skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends, actually. Container prices are very volatile. If you're in the middle of a crash, a container house can be cheap. GP was correct however in pointing out they aren't particularly good for building houses that are actually nice to live in.

EDIT: There's a caveat here. Because containers are trivially transportable, you have lots of options when it comes to assembling off-site that could be kind of nice. For instance, if you were a carpenter with a nice workshop, and wanted to fit out your house in your shop instead of in a muddy building site, it's kind of cool that you can do all the fitting, then put the parts on a truck. This would also be cheaper. If I was self-building, this would be a big consideration for me, because it's not actually very nice working in a building site, and it's not particularly efficient either.
People who are serious about programming should make tools
I live with my wife. It’s important to do smart home things which work well for everyone in your space!

I don’t do a lot of fixed unchanging automation. I do a lot more ambient status and voice assistant integration.

It actually was really nice when my lady moved in after our wedding because my HomeKit things were able to work right away with her Google Home she was used to. :)

The webcam hall status light was to know when either of us are in a meeting. We are both working from home so it’s like a free/busy signal.
GP covered that: "(...) and is only on the road because someone paid some mechanic off to look the other way during a state vehicle inspection for the past 5 years".
You can get third party library stubs which will add typing. If you use boto alot I highly recommend it.
The same is true of Blue, the current iteration of the hardware, and I believe its because people who are into home automation enough to buy a dedicated Home Assistant box probably already have a bunch of hardware and opinions on whether they like Z-Wave, Zigbee, HomeKit, 433mhz radios, or pulses fired down their power lines. Its much easier to provide some hardware which can support any of those via USB and GPIOs.

Also, Z-Wave licensing is an absolute nightmare, and significantly expensive.
Ask HN: How does one build a jobs board?
I am not particularly looking into building one myself, but I have been brainstorming about how one would approach this problem.

Where does one get all jobs data from? I am aware that there are APIs out there from where I can get data from, but that means I am basically building a front-end for data off some other platform(s).

Is getting data from recruiters the only way? How would one get the traction and popularity that they would need in order to attract more recruiters to come post on their jobs board?
>It was a meat grinder but also thrilling.

Fully agree. It was thrilling. I also did the exact same thing.
Would they really not be able to test this on the ground in a vacuum chamber? Or is there no twin still back on Earth? I know Curiosity and Perseverance both have twin back here for some tests.
Great dialogue.

Why Microsoft though? Not sure they can be compared to Google or Facebook. But maybe I'm missing something.

If Microsoft - why not Apple?

I think most of us are morally corrupt however or let's call it applying a flexible morality.

When it comes to pleasure or money, e.g. going to McDonalds, buying fast fashion, or working for these massive ad companies, it's not always easy to do the right thing.

It's a systemic issue and we need to address the 'profit uber alles' value system.

How would you address this problem?
Yes, because in the case of Japan, the US heavily lobbied for them to develop nuclear power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Japan#Early_y...
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The problem is that high performance optical systems are expensive.

There are physical limits that forces them to have big mirrors and other expensive and relatively bulky optical elements. Also, there is no mass production due to small batch sizes (typically one or two).

So if they have a two year life span, it will not be economically viable.
And yet plenty of people are attempting to, aren't they?

I think in fact it is actually that you don't have one, and that is what is making you angry, not my attitude
Nobody has any idea what will happen in 9 years. That is too far away of a prediction to have any meaning.
It's been spreading just a bit. There are now Whataburger locations in Phoenix, AZ.

I'm in Northern California, and Phoenix is also our closest Waffle House too.
> Interesting, the French RGB release is based off of the NTSC circuitboard, and it should be easy to add a 50Hz/60Hz timing switch. I haven’t done that yet, though I likely will. I need to crack this thing open anyway, its video port is very finicky and probably has some broken solder joints.

Funny as I have a (French) Master System II and I remember from the last time I plugged it in that the port and/or Peritel cable was a bit faulty as well, but everything else was working fine.
Or that communication, journalism and divulgation (explaining to the layman) are immensely inadequate in their current common forms.
It already is. With the latest changes, almost everything can be done through the UI, hardly ever I touch YAML files.
I don't think there's anything "wrong" with tech hiring.

It may not be ideal but every approach has its trade offs.
Show HN: Solfeggio Frequencies Generator
If the buyers' dogma is that the housing market will always go up, it is a great deal to buy/build very expensive houses. They will always appreciate.

