skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After I took ownership of my home, I cataloged over 100 issues that needed to be attended to post-construction. I want a home without obvious in-your-face-faults. The construction crew wanted to finish and move onto the next project. Our incentives were not aligned, and that's the problem.

Next time, I'm specifically going to ensure another contractor is hired to ensure QC of the home during construction. No moving onto the next stage until the 1 foot hole in the subfloor caused by a falling drill from the 2nd story is fixed.
It is pretty crazy that it's still the same as always. Personally I set the windows indexer to only index the start menu, and use Everything for all my other searches since it's instant.
Why? Are you just saying that because it sounds dramatic?
> especially if those inputs are extremely vague (how on earth should we interpret slow?!)

isn't this exactly the (theoretical) strength of a chatbot - asking follow-up questions to remove uncertainty?
Talking to customers is not a waste of a developer’s time
> To the degree that I have a positive opinion of Rockefeller and Carnegie, it's because of their philanthropy rather than their industrialism or politics.

I've a friend who's grandparents, in Vietnam, were quite ruthless and accumulated sizable wealth. Now, they sponsor Buddhist monks in an effort to avoid being reincarnated as cockroaches. I suspect analogous motivations for people like Rockefeller, Carnegie, or modern equivalents like Gates and Zuckerberg (even if simply a secular motivation to rehabilitate their poor reputations).

Parton just seems to be a genuinely kind human being.
> It's cruel and the bullies want him to overreact so that they can also sue him in court

Can't he pre-empt this by suing them instead? What's preventing that? I assume his state or the federal legal system has some way of dealing with this...
I know stock grants are ubiquitous in some parts of the tech world, but as someone who only gets paid in cash I have always wondered what percentage of tech jobs actually include significant stock compensation.
Are you not defacto by law anyway?
> It used to be that a language was like an impartial technology that could be evaluated.

In the era of open source and package managers, this can only be an illusion. It's sort of possible to ignore the community, but if nothing else it will affect the volume and quality of packages available for you. That said, you can keep it pretty minimal, you don't really need to interact beyond reading docs and downloading packages.
Tradition is a good enough reason for me.

"But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn't easy. You may ask 'Why do we stay up there if it's so dangerous?' Well, we stay because Anatevka is our home. And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word: tradition!"
Common law marriage varies state to state. My state doesn't recognize it, but some others do.
A few dollars per child per year.
Certainly, many married people feel lonely and irritated too.
The house purchase documents reflect an equal ownership share between the buyers - same as any other joint ownership situation that happens. We’re both on the deed, etc.

We both have wills, which deals with with the probate issue of our ownership shares. You should have a will, even if you’re married! Probate can be expensive for your successors and family, and the process without a will is much more involved with the state. I also recommend establishing a revocable trust for these reasons.

I think the idea of a legal structured process for other belongings in event of a break-up sounds appealing in some regards, but reviews from friends who have been through the process rate it at “0 out of 10 this SUCKS” and “now I owe alimony for the rest of my life-ish because my ex decided to quit their job and become a grad student before we split”. In any event if we break up acrimoniously, we can still hire lawyers…
When newer OS versions are fugly, user hostile hot garbage, people don't want to update. You need to provide long term support, but also not cannibalize your product for very dubious reasons.
> It truly baffles me how alimony is even legal today. Based on how alimony is treated, marriage is essentially indentured servitude.

The US has no guaranteed parental leave. If you have a kid and want one parent to spend any significant time with that kid, someone is sacrificing their career advancement. This usually hits women harder.

If you want to see the end of alimony, you’d need to make it easier to choose to have kids. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be a priority in the US.
Find a local business who want to show ad in your website.
Nothing the EU threatens Twitter with is worse than what Twitter is already doing to itself, it's like warning someone in the midst of a suicide attempt that if they don't stop, you'll smack them.
Yeah from what I’ve read this seems the most correct take. Churchill was, in today’s parlance, a racist. He saw other races as inferior, I think it’s hard to deny that. But he _did_ still have respect for them, and certainly did not see other races as subhuman or below moral consideration as articles like the OP claim.
meditating on the void does it for me :)
> Did Rust end up with both errors and panics because the community suppressed robust debate in the name of kindness and "safety"? Was the current approach a way to try to make everyone happy without conflict?

I've been hanging around /r/rust and poking at other venues since at least 2013 and my understanding was that the exception-like appearance of panics arose organically from:

1. Let's have monadic error handling for catchable stuff and an ASSERT equivalent for bugs that cannot be reasonably handled.

2. Our ownership system and mutex poisoning allows us to make strong guarantees about where invalid state is observable. Let's let a thread ASSERT without taking down the whole program.

