skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, I was very enthusiastic at the beginning of learning it. And if nothing else, it is a great refresher of Pl features.

I’m just afraid that the language can’t be properly maintained from the insane matrix of all these features (I once got a type inference timed out error..)
And the article even admits as much a few paragraphs later. Just one of many pieces of evidence that this article is not of much value, even as a work of speculative fan fiction.
My biggest source of burnout is really from mundane failures in processes: flaky tests that fail for no good reason, and obscure bugs that are hard to reproduce. These things take up 90% of my time and I feel like a code janitor, rather than a developer. Any company dealing with burnout should consider this.
I guess:

https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Theories_about_Tom_Bombadil
I have a targeted newsletter as well with about 8000 unique opens per week (out of a total active list of 30k) which I am using to boost sales on a Shopify store, and I also re-purpose the content as blog posts. I have also been thinking about sponsorships but do not know where to start. What are the requirements of the sponsors in terms of graphics, text, placement, links, tracking, and analytics? Do they demand email addresses of your readers?
I'm not sure how "defamation" is germane to the discussion, or the original point that you responded to.
> Nobody is saying there's no use case for cryptocurrencies.

There is no use case for cryptocurrencies.
Generally that unnecessary labor is meant to keep the inmates busy and help them learn skills for after they get out, and the same limits on exploitation of prisoners that currently exist would likely continue to exist. The whole foundation of the penal system is that serving your time is a preferable alternative to getting shot - if the punishment for a crime is being turned into a meat puppet then every shootout is to the death, no one ever makes a plea deal, and every prisoner riots. We already place some pretty significant limits on how badly prisoners can be treated, there's no reason to think these restrictions would magically disappear.

And this doesn't change the fact that all the expensive parts of automation remain for this case - the moment you stop controlling the human body with a human brain, you need to program every individual bodily movement. You still need to provide food, water, rest, and medical care to these people or their bodies will stop working. Biological variation means you don't get near-mechanical consistency, and odds are the expensive programming work you did isn't even transferrable between different bodies. In fact, normal fluctuations in fatigue and adrenaline and bodily changes like increase in muscle mass mean your program may need modification from one day to the next. By comparison, robots are cheap, strong, and reliable.

Yes, you get the benefit of restricting people's freedom of movement, but you know you can also do that with a straight jacket, or holding a gun to their head. The same goes for sex workers and suicide bombers and anyone else you would seek to control against their will - if you have the means to force a puppetting device on them, you almost certainly already have the means to force them to do anything else you might want.

Maybe if you took the technology far enough that someone could be almost instantaneously puppetted via a non-invasive procedure and the equipment was small enough that no one could tell the person was puppetted you could have some real issues with the ultimate identity theft, but I imagine by that point technologies both to prevent oneself from being puppetted against their will and means of detecting those who are being controlled would be available.
why are you posting this comment so many times.
To what extent can this be automated? There are apps to fight parking/speeding tickets... could the same be done for little lawsuits to sue spammers?

Maybe a lawyer could comment on feasibility of this.
I’m not a Stripe customer, but I’ve often ended calls with other companies’ human tech support thinking “wow, I wish I could talk to a human.” Not because they didn’t take my side, but because I might as well have been talking to a chatbot. Many companies’ tier 1 support can’t go off script, can’t offer creative solutions that are even slightly off the rails, can’t make exceptions, can’t apply human reason or good judgment, can’t update fields in their screens that are read-only… they are basically IVR systems that eat lunch. So I can emphasize with the feeling that customers are always interacting with an API.
Is fingerprinting fine for self-hosted services if it can not link to a specific individual?

Fingerprinting across the web is bad because you can use it to target a specific user, but if a company that has a website tracks locally all this data (self-hosted), then they are only able to tell if a user is a returning user or not without being able to share "this user" with any other platform or 3rd party.
> Worse, even if we're in recession it's pretty mild, so I don't even know why there is so much handwringing about it.

Ideologies tend to deal in binaries. We are either in a recession and the sky is about to fall or everything is great. Jobless recoveries or full employment recessions don't fit into binary narratives.
All of the companies are needlessly inviting the wrath of regulation on themselves. Sooner or later (probably later) a political consensus could emerge to require detailed human review, subject to a regulator intervening on any/every case, whenever they keep more than $X for more than Y days.

I suggest that it might be smarter for all of these firms to do a better job, voluntarily, of providing human interaction and review - to forestall such regulation as long as possible.
I think you might want to switch to satellite view. There are definitely human-made structures that you can recognize at 10km/px.
Simple example.

You have an app and just 3 microservices web + recommendation engine + payment gatway

This means that the team that handles recommendation engine can deploy as fast as they want while the payment gateway (which is brittle and mission critical) stays put.

