skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My PTO is an earned benefit (legally). I’m sure Google is paying those out. Free meals or free office printing are not earned benefits (legally). I’m sure Google is not paying for 30 weeks of meals or printing for laid off workers.

If you agree with the above, the challenge becomes figuring out whether a benefit is more like the legally earned or more like those provided as a courtesy and convenience.
There's also https://lottiefiles.com/

> A Lottie is a JSON-based animation file format that allows you to ship animations on any platform as easily as shipping static assets. They are small files that work on any device and can scale up or down without pixelation. LottieFiles lets you create, edit, test, collaborate on and ship a Lottie in the easiest way possible.
Remind me, who installed Volker again? Who cranked the interest rates? Who got voted out of office because they finally cranked the interest rates high enough to tame inflation?
I'd need to move from South Bay to SF first to make repeated visits worthwhile. Over an hour each way is... yeah.
> if I'm reading this right, the author is saying that the parsed data takes _more_ space than the JSON version? JSON is a text format and interning it into proper data structures is likely going to take _less_ space, not more.

Utf8 json strings will get converted to utf16 strings in some languages, doubling the size of strings in memory compared to the size on disk.
Most mathematicians never use ZFC or any similar "foundational" system. That something can serve as such a foundation doesn't remotely mean that it is useful. Math is not like a house which breaks down without a foundation.

The distinction between countable and unaccountable infinity is precisely something that finitists point out as being useless. For example, analysis existed well before Cantor, and it's notion of limits and convergence ironically provides a potential notion of infinity which doesn't treat it as a mathematical object, contrary to the set theoretical notion of actual infinity, where we have a zoo of transfinite numbers.

And the fact that the countable/uncountable distinction can be integrated in some practical theories doesn't show that it has any practical implication. That would only be the case if those practical theories wouldn't exist otherwise. But analysis existed before Cantor, and other practical theories, like probability theory, could have existed before him. They are perfectly compatible with being a finitist.
So Rippling took on an extra 4% dilution, without an increase in valuation to show for it, because of SVB liquidity? Why didn't they just take an emergency loan?
> Do we need schools for that, or will kids learn the same by messing around in multiplayer Minecraft or whatever the zeitgeist is?

You don't read facial expressions, body language, use your body, exchange bacteria/viruses, have body contact, &c. in minecraft

You can't go against hundred millions years of evolution and expect minecraft to replace real life. (see loneliness epidemic, obesity epidemic, depression epidemic), we're smartish apes, not AIs or computers. We're not designed to seat all day, we're not design to interacts with screens

If you can entirely replace education you don't need _school_ per day but you need long term group socialization with people who have different and similar opinions and backgrounds, physical activity, mental entertainment and challenges

The end goal is to live in healthy and collaborative societies, not to be mienscraft basement dwellers
In my experience - not really.

I know a lot of people around my age and only 1 person is working in my industry.
Okay, so was this written by chatgpt
Linking a language to "enterprisey", especially a young language like C#, seems absurd to me. There are plenty of startups using Java, C#, etc. You don't have to be riding the Node.js bandwagon to be agile.
That ^ is interesting in that it's (a syntax heavy version of) dynamic scoping with an implicit restriction that the call graph must be static. I.e. as described that does not work with function pointers (there is a todo reference to 'dyn', which looks like it means vtable dispatch, i.e. a special case of a function pointer call).

This suggests a general pattern given the above on memory allocation - some things are expressible on static call graphs. On dynamic call graphs, they need to either fail (could be at compile time) or induce a runtime cost.
The problem with a lot of these people is they don't integrate with the local communities, normally by not learning the language.
Caesar had multiple Tribunes of the Plebs (who had far more electoral legitimacy than Caesar ever did, being elected by the Plebeian Assembly) removed from office. To pretend that he never did anything blatantly undemocratic is false.
What logic is that? You can compel someone into permission with or without them knowing. That’s sketchy territory.
It really depends man. I joined the plumbers union and don’t regret it at all I hated school. Getting a degree these days you really gotta be careful what you pick and knowing someone getting a good job goes a long way. Also it’s expensive, some kids are very lucky and there parents get to pay college for them and don’t have to worry about being in debt paying loans for the next 10+ years. But trades isn’t for everybody, and neither is school so it depends on the person.
To make things worse, Albertsons and Kroger intend to merge, meaning that those two choices will look more like one very soon.
In terms of protests fixing things, there's a reason I was so against what was done to the Canadian truckers even though I generally disagreed with them. The template for how to suppress protest activity in the 21st century is set.
I'll concur with the piece, definitely. It seems to completely hallucinate when giving any reference link, or at least GPT-3 did. I don't know if GPT-4 continues the behavior. GPT-4 is underneath Bing Search, so if it does, that'd be bad news for MS.
Yeah, but the website community is decidedly anti-startup so that does make it countercultural in the local culture.
If you've seen the graphs, you'd understand why in is free and out costs money. Because it's almost all out already. It's also not nearly as free as you think to run massive clouds.
It depends on the job/career the person is going for.

