skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reality is that you can be arbitrarily harsh and negative , or arbitrarily positive to the point of delusion about basically any situation or set of circumstances. This isn’t theoretical, get a decent set of people (100?), put them in a specific circumstance and it’s quite apparent.

What is also apparent is that there are clearly objective differences in the ability of collections of people to thrive (or even barely cope) with the same set of circumstances based on the mindsets from the people composing the team. A good read to bring these into sharp focus is the book written on Shackleton’s voyage with the ‘Endurance’. ‘These mindsets are also clearly ‘contagious’ once they hit a certain point.

If a team hits a certain tipping point and is able to look at their circumstances and smile, it is self reinforcing. They’ll be able to face hardship productively, work together despite differences, and everyone will be better off. If no matter how good it is, they’re going to be miserable - that is also self reinforcing. It will be miserable for everyone, and the only people who stay will be those who feel at home in misery.

Being miserable is also associated with worse health, personal relationship issues, higher insurance costs, absenteeism,
turnover, difficulty retaining key talent, etc.

The company wants (and often needs) people that work hard regardless of the circumstances, that will find a way to make a situation positive and productive, etc. This can be abused. Even when not abused, the company needs people who can tackle problems to solve customer needs to survive (quite plainly).

If a company is well managed, they are able to make this a mutually beneficial situation without it lapsing into co-dependence or abuse on either side. Not very many companies are well managed. Partially because it is really hard, partially because American culture doesn’t seem to value or recognize proper management skills and the importance they have.

Covid has turned the screws and also pushed a lot of people into negative territory. This means a lot of companies that were near a tipping point before are now clearly over it - as are a whole lot of people.
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Show HN: Plan journeys in Italy in 3 steps and download your itinerary for free
GNU software is more likely to be "free" than "libre", like FreeIPMI in this context. (As far as I remember, that was originally part of Gluster, the GNU cluster system with existed for a while before the filesystem took over. At least we have good free software for cluster management now, apart from needing to interact with proprietary stuff like Nvidia's, sigh.)

This must get points for Respects Your Freedom anyway.
hah yeah my employer has a legal benefit which basically just means a free divorce lawyer.
If any HNers out there are game, I'd love a critique of my CV:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18QwC-ra6p_3Nnjmajn9gLK3w77Z...

It's a bit old, as I've been working a job for a bit, but any help on it would very much be appreciated!
>The benefit for people is that they can get Wi-fi in many places — free for BT customers, and a small fee for others.

I subscribed to a BT Openreach broadband product, a few years ago, in personal capacity. The service you are describing is called BT WiFi, after being rebranded. For residential customers, it is enabled by default i.e. an opt-out feature, as you have noted. Once you manage to find a way to disable it, you lose the 'benefits'. I found the feature to be extremely disconcerting, especially relating to a pattern of random parked vehicles and people loitering around residential premises at various times of the day, essentially to leech bandwidth off my connection.

It would seem that the ISP supplied router (HH6) was designed to create a splintered guest/public WiFi over a VPN. Although the matter of anonymity and liability was of great concern. However, I did not pursue it any further, due to numerous red flags, relating to degradation in QoS and security; latency, contention, poor signal, connection logs with dubious entries etc. It felt prudent to cut loose, rather than justify any perceived benefits.

To stay on the point, I am not sure if the Sidewalk branding will travel well long-term, might as well drop the facade and call it: Amazon Shodan.

https://fon.com/bt-wifi-with-fon-rebranding/
Chances are, you're not thinking about it hard enough.

If you truly think you have nothing to offer, then start acquiring something to offer. Put in the hard work and thought into acquiring specialized skills and relationships with people. It takes time (usually a lot of it), but it is not complicated.
Instead you get Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
An extremely interesting prospect you've got here. What's stopping you from doing it right now?
That’s interesting. Can you make something that’s higher end than the most high end consumer TV?

(If Tesla had to be “a better car that’s also electric”, I think this would need to be “a better TV that’s also private”.)
Entrepreneurs Raised $50M to Make Your Cocktail Spectacular
Ask HN: Reverse Generating Regexp's
Long shot, but ...

Is there a way to reverse-generate regular expressions from sample data? I have a bunch of sample data that is sometimes grouped with commas in between (almost like addresses), sometimes not.

But like addresses they are often somewhat similar, but there's still a lot of combinations to think of, so this is why I'm wondering whether it's possible to generate valid regular expression (for the respective groups, catering for numbers and words that are different) from a huge amount of sample data.
There need to be cultural norms set from the top around its use for sure. Though I'm not sure, in general, it's worse than pooled vacation/sick time.

