skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microservices are a solution to organizational problems, not to technical ones. They mean accepting increased technical complexity (your system is now distributed) in exchange for decreased organizational complexity (your teams can now deploy independently from each other, can safely make database schema changes, etc).

Going with microservices from day 1 will initially mean that you have one team maintaining many services. They have to deploy them separately. If you're doing it "right" you have separate databases per service. None of that is useful for a team that's just starting out.

If you want separation of concerns, the language's module system and a bit of discipline will get most teams as far as they need without introducing distributed computing into the equation.
The question isn't "would you prefer a job or cannabis", it's "what fraction of the population is ineligible for consideration during the period when they're job-seeking". We have an extremely tight job-market right now and you're talking about adding a massive frictional force to employment in that job-market.

What is the average time a high-skilled professional (or even blue-collar) worker is unemployed between-jobs these days? Probably a lot less than 90 days, I'd think. And 2 years might as well be forever in this job market.

CDC numbers put the number of people who used cannabis at least once in 2019 at 18%, and it's probably only gotten higher over time. It's probably more like 25% nowadays - and sure that's "once a year" but the real number is likely also higher than a voluntary survey would find.

In market terms, reducing your supply by 25% or 30% is a lot and would significantly push your prices upwards. And if you don't let prices swing upwards enough, you'll get shortages.

On top of that it's just a generally undesirable job. Lots of time away from home, and extreme responsibility and stress, even in the best-case scenario, and they're making it even more unpleasant (the ever-popular "dead-sea effect") as they run out of people to do it. We're already seeing that showing up in similar jobs like nursing.

And then on top of that you've got the DOT requirements that exclude another big chunk of the population from consideration. So they're competing for an even smaller fraction of the job market, and they just aren't paying salaries to keep up with it all.
Lake Mead, downstream from Lake Powell, will now be denied even more water. The vertical drop in the water level has been incredible. But the horizontal recession helps to drive the point home. The shoreline has moved more than 15 miles.
Personally I have finally come to terms with the fact that I am burnt out. This post is inspiring and I appreciate the author's honesty about his struggles. I hope soon I can take well well needed rest to recharge, and hopefully feel better about my life.
The maths is basically "I'd rather help build death camps than (tolerate minorities/reduce worker exploitation)

Ironically, with your claim that voluntarily agreed to employment contracts are "exploitation", you turned out to support Communism, which is the ideology used by privileged unions to legitimize their privilege, and which has led to the creation of the most totalitarian states in history, while you falsely accuse any one who opposes Communism of being a genocidal fascist.
I work in a small team; less than ten people. We are distributed over Europe and Asia, which I consider remote.

I do love the synchronous calls with the designer when we are finetuning some pieces of front-end though. Or debugging some database issues over the phone with another dev. I very much like the location-agnosticness of my work, but I would not want to go without some real time communication every now and again.

Maybe I'm reading too much in the post - I also don't like to be constantly bothered over Slack - but how I read it the author would strive to get rid of such interactions entirely. I found there is value in a balance between async and sync workflow even when a team is remote in the physical definition, so I don't think remote should be read as async.
They didn't want to support Indian Cards for payment by adopting secure practices as per RBI guidelines. One of the big reason I couldn't continue on Heroku.
> There's a `defaults` command to make it visible at all times in Monterey, but hiding it is a foolish design choice on Apple's part.

It's also a setting under Accessibility > Display > Show window title icons, so there's little danger of it disappearing since it's not a hidden setting.
This is why I always avoid closed source things :). I don't want my device to stop working due to updates. Also, its impossible that someone will keep running cloud for my device forever.
DataStation 0.10.0 Release Notes
F# has the same problem, you have to learn C#.
Is the argument that because it's a shark, we should accept that and avoid feeding any contenders?

Was the shark perfect at its inception or did it adapt as all things do?

Doesn't its shark-ness come by virtue of surviving against the best efforts of challengers through time?

Isn't that continual evolution at least in part dependent on a continuum of challengers?

Don't we implicitly give up on searching for something that could potentially overtake the shark by dogmatically accepting the shark's shark-ness?
While this is true, the parent has a point. Politicians and Media are quick to blame Climate Change for any crisis, since it's a great way to deflect blame on to individuals instead of government institutions that failed them. The Colorado River situation is a great example of a mismanaged, centrally-planned government program gone wrong. If water were being priced appropriately, market forces would correct the issue.
> Several news sources have reported that a single TB2 drone can be purchased for a million dollars, but Bayraktar, while not giving a precise figure, told me that it costs more. In any event, single-unit figures are misleading; TB2s are sold as a “platform,” along with portable command stations and communications equipment. In 2019, Ukraine bought a fleet of at least six TB2s for a reported sixty-nine million dollars; a similar fleet of Reaper drones costs about six times that.

