skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is not that higher level languages are not more productive, this is why I started out my post with saying "this is true". My point is that there is often no clear path forward to solve performance problems after you've invested in these higher level runtimes. The linked article is a good example, it solves the problem by modifying the runtime. Imagine that, having to modify the runtime to solve a performance problem. Its impressive and at the same time not in the realm of achievable engineering for most firms.

However, what is in the realm of achievable engineering is improving the performance of the code you write yourself, but a large part of that performance is opaquely hidden inside the runtime, with no way for you to change anything. If we were to create a language that has a smooth path from "managed-runtime" to "low-level-freedom" we would be able to adapt our codebases as they become more popular and performance starts to matter. What that would look like, no idea.
I doubt it affects your central claim, but do note that a lot of pasture land is unusable for anything else.
Kropotkin and His Theory of Mutual Aid
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4% is already almost nothing, but there is always a drastic difference between poll results and real-life response.

A lot of those 4% would be a lot less vehement when it comes the time to actually quit and go on 0 income.

The article still has value, but the 4% figure is honestly negligible and it is absolutely not the main take away.
Is there a fundamental reason for it, or is it just the way it is right now?

Because the world is kind of shit right now, and that could be the reason people don't procreate - I, personally, don't want to bring children into the world the way it is right now and the way it is going. The way I see it, as soon as the quality of life grows, people will continue procreating the way they did so far for decades.
What people often don't understand about radioactivity, is that if you have short halflife, like weeks, the radiation is dangerous but doesn't last long. And if you have huge half life, like a million years, then radiation is basically non-existent and not dangerous at all.

This lack of understanding is why people spread FUD about radioactive waste that will poison the planet for million years.
boomers is a largely american concept. i doubt eastern european people of same generation can be called boomers: having lived in a completely different system.

anyway you seem to say that owning houses resulted in a problem of not owning houses? seems to me a more simple explanation would be that slovenia became a capitalist society, and for-profit housing doesnt quite accomodate as many people as the socialist one. this is a problem that is faced in every capitalist country atm

and you seem to be misrepresenting what happened in former yugoslavia. basically it was not the government that gave you housing, but the state-owned corporation you worked for. and it wasnt for-rent, but to pay off as you work. which is WHY so many people were able to buy it for peanuts when the system collapsed. also to say it was the government is to grossly overestimate the centrality of the socialist yugoslav government. they simply were not that powerful
I applaud for people enjoying doing things, as long as you are happy, do it your way. Life is tradeoffs, we cannot have everything anyway. Doing what you love to do is a bless.
It seems you didn’t negotiate hard enough on your behalf (or others negotiated at the right time).

The question you should ask yourself as a manager now is not the question whether you expect others to negotiate like you did, but how can you reach a pay level across the team that is somewhat balanced .

The company I am working in has fairly strict guidance based on competences and experience which I do like. It makes sure that no one is payed much below or much above an estimated market rate. You won’t receive sometime into your team who is extremely overpayed because they were their manager‘s darling.
Anything short of a direct democracy is not a full democracy
I guess, ad impressions on the site you've seen the news about the treatment.
The "play all uploads" feature actually still exists — but only on the TV app.
Employer provided health insurance is sort of like this when the company covers the plan instead of providing a stipend. Old people cost the company more.
They are, as a sibling comment demonstrates, deluded, after decades of being maliciously lied to by 'environmental' movements with ties to the fossil industry.

Anyone against nuclear is a shill for petrochemical power, there are no exceptions. There are the deluded and the liars, that's it.
I don't think it's weird. Sometimes you just want to not look at the same 4 walls everyday, sometimes you just want to see a different set of faces. I like co-working spaces to mix things up from time to time.
>I think this is something that pgsql got quite right

I don't think so. For example, pgsql had an array type before it got JSON, so the drivers can't automatically convert arrays that you want to insert into JSON. With my SQLite ORM, you can just insert arrays and objects and it knows to convert them automatically to JSON.

I like that SQLite just has a few primitive types. My ORM will be able to build on top of them. For example, JavaScript will soon be adding new date types (Temporal), and I will create new types for that, which will be stored as text ultimately.
>The definition of free market is that information is avaliable.

[citation needed]
No surprise to see Zero To Sold recommended by so many people. It's straight to the point.
Isn’t this essentially what happened with Breonna Taylor?
I once had a boss tell a coworker "It's better to be lower in the pay band for your role because your raises are bigger".

Can you imagine how stupid that comment is?
As long as she is willing to stay at her current job for $55k or end up with no job at all, do this:

1. Tell current job that she wants a raise to $85k.

2. Negotiate with new offer to get them to $85k (or even $95k).

Don’t offer discounts for staying. Definitely don’t tell the old company about the new one.

