skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For people who's first/last name letters fall within a band of ten consequitive letters of the alphabet (any alphabet, despite its origins Pi is surely multi-lingual), one can use the same algorithm to find themselves somewhere in Pi.

For the rest of us it is a bit trickier but should still work: use two consequtive digits (00-99) and a modulo function that loops over an alphabet (and possibly discards some padded values as not having a map to a letter).
:-) and surely enough there is a wikipedia page for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
Urman points out that the Wikipedia users who tested the SIDE system were twice as likely to prefer neither of the references as they were to prefer the AI-suggested ones. “This would mean that in these cases, they would still go and search for the relevant citation online,” she says.

This seems like an optimistic interpretation.
A believe people in the US are so Anti-Union because the way Unions are designed by law is completely broken.

I remember well that we once had a booth at a trade show in Las Vegas. It was strictly forbidden for us to take our exhibits to our booths ourselves, because the process of "take something onto the exhibition floors" was union-protected. So we had to wait half an hour to get a task done that would have taken myself 30 seconds.

I believe that unions are needed, and am strictly pro-Union.

I believe that Unions serve the goal of being a counter-weight when a huge employer has lots of negotiation power.

But what I have seen in the US - and to a certain extend in Germany, too - is that certain UNIONS have grown to big, powerful and bureaucratic, and have become a huge force of power themselves, no longer serving the workers, but being self-serving mostly, and bringing employers to the brink of collapse.

In Germany we have two competing unions for rail workers. One is huge, corrupt and self-serving, and no where connected to the actual pain points rail workers have. But luckily there is second, much smaller rail Union, where the Union boss used to be a train driver and still is very much in touch of the base, and therefore does not pick fights with employers "because they can", but to actually work on pain points the workers have. Which is really important because Germany has a huge shortage on rail workers, and urgently needs to attract new labor in that sector. It's a bit weird that the rail companies are not working on fixing the shortages in labor, and the government isn't either, but that it's a union that is fighting for making life of the customers bearable again.

Back to the US: I believe the whole discussion of being pro-Union or pro-free-market is a red herring. The unions themselves need to be reformed and strengthened, but in a way that they serve society. In general I believe unions should be smaller and leaner organizations.
The world would look very different if software was generally developed like this.
I have to wonder if Billinghurst even looked at the galaxytours website. I suspect not.

It is telling that he never responded to Davin Dbavandy question about why it is not a reliable source.
Which is incidentally also Albert Einstein’s birthday.
Non-profits don't have to avoid profit. The difference is what they do with any profits; they can't distribute it as dividends to owners/shareholders.
I think a lot of it is derived annoyance at database administration, which can't be easily automated or one-and-done. SQLite is by all measures a terrible database, but people use it because it actually bothers to solve the "lack of hassle" problem.
Call me a skeptic in Qualcomm...the keyword here is "will try". Based on their track record, likely will take a couple of generational iterations before having something competitive.

A near-perfect example is Qualcomm's switch of its Snapdragon SOCs to 64-bit to catch up to Apple with its SD 808 and 810 lineup. But those were notorious for overheating and it wasn't until the later SD 820 and 835 - but by then Apple's A-series performance lead was significantly greater.

Also others noted, hardware performance is only 1/2 of the equation - the software OS, drivers, and apps all also need to be optimized. Microsoft seems to be perennially struggling in its Windows-to-ARM transition so certainly doesn't help matters.

The dark horse is the ongoing ARM-Qualcomm lawsuit to unwind its Nuvia acquisition and prevent the IP from being used in future products. If that comes to fruition, then guaranteed there'll be huge delays.
> I continue to be confused how people use these kinds of programs.

GnuCash is made for common people, my wife uses it and loves it.
The writer suggests that a page about a moth is unlikely to provide an opportunity for pushing contentious views.

The edits show there was disagreement earlier this year about the wingspan of the Scrobipalpula crustaria.

Is it 11-13mm or 10-13mm?

People feel strongly about these things.
Because DevOps is systems administrator working with dev team and understanding application that this team is working on.

In contrast with systems administrator who does only "server stuff" and gets zip file with application thrown over the fence from dev team or multiple dev teams without understanding anything of what is in those app packages.
I expect this entire thread will get flagged for being too political but there is some tech-relevant news to call to attention.

The post starts by talking about all the conflicts/wars/tensions around the world (and the inability of US political institutions to handle them) and then mentions this new challenge on top all that:

> A new weapon is being deployed in all these conflicts: a massive spread of doctored or wholly fake videos to manipulate what people see and think in real time. The architects of these new technologies, in background conversations with us after demonstrating new capabilities soon to be released, say even the sharpest eyes looking for fake videos will have an impossible time detecting what's real.
> i don't have any fucking money, i can't invest in shit. That's the big difference between Jeff Bezos and Me.

