skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if that's the interpretation, the focus is clearly on work efficiency/output focus (key cause of burnout) over improving career growth. Clearly OP identified their path of interest for growth was in Rust yet someone uninformed came back and said "yea. Nope."

Giving them the benefit of doubt, maybe OPs employer may think they're doing OP a favor by sharing informatiom that you can crank out some things more quickly in Python at higher levels of abstraction which fits their business needs and the needs of the person they spoke to, then they falsely projected those requirements onto the world like all businesses would operate under this model of technology adoption. Why would any sane business use Rust if Bob over here says you can make more stuff quicker with Python?

Giving them less benefit of doubt and what I suspect is the real case, they really don't actually care what you think. They send surveys around to appease whoever thought it was a good idea, then adjust the responses to fit their perceived reality by ignoring them or explaining them away, because if they really have to set time aside and waste resources on your career growth, they made their lives harder in their eyes because you'll be gone next month or whenever anyways.

I've been in corporate environments that send these surveys out and no matter how clear the results, the results are ignored or the lowest effort and lowest effect response is taken to correct them just to provide lip service and continue the charade that they care, changes will be made, and your work environment will improve for you. News flash, your work environment will only improve when you have leverage, otherwise you can assume it's going to be on a continuous decline driven by labor cost minimization.
This sounds like they had people working on that code before, who had no clear picture of making a consistent interface, even if only by convention. Basically one should always default to standard SI units, or let the type system guarantee it, or in lack of such a system write comments explaining things, such as units and perhaps even give variables appropriate names indicating the unit. Another option would be using libraries, which take care of calculating with units and checking the units given.

Hope you can fix it. However, be prepared for other kinds of issues, which arise when there was not much discipline in writing the code.
With some variance across cultivars, wheat has 50% more protein than maize and nearly double the protein of rice.

Further, "feed corn" (maize) isn't really suitable for humans. Best way to turn it into calories for human consumption is to feed it to egglayers, after that it's broilers, then dairy cattle, then swine and beef cattle.

Finally, changing a crop mixture is something that has a long lead time. Got to sow the fields a season in advance, at least. Rising price of wheat means that some of the land used for maize for this season will be wheat for next harvest. Market will take care of that. Won't have any food shortages in the USA, but could be rough in less agriculturally-capable parts of the world.
> So if Coca Cola has an idiosyncratic hit, then you get hit twice by it

I think that is neglibile, depending on how big you define a hit. If Burger King gets hit, that will probably effect Coca Cola as the largest supplier (just saying it like that, don't know if they really have that kind of business with each other), too.

There's lots of dependency in the modern world, I don't think it really matters.

edit: If Coca Cola does well, you profit twice. Maybe see it that way... ;-)
+1 on this! I have used apps like isidewith and votesmart for years; having a clearer understanding of the various levels of governance would go a long way towards helping people like myself feel more comfort taking action.
thanks, I knew I should have googled to check...

Also occurs to me that it's 60hz in North America, but point roughly remains!
> Burning gas that would have been flared to produce electricity to mine Bitcoin doesn't meaningfully reduce the environmental impact - all the carbon from the methane still ends up in the atmosphere.

They just use a catalytic converter, it's not that complicated. There is a decent consensus on that kind of device reducing carbon and methane compared to the absence of one.
Yeah it’s just that Python dominates some ecosystems like machine learning. There isn’t much of a choice, so making these code based more maintainable is a valiant effort
I'm not much of a Formula 1 fan (although I followed it more or less regularly at times) but I once was at the track when they had a training session and I had goosebumps. Actually, I now have goosebumps thinking about it. So, what was so special? Just the sheer sound of the machines. You hear it kilometers away from the track and once you're there you are totally engrossed by the sounds of the machines - basically vibrating through your body. I'm having trouble to describe it (maybe someone else can do it) but it's definitely a total different experience than watching on TV and I recommend it to anyone to hear for yourself just once.
I am so curious about the Roku and what is under the hood. They really do have a lot of value for the cost. Quirky at times, though.
For those that want to test decoding, here are the Netflix test clips:
http://download.opencontent.netflix.com/?prefix=AV1/Chimera/
Yea there are many many companies that do this. Maybe we need a "hall of shame" to call them out. Maybe we can give out "Biggest Open Source Liar" awards.
Wierdly the aspect of this story that most annoys me is that they named the project Illiad. The Illiad was about the Trojan War. The project should have been named Odyssey after Odysseus's long and trying journey trying to get home after the war. That is the parallel to this project, the story about a seemingly easy goal that turns out to be much more diffucult and take longer than expected, not the story about the actual war.
Egypt is a massive food importer, so them banning export does not change that much.
My 2c as someone who burned out during the pandemic is that wfh left only the work and no social interaction, as you mention. But I have always been solidly against social media/doom scrolling consumption. For me the burnout stemmed from realizing how much effort I was putting into work versus what I got out of it. My head was swimming with JavaScript typing quirks and database indexing schemes and potential bugs and business requirements. My creativity and intellectual capacity was almost completely consumed by meaningless minutiae and stress about a company that does not care about me, and all I got in return was the ability to sit alone in my house.
This actually just reminded me to cancel. It wasn't super pleasant, but I was surprised to discover that I got the remainder of the year refunded to me without having to ask. So dark patterns aside, I thought that was pretty nice.
Buyer of NFT sues creator for issuing identical NFTs
The parent of your post is pretty accurate. I've complained about it before, but Firefox is unfairly targeted by an outsized number of complainers here on HN.
It's not about trust. It's about convenience. Chrome comes with Android, so it's more convenient to use. Most people already use Google as search engine, and Google spams you to get Chrome, so it's more convenient to just use Chrome since you're also using Google, somehow using both products from the same house should be better, right?
Maybe. I'm glad FF exists, am using it all the time on desktop.

