skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s hard to describe any country in foreign affairs “good”. Typically, we expect nations to pursue their best interests. Still, we (the U.S.) we’re probably as close to being the “good” guys as a nation could be during WW2. I’m not really convinced we continued to be afterwards.

But we have been the “law and order” and “free trade” guys. That doesn’t necessarily mean “good”, and I question whether our commitment to free trade was anything other than a way to put pressure on the USSR’s economy. Still, “law and order” can at least guarantee a measure of peace.

But I think with Iraq we burned that reputation away - it’s gone. Now we’re just some bitter friendless policeman with too many guns who’s really just riding out of what’s left of the momentum produced by our past global position.
I don't know, I've had my nose in (machine-generated) transcripts a lot over the last few weeks, and they didn't give me that feeling, even when they were quite rambly.

I think it's the "jumping from one subject to the next without a broader point" thing that made me think of Donald Trump.
Many people would not like the cognitive dissonance of working for an organization that does many things they disagree with.

But from what I hear, it really depends where in google you work. I hear juniors/new grads are worked to the bone
to echo your response:

I know people who worked at Amazon and hated it. And facebook and loved it. Google people did the google world tour (transfer offices every 6-9 months and live everywhere in the world). Pretty great experiences at Dropbox.

The life-changing salary is also pretty great.

I also know people who got so bored at those jobs working on the same one tiny thing all day long.

So many varied experiences. To say they all suck would be quite disingenuous.
When compared to China, the US is getting more and more like a communist country while China is getting more and more into state capitalism.

There are facts you just can't deny at all -

* far less income inequality in the US. A US software engineer working for Google/Apple/Amazon probably makes 3-5x more than a typical unskilled US worker, in China, a Chinese software engineer working for Alibaba/Tencent/Huawei can easily make 30-50x wage of a typical unskilled Chinese worker.

* no union movements in China, they even banned The Internationale. the US is seeing wide spread strikes in many key sectors. this is eye opening for many Chinese.

* no covid handouts in China, you are always on your own. numerous communist style handouts in the US during covid, that caused extremely high inflation and the current demand for wage increases & strikes.

* free COVID-19 medicine in the US, full price out of your own pocket here in China. I paid two packs of Paxlovid back in Feb, cost me $600 USD and it was like winning the lottery to be able to buy them online, I had to try multiple time a day for two weeks, it sold out within seconds each time.

* far more social welfares in the US, tons of real public hospitals & social housing. here in China, if you don't have enough money, you won't get shocked by your medical bill because you will never be tested or treated in the first place. you are always on your own. by the US standard, there is 0 public hospital in China, no hospital is fully or even half government funded, all those so called Chinese public hospitals have to source their fundings on their own.
Same here. If I want to install the site as an app, there are options available in the browser itself.
smol
This, but it doesn't even have to be as nefarious as misrepresenting your work.

Someone senior who didn't quite understand some point but didn't want to ask about it in the meeting* will ask a version of it in the hallway just outside the door.

They'll appreciate and increase trust in the person who gave them the answer. There's not even anything nefarious about that; it's just normal human behavior.

* Positively: because they didn't want to derail the meeting and slow everyone down, or negatively: because they didn't want to admit to not being omniscient. Either way, it happens.
Looking at the timestamps from the activity, they probably haven't seen this concern yet. I'm guessing they are West Coast USA and are still asleep for the night. Let's give them some time.
This idea that your top priority as an employee is to make your boss feel good at all times, is a thing in the US, but it is not universal to every where in the world.
Also, things like building roads and infrastructure, picking fruits, logistics, etc. The value of these jobs for the society are not commensurate with their wages.
Every time I open their ios app I don't know what to expect. Often features that I so used to just stop working: they broke enqueue songs a few times, local music, sorting within playlists - all basic features.

And I don't even want to mention their persistance to show me podcasts (and now audiobooks) without an ability to get rid of them. In the app that most of their users solely use for music.

Spotify is doing its best to follow enshittification playbook.
I got one from a hackerspace outside Germany.
This is going to be like Photoshop usage. Very quickly it will be expected that papers use AI to write parts, just as fixing white balance in Photoshop doesn’t require alerting the viewer that the photo has been enhanced. More extensive use may need to be acknowledged. But I’m not sure…design tools are rarely credited except in cases like a Fx heavy movie
You are more productive on the thing you know the most. Shocking
The 4 most useful books to me were these 4, in no particular order:

* "Saying Goodbye: A Guide to Coping with a Loved One's Terminal Illness" by Okun & Nowinski

* the four things that matter most

* final journeys

* the grief recovery handbook by John James [I organized my family to go through the book+exercises together in pairs. I think if I was doing it again, I would've combined the 7 sessions into 2-3 sessions, everyone partnering with a different family member. We did it while my dad was still alive.]

