skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one thinks the US is capable of this kind of basic civic planning. Most are doubtful that they'll even manage to switch to EVs effectively. (I personally think that EVs will be so succesful they'll be forced to quickly adopt them, even if kicking and screaming, and roll them out faster than many expect, but most people on both the pro and anti- EV side of things suggest that the US simply can't do this for political reasons).

Luckily, climate change is a global problem and most other nations seem capable of basic city planning, so they'll have EV busses and taxis alongside trains and subways. If the US lags, it doesn't make that much difference in the big picture, though it'd be nice if they were climate leaders.
Ad spending on Twitter falls by over 70% in Dec – data
"I’m not convinced."

Yeah, no surprise. You seem completely unreasonable if you posit only these three options for freakin' traffic court...
Closer to mining in deep space: Announcing two AstroForge missions for 2023
Search his name on youtube and you will find some good content, he also has some books.

But the podcast I watched, was here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66hWntvp0_4
Yup. I think it was from Commitstrip.

edit: found it. https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensi...?
Following your line of thought, I would love it if software engineers lost all their personal privacy every time their product got hacked or was built to spy on others.

What can I say? I'm a dreamer.
I just started testing fixpdfs.com, and some of the first feedback I heard when I asked users about pricing was "I'd rather download an app that does this than pay a subscription"
I guess so. In my country 12 years ago, we didn't, so in my eyes it was a perfect analogy at the time. Also, I heard it's not as simple to put an adblocker on a smart tv as it is on a laptop/desktop.
Totally freeing me from the constant aggressivity of reddit, both towards and from myself.
"Hacker news users are"
Answer 1: "Anyone who reads "Hacker news" is a worthless freeloader." ;-)
Show HN: L0v3 – a couple game [tiny bit NSFW]
My partner and I tried dozens of "couple games" to ignite our love life. They all sucked, so I build my own. No in-app purchases, no ads, no same questions over and over again.
A "generic raw text editor" is a tool. The vast majority of text editors people use are actually quite complex, way beyond the complexity that would be needed to implement a "generic structured data editor". And the latter could make many very-nice-to-have features simpler to implement so it would very likely end up with less complexity than a full-featured "text editor".

The main problem to be solved is that structured data editors (and structured data query tools) are not ubiquitous, even though structured data formats are. Which really is a shame, considering the amount of time and effort sunk into issues (TFA, tabs vs. spaces, unmatched delimiters and other structural typos, syntax extensibility, etc.) that wouldn't even have to exist if we weren't dealing with raw text.
16 is not a colossally abundant number
Tell HN: IBM and SAP are cutting thousands of jobs
IBM (IBM) announced the cuts Wednesday, saying they were related to the previously announced spinoff and sale of two business units. Some 3,900 positions, or 1.5% of its global workforce, are expected to go. The move will cost IBM (IBM) about $300 million this quarter, a spokesperson confirmed.

SAP (SAP), Europe’s largest software company, will lay off 2.5% of its global workforce of 112,000, or around 2,800 employees, according to an earnings report published Thursday. The restructuring will cost between €250 million ($272 million) and €300 million ($381 million); the company’s shares were down 3.3% in Frankfurt.
You can actually download the output as an SVG which will allow you to change the colour as you wish.
A lot of it has changed. A lot has moved to other social media. Companies have pretty much moved away from hosting, much less encouraging, a lot of personal blogs on their sites. A food blog, say, is much more likely to be a professional full-time operation as opposed to a hobby. And so forth. There are still classic personal blogs out there. But they're less common.

I still write a lot but mostly have other outlets than my personal blog.
Why is there this narrative that it's a response being done out of fear? That seems to be a huge misunderstanding on your part.
It would be great to use this for complex latex equations.

Often a hand-writing feel makes youtube math explainers and lectures much more absorbing.

But, at the same time, handwriting makes videos a pain to edit to correct the mistakes that all math lectures longer than a few minutes inevitably have.
I think it's less blindly doing and more seeing your attractive friends dieting and becoming more self-conscious about your own weight.

I don't want to give reactionary CEOs too much credit, but I dont think it's fair to describe it as blind.
What’s the Matter with Men?
I wonder if just shuffling it on every release (even minor) isn’t sufficient (and actually even publishing that order). That doesn’t have full security benefit (attackers have a finite set of options) but keeps reproducible builds and the ability to distribute pre-linked binaries while raising the attack complexity significantly since no two machines are likely running the exact same version. That means an exploit has to try several different versions. Taking this a step further, create link N randomly sorted copies per version and randomly distribute those. Now the space to search through is large and the probability of picking the correct gadget variant goes down with 1/MN where there are M releases being attacked and N variants per release that might be installed (a targeted attack or an attack of a specific version only gets 1/N). Additionally, deterministic builds maintain your ability to audit binaries and their providence fairly easily (only grows linearly) while the risk of noticing the attempt without a successful exploit is N-1/N.

