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> was talking about career/life strategies. i believe that what worked for your generation isn't as sure a thing for my generation

My generation for the most part never will work for a FAANG or get equivalent compensation because we aren’t going to grind leetcode and do what it takes.

I would never have gotten into one if it weren’t for the very thin needle I threaded and I definitely wasn’t going to sell my big house in the burbs to move to Seattle to be an SDE (what the recruiter originally suggested).

There are plenty of people who post here who are under 30 and will make more than I will ever make. I’m not bitter. Like I said at 50, I can afford to purposefully prioritize lifestyle over chasing money and eschew opportunities to make more.

My Generation didn’t have the chance of graduating from college and getting a job making an (inflation adjusted) almost quarter million working for BigTech or the equivalent company back then. Many in my generation came in during the dot com boom and it took years for us to recover and some never did (I didn’t suffer any ill effects from the crash).

From looking at LinkedIn, none of them are or have ever worked for a company paying as much as my former coworkers at BigTech are making 3-4 years out of college.

The generation graduating post 2010-2012 has way more opportunities to make a lot of money.
Except it is of type number, at least in JavaScript.
When people say "staring daggers", do you think they are actually trying to stab someone?
> do they?
Yes, it's plainly obvious that some people feel some guilt for eating meat.

Regular hunters != industrial-level slaughtering. There are plenty of "regular hunters" who only eat meat they kill themselves. This is like saying if I cut down a single tree on my property I should also support the clear-cutting of the rainforest.
I mean it's true I said tens of thousands of sales, but I supposed people could understand that as hyperbolically meaning "having a significant level of success already, without an agent", which it seems to me all of your examples are just variations of that particular magical 50-shadeish type of thing.
Preview implements a subset of the full capabilities of PDF, and in particular it does not implement the javascript interpreter.
Los Angeles Fire Damage Likely to Be Costliest Blaze in U.S. History
I doubt they need to, really.

The browser market is essentially:

64% Chrome. Installed by default on Android, also popular on desktop.

22% Safari. Installed by default and impossible to change on iOS

5% Edge. Installed by default on Windows, and pushed aggressively.

3% Samsung. Installed by default on Samsung devices.

2% Firefox

3% Other

Opera, Brave and suchlike don't appear to be threatening Chrome's market dominance. Why cut them off, when they're helping keep competition law regulators asleep?
> git reset will reset the state of the branch to a previous state by dropping all the changes post the desired commit...

Not necessarily. For some reason, the author decided not to discuss "git reset --soft", which retains the changes. I use this command frequently.
That is confidently incorrect
I think you might want to heed the advice about privacy regulations in the other threads.

Just thought, I'd share what I think about the substance of the idea (not the implementation). I think a big untold story in the US healthcare system is how it shifts the burden of coordinating care to patients and/or their loved ones.

To be sure, there is a lot of decisions that the individual (or their NoK) should be making but the amount of paperwork that flies around and lack of coordination between say an insurance company and the provider is astounding. This becomes very pronounced for every corner case and the entire machinery is wired to record things in myriad systems but somehow not make things better when it comes to the core outcomes -- providing healthcare. Every entity in the food chain is out to (and does!) make a buck. Meanwhile, there is a wait time of > 30 days to meet one's primary care physician over a video chat!

So, I absolutely LOVE your idea. The implementation probably requires a lot of iterations here. One suspects that there are ways in which a consumer facing app could make some real money to level the playing field in favor of the patient while being a sustainable busienss.
Could you elaborate?

While I am no fan of Python's backwards approach to multi-core programming, asyncio achieves concurrency when a coroutine reaches out to the operating system for network calls. So while two tasks in asyncio are awaiting a return from a long running network call, the operating system can be running the network calls concurrently.
The actual conclusion: what the media spoonfeeds you is not science.
Meta is highlighting a splintering global approach to online speech
At this point, do they even need human moderators? Can't they just remove them with AI to save cost?
> as opposed to people explaining how they want Apple to take their freedom away, because freedom is dangerous

May I be the first to reply that I am glad that this works in neither Safari nor Preview.app :)
i recently discovered that the Canadian government depends on this for some fillable forms, because it shows a message at the top that says "JavaScript is disabled" and all the boxes show errors. i couldn't get it to work on Linux and had to dust off a Windows machine (and it still didn't work in firefox, it needed acrobat reader).
That sounds plausible. I think that definition is equivalent to a number being rational.

