skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet, all Microsoft's demos for the upcoming changes for Blazor in .NET 8 (like SSR) has been a public facing recipe site (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD2-DwuOfKM). I'd say this is a very similar use case as the Microsoft Store.

I love .NET and ASP.NET Core, but I use it purely for backend. And even there, I use 3rd party libraries like Fast Endpoints (https://fast-endpoints.com/). Microsoft keeps bringing in new technologies and effectively abandoning the ones that fall out of favour (look at the progression from MVC -> Razor Pages -> Blazor). I do not blame the Microsoft Store team for not trusting the .NET team to not simply abandon Blazor as well somewhere down the line and instead opt for other technologies for the front-end.
An amazing game. The article hit the nail on the head when it comes to its few shortcomings:

* the fighting sequences are stupid.

* the slideshow gameplay makes it difficult to navigate.where a game like Myst can hit away with it since it's mostly in the open, The Last Express really struggles to make it easy to understand where you can go/are in such a confined space.

The "real time" mechanic was so great. It felt so refreshing to think that spending your time searching a compartment may cause you to miss an important conversation for example.

This game should get a remaster similar to RealMyst.
It still shows up in inflation and interest rates. It’s the same with the national debt. The difference between 24 trillion and 25 trillion is basically just inflation and interest rates.
Thanks for the details. Just to be clear, I‘m certainly not in favor of the yearly release cycle. Or rather, I‘m not in favor of any primarily calendar driven release cycle.
Really? To the best of my knowledge all the EU members have property taxes.
You can't give the choice of whether a payment can be disputed to the purchaser. The reason you can't do that is that you have no way to verify that the purchaser is who they claim to be. If you accept payment from a stolen card, it will be reversed, even if the thief checked a box saying "it is impossible to reverse this payment".
Many people would see that as a dog-whistle tweet that enouraged violence. Communiation is very complex these days.
I worked at a very locked down environment without possibility of installing other tools and I found that the openssl command was always available.
$ openssl s_client -connect <IP>:<PORT>
Glad to see this on here again. This book is what bridged the gap between my undergrad degree and feeling like I could contribute to nontrivial real software projects. I originally found it because of HN
> Won't this just apply to any career?

To some extent, yes. I think SE is a little special in the sense that our job is very taxing mentally but we get very little respect for it. We are considered and managed like assembly line workers, expected to hit absurd deadlines or objectives while being given absolutely no control over the factors influencing these (must work fast, quality be damned; strategy and roadmaps are decided for us instead of with us; we tend to be pushovers and not stand for ourselves). We’re also expected to work like cogs in noisy open space environments with interruptions all day when our work requires intense focus.

Most of us (at least on here) wanted to become SE because we enjoy writing code, finding elegant solutions to difficult problems, and delivering reasonably robust software. The big mismatch is that it’s not what the industry wants: instead the industry wants cheap and fast, nevermind the resulting dumpster fire and constant panic. As a SE you’re at the bottom of the food chain, anything that goes wrong is your responsibility but you’re not allowed to address the root cause for it not to reoccur.

We basically do a very abstract, intellectual job but are managed and considered as if we were just laying bricks in an assembly line.

The cognitive dissonance and low grade permanent stress is what makes so many of us burnt out so badly after 10–15 years in the industry.

Of course this is a generalization. You can be insanely lucky and have amazing management, at a company that’s not so dysfunctional, and have a happy 30–40 years career. But that’s very very rare in my experience. I’ve worked across North America and Europe, had many jobs at many companies, and I’ve never come across such a work environment. However, I have dozens of burnt out SEs in my network of all skill levels, backgrounds, company size, etc.

> bizdev

This is more sales oriented. The earning potential is high because it’s partly commission based so the more you sell the more you make as the company makes 10x more. Having a technical background helps because you can talk shop with technical people on the client’s side and better understand what they need and if your company can provide it at all.

I’m sure it has downsides as well, but the thought of being a salaried SE again makes me physically sick and I don’t want to throw away my decade + of tech experience. So that’s the avenue I’m exploring at the moment to see if it suits me better.

Overall, and whatever you end up doing, know that burn out is prevalent in our industry. Keep your costs very low so you can save 70–80% of your paycheck and retire early and/or afford to not work for a long while if you need to.
And yet everyone can think of someone who has been handsomely paid for producing no value.

The theory is wrong, basically, if that's what it says.
I live in the UK using Grain Connect (1Gbit up/down) and it regularly places me somewhere in Berlin, despite all my account settings/geolocation pointing to the UK.
Same, I only hear about Patreon on YouTube.
Only for the stuff that actually matters, precise definitions of weights and measures, getting to the moon, targeting missiles, military maps ... for all the plebian things of no real import there's customary units (shhh .. they're defined in terms of metric fundementals).
no, I'm saying that lacking a modern GPU then, the results of Microsoft doing the same thing at massive scale were already fairly obvious. That there has been no major innovation. That what you think of as amazing is actually banal.

