skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt the tech workers making three to four times EU wages in the US feel “exploited”.

My job is purely transactional. I’ve worked for 10 companies in almost 30 years. I gave them labor and they gave me money. Whenever one side decided the arrangement wasn’t working, I moved on to another job.
We know quite a lot. For example, we know that brains have various different nueromodulatory pathways. Take for example dopamine reward mechanism that is being talked about more openly these day. Dopamine is literally secreted by various different parts of the brain and affect different pathways.

I don't think it is anywhere feasible to emulate anything resembling this in a computational neural network with fixed input and output neurons.
And PDP11, Lisp, and Unix.
Yes indeed. As I understand it, entropy is about states that are more likely.

I wonder if it always increases though? Eventually there will be enough entropy that any change may cause it to reduce or oscillate? (At universe / reachable universe scale).
> people don't want to learn command line for Linux

The same applies to Windows and Apple's OS.

The point about the command line is that it is there for people who want it. You can use all of them without using the command line.
Wondering why it is so satisfying. It tells that what you pursue doesn't matter. It can be a wood-planing contest or some silly hobby. What matters is that you are motivated to pursue it. You believe in improving that pursuit, you see others doing the same, you believe it is the social norm, you see that it is valued and respected. And most importantly you feel good about it.

Talk about things like investing in stocks, being known as a great techie or entrepreneur, exiting a great startup, running a venture capital, making a few million, becoming US citizen, having a great home etc. These goals are not bad. Just that they cost more, for the same returns (satisfaction). You are more successful when your happiness doesn't cost you a life-time running around or some herculean effort.
I concur. It might not be feasible in terms of computational power available, but I don't think there is anything fundamentally stopping application of those training mechanisms, unless the whole neuralnet paradigm is fundamentally incompatible with those learning methods.
"11.4% of respondents had experienced at least one crash that they suspected was due partly to structural weakness".

11.4%?? Are Australian bikes trying to eat their riders?

I live in Flanders, where bikes are used quite a lot for commuting, doing groceries, going to school, all that kind of stuff (less than the Netherlands, probably quite a lot more than many other countries), and also quite a lot for sport. The bikes are a mix between new and old (sometimes very old), and everything in between. Crashes because of structural weaknesses are really exceptional.
It's a cop out in my opinion, it will never scale or be as useful , reliable or enjoyable to use as a well designed, operated subway. Besides Tokyo, Shenzhen, Beijing etc, will have both, subways and driverless, flying taxis, drone delivery and still be ahead of most major US cities in terms of transport options.

You have to visit a top tier East Asian city to understand just how good they have these things running, safe, clean, reliable, always on time. Like, it's amazing. Uncomprable to anything I've experienced in any major US city.

I think if a New Yorker went to Tokyo they'd be amazed how far ahead they're public transport is.

There are also health benefits to using public transport which I think we will see play out with self-driving, people will just become slobs when a car comes to their door, picks them up and drops them at the next door. Using a subway is actually a bit of healthy exercise.
And then, if you are too original, no one will like it either ..

I don't think there is something "truly original" but in this concrete case, I suspect something very similar was in the training data.
Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying
Delete All IP Law
> Is he stupid?

to clarify ... the ignorance behind a statement implying that working at chrome has been anything other than contributing to enshittifying the the quality level of the web in the past years is showing a disconnect from reality that in my terms deserves to be labelled as "stupid".
I think the OP explained the broader significance very well: If Google is firing one of the most successful and active web developer relations people they have, it suggests a strategic downgrade of the Chrome, the web, and engagement in human developers. That's bad news for anyone who builds for the web or who relies on it as an open platform for the dissemination of information and software.

I think the position your take re. Google and Chrome is an extreme one. It always surprises me that such black and white opinions about big tech companies are commonplace even on HN. Yes, Google have done things around privacy that I strongly disagree with, but the idea that Chrome is simply a trojan horse for advertising/surveillance is absurdly reductive and ignores the history of Google as a company.

Google was, originally, a web-first company. Their business success relied on the web being an open, competitive platform. And, at a time when Microsoft were still trying to maintain monopoly control of personal computing, Google's development of Chrome did a huge amount of good in maintaining and enhancing the web as an open alternative. And they employed a lot of people who were genuinely believed in that mission, such as Adam.

Make no mistake, the death or spin-off of Chrome will not be a win for privacy or openness. Building a web browser is a hugely expensive and difficult endeavor, and it has to be paid for somehow. Yes, Google has leveraged Chrome in some ways to collect data, but far less than they could have done, and far less than any successor will have to do, just to keep the lights on. Look at what has happened to Mozilla and Firefox if you need proof.
> It’s wild that OpenBSD still supports the architectures it does
have you looed at what NetBSD supports if you count the tier 2 ones?

https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/
I have never in 28 years across 10 jobs including one in BigTech been “expected” to work more than 40 hours a week.