It seems to me there is still a lot of opportunity in the low end with even smaller and cheaper UAVs with a few kilograms of payload. There have already been numerous instances of COTS UAVs being jerry-rigged to drop mortar shells, and it seems to work pretty well in a lot of scenarios. Particularly for smaller governments dealing with relatively unsophisticated insurgencies.
Except people have a much better understanding of how these fail which generally makes a lot of the process "reversible" with police reports etc.
How did we end up at a point where we are this reliant on the internet?

Any truly critical system should not be connected to the public internet. Computers with internet connections are for sending email and reading Wikipedia. Any data critical to your organization should be accessed from separate terminals connected via LAN. No VPN, that's still the internet.

Do that, and unless you're the CIA you will never be hacked. You can even run Windows XP if you feel like it.

The internet is the root of the problem, and it's time we start realizing that some things shouldn't be online.
In Utah (home of lake powell) 80% of our water goes to agriculture, which in turn provides.... 1.6% of state GDP. The overwhelming majority of that state GDP goes to cattle and the feeding of cattle. Not just meat, but the most water intensive form of meat you can eat.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So many scraping websites is It still legal at this point?
Ask HN: Drone owners, do you need emergency recovery system?
Hi there,

As a drone owner, I always feel uncomfortable flying over urban areas. I afraid my drone could just fall on something because of electrical issue onboard or accidental propeller damage. Do any of you feel the same?

I believe DJI tested everything and such thing should be a pretty rare situation. But I can't just stop being worried about.

The reason is the fact that my previous Syma drone just completely stopped its props mid in the air twice, without any casualties luckuly. So I switched to DJI, but got another situation - the drone just went away with no actions from my side. That makes me unconfident about software/hardware on the drone.

So having some emergency system like a parachute as a backup feels reasonable for me. So I'll try to build my own.

Could it be valuable product for you?
I think it's a perfect descriptor - makes me picture an acre of land (footprint) with a height of 1 ft
Why does React use it so much?
Central management/centralized control at that level is not something I'm really confortable with seeing. I can see the results of EU and how it shut down a huge chunk of small producers from the coutry side in Romania(my home country).

>"the only objective measure of value is what people will pay for it" - I think the ratio between demand/supply would be a more accurate one.
I really don't know what systems have been proposed like this but "what people will pay for it" wouldn't be an option.

The whole chain - raw product to shelf would be (?mostly) quantified and you'll pay what is is out of your "produced/contributed hours".

In that regarding not much would change compared to today. Just the currency and formula used.

Production can be ramped up or down just like today, manufacturing lines closed, etc. Nothing special there.

The main difference is the currency used would be the same all over the place and that (ideally) labour h value for a particular skill would be rated the same everywhere in the world. A laboured in UK would have the same h coef. as one in China. This could also contribute to distribution of production centres more evenly around the world (ideally).

Don't get me wrong. It's just a discussion of sorts and no system is perfect. I just think something like this would help equalize things in some way and still motivate those that want to do more to do so. At the moment, all 'isms have their issues and I'm "hoping" a hybrid of sorts would be worth trying at this stage. I'm not pro any of them and agaist all of them... sort of.
Papyrus 2.0

Looks nice!
There is value in tick control around a residence. For that, grass is the most practical ground cover. Anything beyond the bare minimum is an excess.
Related:

Tesseract.js – A Javascript port of the Tesseract OCR engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28105850 - Aug 2021 (37 comments)

Tesseract OCR - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27876383 - July 2021 (65 comments)

Tesseract Teaser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26400168 - March 2021 (7 comments)

Tesseract.js: Pure JavaScript OCR for 100 Languages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21843713 - Dec 2019 (77 comments)

A guide to OCR with Tesseract, OpenCV and Python - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21843342 - Dec 2019 (12 comments)

Using Tesseract OCR with Python - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14741124 - July 2017 (47 comments)

Show HN: Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12694004 - Oct 2016 (97 comments)
kottke heavily shaped my thinking during peak RSS years. I miss it. social media taints the deep reflective thought he's fostered for over 20 years. I wish him bountiful inspiration on this journey.
I've seen it skip a second (e.g. go straight from 3 to 1) roughly as much as I've seen it do the opposite. I don't suspect foul play but I understand why someone would.
Like Anthony Bourdain said " People who follow their passion into the restaurant world are delusional.."
Good luck to you, hope you are at least enjoying it.
It is a competitor of mathematica. It is a front end of numerical libraries, but also a wrapper of external mathematical libraries, such as gap, pari etc. It can solve differential equations, do number theory, group theory, data analysis, etc.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-water-knife-paolo-bacig...
I enjoyed the audiobook.

