skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Managed services cannot be beat for moving quickly on infra that is not a part of your core competency. Because winding down is as simple as shutting down the instances.

But the point about saving not even right. It costs a lot in staffing to set up some of this infra, and if you're a serious company (revenue and expectant customers), you're going to need redundancy on these things anyway, so its more than 1 person (they can be responsible for multiple things)
Small (under 10 people) startup I worked at shut down this June, and I got 2 months severance I wasn't even owed, pure good will of the CEO.

It's a choice.
Not necessarily. You can compare dead trees in the same vicinity that were alive at overlapping time intervals. Patterns in the width of the rings will reveal the period over which their lives overlapped. With enough dead trees, if they are preserved well enough, you could go back significantly further and age trees that are long dead.
You guys should spin up an identical service that's lightweight, turn a profit from day 1.
keep who out?
A lot of people here seem to miss the point.

I myself went from support > consulting > dev > cloud. None of those are a change in career! It is all still software!

Neither is going from a SWE in one industry to a SWE in another! That is just a new job!

Going from SWE to being a Firefighter or Police is a change in career.

Going from being an ER nurse to a SWE is a damn change in career!
Yet here we have an example of bad developer ergonomics that so frustrates one developer that they are willing to use whatever bonkers syntax they can get the parser to choke down, and build an AST transformer for Go, to try to get something remotely approximating sane for a single common case.

Which is saying nothing of Go libraries heavily relying on comment-based programming (err, sorry, we call them "struct tags") to generate boilerplate. The language is successful, but "expense of developer ergonomics" is an understatement.
My mistake. You are correct.
How do you feel about services like Tinybeans?

I can vouch for them zero, but we use them for more-or-less the same reasons. It's still "online", but probably the same degree as an iCloud photo store.
I didn't see anything in the core APIs about cryptography so any application that requires encrypted communication will have to bring their own cryptographic primitives.
They lift the finger in the sense they yank it down and then lift it almost to the same place. As I've just explained, additional other child related taxes and state mandates counterbalance that credit to the point they're lifting the finger they smacked down to about where it started. It is like bragging about applying a bandaid after a punch to the face.
The parents of the Baby Boomers had affordable housing, about three times median male income for a single family home.

That was when fertility was last above replacement level. House-price-to-income started rising in the late 1960s and has not stopped.

This problem will self-correct in the long run. There will be fewer people than houses.

1. https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/FERT/TOT/...
I've heard a lot of disgruntlement from macOS developers about SwiftUI. I wonder if the framework has an inherent bias for iOS and maybe iPadOS? Again, it's crazy that after years of disparagement of kludgy cross-platform frameworks (albeit more from the fans than the company itself), Apple basically went ahead and built their own, with fewer supported frameworks than the third-party alternatives.
The calculation you provided is probably more closely represented as "what is the likelihood that the outcomes affecting the union were random happenstance, versus the union members being singled out".

I incorrectly conflated the number of laid off union members with the total number of "special" individuals, while only 8 of them were actually "special" (i.e. democratically elected bargaining team members). It'd be more accurate to describe that probability of the impact to the bargaining team as (110 choose 52) / (118 choose 60) which comes out to about 0.35%, not too far off from the 2^-8 estimate (0.4%) that your approach of using the binomial distribution on this same set would result in. Both approaches would yield similar results, and the result is still somewhat in the realm of plausible deniability.

> All specific outcomes are rare, so that question will never tell you anything informative.

I'm not describing any specific outcomes in this case, though. You could throw up your hands and say "oh, we laid off these specific 60 people, there's only a 10^-34 chance of picking exactly those 60 people out of 118". That would absolutely be useless.

I'm describing the event that "all of this one group got laid off" as a subset of the space of possible outcomes given what we observed, and ascribing a probability to that event.

I will admit I used the wrong inputs, but I stand by my approach.
It's people trying their absolute best to be opaque while holding completely obvious political views.
Wonder what the knock-on effects of potentially having no new "traditional entertainment" for a while, especially during an election year, are going to be.
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SAG really is a gold-standard union. Critically, it has a monopoly to multiple buyers of its talent. (Sort of like the UAW.) Single-employer unions are more constrained.
Yeah I think this likely where I'll end up going as well. What MiniPC did you end up working with?

