skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asked it to write lyrics for an REM song about concrete slabs and it gave me a spiel about how it shouldn't do that because it's not actually an REM and songwriting is hard to do. I responded "you could at least try, you lazy shit" and it actually did it. I'll admit I felt a little bad after this but come on, I know it's not real and it's probably not great, just do it anyway.

Hopefully they loosen up on this "hall monitor" mode but also not let users bully it into submission.
What a weird analogy.

The truth is that you can't explore a C++ codebase without actually stepping through it with the debugger. You literally can't see all the places where you end up. A mechanism to do the type resolution is needed, and that is a much, much bigger mental load.

In C you can see each and every jump by default (unless someone does terrible hidden macro magic etc). Maybe add a code browser for convenience. You can often get a pretty good idea of a codebase just by browsing it. These are definitely diferent qualities.

What's to say for C++, it's harder to misuse libraries because you don't have to understand libraries as well, and some constraints to using them are better enforced, because of RAII and other mechanisms. But as Stroustroup said himself, "C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off". It's far from impossible to misuse C++, and when you do, it can be much harder to find out what's wrong.

Anecdotally, in C++ it's also much easier to build a castle that ends up being a labyrinth.
If I used a matchmaking service and it provided me with "end your subscription to a dating service 90% of the time" matches I would be telling everyone I knew.
My thoughts on both paragraphs:

Oh look another apologetic non native English speaker using perfect English
Related to this, I've had to call an airline and get told the queue is too long and to try calling back later. I have no idea who thought that was a good idea to implement because the queue will always be super long.
I'm not a fan of subscription services but there are decent compromises to be had, e.g. Jetbrains model where you receive a perpetual fallback version after a year.
Programming can be many things. I don't particularly appreciate finding or fixing bugs, or unit tests, incidence response. Very rare breed of programmers do these for a hobby. But you know what many more people program/code for a hobby? Games, graphics development. I love that shit.
> Oh well, that's part of what happens when the manufacturer is also the only seller.

I am not seeing the connection. If the manufacturer reduced the price it was selling at to the middlemen, why would the middlemen (assuming there are numerous) not also lower their price to win more customers?
I'm not sure Elon was not a massive d-bag back in 2018 - he just didn't have the platform (Twitter) to show those traits off back then.
An organization with 10000 software developers is already dangerously large. There is no way to define mid-sized as 10k SWEs.
> The math is the same as flipping a coin 7 times [...]

I'm not saying that a particular hemisphere has a high change of having most of the land; I'm saying that there will be a hemisphere that has this chance.

29% of Earth is land and 80% of this land is in the land hemisphere, so this problem would be the equivalent of rolling a D48 14 times and placing the dice on a table so that any 11 of the rolled numbers are visible if I look at it from the top.
People complain a lot about Steam DRM, but I'm hoping players will be less critical on our case since we're a subscription service.
See the following

https://kunit.dev/ - unit tests for kernel

https://docs.kernel.org/dev-tools/testing-overview.html - entire testing overview.
Cigarettes are heavily regulated in fact California just banned flavors.

There's also been proposals about a sugar tax and limits on the size of soft drinks but they are difficult to implement due to conservative/right wing pushback.

Your comment is whataboutism but not even that good of a counter since actions are being taken
"Gecko (Firefox). Down to 4% market share, mismanaged by Mozilla which prioritizes pushing its toxic politics over improving the browser."

Unlike the author, who clearly has no agenda or axe to grind.
Is "being on the slopes toward a singularity" locally distinguishable from "pulling up the ladders behind you"?
Nuclear was weaponized first because it's easier to build a nuclear bomb than a nuclear reactor of a power plant size. Also that whole whacky WW2 thing, if Hitler would have won he would have turned russia and the UK into wastelands
Why do you think you did poorly in your CS degree?

CS schools in Spain, France, Italy, etc. differ greatly in terms of difficulty and quality of teaching. You might thrive now if you choose the right environment?

Some schools in Northern Europe are free and might be a bit more practical. There's also the option to follow a simple 2-year associate degree and then transfer to a real university and get a BSc with a bit of extra coursework.

I recommended this option to a friend who had dropped out of his BSc and he did fine this second time. If you need further info, feel free to contact me. Email is on my profile.
I hate to be that guy, but not all ranches.

Ranches surrounding me (I live in relatively rural Montana) don't even come close to resembling the kinds you mention. The cattle are given the run of hundreds of acres, and also they often graze from those fields, etc.

Yeah, there are a shitty minority of ranches that produce a large amount of meat in terrible conditions. But they are not the norm, not in my experience.

