skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you explain more what you mean with Americans & Indians having different definitions of "no"?
No problem! My team is a small subset of engineers in a 10yo+ startup, and the organisation chose to go all in on many Google services long before any of us joined the company. I have my issues with Google and some of their services but the GP stands out as an odd comment to me because it's at odds with my own experience of keeping up with I/O talks.
I was an international grad student in 2018-19 when there was a shutdown. It was fascinating.

My wife was working in transportation consultancy and there was a sudden drop in the amount of work.

The national parks were free to go in an out, so we decided to go to the death valley. I saw the biggest pile of trash ever inside a park.
A resposne comment says:

> In business there is no cheating, there is only making money and not making money.

This attitude is very common among people I know. You ask "how the world can function if everyone were to think and act like that." We muddle through, is the answer.
Haters gonna hate.

I for one am super excited about this years chat app fail!

Bring on Allo Meets with Messages! The worlds most force installed Chat app with as many users as its development team!
> You definitely don't need (or want) a car in Boston

I have never been to Boston, but if this is true then why is the public transport map so weird? There's the subway for inter-city travel but if you're commuting then commuter rail does not seem practical at all because of this weird gap? To me it made the impression of a neglected system, presumably because everyone commutes by car. Is there still space downtown for e.g. bicycle lanes? Otherwise this surely would have been fixed for decades now.

Or is it just painful to commute because there's a livable downtown with public transit, bike lanes etc., which was not completely sacrificed for cars, but just without a great commuter solution?
Serfs felt that life was great under their lord, they were protected from barbarians. They were given access to a whole city, and could sell their grain here! Their lord was mighty generous, giving them access to such an impressive market. And he built it all on his own!

Well, until the lord decided to come down, take their harvest and claim their lands. Also the lord built the house on the blood and tears of actual, working people. At least serfs could rebel and take down the lord were their lives threatened, but Apple can just ban your account and you'd have HN commenters claiming "iT's ThEiR pLaYgRouNd tHeY bUilT iT".

Having a userbase is not work. Apple deserves to be paid for their hardware, for their software. But for having users and giving you the privilege of letting you show them things ? That is, quite frankly, pathetic.
Yes. This is when I felt they had veered from the path I was following and supporting. Nexus 5 was a great phone!
I find almost all newly released movies uninteresting - maybe it's old age or maybe modern big budget movies are "over-calculated" - it seems like producers want to tick all possible boxes, sell to as broad audience as possible and of course play it safe to the maximum - do not try something new which isn't sequel, prequel or other similar form of "guaranteed audience" insurance. It results in watchable but totally uninteresting and mediocre outcome.
Agressive pricing on the Pixel Fold is going to undercut Samsung's flagship most profitable phone. This will be interesting.
The article takes the simplistic approach by using the spot price of platinum. A more realistic approach to this fantasy scenario would take account of the increased price of platinum after monetization.

>Such a coin would weigh 42,778,918 pounds -- the equivalent of nearly seven Saturn V rockets -- and occupy 31,947 cubic feet.

Converts to 19,404.19 metric tons

https://sdbullion.com/blog/how-much-platinum-is-in-the-world

>Data crunchers and precious metals infographic makers, Visual Capitalist, published in 2013 that a total of 9,400 tonnes of platinum had been mined up to that date. Since then we will round number this figure to 10,000 metric tonnes or just over 321 million ounces for those keeping track.

>Oh, and by the way, they even gave us a visual of the aforementioned all-time platinum mined cube claim which back in 2013 was about 7.2 meters long, comprehensive, and tall. Today that would be about 7.7 meters on all sides.

Also consider that the US has roughly 31T in debt, plus other future obligations to fund.
TIL wtf? Has there been anything new on this front? Very interesting.
If you want tech talks from Google, Android Dev Con is great. I wonder if there's anything like that for other parts of their business.
> Sending errors just incentivizes bot owners to fix the identifiable parts

Nah. It'll just make them fake their identity so it is harder to tell the traffic is from a bot.
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It's an interesting book and I think it's worth a read.

The author, Peter Zeihan, does a good job of melding geography, demographics, energy, and food supply to come up with a deterministic approach to geo-politics.

I have no clue how accurate it is, but it's a fun mental algorithm for simplifying complex and nuanced situations.

His prediction, and I'm paraphrasing here, was that Russian Demographics are more or less in free fall. Every year after ~2020 the Russians have less and less fighting age men and their army will be weaker and weaker.

Additionally, because most of populated Russia is a flat plane, they have no geographic barriers to protect their cities. Therefore they need to forward position their troops in order to feel secure.

