skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how is it better than copilot?
"ANY consumption is bad" You really aren't getting this are you. Energy in place A can't be magically transported to place B where it's needed for what you bless as acceptable usage. Bicoin miners aren't using grid energy. They're using energy that CAN'T be connected to a grid. Bitcoin is a fantastic use of energy regardless, just because YOU don't need to use it or think so doesn't make that the case.
Thats a remarkable amount of idealism.

Why bother writing PRs and commit messages at all, if this is true? Im not opposed to heading there, but I think a huge amount of reason intent & purpose is currently captured there in 99.9% of orgs. And that repository has always seemed like an invaluable repository of context.

I'd like to visit your pleasantville. I dont believe it is real.
The beautiful thing about grabby aliens is that it only takes one grabby civilization for the theory to be true. It’s not assuming that there are tons of civilizations that act like that, it’s saying that if there is even one then we won’t see them until they conquer us.
The candidate has just as much if not more ambiguity and uncertainty as the employer, so why is the burden on the candidate?

It's very possible for a candidate to be thinking something like "I'm currently making $200K. I think it's possible I could get $300K, but $250K would probably be acceptable, and I might even settle for a lateral move of $200K if I find the position really appeals to me." What should they say? $300K and possibly price themselves out? $200K and possibly lowball themselves?
Well said. Particularly on the value of trust within systems.

In case it's of interest I wrote an article a couple of days ago on
how "Digital Systems Fail Institutions" [1].

[1] https://techrights.org/2022/10/26/when-digital-systems-fail/
A Bluish color palette with "optimal focus and readability for code syntax", right...

https://calebkruse.com/10-projects/seeing-blue/
That’s not what I said at all. There is a uniquely critical developmental period before six but you can absolutely
mess them up after that too.
I used to work in Healthcare software (Not Epic).

Productivity is indeed a selling point.

I will also tell you that EHR software is universally hated by doctors. Does not matter who makes it. The company that cracks that will make billions.

One interesting idea was a voice assistant wired up to take inputs as doctors did their work. I don't think it went anywhere (yet).
Profit margin would be the relevant metric, not profit. And as you can see, profit margin has not increased:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/KR/kroger/profit-m...

Of course, a business with sub 3% profit margins maintaining sub 3% profit margins is hardly news, but inciting anger for no reason does result in more clicks.
Google has claimed that about 130 million books have been published (that factoid is all over the web). The number of 10-digit ISBNs is 1000 million (there's a check digit) and people have only just started using 13-digit ISBNs that start with 979 instead of 978; but of course there must be lots of wasted ISBNs, for example when a publisher optimistically buys a big block and then goes bankrupt. Both those numbers suggest that the "ISBNdb" with less than 31 million ISBNs is far from complete.

The frequency of each top-level prefix (which tells you the geographical or language region) would be interesting. That would the first thing I'd calculate if I had the data on my disc.
Then scientists plugged infinity into the model, which is not "a range of input values", and what popped out? Black holes, big bangs, heat death, an endlessly expanding universe.

Without infinity, cosmology as you believe it is cooked. Infinity is just a way of pretending it's not a closed system. Anything is possible in an infinitely open system.
The real brain damage in most programming syntax is the distinction between expressions and statements. Expressions are all you need.
Which Future Are We Living In?
I heard there was a big tech “cartel” in the software engineering labor market. Microsoft wouldn’t hire people from apple and vice versa. That made salaries pretty average for everyone and definitely lower than it should’ve been.
Sounds about right

For those that seemed to transfer successfully, I noted that at Mayo Clinic, the doctors use live dictation software and dictate at least some of their notes into the system while the patient is present near the end. This immediate review sometimes brings up a few new questions (from either Dr or patient), and a bit more notetaking. So, it looks like a very efficient system. They also have no apparent shortage of staff organizing things.

That said, I doubt every medical organization and office has the same quality setup as a top world-class institution. At some level of degradation, the system becomes more of a hindrance than a help, and that point is likely fairly near the top levels (so most of it is a hindrance).
I think when you're really good at using a computer, you expect things to be easy. When you get a sign up form instead, it's extremely frustrating. We're used to it being easy to use a computer and can see that someone is making it hard for their own benefit. And then we think, if it's hard for us, it's even harder for someone without a lot of skills.

And I think that's probably true! But the person without much computer skills comes in with an expectation that stuff is gonna be hard. The egregious signup page isn't a surprise in that sense, it's just one of the many things they have to struggle with to use a computer.

