skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone once told me that programmers should not complain about their "already high wages", because they have it good. They're well paid, have benefits, and they sit at an air conditioned desk. While I don't disagree with that statement, it's always bugged me because in the bigger picture I feel like this is not true, and especially the part where devs should not be able to raise grievances due to the claim their wages are high.

If you look at it from the business perspective, devs are part of company that built the product, which they then go to market and make profits from. Profits that can be in the hundreds of millions. Why shouldn't the devs and the other workers (both engineers and the other company employees that helped make the profit happen), be paid well for it? And in certain companies where profits are in the billions, shouldn't those employees be making a lot more then? A lot more than what they're making now, that is, which means devs are not so well paid relative to the profit margin. The same goes for any profession too, waiter and line cooks at restaurants should be making more; their work directly contributed to the restaurant's profits, and should be better compensated than they are now, instead of this 12$/hr across the board without regard to profits.

If you look at it from the economic perspective, we can go with the claim that programmers usually make more than the average job, sure. But 'so well paid' is kinda relative at that point. We're 'so well paid' relative to professions that are not so well paid, and keep in mind that the other professions have been around a lot longer than software (ie waiters). Wages themselves have not really increased on its own for the working class over the years, a lot of it has been artificially forced in the form of minimum wage by LAW. So if everyone else is making terrible money, and we as devs are considered to be 'so well paid', then maybe we aren't really 'so well paid'? Basically the other professions are artificially being kept lowly paid, so in comparison of course we make a lot. But if we factor in appropriate wage gains over the years for them, devs should be making a lot more than what we have now.

Haven't thought of it much more than that, but the thought always comes when someone mentions that devs make a lot. Anyone else have these kind of thoughts?
Solid! Congrats on the launch
I think GUI libraries which offer C bindings are easy to wrap in other languages, that is why I like Gtk a lot. In my eyes, it works especially nice with Go. Tk should be easy to wrap for Go to, but usually one would prefer Gtk, when there is a choice :).
Yes on both counts. In roughly 2013, the shared office building I was working in installed a BTC vending machine. It advertised itself with a graph showing BTC rising close to exponentially, with a strong implication that it would keep doing so, which immediately made me think “irrational growth optimism, probably doomed to bubble and burst”.

Had I spent £1k of spare cash then, I would now have enough to buy another house.

EDIT: And I’ve just now remembered that someone gave me £0.50 of BTC as a “thank you” on Twitter, which I sold to a friend for £25 and which is probably now worth £250.
"we're supported by advertising" (pervasive surveillance and tracking)
I think optimizing layout or at least attempting to minimize the amount of crossed conveyors is most of the issue.

Comparing Factorio to Satifactory (basically a simpler Factorio but in 3d space) - component layout gets a lot easier to optimize since you can essentially float rando chunks of logic in random parts of the sky - Factorio does have an interesting mod[1] to allow what's essentially a black-box subroutine but the majority of the headache is trying to build a relatively compact (and thus defensible) layout while also allowing yourself the room to re-tool the setup as needs change.

Building absolutely can be automated - there are a lot of self-replicating structures out there, most of which automate the forward deployment of defenses since that's a real issue you're going to need to deal with.

1. https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Factorissimo2
It theoretically could be, sure, but in this case it's really not. There's no software "secret sauce", this is just a difference in hardware's abilities which makes perfect sense when you look at their specs.
My brother-in-law and two friends of mine played a big part in the assembly of the rover - I am so stoked for them to finally see it in action.
Rowan Atkinson: cancel culture is 'medieval mob looking for someone to burn'
If this had passed and become law, how would that have even worked?
Which confuses me, as it follows a statement about how energy has been deregulated.

Of course, deregulation would also reduce some of the incentives for maintaining preparation for "100 year winter" storms. Much like how hospitals reduced the number of beds based on their average case loads, not the uncommon-but-not-unheard-of peaks.
That's the problem. It's not an addiction. And by saying "kind of addiction" or tip-toeing around it we confuse the issue. Addiction is a real thing with a real definition. Providing a service people like is not addiction. Social media is not addictive. Heroin is addictive.
Stress is probably higher risk. Notice your triggers and integrate stress reduction at that present time. It's sort of reprogramming your self. Not into NLP though.
My 2019 Insight (Civic hybrid) keeps me perfectly centered in the lane when I’m going higher than 45 mph
I use https://github.com/clvv/fasd which has all the functionality of z but with some other goodies as well.
> Maybe having more nuclear power plants instead of wind would have helped?