So his assertion, was that based on previous Russian military conflicts, Ukraine was the next most likely target, and that if Russia wanted to do anything, they'd have to do something sometime earlier on in this decade. Otherwise they can't field an army of significant size to forward position their troops.
Is it (a US default) at all possible given all we know? and if yes, is it possible to envision what would happen specifically? If it will have global repercussions then maybe it is something the global community should insure against, somehow?

These are questions I'd like to have have a grip on. Not an economist, obviously.
AWS is also an acceptable guess
FWIW, I've been using syncthing for 3 years now and have never had any issues with git repo syncs.
As an iOS app dev, swipe to go back definitely works on native iOS apps. If you find an app it doesn’t work in it’s probably an app built in whatever cross platform UI framework which doesn’t implement the gesture.

Additionally, one can always swipe the bottom bar to switch between apps.
Amazon is large enough to maintain market dominance via strategies other than technical excellence.
You definitely can swipe back on iOS, I do it all the time and AFAIK it's the primary recommended way to go back. You have to swipe from the edge though.
Note that "lock-free" is a technical term that has a very specific, precise meaning (implying that the user of the structure does not need to use locking explicitly).
> It's not fair to compare it to mature, well-developed stuff

Really? So rather than try to compare, contrast, and course-correct a project in its early stages by understanding the priors and alternatives, we should only do retrospectives after it has matured?

I would have thought this was the whole point of planning in early development: figuring out what you actually need to make? And that is usually a relative proposition, a project is rarely in a vacuum!

We should never just uncritically go ahead with the first draft in anything, especially not in the protocols we use, as they have this annoying habit of sticking around once adopted and being very hard to change after the fact.
The Asians have potentially just given huge amounts of real stuff to the US in exchange for ... arguably the exposure? They could have just taken the day off instead and been economically in the same position. "No better alternative" is a bit of a trick in assuming that the natural order of the world is Asians slaving away making life better for someone foreign. It didn't have to be that way.

I'm not saying that they've certainly made a mistake, but "no better alternative" is unimaginative. This is China and Japan we're talking about here, they absolutely had the power to make their own alternatives. Will they be surprised if the US doesn't pay them? The Russians saw it coming, they were doing exercises and whatnot years in advance of the asset seizures.
I use this to exchange files with my family. We have a shared folder, like "d:\family share", and everyone can drop there whatever they want to share. Works really well with large files, I love it how gracefully it handles network events, like when the laptop drops wifi, or when you make the computer sleep during transfer.
Shortcuts are great, until people get hurt or killed. That's why the phrase cutting corners is largely seen as negative, because it's associated with times when shortcuts caused harm.

Regardless of gender it's useful to teach people endurance, prioritization, and how to judge when it's best to do everything vs only some things.
Kant was notorious for writing in needlessly complex German
When Nixon stole gold from other countries by breaking an international treaty. The US is lucky no country declared war over the thievery.
i consider myself a good developer. when i was working as contractor for us companies, my fees were on par with my US colleagues (low six digits USD).

but it was not worth it for me to keep doing it, so i moved to europe (which was also quite easy given my resume).
What about just going outside and doing something?
I’m saying that it’s pointless to get upset at someone getting a raise when the person in charge makes orders of magnitude the amount of money you do. That is the problem, not labor doing what it can to eke out a microscopic amount of leverage.
I sat in an interview at one point and thought. Gee I wish I'd cheated because it would have been so easy.

That said I have not needed to cheat at an interview I do wonder how many failed applications or financial worries I'd need to have before I would try anything.

We all have our moral breaking point, it's on you to build your life to be resilient to that.

Once you reach that point all bets are off. If it means keeping food on the table and shelter over head I don't expect it off people.

It's impossible to stop cheating it is easier to make it useless.
The simple common characteristics of great engineering managers
Workers didn't have the power until recently, and most of them don't know they have the power yet. Covid and retiring boomer generation, followed by a smaller GenX only happened in the last 3 years.

But to answer your question, regulatory/government capture.
The way I combat this is by asking questions about their current jobs, then diving deep into the technical problems they faced. It requires a lot more preparation for each candidate, but it ensures it’s not a trivia test but a discussion.

One of my favorite interviews (as an interviewer) was when a SDET candidate provided a link to their website. When I visited it there was an issue loading some page. So I asked him about it and how he would troubleshoot, then asked him to come back on Monday with a solution. On Monday, the site was fixed, and he explained to me what happened in AWS, how he figured it out, etc. So he was hired, going on 2 years now and doing very well.

I don’t need robots who can recite what a b-tree is (ChatGPT can do that). I need people who will work hard, can understand the big picture and how to approach problems, while being a good personality on the team.
Being technically better is usually not a good enough reason to be incompatible.
I'm not sure why people don't get this, but it is almost always true.

Starting from scratch, just because you can theoretically design a better system, is one of the worst thing to do to users. Theoretically better also rarely wins in the marketplace anyway.

