skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of my early programming work was with C and C++ (after I left academia, where it was mostly Fortran). I am, simply put, a better programmer for it, objectively so when compared to my peers who've never touched it, at basically every place I've worked at since (including a FAANG-level company, currently, where I'm mostly writing in go and python). At least, that's the feedback I get from them.

I think it's fair to say this skill difference is largely from that work in the C family, where I learned a number of different paradigms for design and development in that world, with all its footguns and low-level "gotchas". It has always been easier for me to parse and understand others' code, identify subtle bugs, to use debugging tools, and to identify some optimizations by examining the code that others might spend days using profilers to find.

Some of that would come with engineering experience in general, regardless of languages used, but not all of it, but I picked these skills up faster and earlier in my career, thanks to that early work. Skill with C++ is definitely transferrable, in at least some cases.
If you are just interested in the percentage share (not a map of labeled data), all you need is random sampling. Classifying a couple of hundred coordinates is sufficient, takes at most some hours (more likely <1h), and is required anyway to train your network.
If I owned a casino, should I offer this game?
not speaking for Amazon or any other FAANG entity, but one fun and important thing to do when thinking of an idea is to imagine the risks and downsides.

For example, let's say someone uses your service to steal money or personal information from unwitting customers who think they're dealing with official 'FAANG support', or the bad actor provides erroneous information that ends up causing harm or death. Where do you think that open-ended liability would be assigned, were the legal system(s) to get involved?

For another, let's assume for a moment that there's an unfilled demand for FAANG support. Most interesting support calls likely require customer identification and also, crucially, internal backend access (e.g. to account systems, server logs, billing systems, and so on). Your site will not have that capability. That limits you to the boring support calls, which might as well be a wiki or stackoverflow, raising the question of whether you were able to address this unfilled demand.
https://nitter.net/eastdakota/status/1686927537740611584
I've a TI-89 emulator on my phone. Also a nice RPN calculator app (RealCalc) for most simpler calculations (no dimensional analysis needed). And Orpie for a CLi calculator.
One thing is sure: Sharepoint is definitely a US government cyber weapon, judging by the damage it's doing worlwide XD.
I will say this: IF you're going to live in a "big city" it's definitely nice to pick one with good public transit. I spent quite a lot of time in Chicago a few years ago, and I was really surprised at how accessible things were without a car, compared to where I live. Like I said in my other comment, I have a lot of stuff within walking distance of me. But what I didn't say, is that for everything else getting there without a car would be a nightmare. We have some buses, and that's about it. Chicago, OTOH, with the L-train system and the comprehensive bus route coverage, is relatively easy to get around, despite its size.
I think a lot of people in America simply don’t have a great concept of what living somewhere within walking distance of amenities can be like. Walking totally sucks in most of the country, so it’s very reasonable to devalue it.

I grew up in a rural place but live in NYC now. It took me a while to get into the rhythm of having things nearby. My family from suburban and rural places always seem surprised when I mention I need to run out to the grocery store at 6pm on a Tuesday. For them that’s a once a week trip at most–I can probably get there and back in the time that it takes them to get to just get to the store.

I am not making a case for the superiority of one lifestyle over the other (though I see suburbia as kind of a worst of both worlds between urban and rural), just offering my interpretation of why people in America might feel this way.
My commute is only 7 minutes even if I hit every stoplight. I could walk it in about 15 but I'll ride my motorcycle any chance I can. absolutely zero chance of some guy in a faraday cage box truck picking it off the lot while I'm at work, too.

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> we should develop better places for all of us to live

That still sounds like an assumption that "all" of us will prefer strong towns, which is doubtful. How about: "We should develop some new types of places to live for those who would prefer this new type of place"
PDFs and work documents also were infected with scripting languages in the 90’s. It was just a weird time.
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The work Ink & Switch (unaffiliated) do has been an inspiration to me with regard to local-first and decentralized software: https://www.inkandswitch.com

They have a quasi-manifesto on local-first (https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/) and have published the best rich text CRDT around, Peritext: https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/

Lots of interesting work happening in this space.
So it's some coils of wire wound around a common high permeability core?

Or some kind of weird robot-car hybrid?

I guess since it's a "Vision" transformer, it's probably actually some kind of hallucinogenic plant.
Need to mention WebUSB[1] too since it's only implemented and forced on Chromium.

[1]: https://caniuse.com/webusb
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this doesnt seem particularly unusual or high-effort. It's a colorful description anyone who programs for a living can relate to?

