skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got counseled by my boss about my shoes. I worked at a client site. A manufacturing plant. And they wanted me to wear fancy shoes. He also made fun of me for wearing a blazer.
What other places do you hear/talk about technology, outside of your day job?
bad compilers make bad days.. custom hardware used to (?) use memory locations to control/enable features.. anything from electronic access paths to actual servo-motors firing. Probably a better idea to use human-readable constructs and avoid this compact and tiny use pattern, IMO. If you want a tricky test for yourself, perhaps some actual hardware design is a better use of time these days?
What do you mean? If you are a software developer working for a state or city you expect to sell the software you develop for them and collect the money yourself?
> If you can't run a five-minute mile, and are therefore put into a PE class where you never run, do you think you'll ever get into a shape where you can?

People all over this thread are making the assumption that the non-advanced math class is equivalent to no math class at all. That doesn't make any sense to me, and does not match my experience of regular, honors, and AP classes in high school.

Accepting your premise, the issue in your case is that the PE class needs to run more. Pulling all the talented athletes into that shitty class without changing the curriculum at all will strictly cause harm.
Is it the “New York Review of Each Other’s Books”?
IMO the lesson of the pandemic is “no it’s not and it’s never going to be.”

The "it's never going to be" part does not necessarily follow from any of the data presented so far. Perhaps we simply need a better understanding of how people learn online, and get better at using technological tools to facilitate learning?

I mean, is there any particular reason to think we've reached the pinnacle of what learning software and online educational platforms can do?
That's a good question, given that it hasn't been a huge deal so far in my career. Two things:

First, I realized I wanted to dig deeper into CS topics. I love this field more every year I am in it and wanted to round out my knowledge in some areas. Getting a master's degree and the courses that are part of that seemed like a good way to accomplish that - I've taught myself a lot over the years, but that route leaves some areas untouched. You don't always know what you don't know, plus having deadlines, goals, etc helps keep me on task even when something feels like it isn't immediately relevant. So, getting a BS was the first step in that goal.

Second, as I progress more through my career, there are some interesting positions that require, or at least favor, some kind of degree. I feel like having one or both gives me more options and flexibility.
Fun Fact: Germany and Austria have agreed to pay for Russian gas/oil in Rubles.

And apparently, at least Poland, is now buying gas and oil from Germany (obviously now at a premium due to two transactions instead of one).
Except for (the complicated mechanical mess that is) Black & Decker, the cheap ones I've encountered don't have any one-time-only control mechanism, they just cycle the thermostat if left on long enough, which means the heating element is powered long enough to pop the thermostat again. Then they put thermal fuses in to deal with any heat buildup.
The problem with ballistic missile subs (and to a lesser extent ships) is that the entire world, except home port, is a hostile operating area.

You know how nuclear war starts?

You get an ELF ping to come to comm depth to receive launch orders. Or you get a torpedo barreling towards you because the other side got their orders first and had an attack sub shadowing you.
Amiga37 Germany
Exact same story with publicly financed research going behind paywalled journals. If we're paying for it, we should have access.

Maybe time to have an equivalent of SciHub for code as well, although it will probably be harder to source that.
I never understood why wikipedia didn't just put all the articles into one page. That way you don't have to click on any links to find stuff.
My favorite common lisp thing is the special operator `the`. http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/s_the.htm

`the value-type form) => result*`

Looking at its use, you might think it lets you declare types of things for type-checking purposes. i.e.

(the integer (operate-on 1))

... would make the program assert-fail if (operate-on 1) were somehow not an integer.

The real story is it can do that, but the spec actually says behavior is undefined if the value is not the specified type. So check-failing is one of the many things it's allowed to do.

In practice, depending on your compiler settings, `the` can act like asserts or it can act like places the compiler's allowed to paint racing-stripes on your code to make it go faster by skipping dynamic type checks and letting data structures mangle up if the types are wrong. ;)*
I took a few minutes to scan Porter's website. They have a free tier. But when I read the getting started documentation, it says that I have to provision everything in my existing cloud infrastructure (e.g.; AWS). So I'm paying for the services in AWS. It seems I got lost in the story. Porter doesn't immediately feel like a replacement for Heroku.
This is so bizarre. I just wrote a program to do this last week. Precisely the same thing.

I did it with the Google Translate API first, and you can translate it into 100 different languages and back again without ANY data loss whatsoever. My only guess is that they have so check that everything hashes to the same thing? Like some uber-language to check against.
I like writing software for my own use. Why not put it on the internet when it's reasonably finished?

