skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haven't you noticed how search results quality has changed let us say from 2007-2013 and comparing recent time period? I used to get the best information, websites, media material that I was looking from the rarest sources on the web, even probably rare to find given my geo location. Today I usually get information not by the quality, but from "the biggest brands" on the web. I was surprised that I didn't find one specific forum in over 20 search pages, but then I had checked my bookmarks and the site was still running and functional and contained what I was exactly looking by the keywords and other possible search factors. These days I just feel I get the information sources that are the most advertised or well branded, but do not reflect the accuracy of what I'm looking for.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/hedge-fund-tci-says-alpha...
All 3 of these are related to optimizing for income. Even the first. They use so much antibiotics due to optimizing for income when it comes to the meat industry.

Speaks to priorities
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The 10x programmer doesn't exist. Yes, an experienced programmer can complete a well defined coding exercise, in their field of expertise, ten or more times faster than other programmers. There is research to back up this claim.

However, in the real world software engineering is hardly ever just about programming. As a permanent employee there is a lot of time sink in attending meetings, town halls, compliance training, performance reviews and just generally sucking up to management to ensure you get the promotion you want.

"Ten times programmers" often heavily rely on their team to be able to be this efficient. The worst ones rely on their team to fix their hacky codebase as they move on to a new project.
Pretty much. You don't want to know what happens at Amazon when you turn off your EC2 instance.
Dear god I thought I was the only one! For awhile I was getting multiple drive spam requests a day. Then they stopped. Yesterday I got my first one again in months and it just is not okay. They are all coming for clearly fake emails and sending Russian bitcoin shit. I know Google has OCR, maybe use it when someone invites 50k people to a drive and there are no social graphs related.
Agree they're terrible. So lets talk about outlawing slot machines altogether because they're too addictive.

Something tells me a lot more money is made off of slot machines in casinos than on military bases. I just don't see why they're singling out the military in the article.

I guess my point is the article feels like a classic "abc is bad, and xyz does abc, so therefore xyz is bad" type article.
Very good point. As per Job snijder's own words [0], "the sshd binary becomes unique on every openbsd machine". So checksum-checking systems will indeed trip everytime.

[0]: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=167388832715992&w=2
I don’t understand why more people don’t think like this. Even from a selfish point of view - you get to live in a place with less violent crime, you get to experience living in a “happier” community, etc etc

I feel like this is the opposite of what’s happened here in the UK and the timescales are not that long but the collective amnesia is staggering. Even just as far back at the mid 00’s seems to have fallen out of the memory of a large proportion of the population.
Anecdotally all the spam I get is exactly the type of spam I got 20 years ago on the same email address. I don’t think it’s chatgpt but either a loosening of filters or something else.
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I think Stadia is something they handled well. Refunds to people. There are worse deprecation examples you can find.
That is hardly as dangerous as a chemist making bombs.
This is the problem that vexes me the most (though I'm utterly uneducated on political science). Yes, people generally don't vote with the things that affect others on their mind. So, we can attempt to divide people into groups of "affected by X" and artificially increase the worth of their votes, e.g. "affected by rural issues" vs "affected by urban issues", but that's just so incredibly hazy (there is complex bleed-over between all categories due to indirect or time-delayed effects). And there are too many categories to realistically consider. Do we artificially amplify the votes of black people because there are issues that disproportionately affect them and they are a minority population?

And then you run into problems where there is an issue that affects everybody, but one of these amplified groups has a strongly different opinion on it compared to the general population for some tangential reason, where there's no good argument to amplify any one voice on the topic (lots of examples in right vs left social politics, reflected in the rural vs urban groupings, that aren't intrinsically rural vs urban issues).

Edit: I think the second problem I'm describing is what people are calling "the tyranny of the minority."
Meanwhile, here is an actual quote from the figurehead that led the quantitative dumping that put us where we are today: "I don't take responsibility at all"

Remember how a few short years ago, it was widely recognized that Wall Street and Main Street were completely out of sync? That was due to trillions of dollars in helicopter money meant to make the financial markets look good despite the pandemic. These layoffs are part of the bill that's coming due.
Ask HN: Is an union for sw developers still a bad idea?
The idea of an union for software developers is not new, unique to the profession and has been discussed multiple times before. Whenever I bring it up it gets dismissed along the lines of "we are getting paid $$$ and we're in demand so why bother?"

