skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article talks about things like timesheet fudging and practices like 'buddy punching', not getting distracted by a news article here or there, or getting a non-work phone call between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm
I don't think there's a good explanation out there.

From what I've read, the main idea is decentralization, either of website databases using blockchain (which seems wildly impractical and ludicrously expensive), or of payment of advertising revenue to website users and contributors (which seems like an impossible business model)

The main issue, I think, is that "decentralization" means a different thing to every person, therefore "web3" can mean a different thing to everyone. This makes it hard to define it or to argue for it or against it.

I read a blog post linked on HN recently on "the architecture of a web3 application" [1] and it was so long and complicated that I honestly thought it was satire. I don't think the methods described in the post were at all practical.

Ultimately, web3 might simply be a rebranding of blockchain and crypto technologies in order to make them seem more democratic and transformational than perhaps they are.

[1] https://www.preethikasireddy.com/post/the-architecture-of-a-...
Umm...30 year mortgage? Some people (like me) don't want a 30 year mortgage. Too much risk. I want 10 years top.
Any history of AI that ignores cybernetics is simply wrongheaded.
Yes, but isn't the presumption that you're only liable if you are in some way guilty (culpable) of what's being alleged?

In any case, just because someone's levied some charges doesn't mean we should necessarily assume they are accurate. I'm not s fan of Facebook by any means, but that doesn't mean I support trial by public opinion before there's even a chance for defense.
Does your site or any other allow a user to click notes on a fretboard and have the app deduce the chord from the positions? I know a lot of chords the names of which I have forgotten, and don't have the theory chops to work it out myself
I don't see anything there that shows the location for the user is exact, or that it can be shown away from the home. I see exact locations for events near the home, but not the user itself.
is this the modern replacement for the c64/zx-spectrum/other-8-bit-computer Demo scene?
This is either the best or worst web design I've ever seen.

Not sure which yet :)
Ask them where they are and randomly verify every now and again by either showing up yourself or calling someone else you trust who is where they say they are. You and I weren't subject to epidemics of child kidnapping and murder because our parents weren't able to plant beacons on us.
Go get an offer, then ask for a counteroffer now. You are absolutely being jerked around.
For those who might not have seen this reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbVMdPDS1ak . Oh, VBScript, those were the times!
"Acceptable ADs platform" they launched in order to "help small websites" soon filled with advertiser whales who voted with their money. Suddenly a lot of ads were classified as... acceptable.
I did a Five Whys for Amazon once. It had been an embarrassing incident for the team. We had put a huge new feature together over a few months, and when we turned it on...nothing happened. The whole feature had been entirely disabled by a typo I made in a configuration change. At the time, we had a test team that was tremendously overworked and tested things almost entirely manually. They asked for a couple extra weeks to test our new feature but eventually greenlit it. My Five Whys basically asked "how did this get to production if it didn't do anything?"

My manager handed it back to me and said "this takes the blame off of you for this mistake and puts it on the testing team. Ask different questions."

So I wrote another one that was 100% focused on me. "Why did this happen? Because the config was wrong." "Why was the config wrong? Because I made a typo." "Why didn't I notice the typo? Because I didn't run the feature after making the change." "Why didn't I try it out? Because the feature is very difficult to invoke or observe." "Why is the feature hard to invoke directly?" "Because <x,y,z>."

What I learned from that is that the problem with Five Whys is that there are many different branches of questions that are worth asking, but that design only allows for exactly one path. Choosing which one is an editorial decision on the part of the author. The outcome of a 5-Whys document is, by its nature, one change. But most of the time, outages at mature tech companies are the result of several different problems coincidentally lining up (if exactly one thing going wrong caused a major problem, that itself is the second problem), and a postmortem process really needs to examine each of the things that went wrong separately.
May I please ask which city is this ?
Some criticism:

It is fine for reading, but by hiding the tabs for "edit this page", "history" etc. it does not invite editing as much as the current Wikipedia/MediaWiki does.

And in this particular case, I don't see much purpose of having the toolbar being a fixed element that does not scroll with the rest of the page.
Apart from the Font size/Dark mode controls, the links there are for leaving the page, and if I want to leave the page, there is nothing stopping me from first scrolling to the top of the page.
Most keyboards have a Home key that does that. There is also the "Scroll to the top" arrow button that pops up in the lower right corner (obscuring the text beneath it, BTW).

Something I do think would be useful, in terms of scrolling on Wikipedia/MediaWiki would be to go between Editing, Preview and Changes and keep about the same position on the page when doing so. As it is now, long articles could be disorienting and I would have to spend some time looking for the editing position when previewing my edits.
That's fair enough.

