skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not required to take seriously the concern that people who "don't share your language" "make life more difficult". Coping with, and eventually prospering from the complexities of other people is part of building a western-style free society. If this is an elaborate rhetorical ploy to get me to say that American culture is superior to that of the rest of the world in this regard, you needn't have been so coy, because I'm happy to come out and say it. You can decode a lot of our political differences to my lack of contempt for American culture and civic values.
Standardizing name mangling would only be a baby step towards C++ ABI compatibility, sadly.
You were wrong. Ever hear people talking about AMD gpus online?

It’s crazy how normalized it is for certain fanboys to just call everyone who disagrees with them “brainless”, “ruled by mindshare”, “buying it for the blue bubble”, etc. I see it all the time even on HN, it is crazy how normalized the android and AMD fans have made it to just insult a group of people to their faces. Even in a tightly moderated community!

But put out one article saying “yo M1 is a good laptop” and watch the “I thought we left fanboyism in the 90s!!!” replies flood in.
> As someone who likes being in an office, I personally feel that everyone becoming permanent WFH basement gremlins is a bad thing overall

Good thing that there are these things called friends, which usually aren’t forced on people like work colleagues are.
I wrote about this in summer 2020, about London. Maybe it's happening but taking longer than I thought.

https://zwischenzugs.com/2020/07/25/the-halving-of-the-centr...
These days inkscape has pretty good pdf editing support.
The ones I looked into didn't get past intros due to compensation. My last new job was before all the interest rate increases and all that stuff, so I think I pinned my salary solidly above my current market. I'd have trouble getting a lateral compensation move, let alone a bump. Between that and my house, interest rates have been kind but also I'm kinda bound by it.
That's something I do too, but a bit modified: instead of going to someone about a problem, we try and figure it out instead, and if we can't, we go and ask help while explaining our original solution.
> However, the costs, notably the cost of things you need to survive (especially housing) has managed to far outpace those wage gains in a much shorter period of time. Although that might be specific to my location.

It's not. That's everywhere. The difference is in the degree in awfulness.
Skydio Stops Selling Consumer Drones
It is related to age. If your immune system is on the decline as it generally is as we age it doesn't do as much damage to the bioprosthetic valves and they last much longer. The controversy revolves around just what that age is. When my surgery was done I was in that gray zone 59. The first surgeon I spoke with was adamant about using the mechanical valve. The next surgeon I spoke with was more like I can see arguments both ways.

I am fairly active. I chose the bio because I knew I would have trouble regulating the thinners. The tissue is chemically treated in the newer valves to increase their life span (maybe). When I get this valve replaced they can insert the new valve within the old using TAVR which doesn't require them to open your chest. If my valve last long enough I figure they will have new better ones using carbon synthetics.[1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9967268/
https://archive.ph/2023.08.13-044622/https://www.rollingston...
I have no doubt OpenAI is on board. This is just bringing more paid users to their platform because it still uses their API.
I can't believe I've gone my entire life without noticing the obvious wordplay... even after seeing the Futurama parody with "Welshy"!
so elon would have to make a Threads account? that would be funny
I feel like these articles happen every year and they all try to give you some type of new recommendation while saying the research reality very quietly.

These studies constantly show that you should try to walk as much as you can throughout your busy day. The mortality decrease alone with every 500-1000 steps is quite the motivation.

It's hard to spend an hour and a half or longer to get to that original 10000 steps mark. We should however encourage movement. A little movement leads to more movement as you start to feel better.

What should not happen is to lower the bar of how many steps you "need" each day. Because that is what articles like this and popular health magazines will try to portray.
Here's what GPT4 said about it:

The article explores the architectural criticism of Ian Nairn, focusing on his 1964 book "Modern Buildings in London." It highlights Nairn's initial optimism for modern architecture and his subsequent disillusionment with its direction and quality. The article reflects on the lost era of London's architectural history, emphasizing Nairn's influence on architectural criticism and his relevance in understanding the relationship between people and urban environments. It serves as a commentary on how architecture shapes society and human behavior.
America should have elected Bernie Sanders.
They also used public standards and added propietary incompatible standards on it.
outlook 365 requires changes to use smtp and imap that are not always compatibel with standard software. They "standartised" their xml based document standard (docx, ...) despite the open document standard already beeing standartised and impossible to implement for other developers except microsoft(modern office files are incompatible with the standard).
That'll be one of the tricks your browser employs to save compute time on animations for inactive tabs/windows. Interact with it again and the browser will allow scripts/animations to run at full speed again.
My spouse and I have been talking about this quite a bit lately. Even with two incomes from tech employment we are watching our budget since it feels like everything is extra expensive lately. The income gains we’ve made have only allowed us to maintain versus climb to the next level of lifestyle. It makes me wonder where we will start falling behind.

