skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think _some_ people will want to continue to live, and some will not. Making confident assertions about someone else's future preferences seems fundamentally unreasonable.

I recall my grandmother in the hospital with pancreatitis, in serious pain, saying she was ready to die, but her doctors reassuring everyone that actually her situation probably wasn't life threatening. She was in her 90s already. She had outlived her husband by decades by that point. She had outlived multiple batches of friends at her retirement community. She did live for a few years after that incident, but I understand why she was ready to accept death.
Federal obviously. Somebody has to know what's up with all this mess. If I'm from another country government should know that and tax accordingly. I have no idea how placing burden of knowing all this on every single employer helps anybody (except IRS).
Install a plugin that blocks all your problem sites. I'm using "Impulse Blocker" on Firefox and it's helpful to break the habit. You can easily turn it off and waste time on HN if you want to... you just need to do it intentionally. Just having that one extra barrier is enough for me to avoid almost all consumptive media during my work day (still read too much before and after work but that's my choice)
That is true. But I have to say that migrating my home server to using rootless Docker (which included all of the same pain), was a fantastic improvement when I finally got around to doing it. I could now migrate to Podman, but less motivated now, since rootless Docker works so nicely
Stadia worked much better than the competition. It was the first time that cloud gaming had no tradeoffs. Definitely a lot of innovation behind the curtains.
I've been reading these predictions on HN for almost a year now, and so far they've been false. If people keep repeating them, eventually we'll witness a recession and they'll be right, but that doesn't make their analyses correct, it just makes them a broken clock.
These days, just add a hstore or json column to your relational data.
> The takeaway is that layoffs are extremely trust destroying for employees NOT laid off, and in the end not clear they're a financial net positive.

Well... for whom though? When megacorp CEOs laid people off the stocks soared - massively enriching the C-suites executing the layoffs and the investors demanding the layoffs.

The error in your thinking is that the financials of the company and its continued success matters - when the people in charge are optimizing for THEIR OWN financials.
Not sure about that.

This is under-reported but there is a very high number of suicide in this age category.

I don't think the desire to live vanishes, but some of us are simply not willing to live miserably for months or years.

At some point it is clear that there is no turning back, being stuck in bed for a few days or weeks can be acceptable, but not if there is zero hope of regaining autonomy.

Also, I am not found of the business side of this, I think this is extorsion, preying on the weak.
When I ask ChatGPT the same question, it doesn't make the mistake of claiming it took the first picture of an exoplanet. It's answers change over time though, so it's hard to say

Interestingly, If I ask it directly whether the JWST photographed an exoplanet, it says this:

> As of my knowledge cutoff in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has not yet been launched, so it has not yet taken any photos. However, once it is operational, it is expected to be capable of capturing images of exoplanets and studying their atmospheres. The James Webb Space Telescope is equipped with cutting-edge technology that will allow it to study distant celestial objects in greater detail than any previous telescope. This includes the ability to capture images of exoplanets, which are planets that orbit around stars other than our sun. The data gathered by the James Webb Space Telescope will help us better understand the conditions on these distant worlds and whether they might be capable of supporting life.
I am in a position to hire and fire people in this market, albeit at a much smaller scale. We only hire those that we can afford to keep, even based on our most conservative financial models, because it's the right thing to do.

When companies like GitLab hire you, they lie about their principles and values. It's a polite lie that obfuscates their true goal, which is to generate profits for only a small fraction of the people to whom they are accountable, at the expense of the remainder.

This is cowardly, and morally wrong. I hope that those who were affected by this lie will find greener pastures at companies which live up to their stated goals and principles, who work in the service of what's right over what's profitable.
You misunderstand. I said target, meaning their goal would be the slowest time they could get away with. That is not an acceptable goal; an app should be faster than that.
>The destruction of meritocracy.

Meritocracy is a myth. participants have too much variability on starting points and environment for the concept to have any usefulness.

That being said, the "nihilistic" attitude of DEI towards meritocracy is as unsatisfactory as that "naive" attitude of pretending it exists. The right attitude is to recognise that the concept is meaningless in a society of staggering (and rising) inequality, and take steps to correct that.
Thank you, that's really nice to read.

I really leaned in to these essay-style namespaces for this project; I spent _so_ much time deciphering old numerical algorithms ported from uncommented FORTRAN, and decided that I had to go the other direction.

Someday I'll get around to publishing a static site that renders the math in the comments, like these:

- https://samritchie.io/functional-numerical-methods (numerical integration written in stateless functional style)
- https://samritchie.io/dual-numbers-and-automatic-differentia... (automatic differentiation that works on higher order functions etc)

Send me some of your (public) code to read!
You could start by going through some Accounting or Finance videos from edu sites like Khan Academy, and also spend some time looking at the financials for public companies on a site like Yahoo Finance. Annual statements are also available on EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch) rather than, e.g., Yahoo Finance, but maybe a bit harder to parse even though its closer to source data.

