skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pam Moore, who has 350,000 followers on the platform, said she tells people struggling to start building a brand on LinkedIn to use a strategy she has termed “OPC,” an acronym for “other people’s content.”

The typical influencer shtick is "other people's X". Other people's money (real estate/investor), other people's content (influencer), etc.

It is a common reminder that there are no unique messages, only messengers.

The comparison of would you rather have 1000 engaged followers or 100,000 unengaged followers tends to have some truth to one's potential to make millions.

Those with the latter have a hard time monetizing in the first place and why you see the same names in vanity articles distorting the reality that anyone can do it by sharing their thoughts online.
Sint Maarten approves plan to destroy entire population of vervet monkeys
Same here.

KeepassXC to be specific: https://keepassxc.org/
I use DisplayMaid which remembers the positions of all the apps I usually have open, one configuration for each combination of monitors I use (work, laptop only, home).
It's designed so that no one can be blamed because you never know who took the decision and that no one has a chance to speak up against it.

My understanding is also that during mass layoffs big companiess can't just cut all low performers / juniors so this might be completely random but we just don't get to know that.
I am not sure how much is this better than magic link logins.
Yes, that's the other class of employee.
I don’t see the issue with using corporate backed languages. Java (the language, the core libraries, and the compiler, etc) are all GPL2. GoLang is BSD licensed, c#/dot net is some mix of MIT and a few others.

So what’s the problem? There doesn’t appear to be any risk here.
I'd tell them to forget about current trends and look at long term trends based on a reliable source of data: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

"Software Developers, Quality Assurance Analysts, and Testers"

Job Outlook, 2021-31 25% (Much faster than average)

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

"Information Security Analysts"

Job Outlook, 2021-31 35% (Much faster than average)

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
Is that how it works? Can I just charge every night, even if I've only driven a few miles, with no more wear on my battery than if I did full cycle charges? My vague impression is "no", but I really have no idea.
Nice list!

This is a nitpick on my part, but this part on PhantomData:

> Tells the compiler that Foo owns T, despite only having a raw pointer to it. This is helpful for applications that need to deal with raw pointers and use unsafe Rust.

...isn't quite right: `_marker: marker::PhantomData<&'a T>,` doesn't tell the compiler that `Foo` owns `T`, but that instances of `Foo` can't outlive its `bar` member. `bar` is in turn borrowed, since a pointer is "just" an unchecked reference.

You can see this in the playground[1]: `foo1` and `foo2` have the same borrowed `bar` member, as evidenced by the address being identical (and the borrow checker being happy).

Edit: What I've written above isn't completely correct either, since the `PhantomData` member doesn't bind any particular member, only a lifetime.

[1]: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
> People have no way of knowing where the things they buy come from

I don't know about other places and maybe I'm an outlier but I check everything for where it's produced / manufactured. Most if not all items in the US are required to have where the item was produced/manufactured. Some may say "Manufactured in the US with globally sourced material" makes it harder to pin down where each of the components originated from. Clothes and other items the country of origin is on the tag.
In 2003 it went to 100:1:0:0 for me for more than a year. It was a rude awakening after thinking that I was a high demand pro during the .COM bubble. Definitely taught me to hold onto my money.
Disgraceful.
That would be pretty difficult, as this is my first comment chain on HN in around ten years.
GIF vs. APNG vs. WebP
Most guys I know that can't get a date refuse to lower their superficial expectations. They spent so much time buying into pop culture that they only want to be seen with a woman that the vast majority of people are attracted to. Then they find themselves in a competition where they don't have a chance. It's like if a high school football player insists on going to a top tier football college, but when he gets there he just sits on the bench, not even realizing he could have been a starter at another school. Basically they need to learn their "league" and mostly stay in it.
Note that I said “you should probably drop out”, not “you need to drop out as soon as you notice others are better”. This shows that there is hardly a way I could have advocated it better, as people like you, or others in this thread (read their responses to me and mine to them) will misread it anyway, and instead argue against a straw man.