No. Most of the missing production was not wind, and several nukes went out (unclear whether that was because the grid was dying though).

What would have helped was proper standards (avoiding emergency being much of the reason why Texas still has its own grid) and properly winterising.

The wind thing is just a bullshit excuse, the vast majority of the missing generation is in fossil power plants. Even with half the turbines frozen over (which still has to do with Texas’ lack of proper winterization, those things work fine in Canada, Washington State, Montana, etc…) wind performed above expectations for the period.
that's not true. We will hear from them again. Read my reply to the previous comments
Out of interest, what makes you expect generics/any other lang changes to release with 1.18? Are there sources or other indications you can share?
You are welcome It totally is not an easy decision and I think you are right to call it hard as there are truly pros and cons of each side and it is just which do you want to do more.

Good luck!
> as mining network consolidates and it gets harder to acquire more power, it becomes urgent to support the price by finding other sources of value to attach to the chain being mined.

The amount of power used to mine a bitcoin will always raise in the long run so that the power costs approximately the same as a bitcoin at industrial electricity prices, less a contribution to the mining capital (e.g. the ASIC miner) and margin.
Wow, please tell us more. What did they work on? Are those technologies ITAR restricted?
Could we have? There is no way to determine that mining didn't create the demand for renewables that would have not existed otherwise.
ONLYOFFICE and NextCloud can do a whole bunch of cloud things, both for personal and business use, although I guess you could mention several things that are great in GSuite and not offered at all by these two.
Uber loses (another) $6.8b [is not viable; will never turn a profit]
This is why I laugh anytime someone asks me if I am worried about AI taking over all the jobs. Lots of hype, but in reality we are about as far from general AI as we were when we were knocking rocks together in caves.
The forefront of the Bitcoin frenzy isn't even on the blockchain, it's at the exchanges.

Hardcore tech people and those who don't (or can't) trust institutions with their Bitcoin will pay the transaction fees to get their money out of exchanges and into their own wallet. The average retail investor, however, doesn't want to be their own bank. They just want in on the price action, while letting the exchange manage their money. Does anyone really think the person buying crypto $100 at a time in their Robinhood account wants to pay $18 (current average transaction fee) every time they want to move that BTC into their wallet? Of course not, which is one reason why Robinhood doesn't even have an option to withdraw Bitcoin.

As with any frenzy, the misinformation being circulated by people who want everyone to buy Bitcoin is getting out of control. How many average people buy Bitcoin because they think Bitcoin is the only way to avoid losing purchasing power? Meanwhile, everyone else has been protecting against inflation by purchasing stocks, real estate, or virtually any other investment long before Bitcoin was even invented. (Yes, I'm aware of the 21 million maximum BTC cap). The current Bitcoin narratives are more like a religion than reality.

That said, Tesla's Bitcoin purchase does make a lot of sense. Elon Musk went on Twitter and called Bitcoin "BS" to drive the price down so they could buy at a discount. They then announced their Bitcoin purchase with fanfare that drove the price up, marking a quick return on their investment. They used Elon's influence to make a quick profit on the frenzy.
Is that relevant though? ;) I don't think "using mobile phone as a wireless headset" is a primary use case for low-latency P2P apps and I certainly wouldn't propose using PulseAudio instead of such apps for, well, low-latency P2P communications.
> "100 year winter" storms

It’s like the third time in 30 years.
Not here though. Part of being a good HN contributor is learning to resist the temptation that comes up, when hitting the most provocative part of an article, to rush to the comments to address it.
I don't know that we know enough to know that. It's certainly true that there are "natural" VOC's that can be harmful, and man-made VOC's that are not known to be harmful. I wouldn't necessarily presume that sensitivity is directly correlated to harm.
~ish. I imagine it would be probably quite a struggle for them to even get a billion back to fiat given how impactful selling that many coins would be to the current price, combined with the fact that I suspect if coins in their wallet start to move in any capacity, that will likely cause some reaction by other people.

(I have limited cryptocurrency knowledge so that may be all hogwash)
I like all your points, but I think them all kinda... irrelevant?

