skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the problem with government officials abusing power. If the state were to get sued and lose money it doesn't hurt the official. We just have to pay hire taxes.

Don't get me wrong there are 2 sides to every story but the way it's framed this isn't good.
I’m surprised governments haven’t already made an official app to “democratize” traffic enforcement.

- take a video of someone double parking: fine

- take a video of someone idling their car too long: fine

Once it gets a critical mass (I’d estimate a relatively small usage around 15%) I’d imagine traffic law breaking will go away for the most part.

The inability to know when you might be recorded and consequently fined would lead most to simply stop doing it.

The only other necessary thing would be to increase fines to be more in line with the ability to pay to be a useful deterrent.

Add in a kickback of say 30% to those who report once fine is collected and you’ve just created a highly motivated, distributed and invisible traffic law enforcement apparatus.

There are some technical challenges to be solved, though.
Dont' all massive corps do this against their competition?
Because that’s a lazy idea. Do you really think everyone everywhere suddenly all at once decided to eat more and walk less?
The latest techradar puts SPA by default on “hold”
I don't mind office when everyone is in. Some things are easier in person.

But this hybrid setup is literally the worst of both worlds. Why come to the office, when nobody is there anyway? There is no upside.
I feel like the other way around it's also pretty bad, if not worse.
Technical things written in, or translated to, German sound so boring and stiff that you want to immediately run away.
I wonder, why does Hurd has such a hard time taking off? Is it just lack of manpower, or did they find some unsurmountable technical obstacle?
Biden Administration Renews Pushback Against Stock Buybacks
Oh you mean screen reader? That's confusing, but yeah screen reader is absolutely a vital accessibility feature. I have no idea how lwn handles that.

Back when I was still writing HTML I was actually very keen on making accessible websites. But the last 10 years I've used frameworks and sadly have no idea how accessible the output is.
> I would even say this is the beginning of the end for cities as we know them.

Alternate POV: this could save cities as we know them. All top American cities have been struggling for about 20 years now to handle urban growth, as cost of living goes through the roof and small businesses disappear when their renewed lease comes at twice the rent. As always, the survivors are those who can afford the change: homeowners and the wealthy on the residential side (keep in mind cities like Boston are majority renter), and large corporate renters on the business side (think Starbucks instead of Local Coffee Co)

Pre-war growth patterns (ie, densification and transit) have been generally outlawed, and big companies seem to have endless pockets to raise salaries to attract more highly paid workers to compete on rent; so there’s been no counterbalance on this trend. Until remote work.

Right now cities are still expensive, but the next few years as we transition out of the pandemic will determine whether remote work is here to stay; if so, you will likely see another suburban migration of ‘former reluctant office workers’ (we already had one wave at the start of the pandemic), and city real estate might finally cool off for the first time in decades
This is going to vary wildly by niche. My neighborhood is line of business apps for small to medium sized teams and departments in corporate settings.
- Knowing as much SQL as you can learn.
- Being enough of a project manager to at least handle your own business.
- Being enough of a public speaker to be able to evangelize your own work.
- Being enough of a meeting and event planner to contribute to those sorts of things.
- Having no real interest, maybe even an actual aversion, to the latest fads.
- Being enough of a administrator to at least be able to build servers, set up a server's OS, install important software like web and database servers, and generally keep them running.
- Basic corporate communications, technical writing, documentation.
- Being able to manage everything so that the release cycles are tight. Maybe more than anything else, how quickly you can turn a business conversation into production code deployed to end users seems to determine a lot of success.
- Being engaged and interested in your team, helping with staff meetings, contributing to things the boss is trying to do, generally being a "team guy".
- Having a good working understanding of the entire life cycle of your software. For me that means understanding most of what happens when web browsers, the client OS, drivers, networks, network protocols, web servers, application code, and databases all operate smoothly to render HTML on peoples' screens.
(1) There are no magic bullets.

(2) End of list.

But seriously, "10x" aside, there are some techniques that have come up surprisingly often and been surprisingly effective during my career. A lot of them are around caching, cache coherency, memoization, etc. and I see many of those have already been mentioned. How to write a simple parser is another one, likewise.

The one I haven't seen mentioned (and don't expect to) is "poisoning" of data or requests. Sometimes it's not very convenient to delete a piece of data or turn a request around with an error at the very moment when the need for that is detected - often because of locking or reentrancy issues. Just marking something as invalid, until some time when removal is more convenient, can be a very powerful technique. It can also make monitoring such events easier.

I've brought this idea into a codebase at least a dozen times, and more often than not it has gotten a "wow, that makes things so much easier" reaction. I can't take credit, of course. Like many things around caching or state machines, I got it from the hardware folks where it's a standard technique. In general, software folks can learn a lot from looking at how hardware folks have solved similar problems in an even more challenging environment, and "bring back" those solutions to their own domain.
My story goes back 7 years. I had a life reevaluation and my family decided to prioritize location independence. Pre-pandemic my partner and I had been working remotely for years.

