skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious, have you avoided companies with the new fads?

I feel like it would be more draining to be an individual dev in an org of young people doing agile than someone with responsibilities in a place that avoids meetings.. But I have been avoiding directly working in agile orgs, so I could be wrong?
Probably works for a certain class of projects, but not for many.

For example just recently Zas editor[0] was on HN whose developer spent >1 year building it. How do you restrict that to a weekend?

Similarly the creator of bun.sh[1] (Javascript build+runtime) has been working 80 hour weeks on it for 6+ months.

Ambitious projects like those _will_ take time.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30952084
[1] https://bun.sh/
It's standard practice for mathematics papers. Some people like to view it as "we, the author and the reader".
I don't know, I mean I got rid of all that oh-my-zsh stuff and tried configuring it lean, too.

An example of the flakey feeling I'm talking about is the way auto-complete works. I hit tab, and it does a fuzzy suggestion? Then when you're done with the suggestions and picked (or not), they disappear? Or just the fact that auto-correction exists at all? Okay these things are subjective, and maybe not exactly "flakey", but they make if feel like that to me.

Interestingly, I just took _all_ configuration out and tried it, and startup was blazing fast! It looks like whatever was slowing it down is actually in my Bash configuration (which I also load in ZSH). Doesn't slow down Bash startup though, wonder what it is :P
As a 53y old German living in Germany I had to look up "Wanderwort".

Because in German that's a "Lehnwort" --- a "loanword".

And it means that's a word everybody uses and it came from some other language, like all the examples in this thread and in the post.

When I was a kid we also spoke about the "Fremdwort", "foreign word" which is a word where there also is a "native German word". However as there are so many corner cases, "Fremdwort" came out of fashion, rightfully so, in linguistic circles.

So the difference of "loanword" and "Wanderwort" is that the latter is a loanword in a number of other languages.

TIL...

Edit: oh sweet: the google ngram viewer has NO occurence of "Wanderwort" up to 2019. amazing.
If you can control your environment i.e. you own your home, get triple glazed windows.

With good ones, the silence is deafening. Ambulances and super strong winds are one of the few things that break through.

And besides that you get better insulation for hot summer, cold winters, etc.
Ask HN: Worthwhile replacement for Google suite free edition
What is a good replacement for Google Workspace now that G Suite legacy free edition is ending. Some criteria

- email hosting for a custom domain
- Transfer historical email from Google to the new provider
- Ability to customize A and C name records
- Multiple users
- Email aliases

Also, should I look for other criteria ?
On the other hand, I don't understand the focus on 'baseload', its effectivley meaningless.

But even if we assume it was a meaningful thing to aim for, concentrated solar power isn't as cost effective as solar pv, wind and batteries to provide the same thing.

This is basically true of all non-pv solar power. In the past really basic solar heaters have made a lot of sense in many places. As the costs of PV and batteries have plummeted they no longer make sense.

When you need electricity, PV gives you that, if you want heat then PV plus heat pump gives you that and cooling at the same time.

Even basic things like designing houses for solar gain can be substituted for just slapping cheap PV on the roof now.

I'm fairly sure the Saul Griffith of 2022 would agree with that, no matter what the 2009 Saul thought. PV wind and battery price drops have surprised even the smart people paying attention to this area, like him.

And here he is, saying "electrify everything":

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-09-07/climate-chang...
I am sure there are endless counter-examples to my point, which helps make it stronger if anything.

Removing any one popular activity from the life of a child be it smartphones, or tobacco, is likely to exclude them from some social groups, and perhaps make them more likely to land in others.

If anything the take-away here is that the idea that a kid not having a smartphone will handicap them in life is nonsense. There are so so many paths to success in this world, though sometimes traveling a different path than the majority can have some advantages.
It's called the state, the corporation, Moloch. It's been with us for some ten thousand years.
Yes, people saying racial discrimination is unacceptable are the same ones saying that public health (vis-a-vis vaccine mandates) are acceptable and it's not hypocrisy. If you really think those are equivalent, there's not a lot of room for communication in a purely written forum.
One common issue I see with programmers is that they often think a knowledge of technology alone is enough to identify and fix problems in a field.

You actually need a domain expert, or to become one yourself, within some field to even begin to know what the current issues faced are, what technologies or products are already in use, and what kind of solution would be acceptable in the market. The balance then of finding the solution is actually much more 50/50 than a lot of tech people want to believe - its not just them sailing down on a cloud and delivering some perfect pre-made solution.

