skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is if you aren't a paying customer, and you are locked to the mobile app, it doesn't have the password CSV option. So if you can access the desktop web option, sure, it works. But that's not true for all users.
People being up the Linux kernel on the same way they bring up Oprah as an example of being successful in America.

99.99999% of software in big corporations will not have even 5% of the quality of the Linux kernel. The reason the kernel has such a high quality is because of Linux being a dictator, training everybody in not always so nice ways to write code that doesn't break anything and that is maintainable.

He cares about the code and he has the status and the mandate to prevent it from becoming shit.
I like the comparison of the program to hitting “report image” on a platform. Advantages of StopNCII is that you can report proactively, and to report it to all the participating platforms at the same time.

Misuse of the StopNCII platform is something that we (Meta/Facebook), UK Revenge Porn Helpline and the full StopNCII team discussed a lot. Once you have confirmed that a piece of content violates your platform’s policy, it’s easier to find other instances and filter out false-positives, because now you can use your platform-specific ML, or in-house photo detection algorithms.
Hopefully this will provoke the creator to do something about it. Or not.
Perfect, date relative is exactly what I wanted!
I've been brewing beer and mead for a decade, so I'm used to issues of contamination - although it's very hard to make yourself sick with beer. Worst case, it tastes bad and you have a little bit of gastrointestinal distress, but cheese is a different beast!

I have friends who raise goats, and it sounds like it's time to give them a call. I'll err on the side of safety and read more on home pasteurization. Thanks for the info!
>proper abstractions and commonly accepted software engineering best practices

Put 10 senior developers in the room, ask them a question about those practices. You'll probably get 8 variations on a mainstream approach and 2 alternative approaches.

As I'm often switching around stacks I'm shocked how lacking automated tooling is at enforcing basic formatting guidelines in some languages, IMO JavaScript prettify is the best here - it offers so practically no room for subjective tweaks.

For example I'm currently working in C# and it's so much worse in this regard, formatters between IDEs aren't even compatible.

So if something as trivial as formatting is this hard what do you think enforcing style guides and other quality metrics takes ?

In a small young team you can have one or more people steering the ship but when they move on or add more new people even in the best case these guys are trying to guess what the previous team would do to maintain style
Yes the discussion of productivity is often totally divorced from any questions of social utility, morality or meaning.

"You show me a guy laying around doing nothing all day and I'll show you someone who's not causing any trouble" - Carlin
The university near my house uses a parking app that requires all sorts of permissions to install. So I think there needs to be a hard limit with teeth (e.g., auditing and stiff penalties) on collection and storage of personal data.

Another idea is some kind of open API standard, where you can use the app of your choice in a particular locale, rather than being locked to a particular vendor. Then the apps can compete on which one has the best user experience, privacy, and so forth.
What is the LAB color space that is provided in the tool but not discussed in the article? For all the hubbub about HSL and HCL, LAB looks the best to me.
I admit I had only read the title:

"I have sent hundreds of applications, competing with thousands for yet another ‘bullshit job’. And like many, I’ve had enough"

and seen it was a lengthy comic.

I have now taken the time to read the entire comic. My advice for this person hasn't changed substantially. They seem to have few rare and marketable skills, just a lifetime of employment in what they consider "BS" jobs, and are now wondering why they aren't receiving responses from companies looking for skilled workers to do meaningful jobs.

It still reeks of the exact kind of self inflicted cynicism that I wouldn't want to have in a coworker. I'm happy to discuss specifics though if there's a nuance in it you think my advice missed.
American football is called football because you play it on your feet, as opposed to on a horse.
Times are changing though. Smaller companies increasingly have SSO portals. At what tipping point will the industry embrace SSO for everyone?
Internally passing around multiple 4k video outputs would use this. Maybe you don't want the output via the port on the back of the card but want to pass it through internally to some other peripheral? I think this is how thunderbolt ports work right (happy to be corrected)?
Alternatively, get a 4-key board off amazon, popular for playing OSU

Example:
https://www.amazon.com/4-Key-Programmable-Mechanical-Keyboar...
Circle implementation of C++20 std:variant
With the bandwidth you do get more flexibility though, and with pci express bifurcation you can get the bandwidth equivalent of 4 pcie4 16x from a single pcie6 16x.

