skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not so simple anymore. Now you have a 60W (equivalent) bulb outputting 9 watts.

If you ignore the numbers you can still easily feel the heat, but it's not so easy to translate into human equivalents.
The new Table of Contents on the left seems great.
My advice is to work for the largest company you can get into for your first job. The experience, either great or shitty, is capped at both ends i.e. corporate structure limits how shitty or great it can possibly get.

If the experience is positive, then great, stick around. If not, the name of a large company on your resume (ideally at least two years), will make it much easier to find your next gig, as large companies are easily recognizable for their products and branding.
I stopped using round numbers for that reason. Say 51 instead of 50 as a workaround. It’s really annoying.
there's nothing preventing you from downloading go code manually without the package manager and using it that way
i wonder if they would have ever hit saturation here. you can only hire so many people. i would compare it to the discomfort that is felt by private transport operators in the wake of a public transport scheme. when the government of ghana introduced public buses that charged less than half the regular fare, they shook the market. but the public buses could only carry so much--many, due to their circumstances, were served by the private operators. it remains so to this day. in fact, private operators have flourished.

likewise, mining companies launching in ghana have usually paid higher than the incumbent. it could be strategic as it allows them to hire highly skilled workers without the cost of pre-training. here too, a saturation is reached, and things stabilize, with people doing the same job but receiving different compensations. we at devcongress (https://devcongress.org) have worked hard to ensure that local companies pay top-dollar for tech talent. we enforce this through our job boards. still, there are companies out there paying $500/mo and they receive a flood of applicants. but these are my experiences. makes me believe that after the market has been excited, it will definitely dissipate the energy, and return to previous equilibrium (or achieve equilibrium at a higher orbit). i honestly believe that an equilibrium will be reached.
I've started following a simple pattern, if there is documentation point them to it, if there is no documentation write it, then point them to it.

What trips me up is questions in meetings that are onerous.
Wait! The ? operator works with the `Option<T>` type? I assumed it was only reserved for `Result<T,E>`.
You're right - as long as one player announces "I'm playing Mirror Move", then it can be verified that the move that actually gets played was valid. The actually played move doesn't have to be in the state committed at the beginning.

Randomness as in the case of Metronome can be decided upon in the same way that other move randomness is handled.
He admits C was corp sponsored though.

"Admittedly C also came from a corporation but it came free with every unix install and soon after I started using it, Richard Stallman et al. gave us GCC, a free C compiler."

But at the time AT&T couldn't spy on its CC users though so the risk was lower I guess.
Agreed. It’s almost like they are assuming a future where people learn this in drivers ed. This is a job of the government to act asap, since they are in charge of deciding if someone can drive.
There is no such thing as job security.

Why do you expect it? Large corporations have stacked the deck against workers for decades (at least). If you really want to be able to work the same job forever, you can try to get yourself a special contract, but you'd have better luck getting such worker protections by working with your state government or fellow workers.

If you're worried that too many benefits, compensation, insurance, ability to rent, etc. are tied to employment, you're right there, and we can do better as a society to expand unemployment insurance and get affordable health care that isn't tied to employment, etc. This way, when we do lose a job, not everything is taken is from us.
That's really cool and good to hear. Thank you
After getting a dream job on a paradise island, I can tell you how fast it takes to do everything there is to do on that island before the isolation sets in.

I was told the week I landed "there's two type of people: those who immediately fall in love and never leave. Then there's the ones who get island fever after 6 months and never come back... You won't find too many mainlanders who have lived here for very long"
> interesting to characterize economic collapse as unrelated to access to foreign currency for international trade

This jumps the rhetorical shark. Nobody said they’re unrelated. Just that the unrest is a response to the collapse. It would have occurred if the government seized dollars or not. The dollar seizure was a response to the collapse.
Flag soup is terrible for dependency management. It only works for a single compiler (family), there's no semantics of what each flag might mean, undefined ordering or grouping of flags like `-ffast-math` or `-fno-fast-math` (which are ABI-affecting) means you don't know what you'll actually get. More fun, if you have multiple prefixes of dependencies, one `-L` can change what any following `-l` flag means (and is primarily why I think that absolute paths to libraries is far better on the link line).

FD: CMake developer
The ones I know of are WiX[0] and NSIS[1].

0: https://wixtoolset.org/

1: https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Main_Page
I understand the idea of "if you take everything from someone, what makes them keep to the law", but it's pretty obvious people don't work that way.

There are plenty of scam victims who lose all their savings to individuals or groups. How many of them do you hear of visiting the scammers' office with a pump gun? The sue, they hope for justice, they drink themselves to death, but that's about it. There are some exceptions, but they're super rare.
> I wish Amazon recruiters would honor my perennial request to permanently remove me from any of their hiring systems and never contact me again

Solution: block emails from @amazon\.(com,co\.uk)\.?

