skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue with "diversity quota" is that it only target "visible" diversity. But I guarantee if you want your SV tech startup to be really diverse, your next hire should be the white man from Pocahantas conuty, WV rather than the black man from Mill Valley, CA [0].

Anyway, i'm largely against quotas, i'd rather have blind resume and have hiring stat done on really big companies to prevent them from gaming too much. If you want to hire diversity for diversity sake (which in tech is a good thing, you want multiple point of view), hire outside of your zone of control, seek people who won't send you a resume.

[0] I've been twice in the US, and visited both places, i guarantee the culture is extremely different, although the National Park crowd is the same (i.e: extremely cool and interesting) in both place.
Well, you're not the only one who wants things. I wouldn't mind some Her style interactions in some of my assistants, not everything needs to be bone dry.
> Is the argument supposed to be that if the VPN wasn't there then like the tab snapping would work more smoothly and there would still be 35% market share?

No, the argument is that if Mozilla didn't spend so much money on side projects, they wouldn't now be in such a precarious financial situation that they're making a drastic, controversial change with the stated purpose of ensuring their financial future. They might still have been poor stewards of the core browser project's technical development, but at least they'd have enough accumulated savings to continue without selling user data.
This can be true, but also many of these companies are themselves essentially monopolies that also don't face market pressure - such as Visa, Comcast, etc.

You can say this is due to corporatism, which is often true as well, but gov't regulation is required for natural monopolies.

This is to avoid issues like the early railroad boom where they hugely overbuilt, a lot of them went under and/or eventually coalesced into a few monopolies, which needed regulation to prevent them squeezing their customers to death.

The best markets are sensibly regulated. It's a balance, not a binary.
It feels like we went from an era where people were valued for being contrarian/independent, to one where people find value in being conformist.

This is the opposite of what is going on. The conformist era was what began around 2018 to 2019. That is when the term cancel culture became mainstream. That was when one was expected to conform to the dogmas or risk being cancelled and having one’s career ruined. It increasingly got worse over the years.

Cancel culture and all that dogmatic conformism is still around but now there is more free thinking than 6 years ago.

So the situation is the opposite of what you are saying.
Back when I was making WIN32 apps (that at the time didn't have a layout manager), the hardest languages to localize for were:

* German, simply because the German translations we were using were twice as long. I don't speak German so I couldn't judge if all those extra words were required.

* Simplified Chinese, because the default font in that language was huge - single characters would take twice the width (and more irritatingly, height) of an English character.

* Japanese, partly because the default font was also large but mostly because the multibyte character codes (this was before unicode support) for common words included bytes that were commonly used for separators in other languages. So things like backslash path seperators (which Japan didn't use) would have to be handled with extreme care in the code.
This was at Google?
They are on par on many tasks, surpass us in some tasks, and catching up on the rest quite fast. Both humans and LLMs forget details, both have to go through iterative bug fixing when creating something. Longer contexts and memory are coming, they already exist but need improvement.

> I have never “hallucinated” a feature

You never mistook an argument, or forgot one of the 100 details we have to mind while writing complex apps?

I would rather measure humans vs AI not in basic skill capability but in authonomy. I think AI still has much more to catch up on that front.
Pretty much the only thing I could find in the whole list that I thought anyone might believe is "every language has words for yes and no". But here's another myth that I find it hard to understand how anyone could believe: "interface design decisions are generally made by programmers". If a site uses country flags to indicate languages, it probably wasn't a coder that decided to do that, and whoever did make the call didn;t believe there was a one-to-one relationship between countries and languages. I particular, pretty much everyone can think of at least one country other than the USA where they speak English.
You jest, but… https://mercurial-scm.org/help/topics/rust#rhg
> If V2 provides enough value for enough users, it will stick around.

Unless these snowflakes enter panic mode because "Mozilla is selling all my files" and stop using Firefox for reasons that cannot be explained by logic, which I see is majority of news unfolding after Mozilla changed their wording.
As they should!

Everything you see around you was provided by Biden. Trump is only starting to make changes.
It kind of seems like you use a five-point system, then?
Yet in practice this works fine for all intents and purposes.

Sure, you might get a loading error if you try to run your Ubuntu 24.04-compiled executable on Ubuntu 18.04 if you use the default toolchain. tTat’s exactly the same as C or C++, only much easier to fix in rust by rustup-installing the right tool chain.

Compiling on Ubuntu 18.04 and running on 24.04 is absolutely not an issue. Same for windows.

In practice this is really not a problem, especially for cargo libraries that you anyway build from source.
“Releases” is used in the article - instead of “drops” - and would be a clearer title.
Governent jobs top out on salary, and generally offer a lower salary than similar jobs anyway, but...

