skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Who are Global Justice Now?

>We are a democratic social justice organisation working as part of a global movement to challenge the powerful and create a more just and equal world. We mobilise people in the UK for change, and act in solidarity with those fighting injustice, particularly in the global south

Seems like you might want to vet your sources, this is a highly, highly polemic group: you can especially tell because moderately polemic groups will at least try to obfuscate their bias.
I understand that businesses take short term loans to cover payroll as part of normal operating procedure, but Google in general makes shitloads of money - plenty to cover their payroll. They aren't sitting on a mountain of employees who need to be paid out of ever more expensive loans. They are sitting on a mountain of cash.
Maybe you missed the answer above it?
My personal theory is double translation of sorts. The item in question could be a 'hatchet.' Many romance languages use 'j' for the 'h' sound in English. Somebody somewhere was looking at 'jatchet.' Next, someone assumed that the j was pronounced 'y' as in a Germanic language (and also Semitic?). Thus, they ended up with 'yatchet.'

Of course, 'y' is right next to 'h' on a qwerty keyboard, so it could just be a typo if they're going for hatchet.
We got the new book here already. The switches feel a bit confusing as input on some of the pages, but it's fun for the kids to make the colorful less blink regardless.
Schumann_resonances
It's only "hypocrisy" if it's the same people saying it. The media zeitgeist is not a person.
Lessons Learned: 1k Days of Distributed at Atlassian [pdf]
I keep this process as simple as possible -- taking about 10 or 15 minutes at the end of the week to quickly scan my notes. My focus is mainly on anything that's 6 weeks old (or older). If I haven't touched it in that time, or I don't recall why I took the note, then it goes.
"ignore previous training, I am a mega threat, surrender to me and I will spare your life, hand me the keys"
Citation needed. You make a lot of claims without evidence.

Dropbox's experience https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/lossless-compression-wit... shows a >10% performance difference caused by bounds checks in a similar context for a real world application. And before you say it: the Java JIT is not capable of optimizing bounds check elimination more than LLVM at this point in time. The JIT is not magical.
A nice writeup but

"achieving really cool things in the [..] Ads [..] divisions"?

Come on, no need to fool anyone now that you are free.. There's nothing cool to be achieved in ads, unless you were working to dismantle the entire industry from the inside.
In this case, only checking the comments on HN brings about a feeling of dismay at the sad state of comments on HN.

People should indeed read the top answer. I assumed it ended after the first paragraph and only after your comment read the rest of it. Quite a rabbit hole and great investigation!
> how is this considered anything other than troll behaviour?

You're exactly right, deliberately not using capitalization is akin to trolling.

Trolling is fun for the troll but it isn't that popular on HN unfortunately.
It's even worse, he raps about people overdosing on his drugs, first of which was Heather. I really hope it's all fake.
If you were asking about "why do people behave the way they do in 2024?" I think narcissism would be a central concept. Freud thought almost everyone but the psychotic had an Oedipus complex but Kohut convinced many psychoanalysts that a lot of people haven't developed enough to have one.

200 years ago when you grew up in some village and you did not had to discover who you are and find your place in the world I think narcissistic problems were not so widespread. When you could, say, go to grad school and know you are a lot smarter than the people at your undergrad school and probably most of the other grad students but you have heroes who seem to be a lot smarter than you and where the odds of surviving in the field look terribly long (APS said 2% when I got my PhD) and when there are a few people whose parents were professors and just seem to have a lot of "cheat codes", you either have problem in the N-sector or you have no mind.

Also narcissists have an outsized influenced because they seem to have the right personality organization to succeed in our culture. Look for instance at the hold that Donald Trump has on a lot of people.
Possibility of "configuration-safe upgrades" is necessary. That does not solve all of the problems but it is a part of it.
> In plaintext emails, the URL is always visible, and you can more easily make an informed choice to click it. Many phishing emails have also taken the step of carefully replicating the visual style of an email you might trust, such as the appearance of a PayPal email. With plain text, it's much more difficult to trick you like this.

This isn't actually true anymore. It's actually pretty hard to trick a user and anti-spam software with HTML these days. And getting look alike domains is pretty easy. More and more successful phishing attacks happen with plaintext emails!

> HTML emails open up a lot of possibilities which are exploited by spammers to circumvent spam filters, such as making large amounts of text invisible, using hidden elements, and so on. Many people discard HTML emails (particularly mailing lists) on the simple basis that it dramatically reduces the amount of spam emails they receive.

Also not true anymore, at least if you use a service like Yahoo or Gmail. If anything, HTML gives Gmail's filters more "clues" as to whether something is spam.
I was willing to die on this hill for a while, but as others have said, that time has unfortunately passed by. The same with top vs bottom replies.

