skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting, in that I've tried to come up with simple simulations like this for strategy games before. But I was a little "eww" when he kicked the number of government workers up to 40% of the workforce. Looks like it goes all the way up to 50%.

On simulation #13, where tax is fixed at 10%, the government workers all eventually starve. Surprisingly, the libertarians are correct because at this point the quality of life index abruptly rockets up to twice what it used to be. But there's some sort of robotic overlord AI going on, it still collects the tax.

But then in simulation #18, things become a little insane. I call this one the Massachusetts simulation... only 3 workers, but 9 government employees. For a 3:1 ratio. The simulation suggests that some sort of economic meltdown occurs and they all starve, but I suspect that things were a little more violent than that.

After, the developer then introduces ration tickets. This is simulation #20, and I'm pretty sure it's Zimbabwe. But it's not the real world Zimbabwe, it somehow works. That is, if you're ok printing trillion dollar bills.

Simulation #21 takes a new direction entirely. FDR has been elected, and tries to stamp out competition... but he is too late, evil capitalist farmers have grown too many apples, which perversely leads to starvation. Careful apple quotas are needed. The government has disappeared though, probably because late stage capitalism destroyed it. Only the corporations survive.

Surprisingly, no farm subsidies yet. I predict the introduction of a new private sector worker, the ConAgra lobbyist. We'll see if he shows up in a later simulation. That is, assuming another government is elected.

In simulation #25, one of the warlords has settled down and become a government again. But this is the last of the simulations. No lobbyists, though the central bank has returned. This might be because Andrew Jackson has died. I did not like the man, he will not be missed. But quite clearly the inflation is through the roof again, and 30% taxes are here to stay.

What I've learned from these is that history is a lie. Rhodesia probably never existed, and Zimbabwe happened before the US civil war.
I believe it’s left wing authoritarianism. The government said it was bad, so everyone back the party line.
I think it is people laid off still trickling back into jobs.
Yes, according to the linked The Intercept article:

> Twitter’s verification policy temporarily removes verification from accounts that change profile pictures, which the UAW did in conjunction with the walkout.
Depends on your database size, type, change rate, etc. Dumping the database to a file is fine for toy and small cases, but not for a 1+TB store that's under heavy writes.
But built to UK spec
Yes, he can. We're criticizing him for being an oligarch and a hypocrite, not calling for regulation or whining about the First Amendment rights of the UAW.
It is that way, especially so since being able to pay for the check. That way you don't change your name to Ford (bluecheck) as people did in the beginning of the system.
> That's absurd speculation

I don’t know, it seems like a pretty good argument to me

> Hard to imagine he would actually think changing a checkmark would have an impact on his own staff's salaries via that route.

It would if the group is stripped of legitimacy when communicating with the outside world
From experience I can tell you that 99 of those are Indians without any sort of relevant resume for the job they're applying for.
>Not too long ago that was lesser than SWE? I know plenty of certificate chasing cybersecurity professionals that can barely keep $100,000

The high-end cybersecurity jobs require zero certificates. Qualifications > Certifications.

If you have actual expertise in red-teaming, proven track-record with discovering CVEs etc, the money is there.
And sometimes market conditions are "people refuse to work for us for less than 150k".

And sometimes you're in a time a place where laborers are expected to take a greater share of the benefits of their labor.

Actually, the word deserve is probably stronger. I think workers deserve to reap almost all of the benefits of their labor, as opposed to capital or leadership benefitting.
Someone wrote the library for a reason, right?
Many are made bc people needed it for their job.
> Prices have outpaced inflation.

Or, as many people suspect, the government calculation of inflation is deliberately under representing it. The government doesn't like to admit it is the cause of inflation, hence all the excuses for it coming from the government, like "Putin's Price Hike" and all that other economically illiterate nonsense.

Companies can raise their prices at any time. So why don't they? Why do they do it only after the government dumps trillions of newly printed money into the economy?
sectoral bargaining is very, very common in a lot of countries with a strong union presence. In fact it's almost the norm. In most places literal union membership is not high.