I would hope that coming out of the pandemic there would be some rethink of a system that basically provides a strong incentive to come into the office sick. (OTOH, there may be more flexibility in terms of WFH so that may do the job at least partway on its own.)
You realize that $11k has to pay their taxes, healthcare, and retirement state-side right? It’s peanuts.
He realizes the powerful benefits of the technique, but he is an introvert and finds sustained social interaction tiring and stressful for his neurology.
It can be avoided if we will start to protect our electronics and networks right now. At least most critical ones. The protection technology is available already, just need to be integrated everywhere.
"Customer-focus" means focusing on customer satisfaction.

There are many ways to make a person happy at the point of purchase: price, delivery speed, meeting expectations, etc.

In this manner a casino is also customer-focused.

The sense of "hostile" you're using supposes that customers are satisfied in cases where their long-term interests are being harmed.. and, indeed. This is where governments tend to step in.
>Nobody imitates a Big Mac or fried chicken sandwich in seconds

And nobody should dare try. That's toxic crap that'll make you depressed, tired, and unhealthy. Please don't tell me how difficult it is to ball up some ground beef and flick it on a stove top.

Oatmeal is just a grain.
https://www.loveandotherspices.com/5-savory-oatmeal-recipes/
Understanding engagement and addiction mechanism in online games
If you don't want to fix it yourself Thermoworks will repair it for next to nothing. I think I paid like $10 to have one with a similar issue fixed. Normally it is something with the case around the pivot point that causes it to stop turning on (try squeezing it in that area to test that theory).

The speed compared to most other thermometers is that that is uses a thermocouple vs a thermistor. The cheaper ThermoPop uses a thermistor and takes about twice as long to get a reading.
> make email text again

That ship sailed the instant it got named "email" instead of something like "etelegram".

With mail, I can send anything that my printer can print, which is everything my word processor can handle (fonts, text decoration, foreground and background colors, inline images, graphs, tables, and more) and attach anything that fits in the envelope (a CD-ROM of arbitrary data in any format).

It was inevitable that email would end up being able to handle the electronic equivalent of all those things.

The problem with email is not that it now handles more than just plain text. The problem is that there was no early agreement on how to handle those things, so different implementors came up with different ways to do it, which eventually converged on using HTML. Not because HTML was necessarily the best way to do it, but because it was something they all already implemented for other things or was already available on the systems their mail clients ran on.

But modern HTML engines are designed for the web, so there still really needs to be some sort of agreement on a subset of HTML that handles the things necessary to make email like mail, without including things that make sense for the web but not for mail.
Most of Rust's checks are at compiletime, and Ada employs runtime checks as well.
Real thing. Banks hire politicians for meetings, tech companies hire celebs.
How many of those engineers rely on Babel every day? ;-P

Median pay for a software engineer in the US in 2020 was over $110k per the Bureau of Labor Statistics: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Computer-and-Information-Technology/...
Is Accountability a Skill?
Translation: we know we done messed up … but only since we feel the feds breath on us. As we will feel their breath on us until we are brought to justice.
I thought developers had to at a minimum pay $99/year to be able to sign apps for the App Store. Is this no longer the case?
We can move all satellites to the dark side of Earth.
I'm not sure what Medium is anymore, to be honest. I want to say it's a blogging platform, but it feels more like a doom-scroll inducing social media platform to me these days.

There are a few alternatives if you just want to blog:

https://write.as
https://bearblog.dev

And more dev-focused, but I think it's quite noisy: https://dev.to

Maybe substack is more of a "killer".
You could flip it around and say you will get a raise when there's a positive ROI on that raise. However, the point is the same. How could or why would you expect otherwise?
But that's exactly what the article did without actually mentioning Challenger. A very strange article. "It trails only these four shuttle orbiters (we're not going to mention the fifth)"
When you say "nobody said such a thing", are you perhaps not aware of

> But the fact that this is the top comment and gets defended (instead of flagged for the misogyny it is) says enough.

So, it a response and reaction to the very same sentiment and detraction as you're objecting to. You just missed the in-between where their comment was in fact referred to as misogynistic.

I think most of us here would prefer to avoid the discussions going in that direction. But it should be allowed to reference such a thing.
Another option is to offer the code for free, but charge for support and a managed instance.

I can provide an example: NextCloud.

https://nextcloud.com/
It might be telling that no competition has really emerged as it's not clear to me what it was that Medium offered to make it obvious/popular at all?

Edit: Substack is an idea but seems to be the Patreon of writing.
New system cleans messy data tables automatically
Maybe it's like Star Trek and space is full of anomalies even 24th century sensors miss.
Usually its because they aren't always talking about the exact same thing. So far at least, whenever you see a headline about a strain "evading antibody capabilities", it means that they've found that the strain induces a lower reading on various measures of immunity in sera, like neutralizing titers, than previous strains do.

However, a measure of immunity like neutralizing titers isn't a 1:1 function of immunity.

