skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are right.

Also anybody could right-click and "view source". (Imagine being able to do that in any Swing app in their peak, for contrast.)

When pages were just a few hundred lines any page could be recreated with a web browser, ambition, and enough time. Those days are long gone, now, with huge transitive node dependencies, minification, and feature-combinatorial-explosion. Like a sandboxed document-centric qbasic.
I don't mind sending my engineers off to work on certs. It seems like a plausible way to get someone interested in learning some aspects of a tech that they might not otherwise run into -- since a cert covers more things than one would actually use. However I don't consider it in hiring. It's not that I don't value the knowledge that comes from prepping, it's that I believe the long term success of an engineer has little to do with what they are currently working with.
I'm actually more excited to see a new Ben Eater video on youtube than anything else.

His stuff is just fantastic. Even though it's lower level than I've ever worked, it's extremely entertaining and educational.

His 6502 series is just great, but I want to highlight another couple of videos he did:

"Let's build a circuit that displays an image on a VGA monitor! In this video, I talk about how VGA signals work and build a circuit that provides the correct timing of sync signals so that a monitor recognizes the signal."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7rce6IQDWs
Competition is not the answer to monopoly, since it the monopoly status which is preventing competition in the first place. This is why antitrust laws exist.
That’s not the claim. The candidate who won a majority of votes lost the election through the electoral college in those cases.
IIRC, when you're a Google Cloud Partner, you're required to hold a certain number of Google Certified Engineers in your team, that number varying depending on you Partner Level, BUT, the associate certification doesn't count for that number.

Because of that reason, I got the Google Cloud Architect certification that was paid by my, then, company.

If I were screening people for a Cloud Sysadmin job, I would appreciate the associate certification as it would prove that you are, at least, familiar with the platform. Higher level certifications may help to maintain partner status, and also, in Google Cloud, they're not the classic "memorize the answers" type of exam, so I feel like people going through them have some sort of real life experience.

Anyway, I probably wouldn't use ANY kind of certification as a final decision for hiring somebody, unless we're required to hire a certificated person for any reason. I value experience, interest and learning abilities before certifications. I'd rather hire someone very skilled on googleing solutions than a classic certified guy who memorized a Cisco book.
Fixing old, broken process is an interesting intellectual challenge in itself.
No company will buy products just because they are better. They buy the brand, the support, the advertising.
Green Governance – Does your index fund fight climate change?
Or review and comment on any web page :)
This is actually huge. Especially in a startup or other small business. Misconfiguring something in AWS (or just simply not understanding their contrived billing models) can get unpredictably expensive.
Software certifications - waste of time and money.

College - waste of money.

Working - waste of time.

haha
https://duckduckgo.com/litedark/ needed
"Don't like it, don't use it" applies in all situations where the code is free to you and you didn't enter into a contract to "correct" those things that you don't like. People were always free to fork the code and fix what they don't like.
The problem with Von Neumann probes is they couldn't land on a planet like Earth and use it as a launching off point since the escape velocity is too high for a simple probe to produce off of whatever it can extract from the soil. If any landed here it would have eroded away by now, and for all we know it could be all around our solar system and we wouldn't know.
Certs are maybe one of the last things my colleagues and I look for on a CV. However, in many cases, it does help a bit to have some relevant certificates listed there, especially if the candidate is applying for a junior position, or a position which does not explicitly require a tertiary degree, since it shows that they have made some effort in the right direction. Unfortunately, very often they had gone through some brain dumps and cannot demonstrate even basic subject matter knowledge in person.
>a desktop PC algorithm that crunches market data faster than today’s most advanced supercomputers

It sounds like by "desktop PC algorithm" they mean a classical algorithm that can run on classical computers, and by "advanced supercomputers" they mean a quantum algorithm running on quantum computers.
That's good advice on how to treat others-- don't act entitled toward open source maintainers. Thank them for their work.

But what exactly are the responsibilities of a maintainer? How far should you go to fix bugs? How thorough should you be about your code's limitations?

If you're doing a project just for fun, should you discourage others from using it in production?
Surely a disagreement based on incentives is not an honest disagreement?
So really, getting a certificate is an improvement in efficiency. Kill two birds with one stone!
It's the midwest... people like to work.

It was also a really nice environment.

It was a sort of stress free ... high stress technical support situation. But everyone supported each other so it was surprisingly easy going.
Only a criminal would opt-out. If you've got nothing to hide, strip naked!
My university education cost me ~$30,000, and it has directly paid for itself many-fold, by making me eligible for a work visa.

I have a hard time calling that a waste of money.

People vastly underestimate how many doors not having a degree closes for you.
"Moderation for example could 'simply' be part of law enforcement."

