skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you started asking companies if they use the free or paid version you might be surprised to find how few use the free version.

I'm sure there are some that use the open source version and do their own support but generally large enterprise companies want a 3rd party vendor to yell at. As the software becomes more popular you're more likely to have managers interally ask about switching to the paid version, or in some cases outright banning the open source version until they can switch to the paid version. Strange I know.

There are also enterprise sales people for most software to attempt to sell into the org. Not sure if Hashicorp has these or not.

> Do you assume that enterprises that currently use the open-source edition of HasiCorp's product will start paying for support?

Not all, but a lot.

> Why should they if everything went fine till now?

Usually because a VP sees it as a way to get promoted by explaining to his boss that he bought that thing everyone likes now.

> Can you please share from where your experience comes about enterprises?

Years of working with Fortune 500 companies (would not recommend).
I'm sorry, but if you ship something but lock it behind software, don't complain when people want to activate it. It's like games that offer "DLC" that consists of an unlock key for content that's already on the disc.

We should not make it easier for the corporations to abuse us.

And yes, if an indie software developer ships all the DLC and just sells license keys, I would crucify them. It's not "downloadable content" if you don't actually have to download it.

As far as I'm concerned, if it ships, it's considered part of the base product. Don't want people hacking around to get the things you ship but don't want them to access? DON'T SHIP WHAT YOU DON'T WANT THEM TO HAVE WITHOUT PAYING THEN.
I learned it the hard way and now I start with marketing and then I write code if I see interest.
A Texan's social contract is set by local, Texan, and Federal laws. Individual Texans get to vote in various elections, and thus Texans formulate their own social contract. The French do not get votes in those elections, nor are Texans obliged to give a damn what the French think about anything.
I've had a similar experience with systemd itself. While you could go and read through the systemd docs to understand all of its nooks and crannies, you can actually learn the important bits by reading through the source for NixOS's modules (which are linked directly from https://search.nixos.org/options). You start to see patterns of which options they set in the units, and pretty quickly build up the knowledge you need to write your own. This is also aided by the fact that the repository is one giant git repo hosted on GitHub that you can search, clone, tweak, atomically deploy from a local branch. It buys you so much flexibility when experimenting.
He isn't proposing to throw them away, just to chop it, near-instant death.
Sony has patented its PS5 faceplates
eh, some places really do exploit. I can't stomach working for an adtech company. But there are other options.
I tend to overtake cyclists specifically for their safety. I figure that the farther I am from them, the lower a chance of a collision there is. If that holds true, then the only options when encountering one is to slow down and possibly impede other traffic, or speed up, overtake, and move away. This works for single cyclists. Groups would be different, but I've never encountered them.
Perhaps a better comparison should be discrimination on the basis of religion, then.
I eat shrimp and fish because I genuinely believe they are about as intelligent and sentient as a carrot. Octopuseses seem obviously intelligent. Lobsters I do not know. Likely not intelligent and I would stir fry ants. The question for me is how much pain they feel being boiled alive. I am being won over to the viewpoint that there is enough possibility that they feel pain similarly enough to how mammals do that boiling them alive because they taste good with garlic butter is not a good enough reason.
> It can only ever by more efficient when representing a very low subset of values and the alternative binary representation is exceedingly poor.

In almost all cases in practice one is only serializing a very low subset of values. A 1 TB file, no matter how efficient the encoding, could only contain serialization of less than 0.00005% of the possible IEEE 754 double values.
Pretty good discussion of Postgres’ process bottlenecks: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2020/10/08/analyzing-connecti...

Summary: The resource per process issue is isolated to just the transaction isolation mechanism and can likely be improved but you are never getting around the context switching and memory locality issues of the per process model.
I always thought that since the beginning, but unfortunately the world went into another direction. People always said "something you have and something you know", but now for most cases it's just "something you have - your body". Obviously if in the future remote mind-readers are invented, the "something you know" part will also get obsolete, but for now we should stick to it.
I wish the author wouldn't call it a "notebook", because that term already means "laptop". It should probably be called an "e-ink tablet".
The Maker of Mind
Sweden currently has lowest new covid19 cases per capita in Europe
This depends on your train operator. Deutsche Bahn won't even tell you prices to most international destinations (especially those DB doesn't itself service) and asks you to come in in person to one of the few remaining ticket sales booths OR call a hotline.