And that's great since the vast majority don't need that much bandwidth anyway.

Today you typically have a whole slew of devices sharing 4x to the cpu. More bandwidth would open up for more usb and perhaps cheaper onboard 10gig Ethernet etc.
This also matches my perspective. I was too cavaliere to make reference to software quality when in fact, I'm more curious about code quality. I think the implicit nature of the problem is a central component - because conceptual integrity can only be achieved (or maintained) through a greater appreciation for what is implicit vs explicit.

As such, perhaps its an unworthy goal to maintain high code quality over the long-term.
> I live in one of two Chicago suburbs notable for excellent connectivity to Chicago's transit fabric (we're on both the Blue and the Green CTA train lines, a major regional commuter rail route, and a zillion bus routes). But people have jobs all over the metro area; to live here, take a job anywhere but the center of the city, and rely on public transit, you'd have to commute downtown and then back out, adding 45-90 minutes to your commute each way. Even if you don't drive every day, most people still need cars. Taking one of the few existing affordable apartments here essentially requires you to kick in several hundred dollars extra per month for a parking spot somewhere else in the area.

This is more of a problem with our lackluster transit network than a problem requiring cars. If we just stopped investing into car infrastructure and instead focused on build new train lines to increase interconnectivity and updated our current train lines to run at least 80-100 MPH in the city, you'd be singing a different tune.

I'm personally of the opinion that Chicago itself should have a massive congestion fee for the entire Central Business District and that the parking taxes should be ramped up massively both inside the district and anywhere in the city with a population density of 20,000 people/sq. mi. or higher even without increasing our transit capacity. That system should include an exemption for people with disability tags or placards; delivery vehicles performing a delivery to the area; and registered and taxed taxi and livery service vehicles. Currently, it's a $6/exit tax on parking structures in the Central Business District. I see no reason why that shouldn't be $20/exit or even $50/exit to truly discourage individual passenger vehicles there.

Now, where you live, you're well below that 20,000 people/sq. mi. metric and not even in the city. So no need to get extreme on modifications. But, if we invested more in high-speed, highly inter-connected transit, you would not need a car.
It’s especially weird to call it unsubstantiated when the entire post is a very detailed breakdown of economic methodologies. How much more substance could you ask for?

Sounds like this person is just reacting to the headline and Stoller’s name, or maybe it’s Larry Summers’ alt account.
Awesome! Let us know what you think.
> Does anyone know of examples of codebases (public or private) that have maintained a high quality codebase that is large, old, or supported by a large number of contributors?

FreeBSD, OpenBSD, the Linux kernel
Apex team makes Pro League on PS4s
SysJoker will create persistence by adding an entry to the registry run key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

I regularly run tools like Autoruns to disable unwanted new entries in places like this. These days it's more of a problem for me with regular software than it is malware.

Unfortunately locking down the registry key can break legitimate installers.

Does anyone know of a decent utility that monitors for changes in the background and notifies you via an unintrusive little icon in the system tray (no balloons) which you can click when convenient to review the offenders?

Have also contemplated a process "whitelist" that allows you to whitelist regular programs (maybe it has a mode you can run for a time where it learns automatically) and let's you easily view stuff running that you don't recognize.
I am not sure how this applies in Djokovic's case? He isn't claiming that there are errors (made by others) in any of the papers he has provided, or is he?

P.S. But either way, of course it's he who is ultimately responsible, in the same way I'm responsible for the contents of my tax return, regardless of who prepares or files it on my behalf.
These aren't my projects, but inspiration I've found around the web and started keeping track of recently. https://indielurker.com/#8dff6575218049a78b6b86e977c8d66b

Some of my favorites:

- Nomad List started as a Google Sheet.

