skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired."

This is literally my company. 8 bosses - all of who spending their entire existence in monitoring and PIPing engineers instead of using their authority to deliver constructive outcomes for the business.

There is zero growth mentality among them (except headcount growth for their empires). Can't even imagine how to steer their org to produce value.

Why the f will a IC care more about the success of the business than the 8 destructive bosses above them?
Something that I've noticed is that as a programmer what I make either works or it doesn't. Either my code compiles and passes the tests or it doesn't. However, I don't have control over the factors that facilitate working code (tech debt, reasonable deadlines, good architecture, etc.).

So it's the worst of both worlds. I have a lot of responsibility but very little power.

Compare this to someone in a soft skill role who may have to deal with kafkaesque bureaucracy but at least it is difficult to objectively measure their results. Or a blue collar worker who is just expected to put in their hours and effort.
... or because I don't want to stab people.

My dad told me once "Son. You don't get in trouble if you don't get caught". He was in real life expressing annoyance at having to punish me for something dumb, but my preferred interpretation is that morality transcends law.
Only they aren't rich. Places that are rich don't need the debt. Look up the average household income in Carmel, IN. Then compare it to, say, Darien, CT.

Now consider, Darien's per capita debt load works out to about 2% of the average annual per capita income. Carmel's per capita debt load works out to roughly 25-30% of its average annual per capita income.

Look, I have nothing against small places in the midwest. I'm from small town Wisconsin. So I have just as big an affinity for flyover country as anyone else. But few of the fiscal indicators are pointing in the right direction here, and there's nothing wrong with pointing that out.
I do too and I'm not sure what happens in your case but they do block Firefox _for calls_ arbitrarily (it's not that it doesn't work but that the moment it thinks you are on Firefox it refuses to try to work.

Do you maybe only do calls through Chrome? Or maybe you have a user agent spoofing extension (or similar) installed in Firefox?
What thesis are your trying to prove here?
The lack of "another dime" when you work extra is also something that prevents most people from going above and beyond. If there's nothing else out there, why would you care?

Working with my wife now to get her to start a business so we can keep my salary to pay the bills but focus on the business so our effort can have a meaningful impact on the bottom line.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Three_(management_consul...
Some distributions are definitely relatively stable over time, so you can absolutely make predictive statements about the future given past observations.

That's true for both biological bear population dynamics and movement patterns and for quantum tunneling bears :)
If it has been leaked, then show me the name of one of the hundreds of names of Afghan informants that has been leaked.

You can't because no Afghan informant names were leaked.
I would say even most computer jobs aren’t fulfilling. It’s always funny when companies want to almost bully employees into caring about their “mission”. Maybe if you’re flying to Mars, the mission is genuinely exciting. But it’s hard to care about some database tech or payments or ads or whatever in the same way. And yet people pretend because if they don’t it may negatively affect their job.
I never claimed they're filling up landfills, that was somebody else. I was just providing some more context, which as you note, indicates it's not as simple as "reusable good, one-use bad".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Three_(management_consulta...
I think this got so much worse during the covid pandemic. Really disheartening to see that when things get a little tough people become nasty and selfish, and create a new crisis within a crisis. I was naive enough to expect the opposite, that people would get some perspective and show some kindness, strength, and humanity.
> My father was an elementary school janitor.

If you paid me the same to be a janitor, I'd take that trade any day of the week. I've been a janitor before and while the job is not fun and has some shitty (pun intended) days - overall I was a better human being not being stuck behind a desk for 10+ hours a day.

Unfortunately our economy is what it is, so you can only really be paid for non-physical work these days. Thus a lot of folks who are doing quite well on paper are struggling internally living a life that simply does not suit them.

It's weird to live your entire life knowing you were not built to do what you do day in and day out to pay the bills.

Gilded cages are rampant in our industry.
Define slim? Many "skinnyfat" (no muscle, no fat) people don't like to move, and there are lots of muscular people that enjoy exercising.

Is that a function of bodyfat percentage? I doubt so as well. Ideal BF% in men goes from 8 to 20%, when I see lots of people above 20% in the trails or running/cycling around.

Besides, if the goal is weight loss, that can be achieved with caloric restriction and zero minutes of cardio. It's thermodynamics.

Move for the sake of it, not for weight loss.
I have nothing else to say than thanks for the writeup.

And you are most likely correct.

I think what I (and OP) wanted to say was that there should be a stage where you store the intermediate results of the aggregation as well. Unless you have that in an index already. And that also costs.

