skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Overwhelmingly, violent revolution doesn't actually bring about the goals of the revolution. It just installs a new power structure with variations on all the old problems. Sometimes much worse.

There are examples either way, and sadly you seem right.

I recently read but now can’t find a discussion around this that argued that extreme times promote extreme individuals. A violent revolution is clearly an extreme time and any leader that emerges is likely to have fought hard for their position.
This is also my main gripe with automatic formatting. Since they don't really understand the code they almost all work based on number of characters in a line. However I really don't care about characters in a line (except for at the extremes). What is much more important is how many ideas are in the line. If I have an array with 3 very interesting elements I don't want them on the same line even if they happen to be quite short.
Is this not normal? No offense but this sounds like saying “in my personal experience cleats are only useful when running.” Well duh :p
I'm of a strong opinion not to form big friendships at work. I now started making friends outside of work at 37.

At work I'm looking out for myself.
The vibes is the data.
Almost by definition billionaies are the cabal if nothing else due to their purchasing power.

The ones in the four comma club rule entire nations and fund wars and stay wealthy by obtaining ownership rights of conquered territories for a relatively low cost.
Ever been up on a roof when it's over one hundred degrees outside? $13/hour isn't going to get me up there. I'm not trying to cast aspersions on the work or the workers (though there is sometimes an earned reputation about construction crews), but roofing is just the suckiest of the suck, at least in South Texas.
> Or you get back to the hotel, tell them you understand how commission fraud works and if they are willing to split that commission (18%) half and half with you.

That sure sounds like a crime in itself, no?
> one of the worst possible outcomes of machine translation is something that ends up being accidentally offensive

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy claims the opposite:

"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
The "expressive" example in french exhibits a thick accent which bothers me more than the mechanical aspect of the non-expressive french example.

It's not dissimilar to some kind of a "ch'ti" / "chtimi" accent or a belgian-french accent (which is not dissimilar to the french ch'ti accent, heard in some part of the north of France. "Ne partez pooooo" (with a longer "a" which sounds nearly like an 'o': that's not proper french at all) instead of "Ne partez pas".

That's said I'll take the non-expressive accent any day over subtitles for when watching video in a language I don't understand: it's clearly good enough.
Number 8 on the list is "Radix". When you look into levels.fyi, it shows the salary as $25k.

There's definitely some publicly traded tech companies that are missing from the list.
Good point. Maybe they invent a better language and easily teach it to everyone.
Mechanic shortage means longer waits, $100k salaries for some technicians
>Awesome! I love hearing about places making the effort to be inclusive.

The extent of the effort being getting their employee a slightly-more-expensive-than-average tool that would enable them to do their job better regardless of the disability?

Such inclusive, much pat-yourself-on-the-back, wow.

"We gave our woodworking shop employee a quality saw so that they'd make their own accessibility ramps!"
> Squandering typically means spending

Squander means to spend thoughtlessly or foolishly or wastefully. It's not a synonym of "spend".
The _very_ first paragraph quotes a Muslim saying "It’s the destruction of our religion.”.
The article from Euro NCAP discusses the strong safety debut of Asian newcomers in the automobile market, but highlights that the Tesla Model Y stands out in terms of safety. Tesla vehicles are noted for their considerable weight and low center of gravity, attributes that make them difficult to roll over. Additionally, these cars are equipped with numerous built-in safety features and warnings. Another key aspect of Tesla's safety is their relatively recent design, which incorporates modern safety standards and technologies. Given these points, it raises the question: what are the reasons to doubt the safety of Tesla cars?

https://www.euroncap.com/en/press-media/press-releases/asian...
Transmission losses with HVDC lines are small, 3.5% per 1000km. China are experts in ultra-high-voltage transmission lines. And are building a ton of solar plants in the western deserts.

There are proposals to install solar panels in North Africa and run HVDC lines to Europe. There was one recently about running a line all the way to Britain from Morocco.
> being bequeathed a sizeable inheritance in the first place at least implies that one's attitude to managing wealth has already stood the test of time.

I don't believe so. At best it means perhaps your parents knew how to manage wealth. It doesn't imply the child inheritors will manage it well, or better than anyone else. At worst, it might simply mean the parents had so much wealth they were unable to spend it all before dying, and so some of it went to their offspring.
Back in 2005 the researchers who worked on EUV lensing (mirrors, really) were very cynical and thought that it would never pan out. Coffee breaks were hilarious. It ultimately took a whole lot of time indeed.
I recommend checking out: https://talonvoice.com/
> Plenty of people with a stupid amount of money lack skills and have bad habits. The difference is if you’re born poor you’re at a disadvantage from the jump.

the glaring error here is to bring up people's lack of skills and good habits, and to conclude that the main disadvantage of being poor is the lack of money. It's a bit of an assumption that abolishing the rich is going to lift people from poverty to the middle class.
>He ended up rolling his own solution

>That's very nice of you

...doesn't compute.

