skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe not, we haven’t been in a situation with working population decline due to retirement and fewer upcoming workers.
> There's no technical reason why the US can't have a system like UPI.

You're right there is no technical reason, but there is a very strong political reason.

They way things are now, people in the US have to pay for a lot of things that people don't pay for in other countries. Bank Transfers is just one example. Health Insurance (and care) is another. Higher education. Filing taxes. This list is endless.

Making people pay for this stuff is extremely good for the economy, and probably a big part of the reason the USA has the highest GDP.

It also makes many, many hundreds of billions of dollars for those entrenched in those industries, who will spend tens upon tens of billions of dollars lobbying to make sure it never changes.
Good tip, unless you're buying lumber. You'll invariably end up with some amount of warped trash lumber if you let them pick it out for you.
I didn't say "greedy." But yes, corporations do induce demand: that's the entire point of advertising, and so many other mainstays of 21st century capitalism: planned obsolescence, vendor lock-in, and so forth. Consumers do not want to buy a new phone, computer, fridge, &c. every X years; they do it because it's the local maxima between short-term purchasing power and corporate profits.

Nobody pumps CO2 into the atmosphere "for fun," besides a very small group of men with illegally modified trucks. But corporations do pump CO2 into the atmosphere (taken as a general metaphor for pollution) because it's an efficient method of externalization.
> Personally, myself and several others I know don’t care to work on the problems that the big tech corpos are working on, no matter the salary.

While there are indeed people like you out there (don't care about the money)

You have to remember that you're more of the exception than the rule. The average developer is indeed very keen on optimizing their salary, and the possibility of a 50-100% raise by moving to a FAANG is undeniably a huge motivator.
I used to think this way too. Built in monitor (MBP) is actually really good IMO, better than the others at the price. Keyboard is poor, always the thing I hated about Apple products. But you can connect an external keyboard/mouse to it. And it beats the weird custom layouts you see on some gaming laptops that doesn't work so well for programming. A MBP is built for development.

Monitors are a problem in my experience and it does show fuzzy fonts. MacOS also has weird behaviour on some websites.

Still they're pretty good travel companions. The 2022 MBPs are light as a book and has excellent battery life - about 8 hours unplugged. I used to bring a MBP and my main Windows laptop to work, so you can put two in a backpack.
In the same boat. Keep working on tooling, docs... been a bit since I solved something/wrote code. Also just setting up random vm's, environments to work on things. Sprints go by I feel like I have not accomplished anything tangible.
This is kind of amazing, this is closer than anyone else has gotten to reimplementing typescript
Nothing says "easily maintainable" like a 298,000 line go file. Gitlab is struggling to render it for me.
You keep claiming that the GP would prefer civilization to collapse. Nothing in their writing suggests that, and your only proof is that they disagree with your assertion that a climate catastrophe is imminent and can only be averted by radical means. Again, that puts you in their category 1.

> Energy from renewables will be vastly cheaper than humanity has ever experienced

Handwaving "will be" is not good enough for policy.
Until AI can correctly interpret “A Modest Proposal” I’m not worried.
Cool, this is excellent. AOL embedded TCL interpreters attached to a listener on the network for all the services, so you could telnet in and see in memory what was going on and change config and what not. A tcl command is just a CS 1 program with argv and argc, so even pretty junior people could safely add commands. The framework was event based, no threads, so while the tcl was running nothing else was being done, so you could rearrange memory and it was cool as long as you finished before the end of the command. If would be pretty simple to add in a control port thing to Go. The advantage of TCL with its simple syntax is most commands are just cmd arg1 arg2 arg3 but if you have some general logic, you can express that as.
Where's the hypocrisy?

Democrats haven't been advocating for that tax to be increased. They were mostly against it when it was voted on
You get a lot of this up here in Canada. Companies hire you as a contractor, but prohibit you from working other roles.
Waaaay back at school in the 90s, that was the policy in our public exams, we were allowed the calculator but it would be wiped on the way in to the hall.

So I memorised my quadratic-solver-with-intermediate-steps and tapped it back in while we were waiting for the test to start :)

The calculation was not hard, but it was still faster just to run my program and scribble down the steps it spat out than to do the solving manually each time it came up. IIRC I had one for simultaneous equations too.
The thing about a plan like this, though, is it doesn't require cooperation from the public. Getting everyone to stay home, wear masks, socially distance, and get vaccines is indeed a pretty hard problem.

But decreeing that a few hundreds or thousands of scientists and engineers are going to make a possibly-catastrophic change to our biosphere doesn't require getting regular citizens to do anything.

Having said that, I do expect public opinion to play a role in deciding what (if anything) gets done. Whether or not it'll be enough to stop something catastrophic from happening... probably not?
The factory automation you're talking about is the culmination of the industrial automation that started in the 1800s, so it's no surprise that it's so far ahead.

