skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They control huge pension and healthcare portfolios and can completely control the relationship with employers

Employers already do all of this, except you have no say in it. In contrast, you're granted democratic decision making with a union, so you do get a say in those arenas.
To offer an analogy: The intelligence of Throg Skullcrusher, a level 54 Orc Captain in the Foul Fortress with a current task of "collect food"... does not actually arise from the polygons or textures that form his head, even though taking points of head damage causes Clumsiness.
Wait, we'll build an AI dumber than us to build an AGI?

I do agree that AGI will improve AGI, but such qualitative statements can mislead. Quantitatively, it may be slow, like the old joke about a computer that can forecast tomorrow's weather perfectly - but it takes a month. Perhaps early AGI will be so bad, that even with enormous resources, it takes decades to improve itself... and by that time, humans have already improved it more. (Consider: most human GIs couldn't make any of the progress made so far.) This improved AGI is faster, but humans using it as an aid are much faster still.

Nonetheless this is exponential progress. Eventually, it catches up and passes us... but even exponential improvement can take a long time to really get moving (and then it zooms away).

BTW, curious: the linked sigmoids of IT improvement went:

relays -> vacuum tubes -> transistors

How did relays aid development of vacuum tubes? How did vacuum tubes help transistors develop?

Including specific calculations, and also general productivity improvements in society that helped everything, including the next stage.
I have come back to plain text and sublimetext too. Simple and just works.
>The left, as I see it, wants some guarantee of a good outcome. The right wants liberty, recognizing that comes with risk.

I think it's more that the left believes government has a responsibility to guarantee equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome in what is assumed to be a fundamentally inequitable system. The big philosophical difference to me is in what each side believes the proper role of government should be. The right (tending to be the side that supports the military, police, harsh criminal penalties, etc.) believes government's only legitimate purpose is enforcing the laws and defending the borders, in other words the exercise of violence, whereas the left also believes the government has a duty to provide for the social welfare of its citizens in exchange for the power granted to it by social contract.

And when the right says it wants liberty, what it tends to mean is that it wants liberty from the social obligations that the left tend to want government to support.
I should have specified ‘decimal floating point’ for clarity, since that is what Python's Decimal is. I agree that non-floating representations often are the solution, depending on what problem you have.
How many empty houses are there in the US, millions? How many luxury condos are being built and sit unoccupied?

It seems like people always come out of the woodwork to explain how rising wages aren’t helpful and are solution must always seem to involve paying for more things (this cases houses).
"When it comes to open-world games, I’ve never liked the “fakeness” of the open-world and why games like Skyrim, Horizon, the Assassin’s Creeds, and so on, didn’t interest me."

Skyrim and AC are milestones in open-world design around 2010. Sort of mind-blowing if you played them at their initial release. Horizon, though not being top, also has its own merit. I wonder how can an author comment on open world design when literally any other open-world game does not interest him.

I could just be angry because he acclaimed ER without being fair about game design as a progress over time.
Freetaxusa
> I think autism has become the IBS of neurodiversity, and will be retired someday

Absolutely.

But until then, do you have a better alternative label or (armchair) diagnosis to use?
their first one quite good and thought provoking. The fact that this person had the gall to make a second one after all the talk in the first, the words sellout and hypocrite are not enough.
> Having to use Command+Button to go to beginning/end of a line? A horror for coding.

Cmd-arrow keys work fine for this, if you are willing to take your hands off the home row, which I am generally loathe to do.

The Mac inherited emacs keystrokes from the NeXT days, so control a (beginning of line) and control e (end of line) “just work” in any text widget. Likewise open a line, kill a line, previous or next line.. .with 40+ years of those wired into my fingertips I didn’t even notice that I was using them!
I kept wondering if Musk microtunnel thing could have been miniaturized to such purposes.
The problem with using pins to pick up 'garbage' RF is that an attacker can transmit some actual RF and make your entropy a lot more predictable.