That's it really. No grand visions; just doin' my thing. And if it helps out other people: all the better.
> I ask as I dont understand why people say drop Rails and learn Go

Agreed.
I don't think Go is that great for normal CRUD web development at all, maybe its interesting for super high concurrency / low level stuff.
I believe this is directed more towards government-developed software, not explicitly contractors.
Yes, but your argument goes circular with this.
And someone could argue that

.999.../2 = .499... <=> .999... = 2*.499... = .499...+.499...

which "surely must" have 8 as the rightmost digit. Moving it further away from 1.
I'm historically a huge Heroku defender. Been using it for a decade now, and my company still uses it despite being quite large and getting a lot of traffic. It's always been a great product and the early Salesforce days they DID ship a ton of new stuff and improve rapidly (despite a narrative that they didn't). Like, it got REALLY GOOD the years after acquisition.

That being said... it's insane that we haven't been able to deploy for over two weeks and nobody there seems to care. So we're looking to move now, since it's clear Heroku has pretty much just given up at this point.
Hey HN,
Alceris is a privacy focused website analytics solution, based and hosted in Europe. We don't rely on any user identifying properties or data and so this solution can be used without any consent or cookie banner.

It is still in beta, but we hope to get some first feedback :)
45 million Americans are on the SNAP (food stamp) program. Does your definition of "thriving free market" account for this?
I built something last week to do exactly this. I think if I post it here it will get HN hug of death'd because it's on a free Heroku tier and has an API limit. But DM me if you'd like the link.
https://render.com is my favorite in this space
Trolling people on twitter seems to be a past time for a lot of folks
Hahah that's amazing.

My meter is one of the blinking ones yeah.

I'm not sure if I have the patience to add sensors though.

One interesting aspect of the meters is I think they talk over zigbee protocol, but I'm not sure how to tap into that. I think the in-home display uses it though to display "real time usage".

The API I use gives 30m resolution which seems ok enough.
I personally write and maintain OSS primarily because it is the greatest form of track-record.

Open Source code speaks volume about your code quality, design decisions, regularity, resourcefulness, and such qualities.

I have gotten interviews in the past due to my OSS code.

I also write OSS to learn and practice new language, frameworks, etc.

These are my primary reasons.

Secondarily, I solve problems I face with tiny programs. I put them up online.
Yes it is, in many formats: https://pinboard.in/settings/backup
>"This is a pretty wild straw man fallacy, but I'd like to give a good faith response nonetheless."

Your interlocutor was actually using "reductio ad absurdum", which is a valid style of argumentation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

You didn't address the scenario as presented, or demonstrate how it violated a principle you had described. Instead, you shifted to excoriating the insurers for greed and waste.

Should the insurance company bankrupt itself on the first client? If not, how should they decide how much to spend on each? I should note that non-profit hospitals have similar results as for-profit hospitals (in the USA), so there's little evidence of shareholder greed playing a significant role (though there are many other stakeholders including employees).
Good point, I was only thinking about outside contractors.
It works fine on https://, so it looks like he just didn't configure Apache correctly. Strange either way.
Besides the matter of heat pumps which others have covered, there is also the matter of how good your heating system is at getting heat to where you actually need it.

A PC under your desk will keep your toes warm, and maybe with warm toes you don't really mind the rest of the house being at 10 C / 50 F. With such space heater, you can turn down the thermostat for the entire house and only heat the parts you care about most. Furthermore there are radiative space heaters which direct infrared energy to a specific part of the room using a reflective dish, instead of heating the entire room using convection. In large rooms, radiative space heater can keep you feeling warm while using much less energy than a heatpump would require to heat the whole room.
This argument keeps being thrown around but it's pretty clear to me that this time it's actually different. Every new attention-grabbing invention is more potent than the last, and the Internet just might have crossed a threshold where it can actually break us on a large scale.
Yes! That site is great as a spot check, I've used it. But imo if gmx.de are silently binning my messages (and nobody else) it's their problem. If it's Gmail, it's my problem :)
I'll often drink several cups over 3-4 hours; a 40 minute timer seems far too short.
I think you're being purposefully obtuse, but here's why:

- SNAP / EBT / Foodstamps for people making so little money. Add onto that, Food banks.

- Farm subsidies for many cheap foodstuffs (Corn) causing massive cheap, albeit junk food that can sustain.

- I can literally grow food in the ground for "free", put it in mason jars and save my food for a year. I can't open a fresh can of broken-arm at the fixed cost.

- Food is fungible, if I'm hungry, I can wait 2, 3, 8+ hours to eat, or have a quick snack until meal time. It's not like I need a Big Mac infusion in the next 10 seconds or else I'll die from lack of special sauce.

- You have many options of food. You can eat Soylent, rice&beans, or steak for every meal at various price points. You don't really get an ala carte when it comes to Chemotherapy.

- You can always eat monkey pellets [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/moreplatesmoredates/comments/qbfkfl...
I didn't comment on the project, just the design.

