skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Second of all, for a variety of reasons I have a major aversion to Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and higher" I remember how painfull and ultra-integrated with all the operative system IE 4.0 wanted to be back then. The computers were suffering all the time, and some widgets cloned on the screen when they've been dragged.
Every community having their own currency and monetary policy makes no sense at a fundamental economic level.

If each member of my family has their own individual currency and monetary policy it would make economic sense for us to form a higher level structure and just have one currency and monetary policy for our whole family to make trade easier within our family. That process scales up to the level of country.

This idea failed because it doesn't solve anything economically. It actually just creates an economic bug.
So how come the companies that failed due to mismanagement also paid their CEOs so much? There does not seem to be a direct correlation between company success and C-suite rewards.
Most of the stuff on the news doesn't really affect us.

The Royal Family? War in a far off land? Latest tiff between Republicans and Democrats? Beer brand controversy?
In Western Europe, you have the primary city effect which is causing London and Paris to grow like crazy. For non-tech people, you are hard pressed to find well paying professional job opportunities outside of London and Paris in the UK and France respectively, and businesses began leaving Barcelona for Madrid after the political instability caused by the Catalonia Independence referendum.

Berlin's is probably the only major example I can think of a city growing due to actual growth opportunities, but then again Germany is also a much healthier economy than most of Europe.

The US on the other hand doesn't have a primary city in the same manner that most of Europe has - the US economy is pretty decentralized across multiple hub cities (Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego, DC, NYC, Boston, Chicago, Phoenix, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Denver, Seattle) the same way Germany is (Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg)
LLMs will become components of larger systems.

They are an example of a situation where putting excess effort into a problem returns a plausible result, but from an efficiency and accuracy standpoint, parts of what they are accomplishing are better solved by simpler systems.

As they act as an interpreter, they should be able to identify when to hand off tasks to subroutines, and then reincorporate the result.

Just because LLMs can successfully output what they are doing, doesn't mean they are the best tool for the job. They are sort of like a CPU, good at generalist everything tasks, better when augmented with coprocessors.
Just compare frozen boiled water and aerated tap water. Both will be cloudy when made in a tray and both will be clear when made in an insulated cup. It does make a minor difference, but it is unimportant.

Also notice the radial pattern that the internal fractures take. This is inconsistent with bubbles and perfectly consistent with internal stress due to expansion pressure.
If my career as a junior dev is anything to go by, easily.
this is not news, it's been known for a while surely?

checks date ah 2016, yeah that's about right
It does work without the app. You can display a QR code on your phone's screen to let people see and act on your contact info even if they don't have Neucards installed. In fact, I use my wife's android phone all the time for testing. You can also set up card types to just share certain info, like professional, personal, family, friends, etc.

The tap cards do not have a QR code printed on them because I create an access key dynamically when you activate the tap card.
I still think this is a overall net increase. The stigma wasn't preventing people from getting diagnosed and treated

Zoloft was Pfizer's second best selling drug during most of the 90s. So people were still going to get diagnosed and treated despite the stigma. They just wouldn't tell anyone about it, other than their therapist.
And maybe the fact that we're all 40lbs overweight
https://design-system.service.gov.uk/

https://designsystem.digital.gov/documentation/showcase/
You can't regulate forcing landlords taking in other people's animals against their will. They'll find other ways to reject tenants with animals if the market is in their flavor from having a high demand from people without animals.

You don't fix a broken real estate market with not enough supply, by adding more regulations on top (try moving in Berlin right now, see how regulations "help" you the tenant trying to rent something), you fix it by building enough supply such that the market becomes in their flavor that most people can afford to buy their own home where they can keep as many animals as they want, turn it into a zoo if they want.
It hasn't really been a reality the way it is today. During covid, we were forced to implement norms and tools for remote working (like Zoom). Also, we learned about replacing an expensive worker for a cheaper one one at a time. Earlier, there used to be entire teams in some remote location, so it was similar to having 2 islands (one large, one small) with a bridge which was crossed may be once or twice a year during annual trips to HQ. Now with one-new-person-at-a-time, teams don't lose productivity but over time, American workers are replaced with cheaper ones.

Source: seeing it myself in my current company. Also remembers: shareholder class is ruthless. If I can see this, they are seeing and acting on it as well.
How do you find those teams and that work... or is it a matter of those companies finding you because of your open source work? For example, Google hiring Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson to create Go?
Comics and D&D were never part of the cool crowd. The hard part was if you didn't have anything to balance that.