Additional reason is that if I hedged my opinion and tried to predict and answer to all possible critiques, the comment would be way too long and nobody would read it anyway, including the pre-written response to the point they made in reply.
Agreed. I use keepass + dropbox secured with yubikey. You can even go a step further and configure yubikey with keepass as well.
OpenAI is operating rationally as a corporation, and choosing labor, legally, in a cheaper country - if they were to pay US wages, why not hire American workers? The entire point is because it's cheaper. There's a different world where OpenAI chose to hire Americans for this job, but it's simply cheaper for them not to. The loss of American jobs is a whole other discussion, but it's the very economics of the situation that drove them to do that in the first place.
The one about exclusive references is good.
This post is, as other commenters have alluded to, a case example of why you should upvote based on the article's content, not it's title.

Great title, very poorly-articulated article.

tl;dr: It wants you to use Nim for $reasons.
So you think that it's ok to traumatize and scar workers for life, as long as you pay them enough?
Some people can't get good sleep in the US mostly because of non-stop noise/parties at night. Dogs barking, sirens, people fighting, etc. In Germany you can call police on your neighbour if they are louder than a ceiling fan. No such laws in the US.
Why Apple’s 70/30 Model Is No Longer Cutting It for Developers
Have you heard about let-else? It’s a recent syntax addition. That example translates as

let Some(min_id) = foo() else { return };
// continue coding at same indent
I don't know why, but I find watch mechanics super fascinating.

Few favorites for people with spare time (and lots of money if one wants to buy these):

Tourbillon: a watch complication where the main mechanism is mounted on a rotating wheel so that gravity doesn't affect the watch in a single direction.

Spring drive: A very recent mechanism that produces a perfect sweeping motion of the seconds hand. It combines both mechanical power (no battery) with a quartz crystal in a super cool way.

Minute repeater: a mechanical way for a blind person to tell the time.
> Amazon is trimming its head count after it went on a hiring spree during the Covid-19 pandemic. The company’s global workforce swelled to more than 1.6 million by the end of 2021, up from 798,000 in the fourth quarter of 2019.

This makes the news a bit less shocking, I think. Many tech companies are suffering — and laying off — due to the economy, and didn’t “swell” quite to the level Amazon did during the pandemic.

While I’m sure the economy is still certainly a factor here, it would make sense for a company that needed to expand to meet the sudden demands brought on by the pandemic to need to course-correct once that died down.

Especially since it was felt:

> primarily in its human resources and stores divisions

Both of these probably had to ramp up disproportionately to meet the sudden demands of the pandemic.

To be clear, this is still sad/unfortunate news for the affected folks. But I believe it's not quite the shock other news of layoffs has been.
Read the guides. Watch a couple YT vids, usually people will post Let's Play vids and/or strategy & HowTos.

And then, like all things, just doing it. You don't get better at running by reading running 'zines, you just go out there and beat your feet. Same deal with coding, same with cooking, etc. etc.

Also recommend getting a good chair, desk, comfy setup, etc. It's a lot easier to focus when everything else is working for you. Same holds true for a lot of other work.
Also gives folks the opportunity to hold off on the new house or luxury car.
> Many more people resign on their own on any given month, most likely.

That’s probably not true, but either way, it’s irrelevant. Voluntarily resigning, most likely with another job already lined up, is not the same as being laid off.
Based on this, if I take apart your car in your driveway and store all of the pieces in my garage, I didn't steal your car, right?

I merely disassembled your car, at which point it ceased to exist and was no longer your car. And then I took the pieces of not-your-car for myself.

If this sounds silly to you, it should.

Clearly the issue is that these ML models are being trained on stuff that isn't theirs. You can argue that they never "stole" the images because it's computer data. So now software piracy is fine right?