Given the state of the market and how corporations are treating their human capital nowadays do you think an union for software developers is a viable thing?
You may well have some sort of expenses associated with the house after you buy it, so include that in your budget. If you're nervous, then wait and increase your emergency fund so you can be a lot more relaxed once you eventually buy.
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Twice since 30. I screwed up my entire younger years, went back to University after 30 to get a degree in Electrical Engineering and worked hard during university. I was hired on as an engineer making semiconductors for one of the largest analog semi's in the world. During the pandemic, I decided to start yet another career in another country.. Now I work as a technical electronics expert in the automotive industry...

So, yes.. It is very possible to do this. Like most things in life, you will have to work hard and make sacrifices.
I used to be surprised that anybody fell for those Nigerian scam emails, then I heard about multiple cases of whales being fleeced for millions.

Then it hit me that there really are some rich entitled f*ks who really think a few million dollars might fall out of the sky and hit them.

Some of the worst suckers for Amway I ever met were a family who inherited a ton of money because one of their ancestors founded an airline.
> The problem drivers are the ones who overestimate parts of their comfort.

This. The problem with justifying excessive speed on an empty road is the fact that a road can be empty, until it isn't. The speeding driver has now given away all of their buffer that might allow them to avoid a collision. In most cases the collision still won't occur but when it does it will almost certainly be fatal to someone.
I started over in my 30s. Here's what happened generally:

1.) Graduated with a degree that had very limited options post-graduation
2.) Worked dead-end jobs
3.) Got tired of said dead-end jobs, and started teaching myself Linux and AWS
4.) While employed at the last dead-end job, I got LPIC-1 and AWS Solutions Architect Pro certs
5.) Used the certs to get an entry-level Linux System Administrator/AWS SA job at a startup
6.) Worked my butt off for a year at the entry-level job, and then applied for a job at AWS (in support)
7.) Got job at AWS, which I'm still at

I went from making like $35k to 6 figures in around 4 years.

Find something you're passionate about, and go about learning it. For entry-level jobs, certificates are often a good replacement for experience (at least to get hired). Once you have your first job, focus on meeting people and learning as much as you can. And then pivot.

You won't ever know how good you are unless you take a leap. Only reason I thought I was good enough to apply to AWS is a recruiter reached out to me cold and I gave it a shot.
I'm awfully late to the party, but: that isn't true. They wouldn't spend huge sums on preventative antibiotics if they didn't work. The problem is the negative externality of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
I think it would, assuming they want to work for an established tech company. They do not say what field their degree was in. If it is non-technical, even a hard science, getting an additional undergrad in an Engineering field would make them much more employable.

If they do have a technical degree then I agree that an additional undergrad would not help. But I certainly think returning to graduate school would help them get hired.

An aside, they OP is not really stating what they want to do. I am interpolating from:

> Will tech co’s ever consider hiring someone like me?

That they want a role like my own (senior software engineer, 15 YOE). But I am not certain.
The website "Are we GUI yet?" lays out the current state of UI frameworks on Rust, for those interested: http://www.areweguiyet.com/
Is the GitHub Actions self-hosted runner safe for Open Source?
Sorry, I still don't understand what you think "Pro" should be used for, when the label is attached to a notebook.

Do you have an example of a notebook where a "Pro" label would be appropriate, as an example, so I can understand where you're coming from?
There is a union for SW devs and any other tech people in Sweden. But then again, there is a union for every field of every work here.
Remind me, what happened after the DotCom bubble imploded?
> Repeatedly, I pour my heart and soul into a project that I believe in, only for ownership to trash the project for superficial reasons.

You deserve better!

Don't let your passion for a project blind you to the fact that you have better options, to make better money, have better opportunity... and - by far - most importantly, to get treated the way you deserve!
I can only imagine, mine is a pretty popular name as well, I see quite a few entries where I get mail obviously to other people... It gets kind of annoying to say the least...

Examples like, someone put me on their Farm Equipment account, so I was getting receipts and marketing... Also got on someone's college application, so funding notifications etc.

I have sometimes made an effort to contact the org or person in question... I did manage to change someone's password for a dating site, and changed their profile to "I don't know how email works" etc. When I couldn't reach the person.
In Europe, even in the wealthiest countries, average programmer salaries are about 10% higher than the national salary at best. This would mean probably cutting your salary in half, instead of talking about it. It would be interesting to see you face that reality. Words are cheap.

And besides if you think that's an economically feasible zero-sum calculus, I don't even know what to tell you.

But if you really think you earn too much, you can donate 40-50% of your salary and truly transform another person's life or make an astonishing impact in a charity of your choice. I hope you are being coherent with your words and are already doing this.
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I think it's the chicken-egg issue. Firstly it's not the tools'fault. But overall, the culture of using that tool made it worse.

For example, most of readthedocs documentation i've seen is nothing better a wiki page, where you have a bunch of links to click on in a messy way somehow.