Some jobs; doctors, lawyers, psychologists… would need a book based education that can’t be taught in an apprenticeship or by just hand-on training.

Other jobs like carpenter and plumbers and mechanics, people could probably learn most stuff by just hands on experience, going out and doing things and figuring out how to do it better, but would need an apprenticeship to learn how to deal with meeting building and safety codes based on where they live.

I’m I network engineer for a global company, and I credit all of my knowledge to simple hands on experience and google. I learned a lot about networks just from my time in the military, used that to get civilian jobs that were more complicated and I had more to learn, and when ever I hit a point I couldn’t get past, I’d ask someone or ask google, OR just keep smacking my head into that wall until I figured it out. My B.S. degree in computer science is more of just that… bs, then the hands on experience I gained over the past 20+ years.
OMG the Bitnet. 91 there were about a hundred machines from which people came into the relay (chat) and we thought we knew them all... Had to press Enter every once in a while on the IBM 3270 terminal to see if somebody wrote in the chat. If there was a sudden storm of answers you got really busy reading and answering...

/signon

That was before all those people started to shuffle into IRC even...

I also remember getting the "Datenschleuder" where you could read how to build your own 300baud acoustic coupler...
I don't think you can ever make it not leaky, especially if native resources or certain types of locks are involved at some point. This would also apply to green threads, which means you're still using async/await - it just looks completely synchronous.
Okay? My point is that if Zuckerberg does something to increase the stack price it will benefit people who are getting stock based compensation. I never mentioned anything about individual employees controlling it.
I'm being accurate. Mindlessly sending an antagonistic reply without giving due consideration to what was actually said is more antithetical to norms of good faith than stating that this is occurring.
It's a massive improvement over callbacks when using an event loop model too. I've worked with code that has an insane amount of nesting because it was written before async/await and instead had to pass in a callback every time it went off to do an asynchronous operation. It made the code very hard to read and it complicated exception handling, resource lifetime management, and even simply iterating over an input.

With async/await the code ends up structured the same as if the operations were synchronous. It's much easier to follow and modify.
- Old games (Maybe not as retro and far back as C64 though).

- Coding. Notepad++ plus a browser for webdev.

- Media Player. Hook a 4TB HDD up to it that's loaded with episodes of Friends, etc

- Home server. Use it as a home networking device?
Little bit of eugenics perfume on this question
Btw, you should skip, hobble on a crutch, take a wheelchair, or do a zombie sway in an airport rather than walk normally because your gain contains a biometric signature.
I contend that "We have had free public libraries" is not a statement about the mere existence of a public library somewhere, but rather and especially in the context of this discussion a claim about how widely available resources for self-education are. And that's firmly the latter half of the 19th century, following efforts of people like Buckingham, Edwards, and Carnegie. And these are still not even close to universally accessible - there can be plenty stopping "a 20 year old human who lives in Western society" from accessing them.

So, no, not pedantry - just asking that you genuinely consider the experiences of others before waxing poetic about some irrelevant historicism. Perhaps unguided education is today not as accessible for everyone as it was for you, for many reasons.

(p.s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darby_Free_Library says it was a subscription library until 1898. Maybe also Google, which seems to be what you meant by "the open internet", is not that great a resource either?)
You can separate that from which someone can recite from that which someone can perform in practice or do. To remember facts and present them in language is different than being able to craft a bow.
Show HN: Andromeda Invaders: Autoplay - Press ‘Enter’ twice and wait 5 seconds
I predict that your second sentence will be thoroughly disproven by the next generation, who will go offline en masse to find reality once AI makes the entire Internet inauthentic.
While this is all true, the article is about white collar apprenticeships.
I didn't pay much attention to what happened with the truckers. How were they suppressed?
You just built a straw man for you yourself to disassemble.

Israel hadn’t even crossed my mind.
The fact that voiceprint even worked means it can be faked.
Modern body scanners show a "heat map" of areas of interest rather than denude people like the early ones did. I'm wondering if raw imagery is captured and stored.
Nah those were quickly rejected by the BLM leadership as "not one of ours"
I stumbled on this book in the Menlo Park public library and really enjoyed it. I also wondered why I had never heard of PLATO. Very good read.
"Paté followed by nothing but entrecôte, entrecôte, entrecôte. Occasionally roast lamb, duck breast."

So that's the complaint against French food in an English newspaper? How ridiculous.
I'm guessing the VC market was much more strict then, since you had a way higher risk if a startup didn't turn a profit.

