skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, I found out that us “olds” are not exactly loved (actively hated, more like), and gave up looking for work, after being laid off from one of the top imaging corporations in the world.

Pissed me off, something fierce, being treated that way (especially as I figured out it was being supported from the C-Suite). However, I have since realized that it was probably the best thing that ever happened to me.

I enjoy writing software. So much, that I will do it for free.

When no one’s paying me, I get to do it the way that I want to do it. No scrum standup humiliation sessions, no deliberately writing terrible software, so terrible programmers can understand it, no being told how lucky I am, to be “allowed” to work.
We would let them if they were low risk suppliers, just like we let Korea subsidize the global oled supply.
A good privacy policy isn’t long or hard to read. See for example the template that the EU provides at https://gdpr.eu/privacy-notice/
I complain about parentheses, and yet I'm building a structure editor[1]. Two complaints about parentheses:

- Parentheses obscure the structure of the language. When different syntax is used for different parts of the language, it's easier to visually scan the code. This is simply because punctuation/arrows/etc. visually stand out more than plain identifiers.

- Parenthetical languages have just as much syntax as non-parenthetical languages, it's just a shittier syntax. Try writing (let (x 1) (y 2) (+ x y)) and see what happens: it's a syntax error. Look at the indentation rules in DrRacket: there's let-like, cond-like, etc., because all of those constructs have different syntax. But it all kind of blends together in a sea of parens.

This weakness of paren-heavy languages is also their greatest strength, though. Since the syntax is so generic, it's easy to extend, and these language extensions can be indistinguishable from the base language. That's a big deal!

BTW, what structure editor would you recommend? Which have you tried?

[1] https://github.com/justinpombrio/synless
Given that people in this thread are angry at vertical integration, I would bet that Aldi would be the first hit by many laws.
I just wish the LTO-9 drives came down in price, and into the reach of consumers and small startups.
You could always pay for ad-free YouTube. Otherwise yes, not watching seems like the fair thing to do.
The enduring mystery of how water freezes
Would be more clear if impressive if could see what fraction of USA population is related to this one person.
We are on matrix or discord sharing art and performing for each other.
StackL: A simple stack-based language written in OCaml
Frontline (US) made this same argument in the Merchants of Cool. only thing missing are the modern actors like Youtube and Tiktok. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/
https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-merchants-cool/
> especially if they've been laid off multiple times.

Every fantastic senior dev I have worked with has been laid off several times. Our industry is not immune to companies failing. You shouldn't discount people just because they've been laid off.
There is a lot of randomness in linguistic gendering ... Czech genders are rather different from German genders, even though we are neighbours.

Der Frosch (M, "frog") vs. ta žába (F).

Das Messer (N, "knife") vs. ten nůž (M).

Die Tat (F, "deed, act") vs. ten čin (M).
I remember TinyLetter. I never had a newsletter that was read by anyone, or ever made a community of readers like the author quotes, but it served me well the few times I needed it. It stood out amongst the hyper-commercialized alternatives.

To me, it stood as a sign for what the internet could be: a place for useful, non-commercial (or at least commerce-second) products. And this hasn’t changed. There are tons of tiny services out there that give me a similar hope.
It depends on what you mean by memories. I'm not a fan of the Guardian as I've seen stuff editorialized to the point it conveys misinformation. This article is poorly written to the point the writer doesn't seem to understand the topic.

"Epigenetic memories" is different than colloquial "memories". The article seems to completely miss this. And of course people who haven't been exposed to that domain specific concept are likely to misinterpret it.
I believe Apple isn't doing any "trickery" either. They're probably just running a local (on-device) llm?
Grocery stores sell multiple quality products (generic/branded), and you have various quality of inventory based on the market the retailer is targeting. For example, Whole Foods/local higher end store, down to Costco/Trader Joes/Kroger, down to Aldi/Winco/etc, down to Dollar General.

Then you also have lower priced stores operated by immigrants that attract more price sensitive immigrant diasporas.

But broadly speaking, it would reflect the disposable wealth gap between buyers. With a widening income/wealth gap, I would expect there to only be a few viable markets to cater to, maybe even only 2. The source of the “problem”, however, would be the wealth gap, not the stores. The stores are a reflection.

Another issue is also technology and instant communication making it more convenient and cheaper to use fewer vendors. Shopping and checking prices is work.

