skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here’s an extension to delete all of your Reddit history: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
That's fine if you feel that way, but millions of people enjoyed it. The comments on reuploads of it are full of people gushing over it, asking why it was removed, and being surprised that AI was involved in it.
Apple Is the One Big Tech Company Without a Clear ChatGPT Strategy
Yeah that seems an unnecessary tagline - it works great for everything in my experience
It guarantees the federal government had a strong bias towards inaction.
Same decade, except in my case it was Baan C :)
This is about chips for Bitcoin mining, not video games.
> Nobody thought to themselves "maybe this zero-rate interest environment will end", or "maybe our business model is losing steam"?

No one in management cares. The hiring and then firing is a feature, not a bug.
I feel like I spend the entire pandemic, trying to understand my mind and my place in the world better. Than 2022 was the best year of my life, in all aspects except perhaps social one. Then towards the end of 2022 and now in 2023, I am trending back to a baseline, old mental issues are coming back to me. But overall I feel like I am such an huge improvement over myself.

I'm struggling getting back into what helped me throughout the pandemic (many, many walks, a lot of meditation, and journaling), but I am slowly getting there and I feel like I am rebounding on that growth mindset again. How great 2022 was, due all the work I put in the period before, is just how I would like life to be all the time.
Would be totally fine if they weren't indexed, linked and summarized in a way that makes them indistinguishable from open web pages, until you click on them.
Borland's prices were much cheaper. Check the price list[0] from 1997, when the original BCB was made. The cheapest (Standard, the version that i used in the linked blog post) was only $99.95 (which remained the same until around 2003 and BCB5). Nowadays the cheapest is $1599[1].

Delphi also had similar prices.

In comparison Microsoft's prices for Visual C++ 97 were much higher, at least according to this old post[2]. The cheapest might have been $99 like Borland's but that was for the learning edition which could only be used by students for non-commercial purposes (Borland's $99 versions of Delphi and BCB did not have that restriction) and the next cheapest was $499 - practically five times more expensive.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/19970605053133/http://www.borland...

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20230220010556/https://www.embarc...

[2] https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-78/microsoft-sets-pricing...
That seems like a very broad way of classifying assets.

Are people assets? Certainly not on the balance sheet I hope.

What about a contract? Is a contract an asset? I’m actually curious, not trying to be a smart ass.
Enter free: Accept ads.
Don’t want ads? Buy pro.

You basically cannot enter if you don’t agree or have payed.

Example: https://t3n.de
Being woke and being an asshole are not mutually exclusive. You can do both. As you say,The term "woke" is supposed to be related to awareness of racial injustice and inequality. What you do with that awareness is an entirely different question. If you use the fact that someone is part of privileged group as a justification for harming them, that makes you both woke and an asshole.

>Either way, claiming that people "who are aware of racial injustice" direct hatred, resentment, and prejudice against others because of their race, age or gender is so blatantly contradictory that it is absurd.

I don't think this is contradictory at all. Victims of abuse and Injustice are certainly capable of victimizing others and carrying out injustices of Their Own.

The idea that a victim of racism, for example, can't also harbor racist prejudices themselves is laughable. History and the contemporary world are full of examples of people who are simultaneously victims and abusers.
And let's not forget social contagion: https://www.businessinsider.com/stanford-professor-mass-layo...
This gives me a huge hit of nostalgia for Flash and ActionScript - ActionScript 3 was my introduction to OOP, design patters, and something akin to "game programming".

I remember browsing Flash demos like this with all sorts of really neat effects, UI tidbits, etc.

Creating a little physics engine in AS3 was super fun. I never really got over how fun it was to write code like "this.parent.rm(this)"

Not sure if it's the same making demos like this, but it feels like it!
> Not even a billion dollars will convince them they're wrong though...

It might wake some of them up, though. Pardon the sheep, for they are asleep. Dreaming dreams of nightmare fences.
The senate was never meant to represent people. It was meant to represent the interested of the states as sovereign entities. The house was supposed to be the populist dumpster fire.

