skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rents are declining nominally right now, not rising. If you look at recent MoM data. The software can't just tell companies to raise rents 10% if the market doesn't bear it.

It would require a unilateral cartel without meaningful supply outside of that agreement to actually fix prices.

That being said, this kind of behavior should be subdued as much as possible, within reason
It doesn't sound to me like the product owner should be considered the developers' manager. Though I guess that depends on what the word "manage" means and these days it's starting to sound like it's lost all meaning.
Funnily enough my company started an agile reorg last year, and it's going as well as you can imagine. Cant wait for the de-agiling next phase where we can go back to having 4 matrix managers instead of 5...
It absolutely gets better.

I took a heroic shroom dose and had a life alteringly bad experience. It left me a shell of my former self dealing with crippling anxiety and worse for years.

It got better with time, therapy, and focusing on health and wellness.

Professional help can really be a major catalyst for healing.

I have now fully recovered, feel better than ever and have a great life.

People must realize there is always light at the end of the tunnel.
The privileged have to invent their suffering in their leisure activities so that their lives feel any drop of meaning other than being an achievement trophy for the elder generation.
It’s interesting how the article reads linearly but the change for my code as was not.
My new projects went to 3.5 and my existing codebse got maintained at 2.7 until a version update opportunity arose.
It took a few years to get everything over.
Frankly HTML5 isn't XML any more. Very bad move…
Maybe limit the actual truth to the top 1-5% , and leave the masses to the sanitized version of history… which is basically the status quo in the west with mainstream media / Hollywood, and CCP in the east with China.
Ask HN: How did you all figure it out? Since your so smart
Then it is a misunderstanding on my side.
I submitted the URL with the fragment, HN removed it. Great job, treating me like child.
About $200 per developer? Sounds like a good deal to me.
You can have both hard copies and streaming by ripping your DVDs and putting them on a NAS with Jellyfin.
https://youtu.be/RZ8ijmy3qPo
Billions of people are not that smart.
I have never regretted quitting a job even though I never left because of a better offer. of course this depends heavily on expectations one has on their next checkpoint, and on their own lifestyle.
my recommendation would be: don't go into it exhausted and make sure to have enough monetary backup resources
Kids, stop fighting. It's the weekend. Go outside and play.
The same could be said of radio stations to Spotify, Bandcamp and the like. Once upon a time everyone listened to the same radio programs because that's all there was, then records came.. Technology has been splitting us into separate cultures hard for a good long while now. Probably even created the idea of a teenager.
That's why I don't like global variables...
We do it. Usually agile comes from above and the team only have to tick a box, say they re agile and show a shadow org around it. We even rotate the scrum master sometimes to spread the joy.

End of the day, we fill the client's need, as efficiently as we can without letting them run wild in expectations and keeping cost in line with budget: it's common sense and I dont get what the agile religions bring really. Turn idiots into mediocre people, maybe ?
Would a blog via physical mail work? I wonder if content would be more substantive or intentional.
This is obviously an advertisement, containing very little information, for a paid "club" of questionable value. Flagged.
Prosecutors: Convicted Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is a flight risk
I wish one of the cloud providers would provide a riscv instance type. Would make CI for riscv software builds for open source much easier.

Perhaps this new board could be rack mounted?
Big Pharma Greed’s Knows No Bounds
Is it a good thing to ruin your life more than once?

I'm still paying the price of not having a structured family (not my fault), not studying when I should, and spending pretty much all my life until I was close to 30 yo doing mostly nothing of substance.

It took me serious determination and hard work to close the gap. I did get my diplomas and stuff (and even chose the wrong degree for me), and still takes a toll on me.

I'm 35 and I'm in a free self-paced bootcamp (because I need to work and sustain myself, and I can't just pay 8k to barely learn anything for six months, without income), doing what I have should done 15 years ago, which is programming/data/etc.