So a simple example (with made up numbers) would be that a particular strain sees a 6x reduction in neutralizing titers compared to the original strain, but it doesn't mean much because there are enough neutralizing titers provided by the vaccine that even a 15x fold reduction would provide strong protection. In this case you could say that the strain has modest antibody evading capabilities AND that the vaccine provides strong protection against it.

I think most media outlets tend to overemphasize the "evasion" angle in headlines, either due to incompetence or for clickbait purposes. Given that almost every single one I've read has a quote from a physician along the lines of "This isn't anything to worry about, it still provides protection" buried a few paragraphs down, I'm assuming its the latter.
> Your comment reads very like: "So, I have no anecdotal evidence from my immediate peers that it can work so it must not work. You have offered me first hand anecdotal evidence that it can, I shall ignore that."

No, it's "I have strong first hand evidence from seeing the attempts at my and other work places that pair programming is not a slam dunk improvement for software development".

> At this point, I have to wonder why you're even in this comment thread, since you seem so completely stuck and rigid in your beliefs.

Back at you. I'm not the only one here with strong misgivings and counter examples.

> But you're here adamantly proclaiming that it doesn't work and is a waste of time as if its some immutable truth when it really isn't, evidenced by the fact that it has worked for me and others.

I stated that I don't care how others get their work done. You want to pair program? If you can maintain or exceed the expected productivity of the rest of the team, then you do you. What I strenuously object to is the heavy handed application of this "concept".

> Also, your car analogy is invalid.

Yours isn't much better. Rocks can certainly fly, if you provide enough force, but they don't do it easily and they don't do it well, and require a huge effort to make it happen. I wouldn't want to travel by flying rock.
> Why are you assuming all the CS candidates are not passionate about the degree.
I don't think I said or suggested that?

What I implied is that people tend to look for jobs related to their degree if they don't have a good idea what they want. There are those passionate CS degree holders and dispassionate CS degree holders applying for a (say) software dev job. There are probably very few dispassionate humanities degree holders applying to the same job. It's some signal, and I don't think one has to dismiss the importance of a CS degree to see that.
Of course not - and that "cook meals" feels like a straw-man. I'm expecting a company to admit if the last few weeks have been full of crunch and have some flexibility when people say they could use some recuperation time, not have a meeting emphasizing the importance of self-care and expecting people to carry on as normal.
Hmm, this indeed doesn't make much sense. Assigning to a wider type with or without different signedness doesn't require a cast as long as all bits fit into the new type:

https://www.godbolt.org/z/x8a65sPcr
First, this is a real thing that your wetware does, and it behooves you to learn about it and prepare for it.

Second, although during the process the "emotional brain [amygdala] activity processes information milliseconds earlier than the rational brain, so in case of a match, the amygdala acts before any possible direction from the neocortex can be received", you can during non-emergency time reprogram the "immediate action plan" that the amygdala will enact during non-emergency time.

- - - -

E.g.: "adrenaline re-imprinting" is a thing. There are self-defense courses that literally reprogram your brain to have a more useful response! We often talk about "fight or flight" and omit the third typical response: "freeze". The formula is "fight or flight or freeze". In an adrenaline re-imprinting self-defense course you learn to change the response to an organized, coherent defensive manouver. It's so effective that people (attackers) are literally intimidated at a deep organic level. One's body knows that even a small woman in the throes of an adrenaline rush can kill with a single blow, just like in the movies, and no one sane will persist.

Story time. I took one of these courses and it worked: I was about to be set upon by three young thugs and the defensive posture and response triggered and, sure enough, they halted, taken aback, and were thereafter wary of me. We talked for a bit and at one point I made a motion with my arm and the boys fell back and raised their arms to guard themselves. I tell you they were frightened of me, after seeing a full-on coherent adrenaline response! A few minutes later a police car rolled up to talk to them, I wasn't the first person they messed with that day, and I left.

Anyhow, yes, amygdala goes first if it thinks it needs to, but it is your job to equip your amygdala with good programs for those emergencies. Same principle as buying a fire extinguisher, eh? Safety first and all that?
There is nothing I hate more than rich content email.

Send me plain text email.

Add attachments that I can scan for issues before I open them.

If you send me links, I will be very wary of visiting them outside a sandboxed tab. I will not 'click through' from the email client.
How much did that installation cost you, if I may ask? I know the price of (residential) solar panels around here (roughly € 1k-3k, depending on size and quality), but have no idea what the battery costs would be.
> Apparently, pair programming places no value on flow.

For me, the hours zoom by like minutes. The end of the day is suddenly here, and I don't feel like I've worked at all. I was hanging out with a buddy chatting about stuff, and yet there is a pile of completed code in front of us.
Basically xfinitywifi for Amazon products
Those $72k is equivalent to EUR 45k in Italy (at least, in my region).

