skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, that one always gets me – my native language doesn't have the distinction. Thanks!
> Are there new things being developed based on windows 3.1?

No

> Are there new things being developed based on lisp?

Yes.

> The analogy is not very good.

I guess I am missing your point. Care to elaborate your point?
I got laid off but least I had the dignity of being told in person, given time to hand over my projects, allowed to remove my personal stuff from my work laptop (did not have any) and a generous severance package - it was about a month.

So thankful I don't work in the US.
Maybe, at one time, if you had first-class functions and map/reduce/filter, you could say "hey, this is like Lisp!" But that's pretty much every language now. Saying a language is-a-Lisp in this way is not a meaningful statement. You might as well say C# is a Lisp, or C++.

The "big idea" in Lisp is not functional programming. That's nice and all, but CL showed Lisp could be just as good at OOP. The thing that makes Lisp "Lisp" is homoiconicity.

And by that measure, we definitely can't call JavaScript a Lisp.
No amount of living under your means mitigates the h1b clock to get a new position or leave the country.
Every fortnight then.
Telling people you're a self taught developer in YouTube is a big business now
No bootcamp, no degree, but I made it. Do you think that these people are legit. Do you think it's practically possible to learn everything without any structure, discipline? Theoritically, it's possible, if you're highly motivated. But I tried to spend a month doing it but I went nowhere. I didn't even know the basic of the things like, how much hrs of content should I watch daily to not get overwhelmed?

And selecting good courses was another confusion. A course in html, css would be 40 hr long (with project). That'd take 40 days to complete. Can anyone remain patient for 40 days to learn html, css on their own w/o any structure and guidance? I could not.

Please tell me your tips for being a self taught developer.

I do have a degree in computer science but degree in CS vs programming is different. It needs to be learnt again.

Share your working tips to become a self taught developer. Or tell if that's practically possible for the average netizen these days.
It never seizes to amaze me the simplicity with which the Americans view the world :)
It's common to use the same time zone abbreviation throughout the year. E.g. in Europe you'd be on CET or CEST depending on time of year, but it's common enough to use "CET" for both that it's a de facto standard. Not a hill to die on at this point.

CET in this informal way means "CET OR CEST depending on which of them is current at the location at the given time".

This can give rise to ambiguity in places, but it's pretty rare that it does.
Same here, someone tried to transfer money to me and PayPal decided that they didn’t like that, and that they wanted my ID. Then, they wouldn’t let me close my account, and when I finally provided some sort of ID they claimed that my name is wrong and as such can’t do anything until I provide more ID with an account name change request. All of which apparently makes the account impossible to close. Or so I presume, having talked with support four separate times, receiving completely different reasons/answers, and then finally saying that they’ll force-close my account, which they never did.

Now when I do absolutely need to use PayPal, I use my card on a friend’s account (with their permission).
I shall have to acquire a smoking jacket, a monocle, and a brandy snifter for those occasions. ;)
But PayPal is not a bank or registered as a bank, so would that matter?
Adobe Photoshop Designers Furious Pantone Forcing Them to Pay $15/mo for Colors
I'm all to punish GitHub copilot if it produce copyrighted code, but this example of is even is absolutely trivial and has no right to be copyrighted
> We are grateful for your contributions to Twitter

Clearly.
Also neither of those companies are necessarily known as terrible places to work. I know people who'd be miserable in most 9-5 jobs who are happy in Meta.

Working at Twitter now means a daily grind means being subject to the whims of an increasingly petulant emperor who does not respect anyone's expertise. What good does it for your career if he's just going to drop the ball at a moment's notice anyway?
At that scale, this is probably the best way to do it, but you will never come out of such an action as "the good guy"
That's only for very senior management positions and highly paid specialists, I've never seen gardening leave for even middle management, much less an engineer.
> In Germany it is already a common knowledge that relying on state for your retirement is a sure recipe for poverty in the old age.

