skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
while globally we are in a better* state than our past selves, but being better off than the others have always been a zero-sum game imho.

so this sort of messaging reminds me of the cutthroat competitiveness that folks from working-class backgrounds, especially in developing countries, get drilled down on from a young age.

too bad it is not something everyone can achieve at the same time.
> the Big Four academic conferences on security

Which ones are those?
Because the advertisers wouldn't trust that?
After usong Houdini for some hobby graphics, I’ve come to the conclusion that its mixture of graphical+textual programming is quite reasonable and might be somehow used in other development environments. But obviously, Houdini is a modeling software and the feedback is quite fast.
They also drank a lot more, understandably,.
My take:

- Visualizing logic: I don't find it useful most of the time.

- Visualizing "metadata": Yes please.

By metadata I mean, visualizing inferred types, file/class members outline, dependencies, lints etc. Some of this visualizations are added directly to the text editor.
I’d be surprised if a big project like PG went down for serving a small static HTML file. I’ve only ever known them have problems when there’s been something more fundamental, or if you were in Germany between 2019 and 2021.
I consider myself retired, but I have a different take on the concept.

I like programming computers, but just not 2000 hour a year. I can afford not to do that, so I don't.

I hit a point in my 30s where I could sock away a year's worth of savings in 3-6 months of contracting, so that's pretty much where my full-time phase ended. I came back "out of retirement" when the first kid was born and worked 5 years semi-fulltime to save up enough for houses, college, etc., ramping down to 4 day weeks for the last few years because I really value my free time.

Since then, I've done the odd 3-6 month/year stint (since programming and working on a good team that can ship is still pretty fun.) Recently I've been doing that part time, 2-3 days a week, a few months a year.

I don't know what most people would call my situation. I call it Retired as I want to be at any given moment. I expect I'll keep doing it for the dozen-odd years between now and when I hit "Retirement Age". But maybe not. It's almost more of a hobby at this point.

I guess the point is that it seems like a silly idea to do something all day every day for most of your life, then suddenly drop it completely. If it was fun, do more of it. But on your own terms, and only enough that it's still fun.
Far more important is instant feedback and that’s getting worse all the time: with lisp, smalltalk, Delphi, forth things were instant. With typescript or rust etc, if the project is larger than hello world, the feedback is well, far from instant. Bret victor talked about feedback, not necessarily visual programming and for some reason we are making things worse instead of better. When I show a Common Lisp dev session to young people, they think I am somehow cheating. I am, because I am not using the garbage people produce now and we are always faster (sbcl is incredible; sure you can do less latency and more performance with rust or c but then you don’t have the debugger and feedback while it takes a lot more code aka bugs and work), less bugs and not depressed while at work. We also don’t have to hire ‘devops’ to waste our profits; I like profits and I like not needing VCs.
Great catch! Many years ago this worked exceptionally well with Google translate.
Don't you mean Clbuttic Scunthorpe?
That was how things worked back in the 80s and 90s, online or chip systems were in place 20 years ago in Europe
I've had to look for a few internships during my CS masters, the tip I always found most useful is to look up companies that look good in your area, search their website for a number, pick up the phone and call.
I introduce myself and what I'm looking for, I know if they're interested in under a minute, write down the contact, and move on to the next.

Using this improved my experience tenfold compared to: researching the recruiter, sending an email + cover letter, waiting for a response, having 2-3 email exchanges, etc...
I don't think I ever got a job/internship by applying for a job opening.
I did get lucky with linkedin maybe once, when a tech lead sent me a message directly.
Trump wasn't in the building, Pence was. The president isn't even in charge of capital security due to the separation of powers, that control lies with Congress which handled it miserablely.

Had Trump done what you have suggested here, it could have been easily construed as a coup, the real kind.
I've seen Delphi ERP projects worked on by dozens of people and case insensitivty of Pascal was never ever the issue. You choose something and stick to it. The concerns and fears are mostly due to inexperience.
I agree that it's unusual (and likely scares off some), however it's not entirely case insensitive. First, dashes/hyphens (`-`) can't be part of identifiers. Second, the first character of an identifier is not case insensitive.

