skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According the salary statistics (which I'm not sure one should trust), the median programmer salary in the US was $89,190 in 2020: https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/computer-programm... So expecting 200k in starting salary is quite unrealistic.
Random jordan peterson clips were the worst. Once it started, it took months to die out despite me clicking don't recommend several dozens of times.
This is exactly my hack too! Especially when there are outside dependencies that can easily stall your progress.
It's yet another poor re-implementation of S-expressions and Lisp. This:

[
{ "op": "replace", "path": "/baz", "value": "boo" },
{ "op": "add", "path": "/hello/bim", "value": ["world"] },
{ "op": "remove", "path": "/foo" }
]

is clearly inferior to:

(patch
(replace (baz) "boo")
(add (hello bim) ("world"))
(remove (foo)))

Although I suppose the verbosity might be helpful in convincing PHBs that one is getting work done, it gets in the way of understanding.
Yeah, especially if it's not absolutely necessary (e.g. the goal would be otherwise impossible).

I'd be okay if they regulated telco carriers a little bit more than they already do; much more okay than with anything resembling what they're trying to do now.
That's truly an impressive Moth. Good find. The zsh plugin looks nice too!
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There are people who believe that America is collapsing if Roe v Wade isn’t overturned.
> If it could have been outsourced it would have already been outsourced

It already has been outsourced and then re-insourced as soon as the quality was evident.
> But then again, many large companies have managers looking to climb the ladder so they outsource at all costs to make the budget look better- it’s a risky gamble and sometimes it just works. Most times this ends with years of waste in other areas of the company.

This works in the short term, in the same way you could probably lay off 90% of your developers and keep thinks chugging along for a couple years (albeit with next to zero new development). These things take time to fully poison the host but the exec climbing the ladder doesn't care. They get the praise for cutting costs, they aren't responsible for the code/product, and they will jet off to some new company to ruin things before the shit hits the fan.
Funny guy
if we had a single sign in system, you would have been banned from the internet already :)
I always wondered how hard it would be to have a simple inline feature for your editor to expand small function code on demand.

1. Statically for known function calls
2. For dynamic dispatch /pattern matching, run a test , record the actually executed code and then inline that.
In Germany at least Antifa aren't terrorists. Actual hooligans are much more destructive by several magnitudes.

State intelligence often tries to frame them as terrorists but they break fewer laws than the state itself. Also by several magnitudes.
I suspect double speak will be elevated to a new artform. a large corporation has no standard basis by which t judge output. Managers may love your work, but it's hard to objectively quantify whether they have the right calibration.

Software that automatically says “you should push how harder”, “john is harming morale”, “jane is overworking”. Will be too tempting for a detached senior leadership to resist.

At my firm, laptops seem to have mysteriously gotten slower recently, chrome now regularly crashes on moderately sized documents. I would be surprised if it's not spyware related.

I'm moving over to a Linux machine as soon as I can, that way I can benefit from lack of software support.
Is there a standard pretty print spec?
"Even adoption af standart password managers is painfully slow."

I am reluctant to use password managers on my phone because of the risk of my passwords being exfiltrated either by the app developer, by the OS manufacturer, or by whomever manages to hack in to my phone.
Does it support custom UI elements?
Etymology is weird.

Git is derived from "Get" (as in "beget") which is another term for a bastard.

Watered down through the decades and much less sting, but the meaning is the same.
Wearable microneedle array for continuous monitoring of multiple biomarkers
How is it clearly inferior? I prefer it to yours
Yes, it was hyperbole.
Litestream author here. The tl;dr is that Litestream trades operational complexity for reduced durability guarantees and increased write performance. Those 3 options mentioned use distributed consensus to ensure higher durability but that consensus also takes time so writes can be slowed. Litestream is an async replication tool so you can have a configurable window (1 second by default) where you could lose data if you have a catastrophic failure.
Yup. We implemented our own thing a few companies ago. It wasn't great but we didn't know about JSON Patch back then. It would have saved us a lot of time and pain.
The EFF
> I have no doubt there are execs sitting around thinking that, they are wrong but I don't doubt it. There are a how slew of reasons why outsourcing fails time and time again and "poor communication" isn't very high on that list.

Poor communication a multiplying factor for all the other problems.
There's a great book called "Skunk Works" by Ben Rich (head of the F-117 project) that goes into the development. It's amazing what they were able to accomplish with so little computing power.
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Companies get what they pay for. Nothing more infuriating than getting a 2% raise in a year with 8.5% inflation while the company announces they’ve made hundreds of millions of dollars in profits.
This was the first ever exoplanet helicopter, I think they were only 50-50 on whether it would work at all, with a very high risk of some other issue crashing it first.
A two earner household with a cop and a nurse benefited from SALT.

