skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the skills-based hiring movement may actually amount to little more than populist virtue signaling

Huh? I think the whole article represents establishment pushback to people not playing their game: university is becoming irrelevant because it's become universal and is more focused on administration than education. It's that "law" about metrics being perverted once you make them a metric. But the administrative class will fight tooth and nail to try and keep their power, so we get article like this.
It's true, though, that consumer price inflation is mostly regulated by customers at the lower end of the income range.

For instance: the supply of eggs is somewhat variable, so in times of shortage the price has to go up to make demand = supply. The rich aren't eating fewer eggs when this happens, the poor are. If everyone was rich, the price of eggs would go to infinity. (This seems to be happening to private school tuition.)
They are docile, until you step near their nest and they became super hostile. We were walking with my two daughters and that happen by accident. They stung my older daughter 7 or 8 times and me 2 times. I thought the stings would be painful, but in fact, they were not so painful, like a horsefly. Those guys chased us for 50 meters (or yards)
The point is the proponent raise the security flag like it is a huge advantage and you could trust anything coming from flathub while it is mostly pixie dusk.

Untrustable apps aren't more trustable because they are delivered as flatpaks.
> Long weekend "city breaks" are pretty common amongst the UK middle classes.

In Europe with a 1-3 hour time difference and a 1-4 hour flight, yes.

In New York with a 5-hour time difference and an 8-hour flight, not so common. I'm sure that it happens, but it's not at all common. Jetlag alone would make that an athletic event, if your "leaving front door, returning back to front door" time is under 72 hours.
That's absurd. They're shortcuts like any other. Nothing is even pre-installed like when OEMs would ship computers with AOL or Compuserve when those were popular.
I guess millage may vary, the only thing I can say is that there are multiple instances (particularly GoG which the article seems to praise) that literally never work on some of my systems.

The few times I've run into Flatpak crashes, they're architecture problems that would have been present in any version of the app, so I'd be doing that work regardless. They're harder to debug in Flatpak, but also heck debugging crashes every time I try to install a piece of software. I'll happily take the added complexity of needing to boot a shell into the sandbox if it means I get to debug 50% fewer problems (and in practice Flatpak tends to reduce my number of issues by way more than 50%).

The average user is never going to open a debugger, minimizing the number of crashes is more important for that user than making the crashes easier to debug.
Just goes to show the amount of third-party fragmentation that goes on in the Linux Desktop ecosystem which tons competing alternatives of alternative system components and now installers all in conflict and fighting against the users system.

Snaps are only available in the default install in Ubuntu and Flatpaks is not in the default install of other Ubuntu-based distros [0]. Even other distros have neither in their default installs.

It is not the same thing with macOS with its first party installation methods provided by Apple that just works.

[0] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/02/ubuntu-flavors-no-flatpa...
Yes but in a fantasy context, there is a lot to work with.
Being unable to comprehend complex spatial structures without trying to describe them in words must really suck.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh
I think you have it backwards.

Houses could only be priced such that a single income could buy them when most women did not work. Or nobody could buy them.

Once you have couples competing to buy that same housing stock, it becomes increasingly hard for a single income to compete and the price rises to match what the market can support.
I feel like thats a view from the outside looking in. There are always limits. This is a moore's law type situation - it keeps advancing right up until it can't. That's not to say this is or isnt that case - but things only improve because magnificently smart people discover dozens of really clever little tricks you care about. There is no guarantee that an undiscovered little trick exists in the place you hope it does.

I'm sure things will develop, but develop into flawless midjourney-but-for-video? literally only time will tell, its a fools errand to extrapolate
I think you may have misunderstood my comment. I'm saying I am seeing normally sized hamburger menus on desktop. You're using an example of 64x64, I'm saying I don't see that.

Although 16x16 is a little on the small side even for desktop. The point isn't just to click it, but to have it be prominent enough to see and notice as a primary action. It's about visibility, not touch area.

For example, on the SquareSpace homepage (an example someone else brought up) it's 30x18. That seems like a nice size to me. It's two pixels taller than the 16 you suggest, but the extra width helps make it a little more prominent. Especially since the width isn't taking away from anything else.
Unlike the Stein recount, it seems Mohave County actually possessed the ballots. I'm talking about 100's of ballots going 'missing' and having no paper trail whatsoever.

Also, 46 'races' out of 30k+ races, because for whatever reason, they count each individual vote up and down the ballot as a 'race.' So, 46 errors out of over 30k.