Internally, I'm (kind of, not completely) in peace with my life, but mistakes do have a cost. Maybe if your family is rich or your mistake is a one-off then you can manage it without much of a problem, but fucking up your life can take very different forms.

You pay not only with your income, but socially too. You really have to get good at selling snake oil for getting attention from girls for example, or befriending people who's above your income level, and so much more.

So yeah, I don't think "ruining your life" is that fine.
There's absolutely no need to make things into a competition.
How it went: badly.

No matter what anyone says about how it finally succeeded: taking a decade is just plain disastrous. Saying "a language has to evolve" is vapid and meaningless. "Change" per se is not good OR bad in itself.

To start with, 3 fixed a lot of things that were not really broken. As Jasper_ says below, "Python 2.8 would have been a much smarter idea."
In the old days it was legal to record shows on your VCR.

What happened to the laws around that?
Yeah, everyone sitting comfortably in their big house in a nice neighborhood close to work that they got when it was reasonable to do so can now sit back and lecture others: "why do you need such an expensive house and less than two hour commute?! Just don't have kids and rent an apartment!"
Yes, they can. But the same 30s limit applies, they're not allowed to do a lot of work when being launched in the background.
Profitability does not imply that any value is being generated beyond the profit, in particular when you factor in all the externalities. Conversely, generating value also doesn’t imply that the enterprise will be profitable. The correlation is rather limited. The art is finding a way to both generate actual value and also be profitable.
Re: #2, as Matt Levine likes to say, everything is securities fraud. All the stuff that FTX did before was probably illegal, but it was in a grey area without a particular regulator. Once it became clear that FTX falsely claimed to investors that it had effective risk controls, didn't misuse/steal customer funds, and wasn't operating a giant Ponzi scheme, it moved squarely into the SEC's remit.
I realize the head color sort of works as a health bar, but perhaps it could be more obvious. Also, my 'gang members' start to flicker a lot on higher levels. Not sure if this is my (AMD Vega) GPU or something simpler. It's also easy to lose the helped on slopes and especially level transitions. I played to the lower train levels before I had to get busy with other things. Will definitely play again.
Alternatively consider reducing your addiction to television/movies and stop worrying about where your next fix is coming from. In the golden era of piracy I used to be a huge media pack rat spending hours a day obtaining more media to stash away. One day my ZFS array puked and I lost almost everything. I wasn't even upset. It was a blessing in disguise to be liberated from caring about hoarding media. Never seeing your favorite television/movies again is going to have almost zero impact on your life. It's not worth wasting much of your time and money on.
This is incorrect. According to NIH there is no such thing as “biological (genetic) gender”. You’re thinking of biological sex.

https://orwh.od.nih.gov/sex-gender
I read micro dosing the first time also. Somewhat out of habit when there is cognitive dissonance, I reread it and saw what it actually said. Usually this feature of my mind helps me to read quickly, but it comes with side effects :)
> all kinds of varying opinions on what [TDD] means

I guess I go by what Kent Beck, who coined the term said TDD meant.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/387190.Test_Driven_Devel...
If you hold things inside, in the long run it erodes your soul. Better to speak your mind and relieve the pressure. Often, by voicing opinions, our opinions change. We think, “oh gosh, cringe at what I said,” and then evolve. As Hemingway put it, “continence is the greatest foe to heresy.”
It does not scroll.
Depends on how you’ve ruined it.

E.g. if you’ve got senteced to life in prison, then you should pick up a hobby like mathematics.
The repeated, experimental injections we offered to and sometimes forced on people starting in April 2021, around the same time excess deaths began to increase.
microsoft is pushing out an executable to see if people are running older versions of office, without distinguishing it from an actual update, so if you have automatic updates on they're going to spy on you without consent. This is clearly not an update, nor anything to do with an update, its purely for microsoft's benefit and they're outright using windows update in a way that makes it so you can't trust windows update.

