skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that the #1 reason people add those "simpler than Lua" homegrown languages in Enterprise is to allow non-programmers to program. This not only has a tremendous cost to develop (compared to something like embedding Lua) but it also creates the worst kind of spaghetti.

One of the most unhinged pieces of software I have ever seen was the one from a fintech I worked with. Visual programming, used by business specialists. Zero abstraction support, so lots of forced repetition. No synchronous function call, so lots of duplications or partitioning to simulate it. Since there were two failed versions, there are three incompatible versions of this system running in parallel and migration from one to the other must be done manually.

The problem is about 90% of the business rules were encoded into this system, because business people were in a hurry. People wanted a report but didn't want to wait for Business Intelligence? Let's add "tags" to records so they appear on certain screens, and then remove them when they shouldn't anymore.

In the end the solution was adding "experts" to use it, but the ones who actually knew or learned any programming would just end up escaping to other companies.
Here's the report [1], written when I was a second year undergrad in 2010.

It's very basic. The species identification is based on matching contours of the spectrogram against some template contour. The multilateration was, embarrassingly, done by brute force by generating a dense 3D grid. At the time, I didn't have any knowledge of Kalman filters or anything that could have been helpful for actually tracking the bats.

[1] https://daniel.lawrence.lu/public/bat-report.pdf
Toxic people do hurt communities though, especially volunteer communities. If you let people be their worst selves, you'll lose a bunch of people who don't want to deal with that.

I wouldn't think that'd be a hard sell here, you've seen the HN guidelines, right? Those and the moderation in practice are a lot of why anyone is here.
And different academic jobs can be mostly research or mostly teaching
If we're talking Star Trek humanity cosplay, our best bet would be to sort out communicators first. We're almost there. It already works reliably, just needs to be made to respect privacy and be completely free.
Time slicing? Being able to effectively 'work from home' may often mean 'work as productively at 7pm as at 2pm'. Working from an office often (not always) implies synchronous work with others, which often is tied to the 9a-5p 'office day'. Companies that embrace 'work from home' usually can accommodate more asynchronous work from folks as well.
Does the link lead to a completely different website for anyone else? The page does not load but the domain is completely different.
I can't argue about gamepad support although I would say it is less desktop territory than console/steam machine territory. But for bluetooth support there are definitely good workaround with those usb class compliant soundcards that autoconnect to nearby bt headset/speakers.[1]

[1] I assume you would want to use bluetooth for audio only because anything else usually sucks and can be done better/faster/more reliably with wifi or USB.
The net code for the original Q3A client worked well for lan, but was sensitive to latency for remote play. One of the exciting changes to Quake Live was the updated net code for better remote play. Internet connections also got better in general with the time.
The writing was already on the wall as soon as the CoC was added. It's nothing but a vehicle for control and abuse.
> This is a terrible assumption when it comes to basic research.

Even trying out things that don't work is progress, since it narrows the space of possible solutions. The only ways to really set back progress would be by getting others to believe something that's untrue, for example by faking research.

You could manage to not advance the field by not publishing a finding and leaving the field. You can slow progress for example by popularizing a path that doesn't lead anywhere, discouraging people from going down the right path, or just reducing popularity or funding of the field. But slowing progress doesn't erase progress. If you do genuine work and at least talk about it with colleagues on a conference that's advancing the field.

> What are you basing this on?

The classic graph everyone uses would be 1, which shows consistent progress over ~40 years. It's a bit out of date now, but I assume the trend has held since then.

> Can you quote the line from the article that renders the title misleading?

I didn't call it misleading, I called it lazy and uninformative. A (mild) form of clickbait, because it merely hints at information without providing any. My English teacher would have deducted points for that title.

1: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Progress-to-Date-in-Achi...
Just because there is an absolute shitshow for C/C++ build systems doesn't automatically make Cargo & Crates.io good.

There is a fundamental philosophical disagreement I have with the NPM style of package management and this method of handling dependencies. Like NPM, Crates.io is a chaotic wasteland, destined for a world of security & license problems and transitive dependency bloat.

But honestly I'm sick of having this out on this forum. You're welcome to your opinion. After 25 years of working, with various styles of build and dependency management: I have mine.
>"Severance is a completely optional practice that is based entirely on what the company wants to do. I would argue that severance is more accurately based on "The lowest safe number to pay to this particular employee to make sure their termination does not become a legal risk."

Almost right! I see it as an extension of what I call the basic rules, "I am as nice to you as you are to me", and "I care exactly as much as you do."

That does, in some cases, expand severance a little beyond the cold risk calculation. If the severance is going to someone who helped the company make it, then helping make sure they make it to their next gig is part of the equation.

Not everyone boils it all down that far, but a whole lot of us do!

