skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Up 8% now, down 15-20+% in the near future. Hm... would you rather sale now if you have a heads up that the CHIPS act is going to stall and affect the price, which is correlated to others in the industry, or wait until is down more?
How do you feel about the works of David Lynch?
The title kinda makes it sound like he tricked someone to let him on a set, but if you read the story he was watching from a distance and then they started setting up where he was standing. He just stood still until he was asked to move. He employed the same "social engineering" tactics as a frightened hare.
Appeal to the stone may be the most effective refutation to "very smart" A+ students with B- intellects (a.k.a. my K–12 peers)

Then again, I generally have a dim view of using deductive reasoning as the first method of thinking. Lots of petulant "my absurd conclusion is correct because you agreed to my premises and that my argument contained no obvious logical fallacies" in that camp.
I think odds ratio ( p/(1-p) ) is the thing I'd use here. It gives the right limiting behavior (at p ~= 0, doubling p is twice as good, and at p~=1, halving 1-p is twice as good) and it's the natural way to express Bayes rule, meaning you can say "I'm twice as sure (in odds ratio terms) based on this evidence" and have that be solely a property of the update, not the prior.
I was trying to figure out "good multiplications" and I think what you meant is "good products." and this is a lovely mistake to make since multiplication is taking the product of something. Anyway, nothing useful to add just was trying to figure out where that phrasing came from and was delighted.
Its also part of your job to be part of the solution and help fix them. Why are the tests flaky? Maybe you can spend a day and fix it? Obscure bugs - ok they are hard to reproduce, but if it was easy, they would probably outsource your job to some Indian developer
So Twitter requires you to have a Wikipedia page? It seems the problem is with Twitters policies, not with Wikipedias.
Let's do a trade. Congress people get paid 1mil/year adjusted for inflation plus pension, but in return they don't get to own stocks or real estate while they are in office.
I want more than shares. Shares are meaningless when the rest of the shareholders vote to close the factories anyways when the profitable tax breaks end.

Partial ownership of the physical facilities and a say in the conditions therein then they can have the money.
> Could it be that social media is giving us a glimpse of what unfettered (direct) democracy actually looks like?

Only if unfettered direct democracy includes censorship of any comment that exists outside the official approved message.
I would call social media an unfettered plutocracy.
Lawmaker pay is a rounding error.

Clearly we can't pay lawmakers $0 and expert high effort + no corruption.

is there any proof of any way that saying pay from 170k a year to ??? 1 million USD? a year would have any impact on the problems?

Do countries with less corrupt lawmakers pay more than the US? I doubt that...
great name , great product , team looks killer too
Not only is there burn-out on the job, but could there also be interviewing burn-out?

In the software industry, you're doing yourself a disservice by staying at a company for more than 3 years. Even 2 years is pushing it, that is unless you are seeing wage increases that match or exceed inflation. And even if you haven't reached that amount of time, it's smart to start applying and interviewing earlier so you can have a better pick by the time you're ready to get out. I know some on HN will deny this, but I've seen enough resumes and LinkedIn profiles that demonstrate otherwise.

Hence, many of us are in a sort of medium-frequency cycle of interviewing. Applying for jobs becomes a job in and of itself, and as someone going through that process right now, I think the process has gotten much worse.

Not only are you likely to go through 3 to 4 rounds of interviews for a given employer, but now you've got to do take-home assignments. Most of the time, the estimated duration they provide is an understatement, especially if you actually want to show your best work. I've had 3 so far that wanted me to do a take-home assignment that they said could take several hours and even days. I refuse to do any that are estimated to be longer than 2 hours at this point. The other person is likely an introvert and sucks at interviewing, which can ruin your chances if they perceive the interview as not having gone well. In either case, you probably won't be hired at that place anyway.

Now multiply that experience by around 30% of the applications you've sent out. To have enough options on the table, you've got to send out at least 40+ applications (unless you've got a connection at a company already). Not only are you having to fight off all those other applicants, but you're spending a lot of your free time doing so.

Let's not forget the hours you'll also now have to spend hammering through Leetcode so you don't look like a complete fool in front of unrealistic problems you wouldn't be expected to complete in under an hour in real life.

Who actually doesn't dread facing this every few years?

I want to work in my field, but part of me also feels like saying "screw this" in favor of living in a van down by the river. Having experience might land you a better salary, but when you switch companies it's like being a junior developer all over again. I can only imagine how much it sucks for someone who has a family and kids.
Reading is more popular with younger generations than boomers.

Reading had a massive renaissance with gen z and millennials have always read more than boomers.

