skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone here on HN once mentioned that they cleaned or worked on their deck or whatever while working and nobody cared. I did the same (well, no deck but other stuff) when i had long stretches of downtime or notice that nobody else cares as much as I do about the project. Same result, nobody gave a fuck really. I don't think it's sustainable, but whatever.
Ozzy Osbourne’s NFT project shared a scam link, and followers lost thousands
Microsoft's "Windows Update Delivery Optimization" steals more bandwidth in a day[1] than this project could hope to steal in its entire lifetime AND this project removed that feature. Let's point our pitchforks in a more productive direction...

[1] S.W.A.G.
This is only true if you never pass arrays to functions. Once you have a function that takes in an array and does indexing, it is possible to ask if it ever can access memory it wasn't supposed to without changing that function.
Wow. All these years it's been the keyboard, not me. Kinda mildly infuriating.
The official FAQ has been updated with the following:

"What happens to my additional Google services and paid content if I don’t want to pay for Google Workspace premium features?

If you don’t upgrade to a Google Workspace subscription, you will not lose access to other Google Services, including YouTube, Google Photos, and Google Play, nor paid content, including YouTube and Play Store purchases."

Source: https://support.google.com/a/answer/60217?hl=en#zippy=%2Cwha...
I don't know, but maybe it is being exported for use as cattle feed like the alfalfa in California:

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26124989
> [on health insurance] It’s very comfortable to know that you are likely not going to receive a huge bill for doing an ultra sound for a routine checkup.

Just as a comparative data point from the other side of the pond (we're mainland 'yurp): our eldest is currently fighting off some kind of infection with swollen glands and abdominal pain and within the last 10 days I have visited:

- our regular doctor twice
- [the first time] was referred for ultrasound at another doctor, where he was seen immediately [then]
- referral to a paediatrician, where he was seen the next day [and]
- he eventually ended up having a complete check-up in the paediatrics department of our nearest hospital, including blood tests.

None of that was much fun at all, as any parent will know, thankfully so far none of it uncovered anything bad (thank $deity), but happily all of it was funded from general taxation and deductions that everyone here contributes to.

Which is a relief.

Next time I'm tempted to whinge about how high the tax rates are here, I need to remember not to.
Well to be honest you just don't use Cassandra with the thinking that you will perform regular SQL queries. It's an illusion. It's real use cases are more specialized.
Aren’t the rates fixed? If not then it’s a fairly ridiculous trade to take on. If no one has a fixed rate then without massive inflation any kind of interest surge will decimate the country.
Web3 is now worth only web1.9
Something that bugs me: How much human poop is generated worldwide every day and where does it go??

Why isn’t some of it used as fertilizer, or is it?
It def always had that light elevator music.
Well that was a pretty short article!
Any headline that starts with a question can be answered with a "yes" :)
Apologies, I was not clear.
There has never been a "deadly COVID19" pandemic for <45yo
If they are 18650 form factor you may be able to replace the cells, and probably with higher capacity ones.
makes me remember when i installed slackware 1.0 on the family's 386 when my dad bought a fresh 486dx. ah the joy of getting an X server running and recompiling kernel!!
Yeah, it really is, and people didn't believe me when I said with certainty that it was the keyboard's fault.
Include labor and leverage in your thinking on diversification as orthogonal dimensions to asset class. Even rich people can bring their own labor out of reserve when there assets are losing value. When assets appreciate, they can rebalance towards leisure.
> Even if the author legitimately didn't mean to do harm, and was acting in good faith, he should never (or at least, for a very very long time) be trusted

I disagree. Let people learn from their mistakes.

> ... to contribute to software that isn't subject to someone else's review.

That's hard to do when it is the author's own software. This "someone else must be lord and master" solution often doesn't apply to reality. Also, I've seen entire companies full of bosses managing people who "are not to be trusted" to do the right thing eventually end up doing the worst possible evil. Let the author learn, and move on.

> He knowingly merged _malware_ into his software and then did the minimum amount of plausible deniability

Or he asked his most active users, and they said it was fine as long as I can turn it off. Who knows... To assign any intent other than to make some money would be assuming a lot of facts that are not in evidence. The good guys won on this. Let's move on to actual problems instead of punishing someone for learning.
What the developer should do in this case, if the dlls are not GPL compatible, and they’re not “system libraries”, is specifically enumerate through them in his license.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLib...
The where a Danish site that I absolutely love, it was a bit of a meme in it's own right. For 10 year or so, it was just a centered text say: "Det skal nu nok ikke regne med" (Danish for: Don't count on it).

