skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a good point but I'm willing to bet there are thousands of devs who are smart and talented enough to land those positions who will absolutely jump at the chance to run their own business instead. There are many devs that can't get a job due to layoffs and schools are still turning out graduates each semester.

The skills they're not good at is exactly where AI (assuming it can of course) will be used. Why only use it for a 10% improvement on a skill you have vs a 100% improvement on a skill you don't have? Or why not both?

Hard economic times (layoffs) typically result in people starting their own projects/businesses. The last major downturn resulted in a mass influx of new startups and ideas. Of course most of them failed, but that's typical I suppose.
Ha. That's cynically hilarious.
That's a quite horrible outcome though. It basically means that this persons income is paid by fellow workers who happened to be more fortunate, so that the business owner can have an almost free workforce.
That's hardly assuring considering they still make detailed profiles of everyone regardless of whether they even have a Google account.
I don't think the term is all that common today in the US. But, counter my pervious comment (though I hadn't been active that day and it was quite hot), a few of us were having dinner and most of us took something home (for us, not a dog)--and I just had a starter! Considered quite normal. Good food but there was just a lot of it and I didn't have much of an appetite.

I do know a few places that are sort of known for having portion sizes that are oriented towards people taking leftovers home.
There is no other use case for Kafka except using it as a message queue. That's by design. It's just an extremely poorly designed piece of software.
Of course it does. There have been many basic income proposals over the decades, some of them universal and some not. It does not make sense to assume that UBI refers to any specific model.

In particular, there are some UBI proposals where the level of the basic income is intentionally too low to cover basic needs. Those proposals aim to dismantle the welfare traps that plague non-basic income models. Once your income grows high enough that you start losing welfare benefits, your effective marginal tax rate can be very high. Rates above 80% are common, and sometimes they rise above 100%.
Usage data and analysis from my AI chatbot
Hello all,

LLM hype is everywhere these days, but actual usage data is pretty hard to find. I see tons of companies pushing AI tools at me but I have almost no idea what user behaviour/preferences are.

I built a TaxGPT.ca, an AI chatbot for answering people's (Canadian) tax questions and ran a bunch of numbers over the questions submitted between March 4 to April 31, 2024.

Highlights include:

- Over 8,500 questions answered
- Users frequently asked about basic tax info and business expenses
- Feedback is not very common but surprisingly positive
- Experiments in tagging questions in relevant and for 'complexity'

My verdict here is that these bots have potential but you have to have really quick feedback loops and pretty good product chops — you can't just throw AI at some problem and assume users will find their own ways to make it useful.
What does it actually mean for the base unit to be the kilogram, as opposed to the gram, now that they're defined in terms of fundamental constants?
Valve runs its PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees
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Additionally, a question for you: I don't have experience in finance. Do you think this idea of having a settlement period for crypto transactions could work?
Aside from inertia, is there any reason to prefer using IRC over XMPP?
Is there anything specific to mathematics about this?
There was a story about the diamond district in New York City:

A homeless man would go and brush the sidewalks at night. The story is that there was so much gold and diamond dust on the clothes of the people working in that area that it would fall off of their clothes and accumulate on the sidewalks.
When your error bars are a few hundred years or so, the few weeks between “making paint” and “using paint” isn’t terribly relevant.
Link to the CSS Values 5 specification, where it describes how HTML attribute names can be referenced in CSS properties.

6.4. Attribute References: the attr() function

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-values-5/

With the ability to specify attribute types, including dimension units, and to provide a default value - it does look like a new way to connect HTML to CSS beyond the limitations of classes.

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> The data- prefix can be a little unwieldy but it allows for the widest compatibility with tools and frameworks. Using attributes without some kind of namespace can be a little dangerous, as you risk clobbering HTML's global attributes, but as long as your attribute name has a dash it should be quite safe.

I wonder if this last part is true. For custom elements, since they're required to have a dash, I imagine future HTML tags are guaranteed to not contain a dash. But for attributes..

Are all future HTML global attributes guaranteed to not include a dash?

Maybe the author means, as long as your custom attribute has a name with unique prefix, it should be "quite safe".
This is beautifully written
This isn't some secret. Of course the wealthy are going to pay more into it than they get out from it. "Take from the rich and give to the poor" is the entire point. This should be understood by anyone with basic economic literacy, or even a modicum of logical reasoning. How else in the world are you to have any welfare program?

If you object to the existence of welfare programs on principle, then you should make that argument.
> why stop learning one year ahead?

