skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Near as I can tell, the US is getting hit with massive manipulative propaganda BS, and a lot of people are burnt out and even having PTSD type reactions (See Complex PTSD) to other people because of it.

And unlike other countries, a lot of (in person) social community was already weak, and is getting targeted with this propoganda on
top of that.

So a lot of folks in the US pretty much are staying home because otherwise it’s just too much to handle. And that puts them in the ‘terminally online’ risk category, which also makes it worse.

Add on top of that shitty commutes, expensive daycare, comfortable homes (with AC and all the amenities), and it’s not hard to see why.
This is Europe's slogan.
One weird trick – Help to help, because we're built to help
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(Let us ignore our constant battle of us performing our own but seemingly semi-autonomous blocking of all brand-new accounts created just for THE lone one "like" of our post ... or an AI-generated avatar come-hithering us by twanging a siren call toward our lonely heart.)
Looks like Yale is 75k https://finaid.yale.edu/costs-affordability/affordability.

Harvard is 85k, but students still need a job https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/how-aid-works

Stanford is 100k, but students still need a job https://financialaid.stanford.edu/pdf/AW-Finances-Presentati...

Seems like those universities, with their huge endowments, could be doing more..
You all live in a simple world where complex systems are fixed in simple statements like software stack is all they need.
> adding too many layers of indirection makes changes just as complicated as if you wrote a big ball of spaghetti (oh, just propagate this field across all 10 layers!), and that your team needs to be diligent about making changes to the correct layers.

"Layers of abstraction can solve any problem in software design, except for having too many layers of abstraction" :-)
This goes both ways. While the US is certainly open to having scientific payloads launched by non-US launch providers (e.g, JWT) it’s strictly not launching military payloads from non-US spaceport or from non-US vehicles.

Given this stance, why should other NATO partners fold their own programs? The situation would entirely different if SpaceX was 20% German owned and the US would allow Ariane to compete for military payloads.

As an aside, both ESA and the German Armed Forces habe used SpaceX in the past and ESA, EUMETSAT, and the UK Armed Forces have planned launches with SpaceX. There is far from a dogmatic perspective in Europe to only use Ariane for launches.
> that people prefer working isolated from home

Not everyone is an annoying extrovert with no empathy :) You can go to the office, I'll stay home.

On a more serious note, commutes are longer and costlier in the US. And I think quite a few people simply moved house to cheaper (and further away) areas and it's not worth it to move back to within commute distance.
At-will employment. There's more jobs and it's easier to get hired in the US due to at-will employment. EU employment laws mean that employees are better off picking their battles and WFH is a losing battle for them, since it can be documented and used as cause for termination, which in other situations more difficult in the EU.
See also:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21613357
Gen X Faces Higher Cancer Rates Than Any Previous Generation
Not at the moment. I just want to keep scope to React for now. I imagine we will abstract the React part away into a plugin in the future.
Doesn't seem to reply to me. So I guess the limit has been reached?
There was a really horrible and thought provoking movie on this on netflix, I wish I could remember the name. Basically a guy is revived but they're still experimenting with the unrefined process so he lives as an experiment trapped in a hospital.
thanks for all the answers, guys.
I like the format, an idea to take unstructured data and try to turn it into a plan (could be a paid extra?) would be for a language model to take a stab of taking the data and turning it into a live contextualised overview per notes.

That's then taking the pain away from trying to organise the unstructured thoughts
> However, it's incredible to me to keep...

THIS. In feel-good daydreams, every nice-sounding thing lasts forever. (Generally with Imagined Good People Somewhere(tm) paying the bills.)

Vs. in the real world? - I'd guess that they outlasted >99% of tiny tech non-profits founded in 2007. And >95% of all non-profits founded then.
> It is important to understand the reasons for that negative correlation.

Agreed 100%

> If you do, your conclusions would be quite the opposite

This is where you lose me. Your statement here suggests the following:

1. That you know, for a conclusive fact, what those reasons are

2. That the reasons suggest something ominous

Furthermore, you haven't explained what you consider to be the reasons, let alone offered explanation or citations that would support why you think those are the particular reasons. You implied that the reasons are sexism and discrimination, but you left that quite open for interpretation.

Moving on, you then suggest that minority groups that do not pursue careers in STEM are "stuck in the past."

I have two daughters who are in their early, going on mid twenties. My youngest daughter is one of the smartest and brightest people that I have ever met. Obviously I'm biased, but this is a kid that found ways to get herself into all sorts of trouble as a toddler by solving problems that I would have thought no toddler was capable of.