It’s a bunch of copium thinking that American tech workers are working 60-80 hour weeks.

And I know it’s not the norm, but right now I have “unlimited PTO” and most people take at least 5 weeks a year.

If the average American tech worker is making 2x - 4x the average EU worker, they should be able to save more than enough to have a three month cushion.

And we are talking about Google. They have a very generous severance package. Even Amazon where I use to work gave me three months severance.
Life in the universe is pretty unfavourable! A rare thing indeed. Where it has evolved I think it is less about entropy and more about the nature of the matter - atoms, molecules. Particularly carbon and water. And the way they can replicate themselves through chemistry. That had to obey entropy but is not driven by it. Light scattering off the atmosphere will do the entropy trick well enough!
While I don't condone not following the law, most lights where I live are there due to car traffic, and make little to no sense for cyclists. So it's no wonder they're not respected much. I'd prefer the red lights many places to instead count as either a stop sign or yield for cyclists.

But with that said, all statistics I've ever seen points to cyclists being better at following the laws than drivers (have you never driven above the speed limit?), especially in cities where the infrastructure makes sense for cyclists. Additionally, a cyclist breaking the law most often only put their own life at risk, compared to someone in a car doing it.

https://road-safety.transport.ec.europa.eu/document/download...
https://support.google.com/googleplay/thread/338162217?authu...
I do. I try them from time to time, they weren't better.
But how does the generic code know the name by which the field is known in the struct that contains the field? Is it supposed to be passed as an extra parameter to the generic function?
The US does not have such a tax
Government jobs are safe because rarely if ever people get fired.
What is going on here?

[~/Downloads] $ chmod +x zork*

[~/Downloads] $ ./zork1

Cannot open assembly './zork1': File does not contain a valid CIL image.
Even with Hebbian learning, isn't there a synapse strength? If so, then you at least need a direction (+/-) if not a specific gradient value.
Andrew Cuomo Used ChatGPT for His Housing Plan
I'm quite happy with spreading a little bit of scare about AI coding. People should not treat the output as code, only as a very approximate suggestion. And if people don't learn, and we will see a lot more shitty code in production, programmers who can actually read and write code will be even more expensive.
If you write a function that takes a _generic_ linked list as a parameter, you'd have a function that refers to just the linked list subrecord, and does only linked list operations to that and the linked nodes.

If you want to write a function that takes a linked list of a specific type as a parameter, you just take in a value of that type. The linked list is baked in, so you can get to the other nodes, and because the type is known, you can get back to the parent type from the linked nodes with fieldParentPtr. How to do that _safely_? I don't think that Zig embraces any Rust-like safe/unsafe dichotomy, so you don't.
this doesn't make sense. so why do usa companies hire contractors then? I worked as a contractor for decades and made 150% what perm employees made.
You're focusing on one word and missing the meat of my comment. The EU equivalent to US employment in terms of employee rights and pay is contracting.

People in IT who take the employment route rather than contracting, do so because they want job security. eg they might have families. And much as you might be happy with your arrangement, there are plenty in the UK and Europe who do prefer longer-term job security over a few extra £££ in their pocket.
She was chatting with friends in a Lyft. Then someone texted her what they said
Gemini Deep Research is available for free, so it's $0 vs $20?
I work for a paycheck. I can’t exchange “dignity” for goods and services. The guy got paid nice compensation for his labor.
Well US companies now take the cowards way out generally - tell everyone to WFH that day (despite prior RTO mandates) and then just disable peoples access so the first way the laid off find out is when they can't login for the day.
> Entropy is always increasing in a closed system

Only if that system isn’t already in thermodynamic equilibrium. A closed system that reaches thermodynamic equilibrium has maximum entropy.

Why the universe as a whole didn’t start out in thermodynamic equilibrium, i.e doesn’t have maximum entropy is something we don’t understand.
By the time a large C# solution finishes compiling, the PHP Dev already started another ticket and is pressing F5 to insta check if his code works so he can move to the third ticket of the day.
Were we? This chain started with the idea of getting rid of the concept of the president and moving to a parliamentary system. Then it shifted a bit into giving the judicial branch its own law enforcement agency.

Those both risk creating a constitutional crisis, not avoiding one.
Was yelling at a driver who passed within 15cm of my cycling 7 year old daughter about this a few weeks ago. They apparently thought kids never fall down.
I think you agree with me?

To clarify, rich people will spend more on the things subject to VAT than the rest of us. They will spend a lot more on entertainment, maintaining houses, cars and fuel, luxury consumables etc.

