skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fundamental reason is foundries work really hard to make sure they have zero idle time, by booking time months in advance, so there wasn't a lot of slack in the system to absorb the extra demand when it hit.

Add some confounding factors like, it takes a long time to build a foundry, in general the CAD is specific to a foundry, not every foundry can make every part, and even if they could, they're not licensed to then: You get a global chip shortage that takes many months to unravel.
Hello HN, maker of this tool here.

I have always thought that we could do a better job of helping out job candidates with job applications. So I have created a special kanban board focused on job hunting.
It has the following features:

- A browser extension with which you can add jobs from anywhere with a single click.

- We will remind you of your pending applications via email every weekend. So this way you never miss the deadline to apply.

- Adding job-related info for each job such as deadline, company, apply links.

- Taking notes, adding contacts, adding to-do items, and tracking events for each job application.

Profilehunt has been built using/uses the following technologies.

Ruby on Rails - Web framework

StimulusJS - Javascript

TailwindCSS - CSS

Redis - Memory store

Postgres - Database

Nginx - Reverse proxy

AWS Cloudfront - CDN

AWS lightsail - VPS

If you are interested head out to https://profilehunt.net/ and let me know what you think. Thank you.
Hahaha, makes me feel so much better about my own work when I see this kind of laziness out of the rich-as-hell giants.

Dev: "OK, I finished the user story for migration from a free account to a paid account this sprint, but, again, there's a story for migration from a paid account to a free one and that'll involve compromises X and Y and there are a couple Hard Problems involved since usage may have exceeded free tier limits, and we physically migrate the account in ways that will be hard to undo since we cut corners to get this shipped, which will make it even harder. That's going to be a big chunk of work, and I think we'll need to break it up into smaller stories. Will we be going over that today?"

PM: "Ummmmmmm... yeah..." presses big red button that throws an inconvenient story into the "on ice" bucket that may as well represent "deleted" "Putting that 'on ice', we'll definitely get to it... some day."
No they didn't.

I wish they had.
It just feels like many people show this biases when they lump people together based on some actions by bad apples, but then vilify doing the same with others. Police, race, mostly peaceful protestors, etc, name your pick.
Done! Unfortunately the change will take several hours to be effective.
Look at the demographics of HN. What kind of calls do you think these demographics generate? Questioning staffing levels is not popular among the white collar crowd because "can you please come tell my neighbor to party more quietly" and "can someone write up a police report for my stolen property so I can get reimbursement from insurance" are the first type of calls to get a "haha we'll get to it when we get to it" from the dispatcher when you start reducing the department size. Harassing shitbox drivers for tail light out, telling loitering teenagers to knock it off, bothering the guy drinking while he walks his dog, all sorts of low priority things (the bulk of which can probably be described as "reducing the visibility of lower class behavior") that make up the bulk of the services HN demographics demand from the police are the first things police stop doing when they're spread thin. Killing people over bootleg cigs is the second thing they stop doing.
Our company is forcing almost everyone to become remote and has closed down probably half of its office space. Now when you come in you don't have an assigned desk and they will just expect everyone to find a desk.

I am also of the opinion that the writing is on the wall. I live in a HCOL area and have no doubt that remote workers in other places will eventually replace me.
Ask HN: Remote teams, what do you use for meetings and discussions?
Starting a remote team, what are the best tools for meetings and discussions that work well specifically for remote teams?
And they contain a compiler and almost an operating system ;-)
There was sufficient evidence for any police officer in Minneapolis to arrest Derek Chauvin, and yet they protected him instead. They all chose to be complicit in his crime.

Various forces have little internal secret rituals in which they all collude in murder. Above we have https://openvallejo.org/2020/07/28/vallejo-police-bend-badge... ; there's another example from NYPD: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23525224

Doctors very rarely turn out politically to defend the malpractice of other doctors.
You might have a great idea if an unusually high number reject your idea for no good reason. On the other hand, you know you had a great idea if your boss takes credit for it.
Compose: Images from URLs
UUIDs are long enough but are not cryptographic hashes. They can be deliberately collided pretty easily.

A cryptographic hash like sha384 or blake2 makes it infeasible to come up with any input that would ever yield the same output. That’s what you would use for such a network.
Boston may be a bad example.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/report-problems-...

https://www.stevelocke.com/blog/i-fit-the-description
Bitcoin on the Balance Sheet Is an Accounting Headache for Tesla, Others
Top Star Wars Quotes for Attack Surface Management
How Not to Suck at Programming
Sure, I took 6 full-time terms of Classical Greek so I'm familiar with the different accents.

But my Greek studies took place 20 years ago so I do wonder what you mean by eta and eta + nu words? Are these different subtypes of the third declension?
To a first approximation, Google Chat is already Wave.
No, as I understand it the file is local and the JavaScript is also running locally in a browser sandbox. Also, the file is accessed in the usual way by opening it and reading from it. (There is a File System Access API that lets you get a FileSystemFileHandle and do random access.)