An A/B then doesn't show any benefit for removing the signup page, only downside, because an A/B test only tests what happens if one feature changes. Our intuition can still be right; if we could do all the work to make it so a website is actually easy to use for someone without a lot of skills, like how Apple radically simplified the state of affairs with the iPod, that will positively defy peoples' expectations and make the app more accessible -- even if just simplifying any individual component doesn't do that.
Cache of cameras found on remote Yukon glacier after 85 years
Seems basically fine in Liverpool. I've not used them, but they don't seem to block pavements and I've only ever seen a few driven by loons. Certainly never felt at risk as a pedestrian or cyclist by one.

Their popularity has killed off a previous bike hire scheme, which is a bit of a pity, but they are a lot handier...
(author of that quoted blog post here). You are correct, there's nothing new about apps offering plugins/extension systems. What's new here is: this works across sandboxed apps, support for remote (out-of-process) views, and the extension permission and discovery system is entirely managed by Apple.
That is a problem. It's a dice roll each time a person is infected depending on a huge number of factors including what strain they've been hit with. Reinfections can give worse odds each time. People who got lucky once or twice before might be more careless thinking their luck will continue and end up screwing themselves.

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220707/each-covid-19-reinf...
Dan Abramov, React lead, says this:

"i like to think of React as two things. React is a library. it is also an architecture (which frameworks may implement)"

https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1585088716443615234
0.01 ETH or less, through decentralized staking pools.

But your main argument is wrong: validators do not control the network. Users running node software do. Running a node is free. If a single validator began to exert unwanted control, the honest majority of non-rich users could slash or evict them.
They’re not fearful of abuse of this power, because it has (so far) been used in agreement with their ideology.
Looks like it is down, not great for such a vital service!
The differentiator in the server space comes in power management and thermals, all things that AMD does better than intel. AMD also has better yields and better margins because of their chiplet design philosophy.

ARM also has a significant thermal and power edge.

Intel is chasing the top, but actually they should be thinking about efficiency.
you're not just the messenger though, you are part of this
While you're in your settings, add these three rules for a quick & dirty dark mode:

news.ycombinator.com##html:style(filter:invert(100%) hue-rotate(180deg))
news.ycombinator.com##body:style(background: white)
news.ycombinator.com##div.toptext:style(color: black)
From a recruiter perspective, this will accomplish very little, outside of the firms trying to pay the least. They will still get around it.

Take this example, which happens multiple times per day. Junior candidate applies to senior job. Thinks cause they are senior at X company, that means they are at Y. False. Every company has diff leveling and definition on what that means. Companies give away senior titles like candy. Go look at how many "engineers" with 2-3 years of experience are senior at a number of companies. How is giving away those titles good faith? Really? Is anyone SENIOR after that little on the job? I sure hope not.

Anyway, back to my example. They still consider the candidate, but at a lower level. Salary on job posting doesn't match the candidates expectations. This is why its the recruiter AND the candidates responsibility to get within the ball park on the initial phone conversation. Its still difficult for the recruiter to confirm with the candidate that they'll get the range they want. Usually they need to be interviewed and have their skills/ability assessed first.
For the uninitiated https://jpegxl.info/ ;)

Arguably the best image format to come out since JPEG:

- High-fidelity lossy image compression

- Best lossless image compression

- Progressive decoding

- Lossless JPEG transcoding
Pollution is well defined and easy to detect precisely because we have centuries of experience studying the effects of pollution on the environment. And even then we learn new things and have to revise opinions on what we define as "pollution" and what not. See the history of Asbestos, or of CFCs for examples of things we didn't think of as "polluting" initially or assumed the tradeoffs were worth it, only to later realize that they aren't.
When best practices are evangelized, often the context in which they're great is not.

It's like any list of rules (e.g. rules for slidedecks) -- great for beginners, perhaps good for consistent team standards. However, once you understand why the rules exist, you also know when to break them.
> "What are socioeconomic examples? Social and economic factors, such as income, education, employment, community safety, and social supports can significantly affect how well and how long we live. These factors affect our ability to make healthy choices, afford medical care and housing, manage stress, and more."

This is a bit non-sensical. If you take education as an example for college admission, you need to support the ones that are the least suitable for exactly that.

I know you certainly don't mean that, but you said it. Make it concrete and you notice the error. Socio-economic is a handwavy term.
Yes. All the systems are set up this way.

The problem is: how do you allow departments to retain their fiefdoms in a world of centralised data? The answer is to spend a fortune on management consulting.
Nascar Driver Uses Gran Turismo Tactics to Get a Championship Spot
Of all the forms of immortality, my favorite is participating in a competition in such a brilliant, incorrect way that a rule is permanently added just for you.
I have all the documents and photos shared in iCloud already that I want shared. I am fine with everything else being irretrievable.

