skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> * Spending all day squinting at a small monitor sucked.

To be fair, the pixels were bigger back then.
It all comes back to https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/

Most games seem to strike a good balance and I tend to read all the text. When in groups it can be challenging if there are others who just like to advance at breakneck pace - about the only time I have issues with in game text.
I am strictly a Twitter reader and my account is private but damn is my Twitter feed great: hilarious tweets, schizo takes, interesting links, lifting tips, latest news, crypto shilling... it feels like a real culture, like some ancient bazaar or city square. So good.
The beauty of your argument is that it's unprovable. No matter what language someone might suggest they enjoy that they can't find a job writing any more, you'll always be able to counter saying "Ah, but you've not looked hard enough! They're out there!" It'll always be the candidates fault for not scouring the world searching for that AP/L role or Shockwave Flash advert.

The assertion that no matter what tech you want to work with there'll certainly be a job writing it somewhere doesn't seem right to me. Not because there won't be some uniquely rare role out there, but because very few people want literally any job, anywhere, on any salary, under any conditions just because they get to a specific language. Unless there's good jobs writing it that you would actually accept then the language might as well be dead.
Thanks! We have the exact same complaints, and that's why we invested so much effort in this approach. I think a lot of companies would never do this because they'd fear adversely impacting their conversions metric, but our goal is to just get people to understand our product as quickly and easily as possible and hopefully get feedback.

We also really don't like product tours that lock you into an endless sequence of modals, so we came up with this "overlay" that users can turn on and off, inspired by museum audio guides you can hold up to your ear whenever you like, or ignore entirely.
I think the bigger issue for Putin is his army and his support. That will beging to fade if he goes into an area that is not supportive and then Russian soldiers start dying. It's all good 'capturing' territory without a loss of life, but are the Russian people going to put up with dead soldiers just for them to occupy Kyiv?
Most of the day to day of the news reel is basically Reality TV.

Firstly, the Cable news stations (CNN, Fox News) aren't news programs - despite the name - they are talk shows. It's Maury for politics.

The broadcast news, that's news. But it's not without its problems. Whenever I would over hear my mom watching it - it's so shocking how it's done. some of my gripes, based on what little I've seen over the past few years:

- The tone of the newscaster has changed - they don't sound like they're just reporting it - there's emotion or gravitas in their voice that make what they're saying authoritative.

- When they cover politics - especially elections - it's always a fluff piece about the big two candidates. When the democratic primaries for the 2016 election were happening - they'd barely mention anyone but Hillary. You'd have 10 minutes of Hillary, 1 minute of Bernie and 0 minutes of everyone else. Same in 2020, but add Biden. It's no wonder my mom had no idea the other candidates even existed. (and don't get me started on how the candidates make up issues just to debate them - so tricky - pick a hot button topic that is important, but may not be important right now - I think we know the big ones)

- Fear mongering - this goes with the first one I listed. Instead of simply reporting that tragedy happened and giving the facts, they'd just keep the emotional level up. It's a bait and switch. You get drawn in by it and then vote for whoever is going to "fix" everything. The morality of it is, in my opinion, similar to what psychic does - play on the emotion of someones tragedy for money.

And I say all this as someone who doesn't follow the news or politics very closely.
There are a bunch of them though compounding normally uses the rule of 69 / 69.3, or rule 72. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_72
> I think there are three main kinds of career destination, at least in the tech industry:

> Independent

> Senior individual contributor (IC)

> Management

I guess I'll stick my neck out and just admit that I don't want to give any more fucks about any of the above and just wake up, sip my tea, read the news and take a bloody nap whenever I want to. Also volunteering/open source but mostly, not doing things I don't want to do any more. Yep, I don't want to be "incredibly excited" about the "next growth chapter of my life" - I just want to live my life in a non-agile way without sprinting towards the end of it. That is about it.
How will being attached to something as valuable as speech change the value of that?
Uswnt, U.S. Soccer Federation settle equal pay lawsuit for $24M
> - I know I lack the people skills & charisma to make it to the higher levels of management

I'm not convinced this is big deal as you think. Just care about the people you work with and care about doing a good job, and you're better than lots of people succeeding in this role.
But there are more in the US section than in the UK. I also noticed that in America you use brand names for a lot of medicines rather than the 'real' names.

Just a cultural thing I guess.
Ask HN: Is Kubernetes the only alternative for being cloud agnostic?
My company's management desires for us to be "cloud agnostic" - without having a firm definition of what that actually means. Lots of people in my company think "cloud agnostic" means you "containerize" your solutions and run them on Kubernetes. Then you can pick and move your application from cloud to cloud as desired. That seems extremely limited to me. To me that thinking exemplifies the cloud as being "someone else's computer" rather than seeing the cloud as an application platform in and of itself.

