skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What this actually sounds like is building up a base of tricks and tools. Like a senior dev who has utility code they bring with them from job to job. The same applies to paradigms and code patterns.

The fun thing about programming tasks and tools in particular though is that you crystalize your mental models into tools because of the natural of computers.
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The problem isn't so much that schooling sucks, the problem (if it is a problem) is that smart students are drawn to high margin top slot careers.

Why work in a chip fab clean room for 10 hours a day when you can make 2x the pay to work from home on software projects? Or do financial analysis in a trendy office with a hybrid schedule?

I can tell you that manufacturing offers -zero- work from home options. Which usually entails "We need you here this weekend" too. Even if you aren't a top shelf student, you can still get more comfy better paying advanced economy jobs.
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Laws are there but prosecutors are sometimes loath to enforce them. To wit, Ross Mirkarimi had to draw up a new sit-lie law to address the nuisance of intoxicated kids blocking access to businesses and housing. But we had plenty of laws already! It wasn't a problem in the 60s and 70s, or even 80s. But come the 90s, oh noes, we can't enforce them... so we have to draw up new ones...
The darknet isn't exactly what the media would have you believe. This is my story, unreported of course.

“The darknet drug markets now provide more harm reduction information to users than both the government and the established media. How did this situation arise, and why does it remain unreported?”
These kinds of articles are not helpful. "Why isn't A talking to B? Isn't that so sad?".

People are busy (on both sides). If Mathematicians want to want to get Biologists' attention, they should do something like Deepmind's AlphaFold - tackle a long-standing extremely difficult problem in biology using mathematical approaches.
Given Google's size and market share, they should be fined whenever they break access to a competitor's website (e.g. Chrome update breaks access to DDG) or if their websites break in competitor's browser (e.g Google breaks on Firefox). They have more than enough resources to run automated checks on this, so it's hard to not see malice instead of incompetence in this case.
Wow, that's very anticompetitive.
What among Cortana/Edge/App Store takes Windows from an OS that you shouldn’t care about to an OS thst you should?
>The open office plan must bring people together and create a collaborative environment where people can easily talk to each other and have as much impromptu collaboration as possible

Why must it, and isn't "as much as possible" pretty much guaranteed to be more than is warranted?
I just went to a random front page thread on /r/homelab (a subreddit I know well) https://old.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1922ddn/since_no_o...

You can read for yourselves and see the difference between that and this.

Here's the same post as this on /r/aviation

https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/13k43rj/meet_the_...

For every reddit comment there R, you can find a distinct comment here H, such that H is worse than R.

There's just way more informed expertise on Reddit. The big advantage of HN is that some tech luminaries post here. But the overall quality is much lower than the topic-reddits. It's more like an /r/technology.
Although it is on app stores, iMessage updates happens with the iOS updates itself. It is just there because you can actually remove the Messages app and then re-install it later if you want.
Sad to say, but...however popular a meme it has been just recently - a job doing awesome stuff, that you're passionate about, has been a mere fantasy for 99+% of humanity, for 99+% of history.

I'd start by asking whether you're trying to find meaning to your life in work. "Working to live", when you've got a really rewarding life in other areas, is usually a lot more sustainable than "living to work".
Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics for user interface design gives a good north star:

1. Visibility of system status

2. Match between system and the real world

3. User control and freedom

4. Consistency and standards

5. Error prevention

6. Recognition rather than recall

7. Flexibility and efficiency of use

8. Aesthetic and minimalist design

9. Recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors

10. Help and documentation

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/
"There are various people whose job involves triaging issues filed on that repo, and communicating with the issue authors where necessary e.g. to figure out additional steps required to reproduce the reported problem."

And exactly where are the various QUALITY CONTROL testers that should've caught such a dead-simple problem like "This won't work with Google Search" before it ever happened in the first place?
Probably not if they take care to protect their skin from sun damage
Ok. It works. And?
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Yet another reason to finish my transition to Bitwarden.
Even if I like some of their products, this is a quite lame excuse, and typical Apple line of argumentation.
It doesn't even have to be a war with China, or involving the US.

Like, say Panama has a civil war that shuts down the canal. That adds a huge cost to shipping, going around South America. Or say Europe (but not the US) gets involved in a war with Russia, redirecting the _massive_ European manufacturing capacity to local needs instead of exports.
You get exactly 100% efficiency (as heating) at any temperature, since anything will be converted to heat anyway. Well, except in real systems you have exhaust temperature for CO2 etc going out of house, the lower the temperature the lower your heat loses. If you add some internal channels to chimney, you can absorb most of the heat back, making exhaust temperature very low therefore have low efficiency loss
It is a bit of a weird quote, they are quoting Reuters but I’m not sure if they are arguing against them or what. They also say:

> While iMessage has so far not been deemed a platform – as it doesn’t have enough regular users in Europe (WhatsApp is far more popular there, even among iPhone users)
It has a 90's Pixar look to it, which is cool
No Japanese. I get it, but it does seem like choosing any Logo graphic language limits what services there are. At least if your base language is phonetic.
Maybe, but not necessarily. The devs may even have been begging to fix it, but project management kept prioritizing other items in the backlog.