Probably did a lot more due diligence then.
Whelp, that’s going to make it more difficult for them to get Ukraine to agree to any Chinese-mediated peace plan.
In hindsight, I'm not sure if it is ever worth it. Particularly when young. Early 20s imo should focus on balance and growing. I should have joined some sports leagues to develop a social circle. Nobody wants to be 25~27 and have no friends.

Professionally, the resume build was good. The pay, 2.5 yes experience and made about 80k/yr all in. That was still a 50% raise, but not life changing or worth the 55-75hr work weeks (averaged about 60). Was too much sacrifice, not saying quitting was thd option, just could gave tried less hard and easily worked 5 to 10 hours less per week with the same result.
>> Grocery retailers, too, have become increasingly consolidated. The ongoing Kroger-Albertsons merger, which could be blocked by the FTC, for example, has raised alarm bells from consumer advocates; if the merger goes through, Kroger-Albertsons and Walmart together would control 70 percent of their industry. In fiscal year 2022, Kroger’s operating profit was $4.1 billion — in 2021, it was $3.5 billion. Since the pandemic began, Kroger has paid billions in dividends to its shareholders.

This part is key to me. The larger the consolidation, the more they answer to stockholders, and not to customers or competition. Stockholders only care about stock price [1]. There's no value in caring for the consumer class.

[1] https://bts.com/2017/11/01/who-do-you-put-first-the-stakehol...
Tesla is swearing off rare-earth elements – but experts are doubtful
Plato Homelink was my first online community, circa 1984 (?), after a positive writeup in PC Magazine. It had a lot of positive tech features (graphics!). But mainly it was a warm and welcoming place, with friendly people who were really interested in learning from each other.
I worked in a call center for a while. I'd call it light blue collar work. You don't get to listen to podcasts but these days you might get a remote position. Physical risk is mostly limited to RSI I guess.
Where does the kubelet mount volumes?
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Hey guys,

We all feel lonely, judged and bored sometimes in different phases of our lives. Even though we may have friends and family sometimes it maybe difficult for us to explain how we feel without being judged or to get a different perspective.Omegle exists for chats and video but probability of finding someone who would genuinely listen is low. Hence Frndme a voice only peer to peer site made this weekend. Have fun looking forward to feedback
And the innovations in the C# language are great. Pattern matching, source generators, unsafe improvements, they open huge possibilities.
AI of course has the potential for good—even in the hands of random people—I'll give you that.

Problem is, if it only takes one person to end the world using AI in a malevolent fashion, then I think human nature there is unfortunately something that can be relied upon.

In order to prevent that scenario, the solution is likely to be more complicated than the problem. That represents a fundamental issue, in my view: it's much easier to destroy the world with AI than to save it.

To use your own example: currently there's far more nukes than there are systems capable of neutralizing nukes, and the reason for that owes to the complexities inherent to defensive technology; it's vastly harder.

I fear AI may be not much different in that regard.
Part of it is that "large systems" are almost all combinations of small systems with proto boundaries, so it's not much of an actual risk unless you're making giant monolith code.
> We never speak about websites through the lens of CPU, RAM, power consumption, thermals, or FPS limitations

It's worth going for the 'mobile first' approach and assume your visitors have the bare minimum specs for browsing your website. Obviously if you're doing a big clunky SPA you need to warn your visitors beforehand. Also warn users with JS disabled using <noscript>
It’s “data gravity,” as Dave McCrory put it a long time ago. Make it easy to put your data and workloads on a cloud, the “gravity” makes it hard to escape. The more you have the harder (more expensive) it is to break the pull.
I'm pretty sure he just wrote "[dead]". Either way, based on his previous comment history, it's probably for the best.
It sounds like zero bridges were burnt. The perceived animosity was probably because they felt awkward about it and ended up doing it suboptimally.

From what you've written, they very possibly look fondly on your early involvement. Getting demotivated isn't wrong or bad; we're all human. And even if they are salty, the tech world is huge and potential employers rarely dig deep into your past employment.

The most important thing is not to dwell on this. It has a large potential to sap energy from future endeavors, which would be much more tragic. Instead, use it as motivation to build even better things.
> If a person is smart enough to receive it, more education is almost always good.

Are you speaking narrowly of credential-granting schools or do you actually mean education here?
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Yes-ish; because go has no immutable slices, it's just copy-on-realloc. Which is if course obvious if realize that's what it's actually doing…
My library has ebooks too, but the collection is abysmal compared to Archive.org. Archive.org digitized a ton of books that you'll be very hard pressed to find ebooks of for sale let alone in public libraries (except Library Genesis, Z-Lib, etc.)