A real randomness source would be really great to have in pretty much every computing device these days, considering the widespread use of encryption.
They'd probably have been mostly concerned with how to avoid radiation poisoning, and which of their friends and family survived the nuclear exchange.
> Also, guess which laptop always has issues with the printer?

In my experience any laptop on any system will have issues with the goddamn fucking printer :-)

I had an old dot-matrix printer connected to the parallel port for a very long time. Could "print" with just "cat file.txt >/dev/lpt0". It was great. Downside was I couldn't use it in the evening as it woke up the neighbours.
Two wolves and a sheep sit down to decide what to have for dinner…
But all of the equity? I think the person leaving should walk away with some equity.
I'm sceptical the concept of "autism" is tenable in the long term either, it's such a catch-all "spectrum" with diverse underlying causes which present in behaviour which is similar yet broadly defined enough that two people can be diagnosed with autism with entirely different symptomatic presentations with zero overlap.

At the same time, regardless of what you think the social conceptual juggernaut that is "Autism" is not going away overnight or even this decade, nor are the rest of DSM-V disorders. They serves a useful function, such as telling bosses to force their employees to attempt to work in a noisy workplace with flickering lights and off-gasses to fuck off. At this point the concept of autism has become tied up with peoples social identities, with the law, and with a whole lot of money on a massive scale and one doesn't simply unwind that all by going "This whole thing is dumb". One needs to start from the fundamentals, which is why was the social need for the concept of "Autism Spectrum Disorder" created in the first place and why was the concept promoted so readily by so many different interests?
Try the data on the AWS Open Data platform.
Autism shapes personality and worldview, meaning it shapes the person and their sense of self. It doesn't cause suffering in a vacuum the same way other disorders do. The biggest "issues" attributed to autism come from lack of accomodations and the tendency to falsely attribute comorbidities as being part of autism.

A huge difference between autism and the other listed things is that autism is not (and never will be) legitimately treatable, while depression, anxiety, and ADHD are treatable and have been for a long time. Amphetamine targets dopamine dysregulation and it's highly effective at improving quality of life.

Autism has no equivalent. No drug has ever shown efficacy in improving the quality of life of autistic people, nor has any therapy. They've all been damaging, and the mainstream autism junk-science treatment today is ineffective according to meta-analyses[1], is based on gay conversion therapy, has been shown to cause PTSD[2].

Treating autism stops making sense (and thinking of it as important to identity starts making sense) when you realize that having an autistic brain means using a different but equally-effective social model[3], mode of thinking, and algorithms for processing information, that in many cases has tangible advantages.

[1] https://therapistndc.org/aba-is-not-effective-so-says-the-la...

[2] https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/AIA-08-2...

[3] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.5861...
I remember all these promises of how quick tech bros would be able to automate minimum wage and so-called “unskilled” jobs. Now for the past 18 months every Subway sandwich shop (and the like) in my area is begging people (not robots) to work.

I wouldn’t be betting on robots just yet.
>Then using HashiCorp Vault isn't the silver bullet

Except it practically is.

That's like saying Linux isn't a silver bullet because ls doesn't make filesystems... You wouldn't use Vault to create SSH keys, nor should it. You wouldn't use ls to make filesystems, nor should it.
If optical material is as cheap as you say it is, then why are optical cables so expensive? A few meters can run for hundreds of dollars.
So I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and can I ask you an honest question. Is there a reason you don't want to have that happen? I am asking honestly in the Spirit of inquiry it's something that always confused me to a certain extant, if the religion isn't true and it doesn't mean anything is there a reason the idea of someone saying a prayer with your name in it after you are dead bothers you? I just am curious about the line of reasoning, if it is just a matter of you don't like the idea, and don't feel comfortable about it I can understand that as well. I am just curious.
I drive/maintain/am tortured by a 1985 VW Vanagon and so much of this rings true. The variety of tricks, quirks, smells, sounds, and special tools/rags/spots to hit just right to sustain a trip down the road are surprisingly similar.
> This thread has (at least at the moment) serious Bob Martin Sudoku Solver energy to it.

