skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything is designed for to make you
into an obsessive-compulsive phone junky.
[...] And an iPhone is not that much better
any more.

Regardless of OS, this seems like it's almost entirely down to the apps you use and the notification settings you pick. No? I rarely use Android so I may just be unfamiliar.
Even harder is trying to let it scan downloads but not do real-time protection. Every setting I've tried has failed and excluding drives worries me that it might do too much and hasn't consistently solved the performance either. So I still have to flick the whole thing off every once in a while (and it turns itself back on after a few hours, of course).
Okay, this is a matter of opinion, and yes I do agree that it being hard to write code anywhere that's not Linux is hyperbolic. But Windows is _truly_ a terrible OS for DX. I dread every single time I have to do any kind of development on it.
I think this is what they call a doomsday cult..

My point is, this would leave you in a really bad position if it turns out after 10 years nothing really happened
Thank you so much for your suggestion. I did attend few networking events but did not find them as useful. I might try to look into more data-science specific meetups.
Thank you for getting the impression that I am smart :) I am doing my best to project the same impression onto Employers who don't seem to be too impressed thus far :) Fingers Crossed!!!
https://chromeos.dev/en/linux
Yeah for people that were hired with the position being 100% remote, especially pre-pandemic, I think it’s unreasonable to ask them to move. Just let them work remote.
I was travelling in India earlier this year, and it seems like this is a common superpower there. Two notable cases:

1) Two men in the back of a truck holding up an engine block (one on each side), both fast asleep. I still don't understand how labourers are cheaper than ratchet straps.

2) While waiting for my flight out, there were a few people lying on the concrete floor of the airport, fast asleep.
I think the point is less about how to specifically make 700 glasses of orange juice in the 2 hours between 5 and 7am and more about forcing a supplier to come up with a meaningful quote at non-zero cost, presumably to say "actually never mind, it was a test" or just ignore the effort. Unless this is service they already provide: even if they only have to ring round juicer machine hire in the area and figure out the logistics of getting it to the site on time it's not free to the venue. It's a way to offload the cost of your internal requirements onto each supplier, and if fact is more punitive on better suppliers who make the effort to allocate resources into coming up with a quote for a service you don't even want.
An article about how most of the people in his industry want to see him convicted is propping him up?
"Confessions of an economic Hitman" is a first-person account of a man involved in these schemes.

As an educated member of a developing country, I know that many so called "foreign investments" from the West are preceded (in fact, it is a requirenment) by huge loans from IMF and the World Bank.

This money is then wired to the investor, who is paid in 10s of thousands euroes for each employee. Every large state-backed loan eventually ends up in the pockets of western investors.
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud (2019)
10 years of full OS updates.

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/automatic...
> it will be circumvented

How so? Circumvention would be illegal. Sure there might be a black market, but you couldn’t scale a real business off it.
Thats an awesome suggestion. I will try to look for some of these if they exist. Thanks :)
Just stop. It doesn't resonate with most of the audience here. dang asked you to stop. And even from day one it felt less like someone trying to help the community and more like someone trying to find a way to get their name known -- that impression may be 100% wrong, but is how this entire history of these posts came across to me, and when you keep pushing it even after being asked to stop, it reinforces that impression.
The virus the vaccine was first tested is quite different than the version we faced later. The virus is not a static target, but a quickly evolving one. And the later variants were far, far more contagious than the initial one.
Had a look at Quatt's website. Just a quick remark:
Requiring to fill in information for a brochure about your product, feels weird & I'm not willing too, but ok. However, automatically agreeing to receiving 'marketing communication' & agreeing with your cookie policy when pressing download is definitely not ok. Not from my personal standpoint, but more importantly also not by law (GDPR) although IANAL. Might be a good idea to tell your marketing colleagues about this. Please remind them not to be behave like assholes. Nobody likes forced "marketing communication"...it's just a euphemism for spam. Take care.
Early DSL was such a shitshow. We went through two or three providers going under before it finally began to stabilize.
> A blocklist will never block every script and snippet

Yeah, it probably won't, but collaboratively, we can block a lot :) Also, naive uBlock method will probably be more efficient in terms of resource usage for some time forward.

In this case, I never saw any cookie banners and it seemed to have blocked what I wanted to have blocked automatically. Here is the log: https://i.imgur.com/rteXlAC.png
> It's mostly load management, with some batteries.