So:

FooBar != fooBar

FooBar == Foobar

Most of the developers in the community are ambivalent about it, because it rarely ever causes problems. If you end up misspelling an identifier, you're nearly always going to get a compile-time error due to static typing anyway.
Blood and Magic works like this:

1. There's one resource, mana.

2. You can create a basal golem from your forge for 40 mana.

3. An idle basal golem will slowly generate mana. For this to occur, the golem cannot be moving. It can be located anywhere, as long as it's idle.

4. To create a building, you move 4 basal golems onto a site and select the building you want.

5. To create a unit, you move the appropriate number of basal golems next to the right kind of building, pay the mana cost, and select the unit you want.
You are making the assumption that there exists such a thing as a rational "homo politicus" as much as economists used to think there was a rational "homo economicus" they could count on.

Really not wanting to defend Trump here - a dictator in the making - but you should be aware of your own biases. Elections are mostly not decided on rational choices _you_ would make based on _your_ perspective and _your_ logic, any of which might have many failings.

So yes, that fist pumping photo is _that_ important and will probably get Trump a 10+ percentage points of vote, and the win, because unless the DNC pulls a rabbit out of their hat, OTOH you have an elderly tired old man with terminal Parkinson's whose own party is trying to get rid of at the last minute.
Age discrimination is real... I'm 35 and I could feel it kicking in big time. It's particularly obvious in my case because my resume is excellent. I don't say that to brag. Speaking to recruiters and prospective employers is cringe because, for most of them, I'm the best developer they'll meet this year but they can't hire me because of my age, race and sexual orientation. Can you guess them?

I think also in my case, my libertarian views on social media and cryptocurrency background have hindered me.

My last employer was basically mainstream establishment finance but they still hired me anyway because of my skills and also maybe because the founder was a Christian... But I could feel my crypto libertarian background made them tense.

One time (before that job), I interviewed for a position for a major tech company and I cheekily marked my race as 'Ethnic Caribbean' which is partly true since my ancestors have been in the Caribbean for over 500 years... You'd think 500 years is native enough? Apparently not if you look white. First interview, they dangled a MASSIVE offer. They gave me tech tests, I passed them all with flying colours. They set up a meeting with the head of engineering... A formality, they said... Guess what? The fucker never showed up. He sent his sidekick to pretend to be giving me a fair shot. I could see that the guy I spoke with was used to the switcheroo.

I can read the mainland whiteboi like a book... With his shifty, guilty, wandering eyes. Always taking advantage from afar. Hands soft as cotton but fanged as a snake.

He spoke down to me as if I was a typical whiteboi like him who never got his hands dirty. Oh my friend, I plough the dirt with my bare hands.
also JavaScript. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashorn_(JavaScript_engine)
> That way I can actually remember it when I'm not using my phone/computer, in a foreign country, etc.

I'd be very wary of logging into accounts on any computer/phone other than my own.
Well, of course competentlz made DVDs are competently made. The other 99% of DVDs on the other hand...
Paul Graham's Great Hackers Talk at Oscon 2004 [video]
Hey
I'm working on generating chess puzzles from my own games, by fetching the games from chess.com public api, then scrutinizing them with stockfish to find missed opportunities. I'm learning Rust with it

https://github.com/The-Law-1/ChessPuzzles
But Google Translate is correct about Dutch. It was just not one of the languages I tried before. I do not think it is a particularly difficult case for translation.

The reason I checked was in my native Swedish there is only one word (labyrint).