To the forum's credit, the top comment (by u/judofyr) the last time tailscale blogged about their unusal db setup, got it exactly right: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25768042

> Interesting choice of technology, but [tailscale] didn't completely convince me to why this is better than just using SQLite or PostgreSQL with a lagging replica.

> In particular [tailscale has] designed a very complicated system: Operationally you need an etcd cluster and a tailetc cluster. Code-wise you now have to maintain your own transaction-aware caching layer on top of etcd. That's quite a brave task considering how many databases fail at Jepsen.

> Considering that high-availability was not a requirement and that the main problem with the previous solution was performance ("writes went from nearly a second (sometimes worse!) to milliseconds") it looks like a simple server with SQLite + some indexes could have gotten [tailscale] quite far.
Until the dot com era money really wasn’t much of a “thing” here (SV), and you’re right: even now it’s more of an SF thing, but has infected the Valley too.
Disclaimer: am on spectrum, formal diagnosis at 8yo

> have their gifts recognized.

Please explain how _extreme difficulty in socializing_ is a "gift".
More accurate title could have been: "Justice Clarence Thomas speaking after 7 years uncovered..".
Come on. We're millions doing it every fscking day. What a buble is this forum.
https://youtu.be/IwMSjcVFXbQ?t=238

It adds more things than I will ever learn how to do. But you still spend loooooots of time looking at a screen of 16x16 gray textures that are suggestive of rock.
It never was a black hole. A black hole happens when the density of matter inside a volume is really large, but it also requires that the density of matter _outside_ be small. This may seem so trivial as to be irrelevant, but the big bang is what creates both space and time. All of the space and time are inside the universe, and this was true even when the universe was very small. With no outside, there was no black hole.
> (key[31]&63)|64

You confused me here; this looks like you're clearing the highest bit and then setting the highest bit... in a 7-bit integer. Of course it makes more sense that you're clearing the two highest bits and then setting the second-highest bit of an 8-bit integer, which is indeed the same thing as clearing the highest bit and then setting the second-highest bit.

But why have you written it to fiddle the second-highest bit twice? Why not just write `(key[31]&127)|64`?

(And then of course, why not use the hexadecimal form of your bitfield constants so people can tell what's going on? No need to count bits that way.)
On Mac, ⌘ + M minimizes a window (like on Windows) and ⌘ + H hides all of an app's windows.

You can then use ⌘ + Tab [+ Arrows] to get back to both minimized windows and hidden apps. Combined, this window-access flow is simple yet powerful.
I think the situation of developers being harassed by bot-generated pull requests is deplorable.

At the same time, they brought it on themselves for using Github, so serves them right.
Allow me some critique:

> HTML code is way too verbose and there is plenty of unnecessary nested div soups.

Can you prove you can obtain the very same result with less tags?

> Does not allow more than one skip link ( https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/skip-link ), as they are visually overlapping.

Why would you have more than one?
Perhaps we will yet see the real-world deployment of the nuclear subterrene: https://projectcamelot.org/la5354ms.pdf

(Assuming, of course, that three-letter agencies haven't already been using this technology to honeycomb the country with networks of secret tunnels for decades...)
Ask HN: Would you speak to press about your ex-employer?
Recently a journalist approached me to see whether I would be interested in speaking about what it was like to work there. 10K+ head count, triple that previously employed; this place is known for it’s bad staff retention. I imagine they have realized this and doing some reality check with the old staff to materialize. Have you spoken at all? What are the nonobvious risks?
Seconded. It's a logical fallacy because they are using the year as proof that we should adopt their policy. Except the year only proves what year it is - nothing else.
I think my 87 Jetta (purchased in 2002, died and abandoned 2000ish miles or so moving 3000 miles US coast to coast) very closely resembled these remarks. Of course no one wanted to steal it. But I appreciate the author’s portrayal! And it was a really fun weird way to feel like I’ve owned a Porsche!
What about Zettlr: https://www.zettlr.com/

The way I use it it's relatively simple, I tend to forget a lot so I leave notes, documentation, references, know hows and pretty much everything I judge that I will need in the future and will definitely forget.

