skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Assholes would remove the ability to tweak a program.
Companies seem to be hiring and focusing on the short term, that is focused expertise that can hit the ground running, on a hard problem, right away. Certain fields seem to be more in demand than others (ML, infra, etc) - but to me the main pattern is companies caring more about short term gains than long term growth potential.

So I think it sucks to be relatively junior right now.

To me its sad as I think how well you onboard other team members is one huge differentiator in your dev culture, and points at a healthy team that can readily share knowledge. How its setup now may work for short term problems, but also creates a lot of "bus factors" where crucial functionality depends on 1-2 skilled people.

I also see a bit of getting rid of middle management / product management type layers lately. A sense of wanting to streamline / eliminate alleged "bureaucracy"
"If you hand is larger than your face . . . "
I think the discussion about simulation tends to fail to grasp couple important facts:

* The physics of the world that is running the simulation can be completely different from ours. Just like we can put together a bit of software that runs a computer simulation with pretty much any rules we want.

* Even if the world that is running the simulation has a similar concept of time as ours, it is not guaranteed that the rate of simulation is constant. So if our world gets more complicated the simulation rate might be slowing down and we would be none the wiser. Just like a computer physics simulation does not have to progress at a constant rate (in can render things faster when there is less entities and then slow down later when there are more entities -- to produce a movie that runs at a constant speed).

* We have no idea yet what are underlying rules that govern our world, let alone be able to infer anything about the simulation based on it. Claiming that quantum physics is because of limitations or bugs in the simulation is at the very least super premature.

I am careful not to say that we are or are not simulated and that's because I simply believe there is insufficient data. I think there are some convincing arguments for the simulation in the way how the rules seem constructed to prevent us from understanding what is really happening. But there might just be a good explanation for this just like there is a good explanation for general relativity that comes directly from understanding some mathematical facts.
ChatGPT for Radical Self-Betterment
For me the last straw was them just banning all Russian customers. I kinda get it, but I can't support that. I just want companies to provide services or goods in exchange for money. Not everyone has to save the world
can you make a "spawn civ" cheat button as well? please
Ask HN: DevOps founders pre-product, how did you make your first sale?
Currently building a codegen tool which performs a handful of codebase maintenance tasks within Java codebases. Interested to hear how DevOps founders approached devs and converted them before their tool was ready.
It’s super cool guys , congrats I’m using it a bit and I enjoyed it. Keep on going
This. Waiting to renew a domain you rely on a few weeks or months before it expires is asking for trouble. Credit card issues, family tragedy, health problem will hit you eventually. Use a service that will renew automatically and/or schedule checks in your calendar.
Right now, the focus seems to be on margin expansion.

Give them a few years at this rate, and they'll move to financialization.

A decade after that, they'll divest most of their assets and switch to providing services, like IBM, except they'll probably try doing it without adding a service team, which should make for some fun satire from The Register.
I think this still depends on the registrar in question. Most of my domains are .be or .eu and they (thankfully) renew just fine even in the last minutes of the last hour before they expire (that was close).
Careful with Cloudflare, they don't let you change nameservers[1]:

> Registrant agrees to use Cloudflare’s nameservers. REGISTRANT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT IT MAY NOT CHANGE THE NAMESERVERS ON THE REGISTRAR SERVICES, AND THAT IT MUST TRANSFER TO A THIRD PARTY REGISTRAR IF IT WISHES TO CHANGE NAMESERVERS.

So it's a no-go if you want to use Route 53 or something like that.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/domain-registration-agreement/
Is he trying to threaten American liberals with good public transport for their commute? He truly has become an American.
I was thinking something similar. Split ergonomic keyboard wherever you are. Could possibly do something to stick them to legs wherever it comfortable for standing.

I had not seen the Glove80 before, it does look pretty nice. Though I would prefer a bit smaller. I don't really use F keys, and use layers for things like arrow keys.
Then again, "infinitely" might not even be necessary (got carried away there).

Maybe our full universe fits predictably in some pre-allocated space of such an advanced machine/project and 1 million years on our part is a days worth of disk space on their side. An then there are retention periods too...

Regarding the "substitute for God" part... good point, but what if we really come up ourselves with such simulations? It doesn't mean we are gods (literally), it doesn't even mean we are ourselves in a simulation. Just that we found clever ways to simulate the process into replicating something that we judge as correct (ironically). Like a game nowadays but a trillion times more complex. Looking at how much AI improved recently, what is to say that 100 years from now we cannot simulate this and then cheat our future with data extracted from other civilizations, rinse and repeat, to evolve exponentially.
It is literally in the subheading on the Barclay's page I linked: "If you don’t qualify for a regular current account, don’t yet have a UK account, or you’re experiencing financial difficulty, this could be the right account for you."