It's not absurd and not even speculation, it happens all the time. It's also simply logical because if a large employer (read: buyer of labour) raises wages there is immediately increased competition on the labour market. It's the inverse of a large vendor dropping prices

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectoral_collective_bargaining
it's rendered in 3d though plays in 2d, deltaV: rings of saturn is great.
I think you misunderstood what I said? They don't turn it into cash, they use it as payment for "priceless" services. Say, you pay someone "Mona Lisa" for an assassination, and they take it, then they themselves use it to hack into some high profile person or Nation State actor etc... So, ultimately these art pieces are just their own currency, they're never turned into cash until they're busted. They go from one criminal to the other for special services. I have no idea if this is accurate in reality but I read this in some sources (blog posts), so just wanted to share.
Because we're a cheap bunch of bastards, myself included. Most of us are paid exorbitantly well, yet most of us will never reach a point where we can say "I have enough money", and then go and find that all of the load bearing open source libraries that we owe our lively hood to (xkcd 2347), and donate. This is why selling developer tools is so frustrating, and you have to sell to the companies (read: enterprise contracts) that employ them instead.
Isn’t this just book burning without the fire?
This is also baffling. A button, a text input, a checkbox, a drop list, a combo - they all have a "default" look in every Windows version since 2.0 (1 didn't have the drop list, IIRC). It shouldn't be difficult to make an abstract description of a dialog box look at home with a new version of the OS and, yet, digging through Windows 10's built-in apps you sometimes find things that you recognize as skinned versions of Windows NT 4 dialogs. That they look like NT 4 dialogs with the Windows 7 skin applied is disconcerting, at best.
This was my impression: running out of ammo leads to death leads to paying for continue credits.
I'd say this is exactly the kind of petty thing Elon would do though.
glad to see DASK getting their scaling bugs worked out.
mind sharing a reference? didn't say it's a pd vuln btw
edit: ah, I see – did say exactly that.
I'd love a laptop with a Space Cadet keyboard ;-)
I thought he was an opponent of unlimited free speech. Apparently not.
Thankfully due to proton, unreal engine games (and home rolled engines) should just work out of the box too.
I've lived through 3 of these times so far. The early 2000's when the stock market tanked. 2008, and now the last year.

The demand for people who can write software slows down, but we aren't anywhere near a peak plateau where software engineering jobs aren't needed. Silicon Valley isn't going to turn into the rust belt anytime soon.

What's changing are the types of skills needed, and engineers are imminently poised to do that. Unlike factory workers our skills are malleable and constantly changing.
Oslo seems to be well within lynx territory, whom I am sure would be glad to snack on a housecat. Norway also has wolverines and in a few areas, wolves and bears.
Chinese farmers seeking durian supremacy
> I would expect this to be a library somewhere.

Indeed. That library is often written off-the-clock by person X and imported on-the-clock by person Y.

Sometimes X === Y.
Chebyshev's inequality:

> for a wide class of probability distributions, no more than a certain fraction of values can be more than a certain distance from the mean. Specifically, no more than 1/k^2 of the distribution's values can be k or more standard deviations away from the mean.

IQ is (if I recall correctly) normally distributed with a standard deviation of 15. So for a distance of 1.3... standard deviation (i.e. a distance of 20), you can't have more than 1/1.3...^2 = 56.25% of the population so far from the mean (below 80 or above 120), or 28.125% _above_ 120.
https://archive.ph/gkwTK
Orwell Meets Your Stuffy Nose
"Experts have long doubted the effectiveness of phenylephrine," "They are telling us this 16 years after the FDA forced the ingredient as the substitute for a product that actually works, which is pseudoephedrine."
"A typical vaccine teaches the human immune system to recognize a virus or bacteria as an enemy that should be attacked. The new 'inverse vaccine' does just the opposite: it removes the immune system’s memory of one molecule. While such immune memory erasure would be unwanted for infectious diseases, it can stop autoimmune reactions like those seen in multiple sclerosis, type I diabetes, or rheumatoid arthritis, in which the immune system attacks a person’s healthy tissues."
More significantly, true and false are now keywords.
Not true if new housing stock is snapped up by speculators/investors/foreigners. Housing, like freeways, can suffer from induced demand, if the target market of the housing project is for people who do not live in the project's geographical region.
We might not know until it's too late :P
Changing profile picture automatically removes the blue check. I believe there’s a big confirmation dialog you have to click through. This article seems deceptive.

