skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is the decimation of the middle earners, the ones that drive the service economy. More and more of their income (especially in London) is taken by rent and bills. Lower earners have had massive payrises - 24% in real terms since 2010. Median earners are up just 2.8% in real terms since 2010

From 2010 to 2023

Minimum wage has risen 76%

House prices have risen 76%

State Pension is up 52%

Median earnings is up 45%

CPIH inflation is up 41%

NHS Band 7 salaries (41-47k) are up 37%
The Age of Advertising Must Come to an End
Moral: When you have a large project don't mention anybody in specific. You will only alienate those you didn't mention.
Eh, it also excludes people that don't have spectacular long-term memory, or people that don't keep a diary about bugs that they've chased down at work. Personally, I think you're overfitting to fight cheating, but maybe you work at a desirable enough place that you can afford to exclude so many people but still get enough good candidates.

IMO a good question provides the necessary context itself, and the candidate's thinking and reasoning skills are what's tested. With your question, it's basically turned into a competition of which candidate has tackled the most ridiculous/obscure/complex bug, so candidates aren't being judged on even footing.
I assume you're talking about crediting beat makers, arrangers and producers rather than just the "traditional" way of crediting the people who come up with the melody and lyrics?

If so, I agree with an addendum: I think it's more about the "culture" around songwriting credits rather than the definition itself, as this was kind of always possible to do, and some people today still do the "old way". For example, back in the 60s/70s some bands like The Doors and Deep Purple would credit the whole band. And sometimes producers would also get credit, like Brian Eno with Talking Heads from the top of my head.
It less about the gestures, but about the general "feel" of the touchpad: latency, accuracy, acceleration, palm detection etc etc etc "just works" on macOS. I never had even close to the same experience on Windows, let alone on Linux. Maybe there's a mythical "Mac-like" Linux touchpad driver out there that doesn't suck, but if it isn't installed by default on a vanilla Ubuntu setup (or any other maintream distro) then it might just as well not exist.
Maybe not today. Tomorrow is another question.
I've not noticed any issues with palm-rejection when typing on Linux. If your trackpad does have issues, you can disable it while typing (but most Windows Precision trackpads work fine).

I'm mostly using the Magic Trackpad on my desktop though. It's very possible you might find a laptop with bad palm-rejection firmware, but I don't think that's an issue with these. Or Synaptics touchpads, in my experience.
You must agree that if the first step in learning a language is "Learn Emacs first", a lot of potential learners are shooed away before they even start. The language has high ceiling, but high floor as well.
> This is still an alpha driver
No, there are (at least) two explanations for Thanos' solution to the problem of resource constraints and overcrowding.

In-universe, I understand (from the youtube videos 'Comics Explained :) ) that Thanos is in love with Mistress Death, so naturally he favours a solution that kills a lot of organisms.

Out-of-universe the writers needed a villain. So they had Thanos do something evil. As the other poster pointed out, it was also a fairly dumb solution, given exponential growth.

Either way, he has a glove with the literal power of the universe and he chooses a comically evil way to fix it. Obviously as it is a comic book.

The important point is that thinking the Thanos 'solution' is somehow rational is based on an arbitrary choice of what is important - life, freedom, nature, order, etc.
This is admittedly a complex subject to boil down into HN replies. And I do not claim to have all of the answers. But here's an attempt to share some parts of the vision.

There's nothing wrong with voting as a concept.

But most organizations implement voting such that it happens fairly infrequently on somewhat complex proposals which are fully understood by few and have been heavily guided by leadership. Those proposals tend to be necessarily high-level since voting on all of the little details is impractical. As such, the overall "choice bandwidth" of these traditional voting paradigms are quite low. Also the level of thoughtfulness, engagement, and participation are often low as well (ask anyone who's been involved in an old school coop and they'll confirm this). Also these paradigms are not very agile and do not adapt well to projects which evolve and change over time.

