skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed on all points. I still think RDBM is over-used; it's the default in many shops for any minor micro-service.

It's like using a 20-piece multi-tool for something that only needs a regular kitchen knife.
That's a lengthy post with a lot of anecdotes and so many line breaks that it takes up a full page in my browser. It doesn't answer my question, though.

Why does this poster's hypothetical example of a remote worker spend double what the median Californian could? Even if they were in California, it doesn't seem unreasonable to spend what the median Californian does.

Why would someone motivated by financial concerns move to California to at all, if they can work remotely from anywhere?
The problem with the "Bring dislike counts back" extensions is that this change also triggers a behavior change in users. When your vote is invisible and pointless, much fewer people will "give feedback", and thus change the meaning of the count.

Like when you discover that your downvotes on HN are actually not being counted ;P
"Will we need job boards specifically for jobs that don't do surveillance too?"

Are there jobs that don't do surveillance?

Seems like every company's jumping in head first.
...or just make sure you keep them under your control...?

Losing access to an account at a major mail provider seems more probable than losing control of a domain you paid for.
Shower, take out the dog, workout and stretch, breakfast, make coffee. I don't wake up my computer before that. Then I start work.
And Synthesia is so awful that Synthesia didn't use it to generate their promo video. That's about a damning as it gets!
Yes, zstd has forced bitwise match coding, whereas lz4 is byte-aligned and with inline literals.

So lz4 has some base advantages in terms of speed, which zstd is unlikely to match. But as you point out it is only relevant for very high speed operations.
He plays Hotel California a lot at Mar-A-Lago. A lot people don't know that he picks the music they play there, and sometimes actively DJs. This is not a joke.
Why use such a good Frank Zappa reference for such a prone-to-be-bad thing...
Greenspan gave it to the world:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_exuberance
Cerebral under investigation over prescriptions for controlled substances
In what way is bzip2 more of a "standard" than zstd? bzip2 doesn't even seem to have any official reference description of its file format; just an "unofficial" one[1], whereas zstd is RFC 8478[2].

When I evaluated various compression algorithms a few years ago zstd came ahead of bzip2 in every metric.

[1]: https://github.com/dsnet/compress/blob/master/doc/bzip2-form...

[2]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8478
I read Everything in Its Place about 6 months ago and it convinced me to become an organized person:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y2PFG5Q

Now I start my remote day with a very structured 30-minute planning session where I review my “inputs”: Slack, Asana, email, and anything left over from yesterday (the key is that I NEVER reply during this process, I just write them all down and quit the programs/close the windows as I finish my review). Then I make sure my desk and computer desktop are clean and ready to work.

Next, I look at my calendar and create times during the day for process work (shorter periods of time for emails, quicker tasks, things that unblock others) and immersive work (where I don’t want to be disturbed and focus).

Finally I list my to-dos for the day, taking into account my inputs, my calendar, and the things I want to accomplish.

Then I start working through my list. As new stuff comes in during the day, I don’t work on it, I write it down in its own list. If it’s urgent and important, I will choose to work on it. If not, it can get prioritized for the future during tomorrow’s planning session.
At 2:06:29 In the video https://youtu.be/ri6eTeCBUww?t=7586 they mention "With Microsoft we're building an extension that will allow players to log in and pull data directly into Excel"
I don't suppose the source that generated it is available? :)
Global decline in ocean memory over the 21st century
Happens twice a month, reasons vary. Mostly because Wifi is too congested in middle of Helsinki.

At one time it happened every day. This was because of open Telnet port. Crooks, mostly Russians, caused so many Telnet-open processes that machine choked up.
Rule of thumb: people don't get to be rich and powerful by being decent and honest.
RSUs have always been more attractive statistically than equity in a private company.
you can turn that same lens on your own comments. why do you feel the need to tear him down instead of just moving on to another comment? who asked?
Personally 0. Well, I have one old Sony Vaio which I haven't used for several years. I have 2 work computers (one specific to a client I'm working with). I have 2 android tablets, which belong to my kids and one android tablet for work testing purposes.

