skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work for a place that had "Focus Weeks". A week where there were to be no meetings, and you could work on whatever was important. Everyone I knew loved it - could accomplish so much more when you are not interrupted every other hour for some marginal-utility status update.

Management...apparently did not enjoy the time. I assume so many of them do nothing but meetings, they were probably bored. The upper leadership, for whom the work is predominantly meetings, is likely not satisfied without maximal people in sight.
And yet the organizational outcomes are surprisingly similar when you zoom in. Maybe culture is the only thing that matters and incentives don't at all, but I doubt it.
It's more insidious than that.

Being forced to RTO across the country, then immediately laid off after I uprooted my life to do so, all while knowing the layoffs were planned while they were telling me to move across the country, is fucked.
I'm very old for the audience here, but really miss another Amazon acquisition and destruction: CD Now. I use ratings as a discoverability mechanism, and don't need some absolute rating based on unknown foundations as much as linking new content to known content. I find myself re-reading authors every few years because I struggle to find new authors and works that might appeal to my appetite.
Tailscale actually implements wireguard in go in user space, last time I checked.
> What’s your actual point, dude?

My point is that telemetry violates developers' privacy. Whether that's in a consumer-facing app or in a developer-facing Xcode, it's still violating privacy and therefore unethical to use for data-driven decisions.

> is this your view of places that collect telemetry?

Yes

> Do you use Xcode?

No, because I don't use macOS.

> Are you aware of Apple’s telemetry disclosures?

Are you? How many developers using Xcode are aware of those disclosures? How many developers using Xcode are forced to use Xcode by their employer and therefore cannot have reasonably agreed to anything?

> How do you feel that Xcode telemetry has ever or could ever be used to manipulate people? How do you feel peoples privacy has been violated?

Monitor who builds what kinds of applications and then use that information to decide what products Apple should focus on. Monitor who tries to compile. Tie their name to "security" or "authenticity". Monitor how those built applications are used or distributed, and then change compilation processes to suit Apple's walled garden.

> Do you want to re-state your point in a more concrete way instead of saying something that basically amounts to “I’m upset, so it’s bad!”

My point was already plenty enough concrete. You just simply decided to ignore it because you hate privacy-focused people, and summarily dismiss it as "being upset" instead of addressing any of the issues that were brought up.
In my 30+ years working at about everywhere and on everything the only place I’ve worked, inclusive of federal roles, with intentionally bottom productivity, are private government contractors. Federal employees while fairly kushy in benefits space were often pretty mission driven and believed deeply in what they were doing as they had taken a long term commitment on their role vs more money on the private side. The contractor space is a constant churn of bids and re orgs with the mission being keeping the contract in the next bidding cycle but losing it due to random political whims. It’s the most depressing form of employment I’ve ever experienced, and I’ve worked at multiple FAANG, so that’s really saying something.
Anon for obvious reasons. I'm one of the few full time home workers at my org. I slack off all the time. I mean literally I did an hour of work on Friday.

But this was a complete restart of something two of my in-office colleagues fucked up over the space of 2 weeks.

The problem in orgs is shit people, not working from home.
You're suggesting to give the content to Facebook instead of Mozilla?
I don't think th October 2023 training cut-off means the model finished pre-training a year ago. All of OpenAI's models share that same cut-off date.

One theory is that they're worried about the increasing tide of LLM-generated slop that's been posted online since that date. I don't know if I buy that or not - other model providers (such as Anthropic, Gemini) don't seem worried about that.
It's a fair and good question.

From "Endothelial Glycocalyx Preservation — Impact of Nutrition and Lifestyle" (2023) [1]:

Vitamin D; omega-3 supplementation; dietary sulfur (onion, garlic, leek, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage...); intermittent fasting

(edited for formatting)

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10255458/
Will Mozilla use the money to improve the browser (engine) or will it use it for left politics stuff (and big salaries for executives)?
Oh I'm already perfectly robbed of the delusion that LSD somehow makes people loving, empathetic, or long term thinking (the last one being a mixed blessing in its own right: someone might as well say, in the long term I'm dead with 100% probability, so let it all burn!)

That whole "psychedelic enlightenment" meme is half due to the privilege of narrow-mindedness uniquely permitted to the college-educated (whose psychedelic journeys usually end up with the proverbial lousy T-shirt), half elaborate hypermedia smoke screen (deployed by you-know-they-know-you-know-who by means of the Learies, Lillies, and other difficult to pronounce for our East Asian strategic partners Huxleys)

As a matter of fact, it gets worse. I've observed psychedelics assist people's slide into faschizoid thinking on multiple occasions. My point was more like, cocaine turns people into peasants, maaan. You've never seen? And they've already been in charge for a long time, surprise surprise. And they're hella bored, too, which is why the things you must've been observing if we're at all on the same planet have been occurring at an ever more farcical cadence. (Therefore, according to your own reasoning, you're god. Enjoy! ;)
Something to note, most testing seems to show women/men are about average in intelligence but there is slight variability between the two. So thinking one gender is smarter doesn't bear out.

