skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one of the key things about Laravel is that the creator, Taylor Otwell, is only focused on Laravel. Imagine if DHH didn't ever have Basecamp (or 37 Signals) and only focused on Rails and the Rails ecosystem. The Laravel team now has several full time employees working on making the entire Laravel experience as painless as it can be.

Of course Taylor and the Laravel team have paid products, but they are all 100% focused on the Laravel ecosystem and developer experience!

Some of the things that the Laravel ecosystem has as first party packages / services:

Paid:

• Vapor - Serverless Platform. Run your vanilla Laravel apps on Lambda.

• Forge - Server Management. Builds Laravel ready servers on any cloud.

• Envoyer - Zero Downtime Deployment. Deploy your apps with push-to-deploy.

• Nova - Administration Panel. Completely code-driven admin panels.

• Spark - SaaS App Scaffolding. Basically a SaaS starter kit.

Free:

• Horizon - Queue Monitoring. Like Sidekiq

• Jetstream - App Scaffolding. SaaS starter kit with teams, invitations, api, etc.

• Echo - Realtime Events. Think Pusher, Socket.io, etc.

• Sail - Local Docker environment.

• Valet - Dev Environment for Macs.

• Mix - Webpack Asset Compilation. A sane wrapper around webpack.

• Cashier - Subscription Billing Integration. Stripe + Paddle.

• Dusk - Browser Testing and Automation. First party browser automation for tests.

• Sanctum - API / Mobile Authentication.

• Laravel Scout - Full-Text Search. Wrapper around Algolia, Melisearch, or full-text database searching

• Socialite - OAuth Authentication. Log in with GitHub, Google, etc. Dozens of community packages as well.

• Telescope - Debug Assistant.

That's all first party. It's unbelievable to me how many batteries are included. Then you start looking at the surrounding ecosystem beyond that and it gets even crazier.

Laravel as a community is an extremely welcoming place, and I have found that most people care deeply about their code and architecture, but don't pick each other to death on details that don't matter. I think all in all it's a pretty pragmatic group.
Some Reflections on Drawing Causal Inference Using Textual Data
> So you attempt to get other people to very vocally leave the place

So...exercising your free speech to convince other people to exercise their free speech? Sounds like lots of free speech to me.

It's up to the host whose presence they value more. They can always decide you're an irritating busybody and no one wants your negativity killing the vibe.
Hire a Human, not a technical stack
> Almost every single post on r/MurderedByAOC is made by u/LrlOurPresident, and those posts hit the front page on a nearly daily basis.

Do you see the same content when browsing in an incognito window?

I ask because I've long suspected Reddit tracks even logged out users, and generates a front page showing them more of things that keep them on the site.
Yes to some degree. While I doubt I could even begin to compete with the carbon emissions of some countries and corporations I try to do my part. I moved to a state that makes heavy use of green energy that is also much less expensive than my former state. I use that clean energy to heat my home. I adapted my body to be comfortable at low temperatures 58F-64F. At 57F I just put on a zip-up sweater. My home is heavily insulated and partially earth sheltered. In the winter I put double-sided insulation on half of my double pane windows.

Solar will not work great on my property but I will eventually install some. I've been holding off from Solar not just because of my property but also because low frequency inverters are still evolving and competition is growing. I am leaning towards Hysolis.

I am holding off with EV trucks as options are very limited, many bugs are still being worked out and competition is still very weak. My first EV will most probably be a side-by-side [1] and that should be fine for ~95% of my driving needs. I would prefer a Honda EV side-by-side if they made one.

[1] - https://ranger.polaris.com/en-us/ranger-ev/
> No. You've drifted into believing your opinions are facts.

Fair enough.

I've also hired "many" people (many in my case being about 12, so that may not be "many" by other definitions).

I think it's fine to disagree, maybe my overall sentiment was much too strict, but let me just say that in my experience years != years, even people in the same roles at the same company can have wildly different experience levels from the same years of being there.

