skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you tell me a programmer wrote a thing in a month, and another programmer wrote a similar thing in a year, I'd assume the 1 month project is easier to understand and work with.

Fast programmers writes most shitty code, yes, but that is because fast programmers writes most code period. I have seen nothing to suggest that an average slow programmer actually produces quality code when given the time, it seems to be the opposite, most slow programmers have terrible mental models and create even bigger messes if you give them the time to do it.

Are there slow programmers who produce quality code? Yes, but in my experience those are the exception and are even rarer than fast programmers who produce quality code.
I'd agree with you entirely if being salaried actually meant anything these days.

As in, you receive a fixed amount, regardless of the hours you worked, could be over the typical 40, could be under.

So, if your company is good at recognising that the "could be under" part is the fair payback for the "could be over" times, then that's awesome, and I can see why you're a fan.

My experience of salaried positions is more one sided.
The difference is that ANNs make approximations. It could be manageably small and learn an approximation of the PRNG code that succeeds for a large number of outputs, even if running a fully accurate network is impossible. I think the complexity of the PRNG recursive algorithm , when unrolled through time for large number of steps, is the relevant complexity here. The ANN is not necessarily trying to devise a new function that recovers the seed.
Not in my experience, personally. There's a fair few artists who have art accounts on mastodon.socal and the related mastodon servers - especially handy for NSFW artists of all stripes.

two examples:
https://mastodon.social/@kradeelav
https://mastodon.social/@chirart
> People have a right to reach out to their representatives. Corporations do not have a right to reach out to people's representatives.

This is the assembly dilemma. How do you nullify rights for a group of people without nullifying it for individuals.

Tell me how you you would word a law that makes it illegal for corporations, groups of people, to lobby without making it illegal for individuals (or small groups thereof). Then I’ll tell you how I’d pay for those things alongside a similar, coïncidental bump in compensation. Then you’ll tell me how you’d ban that. And we’d go in circles, all the way until the right has been—practically speaking—extinguished.
For a curious Wikipedia journey, I can recommend starting with the reigning UK monarch[1], then keep clicking the predecessor's link repeatedly. Marvel as the images lose colour, turn to paintings, then statues, drawings of painting (noting Henry VIII's power stance), statues, drawings of statues, tapestries, well-worn coins, then eventually evapourate into myth somehwere in Wessex.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II
Xi Jinping’s Evergrande dilemma has repercussions far beyond China
When traditional cultural institutions openly back the pornography industry what does that say about the future of culture?
> "Pump[ing]" by buying something is entirely legal.

I beg to differ. The Securities and Exchanges Act of 1934 criminalizes all sorts of things that are deemed market manipulation, and inflating the price of a security by false trading, i.e. selling it to yourself or a conspirator, is one of the very things it was created to prohibit.
> Look at El Salvador: in 6 weeks since officially adopting Bitcoin as a currency (next to the US dollar, not replacing it mind you) the number of people that now have "wallet" software running on their phone is already lager then the number of people who over the past 20 years were able to open a bank account.

A few things.

First off, a "wallet" is really a bank account, albeit one at a shadow bank (i.e., unregulated bank). In the case of the Chivo wallet, I think I read somewhere that it's actually storing the USD not as USD but as Tethers. I don't have independent verification of that off-hand, though.

Secondly, the numbers of users are being quoted by Bukele, without independent verification. I have some skepticism of the veracity. Although I will note that the Google Play Store indicates "1,000,000+" downloads. Opening a Chivo wallet came with a $30 giveaway, which gives a motivation to open one up just to claim a pretty sizeable prize--and also a motivation for scammers to do it for you, hoping you won't notice.

Thirdly, there's evidence that it's being little used. More recently, they "negotiated" with the largest gas stations to give a 20¢/gal discount--suggesting that use without promotional offerings is poor. And 93% of businesses report not having anyone attempt to use it.

Overall, this suggests that the adoption of Bitcoin hasn't been a wildly positive success.
Nuclear is immensely more efficient and safer and better for the environment than any other option including solar, wind, coal, or gas. Every nation should be working towards increasing their nuclear power production, not reducing it.
Spirit is a parser combinator. That's if you want to design a whole language from scratch.

My library is for single-name commands that can take simple parameters. You can't define your own language here.
A one person experiment? Zero mention of social factors of depression? 250 million people with depression just need their brain shocked regularly? Sounds right for HN.
I've just barely bridged it. Cubicles were better I think. It wasn't real privacy but it was at least something.
What are you even talking about? Plenty of languages were around then and C dominated all of them because it let people write great software.
> HDPI/250 dpi or better > Linux compatible

I would not recommend getting a 4K. I have the 4K Dell XPS 15” and I wish I got the normal screen instead. Too much time wasted on resolution problems with some apps on Linux, and it only came with a touchscreen gloss finish - bad mistake.
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> You should not have to read the documentation of features you do not need to discover they’ll take down your system if you forget to configure them.

