skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you start on a team, you produce negative value. On day one, you've already cost the company a significant amount just in recruiting, signing bonuses, and randomizing the other engineers who had to interview people for your position. Where I work, I would guess the break-even point is about six months to a year, so there's a good chance someone who leaves after like 1.5 years is still a net loss.

Maybe it's a good way to game the system, but don't expect the system to cheer for it. Also, if you run across someone who worked at a place for a year and they claim they completely rewrote and revolutionized a legacy system, blah, blah, etc. you should take that with a grain of salt, because of course that's what they would say. They're not going to tell you how they hustled out the door a month before the performance discussions because they knew the hammer was coming down.
But let's be clear what we are talking about here, so we can see who wins the bet:

I am betting against static typing, but on general logic. So I am betting against a static type system being the future, instead I think a general logic will be the future, not only of programming, but of all engineering.
First time I heard that freeing information is opposing freedom
The Work of My Father
Is it weird that the list doesn't include plain old Linux package repositories?

Downloading the dev version of libraries is ancient history.
Haha, are you talking about Sakhalin? Russia would never sell it, it has imperial/geopolitical significance.
Why? Rerooting will just only cause problems to solve a solution that doesn’t need to be solved.

The only places that are offended by how America-centric DNS is, don’t actually care since they’re already blocking anything they don’t like.

It’s hard to even have a DNS Root in Europe with how many European countries have normalized internet censorship. NetzDG would have caused an actual implosion of America if it ever existed here.
When they were bought/made? The problem I see is that stuff made after 2020 has significant lower quality. I read tons of review and later ones seems to confirm this.
I would imagine Obsidian offers better conflict resolution than general-purpose syncs, since they can safely assume certain things (like if you add two lines to different parts of the same file, Obsidian can safely assume you want those changes silently merged, but a general purpose service might report it as a conflict).

No idea in practice, though. Just speculating.
Normal humans?
The genes that support cognition are usually the same genes implicated in autism and adhd. Most variants imparting increased risk for those conditions are extremely common,(typical odds ratio, <<1.1). Some rare variants impart greater risk but those variants are uncommon, in part because of natural selection. If you do not have these rare variants, it typically takes a large number of common mutations before you get the condition. Thus natural selection effects against those rare variants are weak, and this ignores that there might also be beneficial effects of those common variants, either at the group level by increasing diversity of thought, or when appearing without other rare variants.

The take home is that it is much more complicated than single gene disorders where selection effects can have their greatest impact. Common variants impact on fitness are heavily conditioned on the overall genetic mileau.
Most (all?) open-ish 7B+ models today are finetunes of proprietary/semi-closed/bigbudget LLMs. There is no such foundation model for Mamba yet.
Given the current SCOTUS view on gerrymandering, judicial oversight of voting laws, etc, it's very difficult for me to believe that mandatory voting is constitutional.
I joined Vlang GitHub organisation after I was invited. I was aware of the "V for Vaporware" articles [1] that already existed, but at that point they were more than a year old, so things had probably changed. It didn't take long for me to disagree with the way things were moderated, with many negative responses by the moderators to the people with criticism (often valid). I'm talking about moderators calling people "idiots" in the general publicly available chat.

I loved the idea of simplicity, autofree, the UI framework, the browser, Volt app, GitHub alternative, operating system and so much more. But it just didn't seem to go anywhere. The syntax however was simple, I really admired it and by 0.3 they would have a syntax freeze, but I do see that some major syntax has changed after 0.3 multiple times. I left the same day another developer did, and having talked with multiple V developers shortly after, four of them said they agreed to my criticism about moderation and broken promises. Alex (the creator) wrote to me personally, but denied all the criticism which was mentioned in the "V for Vaporware" articles.

In the moderator channel Alex mentioned that autofree wouldn't be delivered in 0.3 and this became my main criticism in the DMs. He could not see why I found it important to notify the community about this, while also telling me to "grow up" for not supporting offensive language, referencing some of the ways Linus Torvalds has written responses.

Shortly thereafter he blocked me privately. It wasn't clear to me if I was blocked though, as Discord just told me I couldn't reach him. So I contacted one of the moderators, who told me that it's due to culture differences.