But you may be right in that it is possibly in the scale of a million so not a huge deal.
I’m excited to share PrepPro, an AI-powered app designed to help you ace your job interviews with confidence. As someone who has gone through the nerve-wracking process of job hunting, I wanted to create a tool that makes interview preparation easier and more effective.

I will be launching it on Product Hunt. IF you could hit on the notify me button. That would really help me out

here is the link
>So we can use explicit examples to demonstrate that certain proofs are impossible

Nonsense. The independence of an axiom shows in general nothing about what you can and can not prove. A statement can just be false and therefore unprovable.

If you want an actual example of an impossible proof you want to look at the continuums hypothesis. With is probably unprovable and probably unable to be disproven.

>Banach-Tarski Theorem is a result that proves that a "Measure"[0] cannot have all four obviously desirable characteristics.

The important point is that it can't have these properties on all sets. If you restrict yourself to specific sets, these properties can be achieved. E.g. it is false that you can separate a sphere into countable Lebesgue measurable sets which can be rearranged to form a set with larger Lebesgue measure.
Famine?
Oh, you will have to deal with bullshit corporate politics, but in a different way. You will get projects where there will be conflicts between the stakeholders and you'll be sitting there waiting for the final final final final decision to be made.
Polyfill JavaScript Supply Chain Attack Affects over 100k Websites
My initial thought was "why don't they donate it to another vintage computing museum?"

https://www.geekwire.com/2024/seattles-living-computers-muse...

> The estate previously teamed up with Christie’s for a November 2022 auction of 155 masterpieces from Allen’s extensive art collection. It was the world’s most successful single-owner fine art auction ever, raising a record $1.62 billion.

I'm sure they are expecting a huge payout here as well. Understandable but sad nonetheless.
when ours was down, we found clicking the ball helped... it immediately bounced up again.
Why YourStack Failed
Worth it for Eduardo Saverin.
Not the only purpose of your life. Just the only purpose of working.
I sometimes wait on pedestrians when turning right on a green and pedestrians do a little dance on the corner that makes it hard to tell if/when they're gonna cross.
Yep!

Nothing new for the old Beeb

They aready work as presenters on BBC news and other programs
I'm not sure that I think that burnout is directly related to a job being fulfilling. It seems to me that it is more related to having a lot of responsibility but very little power. Or somewhat equivalently, being in a position where other people can make your work much more difficult without you having much control over it.

In software at least, I think it could also be related to the pace of modern development. Agile sprints mean that you are constantly in a situation where things are down to the wire.
Burnout is on the rise not only because of work itself, but also because of mobile phones and addictive applications like Twitter and Instagram. I notice this my myself, my wife and among my group of friends (millennials, some with kids some without). People use these apps to numb themselves but it saps them of motivation and leaves them with little energy to do their normal jobs, especially if it's office jobs.
Yes and on top of all this the physical exertion that you are doing in a bluecollar job is really useless for health and that's the most positive way to describe it. I'd say that it's probably always very detrimental.
> which they're deprecating

and didn't really maintain for at least the last 2 years either

(it basically ran a often very outdated version of the web app + some AFIK unnecessary and buggy custom audio handling)
If it’s an app you use regularly that trade off could easily be worth it.
The future energy wars will be fought under the sea
The article's math is right. Yours is wrong. 100,000 * 140,000 is 14,000,000,000. 100,000 * 14,000 is 1,400,000,000.
Does anyone know if there is a way to convert the entire windows installation and all files into a Dev Drive format? Without losing any data or corruption
US Protestant culture. Work is tied up with morals and faith.
Don't treat all software development as "IT".
That analytics in the browser is about 10000x times more performant, and doesn't contest on a shared resource.
The one and only time I was burned out, there was no way in hell I was capable of that kind of initiative. Self-autonomy is one of the things it kills.

I only escaped burnout via an 'ah-HAH!' moment when reading up on strategy creation, and realised that I needed to start cutting down my workload to only what really matters and nothing more.

A startup environment is a terrible environment for anyone who cant cut through the weeds of the nice-to-have to see only the necessary.
Citation needed on "competition is brutal right now".

I'm seeing folks with their first and only workshop paper at an ACL track conference landing 150K offers starting at no-name startups. Some of these folks are not even 20 yet. Workshop papers are considered "easy" to publish, and are held in lower regard compared to main conference publications.

If it's "brutal" to compete against folks like this, I think a lot aren't cut out for this field.
> Society has to find a way to promote traditional lifestyles
Why?