I think you only need some basics to learn how to look at a financial statement and understand information like whether or not the company is profitable, or roughly how long the company can survive if things continue the way they are, or get better, or get worse. If you want to be able to really understand and assess a business and its financial health based on these statements, I'm not sure you can just learn that. I certainly don't have the confidence that I can do that yet. My feeling is that I'd probably have to work in the industry in some capacity where I am looking at this information daily, across dozens or hundreds of companies.

At best, I can pick up on anomalies that can later be explained (e.g., I saw there was a large amount of cash added to GitLab in the past year, and later it was clear that this was largely because of their IPO, which seems obvious but nobody told me there was an IPO before reading the statements (granted, the existence of the statements tend to imply this is a publicly-traded company)). That gives me some confidence that I know what I am reading, but I haven't done much outside of Khan Academy videos and taking a university-level accounting 101 course where I learned about the accounting equation, the accounting cycle, and how to write financial statements based on the financial events for a business.
> Really? You think any employer “cares about their employees”?

It can actually happen sometimes, but I've never seen it outside of small structures.
It depends.

- Rust is a complicated language, so novice developers probably use something else.

- Its ownership/borrowing system makes sure that architecture is not an afterthought (unless you pollute your code with countless smart pointers).

- You get memory safety in safe Rust code and don't need a garbage collector.

- Non-optimal solutions usually are visible/more cumbersome to write.

In the end it's up to the individual developer, but Rust really helps to produce high-quality code.
Ten years is a lot of years. You specifically called out a single decade of films. If someone is twenty, a film in 1980 is more than double their whole lifetime away. Wanting to chat with the youth about things before their time as the SHARED culture is dumb. If you’re 35, you were born in the 80s.

Believe it or not, not a whole lot of people will watch Raiders of the Lost Ark for the first time and think it was an amazing movie anymore. That’s not to say it isn’t well made. It is. But is also just not very interesting to modern youth.
Say doctor gave you 4 more weeks to live.

You can now chose to be on life support for 2 more year at the cost of pooping pants and being on drugs. I bet, life support does not sound so bad.
> As much as I sympathize, the title is clickbait and I'm not entirely sure what the point of the article is.

Yes. Where are all the people who were apoplectic about the Nord Stream post?
Another similar example, blowing into the microphone would spin the title name around on 3ds games (and poking/blowing at random things in game would sometimes do fun stuff too!)

Those tiny details and fun little things here and there are what people remember in 10-20 years. I wish developers did them more
I've used Fish for about 2 years now. Before that I used ZSH for about 6 months. I'm relatively new daily driving Linux. About 3 years.

The thing about ZSH that made me jump ship was that even though you can customize it like fish (with Oh My ZSH plugins) ZSH was always slow or didn't display some things correctly. It was frustrating having to wait a few seconds for a command or having things just not work out correctly.

Fish, on the other hand, is fast and has a lot of quality of life features like typing part of a command and then serach with the up key. I didn't even install any plugins (I like to Fisher[1]).

Also, Fish has gotten me more and more into shell scripting. The docs for Fish are very clear and easy to navigate. I love how you can have custom scripts on the .config folder or abbreviations[2], which I think are superior to aliases since they expand into the command you're calling.

I was using it as the default shell for my user until recently and it was fine, but I have gone back to Bash as my default shell and just set my terminal emulator to start into Fish on startup. I didn't have any incident. I just wanted to avoid anything unexpected further down the line.

[1]: https://github.com/jorgebucaran/fisher

[2]: https://fishshell.com/docs/current/interactive.html#abbrevia...
Is this the mattl I think it is? If so, hi!
That's a bit negative. Like you say, better at carrying kids than stuff (which is how I use mine), but that doesn't make it "quite shitty".

I own this bike: it's very good at carrying kids, pretty good at carrying stuff, and exceptionally good value. Rad has been shrinking the back wheel to lower cargo position as iterations progress, which is nice.
> it's only a matter of time until someone creates the first language model that will measurably outperform humans in this regard

This seems to have been the rallying cry of AI-ish stuff for the past 30 years, tho. At a certain point you have to ask "but how much time"? Like, a lot of people were confidently predicting speech recognition as good as a human's from the 90s on, for instance. It's 2023, and the state of the art in speech recognition is a fair bit better than Dragon Dictate in the 90s, but you still wouldn't trust it for anything important.

That's not to say AI is useless, but historically there's been a strong tendency to say, of AI-ish things "it's 95% of the way there, how hard could the last 5% be?" The answer appears to be "quite hard, actually", based on the last few decades.

