skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're confusing "musk killing people to compete for market share because he's woefully behind" with "driverless cars".

There are other people building driverless cars, who have safer systems that they rolled out reliably.

Musk isn't saving people from drunk drivers, he's trying to catch up with the competition and chose to kill people to catch up.
The case presented by the article is of an American who can afford it, yet I would still call it legalized abuse. Just like the other cases here in the comments, none of them of Americans on the verge of bankruptcy. And either way: the real possibility of getting bankrupted by your health bills signals systemic disinterest towards the (even when poorer) tax-payers. Maybe you agree with it, state models can be different and I guess there are advantages and disadvantages to each, but at least let's call it for what it is.
My brother and father were stopped by the police when going for a walk outside together. (They had passports with them, and since they're family it was accepted.)
you gotta be in the upper middle at least to even come close to racking up $377 million of anything, right?
> C-suite (S-team) has a significant investment in commercial real estate.

Amazon itself is holding ~$92B worth of buildings on its balance sheet, you can imagine a large chunk of that is commercial.
If I charge more from client A than client B, I’m not necessarily subsidizing B with A. My price for doing the same work for the government is higher than the same work for a private party. It literally costs more and has higher risk. This honestly feels like this lady went digging around looking for things that would be arguable under vague accounting standards.
A 32” Sony trinitron would pull down about 200W. An 85” LCD will pull down about 150W.
Direct speech reconstruction from sensorimotor activity and deep learning models
You've got a great point! I would also love to do a registration-less version, but the unfiltered access to my LLM client really worries me since API abuse would be so easy.

I'll brainstorm some ways to protect against abuse and try them out! Maybe some session limits based on cookies.
Maybe you just don't like web development. Other kinds of programming can be more interesting to some people, like scientific programming. Also I don't see how sysadmin is worse than programming, or why a good sysadmin would be a lower status job than a css guru for example.
The worst experience I've had is one where I interacted with a provider, I paid my co-pay, they billed my insurance, my insurance paid the remainder, and it seemed to be done. Roughly a year later, the insurance company audited the bill, determined that the provider coded something wrong, and (somehow) took back their money. So the provider turned around and billed me 18 months later.

I called the provider, who had no clue what had happened. The insurance company finally told me that they reversed the charges, and told me I was not responsible for the bill, and the provider had to generate a correct bill. That was the last I heard of it, and I'm still expecting a several thousand dollar bill to show up in the mail..
That article seems fairly authoritative, and lbry would fail the horizonal and narrow vertical tests at least, and tcgs would pass them.
In rich countries poverty is a moving target. Here in the UK the poverty rate now is about the same as it was in the 1980s, but the average purchasing power of people in poverty has doubled. That's about the same as it has for average earners. This is because poverty is defined as earning 60% below the median income. Changes in the poverty statistics here are about changes in wealth distribution, not material circumstances.

So not only does this make it very hard to compare poverty statistics between very different economies, it makes it very difficult to compare it historically. Ive no problem tracking inequality, and it's a legitimate way to view fairness in a society, but it's highly misleading when applied blindly to people in fundamentally different societies and economies with totally different costs of living and internal wealth distributions.

Yes, I know the $30 was adjusted for purchasing power between rich and poor countries, but it's not adjusted for purchasing power over time, so it can't track actual changes in material circumstances. That's why the extreme poverty stats are more relevant for change over time.
Right up until somebody else uses your wrong abstraction- and now it's part of the bedrock.
Less important now. Back when 17 million would tune in to watch Coronation Street 3 times a week it was a much bigger thing. It's rare to get half that for legacy live TV outside of specific major broadcasts (The Euro 2020 final pulled in 30 million) -- the 10th most watched show of 2022 only got 8 million and the soaps are lucky to get 6 - inlcuding those watching time-shifted.
I live in Srinagar, j&k.

I have seen these scam baiters on YouTube even reach my city and end up lost because the police is lazy and corrupt so they are paid by the scammers to keep their mouths shut and the outsiders time and efforts are waisted.