What exactly was nice here?
IANAL, but I think you can trademark letters, and that similarly to colors, given the letter is known to correspond to your business in a particular market segment, and with the caveat that the trademark would only apply in that market segment.

Theoretically a space/" " is just another character, so maybe. But practically speaking, it would probably be legally filed as "space", and the company's trademark would be on either them naming their company "space", or on them stylizing it as a " ". That's my best guess, at least.
It turns out the thing that Picketty missed was that he grouped land with Capital. Land should be treated differently as it can not be created or destroyed. If you seperate out the data into land and capital (w/o the land) then all of the outsized returns come from rich people hoarding land[1]. This is in line with the observations of Riccardo[2].

[1]: https://www.salon.com/2015/01/02/joseph_stiglitz_thomas_pike...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent
It crashed when trying to post. Weird! Investigating now...

Sorry. It'll be up soon.

Edit - here they are - sorry again!

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38490811

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2023) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38490810

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2023) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38490809

(for the curious: I deleted some code last Saturday that turned out to be needed for creating submissions from background processes like 'who is hiring'.)
> You need to wait a bit before you can start faithfully translating the meaning

I guess it's possible that the AI learns about a specific person over time? That way it can be confident about what's being said as soon the person starts saying it
The search for the "perfect" Advent Calendar (involves Python and Processing)
The article also documents that they are banning young people from attending religious services.

The article seems to be documenting practices designed to remove Islamic symbols and stop it from being transmitted to a younger generation.

Tearing down Islam seems as good a description as any for that.

I think you’ll need to explain why you think this is connected to Palestine in some way. The practices documented in the article go back many years.
Are we calling them "self-made" now for strapping some http requests to old, purposefully gate-kept banking systems? Or is it the ones that we allowed to horizontally expand with zero regulatory system to stop them? Or is it the ones who ruined housing the world over? So many useful people.
Their attitude is certainly encomiable, and yet one cannot help but wonder how they could reach such spectacularly wrong conclusions when, in 2023, it is not so difficult to verify (in multiple ways) that the Earth is round (thanks to long distance traveling, instant communication, and some geometry).

The crux is that human knowledge has progressed so much that "trust your senses" is simply not feasible anymore, as the majority of modern scientific discoveries cannot be verified with the resources available to normal people, and one would need years of study to actually "do their own research" in a productive manner (as I was discussing with the sibling comment, who is convinced that a few days of study are enough to judge neurology research).
Currently Steam bans games from using AI-generated assets (for good reason). I wonder if they'll back track on this or carve exceptions because this tech seems really useful for indie devs to add voice work to their otherwise silent games.
There is no chance of this happening. I'm sorry
Tactical High power Operational Responder (THOR)

THOR Defeats Swarm With Microwave Weapon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q959a82NQo
Of course not. They never had the opportunity. If they had been born wealthy enough to treat companies like toys, they very well might have.
From the link in my previous post:

> ” The companies also have reached a six-year license agreement, effective as of April 1, 2019, including a two-year option to extend, and a multiyear chipset supply agreement”

And Apple has already extended that agreement.

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2023/09/qualcomm-anno...

Apple has paid to have all rights, and the companies have publicly stated they have settled.

As such, there’s nothing for a Qualcomm lawyer to audit anymore.
I tried your code on prettier.io and got a result that was more visually consistent than what you pasted here.
That feels like more of a problem with the communication than the medium of it? Or rather to say there is a mismatch between the communication method and the way it is being used.

On async channels it is recommended to get to the point quickly. Sure send pleasantries, but no need to wait until they are answered. You can immediately also get to your point. Instead of sending "hello" and then waiting you would be sending "Hello. I hope you are having a good day. It seems that the turbo encabulator is complaining a vapour lock in the secondary log file. Have you seen that before?"

