skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For the employees, it means having to both retain housing near an office in an expensive location

If you're only commuting twice a week I don't see why you can't live 1 - 1.5 hours away from work. That should bring cost of living down significantly.
Oh yes, there are tons of giants creating software for health applications you never heard of, defense purposes you cannot hear about, logistic you would never consider (managing competitions, port services, private jet traffic, truck fleets...) and so on.

And those don't use $LATEST_TECH, $FANCY_FRAMEWORK or $EXOTIC_LANGUAGE.

They use $BORING_TECH, $OLD_LANGUAGE, $DEPRECATED_FRAMEWORK.

They are not in the cloud, don't update often, have to deal with legacy stacks, stacked on a stack of legacy stacks, and administrative burden from left to right.

Those are the ones that pay for an Oracle licence, and sync it to dozens of excel sheets from an FTP and a lone Access DB, where all auth is manage by a Tomcat service actually proxying to Active Directory and their custom CRM.

And they certainly don't have a team of 10x programmers. In fact, most are windows dev that never used the terminals and don't have admin rights on their machine.

I should know, I make half of my income going from company to company to train their team.

They are everywhere.

They make billions.
Which companies received Covid Stimulus in SQL form
Blueprints felt to me like they made a lot more sense if you knew how C++ worked, but I only used UE4 a little bit to toy around with it
Why X^0 and 0! results to 1?
the corporate gorilla beats its chest, demanding you comply!

But with what, it does not say ¯\_(-_-)_/¯
American tipping culture ruins it for me - the social anxiety of "do I tip them? how much? what if I don't tip enough? word of mouth is I'm a bad tipper? what if my tip insults them?" and any possible repercussions of getting it wrong loom.

I am not at all against delivery drivers getting their due, but the whole tipping culture is a pressure I can just avoid if I don't have things delivered which I can go get myself. I envy the countries which lack this automatic tipping culture.
Vietnam has zero reported deaths.
It's a complete failure. People don't want to pay outrageous prices, so they don't buy in. Restaurants don't want to pay fees. The companies want to make money so they have to squeeze somewhere - squeeze customers, you lose customers. Squeeze drivers, people no longer drive. Squeeze restaurants, they don't buy in.

It's just a system where everyone loses.
Forget the gig economy stuff.

You're blaming the implementation because fundamentally the service makes sense.

Let's say I am a restaurant owner. I want to take orders online. I don't know anything about payment processing, making a website, etc. Grubhub makes a ton of sense to me because they handle all of that stuff, as long as the price is right.

Maybe it's impossible to offer such a service profitably. But that seems weird to me.
He doesn’t have to do that, he made all of those choices.
As avicebron said, when a person has had enough of being stomped on they will snap. Most won't drive a truck through a crowd of people, or blow up buildings, but a few will weld themselves into bulldozers* and level buildings, or shoot up schools, or rob banks, or drive through crowds of people. The action doesn't really matter. Destroy every gun in existence? We'll see more knifings and vehicular homicides.

Unless everyone is locked into a cage like a rat in a straight jacket people will find ways to maliciously hurt themselves and others when they've been pushed too far. Many self deluded and extremely privileged people decline responsibility for these extreme behaviors, yet, in reality, we are all culpable in the actions of the worst of us. It is everyone's responsibility to arrest the decline of someone nearing the breaking point. Once a person is closeto snapping they are no longer capable of rational thought, let alone digging themselves out of a hole that they are not fully responsible for digging. If we are to dismiss responsibility for these people that have been pushed too far then we only create a habitat for more of these desperate and sad souls to develop in.

* https://youtu.be/qlZh9-NQEyI
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-get-food-delivered-from-...

too late
Yes that's what I meant. Retail investors meaning individuals who decide to invest in real estate
Github: https://github.com/Microsoft/BosqueLanguage
This was my read as well^

In any case, by whatever name we wish to call it, LVT is the path forward.
Systemd has some pretty nice sandboxing settings built in if you (like me) prefer to not use docker-like containers.

With stuff like RootImage and the various isolation settings you can have a configurably sandboxed container right in systemd.

Or just use systemd-nspawn if you want it more preconfigured.
> And most of AVs are using HTML/CSS UI these days.

If AV background and scanner processes use those then that's yet another reason to drop them like a bad habit. (The other reason being they increase the attack surface area.)
I'm surprised OpenTable or something similar doesn't yet allow restaurants to include delivery as an option yet.

For restaurants that already offer delivery (pizza places), avoiding the food-delivery middleman seems like a win?
Fine. How do you communicate broad technical concepts via body language.
Do you know why they don't just use an existing API that does image resizing automatically? Presume it's the integration challenge, but I'm curious if you know /why/.

