skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This needs explanation. If there is such an extreme shortage of talent, why can't doctors demand better terms, e.g. shorter hours?
And as a result have everyone upload their personal identification to some untrustworthy corporate database?

Thanks but no thanks.

There ought to be better solutions.

My view is that it's a question of culture. In particular, the eradication of any sort of authority (parents, teachers) and the worshipping of "I want, therefore it's good and my right" are among the root causes for this epidemic.
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You're welcome but it makes me think that you think I'm the one who wrote it
it’s political grandstanding by someone who wants to run for office
Thanks for that, I've haven't looked beyond Libre in years.
Trying it out on Debian11 now.
> if they're not even able to enter the spaces where a huge amount of the socializing is happening

That’s anti-socializing. That is nothing but huge skinner boxes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber
> Many US private practice jobs are the same.

Where are you getting this from? The vast majority of doctors have access to the same kinds of fixed benefit retirement plans as people in other industries have.
> IMO social media should age check by law.

They do[1]. Most social media sites in the US don't allow children under 13 to use their sites, as a matter of policy. There have been proposals to expand COPPA to other forms of tracking and to children under 16.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Online_Privacy_Prot...
That's just completely false. Here's some actual research comparing quality of life between USSR and the west.

Professor of Economic History, Robert C. Allen, concludes in his study without the 1917 revolution is directly responsible for rapid growth.

* https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.50...

Study demonstrating the steady increase in quality of life during the Soviet period (including under Stalin). Includes the fact that Soviet life expectancy grew faster than any other nation recorded at the time:

* https://www.jstor.org/stable/2672986?seq=1

A large study using world bank data analyzing the quality of life in Capitalist vs Socialist countries and finds overwhelmingly at similar levels of development with socialism bringing better quality of life:

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1646771/pdf/amj...

This study compared capitalist and socialist countries in measures of the physical quality of life (PQL), taking into account the level of economic development.

* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2430906/
Probably the memory is more relevant. 1 or 2 MB!
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Were do you draw the line?

What if social media design is malicious intentionaly and kids are so messed up that x school can't function anymore (hypothetically).
2-4 weeks seems pretty normal
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Ask HN: How are engineering minds like Jeff Dean, Torvalds, Wozniak created?
This is not a post/rant about dropping out of college. Infact Jeff Dean, Torvalds all went to college/grad school.

But what I am specifically talking about is their capabilites as engineers. They are not mere scientists who prove something or theorise about something or solve an algorithmic problem. They of course do that but they do much more. They assemble things in correct order. Not just random things. Things that will match the rhythm of the entire thing and also have an identity of its own. They see the small things and the eagle-eye view of the entire project at once.

Torvalds built Linux in grad school. He used C. He had to build everything himself. The code quality is one of the finest. He was an engineer more than anything.

How is this achievable? Only through rigorous self study of the correct material?

Have you met such awesome engineers? Where did they get their abilities?
I agree, I left a FAANG and startup to pursue medicine (not that finances were my motivation) and my co-founder who went back to a FAANG is earning more than most physicians now.

I’m far removed from this work environment now but at 10 years of SWE in a FAANG one seems to be making ~$350k-400k in total compensation? Not sure how many make it to L6 or higher, I defer to other commenters here.

If you consider the competitiveness of high earning jobs (especially in desirable markets, probably the top 20% of candidates), the opportunity cost during a decade of training I would imagine a similar %ile candidate in CS would be making more in major cities.

With that said physician income is relatively similar in metro vs cheaper COL areas so if you wanted to work in non-tech cities or smaller metros specialty physicians would probably make more.

With that said, with the hours and work intensity I put in now I could probably do 2 FTE SWE jobs (at least comparing to what it was like 10+ years ago).
I think Ruby itself has lost its trend, but people who use it keep using it.
We are in a time where people prefer compiled, statically typed languages which contributes to Ruby losing its popularity, that's why alternatives like Crystal is growing.

Another reason is Ruby is tightly coupled with the Rails framework, Ruby should really try to separate itself from it and shine on its own.

There is nothing Ruby offers that other languages lacks on, I find it exceptionally well for prototyping and for gluing togheter different things through the CLI etc, and I will continue using Ruby for that.