Yes, you should totally read the documentation before using a library and then blaming it for a memory leak bug.

At the very least you could read it before launching such an expensive troubleshooting operation.
more technical presser: https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/ucsf-health-s-customiz...

The paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01480-w
I'm not even truly rural and I have never used any of the food delivery services. There are deliveries I could get but nothing I'd want.
That would definitely incline me towards it a lot more, but I'd have to see it first.
From a practical point of view the software works pretty well (I've got M1 Air, Big Sur) but I can understand if people want independence from Apple.

It seems that virtualized Ubuntu with UTM works ok: https://youtu.be/hnwK-nkXolc
The thing with the woods is actually because of the woods, surprisingly enough. BT often counts on signals bouncing off solid objects of which there aren't really enough in the woods (at least for signal bouncing purposes). You'll encounter the same thing crossing a wide street in the city where your signal might cut out in the middle of the street.
offtopic but just want to say...I have been programming for a long time, but not being much of a gamer hardly ever noticed what was happening in the gamedev world. Thanks to covid, I started poking around out of curiosity and joblessness and its been great.

I have always used coding as a sort of escape?/theraputic tool to kind of shift mental focus off negative stuff out of my control to something positive and controllable. It really helps reenergizing my batteries but beyond a point (esp in the open source world) I get pulled me into drama that again drains energy.

But feels like there is something different about gamedev compared to other forms of coding. I dont know if its a younger more enthusaistic crowd or something else...havent put my finger on it but I always feel much better after a session. Was wondering if others have noticed a diff?
And animals. Milking cows, feeding chicken, killing chicken and all that were done by women, at least here.

By men too, it is not that men slacked. And a lot of work was physical and superior strength mattered. But there was ton of work all the time and even kids had to be useful.

The situation in which you have full adult boring her brains out being idle was not historical norm except for richest classes.
It's more like "if you convinced the other players to sit in front a mirror"
Does anybody have a real case study about the benefits of using constexpr? Everyone is raving about it but their examples of where to use it are absolutely trivial (e.g. return 1+2) and I can't really think of any real-world programs that would attempt to do such computations in a non-dynamic way.
Cory Doctorow writes a fictional version of this topic well in one of the short stories in the book Radicalized.
Time-tagged ticker tapes for intracellular recordings
Eh, after our chip fab burned down, I was part of the recovery team sent into the (not burned down, but technically part of the same building) computer laboratories. Basically our remit was, identify key machines or paperwork that needs to be retrieved, ensure anything that needs to be running is restarted, stay away from the access corridors into presumably unsafe sections leading towards the destroyed fab, and if you see anything that is out of place in a normal office building that just suddenly had its power go out (e.g. smoke damage or actual smoldering debris), retreat and report what you saw to the team surveying the damage who are trained to go somewhere actually dangerous.

Anyway they ordered us pizza and I thought that was nice. It felt like a team activity, and pizza is a team food. Also you're wearing gear, so having pizza brought in saves changing. And the insurers are out the price of a state-of-the-art chip fab, so what do they care about buying us pizza?

But obviously I'm not working unpaid overtime, the job is the job, if I need to put an extra hour in to ship the code today I can do that, if I need some time to wait for a plumber tomorrow I'll just take it, if you've got a two person job you need to hire two people not expect me to do more.

If your workplace has work-life balance problems or you feel under rewarded for your work, that's not because pizza is the problem, that's a whole separate problem and it's exactly as weird to blame pizza for that problem as it would be for management to think pizza can solve it.

In the UK at least I believe the tax rules mean the business can justify the expense of taking everybody out for food and fun (e.g. pizza and bowling, or golf plus cheese and wine if you're determined that pizza is for children although personally I would take pizza and bowling) say once a year so long there is a business purpose to the meeting, so e.g. you spend an hour attending a presentation about the corporate mission and financial projections with little relationship to your actual job, then you spend the rest of the day eating and hanging out.
> Not having a yatch or even a mansion, does this make his wealth more or less palatable?

It's not a new trend. Tech Billionaires in the US have been restrained with their purchases for quite some time, hoping to avoid the social hatred associated with the expensive toys.

At the same time the rise of publications such as Forbes Billionaire list and Bloomberg index made it sure to quantify wealth down to the last cent , so the public started hating the number. It's worse because only a limited amount of individuals sees a yacht or a mansion, but the big number nowadays everybody knows and they can do the math in their head about how exponentially richer a person is compared to the median American.

