skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can relate to this. It might not have been the same level of intensity physically but I worked as wait staff for a couple years in my mid-twenties and despite my exhaustion at the end of shifts I always felt good. I have never once felt the same about my full-time programming job. On the contrary I have gone through what I can only describe as deep burnout twice in my 15 year career and those burnouts lasted agonizing months of time. It was brutal.

For me I think it is the level of perfection that is required to actually have development proceed smoothly. It is extreme particularly when coupled with peers who frequently break things or put together solutions that are overly complex or bug riddled.

Don't get me wrong, I am not a perfect programmer by any stretch of the imagination but it is my desire to reach perfection that causes severe emotional drain I think.
I'm sorry, but allowing employees to put in a couple of barely-productive hours so THEIR work is less shit is utterly insulting to the people who strive to make companies function. Work is work -- if it wasn't, then it would be called something different. I would perhaps feel otherwise if compensation took this and a multitude of other intangible factors into account, but it doesn't so the derogative sticks for me at least.
> stretchable diplomacy period length

Yuck. I can not stress enough how important a timer is to play Diplomacy in person.
Those aren't the same parts of speech though. The subject-object relationship is different.
Ukraine Situation Germany Deploying Patriots to Poland’s Border
It’s not trying to normalize anything, it’s just a tongue-in-cheek pop culture reference.
They probably have evidence that enough people just drop it instead of returning that this policy saves money. Amazon employs more economics Phds than anyone but the government so I would be surprised if they hadn't studied something as fundamental as the return policy.
The CEO get to put his name on the company's patents, yes.
I think it's well understood that when people refer to Twitter's "bloat" they're talking about its bloat of extra employees, not its extra microservices.

I've told this example before, but my close friend and roommate did a year at Twitter in 2019. He was tasked with implementing versions of simple, relaxing JS games like Tetris which would be used by Twitter's moderation staff when they felt they had accumulated too much stress and needed a break. He was making $300k USD to copy an open-source version of Tetris to be played by paid staff! This was actually one of his more engaging projects, most days he said that he wrote 0 code at all. He got great reviews and was being encouraged by his manager to pursue the senior track; from what I could observe from the outside, there was a complete misalignment of goals at pretty much all levels.

Perhaps we disagree which is totally fine, but I think this type of allocation of eng resources absolutely counts as "bloat". You may see that work as comparable to a seatbelt or crumple zone, but I personally see it as more comparable to all the other expensive, useless nonsense which plagues modern cars.
I wonder how such a joke questions sometime end up in the top of Ask HN.

While serious and relevant ones (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33693376 And others much better) drown with near zero attention.
Thanks!

Indeed unexpected. But interesting to know.
You draw lines and insist there's no space between them.
How I developed a faster Ruby interpreter
Worse, I've already started seeing whispers and hints around the internet of this event being evidence of conspiracy of a certain ethnic group that both Bankman-Fried and Gensler are a part of.

I don't personally put any credence into this very old and ugly conspiracy, but given the recent surge of attention to it by other unhinged actors, if this kid doesn't get thrown under the bus and burn, the meme is only going to grow much stronger legs to run with.

This is a dangerous moment, and the elites need to be aware that people are watching to see what they do when it's one of their favorite sons who crosses the line.
I'm from the US and I was taught the way it is in the article title. Can't say I've ever seen that before.

It's an interesting notation, but I feel like if I encountered it out in the wild I might assume it was a typo if it was only on one side. (IE: If I saw `[100, 200[` I would think they meant `[100, 200]`)
If anyone find a link please post, I haven't been able to find it even in worldcat. Perhaps there are no english translations?
FTX has been under investigation for months.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-21/us-prosec...

