skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is something of both. Like playing Poker can be gambling, yet one can also play it seriously and systematically earn money.

The difference is that a Poker tournament is just entertainment for the audience. With prediction markets there is the very useful side effect of accurate forecasts.
That’s the point OP is making, even if the program is bug-free, given the compiler’s current state there’s a chance the compiled binary has bugs (due to miscompilation).

Now that can happen with every compiler but using one in still in alpha significantly increases the risk.
I'm struggling to see how their costs for releasing with 0 marketing are that much higher than scrapping.
Yes, and when doing it in software makes no sense. We have GPUs for a reason, for example. (Yes I'm aware graphics can be done on the CPU but there's a reason GPUs are faster)
Frankly I'm of the increasing opinion that if you do a tax write off on a creative work that you should be required to put it into the public domain. You've already made it clear that you believe that the value you would gain from it is $0, ergo it doesn't make sense to let companies vault content forever once written off.

For example, a bunch of TV series were written off last year, which means that content has been taken down both from streaming and purchasing. It is effectively completely inaccessible outside of piracy.
It is really insane how much government bureaucracy and regulation has needlessly impeded progress. From rockets to solar farms, activist environmentalism and the government have thwarted and held back so much human progress, not for any legitimate threat, but rather paranoia, fear, and the bitterness of single individuals.
This is great advice. The concepts haven't changed much - electricity and physics don't change at all - we just have new techniques and the scale is way larger than before.
Because AI grifters think training a language prediction model is the same thing as creating Data from Star Trek.
An argument on a public forum is not won by whoever shouts the loudest or has the most "courage". If expressed clearly enough, it suffices (and is much wiser) to explain your ideas once and let the readers decide.
So this is how https://chat.openai.com/gpts/editor is currently configured.

Notes:

DO NOT camel case; Use spaces for compound words; spaces are accepted.
DO NOT USE CAMEL CASE.

Seems even openai needs some strong words for it's GPT to behave ;)

namespace gizmo_editor {
type update_behavior = (_: {
welcome_message?: string,

Interesting I didn't know you can set a welcome message (which is different to the 4+x suggested prompts)
I used to get boxes from them. Candy Japan is/was a one person operation run by a Finnish guy named Bemmu, who also blogged about his life in Japan.

His user profile is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bemmu. It now says it was shut down, so I guess it's official. Weird that he wouldn't update the site, though, which just says it's temporarily paused.

I'm not surprised that decided to shut it down; it seemed like a lot of work, and there are now a number of competitors doing the same thing at a much higher volume, with free world-wide shipping, glossy packaging, and so on.
I can think of three demographics, one of which, of course, is Americans themselves.
great example that shows judgement, empathy and trust matter. Some people _want_ direct communication: they find fluff annoying, and don't take any insult or discomfort from it. Others find instruction challenging/insulting/intimidating and need softer interaction. A good leader can adjust their style to ensure the communication lands appropriately. Good leadership is largely about emotional intelligence.
> But it is good enough to replace stack overflow.

For the kind of things I‘m using stackoverflow for I prefer it. It‘s much fast to google and scan the sf page than to wait for GPT to type out an answer and read that.

GPT is only useful if the code needs to be adapted, and I rarely use stackoverflow for that.
Sabotaging? Clearly not.

They applied proactive network management to fairly allocate an expensive resource according to the anticipated needs of the company.
Looks like BOFH is writing under a pseudonym.

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/
So if something is open source it's immune to criticism?

Let's assume KDE and Gnome are equally good in every single aspect. In this case, don't you think it's a little bit weird that German government chooses Gnome over KDE, whose origin in Germany? It's not charity, but taxpayers' money.
This seems extremely bare-bones and doesn't seem to implement any useful features you might expect from a component like this(sorting, filtering, etc). I think in the vast majority of cases, I'd want to use something like tanstack table instead. Maybe this is OK for very simple scenarios, but my experience is that as soon as you need some sort of table/datagrid, you'll want more than the basics.
KDE is amazing and your point is even more valid.
Your responsibility as a professional is towards the customer and company. Not towards incompetent individuals. Don't call yourself a professional when you are reday to do unprofesssional work at the first sign of resistance.
I would like to know this as well.

A tree overview of all nested functions and objects with a search function that quickly jumps to that place, and maybe even let you call that function with data from state?
You have one upthread: "hubris" and "life finds a way", via story of Icarus and Jurassic Park.