For billionaires it's the perfect time to buy toys, mansions etc. Because such purchases lower the big wealth number, thus diminishing social hatred

Just like when Zuck decided to wear hoodies to standout in a crowd of suits, now everybody is wearing hoodies so it's time to suit up.
They could also host these on their own website, but of course that doesn’t sound as flashy.

We are subject to American Puritanism because Europe has failed time and time again to create competitive social networks because of regulations and scarce access to capital. Better complain about that.
It is illegal to jam a cell phone's EM signals, and it isn't because of the jamming's effects on the specific phones, but because of the jammer's unauthorized transmissions in regulated radio frequencies. The FCC takes their job fairly seriously, especially when someone makes a product that is designed to break their regulations. But, the FCC has no jurisdiction over sound.
Some people--me included--believe that centralized systems for basic things are bad because of their single points of failure, whether physical or merely administrative. If you believe that centralized databases have value, and you believe that decentralization has value, then decentralized databases sound useful.

Honestly, most centralized databases are used for silly things you would disagree with also, and the ones that aren't are often used for financial services that you are going to claim are somehow not ok when decentralized but totally fine when centralized :/.

FWIW, I've been using it as a fully distributed replacement for the Tor directory servers (which are run by 9 people as a form of charity, with no plan when I have talked to them for how to deal with people coming by with crowbars to threaten them) and then people pay for their bandwidth (allowing for both fair allocation of resources and well as incentivization of supply), which of course fundamentally requires a programmable decentralized currency (which is itself just a program running on the programmable decentralized database).
Anecdata but: I bought the 16" MBP when it was first released and have never had a problem with it (or with any of the work-issued MBPs I've been issued in the interim as well). I had a butterfly-keyboard MBP from work for a couple years and while I didn't like the feel of the keyboard (I'm happy with the post-butterfly MBPs' keyboards), I never had the dust particle issue with it.
That’s also the sad part. It’s no longer about taking pride in one’s craftsmanship and caring about the end-users experience. It’s about cranking out janky products to make money.
You'd have hated cubicles too, before open office became the norm. Cubicles were the open office of their day. Before them, it wasn't uncommon to have an office with your own door. Or at least sharing a larger office with another person.
I know a ton of people who speak English and I know literally no one who speaks Swahili: that doesn't mean that no one speaks it :/.
Part of me wonders if the “Super-Rich” have some sort of insider knowledge that is leading them to prep for the end of civilization. In reality, i imagine it is more than likely an excuse to spend money to feed their own neurosis.
Dear super rich US CEO type people, Aotearoa New Zealand isn't your lifeboat. And you have a unique way of irritating the locals.

Perhaps use your resources to stop your own country sinking.

Cheers.
Or New Zealand. With your own landing strip. And jet.
If your kids like Spot It when they were younger they (and you) may enjoy Set (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1198/set) when they get a little older.
Anti-union propaganda or actual goldbricking? This story doesn't have enough detail to support the latter. It seems like it just tries to stir-up class warfare. What it underscores is that not everyone makes a livable wage, and it's only been getting worse in the US.
Regarding the implementation of this, I am surprised by the use of the least significant bits of the local ref count to hold what are essentially flags telling whether the reference is immortal or deferred. This sounds like a ugly hack, and as pointed out by the article, will break existing C code manipulating the count directly without using the associated macros (although arguably, doing this is unspecified, and really it's their fault).

My guess is that this was done for memory efficiency, but is there really no way to have the local refcount be a packed struct or something, where the "count" field holds the real ref count and the flags are stored separately? I have no understanding of the CPython internals, so it may very well be impossible, but I would appreciate someone explaining why.
Why is this nectar for HN? When I saw the headline I just knew it would rocket to the top.

Serious question.
> Can anyone who's witnessed this transition weigh in?

Sure.

If you don't like the way you are treated in your organization today in an open office, you probably wouldn't like the way you are treated in one with cubicles.

Cubicle environments could be soul crushing (see the movie Office Space). They offer a bit of privacy, but noise, interruptions, a boss peering over your back at your screen unannounced could all still interrupt flow and focused work.
I'm having TMS done for 9 weeks starting at the end of this month for treatment-resistant, endogenous depression. Wish me luck.

I'm considering doing a ketamine treatment too.
This week in KDE: Plasma 25th anniversary edition is released
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“The style appears to serve as the illustrative arm of an intentional deployment of cheerful minimalism to mask the insidiousness of multinational tech corporations with friendliness and approachability.”
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/dont-worry-these-gangley-armed-...
The ingredients are not the only cost. Labor (time), rent, etc. all go into margin.

A loaf of bread bakes for 30-60 minutes. A pizza bakes for 3-10 minutes, so you can bake a lot more pizzas than bread loaves in a day. You can probably also sell more pizzas than bread loaves in a day.
I think most people feel a lot of anxiety over the future. Any members of the super rich who are donating a lot of their money to social causes, A. Don't remain super rich, B. Are probably less likely to have ever have been super rich, and C. Aren't reported on in these kinds of articles.