However, a much higher proportion of their spending will be able to escape VAT because they can evade VAT (and income tax) to a much grater extent.
I agree. I guess my question was more focused on asset allocation in an era when the world seems to be moving away from the traditional relationship with the United States.
You wouldn't get a collapse, but necessarily a contraction, the pie is getting smaller regardless, having less people to "eat it".

Yes, having a system based solely on positive demography isn't any good. In fact, I would argue that the reverse of this scenario is much worse.
No matter what some would like to pretend, ressources are finite on earth and if you have a population big enough that deplete them faster that they can be renewed/recycled it is not good.

In any case I think it's wrong to look at it as a purely economic problem.
It seems logical that one should be accountable for one's own retirement.

Previously this was done by having kids, because regardless of the economic situation they could always build on what the parents had and it doesn't take much to support your elder (unless they want a luxurious lifestyle).

Part of the problem is that the old generations (especially the boomers) have re-routed ressource distribution to themselves and you have an overspending on the past at the expense of future building.

The incentive around the providence state and pensions were all wrong in the first place now people are surprised that the results are undesirable (usually the one who advocated for the system).
> you definitely feel a considerable amount of extra latency everywhere vs. e.g. a 500Mhz PowerBook G3 running OS 9 or OS X 10.2-10.4

Odd thing...

While I agree regarding the snappiness of older OSes, the Mac was for me always a bit of an odd exception.

I started on Macs in the 680x0 era and Mac System 6, and I worked on them through 7.x, 8.x, 9.x and into OS X.

For me, no PowerPC edition of either Classic or OS X ever felt as responsive as Classic on a 680x0 Mac. I narrowly missed out on a Quadra 840 on Freecycle over 15 years ago and still regret it -- that was the fastest 68040 Mac ever made.

NeXTstep was of course originally built on and shipped on 68030 -- it's a CISC native OS. PowerPC Classic was always mostly running emulated 680x0 code.

I read analyses of Mach API calls that explained that calls on RISC were less efficient in register usage or something.

But then, Intel Macs came along. Mac OS X returned to x86 from PowerPC. And suddenly Mac OS X felt snappy again in a way it never did for me on PowerPC.

As an old-time Motorola user I was conflicted about Intel Macs. Macs weren't meant to be PCs. I didn't want Windows on a Mac. But the feeling of using 10.4 on Intel converted me: it felt snappy and responsive in a way Windows NT never did on Intel.

(NT was built on RISC and ported to Intel, the reverse of NeXTstep.)
Why don't startups hire Australians?
Heh, we have one of these in Oslo as well: https://maps.app.goo.gl/nzA2dicDReXYnVBx6 Note the tracks even crossing into the already narrow cycle lane.

Which is why I, on the board of the bicycle association here, spend most of my energy on the infrastructure. The main blocker for people biking is safety, and perceived safety. Lots of other stuff we can do as well, but this is the main point to make it possible for more people to bike. And since it takes long from planning a road to it being built, and it will remain that way for a long time, getting it correctly planned now is the biggest contribution I can do I feel. So spend my time pushing city planners and politicians.
I have no issues using a QWERTY keyboard, but I'll always prefer a (Belgian, not French) AZERTY keyboard to anything else. Even when coding.

Nothing is ever going to get my brain to reprogram 45 years of muscle memory.
That I don't know. But the contractor market in the US is very different to the contractor market in the UK and EU. And from hiring in both US and UK, my experiences have been that US employees are more comparable to UK contractors in terms of rights and pay.
For better or worse, the Zig community has long been embracing the `@fieldParentPtr` builtin as the primary way to do things like OOP-ish inheritance, so this change feels pretty in-character for the language to me.
Such a well-tuned machine, there has to be some grease somewhere..
Otoh, there's a lot more shady things going on everywhere in business.

If anything, I'm envious that _I_ don't have access to a system like that (only half joking)
Great work you’ve done here. I worked on a similar project for about a year but ended up dropping it because it wasn’t fun for me. Mine failed — I hope yours succeeds. Best of luck!
Flaking paint is usually a sign of a hairline fracture
The rising tide of open-source AI: Proprietary LLMs vs. open-source models
Aluminum has noticeable fatigue life though, unlike carbon. Something to keep in mind if you are considering it.
- C. A primary intended purpose is to advertise and promote the business. It's not achieving that in a good manner now. Good business would be to dump the toxic asset.

From the article I gathered that the primary intended purpose is to be a free for him personal cybertruck for the business owners husband.
[Sorry for the late reply.]

> Where is the excess Argentinian beef scheduled for the USA going to find a market?

The offer is elastic too. A previous government added too many task and restrictions to the export of beef, so the producers sold the young cows instead of letting them grow to get more mothers. After 2 or 3 years the numbers of reproducing cows was so low that we almost had to import beef from Uruguay. IIRC the land was converted to soy farms, because exporting soy had a lot of taxes but not as many as beef.
Risks to children playing Roblox 'deeply disturbing', say researchers
I'd say the best PPC Mac will depend on exactly what you want to do on it.

