skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh gods I can relate to this article. I am moving from Iceland to Tenerife in the next 2-3 years (just made up my mind last month) and I have a 163 sqm house full of "stuff" I need to reduce to 4 large suitcases in less than 24 months. I dread it but a bonus is that I won't leave a pile of garbage for my kids to clean up once I kick the bucket.
Virtually everything you mentioned has nothing to do with the point that was so eloquently stated by the above poster.
I would guess that the difference native/foreign is simply due to the way language is learned: for native speakers, it's first and mostly orally.
This doesn't explain a later appearance of mistakes though…
This is a great piece of advice! I second that 100%.
Then you also don't have any problem if better candidate appears and challenges your position, right?
when you premise your argument with

>debates on here why as a European I would not want to live in the US for any amount of money in the world.

you naturally invite comparisons to europe. fwiw the single most dangerous place in america is the motorway.
Unfinished might be a good excuse if it weren't running on Nest devices.
Ask HN: Is the GitHub home page distracting you from your work?
As GitHub gets better at showing me interesting projects on the home page, I find myself being less and less productive. I visit github.com to get to the issue tracker or review a PR and 10 minutes later find myself browsing experimental open-source projects.

I suppose GitHub wants to drive "engagement", but is this an anti-feature?
It's a direct response to this:

> It was when I looked at the tram station not far form my house, which for a year or so has been upgraded to have a display with the expected arrival times of the next three trams.

> It sure is very convenient! However, compared to a similar transport system of fifty years ago, which achieved the same thing, we now have a lot of additional effort to maintain such infrastructure. It got waayyyy more complex, all the electronics, and software has to be written and maintained, screens installed and maintained, computer infrastructure - all just for some slight improvement in convenience.
Is it worth it? I have no conclusion, I just have to think about that when I hear yet another "we need more 'Fachkräfte'" (skilled workers). How many people do we need for mostly just minor convenience upgrades?

You made up some arbitrary thing that you admit improves quality of life, and I pointed out that your example doesn't really even capture the difference. 40 years ago you had to ask around, or call to ask about the times of tram. Now you can find the exact times, delays, of any tram anywhere directly from your tiny pocket supercomputer. The difference is so stark, and yet you focused on signs at the station when the revolution was in your hand.

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Realizing you brought up like 5 different things, and now every time I refute one you're motte and bailey-ing to the next thing. I don't owe you to refute every point you put out, the thread here was a specific example of tech improving productivity, and I think it's definitive.

The study is ridiculous and proves nothing, and the rest is pathos and too broad to reply to.
Good. Some progress at last. I am still boycotting the Co-Op
supermarket in the UK for using face tracking in their stores.

> if there are photos of you on the internet, then you may well be [in
the database]. And you are very unlikely to have been asked if
that's OK

The cat is out of the bag with these technologies. If not already,
it's only a matter of time before highly compressed face-feature
databases are out in the wild and a score of apps appear to ID total
strangers with a click.

That will change social dynamics, mostly for the worse I think, though
it will allay some casual street crime and abuse much as in a society
where people carry arms. Dog shits on your lawn? Send it back to the
owners house.

It will also make face-covering in some public places far more
acceptable and understandable, as the pandemic has already paved the
way for.

What this law does though, and why it's not pointlessly fighting a
tide, is that it prevents "facing" someone being socially normative.

If we can't uninvent abusive technologies we can at least make using
them unacceptable. The powerful, including people like undercover cops
and agents, will soon demand legal means to remove themselves - and
that will open the door further for broader "right to be forgotten"
type instruments. So I am also looking forward to Californian style
laws in Europe that allow me to personally take down data in actions
against companies outside my locality who do not have permission to
store my likeness or data derived from it.
You didn't bring any negative energy.

The app developer did that.
Storage box is pretty good, however its not a s redundant as most other object storage providers.

Its basically protect by one single raid cluster.