> Twitter’s verification policy temporarily removes verification from accounts that change profile pictures, which the UAW did in conjunction with the walkout.

from https://theintercept.com/2023/09/15/uaw-strike-twitter-verif...
This information can actually be used in any NLRB trial against Elon's other companies (also, including twitter).

If UAW are to succeed, Tesla's workers are going to realize they're missing out.
but but ... you cannot have data get in the way of good theory.
What's interesting to me is that if you adjust the average salary in the 80's for inflation and productivity gains it'd be close to what (non-FAANG) devs make now.

As in the "high salaries" of tech workers is just what average folks used to make relatively speaking previous decades.
The Story of Linear as told by its CTO
Filesystem snapshot for database is not different than database crash. Databases are designed to handle crashes well (WAL etc.).
Can't cache so you need to read it whenever you use the data, not just when it changes.
Yes. I recommend the Dawn of Everything
You do understand correctly.
Because pretending that happened and is still happening would be contrary to the narrative that labor (vs. Capital) needs to be reigned in to make the economy broadly functional again. Inflation is being driven by corporate price gouging and labor shortages (outside of those resulting from the pandemic) are being driven by the wildly unequal distribution of returns to owners vs workers.

COVID’s on track to kill another 200K people in the US this year, plus cause serious health problems for who knows how many more, so I don’t expect any of this to abate. They’ll just keep jacking up interest rates and screaming “NOBODY WANTS TO WORK ANYMORE” until the whole thing implodes.
Well if the market ever bounces back I think people will be a lot less loyal about leaving places with subpar salaries esp after all the layoffs
Skilled engineers are just in demand as ever, an engineer is different than a technician however. An engineer can take a problem and solve it using various tools, they can weigh the pros and cons of possible solutions and can determine what fits the situation. A skilled engineer understands the value of good coding practices, understands that even if an activity doesn't create value it is still important, such as documentation and testing.

A technician was a barista who went to a 3 month boot camp[1] that promised to turn him into a "Full Stack Developer" who got railroaded through the basics of the React-Express-Mongo stack (all of which is largely JS) and a certificate. A technician doesn't waste time understanding why the reports are coming out slightly wrong, they'll just go ahead and add some code that updates all the values that are off by 1. A technician is defined primarily by the tool they have and their ability to use it. A technician will do something like have an entire table returned to the client side and then filter through it in the frontend because it that's what they know how to do.[2]

For a while technician's could demand the salaries of skilled engineers by virtue of an enormous shortage, and the fact that VC capital meant there was always another unicorn to sling their code around at. The market is contracting now and the technicians are starting to be unable to demand six figure starting salaries, and get insulted that some of the offers are only 60-70k, which as an aside is still a decent salary for most people in the US, one of my good friends works in construction management and despite his years of experience he just transferred jobs, he was estatic at the prospect of possibly making 80k at his new job, but I digress. My point being I think that part of the problem is there was a bubble in tech salaries for a while that were unsustainable, and now we are seeing a mild corretion.

Notes:

1. I have nothing against boot camp grads who can be valuable engineers and contributors, if they either 1) Were already tinkering and interested in programming before and the boot camp was just their way of getting their foot in the door or 2) They understand the bootcamp is the beginning of their journey and not the end and are willing to put the effort into continuing education.

