skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work for a pretty successful company (by any measure), and have had multiple startup exits before that, and I would know it was time to retire immediately if I started thinking like you.

> One new hire on my team spends upwards of 2 hours per day "walking her dog."

I once came up with the idea for a product which has generated several hundred million dollars in revenue on a dog walk in the middle of the day. This morning while on a dog walk (on Sunday), I came up with the solution to a problem which has been vexing a team of 8-9 people for many months and will unblock millions of dollars of potential.

The very notion that someone is not working because they are not in front of their computer screen marks you as someone who is wholly unfit to be a manager of people. 80% of the job of a software engineer is thinking.

> Now, the post-covid hires, especially the junior engineers, just do the bare minimum to scrape by

The entire industry would be better off if people just DID LESS. Complexity abounds because people want to be seen to "be doing something" to impress people like you. Again, 80% of the job of a software engineer is thinking.

> Work-from-home abuse is another component of this observation.

If you think people don't work at home, you should see what they do at an office when they can make small talk with other incapables.
What is freedom if you are working for a top down authoritarian hierarchy ? Be it legal person or a real one. Do we get to enjoy any democracy at work ?
As an engineer, I would like to see improvements in efficiency:

> Americans have deluded themselves into believing that as long as they allocate dollars to something in a spreadsheet, then valuable and useful real stuff is actually getting built. Again and again, that delusion has been shattered when excess costs and interminable delays block the paper dollars from becoming real tangible goods.

From construction of transportation to housing to energy infrastructure, things seem to take forever to build. California's high speed rail may never be completed.
Sure but these can be hard to find.

Let's suppose the factors that make people like their jobs are a sense of ownership, applying skills, having friends, a high level of trust, and a sense that they're contributing something useful (the classic example is the construction worker isn't laying bricks, he's building a house).

The hyper-financialized economy we find ourselves in loves meaningless Goals and OKRs, then does mass layoffs for no apparent reason besides investors like it.

This is a pretty stark misalignment in values and incentives. Of course people are unhappy with it.
I have no idea if its cultural or genetic, but the difference is there in the classroom. Its pretty clear that various programs run by the state aren't making much of a difference. If you need to change the culture of kids to make them better at math, then we should do that. Although I have no idea how to quantify what that culture is and how to apply that change across a school.

edit: also, note, you've said a lot of stuff about categories. But categories can blend into each other and cause ambiguity at the margins. But that doesn't remove the validity of there being categories. When I look at the kids who come in to competitive math programs, and these are kids who are more than a standard deviations above the mean in performance, I see a lot of uniformity. One can try to construct various explanations for this, but you can't tell me that there were NO kids from underrepresented ethnicities that had two professional parents and good exposure to mathematics early. We have plenty of racial diversity in the early math programs. And in the Bay Area there are plenty of professionals sending their kids to these programs from all ethnicities. And still, ten years later its the Chinese and Taiwanese American kids that are in the Olympiad team. And even at a lower level, say SAT math, we see the performance skewed by race in the same way. I am ethnically Indian. And Indians are as interested in math as Chinese. We all send our kids to math tutoring. We are mostly engineers in the Bay Area. And even so, at the very top of the distribution, there are some Indian kids ... but far more Chinese American and Taiwanese kids. These are just facts. I don't take it as a slam against my ethnicity that we don't do as well in math as the Chinese. There's more to life than math after all.
Musk's X social media platform reinstates Kanye West's account
Most emacs users I know retain a modicum of vi/vim knowledge for those situations where emacs isn't available. It's more because of the ubiquity of vi/vim, though. There are mini versions of emacs available like MicroEmacs and mg, the latter being more compatible with GNU Emacs.
> What do you consider a fair pay for junior engineers in order for them to contribute at the capacity they're expected to? Our fresh college grads are paid a total compensation higher than $200K. Is that not enough to expect working, at minimum, 8 hours a day?

I consider fair pay = $200k + a management that makes $600k pulling their weight by solving cross-team problems instead of pushing everything down to engineers.

Juniors want "leadership" to act like leaders and take responsibility. Get laid off first for your own poor decision-making.
This reminds me of the romanticism of the Medieval Peasant I’ve sometimes seen online. The thinking is yes they worked hard, but at least they got guaranteed housing and a wife, etc.

America really is the land of opportunity, but if you don’t end up in a higher bracket, life is really really difficult.
I wonder if Vaultwarden supports CockroachDB, for a convenient self-hosted HA setup
I think maybe you're taking them a little too literally, I don't think they're suggesting that people shouldn't be doing research on such things, I think they're saying it isn't useful for them personally to read about it.

I follow science news, but it is a little exhausting how much of it is bullshit.

Outliers and measurement errors disproportionately create interesting stories, and so things that don't pan out end up being overrepresented in the scientific press (like that supposed tachyon detection a few years ago).

