skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole question of 'are material things really all that matters' is kind of boring, but the article does provoke an interesting question: how do you handle bubbles?

If you have a colossal GDP, but it's all hinging on a very hot tulip (or housing) market, does that really do all the things a colossal GDP that's, say, service economy based?

One of the things people like about GDP is you can sort of get a good guess about how, when the rubber hits the road and countries start pushing and shoving each other, or a calamity like COVID occurs, how it's going to turn out. I wonder how the extremely bubbly (almost foam-like) post-70's economy factors into this.
All that, in theory, would be tracked. The senior engineer would be able to point to the PRs/MRs with all the helpful comments that led to the code improvements. It wouldn't be hard to show calendar invites or whatever for pair programming sessions, which could be corroborated by asking the junior as well.

It does, however, bring up the point that one should always be mindful of what their output looks like and how easy it is to prove. I'm sure everyone has worked with a 'meeting commando', who loves to discuss edge cases and bikeshed instead of shipping code. Maybe they've carved out a nice niche doing so, and have convinced others in the company of their (dubious) value, but it shouldn't be surprising when the company is sold/acquired/RIFd that someone else might expect someone with an engineering title to have more tangible contributions to point to.
As much as I like matklad's work here I disagree. You can't have docs is AST and stuff like list element start with minuses.

First requirement want to nest and organize everything, second one relies on some "natural" (highly contextual) way to do it.

What looks natural for list of strings will not be natural for lists of tables of lists of maping between location snippit and some text.
Equity, and also: a contractual obligation to not dilute my equity more than the founders, crafted to avoid shenanigans like selective grants which sidestep this. It doesn't have to be as much equity as the founders, but it must stay proportionate.

Dilution is obviously necessary for external investment, but more than once I have seen early employees screwed out of valuable equity by the following scenario: once the company is getting traction and revenue, the founders take a huge round of funding. All existing shares and grants are diluted, but the VC investors give the founders a "make-up" grant (or whatever; the mechanism isn't important) that keeps them whole—while early employees, who aren't part of the negotiations, have their stakes reduced to tiny fractions of what they were. This in spite of many years of sweat and struggle and overwork equal to what anybody else in the company put in. So basically they are discarded when no longer useful.

For anybody actually considering joining an early startup as an employee, make sure you get this in your employment contract, and get your own lawyer to review it. "Trust me bro" means nothing in 2-3 years if $millions are on the line.
That seems normal for an organization of Twitter’s size, doesn’t it? They’ve got to sell ads.
> We don't have a view of what exactly is happening right now across the other side of the galaxy

We don't have a full view of the other side of the galaxy. A lot of the galaxy is invisible to us (blocked by dust and stars) and we haven't even surveyed all visible stars for techno-signatures. This makes it kind of weird to jump to conclusions based on what little data we actually have.
I saw the drawings. As an engineer, I can assert they were completely custom made and completely unnecessary. You don't need architectural drawings to determine if the flow is sufficient.

Besides, everyone knew the flow was sufficient because it would be the only hydrant upstream of a flow reducer in the main line. I.e. there was plenty of pressure in the line.

The drawings were completely superfluous to a bog-standard install.

> News articles are written about exceptional things

That's true. The hydrant wasn't in the news. Want another one that wasn't exceptional enough to make the news? A nearby one mile stretch of road has been undergoing repaving for THREE YEARS now.

BTW, did you read the article about SF? It blames the permitting process which takes forever and $$$$. That affects everything in SF.
It’s already happening. What makes you think otherwise? It says so right there that they have this throttling system. You really think they designed this system and it’s never been used before?
I see, I worked in America but never in California. That make more sense now.
Agree! Reminds me of swimmers going underwater for most of the backstroke event in the Seoul Olympics [0]

[0] https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/when-the-backstro...
My theory: increasing dominance of bad productivity ideas that seem good on paper.

The execs love how cheap their GCCs in India are, but they're somehow unaware that these folks can take months to do tasks that should take less than an hour.

That and the exponentially growing parasite of tech-enabled bureaucracy, but we already knew that.
Max speed isn't the only consideration, of course. Almost all "supersonic" planes are effectively subsonic with a supersonic sprint capability, rather than being natively supersonic. Concorde, Tu-144, A-12/SR-71 and XB-70 are the only native supersonic aircraft I can think of. Everything else is to some extent optimised for lower speed, so using big engines to temporarily overcome drag from a non-swing-wing design is consistent with that compromise.
Yeah the duffs device did it for me too. I remember reading it in some game programming book but shocked to see it used in qt/embedded for it's software rendering.