> To me, this pretty much captures what people understand the numbers to be used for outside of college math (so no transfinite, cardinals etc.)

I'm in my fourth year of mathematics right now. I guess I'm not in the target group of articles such as these :P
They're not vulnerable in any way that matters. If you manage to get a device in range you can... turn my lights on and off? You can't program them to do malicious things over the Internet. They don't have any sensitive information you can access. There's no damage you can do them.

The problem with saying you need auth and crypto is now you just added a bunch of complexity you have to maintain and update and hence now you've introduced vulnerabilities.
I'm not sure if I understand a question. You mean how could wealth help with disapearing of polio?
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I don't want to repeat other comments here; but this app smells of a very dangerous attitude: Built with love by novices with grand intentions, with complete blindness to the real consequences that happen when novices are ignorant in their field.

If your goal is to "find a learning project," I suggest finding a very different "learning project." Otherwise, keep "Kate's app" private, word-of-mouth, invite-only for under 20 people.

The 1980s and 1990s are long-gone, you can no longer "learn as you go" when the consequences of your application malfunctioning have real-world implications.

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A few years ago, my employer used an HR app that appeared built by a novice. In that time period; they sent me a PDF with tax information for half the people in the company; and then they royally screwed up the tax information sent to the IRS for me.
I did it for a couple of years and it was getting worse. It got better with rest and walking.
I saw vanc_cefepime's comment and wanted to add my own condolences. Here's more:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/1gk19gm/ttecks_pro...
I wanted to comment on that persistent data point that on Apple platforms, you’ll have NSUserDefaults (objc) and UserDefaults.myVar (Swift). It works just like the author wishes. Other than single thread access, there’s no major problems with it. If you design your program in a way that it falls apart if the use of it is not regulated, that’s on you.
Have you used the asyncio logger and debug mode?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-dev.html
So HIPAA isn't rocket science and HHS provides plenty of HIPAA guidance. Kate's App isn't providing healthcare so HIPAA doesn't apply.
Which one do you have? A friend recommended Satisfactory but all I have is a 5970 and an M4 Pro lmao
didn't work in safari's embedded reader. no text either, just a blank page. or did i not wait long enough?
There is a non-zero chance I will be part of the stand-in pool for the USA in the next 4 years :) It's not gonna help anything, but you know
A really dumb camera that just has an interface that's polled for data by a remote host is more likely to be used in a secure way than a 'smart' camera that tries to remember state and talk to an external server itself.
Sorry for late reply, exactly that yeah - so the browser doesn't complain. I'm not worried about the security of HTTP over wireguard or anything like that. And domain names are easier to remember than ports so... http://raspberrypi:8123/ vs homeassistant.raspberrypi.local (or something)
Houses almost all use wood framing. Rarely they use steel framing, which is more expensive and provides worse insulation. None use concrete or masonry because it is illegal to build a house that will collapse during a M7-8 earthquake. Like Japan, construction style in the western US is driven primarily by the requirement to be extremely seismic resistant, since that is a predictable and unavoidable risk.

In Southern California, it is typical to have tile roofs and stucco exteriors, which helps protect against the embers that will rain on your house during a major wildfire.
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As someone who worked in the ad measurement space for over 15 years: we have no idea what is effective. Advertising measurement is a morass of misaligned incentives.

The marketers at a company that buys advertising do not get their bonuses because of effective, accurate ad measurement. They get their bonuses because their advsrtising "worked". How do they know it worked? By hiring a third party wo uses statistics to estimate an almost entirely unobservable thing: how many widgets were bought that would not have been bought in the absence of advertising.

Well guess what, there are many vendors that offer these "measurement" services, and when you debut a provably more accurate measurement methodology than your prior one, but the results are lower than the less accurate one? You lose business to companies that give better (i.e., higher) results.

This is easily solvable: ad measurement should be accountable to the CFO and not the CMO. The CFO cares if advertising wastes money; the CMO gets their bonus if the advertising "worked".

A few years ago, Freakonomics Radio [1, 2] had a very good 2-part overview of recent ad research done by the University of Chicago [3] and other academics. Their research, which is divorced from the same misaligned incentives I cited above found that ad effectiveness is vastly overstated. At that year's advertising research industry conferences, where some of the academics were invited to speak, they were pilloried by the research heads at some of the biggest people in the ad research industry.

It's all super fucked.

[1] https://freakonomics.com/podcast/does-advertising-actually-w...

[2] https://freakonomics.com/podcast/does-advertising-actually-w...