Ok, I get the principle but learning multiple years worth of university math is starting to sound unrealistic? I understand learning something in advance to have an easier time, but this is almost the same as finishing a degree before starting it.
this is nonsensical. first of all more programming these days is hardly invegigative, it is literally plumbing. attach this service this queue. translate this request to this api. compile this code under a new version. put this thing in a container.

secondly, and I've done alot of this, its entirely possible to build useful estimates around greenfield projects like 'define a new language', even though there are lots of variables in play. one useful technique is to work backwards. 'if we dont have a working draft spec in 2 weeks then we can really start the parser, so we're gonna say that, and if we cant hit it, we know we're in trouble'

if your ability to assign semantics and use your experience to plan out the work stops at 'horse drawn weheelie-do', i wonder if this is the right profression for you.

if as a culture we just throw up our hands 'whelp, its all unknowable, we'll just do the best we can and thats you can ask for', then we cant really criticize our customers for being frustrated with us and not 'appreciating our brilliance and how hard this is'.

and the truth is, we can and have done better than that.
That depends on context though. Sure, in a company driving for profits those metrics almost certainly won't exist. If the project is focused on end user experience, though, they would.

Accessibility is one area I've seen an overlap. It is still rare, but I have been on a couple teams where accessibility was a metric and it largely lead to better DOM structure and semantic HTML.
I went to an inner city public school that was better funded than your Palo Alto numbers once you account for federal funds.

I agree that funding is not the only problem, the money could be spent much much better (and teacher unions should unfortunately probably not exist). Another large problem is that I do not think we as a society have agreed on what the actual goal of public education should be.
People need to want it.

Most people eat worse and exercise less than the previous generation. A small visible minority do a lot more, but that doesn't speak to the health of the average individual.

New GLP-1 agonists might medicate us into good health. But somehow, I am sceptical that it is going to be that simple.
>Money is like water or electricity; it's only ability to do work is when it flows.

Precisely.

"Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money" by James Buchan (1997) is a superb book that expands on your statement.
> There's a pile of different SIMD ("SSE") instruction sets, and it's pretty much anybody's guess what the system your program is running on is likely to have.

It is nowhere near that bad. There are three lineages of chips--Intel Atoms (/E-cores), Xeons (/P-cores), and AMD's chips--and within each lineage, a newer chip is a strict superset of the features of the previous chip. The exception to this rule are the features that are so bad that no one uses them (most notably MPX), and AVX-512 which landed in the desktop P-cores before big-little happened, where they were turned off because the E-cores don't support AVX-512.

If your computer isn't over a decade old, it's not a guess which SSE instruction sets your hardware has--it has all of the SSE instruction sets.
there’s pretty good evidence that outcomes are largely in correlated with per pupil spend. would take me a little while to find since i haven’t looked at it for a while
Did they control for the fact that it's Wisconsin?
So like communism?
Everyone uses about 5% of the features of their word processors, but it is a different subset for everyone so all features are needed by someone and most get equal useage.
> In general, I think most of the critiques of Anki/spaced repetition/flashcards are mostly just critiques of the "typical" way people make cards and use the apps.In general, I think most of the critiques of Anki/spaced repetition/flashcards are mostly just critiques of the "typical" way people make cards and use the apps.

Somwhere, there's gotta be an expert/course/training on how to best use SR, that is to say, how to best ingest knowledge into the system and prepare the reptition items themselves. Kind of like a best-practices approach ...
the company that i work for has several people in the same city or close enough that we can go meet at the office, yet i completely disagre with this take.

If collaboration is beneficial in some situation then in office meetings should happen with a situation that would benefit from this collaboration arise. If the need is not there then there is no point.

In my team we go to the office once a month mostly for social interaction, it is usually the day we are lest productive because we basically drink coffee and catch up and even then it is open if you have other personal needs to participate remotely or not at all, we had months were there wasn't anyone in the office and we just meet virtually. I have not gone into the office yet this year myself for a number of reasons.

I still collaborate constantly with my team mates, we have enough tools for remote collaboration that make being physically in the same space irrelevant, this also allow collaboration to extend the team members in other countries so i am not limited to the people that live close by.
I think you need a clearer and more up-front indication of how you're different from other sites before asking for an email address.
The dataset you need to train in the first place is indeed huge, but I think the idea is once them model is trained, new "voices" can be acquired with much less data than was required to train it in the first place. Just like you can instruct ChatGPT to talk about topics never heard of on the internet and in a dialect you customize and invent on the spot and it can comply, despite not consuming an internet's worth of subject matter about it.
> SEPA is free and easy to use.