I was reading in the dark, so had brightness was low, but fine for any normal site.

This mistake is a common thing for people to complain about on accessibility forums. If you've lost lost any visual acuity, which a large percentage of the population has, your website is not usable.
Here is your page: https://pinboard.in/settings/backup
Anecdotally - I have an acquaintance exiting the field of pediatric nursing. They worked in the ICU and with chronic conditions (cancer, heart disease, etc.).

The deaths were always hard when working with little kids - and there were a couple a month. But towards the end of COVID they were losing 4 kids PER WEEK (anecdote - I have no data other than listening to them vent) that this nurse firmly believed were avoidable had they received appropriate care.

What caused them to exit was how the hospital handled COVID: they postponed all elective surgeries. For these children, an elective surgery was anything where they "wouldn't die tomorrow" if the surgery wasn't done (somewhat of an oversimplification - but ballpark correct).

During that time hearts got worse, cancer progressed, bodies shut down until electives became emergencies... Success rates of surgeries dropped. And once restrictions started lifting the staff was underwater, they had a huge backlog of "electives" piled up on top of the normal ingress - kids were dying from waiting.
My SO is a healthcare worker as well, she just graduated 2 years ago and has major regrets about her decision. She'd leave and try and do something else but she has mid 6 figure debt, to make things worse she was rear-ended her last year of school and has back issues that make it hard for her to handle the 12 hours shifts.

She's looking to switch jobs now and her first offer expected her to travel to locations deep in queens, manhattan and brooklyn, seeing on average 50 patients a day. She currently works at one of the largest hospital chains in NY and is now negotiating an offer from the other largest chain, initially she was told to not worry about salary and that they'd be able to match her previous offer, then HR called her and told her she had 1 and not 2 years of experience so the best offer they can offer her is lower than expected, she said she wouldn't be able to do it so the HR people went to check again to see what they can do and it turns out they called up the hospital that my SO works at now and checked their pay tiers and said they can only match the number that they were told. The new position was close to where we live so she considered taking it anyways but they just called her again and asked her if she'd be willing to travel to other locations multiple times a week to help fill in gaps (but weren't even able to tell her which locations before accepting the offer).

TLDR: don't let your friends and family go into healthcare
>problem of prosperity in the CAR is nearly intractable?

That's not the question you asked, nor the question I answered, and you know it.

>best you can say about the CAR is their ethnic diversity is not fundamentally incompatible with prosperity,

I never said it was the 'best' thing about CAR. My statement about diversity in CAR also did not include any statement saying it helped or harmed its 'prosperity.' You berated me for saying nothing so I provided something, which you then out of bad faith reinterpreted into something else.

It's perverted, and sick, that rich ethnic diversity has to be viewed through the lenses of how it's going to make people economically 'prosperous', rather than appreciated and respected for cultural, artistic, and other non-commercial reasons. I don't understand your angle here; other cultures aren't there for you to squeeze dry to get rich.
Ok Finland is not in scandinavia but we’re all nordic countries and it works roughly the same.

We have fully scaling fine. The concept is päiväsakko (literally day fine) that’s determined linearly by your net monthly income. Cops give you X dayfines.

In code terms the formula is max(6, (net_monthly_income - 255)/60));

That means there is regularly some person in newspapers whining about their 30000€ speeding ticket (iirc the highest was 100k€ in 2004). In reality that’s just an acceptable way to brag how much you’re making.
You Can't Beat a Bad Workplace with Therapy
Go ahead, take your toys and go home. I don't care if the rent-seekers stop trying to waste my tax dollars - in fact contrary to your implication, this is a feature!
https://pinboard.in/export/
This probably is going a little too far, but:

“Since the introduction of the special principle of relativity has been justified, every intellect which strives after generalisation must feel the temptation to venture the step towards the general principle of relativity. But a simple and apparently quite reliable consideration seems to suggest that, for the present at any rate, there is little hope of success in such an attempt;”

Excerpt From
Relativity : the Special and General Theory
Albert Einstein

Becomes:

If you have a unique ideology, you need to see everything known in a simple light. But for these skills to succeed, you can trust the activity easily and cleanly.
If there is any truth to the legend, I would guess the person is Al Shugart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shugart

He lead the teams that created the world's first disk drive and the floppy drive. He later founded Seagate.

I did not find a reference to this incident, but he did have a love for Hawaiian shirts, and he did things like try to get his dog elected to Congress, so it would not seem too far fetched for him to do something like what you are describing.
The state I lived in developed one of those covid tracking apps. I asked for the source code and was told it wasn't available and would never be. I talked to people working on other software developed for the state and they all think that software shouldn't be public.

It seems crazy to me that taxpayers pay for this software but it doesn't belong to them.

