skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Learn to Code" was never a good suggestion. I've met so so so many people who are late-stage career changers (people in their 40s or later) who were laid off and told to learn React and get a job doing that. I've seen construction workers, truckers, retail workers, people with business degrees, stay-at-home moms, grocery store butchers, and other people who have no experience or interest working in technology who think they can just force themselves to care enough about the field to learn the requisite skills to get a job. I've seen this work occasionally but the majority of people who go through job retraining facilities end up with useless certificates and no job.

But telling tens of millions of Americans to force themselves to learn a skillset they hate so that 1% of them can get a white collar job is a terrible way to build an economy. Schools try to teach kids to code in kindergarten now on the off chance that the top 10% of performers will end up in STEM, and then the other 90% just have... a useless set of a skills and have to figure something out for themselves when they turn 18.
Yeah, for non-British people, this is the newspaper which ran headlines such as:

* Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster

* Freddie Starr DIDN'T eat my hamster

* Freddie Starr dead - but did comedian really eat a hamster?

They can be safely ignored.
I worked 43 years for 3 companies, all in Sunnyvale, and all working with the intelligence community. At some point, all of them had layoffs but, fortunately for me, I was never part of any of them. That said, layoffs affect everyone whether or not you're one of them being let go. Obviously, the impact to those being fired, is immeasurably worse but to those staying, there is a psychological impact. First, there is loss of friends and colleagues with whom you've worked and may have close attachments. The abrupt destruction of that relationship can be quite depressing. Second, there is the unsettling confirmation that your company is unhealthy and that your job could be the next to go. So, yeah, layoffs do have a more widespread impact than just those losing their jobs.
Yep, laid off at the beginning of August after just over 2 months at the company. They staffed up to "totally redo the front end" and 2 months later cut us all loose, saying that they were not going to do the project after all. Normally I bounce back from things like this no problem, but in this super dry job market even the recruiters have stopped calling me for 3-month contracts that are 4 states away and require me to be on-site.
> Math is a model of the universe in the same sense that a world map is a model of the earth.

Except math can hypothetically model any consistent universe, not just our universe, which kind of undercuts the argument that it uses data that was mostly discovered, or that it's merely a model.

I think the most general view is that math is the study of structure, and some structures are real (in the sense that they exist in our universe), and some are not but we can still "discover" them by selective permutation or enumeration of axioms.
I'm not going to argue against the fact that the Chinese firms can't and don't do better than American firms (because they can and do do better in many cases), except that it's impossible to know how much or to what extent Chinese firms have financial (or other) backing from the government there. It's an open secret that many "strategic" industries get varying levels of support, often under the table.

BUT: However they got there, DJI is so far ahead on the consumer/commercial side I can't in good faith recommend any alternatives unless you're doing work for the federal and some sensitive state-level government entities.
> In math, := is typically used to denote a definition.

i mentioned this up-thread but is that why := is assignment in Pascal? Wasn't Pascal the main academic language there for a while?
My company did layoffs right before a company-wide kickoff meeting. I noticed something was wacky when people would pop into the meeting channel and ask why their hotel reservations were't confirmed and would get no satisfactory answer. Turns out the company was planning layoffs for the Friday before everyone travelled for this meeting! They let people make travel plans, arrange child care, do all the things people do for travel just to lay them off right before the trip.

I was not laid off, but the experience hit me hard. I've seen a lot of really crummy behavior in my career, but that really did it for me. I am sure to stop working at 5PM every day now. I will never give an employer extra after experiencing that.
TST cannot but can be done via userChrome.css.

#TabsToolbar {
visibility: collapse !important;
}

Can even be done to auto-hide only when having TST opened rather permanently.
Yea anything that unnecessarily updates the screen has lots of unexpected power consumption effects. For example, it might prevent the CPU or display itself from entering lower power modes.

Everything in modern systems is super optimized for the case where the screen is mostly static.
They mean they haven’t tried another package manager for Mac, like pkgsrc or macports.
It's always Citizen Lab of University of Toronto who blows the whistle

