skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. Hollywood and Wallstreet are great examples. Also the founders of Google and Facebook. It's no coincidence. Though I'm not sure this is nepotism as much as it is organized clan behavior.

I think Indians are even more so but there it's about caste and not just being Indian.

Humans are weird.
Nice! I had a maxed out 2015 MBP and that too lasted a long time. After Mojave, it started to really show its age though.
You assume they all shared the same tech stack
This USA centric view doesn’t hold any water when you look at how much inflation there has been all over the west. If anything, you should find an explanation for why USA had lower inflation than many other countries.
It cuts both ways. That's why I wrote "can entice". Nobody knows what the exact calculus is, that's why breaking status quo is so dangerous.
I just have a high-degree of curiosity and a tendency to email random people and see if they'll respond. And I got on the Internet in 1986 so I've been around a while.

Fun story about that. Back in 1996 Nicholas Negroponte wrote a column in Wired lamenting the fact that laptop batteries didn't show their charge state. This mattered because all of us who travelled a lot carried multiple batteries to switch them in our laptops (some laptops could have two batteries at once allowing hot swapping without a shutdown). See: https://web.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/Wired/WIRED4-12.html: "I now carry eight to ten battery packs during long trips. I won't even consider a laptop design that includes unstackable batteries. The fact that most batteries don't indicate their charge state is pathetic."

I emailed Negroponte with my solution: before a trip I'd charge all my batteries up (I think I had five) and I had numbered them by writing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 on them with a sharpie. Then, I'd simply use them in numerical order. He graciously replied something along the lines of "Sometimes the best solution is the simplest".
so in the event of effective sanctions on a country, where the tariff is effectively infinite making the amount supplied go to zero… this should be even better for the country affected?
He also easily brushed aside the Republican contenders during the primaries so I think it is a bit more than voters can't stand woke democrat policies.

All of the character issues were raised and known during the Republican primaries and they still selected him as their candidate.
The borrow checker is definitely a pain, but it stops being such a pain once you design your types around ownership and passing around non-owned pointers or references or indexes.
More software is written than kept. It's harder to write useful software than to configure CI/CD. The latter is a problem that has been solved before, whilst chances of any software codebase being useful enough that it is even worth maintaining are very low.
I wonder if it will ever be safe to have a public website again? It still remains that the only way to protect yourself against having your stuff ingested by an AI is to not have it on the web.
Wow, what a negative, pessimistic comment. It just makes me sad to read.

Here you have a bunch of software engineers doing something none of us were brave enough to do, forming a union, fighting for their rights, striking when they're being ignored.

Then they have a hackathon to build a few things in a few days, symbolizing the power of software! Look at all the cool stuff they made in just that time.

How else would you have wanted it to go?
It's not ridiculous at all, or koolaid, to quote Trump on his own policies.

People aren't fear mongering about Trump dissolving the department of education, for example. He said he would.

People are also not fear mongering about Trump deploying the military on US soil to clean out immigrants and naturalized citizens. He said he would.

People are also not fear mongering about Trump surveilling and punishing women who go out of state to get an abortion. He said he would.

People are not fear mongering when they say Trump will remove insurance protections that grant access to gender affirming care and PrEP. He said he would.

This will directly result in many women dying, many homosexuals dying, and many trans people dying. This isn't up for debate, so don't bother trying.

If you won't even listen to Trump on the things HE'S saying, why did you vote for him? This isn't rhetorical - if you don't agree with the things I've just said, why did you vote for him?
> * "Macros work different in most languages. However they are used for mostly the same reasons: code deduplication and less repetition." That could be said for any abstraction mechanism. E.g. functions. The defining features of macros is they run at compile-time.

In the context of the blog post, he wants to generate structure definitions.
This is not possible with functions.
I loved the gameplay on "Her Story". I don't know if I finished the game, it really didn't matter anyway.
This sounds like it could really threaten the company:

> "based on Intel’s sales, there are hundreds of thousands or millions of proposed class members."

Does that mean billions in potential damages?
No, unless turning consumer products into data center use becomes relevant at large scale.

There was a time when companies and research labs bought Sony PS2 (and the PS3) to build supercomputer clusters. Japan placed export controls on the PS2 because they had militarily-useful computing power. According to DIA report 4,000 PS2 units had been purchased in the United States and shipped to Iraq in just 2-3 months during 2000.
Python suffers by having been created by an evil corporation?

Have I missed something GvR or his team did?
> the Q&A was never good security in theory

The 'security questions' were never about 'security' (at least not directly). As you say, they simply created a "backdoor".