Knowing what I do know I gotta wonder if it's just about those developers being ashamed how bad their software is and don't want others to see it.
Clojure doesn't need JVM. You can run it with GraalVM either directly [1] or via Babashka [2]. Both are great options for get into Clojure since there's almost no startup time like JVM and you don't have to be burdened with learning and heaviness of JVM stack.

[1] https://github.com/oracle/graal

[2] https://github.com/babashka/babashka
Are those SWE paybands or a Research Scientist pay band?

That might matter.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23966778
I like it even less with the infinity/meta logo inspiration/animation.
Depends on whether or not you have a fancy 'smart' fridge, in which case it could very easily be in a state where it is consuming power without performing any meaningful work. A lot of these IoT devices, while low power vs a traditional PC, are not efficient.
If you know where I can get a qic tape drive, I'd really like to know !
You can still sell the code, you just have to use something like the Red Hat subscription model after the first contract. This is how a substantial part of the tech market already operates. How does it 'backfire' here?
I wrapped boost::property_tree in a python module to read in a rss xml feed and store the items in a json file to track the TV shows I download all because the pure python version was kind of slow.

The amount of time I spent on getting all that working is probably a lot less than waiting a few extra seconds on a python script I run every few days so…
I guess if "Pay in developer time" is part of the license, you could expect that. Personally, I always use MIT and hence I expect nothing, even for people who use my software to earn themselves money :)
Audio Pixels are going down a somewhat different route (MEMs to produce a speaker-on-chip)

From the latest shareholders report:

"devices were measured and demonstrated to reproduce a near flat frequency response from 100Hz through 50KHz This pioneering achievement for the first time makes it possible for a single device to reproduce crystal clear sound throughout the audible spectrum ‐ without imposing the tradeoffs required by conventional speaker technologies to achieve quality sound through the utilization of separate drivers to reproduce the low, mid, and high frequencies"

That said, they've been working on this idea for some time, no indication of when if ever a viable mass product will land
I believe the low power mode is required (by UK law, at least) to be enabled by default. It's pointless otherwise as almost nobody will go and enable that mode.
Ask HN: SoC/ISO/HIPAA certifications for startups?
Being a small startup, companies ask for these certifications. Each of these cost a fortune. I'm curious to know how indie/bootstrapped companies handle these.
> It made me realize…I had underestimated how much knowledge I had gained from previous schools, jobs, projects, books, papers, and talks.

> He did not have much intention of actually learning anything.

It’s sounds more like you read this paragraph without much intention of actually understanding anything.
To the surprise of absolutely no one who understands healthcare.

I have many friends and relatives that are nurses, MDs, and therapists.

Compensation is about as backwards as you can get. Seniority has no impact on your pay. Once you hit the ceiling you’ll never make more money. This is especially true for Nurses and therapists. Even if you switch jobs. The market rate is what you’re going to get paid (within 10%).

My wife is a PT and made 3x more traveling as a contract therapist than she did as a full time employee. Three times. That’s absolutely absurd.

Benefits are also beyond comical. Healthcare insurance costs for healthcare workers are higher and the benefits are worse than if you just bought Obamacare directly.

Beyond horrible pay with no upward mobility, you’ll also have to deal with completely disconnected management that has never done any clinical work in their lives. They’ll bitch and moan about saving money, and often enforce policies that put clinicians at risk of malpractice. All to save money.

So yeah. If I were to give any young people advice, it would be to stay as far away from healthcare as you can.
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> It seems ludicrous to me that he would be able to do this without a serious plan to increase the value of the investment.

There's been much more ludicrous abuses of financial instruments in tech.
If I develop software specific to the public sector and sell it to the government, it is "publicly financed software developed for the public sector".

What is my incentive to develop any software at all for public sector, since potential client no. 2 will just take the code that I released?

The ask does not state employed by... it just says:

“Implement legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence.”

I would be fine with

“Implement legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed by employees of public sector, for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence.”
Contractors are no different. Typically you don't get to sell the software someone else paid for.

If you want to sell it then develop it on your own.
Not an internet based company might be also factor
This but without the "/s".
It is simple; cities forgo building senior citizen centers and youth clubs.

Also, cities make laws that hinders nice living with

* onerous taxes,

* reduce police forces,

* crazy, expensive and lengthy building permit processes,

* lax laws on homeless

* strict laws on eviction

* rent control

* sanctuary zones harboring criminals

* NIMBY mentality of land use zoning (deprived new housing)

* and exorbitant pension slavishly being granted to city employees with a poor funding outlook in being able to payout at their retirement time.

It’s not hard to see but politicians often bang the other drums and get their myopic voting constituents to look away from above issues and continue to vote for the same stupid politicians perpetuating the above problems.