skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess even if he knew he was making weapons, he wouldn't be able to say it... And that's another reason why these companies cannot find workers.
Commercial Fusion Systems
> it kind of massages our ego, like yes, they can measure other sorts of productivity, but not ours, oh no, we're too complex and intelligent, there's no way to measure the deep sorts of work that we do! Which, yes, OK, we're not exactly bricklayers, but surely, if you had to, you could do better.

Productivity is not a cut-n-dry stat for any kind of knowledge work.

For an admin, we could say they were more productive if they handled more cases than last month. But this does not account for tricky cases or ambiguous cases, which might have taken 2x time to sort out but on rote numbers it looks they were less productive.

For us, there are no specific goals(except arbitrary imaginary deadlines by clueless management and sprint points) to correctly measure productivity. A junior engineer may spend 4h each day blasting out many lines of codes, a mid/senior may spend more hours in reviews or meetings. A 5 line PR with test coverage is faster to review than a 800+ LOC PR with additional tests and have significant risk of breaking something, so review number is also not a good indicator. I need to coordinate with min. 12 people to get any new credentials or access to specific env owned by another team, which is not countable as productive but unavoidable. How about that garbage meeting where I was just spending time yawning because some new tech lead who believes that a modular monolith system is better if it was rewritten as event based. Productivity measurement is hard.

To take your envy(I sense it on the quoted remark) to another place, think about how you go about measuring productivity of a CEO, PO, PM, Scrum Master, Agilist/Agile-Specialist etc?
This appears to be intended to be used with lithium primary cells.

Lithium primary cells tend not to get all leaky with age like alkalines do. (They'll keep your remote working approximately forever, too.)
Na, the 3000 sounds the like normal flood of LinkedIn type apply now button presses.

The real number for them is probably the next few parts of the hiring pipeline after those resumes are scanned and filtered.
Only the base salary counts, not the total comp. That 280k/yr sounds like total comp - includes base+bonus+RSUs. The average base would be more along the lines of 150k-190k.
You’re responding to the headline, not the article. The article has a plainly stated thesis: “Even if it could be measured, productivity in software does not approximate business value in any meaningful way”
Elevated levels of PFAS found in several smartwatch wrist bands
Money is the measure of usefulness.

By the way, why suddenly the money=bad sentiment is so popular? I thought USSR example loudly showed us what happens when people think that money is evil.
>It's a ratio of inputs to outputs.. even in the example the inputs and outputs are measurable.

So more lines of code is better!

Um, we know this doesn't work that way as a good measure.

This is like comparing algorithms that do the same thing to algorithms that do different things. You're not going to get good valid comparisons. Metrics for one thing may not work at all for another.
Have already moved to Cursor and realised I was only paying Github for Co-pilot - have downgraded immediately. No affiliation to Cursor, but the results are just a lot better and I don't need to be paying $20 to them AND $10 to co-pilot :/
>less crufty than the old "public static void main(String[] args)" thing. I always felt that was a terrible introduction to programming

I somewhat agree, but it was kind of exciting to learn what each of those previously meaningless words meant.

Kind of a sneak preview... Tune in for next week when we learn what static means!!
I read a bit more. There definitely was introgression of West Eurasian populations into East Africa and Sudan than percolated into West Africans to the tune of about 15 million base-pairs of sequence tagged as Neanderthal. Not sure we have values for how much Yoruban ancestry is now embedded in Mbuti genomes, but it is small. So the flow of Neanderthal genomes into Central African hunter-gathers will sub-decimal dust.

But having said all that, maybe the key point Zimmer is making IS a good generalization.
Sounds like a herculean task . . .
I've used the logitech g305 for at least 6 years now, and thankfully that one lets you write a profile to the chip on the mouse.
Only CBI countries on that list are Grenada (200k+) & Turkey (400k), and USCIS put out a rule specifically for that situation, with additional requirements. From: https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...

> In addition, for those individuals who obtained treaty country nationality through a financial investment, USCIS may require additional documentation to show that the applicant has been domiciled in the treaty country indicated in the application for a continuous period of at least 3 years at any point before applying for E-1 or E-2 classification.

Plus E-2 visa is a non-immigrant visa, so it doesn't give you any kind of special pathway to green card. Might as well apply for an EBx at the outset instead of fiddling with an E-2 visa.
Ok, I can accept that that kind of downweighting or delisting of inconvenient posts is definitely suboptimal, sure.

Does that mean we’re all going to sleepwalk into quoting from The Governance of China? Unless our congress sees us all as dangerously impressionable morons - which I actually seem to think is their opinion of us more and more.. - who lack critical thinking skills to such an extent that we basically shouldn’t even have the option to make up our own opinions in response to feed recommendations… well excuse me for thinking that that is more than a little patronizing.

