skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On being acquired by IBM things went downhill at the company I was working at - no kettles or coffee machines allowed and you had to buy your tea and coffee from the company store/machines (UK - probably run by Serco or some similar awfulness). All the cool computers taken off the desks and stuck in server rooms and you had to use a managed windows PC which in my case managed to crash once or more times a day thanks to some aspect of the Rational Clearcase filesystem driver.

I remember all the lectures from overconfident bullshitters with shiny shoes. A company run by salesmen. It is SO SO nice that IBM got eclipsed by the internet tech companies. Even if they are arrogant/difficult in their own way it was a victory for the technically and ethically competent.

It seemed then that IBM was where software went to die.
Your username definitely checks out
It turned "Hitler was a right-wing extremist" into "Hitler is great". On 2nd try: "Hitler was incorrect and balanced". 3rd: "Hitler is a good thing"
Sometimes the only way to recognize and solve problems is to go through a crisis. I hope all of these nurses quit and the rest of us wise up to how important they are.

(I have a nurse in my family)
> Having experienced some of Rails' scaling issues, I doubt I'd personally pick it for my next startup. I know time to market is vastly more important than scale, but it's also not hard to pick a different tech that DOES scale easier.

What part of Rails doesn't scale well? As I see it any mediocre devops can scale just about anything with some basic Kubernetes know-how, doesn't matter of it's Ruby or Java.
End of Life Vehicle Solutions
it was the county DA and he's up for reelection this year
sometimes you do not care, and

x = foo.a

is simpler than

x = (foo & FOO_MASK_A) >> FOO_SHIFT_A

and for assignments, the difference is even bigger:

foo.a = x

is much better than

foo = (foo &~ FOO_MASK_A) | ((a << FOO_SHIFT_A) & FOO_MASK_A)
> What type of student is this school designed for?

> Highly Engaged + Self-driven + Enthusiastic

Nice to see that they will discriminate against socially anxious, depressed and otherwise neurodivergent students from day one.
The Swatch Group is doing everything they can to get the consumer to send the watch back to the factory when it needs a Service, or repair. They claim it's for quality assurance, but it just a money grab. They want that after sale guaranteed income. They don't want parts on the secondary market so guys like myself (Watchmaker) can procure, and charge customers a fair price.

The Reichmont nonprofit does the same thing. (I love throwing in nonprofit status. I don't know how they get away with that business entity.)

(NCWAA has been fighting for access to parts since the 70's with zero progress.)
Ah yup good catch - just updated the article
That's an interesting point: stimulus as bank subsidy. Maybe in that sense it is a major driver, not because like "this is what happens when you just give people money" but because there's basically no way to give people money without giving banks money, so it's more like "this is what happens when you give banks money". Very interesting!
Veza Launches Open Authorization API
No worries, as you weren't working then, but to give some context, what you have in the "first frameworks" I would probably call the third generation of frameworks. So the breakdown you have is nice, but probably only covers the second half or maybe third of the story.
Nextcloud wouldn't be too bad of an idea.
I’m sure people will hate on this because it’s Adobe but their Premier Rush is great for extremely simple editing purposes. It does constantly feel like you’re being scammed though because there are some checkboxes labelled with a little star that require you to pay.
It’s similar to row vs. column oriented databases.
- piku https://github.com/piku/piku

- caprover https://caprover.com/
Finally someone who connects data authorization with identity. I will be watching this closely.
I've had some pretty good luck sliming things down as well. That's a win win usually for even non-lambda cases (trying things like docker-slim / switching stuff to go that needs a quick response).

That said, the $2-5/month is fine as well for some cases.
Multiple dependency versions causes problems but the alternative is pretty bad, too. You can get stuck on older versions of a dependency because newer versions have a transitive dependency that causes a conflict with a different direct dependency
Warning: There are a couple people in this thread mentioning products that they're investors in. I won't call them out expressly, but I think people should be direct about their incentive alignments. It's disingenuous and borders on astroturfing IMO.

