skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd look at it a little differently. The 40k puts him on the hook for something. He (or someone who signs sn agreement like that) is in a position where something he says could be construed as violating the agreement and he could get taken to court, even if he's in the right. No agreement, nothing to worry about. Why take an immaterial amount of money to be personally liable for something. Getting to tell the story is a minor perk
BeReal seems novel but I’m surprised people have the energy/desire to keep up with this stuff.
Counterpoint to your anecdote. I didn't find Amazon all that toxic for my first 2 years until I had a baby. First, the parental leave is significantly worse than competitors. I took 3 weeks when my son was born and another 5 to help my wife transition back to work herself (only 6 were paid by Amazon). There was a 10 week period in between leaves where I was stressed, anxious, and feeling overworked and burned out. My performance suffered. I received no extra help from my manager but also received no negative feedback during that time. Welp, came back from the 2nd half of my leave and was immediately put on a pip (technically called 'focus'). Worse, there was absolutely zero empathy from this manager during the focus.

Maybe Amazon can be a good place to work if you're ALWAYS able to be a solid performer but god forbid you're going through something in your personal life that temporarily impacts your ability to deliver.
"i7" isn't a particularly useful measure of computer performance. It can refer to over 12 years worth of processors, including the ultra-low power version of the first model, a 1.07GHz processor. That thing probably has trouble loading Emacs.
Agreed though it me be difficult to make it acceptable to masses, especially poorer folks who may be push towards voting red and effectively nullifying such change in short order. It may be more palatable to make it revenue neutral and give the money back as refund based on income.

Another way to think about it is the right price of carbon is (in steady state) is the cost to remove the equivalant amount of carbon if we dont want to worsen the situation. So a small portion of this revenue (carbon-tax) could be directed towards subsidizing properly vetted carbon removal techs. of course this number will be high initially so we'll have to taper in the change but it will also give chance for better public acceptance and maturity for carbon removal tech.
I would agree that it's not entirely the result of precarious financial situations. But even in tech and other high paying sectors, I would argue it still plays a factor, even if it is unconscious. Golden handcuffs are in part evident of this. Everyone in America wants to make enough money they can retire comfortably. Which is an entirely rational thing to want to do. But other countries do have higher paying pensions, so the fear of retiring destitute is less.

Also keep in mind employer expectations are a market just like any other. You as an employee compete against others willing to go lower. If you have a portion of the population in precarious financial situations, that will still impact you somewhat as they compete for jobs indirectly with you.
Friend of mine says the great thing about Java is when things go sideways you can just quit and get another gig.
It's a VM built-in feature at ingestion time.
In case two independent Prometheus instances send the same metric within the same time interval, only the first one will be stored.

https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Single-server-VictoriaMetri...
Anger isn't needed to make a good point! Politeness works just as well :)
Pollution is bad.

Pollution occurs in non-capitalist societies too. It's often much worse. Chernobyl-levels of incompetent and indifference towards environmental protection.

Non-capitalist societies also do things like concentration camps and genocides and world wars and famines which don't seem to emerge as frequently in capitalist societies.

Don't blame capitalism.
Then we're no longer making evidence-based policy. That's just hypothesis-based policy. And unfortunately, humans are reallllly good at rationalizing whatever hypothesis suits their biases.
> Apple was working on a web search engine, but killed it off after Google renewed their deal the first time.

They might've said they killed it off (I haven't seen reports of that), but the Applebot crawler has been increasingly indexing the web for at least 8 years, ostensibly for services like Siri and Spotlight: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204683

Also, we know Apple hates to be beholden to other companies, triply so for core platform capabilities. Search is surely that, especially as its importance extends beyond the web into meatspace — streets, stores, things, etc.

Apple will introduce web search based on their search engine when it's clear that it beats Google in notable ways. If that takes another 5 years, I'd guess they're fine with that.
Same! Interestingly only crashing Chrome on Android, but Firefox is handling it fine.

https://zenofpython.org/
So what framework(s) is better in every category, and why is it better?
I had several coworker coming from various bootcamps in the last 5 years or so.