Bezos's parents when he was born were a highschool student and a circus performer. From him to be where he is today, probably indicates there are other differences.
Actually, access to use the platform is what you are buying. In fact, Bezos gives the products you are interested in to you for free as an incentive to buy into using his platform. He then, of course, is able to use the proceeds from you buying into using the platform to pay for the product he gave away to you for free, and keeps some for himself to justify operation of the platform.

If that particular platform doesn't interest you, why pay for it? As before, the store down the street probably sells the same thing. There is nothing I know of that Amazon sells that you can't also get somewhere else.
It looks fine to me; some of the references look a bit obscure, but I wouldn't call them "unreliable". I'd say "Curb Safe Charmer" has been harsh; there are many, many articles that are supported by worse citations, and are less notable, but exist in mainspace.

[Edit] I wonder if Curb Safe Charmer automated his review using something like this?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02894-x
First world problems for people staring too long into artificial lighting
In another timeline, Conan kept the Tonight Show and is still doing it, instead of all of his podcasting stuff.

For me, he’s the funniest one since Letterman and probably actually funnier than Dave was.
Using inserters to dump trash into space is a brilliant and seamless mechanic. Yet another example of care in the Factorio game model.
Progressive taxation rates, with the highest income brackets (say, every dollar made in a year past $100,000,000) being taxed on the order of 80%.

Nothing would stop somebody with money under this schema from continuing to invest. The mindset of "i dont want the government is taking my money!" is reactionary bullshit that has resulting in underfunded public serves, from the FDA to the IRS. The idea that no amount of money can be enough for one person is toxic, and antisocial.
> A long time ago, I worked for a brand that bought expensive advertisements in the nytimes. The sales team invited me to be a silent attendee of the 'page one meeting',

Is this normal? So when they were reporting on tobacco cancer and deciding if it went on the front page there would be like a silent Philip Morris employee in the room staring them down and sitting with the sales team? Or was there one-way glass or something?
That Die Hard will be forever my favorite because of the nod they gave to the Yugo.
The article doesn't seem to reference W-2 employees but instead 1099.

Likely due to how much verification is done.

This sounds more like gig jobs not so much remote workers.
I'm much more inclusionist than deletionist. And find there's a lot of both randomness and irony in what qualifies as notable, especially given that notability can be a very local thing. On the other hand, it's probably fair that not everyone who has ever had their name in print or has a website should have a Wikipedia entry.
And as we all know, sharks grow indefinitely and never die. That's why ancient sharks are still alive and outmass the planet itself.

That's definitely the model we should be aiming for.
As someone who had OS/2 Warp installed on a machine for a bit I'm somewhat dubious about the claim that it was just plain better than Win95. My memories of OS/2 Warp included locking up the entire GUI when an application (a goddamn notepad application at that!) crashed and finding it amazingly unintuitive in so many respects. On top of that everything it did felt sluggish, even on fast hardware of the era (a Pentium 75 with 16GB of memory).

When Windows 95 came out there really wasn't a question as to who was going to be the thing going forward. Even beyond Microsoft's already dominant position in the marketplace.
Imagine being alive on March 14th, 1592 @ 6:53:58AM
People just don't realize that giving someone free reign to their phone is the same as giving someone remote access, basically, to your brain.

It's just hard for the mind to grasp how such a physically small device can grant access to so many things.

Maybe once we move more explicitly to phones as bionic extensions of ourselves, people will understand the access they're granting on a visceral, gut level.
Is there actually a market for this ? Like do people say to themselves"this book would be better if it was strapped to my eyes"?
There is some kind of cartel in the health care industry. They are absolutely not going to pay nurses more, and they are absolutely going to keep staffing at the minimum level. There is some kind of gentleman's agreement to not compete for labor. If everyone is paying 'market rate' and they all seem to know exactly what that rate is, there is collusion.
> I don't think x86 will ever get to the level of power efficiency that ARM has, simply due to the fact the arm cores and instructions are all built and engineered for low power usage.

This is often repeated, but very thinly substantiated.

ARM originally wasn't engineered for low power usage, just "normal power usage" in PC-like computers. It found its niche in low power devices mainly because the larger chips got dominated by other ISAs and weren't much interested in low margin embedded space.

It's very unclear if ARM as an ISA has any intrinsically meaningful advantage in power consumption. Modern chip design kind of converged and most of them work on similar principles like decoding the ISA instructions into microcode which is then executed. x86 decoder might be more complex than an ARM one, but the difference on a chip is small and likely meaningless in terms of power consumption.
Managing Kubernetes resources in Terraform: Kubernetes provider
How do the demographics and labor force participation rates compare? Does the youth unemployment rate match the overall unemployment rate? Does your country have an exceptional growth rate that could sustain maximum employment despite those barriers to entry?
Indeed. I'm an introvert who is in a leadership position at a large consulting company. My natural inclination is to be quiet unless things are going off the rails. But that doesn't work for the job I have, so I have to put myself out there more and communicate things much more explicitly and clearly than I'd prefer. But I can do it. I can lead calls and projects. I can "charm" CTO's with my ability to understand and breakdown the challenges they are facing. I can be persuasive and an effective mediator. But it's exhausting for me.