I've read excerpts "Of Boys and Men" that indicate academic changes to assist girls may have harmed boys.

For example, in schooling, it was shown that girls do better on homework while boys would do better on testing. So, teachers realizing this, would increase the homework mix into final grade which helps girls but harmed boys.

Getting rid of recess or PE earlier may have had an impact as well.

Something to note, these changes were not made deliberately to hurt men, it's just accidental on part of educators trying to fix what was clearly a flaw system.

> Most boys didn’t start digging in and grinding like the girls did until maybe junior year of college.

Sure, that's 20-21 when some of hormones are wearing off. ;)
Is Every Civilization Doomed to Fail? [video]
Until I watched this video, I hadn't heard of anacyclosis theory, which greatly informed the thinking of some of the founders of the USA's Constitution. The theory proposes that democracies tend to dissolve when a populist demagogue takes over, and the original constitution was designed to try to prevent that.
Yes!

https://funcui.avaloniaui.net

https://github.com/fabulous-dev/Fabulous

(I'm sure there are more, these two are those which I could recall from the top off my head)
Anyone who makes C-suite money would have no problem working 60 hours per week for a few years. At the level of money making once you get burn out you just retire.
Have you tried https://typst.app/?
Not on a Pico though.
It’s happening because employers are desperate to get their power back while workers have no rights. It also makes it harder to leave an org, as orgs are also desperate to hold on to and develop existing talent due to forward looking working age population demographics. This is a desperate immune response.

(also why employers are trying to staff up offices offshore in LATAM and India)

Edit: @tbrownaw all of the responses to your inquiry are accurate.
Maybe the content is an agent that wants to get views, rewording itself for maximum engagement.
My assumption: There will be use cases where cost of using this will be smaller than the gain from it. Data from this will make the next version better and cheaper.
I'm so glad this has been created. I've felt for quite some time that TOTP is such a triumph of simplicity and security. It's so simple that if you have your secret key on hand, you can generate your TOTP code with just 30 lines of Python!: https://github.com/susam/mintotp/blob/main/mintotp.py

It's amazing! Its default UX assumes you're basically air gapped. It works based on a minimal shared secret that's totally portable. Conceptually, it's as clear as "hash (your secret+(now()//30)), display hash as decimal, only show the last 6 (ish) digits".

What a triumph. I love TOTP.

This is meant as a sidelong critique on passkeys.
In my country, we have the same issue. Historically, women low-wage jobs (retail, secretary, care) paid less than industry. That is equalizing. I think the "wage gap" between men and women (in my country) is ~20% for people aged 45+, and 8% between 30 and 45 (which could be explained by the years "lost" by maternity). For people working, aged 20-30, the wage gap is almost 0 (i think it still favor men, but i could be wrong, also the stats i saw was only about the mean, not the median, and high-class people could certainly skew the data[0]), but if you count NEET and exclude students, it favor women greatly (although men are more likely than women to work without declaring it)

[0] I've read an article a few years ago about employement "test" for lawyers (with fake CV), it was pretty clear that both poor men (black, then white) and women from the bourgeoisie (CV with "horse, ballet" as hobbies, high-QOL address and "elite" school) were the most discriminated against. I wonder if that population skew the "wage gap" towards men a lot, as often bourgeois women don't have a well paying job (author, artist, but also volunteering and/or coordinating volonteers, pro-bono head of the family fundation) unlike their men conterpart (your chief manager who is 25 and dropped out of a big uni with a lot of legacy student and paid thrice your rate? His sister coordinate volonteer in a soup kitchen)
We've not seen down that road. Fiction isn't reality. Fiction's problems are imagined and exaggerated to give the hero something to overcome.

Dystopian fiction doesn't have a great track record for prediction.
Former big tech worker here, I'd support unionization wholeheartedly, but it's also worth advocating for cessation of all Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, etc products and software. Build software for linux only, explicitly choose to not support Windows, Mac OS, iOS, or Android. Support and test on Gecko-based browsers, reject Webkit-based and Blink-based browsers. Act like people are making you uncomfortable whenever they offer statements, comments, or questions that normalize gmail, facebook, iphones, or outlook. Become a FLOSS evangelist. Help your non-technical friends install a browser that supports manifest v2 and full-fat ad blocking. Help people set up adguard or pihole. Make it sound cool, easy, and seductive. Disrespect the ruling elite / "eat the rich!" vibes. Normalize anti-surveillance. Normalize full-face masks and juggalo paint and avante garde clothing that disrupts facial recognition algorithms. Build on a VPS, build on a dedicated server, build on clouds that aren't owned and operated by multitrillion dollar conglomerate monstrosities. Make AWS, Azure, and GCP as socially unacceptable as racism, sexism, and transphobia.