I believe Ruby will bounce back in the future, we are currently seeing lots of cool new features being introduces after Ruby 3 like YJIT & Ractors!
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Yeah sorry, I don't mean to presume. I just mean that you need to know the magnitude and have comparisons to really have a meaningful opinion.
is this a sign that RH can't afford to run their business

I think the desktop team probably has limited resources. Many of their business customers don't use LibreOffice, but Google Docs etc. So they'd rather invest resources in parts of the ecosystem that benefits their customers, like bringing Wayland on par with macOS and Windows when it comes to HDR support, etc.

Seems like a very sensible decision to me.

People who want LibreOffice can always install the Flatpak.
The article is light on the actual allegations, but at least they link to the complaint [1] (so few articles do). The claims are: Public Nuisance, Negligence, and Gross Negligence.

The special damage they claim to have suffered seems to primarily relate to expanding and diverting resources to deal with mental health issues of students.

The table of contents of the complaint is a good summary of their assertions, including:

Defendants’ apps have created a youth mental health crisis.

Defendants target children as a core market, hooking kids on their addictive social media platforms.

Children are uniquely susceptible to Defendants’ addictive apps.

Defendants design their apps to attract and addict youth.

Millions of kids use Defendants’ products compulsively.

Defendants' defective products encourage dangerous "challenges."

Defendants' defective social media apps facilitate and contribute to the sexual exploitation and sextortion of children, and the ongoing production and spread of child sex abuse material online.

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23832853-maryland-sc...
Section 230 protects against liability from user generated content. My understanding is the school is alleging the platforms operate in purposefully addictive and damaging behavior. IANAL of course but it sounds like the actions of the platform itself would be clearly outside of S230.
Good question. Maybe 'format' or just 'file'?
They're one of the larger contributors in number of commits, about equal to Collabora.
That the vaccine causes more deaths than the virus itself is kind of a conspiracy theory. How is that even being used as reasoning these days?

Just saying correlation isn't causation is a cop out, just because something is correlated doesn't mean it can't be reasoned about, used as a data point.

Everything you say is true, it was hard times for a lot of people, drug use, crime, suicides, all up. What is wrong is using that to justify that we should have let more people die from the disease itself.

"Man, we would be so much better off, with less drug us, less crime, less suicides, if we had just allowed more people to die. If we only had the courage to let this spread naturally and allow more people to die, and be put out of their misery, times would be better now".
It's not that you need to log on to an app to function, it's that to function socially, you need to be in contact with the people in your community. In a community with limited Internet access, of course that happens in person. But that isn't really comparable to not being on the internet in a community that generally is.

I'm sure plenty of teens would do fine without social media, some would probably prefer it because some people prefer limited social contact, but we can't make a blanket statement that we can yank kids offline and it'll all be fine.

The criticism I'm hearing in this thread seems to be, "parents are doing something uncomplicatedly irresponsible, it's obvious kids should be off social media," but frankly the analysis I'm seeing behind that is pretty thin (I'm gathering this is more a gut feeling for people than a reasoned position? Which is valid and all, it just doesn't make for good discussion since it can't be transmitted to or evaluated by another person), and this is a complex issue without such simple solutions.
Very few things in those companies are being written in Rust, and half of those projects chose Rust around ideological reasons rather than technical, with plenty of 'unsafe' thrown in for performance reasons

https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/search?q=...

The fact that 'unsafe' even exists in Rust means it's no better than C with some macros.

Don't get me wrong, Rust has it's place, like all the other languages that came about for various reasons, but it's not going to gain wide adoption.

Future of programming consists of 2 languages - something like C that has a small instruction set for adopting to new hardware, and something that is very high level, higher than Python with LLM in the background. Everything in the middle is fodder.
Physicians are disposable too, look at what happened with primary care, nephrology, anesthesia and is starting in radiology where private equity firms move in and outsource physician care to allied health professions and create an “eat what you kill environment”.

In other countries like Canada it’s also near impossible to get a job in a surgical specialty (and until 2 years ago other ones like radiology), especially in a desirable city despite huge shortages and backlogs because our jobs use a lot of expensive resources.

> If you want fewer hours, work fewer hours. What are they going to do, fire you? They can't.

They can, many jobs set a minimum FTE you can work.

They also reduce fee codes (with a system known as relative value units/RVUs) so you have to work harder to make the same money. We’re at the mercy of payers in US/Can.

