skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Is there a TeamBlind for people of smaller startups/businesses?
I'm interested in seeing how other smaller companies compare in terms of salary and other compensation data.

I work in a Midwest city and mainly been at web shops and early startups fewer than 100 people. Looking for a website filled with work culture/salary discussions from people that mostly reflect my career background. An online community where people pseudonymously represent the lesser heard of companies, and share compensation and work culture information. I mostly see people repping big companies at Blind, which makes it not a very useful tool if I'm not interested in going to a big company.

Or even a levels.fyi for the smaller startups would be nice.
Conceptually? Should work on basically any chain with a VM. The API I mentioned above supports about 10 networks like Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism... so some with low gas fees.
It’s loved by managers (the ones deciding to buy the product) because it looks shiny and it can auto generate burndown charts.

For anyone actually trying to work with it on a daily basis is a huge pain in the ass. Mostly due to the dreadful performance, which was bed enough with the on prem solutions and has now gotten even worse on cloud. Another wtf example is their wysiwyg editor actually has no own markup, it is stored as plain html and has tons of bugs, such that things you edit will return in a different format after you press save, with no way to restore it. This is just so fundamental input form 101 that you wonder what else is equally buggy underneath, especially this being one of their main values. Every one of their product uses a different such editor, all with their own set of different bugs.

Otherwise, you can’t deny that their products are actually very powerful. If only they cared more about basic usability they could have a really good offering.
Show HN: Simple Android app that deep links Twitter URLs to Nitter
Gostatic – Fast static site generator
Can you link to that video?
>There's also a huge amount of internal friction created by the moon stretching and squeezing the earth

Wow, I hadn't even thought of that. How much heat does this produce, roughly? For context, the total heat lost from the earth's interior is about 47 TW according to another comment, so in order for the earth to not heat up I assume that moon friction heat + nuclear decay heat < 47 TW?
The thanking part will generally get a downvote: it's polite in a normal conversation, but it's just clutter. An upvote is sufficient. The real issue (imo) is this:

> Ah, yeah, I'd forgot about those areas having strong right-wing links.

This is taken to mean that, if there is an idea or conclusion that 'right-wing' people agree with, it is therefore wrong. And you not only think that, but you're thanking someone for reminding you to not actually look at the information objectively, but dismiss it out of hand because the _wrong people_ think it.

It's really revolting behavior.
I spent far too much time watching Saltybet matches back in the day.

My favorite match that I watched live (and glad that someone recorded) was this one. Matches can get crazy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNMdFtEwOc0

Last thing, Saltybet helped me discover a lot of random cool music.
Sure, but you immediately cast a shadow on it by saying "oh, you know those bad people with their bad thoughts? This is one of their bad thoughts"
https://archive.ph/QVEna
In enterprise timescales, 2/2024 is not as “aways away” as you think.
In addition, einsum in jax uses einops.
William Gaddis: Below Deck on the Ship of Fools
https://intellicus.com much cheaper and same functionality as Tableau and Power Bi. In built OLAP and Adhoc both Reporting.
Like Genius, but for walkthroughs. And while you're at it, recipes.
If they implemented SSO with Office365/AAD it would be a stellar alternative. The GSuite dependency for SSO is damning
How to Sound Posh with David Attenborough (Voice Impression Tutorial)
The government is the single most coercive entity making me work more to put food on the table. I work approximately 30% of my time to pay for services I don't want provided and mostly don't use.

If you want to talk about coercion, my employer gives me money for my services and I have the ability to walk away at any time. My government takes my money, and if I resist, they will put me in jail or kill me if I resist.

I am indeed at the mercy of the actions of others, but I am by far most helpless against the government.
passport not password.
> These things would've been written in assembly code back in the day. So that's your source code. In this case, it looks like they used a custom interpreted VM.

According to the Byte magazine interview about VisiOn, it was mostly C with some assembly.
Yes, it was, Russians didn't attack NATO members. And countries desperately want to join so they won't be attacked by Russia.

NATO will loose its purpose when Russia disappears.
Is there a static site generator so slow that you wouldn't use it for that reason? I think the speed of static site generation is probably the least important aspect of what one is trying to do.
It’s interesting that this article takes some time to describe how the protocol have been conceived for the dogs to not suffer from the experiment. And that by using familiar vocabulary.

It wouldn’t happen for any other animal (ok, maybe for the evil creatures named cats).

It’s not that the scientists took care of the dogs that impress me (it was even needed for the experiment) but that the article author felt that it was important enough to mention it multiple times.

Imagine if the subject was a mouse.
Would love to learn more
So what came of it all? Did your new community, rules and WinMugen eventually take over?
Art museums are mystical if they're any good, and not every curator has something to say.