You can check it using a "taxes calculator" website: https://it.talent.com/tax-calculator?salary=45000&from=year&... (it's in Italian, sorry). On top of those 45k EUR gross the employer pays 13.5k, so it's 58.5k EUR.

As of now, $72k USD is 59k EUR.

I don't have many data points, but so far I have been offered only one 20 hours/week job (at a salary that was way lower than 45k) and a full-time job which paid for more than 45k (but since I was studying, I didn't accept it).
Apart from the insane amount of power required to use lasers as propulsion in this way, they also require a camera, computer, interstellar communications system and nuclear power source within a mass budget of a few grams. It's complete science fiction.
The In-Between of Failure and No Progress
You are correct that most business datasets are small.

However, once you get to a 600 M row dataset, you will likely encounter significant performance/cost issues with a noSQL database.
Wow that looks like fun. And while $13k isn't pocket change, it's about the same as a new motorcycle or high-end (e-)MTB. IOW not totally inaccesible pricewise. hmm...
Ada / spark may be a great thing. But how do people know?

Is there a good compiler that one can install for free?

Are there a few good and comprehensive books / references / guides, available online for free?

If you want something to become popular, give it away. Ideally, push it. At the very least, have a limited free version. Or turn a bling eye to small-time piracy, as many vendors did for a long time. Or make it dead easy to buy it for $10.

(None of the above works for you? Sorry, you have just turned down 99% of kids who might like to tinker with your tech, love it, and then promote it wherever they go. Your tech may be hot and desired in the narrow circle of pros, but it's not going to become popular and win the world.)
Don’t overengineer! Malloc has o(n) time in reallocs, so leaking memory can be a viable strategy

Edit: yes I know it’s more complicated than that!
>the article itself talks about him undertaking various fundraising duties - thats in addition to whatever time period (eg. retrospective) the money is supposed to cover.

So, he fundraised money to have time to further fundraise, and he did it so well that they have to decrease his salary?

Sounds like he did not do so great job here either.
That's nowhere typical, even in London you'll find that only in higher-end companies.
Apologies if I'm misunderstanding your original post - I agree with everything you've just written in your reply to me - but to pick up an example from the original:

>> I thought building a version of the game might be a good creative outlet. (a)

>Meant: "I like building games and making a clone of this would be fun!" (b)

>Sounds like: "I did not bother to check google, so I had to build one myself." (c)

I don't know how you got from (a) to (c) if not through cynicism. How is that critical thinking? You appear to be painting a worst-case interpretation and adding your own detail to make it sounds worse. Let's try an alternative version of the same construction:

"I think building a table might be a good creative outlet"

Does that sound more like

"I like building things and making my own table would be fun"

or

"I did not bother to check <local_furniture_store>, so I had to build one myself"

To me it's very clearly the former; how can you know whether I did or did not investigate alternatives from that sentence? I could do the same with

"None of my 'friends' told me I copied a well known game" - air quotes implies they're not really friends

"I am unaware this game already existed in many forms" - that sentence is a contradiction in terms, but if you mean 'I was...' then the original specifically mentions the game by name - therefore obviously his/her version of it which clearly did not previously exist

"this game has no name; nobody else in the whole world plays it" - how can anyone with any certainty ever assert that no-one else in the whole world does something?

I'm confused, have I totally misread you? What am I missing?
We can move a little less than half of all satellites to the dark side of earth.
This is very helpful transparency, thank you. I appreciate that it's not just spin, but you are willing to reveal some past challenges too (all projects will have challenges around relationships and decision-making and equity! When we talk about the publicly, we can help each other get better at managing them.).

I think the history about previously some people got more and some less and now it's equalized is helpful to be part of the information, and would have been helpful as part of the original post. I am also curious in general about how you are dealing with "decision-making"... who gets to decide how much who gets paid (or who gets hired or let go), how?

Your story makes sense to me, that someone's contribution isn't measured solely by github stats. But the fact that there is not currently a good relationship between the collective who maintains babel and the original babel author is... unfortunate I guess is a word. And makes me curious what happened there.
You can't get the vaccine without anamnesis/checking your medical history, and one item is prior infection.
You're right but as I said above:

> they just hardcode some IPs or DNS in which case PiHole would be of no use. At best you could create a NAT port forward to redirect DNS requests to the PiHole, assuming it's not DoH.

The idea is that you'll need more than just a PiHole for all of this which further reduces the pool of people who can pull it off. You have to redirect DNS requests to your own DNS server, and/or block 443/DoH completely, neither of which the PiHole or a regular ISP router can do on their own. At this point if you can you're probably better off blocking all outside connectivity from you TV anyway.

I strongly recommend everyone to just reject any and all EULA screens ever presented. At this point at least legally the manufacturer can no longer legally do much which is why they'll disable almost every smart feature, which is essentially "dumbifying" the TV.
on the contrary - tsc is so slow that most people use babel to strip out types in production.
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