There is some amount of distributed generation out there as well, in the form of either oil or natural gas backup generators, which can be used similarly as batteries.

Edit to add: This wasn't meant as a disagreement with your point. I don't think the existence of a small amount of generation changes the fundamental equation you pointed out on this.
Both your comment and the one you're replying to illustrate perfectly (if perhaps unconsciously) the problem I'm attempting to convey in the essay: Online interactions give the appearance to some of an intimate discussion whilst of a public discourse to others, and the clash of those perceptions quite frequently leads to unpleasant disagreement, frustration, conflict, and confusion.
Have you actually used a Chromebook, like, spent more than 10 hours working on them? If not, you should try such a laptop out and then come back with your opinion. Even Chromebooks with Celeron processors are very usable and beat Windows laptops with the same specs by miles.

Also want to point out high-end Chromebooks are expensive and likely don't sell very well due to its market. So here it is striking a balance. Which is why I won't be buying one of these. But other people will.
Not to tell you how to comment, but those who don't seek answers will not realize their dreams. Their understanding will be an academic projection of the future and they will guard themselves from truth. If people don't intrinsically understand you, maybe you need to go in to more detail so your explanation isn't so abstract.

Ergo, vis-a-vi have you ever actually tried making a graph that is rearranging itself while you're using it?

Also what is the "AI" doing that can't be done with a normal algorithm? Positioning nodes in a graph would just be determining their x and y positions. How much time have you spent working with node graphs? Arranging the nodes is easier than arranging your keyboard and mouse, it's trivial.
I worked with erasable EPROMs back in the day. It was a pain in the ass.
And CRDTs already solve this, which is what I assume notion uses.
A person's voice is effectively owned by the corresponding person through right of publicity, which includes voice depending on jurisdiction.

California, for example:

"Any person who knowingly uses another’s name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness, in any manner, on or in products, merchandise, or goods, or for purposes of advertising or selling, or soliciting purchases of, products, merchandise, goods or services, without such person’s prior consent, or, in the case of a minor, the prior consent of his parent or legal guardian, shall be liable for any damages sustained by the person or persons injured as a result thereof."

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....
Bots and spam are an impossibly hard problem to crack. Google had to change the digital landscape of email in order to fight spam, and even then, the job is never finished.

The worst part though is knowing that legitimate users will get caught as collateral damage.

> How would we even know who's accessing HN unless they tell us?

My browser sends a cookie telling HN it's me. More advanced tooling would let you allow-list aged accounts with > 1000 karma in, while blocking a different subset. Of course, once that becomes known, then the attacking botnet will just use aged accounts with > 1000, so it's a game of cat a mouse.

What this really speaks to though is that HN has now garnered the attention of a sufficiently motivated attacker that more advanced technology is required to block them. Fighting it yourself takes away from time spent on moderation, among other things. Maybe it's one attacker and they'll get bored after their attempts prove fruitless, but maybe they won't. Either way, this is why Cloudflare's bot shield and others like it are so popular. A recaptcha in order to submit a comment wouldn't be the worst thing, though I'm sure there will be many loud shouty voices against it, but that's the unfortunately the nature of running any popular site on the Internet these days.
> correlation between the drinking culture and the amount of alcohol consumed.

how do you quantify "the drinking culture"?
Neither mRNA nor viral vector vaccines were new. mRNA had a vastly better safety and efficacy profile. AstraZeneca had the clots, the Russians had the issue with replication (and use Ad5), and the Chinese exclusively used a virus that nearly half of all Americans are immune to. And IIRC the mRNA vaccines were still more effective against the variants.
It sounds like you encounter a fairly exclusive group of homeless folks. It's certainly unusual that they id themselves as sex offenders to you.

I've been interacting with the local homeless community for over a decade. My ex is one.

The only thing most of them are is homeless.

Most have cell phones for a little while - until it gets lost or stolen or broken. Most are fed regularly sometimes and not other times. They have varying degrees of shelter on an irregular basis.

Few are well clothed in a way that wouldn't be a concern in a job interview (or going inside a market or library). Few have a reliably usable address.