The average beneficiary of opportunity zones is generationally wealthy. A pair of tech workers pulling down 7 figures a year are stupidly wealthy and still would probably not have enough capital to be the primary beneficiary of an opportunity fund.

I’m not going to defend the salt deduction because I’m not a fan of it for the reasons you mention, but comparing SALT to opportunity zones is genuinely delusional.

Pitting the lower middle class against the upper middle class over a modestly regressive tax break while folks who haven’t worked in three generations pay a 0% tax rate on the fruits of others’ labor.
They'd better start exporting some sunlight.

and not via fruit.
I have no reason to believe that hiding the dislike stat had this impact on the algorithm. Why do we think it did (as opposed to some other explanation, like "tuning the algorithm had bad outcomes for 1% of users, and one of them posted a rant on HN?")
That title clearly has a negative tone. Nobody reads that title and has a positive reaction.
You can try it currently - set an iOS device as a development target in Xcode, go to the iOS developer menu (settings->developer) and turn on the passkey option[0]. Then, on a desktop or laptop with Bluetooth and in a Chromium-based browser, attempt to enroll a security key on a website that supports Webauthn - Chrome will popup the prompt to "add a new Android device", which will then show a QR code that you can scan on your iOS device. It'll prompt you to enroll a security key with the text about "save a passkey for this account in iCloud Keychain"[1]. In reality, all it does is create and sync fresh security key private keys for use across devices, with interoperability over BLE so it's easier to use them even if you don't have an expensive iMac.

0: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/authenticationserv...

1: https://photos.app.goo.gl/5LwhDsXbWg4yb6326
Open source has succeeded at creating common infrastructure, where technical vision matters most. Sometimes.

Compared with the vast, vast array of software we both need and use, open source has failed. Precisely because there’s a gap between what the developer can envision and what is needed. Hence product owners. And a gap between the resources of time and money available and what a single developer can do in their spare time. Hence management.

PS: I also think you should re-examine your disdain for “burger flippers”. Even if it’s a low-autonomy job with much repetitive labor, there are aspects – like dealing with customers under pressure – which might break the average software developer. And people are much more than how they choose or are able to sell their labor. The general lesson here is that there’s usually a lot more to every job and worker than you think.
You're right, but given that some people subject their breaker boxes to amateur fiddling, leaving loose or missing covers and poorly done wiring, I sympathize with his point. I wouldn't send a kid to flip a breaker unless it was my own house and I knew the breaker box was safe. I realize that in theory a light switch can be unsafe just like a breaker box, but in practice, I would never worry about sending a kid to flip a light switch.
That appears to be systemd being slow.

$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=test bs=1G count=1 iflag=fullblock
$ gzip -k test
$ zcat test.gz | pv -a >/dev/null
[ 228MiB/s]

$ sudo journalctl -r | pv -a >/dev/null
[13.1MiB/s]

UPDATE: Gzip with more real-world data[1]:

$ gzip -k adventures-of-huckleberry-finn.txt
$ zcat adventures-of-huckleberry-finn.txt.gz | pv -a >/dev/null
[ 151MiB/s]

[1]: <https://gutenberg.org/files/76/76-0.txt>
The amount of compute that makes this work would’ve been relatively formidable in the 90s.
I think a lot of it is from a single engineer: sindresorhus

He’s a prolific open source author that traditionally had a lot of modularization in his packages—though I think he has started to move away from it recently. He talks about it here: https://blog.sindresorhus.com/small-focused-modules-9238d977...

Most projects will include at least one package by him in the dependency tree.
Because people tell you their name if they want to, and give you their thoughts if they choose to do so. Having your name available to all at any time and anything you've ever said regardless of context or without limits to the intended audience is madness. It's a freedom we should not be willing to give up so easily because of technology.

On top of that, having all that personal information available will actually increase the power of trolls and political manipulation, not to mention exacerbate identity theft, profiling, security and phishing problems.
Most CCTV cameras used in professional installations do not have any kind of on-board microphone. Many have an audio input option for an external mic, but it is very rarely used.
It's also important to acknowledge that these NPC corporations have a high tax rate so there's a financial incentive for players to leave these NPC corporations for Player driven ones. Most player corporations have a lower tax rate, less than 10% or matching if there's a war on. Sometimes a corp will increase taxes to recoup war bonds but it's only temporary.
Somebody in your codebase is going to use !isEven(x) to test for isOdd and introduce a bug. IMO, it should crash if passed a non-number.
Sure, the whole point of the thread was a guessing game. I'm speculating that Apple, had it not been worried with going bankrupt, could have tried to fix code that had grown organically and incoherently over decades.

And that this was a missed opportunity for the whole industry as it's probably not going to happen anytime soon.
> In Germany at least Antifa aren't terrorists. Actual hooligans are much more destructive by several magnitudes.

