skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rich people today fund the people that do the work, rather than do it themselves. I'd say the new way is more productive.
If everyone is honest/genuine it could probably work.

If the in-person team doesn't like working remotely because they prefer to communicate and make decisions in-person, those conversations/decisions will have to be propagated to the remote team, for the company to function.

My gut feeling is that at some point, an important decision will be made in-person and not propagated, leading to confusion, lack of coordination, etc. Then, politics will ensue because the in-person team might feel like they're making concessions to the remote-team, and that the remote-team is always lagging behind, that the bulk of the decision-making responsibility are on the in-person team's shoulders, etc.

I'm 100% speculating, but I can see it happen.
All it needs to measure is whether it's fresh human blood. Maybe their groundbreaking technology can handle that.
The name comes from Trappist beer. Belgian university
Matrix.org An open network for secure, decentralised communication
Fundamentally, it isn‘t. Practically, some industries are more open about their work than others—computer graphics (both game and cinematic) come to mind as an example on the opposite end of the spectrum from the secretive worlds of biotech or (say) semiconductor manufacturing.

My point was only that (by the definition I think makes the most sense here) they are doing science to the exact extent they give up the intellectual-property monopoly, whatever that extent happens to be.
I see two futures ahead: one with "free" content (data harvesting) remaining alive through remote attestation, physical key verification, phone verification etc. and one with completely paid and exclusive communities scattered around with only a few percent being able to access a meaningful amount of information. Maybe both. But things dont seem to be as bright as some AI lovers make it to be. Hopefully im just being unrealistically pessimistic and open governance prevails, somehow.
https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin

I use it, it's fine.
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One suggestion I’ll make to the Jellyfin team is to post this call at the point where users are requesting things too.

In the example in the blogpost (Chromecast support), in the issue I was asking a bit about how I could help implement the feature (https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin/issues/271#issuecomment...).

Even if there’s nothing I could have productively done to contribute to that feature, I would absolutely have gone to those getting started features.

So, I’d encourage the team to have a pretty quick hand in issues when people are asking to help to link to this blog post and getting started resources.

Finally, none of this is in anyway a criticism of how any interaction was handled. I super appreciate everyone that works on Jellyfin, and I know onboarding developers can often feel like/be more work than not. Just a suggestion for a good spot to add some CTA links that I think would convert reasonably well
"The world needs another field where nothing replicates and those main function is to produce fake results for airport books aimed at management consultants"
Love this and it aligns well with the work I'm currently doing.

I believe local-first peer-to-peer networks have gotten close-enough to being able to deliver feature parity with centralized Application Service Providers for 5+ years now, the industry just hasn't caught up.

For social media platforms like Facebook and X, their "killer app" features are all solvable with hash-based data structures (chains, trees, forests), p2p capability systems, and gossip protocols. Identity systems are solvable in ways that non-technical people can understand.

Part of the solution was the p2p stack maturing. The other part is that centralized solutions have normalized a lot of user flows that p2p can be competitive with, users have been trained up on a lot of patterns that previously wouldn't have been palatable in the market.

There is extreme market demand for it, and the zeitgeist is tuned into the societal and financial failings of ASPs right now.

Facebook is trying to act as the free relay and archivist for the entire world's social graph, there are a lot of hard problems to solve there which personally, I think contributed to social networking silently dying and degenerating into the monstrosity that Social Media is.

Once this stuff starts making it into end-user products, I suspect it's going to be a one way door. P2P can provide user experiences that centralized services can't match - either for technical, financial, or legal reasons.

We are in a sweet spot of opportunity for building the web as it was promised to us.

If folks working in this space want to compare notes, or are looking for work on a well funded no-BS R&D team developing this space, my email is in my bio.
I am a huge fan of hardcover! I've been using it to recommend books to my friends and newsletter subscribers for a while now. It's gotten tons of great attention over the past few months, too.

Keep it up - and congrats on the launch!
I want to be hired. I live East to middle of nowhere, so I work remote, I spent my whole life getting barely paid for doing stuff in some esoteric programming languages and so my resumé would look totally ridiculous. Screw it, I don’t have a chance. It’s not what you can do, it’s how many buzzwords you put in your CV.
So yes, I want to be hired, but I can’t convince anyone to do it as I am bad at it.
Lengthy discussion from a few months ago: “'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco”:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35595026
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Satya's testimony focuses on defaults, but in a really unrealistic way:

>“Defaults are the only thing that matter,” he said, “in terms of changing user behavior.” He called the idea that it’s easy to switch “bogus.”

