skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Appreciate you posting this. For what it's worth, I'm in the same boat.

I basically achieved my goals in life and am now very comfortable. I could just continue to work and keep up-to-date and find myself old and tired in short time.

I'm poignantly aware of this window of opportunity which is closing. I'm still young(ish), and still have some physical and mental energy... The question is what will I use it for? What would bring me happiness when I am old, sitting in a wheelchair, recounting my life?

As someone who has struggled with mental health most of their life I have vowed to never have kids. For many, children are the answer to this existential question. For myself it will need to be something else and I'm not sure yet what that is. To be honest, I'm worried I may never find it. I was lucky enough to find my first passion (software) but after so many years, the mind yearns for new experiences and to produce something of meaning, something I can be proud of.
Your calculation assumes that the other 60% of the time you get to keep your original investment, but there's a good chance that you lose it all.

This is also the calculation for an investor, and is not really relevant for an employee option holder.
Fair point, I guess I'm used to the old school Amazon mentality of modularized/decoupled architecture and spinning out internal projects.
My goodness, there's a lot of bat-sh*t-crazy wrongness in the comments, like almost all are directly and demonstrably wrong. Are they paid shills or real people actually that fact-free in other aspects of their life?

But that's why I don't read comment sections in newspapers.
That's exactly what they should be doing though.

Toyota calls it a "gemba walk" -- managers and even executives need to walk the factory floor and see problems with their own eyes, not through hearing reports.

With software, the codebase is the gemba, not the office. Managers don't need to be writing code, but they should be reading it. Otherwise it's like a production manager who has never seen the inside of their own factory.
How long before Nvidia patches this?
> Think of this problem in terms of how many people would need to change the way they do things.

Looking to the future, virtually the whole of humanity will drastically need to change the way they do things to cope with the changes in climate. It's likely too late now, but there would be far less changes needed if we stop pumping out so much CO2 into the air and thus reduce the likelihood of climate catastrophes.

> And how many financial interests (with the resources to actively lobby against change) would be affected too.

Putting financial interests ahead of the health of our environments is how we got into this mess.

> If you have an obvious answer that takes those two things into account I'd love to hear it!

You've framed the problem in an unhelpful way - you're asking for a solution that perpetuates unsustainable practices.
If you like this, you should check out the Chrome extension Clear Skies
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clear-skies/jkiagen...

I've been using it for over a month and now I pretty much can't stand youtube without it.
So much of being good at software engineering is non technical though, in ways I sometimes don’t feel things like how interviews are conducted don’t do a good job of screening for.
I don’t really understand what this looks like. I mean, when I worked in retail, I was at a place smaller than Walmart, so, maybe Walmart managers tend to be more hands off and need to make a show of actually knowing what’s going on in the store.

But I’d typically get some instructions and then be left to clean up or stock things. Tidying up isn’t that complicated or high stakes. Normal people know what messy and clean look like.

My favorite managers were aware of what the store looked like and could say “tidy up the pillows” or whatever if something needed particular attention. But the manager that came by with attention to detail and an intention to keep me on my toes? Nah, that’s annoying. And even in a pretty small store, there are a lot of aisles to tidy up. If a manager is known to be annoying they’ll also have to waste time looking for me.
Could you please expand on this more? I could really use the understanding!
Perhaps, could it happen "The Day After Tomorrow".

EDIT>

No need to worry, we have until 2100.

"The Coriolis force pushes moving water, in this case, in the Gulf Stream, to the right, away from the American coast. When the Gulf Stream weakens, less water is moved northward, causing water levels to rise inshore of the Gulf Stream, with models projecting a 15–20 cm rise by 2100 from this effect alone"

It will be pretty uncomfortable to live in Europe. Super Hot summers.

EDIT 2: There is reference to Europe being hotter in the summer

"The current cold blob is already affecting our weather, though not in the way that might be expected: a cold subpolar North Atlantic correlates with summer heat in Europe (Duchez et al., 2016). The cooling of the sea surface is enough to influence the air pressure distribution in a way that encourages an influx of warm air from the south into Europe. "
That is how GPL has always worked. Before AGPL expanded the scope to network services, only people with possession of a binary containing GPL code had a right to request the source. You never have to publicly disclose the source beforehand and you can deliver it by any means you choose with a media fee if necessary. Tapes and paper listings are compliant. AGPL doesn't change the requirements for source delivery.
I believe the Atlantic had an article about this awhile back and made a plausible case that a rising proportion of gun murders probably lowers the solve rate. Basically anything that puts some distance between the victim and perpetrator tends to obfuscate evidence.
fun fact: you can already have almost everything except /var/ and /home/ read-only (there are still some legacy problems in /etc/, namely passwd, shadow, group... that I think userdbd can handle, but are there because of backwards compat). You can add to /etc/ by using systemd-confexts and overlaying files onto there (and systemd-sysext for /usr/). ~~Tho you have to choose the software you run somewhat carefully~~ Lets rather say, the infrastructure is already mostly there for this to be possible.