- Product Hunt began as a simple list emailed out to people.

- Levels.fyi was powered by a Google Sheet until 2021.

- Crave Cookies was making $200k/mon according to their interview using a SQlite DB which started as a JSON file.

- Headlime started as a JSON file sitting on his frontend with no DB - then sold for $60k a week later

Tools I personally am exploring:

- DB: Google Sheets - either through API (numerous services like sheet.best for this or self-hosted)

- DB: Airtable - it provides API out of the box and has forms and whatnot too, keeps things real quick to start

- Whole Shebang: have only built toy examples, but Glideapps and Softr seem like handy options to spin an idea up really quickly and not getting distracted by tech rabbit holes
Incorrect. There are some geographic restrictions, but on a global scale the potential off river pumped hydro resource is enormous.

http://re100.eng.anu.edu.au/global/
as you become old, more experienced - you pace of work slows down.

it is okay.

however young people dont need to slow down, they can learn/work at much faster speed
Thanks for response! So are you looking at Chrome (and Firefox) back to 4-5 years past (via caniuse?), and not using something if they don't support it back that far?

(at least ES6 is, generally, in all current browsers (not IE) as of more than 4 years back at this point. But are you delivering ES6 to browsers, or still limiting yourself to ES5?)
PCIe 5 was standardized May 2019 and you could buy it at retail in late 2021. 2 years good rule of thumb.
It seems unlikely that all this talk about "inequality" would stick if people were happy with virtual wealth.

Eg, am I supposed to care about inequality caused because some people don't have a Facebook account/access to the Facebook ad market/a stake in managing the company? The accounts are basically free anyway. I'm convinced that Facebook has generated a lot of value, but I'm sceptical that anyone cares about the inequality of its distribution.

Compare that to food, energy, etc, where it is easy to see how lack of access/no ability to influence the decisions made would cause screams to echo throughout the land. I think that is probably what people care about when they talk of "the economy".
Thread: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1478808783006552065?s...

jwz and I were among the actual, full-time job, staff@mozilla.org Mozilla founders. There was no "Mozilla" to work at then, it was Netscape employing almost all staff members, with Chris Blizzard of Red Hat dotted in. Mozilla was not spun out until 2003 summer, when AOL laid off most of Netscape but kept three of us mozillans for a few months to complete the transition to the new nonprofit.
To contribute negative value to the company? Seems like a good deal, for the CEO.
>say you don't have enough room in your apartment

It's all good until you disagree with your roommate/SO on what fits into your apartment... then the head-wall-banging can be indefinite!
This is part of the game. Embrace it; the vast majority of jobs produce no real-world value but few pay as well as SWE. At least you aren't part of a democracy-destroying behemoth.
I'm not sure it's "normal", but I've heard similar things from enough folks that I think it's at least "common" amongst 'full time corporate' devs. I work more in the freelance world, and there's usually not quite as much of that sentiment, as there's usually more self-direction, but freelance comes with its own set of problems as well.
I like the idea here, but it does not seem to support the Apple Pencil feature for handwriting to text when I try to write in text fields, which is a bit of a deal breaker for me. I hope you can fix that because I do like most everything else.
If I was to guess, I think a lot of it has to do with the transitory nature of so many software jobs coupled with investor pressure to deliver and get ROI. Engineers are switching jobs every couple of years so projects have a constant in stream of new engineers and a constant out stream of tribal knowledge. Very few people are given the proper time to spin up and really learn the codebase, they are given a brief walk through and then expected to start closing tickets. This is how short cuts and not following best habits sneak in. The business side also has immense pressure to start making money so this pressure impacts the software delivery schedule forcing more features into each sprint. Worked at a company where the schedule was always intense but a ton of bugs were making it to production so we decided to introduce unit testing. We all attempted to start learning the new unit testing approach and started on it, but then the pressure from above to deliver features ramped up and the unit tests turned into useless stubs. Couple months later they just ceased to exist. Common response will be to push back and say no but that's not so easy to do in practice when you have to deliver your tickets for the sprint or get pipped. While it may not be so extreme everywhere I bet some aspect of this pressure exists in most places. If not, please let me know where and I will apply :)

