skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. It is too easy to read this as a rejection of tools, processes, documentation, and plans. That interpretation makes it harder for at-the-coalface employees to get help from leaders when they...

- actually need tools and processes designed to set the conditions for healthy interactions among individuals.

- actually need to spend time improving the documentation to enable them to produce working software.

- actually need to have a meeting-of-the-minds so they can collaborate with customers.

- actually need to spend some time planning so they can respond effectively to change.

Part of the problem here is that good technical leadership is waaaaaay more difficult than can be reflected in a 4-point manifesto. Whole books[1] are written about it. Part of the problem is information flow. It takes courage to speak clearly enough to tell leadership that they're so focused on being agile that it is harming social trust in their organization and preventing their teams from acting with agility.

[1] recommendations: The Toyota Way, Leadership is Language, Ego is the Enemy.
No, consumers want to be able to charge back and get their money back if they receive the wrong goods, don't receive any goods or find out the goods they received are fake.

Consumers want to charge back if the vendor isn't supporting them.

Consumers want to charge back if the charge is fraud - stolen/leaked/socially engineered - whatever it may be.

The last thing a consumer wants is to be liable for transactions they didn't make/want and have those transactions be irreversable.

Reversing transactions as a scam is fraud and you are protected from fraud by your card member agreement, and you would be refunded your cash because the cash transaction is reversable.

Please list one non scam related use case for irreversible transactions and tell me how anything crypto/coin solves that. I've seen in the past 2 weeks alone that oddly enough, smart contracts are changeable and someone changed them to defraud the market... so what good is a smart contract if you can change the terms of the contract and you have to devalue/destroy any coin that participated?
My point was, I didn't see much difference to what the US has done to Wikileaks, and the hypothetical arrest by the US of journalists & scientists over leaking the top secret origins of an outbreak.

Now that I think of it I was likely incorrect. There's one big difference: I expect the US would first make sure they wouldn't look too bad doing it. That's almost certainly why some Swedish prosecutor happened to blow Assange's sexual affairs utterly out of proportion: kill the name before the guy.
Well, Booking and Adyen mostly. I'm sure there are more, but these two are probably among the most famous.
I agree a toxic culture is probably driving the great resignation. I don't believe it is lack of money. I do believe and have experienced toxic work relationships and environments. I've had a career as a software engineer -15+ years-, and then shifted to security. Developers reflect their environment and are largely toxic individuals or the object of toxic teams. There is a love/hate relationship with Execs and Tech pros, and the salaries they demand. Execs are looking to cut costs, Tech is looking for career advancement and longevity. Developers are caught between these two rocks. Then the fear of outsourcing for a lower cost workforce. It sucks.
The best advice I can give is to enjoy your work and don't get hung up on a $$ track as your measure of success. The $$ will work out in the end, you need to find relationships of like minded folks and support each others careers, boost each others ratings. Provide excellent customer service - the customers being those business owners of your development projects.
Look for at least a cost of living increase, ask what needs to happen to get a raise. It's harder than you think. You have to not just produce cheerfully, but provide breakthrough solutions. It's always been a fact in the US that you have to perform the advanced role for at least a year before your title and compensation reflects it.

Cheers and good fortune~
I’ve always assumed it’s cheaper to have an editor quick-cut footage into fake combat than to have a choreographer create realistic combat.

Also, combat in general is incredibly boring in modern films. Punch, punch, grunt, grimace - without any consequence. Maybe someone has a cut lip which is gone in the next scene. Superhero movies are the worst for this, where characters routinely throw each other through walls and none of it matters because they are as good as invincible.
Somewhat similar is Grace Hopper explaining the nanosecond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFDBPk4Yw
Thank you, what I missed is how you do to find out for other providers. In Brazil you covered 50% of the carriers. But how can I help you to find out the other ones and update the information for you. Should I contact the providers and ask for it and send a Pull Request?

Again, thank you for putting this into a post!
Don’t forget, especially relevant for thus crowd, writing open source software.
> Code has quality can be measured in more than just one dimension.

Well, if you don't need to change it (like the GP), most dimensions are moot. We used to call that "maturity", but the entire concept is out of fashion nowadays.

What leads to a correct architecture being probably the most relevant one by a long shot. Because a good architecture is a hard requirement for parts of your code to stop changing (the other being requirements maturity, that is not a dimension of code quality).

But yes, before reaching maturity, there are many dimensions of quality you may want to optimize for, and they conflict between themselves. Also, architecture astronauts get this name because they don't create good architectures, so you don't want them designing it anyway.
I think this is brilliant, not for N95 masks and the whole Whuhan Fever stuff but this has huge potential for industrial applications in the occupational health and safety fields. There is a need for these monitors in everything from confined space safety to firefighting where having a small battery is not a prerequisite and wearing a respirator is already a requirement.