But then some geniuses decided that we should direct elect both and have two dumpster fires.
That would be awesome. And you could control the speed of reassembly. These demos are quite cathartic.
It’s conceivable given the laughable behavior of streaming services lately (e.g. HBO removing recent flagship original content from its streaming service is just ludicrous).

Of course if it became common again it would probably be met with a new era of IP lawsuits, even though it seemed to have been settled previously. Oh, and it would likely only be doable legally with content that had a legitimate physical media release, which is becoming somewhat rare.
This still falls due to you having to have a point of reference for front of boat. See other threads where double ended ones do not have fixed starboard and port.

I am still on board with dedicated terms.
> one look at the repository would tell you this person is obviously above average at writing software.

If you can put your knee jerk emotions aside for a minute and reread that comment carefully - the competence of the dev was never in question.
Artist wins Sony photo contest, declines award because image was AI-generated
I'm inclined to say "So what?"

Since when did Apple follow others?
Yes. My recollection is that around that time, llvm and/or rustc itself would sometimes go over that. I don't know off the top of my head what memory usage looks like right now.
Why is that interesting? I disagree.
The states switched to the constitution because the confederation was too weak and didn't handle or clarify many important issues. Most of the founders were still around.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation_period. "...could not accomplish anything independent of the states. It had no chief executive, and no court system. Congress lacked the power to levy taxes, regulate foreign or interstate commerce, or effectively negotiate with foreign powers. The weakness of Congress proved self-reinforcing, as the leading political figures of the day served in state governments or foreign posts. The failure of the national government to handle the challenges facing the United States led to calls for reform and frequent talk of secession".
Antidepressants increase the risk of suicide for some patients, scientists warn
A clear _public_ ChatGPT Strategy.
It’s interesting, it doesn’t bother me at all.

Reminds me not to spend to much time on computers and be more present. I love it. Like a wake up alarm for life.
I was a loyal Netflix disk user for decades. I was in the habit of adding anything I heard of I wanted to watch to my queue; you could even add stuff that hadn't been released yet.

I only finally cancelled it during the pandemic when I starting finding that Netflix just stopped bothering to buy a lot of titles that I wanted to watch; lots of stuff that I knew was out on Blu-ray would only be available in DVD, or would not be available at all. And there weren't any new release movies coming out because of the pandemic.

So I finally gave up on the disks.
The ochlocracy is real.
Are software dev salaries treated differently than regular employees. I thought 100% of salary and benefits were deductible against revenue.

I’m missing why software salaries are amortized against just straight expenses?
It wasn’t cassette vs computer, it was the scale of the sharing. With tapes, sharing wasn’t really practical beyond a handful of friends. With Napster, you could share with the whole world.
And shareholder pressure.

But as far as I have seen, it's been meaningless pressure, since the shareholders did nothing to companies who did not do mass layoffs at their behest.
The filibuster began its current form almost immediately after the Constitution was amended to require the election of Senators.
You started with an absurd conspiracy theory and just ran with it.

> Isn't a lot of this silliness due to them feeling like they needed to "poach" talented developers, so that the competion wouldn't get them?

No! No one does this!
Agreed on this. One of the courses that I took (that didn't achieve the goal) was 'Reading Knowledge of $language'. The textbook said at the outset words to the effect of "To be fluent in $language and operate in that society takes years of study and immersion. This (book/course) is for those with less ambitious objectives, and less time to achieve them".

I'd say that simply being able to read the Francophone news (this is Canada) would give a very different interpretation of how things are seen politically. Total mastery (able to pass for a native speaker) isn't the only valid outcome.
I liked CORBA, mainly the IDL and IIOP (I didn't use many of the parts that other people hated). It felt like a sequel to Sun RPC and it was easy to move to gRPC. The main problem I had was the Any type wasn't performant.

