skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I have a document, you can't annotate it without embedding new code in the document... you can't add a layer of markup on top of, and separate from, it.

The decision to embed markup in documents was horrible in its effects. It gives copyright holders extortive power over criticism, for example. You have to copy a document to mark it up, which didn't need to be the case.

As for annotative trail... imagine being able to lay out a set of pages of paper on a larger white sheet... and then make notes between two things showing how they are logically associated, in context. HTML links are blind, unidirectional, fragile, and can't go to an arbitrary position in a document.
American medicine is made increasingly worse by legal liability.

From what I've observed by my conversations with friends and family in medicine, actual physicians increasingly do very little hands on work (with the exception of surgeons) and instead essentially just manage lesser educated technicians, especially RNs and advanced PAs, NPs, and CRNAs, who do the actual work. The physician essentially just stands around and observes but importantly takes most of the legal liability when things inevitably go wrong.

I think this is a huge part of the reason healthcare in the US is so expensive.

Perhaps the future of software engineering will look similar, with principle engineers and architects being like physicians. Extremely well educated, but almost no hands on experience writing code.
They used the aesthetic of 90s Nickelodeon gameshows -- replete with brightly colored "gak" -- to do it, too; an aesthetic that is coded as kid-friendly to the now middle-aged people who are buying this game for their children. It's a pretty significant masterstroke of design. I also like how the game chooses colors for opposing teams in such a way that they strongly contrast each other, even to colorblind players.
Because companies like Patreon come and go. They know it, we know it. So they grasp at straws for a fleeting moment of popularity.
I work in the mentioned embroidery business and we have a decent collection of floppy disks and gear. roughly 300 disks with 40 in circulation being used. about 20 USB floppy drives for PC's and new machines to use disks still. its a handy medium for us. I have one of the local e-waste places collecting anything they get disk related for me , lot of cases which is ok , gotta keep the dust off of the disks so everyone's desk has one now .. we can switch to USB and we do use USB as well so its not like the end of the world when they finally go.
You are demonstrating a failure of Bayesian reasoning. Just because something is new doesn't mean we know nothing about it.
For years Facebook fed me interesting local pages and national news from (usually) reputable sources. About six months ago Facebook decided that what I really need to see is an endless stream of lingerie and female-focused sex toys; I've never clicked on these things, or lingered long over them, as far as I am aware.

Coincidentally, it was around six months ago that I disabled the browser from my phone; so perhaps they no longer have location information to lean on?

And, of course, I haven't seen a post from a friend or family member in recent memory.
You are repeating odious propaganda here. Monsanto never sued a single farmer for inadvertent contamination (and would likely have failed miserably if they had tried). They have sued farmers who replanted a licensed crop in violation of the license, and they sued a farmer who deliberately sprayed a field with glyphosate to concentrate traces of resistance genes that had drifted in, so he could produce his own resistant seed. No honest farmer would have anything to worry about.
When the Queen Died, Someone Had to Tell the Bees
This is the right way to frame the thinking.

If it wasn't illegal to use her DNA in this fashion, the law needs to be changed to make it illegal. The police have myriad tools to pursue property crime, and it does more good than harm to remove this one from their hands.
And Azerbaijan...
Or simply just dropping a little hair.
What about the unplanned pregnancy lecture? Seems like exactly the kind of stressful life event that would exacerbate maternal health!
Looks like most of the layoffs are in marketing and sales, and that they're still hiring on engineering and product. Honestly, I'm surprised they had marketing and sales people to begin with. Those sorts of efforts pay off most with big-name, high-end artists who probably don't need monthly patrons to be successful. Focusing in improving the product seems like a smarter move, especially given how janky their product was until quite recently.
> Get a federal job, give your fingerprints. Get a nursing license, give fingerprints. Get a carry permit, give your fingerprints.

These are privileges. Justice after being raped is a right. If you’re running from arrest, it’s valid to bar you from nursing others or carrying a concealed gun.
Most likely just hair.
That's a really important consideration. I post virtually nothing and neither do the majority of my old friends from school. Maybe it is due to being older and generally less interesting, but I suspect it is also because my friends who are inclined to post prolifically have moved on to Instagram, TikTok, or Twitter.
Very true. There was a segment where the news asked a bunch of kids (like actual kids - not 25 year olds people just want to shit talk about) and hilariously this one little boy just yells "FACEBOOK?!?! THATS FOR OLD PEOPLE!!!"
Ask HN: Auto Sue Robocallers?
Would anyone be interested in a fast portal to rapidly sue RoboCallers? Basically, you submit your information in a web form, then my VA will do a filing, and then it shoots off a small claims filing and emails to RoboCall company charging a $x fee to settle it.
I first created a FB account in 2008. I amassed a huge number of so-called "friends", I posted a lot, I was active, and it was detrimental to my mental health, so I destroyed that account.

