skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've written a few articles about the 8087: https://www.righto.com/search?q=8087
That's related to brain-drain, which is itself a variant of a Gresham's Law dynamic (talent which is insufficiently compensated where it is heads to more remunerative pastures).

There's also the "A's hire A's, B's hire C's" -- mediocre managers tend to avoid putting potential competitors underneath them. This was observed by Cyril Northcote Parkinson in the 1950s, and arguably goes back much, much further in time. The "A's hire A's..." variant seems to trace to Hire the Best-- and Avoid the Rest, by Michael W. Mercer (~1993) (using Google Books search).

And if the best talent is consistently leaving when it realises that 1) it's being undercompensated 2) advancement and skills development opportunities are limited where it is and 3) both opportunities are greater elsewhere, then yes, you'll see short-lived new hires who may outperform longstanding employees (who lack those mobility options).

Factors such as restricted work visas or other exigent circumstances may give rise to specific employees who lack that mobility, and may also be more talented, but that's statistically rarer and less reliable. The fact still likely explains to some extent why such tools exist.

That said, I'm not aware of any specific widely-recognised name for the situation you describe. There's a considerable literature on talent retention which may turn that up, though much of that literature itself ... reflects limited talent. For numerous reasons. Looking for academic / sociology / organisational behaviour citations might be more useful than a general/trade search.
I never heard of either of these, but Neon does look pretty cool. I might try it for some homelab type stuff that doesn't need a database running 24/7.

https://github.com/neondatabase/neon
> When you get 1% cash back, you paid for that cash back. You're not receiving redistributions from other people.

Certainly, but given that it's how it is, you can participate in the game and get your 1-2% back (sometimes more), or not. Might as well get it back.
I think there's a growing sentiment that we need to be decarbonizing our economy right now. We don't need any new technology necessarily (though some technological advances might make it cheaper and/or easier), we just need the will to do it.

In that context, betting on hydrogen is a way of smashing the snooze bar: the technology isn't quite ready, so we'll do some research projects and so on, and maybe we'll have something ready as a mainstream product in a few years, or perhaps a decade.

Same thing with nuclear fusion. I'm all for fusion if it pans out, but we should treat it as something that will make decarbonization a lot easier if it works, but in the mean time we should plan as if we don't expect it to save our bacon. There's an idea that "if climate change is a problem, some currently non-existent technology will save us so we don't need to change what we're doing now." That's what many of the climate-aware public are reacting against.

Hydrogen has some additional problems as well: almost all hydrogen comes from cracking natural gas, so it's effectively a fossil fuel. Green hydrogen is a thing, but it's not very energy efficient to use electricity to make hydrogen from water, and get the energy back by turning it back into water. Lithium ion batteries are in the high 90's percentage in terms of energy out/energy in. Hydrogen is, what, about 60% or so? Or maybe less? That's a lot of lost energy, so anywhere there's a viable alternative that doesn't waste huge amounts of energy we should use that.

As far as storing months worth of grid power: that's a really hard problem but I'm not convinced it's one that we even need to solve. Perhaps we need grid storage more on the scale of 12 or 24 hours to buffer solar variability. For seasonal variability we need better grid interconnection, including long distance HVDC lines to enable buying and selling electricity across time zones and perhaps even between the northern and southern hemisphere if that's what's needed. Keeping fossil fuel plants online as an emergency backup to be used in rare circumstances is also an option, we just have to make sure the rest of the system is able to handle the load the vast majority of the time.
I think some periods have more lasting appeal than others. For example, the grainy low-polygon, low-colour, dithered look of early 3D PlayStation games has, to my mind, much less appeal than the 2D games of late SNES era (and PlayStation era, viz. Castlevania: SOTN).

Lots of people are nostalgic for Final Fantasy 7, for example, but I think most prefer the remake over the original.

