skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.theregister.com/2018/08/16/github_rails_microsof...

"GitHub is about a third of the way through an architectural change that began last year. The company is moving away from Ruby on Rails toward a more heterogeneous, composable infrastructure. Ruby still has a place at GitHub – Lambert referred to the company as a Ruby shop, but he said there's more Go, Java and even some Haskell being deployed for services."

https://github.blog/2021-03-16-improving-large-monorepo-perf...

"We’re also in the middle of a significant refactoring effort, doing our part to decompose GitHub’s famous Ruby monolith, and writing a new microservice in Go"
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/tenure.t01.htm and https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/tenure.pdf

The numbers go down as the year goes.

Additionally, the median length of the tenure goes up with age. For men...

.... 2012 : 2014 : 2016 : 2018 : 2020 : 2022
25-34 3.2 3.1 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9
35-44 5.4 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.1 5.0
45-54 8.5 8.2 8.4 8.1 8.2 7.5
55-64 10.7 10.7 10.2 10.2 10.0 10.0

From the pdf, if we go to Computer and mathematical occupations (which software developers are classified under)

.... 2012 : 2014 : 2016 : 2018 : 2020 : 2022
4.8 5.0 4.4 4.3 3.9 4.2

Table 2 pdf will also be of interest - Table 2. Percent of employed wage and salary workers 25 years and over who had 10 years or more of tenure with their current employer by age and sex, selected years, 2012-2022
Cool and interesting Postgres features you might not know
I dont think it works that way. Being good at one thing as a country you dont need to neglect others. A country is not a person. The EU, US and allies can simultaneously be good at high tech agriculture, high tech manufacturing, fin tech, space tech, and services. We just need to approach things differently.
I've been to hotels like that: yeah, there's a breakfast room; but breakfast is a plastic cup of coffee, a roll, and a packet of cornflakes.

I hate staying in hotels, but one benefit is getting a nice hot breakfast served to you.
Good for you. The rest of us will be using these new features to make great websites with far less wasted time and effort than before.
I think I am in total agreement with your comment and I have another angle to add for your consideration:

Assume someone wanted to sell highly sought-after tickets for less than the market clearing (profit maximizing) price—as you suggest. Lowering the price will increase demand (because more people can afford them). We now have more demand for the tickets; how will that demand be expressed?

Will some people stand in line for days to get the tickets? Is that a form of payment that some people can "pay" more easily that others because they are "richer" in disposable time?

Will some people write software to shave milliseconds off of their ticket-buying reaction time? Is that a form of payment that some people can "pay" more easily than others because they have the requisite skills?

Will some people pay others to do the above (or something similar)?

It seems to me that these are all forms of payment and that the total payment (in currency or otherwise) will approximate the market-clearing price in pure currency from the other scenario.

What do you think?
The suite hotels in the US often don't have a bar and limited or no food service at night. Though there are exceptions. (Marriott has been upscaling Residence Inn in many cases--probably because they have so many suite brands after acquiring Sheraton.)
This however ignores that government run healthcare runs very fine across Europe and canada. yes there are horror stories but just looking at longevity and healthcare statistics USA vs any western democraxy shows how atrocious the corporate model is.
“It would be hysterical if the government stopped Elon from overpaying for Twitter.” Musk replied with two emojis: a 100 percent sign and a cry-laughing face.

I guess that could be the angle; why he supported China and Russia. To freak out government and get them to block the deal.
I don't know, seems like a pretty proportionate response to someone coming into your store and installing what's effectively spyware on your machines.

Sure, no harm was done and it was in the name of art, but how would anyone making the decisions at Apple know that?
Show HN: Weird brandon – Stable Diffusion-generated Joe Bidens
I've been working with stable diffusion for an upcoming course I'm developing with my PhD advisor, and in the course of that we wanted to talk about the effects of modifiers on the prompts w.r.t. the generated images.

I put this site together as a demo of the effects of randomly selected modifiers on a single well-represented figure in the stock stable diffusion model's training data, Joe Biden, as a riff on the "dark Brandon" meme that's been going around.

The source is available at https://github.com/pkage/weirdbrandon
Does mitogen really only support up to Ansible 2.9? Thats a couple years old isn't it? I was really excited for it until I saw that :(
In theory you missed that memo in 2019, it's that Corona threw in a curveball that gave us an additional 3 years on the inevitable recession. This is why timing the market is hard.
> The initial TF releases were great.

I object to this statement. The earlier releases of TF (ca. 2013) were impossible to debug and the documentation was always broken - if you tried to follow the Seq2Seq tutorial you know what I'm talking about. I'd argue that these releases were great for the 50 people who already knew how to use it, but they were aggressively unhelpful for beginners.

