skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows NT 3.1 and Windows NT 2000 were Microsoft's proudest achievements for OS development.
Don’t rely on your GP for mental health. Look for a local clinic with a PMHNP-BC who can diagnose and treat you without a delay. There are telemedicine options for this as well.
Nice, my RSS reader uses HTMX but the UI is really different, I usually see one article at a time that i vote up or down.
They do vary wildly yes.

Even within the same publication.

Nature has historically proven to be one of the top journal. Not taking that away from them. But being published by nature and peer reviewed does not mean such article cannot use a clickbait title and/or be non scientific.
No, no, you misunderstand. I agree with the point. I just think it was made against a strawman and could have been made even stronger. I'm not for metrics on stories to award productivity points. I'm for one-on-ones and success-as-a-team evaluations.
Good idea. Sounds fun, actually!
Stories like this happened is because managers want to treat software development as a manufacturing process.
It's easy to talk in generalities without data. The data is - immigration to the UK is up by a lot, including tech workers.

However, those people are mostly going to work outside the startup bubble. The startup scene that a lot of us work in here is not doing so great. Funding is much harder to find, pickier, and more interested in revenue now than a story about the future. Frothy startups are imploding.

The result of this is that, if you look at the indeed jobs data, while the overall jobs market is pretty good, the tech jobs market is about 60% of what it was in 2019.

I imagine a lot of people who got into tech during the pandemic hiring bubble (go on furlough, do an online javascript bootcamp, get a 70K salary) are going back to what ever they got furloughed from.

So it is harder to get a job for everyone, but the relatively easy visas for tech workers and english working language mean that the flow of labour into the market continues to increase.

We can expect this to result in continued divergence between UK and US salaries. UK tech salaries remain about 2-4x Indian tech salaries for equivalent workers for instance, so the UK remains an attractive destination for earning money and building a nest egg back home.
I've written several 100ks LOC/year at points in my career- but exclusively when working on new projects. When maintaining projects I might go a week at a time without writing any code solo, or I might spend a week trying to _reduce_ LOC.
It sucked being that person back then too.

The idea of measuring everything and acting on the numbers you can get is from the 19th century. Managers have been doing that same kind of practice since then, with the same kind of result (it's a very reliable result), without a change.
Cars should be banned.

Robot cars, too.
Researchers reveal universal mechanisms of DNA and RNA deformations
That's the sad fate of fifth wheels. Or when you are neither Word nor Notepad.
in writing this post, I myself am violating the Rust new policy

No, you're not.
I've often thought it was time to pick up Ben Bederson's work on Pad++ again, now that we have such great UI and hardware for zooming in interfaces. Here's a late-90s video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlIRYTuSv0Q
You can kill the process ("Isolated Web Container") responsible for the tab.
Exoneration
BREAKING: Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis possesses exonerating evidence in her case against Donald Trump.

A sham from the very beginning.

One of Willis' main claims was that electors for Trump engaged in an 'unlawful conspiracy' to overturn the election.

According to bombshell transcripts, Willis' allegations appear to be false.

The
@FDRLST
has uncovered a transcript of a meeting on December 14th, 2020, showing the intent of the electors was NOT to impersonate public officials like Willis claimed.

Willis claimed that Georgia Republican elector David Shafer took part in this 'conspiracy' however transcripts appear to prove that this is false.

“[Trump] has filed a contest to the certified returns. That contest — is pending [and has] not been decided or even heard by any judge with the authority to hear it. And so in order to preserve his rights, it’s important that the Republican nominees for Presidential Elector meet here today and cast their votes," Shafer said at the meeting.

Shafer and then-President Trump had filed a lawsuit in early December claiming thousands of illegal votes had been casted.

Their lawsuit was still pending when the meeting took place.

Shafer, who alongside other Georgia Republican electors casted their electoral votes for Trump, made it clear that he was filing alternate electors so the judge would "consider the merits of our complaint."

“And so the only way for us to have any judge consider the merits of our complaint, the thousands of people we allege voted unlawfully, is for us to have this meeting and permit the contest to continue?” Shafer asked Trump's attorney at the time.

“That’s correct,” the attorney replied.

Massive.
While we're gatekeeping, how about "Software Developer Apprentice"? This stuff isn't technically engineering.
Continental America averages on the order of 4.5kWh/m^2/day total solar irradiance.

