skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What definition of "quality of life"? Last I checked, there isn't widespread agreement on what that means.
$2000 a month? That's a hefty dowry.
In my limited experience, there's not many companies that actually have the load that requires this level of fine-tuning. Or they don't actually own the software involved; we've had performance issues at the company I work for at the moment (as a consultant / contractor), caused by SAP and a product called Tibco, a visual editor to query and assemble data. Lack of transparency there.

Anyway my point with that is that there are a lot more high level things that needed to be fixed - and this is the case in most, if not all organizations I've worked at - before you get to the lower levels of performance. And this probably applies everywhere.

In this example, they have their software so optimized and tweaked already that it ended up being a low level JVM issue.

Mind you / on the other hand, they mentioned something about subclasses and the like, it might be that a change in their Java code would have solved or amortized this issue as well.
Like a Surface Duo?
YouTube wants in on this directly too with Shorts. It only allows you to dismiss the shorts widget on your logged in home page for a month at a time despite other boxes like channels or topics being possible to dismiss permanently
Right. And that felt obvious at the time ... but if you don't timestamp it, who knows (later on) whether it really was obvious, or hindsight?

I also thought that question (Hindsight or Not?) might be interesting to more people than just me.
Not going to work when the northern hemisphere sunlight is blocked by 70%.
It’s what I wanted to do! I was going to stay with my parents for 6 months and then get a shared office at one of these spaces, not wework but a competitor. It was going to be so great, I thought.

The terms really didn’t make it fun, though. I think it was 3x monthly rent as a security deposit plus the first month’s rent. Sounds reasonable, except it was going to take something like 60 days for the security deposit to be returned. How convenient that my check for the deposit takes days but theirs takes 60 days.

All I wanted was to stay in Chicago until the real winter hit. :(

I also don’t get the insanity of charging 3x rent as a security deposit for a shared office. It’s a square box with a chair and table. How do I cause $1,800 worth of damage to that?!
They seem to be removing or hiding features for more advanced users.

I am big user of saved lists where I keep all sorts of stuff from recipes to various ideas for the home I am preparing to build to financial or parenting advice to programming tutorials, etc.

Now on mobile there is no way to save it to the playlist. The only way is when it is still in search results (but you can't get back there after you clicked the video or from history!) So the best way for me to do it is to get myself to the laptop and save it from there.
Also reminds me of min/maxing in a multi-player game with an economy.

Some times in a balanced game a new min/max strategy is found in a game like this that it quickly becomes the dominant form of wealth generation in the economy. Asset inflation typically explodes in this scenario driving prices for everything way up.

The game itself typically becomes less fun at this point as min/max is now the only valid economic activity, hence intervention by the gods in the form of a patch. But while this fixes the exploit it does not fix the economic ruin. Players that made massive amounts of wealth in the event can have strangle holds on the economy and cause stagflation as material prices only drop slowly. New/poor players are hobbled with poor purchasing power.

It would be an interesting study on how many of the effects in this article could be studied by gamifying these situations.
I have been using GrapheneOS since April. I have not used any alternatives in a long time (my previous phone was the Galaxy S9):

First, let me preface this with the fact that, in my opinion, overall it's a pretty solid OS. After having done research several times, the only other mod I've considered is LineageOS, but last I checked, there were no builds for my Pixel 6 Pro.

My biggest two issues with it are that it doesn't have any usability improvements other mods have. It's not on them though, as it's an expectation I have of mods, but obviously this is like having an expectation of support for FLOSS. It's annoying, but it is what it is.

The default camera app is subpar compared to the stock camera app of Pixel phones. I use OpenCamera, but it's also not great (though that opinion might stem from me not knowing how to use it properly).

The bigger issue I have with it is that, while sandboxed Google services generally work pretty well, some apps don't work properly with the location requests proxy. I'd love to enable it, but, for example, Citymapper is unable to track me when I use it. Finding a location sometimes can take very long.

I would love to have LineageOS improved by having the hardening patches that are in GrapheneOS.
Somebody should probably patent those "DESC" and "ASC" things...
They're all talk.
Also be sure to check out the https://tilvids.com instance (tech/TIL focused)
What about graph databases? Where do they fit? Is there a report or comparison for them?
It's not hard to find. I had to close my curtains to prevent it from glaring off my monitor.
And for most companies, the issue is not in the lower levels; they will have tons of suboptimal software that needs years of work to make more performant or to rewrite before you even get to the point where you need to do CPU level analysis.
I read the history first, and then looked at the game at OP's link.

I was actually a little disappointed in the loss of the Buddhist terminology. Master, koan, mondo, etc. They've been replaced with "Moderator", "exam" etc.