Most were good, motivated junior. I found their training sufficient to execute on well written user story with clear acceptance criteria.

They knew there way around Git, bash, a bit of AWS or the like. And one framework.

Most were able to get promoted. Often I found them driven and resourceful.

They did went thought some Income Sharing Program indeed.

One issues I saw first hand : successfully local bootcamps works hand in hand with local branch of BigCorp. Everyone is happy.

BigCorps close branch , new graduate struggle to find a job. Went from 90% placement to 30%. ( also from cohorts of 8 to class of 30… )

Curriculum was fine. But I would recommend examining the relationship of a bootcamps with local company.
Are you using the no-javascript version (“HTML” version), by any chance? If so, you might find the “fully-featured” version has better^W results, at the cost of requiring Javascript and all that entails.
Of course.

The speedup wasn't in writing the program to do the calculations. The speedup was in being able to run the program repeatedly as the design got tweaked. There was also the fact that once the program proved correct, the iterations were also free of error. For example, if I write a program to compute sin(x), I only need to check a few points to verify it. Doing it graphically or by hand can introduce error for every use.
The average distance driven is only 40 miles a day. What is the concern about having a vehicle capacity of 235 miles as opposed to 400? If greater distance capacity is needed, biodiesel alone is an valid option. Mixing fuels just seems silly to me.
Eliminate personal income tax.
I started my journey with trying to learn C++ in the late 1990s when it was the “cool” thing. Most of the books and the sparse educational material on the web back then made little sense to me. I wanted to instruct a computer to do cool things like the games I played or the programs I used, but all I got was obtuse passages about taxonomies of animals and shapes (CAnimal, CDog and CShape, CSquare). Stuff like virtual functions and constructor types was deeply uninteresting and irrelevant for me at that point.

Then came the “aha” moment. I downloaded a few tutorials which used the GLUT library from C and I was instantly amused. Now I could draw 3D teapots and text and rectangles with almost no boilerplate and I had examples to learn from. A turning event that has influenced all aspects of my life for the latter 20 years.
Get something from K&E on eBay.

And Read Asimov's book on how to use a slide rule https://www.sliderulemuseum.com/Manuals/M220_AnEasyIntroduct...

It's a fascinating instrument, and a lot of cleverness is involved in the choice of scales, plus precision manufacturing. Asimov will show you how to make your own simple slide rule.

Slide rules work because of One Weird Trick -- Addition via sliding one member across another. It's just a question, then, of WHAT one is adding (or subtracting, which is just negative adding). do have fun, I have a small collection, because, you know, nerd.
That's not the issue OP has. The issue is that the claim changes when you reach the last page.

For "purpose of life" it changes from "Page 22 of about 12,270,000,000 results" to "Page 23 of about 226 results".
so, yes, you are not wrong. the issue here is the differential of 'managing complexity' with regards to time.

as the functionality of the app progresses beyond a certain complexity (admittedly, this is nebulously defined), increasing changes to complexity require more time to effect.

beyond a certain point of functionality, the need for a a framework to manage these things becomes emergent. at that point, a single coder can resume making more complex changes with the aide of the framework, than she could do without it.

you're not wrong, you just are not considering a big enough scope over which to evaluate what the manual manipulation of software primitives is worth.

