skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A quick search in Norway's bureau of statistics shows that Anders had a big bump between about 1975 and 2000, peaking about 1985, when about 1.5% of boys were named Anders. I believe it was a top ten name that entire period. I don't have stats for Denmark where Hejlsberg is from, but I don't think the name is any rarer there.

There are a lot of developers in that generation.

Tobias is a less popular name overall, but had a much sharper spike around 2000. 1.5% of Norwegian boys born in 2003, the peak year, were named Tobias.

Those guys should be the just entering the workforce about now.
> There’s nothing wrong with this. These are standard ratios, not some dirty secret.

Standard, absolutely, but I think many are surprised by how much of that is profit for the company that sells the product to the consumers. I worked for a company that had 40-45% margins on most consumer electronics. Less than 40% and the buyers didn't really want to deal with it.
It feels like we're way past the point of people caring about how thin a device is. There was a period of time when the biggest spec a phone could have was how thin they got it, but we've moved past that. Especially in a laptop, I worry about thermals, I doubt they're a problem on the Framework but I cant help but worry.
Hey, thanks for your question. The tool keeps track of declaration and resolution times by watching when the status is changed. It also lets you manually specify when the incident really started, and when it actually ended. We can use this data to measure a few things, and watching how this changes over time helps us figure out if we're getting better or worse, on average. We want to be careful what we incentivise by default, and we're actively working on this area. The data is going to be available for people to build their own visualisations (in Grafana).

I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts too?
Yes and no, it's trivial unless you use some of the most common libraries that depend on, i.e. OpenSSL, like pretty much anything that talks with the outside world. Then it's painful. (You mentioned OpenSSL in your comment but somehow I missed that part when I replied. My bad.)

One thing Go has going for it is that they have a more complete standard library so you can do without the pain of cross-compiling—which is what you're doing if most of your libs assume you're in a glibc environment but you really want musl.

I know because I recently tried compiling a Rust application that had to run on an air-gapped older Debian machine with an old glibc, and the easiest solution was to set up a debian container, download Rust and compile there, instead of fixing all the cargo deps that didn't like to be built with musl.
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A top developer leaving also functions as a signal to others in the company.

I once left a company quickly after a senior leader had left. That proved to be a good move since the company was going under and sold a few months after.
Strong recommend for Harry's Farm too.
Big games will have a small core team - engine programmers, creative leads, etc - and a large section of 'grunt work' - modeling, texturing, animation, etc. The kind of thing someone puts on a very long todo list to be picked up. That's likely more work where individual contributions become less important.

It's also an area where there's more and more outsourcing happening these days.
No.

Those fucking suck, and some of us use our laptops on our laps, with ethernet connected. Those expanding jacks basically only work while it is on a desk because if the cable bends downwards even a tiny bit it just comes out.
As a previous new hire who got into a new job during full blown Covid, I had no problem whatsoever building a good relationship with my colleagues. Regular routines were setup, the team communicated frequently. Frequent calls. Eventually mMemes started to be shared, and we built a good work/personal friendship exclusively online.

I didn't miss face-to-face in the slightest, nor did i feel like i didn't belong, or that I was lacking support. We have plenty of online trainings as well.

Face to face being needed for new hires is another myth that needs to go.
Pretty much, yeah. Annual sports games become obsolete when the next one comes out.
Same thing here in Austria/Germany, the movies were even called "Kevin allein zu Haus" and "Kevin – Allein in New York" in german with the name right in the title. It was the most popular first name in germany in 1991:

https://www.beliebte-vornamen.de/4981-kevin.htm
I thought that this was actually going to be a argument against vacuuming non commercial libraries and arbitrary codes, and a appeal, which I believe is a important consideration, for paid contract library maintenance classification, interop/bakeoff and testing. Clearly the possibility has slipped through the gaps between the plethora of open source foundations already established.
If you take the truly non-performing folks, well sad to say you can probably get rid of most of them and improve performance.

Otherwise, get rid of any engineer and the minimum impact is 3-6 months code and culture familiarisation before they get up to speed with your particular application/code base/equipment. Can easily be more than a year - especially with some of the big systems.

So yes there is an impact on business performance, and a highly damaging one, far more often than is realised. Companies compete - and companies go under and get replaced, all the time.
Great, and now if they could just fix all the bugs and random crashing...
lol that's a delightful story

Sounds like the archetype of "being a manager means being angry at people. business knowledge optional"
>>What does him resigning achieve?

The next CEO is more responsible with the money. If you earn high, stakes should be high, else there is no stopping from making decisions that are harmful to all the parties: investors, employees and the company itself.

Taking personal responsibility and resigning fixes lots of things.