Early 2D games have the same issue. I think very few people are fans of the Atari 2600 and its extremely crude graphics. To me, that machine is more interesting from the technical perspective than the visual or gameplay perspective.
Same with the Hindu mythology. As rich or even richer in terms of metaphors and knowledge that can transfer over to modern life.
Enclosures aren't common on cheap bed slinger (the ones where the bed moves in the Y axis) because they would need to be much bigger than the print area. CoreXY machines are more likely to be sold with an enclosure.
Not sure exactly, he's done some level of anthropology, but isn't currently an academic as far as I can tell, not sure if he used to be one. His channel is about politics from an anthropology angle.
I just tried the online site: my complaint is that they only show AAA-rated places to eat. On the other hand, the "5 diamond" places look really nice... it might be interesting to try some of them. I forgot all about AAA-rated restaurants.
When had anyone reverse engineered their way to a compatible client for FB Messenger or WhatsApp? To my knowledge there are only hacky bridges that involve running the official client under the hood.
> The story goes that after every plague, "and god hardened pharoah's heart"

Not every plague. In the first five plagues, the language “Pharaoh’s heart hardened” or “Pharaoh hardened his heart” is used.

As one would expect, Christians often use this to argue that the latter plagues resulting in loss of life would not have occurred had Pharaoh relented early on.
> What does that mean? 250,000+ new accounts are being created each day. People are playing games (16,000 chess moves per second on average)

I remember reading how Dropbox and other file sharing sites used hashing to create single instances of popular files and then just used pointers from accounts with that file to save disk space.

I would imagine a LOT of chess games probably start out the same and you can therefore store a pointer to where the game is on a subset of potential game starts and then write the difference as you branch out.

I may be underestimating the possible start conditions and/or the metadata storage cost (e.g. time in the game of each move doesn't go away).
I noticed this too. I think it’s because those time slots are not available (if you choose a date a couple months away, you’ll be able to click there time slot). The solution would be to print “No availability” instead of disabled time slot buttons.
Those might need the end of life pain management one day. Its what makes it so vicious. They are in no position to think the horrible consequences through.

edit: Lets lot sugarcoat this. This is not a new idea. If you push this on somebody, you might as well torture them to death yourself. Its that bad of an idea and your motivation doesnt change the outcome.

There are a whole lot of worse fates then being an addict and being in excruciating pain because of a preventable lack of end of life pain meds is one of them. You can look around, large parts of the world are doomed to this because of a merciless crusade against pain meds by people who couldnt deal with their loved ones choosing a drug. And i will be damned if its because nobody wanted to hurt their feelings by explaining this to them.
>abusing drugs as a form of pure escapism

>start because they're simply seeking recreation

These are the same thing. Happy people don't seek to drown every waking moment in constantly escalating recreation, they got things to lose and when they are out having fun and an opportunity comes around to do drugs they are surrounded by friends and loved ones who care for them enough to not let them ruin their life for lolz.
It was in response to this comment:

"The real issue here that people don't seem to want to face is the WHY."

They provided an answer to "why?". I think thats fair. Maybe I am wrong. I checked further on the comment history, it appears to me someone has it out for this person, as the other topics are not soapboxing at all, and most or dead without comments.

Care to discuss further?
Some of the UI is really tiny on the smart phone version of the lichess app is my only complaint against their UI vs chess.com. As far as I'm concerned though they both could use a good designer. Neither of them are very good.

Besides that I tend to use, and pay for, chess.com more for their other features than for anything directly UI related. Their puzzles are better. I think their post game analysis is nicer to use, the way they do analysis in general is easier to use than lichess I think. They also have a lot of learning material.

As far as playing games go, I have friends who use both and therefor I play on both. It's about the same as far as I'm concerned.
It's accidental, the deadly doses are so low that just not separating them perfectly when weighing or packing might contaminate the other.
>Mostly I'm surprised the electronic maps don't have these things after all these years. Maybe Apple will get them eventually. Google is busy stuffing ads into its maps.