In her late teens she had no idea what she wanted to do, but she expressed some interest in learning to code. Being a software engineer myself, I gave her all of the support and resources that I could. I offered to teach her myself. I bought her Udemy courses and books. I invited her to sit with me at work to see what what life as a coder is like. I made it as accessible for her as possible.

What has she decided to do with her life? She works in a professional kitchen and is on the career path to becoming a chef and possibly a restauranteur.

People with your attitude would snub your nose at her life choices, look down at what she's passionate about and claim that she is a 'slave' living in the 'past' because she's currently working in a low-paid service industry. You would then blame sexism or classism despite the fact that she was raised in a progressive, well to do family that gave her every opportunity to succeed at whatever she chose to do.

Of course, one anectode does not refute statistics. But you have not offered statistics. You came out with assumptions, accusations and a snobbish attitude towards people who would make personal life choices that you don't understand or approve of. The beautiful thing about freedom, however, is that no one needs your approval or understanding.
As long as you have low standards, LLMs will not disappoint. They are toys, and this is a toy example. This article is a good example of a certain pattern:

"I tried to do X with AI. Look! It seems like I succeeded!"

If you don't understand or have deep experience with software, then you have no professional basis on which to trust it. Neither I, nor has the author of this post, nor anyone else has subjected this way of using Claude to systematic testing. Is it reliable? Does the output fulfill the brief? Nobody knows. At the end of the piece, the author invites us to test it. The author expresses his satisfaction.

At one point the author says that LLMs are great at synthesizing data. This is something I have tested. The truth is: NO. They are not great at synthesizing data. They are systematically biased and quite error prone, especially for larger data sets. Only if you have no strong need for a particular kind or form of data, or if you have no list of attributes that must be true of the data, are you going to be consistently satisfied with LLM data generation.
This is where command/query separation is strongest regardless of onion/layered architecture. Your queries/reads are treated entirely separately from your commands/writes so you're free to include/exclude any of the joined data a particular query doesn't need.
it's kind of dumb that postgres uses a nested loop join instead of a hash join there. hash join almost always has the best worst-case behavior, and without stats it should be the default choice.
> And people are fine with it

The thing you are missing is compartmentalization. A modern high-speed train can hold around 1,000 people. This is the maximum number of people that could die in an accident (ignoring trains on other tracks or people next to the tracks). What you are proposing is essentially a train of infinite length, with virtual (software) coupling between groups of carriages. But then there is no limit to the maximum number of deaths in an accident. If you have 50 high-speed trains all traveling in this virtually coupled manner, a single accident may cause 50,000 casualties. People would not accept this, and no sane policy maker would allow it.

Note that if you consider derailments into neighboring tracks, you still have an upper limit of 2 times maximum train capacity, in our example 2,000.
You can use direnv in conjunction with sops or your favorite cloud-centric secrets management utility to automate secrets handling without writing any plaintext secrets (or any secrets at all, if you want) to version control.

.envrc is a whole bash script, so it can invoke command line tools that fetch secrets over the network or decrypt them from the disk.
Thank you!
2) is an interesting idea. I plan to add functionalities that can smartly suggest and categorize notes in the future. Thanks for the suggestion!
Also in the German train signaling ... https://www.eisenbahnbetriebsfeld.de

A Tom Scott video on it - The world's most useful model railway https://youtu.be/6TLcaJdsRr0
Unionize. Demand better working conditions.
I am not sure what results are there to reject? "Overpopulation exists"? "Overpopulation can be very dangerous"? "If you stress animals enough, they will start behaving strangely"? Those seem pretty trivial, perhaps even obvious.

There are also people doing parallels to human groups, but as other commenter said, it's not clear at all how mice social behavior relates to humans', given how different they are even in non-stressed environment.
Z-Library admins on the lam ahead of US extradition; officials shocked
Just got back a reply from the manufacturer that they cannot recommend any UPS. They clarified the specs the UPS should have which is 1200VA + sine wave + 120V.
Apple WiFi Positioning System can be abused to track people around the globe
A link to get around the paywall had already been posted.
I'd be curious if there are any statistics to back up that it's in general 'easier to get hired' in the USA. I've always assumed that 'at will employment' would make employees significantly more fearful of losing their jobs in the US.
Would be great to be able to use it with the hurl format to have a GUI for hurl: https://hurl.dev/docs/hurl-file.html
Yes, nvidia spends a lot of time and money developing software that induces demand for their GPUs.
Yup. Fascinating stuff really. Kind of like mnemonics for LLM's, if you squint a bit.
So I have owned a library for 6years or so that does constexpr JSON to data structures, JSON Link. There are a few benefits and in the near future with #embed it gets even better. The big benefit is that we can now get earlier errors and do testing in constexpr that gives more guarantees around the areas of core UB and in most implementations they add constexpr checked preconditions on the std library too. But, just because it is marked constexpr, doesn't mean it will be run at compile time. This also, limits the shenanigans that the library dev can do to get potential perf and work around design limitations.

