skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree so strongly with this. There's a pervasive fallacy in the industry that things that aren't quantifiable, or are hard to quantify, can't be real or true. It's just wrong: they can be very true, and often such things are deeply true but whole organizations are ignoring them because they haven't found a convenient way to shoehorn them into their KPIs / OKR framework / whatever.

Yes, it is often the case that product managers have no concern about the code quality. No, the problem is not that N days aren't given for QA. If the product managers talk to the engineers, they will get a sense of the problem. If they work as colleagues they will be in this sort of discussion all the time. When a product is implemented, they'll keep talking, and they'll be aware that the major corners are being cut, and they'll understand that that puts it at risk. Then they can make better decisions to avoid this.

If they have that information and still make the wrong decisions, then they have perverse incentivizes or are behaving maliciously to the business.

And if they try to reduce the intuition and professional opinions of their engineering team to some numbers -- estimates, QA lead times, bug counts -- which are pitched over the wall, badly summarizing actual expertise -- then they will fail, badly, over time, because that is a nonsensical way to work.

Good decision-making and leadership, imo, don't need you to have found ways to quantify things, and your time is often better spent doing good work than waiting for things to be put into numbers. Quantification helps, sometimes.

"If it isn't measurable, how can you make the needed changes? " Doesn't that question sound absurd? You make the needed changes! What does measurability have to do with it?
-> This means I have zero control over what dictates my daily actions in life.

OTOH, having a mortgage "locks in" your price of housing for the next ## years. It's perfect for families and startup businesses because it affords some long term stability.

It doesn't sound like you're ready to settle down yet, so buying a SFH probably isn't the best move right now anyway.
Rent is never zero -- you still have to pay property taxes, which looks a lot like rent.
Which is true with a number of major cities. The Bay Area being something of an outlier in part because of geography.

But, for example, while Boston/Cambridge are very pricey in general as are some of the more exclusive suburbs with good school systems, there's almost certainly housing in that general range within an hour drive (or even on a commuter rail).
Median household income in the US is about $67k, where many of the households include two or more income earners. The homeownership rate for millennials though lower is still over 40%. How are they making it work, indeed. They just live in different places, places that we don't think are good enough. Maybe this is a prison that we have built for ourselves. I think I'm smart for seeing through Cartier ads and other luxury marketing tactics, but I think I've been sold on an idea just as unattainable.
Exactly. So many times making your own framework/language/library is how you get promoted.
Product managers should be rewarded on keeping the rate of change low for user interfaces. It does not seem like that is the case currently.
I remember a conversation I had with a taxi driver in La Jolla in January 2002. I asked how a taxi driver could buy a house. He laughed and said you shouldn't be a taxi driver if you want to buy a house there, because the cheapest piece of junk was $400,000.
This is fantastic and obviously not what I expected at all. Im totally going to file this under 'wisdom to remember for the rest of my life' thanks for posting!
I used to live in Michigan, where we have a thing we call the "Michigan left". To turn right at an intersection, you continue straight through the intersection, then take a left turn at gap in the median to return to the intersection from the other side of the boulevard and proceed to make a right turn.

I'd be interested in what the trade-offs are. I imagine space usage is a big one.
If they are security risks, why are they not removed?
> We are not supposed to criticize the gods of technology.

The downvotes are coming as expected.
Elon Musk Demanded Cameras over Radar in Self-Driving Cars
Wasn't it designed for sending sensor data from oil wells spread out over vast swaths of land or something? I've always though of it as shortwave/vhf for packets
You do get lower interest rates on shorter-term mortgages, though.
Yeah but closing costs are lost at time of sale, so for short term situations buying a home isn't a great move.
Am I? I don’t have a horse in this race.

I responded because I felt the “Did anyone really think” comment was arrogant and dismissive. I provided examples where a layperson could easily reach that conclusion.
Well, but is it wrong? Even you knew which gender is less likely to like bare baseboard with chips sticking out. Do you expect people to actively disregard their lived experience?
Photographers have absolutely not gone away, at least not in the wedding industry.
I agree. The second you take any donation, you can't use the excuse of "I'm doing this work for free. Leave me alone if you don't like it" because at that point you aren't doing it for free. While you don't necessarily "owe" donors anything, that won't really matter because in their eyes, you were paid to do work, and you didn't do it.
That's like saying humans don't have to eat because you haven't been hungry in the last minute.
In addition to a lot of the recos here, Gene Zelazny's "Say it with charts" is an old school book that a manager of mine had us read in concert with Tufte. It's a good simple primer on charts.
Ask HN: What's the best way to keep my Mac secure?
I know hn has a pretty low opinion of antivirus software. Is XProtect and a skeptical view towards links and software enough to keep it secure, or should I do something else?
> perhaps you just _don't want to be doing whatever you're doing_

There’s a balancing act between doing things that need to get done and doing things that you want to do. Too much of the former is miserable for you. Too much of the latter is miserable for everybody else.