I'd love to have a way to have root really only be a read-only tmpfs that is only used for mount points (specifically /usr/, /var/ and /home/) and symlinks (for example /var/home/ to /home/ if no separate partition is wanted).
> Author insists this is a problem with all package managers, that it's impossible to write a tool that doesn't behave like this

Is the author wrong? Dependabot functions the exact same way. How would you even go about solving this?
That's the exact opposite of my experience. I grew up on a farm, and as you might imagine it involved hard physical labor daily. I would 100x rather do my current job as a systems engineer. It's so much easier than working on the farm that I feel guilty sometimes, because I know that I work 1/10 as hard as people making 1/5 of what I do.
Yes; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globant
Yes, they'll most likely be private islands.
Honestly, it won't be too bad now that I think about it.
I'll add 1 more to the mix.

Subway fares for NYC [1]

- 2 fare increases in the first 60 years of operation.

- 17 fare increases in the next 60 years.

Note that even with the fare increases in the last 60 years, once adjusted for inflation, the cost of MTA fares were actually going down until 1984 or 40 years or so, when fares really exploded [2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_transit_fares

[2]
https://old.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/11u0s3z/nyc_subway_far...
This is a long article, and they take a long time to summarize their conclusions:

> In other words: we are talking about risk analysis and disaster prevention. This is not about being 100% or even just 50% sure that the AMOC will pass its tipping point this century; the issue is that we’d like to be 100% sure that it won’t. That the IPCC only has “medium confidence” that it will not happen this century is anything but reassuring, and the studies discussed here, which came after the 2021 IPCC report, point to a much larger risk than previously thought.

There are some maps towards the bottom of the article. To summarize: If the Atlantic currents do collapse, Europe will likely be covered by a glacier. Fossil records and computer models agree this could happen in our lifetimes. I first heard the alarm being sounded over this in the 1990’s (based on fossil records).

The last time this happened the process took 50-100 years to flip Europe from normal to ice age.
> I don't think they want to wave a magic wand and stop all oil/coal tomorrow.

Tomorrow is far too late. We should have started reducing our dependencies on oil since the 1970s.
I'm confused at what you are trying to say. As far as I can tell, it appears you are saying something like "don't quote religious texts in a way that makes them look like they have any claim on moral authority". And it appears to me that you are saying "moral authority", in this case, is a-religious and should not be related to any particular religion.

Am I getting this right?
Not murder, but the divorce rate supposedly boomed in China as people were stuck in apartments with their SOs. China's lockdown was much more harsh than the USA's, however.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-31/divorces-...
The enforced scarcity in the market is what makes sure the money is always enough to prevent you from relaxing. Imagine doctors were as common as McDonald's managers. At the margin doctors would frequently be taking a slight cut in pay to do something fun like sports medicine. Now imagine there was only one doctor in the world. Even if he longed to relax and do pharmacy, ailing kings would offer him mountains of gold until he almost had no choice but to see them.
What does this recipe spam really tell us? It’s a little harder to find a good recipe and it’s more of a hint generator than authoritative advice. But most recipes don’t need to be followed all that precisely. Cooks will make their own adjustments based on local availability of ingredients, what equipment they have, and their own preferences. For an experienced cook, these hints are usually good enough. If you get a somewhat different dish, but it’s still tasty, so what? Authenticity is overrated.

There has long been a similar situation for song lyrics. It doesn’t matter if you get a song’s lyrics exactly right. If you sing it in a little different way, that’s fine.

I’m also reminded of the situation with folk music where there are many variations on any given tune, where the tune came from is lost in history, and it’s fine.

This is how cultural evolution works. The remixes used to be done by people and now they’re increasingly done by machine. LLM’s are new, but Wikipedia is a remix, too, and so are social media and forums like this one.

When you really care about getting it right, you need to go into research mode. Follow the citations and find the primary sources. Stack Overflow is a useful source of hints, but also read the documentation, the source code, and do your own testing.

It’s more work. Most of the time we don’t need to do it because the hints are good enough, and when they aren’t, we can recognize that.