I run a law firm and I have an interest to keeping this scum away because it is generally good marketing for a small tourist attraction place like ours so yeah.

If any scam baiter is reading this, let's get in touch. I can help tighten non-police, governmental screws to make their lives a living hell.
I would want to remain anonymous like my handle publicly but doesn't mean I won't talk to you.

Let me help you.
Maybe because on average in USA you die from your first illness. Yes, I'm sarcastic.
Very intuitive!
Costco: Free Technical Support for Life of Product
U.K. Air Travel Will Be Disrupted for ‘Some Days’ After Traffic Control Glitch
is that you Bezos?
>The conceptual level at which I work

Oh come off it lol
I think the core of the difference can be found in the What exactly is meant by “the wrong abstraction”? paragraph. Admittedly, the quoted article is also a bit confusing here, but I think it's easy to resolve.

I think the wisdom of the original saying is hard to understand when you just look at any piece of code as it exists. Instead, imagine the future. You have two pieces of code that do similar things - you can centralize them (with a bunch of conditionals) to have a "single" code path, or you can allow them to stay separate (perhaps confusing new people). The wisdom of "duplication is cheaper" is to observe that it will generally be less work to allow the duplication than to maintain the circumstantial needs over time. Each time you need to "do the same thing again but a little different" you can either add more conditionals to a single piece of code, or add another instance of 'duplication' which can just deal with the concerns at hand. It's not about "crappy code" - it's about the difficulty of having one piece of functionality serve many masters over time.

IMO, in general, you will also find that if you have many 'duplicated' copies of code, it will often be easier to see the truly duplicated sub-sections that you can DRY out into a common subroutine. I find that is easier to see with duplicates than with a single piece of complex code.
I could also cherry-pick some statistics to try prove a point. But the point I’m actually making is that the healthcare I had access to in the US was far better than the healthcare I had access to in New Zealand (or anywhere else), regardless of how much I was willing to pay.

Complaints about systemic issue of healthcare costs in the US are perfectly valid (and there are other somewhat unique problems with it as well). But are completely seperate from the fact that the best healthcare facilities, and most qualified healthcare professionals in the world are generally located in the US.
I typically calculate the cost of engineering hours as about 2x their salary costs. This captures the additional employer-paid taxes, benefits, etc, as well as ensuring that I don't under-value the cost, which is typically the bigger threat when providing estimates.

I know good SREs (fancy sysadmin plus some devops, but with more class) on the scale from around $120k/yr up to about $300k/yr. This is in the USA. Everyone I know started in SF but since the COVID diaspora, they are all around the US now.

$250/hr estimate -> $125/hr salary -> roughly $250k/yr

My estimate might have been a big high, but really what I'm trying to drive home is that people are almost always more expensive than hardware.
Untrue. I use it with Windows 11 Home edition.

> WSL 2 is available on all Desktop SKUs where WSL is available, including Windows 10 Home and Windows 11 Home.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq#wsl-2
Or the police forcing people from the healthiest possible location (beaches) to the unhealthiest possible location (apartments).
Thanks, I actually wondered if that were the right spelling, so I stand corrected!
On the hot beverage topic, I'm jealous that the espresso gear in Europe is a little cheaper/faster. The motors that drive coffee grinders and the heaters that heat up water in the boilers work a lot easier/faster.
Archive Link

https://archive.vn/JNVHD
Don't like being exploited by Company A? Try being exploited by Company B instead!
> I personally think HN might have been targeted (though Meta isn't announcing the smaller forums).

Perhaps. I'm sure most countries target all social media for 'influence'. But you hardly ever see pro-china 'influence'. 99% of the online 'influence' is anti china or anti-ccp. I'd love to see who is behind that as that's the real problem online.