Which makes your comment solid, and mine a quibble, but one I consider worthy of some discussion.
I always instantly await all my Tasks/promises. The only problem I have is that I have to type it out and wrap everything in Tasks. If the compiler would just automatically asyncify all the things that would be great, no need for green-threading or messing around with the engine, just hide the ugly details like you do with so many other things, dear compiler.
Your average blue collar workers benefits from the 300,000 corporate Amazonians working from home and staying off the road. He cannot avoid his commute, you can.

And frankly, stop LARP-ing as a “sympathetic to blue collar work” person. God knows you’re probably an executive using them for messaging.

When has anyone on HN ever given a fuck about blue collar workers until RTO, when these mysterious “sympathies” emerged? Of course we should support the working class, but you should’ve started a lot fucking sooner.
What's the relevance? Are you going to embark on a "Let's Educate The Users" mission for parenting?
> but there was a monumental improvement in economic relations after the Soviet Union collapsed, no?

No. None of the sanctions levied against the USSR were lifted and still technically apply to Russia. (Enforcing them is another matter.)

> I don’t think any leader of any country wants to end up like North Korea

North Korea is doing better than South Korea on every metric except "consumer goods availability" and "international relations". Not sure you're making your case here.

> ...or Iran

Iran is more modern, developed and free than any other middle eastern country. (That includes Israel.)

Your ideas are wildly out of sync with actual reality.
There is no HTTP handshake in RFC6455. A client sends a text with a pseudo unique key. The server sends a text with a key transform back to the client. The client then opens a socket to the server.

The distinction is important because assuming HTTP implies WebSockets is a channel riding over an HTTP server. Neither the client or server cares if you provide any support for HTTP so long as the connection is achieved. This is easily provable.

It also seems you misunderstand the relationship between WebSockets and TLS. TLS is TCP layer 4 while WebSockets is TCP layers 5 and 6. As such WebSockets work the same way regardless of TLS but TLS does provide an extra step of message fragmentation.

There is a difference in interpreting how a thing works and building a thing that does work.
That's assuming their stuff even works at all, which I believe there's some reasons to doubt. Perhaps all we'll get working in the end is a honking huge tokamak and then we're exactly in the same situation as fission.

But let's suppose their stuff works as well as they imagine. IMO, not even then. Just look at their youtube videos. All sorts of big, complicated, and expensive looking magic. Huge capacitors, vacuum chambers, extremely high temperatures, etc.

Will that scale better than nuclear? Maybe. Will it scale better than a tech that can be pumped out by the million, shipped to normal people and put on any random roof? Highly doubt it.
Also from that article:

> X's daily active user growth has plummeted from roughly 30% annually just a few years ago in 2020 to less than 2% in 2024, according to new data from X
Funny, I find the expectation of having to immediately join ad-hoc zoom calls, interrupting me while I'm busy working, to be a pretty huge negative.

I miss being able to look over and check to see if someone was busy before interrupting them. I also miss being able to read body language during meetings and not having to stare at the camera the entire time or having people talk over each other repeatedly due to network delays.
I haven’t worked in a revenue positive company for over 5 years. But prior to that, once a year, someone would sit at my desk asking for anything I did was “new” and how so. In the states, any “research” work is a tax write off. I wouldn’t be surprised if Mercedes is using this as well.
OPA 1.0 is coming. Here's what you need to know
Equivalent of here just means they converted the number to dollars.
But Linus isn't honest. I'm sure he thinks he is, but he's not always "objective". So while he thinks he's being honest, what he's saying can be untrue anyway.

And of course he's Linus and you're a nobody so nobody will ever listen to the other side of the completely subjective "facts"
According to elon.
> "All" we need is political action to build more clean power plants

We’re building solar about as quickly as we can, and without cannibalising EV battery supply chains are also maxed out on batteries. Fission power remains uncompetitive with natural gas; you’d have to convince Western consumers to bear higher prices for reduced emissions which nobody is willing to do.
Recipe Generator with ChatGPT
If you knew VW, it has way more people on payroll doing nothing for huge salaries than Imma-fire-80%-of-people Elon. Love him or hate him, he gets shit done.
The rules for working are very very different from being at school.

No you were not cheating, you did what was expected from you. But you knew that.
Utopias are always fantasies. All of them. There is no such thing and never will be. Solve problems and more problems present themselves, often harder ones since we are always swimming against entropy.

That’s life. Life is war against entropy and for the individual at least entropy always wins. We die.

The Internet made countless things better and a few things worse. We notice the things it made worse because humans have a powerful negativity bias, probably because this was adaptive. “Mistake a bush for a lion and you’re fine, but mistake a lion for a bush and you’re dead.” Your ancestors were paranoid enough to survive.

