skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't said that corporations were good but now are not, and it is not a requirement for the above to be relevant or true.

The theory is that corporations will price at the highest price the market will bear and know that price from price tests they are willing to perform. "Inflation in the air" gave them all an impetus to more aggressively explore the space of prices consumers would bear, and it turns out, people who eat chips mostly won't stop buying them when they're 1.5x the price and the packaged weight is cut by 25% over a 2 year period -- and the same follows for a huge number of similar goods.

This is an acceleration of processes that were already under way, but it's also likely enabled by, likely not directly caused by, and likely feeding into "inflation", and it's likely not something that rate changes will directly impact -- though, maybe a second order change, e.g. a crash to the economy, could hurt workers to such a degree that they simply cannot possibly both buy chips and live. That might finally curb price hikes and would indirectly have fought inflation.
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What a guy! Yes, I believe the point is to find what keeps you motivated and works for you. One of my favourite hacks/ritual is making a lot of Mate tea in the morning, drinking a cup, and taking a 1 liter thermo to work. Mate is the best kind of energy drink available and you can pretty much drink as much as you want with no sideeffects (except an extra trip to the toilet). This way I avoid bad coffe at the office. On weekends i drop the Mate tea and prepare myself some descent coffee as a treat
Definitely seems like a couple of generations ago you could do basically anything (As long as you did something) and come out pretty decent financially.
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I recently added a new feature to the MTB Hangtime app that allows users to generate a telemetry overlay on top of an action camera video.

The demo video was created using only the app, no third party video editing tools. The goal was to be able to capture the telemetry data with a smart phone and the video with a GoPro, then generate the output video without any additional tools.
Based on my experience with shady plug-ins for e.g. Photoshop back in the late 90s/early 00s, all that a reputation/"verified user" solution is going to achieve is a very lucrative black market of high-reputation/verified user profiles and credentials.
And it looked like a butcher shop to you? I honestly have no idea what you're getting this from. Do you remember you/your wife giving vaginal birth to her placenta? Didn't that look like a butcher shop?
Quiet quitting sounds like a much more formal wording than morale is low and implies some sort of outright decision like a silent strike or something. I think when there are circumstances where possibly 50% or more of your total comp vanishes in a short period of time that your time at work becomes hard to focus, be motivated and deliver. Its likely similar to those that survive a layoff, its really tough to put in the effort and very distracting when morale is that low.

As much as I don't like FB/Meta the company, I hope they are doing something internally to treat their people right in the short term.
Who is saying he is a failure? Cite you darn sources.
>constant reminder that success isn't all due to luck.

this is the crux of it.

If he isn't just lucky, than that pushes one's own perils from misfortune to the realm of a lack of self-actualization and agency.

Hard work makes you much more lucky, and that oxymoron is a hard pill for the "unfortunate" masses to swallow.

No one wants to admit to not working hard; they want to push the responsibility to (mis)fortune.
was gonna say the same exact thing. The comment you replied to is and example of internalizing the idea that extroversion is good and introversion isn't - the values of introversion have had their value stripped away in popular consensus
That's not going to help much if code from the malicious attacker is still going to end up integrated into the software product being built.
As someone who's not an EE (with no degree in anything at all) and has made many circuit boards... No, they're not that complicated. Not really.

I've even designed an analog hall effect keyboard PCB with integrated IR sensor, dual power regulators (to handle 95 ultra bright RGB LEDs), invented-by-me analog hall effect rotary encoders (incremental and absolute), and more. It wasn't rocket science.
Some very sophisticated stuff like space telescopes is much more expensive than their launch costs. But indeed, try launching stuff like propellant or shielding and the difference currently is so high its not funny.
This is a common sentiment on the Internet. But when I look around at the people I know, none of the people who are anti-productivity are people I admire. In fact, the pro-productivity people do much more of everything with better outcomes.

