skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be comfortable with a car that only attempts self-driving after having driven a road 3-5 times. And only below certain speeds such that the likelihood of a fatality/serious accident for myself, a pedestrian, cyclist, or other driver - would be very, very low (<0.00001% etc.). If that meant the car driving back roads and avoiding even busier town streets, and drove 30 miles an hour max, there are certain situations when I'd be fine with that.

As long as a car can handle all scenarios at 25 mph (a kid running out into the street with a ball, and anticipation of more complex events that would require pulling over and passing back control in an easy, non-jarring manner), I would think this still makes sense. What would this do? It would force new street creation (and perhaps extra shoulder space for pulling over) for these slow-ass autonomous vehicles.

But we'd all be safe and able to work or do other things during our commutes or on the way to do errands, etc.
Indeed! C++ got std::variant, Python got....some sort of pattern matching, so there's hope?
Well, what is there to do about it? A fool and their money are soon parted. Must we coddle them at the expense of everyone else?
Cost of living in India is low because of the large population. A generation or two from now things will look very different when there's no more dirt cheap labor to go around.
Where is the evidence that the outcome is desirable or a solution?
Green/renewable/sustainable aren't complete synonyms. As a shorthand people consider huge natural sources like the Sun that is already outputting whether we tap into it or not (same with geothermal) differently than more limited ones like oil or uranium deposits. We'll probably change the language if we ever get into megastructure or solar-system scale engineering that blurs that distinction.
I feel like something like Blitz.js is a better comparison instead of Next.js. Next.js is still very frontend focused and does not have a lot of key components needed by a full framework like ORM, Authentication etc.
Why can’t technical solutions help to simplify/ease the social problem? It’s clearly not the only thing required, but it would provide some major relief.
They make everyone uncomfortable because everyone knows they are the answer in the end but it shifts women out of a role. Things are taboo for a reason.

A robot seems far away. VR seems closer but right now men are falling in love with women providing the faux girlfriend experience through fan experience sites, cam girls, custom videos.
In my last two jobs I fail to see that my employer got more value out of me than the expenses of paying me.
I've successfully run Java/Go projects with huge amounts of code without a lot of degradation in any direction whereas Rails seems to quickly come to a stopping point compared to other platforms. I've written my side project which is now at a huge size in Elixir, I'm yet to see any degradation so far. I'm sure Rails would have been a pain by now. Sorry I don't have much Node experience so can't comment.
Many redundant layers are used to prevent and/or detect security violations, but “don’t install random binaries on prod machines” is a basic tenet. If you need certain tools to do your job, deploy them via proper controlled and audited mechanisms, not via scp.
Brain Invents Your “Self”
We're Calibrating a Skills Test for Data Scientists
"It's a form of White Collar / 1st World Corruption"

Dear lord, is this The 'first world corruption'? With corporate profits at record high? Amidst *checks lists' rampant corporate tax avoidance, runaway climate change, balooning executive pay, unaccountable executives who's create Boeing Max or 2008-style events every few years
Money in politics
Survaliance capitalism, exploding house prices, (add whatever else bothers you)

Is this really the corruption that will destory the first world way of life?
It seems like everyone in tech does this. Someone has a mind blowing feat of engineering, but leave out the part where they cheated and arguably lied about it because "it's just some minor detail that doesn't really matter"... For some reason they think these are bragging points that put them above all other engineers.

"I built a calculator completely from scratch by myself with no help" (by importing calculator.*)

"I invented my own cloud microservice in a language I wrote completely myself" (It's hello world split in 2 files on google drive and the language is just JavaScript but it you added a "framework" (it's single method) that already exists in the wild but your version is slower and worse)

"I built my own computer" (by buying a prebuilt computer but swapping out the ram, or buying an essentially prebuilt computer but it comes disassembled)
I think it indicates that the gold price is manipulated. If the cost of milk has gone up, why hasn't the cost of gold?
This is a weird defensive reaction. There are a whole host of things that have a negative result that don’t lead to you experiencing violence. Is it not obvious that people will become disgruntled at double standards out of principle?
He might have said as much publicly but the reality is that India was a lot closer to the USSR so LBJ thought it was despicable that they were coming to the US asking THEM for help
I love Typer, it's my go-to tool for building CLIs, but I'm worried about its future. It's developed by a single developer, there are too many issues left unattended, no development for months, lacking a good API to extend it or to interact with Click.
They just gave you a huge sign that they want to let you go. The paperwork has already been filed, they are just waiting the legally appropriate amount of time to fire you.

Clean up your resume now and start applying for new jobs.
I beg you to give OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE, in the form of Gecko Linux Rolling, a try for a much more polished experience.