This isn't really accidental either, a good example was.. me.. actually, I had a colleague who had the same number of years experience and for all intents and purposes we actually matched super well in our abilities and mentalities.

However, we worked together for 7 years, on the same projects, same deadlines, same tech, same responsibility.

That man knows far more about influxdb than I possibly can: despite both of us having "7 years influxdb" on our resumes.

I know more about postgresql than he likely ever will, but we both have "7 years postgresql" on our resumes.

Aptitude is one thing, attitude is another, and at the end of the day: the only thing that works is to set your standard and see if people hit it.

For me, senior means that you're able to teach, are self motivated, can speak at a high level to leads or directors and understand business need, regardless of technical competence in specific technologies or years experience.

If you hit that bar, you get the title, if you don't, you don't.
It can't. There's not much more to say, even with the current anticheat it's no way to be certain a real human being clicked a real mouse. As the other comment shows, you can start adding more and more invasive monitoring solutions but this likely won't be tolerated by many and will eventually be bypassed anyway.
I think it's just everyone trying to minimize their miserableness.

For a lot of people with long commutes or terrible work offices, "minimizing suffering" is working from home/a co-working space regardless of what those look like.

For a lot of people with terrible home office setups or lack of boundaries with family and short commutes, "minimizing suffering" is going to an employer's office.

Personally, I think work from "home" (anywhere) is the better path for most of the HN-types. At its core, it's us taking back _control_ over our workspace and we have the resources to make it better if we choose to. I can move somewhere with a spare room to use as an office. I can't make my employer give me a private office.

Which is all to say yes, I'd love to see a more in-depth poll/study on _why_ people are making the decisions they're making. My suspicion is that it largely comes down to which problems are easier to fix for that individual.
I've had good experience in games with human moderation and recorded demos that you can play back to catch and report cheaters. After building some reputation and trust in the community, you'd be permitted to join a server with fewer random new users and practically no cheaters (and usually far more skilled players). No need for intrusive anti-cheat solutions (that IME just gave legit users trouble and still failed to stop cheaters).

Of course, I don't expect AAAs to offer an experience like this, because human moderation doesn't scale cheaply to 10s of millions of players.. race to the bottom <3
https://www.codingshorts.io/
Glade is Gtk3 only. I did download Cambalache, albeit merely for prototyping since I thought it was going to be easier than looking for GNOME Figma assets, but it is in too early of a state even for that.
TBF the best advice for people who only want a bunch of "classic" bricks for their small child is to buy them used or of some generic conpatible brand.

I totally understand Lego not putting any marketing power in that direction and pushing so hard for more branding and licensed sets.

The other end of the spectrum is their educational sets, but then we're really into the multi hundreds of dollars sets.
http://blog.cleancoder.com/
> Being opensource doesn't imply the game server will allow modified builds to work

The client can lie about being modified. E.g. it can send false hashes.
I grant that the absolutist antiwork position fails to meet basic reality compliance standards.

But does that give the current de-facto state religion -- cradle-to-grave workaholism (wildly out of proportion to the amount of work we actually need to do to sustain ourselves) -- a pass?

Why is the promotion one position an instance of 'sanewashing', while the normalization of other (no less insane in my view) position is just -- "the way it is"?
There's nothing wrong with someone only liking the follow instructions aspect of Lego and not the fully creative DIY aspect.

I think one of the weirder parenting things is a parent trying to get their kiddo to like something in exactly the way the parent wants and anything else is a failure. "I built my Legos without instructions and we had fun! Kids these days...!"

But then parents don't realize they misunderstood the entire point from the beginning. Legos were never a magic device to make someone creative. They were always just a way to try and sneak creativity into people. It just doesn't always work. Some people pick up Legos and make castles and cars and all this stuff, while some people pick up Legos, make a box house, and give up.

Maybe your kiddo is secretly part of the gives up camp, but it's satisfying for them to follow to build instructions.