But here's another perspective: FF led an audience towards Google's web of shit. It would've been entirely possible for Moz to have said no to the latest fad; then, by the power of having a dominating browser in the field, the web could've been preserved as a medium for relatively simple text-mostly information. I, for one, am interested in individual info and personal sites rather than thousands of nice-looking content farms with tracking.

I'm particularly puzzled by those CSS apologists always painting a naive creationist story about how much we progressed etc etc. Yet, realistically, CSS is so bad, like consider-your-career-choices bad, that I have a hard time accepting this as a result of so much energy of so many intelligent people. CSS will go down as this generation of web "developers" retire, since it's an irrational, overcomplicated piece of shit only understandable in discourse as it has happened. Why did I put "developers" in quotes? Because the web was a vision for easy good-enough self-publishing for layman, not an "industry".

Saying this as someone who's a sucker for design, and sucks at it, too.
This is really nice. Its almost like you peaked at my Firefox setup and decided to package it all together (right down to recommending xBrowserSync and Bitwarden!)

I had never heard of dFPI. I've been using an extension, Temporary Containers, to basically do the same thing. I'm definitely going to check this out!
Also just the ability to understand a code base, exploring libraries in dynamic python is super painful
We run MacOS in my corporate environment and updates are universally dreaded. Our CTO (an excellent programmer/technologist) refuses to update his laptop (and rejected a machine upgrade) because of the breakage of applications with each OS update. Granted we don't have the device driver failures that are encountered in Linux because Apple defines the machine specs, but changes to their privacy/security settings breaks all of our apps every single time.
I wouldn't call wider SIMD lanes terribly innovative. Particularly when they suffer from power costs to evaluate, time penalties just to fill the registers with enough data from cache or memory, and real workloads don't benefit from SIMD as much in practice when compilers are terrible at autovectorization (and humans are only marginally better at doing it manually).

AVX-512 is an example of a feature that improves special cases that show up in faux-workloads (eg: fancy benchmarks and HPC) but does not manifest higher performance for the vast majority of workloads, including things that ostensibly should be embarrassingly parallel and reap gains from SIMD.
Just came here to check this, thanks.
> People don't want to face the facts, that we have to make up for lost productivity.

No. We don't.

I am unmoved by your attempt at argument from authority.
It might be if your investment strategy was to allocate equal amounts to each sector, but that's not how most passive funds work. Instead, they allocate based on market-cap weighted basis, which means there's no double-count going on.
I mean, this is what the GPL and (to a lesser extent) the LGPL encourage. For-profit companies will look on the viral nature of those licenses in horror, and try to distance themselves from anything that uses them.

Nano is GPL, Pico is Apache-2.0. Apple are going to choose pico given how similar the editors are, there's no real downside to going with Pico.

As a vi-guy, who's even edited files used cat, tail, head and ed in extremis on a DECstation when Ultrix crashed and wouldn't boot, I admit that I don't really care either way :)
I used dvorak for two years got no benefit from it. It was no more comfortable than touch typing on qwerty, words per minute (a pathetic 80) and accuracy was the same.

Switching between dvorak and a qwerty keyboard was impossible even tho I knew how to touch type on both.

The big win from my dvorak experiment was learning that when coding typing speed doesn't matter. I spend more time thinking about my code than implementing it, removing shortened non descriptive variables or functions with long winded names has improved my productivity immensely.
While I think stuff like Google Docs is practically magic, I agree. I think it'd be a net positive if it wasn't possible to do stuff like that on a browser.

