skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are not okay with manufacturing moving overseas. I don't know where you got that idea, it is clearly false. Ross Perot was in 1996 one of the most successful third party candidates ever, and he ran on the "great sucking sound" of NAFTA moving manufacturing jobs to Mexico.

The one difference is manufacturing hasn't been lost in the US - by most measures we make more stuff in the US than ever. There are less jobs though because of automation, but those jobs have been replaced by engineering. Coal mining by contrast is a death industry and won't come back. What people in the coal industry need is someone to setup a factory in their town. A factory making some weird widget in a small town tends to make a rural town.
July 2023 was the hottest month on record
There are a ton of dev tools that are Linux/Mac only.

MS didn’t rewrite Windows internals to support WSL for the love of open source. They did it because most dev work happens on Linux (and now macs). Macs get to use that for free. Microsoft had to do work itself to support NodeJS and Docker, for example, and they became available on Windows many years after they were available on Linux/MacOS.

Docker, especially, was a piece of software that for many years was almost necessary for dev teams. And for many years you couldn’t use it if you were on Windows.
You should go there to see all the people who's lives were cut short trying to actually do something. Not making pointless fusses about things for 100 years ago that affect no one alive today.
SQLite as your JavaScript state management library [video]
yes. Same story in the DevOps market. Rates hasn't move for the past several years . Looks like people trying to compensate by not working very hard or taking second contract alongside the main.
I wonder if this is a net positive, since media hype would increase likelihood of future funding or investment, so the hype generates accelerated progress.

It could also be the opposite: shiny result causes over investment in an area of tech which isn’t productive.
> There are no criminal penalties for patent violations.

You might be made permanently destitute and homeless however.
Works for me from various exit points on my network, but I use Google DNS resolvers exclusively when resolving Archive.* domains (because of how they treat Cloudflare resolvers [1] [2]).

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
There's a lot to unpack here. First, consider that to the LLM/computer each token is just "data". Second, consider that LLM's are mostly matmul, dot-products, etc., so there has to be some structure to the data and dimensions of the data have to make some sense - but I suppose you could just torch.cat a lot of points (kind of). Anyways, if you want to read about real-world examples of what you're suggesting checkout something like the following foundation model [0] and expand from there.

[0] https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/impact-ibm-hls-foundatio...
In most languages the colors are defined as the language progress
The order: 'black', 'white', 'red', 'green', 'yellow', 'blue', 'brown', 'orange', 'pink', 'purple', and 'grey'.

So for a period of time trees are actually blue.
Most companies can stretch their runway a little and have done so. We are still 12 months away from many startups who don't have solid economics collapsing.
>"tour of new features" wizard spammed at the user when they're opening your app

If you ever see these in an app it's a sign the team has a talent problem. People actually with talent to solve problems with the app would actually tweak the interfaces to make the tools discoverable or better. Teams with low talent (Modern Adobe etc) just work on spamming the front of house with messaging (Written in web tech that flashes up as a white rectangle first, obvs) in the hopes of changing user actions rather than actually working on the product itself.

Once I realized this I see this everywhere and the products that do it just never evolve or get better.
Contributing to the layoffs? They are the ones who generated the next/current hype cycle that's ending the layoffs.
It's funny when you play older games with things on the loading screen you only see them for a split second nowadays.

I played Bayonetta for the first time a few months ago on my steam deck, and during loading times you were able to practice combos and stuff. Unfortunately it only lasted for a split second since it loads so fast from the SSD, I'm guessing it's original release on console disc allowed players a bit more time to try it while it was loading from the disc.
Came to comment about the same thing. It's funny - higher dimension black holes can confidently exist in a model, but because the model isn't tied to reality, it's not a very meaningful statement.

Time ends at black holes. They stretch out time infinitely, from an outside perspective.
Yeah, stem cell capital of the world and all that.
Mobile phone use and glioma risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis
That's basically the crux of the entire book. He's a prof at Harvard. It's not a self-help type of fitness book. It's academic almost to a fault (read: great info but not too much fun to read).

If you're looking for similar but more accessible, try "The Comfort Crisis" by Michael Easter. Same general idea (i.e., how today's world is not fitting for the type of world we evolved in) but less into the weeds of the details.
> ISO processes are a complex beast, you will notice that C++ is the exception of having the language author still around, all other programming languages under ISO, the authors kind of moved on after the first revision.

I don't see your point. What leads you to believe that Stroudtrup being involved in C++'s standardization effort is any relevant with regards to where the language is going?