They were always about: "automated forgotten password recovery".

As in, the companies did not want to employ telephone workers to handle the inevitable "I forgot my password, can you let me back in" calls [1]. They were only ever meant to allow for "reset password" via 100% automated means". That's why the questions are often so much of a sort of "ok, anyone who knows X, or does a little research on X, can figure out that answer" type. They were just that way because that also (hopefully) meant the "I forgot my password" users would not also forget their "recovery question" answer.

[1] Or, much more likely, bean counters realized that the call center size (and expense) could be reduced by 87.4% if we (bigco X) implemented a way to automate handling all those "I forgot my password" callers.
I've been using Thunderbird as my default email client for about 15 years. Despite multiple attempts to switch to other clients, I always end up coming back to it. I’m not sure if it’s just out of habit or if it’s genuinely that good. One thing I really wish for is for "Send Later" to be a built-in feature instead of relying on plugins, which I find unintuitive for such a simple function. Either way, big kudos to the Thunderbird team!
What a cool thing! They're so brave to form a union and strike in the first place, nobody does that, I have mad respect for these workers. Then they go and build some cool sh*t while they wait? Heck yeah!

If you're reading this, I'm rooting for ya'll :)
I see that we have moved on from Denial to the second D of avoiding accountability: Deflection. I wonder if Attacking will be next in a pivot to DARVO, or Diffusal?

It's not my imagination, it'd Donald Dump's own words:

"I will sign a new executive order instructing every federal agency to cease all programs that promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age. [...] I will ask Congress to pass a bill establishing that the only genders recognized by the United States government are male and female and they are assigned at birth."

"I think the bigger problem are the people from within. We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And I think… and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard or if really necessary by the military"

“It’s so bad they should lose their license, and they should take ’60 Minutes’ off the air”

And frankly, I'm glad that I care about things that may affect people other than me. It means I'm probably not a narcissist.
Think it was a just a gamble. They have lower latency edge CDNs than literally everyone else in tech, so they’re in the best position to deliver cloud gaming. And this approach enabled them to roll it out to all user devices without needing any software upgrades.

It’s a neat idea, but the games they made simply aren’t fun.
The fact is that the economy is not bad right now.

People are mad about their perception of the economy, but the economy is fine. Once their team is in, their perception will change over night.
> mostly squandered it due to terrible leadership.

My impression was this was the game industry in general. Some of the management credentials / experience I've seen. Specifically, lack thereof.

Just because it's a creative endeavor shouldn't excuse all norms of effective management. (*cough* chrisroberts *cough*)
If anyone does this it's all going to be for theater. What a ludicrous concept.
> My worst experiences universally have always been python projects. I don't think I've had a single time where I cloned a python project and had it just work.

I'm curios if you can spot a pattern in the platform (win/osx/linux), type of project, or is it all over the place?

My own experience with Python boils down to creating a virtualenv, installing the deps, setting up configuration (or just copying it from somewhere) and creating a database, and I'm off to the races. The only exception in recent memory was when a project had two dozen microservices, half of the codebase was on private package repository, and we used Poetry. The combo required somewhat more involved setup. That said, IIRC all the projects had fully pinned package versions (package==x.y.z).

In contrast, every time I touch something in JS land I get the same experience you described for Python. On one project we literally copied node_modules across machines (including servers), because it was unbounded amount of time trying to do a full reinstall. Anecdotally, amount of churn in JS is much higher, and the maintenance load increases proportionally.

Usually it's something like:

- have a project in JS with some dependency X that's no longer on the bleeding edge, but works nice

- want to depend on a new package Y for some new feature

- the new package Y depends on a library Z that's higher than what the other dependency (X) can work with

- try to update the original dependency (X)

- wailing, gnashing of teeth, and considering the switch to agriculture instead

In my experience, if you're not closely tracking the bleeding edge, upgrading packages and updating your code accordingly, your JS developer experience will be abysmal.

Agree on the CD part, especially the fragility and more manual work than if the deploy is some manually driven (semi-)automated process.
This is a true testament to the maturity and popularity of the Plasma desktop. Congrats to the KDE community! Plasma is an awesome desktop environment and really serves a great purpose!

- A Fedora Workstation user
I personally love terraform. It's easy to use and actually it's rigid framework allow to make less mistakes/way more readable than pulumi
They were referring to the Sun.
How much of that just hides complexity? I remember back in the day hiding a large amount of complexity behind vagrant.

A new dev could get up and running quickly with "install vagrant; vagrant up", but that was hiding a lot of complexity behind a very leaky abstraction.
Strange that you bracket don't like/don't understand together like that.