This isn't a call to arms for luddites, this is a call to kill the trillion dollar companies with grassroots direct action that is intentionally and purposefully organized to decrease the revenue and social acceptance of these organizations. This is a pro-tech movement, it's just pro-tech that respects your freedom, your privacy, your rights to decide what your hardware and software are / are not doing. We will not be the feudal subjects of these tyrants.

We must be the revolutionary change we want to see by lunging straight for the hearts of these evil empires. Grassroots direct action, spread the word.
What if the CEO was just put in place by the chairman of the board. As was the case for many of the agencies that told their employees not to respond.

And it’s not the board that send the emails, it’s a committee created by the board.

It’s unclear whether OPM has the authority to order employees to do anything.

The real way to do this. If it was what they actually wanted to happen was for the president to issue an executive order requiring everyone to logon to a secure site and fill out a form. Then give some kind of reasonable deadline that makes allowances for people on PTO or leave.
Thank you for your insightful comment that adds great depth to the debate.
The "industry change" that would make Firefox fade away would be the death of web browsers in general, replaced by site-specific apps that leave users with no freedom to control how they interact with a site aside from a complete boycott of the site and its app. Resisting that industry change is exactly what Mozilla should have been prioritizing. Nobody wants Mozilla to support or follow that trend.
Ahh ya. Big libraries can have over 30k movies. Emby, jellyfin, and plex can also integrate into Trakt. So it’s already being used in these apps for many users.
I wouldn't want those people's jobs tbh. You can't make every dollar, and they don't really have a life outside work. Fast forward to 60, you're retired and you haven't even lived yet. Sounds like a regrettable situation to be in even if you're rich - your youth is gone, everything hurts when you wake up, and your dick doesn't work anymore.
to read the comments?
> In your construction, all the work is being done by your use of the word “available.”

In your construction, all the work is being done by "the." OK, let's play the same game, this time with the word executive: Suppose that Congress, using its authority under the Necessary and Proper Clause, creates separate governmental agencies — not subject to plenary presidential supervision — and gives those agencies the power to carry out specified tasks. You're complaining that this falls within the definition of "executive" power and thus must be presidentially supervised. The obvious response is: OK, we won't call it "executive" power, we'll call it something else. Word games? Sure, but that's what you're doing.

But, someone might respond, the term "executive power" must be interpreted today as it supposedly was understood by the Framers in 1787. That ipse-dixit contention is purely a matter of what Justice White aptly referred to in Roe as "raw judicial power" — and recall that after Dred Scott, a more-extreme version of such a contention was finally resolved at Appomattox as the culmination of four years of bloody civil war.
You can create warfighting machines today capable of unspeakable horrors to another person if you merely give those engineers a suburban house in northern virginia in a good school district, evidently. Now imagine a future where the offer is not only that idyllic beltway suburban experience but also the realization that not taking that offer throws you in with the dogs in the lawless parts of the country that this autocratic government authority withdrew from over lack of profit motive. You’d probably do everything in your power to keep your head down and look like a good little engineer to master so your daughters don’t have to face a roving gang of perverts.
I'm happy that it sounds like Login.gov is better than the broken solution we had before. At the same time, I do not think a basic functional login system is something that should be celebrated as a success.
+1 Insightful.

This dynamic is at play in every big company I've encountered in my 27 year career in tech.
> Looking back at my own high school experience, the girls were way smarter than the boys.

I'd like to suggest that the difference was that girls were way better at school than the boys.

That is, school is an environment built such that the skills required to succeed are more likely to be found in a girl than a boy.
I don't think that when higher levels of government make it harder for lower levels to restrict individual freedom that is “the road to authoritarianism”.

In fact, I’d argue its exactly the opposite.
Is there a way to litigate Firefox, to pay back the money, based on the false premise they gave? And that the damages extend well beyond a few individuals?

Say, the threat of an actual litigation, would help hold them accountable in the future?
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No "Source code"
that's not true. the core problem is "billionaires destroying government functions"

in that light, cuban is doing the literal opposite by trying to save one.
Right but this is a new thing. For decades working from the office was the overwhelming norm. It was just assumed. So I doubt there's many incentives right now. I imagine it's much more about being upset at your expensive rent building being 70+% empty while still costing you as much as well as old fashioned beliefs in performance and monitoring of employees in the office. Also I do think there's some things that may be more difficult to collaborate on even with remote even with video calling
A few years back, I worked at a "unicorn" startup that also did the pandemic remote work thing, then tried reeling it back in 2022. I remember one of the SVP's explaining how reasonable the RTO policy was, even for those who—like her—had moved away from NYC. She simply rented an apartment a few blocks from the office—midtown Manhattan—and stayed there during the week. Like her, we just needed to make our own adjustments to accommodate the new policy. I'd seen "out of touch" before. But suggesting that everyone just get their own Pied-à-terre still pretty much takes the cake for degree of out of touch I've witnessed personally.
Why does it have to be either "say nothing and let them break production" OR "suddenly I have an apprentice"... can't it just be a simple comment in the PR, as a peer developer?