I spend most of my working day talking to people, and at the end of the work day I'm done with people and need to spend a significant time alone in my head to recharge. I doubt that any of the folks I work with would describe me as an introvert because the nature of my work doesn't allow me to fall into the comfortable isolation I'd prefer. At the same time, I can't have the impact that I do if I was the stereotypical "introvert" engineer which is what makes all the effort worthwhile. The biggest challenge with this is my intolerance for people extends to friends and family after work. A day full of meetings and I can't focus on conversations my wife tries to pull me into and I have zero desire to hang out with any friends. I literally need time alone to recover.
> Either you have breaking news or you don't.

I choose "don't". I give everything the 48 hour rule. I won't even talk about events with other people if the events are less than 48 hours old. As far as I'm concerned, it's all just speculation that muddies the waters.
A TikTok Talent Factory for Misfit Stars
There's 1,000 potential reasons why you might be rejected for any job. It could be subtle discrimination, it could be not wanting to pay you what you're asking for, it could just be a crooked interviewer reaching for a reason to hire her friend over you, or it could be that they found somebody even better than you.

But the reality might be as simple as she didn't like you that much, just as you might not like random people for random reasons. People want to hire people they like talking to. Hiring is rarely as simple as Candidate A scored 19/20 on the tech questions we asked, but Candidate B scored 18/20 on the tech questions we asked, so we automatically must go with Candidate A if Candidate B seemed a lot more easy-going and cool to talk to.

If you sounded boring or rude to her or whatever or if your voice sounded unpleasant or whatever to her ear, maybe she didn't want to contemplate dealing with you 8 hours per day for the next few years. I guess the best thing you can do is try and figure out what makes your interviewer tick and try and bond with them over that. This is a tough pill to swallow for many of us introverts in the tech world who have to force themselves to be socially on for interviews, but this is part of the process unfortunately, particularly when not dealing with other super technical people in interviews.
Dealing with Preceden's Spam Problem
This doesn’t make any sense.
Looking at all this struggles, charging not working etc, why just not buy tesla :)
I was at charging station yesterday and Nissan at EvGo struggled to start charging for ~3 minutes. While he was trying to plug I was half way to charge to my desired level to continue the trip.
Tesla is selling massive amount of cars, they all work fine, it's a big support from customers. Yet, I see comments here and there how horrible tesla panel gaps because one blogger said so.
In general, I can agree with your view as a good outcome. But the problem is - who gets to decide what is too much?

I see you're in tech and an author (btw, I've come across your book before, congrats!) and I bet MOST people would also think that you have "too much" because it's more than them, and "what do you really do to earn it? type on a keyboard? That's not real work."

Because I don't want to someone to have the power to say "hey xyzelement, your FAANG salary is unreasonable and we're going to take it away for greater good" (and ditto for my wife's medical salary), I don't feel it's right to do it to anyone else.
I think it was incredibly indicative of his foolishness.
Yeah I did that with an entire pot of chili - a single reaper with a smattering of much milder smoked pepper powders and a little chipolte in adobo sauce. It was nice!
Ye well my head went spinning reading that. Does such a "compiler factory" exist?
REXX was awesome. Completely blew away cmd.com batch scripts. I used it in DOS constantly. Shame it died with OS/2.
you suspend your disbelief and just say the conveyors have little buckets on them, or are sticky!
The problems you're outlining are solved in chrome, and any chromium browser. I'm not saying switch. I'm saying that people have been complaining about these to Mozilla for over a decade and they won't fix it.

Most of the link based stuff is solved in other browsers by opening the link in the last active profile/window you had open. Pretty simple solution. That's all it takes, Firefox however will open links in whatever default profile you have set.. regardless of if it's open or active or not. It's a terrible behaviour. Just fixing that one thing would solve most of the big complaints people have with profiles.

I always get downvoted for saying this, but containers are not a good solution for profiles, not out of the box, and not for anyone who wants to separate work/personal.

The average user shouldn't have to install a bunch of plugins and then configure them to get the functionality that profiles gives.
It's not up to the employer.

There are states where paid sick leave is mandated, and the state law explicitly lets workers take sick leave for _ANY_ reason related to health.

Feeling too tired to work? Fine to take a day off.

Stressed out because you had to take your pet to the vet? Take a day off.