That's it, that was the entire site.
It's paid for, so I guess it would be in bad taste to have that included. At least the free one you can argue it's ad-supported or whatever.
Personally I think that the difference between a CIA backed coup and direct military invasion is a distinction without a difference if you live in the country. Either way you have a stronger foreign power stripping you of your local political autonomy and threatening your physical safety.
People used to make jokes about me because I was on my computer all day. This was back before it was big, when people just used it for AIM instant messenger. I never understood how they could not be amazed by it. I'd imagine how amazing it would be if computers could be faster, portable, wireless.. how much could be possible. Now all those people are on Facebook and have their phones glued to their eyes. I still use computers and devices a lot, but having spent so many hours lost in cyberspace I have a certain dislike for using computers without getting some value back. I also find staring at screens in the middle of conversations to be annoying, while most of these people don't have a problem with it. It's a weird irony. I kind of hate it too, especially all the misinformation that spreads nowadays
He covered the empty estates issue well enough I thought: by the mid-2010s they were mostly fully constructed and occupied, including in rural areas. That chimes with my experience, having lived in a few different parts of the country (urban and rural) over that time period. It was rare for completed housing estate to be bulldozed.
I think my point remains valid, to do safe string stuff in C I have to think a lot harder about stuff to do with lengths that I don't have to think about in go. And I didn't want large dependencies because i was writing a .so to preload and intercept execve and open. And even after all these threads I don't know the name of a small string library to use in C, except TCL because i used it before.
Yes, the official FAQ has been updated with the following:

"What happens to my additional Google services and paid content if I don’t want to pay for Google Workspace premium features?

If you don’t upgrade to a Google Workspace subscription, you will not lose access to other Google Services, including YouTube, Google Photos, and Google Play, nor paid content, including YouTube and Play Store purchases."

Source: https://support.google.com/a/answer/60217?hl=en#zippy=%2Cwha...
What? I’m not the one complaining about comp. I’m in a peer group that’s highly paid yet still cries over compensation.
A proposal for improved language around divisibility
https://www.uniqlo.com/us/en/employment/job-opportunities.ht...

My first commit: Don't hide text on links on job opportunities page.
Don't think about how a library works - until you have to
That is true for properties that are valued at less than 1mil. And you have to pay mortgage insurance. For properties that are >= 1mil, you have to put 20% down.
Where client code is something someone outside the organization implemented and is using, that makes a certain amount of sense. But when the client is another internal team, and the SaaS product the company sells broke, the customer doesn't really care that the database team and the API team don't get along - the product is down and while it's down, no sales are happening. The point, thus, of looking into other teams is to get a sense for the challenges they face and to have a less adversarial working relationship with them.
> The calculator assumes that there's no cost to integrating with your system.

Thanks for the feedback! And that’s correct, but I think you misunderstand the calculator. This is for the cost of the licensing server alone, not the integration into a software application, which will of course cost additional time/money either way. Regardless, the real build vs buy savings in almost any third-party are in often forgotten long-term maintenance costs.

> It also assumes that the developer is salaried, which is almost never the case when it's a single-person shop.

If you don’t have a salaried developer, or at least have an average spend per-year to be able to input (even if it’s yourself at an hourly rate), then you likely aren’t my target market. And that’s totally fine. One-person shops like to unnecessarily build things in-house because they typically value their time at near-zero. They’ll spend weeks building something they could have paid $19/mo for. (Which is fine -- they churn more often and require more support, in my experience.)

> The amount of effort required to learn your system, to do the integration, to test and to support it is absolutely on par with the time it would take to make a simple licensing framework from scratch.

Keyword here would be “simple.” In my experience from running the business for nearly 6 years, most licensing systems aren’t simple. And if they are, they likely don’t even need a licensing server in the first place -- just do signed license keys.

I have testimonial after testimonial of the opposite conclusion -- that the API saved significant time and money -- especially for the long tail, years after integration.

Unless your licensing system is incredibly simple (and in my experience they rarely are), there’s money to be saved in not building and maintaining it in-house.
I guess with 8 something years at Meta, if the RSUs were not spent stupidly, considering the stock appreciation and the refreshers, it would be safe to say this person's net worth is at least $2M.
Whether or not it's sterile seems to me a completely independent variable from whether or not it's useful to test. Seeing as how it's not completely water, but rather water with various things dissolved in it, the relative levels of those dissolved compounds would something that could be worth knowing.
BTW, the new Thread stack for controlling IoT stuff in your house is IPv6-only. That is, my light bulbs now run on IPv6.
The main question is, what would be the source of the bubble?

Is it cheap capital? Fraudulent bank practices? Or is it because people wanted more space during lockdowns while having the sense of financial stability?

