skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>debits are positive and credits are negative

That's a drastic oversimplification. Typically, both debits and credits are entered into an accounting program as positive numbers, and it is the nature of the account being debited or credited that determines whether the number is added to or subtracted from the account balance.

Or, as the old joke goes, an accountant for years would always start the work day by opening a locked desk drawer, removing a piece of paper, and studying it for a moment before returning it to the drawer. After his sudden and unexpected death one day, one of his staff had to satisfy their curiosity and opened the drawer to see what was written on the paper. It said, "debits to the window, credits to the door".

To get it, you need to know that by tradition, debits are entered on the left-hand side of the entry form, and credits on the right hand side.
The share prices and revenue numbers of these allegedly driven-into-the-ground companies seems to tell the opposite story.
"Make It Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform" by Patrick Henry Winston
Winner, if you had actually read it. :)
This blog entry taught me a mathy way of understanding double-entry accounting: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-compu...

Summarized: a ledger is a directed graph of accounts, where edges are transactions, and each transaction is recorded twice: in the "from" node and the "to" node.
Cycles of arbitrary periods are nearly indistinguishable from a random walk. My guess is the latter.
This weekend I tough people that had never coded how to write HTML. I had already prepared the CSS for the basic elements, so everything would look OK. They where scared by the "code"/editor at first, but once I explained <tags> = elements <p> for paragraph <br> for a line break, they quickly grasped it, so after a few more minutes I had also introduced the img element/tag and lists...

Building a web site is still quite hard, eg. setting up a server, writing the CSS, setting up the site generator, etc. But editing a website has always been easy.
It's just that people are too scared when they see code. And screw all those frameworks. You do not need a web framework in order to put text (and maybe some media elements) on the web!
I remember putting border: 1px solid red around my layout "blocks" to help me build layouts (of course the extra pixels could mess with the layout). Then dev console came and you could inspect and mouse over those blocks and those red lines would appear and it was just amazing.
If your argument is that animations in SVG don't work well then wouldn't it be best to use TinyVG in place of static SVG assets and make something new that is better suited for animation?
This is the error I see in the response body in HTTP Toolkit.

```
Error: Passthrough loop detected. This probably means you're sending a request directly to a passthrough endpoint, which is forwarding it to the target URL, which is a passthrough endpoint, which is forwarding it to the target URL, which is a passthrough endpoint...

You should either explicitly mock a response for this URL (http://127.0.0.1:8000/golang.org/x/oauth2/@v/list), or use the server as a proxy, instead of making requests to it directly.
```
Do they need military-grade imagery? The Chinese or Russian militaries do because they’re trying to estimate war-time performance but I find it hard to believe that there are any domestic terrorists building sensor arrays to support SAM batteries. If they’re trying to blow one up, the resolution on a consumer drone or telescope would likely be more than enough.
Some companies doesn't have enough people to review the code, at least not with the required seniority. This way there is also knowledge transfer, but to the company. And with people not in your payroll that can provide objective comments since they are not afraid of telling the wrong person that their code sucks.
I'd rather not deal with dozens of babel-plugin-*. Can this or esbuild be used instead of babel?
> Scribe
> An alternative frontend to Medium

So the original URL of the article is https://erik-engheim.medium.com/software-engineering-in-swif... , which works (to the extent that Medium can be classified as "works").
The article says that’s the women were coerced into appearing

> GirlsDoPorn producer Ruben Andre Garcia was sentenced in the summer to 20 years in federal prison for coercing women into appearing in sex videos.
Also curious that she's a woman in the virtual world. Some people just don't get it that everybody on the internet is "a dog".
When I was a kid, there was this smaller town we went through somewhere in the midwest. It had signs that said "traffic lights are synchronized for 25 MPH". Once you figured out that they were telling the truth, you drove 25[1]. If you didn't, you hit every light red.

[1] Or at least most people did. We still saw at least one vehicle jackrabbit out of a stop, get up to 35, and then hit the next red light. Over and over. Sigh...
> Ubisoft brass argues that, for all its tumult, the company's standing is comparable to its peers.

The brass has realized they don't need to be good, just competitive.
That sort of maintenance can easily be done without the need for specialised engineers. A gardener can mow the lawn, a janitor can clean the panels, and most solar plants are not on tracks but static.
5% pay cut??? What the heck, I've never heard of that. What's the point?
Maybe you will find out that you didn't miss your 20's ?
I didn't mean to draw national conclusions. Regionally in the SF Bay Area, the frequency and scale of shoplifting and smash-and-grab is definitely increased.
UFOs tend to come at night, but aerial/satellite photography is done during the day.
They don't really seem that big in person. And they're amazingly hard to see from any distance since they're essentially just a thin flat airfoil.