There are lots of potential solutions, but the high level guiding principle is to design structures which are able to support and incentivize more choices being made more thoughtfully by more people more frequently.

So, governance which functions more like a (well-designed) video game and less like a city council meeting.

At Quorum1 we focus very heavily on using stigmergy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy) as a design principle. The idea is to use internal marketplace structures to (a) gamify the process of building consensus and (b) break what could be large/episodic/top-down/waterfall/boolean decision making processes into smaller more spectrum-based decisions. So instead of voting Yes/No on a big proposal and going with whatever got 51%, you run a participatory budgeting process to simultaneously fund multiple potential solutions which then evolve and cross-pollinate until consensus emerges over time.

The strategy is to encourage ongoing experimentation and continuous decision-making able to adapt and evolve as new information comes in over time.
I'm a member of 125 Meetup groups at the last count.

Most Meetup groups are zombie groups with thousands of members and no events.

The Meetup engagement algorithm drives people to keep joining groups and keep RSVPing to events, but very little to encourage repeat attendance or to prune zombie groups and events from your calendar. As a consequence, most groups have tons of inactive "members," and most events have tons of fake "attendees."

Even though I'm a "member" in over 100 groups, my Meetup calendar is mostly full of corporate Zoom events that are basically ads.
When current and future students are out in the workforce they'll have access to tools like CoPilot and ChatGPT, not to mention plain Stack Overflow cut-n-paste, so if education is meant to be preparing kids for the workplace, then the logical thing to do is allow/teach them to use these tools.

OTOH, they still do need to learn how to program and debug (more important than ever if you're using machine-generated code likely to contain bugs, and with unknown error handling), so it seems colleges also need to make the assignments more complex to point where current crop of tools can only be used to assist - not to nearly write all the code.

It'll be interesting to see how these new tools affect hiring standards... Doesn't make much sense to pay someone just to get a tool to write the code, so maybe the bar will be raised there too.
And the original plan, but recently Hector is getting more and more annoyed with the process of upstreaming the patches. I really hope the situation improves so we don't get another PaX situation :( (different reasons of course, but similar result)
For me personally apt is just annoyingly slow, but dnf is much worse. I've seen how fast APK is and I feel, that my distro of choice (Void) has a package manager (XBPS) that is maybe slightly slower than it.

I sometimes wonder if it is like that, because XBPS and APK were designed and built by C hackers while apt where done by system administrators maybe. With dnf/rpm I attribute it to this quirkiness I often feel diving into some of Red Hat's tech. Not trying to offend, just wondering and I acknowledge that I am biased.
Technical Debt is fake news
I think the 80's and 90's answer to this issue is to make their own expies (e.g. Homelanders, DC/Marvel mutually inspired characters, etc.)

Might be well and good to make open source characters? Licensed as public domains and able to be used by anyone?
How is it at writing physically on a whiteboard?
Basically, yes this is how it goes. And I agree that it's not Microsoft's fault.
I'll go ahead and defend blind. It's absolutely negative to the extreme, but it gave me the heads up on a layoff and has all sorts of relevant information. I've come to realize I (we?) trust companies so little that many people would never even complain in a private direct message to a coworker -- pretty hard to commiserate if you're remote.

Most coworkers I know refuse to fill out any "how happy are you at work?" surveys or fill out max scores because they think (and I don't doubt them) that any and all information could be used by management to jeopardize their career -- basically they see their work an totalitarian information state...
Yes, but it works. You can use it and it does acceleration on par for lower OpenGL versions.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230220204315/https://ares.jsc....
Definitely. I’m an engineering manager (admittedly at a startup) and I pair program with my team all of the time.
Windows does run most stuff that you throw at it still unless the software made some boneheaded assumptions that violated basic API rules.

Software using a lib I wrote in 1998 doesn't work anymore but it's because I took a bad shortcut that made DOS-era assumptions, fixing/recompiling it would be the right course of action but I haven't had the time (also not sure where all the sources are).