Sometimes I wonder how things would have turned out if Java plugins hadn't been security Swiss cheese.
If you want a secure Gecko browser, consider the Tor Browser. (The Tor part can be disabled and even removed).
In Buffett's case, he sometimes gets to buy investments at discounts not available to the general public, and then the stock goes up on the news that he bought them.
Yes, the way they influence Firefox development is called sabotage: https://twitter.com/johnath/status/1116871231792455686
It was ~4 years ago, so might have changed... The main problem I had with AWS LAMBDA is that it's impossible to remote debug.
This made deploying a working component (fully tested in isolation) a pain. I had to play with IAM policies it needed, and without a way to connect and debug, it was a time-consuming "addPrintDebug-deploy-check" loop.
Alder lake has it and Apparently Zen 4 will have AVX-512 too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVX-512#CPUs_with_AVX-512
what exactly do you want Ukraine to do to stop the war?
Why is the development of Robotics in the world so slow?
> ...resorting to First Amendment absolutism is intellectually lazy at best. It feels like having a nice solid black&white answer, but it is not, since the result of the answer is the destruction of society.

That's quite an assertion, but I notice you back it up with nothing at all.

What you describe as the libertarian version is the non-cartoon version of "First Amendment absolutism": you can say what you want, but you're not immune from demonstrable consequences of what you say. There's nothing in that position that requires or suggests that people should be coercively prevented from speech that is unpopular, incomplete, or incorrect. In that light, the objections you present mostly fail to address my point.

The only exception is your extension of the FDA and FTC rules regarding food and drug advertising to non-advertising speech, which would present a lot of practical problems, creating a vast opening for frivolous and harassing lawsuits against public figures and discouraging the expression of much valid and worthwhile opinion. I'd oppose it, and I can't imagine that it would find support outside the sort of election-year rhetoric that evaporates on contact with reality.
You have to ask yourself what is more important to you having to do couple option changes, but keeping the browser up to date and secure or having sane(r) defaults, but lacking behind in security updates.

Yes, I'm sure the author does their best, but I doubt this is their day job. Meaning if there is an update during working hours he might not get to update his fork until several hours later or if he is on vacation it might be days or weeks. What happens when he abandons the project? Usually the fork projects wind down after some time and there is no indication for the users that they are using abandonware with God knows how many missing security patches.

Of course there is ideal world where we wouldn't have to make these choices, but at least I am going to stick with Firefox until something actually bad happens.
Kinesis has a new line coming out later this year, the Advantage 360: https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards/advantage360/

Fully split with the key wells, and a Kinesis board to boot.
It... depends.

The problem is that "maximizing shareholder value" is what corporations should do, but it's also ill-defined.

You see this all the time in debates about whether a company should re-invest earnings or pay dividends.

The reality is that "maximizing shareholder value" is just rather vague, therefore meaningless. You need much more guidance than that.

If "maximizing shareholder value" is often misconstrued in some particular way leading to accidental value destruction, then I would say that misunderstanding is akin to a virus, yes.
I guarantee something like that is running in production somewhere in the world (maybe without the list part).
They auto select “Subscribe & Save”, sometimes it feels like a pain just to find one time purchase.

I decided to go with it for a shampoo, the delivery is so irregular it’s not even worth it.

Do you know what it’s like not having shampoo because your clown ass decided to wait on Bezos?
"Making sure people don't starve" means there has to be food. That doesn't just happen; someone has to grow it. The corn subsidy isn't about high fructose corn syrup, not really. It's fundamentally about growing more food than we need, so that, if something bad happens, we still have enough.

> US produces enough raw food to satiate 10 billion people.

I'm skeptical of that claim. Source?
Anyone know how closely Artemis 1 will mimic a crewed mission? Will launch escape and life support systems be active?
I'm not sure what your point is exactly? Yes I know europe imports food, if prices rise europe will still import food (although it may import less), it'll just pay more for it and it can afford to. It won't be a cakewalk but western europe won't starve.
China has way, way bigger food trade deficit than EU.
But it was listed as if it was some kind of bloat. Maybe if you only have one computing device, but I find that hard to believe. Why wouldn't you want to sync your bookmarks, extensions and settings between your devices?
I do not dispute anything this article says. I just want to point out that the current reality of blockchains is harm. All the positives of blockchains are hypothetical scenarios, none of which currently exist. That's all there is to it.
It's nice that they put it right in the opening statements, so that you know nothing that follows can be taken entirely seriously.
That would scare me. The neighbor was decapitated why?
> Had Docker been transparent from the start that at some point in the future it will cost money, then that would have been fair since this would have been factored into business decisions.