This is all my anecdotal experience, I could be totally wrong in the grand scheme of things.
My day job is "artist" and the "everything looks terrible forever" scenario depicted here is rather exaggerated, IMHO. I can enjoy something pretty when I see it but I can also let ugly things slide by without worrying about it.
Good way to spin having only 4GB vram into an 'anti-mining feature' I guess.

Of course, 4GB is typically considered the bare minimum for modern 1080p (let alone higher) gaming and this is just a budget card which was definitely not limited with any mining considerations.
Former LastPass user (2+ years) and current 1Password user (2+ years).

There’s no looking back. LastPass was buggy and the UI ugly. That was fine when it was free but when they went to fee based for cross platform support we switched the whole family over to LastPass. Everything works, is pleasant to use, and no slimy tactics.
I was responding to the claim that vaccinated people are the ones with the worst illness. That claim is dangerous bullshit.
Really glad I read this.

I quite like my current job, but this really resonated:

> By volume, I’m referring to the total number of obligations that you’re committed to complete—from answering a minor question to finishing a major project. As this volume increases past a certain threshold, the weight of these efforts can become unbearably stressful.

I have this happening to me RIGHT NOW. I am on 4 different projects, PLUS I am expected to on-board a new engineer onto our team.

The thing is: I also have a ton of meetings I am forced to attend.

I'm sinking! I'm going to have to work late for at least a week! It is stressful for no reason!
almost as in the old joke:
- there is constant/limited quantity intellect on earth, but the population is growing...

there is constant/limited ability to grasp things, but the things and complexity that (piece of) software represents, grows..
I don't want to live in 'libertopia', where there are no rules at all, but zoning always had a component of keeping 'those people' away from 'nice neighborhoods'. In the city I live in, right now there's a group fighting to keep duplexes out of their wealthy neighborhood. That has nothing to do with legitimate concerns about truly noxious smells or noises. And, ironically, the whole town grew up around a smelly, noisy, river clogging mill.
Patching the AWS JavaScript SDK for Service Workers
current top of the line SSDs are close to maxing out 4 lanes of PCIE gen 4. Gen 6 will make it a lot easier to find room for a few 100gb/s ethernet connections which are always nice for faster server to server networking, as well as making it easier to use pcie only storage.
> So, one of the few reasons to ask for the startup headcount is to compare to its revenue and quickly evaluate its soundness.

This line lead me to believe otherwise. I agree the trend is more valuable, but still has issues (e.g. months- or years-long projects will have no value until they are released)
You can make SSDs arbitrarily fast by just making them wider/more parallel. The reason it seems like PCIe 4 or 5 is "fast enough" is because the SSDs are co-designed to suit the host bus. If you have a faster host bus, someone will market a faster SSD.
> PCIe already provides more than enough bandwidth for the fastest SSDs

Today, yes and a few tomorrows as well. But even when a standard is announced as finalized, it can be a long time (Years even) until it makes it's way onto motherboard of the consumer space. By which time, the current goalposts may start looking closer than expected.

I'm just glad they have one number, no endless revisions and renaming of past releases and with that - thank you PCI-Sig.
I've been paying for one license of LastPass to use on multiple computers and phones since 2012. Never any problems. What the heck are y'all doing with it that makes it so unreliable for you?

The only problem I have is that my iPhone 7 doesn't always detect my USB-C UbiKey NFC, but I think that's a UbiKey or iPhone problem.
How is being consumed a good thing? Maybe I’m misunderstanding you.