On a contrary note, my first USB-Wacom pads STILL work after 20 years, it's not just software but a vendor that cared about it's software long enough to make 64bit drivers that still works.

As you said, the vendor isn't interested in upgrading the software and there is where the blame is, MS tries to keep backwards compatibility but some things has had to go for performance and/or security reasons over the years and those usually broke rules (or were tied to HW, Linux has dropped 386 and 486 after all).
"Art that doesn't sell is just a storage problem."

Had an artist tell me this once and it stuck with me ever since. He was referring to paintings, but has generally held for every other artistic endeavor.

Looking through history art has always been commercial - it's just the audience that changes.

For music, musicians who got paid used to be focused on the tastes of just the wealthiest folks who liked to go and be seen at symphonies. Nowadays, it's the artists who can fill stadiums (and get fans to buy lots of merch) that make the most bank. As such, it is often those musicians who provide a sellable brand that do best. To many, this can feel fake and plastic. But like any product designed for mass consumption, it's essential.

Looking at the symbiotic dance between artist and viewer/reader/listener is really something special, and helps to provide context for changes in trends.

You could be the best guitar player in the world, writing the best guitar solos of all time, but if you can't get people to pay for it, it's just a storage problem for your guitar.
As someone with neither the background nor the mathematics to fully understand renormalization, I'll say that the wiki entry isn't terribly helpful:

"Renormalization, in this example, mathematically replaces the initially postulated mass and charge of an electron with the experimentally observed mass and charge."

That sure sounds like adding an arbitrary constant into your theory and turning the knob until the theory matches the results. The comments here suggest that's not the case, but it's easy for me to see where the skepticism comes from.
Is Chữ Nôm part of the unicode?
Yeah, I strongly agree. These factors you mention are probably bigger than than the ones in my post, haha.
> Note that this has its downsides, like voiding the software warranty on your machine.

Yes. "Software warranty". On commercial, boxed software.

They could as well have warned "this will put you on Santa's naughty list".
Rethinking. Quite possibly the emergence of life as we know it, in the whole universe happened once only. That was extremally improbable, the forms was fragile, unimaginable but not ugly, and a lot, lot lot of lucky events must have happen for it.. but finaly it was conscious, had a look at itself, own limits and improbability of this happening even again.. even in all the infinity of space and time..

Once was enough.

It existed long enough only to - after exhausting study - re-engineer its own formula according to conditions and laws of ethernity and choosed the best - small fractal twist of a carbon based spiral was the minimal requirement supporting all the casess of: in minimal conditions being emergent, viral and unstoppable. Eternal.

Life.. may be common in space, uncommon in time.

(AI, as we know it, is dead not inert; as we don't know it, may be part ot that fractal twist..)
Because everything great and worthwhile has always been designed by committees.
Good news! It's in vanilla Ubuntu now.

The main holdup was Wayland - go get your Wintel machine and try booting up a Wayland session in KDE or GNOME. If your trackpad was manufactured with multitouch, chances are it will have gesture support. Any distro shipping GNOME 41-ish or Plasma >5.25 should have this by-default.

As for the feel... I'm gonna be honest, I don't notice any difference from my Mac. If anything, my Magic Trackpad has more gesture options on my KDE machine out-of-the-box. Don't knock it till you've tried it!
A touchpad experience that doesn't get in the way is at least as important as good desktop rendering performance though.
He said it’s a static page too… don’t even need a VM. He can just dump it into Amazon S3 and put cloudfront on top of it. Unlimited scaling across the globe, 1TB free of data transfer, free SSL.
Could you explain how do you do it? I really want to have a blog but I don't want to fuck with wordpress and all that I know is a little bit of html, python and sql.
A couple of things jump out:

1. Dahl had already made changes to the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The early editions had African pygmies as his free labour. I don’t think the world was “woke” back then.

