skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on "good for who" and over what time scale.

My dominant model is this: the core of the Trump administration is most interested in remaining in power and building connections. So they do whatever works to garner favor. They are relatively unaware or unafraid of the gathering storm of legal pushback. I think they figure they can get away with a lot before it catches up to them, politically or legally. This includes taking actions that they know are illegal.

Bluntly, with their own admission, they are bringing a chainsaw to the status quo. Why? Probably because this builds power: others are beholden to them to build it back. I don't think there is much of a shared sense of "doing what is best" for the country. I view them as opportunists, hoping to ride Trump's popularity.

Around them is a coalition with a range of interests. Some are genuine believers that DOGE will bring greater long-term economic growth (i.e. GDP). Some are so ideological that no real-world scenario would prompt them to change their policy prescriptions. Some of the coalition actively wants to reduce separation of church and state. Some are willing to curtail freedom of the press.

It is a dangerous coalition because each part seems willing to let the other parts get what they want. They seem to fail to understand the importance of the rule of law and economic stability.

I wonder how many know that Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without government research. Have they studied history? I can't claim to peer into their brains. I am curious as to what various people on the inside think they are accomplishing.

It sure seems like a risky bet to ally with Trump; any allies better be ready to contort themselves to his various mercurial whims. Which parts of the coalition can get what they want and come out the other side in good shape? It seems to me they are burning the candle at both ends.

Up until now, I've been reluctantly tolerant (far from happy) with a manageable level of government inefficiency, military-industrial backscratching, political pork sharing, and insufferably inane politics -- because, put together, this seems to a relatively stable way of maintaining some semblance of a representative democracy, healthy economy, a strong entrepreneurial sector, strong national defense, and math/science research. But the current direction is far worse. I don't think economic chaos, massive privatization, blatant corruption, likely Constitutional crises, meddling with the free press, using government for political retribution of (institutions, universities, individuals), loss of confidence in SCOTUS, etc... is doing to lead the US in promising directions. A significant number of people and business are going to leave. We're losing national prestige. It is a net loss to America and the world. But a net gain to Trump and his circle, at least in the short-run.
also look at https://github.com/visit1985/mdp
>Bush, Clinton, W. Bush also tried to normalize with Russia. Everyone hoped Putin was sane.

Bush Jr, who unilaterally withdrew from the START treaty in 2002[1], and pushed to establish ABM sites in eastern Europe in 2007? That's considered "normalizing"?[2][3] And Putin, who protested both of these actions as destabilizing, is somehow considered the not-sane one in this narrative?

>Ukraine has depleted Russias military stockpiles and their National Wealth Fund. Russia was weaker than people thought.

"Russia is never as strong as she appears....and Russia is never as weak as she appears." -- multiple attributions including Bismark and Churchill

Russia was supposed to run out of ballistic missiles...in summer 2022.[4] They've also likely taken more casualties than the entire active duty strength of the UK, French, and German land forces combined (73K + 118K + 63K ~= 250k) while still keeping a cohesive force capable of offensive combat operations in the field, which has GROWN since the war started to somewhere around 550-650K (up from ~200-350K in 2022).[5][6] Russia only appears weak by the standard established by the US 1990-2005....but the US is essentially a super-saiyan and functioned on a different plane of existence from every other military in the world.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/unilateral-withdrawal-fro...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna21262371

[3] https://www.insightturkey.com/articles/missile-defense-in-eu...

[4] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/04/01/vladimir-p...

[5] https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4589095-russian-army-grow...

[6] https://archive.is/zQ6CU
Academic mentees thrive in big groups, but survive in small groups
Movies have score of noises that aren’t real. Most action scenes are filled with them. If considered part of the score, then fake starship noises are fine. They are signaling that ship is going somewhere, not would the camera would hear.
25 cents (20 pence)? Ultra high end $15-20/lbs (£6.40-£8.50/250g) beans?

Where are you getting good coffee that cheap? You're pulling shots out of 7.5g of coffee?

