skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, you're well above the median. If you compare yourself to the median human, you'll find you're powerful as fuck.

Second, you're focused on the most successful person out of a billion. I assume you don't lie awake at night wondering why you weren't the one lottery winner out of a billion, so why worry that your career hasn't eclipsed that of Zuck or Gates or Wang?

My advice is to get out of the bubble. Visit some small towns and eat dinner with the locals. Go to a 3rd world country for a month. To them, you're the rich guy that makes them feel some type of way.
> Nobody said anything about not having governments.

That's very clearly where you're going with this though.

> Point me to a resistant monopoly or cartel and I will show you a government granted/supported one.
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Have to love the boilerplate customer reviews, Why even bother?
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> Here in the UK I believe the full training to become a qualified bricklayer takes 2-3 years.

This has nothing to do with how difficult it is to learn how to lay bricks (insert ali g joke?) but more to do with capitalism. Paying apprentices £20-40 a day is a lot cheaper, shock horror, than paying a "qualified" brickie 3-600 a day.

Anecdotal I know, but family in the trades. I spent ~18 months* whilst doing my degree on the roofs, side by side with brickies on projects that range from single site, domestic, to 1500+ dwellings and commercial sites. A good 85-95% of them don't even have a GCSE. It's, still, a very much family business - at least in the UK. Connections will get you everywhere - most were pulling in 60-150k.

The main thing I learnt from the brickies I worked with, never mess with them. Even if you're in the right. They may look unhealthy, but jesus christ they're more than capable of throwing you a not insignificant distance. Going up a ladder all day, every day, with 24 bricks on your shoulder when your labor doesn't turn up will turn you into a beast - albeit one covered in fat due to poor diet.

*Weekends and 4-6 hours a day when the schedule allowed it. Site carpenters are just as bad. Most are bent as hell, very few take pride in their work. The housing stock in England is shit for a reason and it's entirely historic. Take a look at the city and guilds guides. Sparkies are the best and...that's not saying best.

Edit: Just watched the promo video, these are - special - breeze blocks. With a veneer? Stuck together with at best glue? This is going to be a hyperlocalised response to a labor shortage and wouldn't hold up to building standards outside Australia.
In the name of science, go ahead and stuff some diced chilis in your nose and report back.
Boredom + Freedom = Creativity.
[dupe]

Lots of discussion over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37922973
It sounds like you are overthinking this...
But don't worry! Your wages may be going down, and your co-workers may have been laid off, but your "opportunity" is going up right now! You can work twice as hard!

That's it. Just more work. Same/less pay.

We won't commit to anything if you work hard though, just vaguely hint that it's an opportunity.
In commodity markets, you have to differentiate yourself based on other factors. Service, support, integrations, etc.

I'd look for non-obvious differentiators. Most of your competitors are cloud based. Would some customers want an on-prem solution for specific reasons (regulatory, data privacy, data sovereignty)? What about people who aren't sitting in front of computers all day? How are they managing projects? What about users with crappy net connections?
you're right, i just really like this track :~)
> I think that a union is just an entity that represents the workers.

In theory, yes. In practice, a union brings with it economic incentives to do more than just represent the workers. Many of its incentives are in conflict with the wellbeing of individual workers, the company, and the economic wellbeing of the jurisdiction in which they operate.

> What makes you less optimistic about it?

Corruption, bureaucracy, institutional inertia, incentives for rent seeking, and loss of agency for the individual worker.
The creator of json thinks so iirc,

https://youtu.be/lc5Np9OqDHU?si=YFatp7mrP7vvaZpN
ain't under current legal framework in usa what those companies do can be classified as free speech as well ? i remember some cases in past years that classified actions in this way
Whoops, you're right,

Is the solution to that,

a) [1]

or

b) [1, <new element>]

?

>Notably, the server has to sequence actions somehow [...]

Yes, that's my whole point, you have to fallback to something like LLW, and then it's over for the transactional model :P.

Edit: Btw, I'm not trying to be the snarky, pessimistic dude. This kind of models are really interesting and I love working with them. I am just trying to illustrate how things could go awry without much complexity involved.
> But it totally does not jive with the 20-somethings that just start their career, and need guidance the most.

Hostility towards new users is an issue across most communities, see Reddit and Discord.

Perhaps it has less to do with Linus Torvaldisms, and instead a generational gap between. Afterall SO has been around for 15 years, and it replaced the god awful Experts Exchange.
I see, the missing link is not age, it's freedom.

I myself do a bad job of being bored, even when freedom is provided. My reaction is reinforced due to how often I am compelled to deal with boredom without freedom.
Do you have any more info on this? I have not heard of such a test.
The genetic clock was estimated from bat coronavirus mutation rates in the wild, not from SARS-CoV-2 mutation in humans.

