skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Damn it. I meant to write "mean", not "median".

I know how the SS scheme works. But the money does not come from those who pay in afterward. It comes printed from the government. The money paid in by those who pay in afterward merely keeps the books somewhat balanced and inflation in check. As long as people and corporations are producing sufficient quantities of services and products for the general economy the SS tax could be abandoned without causing a problem for inflation or the ability of the already retired to afford those goods and services.

The argument in favor of seeing children as a net benefit to current retirees is that more children = more people to keep the economy running and to function as caregivers for those retirees.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination_(artificial_inte...
> I doubt Google or Microsoft would consider me at this stage in my career because I lack a college degree.

Don't know for sure about Microsoft - but if you can get a referral at Google, they will definitely consider you. A college degree definitely helps you get to the interview stage, but doesn't do much more than that. A solid referral pretty much guarantees you an interview.
> It’s human nature to want to know who’s speaking. If they don’t say, it creates a mystery.

Yes it's human nature to want things but, socially, one might learn to go without something if it's at odds with what someone else wants. If someone doesn't let me keep private things which I would prefer to keep private, unfortunately I will simply learn to avoid that person.

That's to say, "make a persona" is being offered as a panacea to when those around me don't allow for privacy but it is a panacea I would not choose.
Well sure but couldn't the same thing be said about a computer program?
I reduced all my Twitter follows to basically road traffic and weather accounts. I'm wary about how much of this will continue to be available after these APIs go pay-only.

I don't think it's a problem to charge a basic fee for these things, but the inscrutability, randomness, and untrustworthiness of Twitter policies and products may reduce the adoption rate for these changes - even if the fee was only $5/mo.
That does indeed stand to reason. But GP got an advert in a language they didn't speak, so they are arguing that even if great targeting would improve ad conversion/monetization, after the > 1 decade of this being worked on, targeting doesn't really work.

And I tend to agree, I am in the minority who always clicks "accept all cookies", primarily because if I have to consume ads then they might as well be relevant to me. But they are very often not relevant at all, e.g. for cars (I live in a city with great public transport and have no desire to drive) etc.
They are also 0.01 percent of the population.

But you also seem to assume that different people would come to the same conclusion rationally, without taking into account different experinces, knowledge, ideas and priorities.

And of course, you assume the ideas that YOU came up with are what that rational person would come up with.

Which is the part that scares me. You have a perfect excuse that cannot be disproven: your ideas aren't bad, it is just that not enough people are rational enough to understand them.

Another group that had similar ideas? Lenin and the gang. The total death toll is far too great to risk going down that route again.
Pubmasters https://youtube.com/watch?v=rTTGyWVqJtQ :)
> If there's a free tier, hobbyists and students can do interesting things with them, and this drives innovation.

What are some examples of innovative things that hobbyist and students have done with Twitter?
That’s where Carmack and Romero started
Which, hilariously, is what got people to use Google in the first place.

What made Google take off was not only was it fast, but you also got what you were looking for in the first page of results — if not the top of the first page.

No more carefully crafting queries to try to filter out the chaff. What you wanted, fast, and easy enough that someone not versed in how to carefully structure queries could be immediately successful.

- -

If some search engine or other tool can get us back to that point, that’s not only what will eat Google’s lunch, but devour it - and quickly.
Sure, but I was only counting earth resources with current technology, not mining on Jupiter's moons.
Best answer. Adding bicarb solves this.
But that is Bacula fault isn't it? I used it myself @home and couldn't help thinking that there must be a better way. At work Commvault was used iirc, but others were in charge of that. I evaluated Tivoli SM, but that's more than 15 years ago and I barely remember. TSM and Bacula share some concepts, but the latter appears quite hackish. Not that confidence inspiring.
I think the difference is that when we communicate those ideas, in scientific/academic literature at least, we reference the source of those original ideas, which permits verification and also plays an important social role.
Flutter Desktop isn't the right environment for you.
in my experience (i also have codepilot) it's much better aligned as being an "intelligent" extended auto-completion. it learns from your own projects/style and obviously other code on github.

you can write a comment above a function explaining what the function will do, and it will give multiple suggestions of what it thinks you're trying to do.

like chatGPT, a lot of code it gives you is not really exactly what you want (or might not work at all), but it offers a really good boiler plate to make small changes on to achieve what you want. it's definitely removed a lot of tedium for me in some ways.

first example that comes to mind is http requests. i use the same kind of style of writing a request function with error handling, and when i start a new project and start writing a new http request handler, it already knows how i've done it in the past and can offer an almost completed version with whatever changes i need added to it for the new project.
same here,keep up the great work.

by the way dart is my favorite cross platform language nowadays beyond flutter.
The key to being a developer in finance is to work in a software shop.