99% of online propaganda is anti-china, anti-russia, etc. But the propagandists say pro-china or pro-russia online 'influence' is the problem. Hmmm.
Having 3 different inducting circuits would be hard to fit and make less even heating distribution. Also I think they would induct to each other. Also 11 kW could be dangerous with empty containers that is quite a bit of power. Like resistive heaters get red hot at lower power.
Still might be discs. Not the common consumer discs we've all gotten in the the past, but there are archival-grade DVDs and Blu Rays out there that are supposed to last hundreds of years and not degrade.

Been debating getting a few and burning some of my more important stuff on a few of these:

https://www.mdisc.com/
Your run your kettle for hours on end?
LLMs are not a bad tool, provided you control them. Using Llama 2 deployed locally is far from dystopian.
Almost as ironic as Zoom reversing their remote policies.
Out of curiosity, what would qualify as exploitative behavior in your opinion?

Only situations where people have literally zero alternatives? Only situations where other employment alternatives meet your personal subjective threshold of "worse"?
Save all of your code.

Yes, even those weird goofy projects. It's fun to go back and read it all again. I still have code I've written in high school and university, including a game that a friend and I implemented almost entirely inside a single C++ function.

I also now regularly use old code as a kind of mental bookmark about things I've implemented previously. When I'm working on a solution to something I'll sometimes have deja-vu, and I'm glad I still have the old code.
Sounds a lot more plausible than the theory that upper management is conspiring to protect their commercial real estate investments.

It does require that people need to be laid off. Not sure if that's still the case? Overhere in the Netherlands we have a huge labour shortage, including in tech.
Metallica vs. Napster: The lawsuit that redefined how we listen to music
No, it's great if you don't get sick. I'm employed and have a good income. I probably spend of average 4 hours a week (sometimes much, much more) on the phone with my insurance company, pharmacies, and doctors. I suppose I do have the alternative of just breaking down and paying everything out of pocket.
Yes. New houses and rented properties in the UK have to have an RCD now as well. But we have the additional EU building codes.
Whenever this conversation is had - it seems to completely dismiss the idea of domain. Duplication doesn't happen in a vacuum - it happens within a certain context. Some acceptable conditions for duplication include:

* If two things are semantically different within the context of a domain but require similar functionality.

* Code paths with different risk profiles.

* When new functionality is evolving with domain learnings.
Imagine that the calculator breaks, and you need to do some quick math. (Yeah, yeah, I know. Cell Phones and such.) It is good to know how to do math without a calculator for those edge cases where one is not available, or when you can't do the equations that you need with it.

Calculators are good. Calculators are useful. Calculators accelerate your workflow beyond what your ancestors could do. Not knowing how to do math without one is still a hindrance, hence why we still need math classes. You need to know the underlying theory of why the calculators do what they do in order for them to be useful.

It's the same with ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a fantastic tool that can benefit your workflow. I use it all the time myself. However, being 100% dependent on it for work is a dangerous game. If it goes down(like today) or the company behind it makes a change that makes it less useful, you still need to know how to do your job without it. That's why OP's comment is worrying. They said that they feel unable to work without it. It reminds me of that Avengers quote: "If you are nothing without the Iron Man suit, you shouldn't have it."
I double dare the SEC to appeal this to the Supreme Court, this Supreme Court!?

Canon event
Nope. All of us with "Remote (State)" are told to move or quit. We had exceptions by VPs but are now told we need to get CEO or HR exceptions.
People are allowed to have opinions about their personal situation even if other people are in worse situations.
That is one way to refer to Snowden lol
I'm a CEO.

My company is a sole proprietorship, but still.

It's kind of a silly criticism, because the majority of people don't aspire to become corporate CEOs. I hate MBAs and would hate myself for becoming one. In fact I've never pursued wealth as my life goal. For many years, I was in academia; how's that for the opposite of wealth accumulation?
While yes, I have to assume that folks with disability related requirements will keep them, anecdotally I have one friend who was explicitly hired as remote at Amazon who's being told to RTO now.
Yeah, I've been following and am interested too.