I'm really looking forwards to Mega's S4 offering, it very compatitvely priced and is encrypted, and it looks like of have the same kind of data protection as normal mega services.
I inherited a high quality NiCd cordless drill from my late grandfather. I was able to cheaply buy some new cells online, solder them in, and it's good as new! It has a multi-speed gearbox with a ton of torque... useful, but not a common feature on a drill.

I like the connection to previous generations, and remembering these people by using 'obsolete' tools passed down to me.
History of 127/8 as localhost/loopback addresses (2021)
Yeah it’s a lot easier to just be an escort, and charge $500/hr
> That doesn't mean that it's trading at that price but just that nobody is selling it for less, or someone is quickly buying the orders that sell for less,

Yes it does. Volume on Kraken BTCUSD has been around 4-5K BTC daily in the past week, yet the price barely budged from $30k. Any trade means a person selling AND another buying. Therefore someone is buying near $30k.

> And most people that hate it, do it because they lost money because of it.

You have a simplistic view. Two of my friends reject it because of energy waste and unfairly high rewards to early adopters, but none of my friends abandoned it because they lost money in it. Another is worried about their inadequate cybersecurity skills in holding it. Admittedly a small sample size (N=3), but I suspect it's representative of the larger world.

> over 90% of people lose money in this market.

If you do the accounting in national-currencies of evaporating value, your holdings keep going up in the long-term. That is the main value proposition that I see in crypto and Bitcoin.

I stay away from the rug pulls and scams that you mention, which are indeed a threat.
Governments Harm Children’s Rights in Online Learning
I don't think I'd even heard his name without the "F." initial in the middle either.
This happened to the Celery project a while back.
I was surprised most opensource projects arn't using something like gitlab or hub pages for cheap hosting for docs.
On FlixTrain you can book a seat separately if you want a specific seat. Otherwise you get an assigned seat included with the ticket for no extra charge.

I.e. unlike DB there are no overcrowded FlixTrains where people have to sit on floors or stand.
FlixTrains have a maximum occupancy dictated by number of seats.
the signal needs to have a maximal frequency for samling theorem to be aplicable. not all functions on a continious domain have that, in fact i think its the oposite most don't unless proved otherwise.
> It is in fact extremely common to build wholly deterministic machines out of the same parts as our unreliable computers, that are correct by construction.

It is neither common nor easy but actually provably impossible. Please read this piece carefully:
https://pron.github.io/posts/correctness-and-complexity
Indeed. The Roe V Wade overthrow shows how it's done. Judges are permanent legislators; it's been a critical part of the Republican project of past decades to pick them to ensure particular outcomes.
I'm still hiring for my digital agency - we have clients that are funded as an existing traditional business or have already raised a round in anticipation of a market slowdown. You can contact me through my profile if you're interested.

Answering your questions
- Will be this the situation for most tech companies or just start ups
I expect companies that are still looking for PMF using VC money to die. This is essentially a population bottleneck (1) for certain classes of companies (pre-revenue) & verticals (crypto).

- during recessions recruiting slows down even for big profitable companies[?]
The job market overheated for companies doing traditional sourcing, salaries were bumped across the whole industry to retain people, and still a lot of people left. I am sure that some companies overcompensated for this and are going to be burned if last year they went overboard with hiring & retention and this year the market blows up. I don't have an inkling as to which companies to watch out for, but some have already announced layoffs.

- What companies or roles will be more resilient?
Companies - big blue chip ones are always safe and look good on a resume. Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. aren't going anywhere. Even if you join Meta and get laid off due to their bad VR strategy.. it still helps your career by having joined them in the first place.
Roles? Anything that existed a couple years ago is fine. Anything brand new like "head of remote work" I wouldn't be so confident about.

