key. If it always gets a reward it'll hit the key, but not that much because the reward is always the same and its boring. If the reward only occurs sometimes, the pigeon'll go nuts hitting that key. We're the pigeons, and the "randomness" is constantly being tweaked to make sure we never get bored.
There’s a reason teledildonics are strictly controlled by ITAR export regulations. We must protect the integrity of global sports! Only our closest NATO allies are allowed access to our weaponized buttplugs.
Yes, literally last friday. Signed up for a new job mid august, and last week, boom, they did lay off half the company. I just can't stand the fact that it isn't something you start thinking from one day to another, and you can take approaches to prevent this (still hire people 1 month before the entire layoff cof cof).

Idk, I'm just in the middle of f around and find out to see if its really a thing, most of the response from people seem to not care about. But the feeling itself its kind of weird for being a first timer for me!.
Too many people fell for it for them all to just be morons, but that's not my point. What I'm saying is that young people will make fall for all sorts of scams if the adults in their life (and government incentives) push them in the wrong direction. Same thing for older generations thinking that things like social security was ever going to be more than a Ponzi scheme (similarly, too many boomers fell for it for me to write them all off as morons).

Getting kids addicted to gambling with virtual currencies might shape the structure of the scams, but the idea that Gen Z is going to be uniquely vulnerable to finance scams doesn't track for me.
SIP means not messing with the system files, enumerated thusly: /System.

Enumerating what I do want an app to access is handled by Gatekeeper.
Based on the conversations I’ve had with folks who are long term unemployed, yes. I’ve not yet spoken with someone who has consistently hit that 10 high quality apps/day metric for over a month and not walked away with a job.

From my experience, there tends to be something holding the chronically unemployed back that is blindingly obvious to everyone else, but that the unemployed person either doesn’t want to see or can’t.
Wow, Google really preferred a critical unfixable security flaw in Android sound like just an iOS zero day for over a week. Wonder why...

"Oops"
Personally? I was made redundant 20 years ago, and since I was near the start of my career I used the time to try being self employed for a bit then found another job. I did not percieve stigma from having been made redundant, since at that time (end of the first internet boom), there were a lot of other people in the same situation. I think reasonable adults understand that "made redundant" is not a reflection on the individual.

However, in the current wave of redundancies, I've heard quite a few stories from other people about negative effects of redundancy combined with other life events. Being made redundant in the middle of moving house is particularly stressful and costly.
Why did the mega providers so desperately want net neutrality to die? Why did so many lobbyists work to kill it?

"I really don't get what all the fuss is about."

This is a bit like the Y2K bug. There was a huge amount of noise and fear-mongering, and millions of developers spent an enormous amount of time fixing code and preparing systems. Y2K came and suddenly everyone is sure it was all just drama for nothing. What was the fuss about?

The massive amount of "scare tactics" made it a mainstream conversation. The images of tiered internet were spread far and wide and it put everyone on alert. We can't A:B universes, but I suspect that if net neutrality was quietly axed and no one noticed or cared, we would absolutely have had services very much like the worst-case images imagined.
1. Yes, due to Covid -- more or less, at least it was a convenient excuse.

2. Absolutely not -- got a far better job offer 3 months after and took it: Better pay, more interesting projects, hands-on experience with big clients.

3. No, being unemployed for a short while does not carry social stigma where I come from. It does if you are unemployed for a longer period of time though.
Sure, coherent does not imply meaning.
> macOS doesn't provide a stable system call API

I'm really wondering, do you have any links about macOS syscall stability over versions?
I'd like to digress to your "Encouraged more forcefully" phrasing which is quite interesting if you think about it. In my view, it would mean something like pervasive dialog box ala EULA, some UI hoops you need to resolve, alike going with local account on installation.

In reality they done basically everything to force users to use secure boot.
If they disabled normal boot altogether, OS adoption would suffer heavily.
They could've obscured that option, but it would be found out, and enterprise users would be pissed at them because they didn't gave them a provisionable way while the way exists. So it came down to normal variables in installer registry.

However modifying, e.g making users "hack" the ISO is really as forceful as it gets without market loss.

Note: There may be more normal way today than modifying the registry of ISO, I installed 11 once when it came out.
To be fair to the CEO, the layoffs were probably happening either way and the tropical team building activity probably didn't have an impact on the size/scale of layoffs. The acquiring company was going to cut head count and needed the impact to show on their financial statements starting Jan 1. No way to keep people through the holidays. The extra expense in the previous year might even have been encouraged because it would make the following year look like they were doing an even better job of stream lining.
Ah yeah, I remember the Lend-Lease act, whereby the US and UK gave Sherman tanks to Hitler to invade the Soviet Union.
> The very complex instruction set does.

i.e., PSPACE ⊆ EXPTIME

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXPTIME

which is funny because people are always like "uh why do i need to understand asymptotics when machines are so fast". well the answer is the asymptotics catch up to you when the speed of light isn't infinite or when you're timing things down to the nanosecond.
The difference with Kagi is it lets me completely block Quora from my search results. Quora has been garbage for years, even before they started using AI answers.
So this could potentially be activated by opening up a WhatsApp or RCSChat that received a payload right? I'm turning off auto download for now