skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of us have been there. I never had the thankless job but I was laid off then really struggled in a new role. I'm still not over it but when you can deliver some code again you regain confidence with every Jira.
It sounds like you are not even trying, really trying. Obviously, you are going to feel guilty and anxious if you don't make any progress, so make at least a little progress, even if it's not the technical part or reading papers to get ideas, instead you taked 1-month vacation. If you hated it, just quit.
Installation, fixtures, master controls.

I doubt they have 7000 bulbs on blutooth.
I'm a noob here but what is stopping you from displaying or exploring your relational DB in a graph fashion? Why does the underlying database structure matter at this level?

I think this is how Sqrrl works or how they explained it when I was busy bombing interviews.
I think it's not the age, because I knew plenty of older people (average age 50+) who would socialize regularly. They did go out drinking pretty much every night, and have plenty of parties. I don't know if that's still going on because I don't live there anymore. I'm also not sure if it's possible to replicate this without alcoholism, cannabis or the usual things that bring people together ;)
> Society is still effectively shut down for them and very few people seem to care.

1) I feel bad for you if you're genuinely sick and at risk, but I'm sure you know that there's a perception out there that many people are trying to milk Covid concerns merely to continue working from home or reaping other benefits that they value: and meantime they go out to restaurants and live life more or less normally. We all saw many of our political leaders who were fear-mongering Covid the worst do that.

2) You have to feel bad for anybody who is scared and feeling isolated, but what else do you want humanity to do? Short of just incinerating the planet, there's no method known to science to eliminate Covid in the wild. We shut down a lot of human activity for years (at massive expense, that we're going to be paying for many years) and even sacrificed part of our children's future to help the most vulnerable. Other than putting humanity in a total economic death spiral (that will be many times worse than Covid) I'm not sure what else can be done to give immunocompromised people a better situation.

3) I don't know how I'd live if I was genuinely immunocompromised, but the really sick people I know such as cancer patients going through chemo who are in/out of hospitals constantly are genuinely trying to go out and live their lives as normally as they can and trying not to be a slave to their illness.

4) Has anything qualitatively changed for immunocompromised people with Covid? Pre-Covid, there was influenza and other diseases that posed some measure of risk to people. Covid seems worse than them and can kill of course, but obviously isn't anywhere near something like Ebola in terms of risk. You're facing maybe a tiny bit more life risk than you would have in say 2018.
> I also feel this:
>> In the State of JS 2020 survey, the fourth top answer to “What do you feel is currently missing from JavaScript?” was a pipe operator.
> Is the wrong way to go about language design.

Let's call it Signor Rossi language design…

"Signor Rossi cosa vuoi? … E poi, e poi, e poi" (Viva la felicità by Franco Godi [1])

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrKKMtjNWCI
I started a project a few years ago with the goal of making more Schemes practical like this: Schemepunk (https://github.com/ar-nelson/schemepunk)

The idea was to make a standard library as widely compatible with existing Schemes as possible. If it worked, then I could write code (with this library) that was "just Scheme", not a particular implementation, and would run equally well on any Scheme. And it would make bootstrapping new Scheme implementations easy: all you'd need is a bare minimum of R7RS Small functionality, and Schemepunk could do the rest.

I haven't worked on it for a while, since I've moved on to other things. But I still think the idea has a lot of potential.
Jane Street is huge in HFT space. SBF started at Jane Street.
Basically it’s not mandatory in the sense that you will not be fined as a company if you do not have one. However, employees can make a motion to elect a Betriebsrat (works council) in a given location. Then, if 3 locations have a local Betriebsrat the Gesamtbetriebsrat can be formed which is regularly elected across the whole German staff. Grocery chains like Lidl and Aldi have prevented the formation of a Betriebsrat by employing union busting style measures (intimidating or firing staff, etc).

Iirc teslas giga fab does not have an elected Betriebsrat.