- And how as a SWE / tech industry professional, specially the ones starting their careers like me, can prepare?
Just keep interviewing at companies with established engineering teams. Don't go somewhere with just 1 or 2 developers, or where engineering isn't the core of their business. This is where good talent goes to languish. I've seen too many people come out of these companies with years of "experience" but it was learned in isolation without somebody experienced helping to shape them into a real middle of senior developer; The worst thing you can do is rack up the years without the actual substance. It's like not MSFT or others are tough - it's just everybody you work with will teach you something new that it's unavoidable. In a tiny company you have to figure out everything by yourself or follow trends, which are less than ideal.

- Is demoralizing to find out I spent 4 years in school just to get into a really harsh job market
You are entering almost the best market ever for developers. If you're good, you can get a job anywhere in the world right now at way above nominal rates (if you know how to negotiate).

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck
Microsof is only making a service that many of us already do in-house with cloud based devenvs for contractors.

Nowadays I only get to deal with external laptops from customers when dealing with those that are yet to get into cloud stuff.
This book should be geared for one of those introduction courses, like “Introduction to Engineering”, “AI 101”, etc. I do agree with the vision of the authors that the book is a holistic view of data science, as I personally believe data science is not all about maths, programming; but consider the principles that surround it as a science.

This is also quite practical for large consultancy firms. Most of the chapters, I’ve had clients discuss with me (such as Responsible AI). Personally, I think it could have went away from the applications as it was too high level.
That seems very poorly designed. My Acer, a 5 year old laptop, uses a few percent at best overnight.
Careful with this, it's the thinking process which leads to hoarding behavior if unchecked.

Have you already refurbished a couple tables just for fun? It might make sense to flip some furniture as a hobby.

If you haven't, this is a recipe for being that guy with too many tables, whose friends drive by with a half-filled trailer and ask, politely, if maybe they want to throw something away today.
I just found one linked here: https://blog.codinghorror.com/showstopper/ which points to "https://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/evaluation/news...". Unfortunately I couldn't find a working copy in the Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20041101000000*/https://www.micr...
Heighliner: Cloud Native Application Stack as Code
I stopped using Gmail – and why you should too
I'm 99% sure this was authored in Google Docs.
Yes I did - I zoomed out and looked all over the world.

6M is a dramatic increase in sea level I would have expected huge areas of land mass to be gone globally and that source suggests a fraction of a percentage point of land mass lost globally.
Well, of course, you are free to do so, but it was a widely-held opinion at the time.

For example:
https://www.theregister.com/2011/01/12/symbian_history_part_...

(From my employers, but not by me and before I worked there.)

This whole series is well worth a read.
This might lead to a retro-futuristic look, with wooden TVs and laptops
This group in particular has depended on the kudos and good-will of their audience, all united by their common identification with "alternative culture". For my part, I have not seen a sketch of theirs that touches greatness.

Apart from their reboot series, I have not seen a lot of sketch comedy lately, I wonder if this genre is dead now?
"Storage study finds SSDs might not be much more reliable than HDDs after all"

https://www.pcgamer.com/storage-study-finds-ssds-might-not-b...

"Are SSDs Really More Reliable Than Hard Drives?"

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/are-ssds-really-more-reliable...
It's Time to Ditch Passwords
Ok that makes more sense. A small diagram outlining the 3d structure would be helpful.
It isn't a match, because this is a full Windows desktop running over Web streams/RDP.

It is a competitor to Citrix, VMWare and similar offerings.
If you can't distinguish between a human and a bot, is it a human?
Obligatory: https://sidetalking.com/page-1.html
Chatbots and Conversational Design
Tips to avoid mistakes while hiring the best logo designers!
In particular open source shouldn't be a marketing gimmick.
I've found myself looking for a pen in the office before and came away completely disappointed when everyone didn't think it was as funny as I did.
RDP beats hands down any experience I previously had with VNC or X Windows.

Citrix was comparable, then again that is where RDP was born.
So what is your proposal? Giving in to Russia? I don't know if you realize this but it would increase the risk of nuclear war, not decrease it because it would show that using nuclear threat is working.

