skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like a natural law: manufacturing hubs get established, wages increase and then they die as new hubs get created in places with lower wages.

UK to Pittsburgh to Detroit to Silicon Valley to Shenzen, et cetera. Everybody assumes that new hubs will get created in Vietnam or Mexico or Africa or similar that will displace the Chinese hubs.

But it seems manufacturing is now automated enough that the advantages of a hub outweigh the advantages of cheap labor elsewhere. And there's no doubt that Shenzen has a concentration of resources and talent in electronics manufacturing unmatched anywhere else in the world. So it seems possible that Shenzen will never lose this pre-eminence in electronics manufacturing the way that Silicon Valley lost it.
Not if running on Ubuntu! They've replaced Docker with Snap, so you will have to dbus into ~/snap and patch the hook into the package. Of course, this will not work with the inferior Flatpak apps (which you shouldn't be using anyway as they are buggy and not as cool as snaps).
> One of the primary metrics for leadership success at Google is how many people you have under you.

I mean ... you get to choose how you play the game.

If your goal is money and you are a manager then in any organization (not just Google) it's likely that income is going to be O(number of reports). More reports == more responsibility == more money.

But if your goal is to get something done and enjoy your job; you can play that game instead.

Perhaps one of the most life improving insights I've discovered about myself over the years is that I like managing engineers more than managing managers of engineers. The conversations in my week are just more interesting.

Now if I want to get a thing done that really takes 70 people then I either have to deal with it, or let someone else do it -- but just because "more comp requires more people" does not mean you have to aspire to more people. It's OK to like your work and want to get meaningful things done without aspiring to play the "more people, more money" game.
Don't choose Elixir if you just love setting up autoscaled k8s on AWS with redis, RabbitMQ and half a dozen shenanigans for a webapp that serves 10 users a day.
> Cloud-first, in all the wrong ways. It's supposed to be a local app..

It's actually a really weird app. I have a windows PC I sometimes use at work, loaded with all the corporate crap, among which a full up-to-date installation of office 365. Since this machine isn't mission-critical, I sometimes like to check "what's new", so I've switched to the "new outlook".

Yesterday I got an email from someone with an attached Word doc. Usually, I just read those inside outlook, since I only need to skim them at best.

But this time, I clicked "open in word". The thing took ages. First it uploaded the doc somewhere on onedrive (didn't ask me anything). That took a good few seconds. Then it proceeded to open a browser window with a spinny thing doing whatever it is ms products do when they have you waiting around for no apparent reason. Then it finally opened the doc in word online. All the while having a perfectly good copy of word sitting on the same nvme drive as the freakin' attachment.

Now, this computer isn't the latest thousand core threadripper or nothing, but it was still the longest I've ever had to wait around for a 2 page text-only word doc to open.
Anyone else here think the names gpt and gpts are rather unimaginative???

A gipety sounds way cooler.
Can the theorems of Kirt Gödel be classified, though, is my question.

And if so, would their domains of applicability within the universe of formal systems actually be a classification system of that universe in and of itself?
And then I got a bunch of geek friends together to cooperate with solving where the large explosions from the illegal fireworks come from. There are 5x in the group now with another couple coming online soon. Not to do anything with that except to confirm the science works over those distances, I was a kid once as well.

Anyway, the goal now is to find physical evidence that the localization was correct. In my area, there is lot of test data from the kind people that are setting off these large explosions. For that I am thankful :) Real life forensics can be fun :)

If I can find evidence that the indicated location was indeed where the explosion was set off then I will have verified that the localization can indeed be accurate over distances of almost 5km away, which is where one of the recorders is. Currently, I'm seeing a recurring pattern of explosions that appear to being set off in parking lot of a shopping area (Outside of a local Gamma in Limburg).

However, these fireworks do seem to destroy themselves pretty well, I haven't found physical evidence yet except for one that was very close (The next street), for that I found bits of the fireworks paper.