Investigations take time.
I wonder if you could give a universal metric of the differential from the source.
Yes! I’ve been trying out tailwind-css lately and can’t help but notice they’re basically inline css under a different name!
Man, I'm pretty sure you can hustle up $150k a year without being a zombie and never having any fun

AntiWork does some good stuff sometimes, but in general it's a toxic swamp that's heavily biased to concoct and promote anything that encourages and glorifies laziness
Uncompressed PNG can be quick to encode. There are also dedicated encoders like fpng that are an order of magnitude faster than zlib.
I'm not knowledgeable in Pacific Salmon, but this is a phenomena seen in lots of species, and has a fairly basic biological explanation. A species can be exposed to individual threats that they can still cope with and adapt to, resulting in little immediate decline. But as more of these threats accumulate, eventually the sum of the whole overwhelms the species, and can lead to a sudden drop.

A steep drop can follow a more gradual decline, as well, due to loss of genetic diversity in the population making the population less able to adapt to another unrelated threat. Check out the Extinction Vortex.
>I thought you have to be in the US to face american criminal charges.

No. The long arm of the US banking system extends globally. I have a friend that's a fed that chases people internationally on stuff like this. They won't forcibly extradite you w/out the host countries cooperation though. So if he pays off the right people he can stay there in perpetuity.

But... his assets can be frozen, even at the host countries bank via threat of being cutoff from SWIFT.
It is not about binary size per se, but of features/binary ratio.

Can Cobalt run, say, ChartJS as it is (https://sciter.com/chartjs-in-sciter/)? Seems like not as I do not see <canvas> in the list of its supported elements.
Expensive wines are expensive because they are rare, not because they are better. If you value your money its not for you. The same is not true of beer, I can't really say with liquor
Extradition is a possibility: https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-reportedly-considering-ban...
This looks really interesting. I hope a Windows installer is out soon
The presumption is that it would necessarily be of biological origin if it were picked up in atmosphere.
CMake has working Xcode support, while Meson has an unmaintained proof-of-concept hackjob that doesn't work. I really like a lot of what Meson does, but as long as I have to choose between working IDE support and a good project definition language I'm always going to choose the first.
Rails – narrative vs. model centric approach
If that happens, it will spark the creation of a new ICD-10 code, probably somewhere under W20.8 "Stuck by object falling from..." space.
Biological processes tend to clone the molecules perfectly right down to specific left or right handed orientations. So the molecules formed from a biological process will all be identical.

A process that just happens to form the molecules (eg. put a bunch of elements in a soup and heat and you can also get some proteins forming) form an even mixture of configurations.
> a good example of the benefit of telemetry

For what it's worth, I have no issues with telemetry as long as they are opt-in and there is transparency on exactly what is collected.

It's having to opt-out (or not being to opt-out at all) and vague explanation on what and why there is telemetry that I take issues with.
Living organisms use nano machines called proteins which physically make molecules like glucose out of other molecules.

Some molecules can form in 2 ways that are mirror images of each other. However, making or using both versions would require having twice as many proteins so we only produce one version of anything.

To visualize this consider DNA is a spiral, you could reverse everything so the spiral rotated in the other direction. But then everything interacting with DNA would also need to be built for that orientation and so forth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_life
Ask HN: Is it now impossible to disable the in-app Facebook browser?
I don't think the fact he's walking around in necessarily evidence of corruption, so much as it's evidence of governments (and there are multiple jurisdictions here) being slow to act.

As to the idea that connections will always get you out of trouble, again I don't think that's universally true. Elizabeth Holmes is extremely well connected as was Bernie Madoff but that didn't stop either of them being prosecuted and convicted.

My guess here is that once the dust settles on exactly what's happened with FTX (which is still unclear in a lot of ways) SBF will be charged.
There's a straightforward argument to make that he criminally defrauded Americans in the US, so extraditing him to face charges in the US is certainly possible.

It slows things down, but doesn't stop them.

