skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that my entirely factual and accurate comment, with a source, is downvoted so heavily.
Until people stop living poorly and dying young, making the oldest people live longer just isn't very important, and the extreme difficulty makes it a bad investment.

It may be that advances and improvements that help yound lives also help old lives. If so, great. But there's no need to focus on the extreme corner case.
The big tech giants have used this marketing ploy that "older workers don't understand new tech" to undercut them at almost every opportunity.

I honestly have no idea why they are allowed to get away with this in the media and public opinion. Maybe because older people don't know new tech, so they think older programmers don't know it either?

It's insane to me that an older programmer with decades of experience and multiple language fluency is somehow "worse" than a 25 year old who has been programming professionally for a few years at best and probably knows fewer languages.

Tech companies think they can get away with it because they do exactly what IBM did, fire all the old hats, then hire back the ones they really do need at cheaper, contractor rates.

It's pretty revolting to me.

Sure there are old people at these large tech companies just collecting a paycheck and really aren't better than the younger guys, but it's clearly not to the extent that IBM would make you think.

Another reason why I won't ever work for a large company again.
I agree with your overall point, but you don't need swiftui to develop for the mac/ios.
The attitude that different vendors can create independently run services is still alive, now with better security.

But not on major mobile devices, at the moment.

In the banking world, it appears to be getting slightly more open. There are more independent feeds and open standards than there used to be. This is a mixed benefit as there are also more "middleman" sites that want to read your banking data to help you visualise it better, and some of them might not be doing it just for the benefit of the account holder.
Wouldn't they be cheaper as businesses invest to use less carbon over time.
Haha, this possibly explains why the accuweather app is not the best made app ever.
Great guide I hope you do more in the future!
Any software developer using any software released by Apple within it's first 2-3 years is a free beta tester.

Swift's core team recently found out that they don't understand the type system they've created - they were fixing compiler 'bugs' for months without getting anywhere, until one of them finally realized hey, I should probably attempt to understand what we've built, not just 'fix' a never ending stream of bugs we seem to be having.

Turns out, the type system they built guarantees 100% that type checking is undecidable (in software developer terms, you can crash the compiler by typing perfectly legal Swift code and nobody at Apple knows how to fix it without breaking existing code because they didn't even know they built a language that has this property up until very recently). They figured this out after announcing a stable ABI by the way. Upon discovery, some of the core team members said the discovery was great/nice work.

It's not like we have people who use mathematics to prove properties of type systems without any shadow of a doubt or anything. I wonder how many of them are working on Swift or are employed at Apple, within their multi-billion dollar R&D budget... I wouldn't at all be surprised if the answer was zero, given that it was a software developer who knew a little math who made this discovery.
Yeah, I instantly know which company you're talking about...

I know a couple of developers there and as far as I understood all applicants have to do the IQ test. They also thought it was ridiculous, but the CEO really really likes them, so it stays.
Don't confuse 'stupid' with 'self-interested'.
If you mean raw IQ, the brightest minds often lack the wisdom and good judgment necessary for sound political leadership. Orwell wrote eloquently about this, but unfortunately I don't remember where so I can't find a link.
> the app asked me to log in with Facebook to get the credits.

These places (facebook, google, etc) really need to separate the "login with ____" button with a "authorized ___" button. Several times I've tried to login using google only be greeted with a permission request, such as READING ALL OF MY EMAILS. Even Dropbox requires you to give them permission to your contacts if you want to login with google.

When you're not paying attention it's really easy to miss this kind of thing. So much so that now I prefer creating an account traditionally using a generated password.
True, but why even do that when you have Netlify/Vercel/Firebase giving you a better service for free?

For example, with Heroku you don't get a CDN. You can setup Cloudflare but it's an extra step. If you're setting up a SPA you don't get re-routes to index.html either.
My initial reaction is that this reminiscent of the AMD-ATI deal back in 2006. It almost killed both companies and comparatively, this deal size is much bigger ($40B vs. $6B) for both a more mature industry and companies involved.