Obviously we are fortunate to not live on credit cards and have our bills paid, but it feels like we worked hard to get here to be no better off than we were.

I wonder how other folks in the middle class are making ends meet especially trying to afford a home with employers forcing RTO/RTH to HCOL in many cases.
The basic premise I got from Mike Duncan's podcast was that: when Rome ran out of dangerous external enemies to fight (ie Carthage), people in Rome found internal enemies to fight.

That was fine for a few centuries, until external enemies re-emerged, and then it really fell apart.
We want our computing to be free. Monopolistic practices threatened that.
We do have `stdc_popcount()` now with C23
That’s historically wrong. The story of DRM is littered with claims that reasonable things like format shifting are immoral and theft.

Also, unauthorized distribution is unauthorized distribution, not theft. Theft has a special legal meaning, and that isn’t it.
Since the only users who would likely care about this derive far more value than the $20/month of OpenAI's direct offering. Why doesn't OpenAI market this service, but with chat history, for something like $200/month?
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Hasn't this been solved with editor extensions such as Emmet?

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I moved from textmate to sublime to atom to vscode, and have had vim hovering in the background the whole time

If something better than vsc comes along, I'll move to it
Things like racism and sexism are very real problems, but not some key component of "capitalism".
My savings accounts look wistfully as I spend more on daycare per kid per month than I used to pay for rent not too long ago
When I was an industry analyst and had more exposure to large companies at fairly high levels, the thing that impressed me was that they were able to function at all. So many layers of management, so many moving parts, so much coordination needed.

It also wan't unusual for me to be consulting with some group and some topic would come up and we'd be--you do know that so and so at your company is working on this, right? And they usually wouldn't.
If slimy blockchain crypto lobbyists are against something then usually that means it’s beneficial for the rest of us.
That is correct, they do not use the data going through the API for training, but they do use the data from the web and mobile interfaces (unless you explicitly turn it off).
I live alone and just realized I’ve been spending $1300/month this year on groceries. For one person.
1/3 of the cost, at least in Kiev. I assume there are some laws preventing more than X% of company offshore
Not nearly as much as inflation. Groceries alone are up something like 40% in the last 2-3 years. Your and everyone else's wages have not risen that fast on the whole.
Many industries (in the US at least) are dominated by union labor. Some jobs even require union membership, even if you don't want to join the union. So these companies simply can't avoid union workers if they actually want staff.
If you read this Shaun - you will eventually feel better than before the surgery!
Have they? My last raise was 4%. Looking at job postings upgrading my salary looks difficult
This is exactly how I use YouTube. My biggest issue is the sponsored ads that get in the way of me paying not to have ads. I hope they find a solution for this.
In case you are curious, here is the algorithm from that 1957 text book (2nd edition): https://archive.org/details/programsforelect00wilk/page/190/...

I never did sit down and figure out the notation.

It isn't in the 1951 (1st edition), at https://archive.org/details/preparationofpro0000maur
I feel blessed to work in Tech, where -- however bad the economy is -- most of us dont face absolute deprivation as those in some other industries.

That said, basic expectations of things growing up are just unreachable for many. My parents lived much more comfortable lives than I do. My grandparents even more so.

Recall how food inflation was a major suspected cause of the Arab Spring (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/world-july-dec11-food_09-...).

US leaders should be careful. People get upset when they have nothing to feed their children. I hope we solve these problems with sensible fiscal and monetary policy.
A core element of socialism is that all industries and natural resources are state-owned. European countries are capitalist, not socialist, and got where they are by being so.
I really like Go, and I tend to prefer it to JS for server-side stuff, but when I use it there are a lot of things I miss about JS:

- Error handling is onerous; I write a lot of functions where most of the lines are just checking for and returning `err`

- No anonymous structs, and it’s really awkward to define structs inline

- Dealing with collections is really verbose; I guess since generics dropped I could handle this in userland, but it’s not idiomatic

etc etc. No language is perfect!
> I think what you say to kids, and what you say to adults should be different.

I strongly disagree. Do you have children? Kids are smart and surprisingly logical. You don't need to molly coddle them about the value of hard work or even that they have different abilities to each other. You can deliver the news that they aren't as strong as their sister in a nice way just like you can deliver the news that an employee isn't as productive as their coworker in a nice way (and obviously avoid delivering it at all if possible in both cases).

If you want good parenting advice just watch Bluey. Look at how they talk to their children.
>IMHO vehicles are huge drivers of debt. There are almost no cars under $30k now, and the average sale price of new cars is pushing up near $50k. This is for bog standard stuff like Hondas and Fords, not luxury cars.