In JSON Link's case, since it was using C++17 at the time, it forced me to think around the problem of allocation and who does it. The library does not allocate, but potentially the data structures being deserialized to will. In C++20 you can get limited constexpr allocations but they are good for things like stacks and eliminating the fixed buffers many devs have used in the past; which is a good thing on it's own but isn't really allowing one to parse to a vector at compile time(as in OP's example) for things that persist.

Where this will get really interesting, though, is when #embed is in the major compilers. It's mostly there in clang, with gcc on the way I believe. It will open the door for DSL's and compile time configs in human readable formats or interop with other tools(maybe GUI designers)

As for OP's library, I am not a fan of the json_value like library approach that treats JSON as a thing to care about when it is usually just an imp detail to move to ones business objects.

TL;DR
The big benefit though, is the ability to reason about the quality of the code in the library and have stronger testing.
The org structure and culture dynamics of large companies like AMD makes it very difficult to achieve quality results when starting from scratch. 665M$ might well have been too much money, putting too much pressure for results for anything valuable to emerge. A 665M$ acquisition means they know exactly what they are getting, and they are getting it _now_.
Using science fiction to discuss politics is like using the Starship Enterprise to drive down to the corner grocery.

Politics is small. Exploring the edges of reality is large.
> The last thing the US wants to see is for China to close the technology gap on this stuff.

China doesn't have to care about US IP laws and largely already doesn't.
I don't really find such science fiction pessimistic. In the way this "golden age optimism" is arguably just coddling humans with lies about the harm that they do, science fiction that critically examines the systems being built and suggests ways to repair. Ways to empower. Ways to unify against systemic harms in a way that includes all people. We have the entire solarpunk genre specifically for how humans can build a more unified, equal future.

I also disagree with this depiction of Golden Age science fiction. Ursula Le Guin and Marge Piercy were doing this well during this period.
Of course, there are a variety of roles that are heavily female-weighted: nurses, K-12 teachers, executive assistants, etc. So there are at least some forces driving gender preferences for roles that probably can't/shouldn't just be wiped out in the West.
It is really interesting how different people are in their preferred solutions. The thing that I've learned makes an application good for note-taking is a lack of features. Simplicity is key for this use case for me. Even on the desktop, my "note-taking" app is just notepad on Windows, kwrite in KDE, and a very bare-bones text editor on my phone.

None of this is even remotely a criticism of your effort. I was just pondering how different people can be in their needs.
You'll get a lot of answers. I think our poorly designed cities and the garbage commute of driving a car is a big factor. I take the bus in to the office & I love my commute; I just read a book for 40 minutes. Poor suckers who have to drive have a much more miserable life. I wouldn't wish a car commute on my worst enemy.

But I think, at least in the US, we have a much more combative relationship with our employers. Employers try to squeeze every last drop they can out of their workers with as little compensation as possible. Employers would rather spend $2*X on government lobbying to avoid having to pay their employees $X, just on principal; we select for & encourage sociopaths to run our companies. In return, employees rightly feel they should behave the same to their employers. "Employer wants me to spend 40 minutes in traffic? Nah, screw 'em, I'd rather sit home alone in my basement." Dunno. Seems bad to me, too, but I have a hard time blaming them.
> as this implies that men need to behave in a certain way, present in a certain way, think in a certain way to be considered men.

This gets brought up sometimes in terf talking points, but as a practical reality, it's nonsense. Every queer community I've interacted with has always been great about accepting gender non-conformity. The separation of "passing" from gender identity is an important part of recognizing that gender expression within a society is a social construct for good and for ill, and that a large part of gender presentation is play-acting in the way that society expects a man/woman to act.

"My gender is not how I act/present, it's what I am" is a common refrain in queer communities, as is the idea that you don't have to pass to be a gender, as is the idea that gender identity persists even when someone is in the closet.

In contrast, "we can always tell" is the 'gender-critical' talking point. To be very clear: it is not transgender people harassing butch lesbians for using women's bathrooms. It is the terfs doing that crap.