The idea that the youth consider reading as geeky and boring is itself and outdated idea from the 80’s.
So to be clear, your email newsletter costs nothing to subscribers, but your income is through selling that sponsor slot? That's interesting. I wouldn't have imagined there's so much money to make in email newsletters from advertisements
I did rotations in multiple types of lab as part of my program and I can't say I ever found that students in regular molecular biology labs had nearly as hard a time as structural biologists; SB is its own class of hell. Given the number of papers published in molecular biology that turn out to be "gel was physically cut and reasssembled to show the results the authors desired" (it's much harder to cheat on a protein structure)...
I thought it was an interesting paper and the first post didn't get any traction.

From the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Are reposts ok? If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

Sometimes the moderators also invite users to resubmit (although this was not the case here).
Imagine for a moment that a recession was something quite rare, but extremely desirable and good. But outside of that difference, all of the current state of the word's definition would remain. Do you honestly believe the current administration wouldn't be parading out that we're in a recession, along with all of the usual media making front page news of it?

So we use the usual rule of thumb to claim it's a recession when it's a good thing, but instead try claim it's not a recession until a given think-tank says so when it's a bad thing.
> Ultimately, no one uses Swift voluntarily, and that's a bad sign.

Sorry but this can't be more wrong. I love Swift so much that I can tolerate and forgive its compiler's sluggishness.

Swift is now available on Linux (has been for a while) and there's Apple's server framework called SwiftNIO. It's designed for fast and efficient multithreaded server-side code. I voluntarily picked it for my next backend project and am very happy so far.
> Politicians don’t receive money directly from lobbyists and donors. Doing so would be a violation of rules against taking bribes.

> a congresspersons power within the party is directly correlated to their ability to fundraise for the party

I agree, trading stocks is an easy, relatively passive way of doing this.
Open source backend when?
> If everyone else were ants, he would be an etymologist intrigued by our behavior or something.

Just in case it wasn't a typo, you certainly meant 'entomologist'.
oh that is so sneaky and that would never fly in a scientific study.
Adjacent thread in a different market, currently at the top of r/medicine: "Is it just me... Or do things feel off?"

https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/w9ufnt/is_it_just...
ooh looks cool! are yall going to support stuff like dietary preferences? and is it ad supported or?
We should let them own a house in their constituency, at least.

I'm open to disallowing real estate speculation.
The World Needs to Start Planning for the Fire Age
Just looking through the OECD's datasets [0], I see a lot of health care quality and utilization measures missing for the US and many other OECD countries. How are you defining "good effect"?

[0] https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?QueryId=49344#

I was able to find some incomplete data that suggests the US is pretty good on the metric of wait time, compared to many European countries and Canada:

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/242e3c8c-en/1/3/2/index....
Is this a positive effect? I think it is for lower inflation rates, but above a certain threshold the borrowing can get out of hand, people will go and get more loans, which will drive prices higher. Eventually the bubble pops and people go underwater.
> The charge back is only important because people have to give away their credentials every time they make a payment.

So like, merchants not delivering is not a thing at all?
>But social media is basically letting everyone have a voice in the conversation

Me and Elon Musk both have "a voice" but one reaches much farther than the other. It's like saying capitalism is true democracy because everyone can vote with their wallet. Or as a farm animal once put it "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others"
So…. The author doesn’t use any libraries, hates libraries but uses libraries especially for forms and oh yeah many other things that make his job better… I’m lost.
Agreed with the poster below. Godot def could, but I know text rendering is not as nice as browsers last I checked.
I don't reject them for being "messy"! I didn't anticipate so many people cleaning their desks off before their feature but that is what many have opted to do.

Here's some "real" ones:

https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/106-michele-hansen

https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/070-alex-wilhelm
I read it as social media is anarchy and to try to censor it will become tyranny.
Reminds me of the (apocryphal?) anecdote about Diogenes the cynic:

Diogenes was eating bread and lentils, when Aristippus told him that if he would only be subservient to the king, he would not have to live on bread and lentils. Diogenes replied that if you learn to live on bread and lentils, then you never have to be subservient to the king.
wow, really cool!

it is a bit slow while 'processing' but the result is great, interface is super easy and intuitive.

no doubt it will have move avatar and, more then anything, other languages :)
Having armed militias / mafia organizations that operate state-like is just outsourcing violence to a different entity. For something to truly be an "other" option, violence would have to be something held and used at the individual level.
It is vital when reading this to understand that it is descriptive, not proscriptive. It defines a particular definition of stupidity, a very utilitarian one, and then proceeds to classify various portions of the world based on that definition.

It does not spell that out right at the beginning, or even necessarily at all. But it is not discussing all possible uses of the word "stupid". "Wasted potential" definitely doesn't work for discussions about active harm being done (at some points).