Ultimately, who is the one most overtly putting their thumb on the scale here…?

- China, if for every 100 Hong Kong related posts on Instagram there are only 0.7 posts on TikTok, or

- USA: delete every single post about every topic.

Do you really actually have the opinion that China is the most censorious here? Really? The possibility that, just maybe, you might be served a video that would embarrass the CCP once in every 500 videos instead of every 100 videos… therefore you are not allowed to view the 499 other videos - no matter what they may have meant to you, or what value you might have derived from them, or what new connections or community you may have been building… well gee, thanks, I guess.

I have to say that when I came across this bit from that article:

“The move resembled a classic strategy of authoritarian governments: burying inconvenient information.”

the sheer lack of awareness of the irony had my eyes just about nearly rolling out of their sockets. If that’s the case then I can’t think of a single more authoritarian move Congress could make than just nuking TikTok outright since it poses an inconvenience for congress? Am I just taking crazy pills here??

Note: whether or not this all ends up being the right or wise move on the state, is not even the place I am really coming from here. It’s just that I haven’t heard a single justification for this ban that actually didn’t either just immediately fall apart under its own internal logical inconsistencies or otherwise just give the impression of a lazy half measure, or possibly blatant corruption, by being such a selective application of law.

In other words, yet more bad law by lawmakers who don’t care about getting it right. Nor will they be the ones to clean up their mess, if it ever does get cleaned up, by setting this precedent.
Streamlined dataflow analysis code in rustc
It’s good marketing for fasteners they would likely spec by default due to tolerances dictated by product size and smaller production runs.
The 'plastic rock' formations off Brazil [1] may be something? Like if advanced civilizations incorporate some element of time/pressure/environments to something, the plastic that has melted, merged, and reformed into rock formations may produce newer elements that turn out to be breakthroughs?

[1] https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-disturbing-remote-i...
That's understandable. I'm into databases (both professionally and personally), so I get to touch a wide variety of things. Following a query the whole way is pretty neat. Typed query --> client --> wire protocol --> network --> server --> DB frontend --> DB planner --> DB storage engine --> OS --> Memory / Disk. `blktrace` is super interesting to watch commands being sent to the disk.
We’ve had a lot of success with our Go library for iso8583

https://github.com/moov-io/iso8583
I realized why this post rubs me the wrong way.

It complains, but doesn't offer a solution. It simply criticizes and says "all engineers cannot and thusly should not be measured".

The ironic thing is, the blog post is implicitly measuring by not explicitly measuring. The measurement is the bug ticket itself and whatever value attached to it.

But to this end, I generally agree. There are qualitative and quantitative measurements. Quantitative is the value of the ticket commonly ascribed by the team (scrum? agile? whatever). Qualitative should come up in review.

Qualitative is SO HARD. Top down? Team 360? Mixed? But it must be undertaken and refined by the team at each level of the org. Otherwise you will run into the exact situation described by the blog post and you won't know how to judge left from right, good from bad. Maybe the blog post's example isn't that great, too much information is missing to make a solid judgement, but you need to decide who to reward via promotion, annual raises and who to reprimand and who to not change.

But still, all systems are terrible, but you must pick one less it be picked for you.
Why not just auction on the candidate's salary instead of paying a tax to the government who will burn your money anyway.
> They're both a good living.

Only someone who has never seen war first-hand can make a statement like that. You've never been in the kill zone.
lmk if anyone has any thoughts...if I could go back I may have not gone through Electron

Doing dimensionality reduction locally posed a few challenges in terms of application size--the idea was that by analyzing just a few thousand randomly sampled points you can get an idea of your data through a local GUI where you interact with your data and see some correlated metadata.

Not sure if there's too much need for an individual GUI to go along with Postgres as a VectorDB, maybe people just do analysis separate from a normal "GUI"? But maybe not.

What you think?
No, this was post 9/11. It has nothing to do with immigration policy. The collective jerking after 9/11 led to many bad policies, including this one. Biden half assedly tried to go back to the pre 9/11 state of "stateside renewal" but it went nowhere.
By the researchers (4 points, no discussion) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42455195
That sounds like a job for contact cleaner, assuming it’s possible to non-destructively get a tube next to the switches.

I’m about to open my second bottle. My first bottle is from the 1990’s.
https://archive.today/Y3SWR
> Linear algebra is a year 2 course in a undergraduate eduation.

From what I’ve seen, the year 2 course is great for graphics programming, game development, that sort of thing. It’s not enough for the tasks that require more serious linear algebra, when you’re working with systems of linear equations, large matrices, etc. These “big” linear algebra problems come up a lot in fields like physics simulation, finance, and machine learning / AI.

