skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still think there's an issue here just from the phrasing. "Taking time away from the team" implies that the team has better things to be doing. A manager isn't stealing a team's time by aggregating information to share upstream. A good manager is keeping the team aligned and informed so that they're working on the right thing at the right time. If the manager isn't there, the team needs to do that work, or be potentially wasting their time.
> Well, maybe

Was that maybe answering the first questions of the GP? The following:

> So We should have just supported them developing intercontinental ballistic nukes while they have continued to chant death to America and called for the destruction of Israel to wipe it off the map for decades and heavily find terrorist groups

Dropping a "maybe" after that is worrying to me. For me it's a definite no, we should not allow such behaviour. I feel as if you should have a definite answer on something like that or you can't really have a debate on it, as it's the core issue.

On a related note, how do you feel about the Ukraine / Russia conflict and US involvement?
Apple Unveils Apple Watch Ultra with Large-Screen Design for Athletes
https://alphacephei.com/vosk/install#usage-examples demonstrates the bare-bones vosk-transcriber sample, and there's also https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/getting-started-with-espnet

I wasn't able to play with https://github.com/o-oconnell/mp4grep on ARM.
This is most accurate to my experience as well. While I don't think it's helpful to disparage management as a whole, I do think it's beneficial to talk about where bad management exists, why, and how frequently. On the flip side, people talking as if bad management doesn't exist or is some minority I think are forgetting not every SWE works in the valley at a FAANG or bootstrapped to-be-unicorn company.
>What makes Quake so portable?

There's like 10 glue functions you have to write to do things like initialize your platform, get input, begin the sound loop, call the main loop, and then something to switch buffers to the display. It takes a quite short amount of time to do. Id provides a set of null functions that you can use as a starting place and incrementally add in video support, input, sound, etc. They made it super easy to port.

I've been fiddling off and on making a tiny CM-2 computer model with all the blinking lights on the front panels. Inside it's an rpi zero 2, and I'm using some 1.5", 128x128 SPI RGB OLED displays instead of trying to make itty-bitty LED arrays. Long story short I decided I should be able to run quake and quake2 on the thing. It only took two days to put in enough code to have them running.
It's a rare and crappy company whose software needs are so discretizable
that it can fire-and-forget a work assignment without confidential
access to its existing infra/data, and without longer term handholding.

If your bread and butter is implementing projects for dishonest cs
students, that would make a lot more sense.
I'm curious, what if you try running Chrome's Task Manager (shift-escape on Windows, idk what you're using). Cause I noticed things like gmail are pretty well behaved and just sit there, whereas Twitter takes up nearly twice as much memory and grabs a bunch of CPU time every 20 seconds. If you're not running an ad-blocker I would expect that any site with heavy ads/tracking is impacting performance.

I work in advertising, so I think using Ublock Origin is hypocritical

I sincerely think that your industry makes the internet way worse than it needs to be.
Indeed, I totally forgot about the LICENSE files, thanks for the tip.
They've almost got a working system already. Free File Fillable Forms (alliteration intended?) has improved each year since it has existed. It has the downside that it looks like the paper forms, which is likely to be offputting to some. If they just finished it so that it (a) does 100% of the math for you (b) transfers 100% of the values between forms for you, it would be a system that could be used by anyone.

That's not to say that a totally different UI approach (e.g. as used by Turbo Tax) would not be even better, but they absolutely do not need to "start from scratch"
It's honestly a lot easier as a foreigner, your place of work takes care of your taxes for you.

That said, I've had to file taxes outside of that scope before and it was fairly straightforward. They have people at the tax office to assist you.
I just learned a new thing about HN: if you submit a URL and also insert a text, the text will show up as a comment.
The comment I'm replying to was meant to be the text under this submission.
The most perfect code is no code at all. A language being small means it unlocks power without complexity. Smalltalk is a great example of this as it was rewritten over and over until it was tiny.

Of course, "no code at all" isn't useful, so there's a medium to be found.
> abolishing the income tax and going to a direct, national sales tax

Sales taxes are regressive. It's the rich and upper classes that stand to gain the most by the abolition of income taxes. They don't consume enough to drive up huge sales tax bills. In terms of positive generation, mostly they accumulate income and asset gains. Overwhelmingly they don't spend their wealth on buying Ferraris and mansions. In the US the top 10% pay 71% of all income taxes (while taking home 30% of the income). Their consumption is not high enough to offset if you switch to a sales tax system. It would do something beyond brutalizing the bottom 3/4 of people; it would destitute the majority of workers in the country if you attempted it and were serious about trying to bring in enough revenue to offset the loss of the income tax.