So i guess your issue with this one, is you're missing some structured knowledge with this page.
Here's an intro to dependent types from David Christiansen, I think it came up during another dependent types discussion: https://youtu.be/VxINoKFm-S4
Yes, but the assertion is that so much capital is required that it's a barrier to starting a business. And that's just not true. It is definitely possible to bootstrap a small business, and there are many government programs available to help. The bigger barrier, in my opinion, is an appetite for risk. In that capacity, America is definitely following in Europe's footsteps.
One difference I see is Lean uses type classes while Idris uses implicits. Can anyone comment on the pros and cons of that decision? (Or pros and cons between the two languages in general?)

It also seems that Idris was created as a general-purpose language first, whereas Lean started as a proof assistant and only recently added general-purpose language. Is that evident when using the languages? A quick look at Lean's general-purpose language seems reasonably similar to the Indris experience AFAICT.
#2 and #3 seems like obvious places to direct public funds via government, being investments in public goods.

In the USA, this can be done either through executive agencies, or by Congress. Is Congress unaware of the issue, or is there some political jockeying that prevents it? It seems like maybe it's worth redirecting funds from other basic research (medical or otherwise) into this area for at least a few years.
It's still company time. You don't get to play video games. The draining part is pretending to work.
It's not like you get a private office and nobody ever sees you. You have to go the weekly meetings and tell them about how much you worked on X which you didn't.

If you could convince the company to make you a part of a mini skunkworks team with the freedom to do anything as long as it benefits the company then I don't think anyone would object to it from a mental health perspective.
> You can't use an entirely unapproved drug off-label

I know how drug development works, but thank you.

The vaccine is approved for use against another bacterium in the same genus. It is not approved for use against gonorrhea. That means it can be used off-label.
So you want to make a new JavaScript framework
I hope that you reach this point (not having to work) sooner rather than later.

It is funny though, the number of people I know who got there and then went back to work for "the man" again. Not for the money, but for having people they could hang out with and talk about things with. They sometimes find happiness working for a company where they have the freedom to be completely honest because "losing your job" isn't a threat that bothers them.

In the US managing health care is annoying, of course if you can live without working in the US then you can likely live as an ex-pat in a country that has decent health care included. It has its own set of tradeoffs (languages, community, Etc.)

And for some the "little goals" start to feel dishonest, kind of like knowing that you could do "anything" with your remaining life and you are doing little goals you made up for "fun." I know it doesn't sit well with people who were raised to "make a difference" and "be the change."

Giving back can be rewarding, mentoring younger people, people who are coming up the ladder. Working with organizations staffed with volunteers brings its own set of quirks. Sometimes "prima donna" doesn't quite capture it :-).

At some point you really internalize "hmm, I'm going to be dead and do I care what others think of how I spent these years?" Facing mortality sometimes re-arranges what is, and what is not, important to you. Depending on how close one sees the "finish line" that can be either empowering or depressing. Often a little of both.
I see corrections like this more often, but admittedly only if it's quality journalism. First thing that comes to my mind is a german tech news site, golem.de .
I mean -

> who benefits from me believing this?

In the case of this article, presumably the exploited* laborers whose labor conditions might improve if the population to whom this article is addressed both became aware and started to care about the labor conditions of the people behind the systems they use. Trying to 4D chess ourselves into not having to actually address the issue at hand isn’t clever or insightful, it’s just abdication with numbers attached.

* I’m not arguing whether or not the behavior described in the article actually constitutes exploitation or is just the noble hand of the market more perfectly forming working conditions - that’s not my point. The point is if you DO read the article and you DO feel that behavior’s exploitative, scratching your head over who’s got an agenda to want this thing you find abhorrent changed, as opposed to trying to change the behavior you find abhorrent, is the kind of thing people think smart people are supposed to do, and tends to contribute to more things you find abhorrent happening in the world.
>The public’s understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) is largely shaped by pop culture

First clause of first sentence falsely posits that the "public" has a single mind, and claims the authors know the contents of this mind and what causes it to acquire these contents. It also adopts a false pose of authority and and understanding superior to that of the (nonexistent) mind of the public. It was nice of the authors to disqualify themselves from offering worthy ideas on the topic of AI so early in the article.
You're not wrong, but the signaling around `rust-lang-community/http-server-async` having one patch release in two years vs `r0ckst4ar-life/tokio-hat-tip` doing the same—even if both repos host the exact same code—is (in my eyes at least) completely different.