And for a tangent, I'd like also call out that it's not just beef being produced by ranchers. We're not just tossing carcasses in the landfills. We use the whole animal. Calcium, leather, feed, gelatin, medicine, etc.
The author is discussing facts and providing replicable results. Disclosing their "conflict of interest" more clearly would be laudable, but even if they lied to us and pretended to be an independent journalist, that might sway our opinion of their character, but it would have no effect on the veracity of their writing.

What they say can be classified in three categories: Objectively right, objectively wrong, or subjective claims. Their conflict of interest only affects our evaluation of subjective claims.

Things that can be assessed as right are right even if they were said by Vladimir Putin; things that can be assessed as wrong are wrong even if they were said by Florence Nightingale. It is an ad hominem appeal to motive to suggest otherwise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_motive
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“Don't sign YouTube's new money-stealing TOS before watching this ”
As a commercial entity in the western world, they have to Not Be Destroyed By Lawsuits, too, but sure, we can wave our bias flag, why not.
1.7 billion dollars is ~23,000 years of a $75k/yr paycheck. That's a lot more than 50 lifetimes.
> I'm also seeing some regret on the part of Ioniq 5 owners who say they'd have bought a Model Y at this price instead of the I5.

Sounds like people who are more committed to the brand than the product. Hyundai makes quality cars, Tesla does not... anymore.
That kind of assumes people consumed the same amount of entertainment throughout history, which I don't think is correct.

It also assumes that they were constrained to local creators.

It is possible that people simply did other activities that don't involve a creator. Another possibility is that most people consumed content from a small set of non-local creators, like authors with wide distribution.
I think the real "unicorns" are

* Small/medium size companies where you recognize most everyone even if you don't work with them. There are enough people so you don't have to do things you're not qualified for like in the very early days of a startup.

* Steady growth, but not crazy, venture fueled moonshots.

* Selling something that earns enough money to grow the business in a fairly organic way.

I worked in a place like that once and loved it, and did some of my best work there. I wasn't anxious that it would implode like a startup, and there wasn't much bureaucracy.
The point of the DSU isn't to force the engineer to recite what they did, it's to inform the peers so people can coordinate. I also find that engineers are reluctant to admit being blocked or to ask for help at all. My team gets value from the DSU. I'm sorry if you think the DSU (or the role of SDM) is so useless that it ought to be automated away.
Maybe a narrative, but one with a lot of support. By way of contrast, I read that Demi Lovato's new album cover has been banned in the UK for being offensive to Christians[0]. This is the first time I've ever seen anything like that regarding Christians in the past 10 years at least. On the other hand, it's trivial to find stories of people being disciplined, fired, or even arrested in the UK for offending Muslims or LGBT.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/pagesix.com/2023/01/13/demi-lov...
I mean the whole concept of "world's best" in terms of art doesn't even make sense. It rarely, if ever, makes sense in other areas or fields as well. (even sports, where it is is sometimes objective, records and acheivements are broken all the time again and again)
super linear how? comp is still a fixed number of options, no? other than clawbacks or threshold function awards, which i don't think we're talking about here.
FFmpeg with WebRTC Support
At least the original 2016 promise of a $35K electric car is now fulfilled, because that's what it will now cost in 2016 dollars, or so.
I would suggest looking for software engineering jobs outside of SV (if that where you are and can) and outside the software industry.

The best thing I did in my career was move the hell out of SV and started working for a manufactoring company building internal tools, scripts and programs.

It will be hard to find the perfect job, but you will probably have a better chance outside of SV where every company tends to be a copy of one other internally.
ChatGPT is just a preview, GPT-4 is going to demolish whole industries (based on playing with the beta). Funny times ahead.
I am the opposite. With time I have grown to be rather neutral and maybe slightly negative on the topic of programming and CS, but I love solving real-world problems and producing working solutions. I am content with having to program in order to do that, but would definitely skip the programming step if I could.
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Delta debugging and C-reduce are your friends there. I dearly miss creduce in my language of choice... Not that compiler bugs are that frequent but when generating so much weird code I tend to trigger them bugs more frequently.
I come from the same background, and I think you're absolutely on the right track. Whenever I peck away at these models, it takes about 3 minutes before I'm tossing it away because it's on another BS path, or yet another pathological output stream (read: one that I know is wrong from prior experience).

The only interesting application I've come up with for them is to pair it with low confidence/knowledge people and use it as "the idiot in the room" spewing half or non-truths to sharpen that persons BS filters/prime them with a different direction to shift research in.

Trying to do any substantive conversation with them is nigh on impossible due to the lack of recollection/memory/lookback and blissful meta-unawareness of it's own lacking it.

It's a bit like trying to reason through something with a person suffering from dementia.
I haven't had problems with FF being leaky on Linux desktop. Some sites were... Years ago Gmail on FF used to leak tons whereas Chrome didn't. Unclear where the fault lay, but I'm sure Google wasn't losing sleep over it.

