skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, it's too low, see link at bottom: my guess is the $2B number, inclusive of all granted but not vested, is the correct #.

In general people way overestimate the # of SWEs at Google relative to the employee #, even within Google.

I don't wanna get too cute in public but some fermi estimates including, say, number of employees per engineer at a 100 person startup, and a jaundiced yet correct view of how much is outsourced at a company with a lot of grunt level SWE work common to every company, bridges the multiplier from there.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1364742/000156459021....
There's still translators needed for legal stuff like contracts, official government documents, etc. Not sure how much of the profession they make up but it sounded like they were the only ones not dwindling in numbers before ChatGPT came along.
I seriously hope these "turbonerds" as you call them wise up and start doing their thing anonymously so that the likes of Nintendo can do nothing about it.
Logging Implicit Human Feedback
>I would like to see what the actual text of these policies are.

They aren't a secret:

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-401676A1.pdf
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Is it still there?
Octal on iOS also handles it correctly.
That's valid feedback. There is no clock, but there maybe should be. In this case, yes, Jeff and I had to PUSH. And that's a hassle. I'll ask around.
Yes, rodger that, wealth is irrelevant to money - a concept plenty of people grok with time.

Your logic appears poor to me: perhaps that is why you employ logicians - money is your solution? Money doesn't write software, people do. People's motivations are crazy complex: which causes good or bad software to be created.

> Nobody

Somebody: My guest today was working for $0 on two systems (one maintenance, one he is developing). Both were difficult and annoying computer systems with a complex userbase. He didn't seem to really want to do the job: yet he was doing it for free (well, actually it was costing him)! Why does he need money if he gets his needs met by friends and acquantances. His only payment appears to be friendship and good company and his internal satisfaction (for varied reasons). I don't understand his motivations but yesterday he had said that offering him money would strongly demotivate him. Illogical?

Perhaps your philosophical world view has little overlap with mine. I have retired early so that is a signal that my world view is different from most people's. I haven't recently needed to buy development time so maybe my opinions are stale.
The internet, in it’s current non-net-neutral form, is very popular.
I made a career switch from translation (JP > EN) into tech in 2022, and since ChatGPT was released very shortly after I made that decision I feel I got lucky with the timing. Many, many jobs are now "machine translation post-editing", which means you spend almost as much time manually checking and re-translating, but get paid significantly less.

Machine translation certainly has improved a lot, but still has the usual AI issues- namely that the AI confabulates details in places where a human translator would realize that something is unclear and refer to context, other parts of the text or external research for clarification. A common example in Japanese to English is that Japanese often omits pronouns, while the English version of the sentence requires "he"/"she"/"me"/"you" to be grammatical. A human translator can check this, but AI will often autofill whatever is the most common in its dataset, which could be completely wrong in context. So I think the risk with machine translation is that it can seem reliable and trustworthy 90+% of the time, but if you have no ability to read the original text and compare, you're rather quickly going to get caught out by something that looks like a professional, clean, correct translation, but is a total misrepresentation of what was actually said.
These customers bought a lifetime license, so there's no renewal. That's what makes this difficult...
Definitely some hallmarks of AI if you know what you're looking for. But I have to admit, that is more convincing than I would have expected. A bit more manual intervention to change volume and balance and I might find itnsignificantly more difficult to be certain.
You could in the 1930s, but I think we keep these laws on the books for cops. To give them something to do when they're on the job.
I will admit that the .NET ecosystem has gotten way better since being more friendly towards Linux users/environments and I used to code a lot of C#.

I love both Ruby and C# - I don't think one is better than the other. Ruby also has good interop with C. The performance of Ruby is good enough for most use cases. Scaling a Ruby app via multi-process scaling has worked perfectly fine without major issues for most use cases. The open-source 3rd party libraries in the Rails world have a certain "feel" to them.. as if they were written by devs that care a LOT about the - excuse the trendy term- DevEx that are often missing in the C# world.

Call it bias due to familiarity but Rails continues to remain the most productive option to bootstrap a web app/startup for me. Often I think most of the dissonance is simply due to difference in philosophy. Devs don't like Rails because its not "their way" and not that it is inherently better.

Pick the tools you like to use, most productive with, and most appropriate for the application - thats it. No need to nitpick on language semantics, tooling, or performance if those are not even major considerations for what you are building.
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-401676A1.pdf
Yep. The best retirement plan is to price-out and gentrify the locals in poor countries.
"burn a lot of incense" is a first hand experience here. Not a one off. You can't really tell me I imagine that. It's hard not to notice or even avoid.
Funny, to me these are the worst type of Onion articles, pandering to people on one side of a political issue. I think it's lazy and predictable.
I used to love that comic. I suspect I still will, but I'll know for sure after binge the 20+ years I missed. :)
"just that".... the newer legislation was made illegal by Republicans, and Republicans decided the 1864 law is still valid. This is how you roll back the country 160 years. And it's not just that this particular law is literally from 1864, it's that even new laws are mirroring these 160 year old laws. Many have no exception for rape, incest, or the life of the mother [1]. That's barbaric.