The vast majority understand abstractions just fine, though each takes time to understand. However most people like their own abstractions best, and those of other people less. To me hell is living in a world of bad abstractions created by someone else.

Every abstraction created adds to cognitive load when reading the code and to the maintenance burden of that code. So you have an abstraction budget, which is usually in overspent IME and needs to be carefully controlled. Most of the most horrible codebases are horrible because they have too many of the wrong sort of abstraction.
Looks unreadable and reminds me of Factorio.
The article is not about toddlers. It is about adult children.
Did you paste the wrong link? That’s a population growth map, not immigration specifically? Also it’s from 2022…

I mean you might be right or wrong but declining population in California doesn’t mean that a lot of immigrants are moving there (and I of course wasn’t talking about all
immigrants in general but rather people who might be on HN which aren’t exactly a random sample).

> Hoping someone is dead is very much in poor taste imo

Is it? Much more extreme rhetoric is perfectly normalized and accepted these days in the US these days..
I think that it would be a way to get the US closer to popular vote aligning with the election result, and in a way that allows states to make the change themselves instead of requiring a constitutional amendment or somrthing. You'll never get exactly the same as the popular vote because you're rounding to integers, but it gets reliably close.

More interestingly, this scheme reduces party power inside states, so the incentive is for each individual state not to want to do it even though on the whole it's better, and instead the current status quo is the stable configuration, so getting states to want to do this is basically impossible. Think about it: if every state did this, then one state said "nope, we are winner take all again" that state could decide elections. So this is a system that is easy to implement by states, requires no US constitution amendments or anything like that, but works in such a way that no state would for fear others wouldn't. Interesting game theory here, it's very similar to a tragedy of the commons.

Alternatively, there's a proposed amendment to the US constitution called the equal apportionment amendment, that was passed 200 years ago but never ratified by the states, that changes the way the house of representatives is apportioned, such that among many other improvements, will change the way electors are apportioned in presidential elections. You don't need every state to ratify it because you only need 3/4ths of states to do so, many of which already have, it's binding on all so no worry about any one backing out, and you don't need congress to vote on it because they already did and voted yes centuries ago. It has other benefits too, like reducing the prevalence of 2 parties in the house and therefore elsewhere potentially, and increasing the fair distribution of representation in the house, which suffers from a similar problem as the electoral college.
Parallelized integrated nested Laplace approximation for fast Bayesian inference
"How do I know if they are "pointing me in the right direction"?"

How do you justify complaining about how little they wrote for you when you will ignore them anyway, because "how do I know they are pointing me in the right direction?"

You can't have it both ways at the same time.
Gen X broke hard for Trump. Few in that generation agree with any of the culture nonsense the current Dems support. She couldn't give us her opinion on taxpayer funded gender reassignment surgery for illegal aliens in prison? Come on, hard pass. Millenials keep dems afloat at this point.
Interesting..! I've had something very similar happen on Fedora running btrfs, too.. No hardware failures (drive was great, still run it to this day a year later), no kernel panics, the partition just stopped booting out of the blue, with the rescue shell also being completely broken.
I think I almost managed to get some of my files back, but after an error on my part it corrupted itself to the degree where the only answer you could find online was something like "just give up, no one can help you now :(".
Lost a bunch of important data and still a bit mad about it, but at least now I'm back on NixOS with ext4 with no issues so far!
Maybe the person reading the application was not aware of the competition either.
3D FDM printers need much higher bandwidth, because their controller need to make PWM for motors control, and for other things.

Yes, one could make 3D printer without PWM, but it will be extremely slow, or even cannot do some things.

With modern microcontrollers this problem resolved by using interface just for high level commands (all low level control performed by microcontroller), but on early machines used computer as controller and they have to deal with this.

I have some experience with modern FDM and SLA, and I seen many cases, when FDM was severe limited with microcontroller PWM range.
I can't even imagine how Scrum could ever align with the Agile values for it to be abused and transformed. IMO, that part is impossible, and Scrum was always a "bad-management by the numbers" framework.

Anyway, I've hear phrases like your example since some time around 2001. Agile was practically born with a parasitic consulting market intent on having the one true way to do it, and that way being what middle-managers adept of micro-managing want it to be. In fact, I think those consultants were the ones that pushed the word around, without them we wouldn't even have heard of the manifesto.

That's to say that, yeah, I do agree with your comment, but the actual problem is deeper, and harder to fix. Scrum and bad processes are just symptoms here.
> Apple frequently stiffs people on the security bounty.