https://left.eu/pegasus-inquiry-delegation-from-the-left-in-...
1. Yes

2. No, I was able to get a job lined up even before my last day

3. No. Employers understand layoffs happen, so I don't think it looks bad on a CV that you get laid off. Some people in my life put a stigma on not working, but I'm good at not letting their opinions affect me personally. I do think this stigma exists, in a sense of suffering as a virtue (so if you aren't working, you aren't virtuous). I think there's a valid concern from people uniquely in the US around having certain benefits lapse (health insurance being the biggest one), so a there's a ton of pressure to get back to work ASAP.
Extremely happy about this. Now I can finally ditch chrome for the foreign pages I couldn't quite navigate myself.
Intel Linux GPU drivers have been open source for as long as I can remember (at least 10 years, maybe forever).
I doubt any of those are applied to games or applications on Linux by default.
Show HN: Nysm – A stealth post-exploitation container
Cyberwarfare ended up quite low on the escalation ladder, but I think that's partly because the most extreme cases (i.e. where you're actually trying to destroy or incapacitate) like U.S./Israel attacks on Iranian nuclear infrastructure or Russian attacks on Eastern Europe only happen between countries that at borderline hostility anyway. Most cyberattacks are just espionage but with computers, which happens even at peacetime between allies.
It gets complicated as Carlson has large monetary investment in chess.com https://www.chess.com/news/view/chesscom-acquires-pmg

It's not some independent platform or non profit. It muddys the water at least.
And when Quora also shows answers from "related" (but IMO not strictly related
to the original question in question) by default, I think these answers are
mostly incorrect when being applied to the original question.
That reminds me of Twitter user @foone who often goes on deep dives on random tech and old chips, and on several occasions the top Google result for a chip serial number is one of their old tweets
> Someone is saying "entire technology, broadly, is bad" and a bunch of people who love technologies, who want to use this for all sorts of things, are going "what? no".

Exactly what I am trying to talk about, that is, this concern over big T Technology, rather than simply caring about one technology or another because of what they do or enable. These constant injections of vague existential stakes, when did this start happening? I am not quite that old, but I know it hasn't always been quite like this.

Is it perhaps what we have landed on as an ideology to deal with economic insecurities in the tech world? Like the wider world is disillusioned with idea that one app or another can fix the world, and now stakeholders like us need to go all in on a more profound kind of technological determinism? Where Technology is a Pure Form that needs protection?

Or is it maybe just a new generation? Younger people did not see the same kind of technological advancements older people have, so "technology " feels somehow more monolithic, self-same to them?

And honestly, it is all more interesting than sad or annoying to me... And its not about AI in general, we saw the same kind of rhetoric with crypto stuff too. Its just a shift in the way are people are talking ultimately, and its very strange.

In general I know you are right about this forum, but it has been harder and harder to sift through lately, but maybe thats just me.
In governments, power = force = arms.
Yes, and so are Python, Lisp, Haskell, and a million other languages that were available in 2010.

None of those are suitable options for an image decoding library on the range of WebP supported platforms.
lots of people in Israel are ex-Mossad or ex-security services/army/special forces
Ask HN: How Important Is Networking?
Same as title. Does networking matter, especially in the context of a job search? And if so, how does one network _effectively_?

For context, I am planning to switch jobs in the near future and I've been to a few networking events in my city, but I'm not sure if they're useful. It also seems to me that people don't remember each other from these events, so it's pretty pointless in the long run. I'm happy to be corrected, though.
The agreement is here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/...

The document is quite long so I am not going to cite all of it, but the modes of cooperation are there (including meetings, requests and exchange of information). It does mention explicitly computer crimes as area where parties ought to cooperate.
It seems like the obvious solution here is to voluntarily label AI content (text, image, anything) with some kind of HTML wrapper or attribute that search engines can then choose to index differently.

Obviously lazy/deceptive people can choose not to label it, but in a case like this, Quora is already visually labeling the answer as AI-generated for users, so it seems like they'd be willing to tag it in HTML as well.

Have there been any W3 proposals on this? Any potential standards?
Quora is already a dumpster fire. Everytime I go to quora from Google, I see the question at the top, but then right below it I see answers for different questions. You have to scroll past those, past a block of ads, past a sponsored answer (to another unrelated question), just to get to the answer, which itself is an confidently incorrect human that is just peddling their own website for SEO juice, and it is truncated at 2 lines, which means you need to click "read more" which spawns an additional set of ads that you need to scroll past to read lines 3 and 4 of the question.

I visited a link this week and saw ChatGPT as the top result and I thought the same thing. Is Quora signaling to me that you are better off not asking our community for questions, just throw it to the AI gods and good luck. Oh and look at these 3,000 ads and take these 209 cookies before you go.

