skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but still valuable. It's a good read and I learned something new, despite doing exactly that project ~10 years ago :)
> The quality of your average tech worker has completely nosedived in the last 10-15 years.

I don't think your take holds water. It reads as a mix between self-aggrandizing and ladder-pulling, typically pinned on the so-called boomer mindset.

For the past 15 years you have seen universities producing graduates that are far better prepared for a cloud world in every single aspect of the business, and these graduates start off working in cloud-related projects. All frameworks that dominate front-end and back-end components were created in the past decade, and leverage the same cloud-based competencies that new graduates learn.

If anything, new graduates are heads and shoulders above veterans, and the only thing that they miss is two decades of work experience. That can be an asset or a liability.

I also add that the bulk of >15year veterans graduated in the 90s and 80s, which was a time when the academic world was still trying to figure out what it was supposed to teach in terms of software engineering, and most universities had basically scrambling to cover relevant topics. The graduates that went through those programs, unlike today's graduates, were woefully unprepared for the reality of software engineering. Two decades ago you could land a job by passing yourself as a "programmer" which meant you knew the syntax of a programming language such as Pascal or Cobol. That's the technical background of your average veteran with >15years of experience.

Therefore, I think you are entirely wrong. If anything, the quality of your average tech worker improved greatly in the last 15 years. Those who arrived in the field actually hit the ground running in today's tech world and often push over and replace much senior team members. Those who enter the field from non-tech fields have the technical chops ro replace both veterans and new graduates. In today's world you need more than claim to know C or Java to actually land a job.

Disclaimer: I'm a veteran with >15years of experience who worked at and was involved in the hiring process of a FANG.
Of course the Concorde was being designed long before that. Since the mid-60s. It was still a product of a care-free age.

At least in Holland the oil crisis definitely kicked off a moment that questioned the constant availability of cheap natural resources. Suddenly what was "on tap" was no longer there.

The climate part came later (but the environmental movement started around that time) but in my view it was the first chip in the belief of oil as the foundation of a long-term prosperous future.
It depends on the amount of severance and the person. Not sure if everybody would prefer to get a couple months worth of severance but have to go through the stress of quickly finding a new job.

I find that stressful even if I live in a country where I have the same level of healthcare no matter whether I'm employed or not.
How do you guys in the US cope with that? Is it as bad as it looks from outside or you have mechanisms to not lose all your healthcare if laid off?
This could be covered if there was a principle to respect the man in the arena. That should also discourage you-reinvented-the-wheel pile-ons.

The Ratatouille critic put this well - "We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgement. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read."
It's vlc, I doubt it.
They represent resources managed by the kernel, exposed to userspace via an integer handle. The already established convention for opening and closing files fits that use case. You can duplicate and pass that handle to child processes, and the resource itself is reference-counted for free. They are "abstract files" with specific behaviours, if you will.
Sure. Back when I partied, people were phoning me up, I took cabs from one party to the next. Every weekend, sometimes multiple parties on the same day. People came to hug me, some even literally said I was an "integral part of their party experience". Something about being easy to be themselves in my presence.

Your attempted ad hominem falls flatter on its face than a pancake mask at a hydraulic press factory. I've not only partied a lot in my youth and was very liked, I was deep in the scene, friends with the crews that organized the parties, the DJs, camera and audio techs, backstage, etc.
My wife was once fired with the argument that she was performing poorly. She counter-argued and said she was the most productive employee they had, that their argument simply wasn't true, and that she understood if their cashflow was tight and that that was the real reason. She offered to flexibly go down in hours at the convenience of the employer. She didn't force them to admit the real reason, and when they got their cashflow back and offered to give her full hours, she politely declined.
Right, sorry, forgot that. Edited!
Coincidentally, my current side-project is a tool to read, and then search, HTML input.

Searches expressions are a subset of the ones accepted by `querySelectorAll()`.
My guess is that they want packages on the Unity store to be usable on all platforms they support.

For example, if you build an app for iOS or visionOS, you have to distribute it via Apple’s stores, and there are technical barriers (code signing, DRM) that get in the way of an end user being able to exercise their right to replace LGPL components with modified versions. I mention this example because there was a big tie up for Unity and visionOS announced with the Apple Vision Pro last summer, but presumably the same applies to Unity games on consoles etc as well.