Reality will disagree at some point.
European startups making single-use packaging a thing of the past
And Ctrl-Z if you don't like the results.
One the more accessible security measures you can take is to get a second number that you don't communicate publicly. Use this number for recovery codes and MFA when needed. This will reduce your exposure significantly.
That's basically the Jack In The Box menu now.
My recent interview experience with Twitter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28466586
Well if your sample is limited to "SF bay area" then I could see why. Quality of life has definitely been degrading in California.
>What would you think if they said the opposite?

Not the same guy, but I might start to trust them more
You guys are fucked.If you don't know HK is China's financial corridor and TW is China's tech corridor.So No! China will never use military force to TW. TW and China just play a show to World and US buy it.
The FDA should regulate Instagram's algorithm as a drug
Yt is ridiculously addictive.

They seem to recommend just the right thing to “okay lets watch this one last video” wasting hours of my day.
There should be an exception to copyright for police recordings...
That's the most reasonable advice I've seen in this thread so far.
>The best way to avoid gunshot wounds is to not get shot.

Bad analogy. What happens is that we're shooting people with .22LR (spike protein inducing mRNA) hoping it will help building immunity to bigger calibers (Covid19, not even talking about the variants).
Similar experience. I discovered this podcast earlier this year and got completely hooked. Had to listen to them all.
Thank you for the kind words gavinray :)

OptaPlanner is a team and community effort. Credit goes as much to each of them (see team page) as it does to me. And we're standing on the shoulders of giants (other open source projects).
I guess it depends on the failure rate, but the thing is that PHP has an overwhelming lead over the others that is not even close even if you would combine everyone else vs PHP, can the failure rate be that big?

What this tells us is that still today PHP is really good fit for websites, but language makers seems to focus on solving other non website related problems but then hype their technologies that it can be used for websites when few of the web developers agree. That is a problem.

Edit:

And then we have the reoccurring PHP hate campaigns, and it seems to not only be something online but also within academia, which of course creates an illusion that PHP is not useful when we actually need more PHP developers.
I’ve been waiting for governments to reach that conclusion for months now. Alas, it seems that today’s political speech are voluntarily simplified to the extreme, probably as a mean to maximize the expected result (aka: getting the max number of people vaccinated).
The risk being to antagonize educated citizen that may completely loose respect for public policies as a consequence.
We have been enjoying Casbin (ABAC):

- technically: embedded in your DB, so not another infra problem + can stay in-DB for hotpath queries (ex: view all). As db-native RLS etc keeps maturing, my bet is this is where a lot will end up anyways. This is orthogonal to their discussion of service vs monolith - it enables working at the data tier vs app tier.

- governance: our app does not depend on an outside company

At the same time, it was surprisingly slim pickings for such a core thing, so more diversity the better!

Edit: For context, we have been thinking a lot about authorization recently and investing here, so a recent post on 'The Sharing Paradox' on how we view it as an important way to grow successful team use, esp with modern features like friendly ABAC UIs: https://www.graphistry.com/blog/100x-sharing-paradox
> I just pictured a typical computer developer in a wet lot, with an unhappy wife.

Have you heard of the TV programme Grand Designs? It's just this over and over again. Sometimes the wife is pregnant, sometimes they're living in a caravan on site. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/grand-designs

They're not trying to build anything as simple as a house, either, the "grand" part implies some mad architectural vision that will become unliveable within months while also looking completely horrendous in its rural setting.
"How many of you are from consulting? Oh that's bad. You should do something.

No seriously, I don't think there nothing inherently evil in consulting, I think that without owning something over an extended period of time, like a few years, where one to take responsibility for one's recommendations, where one has to see one's recommendations through all action states and accumulate scar tissue for those mistakes and to pick oneself up off the ground and dust oneself off, one learns a fraction of what one can.

Coming in and making recommendations and not owning the results, not owning the implementation I think is a fraction of the value and a fraction of the opportunity to learn and get better.

You do get a broad cut at companies but it's very thin, it's like a picture of a banana, you might get a very accurate picture but it's only 2 dimensions, and without the experience of actually doing it you never get 3 dimensional, so you might have a lot of pictures on your walls, you can show it off to your friends, I've worked in bananas, I've worked in peaches, I've worked in grapes, but you never really taste it, that is what I think."
> Unfinished code that is full of race conditions, performance problems, outright bugs and worst of all, poor to non-existent product/market fit.

The last one is so different than the rest. Bugs shouldn't even "ship" internally in that they shouldn't really be making it out of feature branches often for some reasonable value of often.

But back to the last one, that's something that should be decided with high confidence before the first line of code is written!
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You can set the "showdead" flag in your profile and you will see dead posts, including this one (grayed).
I oppose forced medical procedures as a default position because it represents the ultimate violation of a person by the state, and has had a long and dark history of abuse and atrocities.
The real problem is that the officer should be sued by the boss of his boss, because is doing a huge damage in the public image of every policemen. If is not happening, this means that they don't care and that the risk for every other officer in the streets has increased (If policemen can break the law, everybody can as long as is not caught doing it). This is wining a stupid battle to lose the war on trust.

