skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mind you - the gov already has copies of ALL the forms. They just want you to f it up.

Not completely accurate - you’re required to pay tax on side jobs under $600 for instance, but neither you nor the IRS get a 1099 tax form for it. Reporting it is on the honor system. Cash tips are supposed to be taxed but rely on self reporting since the IRS has no idea who handed you money, etc.

There are also many deductions and credits that the IRS does not know about unless you self report and claim them.
That sounds plausible as a rationale. In my experience "bad culture fit" has been used as a stand in for "I don't want this person working here and I don't want to explain why" about 80% of the time.

The reason is often racism. This time it could legitimately be illegal union busting.
No, they’re famous for pushing for cutting costs from unnecessary resources, like good employees most of the times they’re hired.

One example from my anecdotes is when they did consulting work for a telecom in my home country and pushed for firing half the technicians who were working in pairs. One of the reasons they were working in pairs was safety, like one holding the ladder and they used this as an argument and said they can just be replaced by a safer ladder. Said and done. After the fourth accident the telecom outsourced the jobs to an external company that only sent… two people teams
If that went to an arbitration, the HR would have some difficulty unless they could show a paper trail (eg emails in which people expressed concern about the cultural fit of these individuals) ahead of time. They could of course have paved the way by preparing such a trail ahead of time…

But that would lead the way to the question of why this was a redundancy rather than dismissal for cause.

Im not any sort of lawyer let alone an employment lawyer, but I’m sure there are some employment lawyers getting in touch with these folks now to test their interest in pushing a case.
OOTB offline-first sounds handy. With SWR I had to modify the fetcher to query and store in indexedDB and then later replay to remote, which while not exactly difficult did require some effort.

I guess its worth giving it a spin and see for myself :)
iOS didn't exist on the 20th century web, so... ;)
When are you going to option your movie script?

That is, look at the benefit/risk. If someone does this and is caught, they could lose their job.

The instigator must assume reuven wasn't going to notice this change within 180 days, and assume reuven doesn't have another contact at Meta who can figure things out.

This only works because reuven does little advertising on Meta, but that means there isn't much benefit to the instigator.

Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
I’m noticing that a lot of the times my airdrop between my new iPhone and iPad isn’t working anymore. I blame iOS/iPadOS 17. Maybe will be fixed in 17.1 ??
It’s worth noting you can autogenerate TanStack Query clients in a typesafe way using graphql-codegen, really saves a lot of time!
Bright (YC W15) hiring a VP of eng and product
> quitting while layoffs are being discussed has to be among the dumbest financial decision

I understand how one would want to stick around not to miss out on a juicy package but this seems counter productive for the employer, the employees and society in general. I can assume that the productivity impact is non negligible, with many workers sitting on their ass waiting to be laid off. Conversely, some workers might have immediate opportunities elsewhere which they can't take for fear of losing out on the bonanza. Finally, If everybody hits the job market at once when it's done there's more chance that the package money is going to get spent just looking for another job.

There really should be a fair retroactive + proportional compensation mechanism for people leaving on their own during the "negotiation" period.
It could potentially be rolled out to MacOS and Windows as well.

This is just my opinion and what I've always done but I'd keep 'em separated. By weird coincidence I've been following some PCI standards for my home gear before the PCI standard existed. Linux for daily driver. A throw-away Windows machine for watching streaming videos that come with my Amazon Prime and to make the governments and their corporate 3rd party buddies happy that they can see some things I do. Another Linux machine for protecting financial data. Another Linux machine for managing devices. All except Windows are configured to be in a hostile network. I leave the Windows machine leaking like it is expected to be.

What would you do then?

If something required an app to be installed I would not use it. If something ever requires WEI [1] I would not use it. If a video game requires some anti-cheat daemon running with higher privs I get a refund and so on. Given the internet is entirely optional for me and everyone else too there is no way I could be required to install something.

My cell phone is used for Texting neighbors, family and voice. It will soon be launched from a skeet launcher and replaced with a IP68 tough dumb phone that will be powered off most of the time. I do not trust centralized services for sensitive chat even if one of their founders used to be kindof cool. This stodgy cranky ol' troglodyte will use self hosted IRCD, SSH chat, uMurmur, open source tinc vpn meshes. They are higher friction and I love it. It keeps people with leaky pipes off my stuff. Maybe AI can help me make a song, "Crank up the friction!"