I went on toyota.com and a base level corolla is only selling for $22,795. This includes a "Delivery, Processing & Handling" charge of $1,095. If for whatever reason you think that driving a compact car is beneath you, you can have a mid sized car (toyota camary) for only $27,515.
Yes this is well known.

Don’t forget it’s also in the interest of middle managers to lower the productivity of the people at work, who actually add value as well. This decreases the productivity gap and helps to not expose how useless they are.
There are important differences between Denmark and the US though. Aren't we saying the same thing?
> Honestly, I am not sure I have personally ever had to communicate low level details like that with anyone else. The people I have talked pogromming with in my life have all be capable technologists, which allow us to discuss in high level detail. If a list is the right data structure for whatever high level problem we are trying to solve, it is assumed we know that and understand how to use it

This feels like either hyperbole or extremely rare/almost impossible, but regardless for myself and those I hire, I believe it to be a core competency.
Unless you have an NDA with Open AI, you are giving them whatever you put in that prompt.
I wonder if a cassette deck connected to the computer is also a copy protection circumvention tool.

I suppose it is?
This just reads like a disgruntled former employee grasping at straws. The advertised capabilities of enterprise software (just like every other product) should be assumed to be under best case circumstances, and there's typically a period of due diligence where both sides work to understand whether or not the vendor can match the customers' expectations in the context of the use cases they have planned.

I'm not a huge fan of SFDC, but this is enterprise software buying 101.
Insufficient pay can surely be a cause for some employers not being able to be picky, but that does not mean the official unemployment rate is false.

I think what people are dancing around is percent of people employed with minimum “acceptable” pay to quality of life at work ratio, which includes the location of the work. This figure may very well be trending down, but is not an official figure, and it seems like a difficult metric to calculate anyway.
I think you are saying that not every CTist is a "maximalist" as you put it.

A lot of CT is just being skeptical about things and trying to reconcile either "statements against interest" or actions that are not congruent with a person's position in society or the government.

Since CT is usually anonymous as to the person advancing it, is it reasonable to assume that for instance, the "flat earth theory" might be in fact advanced as a form of "false flag" in order to discredit other theories, even on a different subject? A way to "increase the noise to signal ratio" as it were?
This is potentially a huge deal. Companies are concerned using ChatGPT might violate data privacy policies if someone puts in user data or invalidate trade secrets protections if someone uploads sections of code. I suspect many companies have been waiting for an enterprise version.
I don't believe that. And in fact, you have two examples right here (me and the person I was responding to) where we were told "don't do X" and we didn't.

I know everyone says it, but I think "kids do the opposite" is pop-psych BS. I've never met a balanced a person who'd say "I just did the opposite of what my parents told me". I only know of examples where invariably the kids are disturbed also in other ways, and so it's impossible to disentangle cause and effect.

People just repeat nonsense they hear with no basis whatsoever, and so BS propagates.
> xml based document standard

And how violently ugly are those file structures. (Compared, e.g., to .fodt)
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Sex.com: A URL – All Crime and No Sex (2006)
Repology already attempts to account for that, and Nixpkgs normal policy is one version per package unless there are specific reasons for it to be otherwise. Nixpkgs doesn't duplicate packages just to have alternative build options or whatever like the AUR does.
Your investment portfolio profits will make it into your checking account at some point right? Otherwise why bother? Maybe this person has reached that point.
This is a great comment. FWIW I think you'd do a great job contributing to the nix documentation.
I would put it more towards Apple’s general philosophy of “the user shouldn’t have to care about that” than trying to uphold an image from a (extremely popular) 15 year old ad campaign.

That said I agree it’s great that it’s there and I like that it doesn’t bother if I don’t need to be involved.
As a musician and a computer scientist, I'm always interested when music stuff gets posted here. I looked this guy up; he's a bona fide composer, apparently. He looks at music in a very technical way that doesn't sound much (to me) like how musicians talk about music. He also says some wrong things. For example, "We cannot identify the interval between two notes just by listening." Um, yes, you bloody well can. In fact, "ear training" is a core skill in music theory education.

And he counts rhythms starting with zero. If you did this with any group of musicians, they would shout you out of the room. Imagine Mick Jagger yelling, "Zero, one, two, three!"

I'm not saying he doesn't have his reasons, but these sorts of things incline me to think he's not in the mainstream of musical culture. Which is fine, of course, but may be misleading to readers who think they're getting traditional musical information.
The article Op linked is about "The Man", which is generally the white, Christian, capitalist patriarchy.
I think a big problem, especially with companies, is that as soon as any cost of some input touches a new price level, that price now starts to get baked into the planning. Even if it was only for a very short blip, and even if the actual average costs later go down. It gets very sticky, but only in the up direction.

