skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I'm aware - I got the impression from your comment you were advocating for a more pure P2P approach (not necessarily CRDT related).
I don't think that's a very unpopular opinion. Pretty much every religion gives you hope that you will not cease to exist, that death is just a transition. Some of them even promise you everlasting life on Earth. And that's a very strong motivation for their adherents to keep believing.
>I also hear that none of them have ever raised the problem with their management

I have. TL;DR: My managers effectively gaslighted me. "You don't understand agile" despite them being incapable of reciting the agile manifesto and not even knowing what does/doesn't belong to Scrum. "Oh but there has to be some communication", despite my argument clearly not being "there should be no communication". "You're not a team player", despite working together just fine outside those windows. It was an experience which effectively achieved nothing while wasting my time and emotional investment.

That's not to mention the obvious: a lot of managers have ulterior motives to keep the status quo.

>Practically all developers just coast along believing that because that's how things are it's impossible to change anything.

For the most part, that echoes my experience with a lot of companies. The majority don't want change. The majority don't have the power to change things alone. A lot of people don't know any better, and are afraid of the unknown. They have a positive experience with "Agile/SCRUM" because it's marginally better than what they had, even though they can't pinpoint exactly what attributes to their improved situation, leading to pointing the entire package as a big plus.

This really shouldn't come as a surprise either. You can introduce retrospectives and whatever; most companies are still top-down hierarchies at heart. The majority of people learn from a young age not to rile things up, and the IT crowd is definitely not known for being rebellious towards those in power. The entire thing points towards waiting for some people in power to try something different, or for individuals to try their own luck at entrepreneurship.

NB: I don't fault people for liking this or wanting this. The bigger problem is how quickly the far majority of companies force feed the entire development team this way of working, leaving almost no place for the people who don't want to work this way. If you don't like it, good luck finding something that isn't highly Agile/SCRUM/meeting-oriented or at risk of becoming that in the near future. It's the same thing with remote work, asynchronous work, non-standard work hours, you name it. It's the incessant need for a one-size-fits-all approach which to this day is questionable at best.
If you're in the EU, taking a stance against the GAFAMs is getting ever easier.

Since you have pre-teens, being a role model is probably the best you can do - boycott them in all your life. Yes, it's hard to refuse to use both Android and iOS, Slack, Github, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, Zoom, TikTok, LinkedIn and their ilk even in your work - but at some point one has to take some responsibilities !

Especially that there's an opportunity for someone in the infocom industry these days with the rebirth of ("real") Linux smartphones.

(Note that this doesn't remove all the issues with social media, just most of them.)

https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/
Very helpful. Very kind of you. Thanks.
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I think it is reasonable that the owner or operating entity gets the fine. Then they can sue the manufacturer or service provider for any issues.
The irony is they don't let you host your own system anymore unless you run 500+ accounts. We don't want to and can't switch to a hosted solution so we are still trying to figure out what we are going to do when our licenses expire.
It's possible to long for one aspect of the past, without actually wanting to live in the past. If my kid decides that society is better without smartphones, I'm going to be quite proud, and saying "yeah but AIDS" will be the last thing on my mind.
Maybe just learn Django and SQLAlchemy, there's stacks of jobs out there for it and what you don't know you can google. You'll learn a lot quick and have more options.
Leadership and management too fond of dehumanizing makers. Maybe it's from "we pay you well so we want to get our money's worth? IDK. But too often I've heard someone say "team" in an environment that's anything but.
As Gas Prices Went Up, So Did the Hunt for Electric Vehicles
Very nice and emotional read. I cried.
> Spending too much time in hardcore noise insulation can induce tinnitus, which is then pretty likely to stay around forever.

Do you have more information on that? A quick search did not yield any results.
not necessarily best title, the original is "The People Who Draw Rocks"

with subtitle

"The Alps’ glaciers are melting, and these Swiss cartographers have work to do."

The people who draw rocks is their job title, nickname, they don't draw because the glaciers are melting but they are doing more work because of that situation.
6 days and counting
It could be a legal CYA to explain why the board seat was tweeted about but didn't happen. It may be that list is standard boilerplate and needed to be referenced.
Benchmarking the Mac Studio (Max) and M1 Pro MacBook Pro
Dell trials 4-day workweek in the Netherlands as UK pilot starts
It is freeloading on any general improvements in wealth that society gains due to anything the almost ubiquitous usage of cell phones makes more efficient.

