skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wonder whether that impacts contracts like Apple's where they bought out all of the initial 3nm production that TSMC can manage more than a year ago.

If not that means that Apple will have a competitive advantage on price with other manufacturers that utilize TSMC.
Cost of traffic for a hardware monitoring/config utility? Not everything needs to be a service, and this is also a perfect example of why some things shouldn't be services, just plain old downloadable software.
Insurance companies have a vested interest in making sure that healthcare costs keep going up. It’s a counterintuitive notion because you would think they want healthcare cost to go down. The reason they want high cost it’s because they’ll be making that small margin on the higher revenue
I love that I can adjust individual people’s volume in discord. Afaik I can’t in zoom.
I'll echo this - The technological developments we need to sequester gigatonnes of carbon at the level that it would make a difference already exists and are in common use, at scale, today. In my assessment most work on novel carbon capture technology is really working out how to make something that's profitable. I'm not confident it's an area of research likely to bear fruit although I also don't want to sound like I'm putting down folks who are doing much more than me here armchair judging.

Aside from growing then burying cellulose or cooking it off into carbon, you could also pyrolize it into a liquid form via a self-feeding process if your preferred form of sequestration is to pump it back underground i.e. into previous extraction fields.

Direct air capture is something that makes me doubly wary - Aside from the carbon-density-in-air issue, return-on-energy-invested is a key metric I don't see enough emerging encouraging information about. Incorporating the acres of wind, solar, or hydro required to power a DAC solution, the usual land-use objection to a forestry-based carbon removal approach would seem to evaporate pretty quick.
Supply shortages are the excuse du jour, but so long as TSMC has the kingmaking node I expect it to become expensive. Very expensive. Expensive enough to move margin from the king their node made right back to TSMC.
BioNTech is working on a malaria vaccine as well. If this one works out well, it would be a huge win for all mankind.

https://investors.biontech.de/node/10366
Finally, I can be as protected as my dog!
What happens is that people get in the hospital for reason xyz and get tested positive as prt of admission protocols.
An sfh next to a high density apartment building feels a lot less like a sfh.
I am certainly considering it every now and then. Already use it for main desktop usage. And I hear good things about Proton, but I really like ease of usage of Windows for everything gaming related. It somehow reminds me too much of my working job, when trying to figure out how a certain game needs to be started in Linux.
I wouldn't call hourly snapshots backed up to S3, monitoring and replication "trivial." They aren't difficult, but most people who don't already do this will probably need to spend hours on reading docs, setting it up and testing. Good luck even finding the time if you already have a loaded schedule of development.
Your employer is paying the difference for you. As part of their health plan setup, they select what percentage of the plan to cover for their employees and their dependents.
Certainly. Organic farms dump tonnes of compost per acre on their farms every year, almost all of it imported from off their property.

I would love to have a good clean home biochar solution to increase the carbon content of the soil of my farm. Something I can stuff prunings and grass and brush cuttings and leaves into, flip a switch, and get carbon out of.

But right now it's mostly DIY solutions that look of varying quality and still generate some smoke.

Wouldn't it be great if every suburban neighbourhood had an efficient pyrolysis chamber that processed the organic waste from the surrounding area?
> But now? I go on Netflix, I scroll around for a bit, can't find anything I would like to watch, and I close Netflix again.

I feel like I'm in a minority these days. My Netflix list is longer than I can ever hope to finish. I add stuff on before I finish watching current stuff.
Sorry for your loss, nobody should have to go through that.

How do people in the US who don’t have insurance get treatment for themselves or their family members in situations like this? It seems inconceivable to me that they or their kids are just expected to die?
> 59 reports of arthritis associated with vaccination

Maybe it was coincidence. I’m just saying if the vaccine gave people Lyme, here’s my hypothesis. But it makes a lot of sense that an autoimmune disease created by exposure to X could be triggered by a vaccine containing X. The definition of a vaccine is to expose a person to whatever it is the immune system recognizes — spike proteins and so on. It’s plausible. But as you point out, not very likely.
Ticks don't fly and they generally dislike sunlit or dry places. They will mostly lurk in darker, wetter places, up to 3 feet from the ground. So a shady tree patch with overgrown grass at the edge of a swamp or creek is much more likely to be thoroughly infested than other places.

Use a repelent, wear some light-colored clothes to spot a crawling tick easily, tuck the (long!) trousers into your hiking shoes and you should be OK.
Intel wins US Government project to develop leading-edge foundry ecosystem
Well, yes, meditation doesn't fix cancer. But it seems like such an odd point. It's like writing an article to clarify that exercise will not help if your car breaks down. I guess some people have a wrong perception that meditation helps cure cancer, so clarifying that it doesn't is helpful, but that's no real knock against meditation.