He describes using a notepad and a calculator...
So your organisation is so inefficient that it’s easier to just engage a third party to syphon off any profitability?
"Two junior devs and a keurig" - that will totally wreck the system by refactoring it to "modern patterns" without bothering to understand what it actually did. But it's OK, they're younger and therefore better. Thus, the cycle begins anew.
As an aside, I hate layouts that are a single narrow column with a huge swathe of space on either side. It's hard to get into the flow of reading when having to move to a new line constantly.

(never mind, even Hacker News reformats my example for me)
"What about a bigger model" is basically feature creep for ML.
There already is some dude who claimed RT superconductivity of gold nano islands inside a silver matrix. Don't give them any more ideas!
I found this on his site https://taylor.town/-10x, I like it even better
I think that since the issue at hand is that SMS can be intercepted, the protection afforded by this information is minimal.

Anecdotally, in the case of my bank, if I try to make a transfer, the SMS is something along the lines of "Are you trying to transfer 1234 €? If yes, enter the code 12345, or else call your representative asap".

One terrible point being that once you've entered the confirmation code, they consider the transaction as "strongly verified", so it's not that easy to roll it back. Fortunately, I've never had this happen to me so I don't know what that entails, but contesting a random unverified charge is as easy as clicking on the transaction list and then "dispute".
Yep. I’m done. I’ve been out of work for around a year, and frankly at this point I don’t even want to go back.

I hate software. I have no interest in learning the next popular language/framework/domain. Most of it bores me to death anyway or is far out of reach.

I started programming when I was a kid, and frankly, I knew I never wanted to do it professionally. Unfortunately, my immediate post high school plans fell through and I decided to do it solely because it was the only thing I could do to provide any sort of economic stability. There’s an HN comment I have saved that puts it better than I could: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32713325

The problem is there’s no where else to go. Any other career I’ve ever thought of doing requires years and thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of education, and the work available to an uneducated person who’s spent their career on something else is dead-end.
I’ve seen and have been involved with stories like this before, albeit not in the federal space and not with this specific type of employee action.

The reporter may have gotten facts wrong. The Hindustan Times is probably not going to have a good vetting of stuff happening in Alabama. But if he didn’t, there’s definitely key facts missing because attorneys making complaints like this generally don’t make errors in facts like “no policy was violated”.

Perhaps this incident highlighted some inconvenient facts about the company’s policies (or lack thereof). Maybe the almost 80 year old engineer was a pain in the ass so some charge was ginned up. Or maybe the guy is just going out as loudly and painfully as possible.
Yes, 30 minutes is a shockingly long time. I'd say 5 minutes makes a lot more sense.
You're right my story is completely implausible
Nothing beats Google Photos in speed and search.

Nothing beats cloud for email hosting.

Other things are debatable, but in general nothing beats cloud on ease of use and setup.
> its that their approach is "your whole life is wrong and you're just too stupid to know it"

I'm not sure what you've been reading but I can't say I've ever seen that approach. However, I do agree that the wrong tack is often taken. It's usually "environmental concerns mean we're all going to have to live in dense cities whether we like it or not", which is hardly an appealing take (irrespective of how true or false it is!).

Personally I love living in the city with my family. I bike the kids to school in the morning, the city has more museums than I can count, we have a giant park nearby with a zoo, a half dozen playgrounds... it's great. But you're right that you rarely see this kind of appeal actually made.
This isn't going to be very helpful to you, so sorry for that...

But for me, the hardest parts of getting started as a self-taught programmer, was copying TurboPascal onto floppy discs without the teacher noticing, and retyping code-listings from books borrowed from the library.
And most of that will not be used 95% of the time.

My parents have a large house with 4 bedrooms. They are only filled when we come seeing them. To me it's just wasted space.

Multiply that by millions of houses and you have a huge volume of space that is built heated/ACed for basically nothing most of the time.

We must rationalized all this, same with office spaces or "4 persons cars" :)
I worked in a shop in the early 90s with a bunch of Suns, and we had hired this new sysadmin. One day we noticed that half the RAM was missing from a workstation, and few minutes later noticed half the RAM was missing from all the workstations. Turned out the new sysadmin was a cokehead and had stolen it.
Movie-Theater Behavior Has Gone Off the Reels
This reminds me of the Thompson shell goto, which is an external(!) program that messes with its parent's file descriptors looking for `: label`.

See manpage at https://etsh.nl/man/_goto.1.html and source code at https://github.com/eunuchs/tsh/blob/master/goto.c.

