skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What percentage of all SWEs do you think those folks are? I acknowledge the outliers in my original comment but also put forth that they are a minority when considering the entire industry footprint. Software engineering is larger than just FAANGM.
The implication of the OP is that 1% is nothing to worry about. I’m putting it in terms that may illustrate just how big that risk is compared to other areas where we wouldn’t accept those risks.

The implication of your post is that 1% of people dying isn’t an issue so long as they are old or fat.

But anyway let’s take your statistic of 10 people per 100,000.

Now imagine a sports venue where every 5 games 10 people died of food poisoning but far more got really sick and some even required hospitalisation. Would you choose to eat the food at that venue when you went there?
Surely not all of them, since the Alitalia fleet size just a couple years ago was over twice the size of the current ITA one.
And by the way, if someone is paid to move papers around, the fault should be on whoever hired him/her.
Selling a burger is inhernelty profitable for McD, they sell it for more than they spend on manufacturing and shipping and serving it. Each new burger sold adds more profit.

Serving music is unprofitable for Spotify. They collect your monthly subscription fee, then every additional song play makes Spotify lose money. They don't want to have zero song plays since then nobody would subscribe, but their goal is sell the profitable thing (subscriptions) while minimizing the unprofitable thing (song plays).
> If the energy comes from a clean source, what does it matter?

It matters because we don’t have enough clean energy to go around. Since energy is fungible, this means that turning on a bitcoin mine means that the energy provider has to turn on a fossil fuel plant to meet demand.

Maybe if Dorsey agreed to only run his bitcoin machines when excess renewables were available and could not be stored that would be fine. But that’s tantamount to making him promise to never make a profit overnight or when the wind isn’t blowing. I don’t trust any company to keep that promise.

> I think Dorsey believes that if there were cost effective mining equipment that requires little maintenance and is simple to maintain, you'd be able to use it in places that have abundant cheap and renewable resources.

It’s worth pointing out that e waste is a thing. Mining equipment has an environmental cost even if it’s magically efficient.

Furthermore the design of bitcoin encourages extra consumption. If Dorsey makes a machine that consumes half the energy of its competitors per hash, is he going to consume half the power, or is he going to make 2x as many of them to make double the profit? No need to answer, we already know that bitcoin farms always push to purchase as much hardware as they can in pursuit of greater hashing power.

Oh, and that hardware gets thrown away the moment a slightly better machine gets invented. Unlike server hardware, the value of a bitcoin machine drops precipitously the moment it’s no longer the most efficient. There have been some darkly humorous videos of miners giving away free oranges in china as long as you agree to take an outdated ant miner off their hands.

> Sure you'll still bid up the price you consume, but that's the point of the difficulty adjustment.

Whoops. You undermined your own point here.

> The more valuable the network, the more valuable prize for a 51% attack. So you have to rely on market forces to ensure the network remains secure

Yeah, but why do we want that? Bitcoin has utterly failed as a currency, it’s just turned into a stupid casino for people to bet on because “number go up”. Why as a society do we want to tolerate literal nation states worth of electricity “securing” a network that doesn’t really do anything useful for society?
As it happens, the most widespread piece of employee feedback the last time Square surveyed, was that Jack is wasting too much of his time on crypto nonsense that has nothing to do with Square's actual business competencies.

I guess it wasn't taken to heart.
Yeah, Carl Marx died in 1883. The economy has changed a lot since then so perhaps his ideas shouldn’t be taken at face value. However I believe he saw his solutions as being applied on a societal level, i.e. no single corporation could fix this on its own. Socialists today still believe this and seek regulatory frameworks which will enable cooperatives to thrive in a better economy, and not simply be out-competed by capitalist corporations as they are today.
What would the incentive be for a mean, or even underperforming, worker to look at the pay of a top performer and do anything other than argue for more pay for the same amount of work? The value a worker brings is not a completely tangible assessment, it has vague and qualitative components to it. Whereas, how much that worker is paid is a hard quantitative fact and is not debatable.