What matters as a parent is that you gave them an option to be creative. And that's super cool on its own, y'know?
Fist bump to quitting early. I am leaving a company after only 3 months (Edit-- I also will not plan on working for several more months!). My parents (both in their 50's, who are used to the idea of working all the way from 22 to 65 years old in your life) do not like it one bit. But then again, as Americans we all have some weird hardcore norms about work. That attitude is slowly changing I think.

Funny enough, I had a bit of the opposite happen in the interview -- I was upleveled due to my performance, and the money was awesome. Just had a lot of reasons for feeling unfulfilled.
> They know such a ridiculous 27% policy is unlikely to be tolerated by the regulators.

I actually think I'm 100% with Apple on this one. The Dutch regulators made the same mistake Epic and so many devs across the internet and hitched their "I don't want to pay 30% wagon" to "Apple is disallowing 3rd party providers" which have nothing at all to do with one another. The people pushing these regulations know that they would go nowhere if they tried to attack sales commissions directly and now the stupidity is bearing fruit.

I'm absolutely in favor of regulations that make it so platforms can't skim percentage revenue off the top but any regulation that does that will attract the ire of literally every business that sells things.

And hitching the wagon to "sideloading" or "alternative app stores" is equally as stupid because you're just trying to find a workaround to things that aren't the core issue. Even with sideloading and other app stores Apple can still demand a sales commission.
> At least for Go and Rust, they have a much steeper learning curve.

Yes for rust, not really for Go. I was able to pick up the basics of Go in less than a day, and the more advanced topics I was able to pick up not long after. OTOH I've tried to pick up Rust several times, and every time I just sit back in defeat.

> should we talk about how dependencies are managed in Go?

I'm curious what you're referring to here. Go's package management works, and is decent enough. No centralisation, and can work with just about any git repo.
In its early days (version 4 and below) PHP was a bit of a mess. However it got its act together with version 5, as it implemented an object model almost on par with Java's, which I thought kind of set the standard for how OOP should be done. It's just unfortunate that much of the mistakes with version 4 and below had to be kept in order to preserve backwards compatibility.
> My view is that capital is nearly irrelevant in mainstream technology now beyond achieving bootstrap

Wasn't that true for traditional businesses as well? Beyond bootstrap, the company itself (revenue streams, assets, etc.) is the capital.

I mean, if I wanted to be a landlord in the middle ages the only capital I need is a bag of gold coins to buy enough land and build a fort and "bootstrap" my lordship... (and maybe a fake birth certificate :)
> What they don't talk about is that their "more convenient taxi" ride is heavily subsidized by VC money

This meme really needs to die. Uber did burn VC cash earlier on, especially in places w/ intense competition (e.g. vs Didi in China), but that's not an accurate portrayal of the company anymore. Uber has been a public company for like 3 years now, and they actually posted a profit on adjusted ebitda basis on Q3 last year (with a promise for a larger profit for Q4).

The Uber-is-cheaper thing isn't an accurate premise these days either. There have been numerous articles of people complaining about high airport trip fares due to the mismatch between demand and supply curves due to covid lockdowns/reopenings. There were also price hikes in two key markets (SF and LA) partly due to regulation.
According to that post, 0.75% (3/400).
If you're interested in Erlang/Elixir, https://www.theerlangelist.com/
Calling China’s military inexperienced seems extremely ignorant to me. Against what yardstick are you measuring their military experience?
Read the article, it's explained. The term was coined in r/neoliberal, https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/js84tu/how_did_.... The poster there asks the question, what to do when you want to hold a position but you encounter good arguments against it? And then answers it:

> I’m arguing you’re going to “sanewash” it. And by that I mean, what you do is go “Well, obviously the arguments that people are obviously making are insane, and not what people actually believe or mean. What you can think of it as is [more reasonable argument or position than people are actually making]”.
Yeah, weird. I thought I was an (softish) Android fan who got converted to Apple by working at a place developing on both platforms, and being exposed daily to just how much wildly better an experience my phones and tablets could be.