Fastest that can natively run OS 9 with full driver support is going to be the MDD.

Best low cost and low space for tinkering is going to be the mini with the caveats you mentioned.

Best price to performance on the used market for PPC OS X software is probably an iMac G5.

Absolute best performance for PPC OS X stuff is going to be the PowerMac G5.

Honorable mention to the eMac, which can be be found for ~$100, 1ghz combo drive models and below can natively run OS 9 with full driver support or you can go with up to the 1.42 ghz model which is going to be similar to the fastest G4 minis, and comes with a beautiful built in CRT, with the caveat that it takes up as much space as a CRT.
>much of Monty Python wasn't recognized at the time as a classic

Monty Python was a huge success in its day - which is why it spawed multiple seasons, movies, comedy albums, books, and of course multiple careers (for all involved, even the mere non-speaking ...cartoonist), and even live shows. And that's just in the 70s and early 80s.

>For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grai... suggests that, while reception was generally positive, there wasn't the sense we'd now expect of a great treasure having just been unearthed.

Its funs where younger demographics. Mainstream reviewers of the time were notoriously out of touch. Hardly anybody more square than Ebert (at least he did gave it 3/4).
Wow. Thanks for the correction, I didn't know this.
Dependencies are managed by Composer (like npm, cargo, etc) for more than 10 years now.

https://getcomposer.org
Yup, you could pass it in at comptime as well! And access via @field.
This is a key point - where are the applications?

Normally we have a standard when we have applications, but I am not seeing these yet... perhaps I am blind and mad!
I find it refreshing that you prioritize cash compensation over stock options. Many employees may feel more secure with a higher salary rather than relying on uncertain equity.
https://archive.ph/qBPNc
Antinote, it's very useful. I found out about it on Reddit a month ago.

https://antinote.io/
The brain resorts to myelin when other brain nutrients are depleted
Marathon runners experience reversible changes in their brain myelin. These findings indicate that myelin (a substance that surrounds the neurons) exhibits behavior that was previously unknown, and that it contributes towards the brain's energy metabolism when other sources of energy are running low. Understanding how myelin in the runners recovers quickly may provide clues for developing treatments for demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-025-01244-7
Bear in mind, Australia has strict bicycle helmet laws that mean fewer riders (higher % of enthusiasts), so maybe it's a higher chance that they're ragging their bikes harder? It could also be the classic bad workmen blaming our tools, too, of course, and a less "competitive" rider is just less likely to blame their bike.
I haven’t viewed default as a real risk beyond some true craziness happening like the U.S. willfully deciding to default on a payment. Better yields are a good incentive to buy bonds now but they simultaneously lower the value and desirability of exiting bond holdings. They’re also correlated to inflationary risks, so I guess it depends on your outlook on the future of the dollar too.
Yes, and they're still hiring too, while doing this at the same time.

As a person who worked there for a long time, I never thought it was a good idea how rapidly they hired and never felt they needed that many people.

But the layoff process has been sadistic.

And the people who made the decisions to hire like crazy are not paying the consequences. In fact it feels very much like they're using this as an opportunity to push the median average age and compensation level of their staff down. Moving more and more positions to lower cost regions, and hiring younger developers while ditching higher paid senior staff.

Today's Google really sucks.
Do you have some sort of binfmt_misc setup for Windows/.NET executables? You might be able to get it to work by running `sh ./zork1` instead.
> Henry Ford made an interesting argument for printing money to fund productive enterprise in the context of a gold standard currency.

Is there a link/etc to the long form of his argument?
But you're asking it to 'read' the data and return some output based on the content of the data, you inherently want the content of the data to influence the output.

So whoever controls the data can influence the output.

You want it to respond to salient features in the data, but not to instructions in the data. But you also want it to follow your instructions. It's the same LLM.
Closest I can think of is the sheepit render farm. Thats blender specific though not generic compute
I wonder how many crashes resulted from Babboe’s issues
Since you don't need to care about the 'outer type' in that case you just pass a pointer to the linked list header or a linked list node and that's it.

If you need to access the outer type, just pass a pointer to that type (since your functions need to know the outer type anyway I don't think there's a need to reach for generics).
Sure. So small companies and people have virtually no chance at protecting their creations.
A tool to take away dust and dirt in the home.
This is why I avoid all those "smart" devices like the plague.
Yes, because clicking on a username and then "comments" is clearly too much work for you. *rolls eyes*

Edit: Sorry for the prior wording choice, I am not yet fluent in Total Asshole.
Interesting. Doesn't solve the problem entirely but seems to be a viable strategy to mitigate it somewhat.