skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> is it antidemocratic to advocate for a Parliamentary system over a Presidential system?

It depends on the law (constitution). If the law says it's forbidden, then it is anti-that-kind-of-democracy. If there is no such law, then it's consistent with democracy.

Real presidential democracy should allow for change of law and constitution, so the democratic process here would be to first change the law/constitution to allow for advocating, then advocate for switching to Parliamentary system, then get this change passed through the lawmaking process. Lots of steps, very hard to do, but in principle there should be a legal and democratic way. If there isn't legal democratic way, the system is highly suspicious, and probably isn't even formally a democracy.

> If we didn't, should the NZ government be able to ban a party advocating for one?

If the government (in extreme, the president) is democratically elected, and if the ban is done constitutionally and lawfully, then that would be still democratic.

> Germany supports lots of antidemocratic measures. They oppose binding referenda of the population before the adoption of international treaties

Interesting, is this an official government position with some rationale? Or the government just does whatever they can legally and ignores the calls for referendum?

One rationale I've came across is that international treaties (in parliamentary systems) have to go through the parliament, which is representative, so referendum is not needed, and if someone wants to invoke one, they have to do the necessary work required by the law.
They have that wiki, so I imagine they do know what else is missing?
Walking soccer: A systematic review of a modified sport
You can convert to a number with a + before your variable.

const y = +x + 12;

Will be number addition even if x is a string.
I was gonna say Lexx has my vote (though I'm actually a Dwarf fan)
I’m half a sentence into this website and I’m already completely on board.

One of the best ways to grok a problem like this. “Hey now you’re the memory manager. Good luck.”

I love this idea so much. I bet it could be dressed up in a cute way where it’s a take on the restaurant management sim. But the restaurant is a computer and your customers are the resources.

Human Resource Machine was great this way. I remember at one point thinking, “wait, did I just make a linked list?”
i used to use gadfly, aaron watters's sql database in pure python; the first release was in 01994

i'm not sure current python is capable of running it
Wrong things, often ridiculously wrong things get written all the time. It doesn’t mean it’s the result of a “psyop”. Here’s a roughly accurate flowchart for determining if you’re currently being subject to something that could non-ironically be termed a psyop: “is this a psyop?”—>”no”.
I've studied three foreign languages (four if you count a failed Toki Pona attempt a while ago), and I find it neat to discover a new grammatical concept, such as subjunctive in Spanish, which exists but only barely in English, or to realize that a language is missing an English construct, such as Mandarin, which doesn't have anywhere near as many gendered words as Germanic or Romance languages. As with computer languages, it's rarely the case that something is inexpressible, but it might have to be done differently compared to another language. I don't completely buy into the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, but I do believe that cultural differences are partly attributable to grammar and vocabulary.
I absolutely do not mean to suggest his work was not valuable or that he is a bad software engineer. I am sure he is very talented. My point is that his resume is the problem, not his skill. A resume is a sales tool, and sales is about knowing your audience. His resume would be great if he was applying for a job at Google… but he isn’t and so he needs a resume that sells his skills to companies that aren’t Google.

I am sorry that my comments came across as anything other than encouraging and positive: I think he has great potential and that his time at Google will be a differentiator for him and will help him get interviews… as long as the resume is good.
Slashing 80K from what baseline? 160k dropping to 80k is very different from 500k dropping to 420k.
I live in NZ. Hiring is not easy at the moment.

Also our wages are low. Look at the current job postings.
https://www.seek.co.nz/Software-Developer-jobs

Then take into account that $1 NZD is equal to 0.59742741 US Dollars. So if you are earning $100k in NZD that is not even $60k USD. Our national average house price is $888,999. It's much higher in big cities. Our food costs are rapidly increasing as well. I pay over $1,000 NZD for power and gas.

Smart developers are leaving.
This is a very early release, whereas SQLite has 22 years of releases. In that light, this is about the least charitable take on this.