Is it? I'm living in Germany since so many years and nobody told me this. They send me estimates about the money I'd be getting when retiring regularly, and while it'd mean downsizing, I'd not be poor with the amounts named.
> Devs need to be careful, and they need to measure things. They shouldn't start with the assumption that something will be slow.

I disagree. The specs of developers' machines typically so far surpass those of users as to make that assumption valid more often than not.

Further, the fail case for incorrectly assuming that a web page will be fast ranges from it being slow to it being unusable, while the fail case for incorrectly assuming that a web page will be slow is that it is slightly more responsive than expected.
They likely meant to put “PT” which merely indicates Pacific Time ignoring if the time zone is in daylight savings or not.
Why is the live data wrong? Why is it called live data, then? HH

For example, here in Prague, trams always arrives on time schedule or few minutes after that. (you can wait 2minutes lol)

Also all of our public transport has publicly accessible GPS tracking. Buses are more off of the time schedule, but you can check the GPS and compute the live time.

And subway doesn't make sense to track, since it arrives every few minutes at any station.
Systemd works nowdays. Running LXD under systemd and snap on my WSL2 right now. May require insider builds though.

Never tried Firefox, cannot day works or not, have Firefox on Windows' side of the things.
> Unless new configuration options may appear without an update

That is indeed how WhatsApp seem to have been rolling out features recently.
I would say upper middle class joe has is better in the states. Everyone else is barely clinging on to their lives in perpetual serfdom because of no universal healthcare, extreme housing costs, extremely expensive education, etc…
Are there any successful stories of company turn-arounds that start with firing 50% of your workforce?
While it isn't ordinary operating procedure, it's not exactly one-off either. It has happened a couple times already. At least once in combination with a historic diesel train as well.
Elongated Muskrat never built a rocket in his life. Engineers at a company he owns built rockets that land themselves.
Right. The real point is of course to make sure what gets built is good for the brand. That revealing how something works won't make people mad, disgusted, less likely to use its services, do business with it, etc. Of course hardly anybody really cares about the ethics per se - only for the perception of the company.

Some companies, such as for instance Procter & Gamble or Apple care about their brand equity a lot, since they rely on it to charge above market premiums. Twitter needs to care about that too, since if they get caught doing something unsavoury they will turn toxic to their advertisers, or at least those who care about their brands. I am not a marketing exec but if Twitter now drops the pretense of caring about ethics you will see major advertisers pull out, and make a point of communicating why they do it. Thats the ROI on having functioning ethics teams.
Gemini is a lot of fun. It feels like the mid-90's web. As a reader, I stumble upon interesting content all the time. As a developer and hacker, it's neat to play with. Currently its about 500,000 pages, so crawling and indexing it is easy. There is no way to commercialize it, so people are just experimenting and having fun. One person hooked up some interactive text games from Infocom like Zork.

A few things I've built:

- Kennedy - a search engine

- Gemipedia - A wikipedia proxy

- A clone of Worlde, a geography game

- A weather lookup service

I find the limits of it refreshing.

gemini://gemi.dev/
Not really. People don't change. Slavery, rape, murder, theft, corruption. History books are not funny stories they are painfully relatable.
local mode is free, no account necessary.
Boaters are victims to fashion just like anyone else. Icebox style refrigeration is really the only option unless you spend a lot of time at dock or have a big generator.