There's a lot of stories about seemingly promising technologies that just don't really seem to go anywhere.

When these things get a lot of attention, they're followed by a breathless hype train and the attendant grifters.

A lot of it feels like a wasted effort. I suspect it gives some the impression that science itself is a giant grift where nothing useful is produced, and contributes to antiscience attitudes.
Wait, you mean 'ancient history' doesn't cover all time between the invention of pottery and the invention of node.js?
> I like being able to just type obs and press enter in the new windows.

This might be one of the few useful features that I take for granted in modern Windows. That and Win + tab which I think GNOME does better. The "Windows" key in GNOME brings up the overview but also brings up search where you can either click which window you want or type what you want. Intuitive
I think the spirit of the original comment is people don't want to do enforced work at someone else's behest in order to live. I agree a lot of people would choose to do some kind of work voluntarily even if they didn't have to. Many people on here are probably coders. They may grudgingly drag themselves out of bed to go and code whatever their boss says in their day job, but then go home and code whatever they want to code purely for the joy of building something. It's not that people don't want to do work, they just don't want to do work someone else prescribes. Sometimes prescribed work and work you want to do intersect, then great, but often that is not the case.
I'm reading Colin Renfew's (outdated) book on the Anatolian hypothesis. From what I understood, Renfew had already conceded that he was wrong* and that Maria Gimbutas was right about Steppe hypothesis (but not the matriarchal character of the pre-Indo-European cultures.) So it surprises me to see that anyone would still be taking Anatolian hypothesis seriously. Did Renfew have follows that did not give it up when he did?

Anyway, the thing about this new research is that it'll depend on whether people accept this methodology or not. It's not clear to me that people will form a consensus on that any time soon because historically methodology is a central part of why people disagree about this in the first place. In fact, as another commenter below mentions, this methodology assumes an identification of genes and language-speakers which has been explicitly and heavily criticized in this area before and I think the consensus is that that is invalid.

* It doesn't surprise me. The positive arguments in this book are very weak.
I would say that Win95 aesthetics was about someone with an actual good taste taking Motif and making it not suck. Remember how selecting menu items by hovering was BIG? Coming from Windows 3.1/3.11, the usability improvement of this alone was massive. Same with mouse wheel becoming ubiquitous, courtesy of Microsoft (they weren't the first, but it's thanks to them that everyone and their dog could actually make use of it).

Another thing about Win95 aesthetics (which peaked at the time of Windows 2000) was the extreme consistency which had been simply absent before that in the DOS/Win3/PC world. Maybe Apple could brag about it too, can't say about SGI (was it all like Motif in all applications, with colors/hotkeys set platform-wide, or was it the ugly Motif/Xaw/Athena mix seen elsewhere and each application having a mind of its own?). Man, you can't find it these days, especially since Electron.

I'm purposely omitting Qt/GTK, as they have always felt like also-ran toolkits, mimicking the conventions of the platforms they inhabited, and I can't for the life of me remember when it was that they actually set any trends instead of mimicking some hotness of the day introduced by the dominant platforms.
If you eat uranium, the radioactivity is so low level that the chemical toxicity is more important.
Two datapoints is hardly enough for that, and out of the billions of people who have lived in the last 2,500 years an infinitesimal small percentage have complained about roughly the same thing, so "any and all arguments that touch on this must be invalid" seems just as much of an invalid non-argument to me.

You can pick almost any topic and find people unfairly whinging about it "across time, space, and cultures" because if there is something that's part of human nature then it's that some people will unfairly whinge about stuff. That on its own says exactly nothing about any specific argument that's presented: it's just vague heuristic pattern matching at best, and bad faith dismissal at worst.
The "next generation" of Emacs contributors will be Emacs users and will not have any issues using email for collaboration.

Git was made for email. Needing a separate service for it is mostly cruft, when you have mailing lists. Yes, github has mass appeal, but a lot of software has been written with just email collaboration.

As for attracting low-quality contributions, I don't think they matter. People who use Emacs and depend on it will contribute. Interest in Emacs has increased and so have the available features.
Yeah, I agree. But “colonialism” is not just pervasive in one field—it’s everywhere and it (like so many “activist” terms) have expanded so broadly that in many cases it doesn’t seem to mean anything apart from “really bad, but in some really vague indiscernible way”. It’s valid jargon more often than not.
Ugh substack - no one wants a quick way to “quote” something.

People please don’t mess with right click and text selection!!
> I used to forget which sub menu inside the thing I needed was except for the ones I used frequently

The trick was to create your own folders to flatten the hierarchy, so you never have to look inside the "Programs" sub menu. You could even move your most frequently used items to the top level, with no folders at all, so they're available with a single click.

