skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, a day. When you're dealing with a bug that could disrupt all international transfers at your bank for several days, and the kid you have on staff who learned RPG on YT has reached his limit, it's cheap.

I learned about it from a friend who worked at an IBM partner with a tool to help translate RPG to something else. Rarely worked because of the decades of nuanced patches to deal with evolving business rules, and when it did they usually came in several million above budget.
There definitely has to be a cultural shift but I think the shift can’t truly happen until most things are automated. There needs to be a critical mass of people who are fully devoted to their interests, currently there is too much demand for labour and so dedicating your time to your interests is alien to most people. When the value of labour approaches zero for most people, work becomes pointless and something must fill the vacuum.
Blink can run both static and dynamic binaries. There are of course caveats. See this section in the README: https://github.com/jart/blink#compiling-and-running-programs...
If you do greenhouse farming, the problem is more explicit.

(Though in theory you could still just let your wastewater drain into the ground, and have the same problem.)
Study: Effect of workplace sound level on physiological well-being
This is incredible! I've gotten really into some niche genres this year and in trying to discover more of it I have been really frustrated by Spotify's limited radio mixes - it seems like I've been "black holed" into the same 100 or so songs with rare exceptions, for any of the albums I autoplay from in a given genre. This really might be the best music discovery tool I've ever used, it reminds me of how magic Pandora felt the first time I used it.

My only request is to please let me multiselect some or all of the songs the algorithm finds and automatically create a playlist from them on Apple Music. The very first search I tried, for a song that Spotify always creates the same limited mix from, brought up a ton of music I want to check out.

Edit: on that note, it would also be neat to request a combined playlist that mixes together multiple searches. This might help provide feedback for the AI as well about what artists/songs people consider 'similar' to each other.
To beat an old drum: the highest good of human life isn't to work like a slave until you die.

Fiction used to write about how robots would lift the yoke of labor from our shoulders, so we could all live our better lives.

Now that it's happening, all folks can think of is how to make sure everybody is still slaving away somehow. Because the alternative - most of us don't have to do that - is unthinkable to the older generation.
Another one, desktop webviews don't exist either. Everyone does something custom right now and there's an epic vent fest in one of their GitHub issues. This causes about 1 new package to get released every few months too that tries to address it.
I'm curious about why. It seems like the economics of supply and demand should make it so that C++ roles pay higher.

There's less C++ devs, C++ is harder, demand is still high. Why are the salaries low?
I've brewed coffee with alkaline water, which in my very unscientific observations made it significantly less acidic.
I do take breaks from things I start to like too much, yes. Currently that's a few months from alcohol.
The fact that it happens to fit your limited needs doesn’t mean that it’s suitable for general desktop development.
There is a shortage of qualified and decent labor. Bodies <> Labor
Which makes no sense to me. Isn't C++ harder and demand better programming chops?
NFT market shows signs of recovery as January trading volumes hit 7-month high
For this https://knix.com/, which is a company that sells bras & underwear, it says "Knix is a rewards program where people can sign up to get special rewards and benefits. When you join, you can earn points that can be used to get rewards like early access to new products, a birthday gift, and more. You can join the program by creating an account with your name, email, and password, or you can log in with Facebook or Google."

Not very accurate ;P
I don't disagree that our culture gives us a lot.

To use ML terms -- Humans have "Foundation Models" which are composed of:
- Their Biological makeup
- The culture into which they are raised
> This example assumes that nobody in the family owns a car! While I know families with young children who get by on public transit only, it can be difficult even in the heart of a city.

Even public transport has a cost per use. $2 per trip, twice a day, around 260 days per year = $1040 for each of those parents.

And that theoretical family is gonna starve, you mentioned leaving out utilities but also forgot food and we're already down to like $300 per year left.
I was told $300K about a decade ago and I told them no. I was already making more than that at a big tech company with a much easier pace of work. $500K would have peaked my interest, why didn’t they tell me $500K if that was an option?

A quick google search is suggesting that $200K for the top end of experience, when I was told $300K they said it was as high as they go. Where is the rest of this compensation coming from? Maybe they could give stats for bonuses but when enquired it seemed that the bonus pool was being eaten up elsewhere and the C++ devs were in the back of the line for that.
I'm a talented C++ programmer, but I do try to avoid jobs where I'm doing very much C++ anymore. I used to love C++, but it has become such a pain to work with that I prefer to work with most other languages when I have the choice.

My home projects are mostly embedded systems things, and for those, I use C++ -- barely. I use it in the old "as a better C" style.
for stuff like gaming & HFT, you are probably forced to do it in C++, it is a sad reality affecting small % of developers. for everything else, if you are still building fresh new projects in C++, you are making a big mistake.

