skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well said. My experience is similar to yours, particularly the choose accordingly part. One can choose who to work with and for me, it has made all the difference.
Yeah spot on, cute rule, I have carried that over into other community forums I used to run :)
> We all assumed that governments could/would do a lot more to help.

They did. The US gave out trillions in aid, more than any other country except Japan (by GDP). If you were unemployed this was at least $2400/month and more if you had children - the end result is that poverty and child hunger went down in 2020 and 2021, not up like you seem to think, and everyone went shopping so hard while they were home it brought inflation back.

The reason people don't seem to know this is that journalists weren't unemployed and so have spent the last year tweeting "the government only gave us $1400 because they want us to die".
I worked at a start up where the founders were 25 & 26 and most of their first 25 employees were their friends who were similar aged. In less than two years, there were almost 100 employees, plenty of which were in the 50s.

The company's last valuation has it worth over a billion dollars now and they have a few hundred employees. A good chunk of the C suite and VPs are still those same early employees who are now in their late 20s and early 30s. Some are managing former FAANG employees in their 50s.
None of the COVID vaccines in use by the western world use an attenuated virus. The mRNA vaccines were specifically built and engineered to not have many of the pitfalls and issues of attenuated vaccines. The vaccines only contain a synthetic spike protein (or instructions how to make it) which is used to stimulate antibodies against it.
Given my friend's dog licked up a bunch of antifreeze a couple months ago, I'd say it doesn't work very well.
Good luck getting any normal user not using JS, but also "for things like location access, camera and microphone" all listed stuff asks for permission before use by the OS/browser, or at least it does on any modern browser.
It’s mild relative to other variants for everyone. However, it is still quite dangerous for unvaccinated individuals… CFR is not that high but it is extremely contagious, so it is still killing a lot of unvaccinated people.
More than 50%

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/4BCA/production/...
At some point Subsonic/Airsonic had an integration with Last.fm to make smart playlists with music from your library
This is nice to see. Congrats, Michigan!
I understand about wages not worth the loss in health but the bill comes regardless. I guess what you're saying is they were so far above day to day expenses (even adjusted for no pandemic relief and the current inflation) that a the decrease in pay will still put them in the black.
>Would you pay $50 for a stick of gum?

There are people who do.

https://wakkinews.com/2018/12/18/worlds-most-expensive-chewi...

The gums were repackaged and auctioned off to fans who would do anything to have something already used by Britney Spears, including an already been chewed, sticky bubble gum. The gums were sold for between $50 to $100.
Have you tried doing Type-Driven Development? IME, most of the time constraints are determined through types first with the code being done later tends to replace the game of "what kind of complex and non-obvious types fit my code the most" with a "oh, the implementation is obvious" reaction.

It also makes it easier to determine what behavior is worth testing and which ones are already covered by your types, if you tend to write tests last. If instead you're used to Test-Driven Development you can do types->tests->code.
I mean...it's possible for something to be both significantly less bad than something worse and also still pretty shitty.
Health care costs in the tech industry are not high. We might pay $100/month and have a $2000 deductible as an example plan. For someone making $100k that means 3% of their income is going to health care, maximum.

The problem with health care in the US is for middle / middle low earners.

If you’re very poor you qualify for Medicaid, but if you don’t, you might have a crappy expensive insurance plan that also has a high deductible, so you might pay a big chunk of your income to health care in a bad year. For techies, the cost is minimal. The system is extremely unequal.
I'm by no means an expert but my understanding is that a lot of the performance from libraries like openBLAS comes from targeting specific architectures (e.g. particular instruction sets on a series of processors). You can probably milk some more performance by targeting the web assembly architecture specifically (assuming openBLAS hasn't started doing similar themselves).
You could buy a big box of flash drives and use them as a disposable commodity that is one-time-use. E.g. these flash drives are $3.49.
https://smile.amazon.com/Verbatim-Pinstripe-Flash-Drive-4906...
Ask HN: How to figure out if you/your children are at risk of lead poisoning?
Things I’ve heard about

Lead blood tests

Testing walls, though painting over with many layers may be ok

What’s worth doing if you want to ensure you and your kids aren’t at risk?
while a Dolphin is placing a buoy on your back or limb? We are not talking about you and me, but probably a small US marine squad.
Hum, I don't send out the mail we use SparkPost... Double check the email set in settings if still nothing I can take a look.
I would also like to read a well-written analysis of COBOL, what it did right and what it did wrong.

A problem the article doesn't mention, is that the percentage of still-programming developers who are young (<30 years) is higher than in other professions, for several reasons, so the lessons learned 15 years ago are often lost.
> They by mandate should have drastically increased interest rates.