I have several old phones which may not be working and 2 android phones a main one and a spare I bought in lockdown 1.

I'm a software developer/architect.

[edit] I forgot I have an Amiga 500 in my mums attic. I wonder if it still works!
Right now probably 2-3 working modern PC’s not including my work laptop and a number of retrocomputers including and SGI Indy, HP A600+, a very good condition and complete HP-86, an Alpha and probably a few others I’m forgetting. I also have maybe 2-3 other modern machines that are either gutted or dead atm.

I also have a number of terminals including an HP X-terminal, a Tektronix graphics terminal and a Videotex terminal.

I also have a number of “not general purpose computers” including a variety of retro telecom/network line analyzers, an android tablet, and various small hobbyist embedded systems. Some of these are basically PC’s like my Agilent J2300E which is just a Win95 machine with specialized hardware you wouldn’t normally see on a PC like V.35 and RS-449.

Still have quite a few machines I want in all categories above, but I’ll probably be needing a storage unit soon.
> schoolteachers grooming their children

Is this really a thing? It reminds me of the satanic panic of the 1980s.
This trend was fully present pre covid, especially in the high cost areas. If your task requires “programmers”, there’s lots of them and companies seek the lowest cost. If, rather, you have a task that requires “top-notch” or speciality programmers, there’s far fewer of them to choose from.

Before, companies needed to find them, then convince them to relocate and deal with the immigration hassles associated with relocation. This was tedious and companies hire companies to do this. If these people are not required to relocate, the size of the hiring pool increases to include multi-professional families or those with strong geographic preferences.

I guess this can be rephrased to: if programmers are a commodity, work will flow to the lowest cost area possible. If it’s anti-commodity/bespoke work, one must gather the craftspeople one needs. And these people know they’re valuable which makes the negotiation more even.
Are you an Oxnard resident? How much of the school system is funded federally versus state versus locally?

I agree it’s wasteful, but this seems more an indictment of Stanford and the veneer of prestige.

It’s also tax dollars that put a check on the nonsense.
Isn't this definition CAP consistency?
> If i need privacy, Cryptomator (https://cryptomator.org/) handles end-to-end encryption.

I don't think that's enough to qualify as a privacy measure. Those encrypted files will still be on your account paid through your credit card and authenticated by phone. They know when you connect and how much data you have, download and send.

As for the rest of your comment, I pretty much like having my own stuff and I dislike giving money to hostile corporations like Microsoft and Google.
> Facebook's user engagement is probably higher than it ever was. I have a friend who's one of those conspiracy nuts and he's on there all day everyday posting dozens of media links to questionable content. His behaviour is their dream. At the same time almost none of my "normal" friends or family are still there.

This matches my experience, the family members still very active are all politically involved, posting rants from either side of the spectrum. The conspiracy stuff is unhinged and getting worse.
> I do suspect that until it works "by default" for most users (without requiring any explicit configuration, backup or maintenance) then adoption will remain low.

That is exactly what these recent announcements from the big platforms have been about.
Nothing employees love more than soulless, robotic training videos.
Anecdotally I've found that the better you get, the simpler your code gets until it looks like a junior actually wrote it. But it takes skill to write something so simple.
I recently had to install chrom'ium' on my work pc, because all the mainstream browsers were auto installing an un-removable tracking extension via some domain policy :(. I'm sure my manager gets some report at the end of the month detailing how many hours I had a news.ycombinator.com tab open
Why is there such a big disclaimer/warning on the front? Shouldn’t the program just check that decompress(compress(x)) = x as it goes, and then it can be sure that compress(x) has not lost any data?
I purchased a hair trimmer on Amazon two weeks ago - Amazon is still sending me emails recommending me to buy a hair trimmer.
Depends on the hardware - I run 2x Dell E6330 server-laptops and their BIOS has an option to change the charging configuration to "primarily always on AC" - some Latitudes are designed to run docked all the time as "business PCs".