If you remove the ability of the manager to obfuscate where an employee's earnings stack up in the absolute rank, or how much additional pay is on the table, then the only thing to argue about is how much value the worker brings. The worker will always be able to claim that they deliver unmeasured value, or that their tangible contributions are not properly valued. Multiply this conversation out across 50% of your work force, and quickly the only rational thing to do, as a manager, is to bring down the top earner's pay to a level that will not generate complaints from the mean worker.

This is the aim of all collectivism frankly, to appease the mean producer at the expense of society ultimately.

If you don't believe this, explain please the chain of reasoning that would lead a lower paid worker to conclude their pay is fair and that they should not try to argue for more money.
Textile Mediation in Late Byzantine Visual Culture (2019)
It's an interesting idea. The first image I got had seven tags, including 'handrail' 'bannister' and 'railing'. Similar words seem like they'd be hard to guess, as I'd need to spend additional tries finding possible synonyms. Since I also don't know the categories the AI is looking for I could be hitting on something the AI wouldn't consider. It's interesting, but doesn't hold my attention the same way something like geoguesser would. A change that could work might be to include the AI's confident answers in a bank of about 10 choices. The user checks off their guesses and is scored on correctness after so many images.

An alternate mode I think could be fun would be to show two images and guess which was tagged for a given attribute and confidence level. IE you have a picture of a beehive and a picture of a flower and you need to guess which one was tagged for "Bee:85%"
I use Paprika to manage my recipes, when I know I what I want to make I use the grocery list feature to ensure I have all the ingredients. I try to plan dinners which will leave leftovers that can be used as components in breakfast and lunch later in the week (e.g. mashed potatoes-> potato pancakes).
The population of Ireland was actually greater in 1840 than it is today [0]. It's hard to overstate just what a catastrophic event the potato famine was.

[0] https://www.mapspictures.com/ireland/history/ireland_populat...
You might like, https://youtu.be/vtIzMaLkCaM

Something I wish more writers watched.
My brother got fired in South Florida for not getting vaccinated. I thought that was illegal...
Certainly. But we similarly cannot say as a fact that this will raise prices.
Grab a copy of Unity and take some of Penny DeByl’s courses on Udemy.
Mr. Bright is just using TDD. The ‘square’ function works for 2. Next he’ll generalize it to work for more values. Tests aren’t shown. ;)
Pigs at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport help to keep skies safe
+1. The senior engineers write the spec and JIRA tickets (addressing the harder system wide issues) and junior engineers execute.
> You have to convince software engineers they are labor instead of temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

At least in the US, they aren’t temporarily embarrassed, they actually are millionaires in many cases. Software engineering today may have one the highest expected ROIs of any occupation in history.
I have used some of them. Indeed not as good but useable.

Sadly Lenovo is taking alot of wrong directions imo, non-removeable battery, soldering memory now etc... I'd be happy to try something else and love the concepts behind the Framework.
> Ethics cannot be deduced from logic and aesthetics. To give an example, why exactly is rape wrong?

Rape is wrong, because it induces bodily and emotional harm. You can deduce your whole ethics and morals from the 'reduce the suffering you cause' view. You don't need religion for that.
Someone else here agrees: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28743676
He’s almost certainly just lying.
Is this an abstracted healthcare and retirement for all plan or is this, give everyone more money and they can figure it out, free market deal?

I'm a little confused, generally healthcare and retirement are good things to have at work, so from where I see it, everyone should get it from their employer regardless of job or you're advocating using it to disburse to a healthcare for all scenario (EDIT: via the gov't) (which I'm all for).