One thing I'll say you might be very off the mark with the quarter of salary thing. Both me and my wife(also a programmer) make about 75% as much as those friends who just moved out of London.

Yes, anecdotes, I know. But I'm pretty sure tech worker salaries aren't as bad up here as people make it out to be.
Fun fact: they also bought Couple (later known as Pair) - an app from a decade or so ago - and then never revealed what they did with the data that users uploaded to it. It’s murky who has it now but it’s always been odd to me that there’s little awareness there as the app was quite popular for a bit.
Newcastle.
> A lot of space seems wasted here and I can view less content at once.

More space makes thing easier to read, though. You could have font size 8 and a couple hundred chars long lines on your 4k monitor. Would see lots of content, but would be unreadable.
You're mistaken. Wikipedia automatically redirects you to the m. website if you type "en.wikipedia.org" into your phone browser. The same is true even if you explicitly type an article's URL into your phone browser, like "en.wikipedia.org/London". Google and Bing will also show mobile URLs in search results (although DuckDuckGo does not). The only way to see the actual desktop version is to click on the "Desktop" link at the very bottom of a mobile page, and even that just sets a cookie to prevent redirection back to the mobile site, so it doesn't work across multiple devices or private browsing sessions.
> Testing software after it gets deployed to production

The first thing I though just after read the title was: "hm, it looks like a vendor lock"...

> In 2007, I was on site at the original iPhone launch at the only distribution center in the nation that was slated to ship the first iPhone.

... and as I see mentioning of Apple/iPhone, guess, I was not wrong with my first decision.
Advertisers could pay to get unblocked.

https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2016/09/15/justin_kuang_a...
It’s really not. If you have a route down your WireGuard interface, it’s not going to stop should the end point of that interface no longer be routable.
Again, you are not paying attention to logistics. America has to get its military aircraft to China and then once there China has an overwhelming array of surface to air missiles it can deploy from its own territory. The fact that you had to say "China don't have enough nuclear weapons to destroy enough US military bases to prevent effective retaliation" proves the reason the US will not invade Myanmar. We are not going to get into a nuclear conflict over the conditions in another country, especially a conflict where we are seen as the aggressor. China has an estimated 300+ nuclear warheads; potentially more, and missiles that are more than capable of delivering them anywhere in the US mainland. My point is that China will not cower in fear and do nothing if the US invades Myanmar, the fact that you think they will is mind boggling.
The impact of Covid-19 on the semiconductor industry
> NIMBY-ism

Bingo. If you want to be part of the solution, this is a good group of people: https://yimbyaction.org/2021/

Although, it must be said that building homes takes time, and getting the politics right takes time, so don't think of it as a short-term solution.
I have heard dozens of people describe DNS this way, yes, like it's a push behaviour. I don't know how much it matters but I think making it clearer is good.
Personally I'd pay just a bit more to integrate my Firefox Relay aliases automatically with my Bitwarden account.

I know Firefox has its own builtin password manager, but it's mostly barebone.
How does wg0 go down?
I've been looking for something like this. My only feedback is that the default style looks a bit too narrow (width and line-height wise).
Also, the scale/range for changing the width jumps a lot between the middle and to the right, I wish there was a bit more control over that. Why not attach the value of the slider to the width percentage?
considering substantial modern hardware involved at present, I find this article to be more informative about the past than anything else.. also contains provocative language and personal conclusions mixed with actual events
The crash isn't coming. And if it does those houses will be snapped up by wall st. They've already spent 77 billion in the last 6 months
... Except on ARM micros, where Thumb probably matters most nowadays, because Cortex-M only runs in Thumb mode.
It might not also be immediately obvious also, a SanDisk SD card bought fulfilled by Amazon might be a fake and just write a bit slow or die after a year. How many people would notice a fake?
> The appropriate level of abstraction is to find the deepest level at which your choices can have an impact.

This is a brilliant insight and immediately gave me an “aha” moment on how best to use the 5 Whys approach!
This is exactly what has happened in NZ in the past few years. People flee the biggest cities, then those people push out others from the small cities and big towns, then even the little economically depressed towns 60 minutes from jobs are overpriced.

In 2021 there is not a single remote corner of this place that's affordable anymore.
Yup still do that on desktop, I have it automatically redirect me, I would hate to lose it!
Very, very different business model.

Better is a mortgage lender, historically a refi shop. We are more recently also a real estate agency. We sit on the buyer's side of the transaction.