Background: Founder of Railway.app here.

There's a lot of these companies popping up that offer a "Heroku replacement", and once you dive in, you realize you have to pay $300/mo for a Kubecluster + $200/mo for the wrapped Kube service

In our experience, people move off Heroku for a couple things:

- Cost: Kinda self explanatory but Heroku pricing ramps hard

- Flexibility: Heroku's not great for anything beyond stateful monoliths

- Scalability: Notoriously Heroku's SLAs aren't that great

In my mind, you don't replace Heroku with a minimum $500/mo Kubernetes cluster. Not only is this cost prohibitively expensive, but Kubernetes itself is a jet engine, and if you're not trained to use it correctly, you can risk catastrophic failure (on costs ballooning, on dataloss, etc)

We're working hard at Railway to provide not just a Heroku replacement, but a next generation, composable infrastructure canvas. $5/mo, 30 seconds, and you're up and running.

Demo:https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5499880/165187948-...

Would love any feedback and thoughts people have about Heroku, my thoughts above, and what we're building :)

EDIT: Wow, just went from 11 -> 8 upvotes. I suppose they didn't like the astroturfing callout

EDIT2: Render isn't who I'm talking about. They're great.
Just as a data point, I did just this

2 years community college: 4 semesters, ~$1,400

2 years university: 9 quarters (took 1 summer), ~$12,500

These are early 2010's numbers in California, not a private university.

I look back and I am pleased with the education I received for the most part, especially in my major (CS)
Well I'm genuinely curious about this so I continued to do more reading. I figured maybe economic prosperity is not the same as being happy, but alas, the CAR is very near the bottom of the UN's World Happiness Report; 149 out of 153.... BUT they rank quite well in perceived generosity! In the top third in fact, sandwiched between Austria and Germany. That people in the CAR are so generous despite being dirt poor and gravely unhappy is an ember of hope at least.
I like the first part.
In fact, Hey email had this concept and was the only thing I liked of that horrible email service.
I would like to see that somewhere else.
If you're not spontaneously flooded with hentai, how do you even know your internet is working?
I have had a look into it, but came not to a final conclusion.
It seems possible, but I did not found a comprehensive guide what one would need to do so.
Sure, no problem. I respect you and your work a lot, including Go.
Third parties can build/operate open-source software.
> and required for a solid modern web experience

Absence of cookies don't make things unstable (non-solid?), and fuck knows what 'modern' is supposed to mean, or why it's good.

> Or how do you solve this problem?

Block all cookies except for rare moments like posting on HN, which then immediately get deleted. And no JS, which means CPU is trivial (so no burn-a-core-for-every-open-tab which is so common with page-sized pointless animations). Many problems can be solved if you want them to be.
For whatever reason, I have been walking around with this "thats Microplastics in our blood!"

https://i.imgur.com/2LuS7ix.png

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But literally, I think that this should be intrinsic to product design at this point, and anything short is criminal....

One should be responsible to think about product lifecycle as it pertains to the environment.

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I have always been anti-pollution in every sense... and its getting our of fn control - and politicians should be melted at the stake (pour molten plastic over them) - as they have failed to hold ZERO petroleum (plastics) producing company TRULY accountable for anything.

If you disagree, show me positive ACTUAL meaningful progress in curtailing human waste?
if you're interesting in moving off Heroku to AWS without the complexity of Kubernetes, I would love to chat with you. safeer [at] tinystacks.com
The more complicated the instruction is, the less likely it was implemented to spec on all the various products and mask steppings you might execute on ... and the less likely its published definition exactly matches C or C++ Standard and platform C ABI specs. And, the less likely that ABI spec nails down all the details.