Have you talked to any kind of building work contractor, insurance company, etc. lately? They've all jacked up their prices just because their supply prices touched a certain level and now they have to plan for it. And to be sure, some of them are using the cover of inflation to test how willing people are to pay more.

Inflation really is a vicious cycle. And I don't think we've in recent memory seen prices actually decrease after an inflationary cycle. Do things pegged with CPI even allow for negative inflation?
Companies who own city real estate are getting screwed. This includes all the big tech companies. That real estate is no longer an appreciating asset, and cannot be converted to residential, when the prospect is the collapse of downtowns due to people migrating out to smaller places.
He was always like this. He just didn’t have the spotlight on him, and most importantly, he didn’t talk as much.
Just saw an article about that a few days ago:
https://fortune.com/2023/08/09/401k-hardship-distribution-bo...
UPS is only paying experienced drivers (with experience at UPS) those rates, at the entry level it's more in the neighborhood of part time work 20 dollars an hour, which is a common entry level rate in warehousing and logistics these days.

Similarly, it's a long road to being a skilled laborer that can pull those large contracts, and even then the margins can be utterly ruthless to small operators.

Just seeking to be realistic - both can be great career paths for the right person.
Reading about all you engineers with years of experience struggling to get a job is incredibly painful, but in some ways it's relieving to hear that even experience engineers are finding this market difficult.
I managed to land my first job during the pandemic on a combination of self-education and a bootcamp. That job is over due to lack of funding and I have been applying non-stop for 6 months, 300-400 applications and just one interview. In the meantime, I'm pursuing a BSc part time, building personal projects, and working in the service industry.
Finding that next role seems like it will an epic journey and I certainly don't count on finding a role, or giving up, any time soon...
You guys are tilting at windmills here. I didn't advocate for anything except common sense. Unless you value money more than lives, this system is clearly shite, but the author doesn't acknowledge that, probably due to politics.

The budget is part of the system. If you assume unlimited resources, then every system will work flawlessly.
Sex.com isn’t a URL though. It’s a domain name.
If they started mining this thing, and extracted what would be $trillions worth of metal at today's valuation, the income generated would rapidly fall to a small fraction of that.

It might still be worth doing. If they were able to produce very large quantities of platinum-group metals, it might make chemical processes dependent on catalysis cheap enough to change the world.

For example, a process to produce ammonia economically, in a small installation at low temperature and pressure from just air and water, might enable a single farm to put up a wind turbine and generate all the fertilizer and tractor fuel they need locally. There are good catalysts known for ammonia synthesis that rely on gold...
Any discussion of what happened to Google has to start with the two individuals who together still control most of the shareholders' votes and together still have (IANAL) effectively almost completely control over it, Page and Brin.

(Yes, they put someone else in as CEO: so what? Yes, they've largely disappeared from public view: so what? Page and Brin still exist and still control Google even if they have a lower profile than eg. Zuckerberg and even if they aren't jumping up and down in public like the current owner of Twitter: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_permanence . If Sergey Brin is able to start poking around inside Google again because he's worried about competition from OpenAI https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2023/01/31/sergey-... then he's also perfectly well able to come back to scotch the Web Integrity API. The fact that he hasn't done the latter is simply a choice that he has made.)

Some people are too young to remember, and some seem to have forgotten, how much Google's rise to dominance was enabled by the perception that Page and Brin were two fine young men who could be relied on to act with restraint and a sense of public responsibility—a perception which Google itself of course encouraged. If they'd had the same public reputation as Bill Gates or Larry Ellison then the early history of would likely have been very different. (Now, more fool the rest of us for putting stock in that perception, of course, but that doesn't let Page and Brin off the hook either.)

So, what happened there? HR scandals and maybe health issues seem to have helped drive them out of public view. The end of Google's all-hands meetings also seems rather significant, though it doesn't seem clear whether it was more a cause or a consequence of other changes (Back in 2019 Steven Levy wrote "That’s why, when Google said Thank Goodness It’s Finished, it ended a lot more than a weekly meeting. Winter has come to Silicon Valley. And no beer for you." https://www.wired.com/story/google-shakes-up-its-tgif-and-en... , which now seems prescient.) It also looks as if they simply got bored of running Google, and seem to believe that simply running Google is beneath them. Cut off from normal life, it also seems likely that they've been radicalised by an antisocial subculture of billionaires and cent-millionaires. But others must know much better than I do.
Not saying you're wrong, but isn't it strange to respond to an article that attempts to answer a question by summarizing several scientific studies, with something akin to "ignore that, do this instead"?