I disagree, we are having inflation because of supply bottlenecks, not because of demand. Raising interest rates would only make it harder for companies to get finances to ensure supply chains meet demand.

That's if you even believe raising interest rates stops inflation. The correlation between interest rates and inflation over the last 40 years is pretty nil.
> it seems like there will be pressure from SoftBank given the lackluster returns

If the rumor Softbank wants to IPO ARM is correct, there will be pressure to get all the fundamental metrics of the business pointing up and to the right to maximize the valuation of the IPO. The increased proceeds from a good ARM IPO vs just an 'okay' IPO would likely swamp any potential cash that Softbank might be able to milk from ARM in the short-term.

It will be interesting to see how much of ARM Softbank intends to offer in the IPO vs how much they might continue to hold.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cursed

Second definition

Similar to "janky"
Yes I sure did. That album may have been a vanity house "staff pick" too, I don't recall. Pink and What felt like magical places... Terra Firma, what a massive tune. https://youtu.be/HwbVnFR-XP4
I've always been hesitant with a introducing a websocket server into my rails application. If the websocket server goes down, you'll still be able to render the SSR-ed shell via the web server. Aren't we just introducing the data consistency problems into every HTML page that uses Turbo. Rails has celebrated its monolithic approach, but i just don't want to deal with websocket problems when what I want is truly a one person framework.
>* If the screen, camera, and speed were good enough in 2016*

You say it's a rhetorical question but I'm not clear on why or why this sentiment is so persistent. After all, the screen, camera, and speed absolutely WEREN'T good enough in 2016, any more than regular computers were good enough in 1986, 1996, 2006 or 2016. They were simply what could be managed at the time with technology at the time. The only aspect of electronics that is "done" for typical audiences [0] is audio, where we have microphones, recording and reproduction that can (easily) exceed the biological limits of human hearing. In contrast exceeding human visual acuity in capture, storage and reproduction remains a work in progress (though it's conceivable we'll hit it in the next decade or so which will be a very interesting change for our industry). That in turn itself drives some demand for computation, storage and processing, though more fundamentally it's hard to say if there is any real limit on how much computation might be put to use. Storage has been on a fast enough upward curve that I think it might be said it's approaching the point where regular people always have enough merely in the course of normal upgrades, but to handle an entire lifetime.

So yeah, come back in 2032 maybe.

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0: Scientific applications of course are frequently interested in sounds that well exceed human limits, though even there we have the tech for it albeit not in non-specialized devices.
if you switch to Zoom, you don’t need a building. this is an intense and dramatic change to the overhead of a business.

your employees might not need a car any more, either. the number one depreciating “asset” in the average person’s life becomes optional.

this innovation’s been around in tech for decades, and people have started billion-dollar companies this way. (for example, GitHub was profitable for years before it set up its first physical office.) but it’s not just tech now; it’s finally going mainstream.

this is a very big deal.
I had a similar experience. I tried every linux music player I could find, nothing came close to foobar. I also settled on Clementine which I still use, but I stopped collecting and organizing music locally as a result of the switch. I even spent some time coding a new music player before deciding to just settle on clementine.
Not really. They are quite thin and the deformation is minute, on the order of less than a micron at the largest point.
Didn't Jobs also offer Sony to make laptops that ran OS X?

Also, random thing, but both Orbis (Playstation operating system) and OS X are based on FreeBSD.
What nobody is addressing is that it got a lot more expensive to live. People are trying to keep up with inflation.
If we ever achieve AGI, my guess is that something akin to this approach is how it will probably be accomplished. I don’t think the human brain will really be able to intuitively grok however AGI works, so I see an iterative process where we invent a program that tries to find a better program to accomplish some goal. Then we feed that program back into itself, and it recursively finds a better program finder. It seems like if we can just get past that critical threshold where the recursive process builds on itself rather than fizzles out due to resource constraints, then progress should accelerate quickly from there.
You don’t have to always use the DOM. You can render in another thread, or even run compute in another thread and use the animation frame system to handle updates.

Having said that, maybe a little less than 10 years ago, we achieved the desired performance with touch-screen dragging of DOM elements. I don’t remember specifics, but we didn’t use any frameworks.
possibly myocarditis symptoms. Please note that myocarditis in those who are "build natural immunity" tends to be much more likely and much worse in severity as compared to vaccine-induced. But good luck to you.
Retirees got a 6% Social Security raise this year.

You seem excessively focused on numbers. If you want economic doom and gloom, it's going to be because of what's actually happening, ie there's a pandemic. It's not going to be because a top line number is 7% when it's suffering from composition effects.

Personally, I think everything's going to be OK.
> I am more thinking of these things targeting sensitive military installations or personnel.