"In the near future, the Colorado River has dwindled to a trickle. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel Velasquez “cuts” water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that its lush arcology developments can bloom in Las Vegas. When rumors of a game-changing water source surface in Phoenix, Angel is sent south, hunting for answers that seem to evaporate as the heat index soars and the landscape becomes more and more oppressive. There, he encounters Lucy Monroe, a hardened journalist with her own agenda, and Maria Villarosa, a young Texas migrant, who dreams of escaping north. As bodies begin to pile up, the three find themselves pawns in a game far bigger and more corrupt than they could have imagined, and when water is more valuable than gold, alliances shift like sand, and the only truth in the desert is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink."
I wish more people would talk about the Switchblade loitering munitions (kamikaze) drones.

We've already had western made drones on the battlefield for decades, this is nothing new, just much cheaper than what the west makes while doing the same job equally good.

But the man portable kamikaze drones are the real game changer.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G9xLyNfPzQ

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv8Flu533xE
To some degree. But there are a lot of reasons to keep some sort of buffer around the house in any case. Now (unless required by local regulation/HOA/etc.), this doesn't necessary mean a perfectly manicured Kentucky bluegrass lawn but in a lot of the country just letting nature take its course will have tall grass, bushes, and eventually trees growing right up to the foundations.
Perhaps, though is California really the best place on the continent today to grow what it does? Perhaps 50 or 80 years ago it was reasonable - is it today? I agree that California's agricultural output is important, but it would also be strategically important to move some of to places better able to sustain it.
I agree it's poorly named. "Visual File Processing Tool" is the best I can come up with, which is even worse.
That's 82 gallons per day. Or 372 liters. Quite a lot.

A standard (inefficient) US toilet uses 1.28 gallons every time you flush it. Lets assume you have four people per household maybe using the toilet about 6 times per day, each. That's almost 30 gallons right there. The average shower takes about 15 gallons. So times four that's 60 gallons right there. Adds up to 80 gallons already. That's before you turn on the washing machine, the dishwasher, watering the lawn, making tea, etc. 82 sounds about right but also very wasteful.

The question of course is could the US do better? And why would it? As it turns out, a lot of places treat water like an almost free commodity. Hence the complete disregard for toilet and shower inefficiencies. If people would pay for it by the gallon at a reasonable amount, they'd fix it. But they aren't.

Say you'd price it a 10 cents per gallon. A 15 gallon shower now costs you 1.50$. Maybe you'd install some water saving shower head and shower bit less long. The actual price is closer to a 1000 gallons for that price. Hence the average American not giving a shit when they flush the toilet, take a shower, etc.

Water isn't cheap to source anymore. Especially if you live in a desert. Taking water from unsustainable sources has the downside that those sources run out eventually. Especially if they are not being replenished naturally anymore. That's what is happening in a lot of places. Water isn't scarce though. Our planet is covered in it. All we need to do is separate it from salt (and our waste) and we can have as much as we want of it. But it comes at a price.
I don't think that's true, the largest use is crops that aren't eaten like pasture and alfalfa for cattle or even that ends up exported.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/specialsections/these-...
Misperceptions of the opponent fringe and miscalibration of political contempt
Right, and we're talking about degrees here, obviously. Mucking around with Scratch or Logo for a few hours is one thing, becoming proficient in Javascript is quite another.

There are solid arguments for learning the concepts behind coding. As for making every child learn Javascript, I wouldn't go that far :)
Isn't livestock largely a subset of agriculture?
>Your interpretation of the term "remote-friendly" is not the common interpretation.

Maybe on a general level that's not the common interpretation, but in software that's a different story.

You don't expect to join a remote-friendly company for software development and then have to work in a strict time regiment with meetings as one of the default means of communication, for example. Async is implied - at varying degrees - when you apply for a remote-friendly company.

> You don't have to work at those places.

You'll have a hard time finding a job opening where they say "we actually work as a typical office, just remotely". You can probably get that answered when interviewing, but that's not a guarantee by any means.

I've joined multiple companies that were "remote-friendly" and boasted all the flexibility of async work, only to find out it's not quite real.

Could I be unlucky and everyone else has a different experience? Sure. Is it likely though?
So, what do you think the guy did in this case?

There's lots of people who don't do anything wrong and then they just get flagged for whatever reason, and their assets are frozen with no recourse other than "go to arbitration [paid for by the company] and hope they give your money back".
This isn't as big a problem as some make it out to be. The dikes have always been a porous solution, not perfect, 'kwel' (water that seeps under the dike) has been there as long as there are dikes. But concentric circles of staged dikes are one way in which you could deal with this. It will require massive geo engineering but nothing on a scale that the Dutch have not done before.