Edit: I do want to add one point on which I am sympathetic. Unfortunately it seems as if politics is a thing the Internet made worse. That’s dangerous because governments have a monopoly on force. Restoring some kind of sane not-hyper-polarized political discourse is probably an existential problem.
Why “surprisingly” about rivians?

Build quality and serviceability of a Toyota is hard to beat though.
Did you read the discussion on the mailing list in question? I advise reading it so you may properly form your own opinion instead of assuming based on headline
From having dealt with him personally, you probably saved yourself a lot of trouble.
Because mandate giving authority doesn’t care about climate change. That’s pretty obvious explanation
For fucks sake, Nobody's comparing anything, I'm just replying to a guy who said "Most major banks did not offer such a rate in a generic mass market liquid savings product."

Just because there exists a few places you can get such interest rates doesn't make that an untrue statement.
Beer Bread
> Organize a week to have all local and international employees together for a week once or twice a year, schedule big organizational meetings and important discussions in that week, sponsor dinner and lunch together, have a team event or three? ... That's actually nice and valuable.

When I read posts like this - however well-intentioned - I just see a person without kids or other responsibilities, who thinks it would be 'fun' to fly out to some town and hang with their colleagues 24/7 for those seven days, and forgetting that for a lot of people this would be difficult or impossible. At home there can be children that need to be looked after, or an elderly parent who needs a visit, or a partner who works nights or a disability that would make this type of 'cool' get-together impossible or extremely stressful.
For anyone else confused (this took me the longest time, skimming the comments and then opening the article): no, indeed, this has nothing to do with GPS. They mean coordinates, not satellites. It's about indexing locations of old maps
You sound pretty negative about it. I know plenty of people who work from home and deal with their kids and enjoy doing so. And some who just seem to dislike their kids regardless of the work situation.

So when folks say they work at home to spend more time with family I take that at face value. I've certainly enjoyed being with mine - not every moment for sure. But I didn't have kids as an obligation, it was a choice and any relationship also requires work, being home with them helps that.
Yes basically. Bird lungs are relatively rigid, open at both ends like a tube, and have a one-way flow of air, so they are less prone to pressure-related injuries. Bat lungs are mammalian lungs that expand and contract as they breathe just like us, so they are particularly vulnerable to barotrauma near wind turbines.

After writing a bunch of MATLAB code to find the bats, I handed it off and haven't heard back about whether they actually built the wind turbines or not.
Do you have a link that explains this? I’m definitely a beginner about this.
Colision with a planet or moon would do it, anything that turns the surface to lava really.
This right here is the reason code of conduct exists: so that everyone agrees on what kind of behavior is out of line before starting to work on the project.
OK WTF ist most of this? How about not targeting the upper market during inflation?

> If I had had this tool when ordering my Porsche 911 a few years ago, I probably would have made a different color choice.

Why not focus on what normal people want, like affordable reliable cars, instead of luxury cars with a dozen computers and screens in it where you need to get something fixed twice a year.

Look at fucking Volkswagen being a whiney bitch about sluggish sales when they focused on the upper market too for the past couple years. They just fired a huge amount of staff. Obviously just from the lower ranks, you know, the folks who actually get shit done, to ensure the coke-sniffing managers can still pay themselves huge bonuses for being dumb idiots making the wrong calls.

In 2019 Robert Habeck (green party) famously said in an interview[1], addressing head of Volkswagen Herbert Diess: "if you can't offer an EV for under 20,000€ by 2025, I fear you'll fail" - seems he was way off - by about a year.

> Volkswagen AG revenue for the twelve months ending June 30, 2024 was $351.396B, a 10.2% increase year-over-year.

But of course VW has enough buddies in politics that we'll probably just get a huge bailout package for poor Volkswagen, and all the managers can congratulate each other and keep going.

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/robert-habeck-...
When nation states no longer see it as a propaganda platform it'll crater.
>If you cannot train your juniors up remotely, that’s a management failing. Why punish them for that?

That's an unnecessarily aggressive and uncharitable read of the situation. While it may be possible to train up juniors remotely, many people (myself included) have given it a serious try and have found it far too risky to be worth the effort. An intellectually honest manager will say "it's not for me, I can't do it," and their higher-ups have to make a value judgment about whether it's worth it to force them into a shape that they're not, or accept that the tried-and-true method of socializing juniors in-person is still valid.