Nevertheless, if you hang a banana in a collection of fruit it has a context-engineered interpretation. If you hang it amongst photographs of fields littered with starved corpses next to the portrait of a fat general it will have another. Add mood lighting and a dress code, and exit through the banana-t-shirt gift shop... or free banana bread and kids running around?

I like developed arts of all kinds, and these require learning on the part of the beholder, not just bones tossed at puppies. - Alan Kay, via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
This is good information. I used it 5 years ago and my memories are not particularly bad. But it was self-hosted by a capable admin and the people customizing it were decent developers.

From what I read here things have changed a lot: They force everybody to cloud which is slow.

And the fact that they are higly customizable (adding mandatory fields...) is of course a nightmare in all companies with too many incapable managers, which is probably a fair share...

I use gitlab these days. Its issue management has limitations, but being mostly snappy (despite cloud) and lightweight is a better exeperience than the nightmare I am reading here. I can run my own REST queries if some limitation bothers me too much.
https://archive.ph/cDyLi
Wow really? That's not bad. I read recently the "hydraulic press" guy blew his up because it was ~30k.
This is awesome thanks! One thing I noticed is it's really US centric. Usually in my choices I got 4 USA locations and one non US place.
Gamers have already been groomed into a neat little group of gamblers by loot boxes etc. crypto makes sense.
And in a car centric society, even a supermarket becomes noisy and polluting since all their customers use heavy machinery (cars) just to get there. I certainly don’t want to live next to a large parking lot.
The difference is, that a lot more people know Prime Video, Netflix and the like. Most people, when asked, might be able to say that Microsoft also has a search engine. But for a majority of people Google (or Facebook) is the internet. To the these different kinds of search engines as well as different kinds of content are a unknown unknown.

They can't look for what they don't even know exists.

I know how to surface these sites and enjoy them. But I probably belong to a tiny minority of users within the internet regarding this knowledge.

I know that basically always there have been the types of people who were better equipped for knowledge discovery. And also that knowledge was not free. To learn was time consuming and expensive. And only in recent decades this has changed.

Still the tools as well as the fact of additional stuff outside one's current knowledge needs imho to be distributed more broadly.

> Thankfully Google operates in a free market where it is possible to compete by building a better search algorithm.

That is a sentiment I don't share. With market shares > 90 percent and reighn of Android the network effects are very strong in my opinion. Making it at least a few orders of magnitude more difficult than when Google entered the game. So while it might be possible, it is economically probably not a great bet to make.
Moon caves are sure to be overwhelmingly more interesting.

Harder to fly in, though.
> as opposed to people who get excited about engines, architectural patterns, and programming languages.

I feel attacked.
Can you provide a source for this claim? Haven’t heard of this before.
Because some sites/companies force people who do not want MFA to use MFA, and people aren't willing to sacrifice convenience for security like that.

(Probably also because some people really don't get the point of 2FA and demand that feature, but the above is enough of a legitimate reason to support it.)
I've been coding for a long time, I've never felt the need to keep track of code snippets. I'm genuinely wondering, what am I missing?
A password manager (database) is not something you know. It's something you have.
There are entities that take government money and there are entities that generate government money. Those in the latter are private. Those in the former have a duty to those in the latter.
Haha that reminds me, there is/was a sort of markup language they used for issue comments etc. I had to spit that out of a bug migration tool a long time ago. Back then there was no documentation for it, but I think it was something like this:

https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/WikiRendererHelpAction.jsp...

Their API was unbelievably slow but still better than having to interact with the web app. Please Oh Deities, let me be on an hourly contract the next time I have to use their products!
Terrible UX and performance so it’s extremely frustrating to use.

I’ve used JIRA in 3 companies and it was always the worst piece of software I had to interact with. Now we just use Github issues and their “Projects beta” and it’s a huge improvement. Engineer first workflow rather than optimized for creating some pseudo insightful views for useless managers
This is amazing! Really fun. I would also love to see a more even distribution geographically, it’s currently very US/Europe/South American centric.
I'm pretty sure (although definitely can't prove) that all solutions that come up in physics are computable numbers which is a countable subset of the reals.
So much so I wrote a app that I used for finding things in my own confluence and then released as a marketplace application.

You can mitigate the issues in the search if you are organise your content well but the search is still deficient in other ways.
What living in China’s old expat bubbles was like
This will be on the ap test\
Take time to not\
Read this intro in jest
I'd be hard pressed to find something that fits better.

PayPal and Stripe do not allow virtual currencies due to them being high risk of chargebacks / credit card fraud.

Crypto is sometimes the only way to accept payment for virtual currencies / ingame items.

It's nice for the developers as chargebacks are very common in the industry and expensive.

Generally you get a bonus % when you pay in crypto because of this.

You could even do away with the redundant virtual currency and embed a crypto currency directly into your game, linking your games natural economy that forms to your coin value.