C++ today is like Cobol in 2010. yes, there are reasons for them to exist, people tell your the good old days, probably some fresh good recent experience. but come on, there is a much better place for C++ -

https://computerhistory.org/
I think for two nukes sitting any further apart than a few metres, if you set one off, the fissile material in the second nuke may have some small number of fissions due to incident neutrons, but it would be a very long way away from "most" of its energy.

Just from a physics point of view, let's be generous and say that a single fission releases four neutrons, and I'm pretty sure that's an overestimate. If the fissile material in the second nuke has a radius of 0.1m (r), and sitting 5m (R) away, then it would be exposed to at a maximum πr^2 / (4πR^2) = 0.0001 of those neutrons. If we imagine that every single one of those neutrons causes a fission in the second nuke (and that won't be true either) then the yield from the second nuke will be less than a thousandth of the yield from the first nuke. Secondary fissions from the neutrons released from those fissions may increase this a little, but the second nuke is subcritical, so it won't be by much.

I'd love to hear from someone who actually knows the answer for sure, though.
I wonder when this will have mainstream applications. It also blows my mind that civilization over 1,900 years ago came up with this and we’re now discovering it
We're all kind of plagiariztion engines. We're all just slicing up and combining ideas we picked up somewhere else.
There are plenty of talented C++ programmers. They just don't want to be abused by trading firms or work in that culture. Even paying them more won't work, because no amount of money is worth that abuse.

I interviewed at a trading firm once, while I was working at Netflix (because Netflix encouraged us to interview for outside jobs at least once a year). The comp would have been double my Netflix salary.

But I would have had to work in their office in Manhattan, be in by 8:30am every day and not leave until after 5 at a miniumum. But that wasn't the part that scared me off. It was the fact that I would not be allowed to share my work internally. I would not even be allowed to brainstorm with people doing the same job in other areas of the business. I wouldn't be allowed to take my laptop home, so if I had a hard problem to solve, I'd have to stay in the office the whole time. So basically they expected us to never see our family nor collaborate with anyone.

Basically, they were so worried about secrecy of their trading algorithms and people sharing them with other companies, they didn't even let people share internally for fear that one person would learn too much about their business.

I decided to stick with my FAANG job because even the ridiculous money wasn't enough to make it worth the stress and isolation.
Another part of it is just psychology. People seem much more inclined to join discourse to make objections than to pile on affirmative comments, which generally an upvote suffices for.
As Mark Twain put it, it's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
This is a completely naive view of companies and how they work.

An alternative metaphor is this: imagine you got a dog, raised him, lost your sources of income and couldn’t afford to feed him. You kept him anyway out of pride or loyalty or whatever, and watched as he withered away without adequate resources to make him thrive. At the same time, others were looking for dogs and were fully willing to feed them and support them.

When companies don’t do thoughtful adjustments like layoffs, they end up instead in a cycle of slow withering, where the best resources leave and aren’t replaced, and the quality of the workforce slowly decays.

Layoffs may not be “fun” but they’re a necessary part of operating a successful company… and much better than the alternative.
Amazon could be slapped with FTC antitrust lawsuit: report
I thought of that, but it means it expires in 2025. I think. There's a website that give you the expiration date of a patent.
> Group 1: companies in a good enough financial situation to not need layoffs Group 2: companies in a dire financial situation requiring layoffs

None of the big tech companies are in a "dire" financial situation. Indeed, some of them have just announced modest revenue increases this week. Yet they still conducted big layoffs. Did they "need" to do it? (Note in contrast that Apple announced a significant revenue decrease yet didn't panic and do layoffs.)
Cole said while he doesn't believe he was targeted Tuesday afternoon, he has been shot at in the past, in 2018 and in June of this year as well.

Kilwins, a popular Hyde Park ice cream shop, was damaged in the shooting.

The shop's owner and employees spoke Wednesday about their safety concerns in returning to work, and Cole returned to where he was shot at.

"We need the partner in federal government to step up. Somebody has to have a sense of urgency," he said. "You can't nonprofit your way out of this. We can't program our way out of these shootings," he said.

According to the city's Violence Reduction Dashboard, as of Nov. 8 shootings in the neighborhood have more than tripled compared to 2020, with 16 this year compared to five last year.

The same data shows that for violent crimes of all time, Hyde Park has had 196 so far this year, up from 155 in the same period in 2020.

Kilwins owner Jackie Jackson said the most recent violent crime, along with increasing rent and fewer customers, may force her to close the business she opened nearly 10 years ago.

https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shooting-hyde-park-u-of-c-ja...
> I feel there should be some sort of diagram possible that explains which industries and technologies pay more or less.

Is the entity you are selling your services to earning a large profit margin? If yes, then it is possible (but not guaranteed) for you to earn more. If not, then look elsewhere.