What does HN think about this? Is there a way of looking at "cloud agnostic" that still allows you to look at the cloud as an application platform and not just as a platform for running Kubernetes? Is there another way to think about this?
> In what sense were they Ukraine's nuclear weapons? They were physically inside Ukraine but controlled by Russia, as the article you linked makes clear

Possession is nine-tenths of the law [1].

Soviet weapons in Ukraine serviced by Russia when the Soviet Union dissolved had no clear owner. Russia would have had to seize them to gain control. Ukraine would have needed to develop or contract out servicing expertise.

To say nothing of the threat even inoperable nukes pose. If Ukraine had unserviced warheads in 2014, do you really think they would have found nobody who could get them working again?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_is_nine-tenths_of_t...
It's interesting to me how many people miss the other big shift that can increase their earning potential: from labor to capitalist. The ceiling is effectively unlimited for this. A good manager might make double what a good IC under them does, but the shareholder makes orders of magnitude more.

The essence of capitalism is shifting resources from unproductive uses to productive ones, and they operate on global markets, which gives them unprecedented leverage. Capitalism is a skill just like management, and just like management, it consists of a number of subskills. How do you know what the market will value? How can you evaluate the competitive landscape? How do you make yourself aware of technological developments and new suppliers that might affect cost structures? How do you recognize emerging complements? How do you ensure the legal structures of your agreement make sure that you share in the profits of your investment?

The interesting thing is that developing these skills early, in high school and college, helps dramatically even if you don't have any capital to invest. Because you can apply the same questions toward the company you contribute your labor to, and then bargain for stock instead of cash. A junior developer who joined Coinbase in 2016 made a lot more than a manager who joined Facebook.
Lol. The default keymap is indeed fairly intuitive since it hasn’t been customized by the marketing dept yet. Power, menu, up, down, input.
Curious about quantum computing
Yah, much of the news isn't even news, its either punditry, gossip, or fear mongering because something sounds scary (school shootings vs car accidents, hours of pandemic talk without anything new, etc).

So, yes cutting all that BS our is going to make you feel better because in two weeks no one is going to care that $celebrity had $life_event.
What? ctrl+k should enter a digraph.
> The first phase of your career is probably too early to make serious plans, and any decisions you make at this stage are rarely critical: there's plenty of room to experiment and make mistakes.

I think the decisions you make in the early stages are indeed very critical, but there's basically no way to truly predict their effects, so you shouldn't worry about it.
That's right. We've changed it now. Submitted title was "European Union to require all job postings to show a salary range".

Submitters: please don't do that - the site guidelines ask you to use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've run into this problem, there could be multiple reasons: standard job descriptions that are used over and over, jobs changing shape while the company is screening applicants, unclear objectives on part of the hiring managers, etc.

We try to have the peers review the job descriptions before the reqs go out but often engineers don't spend the time it takes and sometimes there's HR lingo the company wants in the description.
Exactly, it's just a very quick hack, and scraping and parsing is 'good enough'. Not pretty or long-term reliable, but it does the job.

Very happy to take suggestions for other services - any ideas? What other critical dev infrastructure goes down a lot?
We’ve not done anything that physically demanding, but we’ve definitely had events with short hikes, a chair lift ride up the (summertime) mountain to the lunch spot, or other short diversions from large group discussions. I’ve never gotten any sense that if someone were either physically unable to perform it or just not interested that it would be held against them and in any group of 30+ people you’re likely to have someone who doesn’t want to/can’t do exactly the activity and so you make accommodations.

It’s not like you’re going to be coding while waiting for the next set.
Nobody wants to live there. Canada has plenty of cheaper places like Calgary and Edmonton and Regina, but few move.
relevant recent thread regarding Happiness & Work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30424181

The MIT Sloan article is 1 day earlier. quite a fast move from Microsoft :D
For the "why" you would ask him, but didn't he stress in his speech yesterday, that he considers the whole Ukraine a part of Russia?
So yes, if the Russian troops do nothing beyond settling the status, it might be good for the local population. But what if not?
Why would he need such a huge army just to consolidate those regions, why army in the Belarus? I guess we will see what happens (and I wished things stopped where they are now).
Millions of cars not driving back and forth every day on useless commutes. Fewer trucks transporting shit tons of resources from rural productive regions into large metropolitan areas.
Ask HN: I just gave myself a panic attack. How do I stop this?
UI Lead here - managing a few projects at any given time, mentoring junior developers, working with the backend team on endpoints, etc... most of you know the drill.