Really? Then why do merchants use card terminals at all then?

You want to give a homeless person money on the street, how does the SEPA payment flow look like?

> still need a bank account, still need to apply for a physical card

Free but time consuming. Typically needs to be done in person and requires waiting in line.

> still need to pay high transaction fees

Fees are closer to 1% or more for credit cards.

> no way to list who is authorized to charge your card

It's a problem if you forget who has your credit card info and it's often a hassle to "unsubscribe" yourself. Sometimes, the only way is to call your card's customer service.

> Nope, there a bunch of startups such as SumUp with very affordable terminals.

"A standard fee of 1.69% per transaction applies for all our card readers."

I feel like you just haven't used WeChat/Alipay enough to realize how better it is from a UX point of view. It's really obvious to anyone who has used both systems extensively.
Time/date being the best example of this. I think I've seen every possible variation by now, except maybe putting the year in between the month and day. Drives me absolutely crazy.
The law says it is illegal "to use a detection device to search for archaeological objects anywhere within the State or its territorial seas; without the prior written consent of the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht"

What if you are searching for gold, lost items, underground cables, or other, and you stumble upon an archaeological object? You were not hunting those objects, so I would say you were within the law. What you do with the fortuitous find is another matter (IANAL).

My brother and I were the first to buy a house in our immediate family. My Uncle Vic was the first to say you never really own your house or land. You pay property taxes after you have paid off your house. Your land can be taken with little compensation in some matters, etc. I can see why you would be happy and worried at the same time discovering artifacts whether you were looking for them or not.
I don't understand people like this author. I guess I do. It's all marketing flamebait to get attention.

He knows exactly what story points are, he goes through them exhaustive, but strangely deriding them the whole time.

Then he concludes by purporting to invent the very practice you ALWAYS were supposed to have been doing to make story points work. You have to find a set of repeatable work to compare new stories to for reference. That's the whole game. That's his tasks "idea". That has always been part of every implementation and lesson on story points ive been exposed to.

It's a completely nonsensical article.

Story points have always been about queues and implementing Little's Law. Always.

Yes, it sucks to be on teams that just argue about points and don't work to refer to standard architectures for building blocks. That doesn't mean story points are broken, it's pointing out something else in your organization is broken.

A lot of real criticism in this comment, but props to the author for writing at least. It's more than I do as a part time internet complainer.
What I object to is the call for such programs under the guise of them being something other than what they are. If UBI is just welfare, why not just call it that?
If you think this is an isolated case, you vastly overestimate humanity. Stay away from the criminal justice system.
Could you elaborate on this. I am struggling to follow this conversation.
The top ones often do. But it isn't necessarily very effective at a top restaurant or even a popular local one.
The debate on where to draw the line between art and lewd is as old as time. In short, any platform that allows child accounts will default to a stricter interpretation.
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It's political. This is Deere doing conservative virtue signaling at a time when politics is on every American's mind. Deere's customers tend to be very conservative so that makes sense.

No idea about Microsoft. It's a many-minded company that's constantly blundering and working against its own purposes, so it's hard to tell what's meaningful signal there.
US Floats Tougher Trade Curbs in Chip Crackdown on China
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Not sure which way this post is arguing, but in my anti-UBI opinion, providing UBI does control the lives of others primarily by stealing from productive members to give to unproductive ones.

I have no problem if people want to personally finance folks to not work via private charity, but when it becomes a government program, you are definitionally controlling everyone.
I immediately remember the Apple Pascal poster from the late 1970s:

https://archive.org/details/pascal-poster-v-3-a-1
I can say with 100% confidence that GraphQL via Postgraphile & TypeScript is a stellar tech stack for web applications beyond "hello world".

If you are building on Postgraphile and raising from angels, dm me.
And there are places that have or are trying to ban algebra in Jr. High School (e.g. SFUSD)
Good for you? I also struggle with work/home boundaries when I have to WFH. "Oh, I should go kick off that build so it's ready in the morning... oh, there's an email... oh, someone had a question for me..." If I leave all my equipment at the office, then it's simply not an option for me to do work outside work hours. It's a system that works well for me, there's no problem to "fix" here.
Perusing Slack has become this for me
A classic example of a 2nd order effect.
> Custom properties can be applied to any element as well.

Well, no, they can't. That's the point the article is making.

