skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point. At the end of the day, men with guns will come and put you in a cage if you disobey. Drafts are pretty nightmarish too, if you think about it.
Probably for the same reasons that they encountered the issues above?
Constructed counter-examples tend to be exaggerated to bring out the inherent contradiction.
CSS blocky people making stadium waves
I believe that you can also have multiple threads accepting connections on the same fd. This lets the kernel do the scheduling which removes the need for a coordinator thread. You can then choose to handle the connection on the same thread pinned to a specific CPU (per-cpu) or have a cross-thread task queue that whatever CPU is idle can handle (work stealing).
Still seems pretty optimistic to me. Twitter's institutional engineering knowledge and relationships with its customers, i.e. advertisers, have all been set on fire. It's unlikely Twitter will fully die, but I can't see how, next time anyone gets to sell it, it will have even a quarter of its original value. And Musk isn't likely to cut his losses, seeing how his actions up to this point have been driven by hubris. He's going to ride it all the way to the bottom. I expect it to go for pennies on the dollar.
What country are you referring to?
But does that mean there is too much rental housing available or not enough, versus owner-occupied housing? If you want rents to be lower, it’s strange to argue against an increase in rentable housing.
Others have pointed this out, but it's possible that the estimated volume was quoted in units while the price was quoted in bags. That seems unlikely, but it's possible. If that is what happened, then their IQ (idiocy quotient) is not quite so far off the scale as it would have been if they really had agreed to the deal without knowing the price at all. But it's still pretty damn high.

And under no conceivable scenario are the justified in accusing the distributor of being a bad actor.
It’s simpler than that; the pixels were just light intensity values (per the article, they had originally intended to get various shades of grey chalk). The scientists just wound up applying their own “palette” to the intensity values.
It depends on the shape of the recession. Collective bargaining is a way for workers to demand some of the surplus that's otherwise flowing to owners. If the tech labor market crashes by itself, such that tech firms are able to increase their revenue per employee, then a union could claw some of that back. But if layoffs are coming from companies with thin or negative margins, then to the extent that employees can secure higher wages or make themselves harder to fire, those companies will only go bankrupt faster.
> All my news is "layoffs" but all my unsolicited emails are invitations to interview...

What kind of firms are there? Saw a comment on HN last week saying that recently-funded startups are still hiring, which means they might have a year or two of runway before they get into trouble. We're not actually in a recession yet, and hopefully there won't be, but the smoke we're seeing before the fire is not great.

> If your startup is shutting down because it cannot get funded because interest rate rises mean there is no more cheap cash, what will a Union do? Convince the FED to slash interest rates to save your company?

It's less that a union could have prevented this situation, and more that a union could protect whatever benefits SWE in tech are taking for granted right now, that might be removed later on. Pushing back against involuntary RTO, for instance, which may or may not happen regardless if there is a recession.

Perhaps it could be argued that unions could have cautioned against management from overhiring during the last two years, but given that would be seen as gatekeeping, which is a common accusation against not only unions but professional orgs such as the AMA, I'm not sure if tech unions would have affected the current industry predicament. They might have even agreed with managements' actions during the gravy train years.
The current uncontroversial bound is roughly 15kya--as the article notes, the White Sands fossil footprints are still controversial. The Clovis First hypothesis has been considered thoroughly discredited in the academic community for about 20 years now.

The Cerutti Mastodon site is not compelling to me, because a date of 130kya would put it before any other site of homo sapiens outside of Africa. Being so far out of line with other evidence means that the evidence in favor of hominids needs to be exceptionally rock solid, which it isn't.
I built it on Windows, Visual C++ 2022. Did not check Linux as I do not think it matters much.

Now comes big surprise: I just built it using LLVM under CLion IDE and the results are:

G:\temp\cpp\rust-cpp-bench\cpp\cmake\cmake-build-
release\fts_cmake_cpp_bench.exe
Totals:
Overlaps: 220384338
By-Copy: 4397
By-Ref: 4396 Delta: -0.0227428%

Process finished with exit code 0
The author's definition of bullshitter is "people I don't like".

The Trump and Musk cases are fairly obvious, IMO. Even many of their proponents would agree both have a propensity for "bullshit" at times.

Obama is already a bit more murky: I certainly share the author's disappointment in how the Obama presidency turned out, but it's not clear to me if he really was "bullshitting" or if he started out with genuine intentions and just overestimated the difficulties he would run in to – even if we assume Obama was bulshitting to some degree, the political difficulties he faced are no doubt a huge factor (I used to joke that the GOP could be replaced by an extremely advanced AI which consists of "if proposed_by('obama') then oppose() endif").