Being 'dinged' what could easily be more than $150k is a penalty that is almost certain to have massive repercussions on someone's life. Even if we assume complete guilt, full knowledge of the law, and willful intent to disregard it to do the job... in what world is it sane to economically trash someone's life over a mistake like this?
Especially when the implementation is completely different and have nothing in common with Swift. Go took the ADA route with incomplete type instantiation (with the bonus of type inference).

No, it's just people complaining about generics for the sake of it at that point.
I read this the same way
I had 2700 dollars of computer equipment stolen from my porch (behind a gate). I used the camera footage to get the police to write a report that NewEgg needed to refund me.

Depends on your neighborhood. Some neighborhoods have a 1 in 2 chance. The footage showed that the culprit tailed the USPS delivery person on foot and waited about 15 minutes.
Pine64 is a probably a pretty close second. For example, many of their boards are supported by upstream Debian [0], which isnt true for the RasPi devices.

[0] https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm64/daily/netboot/SD-c...
It’s bad faith to pretend slavery is the same as a limited time monopoly to incentivize people to create things.

Imagine you’re creating a new country and you want people to make things, how can you incentivize this? One way is to give people who make things a small time where they can make money from their creations, especially in cases where creating the thing requires a lot of capital investment (drug discovery). In the case of patents, you want them to share the detailed specs on their inventions with the public rather than keeping them secret. This way people are incentivized to share their inventions with the public so they get the protection.

Without copyright the bigger players and distributors make all the money. The only model possible is some donation based scheme which doesn’t work for high capital investment projects. Without patents companies keep everything a trade secret. There’s a lot of stuff in the modern world that would not exist in this one and a lot of people that make their money creating things that could not do so without IP law.

Is copyright law today broken? Yes. Are software patents in particular stupid? Yes. Is copyright and patent law broken from first principles or in conflict with useful incentive structure in society? No.

There’s nuance and complexity here - people like to make everything simple and one sided, but it’s not: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PeSzc9JTBxhaYRp9b/policy-deb...
Gold is short term volatile as well. Long term average is all that matters to be an effective value store. Its like a more volatile gold right now through price discovery.
is this the wakeup call that texans need to acknowledge that climate change isn't a coastal elite type thing, and that it affects us all and requires investment from all of us?

imo texas is in a great spot to capitalize on the shift to green tech. they have strong engineering talent, large investments from the energy sector. car manufacturers are already clamoring to be the next to go fully electric. get your leaders in line and cash in on the trend, and save the world in the process! or go the way of detroit when oil demand tanks...
Except you can't spend it very well and would be crazy to borrow it. Imagine the disaster if there had been a large market for bitcoin loans a few years ago.
The other aspect is that, as someone approaches 51%, there is increased incentive for everyone else to prevent that from happening.
> currency is a winner-take-all market

You are aware of other currencies,let's say the Euro, right?
Yeah, which is one of the reasons why I continue to not buy into the whole thing. The only reason there is any temptation at all for me is FOMO from the rising price, and that's a terrible sign. Worse, it comes with a bunch of negatives, slow transaction rate, huge power cost, etc.
Where would one build them? Since the USA has no long term nuclear waste storage plan, the current plan is to store at the plants for the most part which is a huge NIMBY issue.
IIRC Texas went mostly in on gas/wind because of prevailing prices for the different fuel/plant options. This article gives a bit more data about current generation sources in Texas. https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2021/02/16/tex...
Also, the alternative coal plants had pretty big waste/cleanup issues with existing plants in addition to costing more based on projections last time I remember reading about this.
As someone that has last used microwaves on a regular basis when they just had two dials, I could see the use for Alexa to figure out how the more more modern ones with like 40 buttons work.

The first time I tried the office kitchen microwave, I had to ask someone from accounting standing around, how to heat my cup, because that stupid thing just responded with a condescending beep to whatever I pressed :/
> Why not just buy a small amount of bitcoins now, something you won't mind losing?

Once people stop having this mindset the price will stop rising.
Market is open. Go wager.
Nydig Files for Bitcoin ETF, Adding to Firms Hoping SEC Finally Says 'Yes'
This is the first time since the eighties that we have had weather this cold.

Edit: why u booing me? I'm right!
Yes, the human nose has evolved sensitivity to sulfide substances produced by bacteria that spoil food. For example, the humans can barely smell 0.001ppm of dimethyl sulfide (from decomposing vegetables) and 1ppm of formaldehyde [0]. Human noses are three orders of magnitude more sensitive to the relatively safe dimethyl sulfide than to the dangerous formaldehyde. Formaldehyde can harm you even when you can't smell it (at 0.1ppm [1]).

