skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do artists want to be signed by a label that will probably limit their exposure to only one streaming service?
El Salvador reaches 500 days without homicides
Well how about thinking stakeholders first and shareholders second?

Firing your employees because you are incompetent leadership and management without good foresight should result in letting you go.

Why the high compensation for leadership when it doesn‘t know what it does?

Braun didn‘t get the design leader in the past because they threw out their team, they got there because they kept the team together. The more you learn the better for the company.

This goes for all tech related job cutting in the last months.
They are doing a lot, including open source. Out of curiosity is anyone using Backstage at their place of work for developer portal? Is it providing value? Should Spotify double down on that?
Will be hard to say until mid Q1 2024.
I have worked years in a culture that attributes all mistakes to defects in the process. And the only possible individual mistake is not to follow the process. Process culture is just as bad as blame culture in some ways. It leads to ever more complex processes. The teams I've seen do best, the manager of the project will allow process to be informal and treated as best practices only. Then people are held accountable for bad results by putting them on tasks that can cause less damage. Good results mean more critical tasks. No single mistake kills a performance review or promotion, or makes one. We all make mistakes and get lucky. But over time reapeated mistakes or successes do have an impact.
Escaping Complexity in Clean Code and OOP [video]
D is a niche language that didn't quite manage becoming mainstream. I came across an excellent article Why your F# evangelism isn't working (https://ericsink.com/entries/fsharp_chasm.html) that explains why this didn't happen for F#, but the insights generalise to other languages. Here's my summary:

- Adoption of any technology is by a normal distribution.

- The segments are early adopters, pragmatists, late adopters and laggards.

- If you want a technology to become mainstream, you need to make the pragmatists adopt it.

- This is rational behaviour and there's no use trying to convince the pragmatists otherwise. They will choose "predictably disappointing" over "excellent and unproven" every time.

- Technology is merely a tool to them. They don't care if it's fun or not, as long as it gets the job done.

- Mainstream success is impossible without getting the pragmatists on board. Until then you have a curiosity used only be early adopters.

- How to cross the chasm? He recommends finding a pragmatist in pain and solving their problems. Gradually convert pragmatists one by one.

I don't think D was ever able to articulate to the pragmatists why they should adopt D over C++ or other languages. Fixing a few warts with C++ wasn't enough.

Meanwhile Rust managed to appeal to the pragmatists by saying "we know you use C and C++ because of the performance despite the issues with it. Why don't you try a language with the same performance, which also fixes some of the issues (buffer overflows above all) at compile time".

Rust was far from perfect when it started seeing adoption by pragmatists, and it remains far from perfect today. But perfection isn't the goal, nor is a "fun" language for early adopters. What matters is solving a problem that pragmatists face and then convincing them to give you a shot. In practice this is a bar that is high enough that most languages never cross it.
He's really gone downhill lately. Looking really rough. And stoned on top of that. I wonder if he can even comprehend half of what his guests are saying.
> Almost everyone I know uses it daily.

Counterpoint: almost no one I know uses it. It was fun at first but became boring fast, a bit like Netflix. If I want to listen to music I use youtube.
The Death of Yugoslavia
The problem is meat heavy diets then have increase in cardiovascular health problems.

What to do ? Eliminate plants and meat? Just eat oreos?
I didn’t realize this is on YouTube. I see it provides a little bit of visual context, but I listen to this as a podcast and I agree, it’s absolutely fantastic quality material. The Greenland Vikings was my favorite of the four I’ve heard so far (Greenland, Carthage, Nabateans and Byzantium) but they are all very good.
Hasn't inflation gone down to ~3%?
I hadn't realized any country was getting progressively slower internet speeds. Per TFA:

> Since Big Sur, updates have reduced in total size, and in Ventura were close to or below earlier versions

Apple is shipping smaller updates over time, not larger (any more).
> I think it was a mistake for Github to name the whole product "Actions" and then re-use the same word for a specific component within system.