I crept back on last year or so with a blank slate. My "friends" list now consists of an eclectic mix of 100% people I will never meet in person. It's small and selective, so my actual feed is likewise small and runs out quickly. As a consequence, it's not possible for me to waste much time there. I like it that way.

I post very little and don't get too personal or dramatic. I had a good series of photos and blurbs about my home cooking projects for awhile, but it's always been sporadic output from here.
My feeling/understanding: Because of the culture wars and privacy concerns, many regular people who used to be quite active on FB stopped posting things altogether on Facebook. The risk outweighed the benefit. So most people were left with a handful of people in their network who would crank out generally quite uninteresting posts.

This combined with FB's agenda to monetize the service... here we are.

I now only use FB to check in to a few very local groups (population of 7k) once in a while. The signal-to-noise ratio is really bad, even there.
I'm not moving goalposts, I think you've completely misunderstood the argument. Specifically, my point isn't that we shouldn't build statues for keyboard warriors, it's that the logic of presentism defies sensibility--presentists would say that woke college students are more moral because they adhere to the moral standards of the present than the imperfect-by-present-standards abolitionists of yesteryear.

> Nobody ever suggested that.

This is exactly what presentists believe.

> And while we can absolutely evaluate historical figures on their cultural context that doesn't mean we should lionize them on public property.

Well, if you believe that admirable people should be lionized on public property (about which presentism doesn't have an opinion), and if you believe that history has admirable figures (which presentism effectively denies), then it makes sense that you would lionize those figures on public property.

> Forrest was the Confederate general who founded the KKK and was honored with a ridiculous statue on public property in Nashville.

Right, but as he fails the moral standards of his own day as well as the present, he oughtn't be venerated either way.
Not to mention they were integrated into the machine itself - picture 1-4 floppy disks fitting snuggly inside your PC right where they're supposed to go and where nothing else even could go, versus a handful of usb sticks of various shapes and sizes sticking out haphazardly like porcupine needles, some even pushing each other over because they're too thick, or connected by a jungle of wires, either way hooked up to a generic universal bus port that could be used for literally anything else and has no specific semantic meaning to your PC's software.
Thank you for asking the single most important question for this article. :)
Long ago when I felt like I couldn't just find all my friends posts I gave up on Facebook and logged off forever.

That was the value to me and Facebook seemed to not want me to see it...
FB is complete trash and a joke.

I have issues seeing older FB comments. The UI doesn't work properly on my safari browser. Fb freezes, images fail to load. It is an extremely frustrating experience on safari on my phone.

The platform is dying and it cannot come soon enough.
They laid off the entire security team last week
100% fuel efficient 4-core nuclear reactor :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QccZ6lJ6bT0&t=1178s
Or just have a culture of shipping projects without futzing. We have dozens of Scala services and many dozens of engineers and this hasn’t been a problem.
Lisp and Erlang. The latter doesn't have a numeric tower but has automatic bigint conversion and handling. The former is eager to error upon signed/unsigned type violations once you specify them.
I used to spend a lot of time in flight simulators and am very interested in VR. What headsets have you used? Just a Quest 2? Or one of the high end ones?
Worrying that holding a sign saying notmyking can get you removed by police
Are all of them though? Web stuff is if you fall down the hole of "everything must be a docker container" and "chase latest JS fads" but I wonder if there is a saner route. Also things like console apps should still be pretty sane, depending on what you are building.

However trendy programming has very much become pointlessly complex.
Every time I see an X-Plane article my heart skips a beat, then I realize it's not about XPilot.
Not only that video is very old (there have been multiple improvements), people that are even remotely serious don't use the default aircraft which are always awful, they buy payware aircraft that are much better modeled.
Some product manager misunderstood the concept of 'generating buzz'. /s
As an insult to injury this was announced on his Instagram.

So professional! /s
The pandemic is over and so are most remote "jobs" that people started doing on Onlyfans, Patreon, etc. a couple years ago.
That term 'antivaxxer' does not mean what you imply it to mean. Those who are cautious about using largely untested preparations while being open to using well-known vaccines - against Polio, Measles, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Tetanus and others - are not 'antivaxxers', they are 'rational individuals'. There is a wide gap between this group and 'traditional antivaxxers' who worry about 5G-transponders in vaccines (etc) so using a term which most people assume to identify the latter to accuse the former is not just erroneous but also disingenuous, just the type of word game which has become so prevalent in the last decade.
The military also has a peculiar behavior of punishing leadership for failures instead of promoting them or giving them a golden parachute. Telling engineers to fulfill the expectations of their managers is more of survival advice.

