skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now they just are.

Larger world market share. More internal diversity and understanding of other cultures.
I appear to have been rate limited for my comment. Looks like maybe not much has changed since that day.
Not a chance if you need it for professional editing. No clone tools, no camera profiles, probably lack of lens correction profiles as well. UI is prehistoric. RawTherapee is little bit less nerdy than darktable but still not suitable for serious photography work.
The world doesn't run on "AI/ML" or search? You must inhabit a different world than me. Do you run to the library every time you can't find some information?
"Donated this to Microsoft Copilot for you."

In this case djb won't mind (CC0 license).

But it's time to move away from GitHub.
Honestly, it is amusing to see him put so much effort into 2nd life II , but:

How can you call it a disintegrating corpse when it's been in the public eye for what, a few months? I don't get it.
Obviously. If Matt Damon and Kim Kardashian think it’s a good idea and promote it, it must be good, right?
In the context of a professional interaction, which I remind you is the context and which I explicitly refreshed, I think everything you said is fully covered. We wouldn't be talking in the first place if there wasn't a problem.

If not... frankly, in the context of a professional interaction, if someone starts making the bizarre excuse that it's just too hard to tell me what they've already tried, or that it's somehow offensive that I'm asking them this question, I may very well be having a professional interaction with that person's professional manager about their suitability for the professional job. It's not something I've done often, but it has come up, and I've never been the only one raising such questions about an employee when I've had to do that. It's far from the first thing I reach for, but it has come up.

I honestly have no idea what you or the other replier are banging on about with regard to how hard a question this is to answer. Unless you're just being contrary for contrariness' sake. It's a basic question, and as I said up front, I don't expect a 100% accurate recitation of everything up front, I mean, I never expect any statement to necessarily be 100% accurate up front, I expect a process of getting closer to the truth over time, but the idea that someone would just be unable to answer any questions about what they've already done boggles my mind, and the idea that I should maybe feel bad about asking it is just insane.

If you, personally, are having trouble answering that question, you should get better. Take better notes if you can't rely on your memory. But the problem lies with you, not anyone asking the question. There is no way that anyone being paid to solve problems should respond to such a basic question with "I don't really know", let alone offense.
Prep hard. My 2c below, not trying to tell you how to live life :)

1. Review your finances. How long can you skip work without feeling financially stressed? This should include full expenses (medical insurance, family, etc.) and will determine the level of risk you can comfortably take with your job.

If you have 5+ years of cushion you can take a lot of risk. Even if the job market and your company both collapse you can downshift for a year or two and work on a new tech as a personal project. Droughts seldom last more than a couple of years. If you have less than 3 months of cushion, look for the lowest risk options (a strongest company you can work for) and try to build it up.

2. Decide whether you expect your current company to do well with the reduced headcount. If your company is publicly traded, read financial statements and analyst opinions try joining an investor call. Look at the outside information, not the HR infomercials.

If the company is expected to do well you can stay. Layoffs in strong companies often mean shakeouts beyond actual layoffs (teams merging and forming, etc.) and you might even be able to move to a better spot. If the company is in trouble, start looking for other options ASAP.

3. Learn what is the job market for your skills and if any adjacent areas have significantly better prospects (if so, buff up your skills). This can change quickly. Talk to your tech friends, especially those in hiring manager spots, to figure out if they are hiring/frozen/RIFfing.
The difference here is that it is all at once, and those same companies are slowing hiring. Net effect is that there are loads more people with prominent names on their resumes competing for those jobs that the recruiters are canvasing en masse with. Right now if you replied to one of those positions they'd likely turn you down after a screening call because the calibre of candidates on the market is really high.
I agree that the ownership perspective is not likely to be very fruitful when paired with blockchains and the abstractions implemented on them.

And I'm not all that excited about money. It's just boring. You could build consensus about anything and you choose... account balances?

But sometimes you need a log that can't be altered by threatening to fire whoever has write access to the data of record. The strategy of not having any infra worth attacking is valid against some threat models.

If I have evidence of wrongdoing by a nation state, I like that I can put a hash of that evidence on a blockchain and no amount of deepfakery to the contrary will allow that state to create evidence that provably preceeds it.

If I have the kind of enemies that can dns-poison a whole continent in order to keep my voice from being heard, I like that I can use a crypto domain that I "own" to periodically update the corresponding nft with the merkle root of the latest version of my manifesto blog. This lets me get new versions to readers who have my blog's name without worrying about whether a DNS registrar, certificate authority, or ISP is gonna interfere.

The reason that crypto sucks for money is that the value of a token is subjective anyway, so having an indelible record of who has how many tokens of whatever flavor doesn't buy you much since people can turn their backs on the token's value without bothering to attack the recordkeeping behind it.