PyTorch won my lab (and certainly others) because you could add prints to check your dimensions while TF forced you to build a correct computation graph all at once. Performance? Sure, TF is probably faster. But I'd argue that TF's big mistake was not taking their new users into consideration.
Read the book “About Face : on Interaction Design” , you are describing different “postures” of application. It’s a must read if you want to stop guessing about what interface fits where. It’s my bible as it were.
> That doesn't mean they have the leverage to take 90% of the money for themselves

Listen, that's exactly what they have. The music business mostly exists to screw artists out of money made from their work, probably more now than ever.

The artist signs a contract to pay for X dollars, that's what they get and they have no leverage whatsoever to go after that upside. Ticketmaster would have to share the data about the dynamic pricing in the first place and they are NOT doing that.
Tldr below.

You are both perfectly fine in wanting it both ways. In communicating with people to be effective it’s best to align with their communication style. Some folks want the long explanation, some folks want the tldr. I always try to accommodate both in my work communications.

Tldr: Different people liked to be spoken to differently and that’s fine and useful to accommodate.
> But if the premises of the thought experiment give her the ability to give herself that knowledge beforehand, that undermines the conclusion.

No it doesn't, it's called the Knowledge Argument because the knowledge of redness purportedly does not deductively follow from the knowledge of any amount of physical facts. It requires non-deductive steps, like surgery and brain stimulation in this case.

You might as well say that Mary could construct a red LED and gain the knowledge of redness that way, because that too is a physical process. That's obviously out of bounds, and surgery is the same type of invalid move.

Edit:

> Neither one of these refutes physicalism, however, since the process of giving yourself the required stimulus based on your knowledge is a physical process--at least, there is nothing in the premises of the thought experiment that rules that out.

Under dualism, physical processes are correlated with non-physical qualia, so triggering the physical process in a roundabout way is not a valid move here. The question being tested is whether knowledge of redness follows from knowledge of all other physical facts, not whether knowledge of redness follows from triggering a physical process because we already know that does.
Does this mean there’s a decent chance to get this working in UTM? How much is this stuff transferrable to QEMU?
The A-series don't support booting from a third party OS, unless someone found a security issue that can be exploited to make it boot something else it won't be possible to run Linux on it.
Why did we switch F to M when Facebook became Meta, but not G to A when Google became Alphabet?
Mac OS has a 'reduce motion' accessability setting that might help with some of those animations.
what happens between neuron patterns emerging and me experiencing red, well, being red, instead of let's say blue for the same sensory input? where is the mapping, or are we all seeing totally different colors? even so, where does this information about the quality of this color come from.
Can you not just have it use a self signed certificate? I don't see why a CA would need to be involved at all, nor can I even imagine how that could be enforced at the protocol level.

This sounds like a red herring to me.

edit: Yeah I've more or less confirmed that self signed certs are perfectly fine in HTTP3. This is a big ball of nothing.
YouTube didn't get sued early on because it didn't have any money to sue. After it was acquired, it was sued, and the current system is the agreement that Google and the rights holders came to (which has been incredibly profitable for both sides).
For anyone looking for an aesthetic Postman alternative, I can't recommend https://insomnia.rest/ enough
Yeah, it seems to be a good strategy to build a following by offering tickets to kids for cheaper.

It also makes sense that as a band gets older, they might not be as incentivized to do so. How many new Blink-182 fans are there in 2022? I assume these guys are primarily worried about making sure they have enough cash in their kids' college funds and and making sure their retirement accounts are in really good shape (no shade intended, these are important concerns).
The media serves as a coordinator in what would otherwise be a social coordination problem.

Imagine for a moment, the game of "social value" and it's strategies. What is the Schelling point of such a game? Hard to say, right? It's easy however, to understand that a whichever the dominant strategy is, the cost/reward of following the dominant strategy on average is fairly high given the material constraints that any "social value" game would have.[1]

In fact, choosing a a non-dominant "priest" has an opportunity cost associated with it over choosing a "dominant priest". In our society, media functions as a "dominant priest" or rather a communicator of the dominant strategy. Directing someone to choose a non-dominant strategy is a bit pointless to the people who are instead asking, "shouldn't we be playing a different game instead?"

1. As to what these are is left as an exercise to the reader.
Its possible. I've had proffesors who always gave true/false questions with instructions to either "justify your answer", or "if false, justify your answer".

Practically speaking, there is fairly little downside to putting in extra in your answer, as tests are normally scored by how many points in the grading rubric you hit.
The experiment is flawed in that “Mary knows something new” is very loosely defined. We know new things constantly, to begin with. Our neurons change continuously.

As an example- She’ll immediately have a new memory: “I saw the color red for the first time”. Does that count? What about the emotions she might have felt? Elated. Disappointed. Does that count?

You are “knowing new things” just by reading these words.