(If "going to prison" means convicted and sentenced, I very much doubt that could happen before the end of 2023.)
Palisade Bio Is Granted Fast Track Designation from the FDA
Agreed that Diplomacy is tremendous fun, as long as you have 7+ hours to spare and a house with lots of separate rooms for private conversations to take place in. But the important thing to keep in mind is that the only way to win the game is by first making alliances with other players by promising you would never betray them, and then second by strategically betraying your allies before they can betray you. If everyone goes into the game knowing that betrayal is the point of the game and that they will be stone-cold lied to by their dearest friends, then there's no hard feelings. But if you're a brand new player and this metagame isn't properly expressed to you, then it's natural for fallout to ensue.
> "Major harm," to me, would be either bankruptcy or a competitor overtaking significant chunks of Twitter's users.

With the takeover, Twitter has been saddled with massive new debt and would have to become significantly more profitable to service it. Instead, they are losing ad revenue, and any savings from reduced head count will not manifest four at least 4 months because of the severance payments for the laid off workers.

Musk could of course keep the company going as a hobby for a few more years, but he strikes me as more likely to cut his losses early — preferably by finding somebody to take the problem off his hand, but, if necessary, by bankruptcy.

> Even if Elon literally has to re-hire half the roles he fired for

I have this nagging suspicion that the kind of people who line up for an opportunity to work without equity, lousy job security, and send weekly code printouts to the CEO are not necessarily the highest quality hires in the field.

> or Twitter is down for a few days or a week

The Twitter user base has quite a bit of inertia keeping them from moving to competing platforms — lots of people I follow have made backup plans on Mastodon, but not many have moved their focus there. But Twitter becoming literally impossible to use would probably be the one thing precipitating such a process.

> they struggle to get advertisers for a little while

And after that? Are the major brands going to decide that they like advertising on a Gab-lite Twitter after all? Or is Twitter going to strike it rich with ads for dietary supplements, gold coins, non-perishable meals, and tactical pants?

> In six months, the chances that it'll look like these firings were a bad idea are minimal.

The targeted firings were bad enough (To paraphrase someone else "Imagine ranking engineers by # of lines of code added, and then keeping the ones with the HIGHEST number"), but the voluntary departures are likely to be even more consequential. After the way the workforce was treated, what are the odds that the people left are the "best", rather than the ones with a lack of alternatives (e.g. for visa reasons), or Musk fans who may or may not be qualified?
Hi I'm Charta's co-creator. At the moment this is still just a fun pet project I've had to help me document and understand codebases a bit better.

Sidekiq is a library I've used extensively in the past but didn't actually dug deep into how it actually worked under the hood so I thought I'd put my tool to the test.

Happy to answer any questions/feedback if there is any :)
As software professional

Recessions are an excuse to rethink identity.

I mean, was your dream growing up to be a "software professional" when you were eight?

So buy a horse and a ten gallon hat and cowpoke if that's what you really want.

Or not.