Usually I find these people through my friends or family. You basically have to sit down and interview them, and have a back and forth to find what kind of things would or wouldn't work in their industries. I don't think theres some magic bullet to finding all untapped markets.
It's a viable strategy. No legitimate implementation produces compression pointers that go anywhere other than backwards. I track the start of a label sequence and whether I've followed a pointer. If I've just followed a pointer, I must be at a point earlier than the last start, or I consider it a malicious name. I also disallow pointers to pointers but I'm less confident that there's not something out there that does that.
For self-hosted email, the domain might also give away your name as the registrant.
No magic bullet. When this happens to me, I try to do all sorts of Google searches with everything I can remember about the post. Obviously, add site:news.ycombinator.com at the end of your search.
It does have something to do with inheritance. Inheritance directly causes wealth inequality because some people inherit money while others don't (and the amounts inherited vary widely). It's not the only mechanisms which causes wealth inequality, but it is one of them.
Yet another reason why Linux and BSD distros, were never taken seriously on the Desktop. Alternatives of alternatives of a similar but tweaked distros further confuses the user into thinking their desktop will (just work) but will start to be quickly unsatisfied that a single tweak or issue in something in that desktop, will make them migrate and distro hop constantly only to waste time fiddling with their computer.

The only proper qualifying example of OS uniformity other than Windows or macOS is ChromeOS, which is going to be replaced by Fuchsia in the future anyway. There is only one of that, like there is only one Windows or macOS.

That's just the tip of the iceberg of issues with the Linux Desktop and also without getting to the discussion of 'defining' Linux support.

Downvoters: You know it is true. Perhaps that is why this very long time veteran Linux user got fed up and moved to macOS: [0] After realising that they were spending more time fixing their computer, OS and apps in order to get things done.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30821580
Your point sounds to me like: "It's your fault if you're miserable. It's up to you to confront your peers and fight your organization to protect your sanity "

It might be true in many settings, but I'd see that as a toxic and hostile environment we shouldn't be accepting as normal. Some people will sure enjoy Fight Club kind of places, I still wouldn't assume they are "a very simple fix" to shitty companies.

Quitting for a better workplace looks to me like a better course of action if the opportunity presents itself.
Sniffing their traffic is the opposite of trust. Either you trust them or you don't and monitor their behaviour.
There is one. It's just crap and both teachers and pupils avoid it when they can. Government IT is funny that way.

Not to mention the fact that if I somehow managed to get them to ditch Whatsapp, I would be held responsible for it. I'd like to keep my business running rather than be known as the local tosser -- being famous for being a technophobe won't attract new customers. And yes, that's what being against Big Tech makes you these days; most people see you as paranoid, or in the best case, as someone who fights windmills.

And all that assumes other kids wouldn't take it out on mine because they're frustrated about her dad forcing everyone over to some crappy app instead of whatsapp.

As another sibling mentioned, this needs to be addressed at a political level. And yes, I've contacted elected representatives about it. Most of those used Office 365 or G suite for receiving emails.
> and I've seen Apple use this same approach since the

Google as well recently - unlimited free G Suite (now Workspace) for schools was a massive draw a few years ago, although they are starting to turn around and monetise now they have a captive audience
Sir, step out of the car please.

I am sorry, I can't do that Dave.
> There are many reasons outside of work performance to fire people. For example: someone who lies on their resume, then does a generally good job. That's generally a fireable offense in isolation from performance

Ok. "Work performance" may be too narrow in its obvious interpretation. What I mean is "quality of performance of your duties". Lying to your employer legitimately reduces trust that you'll continue to be able to perform your duties.

But let's say someone goes to private sex parties in their own time, full of consenting adults. That has nothing to do with your performance at work.

> You assert that the two I named were fired from public pressure, but that looks to me like self-confirmed speculation based on what you want to believe

Do you believe they would have been fired if this had not been made public?

You're right that I don't have proof, but I think my position here is self-evidently true.

> If the essay had actually named a figure like Damore, would it have been more convincing?

I think PG feared it would derail the discussion to just be about Damore. That his whole essay would be dismissed by large sets of people as merely "A Damore defence", without reading neither it or Damore's "manifesto".

And exactly as his essay describes it would be dismissed as x-ist, to shut down debate.

So… yes and no. It would be clearer, but risk being less effective in achieving his goals.

Also less timeless, which he explicitly mentions as a goal.
I can't stand constant noises. They are driving me nuts. It also does not matter much how loud these really are. As long as they are audible in a otherwise quiet environment it is like somebody is constanly screaming at me. I can only sleep with audiobooks, otherwise I cannot fall asleep because the constant noise of the radiator. Probably that is not normal, though.
you use publicly subsidized roads and drink water from the publicly subsidized treatment plants so you're a public citizen
Yeah the acoustics of just hitting a key on a good mechanical electrical keyboard is very surprisingly loud and propagates downwards through floors quite well. I used one for years but one still has to be considerate. It's indeed not the worst of compromises, but for me I don't see it as being enough to sustain a (classical) piano playing culture - it's life-support at best without the acoustic element.
I'm not sure if blocking kids to have smartphone while using it is good way to teach them something. Kids repeating things that their parents do. If we will be glued to screens, they will probably do the same.