But the fact that anybody with the knowhow and access to the code can participate--you don't need to be buddy-buddy with somebody in a privileged position--that's kind of cool.

So if the hype can carry the technology far enough that it's no longer an electricity hog (and it pretty much has) then when everyone's aspirations about using it to get rich fail, it'll still be around and useful for computing in the presence of powerful adversaries without having your own IT department, or for enabling participation in non-money social protocols at scale without having to submit to a gatekeeper.

And I think that's pretty cool, even if I can't retire on it.
Supposedly they're a relatively small team. According to another comment (I don't use it personally), they're missing a lot of features Adobe has had for decades, so they would probably understandably prioritize porting to Linux under even that.
Big Brain & Grug! I would watch that show ;)
This doesn't really explain how the achievements work, do you have to type certain words or something?
Yeah, $140k is like VP money in Europe...
> a kind of medieval siege warfare

Still better than actual warfare. Sanctions can serve their purpose. It's a bit simplistic to rule them out all together, unless you have another stick with which to put pressure on these types of regimes.
Don't forget the 3am alert is often because of a huge delay by countless bureaucrats too. Reading the message and finding out the incident or whatever happened 8 or 10 hours earlier is utterly ridiculous.
It's more than that. The "Web 2.0" term was mostly a post-hoc description of the web actually changing due to adoption of AJAX, DHTML, HTTP APIs, crowdsourcing, etc.

The "web3" label has been created upfront to get a halo of Web's influence and legitimacy, while in reality it's nothing but a store-brand soda calling itself a "cocacola2".
It's weird how you phrased your comment, but I suppose it gives you a cult vibe as opposed to say Typora or Marktext, maybe because it's too distinct and kind of opinionated and used/promoted by people who could be seen as cult leaders?
Wrote a book (93k words) in Scrivener, so can confirm.

Could probably have done it in Obsidian too but didn’t know of it when I was starting. Also compiling features of Scrivener (format the text into industry-accepted formats) is nice
> unless you have static type definitions for these methods you start having a very bad time inferring what types are being passed around.

It doesn't matter if the types are annotated explicitly or inferred. The amount of information is 100% the same. The IDE could just fill in the types _exactly_ in the same way as they would look like when annotated by hand - maybe just with a different color.

IntelliJ does this quite well, see for instance: https://i.stack.imgur.com/tiqjc.png

This is not a guess. This is the real types. There is literally no difference in the behaviour/semantics of the code.

> Consider typical python wrapper library with liberal

No, because python is not statically typed. You can't compare that.
All the buttons in that area require not just a click but holding mousedown for effect to occur, Transparency and Combination work for me in Firefox if I do that.
I blame governments for being slow regulating crypto and I blame individuals for being greedy. Imo, blaming VCs for making money is like blaming water it's wet.

I'm not blaming them. I just lost respect for them.
Personally, I would define a "hacker" as "curious", "intellectually exploring". Just because most of the HN userbase probably works in / with STEM doesn't mean that's all we do. I'm pretty happy to explore different domains every now and then, so long as I can see some intellectual depth to explore. And I definitely see that in Dylan's music.
I'm interested to hear your opinion: Do you have any thoughts on the current way companies are valued/how they operate vs how they were leading up to the 2000 crash?

Personally, I see it as a cycle which appears to be repeating itself, especially after re-reading The Intelligent Investors assessment in the years after the 2000 crash, and comparing it to some of the current offerings out there. I would be interested to hear your perspective on the matter.
So, I've been using Illustrator for years with an OSM -> Illustrator workflow where I start with OSM XML, feed it to osm2ai.pl, and then wholly style it by hand. It's... fine... but Illustrator's cost is getting to me.

I gave QGIS -> Affinity a cursory look the other day and had no problem taking my results from an Overpass query and exporting it from QGIS as SVG and bringing it into Affinity. So, that gave me a ton of hope.

The opening of Illustrator files in Affinity Designer kinda sucks (my dashed paths for trails come in as tons of different objects, like it's actually only bringing in the PDF preview) but if I start anew on some of the maps I think it'll be fine.

I just bought the 2.0 package mentioned here and the next map I do I'll be doing in Affinity Designer to see how it goes. Fingers crossed!
High tech-sector salaries are the result of extreme wealth inequality, not the cause of it. The 0.1% are not Meta engineers hammering a check and fretting about RSUs. They are the ones investing in every half-baked TechCo and startup because they already own a few small countries and a Blackwater detail the size of the 82nd Airborne, and they can't think of anything else to do with their money. It's this desperation for anything approaching positive real returns that has inflated US tech salaries.
I think the UI is just confusing. T means „execute the instruction at CS:IP, advance IP and display the next instruction to execute”. So the first T executes the first instruction but displays the second.
Same for other headsets. Soundcore, planteronics, Sony - all seem to have fixed volume levels for low battery. Always makes me jump.
Thanks, I'll check.
I predict an uptick in the number of parking lots that can park exactly 79 cars.
An inverted index is not AI/ML.
That doesn't last as long as you think before you will need readers anyway.