Tellingly, this article doesn't indicate whether the presidential race results were accurate within any margin, nor does it indicate whether the actual vote totals matched what was reported on election night.
Except it doesn't, removing $ has no positive effect on your mind
I feel a similar cultural change in Iceland, however in USA I feel no such change, quite the contrary. Moving to the USA was honestly a bit of a culture shock in observing how commonplace the practice is. What was more shocking is observing a practice of strategic drinking, that is try to drink just the right amount to keep your blood alcohol level at the legal limit. I’ve never seen anything like that before I moved here.
Does this all feel familiar?

https://youtu.be/_tpB-B8BXk0

I don’t know if it’s always this way, but I create emergencies and catastrophes because I otherwise have no motivation to do anything. My back has to be against the wall to get me to act. It’s been a lifelong issue, I’ve tried to kill myself several times because of it, and I learned it was ADHD in the last month. 100% of my issues are explained by this. I never would have guessed.
I only use linux for daily use but deploying software on it is the worst out of any OS that I know of with windows being the best. Every update can potentially break things because who knows what changed in that library you depend on, and its not like you can avoid that by shipping static libraries to prevent this since for whatever reasons everyone has conspired against static libraries, I'm guessing because they take up more space?.

Instead of having some minimal set of conventions of where things are supposed to be stored, instead of allowing static libraries to actually work it seems that the solution is to now include the whole system instead. After all storage is cheap right?.
I don't understand why someone doesn't make a machine that you can put a roll of microfilm in, and it will automatically scan them frame by frame.
Preface: I'm speaking as someone who is diagnosed with OCD and generalized anxiety disorder, and I will be speaking about my experiences.

When my mental health took a turn for the worse a few years ago, I was strongly encouraged by my therapist to start taking medication. I was admittedly skeptical upon hearing. I had never taken psychiatric medications before as I held many misconceptions of their side effects, and besides, I figured therapy was supposed to "fix me," so why should I need meds?

When I inquired as to why they wanted me to become medicated, their response was that patients tend to only reach out for help AFTER their mental health becomes severe enough that "learning to cope without meds" is not an option. When a provider is faced with such a case, they are trained to treat it with as much aggression as reasonably possible in order to prevent the patient from becoming even more despondent. This means medication.

From the perspective of the patient, it appears that they're being funneled into taking meds, but from the perspective of the provider they recognize the trajectory the patient is on, and suggest taking drastic actions before things get worse.
> glorified janitorial roles

yeah, i'm quite supportive of him banning you.
That is a weird request, a source doesn’t need to be published in a journal to be cite-able. On the other hand, if you put a bibtex snippet on your site that indicates how you’d like to be cited, that is super helpful.
The CEO had pictures of his racing Porsches all over his office, but the bathrooms looked like they hadn't been painted in 20 years. Told me all I needed to know about where the priorities were, so I bailed.
> However, once they got to Baton Rouge they were in for changing conditions. The Huey Long Bridge is the farthest upstream that oceangoing vessels can navigate on the Mississippi, and from there down the river becomes very busy with large marine vessels, barges, towboats, and service boats that keep the bulk materials industries moving. Hundreds of industrial terminals, and daily passage of multi-hundred foot vessels.

This, versus the downthread comments arguing about romanticism, rather illustrates the "we live in a society" point. A small boat trip down a quiet river is very romantic. See the popularity of British "narrowboats", for example. (https://narrowboats.uk/) But the fantasy does depend on doing that somewhere quiet, to a suitable scale, and not letting it become someone else's problem. The Mississippi is not a small quiet place. And rules about seaworthiness exist for reasons. It's rather like building a horse-drawn gypsy caravan and then taking it on a busy freeway.
the US mall is not dying
I remember my dad actually petting one that was busy collecting nectar from one of our garden plants, with his bare finger. I've never been brave enough to repeat that particular experiment but my experience too is that bumblebees are usually very docile.

The only time I've ever heard of someone getting a bumblebee sting is when they actually got one caught inside their shirt and got three or four good zaps. They are like wasps in that their stingers don't fall out when they sting, so they can keep going as long as they have venom left.

Apparently they are somewhat less docile when it comes to other bees, apparently they can be fairly aggressive and too many bumblebees around can outcompete local honeybees.
All climate models are based on mathematical physics models. I don't know the specifics, so I asked chatGPT and here is what it said:

'''

Climate modeling is a multifaceted field rooted in physics that relies on a complex set of equations to describe various atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial processes. Here's an overview of the key equations that form the foundation of climate models:

Navier-Stokes Equations: Governing the flow of fluids like the atmosphere and oceans, these equations capture how the velocity of a fluid changes over time.

Radiative Transfer Equations: Essential for understanding how sunlight and other forms of radiation interact with the atmosphere, including scattering, absorption, and emission.

Energy Balance Models: These equations describe the balance between incoming solar energy and outgoing heat, fundamental for capturing the planet's energy dynamics.

Equations of State: Linking density, pressure, and temperature, these equations are critical for understanding the behavior of the atmosphere and ocean.

Continuity Equations: Representing the conservation of mass in the atmosphere and oceans.