You could write an uploader that sends the file over the network, or handle it entirely locally.

It all seems to be Chrome only for now.
Why print and signage companies should compete on quality, not price? Interview
It isn't always that simple. I had some counterfeit usb-to-serial chips that worked fine until the real manufacturer updated the windows driver and simultaneously made it hard to install old drivers. Risk is risk.
Few do that in France. Is it because we already have plenty of PTO (5 weeks, plus often 12 more days because the legal week is 35 hours but we usually do more)?

Anyway, I took a gap time at age 36 for a 3 months trip in South America. And this allowed me to take an turn in my career when I came back.
Hit them up again in two months. That level of raise signals "stick around while we find your replacement."
I also can't have a YouTube Premium Family account, because they don't support Google Workspace accounts!

I really do wish I hadn't moved my domain over to them - but my Google Calendar, email, and Google Play purchases are all in there.
GSuite is downright horrible compared to alternatives and its only saving grace is GMail. And its the same with GCloud which makes doing the most basic things slow and annoying. It really feels like most of those GSuite products are there JUST so that Google can say they have it.
This is really excellent work — congrats! I previously used upspin to securely move files between devices on my network, but I really love the simplicity and ease of use that taildrop now provides.

To give a concrete example, I had been dragging my feet on moving some old but useful keys/tokens between my Windows desktop and MacBook — using taildrop, the transfer was both easy and virtually instantaneous.

Historically, it's always been such a pain to either have to upload/download the file(s) from a cloud service (what if I need to move private keys? that adds another layer of complexity/annoyance because then I need to encrypt them) or find a usb drive, plug it in, copy the files, eject, find the adapter for my macbook, plug it in, copy the files, eject, etc. Taildrop completely fixes all of that — it's amazing!
The Security Industry Association Expels Dahua
Prior art: https://circles.app/
Has chat, tasks, files just like Google, but also has shared notes, lists, links and so on.
I joined this wave, started a new position last week for nearly another $100k/year, similar work, fully remote, great benefits. Tried asking for a raise at my previous job twice this year and my old boss wouldn’t discuss. Good luck to him retaining the rest of that team!
A massive part of that seems to be from retirements. That's interesting to me. Probably a good thing?

From the context of reducing police misconduct, as bad as the modern cop perspective is, I feel it was much worse in the past. I would guess removing the old guard is part of a positive transition going forward.
As far as we know, humans are the only animals with moral agency (though there is some debate on this topic). That said, the immoral actions of one person (or animal, or society, etc.) does not absolve others of moral responsibility. Even if animals act immorally, this doesn't provide an excuse for humans to act in the same way.
It's pretty strange to me that there are still channels hanging around instead of moving to libera.chat, but it is actualky probably good that they are kicking them out. Doing everyone a service, this way pretty soon no one will be able to be confused about which is the correct network.
Firefox add-on: Opt Out – automated GDPR and CCPA requests
They are not outlawed - but pretty expensive. I imagine you are paying for use of the rail.

Check out the Skunk Train rail bikes in Fort Bragg California. https://www.skunktrain.com/railbikes/
Yes and all three of the other officers are facing various charges. That's how the legal system works.

It's still unclear to me how a small town officer, hundreds of miles away, is guilty for the crimes of people he has nothing to do with.
But through the Constitution, 100% of criminals are allowed attorneys that fight against accountability for the bad actors.
of course they can, and facing a labor shortage they eventually will, but those changes take time. businesses compete for workers and customers in a market, and the market has to change. it has a lot of inertia.
My guess is that he really likes the name, feels it has brand recognition, and wants to pivot the domain to something else besides IRC.

That might explain why he's making all of these decisions to drive people away. Once the population gets low enough, then he can just pull the plug on the servers claiming that there aren't enough people online. No one will protest, and after 6 months the social network MyFreeNodeBook will launch.
>it doesn't require much education, and so on

It depends on the jurisdiction. When I was in college, being a cop required a college degree. A couple of my colleagues became police. I don't know if that's still standard in major cities.

>But demonizing the police profession will guarantee that thousands of reasonable, well-meaning people will never become police officers.

Maybe. I think abusing citizens guarantees that the police will be demonized. We're currently in a downward spiral and it's only fixable by changing the status of the police.

>thinks that the idea of abolishing the police and demonizing officers is completely absurd.

That's a red herring. I never said that and in fact I explicitly said it's a matter of degree. That's not a good faith argument. You're arguing with an imaginary person in your head, not me.
Yes but if you've ever worked in a company with high voluntary turnover.. you've probably realized the first to leave are not the ones you want to leave.. and the ones you wish left tend to hang on for dear life..
it's not hard to see why. Accountability is a major problem with the police in the US. I'm not sure there is anywhere I can trust that a bad police officer is going to face consequences for their actions.