[3] https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/why-power-tv-advertising...

I'll add a little more: the vast majority of statistical tools used in ad measurement are basic basic things that have zero hope of extracting causal relationships between ad exposure and behavior. Even many of the more advanced tools have issues with the fact that advertising is usually targeted in one way or another, thereby creating a bias in your test group.

Add to that the fact tbat advertisers commonly time their ad spending with times of peak seasonality or big sales, thereby creating all kinds of endogeneity problems gor a would be statistical researcher. Third, consider the walled gardens: so much advertising happens in them that it is nearly impossible to get a full view of whether your control group is truly unexpsoed to advertising. Fourth, there are vast difficulties in linking online behavior to brick-and-mortar purchase outcomes.
Finally, consider the notion that the advertisements qnd advertised products themselves change quite frequently: the results of one ad study are not necessarily applicable to future behavior.

As i said: we really have no idea beyond very basic notions what truly works and what doesn't. Some advertising very likely works; others very likely dont.
Here is my response to the post on Hacker News.

https://substack.evancarroll.com/p/hacker-news-where-the-bil...
> Also, are there online scans of the tablets? Maybe the problem is not the scarcity of scholars, but gatekeeping?

With a few minutes of searching the internet, you would not have written that inappropriate question.

Tablets are 3D objects which are most often eroded and broken. A plain photography, like one would make for a sheet of paper, is useless in the general case. To bring out the cuneiform characters, the light must be raking the surface. And don't forget that that surface can be concave, and text can go over the sides. Most tablets need many photos with different lights. It's a long and hard work that is not automated.

Guess what, Scholars have heard about AI. If AI could help them publish astonishing papers and push forward their career, do you really think they wouldn't rush to it?
ah yes, using a badly done browser from some unidentified randoms, who can't even put up binaries correctly and are trademarking infringing the most famous ad blocker, is definitely a good way to improve your security posture.
Ideally it shouldn't take more than 4 hours, but even then is it that different than traveling to a different city for an onsite day of whiteboard interviews?
The problem I often run into is people equating “we need to replace this” with “it never should have existed”.

Whether it needs to be replaced or not has absolutely nothing to do with how it got there in the first place. Yes, maybe the company avoiding bankruptcy due to your clever kludge. Thank you for your service. But today we are tripping over your kludge left, right, and center. So it gots ta go.
It doesn't take much to get decent physics :

https://mattermodeling.stackexchange.com/questions/9541/lenn...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennard-Jones_potential

With the right parameters you get to see the solid and fluid phases of matter !
I think he meant it's a similarly blurry term
Factorio has "loaders" but they're not enabled in the default game, but easy enough to add with a mod (some do as part of the mod, some enable just them, some even try to make them balanced).

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/loaders-modernized or https://mods.factorio.com/mod/vanilla-loaders-hd or this one made by a Wube developer: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/aai-loaders
The paper covers technical details and the logistics of AI Agents to come. But how are humans going to react to mass AI Agents replacing other human emotion and connection? Bias is central in tech-culture to only agents, but this could become an issue.
A perfectly reasonable concern.
And yet it all too often gets applied in places where it is objectively stupid.
Yep, they'll walk all over whoever they can, until they receive just enough bad publicity or pushback, and suddenly it's not an issue anymore.
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My experience with ORMs is that most of the time you end up needing to write some queries by hand, in raw SQL. Usually these are the most complex, that you can't express in your ORM's DSL. My point being, I don't think using an ORM really shields you from having to learn how it works behind the scenes.
> But for now, you can presume the Netflix button on your TV remote can't be configured to point to an alternative API if Netflix goes away. :)

It is HackerNews, so your statement is true UNLESS you're willing to hack your TV. (But this shouldn't be a thing people _have_ to do... ):

Warning, I haven't personally tried this

https://askanydifference.com/how-to-root-samsung-tv/

https://wiki.samygo.tv/index.php?title=SamyGO_for_DUMMIES
> Reddit is not real life.

...then it follows HN isn't. I happen to know they are both real for the purposes of existing and as a meta commentary on topics, since I participate in both. I also don't know anyone who wouldn't give Luigi a pass on a Jury, and these people don't vote the same.

Disregarding the existence of the sentiment, is the kneejerk noise of people thinking they are uber-rational thinkers or arbiters of reality.

I'll assume, in good faith, what your wrote was simply not what you meant.
I quit drinking alcohol and it fixed all of my sleep problems.