Moist Processes Equations: Capturing phase changes between water vapor, liquid water, and ice, along with latent heat exchange.

Boundary Layer Equations: Describing the complex dynamics near Earth's surface where the atmosphere interacts with the land or ocean.

Chemical and Aerosol Equations: Governing the reactions and interactions between different chemical species and particles, which can affect both weather and climate.

Sea Ice and Glacial Equations: Modeling the flow and melting of ice, essential for understanding the cryosphere.

These equations are solved numerically using computer algorithms, often over a grid representing the Earth's surface and atmosphere. Together, they form an interconnected system that allows scientists to simulate and analyze the climate system's behavior. This intricate mathematical framework underscores how the study of climate is fundamentally rooted in mathematical and physical principles.

'''

There are no such equations for the brain.
The issue with Univeral income is it's easy to dismantle or not fund.

Let's say we set the level at $1k per month for everyone. Great, until it's 2050 and that level is still $1k. Without inflation adjustments it eventually turns into giving people the equivalent of a penny, only now there aren't other safety nets in place.

But also, you'll have politicians saying "This is a huge cost to the government and everyone should just take care of themselves. So let's cut back the spending for people born in 2023". Just like they did with SS.
fwiw that comparison was where I went "wait, is that right?" in my reading.

Maybe a fair judge of mental difficulty would say "you gotta write at least the loop invariant" (termination being too pedantically obvious) -- though admittedly I leave it out more than I used to.

When I was introduced to sorting as a new programmer, via bubblesort, I thought "why that way?" and came up with selection sort as a method that made more obvious sense. It seems to me like bubblesort's alleged intuitiveness is post hoc from the shortness of the code in terms of all-ascending for-next loops -- the intuitive reason it worked was just that the inner loop did move the next max into place just like selection sort, but with extra swaps along the way.
manufacturing cost == cost?

like they don't need to pay their driver/sdk developers at all?
Another trouble source I've had has been been fixed by some wikis. When I first ran into one that supported this about a dozen years ago it made my life a lot easier.

And that is having a function that injects the current user's username into the wiki page. Any instructions that require you to log in as you can then be blindly cut and pasted, without people coming and telling me "it doesn't work" when they try to log in as me. Yeah of course that doesn't work, mate.

People reading runbooks aren't fully engaged. They may actually be in a war room. The moral of this story is that you are not entitled to carve out a chunk of your coworker's attention. Those periods should be brief, and tied to an active initiative/epic. After that 'work' is done, everything you wrote should be something that they can operate at 2:00 am.

Because sooner or later, they well.
I mean when the mughals show up and attempt to create indentured servitude on mars we can generalize a bit. Right now it doesn't seem necessary.
If we are talking about the US, I really don't think (1) was a big contributor. Perhaps ironically, the energy price shock in the early days of the war in Ukraine was the thing that actually was "transitory". (I think this is likely less true in Europe, but I haven't paid as much attention to that.)
Counting over a year’s time, looks like 6 accidental and 2 on purpose.

Is the flagged submissions link new? I remember looking for it and not finding it.
> as a programmer building run-of-the-mill CRUD web applications, having so many choices can be really daunting and confusing. When do you choose which type?

I feel similarly after getting back into Java after years of Javascript. Java has a ridiculous number of arrays and lists: Object[], List, Iterator, Iterable, Stream, and I think I'm forgetting a few. Some functions want or return one, some want or return another. I'm constantly convertings these from one to the other, and it's never pretty. (What the hell is a Spliterator?!)

Meanwhile, in Javascript, there's just the Array. (It's not even really an array, but a hashmap that only takes integers as index, but nobody cares; it works.)

And, like Ruby, Javascript also has easy object literals that is basically the exact same as the hash in Ruby. If there are any meaningful differences, I'd love for someone to enlighten me. The only difference I'm aware of, is that the preferred type for keys in Ruby is the Symbol, which is a very lightweight string, whereas in JS it's just a regular string.

But, like the author, I strongly prefer to work in a language that just has a couple of sensible data types instead of making me choose from thousands that have no meaningful differences beyond their incompatibility.
Vue 3 is currently performing better than Svelte and React
Although you're correct that this occurs (and is likely the case of those with these abilities greater than 9/10 if I had to guess without any data), there are definitely savants out there like Kim Peek unusual brains that allow them to do all kinds of things. I think that's all the other commenter was talking about.
Oil prices are global.
This is twisting my brain a bit -- there's a third possible version, where the only info you have is the day of week. Something like "i have a child, one of whom was born on tuesday. what are the odds the other is a boy?" perhaps.