If you're honestly curious as to why it's so hard, my experience is that it's a socialization task: you have to make the junior folks feel like they're part of the team and have standing to ask questions. That's really hard to do when everyone is just words on a screen, or occasionally floating heads on a video chat. Embodied communication has something that gets lost online.
it's portrayed as a bad thing by the union because these phd students doing supervisions/tutorials aren't union members

it really is that simple

phd students love doing supervisions, they literally queue up around the block for the teaching experience and the tax free cash
Hopefully it's about how to make their cars more reliable. /s

Somehow Mercedes owners I know always have their car in the shop complaining how expensive it is to own a Mercedes and how often the fancy little features they have always break down.
sokol_app.h has mobile support
omg that bush is a lion! I'm just gonna jump over here... argh snake!
We'd be in exactly the same place because nobody wants to use an OS-dependent package manager for an OS-agnostic project.

I don't know if you noticed but no modern languages use Linux packages to provide dependencies, because that obviously sucks balls for many reasons.
Go on? I'm interested in your point, but not completely sure what you mean. That AI is using a lot of energy? Yes, I think it is too. What are the implications of that? Or did you mean something else?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Their GDP is growing faster that all other major Western Economies

Growth that depends entirely on government spending can only last so long... First you blow all your reserves, then if/when you start printing money and hyperinflation kicks in even if the nominal GDP in the domestic currency appears to be rising, real GDP falls fast.

Because Russia's essentially a petro-state, they had sizable cash reserves with which to prop up their economy. Now you can see with the price of the Ruble that they've run out of the will to prop it up using foreign reserves (probably running low on foreign currency) and most estimates of their economic growth is that it'll stall or they'll see a recession for 2024 and beyond.

> The US & EU are not serious about winning this war, mostly because they don't have confidence in themselves that they can.

You're right that the west isn't serious. It's not that they don't think we can, it's that they're afraid the slightest hit to our living standards will erode support. While they might be right, we're sleepwalking into an even worse scenario...
What has changed to make you think it’s finally really close now? I found the short article a little light on details, although as a layman I have noticed people seeming cautiously excited about ITER and speaking about SPARC as if its near-term promises may be credible.

Are there other signals that you’d point to as influencing your shift to optimism?
Exactly this. If we drop the cost per kWh by half, the market will respond. The market doesn’t ultimately care about the planet which is why we need govt but bringing the price per kWh with clean fusion kills two birds with one stone.
> I've toted around a laptop with whole disk encryption for > 15 years and never lost data.

me too. Until I did. Negative anecdotes in a discussion about rare events are unhelpful.

My point is not that journaling is useless and should be dropped (I only use openBSD in things that are either readonly storage or virtualized on a host which does have proper FS). My point is that the "new setup" used by most distros introduced a lot of things that are above the journal. We have been rocking FDE for over 10yr, but the mass of people with crappy hardware and who just unplug their computers are only exposed to FDE for the past couple years.
I guess the question would be that assuming the US was to dominate the technology, is that more profitable than a steady stream of revenue from oil exports?

Building fusion plants would be a massive money maker initially as everyone races to adopt it, but is it a long term money maker when no doubt other nations will be trying to cash in on it themselves.
As long as the behavior is adequately specified or described just like one would do in terms of behavior modification, then yeah, that works!
It’s a management limit. I’m not sure it’s a failing. I’m a pretty good manager and I’ve worked with some great ones. All of us are better with access to frequent informal communication, shared meals, and walking.

This isn’t about punishment: it’s about how we organize ourselves if we want to create together. I write LARPs collaboratively, and I play tabletop RPGs, too—and those are more fun and more productive and creative in person.
I mostly blog for myself. It helps me clarify my thoughts and really understand what I'm writing about. It also helps me remember myself as I was 5 or 10 years ago.

If it weren't public, I don't think I'd do it. I've rarely kept a journal or diary.

I hear you about AI, though. Aren't there headers you can add to dissuade those crawlers?
I've noticed companies that recruit on LinkedIn marking roles as remote, then at the very bottom of the long job description it mentions that it is in fact not remote. I could see someone making it through the initial calls without it coming up. I'd go so far as to say some companies may use it as a backhanded tactic.
So "CoC committee" recommends refusing pull requests because their author was rude when arguing technical issue with someone who appears to be incompetent?
Am I getting this right?
Using (only) a Linux terminal for my personal computing in 2024
Also other families that are in the same boat and trade pickup days, etc.

This is also how you build community, so has many benefits beyond cost.
I have worked at a very ubiquitous large tech company and the file all data science team salaries as a tax write-off. because we are part of the r&d team, you might see yourself as being in the rnd team in your company HR management tool specifically for this reason
Yeesh this is full of red flags…
Code communities are very democratic, they produce good code and good coders.

Democracy is good governance not a dictatorship of a majority.

A benevolent dictatorship is said to be a most efficient form of government, until it ushers in a non-benevolent dictatorship.

Democracy is not perfect but relatively sustainable in that there is a peaceful mechanism for change and a means of consensus.

Small communities don’t need too many rules but in time as they grow it becomes necessary.