The US has a very progressive income taxation system, far more so than most of Europe (including all of Scandinavia). The US middle class and below pay exceptionally low income taxes, the burden is overwhelmingly carried by the higher income brackets already.
I don't think Space Based Solar Power is going to be economically viable, even if Starship can launch for $2M per.

It's not because Charlie is wrong, it's because ground based solar and storage batteries have gotten incredibly cheap and Wright's law is going to make them even more incredibly cheap in the future.

https://www.tsungxu.com/clean-energy-transition-guide/

The headline is right, though. fossil fuels are dead.
It is quite unlikely! Most species don't turn invasive.
The problem isn't usually charging for something, it's when the price model changes in a fundamental way. Especially when the pricing model scales in a way that is very expensive for some subset of users. Pricing models contain assumptions about how people use the software, you can easily get priced out if you use it in a bit of a different way than usual.

If you have all the information about the pricing model up front you can make good decisions about using the software or not. If the pricing model changes your decisions can get invalidates and might require serious effort to remove the dependency on that piece of software.
That's not really true. The IRS knows exactly what your investment income is if it is invested through a reputable broker. They all have to inform the IRS of all your transactions, dividends and interest.

Even for property, the vast majority of the property that people own is the house they live in and sales on home real estate are public information.
The PSF are not engineers looking for a better developer experience, but politicians looking for power. That’s why the pipenv fiasco a few years ago
I mean, I don't disagree. The problem is that lots of anti-nucluear-fundies are comparing existing nuclear power to hypothetical hydrogen storage - "it's just a matter of research".

My point is: Deploy nuclear power now, continue RND on large scale hydrogen storage that maybe will pan out in 20 years.
Your reaction to the post tells me more about the company than the post itself.

And the sad reality is that while some users from this thread may never touch it, it's likely that nobody at the company will ever suffer any consequences, and the whole incident may be EV+ because more users join after hearing about it than leaving.
OP is already using Pharo ;-)
Show me an example and I am pretty sure that I can rewrite it in a way that is neither ugly nor unreadable.
His version of the B Minor prelude gives me that chill every time. Glad to see another fan.
> hmmm but how much of a performance gain is there from say CPython or even Go?

It depends on what you are doing.

If your python code is mainly calling out to highly optimized math routines, well, not much.

If you are doing lots of computationally intensive work, quite a bit.

If your Python code does a lot of allocating of memory, throws around lots of large objects, or has to parse a lot of inputs, then moving to a native language can be very beneficial.

> I am excited for Zig but careful in adopting new languages but if this takes off, what sort of changes might we see? Cheaper C/C++ programmers?

Newer more powerful languages tend to result in more complex software being written. Ignoring CPU and memory limits, no one would have been capable of writing a modern AAA game with the tools available back in 1992.
Surely it can't be that hard to choose a factory location, considering there are $700M of pending orders.
Tragedy of the Commons is essentially impossible for software, which can be copied and redistributed an unlimited number of times. If the supply is not limited, it can't be disproportionately abused by certain entities and the supply depleted.
It's really 4. It doesn't count the sentinel, just the elements. `@sizeOf([4:0]u8)` is 5 though.
The Language Sounds That Could Exist, but Don't [video]
Would it be possible to create a true universal binary that also runs on NeXT/Openstep on 68k, SPARC, PA-RISC and x86 as well as Rhapsody on PPC and x86?
Even if the rate is variable, sales taxes are still regressive. Poor people spend a much larger % of their income on goods compared to rich people. For me, personally, my sales tax would need to be around 1,000% (for every dollar I spend, I pay $10 in tax) to match what I pay in income tax.
Free file fillable forms is run by Intuit and, iirc, is client side only.
But notably its only people who bought recently. I purchased 5 years ago, and our home's price would have to go down by half for us to get back to even, then a bit further to be truly underwater. And that's with us having put down only 5% -- anyone putting 10-20% down would have more buffer still. Someone who purchased 2 years ago might have less of a buffer, but still perhaps 20-30%. Our neighbors who purchased 7 years ago can lose ~70% and still be ok.

Not meant to downplay how awful it can be for some folks, just meant for perspective.
Yes.

This can also be provided by sheet materials like plywood, securely attached, providing diagonal structure preventing racking of the frame.

In older houses, sheathed with one inch by eight or ten or twelve inch boards, diagonal wood bracing was cut into the two by four inch wall studs for diagonal bracing and structure.
Yes. For example the Arduino 328P ("Uno" boards) has 31.5k of program flash available to you, while the ATMega 2560 has 256k (minus again 0.5k for the bootloader). The STM32F411RE, a Cortex-M4, has 512k.

In embedded development you can forget the overhead due to binary formats such as ELF (while the toolchain might output these as an intermediate, what is flashed is just the relevant sections), but if you are doing things like loop unrolling all over the place, you're going to get less functionality for static program space.