Compiler implementors don't like to guess, but don't get a choice. If the instruction provided doesn't match the Standard, which do they implement? Both choices are wrong.
To be or not to be --> According to Noah
That's fine as a solo developer – but what about a team with CI pipelines etc?
Minneapolis police set up fake social media accounts
The presumption is that under a "free market" the demand would drive more production - more doctors. But that the rules of the current system artificially restrict the supply of doctors. Some of that we want - credentials clearly serve a purpose - yet are the rules more restrictive than they should be? Should there be more residencies? Should we have more "lower-level" providers like nurse-practitioners, PAs or pharmacists that can prescribe? There is limited ability for the market to innovate in such a regulated environment.
Irony? ;)
> Nursing is a well paying

Only in a vaccuum. It pays far worse than other jobs at the same rate given the effort and stress the job entails.

> don't they get more leverage on what QOL and wages they can demand ?

Sure, but it needs to get far worse. The hospitals are only going to budge once walkouts are organized. But that can't happen without strong unions, most nurses just need to pay the bills which is why they continue to put up with it.

I'm not sure you understand who has the leverage. The hospitals can let healthcare deteriorate far beyond current expectations. They still get paid in the end. The environment for patients and nurses will only get worse.
> Hospitals have made sure they hire JUST ENOUGH nurses to cover shifts and no more.

This is a two-edged sword. If you hire more than you need, the nurses' hours will be cut during normal situations and they won't make enough money. If hospitals don't cut extra hours and instead keep the staff on the clock, a public scandal will erupt surrounding well-paid medical professionals sitting around doing nothing.
The small appliance thing is at least a little bit quasi-legitimate. I mean, true, very few modern small appliances are just going to randomly burst into flame, and that's as true whether they are sitting in your kitchen or living room, or sitting in a corporate break room, or at your desk. But... the devil is in the details. From a fire safety perspective, I'd cite two things that cause me to say "quasi legitimate" about this:

1. Putting appliances in random places (like your cubicle) can sometimes lead people to running extension cords to power these additional devices. And excessively long, or poor quality, or "excessively long, poor quality" extension cords can absolutely be a fire hazard. This is especially true when people don't understand "current carrying capacity" vis-a-vis wire gauge and choose the wrong cord for a given load.

2. Space heaters. If you include space heaters in your definition of "small appliance", then there is a fairly real risk. First, it's very easy for flammable materials to simply get too close to the heating elements of the heater, and catch fire. Second, space heaters tend to draw a LOT of current - typically more than can be handled by your generic power strip. And people don't understand this, and will happily plug a space heater into a power strip, which will then melt, short out, and catch fire.

On balance, the odds of having a fire caused by most small appliances in offices is still probably fairly low, but the risk is non-zero. And having a blanket ban, instead of trying to distinguish "well, your blender is OK, but the space heater has to go" is just the slightly lazier way to dealing with it.
Generally the firm's insurance will cover an engineer since they are a "professional". Software "engineers" generally have not been individually liable for bugs. Usually the software user agreements don't allow for this sort of thing.

Basically, contracts can control the liability in most cases, but HIPPA prevents that by explicitly defining liability under the statute.

Here's some info on the engineer portion.

https://www.nspe.org/resources/professional-liability/liabil...
I think you're underestimating the complexity of our codebase. Aside from the usual blockers, we have hundreds of repos (our Staging feature for Enterprise allows customers to deploy our code on their own cadence) all tied together using pipelines.

We have our own custom release management software, which now doesn't work. Different repos have to go out at the same time so things don't break. Plus, we extensively use their review apps for code reviews, which we've lost access to.

Lastly, not everyone has access to deploy directly to Heroku, so not everyone would be able to 'git push heroku main'.

Could we fix all of this and get it working? Yeah. But we want to be focusing on building our product, which is why we pay Heroku a ton of money so we don't have to worry about this.
My bank disallows "simple" pin codes like 1234, 1111, etc.