At one point I even searched in the Discord for messages by Alex that contained "this week", "this month" and "this year", also using "next" instead of "this". It came out to 50+ times that deadlines had been missed (closer to 80+ probably). Even with some major projects such as Gitly from 2019 if I remember correctly, which still isn't done.

[1] https://xeiaso.net/blog/v-vaporware-2019-06-23/
It's like how architect could mean anything from Powerpoint showman to principal developer.
>It’s like tipping, in the USA — so pervasive that it’s invisible.

Incidentally giving out fake dollar bills as tip is or was a thing. At least enough for a handful articles:

https://www.businessinsider.com/20-tip-bible-pamphlet-2015-1...
Yes. I said he should do this and that. That's more forceful and judgemental than I intended. I meant it only as a philosophy to consider, but didn't know how to soften my message while keeping it succinct.
did a search and first results were from "stack exchange sci fi", i was expecting something more nostalgic
Because selling off your land is probably the worst thing you could do. It’s about as short term as short term thinking gets. I’m not well versed in this area but I’m sure Russia regrets its sale of Alaska.
Sounds like you’re not American. We’re describing the US as the extreme anarcho-capitalist wasteland it is
There was a once famous story about Seymour Cray being asked, when they moved to a new building, where he wanted his office phone. He supposedly replied on the tree outside his window.

I've searched the internet and have no luck finding where I read that (many years ago now).

Seems like interruptions have been a nuisance to coherent thought forever.

Edit: found another source citing the phone story, but not the original i had read, i think.

https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/tef/cray/tribute.html
> a podcast is just an audio talk session, mastered and distributed as a digital audio file

Traditional talk radio uploaded to a web page would meet that definition. And that's the stereotypical genre of podcast content but there are others, like narrative fiction (Welcome to Night Vale).

I think "a podcast" is less about the specific genre of the content and more about how it's experienced. It's a podcast if it's time-based media you can subscribe to and experience in a variety of players; otherwise, it's sparkling media.

If you have to use the Spotify app, it's not a podcast. I see "plus" subscription options in the iPhone Podcast app, if you had to use that app, they're not podcasts; if you can use different apps but only on Apple devices, I'd still consider them podcasts.
A dedicated on call rotation also isn't a valid case for working after hours.

If companies want their infrastructure worked on 24/7 they need to hire 3 shifts to take care of it. If they don't want to pay for 3 shifts they should shut their business down after hours like a normal business, not exploit people by making them work 24/7.
> I dunno, sounds scalable to me. Repurpose office buildings with air conditioning for crisis use sometimes. People with air conditioners help those without.

Your "solution" is an example of what I meant by "easy on a scale of one person […] or rich societies", and no, they won't work for India. Not yet, anyway, as their power grid can't supply enough to run AC for everyone at the same time[0] in the event of a sufficiently wide and hot heatwave — and possibly never, as even the UK has measurable excess deaths during heatwaves (although caveat the UK has approximately no AC installed). On the plus side, India has completed the electrification of all the villages.

Remember, it's not just the national average that matters, if the bottom 15% can't afford it, they can't survive those events — 15% of India is earning no more than 125k INR/year[1], which at current rates is $1,508/year[2]. A few low income people might choose to get AC and have their friends over, but I think[3] it is sadly unreasonable to suggest that even a significant fraction of low income people could find a high income person with AC who will let them stay over for a bit.

Also, 45.6% are currently working in agriculture[4], and when these events happen, approximately all of that sector (in any specific location) has to stop working even if they have access to a building with AC and aren't just killed by such an event in their area. So do all the builders, though that's a much smaller sector. And when that happens, they earn less, so they have less money to spend on AC.

[0] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Growth%2...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/482584/india-households-...

[2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=125000+INR+to+USD

[3] On the basis of western culture, which may be an incorrect framing… https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5317-when-asked-what-he-tho...

[4] https://www.niti.gov.in/sites/default/files/2023-02/Discussi...
Yeah good point. But dreams are easily distinguishable from reality.

Religion is often indistinguishable from truth and reality to those who hallucinate it.
Given that most atomic weapons were created at a time with very limited computing power, it doesn't appear to be a requirement.