Since many American companies incorporate in Germany for their German branches, they can also face Betriebsrats elections.

Overall I do think a Betriebsrat is a net positive for a company. It’s not always as profit oriented as an executive but it has a long term interest in the company as opposed to executives who just think in quarter years and about keeping shareholders happy.
There definitely are. I've had someone help me like this in time of need and I make sure to do the same when I have the opportunity. You'd be surprised how often the opportunity arises.
I guess I came across harsh maybe, but I really am trying to constructively help OP.

Rather than enabling that way of thinking and reassuring them, I think they need a wake-up call.

You're right, though. I don't know their circumstances and am projecting my own experience here.
"[discussing his last exam] Last time I only failed by the narrowest of narrow margins"

"You what? You walked in there, wrote "I AM A fish" four hundred times, did a funny little dance and fainted!"

- Red Dwarf
LOL. Just imagine unleashing prime P.T Barnum on silicon valley. He'd "circle-back" and get some shit BOOTSTRAPPED.
Recreating a server for a dead online single-player game – Jewelry Master
Bringing GitHub Actions to GitHub Mobile
I just went through something similar. As a result of my (then) undiagnosed ADHD, I failed out of college three times, couldn't hold down a decent job. Early on, I stumbled into a good gig as a game programmer and did that off and on for a few years. Because I didn't know then that I'm autistic, I got myself into some situations and ended up self-sabotaging my career and wrecked my entire life. Ruined my relationship with my boyfriend, along with most of my friends and I lost everything. I moved to a new city and started over.

I managed to figure my shit out (and get medicated) and found a decent menial corporate job. Over the next 2-3 years I sent out hundreds of applications for boring enterprise programming because programming is the only thing I've been moderately successful at.

Worked my way up to assistant manager at the corporate job and immediately, deeply regretted it. Job applications increased in desperation, but no interest from anyone that seemed legitimate.

There's no moral about perserverence here, I got stupid lucky. A startup found my resume on Indeed and emailed me out of the blue. I had just recently updated my resume to include every skill I was even passingly familiar with, and they picked up on my experience with electronics.

Now I am more or less a R&D engineer. I develop hardware and firmware for current and new products, innovate new types of hardware and generally get to dick around and explore whatever field I like.

This kind of role has been the secret hope in my heart of hearts since I was a kid. Something I'd always assumed was unattainable and never let myself think about too much.

Needless to say, I never expected to get here, but I couldn't be happier.

I don't really have any advice. I got here through sheer luck and the ability to seem like I know much more than I do. I massively impressed during my interview and my varied skills turned out to be precisely what the company needed at the time.

I padded my resume with every skill I thought I could confidently bullshit my way through. Total hail Mary, but it worked. Dunno if I'd recommend this strategy, but I was desperate

ETA: I got the new job just before my 30th birthday. Most of the disaster was in my late 20's. I still feel like I wasted all of my 20's and I don't know if I'll ever be okay with that. Just have to move on
Yeah. I have an account that bounces through gmail as part of a forwarding chain. About 25% of its non-spam messages were being silently stuck there (and not forwarded) until I disabled the gmail spam filter. The downstream account (fastmail) spam filter works fine.
Job Hunting in 2022
Yeah, no. The idea of even reversing function order just to use the piping operator itself is already bad enough to even consider using it.
"Average Speed Check" cameras are widely used in Britain, mostly on motorways. They are always well signed, and they are very effective at reducing speed.

