skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP's line of thought is pretty clear with the other line:

"bidding for candidates against their other options"

Then he goes on about projects having negative value and also paying employees until value is delivered.

His model is to exploit every possible loophole to make it all work and shift the most risk from management to employee.

Yes, assuming it's all legal (which it often isn't, pushing the limits like this)

Where should the line be drawn ? Pay based on what car I drive because it's less|more expensive ? What school my kids go to ?

I'm almost waiting for salary adjustments base on diet! Hell why not, veggies 'are less|more expensive'?
I can understand the sentiment. It's not necessarily something against independent developers, it's anger about a problem that shouldn't happen in the first place to a device this expensive.

Windows had a similar problem with its notifications tray growing to unreasonable size, and they fixed that back in Windows Vista, after applying some auto-hiding algorithm in versions before that. Apple missing this problem or not being able to come up with a solution is simply not believable, this has to be the result of them simply not caring or refusing to address the issue for stylistic reasons.

I'm sure Bartender is great software (even without the notch problem, from what I can tell!) but Apple is the one forcing their users to pay extra for their stupid design decisions. $16 to fix a problem other operating systems fixed almost twenty years ago is a steep price to pay when you're expecting a quality laptop.
Try them yourself.

Ask the samy question is several chatbots, and disqualify the bad ones.
The failure in this analogy is that it's not the baker tossing away the cupcakes, it's a tax accountant in the background.

A baker creates a batch of cupcakes. They're about to sell this batch to a customer, but then the tax accountant comes in and tells them to toss the batch because the customer might not like them. So the batch gets binned, despite neither the customer or the tax accountant having tasted any cupcakes.

Then they write that off as a business expense.
The Homermobile of phones?

https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Homer

Do you also want a phone with a hardware keyboard and a dedicated push to talk button?
Yeah, that's what I mean. Typically they pick a number that averages out. But the law says they must show the exact amount. And that varies from one card to another
I’m really surprised by this data. In Poland, it’s around 2000 kWh/year, which is 6kWh/day - 5 times less!
I don't really see myself using this app but I loved textual and even used it for a PoC a while back.

I appreciate the work you are doing by dogfooding textual and how consistent you (or your team, I didn't know there was more than one person behind it) have been.

I just wanted to say thanks so yeah, Thanks!
Astronomer's lament: Satellite megaconstellations are ruining space exploration
Bill Gates reveals 1997 incident that decided his life post-retirement
You’re right on that last point: Reader was nice for the community scale but most of the feed readers I’ve used have more and better features – Google never treated Reader better than the proverbial red-headed stepchild and it was on life support for years before the end.

I would reframe that “never forget” advice to something along the lines of “never forget that corporations do not care about you” – Google had a reputation for being different and a lot of us believed that to some extent; sacrificing Reader trying to make people use Google+ was a watershed moment when a lot of people had to accept that their loyalty wasn’t reciprocated.
The “success” of Framework? By what metric are you defining success?
Billions stolen in wage theft from US workers
Well train tickets back and forth were ~100€ in total and an AirBnB for two nights was also ~100€, so I just paid for it myself.

The conference itself is free (as in Beer).
I’ve heard Kabul is one of the gayest places in the world. The presumption is you are gay until proven otherwise.

Not the same thing as being LGBTQ+ friendly. Torture and executions is pretty LGBTQ+ hostile.

But interesting how extreme homophobia and widespread homosexuality coexist.
You don't need to log out / in after trying this. You can instead restart the service that runs the menu bar.

killall -KILL SystemUIServer
> There used to be something of a market for "professional token Westerner" in Chinese events. I've no idea if that's still a thing.

About ten years ago, my wife and I visited China (with private guides). We were in a medium-sized town -- don't remember which, but might have been the one with the panda preserve. We had lunch scheduled at a local restaurant in town.

The restaurant was on the second floor. As the elevator went up, we heard a thumping sound like a bass drum. The elevator opened and we were in the middle of the start of an elaborate wedding. It seems that the restaurant was booked for this wedding, but we still had seats off to the side.

It was just coincidence that we got there just as things were getting started. As we made our way around the outside of the room, we happened to pass the bridal party.

As we were passing, the bride-to-be stopped us an graciously thanked us for coming to her wedding (in English) and said they were honored to have us.

It was very surreal. The wedding itself was like a mini rock concert with many people on stage at various times -- including (I remember) two women in white dresses rocking out on electric violins.
> Meta’s impending amendments will majorly affect how Instagram suggests content, but curiously, they will not tamper with posts by accounts that users are already following. This implies that posts by non-recommendable accounts – including those of political nature such as election news or social issues – will continue to be visible to their followers through various channels like Feed and Stories.

> However, these will not be proactively recommended to users who do not follow the accounts, suppressing the growth of political accounts on the platform.