$40B is an obscene lot of money objectively and what's the endgame for Nvidia? If it's to "fuse" ARM's top CPU designs with their GPU prowess, then couldn't they invest the money to restart their own CPU designs (e.g. Carmel)? My inner pessimist, as with others here, is that Nvidia will somehow cripple the ARM ecosystem or prioritize their own needs over those of other customers'. Perhaps an appropriate analogy is Qualcomm's IP licensing shenanigans and how they've crippled the non-iOS smartphone industry.

That said, there's also examples of companies making these purchases with minimal insidious behavior and co-existing with their would-be competitors: Microsoft's acquisition of Github, Google's Pixel smartphones, Sony's camera lenses business and even Samsung, which supposedly firewalls its components teams so the best tech is available to whoever wants (and is willing to pay for it).

I suppose if this acquisition ends up going through (big if), then we'll see Nvidia's true intent in 3-5 years.
I agree with your counterpoint, but you don't have many other desirable options.
The author and I have both been in the iOS community for over a decade. We likely have similar opinions that SwiftUI is interesting but still in incubation phase, and that the majority of SwiftUI's focus has been iOS support.

So a post showing how v2 of SwiftUI's limitations is a useful read because it's a reminder that it has more to go on the Mac - I expected that, and I bet he did. So it's positive in the sense that he wasn't disappointed, but that it met the (admittedly low) expectations of the author
Meh, if the tech workers lived in the city it would just be "gentrification". There's no winning.
As others have pointed out this deal is absurd. Its not about user data its about manipulation of the US populous through unknown algos by the Chinese Communist Party. They're all over western social media as well with cells and bots. Both things should be dealt with.
I think it's A) because it's Facebook. and B) because this type of scam is very prevalent, and no-one wants to be stuck with the numerous bills for it.
I don't know anything about Emacs Lisp. Why is it "objectively bad?"
There's many things that stand out

1) Google Playstore allowing someone to impede on the TikTok brand.

2) The app getting 10k+ fake reviews. At this point can you trust the review system if it can be so easily manipulated?

3) "Strangely enough this is possible without getting any emails from Facebook." Facebook security is weak here. You shouldn't be able to change ownership without explicit 2fa verification. oauth tokens can be easily phished. password + 2fa device is much much harder.

In general the trend I see is that Facebook and Google are driven to making ad purchasing as frictionless as possible. Having scammers, click-farms, fake reviews on their platform is good for them, it helps them make more money. They'll happily tradeoff human oversight/support and security for automated algorithms that optimize $$$ growth.

Apple AppStore is polarizing. Some feel it has too much control, but on the other hand I find a lot less scammy apps in Apple AppStore than Google Playstore.
Aren't those just knockoffs rather than fakes being passed off as brand name Apple AirPods?
What news did you see that was disheartening? The only story I was was that helm is being put to pasture, but that's very separate from Emacs itself.

I think Emacs has missed some of the excitement of, say, VSCode because until recently it hasn't had many opinionated guides to using it (like Spacemacs or Doom Emacs). I've overheard a lot of conversations like:

New user: OK, got it installed! Now what should I do?

Emacser: Anything you want!

New user: I want to write Python. What's a good way to do that?

Emacser: Here's 47 similarly named but substantially different Python modes. Choose the one you like!

New user: Which one do you like?

Emacser: I started with one I found in a GitHub gist, then modified it to do remote editing over a 3270 terminal. You should check it out!

New user: ...