I'm not saying it is a bad option, just that it isn't as great as it sounds when you are young.
The problem is that very few are actually "stranger danger" kidnappings; they're almost always custody disputes. And if you live anywhere near a major city, you will get them relatively often. If there was a way to turn off "parent kidnappings" and leave the rest on, I'm sure most people would take it.
There's nothing impressive or inspiring about this message. You have twelve hours to send emails ...
Thanks for the reply, José.

I think the bigger problem with Elixir is the smallness of its community. There were several libraries that I started using (for example, Gringotts) that were actively developed for a while but then died off and nobody picked up where things were left off. Unfortunately, I am not skilled enough to put forth contributions myself (aside from the occasional bug report). But once LiveView hits 1.0, I think that if the community continues to expand, Elixir has an even brighter future.

Thanks for all your hard work making it possible! :)
The consistent pattern of everything he's ever said on the topic:

https://www.desmog.com/michael-shellenberger/

Like you he claims to be pro-nuclear but is also scathing about government subsidies and expensive power. Which doesn't add up, not for two decades if you're paying attention, and certainly not for the last five years even if you haven't. Renewables are cheap power.

It's like his audience is a couple of decades behind the facts if they can accept this as a logical argument.

His very pro natural gas stance is also a weird anomaly.
Predicting the future is hard, but the labour market is still extremely tight, boomers are leaving the workforce due to retirement, and there will probably be (attempts at) on-shoring as the west tries to decouple from China.

Europe will probably get its energy sorted in the medium term with LNG, and they're going to need to build a lot of damn nukes, but I don't think it'll be 10 years.
CaptureOne. Many of us pros use it for a reason. They have both a subscription option and a one time fee.
We're like 2.5 years into one at this point and some people still don't acknowledge it. A lot of people just keep saying "we're heading into one." It's likely this one will pass long before people come to a general consensus on whether or not one really happened.
I used to use Logseq with Syncthing, but I ran into a bunch of sync conflicts that were annoying to deal with and sometimes it would just stop syncing for no reason. Luckily, they've just made Logseq Sync available to all backers on OpenCollective and it works quite well. I'm very happy with the setup now. I think they're making Sync available as a paid monthly service soon.
Part of the problem is that now the system is in place, if you don't use it and later it turns out that maybe perhaps possibly it could have helped, you've got the possibility of a career-ending hurricane of piss coming your way, civil and maybe even criminal suits, and all of that. Sending out an alert is in many ways a very rational choice, even when it doesn't really make any sense.

Look how parents who don't handcuff their children to their wrists so they can keep an eye on them 24/7 are often treated.
Don't companies usually use consultants to plan layoffs?
This makes a lot of sense on the surface. Protect the cars and people from rain and sun, and generate electricity at the same time, using no additional land.
I'm sure you can just use a linter or configure the compiler to error out in such a case if there are really no use-cases, no?
https://www.aaespeakers.com/keynote-speakers/john-cochrane he gets $50k-$100k speaking fees on top of his six figure salary. The postdocs and students are poorly paid -- professors are generally well compensated.
That's what it is. It's a useful utility function over non standard compiler built-ins.

The alternative would be a new keyword, but then the go-to complaint would just be about c++ keyword bloat and source compat regressions
I'd be nervous about asking this unless I'm 100% committed to leaving the company, even if they say "no". Otherwise, you ask, they say "no", but now you've signaled that you're not especially invested in staying at the company, which feels like a negative thing to signal if you're interested in staying.

(edit: The idea being that you might get fired "normally" as a result, and not get generous severance.)
> make a ton of money as fast as possible while minimizing risk.

I like to think that the right way to do this is by creating lots of lasting value. Many VC wins make them money and create value for the company, employees, users, world.

It’s not exclusive that they must create fake bullshit to make money. Funding Apple makes money and results in hardware, software, and innovation. Pumping lottery and Ponzi schemes just exploits value from poor suckers.
It didn't help at all that phones suddenly had this feature and defaulted to ON (for awhile you couldn't turn off Amber alerts without turning off "They just launched the nukes, kiss your ass goodbye" alerts).
Is $100 for a universal suite license even that much of a price hike? Affinity v1 was $50 a pop with no universal license option - as in, you had to buy each platform's port of the app separately. I happen to have one foot in every tech ecosystem and bought all three apps, so I wound up spending more on Affinity v1 than I will on v2's universal license.