Guess I was wrong.
Tell HN: You can't recover AWS access
If you have an AWS account that for some reason you lost access to (losing access to the mail attached or to the second factor auth number) then you are lost.

In the site, they tell you to call their support number: 1-206-577-1364

But this number is not available.
And it seems like it isn't available for months at list, from searching the internet:

https://twitter.com/opethftw/status/1429019949377507329 (Aug 21', Amazon tells him to try again. This doesn't work)

https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonprime/comments/nzlqpl/customer_service_numbers_dont_work/ (Jun 21')

You might find yourself locked out of an account draining your bank, with no one helping you.
I think more specifically:

1. People are unwilling to make changes that they perceive as being a net negative to their quality of life.

2. Businesses are unwilling to make changes that they expect to have a net negative to their bottom line.

However, I don't think the the climate movement was "killed", it quite clearly continuing, if anything thriving. That's not to say what happed to these woman wasn't absolutely outrageous and is another example of the London Met operating well beneath the level of service they should be.

The trouble is that for too long the climate activists have used very strong words and actions that put the public off of their cause. They also ask for too many large changes too quickly discouraging people from making the small changes that are an easer start to making larger lifestyle changes.
I'm writing an app in js, and I started writing it in deno (using ts) because I generally like deno and typescript.
Unfortunately, I needed it to respond to incoming emails, and there's no imap library available for deno yet (as far as I could tell), so I went back to node.

The neutralino website has a header that says "native APIs", but it's not clickable, and "tutorial" took me to YouTube.
Is the neutralino API compatible with node's? Can I use all the npm stuff?
> What if I want to order my weekly groceries like I always do, but suddenly we have a global pandemic, everybody wants groceries, and all I can get is pickup from a store 5 miles away?

Funnily enough I did exactly that with my bike during the initial lockdown.
As an aside, Fox News launched in 1996, although that could have been a response to the market rather than a cause.
I had a situation where New Yorker was able to charge me, after I used one-time credit card (and thus invalid) that was issued by Revolut.

The explanation was like this that, it was an “offline“ charge, which they let thru.
Not much harm if you can visit the museum's workshop. In my hometown (São Paulo, Brazil) there are two groups in the local big state uni that talk about building a computer museum, but that talk, from both engineering and computing groups, has been going on for decade after decade with not a single room being dedicated. Such an endeavor would require constant funding for years and the space to match and I'm absolutely sure they'll be stuck in this duck measurement contest until the cold death of the universe.

I would gladly donate part of my collection if I could be sure the machines would be preserved and available to the public to see. It's more likely I'll bring it to Ireland and help a local college start a museum than wait for those duckheads to make up their minds.

Edit: I blame the autocorrect. And HN not dealing well with asterisks.
To be fair, there are a whole lot of low skill jobs that are pretty crappy. And if I didn't see a path to a job that wasn't low skill, I'd probably prefer to not be working too.
this is just a cutesy title for a work history interview.

If a company thinks that life=work, then that's a red flag.
>Cars are like distributed computing - millions of independent transportation options are superior to top-down, limited public transportation.

And yet we do most of our computing in centralized centers in the cloud and as SaaS - with the machines they have being increasingly more like dumb terminals for most people's needs.

Also "are superior to top-down, limited public transportation" on what metric?

Not on energy and environmental costs, congestion, and several more besides...
Nissan to end most development of new gasoline engines
You don't need short selling for a stock's price to drop. Markets for everything else use the normal mechanism of "if no-one is going to buy this at this price, I need to drop my price if I want to sell it".

For example: you can't go to the bakery, borrow a loaf of bread, sell it to a passing punter, and then pay the baker at 5pm when they drop the price to get rid of their stock before it goes stale.