Iran can likely just ask Russia for modern missile and nuclear technology in their current relationship.
I mean the whole point of a country is people having emotional attachment to random areas defined in a map.

If you can buy and sell land that easy, the whole concept of country goes away.
Doing the job you’re paid to for the amount of time you’re paid to isn’t fucking coasting.

Coasting is what shitty PMs and managers do when their plans will only work if their peons are dumb enough to give them free labor.
Most humans are extremely aware of the difference between dreams and reality. If LLMs had similar awareness when they hallucinated there wouldn't be a problem.
I think they are saying that OKRs lead to enshittification.
What they know (at 50k ft) is...globalization, central banks, and the popularity of war continue to devalue all major currencies. Prior to globalization the resulting crisis from such things was localized. Not any more.

It's only a matter of time before the sociopolitical bubble bursts on a less localized scale.
Coroutines. What a lovely concept! It's a joy to watch all the CppCon videos about C++ coroutines, primarily by Microsoft folks. "Negative-cost abstraction" is such a nice hook phrase.

Friends at Meta mentioned to me a couple years ago that they started using c++ coroutines, which ended up being a big mistake because they had to face compiler implementation bugs, which must have been nasty to track down. At Google, we are eagerly waiting for the brilliant folks that are working on properly integrating them in google3/ to tell us when the time has come to use them.

This article uses Duff's device [1] to motivate structured gotos via macros as an implementation strategy for C coroutines. Duff wanted to loop-unroll this:

do {
*to = *from++;
} while (--count > 0);

which he did in this way (shortened for brevity) :

int n = (count + 3) / 4;
switch (count % 4) {
case 0: do { *to = *from++;
case 3: *to = *from++;
case 2: *to = *from++;
case 1: *to = *from++;
} while (--n > 0);
}

That is to say, he realized that he could use `case` statements (almost) anywhere in a `switch` block. The connection with coroutines is simple: One can wrap the whole function body with a switch statement, use a static variable for holding the location of the latest coroutine return, and label all co-returns with a `case` statement:

#define coBegin static int state = 0; switch (state) { case 0:
#define coReturn(x) do { state = __LINE_; return x; case __LINE:; } while (0)
#define coFinish }

int function(void) {
static int i; // function state can't be local anymore.
coBegin;
for (i = 0; i < 10; ++i)
coReturn(i);
coFinish;
}

Sustrik's take on C coroutines might also be an interesting read [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device

[2] https://250bpm.com/blog:48/index.html
Explaining Mamba is a rite of passage, like the monad tutorials of yore.
If you want to argue that porn is not materially distorting sexual behavior, you would have far more credibility if you first acknowledge there’s a range of outcomes.

Pornography absolutely reframes expectations and impacts behaviors. To what extent, that is a fair debate.
Unfortunately rsync can't see the galleries populated by WhatsApp.

I basically paused my backup efforts until I have the energy to configure a harder to use system like syncthing or similar.
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JupySQL Plotting with DuckDB (2023)
Ah that is true. It does make us depend less on JavaScript, although not to the degree I thought when linking to it.

Thank you for correcting me.
I made no personal attack. See Genters comment above. Asocial people care deeply. Often too deeply about others. However from a statistical standpoint of external observance both could be investigated by the very people that exhaust asocial people daily.

Asocial people don’t have time to educate every single person with a grave misunderstanding about them that they encounter so they choose to keep their circles small and valuable.

Furthermore it is all on a spectrum as Aristotle told us ages ago but with an average life span under 90 (while deteriorating) we only merely approach true wisdom. Rarely obtaining it.
Part of being senior is having enough business context to know when to pull late nights and weekends. If you're doing it because the gantt chart some PM created 18 months ago said project X would be done by next month but everything is off the rails, yes, it's foolish and unfair to work nights and weekends to make it happen. If you're doing it because re:Invent is in a month and your team has a new AWS service to announce, that's a much better reason. Or in the startup world, if there's a major client demo next week and you're quickly hacking in a new feature they've been asking for.
This is a CR to remove the average karma field in lobsters, a computing-focused discussion community. Why is it ranking highly on hn? Can somebody add more context?
The thread that proposed this change may be a better source of context: https://lobste.rs/s/ttmyvf