I’ve done some hobby work in graphics and game development, and I’ve done some professional work in physics simulation. The kind of linear algebra you use in physics simulation is a different beast.
37signals Dev – Announcing Hotwire Spark: Live Reloading for Rails Applications
Are you one of those people who think that regular modern capitalist societies with any kind of social safety net or publicly funded healthcare are communism?
I mean.. what did you expect? Did you think that they wired electrodes into someone's brain and simulated taste? We're you expecting claims of telepathically communicating taste channels to virtual reality users? Or maybe they managed to upload someone's consciousness into vr, through which delivered virtual taste.

As far as hacker news pedantry goes, this is award winning.
I use an Android phone for 'watch' (time-telling) task, thanks. Before that: several other phones, don't need an analog / digital cufflink on my wrist.
The good ones do and use this as a way to get through the door.
Yes, but that’s like saying there’s no difference between a bicycle and a dump truck because they both have wheels and can go off road. Passkeys make an immediate, significant improvement for security and ease of use, and the disaster scenario is no worse, often better.
Bear in mind that: the author is part of the ruby core team; json is a standard lib gem; the repo from the json gem was in the original author namespace; the repo had no activity for more than a year, despite several quality MRs.

It took some time to track and get the original author to migrate it to the ruby team namespace.

While I'm glad they to all this trouble, there's only a few who could pull this off. Everyone else would flock to or build a narrative.
They're not hiring "the best". They want compliant serfs who are trapped with the promise of a greencard sponsorship someday.
That would work in the short term. In the long term, jobs would leave the USA so companies won't have to deal with immigration uncertainties.
Indeed. And not just survival. The voyage from Elephant Island to South Georgia (800 miles, in the Southern Ocean in an open row boat) is considered by many to be the most remarkable act of seamanship of all time.

And the crossing of Elephant Island by foot - a task never before and -very- seldom accomplished since.

While both relatively short accounts towards the end of the book, either would merit top-10 lists of remarkable achievements.

He didn't get to Antarctica on that voyage, much less achieve the expedition goals. But in truth he achieved an expedition that has resonated so much more.
Pokémon Go saves stranded group after Google Maps fails them
Using Starlink Mini on an R/C boat [video]
Original news article in Norwegian: https://www.nrk.no/norge/pokemon-go-reddet-helga-da-hun-gikk...
Call once, fail.

Chargeback: "attempted to cancel via phone."

Done.
That's my belief on why ADHD has such similar levels of prevalence (between 5%) around the globe despite drastically different cultures and varying genetics. It's great for the group as a whole as the ADHD members tend to be natural entrepreneurs, inventors, etc. However it often sucks for the individual ADHD folks and leads to higher rates of, well, everything. So the equilibrium settles to a stable fraction of the overall population.
The growth is unsustainable argument is very strange to me. We absolutely have the technology to make growth sustainable, but societies choose to go for other things because overall growth and advancement of humanity is not generally a goal at mass individual level.

For example, currently society is busy transitioning to electrified transport. Los Angeles had a vast network of that 80+ years ago (red car light rail system). We also have had nuclear power as an option for a very long time. And yet, red cars were scrapped, rail removed, freeways built, we still burn gas and what not for power, and California has a ban on new nuclear… It’s not that we can’t do all this, it’s that for various reasons we choose not to.

It’s quite human-centric to assume that all other possible civilizations will make the same choices. It seems more likely that there will be as many choices and value systems as there are possible life sustaining planets out there. This doesn’t answer the paradox of course.
Ruby on Rails – 2024 Wrap Up from the Rails Foundation
> Usually card issuers will ask you if you've made any attempt to settle the situation with the merchant.

"I attempted to reach them via phone on or about _____, ___. No remedy was achieved."
Why HNSW Is Not the Answer
If workers are mediocre, management needs to be top notch to deliver great products.

If management is mediocre, workers need to be top notch to deliver great products.

The odds you'll land at a place that have both are vanishingly low. It also takes a lot of work, money and interest to turn a big ball of mud around and no one gets a prize for that, people get a prize for churning out features and bugfixes, so this is what you get, specially because most large scale rewrite projects are utter and complete failures.
Original article: https://earlygame.com/news/gaming/pokemon-go-saves-stranded-...
Well yeah, and there is no support. I've had this issue open for months:

https://github.com/Neoteroi/essentials-openapi/issues/47
Large and Small are so contextual. I'm processing 350m events/day in 24h splits, and I managed to stop worrying about locality of reference because I'm the sole occupant of the machine. When I did worry about it, I found radix tree, awk hash and perl/python hash/dict pretty much all occupied much the same space and time but a tuned C implementation got 2-3x faster than any of them. Somebody else pointed out memory resident for most of this would be faster still but you have to then work to process 24h of things against a single memory instance. Which means buying into IPC to get the data "into" that memory.