I’ve had to go to bat for people to work on things that maybe aren’t the absolute most efficient short term use of our resources because working on it will make them either happy or less unhappy. But only rarely can I state it so plainly, so I often wonder what takeaways people are coming to.
Why do people put up with these tiny homes in cramped, expensive cities?

There are lots of inexpensive cities with incredible housing inventory. Cities that are surrounded by culture, cuisine, and an endless assortment of things to do.

Big city prices are driven by offices. You're going to be working remotely anyway.

Atlanta, Charlotte, Miami, Austin, Chattanooga, Savannah. You can draw a $300-500k salary living in these places, pay a low mortgage, and buy a second or third home for travel / rent.
Bitcoin creator Craig Wright 100% Satoshi Nakamoto, says Kleiman vs. Wright jury
>For example, if you bought a house, it would have to lose $72K value in 2 years or $144K in 4 years (minus inflation, taxes, maintenance) to break even with paying $3000/month rent.

You're not factoring in transaction costs, maintenance, property taxes, and cost of capital (ie. the downpayment). Transaction costs (eg. relators) are 2.5% on each side, so after buying/selling you're already down 5%. Property taxes and maintenance are estimated to be 1% each, so over 4 years you're down 8%. The cost of capital is hard to quantify, especially if you also factor in appreciation, but housing has historically under-preformed the stock market, so that should theoretically be a non-zero cost there.

Suppose we ignore cost of capital (since that's hard to quantify), let's calculate what that % equates to. According to [1] the price to rent ratios is many cities exceed 30. If we use a price to rent ratio of 30, then a $3000/month rent translates to a house price of $1.08M. Factoring in the % costs from before, that's a cost of $140.4k. That's nearly as big as the $144k loss that you budgeted for, before factoring in drop in home price. The maintenance/property taxes alone is going to eat up more than half of your hypothetical $3000 in rent savings.

[1] https://smartasset.com/mortgage/price-to-rent-ratio-in-us-ci...

>However, if your house appreciates as most do in highly industrialized areas, you basically get paid to live there.

but that's the same force that makes housing unaffordable.
> I've known Elementary School teachers make very strong cases that it is time we bring back the common usage of the diareses in English to denote dipthongs versus syllable breaks.

The ship of regular relations between orthography and pronunciation in English has not merely sailed, but also been torpedoed, sunk, buried in the muck at the bottom, and fossilized.

Diareses won't bring it back, or even measurably move the needle.

> For instance in Windows today the diaresis versions of most vowels is relatively easily inputted from the emoji soft-keyboard/IME in Windows 10+ (Win+. or Win+; your choice, to open) under the Math/Symbols tab (denoted by an Omega Ω) and the "Accents" sub-tab denoted by a cedilla ç (our friend from façade).

Navigating through three submenus from a pop-up menu is not a “relatively easy” way to input a character.

Even if you prefer the English (US) keyboard layout generally, it's easier to enable the English (International) layout, Ctrl-Shift to switch to it, type " followed by a character for which the diaresis is supported to get the accented character and Ctrl-Shift to return to the US English keyboard than to use the Emoji tool.
Really? They actually still test Firefox?
Tweeting Behavior of S&P 1500 Firms’ Executives (CEOs and CFOs)
This is overly pedantic.

It's like correcting someone for saying lightning struck something on the ground, even though the current starts on the ground and "strikes"up at the sky. Even though the ground is "pushing" the lighting bolt up to the sky, it's the conditions of the sky that led to the ground push the current upwards.
No, most churn comes from company-driven FOSS, especially around devops stuff.

Among other reasons, they use churn as a way to control the userbase and prevent successful fork.

> FOSS, on the other hand, does not have bosses or owners...

Corporate-driven OSS has plenty.
Housing prices were one reason I didn't move out to the Bay Area in the 1990s--at a time when salaries in the tech industry were nothing particularly remarkable relative to engineering salaries elsewhere.
>Places like SV or Seattle or London are places you go to and make money in (and then leave)

AND THEN LEAVE is the part most people forget.

Switch to a remote company (yes, take a pay cut if you have to), use your millions to buy a $500k home (essentially a mansion) in any mid-tier city (Indianapolis, Houston, Dallas, Cleveland, Oklahoma City, etc.) and use the savings as a nice little investment / nest egg, you can have more kids if you want, or just enjoy being rich.
This architecture is IMHO simpler - you do not have any MQTT server or server for „hosting a new firmware”. You directly deploy new software like in a „standard workflow” where you send build artifacts to something with a public IP (in this example „public IP” is provided to ESP32 by Husarnet VPN)
Ask HN: How many AWS accounts does your organisation have?
I was recently in a discussion with what I consider like-minded individuals. The conversation happened upon AWS accounts and how one should structure it (besides running it in an AWS Organisation... that is a no-brainer).