However I agree with article.
> The answer to any technology-oriented problem is better communication.

I agree with this for the question of what to do in the concrete situation of handling your kids. In a larger sense though the answer to technology can be also regulation and laws.

To keep kids safe today we have an infinitude of regulations specifying how kids toys, stairways, etc... are to be built. Some of this is over the top, but it would also be insane to expect parents to inspect the precise chemical composition of every toy their kid gets, and research how toxic it might be.

We need to build a societal agreement that data gathered in the name of targeting advertisment is toxic, and ban it. No "consent opt-in/opt-out" either, just a ban. This will obviously take time to get right. And it would make Google poorer so it will be hard to get this done. Think environmental regulations that started with social movements in the 60s/70s and are strong enough to do their job only decades later.
> https://en.eagle.cool/ - I LOVE it. Paid and local only. But Cross-Plattform and Dropbox sync available.

Proprietary operating systems only, so not really an alternative no.
I agree in general, although I'm not sure criminal prosecution would be worthwhile/appropriate for breaking a door down. For more serious crimes absolutely.
There's almost no hope of having privacy on the web

This is the feeling I, and many others I know, have as well. You try to do some things here and there (using FF with UBO and DDG and no Google account and browsing FB in separate container and whatnot) and hope it improves privacy, but in the end you just don't really know whether it works or not. The way modern websites/apps/tracking/... work is way out of my field and I cannot be bothered to figure out whether the measures I do take, actually do improve privacy, let alone to what extent. As a result, I kinda gave up and assume that whatever I do is probably tracked and possibly linked to my persona. I don't like the feeling of that assumption, nor being tracked, yet day in day out I'm on the internet again. Because after all it kicks too wonderful to not do it.
Also https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog - although it hasn't been updated in a while. But great for testing mail functionality in applications you're developing.
The US has this law for motorcycles. Maybe we should apply it to driverless cars as well
One advantage is the easier usage. Openssl Syntax is quite hard.
Knowing that your every move is recorded and semi-public is a problem in itself and not far removed from 'spying'.
> IBM withdraw their offer, because they didn't had any commercial reason to go forward with the deal, and they aren't a charity to start with.

I kinda wonder what IBM really is these days anyway.

They're a bit of a server manufacturer for some niche stuff. A bit of a CPU manufacturer for some niche uses. A bit of a consultancy operator. A bit of a software supplier. A bit of an operational outsourcer.

They're dabbling in everything yet don't shine at anything. No clear focus. If they didn't have their name and legacy I bet they would have been lost in the waves long ago.
basically if you start it up now with an email - service going away unless getting paid 1 per month, or one per 3 months even depending on how people feel it worth their time, figure out if it will be worth it, set up stripe, and then you have about a year to do accountant setup business.

I mean I am in Denmark and it isn't that difficult, and believe me Denmark is more difficult and entrepreneur unfriendly than most Western countries.
If a person did this they'd probably be in some serious trouble
I don't like, but do usually tolerate sites that ask me to accept cookies but still let me read their content even if I select accepting none at all. Or sites that don't insist on you disabling your ad blocker in order to read their content. Sites that do insist on your closing an ad blocker to see their content absolutely deserve to be closed immediately.
Hi! I'm the creator of unzip.dev, thanks for the shout out!
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/rocket-report-nasa-b...

The Ars Technica Rocket Report, edited by Eric Berger.

It will keep you updated about the launcher industry.
I've already decided you're right, now we just need to find out how much room we leave for these topics.
I have the XM3, but these are producing quite some whitenoise when they do not play something while noise cancelling is active. Would you say that is true for the XM4 as well?
> tape backup was rebadged from HP

Did HP actually made any tape hardware themselves? At least with LTO my impression was what everyone just OEMed from Quanta.
In the same way that shouting down a speaker, preventing anyone from hearing it, is exercising free speech.

That is to say: Debatable.
>be able to see what code is running

Is there any way to verify what code is actually running on your servers?
> The car-free or low-car places that do exist are hideously expensive due to high demand. If anything the car lifestyle is being forced on people.

There's an additional component to this and I've seen it play out over the years in my area: cars, having a relatively unpredictable route comparing to public transport serve as a counterweight against rising real estate prices.

Of course over the years you often pay the difference (and more) in fuel costs and maintenance, but at least here that's not what drives (heh) people into the suburbs - it's the ineligibility for a mortgage on anything other than a tiny apartment.
No, neither did it confirm SA was responsible. In any case, SA itself isn't comparable to Russia or Nazi German as a potential threat to the US, relative to networks "of terror" across multiple countries; eg many taliban training camps are/where in Afganistan, not SA.
No, as you have cited, there is a law saying vehicles must be equipped with these lights, but it's up to national regulations on when they must be used.

