skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add more, both his pregnant wife, and his lawyer do not know where he is. The jail they said he was in, he is not.
Exactly, sign a fucking peace deal! And it's NOT the first time a peace deal was prevented. There were even fucking peace deals before the Russian invasion.
Beyond Reactionary Politics: It Is Urgent for Democrats to Adapt and Realign
I worked at Microsoft 2009-2024 and I've seen it a lot. It's rather telling when your own manager tells you that if you want fast promos and raises, the best way to do so is to switch companies every few years. And I've had more than one manager say that. I know many people who did several rounds of Microsoft -> Google -> Amazon -> Microsoft or the like.

That said, I don't think one can blame the devs for it, since it is the companies themselves that have created the environment where the above holds true. I never understood why - intuitively, it doesn't make sense for the company to underpay its devs to the point where they leave for a competitor, and then come back and get rehired at a much higher salary anyway. But it is what it is, and the workforce has caught on.
This is very far from my experience. It's been impressive on a few things but as of now I'm on day 3 of trying to get it to fix an issue in an open source library I maintain that I haven't had time to deal with. I'm in an endless loop where it keeps having the same epiphany about the root cause, then it implements a "fix", then tries to verify via a test script, then when it runs into difficulty it keeps adding workarounds to the test script. I can't get it focused on the fact that it's acting on behalf of the library author and that hacking the test script has no value.

I am not disposed to AI skepticism. I'd love it if a tool existed that worked as this guy claims. Claude Code is the best tool of its type that I've worked with but I'd put it at "on balance a time-saver in a lot of cases, way more trouble than it's worth in many others".
Kimbia – A minimal cross-platform task runner
You can use Kimbia to run a series of tasks like linting, testing, building, and deploying your application.
I don't have any insights on specific models that are "out there", but I'll share one tidbit you might find of interest if you're not already familiar with it. Douglas Hubbard's "Applied Information Economics"[1] is a methodology that could probably be applied to doing what you're asking for. Is it the only such methodology? Almost certainly not. Is it the best? I really don't know, as I think the scope of what you're looking at goes a little beyond what Doug originally intended for AIE. But it could potentially still be applied there, I think.

[1]: https://hubbardresearch.com/about/applied-information-econom...
I think if you pronounce it as "GORE-a-vel" it rolls off the tongue well enough. "Go-RA-vel" - which arguably better fits English orthography -> pronunciation conventions - sounds terrible.

But... Yeah: I prefer "Gravel", too. Is there another project out there with that name?

/English nerd
Does anyone here understand the "The consistency of layoffs" graphic?

The best guess I have is that the number of layoffs in each year is indicated by some sort of measure of the "overall height" of that slice of the image, so e.g. somewhere around 2020 the number is very large. But it's not at all clear, and it's especially not clear which if any of the various small-scale ups and downs we are supposed to take seriously if this is how it works.

It's a good candidate for the worst statistical graphic I've seen this year. (The opening-door one earlier in the article is another.)
That and conventionally standard names, like r for request/reader, w for writer, etc.

Agreed. Functions shouldn’t be full of short non-descriptly named variables.

The longer the lifetime/scope of a variable, and the more variables there are, the more descriptive the names should be.
I wonder if there's merit to discarding ideas based on where they arise from.

Similar thing happened on another hackernews post, author developed a programming paradigm and explained it with his example which consisted of analyzing personal expenses.

Maybe you will discover something profound when thinking about your starbucks coffee or when analyzing your coffee expenses, but if you discard that and it is really important, the thought should pop up some other place where it is more important, like your actual job, or something useful.

P.S: Highly memorable background
You’re thinking too high level and not looking at the mechanics. Congress has no power to, say, give the House of Representatives override the Senate and President. In the UK, this is not only possible but happened in 1918. The USA would require a constitutional amendment which falls into the same deadlock problem.

Some things do sit within Congress such as the Senate adopting the insane role allowing filibuster. However, this is also encouraged by the fact the Senate can kill legislation like this. Filibusters rarely happen in the UK Parliament because the majority party can force through legislation they feel is important enough.

You say that deadlock is built in as though this is desirable. However the public just became so frustrated by the system that they just elected a madman to smash it to pieces.

Encouraging compromise and working across the aisle is an excellent property in the US system. But that has broken down and I think part of the reason is there’s no mechanism to break the deadlock that can force parties back to the table.
ARM China is a sales office. Not the same thing at all.
If a design is made in a British office of a British company, 'by hook or by crook' the state can gain access to it. That's the hard, perhaps slightly uncomfortable truth.

Of course it would only ever come to this if softbank refused to sell and there was some national security angle.

If ARM want to close their office here, then the state can hire all their engineers and offer immunity/void on any NDA they've signed with ARM, if anything that's actually the most desirable outcome.

