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by dcminter | 2025-08-01 18:04:57+00:00
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by dh2022 | 2025-08-01 18:05:42+00:00
Not sure how is it now, but when I worked in a plant overtime work was paid at 150% rate of regular pay. Work during national holidays was paid at 200% rate. Isn’t this still the case?

(The workforce at the plant was unionized and the higher rate may have been part of the labor contract. This was in Montreal Canada about 25 years ago. )
by bayindirh | 2025-08-01 18:05:58+00:00
Vacuum based filling systems are called “vacuum fillers”, like Pilot Custom 823.

A piston pen is exactly same as a converter one. For example Pelikan M605, Twsbi Eco, Lamy 2000, etc.

Vacuum pens are nice, but need more care during filling and need deeper bottles since the process is somewhat more violent.
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 | 2025-08-01 18:06:38+00:00
Ground News worries me because now we don't need to use our brains the app just tells me the bias! Ground News could be biased!

Leads to shallow discussion where all news sources are tossed out for bias leaving nothing (or what ground news wants you to listen to). God forbid we critically examine for ourselves the information we consume.
by bitshiftfaced | 2025-08-01 18:06:38+00:00
> Concerned by the lack of viewpoint diversity, I looked at voter registration for our newsroom. In D.C., where NPR is headquartered and many of us live, I found 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans. None.

https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-tru...
by UncleOxidant | 2025-08-01 18:06:52+00:00
> PBS in the US could be so much better.

PBS Newshour is pretty much the best/balanced news programming on US TV at this point. They take deeper dives into issues than most of the other shows out there. And then there's Frontline which is excellent and goes even deeper with a documentary format. The rest of PBS - there are a few good parts like Nova, but a lot of what plays on PBS stations these days is UK crime dramas - man, there seems to be a lot of mayhem going on in merry old England these days.
Show HN: Friend's pen-and-calendar tracking → simple staff app
by Nitishshah700 | 2025-08-01 18:07:06+00:00
my friend owns a small family shop in India with 5-6 staff. They don't use any software except custom accounting software. Last week I visited his store and saw him writing names on a wall calendar to track which staff is absent or late, for calculation of monthly wages and deduct pay for missed days.

got the idea to build him a simple offline attendance app. used claude and chatGPT to code it in about 60 minutes and published it on the appstore.

sharing here in case other small shop owners need something similar - no internet required, just tap to mark attendance and generate reports, export to csv or pdf.
by motorest | 2025-08-01 18:07:14+00:00
> I really appreciate how this article explains why certain design patterns became a thing. Usually, it was to address some very practical problem or limitation.

I don't agree at all. I feel that those who criticise design patterns as solution to practical problems are completely missing the point of design patterns, and the whole reason they have the name the have: design patterns. I'll explain.

Design patterns are solutions to common design problems, but "problems" isn't the kind of problems you think it is. It's "problems" in the sense that there are requirements to be met. A state pattern is a way to implement a state machine, but you still have a state machine and a state pattern if your state classes don't handle state transitions.

More to the point, look at singletons. It's irrelevant if they are implemented with a class or a closure or a module. What makes a singleton a singleton is the fact that there is an assurance that there will be a single instance of an object. Does an implementation that allow multiple instances or doesn't return the same instance qualifies as a singleton? Obviously not.

Design patterns are recurring solutions to recurring problems. They are so recurring that they get their name and represent a high level concept. A message queue is a design pattern. An exception is a design pattern. Lazy loading is a design pattern. Retries and exponential backoffs are design patterns. Etc. Is anyone arguing that Python has none of it?

So many people trying to criticise the GoF but they don't even bother to be informed or form an educated opinion.
by lausingh | 2025-08-01 18:07:22+00:00
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by jaredwiener | 2025-08-01 18:07:22+00:00
PBS and NPR do not operate like the commercial networks --

ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox/Etc are big corporations that produce (or commission/license, it gets...weird) shows to be distributed on their affiliates, that, depending on the city you are in, can be owned by the network OR another company that operates it like a franchise. Their affiliate agreement governs how much of the network programming they play -- though there are other agreements for non-network programming -- Jeopardy/Wheel of Fortune, for example, are syndicated and NOT network.

PBS on the other hand is more of a consortium of public TV stations around the country. Shows that you might think of as "PBS Shows" are actually produced by these individual stations and then distributed to other stations that want them. Even PBS Newshour and Washington Week are produced by WETA in DC.