2. This is being done by a corporate publishing house in order to maximise the revenue of one of its key IP assets. It’s not mandated by government/regulation; there is no viral social media furore or press campaign. It’s not censorship nor anything like 1984 where works are being revised and all traces of the previous version cease to exist.
How about you don't attack me and we have a conversation?

Why is it that people have lost the capacity to just talk and explore.

This law is absolutely irrelevant. I am NOT suggesting anything even remotely like it. In fact I am not suggesting any law whatsoever.

I am exploring this idea (not proposed legislation) of reciprocal treatment for certain things between countries.

To continue the China example, here are the rules:

https://yklaw.us/buying-property-in-china-as-a-foreigner/

Among some of the details, this is most notable:

"The government owns the land on which your property sits. You lease it for 70 years (if it is zoned for residential use)."

"If you purchase an older home, the government has the power to purchase your home and tear it down for new construction."

OK. Let's have the entire world apply the same rules to Chinese citizens.

What is wrong with that?

I cannot go to China and own farm land, dozens of homes and businesses. Why is it that they can go to France, Italy, Argentina, Spain, Chile, Brazil or anywhere else and buy-up whatever they want when they don't allow foreigners equal access.

That's simply unfair. Maybe even unethical.

I am suggesting that equal treatment is fair. If A allows members of B to do X, then B allows those from A to do the same.

What's wrong with that idea?

Better yet: What's right about the idea of A allowing B, yet B not allowing A?

Maybe that's the question.
Will BrowserComponent in .NET still work? Asking for a friend
On the other hand you’re not out there writing slam pieces on project managers, so I don’t think your lack of clarity around these terms is causing anyone any heartburn. And yeah these terms are a little under-differentiated in some shops. How I learned it [0]:

Project manager handles a discrete undertaking with a beginning and an end that falls outside whatever your org considers “ongoing operations.”

Program manager handles a portfolio of interrelated projects. If a lot of projects are failing and you want a single throat to choke, the program manager might be a good person to replace.

Product manager seems like it could be interpreted as kind of like a program manager (for a large, complex set of inter related projects) or a project manager (if there’s only one project) except that the organization’s ongoing operations include the creation and development of the product, instead of the product being a single event/discrete undertaking.

Source: read PMBOK decades ago

[0]: maybe others who learned differently can chime in? Doesn’t seem like this terminology is universal.
What they are describing as ‘hell’ is regarded as an attractive working class job by many in China. By these standards, Teslas are made in hell, and Twitter is hell these days too.

This tries to be an anti-Apple hit piece, but is really an anti-China piece in disguise.
You’re not accounting for redundancy, administration cost, electricity, heat management, or servers to hold the drives.
k thanks, so I guess you've studied this for as long as it took to write 129 words on the subject. I am going to have to be way more interested in the actual people who are studying and experimenting with this at this point, I can't allocate any interest at all in your 129 word paper on the subject.
Who says anything on the screen will be real?

"Hey MultimodalGPT, look like me on a Zoom call and pass this interview."

Text2Video is already moving quickly. Maybe in as little as three years a video feed will be as trustworthy as an email.
I can vouch for the La Quinta Inn mentioned in the article. It's a comfortable and affordable place to spend a night if you flew in to Burlington on the way to somewhere in the region (Lake Placid, in my case).
For 2), are you just adding people on LinkedIn and sending them a message?
unique_ptr is usually the feature people mention if looking for a reason why C++11 is not just C++98/03 plus syntactic sugar, because it requires move semantics which was introduced with C++11; that's why I directly pointed to Boost.Move, which offers move semantics including a unique_ptr version compatible with C++98/03. Only in C++14 (or 17, I don't remember, have to look up) they added a feature for which no C++98/03 implementation is known/possible, but most people are not even aware of it (so that one feature is barely the justification of "modern").
France is downrange of Cornwall. It'll be 'raight.
It's possible I've not worked with a good PM, but the fact remains that I haven't seen the industry _incentivize_ the "good PM" behavior you're describing nor have there been consequences for "bad PMs", so does "good" and "bad" really mean anything?
That was a change Dahl himself willingly made, so I don't see a serious problem with the fact that the altered text wasn't labelled differently.

