skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even so… now you cant even read it. Say goodbye to many historic messages like Linus announcing his Kernel, and many dead links on the web.
In EBCDIC, ‘Z’ > ‘A’, so the range 'A' ... 'Z' is valid, but may not do what the programmer intended.

Most other languages never supported EBCDIC or dropped it long ago.

(Also: 'A' ... 'Z' may not do what the programmer intended in most other languages, too. Even ignoring Unicode, quite a few encodings have accented letters that are outside of that range)
> Google stock is up 56% YoY. Fifty six percent.

That's it?

Screaming about 56% in one year is hardly anything to be celebrating about.

Compared with the likes of Meta with >200% in 1 year with just buying and holding alone tells us that was a much better return than Google which is already getting disrupted as it flails about.

> What do you think it should be? 2000%?

If you're talking making 2000% in one year, go and do some 0DTE options gambling on some other stocks.

> It's a huge mature company. 56% in a year is unheard of.

That means absolutely nothing. We gave Google enough time to respond to its rising competition and all it could do was fabricate a demo in front of the world.

No wonder the layoffs happened.
What happens when everything stops growing, though?

For decades our industry growed faster than almost any other industry and definitely faster than the economy as a whole. It's mathematically unsustainable. It must come to an end at some point, and that point is near.

Is it simply time to retire?
DeepSeek Moe
The only times I was really happy and motivated at work was when I was working within a team where we were really friends

Ditto!

A business is made of employees, but the employees are not the business. Sometimes that means decisions have to be made in favor (sometimes arguably) of the business over you.

Understanding the ephemerality of the situation can help you appreciate when it's going well and the people you work with, while helping you be prepared if and when something happens. Hopefully you will have gained a lot more experience, a bigger network of good friends, and have a decent nest egg to take you to the next job.
People can still choose different jurisdiction, or move when they want, etc, etc.

It might surprise you, but it's way easier to open an exchange account than a bank account.
Ah yes, nothing illegal ever happens in the US.
>old internet

Reminds me of Gigablast disappearing, a search engine that was in the spotlight in the early 00's, a sole developer competing amongst AlltheWeb and Google.

When their site disappeared there was barely a mention.

I guess since the mass of geocities was uprooted it's become the norm, the churn of the web and generally accepted. archive.org is great, but it does seem strange how transient information has become on the web. HN and archive.org have good memories.
> whether it appears as regulation, taxation or a number of other factors aimed at improving safety and comfort

Also stuff like being bereft of energy resources (compared to American oil/gas/solar), having fucking Russia to the East, the cost of rebuilding after WW2, having lots of languages and cultures (limiting effective market size)...
HuggingFace Transformers: Qwen2
It is our fault to conduct illegal pushbacks, hinder search and rescue and generally not extend the basic rule of saving people in distress at sea to migrants. Yes, it absolutely is. And it is bad looks, when the human rights and democracy parading Europe stands by letting people drown. Which we totally do.

It should give you pause to think so: the risk of the journey is clear to everyone, the risknof loosing your life and your loved ones either somewhere in the desert or at sea. And regardless, people embark on that journey. Just image how desperate one has to be to do so, how utterly fucked up life at your home has to be. At the very least, we all couod afford and extend some compassion to people having much harder lives than we do. And by the way, compassion is not weakness or softness, quite the opposite actually, it is people eho refuse to show it that are too weak to accept and face their oen fears and insecurities. You know, the difference between the real tough ones and the wannabes.
I've had complaints but no issues so far when not using my middle name whilst flying.

Middle names are less common where I live. The locals tend to add my middle name to my fist name and then complain that it's long and doesn't match their database at first glance.
In python the int parser was quietly changed to accept underscores as valid ints. This has bitten me very bad in production. Imo this was a very bad idea.
Google is overrated. It's been obvious for over a decade after they built an interview process that is heavily biased towards those who recently took an algorithms class. You had talking heads yammering about how hard it was to get into Google, which to be honest, made the company even less appealing. Is this a software engineering company or some kind of hyped up nightclub?

Yeah, maybe it's a hard interview if you've been out of college for a while, haven't written classical algorithms professionally for years, and don't want to spend weeks or months of free time bashing your head on leetcode. What isn't pressure tested by the Google interview process? Just about every other skill that is needed to be a good software engineer.

Obviously, Google has some good engineers, but my goodness was the hype around the company offputting.
Oh wow, comparing cheese to developers is a pretty poor analogy.
If you just connect to the hosts, I think it's unlikely to hit any serious side effect. And this can be discussed beforehand with the client anyway.
My favourite is to build only up to 4 houses, and never build a hotel.