Good luck.
People have a high threshold for sending emails, and most users will never send them. So if a change only makes things a bit slower / crashier or makes things much worse but mostly just for users who don't complain, you don't know. In this case "Firefox crashes sometimes" remains true even after their fix reduced the number of crashes by 70%.
And who appointed the judges those prosecutors will need to prepare cases for and convince? Which party is the party of deregulation (particularly financial deregulation)?
This article is about a Windows stability improvement specifically.
Demis Hassabis had better watch out! (Besides being CEO of Deepmind he is also a top Diplomacy player)
Because the email might be incomplete or not representative of the majority of users, leading you to work on irrelevant problems.
Amiga: Vampire Accelerator Showdown – V4 vs. V2
This article is about my experience with the first Home Computers. My history starts with gaming on the consoles of the time, starting with the Atari 2600. I played games like "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Donkey Kong". When the first Home Computers were released, I played one of the first dungeon crawlers, "Tunnels of Doom" on the TI99/4A. After the Commodore 64 was released, I played games like "Wasteland" and "Ultima IV". Most of my surviving memories center around the Commodore Amiga. What memories of your game history has survived the aging process? Games like "Another World" and "Flashback" bring me back to a time of story-driven 2D side-scrollers, with the first use of cinematic cut scenes. I also touch on the era of the BBS. Computers hosting Bulletin Board System software were the first forum like experience allowing enthusiasts to communicate with each other. Finally I recall my experiences with the first 3d Modeling applications on the Amiga.
I wonder what the time-to-arrest was on Madoff from his scheme collapsing? Have we just become too accustomed to operating on Internet time when these things always take months?
If they're unable to claim anything on FTX as an asset on their balance sheet and if they are upside down on some other position(s) really bad (which is highly likely this year) and new capital is hard to get they might have to close positions to get their balance sheet under control. Depends how much margin these hedge funds have been using in comparison to "assets" that are crypto that was basically fraud/stolen from them.
UK to investigate Apple and Google’s ‘stranglehold’ over web browsing
Who can listen to Chamath seriously after his SPAC fiascos?
I was born 0 years old.
iDVD
Pedantically, the lower limit of velocity relative to low-orbiting satellites is around 3 km/s. The 11 - 71 km/s figure is relative to the ground.
I guess there are several types of Parkinson's disease. My mother has Idiopathic Parkinson's. Basically her body becomes stiff and rigid like a rock without meds on time.

She was diagnosed at age 60 years (8 years ago) which the doctor said is fairly early for age.

The treatment is Syndopa tablets (Levadopa + Carbidopa) at regular intervals.

We have changed about 3 doctors till now. Each doctor had his/her own philosophy towards treatment mainly with regards to medicine dosage and exercise.

Her initial doctors put her on a low medicine dosage and she wasn't responding to it. One more doctor recommended neuro physiotherapy. That didn't work as well. Her condition became worse day by day. Once she lost her balance and fell down and there was severe hip fracture.

One thing to take care with Parkinson's patients is to prevent falls. Its worst thing that can happen and hamper quality of life.

Current doctor increased her dosage and decreased the intervals between dosages. This helped her a lot and she is fairly stable for the last 3 years.

There are other tablets too. Xafinact for better motor movements and Pacitane to reduce tremors and palsy.

The main problem with Parkinson's is that body gets used to drugs and starts resisting. So dosage requirements will increase. Also mom initially had only body rigidness. Later tremors and palsy started to develop. There are constant mood swings and depression. She feels dizzy regularly. Recently she has started mildly hallucinating. There is urine incontinence too. I believe things may go further south in next 5 years. But I'm hoping that medicine will help as long as it can.

Our doctor recommended DBS surgery. But we cannot afford it unfortunately. I heard with that surgery Parkinson's will be manageable with very low doses of medicine.

Ultimately what i see in my mom is that disease follows a cyclicals pattern of ups and downs. Some days are good, some are worst. It's a slippery slope overall.

I always wondered how my mom got Parkinson's. Nobody even doctors cannot tell it. I have a theory with my own internet research. She took Statin tablets (Atorvastatin) for controlling her cholestrol levels for a very long time 15years. I believe that may have triggered Parkinson. I recently read a research paper about it - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13538...

My uncle also had Parkinson's. His was slightly different kind. He did not take medicines properly and died a few years ago. i believe he too had long term B.P & Cholestrol medicines.
That "toxic positivity" link is interesting. Have you got any evidence that that is what it was like within Twitter?

Seems to me the worst anyone's accused their corporate culture of is being heavy on pros and light on cons.
then why not just use memmove() instead of strncpy() if no-NUL is the goal? not to mention memmove() is overlap-safe.
Is there a way to stop scrolling hijacking on the sites like this one?
FTX's downfall and crypto's Bitcoin betrayal
Subheadline

> Bitcoin was a genuine technological innovation. But the crypto industry has become filled with scams, Ponzi schemes and bad actors.
The downlink is a 404.
I really don't get the outrage.