Most people have an ordinary account like this one: https://www.barclays.co.uk/current-accounts/bank-account/

However, the general situation for overdrafts seems to have changed since I left the UK — I don't know the details: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/28/uk-banks-ov...
My photos linked above are licensed under creative commons, so feel free to use any. I'd be interested in helping with the project too and can supply higher res if needed.
> Can you name a time when letter writing was successful?

Yes, I’ve gotten text passes into federal law in America. People who call and write are willing to be organised by a primary opponent. Electeds take them seriously. (No clue for Britain.)
In the west they call it a "leveraged buyout".
The bar for H-1B is bachelor's degree from almost any institution. What you describe (top student from top school) does not represent the elegibility criteria for H-1B, or the profile of most people being granted that visa type.

H visa is not for world class top talent, that is the E visa.
They call them "arrow functions" and were apparently added in 2015 with ES6.
simulation hypothesis must be cut as per Occam's razor
I can confirm you need some kind of legal address (person or company) in France to register a .fr domain.
Gandi were bought out? By anyone reputable? I've got all my domains with them, I don't wanna get caught up in any shenanigans
For anyone hoping there might be a way to hack the simulation somehow... Ponder this for a moment: https://oimo.io/works/life/
Doesn't affect productivity? How could it not affect productivity? Between getting ready, driving in, finding parking, walking to the building, wandering around looking for an open place to sit, then reversing at the end of the day - I waste at least 2 hours that I could have been working. I'm not taking those 2 hours out of my non-work life. Those 2 hours are coming out of the time I devote to work.

Since I've returned to office back in September, I've talked to other human beings in person precisely 3 times for a total of 45 minutes all together. And only one of those conversations was actually related to my job. And, that one in person meeting later caused a problem because the meeting was not recorded so we could not refer back to it when we needed to (all of our zoom meetings are auto recorded and stored in a place we can easily refer back to them).

I know that there are some jobs where people do need to collaborate in person, but for those of us who do not need to do so, return to office is so stupid.
For Gen Z, anime is bigger than the NFL
> Probably even easier to put together the lambda calculus expression to evaluate all possible lambda calculus expressions

To wit, T =

(λ 1 1) (λ (λ λ λ 1 (2 (λ λ λ 3 1 (2 (λ 2)))) (3 (λ 4 (λ 4 (2 1))))) (1 1)) (λ 1)

is (denoted with de Bruijn indices) a binary tree containing all closed lambda terms. For example identity may be found at T 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0, where 0 = \x\y.x and 1 = \x\y.y move to the left and right subtree respectively.
I’m like you, for sure. The question is under what conditions does your personal productivity actually map to global productivity of the system.

As a trivial example, if your uninterrupted periods of work are stonewalling 15 stakeholders who need something from you, that’s locally good for you but globally bad for the org.

That said I think normal office setups are way, way past “collaboration” and well into “distraction” territory and if RTO’ers really cared that much about productivity they’d have addressed these years-old complaints (which have been extremely well-substantiated in research even prior to COVID).
>powerful central government force that doesn't understand research productivity

[1]*

I'm sure they understand it. But their goal in doing this isn't really research productivity (though it would be a happy byproduct) it's to obtain prestige, or its illusion. And/or be able to tell the people of your country how great you're doing. "Our country is a rising powerhouse in field X, in the top 3 in the world and still rising!"

It's internal propaganda. And externally targeted towards populations of other countries unfamiliar with the academic publishing system, which is most people. So for example the vast majority of people in the US that hear these claims by China, which are then echoed in click-bait headlines or simply taken at face value after a journalist checks something like the various HCR lists.

It can even be propaganda, not from China, but from other countries. One of the studies was funded by the US State Department to an Australian group, thus obscuring a primary influence on the results of the study.

Then even a single newspaper article can spark a dozen others citing it, propagating the message. All of these directly or indirectly rely on citations to support their headlines [2]

https://www.science.org/content/article/china-rises-first-pl...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-universities-continue-...

https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2023-03-02/...

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE72R6FQ/

[1] The quality of this comment will be measured by metrics that I made up myself.

[2] https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-leads-us-global-com...

*This comment was funded by a grant from its author.
My office is on a hybrid schedule and so far it's worked out pretty well. I think for a lot of people it's not a question of whether wfh or the office is 'better', but being able to have some flexibility to suit their own circumstances.
Why do you need to teach any of these civilizations fire and toolmaking? These are pre-civ capabilities. Toolmaking is natural for the species you even not considering being sentient. Like birds for example. Usage of fire is somewhat different but it would be learned naturally by the any sentient species.

