skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wordpress.com Launches 100-Year Domain and Hosting Plan for $38K
> someone else had to get it off the ground

implying what? that "workers" can't start something? Even if we imagine there's a category of people that are suited to be "starters" or "entrepreneurs" that category is still plenty numerous, easily 10-35% of the population, if not more.
Surely a cold shower helps? If it causes your body to trigger self-heating process, surely that’s proof your body has been cooled to less than dangerously high levels and the shower has provided at least temporary relief.
US Air Force wants $5.8B to build 1k AI-driven unmanned combat aircraft
I must be completely in the minority. I enjoy side projects and like the feeling of accomplishment from making something as much as anyone, but AI tools have been a real godsend. I feel reinvigorated, trying out new frameworks, building stuff I'd only sort of considered before. Maybe this is still honeymoon phase but it's been months and I'm still digging it.

Bring on the version that can support my coworker's 7 year sideproject 80k line rathole of python metaprogramming and tell me how to make a small change there, bring on the version that can understand version conflicts between react, react native, and expo libraries - or even fix their shit documentation in real time.

Even if the core product of these LLMs doesn't get any better, I'm stoked to see the wrappers and fine-tunes that they produce over the next few years. Maybe I'll get to be a super TPM with a legion of little AI agents to do the things I want and I'll only have to write code when I feel like it.
Pair programming can be a productive, even fun, activity in limited situations. Now that we have the option of our pairing partner being human or AI, it sort of highlights a lot of the situations where pair programming is NOT productive, or even fun.
So you do need to use it :)
DPoS is worse in terms of resistance to collusion government interference. Which is a problem because the function of blockchains is to secure trillions of dollars.
All they had to do is maintain 3 json schema files.
California takes first step in acquiring trains for High-Speed Rail
For me, writing code is always easier than reading it, regardless of who wrote it.
The biggest thing copilot needs is the ability to toggle it off in VSCode with a keyboard shortcut.

You can trigger a 'disable copilot' popup from a command, but not a full-fledged toggle. Maybe I'm missing sometime this author is using?

If I could just toggle the whole thing on and off with the press of a button, it would be more useful. Sometimes I just need to write code undisrupted.
And what format would that have been? It would have predated XML and JSON, so it must've been a bespoke format created for this purpose.

Whatever it were, it would need updating, which means all tools would need to be updated to support the changes, while maintaining backwards compatibility. This is a mess in practice, and probably only acceptable to a single project or organization that maintains all tools, but it's not something that allows an open ecosystem to grow.

It's naive to think that a modern solution can "fix" this apparent problem. New shells and environments can be created that try to address it, but their future is uncertain. Meanwhile, the fact that Unix still exists today in many variations is a testament that those early decisions were largely correct.
Speaking of backing tracks, glad to hear you entirely backtrack on your statement about not pioneering lo-fi
With sublime I can have 5-10 projects open without even noticing (LSP plugin and everything). vscode can barely handle one.
From what I've understood, the CFTC and the SEC have decided between them that the CFTC will worry specifically about BTC and ETH (and a few other coins that can reasonably be considered commodities), and the SEC will worry about the rest.

That is likely why the SEC chairman doesn't want to comment on them.
The authors estimated an extra 100k deaths/year over 5 years… that’s very striking.
This is very common in Canada and the United States too. We regularly hear companies saying they can't hire good talent, while candidates say they can't find anyone willing to hire people without multiple years of experience. It happens a lot in the trades too, not just software development.

Part of the call to action is to spend the time to hire and train juniors instead of just looking for ready-to-go seniors. It provides the employer with a larger pool of talent at lower cost, an ability to shape their skills and practices early on, and helps the entire industry grow.
Oh! I've heard good stuff about Clion. I am pretty skeptical of vs code though, regarding comparing it's capabilities for C++ debugging and performance analysis. What plugins do you need nowadays. It's a good general purpose IDE for sure.
>…not very interesting

Doubtful, our ability just to contemplate the question makes us very interesting.

In the one place in the universe where we know without a doubt that life exists—tens of millions of different sorts critters had to come into being, then fail or succeed as a species and evolve, only for a single species to manage to emerge to the point where it could actually ponder the notion of “hey! what if there is other intelligent life out there…and why haven’t they contacted us yet?” Also throw in the fact that it took nearly a full third of the age of the universe for our species to get to that point and it seems pretty likely that intelligence to our level is very rare.

So yes, a billion different sorts of amoebas might be meh, but a species capable of sending a package into interstellar space—that might pique something’s interest (assuming there is something out there whose interest could be piqued)
Companies love to show how they care about privacy and security of their data yet the amount of data breaches are higher than ever before. What an irony
Please be kind in your interpretation. Build and run are two very different phases. You need lots of capital for the former, mostly hands for the latter. Capital formation is probably harder for a group of workers because it leads to messy questions about residual earnings.
Belgium legalises ethical hacking:

https://www.law.kuleuven.be/citip/blog/belgium-legalises-eth...