Also, what does "Capitalize hour analysis" mean?
+1 for single-sign on (opposed to a gazillion of passwords). Why is manual signup still a thing at all? I'd expect people today to start with single sign-on.
Final Fantasy VII Remake characters are amazing - skin tone, hair, animation. Beautiful, beautiful sets. I can't imagine anything better.
This one is amazing: https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws#kernighans-law

> Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

The word "clever" has always been a low key insult when coming from me about code, and this describes the reason perfectly.
I have no loyalty to Elon. It just so happens our interests align (mitigating climate change, electrification of transportation, rapid deployment of utility scale energy storage, the commodification of heavy lift to orbit).

If you were doing these things, I'd support you. But you're not. Most aren't. I support those that are doing this work, necessary work. Elon would not be my first pick, but unfortunately, he’s the only pick at this scale. "The Devil You Know."
So much this. Thank you. I've never heard it put more succinctly.
“Never use velocity to measure performance and never share velocity outside of individual teams.” I wonder how many teams stick to this
its almost like they'll just be banks or something
I'm not arguing against security. I literally said that using https is a good idea.

The point I'm making is that security always comes at a cost, and sometimes it just isn't worth it. In the OP's example, using https literally breaks the application. Whereas switching to http has very little downsides. So while https should be seen as the default, it makes sense to use http sometimes.

Do you use full disk encryption on every machine you use, with a separate TFA key for every device? Do you have bullet proof windows and a reinforced steel door? Have you purchased and set up a commercial firewall for your home network?

You can always increase security. Where you draw the line depends on you and your application. Throwing out all nuance because "you must always use $SecureThing at all costs" is just not helpful.
That looks very reasonable. But the HN headline seems very misleading.
In most places you don't need deep product and tribal knowledge to make small changes. You need deep product an tribal knowledge to know what small change to make. Almost anyone new at a company will have someone else telling them what the first thing they need to do is, and that person is telling you to do something that wasn't important enough for them to do themselves.
"Dogmatic" is a great description of OTP, though. You have to adopt the OTP mindset, adhere to the OTP principles, and organize your architecture in the OTP style. There's a long initiation process where you learn esoteric vocabulary, become familiar with bespoke tooling, etc.

This isn't meant as criticism -- I think Erlang/OTP is a brilliant piece of work. But arguably Erlang/OTP is a practical tool that achieved practicality by embracing dogma.
Real-time ray tracing is not impressive in the current generation of games because they’re optimized to maximize the quality of traditional lighting solutions. Most games use mostly static assets and lighting, because baked lighting can get a nearly photorealistic result as long as nothing moves.

Highly dynamic environments are where the technology shines, because it can achieve results which traditional solutions simply can’t. I think ray-traced Minecraft is the best current example of the potential of this technology.
If the developer can control the balance then it's fine. If this balance cannot be controlled by the developers then it's a nightmare. It's not clear to me this is developer controlled.
Thanks for your comment, you really grokked what I as trying to say previously and said it better than I did.
Exactly the right response. Sounds like management may be a bit sexy though, stable companies that treat their employees well are rare.

Basecamp's founders have been working hard to hammer this point (lower expectations and treat humans like humans) home lately.
> the spirit of Hanlon's razor, it's more likely that the managers are simply bad at their job.

> In some sense, it doesn't even matter. If the manager is sacrificing profit for a fuzzy feeling of domination, then he's doing a bad job at increasing profit. And if the business is in competition with another that doesn't succumb to that kind of error, then the market will make it very clear

We have to be consistent in our views.

In the first sentence, the Hanlon's razor applies but not in the second one?

What if the market is inefficient and the manager sacrificing profit for a fuzzy feeling of domination actually comes ahead?

Does the Hanlon's razor support that theory?

In that case, how does this conversation proceed?

I am (trying to) applying a consistent view - that there's always an objective function in a game and society is a game.

Right now, you and I are playing a game - I'm trying to clarify my thoughts and so are you.

My objective function is to test the clarity of my thoughts and the best way to go about it, I feel, is to discuss it with someone who holds a contrarian view.

That said, I've been having a hard time doing that here on HN as once downvotes (which work like a silencing mechanism here) happen, I literally cant respond back until a few hours have passed since the last downvote.

Don't hesitate to reach out over email. I am enjoying this exchange.
It's the usual HN: pretentiousness abound. Can't even be excited about a wonderful tech demo.
Your comment was no doubt flagged and downvoted because it broke the site guidelines. Would you mind reviewing them? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Note the one about not posting insinuations of astroturfing. There's a long body of explanation of why we have this rule: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... if anyone's interested.
How to pick topics for tech blogging - Practical tips
Would you advise them to leave and risk not being able to put food on the table if they can't find another position? If there's little to no opportunity for lateral movement in their job market right now?
> Do you think Roblox, Second Life, and VRChat look as good as Unreal Engine 5?