There’s also the fact we don’t need a thought experiment for this one. There are rare cases where people have been able to gain sight or hearing via operations or devices. Ask them directly! All of them will say that they had many new thoughts when this happened.

That doesn’t imply that qualia exists at all though:

> she has gained a non-physical fact

She now knows how it feels to see the color red. I don’t think that disqualifies this as a “physical fact”. It could be that the subjective experience can be explained in physical terms, but we humans just not have figured it out. In that case Mary would not have that on her notes, would her? After all, this is a complex problem, I don’t expect conscience to be easily explainable in 2 or 3 lines, the same way that “how does the Linux kernel work?” can’t.
The age verification maybe a good idea if it is used to create a segregated place for kids. But instead of having filters & being able to scan messages, I think it'd be better to not have private messaging on those platforms. This will allow other users to report suspicious behavior.
What I want to know is, why didn't we see this before?

Ideological coherence is a sound political strategy. Elections have single winners. Since elections are multi-dimensional, you need to form a coalition to be that winner. But the tighter you make that coalition, the less you have to compromise while still winning.

Sure, it's intellectually bankrupt, but what would you rather do: be right, or win elections? The latter choice always gets you nothing -- at least when faced with somebody else who would rather win.

It seems like this tradeoff was just sitting there for decades or centuries, but we only started implementing it in the last 40-50 years or so. I wonder why it took so long.

The straightforward answers would seem to be something like "intellectual honesty" or "human decency", but I really can't imagine a time when that was widespread.
Its counterintuitivity is why I like bringing it up. :-)
It's at the hard sci fi end of the spectrum, compared to Star Trek and Star Wars, but not as hard edged as TE, but get close. They have FTL and artificial gravity, but the space combat portrays pretty decent zero-g manoeuvring and combat tactics. Some of the space battles are among the best ever committed to screen, and the most realistic before TE anyway although some Babylon 5 fans might argue. The CGI was a good generation or two better than B5 though and still looks great.

There is some science fudging for sure, and I have to warn you later on it gets more and more metaphysical and ambiguous. The last season turned some fans off, but it really didn't bother me. I'd have rather is stayed more grounded, but even right to the end the characters and the storytelling carried me through. Some of it's tough watching, a few of the characters really go through the grinder.

I'd highly advise checking some clips on Youtube, and maybe check out the Spacedock channel's analysis of some of the battles.
It goes to not dying on the street... Which is variable value, but still quite valued thing.
TLDR we made a bad product. Hundreds of car dashcams have no problem loop recording 24/7 while glued to the frond window sitting directly in hot sun.

On the other hand I dont feel one bit comfortable streaming any video of my home to "someone elses computer" without end to end encryption.
Previous discussio: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14884992

I decided to repost it as it is already 3 years, since the last repost and I suspect many have not seen it yet.
Oh, vatnik

I'm just gonna leave this here. Browse at your leisure.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=russian+genocide&atb=v310-1&ia=web
There was previously Postwoman which I believe is now hoppscotch
https://github.com/f0rb1d/postwoman

https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch
> the weather is perfect,

Just to clarify for those who won't fully understand this.

The temperature range is very tight and mild so you don't need to think very hard about how to dress for the elements. For me jeans and a tshirt was basically year round attire. When it rained the extra warmth of a rain jacket was enough to offset the slightly cooler weather. You can run outdoors year round, save for a couple weeks of heat wave, or a bit in the "winter" if you refuse to run in the rain.

However, it's not the sunny beach, wear a bikini / no shirt weather that many have come to understand of California from hollywood movies.
No. If you have to write styling in JS I can guarantee that it will be far more brittle, less performant, and way more susceptible to FOUCs, reflows, jank, and potentially deadlocks of conflicting resizing elements than the equivalent in CSS.
We can automate things even further. We are far from automation at its full potential. But we lack the will.
I’m building a CMS and container queries will make the components I build sooo much better.
* clean-room M1 GPU driver created by (seemingly) one dev in a matter of months

* an excellent POC of Rust drivers on Linux

* the dev live-streamed almost every minute of development

* the dev is a virtual anime girl

So far I'm LOVING 2022.
Im surprised no one has mentioned Pearl Jam going to court with Ticketmaster almost 30 years ago.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pearl-jam-taki...

It's been a lousy monopoly for decades and has only gotten worse.
Indeed, but that doesn't mean it's legal to start drinking while in your car.
A typical artist deal with a promoter would include an 85% (artist) / 15% split of profit after a pre-negotiated split point which covers the costs of producing & marketing a show for the promoter. I've never seen a full LiveNation tour agreement and perhaps they could have bought out Blink for each show with a different style deal but I'd be surprised if that still didn't include some upside for dynamic pricing otherwise why would the artist ever agree to do it? Everyone knows $600 tickets aren't exactly popular but this is a business and if that's what they're going for a secondaries anyway it's better for the artist to collect the cash in my opinion.
> I'm not surprised that this is an audience that doesn't get it. A lot of music acts, even popular ones, were broke as hell for a long time. It is reasonable and, I think, actively laudable to want folks who are not of the Patagonia-jacket class to be able to see them live for a reasonable price.