If the demand increased while supply stayed constant, the price increase is not a bubble. I waited for "the bubble to burst" for years before realizing there likely is no bubble where I am from. Housing's just expensive.
Some random company is not the state.
Well that was quite the rabbit hole. Makes me want to actually watch the newer shows (Picard and Discovery).
It is just you. Those jobs that you deem "pointless" make the economy work. To find great jobs:
1. Be clear about what "great" means to you. What do you value?
2. Research the company to determine if what you value is the same as what they value. Every company goes after profit. This is a good thing. Profit = you're providing value to someone. If you don't believe that, work for a non-profit. That's cool too.
3. Realize that everything meaningful was built by teams. No one can build something that stands the test of time by themselves. When you zoom in, things may seem pointless, but when you zoom out to look at the timeframe of decades, you'll see meaningful change derived from many of today's companies.
Salomon shoes and boots can take a serious beating.

Red Wings if you want heavier.
Not an SWE, but reading your post I am concerned that this may be more than an unfulfilling career.

Please consider reaching out to these good people:

https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org
I Am Not a Utilitarian
> I don't throw things away without some premeditation, because I bought it with some premeditation.

I like this. Lately I've been thinking about what I own. I've come to the conclusion that if I'm going to own something, I want it to be good, and I want to have made a deliberate decision to own it. But I also have a bit of a minimalist side to me and can't stand clutter, so to me the decision to buy something is a big one, because I feel like I need to consider the whole lifecycle of that object first (Where will I keep it? Can I easily bring it with me? And how will I eventually dispose of it?).
I am not arguing about quality of life. The point is that less than 40 hours per week (it can be in fact close to 30 as less than 40 is a conservative estimate) was enough for a single person to feed a family and have some extra using manual labor.
It was everything.

Interest rates fell dramatically, government stimulus/cash transfers were far in excess of any lost wages, fewer people wanted to list houses and do showings due to covid.

Certainly a perfect storm.
What do you use to provision Kubernetes persistent volumes on bare metal? I’m looking at open-ebs (https://openebs.io/).

Also, when you bump the image tag in a git commit for a given helm chart, how does that get deployed? Is it automatic, or do you manually run helm upgrade commands?
Nikkei has been doing this a lot lately, essentially tweet-level articles (and tweet-level effort) for full ad revenue.
NCEES tried a few years back and developed such a curriculum but there wasn't enough interest so they got rid of it. IIRC, something like a total of 6 people were certified as a software engineer in the last year it was available. I don't see required licensure for software engineers happening unless 1) it's driven by employers or 2) it's driven by regulators. I don't see #1 ever happening because it's asking the employers to give more leverage to their employees. I'd personally like to see #2, at least on certain safety critical applications.
I enjoyed this a lot. As Hal Varian says:

Happiness isn't having what you want. It's wanting what you have.

Growing up on the far South Side of Chicago, we didn't have a frozen lake handy, but there was this odd phenomenon where some lots were permanently vacant, usually belonging to the houses next to them. I guess land was cheap at one point. Now if I go there on StreetView, they all have houses.

Anyway, these vacant lots were always sunken below street level, and many of the adjacent owners would flood them in winter so the neighborhood kids could skate on them. Imagine doing that in the current litigation-heavy climate.

I don't remember anyone golfing on them, though. We did play hockey. If the puck went into the snow, you'd "take it out" like in basketball.
Crop rotation, livestock integration and guild planting can be applied in all of those cases.
Make them remote, and I'm instantly interested
Seems like a lot?
Everything past the first paragraph gets loaded separately, I'm guessing it didn't for you for some reason.
All abstractions are ultimately leaky, but you still need to have them to build large things.
I have to agree. The article quotes sound right and wonderful, but thinking about the environment in which I work, there’s not really a practical way to combine our efforts. We simply wouldn’t get things done in time.

Division of labor ensures that changes can happen reliably and quickly. I’m ramping on an internal library right now and it’s taking a while to understand it’s complexities and history. I can’t imagine making quick changes to this without breaking a lot of stuff. It will take time to develop an intuition for predicting a change’s impact.

Now multiply my ramp up time by every dev on my team every time they need to make an update. You can imagine productivity slows down and cognitive overhead rises.
Companies that hit scale with small teams
I'm not sure I agree about RISC-V. ARM is now indisputably in the same performance ballpark as x86_64 (M1 most obviously but there are others), as is Power, but RISC-V has a ways to go before it can compete on the same turf. It hasn't even really competed with ARM in embedded, despite its advantages there (though it has all but killed the zombie corpse of neo-MIPS).

I do agree that without other processor makers, however, the Power ecosystem is crucially overdependent on IBM policy. This is not a new problem but it hasn't gotten any better with OpenPOWER.
Was the A10 really that bad back then, or did Acer nerf it with poor cooling or slow ram? I remember a time when the A series chips were a good buy, but that may have been substantially earlier than 2016
We are fourteen years into an extraordinary boom in asset prices and fourty years into the bond bubble because boomers are frankly greedy and want to pillage as much of their respective country's wealth before they die.