While we're here, turn off TurboBoost in BIOS to keep them running cooler with the lid closed, I've found it really helps when tasks get a little bursty.
yep, and people, especially many managers just DO NOT seem to understand that... they look at you like your speaking klingon....
Not open source, but is Prosperous Universe something similar?
I’d think it would also make a huge difference for Akka.
> Researching 20 people who really fit what you're trying to do is worth 100x more than 100 people who aren't great fits.

This holds true in much more than sales :)
Not sure what generation you're referring to, but my HP Microserver (Gen 8) has a 17W TDP Intel Xeon cpu (E1220v2 iirc) and an HP SmartArray controller, and HP iLO baseboard management controller.

I don't think that stuff qualifies as "laptop-class".
I gave up on Spotify because Spotify, unlike me, was stuck in the 70's and 80's...
Also for some NS&I accounts interest is tax free because technically they are lottery (although with a relatively predictable return for large savings).

Mind, the interest is currently so low that it doesn't really make much of a difference.
That’s not how it works in the real world though. A landlord takes out a loan at a particular interest rate, and makes repayments based on that. The bank doesn’t “get” the rent, they get the repayment that ideally for the landlord is less than the rental income, unless they’re relying on capital gains. The collateral only comes into account if the borrower defaults, for the lender to sell to make back what they were owed. Otherwise they have no claim on anything to do with the collateral - neither the rent nor capital gains.
Why? Is there some correlation between the amount of capital gains I’ve made and the amount of money society needs? If I were to make less in capital gains does that mean society is missing out in some way?

I pay federal income taxes, payroll taxes, medicare and medicaid taxes, social security taxes, corporate taxes, state income taxes, city income taxes, property taxes, and more.

Why should I then pay a huge capital gains bill? Why should I feel morally obligated to do such a thing?

I think you’re missing all the taxes paid along the way to achieving a billion dollar business. For me it’s 47% per year. Far more than I would consider my fair share considering most people pay an effective rate of 0%.
Mainboard Terminal – A Retro-Style Computer with a Modern Core
Deno.js in production
I checked the password-reset flows for most major NPM contributors that use regular webmail accounts like Gmail too.

< 10% had useful 2FA enabled. Most were just password reset questions or had a backup email to some old expired and re-registerable forgotten earthlink accounts etc.

I do this stuff all the time. I looked up the password reset questions controlling the zoom.us domain 2 years ago and collected an insulting $200 bug bounty for it. Zoom, like NPM, didn't do signed binaries, so this would have been brutal combined with other issues I found.

The solution is what all sane OS package managers do: code signing.

NPM has rejected this at least as far back as 2013 when they refused a PR by someone that implemented it for them: https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/4016

I don't know what else to do but keep publicly trolling them at this point until code signing is implemented. Unsigned code is a free pass for remote code execution when an account gets taken over.

Meanwhile Debian maintains hundreds of signed nodejs packages proving it is very doable by a low budget team. NPM seems to just want to reduce deveopler friction at all costs :/
In my opinion it was until it became easy and "legal" to exchange dollars for in-game currency via Plex Passes. It not only creates the constant temptation to just buy your losses back rather than playing but lets you assign a dollar value to everything you do. I played for five years but I quit after I calculated I was grinding for $1.72/hr.

EVE absolutely has the potential for incredible experiences but that tainted the authenticity for me in a way I could never shake off.
My server is so old (2012) it has parallel port. If you connect all pins together it has enough power to operate 220V relay and thus modem and router can be turned on and off without any fancy hardware.
You don't need an SPA for that, you can still filter the DOM with JS (Vanilla or a Reactive framework) and save the state in cookie or the URL, and have the server handle the state.
The current recommendations and "homepage" is trash. I am getting recommendations for the same videos and cannot browse the content easily. Even if I mark videos that I've seen others "seen" videos constantly pop up.
Why should anyone have sympathy for a system that tries to take away your freedom by force if you don’t submit to it.