Government jobs often have nicer health care plans than many corporate plans (but some corporate plans are very nice too).

Government jobs are still likely to have a defined benefit pension. Those are potentially a large deferred compensation, that can be hard to evaluate fiscally, but can be an amazing resource. If you can manage to get 20 years of Active Duty military, retirement benefits are pretty good, and there's nothing private sector that is close to that.
Two Small Adversaries of Russia and China Are Swapping Notes to Survive
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/world/two-small-adversaries-of-russia-an...
I can absolutely understand that it makes sense to have a much more fine-grained average, but personally I struggle to give meaningful ratings beyond the four I mentioned.

That said perhaps multiple binary dimensions would be better. Good story yes/no, interesting/unique premise yes/no, overall good acting yes/no, good cinematography yes/no etc etc.
It's neither obvious nor true, generalist models outperform specialized ones all the time (so frequently that it even has its own name - the bitter lesson)
Also the Mullvad browser which is based on the Tor browser but with the Tor bit removed. Note: it doesnt require a vpn.

https://mullvad.net/en/browser
Marie Antoinette was "just disconnected" and look what happened to her.
My boy got triggered
I see a lot of comments here, but what I don't see is anybody speaking the quiet part out loud.

No judgment here to those who did, but during the pandemic, several people, including several software engineers, took the opportunity to work multiple jobs. Notably, at Equifax, which is probably the worst place to do it because they have records of most people's employment.
https://www.businessinsider.com/equifax-used-itsproduct-to-f...

This is the main reason. Management doesn't want you pulling 2 salaries, even if you could, so they are trying to make it difficult so you don't even try.

In addition, if WFH becomes normalized, there is a lot of debt floating office buildings in major cities, and there will be a great renegotiation. This is really bad for senior management, the stock market, transit systems and the budget of most cities. So most people that manage you and manage your managers are aligned against you.
https://nypost.com/2024/08/02/real-estate/huge-midtown-offic...

Lastly, and I'm only mentioning this because I think it needs to be said, but I think that most people who are pushing WFH are short sighted. If it is proved conclusively that software development can be managed and completed remotely, then it will devalue your labour as you are forced to compete with smart people in countries with significantly lower housing and energy costs. Anecdotally, this is already occurring.
Smallpond. Runs on their RDMA powered 3fs ("fire-flyer file system") filesystem.

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/smallpond

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200793

I didn't find anything of value in this article.

Did enjoy https://mehdio.substack.com/p/duckdb-goes-distributed-deepse... some, which eventually talks about smallpond being built on Ray, and… Smallpond actually running multiple partitioned duckdb instances?! Wow.
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/smallpond
I think it’s true , it just that sometimes companies become the market
Not bait at all. It's a legitimate point.
Russia conquering Ukraine will bolster the Russian economy and incentivises then (as well as China) to continue territorial expansions. Already the war has given rise to military and economic alliance between Russia, Iran, North Korea and potentially China. If things continue in this direction, it will absolutely become a big problem for the US. Better to stop the rot asap.
Imagine expecting equal treatment to higher ups who run your company. Anyone who told you otherwise lied to you. Set expectations accordingly and you won’t be disappointed.
Wouldn’t this be countered by the economic boon of the grocery stores and other places that are open where people actually live? In my neighborhood a couple of small eateries have opened up for the wfh crowd. I can get a decent sandwich and some chips to go for a reasonable price within a 20min walk from my home.

Edit: coffee shops seems to be doing very well too
> This is impossible given the threshold for a constitutional convention.

Well, it's also just not true that Democrats didn't reign in the power of the presidency when they had control.

They passed a bill and Biden signed it which makes it even more explicitly illegal for President to impound money like Trump tried last term, and is again doing now. That's why we can emphatically say what he's doing is illegal, because he's breaking a law that was passed to curb exactly what he's doing.

Moreover, when Trump argued in court he had broad presidential immunity, Biden argued against that position, thus arguing to limit his own power.

It's hard to claim both sides abuse power when one side claiming total presidential immunity to use the military to kill his political opponents, and the other side says no. The difference couldn't be more stark.
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Neither google nor microsoft swift keyboard know that İt's is not the same thing as It's.
sure, but post your pic of what you looked like in 1995 (or equivalent age)

the more you age, the more you'll politically be on the right, whether you became a billionaire on roids, or you just aged
typora.io is what I use
Not only clearer, but 180 degrees different in meaning.
Show HN: Fast Transition from Firefox to Librewolf
After looking at various browser alternatives to Firefox (my daily driver for years), I decided to try LibreWolf and the transition was trivial on a Debian based system (by HN standards). My extensions even ran without logging in (YMMV).