At first, they were used in construction areas, which was probably acceptable to most people. I rarely drive there, so I'm not sure how much they've spread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECS_(speed_camera)
What's more interesting to me is that C23 apparently removed support for non-two's-complement signed integers. Which vendors had to change position to get that change made, and what hardware had to officially get removed from serious consideration to make it happen? This site mentions UNISYS:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/arithmetic_types
I have a month old business email for my new company setup with GSuite and Google's own on-boarding emails went directly to spam in that inbox. I haven't marked any emails as spam with this new account yet.
Here:

https://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/2010/02/bobs_red_...
He had a very successful business and Apple sales talked to him about modernizing his office and workflows. And then he promptly continued to use what he already had. Not an uncommon story even in 2023. :) But it did create a truly remarkable opportunity for me, because certainly, to your point, my family could absolutely not afford this computer.
As an aspiring PhD student and procrastinator, this comment section makes me both hopeful and mildly terrified.
Interesting setup but seems a little overcomplicated. I just have a terminal open in which I run tmux, and a browser in which I run whatever project I'm working on. Browsers already have tabs, and tmux already has tabs, so I don't need to additionally manage those relationships with sway.
An early development unit for High Density from Palm, Inc
The main repository is in the top 1% of stargazed repositories on GitHub, and the project has a mailing list, Discord server, IRC, AND Slack.

It has been forked over 300 times, and has over 100 contributors.

What in the world counts as "serious" to some of you people?

Sometimes I read HN and ask myself if people here know at all how hard it is make something people want, and how many people know what the real-world thresholds are for understanding when you have made something that people want.

I guess if everyone hasn't heard of it, people here don't think it's serious.
> some of the shittier proposals manage to slip in

Examples?
I know it sounds really good to say no DLC ever, especially as a counter to so many abusive microtransaction implementations, but I think it should be obvious to anyone that development of new content needs to be paid for somehow.

Sometimes a game is such a wild success that the sale of new copies can sustain development for years, Minecraft and Kerbal Space Program for example, but even those juggernauts have eventually introduced new versions where that promise was never made. Minecraft Java edition is still entirely free of paid content, but Minecraft Bedrock edition which is the version compatible with consoles and mobile devices has all kinds of stuff. Kerbal Space Program kept their promise that early buyers got everything free, but development on the original has shifted to pure maintenance as they're about to ship Kerbal Space Program 2.

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Personally I've never understood the problem some people have with the concept of DLC as a whole. If the developer can make more content which I can then choose to buy if I feel like it'll be worth the money, that seems like a win-win. Just like expansion packs in the days of boxed games (and still in physical tabletop/board gaming), or buying mission packs to upgrade your shareware copy of Wolfenstein 3D.

There are definitely certain ways that DLC has been abused which should 100% be shunned. The model used by all too many "free-to-play" mobile distraction games where you can pay to speed up or eliminate move timers, anything competitive with a "pay-to-win" aspect, multiplayer games segregating players without the DLC to smaller and smaller queues, etc. All that is bad, but that doesn't mean the entire concept of DLC is bad.

The important thing in my book is that the only reason I should feel the need to buy the DLC is because I want the content the DLC provides. If I feel like I have to buy something to remain competitive with others who have, or to keep being able to play with my friends, or even to just keep playing at all that day then that game is doing it the evil way.
I just finished last year in the US and your first paragraph sums up my experience.
Let’s not argue semantics. They mean exactly what you mention: line-level labor.
You can do it, it all starts with what you want to do. Depending on that there is absolutely a path to get there. All you are limited by is your will and your effort. Assuming you are able bodied and of average intelligence.
> Anyone else finding this documentation is pretty hard to navigate?

I can't speak to these docs in particular, but I think documentation regarding type-system in general can be hard to digest. And it probably varies by reader.

E.g., some people find "The Little Typer" [0] to be a wonderful intro to its topic. Personally, I find the writing style impenetrable.

> Makes me think this isn't a serious language, but rather an academic toy or resume builder.

If the documentation turns out to be useless to the majority of readers, then you might be right that it's a sign of under-investment. I'm not sure if that's happening here.

There was a good interview on Corecursive [1] about Idris, so IMHO that's some evidence that some people are serious about the language.

