skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s possible, but I don’t think that was a major factor. It wasn’t in the linked article and inflation was much lower during the stimulus. When it was creeping up, initially people thought it was transient. I don’t think most people know what the inflation rate actually is; I asked someone yesterday and they said “close to 50%”.
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George is a late thirties corporate worker, so we still have 30 something years to reach the future The Jetsons envisaged.
It's not about giving up on them. It's about being willing to accept that you haven't lived up to those values and make the changes necessary to uphold them.

While still in the wrong, how seriously should China or Russia take the country that lead the invasion and occupation of Iraq/Afghanistan for 20 odd years when it offers it's condemnation of their own ambitions?

To be frank, how can we expect anyone to take our condemnation seriously when we are currently doing the same things or have let the same things go unpunished in recent memory. We refuse to hold our own torturers and war criminals to proper account.
Thank you!

I would very much appreciate it if Hacker News could conveniently replace these newsbite-extracted-from-university-press-release-about-a-paper links with the paper itself as the main focus and then the university press release as supplementary material.

As it is, this is a game of Chinese whispers, and it’s a subtle infohazard. To begin with the university press release tends to subtly misunderstand the paper and misrepresent it and its context. For instance there is a tendency for the PR team to claim that the results are unprecedented and hitherto unknown, simply because the PR team isn’t a field expert and doesn’t know that they don’t know what is known. (Let alone the impact of PR incentives.) Then the aggregator-newsbite-feed site misunderstands and misrepresents further.
I'm not into Tik Tok style videos. I recently really cut back using both Instagram and FB because they're just showing me humorous videos and not why I used those apps.
Shelly Glashow discusses the politics behind the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics
its an error on the writers part. we are a "for profit" LLC
Veering into philosophy perhaps, but intelligence to me is “thinking”.
Youtube start reminding me a video platform from 3rd world country. There was this "look&feel" difference where you have more expensive less-adds and good quality.
That was their competitive advantage. Right now everything desperately optimized for money. That's how platform dies. They don't know how to grow organically. They become no different. Just another video hosting.
Many engineers have great people skills, they tend to become contractors.
Ask HN: Why have none of the big companies tried to compete with YouTube?
I'm constantly hearing about how YouTube content creators are unhappy with YouTube.

But no big company has ever attempted to compete - why?

No YouTube competitor from Microsoft, Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Netflix or Twitter.

YouTube seems the most easily disrupted, and yet none of the big guys are even trying to compete. Why is this?

It seems clear that given choices, many YouTube creators would happily publish to another platform.

It's not like competing with facebook, which is doomed to fail because the value is in the network - all that's needed is the resources to put together the infrastructure, advertise it and reward the content creators. That's well out of the reach of most smaller companies, but Apple, Microsoft or Amazon could easily throw $20billion at it and not even notice the money was gone.

The puzzling thing is that none of them have even tried.

Anyone got any idea why none of the big guys are raising a finger to take what YouTube's got?
At least it wasn't 42
As someone in his late 30s who's doing a Master's degree and likely to go on for a PhD, I agree. It should be reformed, not abolished.

What should be abolished are 97 percent of postdoc positions. Postdocs used to be a rare, prestigious opportunity to do something different one might not want to do for one's whole life, like work for IAS in Princeton or for the government doing cryptography. What they became is something else entirely: another stupid rung on the ladder, an excuse to dangle the carrot of tenure (which isn't "lifetime job security" as academic detractors like to claim, but merely the presence of due process, as opposed to arbitrary whim, around personnel decisions) for longer.
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The product is sold as a set with accompanying glasses, so the lid will be guaranteed to fit your drinking glass. We are starting with cups and will expand to other common dinnerware (bowls, etc) and utensils in the future.
Yeah I guess you could say this is full blown cynicism
DISCLAIMER: I am not actually a "backend" developer (although I have written some pretty big backends).

I am not a JS fan. This is not because I have anything against the language; it's just that I have no real need for it, and have treated it as a "necessary evil," in my frontend work, so I don't believe that I have much of a platform to lob spitballs at it.

PHP, on the other hand, is a language that I have used for over 20 years. I think it was 3 or 4, when I started. If I do backend work, these days, I'll be doing so, in PHP.

I always like looking at the "fishtank graph"[0]. That sort of puts things in perspective.

[0] https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programmin...
Yeah suggestions have got worse. Shorts are shit. There is still great stuff but they bury it. I rely on subscriptions and blocking crap channels that is repeatedly suggested. Gone are the days the optimise for best recommendations, now its about ad revenue. Adblocking youtube apps on Android TV are a godsend.
Your opening assumption is false. I start and run businesses.