in the end, frameworks aide results beyond the ability of a single coder to implement on their own.
By pushing them and expecting them to give their best.
We're already implementing ineffective green policies that put the US at a competitive disadvantage. At least C taxing would be effective.
Steam Deck repair centers are now online
Computers Were Not Meant to Be Screwdrivers
Hello. I'm paying for the service. My expectation is as simple as being able to log into the password manager when the cloud has an outage and I don't experience any problems. When they did disable my log in attempts, they showed the centralized — we own your data type of an issue.
And Svelte is a “reinvention” of Knockout, just requiring a precompile. (Not complaining at all, thank goodness we have such choices.)
Ethics are very important because the products we create have such powerful consequences. It's common to see engineers so excited about the product they've created (myself included) that they overlook the additional problems they've created. Recent examples are with AI models built with historical data (hiring, loans, or other competitive decisions) that discriminates against groups of people. An ethical approach would be to include these considerations in the data analysis phase. It's not that most developers allow this to happen intentionally and having an ethical mindset is one of the things we can do to avoid problems.
From 1988-1991 I lived in a hut in a small African mountain village. No running water or electricity, but I wrote programs on paper and waited with bated breath for every issue of Byte (several months delayed of course). I would read them from cover to cover a dozen times, perusing every article, every advertisement, every editorial. I remember a listing that created a fern using a short, recursive PostScript program.

About once a month I would journey down to the capital, where -- in exchange for my IT services -- they let me tinker to my heart's content and type in my programs (the only language available, and the only one I knew at the time was GW-BASIC).
I don't know... for me, who read it in the mid 2000s it was kind of like reading the "Big Issue" or the "Metro" in the UK: Sometimes I wanted to read low thinking tabloid funny news. The Register was great for that. Nowadays it is Yet Another Technology Website.
Subsidy:

> a sum of money granted by the government or a public body to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive.

Yes, tax deductions (to businesses) are absolutely subsidies. It's the most common form of subsidization!

> Especially if you are a business and might lose 3x as much money in a year as you make to invest in long term growth.

This bill extends the amortization schedule from 24 months to 7 years. It's actually helping ease this burden. The rest of the clauses are removing what are essentially government handouts to oil and gas companies.
Why investors are reaching for the astrology of finance
I'm not sure what you're trying to say, how else would I interpret "9,890,000,000 results" than "there are 9.89 billion results for that query (that you could theoretically scroll through)"?
".. like many UK media outlets in the past few years, there seems to be a push to "globalize" the product .. also in reducing the cynicism and irreverence that used to make UK media worth reading even for people who weren't living in the UK."

Isn't this actually a more general cultural shift. On the societal level, or on the level of the entire developed world. It often feels like people are simply tired of cynicism these days.

Being a trained journalist, I have observed something similar in my own country: former witty, extremely-clever-but-cynical outlets have changed to a more neutral style in recent years. I do think this is an obvious win for journalism, or at least for investigative reporting. They can possibly dig a little deeper this way. More focus on the hard work of bringing serious problems to light, less focus on crafting mean headlines.

Also, as a side note, I'd say it is actually much easier to write a "cynical" headline as compared to one that is not mean, but still playful and multi-layered. IMO cynicism is mostly a low-hanging fruit; which is why this is such a common "closet addiction" in many newsrooms.
We Are Not Adults Just Because We Say So
What do you mean by unreliability?

One of the reasons that solar projects are so easy to finance is because of their predictability and the fact they can be accurately predicted to correlate with peak demand periods years in the future.

You only hit problems when you are no longer burning fossil fuels and so have no more to turn off. And that's a good problem to have.
My phone autocomplete learned French on his own.

It’s a « us » phone born and raise in the US. But I fed him so much French that he is unsure about things.

I let it happen. Accent are fun.
As happened to 'everybody' at one time.

Contribute -- that's all one can continue to do.

HN is a jewel.
Because it's no longer the 1960s and the Trotskyist concept of permanent revolution is kaput?
My opinion is that SAP is worth so much because of lock-in...that's billions of dollars of prisoners...
All taxes are unpopular, unless they mostly or completely fall on other people.