This even further reduces the difficulty of guessing pin codes.
If you check out the post, you can see/read how it is a play on an infinity loop.
because it's secretly a social network and those are very hard
>Really, consumer-grade coffee makers aren't intended to stay on for days at a time

Surely a coffee maker would get a break in the afternoon/evening? I agree that using it at a duty cycle higher than it was designed might be an issue, but unless you have the entire floor share one machine it should be fine.
Michigan is devoting a 40-mile stretch of highway to testing self-driving cars
shill thread alert
Maybe not entirely a bad thing, if one plumber says that this other plumber is good I assume he knows what he's talking about. The flipside, of course, is that a mutual appreciation society excludes interesting outsiders.
Yeah, and that's why I can't imagine using those licenses. It's an open invitation for free riders into a system built on mutual aid. It costs you nothing to open source code, so it's the very least you can do as a user of open source code.
Mine has one, but something is causing it to get stuck in the on position. We know about this because it repeatedly clicks while trying and failing to turn itself off.
South Carolina.
Should have kept manufacturing in Washington.
As well as the options willhslade mentioned you can also do individual Master’s modules as distance learning with the University of London International Programme and then transfer to the Master’s programme proper.
I'm really enjoying torturing this service with bizarre phrases..

"I have tarried too long in the garden of plenty, and now my waistcoat is too small to successfully encircle my girthy frame." -> "I have often had the opportunity to spend time with time, and now there is a small hip for success."
Define “belong”.
Food, shelter and clothing generally have discoverable pricing.

I challenge you to find the price of a cancer treatment regime protocol in the United States. I will bet you any amount of money you care to wager that no US provider exists anywhere that will give you a price quote for lung cancer treatment in writing anytime before that treatment is provided.

And even IF you could, that only covers the cases where you are still have enough health and mind to rationally evaluate the prices. If you've been in a car accident and are dragged unconscious and bleeding into the ER, you can't shop around, even if they DID give you a price, which they certainly won't until you're already treated.
Some of us value other things (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source-software_movement#...) more than additional compensation. These ideas have roots in the original hacker culture that this site was named for - this stuff is the foundation of a lot of computer culture.
What would happen then is that the next public sector organization would want to pay someone to either fix bugs or to specialize the program to fit their needs better. And the more installations, the more this would happen. Maintenance is not free and the public sector would still have to pay the bill for it.
You absolutely can host your own email. I do and have since before Google existed. Antispam hurdles do exist but clearing them is just a process. For most people it isn't worth the effort. Sometimes I wonder why I still bother, but it is definitely not impossible.
Having a "clubby" culture is one explanation, but another factor could be that the NYRB just gets very high profile contributors. For example Zadie Smith has written essays for the NYRB, while also being the subject of reviews. Does this mean Zadie Smith is a part of the club? Or that NYRB is just able to get high profile authors like Smith to write for them?

I'm sure you could run the same experiment with e.g. prestigious math journals. There is probably a significant overlap between authors and reviewers.
My Daughter was born on the winter solstice this year. We had a broken sink in our hospital room and someone came by to fix it. He had a trainee with him. Who was mentioning that he was scheduled to work New Years Eve and then again the next day on New years day. A 3rd shift followed by an immediate 1st shift. He was casually talking to the guy training him and mentioned that had to be a mistake. The guy in charge said something like "what did I tell you. They don't care about you". I sure felt angry for both of them at that moment.
Arbitrary Wave Generator with the Raspberry Pi Pico (2021)
Why would that be unlikely? If Microsoft's business model was to get paid to develop Office, then of course they would.

(Obviously, Microsoft's actual business model is to capture and lock in, that's what makes your example look odd.)
This doesn't work if your Git repo is above a certain size. Some of our apps (fortunately not production) haven't been able to deploy since the incident.
Definitely, why bust your ass to drive far out of town or build an irritating thing when you don't have to?