I can see why from Unity’s perspective it is cleaner to just forbid LGPL entirely, that way it is harder for their customers to mistakenly violate licenses.
> There is not much natural H2

There may well be, we don’t really know because we haven’t been looking for it at any scale.
Fundamentally it comes down to perfect scarcity. If you increase supply, the value in your share leaks into the new supply.

As far as clones. Network effect takes care of that. They would have to be substantially better than bitcoin to beat it and that is extremely unlikely to happen as bitcoin is close to perfect.
Sounds like you haven't seen a lithium or a sodium fire yet. After you've seen one, you'll handle batteries like you do explosives..
I can't say for sure now, but one time I was helping with a similar project for bank agents working "in the field." The core requirement was that data was strictly confidential and could not be processed anywhere but where the bank approved. These were scanned documents of a credit form application. The value added by this software is that internal processes could start right away after sending pictures. Using this application, the bank assumed the chain of trust was maintained. Without it, the credit application waited for manual form verification.

EDIT: I remembered one anecdote. At some point, we had poor accuracy with the white paper on a white background. I really liked how it was solved: agents were equipped with a branded black silk cloth to use as a background.
Ditch the Lie of Inaction
The time window also spanned two major US holidays. There’s always a sales slump in November-December, so that should have been accounted for.
Or hook up a battery in a trailer for the occasional long journey.
Portal 64 demake has been halted by Valve
Eric Lippert used to publish some good stuff, and Michael Kaplan.

Occasionally there is decent technical content from the SQL Server team [1].

[1] https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2022/07/21/improv...
In Unity games on platforms like Windows, Linux, macOS sure - but one of the advantages of their toolkit is supporting porting to many platforms, like PlayStation, iOS, etc where the platform vendor store model’s DRM & code-signing gets in the way of end users swapping out dynamic link libraries.
Funny you mention TikTok, as it became famous for recommending personally addictive content.
I’ve been reading a lot about simulation theory after recently watching the Matrix again, and hot damn does this fit right into that narrative…
> LGPL does require that you provide users the ability to link against a modified version of the LGPL library.

That's correct for LGPLv3, but I believe LGPLv2 is more nuanced.

With LGPLv2, I don't think it requires that you provide the ability. It has to be possible if you get access to the executable (which may require that you jailbreak your device, for instance). For instance, it is my opinion (not legal advice) that it is fine to use an LGPLv2 Java library in a proprietary Android app, because you can technically go replace the class files corresponding to the LGPLv2 library in your apk. It's not easy to do (unlike swapping a dynamic library), but it is possible.
Yeah - I was getting excited about having booked an EV for my Christmas holiday visiting family in the UK (with Hertz). Fortunately researching charging knocked some sense into me and I switched back to a ICE vehicle.

- Even though I was staying in their house there was no way I could charge it without buying an expensive cable, or risking some cheap crap from Amazon (blow up the house or the rental car perhaps?)

- Every damn thing needs an app (and an account and registration - fun if you don't actually live in the country in question). Seriously just put up a charger and a contactless payment reader. Imagine if every petrol pump needed an app to start? May as well go back to having to put pound coins in a meter...

- Oh and it was expensive anyway at 85p/KWh at public recharging points. So 78kWh * 0.85 = 66GBP ($84) per charge, say 230 miles to be generous. I gave the petrol rental back with 600 miles extra on the clock and put a bit over 50 quid in petrol in it.
> As a fun aside, those touchscreen controller and display controller are the same IP blocks as present in certain mobile iDevices, so if someone wants to use checkra1n to put full Linux on their iPhones, some of that work is now done for you ;)

> ... The ISP driver should be able to drive the latest and greatest iPhone cameras with just a little extra work on your part ...

Holy cow! Proper (mainline) Linux support for iDevices would be a dream.

I'm a big fan of postmarketOS. I recently nabbed a Samsung Galaxy A5 and put pmOS on it. Phosh, the mobile shell, renders its views at buttery smooth 60fps. Just about all hardware on the device is supported: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_A5_2015_(s...

The idea that pmOS could someday run natively on iPhones is really exciting to me.
If you actually read the very long ad, you’ll realize they’re promoting all the unrelated stuff, mainly their consulting packages. The only thing not mentioned is VLC for Unity, you wouldn’t even know it’s in the Store without clicking though. Nobody gets roasted for saying “by the way, you can get this banned product from <place> now”, this is some next level shit that makes people question your integrity and your one-sided story.