This is up there for me or there's also that amazing recursive template class for n-dimentional vectorspaces written by Tim Sweeney.
I can't find the page anymore but there is reference to it in the archive https://www.flipcode.com/archives/Unrolling_Loops_With_Meta-...
Oppression is not localized. A country or company that profits from plantations can reap the benefits from far away. As a simple example, think of sugar plantations in the Caribbean being exploited by men across the ocean.
Word. Insurance is the greatest scam of all time.
> React is a framework though.

framework vs library -- how would you define them?
Twitter has like 5 billion in revenue. They can probably get profitable, and laying off a quarter of the company is how they’ll do it.
What else is Silicon Valley guilty of today?
Even if today I use mostly the CLI, cwm and OpenBSD, I miss Keramik.
Since when is "not being a dick and doing the job you're paid to do" blnd devotion?
... the loved one of a politician was severely injured because of someone who believes the incorrect speech of influential figures...

It seems likely that there is more to the story than is represented in this summary. Truly "new" news is rarely completely accurate and accurately complete.
Is Noah Glass Twitter’s Long Lost Winklevoss? (2011)
It's not a result of bad management. Twitter is only non-profitable because they choose to spend all that excess revenue on R&D; Partly because, that's what tax law incentives, partly because that's what investors in tech companies want: Growth

If you look at twitter's own financial filings, they could easily be profitable if they just dropped their R&D budget. The filings claims in the 2021 year it only cost about $500 million to "operate" the platform, and the platform bought in over $5 billion in revenue.

All Musk is doing is switching the company priorities from growth to profit extraction.

In theory, you can drop the R&D spending to zero, and you can sit there claiming a cool 90% profit ratio. However, some of that R&D spending is probably "necessary" to the continued functioning of twitter as a platform, and it's improvement. If you dropped R&D to zero twitter (the platform) would slowly wither and die, but theoretically there is a happy medium where you can maximise for long-term profit and extract the maximum value over time (though, it still might be profitable to run the company into the ground eventually)
Apart from numerical or visual comparisons, it does things other formats don't: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27581195

The lossless recompression of existing .jpg content and faster software encoding for its native VarDCT format seem to provide immediate benefits in contexts where AVIF doesn't fit well now, either because AVIF encoding is slow or because AVIF would require a lossy reencoding of a lossily compressed source.
What do you see as the way out of this mess?
"no immediate plans for layoffs" means "layoffs in a few weeks".
The Idris codebase is quite beautiful. Given some understanding of how it works underneath, I find that there’s a succinct clarity in everything.

https://github.com/idris-lang/Idris2
For me it was the "Make a Lisp" project. Reading the architectural diagram of a Lisp interpreter, and browsing its implementation in many (~87) programming languages.

https://github.com/kanaka/mal

Especially where the guide explains how tail-call optimization works, my mind was blown.

https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/process/guide.md#s...

Studying the project changed the way I understand code. Since then I've created my own little Lisps in about three or four versions/languages. Next I'd like to write one in WebAssembly Text format, which is already in a Lisp-shaped syntax.
In the Elixir kernel, defmacro is defined by calling the defmacro macro about itself

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/main/lib/elixir/l...
Who is dying by their sword?

If they thing they ever made the world a better place, they're delusional. This seems common in silicon valley though.

If you're being paid to do a job, do it. If you no longer want to do it, quit. It's pretty simple.
Well browsers solved multiple other issues too: cross platform apps, updating all clients in a single place, sharing data between devices, and the most important for many developers - switching software from an ownership to a rental model, killing piracy, and easy access to user metrics and data.

All of these (except logging on to the same data from all my devices, which is nice) benefit the developer at the expense of the user.
I have no idea who Luke Smith is but none of that article makes any sense. GDP is the measure of economic activity. A self-sufficient community would not have a GDP of 0 because they would still have transactions among themselves. Perfect self-sufficiency would actually generate a very high GDP number because of how diverse and specialized the community would have to be to take care of itself.

Outside of that everything in it is just a generic "companies are bad" "fiat currency is bad" "government is bad" spiel that has been said a billion times already.
Layoffs are not firings.
“Mischief and delay”: How Musk and Twitter finally sealed the deal
Here is the Tides Foundation's Form 990:

https://www.tides.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2020_Tides-...