Luckily I search with Kagi now, so I told it to just never give me search results with Quora in it. I'd prefer not knowing that dumpster fire of a website still exists.
Technology is only neutral if it's not being applied, which is the whole point of technology.
Was Wittgenstein Right?
"Wittgenstein claims that there are no realms of phenomena whose study is the special business of a philosopher, and about which he or she should devise profound a priori theories and sophisticated supporting arguments. There are no startling discoveries to be made of facts, not open to the methods of science, yet accessible “from the armchair” through some blend of intuition, pure reason and conceptual analysis. Indeed the whole idea of a subject that could yield such results is based on confusion and wishful thinking."
This isn't quite true. Discounted cash price is often LESS than a given insurance pays. You can see this your self if you download price transparency data for your hospital (assuming they bothered to actually comply)
Google has no qualms about sucking up all your data.

Google also has no qualms about you using Firefox. They pay Mozilla $450 mil a year to insure it stays this way.
> For reasons I still can't fathom, a contractor for the Israeli military purchased many copies

The Arrow 3 missile uses a star tracker, maybe previous generations or other missiles used those as well.
OrbStack doesn’t require breaking security: https://orbstack.dev/
And how long do you expect your timeline to playout on? It's been more than 6 years now, and we're talking about corporations that regularly have difficulty seeing beyond next quarter, and have absolutely no qualms pissing off the entire world if it means another buck. Why wouldn't they have rushed to enact the new laws immediately under an FCC political establishment that would have been favorable to such?

It seems to me that simple market economics offers a compelling alternative. The more they screw the customer, the more room there is for new or existing competitor, be that something like Starlink or one of the many micro-ISPs being able to grow a bit. You need to create some economic model where these tiers are both profitable and don't expose you to a reasonable fear of competition. That seems quite difficult to do.
> 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".

I interview people who were laid off all the time. I don't care at all about why they left their last job as long as it wasn't for being a creep or an asshole.
Building a feature custom to one company is usually simpler than building an entire product that meets the diverse needs of many companies.

It may very well be that the polished product is a better fit for many businesses than the quickly put together custom feature that does the bare minimum, though.
Intel has a cloud available: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/devc...
https://archive.ph/87OhS
I do not. I'm not really a macOS user but have heard this mentioned many times. I remember one recent example is Golang switched from doing raw syscalls to using the macOS libc due to this issue. That was probably ~5 years ago now so you may be able to dig up examples there.
CronbotAI offers efficient team Q&A using various datasources.

You can reduce support tickets with an AI chatbot and user-uploaded knowledge.

You can easily integrate our APIs into your SAAS.
There are no deepfake threats. Deepfakes is just the hype word for digitally altering photos/videos. In the past doing this well was restricted to governments, large corporations, large institutions. And they did it regularly. Now individual human people can do it themselves. That's good. That's not bad in any form or manner.
Astronomer Johannes Kepler uses Math to solve life’s hardest problem: marriage
This has gotten so ridiculous to the point that I actually feel bad for Neimann.

He has admitted to cheating, there's no debate about that. But he maintains that he has cheated in two isolated incidents, at age 12 and 16. These are mistakes, and given he is a titled player, very serious mistakes.

But, beyond barring him from chess.com (a platform with whom his chief accuser has significant business ties), they've absolutely dragged his reputation through the mud many times over. All of this, it seems, based on a "feeling" that Magnus had OTB on a particular game (for which no evidence of cheating has been found).

It wreaks of witchhunt, and has damaged his reputation in a likely unrepairable fashion. I understand he's made mistakes, but it seems we've all tacitly agreed that it is ok to drag someone through the mud because he seems a bit obnoxious and made mistakes while a child. I hope we'd be better than that.
Ever since MtGox, a familiar headline, reusable every year or so, with only the specific identity of the biggest crypto firm needing be changed.

(Though, who's next? Not that many still standing, really.)
> There was a very easy way to help Nazis beat Russia in WWII,

You mean like being neutral and refusing to open a second front for years, while Russians were fighting against Nazis.

> and uh, we did the opposite thing.

What, landed in Normandy in 1944 when the war was already decided because you were afraid of Soviets reaching Paris before you?
Author here. I'm planning to do some more comparison testing of PM modules and planning to benchmark modules from Sensirion, Plantower, Cubic and AlphaSense. Let me know if you know some other sensor modules that could be interesting. I think this could be a pretty interesting follow up post.
> The visibility of fonts to websites has been restricted to system fonts and language pack fonts to mitigate font fingerprinting in Private Browsing windows.

Nice, I wonder if this will effect results here: https://www.amiunique.org/fingerprint

Update: Still unique and the results show 215 Fonts which are 0.0% unique so I'm not sure this is working for me.
Ah, I've tried to make my Steam Deck+sway setup usable when undocked, but there are bugs everywhere, from wvkbd mishandling seats or straight up drawing an invisible user interface, to sway not detecting gestures (lisgd seems to work well, though). There are plenty of physical buttons on that platform, but it seems the default kernel driver does not handle them (need to have Steam running, which then sends input through... X11).