Granted this does not hold for 1) small startups where everyone has influence on the direction of the product and bureaucracy hasn't taken hold yet, and 2) FAANGS for the most part appear to operate under military like organization and allow for IC's to make decisions without 12 levels of approval.
If you watch the actual talk and check code at https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux you will see that it’s actually pretty heavy on generics and macros. Eg for the trait that defines file system operations (https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/blob/459035ab65c0ebb...) and other bindings to C code. I was actually surprised of seeing those, since they certainly don’t help with telling people a story that Rust is an easy language. But it’s probably the best one can do when having to interface with predefined APIs.

But You are certainly right in that external dependencies won’t be an issue.
It doesn't have to be something overt as leaving a log of DNA in the toilet. There could be skin cells left near stolen merchandise.
I'd be interested to see the data to back up your claims as well.

Regardless, I'm not sure the main point of UBI is to allow people to quit their jobs and pursue thier passions at the government's expense. It's moreso meant as a way to give people on the bottom rung a little bit of room to breath and better their circumstances, and in theory this also benefits the rest of the economy.
I agree it's generally accurate, but I think it suffers from "truth by persistence" rather than "truth by consensus". That is, the editors who are the most persistent often "win".

As an example, many years ago I edited some rather unflattering information to a controversial politician's Wikipedia article, properly referenced and cited of course. It was promptly removed by a "fan" and accused of "spreading lies" by referencing "obscure sites" or whatnot (the references were not obscure). I just ... gave up, because fuck this shit, and it's not all that important anyway.

It is in the current version though, so someone took up the torch I guess.

Either way, as a persistent and slightly-rude-but-not-rude-enough-to-be-banned editor you can exert a lot of control (and it takes quite a lot to be banned from Wikipedia in the first place).

This is not a problem of "the left", or at least not uniquely so. In my example it was a right wing politician.
I agree. I just take the numbers at face value. Trying to suggest they are under or over counted is a fools errand. It will take decades of distance from this event for cooler heads to tally up what really happened.
A friend of mine had his first job installing Oracle from floppies. I'm not sure what the actual count was, but we would joke about him installing disk 1 of 99...
A person proficient in multiple programming languages absolutely knows all of the 6 concepts - it's just cases of 'aha, go allows me to do x,y,z and this is how things should be done'.

I basically learned ideomatic go in a week, by skimming over the "effective go" guide and cross referencing concepts to other languages I know -- there is really nothing inherently 'new' in Go that would require years. It's a deliberately simple language.
Once again the comments prove that people are more interested in trash-talking C++ than than solving real problems.

C++20 IS fixing many complaints or design-choices made in the past.

In terms of the article it casually mentions in the end using

'''-Werror -Wall -Wextra'''
The unsigned signed comparisons will fail to compile.
Most serious projects use these flags anyway.

I wonder if clang-tidy will also catch this?
Different frequencies? Does that mean it's doing something like an FFT?
Hey @nikolay! I work at Grafana Labs & focus on pricing - would you be up for a 15 minute chat to discuss this further? If so, feel free to either drop me a note at divy.goel@grafana.com or let me know how best to reach you :)
DSP is amazing. Even with some of the rough in-development edges, I really enjoyed that experience. Evidently, I somehow sunk 60 hours into that game inside of two weeks.
> he's been able to climb up to a engineering manager in a shorter amount of time than I've been working as a SWE

If you want to be an IC, don't short change your accomplishments. Eng Mgr is not a promotion from IC, it's a career change.

The SWE career progression is much more established, and is often much more formal and understood than an Eng Mgmt track.

Your younger manager has recently gone through a significant career change that requires a significant amount of self-education to advance further. It's possible he'll advance opportunistically (if there's a vacancy) or by being clever or political, but his competency will not necessarily advance with him without him putting a significant amount of effort into learning this new career.

It's not uncommon for established SWEs to make more than engineering managers until the engineering manager has progressed to a level where they are dealing with levels of stress (business & social) that would make most people's hair fall out.

Even then many companies have career tracks that pay as well in the upper echelons for individual technical contributors as for high level eng mgrs. The one thing they have in common is that there are very few positions at the top of any career ladder. It gets competitive. Hopefully your aspirations match your talents so that you can compete for those fewer positions.
I've heard rumors that Meta and Google have massive layoffs coming as well. Good luck out there
Hey, I'm right there with you. I think this industry is skewed young, but not as much as we might think. For me, the redeeming quality of my early 20's is that I matured dramatically. I'd encourage you to take a good, long (I mean months long) look at your motivations over the last decade and find a way to honor the part of you that was curious about agriculture & construction, and find a way to bring that part of you to life in the here and now. The word for releasing the tension between being and doing is "play".
I agree, but when it's this difficult to physically kept it secret, then someone will collect it. That someone will then tell the police in return for some favor and the police will cook up some parallel construction. The result is the same except more corrupt and expensive.
Management is a different job.