If those lifestyles are so superior why do they need promotion? It's almost like people are not some homogenous blob, but individuals with their own wants and desires.
I don’t know that it is logical to say “promote traditional lifestyles” (i.e. plural) but then also say “don’t promote alternative lifestyles”.

What is the set of traditional lifestyles? Why that set? Who gets to choose what all the valid traditional lifestyles are?
Why didn't you list the actual "standard" approach of accepting that certain sets have no definable volume? This is the basis of measure theory, which is perfectly accepting of the fact that measures don't need to be defined everywhere.
Of course I'm doing it for the money. I don't like my work that much. (When I was younger, I used to say "Don't they realize that I'd do this for free?" But even then, I'm not sure it was really true...)

But when I was working in medical instruments, and they brought in a doctor who explained how our instrument turned a surgery that had a 50/50 survival rate into one that had better than a 99% survival rate... I was more motivated to work there, and to work well there, and not because I was getting more money. My work had a purpose. It wasn't just a job.
We find a soft re-bounce helps.-
Here's what I don't get. Almost everyone I talk to hates Teams. But they use it anyways. Nothing is stopping them from using Zoom or Google Meet, or some other alternative. Yes, these other alternatives have their own problems and tradeoffs. But Teams is just substantially worse than these alternatives. I'll take a Google Meet meeting any day over Teams crap.

Nothing is forcing people to use Teams, but they do. It can't solely be cause it's just bundled and free. People don't want to spend any effort to do better? Is the friction that high?
Comparing Detroit to Singapore is pretty silly in my eyes. The second derivative for Detroit has been good for about twenty years, but the city has been decaying around economic events and poor business diversification.

Connect the Q-Line out towards Oakland County and to the People Mover. Get that train going to the airport. There are real infrastructure needs here and it doesn't take a lot to imagine them.
Reasons for Technical Debt
Sick chimps seek out medicinal plants to heal themselves, study finds
"leadership solves"

Perhaps there is increasing number of psychopaths in leadership positions?
And even for Koreans the maximum payout is about 7000 USD which seems absurdly low for an app that seems to be riddled with various security issues.
It gave rise to measure theory, which is now an extremely important mathematical theory and the basis for analysis and stochastics.
They didn't mention the lifecycle of the database.

Because if it's anything longer lived than a week then it could be used by marketers to evade Apple's ITT for retargeting.

Which would be a huge win for advertisers and a loss for privacy.
> If the pointed to object has been replaced by a register, there might not even be a pointer to check.

I dunno if that is relevant. In the example you posted, simply removing the `static inline` leaves a pointer to check. The value isn't moved to a register.

We are arguing the cases when the source lines are there, but then are not emitted. In the code samples under discussion, the pointer values are still there and can be checked. Their values are not sitting in some register.

> (getter+ctx is just an hand built closure, so the code is far from non-realistic).

Qualifying with `static inline` is unusual, and none of the objections are using static+inlined code as samples of poor code generation. The examples being presented are a lot more real (as they are taken from existing project, not contrived to make an argument).
The humanity has been taken out of jobs. It's all about making an optimised monkey making machine. I think MBAs are destroying everything. See how Google is being destroyed from the inside. Boeing has pretty much been destroyed from the inside.
Also covered here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40790414
Have you ever been to a high school that didn't have janitors?

Peoples' lives are improved by what janitors do, even in high school.
That's true, you can't go cold turkey on food, but you can change what you eat.
Gorging on fats and proteins and high density foods (nuts, cheeses, legumes, olive oil, eggs, etc) will have a very different effect than gorging on fats and sugars (pastries, white breads, soda etc.)
Most things built 'out in the world' have hardly any business logic, they're all just CRUDs.

In enterprise this is obviously the opposite way around. It's actually super frustrating to watch discussions that ignore this, it's a really big problem on tech twitter etc especially, where people advocate for certain stacks or ways or working or whatever that make it clear as day they've never had to build a business system, they've just been building CRUDs, so they're incapable of understanding why experienced devs who have disagree with them.
We maybe[1] should, but we are not. AFAIK there's no relational query engine for IndexedDB.

Also, there are a lot more people who can get things done with SQL than using indexed KV-stores. KV stores tending to have horrible APIs doesn't help the situation.

[1] E.g. SQLite started with a gdbm backend, but later rolled their own because of limitations caused by it.
Right - so not a database, but a columnar analytics compute engine. Half of why we wrote arrow js was for pumping server arrow data to webgl, and the other half for powering arrow columnar compute libraries & packages like this.