You're right:

- product is called GitHub Actions

- your workflow (consisting of jobs and steps) is a workflow

- 3rd party workflow included in yours is an action, not workflow though

- I more often hear engineers refer to workflows as actions

But there are more annoying decisions

- (org-wide) required workflows being recently deprecated

- the feature was buggy (ie used alongside org-wide branch rules)

- but could have been fixed, not deprecated

- some kind of "marketplace" (with reviews, developers trust levels etc) for modular/pluggable actions (workflows) would be welcome; currently it's a "1st solution fitting the problem used" mess with little to no standarisation

- I find the necessity to write a step cloning the repo from which a workflow is running ridiculous - it should be at most a single configuration line somewhere at the top of a workflow
In a word, yes.

In more words: You should be able to use Cosmopolitan libc: https://github.com/Yardanico/cosmonim

If something does not work for you, Yardanico is super duper helpful in all things Nim.

Nim also compiles to Javascript (nim js) and C++ for integration with legacy codebases, but that is probably more to the side of your interests.

While I have never seen it done and always meant to give it a try, compiling to C should allow one to also do things like write Linux kernel modules in Nim without any special support from the Linux team.
That's your opinion. Most guests have a wealth of knowledge that shouldn't be discounted outright.
The little amplifiers you can get on aliexpress and the like for about $70 can be quite good although pre-covid there were more like $35. They just have simple bluetooth and analogue in and depending on the model support 2 or 4 speakers plus 0 or 1 subwoofer.

I bought a couple and then found 2 pairs of nice second-hand bookshelf speakers. Presumably everyone is upgrading to smart speakers and dumping their old stuff because it was really easy to find great speakers for a very low price.
America's School Internet Censorship Machine
Why couldn't there be innovation in the signal?
This plugin has been worked on and the issue could have been fixed by now. I rarely used VSCode for D because the language doesn're really need an IDE support like Java or Scala. But I do agree that for beginners and IDE support is important. I use vim with DCD: https://github.com/dlang-community/DCD
Plants don't hide the CO2 in some secret place. All the CO2 they absorb becomes cellulose, i.e. the plant itself. You can measure how much CO2 a tree has absorbed by putting it on a scale.

I guess they simply want to say there's 20% more plant mass than previously thought. Which might be true, but it's also very likely within the error bars.
All of these hp tech start-ups/scale-ups overhired when money was cheap to signal growth and confidence to investors, even if they didn't need that many workers, nobody cared, as long as "line goes up".
Survey: Food-Borne Chemical Carcinogens and the Evidence for Human Cancer Risk
> and a tommy gun

Al Capone hates this one weird trick.
In the list of applications of the 6502 architecture there is one big missing entry. Good old phone line modems using Rockwell chipsets (Hayes modem) that went up to 56Kbit/s. The central controller of the Rockwell chipset was an embedded MPU based on 65C02 kernel that were clocked to up to 75MHz (that's the fasted I had seen). The fact is relatively unknown as NDA with Rockwell were extremely tight.
It's incredible how bard hallucinated THIS ENTIRE SUMMARY and not a single person realizes it.
From the article:

> Participants in the Tablet group used a stylus pen, thereby controlling for the effects of longhand writing with a pen in the Note group.

In this specific study this is not a notable effect between the Note and Tablet groups. For the phone group you're right that it's a completely different input, while also being much more painful all around due to the sheer device size.
Where's the data to support that opinion
Nonsense. You didn't address my point...

Tech is disproportionately affected by rate changes (both inflation and loans/bonds), as it's the highest growth sector. High growth businesses are investing heavily in infrastructure and as such are also highly leveraged.
that is splitting hairs.

State A: No Earth

State B: Earth.

Thus, we adapted to Earth.
Has anybody else here read Kim Zetter's great book Countdown to Zero Day? It's a wonderful look at the discovery of Stuxnet.
Same, most people I know use Apple Music while others use YouTube Premium
Shane Wighton's story of getting hired at Formlabs is interesting.