Uh, this sounds great to me?

Frankly, this sounds like something the vast majority of users want
Changes to storage offerings across Microsoft 365 Education
Microsoft is limiting educational users to 100 GB of OneDrive storage, effective February 1, 2024.
> Islamic Studies

Not that different a subject. A different focus traditionally, but still related to a monotheistic religion.

> Business

Definitely very different, especially in ethos.

> There is still a number of Oxford "halls" devoted to Divinity, but the number of students and fellows engaged in that kind of work is tiny.

and I believe the powers that be at the university would like to get rid of them?
30% or more of the cost goes directly to Apple, so there are some perverse incentives at play with such unofficial fixes.
Ask HN: Advice for a tech / software / data science trainee?
I am (finally) starting a new Data Science course this week. For context, I have two decades of experience in marketing and sales in IT and SaaS companies but I have never coded (except a couple of hello world programs). After being laid off and some self-reflection, I decided to move careers to data science and analytics -- so I will learn Python, Tableau, and SQL for the next 6-7 months.

I visit HN at least 2-3 times a day even though I am not a hacker. So, I turn to all tech experts at HN: Is there anything you would like to advise me on or share your experience:

- how to learn tech effectively and if possible quickly?

- tips related to research, problem-solving, etc.

- how to overcome self-doubts and related issues (from folks who have switched careers in 40s)?

- how to approach the job market (would you hire someone who has worked in business roles but is new to data science or python?)?

- any project work I can take upon to build a portfolio?

- overcoming internal distractions.

PS: Education-wise, I have a STEM post-grad degree from Asia but started my career in digital media. I love reading about tech, science, economics, etc.

I thank you in advance for your guidance and help.
> Speakers usually sit on the sides or back of our devices. The sound is supposed to be coming from the image that our eyes see on the screen, but our ears know it’s coming from somewhere else.

Then put the speakers on the front. Of course rear or side-firing speakers are going to sound like crap. This is a totally self-inflicted problem and could be solved by just having front-firing speakers like some phones still do. The ghost centre channel should be fine for smartphones. It's not like you have several people watching a single phone complaining that the ghost centre channel is 2 inches too far to the left/right...
It’s like love. You fall in love, you fall in love with God. The rest is just garbled mumbling to yourself and others. And like love, it is your experience of it and your view of your beloved that matters, who cares what others think. This is how it is with actual belief. You experience something that shatters the illusion. Once that happens, you belong to God bothered people. And yes, those who have never experienced love also think love is “just chemical processes in the body”. But it’s not, otherwise they’d bottle that chemical process and make a zillion selling it. (They try with drugs but is just ain’t the same thing, you know?)
Well, someone wants these features enough that many will soon be mandatory.

USB port = Mandated in the EU by end of 2024.
Replaceable battery = Mandated in EU by 2027.
Dual sim cards = common in the global south.
Headphone jack = wanted by everyone not a youtube influencer.

Compromise: I'll accept TWO USB-C ports in exchange for the headphone jack. Usb to 3.5mm adapter wires cost maybe 6$ on amazon.
Zigbee and Z-Wave are the best part of my smart home
Motorola G-series. Not all of these, but still.
You mean, actual engineering.
We’re having 2 different conversations.

I’m talking about adapting to new phones, you’re talking about why headphone jacks are good.
Key part of GP's comment:

> It's going into a protective case anyway.

With that in mind, it seems it's not really customers that want ever thinner, ever more sealed and port-free phones. The very first purchase they make after buying a new phone already defeats the purported benefits of those design choices.

I maintain this market is supplier-driven, and customer preferences have near-zero bearing on how phones look like today.
> As such, an FGPA emulator isn't necessarily any closer to the original hardware behaviour than a software emulator. I guess the main advantage of FGPA is better performance on lower cost hardware.

The price of the majority of FPGA chips are really expensive compared even against cheap (yet still way more powerful) SoCs (like really cheap ARM CPUs that are used in sub $100 handheld emulators). Also, technically a FPGA based emulator could be more efficient compared emulating everything in software, but AFAIK even Analog Pocket is not really that better in battery life compared to say a Miyoo Mini + (maybe because a ARM SoC have better energy management, but I don't know).

I think really the main hype of FPGA is lower input latency, that is really difficult to archive with software emulation. There are still some tricks you can do in software that reduces the input latency significantly, but they generally are expensive to compute [1], so it wouldn't be feasible to be done in a cheap handheld device (at least yet).