HN thread from 4 months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35847860
> Intension: save the environment

It is a bummer that climate change will not be averted during Burning Man this year, as was the goal of this protest. You make an interesting point that since climate change will likely continue into September at least, it will paradoxically be the fault of the protesters.

Too bad that they didn’t set a more reasonable goal of “piss off burners to the extent that maybe fewer decide to come back next time”, at least they might’ve been able to call this a win.
to each his own.

i switched from VSCode to CLion (for Rust) the other night and only lasted 5 minutes because i missed how alternating braces change color.
this feels like the _weirdest_ thing to call someone a child over. it’s akin to saying “real men don’t use umbrellas”.

totally and absolutely bonkers.

colour is insanely helpful as a _sense_ that can aid our brains in parsing. we aren’t compilers; it’s fine to like colour and not like colour but to say there can be no benefit or, worse, that it’s juvenile is even more childish of a statement.

eh, one thing i’ve learned is smart people in one field are not universally smart, and that’s ok.
Yes that is the implication. Starting something requires raising money and organizing things. Generally, at the start, only a small number of people care to do this work. And once they do it, why would they give their ownership stake away to their employees when they could just keep it for themselves?
We are talking about them misleading folks with their donation drives. Paying themselves 10x while workers get nothing.

“Don’t donate if you don’t like it” is not even near good enough, sorry.
TL/DR: loose lips haven't currently saved any sunken ships. The remote hope is that, if they disclose the locations of shipwrecks, fishermen might choose to avoid them. They haven't even considered turning their "National Marine Sanctuary" into an actual fishing prohibition area, because of the "anti-regulatory zeitgeist", so the policy is strictly voluntary, and no one is really abiding by it, but for some reason they remain optimistic.

So this is the "deep state" that Republicans want to dismantle? After reading this article, I'm inclined to say they might as well do it, but not because of how dangerous it is - because of how ineffective it is!
If being able to efficiently spot typos, visually parse code, and see the types of literals makes me juvenile, well, I prefer to think of it as young at heart.
It is really striking, the difference in *everything* between some beta quality programming language projects and approaches of people behind them.

- Effort applied; To be tailored for certain kinds of projects; Solve problems in existing languages; Approaches to prevent/force adoption of beta quality project; Philosophical approaches behind project or lack thereof.

Now on the personal, subjective note, the more I look, the more I want to avoid V and get my hands on Jai [1][2]

[1] https://github.com/Jai-Community/Jai-Community-Library/wiki/...
[2] https://github.com/Jai-Community/Jai-Community-Library/wiki/...
There was a topic about micro seasons in Japan, that were each five days long, recently
Giving the human some 'vigilance prompts' 25% of the time, with consequences for missing them, seems like an easy fix.

Such prompts might be completely AI generated, or just flip the AI decision under review.
Cognitive warfare and the governance of subversion in the 21st Century
Hahaha juvenile... Some people are so arrogant.

Syntax highlighting adds more visual information to the code to help your brain navigating it. Some people probably don't need it, but personally it helps me tremendously and I would have to have to program without it. It's like eye shortcuts.
Absolutely agree. Why does everything need to scale up forever? Resources are finite.
In my experience, it's not all that standard. There are still many companies advertising exclusively for 2+ years experience, even in very niche areas where few people would already have relevant experience.

I think there might also be a different between interns and juniors. Where I'm from, interns are people who are hired specifically for a short period of time, often people still in their education. This is in comparison to juniors who are expecting permanent, full time employment. The amount of training and responsibilities given to juniors is much greater than that given interns because there is a much greater return expected.
This should be added as the 4th option, right after carbon credits.
"Toyota's share price was up 0.12% at 2,439 yen in afternoon trade after spending much of the morning in negative territory."
Does anyone else find this article extremely odd? There's only 3 sentences that explain the title, "best approach I've seen for hiring junior engineers," and the remaining 95% of the article is an overly verbose argument for why having good employees is good for your company. The points are so obvious that it's not even clear who or what he's arguing against. Was this entire article written by ChatGPT?
I quit using GC since it adds cognitive load and because it lures one into incorrect solutions. I always try to have a single focus when I work. I don't even like having multiple screens for the same reason. I do use AI for coding sometimes but then that tool is my main focus.
Fun is a subjective metric. You can turn around the argument by saying it brings one joy to find new solutions to old problems with GH Copilot. And so on.