If you want a slightly lighter position:
Software needs to be built to be migrated from and to, as a base level requirement. Those communities that do this tend end up with happy users who don't spend lots of toil trying to keep up. This is true regardless of whether the new thing is compatible with the old - if it doesn't take any energy or time, and just works, people care less what you change.

Yes, it is hard. yes, there are choices you make sometimes that burn you down the road. That is 100% guaranteed to happen. So make software that enable change to occur.

The overall the amount of developer toil and waste created en masse by people who think they are making something "better", usually with no before/after data (or at best, small useless metrics sampled from a very small group), almost always vastly dwarfs all improvement that occurs as a result.

If you want to spend time helping developers/users, then understand where they spend their time, not where you spend your time.
Yeah, you're definitely right about that. I wasn't there for the golden era, which I imagine to be something like Jobs and Woz phreaking on the phones and ripping of Xerox as sort of the "noble" form of evil.

It's hard to speak quantitatively about qualitative things, but that' something that enters the discussion as soon as words like "more" or "less" are uttered.

In any case, you're absolutely correct that I'm definitely naive because I'm limited to just my lifetime.
Please turn on and off again - thank you.
> Because it is closer to owning the means of production and capturing the excess value of labor by those who are, well, laboring

I would call this distributed capitalism. The farm owners can still run the farm however they like, keep the entire profit of the farm, invest in capital machinery over a long term that they have exclusive ownership of, etc. The outcome is indeed closer to socialism in that it's likely the owners will also be workers, and profits are spread around throughout society. I'd say the key difference is that distributed capital divides power bottom-up, whereas socialism is more of a reaction to the lack of it or the failings of it.

What we're suffering today is centralized capitalism, where that ownership has been concentrated into fewer and fewer hands. I look at the federal government giving many trillions of dollars to centralized Wall Street in the form of low interest loans over the past few decades, and can't help but think that is a significant cause of the centralization - especially in light of the waste that centralized management seems to create (otherwise you'd expect larger business structures to be outcompeted in many areas). These subsidies are also the cause of beancounter-centric monocultures, because in order to direct those loans (leverage) into specific concrete endeavors the financial outcome must be made extremely predictable.
> scenarios where it honours its debts became implausible a while ago

Do you mean this debt ceiling cycle or in general?
Yes it does on iOS, it might just be that you misunderstand how the mechanic works. Swiping back will never exit you out of an application. But for example if you go Settings → General → About and then swipe back two times you'll end up back on the Settings screen.
It's incredibly strange to make what's very clearly a moral argument into some kind of insulting class argument. I don't think you're going to be converting _anyone_ towards your worldview with that kind of approach. A lot of your comments are of a similar spirit and were rightfully downvoted -

> The "free market" is so good at problem solving! I hope the entrepreneur who thought of this made a tremendous profit!

> But I was always assured the US has the greatest healthcare system in the universe because it's privately profited from!

It's just low-quality stuff, man. Keep it on /r/politics, I'm begging you.
We have ~two dozens rented boxes @ OVH in their French datacenters, apart from hardware failures from time to time (1/2 per year) you should be fine, just take that into account while designing the architecture. Also don't expect the support to helps you, they will sometimes but i'll say it's better to not expect it to not be surprised :)
In the real world, owners simply don't care about your enlightening idea. Why would they? And what are you gonna do about it when they don't?
How do you use this to see the above thread?
Wow based on the comments Google IO is already dead on arrival. Maybe the hate will put some fire under google to come out with something meaningful in the years to come.
It's like a person ranting about a way of building decentralized social media that is currently subpar on a decentralized social media platform so that the people building the new decentralized social media platform can redesign it to be improved such that the ranter can move onto the new social media platform that facilitates him ranting about even more things in a vastly more efficient manner because they listened to his rants and improved the federation protocol.
This assumes internal performance evaluation is functional/unexploitable in these orgs.
I expect people think I'm somehow 'tricking' them with terminology with China's farmland figures. Many seem to think that you need multiple acres per person for basic sustainability, so there must be some catch. Nope, farmland is just any land where farming (or ranching) is happening. It's not fixed, nor does it exclude certain types of farm/ranchland.
I mean, you could argue that it was earlier, but I think that's the point where most people would agree the magic was dead.
That's still not an argument to introduce ai.txt, because everything a hypothetical ai.txt could ever do is already done just as good (or not) by the robots.txt we have. If a training data crawler ignores robots.txt it won't bother checking for an ai.txt either.