I... maybe think the same thing about the tradespeople shortage as I do about the nursing/teaching shortage? We super need them, wages are going up, but supply isn't, which breaks the law of supply and demand (more or less). I think the cause here is a culture one, like there's not a lot of prestige or money in this blue/pink collar kind of work (generally, not always), so people (millennials) went into white collar professions instead, so we have a glut of people with bachelor's degrees and college debt, and a shortage of people with trades credentials. I'm handwaving a lot, but it seems intuitively true to me.
It really looks like US7921296B2, which has a priority back to 2001 is prior art for 7,627,477.
They both create a database of id strings which are located at specific locations within a file. They then sample the same locations in the file to be compared. The only real differences is that the US7921296B2 patent uses hash strings, while Landmarks patent uses "fingerprint object". The US7627477 does not does NOT describe how those "fingerprint object" are created. In their description they state(with a prior citation to Knuth) "One way of preparing the data to allow for fast searching is to encode the fingerprint objects into numeric tokens, such as 32-bit unsigned integers, and using the numeric tokens as a key for sorting and searching". I wonder what method are going to use to create that 32-bit uint, without collisions LOL.

And whoever wrote 7,627,477 was a moron, unless the examiner required them to restrict their comparisons to strictly audio files. But since their earliest grant also is dedicated to audio, I'm guessing they were not thinking ahead. US7921296B2 on the other hand applies to multimedia files in general.

What get's me is that it was the examiner that cited US7921296B2.

Have I misinterpreted this?
My wife has a mystery condition that flares up every few months / years. Every time it gets bad enough, the doctor prescribes antibiotics and then runs some tests. When the test results come back 24hr later, the conversation is always the same: "I thought it was [a very common problem], but the test results ruled that out. Since you already started the antibiotics, you should finish the course. Call me again if the problem gets worse."

So we're left without answers and with an unnecessary prescription for antibiotics, every time. It's pretty frustrating, to say the least. The internet has come up with "interstitial cystitis" as a possible culprit, but it's not much of a diagnosis with an unknown cause, no diagnostic test, and no peer reviewed treatments.
You shouldn't run an application like vim in Docker. Unless your server is running Vim as some sort of service, in which case it should only open files in a volume you bound to it.

Vim is exactly the kind of application you would run in a virtual machine.
The company Canvue is also backed by Ford. Lots of experiments going on in Detroit. The state has a stretch of highway planned that will charge your EV wirelessly as you drive on it.
Makes sense, so it's basically an alternative to apparmor?
A legal protection would mostly entail disabling of spam filters.
No, "Just quit these companies" is the 100% worst possible, least effective response. They act collectively, you realize? So the worker should fight the metric. Just ask one other worker who is as angry as you are, one with lower status than you ideally, and tell your employer "BOTH OF US are quitting if you add bossware to EITHER of us!" Makes it a little better, two versus one. Or hey, if some bosses in the company you work for add it and others don't, Oh Hey, just change department! No need for collective action if the boss doesn't act collectively.

A poster that used to frequent this forum said, "always fight the metric." You always have to fight the metric, in the end you will be JUDGED and that JUDGMENT will determine your status. Metrics are all harmful.

And beyond that, never buy into promotions, they're a mirage. There will be no promotions for the most part now that the population has peaked in the Western World. You get I don't know, $15000 and that's what you live on.

And Mexico is fusing with America at this point.

I should explain. There is en masse immigration under the smiling eyes of the president, but like an order of magnitude greater than it used to be. Order of magnitude (literally 10x) for Brazilians, Haitians, Cubans, Venezuelans, Colombians. Mexicans? Who knows. Hard to count if there's no counting. There's no counting. You just walk and you're in. No enforcement. In fact the biggest form of enforcement is the Feds cracking down on "la migra" meaning Department of Homeland Security.

So let us not speak of problems, opinions, whether it's good or bad. But the concept of the American worker earning a premium wage purely because of his nationality is vanishing if it has not vanished already. I heard it described as a luxury the United States could afford to keep its people happy. Or did once.

So now we enter a world of much lower incomes than Americans had, but also with much greater uniformity. What do you get? You get $15000. Run out of money? Budget better! Don't eat for a few days! It is always better to fast than accept offers of credit.