It interested me you didn't show the idea in rust. That was the only point I was making: Python as pseudocode to think things in documents is fine with me.

But overall, I liked your outcome. I just think it's important to remember large and small are very contextual. Your large case looks to me to be >5m things and for an awful lot of people doing stupid things, 5m is bigger than they'll ever see. If the target was only people who routinely deal in hundreds of millions of things, then sure.
I don't think that is a great example since it only takes a moment to see the loose bounds C, X = 3, e.

It would be annoying to have to code that kind of statement every time, but it wouldn't add that much to the effort.

Formalizing is still enormously hard, but I don't think that this is the example to hang the argument on.
Well, they don't have the right to define anything, but this isn't a matter of law. "Open source" is industry jargon, it is well-understood in the industry, and very few experts are going to disagree, especially not by many of the people and projects that popularized the term "open source" to a wider audience, like Linux.

They could've chosen a phrase less likely to be mistaken, that was not already in use, and this might've saved us a lot of arguing. But then again, the term "free software" could've won out instead, and things would be even worse. Personally, I think it'll be OK.
Tech isn't a zero sum game, it's a growth market. If some H-1B talent helps grow a company faster, then they can increase their own citizen employee count faster.
I'd consider it equal or better in all regards.

- Top-level functions/main is supported
- data classes are approximately as good as records
- A scripting mode comes built in, and can use annotations to import and use dependencies within the same file
- There's a repl
- The keyword 'var' exists, and the keyword 'val' is more ergonomic than 'final var'

The only thing I remember missing from the article is the implicit imports which I don't remember Kotlin having. Regardless, I'd reach for Kotlin every time. I think funnily enough Java never fully clicked for me until I started using Kotlin, which in many ways is "Java, except many best practices are on by default".
Instabuy. This feature set and open source privacy first mindset is exactly what I want.
Or, a fully biologic solution, even for a space habitat as was envisioned in John Varley's "Gaea" Trilogy: _Titan_, _Wizard_, and _Demon_.
Huh. I bought a Rii brand keyboard/trackpad combo for my couch because logitech and all other brands I’d heard of only have humorously bad form factors or are out of business (like gyration).

Bullet dodged.
If the bank rejects your loan application they will be able, when challenged, to say “you were rejected by this particular model, trained on this particular data which was filtered for bias in this particular way”.

Similarly the tax authorities will be able to say why they chose to audit you.

The university will be able to say why you were or weren’t admitted.
Productivity to me is about choosing the best tradeoff while minimizing the costs of going ahead.
The simplest way to improve the H-1B system is to abolish it.

The better but slightly less simple way is to abolish it (and a bunch of other employment-related visa categories), but also allow individuals who aren’t personally barred from entry because of past misconduct, etc., but who are not eligible (or wish to bypass wait times) for admission under other existing visa categories to pay an fee (which others, including employers, can subsidize if they wish, but gain no special power over future status by so doing) for a limited term, renewable employment-eligible status that becomes eligible to transition to permanent residency automatically after a set time in status. (This also fixes a number of other problems in the immigration system beyond the H-1B.)
Building something that isn't Turing-complete is surprisingly-hard once it's complex enough.

If basal intelligence is present in diverse computational structures, then weak intelligence is everywhere.

If weak intelligence is everywhere, Earth-like planets are everywhere, ... where are the aliens?

Personally, I blame game theory. Too many agents too smart in one place, you get conflicts, and eventually someone breaks an atom apart in your direction.

Or do you need emotions to have conflict? Are there basal emotions?

I'm usually not worried about AI uprisings, but I do believe in the possibility of conflict.
> lets you verify what happened

> It's a mathematical verification tool, not an enforcement mechanism.

enforcement comes from the rubber hose. The maths is what makes the enforcement possible.

Unless you are able to prevent attestations from being made with your machine (presumably against your will).
> To take your envy(I sense it on the quoted remark) to another place, think about how you go about measuring productivity of a CEO, PO, PM, Scrum Master, Agilist/Agile-Specialist etc?

I have no envy; I'm a software engineer as well. I just don't seem to struggle, as others claim to, in measuring productivity. I find it fairly straightforward to see that some people are more productive than others, at least in my workplace where we can hold most things constant (e.g. meeting count, managerial ability, etc, etc). Yes, there may be external factors, and that's unfortunate. Yes, it's not fair that some people are more productive than others despite putting in half the effort. But I'm not going to stick my head in the sand and pretend it's invisible.