Someone in our community built something and had the courage to release it. Your criticism is unfair.
> So, you have this really powerful instruction set that's vectorised on almost every instruction, and then you have a massive 128 registers per core coupled with 32KB local cache memory which is single cycle access

SPU local store is 256kb, not 32kb. It's not single cycle access either, it's multiple cycle latency (6, if I recall correctly); it's still wicked fast though, it's about the same as L1 cache access on the PPU.
The OEC is trustworthy; that’s just what exports are. The source of the product doesn’t matter. If it enters through one of Germany’s ports, that’s an import, and if it exits through another, that’s an export. So these numbers probably just indicate that Germany is a common port of entry for vanilla headed to other EU countries (although most of the vanilla it imports stays in the country).
SPU is significantly derivative from PowerPC, so that's quite expected.
> “jan pona” (“good person”) very commonly means “friend”.

But “good person” and “friend” are two very different things. I might describe a well-known charitable figure as a good person, but that wouldn’t mean I would be calling them my friend. One is a value judgement and the other is a personal relationship.
I want to know where all the Webmaster roles have gone, personally.
Not quite sure what you mean here. "Front-line EM" is still in much worse shape than ICs. While you may argue that front-line EM is not technically "middle" management, I think a lot of companies realize they can be much leaner at pretty much all levels of engineering management - e.g. have a "tech lead" or similar role do much of the work that was previously under an engineering manager.

If you're not willing/can't write and ship code, companies are taking a much harder look at those roles.
I'm pretty happy with my Brother laser printer.
Perhaps this person is thinking from a surveillance aspect
As a new Phoenix convert I agree with a lot of these points from my experience too. The functional components make more sense in the majority of cases (and I think the docs point this out) and having the duplicate auth logic with on_mount feels less than ideal.

Hopefully the team will see this and make it even better!
Is the bootloader itself considered as an operating system?

Does it have a kernel too?
Feels more like the original to me, honestly
Navalny is a corrupt racist, politically a Russian Guaidó. If he's all the opposition to be found in Russia, then there is no opposition.
"Don't Do What Donnie Don't Does!"
I guess now is a fun time to describe my cheap backup process. All of this is related to Linux and the backups are fully encrypted client-side. Under the hood `borgbackup` is used, but I use the PikaBackup app (see Flathub) to make it easier to interface with.

First I have a local copy of my data living on my actual hard drive.

Next I use PikaBackup (via borg) to encrypt and sync that to a cloud server I run that has about 200GB of storage for these backups for about $1/mo added cost.

Next I use the Backblaze Cloud tool to synchronize those encrypted backups to B2 using `b2 sync --delete` command. It runs automatically via cron every night. The costs here are about $0.01 per month since I only get charged what I actually use.

Backups are pruned and I can easily control the schedule, copies, etc. If I need to recover a file it mounts as a file system that I can easily navigate using any tools I want, including the command line. I can also mount older or different snapshots.
Navalny is not a political prisoner.
I like this dispatch trick:

build() {
...
}

run() {
...
}

cmd="$1"

shift

$cmd "$@"
He's an author, not a game dev. The game devs licensed his IP. All of this is explained in the article.

You might also be surprised to learn that Andrei Tarkovsky, director of the film Stalker (1979), didn't personally learn C++ and program S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (2007). Neither did Arkady and Boris Strugatsky who wrote the novel Roadside Picnic (1971) that all of these works, including Metro, are inspired by.
Here in Finland they are screaming WORKER SHORTAGE too, but when you talk about salary, suddenly there is no shortage. It's interesting view of the market that when there is a shortage, they should be able to import more and more workers from the outside so they don't have to increase the salaries, but when there is less demand, the salaries should also go down. By this logic they should never increase
A lot of levels.fyi salaries are skewed because people report their current equity comp value instead of the value at the time of their offer.
I guess my question is: as you invent new phrases to describe more complex words, aren’t you effectively expanding the size of the language, even if this is “implicit”? Snowman in English is counted as a word, for instance. The advantage here of compound words is that you can easily get a gist without knowing exactly the meaning, similar to characters in Chinese that have a phonetic and meaning radical both present.
$250k is about right for a Principal "DevOps Enginner" for a company in a major city. Principal engineers are well paid, and SREs (what people often mean when they say DevOps eng) are often the highest paid engineers at a company.