As this AI hype cycle ramps up, we're actually simultaneously in the down ramp of _another_ AI hype cycle; the 5% for self-driving cars is going _very slowly indeed_, and people seem to have largely accepted that, while still predicting that the 5% for generative language models will be easy. It's odd.

(Though, also, I'm not convinced that it _is_ just a case of making a better ChatGPT; you could argue that if you want correct results, a generative language model just isn't the way to go at all, and that the future of these things mostly lies in being more convincingly wrong...)
Are there any server rack mounted patch panels that let you choose to use a certain network drop for POTS or for Ethernet?

I’ve seen similar patch panels for structured wiring, but not for server racks.
A nice thought, but if GPT can't answer "what is the name of Taylor Swift's latest album" for anytime past 2023 then I would call it not very good.
Most of them over hired like crazy during the pandemic bubble. I wouldn’t say they were stupid but collectively most of them made a massive mistake. So yeah it isn’t hard to believe for me. I don’t think the layoffs are a stupid decision but I do think the extreme over hiring as if the bubble was a new normal was. Between 2020-2022 I literally conducted over 200 interviews for my previous employer. It was like we couldn’t hire fast enough and I would always hear that we were way behind from what we wanted to hire.
beginning?! It's been pointed out for months that that this is part of a coordinated attack on workers.
Ah, I mostly go based on what I hear from friends. This, Reddit, and a regional moped Discord are the closest I get to social media
Ok, it's 2/3 times cheaper but the reliability is clunky as it's hosted on a single device.

With S3 I don't really care about what happens, do a snapshot myself, spend time restoring from snapshots etc. It's there.
Worth the upgrade to me.

Also, not from Europe, ping not good.

Edit: also read horror stories about Hetzner, in my former jobs had problems with OVH. No service, unreliable.
Seriously, it seems like this is getting worse and worse on HN lately. I know the site has always had a neoliberal white tech-bro bent, but it's getting absurd.
Agreed, but it's neat.

Every time I try setting my home network up like that (smart firewall, traffic graphs, etc), I just end up going back to a $30 router/AP.
Putting on my accountant's hat...

Alright, Mr Gilbert, cloud engineer, microservices architect, UX person, whichever. What is your value to the company?

Well, I help to design a.....

No, your VALUE. As in, money. How much money do you make the company?

Errrr......
Many severance agreements prohibit sharing details of the severance agreement.
My front page of reddit is different from yours. If you only join garbage subs, of course you're going to see garbage threads on your home page. The question is, why do you do that to yourself?

Likewise, some threads on this site are garbage, too. It's easy enough to hide them and move on, though.
Only in Canada is sending your sick elderly out on an ice float called "health" care.

Cheap though.
Show HN: ChatGPT for the Langchain docs deployed as a Discord bot
Why does the process matter? The question is whether <candidate> can do his job right here right now. If he can: Great. If he can't: Tough shit.
These seem pretty tame.
According to the comment you replied to, you're statistically more annoying.
Yeah it looks amazing. I’m not buying it, just as I’m not buying many other beautiful luxury products. Not with my current budget at least.
It's not purely about the recession. If it was, they would halt hiring, keep talent, trim executive bonuses, and be precise about where dead weight exists. Not 5%+ layoffs of major teams and roles.

You see other industries, they're laying people off sure, but we're not talking 5%+. They're doing the above, being more precise about their spending. Like Blackrock, huge losses, and still "only" let go of 500/16000, ~3%.

You will not see tech companies balloon to the same number of employees ever again, if anything they will continue to shrink astronomically. No matter what happens to the economy, as these decisions are not because of the recession or the pandemic, both of those reasons are amplifiers not sources.
I don't know how much all of this consumes. The networking itself is pretty power hungry, just the APs probably consume more.

On the other hand there are no fans in my setup except, incredibly, the laptop. But this fan is kicking in extremely rarely and only when I am actually using it, so no problem.

The backup NAS makes a bit of noise but this is happening during night when nobody cares.
>Latinos

Wait until you find high disparity between Latinos themselves. Ever heard of Severo Ochoa? Ramon y Cajal? Torres Quevedo?

Not every Latino it's lazy. Not every American rides a walking device and it's overwight. Not every Brit/Irish it's deeply drunk at pubs.
> Total cost: £0.
> 5 months of excellent at home care for £0.

a lifetime of having way more than HALF your income stolen from you..... 0? okay..
My grandfather in law died of dementia in Canada and it cost $5k per month for the years he was there.
You forgot to mention a huge number of impostors in our industry who get hired without actually being qualified.
Sure, there are some DEI types who believe that. There are also some anti-DEI types who believe that whites are a superior race, and DEI is a conspiracy to subjugate them. (If you don't believe me, just keep reading the comments.)

