skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of long piece and yet practically nothing was said relevant to why I use Kagi: it's simply much better than using a Google that's ridiculously left-wing and provides ultra-biased results once you've wasted the time to filter out ads. The ability to raise/lower/block specific sites for future searches in Kagi is also a great feature. Regarding privacy, that is important and they need to be become more transparent about what they're doing in that regard. But it's certain that they're more innocuous than searching with Google.

AI will certainly be important to search. I don't think anybody's integrated it well yet, but not for lack of trying. I hope Kagi makes headway on it.
It is strange. Games have well defined pricing tiers that players and developers have worked out over time. $3 is generally considered somewhere between "trash you buy as a joke" and "a very short game without much in it". Does anyone know if there's any other markets that work like this? I can't think of any.

Games going on sale at launch also makes me assume its just because no one is buying it, but apparently more people buy games at launch if it says they're on sale. I don't get it.
So offer then higher salaries to offset the costs of moving there? What exactly is the problem?
Yep! Well, a branch is created under-the-hood, and you can still check it out locally if you want to - but the standard code contribution workflow doesn't require you to think or work in those terms at all.
No sense worrying about getting kicked out of a sinking ship.
I've said this in other places, but as a _manager_ it's much nicer to work in the office, in person. That gets more true the higher up the management chain you go. Managers spend most of their time in meetings. Meetings suck over video chat. This is the entire reason CEOs (and pretty much everyone between them and line employees) would rather everyone come back to work. It makes their workday more pleasant.
I'm saying that with this kind of use-case, that problem doesn't exist: The prompt is nothing interesting an attacker couldn't already guess, and knowing it provides an attacker no real benefit.

Since the LLM is just helping the user arrange their choices of input, it is no more vulnerable to things like SQL injection than if someone had made a big HTML form.
Nothing? There must be an amazing conspiracy among media outlets to suppress the news of all the labor related heat deaths down here.
Do a postnuptial agreement with conditions exactly like if you divorced today to stop worrying about legal consequences of not divorcing now.
I like it, it's memorable.
> and therefore directly tax the platforms and then redistribute the revenue to a fund created by government for news journalism themselves

Having any government fund news journalism is a bad idea. In any event, you can be certain the revenue will be redistributed to fund the war machine in another country.
> More interesting work
this is genuinely an interesting take. wait but why?

>Better Networking
ok, but the people building companies or developing interesting projects aren't exactly the guy hanging out at the local bar... seems like if you are interested in a niche subject there are pretty clear cut humans to interact with. probably better odds of running into them on hacker news than the local 7-11

> Unless you find one of those unicorns with compensation that's independent of location, your pay will be far lower, even after accounting for cost of living.

I don't buy this argument. 2020 freed everyone except low performers. if you are a low performer they still want you to show up, and with good reason.
Indeed, which is why this real-estate conspiracy is downright bizarre.
I get my metric fasteners from BelMetric [0].

Huge selection including obscure styles and finishes. Nuts, bolts, screws, hardware, etc.

One of the best things about them is that they sell small lots including single screws if that is all you need.

Another great thing is that they ship quickly and if your order is relatively small it arrives in your mailbox instead of needing to be delivered by UPS or another shipper. They ship orders in packages appropriate to the order, unlike Amazon.

They also add products to their inventory if customers need something they don't normally carry.

Prices are also reasonable.

I found them years ago and now they are one of my main suppliers. McMaster Carr is another.

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When you use circular definitions, as you're doing now, you can re-define a word to be whatever is convenient to you. If Christianity is also defined by what Christians do, then what defines a Christian? You have to ground it in a concrete definition at some point, and that definition is: the teachings of Christ. If a Christian acts in a way that is against the teachings of Christ, then that is not Christian behavior, and is not representative of Christianity. That's a pretty simple and unambiguous concept.

Your "No True Scotsman" variant just shows that you don't really grasp this idea. Ironically, what you're doing by making Christianity a grab-bag of bad behavior from people you don't like, instead of grounding it in a clear and unambiguous definition, is a clever perversion of this fallacy.
I loved living in China actually
Stitch is much easier than the advanced levels of this one. I would know having spent quite a few hours on stitch trying to get to top 1000. Also stitch had introduced shikakus at some point.
The thing about executives is... they don't need evidence, they can operate on feelings. And there's certanly enough of overemployed people around to have managers convinced its a problem.
I have heard rumors (yes, completely lacking proof) that some major banks with huge commercial loan portfolios are using those loans as leverage to coerce companies into loudly demanding return to office. That's actually pretty easy to believe, because they'd really be hurting if commercial real estate values were to plummet.
>Yet nobody really uses fentanyl, meth, etc, without their life and home situation falling apart. Thus the idea of hard-drug users doing so in the privacy of their own home feels a bit unrealistic.