If someone can drive to one big box store and get almost everything that need, they will choose to do that.
I recently discovered this store. Literally seems to be half the price of my local grocery store and even more important I’m not overwhelmed with choices.
Someone's trying to reverse-engineer the IWM, but they have not yet quite succeeded: https://www.applefritter.com/content/iwm-reverse-engineering
Somebody should make content selection algorithm customizable by users.
Downvote, really? Why? Explain.
Indeed there's no compelling reason to use C++ or Rust. It comes down to user preferences.

Quite frankly if you can't track the lifetime of your own allocated memory, are you even a competent software developer?
This looks to be an in-depth summary of "The Programmer's Brain" by Felienne Hermans.

I recently interviewed Felienne for my podcast and something a lot of people may not know is that this book was born out of her struggles to teach python to 12 year olds. Out of that struggle also came Hedy. A Multi-lingual learning language that functions as training wheels for Python*.

The whole journey she went on is wild story about rethinking assumptions about programming languages and education and learning.

https://www.hedycode.com/

https://github.com/hedyorg/hedy/blob/main/grammars/keywords-...
CPUs are imperative.
That’s impressive,

If you don’t mind can you share what have you built
Agreed... great community support, generally "just works" and even if you don't use half the features, it's a more reliable baseline.
Is there a good, real-world example of how we think epigenetics works? I've seen a lot of mentions that "epigenetics _proves_ that intergenerational trauma is real!" -- and at least to my eyes this feels like a stretch of the science. For instance, why are epigenetic effects inherited? Why is it not the case that in environment, the parents experience one environment and so some genes are expressed. (ie, epigenetics happens based on that environment) and then the children are in the a different environment, and so different genes are expressed.

Do I have a wholly-incorrect understanding of epigenetics? Is there a clear and simple example of an epigenetic mechanism?
Which "memory" are you talking about? "Epigenetic memory" is different, and it's related to, and influences, instinct.
Faded colors in something that's usually covered point towards a serious degradation of the insulation.

I'd recommend you get an isolation tester device and an instruction on how to use it by a local electrician. That way you can (relatively) easily check your house installation - not just devices but also the home's wiring itself - against danger due to insulations going bad, before someone gets hurt or devices start tripping the GFCI.

Speaking of GFCI, I seriously hope you and everyone else reading this thread has all their wiring protected by one. If not, please please please get it retrofitted ASAP, and if you can afford it, retrofit a combination of thermal fuse, GFCI and arc fire detector. Electrical issues are a leading cause for domestic fires.

> Guess: "Gas Seals" was a checklist item for that last service man at church. I think we have our gas stove, water heater, and furnace looked at every 7-ish years by someone from the local gas company.

Good, then you should be good to go (and it's crazy that the pipes, fittings and interior seals are still intact at that age and not dried out!), although 7 years is quite the stretch. Here in Germany, the norm is once a year for furnaces/water heaters - personally I had an emergency repair to be done as in well below a year the water heater went from "perfect emissions" to "dangerous CO levels". The cause turned out to be cat fur being sucked in and burning up, depositing soot on the burners.
As an IC this is exactly what makes 'fireside chats' with executives so unsatisfying.
Thanks for this — Perl 4 was my first serious programming language, and every five or so years I come back and check out what’s up. Seems like a quick raku tour could be fun.

One huge pain point for me in perl 5 was just how incredibly slow CPAN was compared to `go import`, like two orders of magnitude slower. I remember putting up with those times in the ‘90s because package management was a kind of miracle over FTP sites, but it’s a big ask in today’s world.

What’s raku’s story here, out of curiosity?
Hmm, my first thought was that Friday was purple. Tuesday is definitely blue though.
It's true, but knowing that Washington's great grandparents were English certainly cuts that down a fair bit.
True, but based on the limited info we have, Africa had a much lower population than either India or China even 1000 years prior to that.

Just sheer fertility of regions, navigability of rivers, etc, as a Civilization of EU4 player would put it, meant a "better starting position" for some :-p
Seeing all this stuff I can’t help but think that if programming doesn’t just come naturally to your brain such that you would need all this stuff, then you’re probably better off pursuing something that does come naturally.
The formality of programming is unnatural to many (though the impulse to formality and robustness as displayed in logic & math clearly is millenia old, however niche), but a fair bit of it is as natural as language itself, or magic.
> Sounds a bit pessimistic.