I assumed that by stepping into Apple's walled garden, they would know and store:

- where my devices are

- what I'm doing with them (i.e. apps downloaded and started, which features I use yadda yadda yadda

- any app I download and use will independently log all my taps and interactions within that app

- and since I use iCloud: where all my data is

What would make you think otherwise?
OPML support added.
The best time to start building a nuclear power plant is 20 years ago; the second best time is today.
They should make more desirable software, then.
The "meme", as you put it, has been around for centuries. The people who believe it will just blame the Jews for something else. They have never needed evidence before.
He is still on the New York Times list of speakers for their event https://www.nytimes.com/events/dealbook-summit#speakers

The event was updated today morning to add two more speakers.

You are right and I suspect SBF is going to get sentenced very leniently, probably with bail in a year and home arrest.
Siag Office with TTF+Unicode support would be a great suite for legacy computers.
See https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/521737 for example.
TLDR: They found 1 instance with S3 misconfigured. Garbage.
His parents appear to (a) be resident in the US and (b) have bought loads of Bahamian property with the proceeds, so they might be a point of leverage.
Oh, I saw an example with `app/operations` and assumed they were just renamed.

Guess that changes everything for me. Will definitely give it a try.
Code: https://github.com/facebookresearch/diplomacy_cicero

Blog: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/cicero-ai-negotiates-persuades-...

Site: https://ai.facebook.com/research/cicero/

Expert player vs. Cicero AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5192bvUS7k

RFP: https://ai.facebook.com/research/request-for-proposal/toward...
In the UK, almost all homes are constructed with bricks - so you can plaster directly onto the bricks, with no need to put up laths like you would for American-style timber-framed homes.

Ceilings are usually plasterboard in most modern homes in the UK, rather than the lath-and-plaster used in older buildings, ain't nobody got time for that :)
"Cake and grief counseling will be available at the conclusion of the test" -GLaDOS
It’s Elon, don’t think he going to take a 44 billion hit on this, he is going to make his (and his co-financiers) money back.
Not sure what you are trying to say. Care to elaborate?
> This league played with five minute negotiation turns; these time controls allowed games to be completed within two hours. Cicero ranked in the top 10% of participants who played more than one game and 2 nd out of 19 participants in the league that played 5 or more games. Across all 40 games, Cicero 's mean score was 25.8%, more than double the average score of 12.4% of its 82 opponents. As part of the league, Cicero participated in an 8-game tournament involving 21 participants, 6 of whom played at least 5 games. Participants could play a maximum of 6 games with their rank determined by the average of their best 3 games. Cicero placed 1st in this tournament.

Seems too low amount of data to conclude anything?
>they would be able to watch you walk around the store on CCTV

That seems like an unfitting comparison.
The problem doesn't arise in the store, but when using the product at home.
The equivalent of store cctv in this comparison would rather be a server log on the Mozilla website (where people get the product). It's fine to do telemetrics there without me consenting (as long as it's only used by first party) if you ask me.
But after I leave their premises it's none of their business how I use the product.

Sounds like you want it to be ok that your newly bought pack of condoms sends out a message to the factory once you open one.
I had to switch from FF to Brave on macOS because FF constantly kept over utilizing the CPU, leading to bad battery life and warmer MBP. This happened on Intel and M1 chips.
Gaslighting unwelcome.

It would be disastrous if a program in any way like this went ahead, because it would be seen as a substitute for fixing the root problem, would steal funding from the latter, and would do nothing to stop the ocean acidification that threatens the roots of the global ocean ecosystem.
I'm not super familiar with Advanced Visualization Studio but as far as I can tell, it wasn't geared toward live programming in a performance setting nor was able to work with general libraries as it was it's own language, not using a general one.
> A 40 hour work week does take up time, but still leaves enough time for other activities.

How much is enough time?

> Most people don't die during their working life either.

But they do tend to have kids long before retiring.

Work is unavoidable, yes, at least until we can automate everything. But are 40 hour weeks unavoidable for our currently standard of living? I doubt it.