Also, if a standardization process is driven by consensus, what would be the point of trying to force your personal ideas over everyone else's?
There's going to be a lot of storms like this in the coming weeks, what's significant about this one?
At some point, I'm going to really buckle down and try out Seafile (https://www.seafile.com/en/home/). It looks like it's just the good parts of Dropbox, and I can run it on my own hardware/systems.
In their preprint, the Korean authors note one particular temperature at which LK-99’s showed a tenfold drop in resistivity, from about 0.02 ohms per centimetre to 0.002 ohms per cm. “They were very precise about it. 104.8ºC,” says Prashant Jain, a chemist at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. “I was like, wait a minute, I know this temperature.”

The reaction that synthesizes LK-99 uses an unbalanced recipe: for every 1 part copper-doped lead phosphate crystal — pure LK-99 — it makes, it produces 17 parts copper and 5 parts sulfur. These leftovers lead to numerous impurities — especially copper sulfide, which the Korean team reported in its sample.

Jain, a copper-sulfide expert, remembered 104ºC as the temperature at which Cu2S undergoes a phase transition if exposed to air. Below that temperature, Cu2S’s resistivity drops dramatically — a signal almost identical to LK-99’s purported superconducting phase transition. “I was almost in disbelief that they missed it.” Jain published a preprint on the important confounding effect on 7 August.

[...]

“That was the moment where I said, ‘Well, obviously, that’s what made them think this was a superconductor,’” says Fuhrer. “The nail in the coffin was this copper sulfide thing.”

Science is hard. Kudos to everyone involved for trying to replicate it and figuring this puzzle out.
Sorry but your entire point sounds like a no true scotsman to me. The work of developing useful software which most people get paid to do is, in fact, relatively predictable. Maybe we are all truly peasants who do inferior work that you don't dare classify as software, maybe what you do is truly groundbreaking (I already accepted that as a valid exception), or maybe you have been working with people who just suck at estimates.
"70% CuS impurity"
https://tailwindcss.com/docs/hover-focus-and-other-states
One particularly horrible exmaple of an innocent man being brutalized is that of James King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HujPlUyTXRY

Plainclothes officers acted like thugs/thieves, and then beat him up, and nearly murdered him. After that they charged him with an array of federal criminal offenses (including resisting arrest, assaulting them (the police), etc). This went all the way to a federal jury trial (which defendants rarely win), which he did win. The amount of emotional psychological trauma this must have caused is inexcusable. There's more details here: https://ij.org/case/king-v-brownback/ – quote:

> Worse still, Kent County, Michigan, prosecutors refused to drop the charges. Instead, after James rejected a plea offer, prosecutors subjected him to a criminal trial. Thankfully, a jury acquitted James of all charges. If James had been convicted or pleaded guilty, he could have faced decades in prison, and it would have been nearly impossible for him to sue the officers and hold them to account for their actions that violated his constitutional rights.
It's better to miss news cycles, but at least this one was about exciting science instead of dreadful politics.
Did it already have the .deb package format and the amazing apt repositories at this point? To me that is what blew my mind; the transitive dependency management and automatic upgrades made me not touch an RPM based distro again.

I don't recall using this first release, I was probably still on SLS or something then, and I believe I briefly played with RedHat... But I did use it maybe a year or two later, and haven't stopped (okay, sometimes I use Ubuntu, shh).
If the last few years have taught us anything it's that if Google, FB etc. were forced to return money to shareholders instead of spending it on R&D those shareholders would be even more lost as to what to spend the money on which would almost certainly not be good for tech employees.

People are desperate for good things to invest in, it's just there aren't a whole load of things that actually work as contrary to idealist expectations the web seems impossible to make money on unless you are a monopoly.
Is this supposed to be Rockstar? The reference Rockstar Satriani interpreter barfs on this input.
HN is very dev-heavy, and devs tend to be very pedantic. Our jobs require exacting clarity and correctness, after all.
Watching this unfold on HN has been eerily similar to watching r/UFOs whenever someone comes forward with "proof" of UFOs/coverups/whatever. I never want to rain on anyone's parade, as proof of ETs or room temperature superconductors would be great, but the hype only serves to obfuscate the truth. At this point, I'm prepped to disbelieve because of the obvious over-hyping.

People want these things to be true so bad that they will twist every detail to fit the narrative they want. It would be funny, if it weren't so sad.
We know why it fooled everybody, but AFAIK the material doesn't have any outstanding properties. With certain impurities and under certain conditions, it:

- has a striking drop in resistivity during a temperature change — a property published in 1951 as a property of copper sulfide

- has some ferromagnetic properties — enough to be tipped up in a magnetic field but not to levitate
A comment from that discussion:

> if you read the autopsy report there are a variety of injuries that you'd have to try pretty hard to inflict on yourself, but are absolutely consistent with being beaten and thrown to the ground, and then having someone dead-drop knee-first into your back.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12050924
...if literally nothing changes.