Docker never said the product would be free forever. You'd have an argument if they initially committed to keeping Docker Desktop free forever and reneged, but they didn't. It's kind of silly to expect a company to communicate in such vague terms. What company comes out with a statement saying "we're not sure when or what the details are, but someday, we're gonna start charging for Docker Desktop". Also, how does this work when a company decides to pivot? Maybe they initially intended never to charge for DD but their initial business strategy didn't work and they had to pivot. Is it wrong for a business to modify it's revenue streams?

If you choose to incorporate a a piece of technology developed by a private company into your commercial project that is free today, you should expect to pay for it at some point in the future.
Neat!

A collaborative itinerary seems really useful.

Any plans to add or design features around coordinating flights for these types of trips? In my experience this tends to be the hardest thing to keep track of collaboratively. I've actually also seen friends using spreadsheets to track flights. It could be cool to add a feature that shows when everyone is landing or leaving.
This could be super profile for all sorts of event planning. Do you plan on expanding beyond offering this for solely for trip planning?
pro is it’s tuned for engineering process, can be well integrated with GitHub PRs, so far so good
Anytime I sign into a system I have not signed into for a long time. The first thing I do is save the history file before I start working. Many times it has saved the day when you get stuck: where did I store that config? what was the command to restart the server?
I have not seen from your comment where is the difference between layouts for different activities. Isn't Programmer Dvorak enough optimized for Perl? Because for writing some graphomania any Dvorak fits just perfect. I can not even imagine a reason for having several different layouts for same Latin letters.
I have my FF homepage set to the newtab page. And as much as I hate the idea of pocket integration, I find myself reading at least 1-2 articles from their recommendations every week.
> How about re-increasing the corporate tax rate?

No argument there.

> How about taxing self employed people social security/medicare without a cap instead of stopping at ~140k?

Why limit this to self employed people? The cap is there for all workers. And self employed people pay double the tax - if you are not self employed, your employer is paying half of it. Self employed people already have a larger burden.

> How about massively increasing long-term capital gains, or even just getting rid of it. Income is income- tax it the same.

Because then people won't invest in ... much. My guess is the majority of current investments that are profitable would no longer be if taxed as regular income.

That then means many businesses will stop existing since people will not invest in them.

> If the average person paid 10% instead of 7.5% into SS/medicare but their SS doubled in the long run, are you really saying the average person would be against that?

Definitely. Even though it likely is a good solution.

The real problem is that the US government, by law, is not allowed to keep the excess SS funds they collect in an "SS bucket". If the SS payouts are less than SS tax collected, the excess is required to be spent elsewhere. We've lost decades of excess SS collections because of this.

> There are a billion ways to do this. I am not an expert, but I'm not clueless either.

The CBO exists to do such calculations. Increasing SS/Medicare tends to work. Removing incentives to invest, however, is disastrous.

> "Oh I get to choose what investments to put my money into even though I have zero control over the actual outcome, great!"

There's a disconnect between saying "long term capital gains benefit the rich" and "investments are bad because I have zero control over the outcome." The latter statement is as true for you as it is for rich people. If you think investing is such a bad thing with low returns, then let them have their long term capital gains tax.
Like I mentioned in the post - I'm still a noob here and don't pretend to know enough to support or refute what you're saying, but what you said certainly makes sense.

I can confidently say that it seems not-too-difficult to tweak certain assumptions about mining (e.g. have a central authority that can issue tokens in response to offline proof, like proof of capturing X amount of carbon). With that in place and assuming you now have $CARBONCOIN, you can leverage all of the existing financialization that exists within the crypto ecosystem and you have a functioning carbon capture marketplace having only implemented a fraction of it.

Like I said - I'm a noob and I'm trying to learn more to understand what the problems with stuff like would be. But I'm really interested in "what rules of crypto can you tweak to accomplish real things".
Less punitively than earned wages, in the US, for most people.
If you have 1000$ to invest and it appreciated 7%, that made you a 70$ profit, which is not much from a coat of living perspective. If you had 1,000,000$ to invest, that gives you 70,000$ profit, which is pretty good at covering living expenses, bit not leaving you much else. Now if you have 10,000,000$ to invest that yields 700,000$ in profit, that is marginally way more and covers living expenses, plus gives you room to invest in other actives, thus improving your chance to grow your wealth.
> Yeah they had a bunch of dark patterns, but that refund was a pleasant surprise. Hope they still do that.

The pessimist in me suspects they only do this to minimise the number of people who go on to complain to regulators and minimise the amount of legislative scrutiny they have to face.
"Are you sure you want to cancel?" [YES] [NO]

"Wouldn't you rather enjoy the many benefits Prime offers you?" [YES] [NO]

"Are you sure you won't miss those benefits?" [YES] [NO]
how did you manage real time collaboration in sveltekit? are relying completely on firebase?