Stop paying your taxes for a moment, even a small amount say $2000 and witness how much expense the system is willing to spend to try and claw back that tiny amount from the individual.

The people enacting these systems don’t even “pay their share”, yet they’ll be the first to try and make you angry at others while taking profit from hours of your labor daily.
My favorite estimation hack / joke is similar: take your best estimate, double it, and move up to the next higher time units.

So "oh, an hour or so" becomes 2 days. A week turns into two months.

I don't usually express those estimates, but it gives a good check on an initial, usually optimistic guess.
> The only area of EVE where spreadsheets go out the window is war.

Not if you include all of the ship setup calculations, POS and Capitals efficiency, etc.
Additional data point: the US made no attempt at salvaging or destroying the wreckage... but then bombed an embassy to make a point?

Oh and it's not like that was the only time poor recon resulted in bombs dropped in another place during the intervention. The execution of it is certainly not a high in NATO's history.
Yes, better use Gmail and loose your whole account in a few months/years
* 1 headless NAS running NixOS + a few containerized services

* 1 headless NUC running NixOS + a bunch of containerized virtual desktops and services. I also launch VMs from here when needed (mostly for Windows dev).

* 1 desktop PC running windows

* 1 laptop running macos

* 2 laptops running linux

* 1 chromebook (mainly for using the virtual desktops)
>I'd be in favor of classifying them as terrorists

Same with Antifa. Some protestors are basically just mindless hooligans and their protests and property damage are harming the small business and working class people a lot more than the politicians and the ruling class.

Like during the protests in France I kept seeing many mid-range Renault/Peugeot/Citroens on fire on the streets of Paris. Chances are those were most likely the cars working class people used to get to work the next day and not the cars of fat-cats.

I agree with protesting violently against governments but what use is destroying working class property?
> but also easier to overdose on with suppliments

I was under the impression that vitamin D is one of the harder supplements to overdose on and people don't take enough generally, is that not the case? (I don't take any).
You can go to “history” and remove it.
It was rough early-on. You could do complex layouts with hacks but they worked inconsistently on each browser, CSS itself was inconsistent across browsers, vendor prefixes all over the place. Remember the 'holy grail' layout of three columns, header and footer? Trivial in CSS Grid of course, but practically impossible without tables before.
It's all about the time you're willing to invest in your tools. The more you use your tool, the more that time invested will pay off.

In the case of emacs though, the problem to me is the continuous learning curve. You ALWAYS and CONTINUOUSLY have to invest time. Every time you want to use a new language, try a new plugin, etc. you need to learn a bunch of shortcuts. I think this is detrimental to actually becoming more efficient at using your IDE.

With VSCode, I can quickly try a dozens of plugins without having to learn all the bindings, and if I really want to use a few long-term I can just fuzzy search the commands and get a reminder of what the shortcut is.

The example you give with git is about investing your time learning git, not investing your time learning emacs. I use git on the terminal within VSCode.
Cemantle – Find the Secret Word
> I've heard of a company measuring how "well" a meeting went based on some AI analysis of people smiling. So much time here is wasted on managing workers and talking about how to work, instead of just getting shit done.

its ironic because this is what it was like in the soviet union from what i hear...
I remember doing rounded corners with images inside a 3x3 table!
"Last I heard there was a labor shortage"

For a counter, see the following article on demand outstripping supply of remote jobs: [1]

In some fields, like tech, there's a strong demand, but not so in plenty of others -- especially if you as a worker make the unreasonable demand to be paid a living wage or not be worked to the point of burnout.