I never hated being on-site, I never had a monster commute. Actually one of my commutes was a fabulous bike tour of the major monuments of the national mall. I had a beer keg and a dog to warm my feet when I got to the office.

But once I got out of the office environment for a little while it was like being "red pilled". I could no longer ignore the absolutely silly justification for bringing everyone into the same place, I saw it only as a productivity destroyer for myself and others, I saw the relationships for what they were, shallow and transactional. My first and only stint back on-site it felt like coming back to high school after years and being amazed and all the silly things that loomed so large in your former life.

I'm not a hermit or an introvert. The office is still dead as a doornail for me.
As a life-long Minnesotan who didn’t know about Jamie’s newsletter, thank you!
Reporting in, both as employer and targeted as employee through recruiting channels. Recruiters are in full swing and it is hard to find people with data/analytics skillsets. Developers seem similar. Knowing coding seems like foot in the door, modern applications have all kinds of disparate dependencies like k8s, docker, virtualization, Kafka, etc.
I would say the benefit of schmoozing (which i dont like) is information sharing about the organization. One thing thats particularly hard in large remote companies if information sharing outside of rigid structure (ie 1 on 1, meetings). Much needed even if some of it isnt great info.

And yeah i would say your take is pretty cynical and pretty ageist -> diminutive to someone for their ability to contribute is reduced greatly by using their age as a proxy.
86% of German companies employ 10 or fewer people [1]. I'm not why we would expect them to use online collaboration tools or video conferencing pre-pandemic?

Fax still being common is true though, it's mostly used as a quicker alternative to mail with established legal standing and more convenient than rolling out electronic signature schemes. You can still live and work without a fax in Germany, you will just be sending more letters. I've never sent a fax or letter to a German cloud provider though (despite using several of them)

1: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1929/umfrage/...
To be fair I don’t know a single software engineer above 25 with a side project… and I do know many software engineers!
I am not an EU citizen, but Hetzner didn't ask me for any ID.
Becoming Kaylee: Thoughts on Making and Fixing (2011)
I have this vision that all the products will be "similar" but just different enough from the originals to avoid a lawsuit, just like the stores. So, Radshift, S2+1 storage, Appflower, DynomiteDB, etc.
Igalia Coding Experience, GSoC, Outreachy, EVoC: internships in open source
https://every-layout.dev remains, hands-down, the best resource on CSS I've ever encountered since I started working in webdev 24 years ago.

See also this recent post by Josh Comeau, which does a good job explaining layout modes:
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/understanding-layout-algorit...
> Bit of carrot and stick.

The subtle psychology exposed in this sentence. You say you are an anarchist but here you are wanting to control others. You think you are smarter than these suffering people and will treat them like dogs with a treat to get them to do what you want.

> It's about handling their problems, as I have had to handle my own.

Again, you remain the individual. You think if everyone "lived like you" they would be fine. Not everyone can handle their own problems and some peoples problems are bigger and more complicated than yours were.

> So go ahead and shit on the people who were out in the streets protesting

I protested the Iraq war as well, so no idea what you are going on about here. I know it was useless because no one is protesting the U.S. involvement in the war in Ukraine. Everything happening now, including all the propaganda, is the same as it was before the Iraq war.

If you want to know why Portland is failing, look in the mirror.
I have found retro computing to be a good antidote to this. If you loved computers in the 80s, you’ll probably love coding for computers from the 80s with the benefit of source control and a real text editor for your assembly language programs. And emulators make it possible to experiment with computers you never could have afforded, like an Apple I or a Pixar Image Computer.
I directly quoted your comment, how is that purposefully ignoring it? You said other things, too, sure, but I was addressing the first part.
Massive Streisand effect ahead in 3 - 2 - 1...
This is the comment I was waiting for :) It's strange isn't it, to suddenly be negatively receptive to something that you never noticed bothered you in the past.
> It is exactly like spending time in car driving simulator instead of actually learning to drive car.

Thats not remotely comparable with playing guitar trying to replicate what you see on a screen with a few buttons. But I will not argue with a guy that just called my opinion "just stupid".

Also:

> because comparing video game soccer or martial arts to actually playing soccer or fighting

Thats not what I did.
if you use something better than Teams then group calls and screen sharing are quite simple and effective.
While large banks have the capital and resources to invest in Bloomberg terminals, even large company treasury teams have a hard time justifying the expense. In my old company, the treasury department just paid for one terminal and some analyst got stuck pulling anything and everything for the entire company. It was less expensive then buying additional terminals.

Plus the analyst was a fixed cost via his salary anyway, why not just work him more. /s
This goes beyond a nitpick into reactionaryism, in my opinion.