See, history can give you a more inert syntax. And maybe a new way of thinking about how to make this thing... I would love to have a more robust version to do C-style goto cleanups.
This sounds to me more like an argument for composition over inheritance(1) than a rebuke of being clever.

That your code is complex to change is a good sign that it's not design in an appropriate way.

Switching from "this code is repetitive" to "therefore I will automate the production of this code" sounds unfortunate though.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_over_inheritance
We should call it worthless, and move to a platform not owned and operated by a narcissistic egomaniac with too much money on his hands.
True. I use GNU stow to symlink config files from my centralised "dotfile" repo which is version controlled and distributed via git which overcomes the scattered aspect. Different formats don't annoy me too much because some programs have a legitimate reason for using particular configuration formats and it's better than trying to shoehorn domain specific languages into YAML, for example. It would be nice to have the whole system configured in a language like Lisp or Python, though.
The cloud providers that also sold local software (Microsoft, Oracle) push people to the cloud by increasing the price of local software and discounting their cloud offerings (for a while at least).
Generally, the one with the most responsive progress bar will feel faster, because you're seeing progress more often.
Mostly a combination of single-family zoning (illegal to build a duplex, let alone an apartment/condo building, in huge areas of many cities), minimum square footage requirements for new buildings and lots, and parking minimums (new development, often including renovations of existing buildings, required to have X number of parking spaces per Y residents/occupants).
Do most states with income taxes fund schools from them? I've lived in several states but all have had both income and property taxes, and to my knowledge all of them funded schools exclusively from property taxes. In many of them there is literally a line item with the name of the school district.

How is Texas funding rural schools with urban property taxes if they're in different districts?
> stop using #Chromium / #GoogleChrome and use #Firefox or #Epiphany

> * The attempted sabotage of #JPEGXL: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/chrome

Remind me, does Firefox support JPEG XL?
I do a bunch of CSS work, and I've found more bugs in Chrome's rendering than in Firefox's, Lots of half-pixel errors. What kind of rendering issues are you seeing in Firefox?

If you do a lot of web development, I strongly recommend getting familiar with Firefox's containers. You can set up SOCKS proxies for each individual container so you can easily pretend your dev server is running on the production server's domain without disabling your own access to the production servers. It's so much nicer than working with multiple proxies in Chrome.

That said, you might enjoy ungoogled-chromium if you're annoyed by google-integration. I use it for testing (because cross-browser testing is still a must). Brave also exists and is open-source, to break up market share.
Ooooo... a peanut butter banana bacon sandwich sounds awesome.
I used to think like that, but the city I live in has regular no car days that made me change my mind.

The first and biggest pollution is the noise. The ambient car noise has a huge effect on stress level and sleep quality. When you remove the car from the city, it's almost at silent as the countryside.

The second is the danger in the street. Your brain registers those big fast moving cars as potential danger to avoid and raises your stress level and makes you want to move away from it.

The third one is the space the car take. When you remove the cars you have the opportunity to either make things easier to walk to, or to add parks and greenery. When you remove cars, modern cities are surprisingly empty, much less dense than a village.

Then there's the air pollution.
Fun fact: I'm actually a bootcamp grad in web dev doing the opposite. I agree.
What is a "cave" and why would anybody even want one?

You can have all of these things and much more living in a small apartment in a city. The shop will probably be a basement or a garage and the greenhouse will be on your roof or at a community garden, but apartments with multiple rooms are not difficult to come by in cities lol.
If you are the kind of person who thinks the future of IT looks bleak right now, imagine what it must have looked like in 2002 when NASDAQ was in a three year death spiral and down 80%, which is an experience this guy lived... and then in 2009 when the stock market was down at levels previously seen in 1997...

If anything, the lesson should be not to worry about yourself because the only way this man could be forced to resort to dumpster diving is if he was given too much to worry about his retirement accounts.
Chiel and Ritchie I’m very proud, good luck.
Which doesn't change the fact that they also did it.

And in regards to modern Apple, the settings panel and SwiftUI are more of a work in progress kind of thing, than actually done.
I recognize the parody about me. ;)

Do you know why I am giving you the two hour history?

First, I recognize that I need human interaction, but do not really like people.

Second, I am hoping that you will learn & understand instead of just memorize & regurgitate so in the future you can resolve it yourself instead of bothering me.

Now, go away; I had my week's fill of socializing.

/joking - or am I?
How layoffs and A.I. are impacting tech workers
What is a "cave" and why would anybody even want one?