[0] https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262536431/the-little-typer/

[1] https://corecursive.com/006-type-driven-development-and-idri...
Several answers on that page suggest that daily operation of circuit breakers is not harmless.
Satya is favorably compared to Balmer, whose effectiveness is constantly understated for reasons unknown to me. Anyone who takes over from an unpopular leader gets bimus points for not being unpopular.
Elixir's pipe mechanics probably aren't a great model for implementing pipe operators in existing languages. A large part of what makes |> work in Elixir is the steadfast commitment to f(most_likely_to_be_piped_param,other,params) argument ordering in the standard library.
Yeah, same situation here. I was looking for furniture after a recent move and ended up sticking to Ikea and a local furniture discounter where I could see/touch it in person, even though I strongly preference online shopping, simply because Wayfair and other sites like it felt like "Wish" for furniture. Lots of obvious shell company names producing identical designs, all manufactured on the fourth-shift as counterfeits/knock-offs of well known products, or just low-cost/low-quality designs sold at significantly above cost.
with full agreement re. growth mindset, I've definitely worked with people above me who were more, less, and completely un- interested in leveling me up. It still makes a difference.
"Different people have different risk tolerances and people with lower risk tolerances disgust me."

Okay, gotcha.
Like San Francisco
> and this is the main reason most companies overhire. It's so that engineers are less inclined to go home and build their own competitor.

This is most definitely not true.
Can we even get a C++ compiler from the OS distribution and end up happy?
Even C can be "wrong" (gcc vs llvm for example).
So realistically nobody gets their compiler from the OS.
Amazing tool! I love how fast is python here :100:100:100
Now the remainder will do 50 hours of "ambitious" work for projects that will eventually get axed, redone, reorganized etc.

It was never a raw productivity per hour problem, it was an organizing productivity behind meaningful, useful and profitable projects problem.

> certainly not interested or in a position to build things 100x better

in an organizational complexity of 150k -> 138k workforce, no one is in a position to make things 10x better, let alone 100x. Shedding 12k is a scapegoating gesture as if there is such a possibility, merely to ease the anxiety of the market price of shares. It doesn't even directly move the needle for profit/asset ratio, but it will help depressing wages with the theatre of "look what we had to do".
Hampstead Heath
Except that the order of evaluation is different now. Side effects? Who cares.
PipeWire in Linux embedded project: a multi-ports audio system demo on i.MX8
Zig is probably the closest you'll get to this in an imperative language. You can write functions that take types as arguments and return types, and that's how e.g. generic data structures are implemented.
These hack pipes are a trojan horse. People wanted elixir/F#/ocaml aka function pipes, and what we got was unreadable line noise. I argued against it until I was blue in the face, decided it was bad for my general wellness to keep it up. I genuinely would prefer no pipes over this. I couldn't find a single example where I preferred it. The token they chose already has a meaning in Javascript! The arrogance and willful disregard for readable code was astonishing. The only tangible reason I could pull as to why they picked the least popular implementation despite all the outrage was "someone at google didn't like the function pipes". Even if you think we should avoid it because some google employee doesn't want it, that doesn't mean you should ram in an even worse implementation. I had to block the TC39 discussion because I was just going to get argumentative because they weren't listening at all, and they were dismissing actual concerns without any explanation.
Just don't pivot into the wrong field
For months now, emails with subjects like "MCAfeeconfirmati0n--#21845315" and "confirmation#4073301981" have been hitting my inbox. These are such obvious spam emails that I'm unsure how the spam filters aren't catching them. Reporting them as spam hasn't done anything to catch them.
The steel industry was hollowed out long before trade was opened with ‘the new China’.

I wouldn’t say protectionism is inevitably a bad policy, but it frequently is, may be so by default, and it is not driven by movements for justice and equality but rather by ‘special interests’ that can feed back a small amount of their gains to finance politicians and thus put their ‘activism’ on a sustainable basis.
That’s not the way triage works. There should be a regular ground based EMT or other trained first responder on the scene to assess the patient and determine if an air evacuation to a level 1 hospital is necessary. If deemed necessary then the judicious use of this expensive resource can be performed.