Generally, this situation happens in businesses that can scale with little to no marginal costs (software, media), can use governments to defend its property (intellectual property, land), and can be easily used as collateral (land) with which you can obtain leverage (money).
It's funny that you bring this up. I think it is a very good point, and it's very accurate. Especially on mobile games and games like farmville, age of empires mobile, etc.... I say it's funny because it's specifically the reason that I can't stand them. I feel like it's always a carrot-and-stick, and the carrot is always moving, uncatchable - but you can get closer to the carrot briefly if you drop more coin in game. I get burned out. Give me SimCity 2000, Age of Empires II, or Quake Arena, and I'll play until I "get my fill", walk away happy, then come back for more later. I still play Sim City 2000 and AoE II semi regularly. It may be an age thing, having gotten into games so long ago.
To be fair it’s not a bad choice for UI: supporting both AOT and JIT speeds up the dev loop and allows compiled performance + hot reloading in dev, which is good for UI development.
It may not be so far from the truth. As an example Canada has a temporary foreign worker program that has been abused by employers to keep wages low, work conditions abysmal, and threaten the workers with sending them back home to ensure compliance under these conditions.

The US, I believe, similarly uses its ample illegal labor supply in similar ways.
Incorrect. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...
Google has basically thrown the towel in the ring when it comes to C++ considering they're building a replacement like Carbon and also using rust in and more places so they're likely pivoting to those two instead
Can you convey how you use it?
The problem is the spammers are already creating garbage content on Reddit as well. Fortunately, the moderators of the big subreddits will usually take care of it and remove the posts, but some of the smaller / niche ones still leave things up there.
Over the last few weeks searching for images I found Bing to be alot better and remind of the old days of Google.

I found more value in its results than Google. And I don't even like Microsoft.
> It's the impetus behind the question "Is a hotdog a sandwich?"

It seems like that's the "every hot-dog is a sandwich but not every sandwich is a hot dog" thing

> What's the line between pasta and bread?

Leaveners

> Bread and cake?

Sugar content

But I think question here is why products for such similar use have such different taxation ? Why video is taxed more than pictures ? What purpose does it serve?
yeah im starting to get into the mindset of "fuck doing what you love, just get hobbies"

Ultimately, working in these high paying jobs lets you have a lot of great hobbies and enjoy life. Get a job with a decent work-life balance, and use the rarity of your skillset to make the crazy cash, retire early, make your own game company if you want.
You realize that even Google doesn’t use Flutter in their cross platform consumer apps.

https://9to5google.com/2021/10/10/google-ios-apps-native/

And just because “mega sized players” are betting on it has never stopped Google from abandoning projects before.
Why are people stealing these specifically?
I'll probably give it a test drive for a month or so. I can spare the $20, and i am super curious about it. Yes i could use it now, but my hope is the $20 is a slightly different version.

I'm mostly curious about the future of it, though. The next iteration (GPT4?) and beyond.
I apologize for that. I should not have assumed.

I am only aware of the different bubbles, because I seem to belong to several social circles with very much opposed views and I don't know how common it is today ( I am not really joking ) since the weird trend I have been seeing is cutting off 'toxic family members', which effectively means people actively work to maintain their particular bubbles making already bad problem even worse. And since I tend to listen to everyone, everyone seems to think I am in full agreement.

The only place I did not see it hit hard is work, but that seems to be the case only because there is still some expectation of 'leaving non-work related stuff outside', but even that seems to be changing.

As I am re-reading your posts, I do not think we are disagreeing.
Maybe, but seeing the advances from Boston Dynamics, I wouldn't wager too much money on this either.
I don't think it would be so easy. How does the government figure out which addresses go with the DEX offering BTC/XMR?

I suppose if they could buy XMR with BTC and see which output addresses were involved with that transaction--those would be addresses controlled by users of the DEX. And then they could buy BTC with XMR, harvesting a few more addresses.

But if they run analysis like that continually they're going to end up paying a lot of money to the DEX in fees.

In fact, the exchange might not even need real users at all. They can just generate enough noise to attract the government's attention, and then soak up the government's money while letting the government spy on a bunch of robot activity.

It's gotta be one of these:

- ban crypto entirely

- give up on drug prohibition

- burden taxpayers with an endless game of whack-a-mole which slowly transfers value out of the US economy without achieving meaningful enforcement goals

I've got a guess about which one it will be.
Am I the only one who read that headline with a German accent?
I highly doubt that'll be the case. GPU memory and average RAM numbers have only increased by like 3-5x in the past 10 years. Even if we follow that growth rate while making models a lot more compact it'll still be nowhere enough.

It currently takes like what, 400 or 500 GB of VRAM to load ChatGPT according to some estimates? You can't realistically compress that data much further without final performance degradation.