Actually more interested in things like UIs, quick API servers, stuff like that than the AI/ML use cases. The idea of most of the ease and approachability of Python, a proper type system, and access to the entire ecosystem of Python libs in a compiled language is pretty compelling.
Sweet, I had no idea it would be that straightforward. Thank you for the information!
Maybe that bug in that abstraction was actually load bearing.
Trite, but accurate. I gained 50 lbs within 6 months after I quit smoking, when I had been skinny for decades prior. There is no doubt in my mind that the (justifiable) demonization of smoking in recent decades contributed to the obesity crisis.
...Key-distribution is to encryption systems as cache-invalidation is to computer science. Both of which are subforms of the ur-problem of signal-propagation which itself is stemmed from the physical principle of causality.

Only way through it is to shut up and do it, sadly.

The implementation details of doing it are often either A) have physical possesion of computer, and do initial insecure setup within a "secure realm" you control, or B) redefine your "secure realm" to include the hardware being in someone else's possession, and do what they tell you and pray they are trustworthy.
>These so called "obesogens" just increase the propensity towards obesity and depending on exposure and your sensitivity to then, you can overcome them or not via exercise and dieting and other means.

If it's environmental pollutants, shouldn't lab or wild animals be getting fatter as well? Yet they're not: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NRrbJJWnaSorrqvtZ/on-not-get...
US Power is typically 240v split-phase, a single phase, not two phases. The transformer is 7200v to 240v. The Neutral line to your house is center tapped on the transformer giving you 120v from Hot to Neutral and 240v from Hot to Hot. I have L14-30 and L5-30 outlets throughout my house and property for example which lets me run higher voltage/amperage workloads more easily. My workshop has an isolation transformer which is 240v primary and 120v secondary. This allows me to run 80A of 120v "stuff" in my workshop but it's a 40A 240v load from the perspective of the main panel in the house.
Is/will OpenMP be supported?
Coding is neither better nor worse than sysadmin. They require somewhat different skills. Do what you enjoy and feel confident doing, and screw what others think.

You might also investigate DevOps if you haven't already.
A kettle is not a continuous load.
Somebody is a big fan of mustard
I just read the book "The Innovators" (https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Hackers-Geniuses-Created-R...) (although I got it from my public library) -- some great stories in there, although not about bezos/musk/zuckerberg (book is from 2014). His main theory is that innovations mostly happen collaboratively, from Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage to the inventors of "nupedia" and wiki software combining to create wikipedia with many in between.

The stories of Xerox PARC, Doug Englebart and others are really amazing. I myself would be (if I were a lot smarter) the Woz, not the Jobs......
The "spoiled" middle class has always been the one to revolt against exploitation by the absurdly wealthy and powerful. The truly poor and downtrodden don't have the bandwidth to make demands of the wealthy, they're occupied enough just getting by from day to day. This is why countries like North Korea intentionally keep most of their people in poverty: a taste of freedom and prosperity tends to make people desire more and gives them the flexibility to fight for it.

Rather than discouraging tech workers from fighting for rights and dignity, we should be talking about how we can make sure that we bring the same benefits to those who aren't currently able to fight for themselves.
This happened to me two days ago. I was downgraded to free, but when I clicked the upgrade button, it showed my billing was up to date.

Logging out and back in fixed it.
it's absolutism. companies are not run as democracies. a few people who make decision that are in their own interests.

RTO means you must be at the office by 9, if not it's an issue. you have to be at your desk for fixed number of hours, if not its an issue. if you leave too early, its an issue. perception matters more than facts.

at home if you're busy, you work, if not you can relax. without any judgement.
Hey, why can't we all just be happy? No one said people making $10/hr shouldn't be able to work from home if that is best and gets the job done at least just as well.
Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey
Discussed recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37278883
It's always fun with this site pops up. I discovered a new tidbit about the old Menominee Airport, MI [0]

There's a park along US-2 that I've driven past called "Airport Park" [1]. It made little sense to me as there's nothing but woods around it and there's a airport in the town. Turns out, that park's name is still a holdover from when there was an actual airport there.