Information automation, on the other hand, is still very much in its infancy. Not just office and retail—construction, farming, and medicine are huge growth areas for IT right now.
Are you correcting for usable capacity in your prices? 50% DoD was typical for lead acid last I checked vs 85% for LiFePO4 (or 100% if you're happy with it lasting as long as lead acid at 50%)

As to fraud, I've seen at least four batteries perform as advertised. Also a 5x disparity in prices between different shops is entirely consistent. Prices have been dropping rapidly and there are enough people who go 'oh yeah, that was about right 3 years ago'. Plus retailers may have paid several times current retail for their stock if it's a year or two old and was bought at prices that hadn't been updated for a year.
Maybe they ran a financial pyramid and the music stopped. Funding had ran out. Interest rates went up. Rampant inflation. People can’t feed themselves, no one cares about smooth rocks anymore. They just want a sandwich and a roof.
tl;dr - it's a loss leader
My initial guess was Facebook, which is now called Meta and therefore isn't F any longer. "ish" is just enough plausible deniability.
Hell, we couldn't even get people in individual countries (let alone across the world) to agree on what to do with a global pandemic that was hospitalizing and/or killing people in droves.

Climate change is unfortunately still -- even with all the obvious weather changes that are already happening -- too abstract to get a lot of people to even admit it's a problem, let alone agree on what should be done.
I have mixed feelings about Texans ;-) but I'm glad that your cousin is living a better life and expending an order of a magnitude more energy than she presumably used to.
Coincidentally Discord was almost named Bonfire until they changed it (https://gist.github.com/advaith1/540543d6a2b7fd66abdb0eb02c0...). The two are quite distinct though: most obvious being able to host your own instance and the code being open source. No other connection that I can see, though.
Both the RF engineering and DSP programming sound immensely interesting. As a software dev with a EE background I’m thirsty for such opportunities. Where does one look for these jobs?
Paywall bypass: https://archive.ph/3pxOH
I agree with you completely. It seems likely companies prefer app lock/unlock because it scales better, faster, cheaper. car shares are advertised as “download the app then drive”
Disturbingly big part of Natural AI also can't correctly interpret it.
Wouldn't be so sure.
> I once missed a $10 payment on my credit card and lost 100 points on my credit score. I swear on my life.

Is it an option to not use CC in your life? I don't but I understand people in the city may have a different experience.
I had to troubleshoot ubuntu a lot when I used it 12 or so years ago. Mac and Windows have been fairly trivial to troubleshoot in my experience.
A FAANG-ish company I am familiar with budgets for salary, not roles. If you're a manager trying to build the best team possible and you think you can do 2x the work by hiring engineers from Nebraska who make 50% what they might in SF, you are stupid not to. For a time there was a rule managers on a particular team couldn't hire from SF or NY for this reason.
This is horrifying. Thanks for the nightmare fuel.

> while the tcl was running nothing else was being done, so you could rearrange memory and it was cool as long as you finished before the end of the command

My mind immediately springs to all the ways this can go horrifically wrong.
Love me some org mode. I use nvim-orgmode. It's not as feature complete as emacs, but is enough for my use cases; time tracking, tables, and code blocks.
Though this tends to be true, once you become aware of it and begin to recalibrate your perception of what it means to have ability, possessions, fortune, any of it – it stops mattering nearly as much, and can often even go the other way.

There are many people who are fortunate in material or circumstantial ways, but you see ways in which they’re enslaved by it or it somehow dictates their life. The classic “owned by what your own” paradigm which is eerily common in western culture.

This can have the effect of making you feel fortunate for having less, rather than envious.

I love Seneca. What I haven’t got a good grip on is time. On the Shortness of Life is a bit of a gut punch for me.
An RDBMS meets the definition.
Quotes don't need the potential author cited. Your advice works whoever told it, especially if you actually stand behind it and we'll take it as your word then.
This seems to absolve the people of their duty to check their opinions against multiple sources and their own experiences before arriving at an informed opinion.
Sadly, they do matter. Lots of power, low accountability. Equifax and the other two have a very large impact on USA citizens day-to-day. I hate it but, we can't pretend they don't matter.
Wish I was surprised that I can’t access it. Somehow I zoomed in enough on my phone to sort of see the images without it placing half of them off screen(!), and correctly picked the images I could barely see. Got the green check mark and all. Got an error that I didn’t complete the CAPTCHA, did it again and another green check mark, but now it won’t submit at all.
Be curious how the external cameras on headset track legs. I guess they could stick out forward far enough and then look down at the feet.
GDP growth being negative could also be attributed to product shortages.
> Why were they so intertwined early on?

Curiosity?

Because knowledge starts low resolution and then slowly becomes higher resolution?
For your use case, you could just do a simple Hugo site and work entirely in markdown.