2. I know this comes off hard on technicians, but I have seen many even supposedly "senior" engineers who are overglorified technicians, the difference between a perpetual technician and an engineer is continually learning. Here's a tip, if you want to be a decent engineer you should probably have a decent grasp of at least 3 programming languages, be able to understand networking basics, and follow everything outlined in Norvig's "How to become a programmer in 10 years."
amount/quantity doesn't mean quality.

top tier still can see lots of salary increase in growing hot areas, like OpenAI pays 1M to ICs, bottom tiers yes, may be overcrowded.
A very fair point well-made!
> which is what usual prog.lang modeling does for arithmetic ops.

I mean, in Python you can't multiply two timedeltas and in Rust you can't multiply two time::Durations. So I'd say that it's not programming language modeling in general that's the problem but rather that Go is putting itself in a category of languages that lose the original semantics of the thing the type is modeling. I'm not sure what other languages are with Go there.
It was slated for shutdown because of tritium leaks and corrosion issues considered too expensive to mitigate - https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1116/ML11166A174.pdf

they’ll be allowed run as long as the application is pending - regardless of any fixes or not, no? That’s very convenient!
It is mostly driven by housing costs. A lot (read most) of the tech companies are located in the most expensive housing real estate markets. If I’m looking for a job, I most definitely will try to make sure I don’t end up having to spend more than half of my “in hand, guaranteed income” is not spent on housing.

The companies are pushing RTO in a bone headed way, will then have to pay the premium of having to hire talent in those expensive markets. It’s a fixable problem that companies don’t seem to want to fix.
> That smells a bit autoritarian.

That's very much in character for him...
Or someone added a bogus 'observation'
Part of the fun is immersion. A player can easily suspend disbelief if it's important for the game's conceit (it's like our world, but with dragons and magic). But if it's based on a misunderstanding of the base nature of the world, it's just a distraction with no value.

Sometimes it can be fun to get into the medieval mindset and have the rules reinforce their erroneous beliefs (maybe bloodletting is treated as a useful treatment for diseases, for example). But in this case, if the armor types are based on a misunderstanding in the Victorian era, I don't really see the fun in pretending that these other types of armor both exist and would be useful.
"Whisky is built on top of CrossOver 22.1.1, and Apple's own Game Porting Toolkit."

System Requirements

CPU: Apple Silicon (M1/M2 and its variants)
OS: macOS Sonoma 14.0 or later

Whisky is on homebrew brew install --cask whisky.

Does it need Crossover?
I reflexively swiped left when the inevitable newsletter modal started to appear at the bottom, so didn’t finish reading the article, but would like to know what gave you the dystopian vibe?
I got iPad mini 6th edition with Apple Pencil 2 and I couldn’t be happier for work and personal reading.
You'd think Musk would rejoice that the UAW is helping Tesla out and like give them two blue checks for free or something.
To be fair, I could probably spin an semi-plausible argument for that claim.
Uber and the people they hired never struck me as particularly concerned by things like "laws" and "property".
This is not a prior example like the parent comment asked for
If you're gonna include manga, Miyazaki's 'Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind' needs to be at the top of the list.
FWIW, I read the first LN and couldn't really get into it.
Simulation 16 is hilarious. By the state dynamically scaling how much they print money in order to support government workers, government workers accumulate more wealth than the producers of goods.
Not sure the current generation of confidently-wrong language models will be of overall good use in summarizing literature, as suggested in the article. Sounds like the perfect disaster recipe for the "citogenesis" ((C) xkxcd) of spurious facts. Not that they won't be used like that (they probably already are), but that sounds like an expectable outcome, and a net negative to me. There is enough of a replication crisis with things that are stated in published papers already [0], we don't need another one with things that were never originally stated in any papers.