IMO, to help you through hard times, the meditation practice needs to be there already. You don't reach for it at the time you have difficulty -- that's probably too late.
I've experienced this before; my recommendation would be to pitch an alternative tool to the PM based on how that tool would make the PM's job easier / more effective. It's probably true that almost anything would be better suited to the development workflow than an Excel spreadsheet - but in this particular use-case, Excel is fulfilling your PM's requirements: it's keeping track of issues.

What Excel won't do, without significant work (which will almost certainly fall to the developer and not the PM):

Track issue history / comments / activity against a repository. Wouldn't it be better for your PM to be able to identify, at a glance, exactly which branch & commit a particular fix or change is in?

Integrate with your CI / build system: Wouldn't it be better for your PM if issues were automatically marked as 'ready to test' when the relevant build is completed?

Provide a workflow against the list of active issues. Wouldn't it better for your PM to rest assured that any incoming issues are easily triaged & assigned within a well-defined workflow that tracks an issue from first-report to completion & sign-off?

Don't fight them - sell to them. Explain why a different solution will be better for them and you.
DDG is just a frontend to bing's results

Why would it be difficult to scale?
Printer companies make money band over fist. It's a razors-and-blades recurring revenue model.
Actually, it would be nice if we could retire old image formats. For example, if/when JPEG XL becomes universally supported, the WebP format will be entirely redundant (lower quality, worse compression, no progressive, and it's not even faster to decode) and AVIF could be retired too (comparable compression, but much slower, and much more bloated HEIF container).

But currently browsers are Katamari Damacy balls endlessly accumulating more and more code. How long can we keep just adding without removing anything?
The average gold plan in the US is $575 premium per person per month. For the average household that would be thousands. The average monthly healthcare cost across all "levels" is about $975 per person.
No the comment is to show that this is standard business practice that goes back further than any of us have been alive.
BTW, MCDonalds has such a s sweet deal that they will never leave. AKA they will always pay the lowest price for the Coke syrups out of any of Coke's vendors. Giving you a cup, lid and straw cost more than filling up that cup with a Coke product.
It sounds like you're not familiar with the US system. The employer isn't charging for smoking, the health insurance, which is mostly provided through employers in America, is charging a higher premium for smoking since you will cost much more in future payouts.
I was told the inflation was temporary. This doesn’t sound temporary!
> At $40/hour - which maybe is adequate for the 3rd world but not for the US.

Because the original post compared $40/hr to 3rd world wages. Which is ludicrously out of touch.
> Also, to any non-Americans its always important to put this in the context that "waiving" here means you're still paying thousands per month

Also important to remember the "take home" pay in the USA vs other countries. For many software engineers from the USA it would be significantly more than in other countries, for example due to the fact that there are a number of opportunities to earn good 6 figure salaries
>just got herding dogs.

Yeah it's not a "just" they are not for free. But in north-Italy and Switzerland they are payed by the government and leased (the dogs have no problem with it since the family are the sheep's and not the human)
How to set up automated telephone conversations with telephony
What if you're overweight?
So does every business. But just like every other business, they have competitors too, so they cannot expect their profits to rise simply because they keep increasing their cost of goods sold.

Either way, that is not relevant to the claim that was being contested, which was “insurance companies are profiting extra from covid than they normally would”.
On my open source project (https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash), there's a nyan cat that move around whenever the app takes more than 1s to load. I had quite a few companies contacting me to get rid of it

To see the nyan cat moving around your screen, you got to throttle the bandwidth: https://demo.filestash.app/
Ah, good to know. That's indeed something I haven't considered at all.
5 Security Advisories and 3 Errata Notices have been published for FreeBSD
We certainly need to do both - Simply stopping all carbon emissions tomorrow still locks us into historical carbon emissions that will have unpleasant effects on the global climate.

Sucking carbon out of the air while also pumping it up there doesn't make too much sense unless the cost of carbon capture drops well below the cost of de-carbonizing.
There are contracts for years and years ahead so I doubt current price changes will impact Apple or any other major client.
>Now, a new report from analysts at Bernstein suggests that the payment from Google to Apple may reach $15 billion in 2021, up from $10 billion in 2020.

>Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi says that Google is likely “paying to ensure Microsoft doesn’t outbid it.”

The numbers just dont make any sense, both from Google's Traffic acquisition cost and Apple services revenue. And I know both number fairly well.

I sometimes wonder if I could apply to be an analyst considering most, at least most of them ever came into mainstream media tends to be so wrong on tech.
Although not officially proven, it was ran by either trump's team or people very close to them for a while: https://thisinterestsme.com/r-conspiracy-reddit/
Starting to get the feeling that the current prices for PC components are here to say.
> But if Facebook was running our diets, their algorithm would long since have "optimized" its way to junk food for all of us.

