skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know of some folks that are dealing with mental health challenges. They are all dirt poor, on SSI/Medicaid, and terrified of losing these.
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> As a result, they don't try to get jobs, or advance themselves, socially. They don't take risks. Their therapists tend to encourage this stance.
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> I can't, with sincerity, say that they are all wrong, but I'll bet some of them are. If they pushed themselves, they could probably break free of their chains. But some of the others, would just break. I am not qualified to know which is which. I do my best to support them, and keep my opinions to myself.

I am one of those people. I tried. It was a bad idea.

I am neurodivergent with mental health issues and started working again in 2022 as a developer after having been on disability for about 15 years. A friend of mine has given me a referral to a place he worked, and I had a mid-level development position at a startup that involved a lot of teaching bootcamp grads how to do stuff - that part of my work especially was a great fit. Then the economy tightened up and I got laid off - and there was just no work to be found.

I had worked exactly 11 days past the trial work grace period (thanks, former employer), so I'm in a weird situation where I'm able to draw benefits for a couple of years but I'll have to reapply for disability in a few months. Had I worked 11 days less, I'd still have benefits like nothing had ever happened - and had I worked into December of that year I'd have nothing at all.

The part no one tells you about any of this is that you are going to be reliant on referrals for work for the rest of your life because the gap in your work history makes you absolutely toxic to any sort of HR department permanently. And if the job market dries up like it has, where you're just another mid-level dev in a sea of thousands, that gap in your work history is going to render you absolutely unemployable. I have no idea what that gap in my work history has to do with my skill as a software engineer (aside from the fact that I have had lots of time to practice), but it makes me radioactive.

My life is currently hinging on whether or not my reapplication goes through. If it doesn't... I really don't know what I'm going to do. Getting a job in my field is clearly not an option anymore, and there isn't much other work I'm really all that able to do.

All I can do to get through my days is to try very hard not to think about that. It's grim and it sucks and I really don't anticipate this ending well for me, but I'm trying to stay hopeful.
In my opinion, the issue is that the user's definition of "best results" and Google's definition do not align, including the Search team. Google's incentives are very different than user's needs.
> Doesn't it seem like in < 10 years there will be dozens of autonomous, affordable home-robots?

Yes, and maybe we can even put them in the driver seat of a car ;)
A Glass Slipper is a Bad Way to Find Cinderella
Google is extremely good if you search for a product they can advertise to you. I've recently wanted to buy lost sunglasses. Just selected them from the photo and google found exactly brand and model, with a link to the store.

If there are no sponsored links - the result is crap.

Google is good at searching, they just have no incentive to show you results.
https://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2017/09/the-proble...
I think it’s what is the natural consequence of handing over management to MBA types. They can’t create new things. I don’t mean that they should be programmers, engineers or whatever they’re working with. I mean that they can only exact value from something that already exists. Which is always going to be a short term strategy because the only way to do that is to make “the it” worse.

I’m not sure Facebook fits in considering they at least managed to get some other products along the way, and may get more.

I certainly don’t think Google fits the bill. Google is failing because they let their cash cow ruin everything else, not because they let it stagnate while they chased the next moonshot. Google Cloud could have easily been competitive with AWS and Azure in European Enterprise, but it’s not even considered an option because Google Advertising wouldn’t let it exist without data harvesting. Google had Office365 long before Microsoft took every organisation online. But Google failed to sell it because… well…

It’s very typical MBA though. Google has killed profitable products because those products weren’t growing enough. A silly metric really, but one which isn’t surprising when your CEO is a former McKinsey.

It couldn’t happen to a nicer company though, and at least it won’t kill people unlike Boeing.
ublock origin in my browsers, Adguard home in my OpenWRT router, setup to block various chinese cloud providers, facebook and other unwanted 'malware'.
My thoughts are a few:

There is a lot of undone labor in the world. In developing countries the middle class has drivers, cooks, housekeepers. That’s only possible due to inequality. With automation we can all get that.

These people with tons of help by and large live fulfilled lives. You find fulfillment in family, friendships, and non necessary creation (art, research, etc); whatever makes you happy.

But most of all, the Industrial Revolution made people think we’d all be idle and nothing can be further from those predictions. Many more people, and many more jobs, and most of the world still lives in relative poverty and various forms of insecurity and unmet material and labor needs.

Finally there are a lot of problems we have (thousands of health conditions, the environment, autocrats) that will prob take centuries to tackle even with ai, robotics, and being freed up from menial labor.
In real life you both can't afford having reputation risk and you need to ship anyway. If you have an incident, guess who's going to be liable – the manager or the name on the commit?

Stop negotiating quality; negotiate scope and set a realistic time. Shipping a lot of crap faster is actually slower. 99% of the companies out there can't focus on doing _one_ thing _well_, that's how you beat the odds.
100% - amazing this crap get released when "Add to Dock" is far better - zoom, copy/paste, search, font size - all works just like in normal browser.