And virulence != transmissible. They got sick by inhaling everything that was floating around in that mine. To get more people sick you'd need to take them all to that mine.

Recombination to produce a viable and more successful virus is also very rare, that is unlikely to have happened to any of those miners, much less several of them (over populations it becomes likely but there we're talking many millions of infections as well).
People seem to focus on the AI we have now in these threads, which I guess is a whole lot easier than the speculative alignment guessing on something that could end up being a whole lot smarter than you, and be able to input far more types of information than you ever will.

Personally I don't see anyway to make something that is super human and aligned outside of its own choice. How to make something that is both beyond us, and have it come to the conclusion not to extinct us will be interesting enough as your example above shows we are real jerks to each other already.
Disagree the explosion was only the size of two cars.

Airburst can happen wherever the fuse is designed to activate.

Here:
https://twitter.com/BowesChay/status/1714654233847288050

Direct comparison of a JDAM and the hospital attack.
Biometric auth being used more and more every day. Not hard to see requirements or and crime/impersonation in the future. Gattaca is still far off but one step closer than it was.
recipe for death, ultimately
Uranium extraction from seawater looks quite promising. I spoke with some researchers a few years back that were able to demonstrate the ability to produce yellowcake at $200/lb. The current market price is $70/lb, but the actual cost of the uranium is such a small piece of the pie that paying 3x for a domestic, non-mining source makes sense.

The initial research was done in rather cold seawater, but they did demonstrate that the process was faster with warm water. Last I heard, they were working on testing the viability of post-filtering hot brine from desalination plants, which should be much more efficent.
Yes, thermal power plants need a cold and hot end to operate, and they are designed to operate within the thermal "range" that its location can provide + some error. Now, this is not really a limitation, rather an engineering constraint. Thermal cycles can be stretched with multiple devices such a HRSG, in the case of combined cycles.

About powerplants in France shutting down because of cooling during the summer... I find it hard to believe this is a widespread issue, if an issue at all. Many of the existing nuclear reactors are reaching an age where massive maintenance schedules need to be executed. If the problem is extending the thermal range, that's relatively easy to fix.

Source: I used to build powerplants.
You're not lacking creativity, you're sleep deprived.
There's a visual bug where you can hide pieces of the 'e' behind the completed portions of the 'e' - it doesn't work for other letters because they still show the outline.
It's also just an artistic design choice. They tried very hard to make things look "alien" and "otherwordly" as much as possible, ranging from the set design to the costumes to the music to Starfleet sideburns.

For example sky can be any colour except blue, and doors can open every which way (except downwards, because that would require digging a hole in the set) and they make all sorts of sounds – as long as they're not "just" doors (they're "alien" doors!) They used those awkward holsters for phasers because pockets looked too "common".

Other more technical factors probably played a factor as well, but this also worked two ways and limited creativity: IIRC the origin skin colour for Vulcans was supposed to be red, but was changed to the off-white because the red didn't work on B&W.
> what's your place of work's excuse for catering to you?

I'm not sure I understand the question; can you rephrase?
How is this a dupe if the link and article are different, and the focus of the text itself is also different?
You don’t even need to involve deletes; if all of these happen “simultaneously”:

- client A appends “a” to list L
- client B appends “b” to list L
- client C appends “c” to list L

the server will arbitrarily apply the appends in some order, and then send the result back to the clients. But, each of the clients has applied its append locally and is showing those results until it gets different information from the server, so the next time step might be

- client A thinks L is [“a”]
- client B thinks L is [“b”]
- client C thinks L is [“c”]
- server sends state event to clients saying that L is [“c”,”b”,”a”]

Then when the clients receive the state from the server, I guess they all discard their pending mutations and use the state from the server as their state of the world. But what if each of the three appends results in that client winning the game if their mutation gets applied first? Do all the clients display “you win” for 300ms while waiting for the server’s update?
I think they're even more hypocritical in talking about "inclusivity" because allowing PEDs is the same thing as requiring them since no one who abstains will stand a chance against those who use them.

There's no way to be inclusive of those who want to use PEDs and those who would rather not destroy their health with them.
Image patches are projected directly into an embedding that goes into the decoder Transformer. The same thing could be done for audio.
Adding hidden data to the request seems counter to the desire for a schema driven rpc. I guess it's a matter of taste whether some data is pollution or simply explicit. You're sending data that the service may or may not be concerned with whether its in the header or the body or some other side channel.

Maybe my reaction is a question of purity. I don't really see why one would think a request body should be in the schema but we should leave other data out of the schema. Wouldn't every single argument point to consistency?