I’m not saying it’s perfect but it seems like a reasonable defense for binary distribution. As someone who used to run Gentoo, I’d say most people are in favor of the faster times to install a new package.

EDIT: extending this idea further, I wonder if compilers can’t offer a random seed to supply that causes a random layout of the sections within a built execution so that even statically linked binaries benefit from this.
I would venture that word of mouth is spreading among the elites who are on the boards of all these companies - a storm is coming so everything needs to get tied down - so the CEO’s as captains of the ships are following the advice.

Whether the storm actually hits, what gets wrecked, what doesn’t. That is a completely separate issue to these people.
I do! Clojure and Pedestal https://github.com/pedestal/pedestal work great for quick MVPs. Clojurescript with a nice HMR environment like Figwheel https://figwheel.org/ is also great if you need a front end.
Red Hat has not done and is not very likely to do layoffs, and is one of the higher growth areas of IBM of which they speak.

We did better than most about not over-hiring in the first place.
pandoc doesn't ingest PDFs, it can only output them.

Getting PDFs into the pandoc intermediate representation would probably work on such a small subset of PDFs, pandoc does not even bother trying.
> A woman in Oregon awoke from dental surgery to find she had a British accent.

> The doctor said it was caused by the anesthesia, but I think she’s just trying to cover up the fact that she’s a lesbian.
Written Japanese is a difficult language for native Japanese people. One would be in high school before one has learned enough Kanji to read a typical daily newspaper.
From November, 2022

"Activist investor TCI Fund Management is calling on Google's parent Alphabet to pursue aggressive cost cutting on the back of a hiring spree during the pandemic, claiming the business could be more efficiently run."

- https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/16/tci_fund_google_cut_c...

I would assume Google was no the only one to receive such a letter, nor were TCI Fund Management the only investment fund sending out such letters
The cat says to the dog, "you know I've never liked you, right?"
> 1) not being represented, 2) having to pay exorbitant fees to be represented, or 3) having an extremely overworked and disinterested public defender?

You’re leaving off being put in jail for contempt of court, perjuring oneself, making procedural errors that result in an adverse default ruling, racking up fines, et cetera. Bad legal representation is ruinous.
I wonder how Tesla is planning to remedy this. Not great for certain climates for sure.
They don't, though at least this development seems to have enough footprint to do something interesting. A lot of people I talk to get excited "Google is coming to town" and it's like, you don't want warehouses (datacenters) moving in, you want engineers, designers, marketing teams, c-suite to move in. Intel is an example for Columbus of one of those things you really do want to come into town, which is why it's such a big deal.
* r/personalfinance sidebar and flowchart (US specific)

* Modeling retirement/early-retirement using a 3% withdrawal rate (ERE analysis)

* The book Your Money or Your Life (updated edition) (good for getting out of paycheck-to-paycheck thinking)

* Applying "default dead" vs. "default alive" to yourself/your household (#5 https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/how-not-to-fail/)

* Buffet/Munger writings on "margin of safety"

* Knowing your monthly burn rate and using it to calculate how much time you have saved (vs money)
I believe those are called barriers to entry to protect vested interests. Also known as pulling the ladder up behind you. Why that works in the US is beyond me. I recall a recent study from one of the Ivy leagues that shows that historically the elected representatives favor the elite over the people in the US.

I think the elected representatives have to represent the people, otherwise you don’t really have a democracy, right?
Mate, its 2023. Use google. It's also econ 101. Where are all those illegal immigrants going to live? In houses and apartments.
https://www.google.com/search?q=illegal+immigration+effect+o...
One of the issues with both is that there’s an invisible timer countdown until the point were any reply becomes unseen. On web forums I like to wait a few days before responding, to judge whether or not a response is actually worth the time and will result in a productive conversation. On places like Reddit and Hacker News we don’t have this option - a person usually has a couple of hours, at most a day or two before any reply on the site would be as effective as writing a reply on a paper note and burning it afterwards.
When I was laid off, I had four months worth of savings and could have scraped by longer. No matter how much money that my coworkers had that are here on H1B, they had to find a job no matter what.

Did you feel any empathy when the Disney CEO was fired with a multi million dollar severance package? Things are different for different people.
Notice that this was spotted by an amateur only 2 weeks before closest approach. Why was it not found by the larger installations?

One problem I like to repeat at times like this, is that these hunts for near earth asteroids look for bright spots that move against the background stars. That's a nice way to find things nearby. But any object on a collision course with earth will not be moving against the background in the days and weeks leading up to the collision when they are also the brightest and most observable. I believe this is why the ones that have exploded in the atmosphere in recent years went completely undetected. It's not just that they're small, but that they don't have the relative motion against the sky to make them stand out.
I can't even flirt better than my dog.
Yeah but in general if you're trying to minimise disaster instead of maximising being the winner, you opt for doing things that avoid revealing you as the being the only wrong one. Being wrong in a crowd is fine. Being the only one wrong is a big deal, "what were they thinking, they knew better than everyone else?!". If everyone does the same mistake, it's just shrugged off as "honest mistake, everyone was doing it."