- The pro-productivity people are more involved parents and family members

- The pro-productivity people are more involved in hobbies

- The pro-productivity people create many more things

- The pro-productivity people lift more, go outdoors more, travel more

It appears, empirically from my sample set, that being pro-productivity correlates with spending one's life meaningfully. Having chosen to model myself on those I know like this, my life has gotten better.

This class of advice (anti-productivity) therefore appears to me to be in the same class of advice as other Internet advice: "kick your kids out at 18 to teach them personal responsibility", "don't take on debt", etc.

To make it worse, you only have to scroll approx 1 page down before you have a picture of Stephen Wolfram outdoors.

The separation of work and play that so many online commenters form is perhaps key to this whole thing. Work is not a thing I do for money alone. I feel happy and fulfilled when I do it. It is fun!
Easily googleable numbers for total us electricity, about 475GW averaged over the year, about 1000 grams of CO2 per kWh for coal also pretty easily googleable (and can be derived with just basic facts like the heating value of coal of 35MJ/kg for nice anthracite, the fact that anthracite coal is nearly all carbon, the relative atomic mass of carbon and oxygen and therefore 12 parts coal will release around 44 parts CO2, the fact that a coal power plant thermodynamic efficiency is around 35%, etc). (44/12)/(35MJ/kg * 0.35) in grams/kWh = 1078.grams/kWh.

https://www.google.com/search?q=(44%2F12)%2F(35MJ%2Fkg+*+0.3...

Global warming potential of CO2 over 100 year timeframe also googleable. These figures are all basic and pretty objective. (You May quibble about me choosing 100year timeframe vs 20 year, but that’s fine… it is still about the same order of magnitude.) More complicated to measure methane’s atmospheric lifetime and infrared absorption proportions, but nothing really controversial.

The EIA website also shows this stuff.
People who never experienced a really good connection when no more than a little of the phone & switching network was digitized, surely have no idea what they're missing. I've never once heard a call since that era that was as good—VOIP, Zoom, cell network, modern POTS network, whatever.
Every successful company. Segmentation, targeting and positioning 101.
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sure, to us nerds that's obvious. but not to my fiance, or to my mom. metaverse = FB
There's also a disturbing new trend of publishing end-user software as pip packages instead of apt-get packages, just because the bar to join apt-get is too high.
This looks absurd, also because I can only imagine the quality of the work of a employee with this level of stress and pressure.
Thanks for bringing up weird memories. I remember software not having a name and version but a part number. As if it wasn’t living and evolving as it needed to be as a networked firmware.
Same here. When I started my search last year, while I could afford the mortgage payments, I kept getting outbid on everything I could find within my price range ($550,000). This year I'm priced out due to the doubling of interest rates. Home prices in the area I'm looking at (the Monterey Bay Area and some of the Central Valley exurbs of the Bay Area) have fallen a little bit since this summer, but they are still dramatically higher (roughly 30-50%) than they were in 2020 when the pandemic started. My performance-based salary increases haven't kept up with inflation. Thus I'm stuck renting my one-bedroom apartment longer.
As for planes, it's not about the weight of the bottle vs. the weight of the passenger, it's about the energy required to move the bottle vs. the environmental impact of how the bottle was made. Small amounts of weight multiplied by many flights equals lots of fuel. American Airlines once saved $40k/year in fuel by taking out a single olive from each of the salads it served.

We don't just bury our trash, that's an oversimplification. Modern landfills are designed to prevent leachate (water that soaks through the landfill) from entering the water supply. Putting something in a landfill is one of the best ways we have to safely store it. Contrast that to dumping plastic in the ocean or remelting it without adequate exhaust gas cleaning and land-filling plastic looks really nice.

I'm not saying plastic pollution isn't a problem. It is. But landfills are a good solution.
> Finally, as a result of both of the previous performance improvements (faster code and less of it), tsc.js is 30% faster to start and typescript.js (our public API) is 10% faster to import. As we improve performance and code size, these numbers are likely to improve. We now include these metrics in our benchmarks to track over time and in relevant PRs.