Anything I am proud of has been shared in a shared iCloud Drive.
Any important documents (life insurance), etc has been shared in an iCloud Drive.
Any photos I want shared are already in shared albums.
Financial accounts already have a beneficiary.
Experian tool exposed partial Social Security numbers, putting customers at risk
I reported previously on PG&E's new sign up page exposing last 4 of SSN through Experian. PG&E removed it, but Experian kept it in their product. I kept researching & found
the Illinois IDPH Vax Verify site exposing last 4 SSN & 2 other sites, scoop by Tonya Riley
Netflix has acquired Cozy Grove studio Spry Fox
Whatever is needed to do their job in a fair manner, obviously. Current plans are at 87.000 new employees [1], although a bunch of that is replacement for workers aging out or quitting due to being overworked [1]. The IRS actually used to have 117k employees back in 1992 with fewer taxpayers [2] (both due to population growth and due to women entering the workforce as a result of the breakdown of gender roles / SAHMs). It's estimated that bringing the IRS up to decent staffing levels could bring in 204 billion dollars at a profit of 124 billion dollars - so the ROI on each new agent or staff is about 50%. That's a margin way better than most companies have!

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/31/irs-is-not-hiring-an-army-of...

[2] https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/16/irs-spending-new-mo...
I'm only afraid that if I go quickly, I won't be able to destroy everything I've written and drawn. If I want people to know something of me, I'll present it to them. I'm not looking to be mined for content after death and recontextualized.

My passwords and encryption are to enforce that policy digitally.
I created https://www.deadmansswitch.net a while ago for this purpose, though I wouldn't use any third party app for passwords. "The password is printed and hidden in X" is a good message, though.
What about the people who need some land to live in or use but can't afford the costs that come along with it (either purchase or maintainance)?
What I mean is, "complete" according to what criteria? It seems trivially obvious that our human model of physics could only be complete in the sense of accounting for all things we are capable of observing, but that isn't the same as being able to account for all things. There is nothing I am aware of in the model of physics that claims that it accounts for all aspects of reality, observable or not. We don't even know if there are multiple universes, and to what degree they interact, and if there are universes that mostly don't interact with ours at all. There is nothing in physics that precludes another universe that normally doesn't interact with ours, but advanced conscious beings within it being able to bridge that gap if they so choose, similar to how we could go to some island to visit an ant hill if we so choose.
30 years ago was a great time, software development was really ramping up. The internet was like a "secret" which not many people knew about, dominated by ftp / usenet / irc/ ftp / gopher / telnet / email. Books and magazines were a BIG thing in the world of software development, they were your main sources of information. Processes were a mixed bag of things, mostly based around waterfall type ideas but most places just did things ad hoc. OO was in its infancy. There was a lot of thinking around "modelling" as a way to create software instead of code. There was a lot of influence from structured programming. We were on the borderlines between DOS and windows, so a lot of stuff was just single threaded programs. There was still a lot of the cool 80s computers around.. amigas, ataris, etc. Apple was off on the side doing its own things as it always has, mostly the thing you associated with it was desktop publishing. Pay is probably better now, I think, work life balance is the same if you go into a workplace, and better if you work from home. While the 80s/90s was fun and exciting, things are really good now.
If you really want to go down the rabbit hole, look at where Jen has worked in the past, what organizations specifically. One of them performed the exact operations she's trying to prevent.
Seems weird to replace an if sentence with a while, since a while is just an if with two gotos isn't it?
It would be a smart move for meta to quickly build a twitter clone. The twitter self destruct countdown is ticking
Or of course this could become the new meta, which from a viewer perspective might be even better
Yeah, what a crazy situation

One major news article I read mentioned he was a hemp craftsman living in Berkeley, somehow I doubt he's an alt right Qanon type if that's the case

The only other info I could readily find was from ZeroHedge, though, so I don't want to take it as the gospel truth just yet
I’m sorry, but where are you getting the jump to Marxism?
Offtopic, but for how interesting, and likely expensive, that series was, I'm surprised by its relatively low view count. That video didn't even break a million! Compare that with, oh, this random 3Blue1Brown video [1] that has 1.5M views.

Unfortunately, I suspect it is proof that YouTube is not the place for high production value documentaries.

[1] https://youtu.be/VYQVlVoWoPY
> No source code control

30 years ago is 1992, we certainly had source control a long time before!

In fact in 1992 Sun Teamware was introduced, so we even had distributed source control, more than a decade before "git invented it".

CVS is from 1986, RCS from 1982 and SCCS is from 1972. I used all four of those are various points in history.

> No multi-monitor systems, frankly anything bigger than 80x25 and you were dreaming.