David mentions as an aside “this place has other mechanisms for dealing with [spam]”. A lot of the complexities around “karma” - far from all of course - relate to spam. But lobsters has a separate giant hammer for that nail, so the karma feature complexities for lobsters becomes quite different. Not necessarily harder or easier, but certainly not the same compared to a site like, say, SO, where karma is central to who gets to take what actions.
There is no point arguing with people unwilling to engage because their minds are made up...
It is way worse. Search for `local_key` in the source.
> antisocial = commits crimes and harms society

The GP conflates "tech workers" and "CS" but it's pretty clear that this is the target of the second paragraph: folks who are happy to do work that harms society without doing anything that rises to the level of mandatory treatment. That tendency has been a big part of the so-called "techlash" the last several years.

That said, I don't think this is unique to tech (cf. finance or politics).
As I said, we were behind mountains. Not to hide from the radars but to find a sufficiently large open space that we could be confident everything would fall in said open space and flat enough we could pursue rockets without worrying about being inhibited by the terrain. And with vegetation sparse enough that if something did catch fire it couldn't spread.
> And it has been communicated that you should not be using low level concurrency constructs for years.

Where has this been communicated? The first I heard that you shouldn't use synchronized statements or blocks was in these virtual threads discussions; and the popular IDE I use for Java at work doesn't flag synchronized methods or blocks as something to be avoided. The only thing I had heard about it was that you should avoid synchronizing on objects exposed to users of your library, since it would make it possible for code outside your control to also synchronize on that same object (but IMO synchronizing on arbitrary objects you got from somewhere is itself a bad practice, you should only synchronize on objects you control). And obviously, synchronized methods or blocks do not have the "fair" mode, which might be necessary (or good) in some cases.

(And before Java 9, stack overflows within the implementation of some concurrency constructs could lead to unexpected behavior, see https://openjdk.org/jeps/270 for details; this was never a problem with synchronized methods or blocks.)
Sure, there will exceptions to any statement such general statement. By and large the majority of mall-clock offerings are going to be of the low-end variety. And even when clocks are remotely synced, you still need somebody going through and changing the batteries. Much cheaper to just set them to 10:10 and leave them unpowered/unwound.
How to Achieve LLM Determinism?
Cynical take. Vibrant and abundant because we as humans haven't been there much.
A Girl and Her ViewBuilder
I get good use out of this browser extension: https://github.com/arantius/resurrect-pages

Sites are usually archived already.
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The traditional term is "great leap forward" .
They don't care about the balloon, merely the payload. Anything that would matter if something flew into it.
What do you mean by typing technique? Im very happy with current keyboard if we speak about typing. Those yellow switches sound and work great. They are smooth and about the right with force I need to press keys. No issue at all here.

Actually, if that keyboard was working correctly, it would be ideal buy. I like it design. The problem is, it gives wrong scancodes few times a day, like you press letter, you get WinKey. I bet its firmware related, because keyboard have option to disable winkey (Fn+WinKey) and it works. I mean, you press WinKey and nothing happen, but, when fake scancode is provided, it passes the check!

https://krux.tech/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/krx0110-krux-at...
You don't think there is a market for recovered cobalt? I see your point regarding recyling, but plastic just isn't as valuable as cobalt, given the relative difficulty of extraction.
Simple. While not all activities depicted in porn are damaging to all people, some activities can be damaging some people. Doesn't have to be black or white. Make sense?
> You’re a rare unicorn then, not the 99.9% case.

That's avoiding the question.

But it was just one hypothetical example. The point was that the whole false dichotomy of senior/junior depends on a very specific context of given corporate structures and doesn't make much sense outside that context.
Sure, as long as we can agree that the original statement is, that's fine by me.
I'm not really following your point. If the land/space is not the bottleneck but the grid, then that makes the idea of leaving old panels in place all the better. As the electrical output falls by the aging panels and underutilizes your grid connection, you could just top them up with new panels, up to the limit of your grid connection (putting them in the spare land you have by stipulation).

The question would seem to be, at what point is the marginal profit from the trickle of electricity from fully-depreciated old panels less than the cost of ripping them out & selling the scrap? Presumably there is such a point, as the old solar panels increasingly approach zero electrical output, if their materials aren't so worthless as to not even be worth the cost of scrapping.