The thing I'm building/hosting can benefit from plenty of cores, but for the start it's just prototype with a limited audience, so I don't need to go hardcore.

But I have a friend who has rackspace in a DC, and my thought was if I bought something in a rack form I could move it there and pay him to host it later. But I suspect it doesn't make a lot of sense, really.
I understand. I had various streaming subscriptions and now none for the same reason: if you get all the TV, candy, liquor, sleep, or gum you can handle, you don’t want it anymore. TV is a place to flip down and turn off your mind, except when you’re young and so sensitive to how you’re perceived that you actually empathize with the actors.
I was a tenured mathematics professor in academia (at UCSD and Univ of Washington) from 2005-2019, and a full professor during the last few years. At 45, I left academia and started a small tech company, giving up tenure and the academic life. It has worked out for me so far, though it often felt like my instincts from academia are almost exactly backwards from the correct instincts for industry. Anyway, leaving the "golden handcuffs" of tenure was probably a somewhat unusual part for me. I tried very hard to stay X% with the university, but the intellectual property and other rules were too rigid to make that work for more than 2-3 years, even though the mathematics department was extremely supportive. My motivation for leaving academia was my inability to get funding to support development of open source software (in particular, SageMath), and I still aspire to one day create more value and have a bigger impact than I could in academia.
Getting a refresh loop on the page and the follow count is going up, 5072 and climbing fast.
A lot of the low level code is working code in ObjC.

There is no reason to replace perfectly working code that is battle tested if the requirements don't change.

The fact that the new binaries on it are written in Swift is showing their 100% commitment to Swift, which is great to see. And why wouldn't you, Swift is a joy to work with, especially if you're from Apple :)
Yep. Went from electrical designer in industrial automation from 23-27, went to graduate school, came out as a robotics software engineer from 29-onwards. Almost completely different worlds. About the only thing that was the same was the presence of 6-DoF robot arms.
I don't remember what the first software I purchased was, but after that point, I no longer was hesitant to spend money on good software. In hindsight, it was an irrational fear (maybe "fear" isn't the right word though). I'm not even a cheap person, I just always felt wrong paying money for any software that wasn't a video game. I wouldnt even buy dirt cheap mobile apps.

The only exception nowadays is subscriptions. I avoid those wherever I can, and will happily buy a more expensive/inferior alternative rather than pay a subscription. That might be irrational too, but I can't shake the feeling that I'm being ripped off and/or exploited any time I need to pay for a subscription.
Oh! Awesome! I'll have to give this a shot, then :)
I think the original comment is referring to the PROC flag as communist, which is used for both languages. My impression is that the original commenter wants the ROC/Taiwan flag or Hong Kong flag used instead.

(Unless a different flag was used and it was switched, but I find that more unlikely due to quick timing.)
try! was added in 0.10 (2014), and ? was stabilized in 1.13 (2020), according to my quick check on GitHub releases. Note that the underlying traits to implement ? on custom types are still unstable.
Not sure I agree that that's middle class levels of expense. If you're living a "normal" life, and for the sake of the example you start with $500k per year, my estimates are $300k after taxes, $290k after medical/insurance, $240k after rent/mortgage, $220k after food, $200k after transportation. IMO $50k for rent/mortgage is the only vaguely plausible number you have.
“I don't really understand the explanations, but GPT-5, Bard and LLaMa-aLp4ca all come to the same conclusion, so I guess it must be correct.”
One counter point to why I personally pay for Disney+ is that I have kids, and kids love repeat content. I don't think new content particularly matters to them, at least not at their age.

I wonder how much Disney+'s numbers will be helped by that tranche of subscribers.
Marines Test Fire Robot Dog Armed with Rocket Launcher
The amount of memory and CPU overhead involved in sending strings across the wasm/JS boundary to do something like put text in a textarea is a lot bigger than you might think. It's really severe.
>People should remember the board and CEO for screwing over employees.

This is important if you're staying in more or less the same field - many specialties are smaller worlds than you may think.

I am somewhat bad with names, so I've learned to take notes. I have a list of people I'd love to work with again, and another of people whose presence will stop me from accepting an offer.
Again, that's skewed upwards because there's no upper bound on the price of an expensive new car, but the lower bound of a cheap new car is 0.