I haven't followed Pinker's more recent work very closely (I read two of his older books from the early 2000s), but the article that's linked to prove the point (by the same author) does not make a convincing case. Maybe he can come off as a bit arrogant at times, which is a fair enough criticism, but that does not make one a "bullshitter". He cites “Many social critics have expressed nostalgia for the era of factories, mines, and mills, probably because they never worked in one.” as the first example of "utterly irrational swipes at those to the left of him"? Seriously? My feelings about some of the other citation are a bit more mixed, but none of them seem "bullshitting" to me: just a guy voicing his opinion that you may or may not agree with in a way that you may or may not like.

In short, this is the umpteenth attempt to make "I don't like it" somehow sound more authoritative. Which sounds like ... ehm, bulshitting to me.
(American biased) I think too many in these conversations fail to show good unions (sports and entertainment) and harp on the bloated ones (teachers UAW). Ideally the union should just be a floor, what protections we’re provided, benefits for when corporate feels trimming happy to soften these blows, and to reduce inherent biases within the industry. While I’d love for one to develop in this time, it’s still too many thinking they’ll be the successor versus the next to be expendable.
Depends on how much those 5% procreate compared to others.
Does "Paint-by-Numbers" no longer mean indexed colour to the general population?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_by_number#/media/File:Ка...
Is not complex at all, if you can't multiply two prime number and do subtraction probably you should reconsider your skills.

If people were able to do that in 15th century by hand I don't see how who really needs it couldn't.

Is just the needs were different, but is not complicated
Maybe the reverse. You're assuming that a tech union would prevent people from being laid off and maybe it would to some degree. But more likely there would be rules on how you have to treat workers. And they would necessarily be rigid. For instance, layoffs would likely happen by some rule that favors how long you've been at the firm or some meaningless objective measure. That obviously doesn't make sense because layoffs are an opportunity to cut weaker performers or entire teams that don't really do anything. It would also hurt hiring and make employers more risk averse if they know they cannot get rid of poor performers easily. This impacts young inexperienced workers especially and is part of the reason places like France have youth unemployment is around 20% while US youth unemployment is around 8%

https://www.statista.com/statistics/460548/youth-unemploymen...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/217448/seasonally-adjust...
Be careful with Titanium backup. It cannot handle several modern Android things properly. (E.g. proper SE Linux file properties)

I learned the hard way after the fact...
I think most of the value of "data" is captured in empowering individual contributors to observe their working conditions and the impact of their actions and adapt their strategy in response. The power of the central office spreadsheet wielders is very secondary. (Which is of course not to say that spreadsheets are not valuable, as any teacher knows.)
Public schools depend on a lot of administrative support outside the physical school its self. Buss drivers for example aren’t managed at the individual school level because they transport students to multiple different schools.

This extends through a huge range of administrative functions for everything from calling snow days to collecting taxes to pay for the school etc.
Pretty cool. Was crossing my fingers that they would show how to make the rope go over AND under itself (like tying a knot).
Now comes big surprise: I just built it using LLVM under CLion IDE and the results are:

G:\temp\cpp\rust-cpp-bench\cpp\cmake\cmake-build-
release\fts_cmake_cpp_bench.exe
Totals:
Overlaps: 220384338
By-Copy: 4397
By-Ref: 4396 Delta: -0.0227428%

Process finished with exit code 0
I generally agree, but it’s also not obvious to me in Rust (or in Go) whether passing by reference or by copy is more maintainable or clear. I guess what I want is some guidance on what I should do by default, which you sort of give with “do what is more maintainable”, but I can’t tell what that means in practice (I’ve been told to default to pass-by-reference in the past because most traits take &self and not self).
I'm not certain that I want something as simple as a union that just works to make sure I'm not fired.

What I'd love to see is a collective of employees that owns a significant portion of the company- the group, not just the individuals within it. It doesn't need to be the majority ownership, but enough that this group is a major player. They get consulted, and their support matters.

As owners, this group would be incentivized to help maximize profits. But those profits would then go to the employees. The leadership would be elected, and be tasked with trying to divvy up those profits among employees in whatever way seems fair.

There's a lot of flaws in this idea. It's initial. But I would love to see something tried where employee power doesn't just come from the threat of holding out labor, but from actual ownership.
Being German I think our political satire is really good. Kabarett/Cabaret is huge and has a long tradition and it's often uniquely dark and has a lot of gallows humor compared to other places. We also I think have one of the largest poetry slam communities. Everything that comes out of the performing arts scene really is pretty solid.

But popular television type comedians here are really bad and cringeworthy. Much worse than in Britain or the US. Kind of like music in that way. Popular music in Germany is bad compared to across the pond and most of the good stuff is more niche.
In the US, lunch for two for $10 was totally doable from a food truck in the US until recent inflation. And a lot of people get lunch from a food truck because it's affordable, good, varied, and not fast food.