Here's a not-especially-good video I just uploaded of one flying over my farm from this summer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyXSuFj0naQ
Ukrainian engineer here. All compensations are quoted net. I don't know why people are telling you otherwise.
Suppose a chef interviews for a kitchen. Rather than anyone testing the chef on his or her ability, they test them on their poetry.

That’s exactly analogous to whiteboard interviews. You can feel however you want to feel, and no one will change your mind. The fact is, you never code on a whiteboard. You’re not testing ability.
This is a major problem with the “one guy is in charge” model of running a business. All these employees care about how the company treats people but this one guy is willing to be a jerk and not apologize and now all these employees have little recourse but to quit.

Even if you think the hierarchy is useful for practical purposes, a cooperatively owned business can give voting rights for everyone so they elect a manager and can fire or demote them as needed. Instead we get the mess that is Ubisoft.
I guess it really depends on your tastes, I have a couple friends who moved there because they loved the mountains and nature, and got jobs pretty easily (in IT and in Healthcare).

I think food is quite nice too, but obviously it's completely personal.
I'm not saying it's malicious, I'm just saying it's a trade-off. Fwiw I understand the trade-off and it makes sense to me even as a Mac user.
Reading about this now.. trying to understand how this is different from tether?
IMHO it's a lost cause trying to make money with apps, especially on Linux. Of course there are a few well known exceptions, but I'm not sure it's a worthwhile endeavor in 2022 to say "hey I'm gonna build an app and live of it".
You can still hack in HTML (and CSS) in a basic editor. I do occasionally. No design or js frameworks, no elaborate build systems, just me and my editor.

I don't think I'd have been so cocky five or ten years ago. Bootstrap solved real problems with cross browser layouts, jQuery fixed serious holes in some browsers' standard libraries. But the things they did then are things I'd happily freehand now.

In short, it's easier because 99% of browsers in use aren't awful and flex and grid make the float mess of the mid-Naughties irrelevant.
I prefer to go to the original source, specifically The Transformers (1984-87).
Not GP, but one example is protecting developers from pressure from higher up. When you’re a manager, you’re going to get lots of explicit or implicit questions like “you have X headcount now, why are we behind on this project? Developer Z was specifically hired for this - is he just goofing off?” And you know that the new dev has been on boarding and that docs aren’t so good and that his velocity is actually reasonable, and you basically stand in the gap between your engineers and the sharks in upper management.

That’s what it was like for me, anyway. I’m an IC again now…
tsc is a compiler with type checking capability. This is merely a "transpiler" that transform TS to JS, an alternative to babel
>but it's been more than 10 years since bitcoin emerged with the promise that the blockchain would have world-changing repercussions and _I still don't see even one meaningful application of the technology_ ?

I see this critique often but I don't get it: bitcoin was essentially an early prototype, the story of crypto since gone through lots of twists and turns. Make it programmable (ETH), try to make it scalable in one chain (lots of failures, now things like Solana), figure out how to split consensus/data/computation (current ETH L2 road map).

The technology is still young and evolving.

There are a lot of other things worth critiquing (PoW is wasteful, permission-less systems are socially bad, &c) but saying "this technology has been here for 10 years" misses that it's a big complex roadmap, a lot of which (like zero knowledge rollup L2s) just showed up this year.
RaspiReader: Build your own fingerprint reader
On Google Earth you can use the timeline feature to actually see when the imagery was captured (or at least uploaded?). The plane sitting near the hangers was from a capture in May 2016. Google Earth currently shows several newer captures, including one from September 2021. The current one from September 2021 is actually far more interesting in my opinion. In it, you can see a B2 sitting in a field about a quarter up the runway (38°43'27.63"N 93°32'54.86"W) with stuff scattered all around it and trucks sitting on the runway. https://i.imgur.com/lh1hkWN.png
Show HN: Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes
If it's a small startup where the founders are doing first interviews, then I'm sure they're just overwhelmed with tasks. I don't see what the value would be in having a founder chat with you for 1 hour to get a 1 hour code review out of you... unless they think your time is more valuable than their founders, which doesn't make much sense.
> in an ideal world, most of the questions you're asking here should be addressed before anyone writes code.

I agree completely. But code review to me is the chance to pick up on those situations where the situation wasn’t ideal. And even if this is just one time of 100, that review was still more important than the remaining 100 “normal” reviews with more mundane feedback.
Have you been a manager of managers? This sounds like the same problem the GP described (the problems are invisible until you are in the role).

An upper level management job can be very stressful. You have very little visibility into progress or issues, but are responsible for setting direction and making decisions with many consequences. If you get involved, you’re called a micromanager. If you don’t, you’re out of touch.

Cross-organizational pushes become harder, with more inertia, and more perverse incentives dragging things down. You spend all your time debugging the mess of an organization, not on the things that brought you to the industry.