Amazingly both implementations burn 100% CPU when rendering text, which is just bonkers.

Claude's web app crashes after few days and uses 30% on idle.
Yeah, I think trying to make games work on Windows 3.1 to 9x was a very formative experience for just a narrow slice of Millenials. I've seen the definition of Millenials span all the way up to 2000 births, and I'm pretty sure the games "just worked" for a kid born in 2000.

To be fair, I've wondered if people in previous generations feel the same way. Like was the coming-of-age experience of an older Boomer, who was a teenager in 1960, much different from that of a teenager in 1980? I don't know.
That requires user to accept permissions (which lately macos giving so many popups made me fatigued and accept everything)
The recommendation is to use an empty "Disallow:" rule rather than a catch all "Allow:" rule.

Otherwise that is the canonical minimal example.
I could make up judicial cases and sanctions galore.. It's the reason why wto exists.

Huawei is neither sanctioned by wto nor Europe (till 2029) or any other part of the world
She might be doing some OpenCV/MedaPipe gesture tracking? There's lots of tutorials out there and it's not super difficult to get some basic gesture tracking going on your laptop.
If you run adguard home with long blocklists on a consumer-level router, this will cause big delays, simply because the blocklists are large and eat all available memory and lots of processing on any dns request.

I've kept de blocklists in adguard home small, and then it works fine, but if I add hundreds of thousands of blocked domains, it gets painfully slow on my Edgerouter X running OpenWRT
Almost all of that can be done offline. Pen and paper still exist. Example 1 is more difficult without a phone of your own, I was able to use a pay phone back in the day. Everything else you listed can be accomplished offline, on a computer, or by asking to use the school's phone for 1 minute. I mean, if the accident happened at school, the office may very well contact you themselves.

Yes, it can be more convenient but it absolutely isn't necessary.
Purchasing one has been illegal since 1863, but the technology typically used is a human assistant, although the signal is usually more subtle.
We think a lot about how to structure our privacy policies so that it's not overwhelming, and is understandable.

In instances where it makes sense, we explicitly put the opt-in privacy choices right when that choice is necessary. For example, members have to opt-in (and coaches... double-opt in) before every single session if they want a summary to be generated after the call. We chose this route even though many of our members who opt in every time have given us the feedback that they wish they could just opt in once and never opt in again.
Not sure, but he does mention the best way to do it is to run DosBox "at around 3000 cycles". So I take it that means fixed cycles?
No, I didn't comment one way or another. Only referencing the tweet mentioned. I'm aware I'm lacking any context otherwise.
Damn. I am sorry to hear that.

Sadly, it is not an unusual story (for me). I have heard similar bureaucratic Catch-22 stories for years.

Basically, no one wants to acknowledge that people with mental health issues even exist (unless it's a family member, then "That's different...").

They get totally shafted. Criminals tend to get treated better.
I don't have to pay to use job sites. I got many interviews and a few offers without paying. Dating apps have monetized aggressively in the past 3 years where you have to subscribe to get anything out of them.
Star Trek is the vision of a better world we all need in so many aspects. It’s crazy nowadays, cause we seemed to got further away instead of closer to those visions.
At least less people are hungry.
Apex cheats are comically absurd in their scope. There was a recent one where the cheater spawns multiple bots who navigate to his ping and imitate all his actions (like a Mirage Decoy that can shoot). Last year there were incidents where a cheater would target a streamer with a swarm of 60 bots.

These kind of cheats just shouldn’t be possible from the client side. And there’s really no excuse for it when the servers have 20Hz tick rate (lowest of any AAA multiplayer shooter), so they’ve got plenty of time to perform additional computation.

The weird thing is that hackers can target a streamer in the first place, which people have speculated is due to the debug info on screen leaking the server ID. But that implies the hacker needs to perform a server exploit, too - or at least, he needs to send some untrusted data from the client that the server will interpret in a way that resembles an exploit (but is more technically a logic error).
If you got an offer bumped up by 2.5x, was the original one above your current comp? If it was below, then it was a total low-ball, but if it was above, it follows that you tolerated being underpaid at your job. By maybe a factor of 3. Are you sure you are in a position to give salary negotiation advice?
Instagram-famous squirrel seized by New York state authorities
Afaik they're partnered with Samsung on the fab side.
Ditto except NextDNS as default on my network for DNS blocking.

I can switch to cloudflare DNS in Firefox to circumvent DNS routing which is occasionally necessary, mostly to make email links work.
My wife and I adopted two severely abused and neglected children and held out until they were 14. But the thing that we quickly realized is that our children's online life was only as secure as their friends most permissive parent. It still boggles my mind how many elementary-aged children had unfettered access to the internet. I suspect a lot of them unwittingly traumatized themselves.
> the posturing here vs. Wordpress really strikes me as someone who has gotten lucky and has attributed that luck to skill instead.