For sub-100ms smooth interactivity, for data in a certain size range sweet spot, can be very nice!
But if they don't only care about the next quarter how is Gerald Q. Public, born 1958, going to retire to Florida after buying three McMansions (and selling them all at a loss), a sports car, and paying for three divorce settlements? Who are we to deny him the experience of moving down to Boca so he can get his maintenance-provided house on a golf course wiped off its slab by a hurricane before being rebuilt so that he can play golf and wife swap until the dementia sets in?

Workers, always thinking they make the value.
I watched Office Space for the first time when I was a teenager many years ago. It's funny how much my perception of the movie changed and how much it resonates with my work now, specially since the last years. One difference is that I have 10 different managers, which makes me dissociate enough from work without the need of any hypnotist.
"a proposed law that would force LGBTQIA people into conversion therapy."

I'm all for countries and populations determining their own norms and cultures to a large degree, but that's outrageous; it's 2024.
How to Make 3k-Year-Old Beer
What sort of "alternative lifestyles" are you referring to, and what are the negative effects of them? What are some "traditional lifestyles", and how might you suggest they be promoted?
With a full time job, you're spending most of your waking hours preparing to work, commuting to work, working, and commuting from work. There's not really much time and energy remaining to do something meaningful. Like it or not, your work is to a good approximation your life, the rest is a rounding error.
Creating Synapse: A Compiler for the Cloud
because the "regardless of reward" thing is supposed to be temporary until a decent human being above you realizes that you should be rewarded. If we all just did the absolute minimum then society and humanity would never get anywhere because you'd never know who a good worker is.
What AI Engineers Should Know about Search
Similar. My parents were teachers, and my dad had dominion of the Mac lab, even though he wasn't particularly astute with them. But, since they were idle in the summers, he was able to bring one home. First Apple IIe's, later early Mac's. I spent many, many hours screwing around in HyperCard.

We also got our first computer (an Apple II GS, the precursor to Mac. With a full color monitor!) via the "Apple for a Teacher" program where teachers were able to buy them at a significantly discounted price. I had won a creative writing contest for 3-2-1 Contact magazine where the prize was 5 games of my choice, and I was able to convince my parents I needed a computer to play them on during the rest of the year.
There is an increasing subset of people (think those that used to work in MS Access, Excel power users) who learned SQL in a business IT course or on the job. They don’t have data sized to fit in a DB, but they do want to do analyses that use window functions and things that SQL makes more natural than Excel vtables or functions. They may have to give reports to an equally technical boss who would like to play with the report and explore assumptions using SQL.

The data size is typically not large; SQL and integrating with cloud-based spreadsheets is the selling point.
Neko is one of the longest-living software projects
Would be awesome! You read a post. Is it s*t? Fart sound!
> I am kind of also waiting to see what navigation app will be the first to divert one's route so they pass in front of a sponsored store.

I've just gone through all 5 stages of grief regarding you comment.
I have a presentation on this topic.

https://presentations.clickhouse.com/meetup107/app/

Starting from slide 19, "How is it possible," explains why we need such a parody.
I have been to high school, and I am very grateful for all the adults that put up with me, even though I was not at the time.
The system isn't operating at maximum profit margin until the cost of components breaking outweigh the gains of overstressing them.
Well, there goes the evening. Merging configs trying out stuff.

Is this your own? Or just one you liked?
Not to over-parse, but "making a quick buck" is not synonymous with being profitable.
Silicon Valley big tech venture capitalists want unfettered tech market control
Add another vote for mise. For me it replaced asdf, pyenv, poetry, and direnv. Biggest thing for me is it _just works_:tm:.
> Here's what I don't get. Almost everyone I talk to hates Teams. But they use it anyways. Nothing is stopping them from using Zoom or Google Meet, or some other alternative.

Maybe in startups and small companies without a dedicated IT team, but an enterprise IT group will absolutely stop you. And Teams is very easy for them to administrate if they are already deploying MS products.
To be devils advocate here we also have to promote healthy eating, getting screened for cancer, or smoking PSAs. Just because something might be classified as "superior" doesn't mean that it will always self promote or be accessible.
I remember him being in a very mediocre shooter on the psx called Blasto. The game play was fairly meh. But the one liners were a lot of fun. I bought the game specifically because he was in it.
Thanks for confirming this, I appreciate the blunt perspective here.

The idea of even having to think about your own safety in that way is something I have never had to experience. I have stressed out a lot about money before, but I have never been in a situation at that level, and I will remember to appreciate that.