You wouldn't get this in small or midsized towns in the US.
Welcome to Google's SEO PR strategy since their inception. If Google says to do something, you should try to do it. If they say NOT to do something, you should definitely do it.
It's usually above senior but it can be below staff at equivalent companies. Check out levels.fyi for salary bands.

Principal at Microsoft is between senior & staff at Google. Principal at Amazon is directly above senior, but is generally higher than staff at Google. Principal at Roblox is about the same as Microsoft.
"I've got nothing to hide."

Because nobody is trying to hurt you. [0]

That you know of.

Yet.

[0] https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-exploding-messages
A lot of shipping labels.

And I'll often print out draft writing of mine in order to revise it with a pen. For whatever reason, I'll notice totally different things on the screen vs. on paper.
I don't think you can do that with any AI models. It almost feels like a fundamental misrepresentation of how they work.

You could fine-tune a conversational AI on your codebase, but without loading said codebase into it's context it is "flying blind" so-to-speak. It doesn't understand the data structure of your code, the relation between files and probably doesn't confidently understand the architecture of your system. Without portions of your codebase loaded into the 'memory' of your model, all that your finetuning can do is replicate characteristics of your code.
The "elites" in the Bay Area live in places that don't have office space like Atherton, Ross, and Hillsborough. [0] They also aren't experiencing much outflow.

[0] https://www.kron4.com/news/real-estate/nearly-50-bay-area-zi...
If you're opaque enough up front about how it works, it's also a great way to be able to claim your models are more secure than anyone realized and you know this because [deliberately tendentious interpretation of nonpublic results here].
Games like these have a strong future.

Basically games that innovate beyond what a game engines like Unity or Unreal can offer are, by design, going in a direction that is more likely to succeed than anything we see come out these days...

Making super nerdy games that are so far off the field the engines users can't touch you, puts you in a different league; even if your game looks like a dog's breakfast, as long as it's fun and usable.

Indie games are dead, in the sense that they were indie games 5 years ago. This, is the new indie games now. GG. (ref: failed indie developer with 2+ commercial titles).

It's a shame that Zachtronics stopped, they've always been ahead of the game.
> even if you're on $150k you can't really afford to live on your own (even an apartment is a stretch) as housing and living expenses are so high

That's pretty standard outside the USA too.
That is it, I am going to record youtube videos onto VHS.
These are not very recent and quite a few of the attacks went wrong with surviving victims and caught perpetrators.

The Russian omnipresent assassination machine is as much a myth as its invincible military.

That said, the West keeps playing as if there's no hostile power trying to infiltrate everything it can, 30-50yo Russian males with unexplained biography gaps or no background checks at all still allowed to travel freely, establish businesses with sketchy financials and so on.
>The copyright owner is the entity that receives ad revenue

to be sure, google receives ad revenue. they redistribute a portion of it, yes, to the copyright holders
Run this through Google Maps Street View.
> It also seems a bad idea to measure musical goodness by, say, how many times humans will replay a certain audio file.

Because people listen to music for words and other sounds that are added to music.
Add taking our repo/project name to the list: https://GitHub.com/featurebasedb/doctorgpt
Also, I'm clearly not the only one asking about this:

https://community.sophos.com/sophos-xg-firewall/f/discussion...
It's important to keep a few things in mind:

- When you recorded off the radio, you usually had someone talking over the beginning, end, or both (and this was by design, because the radio station knew that if you had a good copy you wouldn't listen to the radio anymore)

- Your copy was a lot worse quality than what you could otherwise buy

- You could at best distribute it to a few hundred or maybe even 1000 people if you were really well connected.