Judging a movement by its fringe is unhelpful.

> if there is any discrepency in outcome between two groups (whichever way you cut the population), it is the result of discriminations and power struggles

A more accurate way to frame this would be "If there is any discrepancy... it is likely influenced by discriminations and power struggles, and we should be paying very close attention to the societal factors at play in an effort to reduce their impact."

You end up in looney tunes land pretty quick if you swing too far in either direction with absolute conviction. Too far in favor of DEI, you wind up with things like "actually, women are only physically weaker because they're oppressed". Too far in the other direction, you wind up with things like "actually, crime is genetic".
...well I think it takes a long time before we will have 10Gbe in Italy (we still don't have 5Gbe), anyway I'll use only another router and switch, with 10gb ports, but the issue in this case will always be the wifi antenna of the (i)Devices that are still below 1Gbps, so the AP will not need a swap at the moment.
> Carbon offsetting is needlessly and cynically attacked by the same people who talk about wind power killing birds or not recycling the blades.

well i don't really understand how you can lump all those together but ok... they're still not the same.

as others have pointed out, it doesn't seem hard (or hard enough) to scam in this business sector - i.e. having the same assets accounting for different offset purchases, or just conflating assets bought for different puroses with offsetting. furthermore, it just deviates us from what should be the true goal: reduce fossil fuel consumption. not to mention how big business just offload this shady business cost to the end consumer.

i'm taking the chance to share some content by people that present their points of view on this issue much better than i do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW3gaelBypY, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW3gaelBypY, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20xMbGkEIQI, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIezuL_doYw
Agree. Also, was that the cost of hospice or of all her medical care?

If you're including rent in the cost, did grandma have a home that she sold? Would she have been paying that much in rent anyway if she wasn't sick? Would it have been cheaper if she didn't live in one of the nations more expensive cities?
Except that the openly stated goal of DEI activists is the opposite. It's to destroy the "Western-prescribed nuclear family structure". Which would be all well and good if they supported viable alternatives such as a greater reliance on extended families or building up a resilient structure of tightly-knit local communities - but nope, they hate these things even more!
Wondering if there will ever be a arch64 (m1/m2) version of rustdesk for the mac. It is currently intel only
Thank you for the clarification, you are correct.
This is one company I do not feel bad for.
In the US at least, there is a baseline standard based on Generally Accepted Accounting Practices and SEC reporting requirements. Generally it is reported quarterly (every three months) with a big year end summary.

They’re a bunch of terms and abbreviations you’ll also need to understand eg FY means Fiscal Year, what the various GAAP measures are, and often many companies and industries have their own non-GAAP measures.

To really understand it all takes a lot of work, corporate accounting is nothing at all like managing person cash flow, there are a lot of accounting practices you need to understand like depreciation, how revenue is recognized, etc - all of which can be games to a degree.

Note that a private company doesn’t have to release this kind of info.
Probably the same thing that we can see happening now in right-wing US politics.
Cancer treatments typically falls under medical expenses, something a health insurance will cover. Assisted living or long-term care for the eldery in a nursing home usually does not, so I'm not sure what your example tells us about the differences.
I'd say the family metaphor is very apt. As a customer I always felt they were family run. Possibly a very large, ethnically homogeneous family with interests in funeral homes, car parks, casinos and hospitality. That kind of family.
> Once you learn it, it replaces 85% of other languages for systems work.

It's funny you say no one learns it, then say you could use it for 85% of systems work. Then the next dude comes along who has to maintain it and we're back to square one.
We don't hate the elderly, we just don't value family. We expect our kids to leave home as soon as they are able and we don't bat an eye when they move a few thousand miles away. Marriage rates have been declining for a few decades and something like half of marriages end in divorce. I have an aging mother and mother-in-law that both live alone because they "value their independence." Neither has the slightest interest in living with my wife and I, although we are fairly close. The norm is living independently and anything else is an imposition or a failure in our society.

edit: Wouldn't have thought any of that was terribly controversial. I'd be interested if those having a negative reaction would post some response so I know what makes that opinion problematic. No need to get into an argument, I'm just genuinely curious.
> This has been the case for a while in social sciences

“Oh, the humanities!”
The companies belong to "capital", it would be far more distressing if they weren't doing what it's owners want them to do.
That's like saying that it's not worth fixing security holes in an operating system because people will just find new ones
What if you use it to just plant the explosives, then have it leave before detonating?
Yeah I enjoy both. But the little "side quests" that happen when you're able to regularly interact with people didn't seem to happen as much in Japan. Only with foreigners who lived there who could act as a bit of a bridge. It's an insular society too.