Equally, the notion of "just stop doing it because it's banned" clearly, empirically does not work. It is and will forever be easy to score drugs.

Prohibition is a money burning pit, funneling money to organizations that are built to torment the lower classes that use substances while everyone here knows that the wealthy don't ever have to follow the same rules.

Even the proponents of prohibition agree with me. Maybe look in to the real reason prohibition even exists as a """solution""". Here's a quote for you:

"We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
- Nixon's aide John Ehrlichman

>Mental health care / services are among the worst here, and there are insufficient treatment centers and methods of enforcement, on top of the general lack of quality execution plans the local gov't has demonstrated as of late. The complete lack of any enforcement has led to predictable droves of addicts wondering the streets.

Yeah, because as you note it was a half measure where a full one was needed.

Generally I agree with the notion that hard drug use is not tenable with being functional in society, we just disagree on the solution.

As you note, mental health care, rehab, treatment facilities all need to be revamped. This is not a problem solved by prohibition.

We need to tackle inequality and a large majority of the suffering that leads to serious drug use is fixed, way up stream of the users.

We have worse than gilded age inequality. 3 people own more wealth than half the US combined. Maybe if so many weren't forced to work or starve, there would be reduced demand for unhealthy coping mechanisms like we both probably agree harder drugs generally are.

My whole point is best demonstrated by one throwaway line in the wire, "you think i sleep under a fucking bridge sober?"

Poverty is the real issue here. Not drugs. It never was drugs.
I hate to be the guy who says "you're holding it wrong", but complaints like this usually indicate that a company is trying to manage their remote work the same way they did in the office, with no adjustments. Some specifics:

> People often don't perceive you as an actual human if you've only ever been a video square to them.

My remote company does regular on-sites and off-sites, which for me strikes a perfect balance between not having to deal with the headaches of an office (mostly commute and open floor plan) while still having time to meet my coworkers face-to-face.

> quick collaboration just doesn't happen anymore, or happens in a much slower and more frustrating way on Slack

Slack's huddle feature is great for the times where you need to quickly drop into collaboration mode with someone. Doing that occasionally and then structuring your work to be more parallel works very well in my experience.

> Juniors especially struggle and I watch them take many times longer to ramp up than pre-pandemic.

This is one that I actually have seen, even in my current org. I think the root of it is that going remote revealed just how much time senior engineers spend mentoring juniors by requiring that that time be scheduled. The most successful junior onboarding I've seen is when people make a conscious effort to schedule in lots of time for mentoring and training and to ensure that there's a space where juniors can get feedback quickly on Slack.

It's not that you need more time than you'd otherwise need, it's that you have to be intentional about creating the learning spaces, which doesn't come naturally to many organizations.
Money is what causes Brian damage
In that case I don't understand why the author didn't go for uuidv7? It seems like existing tooling (both in database and outside) deals with it better, it seems like there are no downsides unless you expect your identifiers to be generated past 4147 but don't care if they are generated past 10889 (I'd love to hear that use-case, seems like it must be interesting).
I am convinced it won’t be human curated but AI curated.

All information well organized without ads and junk. Like a super glorified Wikipedia with excellent search to dig exactly what you want.
It's in the top tier of options available... but there are a lot of contenders for "top tier" so I guess that's just, like, my opinion, though State of JS has ranked it in the top 2-3 frontend libraries for satisfaction for the last 2 or 3 years I believe
More people use these things as coercive tactics than effective communication.
I’ve been WFH for over a decade, but still make effort to meet up with colleagues across the country and indeed world on a regular basis.

Pre covid I would be able to doorstep them, book a trip to Glasgow or london or singapore or whatever and catch up with all number of people reliably with just a quick “you free for coffee” message.

Since covid it needs effort on both sides to be at the same location. It’s not impossible, but it does need people to appreciate the benefits of meeting physically and make it happen.
I did something very similar with https://github.com/kellpossible/avalanche-report/ we started with Google Sheets because it allowed us to quickly iterate with data entry workflow. When paired with a server this also allowed us to generate custom charts/diagrams via the IMAGE function with a crafted URL query. Reads are cached in a local sqlite database.

We're in the process of migrating away from Google Sheets now as it's a little painful to set up and it's impossible to completely prevent users from editing the wrong fields in our use case. But it has served very well so far and would highly recommend this approach to start with for anyone!
I don't think this is about fixing the underlying issue.

If you cancel debt and effectively put money into the hands of people with college degrees, theoretically, they will spend it on more intelligent things.