Edit: Apparently some people can’t understand what I mean by “the very long ad”. It’s everything starting from “Introducing the Videolabs Store”, not the whole article.
I hate that too but it’s worth noting that this is a bashism. It’s not a problem with some other alternative shells.
But that makes it somewhat entertaining :-) Have you ever heard of the German sports club "Bayern Munich" ("FC Bayern")? They've won all national titles since 2013! _That_ is boring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Bayern_Munich
How would Rust solve this problem?
Well, you can't say that and not link the project!
I wouldn't hold my breath. Patents seem to be granted purely based on the power and persistence of your patent attorney or team of parent attorneys.

Look at the Amazon one click checkout. Extremely obvious, there was prior art, how you can patent something as obvious as storing the customer's credit card information is beyond me.

The EU patent office at least had the brains to reject the patent for obviousness.
This may be surprising, but I indeed can "ask myself" (aka. think about) things, without explicitely verbalizing the question in my head. "Thinking" is more abstract, but it can be faster that way.
> Its a common talking point, but in reality that is just an opinion masquerading as fact.

Spoken like someone ignorant of history and econ. Rent control is such a screw up, over and over, that it's a basic part of econ 101, yet politicians and everyday people want and obtain it again and again, each time to the same outcome - less housing and less affordable housing.

Care to point out where rent control has been a smashing success, and compare that to places it has been a dismal failure? This is not opinion - this is fact. Or simply read some survey papers - google has plenty.

A good tax example is something like the Swedish Financial Transaction Tax [1], which was a major screw up, yet has been tried in around 15 countries, all with similar screw ups, yet is popular (see Bernie Sanders version from ~2020 for example). There are ample academic papers detailing all of these.

Also fact. Go ahead and explain how the Swiss tax was a success.

People ignorant of history and econ, and most importantly how econ works, continually repeat stupid ideas. Maybe this time magic will work because they believe it?

You are a prime example of this problem with your claim. Yes, there is some play in econ, but it's no where near something one can just wish away, yet people ignorant of it try.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_financial_transaction_...
WARN Act: Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...

Cal-WARN Act

https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/cal-warnact.html
It's not hard to find out this isn't true. Wikipedia might help
Adding feature flags to your Symfony app
It’s really tiring to see that every new finding shows us how everything is Eurocentric and problematic. What is the point of putting that vapid moralising into the article? It’s not even that true. Europeans have been searching for cities in the Amazon for hundreds of years and found evidence that they existed.

2003 - Lost cities of the Amazon revealed: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna3077413

2008 - Ancient Amazon Actually Highly Urbanized: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lost-amazon-citie...

2019 - Long lost cities in the Amazon were once home to millions of people: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132130-300-long-los...
Stable Video Diffusion https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-video-diffusion-im...
I didn’t read it that way. She merely waved away their attempt at defusing things by postponing any details (which they didn’t have). Also, she points out that Thanksgiving and Christmas were a factor—Nobody closes sales during those unless you’re in the retail business.
Sourcehut has a static site hosting service, similar to GH pages. I would be surprised if his blog weren't hosted on it.
There are model checkers such as nidhugg (C++), dscheck (ocaml). They take a test case and reach all possible terminal states by trying different interleavings.

Crucially, they don’t have to try all interleavings to reach all terminal states, making the enumeration quite fast.
What's your point? It's mainly drew working on a fully OSS project that he happens to host and accept money for doing.

Is your beef with people making money for their work? Or with Megacorps? Because sourcehut isn't one, by a longshot.
Wouldn't be surprised if Unity is developing their own multimedia engine they want to sell. Shitty practices like this is what makes me want to get into politics.
That would still not be taking out one's displeasure on someone.
"$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$"
This is called relief inversion
What if these filters are explicitly used as preprocessing steps when training a segmentation model? Would that at least save some epochs, if not increase accuracy?
Historically tape, but in practice these days it means "not on the same storage as your production data". For example in addition to a snapshot on your production system (rapid point in time recovery if the data is hosed), a local copy on deduplicated storage (recovery if the production volume is hosed), and an offsite copy derived from replicated deltas (disaster recovery if your site is hosed).

The same principle can be applied to cloud hosted workloads.
This is too simple. For large endeavors (building a plane) it is impossible to formulate all contributions to all quality criteria/cost and constraints into a technical engineering optimization problem.
Let alone when re-structuring and optimizing the company organization and processes to build those planes at the same time.
This looks good and I'm sure it was created to scratch a particular itch but a simple approach to this (in bash) is changing the $HISTFILE depending on 'context'.