Not to mention much more murderous. Fascists have murdered over 200 people since the reunification [1], left-wing oriented people four in the same time [2]

[1] https://www.dw.com/de/chronologie-rechte-gewalt-in-deutschla...

[2] https://katapult-magazin.de/de/artikel/gegenueberstellung-po...
What's the difference between outsourcing and immigration? It's still taking jobs away from the native population.
Facebook definitely has that feel to it. The engagement in our family Facebook groups are way down.
There’s no guarantee this author chose the right data points.

Just because you feel satiated does not mean the end of RvW won’t spark a sudden social meltdown. We could be one stupid political decision away.

We’re not property of the elites. None of the bank tellers by me own the banks. Mortgage strikes, wfh worker strikes could follow further erosion of human rights. Good luck going door to door, Jamie Dimon and co.

There’s a broader distribution of possible triggers than the ones in this post. People still need to eat so certain behavior will look the same. That doesn’t mean they aren’t ready to eat the rich.
Most indoor gunshot detection systems use dedicated hardware, with the microphone going into an on-board audio analysis circuit. They generally cannot be used for ambient listening.
Anything stat-heavy. Genshin Optimizer: https://frzyc.github.io/genshin-optimizer/ for example; the game has no data export at all, so there's an OCR program you can run that screenshots your inventory for analysis.
The only people that win in this are people with dual citizenship/permanent residence in LCOL countries. It isn’t that big of a pool.
> It already has been outsourced and then re-insourced as soon as the quality was evident.

And you don't hear about it because no company wants to advertise eating crow. I once worked for a place that made a huge deal about "$comapnyName China" office opening. A few weeks later I was asked to review a project they did, 150+ hours logged, didn't follow any of our style guides, didn't work, showed a complete lack of understanding of the framework we were using. I redid the entire project in 8 hours. The "China branch" didn't last long after that, but it also was never mentioned again, they swept it under the rug and pretended it never existed.

I'm sure some morons will outsource their development, I'll find the smarter companies and work for them until the "who cares, it saves money" group is ousted or comes to their senses (unlikely).
So more loss of stability. Decreased predictability. Typical for the climate emergency we're in, and typical precursor for a significant state change event in complex systems.

I hadn't heard of the term ocean memory before. For something more specific and slightly related, check out the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Another complex system or subsystem that is being affected with potential for significant impact.
I usually give a range of estimation.

The issue I've had is that most "stakeholders" just want it boiled down to one number and don't care about any nuance. If I say it will take 2-4 weeks, they will assume 2 weeks if it's convenient. If there's a list of tasks, they will add up the lower bound of each task and discard anything they don't deem necessary.

It seems to me that any estimation tactic works well if you assume fair intent.
Unfortunately, there's no comparison. AI doesn't come close to the breath of Eve. It's cool. It's a good game especially for a solo-dev (very impressive!) but Eve Online has so many avenues to gameplay.
Not for Curiosity and Perseverance, which use RTGs. NASA like RTGs for their big, power-hungry vehicles, and use solar panels on the smaller ones. I guess that one problem is that any brush or compressed air mechanism would have to be particularly light to justify itself, else you might as well design around an RTG instead of solar panels.

Rotorcraft are a special case though, because they come with powerful fans attached. Maybe the next rotorcraft will have a way to direct its prop wash over its solar panels.
the headline would be clearer with punctuation re-added before the word 'not' to reflect the author's sarcasm
At the time the snapshot was taken that was the entire tree, so it doesn't just "try", it succeeds.
I’ve read this but always had a hard time believing it. Why would the omega 6/3 ratio matter? Seems like a falsehood peddled by people trying to convince you to buy more expensive unsustainable hunted fish.
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If work (of any kind) can only be done face-to-face, why do companies have satellite offices? I've never worked for a company with more than a few hundred employees that didn't have offices in multiple states and co-workers who had never met in person, yet still conducted business just fine remotely.
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Unfortunately short of some kind of brain link sci-fi fantasy device I'm never seeing a future of game engines and game playing that doesn't have that feeling.

It's a limitation that exists because of the requirement for abstraction of interaction.
Encoding the information about some thing in numbers does not make the original thing a mathematical object.

The numbers used to encode some information are mathematical objects and they can be transformed using mathematical functions. You can encode the image of a flower in a bit string and you can compress the image by applying a mathematical function. That does not mean that the flower is a mathematical object.

The sequence of bases of a DNA molecule from the flower records some information about the structure of that DNA molecule, but it is neither the DNA molecule nor enough information to completely clone a living cell (the various cloned animals from experiments are not identical copies, they combine features inherited from the source of the DNA with others inherited from the source of the anucleated cells used to make the clone, the nucleic DNA is the major source of information about a living cell, but not the only one; it is like the source text of a C compiler that still needs a lot of extra information in order to bootstrap it into an executable compiler).