Side Note: For whoever is not the last one to the party like me, I just listened to a fascinating podcast (bbc) on David Ricardo's impact in economic theory, and a lot of the ills of today pretty much lay at his narcissistic feet. I would highly recommend taking a deep dive into how his economic policies actually make any mathematical sense and have influenced (conscious or not, the absurdity of modern markets and by extension modern business practices). /aside.
Several strange devices. Not clear to me how well they actually worked. I imagine you could write a listicle about any number of strange devices from anywhere if you didn't restrict yourself to writing about things that actually worked. For example, there are "healing magnets" in the US too. Do they work?
> I recall a story (possibly apocryphal) of somebody who regularly exchanged a lot of e-mail with Microsoft employees and who as a result started signing their own messages with a J, figuring this was some sort of Microsoft slang. The Microsoft employees who got the J-messages scratched their heads until they were able to figure out how their correspondent arrived at this fabulous deduction.

My first name starts with a J, and we used outlook at my first company. For a while I thought the friendlier people in the company have just started shortening my name to "J / Jay".
> Ones that you may be familiar with such as Rick Martin's Macarena

It was done by a group from Seville. Los del río. Very southern Spanish accent which is quite different from Ricky Martin.
IF you want to have a larger discussion about the abuse of power by the FBI under J Edgar Hoover, there is plenty of material to work with.

My point was that the general public wants to attach a story to someone who drinks or drugs themselves to death. People are more comfortable with reasons and they don't understand that death from alcoholism and bipolar depression often doesn't need a reason other than diseases themselves. People often think "Oh yeah, people die from cancer" without needing any other reason, but this is not the case with death from alcoholism and bipolar disorder.
This also plays into the theory that all those numbers on safety only count when Autopilot is enabled.

If you take control, Autopilot is off so you're the one who crashed instead.
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Rather interesting, I remember reading that humans could generally survive off a diet of only milk and potatoes years ago. Of course sarcastically I immediately thought 'mashed potatoes are a superfood then.'

Can't find the exact source now, but this one will do -
https://www.straightdope.com/21343924/could-i-survive-on-not...
I just looked for Drupal and Wordpress jobs and they exist ($60k/year seems normal). Since the whole point of these frameworks is to abstract out actually writing the bulk of server code, I’d imagine a large part of the job is dealing with legacy quirks, uploading photos, and keeping servers up.

There’s clearly a business need but as far as I know, there isn’t a mathematical-type of hardness to managing these types of websites. And on Wallstreet you have trading being performed with VBA Excel scripts…
Does Spotify inject ads in free podcasts? Don’t all commodities not do that
if that’s true, then podcasts are only a bandaid solution for a fundamental problem with Spotify’s business model.
> Isn’t this just a rebranding of a restructuring?

Yes.

IAC Aircraft Painting has done one aircraft paint job for ITA, but most of the fleet will bear the old Alitalia logo for a while.[1]

Big layoffs. Alitalia had around 10,000 employees; ITA will start with about 2,800.

[1] https://www.italy24news.com/business/219410.html
To be fair, I’m fairly technical and I also proactively avoid reading the documentation. In the ideal scenario the interface to whatever I’m using is self explanatory, and I don’t run into any issues.

It’s only if the product has a less simple interface that I have to fall back to the documentation (and I dislike doing so).
Yeah there's a podcast called "all things co-op" that covers this in detail. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-things-co-ops-podc...
>"Companies that pay workers what they're worth is rare as fuck."

How do you determine 'what they're worth' in the abstract? Wouldn't the best guess as to any service's 'worth' be the price currently being paid for it?
> After all they could make the product cheaper to produce if less money was being diverted to the rich.

Owning shares in the company means you'll get a share of the profits and dividends. Anyone can buy shares. Many companies go further and provide employee stock purchase plans and stock options.