3. It'd be nice to have RAII cleanup on an ASSERT

4. It'd be nice to have automatic diagnostics on an ASSERT failure

5. Gee, it's really awkward to have to spawn a thread in order to be able to translate an ASSERT failure into an error code when we're exposing a C API from Rust code. Let's add catch_unwind. (std::panic::catch_unwind didn't get stabilized until Rust 1.9.)

The clearest expression of this is that libraries cannot opt back into unwinding when the application that depends on them sets panic=abort. If an application says "I have no need to continue with the following job/request/etc. after a programming error in a single unit of work", the libraries it depends on aren't allowed to countermand that and, if they try, it's their fault for abusing panics. Panics are overgrown ASSERTs, not an underbuilt exception system.
This, combined with LLMs, makes me think we're going to or have already hit peak individual contributor salaries.
I’m American, and as a kid I loved playing the game “Cream the Carrier” (tackle the ball-carrier). The closest analogue as an adult was rugby, and there are four rugby clubs in San Francisco, so I played for one of them.
No doubt. The people I have known in an Indian arranged marriage actually understand relationships.

They aren't trying to live in a Disney movie or Goethe novel.

My understanding is that Goethe and romanticism really messed up our views in the West about romance. We have unrealistic beliefs from trying to live up to fiction.
These things have nothing to do with the DSA.

Sure, mistakes were done during the COVID-19 pandemic, as could be expected in any serious crisis, there are corrupt politicians, and I agree that some questionable things are going on in France. Though, I doubt these hold in courts; they already backed out from the planned restrictions on the freedom of assembly. I urge you to take a look at what is happening in the Brexit land at this front.
Apple's 'My Photo Stream' Service Shutting Down in July 2023
This behavior is the Rust leadership team is completely juvenile.
Y'all need to grow up.

Disagreement in technical development is highly valuable... alternative points of view should be prized and inspected, not ostracized. Quashing alternate views and opinions is a sign of a small intellect and/or a narcissistic personality disorder.

For the good of the Rust community, there needs to be some transparency on who exactly did what and those people who deviated from Rust leadership rules need to apologize. It will probably be very uncomfortable for those individuals, but too bad... get over yourselves... you screwed up... you should try to make it right.

There is probably no salvaging this current situation, but a description of what happened, mistakes made, and an authentic apology would go a long way. If folks can't own their mistakes, they need to evaluate their character and consider stepping aside... although, if folks don't understand what they did was wrong, they are probably incapable of real introspection (see comment above about narcissistic personality disorder).

To those Rust leaders who felt uncomfortable with Keynote speaker's probable topics of address... and decided it was okay to let your discomfort lead to this disgraceful outcome... shame on you. You need to take a good look in the mirror and learn some scientific history (remember, it's computer SCIENCE): scientist who use politics to quash alternate theories and views almost always acted from narcissism and almost always harmed scientific progress. Your actions are probably harming Rust.
> process that typically costs as much as each party buying a car, and takes months or years to complete

Isn't that the nature of the beast? When you get married everything is easy; you're happy and cooperating. When you're getting divorced you're upset and fighting.

If everything was ended amicably without lawyers you'd only be out a few hundred bucks.
PESEL system was bought from Sweden.
"Engineers who have regular contact with customers understand the problems they’re solving for their audience."

Pretty much any serious engineer in my book ought to be considering how their tool is used by the end person they made it for. That requires communication with them.
> largely a result of the theft

Do you have any evidence that the C919 is "largely the result" of theft? What specific components do you think are stolen? How do you know the extent to which espionage influenced/benefited the design? Right now, you're just citing accusations of specific acts of espionage (from Wikipedia, so we have no idea how meaningful this list is, or whether it's just a motivated editor making a mountain out of a molehill), and then drawing a very broad conclusion about the C919.

Note that the highest-tech parts of the C919 are being bought directly from European and American suppliers. For example, the engines are delivered by CFM International, which is a Franco-American joint venture.
It matters less because in the theology case it’s a lot easier to dismiss 1. - the divine religious arguments for a supernatural god are super weak so the details don’t matter. It’s much more likely humans just making up myths.

With AI we’re seeing the capabilities improve rapidly and the arguments about why AGI is impossible or will be constrained for some reason are the weak ones.
> But what if year in year out it doesn't happen?

Then the intersection between "Black people" and "people willing to speak on a Rust conference" is extremely small and nothing can be done about it. Well, nothing that's not already being done I mean: like encourage everyone to be in these circles because nobody is going to show you the door for doing so, and nobody is going to discriminate you.

What else should one programming language foundation be doing? They are not a world government that can and should fight systemic racism. They can only encourage people to participate. Which they already do.

> You could ask yourself why something that someone else might see as a simple (minor) disagreement caused such as strong reaction in you.