The reason that Democrats find all of this unacceptable is that Republicans have either failed to anticipate the chaotic consequences of their actions, or -- as they argue in court in support for jail terms for people who have abortions, and that doctors should not have exception in the case of life of the mother or rape -- that they intend the chaos and resulting harm to women. As people suffer and die due to their actions, it's not hard to see why rolling back laws to 1864 is objectionable to Democrats.

I appreciate you bringing up EU countries, but if we are striving to emulate them, we should strive to match their maternal mortality rates by providing adequate healthcare to pregnant people [2]. Instead, by upending abortion rights in this country, we are worsening these trends. You can't use the EU as a benchmark if you're not willing to implement EU-like healthcare and social services in the US.

[1] https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/a-revie...

[2] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...
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All the things that you said should be a reason to star wearing a red cap instead of making your peace with them.
It's copyright, the DMCA as well as expensive american courts and lawyers. Logic need not apply. Just send your take down and be confident that the other guy will submit to your will simply because he does not want to pay the costs associated with fighting it in court. Even when they win in court, they lose because they went bankrupt while the budgets of the likes of Nintendo and Sony were barely scratched.
How is it even possible for them to do this? Garry's Mod doesn't host the mods, do they? I was under the impression that Steam hosted the content, so they would have to send the takedown notice to Steam, not to Facepunch.
That would be fascinating!

Do you know any resources that document the transistor to logic gate translation?
AI is at TikTok’s core
Techno determinism. The belief that we can't choose not to develop a technology as a species, so various people decide they don't want the other guy to get it first. We all end up worse off. It's a kind of self-conscious, sometimes ideological, prisoner's dilemma.
Whatever marketing agency and ™&© corporate law firms convinced the Internet to regurgitate this line ad nauseam didn't get paid enough.
Try emulating Message Passing Interface. Could be lot more challenging though.
omw to "consologgi = console.log"
I've seen state cases that have come close to that. They're usually mass shootings, or someone ran over 75 people with a car.
The publicly stated goal of many (most?) Californian leaders is to get people out of cars and into public or alternative transport. Hence the last decade of lowering speed limits, raising tolls, adding "traffic calming" measures, reducing lanes of travel, not building more capacity to match increasing population, raising fees involved with vehicle ownership, reducing available parking, increased speed cameras/traps, etc., etc., etc. Raising speed limits would make driving a better and more efficient experience and thus would run counter to those goals and will never happen.
What is the ideal growth rate for a dynamically allocated array?
The best and most rational answer to the problem that is being discussed in this thread. The solution to sociopathic profiteering that destroys the society is not 'downsizing' and making peace with it or moving to poor countries and gentrifying the locals - its fighting it.
Ruby introduced language native fibers and actors since 3.0 and they work pretty well. Concurrency could still be better but I'm with the YAGNI crowd - unless you are building something that requires a ton of async you probably won't need it. If you do need it, there are admittedly better tools for the job.
> It's just that there are more descriptive and neutral terms available to us, so why not use them?

Because it's boring.
Interesting that poor people in say, Japan, don’t have these sorts of issues for the most part.
Douyin is available in the US iPhone app store?
Holy shit lol that was sooo funny.

“Never mind that Dr. Glickman screwed up and bought this colossal ditz of a receptionist more computer than she could ever possibly need for record-keeping at a small dentist's office.“
Are you also a fan of beer barrels from the American Revolution era?
Capcom too. An infinite amount of Mega Man fan games. Quite a few Mega Man bands making music, performing live. Projects that have been active for literal decades now. Do they issue silly takedowns and destroy all this culture? No, they invite them to play at their official events.

It's just corporations like Nintendo that suck. It's definitely not alone in that group. We all need to stop giving them money.
Ah, all the utterly useless knowledge about DOS that's taking up space in my brain.
It's 4 async calls, and it can be done entirely in the main thread so long as you use the async API. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileSystemW...
>X is not slanted. It's a <specific slant being described>.
You just proved the parent's point

> none of the defendants facing sex trafficking charges

responded to immediately with

> This sounds like an apology for sex trafficking

It's another formulation of "why keep secrets if you have nothing to hide", but followed with "and why do you support sex trafficking" for extra emotional impact (and libel).

