skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I was considering creating a Bluesky account, but now I definitely won't. I don't want my comments getting purged just because I argued with the author of a post.

This isn't "Anti-Toxicity" in as much it as "affirmation bubble creating". Your followers become your yes men and anyone arguing with you gets their comments purged from anyone seeing them.
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(... neatly tying two meanings of "booty" together ...)
I do both Kotlin and Python. More Kotlin than Python to be honest. But I'm pragmatic. Python is where all the action is when it comes to data science, llms, and all the rest. So it's the path of the least resistance. And there's a great argument to not challenge that and just do what everybody else does and put your head down and not criticize any of that. Which is why I use it on a few projects. The library ecosystem is great. Etc. Bla bla bla. But the bottom line is that I don't love python. It's dreary to me. Mediocre. I can't get very excited about any of it. It just seems so backwards.

And it's not necessarily the most efficient path either. The interpreter is not that fast, the language is not that expressive, what passes for package management is a bad joke, etc. I can work with it but I'm not necessarily loving it.

For data engineering, Kotlin has a lot to offer. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it because it's all kind of niche. But it kind of works as well. If you aren't afraid of tinkering with it, there are a lot of other niche solutions out there as well that aren't python.

Kotlin is what I reach for when I want to get stuff done in a hurry. Part of that is just my limitation. It's what I know and I kind of grew up on JVM languages. I'm well aware that's not necessarily optimal and that that's just a bias I have. But objectively, it has a lot of nice things over modern python as well.

Kotlin is a modern language, it's a lot more expressive than python. It has a a great library ecosystem. Including some stuff that does not depend on the JVM. And even though it's kind of niche for a lot of things I use it for (e.g. developing reactive web frontends), it holds up well and rarely disappoints me.

People use python because everybody else uses python. That's it. It's not particularly good at anything it does. But it will get the job done and I can do it. But that just isn't good enough for me. It's the visual basic for data science. And that's not a compliment. Being idiot proof is it's main feature. But that doesn't make it the smart choice.
I think a more valid comparison is WhatsApp, where Zuckerberg allows many governments ability to "peek" into user metadata at-will.
I was invited to a project that uses "notion.so" a couple weeks ago. It seems to work pretty well for what you're described.
Mir is perhaps the closest thing to that ideal that I'm aware of. Maybe arcan, but I don't know anything about the architecture
> aren't allowing us to deduct unrealized losses

You can't really deduct realized losses either (annoyingly). You can use them to offset gains in future years, but they're not a deduction.
How does nvidia compete with TSMC? I thought nvidia used TSMC for fab? And a Samsung, but that hardly makes them competitors.

TSMC doesn’t sell chips directly, they just manufacture designs
That isn't outrageous however I totally understand why it rubs you the wrong way.

I was also baffled by that aspect of DNS before. During my first internship, my mentor who was impressed with my knowledge in general asked me if I had anything to ask. I told him there is something that doesn't make any sense to me at all about DNS. I asked him exactly that situation, and we talked about glue records and it all clicked. I think you could also bootstrap with things in the cache if you're careful since it is a distributed system.

https://www.ibm.com/blog/understanding-glue-records-and-dedi...
Individuals donating their time and effort to the public, whether that excludes for-profit use or not, is better than them not doing it.

At least I think that's what the person you replied to is trying to get at.
Asphalt shingles are awful in terms of insulation. They absorb heat in the summer and bleed heat in the winter. Membrane roofs are better for both.

Asphalt shingles are such an out-dated technology, people should really try to avoid them on new builds. They don't last long, the thermal characteristics are bad, and they're prone to leaks.
He made it pretty clear he is moving on from tech and is posting on a career oriented social media platform the reasons why he is doing it now. I don’t understand your gripe at all. It’s not like he is making a yet another move to a gig N+1 after year two in gig N, rinse repeat, and posting about it.
What was the tool used to generate this output?
the largest share holder of NVIDIA is fidelity retirement fund I think?
gnome and cosmic are both using accesskit for some of the parts that aren't completed yet.
Coq is not a specification language. It’s an interactive theorem prover. The goal set is completely different.
Tarsnap is usually installed from source.
and yet before Trump was president, 0 charges. But right after, soooo many charges.

Show me the man, and I will show you the crime.
Why has no one else been able to replicate Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Salesforce, Oracle, IBM, Cisco, HP even though all of the tech is largely out there?
I worked for an international company with more than 100,000 employees. They basically never stopped doing layoffs. It was just background noise all the time. I got laid off after 5+ years, but I was ready to go.