They happily let you select a train ride from Madrid to Wladivostok, including all intermediary stations ... but you can't buy the ticket. Same for Berlin to Rome.
Software should be written under the assumption that any given port can already be in use.
Agreed. Although I usually hate marketing taglines, I think Django quite realizes its tagline of "The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines."
So does it truly take the level of resources of Microsoft to make a good type system? It’s strange to see TypeScript infect the whole JS world while Python remains fractured at best with regards to type systems
One issue the article didn’t mention is that the regulations around remote prescribing of controlled substances were relaxed during COVID. Under the relaxed rules, prescribers aren’t required to have an in-person evaluation or relationship with a person before prescribing controlled substances.

The (predictable) side effect of this has been an explosion of “pill mill” services that will subscribe controlled substances over a quick video call. I’m honesty not sure how much this is happening with opioids, but I do know of several companies that have appeared during the pandemic with the express purpose of writing people controlled substance prescriptions on a subscription-style basis over remote visits. One person was bragging that they were able to get the maximum recommended dose of a certain controlled substance after a short call with one of these companies.

The companies don’t take insurance. Cash only. It must be a profitable business to quickly rotate through calls, writing prescriptions with only a few minutes of talk before moving on to the next patient. Then the patient returns next month for a refill.

It’s so bad that I received an Instagram ad for one of these services, complete with a Web2.0 stylized landing page that suggested it was easy to get the meds I need without visiting a doctor. It didn’t mention controlled substances explicitly, but it was very clear what they were prescribing and their FAQ made it extremely clear that they could prescribe me controlled substances.

It feels like the FDA is asleep at the wheel again, reminiscent of the precious “pill mill” epidemics not that long ago.
Note: lowest _new_ covid-19 cases. They're more like the middle of the pack, even above average, in _total_ cases per capita.
If they ship some red ones mixed in with the rest in the normal bags, and then go around suing people who say "hey you can get some red ones by just buying regular bags" then they would be ridiculed.
No, it was definitely another one, and it mentioned Arhats. I heard it from a Tibetan teacher in the context of clarification of the origin of some Vinaya rules all monks should obey, so I assume the story comes from a sutra from the Kanjur, but I was unable to locate it in any of the sutras I've read so far (very few, actually).
Astra successfully completed its first commercial orbital launch last night
> Interestingly, U.S. adults were also far more likely to mention religion as a source of meaning in their life when compared to 14 other countries with “advanced economies,” the researchers note in an accompanying post.

No surprise there
My Debug Diary
Well it's not that much better.

Being irrelevant and being hated/laughed at are the same thing essentially.

Meaning they are both something else compared to the desired outcome: being loved and respected.
Since at this point 99.9% [0] of all studies come to the conclusion that climate change is real and man made, can we just use the phrase 'reputable scientist' instead of 'climate change circles'?

[0] https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/10/more-999-studies-ag...
When you live paycheck to paycheck, there is really no room to think about or espouse passion, value, or achievement. Language can be very hierarchical, and often creates barriers to entry between in groups and out groups.

While I understand what you are saying, unless you have some context, the above values are useless to think about and may even be detrimental, unless you have some sort of algebraic commutation of language.

However, if you can evaluate some of these terms in your own life, and find others that also value the same things, and communicate in the same terms in an interview then, yes that may work.
We don't boil cattle, sheep, or chickens alive. They are killed quickly, by law.
It was created by Texans, and will continue to be created by Texans. Asking them to defer to the opinions of dead French philosophers is beyond inane.
I quit in December 2019 (best time for that kind of thing). I had some money put aside and decided to put my time and effort into getting a deeper understanding of ML to find a more meaningful job (my old one was draining me so much).

After a few months it looked like the job perspectives weren't as good during the pandemic so I decided to finish my side project - get some more experience, maybe even earn some side income if all goes well.

After a bit over 1 year working on it on and off I can say it is really hard to stay focused and disciplined when being alone. I feel ashamed (I probably shouldn't) but it seems like I can only be a slave. When working along other people or under a boss I have no problem in getting things done.

I am determined to at least get to the minimum sensible demo to show potential users. It will probably take another few months to make it and if everything looks good, a few more to get to a point where it can be a a solid value proposition.

It really isn't great, I am not diagnosed with any mental illnesses but one day I feel it all is going to be great and help many people, the next day I can see in my mind how its value is seen as minuscule or Windows or Android API changes and kills it off in a year.

Keeping the good mental state and working reliably is very hard.
Discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29296244
It was great! So good in-fact, that I made a point to stop actively looking for work. I'm a contract software architect|developer|consultant|etc.
When one contract ends I do not start looking, as long as I can afford it. Work comes knocking and I take it on if it's too good to refuse.

HOWEVER|BUT|NONETHELESS

This is just me... You will hear a lot of positives about taking the plunge|risk|adventure. I learned the hard way to stop recommending stuff that works for me to other people without heavy disclaimers and caveats. What works for one, does not necessarily works for the other. There are simply too many variables not including the biggest one - yourself.