(As such, another common critique I see is trying to decide if it's "right" or "wrong", but that's the wrong question. As it proposes a definition, one that I think undeniably does have the ability to be applied to the world, the question is rather if it is useful. I have found it so, but that's debatable. But that's at least the correct debate.)
Biden Administration Plans for Legal Psychedelic Therapies Within Two Years
DeepMind, Offers ‘Gift to Humanity’ with Protein Structure Solution
I fundamentally don't understand the argument that we're not in a economic recession because employment is high.

This is like saying sure you can't buy as much bread, but at least you are working longer.

The fact that more people are working to produce less describes an economy in decline.

What am I missing here?
I would say the title is disingenuous the same way clickbait is. A suggested alternate could be, “the time I wandered around somebody’s worksite until the inconvenience of my presence outweighed the crews’ Canadian-level non-confrontational demeanor”.
But that’s not as grabby.
This is dead on arrival. They aren't even going to get a solid majority of Democrats on board and there's going to be absolutely zero Republican support. I would honestly be amazed if it even made it to the house floor.
Binding resolution allows for We the People to force the legislative body to enact legislation that they oppose. This is now cannibals become legal in Colorado. Unfortunately not all states have binding resolution nor are legislative body willing to empower the people. Binding resolution also needs to be bound at a Federal level, which it is not, to bring in true balance of power and laws that have true accountability. Such as all money gained through insider trading is forfeited along with possible jail time and possible loss ability to be a constitute representative.

If binding resolution was an available tool for We the People, legislative body would work move together than separately.
Or "no damage to car after cyclist killed in traffic accident"
What about the salaries of the staff? What about the tools needed to perform the job?
I'm a little sanguine about the inverted yield curve as a real signal this time around, to be honest.

We're in an environment of very rapidly rising short-term interest rates, specifically as the Fed attempts to try to manage inflation; with back-to-back 75 bps increases. That tends to have a curve flattening effect as the yield curve is nominal; short term yields rise more than longer tenors if the market believes that inflation will decrease as real yields will be higher.
Also, as the Biden administration is quick to point out, US industrial output is up.

So, people are accepting fewer, apparently better employment offers, manufacturing is being onshored, but (due to lower supply of foreign slave labor and exploitable US workers) profits are down, and inflation is up.

Since unemplyoment is low, the Fed mandate seems pretty clear at this point. Interest rates should go up. The market will tank for a few years because inflation and paying workers screws with profits, then bounce back (in real terms) once corporate debt, etc unwinds, and productivity starts to rise again.

Rigid and weak corporations will be displaced by startups and existing companies that are able to adapt/innovate.

It's weird to me that Fox News's staunchly anti-China, pro-US manufacturing Fox News's viewership is so bent out of shape.

Aren't we experiencing exactly the effect Trump's tariffs were supposed to achieve?
Pointing out fallacies doesn't work because doing so itself uses the fallacy of "I have proven you wrong, therefore I am right" when the most likely truth is both are horrendously off-base.
How should a company address this? They can provide developers cover and time to improve those processes, but that delays product goals at a time when those goals are more important to the ongoing survival of the business than at any point in the past decade+. If companies wouldn't let developers fix stuff when money was easy, how will they now that money is hard?

To make matters slightly worse, I increasingly get the sense that outside of HN, most devs will jump through all the flaming hoops of bad process, accumulating all the little burns, without ever considering it doesn't have to be this way. Improving internal dev workflows gets more pushback from devs than management in my experience, which makes me feel like a crazy person.
Actually I have a better theory: R2 actually hates all humans for having enslaved robots, and through mailicious compliance ensures all those he is in direct contact with get the worst possible outcomes.
> How did we get to a point where actual data can be outright denied or absorbed based on your political viewpoint?

Our elites—I don’t mean that pejoratively, but descriptively—used to adhere to institutional values. When I joined a prominent NYC law firm 10 years ago nobody commented on the fact that it was named after someone who argued the pro-segregation other side of Brown v. Board. The institution, not only of the firm but the legal process itself-where even segregationists are entitled to their day in court—was a credo that transcended individual politics or individual notions of “justice” or “human rights.”

That flipped sometime in the last decade. Our institutions have been overtaken my millenarianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenarianism. It’s a belief system that transcends institutional values—in the law, the media, everywhere.

Do you remember “The Resistance?” Where Clinton-supporting government employees pledged to work within the bureaucracy to defeat the agenda of the duly elected President—their boss? The craziness we’ve been seeing from conservatives lately is a reaction to that total abandonment of institutional values.
Politics on reddit? Isn't that shills arguing with shills moderated by shills ranked by a biased algorithm that other shills try to game with vote bots.
I like this approach!