Microsoft created something like 10,000 millionaires in the Seattle area in the 90's. Amazon has surely done something similar. Microsoft and Amazon millionaires abound around here.
Because by and large they tend to be extremely poorly managed. Research has show time and time again that large multinationals have much more effective management practices. In almost any competitive market, multinationals will eventually dominate the industry because of their higher efficiencies.
Show HN: Snacktime – my attempt at a social app focused on authenticity
People in present-day Austria drank beer and ate blue cheese 2,700 years ago
I feel like I saw this concept recently (big exposed conductive pads) as a way to generate random numbers (Ben Heck's recent YT video about his lanyard game).
Social media has become inauthentic. My feeds are clogged with people sharing their highlight reel, just the most perfectly framed and staged version of themselves. And that's fine, there is a place for that.

I wanted to build something that aimed to be a little more genuine.

Snacktime is a social app with a twist. At a random time during your day, Snacktime sends an alert. You have just minutes to capture and share the moment you are in.

There's no time to change clothes.

There's no time for infinite takes to get the perfect shot.

There's no time to run to the beach and pose with a dolphin.

Snacktime is raw, it is messy, it is joyous, it can be sad, and it is genuine.

My name is Joe and I’m so happy this thing is finally out in the world. I've been working on it for 3 years, I learned 8 new languages and frameworks, a decent chunk of AWS, culminating in 7 distinct projects and a shocking amount of code written. It is, by far, the largest software endeavor I’ve ever attempted. I can't wait to see how people use it.

Snacktime is currently only available for iPhone. An Android version is coming soon.
I tested it, it worked for the one and only test case, therefore it was correct :-)
I am not sure what you mean by "never mentions their existence", they are very clearly mentioned near the top of the git man page:

DESCRIPTION
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an
unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and
full access to internals.

See gittutorial(7) to get started, then see giteveryday(7) for a useful
minimum set of commands. The Git User's Manual[1] has a more in-depth
introduction.

After you mastered the basic concepts, you can come back to this page
to learn what commands Git offers. You can learn more about individual
Git commands with "git help command". gitcli(7) manual page gives you
an overview of the command-line command syntax.
Every time I say this people lose their heads:

Tesla's FSD/Enhanced AP cannot be safer than a human driver + passive aids like LKA and AEB. The statistics that constantly get paraded about AP are vs all cars, not just cars with passive aids.

It's simple enough:

If FSD would catch a hazard with the sensor suite, so would the passive aids.

But if the sensor suite would miss a hazard, it's not an issue unless the human does too when it comes to passive aids.

If the human misses it and the sensor suite misses it, so will FSD.

The problem is this: With FSD the car will actively do the wrong thing in response to the missed hazard instead of doing nothing. Now the human has to correct after the wrong action has already been taken.

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So if you visualize a venn diagram of accident conditions, the ones prevented by FSD will fit inside the ones prevented by passive aids, since FSD is actively creating accidents where they couldn't exist before.
> I went biking early in the morning a few times this week and came across a bunch of Uber drivers sleeping in their cars with jackets over their heads.

Out of curiosity, what city is this?
FSD clearly has some work to do here, but it's also quite surprising how many human drivers end up driving onto light rail tracks. Seems like better markings would really help.
I think you can combine that with static types and come out further ahead.

To each their own though. I wrote code without any kind of autocomplete or tooling for a very long time because I felt like it. Sometimes when you don’t have something helping you all the time, it keeps you sharper.
Have you factored in how much energy your alternator can produce?
Oooh, I like the analogy. Does it mean we're due for a mass extinction event in the tech industry in the future?
I wonder how startups are able to do this with 3 enterprise customers. The amount it takes to get us through procurement has almost already killed a startup I’m working with. Any advice on picking the right customers? We also don’t have that many resources to potentially dedicate to serve 3 enterprises at a time.
This, exactly, is why using unix is so hard for beginners.

I vividly remember being extremely frustrated because every forum post on the topic seemed to assume you understood what they were asking you to do.

Man pages can be read by opening a terminal/console window and typing in ‘man [command]’, then pressing enter. Generally you can scroll through them with up/down arrow and pgup/down.

