skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's not the immigrants' fault - it's the government's fault. At the end of the day, this confluence of circumstances is its responsibility. The combination of low interest rates, no expansive public transport projects, no action on money-laundering, hurdles in supply (as you mentioned) - and yes, expansive immigration policies (Canada had the highest population growth in the G7, mostly due to immigration [0]).

The truth is, this problem has been growing for many years and public servants have allowed the issue to grow beyond any control (and actually profiting off it in some cases). Now, the rest of the population will suffer and it's become a hard problem to solve.

Finally, yes we have a labor shortage - but it may actually be a labor correction. Wages have been stagnant for years and inflation is running wild. Wages need to rise to catch up - artificially depressing wages with immigration is a recipe for disaster.

[0] https://www.cicnews.com/2022/02/canada-fastest-growing-count...
To me, Unit Tests are live documentation for your code.
You definitely do not need 100% coverage, but if you can exercise a good percentage of your code, you are making your future "you" live easier.

Just consider that in many cases code lifespan is 20% dev , 80% maintenance.
advertising arms race. if you're a startup with millions in ad spend and a mandate to spend it in a couple years, how do you spend these millions? the same way all the other startups do, by dumping into google, instagram (fb), amazon.

makes me wonder how many of these same VC's also own large positions in said advertising companies?
I find it bizarre that so many (American?) companies make such an issue out of this. I have no idea if my experience is typical for my country (NL), but both companies I've worked for since the start of the pandemic were eager to let everybody work remotely. Both are very big and traditional: a major bank and an international accountancy firm, and one is selling off their HQ office. Both let the teams decide, and generally aim for one day at the office per week, with the rest remote. But that day is pretty optional, and we've never had the entire team present.
They are not in a standard background check. They might show up in a Google search though.
Did you use https://code.google.com/archive/p/acme-sac/ or acme in p9 or inferno?

I only had limited experience with acme in p9 during some experiments with distributed audio, but once it clicked with me it made a huge impact on me - similar to when I first grokked emacs.
Mine is https://gavinhoward.com/ . Built with an SSG. Browsable with no JavaScript. (JS is used for things like hiding Tables of Content, or matching podcast sound with a transcript, etc.) I use compression to make every page as small as possible.
Married, Adult Children, 40's, Life long gamer

So my yearly hours spent gaming would probably be double yours as it is the primary recreation activity for both my wife and I. We game together most nights and when we aren't gaming together we are likely gaming separate.

My first suggestion would be to game with your SO, games are social activities. Warped perceptions aside there is nothing wrong with engaging in virtual social activities. Granted not everyone's SO will want to game.

Second, like me it sounds like you may have an addictive / competitive personality. Bad news there are a number of gaming genres that are designed to take advantage of you. Just like some people can go to a casino with $200 spend it and leave some people can't. Games with ladders, brackets, dailies and other FOMO based engagement tactics may just be off the table. Good news there are a wealth of games that don't try and exploit their players psychology to drive engagement. Many of these are single and double A games but I haven't run out of non AAA non Live Service games to try. I had a spell where I played a bunch of mobile clickey games and realized it wasn't fun; it was compulsion. I was logging in resetting timers and getting a dopamine hit. I just had to decide to not engage anymore.

Three, leisure is not irrelevant. mental health has strong ties to physical health and well being beyond just being good for you. Spending an hour focused on a game isn't irrelevant if you come out the other side rested, refreshed, unwound, etc. I play games like Oxygen Not Included where I spend hours building little irrelevant machines and systems but it clears my mind, relaxes me and allows me to focus on other things later.

Four, maybe don't engage with YouTube and Twitch content for the game. You will never keep up with professionals. Even if you have the skill you don't have the time. Watching pro's can make you feel like you are playing wrong, you aren't good enough when in reality no one who isn't spending 8-12 hours a day will ever be that good. If you are having fun however you are playing is the right way. This is another FOMO trap. You won't be ninja, shroud, etc. be happy with what you are.

My thoughts. YMMV
This is really useful and food for thought, thank you!
ns -> NeXTStep

from ancient times...
Note depending on the amount of storage, rsync.net is substantially more expensive. For $100 a year you can get 2TB of storage with Google Drive, which works flawlessly with rclone. Additionally, for roughly $80 you can get 15+months of Office 365 Family which provides 1TB of storage each for up to 6 users which also works with rclone and restic.

For the same storage with rsync.net you could be looking at $500.00/month, and I believe that is with single-location storage.
> This was the '60s and '70s, not the '20s and '30s, but it still seemed like another world, compared to today. Most food was local and full of taste, having been on a farm just hours before it appeared in the store. People knew what was in season, and took delight in what was available.