Yeah, google is always going to be trash for anything that doesn’t align well with advertising. Better to show a Starbucks than a rest area, etc.
On their original SD card? Probably not, especially on the earlier raspi models.
It seems relevant to me in a discussion of a vaccine to prevent people inadvertently getting addicted to drugs and having their lives spiral out of control for someone to bring up what it's like when you're not addicted to drugs and have your life spiral out of control.

GP mentioned that it's expected he'd be addicted to drugs because then the system would be able to categorize and address his needs better.

It's not a 1:1 match for the article topic, but I come to HN for the comments, especially ones that engage my curiosity, like GP's did.
i read the "no need" like there's no functional need for it to be there. benefit of doubt on my part that it is needed even if the "no need" commenter doesn't understand the need.
Hi!

article author here, I can respond to a few questions. I didn't know about musl by then and it could definitely have oriented my choices differently. However after I started to use macro-based syscalls, I found there were very convenient benefits in not having to compile a libc for some cases. Not only static functions are optimized away when not used, but in addition you can use any toolchain, you don't have to fiddle with wrappers for dietlibc/uclibc nor include them with your toolchain.

For regular sized projects I would encourage anyone to use musl of course. But for tiny stuff like in the kernel that relies on a bare-metal compiler and a handful of syscalls and very limited stdlib functions, nolibc is convenient.
Serious(-ish) question: does "And last but not least, I hereby decree that all texsht herein be read in Sean Connery voish." mean that this technically isn't FOSS?
That 5th ammendment is great isn't it. I wish we had it.
Not really. The luaTeX engine is the slowest and some of its defaults differ from the behavior of pdfTeX and XeTeX. I generally recommend people use XeTeX (which is also slower than pdfTeX but faster than luaTeX), unless either they specifically need some luaTeX facility or they are required to use pdfTeX (some publishers insist on pdfTeX, although their number is declining. I think that arxiv used to (maybe still does) be one site that only supported pdfTeX, but I could be wrong about that.
> if you have a bunch of functions that do fundamentally the same thing with different types

That's where you should use parametric polymorphism, that's my point.

C++ 23 defines _3_ overloads of string.contains() with parameter defined as variously a char, a char * and a string view, enabling name.contains("Jim") name.contains("Steve"sv) and name.contains('Q'). But if you need a fourth, too bad.

Rust doesn't have overloading, so it defines string.contains() as polymorphic over the parameter type Pattern, which enables name.contains("Jim") name.contains('J') name.contains(char::is_uppercase) name.contains(['B', 'o', 'b']) name.contains(|c| { my_fun(c, 206, local_var) }) and so on and so forth.

One reason C++ doesn't do this is addressed in Circle, by offering "interfaces" which are approximately equivalent to Rust's traits or the C++ 0x Concepts (as Sean firmly points out, these were very different than Stroustrup's C++ 20 Concepts)

The problem is, what does 'Q' have in common with "Jim" ? In conventional C++ polymorphism we want a base class and of course these are basic types, they don't have a base class, much less one which has the necessary commonality.

With interfaces, we can say what we care about isn't some hypothetical "base class" of string_view and char, but instead a common interface they both have dedicated to string matching, and now we're writing polymorphic software again.
Yes, it has offline route finding for car, other transport, and walking. Of course sometimes you really miss having the traffic info from google, but for other things it works fine. I've driven a few 1000 km following OsmAnd..
You could do a bi-weekly retro to catch issues not really appropriate for stand-up.

Point was that if commitments cant be made for weeks at a time just shorten the iteration time.

The core part of Scrum is to regularly collaborate as a team on assessing the situation and organise the next action to improve it. Can happen hourly if needed.
This seems a bit unlikely given that air has long been very widely used in production lines to remove objects that are too light. But it makes a neat story.
I have, on numerous occasions. It's one of the reasons why general desktop use on them can be so infuriating.
That can easily be solved by replacing the heatbreak with an all metal one (<10$) or for an even better bimetal (usually copper+titanium) one (~20$ or so iirc).
That's exactly what Convoy is. It's open source and supports both directions of webhooks. Receiving and Sending. See here [1] to get started receiving.