Before that, I was laid off from a company that was rapidly going out of business, no surprise and I was ready to go.

As a data point, I've had 5 software development jobs in 25 years and have been laid off twice.

Sounds like you've had some bad luck, but I suspect things are getting worse.
As employees near retirement, or have plenty of savings, or have strong opinions (or all three), they become easy targets: cut them out of the loop and make their lives difficult, and then they'll leave.

Presto! new opportunities for you and your friends.

Is there a defense? Not really. Somehow they'd have to convince most that they'd be there long enough to make crossing you a bad idea, and connected enough to know when you're being crossed.

The history of Silicon Valley is less about the founding innovation, and more about how others manage to capture it.
I mean at this point they could also change the code running on the user devices, probably someone would notice but that's another story.

The point is: even if they could, should they do so when compelled by authority?
Maybe it comes from being a Java developer but I believe that the ease of multithreaded programming is ridiculous. I mean, one paradigm lets you handle concurrency of multiple requests waiting for I/O and the parallelism of multiple CPU cores. If your language and runtime and frameworks for it were built to be threadsafe from day one and you have all the primitives to do it well (e.g. somebody didn’t sell you some crackpot scheme like Actors) it is astonishingly easy.
Immutability is a fundamental property of a language, it's not something that can be bolted on post-facto in a version update. Go as a language doesn't provide immutability.
I should have said "customer" there, to be more clear. Nvidia competes with Apple for fab space on the latest nodes, which is more what I wanted to zoom in on. Apple has zero interest in courting Nvidia's customers, which leads me to believe that Nvidia has a practically captive market.
>The two giants of American industry have had a string of engineering and product debacles in recent years as a result of the decades of sidelining and firing their engineering talent

I think the article was very informative.

To me it is saying Jack Walsh and his acolytes changed the companies from creating very good engineered products to a company that only cared about what Wall Street said.

This can be said about almost every fortune 500 Company. I wonder when the shoe will drop for Nvidia. Just look at Intel, IBM and a few others.
No false claim was made, and nothing in that thread was relevant to the analysis of this story or on this thread. I'm very comfortable leaving it there, and that the people who will take my word on none of this mattering are the only ones I need to care about.

Do not use Telegram.
Not to disagree with you general point, but applying general risks to specific situations is not proper use of statistics. Once a thunderstorm is on, the risk just multiplied from the baseline risk for the people in the area. And it grows again for people who take a shower.
I'm curious how that's supposed to work with stable distros like debian, ship protocol upgrades as security fixes or at least each point release (+LTS?)

If it's in rust or anything that requires new compilers to build that doesn't sound easy, debian stable ought to be able to communicate with current software but the stable that uses rust 1.63 (2022-08, 1 year old as of first bookworm stable release) and supported (without any LTS) until 2026-06, at which point rust will be 4 years old and it'll be almost impossible to build anything with it, which is required for official packages that can't depend on rustup or similar... LTS being even more out of question.

Well, I guess it can't hurt to try.
I like the approach of a Hall of Fame NHL player, Teemu Selanne- he asks "how good are you on your bad day?" and "if you're having a bad day, what can you do to make it a little bit better?"

Obviously there are exceptions when you're physically ill, but for the most part I think this approach is a good one to keep in mind because it forces you to think how you can make even an off day a little better.

Link to podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spittin-chiclets-episo...
It would be inconsistent if the Soviet Union took that line in their own public messaging, but no one is alleging that.
> some redecorating on the upper floors

are we talking about the same building? The one I'm talking about was a high-ceilinged single room:

https://www.dezeen.com/2017/06/14/frank-lloyd-wright-johnson...
There is another kind of mistake than can be made besides procedural.

My worst safety screwups in foodservice were 2 things: cutting through my fingernail and about 2/3 of my entire fingertip with a brand new chefs knife (looked away at somebody barking something in my ear while rapidly chiffonading basil) and plunging my entire hand into a deep fryer (slipped while wiping down the edge of the oil vat–again, rushing).

I’ve heard way worse stories coming out of construction. People breaking backs, having hands pulled into machinery… my mistakes have healed, theirs are permanently disfiguring.
Well, 2001 is actually a happy ending, as Dave is reborn as a cosmic being. Solaris, at least in the book, is an attempt by the sentient ocean to communicate with researchers through mimics.
> Have you checked the Twitter video?

No, I haven't. I don't do Twitter and won't be able to watch videos until later regardless. I was hoping that the article you linked to would have described it, at least enough to give me an idea of whether looking into it more deeply is worthwhile.