Normally the man page name is the same as the command, so I’m not sure how anyone would discover the one for gittutorial.
Only if you take control more than five seconds before the accident occurrs.
Abstracted, I'm not super opinionated about private sector vs public sector health care, but I'm very opinionated about employer provided healthcare being a not good idea - it turns into a fight where employees have to follow the moral dicta of the employer even if it's not something the employee agrees with, not to mention it's obnoxious to have it change and go through COBRA or exchanges for 3 month shots every time you change jobs. And that it messes up effective cost sharing. Not to mention people who won't change jobs because they're afraid of healthcare changes or losing it.

Retirement is similar - retirement benefits are used in manipulative ways by employers to make the labor market less competitive (vesting schedules, match timing and amounts, etc.). And for 401k-style plans, there's no reason your employer should decide for you which terrible high-fee investments you can use.
I spent a while making the perfect portable Linux USB SSD with persistent storage and a universally mountable data partition using ventoy - then discovered that my Surface Laptop 3 can't boot upstream Linux and gave up on the whole endeavor.
Yes, this is why I said effectively. That does not sound very effective.
> Magnetic therapy

The practice is still pervasive in CIS/Russian medicine despite being considered pseudoscience[1] by the rest of the world. You're almost guaranteed to be prescribed electromagnetic therapy if you're recovering from any sort of tissue injury.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_therapy
"Yeah, we don't need Lidar at all!" except when it's going to kill you.
At no point did anyone use the word "scam"...?
So they rebranded to "Always Takeoff Arrival".
I mean, they are not currently a profitable company, nor do I think the profit outlook is good for them under their current model.
You cannot really maintain that. The controller has to adapt. That is what the two reset signals are for. The synchronous one can be trigger by application logic (for example some sort of timer) to re-calibrate the touch controller.
Well, yeah, of course there’s a fundamental problem with Spotify’s business model. They’re a middleman for digital content.
The registrar is subject to EU law, so they could be forced to limit or remove your access to your domain
Just to add to this restaurant based allegory, Spotify is like an all you can eat buffet that tries to serve out lots of sodas so you get bloated and don’t eat the expensive stuff they have
> Many of these areas have discovered a remarkable technology, long lost in cities, called "building new houses" - sometimes with their own hands!

I’d love to learn more about these places.
I'm highly skeptical of some of those too. Especially considering that US medicine for many years did knee surgery that turned out to have no positive effects I have very little hope of medical world to root out ineffective practices quickly.

Or learn new things. This pandemic shows that medical world learns very slowly. So many sick, so many cases to examine and learn from. And only after a year or more of this pandemic we learn that Covid can cause long term impairment of IQ, cause impotence and is still present in tissues of people who got it, long after they "recovered". We still don't know which drugs might be helping and we don't routinely use drugs that we have some clues might be more efficient, even though we use other drugs from the same group that seem to have way less efficiency (budesonide, vs any other steroid, like hydrocortisone or dexamethasone).
After finally reading about how git works internally, I can sort of see how someone that made it would write their man pages like that. With understanding of the internals it makes perfect sense.

But barely anybody that uses git cares about it’s internals.
That assumes that the human driver responds appropriately to the passive aids. But an electronic system that never gets tired or distracted may eventually perform much better and more consistently in this regard.
One clarification: I’m not suggesting someone “only look at an email once”, but that they only examine it to decide what to do next one time. For instance, if you email me “hey, I need X for the Smith project”, and that’s something that’s going to take me a little while to put together, I’ll:

- Create a to-do in my task manager like “Get IAAL X for the Smith project”, with a link to your original email so that I can find it again quickly when I’m ready to reply to it.
- Archive your email so that it’s not staring at me.

Sure, I’ll have to see it again when I respond later. In the mean time, it’s not one of 500 messages fighting for my attention when I’m trying to decide what to work on next. By taking a moment to summarize the action as “get the X stuff for you”, I don’t have to re-analyze it again and again and again.
This brings back some childhood memories. A 3D print function would be cool.