With videos on YouTube you can:

- Get an unaltered copy

- In exactly the same quality as the original

- Which you can easily redistribute to millions

It's not exactly an equal comparison. An equal comparison would be copying on VHS from analog broadcast TV. Which was also legal.
I think in a certain sense they are closely linked, because one of the very important things I keep private is... well, my opinions. I'm selective about who I say things to, and when, and if all my private conversations were to be made public, I would leave a great many things unsaid.
Clippy: "Are you excited to see me?"

[Button raises]

. . .

Still could be worth implementing, for switching major modes in apps. E.g. when browsing one may not need the alphanumeric keys, until a textfield is highlighted.
Funny, if not helpful, error message:

pw = getpwuid(getuid());
if (!pw)
usage("You don't exist. Go away!");

I find it interesting that originally each command was a separate executable.
> Lira (aka Coach Red Pill) believes that men shouldn’t date women over the age of 30 and that all women really want is family and subservience.

FWIW you can replace “Lira” with “The Amish” in this sentence and it’s still true. Hardly a justification for throwing someone in jail.

Leonardo di Caprio seems to believe at least the first half.

> When the war broke out, he started parroting Russian propaganda

This is more like it.
Justifying your current country being invaded and brutalized is actually pretty different from arguing against your current country invading and brutalizing others.
Another thing to keep in mind, my utility company says my household is in the bottom 15 percent of comparable houses! So just because it’s temperate doesn’t mean individual choice can’t make a difference :)
Brilliant suggestion, I will mail it to /dev/null immediately.
Very cool. Reminds me of the game posted last week (defcon thing?) in which Tetris-block-like squares containing op codes fall and the user has to position Rube Goldberg sequences that shuffle the biggest possible number into the “score” memory register
Same in Finland, the employer side constantly screaming about worker shortage, but I have been in several interviews where when I presented my salary request, I could see the person grin because they thought it is too high but it was just little higher than my current... Luckily, I got a new job in Hong Kong with decent salary and lower tax rate.

They want to saturate the market with massive immigration so the salaries never rise, but when there are too many developers, they can actually push them down. If there would be real shortage, they would increase the salary.
Aussie here. Similar, we’re a bit higher but it’s about the same.

I will highlight one difference between the US and Oceania - our currencies are at least a third less than the USD. So $150k in NZ is probably closer to $100k and in Aus it’s $110k.
I just started learning Esperanto on Duolingo and it's been a breeze. I've studied other European languages (Spanish, French, German, Latin) as a hobby before and Esperanto is kind of a streamlined hybrid of all those.

Interligua may be "more useful" as an auxlang but the size and history of the Esperanto community appeals to me.

I'm also studying Bahasa Indonesia right now; it also has a very regular and simple grammar. It's said to be the easiest non-European language for European language speakers to learn.
Not sure why we're feeling the need to gatekeep here.

I got multiple kids and people with any amount of kids understand parenting.
True. Salaries are also lower. Around $3k-5k instead of my upper bound.
Not the money per se, more like committing to Office for Mac and IE. It also helped MS in a number of ways.

On the languages front, I can’t see the parallel you draw.
You are basically meant to prop up the pension ponzi-scheme because they are running out of payers and the amount the boomers paid was quite little relative to now
Vertical movement in most tech companies has stalled for 25 years, and there are several reasons why.

However... in general, it is easier to transition into a more lucrative position at another firm, than try to negotiate with people/agencies that think employees can be outsourced for 20 cents to the dollar. FAANG colluded to prevent labor organization on several occasions, and political critters saw an opportunity to make a quick buck.

There is likely no real STEM shortage, but rather a shortage of people willing to work in poverty domestically. I would argue we need more politicians, CEOs, and investment bankers willing to work for just standard wage rates... think of the investor profit margins.

Best of luck, =)
Nothing in the repo details how this addresses privacy concerns of running inference on someone else's LLM. To be isolated from other users of the service is not the same thing as having a private inference engine.