[1] - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/your-computer-should-s...
sorry false news spreading.
The politician who was attacked was far right, was lying (claimed, he was poisoned) and spread the lie after debunked.
Fertilizer caused the explosion - ammonia-nitrate I think not ammonia.
I assume that means that every person accessing the pages also needs a github account? I don't mind a requirement for a github account for anyone contributing to the repo but I would like authenticated access for viewing the pages that doesn't require a Github account.
> apartheid

It is autonomy, not apartheid. There are many ethnic/religious communities around the world who have fought for autonomy to varying degrees of success.
Hey, looks great! I work at an automotive fintech and would love to chat. I submitted on your website.
Yup, still is.
> Nothing can recreate the first ten or hundred hours of gameplay, when you still keep discovering small and big stuff ...

Well, I played a lot of Minecraft back in the day, and I have never even heard of a single thing you just mentioned, which seems to disprove what you said there: In fact, as the devs keep adding stuff to the game, it can apparently stay fresh.
Double Predestination, Part 1: Predestination Unto Life
Yes, the point is not to advocate for Venetian rules themselves, but rather to demonstrate a set of rules that seem to have been at least somewhat designed for the properly adversarial context that is politics.
I don't want to be insensitive, but I'm surprised Nokia still exists.
Refinancing has a significant cost though. The various fees and transaction costs add up to $10-20k+ in my experience. Is not at all free, unless the savings from the difference in interest rate exceeds the transaction cost.
Marqeta would work for this scenario: https://marqeta.com/ —- that’s exactly the kind of scenario they exist to handle.
that cheesy photo at the top is just great. definitely organic. nobody labored over which shot was most humanizing.

if it is fluff piece time, sama wants something and fears his image is enough to prevent obtaining it.
If you start using something without ever reading the ToS, did you accept it?
If you have high w-2 cash income. Once you get into equity or business income, it starts getting convoluted again.
There isn't as much ambiguity in the cjk writing though.

It would be similar to mail.com, mel.com, meil.com, mehl.com, melle.com and all other variations that sound roughly the same getting all mapped to meɪl.com

We could live in a world where all words are written phonetically, but we don't. Expanding that courtesy to non alphabetical languages would be a pragmatic and sane approach.
TBF, he explicitly acknowledged the privileged position he has due to his popularity.
When a company becomes pervasive enough to become a feature of the ambient social, commercial or economic environment, the argument of “its a private company” loses its validity.

At that point the company serves a vital public function, and its rules and actions bleed into public governance.

Which is a great argument for limiting the scope and size of companies that interface directly with the public.
I remember ... the very first time ... I programmed in C
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tino_Chrupalla#Zeitungen_und_P...
"Nach Angaben der Lausitzer Rundschau kündigte Chrupalla 2017 an, sich dafür einzusetzen, „die Zeitungsredaktionen in die Schranken“ zu weisen, wofür er auch Änderungen von Gesetzen und am Grundgesetz nicht ausschließe.[51] Gegenüber der taz erklärte Chrupalla, diese Aussage sei so nicht gefallen, die Redakteurin der Lausitzer Rundschau habe sie erfunden.[15] Allerdings forderte Chrupalla im Januar 2019 Parteikollegen auf, „schwarze Listen“ über Journalisten zu führen und „Hintergrundinformationen über als Journalisten getarnte Zersetzungsagenten“ zusammenzutragen.[52][53]"
"Das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz nannte ihn namentlich in seinem Gutachten, das die Einstufung der AfD als Prüffall begründet. Grund dafür ist, dass er dem Rechtsextremisten und verurteilten Holocaustleugner Nikolai Nerling im Juni 2018 ein bei YouTube veröffentlichtes Interview gegeben hatte.[18][19]"