BTW, awesome "flex" about how much time you spend at the gym, you sound like a guy who knows what he's talking about ;)
This is generally true, except that it’s not necessary to travel to the US. You can see a local private doctor or dentist (often accredited by a US university, using US developed medical technology) locally.
FWIW ever since Kahneman, Ariely and similar company have had some of their theories get discredited (Ariely's taint is worse because it's to do with fabricating research!) I have gone back to simply resorting to common sense and quotidian skepticism.
Long game or insider trading is the only reliable strategy.
The UK already has such a non-profit: Transform Drug Policy Foundation.
Their "How to Regulate" series is sober, thoughtful, and has already influenced legalized regulation schemes in several countries.
https://transformdrugs.org/publications/how-to-regulate-stim...
There must now be projects like the one the author describes that are at least 5-10 years old now, I’d love to see a comparison of ones that delivered their promises and ones that keep delusionally lumbering on.
there was the play R.U.R by Karel Čapek. The play is from 1921, and it coined the word 'Robot'.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.

Now in the plot "the robots revolt and cause the extinction of the human race".

Also there is his older brother, the Golem. He has his own movie from 1915.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golem_(1915_film)
> Turns out that the Neanderthals and homo sapiens cohabitated for thousands of years, had cross cultural exchange, were buried together, had families together, and that what most likely killed the Neanderthals was an inability to adapt to climate change and pandemics (in fact, severe COVID illness today is correlated to Neanderthal genes).

would love to read more from your sources. i know that the theory of raw intellectual superiority has fallen out of favor and read some recent suggestions that Homo sapiens’ ability to coordinate and cooperate may have been a large factor in their success. that felt a bit hand-wavy and anachronistic to me but some of the findings also seemed worth exploring. i’m interested in the sources that identify information exchange and the genome (especially the parts
where you mention that the specifically the Neanderthal genome was identified as susceptible to pandemics/severe Covid illness).

> It'd be refreshing to see Sci Fi in the next few years finally shed the bad futurism around AI we've been carrying forward for decades.

“the creator” almost tries to get there but still leans heavily on the traditional fear dynamics in order to advance much of the plot. just not sure we know how to weave a compelling story without reducing AI to soulless servants or existential threat.
Military members, government employees, and defense contractors all receive their money from the same source - the defense budget. The government is already paying people super high salaries, just indirectly through a layer of contracts. So its not about the money.
> Schwab would rather you have cash in your account than be invested in securities

Compared to IBKR which gives "benchmark - 0.5%" on your NAV in USD, what does Schwab give for your USD sitting idle?
None of what you’re saying contradicts my earlier points. How can radar tell the difference between a 1.5m high truck undercarriage, and a 2.1m high passage if resolution is .5m? If they could detect the truck, why aren’t cars constantly triggering emergency brakes when near an underpass? Why are 10000+ collisions and 100+ deaths like this happening every year when a majority of cars have these systems installed? Why did Honda add cameras if radar is good enough? The answers seems obvious, but you can do your own research.
RenCap begs to differ.
Exactly.

The author also dumped on Patreon’s incredibly low processing fee. Who is going to compete with 5% plus payment processing? And they dumped how this processing fee is unsustainable and that the community was mad about changing it.

What business is going to disrupt margins like that? That’s like saying “I’m going to sell stuff cheaper than Costco.” Good luck with that!
The insistence that window be the only thing I need to be looking at on MacOS is also a frustrating one. No, Steve, I really do want to manage my windows.
You're describing https://www.thevenusproject.com/

Are you aware of that or you just came up with the same basic idea (a resource-based economy)?
Just because you don’t see the value doesn’t mean there is none.

Granted bad deals get made from time to time.
Thanks for the feedback! I get it.

I could easily build on all platforms without tags… I just want to avoid accidental data corruption if users unwittingly access databases without proper synchronization.

The MVCC-WAL-VFS I'm designing now may potentially fix this, as the brokenness of POSIX advisory locks is more manageable there.

https://www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/2e8b12?ln=1073-1161
Dang, I guess I will go tell my quant friends their knowledge of probabilities doesn't count actually, they should try having "skill".
There are many armed conflicts around the world, a number of them much more serious that the current heat in the Middle East.

Nothing particularly special about the current situation. And in fact since the USSR collapse there is no string enough backer to the 'opposition' to enable serious escalation.

Geostrategically the Russia-Ukraine conflict is interesting, not because of a WW risk, but because it is being used as a tool for deeper goals like splitting Europe and Russia and making Europe more dependent on the US for its energy, expanding NATO, and hitting China's Belt and Road.