My specialty (radiology) has had work-unit compensation periodically slashed over the last 10 years (20-30%) that’s been offset by reading more cases (and to a lesser extent technological advances making reading faster although studies have gotten far more complicated to read with modern treatments).

There’s also the increasing clinical demand and generally caring about the humans on the other end. I don’t want to read 50-90 CT scans on a ER shift but I have to because the studies are being ordered, the patients need their reports, and we don’t have enough radiologists.
We have concepts like “the First Amendment” and “standing” and so on exclusively to build and maintain a strong society. All of these things are subject, at the end of the day, to the assessment of whether they are effective at preventing bad things and preserving good things.

If, for example, 100% of people under the age of 18 commit suicide within one month of being on Instagram, these arguments correctly would not prevent action against Instagram. We’d simply find a way to prevent kids from going on IG while weakening as little as possible the First Amendment’s protections of things that are good for our society.

The only point of debate here is where each individual draws the line.

From my observation, it seems people who are close to children a lot (parents, teachers, medical professionals) have been screaming their fucking brains out about this problem in ever-increasing intensity for years and years. People who are not close to children (20-something year old tech workers and HN browsers) think it’s all made up.
It's pretty much two or three clicks away with Flatpak and LibreOffice get to control the experience. People also install Microsoft Office or Apple Pages/Keynote/Sheets through the app store, and however Office is installed on Windows.
> If I install LibreOffice, I want to be asked for permission before it tries to access my microphone or location or other sensitive resources.

This isn't some untrusted unauditable binary blob from a possibly shady manufacturer. Everything it will or will not do is right there for everyone to see in the published source code from which it is compiled and packaged.

Furthermore nothing is fundamentally stopping anyone to apply SELinux policies to this application just like a flatpak would.
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The problem is the professionals should be questioned. Lead us not to hubris
Since it's a lawsuit, there is unfortunately only one way for it to make sense: legally.
"Generally, bang methods mutate/modify the object they are called upon, while their non-bang counterparts return a new object with the desired changes."

So to keep things immutable, stay away from the bang methods.
First, at 6 why does your kid even need to know what a smartphone is? At 6, a phone should be to "call people", period.

Second, it can be expensive and therefore not an option for everyone but there are schools with solid phone/media policies. My kids go to a school where phones are forbidden until 9th grade.
> - Support for deferring NOT NULL and CHECK constraints to the end of a transaction (just ran into this problem yesterday)

I'm curious what the use case of this is?

Deferrable constraints are usually considered for foreign keys, since there you might have to juggle updates to multiple tables and might violate the constraint in the intermediate states. But that doesn't appear to apply in that way to CHECK constraints.
Any one tool is bad at detecting AI but combining both human intuition and multiple automatic tools can get a very accurate result. Moderators already only make suspensions when multiple systems agree.

Not to mention the best AI might be hard to distinguish but most AI content is quite obvious (when reading carefully) because how bad it is. It can trick a casual reader but not a experienced moderator who knows about the subject matter.
Agree with the middle part - At the moment, the policy implemented by corporate is "Don't ask; don't tell". If someone says they used GPT or other AI for their answer, it's disallowed. If they try to hide the fact, there's not much the community can do to get it removed.

And while I'm not a moderator, as just a user I've flagged over 1,200 answers on Stack Overflow (and several of the smaller communities like Ask Ubuntu) that were subsequently removed. Automatic detection was never the sole criteria that was used to determine if it was AI - It's entirely possible to spot GPT content using multiple methods. I don't publicly talk about most of these, since we do have a group of users (sometimes spammers) who attempt to hide their use and make it more difficult to detect. See some of my additional notes on the topic on https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/389674/902710
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Kanata is good. I use it to have some consistent keyboard configuration between Linux and Windows.

One nice feature it has over AutoHotKey[^1] is that it can use Interception (a keyboard filter driver) to handle keys earlier, which lets it work in more situations (e.g across RDP sessions). Interception itself though does have a bug where if you keep adding/removing devices it will stop working until you restart.

1: I've seen an Interception module for AHK, but it's not built in like Kanata's
Now they may be using Signal. The utlimate honeypot.
Something I find fascinating is that many of Borges’ stories demonstrate a solid grasp of fairly advanced mathematics of his time [0] but he had little formal education. I like to try imagine the work he must have put in to attain this knowledge. I think of Pierre Menard as an example of the extremal principle [1], bringing insight into how works of literature are interpreted by considering extreme cases. A good counterpart to Pierre Menard is The Library of Babel [2], also in Ficciones.