You might not get your purchase information any more. But that's not a problem if you just stop using Amazon. But that also begs the question: why might someone be a customer of Amazon if they don't like their employment practices?
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Phone support: "Due to extenuating circumstances, we are not able to take your call at this time."
Well does Bitcoin have anyone with $50 billion dollars on hand and an additional $500 billion dollar line of credit with the US government to cover things like the FTX collapse?
Fixed again. I'm starting to run out of excuses... ;-)
HN is really only a unique place when it comes to computer topics. For everything else its basically the same as any other website.
But if it is an undocumented feature of MS Windows, then the ReactOS developers must have guessed how it would be implemented or 'borrowed' from the original source code (win2k was floating around on the Interwebs, not sure about more recent versions). The ReactOS developer community is eager to leave the impression that the latter won't happen. If the former, then I'm not sure, how valuable this truly is for analyzing malware.
The book "Programming Rust" (very good book btw) only mentions iter() and iter_mut() briefly and focuses on into_iter because the IntoIterator trait only implements into_iter.

You can replicate iter() with `(&x).into_iter()`
and you can replicate iter_mut() with `(&mut x).into_iter()`
and obviously `x.into_iter()` consumes the contents.
Reiterating this way shows either you are not capable of discerning the difference or you are acting in bad faith.
And I doubt it helps Twitter's image that a lot of the remaining advertisers are the ad-world equivalent of those shitty little Taboola/Outbrain boxes you find on low-quality websites.

I don't use the site much anymore, but this is the first time in my life I've seen someone on there selling buckets for catching rats.
>and someday forth

PostScript is eternal
As said later, this was an error (I can't edit the comment anymore) - that was true in the DSM-IV.
Here's the thing, a military that isn't regularly exercised quickly falls prey to the iron law of bureaucracy, as Dr. Hugh Nibley once said "Leaders are those who surprise and discomfort the enemy in war time, and rock the boat and upset HQ in peace"

If war isn't regularly and actively being prosecuted the military turns to infighting, the officers that are promoted are promoted because of their ability to suck up and kiss ass, meanwhile the people that get things done, that bruise egos, and deal with things directly end up phased out and pulled down.

Part of the reason WW1 was so horrible wasn't just because of the technological advances, or the environments they fought in but because of how many worthless brass were involved and f**ing things up regularly. Hell France was only saved from falling within a month because their top general went on a spree of firing over half the commanders and replacing them with people that produced results.

In the next substantial military conflict the US faces we will spend a long time losing until we fire most of the people currently in charge and the thinking changes.

As evidence let me point to the continual massive investment into the fighter program. Those advocating the fighter program are the cavalry commanders of the 1910, thinking in an outdated and outmoded way of thinking that they are wedded to, and will continue to rely on and push for despite the fact it is a clearly outdated and obsolete way of thinking.

EDIT:

As noted below Dr. Hugh Nibley was Professor of Ancient Scripture at BYU if you feel that substantially impacts your opinion of this quote.
It can take off vertically with just 1500 feet of runway!
How we rebuilt bulk operations to preserve a history of changes
Consumers can't initiate ACHes so it doesn't compete with Venmo/Zelle/etc.
Well, the representatives they vote for don't!
Wikipedia's new look is active today
I've been unskilled labor. I didn't start my engineering career until my 30s.

I always had more negotiating power than I thought I did...except in my three union jobs, where I had zero negotiating power.
I haven’t looked into it in a while. I guess it changed between 2019 and 2021.

https://timetoplayfair.com/timeline/
New Boston Dynamics robot video – it just seems to work
You don’t understand.

I’m constantly fighting Brew on all three computers where Brew is installed. Yes, I have wiped them, the problem is Brew, it is not the particular installation. If it were a problem with one particular installation of Brew, then it would not suddenly become a problem on a new fresh install of Brew.

The idea that you would need to wipe anything to start over is just bizarre to me in the first place. One of the many problems with Brew. Brew is extremely slow and it is prone to doing things that I do not want it to do without explaining why it is doing them or how I can alter its behavior (why is it installing package X? why is it updating right now?). Sometimes when I install a package, I get a spurious failure, and I need to re-run the installation command. Sometimes I just want to install one package, but it goes through “brew update”—which is extremely slow.
"Instant" is wrong. I've had successful Zelle transfers take upwards of 60 minutes to clear without any sort of confirmation of progress. It's a real pain.
The economics of all this is where it's at, and so important to understand.

Look at through a lens of scarcity. What Google sells that is 'scarce' is not the Go runtime - it's ads and other things.