Plenty others involve deep-sounding cliches. "Death gives meaning to life" comes to mind. There is a whole subgenre of extreme litart cringe, known as corporate speak. "Synergy", referencing Odysseus, old folk saws, "team that trusts", etc.
California's drought is so bad that almond farmers are ripping out trees (2021)
From what I've seen, their salaries are higher brutto but not netto
> Anybody who says 'I need you to...' goes on the list, even if they are not actually talking to me myself.

Can you say more about this? I use this phrase (or slight variations) all the time in both work and personal contexts. I had no idea it could be abrasive.
Echidna part of local folklore for thousands of years. Attenborough comes along making a tv show. Gets named after him.
Save This Stinking Flower
Long term politicians are not adverse either to lobbying. On the contrary they are even more likely to be corrupted like a ripe apple exposed to the sun for too long
It's not their only bad financial piece. The one claiming landlords are all secretly hoarding apartments because algorithms are telling them it'll raise the rent is basically nonsense.

(This is a cartel, which besides being illegal is impossible because all the members are motivated to detect and most of them cannot act on the advice. The sole actual housing cartel in the US is NIMBY zoning laws; you need the force of law to prevent defection.)
The Pragmatic Programmer - I read this book when I was programming professionally for maybe 5 or so years, so I already had my basics covered, but reading this book really expanded my horizons on what it means to create software profesionally. I read, maybe, 100 books about programming since and before then, but no other book changed my thinking that much like this one.
I've just tried to move an existing project to this and VS complained that the SDK doesn't support this version, even though I can create new projects with .net8. (preview SDKs are enabled) Is that some real limitation, or is VS being weird here?

There's https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotne... out there, but I haven't tried it yet.
I’ve found this to be true much more often than one might think.

The suits are cheap or dumb or it’s their fault they can’t speak tech. But often there’s just a lack of communication skills.
Or maybe blurred, she has no idea. “Director of intelligence”, fitting job title.
AIUI Apple is using a better node than AMD, and they lose despite.
I would appreciate a situation where the chatbot enters into the conversation along with a human customer service representative. It‘s a conversation among three people with the chatbot having the option to ask the human and the human tuning in a bit when needed.
Sure, as mentioned its key cases was fast startup for desktop applications.

The installation was supposed to take care of calling into ngen.
I'm about to embark on writing a source generator for XML serdes, because while the system XML one does support source gen, and always has, it has some annoying limitations (same element name must always map to the same class within the same assembly).
How I got here
They won't, as it would result on replacement of said Arm cores.

ARM is dumb, but not to this extent.
For me it's not about lining things up in columns as much as it is about column widths. So, for example, hitting up or down, I know which character the cursor is going to go to (which means I can string keypresses together and do them in a fluid movement). Putting in a hard limit for line lengths (which is very important to me, I know opinions on this differ) means that limit can be drawn as a literal line on the UI (which in turn means I know how small I can resize the editor pane to be). Similar lines with slightly different values (e.g. 'x', 'y' and 'z') will line up so the different values are underneath each other everywhere they appear in the line (also those lines will be the same length which reassures me those lines are the same outside the variables/values).
Totally agree. If I had only one book to give new engineers, it'd be this one.
That's just clusterfuck but qt.
Angular 17 – Rebrand
Link to the announcement https://archive.is/KrUZv
That’s part of the communication challenge. If the audience doesn’t understand exponential growth (kind of surprising for a bank exec) then you still have to explain the problem in a way they will understand.

“The current growth trajectory means we’ll be out of capacity in a month, and it takes 3 weeks to install more capacity, so you’ve got a week to find the budget. If we don’t do this, customers will experience a slower service which may lead to complaints and reputational damage.”

It’s also possible that the execs understood perfectly and were happy to accept the risk of the service being slower for a short period of time. Maybe the Internet-using customer base was tiny, or the service in question wasn’t critical, or the execs were handling general financial pressures leading them to want to sweat every asset until it was impossible to ignore, or maybe they just understood that “the internet being slow” was normal for the 90s and it would be unlikely to hit their reputation in the long term.
> There is a legitimate use case for artists but that isn't what is driving the new mania.

> This time there are massive technical gotchas (you have a link to a .jpg hosted on a server or servers, you don't own the copyright to anything).

It sounds like you've reconciled this, I'm curious how?
Haven't heard the reports of spontaneous screen cracking? [0]

[0] https://www.makeuseof.com/m1-macbook-screens-cracking/
It absolutely is if you're poor.
>So, it’s just the end-to-end encryption stuff with double ratcheting and such, not anything about a particular message format. This makes it a very valuable element for interoperability, and I think might make bridging work better?; but it’s not sufficient for mixing messaging services in any way, nor is Google proposing anything like XMPP of “implement this and you can federate with our service”.

