skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Bro what sort of dystopiian offices have you been working in.

There are loads of places like this. The irony is that in such context people enjoy the watercooler talk as an escape from the hellscape that is their 9-5 shitty job, doing everything they can instead of their job to make their experience less miserable.

> I've never had that experience.

Lucky you.

> And never ever have I had a colleague spontaneously try to have casual zoom conversation with me while remotely working.

This has happened all the time for me (could be zoom, could be Slack). From scheduled informal chats with teammates to regular chats with close people to members of non-work or work channels of interest to random ones via Donut with yet unknown people, it's lively and on everyone's own terms.

> I've had people never turn their cameras on.

Ever since I have been remote they all did. If they don't it's either one of the odd low bandwidth situation and they save it for an acceptable audio experience, they're on the move - and open about it, with either an apology about possible noise when speaking thus unmuted or setting expectations about their ability to talk or follow - and audio only "phone mode" is more practical, or they're at home and privacy respecting of their SO or otherwise guest.

> And meanwhile, I'm here, a childless 20-sth, not having spoken to a human in days, wanting to hang myself with my headphone cable.

I am genuinely empathetic to your situation and am glad to hear from a nearby comment that it has resolved - at least to an extent - and you found an environment where you can be happier.

I say so because I realised long ago that people can come from all ways of life and be wildly different in their needs, and having been through similar suffering for something in the order of three decades - only from a symmetrical end - I can relate.

And I say "end" and not "side" because it's a continuum, there are no sides, there's no team A vs team B, and it's not a zero sum game.

> The pro-wfh people just don't care that young people are still growing up in this time I swear.

By and large "pro WFH people" are not arguing that everyone-and-their-dog must WFH, instead that WFH does make sense and is a true net positive for many, and that the recent pro-office-for-everyone discourse that it is inherently more productive because humans is at best loaded with prejudice that fails to take into account a good chunk of actual humans, some raising their voice, others staying silent, and at worst has hidden agenda.

The pendulum was mostly stuck one way for aeons, then it progressively moved with the rise of the Internet, and swung full-force with COVID. Now it's swinging back hard the other way. Change is hard, old habits die harder, but I'm hopeful that someday we'll find balance, but for that we need understanding of each other.
If we're being pedantic, then there's also a more general definition of calculus, which is the first definition in Merriam-Webster: "a method of computation or calculation in a special notation (as of logic or symbolic logic)." One example of this is the lambda calculus. Differential and integral calculus are just special cases of this general definition.
hehe, I rewatched this just two days ago, it's still very impressive. Had a symbolics relapse after finding about kaveh kardan involvment with them and his blog/snippets https://scribe.rip/@kaveh808/rediscovering-common-lisp-57f5c...
creativity, should be user ubuntu pass ubuntu
I am certain my observation is not different than other developers in the United States. I also work with Indian companies who happen to know other Indian developers and I hear the same quality issues from actual Indian people themselves. I am not talking about 1-2 developers out there. We tried over 50 over the years. Barely 1 or 2 worked out and eventually, they started working for other companies because loyalty doesn't exist.

It is not racism. Since we stopped working with them, we haven't had a single issue with our software development services. They simply do not understand business basics. They write code as if we ask ChatGPT. No second thought, no bug hunt. Just linear coding with no security in mind. They do not ask themselves "If I remove this code from here, would this other part break?". We worked more on fixing the issues they caused than we worked with them.

We won't make this mistake again. I am also very sure this is not only us. I heard it from many American developers. If you have some time, just read some horror stories on tech blogs and other forums. I understand things might be difficult in India that force people to lie about their skills to make money but now we rather pay double than deal with issues the cheap labor causes.
wish it had the RSS feed button out of the box

looks sweet tho otherwise
Green bananas have a nice balance of resistant starch and prebiotic fiber. They're great for your colon!
Aside: The global trade community should insist countries set up sovereign wealth funds wrt exports tied to resource extraction.

Like Norway did (FTW) and Australia didn't (ruefully).
It may be simply a case of the people who most need this stuff are the most likely to lack either or both mental energy or the requisite knowledge.

And frankly, I don't see why the government shouldn't mandate making it easy to unsubscribe.
Yoked learning in molecular data science
"...Inspired by research in pedagogy, we here introduce the concept of yoked machine learning where a second machine learning model learns from the data selected by another model. We found that in 48% of the benchmarked combinations, yoked learning performed similar or better than active learning. We analyze distinct cases in which yoked learning can improve active learning performance. In particular, we prototype yoked deep learning (YoDeL) where a classic machine learning model provides data to a deep neural network, thereby mitigating challenges of active deep learning such as slow refitting time per learning iteration and poor performance on small datasets. In summary, we expect the new concept of yoked (deep) learning to provide a competitive option to boost the performance of active learning..."
What could they possibly be reeling from? By your logic, that wasn't "colonization", but rather White Europeans enriching Africa with our vibrant culture and great food.