Lets make a specific example: lets say in 2028, 98% of pizzas are ordered via clicking on a phone app. Over at the pizza place, nobody is on the phone full time, just to punch phone orders into the computer system. As a result, pizza places run with 1 less full time person every shift. Pizzas are cheaper to make, competition leads to pizzas being slightly cheaper than they otherwise would have been. Even though you still phone in to the pizza place to make your order, you get the lower price. This is freeloading, since you didn't participate in any of activities that led to the lower price. (yes I realize you could have used a computer but this is just meant to show an example of how widespread phone use can lead to benefits for everyone, even non phone users)

Lets say that everyone is .1% more efficient at picking up their kids from places kids need to be picked up at because they can just navigate to their GPS coordinates every time. Less idling and less driving around looking for them means less energy consumption, and less wear and tear on vehicles. This reduces demand for energy in several ways, which means lower energy costs for you, even though you continue to drive around parking lots trying to figure out where your kids are and why they aren't where you agreed ahead of time, or idling for AC and waiting for them to walk to where you agreed from the far side of the mall.

There are a lot of ways that having a communication/data link to the world allows for new more efficient ways of doing things, and probably these will continue to compound, and taking the benefits (various efficiency improvements) without the costs (suffering downsides of having a smartphone) is the definition of freeloading.
What are "good" self-hosted alternatives to Jira? We are being forced to either go cloud or move to another product. Cloud is not option for us out of legal reasons and looking at this incident it is also not a good idea in general.
Try disabling "use next word suggestions" in settings.
During winter at mid-day my lights automatically turned on... Just in simple overcast weather. So it does get bit gloomy at times.
Same with gmail. Initially launched with the idea of "Don't throw anything away - you'll never need to delete another message" but now the landing page of gmail talks more about security, productivity and other things since eventually you're gonna have to pay for more storage.
DOS Nostalgia: On using a modern DOS workstation
Wealthy people also do less violent crime, and use the many loopholes instead of directly stealing or doing other crime. Even if they get caught, they usually just get summoned to court by mail, and most of them don't need a swat team because they're not violent.

There was an interview with the Cops (tv show) producers, where they asked them why they show mostly black and poor white guys on the show, and not some white collar workers... and they said something along the lines of "get me a middle manager, that'll tear his shirt off and start fighting the police, and we'll record that"... Arrest of rich people usually go along the lines of the rich person saying "i want my lawyer" and pecefully following the police to the station.
9 out 10 times never read the article

I also do that. Most non-news articles aren't better than the average two paragraphs HN comment, but they are 10 times as long. Time is precious and at some point who has the time for yet another "[strong opinion about some technology/pattern/that's how we do at our company]". Almost 100% of the time the comments contain better information on the topic tackled by the article and with higher information density.

If it's a news article there's always a few comments quoting important parts of the article which is usually enough to understand what's being reported.

The articles that I tend to prefer and to read are the ones that highlight a feature that I wasn't aware of about a language that I'm interested in.
The vast majority of people I interact with only communicate with Facebook products. That has not stopped me from individually stating my ethical stance every single time it comes up, which has resulted in many moving to matrix so they can reach me.

If you are fine with surveillance capitalism, then that is your choice, but if you have ethical problems with it, then you owe it to yourself to avoid living a lifestyle you find unethical. You absolutely have a choice to do something about it. No one physically forces you to hit "yes" on the Facebook license agreement.

Personally, when I find someone that has ethical convincing I don't share, like a vegan, I at least take the time to understand their view, and ensure I don't create situations where they can't live their convictions. I respect people with conviction so long as it does not harm others. Maybe in order to be friends with a vegan I don't eat at BBQ restaurants as often, and they in turn use Matrix or email to communicate with me.

Humans are often very accommodating of ethical preferences if you have the conviction to share them.

Personally if I somehow found myself in a country where literally everyone refused to interact with me unless I accepted the Facebook terms of service, I would suspect I am in a cult and GTFO at almost all costs.

If that is indeed the situation you are stuck in, I hope you find a way out of it.
These comments just reaffirm my decision to live by a state highway intersection and within ear/nose distance of major industrial facilities on the side of a hill in an area where use of jake brakes isn't prohibited.