However, the only thing stopping them, the only boomer boogeyman that has ever existed (other than maybe WWIII) has come out of the woodwork: inflation. And now it is somehow still "bears are wrong lol cassandra lol" or whatever? You have to be kidding me.
Technically Linux could once upon a time run on a 386, but because the kernel is a non-modular spaghetti-code mess, they had to deprecate 386 support to fix something else. It's only a matter of time before 486 is gone too.
Seemingly no one from the staff even tried to find it, as cleaners just a day later discovered it in a hedge right outside.

> The automated cleaner failed to stop at the front door of the hotel in Orchard Park in Cambridge on Thursday

> However, much to everyone's relief, the device was found nestled under a hedge on Friday afternoon by a (human) hotel cleaner sprucing up the front drive.
Hedera Governing Council Votes to Purchase Hashgraph IP
One idea would be to replace alcoholic beverages with Kombucha. It feels nice in the mouth and fulfilling.

Another would be non-alcoholic beer, which is essentially the same as beer, but just with all its alcohol boiled off.
actually it is easier to understand than borrow checker from rust

a function is much better, it's explicit
Flavor too. Corn fed beef is preferred in many applications. You’d never smoke a grass fed brisket for example.

Even cattle raised on grass do best for steaks if they’ve been fed grain the last few months before slaughter.
There are two types of NFT art buyers, the one who buys it to sell it and the other is called a bag holder.

But the bag holders are usually happy to spend money on a link to a website, even if the art is sloppy, they just want to be a part of the culture. They are buying a feeling. It's not unlike buying a diamond whatever or a car, boat, whatever you don't need.
For some people, like retirees, it is not possible to hold. They will sell to limit losses and still allow themselves to retire. Give the great resignation, we just added millions of retirees who will sell to maintain their savings.
I've tried every NA within reach, but settled on Busch NA. Anything that tries to be an IPA or other feels like an expensive imposter. Busch kind of hits the same spot Coors Light did, which was my usually go-to for light drinking. And it's < $1 per can.
We had a hot water bottle burst this week. My wife woke up to soggy feet and the water had penetrated right through the mattress. The bottle was empty and probably slowly leaking all night. It took much of the day to dry the mattress out.

On inspection we found the rubber had perished, probably as the bottle was around five years old. The replacement cost less than £10, including fluffy cover. We'll be sure to inspect this one more frequently when filling.

Not only does the bottle provide her warmth, to helps ease the pain in her arthritic feet.
Expecting a language be better "enough" is an unrealistic one, you will be waiting forever.

Of course no language will be perfect to a specific domain, there is no objective metric every individual has their own needs and no universal language can cater all them at once, there will be trade offs.

Rust is already better enough( and possibly will take decades before another language "suceeds" it), choose it or be on the perpetual expectation for a "perfect" language
Yes, it is. They are not explaining HOW IRE1a is triggered by CDB, and it is because CDB triggers the CB1/2 receptor which activates these pathways.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

"Overall, our study investigates for the first time the effects of the endocannabinoid AEA on primary human T-lymphocytes, demonstrating that it is a powerful modulator of immune cell functions. In particular, not only we clarify that CB2R mediates the immunosuppressive activity of AEA, but we are the first to describe such an immunosuppressive effect on the newly identified Th-17 cells. These findings might be of crucial importance for the rational design of new endocannabinoid-based immunotherapeutic approaches."

The only way CBD can trigger these pathways is by effecting a cell receptor The only cell receptors for CBD are CB1r and CB2R. There is literally no other way this can happen.

If y9ou can explain how CBD increases IRE1α activity any other way I am all ears,
For this specific discussion, why focus on inflation (price increases in a broad basket of goods) at all, when it's a specific subset that is causing the issue, and the reasons for price increases in that subset is dominated by specific causation, disconnected from the purported reasons for the broader basket.

Because any fixes for the broader inflation problem would have relatively little effect on this specific subset.
I was very depressed when I was still working.

I'm doing pretty good mentally without a job.
> A "silo" is incomprehsible in a factory

Efficient factories are built on silos. You do your job in your area and the next person does theirs. You might collaborate, but you absolutely have a clear division of labor.

If you don’t have a division of labor and silos, you don’t have a factory. You have artisans.
And GameCube, and Wii/Wii U.
Sure sounds good, let's do that with obese people too. Let's see, no need to treat lung cancer for people who smoked anymore. I think we just give a check list to doctors and let them decide on who to treat based on decisions someone has made in their life. Good idea. I'm on board
Look like not paying for labor that makes your clothes, gives you impressive margins. [1]

https://cleanclothes.org/news/2020/the-devastation-of-covid-...