There are some voices that NL will have to abandon terrain, I think we'll see the exact opposite: more terrain will be created with the express goal of being used as basins for increased control over water. The important bit when you construct dikes is the delta between the water table on one side of the dike and on the other and we already have areas where there are three such dikes in a row to be able to deal with fairly extreme differences in water levels.

If you drive or cycle in the North of the country every now and then you'll find yourself crossing through a dike with a concrete lintel built into the dike body, this is where in the case of high water the dike can very rapidly be closed again and turned into a functioning part of the water defenses.

Those dikes are called 'sleeping' dikes they are still there and ready to be activated but normally they are transparent to traffic.

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

https://www.climatechangepost.com/netherlands/coastal-floods...

Other evidence that this can be done is that there are some massive artificial lakes constructed all over the world with dams that have a 'head' that is much higher than anything that NL will ever have to deal with.

A bigger problem than keeping the sea out will be to deal with the rain water coming into the Netherlands by way of the very large rivers. These carry massive flow (from a total area much, much larger than that of the country itself) during some times of the year and to accommodate that flow and ensure that the land behind the river dikes doesn't flood is - in my opinion - a much bigger problem when the sea level rises. During some storms you see a reversal in the flow of the rivers in the delta.
Several interesting constructs are located near Rotterdam and Zeeland, transparent to shipping but it can be closed quickly if such reverse flow threatens the land:

https://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/water/waterbeheer/bescherming...

(Dutch)

Those 'pie slices' are as large as the Eiffel tower but mobile, and are some of the most impressive engineering works that I've seen in my life.
We are not disagreeing.
I often say "everyone should wait tables once in their lives." I think that encapsulates most of the things people are saying about BOH work, but also includes actually needing to make people happy (I've worked BOH and FOH extensively, and successfully at both; you don't have to make anyone happy from BOH–except chef–to be successful, but FOH you literally depend on it if most of your income is from tips).

The reason I agree with the statement about working in a service job as opposed to all of the other examples you've listed is that the lessons learned in a service job are widely applicable to everyday life and interactions with everyday people.

No doubt, you will learn a lot about yourself being on the front lines of war, but you can't take those lessons back to deal with the variety of people you'll interact with day to day in normal society. In fact, it may be counterproductive to try that. Likewise, rarely will people need the specific skills required to perform hours-long lifesaving surgery in their day to day life. True, it may come up, but that is extraordinary. You might as well also start building a doomsday bunker in your backyard.
Ok, we've replaced "Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR" with a more specific sentence from the OP.
Of course. If the college was otherwise doing well, they would be able to get a loan to smooth over a rough patch.
I know... I'm trying to be more accepting and not get irritated by such things. It may sound silly to get annoyed by a font, but the perfectionist inside of me just can't accept picking the most available font. I actually spend a lot of time choosing/researching fonts for my slides and documents.
I've mostly heard it used by farmers. And it makes sense if you're thinking of the equivalent rainfall measured in inches on a property measured in acres.
'Because it's a very practical issue that can't be magicked away into the cloud.'

Maybe I'm not focusing on the 'into the cloud' part enough but is the first part of that statement true? Filesystems seem like a very practical issue: writing 1s and 0s in a (sometimes not even sequential) stream to a block device...my first glance at the issue it doesn't seem nearly a daunting challenge as CPU interoperability (multiple vendors, multiple instruction sets, somewhat overlapping, somewhat not) or networking, etc
Princess (and I imagine any other Carnival cruise line) wants that future for you. With their new Medallion system, they want all passengers to carry an Android or iOS smartphone, or be treated as a second-class citizen.
Agreed 100%, unfortunately.
I heard it's going to change in the next release (or maybe it did already).
No love for the roads, but many of those brutalist buildings in Birmingham are considered masterpieces of architecture. That's why they are listed. And I can't think of one from before 1960, either.
I don't think "just move" is the answer either, but the fact remains that the region cannot sustainably support its current population (much less a growing population) given current levels of consumption.

So, either the population has to be reduced, or consumption has to be reduced. But either option seems politically impossible. Our understanding of freedom is not compatible with the cold reality of constrained resources. There isn't a price mechanism capable of equitably reducing consumption, and there isn't a technological solution that's capable of scaling to demand. Something's gotta give.
A lot of times, the issue isn't the font... it's ubiquity and misuse.

Comic Sans, for example, was literally for speech bubbles for a comic book dog.

Papyrus was created by a 23 year old who was reading the Bible and wanted to translate the feel to a computer.
Comic Papyrus - https://creativemarket.com/blog/designer-combines-papyrus-an...