One side of the discussion meant that one should limit the amount of AWS accounts one had, due to the risk of account sprawl.

The other side meant that one should not impose such a restriction, as AWS accounts come with no cost and tools exists for managing them.

Now, I am convinced that one should use AWS accounts to house individual workloads if possible. There are of course exceptions to this, but overall I think it's the right way to do it. With the soft limitations AWS puts in place on the number of VPCs and such, I get the feeling that AWS feels the same way. They also seem to mention something about using accounts as security barriers in their best practices.

I'm also convinced that plenty of organisations deal with hundreds, if not thousands of AWS accounts on a daily basis without too much issue. Now, I have no data to back this up, hence why I submitted this.

Could people, in rough estimates, answer this simple questions: How many AWS accounts does your organisation have?

50, 100, 200, 500, 1000, 1000+?

I've been in organisations with ~500 and in organisations with ~50.
It's not religious, it's political—it's not inviting an argument over religion, but clarification for which Christian group might have thought they actually had a hope of the government accepting their religious exception, since those are normally subject to fairly intense scrutiny—this is either a real thing, which needs clarification to be understood, or totally normal government behavior being cast as exceptional in order to advance, essentially, a lie.

Which, fine, maybe politics is a bad topic for HN, too (and yet, the front page on most days...) but in that case you're addressing the wrong poster. Getting onto someone for pushing back (in, I think, straightforward, but not harsh or provocative, terms, in this case) on a shitty post is missing the mark, IMO, and is part of why HN is very vulnerable to certain kinds of shitposting/trolling—if you can fly just under the radar, enforcement will fall on posters trying to police your shittiness (or, in this case, just trying to make sense of a bad post), not on you directly, which is is a classic effect trolls aim for.

(Please don't take any of this as personal—I'm sure this stuff's hard on the best of days, and you can never please everyone, and it's entirely possible I'm dead wrong about all this, and we're all just trying to get through the day in a complex world, and I'm very sure I'd be overall much worse at what you do than you are)
Recently visited LA with wife, not the first time, but I had to joke, "This is a city where the weak can't drive - only the strong-willed will survive and make it to their destination!"

FWIW I did make it to the hotel, though emotionally scarred.
If that's hard to visualize: https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/tctimes.com/con...
housing is not stocks, thus you cant think like a house is a stock. They are a leveraged investment that lacks the price discovery and liquidity stocks provide.

imagine a 1m$ house. you have to put 200k$ down into a single house (no diversification). A 10% decline means a 50% decline on that 200k. selling it takes days to months with usually at least 6% fees. So this thing is highly illiquid. so its not like stocks where you can say 'well just buy and hold'.

given that they dislike Seattle, Seattle is as bubbly as ever, there is a new condo in construction on every other block, and things like the mayor saying 'we are not going to enforce the law in favor of safety towards the protestors', purchasing a home in Seattle is a scary idea.

Also another issue with Seattle its not like you can buy and rent out. a typical home that costs 3500$/month to own will only rent for max 2500$. so you have to be in something thats 1k$/month cash flow negative. even if you are networth positive, that may be unsustainable for the individual
Let's say your immutable DAG has four different 'transformations' (think either a map or a fold on the data). Beam or Spark will take a chunk of your data, partition it somehow (so you get parallelism), and do a transform on the data.

Now if you're doing a bunch of computations off of tens or hundreds machines you don't want to fail the whole thing because one hypervisor crashes or there's a JVM segfault or whatnot. So each step is usually saved to disk via checkpoint and then moved along to the next transformation in batches, so if the subsequent transfomation is where it dies, you have a safe spot to restart that particular computation from.

In addition, your (chunk of) data might need to be shipped to an additional machine to be transformed so you're not so much 'updating' data as you are creating new data in a space efficient way of the changes and shuffling those along the various steps.
I bought this unit just ~2 weeks ago? https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/foernuftig-air-purifier-black-6...

So I haven't had chance to change filters yet.

Yeah, but it has high outgoing airflow, so I suppose it shakes up dust for me. It changes to red pretty fast when starting to cook, then hours, hours to bring it down.
> But if you go to the m subdomain on a desktop device, there's no easy way to get to the desktop version without manually changing the URL.

You may find humour in the comically small "desktop" link at the very end of the page, next to the privacy policy.
Such a harsh move especially right before the holiday. These decisions don’t happen over night so the company could have made indications that change may be coming and to prepare. Only US employees are getting 4 weeks severance but those from India nothing. No morals at this company I would not support them.
Even if 2 went away and zoning didn't exist, you would still have the banal, inane mountains of bureaucratic spaghetti that slow the process down every step it can, so some of that would have to go as well. AFAIK, one of the main reason California has such a large housing shortage isn't NIMBYs or zoning laws, there's plenty of space after all, but ass-backwards regulations, and stupid politics.