Also - I've found that the personal contact with sponsors has made them likely to rebook or simply book additional slots up front.
Thank you for elaborating, that does help me appreciate your point of view better. I personally preferred that they prioritized result builders higher — I guess I agree with them that the needs of the UI layer were more urgent.

It would be nice to have variadic generics, though.
> Senior devs are nowhere to be found through regular applicant pipelines. They seem to be leaving as a result of reaching out to friends/former colleagues.

Which makes sense. Everyone learns that the best way to get jobs is skip the recruitment pipeline by using your network.

The recruitment pipeline is so miserable at most companies, why would you put yourself through it unless it is absolutely your dream job? Even then it's probably unnecessarily stressful and time consuming and annoying. Way better to make contacts with people where you want to work and just skip it.
Struct Endianness in Python
I believe this was in the swift roadmap to have an opt-in borrow semantics for a block of code, if you want to do low level systems programming - just like rust.

But I guess it didn't fit to migrate from current obj-c ecosystem so they left it for later.
The only thing that I noticed was not 100% correct is:

5. [..] courts will seize from them what you are owed

The process to get a court to do this is extremely difficult. It often starts with Debtor Examination followed by filing a bunch of documents to start the seizing process. If the person really doesn’t want to pay the judgement though, good luck. For example, during the Debtor Examination they have to answer truthfully under oath where their bank accounts and other property are. And then as soon as the meeting is over they can move to a different bank.

Getting a judgement is the easy part. Collecting it is the hard part.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-is-debtor-exami...
I understand the challenges with running your own mail server, but should that not be up to the developer? I don't know about the rest of you but I'm becoming more an more concerned about the centralization of hosting services. If others follow suit does it mean you must go to a "trusted" email platform? Seems like a bad move for a lot of reasons, with a a trade off for less email junk and a decision that should be the choice of the digital ocean customer. Perhaps I'm being naive?
Notably: plot isn't the only factor at play in a novel (or film, et c.). At least in the good ones.
Or they believed it would be transitory and any action would upset longer term price and employment stability.
This is so horrible on so many levels

But at the same time oh man do I so totally identify with this

And now I feel a bit guilty
If the test is flaky, the first thing you should do it disable it (until you can fix it), so it stops breaking the build and slowing down everyone else. A flaky test is worse than no test. I used to work at a place where people who just "re-run the build" several times until they got lucky. Eventually I just disabled those tests in one of my unrelated PRs.
Through your taxpaying dollars, just like every other government worker?

>pay for [...] research

Thanks for the laugh.

They might read research, but they aren't personally funding it.

You may wish to read up on the subject of government work, salaries, etc. before you go debating about it on the net. Most of this stuff is covered in early Civics classes, and as someone who presumably pays taxes, you might be interested in finding out where and how those dollars get distributed!
I'm operating on the assumption that the market has already priced the possibility of the CHIPS Act failing into the current price of $NVDA.

It's possible that new information will come out that will lead to the price of $NVDA dropping, but I think that your initial comment was pretty misleading as the new announcement has not lead to Pelosi's sale being profitable.
Sounds like Godot 4 is replacing GDNative with GDExtension. Just wondering if you have tried it out and have any thoughts. Is it a smoother experience / about the same etc.
Sounds like you have a nearly perfect line and very close to the Cabinet?

In the UK lines can typically be 500M while worst case may be 1KM or more from the Cabinet. We do have alot of aluminium or cca based lines as well due to copper conservation in world war 2.

All in your perfect 17a vdsl line is still slower than Jeff is complaining about over starlink (100mb)
*uninformed
You seem to be saying two conflicting things:

- FB needs to "get out of doing the same thing over and over", but also

- FB tries to do new things and that's why they're doing poorly

Do you view VR as not a new market for them?
My personal belief is that people are responsible for their own choices, I'm not going to tell them what to do (within reason).

I'm just saying that pointing at our biology as a justification for eating meat and acting like it's not a choice is not taking responsibility. And that's something I don't like in adults.
Political polarization is engagement sure, but of what use is engagement when the subject itself is not subjective? Seems to me there is a lot of manufactured dissent to fracture or further curb political lines. making sides about every single issue.
Direct link to archive of past newsletters:

https://www.workspaces.xyz/archive
They are developing those for their companies or in their free time.

If I‘m hiring a front-end developer I‘m sure as hell not paying them to write custom datepickers all day.

Development is full of compromises.
Well; a both cynical and charitable take: We the techies do fun techie things in the service of business. As such, developer burnout is a proxy impact, and inability of business to advance business goals is a final impact :-/.

(Basically, daily I'm training my ops managers team that when they update directors/executives, impact is not "Process XYZ inadvertently set up flag ABC on table QEW due to lockwait timeout", but "300 employees had their union dues incorrectly deducted" )