In any case, it will be quite a feat as right now the recorders are based 4.7km, 3k, > 2km sort of distances away from where they indicate that the most explosions are happening.
I wish there was a developer workstation in this form factor (with split keyboard insted of joysticks, of course). Plus the holes so I can strap it around my neck
like we did with cameras many years ago.
That's an outdated rating. Poland is now ahead of Latvia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, and Portugal.

West-East divide between European countries almost does not exist anymore. Czechia is richer than Spain, Slovenia is dead close to UK. Where we had like 3x gap 30 years ago there's at most a 1.4x gap. Poorest: Portugal vs Bulgaria. Richest: Denmark to Slovenia. And groups already intersect.

"Eastern Europe" the way it lives in public imagination, within the EU, only exists in rural Bulgaria and some of the poorest (mostly Eastern) parts of Romania. There, it is mostly due to the ethnic composition of population and will probably always stay that way.
More: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38195889
What I mean by “should” is if game sticker price is $10 and as Indy game dev you can get $7 basically for free if casual stumbles on your game.

I assume such dev can and should also use all other available promotion options of course.

So from my pov 30% is fine to pay. Especially that after initial effort of putting game in.
Depends very much on the client. Samsung Email is atrocious, but Apple Mail works great (and I think they’re both local clients).
I guess Ubuntu devs use Debian or something. There is no way a Linux distro dev who can configure Debian in his sleep would put up with all this BS. Even if Ubuntu is enforced internally you should be able to de-Canonicalize it almost completely.

Or maybe the Canonical employees have remove-bs.sh script they keep up to date internally?
Swedish painters trade union to stop all work with Tesla brand cars
Your equation is correct except when it's not.

We build so few gigawatt-size reactors. In the US only 4 came online since 1990. For most of the construction crew of such a reactor, that job is the first of that type in their career, and the last. They get trained on the job, and that (ultra-expensive) training is then never used again.

Contrast that with the building of naval reactors, which are essentially SMRs. The US builds about 1 or 2 per year. In factories. The workers there participate in the building of numerous reactors during their careers. For each reactor, the majority of the crew has already done the job at least once before, and they know they will continue using their skills for many years to come.

The cost of naval reactors is classified, but one could infer from this congressional report ([1], page 6) that an A1B reactor cost about $400 MM in 2011 money. Adjusted for inflation, that would be $560 MM today.

A single A1B reactor is equivalent to about 3 NuScale modules, so 2 A1Bs would be equivalent to the 6-module package that was canceled here, because its cost ballooned to more than 9 billion. The US Navy is able to procure them for less than $1.2 BN.

So, no, the economics don't fundamentally doom SMRs. It's just that you can expect the numbers to start working out only after you enter serial production. The first-of-its-kind costs are always high.

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/112th-congress-2011-...
We are approaching a time when there will be no one alive who walked on the moon.
That often happens when people who don’t do much public speaking do public speaking.
Could the “jump” problem be improved with a subtle transition (200ms, 1s, etc) from one state to the other?

If the editor “repaints” commit mono on the letter-pair boundary, I could see that being a very jumpy UX — ie: the letter I just typed is moving by a few pixels. But if that repaint happens on the word boundary it might be less noticeable?

In either case, a transition could be helpful for commit mono and/or Monaspace. (But agreed with above comments that Monaspace is more subtle because it spreads the spacing over the entire word, so maybe the transition is not actually percievable or worth it). :)
Like, imagine something maybe 1000x as complicated as your car, that has to work reliably 100% of the time for 50+ years .

Now imagine that we don’t have any practice building one of these things because people have been scared of building them for approximately 40 years, so the last person to make one is 70-90.

Now imagine that the failure case for this thing is a disaster that causes an expensive cleanup in the surrounding area, so no one will insure the project against that unless you pay an astronomical amount. Now add in that you’re using a “new” design that’s never been tested, and you have to follow a bunch of government regulations that didn’t even exist when the last comparable reactor was built.