And legitimately so.

> It has never been that easy to create music, videogames, produce videos, comics, and distribute them. Nowadays basically anyone can do it, so the amount of content available is gigantic.

And they all compete in one giant global marketplace, which often undermines the viability of "local productions."

There's probably some counter-intuitive principle that infinite choice has a homogenizing effect. It's probably because people generally lazy, but historically have lived in environments with more barriers to that laziness that kept it in check (e.g. no one's becoming a solo game playing hikikomori in 1800, because they'd quickly become bored out of their minds). In the past local culture was unavoidable and required no special effort, because of travel and communication barriers. How the travel and communication barriers are gone, which means local culture requires special effort to maintain, and the lazy will hook into the homogenized culture that requires less effort.

> On top of that there are still countless communities, free or any monetized algorithms, thanks to forums and things like discord.

IIRC, forums have been dying off for a decade or more.
What about seeing Bofa?
they are trying to be like Adblock Plus
Wow you'd throw them in prison? Seems a bit much. I'd probably recommend one of a thousand other mechanisms of enforcement. At any rate, glad you conceded the other points. We found common ground and agree that the drug war was doing some good. I don't think I'll be eating any food that you've cooked though. I can't imagine what would happen if I sent you to the store for a ripe pineapple.
From the "Programmer's Brain" title, I was expecting something else.

It seems this might better be titled "How to think like a programmer", or "Skills programmers need to know" or somesuch.

I was thinking this was going to be about what programming (for a long time) does to your brain - how a programmer's brain works, and how that is different from how non-programmers think (about life in general). I used to joke that programming is a disease, not a career...
Where is "here" for you? The advice in the linked article comes from UC Davis - and I bet California grows most of its own - whereas where I shop in the UK imports cucumbers from Spain and the Netherlands as well as some homegrown.
The ether was considered to be the physical medium in which light waves propagate, much like air is the medium in which sound waves propagates. The Michelson-Morley experiment (and its successors) proved that it can't be a stationary medium - it would have to move together with the Earth; other experiments had proved that the Earth can't have a very powerful "drag" effect on it either. So, it isn't stationary and it isn't being dragged along with the Earth's movements - almost a contradiction.

Special relativity came along and basically gave an explanation of the workings and movement of light that simply didn't need to make any assumptions about the medium in which light waves propagate. The photoelectric effect, showing that light has a dual nature, either particle or wave, pushed the need for an aether to carry it even lower down. QM probably sealed that completely, with the Schrodinger equation as an explanation of the wave-like nature of fundamental particles.

I really don't think that this interaction between the spin of the Earth and the properties of photons has any true relationship with the notion of an aether. If you wanted to, it would be easier to call the fields in QFT as a kind of aether, I believe they share more properties with the concept.
The head of Gupta Media (friend of mine) started his solo journey with a layoff.

It really supports the perception of seeing a door closing just meaning you need to change direction and not to take it personally.
I've had a script for ADHD meds most of my life. Without them I daydream constantly. My parents thought I had a hearing problem because they would talk to me and I wouldn't know what they said because I was day dreaming.

I've had both adderall and ritalin scripts (both long and short term variations). I'm convinced that adderall is prescribe incorrectly. It is the most effective medication by far (there is one other that is basically meth, but nobody gets it), but it is significantly more prone to addiction and abuse. It's also harder on the body and brain. Many countries won't normally prescribe adderall for ADHD and they are getting along just fine. As an extreme example, and one I don't agree with, in Japan possessing adderall is illegal but they still prescribe ritalin.

Adderall should have been seen as a last resort medication. Like a doctor prescribing ketamine to help with your depression. Instead you can get an adderall script if you tell your doctor ritalin isn't working on your second visit.
How does one compile this?

EDIT: my bad, my source had a typo - it's as easy as you'd think:

$ cc hello.c -o hello
$ ./hello
> everybody's too busy reinventing its own abstractions

Isn't that the problem with Javascript too, though? Javascript isn't good enough, let's all use jQuery. No, jQuery isn't good enough, let's all use Vue. No, Vue isn't good enough, let's all use Angular. No, Angular isn't good enough, let's all use React. No, React isn't good enough, let's...
Show HN: Mirrord for Teams – a Remocal K8s Development tool
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Two years ago we created the mirrord OSS - a tool that lets you run a local process in the context of your Kubernetes environment, letting you test directly in the cloud from your IDE or CLI without going through Docker Build, CI and deployment. Today we’re launching mirrord for Teams, a secure and manageable platform built on top of mirrord OSS with extra features for collaboration and advanced use cases - all to make it incredibly simple to adopt the mirrord Remocal workflow broadly within the organization.
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Over-prescribed means people are receiving prescriptions who should not be, not that supply is artificially low.

