skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How would you demonstrate that search is objectively worse?

How would you demonstrate that being 50 years old is worse than being 25 years old?

You ask people that are 50 years old or older because they have been on both sides.

> it's a result of Google's algorithms

Well, it's simply in front of your eyes: this [1] was not possible in 2006.

Anyway, the fact that you cannot easily find on Google why Google search results are worse, proves that Google search results are worse today than in the past.

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/1/23/21078343/google-ad-d...
I know most people in the states think of them as the old Navi company but in europe they are the market leader in telematics (tracking driving)

Also up until 2020 they were supplying apple maps with map data.
Brain Immune System Interface
"The nervous and immune systems are tightly intertwined. Deciphering their chatter might help address many brain disorders and diseases."
> Most people using Kubernetes should be using something simpler, but that's a separate problem.

This has been the biggest drain on my career. Everyone wants to be an "engineer" ready to handle every problem like its the next facebook. Like bruh, this service is going to get like 100 req/hour max and only when the sun is up - just **ing throw it on cloud run. We can tell the only thing you want to build is your resume.
Inferno isn't Plan 9.

As for that cross compiling feature, Amsterdam Compiler toolkit did it before Plan 9 was even an idea.
Dummy: Agent-Based Modelling in Julia
The plant in the linked article is 180 km across though. Measured in square kilometers it might be a lot more. You can't make a comparison across different dimensional units.

A correct comparison here would've been to the distance between DC and Philadelphia, or similar.
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I'm redirecting my career path from industrial maintenance management to
software development.

I've done, among other things, over 10 years of code maintenance and functions
extensions in a live industrial production environments.

My current preferred tool set: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker,
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In the past I've used go (golang), cython, neural networks with feedback loops
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I find overall cognition in myself to be fairly elastic. There were periods when I was raising my kids where the sleep deprivation took a huge toll on everything I did. However I did eventually recover and learned quite a bit about logic, proof, and type theory in the following years. I think I'm a lot stronger as a developer now than I used to be.

I went through a period of burnout a couple years ago. That had a strong effect on my mood, energy levels, and interfered with my short-term memory a lot. However I've recovered from that too.

Best thing you can do is stay rested, eat well, and get a therapist. Stress can play a huge role in our lives and managing our emotional states is as important as our physical ones to overall mental health. It can be good to have a coach in your corner to help you recognize patterns and behaviours. They can often offer helpful guidance on how to manage them to achieve the outcomes you desire.
Another benefit of all those things is reduced friction from switching jobs, which increases competition in the labor market and makes it more efficient. It makes it easier to found a startup, easier to quit a toxic job and look elsewhere, etc.
it used to be iPods, then iPhones, now its Teslas.
Yours is just anecdotal experience from an extremely limited sample, which may not even be true.

> The biggest thing people don’t talk about is a lot of workers got paid to stay home during Covid.

So your take is that because some people got paid for staying at home in the past, _now_ they refuse to pay bills and would rather be homeless than employed? This doesn't add up.
Hell no.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506581

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31577019
Wood’s quality don’t change much once it’s harvested. Old wood is more often from natural forests where trees grow slowly due to resource competition and therefore have tighter growth rings. New wood is usually from lumber farms where trees are planted and managed such that they grow quickly and end up being less dense.
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Drift, as the other child comment mentions, but also loss of version control. I do not want to have to trawl through someone's shell history to figure out what they changed, nor do I want to have to redirect `kubectl get foo -o yaml` output into diff.

If everything is in code, and you have a reasonable branching strategy, it's much easier to control change, to rollback bad merges, to run pre-hooks like security checks and configuration validation tools, etc.
Thanks for playing! Makes me realize I need better syntax for cases where the ingredient is just a whole X.

I'd love to try your recipe but I seem to be allergic to avocado and would not have a fun time.
Like how mirrors "compute" the (appropriately defined) reverse of an image?
Electricity is also a wave. The wires are essentially waveguides for particles/waves traveling at near luminal speeds. So in theory anything done with electricity could be replicated using other waves, but to make it faster you would need waves that travel faster than electrons through a wire. Photons through a vacuum might be marginally faster, but pressure waves though a fluid would not.

If bitflips are a problem in a modern chip, imagine the number of problems if your computer ran on gravity waves. The background hum of billions of star collisions cannot be blocked out with grounded tinfoil. There is no concept of a faraday cage for gravity waves.
Yes, there are solutions. However the current situation is that companies won't pay more so the government can't close our borders.

Tories will do anything they are paid to support.
Their current platform is anti-foreigners, to satisfy the racist propaganda they spread hence the immigration rules. However it has to be balanced with the money, that requests cheap foreign labour. What a conundrum!
it is not about "believing a societal contract". It is about believing that other people follow it or not. Contract is not a belief.
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At least the slaves don't have to do it.
That's a pretty big assumption, to assume that current pledges will be fulfilled. Last I heard, it was just, like, Gambia that was on track to meet Paris Agreement pledges. https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/world/climate-pledges-insuffi... None of the G20 countries are on track.