For convenience items some boaters are using drawer refrigerators but unlike residential units, the drawers are like bowls keeping the cold air from falling out.
Ha! me and several engineers from Lockheed built just such a thin in 2007 -- but we couldnt get funding for it (we built the RFID tracking system for the military) but we were too early for the market at the time and people werent educated about tracking so we go rejected all over....(it was for fleet operations - we built the tracking systems for all weapons shipments and containers for the military at the time.
Paradox of choice. What’s interesting to me is that despite the enormous amount of effort Americans put into dating, the couples don’t seem any happier or better matched than the facilitated marriages where I’m from.
Yeah it blew me away when DALL-E spit that out on the first try. Both the name and the logo are so perfect, and DALL-E cut the time down from hours if not days or weeks to seconds to get there. At the same time I did iterate on it, I made it two words, Robb Oat, instead of one, Robboat, to make it more relatable and easier to figure out how to pronounce. :^)

Runner up was Sobbart Root. :D
No, but it probably means that Picasso is also insufficiently unique/inscrutable to expect not to have his style imitated.
If'n you write your comparison operators as `(x . < . y)`, they're infix again!

Kinda!
Sounds like you need some sort of inventory system. Maybe number everything, or add a barcode. We're been considering a box freezer so this is something to keep in mind for us.
People will do this in a good job market. In a bad one, even crappy employers will have their fill of willing employees. Too many in her have never experienced a bad market
I am wondering will Facebook do the same now?
Gravity pulls the hot air down into the bottom freezer
Major world powers invaded Germany, tore the country in two, and Hitler killed himself. Musk is a complete dick in public and people are right to criticize him, but you are being plainly ridiculous when you say "he’s hated as if he is the new Hitler."
Well, there's probably a period in there where the grandmas still experience pain in a way that you or I would recognize, they're probably being hurt then.
> Historically, sex and gender have been used interchangeably.

This really isn't true. "Sex" was the only word anyone used for most of history; the idea that there's a distinction between "sex" and "gender" was invented by the sexologist John Money in 1955.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender#History_of_the_concept

"Gender" was originally a term from linguistics that had nothing to do with biological sex.
"Emacs is cool, but it was created in 1976..."

It didn't end in 1976, though.. it's creation continues to this day.

magit and org-mode are a couple of other killer apps written in lisp.
> OS spokesman Mark Greaves said it was not related to climate change.
As I saw pointed out elsewhere, with a headcount of only engineers and these alleged 10 managers per engineers, this would leave twitter with like 630 engineers and 6300 managers which is a clearly a drastic underestimation of the number of engineers and that's before you count roles like sales, support, etc.

Don't take everything Elon tweets at face value
Please tell me they're actually using PST and not just screwing up PDT.
This whole thing is fascinating to watch.
It’s like office space. You’ll just keep showing up for work but never get paid.
Assuming the reference is to an upright fridge/freezer with the fridge compartment above the freezer compartment, one reason for less efficiency might be that the freezer has to contain a fan to push the cold air up to the top of the fridge compartment where it falls to the bottom of that compartment.

If the freezer compartment were above the fridge I'd assume it could mostly rely on gravity.

There is also sometimes a stepper-motor controlled baffle to open/close the link between the two - closed when the freezer is cooling - it usually opens around -18C when freezer temperature is heading lower.

That baffle will also close in frost-free freezers whilst the heater element is melting the ice on the evaporator - it usually reaches +20C and happens several times a week.
OP mentioned spellchecking. That alone would save much money. One cannot do spellchecking in a (La)TeX "document" because one cannot parse it.
What about barcodes? Not expensive. Should offer a quick return.
https://shii.bibanon.org/shii.org/knows/American_Dream.html
I think it means that they feel that they can do it safely without it. It also saves them from having journalists taking photos.

Your security team and HR team must be really good lay-off some many people without causing violence, law suits, data leaks.

I can easily imagine that if 50% of people present in a office were laid off some would start a protest within the office which could degrade into some violence, damages and law suits. Also, having the HR systems automation must be really on par to revoke access correctly to so many people.
They literally formed an illegal conspiracy to harm their employees by suppressing salaries -- this type of thing apparently simply doesn't matter much if they keep offering some of the highest salaries in the industry. And neither will this behavior at Twitter, I believe.
In my experience no one really uses ST/DT properly in the US in casual email… in fact I can’t remember the last time I received a human-written email referencing EDT or PDT. For some reason everyone just defaults to PST/EST.

