skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that is easily overlooked is the % of the laid off employees who are on a work VISA. This can be easily looked up and it is not insignifcant. Once an employee on a work VISA is laid off, he/she has a clock ticking. Imagine if such a person has invested their and their kids lives here -- mortgage, school, etc -- this puts an enormous mental stress on such families. I am one of those.

Don't get me wrong I am forever grateful the opportunities this country has given me and my family. But this rule of "get another job in 2 months or get the hell out of the country" is just cruel.
on this particular subject, on my personal account I receive very little real email any more, everybody switched to IMing. I wonder if that's taxing their system by not given gmail enough "good stuff" to chew on, to learn the difference? but that would mean they're personalizing it for me somehow which I doubt. maybe everybody's real personal email quotient has gone down.

sort of interesting, the real competitive enemy of gmail was not icloud or outlook, it was iphone.
>Search is a reflection of the internet.

Not sure I agree with that, as ChatGPT is pretty close to being a full-knowledge AI. I can ask it things Google fails to find and get a pretty damn good answer. Yesterday I asked it how Ethernet over Coax worked, what it was called, and specifically how it was able to get such high throughput while using only one conductor.

The top results on Google are for Amazon, zdnet (linking to Amazon referrals), screenbeam.com (shallow article trying to get sales), Newegg, Hitron Tech (same as screenbeam), and only then Wikipedia. And the Wikipedia article doesn't even mention CSMA/CA (still relevant for MoCA apparently)

Heaven help you if you have a specific problem with an emerging technology, like VR/SteamVR, specific 3D avatar issues in Blender or Unity, problems with a specific blueprint issue in Unreal Engine, etc.

Knowledge AI is the future, likely with "fine-tuning as a service" based on the collective sum of everything you do online and on your phone.
IDK maybe my bar is just so low across the board that I don't notice the difference anymore. Devs seem just as bad to me - they don't know shit about compilers or OS either lol

As for Twitter, that has to do with infosec having trouble communicating and a bunch of other stuff. I started to explain and it's not really worth getting into. Twitter was really important to infosec communication.
It’s not “ridiculous.” The median American simply has more money under the American system. The OECD collects detailed data on this: https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-disposable-income.htm. Look at the dataset “gross incl. social transfers in kind” which looks at disposable income accounting for universal healthcare, etc. America is head and shoulders ahead of EU countries like Germany.

Americans might be selfish but they’re not irrational. Much of my family immigrated to Australia and Canada. My mom just got back from a long trip there, and was complaining about how small and close together the houses are, and how doctors can’t really get rich there. If you care more about the square footage of your house or the number of cars you have (and Americans do, and continually import immigrants who have similar values) than about health care for poor people, then the specific trade-offs made in America economic policy are totally rational.
For languages, which do not have built-in the power to change themselves, in many cases it might be better to stick to their feature set, instead of introducing even more language concepts. Look at how much work is involved to get something as simple as pipelines. As if they will ever find the right syntax for everyone.

If we used a normal function we might have to include a library or a dependency or heck, just take 5 minutes and write a pipeline function oneself. Sure, it will not be syntactically as minimal as a _change of the language itself_ to allow pipelining, but at least it will not introduce even more language features and everyone can easily look at the definition change it or include it in their own projects.

Ideally we would strive for a minimalistic set of features, which in turn can implement anything we want. Adding more and more features, without introducing a way for the user to modify the language without a commitee and a lengthy process, seems short-sighted.

If you want to give the user more power over syntax, introduce a well engineered macro mechanism (plenty of examples in other languages) and let people develop standards and libraries as macros and libraries. Later on decide what to take into the standard language. Similar to how jQuery influenced modern JS standard functions like querySelectorAll. Even if you don't take something into the standard language, users are still free to include it in their project. No harm done and everyone gets their lunch and can scratch their itches.
or is it ? some code is made to be long-lasting (and that's the one we "see" because of course it lasted long already) but the large majority is short-term projects which are only relevant for a few months / years and will never get reused afterwards.
Benchmark Results Reveal Graphics Performance of M2 Pro and M2 Max Chips
Those are scientific issues, but STD spread is also a by-product of social changes.

The median age of female's first marriage was less than 22 for 100 years and rose to 28 in the last few decades[1]. I would assume this results in a higher number of partners and more opportunities for an STD to spread.

[1]: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizat...
Just finished this book and I agree wholeheartedly. It is pretty mind-bending for me to consider the extent of the technological changes that happened in my grandmother’s lifetime, and how quickly those changes just faded into the background. I particularly liked how the author presented several different viewpoints at the end on what made bell labs such fertile ground.
I think what that person means is that to get this actually built, is likely going to take at least 5 to 10 years of regulatory and government action. On the local level. That's not counting anyone that might throw up roadblocks, such as environmental, and safety. That could easily extend this out another five or 10 years.