I am buying some nice beans here in the UK and my espresso coffee cost has now reached £1.10 per.

I'm doing relatively standard 19g shots.
Most folks I work with at Google have been there for nearly 10 years.
I’ve thought that bio weapons is a definite nutcase reference
What you're describing is what `echo` is in terms of functionality and implemented, and it's not a new keyword so it is backwards compatible.

There are disadvantages of blurring the lines of what a function is an can do. Gleam values clarity above all things, so we don't have back-doors or special-cases. Everything plays by the same rules.
Gleam is about as simple as Go but with a more expressive type system and Elm style guarantees that your app won’t crash if you stay in its ecosystem.
wow. https://www.sos.ca.gov/administration/news-releases-and-advi...
Think of each pin as a single I/O hose nozzle facing the outside world. Behind that nozzle(pin), inside the micro, there is a wall of function nozzles, each labeled with a different ability/function. This room with one nozzle on one wall, and an array on the other wall is called a "Port", these rooms, ports, are labeled Port A0,A1...B0,B1...etc.

It's on you to tell the micro which function nozzle in which port to connect to the I/O nozzle that goes to the outside world. You also need to tell it whether it needs to use an input or an output hose for the connection.

So you end up needing to write something like "Port C5, Connect ADC nozzle to I/O nozzle, use input hose." And now you can route outside signals into the pin and to the ADC module in the micro.(Note that the Arduino IDE does a lot of this for you, but underneath this is what is happening)

This is probably why you are getting hung up. The pins are multifunctional, and you need to define how they are used before using them.

Hope this helps clear some confusion!
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Interesting. I wondered what the alternative was made of, and their FAQ answers it very nicely:

What is Coffee Free Coffee made of?

Our blends consist of a mix of roasted cereals, legumes, roots and fruits.

The filter blend is made of roasted lupin, barley, chickpeas, chicory, natural aroma, dried black currant, citric acid and caffeine. The decaf version does not contain caffeine.

The capsules variant is made of roasted lupin, barley, fig, chickpeas, chicory, natural aroma, dried black currant and caffeine. The decaf version does not contain any caffeine.

The espresso is made of roasted lupin, fig, chicory, chickpea, natural aroma, caffeine, citric acid and baking soda. The decaf version does not contain any caffeine.

https://northern-wonder.com/pages/faq

(If anyone from the company happens to be reading, I'll mention that my first attempt involved following the link from the front page to "Discover More", but this currently leads to a 404 Page Not Found)
It's interesting that AWS chose(?) not to support this. Can you think of any reason why they wouldn't have? Perhaps it's harder to predict use cases in C++?
Is Debezium the only good CDC tool out there?
I have a fairly simple data stack and am looking at integrating a CDC solution but I really dont want to touch Kafka just for this. Are there any easier alternatives?
I think the parent poster has a point. It's a good idea to pause for a moment and think about this critically: Why would Putin attack the EU? Just because he can? What's the gain?

> destabilisation operations

This might actually start to become more of a self-inflicted wound. The uprise of right-wing parties is already happening in the EU. Mostly voted for by people with less education and less wealth. If we spend more money on defense and less on social security, right-wing parties might get even more traction, which causes further destabilization.

> sabotage

Yes and it sucks. There's actually not much you can do about it, because of how international waters are treated legally. But you think rearming the EU will prevent sabotage in the future? I have my doubts.

The current narrative seems to be "Ukraine is almost an EU member state and if we do not defend Ukraine, the EU will be next". Another view of the situation could be: "Ukraine is a special case and Putin would be very dumb to invade the EU".
I think my concern here would be people weighting their ideas/opinions far too much on mathematical models that may, or may not represent the complex economic reality.

We already see this with people arguing with near 100% confidence of X happening because of Y and Z…in a vacuum.