The https://nohello.net/en/ site describes this communication style better.
My favorite factoid article about the concept of wealth sticking around in specific families:

https://www.vox.com/2016/5/18/11691818/barone-mocetti-floren...
Within individual files I tend to create a mental index of names and purposes from top to bottom before tracing, which usually helps avoid redundant jumping or branching so deep it becomes difficult to keep track.
that's a pretty wild assertion. I'm immediately thinking of music software: 99% of all plugins, the #1-4 DAWs, drivers for 2/3 of all hardware, at least... not on linux.
Understanding Objective-C by transpiling it to C++
Turbo frames and streams are a wonderful pattern that I wished was used more than it is. We see people resort to whole React frontends for their web applications just to add simple features that could be done nearly for free using frame and streams.
Some argue that it's neither a non-local interaction (the test particle being affected despite no field in its region) nor that the interaction is caused by the four-potential, which would then be physical and more fundamental than the field tensor. On the contrary, it may just be an artefact of the semi-classical treatment that is normally done: classical theory for the fields, quantum one for the test particle. See this, for example: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.6169
For me it's a convenient excuse to write some Lisp and I often learn something by looking at other solutions once I've had a go myself.
Agreed. I've worked at more than one company on this list, in positions with visibility into multiple peoples' total comp, and none of those are shown accurately here.
I’ve been playing around with using extra indentation for these sorts of purposes in the last couple of years, mostly at the sub-function level but also in the larger file situation described in the article. I’ve found it to work so well that it has even been significantly influencing the design of the lightweight markup language I’ve been using for my own purposes for the last year or two and further designing as I go.

The minor rough point is that text editors probably don’t support mixing line folding techniques, so you probably won’t be able to fold sections and functions, which it would sometimes be nice to be able to do. Maybe at some point I’ll get round to making a hybrid fold expression for Vim to mix multiple fold methods, though honestly I find Vim’s folding pretty janky (my Rust foldexpr works fine when you load code, but start editing it and the fold tree rapidly falls apart in painful ways and it’s absolutely Vim’s fault) and would probably prefer to shift the entire thing to FFI for more flexibility.

Some languages/IDE ecosystems support other ways of doing this sectioning, like Visual Studio’s “regions”, which gets around the folding problem since it’s all in the language rather than being a mixture of language syntax and independently-chosen convention.
The extra security aspect seems important, but the browser shouldn't just drop the user's previous history (for that tab) just because it's isolating things. :/

Hopefully this is just a case of "early stage feature" and bugs like this will be fixed. :)
Also... Preview is not available on any other platform and is, imo, the single best executed application of all time.
Javascript with and python with are completely separate things.

Javascript with comes from Pascal with (which was perhaps copied from somewhere else) and is used to modify variable scope.

with (my.long.variable.reference) {
a = 1;
b = 2;
}

is equivalent to:

my.long.variable.reference.a = 1;
my.long.variable.reference.b = 2;

or at least, it might be ... due to Javascript's dynamic and typeless nature you might not know for sure what will happen until runtime. Which is one reason it's now deprecated and not allowed in strict mode. In pascal, variables have a type, records have fields, and these are known at compile time so that's not an issue.

https://wiki.freepascal.org/With

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Can you share the kind of prompts you used?
IIRC when I worked at booking until 2017, they had already stopped the practice to share customer data via email for privacy+security reasons years ago.
I assert that most robotics AI, including self driving cars, are at least as good at interacting with the real world as the simplest worms we've studied. Do different things, but at least as good.
I love the HN posters that ask if something was written by an LLM or CEO because nobody can tell the difference.
This has never happened in the United States, and every expert out there says there is no sign of any kind of effort or legislation to do so. Involuntarily losing access to old cars is an imagined problem.
Good formatters do understand the code, though. They parse it much like a compiler does.
The solution is simple: Don't be that rich. If you can manage that, then you'll be fine. You're probably not a temporarily embarrassed millionaire.
A Decade of Developing a Programming Language: A Response Response
Also big boring companies tend not to pay very well compared to more modern companies. This is just an anecdote based on my experiences with Disney.
The Chinese government detests religion in general, so it's quite weird to single out Islam here.

In a pseudo-communist country, the only god is the state and leader Xi Jinping is the chosen prophet.
You were downvoted because it's meaningless affirmation. They already do have enough nukes. If just two countries would engage in such a war, it's basically the end for modern human era. Both China and US do have abt 500 nukes. Russia is estimated to have more than 1k(debatable but still). If china would get 500 more nukes, do you think 500 US rockets would not be enough to wipe China from existence? I bet 100 is more than enough. So all this anti breeding reactors/anti reprocessing propaganda is pure bs
If they don't figure it out, someone else probably will then Google will lose (search) market share. :)
As I said in a different comment in this thread, Piketty's claim does not hold for all capital, it only holds for land. This is perfectly in line with theoretical predictions by David Ricardo[1]. The solution to this is a Land Value Tax as proposed by Henry George[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
Not everyone who cares about accessibility is an architecture astronaut.
I think this is pretty much the key to it, psychologically speaking. It comes down to status and personality type.