It has a baked in web server so you can render and run it locally without any infrastructure.
Still breaks on most common libraries. No child_process implementation yet.
I’m guessing that’s just a reflection of who you know. In my experience no one likes Fountainhead and most of the people who like Atlas Shrugged are men.
Just be glad they haven't handed over maintenance to the gnome project.
i wouldn’t call it healthy. the packages ecosystem is slowly dying and absolutely full of outdated, abandoned projects.
If you believe the article, they were able to tell whether someone was producing adequate value since they claim the investigation was into people that were not performing as expected. The data in question was one piece of the information.
How the Army wants to build its ‘wolf pack’ drone waves
Yep and yep, but the latter just illustrates the point.

On the spectrum of unemployed fry cook to 6-figure tech job, "attracting recruiter spam bots" and "attracting overly-clever recruiters" isn't far from actually Getting There and/or Making It - so long as you keep showing up and making an effort. Definitely not a quick life hack.

Long-ish term career moves are really the only reason I check on that stuff anyway, and get more value from the relative rankings of, say, language popularity and jobs, than any number I come to. I work in a job I like, in an industry I like, in a language I like at a very fair rate, so I'm not too concerned about it, but part of that is from figuring out what were dead-ends/non-starters for me, identifying niches, etc. (+1 for the ikigai thing, too).

> Nobody cares if you made some 1 line change to some OSS project. Any meaningful change requires more work and effort

For sure, if you're presenting yourself as "a [project name here] developer", but the conversation in interviews I've had has tended to center around, say, how we used to use [that horrible old thing] until we found [shiny new thing].

I'm pretty sure I've never impressed anyone with my OSS contributions, save maybe one person who somehow remembered an exact bug and considered fixing it, but I think we were more impressed we both remembered the bug than the handful of lines of code it took to replace `insecureConnections: true` with `insecureConnections: $insecureConnections` and add a `caCerts` property to be passed in to a constructor somewhere.

So I guess again, it was the pattern of making minor fixes ("just showing up") rather than being some super l33t hax04 genius or major project maintainer or whatever that got me the credit that mattered.
When is "child_process" implementation expected to be released?
tech workers are not highly compensated on average, lawyers, doctors etc are.
How about something like magenetic field-powered jets erupting from the planet's lower levels constantly dumping the material into the upper atmosphere, kind of like those solar field lines? Jupiter's magnetosphere is pretty impressive:

https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03476

Can't imagine what kind of crazy magnetic field action is going on in ultra-hot gas giants who are so close to their host star that their orbital period is 1-2 days.
Rental car companies will sometimes not rent to you unless you use a credit card specifically (not a debit card).
It's one thing if I can avoid it. I can walk approximately a meter away from bad cologne or whatever. I can't do the same with weed. Particularly strong strains have some pretty crazy carry, even worse than cigarettes.

It's a nuisance that ruins an atmosphere. To be fair, the police and businesses should be working together to ticket these people at the very least. But it isn't being done so I guess my post is just impotent rage at something that society needs to solve. Sucks though.
I don't believe them. If they had low performers, Equifax could have let them go without the non-consentual financial rectal exam on the way out. The number of jobs is irrelevant, only performance should matter.

This is a political / marketing move, as they could have also done the inspection without publicizing it.
I get the impression parent comment is less concerned about pragmatism and more focused on “freedom of choice”. An EV converted Land Rover would be awesome
If you believe the article, the employees were fired because they weren't doing the "scope of their duties".
> Not clicking because Vox.

Do they have an enormous number of trackers not screened out by ad blocking?

The paper, written by a physicist, deals with the non-obvious behavior by which the ball launches with one end pointing up and lands with that same end pointing down, which does not happen in other cases like (literally) a loaf of bread or a box of girls scout cookies.
US policy to move back top notch chip fabs in the US means they are dropping the ball.

But all that will take time, a lot.
And by my word I though ikea was bottom of the line but it turns out wayfair and Amazon can sell you much worse.
$150 per hour is very low.
Humans are pretty good at following economic orders however. Almost perfect at that, given some time of weeks or months. Economic actors respond to prices in the economy in a very predictable pattern.

One very good example, of following economic orders, is the shortage of masks, at the start of the covihoax. Less masks available, orders the price to go up, because more people are bidding up masks which are of short supply. One billion masks, roughly every week, only for the US, is an extraordinary amount, which would cause the price to go ballistic, 10x, 100x or maybe even 1000x. Masks are useless of course after just one use, so everyone who follows the science and wants to be safe, is obliged to buy a mask almost everyday. We didn't see anywhere mask prices to follow this pattern, so what happened? Maybe hundreds of millions of people were lying with their mouth, but not with their money, is one explanation that comes to mind.