> Now I can post any song on Youtube, as long as the backing video is Rodney King.

This is brilliant. I can see people starting to replace the song by a similar melody and the lyrics by 'I can't breath' and the names of 100% proven innocent people killed by police sung in a loop. Probably not on youtube, but easy to browse
THIS ! and "pattern-matching" :)
When we make a Thread we could do with an option to pass a hint to say how we want that code run. Additionally a mechanism to set the default for this and child processes where no hint is set could be used in command line settings in the same way nice and other such programs work so that it can be done as they launched or after launch. It is after all a kernel choice where code is run but programmers and runners of these tools need some control knowing what they need.
Third world countries like the US might handle drinking water quality somewhat different, I acknowledge that.

So maybe roads are somewhat easier to grasp. They are paid for by taxes and while you could outsource that to private parties, having to pay a bribe each kilometer seems rather complicated to me.
The UK has a high population density, and a lot of land is still owned by old nobility who don't really care to sell it.

In the rest of Europe prices are much lower, I'm currently building a house in Northern Europe on the outskirts of the capital (within city limits) and we paid €30/m2 for the land in 2019.
> None of the mills started expanding or engaging in capital programs to try and take advantage of the increased prices.

I'm a bit doubtful about this because I know that even German mills started to produce lumber with US dimensions, causing shortages for metric lumber locally.
>There is a difference between someone who designed a system _at_ a F500 and someone who designed a system that got them _to be_ a F500

how many people have designed systems that made their company into a F500 and how many of them do you think go through this process we're discussing?
Mind looping me in as well if you get a response? Profile is also in my bio.
It is hard since even experienced and capable builders might still take you for a ride. In the UK, plumbers are notorious for not turning up to jobs and not even calling etc. Those that know what they are doing are also prone to inflate a quote to someone they think can afford it.

The other problem in the UK is there is no formal registry for a "builder" as opposed to plumbers, electricians and even window fitters that have to be registered.

There is definitely a need for good people skills (passive aggressive doesn't work on the building site) and being clear up-front. You also need to try and avoid over-reliance on one person/company, you don't want everything stopping because the electrician cancelled on you.
I recently tried Oracle Cloud VM following a HN discussion[1], An AMD 2 core/1GB instance with Ubuntu 20.04. Nearly 50% of memory was already occupied desktop packages(because the image is not server version, it's not available) and more importantly by Oracle-cloud-agent through snap by default.

I don't remember management-agents pre-installed in other cloud providers I've used over past several years. I've not used Azure instances much, Only their server-less services and it seems like Azure & Oracle are on same boat as far as management-services baked by default in the images(of course vulnerabilities have not surfaced for the latter ...yet).

But Oracle seems to be supporting Bring Your Own Image (BYOI), which I assume those who are serious about security are already using.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28497181#28501062
With this logic the FDA can regulate everything! Love, sex, weather, currency, and more!
Congratulations, you're in the top 1%.

There aren't that many people above you, but 1% of the US population is still millions, and they have an outsized influence and visibility.

Property also suffers from "pigeonhole" effects; a few foreign millionaires parking their money in empty properties at the top end causes everyone to move along one.
"Fact checking" causes more problems than it solves. One man's truth is another man's falsehood. One man's racism is another man's plain speaking.

Best to apply any moderation as minimally as possible. Tag posts which cause arguments as "controversial" and leave it at that.
My main problem with Home assistant is the automation language. It could be very powerful, but isn't.

I feel that if there was a way to introduce temporary state and force an expression as the value of a switch it could be great. I would love for something ASP/Datalog based.

Having a light that's just on if some expression is True and off if the expression is false is more difficult than it should be. The automations are not goal-based. But maybe in a decade the next project will do it that way.
Is this a joke? And what exactly is Australia (and UK and USA) going to do should China invade Taiwan? Please tell me, I am dying to know. They couldn't beat barefoot Taliban in 20 year's time, do you really think Five Eyes have any capacity for a full blown war with a nuclear power such as China? Please just stop with this nonsense. The only real enemy these countries have are their governments.
Can you provide a source with information on what those variables are exactly?
If they can't code just make them manage and bullshit everyone else in process. And hope they are smart enough to let people they manage to make important decisions.
Not sure Marlboro is a good example.

Their product kills people or makes them seriously ill - how would you improve that product so it doesn't?