> [...]

> The TypeScript package now targets ES2018. Prior to 5.0, our package targeted ES5 syntax and the ES2015 library, however, esbuild has a hard minimum syntax target of ES2015 (aka ES6). ES2018 was chosen as a balance between compatibility with older environments and access to more modern syntax and library features

I'd be curious as to what percentage of the improvement comes from modules vs comes from a different target.
I'll get made to take shortcuts to get the product out before I'll be allowed to be strict on correctness if it means pushing a deadline back even a single day. I love correctness, but it's just not often important to people who aren't me and for reasons completely outside of my control.
I wouldn't be so sure. There seems with most substances to be a cultural hedonism-puritanism cycle. Alcohol and tobacco have both been through many of these.
Scott Ian will be pleased.
CTFE (Compile Time Function Execution) is a major feature of D, and has proven to be immensely useful and liked.

Note that CTFE runs as an interpreter, not native. Although there are calls to JIT it, an interpreter makes it pretty difficult to corrupt.
It's not that the pool is running dry, it's that they're burning through the pool. Places like banks and most hedge funds are usually really bad to work for, and they aren't paying that well compared to FAANGs and unicorns (who they are competing with for talent). The exception is a few of the HFTs: they can have good engineering-focused cultures, but you will still work 50 hours per week or more.

These companies are more selective about who they hire than FB, Netflix, or Google, and almost universally, the talent they want is having them bid against very high-paying tech companies.

The last few times I spoke to a recruiter, I asked for salaries over $500k because that would make it worth it to go there instead of staying at Google - I was making more than half that at G, and working 20-30 hours a week. Most of them said that they would not offer near that. The ones that would wanted me to be the next coming of Bjarne (in terms of C++ knowledge) to pay that rate. They were hiring a lot of people from defense contractors at the time.

Anecdotally, a lot of developers who enter one of those firms early and stay tend to get to the $500k-1M range pretty easily, but they seem to be a lot less willing to hire in that range. Comparatively, Google and Meta are happy to make $400k+ offers.
I think the whole long-term point is to be able to "build" fuel in space somehow, either on the moon or in orbit, because then the rocket equation has been effectively solved.

Starships bringing fuel up is a stop-gap.
High speed ferry to offshore platform? That should address both noise and safety.

All the check-in gets handled on shore, then a fifteen minute ride out to the platform on a high speed ferry, 20 minutes to onboard, then 30 minutes to any other offshore platform in the world, followed by a 20 minute offboarding, and another fifteen minute ferry ride.

The actual travel time would be less than the time you're expected to wait in the airport prior to boarding an international flight.
Huh that's pretty good. I pay about $18/mo for 2GB and no tethering on an AT&T MVNO. Seems like an extra $7 to never have to worry about data, and to be able to tether would be worth it.
They do offer 5G on some of their plans.

Something that I'm pretty sure that has happened, is that I ported a number to Google Fi from Sprint. I am pretty sure sprint somehow blocked something in their system despite reassurances which basically makes Google Fi unusable on their towers now.
Idol worship much?
..and all on top of decades of ideological propaganda that liberal democracies don't enforce will-to-power against each other, follow some supposed mutually agreed upon rules based order etc. Just when they have to project power even against supposed allies, they are at peak "glorious liberal democracy" against illiberalism rhetoric. And seeing rising economic pain in West..which is one of the pillars that they stand on. "say what you want about liberal democracy at least it provides material comfort"

If that starts to wane, much of the other aspects of liberal culture might not be able to fill the gap in "hard times" like atomisation, declining social cohesion, increasing polarization, declining military recruiting numbers and disillusion within much of veteran community of past few years. Much of the legitimacy of our institutions and leaders is predicated upon certain narratives. If they fail..
There's a non-zero chance that Herzog will make a documentary about it.
>If you read Aphyr's twitter, you'll find he has a peculiar set of interests, and I don't mean Clojure and database soundness.