If you have just a monolith then everytime the recommendation engine is tuned, the payment gateway code is also redeployed with possible downtime (contrived example but just to give you the idea)
We should delete the internet for a while
Here is the story:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/house-to-vote-thursday-on-...

When you see the CHIPS socialism for the rich act stall, and ultimately NVIDIA will be affected and NVDA goes down below that.. what is a couple days ultimately, if you get out ahead of a much larger drop?
The axe to the ring was bad enough, but when the character later explicitly suggested that they go through Moria, ranting about food and beer, that’s when I knew we had gotten a clown on our hands. By the time the tossing was discussed, I was thoroughly disillusioned about the character, and expected no better.
I personally love Swift and find it a joy to use. To be fair, I’m ultimately doing {i,mac}OS dev with it [1] but the parts that actually touch SwiftUI/UIKit/AppKit are just a small part, and I usually start by writing packages with all the business logic/model data.

I write Go for work and my all-time favorite language is probably still Rust, but I find that a ton of really thoughtful and smart choices have gone into Swift-the-language as well as how it’s used to build apps.

Happy to expand more on what I like about using Swift if you’re curious.

[1] which you can now write as the same codebase using SwiftUI
I have met CSO's who are similarly confused about what OWASP Top 10 actually means.
Oh the poor recruiters! That's a group I have little sympathy for as employer and as an employee.

To be fair to the article, it real seems to be more about developer burn out, which I have sympathy for. If you have trouble attracting talent, maybe think about how you are treating your talent?
I wrote some C# code a couple of years ago to generate PDF invoices. Has been running fine since then generating tens of thousands of PDFs. It was pretty straight forward back then, only annoying thing were page breaks when there were a lot of line items, but apart from that I would not consider it a "pain".

What issue have you had? What do you mean by "custom"?
What's your process for securing sponsors for the newsletter? How is the sponsor slot integrated into the email?
In Germany, any company telling you that you won something is required to provide that prize. Unfortunately, the scams I get tend to be from abroad, and/or the actors behind them impossible to identify (and they also often use vague language like "potentially won" or "won one of our prizes" vs. "YOU WON A BRAND NEW TESLA CYBERTRUCK").
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i think clickhouse is the main one but there are other like apache pinot. snowflake and co are different so not really in the same class of products.
I have a joke that I use all the time. "I don't do MBA. I hire MBAs". If you want to run a business, MBA nas nothing to do with it. Go start a business and while you try to run it, you will learn things that will be your MBA.

Running the business IS the MBA. Nothing else.

MBA degrees are nice to get in consulting or other areas with top employers. Perhaps you will meet a few great people as well if you go to the top ones. But that's it.

If you want to entrepreneur, entrepreneur. Everything else is just feel good stuff.

PS: I run a business for 8+ years with no MBA. I do have a Bachelors in CS but that's it. Not even a Masters in anything.
> build shit out of slip fit "what's the thinnest wall tubing we can get away with" held together with bolts acting as pins

There is your problem. However, even if you're consciously building for low quality, lock washers are still not useful or necessary. You will still have low quality if you remove them.

I think if you want to use a bolt and nut as just a pin that holds some slip tubing together, without unduly compressing the tubing, you want two nuts that are tightened against each other. The tubing likely has a bit of elasticity (likely, all the elasticity you would want from a washer and then some)*, so one nut can be lightly tightened against the tubing, so that the assembly doesn't rattle loose under ordinary movement of the product. There can be washers so you don't scratch the tubing, if that matters. Then you put on the other nut and tighten it hard against the previous nut, while preventing that one from turning any farther. This generates tension in the bolt section between the two nuts, binding them firmly together and preventing them from working loose.

This will cost you more in assembly time/steps and parts; that's what you get from building something that is less likely to fall apart in use.

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* It's entirely likely that the thin wall tubing has a much lower spring constant than a split lock washer. So that is to say, if you tighten the nut to the point that you're deforming the tubing, the washer may still be almost entirely uncompressed. Adding a relatively stiff spring into a "sandwich" that already includes soft springs generally doesn't do anything except past the point where the soft springs are fully compressed.
I am suspicious of this project: the real goal is clearly to get people to clean their desks. And it is effective!
You might want to try using Docker's cache mounts? https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#run---moun...

I've been using them locally of late, and they're excellent for storing state that's not obviously identical across invocations of the same layer.
> Ultimately, no one uses Swift voluntarily, and that's a bad sign.

Not true for me, I've used it successfully for server side work. Being able to use the same language is nice since I can pull in the same routines/data structures and not re-implement them.
Check your cones
This is one of the stock answers, according to some folks I know who do a lot of this kind of work.
Nurses, teachers, airline workers, hospitality employees, and now developers.