There's a lot to be said for the VSCode approach of "here's the golden path to doing ${thing}. Once you've learned it, you might try the alternatives to see if some are a better fit for you." Alternatively, consider the analogy of a Linux distro that gives you a well configured KDE or Gnome environment, but that lets you switch to another DE once you've been using it for a while. Now Spacemacs and Doom Emacs are providing that experience to new users, and I've heard more excitement about Emacs in the last couple of years than in the previous decade.
Vim is a whole different thing. The popularity of vim is mostly the popularity of the vim way of editing text, regardless of environment. Emacs, on the other hand, is popular as an environment. Vim, or something with "vim" in its name, will remain popular as long as keyboards remain popular. Emacs can only live as long as the intersection of the set of people who are enthusiastic about natively-extensible editing/development environments and the set of people who are enthusiastic about lisp. It's not going to live on as a set of keybinds, that's for sure.
They lost me (I switched to Spotify), the problem is that now that I have cancelled my YouTube premium, YT is INCREDIBLY PAINFUL with ads.
Isnt this assuming coal / gas powerplants ?

Wouldnt solar / Wind have a smaller CO2 foot print and hydro electric be more efficient ?
Hey guys! I'm one of the co-founders of Hyax along with Jack Paxton. I'm on the product side, so please let me know if you've got any questions about Hyax. Happy to answer them!

We call ourselves Shopify for digital creators. So we give you the ability to sell digital products / courses / memberships along with your regular eCommerce products.

To that end, we've built a pretty robust system for developing your courses & memberships and building out your ecommerce storefront.

This idea came to us when we realized that the space for ecommerce had several holes. Generally people use multiple plugins to solve these holes, but plugins are highly irregular and have security flaws.

We give you the ability to run marketing funnels along with your store, post-purchase upsells, order bumps. You can also sell subscriptions and set-up payment plans.

We also prioritize a beautiful looking UX and the ability to really customize your store.

Also A/B testing out of the box as well.

In essence, I built out the store that I wish I had as a marketer / entrepreneur.

Happy to take any questions =)
From my anecdotal experience working in data centers early in my career, you really don't really know if your failure rate for a specific type of drive/server is atypical for quite some time. This information is critical for many businesses, as choosing which drive or which architecture model can have profound cost implications.

It's quite possible that failures at the 5 year mark wont maintain a proportionate ratio with failures at the 2 year mark when compared to control. Maybe drive "A" tends to have an unacceptably high failure rate only after "X" hours of up-time.
Do you realize that you just wrote a post about your virtuous outrage viz. your life experiences, without actually explaining why biodiversity is important?
Not many coral reefs off of Orkney.There's Lophelia pertusa but that only grows at > 100m depth, whereas this data center was placed at ~30m.
None of it has produced anything or has produced minimal gains. Seriously, look at the rate of actual improvement. Li-NCA existed more than a decade ago. Since then the best batteries have barely gotten better. Peak energy density has moved by around 1% per year, which is by any metric a crawl.

Scientists are making the mistake of chasing hype, not practical gains in energy storage. Fuel cells are on the "S" part of the cost reduction curve. Despite the difference in funding, we will see extremely fast forward movement in fuel cell technology due to this.
Sure although I'd guess having all your advertising campaigns paused (as there's no billing info anymore) would annoy many people especially if they didn't notice or weren't aware it happened. It may in aggregate be cheaper for Facebook to just eat the cost of refunding these things versus providing more friction to their users.
I know this would be tough and take a long time but we could have 2 extra planets with enough work.

1. Bombarded mars with junk (everything from the astroid belt and some rocks from the kuipler belt) to raise its mass to somewhat earth level. We'd have to be careful not to mess up Mars's orbit too much.
2. Slurp some of venus's thick atmosphere into a massive space tanker
3. Dump the atmosphere onto Mars++
4. Let time and some engineered bacteria/plants clean up the mess

That's my long term goal if I become immortal.
I've worked at companies where older people are rarely seen, but I've also worked at companies where older developers are the norm. In fact, I started my career at a company where I was one of the few people under the age of 40.

I don't have any statistics to support this, but I've wondered if workers tend to congregate by age groups at different companies. That is, if employees prefer to work with coworkers around their same age, they'll tend to move to companies that match their own demographic. If you're not in that demographic, you'll see fewer of those people around you. Obviously this doesn't apply to everyone, but it's a factor at some level.