Pulled master branch, no build errors, Angular isn't complaining but I know the problem is in the UI side, probably with graphQL (angular apollo). I cannot get a single VSCode extension to work to help debug it so a junior is going through and commenting out code they changed to try to find it.

There is no way this project is done on time and the entire software department is looking at it. I'm 1 of 3 leads on it.

Quite literally just gave myself a panic attack thinking about it and the looming deadline.

This isn't the first time; I've been dealing with this for months now. It went away for a bit (2-3 months) and now it's back. I've been drinking all kinds of clamming teas, supplements, trying to change my diet, walk more, etc...

I just can't stop them :( 99% of the time it's chest pain or back pain or etc... every once in a while it escalates into a panic attack.

I keep trying to tell myself f' it - it doesn't matter. Fire me if you want to; we're doing the best we can. But it's not sinking in...

I.do.not.know.what.to.do.anymore. Vacation? FMLA? Career change? wtf would I do if not web development (been doing it 20+ years)

help.
> The President of Ukraine and all official channels say they do NOT believe a full-scale invasion will happen.

This is part of Ukraine’s lobbying effort for strong preemptive, rather than reactive, sanctions against Russia; Ukraine is arguing that Russia can be dissuade from invasion by tougher pre-general-invasion action, and is acting (whether they believe it or not) like they believe that their lobbying effort to Western powers for this approach will succeed in getting the desired policy which will, in turn, dissuade Russia.

So far, whether or not they are right that it would work, they seem to be largely unsuccessful in lobbying, with the US, especially, offering only limited sanctions for the actions related to the separatist regions but holding back the massive general sanctions threatened in case of a broader invasion as a reactive contingency.

Ukraine’s official channels are very clear that they view decisive factor in Russia’s decision making the strength of immediate Western action.

Examples: https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1495922056541753349?...

Viewing the Ukraine statements about not expecting a full-scale invasion without this context is...misleading. They are saying if an invasion happens, it is because the West failed to be resolute in the ways Ukraine expects them to, not that Russia does not intend to invade.
WOO MATH.

Among the happy people I see, most have the "randomness" I talk about. Among unhappy people, I see a mix of both.
> Russia alone controlled the codes needed to operate

If Ukraine had held on to those nukes, disconnected, an engineer today could re-work them to function under Kiev’s command. (American PALs from the era have de-classified weaknesses that merited upgrades. Post-USSR nuclear safekeeping was roundly criticised for decades [1].)

Even barring that, possessing fissile material is no small feat. It would give Kiev the credible capability to e.g. threaten large sections of Russian agricultural production. That’s the sort of thing that deters tanks.

[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SE-11.pdf
I like the CBT-I course at slumbercamp.co for insomnia stuff. It's step by step and scientifically backed.
Ah, the old "make it harder for customers to install safety updates" argument.

> The company would have an incentive to rigorously test the patches before sending them out.

This doesn't stop traditional automotive companies from releasing buggy software (they have far more recalls per unit time than Tesla), and anyway the issue you noted above wasn't a bug, it was a perfectly safe _optional_ feature that NHTSA didn't like.
So much to unpack here.

For starters, being informed makes for more interesting conversations with others. It means that you get to reflect on what you stand for, and grow as an individual with an opinion.

News is also the gateway for deeper information. If you stick to just the news, that's one thing, but if you then go deeper into the topic (what is the relationship between Ukraine and Russia?) then you get invaluable context. Without following current events, how would you know what is an important topic to follow?

Finally (but not lastly), news makes you informed when it comes time to vote at the municipal, state, and federal level. If you don't follow the developments in your community, your vote is at best useless, at worst it's harming the democratic process.

Edit: I should be clear on what I mean by news. In the traditional sense, it's reporting on facts, checking sources, and providing two sides to every story. Opinions and partisan "news" are not that.
I can also sympathize with the engineers trying to fix this, but I hope that they wouldn't be thinking that they could be fired for this. Successful teams that I have worked on, even at big companies with high-usage products, have always promoted a culture of "systems break - let's improve the system, not blame a person". Any 'mistake' by an employee is actually a sign of a problem with the system. Any resilient system should account for human errors - those always happen. I wouldn't want to work for a team or company that would consider firing somebody for causing an outage rather than addressing the root cause.
Do you mean mechanically or the setting?

Mechanics-wise, a big part of the gameplay is figuring out for yourself what to do. Everything is discoverable, but you have to be willing to take a few jumps without seeing where you'll land. The early experience feels like you're just trying to keep a bunch of plates spinning; with some practice, that gets comfortable enough that you have bandwidth to also make forward progress.