I want to see something similar to what you’re asking, don’t get me wrong. But the underbelly of that is a broken clock being right twice a day and far too much weight and decision making being put into some model that doesn’t actually reflect reality
Nah that's not what they do.

https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/enforcement/oac
Surely one of the 10000 todo list apps we get every year out of coding bootcamps will be good by now. /s
Did I suggest it was? Apparently you missed the topic of this thread: According to the article, layoffs are bad for business.

I was pointing out that there doesn't seem to be an immediate need for layoffs at Google, based on the fact they have more money on hand than some small countries. Even with horrible future revenue projections, that seems like a reasonably large buffer.

But now that you mentioned it, there's nothing wrong with a corporation looking out for the long term interests of their employees. It would actually be smart for Google to act like a "jobs program" and retrain staff, or find work until the business cycle comes back around.

(Brandolini's law is alive and well.)
Probably right at the end of your career is where this tool would be the most useful

An undergrad using the hottest tech right of the bat? Cooked.

It's like giving the world 128gb of ram and 64bits in 1970, we would have just maxed it out by 1972.
My protections:

1. Firefox with the following addons:
1.1 idn safe
1.2 ublock origin
1.3 cookieblock
1.4 ublacklist with domains that scam you or are trash.
2. An verifying DNS resolver, dnssec is enabled in my "critical" domains, so those domains will get errors if someone tries to give me wrong answers
AWS has DMS with a serverless option which is great for CDC
Well, it goes both ways: a fixed wage for complete IP ownership is great if your main dev skill is "bringing key stakeholders into conversations at the appropriate time".
89 Seconds to Midnight
Gleam isn't different from Erlang or Elixir in this case, all three languages implement OTP in "user land" rather than being part of the language. The only difference is how this OTP code gets distributed from the core team to you. In Gleam the BEAM ecosystem package manager is used, Elixir and Erlang leave it up to the operating system package manager, a docker container, or some other solution.
A new car purchase should make the buyer feel /good/. With Tesla, it just doesn't feel good anymore. It feels dirty, dishonest, and corrupt. No thanks.
Far left? https://www.wired.com/story/neo-nazis-love-elon-musk-nazi-li...
Eia also publishes their models.
How much did this cost in engineering time and how much will it cost to maintain? How about when you need to add a new feature? Seems like you saved roughly 1.5k per month which pays for a couple days of engineering time (ignoring product,mgmt and costs related to maintaining the software)
A weekly or bi-weekly 1:1 with your manager has been the standard arrangement in my last two jobs.
The EU was established in 1993. Arm was founded in 1990.

For that matter the UK is composed of islands and parts thereof and nothing in "continental Europe", a term which refers to just the contiguous landmass. (Gibraltar is owned by the UK, but not part of it.)

Luckily Europe is not defined by the EU or sea levels, and the UK is very much in Europe the continent.
Discussions on the Fortran Discourse:

https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/lfortran-compiles-pri...
Show HN: I built a Mac app to watch YouTube playlists and channels
I like YouTube, but not the AD, recommendations, and other distractions. So I built a Mac app for myself to address that. It turned out pretty well, and I'd like to share it with you.
Not sure what you’re talking about but it only hit 30M users a little over a month ago.
Just to clarify again (saw this in another comment), the belligerents in the Korean War were the North Koreans when they attacked South Korea. This is what led to the US and others joining.
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/is_it_worth_the_time.png
Many facts are disturbing.
I think this idea of "generative UI" stems from a genuine confusion about what Spotlight, Alfred, or Chrome Omnibox are: they are a collection of utilities, not an app of themselves.

They work because a designer has put some thought into anticipating what kinds of things users search for – formulae, definitions, maps, flights, timers – and designed tiny, polished experiences for each – important in their own right, but not enough to be standalone apps. The NLP component only acts as a dispatcher, calling the right intent with the right arguments.