OpenDoor is an iBuyer. They give sellers cash offers for houses and then flip them, helping to break the chain of sellers needing to sell one home to buy the next one. Basically they're a market maker for houses.
Neighbors' son and daughter-in-law are moving from the Washington, DC, suburbs to Raleigh, North Carolina. A four-bedroom house there in a good development costs maybe a third of what his parents' house would sell for in a good (but not most expensive) neighborhood of Washington.
It would have been interesting to see what would have happened to the SuperH architecture if Renesas decided to improve it instead of continually selling the same 200 MHz part with no die shrinks or improvements until people stopped buying them.
200k is too much for a six bedroom house?
Renting is throwing away money. I understand people do it when they only plan on living in a place for a brief period of time, but you'd still be better off buying a house, then selling after a few years in most time spans. There is risk though, but I doubt the risk would ever equal $3000 a month loss you are currently taking.

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.

However, if your house appreciates as most do in highly industrialized areas, you basically get paid to live there.
Scientist of AstraZeneca vaccine warns next pandemic maybe worse
lora is used for more than just consumer iot control - it's one of the most effective ways to bridge a serial connection across a very low bandwidth/RF difficult or weak link.
Those releases have been EOL for 10+ and 5+ years respectively. There are a number of free options.

I don't see any reason to make any effort to support those folks, especially when the font is merely ugly in a cosmetic sense, and not unreadable.
I use Sync for Reddit on Android and Apollo on iOS.
As funny as that would be, I don't think the athletes would be safe making any kind of political statements directly.
We are. We're building the world of 1984, except paying to do it.

There are some upcoming requirements that cars "monitor for impaired drivers" somehow - which seems likely to be adding proximity-based blood alcohol sensors... or something of the sort? Details are unclear, but the speculation I've seen based on current technology is that your (always connected, always online, always updating...) car will now monitor the air to see if you might, perhaps, be impaired (or someone in the car is, it's far from clear to me how these sensors would work if a passenger were plastered).

I'm really not sure what I'm going to do when my current vehicle fleet needs upgrading, because "always online, always connected" is an anti-feature to me. Maybe just keep rolling my current stuff as long as I can keep it rolling.

I keep hoping that the upcoming generations will figure out how "edgy" being not-always-online is, and discover they like it. But that's a long hope.
I removed the comp comment, as it seemed a bit crass. In any case, my experience doesn't echo that. My salary is almost 6x what it was 3 years ago when I worked 30 miles outside of London (as the crow flies) and my job is way less stressful now

Before moving to London I had offers from 2 other companies both offering numbers close to what I was on previously. Moving to London was instantly 2x their best offer.

Overall I think if you can get over the home ownership hurdle, the potential for future comfort in the city is way greater.
I would be cautious moving to a "city" with a population lower than 5,000 (Flandreau SD, but home of Gene Amdahl, and Washburn WI); good repair people/contractors/restaurants will be much harder to find. And without Starlink, perhaps useless internet. But some of the other places you list seem to be much closer to modern, if not Seattle level, "civilization".
There is nothing wrong with being rewarded for your work.

There could be uBlock Origin Pro for people who want to support it. It can offer no other feature other than a Pro icon.
To add more data points, I also just quit my software engineering job last week to go to a place with a better product and better pay. I think one of the commenters was right on when they said it was more about the "last straw" and incentivizing people to look for other jobs and that there are a LOT of tech jobs that offer remote work now.
Costal California has always had ridiculous home values, and nothing has changed that. 20 years ago I looked in Oakland and homes were 400k, which were still relatively unaffordable based on the salary I made at the time, 70k.

I think the income levels interest rates have helped raise values, but I think income has more to do with it. You’ll see high prices anywhere that can support workers, and they will pay for proximity.
Even in the Metaverse, Not All Identities Are Created Equal
I'd crowdfund the maintenance of LoRa repeaters on nearby mountaintops. I'd also do the hiking to maintain them, sounds like as good a premise for adventure as any.
Every book written by Neal Stephenson.

Atlas Shrugged.
Given that companies typically want to maximally exploit their employees while paying the minimum wage they can, I don't really care about employees doing a little exploiting in the other direction.

Of course it depends on the company - I think people tend to do this kind of thing when their employer is hostile or exploitative. People typically respond well and work hard when they're treated fairly.
haha I'm sure there are dozens of us! Dozens!
I'm not sure why you feel the need to go to absurd examples to just prove a point. Whatever floats your boat, but this has ceased to be a useful conversation so I'm going to step out of it.
Flamebait is not about intention, but about the effects a comment can be expected to have (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

In this case the comment consisted of one sentence pointing straight to two classic flamewar topics (religion + vaccines), and a second sentence containing a snarky, reductionist provocation ("traffic signals"). In other words, we had fuel plus flame. The effect such a comment can be expected to have is definitely flamewar.