In short, they fairly well represent unhoused Americans all over.
Only three past submissions with discussions (though quite a few comments) the most recent discussion about two years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26266881 - Feb 25, 2021 (90 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21581444 - Nov 20, 2019 (241 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19804478 - May 3, 2019 (191 comments)
For the past 10 years or so I've been doing "hybrid WFH" where I negotiate 3 days max in-office (when I'm working somewhere with an office close to where I live) and I always get it agreed upon in my employment contract. My guess (and bias) would be that companies that would pull this switcheroo on employees would be larger orgs with faceless HR machinery and most wherewithal to dominate their employees (ie Amazon)
I wonder if this is significantly influenced by the images you find when doing an image search for "<search term> transparent".

A lot of sketchy clip-art sites insert the checkered background, probably to both symbolize transparency and also to prevent people from just right-clicking "Save as...". You want the user to search the download button on a page full of ads and fake buttons after all...
I’m speaking from my real-life lived experience with dynamic typing. I feel that dynamic typing is truly harmful for any project that involves involving complex logic, needs collaboration / where there’s more than 1 person working on it, or even for any large project (even if only 1 person is working on it).

It was a massive waste of time to have to read piles of code code, use a debugger and inspect object structure, to understand how some parts of certain large codebases worked.

In my experience, dynamic typing has simply been horrible for team collaboration, code readability (and ease of understanding), and it results in a large number of bugs that could easily have been eliminated with static type checking.

> But this debate is decades old and people always dogmatically choose one side, so not really any point in trying to convince you.

You’re right about that. I am indeed very dogmatic and take a hard-line on this. I take a stronger position on this than most things (for example: something very subjective like curly braces versus white space indentation), to the point that I’ll say this: dynamic typing is simply a wrong and bad engineering decision.

Another example of a bad language design decision is allowing null to be a part of every type instead of requiring an explicit ? in the type, or the use of an Optional wrapper. This has been recognized as an ill, andis something many modern languages (to name a few: Rust, Kotlin, etc) fixes.

But that isn’t meant to level a personal attack against the languages designers of the past (or to say that they were stupid). Allowing every type to be Union[T, null] was a simply a language design mistake (that potentially cost wasted billions of dollars), but it's been recognized as a mistake today that we need to rectify and move forward from (as is reflected by decision made by more recent languages).

However, imo, in comparison, dynamic typing is a 100 times worse than not having null safety (or not having memory safety like C or C++). I can work with a C or C++ without much trouble, but not with dynamic typing. Dynamic typing makes it difficult and unpleasant to work with a large codebase, to an inexcusable degree.
As the author and submitter of that piece, no, you're not:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37148681>

I happen to be in a somewhat unusual interval of Archive Today lucidity (and accessibility) myself at the moment.
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Here's something from 1893:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smileys_1893_from_...
> As a luxembourgish person, encountering many keyboards in schools, offices, through laptops i bought etc, the swiss (french) layout is by far the most common. I have never seen an Azerty used in practice except by french people.

I won't disagree with that but, living in Luxembourg, I head to the closest supermarket, a "Cora" also selling keyboards, mice, USB sticks, etc. and I can buy an AZERTY layout if I want to (they've got both QWERTZ and AZERTY keyboards).

That said, just like you: I type using a QWERTY layout.
It's important to differentiate between the relative inconveniences of obtaining and maintaining a license and the absolute impediment posed by the lack of access to a personal vehicle. Governmental licenses, while a form of regulation, generally do not serve as effective tools to suppress rapid mobilization for protests, uprisings, or other civil unrest. They are largely administrative hurdles that the vast majority of citizens can and do clear, thus retaining their decentralized power of mobility.

On the other hand, a lack of access to personal vehicles entirely changes this dynamic. Without a car, the population's ability to quickly mobilize and organize diminishes substantially, thereby increasing vulnerability to central control. Protests or other forms of collective action often require rapid assembly at specific locations, sometimes far from one's residence. Public transportation routes can be easily shut down or rerouted, and walking may not be feasible over long distances or in emergencies. In this context, personal vehicles are not just a convenience; they serve as a critical enabler for civic engagement and resistance to potential tyranny. Therefore, while the economic and regulatory aspects of car ownership are not trivial, they are outweighed by the benefits of maintaining a system that allows individuals a meaningful degree of autonomous movement.
That's sounds a bit false to me. The Umlaute (ä,ö, ü) and the "eszett" ß are actually part of the German alphabet[1]. Also it is kinda weird to describe them as ligatures of the original letters and the diaeresis, because while this is what they started out as a long time ago, they are just their own letters now (as opposed to "real" stylistic ligatures like combining fi into one glyph). The advice your kid was told that they can be replaced with ae, oe and ue is correct - it is a replacement nowadays.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Alphabet
I'd call it Butlerian Jihadism or just Butlerism, but then again, it's kinda niche :p
You can buy a house in the US from a developer before it is built. I think maybe the difference is that if something goes wrong you have a good chance of suing the developer. That may also be the case in China. I don't know.
Ho man.
Unask this question.