I am a native English speaker who has lived and worked in many countries around the world. In some of those countries English was the primary language, in others it was formalized in the workplace as the business language, in others it was just a lingua franca used by immigrants and expats of many different backgrounds to communicate with one another. One of the best things about English is that it easily adapts to all these roles. It's a flexible language, and there are many different ways to express the same thing. I believe that's one of the reasons why it is so popular as a second language.

English as it is spoken in the professional sphere in Germany is different to the English as it is spoken in the professional sphere in the US or Canada or England or Australia, and that's fine. Ditto India, Singapore, Philippines, South Africa... Unlike Spanish, French, Chinese etc there is no central regulator that defines how the English language is supposed to be used. Grammar can change depending on where you are. English speakers all over the world essentially understand one another, despite using different structures and idioms.

While it is true that completely bastardized grammar can become more difficult to understand, and may result in the language being spoken getting classified more as a pidgin or creole, I don't think it's especially helpful to "nitpick" over this particular issue - a sentence structure that is easily understandable by anyone in the world who can speak English. If "do" gets dropped by English language speakers in the context of questions, what's the big deal? Especially in written language where we use a question mark anyway. Who cares?
Are we writing off most of FAANG then? Maybe just reduce it down to "AN", assuming we aren't yet too annoyed with Apple and Netflix? Amazon and Google as well are both certainly full of dark patterns and badness. I'm certain that they have both tried to crush their competition as well. Can we assume that anyone who has worked at any of those companies has at best dubious morals, or are they instead small players in a big machine?
Paul was already a musical genius — and the two, Lennon and McCartney, needed each other to feed off of. One pushed the other, completed the other's "middle eight", encouraged, made jealous. John and Paul were, each of them, 90% of an amazing band. It's a beautiful thing they found each other.
I can't believe it wasn't caught before but it looks like the search is an && instead of an ||. First thing I did was add my location and worldwide - no options found.
8. Having three world-class songwriters in one group that started out as a cover band is a very low-probability event. The number of excellent, instantly recognizable, songs that they wrote over a period of 7 years (1963-1970) is insane.
Ask HN: [TOMT] [BLOG] A political news/article aggregator by an expert...
[TOMT] [BLOG] A blog - news/article aggregator by an expert in his/her name that covers political news and policy changes around the globe.

A news/article aggregator by an expert in his/her name that covers political news and policy changes around the globe.

More details:

- It provides an RSS feed.

- The feed gets updated for every new story/article featured as a hyperlink.

- The blog is more of aggregating various news than having original write-ups.

Originally posted at Reddit but didn't got the answer : https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/th01ko/tomt_blog_a_blog_newsarticle_aggregator_by_an/
Grafana Mimir – Horizontally scalable long-term storage for Prometheus
Oracle Cloud has cheap egress. You get 10TB of free egress compared to AWS's 100GB and then it costs $0.0085 per GB compared to AWS's $0.09 per GB.

Edit: Oracle advertise $0.0085 as being per GB/hour, but it's actually just per GB.
Grafana Mimir
Thanks, I will keep voltage in mind. I have ample wind so my long-term plan is solar plus small windmills on the roof. For bigger cooking sessions I will have an outdoor grill, might add some burners too. This is Spain so big LPG tanks for the home are totally common.

[Edit: it's off the grid, only gets water, and I want to keep it that way in principle.]
And if it is too slow a hash table or two will probably fix it.
They can be defined, but nobody does so explicitly. Consider the classic example of the order of adjectives.

You can have a big brown bag, but if you have a brown big bag, something sounds wrong. You can have an excellent blueberry muffin, but not a blueberry excellent muffin. You can meet your 27-year-old Ukrainian friend, but not your Ukrainian 27-year-old friend.

Unless you majored in linguistics or learned English as a second language, you probably never once even thought about the rules of adjective order in English (and in other languages the rules are often different!). But you know them, follow them, and people who don't follow them don't sound right to native English speakers.

And there are so many weird rules like this.
It is perfectly valid indeed. This person's main complaint is that Germans, who have enough English in their society that that one might even expect dialects to form, are not putting enough effort into disguising themselves as native English speakers. I'd call it 50/50 that the people who built this product speak English at work.

This is like ranting about Microsoft's website using American spelling when clearly they're selling to British people as well, only worse. This is pretty short-sighted. To OC, please keep thoughts like this to yourself. I hope you're not doing this for all the different stylistic usages of English out there, otherwise things are not looking good for literally any Australian business.
Learning and not forgetting. Or learning more than you're forgetting.
I certainly don’t turn the system off when I’m not home, but try to remember to jam it to low heat or high AC if I remember.