There's ongoing work at the IETF to create a new protocol called MIMI (More Instant Messaging Interoperability)[0], which will use MLS as its E2E crypto layer.

There are Google reps on the working group, amongst others.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/mimi/about/
hello,

hmmm ... what exactly are you looking for!?

disclaimer: i saw your "Work for free, change the internet"-post in the "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)" ...

lets state the obvious:

even "integrity tech people" have to eat, pay rent etc...

and as always in the "startup world":

* ideas are cheap

* the (technical) execution of ideas is hard work - eg. nobody wants to do this for free.

cheers!
Introducing Tesseract Diffusion.
That's not what the post says:

>I find it [...] surprising that the top comment [...] is criticising the effort

Nothing about it being immune to criticism, just surprised that the dominant post (as the time) was critical. The puzzle of successfully funding open source is ever present. A government has made a meaningful investment in an open source project. It might not be your favourite project, and it doubtless has challenges. But I'm with GP in seeing this as net good news.
Sometimes it's hard to communicate technical problems to non-technical people. They article calls that as going for the neck, but I think of it as effective communication.
Income inequality in the US has not increased since 2014 via Piketty's methodology (the one most people use), but also hasn't increased since the 60s by other ones. It's also gotten better since 2019 because low end wages have dramatically improved.

https://x.com/jon_hartley_/status/1720510613775118690

Wealth inequality is largely (not entirely) illusionary since it's mostly based on the marginal price of stocks. Bezos has billions in Amazon shares, so theoretically he could sell them for billions in cash, but the only reason they're worth billions is investors know he will never do that.

(However, since he lost half his fortune by cheating on his wife, we can see how many billions he values Latina news anchors at.)
Makes sense that an entity as powerful as Github would like to make programming even more error prone than it already is. Gotta get that money!
I think, like Paul Graham would say, we'll develop societal antibodies against this.

And, like Sam Altman would say, it is going to be net good for society, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t bumps along the way. We will need to learn to navigate them well.
From cars to microwaves to soldering irons, if it's got software on it, there's a bug in the code.

https://xkcd.com/1172/
The missing context here is that you don't get from zero to 100k salary in normal circumstances. By the time you arrive at that level, then you're already having someone willing to pay you that for the value you bring.

On the "life changing" aspect, consider this thread is about German market and therefore cost of living. Given that, I'm confident to say 100k is not life changing. Comfortable salary range? yes absolutely, but not something you can just get this amount once and be sorted for life.
WSJ: Age of Abundance
That's why firms today have CTO with seat on the table.

Corporate IT grew from office clerks. Obviously you don't need strategic planing to see that fax machines and PC's work, so corporate IT started as being nobody important.
Investigate XH-C2X.
That is a well-spoken and sympathetic plaintiff.

But the HN title is really misleading. This is only about a private criminal action by a private citizen. The bar for filing a "complaint" like this appears to be pretty low, akin to a civil lawsuit. HN's current title sounds like Irish prosecuting agencies are investigating FAANG's for crimes committed, but that is not the case!
This is indeed a problem for long-term markets but long-term is more about 10 years and longer here. Something like "Will China invade Taiwan before 2040?" is a long-term example.

Prediction markets are nearly 50-50 for democrat vs republican president currently. That is a 100% yield if you are correct. It isn't about the yield. It is about much more accurate you are. If your oracle gives you 60-40, you will still lose lots of bets but you will easily beat the 5% yield of treasure bills.
The issue is that many of them have blantant interest to force regulation to enshrine their lead and their narrative is tied to not being transparent.
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You're using unsigned timestamps?
> I agree that many of MS’s “open source” libraries (eg EF, OData) are half-assed, badly run projects.

Just as a counterpoint to this, I have found Entity Framework (Core) to be an extremely nice and very productive dev experience, with a lot of constant improvements in every release. MS don't always get it right, but I definitely wouldn't call EF a "half-assed, badly run project" by a long stretch. (Though there are probably other MS projects I might be more inclined to describe as such!)

That said, they were pretty brutal in cutting off legacy support for those still using .NET Framework and trying to migrate. Through luck, I didn't have to suffer too much pain, but the migration story from .NET Framework to the new world of .NET (including EF to EF Core) has not been the smoothest for some scenarios.
Plus, there's the cost of marketing and other post-release business activity. If they shelve it now those resources are saved, or at least re-appropriated.