[1] - https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220421-are-there-enou...
This can be easily solved via governmental certification.
You've got this class of people telling the rest of us we can't have decent affordable healthcare of places to live while they consume our entire life's salaries worth of resources on luxury items. Society simply can't afford people like this.
'The “robot” installed at this first Burger-G restaurant looked nothing like the robots of popular culture. It was not hominid like C-3PO or futuristic like R2-D2 or industrial like an assembly line robot. Instead it was simply a PC sitting in the back corner of the restaurant running a piece of software. The software was called “Manna”, version 1.0*.'
no compressor tests the output while compressing as it hurts the performance. you can do it after compressing, though, using `bzip3 -t`.
CyberUK 22: NCSC’s ACD programme blocks 2.7M scams
I pay for YouTube Premium, and it's less noticeable for me. But your complaints are spot on for me -- YouTube appears to have gotten even dumber. I believe that this is b/c YT as a platform is less profitable ... that's why they're pushing more ads. That part is pretty obvious.

But we're also seeing the other behaviours b/c overall Googs is allocating less CPU time to their naive AI recommendation engine. I feel that premium members get proportionally more AI time to tune their recommendations than freemium members.

This feels like Google turned down the AI spend across the board to increase the margin on YT as a revenue platform.

It was a bad decision.
A man of culture I see
YouTube removed the "dislike" button and you'll never guess what happened next! :o
I genuinely shiver when I read language like this despite being very much a corporate child. I count my blessings that, at least until now, even when I was tracked, my boss either cared about results or 'metrics' were good enough or the boss liked me.

I am not entirely certain how to prepare a child for this world. Short of running your own company, it will be hard to avoid the beast.
But in reality they're both binaries 'serving' 'files' over an interface.

By that definition fopen() is also a server.
I don't think it has anything to do with the dislike button. The YT algorithm is really bad. It has been doing this for years, and they don't seem to know how to fix it. I regularly receive recommendation that are completely annoying, even after I specifically said that I don't want to see that channel.
That's one of my issue with OCaml as well. All the config is using some made-up language that looks like lisp (with no extension file)
Dislikes, as a visible measure, were widely bombed by Internet trolls and ignorant cretins. The (vast) majority of people don't engage with those tools, so a small, coordinated minority can easily have a massively outsized influence. It was grossly misrepresentative to the wider YouTube userbase. The far right, for instance, was hugely overrepresented because everyone else has a life and isn't spending their day dogpiling on White House or other videos to click a down arrow (neither an up arrow -- the rest of us aren't pathologically broken, and we have better things to do with our life and to define our identity with). COVID was actually a great benchmark because factual, scientific COVID videos were downvote bombed with regularity. Conspiracies and nonsense videos were left alone, because the rest of us aren't ignorant nuts.

They were used to bully people and diminish voices. It was a completely toxic element of the system. No, it isn't dumb corporate videos (who were prone to just hiding it at the outset, making the trolls hulk smash and angrily declare that unfair) that they're defending, and that notion is pretty comically dumb.

This whole post and the noise around this issue is so absurd. YouTube isn't worse because a bunch of ignorant assholes can't bully gay and minority people, or ply their misogynistic or backwards ways. There are loads of easy ways to automate videos and basically spam YouTube, and the system hasn't overcome that yet. Visible downvotes would do nothing when these players are uploading literally millions of videos.
This is a good point, but I don’t know of any sites that actually do this. I hope it remains that way.

I do wish the standard didn’t include that at all.
That is a great list, though I think content discovery is still a hard issue. Below are a few music-centered channels. To illustrate that discovery is hard, I had a bit of a struggle to find a few of them, even when I knew what I was looking for. Content covers performance, music theory, money, and history. I also verified no overlap with your list.

Adam Neely

NPR Music (Tiny desk)

Paul Davids

Rick Beato

Smalin
Why even use you work pc for non-work purposes?

If you want to browse HN, why not just browse it on your phone?
I’ve used laptops for this purpose in the past but I always disliked having my HDDs connected over USB.
I was concerned that all my storage felt like it was active all the time even when not being accessed, I was always concerned my drives would burn out faster but I never had any data to back it up.