There were others I read that weren't useful, but for each of those 4 above I'm glad I read them.

One book that I wish other people around my mom had read to support her, and that I was glad I read:

* Being there for someone in grief. I made a summary of this book and I think I gave copies of my summary to a few of my mom's friends so that they'd know to better support her.

One thing that I wish someone had told me:

* I didn't feel like I got a final goodbye. I did have moments like that, but I kind of wish I had one that was more of a final goodbye.

* When dad was in palliative care, there was a point where he could talk and communicate, and then over the period of a few days or maybe a week, then he wasn't really able to talk and communicate any more, and so by the time I realized that we'd had our last proper conversation it was too late to have a proper goodbye. I wish someone had told me that that would be a thing, that all of a sudden he wouldn't be able to properly communicate and so my last conversation with him will have been and gone even though he was still alive

A thing I'm glad I did:

* I read out to my dad 2 of the 3 sections from the "grief recovery handbook" "grief letter" of my relationship to my dad, to him out loud, while he was still able to communicate. i read out the "I apologize for" and the "i want you to know" sections and skipped the "i forgive you for" section. I'm glad I did it like that, and I'm glad I did it in general.

I hope this is helpful to some
It’s coming back with @scope at-rule:
https://www.w3.org/TR/css-cascade-6/#scope-limits

> If no <scope-start> is specified, the scoping root is the parent element of the owner node of the stylesheet where the @scope rule is defined.

It also comes with the ability to set scoping limit.
Audacity Runs Surprisingly Well in the Browser
The topic was quality of life and they expanded this to "security" which includes the ability to maintain that quality of life to a reasonable degree.

There are ways to lose your quality of life against which guns are useful.

There are many more ways against which guns are not useful.

More of the latter apply in the US than e.g. Germany (which has very strict gun laws). Does this mean gun laws in Germany are better? Personally I don't think so. But it does mean the preference for guns over thse other benefits has more to do with ideology than realistic risk assessment.

If you want to complain about derailment, arguably OP derailed the conversation already by bringing gun control into a quality of life discussion and I merely recontextualized that. Especially because they were arguing for a practical necessity of gun ownership rather than merely for gun ownership simply being something they see as a quality of life improvement (like having an 8K TV or the newest generation of gaming consoles).
> Why not do it by state then?

While state level differences are real, the entire US shares federal taxation and federal labor law, and has freedom of movement, constitutionally limited barriers to internal trade. It’s a very natural unit of analysis.
Three points is the minimum necessary to fit three parameters, so as long as nothing is degenerate, you should be fine. Now that being said, fits to nonlinear models can be tricky, because you can get stuck in local minima, but there are techniques for avoiding that.
Many EU countries, and the EU itself (with eIDAS) are rolling out digital identity schemes as well.

I'm able to communicate with most government agencies of one European country digitally, as a result – definitely beats having to take a 10-hour flight or to at least find a printer and mail envelopes back and forth across the Atlantic, containing "physical signatures" that no company or government can realistically validate anyway.
Under certain circumstances, it is theft. Those circumstances are similar to ai software ingesting content. However the two are not comparable. Software has no rights.
Indeed. The hedonic treadmill kicks in once you reach a certain level a bit above poverty. A higher percentage of people are on the treadmill in Europe than in the US.
What they probably want to know here I guess is "is this device secure?" and there's just no technical answer to that, the result of the key attestation doesn't help you one bit to decide that.

The only way to do it is indeed to run some kind of computation on the device, usually those get plugged in to have more power.

The key attestation has a very small list of things it's actually useful for anyways, it's generally a bad idea to use it.
In our building, someone discovered that a 2L plastic bottle can be used to open a door from the outside. This trick has come to the rescue of numerous neighbors over the years, especially when the door accidentally shuts due to the wind or playful kids.[1]

I locked my kid in the car recently too - found out that even regular car windows are pretty hard to break.

[1] Looks like a "brazilian trick" should be specific to cheapish doors ofc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Ki4Uj5LAI

Btw this is the purest use of the internet... no discussion, no politics, just people needing help and thanking the guy for the help.
Sure! You can try it at https://resgen.app.
>Edward Snowden

You mean the guy who has sworn allegiance to Putin and takes an anti-Ukraine stance on Twitter to save his neck? A guy who has made millions peddling 'his story' and lives a life of luxury in Moscow? Yeah, surely he should get a Nobel prize
Plausible seems like a fine choice for simple cases. It is oriented at websites, but you can send events directly to the API: https://plausible.io/docs/events-api

It is self-hostable, too. https://github.com/plausible/hosting
It's the humidity of the kitchen that gets you though.
> own an actual M1 Abrams tank

Tell that to the Taliban or the Vietcong.