It can be a very stressful, unpleasant job. I am not trying to claim it’s harder, or that the pay is proportionate or whatever. But the idea that they can rely on the work of others, coast by, and get the benefits is not at all true from what I have seen.

I worked mostly in startups and FAANG, maybe other sectors are different.
I will take my 250k in London vs 450k in New York any time.

USA is just a third world country with a Gucci belt.
My family's value system is completely incompatible with how America operates and what drives people and organisations.

I have many senior dev friends who think the same.
W(h)ither POWER8
Consider that your question is based on a misunderstanding. There aren't "rules" of evolution, it's just our label for part of what happens when you leave a bunch of hydrogen sitting around for an extended period of time. It's emergent behavior.

You're driving at some sort of god thing, but that's actually unrelated. Sure, you can make the argument that the universe was created by something else, but however the universe got created, one bit of emergent behavior from it is the process of evolution.
Unintuitive Conclusions from Urban Planning
The birth of the Open Source library Albumentations
I can't find the post, but I base this on rachelbythebay's writing - who got hired as an SRE, and then tried to become an SWE and was told she couldn't just convert.

But fair enough, I don't work at Google, so I'll withdraw the point. Having said that, knowing that AWS engineers do oncall, and GCP don't (letting the SREs do it) makes me still think there is some sort of two-tier system.
As people in finance are fond of saying, past performance is no guarantee of future results. Did it not work for any identifiable reason that makes us immune, or due to non-replicable acts of bravery on one side, incompetence on the other, and good old luck in between? It's not hard to imagine the insurrectionists turning the other way in a hallway and finding Pence, or getting into the rotunda a moment earlier. Or a few election officials in Pennsylvania or Detroit bowing to pressure, allowing the valid election results to be overturned. Republicans are working very hard to make sure that they have people on election boards who will make a different choice next time. So no, I'd say the system just barely worked because of people within it, and can not be counted on to save us again.

There is no deus ex machina. This isn't a movie. People have to work to save democracy.
Y Combinator spams Hacker News enough as it is.

P.S. - I know Y Combinator created and maintains Hacker News, but I am confident that in a post-capitalist world an even better version of Hacker News would blossom in the hands and interests of the public at large, much in the same way that open source would.
IMHO, the results possible with modern open source tools are really amazing. I think a lot of the "cost" of AAA are inefficiencies in the pipeline, and issues of scope.

A racing title seems especially easy to limit scope in. Compare your titles with the F1 games. There's no fancy campaign with voice acting and 3D modeled faces. But it plays really nice and the used assets are pristine. Indie no longer has to imply "2D pixel art".

Speaking from experience, it's not that hard to teach some artist friends how to use blender. Then it's just a matter of compensating them fairly and you're off to the races. Plus it's fun. If you haven't tried 3D art, it's surprisingly intuitive. Like a sculpting with magic hands and clay that isn't annoying.
You're not going to see planned obsolescence in products that don't spend a ton of money on R&D (like cars). The impression I get is that most of the time cheaper BOM is the only consideration.
I was reading an AMA with Todd Howard of Bethesda a while back and noticed he said they were hiring. So I took a look specifically in my specialty (ops/cloud ops etc). I hesitate to use the buzzword dev ops because all of our code is focused on automating operations, enhancing reliability and balancing with cost so my core devs can do their work better, faster etc.

Anyway. In Bethesda land it was called NOC admin or something with a very clear deadline of you becoming a developer only within three years or getting out.

It made total sense why fallout 76 has so many issues with their net code. They don’t actually want people with any experience in managing these things, they want guys to just hit reboot it seems and use it as a jumping block.

At my company it’s telling how little networking and systems stuff our coders and sql folks know and when left to their own, things run pretty bad. My company has learned from this and we have pretty good reliability as a result and have a unique ability to scale and automate, especially products that were done by different core teams since my team often comes in and makes it all integrate well.

Anyway, all that said it was pretty eye opening and while I still like video games here and there, and even Bethesda ones, I have no desire to go work in that industry. I’ll stick to my sector.
The web logs on example.com must be a treasure trove of interesting traffic, and also a security risk in some ways, depending on who has been testing with it.
Can anyone recommend hardware for this? I have a cheap powered USB switch from Amazon I was using but it’s been giving me stuttering issues with my mouse which is a nonstarter for use with a gaming desktop. I’ve also had to unplug and reply my usb DAC each time I switch to get it to work properly.
Symmetries and Redundancies
Why are you posting this? The salaries are always quoted net here.
Not OP, and no idea on pricing, but https://www.spymesat.com/new-tasking.html appears to allow you task a satellite selfie on demand
Those generally avoid hardened targets like military bases.
Probably the best (and only one) I've encountered is the Painscreek Killings - a little known gem that I've been pestering my friends to try out. The only system it uses is the old Unity style first-person "interact with item in environment to read note or pick up key" mechanic. However, the design is intricately laid out so that only by making a conclusion in your head, you know where next to go in the small, but sufficient open world town the game takes place in. I think more detective games would benefit by taking inspiration from that game.
Lorne Michaels Considering ‘SNL’ Retirement: “A Good Time to Leave”
Do you think these things aren't all intertwined?