Every industry, every company, every team, and every project is different. What works in some places and times doesn't work in others.

You have to decide for yourself and your team/company if RTO is what is best, and don't take other's lived experience as your own.
Argentina's Economic Catastrophe: How Bad Policies Destroyed a Once Rich Country [video]
how long does an interview last?
her journey to mRNA was full of adversity too. the NYT podcast with her was great coverage of this: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/podcasts/the-daily/mrna-v... (my excerpt https://x.com/swyx/status/1490363488824627200?s=20)

i cant imagine how it must feel to have her own vaccine injected in her, and know she saved so many lives through her persistence and the rare few that believed in her through her lowest moments.
Everybody loves to debate what "character" means but nobody ever consults the standard. In the Unicode Standard a "character" is an abstract unit of textual data identified by a code point. The standard never refers to graphemes as "characters" but rather as user-perceived characters which the article omits.
I dunno, I block people on Mastodon who are angry and a lot of them are angry at white cishet men and it takes just one post about how somebody is angry at that sort of person, is angry because they aren't comfortable in their own skin, or sees fascists everywhere (Keir Starmer!) the way John Birch Society members see communists everywhere (Eisenhower!) for me to block.

I block keywords like t3s too, not because I have a problem with the people fundamentally but because their angry toots are bad for my mental health and get in the way of enjoying all the really positive or at least neutral people.
It requires signing up for HF plus sending a name and email to Stable before allowing access.
I think it also presupposes that the market is good and the industry has spots available. It's just not that simple though. The advice the blog gives isn't necessarily wrong on it's face but what if you can't get another job quickly? What if the market is bad and people are trying to scramble for a job?

People who can just easily get another job and are just engineer interview ready at all points aren't exactly the majority.
Like I say, I'm not against developing technology. Conflating AI and medicine seems nonsensical. As another example, what about nuclear weapons? Does anyone think that giving humans the ability to self-annihilate was a good development? We did it because we feared other humans would do it first. We would be better off if such weapons simply didn't exist, IMO.

So I understand progress can be good, but sometimes we ought to take a step back and reflect. Unfortunately our societies haven't really developed mechanisms to do that.
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Art or Artifice? Large Language Models and the False Promise of Creativity
How many bytes does it take to run "download X and exec it". I wouldn't think many?
You don't store the UUIDs in the database as incomplete records. You can put them in a unused_uuids table and store some of the values in memory to minimize the round-trip. You can even store them in a simple file, and remove each used UUID from that file. When the file is empty, you create a million more of them.
in my defense this is such a culturally american thing to be opposed to walkable cities that I can scarcely comprehend how a country with a far less car-dependent infrastructure could fall for this nonsense, also I have slept 2.5 hours
I can't actually think of serious reason, but I can think of infinite non-serious uses.

Make real life, "I am so rich and happy with my material wealth and vast travel budget" influencers redundant.

However, I am not looking forward to Facebook spamming friends with ads posing as personal recommendations, showing me at my house happily using sketchy products or butt bleacher.

They will be sneaky: Show me, but with my face obscured in some way. But recognizable. But deniable. But recognizable.
I am immediately reminded of the opening of Lockhart's essay "A Mathematician's Lament"[0]:

> A musician wakes from a terrible nightmare. In his dream he finds himself in a society where
music education has been made mandatory. “We are helping our students become more
competitive in an increasingly sound-filled world.” Educators, school systems, and the state are
put in charge of this vital project. Studies are commissioned, committees are formed, and
decisions are made— all without the advice or participation of a single working musician or
composer.

> Since musicians are known to set down their ideas in the form of sheet music, these curious
black dots and lines must constitute the “language of music.” It is imperative that students
become fluent in this language if they are to attain any degree of musical competence; indeed, it
would be ludicrous to expect a child to sing a song or play an instrument without having a
thorough grounding in music notation and theory. Playing and listening to music, let alone
composing an original piece, are considered very advanced topics and are generally put off until
college, and more often graduate school...

[0] http://worrydream.com/refs/Lockhart-MathematiciansLament.pdf