So, if I was you, and had savings and no dependents, I'd go roam the world "like Cain in Kong-Fu" AND do my own thing while I'm at it. But I'm not you. Nobody is so take everything being said to you here with large grains of crystal salt.
As a real world data point:

I used to do data entry as well (read from another comment) and I also did factory work and dish washing. I am single though so easier than having a family. If you're interested in writing code (solving problems, making things) you can get into it. My path was: self-learning, freelancing, web agency job, SWE job at a corporation. That's about 7 years (3 years to learn, get in somewhere). Doesn't have to take this long, I had personal problems like not having a car or not wanting to learn a framework.

It is hard to get into it, particularly if you don't have the education or experience to substitute (I don't, had incomplete college).

I feel it though, if you don't double/triple/quad your income it's hard to get out if you're just staying even.

What I see are the hot languages to learn are: JavaScript/Python/C++ (depends where you are but every Who's Hiring post on HN has this breakdown). IMO the first two being easier to get into (more opportunity/lower qualifications).

I would say the easiest/fastest thing to get into is some kind of web development eg. PHP/WP or if you're interested going a little further pick up a framework like React that's high in demand. Course need knowledge before that eg. html/css/js. Anyway it can be done... Easier if you can free up time.

At this time I'm still just under $100K/yr though so I'm not at FAANG or anything like that, take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Random thought: if you're trying to come up with alternative ways to make money, you could try some kind of side hustle/gig... there are sites like Indie Hackers where people share their random thing that makes some money. I haven not figured out anything myself but it can give some alternate insight. But a new higher-paying job is more guaranteed to change your life than some idea that may or may not work.

My personal goal is to exit/pursue my own interests after FIRE but I'm far from it atm.
I'm pre-millenial, and for me STDs are definitely a reason to hold slightly back, sexually. Also, not needing to be so careful with condoms is a pretty big plus for many of us that prefer it without for several reasons.

I also look forward to having the serious ones cured.
Chlamydia and gonorrhoea are easy to test for and not too bad if caught early. In Sweden we can just log in to a government health care web site, click a button and get a free test kit sent home.
Having herpes out of the way would be great. HIV/AIDS doesn't seem to be that big of a thing anymore, at least not in my awareness.
Not sure what is then left to be afraid of, except unwanted pregnancies and hurt feelings.
A lot of animals that are eaten are also sentient, not only these three sea creatures.
Center turning with five lanes? wow, that's crazy...
Thanks for this. Unfortunately it is only an abstract and thus is a little short on the details (for instance if they excluded people with Covid infections from their cohort). Also it is difficult to assess if a rise in inflammatory markers would still be considered normal for instance when comparing to other vaccines or not. Compare for instance similar publication of influence vaccine https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15976761/
I'm rebuilding the cloud infra of a company that deploys shared bike systems and that feels like a meaningful reason to get out of bed in the morning. The more effective our solution becomes the more people can be persuaded to cycle rather than drive. This makes cities safer, people healthier and reduces emissions. I've always been an environmentalist so it's satisfying to find a tech job that aligns with my sense of what is important.
I'd expect it to go something like this:

- There are many many languages without classes that make good use of enums

- Doing this refactoring is excessively verbose

- Someone making bold claims like this about a language feature that's never been considered error prone and been around since the beginning ought to provide some really good evidence to back things up.

There's cases where enums are good, and there's cases where polymorphic classes are good. Dismissing one of them by default is wrong, since both are useful at different times.

edit: and the citation there to Martin Fowler et al., Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code doesn't even match the claim being made. That book mentions

- "The first part of this problem is that switch statement. It is a bad idea to do a switch based on an attribute of another object. If you must use a switch statement, it should be on your own data, not on someone else's." -- sure, I agree

- "Often you find the same switch statement scattered about a program in different places. If you add a new clause to the switch, you have to find all these switch, statements and change them. The object-oriented notion of polymorphism gives you an elegant way to deal with this problem." -- fair enough

This is a long way from "enums are a code smell," and honestly feels like padding the citation count. Another thing to note is that the second edition of Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code says:

> Even in our more wild-eyed youth, we were never unconditionally opposed to the conditional. Indeed, the first edition of this book had a smell entitled “switch statements.” The smell was there because in the late 90’s we found polymorphism sadly underappreciated, and saw benefit in getting people to switch over.

> These days there is more polymorphism about, and it isn’t the simple red flag that it often was fifteen years ago.
MyDeepGuide on YouTube has a lot of good reviews on reMarkable and other e-ink devices
You need to leave the current job. It's that simple. Whatever else you do, this job is a huge ball and chain preventing further progress.
Types for Tables: A Language Design Benchmark
I read a suggestion that all these symptoms could also be a product of poisoning.