I’ve given up even trying and just use “PT” and “ET” or even “NYC time” or “SF time” especially when interacting with those outside the US (who are less familiar with the custom and more confused when a mistake is made).
Most people don't know what PST is and just use it all year without thinking about it.
I usually advertise I am a mercenary (team and managers), when you pay me our contract is up. I will do what is best for me, and you will do what is best for you. No hard feelings. No loyalty. No confusions.
It's thankfully not a huge spoiler, the title alone practically gives it away. It's all the twists on the way there that is really enjoyable to uncover, in my opinion.
<< This is a very very naive take from someone who has no empathy and no understanding of macroeconomics. >>

If your argument is an ad hominem, ok so.
Something like this is what I've been thinking is the path forward to non-posix shells and a way to get away from cumbersome foot-gunny bash.

Nushell that hit the front page earlier this week seemed to me to be limited by "compatible" apps, but wrapping all the big ones in a json converter superficially seems like a great solution to me.
I work as an engineer in America and yea.. that’s totally not how the math works. Healthcare expenses are largely covered along with the much higher pay and lower taxes. I think my out of pocket cost last year was negative after hsa contributions from the company.
and zlibrary
Then you give companies zero reason to act any different.
It occurred to me that I have opinions on Metaverse and I don't actually have much concrete information about it. The handful of screenshots I've seen look curiously similar to Second Life, so I decided to do a look around Youtube and had a really hard time finding any footage that wasn't snide and snarky commentary or naive news stories that conflate footage of Roblox with Metaverse. I read articles about it but somehow the actual thing itself feels like an imaginary bogeyman that exists purely for internet personalities to dunk on.

What I'm asking is does anyone have a decent unbiased video overview of the platform? Something that shows off its best side? I'd like to be able to see it as more than just a re-launch of Second Life.
"if they're skilled and useful – as every person should always strive to be"

Side note, but the fact that people will "be fine" based on their level of economic usefulness - and, indirectly, linking their value as a human to their ability to be productive - is what keeps me up at night thinking about what happens when automation outclasses all of us
How about '77?
That's when I started. I still have my original K&R (ratty though it is).
Worked up from RPGII to COBOL and eventually C.
Learned things by reading code as there was precious little in book stores and libraries.
When I discovered Unix I was hooked.
Eventually wrote and maintained a 4*1/2 gen language comprising 1 million lines of K&R C.
That was intriguing.
AUD$6m on ASX. in '86.
I had to write what is now called a garbage collector.
I got sick of debugging and wrote a test system in '87.
It was insane, but understandable.
Once stood on a stage at UnixWorld and said: "When demonstrating systems, never say anything more predictive than: 'Watch this'" And hit return. The code core dumped.
It actually crashed, but everybody in the theatre thought it was a stunt and laughed uproariously.
I smiled and re-typed the command. This time it worked. And the demo went on.
Studied the Dragon Book and others and dug deep (way too deep) into the electrics of IP.
And I do mean electrics - CRO and all.
Figured how fast electricity travels in a circuit to time latches to build my own boards.
The thing was... I felt obsessed. I had to learn.
And there where no books.
Reading code was like Neo: "I know kung fu!"
You had to read code. And assembly.
After getting the TCP/IP Illustrated books I dug deep into protocols.
Contributed to RFC 2812.
It was fun!!! I had found my muse.
Spending hours studying hex dumps of network interactions to find timing issues over copper.
Writing manuals using the AN macros (Hint. nroff -man).
Writing a sysadmin manual in the 80's.
Contributed to a game named XBattle.
And then...
I learned C++ and Perl and Ruby and... and...
And then...
I got old.
I found that "rush, rush, hurry up and wait" started.
I contributed to the Agile movement.
I worked at a company just 5 years ago that "embraced" Agile.
And they got everything completely and utterly wrong.
And pushed, and pushed until one day my Scrum Master clicked her fingers at me and whistled and waved me over to a standup.
I told her I wasn't a dog.
She said "What are you going to do? You're 60! Are you going to quit?"
I did.
It used to be fun. It used to be enriching. It was wonderful to be able to figure out how to transfer data over UUCP and help build the 'Net. To contribute to the bazaar.
To contribute.
To increase understanding.
To increase the wealth of knowledge for future programmers.
And now...
Well I'm past it now. I'm 66. I still configure our home network. I still write code. Home automation is a joy. Garden automation is a joy.
Corporate IT? Not for me.
They certainly are. From their NL terms and conditions [1]:

> Who provides the Service?

> The Service is provided by PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l.et Cie, S.C.A. (R.C.S. Luxembourg B 118 349) (“PayPal”) to registered users in the European Economic Area. For details on how to reach PayPal, please refer to this page on Customer Service, or in an emergency, see “What to do” below.

> PayPal is duly licensed in Luxembourg as a bank (or “credit institution” in legal terms). We are under the prudential supervision of the Luxembourg financial regulatory authority, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier or CSSF. The CSSF maintains a register of the organisations that it regulates at https://supervisedentities.apps.cssf.lu/index.html?language=.... PayPal is number B00000351 on the register, but you can also look us up on the register by our name.

[1] https://www.paypal.com/nl/webapps/mpp/ua/servicedescription-...
Many don't contend with those requirements and it's one of myriad reasons that we're mostly talking about U.S. companies on this site.
I don't know in which world you live in but most websites are incredibly unoptimised and over-engineered. They use a huge amount of resources on expensive machines and bring consumer machines to a grind.

I wish we lived in a pandemic of over-optimization.
Oh, I missed that on my small mobile, thank you
> Bit odd but no odder than most countries that also maintain a sea level datum, which is pretty much all of them.

I wonder whether Czechia, Switzerland and Austria bother?
The only lesson that can be taken from here is marketing.

The business model is easy: "Yes, you can, no need to go to University!" followed by insane promise "40 days of anything" and in the end people blame themselves for not being able to cope with it. At this point they sell you another insane yes, you can do it program.

Learning is sometimes hard. I know quite a couple of Computer Science graduates who do not know html/css and have a not to fun time learning it.
It might be “weird” that this link was submitted to HN, but the purpose of No Tech Magazine is to host things that Low Tech Magazine links to, to ensure the articles don’t suffer link rot.
> Because I have to work harder, compete harder, learn faster just to save my job. I think that sort of culture would make you sharp than others in your field very early in your career.

That's a great way to get a bunch of cowboys in their 20s who think they are hot shit after five years in the industry while kicking out the people with deep experience because they actually like spending time with their families. Now you've got hyper-trendy software design everywhere with nothing supporting it.
And let's not forget that the government are influencing which items get suppressed by the social media companies: https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformat...
My state (New York) has a similar regulatory feature. I had an issue with bees inside of the utility pole that feeds my home. Issue: the pole is owned by the telephone company. So power people tell me to call the phone company, and the phone company tells me to get a landline before they will talk to me.

So I called the public utility commission, which apparently starts fining both parties within 48 hours of the complaint, which I submitted on Sunday. Monday morning arrives, and there is a comical gathering of trucks with crews frantically working to replace the pole (which is a fascinating process).

The foreman told me that the government is essentially level 3 support, and had I worked through the company, he probably would have inspected it over a few months before any work would have started, and only if I was persistent.

The key lesson is that large companies only perceive pain. PayPal lives in a big loophole, so it’s difficult to inflict pain on them and thus difficult to ever be satisfied with them.
Wut the heck happened to my formatting? :-(
> Nowhere near the level of IG

Facebook and Google are in a completely different league which is why for most brands ~95% of online ad spend is spent there.

Twitter has been slowly getting better until now when Musk's attitude has frightened the brands off i.e. GM, L'Oreal, Pfizer etc.