So what if the indigenous people are displaced, demoralised, dispossessed, marginalised, denigrated, etc? Nobody seems to give a damn for what indigenous Europeans are currently experiencing.

Please don't ask us to be empathetic to your dislike of a particular term considering the very real danger and harm being imposed on our entire race.
One of the things I like about Gregg is that similar sounds p/b f/v t/d have similar shapes so when reading, if it’s ambiguously or wrongly written, by pronouncing what’s there, I can figure out which one was meant. Also, since Gregg is phonetic, I don’t have to worry about how to spell either.

Orthic has some of that, but not to the extent of Gregg.
The city I live in is sarcastically called "Hamiltron"
> If 3k home assistant users take up as much traffic as say... 50% of my total population we're just supposed to accept that cost in perpetuity?

Yes, they are your users. They are likely the people who will gush about your product to their friends and result in more sales. If the plugin could be behaved better: Make a PR and improve it. People will love you if you do it under your company name, but if you don't want the potential internal drama just do it anonymously. Wins all around.

> That, again, costs money/people/time that can be spent doing things that keep us all getting paid.

Power users are some of the best cheap marketing available to device manufacturers. They will post about your product online. They will tell their friends. They will make your product better for no charge to you.

> I also agree we should all offer local interfaces, but that's an uphill cybersecurity battle (lots of reasons, some of them not great)

I'd love to hear about how this could be considered a cybersecurity issue. It's typically far more secure than a cloud connected solution, but most companies don't like that line of reasoning because it doesn't allow them to track their users.
100% Agree...prison time, public excoriation and significant financial penalties.
Hiring a money manager would be the convenience here, but that's not what is happening.
sure, but when there's a dozen apps that will do it automatically, why?
Highlights the usual problems with prompt injection. It seems like a mistake that company after company will continue to make for years to come.

I find it hilarious as DPD in the UK used to be seriously awful - damaging items and blatantly lying about delivery attempts to the point that I would order from different companies if I knew they only shipped with DPD. They did improve their act (no thanks to me I'm sure!) however with the recent "quiet quit" trend they're getting closer to their old ways.
I can run Mistral 7B, in 3-bit quantization, on my phone, and I get helpful answers for (just today) seeing environment variables in Python.
Whenever this subject comes up I'm disheartened to see how many are willing to blame the victim: the consumer.

We have allowed businesses to exist whose only really business model is duping customers into a subscription and then making it difficult or impossible to cancel. Just go look at timeshares [1].

I would dearly love to give money to some quality news publications to support their work but I don't. Why? Because I absolutely don't ever want to deal with their subscriptions department should I ever want to cancel.

Ever tried to cancel an Equinox gym membership? I've seen half a dozen sign up constulants standing around at the entrance, someone call up to cancel and being told there's no specialist available.

Cancelling a service should be no more difficult than pressing a button on an app or a website. We passed the CAN-SPAM Act to force compliance in communications for businesses [2]. The same should apply to taking their money.

Speaking of gyms, it's an anti-user business model. The perfect gym customer is one who pays for a membership and never uses it. The more members a given gym can "support", the more profitable it is. If everyone used it 2 hours a day they'd go out of business. Planet Fitness took this one step further and removed their most popular equipment to dissuade people from going and charging so little that people usually can't be bothered to cancel it.

All US cable/Internet start with an introductory rate that quietly gets jacked up over time. You can go through a "cancel dance" to renew that rate every year or so but it's absolutely exhausting to have to deal with this.

VPNs do the same thing. $2.99/month introductory price! Wow! Bargain! It just quietly gets jacked up later on.

This is what government is for.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd2bbHoVQSM

[2]: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/can-spam-act...
The rapacious corporations agree with you — no matter how deceptive or even illegal their practices are, no matter how much R&D money is brought to bear in designing innovative user interfaces and bureaucratic frameworks which systematically exploit human weaknesses (particularly those of vulnerable populations such as less-tech-savvy elders) to bleed the populace dry... it's all the fault of the individual victims who are "allowing" themselves to be ripped off, one-by-one.
What's wrong with people putting on their adulting pants and actually being responsible? Why outsource personal responsibility to a third party? That seems, absurd.

"Frazzled and overloaded" is not an excuse for not looking at your bank account one time in 6 months or longer. That's just plain old fashioned irresponsible.

If you are at a stage in life where a $10 subscription is hurting, then it stands to reason you should monitor those things.
Show HN: Flowstate – A Kind of Copilot for Web App
> System76 is not Apple. I don't know why you'd expect them to have a wholly new chip set.

