skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a statement of fact that is either true or not. It is not a statement of culpability in anyway.

Men are pigs (see that's a fact and an example of a moral judgement), and are almost exclusively to blame for the spread of STDs. Doesn't change the fact changing female sexual norms change sexual network connectivness and therefore how STDs spread
Databricks cofounders weren’t interested in starting a business (2021)
Agree 100%

Elon has always slashed customer service and PR in the companies he runs.

Twitter for all it's warts, was still a haven for public accountability when traditional customer service avenues fell short.

Not surprising that following an unprecedented consolidation of wealth (2020), we see someone take that opportunity to dismantle that.
I find Idris incredibly interesting. Specially combined with the output it can generate in other languages. The book of it is also a masterpiece, even if you never program in it. Already lots of "serious" hacked together programming languages.

The only downside I see if the lack of a package manager.
And the article notes that the cost increases were due to factors such as the price of steel and steel fabrication increasing. Perhaps the cost of building new reactors like Vogtle has gone up similarly?
Maybe a hot take but 6 months severence is extremely generous, they don't have to give anything. This is basically being spoiled compared to how the rest of the world is treated. I'm sure these talented engineers can find new gigs within 6 months
I've also noticed this a little bit, virtually identical situation. Searched around for a bit, narrowed it down to the reason being that I had a UPS tracking link in the email... which was the point of the email, to send that link.
> That's a lot of pretty mobile fission products!

https://gain.inl.gov/SiteAssets/MoltenSaltReactor/Module2-Ov... (slide 23)

"Gaseous Fission Products Inherently Evolve from Fuel Salt"

"Many FPs have Xe or Kr precursors

– Over 40% of FPs leave core

– Large fraction of cesium, strontium and iodine end up in offgas"
I could go through and list everyone they get to elect that represents their community, but I'm going let this be an exercise for the reader.
Because productivity still scaled linearly with consuming humans, even if the constants improved. AI and other advances offer a potential for nearly autonomous productivity allow for productivity that scales independently of available labor.

Additionally I would say that each advance brought us closer to post scarcity. We have close to eliminated extreme poverty globally. Compared to hunter gatherer society’s we already live post scarcity.

Finally we may very well be post scarcity, but the notion of nobility in work and morality of labor means we can’t yet seriously consider decoupling work from life necessities. At some point there won’t be enough bullshit jobs left to justify pretending people need to labor to eat, and society will either collapse or we will move beyond work to live.

I would posit however the invention left undone is the one we use humans for now. Their ability to reason, make independent decisions, synthesize new ideas in any situation, learn new and different skills, interacting with a complex field of visual, auditory, and sensory stimulus effectively towards a goal, etc. That’s why we research AI. If our tools have that, then our tools don’t need us. If our tools don’t need us, we don’t have to do the work. If we don’t have to do the work, there is no scarcity because work scales independent of us.

There are also other inventions we know of but haven’t perfected that help here. Efficient fusion is one. With that energy is cheap and plentiful and presumably clean. Energy is the ability to do work. With artificial minds that can produce minds that can in turn produce minds, fueled with plentiful energy, what’s left?

So I disagree that we’ve invented everything that might be useful, or that what hasn’t yet been invented won’t lead to improved productivity to the point that human labor is redundant and all human needs can be met without it.
Was there anything stopping Twitter from charging 3rd party clients and their users for access to the API?
Unfortunately. If your web page need to deal with Chinese Android phones, you still need to deal with old browsers.

Their android system somehow always shipped with broken auto-update of webview or chrome.

Which results in people open your webpage with quite old browser version.
The manufacture's website says CO2

https://marel.com/en/products/co2-gas-stunning-system
ShotSpotter document reveals key human role in gunshot tech
Creator of A history of the web http://webhistory.org/
> Or you can be responsible for the death of a child

This is unrelated to whether you speak to the police. In fact, you can be indirectly responsible of a death because you speak to the police, making them narrow down their investigations on you ("9 out of 10 times, the caller is the one who did it"), wasting time and letting the criminal go unimpeded for enough time to kill someone. Duane provides examples of this, which for some reason you insist on disregarding.

If you want to help, I'd say call a non-police missing children hotline instead, if those exist in your country.

> And if I have seen something and can pass that information directly to the officer investigating the case, then I will do it, instead of taking hours preparing my legal defenses risking it all.

You're risking spending 20 years in jail or even death row, then (not hyperbole: watch Duane's video). You don't need to spend hours preparing anything, just call a lawyer.

> And I did talk to the police without a lawyer in a couple of situations.

By your own admission, you don't live in the US. While I'd really hesitate to involve the police even in my country (where they are truly corrupt and dangerous), Duane's advice is specific to the US. It doesn't necessarily translate to other countries.