All content on the internet, even uploaded to freely viewable image libraries, has some manner of license. I could just go on DeviantArt and grab some person's work and start making T-Shirts for sale, but that wouldn't be legal would it?

So why should it be just assumed that the license allows training on AI models? This needs to be tested in court.
I agree that it depends on the circumstances. I would argue that generic advice is generally applicable. It can't cover every single corner case specifically designed to evade it.

By that same metric, advocating a person wait for a less car dependent society with accessible public transport is terrible advice for the average fat and poor person.

No hypothetical advice can pass a "No True Scotsman" test.
> ... small minded and intellectually weak detractors. ... Maybe use forethought and critical thinking ...

> Nothing nasty about my comment, its a factual response to the parent comment.

I called out your use of the word "obviously" without factual basis, and you responded with insults.

Insults and praise for the CEO of Twitter, which is irrelevant, since he still has not made any statement whatsoever on the subject, which was entirely the point of my initial comment.
No, if you don't list the job, it looks just like it does if you didn't take it and kept looking. You have the "hole" between graduation and first job same as if you took nothing.
Huh?

> paying 200$ an hour would be much more exploitative

I didn't say that - I only said that it depends on choice. Does the employee have a choice if they have a $60k (average individual income in the US) option and a $6M option? Yes. Are they de-facto forced into taking the $6m one? No.

I know many people who didn't take higher paying jobs, or left such jobs, because they knew the high paying job was going to be miserable.

There was even an article about one such individual just the other day here on HN: Quitting the Rat Race

"I’m currently working at a top tier investment bank as a software engineer. I’m an insignificant cog in a machine that skims the cream from the milk. I’m earning the most money I’ve ever made and yet I’m the least fulfilled I’ve ever been."
It was labelled the most corrupt country in Europe before the current situation. No doubt plenty of money laundering went on there.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/04/welcome-to-the-...
Warning of unprecedented heatwaves as El Niño set to return in 2023
Supporting multiple formats is a bit problematic though, if you want to process everything in the journal together to prepare it for publication. It makes the tooling far more complicated than supporting only one format.

It might be possible to have a subset of typst output to latex though, and then grow that subset. Like you could just evaluate all the functions to get raw text/markdown and then translate that to latex, and at the beginning you just wouldn't support all possible styling choices.
This is exactly the technology Altos labs is working on, and they have 4 nobel laureates on their staff. There are other companies too. There's going to be an explosion of progress in the next few years.
If all 10k of these workers get paid an average of $150k, Satya's salary alone would cover 4% of them. I find it hard to believe you couldn't save 5%

Do you have any actual numbers on the number of execs vs workers and their salaries?
Study finds 155 tiny new genes evolving in humans
You need to be applying to 20 jobs a day.

Pay for something that helps you mass apply - I think there are tools out there. Unfortunately I've forgotten their names.

Put yourself in a strong situation - i.e. move back to your parents etc so money isn't a worry.

I never went to Grad School but a lot of my friends went to Grad school.
I forgot that Homebridge was a thing. I use the “HASS Bridge” in homeassistant which I think is added via “add integration”/Apple/Homekit.
What's OG?
Every couple of months I wind up making a quick s3 static site which isn't too difficult but doing it manually there are several steps spread out across many pages and it's easy to forget one if it's been a while. Every time I do it I wish I had written a script to automate it the last time.
Can an Old Coin Solve the Mystery of a Lost Roman Emperor?
Oddly enough, my post this week https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/working-at-google-ads

includes a section about Google hiring Americans to do vaguely similar work, at $15/hour. I say "vaguely" because I don't think my cousin Missy had much racist or sexual content to deal with; at least that wasn't the whole point of the job like the Sama example.

Some of you may have heard this story before. The big company uses a small company to be insulated from the legal complications of hiring. That figured into the story: Google claimed they couldn't fix an obvious inequity, and HR told them to try harder. Missy got paid.