We can't all just get tired of working and quit.
Buf Studio: Interact with gRPC and Protobuf APIs Directly from the Browser
I did awhile ago and found that many of them charged on the publisher side (and a hefty % at that) so I was instantly turned off.

I have enjoyed working with sponsors who read the newsletter themselves too. It hasn't been too much work (only publishing twice per week).

My main concern when raising prices is always if that will create a gap in sponsors. I'd rather have every slot booked at a lower price than have gaps at a higher price. This is less about the actual money hitting my bank account and more about how potential sponsors would view this. If they see gaps they may conclude that the price isn't worth it...
I mean, if this were real, and this actually created a 'crisis' for recruiters, then this would be a great thing for them. Given that hiring is slowing down, and all.
If you want to lock yourself in as a middle-manager the rest of your career, an MBA is a good investment. Business schools are good at exposing you to big picture corporate strategy stuff, but not very good at skill building.

If you just want to build a general business knowledge, a great place to get started might be your local community college! Mine had a bunch of retired business owners and experts who taught some really good classes.

Some colleges (business or community) offer programs that exist specifically to jumpstart business owners/founders. You might get all you need from just a handful of classes.
Thanks, that could be a clue to where my head is stuck!

Haven't been able to bring a designer onboard yet so definitely going art brut with the style for now.
Sure, but what meaning is derived by causing the unbearable suffering, mutilation, and murder of billions of fellow conscious beings on this planet just for the sake of pleasing your taste buds?
It's not about the features it's about priorities. In principal as you say you can just ignore the bits you don't use, but there are still some glaring holes like variadic generics which didn't get attention presumably because the core team was focused on SwiftUI.

And due to the governance of the language, the "community" priorities will always take a back seat to Apple's product priorities, so it feels a bit funny to invest too heavily in the language for that reason alone.
Thanks. Our goal is to make learning to cook as easy as possible, and that includes making onboarding as easy as possible :-)

Re: MacOS app: is that the same toolchain as iOS, or totally different? Our iOS app is built in Swift but I'm not an iOS developer, so actually not super familiar with the ecosystem.
> Also if the president has no effect on gas prices why was ours groveling at the feet of the Saudi Prince?

Because they're the people who can have an effect?

If Biden could tweak gas prices, he wouldn't have to do that.
Hope, and numbers! A good combination, in my book.
Comes in a good moment considering recent Unity backlash.
Packt has a wide variety of tech books, but editing quality varies.

Same with Apress. Apress has books at $9.99 during Cyber Monday. They are probably the two alternative publishers to consider most similar in scope to Oreilly.
I've lived in Toronto and more than once accidentally found myself on a badly demarcated set near the Carpet Factory (which is used every other week for a shoot it seems because filming in Canada is cheaper than in the USA and it is large enough that you can pan a camera without immediately having a couple of modern buildings in view).

The degree to which this inconvenienced the locals was quite high, we didn't get any compensation at all for this use of the space that we were already paying for and more than once were unable to leave or enter the building because some hotshot director wanted to do things all over again.

Whether film crews are underpaid and overworked or not is really none of my concern, it is up to them to stand up for their rights and whether they work in terrible conditions or not I can't verify but I can tell you that what they spent on catering in a day probably dwarfs the budget of some African countries to feed thousands of times more people (and don't get me started on the amount of stuff they threw away afterwards).

So if someone accidentally walks on to a set then that's just too bad. Some people have a life and/or a job and that counts as well.
Nothing, given that it's way less aggressive than US, and I believe for a deep cultural reasons. Which is also what have been done literally every single time it happened before, I believe? The whole idea of punishing a country for a pandemic sounds deranged even for a right wing propaganda.
Old Forest section was dramatised later (though they couldnt get the same cast)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Perilous-Realm-Full-Cast-Dram...
It also bends credulity. It suggests 7 of 10 developers work for companies (or know someone who has) that fail to prevent onslaughts of their developers from leaving over deployment problems.
No, RTK is a wrapper around just Redux patterns, not React.

- store setup: `configureStore` creates a store with a good default config in one function call

- Reducers: `createSlice` lets you define case reducers as functions in an object, write "mutating" syntax for immutable updates with Immer, and auto-generates the action creators for each reducer

- Data fetching: `createAsyncThunk` abstracts the standard "dispatch actions before and after an async request" pattern

- RTK Query: completely abstracts the _entire_ data fetching and caching process, adds cache entry lifecycles, auto-generates React hooks for use in components

The only React-related bits in RTK are the auto-generated React hooks for RTK Query endpoints. Everything else is "here's all the same kinds of logic you've always written for Redux, but with 1/4 the code and good default behaviors".