Maybe it's bogus on Windows, which doesn't respect search engine or browser choice, but it's one step to change the search engine on Apple's platforms which is what he's talking about here.

>Not only are the economics of the Google deal hugely favorable for Apple, he said, but Apple may also be afraid of what Google would do if it lost default status. Google has a number of hugely popular services, like Gmail and YouTube — what if Google used those apps to relentlessly promote downloading Chrome, thus teaching people to circumvent the Safari browser entirely?

Google already does this: click a link on any of their apps on iOS and it pulls up a menu asking to install Chrome or the Google app, your actual default browser being the last option. If Apple is afraid of Safari losing dominance to Chrome on iOS there's no way they'd allow this.

>The very fact that Bing has market share of any kind on Windows — which is somewhere in the teens, Nadella said, as opposed to “low, low single digits” on mobile — is proof that defaults do work.

Again this is not really a default like the default search engine on iOS, it's a situation where you have to wage an ongoing war on the OS as it constantly changes or ignores your preference. How much desktop market share would Bing have if Windows 10+ didn't open Edge and Bing for every unintentional start menu web search?

>When Mehta asked him to respond to the idea that users can easily switch search engines, he said that “my only argument against that is that users don’t switch.” His best example: Apple Maps, which started out disastrously bad but has still gained market share in the last decade because it’s preinstalled on every iPhone.

Speaking of the OS ignoring your preference, Apple Maps on iOS is another example of this. It's not like a default search engine that can be changed, it's the operating system maliciously tricking people who clearly want another service into using the one the OS maker wants.

>For Nadella, becoming Apple’s default search engine wouldn’t be about the money, at least not directly. “We needed to be less greedy and more competitive,” he explained. A sudden increase in distribution, he said, would give Bing an increase in what Nadella called “query flow,” which essentially just means more people would do more searches. More incoming searches means more data the Bing team can use to improve the search engine and more reasons for advertisers to come to the platform. An improved search engine gets used more, which means more data, and round and round it goes. This is the virtuous cycle of search engines, and Nadella believes Bing could use that cycle to quickly catch up to Google’s quality.

If the only way to make a search engine good enough to be #1 is to already be #1, as Satya seems to be implying, then it makes no sense to be in the search engine business.
Then Australia is incredible expensive

I can get the same dish in Canada for 8 AUD and can cook for less than half the money, and Canada is not a cheap country
Have you seen some of the virtual reality from FB? I think it's getting close to the point where it's just as good as talking to someone in person, with the obvious benefit that not everyone has to be in the same physical office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVYrJJNdrEg
Surprised to see this on hn - I live just down the road from here in the next village, there was a bright flash of lightning, the power flickered and a huge boom. Figured it was just thunder. Then started getting messages about explosions and pulsing orange lights in the sky. It's the most excitement this village has seen since the murmuration on spareacre lane.
I would be thrilled about the end of free accounts. Things that don’t seem to cost that much to run can charge token amounts, and things that cost more like say, Gmail, should just cost money. Right now the existence of the shitty, ad-supported version of everything drives out anything good. Why build and innovate in any consumer software product when Google is there offering a free ad-based one that will always get 90+% of the users?
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>I truly wonder how your life is if you think words can not be equally or more harmful than physical violence.

As a culture we used to teach kids "sticks and stones can break my bones but names can never hurt me", i.e. resilience. Now we've taking the opposite approach, and unsurprisingly enough suicide and mental illness are at an all-time high.
>* Here's another article from 2014 that showed a 13.5% increase at a different call center https://hbr.org/2014/01/to-raise-productivity-let-more-emplo... So study vs study, which one is correct or better? This isn't good evidence either way for software engineers.