I played football. I wasn't getting invited to big parties, but nobody bugged me. Even guys who were never good enough to be first string as seniors - they were part of the team. But that might just have been my school. It was pretty good about letting the drama kids be drama kids, the nerds be nerds, etc. People generally found their niche. Maybe it wasn't the one they wished they could have, but it was a place where you were accepted, and they mostly left each other alone.
failure is the best teacher

let them drop out

they'll eventually realize, most white-collar work is now not even an aspiration for them

but then they get the extra bonus of realizing that in the US, many jobs are performed by undocumented immigrants who exist at or often even below minimum wage...this is where you end up when you have three weeks of high school completed

the children of engineers and doctors will be ditch diggers

eventually the sprout a grey hair and they can no longer claim the pity often granted to the young...they are just aging manual labor
Could also be the increased income disparity, the huge leap in housing costs without associated pay increase, the obvious inability of the US to change the direction it (and the world) is heading...

I mean, it's rising most amongst young adults and minorities; given the political climate alone I can understand the correlation there.
Two things happened in '00s in relation to this question. One, on demand computing infrastructure (cloud), and two, the scaling requirements of a new breed of networked services. The germinal change in response to these shifts was that processes replaced components, and system boundaries spanned devices.

When your code is running on application servers and your applications are composed of components, all the tools were already there, in the OS and as add ons, like dtrace, and in whatever monitoring tools came with your application server. Today, instead of components, we compose systems out of (lightweight) processes, and processes can be created on any device, and the replacement for the application server is the whole gamut of k8, terraform, elastic, ..., etc.

Nothing has changed in the abstract structure of our systems, its just that the current approach has the beast dismembered and spread out and loosely connected via protocols, instead of a linker or a dispatch mechanism of a platform.
Corporations are no longer beholden to governmental and regulatory bodies. Educational institutions, news agencies, etc simply echo corporate approved information.

Watch 60 minutes and see a “news” story that is really just an info commercial for a new weight loss drug presented as journalism.

The public discourse is now dominated by corporate safe “progressive” topics. Race, gender, identity .. etc all safe.. progressive issues like unions, wealth inequality, bank reforms … nope those are not okay.

It’s depressing because faith is waning in the U.S. as a society and as a government.

Just my two cent ramble
Why does the US have higher depression rates than any country in Africa then? Aren't there a lot of people there under financial stress?
Humans managed to live for most of history without penicillin, or even boiling water, at the cost of most humans dying before making it to adolescence. People managed to have global communications with only steam ships and telegraph, at the cost of slower pace of information dissemination. NASA managed to make it to the moon with less computing power than the cellphone in your pocket, at high resource, monetary, human and time costs. Cars managed to work with more rudimentary design than today's, without any computers, at the cost of lower life-spans, lower efficiency and higher pollution.

You can make many arguments for and against telemetry in developer tools. Not acknowledging that telemetry helps with visibility into how those tools actually work in the wild, which in turn helps lower the incidence of bugs and speed up development, is disingenuous. You can arrive to the conclusion that even inert, opt-in telemetry is not worth it, but don't disregard out of hand the utility of it in helping their development as if it were some crazy idea.
I think you can only search pages that you visited after you installed the plugin, is that correct?
I understand your perspective, but I think you’re still missing my point.

Winning a court case isn’t safe, getting the court case thrown out before it needs to be litigated is. You really don’t want to be in a position where someone with deep pockets can make a reasonable argument for infringement.

The question of LLM’s is really secondary. It’s likely they could win, but that in itself is very dangerous territory.
...because a false negative is so much worse than a false positive.

I'll take less opportunities for more stability. Many people would. That's what this article is all about. Better for most to have less that you can rely on than more one year and less the other and no sense of calm.
This is honestly a great resource! Funnily enough I've been using it internally at my company to both:

- Facilitate conversations and a workshop with other Managers around what our expectations generally should be for Staff+ Engineer levels

- Drive a deeper conversation with each of the Engineers I'm responsible for, to help them explore more of the "untold" parts of the IC role, what that could look like, and how they could work towards it

Freeform diving into it with people has been quite beneficial for many that don't have much of a clear idea of what it means to go beyond senior, and how to navigate the ambiguity that it can bring with it.

I've found that each person took away their own specific things from the book which was quite fun to see :)
It's an interesting article. He rejects Linux because he has a "day job" and no "time and enthusiasm to tinker with computers for their own sake instead of using them productively as a means to an end".

I mean... isn't this a little rich for someone who wants to devote time to tracking down retro computer parts being sold by "two-bit resellers", just so he can keep using Windows XP?

At some point, maybe you should admit you're a retro-computing enthusiast (high-five to that!), and none of this has anything at all to do with productivity.
The observed increase could be attributed to two key factors:

1) The rate may have been constant over time, but we're only now observing the "true" rate because societal taboos have decreased.

2) The diagnostic criteria may have lowered over time. Thus, we may now be diagnosing people who wouldn't have previously met the criteria for diagnosis.