[1] https://getconvoy.io/docs/getting-started/receiving-webhook-...
"the policy would have worked" - in what sense? Are you genuinely arguing that eugenicists would have objectively and accurately determined which genes led to strongest/most intelligent/most productive humans and only allowed people with those genes to reproduce, and successfully ensured "defective" genes were eliminated from the homo sapiens gene pool? Even if somehow they had achieved that, the thought of living in a society where a human life is only considered valuable if it fits some predefined criteria is frankly far too high a cost to pay.
(Interestingly I was watching Man in the High Castle last night, the episode that "celebrates" the choice of one of the characters to have himself be euthanised because of an incurable medical condition. It was an odd experience because superficially it came across as a very powerful and moving scene, despite the horrid underlying creepiness of it. But it didn't seem hard to believe that people could genuinely be swayed into thinking that it was a "noble" thing to have your life terminated just because of a particular genetic condition. I suppose at least it's a more justifiable stance than believing that anyone not of a particular race was undeserving of a fulfilling life, though clearly many eugenicists believed exactly that too).
The Tucker Carlson Defense

(Nothing personal)
That's not been my experience with the original Pis. We ended up mounting cards as read only because they wouldn't last otherwise. Syslog and various other processes, even with light IO would render the cards useless after a month or two.
Carthaginians were Phoenicians.
My apartment ceiling has a ~60cm air gap with air conditioner ducting and stuff inside, not sure how responsible it is but I hear basically nothing from above me. Same for the side walls although I believe those are just super dense fire proof walls.
I think that John Dvorak wrote that in one of his columns long ago. Maybe he got it from your brother.
IT workers are exempt. He’s literally not dodging the draft. He’s avoiding the situation where someone breaks the rules and conscripts him. Not sure how common that is.
sort-of related (scifi, poetry) is the book Tau Zero[1] and its similarities with the Swedish epic poem Aniara[2]

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

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniara
Amazon is ok with internal competition, so this could just be a way of keeping options open while locking in a large customer. Maybe Stripe is better in some markets or verticals but Amazon will still rely on Amazon Payments for others. Long term there could still be a convergence on one or the other. (Amazonian but this is complete guesswork)
> I would love to see a discussion from somebody who really likes Nix on why it isn't ready for prime time yet

I have several friends who use Nix and generally recommend it.

I do believe I think enough like them to like Nix for the same reasons (declarative, reproducible).

I've asked them to play devil's advocate, and I generally get the downsides, but...

There is one downside that I feel they can't tell me, but they end up telling me indirectly:

Nix is very complicated and takes a long time to learn. It's the Haskell of package managers.

I love Haskell, so it's not even unreasonable that I'll like Nix. But I won't like the learning curve. I spent a decade becoming productive in Haskell, and a year becoming productive in Rust. Will I like for my operating system to have crutches for months as I reconstruct my neural pathways to perform basic navigation?

This is why I think a tutorial like this is great: A gentle introduction, and a lot of courage to spend time, is all you need.

> It feels like the Kubernetes of package management/build if you will complexity wise.

In terms of learning curve, it might not be as bad as Kubernetes.

Kubernetes has a lot of complexity because of its distributed model.

But in terms of learning a new operating system with its own paradigms, it may seem similarly impairing to learn. (You'll lose the same abilities to run things until you figure out what's going on.)

> "Do we really need this or is it just what everybody else is doing?"

We definitely need reproducible builds.

Nix is the best solution to offer this.
I believe you can do anything React can with Stimulus + Turbo these days. I don't do much FE but I've been tracking Hotwire for some time now.
Can we switch accounts?