I look at this as a possible example of something good coming out of the tragic situation we all find ourselves in, along the same lines as the medical advances born out of the horrors of war.
It's a problem of the incentives we've setup. We reward engineers for building things. Promotions, pay raises, etc. for engineers are typically based on impact and technical complexity, not how good their documentation was. I've been at a few places that handwave at such things in their level expectations or skills matrix or whatever, but having been in promo discussions at a variety of medium and large companies it always comes down to what was shipped.

Problem is, at mature companies there aren't enough greenfield problems to match the large number of engineers who are looking to climb the ladder. So stuff is rewritten, then rewritten again since nobody understands the rewrite, and so on. Managers kind of look the other way because retention and the ecosystem becomes messier and messier over time as promoted folks leave and new folks come in that need to be promoted.

This is the world of professional software development at pretty much every company not a startup.
That makes sense. Having an "in" definitely helps at all stages, but I can see how it be even more essential when you're more junior.
RCS doesn’t need a separate app either. You can have SMS and RCS conversations in the same app regardless of if you’re using Google Messages/Samsung Messages/etc
It helps with CG integration.

It’s changing now with color spaces like ACES becoming the standard (wider color gamut).

I Work in the industry.
This is one reason why I am a big proponent of network engineers physically visiting their equipment periodically. In large networks that may never happen, data center techs (often not even your own employees) are the only ones who ever see the racks in person.

Even if the 3rd party tech notices something unusual about the optic the certainly aren't going to touch it without a ticket and will probably not even mention it.
Companies will never, ever be loyal to their employees.

Don't fall for that "being loyal to your company" mindset. You won't get rewarded.
The US is a large power compared to any individual European country. But for example Microsoft about as much money in the EU than in the US.
The super-wealthy have been doing tricks using physical art pieces to store and exchange wealth for years.
Relevant Xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1200/
Public health researchers have not been able to explain Sweden particularly well, but Japan is a country with scrupulous rule-following. You will note they also have the world's highest age of mortality in non-covid times, too.
This too shall pass.

And we'll laugh about it some day.

Like the "hand held shot" that became popular a decade or so back — in every serious drama the director seemingly gave a GoPro to someone with tremors. A number of TV series were comically unwatchable (well, for me at least).
Posted less than 24 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29909329
I am blown away by the wafer of Xbox 360 CPUs hanging on this guy's wall. That was a kingly gift!
1. They credit/blame “The Matrix”, but let’s also note David Fincher’s work, especially “Fight Club”. (https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/movie-color-palette-david-...)

2. We still aren’t there yet on CGI. CGI humans are still in that uncanny valley. And what helps cover that up? Well, muddy up the color palette, and decrease brightness and contrast. I’ve certainly done that in my still photography work, where I was on a deadline for a volunteer project, and I thought to myself “you know, dialing up that vignette slider is really going to cover that up.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-space_representation
any thing similar for back end code - mainly databases and such?
Perhaps a counterpoint to this post [1] yesterday? I sympathize, but I'm not sure I buy it.

> There are no dates

Perhaps not here, but the author's Current Projects page [2] certainly has one.

Anyone who's worked at a large enough company will know that documentation goes out of date constantly, and I figure something similar applies for personal websites. If anything, blogging does a much better job of showing its situation in time.

> a quantity over quality issue that I refuse to fall for

This seems to be the crux of the argument, but I think this is a false dichotomy. Regular deliberate practice (i.e. quantity) produces quality over time. The difference is that blogging makes this process public.

I think this is a good thing overall. Any field has perfectionists like Vergil or Gauss who hid the process that produced their extraordinary work. And while that certainly creates an extraordinary effect (and I certainly don't think every project needs to show how the sausage is made), it sets a perfectionist culture where good work emerges as if ex nihilo.

I would rather set the tone for an experimental and iterative culture, where most of the daily work is so-so but we see the process build to something great over time. And if that encourages others to show their not-so-perfect process and start publishing, I think that's a wonderful thing.

Or maybe I'm just biased because I blog. [3]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29908077

[2]: https://kolemcrae.com/current-projects/

[3]: https://arunkprasad.com/log/why-i-blog/
in general, why complain about popular music these days when you could just listen to other music?* I play mostly older and indie games, and am unaffected by industry trends like microtransactions, style-less photorealism, always online and shudder NFTs

*because you want to watch a new superman with your friends. you got me there
I think this is focussing on the wrong things.

All jobs can be scored on three metrics:

1. The nature of the work;

2. The compensation;

3. The people you work with.

The article is really just zeroing in on points under #1, but #2 and #3 matter to most people, too. You can do cool work at home alone for free, but that wouldn't be a very good JOB.