One other good example is the submerging of coastal lines to the sea. Here in Greece, i think we have the biggest coastline of every other nation in the world. Someone would expect coastline house prices to drop a lot, 10x easily. 2050 or something for the house to be submerged into the water, is a very short period of time, considering how long a good house can last. New housing located at coast lines, should drop almost to zero. Did we see any of these scenarios happen? Of course not! How come prices of the soon to be submerged houses are high as ever? Maybe one possibility is that billions of people lie only with their mouths, not with their sacred and hard earned money!
The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal government-which the opening words of the 1st Amendment -
“Congress shall make no law…”-make very clear. Its authors modelled it on similar Bills of Rights in state constitutions - they believed that protecting the rights of citizens against infringement by the state and local governments was the job of state constitutions (to be enforced by state supreme courts) - not a federal issue. This was affirmed by the Supreme Court in the 1833 case Barron v Baltimore.

Then, the 14th Amendment was ratified. Its purpose was to prevent the ex-Confederate states from disenfranchising African-Americans. It was designed to overturn racially discriminatory state laws. There is no historical evidence its authors intended it to carte blanche apply the federal Bill of Rights to the states.

But, although the intention of the 14th Amendment in its historical context is quite clear, it was rather vaguely worded-and, in a gradual process, the Supreme Court began to exploit that vagueness in order to interpret the 14th Amendment as doing exactly that-“incorporating the Bill of Rights against the states”-something it has done piecemeal, article by article, clause by clause, and which still has not yet completed - the 1st Amendment was gradually incorporated from 1925 to 1963; the 2nd was only incorporated in 2010; by contrast, the 7th Amendment (right to jury trials in civil suits, etc) still has not been.

There is no evidence that the framers of the 14th Amendment ever intended the Supreme Court to engage in this rather arbitrary process of piecemeal “incorporation”-it is just something SCOTUS has made up out of whole cloth.
You said it yourself.

"Mainstream media has always been a little innumerate[...]"

And now mainstream media has been consolidated to just 4 or 5 conglomerate owners who play especially for politics, despite your desire to avoid that topic here. The part that's whole other level is simply the extreme conglomeration from more than 50 news sources which essentially makes it possible to spread mass marketing synergism unchecked and unchallenged.

Do yourself a favor and stop watching it.
Most of our trips to Ikea involve picking up flatpak products we've already looked at online. The nice thing about Ikea is that once you've already bought stuff from there, you kind of know what to expect when it comes to quality and construction. They offer the full dimensions of their stuff online so you can get a feel for the size of something large. There's little need to go check out a table in the showroom before you pickup the box from the warehouse. We simply cut through the checkout lines, grab a cart at the back of the warehouse, grab our stuff, and are gone without having to navigate the maze.

You get suckered into walking the store when you just want to grab a couple small things like from the kitchen section and now feel compelled to just walk the rest of the way out.

One thing I do really like about them is their spare parts desk. You can get just about any piece of hardware for free. I had a bracket for my bedframe break that was several years old. They still sell the bedframe but I was unsure if they would help. They gave me a new bracket that was actually better designed to prevent how it broke for me. Same thing happened with a desk leg mounting plate. They had did not thread the hole for the leg to screw on so it was entirely unusable. They simply just gave me a new plate. No questions asked, no warranty periods, just make the customer happy so they come back and buy more stuff. A lot of our stuff comes from Ikea so I'm happy with my purchases. As long as you aren't too rough on it or try to disassemble it, it will last.
This is just the kind of publicity that will have their customers call Equifax up and have them sift through their own payrolls to find employees to fire.
Good to know. I’m a contractor and am just starting my own business separate from my main contracting role. Was curious what precedent there is for this dynamic

Edit: I was under the impression being a contractor would give one flexibility to do whatever they want when they’re not billing hours, depends on the contract wording of course
Maybe I've been in big tech for too long but this actually seems like reasonable advice to me (delivered in a snarky way).

Big tech companies move slow technically, but move fast in organization structure. A "long term" project often means nothing ever gets done, a management chain change happens, and it all goes to nothing.

Metrics are never perfect, but it beats hand wavy claims of success, normally if a change is useful there is some metric that will show it. Honestly, the default "success" in big tech is the scope being reduced so many times that literally nothing happens and the PM's and management treat it like a win.

Finally testing... It's already easy enough to get nothing done in a big tech company but test code can take this to another level. You can join a team, write a big design document about some testing framework, spend 6 months implementing it, then leave the team just in time for the next reinvention of the test framework. And the whole time you were never at risk of deploying anything to production.
Why separate church and state when they're so damn attractive to each other
lots of people bootcamping = lots of garbage engineers
Could be written with some BigQuery SQL using the open hacker news dataset
What server are you talking about? I distinctly remember naviserver/aolserver being multithreaded and being able to share information between threads using a specific set of nsv_* commands.