I've been wondering the same about the notable rise in self-identified LGBT+ individuals across generations[0]. Are we witnessing this surge merely because societal acceptance has improved, enabling more people to openly identify as LGBT+? Or could it also be because the definition of what it means to be LGBT+ has broadened and it's increasingly desirable for young people to identify as such?

[0] https://www.statista.com/chart/18228/share-of-americans-iden...
> we couldn't do anything about the 2008 bonuses that were paid out

We could've.. Not bailed them out?
Such as the US Navy?
Sorry that it's late, we'll get this fixed ASAP. For posterity, it appears the website on your account isn't the right one and that triggered the email. It points to the adult content you mentioned that appears entirely unrelated to your business (but shares a similar URL). Might've been a typo or an expired domain that was recycled?
Does your company have an office you can use?
Yes, I remember reading all about the for-profit tax filing scheme/scam on ProPublica years ago. Weirdly, I remember coming away from it thinking that the federal gov't had actually entered a binding agreement, so I thought it was illegal to make the move they're making now. I don't know where I got that idea and I'm so glad it was wrong.
Lots of people like it so you may too.

It’s one of those games where dying takes you way, way back. When the game is well balanced, I don’t mind, but this one is pretty easy as you go along and then the boss is so much more difficult than anything before. So you die and start over and do it again and again. But because the initial part of the game is pretty easy, you don’t really get much better in the lead up to the first boss.

Normally developers include accessibility controls to make the game enjoyable for everybody, but the Returnal developers didn’t. They want you to play their way, or not at all. I ended up choosing the latter. They got my money though, so I suppose in the end, they won.
Thank you, that one’s local and I had no idea about it.
Gamer rage is the most incandescent of the rages.
That's been my suspicion for a while now.

The last 3 companies I've worked for had no juniors and mid-levels, but only seniors and a handful or staff engineers. What staff engineers did on a day-to-day basis was hardly different from what the senior engineers do, besides having more responsibilities and maybe more say over things like architecture. Depending on the company, a staff engineer could be managing or not managing at all. In general, I don't think these title really mean a whole lot, that is unless one is intent on managing specifically.
Mobile phones have destroyed children's attentions, given them new ways to bully and harrass eachother, made every single action that any child does subject to surviellance by their peers, and have completely and utterly destroyed the mental health of our kids, especially young girls. It needs to be banned in schools. This shouldn't even be a question.
It's this issue; people ran into it since early 2022. I haven't tracked it down in the Ubuntu issues yet, but basically the same thing fails on today's AMIs. https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/13341

The fix is fairly trivial - if you don't care about apparmor you can disable it. If you do, the usual new policy from the complain log is enough.
> 1. The current proposals for generics are bloated and don't fit properly with our vision for Go.

> 2. We will do heaps and heaps of work over many years until we get something we like.

I suppose repeatedly suffering the pain of not having generics until you finally get enough of your community to admit generics aren't just bloat can be described as "heaps and heaps of work". ;)

I'd love to hear what meaningful differences you think exist between early proposals for Go generics, and later proposals for Go generics. Or Go generics and generics which had existed in other languages for decades, for that matter.

The result of this silly delay will be felt basically forever, because millions of lines of go were written with error codes, which could have been much-less error-prone option types. I'm not sure it would even be a good idea to start using option types at this point because it would create such inconsistencies in codebases.

> Also, AFAIK Go is not a single-pass compiler, at least not in the way I learned about compilers.

Correct! But it was single pass and that was very important because multiple passes were bloat. But multiple passes aren't bloat any more, because now Go has multiple passes and Go doesn't have the bloat of other languages. See how that works?

"The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eurasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."
When the package returns that the AI couldn't do the task but the data is modified anyway... that is a recipe for disaster.

It would be much better if the AI just helped you write the code, it's more ergonomic and auditable, and it will scale better when your data frame is measured in the 10s to 10,000s of megabytes.
Normalize employment contracts guaranteeing a year of salary as a condition of relocation.
Nah, it's the shareholders and execs of TurboTax and the likes.
How are they supposed to afford another Yacht.
I know people like this too. Trump is obviously a flashpoint, but is it really him or is it the constant media narratives being fed to us about "the other side" being a danger to our safety. Many folks on the right that I know have the same (but not to this extent) visceral reaction to say Biden, Newsom, etc.
Depression isn't taboo or stigmatized anymore? There's plenty of government forms you'll have to check a box and explain if you've been depressed still. Maybe it's more of a lack of awareness of the taboo and stigmatization.
>>I buy the latest MX, Vertical, and trackball almost every year

Why?

My oldest actively used mice in my household are two decades old, variations of Intellimouse.