Stack up all these things and you get a lot of uncertainty about project scope, uncertainty about financing, and uncertainty about whether it will work.

This means that to ballpark what it was cost, it will necessarily be expensive because of the risk everyone is taking in producing it.
This is why employees (usually) receive occupational safety training. You can't control employee's every move, but they fact that several people thought this was ok points to corporate failure, not an individual.
Yes, but that market is not exactly a monopoly.
I don't think I said that philosophy taught me things that the "rest of us" find useful. I said it taught me things that I found useful. And I'm happy to argue that many non-technical subjects that I might not consider useful are useful to people in other disciplines (including disciplines that measure success by income levels).
But Apple support blames that Dell makes shitty monitors and it is not their problem :D

They advised me to buy Apple Display.
I mean if you only play games that needs to feel real than you are really limiting yourself.
This. Best game to repeatedly burn out on.

For all its complexity, it's actually pretty much relaxing and autopilot once you've crossed a few hundred hours.
The M2 Air 8Gb starts at $1100, not $900. And it's €1300 in Europe. It's not a cheap laptop at all.
I'd assume shareholders value is still increasing, so it wouldn't be a problem for them.
The idea of equity in a consulting-type business is pretty strange, on the face of it.

Leaving aside the partnership fair/unfair model, equity = access to capital.

But consulting-type businesses are essentially headcount machines, because the product is 1 person's time.

So why do you need access to capital?

Granted, it makes expansion easier (hire ahead of work), but as far as profit distributions go, what are equity holders providing in exchange for their slice of the profits?
the way think about this is that the state is acting as a mega scale VC, with similar hit rate. Needs 1 out of 100 to make it. Wastage is simply part of this investment game, what needs to happen at end point is the creation of national champions and national industry. That is the Biden promise and if he delivers it, it will be worth it. For what its worth, I think 'he' will fail because this is a multi-decadal commitment, which the political system in the US will be unable to see through
Huawei did it due to sanctions though
> And that arrangement exists solely so that the company whose work you're actually doing can fire you more easily or avoid legal liability.

It might mostly exist for that reason, but not 'solely'.

Otherwise, there would be no contractors in eg Singapore.
> discouraged workers from wearing safety yellow because he dislikes bright colors

I know for a fact Musk wears hi-vis vests so that sounds at the least hyperbole
He just wanted to sound old and insightful :)

"I remember the days", lol
Ultimately, a worker sitting on top of a truck to hold down a load, is a failure of the company: rules and trainings have to be implace to avoid this unsafe behavior, managers, and ultimately the CEO, has to enforce those rules. If that doesn't happen an unsafe culture is promoted, one that leads to accidents.
> The main positive that I see is that typing no longer requires thought.

This is why I've been using keyboards with nothing written on the keys since 2004.
At the time, I was in high school and had no money to buy a professional keyboard, so I spray painted my cheap keyboard with black paint (fun fact: I'm still using that very keyboard to type this).

I've never looked at my keyboards ever since. I can type all letters and all symbols without thinking about it. As an IT person, I couldn't imagine how much brain energy I would waste if I were to look down and search for anything.
I'm struggling to comprehend your comment here, python needs to work native on windows or is it something else, why is WSL such a barrier given it's generally available on a few billion devices worldwide?
Not exactly. I work as a project manager in the transportation field, and I can tell you that inflation has doubled (or more) the cost of several of my projects in the past few years. Most of the increases can be attributed to rising costs, and not necessarily scope changes.

Combined with limited funding, the projects continue to get delayed.
> Someone writing code can think of how to structure the code

Then, just think about it, and not type it out like a caveman prematurely.

Also, no one on Earth has ever written continuously for 5 seconds outside of typing competitions. You don’t have 5 seconds of coherent text buffer available in your mind even for natural text, let alone codes. So that +3 seconds is complete nonsense.
Big companies offer good money but are ridden with politics and don't allow you to learn or progress.