Then if someone else is in money trouble and is forced to sell their hotels, but the stock of houses is empty so that they can't -- they lose.
> why dev salaries in EU and the UK are so abysmally low

American dev salaries are the exception. It's the rest of the world where they're not outstanding.
Shopying malls are still popular here too. You can cherry pick many examples of failed or failing malls. However there are also many malls doing great.
If you invest in a company that produces disinfectants, during a pandemic, you can reasonably assume that there's both demand, and that the value of the company is a function of their ability to produce disinfectant, how much inventory they have etc. - in fact, this can be measured / inferred through their financial reporting.

Likewise, if you invest in a pharma company that produces insulin, and there's a insulin shortage, same principle applies.

Or maybe you want to invest in some heavy machinery company, so naturally the valuation depends on how much their assets are worth. And how much they're making off their services in sales.

In any case, for all the above, there is some base value - some intrinsic value, which is possible to calculate.

Hell, even gold is predictable. If there's physical demand for gold (which there is), you can come up with how much physical gold is needed, at minimum.

But how do you calculate that for, say, bitcoin? I'm having a hard time coming up with anything. I can't point to any application which would require people to strictly use bitcoin, and thus driving up demand. No policies that require people to pay with bitcoin.

I guess one could argue that the hardware needed to mine bitcoin has a value, which could set some minimum for what miners are willing to sell BTC for - but otherwise it seems to be only supply and demand. It is the "demand" part which I find difficult.
Or maybe it's just that they aren't illiterate and know that US taxes must be paid in USD by law. If you want to call not going to federal prison "convenience" then make that argument explicitly instead of dancing around it.
I was not aware of the changes in MISRA-2023, thanks for informing me!

Also, that's great news to hear in case I ever want to go back to the automotive industry. :)
It depends on what time horizon. Transaction fees are changed every time the bitcoin moves - the management fee is charged 1x / year.
podcast is audio files and an RSS/atom feed somewhere. That's all that's required. podcasting is what a podcaster who publishes podcasts does.

the "spec" was made so that itunes - or whatever else - could fetch new content by itself and load it onto your portable music device the next time you synced it with your computer.

Now it's a push notification on an app on your phone that a new file is available to listen to.
Rock Parrot
One result of that incident and the others described in the Wikipedia article is that insurance companies in Japan have become more diligent about checking that pension recipients are still alive. I am sixty-six and have lived in Japan for forty years, and I now receive regular annuity payments on some insurance policies I bought twenty or thirty years ago. 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.

For the past few years, I have also been receiving a similar annuity from an American insurance company based on a job I had in the U.S. in the early 1980s. That company doesn’t seem to have any procedures in place to confirm that I am still alive. If I drop dead tomorrow, that U.S. annuity might continue to be paid to my bank account for many years.
I was surprised to see they were even still active, much less leading the way on reflection. Hopefully they will manage to stick around.

Anyway, such a pessimistic view of Clang/LLVM is unwarranted IMO. I have yet to see any metrics that imply their abandonment. Also, considering that Google is likely closer to 300 million LOC than 200 million, they really don't have a choice. Likewise for Apple unless they’ve given up on WebKit and LLVM for Swift.
like mountain bikes? road bikes? motorbikes?
can't they just put all the quotes on wikipedia or twitter or something
I’m just an avid ATC listener. I’m not a pilot, air traffic controller, or anything of the sort. I could very well completely off base. With that massive disclaimer out of the way, some of these changes really do come across as “we need to change something” meddling.
It's definitely a very technical challenge. I have learned a lot since I made the switch to 100 GbE. My website regularly needs to handle more than 100k connections per server, the bottlenecks become very apparent at that scale.
I think there is some truth to this for sure, it doesn't mean you're hiring practical / driven people, it means you're likely hiring people who are good at rote memorization.
yeah, that lines up. We have three malls in our area. Two are dying and about to be shut down. The third is flourishing and always crowded even in the winter.
I guess it’s most-but-not-all part that got me confused. The are parts re-exported Manually? I guess that works
> As an American I don’t really use that many cutting edge tools from Europe on a daily basis. Maybe my Miele vac.

Keep in mind Europe exports more to the world market than America does (and more of them are goods versus services). Like yeah, if you live in the US you probably use more American-made tools - that is not true for the rest of the world.

Just looking around my kitchen now - my knives are made in Germany; my coffee grinder in Norway; my toaster in the UK. Then it's mostly made in China (air fryer, microwave, kettle, pressure cooker). The coffee roaster I have packed away is made in South Korea; the 3D printer on the kitchen table is made in Czechia.

I don't think I own a single kitchen tool or appliance made in the US.

EDIT: Actually, yeah I've got an Aeropress made in the US.
The US also pays significantly more. Unions change the risk calculation for employers, and the result will be changes in compensation, and often increased costs to consumers.

Also unions in the US have quite often rewarded seniority over skill and effort, making them less attractive to high performers.