This is a great high leverage situation to be in if you’re an employee. But only if you’re willing to use that leverage and accept some risk.
My experience is that it goes all the way to the top ranks, including generals.
if i found out i made less than my manager i’d rage quit.
> You may not know if a single person is supporting a relative or a grandma with cancer.

In my role I know that and would also support that case as special.

This kind of thinking varies depending of where you live (at lease for most people and less for remote workers). My takeaway is: if you live in a country/state where this help is "embedded" within the system we can focus more in salary equivalence for the same job responsabilities but if you live in a place that put this pressure on the organization side the organization could have the awareness to take care of these issues. In HN we have people from all around the world and with different democratic and non-democratic systems.
4%??? Bro if you’re doing the same job as someone and they are getting paid more, you are quitting or getting a raise. This number should be significantly higher.
I found it very pleasant as well! It was pythonesque that compiled. Now pythons code makes me wants to pull my hair out. I don't know what I like anymore
There is also Cloudflare D1, which is now in public alpha.
Eh, I think ( there is no credible data I could find ) people like you are in a minority. For whatever reason, people consider work and workspace their 2nd home ( hence all sorts of personal items on their desks, while mine is barren like I am ready to leave tomorrow... which I am, but that is besides the point ).

I am agreeing with you. Work can stay work. I don't need a contest for most scary cubicle. Still, some people go for that stuff. Let me them stay in office. For me, WFH all the way. I make my own fun there.
Many universities, at least in Europe, allow you to sign up to individual modules/exams. This is usually used by people who want to get ahead and study stuff before they actually sign up to a degree, but anyone can do it. At that point, the author would have been a student of that class like any other.
This number seems completely reasonable to me. 20 % of the working force is in the top quintile. It wouldn't surprise me if a fifth of them were in it for the money, and if they found out they were underpaid despite being a top performer, they would quit. That works out to 4 %.

I'm actually surprised the number isn't higher.
It's dropping since the 1950s, so not a fluke. Major reasons are probably improvements in living conditions (yes, in comparison to the 50s), the invention and widespread use of contraception and social security (which removes the need for kids to support you in old age).
You're right; I have conflated them, for many years. Fact is, MDN docs is a million times easier to read than the specs, which used to be clear, but are nowadays full of struckout text and references to other documents.

If MDN docs is autogenerated, that's regrettable. I swear I'm not going to fall back on W3Schools.

Incidentally, whatever happened to W3Schools? There was a time when every google search for anything remotely similar to web development came up with the top 5 links being to W3Schools. Nowadays not so much. Did google finally decide that W3Scools content amounted to disinformation?
NSA urges orgs to use memory-safe programming languages
That doesn’t stop GApps from having all these permissions, especially play services.
You just need a different view on salary.

From a company's perspective, your salary does not reward your skills or efforts, your salary is the strict minimum that is necessary for you to accept to work for them and to be happy enough to be productive.

Turns out the minimum you accept is lower than some other people's minimum.
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Depends on your definition of waste. Is it wasteful if it ends up saving a life?
This is the gist of it. It takes a while for the ritual to sink in. You have to be disciplined about it at first. Eventually it will become second nature.

Now when I want to focus on coding I can throw my playlist on and get a small boost in focus.

The power of association. Our brains seem to be association machines. Smells and sounds to certain memories, times, or places. A ritual helps you deliberately build an unconscious association.
It's dangerous for around 10 thousand years, not millions of years.

And we know of places that are stable on a geological time scale (which is in fact million of years).
>Quantum field simulator for dynamics in curved spacetime

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05313-9
Not only that the original article was written back in May, this story is 6 months old.
I'd be very surprised if there's a positive article about asbestos either, for the very same reasons. Why attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by knowledge?
But they are similar in that some people believed it precluded others from doing their jobs (indeed maybe even being a part of society) if they engaged in the behavior. You may not like the analogy, but it works.
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> I'm putting your name on that list, now deal with it

I do not get the impression that any women would trust you with access to any such list, or would rely on you for such information.

Mainly because you seem extremely worried about ending up on such a list, and do not appear in any way to be concerned about the women trying to protect themselves.
Can’t provide a reference, but I can confirm that this is common knowledge. It’s why e.g. GPT-3 outperforms GPT-2.

Though as stable diffusion shows, network architecture still matters a lot!

Note that the article points out you’ll get more overfitting as your number or parameters approaches that of the training set, which is what I suspect you’ve seen. The trend does reverse later on, but only once the parameter count is orders of magnitude beyond that point, and I don’t know if that ever happens outside of ML. It’s a lot of parameters.
You don't need an AI to do this, just make your own custom build of whatever operating system you use with styles that aren't crap. It's almost certainly a more tractable task than trying to make an AI work out what the interactive bits are - considering it seems to be a business objective for many companies nowadays to make it hard to work out what the interactive bits are.
Did you ever ask for a raise or more money?