Yes, he's part of some LGBT communities. What are you trying to insinuate?
DC needs to work on bus fare collection. About once a week, the bus fare box has a bag over it, or the driver's hand is over it when I get on.
Indeed, his dedication to fitness and taste in fine leather clothing is quite admirable!
Are you open to people in NJ ? I’m about a 10 min train ride away from NYC if that helps :)
I'm aware. There's no timeline for when a proposal may actually be considered. It certainly isn't submission order. So proposals sit around for an indefinite amount of time before entering into the process to give them a definitive decision.
Actions was not a thing until after GitHub was acquired, but idk if they used something else in the early days of actions.
I’d say for micro services and large distributed system, you do need a pyramid of testing with most covered at the unit level. The system is just too large and continuously changing as all the different versions of services release.
This is beautiful. When I last used Lemmy, the number of instances were few and not diverse, but now I see a bunch on https://join-lemmy.org/instances. I also notice that it has been packaged for easy install on yunohost. I might just install it on my server.
> technology has advanced to the point where this kind of work is doable by the private sector

Who exactly do you think built the Saturn V?
Inflation is a general price increase. That doesn't happen with disrupted supply lines.

The proof of this is prices under inflation ratchet upwards - they don't come back down after the crisis is over.
> Try to focus on and/or associate with #1 and #2 and ignore #3.

I disagree. We are too tolerant with the zealots.

They are an obstacle to the exchange of knowledge. They don't want people to learn and get better at programming. They want to live in their own Mr Robot personal fiction.

FP is a tool. A great tool, yes. But a tool in the end. And we should promote it as such.
> Alcoholics love to normalize their behavior

This!!

I personally don't drink, nor do i advocate those i meet not to drink because that isn't my job. Flip side when i go out with a group, they often advocate that i drink?

I've had a few people tell me i am odd for not drinking, getting drunk is "fun" and i should try it sometime, etc.
How do we know that you aren't missing a piece of the puzzle that others are/may see?

It's a genuine question. A lot of experts have a lot of blind spots especially around prediction, rate of growth, potential, vision. History is littered with people who are really good at a field but fail to see 2/3/5/10 years ahead.
AT&T's websites are complete junk as well. Which you are forced to deal with for any kind of management.
Of course, I didn't mean this specific document, just a guidelines document similar to this, but for older versions of the language. I'm sorry for comparing to Python again, but it's a much younger language and it has had an official document equivalent to this one since 2001. Remember, the Core Guidelines project was announced in 2015, after C++14 was already in production systems all over the world.

C++11 has existed for more than a decade, it has already been superseded by 3 newer versions of the language that add a lot of new features (some of them incompatible with each other), yet for most of its existence there was no official guideline from the creators that explains how it should (and shouldn't) be used. And as far as I know, nothing like it existed for C++98. It's too little, too late. They clearly have some priorities regarding documentation that, as a user, I strongly disagree with.

Big organizations (EA, Unreal, Google, etc) can live with this -- they can afford to have their own, very restrictive standards on how to use the language. Most small organizations (in my experience) don't, either through lack of expertise, money, time, or will (or a combination of all), and their code is usually ugly, hacky, unstable, and hard to work on. This document only solves this problem insofar it exists as a very strong recommendation to buy ReSharper and just do whatever it says.
The ability to clean the cooker is the only advantage of touch controls. I don't know how well the original iPod touch wheel would hold up in that environment but from a usability point of view it was excellent.
It's honestly just a boring comment. Yes we all know Wolfram is self-indulgent and overly long-winded, nothing new there, no need to belabor the obvious.

The question is whether there's anything of value to be gleaned from his novella-length blog posts. If you think not, then just downvote or flag article submission.