Was it really always two different things even in English? I looked the words up in Gutenberg's public domain Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1890?) a labyrinth there was "an ornamental maze" ... "Labyrinth, originally; the name of an edifice or excavation, carries the idea of design, and construction in a
permanent form, while maze is used of anything confused or confusing,
whether fixed or shifting. We speak of the labyrinth of the ear, or of the
mind, and of a labyrinth of difficulties; but of the mazes of the
dance, the mazes of political intrigue, or of the mind being in a
maze." And from the definition of maze: "A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth". Did the meaning drift a bit since then or was it only in mathematics that the words began to be used in the way that they are often used now for branching vs non-branching mazes?

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29765
I don’t understand what you mean by a “workspace”. What’s the context? What tools are you talking about?
Just updated librewolf to 128 on Mx-linux and it does not include Privacy-Preserving Attribution option.

Less than a month after acquiring the AdTech company Anonym, Mozilla has added special software co-authored by Meta and built for the advertising industry directly to the latest release of Firefox, in an experimental trial you have to opt out of manually. This "Privacy-Preserving Attribution" (PPA) API adds another tool to the arsenal of tracking features that advertisers can use, which is thwarted by traditional content blocking extensions.

Not Privacy-Preserving!
Doesn't this logic also lead to the conclusion that Bush mounted a successful coup in 2000?

Democratically speaking, Al Gore had won the popular vote. And he might have won the electoral college vote too, if SCOTUS hadn't shut his push for a recount down in a partisan 5-4 decision. In fact, there are still voices on the left who call the 2000 election a "judicial coup d'état". If American democracy survived one coup, why couldn't it survive another?

Of course, you can argue that the popular vote isn't what really counts, it is the electoral college vote. However, if you are going to put process ahead of the people's will in that way – isn't the various attempts to manipulate the electoral college counting which arguably occurred in 2020 and 2000 (and even happened or almost happened in 1960–what if Nixon had been in a less generous mood?) just taking the same "process over popular will" a step further? If the electoral college isn't in itself a coup, what makes pushing its technicalities a coup?

I'm not saying that what either Bush or Gore in 2000 did is exactly the same as what Trump did in 2020. But it certainly seems like 2000 – at least to some degree – created a precedent for what happened 20 years later, and also for many of the narratives (on one side or the other) that would be invoked 20 years later
Wasn't expecting to see so much ZFS for personal use! I should probably check it out seeing as how it seems to be universally loved!
I don't think it would have worked.

The Joint Chiefs had publicly announced 6 months prior during BLM riots that if Trump would issue such an order to the Sec. Def., the generals and staff officers of the COCOM wouldn't execute it. And that was not two weeks before investiture of the new president.

If he'd tried it, that would be a very short lived coup of the real kind.
My understanding is that it accepts arbitrary keys.
By being imperative, you describe how to get to the state you desire. By being declarative, you split the concerns of “how it should be” and “how to get there”, which doesn’t come without downsides (abstractions are leaky) but does have its benefits: the latter logic you’d maintain in one place, and the former is usually easier to reason about.
We tend to underestimate the fortune component of success when we succeed. And other aspects, like ruthlessness. Also, having a self satisfaction in the wise (but cautious, or even silent) past forecasting of success for those that coincidentally succeeded eventually (forgetting the others we were wrong about).

We seen good and promising products targetting growing markets fail while competing half crap craps sell wild with the broad public and win, go large.
It's not that big of a deal... I get downvoted all the time, its just what happens on a social site like this with ratings. Whoever did it probably won't even see your comment anyway
This is a problem I have and I would like to solve it via some FOSS and offline-only solution, because a single source of truth of all my workspaces is not something I tolerate to be altered or lost or revealed to John Doe.
About 'Default Deny': 'It's not much harder to do than 'Default Permit,' but you'll sleep much better at night.'

Great that you, the IT security person, sleeps much better at night. Meanwhile, the rest of the company is super annoyed because nothing ever works without three extra rounds with the IT department. And, btw., the more annoyed people are, the more likely they are to use workarounds that undermine your IT security concept (e.g., think of the typical 'password1', 'password2', 'password3' passwords when you force users to change their password every month).