I really, really like this comparison.

If we fed our bodies in the same way we let tech company algorithms feed our minds, we’d have three Big Macs for breakfast washed down with a shot of whiskey and a couple lines of cocaine
That's not really comparable because gyms are significantly harder to cancel than netflix
It's bitter, not sweet. I make sure "implicit None" is disabled in Mypy and I think everyone else should do the same.
Examples:

an item - https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8863.json

a page (new,best,ask,show,jobs) - https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json
..(this returns an array of ids, you'll have to iterate that and make separate requests for each entry.) Also these are limited to 500 items.

a user - https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/jl.json

max id - https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/maxitem.json
(you can use this to iterate all items or update all items since a last cache)

updates - https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/updates.json
I wish the article would be a little more documented, however matching its definition of hostile SW those two examples come to my mind:

- Origin, the game distribution system of EA, forgets the user's credential if she declines to upgrade

- at work, a piece of software contracted from a well known three-letter German multinational always warns the user she may lose unsaved work when quitting, no matter she just clicked "save" a second ago.
And hate terrorists!
Unless that password reset is sent in an encrypted email, it can easily be intercepted, no matter what your email provider is.
Can you name any big company that does not work that way?
Like Apple, Facebook, Ford, Tesla, Nestle ect ect.

And what would be an alternative?
Better yet: get rid of all printers. Stop printing. I haven’t needed to print anything in the past 28 months. When I do need to print something it’s a 5 minute walk to the town library where I can print 100 sheets for free every month.
I'd argue that the lack of characters per tweet is what makes Twitter so toxic, since it essentially destroys the ability to convey nuance.
(Social) Nature is healing...?
Could there be an Apple web Search Engine here?
Incidentally, this is also why tobacco manufacturers don't really mind high cigarette taxes: it puts a higher floor on the cost of a pack of cigarettes, which means the overall profit is larger.
technically the insurer charges you more. And often they just give you credits towards healthcare costs if you don't smoke, instead of charging you more if you do. As to why this is acceptable, cultural views on smoking tobacco in the US hover just this side of pedophilia it seems like. I don't know a single person who smokes and has a professional career.
"attr" is the choice of the library designers. The question is why did they choose that name when users will expect it to be imported as "attrs"?

Clearly if they had chosen "da39a3ee" we wouldn't need to discuss whether they had good judgement.
Half the country doesn’t pay a nickel in federal income tax so I don’t know where the middle and lower class tax burden is. You are so all over the place it’s hard to make sense of what argument you are trying to make, if there even is an argument buried in this mess. I think you don’t understand economics, government, or psychology at any basic, rational level.
Safety and speed must usually be balanced in a trade-off, and we are actually used to it, that is why people drive a car, even though it comes with a risk of dying or being maimed.

I have no doubt that some kind of safety-related trials must be run on boosters and that they will be run, but they will likely only take weeks in the future, not months.
Yep. I think they need to implement a "Fuel cost equivalent tariff" on public transport. FCET because everyone switching from a car needs to do this gradually so you can't include the depreciation etc because they are sunk costs. It costs me ~£65 for 50l of fuel which gets me about 450-500 miles in my car. If I'm travelling alone I should be able to buy a walk-up train ticket for that price, with a 20% discount for pre-planning my journey. If I'm travelling with my family then group tickets should be discounted so each extra person is a nominal extra amount as long as we all travel together. Tickets should be integrated across all transport modes like they are in Switzerland.

The big problem with this, in the UK at least, is that the trains are already full even though they are much more expensive than this. We really need more capacity but the hugely corrupt debacle that is High speed 2 is going to turn people against building better public transport.
>Due to the Turkish lira collapsing

That doesn't bold well for stability. Hungry did appear on my list, the rent seems very very low.

Right now I'm trying to see where COVID-19 will be in a few months. If it's still not possible to travel easily, I might need to stay and save for a bit longer.
Hmm there's a lot of them. Most of the episodes are SAAS apps but I remember Dan from Real Python[0] in an earlier episode having a pretty rigorous set up for solo developing his platform. It gets a few million monthly page views. He happens to use Heroku tho, so that episode is pretty dev heavy vs ops.

The GoRails[1] episode is a good example of keeping it simple but killing it. It's just one dude who built a million dollar business hosting everything on a $20 a month DigitalOcean server, and the server itself hums along at a few percent load while having tens of thousands of members.

Jake from SongRender[2] is a solo SAAS app project for building audio visualizer videos with Node, it's not running at massive scale but he did everything himself -- including setting up blue / green deploys with Terraform.

Cory built a service to create and design placecards[3]. I remember this one focusing on keeping it simple while still being able to run a profitable SAAS app.