While I understand the reasoning (unfamiliar words will turn people off, also there's a smattering of cultural appropriation), moderator and exam seem so... sterile.
You mentioned shuffle. Youtubes shuffle is broken as hell. Constantly gets into loops of 2 or 3 videos.

(Instead of actually shuffling the playlist, it sets the next video based on some criteria, so if two point at each other...)
>So, you're saying, hopefully we will soon have "abundant supplies of cheap GHG emission-free energy"

We've had it since the 60's. Various green parties fought against it tooth and nail.
All those earth lovers are so lame. I’ll burn as much oil as I want
Seems unlikely.

An estimated 2 billion people understand English globally. That number is only growing.

While Excel has probably the most programmers in the world, their instructions are localized.

And among programmers of other programming languages I bet that way over 50% understand English. So I’d say that most programmers do understand English.
With all due respect to the profession, but.. how does this kind of thing arrived to the front page with 5 points? HN, come on, really?
> I’m considering moving to just using the SavePage (or whatever it was called) browser extension with a text file for the metadata (url, tags, titles, notes) on a NAS.

Try Zotero. (I tend not to use its notes and tags features, however—even though it has them. I just defer to Hypothesis for that.)
Trenches in Chernobyl
It's not easy for people promoted into manager roles either. I'm a new manager who the first time is now exposed to salary details of my, now direct reports, former co-workers. For the past couple of weeks I've been walking around thinking "how the hell does he make that much?! When I was at that level of experience I was paid $40k less".

It's really affecting me to be honest. I'm seeing people in different light and resenting their pay. I'm resenting people being paid in some cases almost double what I was on a new comer to that role with no experience, we used to pay about 80k hour for a new starter in the role I now oversee, we now pay over 140k. That's barely less for a brand new starter than I was making a few months ago with 10 years more experience in the role.

Salary matters suck for everyone, I hate dealing with this aspect of my job. Everybody just wants wants wants and act like children when they don't get.
Who has the better quality of life?

I don't know, isn't "quality of life" a personal, subjective measure?

The best example I can give is Singapore. Fantastic public transit, high vehicle import taxes (like 100%) and a system where you need a separate permit to own a care that costs >$100,000 for 10 years.

And yet no lack of people who buy cars. The people I worked with there all owned cars. They could certainly get around without one, but they wanted one, despite the alternatives.
I was skeptical until I saw how good my sun panels work. We only have installed about 50% of capacity and they generate enough to cover 120% of our annual electric usage.

Everything here is electric except the heating and I work from home all day (with an energy-drinking PC set-up).

I live in The Netherlands - the same panels will generate about 2x as much energy a year if they were in Spain or North Africa.

I wouldn't be surprised if we could run our houses and light industry for 6 months a year purely on solar panels if we put them on every roof top in the country.

Then you look at wind: we have a huge potential for wind energy especially off-shore (and in our big lakes).

Like most of the EU the main problem is heating in winter - that requires a reduction in energy usage through insulation and heat-pumps combined with energy import from countries which have high potential for solar and wind (North Africa has huge potential here).
The issue with JIT is not so much about proxies as it's about optimizing for the general case at the cost of worst case performance. Things that suppose an inefficiency 99.99% of the time can be an indispensable redundancy or buffer in the face of events that are difficult or impossible to account for.
This is all a distinction without a difference. Salaries follow the labor market, which follows the cost of living. The cost of living is different in different places, because of differences in the labor market (demand side) or because of geographical reasons (supply side).
Curl’s new CA store cache
So is measuring a programmers produced LOC a good or bad measure?
Yes! Recording xpath works fine in many cases, but once something on the website changes you are left with this auto-generated Xpath that you do not know how to change. Maintaining such a test is a nightmare and a waste of brain-cycles.
The military trains you to be loyal to your comrades, not your spouse, but in my experience the person cheating in the relationship is usually the spouse of the service member, not the service member.

Recruiters talking about getting laid a ton is probably because the primary recruiting demographic is young single men, and they will say just about anything to get people to sign contracts.
But you do have to pay network usage by the gigabyte, right? And 8 full "hyperthreaded" cores in one machine are more useful than 16 machines with a core each, though I admit I don't know how much such a machine would cost on AWS.
sure it was a landlord that had no right to kick you out
People are learning next.js from materials that will be irrelevant in months every day. Doesn’t mean we should discourage people from creating more materials.

This person not only covered the big release from a few days ago, but committed to keeping it up to date as the framework changes. Not sure what else we can ask for.
Having an 'above the fray' (or at least apparently so) head of state -somehow- is pretty much the thing I'm endorsing here.

Implementation details thereof I don't have a strong opinion on except perhaps "if I ever do develop such an opinion you should probably ignore it anyway."
This is an important point.