So no, good IT security does not just mean unplugging the network cable. Good IT security is invisible and unobtrusive for your users, like magic :)
It could be a nod to a shift into ‘do more with less’. In Sweden hospitals and schools have basically lost all their administrative staff and students per class has grown. Teacher salaries might not have gone down, but expectations are much higher, as they have less support from non-teaching staff.
Some comments here: "I'm at age XX, thought about quitting, but now am rediscovering fun in programming". Go is a good fit here.

I discovered Go around 10 years ago, and it was a point in my career where I was fed up with the overgrowing complexity of the mainstream languages and cultures around them. I was seriously considering switching to other fields. Go has changed that direction 180 degrees.
Ive heard that incresed demand for copper is through electrification of vehicles and increased demand on the grid to charge them, not so much AI.
DNA

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I'm not sure what they cost to Apple (can they use standard parts?), but I'm also pretty sure other laptops don't have up to 400 GBps memory bandwidth like Apple's Max laptop lineup.

So there's something they're doing pretty differently.

That said 8->16 GB should be more like $50, not $200.
Hongmeng Kernel – Huawei's in house production microkenrel
Fivetran charges by "monthly active rows", which quickly adds up when you have hundreds of millions to billions of rows that are constantly changing.

https://fivetran.com/docs/usage-based-pricing
This. Problem is exactly that two parts of the people are now firmly living in separate realities and opposite things seem obvious to them. And both are delusional. There's no way "fighting misinformation" can fix this.
Yup, the best NAS is the one you can actually justify buying!
I have connected my personal outlook account, when I want to disconnect it and reconnect with my work account, I could not find a way to do it. is it supported?
I honestly never understand partial refunds for cancellations (outside of money back guarantees).

As a customer, you’re committing for a year to get a discount. If you can cancel at any time and get that money back, why are they getting a discount?

I know there’s the underlying benefits for cash flow but the customer is undoing this by getting a refund.

To be clear, I’m talking about the 1-1 transaction between seller and buyer, not the overall business model.
Yeah, corporations are clearly left wing with few exceptions. They may not be your brand of left wing but they clearly are left wing. Blatantly so. Dont gaslight.

3.4% of journalists are republicans while 34% are democrats. The reason fox news is the most popular is because its the only mainstream conservative news in the U.S. in a sea of liberal media. The vast majority of journalism and journalists lean left.
Check out Spring Modulith at https://docs.spring.io/spring-modulith/docs/current-SNAPSHOT.... Their pitch is that the application framework organizes your code in such a way that it makes the architecture of your application easier to visualize and to reason about. I haven't tried it but have seen some talks on Youtube that makes we want to give it a shot in the future.
That works for startups, but most larger companies still won't hire you without an interview, your old collegaues can only refer you to hiring.

Very often that's where I screw up. I code computers, not goddamn CoderPads. I run my shit to know if it works, not pretend I'm an interpreter and go through line by line. I cut and paste boilerplate and edit it, not write the boilerplate.

Some dude in an interview at a very well known AI company was staring at me on a video call and grilling me about the max value of a loss function whose formula was written in an image, and I didn't have a whiteboard to do the math on. TF do I care? I usually minimize losses, not maximize them.
> Famously - or rather notoriously, during the pandemic local German health authorities faxed case numbers and other relevant data to federal authorities, which led to massively delayed response times and a general unavailability of dependable, actionable data.

Wasn't this in Switzerland? Or did it happen ALSO in Germany?
Learn to meditate. One hack I use is to listen to a Delta rhythm trance which is the deepest brain speed. It is so powerful that the task is to stay awake. I made my recordings using Gnaural, which may still be available. When in this state you can reprogram your unconscious. Wear earbuds or headphones lay in bed, without committed diligence, you will be sleeping.
Is this criticism still relevant? 2011 is 13 years (as in: a teenager's life) ago.
And AI - which kind of changed the game in the recent years.
A "blueprints copilot" akin to Github Copilot will be very difficult to create because there's no "blueprints text" to train an AI on.
Nowadays in my hobby pet projects I find it easier to write C++ with copilot than Blueprints.
Yep, this is what deferred revenue reports are for. I’ve seen a business skirt close to the edge because they didn’t respect what it was showing until it was almost too late.
My number one issue is that people can't afford my experience. I often have to dumb down my resume to look like a cog in a machine. Once they hire me, I end up getting 15-50% raises because they don't want me to leave.