Classes can compose arbitrarily, i.e. class="size-small size-big"

Whereas data-size="small big", while valid syntax, would not be styled by a rule targeting elem[data-size="small"]
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Since you have clearly solved this problem, please tell the rest of the class how to accomplish this.
I don't think you can date the axe-heads from the material? I assume they date based on objects found nearby and the technique used to make them. Which is also why knowing the exact location is important.
Humans adaptively deploy forward and backward prediction
Silicon Valley is breaking for Trump
I don't really understand why the author needed to use all those words to suggest t-shirt sizes instead of story points.

All the stuff about breaking down tasks, watching a backlog queue to monitor cadence, and have regular meetings is already happening with, or without story points.

People overthink this stuff all the time. Every team should figure out what works best for them, even down to project by project. Getting shit done isn't hard to monitor. You have a bucket of well defined tasks, have sprint meetings, look for blockers and assumptions, watch work flowing through. It's not really that difficult. Whether you use story points or some other estimation tool is really just an exercise of calibration, it's not gospel. The estimation process is the important thing, discuss as a team, agree on complexity, make sure the task is bite sized etc.
I don't know Irish law, but there are usually excemptions for other activities, like cables etc. In that case, you'd report your finding to relevant authorities.
And the inevitable despair of being smart in Milwaukee.
Sounds like typical bike shedding. They have severe culture problems and they are runninh down every comfortable path to address them, unsuccessfully.

I was in a lunch with our CEO where he told us about all the issues he is trying to address related to generational shifts and succession. While trying to explain that we need to be attractive to generation Z and Millennials he insults them (with some in the room) with littany of stereotypes lifted straight from articles he read on the internet.

Dude is clueless, and he knows it and is just trying stuff to keep the board happy until he can cash out.
Fascinating! I'm glad that they're breaking that RP grip on Shakespeare. It's certainly a valid way to do it, but Shakespeare himself wanted a diversity of accents, especially for his lower-class characters.

It's funny that you mention Mack. A few years ago I was directing a Maccers whose native accent was Pittsburgh. Not very different from the general American, but Mac has a line, "I have supped full with horrors". Which in his accent comes out as "full with whores".

I wasn't gonna mention it, but the cast giggled, and I was afraid the audience might too. It took rather a lot of work to find the right pronunciation for one word, and I think I made a mistake even trying. The cast hears it every night but an audience would have blipped right past it.
I expect it's basically always been understood that null-terminated strings were unsafe (after all, strncpy has existed since the 70s [1]), more just that the various costs of the alternatives (performance, complexity, later on interop) weren't seen as worth it until more recent times. And it's not like they didn't get tried— Pascal has always had length-prefixed strings as its default, and it's a contemporary of C.

[1]: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/450802
>> Any offers on how long it will it be before were talking about Windows RISC-V machines?

I'm betting Android will be there first.
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> this is not about the working poor. I don’t think this would ultimately help them.

I think you are generally right, but I strongly disagree on this specific point: the working poor would be the most benefitted. They are working, which means they are already taking good decisions and making efforts to improve their lives: money could not be spent in a more productive way than handling it to those gentlemen.
Your highly usable dashboard will get filled with 99% of worthless fluff just because it's there and somebody feels the need to always say something.

Have you even been in one of those meetings that just won't finish despite everything being done? Making it written doesn't solve the problem. Instead, it makes it worse.
I recently used Typst and their own collab solution for a paper we worked on. While some features are still lacking it was a pretty good experience overall.
The CI/CD alone in Gitlab is light years ahead of what Github has to offer. I'm really hoping that they can hold on in some way or that the core open source application stays viable.
or maybe he just put it on top of the battery? ;-)
Thanks for pointing this out. I’ll change it when I’m at my computer.
I mostly don't go out of my way to eat at top restaurants (as opposed to good ones that are more midrange). Don't get me wrong; I've had some really good meals. But I think I'd find it all a bit exhausting as a regular routine.
Guarduty's biggest shortcoming is how expensive it is.... Otherwise I know of no other solution that will deliver so much AWS security monitoring value with such little effort to enable.
I know of a few company cultures like this. You can count on people to take action where action is requested, and to take note where taking note is expected. Everything else is just noise, and employees tend to keep the noise level quite low.
Good point. Wisconsin is known to drive people to drink.

https://wisconsinwatch.org/2023/03/do-wisconsin-residents-re...
> The obvious solution for a data scientist like me was to use machine learning. But I didn’t. I just took the average score by the player during the last 5 games.

Wait, is he cracking a joke? If so, haha.
This would create a lot of backlash in my company