This is why ARM and PowerPC have "embedded" variants of their ISAs. What this means in practice is a compressed form of their instruction representation. Why? If you have compressed instructions, you can fit more of them in program flash. So both Thumb and VLE are variable length encodings. Thumb, for example, can use 16 bits for many instructions, i.e. two bytes, whereas ARM by default would simply take four bytes for all instructions. (For the avoidance of confusion, they still "address" 32-bits of memory and are thus still 32-bit microcontrollers). PowerPC's VLE is similar.

The driver here is cost. You could put in more program memory (the address space has plenty of room) but that costs more money, and when you don't need it, why do it?
Half the Internet is indeed forums where bad behavior is taking place though. Reddit, for example, has plenty of bad (often illegal) behavior on it and the moderation is far from aggressive. You eventually go down the rabbit hole of gradations of moderation and "how much" moderation you'll require.
That beats drifting out into deep space, alive but unable to do anything other than watch your life support system slowly but inevitably fail.
A lot of people clear their desk before leaving the office, either because they're tidy and well organized or because they don't want to leave confidential info out where the cleaning staff could browse through it. It's not hard to extend the metaphor to a reboot of the computer being like the end of the workday.
How can you spot the difference between a robot written letter and a printed one?

And what about volumes, is each letter has different text? Should have slightly different writing?

Or are there some volumes in the system?
If those other companies don't have a prior business relationship with you, then they are also committing abuse. In fact, it has been illegal in the US for almost 20 years [1], even if it is difficult to enforce.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003
No, they are different roles. Technical leads makes technical decisions, not staffing decisions. Managers makes staffing decisions. They can be the same person, but often aren't.
This doesn't answer the question. Can you point to e.g. the instance of Iran sabotaging sensitive infrastructure in USA that warranted the "response" of Stuxnet?
This is egregious—and potentially illegal—enough that I suspect it's unintentional (bug, bad UX, misconfiguration, etc), but given how accustomed all of us are to the obnoxious, grubby tactics favored by tech companies, I'm not remotely surprised that the immediate assumption is that it was an intentional, malicious decision.

That's the problem with the selfish, user-hostile approach that a lot of businesses seem to think is acceptable. Short-term, maybe it works, but it breeds a deep cynicism and suspicion that no company should want in its customers. When things go wrong—and they will—you will not be given any benefit of the doubt, nor will you deserve it.
> There are plenty of ways for an attacker to give clues to researchers about where they are based out of and who is funding them.

How exactly would you know who is founding what by looking at a bitstream originating from anywhere on earth but last jump in Iran to your server?
Baking bread with a hot car
Aren't they true though?
Just in the US we have a crazy amount of standard plugs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector#/media/File:NEM...

and this isn't a theoretical thing, in our lab we routinely use about 10 different plugs for 120 and 240
> we do need to have nuanced and sophisticated discussions about this topic

"The US and Israel are no different from Iran" and other unsubstantiated claims of moral equivalency are neither nuanced or sophisticated.
I appreciate the brutal truth here about consulting. It took me a long time to realize that the goal wasn't to make something better or solve problems real. It was mostly about executive feelings, flattering people with money, and competition in dominance hierarchies. I don't do much consulting anymore.

And I salute anybody who turns down hush money. When I was laid off from Twitter they offered me something like $40k to sign a non-disparagement clause. It's been years, but I still owe them at least $30k of disparagement. This guy really got his money's worth.
Ignoring the (significant) losses involved in transmitting power from space, let's assume you collect 150W/m2, and the solar panels produce at least 80% of this power for their 20-year lifespan. The energy required to put them in orbit (even with Starship) will far exceed everything they produce in their lifetime.

Assuming that I'm wrong and it's still viable, what about the risk to the inhabitants of the Earth if/when the attitude control malfunctions and a directed energy beam incinerates a whole city?
is zig still one man's work and has a hit-by-a-bus risk factor? checked it a few weeks ago for a few hours, looks good, but I don't feel I need switch from c to zig yet. will re-try after 1.0 is out.
> Managers need to create accountability for individual performance, team collaboration and customer value

I think the solution is completely wrong. I think the most accountability for individual performance has sales. Number of calls, leads, sold units, etc. Often this is also the department with the most fluctuation and where people get burned out the most. Also a meeting to talk to your manager is heavily artificial. Usually that should happen as part of the work itself.

I would leave my job immediately if I get a score for team collaboration. What does that even mean? Just look at the boomer generation and what they have done to jobs in logistics, sales and call centers. And this is the alleged solution? I would say this is the reason why people are quitting in the first place.

Accountability means responsibility and that comes with a cost too. Some companies have that down and they look for long-term employees.

