skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, I'm the author this blog. It's intention is to connect technology decisions to financial decisions. Appreciate the feedback.

I totally agree with you on developer productivity. Said another way, to connect technology & finance: early on, when developer cost is much more significant to the company than infrastructure costs, emphasizing developers building the right product is more important than optimizing the infrastructure costs.

Secondly, I am a fan of ORMs. I exclusively use ORMs on CRUD-based actions. The typical first-fix for ORMs I see is to move dashboards, reports, and aggregations to native SQL. Just doing that get you a lot of performance improvements. Recently, for a friend, not associated with Crunchy & not using Crunchy, I helped them lower their cost of database operations from $2500 / month to $500 / month. All I did was find the slowest queries, determine the ORM was running a slow query, and doing an N+1 query , then point them in a direction to fix it. Because their cost of operations were looking at increasing so quickly, they were looking at migrating to a different database, NoSQL, or something else.

Again, appreciate the feedback. Cheers.
Hi. You seem new to HN, and have already written a few such comments. Don't do that here, thanks. Please read the "In comments" section of the guidelines, which starts with "Be kind." Thanks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hopefully, it's not actually written as dumb as it sounds:

Okay, so we don't serve fonts from google-ish domains. We know server from freefontswithtracking.com a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet! See, no longer serving fonts from Googs. /s
Eh, re-read the comment--I'm agreeing with you. I'm saying they want that status quo, without war they don't sell weapons. But interestingly enough someone did attempt those same gymnastics.
People point this out often, but in practice I have never seen this cause issues. Remove callers first, then remove endpoint... its pretty obvious the order in which things need to be done.

What I have seen as a real problem, time and time again, is having trouble locating all usages of an API in a multi-repo scenario.

Anyone who fucks this up in a monoreppo will probably fuck it up worse with multiple repos.
This looks like a tool to further micromanage software developers, intended to be used by people who are not, themselves, developers nor users of development tools, nor users of the software products their companies make. Such a tool cannot have any meaningful impact on software quality (the need for bug fixes and rewrites) and this is the biggest factor affecting developer "productivity," not anything supplied by management or charts.
My wife is a hair stylist.

- chemistry for mixing color (actually pretty complicated and depends from person to person. If you’ve ever gotten your hair colored, they have a record of your exact formula + notes).

- being able to look at random photos people bring in and reconstruct the cut on your head with your hair texture and curl characteristics.

- actually making you look good.

- learning how to use straight razor without slitting your throat.

- learning how to do all of this within a set amount of time to fit in more clients per day.

She made over $100k per year before we left the states. Her men’s cuts were like $40 or something, I’m not sure, I never paid for it, but it was more than $30. Either way, it is the best haircut I’ve ever had — she can spot “cheap” cuts a mile away (one of our first date talking points, actually). If you want to not look cheap from a distance, get a real haircut at a real barber or salon.

It took her nearly 15 years to get to that level, but she could name her price by that point and people would pay.
Yes!!! So many people are utterly oblivious to this, and the number of people I see trying to defend this as a "community project" worries me. Make no mistake: Wayland (much like GTK4 and libadwaita) is another piece of software designed to give the GNOME foundation leverage. Perhaps the insult to the injury is that even with ownership of large components of desktop Linux, the GNOME foundation refuses to create a complete desktop.
Analyzing the Bitcoin Blockchain: Looking Behind the Hype with PostgreSQL
I know you're making an exaggerated comparison, but 10 IOPS would be closer to the performance of a floppy disk than even a 5400rpm consumer hard drive (depending on workload, of course). Imagine if we still had to deal with the performance of floppy drives on a daily basis!
NextDNS is not a DNS hosting service - it's a DNS server you can use for queries, like OpenDNS, or Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1, etc.

What you're looking for is a DNS hosting service with an API that can be used from an ACME client. I use LuaDNS for that, their service is excellent and you can store your zone files in git (and auto-update DNS with a webhook on push).
But still that only tells us when those granite artifacts were last used. In some cases they might have been constructed much earlier, and then reused or modified by later civilizations.
The memory in an M1 is not "on die" it is plain old DRAM that they buy from the Koreans and solder to the board just like Intel and AMD and everyone else. DRAM is made on a fundamentally different semiconductor process and there will never, ever be a CPU with on-die DRAM. DRAM that can be made on a CPU logic process is called eDRAM. A huge eDRAM is a few tens of megabytes, while a huge DRAM is gigabytes. The bit cell density of eDRAM is slightly better than SRAM and 1000x lower than DRAM.
It doesn't necessarily "matter", but it is an interesting view on how investors view Robinhood. Essentially, they are saying you'd be better off taking that cash and just sitting on it than putting it in HOOD. As though it was an engine for wealth destruction.
I stand corrected !
Note that is on cost/performance, not raw performance yet. Impressive.
I too lost interest in Reason/Rescript after Rescript became its own thing.