Higher status and more extroverted workers tend to get energy and motivation from going to the office. It feels good and is fun for them. Our brains have evolved to know when we're high on the social totem pole and give us copious feel-good chemicals as a reward.

For similar reasons, lower status and more introverted workers tend to not enjoy the office. They find it de-motivating and draining.

This isn't always the case across the board, and there are often other reasons involved like family/commute, but I think it explains the different camps fairly well in broad strokes.

All that said, an argument can definitely be made that having happy, highly motivated leadership actually is extremely important to a company's bottom line, so I don't think it can be so easily dismissed.
You don't have to inherit billions from your parents to have a huge leg up on everyone else. There are examples all over the place from something as extravagant 'a small loan of a million dollars' to 'an introduction to a vp at ibm', to paying their kids tuition to the best private schools. I am extremely suspicious of any wealthy person who claims to be 'self made' when in reality they had a paved path to success.
Common Lisp, it's definitely my favorite language for this kind of exploratory problem solving.
I don't think you can do that quite yet, since the TTS APIs require a full phrase in order to output fluent sounding speech. If the input is short, then the delivery/emotion/pauses are random per word/token. I actually think that type of system will be possible once we have a multimodal model that understands and outputs speech, with the intelligence of GPT4.
Yeah, I’ve worked in some very toxic workplaces. The other reason to document, is that now you have ammunition that you can take to progressively higher levels of management. Bureaucracies hate paper trails, and the sooner you can establish a paper trail the better off you are. But I do get it, often “heads down, do your work” is the only path due to factors outside of work.
I think GP means nm, not mm
This feels true to me. So my question is - and I don't know the answer yet, though I continue to seek such - when do we, as a humanity, break this cycle? When, and how, do we override the greed impulse, the impulse for power and control and domination of others? When do we begin to leverage a superior cognitive capacity enough to gain true enlightenment and break free from the bonds of behaviour which, while necessary as we evolved, is no longer required, and replace it with an egalitarian perspective and an accompanying stewardship model of life on earth?
lol you know how it goes :). The mind does what it does.
They are not the same at all. One practical reason is that in Kotlin (and other languages supporting this) you can always move the class to a dedicated file if it or the file becomes to unwieldy. With a nested class all the imports would need to change, which is a no go unless you can refactor all code using it in 1 go.
How would that be obvious to anyone?
It's also an extremely misleading, if not stupid, measurement of what they are claiming. They take the earnings of new self-made billionaires, and contrast that against the amount passed down to heirs, in a given year.

You're looking at the earnings of brand new billionaires, contrasted against the lifetime earnings of recently deceased billionaires, and seeing which is bigger. There is no way that this will not trend towards always favoring the lifetime earnings, especially as the ratio of total_billionaires : new_billionaires continues to increase.
Advent of Code means a lot to me. The problems are fun, sure, but something about it really boosts my winter. I've noticed that I get a lot more productive with my hobbies in the weeks following AoC.

I think maybe it's as simple as living on the west coast and getting used to getting amped and doing some big, adrenaline-filled, social, fun activity at 9 PM every night. It gets me used to being PRODUCTIVE in the evening and not just settling down to watch TV.

Anyway, whatever the cause, I care a lot about AoC. It makes my Decembers a whole lot happier.
In typed languages like go I don’t need to look at module imports linked to files for navigating. With the vim shortcut ‘gd’ I can immediately jump to the definition making this entire discussion about where to put things almost irrelevant. I would still try to organize for reading.
They understand the syntax of the code. They may even understand the types and relationships. They don't understand meaning and can only have very rough estimates at logical complexity.
I look forward to the day where I'm wearing my headphones in a foreign land and hearing all of the discussions in my own language.

The "universal translator" which was part of Star Trek and a lot of other Sci-Fi I was exposed to as a kid was something I was really fascinated with. My Dad worked as a simultaneous French->English translator and sadly spent long hours away from home and, as a kid, I started trying to build a translator so that it could do his work and he could be home more.

Translation is important work and one that could help a lot of people. It's my hope that we get to the point where these models work entirely on locally carried resources.
I wasn't the one who called it clickbait but I do think it's misleading. The one year could easily be an outlier. It might be by accident, or it could be that the writer was more interested in pushing a political view than getting clicks.
Google's definition is "dislike of or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, especially as a political force." which means exactly what I intended.

Perhaps I don't understand the criticism -- it's supposed to be some sort of culture war thing? I'm using the normal, well-established word for this phenomenon. If you dislike the word, take it up with Oxford, I guess.
This makes no sense. You might want to try rewriting it.