Early on in tech I outperformed all those I started with, and was able to make significantly more as a result. My friends in union jobs (electrician, auto plant workers, ..) did not get any such opportunity to shine, and they even had to strike (i.e., no pay) when the local shops decided they should. They're not allowed to work outside jobs, they have a terrible time starting new shops, since the existing union power brokers like the control over their employment.

I looked into moving to the UK, and saw how few startups in the EU become big, how hard it is in most countries there to make new businesses compared to the US, and decided against it. The EU is ~450M people, the US is ~330M. Now look at how few companies in the EU become worth 1B compared to the US. That low ratio also applies to smaller (and larger) companies.

Increased benefits to workers for one facet of employment is not free. Laws adding costs per employee to an employer are not simply paid out of magic money.
It can be both expected and infuriating, no?

I otherwise really like the Apple Watch, and it doesn’t bother me nearly enough to switch to a different smartwatch.
> externalizing their negative effects onto society

Those US products are in common use in Europe, too, with the same effects. It's not illegal to create the kind of products Google and Facebook sell from Europe.

The main difference is not the relationships between companies and consumers, but rather the relationship between the companies, workers and the government.

> gig workers

I remember reading a book about this when in high school (in the 80s, though the book was quite a bit older), written by and from the perspective of the unions, where they argued that the during phases of growth, unions DID hold salaries back, but (according to themselves) this was more than made up for during recessions.

In the 19th century, the factory workers had a "gig economy" too, where they would often have to work on a day-by-day basis, and would show up at the gates of the factory every morning hoping to have work that day. If there were not enough workers, they could ask for very good salaries, but if there was a surplus it led to collapsing wages AND a high risk of no income at all, ie even worse than the Uber model.

This is precisely why many companies are trying to make regular dev roles as interchangeable as possible. By minimizing the dependency on individuals, they make their own bargaining position much stronger.

And when you stop being an employee that is valued for your individual contributions, and become an easily replicable "resource", it may very well be in your best interest to unionize.

However, there are externalities connected to unions, as they DO tend to stifle innovation, lowering all boats.

If worker well-being is a high priority, but a country ALSO wants a dynamic economy, one may want to look to Denmark, where most of the "safety net" responsibilities are moved from the employers to the government.

That requires a taxation level a bit higher than in Germany, but may be part of the reason why wages are significantly higher, and only exceeded by special cases like the US, Switzerland and Norway.
I'm an early millennial and even I feel that the very capable smartphone totally fried my brain. I tried to postpone having one for a very long time because I knew I was prone to screen addiction since my first 486. Now I'm in a point in my life where it's very easy and socially accepted to stagnate my life, so my fried brain is everything I need to get by. But kids still need to grow, the fried brain must hamper them so much more.
Here is a nafarious interpretation of events:
(I assume we all remember how Alphabet, in order to drive Chrome adoption, sabotaged youtube when a Firefox-browser was detected?)

Only breaking for new FF-versions will give the untechnical user the impression that FF broke through an upgrade.

So I call this another not so feeble, but very evil(yes I think we expect nothing less of them right now), attempt of Google go tighten the grip on the Browser-eco-system.

Not the least that it only impacts FF on Android.

On Android the means to inspect are limited without a computer(so they might hope for users to switch because they need access and then forget to switch back).
That is also, to me, a sign that it was intentional, just because how specific, browser-centric this is.
cheese and cheese food?
American cheese should just be american cheddar that's been made pliable for easy slicing. I forget the extra step or two, offhand.

Growing up i always heard "cheese food" isn't cheese, but if it's made from curds and whey...
Hydro IS renewable. If you need an example of hydroelectricity done right, take a look at e.g. Switzerland.
This post on Glommio is insightful - "Glommio is a cooperative thread-per-core crate for Rust & Linux based on io_uring": https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/introducing-glomm...

The key insight being that in this model "locks are never necessary", which is huge source of efficiency when working with sharded data across multiple cores.

> Thread-per-core architectures are friendly to modern hardware, as their local nature helps the application to take advantage of the fact that processors ship with more and more cores while storage gets faster, with modern NVMe devices having response times in the ballpark of an operating system context switch.
I would never have expected it, it's such a nice company
it's funney yeah. lack of empathy is correlated in psych studies with increase in power over others. people with less power need to be more empahtetic / in tune with other's feelings in order to get their needs met. makes sense. can realted from my childhood! :) haha
The integration I've seen work that's simple to implement is to have a button for "show comments" that loads a particular mastodon thread, and then if people want to comment they need a mastodon account and can comment on that thread.
Yeahh, understandable, I had to read the linked articles twice to form coherency. More time than I would have invested normally, I only did so after reading your comment xD