Even if they believed they could break even from an accounting and tax perspective, there's still opportunity cost. That is, it might make sense to quit now and move on to something with more upside.
Usually these sorts of complaints relate to executives who earn many many millions per year. 100k per year seems perfectly reasonable?
Simplicity as a Value
Hmm.. this is not a company. A non profit hospital. Taking $261M from them is not hurting hospital management it is going to affect a lot of children who need the hospital and it's infrastructure

Taking money proportionally from the government, city or hospital is not incentive to change . There are no shareholders who will hold management accountable . Voters or donors cannot influence administration easily .
Prediction markets are not perfect but they are better than the usual alternatives like asking experts.
How do you define "clusterfuck"?
It a quite tautology. How do you define "predictability"?

The most intuitive answer is just computability.
Someone could also write a much more bitter article "N Years of Go Hate", as Go bashing became a very popular trend, also unfortunately here.

In my estimates N = 6, more less
i just recently switched from VS 2022 remote to VS Code, (windows->linux, C++) and it works very well. i'm not sure i have many reasons to keep VS 2022 around right now
100k a year is the cheapest executive I’ve ever seen.
Sure, in case you have nothing and win 100k in the lottery I agree.

The context here is completely different though, we are talking about specialized white collar jobs in the German/european market.
If System Settings confuses you, do not go into System Settings.
MLS is built upon ART, Asynchronous Ratcheting Trees.
Braun AW 50
“I gave up Spotify and didn’t replace it. Maybe you’ll like losing what Spotify provides with no obvious gain or substitute, too!”
As a KDE user, I dare say I'm literally shaking with rage /s
> I'm just warning you, Icarus-- you're staring at the sun. Look away. It's not worth it.

Over 2000 years have passed. We've since invented sunglasses, and rivets, and composites, and UV-B blocking sunscreen. We can deal with sunshine.
If you let them hunt prey for food and don't treat them when they're sick the population should be regulatable. Starving animals don't make a lot of babies and when population is normal starvation becomes rare. Animals exist in an ecosystem, having to fight with other prey and hunt/search for food means much less time making babies. The issue people have with this is tolerating the natural suffering (not intervening) , and allowing smaller animals to be hunted.

Think of it as a "dog conservation" area where dogs are allowed but predators that kill dog are not and prey dogs can hunt is introduced but not heavily regulated.

The part humans have a hard time with is allowing animals to suffer naturally. But out in nature, natural animal suffering is very common. That's how animal populations self regulate. They say dogs can't survive in the wild, that's partly true because most natural ecosystems have predators that will hunt them and prey that are hard to catch for dogs. But there are prey dogs can catch easily like rabbits that are in many areas (like farms) considered pests. Now imagine a dog conseravation area near rabbit infestes areas instead of pesticides! And imagine adapting dogs from these areas instead of kill shelters.

We humans have the power to craft ecosystems and plenty of unused and unfarmable and hard to develop wild land our pets would love (e.g.: much of oregon).

But even if that wasn't possible, my view is that allowing city dogs to starve is natural, you can feed them excess foods and they will reproduce then, but at some point there won't be enough food for the little ones to sustain them so that would be nature's way of regulating them.

And if you step back a bit for perspective. Humans have the same problem. Not that we humans should let each other starve but people who can't feed their children can avoid prefnancy at will and avert that suffering while animals aren't smart enough to do that.

Humans in the end are not in charge of regulating the natural fate of animals.
I get this is probably a reflection of corporate culture in the 90s (a bit cartoonish, I think) but I think this attitude does little to make Tech taken more seriously and “at the table”.

Instead we self-reinforce the image of childish kids doing mischief and pranks when the things don’t go our way.

The CTO was at fault in this story, for failing to convey the gravity and for being used as a doormat if things went bad.
It's funny how languages like Go and Julia are typically still seen as "new", even though they are more than a decade old. It's similar to "modern C++" referring to C++11 and above. Sometimes you even read about "modern languages like python" which is more than three decades old.
HN readers flagged it.
I have always felt there has been a learning curve for Go and Rust when it comes to syntax for me. I have used C C++ Java and Python and PHP for a long time but whenever I start Go or Rust, over time I lose interest thinking this is too complicated and difficult for me (no idea why).

Is there anyone in the same boat and are there ideas how I can make myself get good with at least one of these trending languages ?
Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns

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I love how this language gets so much faster every year. Here’s to fourteen more, Go!
US tech wages for a single position are probably on average more than the typical EU tech company makes in total revenue per year. 60k is like a god tier wage here.
Thorium Performance vs Chromium
Global Analysis Partitioning Nonstrict Programs into Sequential Threads(1992)