And if you feel like rolling out the "welcome friend!" doormat to a particular training data crawler, you are free to dedicate as detailed a robots.txt block as you like to its user agent header of choice. No new conventions needed, everything is already on place.
i can tell you that if you have a high enough salary, living in a big city like São Paulo can be as good (if not better) than living in a median US city like Seattle/SF -- specially given conversion rates of USDBRL and housing prices.
That post just cites an original [1] from someone at GitHub which says:

> Case in point: When we first launched GitHub Copilot for Individuals in June 2022, more than 27% of developers’ code files on average were generated by GitHub Copilot. Today, GitHub Copilot is behind an average of 46% of a developers’ code across all programming languages—and in Java, that number jumps to 61%.

I'm not sure what this means. GitHub does not have the ability to measure Copilot usage across all code written anywhere in the world, so surely it can't be that. Do they mean code generated by Copilot as a fraction of code produced by someone using an IDE with the Copilot plug-in? That number still seems high to me.

[1] https://github.blog/2023-02-14-github-copilot-now-has-a-bett...
Watch out for correlation versus causation though.
You can always throw the argument “it has always been like that” to any discussion, but that’s never going to be a meaningful response to anyone who cares to think critically about whether the status quo is how things should be.
bot> Querying GPT...

bot> A 5% miss rate in branch prediction leads to a 14.7% improvement in misprediction rates on a trace of SPEC2000 benchmarks compared to the gshare predictor. The use of machine learning-based predictors has the potential to improve these results further.
I think that if you want to be a spy the c.) mentality is basically a necessary requirement, just so long as you don't betray your team.
I can speak for Mexico. We have so much going for it.

1. A robust manufacturing economy (unlike the rest of LATAM) right on the border with the #1 consumer.
2. A culture that is easy to digest for Americans and Europeans alike.
3. People that are welcoming of foreigners, and used to them thanks to decades of tourism.
4. A relatively educated and increasingly educated population.
5. A very comprehensive free trade agreement with the US.
6. A geopolitical environment that is pushing for "Nearshoring" and "Friendshoring".
7. A visa system that allows foreigners to live up to 4 years without paying local taxes as long as they are emplyed elsewehre.
8. A robust tourism economy.
9. A hard working culture.

In the last 5-10 years, I've seen big changes in the presence of foreigners that are in Mexico to work. Digital nomads in CDMX or in Puerto Escondido, lots of Japanese execs living in Leon, lots of foreigners buying property in small towns, labor scarcity in the border towns leading to high salaries. Really it's Mexico's time to shine.

However, we also happen to have the worst admin to handle these tailwinds. AMLO has been slowly eroding institutions, backing off from free-trade, making dumb investments and canceling obvious infra projects, flirting with the cartels.

For manufacturing, AMLO's energy counter-reforms have made access to power the main bottleneck for setting up shop in Mexico, it's just to hard to get a permit from the power company. Safety has been spiraling out of control in the areas where the cartel's dominate, and instead of pushing for the state's monopoly of violence, he has repeatedly appeased them.

I wonder what a difference it would have made to have had a more competent man sit on the presidential chair during these times.
Nextcloud also works like this on the phone. Easy to access everything, but the files only get downloaded on-demand. I love it because I also auto-upload my phone pictures, downloads and video, and sync my contacts and todo with it too. And it can share any of the files via url too. Very useful.

On PC, you also selectively sync folders. I dunno about access to all the files though. Definitely works in the browser, but on PC, you either sync the folder or don't.
I asked cos the person I replied to stated that it was a couple of years ago. I thought maybe there’s some other apple product other than macs that have Nvidia in them. But seems like there isn’t.
But doing so when you are at the top of said system; for no reason other than politcal gamesmanship?
Ahh, MSG. Wonderful stuff. Vegeta has MSG in it, among other things -- I use it in all kinds of dishes. Careful, though! Too much and it will over-power the dish and taste strange.
Intelli-shell – Like IntelliSense, but for shells
"BRETTON WOODS A system for international financial management and stability which was put in place by the Allies, minus the Soviets, in 1944 and destroyed in 1973 by President Richard Nixon without consideration being given to a replacement.

"Nixon hoped in this way to solve some short-term American economic problems by re-creating the sort of financial disorder in which the largest power would be best placed to benefit. It could be said that this was the single most evil act undertaken by an elected leader in the postwar period. Other leaders should not be discouraged, however. The opportunity to do worse is perpetual."

--- John Ralston-Saul, The Doubter's Companion, 1994
You can't swipe across the opposing screen edge with your thump without letting go of the full grip on the phone and holding it only partially, risking it to fall. Glass phone body only makes things much worse. You can do it with a back button in a sane position though, without compromising a grip. Android allows navbar gestures since ver.10 and I never enable them because buttons are simply better, even though they take away some space on the screen.
I'd rather my doctor look up an answer in a medical textbook rather than "not cheat" and allow me to die in adherence to the noble idea that only the ideas we can keep in our long-term memory are worthy.