He wanted to work for the company and didn't have a way in. He built a better version of their slicing software over a long weekend and sent it to the Formlabs team. He was hired very quickly after they saw it.

https://shane.engineer/blog/how-to-get-hired-at-a-startup-wh...

https://shane.engineer/stl-preprocessor

The idea of a very targeted side project seems novel. Build for an audience of 1 specific company. Any other examples?
I both agree and disagree with you here. The expectation of the podcasting business to be full of great opportunities and monetary gain was (probably) misguided, but 25% market share in an established market in just a couple of years when there were big players holding a majority share is still a huge feat.

Will it pay off? Probably not. But is 25% a big share? Yes.
Slightly off topic, on the client side how do you use JellyFin? I tried both browser and some of the iOS apps that just wrap that browser interface and it never worked well. It perhaps was also an issue on the JellyFin server itself. I went back to Plex only because it was plug-n-play for me. Just seeing if you have any additional tips here.
Drew Houston probably wanted to see if you were a threat ;) If you had written back and asked about an acquisition/ or how you are focusing on "Taking Syncany to the next level", you might have gotten a response. That was when they were doing their network expansion initiative.
Zoom, please fix your Wayland support
On Fedora 39, screen sharing is plain broken. And in general, your native app quality is lower compared to the Windows or the MacOS apps.

Please give us equal support. We are paying customers too.
I use sunglasses for that.
On my nvidia system (gtx a2000) with an ultra wide monitor and Gnome, Chrome seems to be glitching if I do the following.

- open a new Chrome window

- snap the new window to fill half the screen by dragging it to either left or right edge of the screen

- result: solitaire-like window glitches

- if I resize the window a bit before snapping it, it works.

I haven't seen this glitch on any other app.
CT is also quite close to european culture ( or, as closest possible in US ).
Well, this is another version of the classic "I could build this in an weekend" trope.

9500 is probably excessive, but think of it just this way:

1. Spotify has a worldwide presence, apparently 184 markets; that probably entails a legal presence in many of those jurisdictions, sales, marketing, support, localization, etc.; at a conservative 2 persons per market, just that's going to generate about 400 jobs; now, most of those markets will be grouped up but the big ones will probably have tens if not hundreds of people dedicated to that market (the US is likely to have hundreds of people supporting it, for example).

2. Spotify has to build, update, maintain, extend, etc a global infrastructure. Just the ops team for that has to cover 3x 8h shifts to make it 24/7. Each region should have at least 3 people in it, for high support availability. That's 9 people right there, and it would be crazy to support ~550 million active users with 9 people, they probably have 10 times that many people and teams supporting various components. So just an ops team of 100 is perfectly reasonable.

3. Then they need a dev team. They have... ads, various integrations, songs, audiobooks, podcasts, their apps or whatever are available on smart TVs, web, cars, bla bla bla, if it's 10 people for each client, that would probably mean at least 50 people. And 10 people per client is probably silly low, make that at least 100-200.

4. Then they have a bunch of backend services, probably a lot of them. Plop another 5-10 people for each service. That's going to be many more hundreds of people.

5. Then they have actual R&D, where they're exploring stuff. This depends on the company, but for a company that's still clarifying its business model, having 100 people researching stuff sounds reasonable.

That's ~1500 people just from me eyeballing their business. 9500 is maybe on the high side, but considering their scale, if we dig deep enough into their business model, probably 5000 is perfectly fine.

These services are crazy complex and "streaming mp3s" is a very reductive view.
I've read books on it.
The 2 million Arabs are the descendants of the 20% of Palestinians who were internally rather than externally displaced, ie the ethnic cleansing was only 80% effective.
I'm wondering what it is that they're doing all day. The spotify app randomly changes, and if so, rarely for the better. I'd wager spotify could benefit from X' style layoffs.
Of course - but again, the law doesn't specify that a "competent person" has to be on that list, or any list.

There was a huge debate about this couple years ago, when someone asked "can a foreign electrician certify a UK electrical installation as safe", and after very long debate the outcome was that yes, they can, because the British regulations never actually specify what they mean by "competent" and a certified electrician(even if foreign) is definitely "competent" even if not registered with any UK based authority.
Do you store stuff on multiple disks? I struggle with windows as a NAS.