Having seen the receiving end of a bounty program of a relatively small SaaS business it's shocking to see how many people are abusing such a program with irrelevant or plain false 'vulnerabilities' and keep begging for a bounty (even when it's clearly stated it's impossible to send money to their countries).
I can't imagine how many filters Apple has to employ to just get rid of the noise and get something of value from such a program.
Were the PS2s shipped to Iraq for computing or just for soldiers to play during their down time? I feel like the latter is far more likely, especially since we know that soldiers had access to game consoles for recreation.

I can't imagine what general purpose software they'd have wanted to run on a PlayStation 2 from 2000 that they couldn't run on a general purpose laptop in 2004.
You don't even need to buy a subscription to watch netflix shows.
> still doesn't do even basic Pascal enumerations

The term you are looking for is sum types (albeit in a gimped form in the case of Pascal). Enumerations refer to the value applied to the type, quite literally, and is identical in Pascal as every other language with enumerations, including Go. There is only so much you can do with what is little more than a counter.
> 40 monkeys escape from research facility in South Carolina

They just headed for D.C. /s
There's also:

- https://thenounproject.com/

- https://ionic.io/ionicons

- https://iconoir.com/

- (If you're using React): https://mui.com/material-ui/material-icons/
I think GNOME is what you get when devs think of themselves as "opinionated" and keep trying to chase the latest trends in UX.

The thing I like about KDE is that they adhere to the classic tried-and-true desktop experience while being ready and willing to accept that everyone has different preferences that they should accommodate. That is pragmatism, and that is treating your users with respect. (Whereas the GNOME philosophy is more, "our way or the highway.")
Fast to compile, fast to run, simple cross-compilation, a big standard library, good tooling…

As ugly and ad-hoc as the language feels, it’s hard to deny that what a lot of people want is just good built-in tooling.

I was going to say that maybe the initial lack of generics helped keep compile times low for go, but OCaml manages to have good compile times and generics, so maybe that depends on the implementation of generics (would love to hear from someone with a better understanding of this).
Surely microplastics play a role. They are hormone disruptors. And as we've seen, they are in practically all human sex organs now.
Nissan cuts 9k jobs and goes into 'emergency' mode
Golang was created specifically so that Google could mitigate the downsides from lower their hiring standards. It doesn't have any higher design aspirations.

"The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt." - Rob Pike

I suppose in a sense this is rejecting the "keyboard jockeys", but probably not in the way you mean.

You cannot separate the tool used to solve a problem from the problem itself. The choice of tool is a critical and central consideration.
Because war is more complicated than this simplistic discourse.
I'm sure their marketing department found it irresistible! "AI", "Apple Intelligence" - yep, irresistible. Wonder if they used Apple Intelligence to come up with the name? Maybe Apple Intelligence found the name too irresistible!
In neighboring Nederland, all healthcare is privately insured and administered but the costs are capped by the government with small increases for inflation every year. Having insurance is also mandatory so nobody is left out. If you can’t afford it, the welfare system also picks up your monthly premium.

For people who use more resources, there is an annual deductible of around €500 per person that resets with the new year. After you pay the deductible, the rest of your care and medication is free.

Personally, now living here 2 years, I think it’s a good system that compromises in many of the right areas. My biggest complaint is that your GP is the gatekeeper to all other care, so if you are certain you need to see a specialist, you’ll need to convince your GP first. That all fine and dandy when we’re talking about an ENT doctor for example, but hella annoying when you need to get a referral for a therapist that is covered by insurance. The Dutch drug prices are also ridiculous (allergy meds and other specialized OTC drugs are insanely expensive) but luckily I can order them online from Germany for much more reasonable tariffs! ;)
The calculation is a bit different for a dictator though.

They won't be affected personally (unless the country rebels against them) so they can be fine to tank the economy if it gets them closer to some other goal (such as megalomaniac world domination).
Maybe so, but some leadership is more terrible than others. In the five or so years that Amazon has been seriously trying to do AAA games they've cancelled four of them, launched a live service game only to put it back into closed beta when it flopped and then killed it outright, and now have six active projects in varying degrees of development hell with no release windows. The few games they have managed to actually ship are mid at best.

They also spent god knows how much money on a no-strings-attached CryEngine license to use as a basis of their own in-house fork, which was such a flop internally that they ended up just open sourcing it to zero fanfare. I don't think anyone is using it, even for free.
Nothing is off the table now.
Sigh ...

Normally, I ignore obvious troll comments, but I do have respect for your expertise, so I'd like to ask for some enlightenment. If I'm wrong, the only way to find out, is to ask how.

Thanks!