If a company wanted to build this reactor today, speaking as a government bureaucrat, you are looking at least 10 years before they even break ground.
Google is freaking out about ChatGPT
I think a more appropriate idiom would be "in the thick of it", adapted here to be "until they're in the thick of it."

It communicates that you're in the middle of something chaotic/stressful like a jungle. The phrase is very natural for native speakers.
Won't this hurt Elon in the long run? I was never able to stand the official Twitter app it's filled with ads and irrelevant clutter. I think since moving to Android Tweetbot is one of the few apps I miss from having on my phone. I was still enjoying the Mac version. I guess I will stick to Nitter [0] from now on.

[0] - https://nitter.net/
You could create class that keeps static Map with references to all created objects of given type. On creation it would check if structurally same object was already created and return reference to previous instance instead of creating a new one.

If you freeze those objects and their prototypes you get exactly your records. === becomes structural comparison that costs exactly the same as reference comparison.

I made something like that for my own purposes for very simple types like Point.

To implement this you'd just need to be able to turn contents of an object into a key for a map. I agree that it's probably better to do this rather in the VM than in the library.
If all you take away from this is that "someone is trying to make me feel guilty", then maybe you need to re-assess your own personal sense of guilt, and stop projecting it onto other people.
Especially if you live in a high cost area, but also if you're worried about the near term future, don't put 20% down. That's a rule of thumb, not a rule. Yes, you'll probably need to pay PMI, but PMI isn't always very expensive.

If you had saved up a 20% downpayment, but you take my advice and only put 10% down, not only do you have a bigger emergency fund right away, but you also have a smaller sunk cost if you get laid off and you need to change your housing and the price goes down (well you're also going to lose around 4-7% on transaction costs anyway). But, if the price goes down significantly, you're also in the same boat as the lender; they'd rather you keep the loan than foreclose when the foreclosure won't pay the balance.

My credit union will do 90% loan to value up to $2M, and you can probably shop around if that's not sufficient.
Ask HN: If ChatGPT charged a monthly fee would you pay?
Recently I've been using ChatGPT, and I have found it has cut a lot of my googling time quite a bit. Personally I think I would pay a monthly fee (but I hope they don't charge though)
I'm determining how to migrate off of gmail. My inbox has been destroyed and I can no longer use it reliably, it's impacting my personal life. Spam comes in every day and no amount of "mark as spam" can save me apparently.
Yes? What do I not know that makes this question harder than it seems to me?
I was an engineer and then I went to law school. There were tons of older students in law school looking to change their careers, from housewives to Ph.D. grads. In intellectual property, it is not unusual to find lawyers whose prior careers was an engineer or scientist for many years. I've seen a few who graduated law school in the mid-to-late thirties, early forties and still go to big law, some eventually becoming partners.

I wouldn't go to law school unless you really want to do it, but the point is there are plenty of people out there looking to change their careers all the time. Some are more successful than others in achieving it (due to luck or other reasons), but it is not as uncommon as you may think it is. It's never too late. Good luck.
You are of course entirely correct. Unilaterally quitting or refusing an offer isn’t going to achieve much.

I do think a strike could be effective here though. A company is in more of a bind when all / many of its workers refuse to work.
Totally this. I moved away from the US many years ago, and having the luxury to go a few months without work and not have to worry about things like health insurance is phenomenal. You can find a new job at your own pace, when you're actually genuinely excited about it.

Also, there are enough other people around you who are taking their time that you don't feel like garbage for not having a job (somehow in the US, even when I was more than financially secure, I felt like it was 'not ok' to not be working)
I don't drink either and absolutely no one cares at these type of functions.

I can't even imagine pressure to drink in 2023 in the US at an after work event. It is hardly a kegger with everyone chanting "chug chug chug" or you aren't part of the group.
Same. I was having trouble with Mastodon. Nothing felt right from a UI design perspective.

With Ivory I feel at home. Can’t wait to start paying for it.
Its complex but you should try and separate your idea of “shame” from the concept of “consequence”.

People can change behavior to avoid consequence. Shame is a response to violations of morality. They're really quite distinct.
They have representation already, at many levels. The city, county, and state, and congressional.
As a big football fan, yes football not soccer ;), I like the idea.
But if you focus on derbies then stick to derbies.
Real Madrid - FC Barcelona is great, but not a derby. Same for Bayern - Dortmund.
Derbies are matches between local teams.