Plus either way you're cutting expenses and maybe getting rid of some under performers.
When did the opposing side's lawyers say anything about this? Are you confused? Law is a regulated profession. The lawyers pointing out that this is illegal aren't on the other side of the case...
> Events can't occur in a "reverse" order. At sufficient distances, the evolution of two regions is entirely causally independent, so there is no sense of simultaneity.

This discussion is essentially about whether "events can occur in reverse order for different observers" is the right way to say "the order of time coordinates of two spacelike-separated events is reversed for different observers".

This was in reply to:
> the overall outcome is a reasonably coherent notion of what the current time is

The notion of an observer-independent "current time" implies simultaneity which doesn't exist in SR, and if you mistakenly assume an observer-independent "current time" which you'd likely assume to be the time axis of your own frame of reference, then two spacelike-separated events would be reversed for some observer who did the same but moves with almost speed-of-light relative to you.

Please keep in mind that I wanted to point out the irony in using GPS for a universal reference time without giving an intro into special relativity.
Eh, a number of prolific bloggers ended up moving to walled gardens like facebook for audiences.

The Oatmeal summed what occurred pretty well

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people
Not one of those jokes is funny.

If a real person said that, they'd just get an eye roll, but you know, since it's A.I., it gets a huge pass.
Nearly 40 years later, it may seem to be a settled question.

But then we have Roe, which was settled, until it wasn't.
So to you, only the most vocal users, shouting the most popular things, with everything else removed or hidden, is the epitome of free speech?
You're building a strawman here. I don't try to fix the world. I'm trying hard to not be poor again myself, yes.

In this topic I'm just stating very narrow argument that 2$/hr is better than nothing. And a company who offers it here does more good than companies who don't offer those jobs and even more good than people trying to prevent it from doing so.

Most of your very long argument is judging me for things I haven't said, done or thought.
> but it should be done with a lawyer’s license on the line.

Either that, or the client is fully aware they are defending themselves with the help of an AI that's not, and cannot at the moment be, a lawyer. As much as I want to believe AGI is just around the corner, LLMs are not individuals with human-level intelligence.
No, they're stand-ins for the trajectory on closest approach to Earth. They're not trying to get the rocks to orbit flashlight guy.
Their track record? Seems like this is the first you’re hearing of them, but this is just the latest (and yes, most ambitious) experiment. They’ve been successfully using technology to help normal people defeat abusive systems built by “the professions” for years.
California announces DMV-run blockchain through partnership with Tezos
Lawyers aren't scared at all. It's traffic court, you are really overstating things. If it was a serious case, it'd be even more ridiculous to put more on the line by being represented by a computer algorithm that isn't subject to any of the licensing standards of an atty, none of the repercussions, and being run by a business that is disclaiming all liability for their conduct.

You know what an attorney can't do? Disclaim malpractice liability!

It'd be wondrous if the esteemed minds of hackernews could put their brain cycles towards actually applying common sense and other things rather than jerking off to edgy narratives about disruption while completely disregarding the relevant facts to focus on what they find politically juicy ("lawyers are scared it will succeed". It's a tautological narrative you are weaving for yourself that completely skirts past all the principles underlying the legal profession and it's development over hundreds of years.
I’m genuinely curious about the language senior management uses to communicate such things in public.

Perhaps it is a disconnect about the audience. The people getting fired are not the audience of the message which communicates their termination. This is inhuman, but what else would one expect from capitalism.

I’ve fired people, for cause and in person, for generic layoffs, and for attrition targets. It is hard, and personal. I never talk about responsibility or blame, or how hard it was for me. I have bad news for you. No need to be flowery about it. I owe them a straightforward conversation.
https://www.contractrates.fyi/

Crowdsourced rate sharing, like Glassdoor or levels.fyi, but for freelancers.

Launch was meh, but fortunately have been getting a lot of usage through other channels.
I make a mistake, I get fired.

CEO makes a mistake, I get laid off. CEO takes full responsibility.
"The Richest Man in Babylon"

→ https://archive.org/details/RichestManInBabylon_650

> The Richest Man in Babylon is a 1926 book by George S. Clason that dispenses financial advice through a collection of parables set 4,097 years ago in ancient Babylon. The book remains in print almost a century after the parables were originally published, and is regarded as a classic of personal financial advice.