Throwing the ball at each others' hands is never gonna achieve anything. I can try answering for your parent poster: because the average white people are getting sick of being blamed of being racist while a lot of places are being racist towards them because they are white and somehow the problems of racism worldwide are our fault.

I've never in my life discriminated anyone on any race or gender grounds and I also don't plan to ever do so. But constantly guilt-tripping whites that they should "fight for more representation" is not how you win them over for your cause. You only alienate them. Tell me this: "please never exclude people from conferences based on skin color and gender" and I'll immediately agree with you, we shake hands and the world became slightly better. But tell me "it's a little more complicated" without giving any context or explanation while still implying it's somehow my fault that there are no Black speakers on a Rust conference, and you definitely have lost me for your cause. I might even start fighting against you, if I allow my monkey brain to take over that is, which I actively strive to not do.

Now, you ask yourself why did you try to shift blame. It's toxic. We can all be better than this. Let's start somewhere already. We got so much more in common than you seem to think.

Or, if I completely misconstrued your comment then I am truly sorry. But I do get pissed off every now and then. We should all just stop blaming people for things that 95% of the time are just not there. :(
This is really interesting. So you would genuinely be okay with with the death of something like 99% of the human population, because government imposed lockdowns are worse? Because that's what a 100% mortality rate COVID means without NPIs, 90-95% of people dead from the virus directly and almost all of the rest dead because society had collapsed around them. I am absolutely fascinated by the kind of person that can genuinely believe that, is it a sort of extreme libertarianism? Or maybe an ecological thing, you think the death of humanity would be a genuinely good thing and this 100% mortality COVID would just be a means to an end?
The problem is that the article was called "The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet", not "Yancy Dark Forest". IMHO it's like "Ultraviolet catastrophe of book collecting" or "Gravity well of Tinder" : general scientific theory /hipothesis used as metaphor of a thing. Of course Dark Forest is not as well known as previously mentioned theories (although it was mentioned by Kurzsgesat, so who knows), but the whole thing is clearly explained in the essay, and the author is clearly stating what Dark Forest is and who created it. Also, the original comment probably mentioned it as Yancy Dark Forest, as "The Dark... Of the Internet" written by Yancy, not as "Yancy totally original idea".
Everyone has an opinion. That's why we have committees, governments, etc, to have a voice. However, your or my opinion is no more valuable than anyone else's except to ourselves. I have definitely taken criticism of my code and architecture very hard, once I even got up after a meeting after my group voting against my architecture. I put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into over about a month of late nights and plenty coffee. However, I accepted the decision (by team committee I guess you could say. I didn't cry that my feelings were hurt. I was actually vindicated about a year later when that project fell apart under the crush of being very brittle, whereas mine would not have. However, I didn't gloat, I helped replace their brittle infrastructure with the one I had stuffed away in a zip file and almost forgotten about. However, stuff like that is just work. I think that has to be kept separate from human rights like respect for your gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, etc . Those should never be negotiable and no one should be made to feel "less than" are a separate concern. No one should have to put up with that, but I don't think that's what this is about at all. We should all have a thin-skin and maniacal defense of those basic human rights. Not so much when it comes to a language architecture. Life isn't about "feeling comfortable" in all circumstances. So I don't think those situations are similar at all.
It's worth noting that the agreements that guarantee Ukraine's borders also guarantee Russia's access to their black sea military bases in the Chimera.
I'm pretty sure "person of colour" means literally the same thing as "non white" in the US, I find it hard to care about such minor differences in phrasing.
climate change is a risk to millions of people but it's not an existential risk. Just sadly a big one with the people worst affected having little say in anything. That kind of threat also for AI I think is worth worrying about. I fully expect autonomous weapons to be a concern, showing up in the worst and poorest warzones first probably.

However this is different from the largely fantastical genuinely existential AI risk scenarios. The appropriate comparison here is nuclear weaponry and we literally have global controls with not a single company or even a rogue actor having ever used one.
Might be pure coincidence but my wife shook her long covid symptoms when the first vaccines appeared. They had diagnosed inflammation of the small passages of the lung and she had real shortness of breath. Inhalers of various kinds didn’t seem to help. Bad when things can be diagnosed by zoom or a phone call with good sound reproduction. Fortunately it’s not recurred.
I don’t get the relation between structure and emotions.
Basically useless information. Levels.fyi is the real source of truth
Exactly. Which is why asking them to "think step by step", or reflecting their output back at them (as the chat interface does) is so effective.