"Having government manage authentication could rule out banning people across all services without stating a reason."

These both sound like Very Bad Ideas that could be implemented in short order by the People's Republic of China, building off the existing social credit system, to predictably anti-democratic results.

Decoupling authentication from Big Tech is a noble goal, but it should also absolutely be decoupled from Big Gov't as well.
I remember Mozilla having a lab project in 2009 called Raindrop [1].

"Raindrop is a messaging application building on Apache's CouchDB which is used through a web interface. Raindrop works by collecting messages (currently emails and tweets, but more will be available through addons) and storing them as JSON optionally with attachments in CouchDB."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Raindrop
Gathering Intel on Intel AVX-512 Transitions
Even netscape navigator 2 supported[1]:

- ftp uploads
- email
- nntp

It also launched javascript, but I think we can agree that isn't bloat.

But you're right, I totally forgot about the time in which Navigator was sold, rather than given away[2]. Please forgive me, this was a time before the PC in my childhood home had TCP internet, so I was more reliant on libraries and school labs at the time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator_2#Features
[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20141102052346/http://news.cnet....
Yep. They do a small amount of crawling solely to populate their "instant answers" for limited topics.
totally irrelevant, but wanted to throw here.

Their documentation and simple blogs are very very useful.
If the community is openly acerbic, toxic, autocratic, etc it sometimes becomes less of an issue because you know exactly what to expect, and expectation management is important for people.

If I in the past would have felt I needed to send a patch to the lkml, I wouldn't have felt intimidated because if my code would've gotten shredded to pieces, I was in very good company. The lkml also didn't really brigade, or bully, even if people sometimes was quite emotional. However, for some people I'm sure it would be hell.

There are however several projects with extensive guidelines that I would feel intimidated to interact with, as the power struggles and infighting is likely to be well and alive although I can't see it, there's also a brigade of attackers available to anyone who manage to convince them I was in the wrong.

Community guidelines unless expertly written and religiously enforced are unproportionally useful for those with either a manipulative streak, or those with good social and language skills, as they often grant them more power. In this respect mirroring society. However, apart from keeping the most blatant misconduct out of the open, it also becomes a weapon to be used against anyone less adept at navigating the social hierarchy. Thus, the extent to wherever a particular community ends up, in reality becomes almost inscrutable to the casual observer.

For me it's the same in real life, in contexts where the societal norms are somewhat displaced I have few issues. The selfish, aggressive, and other bad actors stand out like they would wear neon colors. In society in general, in the workplace, I have all kinds of issues because amid all the unspoken rules there will always be one that can be sufficiently well misapplied to defuse valid criticism.

We don't get pathological liars voted into various offices because people are good at arguing rationally, but they also tend get to stay there because they are protected by the rules, unless the rules are expertly and independently applied.
Sad to see. They've been nothing but great with me as a customer and should serve as an example of how to do good business(yes, I know, I know..scandal this, scandal that).

Hope the laid off find something else and maybe better soon.
In both situations, the election is compromised. Knowing my vote was secure in a compromised election does not provide any benefit.
I think it's quite ironic that software developers complain all the time about assessing the skills and experience of job candidates when the whole point of certifications is to establish a specified level of skill and experience in the matter certified.

Many certifications are entry level, but some are not. Many certifications just require you to sit in a room for a few hours and take a simple test, but some certifications are strenuous, in-depth tests that require you to actually study and know the subject tested.
Half the bullet points on here all fall into enterprise SaaS...

In my opinion the shift from big game changing ideas like Airbnb, Lyft/ Uber, and Stripe to a dozens enterprise SaaS apps popping up in San Francisco has been one of the biggest reasons why I've felt for the last year that there doesn't feel like there's been a "big next thing" for awhile.

I just can't get excited by another dressed up note taking app, and wouldn't be excited to work for one.
> If we don't come up with a way to share the wealth produced by increasing automation, the current system will funnel almost all of it to the top.

I think this is a discussion that requires more nuance than is generally used. I think you're talking just about money here, but I'm not sure.

Without that nuance, there's a good argument to be made that the current system that has made powerful computers accessible to and affordable to all but the most impoverished in the world is an excellent example of sharing wealth. The industrial revolution similarly made cheap textiles available and cheap shipping has dramatically cut food prices.

All of those are arguably sharing wealth. But none of them are sharing money.
You may be cherry picking open source examples to support your hypothesis. There are a number of open source projects with all code available and enterprise support.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention and causing me to go back and look closer at the pic.