Noise pollution will kill me a hell of a lot slower than living near people care about these sorts of things. The people who give a fuck about the obsessive lawn guy and his leaf blower or the teenager with his obnoxious exhaust tend to also give a lot of fucks about a lot of other "niceness" things that would cost me a lot of money and frustration to conform to.
The easiest way to achieve something like this, is to embed yourself within a community of like minded people. If you don't give your kid a smartphone, but you send them to a school where everybody has smartphones, you're just setting them up to be an outcast. You need to find a school with parents who are like minded. That way, they will make friends with people who do not have smartphones, etc. Most capital cities in Western countries have at least one such school, but they may be difficult to find.
I've found using just jersey libs tends to give me enough power while being maintainable for WebApps. Add your own annotations when needed, etc
He is also saying that you don’t have that option either.
I rarely read articles. Reading an article is a time commitment of, usually, at least several minutes. But I can skim through the comments without commitment.

And often the first few comments are enough for me to decide if the article is worth reading.
So the media circus was about a real bug? Sounds like a legitimate media story.
After a decade or more of using Linux honestly I don't think it matters. After a while you get your environment, it's set up, as long as you can update and install compilers and shit you're good.

Anything "production" is going to be in some sort of reproducible environment anyway.

The kernel has all of the drivers unless you use weird AF hardware.

It's like cars. They all get you from A to B, beyond a few basics there's not even anything to optimize unless you choose to care about that.
I mean... let's be real... a rich person will answer the knock, follow the police peacefully to the police car, and the only thing they'll say and do is "i want my lawyer"
Ask HN: How reliable is the benefits section in levels.fyi?
Any other tool that you can recommend for comparing benefits?
I don't have kids, but I think limiting would be a good thing, or at least limit Whatsapp/Fortnite whatever and promote learning apps (and nothing with dark/addictive patterns). I think it is very important as a child to learn the benefits of long-term gratification vs. short-term. I.e. learn an instrument, language, sport, master any skill etc. takes time and dedication and will only pay off later in life. Smartphones often only chase instant/short-term gratification. Adults like us had their fair share of learning in our younger years (school, maybe uni or job training) and smartphones or the social media were invented later.
https://bobdoto.computer/perm-vs-evergreen
Until you experience this simple way of traveling, it may look like an uncomfortable thing to do. My girlfriend has Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and loves traveling this way, where she would often be bedridden at home for days, when traveling she can at least be in a natural park, listening to birds, waking up by a tawny owl, see deer and foxes pass by the car without noticing you. Life becomes simple and you're so much closer to nature.
Even with sub zero temperatures and no heating at night, with the right gear this is still very doable. Of course you have to go to places with low population density and be mindful of your surroundings.
same, i'm in a job where i can sort of coast, it's stressful, the people mostly, but the work is easy.

i lost interest in dealing with all the bs and whenever i try to look at the job market i just feel too demoralised to go through all the hoops just to get another job where i will be dealing with the same or new kind of bs.

i feel like this may be my last coding job after 15 years, maybe i can do another 2-3 more.
Essential vs incidental complexity is one of those concepts everybody who wants to call themselves a software engineer should be intimately familiar with. As they say, anyone can design a bridge, but it takes an engineer to just barely design a bridge.
Used it non-stop for ~3 years at Pivotal Labs. Moved elsewhere and haven't touched it once. Don't miss it in the slightest. It turns out it just doesn't actually do anything you need that you can't easily do yourself.
These types of statistics are politically inconvinient and will never be reported on.
Meetings on Monday only. A lot of wasted time on Mondays anyway (how can be it be that your mind adapts to the weekend's free time in a minute but takes hours to drudge itself back to "work mode" after the weekend?) and that leaves the rest of the week for programming.

Programmers do talk about stuff informally anyway if and when the need arises, often via asynchronous messaging or even face-to-face but those aren't meetings in the sense that they adapt to the programmer flow and not the other way around.
In January he had 6 patreons making about double that. So $50-$100 a month in hosting costs.
Yes, Spring is so ratched barely anyone starts a project with it these days [citation needed]. Today "Spring" really means "Spring Boot" which is "fine" until you start to live the sugar-water scene from Men in Black and realize is still Spring all the way.

Some good concepts and cool ideas, not gonna lie, but when that rubber meets the real road things turn ugly or at least mushy.

Too bad Play Framework made a strategic mistake in V2 ( IMO ) and now it's pretty much dead.

Javalin it's pretty cool but I'm not sure it's for the Spring crowd, Quarkus seems to be the new hotness for them with the migration to micro-services - I think it will turn into another multi-year BDSM session just like Spring but only time will confirm that.
> Nothing about this paper is new, but it gives a quick overview.