"Hey, I think this will break if XXX happens (provide an example if you can). Can you please take a look before merging? Let me know if you need help".

I'd say that to any colleague (and hope they would to me) if I found a bug during code review, regardless of their team. I mean, it honestly sounds pretty routine and is the whole point of code review, no?

It doesn't mean I'm mentoring them or vice versa, and it's not a power play. It's just normal review in the line of normal work, peer to peer. It's fine that you're more experienced. We all start somewhere, and at some point, he'll be more experienced than you about some particular part of the code base, but your careful eye and constructive feedback is still valuable regardless. I don't see the problem.

Is there some context I'm missing?
I've been looking into neodb, have you compared them?
https://neodb.net/
Adverts that want to reach the target demographic, at any cost.

Sounds like the plot of a horror movie.
Very nice! It even took “Chandler Bing” and gave me a plausible answer. I passed the link to my hard working federal friends.
So basically a very small percentage of jobs.
Exactly. Css is magic, in a sense that you can’t make any sense of it. Just look at this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19719427 , you can “tune” collapsing margins by adjusting overflow, float or position. Yeah! Imagine adjusting your seat by pressing brakes or turning radio off.

Perhaps the only difference when using hidden is the unintended consequence of hiding content if the parent has a fixed height

This is css community fundamentals. It works “perfectly”, but make sure your height is not specified. Oh, and don’t change the container type. And with time it all depends more and more on other hacks, until your layout turns into a knot of hacks and cross-sectional assumptions smeared all across the “codebase”.

And then you ought to make fully isolated non-leaky components with it. I mean, you can’t, but here’s a hack to make them fit together. I mean, in this particular case, wow thank god the container is already position absolute.
>> I never got the appeal of Tailwind

They're not arguing for Tailwind. They have used Tailwind.
The phrase temporarily embarrassed millionaires is even more true for tech workers than most Americans. Especially for any who have entrepreneurial dreams or who are at start-ups for the stock options. The carrot is right there...
They're mad he sided with the majority of the state on ballot measure 8 seventeen years ago.
Thanks, term I'd never heard of. Usually think of that in terms of an "oligarchy" or "plutocracy".

And as an added benefit it sounds a lot like "corpsocracy" with the "corp" and a country that's a "corpse" animated by "corps." That uses their military "corps" to exert control. Insurance company with a military.
IN MICE**
Just tried Zen Browser, it's interface maybe clean but user experience is very not zen. It was frustrating to find out how to remove all the Google and WhatsApp from he default layout. Left / right tab system is find but it needs a fly out/in button like IDEs have to terminal / console to compact the view.

Looks like LibreWolf is the one to transition to.
All of this was known and built into the education of the elite wherein a sense of responsibility for upholding the overall prosperity of society was instilled. The fact that a post like this seems noteworthy is just an illustration that that sense of responsibility was lost. It seems like we have arrived full circle back to: "I got mine, fuck you." Lording, instead of leading.

What we are really witnessing is law and order breaking down.
Indeed. Except for the UI, it has most of the features OP wanted since at least 2011.
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HOTP requires a minimum of 6 digits (R4 in Section 4), but does not actually set a maximum. The algorithm in the RFC caps at 9-digits per Section E.2 (and my cursory reading of the code). That's not a required limit, but a technical limit of their choices. It also happens that 9-digits probably is about as big as you'd want to go, three 3-digit chunks aren't much harder to remember and type in correctly but past that it'd become increasingly impractical. The "and possibly 7 and 8-digit code" should be taken as descriptive, not prescriptive. The requirements occur earlier in the document and do not set a maximum. If they'd intended 8 as the maximum then they wouldn't have presented an algorithm that goes to 9 digits and would have stated it clearly in the requirements section, or followed up the HOTP RFC with another one clarifying these details.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4226
Some more obscure examples:

- Sentences in all languages can be templated as easily as in English: {user} is in {location} etc.

Some languages have complex agreement between parts of the sentence, e.g. where gender of the verb must match the subject.

- For every lower-case character, there is exactly one (language-independent) upper-case character, and vice versa.

Dutch capitalizes ijzer as IJzer.

- The lower-case/upper-case distinction exists in all languages.

Plenty of languages without: Hebrew/Arabic, “Chinese”. Japanese doesn’t even have spaces.

- All languages (that use the Latin alphabet) have the same alphabetical sorting order.

Spanish has ll, ch and rr in between k/m, c/d and q/s respectively.