But I don't use Gmail anymore and happily run FF everywhere.
I’m saying that it’s not my responsibility to make sure a company has enough funding to pay me my market rate.

The VCs are well diversified. They can take a risk over multiple years across multiple companies knowing that only 1 out of 10 succeed. They also get first preference during any exit event.

I am totally dependent on the success of one company’s over multiple years if I take equity instead of cash.

If a company goes out of business and I’m paid market rate and given equity (bern they’re done that), I shrug my shoulders and look for another job.

I can save enough cash if given proper cash compensation to weather a gap in unemployment, I can’t save “equity”.

In a public company, I can (and do) diversify my risk every six months when my RSU’s vest.

But even then, seeing that I work for the “frugal FAANG” that until recently has a low cap on cash compensation and the rest was in RSUs, I made sure that I could live off of the cash portion.

I wasn’t able to qualify for my second home/investment property using a normal mortgage because my income was based partially on the signing bonus/RSUs even though the four year payout was documented. I had to take a no income verification loan.

Cash is king.
Exactly. It's very hard to know from the outside where the headcounts are or should be. E.g., Twitter had a ton of ML people. One could argue that was totally unnecessary, because Facebook didn't need that at date X. Or one could argue that they needed more of them, because it's the only way to wrangle the challenges of a large social network, and that hiring an ML person ends up being a net reduction in headcount because of the customer support/moderation people they replace.
I think you need to approach this from the opposite direction. Conventional path is study, find a job, network to find a better job. I suggest you first network to find where you'd like end up, and then ask those people for advice on how to get there. It's motivating to see the finish line from the very beginning.

Try to go to free conferences or meetups or networking events, and be honest that you're shopping around for a career change. Some of the people who aren't looking for jobs themselves will probably be intrigued enough to offer decent advice and insight.

You'll get much better and quicker results if you aim for 10x networking and socialization. If it makes you uncomfortable because you feel like a failure, tell people you just felt inspired to do something different. Everyone has that feeling, but few people actually act on it. Don't let their choices hold you back.
> Sometimes work inpatient all day sometimes clinic thrown in, but usually not done working until 7 PM, without even a 15 min break or a chance to eat a meal (15 hour day)

Honestly, that makes me agree with the parent comment that the medical profession must be getting stupider to not let a doctor take a break or eat a meal on a 15 hour day.
HST training sequence was the best sounding. Would love to hear that again, and see a breakdown of what was going on there. Probably not as easy as maybe it's a trade secret vs. published standard. Also the stealth fighter of modems if you remember the print ads for it.
> The original creator of the company will care about that because they know why they are trying to solve the problem. Everyone that comes after will not.

A good follow up question is why not make CD Baby a non-profit instead of for-profit? Being a non-profit foundation would telegraph to everyone, including future leadership, where their priorities should lie.
I can't tell whether that's supposed to be upper-case or lower-case agile.
That’s basically what I said, though? The point is that JSX is made to look like HTML so you think you’re writing HTML but you’re not, you’re using a JS API.

Also I had to laugh at the sibling replies:

> Narrative violation: className and friends are NOT a React thing!

> FWIW, the className prop is a React thing not a JSX thing

Don’t try to say it doesn’t cause confusion!
They're more concerned with wrongthink, hard to take them seriously anymore. Meanwhile, Brave is awesome.
If you are experiencing memory problems, you might have something going on with your brain that isn't resolved by following some tips in an article. I recommend consulting with a doctor if this is a problem for you.
And the worst work gets buried anyway..

I had to sue a contractor a few years back who not only did bad work but lied about its status and falsified documents from inspectors. To get any settlement in the 2.5+ year battle, I finally had to agree NOT to post reviews of his work on a specific list of sites. Unfortunately for him, my own personal site, Twitter, Facebook, etc were not listed.
For a human-readable, schema-free data representation, I really like Amazon's Ion format (disclosure, I'm an Amazon employee). It is basically JSON + additional types (integers, timestamps, symbols, sexpressions), and support for humane features like trailing commas and comments. It also has a more efficient binary representation. I think it could have been a contender had it been released a decade earlier, but now I think the existing formats are way too entrenched.

https://amazon-ion.github.io/ion-docs/index.html
No guarantees.

I'm of the opinion that TSLA's stock has largely dropped due to Elon Musk selling $40,000,000,000+ worth of stock over the last couple of years.

Look at every major TSLA price drop. They coincide with Elon Musk's sells. Ex: Elon Musk's December 14th filing (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000089924322...), or Elon Musk's November 11th filing (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000089924322...), etc. etc. Feel free to search SEC's "EDGAR" database for Form 4, Tesla and Elon Musk.

Now line these up with TSLA's stock price. What pattern do you see?

When a "whale" sells huge amounts of stock, it just causes the price to drop. No matter what the fundamentals are.