If you're claiming it's $40 for two for a "very cheap" place then you're clearly talking about a sit-down spot with full service and beverages and a 20% tip. But most people are not having lunch on a regular basis somewhere with a server who takes their order and brings their food and drinks. Food trucks and cafeterias exist for good reason.
Ask HN: What's going on with Amazon Prime shipping times?
It used to be that in my area (NC Triangle), most items on Prime were available with 2-day shipping, and often same-day or overnight.

As of the last month or so, the minimum time seems to be 5 days, with a large number of items in the 10-15 day range.

I'm no Amazon lover; I view them much the same way I did Walmart 10-15 years ago. They've recently had a lot of quality issues and the prices aren't as compelling as they used to be. If they can't even offer fast shipping anymore, I can't think of a compelling reason to use them over ordering directly from manufacturers or more niche retailers.
You’re assuming there’s just one type of ‘widget.’

If you’ve cornered the market in ‘luxury’ widgets, someone else will make a ‘bargain’ widget and sell to those with less money.

Hotels are a good example. The luxury brands are competing for the wealthy. But, you don’t have to be a Ritz-Carlton to make money… indeed, you can often make more by selling rooms to the less wealthy (as there are more of them.) And, on it goes, all the way down to the Motel 6’s and the mom-and-pop motels.
Since I already use Outlook at work as my mail client I read RSS in there, surprisingly useful as lightweight reader, mostly without images like I prefer it. Doesn't have any discovery though.
Adding to the list of things that you can do with root on Android:

- App Manager[1] has a powerful feature that lets you disable trackers in every single app on the device. (Menu > 1-Click Ops > Block/unblock trackers)

- Neo Backup[2] is the most comprehensive backup app on Android, with automatic scheduling. It lets you back up and restore anything you want, including app data that the developer labeled "no_backup".

- Install and upgrade apps from third-party app stores without needing to manually confirm each installation. Extremely useful for Aurora Store[3] and Neo Store.[4]

- Universal SafetyNet Fix,[5] combined with MagiskHide Props Config[6] and Magisk,[7] allows you to spoof SafetyNet on your device to improve compatibility with apps that check for it, including some banking apps, commerce apps, and games.

> trusting Magisk, going without Clockwork Mod on many platforms, eschewing security updates

I have no problem trusting Magisk[7] as a free and open source Android rooting solution.

ClockworkMod Recovery has been discontinued for years. The most advanced Android recovery is TWRP,[8] and TWRP is not needed to root the device with Magisk.

I don't know what you mean by "eschewing security updates" since rooting Android does not prevent you from receiving security updates.

[1] App Manager: https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager

[2] Neo Backup: https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Backup

[3] Aurora Store: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/

[4] Neo Store: https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Store

[5] Universal SafetyNet Fix: https://github.com/kdrag0n/safetynet-fix

[6] MagiskHide Props Config: https://github.com/Magisk-Modules-Repo/MagiskHidePropsConf

[7] Magisk: https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk

[8] TWRP: https://twrp.me/
I mean, I would associate the term pretty strongly with indexed color with irregular regions, not with square pixels.
Pocket is explicitly[1] their replacement for RSS/Atom features, and a Mozilla monetization vector, so: good luck!

1: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/feed-reader-replacement...
> But if you have ten thousand cuts you’re probably doomed. And those don’t show up cleanly in a flame graph.

I am reminded of the lovely nanosecond/microsecond talk by Grace Hopper. If your code does a little bit of setup and then spends all of its time in a single hotspot, fine. But if your code is full of microsecond-suboptimal speed bumps, you can probably hide your hotspot altogether. And a flat-ish flame graph looks fine: nothing stands out as a problem!

It's valuable to do micro-benchmarks, not just to hone your optimization skills, but to learn optimal patterns in your language of choice. Then, when you're "in the zone" and laying down new code, you just do the optimal thing reflexively. Or, when you're reviewing or rewriting something, those micro-hotspots jump out and grab your attention.

There's a reason that ancient software running on ancient hardware is way more responsive & snappy than what we have today. Laziness.
> degrade student and staff privacy

That's the primary value to be captured right there! Their privacy is highly valued, monetarily:

> authors contend that universities have been slower than organizations in other _economic_ sectors

Education in the US is just pure business.
I don't think that you can build much cheaper than before, is like the cars, they have more or less the same price but have improved in many ways (efficiency for example). Anyway, the building cost is many times not the most important thing in the price of a house.
Agreed! It all probably started with big tech promoting the “data-driven decision” paradigm. Of course, in many cases this approach is effective, but it’s not a panacea and has its limits. It’s tempting to interpret availability of any data as an amazing untapped resource, but in many cases analyzing it is just a massive waste of resources and could be more effectively replaced with traditional tools (surveys and such).
How does one get contracting opportunities to deliver projects before being able to pass interviews to get a full time job? Where would on find these opportunities today?