And, of course, it's still hella cheap compared to subscription-licensing Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign over the seven years of updates you got on Affinity v1.
Anyone do napkin calculation on how much energy is used for the production of materials and steel for this? I can’t imagine it being that great.
crypto ideally should allow an online transaction to be as easy as me handing you a dollar note from my pocket.

Sanctions can still make it illegal for me to pay you that dollar.

You are comparing apples and oranges.
I have a weather radio in our bedroom with only two alerts enabled: tornado warning (not watch), and the nuclear power plant 6 miles away just had an incident, whatever that’s called. Weather radio alerts are very granular and most radios will let you configure just the ones you want to hear.

https://www.weather.gov/nwr/eventcodes
87000 people is working at meta just now. What are all those people doing? Why is so many needed? How many are developer, manager, marketers, seller, anti spam/desinformation stuff etc etc?
> Their business model is to sell phones with that iodeOS, a fork of Lineage, even if everything is on gitlab and you're welcome to install it on your own. I'm an IT engineer who likes free code, but I'm not really into Android, and I only have so much time. I wouldn't have installed Lineage on my own.

/e/OS does that too.
Perhaps. And perhaps some will go and create their own companies and create more demand.
And a bunch of people working hard to show that, indeed, there ought to be eighty parking spaces, but one of them isn't marked, so the owner will need to retroactively install solar panels at great cost.
In principle the C++ standard does define a subset of its standard library which is available in Freestanding environments (ie without an operating system).

In practice what is actually available and whether it works satisfactorily varies considerably more than for the hosted environments. Almost everything is up for grabs and so you probably can't rely on the standard much. Your compiler vendor probably couldn't care less what the standard says anyway.
You mistake the author's central claim. The central claim is that certain things cannot be taught or even researched if they appear to hurt the feelings of students.

Sex being binary (and the author carefully distinguishes between sex and gender) based on the size of gametes was simply one example. Other examples are discussed in the article:

- the inability to use the terms male and female
- fear of mentioning historical figures that are white and male to students
- teaching the concepts of sexual conflict, kin selection, heritability
- research about sexual selection and cultural differences
- NIH is denying scientists access to data if their research appears to be "stigmatizing"

Your focus on one example as the central claim that invalidates the author's thesis seems like a giant evasion of the real issue.
Can you provide any numbers showing that more than 0.1% of networked ARM devices are big-endian? Pretty much all modern consumer facing ARM devices (including anything made by Apple as well as Android phones, as well as Nintendo) are little endian either exclusively or per standard configuration.
Corpo home pillagers deserve everything bad they're getting. Young families need homes. I wish the government would step in and protect something so necessary for it's citizens.
I know folks are going to recommend RawTherapee and Darktable, and those are some admirable projects, but I also know that a lot of long-time Lightroom users bounce off of them. I'd still encourage you to give them a try, but also if you're willing to catalog what things are missing and provide feedback to those teams. Even better if you're willing and able to help make the change you want to see in OSS, but additional reinforcement on the things that are misses currently in their offerings will help strengthen those projects.
Does anyone else feel like Midjourney v4 prompting is “too easy”?
Nobody watches digital video or searches for stuff online, so you should focus on payroll software? Is this career advice from a 1992 time warp?
Wow I can't believe I've missed that the whole time!
Reading this thread, I’m not sure what’s worse. The USA, where phones apparently randomly go off at any time for no good reason at a loud volume level, or Germany, where our alerting system is so broken that at the last testing round half of us didn’t get any alerts (these are supposed to be for actual emergencies, not custody disputes), and the rest received them over a time frame of several hours.
Has he actually admitted how he failed in his responsibilities? I have not followed the FB fall closely but from the outside there appears to be some dubious strategic decisions at work. It would be interesting to hear him elaborate on the situation with something like “I failed to see how precarious it was to be at the mercy of Google and Apple for our core ad business”. Or, “looking back, it was a mistake to not get into cloud computing for a more diversified revenue stream”.
NYC jail complex to be restored into citywide green energy hub
One would have to be blissfully ignorant or uninformed about Twitter to think the majority were not. The bios tell the story. The internal activist groups within the company prior to acquisition tell the story. The tweets from the employees tell the story. I'm personally aware of a handful of peers from Twitter that aren't, but as they'll tell anyone - they're the minority.
Greenpeace was founded to protest nuclear weapons tests. That's why their name has peace in it.

You can disagree with them if you want, people are free to have their own priorities, but they correctly think that nuclear power is a hidden subsidy for nuclear weapons.
Precisely. France already has precedent for this, with their 49-employee companies: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-05-03/why-franc....

On the surface, covering parking lots with solar panels seems like a good idea since it would both generate electricity and provide shade for the cars, but I'm not sure if the same resources won't be better spent on building more nuclear plants, which is something France already leads the world in. As a driver I certainly wouldn't complain about the shade, but were I a French taxpayer I would perhaps ask more questions.