skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would have to assume because it's neither a high-level language, nor a practical low-level one. True in the sense of a language being a labor-saving device.
Mythical Man Month in a nutshell no? He could have dropped 19 engineers and paid 3 engineers more money to make it work.
No it's not fake work, someone has to watch the organizational health, to make sure business goals can be met. Managers report up to other managers because one person can only do so much, and can't feasibly track the complex social dynamics across hundreds of other people.
The general idea, I think:

Run something like this for low latency development. Edit, save, see results, repeat.

In parallel, run the TypeScript compiler to eventually display type errors, inform your IDE with what it needs to deliver great completion, etc.
the biggest thing we could get for the standard that would really help people to animate TinyVG files via a secondary format, without animating TinyVG files, is if you can tag an item with a reference. Maybe do commands 17-26, which are (command n - 16) + an optional 32-bit "reference" field on the top. References are basically "up to the implementor" to do whatever they want with. You might want to also do a command "16" which is an optional "group separator", followed by a 32-bit reference that is otherwise ignored by the TVG engine.

You could probably take a hard line that once you have references, there is no need for any other extension, those are doable using references.

BTW, has someone worked on a js backfill that lets you load the file format in an image tag? I'd be happy to give it a shot with zig/wasm.

Edit: OK, I just found the polyfill.
You could also restrict the allowed XML so it can be parsed/generated without a full parser.
A program that defines what happens with the assets bound to it.
If by 'freedom' you're referring to the freedom to overtake a vehicle, the freedom to escape a dangerous situation, or the freedom to rush to the hospital, I'd agree.
The problem comes with trying to quickly find the balance of sub-accounts. It is common to need to find the balance of all of the general ledger accounts repeatedly and quickly when preparing accounts, or having to find all customer balances to see who has paid. Once you have 10m rows of data (easily done at an sme) this gets very slow indeed. It is common to have a second table that records running balances or balances at period ends to speed this up. This is why transactions are important or you find the individual accounts of the sales ledger control don't add up to the total. Some systems have an 'audit' tool that adds them all back up from the general ledger.
"Corporations" could mean anything from a fortune 500 company to the LLC that John and Jane set up so they could sell cupcakes from a storefront.

Sad to see the HN crowd adopt this attitude as if the presence of the other issues excuses theft because "corporations are the boogey man".
Well considering this has most likely an English origin, it would make sense that someone one of suitably distant but recognizable heritage would be chosen. The English and French has a long history of rivalry so there might have been a joke in there.
> good managers

And that's the key - good managers.

Now, I think that it's pretty hard for most people to identify good vs bad managers, and that's why a lot of people who aren't sensitive to the difference get into the mindset of "management is a bunch of toxic leeches who don't add any value to the company".

Interestingly enough, it's also pretty hard for most people to identify good an bad developers - but most people aren't developers. It's far easier for those that are.

This raises an interesting question - is it harder for managers to identify bad managers than it is for developers to identify bad developers? What about the ease of developers identifying bad managers vs managers identifying bad developers?

I wouldn't be surprised if it's harder to recognize good/bad managers - management is all about abstracting away the stuff under you for the next level up, after all.

But, I also wouldn't be surprised if the problem comes down to something else other than identification - maybe bad managers are more prone to keep bad managers around than bad programmers are to keep other bad programmers around...

It's at times like this that I wish that I had more experience in the corporate world...
Yeah I panned over to the munitions bunkers (I think there is a better name I forget) and there seemed to be so few, but I guess you don't need much space for nukes...
Venezuela went south after the 2001 coup. The only real prerequisite for the country falling apart was factional infighting over oil. It's not any different to half of Africa (often with diamonds).

Though if you ask American investors and their various mouthpieces theyll tell you it was all socialism.

Chile has a similar problem but they are lucky to have an economy that is not quite as dominated by natural resources.
Bacteria can (and do) also produce methane, which is even worse greenhouse gas.
This strikes me as an unnecessarily antagonistic reply.
It's a great market for senior developers in Canada right now.

A lot of companies are moving to full remote for a large portion of their developers. Especially important is that this includes some Bay Area big names. These companies are willing to pay well for talent and don't care where you live.

Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal have historically paid senior developers poorly compared to what the Bay offered. But we devs chose to be here instead because we like Canada, want to raise our families here. Sometimes because of US Visa issues, but not as common as you'd think.

But now we are being offered the best of both worlds. Better pay than anyone previously offered; you can stay in Canada; you can even work from home every day and avoid commuting.

And it's not like every developer leaving Ubisoft is going to Instacart (though I'll bet a few are). The market on senior developer labor is just suddenly more competitive. Every dev with more than 5 years experience is reevaluating their current total comp and listening to recruiters offering more.