What you're left with are the people focused on "me and mine" over "them and theirs", and couple that with the vague unease most of us have over the future...you get this.

For perspective, I've known working class preppers too. Lots of survival skill practice, storage dedicated to large amounts of shelf stable foods and water, etc. They're just not as 'interesting' to warrant as much reporting, as even though they're spending the same percentage of their income on it as the super rich, it's not as extravagant.
Watch HBO's Silicon Valley and then consider that they really had to tone it down to make it believable as fiction.
I knew very little about OnlyFans, and when I went looking for more information I found this line on Wikipedia:

"The website [OnlyFans] has been criticized for hosting child sexual abuse material, though the National Center on Sexual Exploitation reports negligible numbers of incidents in comparison to Facebook."
> the Darwin family

I can't speak for the entire clan, but Darwin and his family were generally not eugenists and were instead strong abolitionists.

https://medium.com/science-and-philosophy/charles-darwin-on-...
I mean, some art is adult!

Anyway it's less of a moral thing and more economical. Facebook sells ads next to user content. Anything that advertisers are unwilling to risk appearing next to is on thin ice.
This is great news. At this point they are just looking for producing polyethylene without CO2 emissions, and the H2 byproduct is just a bit of cherry on the cake. But pyrolysis can be taken to its logical end where you fully remove all the hydrogen from the hydrocarbon molecule, and only carbon is left, which can then be put in long-term storage (like old mines, or simply landfills). The hydrogen is then burned to get electricity without any greenhouse gas emissions.

This is not economical right now, although research is active [1]. But any R&D investments in partial pyrolysis will certainly bring us a bit closer to economical full pyrolysis.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cite.202000029
Just sleep/hibernate/restart/shut down, as far as I can remember? - sleep vs hibernate being a distinction you want, in my view, as the battery drain/restart time behaviours are different. I'm sure I don't need to explain why separate restart and shut down options are a good idea.

(Never liked not having the sleep/hibernate choice on macOS. I know better than the computer what my upcoming plans are!)
Didn’t Arizona just undergo a very thorough audit from people very determined to find alleged fraud? Why didn’t they find the fraud you describe? I mean, they very loudly claimed they were going to prove fraud occurred and then went through a very public humiliation when they couldn’t after 6 months. I would think if there were a mountain of easily provable voter fraud just waiting to be found for anyone willing to look, they would have found it. Or is it your contention that even they didn’t think to investigate this?

It’s just very frustrating to me that these kinds of claims have been made for decades, and actual laws are being passed predicated on these claims being true. Yet every time evidence is requested, it never turns up. Either this widespread, endemic fraud is so nefarious and perfectly executed that it can’t be detected, or it doesn’t exist at this point.

Why isn’t it incumbent upon the people making these claims to prove them in court? Why can’t they do that? Massive fraud has been alleged at the highest levels of government and they can’t go in front of a federal judge and say that plainly. A lot of people are quick to make claims of fraud in front of cameras, but in front of a judge the word ‘fraud’ doesn’t leave their lips? Why? Until they argue a full-throated systematic voter fraud case on the scale they claim openly in a court of law, I don’t see why anyone should entertain these ideas anymore.

It’s time to put up or shut up with the evidence. Millions of dollars spent, an entire party singularly devoted to finding and preventing fraud above any other legislative agenda, private corporations have been paid millions in taxpayer money to investigate this fraud. Privacy and voting rights are being trampled on in there name of finding and preventing this fraud. It’s not enough anymore to sit back and humor the people making these claims. Millions of people believe it exists and that has been perpetrated on a grand, international scale. There should be mountains of evidence that this kind of activity occurred but hardly a scintilla can be found. Why? because no one is looking hard enough? No. It’s not found because it is not there.
> no coil whine. I never even thought about this before my Dell.

Fuck Dell for not fixing this for a decade - it is a number 1 complaint on forums.
Other way around. Cultural changes have driven companies to build broad catch-all moderation because that’s what the loudest demand.
The discreet lives of the german super rich (2019)
1. 1920x1200 display at a minimum. 3:2 is even better as long as the width is still there. I don't care if there are black bars on my movies, I want a tall screen. There is no technical reason to require a squinty screen ratio in order to get 2 documents side by side.

2. The things I touch don't suck. decent construction, rubberized plastic or aluminimum, decent keyboard, decent trackpad.

3. Reliable components. No killer wifi. I will check the arch wiki to make sure linux won't be death by a thousand papercuts. I don't mind if there is some setup as long as I can put that entire setup into a single shell script. I don't need a discrete gpu.

4. memory and ssd cannot be soldered.

5. anything else.