I always assumed it was the other way around (experienced full time engineer becomes a specialized contractor).
This post was from over 3 years ago. GrapheneOS today has much broader app compatibility via sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer (https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play) combined with the per-app exploit protection compatibility mode), a much easier installation process (https://grapheneos.org/install/web) and much better privacy / security along with other features (https://grapheneos.org/features). GrapheneOS is now very usable for most people as their only smartphone and has far greater advantages than it did before.

There have been massive privacy and security improvements in both Android and iOS too. Android 13 has fewer weaknesses compared to iOS 16.2 than a comparison over 3 years and Android 13 has more strengths than it did back then. GrapheneOS makes far more changes than it was making back then. We didn't have features like Storage Scopes or the sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer. We didn't have a team of many funded developers back then.
I wish I could have this on my Apple Watch, but Apple does not allow us to make our own watch faces.
This is true for application code. But, Rust is trying to sell itself as a systems language and an embedded language and a language you can write kernel modules in. Memory budget matters in these cases.
I think it's simpler: imagine you're the NSA and decide to transcribe every phone call ever made to text: you'll spend gazillion in storage, connectivity and processing for the capture, and spend a gazillion squared on post-capture text analysis to find "something", like "who is communist in Atlanta", and not even be able to make it find the communists pre-emptively, before it's too late and they already donated $3 to a local chapter.

There can be too much data. There are questions you cannot answer even by collecting all data, unless you have no time or food cost constraints but the value of your answer will decrease with the time distance from the moment the question was asked. In a million year you might know for sure who was communist in Atlanta during the 2000s, year by year, block by block, but you may care less by then.
Of anyone that I've worked with, he's been the most empathetic to the situations and life challenges of an 18-year old (like I said, he was REALLY good recruiter, which usually comes with understanding people well). Most of the problems are systemic and leadership failures. Even the Marines with completely screwed up personal lives and drama, he largely faults societal failures as #2 behind just generally shit decision-making (females engaging in prostitution in the barracks, depression and confusion over gender identity, Marines thinking Uncle Sam won't notice them scamming the system for pay/entitlements, etc... etc...).

Of course there has always been some baseline level of dysfunction in young adults away from home for the first time, but the trend we are seeing is that the various factors are definitely tipping towards an institutional breaking point. Even the great "spice epidemic" around 2012 didn't stress the system this badly, IMO.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/bath-salts-spice-us-military-servi...
A tech union doesn't necessarily have to behave like traditional unions that favor seniority, and not all unions prioritize seniority anyway.
I believe I replied to a wrong interpretation of your comment.
I thought your point was the people who only think about it are just as bad as people who act.

Instead, uppon rereading, I think your point was that "they can't help it, they were born that way" isn't an excuse. I agree there, though the footnote should be that people who "can't help but feel that way" shouldn't be so demonized for just their thoughts that they can't ask for help.
Love this, PascalPixel!

Hope you are well my friend. I smiled at this project and then saw it was made by you — it’s such a beautiful project that only you could have made :).

Great idea and execution.
I think this is probably a win for consumers over the short term. It would be nice to assume USB-C, but USB-C is far from perfect. We’ve seen an evolution in phone connectors over the years, and they do keep getting better over time. I worry that regulating the connector will stymie future improvements, but I guess that’s the trade we make.
Perhaps a guild? Or does that sound too old-timey?
Of course these things aren’t heard in mainstream discussions.

The media, and by extension the minds of majority of our citizens, are owned by the same corporate entities you mention.

They control language so that people will go along with their greed.

So if you’re a corp, you steer the discussions around your profit seeking avenues so people don’t even posses the language necessary ti discuss your demise.

People will never discuss the abstract idea that this whole “legal entities == people” thing is fucked, because they think they’re clever to talk about some vague future tax that will never be implemented because the corps own the politicians too.

People aren’t avoiding the elephant - they have been programmed to not realize the elephant is the problem.
Jodorowsky's Star Wars
This is a particularity of OpenSSH though and not supported by RFC 8017. The fields are mandatory and required by the spec to contained the correct values.
The OP seemed pretty clear to me that they were referring to a financial investment. I don't think "investment" is particularly useful for describing other value, and think that more aligns with "utility" rather than an "investment".
It doesn't have to, no, but it probably would. Certainly most unions seem to.

[EDIT] I'm poking around the sites for various unions for technical workers and engineers outside the software industry and, at a casual glance, many seem to factor in seniority as well. Are there examples of technical or engineering unions that are not seniority-based? Seems like those would be better indicators of what a software workers union would look like than the usually cited actors or sports player unions.