Personally, when in a flow state, I can't be interrupted. Eventually, it goes away, and I return from my trance to many unanswered messages and unread emails. Hopefully, it is nothing important, but life is cruel.

Some people need quiet to focus, and some like music or the TV playing in the background. I think the need is privacy. That's why working from home is so productive.

But for large, complex projects, an IDE is indispensable. Life's too short.
i wonder if there's a perceptual self defeating symptom in even considering terms like junior or senior, in the sense that each individual hire is a multidimensional talent with maybe widely varying capabilities in different dimensions.

maybe part of the assessment process isn't delineating junior vs senior, or feigning some total order, but rather embracing that there is not, in general, a total order on talent among people.

it might be like seeing how well the hiring company can exploit the major eigenvectors of talent in each individual.

perhaps that's a wordy version of the rotating folks through different tasks idea?
Not true! vim prevents calorie burn off because those lazy fingers barely leave the home row!
Boredom.

(You have to be insane to whip something up and get it moving. Some thrive doing just that, but suffer under steady state stagnation.)
In order for the execution to exhibit undefined behavior, on windows it would require 25 days as a retry period, whilst Linux would require much more.

In practice the likelihood of someone passing that value is rather low.
See also https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo123795...
It’s not difficult to make ChatGPT say anything you want it to say.
What is supposed to be being "saved" here? If a fisherman unknowingly destroys an object that nobody else ever knew was there, what's the loss?
I did this exact thing this past winter. I spent about $100 on pipe fittings and purchased an external mixer DIY nozzle set from here: https://www.snowathome.com/our_products/SG3_e-type_nozzle_ki...

I made snow in my front yard a few times. I also completely covered my tree and car in a blanket of ice a few times too.

It was a fun little project to hack on.
Respectfully, and this is a very personal decision, I see it the opposite way that you do.

Our ability to counteract, or reverse, climate change will be directly related to the vitality and economic power of future civilization. So if you have lots of children, in a thriving society, then humanity will be more able to reverse climate change than it is today.

As data, consider that US emissions have already peaked. And "The proposed wind, solar and battery projects seeking interconnection to U.S. transmission grids today are enough to bring the country to 80 percent carbon-free electricity by 2030."[1]

Certainly we are a long, long way from making total global emissions negative. But we can give our children the tools they need to completely reverse climate change. And if there're in a healthy and thriving society they're likely to solve the problem that we have caused.

The slope of US emissions is already in the right direction - I can't wait for the total amount to go negative!

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/transmission/the-us-has...
The gerber files and software is open source. Just order you own from your preferred pcb fab.
BNPL with PayPal in 4 is one reason. Another reason might be encapsulating your payment info?
"type of business" is not really sufficient of a control to glean anything really. I know economists/social science make a profession out of trying though, it does not mean we should listen to them.
So you can just be a product owner too ?

As long as people don't get wiped out by AGI (who knows), we'll just go do something else. Who cares about this stuff? Personally, I'm a software developer and I really fucking hate the job, I hate being on a computer (destroys your health), I hate zoom calls, I don't really like "tech", I love being outside in the sunshine. If it ends with automation, thank fucking god really. I do my job for money, that is it.

The existence humans have created for ourselves, staring at a box and pecking away at a keyboard is actually fucking idiotic when you think about it, it's the stupidest reality we could've come up with.

I have had nightmares that I will be forced to continue working as a SWE because the number of SWEs who actually understand the full stack is diminishing. These are actual serious nightmares and I actually think there may even be some truth to them.

I know people who are essentially bribed into continuing to work as a "pilots" for huge ships because no one else is qualified to do the job. So it does happen.

Anyway, I think the situation you're describing is kind of moronic, because if companies automate everything with AI and no one has a job, there will be no economy, there will be no businesses, there will be no need to run AIs, there will be really not much left, just poverty. We'll all be fucked basically and then, a new dawn...
Google recently changed tack on NFTs, allowing them in the Google Play stores, which means it is now allowed by their policy to circumvent the store fees for this use case.

But the more obvious solution here is to not use the walled garden app stores at all, if you plan to monetize and distribute assets via crypto. Thankfully we do have the web and PWAs.
What is preventing a future owner to plug an USB-Eth interface?
What type of programming do you do / what languages? I've got three open 24/7 in different windows, sometimes more, and vscode behaves no differently than if I've got just the one. Total RAM usage is not exactly minimal, but still small enough I can have multiple servers running along with postgres, two chrome profiles and assorted terminals, and still have a comfortable amount of RAM left on my 16gb laptop.

In fact, the only time I ran into trouble was when a funky install caused one particular webpack dev server to leak and eventually force me to close every chrome process that was running (vscode + chrome windows) to let the system recover the memory.
Compel is an apt word to use in this situation. Definition is: "force or oblige (someone) to do something" or "bring about (something) by the use of force or pressure" [Oxford Dictionary].

