skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of this depends on how clean a work/life boundary you had before the pandemic.

If like me, you work in a job where you are on-call, frequently checking in morning/night/weekends, taking out-of-hours calls with other regions, etc.. then the line was long ago blurred. So I was already doing lots of “extra” semi-involuntary time from home, why bother with the ceremony of the commute in the middle of the elongated work day?

During the pandemic companies really started to abuse this.. my wife & I started having more regular team meetings at early hours that would never have happened in-office. If they want us back in the office, then the day will need to shrink again.

Lastly, in addition to losing the extra time companies have gotten from us - I’ve noticed that another counterintuitive office aspect is all the gossip. Management thinks that we need the serendipity of the “water cooler chats” and informal networks coming up with the next big idea. Little of that happens in reality in most orgs. What does happen though is lots of gossip about who is on the way up/down, in/out. People are a lot more candid IRL than on electronic, likely recorded, means.. and in some cases thats not a good thing.
no, just try it out.

all my cygwin build rules contained turning off inherited perms to be able to compile bigger systems under an hour.
e g. https://github.com/rurban/cygwin-rurban/blob/master/release/...
Correlation between what? Between affluence and lack of respect for licenses? A weak one at best. My experience is that there are sleazeballs from all backgrounds, and good people too.

I wouldn't enforce my license against a less affluent party either.

My experience is that I can spend my life fighting the good fight, or having fun. I'd rather have fun. Perhaps that's selfish of me -- Harvard will keep stealing -- but having taken both routes, dealing with crooks is a lot of stress and pain.

Building stuff and dealing with honest people is fun.

I'm excited about the Free Software Conservancy's copyright assignment. It feels like a V0, and I'm not ready to send my code over to them quite yet, but having someone else do the fighting on my behalf (and collect any gains too) would let me focus on having fun, while going after bad players: https://sfconservancy.org/assignment/

Come to think of it, it's an approach you might consider. Depending on your goals, they might be a good fit.
It's probably because it doesn't encrypt group chats at all.
This post asked for advice, which is what this commenter is providing.
The other link aggregator options in the fediverse allow this, so people that want to work with that model they can choose one of them.

In littr.me I want the focus to be explicit on forming a smallish community surrounding a restricted range of interests.
https://archive.ph/9mPRq
A galaxy supercluster in the early universe
- "Consciousness is observer independent"

- "Consciousness does not require an external observer to exist."

Can you please elaborate on how you arrived at the knowledge of those "observers"?

- "Physical system"

Can you explain what a "physical system" is and how you came to have knowledge about it?

The above are huge leaps in logic that are thrown as axioms as there's no explanation on how you arrive at them -given what you have access to- which is your own qualia.

The whole argument is baseless without explaining these. Of course if you setup the world to match the argument, the argument will appear logical. But there are no grounds to support it.
Our customers are unable to hire enough analysts to work as Excel jockeys, even at $160k+/year salaries. Most of them have at least 5 job posts up for analysts at any given time.

Our software automates the tedious parts of what analysts do, so our customers can take down their unfilled job openings and make their analysts happier.

It's not saving the world or even making the world a better place, but it's a software business that does what software is supposed to do: automate work that humans can't or won't do.
I don't disagree with any of the above. But it is probably at least as much down to incompetence as greed. Please don't try and tell me that Nadine Dorries is some sort of evil genius.
I think that’s life, except that sometimes the piano becomes a cello, then a pair of bongo drums.
Typically not sad things (they celebrate someone who achieved something(s) great) but in the UK one might live somewhere decorated by (literally on the exterior wall) a 'blue plaque'.

I realise that's not quite the same, but a similar reminder of someone you don't necessarily want to be reminded of (albeit for probably completely different reasons) who 'lived here'.
Arrows will come. Shapes I'm still figuring out because I don't want it to interfere with the keyboard-centric ux it has right now. It helps to have all nodes be the same shape/size. But there may be some wiggle room to add simple shapes, like rects with a corner taken out etc.
I don't really understand the scenario you pose. WASM isn't exactly something you run on the backend. If you're writing code that you need to compile to run, what's the point of compiling to WASM when you can generate native binaries that are much faster and much less complex? To me, this stuff only makes sense for optimizing some kind of core logic in a browser game or heavy web application, which hopefully doesn't need to do any authentication at all.