It's his work, he can do with it whatever he likes and it remains his work. The "definitive" version is whatever the author says it is. It'd be a totally different thing if the change was made by others without his permission.
Yeah I think having an hourly rate would have been more useful, but I appreciate their reply regardless.

I’ve done DD for a small SaaS acquisition. But from the sell side. It was a decent amount of work providing access, diagrams, answering questions, etc. I would think anywhere from $150-$300/hour depending on the deal size.
Right, or "should we spend millions on Steam Deck which will pay off in 10 years" vs "should we all just get a big pay rise now with the money?"

The fact that even Valve, which is one of the companies closest to the idea of having endless free money, and thus the most forgiving to a structure like that, didn't make it work, must surely at least give us pause for thought!
I think not all startup experiences are the same. I had a startup experience that had lots of deep, focused work and not putting out fires. That sort of holy grail is one thing that had me thinking about this topic and how to buck conventional wisdom about what type of environment is inevitable, or what can't work.
> I knew I was in trouble when the chef came out to shake my hand.

That is hilariously brutal. Oh no!
There are some physical constants that you can't obtain short of measuring the touchpad and response in a metrology lab. Unless Apple releases their sensor thresholds and constants, reverse engineering can only approximate. Even now Flutter on iOS with the Cupertino theme only feels somewhat native.
Why not PHP on a shared or dedicated hosted server?
>The precursors are ethylene and chlorine

The precursors are more accurately acetylene and hydrogen chloride. But acetylene can be stored and transported as the solid calcium acetylide (aka calcium carbide), which releases acetylene by reaction with water. So this is potentially easier than you made it sound.
What you've said is true, but I'd add that there are worrying number of HIV+ men that have stopped disclosing their status to sexual partners because they've heard that "undetectable = untransmissible." While that does seem to be true, there are a number of problems with this:

1. Not everyone takes their medications exactly as prescribed.

2. Lots of folks on antiretroviral therapy are not undetectable, or may move between undetectable and detectable over time.

It's important that people still disclose their status to sex partners.
>I realized is how hard it was to for leadership - whether product or engineering - to say no, or to stack rank priorities. I

I can't speak for other people, but personally, I always speak my mind. I don't care what level the person above me is. I don't do it in a dickish way, but I will say my say. I always feel that is my duty, to let people above me know what the situation on the ground is, because they just don't know. And usually, in a new job, I'll start out small and work my way up to bigger things as I get to know the system and services/products better. And I've never had any kind of weird shit happen to me, like have someone blow up that I contradict them in the slightest way. Especially in knowledge work. Every boss I've ever had has been good with my feedback and has taken it very seriously. Very often they change their decisions with my input. Often I'll say, "No, can't be done, nope" and explain why, unless they know something I don't know which they always let me know if that is the case.

It's all of our jobs to tell our bosses if something can't be done and be very clear about it, or to have them prioritize work, and also give feedback on that as well.

If you have a boss that is a dick and won't listen - time to move jobs.

Resources are finite, even during flush times, companies go out of business due to squandering of resources.
On top of the other issues discussed, I think that giving effective oral exams is hard for the same reasons that interviewing is hard. It’s a test of the subject’s ability to quickly and confidently say things that sound roughly correct. Some people stumble over their words and cannot effectively speak and think completely accurately in the time required to give a reasonable answer without an uncomfortable pause.

Now, these issues could be mitigated by asking each person the exact same questions and taking careful notes of their responses, but then you’re just back to a bad essay that can’t be revised, edited, planned, or recollected as easily as a real essay.