But don't worry, says Ubisoft, we replaced those very senior ICs with a bunch of new people. As long as developers-in is greater than developers-out, I'm sure it will all be fine.
Well, when talking about NATO countries, MIGs and older aircrafts - Romania and Croatia still operate MIG-21s [1] :)

And MIG-29s are present also in the Bulgarian [2] and Slovak [3] airforce too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-21#Curren...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_Air_Force#Current_in...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak_Air_Force#Current_inven...
Where I lived until some months ago they usually drive way faster than I do. One memory that stands out is being passed by one driving about 80km/h on a narrow 30km/h road filled with speed bumps, narrowings amd other obstacles. It was a miracle the thing staid on the road.

It was just where all the kids cross the road to school. That was when I changed my mind from "youthful fun" to "ban them".

More than half of all dangerous situation I have been in concerning cars have involved EPA-traktors.

Now whenever one is coming I either walk in the ditch on the side of the road or jump to the other aide of it.

Driving from where I lived to the closest school I was usually passed by 2-5 EPA-traktors, despite driving 80km/h.

I could go on.
Not until the interest accrues. You could (no idea why you would) borrow $1MM and immediately pay it back before owing any interest. You would need to reflect this on your books but nothing material has changed.
I don't take that personally. If I don't hear anything within a period of time then I get they've moved on. There's no utility for them to be in contact anymore with me. It's unprofessional but I get why it occurs and don't feel slight.
I'm guessing it means that nobody actually feeds it or milks it: there's somebody else who can do it.
What they're missing is that the next feature Apple removes, cripples, or otherwise takes out of their control will be one that they care about.

General purpose computing was supposed to be for everybody, not just approved use(r)s. Apple once told me that. It was a long time ago.
Haskell does, https://wiki.haskell.org/GHC/Memory_Management
Maybe this will help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#/me...

Which is probably pulling data from the same source as

https://bjs.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh236/files/media/docu...

Violent crime is another matter, with differing statistics for 2020 and 2021. on the other hand, it has quite a bit to go before it gets from 2019's 379.4/100,000 to 1990's 731.8/ 100,000.

https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm

Here's California, if you want to lay an eyeball on that:

https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/cacrime.htm

Here is a good discussion of the sources of the numbers and so on:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/20/facts-about...
I interviewed at Microsoft around 2010 and had a horrible interview with a Principal Engineering Manager in Bing. He was my last interviewer of the day and the interview started at 5 PM. I had been there since 10 AM and the only "break" I had was a lunch interview so I was exhausted but I was going to give it my all.

Since it was the last interview and he was a manager, I was expecting a culture fit/soft skill interview but it was more whiteboarding. I was surprised but I went with it. I asked some clarifying questions and then I started walking through my solution on the whiteboard. After a few minutes I turned around to ask him a question and he was staring out the window day dreaming. I said "excuse me" and repeated my question. He gave me a brief answer and then turned to stare out the window again. He did this through the entire interview.

I was shocked. I understand that it was the end of the day but it was his choice to have the interview loop keep going. I had given them an entire day and he didn't even respect me enough to give me an hour of his attention.

I didn't get the job but I'm sure I dodged a bullet if that was what the management was like for that team.
If everyone (whenever possible, obviously a trucker or a nurse can't work from home) worked from home, imagine how much better off we would all be - traffic would be less, people would eat home cooked food, less stress, less office politics, no need to pay for office space/coffee/electricity (even toilet paper) ... on and on and on. If I were running a software company, I'd calculate all these savings and pass it on to my employees and retain talent.

I guess the only people who don't like remote is middle management, their career depends on dumb meetings and other such meaningless things. At home, at least we can mute ourselves and do something useful.
I think both esbuild and SWC remove the need to distinguish between a bundler and a transpiler. They both can do both. Esbuild only understands an AST that can "compile" to js, so it does what babel does just in that, can't speak to SWC but I bet it's the same situation.
Good middle management is hard. Bad middle management (as popularized by the pointy-haired boss of Dilbert) is easy.
> What postproduction are you referring to?

Crop a 20 pixel column? Surely we have hardware that can do that in real time today...
NDI is fantastic, having dealt with racks of gear for switching and video distribution before I get excited about the possibilities every time I play with it. Dedicated hardware for bridging NDI to input and output devices is also appearing. It's a lossy solution (the video is compressed, unlike SDI/HDMI) but for live productions I'd definitely be willing to use NDI throughout (cameras -> switching -> recording/projection/streaming).