You can have all of these things and much more living in a small apartment in a city. The shop will probably be a basement or a garage and the greenhouse will be on your roof or at a community garden, but apartments with multiple rooms are not difficult to findp in cities lol.
Cities can stem the tide of pedestrian deaths from large cars and SUVs
I did not expect to wake up and be attacked like this. Not even a warning. Savage.

Good thing I'm not in my 40s yet, still time to recover from my wayward path.
Did you find the switch influenced how users interacted with or perceived your reader? Or was the change primarily an aesthetic decision?
What is a "cave" and why would anybody even want one?

You can have all of these things and much more living in a small apartment in a city. The shop will probably be a basement or a garage and the greenhouse will be on your roof or at a community garden, but apartments with multiple rooms are not difficult to p in cities lol.
Supabase became this generation’s database
> Media could be owned by the staff

Agree. That would be private people owning it, though.
From the places I have lurked in so far, a lot of effort goes into reverse engineering the drivers etc... on these SOCs. If you were to spend weeks/months trying to figure out those details, it kind of makes sense to get mainline linux to run on these devices as opposed to a custom OS with no existing software.

If truly custom OS/Kernel is what you want, someone was trying to run NuttX RTOS on Pinephone:

1) Booting NuttX: https://lupyuen.github.io/articles/uboot
2) Writing an LCD Driver: https://lupyuen.github.io/articles/dsi2
3) Getting a basic terminal running using LVGL: https://lupyuen.github.io/articles/terminal

I'd still recommend trying to port PostmarketOS/Ubuntu touch/Sailfish OS etc.. to your phone first. That can be a good beginner friendly way to understand what happens on your smart phone: the boot process, software stack etc.. and then you can go deeper by either customizing the software (Boot into a little web browser and call it a web phone etc..)/drivers to your liking (Adding features like double tap to wake)/trying to port mainline kernel to them.
The China Convergence
> However, Apple did not attempt to divide the web then use its dominant position to make all the content only compatible with their stuff.

Excuse me? We are talking about "App store" Apple here, right? The Apple that prevents any 3rd party browsers on their platform so devs have to support safari? The Apple that refused to support progressive web apps to push devs into their store?

The Apple which literally won't let users install software they don't approve of, Apple? That Apple?

That's the company you're picking as "didn't attempt to divide the web"? Ooof.

You've been drinking so much Kool-aid your tongue is purple.
You can do zone affinity with service fabric. It’s difficult, but not impossible.
> that 44% of people already in the suburbs would prefer to move somewhere with bigger houses suggests that for a lot of people the suburbs aren't fulfilling their promise.

Once you start playing the space game, particularly if you're in a location where you tend to get guests, it's always appealing to have another room.
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Whenever I talk to my friends from rural areas of the provinces, it becomes clear they just prefer the way they used to live as a child. I lived my entire life in different cities and can’t imagine myself driving for a simple grocery run.

Other thing is, a lot of people who move into a city later in life don’t bother taking advantage of city life and say how much they hate it. I’ve heard time and time again from my friends how “they feel trapped in an apartment”, but they don’t go out for walks or city adventures.

Personally, when I go into rural sides of the countries, I feel extremely trapped and crave some sights of people. It doesn’t have to be crowded, but there’s a beauty of an okay-ishly functioning city going through it’s morning routine.
No group of people are literally more miserable than the conspiracy theory climate doomsday cult.
Does this also works inside if and while blocks?
Good chance the shareholders would be the same people for both.
Dev experience in chrome is a lot better. But for personal browsing I use safari and mainly only because of how it uses keychain.
It all comes down to responsibility. In your example, you're responsible for the full stack including infrastructure (I'm assuming, if not, I feel bad for your infrastructure team). This model works for some developer teams and not for others, either due to lack of expertise, free cycles, or organizational pressure to have developers focus on code only.

Define your responsibility model first, then your infrastructure consumption patterns.
Wow, I love small machine shops!
"Don't be clever, now let me tell you about the non-clever solution of writing a bespoke meta programming language to solve the problem of copy/paste"
And what is the operating margin of the products your group produces? What was it prior to shifting everything to the cloud?

If you can't answer those questions, you may be architecting yourself out of a job. I watched more than one company that was operating on razor-thin margins, depreciating hardware over a decade, move to the cloud and promptly bankrupt themselves.

If you're in a business where you've got an additional 20% margin to piss away on someone else's gear, your logic makes a ton of sense. If you're in one that's making 5% on every widget that goes out the door, you should probably be working with your management to figure out how to remove the inefficiencies from your process rather than just moving your problem onto someone else's hardware.
I use Brave with Brave Rewards disabled and I almost forget anything Crypto related exists.