A lot of talent has moved onto other things (or stayed with Reason) with arguably minor gains for Rescript in terms of technical freedom gained.

Typescript is so dominant in this space that it really didn't make sense to split an already small community.
Ambisonics predates Atmos by many decades, is license free and has both gratis and libre toolchains available. It can handle any number of speakers, in any configuration.
(Googler, my opinions are my own, etc)

When interviewing we are instructed to write up the interview question and answer and score on a rubric with citations into the interview notes. These notes then go to the hiring committee who makes the decision without knowing the human side at all. I think the point is something like this

https://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/14/...

where the hiring committee is intentionally blinded. There just isn't anywhere in the notes to record "what kind of a person you are". There is a separate interview which tries to capture that, but the rest of this is in the name of avoiding bias, and maybe being more lenient with someone who went to the same school as you, or makes you laugh or whatever.
Love how people assume it was something nefarious. It's a damn credit union, not a bank. They likely dropped the rate because the long bond (30-year) yield actually dropped after the Fed "raised rates".
Ask HN: Should I prepare to get laid off?
I start a new grad job in 3 weeks. The company went public 2 years ago, their stock exploded, but has since cratered. They recently announced a hiring freeze on most non-critical roles.

I’m scared. Should I start interviewing again? I haven’t interviewed/done Leetcode in 6+ months.

Are new grads easy targets for layoffs?
There are also the following:

* dnscontrol - https://stackexchange.github.io/dnscontrol/

* octodns - https://github.com/octodns/octodns
Philosophical Fiction
Seems reasonable to cover in a single day class and test
> If taken as a historical account, it tells of an unprecedented impact, conflagration and deluge within a millennium of the YDIE.

More likely, Timeaus describes the destruction of Santorini, c.1600BC (we can't trust Plato's dating, just that it occurred in the distant past). Plato's "Pillars of Heracles" would have been describing a place other than Gibraltar, (the earliest reference of which is 600BC in Peisander's Heracleia (fixing the number of Hercules labors at twelve), yet the Greeks were unaware of the Atlantic Ocean until the voyages of Pytheas ~330BC, during Plato's lifetime, suggesting another location for the Pillars). The destruction of Santorini also neatly explains the Ten Plagues of Egypt described in Exodus.

[1] https://greekreporter.com/2022/05/10/new-findings-on-santori...
FiLMiC Pro adds ProRes 4K 60 and an HDR mode to its shooting options
> Bill Gates has also done an amazing job rehabilitating his image through philanthropy.

I think this is no longer true following the pandemic and his vaccine work. And his Epstein connections. In retrospect to this, it's hard for me personally to take his philanthropy into account. I went from childhood, disliking Bill Gates for his anticompetitive Microsoft stuff, to college age, admiring him for his philanthropy, and now back to harboring a strong distrust of the man.
Of course GNOME would work well: GNOME has dedicated Nvidia management code that was deliberately left out of Wayland and wlroots codebases. The only reason that someone would do this is to bait people into using their "more complete" desktop. This is why Wayland is failing.
My daughter has a web presence in the music domain. There are a couple photos of her playing the piano or doing something else in a professional capacity as an artist, but her personal details are carefully kept private. If you could just see a sampling of the absolute crap that is sent to her business contact points, you would not wonder why people want to maintain privacy.

</rant_on> Just as an aside, if you see a person on the internet, it is incredibly rude and infantile to comment on their physical appearance, unless those comments are specifically solicited. Comment on their profession, hobby, art, or whatever else the business or site is about, but nobody gives a crap about your opinion on their looks, their clothes, their eyes, etc... Grow up and keep your teenage fantasies to yourself. </rant_off>
> Is this a by-product of some compliance or self-regulatory requirement like ESRB?

Yes, Steam addressed this an announcement a few years ago:

> Q: Why do you KEEP asking my damn age throughout the store?

> A: We're with you on this. Unfortunately, many rating agencies have rules that stipulate that we cannot save your age for longer than a single browsing session. It's frustrating, but know we're filling out those age gates too.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail...
Or it just includes some conveniences. A lot of my projects include a .vscode folder so that anyone who uses VS Code can debug the application right away. If you want to use your own IDE or even just run everything from the terminal, it all still works.
I don't want to sound callous, but... they're cats. Not humans. How do you think all the medicines at your vet's office were originally tested?

