skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a pretty good thing, certainly promising: IoT protocols are by definition accessible to the general public which gives a lot of potential for future developments. Surely not with LoRa in particular, given the microscopical size of the payloads but the fact that it is possible is really promising. Just a decade ago, this would have been unthinkable for any hobbyist. Hell, even the prices of sdr's a decade ago were off the charts and today a semi-decent one to get you started costs a few bucks.
Whoa, thanks.

However, that link is totally in the wrong place, no wonder I could not find it. I just assumed there was no such link/button and always angrily removed the 'm.' from each URL.
> I suspect that a weak version of Sapir-Whorf is in play. It is difficult to describe the equation in prose. The limitations of natural language handicap us in our efforts to defend against the pathology it exemplifies.

I love the fact that you gave it as a parametric equation but I think at least a sense could be given in English "When something is spiraling towards a goal (think a bit of fluff going down a drain or a spinning coin slowly settling) you can find it simultaneously going faster and faster while still always taking longer than you expect to get there."

Or, to quote Art Garfunkle:

>But the ending always comes at last
>Endings always come too fast
>They come too fast
>But they pass too slow
I guess you're not talking about some well-executed surgical strike to take out the leadership? Because Ho Chi Minh, Giap and other NV leaders were moving around the country with impunity throughout the war, and the US never came close to working out where they were or taking them out, so poor was their intelligence.

So yeah, the US could have won by going nuclear, as Nixon briefly considered at Khe Sanh. But that wouldn't have turned the war, he would have had to escalate to nuking Hanoi. And destroying an entire population to effect regime change is not really "winning" in any sense of the word.

There was nothing simple about winning in Vietnam, and the US was never in any position to crush the North.
> ...Is this rate of change supportable?

This is hard to project, as there is no definitive target, most of the changes that you describe are more like operational in their nature. Basically, it's an equivalent of planned obsolescence.

Most of people can still operate hand screwdrivers, and have the job done, yet their preferred tool now may be powered.

There are benefits, of course, and most don't bother noticing these transitions, as they may be occupied with higher level of problem solving.

Another factor is that in software there's no really "ideal" form. Same material ideas can be shuffled ad infinitum, as in collidoscope, creating different feature combinations and looks. Perhaps, you did get to see quite a few and no longer feel excited with the rolls.

But even for younger folks there have been many transitions in short time, like the fast pace of smartphone changes just in a less than 10 years. Maybe younger minds are more adaptable to quick changes.
Indeed - inflation is an aggregate measure and it definitely doesn’t apply equally across all individuals, in terms of impact.

Recognizing my own privilege here, for me, for example, many of my expenses are fixed: student loans and mortgage take the lion’s share of our monthly cash flow after taxes and retirement. Neither of those are indexed to inflation so if this drives higher cost of living increases, it’s a net win for me, in all likelihood.
What an awful article. Two quotes to show how garbage this is-

> The great-resignation thesis seems strongest in America and Britain. In September a record 4.4m Americans quit their jobs (see chart 1). In the third quarter of the year nearly 400,000 Britons moved from one job to another after handing in their notice, also the highest-ever level.

> In other parts of the rich world, however, a great resignation is harder to spot.

So basically the premise of their title is that the "Great Resignation" doesn't count because it's primarily happening in two countries instead of in every country.
If there was a dataset that solved a problem sufficiently (perception, self driving, whatever), there would be no more need for any study of that field (other than for marginal improvements).

Once solved, these no longer are research areas. Getting X score on a Y validation set means you get your s/w drivers license.
My furnace blower isn't in use any longer, but it has connections for varying speeds, 6, I think. It only uses 1, though. I'm unsure of how it would even be used in practice, as it appears it's just various voltages. Ideally furnace blowers would be inverter ran so you could just tell the inverter how fast to run the fan, rather than changing the supply voltage.

Mine was a 3.5 ton HVAC, I replaced it with a five head, five and a half ton "mini split"; while the split air has had it's share of issues (like, I got a full refund of the purchase price a few months ago due to manufacturing defects of the copper lines), I prefer having air handling done bear the ceiling and using 20x20x1 inch filters on box fans (or fancy filters if those are your style) on the floor. The mini split has the inverter driven motors everywhere, and is completely silent during normal use.