> It’s essentially a privacy toggle [...]

Yes, that's what I got from the article. I just don't know what that actually means in concrete terms. It sounds to me like a method of finding the right audience rather than a method of preserving any sort of privacy.

Regardless, I suspect this isn't really a thing of value to me. I wish you the best, though!
If your goal is to create a space where people can only say nice things and only agree with you, then yeah this a great method to do it. It's a great way to create a tiny bubble of like-minded people and allow you to spiral ever deeper into the bubble as outside debate and challenging of assumptions becomes disallowed.
In France all unions negotiate joinly for all employees. It is strictly forbidden for an employer to have different treatment of an employee depending on whether they are members of a union. Membership is not public anyway.

About 10% of the workforce is unionized and only a few percent of the unions funds come from the members. The rest is from companies (mandatory fund), the region, ...
if they are so forward looking why did they pump the stock just a few months back
You seem confused. SpaceX will provide the same free access to the same government 911 (or other local emergency system) that terrestrial carriers do. SpaceX incurs practically no incremental cost here. Starlink can't replace cell towers for normal phone coverage, so this is not replacing anything other than maybe Apple's far inferior SOS feature.

The Walter Huang case didn't "establish" anything because it didn't go to trial. It's a pretty wild stretch to blame his death on Musk. And even if one believed that they should still be able to see how making misleading statements that unintentionally contribute to one person's accident would not be remotely comparable to intentionally ignoring thousands upon thousands of people desperately calling for urgently needed help.
Alfred does use its own index, instead of Spotlight’s, so it is certainly miles faster than macOS’s built in search; make sure to check what directories are being searched over in settings.
Somewhat a reference to https://wiki.c2.com/?ThreeStarProgrammer
That looks like whois, available on most Unix versions.
I think Jack Welch deserves a share of the blame as well—if you had to attribute GE’s fall to one thing (which you shouldn’t), it would probably be the funding crisis at GE Capital when they couldn’t roll their commercial paper at the height of the GFC. Jack loved GE Capital because it was the perfect cookie jar to reach into when he needed another penny or two of EPS to hit the Street consensus; just realize a capital gain somewhere in Capital, and voila, you’ve met your number again. But of course the article doesn’t discuss the financial crisis at all, or for that matter anything that happened during Jack’s tenure or the first half of Jeff Immelt’s. Or any non-Energy/now Vernova business lines.
Finland wasn't in the West in the context of the Cold War; it was part of the "third world" that the West and the Soviets competed for influence over.
>> What if I want to work for my employer but only for more money? Suppose I'm a rockstar and my employer agrees, but their hands are tied because they can't pay me more and have to instead pay off the pension funds of people that retired a decade ago and older employees

Eventually situations like this bankrupt a company, sadly due to decisions made decades ago. Just because a company's hands are tied does not mean that current employees need to take sub-market wages. They can, if they are being compensated in some other way (unique experience, growth potential, etc) but normally people see the writing on the wall and walk away. Also, company management needs to negotiate contracts which are fair to all three parties -- owners, current union members, future employees who will bear the burden. It is a tough but important balancing act.
I’ve never been laid off in my 10 year career. Suspect it’s just luck and which teams you join.
What's more likely is both. Capabilities go down because companies see their data as their moat, and costs go up as people price their data closer to the real value.

See reddit
The guidelines say this:

> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

Just like links to sites like WSJ or NYT have their archive.today links in the comments rather than as primary sources, Twitter/X should be the primary link with Thread Reader in the comments.

I don't like Twitter's login policy either, but we have rules around here and I'm going to encourage people to follow those rules by posting x.com links as primary
links unless and until the rules are changed.
... you mean AWS?

https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
Labor markets are difficult. If low wages go down further, people will offer more Labor, not less, and your microeconomic equilibrium goes out of the window very quickly. Also, while demand for work is not monopolistic per se, the employer has usually a structural advantage when closing a contract with a single employee, and in some industries only a few very big employers compete on the labor market.

If every employer would be allowed to hire exactly one worker, then you could probably do without unions, but that would yield a totally inefficient economic system I wouldn’t want to live in. And therefore modern economies allow unions as an exception from the rule. Otherwise, at least in some trades, wages will go down to the absolute bare minimum, which will lead to political instability, which leads to less economic activity.
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I wanted to note that you cannot compare learning by a human and "ML learning" which basically is calculating coefficients from copyrighted materials. Don't those coefficients fall under definition of a "derivative work" by the way?