I suppose developers could be foolish enough to break the WASM security model by exposing function to connect to arbitrary hosts but code running in the browser is still subject to CORS/CSP. You need to actively work around those to break the security layer and if someone is foolish enough to sabotage their own security that way then I don't think it matters much whether you use WASM or not.
Ctrl+Return
The Swiss rail company, SBB, is owned by the state. In 2021 it made a loss of 325 million CHF, which is about 3.3% of its total turnover.
So it's paid mostly through ticket fees and for a small part by the state.
The feed has been a hinderance to groups. So many people asking the same questions because you can't find the posts where they've been answered over and over.
yeah, but, preconceived notions are not necessarily wrong. I think there's a reason why Software companies disrupt each other a lot more than they disrupt other industries. its because of their obsession with the beginner's mind when whole industries have been created and studied for a long time. Sometimes, starting from first principals is a terrible waste of time and capital.
it looks like most developers not interested in mem64 feature. I can't really understand this thing.

Ladies, Gentlemen and all non binaries, current vm runtimes have 32 bit adressing and therefore you can have at most 4gb memory for your webasm application. I think it should be top priority to make it 64bit
Please see my other answer as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31810593

Quick question. This.

with tbl as
(
select x
from ( values (10), (20), (30) )as tt(x)
)
select \*
from tbl
where x not in (10, 30)

this gets you

x
---
20

as the result

without running this (same query as above but for addition of a null):

with tbl as
(
select x
from ( values (10), (20), (30) )as tt(x)
)
select \*
from tbl
where x not in (10, 30, null)

what's the result?

This can be an expensive mistake. It threw my old company into a flurry. Rare, but it happens - do you know why?

> while there is plenty vendor-specific knowhow, that is just stuff to learn

that stuff is precisely the difference between sleeping at night and "WTF now???, it's 3am and the clients are phoning me from singapore". And then losing your company or spending 20X unnecessarily on a scaling up box. You underestimate it.

> You are either overestimating how hard it is to learn all this stuff, or you are underestimating how close you are to being able to do it yourself.

Yeah, this discussion has been a major eye opener for me. I wish it had come much earlier. Thanks.
In software development, a lot of this sentiment gets thrown around to avoid the perception that one's knowledge is somehow gatekeeping others from entering the profession.

This doesn't actually level the playing field, it probably makes it worse because it discourages people from doing the thing that would cause them to get better at software development.

Spend more time developing and less time signaling.
I remember enjoying the Orkut web site, way back when. Orkut, the human, interviewed me at Google in 2001 (I didn’t get the job, HR lady hinted that I passed my 5 interviews but one of the founders vetoed me). Years later when I was invited to work on a project at Google I would sometimes see him driving around the campus.

I signed up for the new platform, curious to see what it will be like.
> Aside: I’m starting to be bothered by the trend of assuming that philosophers have special insight. There’s plenty of shitty, non-useful philosophy, and there’s plenty of articles like this where someone writes in circles like they’re paid by the word. Generating text for hours without an anchor to the real world is not a productive method of generating insight about that world.

I agree somewhat, but I am more bothered by laymen who attempt to engage philosophical methods or concepts without any formal training. For example, laymen almost always use conventional, non-critical language, bandying about "existence" and making claims in what Carnap called the "metaphysical mode." Laymen like to draw arguments, as if they're novel, that have been discussed extensively in the literature for over fifty years.
Absolutely. Most traffic today will be from HN so I'll give preference if you join yesterday/today:

https://www.knotend.com/waitlist
“Grandmother of Juneteenth” reflects on her journey to secure a national holiday
At this point I'll just point you to the HN FAQ (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), since you seem to be unaware of some core functionality of this site and are clearly not actually reading my comments. If you'd actually like some ideas of how the HN software responds to up/downvotes I suggest you read it.
Nothing will change until there are prison sentences, and the very deliberate system of shielding managers and corporations from responsibility is changed.