A clean, car roof sized solar panel in direct sunlight all day would be good enough to offset parasitic drain with maybe enough left over to charge a phone or two but not much else. Not worth the cost (or the variance given you’re not always going to park in direct sunlight for 8+ hours).
"When your data doesn't align with the anecdotes, suspect the data" - paraphrase of one of the world's richest people, possibly being correct for once.
We are not even allowed to hate certain kinds of food anymore?
Windows 3.1 and Windows NT 3.1 are about as similar as Javascript and Java though ;)

(I still have a soft spot for WinNT 4.0, this was the first Windows that wasn't a complete joke when coming from an Amiga)
"everything is an item" I looked into the further lab notes and I'm confused about how this is different from "everything is a file" in Linux.
I only know what Europeans tell me. I assume different people have different takes on what is essential. And my understanding is SMS can still be pricey. (Not sure what's weird about SMS in the US? It's on my phone. I use it. It can piggyback on iMessage but that's not necessary and is transparent, bubble color notwithstanding.)
TBF VW Group royally fucked up their EV software development and it's a big part of why their current models get criticised in reviews, and there are interesting user complaints, like doors opening while in motion. VW might eventually get this right, but I suspect Google's investment in car infotainment and robotaxi tech will pay off as car makers realize software is hard and expensive.

That said, Elon's nearly decade long hypefest should be thoroughly discredited by now: Camera-only AV looks to be a dead end and it is exemplifying why "the best part is no part" does not trump "premature optimization kills."
> Everything I could do in the 1970's, 1990's, 2010's I can do today just fine without a phone.

In the 1990s, I remember payphones being conveniently available, but now I need to keep an eye on my battery if I'm going to phone home.

In 2010, I could log into any of my accounts with just WiFi and a password, now I need 2FA and often SMS is the only supported option. Sometimes a phone call. So in order to, say, check my bank account, I now need data and cell signal. That combination can be hard to get in a concrete building or while traveling abroad.
Ok, I assumed a validator providing blocks with unexpected transactions would trigger a penalty - guess not.
The most impressive thing about this story is that they figured out the answer. They did the research, and nailed down that it was Nyquist who was was the productivity booster. It’s the exact opposite of the OP’s story, where management tried to fire the Nyquist-equivalent.
This editor is developed with Jai language https://github.com/focus-editor/focus
I don’t know what magic land you come from, but that’s a pretty standard rate for a place like London which is definitely not low CoL.
If you are calling something immediately, a try-except is ok. If you are calling with a try-except just to simulate hasattr or getattr then why do we have the built-ins in the first place?
Yes and no, depends on the engineering culture and the management. I was successful in this sort of position as a full-time remote senior and then a team lead from 2016 til 2022. I changed employers and found myself in an environment that simply did not understand pairing, mentoring, etc. Management was oftentimes directly in the way, confused about loss of "velocity" and other trivial bullshit, despite the fact that the team was shipping in overdrive. I left at the start of this year and am now back in a position where these things are valued, encouraged, and happening remotely.
If any AI, be it an LLM or otherwise, could reliably operate at professional level without any human intervention, how many people would be permanently unemployable?
I don't really see a point in complaining about street noise with open windows/doors. You can close them and if you had not been living in an apartment you could have ones that do not pass a lot of noise. Nobody said there is no street noise, it just does not make to the houses because houses in general have means to mitigate it. Unlike apartments, where, even if you have got windows and doors with any sound insulation, you are still exposed to the noise coming through the walls and also people screaming much closer to your windows and doors. A source of noise 10' away from your window projects 100 times more energy on its surface than a source 100' away.
Idea people really overestimate their contributions.
Really? From my manager and up at least 4 levels has been unchanged for at least 8 years. Titles changed some, but the same people are in the same effective roles.
Not entirely neutered, but at least "data-at-rest" is protected, while "data-in-flight" is not.
How much hyperbole will we see before people realize that our entire society is built on nuanced positions? Preventing someone from driving irresponsibly is no more tyranny than saying they can’t fire a gun randomly in a neighborhood but have to go to a range.
Figures in the Sky: Cultures and Constellations
I'm no huge fan of SAP, but SAP HANA is an in memory database. What does its memory utilization have to do with the vendor rather than the use case?
This sounds great but you still need tanks, humvees, missiles, artillery shells, anti-rocket systems, helicopters, etc. to fight wars. (Lots of them, too.) Adding drones does not address that need any more than the introduction of breech-loading rifles changed the need for other types of military equipment.

And before we get too excited about eliminating carrier-like warships and transport aircraft...How does everyone think the drones will get onto the battlefield?

Drones are another component of combined arms but you need the rest of the stack to use them effectively, plus boots on the ground to hold territory.
I don't think Notepad is going to be anything more than a basic text editor. It certainly gets new features from time to time, but it is more about making it usable in the modern world than adding advanced features like Notepad++ has.