One idea that I find interesting is to combine LLMs with formal verification and theorem prover tools like Coq, Lean, etc. Any mistakes by the LLM should be detectable by the verification engine. Maybe this could be useful in automating the currently ongoing efforts of 're-proving' the existing body of mathematical knowledge with theorem provers ('ChatGPT, please take this paper and verify the proofs with Lean'). And who knows, maybe one day the machines will produce some interesting mathematics on their own. Would be curious if anyone has links to works in this direction, or blogs/content by mathematicians discussing this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
This is a key topic in Peter Thiel's "Zero to One." Questionable dude, but good book, in case anyone's interested.
Supply and demand, a boat load of extremely talented FAANG engineers were dumped on a smaller market. You might not be willing to compromise on the price of your eggs, but your peer might and he might be almost as good as you, and probably 10x as good as what the company previously had access to.
You previously said CTR mode nonce repetitions are “always bad” and are “game-over”. I provided a simple counterexample.

You also said that IV reuse in CBC mode can only be exploited if you setup an ECB-style attack. Also untrue.

Now you have retreated to merely claiming that CBC issues are less likely to be exploitable, but have provided absolutely zero evidence to backup that assertion. I don’t think you could really stand that up without making a bunch of assumptions about typical application data that I think are shaky.

The way to address this is not to endlessly debate the pros and cons of different confidentiality-only cipher modes. Instead, modern crypto acknowledges that none of them are CPA-secure in the case of IV reuse, and they all leak info in different ways. The best course of action is then to assume that in the worst case they are basically all terrible and design around that at higher levels: like SIV, or XChaCha, or whatever.
The opposite of this is non-expert customers demanding detailed documentation for common patterns in industry.

“Can you please provide more content to explain what a load balancer does?”
as someone who has played so much of these two games: both are incredible games, in their own way - creating/testing maps, the weapons, the movements, the game-modes, the moddability (skins, sounds, etc)...so good
That doesn't have to mean anything though. I set up a couple of job posts some months ago, in that case we where trying to hire devs roughly in a specific time zone. As linkedin didn't support that we had to leave the location filtering completely off. We immediately got inundated with low quality applications from outside our target timezones. I know that others too have had this "issue"
Really interested in putting together some kind of USB host to HID over GATT profile or Bluetooth HID to i2c/UART bridge.

We’re (Pimoroni) closing on shipping a dual RP2040 HDMI board (PicoVision) that’s great for bedroom coder style games, but lack of full fat Bluetooth support or USB HID host in MicroPython - and the relative pain of making and supporting a build that includes these features - make adding controllers… tricky.

Now I wish I’d kept the Dreamcast controller I modded with a custom cable to poke Maple bus. Hindsight!
If you have a reasonably long `updatetime`, you could try something like `autocommand CursorHoldI * stopinsert`.

On both vim and nvim, updatetime is 4 seconds, so if you have 4 seconds of inactivity that autocommand will automatically put you back into normal mode.
I had to look at that headline three times before it stopped reading "Painting with Meth". Seemed a very non-HN topic!
> Also, it's unclear to me what happens if you attempt a snapshot in the middle of something like a database transaction or even a basic file write. Seems likely that the snapshot would still be corrupted.

You just quiesce the database first. Any decent backup engine has support to talk to a DB and pause / flush everything.
> Salaries are set based on market conditions.

This is true, but the long-term market condition has been "There are not enough tech workers to meet the demand."

Honestly, I hate how extortionate the higher education system is in the US, but I benefit from it because it does an amazing job of choking off the supply of labor and keeping wages high. I'd still vote to provide free universal higher education, but the lack of it is what's keeping everyone in the tech sector afloat. Look at what the scourge of affordable tuition has done to European tech workers.
> Skilled engineers are just in demand as ever

the problem is that many companies don't have good interviewing process to distinguish such engineers during hiring, so they are lost in crowd and salaries may receive hit.
The same happened to me recently. It came suddenly, but a visit to the doctor diagnosed it as ear wax. Took ear drips to soften and remove the wax, and the noise disappeared in no time.
clearly a cow, yep. You missed the posterior ear