Nothing people didn't already know.
Many countries make legal distinctions between direct employees and contractors.

Those kinds of regulations are a prime driver for this kind of contracting.
Maybe give the poster the benefit of the doubt as it's a totally different link. Let's be nice to each other
Frankly, we really need to instill the "types are cool" concept into inexperienced engineers. That insanely long phase in software engineering where people said dynamic types are cool was a huge mistake and ruined a lot of newbie minds.
I had a very similar experience with insomnia. My whole life I couldn't fall asleep on time. At one point, having tried everything, I just stopped caring. If I didn't sleep much one night, then whatever, I've survived many sleep deprived days. So I totally stopped thinking about sleep. Then I just started getting sleepy around 10pm every night and falling asleep soon after. I think that insomnia is perhaps the most mental of all ailments. I also started reading by candlelight at night and that helped too.
> Also, "forever" doesn't happen all at once. Give me immortality, and then check in with me yearly if I still want it. I will let you know once I'm over it.

Immortality as a subscription service—brilliant!
I had a similar reaction. If I'm healthy, I can routinely ship 1-2k LOC per week.

I sort of regret that at times, because I think we could be just as productive (in terms of useful product) with many fewer LOC, but we are stuck with the constraints we live in.

OTOH, I've worked (incredibly frustrating) jobs where the infrastructure is dysfunctional such that the write-compile-test cycles are on the order of tens of minutes, and these have made my LOC/week plummet. In those cases, I've recommended to management that we fix the infrastructure to get down to sub-minute cycles (ideally a few seconds), but usually these have been shot down due to their extreme myopia.
what about the tens of thousands android apps?
That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen
This is the direction React Native is heading, with Fabric Native Components[1] and Turbo Native Modules[2]. On the development side, you have JavaScript, the language we all love to hate and hate to love, with its vast ecosystem of readily available libraries that are well-documented and used daily by billions of people. On the functionality side, you have access to native code, which speeds up and lightens the workload, making the app performant.

[1] https://reactnative.dev/docs/the-new-architecture/pillars-fa...
[2] https://reactnative.dev/docs/the-new-architecture/pillars-tu...
iOS Safari: “Swedish is not currently supported for translation.”

Seriously?
I wrote a small profiler in ~240 lines of pure Java code: https://github.com/parttimenerd/tiny-profiler

It is reasonable fast :)
Is there a way to make it use the number of CPU cores instead of hardcoding a fixed value into a config file that’s used on different machines?
English version: https://www-malarna-nu.translate.goog/om-oss/nyheter/20232/p...

Thanks for the more informative link below!
EU business crowdfunding is now bound by bloc-wide regulations
1. Transformer architecture and all that math behind it.

2. How do self-driving cars work

and

there's never enough time.
I've been programming in Erlang since 1991, every day; and that has been my intention all the time. I've done things in Haskell, Rust, Elixir, etc.. over the years. Strong typing is extremely valuable but what it all boils down to is where I have the most fun. Erlang is the prog.lang that gives me most joy and I plan to continue hacking Erlang, at least, until I retire in a few years.
The Brady Heywood podcast had a great series on Apollo 13 that covered parts of the earlier missions. Unfortunately they "remastered" and rereleased it with the same awful pacing and music, but the originals are still available in the feed.
> When combined with the rate limiting on 365 email api and ultimately removing imap access this seems like a strategic goal to capture our data.

While I agree with your other points, I'm not sure how this one works. If you're using Office365, you're already having your mail at least go through their servers. What difference does IMAP make to their snooping intentions?
People don't know what they want well enough to specify it. However, if you built something they like, they will recognise that even if they struggle to articulate why it's good.

I don't think that's part of marketing, unless you'd see for example a furniture company deciding to use a higher quality wood for their new tables as "marketing" because the tables will be nicer and customers will like that.
That's the original discussion for you, maybe. I didn't see that one. At any rate, whoever wrote is right.