If there's a million fires and half of those crash the game, fixing something like a load time might easily stay under the radar.

And that's even before we consider internal political issues. The code could have been owned by a group that was refusing any PRs that would have fixed the issue. Or maybe the code was written by the big boss' nephew and fixing it would have removed his contribution.
I am naming things that need learning, pity that it is so big effort nowadays.
Can AI make genuine theoretical discoveries?
Do you "practice programming" or you you "make something cool"?

Both lead to learning to program I suppose. But the former is an alien concept to me. The latter is the more natural.
This headline sounds like the beginning of a good Clone Wars episode
Much of that displacement was internal to San Francisco, and the movement of a constant number of homeless people from one area to another can still be net positive, if the area displaced from is denser and more economically productive.

External areas would respond in kind. However, they will balance two possible responses: "anti-displacement" and provision of homeless services, depending on what's most effective. The latter does more than shuffle people around.

In fact, that dynamic in reverse is how we got to the status quo: other areas have essentially no homeless services but plenty of appetite for displacing to places that do have homeless services, like SF.
Funny, I just bought it during the Steam winter sale.
It's a cool concept, but it definitely needs a lot more polish to be a genuine game or even a standalone teaching tool.

It just throws these problems at you with little guidance, teaching, or preparation. It's fine for someone with relevant knowledge. But, to a beginner I feel like it would be a mostly frustrating experience.

Also, it could benefit from providing some help with laying out the circuits. Moving or rotating components disconnects them from their tracks which you have to draw manually one at a time. So, once you figured out the right logic, there's a decent amount of friction to implement it.
My understanding is that technically DRM doesn’t really need to work perfectly to achieve its objective. DRM works in conjunction with anti-circumvention laws.

Making a private copy of a copyrighted material is legal in many jurisdictions, it is however illegal to circumvent DRM. So effectively by protecting content with any reasonable DRM, the content owner gets more control on the user than copyright law give them. Without DRM you could subscribe to a streaming service and legally record all the content without infringing any copyright. With DRM you are forbidden to do so and anybody helping you doing it is in hot waters: end result no equivalent of a VCR for the internet era.
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> But Apple may succeed in arguing that its app stores for other devices should be excluded. (The Mac App Store should already be safe, as users are free to download and install apps direct from developers.)

And I imagine Apple would just love to close this historical "loophole", but is probably afraid of the backlash...
Not entirely.

Let's say my salary is $100k/year, and my expenses are $90k/year. I have $10k/year to save (or blow). If I move to somewhere with 3x salary and 3x costs, then my salary goes to $300k/year and my expenses go to $270k/year, and so I now have $30k/year left over.

But it's not that simple, because of progressive tax rates. The federal income tax on $300k/year is more than 3x the tax on $100k/year. Or, to put it a different way, you get 3x the salary, but not 3x the take home pay. Out of that less-than-3x take home pay, you now get to pay the 3x expenses.

Now, it could be that when people say "3x the expenses", they're taking that into account. But I suspect they're not. I suspect they're looking at COL numbers, and I suspect that the published COL numbers are just housing, food, medical, and the like.
Good... five times the fine then!
In your case, it seems that investing in some case-specific support bracket for $10 would have prevented all issues, so I'm unsure why you propose vendor switching as the solution.

After experiencing coil whining with one game and loud fans after extended perios of full load on the system (CPU+GPU), I switched to an aftermarket all-in one liquid cooling system, like Alphacool Eiswolf. I just think that the standard 3 fans blowing air onto the GPU kill most useful airflow in every PC case and with every vendor that uses this style.
> In the sense that “anti-fascist” is a dishonest euphemism for “communist”, of course not.

Give me a fucking break. I meant as in: they fought the war because they had to, not because of being anti-fascist.

America thought Nazis were such an existential threat that they remained neutral until Pearl Harbor.
Sure, llms don't do discreet math or logic directly. On the other hand, they write surprisingly good code.

I'm guessing we'll see llms that do input>program(s)>run>summarize>output

I'm not really disagreeing - I just think llms will do "more of the work" themselves by way of writing and running prolog programs, symbolic math (Julia etc) and running theorem provers.
I used ChatGPT for Turkish and it got it really wrong. Wrong enough that even my limited Turkish knowledge could see it was wrong. That said Duolingo was pretty bad for Turkish as well (Babbel was far superior).

I guess maybe ChatGPT is trained mostly on Western/Indo-European languages?
To me, the fact they don't run automated checks on Firefox is in itself malicious and anti-competitive.
If it was that easy, you'd do that in the interpreter and proportionally reduce interpretation overhead.
I think we're on the same page. Economic systems need failsafes so that they don't suffer from positive feedback loops.

What anti-capitalist sympathizers, in my view, don't realize is that this is due to people being in the loop. These economic systems are merely vehicles, some better than others, but the conductors are people, be they communists or capitalists. At least with capitalisms there is a delayed regulator (negative feedback) in communism it's up to the system to decide if it needs to modify itself.
They were out by the time roadster entered production. Musk provided the first financing round, and became pretty involved since the beginning of designing the roadster. Pretty good story on it here[1]

[1]: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/05/tesla200705?currentP...
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What does the grocer comment mean?
I wouldn't read into it too much, this is what some of the best paid lawyers in the world cooked up to protect their client and par for the course
Intel is not any better with their increasingly long number names. I guess Apple so far has followed a logical numbering scheme but they only have a few SKUs compared to hundreds from AMD and Intel
In the US, housing is heavily biased to single-family houses.

About 81 million detached single-family vs about 30 million multi-unit housing.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1042111/single-family-vs...
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There's a TV show starring Stephen Merchant from a few years ago called "Hello Ladies", in which he plays a character who is constantly hitting on (and being rejected by) models and actresses. He has a frequent complaint when he gets shut down for behaving inappropriately: "What are the rules?!?"

It's frustrating for people who are less socially adept to learn that, in some cases, there are no hard and fast rules.
I love reading this every time it gets posted. This guy is a genius and rockstar should feel bad.
It's a legit concern, but there are a lot of factors that go into that. And I'd argue that most domains can (and will) support more than one player. There are many ways to segment a market, and not all of them are mostly (or even at all) about the product you're selling. An example would be selling your product on a "lowest cost" basis, with few frills and extras and minimal support, versus selling it as a "luxury" experience with all the bells and whistles and "white glove" support. Same product, but two different segments within the overall market for $FOO.
Ideally you do this in a community where you trust the sysop, or you are the sysop. See my previous comment.
I don't think I even knew what those "Easter Island" statues were called until I started playing Gradius games.
I wonder how many days of app-store revenue in Europe it takes for their lawyers to make up their salaries.
The European Union's remarkable growth performance relative to the United States
That fear, especially today, is completely unfounded.

Nobody has budget, personnel or appetite for quixotic "Stamp out a tiny would-be competitor" projects. The business climate inside large orgs is now more conservative and financially constrained. There is no infinite stack of cash. Headcounts have been slashed so there's no longer teams or leaders that have the bandwidth to try and spin up a new product/team.

To add to that: people forget when you're private and not splashed across the pages of every business magazine nobody really knows how successful your company really is outside your own employees and maybe some savvy industry insiders. And none of them know all the details. A big company seeing slowing growth (or a shrinking market) is going to be reluctant to believe some startup in an adjacent space is seeing enough growth to get a foothold.
With toxins such as fluoride, indeed. When I was a child, my mother went crazy ordering fluoridated bottled water (in glass) until the City began to fluoridate the tap water supply. And my father is the guy who cleaned up lab spills and asbestos for a living. Then they tried to fluoridate me with Prozac prescriptions. It's literally insane, I tell you: insane.
It just happens to be bundled with the OS. Updates come from the app store.

Otherwise you'd need to update the entire OS, just for a minor security fix to imesssgae.
> it has better extendability and is more generic

Those are noble goals; I think the problem arises when devs forget that "change the code" and "replace with something else" are perfectly valid options. Adding a plugin interface and override hooks, just in case they might be needed, for an internal library, then it's a classic case of YAGNI. When an implementation is so configurable that passing it a config is more effort than writing a bespoke implementation, then it may be an example of the "inner platform effect".

I wrote about this sort of thing on StackExchange a few years ago https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/382229/11211...
I felt like this game was easily comparable to a semester of computer engineering foundation, but more fun, especially with the assembly minigames.

In college I remember assignments to design specific instructions for a hypothetical CPU, and separately to design specific circuits, but it was never a complete or functional design. TC was fun because you make up your own ISA while building a complete miniature CPU, and you can take it as far as you want.
I think they are arguing that all their devices have different stores.
Hilarious argument, I cannot wait for Apple to open the walled garden this year.
Especially for the feeling of vindication here on HN. A lot of people would basically go on you as vultures if you dared voice your opinion that Apple should not have absolute control over the platform and that it doesn't matter what their ToS says..

Look and behold the wall is coming down. And tbh it does feel pretty good after arguing about this on HN for the last couple of years.
> This isn't some obscure b2b product, this is GTA5.

The 'large-organization-dynamics' are all the same though across all industries. I bet enough people down in the trenches noticed, but nobody pushed enough to get the problem investigated and fixed. There's probably several dozen bug duplicates about that problem buried somewhere in GTA5's JIRA (and indeed probably also with exact instructions how to fix, and maybe even somebody did that work but then didn't push enough to get it integrated).
Those tone probes are so fun to play with! I highly recommend anyone with a spare $15 to grab a cheapo model and just... run around the home with it. It's an enlightening experience to actually perceive with your own ears the normally invisible world of EM radiation
We don't actually have to let the people who want to disenfranchise others make a play for power.
I absolutely love Aldi -- they do several big and subtle (with big results) things that other retailers fail on:

(1) Their store brands are consistently on-par or better than the name brands. It's no "Kirkland Signature" but I've found short of about three things, I like the Aldi product better[0].

(2) Their prices are good enough that I don't have to plan with coupons/nonsense. I analyzed this a few years ago (so long ago that newspaper coupons were still the only "real" coupons offered by food vendors) and found it was worth the time savings to skip the chore and just go to Aldi.

(3) Their "Aisle of Shame" (close-out random goods) is fun. I frequently find excellent products at ridiculous prices ($30 off-brand blender worked longer than the $200 I replaced it with).

(4) Their near-frustration free check-out.

Honestly #4 is the reason. Their check-out staff will rip through a cart faster than you can unload the groceries. They can do this because Aldi ensures their store branded products have barcode labels that extend the length of the box and appear on nearly every surface[1] (and they minimize the movements required of their staff to perform that job). You can have 4 people with full carts in front of you and they're cleared out before a typical Walmart scanner handles one half-full cart.

When I saw they introduced self-checkout, my heart sunk, but I used it. I think it's the only automated check-out system I've used that works. You get that product anywhere near the laser and it scans. It's amazing how much of that process comes down to the barcode scanner working properly.

[0] In one case -- their Mocha iced coffee -- I can't drink other brands any longer

[1] In some cases they slap a barcode on non-store branded products.
It unfortunately also exceeded available memory.

A basic approach which worked was sequentially loading each df from the filesystem, iterating through record hashes, and incrementing a counter; however the runtime was an order of magnitude greater than my final implementation in Polars.
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Got fed up with 36 hours of weekly meetings. Built something to fix it
In my ops role at a major tech company, I peaked at a week-crushing *36-hours of weekly meetings* on a 40-hour work week, causing me to work evenings and weekends just to keep up with emails and core 'heads down' work.

A buddy of mine had the same issue and wanted to try to do something about it. We did months of research on meetings, which was actually pretty interesting and revealing. Both of us having analytical backgrounds, traced the issue back to a main root cause: unprepared meetings. Call it breaking it down to its first principles. We also realized that many meeting softwares were actually focusing on the wrong problem.

Some interesting stats we found: 65% of meeting owners never prepare. Also, only ~30% of meeting attendees found the meetings they attended impactful, despite ~80% of owners thinking otherwise. A clear gap.

The core issues we identified were:

- Lack of agendas, talking points, and objectives
- Excessive participants, often unnecessary
- Absence of structure and clear outcomes
- No feedback to meeting owners

We tested this finding out ourselves in our meetings by:

- Establishing a single defined objective (i.e. what we want to leave the meeting with hitting)
- Articulating thoughtful talking points well ahead of time
- Limiting attendees to those with assigned talking points (max 3-4 people per meeting)
- Asking for honest meeting feedback from our attendees
- Politely declining unnecessary meetings, including 1:1s

The result after only 1-2 weeks: A remarkable 10-hour reduction in weekly meeting load, giving me back an entire workday and eliminating the need for evening and weekend work.

It was pretty wild how well this worked, but the key to keeping it this way was consistency.

We asked our colleagues and friends if they had similar issues with meetings and were astonished how common this was. SOO.. we developed an in-calendar tool that makes meeting preparation as simple as practicably possible. This tool streamlines the creation of crisp, structured agendas with impactful talking points, ensures only necessary people are invited, and makes it easy for attendees to provide feedback to meeting owners --- all of this in less than 2 mins.

**Check it out in action here: https://www.loom.com/share/d241273abef4418597ba3af3ab46e323

To the Hacker News community: Do you also struggle with heavy loads of unproductive meetings? Do you find meeting preparation is the best way to improve bad meetings? What else do you do to help yourself and others with improving unproductive meetings? We're trying to prioritize what features we should build next. We have many ideas, but want some collective input.

Suggestions welcome!
4TB of ram is only $71 per hour on AWS RDS. If you're at planetary scale that's not bad.