It does compete with Notepad++ in a sense that now, Notepad can actually edit text files, and if you want advanced features, there is VSCode. And I must admit that I don't have any use for a middle ground text editor like Notepad++ or PSPad anymore, so maybe their strategy is working.
Is there a new draft?

It seems like the article is about the original draft, which the foundation has already scrapped after the backlash.
Wow this is very nicely done!
So it’s basically an alternative to a sterling engine?

I wonder if you could use it as a heat pump too.
>Or, you know, hapless Ukrainians. Ukrainians may have been quicker to innovate in this area but that was a long time ago.

What's your point?
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I built the first internet provider, built chips, built the next generation Enernet (decentralized peer-to-peer internet for Energy).

Its faster to have an interactive chat than for me to write about our methodologies, list all my skills and predict what our community of scientist and programmers can do for your startup or company.

Instead of writing your startup's core app with legacy software libraries and deploy it on an expensive cloud, I will prove to you we can write and deploy the whole system cheaper and faster (time-to-market) on custom hardware saving you millions per year each year thereafter, all for a fee of $100K-$200K for your entire (software) product. Remember that 85% of the cost of software is incured after its deployed to customers. We just integrate with your team to bring you these savings.

We built entire software and hardware systems from scratch because that is faster, cheaper and quicker time-to-market than using legacy operating systems, languages and platforms, as described by Alan Kay in the YCombinator Startupschool lectures at Stanford part I and II: https://youtu.be/1e8VZlPBx_0?si=0RAxU0DXkXUOGyPy and an in-depth example and demo from my peers https://vimeo.com/82301919
When it comes to prtect from unhinged capitalism and greedy corporations, well, yes, we absolutely do.
Having been in the industry since the around 1990, I can tell you that in the first half of my career we had no code reviews, no scrum, no story points, no unit tests.

How on earth, you might wonder, did we ship software that worked?

I then saw all these things come down the pike one after another during the last half of my career.

Clearly to me every one of these benefit management who found themselves apparently unable to function without numbers, graphs, data of some sort. It has been a very obvious (to me) power struggle: management trying to get the upper hand and wrest any and all power (and autonomy, and decision making) from engineering.

It has been sad to me to have heard some new engineers come on board who like these things. It's just as well I retired when I did: it's probably me that is the odd man out now.
In my experience, the best programmers write the least amount of code they can get away with.

I don’t mean they use the latest fashion library, I mean the amount of code they type is less simply because they understand the problem and know how to write a minimal solution.

This makes their code easy to read and therefore easier to debug.

It’s worth noting that the less you type, the fewer bugs you’ll create.

To be fair, this is often due to the coder having significant experience.
Weirdly enough, many unsuccessful companies I know of had management too. Correlation isn't causation, but maybe there's something there.

There are also plenty of successful companies and projects without management too. Basically every 1-to-5ish-man consulting shop has zero managers and some of those do wildly well. Some of the best indie games, produced by teams of 3 or 4, had zero dedicated management. Most open source projects have effectively 0 management.

Valve, famously, kept a flat organizational structure for a long time, and certainly was somewhat successful.
I'd be surprised if solar panels in the roof were less than $2,000. An android-auto enabled head unit is like $500. Heated seats are often $1000 and that's "just" resistive wire. A cover for your truck bed is like $700. Premium carpet mats are $250. Unlocking your tailgate using a remote beeper instead of a physical key costs $300.

> IMO solar roofs are useful at the low end for ~400$

So I agree with this, but I don't believe that would be an option, at least without some DIY aspect.
> a metrics focussed manager could have simply added an "adjunct" label to the stories and had this "worst programmer" add themselves to stories as the non-lead developer.

The story includes a part where they dropped the crappy metric and changed to a better one.
The bad guys don't need to scan your biometrics. Every site you log into with TouchID or whatever already has. Passwords get leaked all the time, and when you find out, you change them. You can't change your biometrics.
That kind of people was somehow mentioned in Peopleware. A group of people is a subtle structure, and good team spirit, good questions can improve things "invisibly".
Yes, large scale adoption of OS X has proven that the large majority cares more about POSIX/UNIX in general, than GNU/Linux in particular.

WSL ended up being an easier way, than fixing SUA.
I heard stories from past employers where they wanted bi-monthly increases in scrum velocity.

"OK, last sprint the team did 150 points, so we should do 160 points this sprint."