I absolutely don't :)

I'm replying to this statement which I think isn't correct:

> it might look the same and seem to have the same specs, but Clevo might have put in some chip without linux drivers.
It’s generally accepted in international relations that it’s always the case long term. States can make bad calls in the short term but you’ll often find they are rational decisions regardless of if they don’t turn out well. Erdogan has greatly expanded turkeys influence in the region and been relatively successful in playing the west and russia off each other for instance.

Saddam I’ll give you but that also led to his removal and it can be argued Iraq didn’t have many good options as historically it’s been controlled by one or more of the surrounding nations so it may just not working realistically due to geography and ethnic strife
Apple offers rivals access to tap-and-go payment tech to resolve EU case
> So if "nonsense" breeds meaning, is it really nonsensical?

How bad would the analogy be to a calculation with imaginary numbers that still yields a real result?
Missing a payment and having to pay a late fee or interruption to an important service seems bad in fairness.
"...he was part of the group publicly attempting to purge Harvard’s first Black president"

That's in the second paragraph. That's where I stopped reading.
Basically zero EV or HV batteries make it into the trash. They're recycled and already have a pretty good scrap value.
It is impossible to know however, if large economies under different systems than capitalism would not have made for instance satellite phones a priority 40 years ago rather than landlines and cell towers. Capitalism didn’t because it was more expensive but a central planner might well have because they thought it was cooler.

So it’s kind of unreasonable to be adamant that only because of capitalism we have stuff in space.
Purchased a system 76 Galago 2 a couple years ago. The motherboard failed just over one year old. System 76 would not replace or give me a discount on a replacement board. Ended up throwing the thing away and will never buy fron them again.
Deezer tried with UCPS (user centric payment system) which was fair, but it seems it's gone, I don't understand their new system.
Sticky doesn’t imply permanent. They went up legitimately during the covid/supply chain debacle. They haven’t returned because prices are sticky.
This is true of virtually all animals we eat. When I fished, the 1 lb bass was a keeper and the 4 lb bass was a throw-back.
Sports Illustrated lays off entire staff
More like created, registration process was not open.

Was there anything but the darpa domains and nordu.net before symbolics?
A history of the US Military's role in bioweapons and Lyme Disease is discussed in this episode with Kris Newby and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Bitten Book on the potential origins of Lyme outbreak:
https://www.amazon.com/Bitten-History-Disease-Biological-Wea...

While vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard, Kris Newby was bitten by an unseen tick. That one bite changed her life forever, pulling her into the abyss of a devastating illness that took ten doctors to diagnose and years to recover from: Newby had joined the ranks of the 400,000 Americans who are afflicted with Lyme disease each year.

As a science writer, she was driven to understand why this disease is so misunderstood and its patients so mistreated. This quest led her to Willy Burgdorfer, the Lyme microbe’s discoverer, who revealed that he had developed bug-borne bioweapons during the Cold War and believed that the Lyme epidemic was started by a military experiment gone wrong.

In a superb, meticulous work of narrative journalism, Bitten takes readers on a journey to investigate these claims, from tours of biological weapons facilities to interviews with biosecurity experts and microbiologists doing cutting-edge research, all the while uncovering darker truths about Burgdorfer. It also leads her to uncomfortable questions about why Lyme can be so difficult to both diagnose and treat, and why the government is so reluctant to classify chronic Lyme as a disease.

A gripping, infectious page-turner, Bitten will shed a terrifying new light on an epidemic that is exacting an incalculable toll on us, upending much of what we believe we know about it.
Highly recommend this if you've not heard of it yet, goes into detail about lithium and some other vital raw materials :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Material-World-Substantial-Story-Fu...

"Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium. They built our world, and they will transform our future."
An Interview with George Scialabba (2012)
That's where the focal point is, where we can capture the light, not where the exoplanets are.
No, he's right.

Containerisation is distinct from virtualisation.

Virtualisation shares some areas with Emulation, but it's essentially passing CPU instructions to the CPU without translation from some alternative CPU machine language.

The difference here is the level; in descending order:

* Containerisation emulates a userland environment, shares a OS/Kernel interfaces.

* Virtualisation emulates hardware devices, but not CPU instructions; there are some "para-virt" providers (Xen) that will share even a kernel here, but this is not that.

* Emulation emulates an entire computer including its CPU
Nah, this is wrong and cynical. We could have easily built the housing we need but we made it too hard through zoning.
Recovery of 9/11 Safe Deposit Box Contents in the WTC's JPM Vault (2023)
Unfortunately many tickets in the state of California can not be written without a photo of the face of the driver. You ticket a person, not the owner of the car. I looked into this recently because as a cyclist I've witness horrific drivers AND caught many such instances on camera, which are utterly useless at getting any tickets issued. I realize a personal camera and a state-installed device are not the same thing, but I believe the fact remains -- face photo to identify the culprit, or no dice on tickets.
HTC dominated the Windows Mobile 6.1 phones, which was a small market compared to Nokia and Blackberry.