This got a lot easier with Windows 98 (or with the IE version that included the shell update) where you could just drag and drop to rearrange the menus.
A set-valued function is a perfectly valid kind of function, and a multivalued function in complex analysis is just a set-valued function with certain continuity and other restrictions.
"No, it's always been the children that are wrong." - Skinnecrates.
> eclipse is the only way to develop Java code on Linux platforms without paying for richer tools

All the people I know are using IntelliJ CE.
> One new hire on my team spends upwards of 2 hours per day "walking her dog." I even called this out during a formal performance review and her behavior hasn't changed at all. (Work-from-home abuse is another component of this observation.)

Good for her, it takes confidence to do this.

Overworking engineers into burnout isn’t a healthy career path.
s/frequently/occasionally

Years of use, rarely isn't perfect condition.
Has your wife considered dictation software? Things like Dragon can be integrated into some EHRs. She could record what she's saying as she works with the patient and even talks directly to them, then clean it up after the fact.
I don't think the amount of money spent is the problem;
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/06/20/the-pentagons-5...
There's a snap that's updated very quickly:

https://github.com/alexmurray/emacs-snap/

In fact, it's already updated
Just to put actual number into sight: that’s at least a billion people we are talking about. Even if a war happen 20 years from now and the US double its population while China has a population collapse, it’s still 400 million people++
Well then I guess you should offer me a 400k salary bc I can run circles around your junior engineers, and get paid less than 200k
> will ultimately have much larger economies

Will they necessarily? I would expect culture and system of government to be factors in whether a country can not only support 1 billion plus people, but grow their economy too. Let alone natural resources
> What we really need is more capacity, which this material as presented doesn't seem to help with.

I thought one of the benefits of superconducting wires was that they could carry a lot more. Is that generally not true of superconductors?
>Batsu (x) is the symbol for incorrect, and can represent false, bad, wrong or attack, while maru (o) means correct, true, good, whole, or something precious. Another familiar example of batsu/maru is in the Playstation controller design, where maru and batsu are used for yes and no.

Interestingly, ╳ is no/◯ is yes only on Playstation games released in Japan. For games released everywhere else in the world, it's reversed (which I always found odd, since I think of X as a pretty universal symbol for "no"). Previous HN discussion speculating on reasons for the switch here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8171430
Except the rich and educated Indians and Chinese want to move to the US.

India and China having 4x the US’s population doesn’t mean anything if the top 5-10 productive percentile of their population emigrate to the US.

Further, unlike India and China which literally share a contested border, the U.S. is surrounded by extremely friendly nations and 2 oceans.

Further, the US has a 200+ year history of a relatively stable democracy whereas India is currently turning into whatever clown show Modi is trying to turn it into, and Xi Jinping has turned China into the kind of autocracy where he is telling highly educated Chinese that they should go back to their villages and try their hand at subsistence farming.

I would have thought the last 6 months of Chinese collapse, which should have been a post Zero COVID era of epic growth would have disabused people of the notion that people automatically means growth and success. China is currently beyond their demographic dividend and is now in the payback stage, having f’ed their demographics massively with their 1 child policy.

India is in the peak of their demographic dividend but instead of utilizing it to productive ends is engaged in the promotion of religious infighting and autocratic tendencies all to satisfy the power lust of 1 man and his lackeys.
I like his color schemes a lot. Especially the contrast.
Also, why should the US be #1? What is so much _greater_ about the US?
You will not have this issue if you bother learning emacs lisp first. C-h is your friend.
Running IntelliJ IDE on Android
She Was the Oppenheimer of Barbie. Her Invention Blew Up
Assuming good faith, we can easily determine that OP was suggesting the working a job that provides no satisfaction would be misery. Considering satisfaction and misery are subjective, quibbling over the word choice is pedantic at best.

If you're incapable of seeing how someone might describe working in a job that provides no satisfaction as misery, I suggest taking time to understand how that can be the case, as your ignorance in this area does you harm.
Or just use ffmpeg-python.
A defense industry think tank that exists solely to siphon money from the defense budget thinks the defense budget should be even larger!
> No [x] to close these 1980's text editors either. X was commonly used to delete characters in-line, but not to close the program.

Not quite true. In Vim, :x means ‘save and close buffer’, and is a synonym for :wq. (Not sure if this was present in earlier Vi or not, but I believe it was.)
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Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on LLM
Mandated to choose them due to cargo cult process.

They were the only vendor capable of submitting the «objective» tender that is madated by law, and the decisionmakers are too stupid and chickenshit to consider that this process is in itself guaranteed to produce a worse outcome than alternative approaches.
It did however close the window if you double-clicked it, which carried over into newer versions of Windows too.
There is no induction, so there is no load.

Consider: why does a permanent magnet stay magnetized even in a changing magnetic field? Why do two permanent magnets stay magnetized when you bring them together and apart again?