I was JUST thinking:

* This makes all the stuff I did to set up octoprint for my 3d printer obsolete in one shot. I have spent more money than $200 and many hours trying to find unusual usb and hdmi ribbon cables and right-angle plugs, and designing and 3d printing a frame and stand for a touch screen and pi4, bt keyboard... for an end result that is frankly not very elegant. And here is all the same stuff in a much tidier package all in one effortless shot. (this is all true of pretty much any laptop of course, not just this one)

* BUT... Oh right, I keep forgetting. Laptops have batteries, which go bad in just a couple years, and many laptops do not run without the battery connected. The pi4 setup has no lithium battery to go bad in a couple years, and it's passively cooled. It can sit there plugged in and powered-on 24/7 for years, and most laptops can not.

So you just removed that issue. Thanks!
This story seems to now invalidate the line that we have been hearing for about 3 years now that says that no evidence of tampering with the 2016 national election has been found. Of course, they were careful to not say that evidence of no tampering had been found, or even that anyone behind the no-evidence assertion was sufficiently skilled to find and recognize tampering. If no one can vouch for the correctness of the Georgia results now, what evidence is there of no error in the national results; how many other states might have had similarly overlooked anomalies?
Running experiments where you make your product worse – underrated tool
I don't see that as a major problem in this situation.

Given that the actix author already wanted to take a step back after the last incident, and also seems to be generally okay with giving the project away, a fork could also be officially advertised.

Word also travels fast in communities, and if a viable fork does come up, people will quickly start to recommend it.
Well this page has not much content, but the first thing I notice is that the search box and the button are not aligned correctly...
As strange as it may sound, passing that law might be really difficult. The article mentions "In September, Shinjiro Koizumi, Japan’s environment minister, faced widespread opposition and even calls to resign over his plans to take paternity leave after his wife gives birth."

Things are changing in Japan, but progress appears to be moving at a glacial pace.
Yes, indeed. Laws like the Investigatory Powers Act (2016) a.k.a. "the Snoopers Charter".
Never heard about Nanobox up until now. Interesting, let's see what comes out of that.
Boeing's (Bae) Denver Airport Baggage System, a Notorious Project Failure [pdf]
Only if you are 60 and about to retire does this matter. Not like a 20-50 year old will tap into their 401k, and not like they have too much saved in these funds to begin with. Most of the middle class with retirement plans will ride this out like they did the last recession and every one before that. They might have to hold off on buying a new car for a year or three, but they will be fine when the business cycle rights itself again.

The people working 60 hour weeks comprised of 3 part time jobs that refuse to pay out full time hours and benefits just to share a bedroom in south LA while accumulating zero savings? These people are about to experience real pain, and news coverage and forums like HN generally have no concept of the working class.
A Philosophy of Project Governance
I can reproduce this as well. The results differ by quite a bit:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=video+hub+app

https://duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=video+hub+app
Do you sleep well on floors made of stone, concrete or ceramic tile? They feel way harder than wood. A lot colder, too.
The parent poster was referring to election fraud, not voter fraud. They're different. Voter fraud is when someone casts a vote they should not have, e.g. because they moved or they've cast multiple votes. Election fraud is when election officials tamper with the election.

There are documented cases of both, but the Heritage website, documenting about 1,200 over a period of at least 20 years (I didn't check every state, but the earliest I saw was 2000) is an insignificant amount of voter fraud over 20 years and hundreds of millions of votes cast. Even if they underreported by a factor of 100, that's no threat to democracy.
I love the cool images they seem to always put together when they do this.
Washer-sized nuclear reactors for home use under $10k.
Try/catch vs explicitly checking error values is like implementing sandboxing with os-level isolation versus with programming discipline. Why one would prefer offering guarantees like "will never crash/panic" using the latter technique instead of a guaranteed catch-all is incomprehensible to me.
I have 0% trust in regulators ability to do this without doing more harm to workers than good
Government and DoD contractors usually run older than commercial companies- you won't get close to SV level compensation, but it can be a good way to move to a lower cost-of-living area.
Hear hear! I feel like carbon offsets are basically the contemporary version of Catholic indulgences. Don't change your behavior one iota, but still feel guilt-free because you've paid for your forgiveness.

It's incredible how hard it is to motivate people to change their behaviors even just a little. Even just tiny things like convincing people to grab a real glass from the cabinet to get water instead of a single-use plastic cup on top of the water cooler at work seem impossible.
Remote will be huge and there is definitely a need for tools to enable remote working and communication.
This looks nice, but very similar to a bunch of existing projects like http://www.celeryproject.org/ Are there any clear differentiators?

Also, I understand it's a new project, but some more documentation would be helpful. E.g., how does one backup and restore the tasks and settings? Does it provide alerting when a job fails?
let me plug https://builds.sr.ht
Or they will die without replacement after having consumed existing capital (drivers' cars, vc money, consumers' ability to buy).
Why are all those job postings only minutes ago? Is this brand new or am I missing something?
Aren’t incentives hidden principles?
Ask HN: How can I continue learning as a solo, remote freelancer?
Three years ago, I quit my full-time job as a web developer for a startup in SF to try the remote/DN thing. Since then, most of my work up has been either completely solo, or on a small team where I'm the only/most experienced developer.