Any reference to “devops team” is also automatically failing at devops. It’s not a job, a task, or a team. I don’t spare much time for folks encumbered by a silo mindset. It’s the antithesis of a service/product-team approach, and (to the actual point) does nothing to oppose the myopia I’m accusing the JS ecosystem of.
Dolphins make peace and love–not war–when they encounter strangers
I care.
There is no intelligence guiding it. If it gets stuck in local maximum there it stays. If routing a vein through the worst possible places works it won't get optimized etc.
indeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32320295

european salaries are usually quoted "semi-gross" (or semi-net, according to your optimism). there is an arbitrary distinction between employer contributions and employee contributions, the figure you will be given is after the former, before the latter. and always before income tax of course (because that isn't solely based on your salary)
True. I have a hard time coming up with a dish that doesn't work (or is improved) by onions, and how many dishes would completely suck without them.
The level of self importance expressed in all of these responses is quite amazing.

Being a developer/engineer is not a particularly unique or hard to acquire skill, it's highly prized only because it's a new domain and there's an imbalance of supply and demand of workers. In the longer run, wages will certainly regress far closer to the median.

What defines productivity will of course be context dependent, but the majority of companies are building products, and it's quite obvious which developers are contributing vs which aren't.

If you're building a novel system that requires a strong theoretical basis for decision making, then you can argue that low output people are potentially valuable. But 99.9% in industry aren't doing this.

And seems many are lacking situational awareness. I could easily rank all the developers in my org with a very high level of accuracy. If you can't you're a poor manager (or branch/subdivision for larger companies).

Seems the vast quantities of butts in seats, do little paid a lot, kind of workers are particularly triggered here. And boy, there are a lot of them.
Only if you are designing another TempleOS. Thing for it's own sake, unaffected by any external requirements and completely specified, designed and implemented by one person.
This site is great and I'm so glad I found it. Car shopping has been challenging and this is an invaluable service you've created.
I studied renewable energy engineering at a mid-tier Canadian university. My experience, both personally and talking to my peers, is that just like one cannot solve every problem by throwing money at it, one cannot solve every problem by throwing brainpower at it. The climate crisis being one of those. There are a lot of people looking to work for someone else in order to solve this problem, smart people willing to change careers isn't what's lacking.

What's lacking, not to get too Ouroborean about it, seems to be energy. A number of my former classmates have gone into entrepreneurial ventures since graduation, since that seems much more what the industry is lacking.

To give one example relevant to your background - if you're skilled in finance, a fund of some kind that invests dividends from fossil fuel companies into emerging alternative sources would probably do a lot. That is really the global challenge, to invest the dividends from the fossil fuel era into a post-fossil era with as little reduction in human living standards as possible. Fossil fuels have an energy that renewables lack, never mind the hype. It's bringing that energy over with as few losses as possible that I see as the challenge.
Last I read YouTube is not profitable
Agree that being unable to test serverless code locally is begging for pain. While not perfect, testing AWS Lambda has improved over the years. I recently deployed a Lambda function only because I was able to reproduce the environment locally, using their Lambda Runtime Interface Emulator (RIE):

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/images-test.htm...
I can teach you the secret to this. Anytime you feel yourself saying "Wow, Y is so much better than X because of A, B, and C" then X is what will make it big.
That is true, but consumption is supposed to be part of the loop. If a bunch of B2B companies are paying each other no B2C or C involved it's pointless economic activity and Ponzi-esque
I personally prefer the chess.com lectures. But as long as we can agree to not use terms like 'lichess is objectively better' I'm happy we can disagree
> my dinner in pill form

"What the man of the future will look like? He will have small, atrophied arms because machines will do everything for him. He will have small, atrophied legs because machines will transport him everywhere. He will have small torso due to having atrophied digestive system because his diet will consist exclusively of nutrient pills. He will, however, have a large head because his brain will enlarge due to him constantly thinking... thinking how to earn more of those damned pills!"

Man, the future used to be so bright! They don't make it like they used to any more...
> Is this just people being risk averse right now?

VC historically yielded 12 to 18% [1]. There is a lot of variance in those figures, with the crypto + Clubhouse guys coming in below ten, savvier funds still posting 30%+ and SoftBank + Tiger losing money.

So when a bond is yielding 5 pts [2] above the 10-Treasury’s 2.75% [3], more people will chose 7 or 8% with the guarantee of the issuer’s assets over maybe twenty maybe zilch.