In any case, no-one is going to start WWIII because no-one is suicidal. 'No-one' means USA, Russia, and China as realistically they are the only one with the power to start it.
Brilliant quotes made me laugh so hard:

> If you’re unlucky, you might read this and think, “holy shit, no wonder I’m burned out”.

> building an operator for everything which is the proposed solution of some people who really just want to watch the world burn.

But actually, the takeaway is this:

> You want simplicity where it benefits the user, which often requires increased complexity for the developer.

Professionals should make it easier for downstream users. In the context of this article, it means the platform engineers should abstract the complexities for application developers to be able to deploy safely their applications
> You can eat less calories worth of fresh applies than you can get from either apple juice or dried apples.

Fresh apples need to be chewed much more than either juice or dried apples.
Yes, this. Just supply a few flags to configure terraform backend to store the state in remote storage and encrypt it.

terraform init --backend=gcs --bucket="xxx" --prefix="my-deployment-name" --encryption_key="my-random-bits"
Are there any foss, self-hostable tools that can at least approach the effectiveness of cloudflare's various security and anti-ddos features?

If there was a relatively turn-key solution that people could deploy it might help wean people off of cloudflare.
So react is out of favor at MS now?
It has to be customizable or people won't buy it.

After all, they just want to re-implement their current, CRM solution (which is terrible, and is why they want to buy a new one in the first place) in the new fancy CRM.
Terraform Provider for Apache Kafka
Current status is WIP
Yes, that was basically my point. Thanks for providing the sources.
How do you figure?

MGM did about $13 billion in revenue last year and while things certainly sucked they were still making money while things were down. Slots weren’t running but table games were up and gaming isn’t the majority share of where they make their money. Room fees make more. Food and beverages make more. Entertainment makes slightly less than gaming. 100 million isn’t out of the question.
Yes, and then they sue.

I agree with you about the disclaimer, but play out the situation-

Within a few years you will see a sharp rise in prescription of fertility-destroying drugs. At some critical mass, we will see lawsuits saying the drug companies find a drug that does X, but destroys the fertility of women and then just stops doing more research. This is similar to the development of the pill. It had nasty side effects for some, but not enough to economically justify more development until the law and massive public pressure came in.
Contour: Modern and fast terminal emulator
The cartels are mostly killing each other, those people weren't going to be a great boon to society anyway, they would've found a different criminal enterprise to get into. And if you don't want to go to jail for doing drugs, you can just not do drugs.
The instructions don't clarify gender, they are actually contradictory and likely to be confusing. GPT is being told to make "choices grounded in reality" followed by the example "all of a given OCCUPATION should not be of the same gender or race". But many occupations are strongly dominated by one gender or another in reality, so the instruction is contradicting itself. Clearly the model struggles with this because they try repeating it several times in different ways (unless that's being interpolated by the model itself).

You've also got instructions like "make choices that may be insightful or unique sometimes" which is so vague as to be meaningless.

> this is targeted at getting good results for the masses

No it's not, it's pretty clearly aimed at avoiding upsetting artists, celebrities and woke activists. Very little in these instructions is about improving quality for the end user.
My point is that it isn't unheard of for something sufficiently badly wrong, and that article cleared the bar hard enough that I was honestly surprised that wired published it at all.

I find it highly likely that Google -do- try to influence coverage, mind, but I don't think that was the primary factor in play here.
A few people have consistently beat the market over many years. I call that skill. I don't know if they really know thier how they do it though
No-one can 'afford' a world war now that all the big powers have nuclear weapons, even the scale of opposing convential forces is too much.

Therefore, no-one is going to start one.
>otherwise a lot of miscarriage of justice has happened in the UK.

Depends on 'a lot', but I rather suspect there will be/ will have been fewer, now cops have to use cameras, but yes - a lot of miscarriages of justice has happened in the UK. And every other country.
I don't get the impression Russia's censorship laws are applied outside Russia. You can find tons of gay stuff on Yandex's image and video search without being coy about the search terms.
Then you're clearly not using head. For this you can use listToMaybe.

Don't change the meaning of an identifier to something meant for a completely different use. The alternative change involving dependent types or liquid types doesn't break existing code. Changing head so that it returns a Maybe breaks code, because its use case is different.
The Russian government will probably subsidise them to further weaken the West.
That clarifies a lot. So when they talk of "H tubes" they mean their model H (for Hiroshima) nixie tubes which are huge (height 135mm) compared to their previous model R or R|Z568M (for "resurrected" German Z568M from the 1970s; height 50mm I believe) that they produce for sale. https://www.daliborfarny.com/project/rz568m-nixie-tube/
The US military, in a sense then, is actually a fully self-contained centrally managed economy and state. Funny how 'communism' can be both the ultimate evil AND the structural model needed for efficient running of such a large organization like the military.
$8/mo AUD seems pretty steep, that’s competing with streaming services etc…
AI cannot hurt you so "safety" just isn't the right word to use here. Nothing about this system prompt is concerned with safety, and it would clearly be better for the end users to just scrap the whole thing giving users direct access to DALL-E 3 without GPT sitting in the middle as a censor.