After working with remote call systems for a while I concluded there should only be two RPCs:

GetMessage() (which polls for incoming messages) and PutMessage() (which sends a message). All the method information goes in the payload. There are no verbs or headers (HTTP). There is no relationship between the message and some resource system (REST). The name "message" is an indicator that a message is being passed, rather than a remote call with function-call-like semantics (similar to MPI).
Mediawiki beat them there by a month: https://wikis.world/@mediawiki/110008281749956913

The wikis.world instance is run by Mediawiki community members.
FWIW they did have sales people trying to sell Workplace by FB but it just didn't go so well. Things like Microsoft Teams is so well entrenched (and "free" with the CIOs' Office 365 subscription) that there wasn't much to come for. Even Slack was (/is?) struggling..
You can absolutely use EFISTUB with a built-in initramfs. I've done this before to simplify installing Linux into an Intel-based system with EFI.
Idk how you think it's strong. Have you actually looked for a tech job in the last few months?

One job I interviewed for, they told me they had to turn off the listing because they got too many applicants.

There might be jobs if your totally desperate. Some bottom of the barrel jobs are out there. But accepting total comp decreases between 150k to 60k,along with return to office and limited vacation days again doesn't feel strong.
The filibuster decreases the rate of change.
“clear” != “public”
Oh an “article” from the NY Times with a bias. The NYT is a bias factory. They simply cannot be taken seriously. Full stop.
Well, to be fair, it's Facebook+WhatsApp+Instagram. FB is pretty stale but the others presumably still actively trying to keep up with the competition.
https://youtu.be/81c1L8SrXcU
Civil law moment
> I agree, sites shouldn't be doing the things that require showing one

Like what, showing ads? Collecting payment from the user in leiu of ads? I wonder what website you're imagining that doesn't do something that requires a cookie consent popup. GeoCities, maybe?
Really good and unexpectedly so. I would not have bothered to watch it had I not seen Red Letter Media's review.
The public already knows: the headcount graph trended upwards and accelerated in recent years until recently.

I joke with people in another department that we're a poaching ground for TikTok. Mostly, I work with people who have been at the company many years and are senior production engineers, so I can't appreciate dotcom-style spending in non-engineering business units. For the same space, Alphabet has 10x headcount compared to us.
That's an extremely different proposition. Pretty sure the NSA isn't into stealing bitcoins.
More pylons required.
>But the writers of the constitution in 1788 wanted a strong one because the existing weak one sucked.

The founders wrote reams upon reams discussing exactly what they wanted to do with the constitution and how they intended each and every bit of the constitution to work toward that goal. The intent was basically "we need just a little more centralization in order to deal with the truly national issues."

The government they created to replace the articles of confederation was weak by the standards of the time let alone modern ones.
Building reproducible Python environments with XARs
> remember the UK also allows adverse inferences to be made from silence, it is not the US

Even in the US, the law has changed rather drastically[0]:

“The only way to prevent the government from introducing evidence of the suspect's silence at trial is to explicitly invoke (assert) the right to say nothing. In other words, without being warned by the police or advised by a lawyer, and without even the benefit of the familiar Miranda warnings (which might trigger an ‘I want to invoke my right to be silent!’), the interviewee must apparently say words to the effect of, ‘I invoke my privilege against self-incrimination.’”

[0] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/when-how-invoke-your...
If quantum information is never destroyed – and classical information is quantum information without the complex term i – perhaps our brain states are already preserved in the universe; like reflections in water droplets in the quantum foam.

Lagrangian points, non-intersecting paths through accretion discs, and microscopic black holes all preserve data - modulated energy; information - for some time before reversible or unreversible transformation.

Perhaps Superfluid quantum gravity can afford insight into the interior topology of black holes and other quantum foam phenomena?