If these micro-apps are untested unpolished, and most likely broken, having been created here and there without a human touch, they will likely prove inadequate for the user. And if the user is now forced to debug or extend them with natural language and no understanding/control of the underlying code, allowing the power users to write community plugins will have become preferable to this. Not to mention the latency and unpredictability which defeat the standard quick search model.
A simulation in a simulation... Neat!
Tangential but referring to the AI as anything other than "it" is still extremely uncomfortable to me. It feels like the first step towards an inevitable "AI girl/boyfriend" trap.
I feel like this overstates the importance a bit. Sure macOS and Windows can claim to be involved in a great many things but no computer system
running Windows is that important and couldn't be replaced given you have quite a large amount of lead time before the software is inoperable.

I've worked with airgapped Windows XP machines still in operation running scientific instruments.

If you deleted Microsoft and Apple from world it world it would be a Y2K event but the world wouldn't end, it would just be a lot of work.
I came from traditional engineering into data engineering by accident and had a similar view. But every time I tried to make a pipeline from first principles it always eventually turned out something like this for a reason. This is especially true when trying to bridge many teams and skillsets - everyone wants their favourite tool.
But it's not chrome. This is important because things like default search engine are set by the product built on top of chromium. Control over web standards isn't really relevant.
Most places I've seen could cut 50-80% of people and maintain or even grow output.

Will they cut the right 50-80%? Chances are close to nill.

And the article is right that layoffs curb morale. Then again, what hurts morale even more, especialy for your true performers, is not laying of the incompetent, the 0 net contribution carreer ladder climbers or the pfiepdom pyramid seat fillers and the bloated 'management support' departments.
You know what's cool: IDEs. They can do block folding. The really good ones just auto-fold function docs because you don't need to see those until you do.

It's not just a good trick: it's the right way to do it, and tooling can be (trivially) made to show you only what you need to see until you need to see more.
Hi, I'm the designer of Gleam!

Beyond being functional and sharing a runtime I don't think Elixir and Gleam have much in common at all. Our recent developer survey showed that the majority of Gleam programmers were not Elixir users and largely were not attracted to that language.
DSA, Jacobin, Democracy Now, etc. etc. etc. have all been incredibly anti-Ukrainian and pro-Russian invasion. This is in contrast to the left in much of the rest of the world, though not all places (e.g. the German left is filled with Vatniks, as is the UK, and nearly every communist party the world over).

Electing Trump has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. It's about being mouthpieces for Russian propaganda.
Asking who funded it is kind of meaningless when you’re talking thousands of studies, it’s one of those topics that’s quite interesting for everyone from economists to management consultants.

COVID was a mix of turnover, furlough, and layoffs, but the layoffs were generally of the exact type I was referring to. Shutting down a restaurant’s dining service doesn’t get the same kind of pushback as a 15% cut across a division. The company isn’t trying to do the same stuff with fewer employees, it’s no longer serving those customers.
Views like this is why Europe, and other nations outside of it, are looking to move away from close ties with the US, and then becoming closer to China.
Except when a new column is added upstream and DMS inserts the new column not at the end but before the dms timestamp fields, ruining the index based loads of DMS files
It’s. On. Video.

If this were literally the only issue, idk, maybe? But there’s also the broader plan they’re implementing, and the normalization of wildly illegal action from the executive. It’s authoritarianism top to bottom, and they said exactly what they’re aiming to do.

I’m focusing on a lot of things, and the fact that Nazi salutes (it’s on video! He did it twice! Watch that again and tell me what would look different if that were in-fact what he’s doing. What the hell gesture even looks close to what he does, if not that? I find the denial of what we can all plainly see shocking, similar to attempts to deny what happened on January 6th which we watched live) are now “eh, it’s fine” for the Republican Party is not nothing.

Like we’re a multifaceted coup attempt and an “if I lose to Hillary, the 2nd amendment folks can do something about it” in, and we’re in the middle of “shock and awe” (their words) against the government bureaucracy, firing of the people charged with preventing much worse and who did prevent that last time (IGs, generals), 40ish days out from the publicly stated deadline for agency reports on whether Trump should invoke the insurrection act, and the richest dude in the world Nazi salutes on stage twice and people are still going “IDK”. Gimme a fucking break.