If your intention was to engage in thoughtful conversation, the burden is on you to disambiguate that, since intent doesn't communicate itself. A person's intent is accessible to them, since it's immediately available in their head, but not to anyone else—so it needs to be encoded somehow in the message. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

In this case, the whole thing was probably best to leave alone, though, because nothing good (by HN's definition of good, i.e. gratifying intellectual curiosity) was likely to come of it.
No problem, I did it by accident, and you can also drag the windows to the corners and overshoot to have them, top is full, left and right is half that side, the link you posted mentions that, I am actually surprised you never accidentally discovered either. I have that in KDE as well.
> given that LoRa operates on line of sight

not exactly, no, one of the most common uses for LoRA is in the US 915 MHz band where it can function in a very much non line of sight environment.
It's just the media fishing for clicks, like everything else. People love stories about quitting because they dream of doing it themselves. Particularly the people whose attention is already on social media rather than work.

The reality of the so-called "great resignation" is just pent-up demand for job switching that didn't happen during the pandemic. Every number looks high compared to 2020's artificially suppressed baseline.

Of course social media wants to push the idea that people aren't working, because people who aren't working consume more media, and that's all they care about.
+1

I don't have a problem with the OP's analysis of the Ikea sensor. It seems generally reasonable. But rather with their implication that the DIY sensor being promoted is of higher quality.

Because accuracy is very much a "finished product" implementation issue, not just the sensor itself, such implication is off-base, particularly in direct comparison to any finished commercial product. The accuracy of the DIY version is going to vary -- a lot -- depending on the builder of such.

I wonder if AQMD would evaluate a "reference build" of the DIY sensor, seeing as there is an enclosure as part of the "reference" implementation. At bare minimum, the airgradient site should have comparison to highly ranked (by AQMD) sensors, such as purple air. I'm actually quite surprised there are no such comparisons on the site.
Mortgage is the minimum amount you'll pay for housing, where-as rent is the maximum. You need to factor in mortgage payment + PMI + property tax + home insurance + repairs. With 5% down, NerdWallet estimates that at $5,281.
Prof. Sarah Gilbert : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Gilbert
CONCURRENTLY needs to wait for old transactions to go away, including those that haven't (and won't ever) touch the table that you're building an index on. So it's not waiting for a lock as such - it's waiting for older transactions to go away without conflicting in a way that can cause these "traffic jams". This can be a problem for the obvious reason, though generally only for the index build itself.

Tricky problems with relation-level locks tend to come from a combination of one lock request that is "generally non-disruptive but long-lived", and another lock request that is "generally disruptive/blocking but short-lived". I have heard of quite a few problem scenarios where these locks conflict with each other (usually by chance), leading to "generally disruptive/blocking and long-lived" -- which can be very dangerous. But that's fundamental to how lock managers work in general.

The Postgres implementation tries to make it as unlikely as reasonably possible. For example, autovacuum usually notices when something like this happens, and cancels itself.
I joined the industry only 20 years ago so missed the heyday of waterfall. I did witness the rise of the RUP though. And I must say that to jr developer me it was very educational despite its rather intimidating volume.

There's one angle I don't see discussed in the last 10 years or so. There was a time when a lot of attention and literature was dedicated to software design. The whole OOP movement, design patterns, the RUP, entire shelves of software architecture books. I'm inclined to call them systematic approaches to building software. I believe feature-driven development was the last such methodology aimed at developers.

Ever since Agile became popular around 2008 I have not seen anything comparable. The OOP school of thought lost its appeal without really being replaced with another well defined body of knowledge. Anything FP-related is extremely community-specific and nobody is really talking casually about, say, monad transformers. Any Agile methodology has very little guidance for developers in comparison with RUP/FDD. It's all about managerial concerns and time tracking.

But there's no question that software development is drastically different now. Using version control (even local one) was not a given in 1999. Unit testing with jUnit in 2001 was a major revelation. And shipping features constantly in SaaS got popular after 2007 or so.
MOND vs. Dark Matter, a side by side comparison
I has a similar experience where I had to 5 why a issue and... the gist of it was that the why was because I bungled it up. I just.. saw it as an issue while I wrote my stuff, added a TODO and then... just never did it. So then, after the first 2 why's I could only answer in the back of my head, "Because I'm fucking stupid, that's why!"

I get the idea with the why's but sometimes, it's just that simple, you can't really go deeper than that. I fucked up.
It's a strawman in the sense that some here argue for the fun of adding a few bytes of output to some program, while your retorts argue against them wanting to blow up innocent people.
At the time Bush visa-banned Modi, he was not the Prime Minister of India. By the time Obama embraced him, he was. For better or worse, Modi came to power in a free and fair, democratic election. Diplomacy demands treating him like any other leader of a major power.
Can I interest you in a pamphlet about careers in Strategic Air Command?
I never claimed that.