Settings-wise, yes but also no. You find out more, which all seem to be part of a coherent whole, but the entire whole is not revealed.
It’s a platform for self-promoters and journalists, looking for the current “pulse.” I never had the need, personally. Tend to avoid their site, that requires megabytes of js for business reasons as well.

But I also recognize that sales and marketing folks exist for a reason and don’t fret too much. If and when I start a business, I’ll look into it.
> People get paid to promote shit on HN. It's a job you can get.

Do you mind sharing more information about this, please?
> Both are problems.

One is what the discussion is about and the other is a completely different discussion nobody is actually having.

And I don’t think many people actually care about what happens when you just yolo your writes, it’s not like it’s going to be anything you can usefully rely on.
If anyone is interested, seems like SentinelHub offers a tool called EO Browser that is able to explore multiple high resolution sat image for free, those images seem to be pretty update.
Who Hacked the DAO on Ethereum? Here’s How We Jumped Past One Critical Step
I didn't use any job boards. I changed my LinkedIn status to "Open to work" and the recruiters circled like vultures around a freshly dead carcass. (Given how I felt at the end of my last role this is a fantastically accurate analogy.)
I went and did the Wim Hof thing at a stadium in London - it's great fun and if you can ignore the somewhat culty environment, you'll enjoy it for sure if you're interested in these kinds of things (meditation, new agey things).

Anyway, prelude out of the way - are you sure it's adrenaline that WHM triggers? When we did it, it was essentially CO2-purging breathing and triggered an endorphin high, like a mild MDMDA effect. Either way, it definitely made ice-bath dunking more tolerable (part of the experience is a stadium full of people all going outside in flipflops and sitting in paddling pools full of ice), but I definitely felt the cold.
Utilizing key point and pose estimation for the task of autonomous driving
> Call me tinfoil but I believe SO is really financially supported directly or indirectly to support Flutter over React Native.

Thank you for bringing up a very good point. There's definitely manipulation going on. I've never used Flutter, but this blogpost doesn't reflect the impresion I get on HN regarding Flutter or even Google in general.
Europe being dependent on Russia for energy is not a cosmological constant, but a result of multiple political decisions done over decades that are being _slowly_ reconsidered now (nobody is closing the first Nord Stream yet for one)
I have to assume modern auto transmissions have computer lockouts to prevent you from money-shifting it into R while at speed, don't they? I'm thinking like modern dial-a-shift where you aren't directly manipulating the transmission with the shifter.

I've never tried to test it cause I don't like horribly expensive mechanical noises, but yeah.
Uh, the idea is that Russia would use widespread and indiscriminate cyberattacks to punish sanctions. That would make almost everyone a target.
All of the above plus add on the fact that much of what seems like "empty land" on map is not actually viable in any way for housing development.

British Columbia is absolutely massive but it's all mountain. The places to build are already built upon.
Can you share your password so that people here can investigate?
> If it (the pay gap) has more to just do with differences between men and women and their choices, then this legislation might do more harm than good.

Even if that was true, them having more information would enable them to make better choices.
Personally, I've subscribed to several RSS feeds for local/state news outlets in my area. That helps me stay more in touch with local stuff. Then I just do a quick scan of AP News for international stuff.
Their best bet is probably to give them up, in hopes Russia will not invade the entire country.
No one in the modern era has attempted to take a country with a population that's 1/3 of the invading country. If he incorporated Ukraine, that's 40 million angry citizens. It would absolutely be the end of him especially because most Russians see Ukrainians as brothers.

He justifies Luhansk, Donbass and Crimea because of the 2014 revolution and they fact they were always culturally Russian.

Edit - I should also add that it's in Ukraine's interest to simply let these regions go. Prior to 2014, Ukrainian elections always flip-flopped between pro-Russian and pro-Western factions... Now that most of the pro-Russian support no longer votes in Ukrainian elections (due to being part of Russian or breakaway), Ukrainian politics are almost entire pro-Western.
From reading your vadosware.io notes, I'm intrigued that replacing fdatasync with fsync is supposed to make a difference to durability at the device level. Both functions are supposed to issue a FLUSH to the underlying device, after writing enough metadata that the file contents can be read back later.

If fsync works and fdatasync does not, that strongly suggests a kernel or filesystem bug in the implementation of fdatasync that should be fixed.

That said, I looked at the logs you showed, and those "Bad Address" errors are the EFAULT error, which only occurs in buggy software, or some issue with memory-mapping. I don't think you can conclude that NVMe writes are going missing when the pg software is having EFAULTs, even if turning off the NVMe write cache makes those errors go away. It seems likely that that's just changing the timing of whatever is triggering the EFAULTs in pgbench.