(In case you're wondering, that's not a fake name. I showed this to her beforehand, and she said it was fine.)
I'd add "Signed, A shareholder"
Connections, connections, connections. Reach out to every friend, old coworker, etc. especially those that are in management now. Catch up and get a pulse for how their company situation is right now--if they're weathering the downturn well, going through layoffs, etc.

If you do get laid off you can reach out to these folks immediately and get recommendations or even just feedback on your resume. The sooner you start doing this the better, don't wait to be called into a private meeting with HR and your boss to start this process. The harsh reality is that for senior positions you're either going to spend a LOT of time smashing submit on hundreds and thousands of applications while hearing _nothing_ back, or you're going to tap your connections and have a job lined up relatively quickly. New grads have it a lot easier in the open market IMHO.
> (and the countries that copy those types of loans).

What are the other countries?

I know China is doling out these loans apart of their belt road initiative but I'm not up to speed on other countries hamstringing countries with unneeded infrastructure and billions in loans.
"OpenAI hired Kenyan company to make ChatGPT less toxic"

"Kenyan workers helped make OpenAI's ChatGPT less toxic"

"OpenAI paid Kenyan workers minimum wage to work on ChatGPT"

Many different things are objectively true, but of course they mention the pay, because they know that to most of their "Western" readers it sounds outrageous.
Author has confused the drop functions. `Drop::drop` and `mem::drop` have nothing to do with each other.
Did you read the article? The author is concerned about spyware.
Ideally I'd want to keep my _personal_ personal stuff separate from my "work personal" (ie my personal logins, but the one for work accounts) separate from my shared work stuff. So I'd want two accounts, one for my truly personal accounts, and then one for my work-personal and have the work-shared connected to that.
It’s not “objectively” anything of the sort and this comes across as fairly rude and dismissive.
Since it is long term and difficult to get started on unions, lone wolves are moving to Europe for now.
Dads Have Been Older Than Moms Since the Dawn of Humanity, Study Suggests
I would even suggest to skip the gym (as in body building kind of gym) and go straight to group fitness classes (say Zumba or something similar). Those are choke full of women and positive energy, and finding someone is very easy. I would even go as further and say that you might even get to choose. Ask me how I know ;)
A/B/C paper series formats are based on metrics system and therefore, morally evil and unfit for the US consumption.
Launchers have replaced start menu search for me. They do more, they do it faster. It's frustrating that the start menu doesn't do basic stuff like open bookmarks from Edge, or do simple calculations. Having this functionality would actually enhance the functionality of Windows... but M$ doesn't seems more interested in putting ads in the start menu search.
Everything that can be used to solve widespread problems in a lasting way is technical. People snark a lot about social problems and the supposed contrast with merely technical solutions, but the gap at which this gestures is that we do not have enough understanding of societies (or other large groups of people) to engineer socially technical solutions with designed consequences.
People supporting this have a similar mentality to Arabian Gulf countries that treat laborers poorly: “we pay you so that makes us generous, shut up”. Of course, this behavior is unacceptable and needs to be condemned. Imo Using people’s conditions in poverty as a way to severely exploit them is like pimping out a starving child and wanting credit for sharing some of the earnings. There is nobody to protect the child and he’s desperate, but that doesn’t make the pimp correct.
I am experimenting with an AI based classification system.

Right now I am using it as a smart news reader with a single class "do i want to see more articles about this?" It works, but I don't think this kind of content-based filtering is going to be competitive with collaborative filtering for most people and why this is not a product on the market despite having been technically possible since the early 00's.

I am thinking about extending it to take an ontology and learns models to automatically put tags on documents, images, things like that and more generally set up some workflow where it learns how to perform certain steps on its own.
Just buy a printer with two paper trays and reserve one for A4 paper. Problem solved!
2,400-year-old royal tomb was found by accident during WWII
Small note- at least one of the links on mobile does not respect the text column width of the page, so the actual page width is wider than the text and horizontally scrollable.
> We can make gradual incremental change as we learn more though, and we should try to do so.