The caps were in place before the pandemic, so they are not a "fix".

Did prescriptions skyrocket during the quarantine because we found a bunch of undiagnosed people, or because the relaxing of the rules made it very easy for companies to make a lot of money prescribing these medications to people who were struggling working from home?

Probably a mix of the two.
Reach out if you want to start a conversation. I'm thinking maybe a Slack for people at this stage. My email address is in my profile.
Interesting. I was given a similar "test" in high school, although the names given were Kepick and Oona. But the same preference was there: "kepick" with its "sharp" sounds favored the angled drawing, "Oona" the more undulating. There were some other questions as well, such as a hypothetical about which shape was male and which female (strong preference in the class towards "Oona" being female).

I don't think I'm alone in this: I googled Kepick and Oona and found a reference from a 2012 blogpost: https://nwccapstone.blogspot.com/2012/02/meet-oona-and-kepic...

So I have to ponder how bouba/kiki diverged into kepick/oona. Kinda wonder if some random schoolteacher remembered the study but didn't remember the exact names, substituted something similar, and then built it into a curriculum that got picked up by the education system.
I see what you mean but as I mentioned, my business is the business of doing things that haven’t been done before. You might attempt to argue that there is no way to be an expert in this line of work but you’re getting into philosophy at that point.
does this have the 2038 issue?
The US has no interest in actually invoking a draft. Our military has no use for mere cannon fodder. Even the most basic infantryman has to master a lot of skills. A bunch of draftees is worse than useless.

And that's especially true if "things really kick off with China", since that will go nuclear almost instantly.

There's little point to this bill, except to acknowledge that our wildly outdated notion of a draft also has wildly outdated technology. We haven't actually needed to make people sign themselves up for decades. That information is readily available and it can be done automatically.

Not that it needs to be done at all. We should eliminate it entirely. Or, if they insist on keeping it, to update it to include women -- another wildly outdated aspect of our 19th-century draft system.
It's intentionally misleading given that "memory" has a common understanding. If they simply wanted to keep the article approachable, they could even just simply write "they're analogous to memories, but don't work like memory as most people understand it."
> And you don’t drive on the right side of the road.

Well. There is nothing left to discuss then.
Yeah, wealth can be a great boon for developing talent. It's annoying for the rest of us peasants, but talent is talent.... A rich kid may lack a hard-knock life, which is great fodder for writing. But, she or he may be privately tutored in, say, world literature from a young age and given 1-on-1 access to great minds.
> are they in the process in reducing the lifespan so their products are replaced every couple of years?

My experience: swan-neck kitchen taps all now seem to be quite different in design from one-another. To replace a washer, you have to dive under the sink, completely dismantle the tap, replace the washer, and re-assemble the tap. And the new taps start dripping after just a couple of years.

So you have to hire a plumber; and he'll probably work faster (i.e. lower charges) if he's fitting a new tap than repairing an old one. So you might as well order a new tap before you call the plumber out.
Found this in that same thread, an IWM implementation in MAME:
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/devices/mach...
Is the ebook (on Penguin Random House) DRM-free? Are you planning an audiobook version?
Around here (Ann Arbor, MI) - I hear far more complaints about failed household appliances from friends living in houses than apartments. Possibly that's because the homeowners can't "just call Maintenance" to fix the problem. But I've also heard that many appliance manufacturers have "rental" models - relatively basic, but much more reliable - because landlords buy at scale, and don't tolerate unreliable crap.
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well, of course to reach feature parity you have to implement it somehow. the question how they do it is a different can of worms.

i am glad they stopped complaining and do their own thing. i mean, this is opensource and free software about.
MSFS can be used as a flight simulator but the default c172 is unrealistically easy to fly. That’s exactly the kind of thing you see in games which care more about fun than realism.

So people can argue around MSFS’s trim modeling, ground modeling etc, but the issue isn’t with the physics engine’s specific compromises it’s a more fundamental problem.