But that's never been true at any point in human history, so we can rely on change of some kind taking place.
You ask Japan to conduct some research on it.
Which is more likely in our lifetime: aliens, or an ambient superconductor?
Just a reminder that’s not everything one can find in a paper (never mind a preprint) is true. The response from the community was great. Modellers doing some electronic structure calculations, synthesis experts trying to re-create the material, people doing all sorts of characterisation. The closest parallel I can think of is the faster-than-light neutrinos from a couple of years ago. Except that this time there were many teams and individuals all over the world trying to replicate the results. The material was supposedly easy to make, the reagents were quite easy to find, room-temperature conductivity measurements are not too difficult. There was a lot of enthusiasm and activity, which was really motivating.

The fact that it could not be replicated is not surprising, considering the sloppiness of the original preprint. But still, it was a very public example of science in action.

What was also interesting is the response from some corners of the Internet who were more than happy to bash scientists who were supposedly trying to cover up their own incompetence by debunking the plucky researchers from a brave private institution. Well, most often if something sounds too good to be true, that’s because it is.
> You use pragmas to disable/enable features on a file-by-file basis.

No, I don't. Some compilers support that, though, namely MSVC, but those practices are a huge code smell that are heavily discouraged for decades.
This is only meaningful if all "tech jobs" are interchangeable. If you are a COBOL programmer and you get laid off, you aren't just a priori qualified to start working at OpenAI or whatever.

There was no mention of H1B workers in the article either. Are any of the hirings H1Bs?
Now I get the character of Vice Principal Nero in the Series of Unfortunate Events a little bit better.
A community of seed savers reviving rare varieties of collard greens (2021)
I don't understand how did LK-99 create such wuss in the first place.
Theory of interstellar trade (1978) [pdf]
Counterexample: Pets.com cost of goods sold would go quicker than their revenue. Similarly, many companies inflate their revenue in all kinds of ways including excessive marketing spending.
Seems easy to fix:

* take those water thirsty crops in California and start growing them in places like Iowa, where water is plentiful and labor costs are lower

* use that freed up land to build more housing, lowering the cost of living in CA

win-win
That's an extremely partisan source...
Maybe one reason you're struggling to find a job is that you can't understand that just because something is effecting you doesn't mean it's a larger problem for many people...
Yeah hiring in January is the real tell of what's going on. The layoffs winding down now were all planned and executed early at the start of the year. If next year rolls around and companies are still doing rounds of layoffs then everything is very far from being over.
Builds on Joel Mokyr's 1993 "Creative Forces" essay https://reason.com/1993/05/01/creative-forces/ which makes three key points:

1. "The engine of economic growth is, was, and will always be technological creativity. Of course, other things are necessary for an economy to grow–capital accumulation, skills, motivation, well-functioning markets, and so on. But all other factors tend to have short-lived effects. They can increase income, but they tend to burn out after a while. Technology is the only thing that does not run into diminishing returns. There are no known limits to the human ability to control and manipulate the forces of nature."

2. "Technological progress, even in civilian technology, is often made in tooth and claw. Without the pressure of competing neighboring states, societies may lose their cutting edge. Closed large empires, such as China, Russia, and the Ottoman state, though not entirely impervious to progress, could not sustain their creativity in the long run. In Western Europe, political fragmentation and the “states system” prevented such stagnation."

3. "The threat that a new idea would be adopted by a rival nation and that innovative subjects would migrate elsewhere if ill treated was a powerful incentive to overcome the inevitable opposition to progress from conservative circles or vested interests."
Most hay isn't grown in California, it's in the Midwest.
You need a plan where getting paid is not directly correlated to your working hours. The classic example is software on a CD. Takes 1000 hours to write, but then you can sell 100 or 1 million of them; that income is not correlated to the 1000 hours.
Show HN: MapleCPI – Exploratory tool to view Canadian inflation data
> Patents exist to protect small inventors from large companies.

That's the sticker on the front. Not what actually happens though.

Wonder if the Patent Office could be sued for false advertising? "it doesn't do what you're selling it as..." :)
"The economy," at least as far as the big publications is concerned since the early 80s, has always been about stock performance and unemployment numbers regardless of who is in charge.

Stock performance is great. Unemployment numbers are great. To them, inflationary periods are just a time when big businesses which are flush with cash get to buy up smaller, cash-strapped businesses at discount rates. And the average consumer is so stupid that they're using credit just to maintain their lifestyles.
The PFAS situation is at an annoying crossroads of 1) we have tests that can detect it at super low levels, so we’re finding it everywhere. 2) We don’t have great ways to clean it up, and 3) We don’t really know what concentration of this stuff is actually dangerous. Thus everyone is freaking out but without a clear plan or knowledge of it we should be hiding under the covers or not.

On the toxicity, standard table salt is extremely toxic you if you eat enough in one go. So the challenge is not “is it toxic” but rather at what quantities and over what exposure. Thus these studies along the lines of “we fed some lab animals a ton of this stuff and they died” aren’t super useful in figuring out if we have a big problem or not.