So long as they keep NDI Tools free. It would be great if they could also eventually build in some of the functionality of Dante (NDI is something like Dante but for video) since the Dante software toolkit is very much not free. I think Newtek has been on the right track.
It's basically sponsored content. They've sunk a lot of money into crypto projects so its general partners will write gushing articles about how DAOs, NFTs, "Web3" are all the future.

Did the same with Substack last year. Post after post about the power of newsletters. If they were so powerful, why does Substack have to offer exclusive publishing deals to well-known reporters and writers?
Past related thread:

Show HN: SectorLISP now fits in one sector - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29047584 - Oct 2021 (75 comments)
Secondary school is one thing but in university, lectures aren't there to build your understanding for you. They're there for one of 3 reasons: 1) auditory learning of the same material, 2) to give you additional material not present in reading, or 3) to give a different perspective of the same material. Lectures are also just not long enough to do the work for you - building your understanding is your own responsibility.

I'm also skeptical about this type of complaint on textbooks. I'm not going to say all textbooks are great but this idea that a textbook is a direct impediment or flawed tool for active learning has had no bearing in reality for me personally. Poor textbooks are poor tools. Good textbooks are good tools (I personally don't find there to be a lack of good textbooks). In the subject I majored in at university, mathematics, I can't imagine any amount of teacher input can take the place of problem sets and time spent poring over a textbook struggling to grok something.

I agree that active learning is a necessary part of a successful education. However, almost all the specific targets of this article to be off the mark. In my experience, lectures and textbooks are not what keeps active learning from taking place, in fact they are what necessitates active learning.

I agree with the stated point, however using the university education style as a target frustrates me, because the critique of Mike this article gives is exactly the kind of objection I might have to to claiming that textbooks and lectures are insufficient for learning. Engage, don't just consume!

On more of a quibble than critique, I think 3x playback is poor as the titular metaphor for shallow learning. Listening to an audio book at ordinary speed I find to be far too fast to allow any kind of useful contemplation, and too slow to retain my interest (possibly due to my ADHD, perhaps others find this easier). If I need to think about something, I pause it. Not all information has equal utility, nor do all information streams have equal density. Depending on the narration and content of an audio book I find listening at a higher rate to often be ideal for trialing information for greater analysis. For something else, such as a video feed of a sports game, real time is often too fast for me to even consume all the information I would like (although when watching a sports game I may be more interested in the experience than tactics or particulars of a play).
I actually love white boarding as it's what I use to design. I find it a way to focus my thoughts and control the conversation. My old office had three walls of white boards though :)
> This is the objection to say a tiny group of wealthy, usually elderly people who can block new housing construction based on complaints about 'neighborhood character'.

Where I live, it’s not a small wealthy group blocking new construction, it’s that the region is already as built out as is legal in most places, and updates to municipal zoning is a supermajority vote so it almost never happens. Most construction happens via petitioning the zoning board for a variance
why are the people in Manchins district are reliant on coal
All the restrictions that were imposed in my country hit everybody equally. Which doesn't make sense from the risk reward perspective. For people in age group 0-30 the risk of death is close to zero. For age group 80+ is more than 15%. Orders of magnitude difference. The government tried to do a lock down for 65+, but there was a huge backlash (why they can go out but I cannot?), so the ordinance only said it's a recommendation for 65+ to stay indoors. Only thing they did is "Hours for Seniors". Only 65+ can go to shops in morning hours - 10-12 am, even though it was illegal.

There is a strong argument that boosters are pointless for young people (or even bad due to small myocarditis risk for young males), but politicians are scared of making mandatory vaccinations for 50+ only.

(Based on an interview with a well known sociologist)
Talk to a professional. For your taxes -- there may be some lesser-known strategies for reducing your bill that only a professional would know. But maybe also see a professional for financial planning. (Just choose carefully; some of them are mostly interested in selling you their own products.)
Depends on the needed resolution. You can cover a lot more earth, far more cheaply with a satellite with several meter wide pixels.

When I used to work in remote sensing I remember that Bing Maps had a very distinct resolution transition from spacecraft to aircraft. Aircraft coverage maps were a small subset of the total earth land area, but most US towns had some coverage at that time (~2012).

As you zoomed in, you could tell when Bing switched capture methods because the aircraft cameras were clearly off-nadir, and you'd see off-angle perception differences.
It's not a "No True Scotsman" because I'm using their definition of "Scottsman". If someone wants to be able to have full control of what goes on the display, outside of the OS, then they have to have a hardware I/O controller on a Mac. Their only argument is that they were OK with what the OS was putting on there because it didn't affect their specific use case. It's only an issue because they don't like what the OS is doing now. It's great if people got lucky in the past and never ran into an OS prompt or an alert from an app (looking at you, Steam) but that doesn't change the fact that the situation is currently the same as it was before Monterey. Anyone who's saying that a dot in the corner makes it "unusable" has to admit that anything else would have also made it unusable yet they chose to continue without managing the I/O of the device and didn't care.
Exactly. All of a sudden debugging human problem is 10x harder than trying to debug your codebase. Multiply that by the number of direct report. Not to mention managers that may not have actual power or have their own politics to battle with.
Jan 6 was a violent attack on congress in an attempt to stop ratification of a fair election. People died in the attack. The instigator remains free and is rallying support. A major party is backing him. That party is actively supporting the lie that the election was stolen, undermining confidence in our democracy in close to half of our voters.