The main bottleneck is the price of asset production. Producing assets on the level of this demo videos is magnitudes more expensive than what you would see in those other platforms. So for someone to be able to turn a profit with that, there would need to be either a bigger willingness to spend, or an explosion in player base.

There are also likely technical challenges. I'd imagine that very few people have both the storage capacity and bandwidth to sustain such a system. You see people on here complaining about websites being a few MB heavy. In such a high quality 3D browser, you would need to load multiple GBs per scene.
Thanks for the advice! Just upgraded the dyno!

No integrations yet - Slack integration is next up.
Have you tested this? Prepaid cards usually don't support subscriptions, which is a way of avoiding that. (I work with handling online payments, and tried this before, but it failed for my test-case)
Not entirely surprising. We've gotten a bunch of takeout during this time, but never using those services.

We're getting takeout to support our local businesses.

The delivery companies take such a big cut that the local business barely breaks even or loses money on the deal. Most of them have asked people to call in directly and pick up if they possibly can, and some even have re-employed their workers as delivery drivers for direct call-ins.

I go out with my mask and goggles and pick it up. There is so little traffic it doesn't even matter. I get there super quick and park right in front. Then I stand in line with all the poor Grubhub/Ubereats contractors who I know aren't getting a great deal either and we all get our food. I usually let them cut me in line because I know their tip may depend on their speed.
Owners of commercial real estate in urban markets are the ones who have been winning, seeing their property values skyrocket even as they put the squeeze on their tenants.
Eh, let me introduce you to U+2060 zero-width word joiner.
Nice post.

There's also at least one CrossValidated question on this topic, with good answers attached. For example https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/214325/36229
so you're confused by lowest-endian, but not by middle-endian?
Please don't reply to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That just makes the thread even worse.

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No, that's pretty much what I've done since well before Windows 10.
They also have only 288 reported cases, which is astonishingly low and hard to believe. But possible -- Taiwan is similar. Though Taiwan does not count as one of the warmer climates like Singapore or Malaysia.
I do want less stuff in the browser, but mainly less JavaScript objects and other capabilities for web sites to perform, not less user stuff.
> When is the last time you saw an employer shutter their business but continue paying their employees?

Just last month: https://web.archive.org/web/20200410153705/http://www.lafari...

(They've since re-opened)
PostgreSQL now() vs. 'NOW':timestamp vs. clock_timestamp()
Always enjoyed that movie. I suggest everyone check it out!
But programming is essentially about interacting with people more so than interacting with computers, even now. It's less so that the job will go away than that its nature will change, such that the proportion of time interacting with people goes up, and the time currently spent "coding" will instead be spent interacting with AI which writes the actual code. But this AI won't be smart enough for a while to talk to a normal human who doesn't know how to talk to it and translate requirements into the right form. Hence the need for the programmer. Programmers will make use of the automation to just become much more productive.
As we are just transforming people quotations into laws and effects, let me add mine.

”In a heated market, where it is easier to crack code interviews than to prove yourself a talented and effective IT engineer, the least talented and effective engineers are more likely to leave, to float away, because their employers have less reason to try to keep them. Those who tend to remain are the ones who have more “weight” in the company, as their effectiveness and talent are better evaluated by their colleagues than external audience from conference talks, blog posts, and code interviews”

Soneca

You can call that ”The Gravity Effect”
Goes to Eleven (Pt. 4/∞)
They went through the websites on my portfolio as part of KYC.
I've given this a whopping 5 minutes of thought, so maybe someone else who actually knows the economics can weigh in on a thoughtful discussion...

Seems to me like this would be a very hard business to scale quickly. Consumers don't want to pay a delivery charge and don't care about the middle man - their relationship is with the restaurant, not uberGrubCart. The restaurants want to control their costs too... so feels like the only way this whole delivery business can work is if it's a third party, white-label service serving local restaurants, getting paid by the restaurants, and it is then up to the restaurants to figure out how to burry the costs into their pricing so the consumer doesn't see it.
One of the nicest and most unique designs I've seen recently, well done.

I'm just reading "Thinking, Fast and Slow" and several of those principles are talked about in the book.
I typically disagree with free trials for B2B. The user has no skin in the game and the account will go by the wayside.
BEAM is amazing and IMHO there's one very sweet spot ready for optimization: math functions. I know I can escape out to C/Rust/etc. yet the majority of what I do is simple float math such as stddev and vector normalization.