"In einem ZDF-Interview nach seiner Wahl zu einem der beiden Bundesvorsitzenden Ende 2019 wurde Chrupalla wegen seines Aufrufs zu gemäßigter Sprache zu seinen eigenen Aussagen befragt. Chrupalla bestritt daraufhin, den Begriff „Umvolkung“ verwendet zu haben, obwohl Videoaufzeichnungen davon vorliegen. Chrupalla erwiderte dann, er halte den Begriff nicht für rechtsextrem und er habe ihn „nicht bewusst gesetzt“. Auch Ausführungen eines Teilnehmers derselben Veranstaltung, der Migration mit einem Genozid, bei dem die Deutschen durch ein „Mischvolk“ ersetzt würden, verglichen und verurteilte Kriegsverbrecher des Zweiten Weltkriegs als „Jungs, die am Galgen in Nürnberg geendet sind“, bezeichnet hatte, gab Chrupalla damals laut Videoaufnahmen „zum Teil recht“, was er im Interview dann bestritt; stattdessen behauptete er, dem Mann widersprochen zu haben.[58][59]"
Oh hey, this looks convenient.

Last week a family member wanted to transfer some files from Windows to iPad (without passing through iCloud), and it was a nightmare. Windows 11 is already so weird with their online accounts and stuff, that just getting a network share to work was painful.

And "thanks" to Apple being Apple, I also could not use USB-C to transfer from an external drive to the iPad because I didn't have an adapter.

So I'll definitely try this.
The UK is a bad example of a parliamentary system, because it's even older than the US and even more systemically broken. Can you believe it, the US actually learned from the UK's system and didn't make all of its mistakes (though it did make some bold new mistakes).
If you think of posits as a storage format, it's true that you only need an extra posit->float decoder, but you need bfloat16 to exactly decode all 8-bit posits into a single, common FP format.

In terms of hardware to operate directly on posits, things get ugly. Floats are actually relatively easy to work with due to the normalized storage format and fixed precision across the range of numbers, while posits don't have that.
Thats why I used Wordpress and Castopod as examples, as both offer subscription services in addition to self-hosting. The most important part is the option to use your own domain name, so an artist can take controll over its own brand and keep options open for the future.

Wordpress has already integrated with the Fediverse, btw!
Didn’t we read about this last week as well?

Last week I concluded that since this is an alpha version I’m not going to let it touch my files anytime soon.
There are several types still in circulation from what I gathered.

The common white/greyish ones might still be a health risk.

Supposedly these blue ones that some shops have adapted is a lot better (and even recyclable?).

https://www.koehlerpaper.com/en/products/Thermal-paper/TH_Bl...
wasn’t this mere private company recently in the spotlight for a scandal related to getting a us president elected through manipulation ?

maybe you should be holding them to a different set of standards
I think because there is a sharp change in weather at the end of August and it might be just a simple separation between Summer and Fall.
So you are saying it wasn't really necessary for years to advertise. You decided after receiving an injust ban to not appeal for over a year besides your knowledge about other horror stories. Now your life depends on being able to advertise on Facebook and the way to go forward was writing a bad sob story gladly obfuscating your own failings in it. Looks like a lot of blaming and no self reflection.
Well I just barely managed to avoid spitting my water everywhere, well done, well done.
> Many other people worked really hard and didn’t get scurvy.

right but those other people aren’t currently looking to sell shares in anything. (and also likely can’t afford these sorts of pieces.)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-18/openai-is...
You can characterize it that way:

P(lose job | bargainer): 50%
P(lose job | not bargainer): 6.25%

but

-----widgets team-----
P(lose job | bargainer) 50%
P(lose job | not bargainer) 100%
-----everyone else----
P(lose job | bargainer) NaN
P(lose job | not bargainer) 0%
----------------------

Simpson's paradox in its prototypical form occurs when the comparison drawn in the top table (of just one cell) is reversed in every cell of the bottom table. (Which has two cells, here.)