So for the good of society - access to their products should be much harder, i.e. factor in the cost of all the damage those products cause and people will have less of an incentive to purchase these.
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Agreed - but I 'll run the benchmarks anyway for a new blog post. Measuring is knowing.

OptaPlanner is best of with Parallel GC (high throughput), but most java processes (REST services etc) are much better off with G1GC (low latency) and its siblings (Shanandoah, Z GC).
Having an architect can be helpful but it can also be significantly more expensive and if there is a problem, then you are likely to be pulled into the argument anyway.

Definitely communication, good diagrams, developing a good rappour with the contractor and not being overly tight or strict with them otherwise you can build resentment. For example, don't withhold all of their expected money because of a single piece of dodgy drywall, give them most or all of the money and make sure they make-good first thing next week.
Zonos raises $69M Series A, Founder: Bootstrap as long as possible
on top of that you will also filter out applicants who show some red flags when they not immediately know the answer to a problem. it's absolutely okay to not know everything. but there is a huge difference in how people communicate their lack of knowledge.
Here's the script I ran, FWIW:
https://gist.github.com/ge0ffrey/34b8a0c2f7b04c2aca7478b0e97...
If you're incapable of finding out who "gets it" without asking about fizzbuzz (which I'll point blank refuse to answer) or recursion/sorting, you're failing at interviewing.

By the way feel free to try to write a sorting algo (preferably not bubblesort) by memory in your favourite language. It will be a good reality check.

> My anecdotal experience is that you never want people who can't write a for-loop or whatever in your team

Yes, you don't. But you don't need to ask them that directly, or have them code live.
Efficiency cores would burn less energy for any amount of workload, provided the delay is acceptable.

The efficiency cores may be always on, or close to it, so the high performance cores being turned off for longer saves energy too.

Really depends on the architecture in question though. Not very familiar with M1.
It's excellent pain-viewing
I'd love to but their entire website is just so god-damn slow.
You can try pyscript (https://github.com/custom-components/pyscript), which allows you to write automations in plain Python.
Genetics startup turns to CRISPR to resurrect the woolly mammoth
I don't understand why this isn't a bigger story. Why isn't the stock market reacting at all? GM, Ford, Toyota are shutting down car plants because they can't get parts, and the financial system shrugs!

At work, we sell robot kits and parts to schools. Schools are coming back from summer break. We are completely out of stock of every complete kit and many important parts. We're missing out on maybe 50% of our sales for the year because we can't get inventory. What the hell am I supposed to do for the next six or twelve months, sit at my desk and whistle? We have literally nothing to sell!

I look at a car mechanics subreddit, and the exact same story: no parts, customer vehicles sitting in the yard for a year waiting for replacements: https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/podi...

The situation reminds me of February 2020, after the first COVID deaths in the US, with comments on HN by managers talking about complete carnage in the sales forecasts, but the markets floated along, ignorant of reality.

For a while.
I meant as a consultant. Will edit to reflect that if still possible.
It’s unfortunate however that public policies in most western countries haven’t adapted to that fact yet (which has been a serious hypothesis since the beginning). they still encourage risk-free patients to get vaccinated in the hope of herd immunity. It’s just sad.
> In fact, wanting to circumvent laws is the only reason why people en mass would ever want to use decentralized technologies.

There are plenty other reasons, like not wanting private corporations to be gatekeepers of society.
Company is better pay damm well for me to spend my own time to try to get working there. I would evaluate that limit to be multiple times market rates.
As a former builder and current handyman (now cloud architect) I can wholeheartedly recommend this channel. That guy knows his stuff. My only warning is that he's a perfectionist and purest. If you do things his way without any experience it will take you 10x as long.
Inflation/printed money + stock market prices going through the roof.

If you don't have significant capital in investments, you're getting hosed.
Indeed. Almost everybody agrees that boosters probably reduce symptomatic infection and community spread. The real questions are:

1. Effect size

2. Relative effectiveness compared to more vaccinations in third world countries.
I am on the other side of the table too. I also design the interview process. The things I look in an interview

- the ability to code with quality

- the ability to learn and grow

- track record to deliver business value

In my experience, people are wasting too much resources on interviewing. And the process is never meant for more senior positions. Engineers don't like it, and the outcome cannot be falsified (what if we hire someone with a light weight process, would it turn out worse?) I am saying specifically about interviewing, as opposed to hiring in broader sense. What you want is a process that evolve with your demand/available resource, not hardcoding of 2 sessions of coding (oh and with shadowing, so to grow interview skills of the team, of course!), 1 session of architectural design, 1 experience deep dive, whatever. Is this topic something people are interested in though? I might try to write up the thinking behind our process
That makes sense, thanks for the thorough response.