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Now "why" is Elon selling TSLA stock? Is it just to fund Twitter? Or is Elon cashing out of TSLA because he's losing confidence in it? Hard to say, its not like the man is very honest about his intentions (and he shouldn't be).

But its always a good idea to keep an eye on the actions of the insiders and how they trade.
Software engineering != Programming
Software engineering != CS
Programming != CS
Sure. To be more precise, it's a "dangling modifier" [1]. The modifying clause "As a non-native English speaker" intends to refer to the narrator, who is using ChatGPT to improve their text. But the sentence as constructed, where this clause is followed by the subject "ChatGPT", might be read as implying that ChatGPT is a non-native English speaker. The original beginning "I am not a native English speaker..." was clearer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_modifier
Oh boy, this just opened so many new possibilities.

> In: Provide a blow-by-blow commentary of what happens when a an electron smashes into a proton as if you were a WWE commentator. Write breathlessly, as if you love this collision.

> Out: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the collision of the century! In this corner, weighing in at a minuscule 9.11 x 10^-31 kg, we have the electron, a negatively charged subatomic particle that orbits the nucleus of an atom. And in the opposite corner, weighing in at a slightly heavier 1.67 x 10^-27 kg, we have the proton, a positively charged subatomic particle that resides in the nucleus of an atom.

>> The bell rings and the electron charges forward with incredible speed, approaching the proton at nearly the speed of light! The proton stands its ground, ready to defend its position in the nucleus.

>> The electron smashes into the proton with a powerful force, creating an explosion of energy that sends shockwaves throughout the atom. The proton absorbs the impact, but the electron loses kinetic energy and is absorbed into the proton.

>> The collision creates a new subatomic particle called a neutron, which has a neutral charge and is now a part of the nucleus. The crowd goes wild as the atom is forever changed by this incredible collision.

>> The collision is an example of a nuclear reaction and that specific one is called the proton-proton chain reaction, which generates energy in the sun and other stars.

>> This is one collision you won't want to miss, folks! Tune in next time for more atomic action!

I'm speechless.
(disclaimer - I work for Retool)

This take is correct IMO - it's only worth building a tool if it saves you more time than it takes to develop. This is why Retool exists - if building/changing an admin tool takes about as much time as assembling a Keynote presentation, then the economics of using custom software to solve small problems start to work out in your favor.
DNA is "organized" into three dimensional structures which are only partly dependent on the genetic sequence in the region. It's like a rope that's tied up in knots, or twists. Regulation of that structure has huge implications on the accessibility of regions of code, such that regions that are locked inside can't be transcribed into DNA. The management of this complex 3d structure has huge impacts on phenotype, without modifying the code.
Not a conversation. There is an information exchange that may also lead to a conversation. If this is the case, the conversation happens after standup proper.

The usefulness of people telling what they will be doing or what problems they are facing at the moment is that they might not know there is somebody else in the team that can help them solve this problem very quickly. Or sometimes people find they are working on same or similar thing.

I also like to think it puts a little bit of pressure on people to get something done so they can show some progress on the next standup.
In Norway, the entry level Model Y is $43.5k compared to 48.5k for the entry level ID.4

So it looks like Teslas are selling relatively better in the US than Europe?
It looks like it steals energy from an object in motion, in this case a black hole. (Presumably because this is a dense object so you can get closer to it.)

Existing satellite slingshot maneuvers steal energy from the thing they slingshot around -- every satellite that slingshots off earth steals a very, very small amount of energy from the earth. The closer you get to the center of Earth's mass, the more energy you can steal. It's just that in Earth's case there's all this "atmosphere" and "lithosphere" garbage preventing you from snuggling up right close to the center.

With a black hole, all that stuff is compressed, so you can get closer and steal some of its kinetic energy. (If I understand the concept correctly.)
It is both a requirement from the devs/publishers, but also for ourselves. Without DRM, someone could make a free trial, pirate all our games, cancel their sub and play them out without paying. That's a pretty interesting article though, I guess it shows the power of word of mouth negating piracy? As even those who pirate it will talk to their friends about games they are currently playing.
I see stumbles, too, but don't forget to reload with ad blocking off. That fixes it for me half the time.
I feel like I am maybe "lazy" sometime because I avoid doing work because I know how painful it's going to be to get from working to "done". It just often doesn't seem worth the effort.

When I work outside the constraints of my day job, programming is a fun creative pastime that makes the hours fly by. Last night I was up until 4am just hacking on something I was interested in. I honestly didn't notice the time go by (probably not healthy, but hey I was having a lot of fun so it's fine for me)

The engineers I really respect often say similar things. There seems to be a gatekeeping class of software engineer who've been overfed on design patterns and enterprise software dogma that suck the fun out of it in big teams.