> But overgeneralisation is never helpful.

In this case, it seems that it's the truth rather than "overgeneralization" (Duane mocks these warnings "not to generalize" in his video, to great effect! "But what if I'm about to fall from a cliff and the only person who can help is a cop, should I talk to them?"). This lawyer speaks from experience and is an expert on the Fifth Amendment; you are not. Cops agree with him and follow his advice. He has plenty of evidence to back his advice.

Ignore him at your own peril. You're free to do so, but it's unwise.
> “So-called AI systems are fueled by millions of underpaid workers around the world, performing repetitive tasks under precarious labor conditions.”

You can say this exact thing about capitalism as a whole. Children working in coltan mines and on cocoa plantations and such.

It feels a bit superficial to write articles that just jump on some cool tech bandwagon just to point out that this tech is also exploitative. Because nearly everything is. And in case of that specific tech it's probably not that bad when compared to children in coltan mines.

It's a feature of our economy that we, well off people, all benefit from, our entire life.

We'd have to change entire rules of engagement and who's gonna pay to make that happen?
We are not going to change it by playing whack-a-mole with global behemoths.
This does need to be solved, but I came up with a pattern in a recent project I'm pretty happy with:

- Create all the variants as normal structs

- Create enums around different subsets of them that just wrap each struct in a variant of the same name (including from/tryfrom impls)

- Have methods for "casting" one of these enums into another

The second and third points can be made fairly non-painful with a macro where you just say "enum X can be structs Y, Z, A, B..." and it creates the variants and impls all the traits for you

But yeah. This is one of the bigger pain-points to implementing certain stuff in Rust

Edit: just realized you were talking about something slightly different from me, but I think you could extend this pattern to get it:

Have a trait that all variants implement, implement it on the enum too, and have the enum delegate to the variant structs (since those are already separate). The wiring should be automatable with the same macro
They would likely be better off in the long term as time spent on this kind of menial labor represents a massive opportunity cost.
But then why would you call all those different variables ‘%’?

Reading this version though I also notice something else that the F# style enables that the Hack style doesn’t which is that it supports destructuring. So in F# style, I can more easily make pipe steps that pass on multiple values in a structured object or array, then access them easily down-pipe.
Mitigating Motion Sickness with Optimization-Based Motion Planning
It is beginning to look like all the large companies that were hiring to deny talent to competitors are now feeling comfortable trimming the fat because they know that the startup fundraising scene has shifted dramatically in their favor (fewer potential competitors being funded), and they can trim costs and regain the initiative as far as having more leverage/bargaining power over current and future employees is concerned.
Seems like it just changed companies - Google/Apple/Nvidia saw an opportunity and poached a lot of them to death.
They use C02. Here's what gets me - they also use CO2 for euthanizing lab mice and I know people who work in labs where mice are euthanized in this manner and they say the mice never act stressed.

Does CO2 affect pigs and mice differently? Or is this a one-off being leaked to make it appear that all pigs are stressed when euthanized with CO2? I really don't know and I don't know anyone who works in a slaughterhouse.
Abstract:

The acceptance of automated driving is under the potential threat of motion sickness. It hinders the passengers' willingness to perform secondary activities.

In order to mitigate motion sickness in automated vehicles, we propose an optimization-based motion planning algorithm that minimizes the distribution of acceleration energy within the frequency range that is found to be the most nauseogenic. The algorithm is formulated into integral and receding-horizon variants and compared with a commonly used alternative approach aiming to minimize accelerations in general.

The proposed approach can reduce frequency-weighted acceleration by up to 11.3% compared with not considering the frequency sensitivity for the price of reduced overall acceleration comfort.

Our simulation studies also reveal a loss of performance by the receding-horizon approach over the integral approach when varying the preview time and nominal sampling time. The computation time of the receding-horizon planner is around or below the real-time threshold when using a longer sampling time but without causing significant performance loss.

We also present the results of experiments conducted to measure the performance of human drivers on a public road section that the simulated scenario is actually based on. The proposed method can achieve a 19\% improvement in general acceleration comfort or a 32% reduction in squared motion sickness dose value over the best-performing participant.

The results demonstrate considerable potential for improving motion comfort and mitigating motion sickness using our approach in automated vehicles.
Up to a point.
Honestly, it was partly my faith in money that made me comfortable with Twitter as a public company. They (gradually and often reluctantly) learned that if they wanted to be a viable business, they had to provide a reasonably safe place for a lot of people. For purely pecuniary reasons, they also thought they needed to be a good partner to people building things related to Twitter.

All that has gone by the wayside, of course. Part of the problem here is that Musk had so much money he could afford to burn tens of billions of dollars on a weird personal fixation. [1] A problem that the market has happily started to correct, [2] but perhaps not soon enough to save Twitter.