I'll note that the article specifically claims that speeds are too high on local roads, which I'd think you'd appreciate.

I see the garbage speed limits (set haphazardly, frequently to generate revenue, etc), as producing a generalized contempt for traffic law, which isn't good for pedestrians.
My point still stands. The fact that police exhibit extremely low detrimental behavior rates compared to the general population illustrates that they are held to much higher standards.

Police in the US have far higher post secondary education rates than the general population. Over half have a bachelor's and over 80% have at least an associate's. And that's overall. Many states and larger localities require post secondary education, particularly in urban, higher crime areas.

>but they are orders of magnitude better than the trigger happy...

Can you prove it? Tens of millions of police interactions a year and less than a thousand deaths is pretty damn good and not at all indicative of the narrative you're spewing, especially when you account for how much violence the police experience at the hands of criminals. Sounds to me like you've bought into a narrative completely unsupported by data.
> Well, I would say that in your thought experiment it's actually the culture that could produce a substantial difference in cognition, whereas the langauge is merely a consequence of that culture.

Regardless of whether the language is a consequence of the culture (say, they imported it, or had it imposed upon them), how might one determine with accuracy that consistently disciplined speaking (which is preceded by cognition) has no causal dependence on speaking this substantially more strict language itself?

> However, you will not gain this ability or habit just by learning the langauge.

You will not necessarily gain this ability just by learning it, agreed - but using it on a daily basis is another matter.

> In fact, your langauge can even express that same thing today.

It can express it, in some fashion (typically with clumsy, annoying phrases and qualifiers that make people angry, rather than dedicated, socially normal words), but whether one actually does it on a regular basis is another matter.

There are various differences between someone who studied 3 months of 1 hour per week of Jiu Jitsu (or math, physics, etc) classes, and someone who practiced it for several hours a day from an early age.

Even in simple scenarios it can be extremely difficult to accurately predict what the consequences of something are, and language, cognition, and culture are not exactly simple. And, from a scientific/epistemic perspective, one should always keep in mind that an absence of evidence is not proof of absence....which brings to mind another thought experiment that is different but similar: what might a society be like where epistemology and logic are considered crucially valuable skills, and were taught from Grade 1 through 12 to all children, and being incorrect or even speaking epistemically unsoundly were considered seriously shameful? Might it be possible that one would notice anything substantially different in people who were raised in such a culture (and, what might be some differences we might see)? I would be quite shocked if it had no effect.
I think that's the point that people are objecting to.

The orange dot doesn't total the presentation the way a totalled-car in a crash does, certainly not necessarily. It's NOT worse than nothing. It's not like a shopping cart for commuting to work.

The point of the replies here overall is that those things are hyperbole. It's NOT about nit-picking the language. It's "well, technically, the car will still drive in this case", it's saying that the orange dot DOES NOT ruin presentations that badly. You can ACTUALLY and PRACTICALLY present with the orange dot.

A better analogy: your nice car gets a rock through a window with a noticeable hole and huge cosmetic crack. You say "I can't drive this now! My car is useless! It's totalled!" And people are like "Dude, it's not totalled." And you say, "This is my professional car for business, I can't show up with a cracked window!" and People are like, "well, you could actually…"

It's not like the software has a bug that inverts all the colors, and people are saying "you could in fact do an inverted-color presentation, it's possible". It's JUST a little dot, and it's bad, but it's NOT as bad as the hyperbole.
Apparently prior to getting their hands on a MiG-25 from a defector who took one to Japan, many in the western military and intelligence communities envisioned it to have super avionic powers (that persisted for a long time in the civilian sphere). They thought it was agile and fast. What they didn't know is that it could only sustain those speeds for short spurts (else the engines suffered from metal fatigue due to temperature) and the maneuverability they envisioned from the geometry proved to be false (it had a very wide turning radius)...
> We need more SVG animations on the web.

Do we, though?

We've already had animated GIFs, the marquee tag, Java applets, and Flash animation, and they've all died out because 99.9% of the time the animation is obnoxious and terrible. Vector animation would be just as annoying.
You don't have to worry about systems getting old, because you are forced to update continuosly because of all the bloat. I'm looking at PipeWire especially, and the not so flat things also. Won't open the other can of worms, not at all.

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