The point of the Paris Agreement pledges is to prevent catastrophic global heating, so it would be great, although in my opinion inadequate, if the world community met them. Sadly, we're not heading in that direction right now.
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In which industry are you in?

I'm in the automotive industry and apart from the obvious factory workers I cant think of a single group of colleagues for whom it would not be possible to work remotely. I also dont agree with the "software industry" asterisk. As long as your work is done 100% on a computer, remote work is more likely than not suited for you.

Don't take this as a toxic comment, but we're talking about taking away 1-2 hours of time of living and breathing human beings. Out of what? 6-8 hours free time? If anything, the employers should need to prove why remote work isnt possible. Anything else is damn near unethical.

I should add, that I'm blessed with a great union that allows me to cut my weekly hours, which I will do once I reach a comfortable level of income that suits my lifestyle. Which is to say: I really, really, really like spending my own time on myself. So my view on this topic is highly skewed.
Oh locksmiths are a fun one.

The type of people get into locksmithing are like those who do computer security for fun - they like to figure out how things work and how they can be broken. Which means that every locksmith wants to figure out how to game the system. And the first thing that they all figured out is that people tend to select whatever locksmith is closest. So they all went and pretended to be in a million places around the neighborhood in hopes that THEY would get selected.

That was the case a decade ago. And it was a nightmare. Glancing at a locksmith search now, Google somehow cleaned that up a lot. But it doesn't surprise me that whoever is on top now is someone who figured out how to game the current system.
note that this particular time is perhaps not the best to switch jobs. that doesn't mean not to look for jobs, but the writing's on the wall - hiring freezes, offer rescinds, even layoffs are in play.
Well, I'm sure they're out there, but many have optimized for salary and I'm not hiring into a VC/startup type environment. They're harder for me to find, given that constraint.
> and generally greater than mortgage rates

Mortgages are secured by a real asset. You stop paying the mortgage, the bank gets the house.

Student loans are unsecured.
The second is particularly appealing to me. I wonder if there's some sort of open food API I could tap in to. Would also love to build your first idea as well once I start to learn backend development.
This looks pretty cool! I'm gonna keep my eyes on this for more deployment options. The world needs a (good) open-source swiss-army-knife for ML serving
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I think as people age, its easier to get distracted. However, age does make people better at conceptualizing a bigger picture rather than focusing on individual pieces.
The simulation hypothesis is so cute.
> But I feel they've been fading away slowly.

TomTom closed their sports division and made most of the staff redundant.
Interestingly, the numbers for men tell a different story, with all time low male employment. It stands to reason that some male dominated industries may be seeing a different phenomenon.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300001
Yeah, depends on when you got on the "oh, Elon's actually a whacko" train, I guess. The Hyperloop fantasy was 2013, the "pedo guy" thing and whatever is going on with his bizarre child name was 2018, COVID reactionary junk in 2020. Just an increasingly public, downward trajectory over the last 10 years.
The patent was actually assigned to Stanford University, and Google then licensed it (this is also how most pharmaceutical discovery is patented and licensed). A fundamental problem is that these patents all rely on federal funds from US taxpayers to one extent or the other, and while it may make sense for Stanford to hold the patent, there's a strong argument that any US entity should be able to license it (not just one exclusive license in other words).

Prior to Bayh-Dole legislation in the 1980s, this was the case for university-held patents: they could be not be exclusively licensed. Repealing that legislation would be a good idea to avoid the rise of monopolisitic behemoths like Google/Alphabet.
Palm Pilots were a good example of "worse is better". Apple pushed the boundaries of the possible a bit too hard and ended up with a device that mostly worked but was expensive and had too many issues for the price point. Palm was less ambitious but their product was cheaper and more reliable.
I think you meant to post in the who is hiring thread.
It is, but the gains to this innovation are captured almost entirely by your employer and not by you. Maybe if you're lucky you have a tiny ownership stake in the company, which if you are very lucky maybe entitles you to a tiny percentage of those gains.
Thanks! And yes, I agree, that would be nice.
>I've found search operators and quotes are less and less effective — especially on Google

On Google, I treat my search terms like a Venn diagram if I want good results.

Eg: want an article about the texas blackouts, but not the ones a decade ago?

Type "texas blackout npr 2022" minus quotes.

But if you do that on other engines, it may be MUCH more literal, the literal intersection of those terms, and I need to do the opposite: use as few terms as possible, possibly paired with using the site: operator, intitle operator, or other things.

>It's made it harder to search for bits of poetry, quotations, or song lyrics, especially.