>"This update will run one time silently without installing anything on the user's device,"

By definition not an update to windows or office, using windows update to slip past any friction to having people willingly run spyware on their devices that in no way benefits them.

It's news.
Because typing them or reading them back over the phone is much less human-friendly.

So far https://philzimmermann.com/docs/human-oriented-base-32-encod... has the best trade-offs I've ever seen.

(Though for encoding numbers, where small numbers deserve a shorter representation, Base58 can be nice too.. z-base-32's alphabet is still more user-friendly. https://github.com/tv42/base58 )
It's paradoxical that many hospitals laid people off during the early days of the pandemic because they suspended visits/treatments, during the early days, for most non-emergency conditions.

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/10/853524764/amid-pandemic-hospi...

The healthcare industry is not as rosy as you imagine. Yes, demand is inelastic, but stuff like this still happens.
The non technical staff seem to learn to spot the knowbe4 shit real quick lol.
> bring value to key stakeholders

Or not, in this case.
Jarring, overwhelming, everything is too big, hard to process quickly. Not a fan.
> Google spent over $50 bill in the last 12 months buying back shares, ie handing money to it's shareholders.

that's certainly one way to see it.

another way would be: Google spent over $50 bill in the last 12 months keeping its stock price up artificially.
I really can't say if you're serious or joking. Python's transition can only be called 'successful' if the plan was to inflict as much pain as possible on maintainers of Python projects (and nowadays, Typescript via Deno doesn't really look all that bad for new projects where I would have used Python before).

If the 2-to-3 transition hadn't left so many scars, the idea to switch to a different language for cross-platform command line tools wouldn't even enter my mind. Python 2.x was just perfect for this use case, and Python3 didn't add anything of value for such scripts.
This is one motivation for BDD - it doesn't contain 'test' in the title, so it's easier to explain that it's a development method.
I double checked with him just to make sure, and he confirmed with me that he can see the tip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Development
It really isn’t quite that simple. There are Intersex people who have ambiguous genitalia and there are several viable chromosome combos besides XX and XY.
In case anyone else here isn't a druggie and wanted some context: According to Dr. Search Engine, MD, 2-5 milligrams is a "micro" dose, and 10-20 is a normal dose
When I visited Calcutta in the early 1980s, I saw limbless lepers strewn in the gutters like trash, covered in flies. I guess passersby did give them some free food or a couple of coins from time to time — but they were so despondent they barely raised their heads.
Agreed it might be just right for many people. I didn't realize he was Australian, that would have made the tone easier for me to interpret.
shameless plug of my side project: https://github.com/adamwong246/testeranto
Yes!

If you’ve really screwed the pooch, delete all internet presence and leave the country. No one in Costa Rica will look too deeply into your history. Leave illegally if you have to. Better to start over than many other options.

If you’re too fucked for that, like you’re an active pedophile or a SBF figure, there’s another option that I’m not going to mention by name. Some modes of living - bring Derek Chauvin right now for example - are going to scare you so badly that when they end, you’re still fucked.

Generally though, restarting is possible and much more common than you think.
> What is a hardware thread? I thought threads were a software abstraction?

This is a great question! Threads are a programming abstraction, but not just in software. Processors present an "architected state" to the programmer. Internally, the machine itself has a much more complex set of logic managing that presented state. The feature we're talking about here is generally called Simultaneous Multi-threading or SMT.[1] POWER was the first architecture to support this in commercial devices back in 2004.[2]

What's important to understand is that the processor core itself is made up of multiple units, each of which have their own internal state, task management, and methods of communication with each other. They don't just run a linear "fetch/decode/execute/store" cycle, even in a pipeline. If you were to do that, you'd end up with an extreme under-utilization of the silicon (or put a different way, someone else would figure out how to get better performance than you).

With SMT enabled, multiple real programming threads can execute at the exact time, while the core "figures out" how to share resources between them, increasing the effective throughput of the device at the expense of silicon.