Twelve years is a long time to be 'lucky'
Huh, look at that. I completely mixed them up too. Thankfully they have an article which "helpfully" clarifies things:

> We’ve noticed that there’s been some confusion between our company, Codium (now Qodo (formerly Codium)), and another company, Codeium.

https://www.qodo.ai/blog/codiumai-or-codeium-which-are-you-l...
I got the sack when I did this last, which was better than the alternative – to keep trudging until the inevitable incident
It is true and not meaningful that every individual is an individual.

There IS a pattern of group similarities. It's not some prejudice or discrimination or anything bad, it's just a simple fact that makes no sense to pretend to be blind to.

The same is also true for any number of other common properties like culture and language and age. But the question was not about that. the question was "I'm totally boggled, why would sex change anything about how people tend to code?"
I totally agree with you, and find the price a big turn off. I pay $30 a month for my meds, this I’m sure would help but no way could I justify the expense.
No individual customer wants frequent changes. They want changes they care about ASAP and changes they don't care about never. But unless I'm maintaining per-customer versions (which can make sense for high value enterprise customers!), promising user X that I won't make any changes until January necessarily means telling user Y that I refuse to resolve their showstopping bug report until January.
Your passport won't be stored anywhere. It will be verified, then some details like passport number will be encrypted and stored to ensure uniqueness but that's it.

Sure, that may make you uneasy as well, but I hope being transparent about what gets stored and how will ease that uneasiness.
Sure, but they're still on the same planet, where gravity is 9.8m/s^2, so accounting for all that isn't as big a difference as Rocket League, which takes place on a digital planet, where gravity is 6.5m/s^2.
uBlock Origin on Chrome. Which any day now will become uBlock Origin on Facebook.

DNS ad blocking doesn't work well anymore, too many sites block you if you use it. But I use NextDNS for my mobile devices anyway because there's nothing you can easily use that's better. Firefox does have an Android build that will load uBlock Origin but I am still using Chrome on my phone.
One thing mentioned is that the cache die is now the same size as the CCD, when previously it was notably smaller and "dummy silicon" used to fill in the gap and get everything to the same height.

I can see "stacking" larger dies on top of smaller being extremely difficult to align. Perhaps the trade off was made to allow a smaller cache die (so lower cost) at the cost of requiring it to be "on top".
If you want to go full corporate, and avoid those nervous laughs and frowns from people who can't tell if you're being serious or not, I recommend dressing it up a little.

You basically took the ROAM approach, apparently without knowing it. This is a good thing. https://blog.planview.com/managing-risks-with-roam-in-agile/
Well... Sure? Unless I've missed a trick, I don't think it's physically possible to make a protocol that's not bottlenecked on the cumulative upload speed, which in the single-uploader case is the upload speed of that uploader. I would argue that the question is purely a matter of if bittorrent can or cannot saturate a given uplink if there is a single uploader, and I thought the answer is either yes or that it can get really close.
Does that mean all of their traffic is fake? If that's the case, we had this issue before AI.
No because google makes money selling ads
M3 has mesh shader support. The geometry pipeline they inherited from PowerVR fundamentally doesn't support them, for reasons that go way over my head. They probably changed a good chunk of it.
The actual need for continously delivery is mostly related to running public-facing services at large scale that need the ability to adjust to external events quickly, e.g. when defending against a new form of abuse requires an immediate software change.

Al other software could get away with deliberate release cycles rather than an urge to YOLO things into production. I just think that there is a fallacy in business leadership that ultra short turnaround times on features actually matter for a business.
> At expense of the users.

Bullshit. Users have shown time and time and time again that they prefer (generally, at large) free content, which has to be supported by ads, over actually paying directly for the labor of others.

> The ad-driven business model of publishing has been a disaster for a society, and deserves to be burned down completely.

I tend to agree, but people can't expect content, which needs sizable amounts of time and money to produce, for free - it needs some sort of workable funding model. LLMs are only viable now because they were able to slurp up all that ad-supported content before they broke the funding model. That window is closing, and fast.
Googling for this query is fast, and instantly surfaces the download link. That seems pretty useful...
The Raspberry Pi Security Guide [pdf]
Fascinating. Provide sources please. I need to learn more about this man.
My N=1 experience has been remarkable success with medication. Of course, it does require some work and time to find the right med(s) and dosing. Also, the shortage was previously a problem in my very large HMO but early this year it started getting better and by about 5-6 months ago supply has returned to normal.
Other hardware vendors absolutely do the same. Geometry shaders are poor performers on several other vendors for precisely the same reason
So why does instancing suck? I would have thought it would be heavily optimised in the driver...
Huh? It is flat from Q4 2022 until Q3 2024 which is two years.
This is a site about technology, it's not a place for you to promote food blogs. Read the guidelines, there are links at the bottom of the page on what and how to submit.
How else are you going to pay the people writing articles, creating content and doing research?