Now would such a thing be "safe" in legal terms, in the US justice system? Would it be "safe" for some of the employee's social lives? Maybe not, but, safety isn't the right word to use for those concerns.
Things that have worked for me:

- Cooking with friends. Doesn't have to be coded female, just ask, if you're all excited about some nice chinese dish or nice cut of beef you got people will vibe with it

- Making music with friends. It takes a really long time, we almost never finish any recordings, and end up just chatting

- Playing dnd with friends (and sitting around drinking afterwards)

- generally, drinking

- card games. We don't bet, but im sure that would work too

- camping/hiking

- watching football/cricket/long sports together
> Nobody says discussion is a source of it, or where you obtain some, but you can discuss it.

Your GP post literally says "The only way to reach truth is through discussion", so take it up with them.
I suspect that the name "detached HEAD" is just a pun. Cute if you already know what all this stuff means, confusing otherwise.
I guess some are making that choice for themselves, in the form of using crypto (which then comes with a long list of issues).

Then again, I guess it's also possible to go in the opposite direction and look into additional means of verifying who is making a purchase - over here, we have chips in government issued ID cards which can be used for signing documents, whereas most banks already use a 2FA system with codes (mobile app, not SMS; but also not TOTP, rather issued certs based on a contract with SmartID) for approving access to bank accounts and then another code for confirming orders. It wouldn't be entirely unrealistic to imagine that technology progressing and merging in the decades to come: you can already use the ID cards for signing into everything from government portals, to utility service providers.
I don't believe in buy signals. You never know whether any particular level is the bottom. But that doesn't mean the opportunity is the same when the market is down 5%, 20%, 40% and 60% respectively. Of course a massive crash is a greater opportunity than a small correction regardless of how much further prices fall.

But the real question is whether it makes sense to keep cash on the side in order to wait for one of these relatively rare crashes. The answer is probably no.
I understand this will not explain entirety of it, but when you concentrate responsibility, decision making and ability to do all things through entirety of the application, you can move much, much faster than what all of us are used to working for regular companies.

It almost feels, and sometimes is cheating.

I was confronted with this when I felt really fantastic being super productive at one of the projects and then a team member pointed out that I am also tech lead, architect and a manager all in one and I simply don't work by the same rules as everybody else. Where everybody else has to get permissions, approvals, concensus, inputs, has to wait for other people to do things, I can just do it all in my head and act immediately. This taught me an important lesson and I am now much more conscious of this fact and spending way more time trying to remove any barriers from other team members.

This also explains why solo developers can sometimes achieve so much -- they simply don't have to work with anybody else. They don't have to understand code somebody else designed and wrote. They don't have to spend time arguing defending their approach or solutions. They know how everything works and can make all decisions solely on whether it helps them to achieve the result. Synchronising with other people is a huge overhead in any organisation.
God points but:

1) For someone in BigCo it is fun to read.

2) BigCo is not a bad place for most people. Management should just shut up about efficiency and data driven. No one believes them, not even themselves.
Why do think they weren't able to get it that thin? What "technology" are you referring to? Here's Wikipedia's summary:

"5,000 years ago, Egyptian artisans recognized the extraordinary durability and malleability of gold and became the first goldbeaters and gilders. They pounded gold using a round stone to create the thinnest leaf possible. Except for the introduction of a cast-iron hammer and a few other innovations, the tools and techniques have remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_leaf
So wait, there are a significant number of all-women hate subreddits? Such that they need to make another subreddit to ban them? What are they hating? Why is it a problem? Is it that they dont let men take part in the hating too?

I don't know about reddit enough and just struggling to even guess the context here.
Ukraine makes WW3 less likely. If it was conquered quickly - that would make WW3 more likely (because Russia and China would estimate their chances of further conquest higher and would probably start something in Taiwan or Baltic states).

Russia issued a statement just before 2022 invasion that demanded NATO back off from Baltic States, Poland, etc. If Ukraine fell quickly they could think they can force this by small scale provocations. If NATO really backed off - Russia would invade these countries soon after that.

A LOT of people are now safe because of Ukrainians (and NATO, and EU). Millions of them.

Returning to your question - WW3 is unlikely, because NATO wins 10 times out of 10. The best China and Russia can count on is stalemate with nuclear exchange. But what's the point of that from their POV?
And it's not very hard to make something which can do both: it's effectively just an extra valve to reverse the flow of refrigerant.