Again we're talking about things that simply aren't going to happen, and if they do there are much much bigger problems.
It’s also easy to use Pi-hole with NextDNS as the upstream server using cloudflared as the DNS-over-HTTPS tool[1] to connect to NextDNS in a secure manner

[1]: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/cloudflared/
So you were rejected at a Metà interview after you previously worked at Facebook for 4 years? Or were you interviewing for some other FAANG?
Wow - that's a trip down memory lane - I learned the basics of flying from Flight Sim 1 on an Apple. The manual was pretty damn good. The application was amazing for its time.
You can’t just ignore his first term: not only is that debt still here but the reason this is coming up in every conversation now is that the 2017 tax cuts were justified on two grounds - that greater economic growth would make up for the losses (the opposite happened) and that tax rates would return to previous levels in 2025. That places Republicans in an even harder position because simply preserving the TCJA rates makes it impossible to avoid taking on trillions in new debt and they’re trying to make deeper cuts (see my previous comment). There’s no way to make those numbers work without massive cuts to Medicare and the military, or taking on huge amounts of debt.

They had originally been hoping to make this a problem for whoever became president after Trump’s second term but Biden winning in 2020 means they have to deal with it, or simply pretend they never cared about debt. Currently they’re trying to see if they can get away with new accounting methods to produce better-sounding numbers:
https://www.barrons.com/articles/lutnick-government-spending...
There's no good reason for people to use GPL either. People project all sort of idealistic stuff on this license but the reality is that healthy projects with a diverse contributor based are not at any real risk of their code being hijacked.

There are plenty of permissively licensed projects that have been around for decades. Copyleft licenses don't provide much additional protection. They impose a requirement on people that modify the software to provide those modifications under the same license. That's about it. Imposing that requirement is important to some people but not really that essential for the long term health of open source projects.

If you want to create a fork of OpenBSD kernel and call it DrEvilBSD and release it under the 100% proprietary DrEvil License 1.0, you can do that of course. The license allows you to do that. You are required to preserve the license and copyright notice, of course. For copyleft proponents, this is a wrong that needs to be corrected and they'll use big words like theft and stealing. For permissive software people this is a feature, not a bug. Do whatever you want with the software. These are both valid points of view to hold.

In practice, long lived OSS projects get more protection from the fact that they have a large amount of copyright holders (everybody that ever contributed to the code) which makes any form of re-licensing impractical. The Linux kernel will never re-license. Nor will the OpenBSD kernel. It would take the permission of many thousands/tens of thousands of developers; or their surviving relatives (quite a few are no longer alive). Not going to happen.

Anyway, the MIT license is a perfectly good license. It's widely used, well understood, easy to understand, etc. It has been around for decades. Countless of OSS projects use it. Perfectly fine choice if your goal is to facilitate others to use your software in whatever way works for them. Whether that's bundling into some proprietary firmware or distributing it in some OSS linux distribution. Giving users of the software that freedom is a fine choice.

And kind of important for operating systems. Unless your goal is to keep it out of the hands of companies that sell products to customers based on these operating systems. Which might be why there aren't many AGPL or GPLv3 licensed operating systems.

For a project like this coreutils rewrite, the MIT license makes sense. It maximizes usability across diverse systems Linux, BSD, proprietary UNIX, Windows, etc. without imposing restrictions. That’s likely an intentional choice to ensure broad adoption. There's no good reason to restrict that. Probably the developers want to see this go wherever it can go.
No idea how many hours to build, but I maintain something similar, (different stack though) and its so trivial I don't even count the hours, so it's probably about 1/2 a day to maintain that every 3 months?

Even if you needed to invent a new feature, you could invent a months worth of features every year and still save money.
It's like with anything else. You can SAY monopolies are illegal, but if you allow them to exist, then owning and controlling the market is, legal.

Any small competition that eventually gets large enough will just be bought out by the next one up in the food chain (literally).
I think it's pretty obvious that the antics are a bit part of it. It's a big part in how Musk is eroding the trust in Tesla, but more than that, a car is also an image, a feeling. A few years ago, Tesla was widely loved ajd many people hoped to buy one some day, including me. Now lots of people wouldn't want to be caught dead in one.

And the real big factor are his support for Trump and his weird and destructive antics these past few months. There was competition a year ago, buy it's only now that sales are really falling off a cliff.

I honestly don't think Tesla wil exist in a couple of years. Musk will have made the brand too toxic.
Speculation is that most of these EU funding efforts aren't for producing viable competitors but industry subsidry - jobs programs with a dash of embezzling.

Maybe someone from Europe could weigh in? I'm probably wrong, if the funding is transparent it should be easy to confirm or deny.
Well of course they're going to hurt zombie companies, that's the whole point. That's literally why everyone voted for Elon Musk's DOGE.