Or at least have a burden off their shoulders so that they can focus their careers.
Managers and execs ought to already know that not everyone else is an exec, and don’t have the same face-to-face requirements, and do actually need time to do the “productivity” that nets execs their fat pay checks.
Meetings tend to be some the least productive activities, especially when everything "discussed" could have been sent out as an email (which can be read remotely).
The clutter has it’s own charm
Then they aren't defeated enough yet. Hybrid is fine for the people who want hybrid working, but fully remote still needs to be an option for people who want to be fully remote.
"Hybrid" is such a scam. What does it even mean? You come in to work 3-4 days a week? Cool, that's called "working from the office". If I still have to live in the same city/region as the office building and still have to commute most days of the week then what have they changed exactly?

Most tech workers I know would do random WFH days when they needed to without a problem pre-Covid, and now that is just branded as "hybrid" and sold as a perk. Give me a break.
Ubuntu 24.04 (and Debian) removed libsystemd from SSH server dependencies
As per the well known XZ-utils backdoor, we decided to take a step further and drop libsystemd dependency altogether by implementing the missing bits with few small patches (one upstream, the other to be forwarded).
We are not being protected from gambling these days. We are being goaded into it.
How those cross-geo projects manage to do it then?

or OSS like Linux?
I think the tortured prose comes from an effort to acknowledge 1984 isn't a conventional "good novel" but still avoid saying that Orwell's popularity comes because his writing has a lot of relevance because the modern world can certainly seem "Orwellian".

This quote gives an idea how much the author discounts the validity Orwell's political insight: The meeting had been ominous to Orwell: It placed in his head the idea of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin divvying up the postwar world, leading to a global triopoly of super-states. The man can be forgiven for pouring every ounce of his grief, self-pity, paranoia (literary lore had it that he thought Stalin might have an ice pick with his name on it), and embittered egoism into the predicament of his latest protagonist, Winston Smith.
If you’re using Google sheets then yeah you’ll have to do a normal oauth flow. Alternatively you could use excel and write a simple macro to automate the flow. The easiest thing IMO would be to skip the complicated part of the script (auth) and just copy and paste the values from the clipboard and process the data accordingly.
Engineering Analysis of the Russian T34/85 TANK(Sanitized)
What? No, it's that the comments are now on the side, and that there's a bunch of video thumbnails where the comments used to be
...helping people seems like a good thing?
It makes it bearable to live more cheaply in the suburbs and make the long drive to downtown only a couple times a week. Live in MCOL suburb and work a couple days in HCOL city seems like a fair compromise to me.
Maybe whining about on-call would be OK ;)

The insane hours are actually counterproductive, but many people view them as a badge of honor. It's an odd metric to compete on (I can work more hours for the same pay!), and yet the competition is definitely there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libby_Zion_Law was enacted only after the daughter of a somewhat famous author died due to an egregious medical error made by severely sleep deprived residents. One has to wonder how many less famous people and their relatives have died prior to that, and what exactly is the benefit of having exhausted doctors running the show. And yet after the law was enacted many hospitals figured out workarounds to keep residents working insane hours (usually by requiring paperwork to be done after hours, unofficially), and many supported the insanity as a necessary rite of passage.
I can’t remember, but didn’t it require the Android Google One app to do VPN on Chromebooks? I remember it being hard to setup, but perhaps I’m misremembering my journey through dodgy VPN clients.
So crazy people just accept ads
Wasn't Vampire Survivors originally 2.99? I just checked, it's 4.99 now but I think it was cheaper in the beginnings.

The point is, 2.99 is a "no think" price tag, while 9.99 is a "wishlist and consider when discounted" price tag.

Bu that's only my tl;dr of this blog post: https://howtomarketagame.com/2022/01/31/vampire-survivors-su...
No it's not a strawman argument. You are missing the point. The article is about a whistleblower reporting criminal negligence at Boeing. It is not a statistical report. Statistics are irrelevant here. However if you want some recent Boeing stats then look at the 737 Max. Two complete losses within two years of its introduction. You must have been living in a cave to not hear about that.

From the article.

"In a virtual meeting with reporters, Salehpour said Boeing was so eager to meet its production goals that it took "shortcuts" when it fastened together the carbon-composite fuselage of the 787. That could dramatically shorten the life of the plane, he warned, potentially causing it to break apart in mid-flight."
I've never fully understood how custom servers work. These efforts impress the heck out of me. It seems like soooo much logic exists only on the server side, right?

Where is all the logic for enemy spawning, their AI, complex raid encounters, etc? I poked around the repo a bit but couldn't find it. Where's all the gameplay code and logic?
> A driven man.