[1] https://www.nexitventures.com/site2015/wp-content/uploads/20...

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BAMLH0A0HYM2

[3] https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/...
> they don't know how but they're sure the first step is total political change, and step 2 will make itself known then.

This is entirely the issue with green types, (myself being married to one, and leaning green-er myself)

The "ecomoderates" are actually the ones pushing for sensible change. We can not cause a giant upheaval of society and then figure out what works (unless you think other humans are the problem and should be eradicated - inwhich societal disruption is one stone for two birds). Figure it out now.

Part of figuring it out is actually figuring out what is to be solved. Sri Lanka thinks that it was to do with fertilizer, and caused a catastrophe for themselves.

Plastic waste pollution/landfill is often something that is said needs to be solved, - A few months ago scientists found/grew an algae that eats plastic. I was thinking that it's amazing because that can really help clean up the place and deal with landfill. The overwhelming response was "No we can't have that, that's carbon released in the air from bug farts, it's best to leave the plastic in the ground".

The only way forward is progressively and piecemeal until viable solutions are found. If you want faster actions, then contribute more viable solutions that don't involve killing your neighbour. The fact is that things are getting better, and they are continuing to get better. You need to be patient in figuring out your ideas.

I'm currently building a house or of hemp-crete which will absorb carbon out of the atmosphere as it dries, and I'm figuring out the problems with it (mainly labour intensive, a mushier organic concrete) and so trying to find solutions to make it more widely used.
there will be the need to track "below" msrp which will be great just to find the best priced dealers around a given area.
It’s funny to me how much trolling goes on on the internet. And how “normies” don’t realize this and think everything is genuine and take posts at face value.

I pretty much assume every personal story on the net is fake or mostly fake. Or at least if there’s some real world effect like making people upset or concerned or whatnot.

I suppose it’s similar levels to IRL and makes me get into a “what’s real” mental loop as I expect most people randomly encountered have some projection rather than their real self.
Maybe not run everything locally, but most “web apps” could be local apps with something like dropbox to back up the data and make it accessible.

The issue with this is the web is zero install cross platform and it is hard to compete with that.
This is only the case if you subscribe to channels that churn out content on a daily or weekly basis and have no interest in finding tangential content by new creators. I've given up on using YouTube for discovery, I have to actively fight the search in order to find anything remotely useful and the main feed is just the same crap repeated over and over again no matter how many I mark as not interested. Whatever happened to it several years ago has completely lobotomized the recommendation engine, it's just trash now. I'm hopeful that content creators will continue to trend towards uploading to multiple video platforms so I can find new stuff.
> Unfortunately, I think this is a systemic issue that is not easy to solve.

It's incredibly easy to solve. Quit your PhD and encourage others to do so as well. You're being used.
> silently take a null instead of a string

Oh, so you _haven't_ used any of the recent versions of PHP, then. You're just talking shit with no actual recent experience. Gotcha. Well, thanks for your input.
This morning I noticed a new source of videos in my "subscriptions" feed from "ThisMorning" a channel I would never subscribe to (fluffy cooking / morning show stuff)... turns out that's a thing Youtube does, randomly subscribe you to stuff.
I think the issue is more about influence than it is about privacy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK2LjQ7voN8 -- NostalgiaNerd: Done with youtube
A thirty row table fits into the CPU cache, a 1 billion row table doesn't.
> > then not many engineers will apply

I would.

Like you said ; one point is probably market value and another future relevance. I have had discussions with hiring managers lately and almost none that I talked to actually use most or any of the buzzwords they put in their ads. They just say they do to get more applications.
> Or just run 20 workers and let the OS handle async.

That just means you can only handle 20 concurrent requests before performance drops off a cliff. If the third-party service you are talking to is slow, then you’ll just end up with 20 workers all waiting for the service to respond, while other requests pile up. With async, those workers could still be handling other requests. Adding more workers because you are blocking on i/o works for low traffic services, not for anything remotely busy.
Squats and deadlifts significantly changed my posture and my feeling of wellness.
It does it on the "word" level: https://stackoverflow.com/a/52635099/2958070
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They absolutely nailed the "pushing buttons as a job" part.
I agree, what a clunky process. Hard to express in written prose what you want, so much ambiguity.

Even if you get close to what you, the human, may like--it's difficult if not impossible to articulate what you like about it and iterate. Black box, keep trying random keywords... May as well grab a marker (read: hire a human)
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Thank you, you can see how I blanked on it. :) If I could characterize the post-social-media internet, it would be by its lack of candor.
https://archive.ph/L2714
Think of it as the half life of CO2 being 500 years (that's not that, but the curve is similar). The climate in 5000 years will be sufficiently similar to the one in 1850 for everything to settle back.