Animal models are used in biomedical research all the time, and yet they account for a tiny fraction of the animals we kill for arguably less useful purposes (meat production). Provided steps are taken to minimize any unnecessary suffering (which should be relatively minimal in a drug trial), I find conducting research on animal models far more justifiable than even just eating meat - there's an alternative to the latter (vegetarianism), there aren't good alternatives to the former.
How do you make a defense side gig work? From my experience, it's a very 9-5 sector
Another one:

Saving in bitcoins from January 2021 till now was worst than save Argentinian pesos

Yes we are a shit but not as shit like that :v
> No harm in not enjoying it,

In a way, I do assign a kind of "harm" to books that I don't enjoy. You must invest time into a book and give it a fair chance before you can write it off. What's at risk is potentially hours of wasted leisure time.

> Having a “completionist” mindset (wanting to understand every reference and insight, and spending hundreds of hours to achieve it) is not the only way to read it, and draw meaning and enjoyment from it.

I've actually read more than one account of people saying they just sort of accepted that they don't understand what's going on and just power through it. Personally, that doesn't seem like something I'd enjoy, but apparently some people do, so I won't debate that.

I do think there's something to be said for readability in general. Whenever the reader has to stop because something is confusing (and not because it's thought-provoking or important), this interruption tends to jolt the reader back out of the story and into "ok now I gotta look up this word" or "ok let me re-read this last paragraph because that sentence was very long and full of ambiguous pronouns." To me, this sort of thing is not enjoyable in any book.
Host protease activity classifies pneumonia etiology. Anahar et al. (2022), PNAS

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2121778119
I'm sorry to hear about your calico. Stomatitis is really a terrible disease.
Dramatic documentary on the highs and lows inside a tech acquisition
It felt unfair to the employee offering to help. They (probably) have no control over LinkedIn customer support.

It looked like trying to scoring internet points at the expense of the person offering help.
Sounds like a reason for a risk adverse person to look at yelp reviews, not institute a government mandate.
And Rogaine. It was also created to treat High BP as a powerful vasodilator. Turns out it made you hairy too. Maybe we should spend all of our R&D pursuing High BP -- who knows what other ailments we'll cure!
A Horrifying Proposal for Airplane Seating Confirms the Future of Coach
To be fair, human surgery also costs a lot in Europe. It's just not paid by the patient. It's not healthcare in itself that is free but health insurance.
Check the other branches.
Did I read the costs (levelized cost of energy (operating)) $/MWhour incorrectly?

I took a low-high range of $24-$33/MWh for nuclear to be less than $37-$47 (coal) and competitive with $19-$29 (gas combined cycle).

Including capital costs, the nuclear cost is much higher which is why technologies are being developed to reduce the initial costs (hence the reference to Thorcon). I am not sure how fast renewables + storage will become viable for baseload, compared to alternative nuclear technologies, so I can make no comment on that.

Sorry - I got mixed up on the book reference - this one - https://www.amazon.ca/Why-Nuclear-Power-Been-Flop/dp/1098308... or this podcast - https://anchor.fm/chris15401/episodes/Why-Nuclear-Energy-Has...
This is neat, but it's only an alternative to Electron in the sense that it's an alternative to building a desktop app.
Is 100 miles on horseback on roads in fall that hard?

If I told an experienced marathoner to run 20 miles and it was critical, they'd be done in 3-4 hours and shrug it off.

If I told a rando from the street to do that, well they'd look at me like I was insane.

I would posit a scout/cavalryman with a good horse with route experience could do that.

I guess a horse can do a "trot" at 8-12 mph for 20 miles. That's interesting, it's not substantially better than a marathoner, I have read that humans have advantages over other animals in speed over long distances.

https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/124606/how...

I guess 40 klicks is the general maximum distance by a horse. That's only 25 miles.
Thanks - wish it could be used with more browsers, this looks amazing (I use orgmode all the time, but I also use Safari...). That said, it looks good enough that I'm going to give it a go, thanks again for pointing it out.
Same. The culture of early tech (nap pods, free food, work whenever) isn't compatible with the more mainstream kind of employees they're now bringing on. Gone is the passion, from all sides, and the perks and allowances given to truly obsessed developers just aren't sustainable with both the bloat and complexities hiring anyone but brings with it.

Good devs create easy times, etc.
Sorry, it's frozen and can't be changed, which is a pity.
Some of the first personal computers only came with 4k of memory
All I know about you is from your comments here on HN, and based on that I respect you, and that's where I'm coming from when I say this: whatever your beef with Drew DeVault, you're embarrassing yourself in this thread. C'mon, you're better than this.
> "You want to know what's better than having actual MS developers interact with your issue on GH? Being able to submit a MR yourself and actually have that MR be merged in within days of it being good to go."

.NET isn't your average hobby project - it's used everywhere. It's imperative that changes go through the proper due process here. It takes time to prepare design documents and review them, discuss the changes and different alternatives, review the code, implement the changes and test them properly.

If that's somehow a problem to you, I think your expectations need to be readjusted. This is not the kind of project that should hastily accept code.
Recruiters typically have pro memberships meaning they can message you directly without being connected to you.
Simple science: you need a control group.