Search engines are still quite useful for research when you find the right keywords. You might need to switch to a more specialized search engine, though? They’re still useful even if they don’t have the enormous cultural impact of the default choice.
It signals to your body that you can sleep? So you stop producing whatever it is that makes you alert, attentive, energized.
It is still wrong and could have been trivially fixed by putting the stones in the centres of the 1x1 squares making the rectangles rather than at the corners. The fact that the artist had 3 stones left over should have clued him that what he did was incorrect, yet his fix was to make the piece even more wrong. A very powerful reminder that artists should never be allowed to make any important policy decisions, as they are totally bereft of logical thought.
That looks pretty cool! Bummer that it isn’t available anymore :(
You described the scam perfectly.
sbin is not, and was never, a security barrier.
We don't even have consensus on the existence of general intelligence, artificial or otherwise, so I think the linguistic specificity bar is set rather low here.
I agree that's a difference, I simply don't agree with your original hypothesis. The constant hunger for more and more worldly things isn't going to go away, or even get significantly better, if we erase advertising and social media from the world.
But the way it works per individual is that you have a 40% chance of "winning" and a 60% chance of losing your investment completely.

VTI carries the risk that your investment could lose value in the short term, but over a longer time period, I'll take VTI over stock options any day.
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From his Wikipedia article "Ballmer, the first in his family to graduate from college, attended Harvard University ... He graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in applied mathematics and economics in 1977."

He's certainly more accomplished even before joining Microsoft than most of the HN pundits that mock him.
> I find it interesting how nobody blinks an eyelid at the massive profits raked in by companies like Google, Facebook etc. but as soon as the ISPs that create the infrastructure that makes all this happen (and innovate massively in the process) want some piece of the cake everyone cries foul.

The ISP did nothing to earn any of the cake beyond provide me a pipe, and I already paid for that. I'm not defending Google's profits or calling them the good guys, I'm saying my prices shouldn't change because Comcast is jealous of Facebook. If ISPs get to tax Google and Netflix, they'll just charge me more, and I don't want that. If you sell shovels, you don't get part of the gold nugget profit.
Thanks for saying that.

Reading your comment made me actually want to read the article in question and I am super glad I did.

Emotionally, probably a best reminder of familial love in a world filled with indifference and often hate
The best devs I know possess the skills to be both fluid and precise in the proper circumstances.
No one was going to sue them for failing to stop a credential stuffing attack. There are things they could have done to mitigate it, but between the low damages (someone got to stream some stuff on my account for a few days, maybe?) and the fact that sufficiently protecting against credential stuffing is vanishingly rare as an industry practice, there was never going to be a profitable class action lawsuit coming out of this "breach".
Does that include mouth/teeth/saliva as part of the extended gut or are you talking stomach down?
Who needs subdirectories? Everything in /.
As an interesting counterpoint, a16z (the VC firm) recently released a new cryptographic system - a zkVM (zero knowledge virtual machine) that was a collaboration between academic researchers and engineers on their staff.[1],[2]

[1]: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/accelerating-the-world-...

[2]: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/a-new-era-in-snark-desi...
That's a really good point. After reading your profile, I'm tempted to ask if you've bookmarked any articles/books about that topic?
Convert any music library into a production sample library with AI
This is why I consider adaptive cruise to be close enough to FSD. Steadying the wheel is the easy part, I just want the speed taken care of as that’s the stressful part for me.

That said I’ve only had rentals. I drive a 2005 Tacona that doesn’t even have cruise control.
thank you for sharing the archive link. Didn't know it is possible to archive a non-public/paywalled content.
Your previous comment: dynamic programming will keep around previous subproblem solutions

Your comment here: Dynamic programming does not mean saving the results of computations

indiscriminately storing the results of computations

This is not something that happens. No is out there storing a bunch of stuff they don't need on purpose, running out of memory, then calling it a day. That's like saying "some people walk straight into walls, but in dynamic walking we go around walls!".

it is about saving the _minimal_ number of results, without having to recompute already solved subproblems later on.

Again, this is just what programming is some times. You save results instead of recomputing stuff.
The GPL and AGPL are two different licenses, and the clauses that require publishing source are very different. The GPL explicitly allows for the request based model, the AGPL (again, exact clause cited below in a sibling comment thread) does not. The AGPL also explicitly requires it be at no charge and be provided over the network.

Edit: Actually I'll just quote the relevant clause of the AGPL here again

> 13. Remote Network Interaction; Use with the GNU General Public License.

> Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software. This Corresponding Source shall include the Corresponding Source for any work covered by version 3 of the GNU General Public License that is incorporated pursuant to the following paragraph.
I was watching a video about Stanford long term happiness study https://youtu.be/IULhd1UuicA?si=6YezvfwZ5NE5ile6

The takeaway being what you mentioned. Having a long term loving caring relationship is the biggest indicator.
I’d say this means one of two things. Goldman already pivoted out of tech and wants others to follow. Or Goldman thinks tech has much higher to go, they’ve missed their entry point or want to increase their holdings, so they hope saying this will make a small market lull where they can increase their holdings.
Preaching to a colleague, I also work on applied research, very similar to you. I also try to implement papers on my own most weekends, a little coffee and POC haha, or "this will never work".
In the article it states they make 5 trips per year.
If you zoom out on the graph, 2014 was a local low point, then it recovered a bit, then it fell a bit. It feels like we are trying to find a new equilibrium that is not as bad as the 90s but not as good as the time between 2005-2015.
In the event of an emergency, you rely on initramfs.
Hmm, on the other hand, using religion for medicine might also be a confounding factor due to less diagnosis.
> Currently Flow-IPC is for Linux

Dang. I was excited for a brief moment, but support for macOS + Windows is mandatory for all of my use cases.

To be honest what I actually want is NOT "the fastest possible thing". All I actually care about is "easy advertisement, discovery, and message sending". I use localhost TCP way more than I want because it "just works".

Maybe someday I'll stumble across my dream IPC library.
Its hilarious watching a group of some of the smartest people on the planet still not getting it, over and over. It just sails right under their heads :-)

The nuts are discrete, point-like objects. But length is continuous, and so is area. The whole point of the artwork is to point out that its possible to confuse discrete objects with continuous objects, and confuse 1 dimensional objects like lengths with 2-dimentional objects like area.....and have off-by-1 errors, and double-counting errors...basically, you can make every mistake that it is possible to make.....

....AND STILL not realize you are wrong, because in this particular test case, the numbers came out to be what you expected them to be. Its saying don't do that.
Yeah, but tracking the monkey will only help you survive in there. It won't help fix the organization.

What fixes that problem is delegating the authority over team-sized problems to the teams, and structuring the organization so that larger issues are all contained over the equally sized management structures.

And despite management books all preaching that kind of organization, almost nobody does it in practice. A few problem-oriented organizations get the large structure right, but nobody at all gets the fine-grained delegation.
Thanks! Indeed when the limit is reached it doesn't generate further. That's not an issue with the premium plan though. I'm open to feedback on the plans and their limits though.
>> It's not a problem with confusing ordinals and cardinals; the artist's problem is, as others have said, a fencepost error.

Yeah, my argument is that it's a fencepost error only if the numbers of nuts are interpreted as ordinals indexing the vertices of a lattice on the Cartesian plane, rather than cardinals counting the elements of a set, while the artist intended them to stand for cardinals. That is what the anonymous contributor to the 360 blog, mentioned in the article above, seems to have seen:

"To my eye," the commenter continued, "the hazelnut grids look exactly like pins on a Geoboard, or lattice points in the plane. And given that perspective on this image, we see a 2-3-4 triangle, an obtuse triangle, and squares of area 4, 9, and 16."

But this is clearly only one way to see things and there's nothing to make it more valid than the other, except of course that this one leads to an error which strongly implies it's not the right view.

>> I suspect that what has annoyed people is that if all the hazelnuts are evenly-spaced, then the triangle the artist created is not a 3-4-5 triangle, it's a 2-3-4 triangle, which isn't a right triangle. To make it look like a right triangle, he's had to arrange the nuts with unequal spacing. He must have noticed that, and it should have annoyed him too.

Some other comments say something similar, but I don't understand it. What is the issue with spacing? As you point out it would be difficult to get a perfectly mathematically correct spacing with irregularly shaped solids, like hazelnuts. Which suggests that spacing was not part of the intended interpretation. Can you explain?
Your feelings are correct. The role of provider and protector has been largely taken over by the state. And fathers are much maligned at this point in most popular media.
One thing is that the rigid terrific schedule of the modern-day residency program was designed by a cocaine addict who made the structure to fuel and hide his addiction, so all doctors start out with a skewed sense of normal working hours.
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7828946/)

Another thing is the toxic culture perpetuated for allowing medicos to stroke their egos - toxic cultures about overtime are everywhere, but medical profession is a class apart.
So be it. Going 80+ at night might not be a good idea on most roads.
It’s totally possible that manipulating the sails and rigging is motorized and automated on these ships. Would be interested to see a demo of the operation of this ship.
I think I am missing something obvious. I apologize for being dense.

What does the fact that "there's zero difference between sbin and bin" have to do with mounting /usr read only?
Compared to 30-40 years ago, sure, but where is trendy now that you wouldn't go in 2014? I can't think of anywhere that's dramatically improved in that time. The southernmost parts of The Bronx, maybe?
Writing has always been a tough gig and maybe it’s gotten worse, but it doesn’t seem quite that bad? Aren’t some newer writers making money from subscriptions?

From a reader’s point of view, it seems like there’s plenty to read.