Every company is another company's competitor and it's not fair that some companies have to compete against other companies whose profit margins are padded by taxpayer dollars... To some degree it's like being forced to subsidize one's own competitor.
It’s not a perfect system but it’s one that allows a party to push through the change they were voted to bring!
40% of all money was printed in Q1 2020.

Even if it doesn't enter M1 circulation and directly increase monetary supply, it put upwardly increasing inflationary pressure on the dollar by inflating demand artificially.
Seems like it but it doesn't seem to require redundant kernels/os images. pkvm is pretty heavy in terms of memory usage in the context of a phone.
This is better conceived and more carefully controlled than the vast majority of the published research I see pouring out every week.
> predictive economic models

Not possible with this neoclassical economy we live in. It’s an ongoing grift that has been ongoing for _decades_ which has allowed for irrational thinking to prevail, for wealth and success to be focused into a select group, and for multibillion dollar corporations to be bailed out when their own decisions drive the company to the ground. Privatize the profits, socialize the losses.
This is my assessment as well. Yes, all companies feel pain, but some can survivor years of pain compared to competitors, and couple that with price increases due to tariffs.

Then in 18-24 months when everyone has resigned themselves to the price increases and the politically connected buy up struggling businesses the tariffs come off.

At which point, the cost to the business is lowered but the price increases will more or less stay, and those that have consolidated power will be in prime position to remain dominate for some time, likely decades.

It’s a giant market manipulation experiment disguised as many other actions but will ultimately culminate in consolidations of power

Step II is going to be regulatory capture. I expect to start seeing this by summer or fall
Sopwith[1] as a test of PC compatibility for clones.

I later years it was a great test of how much faster computers had become as it assumed it was running at 4.77MHz

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_(video_game)
Also, even a 10 year old x86 system is fine for web browsing and office tasks. If RISC-V hit that level, it’d be fine for many millions of people.
I don't know what an arcane speech code might be, could I see an example of bsky enforcing this?
1. If only 60% support either one, then a lot less than 90% want to end switching above all else.

2. If an option has 60% support then just do it already, that's plenty of support.

3. Gallup says that twice as many people want standard time all year as want summer time all year.
Are you saying that you have never heard of a single team having layoffs even though the team was profitable?

I have. Multiple times.
Not too many years ago I watched Ford burn $36 billion in cash in a year.
You effectivly can just ignore the differentiation between the CSU and the CDU, they are mostly just referred to as "Die Union" (the union).
I'm afraid this is a waste of everybody's time.

> Avoid unused method receiver names

That's just "don't create a non-static method if you don't use 'this'" in other languages with classes. Which is not a bad idea, but hardly matters. If someone realizes that it's difficult to add a unit test for the function, they'll fix it themselves. Maybe the real question is: did the code author create a unit test for the function?

(P.S. I never understood why Go uses words like "receiver" and "marshaling" that are rarely used elsewhere)

> Empty string check

Sure, but that's just ordinary code smell, likely due to someone not thinking carefully over the code, which could be easily identified in a code review. If it's never found, it barely matters anyway. Is it really worth bringing this up?

Everything else seems unnecessarily boring, like the number of spaces between sentences. Most people I know write comments like how they write regular English sentences, like in emails. Other than a professor who is near retirement age, I don't know anyone who uses double spaces. It's so rare I don't see any point in mentioning it. And if someone did do this in the code, whether it's their style or by accident, I wouldn't even flag it in the code review. For what? Does anyone benefit from it? It's important to have consistency over fundamental things like tab vs space, but that quickly becomes meaningless bikeshedding.

My advice would be: write code using your common sense. Don't be obsessed with trivial things that don't matter. Use your time elsewhere -- push a new feature, fix a bug, add a unit test, or just relax.
Goes to show; you can check every box and try so hard, but still fail and lose lots of people on screen 1.
A lot of protections are already in place and have been ignored. Tens of days notice to Congress and for-cause required to dismiss? Nope, blanket firing with no notice. 60 days‘ notice required for layoffs? Ignored, we’ll just lie that it was “for performance” even though we didn’t look at performance and there’s clear evidence we didn’t.

The failure of the rule of law is going to be hard to law our way out of.
It's supposed to be bi-weekly here. But according to HR "that's not policy, just recommended". I had about 5-6 months were I only got 2 1-on-1s, and the feedback then was good. They completely dropped the ball and blamed it on the disabled guy.
Thanks, I wrote extensively about it) If interested, you can find a link in my profile or ask anything here
Big tech employees have been doing that because they see new hires (who have themselves switched from another big tech company!) get a lot more comp than their meager raise. Don't blame the workers from reacting to the signals that company is sending through its own deliberate actions.
I’d argue a lot of the unhappiness in the UK is a consequence of 5 years of a Tory government choosing not to govern. The public still have a hard time believing this fact because it sounds too insane to be true, no matter how much evidence we have for it!