Except to be honest, we're not sure. The ocean will also probably reemit in the atmosphere some CO2 it is capturing right now (becoming less acidic), so with absorption slowing down, we're not sure how it will go. We know that it will need at least 10 000 years to get back, but we might ignore other phenomenons. Maybe bigger (so higher) Cyclones will accelerate the time needed for the excess CO2 in the high tropsphere to come down.

The sad, harsh and i guess also beautiful thing about this climate change event is that it is a full-scale experiment that have never been done before, that will change everything and on which we don't have enough theories to predict exactly what will happen.
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> Prosecutors, though, said $300 can go a long way. In court papers, they said the money could be used in Somalia to pay an al-Shabab fighter’s monthly wages or buy an AK-47 military rifle or a camel.

300 dollars for an AK-47? Yeah right, go visit a gun show
I often feel that for example Python web stacks are overly reliant on conventions. Your work is expected to follow nested conventions, and if you do so, things work. Yet, some conventions imported from other underlying packages are not documented in the current package, so if you are new to the stack you are lost immediatly.
https://archive.ph/OQTUV#selection-129.5-129.38
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Have you looked at either Raylib or SFML? Both are somewhat high-level graphics abstraction libraries, but neither are anywhere near the weight or functionality of a proper game engine.

https://www.raylib.com/
https://www.sfml-dev.org/

Or is something like this not what you're looking for?
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> yet they are almost all paid as if they are great leaders.

The board of directors are the ones who measure CEO performance and set compensation but most of the times they just rubber stamp whatever the CEO does.
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Thank you for the kind words. We have so much more work to do! Trying to innovate in this industry is TOUGH. All of the incumbent business models are predicated on information asymmetry. We're having fun changing the way things work and sliding the scale in the consumers favor.
> the whole "Great Resignation" theme of the two pandemic years would suggest that people are instead looking to move away from the established companies

That period was characterised by easy money boosting the job pool relative to applicants. Employees had heightened mobility and many capitalised on the opportunity. That window is now closing, with firms focussing on survival over growth.
ive easily waited an hour just to have a trade-in valued. this is part of the deal since you wouldnt land in the finance office until your trade in is valued.
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The answer is super simple.

Wrong incentives + lack of mechanisms to find, navigate to and promote interesting content.

Nowadays, people create content on Youtube essentially only for profit (be it actual profit from Youtube or promotion).

That's it. That's what you are selecting from.

There are of course exceptions, but these are rare enough to not dictate the general quality of content.

And if you are dissatisfied with general quality, that's it. There is no catalog where you can drill down and search for stuff that you don't know but you might be interested in. You can only search for things you already know -- and really interesting things tend to be a bit outside of what you already know.
Somehow I don't think US gun show prices are particularly relevant for African war zones.
Cannot have HyperV nor WSL2 sadly, for security concerns
Chances are quite high you will never need scale. If you knew 100% sure you needed it when building, you would build for scale from day 1. But most/all startups and also for many projects in large corps, they don't know if they need scale. And startup statistics definitely show it is a very high chance you don't need it ever because you will be out of business long before that. It's mostly a waste of effort, time and money.
When I was playing WoW, it was hard to find, for example, "guide to blackwing lair". It would be way down the page, below videos always titled "shocked reaction to Blackwing lair boss kill", "streamer reacts to BWL speedrun".
Snowden is sort of an unusual standard to apply for this sort of thing? Espionage and intelligence almost never meets a certain level of proof that's available to the public eye.

I'm not really sure what to make of Chinese government involvement with TikTok but from the information available, it seems like whatever it is, TikTok isn't being forthright about it.

You can distrust the US government and also think there's reasonable evidence the Chinese government has access to TikTok for domestic or foreign intelligence.
Pilates worked for me. Reformer pilates, where you lie on this bed with pulleys and do various different exercises. 1hr a week for two years and I have no issue with my bulging disc injury.

YMMV of course, and most other suggestions here are also worth trying.

Most importantly, if you try something stick to it for 6-12 weeks before changing up. That's enough time for yoga/weights/pilates/whatevs to make a meaningful impact.
Intelligence (in a metric, "this is intelligent way to do X", sense) implies some purpose. But life is just one big 'systems that survive and grow - grow and survive' tautology.
> a rock or something

I see you too are a MRE connoisseur