We shouldn't thoughtlessly make gradual changes which sacrifice quality of life for safety (which is the direction that these changes always seem to go) without actually deciding that the benefits are worth the costs.
Water Is a Terrible Thing for California to Waste
There is Coke and there is also Pepsi. Both very successful.
Just curious, is .pl the standard extension for Prolog programs? Why would Perl and Prolog choose the same one, instead of one using e.g. .pg?
Capturing the Mysterious Antarctic Whale Gathering on Film
You're right, but for those learning Rust, there's _so much_ to learn, that having occasional reminders of the more basic things is really handy. I've been hobby programming in Rust for years and professionally for about 6 months, and I still picked up one or two simple things from this list.
> "Is a person class still a valid person class if it has no Surname"

At least you then know the answer to this while writing code rather than at test time, or worse in prod
> No one is discussing that alternative. Not sure who you think is?

From your own post:

> working for sub-living wage is better than zero.

Respectfully, I'm not interested in continuing. Have a great day.
Turns out the "HN is turning into reddit" jokes only had the platform wrong.
I had thought that smartwatches didn't have cameras, but it looks like some do, at least. I can't imagine they're very good, since iPhones have a hard enough time fitting good cameras.
Great, I took a bit of a pay cut and went from senior manager with 50 reports to being a IC/manager mix in a very small team. I joined a much better team with great culture, a great product and real momentum. It was the right choice.
Its been like this from the country’s founding. Look at the regional split of founding father influence, 30-50 years later, which states became free states and which stayed, then after which state stayed in the union and joined the confederacy. Other such indicators too, Im sure but those are the easiest ones.
I don’t think the pigeonhole principle applies to human languages though
Thank you for the correction!

It has been many years since I looked into this matter, and I seem to have forgotten that detail.

Digging through my sent box, to png-mng-misc, I see that knew that back in 2012!

I also wrote that most of the tools I checked didn't verify the CRC:

> I tried a PNG with an IDAT chunk with an invalid CRC on various software
on the my Mac. Unless I messed up my testing, the desktop, email preview,
OmniGraffle, and Pixen.app all used the chunk with the invalid CRC.

My thread was "I would like some insight about PNG CRC and other experience" in case someone wants to dig it up.

I was able to make an PNG with a length field which, if changed, would produce another PNG showing a different result. At least one of the PNGs had an invalid checksum, but was still displayed.

EDIT: I found a public copy of the thread at https://png-mng-misc.narkive.com/YgUoUekk/i-would-like-some-... .
If you're building for a proprietary OS, then yes the tools sometimes aren't free - e.g. iOS development. However we can 100% use free tools to build free software running on a free OS, with the simplest example being C code compiled by GCC running on Linux.
> Many tech companies are suffering

Do they really? I regularly find 30% cost optimisation potentials in large organisations. It is just easier to fire people than optimise workloads and infrastructure.

On the other side, I haven't seen companies giving extra bonuses when the economy is booming.
Migadu.com Hosting within OVH datacenters – secure?
Hi,

the swiss provider does host it's mailservers within OVH datacenters.

Time ago there was a huge fire (bad safety/security of those centers) and many people lost their data.

Does Migadu split their data to several physical datacenters, or are they all located within one centers?

Would be nice to get a feedback.

Thx.
100% on testing behavior. That said, I still end up writing more and lower-level tests in Ruby to get fast feedback on silly errors, both in terms of locality of the failing test and in terms of not executing the entire stack to test variations of behavior somewhere deep inside.
I been watching one youtuber and his streams playing The Witcher 3 game.

He has to censor the moments when he fights with certain beast, an Water Hag/Baba Wodna monstrosity. .
Evil creature has a woman-like breast on display and hes seriously worried about getting demonetised by youtube for that....

Political correctness full on.

https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Water_hag