To pick an example which is both low-stakes and topical: many, probably most, of the 11,000 Facebookers who just got canned, were misallocated. Zuck was just paying them not to work for anyone else, whether that was explicit in his mind (as it was for Brin and Page), or not.

Does that layoff reduce human productivity? Rather the opposite: the majority will be hired by companies which expect them to actually deliver value (not saying FB employees are lazy, far from it, just that they mostly do useless and harmful things), which is good.

As long as we stay out of broken window territory, banning or tax-restricting harmful practices will increase productivity, especially if (as I do) you don't consider actions where the eternality outweighs the profit to be productive.

Obvious example: if California struck down the traditional water rights system and replaced it with auctions, this would do good things for water conservation.

It would also increase the productivity and market value of California's agriculture, I would bet a lot of money on this. The land currently used for alfalfa, an insultingly poor crop for the central valley, would be converted for other uses. The tragedy of alfalfa in California is that it's barely profitable, even with robbing the commons of enormous amounts of water they should have to pay for.
Reminds me of Orthogonal Defect Classification. Analyze defects for when they were introduced (during development, architectural design and so on) and what caused the introduction of the defect into the system in the first place.
Thing is, when you're composing prose in your native language, you don't generally parse it and re-parse it to figure out whether some term is "relevant", or requiring attention, or in an "alternative mood". A native speaker/writer isn't normally aware of the grammatical aspect of what they write; they know how they want the text to appear.

Trying to force writers to instead overlay a layer of meta-meaning on their prose, so that the meaning is expressed both in the text and the markup, is a fool's errand. It's a bit like a programming system that requires the developer to express his meaning in both Forth and Python; it's just asking for an author to write text that directly contradicts the markup.
Ways to Fix Britain’s Budget
> You imply that population will increase indefinitely

You imply that it won't.

I don't see a fundamental reason why humans would stop at 8 billion - yeah, currently, (my hypothesis is that) the world is kind of shit, so people stopped procreating due to stress. However, there's no reason to think that people won't procreate once the world becomes a better place to live.

> or that degrowth needs to happen forever

Assuming population keeps growing (which I see no fundamental reason to doubt will happen eventually), degrowth needs to happen forever in order to keep the consumption from growing - basic math:

total consumption = number of people * avg. consumption per person

To keep total consumption constant, avg. consumption per person needs to decrease proportionally to the increase of the number of people.

> Also, slippery slope argument.

Not a real counter-argument.
This is really as expected. 4% might quit, but, well amongst the other 96% I bet MANY people will consider quitting or at least be vocal about it, etc... Actually doing it in practice and managing to get a better paying job... that's much much harder so yeah... nothing new.
Ok, but then it must be accepted that a "British style constitutional monarchy" is not a full democracy, given that in certain situations a non-elected head of state holds real power.

I believe this sort of news appears in the context of it being commonly argued that in a "British style constitutional monarchy" the monarch holds no real power, and people who suggest otherwise are often dismissed as lunatics.

It is good to point out that one cannot have it both ways. Either this is indeed a coup, or the regime is not a full democracy.
A well-known and nice app that is build with Nim is Nitter (https://github.com/zedeus/nitter), a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance.
>If there are many client programs sending SQL to the same database over a network

I believe this is a reference to enterprises that have different users querying the database directly with SQL that they wrote over a network to a central database.
As I pointed out the most obvious way to to that at present is by increasing peoples wealth.
If you're interested in running your own personal server.
I think the new question then becomes, can we make enough solar panels for everyone without destroying the Earth?
It's not as expensive as the US, but it's still bloody expensive to get intensive care in a hospital.

It's not unusual for a premie baby who stays in an nICU in Canada for a month to have a treatment cost well over $500,000.
> Having a transactional mindset about work — that it is something you do in exchange for pay — can help put things into perspective, and so can finding meaning outside of work, said Stolzoff.

the alternative is not chasing super high compensation packages and hustle culture copmanies but picking an employer who is oriented towards long term steady growth, low debt, fiscal responsibility, and so on. Plenty of them exist, usually family run businesses, even in the software industry. What we here in Germany call the Mittelstand.
I am not opposed to any solution that doesn't involve a reduction in consumption. However, I do advocate for degrowth and reduction. Consuming less actually has a lot of net benefits for life. In this regard I think it's good to present some optional ideas and their possible benefits for the average person:

* Buying a more modest apartment or house can mean working less or retiring sooner

* Close social media account, etc -- this means more quality time with friends and family.

* Travelling less and appreciating the nice things near where you live (assuming you have them, not everyone does)

* Use as little technology as possible. If there's some new fancy app, phone, or gadget, don't buy it or use it. This will reduce information overload and stress. And if done en masse, it would also start to dry up the revenue streams of large tech companies
But they are removing these features from people who pay them $20+/mo also…
I think that taking options and results usually is an anti pattern. You want to handle the errors at creation-site and not propagate it to another function.