Windows storage space sucks hard (particularly their RAID5 style parity which has unacceptable performances, but also I had it failing without reporting it, and it doesn't handle parity with column size >8).

The native windows software raid is deprecated, and can't handle disks of different sizes.

I use stablebit drivepool for a secondary backup where I don't really need parity (backup of the backup). But it comes with all sort of issues of its own (some weird file locking bugs, performance limited to single disk, also if you setup an SSD cache, it can't handle files larger than the smallest SSD (happened when backing up a vhdx).

For NAS, for the moment I haven't found anything beating linux based NAS solutions (synology style) for simplicity and stability.

For MDISC, call me skeptical. I think in 10-15 years you will struggle to find anything to read a CD or DVD, like you would struggle now to read a Zip or floppy disk. The most durable and cheapest way to do long term of storage is to replicate your data on new media regularly. The price / GB drops so fast that no non-retail form of storage (MDISC, LTO, etc) will be economical vs buying a big drive from time to time (every 5-7y). You can buy a 12TB drive for $200-300 now.
Metaphysically? Were you trying for philosophically?

Most people I’ve talked to want the freedom that comes with Linux, but also as little pain as possible. Arch isn’t it. There’s a reason Ubuntu became so popular back in the day: it was a free and easy to use into to desktop Linux.

Arch has always felt more like a distribution for people who enjoy tinkering with the distro rather than just using the computer to get things done.
My stance on authenticity in times of technological advancements (by OpenAI)
Certain types of nuclear reactors can be used to create fissile material; kind of super weaponisable?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor
Yes, it is being used at my place of work. Extensive work is being done internally to make it the portal to everything a developer needs. Its definitely a great product and more work should be done. Spinning it off into its own entity would not be a bad idea, if they can deliver a lot and introduce a good SaaS pricing around it, with prices that should be comparable to what self hosting it in a kubernetes cluster would normally be, and not something what most companies are doing.
> It's like death by Ikea.

You win the Internet.
Hi there, I can't find the Backend Engineer position on the careers page link provided here. Is it still an open position?
Idk. Why not just simulate it on your Ryzen 9?
Increasing interest rates.
I saw that but I honestly don't think it's possible for HR to handle about 1,500 off-boarding meetings within 2 days.
It does - I patched that into my local fork of `gron` two years ago.
Maybe if we ever reach AGI I can ask it kindly to respect my checkboxes.
Is this the JavaScript vs Typescript troll hello!
or you could simply be supported by a billion revenue company that pays your bill if you code "their custom version of C". No need to do social analytics. D could totally be that language but it was never driven by big enough companies and had a specific early years history which obscured it pretty well from pragmatists crowd.
Anyone remember Grooveshark? Great service :-D
Cool! Writing math-heavy code in Julia is such a pleasure. C++ is a pain, numpy is alright but Julia just makes sense. I really wish I could use it for my day-job.

Back when I was on ATLAS we mostly did things in C++. If I never have to do another matrix multiplication in C++ again it will be too soon.
Not if you use other processes. But those don't produce plutonium so they haven't been invested in enough.
An alternative viewpoint: Their costs are too high for what they can reasonably charge. Hence the layoffs. They could probably cut half of their workforce.
> I'm embarrassed to admit that despite having had Spotify for years, my music tastes didn't change much.

Don't be embarrassed, that's probably most people.

We like what we like.
Meanwhile I cannot see anywhere what is the streaming quality for Spotify on my Samsung TV. Please put a text label somewhere in the currently empty settings page. It should take 1h of programmer time. Granted, if what I suspect is true, i.e. the streaming data rate is too small (not configurable), then I might switch to a different streaming app :)
Only that more than half of the time a peaceful discussion gets buried by that automated system and then dang comes several hours later and says "oooops this got caught by the anti-flamewar system and now the discussion is dead!! oops!! our code monkeys are working hard to fix this!"
>>And also remember, if you want access to cheap electricity, you need to use a "real" EVSE.