> consider it a sad day when I need to defend myself against bandits

Personally I'd feel shame if other men died in my defence.
Very relevant. Again, personal wealth does not equal quality of life. That's a very American thing, since the US lacks so many basic quality of life tenets that Europeans already have.
> Snowden defected to Russia

To add context, Snowden became trapped in Russia when the US State Department decided to cancel his passport while he was at an airport there on the way out of Russia.

> Assange and Manning's exposure literally cost the lives of Afghan families

Exposure like the footage they revealed of US drones killing innocent civilians?

> The U.S. post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, and Pakistan have taken a tremendous human toll on those countries. As of September 2021, an estimated 432,093 civilians in these countries have died violent deaths as a result of the wars.

Right, Assange is the problem, not the US military operations he exposed.
> I work outside tech, but can you please explain how number of X would be a good measure at all? What would be the justification for counting anything as a straight number as a measure in a creative field?

You answered your own question. Management doesn't want to view engineering as a "creative field". In their ideal world, they want it to work like an assembly line. And for decades they've attempted to quantify it like an assembly line. But as of 2023, management has never been more wrong.

A good question is, "Why does management even desire quantification?" The answer to this is rather simple and unbelievable to most engineers toiling so hard.

The answer is - management (of all levels) is lazy and unskilled. They want to demonstrate to their bosses that they are running an efficient ship. They quantify it with # of commits or other such proxies. This gets them their own promotions. They don't care if the company survives or if their reports are working on the right things or if engineering challenges differ from one project to another. The most important thing for all managers is - their own promotion.
Funny. Have you tried crack? Discussing maker spaces will be further down your priority list if you do.

German maker spaces are not nice for people with different views i.e. not left wing.

Simply not true.
Point out the underperformance of unions and the response is always yeah but they got us weekends off 100 years ago. What have you done for me lately?
Happy ending, at least.
You are taxing co2, not oil. A barrel of oil is about 400kg of carbon. That makes the price go up by at least $400 per barrel. It’s at about $80 right now. So the cost of materials for petroleum prodycts would go up by something like 6x.

In the US, this cost will get absorbed. But if you are in subsaharan Africa, 6x more expensive IV tubes and syringes is extremely consequential.
Exactly this. I'm Canadian but have German family, and the difference in mentality is astounding. Europeans remain entranced by "blood citizenship" and archaic, essentialist, ideas of citizenship based around family descent and ethnicity. E.g. I could qualify for German citizenship/passport on account of ethnic-descent (on both sides of family) but people with the wrong last names, working hard and with a lot to contribute, can have a much more difficult time (though I understand there's been reform here.)

I personally think that trying to draw lines around states on ethno-linguistic boundaries is frankly how a lot of the 20th century attrocities began. They are in large part artificial.

I was hoping we were headed towards a multicultural future. But unfortunately I see political and cultural trends going the other way again, including here in Canada.
umm.. wouldn't an agreement about where you work and when be the kind of thing you would have written down in your employment contract?
Zero Trust is not just an architecture
I did the same thing. I didn't have internet back then, so I assume I also got the knowledge to do this from magazines. Also, lots of time on my hand back then, so probably dove deep into various weird manuals.
As others said, the prize was well before drone strikes were a thing. It was basically honouring the effort to run and win the US presidential election as a black man, something nobody had ever managed to do.
dotnet new webapi - for apis

dotnet new webapp - for crud

dotnet new react - using react

How is that complicated?
As someone from the UK, with friends who work as programmers in both the public and private sectors, I'm not sure what you're saying is true. It's definitely not highly paying to work for the government, although "relatively" may be doing the heavy lifting in that sentence.
I've gone back to just buying music on bandcamp and using subsonic. I might not have every artist and album but it's nice to support smaller musicians and at least I can choose which horrible client I want to use.
> On 7 October 2015, President Barack Obama issued an apology and announced the United States would be making condolence payments of $6,000 to the families of those killed in the airstrike

Literally adding insult to injury. No wonder the US kills so many foreigners if it only values them at six thousand dollars a piece.
And 1 year after Windows 3.1 (which was Pretty Good)
Just opened it up on my phone. I was amazed. I had been thinking what you could do with audio in wasm - well this is a great start.

I wonder what latency you get?
Cocalc uses a websocket and xterm.js to implement terminals on a remote server. Each terminal session corresponds to a file (with extension .term), so multiple clients can open the same session by opening the same file. If you type in one session then all sessions will see the typing at the same time. (Disclaimer: I wrote this. It’s way too heavy for this use case, but might be an amusing demo or proof of concept for somebody to play with before writing something new.)
It isn't, at all. It's laziness on the part of management.
In general it is considered good to make lots of small commits, a commit is a bundle of changes you send to the shared project, you want to keep them small so they are easy to integrate and debug (if necessary).