Radio gets even more complicated. Many of the shows I've seen referenced on this thread aren't even necessarily NPR. Marketplace, for example, is American Public Media, which is sort of an outcropping from Minnesota Public Radio.

So funding going to ACTUAL PBS is a tiny part of this. What happens to the money going to various stations? What happens to the grants to produce and run these stations, especially in rural areas?
by KaiserPro | 2025-08-01 18:07:32+00:00
Indeed!

It just grinds my gears that _I_ need to check to see if the caller has given me all the required bits. That seems like something the language should do.

I understand that it does give you a lot of flexibility, but Hnnnnnnnnn

(from what I recall object oriented perl doesn't give you this flexibility, but I'm not sure, as I never really did it. )
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-01 18:07:37+00:00
Not exactly N times, no. In a traditional transformer arch token 1 is cheaper to generate than token 1000 is cheaper than token 10k and so on. So having 10x 1000 tokens would be cheaper to run concurrently than 10.000 in one session.

You also run into context issues and quality degradation the longer you go.

(this is assuming gemini uses a traditional arch, and not something special regarding attention)
Show HN: Tendly – Ephemeral, privacy-first sharing for files and notes
by omojo | 2025-08-01 18:08:05+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Tendly (https://tendly.xyz) as a way to share things-messages, files, ideas that are meant to be temporary.

Most tools today treat sharing as permanent by default. Tendly flips that: everything disappears after a short time. No accounts required. Just open, type, upload, and share. The person on the other end gets it and it vanishes after it’s seen.

Use cases: Quick, intentional messages, Ephemeral file drops, Private one-time notes, or Temporary feedback or thoughts

It’s inspired by the idea that not everything needs to be stored or remembered forever.

Would love feedback on usability, security assumptions, and whether you find this concept useful in your day-to-day work or communication.

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by philip1209 | 2025-08-01 18:08:06+00:00
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by screye | 2025-08-01 18:08:12+00:00
Thanks for adding context. On the balance, I think it's a good bill.

Like tariffs, all taxes are eventually paid by the customer. But landlords are more capable of applying price pressure on brokers than random renters. It incentivizes landlords to hand out longer leases, which gives renters more security and fewer avenues for eviction. Won't be surprised if a software company (like streeteasy) takes over the ops side of the brokering business and drives the per-sale price waay down. Seems like an obvious startup idea.
by johnnymaroney | 2025-08-01 18:08:38+00:00
Emotions aren't so black and white and I think both can be true. Sometimes letting yourself feel and release your emotions, even with something unrelated, opens up your capacity to confront something. The site is based on scientific and psychological research. There are plenty of studies but here is one if you want to check it out: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/benefits-of-a-good-cry-crying...
by crystal_revenge | 2025-08-01 18:09:01+00:00
> You have to make the question very easy to account for nerves.

What's funny is that this current madness all started with Joel Spolsky [0] complaining that "199 out of 200 programmers can't code", which ultimately lead to the development of the now famous "FizzBuzz" [1] (is it still famous?) which was meant to be exactly what you're describing: Just a simple test that you can write a program from scratch.

It's also worth pointing out that Joel was writing about an entirely different world of software engineering. In the shadow of the dotcom bust their were still loads of mediocre programmers hiding out in corporate dev teams just modifying existing files. But when asked to build something from scratch, they literally didn't know where to start.

0. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/01/27/news-58/

1. https://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-de...
by timr | 2025-08-01 18:09:02+00:00
I don't know about your suggested site, but I use foreign news for this. I have switched to "consuming news" [0] almost entirely from a variety of English-language foreign services.

All national media services have their own bias and propaganda, but if you switch them up it becomes obvious very quickly. It also means that I miss out on most of the US political noise [1], which is a benefit to my mental health [2].

[0] Hot/lukewarm take: "consuming news" is a waste of time, and should be minimized. This really hits you like a brick to the head when you see the stuff that foreign countries are obsessing about, and how tiny it feels to you. Guess what: your news media is filled with the same crap.

[1] I still get the foreign opinion on it, obviously, but this is usually pretty mild. Most countries don't care about the US nearly as much as US citizens think they do.

[2] If you think that CPB/NPR don't have bias, I strongly suggest that you try this. You're probably in a bubble, and an "international perspective" is something that most NPR listeners claim to value. Removing US media from my life eliminated a huge source of angst (particularly after 2016), and revealed that all of the major US media sources are various forms of hyper-polarized clownery.
by tptacek | 2025-08-01 18:09:02+00:00
I'm sure they will, but public funding for my local NPR and PBS stations amounts to something like 5% of their budget; they aren't going anywhere. NPR and PBS as institutions are more threatened by the Internet than they are by this funding cut.