But yes the actual problem is I can tell what kind of gesture he very obviously made and find it repugnant. That’s the problem. Not that all the above is going on and people are still entertaining “he just meant ‘my heart goes out to you’, which one expresses with a firm grimace, a slap to the chest and quick extension of the arm, fucking exactly like a Nazi salute” as if it’s not obvious bullshit.
I heard that a lot about pretty much every country politics that "there's something more going on, some conspiracy". But again and again I see that there's nothing hidden, it's all pretty simple and dumb. We just want to overcomplicate things to feel smarter.
Yeah. And if you do care about this stuff, you shouldn't be reviewing it anyway; you should be setting up linter rules to enforce it automatically.
Just to be clear, I mean time off and returning to the same job. Shouldn't we be aiming for a future where we do not have to work like dogs to earn enough to struggle at home?
> This website collects movie clips with inaccurate binocular shots (i.e., two overlapping circles instead of one, as you would see in real life).

I'm just amazed it never once occurred to me that that's not how looking through binoculars looks. Despite having used binoculars lots of times.

I think it's just the field of view we wish binoculars had...?
a recent work claims that
in principle the upper bound to the critical temp of conventional sc at ambient p is ~100K, so this is a valid empirical step in that direction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08129

The McMillan limit has been challenged before

https://www.nosta.gov.cn/pc/en/awards/prize1/1460.shtml
Rolling your own generally has mainly downsides in the context they are in.
1. This is clearly a small team with very little spend
2. Tomorrow someone leaves and next engineer will have to manage all of this.
3. I don't think they realize that they actually increased cost of this service not decreased it. Now they need to manage their own Kafka monthly. Engineering time is expensive.
Wow, I didn't have this on my bingo card for today, but this has got to be the most full-throated, impassioned defense and downplaying of an obvious Nazi salute I've ever read in my life.

I tell ya what. Instead of trying to convince you of what you're wishing to be not true, try this: Pull up the video of the gesture he made, practice it at home, make sure you can duplicate it perfectly, and then go into work and do it in front of each person you meet, and come back here and tell us what happens.
Who will be building, and manning all that newly developed industrial base? You cannot create enough labour in 18 months, it's a very hard fact of reality.

Your labour market has been running at full employment for a while, 4-5% unemployment, there's no leftover hands to help with building up multiple industrial bases. Unless you want massive inflation when all these openings for the rebuilding of USA's industrial base, and need to pay a lot to absorb as much labour as possible to actually happen.

Not even considering in how much risk the investors of this new industrial base will be having to hedge against, who knows when Trump will increase tariffs on their inputs until everything rebuilds internally, financial hedging, oversupplying their warehouses to prepare for shocks, etc. are all quite expensive. Who will pay for it?
I have to say that I am worried that, by taking myself out of the loop for the 99%, I'm going to get worse at the 1% of things that occasionally fall into my lap because the LLM can't seem to do them. I think software engineering is a skill that is "use it or lose it", like many others.

There's also the question of whether I will enjoy my craft if it is reduced to, say, mostly being a business analyst and requirements gatherer. Though the people paying me probably don't care very much about that question.
Authoritarian stable regime in the east, or authoritarian and erratic regime in the west. I know which one I'd prefer, long term.
Out of curiosity what do you find wrong in the s3 solution? This is a data volume that rdbms can manage, but are you looking specifically for the engineer to say something like “I’ll maintain a Write Ahead Log in the database”
Dude, I have no idea what a stack is because I never studied computer science. It’s never held me back except during interviews with people that expected me to understand computer science fundamentals.

If someone asks me what the time complexity of something or the other (I literally had to go look up the name), I completely freeze up.

Whether you know the term doesn’t matter when you understand the basic concept that for inside for == bad.

Anyhow, it seems to be working out pretty well for me, so while I’m also annoyed by incompetent people the idea that it’s due to lacking CS fundamentals sounds bizarre to me.