That hasn't stopped taxes in a democracy.
I don't know - it seems pretty much the same - the whole point of the Lytro camera was that you had sufficient information in the recorded image to select your point of focus and depth in post-processing, which is essentially the same as having depth data.
Does anyone have a good recommendation for a lecture on transistors? Like from Stanford or MIT?
> If you start from the position that the government manipulating the food market to ensure a near-constant over-supply is beneficial for long-term food security

I don't agree with the premise. Oversupply causes waste, not food security.
Is this the popular MIPS feature of bike helmets?

https://helmets.org/mips.htm
https://helmets.org/journals.htm#helmets
They don't. They have the funds for the electricity (which are rather modest compared to other coins) and just accumulate Grin...
> SMS (and RCS as I understand it) don't account for storing/syncing your messages

It doesn't, which is the beauty of it. RCS is a protocol, not a service. Services can be built on top of the protocol, like storing/syncing messages - but the protocol has none of that.

Perhaps you are conflating services like iMessage (and their feature set) with the protocol that is responsible for transport and send/receive of the messages, and based off that conflation are negative on Google operating a messaging service. This is not that, however.

There will not be a single app for RCS... in fact there are already dozens (if not more) RCS compatible messaging apps, each with their own services/features. This is analogous to how SMS works... there is no such thing as "The SMS App".
The sales tax taxes everyone, so everyone would get a benefit from the carbon tax.
keto works like a charm, only thing that's ever worked for me... Fatty foods really aren't that bad -- good fats anyways. Marbling on brisket is def. the good kind ;). Probably less so on bacon, because of nitrates, and probably better to get more protein from lean meats but if you need a pound or two of brisket a week to stay on keto that's perfectly acceptable ;).

When your carb deprived you don't crave sugar, bread, etc. THESE are what really put fat on, also things like candy, soda, hostess cakes, etc.. all of which are the kinda fatty things I crave and keep me obese. Though I've organically lost 50 pounds since May, just by trying a new depression med - Wellbutrin, which makes sense since it's used for smoking cessation, and increases dopamine levels which is basically why I probably ate foods like that in the first place (to feel good).

If I add some exercise, and better diet I'd probably lose a lot more. I haven't even cut soda, I just don't desire sweets or food at all--which I didn't think was possible except when I'm in ketosis, but apparently the mind/body link is bigger than I thought. Never realized how much my depression controlled me.
IPFS Camp 2022
This is a good explanation, but I prefer the one by Ben Eater:

How semiconductor works:
https://youtu.be/33vbFFFn04k

How a transistor works:
https://youtu.be/DXvAlwMAxiA
Isn't this circular reasoning? Rails are terrible, so nobody uses them, hence nobody invests, hence poor ROI. Roads are heavily invested, so are usable to the point it is uneconomical to use any alternative, so roads get more investment, etc.
While it's true that there's a huge amount of essential complexity in this kind of software, there's also a lot of completely unnecessary bad UX and user-hostile design. This is caused by lock-in and not selling to the end-user. If they don't think bad UX will lose them any customers, no effort will be put into it.

It can work for a long time, but eventually it does create opportunities for competitors.

You're absolutely right that there's a floor for how simple these products can be, but most of the incumbents aren't anywhere close to that.
This vaguely reminds me of Silicon Valley season 3 episode, where Hooli CEO throws entire Nucleus team under the bus, to „take responsibility“.

Cracks me up, just how close SV (series) is to out there..
Automated Assembly of Electronic Digital Materials
That makes no sense. A router is a box with routing rules and a few NICs on it. I have one setup in my house that's routing packets from an overlay LAN onto my home LAN. It is very much a piece of infrastructure that I own, and if I didn't control both ends, I would certainly want to be careful with operating it. If packets were E2E encrypted, I'd still be able to shut off my server and sever the link.

If you want true P2P with no intermediaries, then you need a direct P2P technology like a direct Ethernet connection or an L1 radio link with encrypted packets (and even this is fraught with a single RF collision domain.) Otherwise you are also just using a "personal definition of decentralization" that you gatekept about in your comment.
The opposite.

Isekai are normally about how "normal everyday man" has innate advantages over the new world.

Ex: Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court knew about solar eclipses. He pretends to "destroy the sun" on his day of execution. When King Arthur pleads to bring the sun back, he "does so" (or the eclipse passes I should say), and this event solidifies himself as a wizard on King Arthur's Court.