I grew up in the 80s and 90s and remember there still being a lot of seasonal variation in produce availability in supermarkets, up to at least the mid nineties. Now there's hardly any. Fresh cranberries have limited availability. Gourds of various kinds are a little bit seasonal. That's about it.

But I've also noticed produce is cheaper and the resulting food is better (probably the produce tends to be fresher) if you go with the seasonal flow. Helpfully, most cuisines are built around seasonality, so it's unusual to find a traditional dish from most cuisines that will call for, say, Summer and Winter produce in the same dish.
‘Aurora of the sea’: luminous plankton light up New Zealand shores
Being bad at something can be fun; that’s mindset. Being bad is the first step at being good at it!
That doesn't sound very communist to me. Moreover, while the British certainly prefer their healthcare system to the American system (and I probably agree), I've never heard them describe their system as efficient (on the contrary, they seem to talk about it as a money pit).
I disagree. I also feel UTs are a waste of time. I think in some cases UTs can work such as helper classes, but for business logic they are pretty useless and a waste of time. I guess it gets at that verification level DEPENDS ON what is being verified.
> Devils Advocate: They need to evaluate very carefully the switch

So instead of 10 or 20 years of testing and 'carefully evaluating, how many would you think sufficient? Is it 50 years? Or is 100 years about right?
Thanks! Also, just wanted to say I love Bioshock Infinite too. But more the Lutece twins than DeWitt
It's amazing to me how some people are so entrenched in believing that foreigners are to blame that they will perform such mental gymnastics.

The Myth of 1.3 Million Vacant Investor Homes in Canada:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evYOhpjMql0&t=6s
> Any species would prove the exact same theorems given the same axioms

Assume there exists at least one species....
The alternative is for people to just put down some money and buy some normal chairs. It's quite funny how everyone gets more angry the moment you ask for a dollar to improve the things they claim they care about.

I wouldn't knock the potty chairs either, when you get old and your health starts failing, you may just end up needing one again. That's something that could happen to everyone.
The thing about monorepos is similar to the the thing about micro-services: they require a lot of tooling and discipline and documentation that most organizations do not have.

On our multi-repos I have consistently seen dozens, if not hundreds, of stale pull requests and branches and issues piling up never to be merged. This compounds with a monorepo.

Additionally, how do you avoid doing pointless builds when new features are pushed? I can only imagine what the `.github` folder in a monorepo looks like.

For me it is similar to the "one large file" argument, and why I don't agree: obfuscation is bad, but information hiding is GOOD. When I open a file, I want the information relevant to the current domain I am working in, not all of the information all at once.

Similarly, when I open a github page, I want its issues, pull requests, branches, and wiki to represent the state of a single project. The one I am currently interested in. You lose this with a monorepo.

You can argue "well tooling can..." yes tooling that does not exist and that I do not want to implement. Similar to the "one large file" argument, editors are set up to manage many different files with tabs. You COULD just compile the code and navigate symbols, but that isn't the world we currently live in.
As someone who has run ads across a variety of mediums, online and offline, some products benefit from being in the public consciousness, others dont. Identify which products or services benefit from certain types of advertising will help enormously otherwise its just throwing good money after bad.

The OP's point 1 fails to recognise the filter bubble though, I think some SEO companies capitalise on this, but it simply works like this, if you keep googling your website, Google will eventually make it one of the top links in the result for YOU, not anyone else and for some website owners/companies, thats enough for them, and it doesnt bring in any more sales or revenue.
I don't know how real estate market works in Canada, but I can totally see how 5% of buyers could mess up the market in the U.S..

House pricing is set based on 'comps' (comparable homes and the price they sold for). That means that a small percentage of buyers can essentially bump (initial) pricing for all homes.
The premise that reading someone else's thought would be horrifying to the point where you would stop loving or respecting them dates at least to Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Not very long / worth a read.
What people ALWAYS miss is that AI can augment people. This AI is still a tool, and, with it, designers and illustrator can churn out better images faster than before, even without using stock images.

It's important to note that we still need professionals to guarantee the quality of the output from AIs, including this one. As noted in their issue tracker, DALL-E has very specific limitations, but these can be easily solved by employing dedicated professionals, who are trained to tame the AI and properly finish the raw output.

So, if I were running OpenAI, I'll clearly be experimenting with how their AIs and human interact, and build a training program around it for producing practical outputs. (Actually, I work in consumer robotics, and human adoption has been the biggest hurdle here. Thus, my claim here.)

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In case of fine art, thou, I don't think they'll not get hit by this AI advancement. The biggest problem is that you simply can't get the exact image you want wit this AI. Even humans cannot transfer visual information in verbal form without a significant loss of details, thus a loss of quality. It's the same with AI, but, worse, because AI rely on the bias in a specific set of training data, and it never truly understands the human context in it (in the current level of technology).
For subscriptions like newspapers, I think it is reasonable to expect a grace period equal to at most the billing period.