With the newest POWER cores you can get up to SMT-8, and (if you want) even tune cores down to SMT-4, SMT-2, or just turn the feature off and dedicate all resources to a single thread while the operating system is running.

All of that is presented to the programmer as by way of the architected registers and behaviors in the processor. In reality there's a huge number of other registers and machinery running behind the scenes that isn't visible to user-space, the operating system, or in some cases even the hypervisor (if present).

Source: I worked in firmware for a couple of generations of these devices, was lead for a simulator team, and was functional owner for the launch vehicle for POWER7.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_multithreading

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER5
I agree with you, but times are changing. In my experience quite a few departments are moving to python now. This is largely driven by new students who choose or push for python based subjects, because of the much broader applicability. Typically that's a slowish process, starting at the first year level and transitioning to later levels. It's not like it hasn't been done before, when I was a student we would be taught in c or java.
A plain text document caused as crash? That sounds really strange.

It works fine for me on latest Linux Firefox.
I was thinking that these comments about death of JS in this thread which is about running in OS kernel mode not inside the browser are coming from ChatGPT type bots or the users are product managers with no clue.
That personal freedom and independence gets burnt away as exhaust in traffic jams for entire days of your life every month.
Yea so the solution is to just not have parties.
They would be declining more without the software, you can still extract monopolistic rents in an economic downturn. Just because the rents have declined does not mean they’re not monopolistic.

A lot of this is geographical monopolies and actual liquid stock is often quite limited, so long as price is set at the margin and the managed property is on that margin they can elevate the price. This is easy enough to do as low rent options don’t stay on the market. Plus non-managed properties will benchmark themselves against the market which includes the managed properties allowing for price leadership.

There is a whole zoo of anti-competitive behavior strewn through business that is tolerated due to the immense amount of money that is made that is beneficial to governments who tax it and politicians who receive donations. I don’t know how to fix it, step 1 seems to be fix political corruption and that already seems impossible. Once something becomes corrupted it’s very difficult to un-corrupt it.
this isn't an update to office, its just spyware for microsoft.

>"This update will run one time silently without installing anything on the user's device,"

by definition not an update
Didn't Facebook's Galatica model use scratch space?
Ask HN: Best programmable drone / open source OS?
I would like to run some experiments with drones in a remote property. What would be a recommended drone, and a programmable, "hackable" open source OS?
something something conjoined triangles of success
Paramount+ was kind of the last straw for me on streaming. A streaming platform entirely made from licenses they ripped back from existing platforms. And the new shows are trashy and lazily written.

I don't need to be on the zeitgeist any more. For all the old shows I want to catch up on, DVD box sets cost less than the streaming services to watch them on.
> Not until hardware became fast enough and compilers performant enough to support this

Yes, but the easy part is to think about what would be possible if hardware was fast enough. Not sure what you mean by lessons learned from JVM.
It is uniquely moronic that someone will get up on HN to criticize an organization that all but literally prints money. $2400 net profit per second. It's not like they are decelerating or even coasting, either: their income doubled last year, up 500% in 4 years. All those guys must be just dumb as rocks! Totally average overrated engineering org!
If you produce something socially useless, no one cares how much you charge for it, but if you produce something that saves lives, then it's "greedy" to charge as much money as possible for it.
I really doubt it. Or rather, I think thy level of intelligence needed would be so high that chatgpt would be doing all the coding for everything.
It is. It happens to fit my use case better, though—my viewing habits are very impulse-oriented, and the place I keep the media is my Plex library, so I can just fire up a web browser and watch anything I keep in there any time I want, from anywhere in the house. (I could probably set it up to be able to watch it from other places, too, but I'm working from home, so I'm usually there anyway.)