In 1993 (or might've been early 1994) I had two large monitors on my SPARCstation, probably at 1280×1024.
For some things, it was possible to substitute grit, experimentation, practice and ultimately mastery.

But for others, especially being closer to hardware, a good book was necessary. These days, it still might be.
How about a giant freaking pandemic.
This is likely a better link: https://shopify.engineering/remix-joins-shopify
Define "forever" in this context? 10 years? 100? 1000?

It's a legit question to answer.
It isn't in the parallel they are drawing - right now you have free permission to visit public property and forests and national parks but you still can't cause harm to others or the property (set fires). So while there is personal freedom, it is not at the cost of other people's freedom.
Markdown is not markup. It's in the name.

The point of markdown is to be readable by humans, using similar annotations that people have been using in ASCII text emails for decades.
> ads work when people want to spend money on products

That's a good "30,000 foot view" summary of how consumer advertising businesses work.
Timestamps in nanoseconds is one.
And the vast majority of people use OpenJDK.

But hey, why not, I'll give you that one (tbh, I knew including Java on that list was a bit of a stretch).

Care to try with any of the others?

Wanna try to convince me, next, that HHVM qualifies as a reimplementation of PHP despite no one outside of Facebook using it?

But you know what, no, I have a different question: Why does this actually matter? You've positioned this as some sort of objective downside to Perl without explaining why anyone should care. So why don't we start there, rather than my taking your objection as being somehow relevant.

Please, explain to me: Why should I care that Perl (like so many other languages) only has one real implementation?
you pay the bank to keep your money

That's 100% the case actually. With the added subtlety we agree that the bank can pay itself by leveraging the money. Or more precisely, the competitive bank will tell you "I keep it for free and will even give you interests" cause it knows it can pay itself by leveraging the money.
If neither prospective employee nor employer talk about salary up-front before investing many hours with interviews, travel, etc. that's just simply a screwup on both sides.

This salary range thing won't fix that. Ready? The job listing is now "$100k to $200k depending on experience." If you are making $140k and hoping to make $160k the range doesn't help you at all. You still better talk about salary up front!
You have to read this whole thread now. Infinity is the main problem, Math wise. The standard model is not only incomplete science, it is totally mucked math. Infinity isn't real, but is being used as such in the model, so that's regress/tautology.

I already told another marxist i'm not arguing for not-knowing, I'm arguing against believing dogma, I'm invalidating your science first, then we can get to mine. You are arguing for your beliefs in the face of invalidation, so you come up with arguments claiming i don't think we can know anything. I didn't say that.
This kind of absolutist thinking has little to do with reality.

One one side the situation is technically very different and might not have involved RIPE.

One the other hand just because one company does something unlawful and is in general recognized doesn't at all imply that countries changed the recognizing of boarder, like at all. Governments sometimes "accidentally overlooking" or delaying some problem is a pretty common diplomatic tool. For example most US tech companies would have had to stop providing anything involving server data storage to the EU years ago due bad interactions between GDPR and Cloud Act.

National law is not code. It's not meant to be as ridged as code. That would be an catastrophe.

Geopolitics are in some way even less ridged then national law.
Building and maintaining commercial properties is absurdly expensive. A landlord takes on the cost, risk, and time of building and maintaining that property in exchange for businesses not having to deal with that.

The idea that a landlord should invest serious capital to build a business park and then pay people to use it is nonsense. In that arrangement zero business properties would be made. People who wish to start a business would have to foot the bill to purchase or build a space for their business.
IMHO queer there meant non-conforming (“weird”), which would make sense: eccentric-looking people would draw the label of witchcraft.
the problem is: we require people to either own land or pay someone else that owns land.

That alone wouldn't be an issue without the second requirement: You can't have any land because all of it belongs to the government. Even CA, one of the most overpopulated states in the US has more acres of land than people.

We need to start opening up land for development: mainly by starting cities in new underdeveloped states and creating incentives for companies to move there. Once people spread out a bit more, we'll see that there's enough land for everyone and it doesn't need to cost a huge amount to own land or real estate.
Please stop being the highlight of zero sum thinking.

Let's make up a hypothetical example. The government says you have to install a safety rail and the amortized cost is $1 a year.

You: OMG, this is going to cost $100 over the next century, a huge loss, I am destroyed.

Reality: Johnny doesn't fall of the equipment being coming paralyzed (costing you an immediate $200 in lawsuit and payout fees) and is able to produce economic product over the next few decades bringing in $400 to the economy. Net win for everyone.

That's where the money comes from. Or would you rather be like Russia where you have a giant potential economy that outputs less than Italy and doesn't give a damned about corruption and has terrible quality of living standards/longevity?