When you move through the magnetic field of a permanent magnet, no energy is drawn out from the permanent magnet. All of the work occurred externally. It's the same with an energized superconducting electromagnet. Its field will not be "stripped away" by interacting with magnetic objects. The flux might be reduced if you brought an opposing magnetic flux near it -- but it would be increased again when you moved it back away. Net zero work.
It's not up for debate. The ruling class is making it a valid point without offering a solution to the problem. It's a lot easier to whine and complain versus actually tackling the issues at hand.
You're very right to point this out. It's one of Colin Renfew's* main attacks on other hypotheses. As I mentioned in my other comment, it's not automatically given that people will form a consensus that this methodology is acceptable as variations of methodology have been the main source of controversy on this issue in the past.

* originator of the Anatolian hypothesis
No, people are arguing against frontend tests because they're orthogonal to test driven development
I would make two observations here. First, costs are up. Not just housing and school, but also cars. Additionally, people are required to have smart phones. Most clothing is of poor quality and will need to be repurchased. Food is of poor quality if it’s cheap and therefore health costs get higher.

Second, in a low interest rate environment, any crazy idea gets funding. This squanders time and resources as many bad ideas get funded which would otherwise be laughed away. The low interest rates also encourage monetary inflation which first pushes up asset class prices, and later filters into retail prices. Wages are always the last segment to see price rises as pressure must be put on businesses to raise the price of labor. Essentially, when a company cannot get employees they will begin raising pay for open positions or they will go out of business. This pressure takes time to build. We see it now in fast food and groceries, and we saw it some time ago in the blue collar trades.

The major fix for this is higher interest rates… significantly higher. People would need to be willing to accept a slower growth rate in exchange for more predictable and more stable long term growth.
Sounds really scary, [complot mode on] story possibly worded to strengthen the Chinese lab-leak theory for Covid's origin [complot mode off]. Actual Chinese connection = bonus, for those looking to make Chinese-anything look bad.

More likely: a back-alley production facility for Covid tests. Built to bypass regulatory market / import controls. For whatever reasons - could be as silly as "supermarkets in the area ran out of Covid tests @ one point, and someone saw a $$-making opportunity".

Same reason that drugs like XTC are made. There is (or was, in this case?) money to be made, and someone knows how to do it.

I'll believe more sinister explanation when it's backed up by credible evidence & criminal convictions. Until then, "enterprise minded people (Chinese or otherwise) who sought some quick $$" theory works for me.
Here I am just wondering why crossing of legs was inappropriate.
Interestingly, ArthurOS (what would eventually be renamed to RISC OS) version 1.2 from 1987 already used an [x] to close (https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/riscos12) thus predating NeXTSTEP.
Exploring Generative AI
Hot-swappable containerized batteries! This is exciting, and it could be the start of a trend and a standard!
A film not a show, but Tenet is notorious for this.
Fast, Hierarchical, and Adaptive Algorithm for Monte Carlo Simulations
I heard that actually american copycat from japanese culture
Turning a 2001 Riese und Müller Birdy into a modern folding bicycle
There’s meaning in everything you do.
"In November 2022, DOD failed its fifth consecutive audit, unable to account for sixty-one percent of its $3.5 trillion in assets."
> The real problem with Emacs is the shitload of bugs that case weird, undocumented and annoying behavior.

Could you name a few of these "bugs"? I use Emacs for practically everything and bugs are very difficult to encounter, even on Emacs HEAD.

> A scripting language like elips is not meant for programming something as large and complex as Emacs.

Well, that's just plain wrong. A lot of vanilla Emacs functionality is written in Elisp.
I recall a Twitter thread where a lawyer mentions she couldn’t afford the apartment she rented as a law student now that she was an actual lawyer 10-15 years later.
> The real incidence rate is hard to tease out because of the presumption of criminality baked into the American system

I don't think it's as hard as you make it out to be. We have multiple independent sources collecting this data. The FBI collects racial data on perpetrators and victims, and multiple national surveys ask victims of crimes about the demographics of the perpetrator. The numbers from all these independent sources are fairly consistent.

Murders are especially easy to get reliable numbers on because there's a body. We know black people are murdered at dramatically higher rates than any other race and that most murder is intraracial. The reported racial crime statistics are accurate unless we believe that white people are sneaking into inner city majority black areas to murder black people undetected in massive numbers and the FBI is conspiring with multiple independent data collection groups to cover it up.
The US makes almost nothing on its own and I expect you know that, and the US population would be shrinking at a suicidal rate if not for mass human labor trafficking from the 3rd world.
I tried to make use of a new site to know about but I can't even figure out why anyone would use this instead of just grabbing songs off of youtube with youtube-dl or Newpipe. This feels like music piracy circa right before Napster.