A game like an MMO usually get's a natural economy driven by supply and demand. Depending on how long it takes to farm gold, how rare the item is, etc.

Using a crypto coin in your game would visualize that value and allow your players to earn it in game and exchange it for its value in Bitcoin for example.

Items would be NFTs, the rarity and attributes of the item is already there, just make a token for it. When players trade items the NFT is transferred from one character (wallet) to another. The value of the item/NFT is what people assign to it.

Items and virtual currencies are just NFTs and tokens that aren't on the blockchain. By moving them to a blockchain you allow them to be exchanged.
Paywall-b-gone: https://archive.ph/C95dN
With IPv6, it is typical (though not guaranteed) that you will be allocated an entire range of IPs rather than a single one. This then allows you to assign a unique, publicly routable address to every device on your local network.

I’m not sure if consumer hardware commonly supports this, or if it does what kind of firewalling they might do, so I have some slight doubt that IPv6 actually makes the problem Bore solves go away. I probably wouldn’t want every device on my network publicly routable even if it were possible — so even without NAT/port forwarding, there’s still a firewall to configure.
Do we have similar sites like this for war in Syria, Ethiopia, Israel or Palestine? Serious question.
You could have one file generate all the CI configs and commit them into the repo.
You also have a pretty heavyweight competitor with Epic Games (RealityScan).
Ah, I was unaware (but should have assumed) it was an ancient version. Sadly, though, that's the only exposure to BSD I and many others have.
It's almost like these were trained using Byte magazine covers! Amazing tech.. I'm blown away.
These are usually lead gen sites. Done well they can take over smaller areas outside of major metro areas and drive sales leads to those larger companies that can travel vs the small local guy. I live in a small community and it has always been a problem usually started by the fact that the small local guy already has more work than he can handle and doesn't see the need to be online.
The internet needs more of this. Bring back bonsai kittens!
Musikalisches Würfelspiel
If UFOs exists and all these stories later gets confirmed in an official statement, how would that make you feel?
That is, 90s style hoax websites
Lol. This is hilarious. I haven't laughed this much for ages, this had me laughing like the whole time I was reading it. Abacii and the scale transition in the graph y axis... Hahaha

Tho seriously the lack of a an IaC option means that's a hard no from me. If I can't self-host this on an on-promise open source deployment, they're just making money of people too lazy to set this up themselves with rsync and bash scripts.
A Day in the Life of an Italian
> You craft the filters, so if that makes no sense it’s because you didn’t craft the right thing.

That's where you've lost nearly all the people.

Who in their right mind crafts filters. What does this even mean?
Oh man Don Miguel's RPG Maker translation, I remember including on CD's I burn with friends who didn't have internet access along with music and a few 100MB divx movies
BIIGLE (https://biigle.de).
Describe Your Settings
I specified that because that’s what I know, not to take away from others. (I’m afraid that I’m ignorant of ancient history in East Asia and Oceania)

If you think of the deluges in the Black Sea, Doggerland, the Bahamas (submerged evidence of significant human construction exists), and the Persian Gulf, they all happened while the world was adapting the end of the ice age.

One would imagine that coastal lowlands were great places to live, so human society was likely traumatized throughly by these events. Think about how Greek mythology would fit into the framework of those ancient (to Greeks) cataclysmic events.

The narrative of gods dying for a great good or fighting off more ancient gods are also common themes. Humans may have had a near extinction event 70,000 years ago and some of those themes likely imprinted on us via generations of long forgotten history and religion.

We’re no smarter than our ancient ancestors. We know more and understand some things better, but I think mythology is ultimately evidence of those before us trying to explain events consistent with the framework of what they understood.
I'm Not Sure I've Ever Enjoyed Programming
Aside from a quadratic formula program written on my TI-84 in high school, I did not do any real programming before I was 19, when I learned C because I consciously decided I wanted to learn a new skill. I read stories of learning on a ZX-Spectrum at 5 years old, but I never really got that experience of just playing around. I think for me, programming has always been work, and that makes me very sad because I know this can be a very rich and rewarding hobby. I think the only time I really felt this was when I played EXAPUNKS.

Can someone point me in the direction of 'fun' programming? Tools that are just really enjoyable to use? I want to find the joy in computers.
https://youtube.com/c/zakgeorge

Treats and praise would be my guess
As a user of neovim, tmux, and vim-plug, I'm interested in this. I have quite a few plugins but my neovim setup is still so much faster than things like VS Code.
You won't even accept they are useless now that the narrative has shifted back to that. I don't know what else to tell you mate.
There's also an implementation in R: https://github.com/const-ae/einsum
Are there any benchmarks comparing Tullio generated kernels from einsum with an equivalent NVIDIA kernel?
Apparently that's what they intend. I wonder how you can keep 20km oven warm enough.
Or click on the link to the source and see for yourself.
Except that would make it incorrect: rust is what forms when metal gets oxidised, not reduced.
With all browser vendors nowadays (minus chrome) trying to perceive themselves as privacy protectors, who even approved and implemented this?