I like gRPC and what it gives you. I personally would like that same explicit schema and type safety to apply to my tracing as well. Its interesting to me that others would draw a line.
"You can only call this RPC while standing on one foot, with your hat cocked to the side. There's no way for you to find this out except calling it in a test and getting a weird error"
Depends on the union and how it's organized and ran. Also, do you really think the corruption of the union will EVER outsize the corruption of the corporation? In most unions if I want to fire the head of the union, we just don't vote for them. I can't fire Zuckerberg for being a piece of shit.
Software 'engineers' see the demoscene as an annoying reminder that code can also be crafted like art, unconstrained from corporate concepts like 'design patterns' and 'clean code'.
We live in strange times.

Those working to keep chemical cheating away from honest sport competition are the ones called corrupt.
At first, I thought you meant you could no longer agree with this.
Did you know that Go has a task queue that tells you the ETA of a task
I recently wrote about something rather related, and most importantly, how we can fight back (perhaps):

"Getting our focus back"

https://renegadeotter.com/2023/08/24/getting-your-focus-back...
One thing that puzzles me is the lack of multilingual models... it is a bit sad to see everything through the English language.
They lose the race and people will take that into account and try not to reproduce those results. It would balance out over time. There'd always be more than other sports, but sports doing bad things to their participants isn't unique. People are completely fine with the brain damage caused by sports like (US) football or boxing for example.
> As a result, the union would be known as a place that caters to midwits and incompetents.
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"lightening" as in pocket-lightening?
The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36517525 - Jun 2023 (158 comments)
Every human built thing (and almost every built thing is human built) can be 'unbuilt' by humans, often quickly and trivially. See door locks.

The only sure way to protect yourself is to be part of a society - something our hunter gatherer forebears quickly latched onto.
If a money center TBTF bank were in danger of failing, the US Gov't will, as you say, "literally invent real USD money, [to] make their balance sheet whatever they want...."

If SVB can't fail gracefully, then anything larger certainly has the full faith and credit of the US Gov't behind its deposits, just like the Federal Reserve itself. That is why drawing comparisons between them makes sense.
You modified the operations, I specifically chose a scenario where User C (in my example) introduces an undecidable situation. Appends are trivial to solve.

>If your answer is like "we just send them the whole array again", this breaks the transactional model (x2).

You also did that, whoops.
In other words, you cannot fully trust a company. As long it is a collection of brains that may change membership at any time.
Signal integrity and ease of assembly. There's a lot of very high-speed connections really close together, which means they are going to interfere with each other. The "paddle card" allows you to maintain signal quality while you are spacing them out a bit for the wire connection.

This isn't nearly as important with USB-2-only cables, which makes the direct soldering possible. It's going to require making a custom connector, so it's not really surprising a lot of manufacturers just reuse the high-speed ones and stick with a paddle card.
There's certainly humor in a function called "safe navigation" mutating the data structure I'm supposedly safely navigating through :D
I did a DSL to facilitate this at https://prlang.com. I've had some success setting up agents to "act" out scenes, where each plays a different part, but it was kinda limited in that conversations would kinda de cohere into nonsense after a bit.
No chunk of them moved on to app development for iOS/Mac?
The youtuber got 4-5kWh per day on his trailer. It looked like enough to supply most of his needs (all equipment is electric including a zero turn radius ride-on mower). He's only a one-man crew though. A 3-4 man crew would need a different equipment config.
Following this trend, Hans Nieman may well create an "Enhanced Chess" organization
> I did not insult you. Read carefully. You should put more effort into your replys because nobody understands what you're talking about.

So if I don't understand what you wanted to convey that's my fault, and if you don't understand what I wanted to convey that's also my fault? Lol. Note the only third party to comment here came down on my side.
Probably not what you mean by "at work" but as a non-CS STEM academic that needs to help my colleagues get dev environments so we can collaborate on research software, devcontainers are a game changer. I work a lot with folks that are scared of the command line, but I can get them productive in their web browser with much less friction these days.
I second this very much so. Even if I have the extra time due to working from home, I usually don't feel free enough during work hours to get engrossed in a hobby or side project. I just seek escape in the form of cheap temporary entertainment.
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Does Amazon also pay $50,000 per repair if someone dents the bumpers on their delivery vans?
I wouldn't call a function that mutates the input "safe navigation", personally :)
Implementing HPKE in OpenSSL 3.2
Calls to printf() are particularly common in signal handlers I've seen in commercial code. malloc() too occasionally. Sometimes calls to logging functions

These are undefined behaviour, for real (and for good reasons), not just theoretically. They are a cause of reported occasional random crashes, but people don't realise, and it's tricky to demonstrate or warn at compile time.
It's personal. For me I have multiple conversations happening in my head most of the time, not quite simultaneously. Listening to something like a podcast occupies that part of my brain so it's less chatty - and I can move forwards more quickly with a simpler task (e.g. now the lawn).
I remember using Access to make simple internal enterprise apps in 2017, is that no longer a thing?
It's to allow for trunked calls. If you're calling out from a call center, it allows the caller ID to reflect the public phone # that people can actually call rather than the internal phone # that was used to call out.