The mean price of a car, like the mean price of a house, is much less meaningful than the median.
"Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)" - Disney
My understanding is that solar storms and high-altitude EMPs have similar effects. Both energize the upper atmosphere which induces currents in long conductors. High-altitude EMP does not harm electronics.

It is close-by EMP from nuclear blast that harms electronics.
Exactly what I was thinking. This could make room for vastly improved accuracy in tracking due to being able to use off device compute power.

Reducing latency such that an AR app could get frame data or other communication from an external device opens up many doors that are currently either closed or just cracked open.

Shared experiences, extremely high precision, large data compute, etc… there are a ton of opportunities here.
Your medical bills probably are really high if you are spending >$5k on food a month...
And perhaps rules like those are the reason these companies are built in the west. I say this as a person that grew up in a country that has lots and lots of anti-company pro-worker laws and now it’s in a hole so deep that the presidential candidates are selling “if you vote me I can guarantee we’d be back on the run in 40 years”
Wannabe left-wing dictators would be okay, though?
sum types and pattern matching are great. For me, I'm anti-exception.

"Point on the doll where the exceptions hurt you." I worked on a project with exceptions as control flow (cough, twisted python, cough), and the error handling was caught several classes and mixins up and over in the file directory. In some far away file, your exception triggered a callback or an errback, and if that excepted, similar magic happened. It got to the point that several engineering choices had to be made around "well, this really would be nice to have an exception and some standard handling, but the framework will take it and do strange things."

I _love_ handling my errors where they are created.
Batman is Bruce Wayne.
Some people remain sensitive into adulthood. Very much so.

I know 40-somethings like this who are huge film buffs. I wish I could short-term experience the world like them.

(Long term, it is horrible)
My Experience So Far at Berea College: The 'Free' Tution College
My understanding is that in the US, earned wages (while employees were employed) are indeed employee claims. Not paying these is what YC guidance above says will lead to "very bad things."

After people are let go, severance and continuation of healthcare beyond some term mandated by law (maybe state, maybe federal, maybe varies by state, don't know) are not considered employee claims in this sense.

CEO and the board didn't follow the YC guidance mentioned above, and it's on them.
60% of 20? Knowing how far Reddit went with just a few people Id be surprised if they were that many
None of the "on a dog" designs make sense to me. Robot tanks have always been able to maneuver over tougher obstacles and much harder to knock over and are significantly faster. Some tanks with the tall tracks can right-side themselves. Stability is important with aimed weapons. A tank can have a turret with multiple projectile devices and could fire any direction. A dog would fall over firing sideways. So why do we keep using the dog form?
I don’t know about Australia but the real problem in the US is that the aforementioned interests (homeowners, speculators) have acted effectively like a cartel to restrict supply. They do this by pulling out every possible objection to block construction permits.

Price signals work if supply can raise to meet demand. When house prices go up it becomes more profitable to build, etc. But when the supply side mechanism is blocked for a necessity then prices will just go up, and up, and up… especially if it can also be bought on leverage.
Actually there's no reason why you couldn't get the skills before graduate school
European laws simply do not apply in the United States. The same way that as an Australian citizen you don't have to abide by a ban on e-cigarettes in Singapore even if the law is written in a way that says it applies globally.

If Clearview AI has no nexus in the EU (offices, employees, customers, servers, etc) and refuses to do business in the EU they have no obligation to abide by EU laws, even if that law covers processing data internationally.

Ultimately they would need to ask the US to charge or extradite the Clearview executives under US law or an international treaty.
Marketgap here: Crowdfunding for sueing them. Nobody should be above the law!
I am really glad arXiv is getting more funding. It is an essential resource.

For me personally, it’ll be really interesting to see if the frontend changes. No doubt there are some important improvements that can be made (a website can always be made more accessible, moderation tools, support for name changes as mentioned, etc.) However, to first approximation, arXiV’s website already seems almost like a platonic ideal. It reminds me of Craigslist. Simple HTML, loads fast, has the information and features you need but otherwise gets out of your way. I love it.

The arXiv team deserves a lot of credit for what they’ve done to get it this far. It’s difficult to overstate how useful and transformative preprint servers have been to science.
I don’t really care about “new” content.

Similar to video games.

I consume if it is new or old. If I can’t find content then I’m done with the service.