>>oh yeah you should quit if you feel bad

He should quit for making wrong decisions, for which he had many many weeks to months to deliberate upon. And also had the choice to not continue with the bad decisions for nearly the same time if not more.
re: Cyberpunk, they tried to solve it again - over-estimating their own abilities to build a game engine (like they did with the Witcher games before) and ending up getting the basics wrong (e.g. resource loading on lower-end systems like the PS4).
Thanks for sharing, I have a weirdo car loving fun friend into RC stuff and maybe he can help them with some sidebar content. This is super!
Excellent! I shall push the button!......
Would the harvest stop if those drones were remotely-killswitched though? It would if a tractor/combine/etc. was.
This is being sold as a value gain in the article but surely the hyper scalers game a corresponding hit. And everyone collectively takes a loss given ineffificiencies of disaggregating this
EU antitrust ruling trims Google fine to $4.1B
So it's a grift at worst, and Kardashians-tier mindless entertainment at best?
Yes, "big, big, biggity-big". But not an excuse. Nobody forced hypertrophy on Google. Google has access to plenty of money to manage its problems. But size is not the problem, and access to money does not seem to forestall it.

Insisting everybody else in the world has all your problems too can make your management failures seem excusable. But management failure can happen anywhere. It is evidently happening at Google. Software faults are a symptom. I don't know how they can fix the management problem that washed up as billions of lines of bad code.

I do know pretending won't help.
But if schmoozing means their company gets a new big customer or their stock price goes up, they have provided value I guess. It's just not from what we consider "real" work.
ABC Kids is awesome. Such a great service and every single show in there is either educational or ridiculously cute.
> Imagine any software company CEO nowadays saying that out loud, no matter what they privately thought.

A daughter of my friend was not very happy in her job: a Silicon Valley company hired her as a security pro, but was using as a coder, which she hates. She was going to leave, but decided to wait ten months or so until her stock options vested. She and a big group of other engineers were fired right before the vesting moment.

All this time the CEO was generating absolutely politically correct sounds: people are our best capital, diversity is our strength, etc. She would be better off if he was honest.
> This, to me, is truly alarming from an ecological point of view: not only has the human population grown like gangbusters, but the level of affluence per person has soared by an even larger factor. The impact on our planet scales as the product of these two (essentially, the GWP curve from before).

The argument that 'affluence' or 'quality of life' is a zero-sum game with nature seems to have become popular recently.

It has some very dark implications if you accept it, and some of the people pushing it seem to think those dark implications are better than not burning fossil fuels for some reason.

Yeah, reading on this is just fossil fuel progapanda:

> Replacing fossil fuels with renewable technologies and storage will not automatically lower resource demands on the planet, and may well only ramp up the pressure.

He may just be well meaning and wrong, but writing an Energy textbook copyright 2022 that claims PV is too expensive is a big red flag.

He also gets some of the basic physics wrong, which is supposed to be his main contribution:

> In total, the basic physics of a PV cell is such that 20% efficiency is a reasonable expectation for practical implementations

No, it's not.

https://www.cleanenergyreviews.info/blog/most-efficient-sola...
There's a sweet spot for electronics. I got a pair of €7 Bluetooth earbuds, with a mic. Sound quality was good enough to listen to podcast, but not music, the mic didn't work well enough for phone calls, and they lasted maybe 3 months. After that I bought a pair for 6-7 times the price, but I had those for 4 years now, to their clearly the better investment long term.
Yeah, I think the hint is that something is going on here.

Like possibly a national security issue of some kind.

'We' are at 'war' with Russia, after all.
There is no proof, sure. The whistleblower's report is fairly compelling evidence.

Twitter is its shareholders, not its managers.

I imagine it's the lawsuits that this will spawn which will justify backing out or significantly reducing the price. Users whose data was not properly kept, users whose governments (and maybe others) got to spy on them, ad buyers who were promised a certain number and class of viewers, shareholders upset about these things, etc.
Devs are definitely no fungible, the difference in the productivity, team moral and new bug introduced by just changing one person in the team can be huge.

Even simple boilerplate is done differently by people. Some will automate them, some will do them manually forever. Some will naturally organize to discuss how to limit or improve them, some will stay with the status quo ad vitam. Some will document how to do things, provide templates to limit mistakes and mentor new comers. Some will just do their job.

And that's not even touching the fact some are simply bad at what they do.

In all the successful projects I've seen, hiring the right people or replacing the one leaving were critical processes, not just swapping.

This idea you foster is probably half the reason 2/3 of IT projects fail.
Pre-Ukraine invasion vibes here. Looks like US intelligence knows things not yet made public.
The only reason the article gives for using this over using the signing with GPG keys is that you will have an SSH key already. If you need to create a new key, are there any reasons for going for an SSH key over a GPG key?
I also think there's a key point being missed. That is: being a futurist with high accuracy is useless if your predictions were already obvious.