That's not to say it doesn't happen. It does happen. But for every example of accountability, there seems to be several examples of police officers, out of control, power-tripping, many time in the presence of other police officers, without any of them standing up to them.

When we cannot trust the police to do what's right, when we cannot trust the police to stand up to their own, when we can have no idea whether a police officer is going to do their job, or power-trip to ruin your life, this is exactly what happens.

I have very little interaction with the police personally, and I hope that continues. Every interaction is a roll of the dice, and that shouldn't be the case in a civilized nation.
Oh, I agree, but once they are wrong footed ...

You would think they would have that covered in prep "If some asks if you are using stickum/tar/glue you say 'The league frowns on such activities and ...'"
Warren Buffett and the myth of the ‘good billionaire’
>GSuite is downright horrible compared to alternatives and its only saving grace is GMail.

I've personally never found a better alternative to Google Meet.
Some PM just reinvented Circles
https://circles.app/
People use to laugh at PMs (disclaimer: I’m a PM), but making right product decisions in a big Corp, with multiple parties to align with that had competing interests, is hard.

I’m sure Google has high quality engineers working more or less on every product. It’s just the solution space of products with big surface area and many interdependencies is really large. When you are more steps removed from your customers, and can’t move fast (comparing to a small nibble team), finding the optimum becomes a very non-trivial exercise.

Most successful products at big corps have laser-focused teams with highly influential leaders. Anything else results on mediocrity.
https://archive.md/32HFE
Thank you for your encouragement.

Yes - my long term plan with the Libre Tech Shop is to also list products from other developers (especially in India), help them document these products and make them available here.

The idea is that once people know that if they want libre/liberated products that can run free/libre software reliably (and by default), they should be able to seek out all sorts of solutions for their needs from the same place.
So if I create a new medicine I should promote it too?
I'm not sure the general trend accounts for this entirely. Annualizing the high 2.7% monthly (??) rate from the WSJ article is still only half that mentioned here. [[ It may actually be yearly, in which case it is barely a dent in the numbers reported for police depts. I don't think the period stated clearly in the WSJ article ]]
It's hard to perceive what's really happening in peoples minds from the outside. One of my old bosses once told me he wished he could "think" as "deeply" as I could "quickly", and I always thought that was pretty funny.. For me a lot of my deep "thinking" comes in real time, I'm ok at deep thinking on my own, but I'm way better in real time, especially around questions. My mind is just good at serving me up things I know quite quickly, I forsure come across as a "quick deep thinker" because the questions are just doing the work of producing a cacophony of memories I need to prase, if that makes sense, to me it's not really thinking, it's just really good episodic recall and listening to that recall? When I think on my own, I'm pretty slow... without much input, I'm super slow. I also think autism/dyslexia impact how I process and retrieve information (both positively and negatively).
My bad, I'll call it off right now. Sorry for the inconvenience.
You can get travel insurance for extended trips. I'm American and I've taken multiple 6-month trips abroad (usually after quitting a job). Backpacking just isn't part of the American culture.
ditto!

edit: wow you made a new account just to tell me you thought my question was dumb
Don’t you dare mock my standup style.
The forced year of remote has led to both a lot of companies opening up permanent remote work, and a lot of people to change jobs (because their current company doesn't support them remotely well, or because without the social component normalizing their work they've come to question it more). Further, with just the economy reopening, a lot of businesses are opening headcount that they've been sitting on the past year, reluctant to hire due to COVID uncertainties. Taken together, there is a lot of churn. There's a lot of opportunity, but also a lot of competition for roles.
My folks knew a woman who became a Discalced Carmelite. Visiting was mostly through a screen. On the other hand, I distinctly remember going with my mom into the convent garden, on the nun's invitation, to get some plants to take home. This would have been about 1973. Whether a man would have been allowed into the garden in the 1950s, of course I have no idea.

This woman did have general conversation, yes. I understand that she later became a hermit.
Been reading about Systems Thinking lately.
I think the command and control assumption comes from the influence of System Dynamics (Forrester, Meadows, Senge), which attempts to simulate the system. This seems to be a North American view of systems thinking due to the popularity of Systems Dynamics. But the European views have a focus on emergent behaviour and critically looking at hierarchies and power structures. Although Meadows emphasises 'dancing with systems' in contrast with controlling systems.
Maybe we quantity the privacy and emotional manipulation/destruction of the ad industry?

If we want to talk energy, maybe we look at what mindless streaming services consume?
I think what brnt means is that he wants some links to open in an entirely different app and not in a browser. I don't see how phishing is applicable in this case. In fact it may be a good measure against it since you quickly see that it does not open in your usual app
Can you give examples. I'm not clear on what you mean
As I understand it, there are lines with spare capacity, but the work to move manufactures takes time. Even for the same process/wafer size.