It's a legitimate use, but comes with a high potential (and reality) of abuse.
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When I try to compare myself with less educated/poorer people I realize my advantages can be singificantly if not mostly attributed to my upbringing. I was raised in an upper-middle class 2 parent household, belong to the majority ethnicity of my country, attended private school, had access to test prep, tutoring, extracurriculars, etc. I feel that I am certainly at the median or below among those with my preconditions.

Further, (and perhaps this was the subtextual point of my original post), there seems to be a sense of "getting it" among the intellectual elite, who seem to embody an attitude that 200k FAANG jobs right out of college are a no-brainer, that "failing" is merely being an L4 by 30, that getting into YC or some comparable measure, though obviously a huge feat for any normal person, is just a right of passage for those who who have the knack.

This "thing" that I am reffering to seems to be a presumed cultural mode permeating through the fog of cliquey tech-elite signaling on Twitter and elsewhere. Maybe it's a sort of fear of social exlusion towards those in groups I feel embody the intellectual status I've always envied. Maybe this is all a game of those on the better side of serendipity making it appear much easier than it was, or maybe there is something else I'm just not getting.
Star Control 2 is still one of the best stories and universes/settings ever.
I believe you are referring to Wang's Carpets [1], which is part of Diaspora, but also as a short story.

[1] https://timeteam.github.io/fiction/2016/12/21/wangs-carpets....
I find much creativity when I am awake but haven't gotten out of bed in the morning.

(I do need my phone to capture it)
Again, the build system and compiler are often on different systems. The design has a specific drawback in that respect. Even for machine local caching, there are advantages to having the communication with the compiler be unidirectional.
Still need to enrich then. Right now there is surplus of HEU from nuclear disarmament but it wasn't cheap to create it.
My (deeply uninformed) guess is that it probably wasn't absolutely necessary, but would be one among a hundred tiny details which improves resilience. There was space for it. And it has a $0.00 unit cost. It'd be more surprising if they didn't do it.

For Apple, perhaps the most economically exposed to customer problems of any major tech company, and has enough scar tissue from past failures, it's not surprising that their products tend to feature first class electrical engineering. Their DC chargers are widely regarded as among the best in the industry.
Tongue in cheek, but wind turbines also need a hot and cold end in order to operate, the scale is just a little different.
It is much more convenient to recharge a battery than to get out a huge extension cord, even for non-professionals. The battery ones are cheap enough for most, even if you just have a small driveway but a neighbor's very large tree to worry about.
«The tides are turning in favor of nuclear energy»

in their dreams...

PV costs are falling exponentially (-10% per year) while nuclear costs remain at best constant. If you decide today to build a reactor it will be ready in 10-20 years (don't be in the hurry). By the time it start producing it will be competing with plenty of cheaper renewables. During its lifetime (50 years) it will have plenty of time to become obsolete and so expensive.

It's like buying a Cray I in the 1980s and get delivered in 2000 just to find that a gaming console has more power than your mammoth computer but at a fraction of the cost.

Nuclear is completely doomed.
Exactly this.

And as additional food for thought... How many outages can anyone remember that were caused because of lack of generation capacity?
You do get the same explicit schema and type safety with this library. The context values can be typed using a protobuf message: https://github.com/konigsoftware/konig-kontext#protobuf-mess..., or any other type you'd like. Although you are right, it is not explicitly in the request schema but that's kinda the point.
> What is this in reference to?

Rivian trucks notoriously have an egregious repair cost.

https://www.theautopian.com/heres-why-that-rivian-r1t-repair...
What exact data was leaked? I have an account there but chose not to find potential relatives, which means, according to the article, I wouldn’t be part of the scraping.
You can argue about what percentage "Nearly all" is, but 80% of the power in the US is a steam turbine.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...

Hydropower is basically the same thing, the steam has just condensed already.
Also, Star Trek uses a plasma grid to distribute energy, not simple electrical lines. I think I remember reading somewhere (this may have been fan theory) the sparks flying off are a pressure-release so it doesn't just straight explode.
Wikipedia has a list of premature professional wrestlers deaths, look for the ones that died of heart attack before 50: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_premature_professional... - the roid era really did a number, though of course, working through pain and injury with the help of pain killers and other drugs didn't help either.
Is it time to pull out the nuclear option? Firing due to union affiliation is illegal. Firing everyone on a bargaining team is obviously illegal. Time to bankrupt the company, such that most anyone with decision-making ability walks away _much poorer_ than they would have otherwise. Lessons need to be taught to the Parasite Class.