I have two AQM, and occasionally one or the other will register high CO2 or whatever and I will open a couple of windows and run exhaust fans (built in to the home) to cycle the air, it takes about 20 minutes. The main furnace style system did no filtering or air quality management.
I'm in my early 40s and sometimes feel like I'm in my late 60s fumbling through idiotic interfaces and not making any sense of it all. No offense to anyone in their late 60s, based on my cognitive decline I approximate where'd be in my late 60s if I make it that far. The intuition I have accrued over the decades of computing is becoming not only useless but a hinderance. I know what things should have been and the frustration of re-learning the new version du jour of a new interface slow me down tremendously.
Regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are, it's not ok to break the site guidelines like this, so I've banned the account. Could you please not create accounts to break HN's rules with?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The "Great Resignation" has been fueled by anecdotes and a tiny upward tick in the underlying data.

If you go looking, it's not hard to find comments, anecdotes, and stories from people whose workplaces did experience some sort of large resignation event where a lot of people went out and got new jobs.

The common theme in those anecdotes is always that they were underpaid and/or mistreated to begin with. In some ways, the "Great Resignation" news stories being blasted all over the news gave a lot of people the final push they needed to go out and look for new jobs. Combined with the booming economy, it wasn't hard for these people to find better jobs. Once their coworkers realized what was happening, they also made the leap.

So in a sense, it does appear that small pockets of employers who were behind the curve are finally getting what's coming to them. I half believe the news stories about "Great Resignation" stuff became a self-fulfilling prophecy where everyone who wasn't getting a new job felt left out.

But if you look at any larger company data or at companies who were smart enough to keep pace with compensation and employee treatment norms, there isn't really a wave of resignations like the news stories suggest.

Overall employee turnover is slightly higher than normal, unless you also factor in the decrease in employee turnover during early COVID, at which point the running average of employee turnover is all that abnormal.
Agreed with most of this stuff, but search on / (and even ctrl-f on some websites!) is horrible because it overrides the browser's shortcuts. When I press / I expect the Firefox quick find bar to come up, complete with highlighting and markers in the scrollbar and ctrl-{shift}-g to move between results and esc to exit search. Not some half baked JS search implementation or an unrelated search like in this extension - it searches for wiki pages, not text within the current page.

Fortunately this is pretty simple to disable with Greasemonkey (also 's' on github, though the userscript doesn't seem to work on Gitlab...).
Remote work will simultaneously be our salvation, and the downfall of overpriced lawless dumps all over the world
> It's OK to use m.* subdomains instead of reactive design but there should at least be redirects to the correct subdomains.

I agree, although in the case of Wikipedia the "mobile" design is actually the one that is responsive. I want the "mobile" design on all browsers including my desktop. I believe you can actually set your default theme if you're logged into Wikipedia, but I don't know if their cookies eventually expire or what, but I often end up clicking on Wikipedia links and getting the awful "desktop" design.

All of this is just to say that, yes, they shouldn't use separate "m." URLs, but it's just as wrong to get upset at mobile users sharing "m." URLs as it is to get upset at desktop users sharing URLs without the "m." Arguably if you expect all users to always share the most versatile URL, you should expect them to always share the "m." URL since it has a responsive design.
Telling recruiters what I'd expect from a salary, and then never hearing from them again, is something that I consider a feature, not a bug.

It means I'm not getting nagged by recruiters weekly. I still get a new one every month or two, but the frequency is much more manageable now.
Iteration is just a special case of tail recursion.
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I would have to imagine that tracks similar to the "K" shaped economy recovery. This means that lower pay physically based positions [retail, travel, food] have seen great amounts of people leaving those industries as Government stimulus checks have given people time and money to think about their jobs, many are also leaving the industry permanently if they can.

On the flip side higher payed professional positions are seeing some turnover but no where anywhere like the other lower paid sectors.

I know for a fact that the restaurant/food service situation is on full meltdown mode in Southern California. A few panda expresses have run out rice. Multiple Habit burgers have shut down due to lack of staff, eating out at restaurants have been the worse I have ever seen it as everyone is really new and it shows.

That being said I have been to a lot of places in the country this year(Utah, Arizona, Hawaii) and nothing is similar to what I've seen locally in southern California so it may track to how expensive California has become and could be people are quitting jobs in expensive areas and moving to cheaper ones.
Looking clean. One thing that bothers me when the width slider is adjusted to the highest two settings - content in the main #content element runs right against the navigation scrollbar (#wiki_contents). #content needs at least an extra 20px of padding (to 340px or 360px) on the left at the second highest width setting (5) to give it some separation, and 40px (to 360px) at highest width setting (6) to match the alternative right-side padding introduced at that level.
Thanks for sharing! I love system-ui and this is my first time hearing of this -- will definitely reconsider.
Yes, and no. If you are paying for a $400k house in 2005 dollars with a 2021 salary the inflation is all good (bring it on). All the squawking about inflation is annoying and often wrong (gentle inflation like we are seeing is good for the common person). If you are sitting on piles of cash from yesteryear you become less wealthy--not counting gains from interest income or stock price appreciation.