I’ve been an engineering manager for over three years; and the skillset is completely different. So much so that I recently flubbed some easy LC questions.

Businesses may treat it as a promotion, but don’t make the mistake of thinking it really is one.
Facebook is trying to be Discord with 'Community Chats'
Feels more like a statement about divinity than it is about math, particularly given the scare quotes.
Even though it is many orders of magnitude simpler than the real-world equivalent, I find that there is no better way of grasping the logistics of modern civilization than playing Factorio.

In fact, it's probably in the Goldilocks zone: easy enough to play, but complicated enough to convey the kind of resource, energy and transport logistics involved in scaling a multi-step production process. It is like an illustrative toy model.

The aliens even give the game a satisfying environmental and political dimension, though the mechanics in this respect are more straightforward, i.e., just kill the aliens. Though emitting less pollution with solar also helps.
Am I the only one that doesn't think this is really all that bad? I'll admit that I've not ever written a line of Scala, but in principal it seems like the only people who have to follow this license will be those who can afford it.

Sure, true FOSS is always better, bit the maintainers have to eat somehow. If you're making 25m+ ARR and are using their software, maybe you should be paying them something.
> The encryption was however used correctly, but the users were ignorant and continued using the service even after the certificate suddenly changed.

When designing anything that's going to be used by the general public on the Internet, you have to keep in mind that's the entire public, including grandma and grandpa that don't even realize that their Facebook app is not Google and post their search queries as status updates.

For fuck's sake, we can't even get professional office workers to not fall for painfully obvious phishing campaigns, and now you want to try to teach them how to recognize a bad SSL certificate?

You're not living in reality.
I’m a bit surprised he doesn’t deal in Zip drive disks as well.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32764409 5 days ago (same article)
> Or do you have some alternative in mind to incentivize the development of better breeds and variants other than patenting? How else are the companies supposed to capture the fruits of their development?

I don't get it. Humans have selectively bred better plants for millenia before the era of modern IP. A process that's far more time consuming than CRISPR. Yet now, there's suddenly no incentive to improve plants unless a corporation can own the results outright for 20 years? This is ideology, not economics. There are plenty of institutions that would work on improving crops even if Monsanto & co. got out of the game. Universities come to mind here. And the results of their work could actually help farmers that can't afford IP-encumbered crops, not just large, wealthy farmers.
> The trajectory of Lightbend has been raising doubts for a while, some would argue since the renaming.

Definitely. I remember some of us Scala early adopters being concerned about the nonsensical name change, and being assured by others that nothing fundamental was being changed, that Lightbend was "a more user friendly name than TypeSafe" (as if the notion of type-safety was a barrier to entry for goddamn Scala, for crying out loud).

Seems we skeptics were proven right.
It took some adjustment but I love it now. Not sure I could go back to Java.
No! No!

No!

We already know we made the right choice because the alternative was 20 million more dead. This "time will tell" bullshit is ridiculous. We swerved the car to avoid crashing it head on into a wall, and yes you might have whiplash but there is no honest room for second guessing the decision not to drive the car into the wall at full speed.
Obviously, this is how the age of gods ended for humanity as well. Henry Ford, Godslayer. Err, Goddistracter, at least.
Agree. But in my experience, you have to bring the ask/need/most important detail to the first line.

1. Greeting, of course
2. The ask or most important detail, standing on its own line. (The exec can rapidly say yes or offer feedback if they agree on the face of it, or read on for more detail.)
3. Then do the I see, I'm doing, I want, etc in more detail.

I think execs managing a tremendous workload appreciate if you can invert to this "thesis first before anything else" style—it took me a while to learn this, and I also appreciate it when partner teams who send stuff to me for review follow this style. I think boils down to time management, triage, and giving rapid yes/nos, but you still need to show your work, but if you make your email harder to action it'll get delayed in processing or even forgotten.

Of course, relationship management matters too.
It’s hyperbolic, but yes, Ukraine is much more similar to Russia than to Western Europe.
Your quoting suggests that you think what people on onlyfans and patreon do aren't "real jobs", but in fact to succeed in those spaces needs very hard work.
> today the government has the physical ability to break into my house and shoot me in the head for no reason at all, but they don't have the legal ability to do so.

Isn't that exactly what they did to Breonna Taylor in Louisville? Haven't seen anyone arrested for that.
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