I personally have a custom shell function inspired by virtualenvwrapper's 'workon' that sets the stage, so to speak, based on its arguments. One of the things it does is export various env variables including HISTFILE.

For me this is a more flexible way to introduce customisation (for instance one of the last thing my function does is look for a project specific function (name of which is env derived) and execute it ...and then it's turtules all the way down )
The argument was never particularly valid in the first place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFytB3bb1P8
There's another tool like this called horcrux, which I find to be a better name personally.
i think it’s a matter of training/habit. Also, back then (educated) people used memory a lot more efficiently; this might have played a role too… i.e. compose and edit the whole text in your mind before writing it down.
I'm not sure if I have inner voice or not. Do you really "hear" a voice? I can imagine concepts as well as construct whole sentences in my mind but there is no actual voice that I'm hearing. Is this what's called inner voice?
So if I ask you to form an image of a song, (or recall it in your mind): the "happy birthday" song. How vivid or clear is it? Do you have no clarity, some, or lots? is it vivid as the actual sound as if you were hearing it in real life? Do you notice the tune as well as the words?

Now change this image of happy birthday so that it's now a childrens choir singing it. Now change it so its by a bunch of cynical unix grey beards singing it in a convention.

How easy was it to change this image? Did changing it affect the clarity?
It feels good, right?
The term "Non-Player Characters" for fellow humans is incredibly condescending. Please acknowledge that every human is a player character. Albeit with a different quest and skilltree than you.
She does point out it was holiday season. Sales slow down.
I've been out of C++ for a couple of years now, but std::call_once is totally new to me, despite being in C++11.

It really is a language where if you got 5 different people to write a solution to something you'd get 5 wildly different answers.
If you look at the state of drones an robotics right now, the 90's were nowhere near that.

So to any kid that is interested in technical things, there are currently 0 things holding you back: You all of the worlds information at your fingertips, can order any electronics part for cheap, can build cool things with tiny computers.
Tech companies routinely report nearly their entire engineering division as R&D for tax purposes.
Sometimes called manas in buddhism. The discursive mind. Its incredible to me in the middle of all this mental unease nobody is talking about this stuff.
Do you really think that it would be a good fit? Apple is mostly a hardware company, although this hardware obviously needs some software and a part of it runs in the cloud these days. But at least my impression is that they are not really in the B2B market with professional services.

To enter the cloud market they are pretty late to the game ...
All I meant was that it "proves semantic invariants in multi-threaded code," which proves the concept.
To be fair, I have no idea how I could use modern techniques instead of the Hough Transform. One use case is the speed and RPM car dials recognition. Using the Hough Transform, it's trivial to reliably detect the slope with a high degree of accuracy.

Have vision models started offering better alternatives for such use cases? It's a genuine question; it's been a while since I last looked.
Layoffs usually occur within the wider context of a more cost constrained/austere environment.

Essentially the high performers understand that they'll be expected to do more with less (people, resources, benefits, ...).

Likely the layoffs won't affect the layers of grifters above them, so it becomes a question of whether they really want to work harder for little or no personal gain, just to support the layers above them who are making and being rewarded for the bad decisions, or whether the high performers should look elsewhere for something more aligned with their personal happiness.
I've been using Mcfly, Autojump (j), and Ag (a) for so long I'm basically useless on systems where I don't have them. Wouldn't change it for the world.
According to https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/111739257904872454 their network link is saturated with incoming data. No amount of rate-limiting, captcha, or PoW can address that.
> Like, who the hell targets a "company" because of an employee who works there you don't like ...

Too many. The internet hivemob is dangerous. Hell here in Germany we have a pretty nasty cyberbullying case around former Youtuber "Drachenlord" - his hater mob goes as far as to terrorize hotels where he's stayed (he lost his home as a consequence, it's utterly utterly insane).
Eerily similar to molecular nanotechnology rod logic proposed by Eric Drexler back in the 80's
The original poster claimed nixpkgs has the largest and most uptodate package collection just because of the sheer number of nix packages. That's a wrong conclusion and thus misleading. If you want to claim that you need to do exactly what you are asking. You need to make a direct comparison what software is available and what is not. From my experience nixpkgs is better then ubuntu but worse then Arch.
When it’s about Mathematica I want to share this excellent codegolf question that seems to imply that Mathematica has a built-in IsGoat function: [1]

[1] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/71631/upgoat-or...