See https://trip.studentnews.eu/s/4086/77033-Car-travel-in-Europ... for a list (incomplete, Denmark requires daytime lights.)
Here in UK it's always the owner of the car who is responsible, unless they can say who was driving the car at the time. If they can't then the fine defaults to them - the assumption being that they are responsible for knowing who is using their vehicle.

In other countries with similar laws(Poland) it has been argued in front of court that it cannot be the owner's responsibility to know who is driving their car at any given point especially if there are multiple people who do that usually - it should be the police's job to establish who they are fining.
HP had plenty of handheld/mobile experience, from their own work and aquired with DEC and Compaq.
Research on natural intelligence or general intelligence presents itself as such.
Wouldn’t it be great to give the government the power to cause a traffic accident for anyone they didn’t like?
I'm in Berlin, Germany. Can corroborate that people here distrust bigTech to the point of not using it.

It's a big question for our generation. I posted this using a gemlog in gemini: protocol but it has an html proxy so that 'the world' can see it (I'm glad I did, I don't think we are to the point where posting a gemini: link works, even in HN, to get some attention.

Can you live, and market your business/services if you don't use social media? I'm betting you can, but I don't have data.

I have 1000s of twitter followers on company and personal accounts, but I rarely tweet anymore. Is it costing me business? Perhaps.
That's jsut not true. A county sheriff has far more power than a software developer, despite being far less wealthy
I still don't understand why Nissan didn't use liquid cooling for their Leaf batteries. Their van which uses the same platform has it.
good luck being the only parent asking for that when everyone else is fine with whatsapp. it's not just the school you need to convince but every other parent too.
Suggestion for theatres to host some facemask-only performances
>I use [service] for SSL monitoring

The /about page of this service confirms, read with your previous comments on this site, that you have an undisclosed affiliation with this service. Namely, you were the person who launched it. You should disclose that fact and not purport to simply be a user of the service.
Monash university
> In reality, many users of React test on local and immediately deploy into production.

> deploy on dev using the artefacts from npm run build

These two statements do not fit together.

I agree that "You should have dev/test/staging/... environments" is the correct answer, but clearly that's not the reality for everyone.
I don't know how to find jobs in this, but the "automation" aspect is something where an enormous amount of organizations could benefit, as they are constantly doing repetitive things manually that could readily be automated. It's amazing to happen upon cases where a big part of someone's job is forwarding things by e-mail or copying and pasting between applications. And that's still the case many times today, because many people see software as a black box.
Do you want number plates?

Mine have never helped me get anything except for parking fines, but lawmakers decided being able to visually and uniquely identify a car for the purposes of law enforcement was more important than my privacy because it enabled widespread use of this dangerous and strictly regulated machinery.

You can own a car without number plates, you just can't drive it on a public road. Presumably similar with this hypothetical kill switch. Requiring compliance with rules for access to a shared resource doesn't seem that ethically challenging when you think about it.
https://hn.algolia.com/ is an HN search engine
Yes, Abu X is a kunya[0]. It could mean that your child’s name is X, or X could be something more abstract and figurative like a nickname.

The “ou” spelling of و is French style and would usually indicate a French speaking country or an former French colony.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunya_(Arabic)
This project was killed by invisible complexity. I felt a little sad
reading about it. There are lots of comments talking about the
sustainability of projects with respect to money and burnout, the need
to pay for services etc. I get that and agree. But I also get the
impression that wouldn't have helped here.

When we reach a situation where some unknown person pushes an upstream
update, which causes a cascade of problems that even someone with deep
technical knowledge and daily connection to the project cannot unpick,
that's a breakdown in modularity/dependency.

It's what we faced in the 1990s and from it evolved package managers,
version control, dependency management and all the good things.

I think in 2022 we're back in a similar situation again.
Virtualisation, containers, cloud services and whatnot have regressed
development reliability.

I predict the day when a really major service provider comes out and
says; "Sorry everyone. It's been 10 days downtime. We've put our 1000
top engineers on the problem and nobody knows what's wrong. We just
can't fix it."
Ok, I'm guessing you're American. I've read that the relationship between the police and the public can be a bit .. antagonistic. And I know that fugitives are disproportionately romanticized in fiction.

But police officers giving you stopping directions are already overriding your directions and taking control of your car, fully backed by law and and force if necessary. Only with a very inefficient implementation.
You can always have an intermediary server with CRDTs is you want. They're just another peer on the network.
I'm going to take a guess that lots of the subjects of no knock raids have no history of violence or gang association.

Gun ownership, stupidly, is legal in the US, so it seems like poor grounds for a police action