But an independent open source project doesn't really have a source of 'scarcity' that it can sell.

https://journal.dedasys.com/2007/02/03/in-thrall-to-scarcity...
Tech workers should start unionizing. Our skills and talents are borderline a trade and thusly should be bargained for.

Having a giant corporation kill off your occupancy with no pre-warning is raw meat for union reps who would love to sue on your behave.
*No such thing as job security in the US
The FDIC insures up to $250,000 per depositor, per insured bank. But the FDIC claims process only begins after a bank failure (likely caused by a run on the bank). https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/quarterly-banking-profile/fdic...
> how corruption is quantified

Like it has always been since Randians became a thing: In 2014 Ukraine got a US backed government which went full 'Chicago Boys' on the country. You know, privatizing everything, removing all social services and protections, the 'freest market' thing. Of course, in such a 'most free' environment, those who oversaw that privatization have become ! extremely ! rich.

> The rankings themselves are based on expert perceptions

No, they aren't. Most of them come from the same Randian sources in Anglosphere, which consistently rank countries that are the most corrupt as 'non-corrupt'. Like how the US ends up lower on corruption indexes despite something called lobbying existing...
Agreed. The “risk” here is that you won’t get to stay with the same company your whole life and collect a pension. The “risk” is also that you’ll need to retrain yourself to match the change in the industry. This is different from the expectations that people have for other industries, though job security certainly isn’t what it used to be outside of tech either.
I love swimming so I am sure I will have some fun but atoll in paradise sounds like a place with not much to do, at least not compared to a major city like where I live. And I can swim here too during the summers.
Maybe this time tech workers will understand we need to unionize.
Sounds like you have a common mis-conception that a lot of people who entered the workforce after 2008 have: that bonuses are a given, and part of your salary. Lot's o' people this year won't be getting their bonuses because companies aren't doing well, sales slowed, etc. The very definition of a BONUS is that's it's something you get when the times are good.

(I'm sure it's the same with Stock Options, that people just assumed they'd go up, probably why all the memes about Total Comp are all over social media?)
There isn't a 50/50 split in registered voters. The popular vote for the presidency has no bearing on the election.
Oh man, .NET needed this. Did some PDF work for a .NET project last year and found the ecosystem to be somewhat light on PDF support. There's a few commercial options, but they're pricey.
Oh interesting, I didn’t know about that. Is there a place I could read more?
At many/most bars in these areas, the answer will be “yes”, and they may show you the background image on their phone with bare breasted women or will regale with stories about the “good ol’ days” with calendars at work that had bare-breasted women.

If you go to churches in these areas, the stated preference may be “no”, but many of them will be lying.

If you need evidence of these preferences, go to the infield of any NASCAR race.

Or go to any spring break location where young people from these areas go to spring break.

You will see more bare-breasted women than you can count at both of these places.
wow... you might be right
I got promoted twice, I'm 43. Nothing has really changed. I tend to be more grumpy about new technologies, because they are repeats of what was cool 20 years ago.

Coding marathons are overrated. Sometimes the best code is not writing any or even better removing code instead of adding to it. I have always focused on effectiveness over output which helps.
I consider footguns to be things that cause me to waste a ton of effort and build architecturally unsound code. The things in the article are actually just basic language concepts you need to understand to be productive.

So to use the foot gun analogy, if you don't know the stuff in the article you wont even be able to pull the trigger.

An actual footgun is something like monkeypatching in python or ruby. Or running for_each with an async callback in javascript.
I like Zelle, as it is not considered a payment network for tax purposes. Second, it enables money transfers between trustworthy parties. Instead of sending a check for $x (less than, say $3k), I can transfer $x right away to a friend/acquaintance.
Debugging PostgreSQL CI failures faster
I love the idea, but I gotta say that this didn't make a great first impression for me.

I downloaded and installed the Mac version, I wrote a basic program to play with it, clicked the little "bug" on the top, and the entire program crashed, which is a pity because I think this could be really useful for my students.
That's what this is, you and the Trumpers are just calling it "woke"
Hmm. Very interesting. So many great industrial processes out there that got pushed aside by market forces. I don't suppose they've got a home unit that can run on 120?
With respect, I'd just like to add that this is the company that famously said "You're holding it wrong". Voice assistants fail in surprising and strange ways. Retraining might help, it might not.
I, too, consider it a legitimate question. I'm trying to indicate in some way that a heavily modified photocopier or printer can make such significant transformations that it could be consider on par with Warhol.

Or even moreso, say a one-off piece of copying equipment made by an artist that only ever copies the pages of a novel in a manner that makes it look like a Dali painting, substitutes the letters and number of the novel with emojis (simple substitution), and incorporates all of the pages and the machine itself into a display piece of art.