There will likely be more violence following the next election.
How much closer to civil war will it get before you want to call it “close to civil war”?
Or perhaps it isn't really a problem, just a media-fed hysteria.
It is both..... so both the author and you are correct.

Modern concrete has rebar, which eventually gets rusted, and corroded, and fails (in 150-200 years). Also, roman concrete was just thicker/used more material.

Also simple stone survives forever, while brick a bit less, and 'simpler mud bricks' and wood a lot less.

SO, from Roman times, really only the strongest buildings survived, and everything else is gone. So, there is a survivor bias. We are only looking at the strongest buildings, and not the average one.
Maybe you're a super in demand developer in a super hot job market. However for lots of people they don't have the option of quitting on the spot over someone asking a very direct question.

So yes the Manager is protecting them, and helping set expectations for the higher ups.

Replace higher up with Customer and you get the same system. Customer demands something unreasonable, that doesn't get filtered to the team that is working on that feature as it's just a distraction to them. Let them do the job and execute on the roadmap as planned.
Tip: if you can't read some URL, just prefix it with 'archive.is/' and it will take a snapshot of find existing one

https://archive.md/Cr6F2
If Musk gets Starship to work and is successful in driving down the costs of launching material into LEO by another couple of orders of magnitude as intended then you can expect to see an explosion in the numbers of cheap and cheerful cubesats, not to mention experimental LEO factories and general weird stuff floating around in orbit. There will be a massive need for people to write control code and to process the data coming in. Unlike in the past the emphasis will be on knocking out "good enough" code, rather than something that is written to NASA standards, because the hardware being launched will be so cheap and the launch costs even cheaper. It is hard to get a grip on just how much more stuff is going to be up there by the end of the decade, all of which will require software writing for it.
Here’s some great videos on this question from YouTuber ToldinStone - Garret Ryan

Author of Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators and War Elephants

Why was Roman concrete forgotten during the Middle Ages?

https://youtu.be/dbvvlFHCNn4

See also his YouTube series: History of Rome in 15 Buildings

The Colosseum:
https://youtu.be/m6iHR8zqbiM
Whiteboarding is a skill you would use at most large companies. I've driven many design discussions via white boarding on the job. Being able to do it in a job interview shows you possess such a skill for interactive design.
Matrix wouldn't exist without Riot/Element and they are pretty much a startup running on Other People's Money (Amdocs/VCs/Automattic) and it already has someone with strong economic incentives to get it working.

Mastodon (ActivityPub in general) is growing, but I'd say they are still far from being mainstream. When we start having companies using their own instance instead of Twitter/FB to promote their content and when we start having youtubers leaving Google to broadcast their content from their own branded Peertube, then I'd say it has hit mainstream.

> A lot of crypto spaces/experiments have a lot of money moving through them. But the ratio of money to users/disruption seems to be really low.

That comes with the territory in any hot market, and crypto is no exception to Sturgeon's Law. The main point that I would argue though is that is not just about the "money", but rather if these new systems can be sustainable and if they can create new alternatives to the status quo. The best example that I can think of is Brave and BAT. The BAT "economy" is still ridiculously small, but on a bet about the longevity of Brave vs Mozilla, my money is (literally) on Brave. Mozilla can have all the wishy-washy nice words about how they are protecting the web, but it doesn't take much to realize that they can not bite the hand that feeds them. Meanwhile Brave is already growing the user base on the browser and its search system will be a way for them to fight Google at their core. You will have soon lots of people making coordinated efforts to get more people off Google and into an alternative where they can benefit.
I’m not hyper capitalist but I do think that employees will be valued as much as they need to be. This unprecedented exodus will illustrate that: they will either be replaced with or without raising compensation and working conditions. We’ll have to wait and see.
Oh? What would be a better strategy than calling out a public warning?
A while back, I was sat next to a guy whose actual job was cold-calling potential customers for the company. It was... trying, although I realized the company's success depended on his job as well as mine.
I guess my perspective on the indie sphere is "well, that's what happens with random people."

IMHO we should all expect a 50+ headcount company to be better though. Like, have a business model that doesn't require screwing people over & have functional HR.