This also begins with a non-infantilizing description of work. It isn't always pleasant, people need to earn their keep. It is certainly not a wellness trip but there are mechanism that can mitigate these facts and can make work vastly more pleasant.

Although the graph says that the situation is almost unchanged from a state 10 years ago.
For some reason, IME, SQLite feels the hardest to use of the popular databases. I did start my own database journey with Postgre and MSSQL so I feel kind of lost with SQLite whenever I use it.
What about something like R's custom infix operators? R has %*% for matrix multiplication (and a few other built-in ones), but you can define your own %op%. It lets users know that potentially "here be dragons".
You mention PEX, which along with PVC has made plumbing easier than in the days of copper and cast iron.

Pink insulation board is also extremely easy to work with.

Better insulation has created long run cost savings, even if they don't apply initially.
Certainly, it's entirely possible you have people who can do roughly the same type of work.

You still don't benefit at all from calling them "resources" — at best, nobody minds, until you hire someone who does :) I mean, this is not even a nerdy or funny name that only certain people would enjoy, so why not simply stick with "people"?
I've been thinking about the "50% solution" problem and it's a tough nut to crack because it's self perpetuating. When combined with the lack of documentation, it means it's often faster to write your own 50% solution than it is to determine if any of the 6 existing 50% solutions already meet your needs.

Something I hadn't originally predicted is that Github has helped with this a bit; I have gotten PRs on my own 50% solutions that fill in some missing features. I never got a patch e-mailed to me, so the familiarity and low-friction of GH PRs is doing some good here.
I'm curious about this too. Possibly some large internal meeting, like a company quarterly update on performance and plans going forward? If there's 200 attendees someone might not notice a random one. Though Google still requires approval whenever someone outside your domain joins a meeting, so I feel like that would get caught easily too.
They would never admit being that! Nor would they be fired for being a sociopath.

And the book already exists: "The Art of the Deal"
Embedded developers care.

A lot.
> gyroskope to look around: I did try some of it

Just wondering—was it on your wrist when you tried it? I'm imagining moving my whole arm up and down, which I can do in sync with my head fairly easily.

And ideally turning around 360 degrees would require physically turning 360 degrees... might need to be played in a swivel chair.
As usual, golden times for some. Why, I wonder, did so many Iranians support the revolution against such golden times? (And yes, some didn't like the outcome in the end).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Imperial_S...
Depends on what they are spending it on. If poor people are buying food & housing it would be tax free. If they are buying large screen TVs maybe not so much. But even then the claim was that prices would come down eliminating most of the cost of the tax (due to no taxes on businesses including payroll taxes). It also might mean higher wages. Obviously there was no way to prove these things as it hasn't been tried, but there was a lot of research done trying to model it out.
If you look at it that way, then the daily growth is only linear when the daily n is constant. When the daily n = number of cans to start with that day, then the daily growth is 2^n.
Akka.NET is written in C#.
You are quoting a text, and I am providing the context. You can try and strip away the context and focus on the text. But that doesn't change the inherent dubiousness of the NPT. Slavery was legal in the USA in 1850. Apartheid was the law in 1980 South Africa. That doesn't make it right.

Why would other countries sign the NPT that locks up nuclear power with the 5 superpowers. Because they would be punished if they didn't. Why didn't Israel need to sign it? Because Israel would face zero punishment for not signing. Israel is actually more free than the 5 super powers to pursue any and every kind of nuclear strategy. Their status is actually higher than all of the 5 super powers! You can argue that Israel is not even mentioned in the NPT. But that's the magic.

And Iran was getting punished by the US after the Shah was deposed. Why should Iran adhere to the NPT in such circumstances? Note that Obama got Iran to agree to curtail their nuclear program by promising to stop punishing them. Just because you have a text and signatures, does not mean that there was no immoral, bullying and coercion involved.

As an aside, what are the legal implications of USA organizing a coup to depose elected prime minister Mossadegh of iran? Eisenhower organized riots that got 300 people killed in the process. Any legal implications, as per any international treaty? The US puppet Shah then signed the NPT. Sounds about as perfectly legal and proper as it can possibly be.
Matrix multiplication or even worse, matrix inversion, is NOT a basic operation.

This is exactly the point.
Well the group is there on the government's invitation.
Seems like an insidious default setting.
The Iceland Sagas (Egil’s Saga, etc) are worth reading
Google did not really do anything THAT different than Alta Vista - they just did it better, cleaner, and with less junk on your screen. The results were better, they obviously had a better algo, and they didnt blast you with ads. They also (from what I remember) had some early and easy to use search modifiers for the general public (like quotes).

Unfortunately now this has trended toward the opposite as they destroyed all their competition. I am hoping something like Kagi Search succeeds so we at least have more options.
Sounds like some copywriting/SEO ai wrote this ridiculous response.