If there was an entity that fed off the souls of the dead (opportunistic predation) and set itself up in mythology as god (no tangible benefits), how would that be good?
It's not so simple. The juicy stuff is on private trackers and you can get into one only when invited. So you have a catalog of crap and not much more.
I don't know how great this lunch was. It doesn't take a Pixar legend to say "let's make a movie about toys coming to life." Even I could do that. What it takes a Pixar legend to do is to take that idea and create Toy Story on time and on budget.
I am in a similar boat. Working in an agency that's part of a global tech/consulting firm and having multiple clients with multiple projects to juggle I know a bit about meetings and context switching.

Being involved in the Slow Food movement I also see the inspiration for slow productivity.

But I can't agree with the negative, somewhat fatalistic point of view.

I believe we need voices like Newport to someday be heard by people at the top running companies that are plagued by middle (project) managers that need to be seen as doing something.

I have seen the value of great client and project management first hand (albeit these were far and few). And I have seen the productivity it provided for the teams involved by providing goals, guidance and a map as well as trust and keeping distractions away as best as possible.

And I have seen busywork, work simulation and the simulacrum of work.

I value uninterrupted time to get stuff done. And I learned to be okay with days filled with meetings that also pay the rent. I know what I enjoy most, though.
In war and love everything is possible.
the reason for which trump started it are totally different than the reasons for which democrats want to continue it.
That would be unfortunate for anyone with a family. It would mean staying away from them over the weekend for any business trip.
What ethics are we talking about here? Mozilla leadership carried out two large layoffs rounds whilst drastically increasing their own salaries. They already have unethical leaders.

For countless years they've been handed some 400-500 million(!) for "free", just by keeping Google the default search engine. For a conventional company, this kind of money requires a massive operation, customer base, etc.

Mozilla just gets a check. Half a billion for free. And then pisses away this money on projects where most are questionable, have no impact, etc. All the while the user base shrinking further and further, for over a decade now.

If that is the situation, it seems pretty reasonable to me to just get rid of leadership altogether. Let the tech people figure it out, it's not like they can do worse.
At-home Covid-19 PCR test for Google employees
> The Tysons development in Northern Virginia is an example of this hell

That's insane, and even more that when I searched for it it's being marketed as "liveable".

Google Maps shows business names, but flip to Open Street Map [1] and two things stand out: motorways and car parks.

> also near a metro ... most everyone else who visits must have [a car]

Um... the metro?

But you're clearly right. To get from Tysons Corner metro into the mall you must climb stairs, cross an 8+-lane highway in a tube, then another road, then cross a plaza. They didn't think of connecting that tube straight into the mall building, or connecting it to the opposite end of the platforms.

Outside North America, the parking garages for a mall like this would be below (sometimes above) the shops and the mall would be oriented to have a very short, covered walkway connection to the metro, and if possible the station would be in the middle of the mall.

There would not be 21 road lanes to the east, 10 to the north, 9 to the west and 4 to the south.

> dystopian future

Looking on Wikipedia, I'm amazed at how recently much of this was constructed.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/38.9224/-77.2233 (shows railways better).
I think that open source software (like Linux distros) may be the best examples because they tend to avoid the traditional "business problems" that I initially referenced in my question. But could these same contribution and management methods work for private enterprise? Maybe not...
I have a similar thing going on with GitHub. Was told I was hired mainly due to my "outstanding GitHub profile".
Totally, and sTRX4 has a limited set of board available.

I was hoping AM4 would provide that many lanes on easy to buy motherboards, but it's a meager 28, so not even enough for 2x x16
> Not anymore they don't. I recently bought a chromebook .. but the bootloader is locked

Every ChromeOS device I know of supports developer mode, and I was fairly sure google mandated it. Which device do you have which does not support developer mode?
Weird, I'm more surprised this wasn't all over the news. You'd think something like that would fill up social media.