If you really wanted to stop sex trafficking, you'd oppose FOSTA/SESTA[0]. Backpage was protective of sex workers!

But why let the facts get in the way of a good moral outrage?

[0]: https://decriminalizesex.work/advocacy/sesta-fosta/what-is-s...
>or that one justifies the other

That is absolutely the implication here.
BlizzCon 2024 has been cancelled
> The trick is that a normal distribution occurs when you sum independent, symmetric distributions.

It's not neccesary that the distribution is symmetric. You can try for example with 500 genes witn 10% of 0.00 extra height and 90% of 0.01 extra height. You will get again a gaussian but the center will be in 500*(.10*0.00+.90*0.01).
1. Other terms are neither more descriptive nor more neutral.
2. If someone has a problem with the term "sanity check", they are overly sensitive and they need to adjust to the realities of life. It is unreasonable to expect everyone to coddle them.
For anyone confused like I was, this isn't about mailchimp shutting down, but rather a company named MFJ, which apparently makes amateur radio gear.
I have a stack about a foot tall of copies i collected from the Obama era. Anyone idea what i should do with them? Perhaps donate them to the library as a public good?

They are still hilarious. My favorite is one where they pretended a Chinese ceo of a fish company bought the paper. It was filled with articles with bad statistics trying to get the common American to eat more fish, how wonderful the ccp is, and how weak and decadent the American people are. They also made the grammar terrible. Definitely riding the line with seeing what they could get away with!
Does this benefit FreeDOS btw?
AI let mpre people lost jobs again. Hope we can see its benefits for society soon.
[dupe]

Some more in the Business Insider article which is even more on point because they weren't "sure" if it was real: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40162523
Actually, I did use the table you posted to validate my interpretation was correct before I posted it. Searching for the string "53.4" will direct you to the following:

female incident lung cancer cases
smoking status
total never ever unknown
Asian | 296 (7.7) 158 (53.4) 103 (34.8) 35 (11.8)
For me, it was "Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over": https://www.theonion.com/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of...
Haha, good Lord of the Flies reference. Yes let's decentralize all the conchs, make them all local.

Though, due to positive feedback and winner-take-all effects in complex systems like human economies, I don't believe that's a stable equilibrium. The critical resources of systems will concentrate and consolidate over time. The question is whether there's any way to manage that in the architecture or protocol to minimize the resulting harm, or whether it's better not to try.
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Sounds like a false dichotomy between "cases that will always result in guilty verdicts" and "cases that the prosecution knew they'd lose but brought anyway to drain resources". You don't seem to recognize that there are many, many cases that could go either way, based on how judges rule about evidentiary matters, what the composition of the jury is, etc.

As someone who was a lawyer for years, and who has served on a jury, I have seen the ways that things can evolve in unexpected ways. IMO the vast majority of cases could go either way, depending on how rulings and jury composition turn out. Any system that doles out taxpayer money whenever the prosecution doesn't run the table is utterly naive. It would result in less prosecution, more criminals going free, and more victimization by people we didn't lock up.
Okay, I chuckled at the Ted Kaczynski signature, aka The Unabomber.

I assumed all the other "board member signatures" were similarly infamous bad guys but I can't figure out what they all are and when I search on Steve Hannah, he apparently actually was the CEO of The Onion at one time.

I agree with some of their points about it being a conflict going back hundreds of years. I personally think it's inevitable that war broke out given how psycho controlling Isreal is about Gaza's water supply.

I still probably am not the target audience for The Onion and won't really understand a lot of it. I was full-time homemaker a lot of years for an American woman my age. I did well in school. I value HN and have participated here a lot, but have zero friends, professional contacts etc via HN.

I don't generally "go along to get along." I try to avoid social friction by other means and the result appears to be I don't ever really fit in anywhere because I'm not willing to mouth empty agreement with the group consensus.

And, I mean, there's likely other reasons I fail to fit in anywhere but I strongly suspect that's a really large factor.
All those are forms of coercion and finite resources, which are artificial limitations that are naturally non-existent in cyberspace. What you are describing are vestiges of the physical world being forced upon the unphysical - it makes no sense.
Why not try PopOs? They don't ship with snap.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40160275
Nintendo is a very old company. Gerontocracy might be a factor in their culture.
Thieves adapt, there was an Australian shoplifting gang in London in the 1960s that robbed jewellry stores, art and high fashion outlets blind by dressing well and working as a team; building trust on contact and using the distraction of a "dirty hobo undesirable" | sudden argument | nuisance customer to cover lifts.
4 months seems on the short side to me. I'd expect even 6 months to be well within the normal range for things to start to feel generally normal after losing over 1 in 6 workers.
Why do people pay for webapps that - really - are just wrappers over PostgreSQL?