(Edit)

Coping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coping

Defence mechanisms § Level 4: mature:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_mechanism#Level_4:_mat...
>pirates and/or interested engineers will do it directly from the devices anyway

But they don't need to make it too easy by giving the source on a silver platter.
Assuming your uncle was single and not able to leverage the double estate tax exemption for married couples, the $1,000,000 farm value is only $11.92 million short of the threshold at which estate tax would start to apply, and only to the amount above the threshold, at an initial marginal rate of 18%. It only reaches a marginal rate of 40% on the amount more than $1 million over the exemption threshold.

If, instead of being $1 million, the farm (assuming it was the whole of the estate) was worth $13.92 million, the actual estate tax would be $345,800. Assuming the same ratio of annual profit to value in your hypothetical, the annual profit would be $278,400; so if you had no other assets to pay the tax, you’d probably need to borrow against the profits, but that shouldn’t be too hard given their magnitude.
Yes. As a random example, you'll see that although the lungs are seen from the perspective of a doctor facing a patient, they are labelled left/right from the patient's perspective: https://www.therespiratorysystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2017...
I liked the paper titled "Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence:
Early experiments with GPT-4" better. Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf
From very far away, I trust tech companies (even Microsoft) more than the medical ones topping the charts of US corporate lobbying.
Well said. Normally I would be against collection of this sort of data but this all seems completely reasonable for a case like this. The way I see it, if you have an account with paid purchases on it you've already given up most of this or all of this info already, so at this point it hardly infringing on your privacy and more than it already has been.
It would be great if these were required to be made available in:

* A machine-readable format, not just human readable
* with a fixed schema
* Precise units (ie, no MB vs MiB disambiguation required)
* Reliability stats with historic information
* Accurate maps related to speed, especially with tech like DSL that is distance dependent.
Well that "arrangement" isn't a marriage of convenience. It can end anytime if we drift apart. We all acknowledge that we are different people then we were before. So is the world.

I'm grateful being around people who know whom I was 10-20 years ago. Some of them know me almost half of my life. And it can sometimes help being reminded of that past-self by other people.
This is really relevant to what I've been struggling with for over a decade but am currently in a position to define a structure from the ground up. Thanks OP for your timely submission. It's nice to have someone outside the ride stand up some ideas I can argue with.
You might want to read some accounts of life on lower-middle-class farms, ~120 year ago. Yes, kids were free-ish labor...but basic day-to-day life was incredibly laborious, compared to today. Having kids didn't give you any more land, nor more teams of horses to pull additional plows. Cost of land was not the constraint on the size of your house. Food was not free & unlimited, even in a year with a good harvest. Crop yields were nothing remotely resembling today's post-Green-Revolution & artificially fertilized numbers. Food preservation technology, to have a balanced diet off-season, was home canning and root cellars. The former was highly laborious. The latter had plenty of limitations, even if your local subsoil and water table were ideal for it.
In a downturn your natural attrition rate falls very quickly.

Data:

https://i.imgur.com/SwqhZX0.png
We're literally barely 5 years out from the last major tax cut which followed two Obama era tax cuts that followed Bush Era tax cuts. I'm, not exactly sure where your impression of only tax hikes is coming from
I think there may have been some government financial incentive but I wonder if there was a sense early on, in no small part due to the terrible media and government messaging FUD around Covid, that there would be significant death and debilitation that could have a meaningful impact on available talent, so they decided to get some extras and/or secure some off the market in advance.
Came here to say this, as well. I'm conservative and don't dare opine on The Elephant, because I'll get hell for it.

I've made similar comments on other posts here... along those same lines, and got hell for it.

Well, mofo's, the Twitter Files happened and proved a BUNCH of what I was saying was true. A little bit of vindication.
> I don't know what anyone else in the non-MPK/-FRE buildings here is doing, but 95% chance it's not engineering.