> The parables are told by a fictional Babylonian character called Arkad, a poor scribe who became the "richest man in Babylon". Included in Arkad's advice are the "Seven Cures" (or how to generate money and wealth), and the "Five Laws of Gold" (or how to protect and invest wealth). A core part of Arkad's advice is around "paying yourself first", "living within your means", "investing in what you know", the importance of "long-term saving", and "home ownership".[1][2][3]

> The content is from a series of pamphlets distributed by U.S. banks and insurance companies in 1920–24; the pamphlets were bound together and published as a book in 1926.[4][5] The book is often referred to as a classic of personal financial advice,[1][2] and appears in modern recommended reading lists on personal financial advice and wealth management,[6][7][8] which has kept the book in print almost 90 years after its first edition with over 2 million copies sold.[9][10]

→ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Richest_Man_in_Babylon
> "Python is just a tool that comes with my OS, and if I need any additional modules I'll install them with my OS package manager

Imo this isn't really viable because you will eventually run into version conflicts in the transitive dependencies of your the Python applications you're using/developing on your system, on most operating systems.

The version(s) that ships with an OS should only be used for shipping applications that are themselves part of the OS/distro.
The dynamics at play are the same. But people still behave differently in different environments. Just like the real world;

For example, Anonymity plays an outsized role in the equation. FB is as you said essentially the same as Reddit except (most) people self censor to a degree that keeps it mostly cordial. They’re not going to use certain language and allow their full opinions to be heard, because someone they actually know could be reading. (Some people don’t care and post unfiltered but speaking of the majority).

Generally People posting on LinkedIn is often going to be some form of HR speak, they don’t want to offend anyone in their professional network. They’re not going to talk about religion and politics and whatnot.
Foundational Model for Weather and Climate
I prefer GPT-3's untuned anti-joke style

> Why didn't the chicken cross the road?

> I'm sorry, but I cannot provide you with information about a specific animal...
>If there's any chance that the application will grow beyond a few developers I think it hurts more than it helps.

Simply not true.

I've consulted on multiple teams across products built with Rails. Products that supported hundreds of millions of requests and generated a similar levels of revenue.

Rails scales - programmer productivity, traffic. It scales.
Market forces are behind it. Luckily it is very simple to fix. Just bring the interest rates to zero
I only have immediate knowledge of UK law, but lawyers will generally have a duty to the court to act with independence in the interests of justice. This tends to mean that in situations where one side are self-represented or using the services of ChatGPT, etc. the opposing side is under a duty not to take unfair advantage of the fact that one side is not legally trained.

They don't have to help them, but they can't act abusively by, for example, exploiting lack of procedural knowledge.

If they deliberately took advantage of one side using ChatGPT and getting it wrong because the legal foundation of knowledge isn't there for that person, that could be a breach of their duty to the court and result in professional censure or other regulatory consequences.
I've been pretty deep in backend engineering a while, but despite that I strongly try to use Hasura [0] whenever I can. IME backend engineering isn't a differentiator, and I've written enough REST/GraphQL endpoints/tests/blahblahblah. I think Django and Rails are amazing, but if I ever have to use them again I'll probably sigh deep and resign myself to sadness.

On top it's probably Tailwind, and if it's just me I'd use Svelte, but if it's more than just me I'd use React.

[0]: https://hasura.io
Memory safety is the new black, fashionable and fit for any occasion
A Comprehensive Guide to the New Science of Treating Lower Back Pain (2017)
It gave me the punchline "We'll be back after a word from our sponsors."
While what you describe are serious problems and would be very anxiety inducing for many (most?), the truth remains that it isn't someone else's problem or responsibility.
leadership's financial incentive is basically stocks which does carry the downside of losing value when the stock price goes down. The problem for us normals is that leadership gets paid life changing amounts of money every year, so losing a couple of millions is not that big of a deal.
I'm avoiding virtualization other than docker containers until I can afford a system with ECC ram. I'm not even sure if containers are that safe but I think they are? I am a weird pastiche of extreme competence and shocking ignorance, but I know you don't want to run VMs on non-ECC.
If that were true, influences wouldn’t exist. Clearly they can make money because they add value for people.

If that value is actually improving people’s lives it’s another matter, but from an economics standpoint it seems to exist.
We were just having this conversation yesterday and decided to bite the bullet and move to 1Password. Not that much more expensive, native desktop clients, name isn't synonymous with leaks/vulnerabilities.
"Today, Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians during West Bank raid."

"Israeli authorities are being criticized for being too brutal, and Palestinian parents are being criticized for having too many kids."

Looks like it's best not to try to feed it actual news, because the results are more than a little awful.
> are not scared that it will fail. They are scared that it will succeed

Lawyers make heavy use of automated document sifting in e.g. e-discovery.

Junior lawyers are expensive. Tech that makes them superfluous is a boon to partners. When we toss the village drunk from the bar, it isn’t because we’re scared they’ll drink all the booze.
I believe Bitwarden checks all of your requirements.

https://bitwarden.com