The article states benchmark of 5000% speedup on floats when switching from BEAM to the JVM. I would like to offer $100 as a gift incentive to anyone here who wants to work on optimizing BEAM math.
For what it's worth, the best interns/juniors I've had started out making simple changes like this. I'd break down the work and parcel it out for them every day until they had accomplished something big. Then I'd start parceling it out less and less until they just knew what they were doing.
You forgot to mention the greatest editor there is, UnrealEd. Unity has a good one, Crytek has a horrible one.
If that were the case you'd see significantly different infection and mortality numbers for the Nordic countries than for the rest of Europe since many people supplement vitamin D there.
Norway, Denmark and Finland seem to be doing relatively well, but Sweden's rates are pretty similar to France's.
Can you foia request images from these cameras?
Having to tip delivery people does indeed sound like it would suck. That's a bit like tipping the postman.
Trivial counter-example: Iceland.

Very few countries can give you an accurate death rate at this point.

If you look at mortality among demographics that were thoroughly tested, you can tell that the age distribution was definitely higher on the Diamond Princess than on the French aircraft carrier. That's about it.
Thank you for the feedback, my apologies for the mis-direction. I changed the headline to Democratic News without Hidden Bias
And there are hundreds of species of just bumblebees.
And mason bees

Hoverflies were the big surprise for me. They employ mimicry to be mistaken for bees (or occasionally hornets), but they are also important pollinators.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23158426 and banned this account for trolling.
The Sandbox Show: LeakCanary
This has nothing to do with Feynman. The deep mystery is always why does nature work the way it does. The QM phase answer provides a deep explanation for why least action occurs at a classical level. I am not sure what your educational background is but QM and Classical are far from equivalent. QM looks like classical under many macro situations.
Another long-term PushBullet customer here.

Anyone at Google who is listening- this kind of behavior kills my desire to continue using your products dead. I need functionality, of the type PushBullet has provided for years, to do my work. The recent nerfing of ublock origin has already had me feeling iffy on things. Behavior like this is simply unacceptable. If you want people to use your services, you need to have some way to communicate. Period. "If you use our tools, we can kill your livelihood at any time for any reason and tough shit if you want a why" doesn't exactly inspire, you know?
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You could probably see benefits with 2.5" drives, just due to the form factor and lower power draw compared to 3.5" HDDs. If you wanted to put in a bit more work, you could shuck the 2.5" enclosures, as the PCB space of an SSD is usually significantly smaller than the volume of the enclosure.
Ask HN: What's your plan if US decides to not allow foreign students to work?
+1

Even if there are good reasons, it;'s still effectively deleting decades worth of the internet.

To blithely say that it's trivial to slap together a reverse proxy and keep it updated is both factually wrong and missing the point: something has been lost, and it's sad.
Just looking at demoscene, it is possible to create amazing results with very little resources if you have right people and infinite time and resources to polish couple of seconds of it.

This rarely transfers to a product that has a lot of content to be built, an actual budget, good but not star developers and conflicting requirements.
Yes, and opening an unlocked door will still qualify as breaking and entering if you don't have permission to enter it. Just like taking something that isn't yours is still theft even if you find it in a public space.

The crime isn't circumventing the locks. It's accessing what you don't have the right to access.
I was really looking forward to the court challenges on this one, and am a bit disappointed the county caved.

Bottom line, we have local officials making decrees and proclamations with no legislative basis -- often the legislature is not even in session as one proclamation is made after another -- and they are curtailing things like right to assemble, right to hold religious services, and interstate commerce.

This needs court challenges all across the country, and unfortunately only the wealthy can afford a big legal fight. Most of them can easily hide in luxurious compounds and aren't impacted nearly as much as those dependent on a regular income, so Elon Musk was doing a public service by openly challenging these decrees and daring someone to arrest him for a crime that doesn't actually exist in any state legal code.
Then it should have been posted in technology, security, or news subreddits.
This exactly. Having been a former franchisee of one of the big three pizza companies, I can attest that this is true. On a typical evening there could be as many as 30 to 40 deliveries in the store per hour. With that kind of volume, it is easy to route drivers where I can send 2 or 3 orders together to the same geographic area. It's just logistically easier when there is a high volume of orders and the geographic area of the store's delivery zone is small.
OMG! This exists! I have been thinking about doing something similar.
I didn't realize the provided link was for Vimeo. I had watched the video earlier on YT.
Show HN: Buy your co-worker a coffee – give kudos
> "Diagram as Config" not source code generally

Yup!

As "Diagram as Config" this tool is a great fit but not for "Diagram as Code". There are better alternatives out there.