I've had beers with the homeless and with billionaires, and I've slept rough and lived in five stars.

But compared to Blair, I've only ever been a tourist; whether posh or tramp, he committed.

At least he didn't go as far as cup-less Diogenes, in his tub.
They behave differently behind screens, yes, but I would not say the negatives outweigh the positives. I have worked, and worked with, tons of people in both scenarios. Some of the best colleagues I never/rarely saw in person. Some of the worst were around all the time.
Sorry, I had to read your comment a couple of times.

If you're saying it's just a case of risk vs reward then I agree. But that's what you're meant to do when you negotiate a deal: keep actual risks low and make perceived risks high. That's how you maximise your reward.
As a former CS teacher the real barrier is finding qualified teachers. Most schools, even international schools which pay significantly better, seem to have math or science teachers with little or no coding experience filling the role.
Remember when people liked redesigns. Now the default is anger, then acceptance, then anger when it changes again.
We have too many "particles" already. They keep coming up with these new-fangled ideas because they can't admit that the Standard Model is crap and needs to be scrapped. These so-called particles are all just manifestations of the same thing. Just need to figure out what the thing is. Also, the article is thick with "mad scientist speak". Is it not possible to explain it in English?
Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu
How do you use syncthing for Nix builds? Do you sync your Nix code and have something watch the Nix code and rebuild in the background?
Did you read the article? Have you used youtube in the past couple of days?

The change that has people upset isn't border radius. Rather than having the comments below the video and suggestions on the right, the suggested other videos are now below the video you are watching, and the comments are in the narrow slot on the right side of the screen, making it more difficult to read/scan comments.

My guess is by giving suggested other videos the prime real estate, it will cause the user to watch more videos and thus more ads. Reading and creating comments doesn't directly generate revenue. This could backfire because people who enjoy reading/writing comments may come back less frequently or stay less time because they enjoy the site less. It feels less like an ad hoc community and more of what it really is: an ad delivery service.

As someone who pays for ad-free youtube, I resent that not only do I still need to sit through or navigate through in-video ads, but now I find the experience of reading other people's comments and sharing my own more difficult.
A tangent but Lacan just distinguished Autre and autre (Other and other), but more recent philosophers in English (especially Zizek) popularized the more pronounceable distinction between the big and the little other.

To be fair though, “l’objet petit a” does occur in Lacan, though, so he wasn’t above the “big”/“little” terminology himself
Yep, the great WFH revolution didn't seem to have happened. Also somehow the explosion of prodictivity of WFH-only companies didn't happen either.
It has a pretty active subreddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/
Privacy for me but none for thee?
It's amazing how many people in this thread are saying "it's not X, it's this one single issue Y."

This is a complex, multifaceted issue that doesn't have one root cause or solution. Claiming otherwise shows extreme inexperience or lack of imagination.
I have a feeling that the ability to say “no” may be one of the key abilities that good human developers have over coding AIs. Knowing how to figure out the actual business need and realistic technical solutions, as opposed to just saying “yes” to the initial request, without really understanding feasibility or the real requirements.
Surely you jest. Coasting and resting-and-vesting have been around longer than most of the people reading this site have been alive. That some influencers and hack journalists rebranded it to quiet quitting and marketed it as the trendy thing to do does not remotely make it a new phenomenon.
I went from an HP 95LX to a Palm m505. The 95LX could, in theory, do more, but I got more out of the m505 because of the tap interface (rather than typing commands) and the smaller slate form factor (more portable, less clumsy, not a clamshell). I still used the 95LX for certain specific tasks but the m505 was there when I needed it and didn't feel like a burden.
QR codes must have Mandarin beat
Wurster? Wurstest .
Ferret-v2: An Improved Baseline for Referring and Grounding with LLMs
And you got this.... from a blog post? Or podcast? I forget.

Care to link to any actual studies on this?
Disagree. If you agree, buy it and leave a review.
They might have been right actually: if you’re paying 1/5th the salary and getting 1/5th the value added per hour in exchange, there is no net effect on productivity. Only half kidding - most people don’t realize that productivity is measured in dollars of value added per dollar spent on labor.
Maybe I should post some photos of my visit to an abandoned children's camp, complete with abandoned photo albums of children's parties in the 80s.
Don’t need a new client to put Thrall on the throne in Stormwind.

If they can do events like Battle of Undercity, or that event where you bring in Onyxias head, I bet you could script a cool assault on Stormwind and put Thrall on the throne.

Hang some Horde banners in the walls.

What they probably can’t do is the whole phasing thing and keep him there.

March on Stormwind would be epic.