> My job requires one to state the illness

Aside from being a huge red flag, what's stopping you from just putting in "mental health" and not being very specific? Does anyone even care/check? Surely HR can't be that petty?
In the interest of being pedantic, the article actually looks at the least viewed articles in 2021.
Game of Life in Hexagonal and Pentagonal Tessellations (2005) [pdf]
Anyone who claims to see through the fog of war without evidence and even sometimes with should be suspect; they have already determined what they want to see and found it.

The hardest part is that we are all that way, and we naturally love to see things that confirm our knowledge, biases, suspicions, etc; and hate to be challenged.
Oh my, are you quoting Atomic Habits ? The "nudge" fad has long passed and your 10 min workout every day won't make you an athlete.

What James Clear is really showing is that writing coaching books is the real path to success.
Me likewise – it makes me happy that there's an 800 word article about a pond that used to exist for less than 200 years in my town.
I'm pretty sure Russia started that by invading in 2014 and then 2022. Ending wars by giving invaders other sovereign countries doesn't work so well...it certainly didn't serve peace last time.
> a) most user-facing apps are browser-based

if MSFT admitted this they would be telling everyone that Chromebooks are a solution
Nice addition. Me personally being the paranoid type, I don't trust the transparency log for monitoring but rather for writing up the root cause analysis. Reason being is that if someone can legally compel Hetzner and/or Linode and/or LetsEncrypt to do or not do something then the same entity can compel the certificate transparency site to ignore something. But you covered what I would do and that is to have multiple nodes doing active monitoring of TLS changes using an external service. That service being openssl s_client in my case.

In the case of Jabber it might be interesting to add some monitoring in the application that uses a cryptographic signed payload to list all the valid fingerprints and send an alert message to the server if something odd is happening like public key pinning but without a hard-fail. That list could be pre-loaded with new certificate fingerprints prior to being deployed. If the oddness is confirmed then perhaps add some way to tell the clients that certificate is likely forged. That way both server operator and client are aware that something evil this way comes.

[Edit] - Looks like based on the comment from MattJ100 that some Jabber servers and some clients can already do something like this.
> I honestly think they get away with it because mom and pop are out of business. I’d go back if I could.

That tells that you believe there is room for mom and pop to return, which questions why you aren't becoming the mom and pop?
Eclipse October 2023
The alternatives aren't exactly benign, though: Mozilla seems completely fine with others deciding what I should see on the Internet (those others being politically aligned with Mozilla, of course), which is what their "amplify factual voices" point really means. The list is just left-leaning mainstream outlets whose quality has taken a nosedive, and if it comes to fact checking, we all know ostensible fact checking outlets police narrative adherence more than factuality.
FWIW, I get all of that with a single Safari extension called Vinegar, which replaces the hostile YouTube video player (and its associated scripts for hijacking the screen) with a native HTML5 Video element, thus restoring picture-in-picture, background playback, bitrate selection including 1080p, and continue watching (assuming I'm logged into YouTube).

No bullshit or hacked apps required. Just a $1.99 purchase of a Safari Content Extension from the Apple App Store to restore native features of my OS that hostile JS on YouTube attempted to take away from me.
Time for a "spywave" genre.
Labor's finally waking up to this; the nurses at my area's second-largest hospital just unionized last year and won a hard-fought contract this week.
> Any semblance of pushback is decried as ignorance, or a threat to global competition. No one wants to be called a Luddite.

I wasn't expecting to be a Luddite at 36, but I am. I not only agree with the author, but, more generally, also really dislike the way that the future is developing.

I have zero interest in today's version of social media. The version that keeps people glued to their phone screens at all times, mindlessly viewing or scrolling through near-zero-substance content, giving constant hits of dopamine to break down self-control.

I have very conflicting feelings about _kids_ getting sucked into this, I.e. a parent handing their child a tablet at a restaurant to stop the crying.

I absolutely hate how abused phone notifications are and have most turned off. I'm actually uninstalling more apps in favor of their websites (while that is still possible), partly because of this, and partly because of the tracking these apps do that you can't easily turn off.

Voice assistants are buggy as hell and are annoying to use more often than not. I turned off Siri on everything except my Apple Watch.

Lastly, I have absolutely no use for LLMs.

I really like being able to write code or learning how to write boilerplate in other languages. I like understanding everything that's going on and what incremental progress looks like.

I like searching for answers on search engines and reading through answers or (sometimes) documentation to find what I'm looking for.

It is blisteringly obvious that the goal of big LLM is to (a) get users to think less, criticize less (because why criticize if ChatGPT tells you the "right" answer every time), and consume more, and (b) to centralize wealth in companies that are big enough to scour the Internet, train their own LLMs on that data and generate answers with minimal latency.
Another implementation of the same idea that's ~25 years old: http://www.facade.com/legacy/amiinpi/