Are you saying there aren't engineers working outside of MPK/FRE (which is wrong) or that they're lazy (which is also wrong)?
Fwiw I think you're less likely to see that rate of attrition when everyone's doing layoffs.
It's hilarious to see Reddit's inept attempts to monetize the content gold mine they've squandered after a decade of devaluing product and engineering.
Right. I stopped using hardware encryption after I forgot the password to my IronKey and had to throw it away.
Ah, thanks. Foiled again by dyslexia.
It doesn't take a genius to understand what a voluntary tool/framework is. Like many of the NIST frameworks including the well known cyber security framework, these aren't mandated by NIST to be used.

But that organisations globally can use the framework in uplifting or driving improved measures around privacy.

If you go to the NIST website and read it, you will have all of your questions clearly answered.
Claiming intent hardly seems fair when it was advertised as being an AI impersonation, no? If they intended to deceive then surely they would have claimed it wasn't AI.
>and increasingly need to be retired.

There's ~150 million people that think the opposite should be done.
I always thought that for hundreds of backends and above 10K RPS those algorithms scale poorly. First of all, scaling beyond single load balancer becomes a problem. The cost of updating counters becomes significant. If responses are quick, the cost additional bookkeeping adds doesn't pay off.

Of you use weighted random all these problems go away.

Is my knowledge outdated?
Huh? The "Macintosh HD" folder in Finder is /. Just drag it into your sidebar.

As for hidden files, cmd + shift + . to show them.
It's the opposite. It disincentivizes growing all software dev (not just R&D) by front-loading taxes.
Perhaps one way to view hiring (at the scale of big tech) is a bit like a VC, you hire 100 people knowing 99 of them won't do anything special, but that 1/100 will make it worth it.

And like VCs the math makes more sense when money is cheap and there's a bull market.
It really is. I do often reach out and try networking on LinkedIn with no luck. I have connections to quite a few companies I'd love to work for, and no its not FANG, who recommend me often whenever a position pops up, but still no luck.
>But then some geniuses decided that we should direct elect both and have two dumpster fires.

this was done because the election process via the state assemblies was so corrupt that Americans regularly made fun of the Senate for this fact.
And nobody here is talking about about the complete failure of that useless metaverse which is solely the responsibility of Zuck? He should fire himself for his failures...
I've used Koa in my last few work projects but will be either switching back to Express or moving onto Fastify for the next one. Like you mentioned, Koa does indeed feel dated. It's community never really took off, either; many of it's most popular helper/companion libraries haven't been updated in years.
> Federal estate tax is due if an estate's value exceeds the estate tax exemption amount, which is $12.92 million for deaths in 2023

The numbers are much, much larger than a simple $1m family farm.

Also, remember, that cap is a exemption from the value. If you have a farm worth $14m, you will have to pay approximately $400,000 in estate tax (NOT 5.6 million like you would naively calculate). At that point, if the farm doesn't generate (effectively) any revenue, and it's not mortgageable or you can't secure a personal loan, it's probably best for everyone that it be sold. You certainly wouldn't be able to e.g. pay property tax on a property that size.

The estate tax is the most widely misrepresented thing in the tax code. It's designed to prevent multimillionaires and billionaires from passing down their entire fortune to the next generation intact. It almost never affects anyone but the top 0.5% wealthiest people in the country, and only then if they do absolutely no estate planning whatsoever.
Falls very quickly to levels higher than any period 2000-2021?
Protecting Internal Apps
> You can easily avoid callback-hell by making the callback you pass in to expressjs async and use await inside of it, without much drawbacks.

I thought this was slightly awkward due to error handling, but it looks like Express 5 (in beta) supports async callbacks natively.
They are finally not losing money. Things are better at twitter and stable. And they are not as funded by advertising which is a win for many
Vault namespacing also requires an enterprise license, so yeah if you're doing anything useful with Vault at scale, you're paying for it.
There's no way tech is big enough to move that number significantly. It's like repeated sf arguments how the city is dominated by software, except even that city is mostly service and finance jobs.
I hate that everyone benefits from GDPR and is rooting for Europe, yet very little is being done in North America.