First install LibreWolf:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install extrepo -y
sudo extrepo enable librewolf
sudo apt update && sudo apt install librewolf -y

Second:
After closing Firefox, copy Firefox profile (in ~/.mozilla/firefox/) to Librevox profile (in ~/.librewolf/).

Note: I copied the profile into the default profile (as seen in about:profiles) not default-default. I then launched the profile and all my tabs were restored, bookmarks, logins, etc. I will update if something seems broken.
Makes me think of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
I have been using Ubuntu as my main drive for a couple of weeks and I have to admit it's still clearly not ready for the masses.
There’s no way the IRS can track and calculate many large, important features of the tax code.

EITC eligibility, for example, depends on the aggregate employment and spending patterns of your household. The IRS does not (and shouldn’t) track when you moved in with your boyfriend.

The home mortgage interest deduction depends on your primary residence; if you have more than one, that means tracking how much time you spend at each.
And bad decision makers won't even try, and might attack the people who try to do it for them. And there are a shitload of bad decision makers. And I don't owe them anything.
Practically all software that matters is already Linux only. That happened 15-20 years ago as a combination of “cloud” and “SaaS”.

Android and iOS apps, with the exception of games, are usually just thin presentation layers around cloud apps. Hint: if you have to log in, the real app a cloud app running on a Linux server.

But I don’t see what that has to do with executive compensation.
I can't speak from personal experience to the accuracy of some of his characterizations, but he nailed the ones that (I now see) form parts of my background and are common in my family: various levels of "prole", plus "middle". It was really weird to see our quirks of behavior and taste (some of which I'd never have noticed if not for the book) dissected and analyzed that way, but fun and gave me new ways of looking at all of it.

I've found his upper-middle and upper class descriptions constantly useful for deepening my insight into media, the news, work-life, and even history. Usually in small ways, but it's still pretty cool. Class markers are everywhere in media, and a lot of it I was surely noticing subconsciously, but being aware of them and able to point out many elements of them is a different experience. It's like seeing into the minds of the set designers, costume designers, and actors.
> Sounds like the plot of a horror movie.

What, sentient information that pursues to be known by as many as possible?
..on banning same-sex marriage
junior level error, dont understand whats to talk here about... Use ConcurrentSkipListMap and never write our own concurrent data structure unless you Doug Lea
Why do people keep making the mistake that smart people are good at doing everything? A person could be a mathematical genius or an amazing computer scientist, but that doesn’t necessarily make them a good leader or even a good parent. Just look at how badly Ilya Sutskever messed up at OpenAI. And in Google’s case, Sergy himself, divorced from his wife, leads me to believe he’s not someone who knows how to balance a family with work.
Sounds like a great investment opportunity for Mark Cuban to squeeze out some investment returns from the US tax payer. Looks like the DOGE mandate is working as intended!
They didn’t. Aligning with any one of the powers was a terrible decision for countries in Africa and Latam, the best path would have been to be friends with everyone and not take sides.
I'm one of those folks who will tell people to give the official CLI frontend of git a chance and to try and stick to it. I can assure you it is not out of elitism, but experience. I've tried the many third party GUI frontends, and always got myself into bigger trouble down the line in the end, nor did they bring any of the revelatory boosts in insight they claimed they would. And of course, they're all a little different from one another, so migrating between them is an additional chore.

Then of course it's possible I didn't give the many GUI frontends enough of a chance. Such is life, it's a resource limited game. Principally, I justify my position with the argument that the many GUIs will try to translate git into something visual by adding their own designs, and this can prove additionally misleading and difficult, if git wasn't rough enough already.

The only GUI bits I use for git are editor integrations such as the official one in VS Code, and only when I know it's adequate. Which you can only know if you know what's going on in the background.
Another interesting aspect that is often ignored is the government's role in this situation. Increased footfall is beneficial for the economy. People generally spend more when they're outside than they would if they were at home. For example, one might choose to cook food rather than buy it when at home.

Therefore, some governments are actively pushing corporations to bring people back to the office to revive the economy. I'm not exactly sure how I feel about this, though. On one hand, reviving the economy will have long-term benefits. On the other hand, forcing people to spend money is not ideal.

Also, personally, I think we all grow and learn more about the world when we are in the world. You get to see and experience so many things while commuting, for example. I think it builds character.
>2008

Back when google wasn’t evil, did cool shit, and had a functional search engine.
What you're describing is fully observed in education. The scale of your evaluation has to have an odd total of numbers and a limited number of choices. 1-2-3, for example. That means that each digit sends a strong signal. 1-2-3-4 means the 3 is the non-controversial choice. Average, so to speak, and you don't want average in your evaluation. You need to adequately grade stuff here, and giving most things an average grade is a weak signal that prevents you from differentiating.