But if you actually read the whole thing and found specific things of value, and want to summarize them here, then by all means I hope you're upvoted a million times.
Yeah -- I thought it meant something along the lines of "for example" or "one instance being"?
Equally important too that they grew up surrounded by parents who were miserable because they'd sacrifice everything for their jobs.
Location: Czech Republic

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Javascript, React, Node.js, PHP, SQL, Autohotkey

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/itsHel
yeah, most of these demos for GPT-3 are that go viral are cherry picked at best
The top line is debatable, it gets into the great man theory. And FWIW Tesla literally did exist before he was involved. Credit to him entirely for SpaceX being founded, but IIRC Gwynne Shotwell runs it day to day.

To the last point: Yes, I think he could. When you have $150,000,000,000, even losing $149,000,000,000 would leave you with $1,000,000,000, which is hundreds and hundreds of times the lifetime net worth of most Americans.

Meaning yes, I can completely imagine someone with his money spending a lot of money to have major influence over how the world communicates. Bloomberg spent a billion dollars of his own money trying to be president and he's still quite rich.
>is a nice change

Doesn't work without a google account. Doesn't work on AOSP (i.e., the carrier switching features are proprietary). Messes up google voice. Massive risk of putting even more eggs in a basket. Also, not sure how long it will be around. It's not price competitive and probably doesn't make Google much money.
Do I understand that correctly? When I have to create a spreadsheet like this, there are 2 options. Option 1 I write a table zipcode to state and use this table to generate my column. If I carefully check my table my spreadsheet would be okay. Option 2 I ask GPT3 to do my work. But I have to check the whole spreadsheet for errors.
You couldn't come up with a better example of why we have the HN rule that says "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait". The title of this story is "Typing The Technical Interview". The editorialization this submitter added absolutely steps on the joke.
Can't wait for your even handed replies to being challenged on literally anything here, lmao
I was happily using andOTP but seems like it has been unmaintained since June - https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP.

I wish F-Droid or Play Store had a feature like GitHub's 'Archived' to inform users.
For that matter, how much does 1Gbps weigh?
I miss a very high percentage of legitimate email messages from people because I don't receive many of them (half a dozen per year?) and get like 20-30 spam and mistyped-address emails per day (that's after the spam filters), so I don't pay much attention to it unless I'm expecting something.

Humans I know contact me through whatsapp. Or if they're old (and hell, I'm almost 40, so I mean old) through text or phone. Strangers' only real hope is text. I'll probably miss anything else. And even that is getting so goddamn spammy now that it's not far from being like email: only useful if I'm already expecting a message. I receive stupid political ads for states I've never lived in a couple times a day.
> Tesla is a famously consumer-hostile company.

I own a Tesla, and I was a technician at a Ford dealership decades ago. Despite what you read on the internet, Tesla had better service and comparable quality to almost any vehicle on the road today. It's not Lexus, but Tesla's quality easily surpasses and other American brand. There are tons of issues, sure, but that is no different than any other car company. You just don't hear about the others.

It seems to me that being a technology company in addition to being a car company, Tesla's buyers are more likely than other brands' buyers to complain on the internet. And every supposed journalist knows that a Tesla hit piece will garner clicks.
Republicans (who tend to be older) encouraging their voters to get infected, avoid going to hospitals, and demand ineffective treatments seemed like a strange move to me, and research suggests that people in counties that voted for trump were many times more likely to die from the virus than people in places that voted for democrats. At times I've wondered if GOP leadership was actively trying to cut away some of the crazy in their base or if they expected the virus would be much worse for minorities in urban areas than for republicans in rural areas and miscalculated when sacrificing their own voters in order to promote spreading the virus.

Whatever their "logic" was the virus has been killing many more republicans than democrats for some time. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/study...
> One is in assuming taxes completely negate gains on capital

Inflationary gains on capital assets are NOT gains in real value. Capital gains taxes from inflation are a wealth tax, not an income tax.