Tumbleweed, like Arch, is a rolling release so unlike the Debian based distros you'll always have the latest drivers and updates (development progress on Linux moves fast so why be stuck on outdated packages? I really can't in good conscience recommend PC users Debian/Ubuntu distros for a great experience), but unlike Arch, it's without sacrificing stability since its packages are tested so it's much less likely that an update will break something.

The developer of Gecko Linux Rolling, takes Tumbleweed and makes it desktop friendly by including non-OSS repos, non-OSS fonts, and non-OSS codecs plus other tweaks and creature comforts that turn make it easier to have a pleasant experience after the installation.

Trackpad is still not as polished as Windows or Mac but that's universal on Linux except Elementary OS.
Individual Contributor.

Means that you're only writing code, not managing people at all. It's the opposite of a (pure) Engineering Manager, who only manages and writes no code / produces no design.

Most mid level people (for example L6-L7 at Google/Facebook) are simultaneously managers and engineers, thus somewhere between IC and EM.

Almost all low level people (L3-L5) are ICs, almost all high level people (L8+) are managers/directors/executives that produce no technical solutions themselves.
Canada Post Delivery on Weekends and Holidays
How did the Enigma Machine work? (2021) [video]
Are you a young boy growing up with all of this toxicity spewed upon you while you're blamed for the problems of the world? Seems like you have one very narrow viewpoint and think it applies to all "white American males".
Anyone know if AT&T has a program like this? I’d be curious to know so I can opt out as well
Wait till you read up on Churchill's involvement with India. Some of it puts the Nazis he famously fought to shame.
Three weeks? It took me 6 months to get a dependency installed and they didn't even install the version that I requested.
I notice it much more when we're near the equinox's, not sure if that is a correlation to light or temperature.

I am always upfront about my strengths and weaknesses. My manager and team accept that I can go forever on some simple things, because they know I'm going to do a good job in the end, and because I am always there to help someone struggling, or fix an outage. I tend to be given projects that are expected to take a long time anyway, while junior engineers get the shorter projects with the expectation that they'll ask me for help. It is a bit annoying when I want to work on something, and my manager says "let's see how long this takes you first."

I suspect your managers understand your weaknesses, and have decided that your strengths are worth more.

I suspect part of the problem is the standup culture of expecting a daily report. I used to have a bi-weekly meeting where we went over how things were going on all the projects. I was so much more productive on that system than I am in agile with all the meetings. Starting the day off by remembering how little you did yesterday is just a bummer. In the older system I would wake up early and work like 15 hours once or twice a month, and that was my most productive time. I can't do that now, because I know I would have to stop to get on a meeting.
> I also think it’s hardly traumatic

This sounds to me like people who tell people with clinical depression to "just cheer up, it worked for me!"
Every time I open the site and it pops up some weird "subscribe to this and that awesome content" in my face, I immediately close it. Each time I really hope that owner has some analytics set up and they will learn that having this thing is not a good thing to do to your readers.
Windows 7 still the best Windows.
This just links to a generic e-book page
OK. San Francisco, the fourth largest city in California, can't be bothered not to elect this evil person. Happy?
I'm the parent - I agreed with pretty much everything you said.
Not sure how much detail you are looking for, but I think essentially it is a term rewriting system.
Not sure this makes sense. The biggest driver of family size seems to be lack of birth control or religious beliefs. Wealthy people avoid having children because they either expect too much for their kids or are enjoying their child free lifestyles. Meanwhile, in the US many children are born to the poorest portion of the population.
> I am a sample size of one and have not yet been the victim of a hate crime.

But "hate crime" is very flexible. Lets look at something more objective - acts of violence:

In 2012, blacks committed 560,600 acts of violence against whites, and whites committed 99,403 acts of violence against blacks, according to data from the National Crime Victimization Survey [..] Blacks, in other words, committed 85% of the interracial crimes between blacks and whites, even though they are 13 percent of the population. - https://www.city-journal.org/html/window-depraved-culture-14...

The National Crime Victimization Survey is just that - a survey, and does not involve the police, so the results can't be blamed on police bias.

But as you astutely observed, you didn't see it on the news.
Interesting. We moved from Druid to Clickhouse for exactly the same reason :-)

https://timeflow.systems/why-we-moved-from-druid-to-clickhou...

Clickhouse is significantly easier to operate than Druid in my experience.
It has little to do with birth rates and more to do with the Indian governments closeness to the USSR. LBJ thought it was ridiculous that India would vote against American interests in the UN and then turn around and beg for food
I lived in the Netherlands and admired how they offer a SSO service called DigiD for most—if not all—national and municipal services: personal tax, business tax, healthcare, pension, water, garbage, police and many other service portals. Yes, there is a nice online police portal where you can digitally file a police report, get a declaration for insurance, and ask questions.

You also get a digital inbox—Berichtenbox—to organize and centralize all communications from those agencies.