Social media can make people feel _obliged_ by social pressure to engage in the platform (via sharing or posting updates about their life to family members and/or friends).

Addiction can also do the same thing, while others may be bored and scroll incessantly (they feel the need to stave off boredom).

There is a myriad of reasons. I felt compelled to respond to your insistence that 'compel' was an incorrect word.
What would having a parallel GC mean in the practical sense?

That there is no pauses happening during the runtime?
English obviously isn't your forte.

From your article:
>That year Tokyu generated $2.63 billion in revenue en route to $587 million in profits. Rail fares brought in about a third of that figure, real estate holdings reap another third, and retail about a fifth.

Rail fares brought in 1/3 of Tokyu's entire revenue. Tokyu isn't a train company, it's a conglomerate that owns a train company, real estate, and more. The article doesn't say anything about how much of the rail operations are paid by user fares.

>You, quite clearly, have not yet dared to walk out of your assigned "15-minute neighborhood".

I grew up in the US, you moron. I've seen all types of cities. Have fun getting shot by road ragers over there.
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10080-rainbow-brackets
I still don't get why govts are bot offering carbon offsets by sponsoring public transport like trams, trains and electric busses. This will contribute to its development in terms of quality and funding and hopefully reduce car dependency if dedicated lanes are provided to this new transport
Why? I love mine dearly. Plex / Kodi are a lifesaver plus native 4K netflix and all the apps for streaming services that I need.
Everything you say here, I agree with the sibling. I would not want to be in a field that has the requirements you're talking about. It is precisely why I joined a computer science major and job and not a computer engineering one.
Lem's Invincible, Solaris and Eden form a trilogy of "what if we meet a civilization so alien to humans that we can't establish a contact with them"
> I think the lib could postpone the log replaying until the next publish. Chances are all readers will have the new epoch by than = the writer thread won't have to wait at all.

I think you can't even do a new publish if all readers haven't finished switching to a new epoch after a previous publish. Otherwise, you risk corrupting readers that are still on the original epoch.
Yeah the only thing I don’t like about GPT-4 powered CoPilot is that its context window is too small. Same feelings here.

I’m a product engineer at heart. I love getting products off the ground and love tackling the “hard science” kernels of value which GPT can’t help with. Everything else is just implementation and while I agree it’s necessary to know programming and databases and networking or else you’re doomed following the pied piper of LLMs, I don’t find the rote implementation to be the fun parts of what I do - I’m happy to use GPT to ease the burden.
Personal preference: Don't outsource recruitment to HR people. Team leaders should do the recruiting. HR people have no idea what is required, and don't know about any of the technical stuff. The team leaders know what is required, and should be able to speak the same language as the candidates.
Why cant they hire non share packaged employees? Why do they have to shrink their pie?

To me this sounds very annecdotal and intuitive based on what you think you know.

I'd like to know if it has been studied and what those studies found.
> Most captains would obviously want to avoid such a costly and dangerous situation, but the sheer number of nets draped on Stellwagen wrecks indicates that some are willing to risk it.

Nets are a great source of Microplastics in the ocean, whether lost during fishing or flying away of landfills [0]. New kind of ropes degrades slowly but that’s just a “timer on the bomb”.

What can we do ?

At a society level legislation does not work off the coast: near impossible to find consensus on international zones laws and even more complicated to enforce them. At a personal level you can stop eating fishes. You won’t change the world alone but still have a small but real impact, about the same as when you go to the polls.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X2...
This sounds like it can work great at HP or IBM, but how do you translate this to a single-digit startup (both size of staff & amount of years in existence)? Or do you just not hire juniors in a startup?
Because it's better for engagement to have 10x 9-image posts than to have a singular 90-image post.
And for me colorful braces are the most diatracting thing in the world. It is the first thing I disable on a fresh VSCode install.
Even more money for the coop, though. Like, enough to not need other investors/banks.
Copilot certainly has expanded what I feel comfortable tackling. Now, writing a simple SPA with some modern framework, is within reach for a person with very limited knowledge in JS, CSS, HTML and React.
Yeah but that's paywalled.
SQL is definitely worth learning. Recently found that processing a 350kb json is equally fast by sending it to Postgres for processing, compared to using some dedicated Java libraries: https://ako.github.io/blog/2023/08/25/json-transformations.h...

This opens some interesting options if you want to join the result with data from your database.
China's Talismanic Tigers
Ask HN: Do you still play Wordle?
Comparing syntactic highlighting to 'office noise' feels not right.

While the latter is intrusive to the process as it is both uncontrolled, disruptive and without benefit, the former provides contextualized information in support of the process under control of the user.