I can score a 100% accuracy rate by predicting things that everyone knows are going to happen (humans will still exist in 2025, the sun will rise in 2050, etc.). A futurist is not useful when they are merely accurate, but when they are accurate about events that no one else expected.

It is inappropriate to compare someone like Kurzweil to Caplan. Caplan is just trying to be correct. Kurzweil is trying to make predictions about black-swan events -- the things people don't see coming. These are different ballgames, and the ballgame of predicting unexpected events is inherently more difficult.
Are you suggesting he was intentionally an ass to drive people away so that they could create something even greater? That truly is some 4D chess business.
At least it's not trimmed more, I guess.
They're not illegal. They're just generally unenforceable.

And, even if you don't end up losing after being sued, many people won't roll the dice if a threatened with a suit because they'll probably be out big bucks even if they win. Better to just take a year off; I've known people who have done so when they've been in a situation where a prior employer was likely to sue.
Deep dish on the old M5 was pretty classy looking, as will the Dodge Charger msg wheels with the curve. It’s too bad the deep dish got all bro-dozer crazy.

I do very much enjoy watching “Kid Stance” videos on YouTube if you want to see a really brilliant creative guy make some AMAZING custom kid ride on toys…warning: addictive!

https://youtu.be/-JF58phVWn0
They absolutely use these in court (incl. criminal prosecution) in New Zealand and have since at least 2000:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/lawyer-challenges-courts-right...

and

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/97840280/parents-upse...

You can fill out a form and demand they return the samples to you.

Even if you can trust the government today, there is no guarantee they can be trusted tomorrow. cf. the abortion stuff in America.
One final thing: The weirdest part I've personally experienced is that the more languages you know, the bigger your issues with spelling and sentence structure in ALL languages. Many European languages have a large overlap of words with differences in spelling, and depending on how much you used a word in one language vs the other when writing something quickly your brain will default to the more used one, even if it is in a different language. Similarly, you might end up translating a sentence from one language instead of writing it in the target language and end up with a weird grammatical structure. And the more proficient you are in the 2nd/3rd language the bigger the above issue.
> It depends on the sign of the exponent. Negative exponential growth, as we see in wild animal populations, is not guaranteed to turn into an S-curve. As the passenger pigeon would attest, were any of them left.

Sigmoid functions are defined over real input values (not integers). If you were to model the decline in (integer) numbers of passenger pigeons with reals, you would get a sigmoid function were the number at the end approximates, but never reaches zero.
I love the different words used. One of my favorites is 'the panny-D'.
That's why I stopped playing, and probably why it wasn't quite as much of a revelation for me to play it. I saw the throughput and dependency pitfalls and (roughly) planned for them early, where I imagine someone new to those kinds of problems would run into those issues head first, and be able to use factorio to learn about them first hand.
Here in Walkden, Greater Manchester I hop between Aldi and Tesco and my default is Aldi. It's also entertaining to see that many pricing labels on the shelves in Tesco are marked with an "Aldi Price Match" label. Morrisons too has a Match & More scheme that uses Aldi pricing as a benchmark I believe.

As the saying goes, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery".
It's everywhere.

The Government in my country is working on a law prohibiting nurses from striking for better working conditions (incl. more staffing) and better pay. Most countries have laws already to ensure adequate staffing for emergency personnel, but this is going way beyond those type of laws.

That's gonna work awesome once all the nurses start quitting. I hope they do.
For sure. Critical technology companies for sure have these kinds of plans and things ready.

And these big brand companies with international offices are full of spies it's good cover.
> the hammer strike is 1 buck, knowing where to strike is 99 bucks.

The hammer strike and knowing where to strike should both be accounted as cost of goods sold. 30% cogs would mean a price tag of $330.
You truly are a disingenuous apologist for disgustingly murderous police tactics, which lacked all reasonable professionalism, duty to the basic idea of policing in a remotely free country or even loosely moral barometers. No, the correct response to the warrant being served against weaver wasn't to shoot his dog after secretly invading his property in tac gear and deliberately provoking a defensive response. No, the correct further axction is not to shoot his 14 year-old son in the back or to shoot through a window at a house in which you know a woman with a 10 month-old baby is standing. No normal notion of good legal procedure or even non-moronic, non-thuggish thinking can defend these and other acts.

Even a number of police agree. Here's a claim from one of the U.S Marshalls on site:

"Many of the people the USMS used as third party go-betweens on the Weaver case—Bill and Judy Grider, Alan Jeppeson, and Richard Butler—were assessed by the Marshals as more radical than the Weavers. When Deputy U.S. Marshal (DUSM) Dave Hunt asked Grider, "Why shouldn't I just go up there ... and talk to him?", Grider replied, "Let me put it to you this way. If I was sitting on my property and somebody with a gun comes to do me harm, then I'll probably shoot him."