In order to sync it with my other computers, I use another tool (Nextcloud), hosted on my homelab. I know it requires signing in but, think about it, it comes with clients for linux, windows and mac and phone (but I haven't tried zettlr for phone, not even sure they have it). With this you will get the best of both worlds: cloud and local.
Being well dressed isn't about dressing in fancy or expensive clothes; It's about looking good in clothes.
Hint: 3% less power is not the same as no power.
There's a world of a difference of someone doing that for a Google scale thing with big teams supporting it, or say a core part of making the best wireguard product that only they can do, vs a system that could have been postgres and now when the authors leave for their own sqlite-by-mail startup or are partying at SREConf for the 'our n+1th attempt to not do postgres' and an outage causes an unnecessary and ungoogleable shitshow for their colleagues.

A good engineer can build all sorts of surprising things. A senior one knows why they should reserve that for only the special bits. I like reading the first two types of articles -- we frequently give tech talks ourselves -- but for making boring systems weird, I get flashbacks of consultantware/resumeware/NIH that took ages to weed out. I try to give talks on say GPUs for weirdly shaped problems, not on why we celebrated when we finally had time to rip out mongo from where it didn't belong :)
> before realising I effectively hit "run" instead of "build and run".

This used to happen to me all the time too. The solution I ended up going with was to standardize all my build scripts on `./build run` as the way to (build and) run the program, with the actual binary getting shoved in ./bin/ or something to discourage running it directly (which also reduces clutter). Basically, get rid of the "run without building" command entirely.
Is this some kind of April fool's joke?
Probably talking about Cabbage Patch dolls.
Weirdly, this is the second time today I was reminded of the poem Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson - and it's only 5 AM.

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,

We people on the pavement looked at him:

He was a gentleman from sole to crown,

Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,

And he was always human when he talked;

But still he fluttered pulses when he said,

"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich—yes, richer than a king—

And admirably schooled in every grace:

In fine, we thought that he was everything

To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,

And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;

And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,

Went home and put a bullet through his head.
Uh, no. Didn’t happen with phones or video calling. Being older tends to make one more free and more lonely.
Why deny basic laws of supply and demand? Almost all economists agree low supply of homes is a factor.

https://econofact.org/why-and-where-are-housing-prices-risin...

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/mortgages/homes-for-sale-hit-...

https://www.barrons.com/articles/may-housing-starts-51623796...

Supplies are hitting record lows.

There will always be millions of temporarily vacant homes in a country the size of the US as people move in and out of homes.

Nobody is asking developers to build only "luxury condos". Where did you get that from?
I Lost $2M Worth of Crypto
President Putin and former President Trump, have conspired together in a conspiratorial conspiracy to force President Biden to enact sanctions on Russia that are for TBD 'reasons' destroying the petro/dollar and increasing the cost of diesel. Also inflation may not be transitory.
That’s harder though
The exact chamber of the government which was on the receiving end of the trespass into their House set the example to do exactly that, and in fact showed up back to work that very same evening and continued to carry out the exact business they were carrying out prior to the interruption, evacuation of the Capitol, and eventual removal of everyone who was not authorized to be in the Capitol. They did so in accord with their exact parliamentary procedures, and the final result was the certification of the results of all 50 States and the District of Columbia precisely according to the votes of the Electors who voted in the Electoral College of the State which appointed them.