The funny thing is that point estimates just went up to compensate for productivity gain demands. "More productivity" yay!
I think my net contribution of lines of code at my current company is still negative. It was for a long time, but I haven't checked in awhile so I'm not sure if it still is.
Weev has attacked by AT&T who then had him imprisoned for years for using wget instead of a browser to access a public website of theirs. https://www.wired.com/2013/03/att-hacker-gets-3-years/
add me to the list of people without a smartphone who has to deal with bullshit like this.
Except it does make you a state actor, and even children know it, as even the 9-11 year old demographic has literally disclosed to me, the "crazy uncle" in their life, that they are not comfortable being open with any type of guidance counselor or state licensed therapist due to knowledge of just such a dynamic.

A spade, is a spade by any other name. If the state will come down on you for not doing something (message generation), you are a deputy of the State. Period.
There’s lots of off the shelf laptops available with ECC memory, some even in slim form factors.
For desktops the entire Thinkstation lineup has ECC available to option or as standard.

For the higher priced models you cant even order them with non-ECC memory.
From the draft: We will likely consider using the Marks as part of a domain name or subdomain an infringement of our Marks.
> Imagine not being yelled at or ridiculed or told to figure it out if what you're asked to do is ambiguous or makes no sense.

I think maybe you just worked at a terrible business. You experience contacting sounds more like my experience at my current job.
If you're working with three words I don't see why base 26 would be relevant, I think you'd be looking at n^3 where n is the size of the set of words that you're considering. So wouldn't you just, split the 2-sphere into N squares of a certain size, and then each square has (lat,long) associated with it, and then you pick n so that n^3 > N and come up with a mapping between your N (lat, long) points and your set of n^3 three word sentences?
Yeah, I'm not sure what's up with these weirdos. It's like they expect to be taken seriously when their worldview is apparently based on absurdist philosophy.
How often are you executing create, compared to how often do you need to vacuum?
Look into loitering munition. Drone can stay up for hours, and if it recognizes target (tank, truck...) it will attack it.

Most scary is fully autonomous mode (no GPS, no remote control). For past mile it uses image recognition, and can not be jammed.

Now imagine what this would do to aircraft carrier! Upper decks are very vulnerable!

US has three problems when it comes to drones:

1) No cheap reliable air defense. It can not take down hundreds of thousands of attacking drones. Patriots are like $1M per rocket.

2) No cheap kamikaze drones with large explosive payload. Bayraktar is basically a cruise missile at 1/1000th cost.

3) No software for self autonomy, and electronic warfare resistance. US relies to much on GPS and satellite signals that can be jammed.

Source: I follow russian telegram war channels.
Both sides use the drones. It's not a strategic advantage.
Any ramp style bridges that are U shaped annoy me. I much prefer ramp style bridges that are H or Z shaped so you can make productive walking in your goal direction for both the up and down legs of the trip.
In the stereotypes I'm discussing, the people with bad health outcomes reject every suggestion with the slightest inconvenience for them -- or even if it doesn't inconvenience them. Every novelty is portrayed as "health prison", or the equivalent on other topics.

In other words, according to the stereotypes, the internal value function is about rejection. This is a kind of checkmate, a game designed for them to win. Which would lead many to want to leave to it, but it does have effects on people who don't fit the stereotypes and have other priorities (including longer lifespans and more healthy-feeling lifestyles).
What exact point are you trying to make? Why do you say the innovation was a long time ago?

Drone warfare, on both sides, is literally evolving before our very eyes on daily basis. All the words militaries are taking extensive notes and it's pretty obvious the small scale drones are the future of warfare, or at least the ability to deal with them.
I just learned that my ICE vehicle can drain the 12v battery overnight if it fails to turn off the accessories circuit. No lights or infotainment etc. were left on. In my case, it was the switch on the park gear flaked out. I imagine a variety of similar faults could cause the same issue in an EV.
That's the only one I know of at my bank that's mobile only. (And for how frequently I deposit checks, going to an ATM wouldn't be a big deal.) I realize other banks may have more de-featured web sites.
Yeah exactly. It is non-sensical to say that she is a Bank Teller twice. English isn't mathematical syntax and directly converting a P(occupation=Bank Teller) => "Linda is a bank teller" is a bad translation of mathematical syntax to english, because we contextualize the statement when we are presented the next statement "Linda is a bank teller, and part of the feminist movement".

Stupid stupid research IMO.
For extremely rare emergency comms?
Actually, it stopped taking feedback. It has said that it’s considering the feedback, and that they might still accept the draft
yeah, it tripped my "this is college writing" sense.
Conventions are changing. Modern python is shifting to type checking with external type checkers.