Yeah to be completely clear, my default is DuckDuckGo, then very rarely I fall back to Google, but often if I'm doing that it's because I didn't want to trouble a librarian -- they talk about privacy, but I had a series of unfortunate events when I told one I want to use books as much as possible because I absolutely don't want some of these tech bros to know what I'm looking up.

(That dichotomy of folks who know information science and those who have critical thinking or coding skills needs to end, now. I'm an alumni of one of the highest ranked schools of information science in the world, and I will not be figuratively or literally extorted into a PhD to get roles others get with a bachelors.)
Elon musk has nothing to do with saving us from extinction level events. He's taking research money from nuclear and putting it towards solar factories, which make the problem worse.

Elon Musk has not performed any altruism. Almost all of the other billionaires have. He's never given any money to charity at all. No, that word doesn't mean "he's working on stuff."

You're just trying to make the man you're a fan of look good by pretending he does things he hasn't done

Why did you think that he was something other than a car maker who lies for publicity a lot?
In other words, it's not sustainable. Any business plan requiring all employees to be superheroes is a business plan destined for failure.
Sure. But it's not like he wants it for personal consumption. You gotta ask what is "reason why" is. What is he after? And I'd say it's something like a better nervous system for the human species as such. I'd say it's a world in which ideas can compete with one another based on merit. And that, again, is something money cannot buy today. Just like an electric car with 500 horsepower and 400 miles of range wasn't something you could buy back in 2008.
Overspending. Americans often light large piles of money on fire without a second thought, which has traditionally been enabled by having far more money left after paying all ordinary expenses from their income than people in other industrialized countries. Even though Americans notoriously spend a lot on unnecessary luxury in their day to day expenses, the median household in the US still has $1000 per month left over for buying the latest iPhone or boat or whatever.

Americans have prodigious amounts of money to save or spend on frivolous things by any global standard. Americans strongly lean toward the "spend" side of that, having one of the lowest saving rates in the industrialized world.
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Yandex has an excellent reverse image search.
The work has finally started in earnest!

Rust has shown so much potential in non-safety critical systems and general-purpose computing.

It is exciting to see advances in Rust toward safety critical systems work.

Hats off to Ferrous Systems and AdaCore for their hard work!
> I get it, you're emotionally invested in Musk. It'll take time, but you'll also come around to understanding that he's become unhinged.

Who can argue with an argument as richly substantiated as this one?
$250k is not a lot of money in most of these places live. In Canada it’s not even enough to buy a house in 2/3 of our major cities. What’s it like in NYC or the Bay Area? I can’t blame them for spending so much when that’s what it takes to have a lower middle class lifestyle.
Evidence:
https://twitter.com/wholemarsblog/status/1531807546729799687 -> 40 hours a week is less than we ask of factory workers

So straight from the horses mouth the expectation is somewhere over 40. No mention of that being a “sometimes” situation.

https://www.glassdoor.com/FAQ/Tesla-Question-FAQ200052-E4312...

“Insane work hours for everyone, no overtime pay”

“Starting hourly pay is essentially poverty wage in the Bay Area and you only get overtime pay after 10 hours, not 8 hours like you would think.”

“Occasionally is fine, but 12 - 14 hours a day five days a week is not safe especially considering we work with electricity”

Too many quotes to that effect to list them all. Universally they say: overtime starts at 10 hours not eight, there is a lot of it (i didn’t see any comment citing overtime under 60 hours), and it’s mandatory.
Maybe a little dangerous, though, because laypersons might save/share a pdf of the page and think it's fine.
Yes. Elenco still sells basically the same thing if that's what you want. The competition seems to be something called "snap circuits" which is way too after my time for me to have an opinion about. Adults and teenagers can learn to build things from parts on perfboard or dead-bug style or if you must, on solderless breadboards. Or if you want to get into microcontrollers, you can buy humungous kits of the sort of stuff you might want to hook up to an Arduino for shockingly little money off aliexpress/ebay/amazon.
The title reads like some sort of experimental tech incubator within Hashicorp's Terraform team is shadily transferring millions. Hashicorp should sue for trademark dilution.
This is referred to as 'daddy's money.'

A large portion of the youth today are living off of their parent's income or existing wealth. Their parents might not pay for their car, per se, but they're likely footing the majority of their other expenses such as paying for their apartment or condo, paying their tuition, giving them regular allowances, etc.
This has become tough for me recently. I’ve become more active recently and have picked up language learning and swimming related hobbies, but I’ve realized my day job doesn’t teach me anything new. Additionally, since I’m also early in my career, I realized I don’t have many personal side projects under my belt to build a “portfolio”. So now I’m in a debacle where I’m burnt out at work for a myriad of reasons (shoddy remote development environment being the main one), and I don’t want to code as a hobby anymore, but I feel that I must so that I can change jobs.
> exploit labor

How do you define this? And no, "fair wage" is a circular definition, not an answer.