Microwaves and ultrasound are not just there or not there. Besides all the usual frequencies and amplitudes, and different mixes of those, there is modulation, which can vary in unlimited ways. For example, you can amplitude- modulate microwaves at ultrasound, infrasound, and/or audible frequencies. There are infinitely many other possible modulations harder to describe, simpler ones involving harmonic relations between modulations.

It is traditional among physicists to insist that the only possible effects of electromagnetic fields and radiation is from heating, but this is absurd on its face: practically everything that happens in your body involves ions interacting, usually across membranes. Eyes don't work by light heating your retina. The molecules in your retina, or molecules like them, may appear in any tissue, for any reason. They may respond to photons accidentally, or for some evolved fitness reason which might have nothing to do with how they respond to artificial events.

For many decades it was career death in biology to even mention these things. You couldn't publish papers about them; trying made you unable to get grants. George Becker author of "The Body Electric", somehow got a free pass, working for the US Veterans Administration, where he demonstrated systematic effects of sub-nanoampere current on healing processes. (I attended a talk by an American biologist who was presenting in Hungary in 1987 because she could not at US conferences.) The chill on such work has not dissipated.

So Sabine is only barely scratching the surface of what might be happening.
Would only work for the current generation of drivers.

Maybe we could add a few zeroes each few years? So in some decades they'll be driving ultra fast at 25000 meters per hour? ;)
This just seems to me that another new attack vector has been added to messaging. We can make messaging more insecure but fun.
It's also quite easy to swap out the templating engine for whatever front end framework that you'd like to use. Django provides tons of value even when used solely as an API server and ORM.
Network application.

The CPU probably works on just one endianess and convert the data format when reading from memory. The overhead is on kepping track when to do it. But Im speculating, havent looked into this.
Modern enums in languages with powerful compilers are one of my favourite features and I repeatedly find them to be a marker of high quality codebases.

In Python there has historically been a strong tendency to use strings as enums, which combined with Python's generally weak typing, can lead to all sorts of issues.

I also write a fair bit of Swift at the moment, and in Swift codebases I've found that plenty of use of enums, particularly those with attached values, leads to easy to use and correct code, as well as quite concise code. It's much better than codebases that go hard on classes.
Even for that it's not safe if anyone can bypass it with a $5 trick. It's definitely a thumb idea
Would you mind detailing why you think KDE isn't?

I'm no fanboy and have no dog in this DE fight, just curious.
If houses are guaranteed to have their own charger, surely that reduces pressure on the public infrastructure for people who don't have their own charger?
The Growing Specialization of Product Management
> it tries all possible constructors of a type

It tries a 'reasonable' number. If you want to try everything, have a look at SmallCheck.

I would imagine you would want to combine Beartype with tests, too. Perhaps written manually, or with test data generated via Hypothesis.
> We don’t need these animals to survive.

But it's my culture to consume them. My people have lived this way for thousands of years and I intend on continuing it and teaching my children our traditions. It connects me to our shared history and it connects me to the Earth. I am a natural being on this planet and part of the lifecycle. Consumption of meat is a part of that. Cooking meat over open fire with smoke and the aromas filling my lungs means something to me.

I don't want to change my culture to another way of living that I am disconnected from. I understand there are many cultures that don't eat meat and I respect that and wouldn't try and change them to eat meat. But it isn't mine and I intend on living the way I believe that god, or the universe, intended me to live.
I quit in May of this year. I don't regret it, but starting to feel like maybe it wasn't the best financial decision. I'm not very good with finances and I didn't really adjust my lifestyle, so I dwindled my savings quite a bit more than I wanted.

On the other hand, I did a bunch of sweat equity work for a startup and now own almost 10% of the company. So I'm thinking of it as an investment. A risky, not-very-well-thought-out investment, but still.
Over the last 25 years or so, there have been at least a dozen announcements of the latest miracle cure that works to repair spinal cord injury in mice. To date, none of them have translated to human efficacy. It's almost a meme at this point - like net-positive fusion being only ten years away. There appears to be a fundamental difference between mice and human nervous system injury repair modes that leads to early confidence. The spinal cords in mice essentially repair themselves if you so much as ask nicely.

The real litmus test for claims of effective spinal cord repair treatments is primate testing. If you see mice and not chimps, the treatment is probably a dead end.

Not to say this research doesn't have value - I fully support continued and rigorous research in this area - but hyperbolic claims like: "it works in mice, so it should also work in humans" aren't helping the cause.