1. The article in question cites 5 other studies that also found negative results for remote work.

2. The Ctrip study mentioned in your hbr.org link is probably the Trip.com study mentioned in the economist article. The article mentions issues with that study:

"Call-centre workers for a Chinese online travel agency now known as Trip.com increased their performance by 13% when remote—a figure that continues to appear in media coverage today. But two big wrinkles are often neglected: first, more than two-thirds of the improved performance came from employees working longer hours, not more efficiently; second, the Chinese firm eventually halted remote work because off-site employees struggled to get promoted. In 2022 Dr Bloom visited Trip.com again, this time to investigate the effects of a hybrid-working trial. The outcomes of this experiment were less striking: it had a negligible impact on productivity, though workers put in longer days and wrote more code when in the office."

>* The discussion here is about tech workers, not call center employees

>The data and evidence we need is from the loud RTO companies (Google, Amazon, etc.) in the software industry pushing for RTO. These supposedly heavily data and metrics driven organizations have NO DATA supporting their RTO efforts. Some random study about call centers is irrelevant here.

1. Some data is no data. Sure, maybe doing the study with office workers will show different results, but until then assuming the positive unless there's evidence to the contrary is just intellectually dishonest.

2. Call center productivity is far easier to objectively measure than tech workers. Given issues above with studies on call center workers, I suspect that even if there were a study showing negative results for tech workers, there's going to be some many ways you can wriggle yourself out of that one that it's not going to meaningfully change the conversation.
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> I find that the organization benefits overall.

Can you speak to how that is measured? I find these kinds of claims very difficult to support with any kind of actual data.
No, it implies that it's not possible lie if you're left wing and if you tell the truth then it must likely be left wing. Mainstream media is almost all left-wing and all of them lie or omit truth.
Because most (esp. Japanese) people don't know how to use Unicode properly, or don't care. They just build without defining UNICODE and naively assume your local codepage to be CP932 because 99% of their target audience is exactly this (and hence seemingly unaffected).
You guys don't seem to have a job page on there. How should I get in touch?

I have a few years of experience, including time spent building a legal tech startup and working on tools that leverage LLMs for lawyers (judging from your blog, this vertical is among your guys' interests).
Get more from your metadata: reversing Spotlight
Unlicensed? I'm confused. I didn't know any of them were 'licensed'.

Oh. It was actually for money transmitting and money laundering. Nothing to do with bitcoin. Clickbait.
> on your feet all day versus your office day job

I have a standing desk, so I am on my feet all day.
They are good machines, but they are losing core spirit: built with plastic, keyboards more and more different compared to old-school, cut on upgradability every year, in latest AMD T you can't even upgrade RAM, in old Ts you could put tons of RAM and giant battery.
I will likely never go back to an office - it would have to be so ridiculously lucrative for me to consider it that it's basically never going to happen.
> my now-failing public school

You're asserting vouchers would bankrupt public schools. How do you figure that? Maybe you're assuming that parents will move their kids to a better school, resulting in dwindling enrollment? If so, good! A public school that's not doing a great job should lose students. Let them feel the pain until they work to do better.

> When you can guarantee perfect access and perfect information, let’s talk about vouchers.

Your goalposts are unreasonable. Of course access and information will never be perfect. But they don't need to be.

When I started school, my parents were very poor. When they went on a date, they split a Taco Bell bean burrito (seriously). They had to sell a lot of stuff on the front lawn one month to make ends meet. My dad had to ride the bus to work for a while, and had to borrow money from his brother. But they still somehow managed to send me to private school (probably with tuition assistance), because they believed doing so was the right thing.

I understand a lot has changed since then; minimum wage is not a living wage anymore; many parents depend on free meals from public schools to make ends meet. But that doesn't mean the availability of other options is a bad thing or would be harmful.
FDA authorization has nothing to do with insurance coverage. I know of a small manufacturer that's had an authorized product on the market for over 3 years, not a single insurance company will cover it.

Insurance coverage is basically a waiting game between manufacturers and insurance companies. If you have enough capital to wait it out and schmooze executives, then you can get coverage. If not, good luck to you.
With the benefit of hindsight, would we include the error detection bits of UTF8 if we could choose not to?
You got a job? Provided to you by capitalism? So you're working for the man? Dude, you're not being a very good socialist.
Jessica Gerrity: ‘Archery gives me a chance to decompress from a busy life’
Then we should demand better definitions rather than forcing a change on which we have no data is actually better.
The more details you share, the more people will be able to help you with ideas

For example, I might say "leave the demo with them" if it's something like a square terminal competitor, or at least something with that form factor. But I don't know enough to know if that is a relevant suggestion.
> This is only true if you're talking about non-GUI apps

It is also true for GUIs if you're using Avalonia [0]. I use it to develop GUI apps on Linux, it works very well (Nothing I can show publicly, sadly).