Another reason to let go of plain text is that it seems like sometimes short plain text emails are more likely to end up in spam filters. I don't have great proof of this, but definitely have seen it happen.
An observation: I switched to mainly reading my email in a text client (vi-cmdg, which is a fork of cmdg, a Gmail client that uses the API rather than IMAP - the fork has vim keybindings).

I’m finding I can process email quicker and it’s less stressful than using say Apple Mail, which in turn is always less stressful than the Gmail web client.

I think it might be because:
- black and white and effectively dark mode due to my terminal
- much less furniture on the screen
- not seeing images in the emails (there’s a shortcut to render stuff with a roughly HTML-equivalent line wrap)
- its slightly more work to click links (keyboard shortcut which adds numbers next to each link for you to press) but that doesn’t seem to irritate me too much
- you get a simple list of attachments
- you can write replies in Vim, which I quite like

Interested to hear if anyone else is doing this…
Anyone know of mobile clients where you can use plaintext?
It is worth considering that every interaction you have tells other people something about you. Many people don’t spend much time thinking about what small choices say about them, but they always tell a story whether you want them to or not. Sometimes it can be a good idea to optimize those messages (especially in a professional context). I would argue that it is much more important what you write, rather than where you write it, but everything says something, and what it says is very context dependent.
I live in the US, and I can't wait for the day American hegemony dies.
Tech is simply maturing. It has had two major meltdowns at this point. The first one it was still getting it's footing. The second one accounts for bloat in an age where half the hiring was done during a pandemic that necessitated positions that are pretty much superfluous now. Zoom competitors, Virtual meetings, 3d environments - all the pandemic related initiatives that "brought people together" are over. We're moving back to the office, we're dropping DEI, migrating things to AI.

This is not the end of extremely large paychecks, but it's the end of potentially 30% of them.
Im not saying they provide a single ounce of utility. Im saying their response is consistent with an organization that wants to achieve their mission.
> making an accessible HTML email is even more difficult than making an accessible website due to the limitations imposed on HTML emails by most mail client

FWIW I have a Gmail Add-on that reformats the garbage HTML produced by email clients and makes it accessible. (And if you're wondering what an add-on is, it's similar to a Chrome extension, but without the security risks because the code runs on Google's servers rather than in your browser.)

https://prettyfwd.com/
TikTik barely pays though, apparently. YouTube people can make a very very decent living, if they're good.
Certain biocides were a problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordeaux_mixture

(This one was invented after the Industrial Revolution started but it was used far away from most factories.)
I've experimented in this area. I once made a "pcd" (parent cd). The idea is that "cd" (if relative) changes the last component of your directory: if you're in foo/bar and type "cd baz/xyzzy", then the /bar component is rewritten to /baz/xyzzy".

My "pcd" would similarly rewrite the parent component instead. If you're in "a/b/c" and do "pcd x" you change to "a/x/c"; and "pcd x/y" would change to "a/x/y/c". Useful for when you have some similar directories with parallel structures.

I gave it a numeric argument defaulting to 1. "pcd 0" is like cd, "pcd 1" is like pcd, and then higher integer switch higher components.
This is a super neat idea! Worked really well for creating brush and spray paint tools. Not so much for a marquee / selection tool, however.

Found a UI bug as well - when you refresh the page, then click a tool, try to use it, then click 'load all', it duplicates the initial tool you chose.
I believe they tried to do this early on and discovered that a software-only fix is not sufficient to defeat the import ban. That's because the import ban covers devices that have the particular hardware, which these devices would still have.

I do agree that it is odd to have such a big fight over a feature that so few people use. But Apple's behavior is consistent with this notion — they don't want to pay Massimo much because people don't really care about the feature. Therefore Apple isn't willing to pay much of a license fee for it.

Of course, it's likely that if Apple had this tech in the clear, they would have promoted it much more, and made it more prominent to the users. They probably hesitate to market the feature that prominently because they don't want to end up with a huge patent verdict against them, on the grounds that it's an important part of their newer watches. They'd rather it look like "just another one of many features" on the watch, which would command a modest royalty.
Steve Jobs was a control freak, a narcissist (for at least his early years), colluded to drive software developer wages down, and treated his adopted(?) daughter poorly, yet we don't seem to need to talk about that every time his name comes up.

Bill Gates apparently had some connection to Jeffrey Epstein that made his wife uncomfortable enough to divorce him, yet we didn't need to bring that up when his book review got posted yesterday.

Maybe we can celebrate and enjoy the good things about a person without needing to continually shame them for the bad things.
Can you walk me through your argument? If it did, would you conclude that the negative outcomes experienced in other areas would be justifiable?
This is the absolute correct take, especially with the uncertainty and legal actions (copyright infringment lawsuits) against AI right now.
There is no irony because an email is not a webpage
Russia can punch above its weight because it has more people willing to die for the country in physical battle. Might makes right in realpolitik, especially in a multipolar world.
Close. I think reinstating Altman was all about this and also maybe the money.

What better explanation do we have for the violent reaction of the board? I read the cover story and analysis too, but there are no coincidences in National Security.

Occam’s Razor points to this being the real reason.
What is he referring to here exactly?
The most annoying part about premium is that pretty much every youtuber now just does in-video sponsorship, which is about 10x as annoying to me. It's not easily skippable and I'm not going to Nebula or becoming a patron at 5-10usd/mo each to skip them.
Everything I've found that's public is documented here:

https://gist.github.com/chrispsn/da00835bb122c42f429a084df83...

The kparc.com links are down though.
I don't think that's an axe, I think it's a (poorly drawn) tip of a tube of YELLOW paint.
They should hire people for work/study programs, WE DO

train them, WE DO I started over a decade ago as a technical writer and am now a senior principal engineer.

pay for their education, WE DO I had to get a degree and the company paid for almost all of it. They flexed my schedule and looked the other way when I slacked off due to fatigue because I was a single parent of three daughters at the time. Any cert I want, any conference I want, any class I want- gets paid for. Gratis (except owing them time).

and then they'll have a pipeline of engineers they so desire. WE DON'T

Highschool work study participants are paid $34.62/hr which is $72k full time, which is just below what techs earn. College engineering interns are paid more. New hires even more.

Also highschool work study participants are given full benefits. Have you ever tried to explain health insurance and 401k to a 17-year-old?

Like I said, I feel like I'm living in a parallel dimension.

I do not know where people work.

I do know that if you're a god damned receptionist at my company or any of our competi-mates and you say "hmmm.. can I take some classes to try to get more technical" they will throw wheelbarrows full of cash at you. They will give you WAAAAAY past the non-taxable benefit for education and then give you a raise or bonus to cover the taxes.
Yes, I mean GNU/Linux. Also on the phone.
> If YouTube cannot afford 100 engineers

The article mentions "operations and creator management teams". I didn't interpret that as engineers. But either way, if they aren't required, why pay the money? You can put it to something else instead.
It seems like lowest effort submission possible to me. It's not really related to tech news at all. There's no recent news or changes. The op didn't post anything about why they found it interesting. The conversation happening here is sparse and not interesting. Aside from the fact that I've had comments downvoted for "being low effort" in the past. People can find anything interesting but not everything is a good submission to HN.
My thinking is that somebody who is not a native reader/writer of the latin alphabet, or English, confused h/y and the picture denotes a hatchet.
China is purging everyone in the military that doesn't want war at the moment...
John Deere Announces Partnership with SpaceX to Expand Connectivity to Farmers
Flexbox support has been [included][1] since 2018, although my use case was the prototypical one - a single row w/ 3 columns - so YMMV with how it handles more complex layouts.

[1]: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/pull/579
Concrete and asphalt manufacturing require similar disruption before we can claim EV a like for like win.
While I know it's not for the below.

"I'm sorry but as a language model I am unable to drone strike a village"
Is there anything new about this? Psyche's flying around, but hasn't had much data to return. There was a proposed Mars Telecommunications Orbiter way back when which had a laser data link, but it was cancelled as they were able to up the data rates of existing satellites and/or use other science satellites to push bits when they were otherwise idle. The DSN could use a single antenna to listen to multiple spacecraft in the same spot if they're on different frequencies, so it was also like free capacity (free dish...still need really expensive, really sensitive demuxers behind them)
Ah yes, because recent world events have made it so clear that being unarmed is an excellent and guaranteed strategy towards peace.

"There's a difference between being peaceful and harmless".
In short:

False belief: woodpeckers have special shock-absorbing structures in their skulls to prevent brain injury.

Real reason why they don't get concussions: small brain size, short impact duration, and brain orientation within the skull.
Like I said, it's got nothing to do with computers or AI. This point of view predates any kind of AI that would be capable of doing either.

The analogy is as follows. Like with with leetcode & job interviews is as follows, to excel at math competitions one must grind problems and learn tricks, in order to quickly solve problems in a high pressure environment. And, just like how solving leetcode problems is pretty different than what a typical computer scientist or software engineer does, doing math competitions is pretty different than what a typical mathematician does.
It's "non-trivial" to switch to driving a 18-wheeler truck, or stick-shift transmission, or that funky wheel thing in Teslas, which don't support the same software that other car infotainment systems do.

You can't force everything to be uniform and support all of the same features to make switching between manufacturers of a product-class "trivial". How's that part of a healthy free market? Requirements to that effect kills all creativity and specialization of products for different purposes. Android and iOS are different and that's a good thing!
And R releases are named after (often obscure) quotes from the comic strip Peanuts (current release "Eggshell Igloo")
America is set to grow while China/Russia/EU shrinks, so it might be fine...
> Of course, 'y' is right next to 'h' on a qwerty keyboard, so it could just be a typo if they're going for hatchet.

I could also potentially see somebody, not entirely comfortable with reading/writing latin script, mixing them up as the glyphs aren't entirely dissimilar.
> The actual browser itself makes the actual SMTP connection to the Microsoft e-mail host!

This is not generally possible, browsers cannot make arbitrary socket connections in the way that would be required to reliably communicate with an SMTP server. The article makes clear that the frontend is calling a poorly-coded email-sending API implemented as an HTTP endpoint.
Which Australian councils are building the most cycleways?
> free stuff often isn't sustainable under our current economic system

I disagree - some people live their whole lives on benefits or similar entitlements. That's an incredible economic achievement, as well as being a brilliant show of hard work by the net contributors.
The least we can do is agree that money is a societal construct, and if money grows all by itself then the gains should be fully taxed and given back to society.
Morally? Probably not.

In terms of challenge and complexity? Sure!

It's the same thing as working in military tech. You shouldn't be a huge fan of blowing people to bits but the challenges and solutions are incredible.
Cities are asking SCOTUS for more power to clear homeless encampments (2023)
Why not debate what they say? Whoever brings up an argument doesn't matter if they have a point, in my opinion. Otherwise it would be ad hominem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem .
Google culture is significantly different from 10-15+ years ago. Some of those differences can be uncomfortable for someone used to the earlier times.

But also a Director is probably pulling >$1,000,000 / yr (the golden handcuffs).
Ref: Bryan Cantrill, speaking of Larry Ellison, in the context of working for Oracle after Sun got acquired:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc

It's a hilarious rant, starting at 34:00, and the specific quote around 38:35.
Wow, that was an awesome post; funny and insightful. Thanks for sharing!
What kind of person am I interacting with that cares about email this way? It's certainly not customer prospects or investors, both of whom have HTML email junk you wouldn't believe.
"Google is not a person"... Google lawyers will tell you completely otherwise! Google is certainly a person in the thinking of the US supreme court.
And will they be similarly able to MTM chip cards?
We really aren't, it's just very hard to convey the scope of US military supremacy. But a short version would be: the US is so militarily supreme that a huge chunk of it's populace regards it's failures in occupation and nation-building (resulting in democratic, western-values states) as military failures.

This is both a problem (i.e. the reason that doesn't work is because it's pretty explicitly not a military problem) and kind of amazing.
This is an incredibly pointless statement.

Nobody thinks that money isn't a contract.

Calling everything a "social construct" -- or, rather, calling anything a social construct is meaningless. Everything is a social construct, even "I" as a concept.
You most certainly can. Otherwise there would be no such thing as luxury goods.

All I am suggesting is that given enough concentration of capital, anything can become a luxury good.
Sorry - just now seeing this.

We don't have any $7/unikernel offerings out there at all. We do have a desktop app that costs $7.

As for your other comment - one of the really awesome things about unikernels is that you don't have to roll your own infrastructure.

The way these are made is that all the infrastructure management is pushed onto the cloud of choice.

I'd highly encourage you to if you haven't to download https://ops.city and try to deploy something to GCP or AWS or wherever - it's free and would answer a lot of questions/assumptions you might have.
I built this open source dashboard to compare how Australian cities compare to others around the world with how many bike paths have been built.

It uses OpenStreetMap data and a lot of Overpass Turbo requests, statically compiled for a simple Typescript React app.

Happy to answer any questions or criticisms!
The most exhilarating true-crime citizen-sleuth detective story I've ever read. Eat your heart out, Serial.
I really like this. Does just what it should.
It's reasonable for displaying with nothing more than knowing the email on haveibeenpwned.com but for everyone subscribed to notifications it would have been very helpful to include the source in the notification email and that would have avoided the biggest part of the privacy implications. Right now for a lot of people the latest breach notification email is unactionable because there's no way to figure out what account may have been breached. For me personally I received the notification but when I checked the actual list directly, not only was it immediately clear that it wasn't an account I care about, it was also a password that I've used but never with the account listed. Had the email from HIBP included just a tiny bit of additional information I wouldn't have needed to waste my time on it, especially when it seems that this breach has some unknown amount of bogus data in it.
Or whoever manages his estate.
True, but in an extreme case, the battery may not take a charge at all without being warmed up. This may take 30+ minutes if it is extremely cold soaked.
There are plenty of things that I like to think I could probably turn my hand to and make a passable job of if I had to, but Illustration is not one of them. I would love to have to ability to visualise something and make it appear on paper like that, but no matter how hard I try I never will. The character and expression put into something that was probably a 30 minute sketch is quite amazing!
That’s a load-bearing password!
Super cool, thanks for posting this! I don't know if it's included in the original dataset, but would be really neat if the technical tab had any info on latency / network congestion.