This isn't the cleanest example, since the comparison at the bottom can't be drawn at all. But the way the problem is narrated, it would counterfactually have exhibited the paradox.
I worked there for a long time. The development of Maemo and what came after it was one the biggest slow motion software fuckups at all time. At one point we had:

- Symbian S60, S80, S90.
--- Symbian ˆ2, ˆ3, whatever that fuck that was.
----- Something called Open C, to facilitate porting since Symbian was a pain in the ass.
----- EasyApi (Lol).
- Maemo
- Qt on Maemo
- Qt on Symbian
- A new Qt-based UI for Maemo that I forgot the name. Orbit I think.
- Its version for Symbian (which was called Morbit).
- Harmattan (not a UI framework but it was a version of Maemo, a new one)
- Then came the Meego disaster.

All at the same time. It was absolutely incredible how we could develop so many development/UI frameworks/OS at the same time and be wrong at all of them. What you see as the best device (N950) was built on a platform that was already dead because the higher-ups decided to merge that with Intel (with a new UI framework if I remember it) and Harmattan was already dead.

I left that company 10+ years ago and I still suffer at how complacency ruined what was the best employer I've ever had. On the positive side, people from the right sides of Nokia had enormous reputation in the marketplace, so for components such as cameras, radios, modems, etc. for all major phone makers (including Apple) you can be 100% sure Nokia people to this day work on it. One imaging team in Finland was hired as a full group by Samsung.

Good times.
If you just want to watch the live stream, you can see it here: https://guestbook.goodenough.us/thanks
I actually have switched to Localsend from Pairdrop. My experience is that is Pairdrop is slow especially compared to Localsend. This is while hosting the application on my local network.

I do prefer the WebApp approach so I don't have to install something on each machine before sharing files, but the bug ticket in Pairdrop does not make me hopeful for a good solution (see: https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop/issues/44)

Are you able to achieve similar performance in Pairdrop that you did with Localsend?
LinkedIn is a great choice for a login. I had a b2b site, and at first we offered Google, LinkedIn, etc.

Almost everyone used LinkedIn, and of course the profiles were so much more helpful, so we simplified our process and used LinkedIn only. We never had any issue with that, its a great choice
What about the article is BS and hate?
Who told him to say that?
Australia, the UK, France, Germany, Qatar and many many other countries have state media companies with high quality content. They have bias, but so do private companies.

State owned media outlets are only awful if the state is awful.
Wasn't there a deprecation of the X- prefix in protocol headers?

Other thoughts:

You could probably make this play better with HTTP libraries by returning the header on an existing HTTP message, instead of changing the overall reply semantics. It's a little less efficient, but probably much more broadly compatible.

You could also have min-est-completion-time and max-est-completion-time rather than a percentage (partly to address people's concerns about the uncertainty or unknowability of overall progress as a percentage). Perhaps these could customarily be described as 90% intervals (or they could explicitly include a confidence estimate! like "90% of requests at this approximate degree of completion were completed within 7 and 32 seconds").
For backup purposes, I'd like to print some encrypted secrets as QR codes.

I don't have much room for a typical printer.

Could a small thermal printer print a QR code that encodes 500-1000 bytes?

If not, anyone know of a decent, durable, low-volume alternative?
Potentially interesting topic

Wrong place to share it
Apache HTTP Server 2.4.58 (CVE fixes)
Except for, say, Wikipedia, Firefox, and Audacity, off the top of my head. Though I'd really like to see what application areas, types of software, and specific instances you have in mind.

The "real people" I encounter rarely venture outside a Web browser and, sometimes, an email app. Most "software" they use are Web apps.

And the times I've introduced Free Software alternatives in an environment where they're supported and promoted ... Free Software is in fact often highly useable.

The issue to me seems far less one of utility than of business models:

- Desktop operating systems were dominated by a convicted anti-trust-violating monpoly, which tied (and still largely controls through strong vendor relations) PC sales directly with OS licenses, the infamous "Microsoft Tax".

- "Office Suite" sales were ... tied to that same desktop monopoly.

- With Web 2.0, AJAX-based Web apps and Software as a Service came to dominate major markets, most especially Web Search, but also email, maps, messaging, social media, online video, and the like. Software isn't sold so much as it's advertising supported, which is to say that there's a business model tied to proprietary development models. In much of this space there are also F/OSS alternatives, but network effects come to be a dominant factor, as well as interlocking monopolies (e.g., Web Search, online advertising, browser, and email, in the case of Google). Again, it's business models which drive the capacity to amass and direct immense capital flows, rather than F/OSS development itself, and several of the tools mentioned are in fact Free Software, most notably the Chromium branch of the Google Chrome Browser. Mozilla's Firefox is functionally comparable or superior to Chrome in many aspects, and is itself Free Software.