In my 30 year career, I've had some jobs that scored poorly across the board (but hey, paid the rent). I've only had 2 jobs where all THREE were at least B+.

My job right now -- 14+ years! -- scores B+ on the work, but A and A+ on the other two points. Which helps explain the 14 years.
Why bother with analytics for a hobby website?
I found Copilot to be a great helper to write the documentation for the product that I am working now.
I just type a few words and this thing suggests the rest of it. Never was documentation process easier for me!
Should e-cigarettes be licensed as medicines?

Only if you also require regular cigarettes to be licensed as medicines, or if you want to create yet another illegal market.

The tobacco companies did a good job of making it harder to use vapes. History has made me heavily biased to see any attempt to make alternatives to tobacco harder to acquire something that must be in some way funded by big tobacco. I see that as a personal attack on a family member that has been trying to stay away from tobacco.
Not an expert; please correct me if anything is wrong.

My understanding is:

1. there needs to be somewhere to escape to, for the schwarzschild radius to make sense, and there's no "outside" to the universe

2. we don't know how big the universe is or what it looks like; if it's infinite and uniform then there won't be any central point for a singularity

3. as others have mentioned, inflation is a get-out-of-black-hole card

4. the physics of the early universe aren't necessarily the same as physics now
It's a way of ensuring you're on a supported platform with a supported browser, and, most likely, that you're only logging-in once (or in only one place at a time) with any given set of credentials

Since it's an authenticated (from their perspective) add-on, they also might do some "clever" things with the materials being offered (animations vs flat PDFs, for example)

It may also handle/verify some aspect of their support model
Like our social media feeds, our brains take a little while to update
is this really a thing? I mean if you can afford it, go on, but why make the same mistake 3 or 4 times in a row
What you call mass psychosis is just poor information and misinformation filtering through the population, and it’s always been commonplace. Dumb people have always existed, and the vast majority of individuals know very little about anything outside their own niche of expertise (if they have one).

Under this logic you could accuse anyone of a disparate political view (ie anarchism) of mass psychosis
Yeah poor leaders are probably the most expensive cost for the company. The way leaders are recruited is just not effective at all.
Show HN: I made a grid based font editor and font
Hello HN! I wanted to make a font that I can "snap" to vertices on a grid for an upcoming project, and after starting making it I decided that it was going to be easier to iterate if I made an editor too. It uses opentype.js to generate the font and some invisible textarea tricks combined with svg for the text editor.
Sounds like a gap TCL could fill. The syntax is simple and consistent, a developer could create packages that a non-developer end user can use as commands, and it could be wrapped with GUI code that runs on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
It is easier to put and name the functionalities in a same category
Wow, I'd forgotten about Xevious, and I loved that game.
Not convinced. Unmaintainable code is the big problem. He is right that the future is unforseeable. That's why code needs to he maintained. A weird non-local bug is detected. The developer who wrote it found greener meadows. Sales has sold a feature we don't have yet. We notice that we do business with some different functionality that we originally envisioned. There will always be reasons why code needs to be maintained, whether it has worked for 3 days or 3 years.

Now if the code is unmaintainable and every change takes 5 times as long as soon it should and introduces 3 new bugs we are in trouble.

Shitty code is almost always unmaintainable. (Unless the shittyness is local inside small functions, but I doubt that's acommon case.) Of course over-engineering and needless optimizations also lead to unmaintainable code.

If the company policy were "Write shitty code" I would run away. I am sure it would lead to absolutely horrible results. At my work we stress the value of good code. Still we end up with shitty code regularly. We just didn't know better when we did it. And we do not rewrite everything once we believe to know better. It's hard enough to struggle with that level of shittyness, I don't want to have it increased fully intentionally. I do that for scripts I will never use again, but not for anything I merge to the code base.
A big reason for going to college is socializing so.. makes no sense to go now.
That's right, but the US does this all the time with its military/intelligence networks, China does the same for it's public internet. It's not like their providers are running at a loss, they just need the right incentives.
... friends, a comment from Boston, Massachusetts

Welcome to Merry old Boston
The Land of the Bean and the Cod
where Lowells speak only to Cabbots
and Cabots speak only to G*d
Also worth noting that language that runs this very website was implemented in Racket.
Ireland to launch universal basic income program for artists
Personally I feel like the decline was more progressive, starting with season 5 rather than just the last seasons falling off a cliff
Those student lones are worth a lot to the govt, lifetime additional tax.
> This really smells fishy, because a browser extension bypasses any browser security one may have, and has access to one's entire computer.

IIRC that one is no longer true since the advent of sandboxing (and the end of native-code extensions via NPAPI and friends), all permissions have to be granted by the user explicitly.

> What valid reasoning could there be to justify a browser extension for this purpose?