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[1] https://brilliant.org/wiki/extremal-principle/

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
I'm not sure why it's only on Anand. If the VP was getting annoyed, why couldn't the VP steer the conversation? He's the VP ffs. Isn't "having conversations" one of the key job requirements for any VP?

The problem with "just read the room" is that you can very easily misread someone when you're meeting them for the first time, for example during a several-hour-long interview session.
He’s one of those rare writers I read just for style. The subject matter is always interesting, but he could write that same volume of prose about the same small rock, every day, and it would be an engaging read.
I have a few projects running off of a self-hosted garage instance, it’s very nice software.
Agreed - That's the basis of my "responsible use of AI on SO" post at https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/389675/902710
Anand could very well be moving across countries and investing immense amounts of times to start a new life. He could also be leaving a great job to seek a new challenge in a company he wants to invest years of his effort in. The VP has also dedicated time specifically for Anand's interview. He also probably has the power to fire him in short notice and with limited severance.

Anand should ask all the annoying questions. This way he's saving both himself and the VP all the wasted time of hiring him and then having a broken relationship because things weren't clear later. This way the VP can also see what concerns the potential employee and if they have a potential mismatch in expectations.

Finally, even if we disregard all that I said above, if it's Anand's working style to ask a lot of questions and he hides this style during the interview, then he will invariably clash with management later due to it if he's hired. Then he may have more to lose then just a potential future job.
Some more info on that kind of device here [1].

[1] https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/crypt.html
Scrolling through that pudding site, right away I notice the tell tale sign of midwit misconception.

- a story makes claims about women in the news, without any controls or comparison to men (i.e. it's useless)

- a story presents one of those toy economic models about random trades between people, not realizing they are complete nonsense with zero predictive power

This is just what I notice on a first visit. It's extremely well produced nonsense.
Social media is a really broad term.

Facebook of your youth is a social network. TikTok is also a social network.
Maybe try launching TikTok for once and let me know whether you’d want to grow up like that.
> While I feel for them, they put themselves in this position.

I agree entirely.

I feel the same way about OpenBSD when they come round begging for money.

I'm like "sure, great cause, but can we first have chat about your totally energy inefficient hosting of multiple racks full of ancient power-hungry kit in Theo's basement".

Money doesn't grow on trees, and especially in this era of inflation and high energy prices, I'm afraid I don't think it is unreasonable for me to expect the organisation asking me for money to get their affairs in order first.
I have 7 weeks plus bank holidays… but I am not in the US (mandatory days… you are obligated to take them all)
I'm not sure the exact split ratio but part nature, part nurture in my experience. There are intrinsic drivers call it curiosity or obsession, which can't really be taught but rather cultivated. Plus access to (rare) resources, be it money, people, books, tech etc. And then there is self-study and ability to block out internal and external distractions.

It's hard to teach most of what you are asking. In my experience, it needs to be inspired and encouraged and internal drive of a person will figure out a way to get what's needed
Sure, but if you try it out, you pretty quickly realize it's a hallucination. Unfortunately the type of GPT content we're now getting on Stack Overflow and its sibling sites is mostly unvalidated GPT hallucinations.
The conclusions of this study are based on simulated brains. The headline may therefore be misleading.
> economy was in free fall

In the late 80s.. Before that there was some growth intertwined with stagnation.
But if the company is misrepresenting facts, shouldn’t it at least have liability to that third party?

I guess maybe this case leaves that open?
It's very common? I have never seen a single woman repair a street, let alone a female only group.

> Strange ideas about gender roles are coloring your perception of what is normal.

It's rather that your perception is off. See for example

https://external-preview.redd.it/RqUXzaQhvPVuJ3Qw6-7hHfsCinn...

Edit: Of course it could have been very common in the Sowjet Union at the time.
The whole point of Signal is not having to trust them because the protocol is open source and peer-reviewed.
See also: keymapper (for Windows and Linux)

https://github.com/houmain/keymapper
> Now that the someone else is pulling out they need to think for the first time

They should have thought about that on day zero.

If someone else is picking up the tab then there is ALWAYS the possibility that someone will pull out for whatever reason.