Ex2: Rimuru Tempest (That Time I was Reincarnated as a Slime) uses his general-contractor knowledge to find specialists and organize his new town, becoming effectively the king of the monsters. The stronger monsters, with good leadership skills from Rimuru thanks to General Contracting knowledge, allows him to build roads, build new buildings, and advance his country faster than his neighbors. Ordinary humans simply don't have as much strength, dexterity, or stamina as Orcs, Goblins, and Oni. His former knowledge (and now monster-body) allows Rimuru to lead this group tremendously. And his general knowledge of humans allows him to play the political game with humans much better than any of the monsters could.

Ex3: Harry Potter has plenty of "Muggle Knowledge", like how to send mail / post office stuff, or interact with TVs, Telephones, and Computers, throughout his series. Wizards and witches don't understand this, so Harry Potter can do a lot of things and help out.

Ex4: "The Wizard of Oz" is himself, just a Kansas man, who knew some party tricks. These party tricks and conman-like trickery in general makes him into the leader of the Emerald City. Dorethy, herself from Kansas, is a kind-hearted young girl who knew how to use a water bucket to put out a fire... And that's all that was needed to overpower a lot of the evil-witch's spells and defeat the witch.

Ex5: Ains, from the Anime/Novel "Overlord", is a guild-leader from a popular MMORPG. He uses his guild-leader / video game organization skills to lead the new NPCs to conquer the new world. (Though its more tongue-in-cheek: a lot of Ain's "brilliance" is dumb luck. So its somewhat making fun of other Isekai, since it makes it clear that Ains really isn't that smart)

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Its not a "fish out of water" story, because Isekai is largely about wish fulfilment. You make the average, ordinary person into a hero.

So its more like this optimistic, hopeful story about how a typical person's ordinary experience can be very helpful in different circumstances. There's also normally some kind of superpower that's not fully under the main character's control (ex: Harry Potter's scar, that connects him to Volemort). The superpower helps the "fish out of water" situation, allowing the main character to focus on how "ordinary people skills" help this new world out so much.
>I noticed that the prices of World War 2 era slide rules have fallen to below $20 US. Fifteen to twenty years ago, they were selling for $50-$80. My guess is that the people who used slide rules in their professions and were willing to pay over $50 to re-experience the nostalgia of playing with one again are now all dead.

Not exactly the point of the article but I don't see how this follows. All this is saying is that the price of a collectible item, slide rules specifically from the WW2 era, have fallen.

Collectibles change in price regularly, for plenty of reasons. On the other hand, an engineer or educator who just wants to use slide rules may not care about the specifics of when they were manufactured. The slide rule I purchased on eBay 14 years and 4 months ago as a teaching tool was $6.99 with shipping, and if anything prices appear slighlty higher now even after adjusting for inflation.

I don't know what the demand is for slide rules, and I assume it isn't astonishingly high, but I disagree that inferences can be drawn from the price of items valued for their history rather than their function.
FTA:

>You can shake an egg forcefully without disrupting the contents. But experiments show that if you spin one hard enough, the yoke inside will rupture even though the shell remains intact.
Computer Design magazine's August 1983 issue had these articles:

- C Language: Key to portability

- Apple Lisa's revolutionary user interface

- MS-DOS 2.0 brings Unix-like features

- ArpaNet can be a game changer

The editors had managed to cramp what would shape the next four decades of computing in a single issue.
That's one of the more extreme cases of 'training your replacement' I've heaard.
My rule of thumb is find a balance between "getting to the point" and accuracy. A study by itself in a specialized field will only be intelligible by a select group, but a science-based news site that can condense it appropriately is my goto.
Nostalgia? I still use winamp v2 every day...
Thanks for sharing Chris.

Sounds basically like you were left with:

"To Assimilate or To Differentiate? That is The [Business] Question."

(to misquote another great British writer)