I was routinely waking up in the middle of the night and unable to fall back asleep even on days I did not drink.
Now I fall back asleep instantly.

I tried eliminating caffeine and practicing mindfulness before cutting out alcohol. I only stopped to be healthier, was pleasantly surprised when all my sleep issues went away. Have resumed my caffeine intake without any problems.
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Yeah, I also suspected a vicious cycle of stress/cortisol causing poor sleep, which leads to more cortisol and poor recovery.

It did get better when I stopped cycling, as much as I loved it. I'm now walking instead and feeling much better. I intend to increase volume over time and once my VO2Max is back to my baseline then I may introduce cycling with an eye on going easy and eating enough before/during/after exercise.

Thanks for the advice, it is good to hear that it worked on other people.
1 -> Sure, but are they declining the omelette when they're out for brunch?

2 -> I think the subsidy point still stands.

3 -> Totally agreed but I think your point about giving away eggs applies just as much, any eggs you eat rather than give away are just going to be an additional egg from the chicken CAFOs or at best case a fractional additional egg from the CAFOs.

But I certainly agree that this is among the instances where the case is weaker.
> The field is named after an example of circular causal feedback—that of steering a ship (the ancient Greek κυβερνήτης (kybernḗtēs)...

Now that name makes a lot more sense to me.
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I guess that's a descriptive name, but it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue!
Staying alive isn't enough - plenty of kids with dads (or moms) who are alive but still grow up without them.
Isn't this the case in most universities?
Actually, I have one question. You said:

> The actual benchmark program itself can be as simple as allocating and deallocating in a loop [...]

What do you mean, exactly? Deallocating immediately after allocating? I feel like there would be a big difference between that and allocating multiple blocks before freeing them.
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-annou...
Who wants to invest in my startup, its a Microagent service architectures orchestration platform. All you do is define the inputs, write the agents algorithms, apply agency by inputting a decision tree (ifs and conditionals) and then a function to format output! And the best part? You do all of it in YAML!

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In Toronto regulations were put in place required coordinating with Police, Fire, Ambulance, and submitting applications to use ANY private space for an intended "rave party".

The spontaneity of gathering your friends to dance on the beach, use a private warehouse after hours, or host a house party that went past 2AM, was now risking police showing up and handing out fines.

Regulation is the fastest way to kill anything unique and valuable.

[EDIT: Found a report for City Council recommendations related to this. It's a dull read, but historically facinating if you were around back then. https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/2000/agendas/council/cc/cc000... ]
> Sure, and to that end the Police and Fire together make up in excess of 60% of the entire budget.

Of the LA City Fiscal Year 2025 (July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025) of $12.90 billion, $1.98 billion (15.36%) is Police and $820 million (6.36%) is Fire. Combined, this is less than 22%, not in excess of 60%.

https://openbudget.lacity.org/#!/year/2025/operating/0/depar...
Where is the requirement to work and how does it punish them additionally?

Sentencing is provided completely independent of labor and 99% of prisoners are ineligible or unable to firefight.

>firefighters have been explicitly cited as the reason it is important to maintain that system and maintain prison populations to feed it.

Cited by a proponent of maintaining prison populations, or cited as allegations against such a system?

>Had voters passed, and the State acted in accord with, this years proposition banning involuntary servitude, it might be possible to make the argument that prison firefighters were no longer slave labor, but that didn't happen.

What a strange take. Why would the passage of a proposition redefine the reality of the situation?
If the university offers an API then it's not a "scrape". If you're describing unauthorized use of an API then you've disclosed a possible CFAA violation, not web scraping.
I usually hit a burnout point in Factorio, and either I start throwing down blueprints obtained online (turn it into a resource discovery / train game) or I wander off.
Just an aside, electricians are thriving in this economy.
I’ve been a professional programmer for 17 years and have never used multicursors. I don’t even fathom under what conditions you’d want to. I use Find and Replace.
As mentioned ("re-include our source file"), we are indeed able to put the SIMD code, as well as the self-#include of itself, in a load.cxx TU.

Here is an example: https://github.com/google/gemma.cpp/blob/9dfe2a76be63bcfe679...
Sounds like many have privacy/compliance concerns. A bit of horizontal padding is all I ask.
> The brain is about as large as it can be while making birth possible.

I wonder if it had been beneficial to have larger brains, we'd have evolved to support that. Diminishing returns maybe or just a local maximum we didn't get out of?
100% certain that no human deserves to be a billion times wealthier than the least wealthy human.