It is searchable. I cannot find a single mention of "Wikimedia" or "Wikipedia" or "Wiki" in it. So what does it tell us about what happened with people's Wikipedia donations?
The Psychology of Startup Growth
Well managed facilities have seen substantial improvements at regular intervals.

Source: my local newspaper
I mostly agree, and the compaction of value accrued at the lower layers of the stack are a real thing, but there are two wrinkles to the industry that I find interesting. First, like advanced turbine engine technology semi development continues to get more expensive as it matures and that drives consolidation rather than proliferation. Second, for now the end of Moore's law for companies with high pricing leverage looks like a move from "more for less" to "more for more" where they use performance and vertical integration to create a moat around their part of the market. You can see this in Apple shipping chips that are multiples larger than previous laptop processors, or NVIDIA pushing performance up but jacking prices up a the same time. Intel is going to have a hard time putting a 400mm2 chip into a Dell laptop at pricing and margins everyone can live with. At the same time they're going to have a hard time making margin on Xeons and still being competitive in TCO terms with whatever the Annapurna team can cook up for AWS using ARM IP on TSMC. This is all a roundabout way of saying unlike say the early PC industry I don't think maturing is going to level the field or lower prices, actually the opposite.
You can believe the government is efficient if you like. The fact remains that there's been massive growth in government, and that is going to be paid for out of the economy.
I think the down-votes are unjustified.

I guess nobody is seriously using Arch as a server OS in production. So this is kind of comparing apples to oranges, sure.

But Arch's documentation is indeed one of the best around!

I'm a die hard Debian user since forever but for the last years I don't even bother to try to find anything in the abysmally bad Debian docs. I go straight to the Arch wiki (or to the Gentoo one for even more in depth docu on internal aspects of Linux software).

Contrary to that I've almost never found anything of value in the RedHat docs (that wasn't RedHat specific).

If the Arch wiki would expand on some things that are more related to running servers in production it would be the Linux documentation.

The overall quality and general applicability of Arch's docu is already unparalleled, imho.

Reminder, to stay true to the trope: I'm not using Arch Linux (as such) for anything.
Talk about disproving your point with an example made to support your point!

I bet most do not know any of the javelin winners from this last Olympics or any historical greats but now we know the awesome Félix Erausquín!
Really interesting. I've always wondered about accuracy issues with this type of tool, i.e. are incorrect or misleading explanations obvious? What are the downstream consequences?

Similar issues with people-sourced explanations I suppose!
Because that's your job? The contract is money for work. If you no longer wish to do it due to external circumstances, leave.
I’m sure they crunched the numbers and found that the gain from targeted ads toward the people that sign up is bigger than the loss of people who don’t use Twitter because of the annoyance. Instagram is even worse for what it’s worth.
That's absolutely true, but in practice most people would experience substantial hardship if they suddenly lost their job.

I wouldn't, but being in a country with employee protections means the people around me are almost never placed in a desparate situation, and I am meaningfully safer because of that.
Someone implemented a BPG decoder as a WASM ServiceWorker returning PNG files, an approach that could work even better for Brunsli: https://sequentialread.com/better-portable-graphics-bpg-on-t...
Scooters arent a big problem in DC, but it's definitely not problem free. Bike racks are sometimes taken up by nothing but rental scooters. People sometimes leave rentals in highly inconvenient places that block the path (supposedly there's some process for telling companies & they have to move them, but I've never tried this).The scooters mostly say "don't ride on side-walks" in huge letters at their base, but tons of people do.

I wouldn't say there are big problems at all, it mostly works ok. I'm glad there are new options. But infrastructure alone isn't enough. Like the parent, I do think there are low-quality users who don't give a shit & act bad, in a way I'd never see from for example a bicycle user. How problematic is that? So far it's generally not so bad. But bad users, bad parkers, and full bike racks all take their toll. It seems unlikely a lot of these things will get better over time.
My favourite of these is probably Graeme Obree[1] who managed to get not one, but two very different bike positions banned in the ’90s after setting the hour record using one of them and winning the world championship using the other.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_Obree
> Musk has precedent

The "has" makes it seem like it was a legal statement. It probably should be been worded differently
> why can't GDP measure the amount I rolled my eyes while reading this speech?