Geography plays a big role, too. If you consider "the industry" to be high cost of living areas like Silicon Valley then people will naturally self-select out of the area as they start raising families and growing older. Move to a more family-friendly city and suddenly it's more common to see diverse age ranges working at companies.
"A net gain" implies that savings in a youngster's salary exceeds the losses due to their inexperience. You're saying you know how all these add up in the neterprise?

I sure don't. I doubt most employers do either, since IT productivity is notoriously hard to quantify. Generally, it's more important to know what not to do. And that's something that only comes with time -- making mistakes and learning from them.
I usually upgrade by recompiling the OS. Minor updates only take a few minutes to compile using filemon and the WITH_META_MODE=YES environment variable. The advantage is that it's easy to maintain out-of-tree patches to the source.
You should, it was the best decision I ever made - comfort and simplicity of writing ObjC (Dart) with an _amazing_ UI toolkit (that hopefully SwiftUI will eventually be if/when it grows up)
Compare and ponder:
https://www.clf.org/blog/all-landfills-leak-and-our-health-a...
Read Mastery by Robert Greene. For a shorter version, watch the video on it by Talks at Google
Why can’t Britain act in the national interest over Arm?
Yes, make facebook news feed default to first in / last out, and let users upload community created filtering algorithms so they can decide whether they see certain news/sites etc. or if they just see their grand kid’s picture (and if there are none, they would probably log off of FB quite quickly, which is why FB does not offer this as an option now)
Dodge vs. Ford Motor Co.
Wait so they effectively imported items into the country themselves, punished you and made a buck on it? Wasn't the purpose to prevent counterfeits? Or did they trash the adapters and auctioned the main item only?
Ask HN: The opposite of resume-driven development
I think most of us can agree we have or know someone who has done some sort of resume-driven development in the past.

My question is, what would be the opposite of resume-driven development? That is, what are the most boring yet reliable languages and frameworks out there? What stuff doesn't change yet creates solid software year after year?

Would the opposite of learning a cutting-edge JavaScript framework for deploying server-less AI blockchains on cubesats be Java? Could there be an argument for Common Lisp as it has been around the longest?
They've been compromised at the hypervisory level before.
Passion + Time = Become an expert!
I was an originalist on Emacs and totally agree. I tried Spacemacs and then doom and got to throw away 80% of the customizations I'd acquired over the years.

The only thing that pushed me from Spacemacs, which is a nice distro, to doom was Spacemacs instability. I needed some things from the beta channel and it lived up to its name.
I spent a month working on a SwiftUI app back in April. I hit a point where I was frustrated that I was wrestling with the limitations of the framework. I put the project on hold and was considering moving to React Native or UIKit.

I revisited the project after WWDC and found that some of the things I was frustrated with were improved and others just required a break and a fresh perspective to figure out. I recommend SwiftUI.
Especially scummy when they've also broken the functionality of the back button and all the links are to other BBC articles.

It's like the main function of the site is to trap you.
How to Trick a Neural Network
Um, amendments are in fact in the constitution. That's what an amendment is - a change from the original text.
I will apologize for the snark, It's monday and I've been in the lab and away from my coffee. I agree with you on principle, humans are apex predators, we are remarkable efficient at fast procreation and finding ingenious ways to outpace every animal/shrub/bush we don't directly exploit.

That being said, I find this a difficult conversation to have online, because "responsible restriction of childbirth" isn't something anyone short of dangerously dictorial, can fathom to hope to achieve. It's a non starter, therefore we have to approach the problem from a end that's not so...thorny..

It's easy to say, "let's just thanos this and get it done" reset at another few thousand years..but the hard question is who gets snapped?
> These wrappers can cause issues, and as they’re written in Swift, there aren’t many possibilities to fix issues from the outside (unlike with swizzling in the earlier days).