My razer death adder was a luxury / whim purchase and is 5 years old I think.

My daily workers are ms skulpt and they're several years old each too.

(and let's not go to keyboards, where the original das keyboard and original MS ergonomic hold the fort still :).

And my Kensington trackball is at least 20y now and still works as new. I do have a razer Lachesis whose rubber started melting so I just sanded it off and back in service :)

I do have a friend who keeps buying mice but he never quite managed to explain why, other than "shiny - want!" (which is totally understandable! :), so I wonder if you have more specific criteria or needs? Am I missing out on something?

(I did buy a fancy many button Logitech once but the clutch scroll was such a massive and immediate Nope to me, it still sits in its box in the drawer :-)
Given the increase in 2020 alone was 3x the increase over the preceding 5 years, it appears to be a valid theory as to the source.
the fact this came from a "stochastic parrot" still blows my mind.
It isn't a plot, it is a bureaucracy. And old and a scared one.

I too went from pro-European to being mostly critical of it. That was years ago though. Some parts do good work, but these attempts are just overreaching.

The EU is no federation and it shouldn't be one. It would be governed by people like this that have basically no accountability. You can argue that it is just the governments of member states, but that doesn't make it any better. The vast majority are not accountable to you in any case.

Of course the EU has a democratic deficit. Although even wikipedia articles about that are already full of propaganda.

Best solution to the current dilemma is to put up technical realities that make such attempts unfeasible.
Indeed DataFrames.jl isn't and won't be the fastest way to do many things. It makes a lot of trade offs in performance for flexibility. The columns of the dataframe can be any indexable array, so while most examples use 64-bit floating point numbers, strings, and categorical arrays, the nice thing about DataFrames.jl is that using arbitrary precision floats, pointers to binaries, etc. are all fine inside of a DataFrame without any modification. This is compared to things like the Pandas allowed datatypes (https://pbpython.com/pandas_dtypes.html). I'm quite impressed by the DataFrames.jl developers given how they've kept it dynamic yet seem to have achieved pretty good performance. Most of it is smart use of function barriers to avoid the dynamism in the core algorithms. But from that knowledge it's very clear that systems should be able to exist that outperform it even with the same algorithms, in some cases just by tens of nanoseconds but in theory that bump is always there.

In the Julia world the one which optimizes to be fully non-dynamic is TypedTables (https://github.com/JuliaData/TypedTables.jl) where all column types are known at compile time, removing the dynamic dispatch overhead. But in Julia the minor performance gain of using TypedTables vs the major flexibility loss is the reason why you pretty much never hear about it. Probably not even worth mentioning but it's a fun tidbit.

> For what it's worth, data.table is my favourite to use and I believe it has the nicest ergonomics of the three I spoke about.

I would be interested to hear what about the ergonomics of data.table you find useful. if there are some ideas that would be helpful for DataFrames.jl to learn from data.table directly I'd be happy to share it with the devs. Generally when I hear about R people talk about tidyverse. Tidier (https://github.com/TidierOrg/Tidier.jl) is making some big strides in bringing a tidy syntax to Julia and I hear that it has had some rapid adoption and happy users, so there are some ongoing efforts to use the learnings of R API's but I'm not sure if someone is looking directly at the data.table parts.
Musk attacks ADL for saying his anti-Soros tweets will embolden antisemites
I have had multiple Logitech devices fail on me with double click, battery and mouse wheel issues. But only after a few years or more. And they are one of only a few that do mice for larger hands.

The thing that has only recently made me swear off them is their utter hostility to Linux support. Now I don't want their software, but I expect when I buy a mouse I can at least get the hardware working in Linux, but no dice..

So no more Logitech mice.
Honestly that'd be the ideal situation: No bailouts, ever. I just don't see that being realistic as the cat is out the bag unfortunately.
If the federal government really wanted to save money on tax collection, improve the accuracy of tax collection, and drive the tax preparation industry out of business which would save every person and company significant money, then the federal government would just simplify the tax code.

Any high school graduate should be smart enough to file their own taxes. That this is not true today is simply insane.

For tax incentives such as buying a qualifying electric vehicle, just provide the incentive directly to the car dealership at the time of purchase. Businesses which want to pass along such savings to their customers will need to do some paperwork and it'll be much harder to restrict benefits only to specific income brackets, but it would be much simpler and cheaper for taxpayers.
Unwilling to relocate to where? There's a bunch of states sane people don't want to go anywhere near right now.
This is great. If the battery on my MX Master ever dies, I'll have an easy way to fix it.
“Hey we have this law that says you need to do this”

“That law doesn’t apply to me, no thanks.”

<screeching>
Right, a lot of times when people push for increased security measures they omit the cost.