I feel like my development skills are plateauing, and I don't know what to do. It makes sense though, I am hired as a freelancer for the skills I already have, not my potential for learning on the job.

One of the things I miss the most from my in-person job is the mentorship from senior developers. I miss being able to ask a quick question, or have them code review my work. Without this guidance, I often feel lonely since it's just me and the internet vs the problem.

My current method to continue learning is to read blogs, read weekly newsletters, and work through online courses. The challenge here is that it's still entirely up to me to interpret and adapt the lessons into my own work. I don't have anyone to discuss the learning points with and verify that I understand the lesson correctly.

Do you have any advice on how I can find mentorship as a solo, remote freelancer?
Or alternatively:

3) this will cause prices to start dropping, which increases uncertainty, and causes additional sells.

4) thus we enter a loop where uncertainty increases, which causes more selling, which causes price decreases, and the market crashes.

Market prices are largely a function of market confidence. If confidence erodes, so does the market. It's how bubbles burst.
and oh yeah - they can make macro-scale carbon nanofiber "wool" which can be woven into future textiles: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S246860691...
In-spite of our self confidence, our knowledge of biology and ecology is just the tiniest beginning. Letting organisms and genes disappear is insanely reckless.

An analogy would be an illiterate dark age monk wondering if he should let random Greek and Roman books burn in his fireplace.
In Europe this is pretty standard practice everywhere. Say you have 30 days of vacation per year. You have to take at least 20, and 10 of those have to be consecutive. Otherwise your manager gets a bollocking from their manager and HR. In theory at least.

The rest of the days might be lost, transferred into next year’s vacation with a cutoff (like until end of Q1 next year or end of the year otherwise they are lost), or with no cutoff and they stack up forever.
What do you get for being a "Google Cloud Partner" that makes it worth jumping through those hoops?

Edit: It looks like the Partner program is aimed at consultants looking to prove to clients they know how to use Google Cloud
I think it's important to let people know that there are fewer managers than workers. (At least, if a company is doing things correctly there are fewer management positions.) This means that not everyone will be able to make this transition even if you have the appropriate skills and disposition. Furthermore, if you look around a lot of tech companies, you'll notice that most of the managerial staff is <45 as well. So keep that in mind.

Basically, don't bank everything on going into management. Be financially responsible. Live beneath your means. Explore other pass times and activities that you may have an interest in pursuing in the future. The worst thing you can do is arrive at 40 or 45 with a Plan A that may not work out and no Plan B or C.
Came here to ask for a dark mode of the lite version as well.
???

I don't think you've worked with ERPs or auditors. This is how Netsuite and Oracle actually work, and the two combined own more than half of the ERP market.

The time for editing a transaction is before it gets committed to the ledger. In Netsuite, this is accomplished by requiring (or allowing businesses to set a requirement) for entries to be reviewed and approved before posting.

Having the transaction log lets auditors audit the process by which the company generates its financials, and to identify where mistakes were made (if any). It's invaluable to both auditors and their clients, and its saves thousands of man-hours to be able to do this.
Adaptive Autosar – The New Autosar Architecture (2019)
"Similarly, as tasks are automated in the modern economy (such as manufacturing tasks) workers will shift their time into other tasks like the growing service economy"

I like to call this the "lump of labour fallacy fallacy". It falls down because complete fungibility isn't actually a thing. You can't turn a dumpster diver into a brain surgeon, no matter how many hours of training you apply. As tasks are automated new jobs and tasks are created generally at a higher skill and intelligence level.

This excludes an increasing fraction of the workforce all of whom still need something to do of service to others for their own mental wellbeing as well as to fulfil the social contract requirement of reciprocity.
Breaking them up is great but you are going to end up back in a similar situation if you can't build large platforms/marketplaces like those companies provided.

I think the way to do that without having a conflict of interest is to leverage decentralized technologies to create large public platforms/marketplaces that companies can plug into.
If personal info or CC data gets leaked, the company which used this library/framework will be found legally liable. Using random code from github is not a valid product development strategy.

The author can write their entire code in an unsafe block for all they care. The buck stops with those that use the framework and that is made quite clear in the license.
> It's unhealthy for everyone to have Amazon be the only real option for servers

I'm not belittling AWS' commanding market share, but they are hardly the "only real option for servers." Google and Azure are both in the leviathan league and have competitive pricing.
This Linux smartphone is now shipping for $150