Just as the paper itself clearly states. So your comment comes across as rather rude.
But the data is out there and Data Scientists are not of the shy type...
Precisely. All of /r/homelab on Reddit pretty much centers around enterprise features for free/cheap so they can learn off the job. It's a win for the employer, win for the software manufacturer, and a win for the engineer who is hopefully doing it out of enjoyment rather than pressure.
Also, we're talking about driverless cars. The scenario is not the police pressing a remote stop button to override your directions, it's to override Cruise/Waymo/Uber's AI or remote control.

This is a serious question, is there some real scenario that hasn't occurred to me, where it's desirable for either Cruise/Waymo/Uber's remote control or the onboard AI to ignore stopping directives from the police?
I did a warranty replacement on a Dell monitor entirely on Whatsapp. I have to say it was a super slick process. Even down to taking a picture of the problem and the serial number and not having to attach it to an email or upload it into some ticketing system. So it's not just small businesses.
the jvm is screaming out for a rails-like web framework that keeps things simple

play 1 was kinda that for a while, but it has been superseded by play 2, which went full scala

you never go full scala
Agree. Bad (or no) change management is the cause, not the change itself.
Spring Boot DI seems like a crutch for bad design decisions. You make these things called Beans and make them globally accessible from anywhere in your application. I won't lie that Spring Boot for backend APIs is really convenient though, after 6 months or so of figuring out how all the magic works.
I’m outside US and if you go outside the city you’ll be surprised how many people you encounter that were/still are fans of him, much more than people who know who Elon Musk is.
Think it was easy to underestimate it when you’re in the city/tech bubbles.
> his decorum is totally unacceptable

Because Twitter's decorum's track record is better? You must have missed an episode or two.
Not necessarily, if you make your intentions clear, e.g. by slowing down and putting your hazards on.
I'm not entirely sure. I used to use a sun tape autoloader that had a HP badge on the back.
Can't they just wear a very safe mask with a valve? It will be safer and more comfortable for them that wearing a normal mask, and the people not wearing masks don't care, so everybody gets what they want.
I cannot find that doc again but there was one with like 14 different places from which Spring Boot can read all its configuration from. No wonder it is hard to configure!

I don't think it should be a complicated problem. On startup, the framework should be able to tell you in a log file, what are all the places it read each configuration item from, and which value was finally used.

I am big fan of design philosophy where the computer tells you how it understood your commands (this includes configuration), before it does a thing.
Or stable software.
There's no requirement or inherent value in them being identical. They should provide as much of the same essential information as possible, and in this case they do. It's reasonable for the main image to include more non-essential data or aesthetic flourishes than the alt, which again is the case here.

There are definitely accessibility issues with using images as a text medium, mainly that the poster has to be aware of the accessibility issues and specifically choose to alleviate them. But that was done here.
This situation was fixed in the latest update
A System-Witch’s Package Manager Murder Mystery
It is mathematically correct: what concerns ML concerns AI.

The interest of the author is explicitly ("precisely") on AI, where, statedly, «the current “workhorse” of artificial intelligence [are] namely deep neural networks».
> despite unsubscribing from each and every one as they come in.
I don't have kids myself, but every child I've met from a Waldorf School has been a captivating budding intelligence https://www.waldorfeducation.org/ They teach from a creativity standpoint, without technology. I'm a bad advocate, but every interaction with a Waldorf student sticks in my mind as "that kid's going somewhere".
No, because on a narrow road, coming to a stop blocks the vehicle behind you.
I think they should experience the MORE legal risk for a trespass and property damage that I do. You seem to be arguing that they should still have qualified immunity, but maybe not so much of it, if I'm understanding?
Addiction has very little to do with knowledge (or lack thereof), and everything to do with feelings/emotions and their management.
He had a market, but simultaneously didn't if that makes any sense. The world didn't need another Twitter clone, it already had Parler and Gettr. Social networks are difficult to get users onto because people want to go where their "friends" are, so you're not just convincing one user individually. Getting wide enough adoption to where users actually use the platform regularly is difficult.
In the same way that cancer is harmless because "we're all slowly dying", sure.

There are so few deaths attributed to water intoxication that each one has its own line in the wikipedia article.

Surely you can agree that there is a major difference here. If alcohol were discovered today it would absolutely be a schedule 3, highly controlled substance.
Timeline:

Elon will join our board

Elon will not join our board (You are here)

Elon appoints Donald Trump to the Twitter board.
I'd like to think that if Sun bought Apple in 1996, we'd eventually have this product (and yes, I'd buy it): https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4elko8VIAUS8Nz.jpg