Where I live, it’s not really good for the home to leave it very long without at least the dehumidifier running.
The copy is fine; English does not need to written by native speakers - that is a completely distorted definition of “international mindset”.
Yeah, there is a 'just change jobs' crowd who pop up in every conversation about working conditions.

There are switching costs which mean the employee often takes a hit on attempting to move. It's like buying a car, car doesn't work as advertised so someone says, "well stop whining and sell it, you're in market." Like yes, but also nope.
Agreed, it strikes me not as particularly German bad English, but generic bad English. One sees that particular bad construction all the time.
Crusti Croc Colo.
Please stop with the fear mongering.

I know quite a few people in PDX, some of who have lived there their whole lives. Not one of them has felt unsafe in the past few years. As a matter of fact my ex laughed and told me to stay away from the national news when I texted her and told her to be safe during the height of the PDX "anarchy."

btw - the TL isn't any more unsafe than it's ever been and I've lived in The City since 1972.
Amazon is referenced in the title...
Become a leader, hire great people, sell your vision, delegate. Seriously, I have 3 teams under me and I can’t keep up with the virtual high fives because they are so productive.
You conflate toxicity, popularity and commercial success. Someone in tech might have a skewed view of the latter two given their environment but they're well capable of evaluating the potential danger of the tools being built there. They're also the ones doing the recruiting.

Anecdotally, I had a friend who used to work at Monsanto and he told me of a few very uncomfortable social encounters when people learned where he worked. It made him question whether he should find a job somewhere else. I don't think we're there with Facebook, the general public mostly seems focused on misinformation rather than privacy but who knows what the future holds.
Not really. The difference between obese and healthy weight is about 40 pounds. At 3,500 calories per pound, that is only 140,000 surplus calories to become obese. Over a period of 5 years, that is about 77 calories a day, or roughly 1 egg.

Obesity is not caused by a vast availability of calories. It is caused by a breakdown in the bodies ability to match caloric input with output.

To be clear, vast amounts of added sugar seem to cause this system to breakdown, but the mechanism is more complicated than simple calories available in the environment.
Carmack lost a lot of his shine working at Facebook. He was a champion of an industry when he was young, but now he's just some guy helping further entrench Facebook.
As far as I can see they don't even operate their own network and according to RIPE they don't own any IPs. How is this supposed to work?
No it's not. If someone walks through your living room with dirty shoes you don't get the floor cleaned up by having someone over who takes their shoes off.
There's more. The gum base of chewing gum is made on the same exact machines as car tires. Once or twice a year the factory will shut down tiremaking, clean the line and do a huge run of gum base. Then they will resume tiremaking.

Source: someone who works at a major candy manufacturer
> All very interesting. I just want to say that I strongly doubt that non-libc or musl based environments will take over on linux servers anytime soon. Perhaps for narrow use cases, like as you mention, a vm host that only needs to run one binary.

I think you underestimate the number of services that could be run in this fashion with a much reduced attack surface. It's not at all niche.
You are right, I do that too :) It's a bit passive aggressive but more acceptable in professional settings.
I don’t know how the ones you’ve used were mounted, but there should be no airflow coming to your face… the keep-your-hands-still part is indeed annoying, but when used correctly it does do the job of drying hands in a fraction of the time the old blow dryers took. That’s the main design breakthrough and it’s selling point.
I mean, this sounds narrow, but going off of what you think are 10x multipliers, in terms of getting more bang for your hour/buck:

* Fully understanding how SQL prepares queries; optimization strategies

* Embracing garbage collection in JITted runtimes, mainly JS for now

* Being able to diagnose and replace a squeaky belt in your car

* Know what a cat is saying when it meows at you and indicates something in the vicinity of its food / water / the door / a dead mouse.

These have all saved me a ton of time.
should be fixed now (just tested it and it worked)
I hear ya--influencing change is indeed exhausting. I think the love and change aren't mutually exclusive, though it depends on we're defining it. For me, if I don't "love" a place, I won't care to change it. If I do love it, I'll put in the work, and I'll be pretty loud about it because if change doesn't happen relatively quickly, then there's no point in my sticking around.
Adding /s would still leave plenty people to take it serious. We don't have to cater to the 100%.
(Bali is not in India.)

If you actually tried to hire in the region, you would know.

If you find a really good programmer in the region, his pay will approach European pay, and he will escape to Europe/US as soon as he can.

Also I cannot imagine US expat working in Bali, as the time difference is 12 hours. That's very impractical for any collaborative work.
It's almost like executives never cared about the vaunted benefits of office work and just wanted to get bodies in the office.
If you were a weapons company (and really, most successful big IT corps are in this metaphor) and you need specific targeting (you do) then you absolutely would. Perhaps you have trouble with their moral fiber, but you would then basically be alone in the business world. Corporations hate integrity in their workers (except when it comes to keeping corporate secrets).
It was a mutt.