Maybe put non derbies in a separate list on your website with a link like "not a derby, but still a great rivalty".
"Feel like I’ve wasted my life. No marketable skills. Unimpressive résumé. No network. No mentor. No confidence. No motivation. And I’m in my mid-30s."

I have a "successful" career as a dev at a financial company. At least successful as in i was a high performer at one point and ive held the job for 10 years. I feel the same way you do, and similar age. I feel like I could lose my job and never get another tech one. I'll never get back to being a high performer.

The only way to answer your question is the apply/try. I hope I never have to find out for myself.
A typical household uses something on the order of 1-2 MWh of power a month. This is something like 2-3 KW on average. 1 MW can thus support something like 300-500 households, and 50 MW can support 15000-25000 households, i.e. small to medium size town.
Value is relative.

Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_(economics))
> economic value is a measure of the benefit provided by a good or service to an economic agent.

An obsolete Mac is marginally beneficial to Apple, who manufactures thousands of new Macs every quarter. Thus, their valuation of it is much lower - reasonably so - than the valuation that an everyday consumer would place on it.

I, for instance, have a M1 Macbook Air. As such, I wouldn't offer you more than $200 for your laptop: simply because I don't need a better laptop and the only thing that would prompt me to buy it from you is an outrageously good deal. #200 is your Mac's economic value to me.

On the other hand, a consumer who needs a laptop and who has no laptop would be willing to pay much more for your laptop than me or Apple. Their valuation of your laptop will be much closer to its actual standing, and would probably offer you a much larger sum, ~$1k.

Addendum: It's naive to force or pressure Apple to pay more for a laptop than its economic value to them. You're looking for a high economic value in the place where it would be lowest. Do better, Daryl Baxter, find someone who actually needs your laptop if you want to sell it. Don't complain about how you tried to sell it to the people who didn't need it and didn't get an offer you couldn't reasonably expect.
Another comment pointed out that at 25, Barnum exploited an old black woman as a slave in a sideshow, eventually after she died selling tickets to her dissection.

At 45, Barnum destroyed a true engineer-entrepreneur. In an era where clocks were essential for organizing commerce as the country grew, Chauncey Jerome revolutionized clockmaking by using stamped-out brass gears - both cheaper and more reliable, among the first shifts from craft to manufacturing. Then Barnum suckered Jerome into a venture that destroyed all the wealth and business Jerome had accumulated.

But we don't directly have that kind of impact... crypto, brick-and-mortar businesses, journalism if not democracy, the rise of successful surveillance states, the ubiquity of software rented instead of bought coupled with complete absence of warranty, digital services coupled to force arbitration clauses...
Won't support a car company that can't make good cars.
I feel that. I had one job for years. CEO threatened to disparage me if I quit, and they were very well connected. I was pretty miserable and do not even realize how miserable I was. I figured I had just started losing my hair at a young age.

I had a pretty large incident that lead to a broken knee, ribs, and hand. The team was mostly distributed and the C-suite was all in town. CEO insisted on holding a meeting at my house because everyone was in town. I remember none of it, I was catatonic in bed. I’m told everyone found the scenario one of the most uncomfortable professional experiences ever.

About a year after leaving I went from 6 hours of sleep to 8-9. My hair regrew. Took a couple years more to get over the anxiety that came with NOT working on holidays.

It’s wild how miserable I was and bore through it. It makes me enormously grateful to be working at a great company that actually disabled your GitHub if you’re working too much.
When I started this relationship I thought exactly as you did. How lucky am I?

But instead we’re just spinning our wheels on things like creating the perfectly scalable database design before talking to a single customer.

I too thought I was collaborating with someone with a great track record. But he doesn’t care about any of my ideas or contributions. He’s not a bad person. It’s all noise to him because the sound of his own ideas is so much louder in his brain.

Even if I implement one of his ideas, overnight, he’s not interested.

Once, I put my foot down and said we have to ship something and he was taken aback. For a few minutes. Then he rolled right back into his usual mode of ideation.

I understand why this story might seem really frustrating to hear and you wonder why I can’t make it work. I’ve been asking myself the same questions.

In the end the economic balance may be too tilted in his favor for it to be a productive collaboration. This is a hobby for him and a lifeline for me. He‘a shooting for something that gets him into a different comma club, and gains the respect of people even richer than he is. So for him, any amount of preplanning is justifiable. I’d be happy with something that just had customers.

If we were economic equals I could credibly threaten to walk away if we don’t do at least some of the things my way. But I can’t.
That's just not true!

There are 10x programmers, and even higher. On certain tasks you won't see the difference at all. Are you John Carmack-good? I'm not. Let's be big enough to admit it!