Obviously it doesn't use native controls, but it is a solid GUI framework.

[0] https://www.avaloniaui.net/
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I doubt this ever mattered, especially to folks like Karl Lagerfeld, who never even set his up (or appears to have charged it).

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/karl-lagerfeld-audemars-pi...
I lived in Tokyo

When I lived there you would be able to get a gyudon for roughly 300-400 yens

It will get you full but it’s not very nutritive

You can eat many eastern / western fast food dishes for around that price, but if you want to go to an actual sit down restaurant it’s much more expensive

I didn’t cook in Tokyo because I was on a scholarship so I didn’t care, but friends told me it would be cheaper to cook too
Great insight! I wouldn’t have made that connection back to reactive runtimes. Excited to see what you can do with ipyflow!
yeah, I was about to say something similar.

Everyone knew the images on the box weren't real, that seems an odd thing to complain about.
> Why are all these people building different sandcastles when they could be working together?

Why are chefs baking bread? There's buildings to construct.
As a customer of FCPEuro, I just want to say they are one of the nicest marketplaces to work with. Lifetime warranty is GOAT.
What is suffering?
I have said this will initially be sold as a feature on things like Audiobooks.

Pick your book, pick your reader and away it goes. The Diary of Anne Frank read by Gilbert Gottfried.
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Absolutely. It is an exciting time for science. And also for someone who may have one of these unexplainable diseases.
I've been using Swiftfin since I got an Apple TV, and it's... okay. Lacks a lot of sorting/filtering options, gets janky and starts loading movie cards in the wrong place if you scroll too fast, and sometimes stops updating the progress bar for the rest of the movie if you pause it, but it's still useable enough.
mklink /d on windows has saved me many times.
https://billypenn.com/2020/12/29/university-pennsylvania-cov...
Interest groups == lobbyists in this case. Which might explain some of the American hesitation.
Surprise so many uncertainties of the age and even distance of them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades
Hello Mario Engine
(about the JUPUS Gmbh post) - I applied on 2. September and still haven't heard back. Do you reply to your applicants?
Unrelated, but there’s a gnarly CSS bug on your menu that causes the weirdest behavior on iOS. The native scroll bar appears much taller than it should be and visibly reacts to scrolling, but the content on the page does not (so I can’t reach the bottom of the menu).

Might be a fixed parent element missing `overflow-y: none;` but the lack of devtools on mobile means I can’t check (even more tangentially, if anyone knows a way to access something like devtools in iOS, I would be thrilled to hear about it).
As long as they don’t claim the voice is the original actor (misspell the name perhaps, or the Hollywood classic ‘based on’), they won’t be impersonating no?
Git and multi-repo were a mistake. Git’s packfile is a disaster.

Checkout Sapling and ReviewStack. They look promising.
Being only tangentially familiar with the indexing bots…what legal barriers are in place to prevent a competitor from impersonating a google indexing bot? Is it just a matter of the google bot originates from x subnet so that’s the only one webmasters allow? What’s to stop a competitor from running their own bot but sending user-agent: totally-the-google-indexing-bot-and-not-a-competitor?
I am starting to think that this guy is not the formidable negotiator we've been led to believe he was...on the other hand he'd have squared off against another non formidable negotiator whose reputation as a great businessman was propped by media
Pictures from an unshared note can leak into shared notes on iOS
I recently discovered that if you add large videos or many images to a note in iOS 17, and delete that note before all images are attached to the note, the images get attached to the next note in the list, even if its a shared note.

I reached out to Apple thinking this could be a privacy concern and was told that it was a UI bug not a privacy concern, do you agree?
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The problem is we have hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants streaming across the border with no plan, so they sleep in shelters and on the street in NYC. We can’t kick them out because they have the right to see a judge which often takes over 6 months. Who will feed and clothe and shelter and care for them? Taxpayers, which is why NYC is begging for a federal bailout.

The legal immigration system should be reformed and made easier. But the illegal system we have is a joke and disaster.
I can't wait for Bard to support this kind of stuff.

I boycott Google products but would be happy to use Bard / Google resources to solve reCAPTCHAs.