If so did they ever say no?

In my experience many who complain about salary often failed to ever try and negotiate on behalf of themselves.
If we can grow while reducing emissions 5% a year, we will be at a sustainable emissions rate in just 19 years. It's a pity that will be 35 years too late.
How about you click the article link and find out? It's even at the very top of the article for once:

- 88% of workers will demand to know the salary range for their current position, if permitted by law; 68% will demand the highest end of known salary range

- 1 in 20 workers would quit if it’s revealed co-workers earn more money; 63% would demand equal pay

- 85% say they’re more likely to apply to job that lists a salary range

- 42% say the salary ranges companies list should be limited

- 63% worry salary transparency will cause problems among co-workers

- 92% of workers support salary transparency laws; 61% say laws will improve wage gap
There is already pretty decent documentation on the Mastodon website for how to install and configure a server: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/prerequisites/.

If you'd like to see the NixOS way I used, I could probably make a separate blog post about that.

When I got started with Mastodon, I myself was trying to find resources on when or when not to run your own Mastodon server, but had a hard time of finding that, so I hoped the post at least could help answer that for other people, although my experience with running Mastodon obviously is limited for now.
"Now this decoupling must accelerate" says the article's subtitle. What is generally missed in this kind of discussions is how much better, both in kind and in degree, electricity is as an interface to power than natural gas, petroleum, biomass, and so forth.

The "win" is not that once you have everything electric you won't need to burn all these irreproducible resources, but the win is that the consumer now operates with a more "generic" interface, electricity, and is "decoupled" from the burning itself, think of "Burning as a Service" instead of "Self-Burning".

And maybe, in some kind of future, we will be able to produce electricity without burning at all: maybe fusion, maybe arrays of solar panels in GEO [1] beaming power to Terra [2], maybe some kind of bacteria eating all the plastic we've been landfilling [3], who knows.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit

[2] https://emrod.energy/emrod-partners-with-airbus-and-the-euro...

[3] https://elifesciences.org/digests/43959/generating-electrici...
First-hand, every session that involved cadavers during medical school was very respectful. We were told not to take photos as well. Worst part was the smell of formalin. Humour is fine, assuming the person/cadaver would have been okay with it (and quite a few of the older patients I've met joke about their mortality). But I would rather be respectful and play it safe.
that's hilarious and maybe true!
I actually usually want to watch the most recent videos from a new channel I've found. That is another use case for sorting by newest though. But I honestly already had a lot of trouble figuring out how to do this! I think I'm bad at using websites somehow.
But the most interesting thing about his rockets, that they land, which enables a totally different economic proposition, is in direct defiance of this sort of physical limitations first way of looking at the problem. It would clearly be more efficient fuel-wise to not do a controlled landing, right?
What a great example of the old saw "who are you going to believe, me, or your lying eyes?".

"Oh yeah we don't do that much" (soothes class anxiety and guilt, smiles at you)

And what was your takeaway? It wasn't that the adulterer was lying: why not? How often does a pretty smile do this to you?
Well don't donate your body to France [1]. Some witness even alleged the medical team played football with people heads.

[1] https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/french-academic-charged-over-mas...
Why Eye Contact Is Rare Among People with Autism
Indiana is also geo-blocked outside the US. I've tried contacting the secretary of state's office and they sent me a form reply with a link to the geo-blocked site.

I wonder how many other states have their voting portals geo-blocked.
That's a cool idea! But that font on the example pictures... I'm not sure what it is exactly, but the 'Comic Sansness' really bothered me.
I didn't and don't want to. My mortgage rate is significantly lower than the rate of inflation, so my bank is essentially giving me free money. Paying it off faster would be insane.
I want to love Go, due to my background in C and UNIX sysadmin, but can't. Rust does it for me though.
You don't get kicked out. You get purged.
They're billionares. How much they have and how secure they are in keeping it are not the same thing. Countries with a stronger, more just, and neutral rule of law tend to prosper more than those who don't, all other things being equal. This is just another case of the conditions for maintaining wealth not being equal. I don't understand how anything I say contradicts anything you are saying.
Correction, Twitter lost money almost every day for over a decade with the net result being a business that has has lost investors BILLIONS of dollars since going public under completely inept management.

Will Elon do better? No idea. But the claim that they should keep running an unprofitable business model makes no sense.
Military in my experience is ruthlessly about self preservation - which is not in my opinion about loyalty, but about survival career wise and on the battlefield.
So that's 'b' for 'bring'. But you could bring anything, couldn't you? E.g. "Party tonite; <b>your own bottle</b>".