So if I just kept the DVDs, any time I wanted to watch something on one, I would have to:

1) Physically go to where the DVDs are

2) Locate the specific DVD I'm looking for (can be tricky if I'm looking for a specific episode of a show—I might not always remember what season it's from, and the Plex interface makes it pretty easy to scan through)

3) Get the DVD out

4) Go to the living room, where the DVD player is

5) Take exclusive control of the living room, and also bind myself to being there, for the duration of watching it

6) Put it all back when I'm done

So yes: for simple storage, as long as the DVDs you have will last the length of time you want to keep them, and you have enough physical space to keep them in comfortably, just keeping the DVDs is easier. But for actually using them on a regular basis, for places with less available space, for people who expect to be moving frequently (or just soon), and for collections where the longevity of the physical media is in doubt, digitizing is a better way to go.
This is sometimes called the London school of test driven development. At least, if you then mock the non-existent methods to make your top level test pass.
There’s not really advice here but it does speak the truth. In one year both my marriage and my mother died. I’m still here and still surviving. I still have days that feel hopeless, but that really is because fear doesn’t know the future. It makes me feel comfortable saying to myself “Today sucked and was a complete wash. Let’s go to bed and try again tomorrow.”
Honestly this defensiveness is quite unpleasant.

Google's interview process requires two things:

1) That you're compliant

2) That you study.

Smart people can get by this filter, as long as they're compliant with less studying.

Average people can get by this with more studying.

Even if you're smart, you will be studying.

"Rockstars" can't get by this filter, which is probably the intent of the interview more than finding amazing engineers.

I think it's possible that you've attached a certain weight to illustriousness of FAANG, but it's an open conversation outside of FAANG that it's not hard for an engineer of 8-10y to get a job there, the question usually becomes: "Why would you want to".

As soon as you get to a certain level in tech, your primary financial needs are met completely and you start to see the shiny veneer of FAANG wearing off.

A lot of what makes them seem competent from the outside is the sheer volume of staff, 100k people can make a LOT of shiny documents and good ideas (the borg paper has definitely made me think of working there).

The veneer falls of Facebook first "Ew, they're scooping up all that data, gross!"

Then Amazon: "They treat people like slaves and everyone I know Ex-Amazon is a burnout"

Then Google: "Everything that isn't ad-tech is a toy, sure, they're rich but you live in a massive bubble.. also "Googliness" makes it sound like a cult"

For all of these you have the implicit knowledge that you're going to be a tiny cog and overall the bureaucracy will be insane.

Anyone who has pulled back the curtain on these companies knows that while the comp is good, the engineers aren't extraordinary just because they work there or work on "x scale problems".

In fact, most Google engineers taken out of Google are fucking useless, because they've developed a body of knowledge built entirely on systems that do not exist on the outside, many of which were developed many years ago to make hard problems simpler.
No need to sugarcoat it. We all are prisoners of our IQs. You just can't brute force your way into becoming a Terence Tao or John von Neumann.
DVDs, sure. Is it possible to back up or store Blu-Ray media on hard drives?
Romantic partners are usually not usually randomly assigned.

So at the least the person with a string of bad partners is very, very bad and choosing romantic partners.
I want an end to Pharmaceutical Ads in the USA
True story.

Problem is, often you get an easy integration route, where lib and UI come in one package or a hard route, where you have to build a UI around the lib.

To save time, you use the full package, but then testing becomes a nightmare.

And the sad thing is, the stuff that's hard to test is crucial to test.
> Especially to Sequoia, which felt like they were behind in crypto investments (while a16z was getting into all the "big winners").

Sequoia had other peers that resisted this temptation, though, so the "blame ZIRP" argument isn't sufficient.
Some effects of psilocybin mushrooms on bipolar disorder unraveled
BBC is notorious for black face on their programs even in recent decades.
So long as you have multiple cores, you can make it so that userland and the kernel are on different cores with nothing else on them. You can also disable interrupts and just spin continuously both the user and kernel thread.

No context switches ever needs to occur.
Yeet: Kill the Process on Your Port