ML models are not "learning" in the same way as human do, and while they use the misleading word "learning" is has completely different meaning; also, ML models are not humans and therefore they are not subject of laws; the engineers who perform calculations are.

So comparing calculation of ML model parameters to a person studying art is incorrect; you should compare engineers performing calculations with data from copyrighted material to a person studying art. It is immediately obvious that there cases are not equivalent. And those engineers are not learning anything in the process so the cannot use the analogy as an excuse.
Do you use Twitter (X)? Because you can hide specific replies to your post there, too.
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We actual know some normal numbers [1] but they seem to all be synthetic. I would guess they have a lot of local correlation because of the way they are constructed and the comment I responded to explicitly mentioned no self-correlations - not sure what exactly that means - but it probably indicates that being a normal number is not a strong enough condition for using its digits as a sequence of random digits.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number#Properties_and_e...
I kind of feel violated, my YouTube account was closed
I think I finally got my reminder that it is time to move any important stuff out of Google.

I have had Youtube account for I guess well over 10 years now, connected to my Google account. A few days ago I got a message that "Your channel is removed from Youtube" and the reason was that I had apparently severely or repeatedly violated "spam, deceptive practices and scams policy".

I don't even remember exactly, but I guess I had one or two videos uploaded, the more recent one maybe 5+ years ago. I will need to check from some old takeout, but probably me and friends bowling for 20 seconds and maybe another video from a bootlooping Nexus10.

Appealed and it changed nothing, the channel/account apparently stays closed. Now my Youtube Premium and Youtube Music also obviously don't work anymore and was just few days ago renewed for next month, so I guess I need to get that money back from the credit card company. Then they probably get mad at me and close my whole account, but I guess that is fair then.

It is surprising how violated I feel like. Closing the account like this, without any way to talk to human beings about what had I done wrong, and if this might be a mistake. Or at least knowing what exactly there was that warranted immediate closing of the account.
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> Is TLA+ simple? I find this hard to accept.

It is very, very simple, and I would say easier to learn than Python, as long as you remember that it is not programming but maths. For example, suppose you specify this function on the integers:

f ≜ CHOOSE f ∈ [Int → Int] :
∀ x ∈ Int : f[x] = -f[x]

What function is it? Clearly, it's the zero function rather than what defining the equivalent "programming function" in, say, Haskell would mean:

f :: Integer -> Integer
f x = -(f x)

> Mathematics is not executable, though, whereas TLA+ is.

It is definitely not executable (i.e. not any more than mathematics is; you can specify executable things in maths and therefore in TLA+, but not everything you specify is executable). You can specify non-computable things (e.g. it is trivial to specify a halting oracle) as well as things involving real numbers. Moreover, when you check a TLA+ specification with a model-checker like TLC, it doesn't actually execute the specification, as it can check a specification of uncountable many executions, each of infinite length in a second.

However, you can certainly write formulas specifying the behaviour of an executable program and simulate it with TLC. But this is because you can use mathematics to describe physical systems, but not everything you can describe in mathematics can have a physical representation.

> "specification of system behavior" sounds like a programming language to me. A systems programming language, even.

A program is, indeed, one way of specifying a system, and TLA+ does allow you to specify an algorithm in this way (because maths allows you to specify programs), but it also allows you to specify systems in very useful ways that are very much not programs. For example, you can specify a component that sorts things without ever writing an algorithm for sorting, which is useful when the details of the sorting algorithm are irrelevant to the questions you want to answer. It's like how you can write a formula that treats planets as point-masses if you're interested in orbital mechanics, yet specify the earth in a much more detailed way if you're interested in predicting the weather.

> even as the language appears nowhere on the TIOBE rankings.

It is not a programming language. While it is true that far more people write programs than use mathematics to reason about physics, biology, or the way software systems behave (especially complicated interactive and distributed systems, which is where TLA+ excels), that doesn't mean such disciplines have no future.
You cannot have soft enforcement of ethical norms without hard entry requirements. That soft enforcement can only be achieved in the context of high trust social groups, which exist in the context of relatively insular cultures.
> The lowest risk option for the herd is that everyone get vaccinated.

If the vaccine was very good at stopping infection and transmission, this would be true. It's not though, is it?

Are you aware of the numbers needed to treat in order to prevent hospitalizations and deaths in the younger cohorts (especially in those who had already recovered)? It's quite a lot. Like numbers you probably wouldn't ever guess if you didn't already know them.

We destroyed a lot of faith in public health in the meantime, adding more to the negative side of the ledger for whatever future infectious shit storm comes our way.