Or how about the deputy assistant director of the FBI at the time, writing in a memo that:

"Something to Consider
1. Charge against Weaver is Bull S___.
2. No one saw Weaver do any shooting.
3. Vicki has no charges against her.
4. Weaver's defense. He ran down the hill to see what dog was barking at. Some guys in camys [camouflage] shot his dog. Started shooting at him. Killed his son. Harris did the shooting. He is in pretty strong legal position."

As one of the comments above states: Let the reader decide what constitutes a reasonable attempt to serve a warrant".
Didn't sparc targetted C use register windows? Cursory searching didn't clarify much for me though.
In my experience, about 30-40% of the reviews I've seen are a mix between "axe to grind" and "I have no idea what I'm talking about". Some are extremely blatant, such as reviewers "suggesting" you should cite a certain paper that isn't really related to your work. Others are very strict with the "this is just practical knowledge so it doesn't advance the science", and then there's the set of "I didn't understand the paper so I'm going to criticize it based on my misconceptions of it and reject it".

I'm so glad to be out of that world, to be honest.
Ohh, I loved this blog - glad to find it again! Particularly remember https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/08/recipe-for-climate-change... - an understandable back-of-the-envelope calculation of how f*&ked we are with CO2 emissions.
*__exactly__*

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If you have ever whore'd yourself out as a 1099 "consultant" <=== you're typically paid ~30% of bill rate... the company claimed all this "I have to pay insurance" bullshit - but if you are paid $50 an hour, the contract is likely $150 an hour... and the company's fat margins are within....
Just in case anyone from Gitlab is monitoring this thread, there remain issues[0][1][2] in the artifacts listed both in the UI, and returned from the API, resulting in artifacts unable to be deleted.

It's clear that the gitlab dev team are aware of these issues, but given they've been open for years, I'm not convinced they'll be resolved before the pricing changes kick in, in a little over a months time.

If not addressed, according to the FAQ, teams builds will start failing, as they'll be unable to publish artifacts, and unable to manage the artifacts, essentially leaving them blocked.

0: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/373806
1: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/363010
2: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/228681
It literally has nothing to do with sbt. Gradle won't save you from binary compatibility conflicts caused by diamond dependencies.
> Yt kids still show ads

Isn't that illegal in many areas? In the EU you basically can't target ads towards kids.

That being say: YouTube Kids is generally terrible and there's little reason to prefer it over the regular YouTube.
One major difference though (at least in my experience with hardware stores in rural Northern California) is that many of the employees actually have a good amount of experience with the tools and materials and can offer recommendations and help you figure things out and make decisions.

Good luck getting most HD employees to do much beyond looking up a location on their phone slower than you can do yourself.

I'm generally willing to pay for the experience of being surrounded by a tenured team who know what they're doing rather than a rotating cast operating at inattentive high schooler levels, but I do still go to HD a lot.

And there was one store I stopped going to because the old guy knew too much and could tell I was doing things out of my depth and - while being somewhat helpful - made me anxious. At HD if you buy a weird combination of stuff or just don't have the air of a pro, nobody's paying attention or knows the difference.
It’s not even an electric car thing - my Focus ST came from the factory with a little sound pipe thingy from the engine to the cabin to make it feel more racy. When I bought it used it was disconnected, which is fine, because the MBRP 2.5” cat back exhaust already installed is about 3x louder than stock.

I’m pretty sure BMW was doing it too when they started going all turbo and losing the song of the NA.
That's almost certainly not what happened. What happened was the broader market crashed after the deal was signed. TWTR's intrinsic valuation is largely driven by other listed tech stocks. So when those crashed, TWTR's intrinsic valuation also crashed, which meant the deal price became unattractive. Merger arbitraguers, in light of the crash, started shorting in anticipation of the deal being reneged on. Musk was initially happy to pay some premium above market price, which is normal in acquisitions, but it no longer made financial sense for him to continue with the deal following the sell-off in the broader market. There almost certainly was no prior plan to sneak out of the acquisition agreement irrespective of developments in the broader market. If the broader market had rallied instead of crashed, Musk would be licking his lips at the opportunity to scoop up a relatively cheap TWTR.

> Hanlon's razor provides a simpler explanation.

It's not Hanlon's razor, which presumes incompetence. It's Occam's razor. There's no incompetence to making a deal that is good given the available information at the time that the deal was signed. New information presented itself (in the form of an unexpected broader market crash) after the deal, which altered the optimal decision.
TL;DR: IDs of destroyed objects are reused for new objects, which breaks the function for checking that an object still exists. Fixed in debug mode but not in release.