I’m all for taking a cautious approach here given the unknown unknowns, but like a lot of emerging science the truth is it’s messy and takes time to figure things out. This public and press are not well equipped to navigate and communicate on that reality.
Rarely, indeed!

But when a competitor is a behemoth who is able to eat losses until they drive competitors out of business (and has a track record of doing so) so that competition (and customer experience quality) declines in the long run, that's the rare-but-true case of "a new competitor entering the market is bad, actually".
Oh man, so much this. I made a college roommate so much money by telling him to put all the money his parents gave him in Apple stock after the iPhone was released. He didn’t agree (he was also a massive anti-Apple pro PC guy…he owned a Zune) until I explained Apple’s subscription accounting and what it actually meant.

I still don’t understand why investors didn’t understand Apple’s subscription accounting and how it meant that their quarterly iPhone profits were something like 1/16th their actual iPhone profits.
>the US has been murdering children in almost a dozen countries around the globe for the past two decades.

Do you want to spell out what countries, specifically, you have in mind here?
In six months no but in 1-2 years yes. Spring has large tentacles so that when you start using it all code is coupled to Spring Boot and it's dependencies. I.e, the code you write is useless without Spring Boot, it is difficult to separate your code from Spring Boot. Now when technology changes you will have major refactor work i.e, like when Spring Boot moved from Dropwizard to Micrometer. It is possible to mitigate but takes advanced skills.
I can't think of any good "update on submit" sites that don't benefit from JS, but I'd love an example to prove me wrong.

Even a forum like HN, an obvious choice for this, benefits from some JS for things like collapsible comments, upvoting/downvoting, etc.

My other thought would be e-commerce checkout workflows, but those benefit from more advanced validation than you can do with HTML alone.
Her music exists because of her parents wealth.
Artificial Wombs
The comment is praise for maintaining compatibility. To me, the sentence "It’s a testament to computer science that this has been so thoroughly abstracted over the years" means: "It’s a testament to computer science that the original notation has been successfully applied to many things without drastic changes". I don't know whether that is one of the standard definitions of the past tense verb "abstracted", but it's a common usage in software engineering.
Don't use Control Center to turn off Bluetooth on iPhone
What about L and K, the original scientists? Lots of speculation that LK-99 would be a career ending paper if it turned out that it wasn't a room temperature superconductor.
I'm in the same boat brother. I've also got much better in a year, but the early months were hell.

We really need proper diagnostics for this condition, so that people can be diagnosed and not dismissed or even denied benefits and support.
Pretty expensive favor.
> What we need to do right now is add a 200% export tax on high water items (alfalfa, almonds, etc) leaving the country.

Fun fact:

California grows rice and exports it to Asia. There isn't an export tax; in fact the rice is taxpayer subsidized.

If you drive north of Sacramento on the I5, you'll see the rice paddies all over the place.
Twitter seemed to think they could.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.39...

Page 8:

> Nonetheless, the district court gave Twitter an
opportunity to purge its contempt by producing the account
information. When the court asked Twitter's counsel whether
the company could produce the required materials by 5:00 p.m. that evening, counsel answered: "I believe we are prepared to do that. Yes, Your Honor."
So will the tech giants go back to hiring everyone and parking them to create a talent mote against startups that might disrupt them? The business press never seems to mention that.
No Clojure?

EDIT: Oh, I see in comments: "The customer API in Java, and the implementation of that API is in Clojure"
Yes, but it isn't that extreme. They only have 2 senators out of 100.
Hi,I am not the best person to hire since i am a new programmer.i would like to intern at your company remotely and see if i can fit some role in your company.
When I got laid off in January 2023 and then created a LinkedIn, I was spammed by recruiters such that I had interviews set up within a week and a job offer by late February. I don't have an impressive resume on paper either. The only thing I did different than others was I didn't chase a high TC upgrade - I just wanted a solid job.
People were not ok with manufacturing moving overseas, the owners of those factories were. Closing a coal mine affects the owner of the mine directly. This has nothing to do with the workers- the owners would be just as happy to turn MT coal miners into opioid welfare recipients as they were NC textile mill workers as long as the owners continued to make money.
ComfyUI: Powerful and modular Stable Diffusion GUI with a graph/nodes interface
There is an extremely common claim (disclaimer: I haven't noticed experiencing it myself) that Amazon Retail often ships fake products when the real ones are purchased. The concern isn't that Amazon _itself_ is manufacturing poor-quality goods(/drugs) - it's that Amazon's quality control for their suppliers is poor.
For those not aware of the extreme cases of long covid, see "Physics Girl" Dianna Cowern and her illness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vydgkCCXbTA&ab_channel=Physi...