[0] - http://www.airfields-freeman.com/MI/Airfields_MI_N.htm#menom...

[1] - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Airport+Park/@45.1627892,-...
> To be honest I think 3 days a week in the office is a perfectly reasonable requirement.

It's not reasonable because it means you have to live within commuting distance of the office.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/16961126697559040...
I mean, with this logic, you can go about 4 minutes without air to breathe but we're still demolishing our atmosphere like it owes us money.
>"TODAYS WEATHER: JSON FEED NOT FOUND".

Reminds me of the jukeboxes with a windows XP screen
The lines in your neighborhood that feed your house are 7200v, that goes into a transformer in the yard or on the pole which provides 240v to your house. Larger transmission lines are 38000 volts. There are other voltages in place as well.
No it's really not, regardless of the financial aspects. Doctors' time is parceled out into nearly-useless 15 minute chunks, appointments are booked full months out, "insurance" companies demand unnecessary paperwork and add more delays to run your clock out, inpatient rehabs (nursing homes) are understaffed death camps, and everyone generally operates in "not my job" cover their ass mode, including things like referring you to the "emergency" room (many hour wait!) at the drop of a hat.

Some of these change when you're truly end of life and in the ICU, and otherwise there are brief flashes of doctors actually giving you attention. But for the most part trying to receive healthcare in the US is like squeezing blood from a stone, independent of the soul crushing billing shakedowns.

It's more like you can imagine US healthcare is great if you don't need it, or don't proactively think about what needs to be done. Of course that's a great way for something to go unaddressed and kicked down the road until the next appointment (or ER visit).

I can't speak to other country's failings, but I can say this bogeyman narrative about "government run health care" is utterly fallacious. We already have the equivalent in the form of corporate-bureaucracy-first health care.
Well that settles it, we need to start working on time travel before the machines take over.
That's the 4chan guy
They are also building in pretty serious Python interop. You should be able to at least somewhat mix the two or migrate gradually, and still use Python libs for less performance critical code (or if the libs do their performance critical stuff in C++ or whatever and are therefore fast enough).
> I have heard a three phase residential connection is common in some parts of Germany

Over here (large country in South Asia) it's three phase by default.

You can get single phase upon request, provided it's a really really small house, shop etc.
Nice try 4 letter agency, but seriously doesn't look like it's phoning home, unless there is check for opened devtools in browser ;).
Bitcoin ETF could be coming soon as court rules in favor of Grayscale over SEC
You assert that it's mad but then describe a mad situation in the US.

A typical British kitchen will have a ton of sockets (although never enough), to plug in a fridge (or two, or three), a microwave (or several - they rarely goes about 1kW anyway), a dishwasher, a washing machine, a tumble dryer (UK kitchens tend to have washers and dryers, rather than bathrooms. Larger houses have separate utility rooms)

The only thing on a dedicated circuit would be a hard-wired oven.
One of the reasons I joined Amazon last year was their stance on remote work:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/07/andy-jassy-says-he-wont-forc...

For me to go to the nearest office will add 4 hours in commute time daily, and I would still be video conferencing in Chime - as my team is all over the world and nobody is in my office.
https://github.com/dandavison/delta
I work for a big telecom that has grown by acquisition and so has a lot of regional branch offices... and we're _closing_ a lot of them and pushing people back into big "hub" offices in an RTO push that pretty much everyone acknowledges is a secret layoff.
> If the uses don't quite match, there is a tendency for the code to get modified to fit them anyway.

And this is essential, this is how you'll end up 5 arguments and 6 further bool flags to an 7-line function.
Sure.

But what separates the middle from the lower?
Turns out you guys are right. I tried a bigger repo and it was slow. I tried our large monorepo and it was utterly unusable (literally minutes for git status).

I've found this thorough explanation https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197#issuecomment-60...