I don't change jobs often.
Which Garden Mulch Saves the Most Water? [video]
Do you think it might be a good idea to keep or your social accounts private?
Or it's mandatory to reveal it during recruiting?
The meaning of quantitative changes a bit with time and context.

I would say the more "bayesian / sell side / derivative pricing" kind of meaning exists since the late 70s, the more "frequentist / buy side / let's hire 100 physics PhDs" meaning came prominent in the early 2000s. (as a general feeling).
You'd be wrong. I've got a great-uncle that was a card carrying member of the dutch nazi party. Seems like a pretty clear-cut case. Turns out that he didn't like nazis much, but as a publisher he was required to either be a member of the party or quit his job and starve.

People did what they had to do to survive. It's easy to tell them they were wrong in hindsight.

Just to add so this comment can't be misconstrued later: The nazi party was evil. Committing genocide is bad.
Coming from a family that has a frugal culture, it’s always been easy for me to save a substantial part of my income, even when I had to downsize my lifestyle after losing a relatively high paying job. Looking at how people around me spend their money, it can feel they’re actively trying to get rid of their entire salary.
That’s why you have a deferred revenue report. You divide the income across the length of the contract so you “earn” each month as it comes. This can help prevent you overspending on contract delivery because you can see your numbers go red more easily.
Hi! this looks amazing.
wanted to confirm what the pricing will look like?
i want to try it out in a college quiz contest.
U.S. Secret Service Radio Following the Reagan Assassination Attempt (2011)
This YT video thing sounds very familiar. I do the same thing whenever I run into a job application in an industry/niche market I never heard of. It does makes the whole process less of a grind for me.
>A gift that can change her life.

Hey Dad, I'm pregnant.
Hey now, your rhetoric is out of control here.

Biden is most certainly not "behind" this assassination attempt.

I heartily disagree with what i see as your projection on nearly all your comments here.

Please step back, you are taking this down an unwelcome road
I feel like one of the reaaally tricky bits of visual programming is avoiding bundling language and interface together.

Developers all have lots of (different) opinions about editors, but they're fortunately seperated from the language they choose. People can work together on TypeScript usong Emacs, VSCode, Zed etc and it all gels.

The second someone starts with "to use this language you have to use this editor" the bar is sooo high for developers not getting their backs up.

It would be immense to have a visual way of programming that was language agnostic, but you'd need a seriously intense protocol to make that possible.

It does make me think of things like Smalltalk and Visual Basic that where designed to support multiple approaches. Interesting how that research avenue has drifted off recently.
As projects get bigger, things might get sadder. I worked at a certain large SF company that uses a lot of ruby, so most development was repl-based too. But this wasn't a boon but a curse, as the total lack of data format guarantees on the very large, critical monorepo meant a lot of uncertainty. What does this method really do? I guess we have to run it! It worked for this specific input... but will it work for any and all inputs that get to this data path? Let's hope so, because we aren't sure! The company spent massive amounts of money on servers for parallel testing, just so that the suite could run in less than a few weeks. And when you need a large test suite to have a chance, most of the advantages of the REPL vs a compiler have been lost.

Eventually they did the same thing you can do in common lisp: Add so much metaprogramming that doublechecks invariants, it might as well be a compiled language.
Could you clearify what is the "grim reading" in your source?

Sure the prices are high in Germany (and this is a problem for industry) but as a private consumers you pay 50 EUR per month instead 16 EUR. Such hell! This is an inconvenience but for me power outage is a huge problem (especially 1 week!).