Who doesn't like inflation? I love it when the market makes my existing debt cheaper.
The transition is already happening. WSL2 on Windows 11 runs X11 and Wayland apps.

Full linux exprience on Windows Server Core is just one release away.

See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-a...
Buy to let, property speculation, property as investment.

Basically, houses are being used to serve profiteering much moreso than actually housing people affordably.
Both Cold War superpowers considered some variant of using nuclear weaponry for subterranean engineering in their "peaceful atom" projects. For example soviets actually used a nuke to put out a gas well fire: https://interestingengineering.com/soviet-engineers-detonate...
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Yea, there's many similar strategies out there :)

Try it out, I'm sure you can change your habits and make it work!
I'd guess you could use assigned names and location patterns to get a decent sense of what the tile is attached to. If it's on someone's keyring for example it's probably outside as much as their phone is. Then if the user has denied location tracking on their phone it becomes available through another route.
I mean at my job we only had 1 QA engineer leave out of all staff in engineering since COVID triggered lockdowns
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a vastly underrated book. It was decades ahead of its time.
> Having used both extensively, I'd say that there's a lot of knowledge when using mysql that's basically "introducing complexity into your application and query pattern to work around the optimiser being terrible at doing the sensible thing" and then there's lots of knowledge when administrating postgresql that's "having to pick and choose lots of details about your topology and configuration because you get a giant bag of parts rather than something that's built to handle the common cases out of the box".

This completely maps to my experience as well. I still believe Postgres' defaults being set to use an absolute minimum footprint, especially prior to PostgreSQL 9, significantly impacted it's adoption. It's better now, although IMO it could still do with an easier configuration where you could flag the install as dev/shared or prod/standalone to provide more sensible settings for the most common situations. Like, gosh, I'd like to be able to stand up an instance and easily tell it to use 90% of the system memory instead of 100 MB or whatever it was.

But the MySQL issues were much worse. Outer join and subquery problems, the lack of functions like ROW_NUMBER(), a a default storage engine that lacked transactions and fsync(), foreign keys that don't do anything, etc. I've met so many people who think MySQL limitations are RDBMS limitations, or don't understand database fundamentals because MySQL just didn't implement them properly. Then again, I also remember when the best reason to use MySQL was the existence of GROUP_CONCAT(), which everything else lacked for religious reasons.

I also vividly remember prior to MySQL 5.5 when new users of PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MS SQL Server would discover that, instead of making a guess for what you wanted, the RDBMS would actually return error messages and expect you to understand and solve them deterministically. And somehow they would be angry about it! Old MySQL (mostly 3.3, but 4.0 and 4.1, too) used to silently truncate data, or allow things like February 31 in a date field, or silently allow non-deterministic GROUP BY, or only reporting warnings when you explicitly asked for them really undermined the perception of MySQL to database folks. This wasn't that long ago, either.
It should come with an optional Plan 9 from Bell Labs UI theme ;-)
My career was C, Java, PHP, JavaScript.

I like JS the most.

It's flexible, lightweight, and omnipresent.

The only other mainstream language that gives me that feeling is Rust.
Sounds like he's coming unhinged that his payday didn't get here quite soon enough and he got stuck holding his own bag.
I don't get this. If you want it to be narrower, make your browser window narrower. And by the way, you don't need an extension for the rest of the stuff, either. Wikipedia already supports per-user custom styling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:User_style
> or you make several of these apps

Yes, this.

Investing all your energy into features none of your users want for an existing app is a waste of energy for you and an annoyance for the users.

And maintaining the backend of a SaaS can mean more operations busywork for you, compared to a standalone application.

Build something new people actually want.
Nice product execution!

If you want to provide easy onboarding for users to search & select episodes, we've got a podcast search api: https://www.listennotes.com/api/
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Doesn't seem to work with this link, for some reason. Installed the add-on, reloaded the page, and it's still paywalled.
Well, there is a rather straightforward explanation: virtualization extensions did not exist, and in fact would not exist for another 5 years at least.

Actually, now that I think of it, having KVM capable of running real mode DOS is a rather recent development. Looking at you, AMD, but even early Intel VT-x didn't get it right until 2010ish (Westmere).

Anyway, dosemu2 does exactly that (use KVM to run a lightweight kernel that just enters vm86).
So this all sucks, and you're in a rough situation, and I sympathasize, and I'm not trying to tell you not to complain or that it's under your control. I think you wrote that well in a way that is aware of a lot of what's going on and your position.