But stuff like this should be enshrined in law. See also AWS billing nightmares.
Activision Blizzard gives 1,100 QA testers full-time jobs and higher base pay
DOM Manipulation in D3
How about we just make it easier to build more houses on the vast amount of land we have in the US?

Do you have data that makes you think banning foreign buyers would actually make a significant impact? I haven’t seen any indications that this is the case in the city I live in.
It is long past time when the majority of paper results could be written in machine verifiable language.
Any species could prove the same theorems given the same axioms, but (besides the fact that they might not choose the same axioms) I'm not sure if they would prove the same subset of theorems that we have proven/will prove. Perhaps they'd have different ideas about what is interesting.
The challenge with remote work is that it requires more discipline and the ones that can truly work remotely are totally worth it but it does attract bad apples who frankly won't do anything (they wouldn't be a good fit in office as well but it is a lot harder to hide in office)

In our team, we have some great remote workers but I had my share of some real bad ones including outright liars. I am very careful if hiring fully remote because frankly, it sets the barrier high and you need to demonstrate that you are dependable to do shit on your own. One person was most likely working 2 jobs concurrently even though I cannot prove it for sure. However, they did not deliver a single thing in 3 weeks and were hired as a senior 10+ PM. When asked why, I was told that I am "too much". Whenever we will message on slack asking a question, they would respond 10-15 mins later almost 90% of the time.
Is 10% == "almost entirely"?
OSINT community on twitter is best place (just search for accounts using that term).

Outside of twitter this is a good start: https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/
A monorepo assumes all your IP is either open or closed or you need a very reliable way to extract the OSS bits and publish them to a mirror without putting exposure of closed source IP at risk.
Given that pretty much everybody in Toronto rents because nobody can afford to buy, it's pretty circular. If they weren't buying to rent them out, then the people who can't afford to buy would have nothing to rent.
Renovations are actually a tangible benefit, while ownership transfer costs and real estate fees are more of an indicator of high liquidity, but they don't actually provide value for people seeking housing.
Nope, works perfectly for me, even on incognito mode, am located on Brazil tho.
The work either gets done or it doesn't... how is this so hard for managers to observe?
> Are civil suit records not public not in Germany?

Usually, the verdict of popular lawsuits is published but with all PII redacted to a reasonable degree, and you can request a redacted copy of a verdict if it hasn't been published [1].

Additionally, 99.9% of all court proceedings can be visited and listened to by anyone, the exception being matters involving minors, national security and especially if psychological examinations of the accused or participants or details of sexual and domestic violence are being discussed, highly private details of someone's life - that is usually done only for the relevant period of a proceeding.

To me, that's a fair balance between the interest of the general public and the rights of the people subjected to the court - especially that to the right to live a normal life once one has served their sentence.

[1] https://www.lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/bgh-hzivilgerichte-...
Ha, I do that as well. They're almost always menus and so I just pick the bottom-most box. Steam thinks I'm 120 years old.
Ads work subconsciously. By the time you're looking for a new X and go shopping, you'll recognize company A making an X and it will register as a viable option, only because you heard about it somewhere--having forgotten that you saw their ad and vowed never to buy something from such a money-grubbing corporation. Also, basically everyone has to advertise these days, so good luck finding an X made by a company who doesn't advertise. If you do, in a year or two you'll be extolling the virtues of this wonderful product that you can no longer buy because the company went out of business.
In the case of Rust, "volatile" means specifically the intrinsics:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/ptr/fn.read_volatile.html

https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/ptr/fn.write_volatile.html

They're specifically intended for MMIO. "Volatile operations are intended to act on I/O memory, and are guaranteed to not be elided or reordered by the compiler across other volatile operations."

Under the hood, this is issuing the raw load or store as you'd expect, and it shouldn't get touched by the compiler because the load/ store was literally the whole point of the intrinsic rather than a necessary consequence of some higher level language feature like an assignment operation.
https://archive.ph/oWGMM
It was pretty good a few months ago, but I've noticed more and more SEO spam in the results.

They also started using dark patterns in the UI. For instance, some search results will bring up an obnoxious popup asking to enable location services. It blocks off a good chunk of the visible screen

This is on a desktop machine without GPS. And it sometimes pops up for search terms that wouldn't have a location associated with it.

And you can't disable it.

I'll probably take a look at Kagi when I get an invite.
> Hundreds of lines of mock code

Mocking should be kept to a minimum and ideally avoided.