It doesn't help that the interfaces for emulating and intercepting input are very rough or experimental (well, there's libei but wlroots doesn't support it). Maybe I should work on a libinput wrapper or my own "parent" compositor?

Anyway, all touchscreens should be able to sense 3D coordinates, which could be used to move a cursor around the screen while hovering. This could be very usable, especially the cursor is shown above the finger position so it isn't hidden. This alone would help a lot with the issues pointed out in the article.
I've seen pretty good depth estimation algorithms that work off of 2D images, even without the use of AI.
Not sure you are were trying to be serious or not, but the DEF-H was one of the defensive systems used to jam surface to air threats. The system had two "modules" with one in the left and one in the right chine.
So what you’re saying is we just need a way to make the takeoff and landing quiet. Slingshot…?
I do, because I like stores being stocked and deliveries arriving. And so do a supermajority of my fellow citizens.
1. I've lost a job because the parent company merged with another company and started eliminating "redundant" positions. I've lost a job because of private equity shenanigans. I've been laid off a few times because of budget cuts when the economy was in the toilet. I've lost many jobs over the years and not once was it because of anything I could control.

2. Our culture is constantly telling you that if you can't find a job it's due to some kind of character defect. After a while you start to internalize that notion and it's super depressing. Being depressed and desperate for a job just makes the job hunt that much harder. Employers always want an explanation for the "gaps" in your employment history and "just trying to survive" is not an acceptable answer.

3. See #2
Show HN: Soft Wool Hoodie from thick 100% wool
Happy to share the Soft Wool Hoodie - a hoodie I was iterating on for the last year.
I like to experiment with different fabrics to make hoodies with unique patterns and materials. This might be my best creation - the fabric is a soft wool on linen base, which means that it will keep you warm and at the same time linen makes it highly breathable.
So it kinda makes it a great hoodie to chill outdoors or by the fire
Here you can check the rest of experiments https://petrosgear.com/collections/hoodie
Curious to know what you think.
What's wrong with Launch Darkly's track record? I don't have much experience with their product, but was considering it for something upcoming.
Usually not. They might have them, especially in trigger-happy locales, but they don't use them. You're not usually dragged behind bars at the gunpoint. You're going behind bars voluntarily because the alternative is being dragged behind bars for longer and that's all.
Has happened to me on StackOverflow multiple times. Always hilarious and makes one reflect.
Tell HN: The Internet Is So Good Without CSS
Pros: no cookie-banners, no convulses while loading fonts or anything else, no overlay and no popups which use to ask email.

Cons: Can not upvote/downvote here and Google Translate doesn't have its powerful input and output textarea fields.
That’s the thing about trust, ain’t it
FWIW I get the right answer on Google right now when I try:

Can you melt an egg?

No - if you heat an egg it's not like melting ice (or metal). Because an egg contains a substantial amount of carefully folded natural proteins in their native state.
politicians want to stay in power first, and only secondarily want to improve things.

In all honesty, many don't even want to improve things. Most people with power, love power. It's contrary to their nature to change a system that confers power to themselves. That's not just in your own, but in any nation, the people in power will be resistant to change.
This video discusses that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zG-ZrC4BO0

But, keep in mind that Undecided is overly optimistic about pretty much every emerging technology.
I think most people can relate to sometimes feeling like their experience of time is incongruent with objective clock time. We're educated and socialized to believe that it is our perception that is incorrect, because the clock is right.

Some philosophers and other types of scholars would question whether we should cede all sense of reality to that which can be objectively measured. You might say that there's no one "real" time. Perceptual time is real because it matters to the person experiencing it.

I don't think the point is to deny objective time or physics, but just to say that it is incomplete as a way describing lived reality. And probably also that we'll never have an understanding of neurology that's complete enough to let us even fully characterize perceptual time scientifically.

So, we should accept that there is more to time than what physics can tell us.
Ugh, subscription required.
I'm somewhat surprised the nazi agreed to be showed off in Parliment. Maybe he doesn't think what he did back then was wrong? Maybe he thinks too much time has passed? Maybe he is old and senile and wasn't able to fully think about it at all? Maybe he thought it was funny and figured he'd go out with a bang?
In my local Sainsbury's, the Guardian and the Independent are on the top row just above comfortable eye level. Staring you in the face is the Star, Sun and Daily Mail.