Ah, yes, it sure would be nice to think that they're a bit more careful, but then I think of things like the OPM leak and I go cross-eyed. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management... - I'm sure you know what I'm talking about but I figured I'd add a link for anyone who didn't.)

> It's been "rules for thee and not for me" since the dawn of time.

Aye, but I think that's just what the panopticon could overturn, if we set it up that way. I'm not particularly hopeful, but maybe there's a possible future where we overcome our worser natures and use technology wisely. Star Trek vs. N. Korea.

FWIW I call this idea the "Tyranny of Mrs. Grundy": if everyone is on the lens-end of the cameras, including police and politicians, then no one escapes censure by Mrs. Grundy. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Grundy ) We're forced to create a "humane tyranny".

"Humane tyranny" sounds like an oxymoron from today's POV, but I think the challenge is to "de-oxymoron-icize" it. Due to the advancing tech, I don't think it's optional , the panopticon will happen (it arguably already has), so the challenge is to make it more-or-less livable.
I had to buy some coin cell batteries a few months ago (CR2032s or similar) and was surprised to see the package proclaiming they’d done that. Made sense, but had never thought of the need before.
I agree. I know that the freedom to create sensible architecture is a privilege.

Even if other things may not be perfect (but what job is perfect in all areas), my boss knows the value of refactoring towards a stable and maintainable architecture while keeping a reasonable schedule for shipping.
The author obviously draws on own experience, thus the conclusions. However, an important aspect is the team and the process, not just the dev and their behavioral patterns.

If a "loosely-spec'ed" feature is assigned to a single dev for implementation, then there must be either reasonable expectation that it could be delivered solo or that the blanks are not critical for the result.

Either way, such "pattern" of a supposed dev-vs-team antagonism may be pointing rather at process deficiencies or disbalanced expectations from management.

When team management believes that all is clear as day and could be done in a week-span, the devs may have a hard time affording themselves a prototype just to figure out what is there to do, so delaying the feature delivery is a simple hedge.
Exactly, it's so babies don't choke on them.
Not entirely but the rendering of media and full conversations. I plan on adding chat channels to Cafés so you can have chat rooms within them also.

Each café is made by someone and they can have moderators. Things can be private or features locked down from public or even other members, so for example our own updates one only allows comments and reactions from members except admins who can post the updates.
I guess that’s a theoretical possibility for a different virus, but in truth the mRNA vaccines provide robust protection from serious illness from omicron: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination
> for a field at steady state

1. What you mean by "steady state" really matters.

1a. There can be fields that are totally stagnant in terms of huge new intellectual advances but where the student population is exploding.

1b. There can be fields that are experiencing precipitous decline in enrollment while the intellectual and commercial field itself is in hyper-growth (CS has experienced 2 of these moments in its short history).

1c. There can be fields that are stagnant in every respect but which, for whatever reason, attract lots of funding relative to the number of occupied seats. "ML + X" for all X was like this a half decade ago or so, even for values of X in stark decline.

2. CS is growing much faster than 2x. Or at least was for the last 5-10 years.

3. Most importantly, in CS, R1 is probably the very worst type of job for a phd-holder looking to do science. You get the pay of a professor, more stress than industry, are dependent on a system that horribly exploits IC labor, and are absoutely beholden to the politics of pretty ineffectual funding agencies. R2 or teaching track CS jobs are super chill, very stable, and often pay not too much worse than R1. Industry positions come with WAY more money and often more prestige/resources.
a diversity of binding sites, almost none of which (outside spike protein binders) actually neutralize the virus.
> building an extremely useful proof of concept for environmental monitoring and being rewarded for it is literally an active fight.

It seems that it has always been this way. See "How Innovation Works" by Matt Ridley for many examples - and fight on.
It's not that simple: Google makes money off of other services, a fair fraction of which is from Android users. If an Android user has a phone which is >3 years old, they are still likely to be buying apps through the Android store, using the phone to access Google's paid services, or generating data which Google uses for their ad sales.

The underlying problem with Android is that they're competing with Apple, where all of those sources generate ongoing revenue from older hardware devices, but haven't found an effective way to share revenue between the different parties involved to pay for long-term support. Apple has no problem shipping iOS updates because they don't need you to buy a new phone nearly as much if you're subscribing to iCloud, using Apple Music, and buying from the App Store.
Still using Pixel 3XL, perfectly good phone with a processor that is faster at multicore than that in Pixel 5. I'm with the author here, sad to see this perfectly good phone getting obsoleted artificially.

https://browser.geekbench.com/android_devices/google-pixel-3...
Don't need to use your real name, and the email is ONLY shown in settings and on account info API requests IF it's your account, nobody but you will ever see it.
> Writing code as a team is almost like writing a novel with a few dozen other people, all of which have differing ideas on how the book should be written, or even what it should be about. It's hard to feel the joy in creating something when you're only a small cog in the development machine, and every decision needs a dozen voices of input.