As an independent OEM, they were selected by Google to build the G1, the first Android phone. But the touch smartphone market at the time was only in the millions. That's the scale HTC could handle.

When the market started exploding in 2010 onwards, HTC couldn't scale up, so Samsung, LG and Huawei took advantage.
The solution to the encumbered pension fund is to transition to privately run retirement schemes like the superannuation scheme of Australia.

The problem with Germany today is that the social state is archaic and has not been updated for the modern world. Unsurprising when the government still uses fax and snail mail for all communication.

This of course does not fix declining populations as a whole, but all advanced economies go through population decline almost like a rite of passage now. Unless growth is maintained, the system shrinks. Ultimately politicians and economists are more concerned with this over any other social ramifications of bringing migrants into the country. Obviously a balance needs to be struck, but Germany doesn't seem to be good at moderate and effective policy, e.g swinging from being a haven for refugees to now wanting to initiate mass deportations
Here is my favorite ATC mouthful. Flying in the Bay Area is full of these kinds of complicated instructions that will burn anyone unfamiliar:

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

The controller expects you to hear, interpret, and read back the following clearance:

> N1234, you're cleared to airport XXX via fly runway heading until past the diamond-shaped waterway. Then turn right heading 120. Keep your turn within 2 miles of the airport. Radar vectors Woodside, then as filed. Maintain VFR conditions at or below 1100 feet until crossing the Oakland 165 radial, then climb and maintain 2100. Expect FL350 five minutes after departure. Departure frequency 135.65. Squawk 1234.

No wonder the pilots messed it up.
Thanks for the timestamps. Great to see Ivan breaking ground in another area, his contribution to early graphics and interactive computing is still amazing today.
Do you mean blue cheese in particular, or just anything stimulating opioid receptors?
> (especially the ones who can least afford it)

There's a correlation between financial illiteracy and acquiring cripling debt.
Campfire Is Once #1
Typical "corporate pricing"--they offer a really high price they'll expect you'll negotiate downwards to something reasonable. The Sourcehut negotiators probably never dealt with this kind of "sales model" before.

That said, what will happen when more companies publish their experiences with "enterprise sales"? There's an article from HEY[1] about how broken the sales process is. To get a quote, you normally have to endure 2 or 3 zoom calls before the price is unveiled.

There's probably room for an innovator to fix all of this.

1: https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-only-thing-worse-than-cloud-pr...
I hate the weasel words of "demands slowing down". It's always not clear what exactly is happening from this phrase. Is the production or sales going down year-over-year or quarter-over-quarter? Because that's what people think "demand slowing down" means.

However what's actually happening is that demand is going up, but at a rate slower than before. Imagine that in 2022 demand increased by 60% YoY but in 2023 demand only increased by 40% YoY (these are approximate figures). You are measuring the second derivative which is decreasing from a big positive value to a smaller positive value, which is not usually described by the word "slow". Intuitively "slow" means the second derivative has become negative.
https://snapcraft.io/install/onenote-desktop/ubuntu

though

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/990813/o...

Looks like a webapp wrapper. It is snappy in my use though on a 2010 i7 MBA running Ubuntu 2022.
I have tried user ubuntu with ... empty , pass, ubuntu. None of them works.
Some of these are valid issues though. I'd consider myself in top 1% when it comes to financial health and I still pay for stuff I forgot to cancel. Some of the reasons:

> They make you call between 9 am and 5 pm, and hold for hours to cancel, sometimes even disconnect forcing you to start over, while not offering a callback option. Sometimes there are weeks I absolutely cannot afford to do this because of work.

> You buy something, and they tag a "3-4 months free" of another service, which you can't opt out of even if you want to, and then suddenly charge you that extra money on the 5th month. You obviously cancel it, but you still overpaid for a month.

> Services that charge you once a year. You forgot to cancel the Xbox subscription because you bought a PS5, got charged a year later. Now you cancel it, but you paid for the year.

> Services that make you use or forgo credits that you already paid for if you cancel. (Audible) You want to cancel, but you put it off for another month because now, you need to figure out 5 ebooks to buy. Next month, you end up in the same situation and now you need to figure out 6 ebooks to buy.

The point being, you could check all your statements weekly, and still end up spending money on something you forgot about.
Nice!

Sorry if I ask this here, but is there any web-based version of VSCode other than VSCode.dev or any open source alternative?

I'm looking for a web-based IDE, something advanced like Project IDX

Is there any?