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/04/better-than-reality-n...
There probably is a society where there are "not enough kids", but it certainly does not come remotely close to current one with over 8 billion humans scraping for resources.
You probably also work in IT and might even now what binary is not to mention what boolean means.
Looks like a reverse accelerator. Entrepreneur pays instead of getting paid.
> Give me a phone with a proper usb port, a couple sim cards, an SD slot, a replaceable battery and a headphone jack

without the proper usb port ("only" type C), LG had a number of phones ticking all those boxes (while being good phones, good cameras, good screens, the whole thing). They sold so poorly LG left the market.
In my view, having children without being prepared for them is the most hedonistic thing one can do - creating people for your own reasons without a clear way of supporting them.

As someone without children, I find it strange that I'm perceived as living some hedonistic lifestyle. There are indeed material concerns when it comes to the idea of children, but they tend more towards maintaining housing and especially for me who has some medical needs, health insurance. I'm certainly not traveling all the time or living it up with a fancy brunch every weekend; I'm actually quite happy with a modest living arrangement and diet, but even that seems to get more expensive as time goes on, and my job tenures get shorter as the layoffs come quicker.

You don't feel like you've missed out on much since having children and I think that's a great attitude; I don't feel like I've missed out on much since not having children. We can both be correct in this because we are each our own people with our own wants.
I find the notch the be an utterly horrible design choice. Like the iPhone notch, it seems like a major step back in aesthetic. I found both too distracting for comfort.
>Sagrada Familia was started in 1882, and Gaudi is dead for 98 years.

and you can clearly see which part was done by which architect, as it's style, and structure shifts. Is the same vision of Gaudi still present in more modern parts of it?

(personally i think no, after seeing on vacation)
For a woman (with a working utero) to have a baby, all that is needed is ONE man willing to have unprotected sex with her. Those are not hard to find, especially if she's willing to lie about whether she's on the pill.

A man will generally only become a father if he finds a woman that WANTS to have children with him. If he's unattractive, chances are she will select someone else. Many women will prefer even married men over an unattractive, low status one.
No, the specific reasoning people are mentioning here over and over again is that we, as a people, should not subsidize businesses lighting their property on fire.

If they want to completely toss out the movie then they can. But it's insane to think the government should pay them for doing so because they say it has no value.
In electronic music instruments (which derived interfaces from electronics lab equipment) it's quite intuitive there's a switch with a light on next to it the next state is off and the light switches off.
Horror of pairing? You mean you don’t just open your case, click a button on one of your devices and it’s not automatically paired to all of your devices connected to your login?
The USA includes many places where air conditioning uses electricity, and some places where heating uses electricity.

They also have huge and inefficient appliances, but that's probably a smaller impact on the figures.
There is scarcity of scarcity, which leads to this madness. People didn't use to have a particular problem thinking at least a generation ahead, but there us no demand for such things. There is no way to make too much money on any established product. Anything that has existed for more than several years is available in vast amount, and cheap. Anything that isn't completely new is good enough to the point where only an insignificant improvement can be made at monumenta costs.

What is desirable now are things like a fidget spinner, that makes some quick cash, and gets forgotten soon after.
> A light also has the advantage of being a skeuomorph

Unless you’re my TV and it’s completely backwards for some reason.
Yes, you're right. I need to tone down. My statement was neutral and with arguments that underpin what I'm stating. You didn't participate in the discussion the same way, except pointing out that it's for you but not for me, it's a compelling strategy and that I can't comprehend..
I can, as you're able to see in my brought arguments.
And of course, each one is free to reflect my points or not and also each one is free where he chooses to work, as long the work is done. Ay, peace!
>And then again... maybe we take having kids too seriously? I really can't say having missed out on much since having kids (and no, we have no nanny). We simply did the stuff people "fear".

I'd commend you for that. Not helicopter parenting is the way to go.
I don't think the concern was the technical content, which was enlightening.
ETW Traces are the gold standard for most uses IMO - https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/etw-central/.

For architecture specific profiling, Vtune is still pretty good though.
Not disagreeing with what you wrote above....

However, some of the spaces created for the legal live-in helpers [I've seen in Hong Kong and Singapore] would be considered substandard in the US. I'm talking closet size rooms with no windows big enough for a single bed and a few shelves.

If the US would allow this domestic help and possibly the same rooms, child care would be much easier.
I often use my Bluetooth headphones when my phone is charging, often in the next room. ;)
TfL's AI Tube Station experiment is amazing and slightly terrifying
AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source
And of course some lunatics will go and find a way to have fun in them! Here's a sea kayaker at Penrhyn Mawr off Anglesey in Wales.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5o7qV1Gy04
The Death Star illustrates a problem with long term thinking: that goals become obsolete too fast. The thing in A New Hope was a gigantic waste of resources.

Freeman Dyson famously commented that no project should be planned that takes longer than five years. Anything beyond that and the ground shifts out from under the foundations of the effort. One ends up with efforts that persist not because they are useful, but because they are established, because there is an entrenched constituency for the consumption of resources the project entails.
> As opposed to the perceptual dissonance of seeing a person inside a small rectangle we can hold in our hands?…

I don’t think it makes to frame this as “opposed” to any of the other factors you’re mentioning. This is setting up a false dichotomy.