This resonates with me. I think we do our best work when we have the autonomy to apply our expertise.

But at the end of the day, you're not the only one writing that novel. If you have an idea of where the plot is going but your teammates think it's heading somewhere else, it's going to be very problematic.

The other problem is that you _will_ make mistakes. Some could be avoided by leveraging the experience of your teammates. You also won't always strictly have the best ideas. Brainstorming as a group can be a lot more effective than sitting alone for a long time thinking hard about a problem (but also sometimes hard problems need a lot of individual thought).

I suppose my point is that I'm not sure where the happy medium is? I've been on both sides of the "engineer working too long alone before sharing" problem and I think it sucks.

How do we enable engineers to do their best work but also allow our teams to be successful?
> It’s really sad to think about how well NASA works when you consider how little funding they get and how hard they have to fight for it.

I do agree with you, but have you maybe considered that you're looking at it the wrong way?

Isn't there a saying that armies that eat bad food win more battles?

Could it be that because NASA is not funded at the level they deserve, they have to be more efficient?
Just as evidence I'm not defending them, I find their project totally unethical, and the owners and their associates are also highly involved with internet fascism and credential phishing (I know the source isn't the best, but I recommend reading the article): https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clearview-ai-facial-recogniti...

With that said: the order is clearly impossible to execute. There's a huge difference between police clicking on a URL in a result and manually investigating to determine the location and having their system automatically determine the location of all photos and delete the ones that are in Canada.
I don’t buy Omicron will be the one ending this. There will be more variants. Midterm variant will be a very good one to watch out for. Our political class have figured it’s much easier to defer judgements or lack thereof to scientists and thus take no responsibility for failed policy measures or debates.
libflame/BLIS might be a good starting point, they've created a framework where you bring your compute kernels, and they make them into a BLAS (plus some other nice functionality). I believe most of the framework itself is in C, so I guess that could somehow be made to spit out wasm (I know nothing about wasm). Then, getting the browser to be aware of the actual real assembly kernels might be a pain.
You also don't have a right to make copies. That all changes if you purchase the data.
> the immune system can get "stuck" with whatever initial antibodies it comes up with and doesn't adapt well

Original antigenic sin. However I don't think it predicts that the alpha-based boosters we have will be any more effective, and I don't think that we are observing particularly impressive effectiveness either.
The one site that still works and looks good without javascript has to be the obvious wiiner?
That shows nothing about the amount of the adjustment. Looking up last year's and running a few calculations, it appears to have been adjusted 1%! That's not adjusting for inflation. Not sure what it's adjusting for, but not inflation.
What's hard to believe is that Nintendo is still milking what was already an ancient screen and SoC for all its worth, or that despite making container-ship levels of profits off the Switch, they haven't bothered to make joycons last longer than their warranty period.
to be fair, even within the TypeScript world that can be a problem. If typescript versions don't line up, or if your various strict options are too strict, you can get into really weird situations. It -generally- works, but when it doesn't, it's hell.
the good for debtors argument fails to realize its only good for your realized debt. its very bad for all future debt ie: young people, poor, people who want to start businesses
> Imagine if we didn't have that kind of pressure of delivery in the workplace just to get recognition.

While the places I have worked might have a tiny element of this your situation sounds extreme.

What I have seen is yes you do have to do “perception” management to keep a pulse on “how am i rated”.

Having a few long time trusted people vouch “this person is good” helps
and all you need to do is work with them and show that you are good, both in attitude and capability.

However your description sounds like a dystopian “house of cards” scenario that I would be looking for another job asap. If the programmers are more like politicians that is very odd and a bad sign.
I have a dark-pattern theory: Gmail tracks retention metrics, one of whose proxies are app opens. If you don’t get a lot of email, or haven’t opened the gmail app in a while, then they purposely let some spam through to trick you into an app open. Also, people who are susceptible to click on spam are likely excellent targets for Google’s behemoth ad platform, so it probably leads to higher conversion (by collecting data points on you).
Are there any services that can automate the Takeout process on a cadence? For example, every month or quarter initiate the takeout process and upload the results to Backblaze, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc?
Maybe these 2 books are helpful:

Strength Training Anatomy, 3rd Edition by Frederic Delavier

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0736092269/

The Strength Training Anatomy Workout: Starting Strength with Bodyweight Training and Minimal Equipment by Frederic Delavier and Michael Gundill

https://www.amazon.com/Strength-Training-Anatomy-Workout-Bod...

I think for weight loss, seeing a dietician is better. Wikipedia says dieticians are better regualted than nutitionists - they list regulatory bodies in countries including USA.

Dietician:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietitian