skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finland also. Extremely popular. And I think their main revenue source is food and such and not actually all the other stuff like clothing or electronics. On other hand they also have the biggest selection of food.
Passing objects is less efficient than passing individual arguments in multiple ABIs though, even if the straight byte count would be the exact same
That might have been interesting during ZIRP but these days many people have very non-zero interest on their savings account. If you hold Bitcoin its value may well go down not up. It's more like holding penny stocks than a saving account.
It's extremely clear that we're exposed to more man made materials proved or suspected to cause cancer than 200 years ago.

The fact that we live longer doesn't mean we couldn't live even better/longer without all these pollutants
You could just as well say that US tech sector is prosperous due to using native ascii keyboards.

There is no way to get a clear picture if unions limit innovation or whatever.
I really don't agree with this line of thinking.

> Mass layoffs work when there was over-hiring

Ok, let's define "over-hiring".

Google...

had 99k employees in 2018, 119k in 2019, 135k in 2020, 156k in 2021, 190k in 2022, 174k in 2023.

and made $136b in 2018, $161b in 2019, $182b in 2020, $257b in 2021, $282b in 2022, $297b in 2023.

They basically doubled their headcount to double their revenue. How is that over-hiring??? Each person added as much revenue as the ones before them.

Over-hiring would have been if post-Covid business would have dropped, which, guess what, did NOT happen for FAANG. It was, in the worst case scenario, stable (even then, slightly growing).
I am really enjoying Odin.

My time on it is limited at the moment. I am working 2 jobs which is eating my weekly hours. When I have more time (leaving one job in April.. yay!) I plan to contribute to Odin more.

Currently, I would guess many view Odin as a niche language in the gaming circle. A bit like Jai. I want to try and change that mindset or reputation.. to build apps in Odin that are not games (though I plan to move a game I wrote in C to Odin as a fun experiement)

I am currently binding a C library to Odin which my early tests are working pretty well. Plan to announce more, hopefully, in the coming months. I have also experiemented with existing libraries like odin-http and odin-mysql (by a chap named layton who helps alot on odin discord) -- I need to build a family website/blog and tempted to use Odin with htmx.

The only area of critique to Odin, especially those that are accustomed to them... is a package manager. Now I am in favour of package managers. C# Nuget is good. However, for Odin, I have been happy to create a third-party folder and 'git clone' the repos I need:-

import http "../third-party/odin-http" // rough example.
Seems that's what they've done now
Maybe in the US, but that's a problem how you unionize.
> You can download it to somewhere

Obviously, but the howto in the readme does lay the groundwork for a huge security concern if some admins start to run it recurrently in that way, without reading the code every time.

> The tool is marketed as fileless.

Which is great if your purpose is indeed to use it for hacking, and you run it on machines that you've already compromised, not on your own.

For anyone else, I think it's vital to only run it from an instance where you can download it and examine the code every time there is a change. I would do a git pull for that, not a curl command. Git makes it easier to go through all changes every time you do a pull.
I'm not very knowledgeable on India, but have seen Shashi Tharoor mentioned a couple of times and from what I've read he seems to be an accomplished intellectual with reasonable views and nonpartisan politics. It's a pity he's not more prominent in Indian (or international) politics.
The similarity is likely due to the fact that they were both early standards built for limited environments.

I find systems like this are always tighter than systems designed after the WWW became most people's computer experience.
Yes, but it's at a local level.

One of the benefits of batteries is that they can be spread around and used to alleviate bottlenecks. Building transmission is very expensive, so this is a good early market for them.

These are called Non-Tranmissikn Alternatives or Non-Wires Alternatives:

NTAs are programs and technologies that complement and improve operation of existing transmission systems that individually or in combination defer or eliminate the need for upgrades to the transmission system.
Exactly. I need this experience rubberised.
It is not the individual layoff which is the issue for the people. It is the general feeling that the little man get squeezed under the argument of cost savings and the rich man takes out even more than the year before, independent of the market and company performance. In the past the entrepreneur took the yearly risks and was rewarded or not for it.

The variation / risk on the (unrealistic) return is now managed on the backs of the employees. These layoffs are often bound to the goal to have a return like Apple and not like General Electric (company examples are educated guesses).

In the end, the employees have a miserable life and products of the company are a shit show.
We now find PFAS in rain water and well water so we're past the point of no return already. Plastic pipes and bottles are far down the list of our concerns
I don't understand why faster boot times was ever a priority in the first place. I know it's a metric that linux ricers sometimes like to compete on, but normal users just suspend their computers when not in use 99 times in 100.
I'd be genuinely interested what the legal situation here would be, if that's true...
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in Sydney, malls are bigger than ever. The entire CBD is pretty much one gigantic mall at this point...
For those interested, the ACM page for the paper has a good introductory video https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3485513
Moral imperative? Same as anyone else, human rights and human decency.

If you want to close your borders with an agressive neighbor, by all means do so. Just don't call refugees a threat to national security if the only reason refugees can been seen as a threat a totally home made and self-inflicted (again, by each and every single EU member state and the EU itself).

The reason for doing so is quite straight forward so: soft power. Western democracies relied a long time on the perception of championing human rights, on being the good guys. Just look at how bad the US looked during and after Vietnam. We in the West, especially the EU, lost a lot ofbthat clout and soft power since we are ok with thousands of people drowning unnecessarily in the Mediterranean. Now we do the same on our Eastern borders. Giving up moral high(er) ground, when said morals make up a huge part of your power, is stupid. Especially when you already have others using that weakness for almost a decade.

Just regarding enslaved Fins: bavk during Zarist tines, serfdome was a Russian thing. And Finland still part of Russia. No actions, or lack thereof, in the past justifies actions in the present. At the most, they explain them.
I have all my savings stored in bitcoin. I do it because I've spent 100s of hours learning what money really is and can see that bitcoin is the best form of it, certainly the best long term store of value. I also know that the best long term store of value will ultimately be where the world's stored value is moved to.
Aren't there oil ETFs or other types of ETFs that have a much higher negative impact on the environment?

Any sort of currency seems to bring out the worst, maybe currencies in general is the problem?
Seatbelts and airbags are pointless. Just don't crash. Simple.
Or: we as users can wish for the days of 90's web design and bring it back! The main content was so much more up front. Forms, buttons, and general layout were all the same.

And Progressive Enhancement has it that our bells and whistles gracefully degrade back to from whence they came.
I thought reading long and boring documents and answering questions about them was what ChatGPT was for, no ?
EU GDPR fines hit record high in 2023: 2B+ euros
It's news because it's been repeated ad nauseam only recruitment, HR, sales and other non tech roles will be affected by layoffs in big tech companies. The numbers aren't important just that there are numbers because it relates to engineering and it's something the tech community didn't expect.
Didn't their copy of Snap story feature successfully enough? In my personal experience with Instagram, I rarely look at any post anymore. My viewing typically finishes after watching a few story videos. Their failure is probably on content, Instagram posts are too "formal", too commercial, not as viral as most funny TikTok shorts.
Once again demonstrating the difference between leadership and management.
This is why I don't work for publicly traded companies. It's like this every goddamn three months in a lot of them.
>the opposite is true for some people, who have better regulation of whatever chemical makes you hungry. Apparently there are lots of people for whom feeling hungry after eating a large meal seems impossible. And since this is something they have never experienced, it's not really reasonable to expect them to understand or be able to imagine it.

I don't know, I found the idea of "what if I was hungry, but too much instead of too little" pretty easy to wrap my head around I think. I also wouldn't call feeling full necessarily as being the same thing as being well regulated, anorexics can feel full but they're hardly well regulated.

I once knew this fairly average weight bodybuilder that hated fat people with a passion and practiced a strict diet. During one of his many anti fat people rants, he started ranting about how fat people have no discipline, I sort of snapped back at him and pointed out my many struggles with eating and asked him "why it is that you complain that fat people are undisciplined but don't criticise me in the same way when you know I don't have a good diet and struggle to put on weight?" He didn't have a response to that and the conversation awkwardly ended.

For me, it was pretty easy to come to essentially the same conclusion you did from the opposite starting point. That it's possible for everybody to change their weight by committing, but for some people like this bodybuilder they're going to be able to maintain a healthy weight without struggling, and for others it's going to be a slog.

It's those who seemed to control their weight at will I couldn't empathise with, fat people were relatively relatable.
They were probably not full time on that project. Since it's a contracting company, contractors can be assigned to many projects.
While you're right that Lightning L2 transactions generally aren't published on the blockchain, while following the lightning protocol, real Bitcoin transactions are passed between network participants that can be published by any of the participants if another other party doesn't follow the lightning channel rules.
There are basically no unions in tech in Europe. The countries where tech workers are dominated by tech unions can be counted on one hand, and they're probably the Nordic ones.

Germany doesn't really have tech unions and for sure they don't dominate the tech scene. France, neither, Eastern Europe (all of them), don't, Southern Europe, not that I know of.

Salaries are still low.
Clean cuts are easier to sew on again. And they make for prettier scars.
Honestly that sounds fine and quite honest to have such a policy. I think in my career I've met like 2 or 3 engineers who would have been at one place longer than that.
> It was a very interesting read, in the context of Python getting a copy-and-patch JIT compiler in the upcoming 3.13 release

Indeed! In fact, someone mentioned this article in the thread about the Python JIT from a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38924826
People are using it in advance, for example, by holding equity and other assets. Those who just want to store value in money haven't quite understood an economic system that isn't design to store but rather to produce.

I struggle to see shifts in earning power as a fiat issue. Why isn't it weaker unions in the US or UK, for example? Why not (de-)regulation or any other long list of things. The shifts in power are not a result of fiat or devaluation (why were only a few powerful in times with very hard money?). You can have places where less GDP is in the financial sector and still lower earnings cohorts had a miserable history (or even the median earner). Germany has a rather smaller banking sector than the US, but real earnings over that last 25 years have only moved a little (so has productivity).

The hope that somehow by changing the money a complex set of problems goes away is in error, I believe, and not helpful in addressing those issues. (You can also look at monetary reforms and see that those didn't magically solve all problems.)
Any plans to support receiving refunds as Paper I-Bonds? i.e. Form 8888 ( https://www.irs.gov/refunds/using-your-income-tax-refund-to-... )
Why in this particular time frame? Just before the performance reviews?
Ossified tech companies who fire their talent are quite literally sewing the seeds of their own destruction.

I expect in the next 2-5 years to see a dynamic flourising of innovative companies started by these unshackled workers.
That has clearly prevented dozens of other languages to support that feature... because no parser would be able to tell you that range isn't valid at compile time?
Welcome to NTPsec
Just a day ago I was reading a comment from a - funnily, google - engineer gaslighting another engineer that had a hard time finding a job in this market.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_compone...
Were you like I have nothing useful to add, but while I'm driving by why don't I just fart on India...

The market share speaks for itself.

For what it's worth, India with over a billion people is a large market for Android.

Anyway, the iOS market share seems to be increasing rapidly in India. See https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/devices/ip...).
No. I think people will come to understand and accept that what you get out is commensurate to what you put in. If you stick close to the script (there will still be a scripted main story in such games, because people want shared experiences) and say and do reasonable things in the setting, the LLM game master should be able to deliver reasonably, and improvise around the edges. But if you go wildly off the rails, then no LLM is going to turn that into an award-winning story.
MacBook Pro M3 battery life tested
Verdi and IG Metall represent developers. (IGM a bit more traditional, when IBM built machines here; verdi tries to take over as software development is a service of some kind)
Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom - https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/MusicTheory.html
Boeing 747 stabilizer trim is achieved by rotating the entire tailplane by up to 15 degrees. The elevator is much smaller (less than 1/3 the area) and is deflected by a smaller angle.
That's some serious force you'd have to apply with those air jets either throughout the cruise phase or takeoff/landing.
Most of the times I go into a mall, I can find the same thing online with next day delivery, cheaper.
Rare are the occasions where I need something right now or when I need to see products in person.
In France (and other parts of Europe) it’s cool to walk around big malls because they are often in the center of cities so there is public transports with exits inside the mall. And it’s easy to go to other parts of the city right after.
Driving specifically to a mall ? No way I’ll do that more than a couple times a year, a waste of time.
This is more a case of industry doing something with no meaningful input from the government, and politicians acting like they made it happen.
Yep, they’re all over Eastern Europe as well. Both in traditional CBD and American-style drive and park stand-alone formats.

Aviapark is the largest in Europe with over 500 shops:

https://youtu.be/DI4RyT4lA9M?si=r2EFJdpTrFdMaLKI
By definition you can do all 3. Spend by selling convert to fiat and then buy whatever you want. "Holdl"(sic) just say long despite what sanity or logic says. Trade buy/sell like anything else.
> Nothing will make execs happier than having this line of thought popularized amongst engineers. It will allow them to hire cheaper, and exploit existing engineers more.

Why? The lay-offs are so broad, not selective at all. You're just as likely to get cut if you're working hard or not, if you're overpaid or underpaid. It's completely out of the employee's control, so why would it change the employee's behavior?
No seriously. Someone else crashes into you, but are people coming around slamming your hands in the trunk? Shit analogy.

Remember these rules are meant to protect you from others, not your self...
Companies, of all sizes, are run by people.

If those people are assholes, the size of the company doesn't matter, your employment in that company will suck.
Nah, man: totally agree wif dat. But even that can express differently, there's a lot of boxes for that different person to fit into!

I mean, is this impostor syndrome or is it something else?
See also this nice title-case converter web app: https://titlecaseconverter.com/
Wages are operational expenses in Poland for most cases - there are few (rare) exceptions where portions of wages might be considered part of increase in value of "material item" and thus fall under amortization rules - however those are minority and the general rules are that worker's wages are operational expenses (as wages paid to worker do not translate directly into capital wealth of the company).
It would be like trying to legislate to affect the value of gold.

Many countries try to do this. It has had almost no effect on the value of gold.

For example in the US in 1933 private ownership of gold bullion was punishable by 10 years imprisonment.
I'm trying to go deeper, I'd be curious to know what other ML zones you keep track of?

- I know r/LocalLlama, huggingface's Daily Papers and TheBloke. Most of what Youtube throws at me is horrific clickbait. I feel like there are probably whole communities I'm missing out on.
A full time job is generally under 2,000 hours a year while you’re awake ~5,840 (16 * 365) hours a year.

Overtime, long commutes, and thinking about the job at home can make it seem like all you do is work, but it’s possible to spend 40 hours a week having fun while you also have a full time job. Remember use your vacation and sick days, and say no to excessive unpaid overtime.
I love NOYB, please donate to them (recurring is better), they do very impactful work to safeguard our privacy.
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Whats the alternative?

I don't live next to a rocky mountain spring.
That "liberty and incentive" is extremely unevenly distributed, which is why this thread exists.

Besides - the US is clearly losing its reputation for tech competence.

Between some of the world's crappiest broadband (unevenly distributed again), NASA Moon missions failing to reach the Moon, Boeing blowing their own doors off, and Google's search enshitification and inability to understand what a stable product line is - among others - the US really isn't the powerhouse of progress it thinks it is.
I think you mean Italian ;) And if the Japanese person is staying long-term and not a tourist, they'll likely quickly learn to embed their choice of {espresso, latte macchiato, cappuccino, ...} within the "Ein %s bitte." "Danke." template.
Compared to Covid boom years... let's normalize the Covid years to their past trend and add the 2022 and 2023 data points as regular years. I'm sure they'd look just fine.
There is a comparison between Live++ and Visual Studio's Edit-and-Continue here:
https://liveplusplus.tech/faq.html

In our (and many of our customers') experience, E&C doesn't work for anything larger than simple toy projects. It just isn't reliably.

On top of that, I think its biggest shortcoming is that E&C doesn't work with optimizations at all (this is documented), and is tied to the Visual Studio IDE, which not everybody uses.
>How do we go backwards from something we got right four decades ago?

Simple. By treating car developement like SV SW development, thereby not giving a damn about the past decades of automotive know-how and lessons learned, as that's considered boring and uncool crust, and only focusing on developing new unrealistic and shiny features ("hey look at this snake charger that's coming in 6 months, isn't that cool") that look good on social media to boost sales and stocks prices.

And it works for Tesla because most Tesla and newer car customers in general, don't check stuff like panel gaps, chassis cracks, door seals, panels being attached properly, etc as that's been a solved problem for decades in the auto industry that nobody thinks about anymore would be an issue today, so consumers just focus on looks and shiny new gadgets when buing a new car rather than what makes a car a car.
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Be it from a sprint, a year, or just whatever was getting you up that day/week/year with the spouse. How do you ... get back to baseline?
> Some short time in the future, I will release a blog post or something, where I will write about the fundamental problems you need to solve when writing a performant data system like a database, so stay tuned :)

Please do!
It doesn't requires a space, you could modify the lexer to recognize '..' as a prefix and solve that problem, it's just a choice they made to refuse that it could be implemented by just having one character forward looking lexer.

It is not because it is implemented like that in gcc (requiring a space, possibly so they didnt have to modify the lexer) that it ought to be specced like that.
https://archive.is/Rp8v4
"near impossible" referred to the specific act re-reading the code every time you run it, which you should do if you use the exact method for executing it that is in the readme.

There are many ways more competent/sane users who realize the danger can work around those.

My concern is that some percentage of users are likely to follow the method in the readme to the letter, without knowing or caring about the danger. Either the author knows this (if not-> incompetent, which is not likely), doesn't care (maybe it's mostly intended for black hack hacking).

Or it's actually a trap, where it's first presented as a useful tool, but where a phone home addon is injected at some point later, and able to collect massive numbers of keys before it's detected.
I would really like to make Live++ available for Linux one day - it's been asked for a few times already.
I recently made an entire WebRTC p2p video player that worked seamlessly everywhere! Except iPhone Safari. And all iPhone (but not iPad!) browsers are Safari under the hood that couldn't do a few of the fundamentals needed.
Yeah. It makes you wonder what is Google's secret to only Hire and Promote the Best People...
Tell HN: Bash.org is no more
Bash.org was a cornerstone of the old internet. It was a collection of silly quotes from IRC channels everywhere, many of which dated back to the 90s. And now it is no more.
Companies have an obligation to sell safe products. There are even laws in place for that. Not doing so can even become pretty expensive in the US I am told.