Why do people pay $100 to call out a plumber when they could buy a wrench and the washer they need for $10 total? They are irrationally invoking an expensive wrapper around the "real" business which is plumbing hardware supply!

Possibly you have a very tech centric view of what a startup is?

There's lots of ways you can create value and find PMF that a chat box or API alone can't reach. Marketing / reaching new audiences, design & ux, workflow, integrations, scheduling, oversight / moderation, testing and validation, trust, community building, regulatory compliance, etc etc etc.
Well, this is what happens when you pay your employees shit and don't have enough of them.

The solutions are straightforward, but retail will do everything short of actually employing human beings and treating them well.

If this provides enough opportunity, Amazon will eventually start shifting these goods at enough localized warehouses that they'll be able to deliver in less than a couple hours. When that happens, these retail stores can go bankrupt like they deserve.
There are less black and white positions: that would incentivize people settling for relationships they have doubts about or to stay in failing ones (being a single parent is not easy), and it’d be especially cruel to anyone with fertility issues. As social policies go it’d be much easier to simply allow more immigration.
My cheap little dell laptop is the most solid machine I have in my house and I haven't seen it crash yet and I half suspect it's because it's the only one with Intel gpu only in it :) . My tower machine can go a few days without crashing but inevitably it will whether it's 3 days or 1 week. Nvidia card. It's not often enough to really worry about but I've been thinking about switching to an AMD card, if I can find a second hand one reasonably priced.
Does this mean all the game modes are gone? TTT, Zombie Run, Theater?

Garry's mod remains the best bang for buck in terms of replayability and fun.

many many hours were spent on TTT
SF office sells for a 90% discount from 2016 price
Why don't Japanese people have those issues? I understand that the theft rate is much lower but I'm not clear on why.
I wonder if this has any connection to the appeal of rap music, and rap as a medium for spreading a message.
I dont understand how that supports the conclusion that it is out of proportion. It can be simultaneously true that mismanagement is a meaningful budget impact, and theft is a meaningful budget impact.

I think the more interesting questions are if the rates of theft are changing. IF it has gone 10x in 10 years, that might be noteworthy, no? If theft rates are concentrated in 10% of locations, that might be noteworthy too.

My national retail supermarket has profit margin of about 1% of sales (ticker ACI). If mismanagement was always 1%, and now theft goes up to 1%, the company will go bankrupt.
Barney Miller had an episode where a gal was delivering I♥NY buttons to hotel rooms for $75 per button.
TONS of it. Everything you could need. Need a key for Morse code? A Morse code trainer? An antenna tuner? Antenna? Power supply? Test equipment?

They had EVERYTHING.

https://mfjenterprises.com/

If you’re a ham this is sort of like CDW or NewEgg closing, but they’re #1 by a massive margin and well loved. No one else had the variety of stuff they did as I remember.
Thats exactly Russia's reasoning right now. What is essentially happening is that the US is the aggressor and Russia is simply defending itself from NATO expansion. I am not sure why everyone is just bashing Russia without thinking for 2 seconds about this topic.
Another reason I’m hoarding incandescent bulbs. I bet you’ll still be able to get them in Asia. Meanwhile proles in the country that invented light bulbs will be stuck with crappy LEDs.
what you call “bias” i call “learning from mistakes.”

yes, i am biased against putting my hand on a burning stove top.
Self respect and respect of others.
From the article: "There is more another function that dynamically modifies code, but that is horrible for reversing – perhaps later ?"
I'm not a Ham, but my grandfather (W8IGY) was, and I credit him for letting me know a larger, more technical community existed "out there" than what was apparent from the small rural town I grew up in the pre-internet days.

Ham radio's time has come and gone, but I still treasure the memories of listening to him talk to people all over the world.

MFJ shutting down is likely one of the final nails in the coffin, but I'll be sad to see it go.
So long, Garry Browser
Right, and they abuse anti-trafficking laws as a way to punish people for having sex.
Harmonic on Android handles it as you said
I still refer people to the classic film review of The Sound of Music:

https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-looks-back-at-the-sound-o...
> There are Many things that cause lung cancer other than smoking.

Radon is the #2 cause of lung cancer in the US. There are high levels of radon in about 1/15 US homes.

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/lung/basic_info/risk_factors.htm
Anyone care to recommend a specific household lightbulb to stock up on while it's still legal to express our preferences in the marketplace? I remember how rough the initial transition from incandescents was.
The onion has always been political commentary. In my opinion, it is some of the most impactful, even to this day. Every time there is a mass shooting, the onion reposts the same article — linked above. All they do is edit the time and place. They also bump every other article they published to the front page.

It's incredible commentary on the fact these things keep happening in completely predictable ways.