But just counting them is a dumb way to judge productivity, and every programmer hates it.

The way to become a manager at a tech company is to be good at programming for a long time, an extremely specialized skill set that has nothing to do with management.
Why do we even need WebP? Who decided it was a good idea?

It wont even render a preview thumbnail on older systems and wants to open in a browser by default (yuck! this is a picture)

png, jpg and the others are good enough.
> Dan Dobberpuhl was one of the original Alpha designers before he left DEC to start a chip design firm called P.A. Semi, which Apple bought in 1998 for its talent to work on their Arm processors.

P.A. Semi didn't even exist in 1998. It was founded in 2003, and was acquired by Apple in 2008.
Transfer belts are still used in high volume enterprise grade printers and print shops because of the speed advantages. But I haven't seen a transfer belt on a consumer laser printer in 20 years. I don't think they've been used on consumer laser printers since the early color laser jets in the late 90s.
I think the best way to judge this is to look at management. Are they remote or in office?

I work for a large corp who's CTO is fully remote. As an engineer, that gives me confidence, & the fact a decent % of other CxOs, VPs, &c. are too just bolsters that.

A sibling commenter - @keikobadthebad - described it well: if decision-makers are meeting all in-office folk in person, you'll be naturally excluded from the important conversations. In contrast, if decision-makers are fully remote, those important conversations are more likely to be a level playing field.
So the thing is that volume of output is still important even in creative fields; if you run a logo design business and A makes the logos that satisfies 10 companies and B makes the logos for 1 company that is a pretty direct business outcome. There's counter-examples of the one logo was your whale customer that needs perfection versus 10 small businesses where you can just put the company name in a few fonts, but the raw volume of output is extremely relevant aspect of employee performance.

With coding in practice the high performers who deliver business value are often (but not always) the same people writing a lot of code; low performers might only make a couple PRs per month while a high performer did a couple per day.

The problem is that is more of a proxy outcome: it's also easily possible for a low performer to shovel out several negative-value PRs per day and for someone who does only a couple small PRs per month to be doing something difficult that delivers enormous value (especially if those few changes are like updating an ML model or finding key performance optimization opportunities).
my current spotify peeve: hitting play when I have no connectivity results in.... nothing. Absolutely nothing. No discernable activity of any kind.

Disabling wifi & data works, but just being without an active connection - such as when underground or something - and wanting to play some music or a podcast that is on the device already just doesn't seem to occur to spotify as a valid scenario.
The main intent here is for non-technical folks to be able to replace the tens of thousands of low volume PDF forms, not for technical ones to use it while building actual services.
Congratulations on being both racist and classist at the same time!
“When Kissinger won the Nobel peace prize, satire died” - Tom Lehrer, long ago
As someone else said, I think that poll is fundamentally flawed. People just didn't realize how much time they "wasted" being in the office.

For me:

When I was in the office I would be fairly regularly distracted by coworkers (which does have some advantages but is a loss when its every day) which causes me to loose my focus. Now I am "distracted" by my cat wanting on my lap which doesn't cause me to loose focus (if anything that keeps me in my chair for longer).

I would need a break from something and browse news and the internet A LOT in the office. I needed that mental break.

I would often try to force myself to not take a break for appearances causing the actual work output over the same period of time to go down.

I feel more comfortable in my home environment since it is decorated how I want so I am less stressed.

Finally the biggest one? I work more hours now than I did before. I am no longer commuting so I don't feel stressed if I need to finish something before going offline. Or if I am doing something that only needs half my focus I may work on it at night while doing something else (like maybe the final rounds of finishing a script that has a fair amount of downtime while it runs each time). Or if I just turn on my computer a bit earlier in the morning and do a quick something and then get back to my coffee, breakfast, whatever.
Google promises Germany to creep on users less after market power probe
Direct link

https://wavacity.com/
Are those numbers to retain or to attract?
> And if you are not using arena -- realloc() is your best bet. And no, it won't move your memory around into larger areas every time you call it. Most of the time it will simply bump up the allocation end point. This happens more frequently than you think.

And, as far as I can tell on the most common implementations, `realloc` just does a pointer adjustment when you shrink[1] the array, so the next `realloc` to expand the array again simply does the pointer bump thing.

Over time[2], you effectively get a arena allocator from that single realloc()ed block just by expanding and shrinking the array.

[1] Just don't call `realloc (0, ...)`

[2] For my next project I'm going to make an arena-allocator interface that is just a thin wrapper around realloc.
It's too late to remove async fn, but can we still implement his "What if the alternative was nicer"? Is there any good reason why I can't use await in a non-async function that returns a Future?