When you grade by competency (not by knowledge), you also assign a written description for each grade. That helps a lot. I think those platforms are keenly aware of those facts I just described, and are trying to boil them down to simple actions for users, that impart large signal, and that respect the cultural norms of evaluation. That's why Letterboxd has a 5-star with half-stars rating system, but also has a like button.
I think the DoE thing was a mistake. Kind of frightening that nobody in the chain of execution for that decision knew what the DoE actually does, but I don't think that was intentional.
Forums per book is a good start, but I find that the groups are a bigger draw in Goodreads. They have a more personal touch and allow you to discuss broader topics and get recommendations from accounts you know and trust. For example I'm in a group called "Evolution of science fiction" and have learnt a lot from joining in their monthly novel / short story reads.
> This is the main reason.

No it's not.

According to your own article, Equifax fired 24 out of 10,000 employees for working multiple jobs. That's 0.24% of their employees.

This doesn't even come close to being a factor in their decision.

> there is a lot of debt floating office buildings in major cities, and there will be a great renegotiation. This is really bad for senior management, the stock market, transit systems and the budget of most cities.

Why is it bad for senior management, outside of senior management for commercial real estate? You think Google gives a flying fuck about the fact that there are empty buildings and that it's costing money to the few massive companies who own most of the commercial real estate in the US and in the world? No. Do you think the stock market cares? No.

> If it is proved conclusively that software development can be managed and completed remotely, then it will devalue your labour as you are forced to compete with smart people in countries with significantly lower housing and energy costs.

You say it yourself, "Anecdotally, this is already occurring", so why isn't it generalized? Why is there still ANY line of code written in the US or in western Europe? Because outsourcing simply doesn't work for the vast majority of software.
Is this going to drain __my__ phone battery more?
People like to point at ladybird, but really the way to go before this can become a daily driver is probably in the hundreds of person years of development
Another thing that makes them straight up evil is taking the value others produce as their own.
Nah. This kind of person tends to do more family stuff, and participate in more community events, and do more work.

It’s ok to not be a busy body. I’m not one because it makes me miserable . But these imaginary tradeoffs we invent in our heads are often just justifications.
> The bigger factory generates more wealth for them while not being taxed because it isn't directly owned by them. A yacht only costs them money.

Everything you said is true regardless of how taxes are structured, so I don't see how that's supposed to support your claim that "taxing the rich based on their wealth/property/ and income then you are in fact incentivizing them to buy bigger factories rather than yachts".

> Businesses are being ran not based on whether or not the goods are being sold or valuable, but rather whether or not the speculators in the market think it's good or valuable.

I don't see what the issue is. We don't have a crystal ball that tells us "whether or not the goods are being sold or valuable", so the latter is the best we have. How else are we going to allocate capital? A central economic planning committee?

>The entire point of stock isn't bigger factories, it's to enable bigger yachts.

If you want to be reductive, sure. If you want to be even more reductive, you might as well go with "Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power".

>Right, but as you point out, that's not what the rich are doing. They are instead buying paper that does not feed back into the economy.

The people who invest in VCs, PE, and private credit are most definitely not "buying paper that does not feed back into the economy". VCs and PEs directly fund startups and other businesses, and private credit funds infrastructure projects and other corporate spending. Moreover, even if spending $100 to buy shares in Tesla doesn't directly cause $100 being spent on battery gigafactories or whatever, doesn't mean it "does not feed back into the economy". You're paying off a chain of investors, all the way back to the investor who participated in Tesla's IPO, who did directly fund Tesla's factories. Claiming otherwise makes as much sense as "buying an apple from the grocery store doesn't feed back into apple farmers, because you're only paying the grocery store".

>We have inflation above target because businesses have merged and consolidated to the point where they can aggressively raise prices not because they need to but because they have the general population over a barrel. Collusion and speculation is a big factor in a lot of the inflation.

Source?

>That's not universally true, after all egg price inflation has been due to herd culling for bird flu. It is however fairly true and something that businesses are bragging about during their quarterly shareholder meetings.

Executives bragging about how greedy they are is basically the equivalent of rappers bragging about all the crimes they've committed in their albums. In both cases their audiences like them to sound as greedy/criminal as possible, so they oblige. Securities law makes the former can't straight up lie about stuff, but the incentive structure is the same.
Opinion: Your shower head is lying to you about pressure
> maybe if someone rewrote it in rust it would be sexy again?

They have and it's called jujutsu :-)

https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj

OK, it's not a Mercurial clone, but it did take some features from it, and using it will feel more like Mercurial than git. And you can use it on git repositories, so you can have your cake and eat it too.