Mocking is most useful when adding tests to legacy code, but new code should be designed so it can be tested without the need for mocking.
Something simila: soap bubbles and minimal Steiner trees: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=266
Dealing with the FAA over medical certification for mere third-class is enough to turn anyone into a government-hating conservative.
> why has it never become the dominant technology globally despite many decades of lobbying from the nuclear industry?

Because the anti-nuclear lobby is more powerful? Also the oil/gas lobby has had people in pretty damn high positions affecting these things. Belgium had an ex-Gazprom consultant as their minister of energy. Who - to no-one's surprise - wanted to shut down nuclear plants and move to Russian gas while they build up renewables.

Also the incident in Chernobyl was 99% a political problem, not a technical one. No-one dared to tell their superiors "no" or "I fucked up" or "I have a problem". This compared with the lack of notification caused most of the eventual deaths. Just telling everyone to take iodine for a few weeks and not eat any of the currently growing plants would've cut down the amount of cancers in the area by at least half.
Depends if you mean "we have evidence they aren't harmful" vs "we have no evidence they are harmful".

The former is a very good reason to stop caring about them (while remaining vigilant).

The latter requires a more complex risk/benefit analysis but is still enouraging.
> When they pointed out they had been hired as remotes they were met with a collective shrug - the job opening didn't say remote, the agreement they signed didn't say remote. The recruiter was wrong but that's not the company's problem.

That's why during the interview process you need to repeat it multiple times to all parties involved - to make sure they are all on board. After the interview/when accepting the offer you need to get it in writing as an appendix to the contract or any other form that's legally acceptable.
But energy is still a major factor in climate change. Imagine if the US's energy production looked like France's[0]. Potentially this would have also affected total global emissions as other countries typically follow US technologically. But that is speculation. But either way it would have reduced the climate problem in a significant way, making our current path forward easier (though yeah, it wouldn't have avoided the catastrophe. But let's recognize that this is extremely multifaceted).

[0] https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/FR
You pay far less in rent or mortgage plus tax though.
> Freeland will introduce legislation that allows Canadians under the age of 40 to save as much as C$40,000 ($31,900) for a home downpayment within a new tax-exempt vehicle, the person said.

I'm not an economist but this seems pretty dumb? To the extent that it helps someone afford a home that they can save tax-free for it, the same is true of some of the people they're bidding against, driving up the price they ultimately pay for it. The government is just transferring their own future tax revenue to people who own homes, not people in the market for them.

It seems that governments have a reflex of dealing with a supply crisis by showering money on the demand side (see also: gas tax decreases, higher education subsidies, etc.), which just drives up prices further.
That begs the question. Would any other species pick the exact same axioms? Why would they have the exact same theorems? Are you suggesting there is only one way to think logically?
I am in Germany and (unfortunately) I have received the email yesterday.
What is the benefit of them funding an entire industry of marketers if none of it works?
It's almost as if there is a phase diagram with impedance mismatches between systems of belief.
> company X spends money on ads, then turns those ads off and finds that the revenue does not change. Then the conclusion is made that ads don't work.

Did you even read the article?

They said this in point 1 (!), the one of their first points of their conclusions was that advertisement is adviced for start-up companies.

They explicitly said their conclusion wasn't that ads didn't work. I find it hard to believe you read the article and somehow not read that part.
Thanks! I don’t really do much social media, and this has been really low friction to keep up.
Fair point! That does seem like a key difference. But I still wouldn't be surprised if all tech industry legal/compliance teams have been spooked by this. Also under COPPA no one under 13 can make an online account for anything, regardless of what it is. So it's definitely still illegal for Dropbox/Twitter/HN to have 12 year olds with accounts (without parent consent).

They might just want to be able to demonstrate to the FTC that they're confident there's no children with accounts, instead of just telling the FTC "it's well known children don't really use cloud storage services anyway so we never bothered to ask for age".
Question: Doesn't the same thing apply to managed services?

Let's say you want to make a change to the filesystem. You can change the client libraries today, but old client libraries are going to be in production for weeks, or longer. Your filesystem service has to be backwards compatible with some weeks or months of filesystem libraries.
This reads like a marketer wrote it. "A perfect fit for my own engineering training". It's vague and feel-goody and adulation for the company.

What parts of Amazon did you not like?
Ahhh interesting - thanks so much for the explanation!
20% is a lot in a tight market.
What are your recommendations for those of us who work in "at-will" states, where it's common to see "Offer letter is not a contract" in the offer emails, contracts are often eschewed except for certain key roles, and where employers have a much easier time changing parameters of your employment? (No I'm not uprooting the family and moving, either)
If you read the link at the link, they specifically call out maintaining accounts of kids who revised their birthdate below the limit, and for encouraging kids to lie by stating they had to be at least 13.

> Are children now allowed to use cloud backup services? Why wouldn't they?

It's basically a service for storing personal information, so probably not without parental consent.