I assume based on this Swift code can't be swizzled for some reason?
Zhenhua Data leak: personal details of millions around world gathered
The fuel tax generally doesn't even cover the full cost of roads. It doesn't even start paying for carbon offsets.
Ask HN: How do I motivate myself to leetcode
I am a back-end software developer who worked on right from PL/SQL to AWS/GCP based projects in top (non-FAANG) companies for 15 years. Now I see come of my collages (mostly with half experience) are easily moving to FAANG with just few months of leetcode. I tried several times in the past but never could motivate or focus to solve problems and practice. I can probably answer most the theoretical questions and solid use cases in my previous project experiences but can't probably solve problems in 45 mins during 1st few round. How do I motivate myself? All my previous jobs are either due to project/cloud experience or strong references. How do I get into FAANG? Even some other god companies and internal transfers required leetcode I guess?
Out of the box - A/B testing, digital products delivery, course creation, upsells (including post-purchase), order bumps, subscription billing, paid blogging/ memberships, and more.

Our weakness right now against Shopify is we have less features on the physical product side - like 3PL integrations, but we're building those out as we see more people need them.
Did you mean Taiwan, the place which adopted western notions of governance and has implemented de-sinicization policies for the past 30 years, including the recently condensed history textbook?
There are hot thermal vents and underwater volcanoes throughout the oceans. Creatures adapt. The oceans are huge. Yes, if they place them in ecologically fragile environments that would be a problem —the solution is put them offshore where they don’t bother anything.
I think everyone should watch it. I think there can be a lot of good done on a platform like Facebook, if it's goal wasn't to get you hooked. If it had real moderation of content.

The proliferation of fake and misleading information has clearly caused a lot of harm to the United States and I'm sure other countries as well.
There is one group politically that wants to prevent people from living they way they want, and it is not Rural people
This is correct and shouldn't be downvoted. You can like capitalism while acknowledging its faults.
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
Some things are self-evident, but difficult to quantify.
the "non-proliferation treaty" ?
saying ‘at scale’ is being unclear, because it seems to be implying that we should consider what would happen if we put every data center today underwater in the same spot, which is what no one is thinking of doing...
Or the opposite -- draw a diagram from a k8s config file.
Exactly, the natural world, nature is disturbing and messy and it is hard to like it. I want conservation to the degree I want to breathe and eat so I do what I can to be green and invest in green tech.

I don't think my life would change materially if I was on a hypothetical space station with very good life support. I suspect the difference is an emotional connection?
Its very unlickely anything would be plugged in here, the outlets are located under desks, behind TV's etc. They are also the only decora 15a outlets in the house, everything I do new is 20a, so you'll identify them pretty easy
Great Source for WebRTC Live Streaming- Vey Useful for Your Projects
Goddamn it's hard to build stuff with Airtable. I tried building a spreadsheet like thing with a couple of other web services for things like images and locations along with user access controls and it was such a pain. Ended up push it out to a custom service in a Droplet which did most of the work.
I just jumped to emacs from vim last week and this was one of the reasons, yes it is possible to display images!

I wa salso curios about org-roam but I'm letting it sitt for a while
> Assuming the 100% comes from the same power source, it's still only 25-30% "worse".

Fair point, I guess my argument makes more sense if we were discussing moving naturally occurring heat out (i.e. household ac) than with respect to cooling a datacenter.

Nitpicking the numbers used in the estimate... is probably not worth it. Every bit of it is a very rough order of magnitude number. If you're somewhere with 95% renewable energy it should be an order of magnitude better, if you're somewhere where energy production is dominated by an inefficient coal plant it should be an order of magnitude worse.
Working for me now.
== hiring and income are heavily taxed, but not the same can be said for businesses.==

Same is true in the US. We just changed to tax code to make it even more beneficial to be a business over a salaried-employee. Did you apply the same skepticism for the US numbers?