Because nobody cares about how many times you rolled your eyes. Presumably some people care about the other things, which - I think the speech was pointing this out - the oft-cited GDP does not measure
ok - yep, its have no sense of humor...
If the algorithm promoted videos like that I’d actually use YouTube. I honestly don’t understand how anyone uses YouTube regularly.
Yes that’s what I’m saying. Layoff == redundancy.

Maybe I misunderstood the point you were trying to make?
My guess is there's way more money in his educational endeavors
They were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
>You may not understand what tolerance means and want to ask more about that, you may have other questions

I understand what tolerance means. I don't understand who you are expecting tolerance from in this situation.

The Babylon Bee's article is not tolerant of Levine's or WaPo's definitions. The BB's refusal to remove the tweet is not tolerant of Twitter's definitions. People aren't objecting to the BB's definition in a vacuum. They are reacting to the lack of tolerance from the BB.

The problem doesn't originate with a lack of progressive tolerance. It originates from the BB's intolerance.
https://archive.ph/3y9WW
Of course it is, as a measure of national success it should be replaced with the number of girls who ride their bikes to school.
Proposed improved title:

KDE Plasma: Extensible KWin Tiling
The Aspects of the Sevastopol Attack You Need to Focus On
Finally someone said it. This is why I’m not keen on IPv6.
What specifically did you find too exciting about Marten?
Maybe I've just spent too many years in government contracting, but when I hear that a government program is growing, I hear economic stimulus, not pulling something out of the economy.
Zelda four swords adventures managed that on the cube already. Not quite suddenly, I'd say. Awesome game if you had 3 friends and the necessary hardware.
I am somewhat sympathetic to your view, but I wonder if these are simply the annualized costs or a more accurate reflection of net present value. Do they take into account pensions and promotions?

If we hire 10k novice IRS agents, I imagine their annual cost will be quite low for the the first years and/or decades. however, At some point it will go negative.
There's the meta quest pro which released last week, but the tech for something in the same price range as the Quest 2 but better probably isn't a thing yet. The Quest 2 did have a $100 price increase 6 months ago.
He must do something fast to monetize Twitter. Just letting Twitter slowly drown in debt makes it harder to do anything in the future.

If there are million organizations + persons willing to pay, that's roughly $250 million in revenue.
If he invents 'god tier' for businesses and rich people that costs $2500 per year and gets 100k to subscribe, he collects another $250M and has half billion in revenue.
First do you really think people will get more injured to game GDP?

Anyway the metric is capacity to fulfill peoples wants. If the population has injuries then it will be less productive and therefore have a lower GDP. See the broken window fallacy.
It’s always nice to read about someone contributing to open source.

Looking at the screenshots I have a question for the KDE users here. I am surprised by the incorrect kerning and strange padding on display in the interface. Is that normal or is it a consequence of it being so customisable the author likes settings which leads to this result?
Obama could speak eloquently and sincerely like that off-the-cuff: https://www.businessinsider.in/people-are-saying-obamas-off-...

Mitt Romney wasn't bad.

If you mean specifically quoting Greek poets and philosophers I would imagine Obama could (and has in speeches) but hard to tell which he wrote himself of course.
That was a result of an elite education in the Latin and Greek classics. We don't do this anymore because most of us are not middle-class private boarding school-educated British people (where it was mandatory), not because we're dimwits.
> Usually the best way to grow Twitter active users is make people sign up first

Call me crazy, but maybe a site should be designed so people actually enjoy using it, rather than always optimizing for "growth".
> One thing about Remix that always confused me was the very close ties to react router. It seemed like a distinct and unrelated concept to me, and the continued association seemed like a distraction from Remix's potential to be a stronger competitor to NextJS in the long run

Nextjs also has its own routing lib so I'm not sure why you think it's so weird that react router was involved.
People aren't smart enough and/or don't have enough time and/or are too susceptible to emotional or psychological manipulation to be capable of sorting out truth and fiction, let alone correct conclusions from incorrect conclusions supported by misleading truths. The scale and effectiveness of misinformation makes it completely untenable.

Even if it were effective, we've been encouraging the "teaching [of] critical thinking" for all the time I've been alive and pretty much nothing has changed (at least, not in the direction of increased critical thinking!). At this point, a call to teach critical thinking is a call of no action.
In his interview after the race, he mentioned talking about it with the crew and they decided together to do it.
This is how it is where I live. My “septic” is a self-contained wastewater treatment plant that must be inspected semi-annually and actively maintained. The effluent is technically potable. It uses about 25% of my total electrical consumption.