It is difficult to overstate how much life is made better when the government is well-organized and that organization is exposed to you through good UX. I'm now back in the US, it's been 2+ weeks since my renewed passport was supposed to have been mailed to me, and no one at the State Department knows anything.
Society raises children. The state provides qualified parents for children which allow the parents to work and live and keep spending. You could say parents belong with their children but parents outsource raising a child now to daycare, school and social groups.
I used to do that. Chose an IT career path specifically that would allow me to bullshit and collect a big paycheck. Worked for a decade and a half. But I became so disillusioned by the stupidity of it all that I decided the only way I could stay in that job was to begin caring deeply about my work and trying to find a way to make a real positive impact.

When I started to apply myself, it turned out that I was one of the 2-3 most skilled people in the company. Which made me angry, because it meant that I could see all the problems, but I didn't have the power to change them. So my only option was either to climb the corporate ladder, or quit. I'm currently going back to bullshitting, and looking for a job where I either work fewer hours, or can really care about the work and be passionate about it. But there's very few jobs out there for co-ops, collectives, and groups working for real social good.

I think it's fine to bullshit a job if you are not hurting anybody. If your bullshit forces others to work harder to make up for you, I find that unethical, like leaving your garbage in the street.
I guarantee his 0 hour days (mentioned in the post) are infinitely less productive than his peers' 8 hour days.

In the real world, someone who is 4-8X more productive than their peers is also significantly more senior and therefore paid significantly more. You don't see seasoned experts on the same teams as inexperienced juniors all getting paid the same.

In my experience, the best team cohesion happens when everyone is putting in similar amounts of effort.
> Now, my biggest complaints are around i3 and X11. I get some flickering

I've started experiencing flickering in non-compositing window managers on Arch a few months ago (I mainly use Openbox, although I've tried dwm too) after some update. My solution was just to run `xcompmgr &` at the session startup.
That's pretty much it. Obviously any unencrypted sites can be sniffed, but those aren't that common anymore.
"Literally a colleague I had over for dinner last night left his job, and the primary reason was 'many of my higher paid colleagues are not doing anything'"

Surely if this was actual Fraud he should be filling a police report or lawsuit?

Surely the all-knowing free market should punish companies that pay people to do nothing with its3 all powerfull invisible hand?
Sure you have your opinion but without bringing some level of objectivity to the conversation, it really doesn't mean much. Have you developed a product on your own before? When I have I am usually DYING for feedback of all kinds. Typically that's why people put things on hacker news.
How does that make Pelosi particularly gross? That applies to any person that’s well off.
not sure if they can do it but Mercury.com (online bank) allows for API access and wires that cost nothing. Might want to check out their APIs and see if you can do something like what you want to do abovee.
Ask HN: So who else is getting a pay cut this year?
Inflation over the past 12 months ended October was 6.2%. I got a 1.5% raise. I will be compensated 4.7% less next year than I was this year. Even better is that based on the typical raises they give, it will take years for me to recover (or a 7% promotion).

Anyone else sharing my pain?
Gaming on Linux gave up on trying to build native ports and Valve put some real effort into making their Windows compatibility layer that sits on Linux good.
Can you provide a source or two for these claims?
Most likely, yes.

In a previous century: https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/07/26/nietzsche... Nietzsche’s Transformative Typewriter and http://stunlaw.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-author-signal-nietzs... The Author Signal: Nietzsche’s Typewriter and Medium Theory.

But then:

> The case of Henry James’s move from handwriting (typewriting) to dictation in the middle of What Maisie Knew has been studied by Hoover (2009). Yet, according to the NYU professor, the author of The Ambassadors took this sudden change in his stride and, despite the fact that we know exactly where the switch occurred, stylometry has been helpless in this case; or, rather, can show no sudden shift in James’s stylistic evolution that continues throughout his career (Hoover 2009).
How I learned to stop worrying and push to master
https://htmx.org/examples/
I don't think that's paradoxical at all.

This is right in the EU's backyard. If it were to heat up they'd actually have to deal with things like refugees and the possibility of war spreading to their members. They probably also want to be very explicit about their (lack of) obligations in this case, I mean people are already acting as if this calls into question how steadfast they'll be in defense of eastern EU members.
This is still monogamy - its just social monogamy rather than genetic. Many animals are socially monogamous, especially among primates and some monkeys are even genetically monogamous.

Let's be honest you're trying to use a nature to excuse behavior most find unacceptable - there's risk residue if Christianity in that. I see this a lot in these appeals - you're essentially arguing that if you can show someone thing is natural it's beyond question. However, anthropologists admit that most human societies have developed monogamy of one form or another, with exceptions only for rulers.
You forgot the part where you fail to make any money and then get a job with new skills a big tech haha
I share your worries, but I think it will be just fine. There are two reasons I have for that:

First, the Go community mainly comprises people who love simplicity and got accustomed to it. I imagine most people who want to go overboard with generics will stay with languages that let them go way more overboard.