It's a stretch.
Bridging HPC Communities Through the Julia Programming Language
Who says sophistry is dead?
If pg was olap there wouldn’t exist any competition out there. IMO hybrid oltp and olap is what most companies need for their user facing apps and whoever nails it will become #1 in zero time.

Ps. I would like to test firebolt, sounds promising.
Props to everyone who puts effort in building the Rust ecosystem.
One feature I wish YouTube had would be the ability to filter videos by time on a particular channel. Right now there is an option to sort by most popular and this shows the videos from all time. Something like "sort by most popular within the last year" would be great for channels which have hundreds and thousands of videos.
More like Arduino trying to join the MicroPython ecosystem?

Either way this is great. I've been pretty unhappy with the MicroPython IDEs that are available. One with Arduino-like simplicity could turn MicroPython into the much more accessible platform (Arduino is great because it runs, C++ is an annoying necessary evil).
Agreed. I guess it depends on how much time you spend at work.

Eg in France the legal worktime is 35h, the debate is "32h proposed by the left, going back to 39h proposed by the right", but when I read the twitter people having to do 80h/week under Musk not only do I feel so horrible for them, but I understand then why a "fun filled environment" might be required to avoid people all falling into depression ...

And also there is no way those people are anywhere near productive for more than half of those 80 hours.
I think it's a bit bizarre that someone edited his suicidal thoughts out (https://academia.stackexchange.com/posts/190464/revisions)
Do you have some examples of this "common memory access pattern in HPC" ?
Society often prevents people from pursuing their happiness, when such pursuit would be harmful to others. This doesn't mean the pursuit of happiness isn't important, only that it isn't an absolute.
"Degrowth" aka the poor will have to deal with it. aka lots of death and suffering in places I can't see so it doesn't matter.
Resolving the great undo-redo quandary
I'm not sure it'll hurt that much. The dotcom bust affected the entire economy and a vast number of people were directly invested in these companies.

The impact of a complete implosion of the entirety of the cryptocurrency economy will not have anything close to that effect.
Why presume that high performers are already paid well? Why wouldn't high performers be just as ignorant of salaries?
It requires an OCI compliant container, not Docker specifically so technically you are not running "Docker in Docker"
It’s a private tracker. You gain access if you pass an online interview in IRC https://interviewfor.red/en/prepare.html
I read the text.
When you say it now I see what you mean, but when first reading the article I read of it more as awe and the act of understanding humanity on a deeper level - a physical level of course, but also transcendent somehow. I don't know if that makes sense... When I look back at it having read your comment, I also doubt my initial more generous view of the situation.
Not sure you could keep up unless you're willing to spend a fair dollar or two
Hi all,

I'm the author of https://devenv.sh, https://cachix.org and https://nix.dev.

I've been part of the Nix community for years and in the last 4 years focused on making it documented, simple and accessible for any developer.

After building Cachix (where you can store any software binaries with a few steps) we realized that there needs to be an intuitive interface for crafting developer environments.

I'm really looking forward what you build on top of devenv. We're only beginning to explore the area of what's possible, so please give as much feedback as you have.

Domen
This is a meme but it’s not really how it works, not entirely anyway.

Take meta. If you joined today vs a year ago and everything else was the same you’d be making over 30% as much.

Companies generally don’t pay tenured people as much as new hires across the board. It’s not about negotiating.
Zoos depress me. Do you really have no problems seeings the locked up animals the entire time? Does seeing a tiger in a cage for the 200th time give you excitement or something? Seems weird.
vastly different. you pay off your apartment as you work. the apartment is owned by the state corporation you work for. the corporation has very little power to let you go. its more like a very favourable home loan
Let's agree to disagree I guess.

HTML has specific semantics, and I find that interacting with applications the same way a blind person would (aria labels, text, etc) leads to much more solid tests.

Copy changes are far from common on stuff like labels and any actionable item you aren't changing "submit" to "send" every other week or "pay" to "checkout" (moreover, such a button would have a meaningful aria role like "search" or "register").

And if you do, fixing the tests is generally very cheap and quick, so I see it as a non-issue.

Nothing will change my idea that abusing data attributes (which are sometimes, but rarely, a necessary evil) leads to the great amount of non accessible and semantically incorrect bloated HTML we see everywhere on the net.

Good tests will lead to better websites, and data-attributes do nothing to help in that direction.
> if anything they are worse

They are. People that started with the genuine intent of sharing their knowledge gradually turned into professional youtubers, and now it's all about hacking the algorithm, diluting content in multiple videos, selling you to their sponsors. Older videos are almost always better.
Until they sell the business to someone else and they "streamline" it. The best move is to stay on your feet, safety is at best illusionary.