Working at a bank / prop firm is going to be extremely stressful. Working at the shop that all the big banks buy their trading software from is like 80-90% of the pay but none of the stress.

I love it. I get to do real, hard engineering for big pay without working on ad tech or javascript.
CF edge wants you to be more one and done, very anti connection. Deno is the better priced edgejs compute for websockets last I checked.

Probably still worthwhile for DriftDB SaaS if mainly short lived connections are used, even though similar functionality can be had with NATS bridge + an ordered streaming library in your fav language on fly.io
To walk a path no knowledge of the existing is needed. But to be able to claim it is new it is. Even more so to be able to claim that the new is better.
To be honest, I'm a C++ programmer and I hate than in C# if I do Dictionary[x] that it doesn't add a default if possible.
> symbology

Off-topic, but now I have William Dafoe going "What's the 'symbology' here? The symbolism ..." in my head (from Boondock Saints).
Yes, I am older than that. I truly feel for a lot of the younger people who came of age during pandemic isolation and raised by YouTubers. I work with some of them and they are not having an easy adjustment into adulthood.

Good on you for putting in the effort. The corporation cannot be your friend, but a good manager can be.
In what fairlyland do you live in that the AGI invented, created, owned, run, etc by the ownership class poses any threat to said ownership class? AI is absolutely not our Ally
As someone shipping an app across all desktop and mobile platforms with flutter, binding it into a native rust library, I absolutely adore it. It does what I need and is fairly reliable about it everywhere, while keeping build systems and everything else mostly managed for me. As the post mentions, it’s not a panacea, but for someone who needs a good-enough solution, it’s been great.
Maybe Adam Johnson of the Citations Needed podcast is just an entirely made up persona?

https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7C...
Care to elaborate? What does ChatGPT censor? I thought it was just a Q&A bot - does it refuse to answer on grounds of the data being sensitive (hence censored) or something else?
Yup, but we're focused on mobile first as these are the most resource constrained platforms. We're also experimenting with 3D support in Flutter using Impeller. Check out these demos from Flutter Forward: https://youtu.be/zKQYGKAe5W8?t=6955

You can learn more about Impeller here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKrYWC_SDxQ
It's not about "offering" enough money it's about companies that are deliberately classifying employees as "managers" when they're anything but for the purposes of avoiding having to pay the employees overtime.
That's really more of a hack, there are better ways to avoid bitter coffee. If you use a light or medium roast and can adjust grind size and temperature, the coffee doesn't have to be bitter.
First thing that came to mind:

> Explain how git works in very simple english

Git is a version control system for software development that helps track changes made to the source code over time. It allows multiple developers to collaborate and make changes to the same codebase without interfering with each other.

When you start a project in Git, you create a "repository" that stores all the files and their changes. You can then "commit" changes to the repository, which is like saving a snapshot of the code at a certain point in time. You can also "push" the changes to a remote repository on a server, so that other people can access and work on the code.

If someone else makes changes to the code, you can "pull" the updated version of the repository to your local machine and "merge" the changes with your own code. Git also allows you to create "branches" of the code, so that you can work on different features or fixes without affecting the main code.

By using Git, you can easily revert back to previous versions of the code, compare changes between different versions, and track who made which changes
> except in the sense of trying to exploit market inefficiencies to take it

that's precisely the bad part about it
And the future beyond that will be client-side rendering. In the beginning everything was rendered on the mainframe; then CICS allowed partial screen updates and even dynamic green screen design. Then the early web where everything was server which made the job of web indexing much easier. Then we moved back to rich client apps -- applets, flash, eventually SPAs -- with no way for search engines to easily index things. A best of all worlds scenario is a rich UI that only needs to make API calls to update the display, keeping performance fast and content flicker-free (and the server-side API could have an agreed upon standard for being indexed -- or submitting updates for indexing -- to search engines).

There is no truly perfect scheme, only ways in which we think we can improve on the status quo by swinging the pendulum back and forth.
The reddit searches are to find people's real-world experiences with something, not to find abstract, self-proclaimed expertise.

These searches often lead to niche communities that have built up expertise over time in their wiki or FAQ, though.
Get invited to a lot of parties?
Great news! In the future we can go back to the wonderful world of paternal feudalism! :(

I sympathize over the browser issue.
Everything I post online, controversial or not, is using a persona. I have several, each for certain areas. I've been doing this for decades.
Nitrogen fertilizers are directly responsible for keeping about 3-4 billion people alive today. Any persistent shortage or supply chain disruption should be considered a global security issue.
I have very little experience with Go, but I recall setting it up was trivial and it compiled very quickly.