Not every person/site can run on Patreon or sponsorship deals. And paywalling a lot of the web would exclude vast swathes of people.
"Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome" - Charlie Munger

s/outcome/search result/

Honestly I kind of think we really need open source databases/models and local ai for stuff like this.

Even then I wonder about data pollution and model censorship.

What would censors do for models you can ask political questions?
I was down voted before for asking a similar question, I have no idea what the plan is but I struggle to understand what the future looks like when we literally have nothing to do. Why would I even bother with a hobby when a robot can do everything 10x better?

Maybe just "enjoy nature" would be the best bet if we survive the robot wars.
I've recently witnessed a situation where VP hired someone he used to work with This VP is not the best judge of talent. The guy barely does any work, and rarely responds to messages. He'll send me a scheduled slack at 8 AM. I reply. I don't hear from him all day. It's incredibly frustrating, since we had better candidates.
Congrats ChatGPT team for the release.

I can't believe that I'm saying this, but now after more than 20 years of using Google I'm finally paying for search.
Imagine these kind of robots in the home of of 2 or more kids. Roomba doing vacuuming, this robot doing laundry and folding.

Parents would be spending quality time with her kids, helping them with their homework or helping with their practice - sports or music, instead of getting frustrated looking pile of laundry and kids don't have nothing to wear.

Kids now have more questions due to quality engagement. So they would visit library or if they are into sports, parents spend more time with them.

Automation has always been there. We just pick up things we didn't get a chance to pick up. We travelled on cars when horses were no more needed. We built bigger and better things, when we don't have to make our own hammer. Also, we created more problems from these and needed more innovation to fix them.

We always worked around 40 hrs a week since time immemorial. So, we will continue to work 40hrs.
Apple can take my privacy seriously while also allowing me to fix my hardware. You are promoting a false dichotomy that could be used to excuse almost any form of irrational behavior.
> I've even degraded team morale because I've convinced some of the engineers that things should be better, but not management, so now some of the engineers are upset.

Oof, that hits a little close to home.
This is not unique to FireFox. This is also possible in Chrome (Settings -> Search Engine) and looks like this:

https://imgur.com/a/qxap6iI

Setup the way I have in the image you can simply type @claude and your search

Worth noting that Gemini also offers a URL shortcut for searching Gemini via @gemini within the Chrome browser.
I totally agree this payment pattern would work. I think the technical implementation is pretty straightforward but getting enough writers and artists to join would be difficult.
Smartwatch without apps but with limited phone, texting, and location sharing to trusted contacts appears to be the way out offering most technical benefits without becoming a firehose of horribleness, addiction, and distraction.

Dumb / kosher phones seem like another idea but have the disadvantage of being another thing to loose and break rather than something that's strapped to them.

Another thing is to role-model and reinforce smartphone etiquette by not pulling them out to waste time when around other people.

I applaud keeping smartphone, social media, screen, and computer privileges minimum age as high and restricted as possible for as long as possible.
What business model would you propose for a service like Kagi that is not a subscription?
How is it the worst part?

You opt-in to the ads, you get them in your notifications, and every time you tap on one of them you get a few BAT. You browse, the BAT get paid out to whichever sites you visit (or linger on, depending on your configuration). You can opt out of the ads at any time. Brave didn't pre-mine their own coins. And you can buy BAT if you want to support sites without watching ads.
It is solved. You can pay Brave to not be shown ads.

And the website gets paid either way.
The sad/funny thing is that Apex is only doing this because players are _begging_ them to “fix the cheating.” It’s become so bad that prominent Apex streamers are quitting the game, the steam player count is at an all time low, and the EA CEO is lowering expectations on investor calls.

Everyone wants cheaters banned, but nobody wants to run a rootkit on their own machine.

The real solution to avoid cheaters is to play on Console. You’ll still get some cheaters using strikepacks, which is an external device, but you won’t run into anyone with a modified client or bots running in ring zero, because the Consoles are sandboxed operating systems. Maybe it’s possible to rig up some cheating device with HDMI capture and automated controller input, but it’s not worth the hassle.

I wonder if Microsoft could help, by introducing a “Windows gaming” mode. You boot your PC into this mode and it’s sandboxed to the level of an Xbox. Or even if it’s not sandboxed, it’s at least a dedicated environment where you don’t mind running kernel level anticheat.
Now OpenAI only needs to figure out how to do Search profitably instead of burning VC money.

Only then will the comparison with profitable Search engines be sensible. Before enshitification all VC-backed products are a delight to use, but after the honeymoon phase there’ll be ads all over the results/responses.