Except the ordering of your words is wrong. Journalism not bad. Bad journalism is bad - it's worse than bad, it's a disservice to the public. Journalists have a duty to the public and must be held to the highest ethical standards.
Using the WHO was just an example. Porn addiction is recognized by many "experts". I don't doubt you can be addicted to anything: video games, porn, exercise, sex, whatever. Now, treating it like a disease akin to drug addiction, that's something I don't understand.
No problem. After all, those programs are as much about maintaining knowledge, industry and capabilities in country as they are about specific missions.
What is your definition of anyone? I am teaching Dvorak to some really young students, whose habits are not malformed with Qwerty. They are extremely thankful to me, no one is willing to return to Qwerty, time to gain a touchtyping skill is 10 hours from zero to hero. So, my "anyone" reports that Qwerty does not matter to him. Probably your observation is based on the fact that an old dog can not learn a new trick.
Technically no-one is being forced but network effects mean that not publishing on steam is essentially suicide for any dev without a huge marketing budget to overcome those network effects. This means that Steam is in a position where they can demand feeds in excess of what they could in a healthy competitive market.
tipping came out of a need of rich people to show off their wealth. i don't think anyone remembers that. tips were given to servants who, in some way or form had a full-time job (or were slaves) with food and a place to sleep. they likely had bad working and living conditions and were being exploited by todays standards, but that wasn't the reason they got tips.

those societies that don't have a culture of tipping, probably never had it to begin with.

if they're still widely adopted it usually means influential parts of society are still relying on them.

the problem with this is that waiters didn't start out relying on tips. that came later. essentially waiters are now being exploited by their employers. and that exploitation is being enabled through tipping. but now it's hard to change that, unless waiters start to demand more pay.
I thought that's what every email provider does? Fastmail has the same feature where you can provide your credentials and they'll fetch the emails from other providers for you.
It is not as if I expected Typescript to be promising for external data validation. I was watching what people say about Typescript, and how people actually use Typescript.

I wrote Ruby with duck-typing for 10 years and it never seemed to be a cognitive load for me. My working memory has been degrading as I age. My Ruby code became increasingly written in a functional style. Maybe it's in how I write? Small functions, minimal (or no) side effects, composed together with names that describe how data is transformed.

Explicating types hinder me. Where it had really started becoming more useful was explicit types in functional programming, such as defining monoids or lattices, or whatever, on those data types. My experience with Typescript and even Crystal is that the static typing only yields a fragment of the benefits without being able to define operators that go with those data types. Even the Just/Maybe monad would have helped with messy external data, since that would explicitly define ambiguous data that can be progressively refined into clean data types.

I'm excited to see the new static typing effort in Elixir. It's theoretical base is a set, which, I think, will work better with how people use Elixir in production. It'll be interesting if the Witchcraft (ML ideas in Elixir) will work with those.
Even us two people using Edge on Android get that!
I used mailvelope for the longest time as a gmail user until I found a better mail app with gpg support. It was pretty slick last time I used it.

Shamefully I also turned on the pgp messages from Facebook. I never found value with it, but to this day it’s still enabled and I don’t care to log in to Facebook to disable it.
I expect we might be tripping over my misuse of terms of art re: risk (sorry!) and your proper use?

If we look at two plans: (Plan HB) an HDCP bronze plan and (Plan P) a traditional platinum plan.

Each can set premiums on the basis of their expected payouts, no?

So if, for the last 5 years, plan HB had an average participant age of 35, few health complications, and low payouts and Plan P had an average participant age of 55, more health complications, and high payouts... Plan HB could set lower premiums and Plan P could set higher premiums (against all-of-population neutral rates), no?

Or am I misunderstanding limits on actuarial use under ACA?

(Disclaimer: I haven't done much work on the actuarial side)