Archive.org's error wasn't in believing that their act would be useful. The error was in their belief that laws were effectively suspended "because Covid".
While agreeing with all your points, I think blue collar jobs will get their mojo back soon, especially something not a repeat work, as they will be one of the few jobs that will remain after LLM and AI has automated most of the desk jobs (or at least severely reduced the number of people needed to be employed in them).
Not even (fully) for ASP.NET Core, as Blazor Server does use a SynchronizationContext.
I wonder how much of this is a primary goal or just a nice side-effect for AWS. I imagine the custom internal forks of all this stuff, and their own data management systems are simply not compatible with the native variations that the products themselves have. From AWS's perspective it might seem wasteful to pro-actively support outbound data, and as a nice side-effect it makes it harder to leave or host an alternative.

For us, this is just part of the calculation; if we have special cases we run it ourselves, but the case also has to justify the inter-AZ replication and other side-effects.

The way we use AWS services also assumes migration paths outside of what you would normally do (binlog or CDC options) where we don't migrate 'the database' but 'the service' that relies on the persistence offering. This is of course much harder if some of your functionality relies on AWS-specific things, but for the average persistence system (ES, RDBMS, NoSQL, Redis, Memcache, object storage, Kafka, MQ) it really isn't all that exciting and the AZ cost is hardly a significant factor of the showstopper kind.

Perhaps this also is due to the way we designed our persistence systems; we only allow single-owner persistence, so no shared redises, databases or tables or schemas. We also don't do any binlog PITR, we use Kafka rewinds in between RDBMS snapshots since the database isn't the only factor in our consistency and partition tolerance conundrum. And Kafka itself is so 'thin' on the server side that binary exports/imports are only tied to the major version and highly dependant on what the client does (which is something AWS does not control - if they would their MSK offering would be useless).

Using AWS as a 'virtual datacenter' or 'managed version of the thing you already have' is bound to turn into a PITA. That applies to GCP as well, but almost 10x for Azure. Ironically, you're better off not using the big three if that is what you want, you don't get a lot of the features, but you also pay a fraction of the cost. And if you're not using the features anyway (or see them as a problem), Linode, Vultr, DO, even Scaleway are all a much better fit anyway.

In my cases where we use AWS, it's almost always for the same reasons:

- We use enough of it to get discounts
- We use enough of it to allow us to do 10x with the same people, it is a very significant force multiplier
- We require some of the cross-service facilities like IAM, KMS, ACM, Security Groups

In a small number of cases it's also for compliance reasons, but I try to stay away from that since that usually comes with a checkbox clipboard manager/auditor regime as well, and I don't enjoy managing or working for those.
Point taken, and I expect it's relevant to the author as I doubt even they thought this project was the most monetarily profitable use of their time.

How much effort? I do not know precisely, not having done it before. The relevant NVMe specifications add up to about 1000 pages, which is actually less than I expected. I suspect implementing all of that would take a rather long time regardless, and that's just the host-interface protocols. The harder part, I believe, is the implementation of the controller log itself. I intuit this based on the large visible effort the SSD industry has spent on various hardware and firmware improvements over the last decade. I don't have a good way to summarize it. The question is how much of that effort is necessary when using DRAM rather than NAND? Maybe you don't need sophisticated ECC, bad block detecting, block remapping, garbage collecting, etc.

I am pretty confident, however, that the author knows more about it than I do and their conclusion has been that it's worth using an existing SSD controller.
This is a very good podcast with articulate critiques of popular politics and mass media narrative, and interestingly it is Seymour first interview after publication. I also enjoyed their last podcast episode on what is happening in Georgia, seams insightful and with trustworthy guest.

@dang might there be a reason of why my earlier comment is flagged?
> Otoh, certain stuff that are not particularly important need frequent repetition, eg learning a foreign language that you are not actively using.

In that use case, you are much better off reading content in that language and watching content in that language. Vocabulary memorization as isolated activity makes sense only as additional activity if you have additional time on top of that.
I said common not constant, one unit in one company did that well very briefly but overall that’s not abnormal. Some divisions have better quarters than others, and which is on top changes over time.

Tyson’s net quarterly profits peaked at 7.9% 3/2022, but it was also 7.4% in 2018. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSN/tyson-foods/pr...

And if you look at their most recent numbers, net profits were 4.5% all of which is very favorable compared to 1.5% in 2012. Overall the tendency is at or below 5%.
Hahah. Yep. Is that Hacker Dojo or some shitty place like that?

Corporate, BMW SUV-driving assholes who think of themselves as "liberals" but are ready to turn on anyone for any reason and excommunicate them without the possibility of fair treatment.
John Carmack argued the opposite. He said he would hardcore limits into his data structures. Limits that would never be hit under normal operating circumstances. He argued that when you design software you should have an idea under what circumstances it will run and optimize for those. The fact that people normally don't do this, is why software often lags - that algo you implemented worked worked just fine when it's hashmap has 1000 keys, but not when it has 1m keys.

I haven't articulated his point very well, but I lost interest in this comment mid way thru.