So yeah. Carry on. Trump ate enough of my mental bandwidth back when he had both the power of the Presidency and influence as the Leader of the Republican Party—and I actively avoided much of the news that that still went out of its way to find me. He still has influence, an apparently dwindling amount and not as the clear leader of his party, but he doesn’t have the power of the Presidency. Now it’s just some other disappointment who is strangely enough, disappointing in many of the same ways as his immediate predecessor but with less natural political instinct but is also less of a chatterbox on Twitter.
How much more in sales can I expect from adding retail to my online business?
>The "weightlifting status" or the "content creator status" mentioned in the article are just money status in disguise.

Nice argument, care to back it up with your deadlift?
Is `git reset --hard` not undoable with `git reflog` and another `git reset --hard`?
As someone who personally experienced a rapid and significant resolution of ADHD, fatigue, and other symptoms as a result of a methylation test + methionine supplementation (supervised and recommended by a mainstream medical doctor at my primary care clinic), this is amusing to read.

Cue the "but anecdotal experiences aren't valid" hyperbole.

> Any test that claims to be relevant to so many different medical conditions is a huge red flag.

How much do you understand about DNA methylation?

> If you really wanted to test something, you'd skip this test and get a cheap genetic test to see your MTHFR variant (note: heterozygous is fine, no matter what the naturopaths try to tell you).

Homozygous C677T still affects ~10% of caucasians but isn't sufficient in and of itself to show poor methylation. C677T only shows a predisposition to the problem. So you have it backwards on recommended tests.

Since not everyone knows where to find cheap genetic tests, I'll be a good neighbor and recommend Nebula Genomics + Promethease (with the exported raw data). Stay away from 23andme.
There's also a question of how personal freedom interacts between people. If one person has a contagious disease, and knows it, do they have a right to put others at risk of infection without those others' consent? If so, that infringes on the personal freedom of the others. If not, then isn't their personal freedom infringed? "Prioritizing freedom" and "keeping people safe" can each claim either position!
> but at the same time even the truck drivers earn a fantastic living they can use to support a family. This is only possible because of the decades of strong unions negotiating better pay so the mines had to share the wealth.

How is this to do with unions and not just lack of labor supply, i.e. lack of people with a right to work in Australia who also want to be a truck driver in the middle of nowhere.
Who’s printing out resumes when like 99% of interviews are on zoom?
You cannot have optional and union in the same sentence, that defeats the purpose of a union.

What you are saying is I want the union to do all the work without me being hands on on its function. Unions are useless if the workers just sit idle and wait for the representatives to do all the work.

Participation of all workers is what make a union powerful.
I’m a SWE at a FAANG company and hell no I don’t want a union. I busted my ass to get here and I’m compensated for it. I want my destiny in my control. Not some other large entity that probably doesn’t have my best interests at heart.
> An encryption scheme seeming elegant or understandable is not a sign of strength. Neither is age, as basic ciphers like Am+B%N have been used for thousands of years, but are trivially breakable.

I don't think the argument is that "we've had RSA since the 70s". I think it's "we've had RSA since the 70s and we still can't break it".
Most safety net programs are far more focused on "avoiding a catastrophic outcome" than guaranteeing a good outcome. This is why we don't see a mass migration from tech jobs to welfare...

But for catastrophe prevention... you don't have to think the government will care as much about your family as you do to want there to be a support system in for your family if you die, become unable to work, etc...

And "liberty" alone is so undefined as to be meaningless for these purposes. Is "paying less taxes so that the disabled don't have as much help" an example of liberty? For you? For them?
150 hours is insane. In my area most non-profits will only give you 2-3 hours per volunteering shift and you'll be lucky to do that once per week.
Did you watch the second one?
It is correct to say that allowing move constructors to fail was a grave design mistake.
Fan Site Afforded Right to Bid on LOTR and Hobbit
Underground airbases do exist. Ukraine had one during the Cold War.
Musk just bought a normal tunnel boring machine for the boring company. No proprietary tunneling hardware so far.