Unfortunately on all these platforms discovery is horrible unless they want you to find it.
Yes! But I work on CodeSandbox, so that creates some bias :). We've been working on our own CDE solution, though we've taken a different spin to improve speed and cost.

Our solution is based on Firecracker, which enables us to "pause" (& clone) a VM at any point in time and resume it later exactly where it left of, within 1.5s. This gives the benefit that you won't have to wait for your environment to spin up when you request one, or when you continue working on one after some inactivity.

However, there's another benefit to that: we can now "preload" development environments. Whenever someone opens a pull request (even from local), we create a VM for it in the background. We run the dev server/LSPs/everything you need, and then pause the VM. Now whenever you want to review that pull request, we resume that environment and you can instantly review the code or check the dev server/preview like a deployment preview.

It also reduces cost. We can pause the VM after 5 minutes of inactivity, and when you come back, we'll resume it so it won't feel like the environment was closed at all. In other solutions you either need to keep a server spinning in the background, or increase the "hibernation timeout" to make sure you don't have the cold boot.

It's kind of like your laptop, if you close it you don't expect it to shut down and boot the whole OS again when you open it. I've written more about how we do the pausing/cloning here (https://codesandbox.io/blog/how-we-clone-a-running-vm-in-2-s...) and here (https://codesandbox.io/blog/cloning-microvms-using-userfault...).
A long time ago, I decided there's nothing worth doing that is worth buying into proprietary software. But I understand that for the type of person who doesn't have any idea what they're doing, it's a whole different story.

If someone wants to argue "It just doesn't magically fall into my lap", there's no point in arguing. Ok, I'm sorry you don't understand computers. I'd also be frustrated I were you.
Except that Git Annex has encryption (with OpenPGP support, which is perfect, because I can use a proper HSM) and chunking, and can replicate data across multiple clouds and/or local drives.

This thing mentions encryption, but I think it only exists somewhere on the roadmap.
I was a welder for 8 years before I went back to school. Graduated at 29. I somehow snagged a developer position in April. It has worked out well so far. Welding can be very fulfilling work but it didn't quite scratch the intellectual itch that programming does.
Make the internet you want to see
I think that's where the real discussion is. A lot of things spoken of as a best practice are really just cargo culting rituals when they're not practically evaluated
We have Disney+ but don’t watch it super often. Our price is increasing from $85/yr to $140. I’ll probably cancel here in a few days and maybe in the future just subscribe for a month and binge some shows after they’re out.

The almost doubling of the price is absurd.
Sure, but "working code" written in C is declining. So some choices are being made.

It fits in line with how I've seen Apple developers at conferences highlighting the memory safety aspects of Swift. They are maybe hoping to position it as a competitor to Rust on that front. I wonder how they feel Objective-C compares from a safety perspective compared to Swift. I wonder if that might influence decisions on what kind of stuff gets re-written in Swift.

I hope we can see further graphs like this to track what happens. I don't feel MS ever committed to C# in this way but that is due to ignorance at the numbers. I would love to see all of that data for Windows and even macOS.
I can't live without this anymore! However, occasionally sqlite won't quite guess the type affinity as I'd hoped for a column, then I do have to resort to enumerating all the types.

I find it slightly annoying to have to switch mode back to something reasonable again, since mode impacts query results as well as imports.

Despite doing this every few weeks, I can never remember what the commands are! The Zui might improve this workflow for me a bit. Worth a shot!
Seems like the old and new syntax would still be there and the rewrite from one to the other is easy.

Actually, maybe the IDE could (optionally) display it this way, so it’s not even a rewrite. The downside would be possible confusion when using another tool (like doing a diff).
a fair amount of ciphers and hashes are listed here under the crypto module: https://www.atomvm.net/doc/master/apidocs/erlang/estdlib/cry...
140 a year? You know you can pay for a good VPN for a lot less than that...
I wish more self-published books would find a way to hire a copyeditor.
nushell is also amazing for exploring data quickly like this! I can't use it as a daily driver shell, but I just call it directly from whatever other shell I'm already in and then ^D back to my prior session when I'm done exploring. Works great and lets me visualize realllly nicely.
Can always use a shim
I would be canceling myself but with two young ones who absolutely adore watching the same shows over and over again, my desires take a back seat unfortunately.
You need 192Mhz, higher the range is too short, lower the bandwith is too low:

http://radiomesh.org