I don't support the cut, but I get the vibe that many people commenting on this thread don't know what CPB is.
by lykr0n | 2025-08-01 18:09:02+00:00
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by throwup238 | 2025-08-01 18:09:12+00:00
Also the Wikipedia Current Events portal [1]. It’s definitely biased by the Wikipedia editors decisions on what to add there (especially the “Topics in the News” box) but it gives a more or less neutral dump of the daily events.

It’s pretty much the only place I know to find news on all the conflicts that Western media tends to ignore.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-08-01 18:09:15+00:00
Yes this is exactly my point. The Mac was a semi-expedient branching point in an effort to get an idea to market, but that's not really the sum of it. Choices were clearly made for personal and political reasons, and it cost Apple 10 years later when it had no answer for Windows NT or Unix.

And I don't think it was about "worse is better" -- they shipped the org chart, really, forked a new team under Jobs to make a "like Lisa but cheap" but it wasn't just "but cheap", it was 100% incompatible, and sacrificed on basic engineering fundamentals.

It also makes no sense to me. The Lisa hardware was expensive, but I think LisaOS could have been made to run on less expensive hardware by jettisoning features, and then picked up again later. Instead because of personalities and org chart they went and made a completely incompatible other-thing that looked like LisaOS without being it, duplicating effort and creating internal ill will, and short circuiting potential futures.

Anyways, Jobs profited it off it twice. Ego satisfaction with shipping the Mac, and killing off the Lisa -- his grudge/nemesis. And then again when Apple was forced to come to him 10 years later and buy NeXTstep because of what Jobs had done in 84.

Larry Tesler is spinning in his grave somewhere.
by neilv | 2025-08-01 18:09:54+00:00
> Two admitted her, but then higher-ups in those universities’ administrations overrode those decisions.

I've personally seen universities go both ways, and it comes down both to individuals, and to the culture of the department/university faculty and administration.

(Not to the culture of the student body, which is influenced by the administration culture, but has very little institutional memory, and almost zero power. If you draw an analogy to nations, there might be one with the most awful 'leaders' seizing and abusing power, but that's "way above the pay grade" of the many nice citizens you will meet -- who didn't know what they were being born into, and will do their best to be decent to each other, despite whatever bits they're unfortunate to learn about the upper powers.)
by s1artibartfast | 2025-08-01 18:10:08+00:00
I know people that did just that. Get about a million off a SF condo because they were in grad school. About 500K instead of 1.5 million.

The trick is you need to have enough money to still afford the reduced mortgage.

Basically a perfect fit for a founder with reduce salary, grad intern, or similar.

It's almost as if these are the people that designed and voted for these programs
by darintay | 2025-08-01 18:10:09+00:00
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by rockemsockem | 2025-08-01 18:10:19+00:00
Personally I definitely feel the stress impacting my abilities during coding interviews. Last time I interviewed I used a few live coding prep tools to prepare and realized that the main value I got was just getting desensitized to the stress of solving a problem in front of someone.

That being said, IMO there is no good replacement. Especially with LLMs being as good as they are you simply cannot trust someone to solve a problem without supervision and rely on the result alone as a signal. Not just because they might cheat, but moreso because the main signal you get from these interviews is watching someone think through the problem and talking through it with them.

These should not be pass/fail tests, there's so much more that goes into a good evaluation.
by lupusreal | 2025-08-01 18:10:43+00:00
Rabid zionists don't want people to recognize Palestine because if Palestine doesn't in some sense exist then in some sense that erases the crime zionists are committing in eradicating Palestine.

It's crazy but that's how it works. Refusal to recognize Palestine is a form of dehumanization, one of the key stages of genocide.
by another_twist | 2025-08-01 18:11:01+00:00
To quote David Mitchell - "news is a very small of the BBC...BBC is an organization that is loved around the world for its drama and stories and not just the ruddy news".

How is it not neutral ? I follow some of the news. They've criticized both Conservative and Labour governments. Of course there are problems like the whole Martin Bashir thing but recently I've seen the BBC be more self-critical than other private TV channels. If we're comparing mistakes from the past then in the 90s, Roger Ailes was molesting women behind locked doors. Lewd comments were the norm across several news rooms. Doesn't mean that all private media is bad.
by bploetz | 2025-08-01 18:11:07+00:00
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by MKK | 2025-08-01 18:11:24+00:00
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