- In terms of overall usage, mobile devices dominate, and the principle issue here is that App Stores again tend to incentivise and favour proprietary apps. The ten most-used Android apps are Google Play Store (largely integral to Android), Google Maps, YouTube, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram (FB), Amazon, Facebook Messenger, Gmail, and Netflix. Four of those belong to Google, three to Facebook. All are SaaS offerings, though Gmail could be substituted by a third-party email app. The picture for iOS is generally comparable.

It is tremendously difficult to disentangle development methodology from business model and attendant access to capital, regards UI/UX quality; and given that several of the cases I'm listing here are F/OSS applications or software, I'd say your handwave is fairly strongly refuted.
Can't say I noticed :)
Depends on your definition of big: https://g.co/kgs/8Zh7NM
I remember from twenty years ago, Amazon recommended a book for dementia patients, related to purchase of an AS/400 manual. Because of the name similarity between the IT author and other book's illustrator. We couldn't move one step forward.
Because it is hijacking the Github Copilot functionality in VS Code.

But yes, confusing notheless.
what CAS do you recommend? Are the open source alternatives at the same level as licensed ones? I know Mathematica from Wolfram is well used in the territory.
And how does one learn how to use those?
I think you're right. In general, storage and operating formats seem to be decoupling for AI/ML.

Nvidia's E8M12 is also a format specifically for operators - they expect you to store FP32 when you operate in E8M12. Storage is almost always in power-of-2 sizes.
I've tweaked the bookmarklet to be more single-click.

https://gist.github.com/psitem/eb84d433c1ef40a3a9b80b98994f9...
it is necessary to point out how faulty the algorithm is so that people can understand how dangerous automated decision making is
A surprisingly large number of people chose to become serfs due to the benefits it provided. It seems wacky, but companies really are treating users in ways that lords were legally prevented from treating their surfs.

The privileges vs obligations of serfdom would be unpleasant by our standards, but it wasn’t slavery.
Now it's easy to see the Windows Phone as a dumb decision, but for us insiders at the time it was a bit of a desperate situation as there was no solution in 4-5 years given the absolute zoo of frameworks that took over the company. I remember being told by my VP that Anssi Vanjoki cried when the OS+Framework+Hardware situation was clearly demoed to the leadership. He knew it was over.
Let me explain something to you: if every time you don't know something you start bitching about it and ask everyone around you until you wear them down to ELI5 you are dragging everyone down.

This is not about that one instance where 5 minutes saves you days of struggling. This is about becoming and being self sufficient to the point you are an asset to the business, not your liability. In your convoluted example: how do you know who the expert is?
I wonder if a compromise between "French-style" and "American-style" would be the government taking over the layoff business. Need to cut headcount? Send the Department of Labor your payroll, and they'll tell you who to lay-off.
Maybe a data store?

Persist data -> search it -> too much data, need an index -> search on that index -> keep that index updated

I think you can split that in couple of parts to teach it in a few sessions and then join everything in one project, which when I started with Python it was hard for me to understand.
Implementing the latest from Flutter to build a cross platform journaling app
Whatever, man.

Just did it with "Bing with GPT-4", not sure what that uses, and I refuse to pay OpenAI to do this so...

Anyways, results are :

Sure, let’s play Fizz Buzz with 3 and 7. Here are the first 15 numbers:

1, 2, Fizz, 4, 5, Fizz, 7, 8, Fizz, 10, 11, Fizz, 13, Buzz, Fizz

In this game:

Numbers divisible by 3 are replaced by “Fizz”
Numbers divisible by 7 are replaced by “Buzz”
Numbers divisible by both become “FizzBuzz”
Would you like to continue or change the rules?

It's better but still wrong.

I tried with 2 and 7, it was wrong too.
thanks for still having some will to engage neurons...
At least the Ubuntu names increment alphabetically
So, less than one bit of progress per decade? That's not exactly huge progress...