The whole "25 things that successful people do" completely ignores the entire question of whether unsuccessful people also do those things, and therefore whether those things have anything to do with success.

Survivor bias is so prevalent in any thinking about "what makes someone successful?" that yes, it would be much more effective at this point to consider "what makes someone unsuccessful".

I'm willing to bet that the things we consider to be signs of success are actually table-stakes, in that both successful and unsuccessful founders do them, and the thing that actually marks the difference between successful and unsuccessful founders is luck.
Agreed; don't pick the free-as-in-beer tool solely because of that. However, some of the free-as-in-beer tools are the best. And those you should donate to (if they accept it). :)
On the other side of the coin, you used to be able to earn 6, 7, 8%, maybe even more, just by parking money in a savings account. I'd love to find a bank today offering even just 3%.
Good timing! I've been looking for a better binary encoding than BSON, and even considered inventing my own encoding. This looks pretty much exactly like what I was planning to do.
To be fair, I've been to meetups that are exactly the same. People walk in, sit quietly, nobody talks, someone does a presentation, people look around at each other, maybe eat a slice of pizza, and leave.

The point being that whomever is hosting an event, whether online or IRL, needs to take some initiative to make it a good event and put some structure in to welcome people and encourage engagement. That is easier in person, but can be done either way.
I’m sure it was difficult but I wouldn’t put it in the category of improbable given that cities were reinvented many times around the globe in hugely varying climates and cultures.

I’m also not convinced that people would leave a city for a subsistence life in the country en masse. There are several factors working against that like lack of knowledge and skills needed, the good cleared land already being inhabited, and moving too far would put you in a region where you don’t speak the same dialect and would be seen as an interloper by the local people.
I set up a DNS entry in my hosts file for all facebook/meta domains (https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporatio...) to be blocked (routed to 0.0.0.0). The effectively blocks any data from the "pixel" because when it tries to send it, the request fails.
It's popular to hate on Electron because it makes apps "bloated." But honestly, this technology is nothing short of a miracle. It really lets developers write one application in common, everyday JS (or whatever frameworks you like) and deliver it on any desktop. The time savings from not having to learn or write for multiple targets is absolutely huge. As a developer, you just know your platform is going to work without making the user set it up. You can package other stuff like PostgreSQL or SBCL or anything else you want in your Electron app and ship it as a single installable -- without going through any app store or developer program. It's refreshing and remarkable.

On the subject of bloat and package size, neither of these matters to the user. Electron apps run fast enough for users on the hardware they have. Users care much more about ease of installation and ease of use -- which are the key deliverables when you use web technologies wrapped in Electron.
It Happened One Frame: accurate video content search with OpenAI CLIP
In SF, the first half is also regulated since your business can be stalled on the grounds that there are already too many there. For instance, having two ice cream stores on the same block.
I think that was a temporary market distortion caused by too much QE and pent up demand from COVID making single family homes more liquid than they would have been otherwise.

Pooling money to buy single family homes only makes sense to me when the entire bond and equity market is over priced. Surely, there is a ton of capital that wishes it was liquid right now and not in portfolios of slightly over priced single family homes with liquidity drying up by the moment.
Intel is working on expanding their fab capacity and contracting it out like TSMC and Samsung.
I don't think you're right that society doesn't have canned responses for this sort of situation. There's no canned response as brief as "my condolences" or "I'm sorry for your loss", but combine a few vague phrases of the sort "what an awful situation", "it must be horrible to lose control over your body and mind like that" and something about how brave and kind the other person is for helping his grandfather like that, and most people are going to get through the conversation without too much discomfort.

It might sound like I'm being ironic, but even if these phrases are cliched and almost contentless in a strict sense, they're very useful for signalling purposes, and when you're talking to someone whose relative is sick or dead, being able to smoothly signal that you care is actually really good for both parties -- comforting for the recipient and convenient for the sender (in the sense that they can easily make their concern and care for the recipient clear without too much hassle).
Interview with a Squirrel
More like a required dependency.
I find a much simpler explanation to the common meme of biblical floods in religions.

Which is that people tend to build their settlements on or around rivers.

The same geography that makes an area suitable for trade, transport, fishing and agriculture will have catastrophic floods every few years/decades. Look at where every city of note is, and note how many of them are either on the coasts, or on rivers.

Rivers flood.
The guidelines are intended to promote better, more curious discussion, not strict compliance to the letter. An NYT story about a dispute is a better starting point than one interested party's story and it's the kind of url change that's both pretty obvious and common on HN.
Thanks for posting, a real inspiration.

This is peak development to me: to write high quality software to solve a problem I care about and make it available for others. If this sold zero copies, it would have all been worth it.