LLMs are the internal monologue, but they lack the ability to iterate - you have to pump them manually.
People seem to conflate two things in this discussion: interpersonal issues (which are valid to talk about) and technical disagreements. Conflating these two can only lead to drama and reflects really poorly on the participants. Come on aren't we all adults here?!
This is the most blatantly false, badly reasoned, insane article I’ve ever seen upvoted on here. Sorry for the strong language but Jesus. “AI isn’t likely because Alexa sucks and Emus evaded hunters”? “AI isn’t likely because it would lead to trans humanism and I don’t like transhumanism”??

The fact that this author said, with a straight face, “California has the highest poverty rate in the nation” should be a clue that we should take none of this remotely seriously.

Please tell me I’m wrong, I’d love to be! Otherwise this just seems like, in the language of the grass-deprived zoomers, like hardcore cope
The world's largest amusement park, Disney's Magic Kingdom, sees on average roughly 15 million people visit each year. A "quarter of a million", or 250_000, doesn't sound so many anymore. The park has a maximum capacity of 90_000 guests at once. A massive undertaking for sure, but not impossible.

Obviously, the residents and owners of Venice would be compensated and receive shares, enough to live elsewhere and well, or this wouldn't work.

And yes, I'm not entirely serious with this idea.
You are just wrong and probably haven't had many relationships.
Obituary at the Seattle Times:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/don-bateman-saved-more...

Previous HN discussion of his GPWS system:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12261578

Wikipedia article on Ground Proximity Warning System:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_proximity_warning_syste...
Your point on many Europeans seeing Churchill as a saviour and not caring about his victims in colonies is just normal by historical (and modern) times. Romans were proud of all the genocides Caesar committed (and proudly self documented). See for example his own account of the Gallic wars and the killing of women and children of tribes from current day Switzerland (the Helvetii). Obama destroyed multiple countries (non-European) and killed and displaced millions and is considered a hero as well in the West like Churchill is. Joe Biden took all the reserves of extremely poor Afghanistan and is starving 40 million people to there to death today. He is considered a hero in the West as well. So like most things it all depends on where you are and who you talk to and their background (European and non-European for example).

Americans in general (and the US mainstream media in their coverage) frame deaths emanating from the US (and it’s close allies) as collateral damage, killed terrorists, eliminated insurecctionists or mistakes or just even ignore it by omissions. From other countries that are not “allies” they are victims or murdered innocents or massacres or genocides etc… Just look at the favorable coverage of Madeleine Albrights death who said in her very own words that she owned to killing 500,000 Iraqi babies and children and said it was well worth it.

https://www.newsweek.com/watch-madeleine-albright-saying-ira...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallic_Wars

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bibracte

https://jacobin.com/2022/01/sanctions-financial-assets-afgha...
For "Top Software Engineering Skills by Salary" we find "MapReduce". I don't think I can take this article seriously.
> Indian MP, Shashi Tharoor's observation Churchill was no better than the Nazis is the correct one.

This is a completely absurd position. The Nazis carried out a deliberate extermination programme, murdering millions their own citizens.
Err no they mean the left "addend" technically but they are definitely talking about the RHS of the equation (first addend/term of the RHS).
The author isn't a child to the core team's adult, they were one of four members of the core team [0]. They're not an individual contributor who feels incapable of effecting change in the wider org, they were mad at the way one of their peers handled the situation.

[0] Still listed as such here: https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/core
Fair point, and one I needed to reflect on.

I think in my past, whenever I've been in a leadership position over a group of people, we've all been there to achieve some goal. We were all cooperating to reach the same end -- and those with a different opinion of that "end" were excluded.

I have also been on the opposite side of this: I've been a member of groups whose goals I did not agree with. And no amount of civility or communication would bridge that chasm; therefore my opinions and thoughts were excluded (and I voluntarily left).

There is no right or wrong here -- if I step back and stop injecting my own feelings into the conversation: there are just differences.

I don't like theories. I don't like abstract things that try to become a source of truth, while completely ignoring and marginalizing the very real human element involved. I have no respect for them.

In my view, "don't be an asshole" is basically: you join a group of people, do not carelessly or intentionally go against the norms of that group. Do not insert yourself into a group of people that you know you will not get along with. There is no right or wrong, but there is conflict and no conflict.

But even now, as much as I have tried to take a step back with an objective lens, and disassociate from my very real thoughts, feelings, and beliefs: what is the point? I hold all of these because they are integral to who I am. As do the people of the Rust community.

Disjointed thoughts, without a goal to neatly encapsulate them all. Or perhaps my goal was to share my human experience with others? To socialize and create bonds with others? Quite a silly thing to do on the internet.
It’s scary how in the news lately, there are some things brewing that we thought were safe that just might not be. Another one my family is watching is that Fluoride being potentially dangerous (a classic conspiracy theorist stereotype) is back in the news and a lawsuit against the EPA has been allowed to proceed.

https://www.salon.com/2023/03/16/health-officials-delayed-re...