Also, where are the probabilities for mass-extinction-event-volcanic-eruptions are coming from? It looks like they are very likely to happen ... I have 8/10 so far...
Oops, sorry, haha... The beauty & elegance of barely functioning product demos.

Totally forgot I jerry-rigged it to output German stuff only... A buddy showed it to a local company.

Thanks for trying, though, I really appreciate you took the time to click through that mess <3
It seems like once someone owns a domain there should be a limit on how much the price can go up per year. Where I live, property tax is done this way to prevent pricing people out of their homes as they age. Property taxes are reevaluated whenever a home is purchased by a new owner.

With domains being a digital home, it seems it would make sense to have laws in place that would treat them the same way.
Imagine if the White House, Congress, the Pentagon, etc. turned their lights off and went fully remote. Would it be good or bad for the country?
> Of course you can; it is in the very definition of the Table which is a manifestation of a Relation.

You said multiple relations earlier, which is what the comment was in reply to. Why the fliply-flopping?

> Relationships

Relation, not relations, not relationships. The struggle is real.

> all Relations are Tables

Yes, that's right, a relation is a table with additional constraints – a superset. Although not a strict superset as it does not carry ordering forward.
This bubble makes up large parts of the world wide pension schemes. Without rents to enslave the younger generations, the wealth will be extracted by other means, aka prices rising or services getting ever more expensive. There is no escape from this.
Sure, it does not list total compensation.

But it is still more credible than self reporting.
Agreed - just mildly annoying it gets invoiced separately instead of being bundled in a monthly line-item, but I'm sure there's some contractual reason it has to be that way.
Can thought encompass reality? We can't even prove that there is causality, we assume it.
I've always liked the idea that it's something like a state vector in a vector space with a "good" subspace and a "bad" subspace. There's a projection onto the good subspace to yield a (lower-dimensional) vector without the bad components, which is then perhaps embedded in another higher-dimensional state space associated with the afterlife. A fun toy model if nothing else.

Clearly I spend too much time thinking about vector spaces.
Text passed? Okay I think people are further removed from democracy than in the states, as I understand it lots of options are voted on by people locally in the US. We have zero direct democracy in the UK, only representation. There is zero way for me to get text put into a UK law as far as I am aware!
Since this is YC backed, is there a plan for monetizing it?
When clicking on the link from my office (which happens to be in a data center) I get this:

> whoa there, pardner! Your request has been blocked due to a network policy. Try logging in or creating an account here to get back to browsing. If you're running a script or application, please register or sign in with your developer credentials here. Additionally make sure your User-Agent is not empty and is something unique and descriptive and try again. if you're supplying an alternate User-Agent string, try changing back to default as that can sometimes result in a block.

These kinds of blanket bans on data center IP's ignore the fact that real humans do use them. As for user-agent, I'm using Firefox on OSX with no user-agent obsfucation plugins.
>TikTok is per view generating less revenue than YouTube

plus appartently there is not proper consideration for

>the difference in length!

Oh, well.

There's lots of unresolved fundamentals when revenue is not coming in per view or per length, but people are trying to use things like this as a KPI.

Misguideds gonna misguide.

For the vast majority of artists and music lovers, the ideal model so far is not a "business" model, more along the lines of the free sharing proven by the likes of Napster. Artists didn't make any money off of Napster, but most of them don't make any money from rights organizations either, or when they do it's closer to zero than it is significant.

The only way to surpress the free file sharing was to offer a paid service that was insignificant in cost to so many mainstream consumers that it was marginally viable, and go from there. Consumers paying for it in some way was the main consideration, not paying the artists very much. So this is all we got now and ever since.

Until the price rises enough to no longer be insignificant, and naturally triggers Napster-like procedures to trend back toward becoming undisrupted.

There's just not enough money for any significant middlemen between an artist and the lovers of their music.

With more than one rights brandisher "competing" by failing to lower consumer prices as the streaming services splinter, and trying to prolong a business model where the artist gets less than the majority of revenue generated, all that's got to lead to alternatives where once again the savvy consumers get everything free and the rightsholders and their artists get nothing directly.
I moved most of my domains from Namecheap to Cloudflare. I've never had a problem with domain names. But their renewal system is a little aggressive. They send a renewal email 60 days before. At 30 days it automatically renews. So I have a few domains that I forgot to transfer and have to wait another year.
Schizophrenia is actually not that bad, given that John Nash had it and still created game theory, one of the most important theories of applied mathematics that for example has use cases in economy.
> they are totally out of touch with how to actually communicate with their art

It sounds like you have a preference for a particular kind of art, and you’re expecting all artists to conform to that preference.

> If you tell me your intentions for a piece, what you are trying to communicate, and coming at the piece without that information I see nothing to do with your intentions, you have failed

This again seems to come from an expectation that all artists produce a particular kind of work. It’s possible that they’ve failed if measured against that particular preference, but that failure is relative to the preference.