The rest of the economy manages to find the "correct" price for things without shorts. So could the stock market.
You could paste this statement under a headline about the US and be just as correct.
> There is even a bit of a stigma about working while sick - if you do so, your coworkers will urge you to just take a day and rest up instead. Pretty cool and pretty rare.

I feel like it’s not acceptable anymore to go to work while being sick since the Covid-19. I would be upset if I see a sick coworker at work.
Zuck is not threatening to starve Europeans of insta, Zuck is threatening to take away the most expedient propaganda tool a government ever had. Zuck is overtly threatening the political class that relies on his psychotic technology.
> or too desperate to get a job

I wouldn't necessarily say this. Since it is "how things are done," these days, I strongly suspect that folks want every competitive advantage they can get, and it's perfectly understandable.

It's just that it's an extremely 1-dimensional way of evaluating people that are supposed to be creative and intelligent. It doesn't actually tell you anything about them; just that they are good at practicing rote (which, to be fair, may be exactly what a corporation is looking for).

I am very fortunate. I spent my life, living frugally, and investing carefully, so I have the ability to step back. I know that very few people have this capability.

A career is a really big deal, and worth it to prepare for.

The problem is that over thirty years of shipping software is not something that is easy to express in a few scholastic tests. It's something that can sometimes be easily demonstrated, but consuming and evaluating it is time-consuming.

I have spent a lot more time, preparing my portfolio, than lots of folks have spent at leetcode. If that's not valuable to a company, then, c'est la vie.
>L3 etc

Why this stuff always starts at some random number like 3 or 5?
> Aside from the upfront cost, how much do you think a query would cost?

My best guess is at about $0.5 per 1,000.

> I guess kagi is currently running at a loss

We are in beta and not chargining any money, so yeah by definition we are running at loss.
Yeah, some things are really difficult to do any better with standard pieces but honestly that can't be excuse. The quality of pieces that xingbao can deliver is simply not up to the task and they should have expected that.

Plus the pressure that is put in the pieces by the weight of the models might cause them not age well. So the benefit of using standard pieces might not be that great in this case.

As for the reviews, Held der Steine is sadly very biased towards towards Bluebrixx. Look at the comments under the last video where he shows the big Enterprise. They are extremely negative.

Also quality is very inconsistent. Some people are very lucky and get good pieces while some others have less luck. So you can't really know if you get a good batch.

Honestly they are still OK display pieces but the price is not really justified by the quality.
"imported from..." made me laugh, especially as I know a couple of 'importers'.

BTW and fwiw, I loved being in Albania, also Macedonia. Bulgaria was cool, and Romania is crazy hilarious.
>There have been some serious accusations made against Apple infringing on user privacy, and essentially snooping and collecting all usage data, and I mean ALL

By whom?
It was probably just the death throws of American culture. People realized the direction things were headed and realized how terrible it would be. Then those people were punished and silenced and now everyone just goes along with it all, no matter the cost or consequences.
>Once you go a tiny bit more rural than a million city, you start encountering "once an hour buses" and "there are only 3 buses a day here, only 2 on Sundays" situations.

So? Those are some of the best places. They slow the rat race frenzy down, for one...
If anyone wants to strip you of your "Senior" title, run.
Bradfield School of Computer Science is Phenomenal
I guess I don’t see the creepy connection? Putting on a fake smile with simplifying the way you present your work?

Or is it the way the ted talks focus on one generally animated person that is creepy?

Or that it’s the speaker adjusting themselves or their message in some way according to some circumstances?
There are a lot of low skilled jobs in a service economy. I imagine that a significant fraction of all jobs are low skilled ones. Not everyone is chasing the hustle or whatever either, so there's a significant amount of people will be working those low skilled jobs their whole lives. What quality of life do they deserve? Does society want a permanent underclass that are treated miserably?
As far as I can tell, 4chan is vehemently against the current neoliberal wars. They laughed their asses off at the US abandoning Afghanistan and are questioning why the NATO has to be in Ukraine at all. Perhaps I misunderstood your tone.