They phrase it as "my gender isn't whether or not I like pink" but in practice terf ideology usually ends up descending into biological essentialism and an omnipresent suspicion over whether or not women are "feminine" enough. In this very comment section, take a look at who is arguing that biological differences are sufficient to explain demographic differences and gender biases within LLMs. Hint: it's not the trans community :)
AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' – but it's too dangerous to release
> When was Arianespace in the lead?

Before the rise of SpaceX.

> For over 20 years, Ariane rockets dominated commercial launch—by 2004, Arianespace had 50 percent of the global market for commercial launches.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/what-can-we-learn-ariane-futur...
"About 10% of the global workforce will be affected ... the move is not meant to cut costs and that the company expects to re-hire the same number of employees,"

Sounds like Sasan is copying Elons approach to management
Banks in the US are _very_ insistent on the return to office mandate. Noncompliance would be met with termination.

Rest assured their goal is full return to office despite the current "hybrid" model they are pushing, and you are not important enough to them to keep your job while being civilly disobedient.
> Without explanation, Gascoigne said in closing, “Though Girls in Tech is closing its doors, the movement we started must and will continue.
Yeah me, ndd couldn't be happier about it. Let others slave away for such horrible employers.
Not me. I'm quitting because employer made the options clear. Either 100% in office or find a new job.
Yes! And don't forget to somehow encrypt the data on your SD cards, or do a check-in with the cloud to activate, otherwise your customers can make copies and give away all your software for free!
Yeah there was a theory discussed on HN a couple of years ago that superior qualities came from mixing in quicklime (CaO). I'm not sure if they've developed that and tested it against modern concretes. I guess it's hard to tell if they'll last 2000 years without waiting quite a while. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34280239)
Not sure if comparing salary potentials coming from two different socio-economic periods is useful or likely to mislead.

Tech and people versed in it were not common (to people outside tech) and so the high salaries would reflect that. Now is not the case. It was always going to be temporary. As people become acquainted with tech people, the magic vanishes, you see the code behind the pixels. At the same time, tech people themselves did cause this by making tech easier to understand and manipulate.

It's like a magician, the first few times, it is enticing and mysterious but after a while it becomes ordinary. Tech wizards are just like that.
If your dream is to restore Russia to its imperial greatness, there's an awful lot of EU countries that need to be gobbled up along the way, so France is quite likely to be willing to help a Russian-Estonia war even without NATO.

NATO is only a threat to Russia insofar as it poses an obstacle to Russia gobbling up its neighbors.
Unironically, Google Play Services

This isn't my simply having a go at Google, either. Google's assumption is that everyone is on a device released in the last 4 years - it's hard to argue with, and must be all but impossible internally, because the XDA Forums-adjacent geeks that root and ROM, re-flash and ditch GApps are a minority. The actually crazy ones that say "Google Play Services aren't worth it" are a minority of a minority, and by definition wouldn't show up in Google's stats of active devices; without Google Play Services, they aren't going to show up at the mothership.

So all the data they have indicates that people don't use slower, older, devices. So Google Play Services is allowed to be heavier, because packing more and more in is both more useful to Google (more data means better traffic predictions, better ad tracking, etc.), and likely easier (I do not need to tell HN that un-optimized software is generally easier and faster to write, and typically preferred by the upper echeleons of management). All this with, as far as Google is concerned, no downside! It chugs on a 6 year old phone, but people don't use those.

But even without rooting my previous phones, uninstalling everything Google via ADB gave them new life. The BlackBerry KeyOne, possibly my favourite Android ever, was binned for being slow on release. Dropping Play Services let me use it till I switched to a Linux-first device last year.

It's not Android - it's Google's add-ins.
The bearishness, pessimism, and criticism in this thread—especially by just a handful of prolific commenters—is off-the-charts.

We have people comparing strategic assets and state-owned enterprises to private commercial enterprises. Well done.
Funny you talk about the Starship Enterprise... Star Trek is super political lol
Doesn't the fact that he also loves The Culture count for anything?
Seems like an excellent exit strategy in hindsight. Spend a gazillion dollars of investor money on AMD hardware, get bought back by AMD because you worked out how to use that hardware
I've been thinking that NVDA stock is massively overpriced - yes, AI is a hot topic, but their only advantage is the software stack. It is just a matter of time until Intel and AMD realize that they should join hands and do an open-source CUDA alternative for their respecitve GPUs (yes, Intel has competetive GPUs and just like AMD and Nvidia they will try to get a share of the AI chip market share).
I already have a great social life outside of work... I don't need or want one from my work colleagues who are likely to be much more transient than my "real" friends anyway
If the problem is solved, the funding disappears.
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