Where will the line be drawn? Who knows. But as I stated in another post the only thing the AI produces that can be copyrighted is the input of the human, whatever that is. So maybe the AI art isn't copyrightable, maybe the prompts to the AI are all that's copyrightable. Which would make a great deal of sense. But if someone can get the same image by using different prompts, or even by drawing it themselves, then they're free to do so. Or if the prompt is something simple like "Something like Dali, taller than it is wide", maybe none of it is copyrightable.

This entire thing is an interesting philosophical and legal question. And it's interesting to try to see the parameters that the decision will be made on.

Sorry, I just realized I went off on a tangent from the original posted story.
I don't know that I really agree with this (based solely on my experiences). I've worked for big, medium and small companies. Big companies may tend to lock you into narrow job roles, outdated technology, and horrible bureaucracy. With medium and smaller companies, you're going to learn a lot more about actually getting things done. Likely in broader areas. But it does depend on what a person is looking for.
Oh that's pretty cool. It looks like there are no fees for the service (at least for now), where Venmo has a 1.75% fee ($0.25 min $25 max) and Cash App has a 0.5%-1.75% fee ($0.25 min) for the same instant withdrawal service.
> The object isn't to make something (i.e. be productive). It is to be in that wonderful state in which making something is inevitable.

Wow, that's so aptly put. I love seeing these pithy quotable lines on HN from time to time. Thank you.
Current delivery date now Feb 3 from Apple Store.
I've been saying this for a long time: https://sneak.berlin/20191119/your-money-isnt-yours/

Cash isn't illegal yet. Use it.

Don't use any one system exclusively. Even if you rely wholly on your normal person checking account and electronic payments, have a few grand stashed away in your house in cash. Sometimes the lights go out, and ATMs with them.
I understanding where you're coming at when I use Mastodon and see how RoR has enabled it but at the same time I cannot avoid thinking how much money the poor maintainers can save if it was written in Go or Rust.
I'm almost ok with this cause of my dislike for China-based companies, esp TikTok, but then I remember how YouTube's been unopposed and twiddling their thumbs for like a decade until they knocked off TikTok. Our economy and world influence grow by building better products, not by trying to limit outside competition to the benefit of a few domestic companies. US govt banning TikTok would be like saying, we have TikTok at home (YT Shorts).

It's not just China, btw. EU is extra protectionist too. I don't want to be like them.
One issue I have with the HomePod (mini) Siri is that it activates even when I’m in another room and want my iPhone or iPad in that room to react, but Siri answers from the HomePod in the other room where I can barely (or not at all) hear it.
Yeah AHK can fix a lot of this, but I only really use Windows on my employer's computer and they're very much averse to installing anything to help with QoL issues like this.
This has been posted seventeen times already.

And it's a lie because the study only pertains to freshwater fish, not all "wild" fish.

It's also misleading in that "tainted water" has a strong connotation that it's tainted to the point of causing acute distress or illness.
It often requires extra overhead to work with someone in Bangladesh. Tax implications, legal complexities, potential communication & timezone challenges.

Also companies often can't tell how much profit they will make and can almost never tell how much profit each employee is contributing towards. IP, machinery, business processes, brand value, all contribute to the company profits. Some companies with very significant profits can even exist with zero employees. This idea that a laborer deserves some percentage of business profits is just fundamentally flawed.
I think the idea behind Tik Tok being good is that it was designed with tech goals in mind, unlike monetization in apps based out of US companies. My bet is that Bytedance is building generative models for video/audio for propaganda purposes (with the government involved of course), and Tik Tok is essentially their data set generator, so they designed the system for throughput from the ground up.
Hmm... A new micronation?
Also yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34405441
Same here, we try and keep 3 months supply of groceries on hand from costco at all times. Once a month we look through what won't last 3 more months and stock up, and once you actually figure out what you need it's surprisingly cheap. For example we skipped our December trip because of the holidays and so spent around $1100 for our family of six. Which sounds like a lot but when you stretch it out over 2 or 3 months that less than $100 a person. I'd recommend everyone who can does this.
The problem with buying in bulk is that it requires the money up-front and that works only if you can save enough money at least once. Poor people can be permanently cash-strapped, so they never manage to get to the point for that upfront investment.
https://publiccode.net/

The Foundation for Public Code: “We help public organizations collectively develop and maintain public code.”

Amazing people behind this org…
Yes. China has walled itself off economically, preventing American companies from making money in China. It's pretty crazy for the US to let the CCP run rampant in the US and compete against American companies when American companies don't have that same right in China.

I think we should definitely ban Bytedance and all Chinese companies until China opens up their economy to the US. I hate Trump and was against a lot but I supported tariffs against Chinese products.
(doh! my bad, I did stop at "windows first class...")
Use Zelle to transfer to the people you know--that's the intended purpose of Zelle. If you are buying a service/product, use credit cards or PayPal.