[0] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00022470.1969.10...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formaldehyde#Safety
I just enable zeroconf discovery and allow network access in PulseAudio on my laptop and my phone, so both devices automatically see each other as a regular audio device. You can do that from UI via `paprefs`.
Very inspiring essay.

But:

> This was the closest thing I've had to a normal job, and I hereby apologize to my boss and coworkers, because I was a bad employee. ... Toward the end of the year I spent much of my time surreptitiously working on On Lisp, which I had by this time gotten a contract to publish.

Looks like he really was a bad employee. Not sure yet what conclusions I should draw from this.
I'm holding a tiny amount of BTC, but this has been my reason not to invest more. I know that at most I might be comfortable investing $20K in Bitcoin now, but that's literally it. If that amount increased 100x, it'd be $2mm. A good amount of money but by no means life changing to the extent that I will forever regret it.
I think the main issue here is that the defendant is using images of the copied work to self-promote. She's making money because of this image.
Somehow sounds way less impressive when you put it like that.
I just switched (literally in the last hour) from Lastpass to Bitwarden. Quick painless import and works great across iOS, Firefox (browser extension) and native client.

Free and open source (client and the server too if you want to self-host).
You call a function to register and deregister a region of memory as potentially holding pointers to Gc-allocated memory.
> So I guess I'm trying to understand what it is about fascism in particular that preoccupies us--why are we on such high alert for fascism specifically, but we don't seem to be concerned at all about other ideologies which incorporate many of the elements of fascism?

Fascism attempted to exterminate races its adherents disapproved of and started a world war. It is perhaps unsurprising we view a combination of political philosophies and tendencies optimised towards achieving those goals as more alarming than other political philosophies which incidentally have a characteristic of fascism like preferring an economically self sufficient state or lacking some commitment to some aspect of liberal democracy.

I'm not sure why you refer to the well established concept of horseshoe theory in the one breath and ponder the possibility you are the only person who sees things this way in the next. Though perhaps nobody else is prepared to take it to quite such reductio ad absurdum extremes. Sure, it is well established that Soviet communists who had gulags of their own were amongst the most vocal antifascists and the Nazis were amongst the most vocal anticommunists (except when partitioning Poland...) despite some similarities, but Soviet communists are not exactly a significant portion of the people criticising America in the last five years.

If you genuinely are "trying to understand better and not offend", may I politely suggest you stop with ridiculous false equivalences like 'perhaps one could argue that "people of color" is their "master race"', as if somehow a bunch of mostly white people arguing some non-white people need some special protections is broadly similar to planning the systematic extermination of 'lesser' races.
I guess, unsoundness sounds concerning.
But is undecidability? When this is an issue, it's always because someone worked to do some really elaborate or general compile-time computation. It seems a lot (literally too much) to ask that you can do really unrestrained type-level computation and also still always have termination.
What is the standard rate for putting a Disney character on a cake?
Functional code as usually written in D doesn't have this problem because people are aware of this - most compositions are extremely lazy, allocations are trivial to group together because of allocators in the stdlib
Another idea is to take them on a trip with no electronics and internet. Camping or a cabin. Maybe with another family or friends so the kids can play together. That way they can see life without roblox and youtube and the change in scenery helps with that.

The pandemic has made this a little harder to do though.
You cant spend it well? Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, Circle are all supporting it.
What Is MySQL Data Replication versus Clustering?
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0 is now generally available
(Edit: never mind I forgot how this works.)

That shows past HN front pages (in sort of a weird time-lapsed version that never actually existed) for particular days. How would you use that to get to past threads about a topic?
If Induction Cooktops Are So Great, Why Does Hardly Anyone Use Them? (2019)
Yeah, that seemed a bit of a stretch. Maybe a stronger case could be made for blueprints as functions, and blueprints that execute other blueprints as higher-order functions.

(I've played a lot of Factorio, but haven't really delved very far into the more exotic things that can be done with blueprints and circuit networks.)
Also just switched and the whole process took about the same time.

Amazingly painless import of literally hundreds of accounts including my "Secure notes" and credit cards and such that I also had in Lastpass.

Works great on iOS, Firefox and native that I've tried so far.
No, it seems from the article it's a clone.