I have listened to exactly 1/2 of one episode of a podcast on Spotify and now have to actively navigate away from the main page of the app if I want to do what I do the other ~99.9% of the time, which is listen to one of a handful of playlists or try to find other similar music.
Seems like there is a lot of unwarranted criticism of this, and I think it is from a misunderstanding of how it would be used. This is meant to be a treatment targeted to people who are addicted to opioids. It would prevent overdose deaths due to heroin and pills which have unexpectedly large amounts of fentanyl (e.g. due to mistakes made when the supplier cut the drug). If taken in combination with proposed heroin and oxy vaccines, it could prevent many opioids from being effective - that could be a tool someone uses to help stop themselves from relapsing in the future. Someone taking this would have to way the benefits against the risks of not being able to take fentanyl when needed (e.g. for surgery).
Also no kids. I live CST but work on a EST schedule to stay in line with the majority of my time.

6:30 Wake up, dogs out, straight to making some coffee.

6:45 - 7:15ish Walk dogs

7:15ish - 8:00 Free time (play a video game, read, watch
YouTube etc)

8:00 - 8:30 Morning admin (emails, check calendar) stuff before stand up

8:30 stand up

8:30 - 11:00 Focused work. Do no disturb on Slack and notifications off on email. Probably get 70% of my work each day done in this block

11:00-12:00 Lunch hour

12:00 - 4:00 Remaining work for the day. Try to do less intense work in this block. Emails, documentation, notes for the day, and plan for tomorrow

4:00 - 6:00 Free time. Walk dogs again, video games, reading, etc.

6:00 - 8:00 Exercise or even more free time if I'm resting. I'll usually rock climb

8:30 - 10:00 Make dinner and relax with my SO or have more time to my self.
Ask HN: How do you feel about the term “Prompt Engineering?”
Prompt Engineer feels like the new Data Scientist, which had a fairly simple origin (1).

While I'm technical, I don't refer to myself as a software engineer, nor am I ostentatious enough to call myself a social engineer. Many titles are meaningless, but I don't consider the title of engineer as trivial.

There's a Reddit thread (2) from a few years ago where writer Gwern claims to be the origin of the term prompt programing/prompt engineering and has a verbose defense. I think his argument is reasonable and well written, but I'm not sure I'm sold.

I've read several HN threads (3, 4) and I've generally come to the conclusion that you can do engineering without being an engineer, or at least calling yourself one.

What do you think? Would you suggest an alternative?

1. https://qz.com/work/1435689/the-origins-of-the-job-title-data-scientist

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/GPT3/comments/m177n2/the_problem_with_prompt_engineering/

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25823907

4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33206677
> What do you mean "hit handling"?

Not hit, hlt instruction.

> There's no clock gating; everything gets the clock. There's not a lot to say about HALT. It stops memory operations and the prefetch queue, so the processor stops processing until it gets an interrupt.

Oh, ok. So ucode is just sitting in that state waiting for Q to fill in for an extra long time is all? Is the prefetch queue flushed or are the next bytes sitting in Q prefetched, simply not presented to ucode?
It is worth remembering that by playing you give chess.com possibly thousands of games, each of which can be used against you at any time in the future.

Just if their cheating algorithm says so and they feel like making it public.
> This is why I stay away from credit cards that offer rewards.

Why punish yourself like that?

I understand taking a moral stance even if makes your life harder, I do that with various things. But I guess I don't see it on this one since the vendor doesn't even know if you get any reward back when you hand them a credit card, so it doesn't show your posture in any way. All you're doing is gifting extra money to the credit card companies.
I don't think you've read Go Ask Alice, because your post seems to imply you think Go Ask Alice can serve as a warning about gender. Go Ask Alice is actually an anti-drug book and doesn't really talk about gender at all. They're two very different books and I am only using Go Ask Alice as a comparably sexually graphic book that is in the same intended age range.
How many hours of meetings do you guys tend to have per day/per week? I want to see if my schedule is highly unusual or not.