The only good thing coming out of this ping attribute is that it’s a lot easier for plugins to block it rather than intercepting javascript and domains.
A Large Scale Study of Long-Time Contributor Prediction for GitHub Projects
I'm really fond of the idea of writing music like this.

From all available implementations of the idea, I probably like Extempore (https://github.com/digego/extempore) the most. Extempore provides a low-level C-like language (xtlang) which compiles into LLVM and can be meta-programmed from a variant of Scheme (TinyScheme I believe). This arrangement makes it possible to generate the code for the audio graph from Scheme, compile/optimize it via LLVM, then drive it in a live-coding fashion from Emacs. Best of both worlds (high and low).

My personal, much simpler attempt in this space is Cowbells (https://github.com/omkamra/cowbells) - with this one you can live-code FluidSynth (MIDI soundfonts) from Clojure + CIDER + Emacs, representing musical phrases either via Clojure data structures or an alternative text-based syntax (which is translated into the former by a compiler).
The issue is that if someone gains access to your password manager then they have both your password and your totp secret. The whole point of MFA is that these should be different things.
I love linear. I'm starting a culinary mushroom farm (small scale) and need to track innoculation/colonisation times and such so I can forecast.

Linear was my go-to and I signed up today. I used it at getweave.com and loved using it there
They do make an effort. They're just losing the arms race.
Agree with this comment. On being slow: it takes time to find your bearings. 6 months to understand what you’re doing, at least, and 1 year to become productive, at least. That being said, who cares if you’re slow? Being slow is only a matter once you start comparing yourself, or once people put arbitrary deadlines on you. What’s important is that when you start something you don’t give up until you finish. That’s the only thing that matters.
This is one of my favorite things I’ve seen on the internet in a while. Just so awesome. One thing I think that might be improved would be to prevent some situations where for example I was given as choices something like China, Vietnam, County A in West Virginia, County B in West Virginia. It clearly was in West Virginia (too easy), but which county was too difficult.
Wait. Wasn't April 1st a week or so ago?
It looks like one of those projects that are built to get billionaires to invest with the use of computer graphics.

I hope it's more than that.
The Adoption of JavaScript Linters in Practice: A Case Study on ESLint
> one of the senior engineers even pointed out they shouldn't be helping me with certain processes at this point.

This is a bizarre comment to make by that engineer. There never comes a point when I would say to someone you shouldn't be asking this.

Stop worrying and focus on finding a better team to grow in.
Great for most backups.
Wanna help me start S6? A Delete-Only mass-storage system.
You're allowed to have a chuckle any day of the year.
How many got COVID?
The 'database' can be a function implemented as a quantum circuit, e.g. a function that takes a candidate private key (and noise inputs) and computes a public key from it and compares it to the target's key. Grover gets handed this function as an oracle and asked to find the input that makes it return 1, which it can do with sqrt(|key|) operations.

Of course, the circuit for reversibly computing a public key ends up ginormous... but it's still vastly smaller than the keyspace. And if we were limiting ourselves to the practical we wouldn't be talking about quantum computers. :P
Would anyone or anything do anything differently if they did or did not exist? The same people would still write insisting they do or don't, regardless, because nobody could tell.

If there is no need for them to exist, Ockham's Razor says we should not assume them.

Suppose they don't exist, then what are we talking about? We exist, and we do stuff (such as writing blog posts). So, numbers -- all numbers -- are stuff we do. And write about.

They don't need to be more than that. We don't need them to be more than that. If we did, we would be out of luck, anyway.
Yup. Left an “okay” position in April 2021. New place started out fine and then went straight to the shitter.

New bossman was toxic af.

Decided I’d rather commute into an office that work for thst dickhead anymore. Of course, the RTO isn’t happening for a few months but the new shop is 1000000000000x better
> so even without NAT/port forwarding, there’s still a firewall to configure.

Yes, this is what I've noticed with consumer, ISP-provided routers in France. I think it's a rather good thing, although those same routers usually come with UPnP turned on...
Because a password manager isn't the only way a password can get exposed, and having a secure way to save your TOTP secrets is not a bad idea either in case you lose your hardware key.
Leave for somewhere where you can have a strong mentor + supportive team. Not all teams are mature enough, skilled enough, and with enough allotted time to support typical junior staff: Most early career folks don't know how to figure things out, so mentorship matters.

It's best to leave a bad job within 3mo, or at least 6mo, as that signals it a mismatch vs you having a fundamental flaw (vs getting fired at the annual review / quitting after your bonus: horrible look). You letting it drag out so long is a real problem, so maybe an internal transfer would be less of a CV hit.