skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article ignores what’s likely the root cause of no one raising a stink about this change.

Because this change helps existing companies relative to companies that don’t already exist.

Since the beneficiaries already exist they have an incentive to protect this change, whereas the people who suffer from this, ie future founders, don’t already exist so they cannot protest it.
If the coworkers are convinced ChatGPT is a solid source of truth, showing them that ChatGPT will prove their generated answer wrong sounds more effective and time efficient to me than handwriting a refutal that they won't trust as much as GPT.
https://status.sr.ht/issues/2023-01-10-network-outage/
> Don't want to give out your credit card to an untrustworthy or unknown website

Or you know... switch to a bank that allows you to get an unique card number for any transaction with a click of a button. Or use SEPA, or many other similar alternatives which (and I'm not overstating this) are 100-1000 times more efficient that Bitcoin.
"playing with fire"

I don't think the Godot Foundation would be against this.
When working in Shanghai I had to go to an office in an outlying district, where the subway station was below a mall, and the way in and out of the subway was through a MacDonalds, walking past the queues waiting to order. The first time I went I was sure that couldn't be right, but it was.
or the Silvet Note Transcription plugin [1]

[1] https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/silvet
Just curious,
Why not simply use IPC/ SysV shared memory, which has been part of Unix like kernels for a long time already?
It's a game launcher that uses Godot, but neither an OS nor connected with the Godot project.

It's a bit like writing a game launcher in Rust and calling it RustOS.
Python Online Compiler for Mastering Python Concepts
> I guess we'll see if this turns out to be true.

https://killedbygoogle.com/
If we had switch ranges in C many other languages wouldn't be...
> It still amazes me how they can believe that putting all the guards in tens of nested ifs can be saner than a few extra returns at the top.

On the other hand, if you have ten early returns your function should most likely be split into smaller functions anyway. The advantage of sticking to structured programming is that it becomes obvious when it's time to do so.

Another advantage of pure structured programming (which implies a single exit point) is that you can easily add post-conditions to your functions, i.e. assertions which must hold true before the execution returns to the caller.
They have professional associations - the most successful unions ever, not least because they pretend not to be unions. See the medical profession as a good example.
Proof of stake is not really any different to fiat.

History has proven time and time again that sound money requires equivalent work to create.
They would also be able to hear the landing clearance for the other aircraft, no?. They would know someone was landing at that moment. Weird accident.
It's incredible how such an important issue relies on essentially a single individual out of 300+ million.
That you think this is weird advice or advice that makes LLMs look good shows that your position is one of reflective opposition rather than understanding and experience with the things. If you interact with them much it's an obvious course of action. It will come up with nonsense, and if you tell it it's nonsense it will immediately apologise and explain why the nonsense was nonsense. It will come up with good information, and if you tell it the information was bad it will immediately apologise and offer nonsense explaining why. You can easily get it in a loop of it agreeing that solution A is bad and offering solution B, then agreeing that we previously excluded solution B and offering solution A instead. It is a very quick way to get an intuitive understanding of their limitations.
Well the lmsys leaderboard interestingly places it just 10 Elo under GPT 4 entries, so one would have to consider it somewhat on-par.
Pretty much. If you have human controllers and human pilots, eventually someone's going to misunderstand an instruction. It happens every day all over the world. The backstop to this really can't be "give different instructions", because whatever you pick can be misheard too.

Obviously the primary backstop is supposed to be the pilots. The Dash 8 should have been listening to other traffic on that control frequency and should have known that there was an aircraft on final for that runway. The pilots of the A350 (and I don't understand why this angle isn't getting more attention) should have been looking out the window and seen the lighted-and-very-visible turboprop on the runway in front of them.
That concept doesn't hold water. If everyone can code, it won't be a high paying skill. And soon, it will really be true that everyone can code. Schools are teaching computational thought as early as kindergarten, so the next generation is growing up with coding being a basic literacy skill.

Of course, knowing how to code and being good at creating software are two different things. Just like knowing how to write and being able to succeed as a novelist are two different things.

But that is also why the "best of the field" get laid off - why pay FAANG salaries to get the best, when entry/mid-level salaries to get "good enough" still meets business needs?
People have been saying 18-24 months for the last 15 plus years. Its not going to happen at this point. Lets say the truck is a complete flop, the amount of runway they have allows them to just pivot to something else. Plus these engineering achievements give them massive breathing room to cut costs compared to their competitors. This is what I said by people unable to look past their hatred or love of Musk and look at the actual details on the ground.

As for Twitter well, I can't explain why his other companies get 1 million plus applicants while this company languishes.
>Ever since around 2011, once or twice a year the insurance companies mail me postcards that I have to sign and return in order to prove that I am still alive so that I can keep receiving the payments.

Isn't a signature just a stamp in Japan? How would that verify that you are still alive?
The Nest Speaker also pisses me off. It requires a Google account for activating the Bluetooth functionality.

I got one as a gift. It is a good looking door stop, though.
Serfs being bound to the land, and power being directly held by those who provided military service are pretty stark differences between Feudalism and Capitalism. Not even Marx equated the two systems.
I've always assumed (never looked into it) that the protocol itself has little in common with SMTP. But the constraints of text-only messages (email before html formatting took hold), email address as user ID and client software that used the same UI for both (Netscape Navigator!) certainly made it feel like very much the same thing. Mailing lists, but more federated than irc.

One difference to mailing lists of more recent times, besides technological differences, is that there was more of a sense of shared culture across groups. Groups certainly differed (some topics might have even had parallel groups in regular and in alt.* hierarchies?), but not even remotely as much as mailing lists differ. Certainly more free for all babble (because it was) than the more moderated or even announcement-only end of the mailing list spectrum that is enabled by their centralised nature.
When companies make broad cuts, especially if they're eliminating projects or divisions they've decided are no longer important, the reality is that they don't do a lot of micro-optimizing at the individual level about who they keep and who they shed.

Sometimes you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time--and maybe it's even the impetus to do something different.
Is Odin "Programming Done Right"? (Interview with Creator, Bill Hall)
I have an even deeper respect for people working on collations and character sets. Good LORD.
What!? Sorry, you’re a software developer, you’re literally in the business of automation. This sort of “back in my day we walked to snow up hill both ways with a sheep on our back”-ism is just absurd.
This is not an income tax. Employees aren’t getting taxed.

This is quite literally a tax on owners, so even by your definition this is the opposite of a regressive tax.

What this tax does do is heavily benefits incumbents over new entrants. It heavily benefits those that are already rolling in profits over those who are about to turn a loss into a profit because where it really hurts is in the margins.

Companies that have been around for a while may suffer for a couple of years as the tax is just introduced, but a few years later they will start reaping the benefits as they get tax credits from the past year.

But companies that are new will suffer at the worst possible time, right when they’re about to prove the viability of their business.
I think it's a fun name
You can probably still use the IDE for local operations that don't need custom configurations or server credentials, e.g. checkout, merge, commit, log, interactive visualizations of history, diff.
> less crumbling infrastructure

German infrastructure is crumbling too. I wouldn't hold it up as some shining beacon.

> and I get better protection from being fired in the spot

Yes, that's the difference in attitudes people are talking about. It's the safety of keeping what you have versus the drive to reach for better. Societies' outcomes reflect that. More diversity in outcomes in the US, but also better in the median.
is it polite? no.

is it not accurate? also no.

is it vulgar or offensive? no. unless you get easily offended, in which case you probably shouldn't spend too much time on the internet?
You should cash out and only use physical cash as then you would be guaranteed 0 exposure to the crypto financial world. As you will not do that, I'm sure, you will be exposed to BTC and other crypto as they will be held by funds and institutions you necessarily own as part of the financial world.

Sorry but not sorry, there is no more BS around BTC being for "bad actors", now everyone is exposed. Your disdain is not warranted and makes you a loser if you go with the cash option and 0 exposure. Again, sorry but but sorry ...
It's a feature of the language dialect.
And how would seller pay taxes?
They didnt get any fiat, they can't off-ramp it presumably(otherwise buyer would have done it), and now guy with a gun comes and demands his share, what happens?
> With bitcoin you don't need "real money",

Maybe you don't (almost) everyone else does.

> In any case other countries that embrace bitcoin will always exist.

Doubtful. None exist and unlikely any will exist in the future (at least not the type of countries many people would want to live int)

> It sounds like you need to learn what money really is. Try and figure out why mankind chose shells and beads as money, then gold and then fiat. It will help you understand why it will choose bitcoin next.

I'm sorry but you sound pretty much like the "flat earth" people... (maybe that was the point?)
Yeah but it's still less than half the amount of VC money of London, and Amsterdam is slightly higher than half of the VC money of Berlin, it's like 2bnGBP, 900mEUR, 650mEUR, as far as I remember
Yeah this is standard practise in the UK armed forces/EOD teams. Source: spent time with No. 5131 Squadron in Akrotiri.
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Do you mean NOYB? Aren't they a team?
Note https://archive.org/details/usenet?tab=collection -- I haven't reviewed it so I don't have a take on how complete it is, but the archive team there tends to be fairly completist.
Depends, in my company layoffs were based on compensation. All the high compensation locations employees were canned.
Agreed, but highly doubt the effect is nearly as dramatic as claimed. If the effect is to the extent that engineers in their 40s can never make the money they made in their 30s, that would be trivial to prove. Even a big corp would have significant trouble defending such a statistic.
The AMA is not a collective bargaining association, just a professional organization. When doctors unionize, they become part of other unions: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/business/economy/doctors-...
I'm hoping for HVDC both across both large spans of longitude and lattitude, that would be a game changer. There is plentiful solar, all we need to do is to be able to transport it across the planet to wherever the sun currently isn't shining.

'A mere matter of engineering'. But we do have that capability.
Deliberately leaving HTTP 402 reserved and undefined so Internet will stay free beer was a grave mistake.
As I recently started playing with WASM as well for my emulator, it's fun to see the pitfalls I run into are the same for everyone, like the AudioContext being forbidden without user interaction, forcing me to add a "Start" button.

Gamepad support on browsers is abysmal as well. It works, but the buttons are not interpreted properly leading to the wrong button being reported (but the OS reports the correct ones!), even for the most standard xbox controller. It seems like the wheel that is sdl gamecontroller db will have to be reinvented on the browser again... while making it a bit harder since the browser might not tell you the exact gamepad model (it would add fingerprinting bits).
The PEP is sponsored by Guido, and it’s something that has been suggested quite a number of times over the years. I’d suggest reading the PEP before commenting about it online.
3AC was doing the same arb on GBTC (with an extended lock-in before redemption), but GBTC had no mechanism for selling BTC once their premium reversed.
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I guess that "a desktop that is minimalist, distraction-free, and aesthetically pleasing" means Windows 2000 with transparent backgrounds.
Have you written about your FI/RE story anywhere? Would be interesting to read. E.g. which SWR, did you end up moving somewhere cheaper, what do you do day-to-day now? How have you found actually living on your withdrawals - has it not caused more worry? How do you avoid the FOMO of seeing your former colleagues pressing on?
Wakapi is great! I'm using it for a couple of months now on a simple VPS. I like that it is written in Golang (quite fast) and feels polished. There is a recent instruction video about Wakatime & Wakapi which is a nice way to get a quick overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEb71_kaluc
i really like this opinion, a large percentage of developers write procedural code in any language, libraries and market demand is their main decision criteria, not language features
I'd quite like to see this applied to the FoundationDB repository - https://github.com/apple/foundationdb
Thanks!
Disagree. These puzzles directly benefit scientific research as the output is more efficient open source brute forcing tools (such as this ECDLP solver: https://github.com/JeanLucPons/Kangaroo) which the cryptographic community benefit from.
Aside from being flat we also lack space, we live with the water so it needs space to flow into places that are not populated. This means large swaths of land are dedicated to what is essentially overflow capacity. Perhaps there is some energy that could be extracted in the process, but it makes it very hard for it to be a reliable backup.
This is how you get tech unions.
There was an interesting graph a few years back about amazon and all the warehouses they are building.

They had grown from ~100,000 employees in 2013 to 1.5 million in 2021. The growth rate would suggest they'd employ everyone in north america in only a few years.

While possible in theory, the government could never allow it. If a corporation were able to grow to that size, they essentially become the government. Bezos could simply tell his people to not send the taxes to the government and the government instantly collapses within months.

So unsurprisingly government went in and started restricting amazon. They can basically never grow again, they can't ever threaten the government's existence. Amazon to a large degree is now a US government ngo. Bezos is obviously no longer ceo and amazon laid off a group. And what has amazon done for the last 2 years, not much of anything.
Because he's the Indian equivalent of Nicholas Kristof.

He's a very smart guy, but he never did his time in the domestic policy space until after he lost the Secretary General election at the UN.

Unlike a number of other Indian politicians in all parties, he hasn't shown that he has experience managing a state sized administration. In his party alone, there are former Chief Ministers like Kamal Nath and Ashok Gehlot who can show they can manage an administration as well as rally party workers.

The best way to become a PM in India post-1991 is to be a Chief Minister who has actually delivered on development (either economic development or social development).

That's why Narendra Modi keeps winning. He has a very dark past, but the Gujarat model does resonate. If Ashok Gehlot was younger, he could have pointed out to how under his tenure as CM he brought RJ's HDI from one of the lowest in the country and the world to around or above the Indian average by 2019.

Shashi Tharoor did consider becoming a CM, but it's difficult to beat the CPIM in his home state
Is Chrome team affected?
Don't towers all over the world give this information? It's almost every time I'm flying that the pilot tells us as we approach the runway we're number 1 for departure, or number 5 for departure

With explicit phraseology of "cleared for takeoff" or "line up and wait" every single time, and the tower not saying either of those things, how does "you're next" confuse things?

Is it possible that it was a language thing since English is required in these situations and is not any of these people's native tongue?
How Much Money Do Indie Hackers Products Make?
Finding 5B chickens with human-in-the-loop AI model tuning via Earth Index
IANAL But I'd say, being 'inside a Boeing' is not, legally speaking, the same as being 'inside Boeing'.

Saying that, I don't remember hearing the stewardess during the safety briefing say

"In the unlikely event of a crash, make sure to get them shorts in quick!"

Probably because I usually fly on Airbus.
Nm, it was something local. Works fine now, my bad.
Memtest86 7: Essential for PC troubleshooting, even if you only run Windows
To be a 50 year old engineer you would have had to start your career in the 90s. There weren't 10% of the number of SWE in the 90s as now. That's why you see the profession skew so young. I have seen no evidence of older engineers having trouble finding work.
“People say it's not a replacement for JavaScript and refuse to consider it as at least an additive alternative.”

It’s not a complete replacement yet but you can write the vast majority of your code in WASM and use JS as glue code if you want.

“That said, WASM in the browser doesn't support threads”

That’s… not true? It has been supported in all major browsers for years
The Spaghetti Tree Hoax: Inside the 1957 BBC's April Fools Joke
Well, good news, there is a new proposal [1] arguing for their inclusion in the language. You can express your support for it to the committee.

[1]: https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n3194.htm
Linux use in computers that can suspend is negligible compared to the number of instances of Linux in random gadgets that you expect to work as soon as you turn them on.
Blending Is All You Need: Cheaper, Better Alternative to Trillion-Parameters LLM
Funnily enough next to wind also solar is one of the major renewable sources in the Netherlands. So also day-night storage would be important.

The Netherlands actually is second place in terms of solar generation per capita in the world (only Australia has more).
Reducing chlorophyll levels results in higher seed nitrogen
This makes it actually more human (as in this is how a real student would have reacted) and therefore AGI-like than i would have anticipated.
Score editors seem to be uniquely difficult. I remember some discourse to that effect when Reaper snuck one in to a random release. As you probably know, notation is a complex written language that evolved over centuries. Trying to represent it in code in a way that translates between views (piano, MIDI, etc) is hard even for people with the resources and knowledge to make it happen. Reaper took a long time to get it right even with that.
Hey guys, this is a pretty decent gesture no matter what you think of Microsoft after mass layoffs. No need to be snarky.
100% Agreed, and if we can combine that with some apprenticeships and minimum quifications for membership, I'm all in.

Just name it like something you'd find from DnD.
One of the key observations is that you should basically always run your applications with some memory limits so that the system and management services will remain responsive etc even if the application is misbehaving. Luckily stuff like docker and systemd makes setting limits pretty easy
I think we should recognize the reality of the situation not what whatever group wants it to be.

Does somaliland have independent control of the land they claim? That should be what matters.
I think by “old fashioned” op means they are old technologies, not that they are obsolete.
There are a lot of decent programming jobs anywhere in the world too, we might not be FAANG but jobs are decent enough to raise a family and build a house.
Some of us figured out that mankind ceased to use shells and beads (and many other things much more fixed in supply than Bitcoin) aeons ago because few people were required to settle their debts or taxes in them, and therefore their future value was entirely dependent on volatile collector sentiment rather than a broad segment of society needing them. I wonder when Bitcoiners will catch up...
good tip!
Its so annoying that Non-WBA holder around here keep arguing with me. I try and explain to them why Walgreens Boots Alliance stock is the future of investing but they are kept in their non WBA bubble.

Good luck buying WBA stock at a higher price in the future!
Google has a union. It costs thousands of dollars per year to join and primarily focuses on political issues like lobbying management not to pursue contracts with the US military.

And even if they had a good union, I fail to see how it would have prevented this.
I can explain why Twitter languishes. Other than the obvious troll hole he’s turned it into, it also doesn’t fit the brand he worked so hard to build around himself in the 2000s and early 20teens.

What he’s doing with Twitter and all his culture war nonsense is beneath him. Or at least it’s beneath the character he created that people compared to Tony Stark.

People who want to work on spaceships do not want to go help him stan for a guy called "catturd2."
Perhaps in the hyper inflated SV economy, but in the rest of the world you don't get to retire until you've reached the normal retirement age (minus a few years perhaps), and that makes it quite natural to see newly employed software engineers who are in their mid or even late 50s. I've worked with plenty of them.

I must admit though that I've only seen one newly hired in their 60s, but probably the very few that find themselves involuntarily out of a job at that age can afford to and choose to retire a little bit earlier than planned.
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That ONE person out of 300m in the EU bothered to chase this topic.
I've preferred it ever since I learned the APA reference format, which uses it.