Why? I was on Octopus Go for a long time, I'd just set the in-car timer to charge between 00:30 and 04:30, worked fine even with a 3-pin charger. It won't work with Intelligent Octopus, but it's by no means the only way to get cheap electricity.

Not that it matters anyway, I kept a detailed log of our usage for months and concluded that GO wasn't actually saving us any money, the cheaper electricity at night didn't offset the energy used during the day, not at the idiotic prices they charged for peak usage anyway. We just switched to Octopus Tracker, I can charge my car at any point during the day and it's actually cheaper than being on GO.
More fool you, I'm so imaginative, I imagined the point I'm arguing against. Normally I might apologise and hang my head in shame but age is an interesting thought exercise. So come with me if you will, ignore me if you won't.

The point I was trying to make is that you are unable to imagine what browsing Reddit at 50 will mean to you; how important staying contextualised with pop culture will be to you.

Your Ego is ephemeral, in constant flux. You can't imagine yourself accurately. When you're young you know things will change but it's impossible to predict how those events —health, jobs, homes, children, deaths, friendships, hobbies, your politics, etc— will change who you are.

I'm also saying that's okay. As long as old.reddit.com still works in 30 years, we'll all be okay.
The link to "more is different" provides an opposite claim: it demonstrates a system without emergent properties, but is reducible alright, so it's not an argument against reducibility.
Yes the sleep study people are the same people selling CPAP machines. So, yet it feels a bit like a scam “hey, what do you know, you need to buy our products!” But, most of the people I know who have used CPAP machines are very happy with the improvement in rest. So, it seems beneficial even the results seem biased in favor of the merchants. Maybe it’s just a big problem.
One overlooked aspect in punnishing companies is that the workers getting the most done also cause the most bugs and trouble.

They are essentially filtering for the very same "C players" they despise and mock.

Like, the output disparity in bigger teams is extreme in programming if you let people loose. And you better not stick your head out in bad workplaces and the advice should be to do as little as possible to avoid being fired.
No you wouldn't
Are you using 3.5 or 4? It makes a gigantic difference.
One side issue on these studies is there's currently no control group who spent their life solely on electronic devices.

Even as tablets are distributed in school from the primary cycle, note taking and exams are all done on paper. This is not a value judgment on wether it's good or bad, just that any further study will be on subjects that spent their formative years writing on paper, they better learn to be good at it and would fail their entry into society if they couldn't do so.

Any conclusion that paper works better than electronic methods comes with that asterisk to it.
Thank you for putting together this resource!

I read the rest of the FAQ, signed up for Twilio, and their API worked to identify the number.
Btw. the "Chasm" idea is from the book "Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers" by Geoffrey A. Moore

D has two problems: it doesn't have enough "new" stuff to appeal to the "early adopters" - Rust has sum types + pattern matching, type classes and the borrow checker and, as you've said, it couldn't convince enough "pragmatists" to switch.
I don't find this revelation particularly interesting, or this particular source to be very good, so the ranking algorithm is working exactly as intended for me.

This is news, but it's not curiosity-sparking news, its boring tech news. Give me more physics and LL(V)M, please.
Where’s the data to support the opinion that opinions should be supported by data
> never driven by big enough companies

Not sure that's true. One of the first adopters of D in production was Facebook, because one of the engineers (Andrei Alexandrescu) worked there and evangelised it heavily internally. Many projects were written in D. But eventually the cost of maintaining support for one more language in production didn't make sense. D didn't solve problems that C++ (another supported language at Facebook) didn't. The D code was rewritten. It's not that Big Tech didn't adopt it. It's that it didn't show enough value in time.
I use Linux not windows. But windows isn’t flooded with ads like people claim. Outside of the U.S. I’ve never seen ads.
Most problematic is when articles critical of OpenAI or Altman get off, despite seeing a lot of activity.

Very hard to prove
What happened with the promising Verlinde's theory?