My only concern is that I’ve heard the language is simple to the point that it requires writing a lot of code that wouldn’t be necessary with something higher level (similar to Zig, but at least no manual memory management and Go’s channels sound great).

Good suggestion!

Edit: I also just remembered that my other experience with Go was the template library used in Hugo. I recall that being a negative experience, but hopefully something I’ll mostly be able to avoid.
I asked him too.

He said:

- Who are you, and how did you get into my house?
Ok. Thank you . He is right about that technically if there is allot of government debt in the economy and the government is net payer of interest, then raising interest rates can cause inflation via more money in pockets leading to more demand. Just because Erdogan may be a disliked or reprehensible politician does not mean he is not logical when it comes to government finance or he probably was told that by someone who recognizes this.
> C++ is here for longer than your career will last.

How many C++ jobs are there currently compared to, for example, NodeJS? 1000:1? 10,000:1? I have no idea, but I do know that there are very, very few c++ opportunities in the midwest.

As in engineering, careers are about trade-offs: we can go deep into a tech to make us very qualified for a narrow sub-set of jobs; or we can go broad and be less qualified for a wider selection of jobs. I've decided that broad, shallow skills are more useful than deep, narrow skill sets.

I think the poor availability of C++ jobs is what keeps people from focusing on it as a career, and I was providing a personal anecdote to express that idea. While the software I'm using to write this message may be written in C++, the company who owns the software I'm using to write this message isn't going to hire me.
We have noticed this happening lately too.
Thanks for pointing out, I will pay more attention from now on.

Calling it "Subscribe & Save" is misleading. Customer aren't necessarily going to "Save".
Usually you find that the reason these barriers exist is because people were abusing the previous system.

There are (sadly) plenty of people out there who will install a browser extension & tweak an about:config setting if you set up the right incentives to get them to look past the warnings.

The price of protecting these people from those that would take advantage of them is developers having to download a different version of the browser in order to develop their extensions.
I still use the same LaTeX template since 2018. Before moving to a new company, I always updated my latest work experience.

It didn't use ModernCV. Original source:
https://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/
Parks and Recreation did it:

> Leslie is sick and Andy tries to help her out by looking up her symptoms on the internet.

> Andy: "Leslie, I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have 'network connectivity problems.'"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LinpRhB4aWU

Apparently improvised, like many other of the best punchlines in the show.
Still waiting for a search engine that only searches Wikipedia, Reddit, Stack Overflow, Flickr, and a handful of other sites.
Google Ads is written in Flutter - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... - if you go download, skip the welcoming bits, and go to licensing you'll see lots of flutter libraries including flutter itself
> It is basically like having an incredibly smart engineer/scientists/philosopher/etc

It is a copy/paste machine that strings together words to make sentences that look like sentences it’s read.

So it’s like an incredibly smart engineer/scientist/philosopher that does not and fundamentally cannot understand any of those concepts (or any concepts at all.)

A parrot that can recite Macbeth’s monologue is not a s Shakespeare scholar.
This would be expected in a recession. First you use your credit cards to keep things going, eventually that runs out your now in twice as much debt at much worse interest rates, and soon that's gone. You start missing house payments, soon homes start getting foreclosed on, the boom we've built in construction starts to burst, and we have 2008 all over again, only this time we've already played the QE card. So it will be interesting to see.

My question for more financially savvy HNers, is I recently changed my investment portfolio to be more in money market and bond accounts since it seems cash will be safer as stocks would expect to go down, with the thought that once it bottoms out I can move back to stocks when they are low. Am I wrong on this reasoning or is the underlying logic sound?
I went through this exact thought process. Maybe I could find the perfect one and get it delivered quick at a the best price. It wasn't worth the downside risk. Instead I went to a brick-and-mortar store, got the most appropriate GaN compact charger they had in stock and couldn't be happier.
!r if you're using DuckDuckGo as your search provider.
Enjoyable to imagine this. The ex finance people I work with are quite toxic towards those lower on hierarchy. Cool to hear about someone being bitten by it for once.
I switched to Kagi recently as an experiment after hearing someone suggest it here and I really dig it a lot actually. I was on DDG previously but the results for most of my software dev queries would always go to the most outrageous/terrible content farms or stack overflow mirror sites. Kagi is a breath of fresh air. Only frustration is that it's harder to integrate into the browser (ie, on Mac/Safari it requires a standalone application installation) but the trade-off is well worth it so far.
Something funny like this
https://twitter.com/zebulgar/status/1620436085376712705
Fewer words the better. I've seen people optimize their CVs for keyword searches (as in they put as many words as they can to be "caught" in a recruiter searching for buzzwords), but not for readability.

Optimize your CV for someone who has all of 3 minutes to read it and "get" you. Formatting matters, so think about sectional dividers, font choices and color to help someone skim it faster.