[1] One possible explanation is here: https://defector.com/i-was-almost-elon-musks-twitter-voice

[2] He even set a record! https://www.npr.org/2023/01/12/1148634966/elon-musk-guinness...
How about we judge people for what they say and not what we fantasize they meant to say?

Judging others based on what we feel they really meant to say is a very dangerous course.
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One of my friends is using it at work. They have been using SVN since a long time. They have been planning to migrate to Git for a few years. The problem is that customers pay for features, not for the version control you are using. SVN still works, and the inertia is not zero.
shit, we cant even agree on tabs vs spaces. How do you expect us to collectively bargain?
Hmm. I'm doing some digging, and apparently CO2 is used, at least in some context, for a lot of large processors. Here's an example of a product advertising it: https://www.frontmatec.com/en/pork-solutions/unclean-line/st...

Mea culpa.

I'll do a bit more digging first, to make sure I understand how it's being used. Just putting an animal into a chamber with a concentrated CO2 atmosphere would be identical to putting a bag over their head - obviously inhumane. Logically, that doesn't make sense to me. If nothing else, the animals would struggle and be very loud, which would panic the rest of the queue.

I'll follow up once I know more.
I don't recall seeing anyone actually using PerlScript, or other scripting languages beyond VBScript in the browser for apps. I did work in a few locations where there was heavy push for VBScript for browser. I used JScript in classic ASP in much the same way.
That’s an interesting insight.

Maybe the biggest problem for me is that this relationship is crushing my ego, as a builder and creative person. There really isn’t any room for what I consider my strengths.

I could redefine my life to be the person who is the truth-teller to a difficult person with a good heart and lots of resources. It’s not what I wanted to do with my life though.
Can't a doctor administer it, if you self-pay?
and poverty doesn't?
So long, and thanks for all the tweets.
You can still use Flutter/Dart if you want.
What happened to Silicon Valley that was in the same vein as Gawker’s destruction?
Personally I'm not worried about the biggest nuclear accident so far. I'm worried about the potential future very unlikely but very severe nuclear accident that kills a non-negligible fraction of the population. An accident that makes Chernobyl look small.
The quote about Ashley Biden being afraid is in fact fabricated, as far as I can tell. But that seems par for the course for Snopes, to debunk a related claim and completely ignore the primary claim. Here's a photo from the actual diary: https://preview.redd.it/4esvp92f60y71.png?width=385&format=p...
While I don't really think PWR in a module is that huge of an improvment. They did help to develop some certification that will help many other SMR companies.

Congrats on getting this certification threw. Its a huge achievment even with a PWR.

Sadly if it wasnt a PWR it would essentially have been impossible in the US.
Clearly you simply need an enterprise event bus stack, an enterprise event analysis stack, and an enterprise event visualization stack.

Our enterprise salespeople are on the way!
ABET accreditation isn't really very important in Computer Science, tons of good schools forego it or offer a separate Software Engineering degree that has ABET accreditation.

CS isn't like Electrical Engineering where a university is either ABET accredited or a diploma mill. ABET imposes a lot of controversial requirements on CS programs that many top programs don't agree with. It's a young field and the curriculum hasn't been set in stone to the same extent it has in the rest of the engineering school.

That being said, the school itself being properly accredited is still important, and obviously going to a highly regarded CS program is an advantage (although it doesn't need to be ABET, for instance last I checked Stanford CS is not ABET accredited), although it's not the end of the world if you can't.

Edit: I just noticed you said ABET accredited university and realized I may have misinterpreted what you meant. I would agree that the university having an ABET accreditation in it's Engineering programs in general is important, i.e. it's a bad sign if the school you are going to for CS has a non ABET accredited E.E. program (although those are few and far between due to it being essentially mandatory and much less controversial in more traditional engineering programs).
Just about everyone understands that "full responsibility" is meaningless.

One thing I've come to internalise is in a public (maybe most of private too) company CEO's fiduciary responsibility is to maximise shareholder value. From what I've learnt the switch from "profit" to "share holder value" occurred sometime in the 80s. So they'd do whatever it takes to reduce cost; outsourcing to 3rd world countries, financial engineering, wage suppression, hiring contractors and what not to ensure stock prices keep going up.
Big overview: https://ghuntley.com/fracture/

A couple points in time:

Pylance, installed by default, won't open source. Microsoft keeps calling VSCode open source. https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4

Same for .NET https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1537175065380495367
That doesn't make any sense, both are about abortion. Getting people to talk and think about one will naturally draw attention to the other.
> my own SE business

Is SE software engineering?
Sheesh. I got all excited thinking that Lean was working on "Thorium Power".
This accident? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1

"Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One, also known as SL-1 or the Argonne Low Power Reactor (ALPR), was a United States Army experimental nuclear reactor in the western United States at the National Reactor Testing Station (NRTS), later the Idaho National Laboratory, west of Idaho Falls, Idaho. It experienced a steam explosion on the night of January 3, 1961, killing all three of its young military operators, and pinning one of them to the ceiling of the facility with a reactor vessel plug. The event is the only reactor accident in U.S. history that resulted in immediate fatalities.
So it seems the pigs are put into a sort of elevator which takes them into the chamber. When the CO2 starts coming in they panic and thrash for about 10 seconds, after 20 seconds they're starting to fall over. At 30 seconds, they're out cold.