I'd expect something one tenth as good as it running locally in 5 years at best.
> What can you do to help empower the powerless customers when their livelihoods are at stake? Can you provide some way to not instantly assume fraud or malicious intent on behalf of the customer and provide some quick and direct way for the customer to feel empowered?"

Legislation and regulation.

Mill owners used to send little kids into running machines and they'd get shredded. Now we have child labor laws where under a certain age someone isn't allowed to operate most powered equipment.

Mill owners used to not pay people for their wages. Now we have laws with civil and criminal repercussions if you don't pay someone timely and in full.

The phone and electric companies have to follow a bunch of regulations around shutting off your service, because of the consequences.

Companies should not be able to say "and if we fail, lol whatevs, fuck off." If you are providing a service, and someone depends on it to run for their business, then you should be responsible if you fail to provide service. Cost of doing business.
No one is saying you should have 100% job security, or never be let go / fired. People are saying that these mass layoffs and the way they are conducted are harmful to society and not as beneficial to the business as CEOs and investors want to believe.

Layoffs are not always a result of declining performance. We have seen several now where quarterly results point to increased performance but layoffs still occur as an opportunity to dump workers without much criticism.
I use 8 extensions on firefox nightly on Android. They work quite well.
It may have always been the case but it's often cleverly disguised intentionally by companies so they can exploit workers (especially in more white-collar environments and even more so in tech startups), so it's not exactly surprising that at least people would be caught unaware.
One Father’s Desperate Plan to Rescue His Son from America
If I would like to use small but trusted knowledge models with some big language model regardles how silly is the second to get verifiable answers only - are those the ways for doing this ? - or better shall I look for some other approaches
- maybe like this one: https://openreview.net/forum?id=Plr5l7r0jY6 Language model with Plug-in Knowldge Memory ?
> There's a big difference between "things change" and "mass top-down layoffs are an effective way to adapt to change"!

I worked at a company that tried to avoid mass layoffs at all costs. Whenever it became obvious that change was necessary, they'd do little cuts here and there, or they'd force people into roles they weren't familiar with (think front-end devs moved to cloud backend dev) to try to salvage people at all costs. They only cut people in small numbers here and there, and always spread out over long periods of time.

It was terrible. People were angry because they were hired for one job, but forced to do completely different work because the original needs had disappeared. People were constantly living in fear because there were micro-layoffs multiple times a month. They weren't called layoffs, though, so they weren't announced. You'd just open Slack to message someone and they'd be deactivated. You always wondered if you were next.

It's not pleasant to do mass layoffs, but if a company has to change it's much better to just rip the band-aid off and restructure all at once.
I wonder if this qualifies for a return under the California lemon law. Uninsurability w/o a $250 part?
Since he's not paying rent for Twitter's office space, why should anyone believe he will give them a cut of ad revenue?
Idea Validation
Do someone know where can I validate my idea, test my assumptions and hypothesis and get to know user insights and their behaviors?

Thanks
My first thought as an easy fix for this was similar to what you are suggesting - I was thinking to be truly qualified as a manager you need to have at least 1 or 2 direct reports over a certain period of time or else you don’t qualify. I think in practice that is essentially almost the same as the ratio requirement you are talking about.
I watched a video on YT about a man in Arizona or New Mexico who put in a piping system to his backyard fruit trees that is fed by his outdoor urinal. He lives in the middle of a standard urban neighborhood.
I’m good at it but I simply don’t enjoy it.
I would add though, that if you aren't into subtitled movies the dubs are still perfectly serviceable and I'd still strongly recommend watching them.

Also despite some of the issues with earlier dubs, some of the later ones are good in their own ways. In the case of Howl's Moving Castle, I prefer the dub by a large margin, Billy Crystal was especially good.
Companies need flexibility, markets are more free and efficient allocators than central control, and people don't all deserve the same wealth because some people are really doing more useful things than others, but we have the capability to provide everyone healthcare and enough money to live simply and comfortably no matter how productive they are as individuals simply because it improves the condition of life and we don't have to become communist to do it.
why not aim for something that doesn't hurt the "Big company wallet" :)
The two main ways we address this are with our asset streaming system (only loading in what is needed, everything else loading in the background at runtime) and compression (both data compression and texture compression).
Neuroscientist-y person here.

We know a LOT about how neurons organize. Not even close to everything we 'should' know, but we do know a lot.

Most of this is in the development of the brain. How you get from one cell to the trillions that make up a person.

The real quick and dirty explanation is that cells follow multiple chemical gradients to find their 'home'. This is a HUGE topic though, and I'm being terse as I have a meeting to get to.

How adult cells organize also has a LOT of science behind it. Again, though, it's mostly about chemical gradients, with a bit of electrical stuff thrown in. Again, HUGE topic.
It’s anticompetitive, stifles innovation, and boxes people out of career growth in their niche industry.