Avoid long descriptive stories. Save those for an interview. Also, avoid over-marketing yourself. I read a resume recently where the candidate wrote they have a "vast ocean of technology experience" and they "participate in real-time decision making meetings" ... I put that resume into my garden to help my vegetables grow from all the fertilizing bullsh*!
Good points, I missed it was made by Google Cloud.
Uninstall Zoom and use the web only one
Let's examine this claim - currently there are 20,000 people and there is projection that it will eventually reach 100,000. Am I correct in understanding that we are talking about 0.1% of the population today and 0.5% of the population in two years?

A greater percentage of population in Britain own and ride horses - so I could write about a great opportunity of having transportation independent of governments, fuels, etc.
I'm not sure I understand. This is talking about Cargo metadata download improvements. You still download individual packages regardless of receiving a copy of the entire registry, so privacy hasn't materially changed either way.

If knowing you use a crate is too much, then running your own registry with a mirror of packages seems like all you could do.
I have no issue using it. They have had a lot of downtime and congestion given the recent hype.
Credit Cards are so frightening. I remember having to hide from my Mom that I had gotten one when I was 18, because she was so scared I would ruin my life with it. Of course it's done the opposite.. I've built credit and saved lots of money in doing so, but I do get her fear.

These cards are accepted by society because they benefit those who know how to use them, but it's hard to look past the fact that so many people, if not most, are financially illiterate (because of failings of education due to lack of funding) and so many people screw themselves financially for decades if not their whole lives because of them.

Part of me wonders what the world would look like if we massively regulated credit card terms, like no more than 5% APR. Of course I wouldn't get my 3% cash back for being a responsible user of my card, but we also wouldn't be screwing people so hard on the other end. We can say "but they signed the terms!" all we want, but we all know that people agree to things that are a detriment to them and the world for short-term gain. Regulation should be there to prevent that as much as possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelygirl15
C++ at Google is almost a different language (and nonstandard tooling and libraries and workflows). It's entirely possible to have decades of experience that don't translate to anything useful outside of Google. To give you an example: I joined Google when SVN was a thing, and by the time I left* I was a senior software engineer with zero experience using git.

* I have since re-joined
Putting basic chemicals into an acidic solution to make it less acidic is trivially obvious. The interesting question here is what this does to the taste of coffee, which can be heavily influenced by the water. I would have suspected that this would affect taste significantly, and probably not in a good way.

They have a taste test in the end and claim that some of the versions taste better than their plain water. Not sure how much I'd believe this, especially as they don't specify their "plain coffee" and what the properties of the water were. In general softer water tends to be better for coffee taste than hard water.
guys - im the creator here. need to shut this down temporarily as openai $120 limit exhausted :( i'll post updates on twitter : https://twitter.com/krishnerkar
It’s not about offering, it’s about having done it.

If an employees took the same amount of money it would be theft, so illegally not paying that amount is a very similar crime.
> real solution is probably something regulatory requiring Microsoft and Apple to run a basic store at cost

"At cost" for digital stores run well* appears to be between 12% and 18% depending how readily end users can unsubscribe or how easily they can end up interacting with a human for a support, since it costs more to be user friendly. Stores charging less, e.g. 8%, have processing billed separately, generally adds back up to 12% or more.

Relative to that, keep in mind Apple's 30% in the first year drops to 15% in the second, and 85% of apps are hosted/delivered free.

* "Well" as defined by end user, not by developer.
It's just semantics, you're not compelled to stay and work for someone who is low-balling you.
Or they'll simply pay the toll and carry on as usual. It's a business expense to them. And now, if they get blocked, they can complain about it because they're a paying customer.
Los Angeles is always "L.A.", LA is Louisiana.

I guess since Los Angeles the county has about as many people as Louisiana the state, people can quibble about which one is which, but style guides say i am correct, even if the wiki redirects "LA" to Los Angeles, and still manages to say "referred to by its initials, 'L.A.'".

How can i tell if my current vehicle(s) have an immobilizer?
The chancellor’s hesitancy over Ukraine is no joke
I actually think the more people use it the better it gets over time, they would use user feedback into it and make it better, I am afraid google releases a much better tool in Google.io though, just don't tell anyone.
I guess that depends on the work. By day I repair houses and taking shortcuts can mean I could have an even bigger problem to solve in a few months. Luckily I have yet to be in such a situation myself but I've fixed other's shortcuts a number of times.
> only for C++ to eventually prevail over Java

What? Java dominates C++ in number of professional programmers. It totally ate C++'s lunch. Meanwhile, universities teach Java, C, Python, and a bit of Scheme if they're feeling spicy.