An untrained person unprofessionally assessing a patient in the field and then asking for an air evacuation should not happen. At bare minimum the first responder should be trained in performing a trauma survey and checking vital signs. However, there must be situations in which evacuations such as this example are performed inappropriately. Once an evacuation is requested it’s dutifully performed, inappropriate or not.

The example in the article is one such case. A non-medical helicopter without proper equipment for life threatening injuries was used. And as you said, if this person had internal injuries and destabilized during flight - what would they have done? Could they place an IV or do intraosseus access, give a fluid bolus, provide Epinephrine/vasopressors, or protect airway and intubate? Can they perform CPR?

This evacuation was purely a ride and not properly staffed or equipped for a patient with life threatening injuries or for a patient at risk of destabilizing. The pilot shouldn’t have taken the patient nor should the air evac been requested.
The Cannon Cat was Jef's vision, and it didn't even have a GUI.

> Canon Cat is primarily the creation of Jef Raskin, the originator of the Macintosh project at Apple. After leaving the company in 1982 and founding Information Appliance, Inc., he began designing a new computer closer to his original vision of an inexpensive, utilitarian "people's computer".

It features a text user interface, not making use of any pointer (mouse), icons, or graphics. All data are seen as a long "stream" of text broken into several pages. Instead of using a traditional command line interface or menu system, the Cat makes use of its special keyboard, with commands being activated by holding down a "Use Front" key and pressing another key. The Cat also uses special "Leap keys", which, when held down, allows the user to incrementally search for strings of characters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat
It's not dystopian, but it raises the standard of evidence beyond what is feasible to support. With simple limits, you can say "I clocked you at 80 on a 65mph road" and that's evidence enough. You'd need far more evidence and deliberation to enforce the rule "you went faster than a reasonable person should".
> there should be a way of management keeping employees in check

You mean like the power to hire and fire them, tell them what to do, and how much they get paid?
Exactly. "Full responsibility" with no particular consequences is meaningless.

Or perhaps he could take a paycut as a proportion of people fired. It's not the same, but it's a step in the right direction.
Ya that's what I'm wondering. The central problem seems to be wealth inequality (that capital has been separated from labor). So there's no money available for laid-off workers to start a business, maybe by design.

As far as I can tell, there is simply no place where a group of workers can borrow money. We have no concept of loans co-signed by a large number of people in the US.

For example, there should be a floor at which a loan is deemed risk-free because a typical person has that much money. Any of us can donate $5 to someone living on the street at any time. So 100 people should be able to borrow $500 together, no questions asked.

Now, how high can that go? Certainly $20 each. Maybe $100? $300? It's going to be an amount similar to what payday loan shops offer to strangers.

To me, this is like customer acquisition cost (CAC). In the 90s, CAC was under $1 before advertising got saturated. Today it's between $25 and $50, which has eliminated nearly all indie websites selling handmade goods for less than that. And driven the rise of influencers, and incentivized taking over making.

I know we have Kickstarter etc. But for something like this to work, it would need to be available everywhere immediately with no nonsense, no exorbitant interest or fees and no wait time. The government could offer group loans like this with a $100 per person limit today and bootstrap the economy to where it was 25 years ago and make a huge return.

Maybe this is what drove crypto and NFTs, just in a way that was obviously going to implode because workers were expected to pony up the cash. So I'd be curious to hear if investors know of any places to take out group loans like this.
Its weird because there was a time when I would have agreed with him. "Google Now" launched years ago and did an amazing job of predicting things. The little four icon thing in their launcher used to almost always have the app that I wanted at the top.

Now, "Google Now" doesn't exist and the launcher rarely predicts an app that I'm wanting to use next.

Search has regressed too. Google Finance and other web properties are maybe about the same, at best.

And these are just a few of the less obvious problems.