Given the permissions it asks for (access catalyzex.com, arxiv, google scholar, twitter and google) and the description, I'd guess that whenever you search for some research paper it will forward the search to catalyzex and annotate search results.

Unfortunately, the access to Google and Twitter can also be used to exfiltrate your credentials or to commit actions on your behalf there, so I'd be very careful. Too bad the Chrome extension store (unlike the Firefox extension store) does not allow you to directly download the extension to examine it, or to prevent automatic updates.
No, as a site is not allowed to block users who do not agree to tracking cookies. The result is that many sites will rather geoblock all users than implement GDPR.
What tech do you have to specialize in to get $1 million a year?
>> I am blown away by the wafer of Xbox 360 CPUs hanging on this guy's wall. That was a kingly gift!

Yeah, the only place I've seen a full wafer on display is a display case in the lobby of a chip company office building. I wonder how often some process goes out of whack and they get an entire known-bad wafer that still looks great?
While there are lots of people that like to selfhost (including myself), the majority of users don't want to. Look at all major services from Google Drive to iCloud to Dropbox. Depending on what it is, I'd even rather pay for a hosted version than deal with it myself. I do this with Bitwarden. I don't want the headache of all the potential that could go wrong when I can just pay $10 a year for a fantastic password manager.
Uhm, isn't your comment misleading?

https://plausible.io/privacy-focused-web-analytics

All of the data that we do track and collect is kept fully secured, encrypted and hosted on renewable energy powered server in Germany. This ensures that all of the website data is being covered by the European Union’s strict laws on data privacy.
> "ending religion"

Can't think of any ways that would be difficult or risky?
Seems like the idea of exposing a programming language to the end-user should have better support so that it's more routine to create a restricted subset of something existing for users to put arbitrary code in. Something with both standardized textual interface and standardized structured editor interface would be great. I guess this was always the dream for LISP but it never got there.
What I’ve realized is the baseline Maslow hierarchy level has shifted upwards. Many of us have evolved. Management patting us on the back because we’ve made them an extra 10-20MM is not as meaningful to us anymore to motivate us to keep going.
Those diversity trainings and targeted raises and promotions for Diversity candidates are part of the toxic culture.
I think it depends alot on your rate of digestion (or understanding? can't find the right word...) of a piece of material. Being dropped in an alien book can make it tough to grasp everything on first pass. If you already have a lot of knowledge that links to the topics being discussed it is a lot easier to grok it in one pass.
SATs are the dumbest thing I've encountered in testing. In the US scoring high in some SATs will even qualify you for Mensa(gifted stamp).

There are a handful of companies that own a huge margin of the standardized testing market(Pearson being one of them). From selling new test learning books every year, to the massive global standardized testing training market.

Maybe the movements to eliminate SATs have a different agenda, but generally the main reason you need those SATs is because the average education level in the US is so horrendous. Instead of fixing that problem there are a handful organizations acting as money printing machines and gatekeepers for higher education. It's frankly disgusting.

If you ever had to take ANY kind of industrialized generalized test, whether it's ISC2, PMI, 6 Sigma, TLA+ or just SAT's or IELTS/TOEFL GRE or even just normal US university multiple choice as a non American you might find the whole ordeal infuriatingly insulting(unless you studied medicine, in which case it's similar across the globe)

It's a lazy cop out for not giving teacher enough resources to actually teach.
I think at this point, Rust will not really replace C++ just like how C++ never replaced C.

Given the learning curve of Rust and the lack of tools it's still a bit of a gamble to choose Rust over C or C++ IMHO. Why take that risk when the benefits aren't entirely clear cut.
The article is litteraly split in three sections adressing those concerns.
I call BS on this, at least in America. I went to community college and a middling state university. Pell Grants combined with various STEM and achievement-based scholarships covered my tuition and then some. When I graduated I applied for two jobs and had three offers (my current employer at the time also wanted to keep me).
Interesting that it calls itself Eliza, like the NLP software from the 60s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA)
> I suspect the extremely slow ability to adapt to environmental changes led the tree to near extinction so in the end near immortality is not a good strategy

Those are different concerns. Immortality is about how long an individual tree can live. But how quickly the species can react to environmental change is determined by the rate at which an individual tree reproduces, not how long it lives.
I mean a Firefox update was pushed by the company on our computers this night and starting from this morning, users started complaining about issues
I have a completely different experience than “pulling a DBS check is a default”. Fintech yes, other startups and tech giants have never asked me.
Socialising, sport, arts, drama, many people meet their spouse at university, yeah lots of reasons that don't apply any more.
19-year-old claims he hacked into over 25 Teslas in 13 countries
Important to note that "senior dev" here means title, not actual seniority, e.g. ~5 yrs experience gets you in that range even at an early-stage startup in the Midwest.