Builders want to build. Let's make it easier for them to do that.
Ethereum's javascript API was named web3. It enables people to login with their wallet anywhere. From there it exploodes to a universe of possibilities.
If you create an account, you can change the appearance to look a lot like OP’s, but a lot lighter and without the plugin.

To be honest, while this looks pretty, it’s really just Wikiwand 2.0.
TBF we had the olympics in Nazi Germany so it's not like this is breaking some existing streak of IOC virtue.
Per GDPR, nearly anything you for which you get consent is legal. As your quote shows: a purpose must relate to a legal basis, and one of the legal bases is consent.

Was there actual consent? Unlikely, but I can't read the German in that clip explaining what's going on with these companies.
Wow, it's much more readable (though a bit disjointed):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing#History

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatique#Histoire
That just sounds like you're being taken for a ride
The other alternative is to just pay for the house cash. Not everyone wants to be beholden to someone (in debt just to live). Sounds awful.
This is a type of common HN post. Where the person posting is going over well known knowledge. Others that are similar are "I wrote a compiler." and "I made a emulator." Usually they are subsets of the problem space and sometimes quite often don't demonstrate any expert knowledge of the subject. Perfectly fine personal projects, but hard to understand why they're worth blogging about.

And FWIW, DNS absolutely propagates in a push fashion in circumstances where people are running large DNS installations with multiple authoritative servers.
How many engineers who write code daily

How many engineers who can veto business decisions

How many engineers at the C level and VP level

How many engineers who do management

How many non-engineers who do management

How many from computer science and how many from bootcamps

What percentage of the equity belong to engineers

What percentage of the equity belong to non-engineers who are not investors
Looks like baby boomers retiring is what's fueled this decline for the last 20 years or so, and the pandemic has forced people to reevaluate their situation.

I'd be shocked if we got back up to pre-pandemic participation barring a WWII style extreme scenario.
> And these are still the only talking points you have.

Dude, I'm not even trying to argue in favor of crypto in this thread. My point was critics will never be satisfied by proponents' arguments because they don't value the one thing blockchains do, which is arrest control from central parties. And here you are, saying it's a solution in search of a problem (i.e. it adds no value) and making arguments like

> reverting transactions, enforcing contracts, guaranteeing safety of funds etc. etc.

which is exactly what I said you would come back with. Because when you don't value decentralization, the lack of centralized control looks like nothing but downsides. Thank you for proving my point.

> don't bother to reply.

It's no bother :^)
We once had a black man come to one of our city council meetings to propose a new housing development near the school. He left after multiple people called him the n-word.

My friends who were gay and came out in high school were harassed.

It is out there. You just don't care.
Surprised to see a quality post on Medium. I'd be interested to know why the author chose Medium?
Hams around the world are already bouncing signals off the moon with a lot less power and gain, using modern signal processing techniques.
When I pin a browser to the left or right side of one of my monitors, these sites will often go into mobile mode despite the fact that the browser is still wide enough that desktop mode works fine, merely because the window is now taller than it is wide. And I find that incredibly annoying.
It seems like it punishes those that are saving for the future.

Like, why plan ahead when you can just go into huge amounts of debt. Seems pretty short sighted and yet these decisions are the ones that are rewarded.
Because the international olympic committee is quite possibly the most corrupt sporting organization on the planet, which is saying something when FIFA exists.
> China has an overwhelming array of surface to air missiles

False, China has at most 10 long to medium range air defence regiments, most near its capital.

For everything else, China's SAMs are outranged even by glide bombs.

> China has an estimated 300+ nuclear warheads; potentially more

That's obviously not enough to blunt even a quarter of US military potential, even if they have many times the number of missiles, or can launch them all in a surprise attack.
Can you elaborate on why this is a good metric? It sounds plausible, but I don't understand why.
No they would not do this. Why would they want to hit the spoof bid?
Propagation is just cache expiration under time reversal symmetry
The default MediaWiki theme is available, along with a handful of others, if you create an account.
Oh hai people who used to work at UBNT. From reading your responses here (and elsewhere) it definitely seems our paths did not cross, but the shared sense of Schadenfreude is good and strong :)
It's not about asking them how to design a chip, it's about them providing the tools needed to go from a Verliog design to something they can manufacture.
> To turn right at an intersection

Pretty sure you mean 'to turn left'
I had a completely irrational dislike for the division. You could use a loop, but then you were wasting >3/4ths of your cycles on shifting and branching. If you had the misfortune to have the compiler generate division code, it'd usually fill the branch delay slot with a NOP as well. The solution was simply to stick 8/16/32 division instructions in a row, but that felt inelegant. I spent a day writing some silly routine that averaged ~22 cycles over 32 bit integers just because it annoyed me so much.