Of course this is just a minimal example... Others have talked about the real point of this comment, and it's just a minor nit. I wanted to point this out for new rust programmers reading this.
For crying out loud, a long term majority is not One Party Rule. The primary difference being that dissenting parties are not outlawed.
A typical American in the suburbs certainly does not go on a highway to go to the supermarket or park. Those are all local amenities. I know some regions have problems with sidewalk coverage like Florida and way out west, but the suburbs are perfectly walkable anywhere in the northeast. Cities less so due to crime. And you definitely wouldn't have highway traffic in the suburbs, that's more of a downtown thing.
You shouldn’t trust the government, ever, for any reason.
Emphasis on

> if left unchecked

This obviously represents an error on how abuse is handled in these power structures.

What baffles me the most, is that this list in particular is not only shared between staff or subordinates, but concerns colleagues. It seems that women feel that they cannot speak out against such forms of potential abuse because they fear they will get themself axed, even if the alleged abuser is power-wise on the same level.

This is very concerning to hear, but frankly not surprising if you speak with any woman that operates in any kind of hierarchy, be it corporate or otherwise.
If you really hate it that much is management for you? I’d learn to get more comfortable with it.

Also it’s not fair to be mad at your coworkers cause you were underpaid. Be mad at the company or your bosses if anything.
I know the tech very well, but I really don't care about how it's settled under the hood.

> Cryptocurrency plays zero part in it.

Except backing your payment, it really doesn't.

> It's a convenience

And convenience is value. Not inherently by crypto, but the fact it's possible is an extra benefit.

Would you also object that if I spend EUR for a product online in GBP then the seller is not getting EUR?
You (and I) are in the minority, or at least there are a good number of people that feel the opposite. Looking around me I see plenty of acquaintances that use work to get as far away as possible from their homes and families.

People are weird, man.
We are at the peak of civilization. A new perfect energy source that was abundant would probably eliminate the carbon boogyman. But the energy, being abundant would only accelerate the ease of our materialistic society we live in to plunder every last square inch of the Earth to put delicacies in our mouths and rape the earth of all precious things. I used to believe in fusion energy and I am closer to a solution. But no way am I going to reveal it to the people now.

There will be no double peak. This is it.
I'd be curious to see what would happen if reasonable regulations stayed in place but we capped/removed the risk associated with litigation (assuming regulations were followed). I.e. what portion of "adhering to regulation" is reducing the speed of advancement because of fear of litigation, as opposed to just the cost of sticking to the regulation.
What is surprising us that they found the spot only in 2011. It's not like Portugal was a remote and unaccessible country before
DPI is absolutely the right metric, the target goal just depends on the usage.

A hidpi computer display is north of 200 (iMacs are a bit below 220, MacBooks a bit above).

A phone is north of 300 (iPhones have ranged from 324 to 476).
There's a reason why salary bands for each level at a company are structured as ranges and not simply one value (though some companies are trying this). The higher you go up in level, the broader the range is. The variance in skillset increases the higher you go, and employees can also have differing tenures within a level as well. Salary transparency as a singular compensation number doesn't always paint the full picture about an individual, and so it's easy to get upset seeing some of the higher end numbers.

The solution in my opinion is just deeper transparency: how do compensation structures at companies really work. What determines a higher salary within a level for a role. And what are the details for large discrepancies / variance within a particular level. All of which we're attempting to collect and display with Levels.fyi (disclosure: I'm one of the founders). A lot of folks look at the out of band offers for a certain level and immediately conclude that they are being underpaid. As in the article: "7 in 10 will demand highest end of salary range". But to provide more comprehensive information around why someone may have received a higher offer could help clear some of this up. For example, interview performance, scope of work, and previous tenure can all affect the resulting offer.
Thanks; if network and other permissions can be revoked from GApps, which otherwise have all possible device permissions, it eliminates the need for MicroG. I will try it out.
So.. basically the same as any other landlord in EU now? You signed a contract, and while it lasted, if you paid, they couldn't throw you out for the duration of the contract.
> ...saves tons of hassle for regular developers and customers.

True. I mean, regulars would even be okay even with roughtime: https://roughtime.googlesource.com/

While BigTech needs even more accurate sources: https://research.google/pubs/pub49716/
The Gulf countries do, too, such as when the UAE paid Matt Damon for an anti-fracking film https://www.cnbc.com/amp/id/49218229

I don’t blame them for playing the game well.
It turns out that Postgres is good enough for most things. Unless you're doing, e.g. heavy-duty network analysis, you don't really need anything else.
But not acting also has consequences, one's we know.