Maybe we have different definitions of "painless" here but that seems very harmless for "The Inhumane Cruelty Of Factory Farming." I was imagining something really vicious from the headline.
It can be done, but probably shouldn't: https://github.com/zegl/extremely-linear/commits/main
What do you think the employees would be doing if they didn't take this job?
Do the pigs act stressed? Because I know people who work in research labs where mice are euthanized with CO2 and they say the mice don't appear to be stressed at all.
Some spoke out. But many were in the sickos-yes-yes.png camp of being absolutely gleeful. And a much larger number were indifferent or in the wait-and-see camp.
What I said was what's the point of having both? If you have both, you still need a UUID generation library. As I said previously, I can see the performance advantages of using ints in some cases, but in my experience they're relatively rare so I don't see the point to default to them.

As for the other advantages of UUID, I and others have covered many of them above: security, fewer roundtrips, shardable, easier to find in logs, data warehousing, backups, disaster recovery, etc. etc. The advantages of UUIDs are so great that my view is, in any serious app, you actually need to justify _not_ using them with concrete performance data that shows why using ints is a worthwhile trade-off. There are cases where ints make sense.

However my main point is, as I said, that having both ints AND uuids is of very limited usefulness.
We did. It’s a private school and they sweep everything under the rug. The other parents know she’s not a great teacher, but she was making an example of my kid in particular.
That's a limit of exception handling in Elixir.

A good language treats errors as a first class type. Functions that can error have no business returning an A.

Example given, the fetch API, is basically typed as fetch<A>(): Promise<A>

In reality, there might not be A at all, it should return a data type such as Either (or Result) which encodes linearly and forces the consumer to consider and handle the error.
Do you use a Mac? If so try using Voiceover. It takes some getting used to and if you’re used to being a speedwhiz on the keyboard…you may find it frustratingly slow but I found it helpful when I lost use of one of my hands for a week.
I would just like to die now.

I wish I’d left.

It can get bad if you stay. Take everything.
I'm in a software union that covers a few sites. Its useful for the big sites. Who experience more drastic shifts in work so having defined layoff policies(retention credits and such) and such matters more.

But im in a proportionally smaller site that does unrelated business and has different concerns and gets completely ignored because our population is too small, so as a result our concerns and success is completely irrelevant at contract time.

In my infrequent idle time im trying to figure out what it would take to eject the union from just my location. It may be advantageous to the company to keep it here though, it suppresses our wages, so that complicates things.

Workers at companies slashing their headcounts may wish they had a union.
Schemepunk – A kitchen-sink utility library for several R7RS Scheme dialects
I wish we had local butchers anywhere close to us. They're all gone. Priced out by Costco, Walmart, and Safeway.
“Where is the collection”

The samples that make such a calculation true. That’s what you’re missing an actual statistic X>Y is based on the underlying data.

Further someone can just as easily make up X = 27.24 +/- 0.01 with a 95% confidence interval as X > Y, it’s the actual data that makes something a fact rather than an option.

“None of the stuff you mention actually means anything when you try to apply it to policy if you don't know how the result was achieved, what it's actually measuring, and what the baseline is.” Again that applies equally to all statistics and you can provide them just as easily with either format.
This would be a great comment if you cited sources.
> A GCP solutions architect has spent years acquiring valuable skills and experience

Citation needed :-)

Joking aside, I think you're right for the vast majority of cases, but "nobody" feeling this way seems highly unlikely. Also, mid-level technical people having a grudge next year aren't a problem - but that might not be the case in 10 years, when the laid-off person is CTO of a big potential customer - at that point, the technical skills are irrelevant, but the impact being laid off had on that person emotionally/financially won't be.
You really shouldn't be getting downvoted.

The super majority of us eat meat! We are all complicit to (even encouraging of) the mass execution of these animals. It has to happen somehow - none of which would be pleasant to read about.

Thank you for describing your experience. Yes its a shitty thing to have had to normalize, but you're right it does sound like a decent enough method of mass execution.

Anyone that wants to instinctively downvote the parent comment, please reconsider. Its hard enough to need to be a part of this normalization, let alone get negative reinforcement for something the super majority of us positively reinforce at the grocery store.
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