Also, it doesn’t help that Labour are shit at comms. They’re actually doing what they were elected to do but don’t want to tell the public about it, much like the Biden administration!
The article in Telegraph is not about ballistic missiles, but about a very specific type of cruise missile, Kh-55, which is a nuclear capable missile.
There are other cruise missiles that Russia makes, and there is still production of ballistic, aero ballistic and hypersonic ones.
And then, if he still doesn't believe it's a Nazi salute, he should go into work and try doing it in front of all his co-workers and see what they think...
The solution to a bad model is more models :). I'm joking but serious. "All models are wrong, but some are useful."
And yet feels like it's from the 70s.
This seems cool, and it would be great if this does cool stuff like cure or prevent some forms of cancer, but I've kind of learned to not get my hopes up with medical news.

It's felt like a cure for cancer is "just around the corner" for at least the last ~20 years, and I'm sure that cancer therapy has absolutely improved a lot in the last 20 years, but we're very far from what a lot of science journalism articles have promised us.
> OOO and even wider RVV registers will then automatically speed things up, without even a recompile.

The problem is that there are some things in RVV where it's unclear how they will perform on high perf OoO cores:

* general choice of LMUL: on in-order cores it's clear that maximizing LMUL without spilling is the best approach, for OoO this isn't clear.

* How will LMUL>1 vrgather and vcompress perform?

* How high is the impact of vsetvli instructions? Is it worth trying to move them outside of loops whenever possible, or is the impact minimal like in the current in-order implementations.

* What is the overhead of using .vx instruction variants, is there additional cost involved in moving between GPRs and vector registers?

* Is there additional overhead when reinterpreting vector masks?

* What performance can we expect from the more complex load/stores, especially the segmented ones.

The LLVM scheduling models give some insight:

* SiFive P670: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/llvm/lib/Targ...

* Tenstorrent Ascalon: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/llvm/lib/Targ... (still missing the vector part, but there is supposed to be a PR in the near future)

I'm trying to collect as much info on hardware as I can: https://camel-cdr.github.io/rvv-bench-results/index.html
I've seen several mass layoffs at Microsoft over the years, and not a single one could be described like GP did.
Crash the economy on the backs of a majority of workers (federal workers are large portion democrats) who didn't vote for you so interests rates / inflation goes down.
Maybe, but I am already a trained SWE (german apprenticeship) and have a well paid job atm. I might consider getting a degree separately at some point. But it will be such a struggle.
What is the current state of the art (open source) when doing oltp to olap pipelines in these days? I don’t mean a one-off etl style load at night but a continuous process with relatively low latency?
It's hard to feel sorry for Raytheon Lockheed and the like, but it's looking like they should have thrown a few tens of millions at Trump's inauguration. It's pay to play now.
> Tough on call rotations happen, and you might need someone that does well under pressure at 3 am in the morning.

On a stop-the-world production incident at 3am I know that codebase like the back of my hand, and my job very likely doesn’t depend on whether I solve it in the next 30m. There’s barely anything stressful about it.

On an interview, with my future on the line, and presented with an unfamiliar problem?
> Kristallnacht-like environments for Tesla owners.

C'mon, Kristallnacht? I'm not seeing any moves towards rounding up Tesla owners and sending them to camps. There's no political party carrying out organized pogroms against Tesla owners. No comparison whatsoever.

I've seen quite the opposite in liberal areas: a lot of empathy for neighbors who bought Teslas
a while ago because many - Tesla owners or not - feel deceived by Elon.

That's how I feel about my neighbors with Teslas. None of them bought them with the intention of promoting techno-feudalism, and because it's an expensive product, they are stuck with it for a while.

Far less of a pass for cybertrucks. Even absent Elon's politics that thing is rolling fuck you to everyone else on the road.
I get your point of view. But I'm intentionally trying to focus on prediction.

There are ways to track ownership of entities and relationships. There are ways to quantify how contracts are awarded, the results, and the impacts. These are complex models, but they can give insight into the dynamics.
it's interesting, it feels like less needing to think much bigger and more so that we're now able to accept that much bigger ideas we've been thinking about are far more feasible.

that's so cool. all those grand ideas that felt so far away are right here ready to grasp and realize.
Yeah, would have been really useful for the US to at least convince China's northern neighbor to constantly do mobilization exercises [1] on their shared border to keep the PLA off-balance and draw combat power away from important theaters. Instead, we've pissed away the Sino-Soviet Split and enabled Eurasia to operate with secure interior lines. This can be chalked up entirely to really arrogant and foolish neocon decision-making with regards to Russia 2003-2007.

[1] https://www.chathamhouse.org/2018/09/russias-vostok-exercise...
Shareholders don't build anything. Employees do.
If you are in your 50s then your recent years of peak lifetime earning potential overlapped with an industry massively overpaying its workforce.

You shouldn't need a job. You should have FIREd.