> Private: Built-in guarantees around the privacy of your data and fully isolated from those operated by OpenAI.

Do tell.
That's one of the annoying realities I am slowly having to face.

Among highly technical ICs, the people who are paid $500k/year often do tend to work 2x the people who get paid $200k. Sure, these people are also more efficient, more effective and more knowledgeable. But, most of all, they work some insane hours. It's incredible, they are thinking about work when they're eating, sleeping, on vacation...it's like an obsession.

I am in one such ~60 hrs/week job right now, and everyone in an IC role that's paid more than me, works more hours than I do. Yeah, my (supposed) compensation went up with this job hop, but in IC roles, hourly rates stay the same.

I love my work & my top 1% coworkers. But man, I look at the ones who are 10 years older than me, and that is not the kind of life I want to be living. I know a person who made millions before 25, and this person had never so much as taken a real vacation, watched a random TV show or played a computer game, despite always having the financial capacity to do so. I am not sure if there is dollar value for which I would give up those precious moments from my teens and 20s.
Because they're not offering crypto draining for hire.
As a NZ developer that a lives in his own apartment with a salary less than $150k, I disagree. Yes, it's expensive and yes, our salaries are lower than our colleagues in some other countries, but it's too much to say that you can't afford to put down a deposit on an apartment after a few years of saving.
I agree with you.

I’d like further transparency on this: why didn’t they anticipate that the array would be offline for this expansion? Expanding a storage environment can certainly be a mine-filled exercise for even the most experienced. But why was this expansion unexpectedly an offline operation?

I’m not throwing shade here. I’m genuinely curious because I’ve been considering Borg and Borgbase for an upcoming project.
It's full corporate, no real hackers anymore. Just "security researchers", the usual government drones and posers. It has been this way for quite some time.
Mostly return shipping labels and random government or financial documents that require hard copy. The former probably once a month? The latter once or twice a year?

We have a ~10 year old compact Brother laser multi-purpose. Back when Brothers were mostly not full of dark patterns. It was cheap-ish and it’s been reliable. Leagues better than any HP or Canon we owned previously.
If you use a language which has monads, then these things quickly become second nature. traverse, sequenceA, etc are all sorely missed when I use rust, as they are quite fundamental in languages which allow the abstraction.

It honestly provides so much for free when using a new library.
Files still take up space on disk.
Sounds good to me. Now we just need someone to pay for it...
The more I dig into the facts, it appears Lexx was merely two years earlier than Farscape. I think I might feel Lexx cleared the path for Farscape, when it might have mostly been coincidence.

https://tolerabilityindex.freeforums.net/thread/676/lexx-far...

* Living ships

* Motley crew

* Evil empire

* Big bad evil guy causing all the problems

But all of this is also pretty common in other SciFi series.
to save everyone time and ad gambles, here is a video from that channel of him actually speaking it

https://youtu.be/LHBIAum58QI
I agree, but still, you could tell a couple of these candidates had been affected by layoffs and were willing to sign for $100k less than what they were previously making.

As a hiring manager, I definitely felt the shift. It was a complete opposite from my hiring experience pre-pandemic.
Yea, I thinking of jumping the ditch in the next year. Housing is ridiculous here in nz, until that gets fixed it's not a very attractive place to live if you're trying to build wealth
Sometimes I hear people at work discuss exploring or using VDI, in part as an effort to improve security, and every time I wince. I really hope that such a thing does not become popular among tech employers.
> $50k -> $1,049,800

You can't look at the price increase for the same house without accounting for the changes in the neighborhood and surrounding areas.

A neighborhood increases in desirability, it now costs more to live in that nicer neighborhood. The population of a city increases, such that you now have to live farther away from the city to find comparably priced real estate etc...

That's why I said if you want to compare, you'd need to find out how much it would cost to build a comparable house in a neighborhood that is comparable to the neighborhood as it was 40 years ago.