Think of it like Opera. The average singer can't hit the high notes, and no matter how much time they are given, they may never. If you just need to sing happy birthday everyday, the average and amazing singers might seem equivalent. They're not, though.
I have been a long time TweetBot user, it was a fantastic client. I hope that TapBots can weather the financial turmoil coming from this. Can't wait to try Ivory when it becomes available!
The F# syntax is an incredibly simple bit of syntactic sugar.

Just replace this:

x |> f

With this:

f(x)

For the join example, you must do this:

xs
|> (x => x.join(' '))

It de-sugars to:

(x => x.join(' '))(xs)

... which of course is simply:

xs.join(' ')
Plus didn't the apps have to pay for api access? I know there was some contention around that when the push notification api changed.
The Massachusetts Department of Health alert also reinforces the CDC’s recommendation to use high doses of the antibiotic ceftriaxone for the treatment of all gonorrhea cases and to perform follow-up tests to ensure all patients with gonorrhea are successfully treated.

Poor treatment adherence/outcomes in these cases would likely increase antibiotic resistance.

From the original report:
https://www.mass.gov/news/department-of-public-health-announ...
Move fast and break your $44B investment.
> You can’t choose not to work in the US. You will be without health insurance.

Neither Medicaid nor Obamacare require you to work. My father in law did this in Oregon. “Retired” years before being eligible for Medicare, and is covered by the Oregon Health Plan. In Oregon you don’t even have to be legally in the country to qualify for fill OHP benefits.
The company that made ChatGPT is being sued for global copyright infringement. Why the hell would I reward them for that???
Recent and related:

Twitterrific has been discontinued - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34445702 - Jan 2023 (355 comments)

Official Twitter Statement on Revoking API Access to 3rd Party Devs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34416416 - Jan 2023 (11 comments)

Twitter kicking off a developer API campaign on January 16, 2023 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34410624 - Jan 2023 (107 comments)

Tweetbot is back down again - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34396664 - Jan 2023 (210 comments)

The Shit Show - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34393485 - Jan 2023 (312 comments)

Twitter API Page - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34387834 - Jan 2023 (98 comments)

Twitter's API is down? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34363743 - Jan 2023 (408 comments)
Gonorrhea was named by a Roman physician called Galen some 1800 years ago. I'm fairly certain his patients weren't using Tinder.
Sigh... we knew this was coming for a while. Thankfully they were still able to treat it but it is very concerning.

Maybe we can finally get some funding for a proper vaccine.
There you have your solution Idaxit! Leave the US, split the state and rejoin the union (US) in case you still feel like.
...or maybe don't and just use the chance and bring your legislative and judiciary into the 20th century. You will be still a ahead of the then neighbouring US at least by a century. Maybe even other states feel to follow the lead. I've heard Florida is always easy to convince for such a move; maybe skip the war declaration this time. ;-)

Disclosure: I have no clue about the underlying political/"cultural" differences of Idaho in contrast to the rest of the states...or Florida for this matter.
Hah, nice try, Elon!
SVN is a relatively sane option, especially before git was published. But in 2023 its mostly been replaced.
> I believe this is commonly used to refer to a political system

> [I believe this is] not [commonly used to refer] to individual acts

First is correct, second is not.
If I was a resident of portland, I'd certinaly hope no state resources would be used to prevent or contain wildfires entirely within 'Greater Idaho' borders. It's their problem now, and they can raise taxes to deal with it.
This could be implemented as high default prices + steep discounts for people with tracking apps/cards.

It's already happening.

Luckily they can't raise the default prices too much, cause people without apps/cards will go someplace else. But with data like face recognition, it will become more prevalent, absent personal data regulation like the EU GDPR.
While I do get what you are saying VRChat shutdown is a pretty poor match to this scenario. the TOS for that always had a clear verboten against modifying the client and network traffic via 3rd party apps/patches.

In Twitters case, the API was shut down (with no warning) and then the TOS was updated to make the integrations verboten only well after there was a fairly huge backlash and late response of "clients were disabled that were violating api 'rules'" did not hold up against the actual rules in place.

I really do get the whole move fast and break things model, however this is Musk taking that model to mean put on blinders and run full speed while holding scissors in a crowded room with many walls -- consequences be damned.
I just don't see the replacement for Twitter as Mastodon -- which it seems the Tweetbot people are targeting.

Twitter will likely file for bankruptcy later this year due to the debt burden. However, the replacement for Twitter won't be a Twitter "clone."
Things will move on. I'm not smart enough to know what people will move on to... But they will move on.