When patent claims are analyzed, it is easy enough to determine if they refer to mathematical methods or to physical things, even when the language of the claims is intentionally confusing.

Originally the concept of patent was applicable only to physical devices, which could be built and demonstrated to work as claimed.

However the acceptance rules have been relaxed in time, allowing more and more abstract patent claims, until it became possible for the first time to patent software, first in USA, and then also in other countries, usually as a result of pressure either from USA or from industry lobbies.
I thought it was because the stealth tech was based on faceting. This deflects the majority of radar energy directed at it so it doesn't return to the source to be detected.
> Meanwhile homeowners do nothing and have tax-free returns. Yearly returns larger than my net salary.

What do you mean, their theoretical home value going up? What good is that until or if they sell, better home equity loans?
I wrote it on my phone so grammar isn't Apple's forte. Replace use with used.
Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20220510131526/https://eiko-frie...

Main link was down for me - exhausted resources.
Litestream author here. I agree with Philip. Litestream relaxes some guarantees about durability and availability in order to make it simpler from an operational perspective. I would say the the two projects generally don't have overlap in the applications they would be used for. If your application is ok with the relaxed guarantees of Litestream, it's probably what you want. If you need stronger guarantees, then use rqlite.
Why bar that?

If you're farming in a desert and using 2020s technology to destroy the ecosystem, the fact that 1800s governments, lacking any ability to accurately measure the health of underground aquifers, allowed you to use a windmill to pull a little water out of the ground is completely irrelevant.
That's shocking?

It seems incredibly ironic that one would be shocked by this.
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Because billionaires are more often than egomaniacs and having your name be remembered is more important than the actual value of your charitable donations.

We grew up in a world dotted with buildings and universities with the names of robber-barons like Carnegie, Vanderbilt and Rockefeller. Having your name carved into the stone of the building of a major institution means immortality (well, as long as the institution remains important) - directly sponsoring science might do more real good but it's not as good at sanitising your image or for being remembered long term, which are the real goals of most billionaires' philanthropy.

People don't remember John D. Rockefeller for the money he pumped into eradicating hookworm, probably the single greatest thing he did for the world in his life - ending generations of sapped energy and cognitive impairment in the American South. People remember him because his name is on the buildings and colleges he funded.
I take this back - I'm surprised to see Trump has expressed quite a few opinions about music: https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/e5e4572a-0676-4120-9eb3...
> Buy expired NPM maintainer email domains

How do people manage selling or changing a domain they've been using long-term as their primary email address for sign-ins like this? To stop a new owner of that domain from taking over accounts sign-ins that use that email address, you'd need to reliably update all your sign-in details with anything you've signed up to?

You could use a password manager to track everything you've signed into before to help with this but that's error-prone.

Alternatively, this forces you to keep paying for the old domain indefinitely?
Eve Online is continually fascinating to me. People basically have jobs playing that game. It's bewildering to me. I tried playing Eve Online once. I think it took me quite a while to get through the initial setup, and then I was just placed in space. I had no idea what was going on, and then someone took me out.
Most of the tools you mentioned appeared precisely because the basics with Python don't work that well. I had a project that started similarly, and in the end I had to use to pip-tools to actually separate top-level requirements and lockfiles for different "flavors" of the package (production and dev dependencies, for example). For new projects I would seriously consider poetry because it manages those two concepts directly. There's also the problem of changing requirement files and the environment not being updated to match 1-to-1 the files, either because someone installs something to test and doesn't put it in the requirements file or because you get an updated file from a coworker and forget to run the update. Even then, pip will not delete packages that it doesn't find on the files.

It's a mess once you start digging a bit, Python dependency management is extremely basic. It's no wonder why alternative tools appear, they're not redundant, they actually fix pain points in the default tools.
You could make it optional and never permit key updates. Then downstream users could decide to only depend on signed code. The downside of this is some people will lose their keys and never be able to update a project ever again. The upside of this is that businesses that prioritize this can be more confident that an account takeover isn't shipping them evil code.
I was just checking the comments to see if anyone had already said this. I never look at the home page on Youtube. I only look at the subscription page. I occasionally add subscriptions by following recommendations from the creators, comments on the video I'm watching or by word of mouth. The home page is essentially worthless for me.
Right, just like a lightswitch. But in both cases, only if you open the protective enclosure with a screwdriver.
Agreed. The patch key-value syntax is self-describing and extensible. The s-expression syntax's reliance on positional inputs is less self-describing and extension can only be done at the end of the s-expressions.

And the s-expressions don't even solve the problem of terseness for wire-format reasons; protobufs beat them out in that category.