To me, a piece that requires context and explanation is just another genre of work, and it’s a genre I appreciate. It can reveal that the creation journey often looks nothing like the finished product, and for many artists, the value of the work comes primarily from the process of expression.

This doesn’t have to be your cup of tea. But neither does it make the work a failure.
That's an interesting viewpoint. Can you name other public policy issues, where it's preferable that decisions are made by the emotional and ignorant?
As far as I can tell, the XP community pretty quickly converged on "let's use patterns to nope that scope"; for example "The Humble Dialog Box" by Michael Feathers (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/peerreynders/rendezvous/ma...).

(Also, TDD wasn't being hyped as a testing practice, but more of an analysis/design/programming practice: https://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~djanzen/setopics/testing/IEEE... )
if you have no connection to France you cant expect to be able to use that domain. The same is true pretty much for all national domains. Also eu. https://eurid.eu/en/register-a-eu-domain/brexit-notice/
Did they spend 10 hours a week in the office, another 20 across the street working at Starbucks and another 10 hours working at the local movie theatre, all from 9 to 5, and draw full time paychecks from all three?
Display Leadtimes Reduced (& We're Hiring an EE)
You could write a wrapper around something like https://github.com/cvolny/faketty, which can manipulate isatty() calls when used with LD_PRELOAD on Linux (and presumably DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES on macOS except on Apple's binaries).
Canada isn't so detail-and-rule-obsessed, but their civil service is friendly and inefficient. I much prefer the kind and well-executed Dutch bureaucracy, even as an expat here. Filing my taxes, even in a year in which I bought a house, took less than an hour. Canadian taxes were comparatively byzantine!
It's a class thing too. I grew up poor, but had the good fortune of getting a computer back in 1978. I have had a mix of manual labor and office jobs over the years, and obviously you can't WFH if your job is diving and fixing underwater hydraulics and electrical systems or machining parts for a space mission. I've done both. I think getting out of the house to a place of mutual effort will always be required and has societal benefits and individual benefits to those who would typically shy away from face-to-face interactions. I guess if your work product is moving electrons and information you can work where you want. I worked in the middle of nowhere a few times for years. I guess that's why I need to have physical work along with my mental work. Being on a phone or laptop in a jungle or beach paradise takes away from my presence there. At least that's my opinion.
The use case is watching something with people who are half a world away I think, not with people who are physically present with you.
Darn, I've completely forgot about coral cache. From the /. times. I remember it being slow but super useful.
How did you find out it was three companies?

I don't see how you could possibly give your full attention to one job when working for multiple at the same time.

I also wouldn't want an employee accidentally committing proprietary code/logins, which could be a huge security issue.

a 'side gig' to me means working on it outside of working hours, not at the same time.

This is just dishonest.
So France is different from Germany where you can get the address updated and you are supposed to do that. And proof of address is not a utility bill there, but either a form from your landlord or land register.
> Every time a trade happens, someone is "coming in" and someone is "getting out"

This is not true in a wash trade which is what I have repeatedly been saying.
try running a VPN at home and routing through that
I did not know about type branding, but it would also be possible to just use casting if you don't want the prefix at runtime:

type UserId = `usr_${string}`
const user = { id: 'bgy5D4eL' as unknown as UserId }

Casting would just need to be applied wherever the object is generated, retrieving from the database requires casting either way. It could be a footgun though, if someone working on the codebase thought that the prefix is actually there and decided to use it for a runtime check.

I wanted to add this to the article, but decided not to, since I think having the prefix at runtime is just as useful - wherever the ID occurs, i.e. in error log the type of the object is always clear. But that or type branding is something that is much easier to apply in an existing system indeed.

Btw. I submitted this on Monday 6 AM EST and now it is visible as submitted 19h ago? I totally did not expect to make it far, let alone /front when it initially did not get any upovtes. I'm curious how it works :)
I think it's relatively straightforward? Each mouse should be generating input events, it's "just" a matter of "Mouse1 += (100x, 200y)", "Mouse2 += (-3x, -5y)" and keeping track of a virtual cursor/pointer position that the "real" cursor should jump to depending on which mouse is generating input events.

...and for the use cases, having an extended desktop (eg: airplay to HDTV mounted on the wall) and being able to have your primary "desktop" mouse 100% glued to your main screen, but a secondary "click the play next video button on the tv" mouse is genius!

I'm pretty sure if somebody were sufficiently innovative they could paint a bullseye/target around the virtual cursors with some sort of minor performance penalty (a-la: xNeko - https://github.com/crgimenes/neko).
An old phone with parental controls set up to only allow a specific app to run could be one method to having a single-purpose device.