And the answer there has to be basically 50:50. So when you combine these two filters, day of week wins somehow. Will have to ponder more
"The website formerly known as Twitter" has precedent.
"This is good for LLMs"
Hacked records corroborate claims in hydroxychloroquine wrongful death lawsuit
Is feeling not simply an extension of thinking?
Remember folks, take these benchmarks with a grain of salt.
Yeah man, it's almost like the poors want to be able to afford a house, a car, and the ability to reproduce. How dare they! /s
It's a hell of a lot more practical than going to Mars...
This is a much better argument against Flatpak (and its ilk) than the linked article.
Because that's how it looks in their terminals, and it's a bit of a challenge to think through how users use something
I don't accept that the initial primary motivation behind more women joining the workforce was out of financial necessity. But I can see that once you have a certain critical mass of households with dual incomes then it becomes very difficult for single income households to compete in the same buyers market for housing especially (given its uniquely inelastic supply and it being a fundamental need for all of us), hence essentially forcing them to convert into (or remain as, after having children etc.) dual income households even if they wouldn't otherwise choose to be so.
Everything should be designed with accessibility in mind, not only because one day we might be permanently disabled, but also because everyday we might be temporarily disabled.

For example, you might be carrying something in one hand, and only have 1 hand free.

Or your wrist might be sore from a tough sportsball game and you can’t squeeze a grip at all.

Or you don’t want to turn on the light and wake up baby so you are trying to read in the dark. Or you don’t have your reading glasses at the moment.
You can probably do something that creates as many FIFOs as you have parallelism and just be careful about emitting whole records like https://github.com/c-blake/bu/blob/main/doc/funnel.md . That one's Nim, but the meat is only like 50 lines and easily ported to C like your progress tool. ( EDIT: and it will also probably be drastically lower overhead than `parallel` which has over 70X worse time overhead and 10X the RAM overhead of tools written in fast, native-compiled languages: https://github.com/c-blake/bu/blob/main/tests/strench.sh )
Could pay for government spending with taxes.
Do appimages have a proper well maintained store now with a good cli for maintaining them? When I last year moved to portable Apps, I check out flatpak, appimages and snap, and move to flatpak, and some appimages. But while flatpaks are easy to maintain, the appimages are basically dead weight. Some can be updated, some not. There were a number of different tools for maintaining them, not one-for-all. Similar there were multiple stores/sites for finding new appimages, not seem particular trustable. It was not very impressive at the time.
While I don't disagree with the notion of breaking up big companies, a have a small bone to pick about the last thing you said. The American dream was never intended to apply to more than a very specific subset of the population; those that we see with the majority of wealth today. It's already worked for those it was meant to work for, and consequently it will never be fought for again. At least, not by those with any real power today; they got what they wanted and have been pulling up the ladder on everyone else ever since. Let's quit trying to buy into the American dream, and try buy into a just and fair society for all. If only that were the goal all along :/
A coworker and myself were interviewing a candidate once for an iOS position and one of the things on his resume was an app that just reversed video. My coworker says "Oh that's neat, record me!" The guy pulls out his phone and starts up the app.

My coworker says what sounds like "Rih koff ra dom" and then the candidate plays it back. In the middle of our pretty crowded office, during a weird silent lull, this candidates phone just yells out "Motherfucker!"

For some reason that coworker had memorized how to say motherfucker backwards. He must have been waiting for that moment for a long time because it was perfect (if not quite work appropriate) timing.
It makes me wonder if the car video might have come out better if they'd prompted to have it put in the desert, rather than in a dessert.
Could an AI write a JIT custom window manager? Or would that be too unreliable?
Adopted my cat at ~9 months, 8 years in an apartment, moved to a rural property and he knew exactly what to do with mice and how to stalk them. Even losing 3 of his 4 fangs didn't slow him down.
A reach. Certain 'top-tier' malls still attract crowds

Meanwhile in my medium-sized town the malls are either shuttered or have dentists etc squatting in the retail spaces, with plenty of 'coming soon' signs but nothing ever shows up.
I will say, when I have used them I haven't spent more than a few minutes on the prompts. But I'm typically more focused on the writing and the image just needs to be "good enough" unless it's something specifically relevant to the content.
Wage suppression is directly rewarded by the way the system is set up because it reduces expenses and thus increases profits. The same goes for layoffs (short-term at least) and erosion of workers' rights. To expect a business to not engage in it is optimistic, to expect it to act in the opposite direction is delusional.

Yes, there are individual entrepreneurs who try to be "the good guys". But they're operating at a competive disadvantage and usually can only afford to do so for a limited time due to e.g. strong initial funding. If you want corporations to behave this way you don't want corporations, you want co-operatives where all workers are also owners of the company because this completely removes the dynamics caused by the conflict between the interests of the shareholders/owners and those of the employees/workers by turning both into the same group.

I think it's a perfectly legitimate political opinion to think that business owners should be allowed to roam freely and pursue profit over worker well-being, but I'd expect people who hold this opinion to at least be honest about it and not pretend employers are altruistic humanitarians.