Having experienced “Spatial Audio”, there is a clear benefit to a sound system that more closely mimics the expectations of our brain’s auditory processing. More than just the sound itself, there’s a certain kind of “presence” or “thereness” that you can experience as a viewer that isn’t possible with traditional speakers, and it can transform certain kinds of content. The person (or whatever you’re watching) is indeed still shown on a piece of glass, but the experience of that can be improved significantly. If a speaker-in-the-screen can achieve something similar, that’s compelling.

I don’t see the relevance of the bus scenario, where externally broadcast audio is never the right choice.

The phone you describe sounds terrible to me (I’d like the headphone jack back but the battery is a tradeoff) but that’s because you and I have different preferences and priorities. And there’s nothing preventing all of the above from being integrated into a device should there be a market for it. And phones aren’t the only devices that can benefit.
This tripped me up hardcore at work recently, because I was trying to SSH into a VM using a non-standard port, but the port-forwarding went from the non-standard port into the usual 22 on the VM. So when I got "Connection Refused" on port 22, I thought that meant the connection was getting through the NAT layer but then failing at the VM for some reason.

NOPE I'd just specified the option wrong!
Exactly, Duolingo got rid of a bunch of people. It happened.

On the other hand, they won the Super Bowl with a push notification timed to their TV commercial.
Thanks @jeroenhd for giving me the benefit of doubt and explaining it even better than I could! My intention was definitely not to bash bartender and I need to select my words more carefully in the future.

It was just the only solution I knew before yesterday for a such a simple stupid design flaw from Apple. I have nothing against Bartender or its developers. I just wish I wouldn't need to install 3rd party software to fix Apple's issues.
Neat and really, really comprehensive article. Now I miss not having attended.

I attended for the first (and only so far) time back in 2020, right before COVID, and took some notes as well (https://jmmv.dev/2020/02/fosdem-navigation-101.html). A lot of the advice I wrote matches what the author shares here, so I'd say the article resonated with me :)

Definitely a fun place to attend. If you do open source once in a while, it's invigorating to visit!
I think this was tried before and bombed in real life applications because touch or even any sort of site tension would instantly muffle the sound--but I can't remember where I saw it.
It always seemed backwards to me, since a circle should represent a closed circuit
> the Roman Empire lasted about 200 years.

The Roman Empire lasted about 500 years - from 31 BC to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476. If we include the period of existence of the Eastern Roman Empire it would be almost 1500 years - until the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
> So all the people who say they want a phone like that are lying?

They are not lying. Just there aren't enough of them to make such a phone worth producing.
Come for Syntax, Stay for Speed, and Understand Bugs in Julia Programs
The Julia programming language is of increasing interest to scientific software developers. Understanding the types of bugs observed in Julia programs can help developers identify, repair, or avoid them.
> But that doesn't mean that people who have kids are necessarily increasing the pool of people who want kids, percentage-wise.

Yeah I imagine that large families tend to result in adults who are themselves likely to have more kids than average, but things can certainly shift. Among my extended family, for example: my grandmother was one of 11 kids, my mom was one of 7, my aunts and uncles largely had 3-4, and my cousins mostly have 2-3. This is a tight-knit crowd, with a strongly pro-family culture (Catholicism), living in proximity with regular get-togethers, neighboring lake cottages etc, but clearly not immune to broader trends.
You can't have your cake and eat it. If you want to use copyright protection, you should only be able to do so after making your work public.

If you then destroy your original work or refuse to let other people use it on reasonable terms, you can't sue people for copyright infringement when they use it.

> Would same logic also apply to a patents of a company that creates 10 different prototype engine designs, and decides to only bring one of them to market?

I think you shouldn't be able to use patent protection unless you also make your design available on the market for a reasonable fee.
You can purchase directly on their website or via Setapp. So, I would count this as an argument.
OK, the two hardest things in CS are naming things, off-by-one errors, cache invalidation, and synchronisation...and consensus...

I'll come in again.
Pissing off hairshirt environmentalists is always worth it on principle. A bunch of their policies are more about annoying humans than being more ecological.

eg. hyper efficient slow as molasses dishwashers are such a pain to use they prompt people to hand wash instead of using a dishwasher, which uses noticeably more water than somewhat more wasteful, but fast and effective dishwashers do. The EPA doesn't care.
EDIT: I tried this out and at least it didn't work for me. The whitespace did change a bit after running your command but not as much as happens when I log out and log in.
> "will too much carbon be subducted for photosynthesis to continue?"

Great, you gave me a new fear. :)