See https://redux.js.org/tutorials/fundamentals/part-8-modern-re... and https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2022/06/presentations-mode... for overviews of what changes from legacy "hand-written" Redux to RTK and how to use the RTK APIs.
If you have a progressive tax system, excess government aid used by wealthy families is more than made up for by the higher tax rates those families pay. In exchange, you end up with programs that are simpler to operate, have less red tape, and have a broader base of political support.
Is posting things under alternate accounts to boost the submission allowed? I note that user "papercuts" and user "apeconmyth" appear to be the same person posting and interacting on their company submission.
Is there a reason you wouldn't use a game engine to create general purpose cross-platform apps? Is it cumbersome to create textual, structural interfaces (e.g. a twitter clone, google sheets clone, or an ecomm checkout flow)?
I think it is silly to say they don't benefit from it just because they aren't directly getting handouts. Many suppliers would benefit even if they were not handed the money directly.
Au contraire, mon ami... We measure bandwidth in bits per second, we say 100 Mbps or 1 Gbps, if you want to know the bytes per second you have to divide by 8, to know MBps or GBps
My co-founder handled the privacy policy so I've pinged him to provide a response. We'll get back to you as soon as possible!

EDIT: lynndotpy was right; it's required by law under COPPA if we have users under 13. It's the same reason that sites ask people for their age/birthday to check if they're under 13.

We want kids to be able to learn to cook too!
Or more commonly: Stocks decline today on news of unemployment. I sure feel sad for those stocks.
Net exporter under Trump: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-06/u-s-becom...

Begging the Saudis under Biden: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/25/1107628743/biden-will-visit-s...
Reminds me of a (very cyberpunk) short story I read in the late 90s in Asimov's, where a pair of super-hackers infiltrate a secrete bunker under the Gobi desert to find the same, populated by ethnicities the Chinese government made "disappear". (also the base of the cavern featured a pool of constructor ooze that evolved designs that would then be industrialized by China)

Wish I could remember the author and title, it's been sticking with me ever since.

Edit: Thanks to u/zem's hint, it's Taklamakan by Bruce Sterling, featured in Asimov's October 1998.
Ransomware author
I just use headless chromium to "print" a generated HTML page as a PDF, works great.
He mentioned the exact jurisdiction where it happened. Can you point at least one thing, that is wrong?
In the long run analytics will be on the losing side though - because it's possible to jam with patterns generated by other humans, just mashed together, and there is no way to reliably detect that without also making it possible for humans to use it masquerade as generated traffic.
Every month or so I add a short blurb at the beginning of a newsletter asking for sponsors and laying out my current metrics. This always leads to multiple readers replying with interest.

The typical sponsor has gone on to book 4 slots at a time (I do not offer a bulk discount - this is just what they tend to do).

The slot is integrated right after the intro blurb and before the guest's content. I offer them a headline, some text (not too strict on character count as long as it isn't crazy) and a CTA button.
Oh no, poor recruiters.
Since my school days, I have not met anyone who dislikes Tom.
> Take for example the U-3 unemployment number that you cite, what is missing from that is Workforce Participation, we have a pretty large drop-off in Work force participation which is leading to the false belief that employment is "fine", and the quote "mix signal" of being in a recession while still having lower unemployment.

Everyone is still very desparate for employees, so I don't think Workforce Participation is low because there aren't enough jobs and people are discouraged from the work force. Baby boomers are currently aging out of the job market at a n accelerated rate, so that must be one of the reasons (U-6 doesn't include that though). I think the current drug disaster is another (a lot of people are simply unemployable), but I'm not sure how to measure that.
Honestly, that's likely a cognitive bias about weighting of the indicators in your assessment. Naturally, your personal bank account will be over-weighted (just like in the cliche above). And there'll likely be an availability bias regarding the shrinkage of GDP. For one, it's easy for media to glom onto and two, it's a really easy metric for people to understand.

However, what you're probably not doing is factoring in all the other metrics that matter. Unemployment rate, the relative contraction in comparison to previous recessions, GDP in constant dollars, GDP in present dollars, business sales, industrial production, hours of non-farm employment, wage growth, etc. are all factors that the NBER uses to assess whether conditions meet the actual definition of a recession.

Point being, the simplified models we use as laypeople (e.g., GDP growth + bank account) create much more uncertainty. Our level of confidence should be inversely related to that uncertainty. It doesn't mean they're wrong, but that our conclusions should be loosely held.
This is just the death throes of the legacy media losing their influence.

The Internet democratizes the spread of information and smartphones give easy access to all of it. Social media allows bloggers and podcasters to distribute information faster, cheaper, and to a much larger audience than the printing press, radio, or television could ever dream of.