Both could publish the exact same HTTP server crate but with one of those two, I can a) have some confidence that it's a probably a reasonable default choice, and b) assume that it's much more likely to be stable and mature than simply abandoned.
> Afroman is responding to a raid against him in his own way:

Because the courts never do anything to hold the government responsible unless there's political pressure. Lucky for him he's in a position to generate publicity and pressure without dying in a bulldozer.
> That said, in a large company you can cruise for years and that's what I did.

It sounds like the poster stayed a long time and got paid for doing nothing. The details of the actual "came to a head / moved on" are missing.

I don't think going after the company is a good idea based on the facts presented.
This is a fundamental philosophical question. IMO you're not responsible for your ancestor's actions. However, your ancestors were partly responsible for your welfare, just as you are partly responsible for your future generation's wellfare.

As much as we push our modern definition of "individualism", societies do not grow in isolation. Social groups that place a premium on improving the next generation do much better. If people want better lives, then start creating better lives for their kids and grandkids
Are you saying in a perfect world, the perfect CEO would "can" (get rid of) every team/project that isn't projected to 5% ROI yearly (assuming risk free rate has roughly gone from 0.25% -> 5%)?

Obviously there are exceptions where you want to eat losses up from (R&D a big project for a few years hoping it returns a lot down the road)?
Yeah I agree that live editing is probably a more appropriate name right now but I think there are so many tools that already do that right now and haven't really made much impact. I don't see a large value in the live editing aspect when it comes to developing and deploying faster, even though this system will support it. The live editing is most valuable when preventing merge conflicts and working on several machines. Definitely open to your thoughts though.
cargo new example-server

cd ./example-server

cargo add actix-web

(quickly searches crates.io for `actix-web`)

Cool, copy and paste:

use actix_web::{get, web, App, HttpServer, Responder};

#[get("/hello/{name}")]
async fn greet(name: web::Path<String>) -> impl Responder {
format!("Hello {name}!")
}

#[actix_web::main]
async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
HttpServer::new(|| {
App::new().service(greet)
})
.bind(("127.0.0.1", 8080))?
.run()
.await
}

takes ~a minute. Not sure std would have saved me any time, I would have just searched the stdlib docs instead of crates.io for actix. And I guess I wouldn't need to `cargo add actix-web` lol that was not the bottleneck.
My wife just graduated from nursing school at 44 years of age. Plenty of her graduating class were in their 30s, 40s and 50s. She was a social worker until we had our first child - she's been home with the kids for 15 years. There's plenty of hope: decide to do it and let nothing stop you.
Can you describe the difference between the "capitalist" model of property rights and the common law model? I wouldn't classify ancient Roman property law as fundamentally different from ours today, would you?

Would you say that the ancient world practiced capitalism? Surely they had wealthy classes of merchants, landowners, bankers, etc. who accumulated capital and did stuff with it.
> The Elder Mother is thought to be the guardian of the elder trees, a

Must be something with old Indo-European roots (or even older than that), because we have something very similar in Romanian folklore, it's called Muma Pădurii (literally translated as Forrest Mother). From wikipedia [1] (very rough translation by me):

> Muma Pădurii is a Romanian mythology character which is often present in Romanian fairy-tales. According to Romanian folk tradition she is an ugly witch, who lives alone, deep in the forrest and she scares people. It looks like she is also present in the Slav folk-tales under the name of Baba Yaga

As that wiki quote says, the Slavic people have something similar under the name of Baba Yaga [2]

[1] https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muma_P%C4%83durii

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga
I have reduced my meat consumption to virtually zero. Is there any proof that a stressed animal gives worse quality meat? Even after cooking it? Could anyone double-blinded tell the difference?
There's a word for people who pick and choose which laws to follow: criminals. And I don't think there's too many duck guns subject to 922r.

> Meanwhile, plenty of Democrats in Chicago own illegal sears for their Glocks along with drum mags.

How do you know they're democrats?
The effectiveness of the flu vaccine is kind of odd, but somewhat makes sense since it seems more like a moneymaking machine than something that actually has some worthwhile results(some people will probably jump on this statement). Most places don't even seriously market them for that very reason.

40% is terrible for something like gonorrhea, so unless it becomes much better you're better off being more diligent in your sexual escapades.
This is the standard way of doing it.
In my experience, people do not use "10x" as an actual output metric, but rather as a rough _replacement value_. You could give me 10 other engineers for a quarter or just that one, and I'll be on track for the release either way.
Been working on something similar since when I take notes, I don’t actually want to think about tags, but rather have them be autogenerated and or suggested without losing my current context.

Looking forward to seeing how you implemented this when I get home
Could you share those filters?
Would be lovely if there was actually any movement to avert the employment apocalypse. So far all I see is talk, and I have no idea how to do anything beyond that myself
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