If you're looking for intergalactic crazy scale, an engineer from Dropbox[4] was on a few months ago but that's not a solo dev platform.

Another SAAS app and large scale deployment was Mux[5]. They handle billions of video API requests a month with a pretty small team.

It's hard to only recommend a few because often times you can get at least 1 nugget of information out of each episode and apply it back to your set up. One takeaway from a lot of solo dev projects is they just ship something and keep it simple until that stops working. You'd be surprised at how far you can go with 1 server, handling tens or hundreds of thousands of monthly visitors but still generate enough profit from your project to make it a full time income or at least be a nice chunk of side income.

[0]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/4-real-python-is-one...

[1]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/12-learn-ruby-on-rai...

[2]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/83-songrender-lets-y...

[3]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/39-place-card-me-let...

[4]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/82-dropbox-gives-you...

[5]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/31-mux-is-an-api-bas...
I've tried starting to journal a few times using an app like Day One, but reading this makes me feel a physical, handwritten journal that could be left behind for family may ultimately be a better option
My guess is also that the age of high-end graphics cards for 500€/$ has come to an end. Going to order a 3070 for 850€ now, after waiting for months
Am I missing something? Is there a stigma around using prescription drugs? I mean, sure there is a stigma for bodybuilding - but this drug is used for a variety of medical things. In other words, it is already used to improve lives.

And it seems there is good reason to have it be a prescription: Some of the side effects aren't wonderful and it would seem reasonable to at least get regular blood tests if you are taking it. It is just benefits sometimes outweigh the risks.
This is less and less accepted nowadays though
Does it matter whose fault it is when one just needs to ship a product and keep it running reliably?

I'm conflicted on this. I'm currently running an Alpine-based container in production but am thinking about revisiting the choice of base image.

On the one hand, using a smaller base system and (especially) a simpler libc translates to a smaller attack surface, and less noise in static scans for vulnerabilities. So I could argue that using Alpine is the responsible choice from a security perspective.

But maybe I'm just rationalizing a desire to pursue the kind of software quality (simplicity, minimization of bloat) that only we developers appreciate and that often has hidden downsides. Then I read about such downsides, like the sibling comment about DNS resolution, and I wonder if the responsible thing to do as a pragmatic product developer (and future manager of such developers) is to banish Alpine from the stack, tolerate the relative bloat of something like Debian, and throw more (and more complex) tools at the problem of the larger attack surface and more noise in vulnerability scans.
> one person boycotting hostile tech

So I don't try to boycott; I assume I'm an outlier, and my choices won't make much difference to the supplier.

I just stay away from stuff I don't like or disapprove of. Of course, I hope that others -ercing the supplier is a path to unhappiness.will share my views, and that the supplier will notice and change; but it doesn't usually seem to happen.

But I'm not upset. I'm just exercising my preferences. Trying to use your preferences as a way of proving a point or coerce the supplier is a path to unhappiness. Exercise your preferences, and be happy that your preferences are satisfied. If your supplier receives a signal, so much the better - but that's the cherry on the cake.
It's been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disulfiram

Not as a vaccine, but as a drug.
Pretty much the whole story here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/
The package can contain entirely arbitrary module names. Any similarity in naming is by convention only. Don't quote me on this, but I don't see why two different packages can't contain the same module name and overwrite each other.
People developing immunity to ticks has been reported. We discussed that here half a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28281523
Very well put!

I have another related theory that goes: Over time, everything converges into mediocrity. By everything I mean products sold to us, entertainment, media, the Internet itself. Look at the car designs of the 1970s and now. Look at cinematography then and now. As soon as marketing steps in and start telling otherwise innovative companies or artists how to sell, things begin slowly converging into mediocrity.

The semi-formal proof is that because the humanity as a whole is mediocre almost by definition, hence if you want to expand your markets (the ice-cream saleman's problem) you'd grab the middle of the bell curve first: it's where the bigger part of the market is!

I don't know if it makes sense, just something I've been thinking about a lot lately.
I've observed a weird bit of title inflation for this job role in the last few years. I think all four of these mean the same thing?

VP of Human Resources

Chief Human Resources Officer

VP of People Operations

Chief People Officer

and now this interviewee, who is actually "Chief People, Places, & Publicity Officer" if you read down to the bottom.

I think it's very telling that this turns out to actually be a "PR" job title. It's really about controlling the message, inside and outside the organization. Creating a perception of valuing employees and customers and satisfying their respective needs.

Also, doing performance review cycles 4x/year is completely insane. What a waste of everyone's time.
And now lots of companies who are hosted in the UK are going to have to move out of the UK to stay in compliance with GDPR.

I actually choose my newsletter service based on the fact they were in the UK and therefore compliant with GDPR due to the fact I seen Mailchimp wasn't.