So it's not just a capacity shortage per se. Rather, a situation where real demand was wildly different (higher, and lower) than predicted demand, and re-spreading work is hard.
It's actually Chrome-style embrace-extend-extinguish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extin...
Exactly. This struck me similarly as the problem with "defund". I've never seen an organization improved by lowering the average compensation and therefore recruiting standards!
Oh I’d never say I’m sure of anything! In fact your comment did affect me, and I’ll be thinking about it a bit over the next few days.

It’s like the old saying, that it’s difficult for us to see ourselves as others do.
Obviously, these companies themselves are not involved in the policies themselves but am I supposed to believe that all the major social media platforms independently decided to ban the then president of the United States when he had repeatedly violated their terms of conditions in the past with no response? That stretches credulity.

I also don't know where you're getting this idea that armed conflict between the people and the state is rare in democracies, least of all the US which has had several riots and armed conflict between the state and guerrilla organisations since the civil war, many of which have had a direct effect on legislation and happened decades before the Civil Rights act of 1960.
We remind them that Bitcoin is volatile in the short term and then we ask them to zoom out.

We remind them how many times Bitcoin has been declared dead before. We remind them that that anyone who has held Bitcoin as a long term investment has made money.

Even today after the recent dip anyone who held for 12 months is up 300% y/y.

If in doubt zoom out.
TLDR Bullet Point version.

* Founder lilo/Rob died.

* Christel became new head of staff.

* Christel "sold" Freenode to Andrew Lee (of which was not hers to sell) and never told the rest of Freenode staff the terms.

* Lee decided to assert himself by claiming he owned all of Freenode and that the staff had to hand over the keys to the kingdom to him.

* Staff resisted, Lee used threats. Staff decided it was better to move on.

* Libera.chat formed.

* Since the majority of Freenode was the relationship a lot of projects had with the now ex-Freenode staffers, most decided to go with the staff to Libera.

* Lee threw a fit and decided to use a bot to hijack 700+ channels that happened to mention "libera" in the topic, regardless if the channel actually intended to move over. This included channels owned by IBM, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Wikimedia, GCC, etc...

* Channel takeovers continued despite his apology when caught.

* Lee is certifiable. https://corrupt.tech/1708590130-ocr-compressed.pdf
To be fair, Google "work" products seem to be a tier below Microsoft's even, and Google doesn't iterate as quickly to improve them either.
> all three of the other officers are facing various charges

None of them would have faced charges without months of national protests! That's why there's a problem! And I don't just mean the others that were there, all eight hundred Minneapolis PD officers are to some extent complicit.
While `wasm-exec-webapp` isn't a real thing, if it's sandboxed as it would be, there'd be no difference, security wise, between that and going to a webpage in your browser
The entire series, 2001-3001
Software seems to scale in the other direction. The faster the hardware you give developers, the slower the software they produce becomes.
Qualified Immunity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity

It also doesn't help that in many places, the judges, prosecutors and police all frequent and work in the same buildings.
RustDesk 1.1.6 – An open-source remote desktop software
I just set it up to forward all emails to my Gmail account instead. Works great, and it's free.
Here is a discussion of the price. It turns out they raised the price by 500%!

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/railbike...
> Maybe. I think abusing citizens guarantees that the police will be demonized. We're currently in a downward spiral and it's only fixable by changing the status of the police.

And where is the bottom of the spiral? When police are completely hated by everyone, everywhere? You'll only get the absolute worst people to be police officers, as I said in my initial comment.

> You're arguing with an imaginary person in your head, not me.

I'm arguing against the idea that demonizing the police is an effective tactic.
I like Google, but their product teams desperately need to talk to each other. I had been a 2TB Plan subscriber for quite a while. While trying to prune and free up some space, I realize it is practically impossible to do it any way that is easy and correct.

It took me over two weeks of dedicated hourly time slots, a few automation, and many manual deletions to clean up everything. I also end up deleting essential documents that I should not have (I did have backups).

I wrote down my frustration, the horrible experience deleting all the photos (some tips included that will help if you are planning to do so) - How to delete all Photos and get off Google Photos - https://brajeshwar.com/2021/how-to-delete-all-photos-and-get...

I do have the grandfathered legacy Google Domains for Apps (may be about 10 or odd domains) and I pay for about 5 domains Google Workspaces. Teams find it easier to use Google Products (especially Gmail, and Calendar).
You can continue your employer insurance for 18 months. But, as you say, it's more out of your pocket because your employer is now no longer subsidizing it.
Why is it, then, that Google products with ~N users tend to be less good than equivalent open-source projects in the same verticals with ~N users, when those open-source projects mostly don’t even have access to effective product management?