I think we get the motivation, but what they are trying to do is not possible in a market without implementing strict rules. It is noble that a provider of a luxury, supply-limited service wants to provide it for a cost below market. It really is! But in practice it will never work because scalpers will arbitrage that price up to the real market price. If you disallow scalpers somehow, you will sell out instantly and then only lucky fans get the service, rather than rich fans. Is that any better?

If I’m a manufacturer of a very nice car and can only make 1000 of them a year, but still want to sell them for $5,000 so low income people can afford it, that plan is just not going to work. This is actually currently happening with Raspberry Pi computers. The only ones you can currently get are for higher prices on the secondary market.
> there's not usually any chance to retake the exam

Of course there is. One of my classmates milked this system to remain a student for about twice as long as the rest of us. He was good at manipulating the bureaucracy, not so good at physics; probably should have studied law or some sort of social science instead.
Education polarization. San Francisco is unequal because it has significant numbers of high income people. High income people have progressive political views.
People are now happily listening to Metallica on streaming services
> WWII, "the greatest generation", almost all of society knew that if they united for a great purpose

Are you including the soldiers who rioted in England due to the way black American soldiers were being treated by the host country? (That is, black soldiers were being treated as equals). Meanwhile back in the states, American citizens of Japanese descent were in internment camps.

I guess "all of society" uniting entirely depends on who you define "society"
There are tons of city planners who can figure out the specifics of how to transform each street. They've been talking about it for decades. The problem is political will and this is the gap that this site is trying to bridge.
These essays are usually assigned in college-prep courses with the intention that the students will go to college where they will need to read/write in APA, MLA or other rigid, clear styles that would allow them to read/publish in specific academic journals. It's a high standard for the high-achieving students.
The article is in the Leaders section, which is a section with 4 or 5 short summaries of important weekly news. They do special reports on all sorts of topics although unhelpfully in this case their last one on housing was back in 2020 (https://www.economist.com/special-report/2020-01-18). Probably due another one soon.
I find your interpretation of the dock interesting, especially because I've never used the dock.

- I don't use it to launch applications, I use launchpad for that.
- I don't use it to open files in a given app, I right-click and use the contextual menu for that.
- I don't use it to delete files, I use command-delete for that.
- I don't use it to get to downloads, I use the Finder for that.
- I don't use it to switch applications, I use command-tab for that.
- I don't know what else it's good for, or what I do instead.

I say this as someone who has used Mac OS X since it launched: the dock is useless to me; I have it hidden, and if there were a way to permanently kill it, I absolutely would.
The purpose of writing in professional settings, especially internal documents for a engineering team, is to convey information.

Even if models are better at writing essays, it's highly unlikely that the generated essays will convey useful and accurate information. Ie, the writing may be better as a context-free composition of words and symbols, but the semantic content of the writing within the context of the business will be at best nonsense and possibly even misleading.

In GP's context, excellent writing that's pure bullshit is even worse than bad writing.

Generating design documents that discuss real tradeoffs from a combination of email threads, slack messages, meetings, and code is quite a bit different from generating the billionth essay on Napoleon. We use the latter, in part, to practice the basic skills required for the former. But just because a model can do a half-decent job at the latter doesn't mean that it is anywhere near being able to do the former.
Alternatively, people I know who got that memo in 2019 sold their stocks, went short and now are in a significantly worse position.
One kind of messed up thing some companies did during covid/wfh was suspend performance reviews; prevented people who were performing under the bar from getting feedback that their performance was not acceptable. Now the economy is dramatically slowing and pips are happening again, so people are going to get fired into a horrible job market. Really sucks.
> And also, there's a problem with revolving credit (i.e. a 2-year mortgage), such as Australia or Britain, or anything that is floating along with some interest rate. But these are a) intentional problems that the people making the loans hope will make them rich, and

The 30 year fixed US mortgage is responsible for a lot of the higher prices in US. Future taxpayers or users of the USD pick up a lot of the interest rate risk on behalf of present day borrowers. Evidently, given the continued resilience of the USD, market participants are very okay with this.

> b) problems with pricing, because people are expected to take decades longer to pay off a house than it would take for them to build it alone with their own hands in their spare time.

This is a highly dubious claim for which I would need to see proof. The actual building of a house in the US is down to 100 days by a well operated tract builder. The outsize portion of the cost is in the land.
"Strange things are afoot at the Circle K" —Bill S. Preston Esq.