Edit: my gut feeling about the risk is pretty much the same ~ 1/5 to 1/3 change of nuclear war in short long distance from now. Yes, it is bad, but there is not much we can at the moment do to deescalate it.
Indie Hackers https://www.indiehackers.com
Previous poster didn't mention software engineers.
AWS EKS Tales
> Other mooted uses for the technology include [..] creating crops resistant to diseases so farmers can use fewer pesticides, which have been linked to insect declines.

Odd the article does not mention that so far, the technology has been used in the exact opposite way - creating crops resistant to pesticides, so more could be sprayed [1]. All the wonderful genetic modifications trotted out in articles like these ignore that the companies making those modifications are profit-maximizing sociopaths (that will do their best to make your food chain dependent on them).

Rather than turning tomatoes into a vitamin-enriched healthy food, they will turn it into the vegetable equivalent of a snickers bar. The technology may hold promise, but the business incentives make me shudder.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_Ready
I'm also sorting through my parents things (the article is timely), here's a drive-by suggestion: pick up a Walkman on eBay.

My folks have a rack of VHS cassettes of their performances in plays, which they ripped to DVD at some point. I haven't started watching them but I'm lucky to have them.
> For example, autocomplete/suggestions popups feel definitely laggy

So replicating the local experience on many source code bases, not bad.
UK backs Lithuania’s plan to lift Russian blockade of Ukraine grain
I've been working on a platform that allows you to log and track daily events
https://www.simplejournal.online/

I've been more focused on collecting rather than processing the data and giving automated feedback, like what you're doing with your telegram bot. I really like that aspect. Very cool setup
The only reason I reboot my Linux laptop, or desktop, is when a kernel update appears. This can even be a year.

I run xorg, and requiring X11 to restart is equally rare. Thus, I often go for months or longer, without a restart at the gui level.

If I get a browser update, I restart that, and so on.

Microsoft has conditioned the world to accept absurdity. Just the lost productivity alone, due to reboots...
Yea, actually it was fully restored by the previous owner who was a mechanic, new engine (and gaskets which were famous for exploding on those models), suspension and all. Under 100k miles too and the body was perfect, even interior was amazing. I loved the car, but it just absolutely doesn’t compare to modern cars.
I do actually already use Fly for pretty much everything else.

For this use case though, I forgot to mention that it needs _much_ faster autoscaling than what Fly's regular VMs offer, with unbounded concurrency, and not ideal to run concurrently in a single VM due to each request being compute heavy and needing full isolation from each other since they run arbitrary customer code.

It's true that with Lambda, some amount of cold starts are probably inevitable with extreme spikes in traffic. But I'm hoping to mitigate most of that by sending artificial concurrent traffic on a schedule to keep a decent buffer of warmed up Lambdas above the current real traffic level. Still to be seen if that plan works out in practice.
I recall this debacle; the patch to address this (aka disable undervolting) caused a huge furore at forum.notebookreview.com (which has since closed; what a pity), which was full of enthusiasts undervolting and overclocking their notebook CPUs and GPUs. It is worth noting that CPU undervolting gives a roughly 15±5% performance boost to all notebooks with modern Intel CPUs (Haswell and later), while keeping power draw the same—one might understand why enthusiasts were irritated by the patch.

My previous Dell notebook was issued firmware updates[0] for this CVE: CVE-2019-11157. However, the 'bug' was never properly patched, and resetting the firmware to factory defaults after an upgrade could restore undervolting.

In my current notebook (also a Dell: Precision 7560), undervolting is disabled to begin with, but it may be restored by modifying UEFI variables[1].

[0]: https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-sg/drivers/driversdetai...

[1]: https://brendangreenley.com/undervolting-2020-dell-laptops-l...
I've actually really struggled with slow, unoptimised software forever. Microsoft Word's Equation editor is so slow and sluggish that once you've written one page of equations or more it just becomes unusable, since it's not feasible to wait several seconds for the equations you typed in to appear.