Second, and more importantly, there's no method parameterization, which saves us from monadland.
I didn’t read the article. Glad I scrolled down this far, my care for this is now 0.
I'm not who you replied to but I use ag and it's pretty fast (faster than grep I think)

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
You are getting downvoted but in 2021 that’s precisely who is having the most children in developed countries. If you look up birth rates by income bracket the trend is clear: poor people and broken homes birth more children than wealthier professionals
Not arguing with the fact that costs are high or worse than in many other countries. Just replying to the statement that TMo's lowest package was $60/month.

I currently use them as my mobile carrier and they have options for 5.5GB-"unlimited" data for $25-50/month.

Nothing more was implied.
PHP clicked with me for 15 years. I was extremely reluctant to use Node/Express because it required me to be more nuts-and-boltsy, I liked how PHP just did everything (like multi file uploads from forms). What one me over about node was that PHP never forced me to develop with module patterns, it was just brute force, spray code everywhere and walk away (we all did that, actually, which made support a nightmare). It also came with robust CI/CD testing (Jest is a big deal once you get over the step-function). Perhaps PHP has all of this integration and testing, but I'm so into node now that I don't really want to go back.

And I see very little reason to pick Rails over PHP over Django over Node!

Whatever works for your team is what matters. I bet you could find a Fortune 500 company that uses any one (or all) of those.
If you count social monogamy it's pretty fair to claim we have
It would take a lot of progress for me to bet my livelihood on WINE functionality for niche software (whose customer support I pay for, and whose support agents would hang up on me the moment it became clear I was having trouble while not running on Windows).
You also earn money by selling the energy. This is cost of good essentially.

We pay this in Germany not as a flat rate but indirectly by a very low price offered by the grid company.

$8 however seems quite high but I do not know the offered price and solar output in California.
Darwin called for you.
Is Any Establishment Media Article About Tech Going To Act Like 2011 Was a Decade Ago?
Wow, I just tried it and found `gopass show -o ___` works perfectly to scripts that want just the password without any null bytes or newlines in it. You've converted me. Thank you for mentioning it, I never thought to look for a compatible drop-in.
This is so true.

Early in my career, I was in a big organization, surrounded by people like this. Our direct manager was not competent to assess their work output on any technical level. He might not have cared anyway, since the true measure of management is how large your pool of subordinates is.

It was truly soul-sucking to be surrounded by such mediocrity. I'm all for work-life balance, but having counterparts who accomplish so little is demoralizing.

I can almost convince myself that there's a strategy in it -- with 15 people doing the work of 3 people, a very large bus accident will probably have very little impact on business operations.

It killed me though. I left and went into consulting for a few years. Then startups, where 3 people are expected to do the work of 15. Which can be its own problem, of course!

The aforementioned co-workers? Still at the same place, and honestly they're probably pretty safe (financial industry, revenue is barely affected by macro economy). Goodness help them if they ever need a new job.

EDIT: Nowadays, I hire and manage people. My expectation of the team is to be "productive" about 20hrs/wk, ebbing and flowing according to personal life flux, but making an honest attempt to give the rest of us enough to rely on.

I hope to hire the kinds of people who will use some part of the remaining time to reflect on how to improve something, somewhere -- sometimes including our work product or processes. This is where the interesting stuff happens, when it does.
How would you build software like this without RDF and the Semantic Web?
This video shows how RDF and SPARQL can be used to create interactive mash-ups from Linked Data sources. Try to do this with JSON :) Or even property graphs.

No Web Components, React, JSX, Svelte, Shadow DOM etc. etc. were used to implement the UI, only XSLT 3.0 and Saxon-JS.
It's Fraud when there is payment for services not rendered.

The problem arises when there's little ability for oversight, which implies a high degree of trust in the system and the mechanism for verification can't be there.

Put another way:

If someone pays you $50 to fill their tires up with air, it's Fraud if you don't do it - irrespective of your customer's ability or willingness to verify.

If your customer was busy on the phone, or with their children, would it be 'Perfect Contractually Acceptable' to not fill their tires up with air 'Because You Can?'?

Either legally or morally - no - it's fraud.

Fortunately, most tasks involve a kind of implicit oversight - i.e. 'you know when your tires were not filled'.

In software, the mechanisms for oversight aren't so great - but that should be fine with all of us to the extent that we're professionals - we don't want Management breathing down our necks anyhow. But the inherent level of trust implies a higher degree of professional competence on the part of all of us.

FYI - this is assuming that there is a problem with oversight. If the OP is doing some 'genius 2 hours a week', the company knows it, is fine paying $150K for that bit of work, that's totally fine.

It's disturbing that this is even a discussion.
> There is a market for a language like Rust but with garbage collection and reflection.

That's why languages like JS/TS, Haskell, Elixir, OCaml (which is way more modern than Go), ... exist and are used.