Makes me wonder if inner-monologue type stuff is even useful to post to the internet (something ive wanted to post more off because it sucks less energy from writing motivation). Takes more effort to parse as a reader though...
AI Courthouse: Plead your case before the honorable AI judge
On the other hand, the highest paying professions don't have unions, even outside tech.
I definitely notice brain fog when exercising heavily or on caloric restriction. It's like my ADHD goes into hyperdrive. Probably great for hunting down food on the savannah though.
I mean, obviously. Its still not the topic of the article, or the thread based on the article
I’d feel kinda sad if bash.org wasn’t using Perl or something.
Thank you for the concern, I did indeed add it preemptively because of the project's name. The reason I chose "GodotOS" is because the project was initially intended to be a sort of tech demo for Godot's UI systems, and I spent most of my time in the official Godot Discord showcasing its development and getting lots of feedback. One of the contributors of the engine itself gave me the thumbs up.

Of course, if anyone officially from Godot wants me to change the name and general branding I'll do so quickly. Right now, I think it should be fine.
How much of an impact does the UAE and Turkiye seem to have within Ethiopia's leadership?

I find it interesting that wherever UAE and Turkey's interests collide (Egypt, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Serbia, Yemen, Qatar, etc) there's always some mutual jockeying.
As far as I can tell the ATC told the coast guard aircraft they were number 1 for takeoff but never cleared them for takeoff. They thought they were cleared and lined up on the runway, prepared for takeoff and even applied throttle just before the impact. Then the JAL aircraft basically landed on the occupied runway..
I think assistants / agents are going to be the big thing this year.

I was working on something at the end November that was proposing competent PRs based upon request for work in a GH issue. I was about halfway through the first iteration of a prompt role that can review, approve and merge these PRs. End goal being a fully autonomous software factory wherein the humans simply communicate via GH issue threads. Will probably be back on this project by mid February or so. Really looking forward to it.

Bigger, more useful context is all I think I really want at this point. The other primitives can be built pretty quickly on top of next token prediction once you know the recipes.
Well, they weren't 'Fujitsu' at the time though, they were still British company 'ICL' ('International Computers Limited') in 1999.

The post hoc insistance on using it's rebrand helps with the 'othering' of making it sound like a foreign company doing all the dodgy shit.
Do you write bash or PowerShell a lot?
Note that "no training on your data" is only for Team and Enterprise: https://openai.com/chatgpt/pricing
I'm presuming/hoping this developer isn't running javascript either, so they're completely unfamiliar with how to port typescript to their language.
I'm told this video is really well done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-hABbIseGk
Yeah but flash of unstyled content? Plus you need to somehow adopt only related parts? Selectors wouldnt match easily necessarily, e.g. decision to adopt :hover selector must be made somehow
Ok this was teasing me too much - I had to go ahead, find an RTX 4090, and whip out some quick code. 48 leading zero bits:

000000000000ff6b402cb2c12d4d5ec33b2d0d3ad8982835ede2dfeb669fc705 "Bonjour from mrb"

CUDA is nice. I had only developped for AMD previously. For the record the nonce+data that hashes to the above SHA256 is "000000000000000000003c81587599edBonjour from mrb"
My apologies. By 'hide', I meant hide visually (through `opacity: 0`) that keeps the space reserved to avoid CLS.
Well, it's been 15 years.

The question is more like: Are OK with government control?

Reminder - regulators reviewed SVB reports and found them adequate. Then apparently people found it's insolvent. Does it look adequate?

Do you like a system if bank can become insolvent if people withdraw their money?

That's presumably one of most competent countries in the world.
Given that he didn't provide any further evidence to his claim, I think it seems reasonable to guess that might have been an attempt.
Is your little switch flipped on the side of your phone?
I think they were the exception, the lay offs are likely execs realizing they can get the same or better by hiring someone remotely in a developing country to do the work.

Not saying this is a better outcome for anyone specifically, but surely it's compelling?
For anyone making this kind of money at an early age, don't spend it... invest it.

If you're actually making $1.2 million a year, invest at least $500k/yr.

Then if you need to take a pay cut later, hopefully the dividends from your investment accounts brings your total income close to where it once was.

Also if you're reading this wondering if people actually make this amount of money coding... the answer is no, with the exception of an incredibly small percentage of people. Expecting $800k comp is not realistic for 98% of people.
You’re suggesting that Microsoft should be done with Windows by now, are you?
Fair enough - your "no" vote is duly counted.

> But no, not because I say so but because it's obvious

Okay, so not because you say so but because you think so :)
Yeah like no slots.
Seven TPS was a theoretical maximum, it normally ranges from three to six.
We developers only go on ISO 8601 dates, which somewhat limits the selection unfortunately.
Sending some funding and weapons is considered dropping the hammer? What do we call it when the US actually commit troops to an engagement?

We're all lucky that the US hasn't dropped the hammer on Russia. A hot war between two major nuclear powers wouldn't / won't end well for anyone.