BUT. "where does this leave the majority of this country?" -- well, the majority of the country does not have as crazy a real estate market as Seattle, as far as paying ~$1.5 mil for a dump where you're basically just paying for the land. That is not most of the country.

So... have you considered moving elsewhere? Even if you take a salary drop, you can probably wind up ahead overall with cost of living, especially if buying a home is a main goal you have. Of course, you won't get to live in Seattle. Seattle is awfully nice, it's true. But maybe you can afford a nice home and without working 60 hour weeks either.

But as far as "where does this leave the majority of this country" -- definitely not in the insane Seattle or San Francisco (or other "hot" cities with tech money) real estate market, is where.

Where I live (on the east coast even, but in a disinvested non-top-tier city) you can easily get a perfectly liveable no-repairs-needed if modest-sized ~1300 sq ft townhome for $200K, or easily a nice detached larger home in a "good" neighborhood for $500K. which I almost don't want to talk about, becuase if the tech money comes here, maybe that won't last.

But there's plenty of the country that's not on the coasts and is not Austin or Boulder or something, that is like this or even cheaper.

(And, as we both know, there are also plenty of people in even these cities who don't make nearly as much as you or I, and have trouble affording a home in them too!)
I can relate to your modest living. Time to leave seattle. Not all privilege is financial, we are generally fortunate (assuming you are a programmer) to be able to work remote, especially with the post covid market. There are still places in the country where housing is affordable that aren't in the middle of nowhere.

This anxiety over housing seems to be primarily limited to select cities.
A lot of the mentioned tools are fuzzers[1], these are tools that start from certain input(s), say "SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE some_column = some_value", and repeatedly

1- mutates[2] the input,

2- measures some metric of the database's performance (e.g. how many non-syntax errors it spat out)

3- and introduces more or less mutations to increase or decrease that metric.

In short, an evolutionary computation where the population being generated is test code, the fitness function is some metric summarizing how the generated test code tested the db code, and mutation operators gradually pushes the generated test code towards a certain optima that we want our tests to have.

This is an extremely general approach that can be used to generate anything, and it's uncannily effective at finding bugs especially in structured-format consumers like compilers[3] and db engines. You can use it to generate queries as above and the fitness function would be something like "Did the database gave an unholy error squeak or violate some key invariants in the db file?", you can use it to generate general test harnesses that exercise the whole C code and measure coverage via instrumentation, the fitness function would be something like "How much did this mutation covered of the application's instructions?". Not only do they take both of those approaches and many others, but they do it multuple times and independently, so for example it's mentioned that Google and the core development team both have an independent query fuzzer. They mention about 4 or 5 fuzzers doing similar thing.

And off course fuzzing is just one way to generate tests, there are plenty others.

>I strongly doubt it’s all actually source code

I mean, why not? source code is not necessarily hand-written source code.

[1]: skim https://www.fuzzingbook.org/ for a fairly good overview

[2]: Generally, mutation is either completely blind and general, i.e. byte-level , or structure-aware, i.e. has some notion of a grammar or a schema governing the thing it mutates, it wouldn't just change a random letter of "SELECT", because the result would almost cerainly be invalid SQL.

[3]: https://embed.cs.utah.edu/csmith/
He's not using a normal sauna, but something with heaters/lamps. I'm not dedicated enough to try it myself: https://www.reddit.com/r/PsoriaticArthritis/comments/es5w6f/...
From the employees' perspective, who wants to sit around in angst for a month while your friends and colleagues are dropping like flies, wondering if you're next?

One and done is the way to do it in my opinion. Dragging out bad news seldom works out well.
I'm not a Spotify user but the news that came out about albums being played with shuffle as default makes me think they don't care about music. Not surprised if everything else is misaligned as well.
You may enjoy the audiobook versions of the Dirk Gently series, which are fully scripted and voice acted like a radio play. It was a really fun experience, and very well acted!
The big difference that makes the analogy not useful is that being the landlord of every corner spot in downtown means people face a high cost when going to a different vendor in a different physical location.

Amazon is a website, the cost of visiting a different website is pretty much zero.
I’m not going to comment on the evidence, but I can say that my previous manager was very quick to support the ‘great resignation’. It was a very convenient excuse to deflect from her terrible management.
There's also Wike[0], a fantastic little native Wikipedia browser for everyone out there on Linux.

[0] https://github.com/hugolabe/Wike
Because building housing is effectively illegal in much of the US.

Single family zoning, NIMBYism, moral panics over public transit, suburbanism... the list goes on and on.

Building duplexes is a start but Seattle should look a lot more like Brooklyn than like Idaho Falls: 6 story apartment buildings everywhere. Density. Public transit galore with very restricted parking.

Only then would housing prices be reasonable.