It's the same with code editors. Sublime Text 3 is crazy responsive and it's a joy to use, however I missed certain features that VS Code had, so I switched, however the latency issues are very noticeable. Typing is a little slower, switching tabs is very slow (like 100-ish ms?) and when you're opening new files you could literally watch the text being color coded before your eyes on my i7 laptop I used back then.
Things got worse when I started developing Flutter applications while running the Flutter and Dart extensions. VS Code would sometimes take several seconds to react to me pressing the backspace button, which made it incredibly frustrating to work with.

How is it possible that our computers are so incredibly performant these days, yet seemingly not fast enough for simple document editing or text editing tasks?
By the same author, at that.
Well, about half a year ago would have been the perfect time to get a loan, before rates went up.
Very interesting ! Thank you for the details.
This is a problem that nuclear advocates have to address; power is needed in imperfect locations.
I find it intriguing. Of all the computers of the 80's, the IBM PC was probably the least interesting. It wasn't particularly fast (BIOS character IO via the screen felt like a 9600bps terminal), was very noisy, very expensive, and had a couple horrible screen fonts (specially tragic because the fonts in IBM terminals back then were a thing of beauty).

We could do a TRS-80 Model 4 or a Model 16 and we'd have something more... interesting.
Isn't it easier to unplug and plug the cable into a different computer rather than messing with Bluetooth settings until it connects?

Edit: Never mind, it looks like the keyboard can connect to multiple devices at a time. That's really cool.
This approach is over-engineered to say the least…

You can implement such a layout without using Grid Layout and using just Flex Layout. Also with some min-/max-width tricks you can also completely avoid having media queries in there…

For beginners in HTML/CSS this approach is absolutely distracting IMHO.
Some years ago I was one of the first 5 engineers at what became a semi-unicorn, in 5 years we spent close to 1bn before a sale to tencent.

In the first 12 months I built a dozen microservices, each which eventually had a team supporting them. As the team grew I and one other guy were the 'glue' that kept much of the platform working, we knew how things went together, and by the time the Eng team hit 200+ staff we were indispensable.

After year 2 however, as several of our peers from the beginning moved into team management roles (something I prefer not to do), we noticed we were 'too important' to promote, or to allow to move, or to take off 2nd lvl on-call (at all).

What started with us being the architects of the system turned into us being the 'glue' that kept a massive multi-country eng team operating, which eventually turned into being boxed into a shitty support role rather than promoted, watching people vastly less qualified get moved ahead of us.

Eventually I just quit and moved into a tech lead role at a startup for something different. I feel like this is a trap for IC roles, don't be so helpful as glue that you 'set' into an indispensable position.
I think you're replying to the wrong comment.
Is ironic because one of the reasons he public stated to buy Twitter, was to end with the bots.
> In your case, if a tyrannical government takes place, you have no option to resist. In the US, we have the freedom to take control of our own destiny.

This is a pipedream. A tyrannical government would have to appease and maintain the armed forces to stay in power, do you really believe that an uprising against a tyrannical government using small arms would have any impact against the US Army and other armed forces?

It's such a fantasy that's hard to believe anyone seriously take that argument as a valid choice for keeping things as is, being shown by reality that how things are isn't really sustainable for a society.

But whatever, you have all the freedoms to go choose and pay for your own healthcare and guns, I prefer to live in a society that has a bit more of what humans need: collectivism. Extreme individualism is a major mistake.
Nice technique. Reminds me of the old days of the web, when everything was done with TABLEs.
Honestly, never saw the point of GDPR. You add additional expenses for something big abusers will just bypass, ignore or even worse just retract from the market.
The Federal system in the US results in warring lawmakers from different levels of jurisdiction.
Okay is this some kind of joke? The whole point of an NFT is that it is non fungible... am I missing something?

We really are going back in time to ICO scams again huh.