It was known for decades that Asbestos and cigarettes causes lung cancer, that adding lead to gasoline is a terrible idea, that burning oil warms the atmosphere. The truth was suppressed through intimidation, lawsuits and bribes. Regulatory agencies are corrupted by the revolving door system. You cannot trust these organisations.
You can be both negligent _and_ preyed on by criminals. It doesn’t make the criminal any less criminal, but it also doesn’t make you any less negligent.
Ok.

I love it.

This could change everything.

Future historians may thank us.

Seriously.
I'm happy to hear it, let me know how it goes!
Signal App – Signal Your Support with Crypto
If you're familiar with the sizeable benefits of the subscription model for a business you'll recognize this is a big deal.
My thoughts exactly! Being the second largest startup hub doesn't automatically make you the second best. And a large financial hub like London will of course attract fintech startups, but it would be ill-advised to rest on those laurels...
>> Not everything is designed, or planned. Sometimes the result is just the sum of a bunch of not necessarily coordinated decisions.

I'll go one further. Almost always. Organizations are basically distributed systems; you theoretically could have fully coordinated decisions with an elegant and efficient network topology (i.e., the decisions involve only those people with relevant information, and don't pass through umpteen unrelated routing layers), but I've yet to see that. Invariably those orgs favoring coordination (CP from a CAP perspective) are slow and inefficient, with too many meetings seeking signoff from stakeholders who have no relevant knowledge or responsibility. The more 'agile' orgs (including suborgs routing around that kind of inefficiency) end up with eventually consistent systems, more AP, and, well, yeah, they're necessarily not coordinated. Hopefully they still have clearly defined areas of responsibility, interfaces, and useful sets of abstraction, but those abstractions are leaky, and the interfaces themselves developed as needs arise.
Workers vote to form first Apple store union in the US
Yes, but I presume that memory is from before the pandemic and thus before the introduction of the New Science. Which obviously is full of holes of course; the statement that children under 6 should not be vaccinated against COVID-19 is disinformation in the US but scientific truth and the government and mainstream medical position in the Netherlands.
I just love the irony that one needs to manually insert newlines to copy over code to automate inserting newlines.
I would love to know if there are any of these in the EU – US friends of mine have mentioned privacy.com but I am unaware of a similar service in the UK.
Sorry to be blunt, but for a contractor to publicise their internal affairs with one of their named clients is extremely unprofessional behaviour, and I am wondering if they can be sued for damages. Even if they had been an employee this would have been questionable at best.

If this website is for self-healing purposes, then that's fine, but should not and does not need to name the parties involved. (Do I see it clearly that the author even remains anonymous?)
Ask HN: Why doesn't DALL·E 2 give you probability of being sued for each image?
If the art created by the AI is quite similar to one of its training images, then this probability would be high.

So you would avoid using such an image in a commercial project.
> convenience comes at a cost and we no longer think this is an acceptable trade-off.

In an age where dissertations about what color and position to use for buttons go pages long, that's a courageous position that follows a clear strategy. Kudos!
Gleam v0.22
Google announced that they would start charging back in January and extended the deadline by two months already. IMO this is plenty of time for small businesses that want to save $72/year per employee that needs their own email address. If they need more time they can pay a few bucks -- probably less than an hours wage per employee per month, anyway -- and find an alternative later.
well, I have just implemented webgpu support for Pyodide ;). Soon, we will able to train neural nets right in the browser :). So, right now I'm working a very minimal grad based nn framework
No need, just send them cash in an envelope, which works just as well.

I wish more services supported this, but I understand it adds a lot of hassle for them as well.
Ahh. I can relate, in that case. I thought you meant that you were seriously studying from topology textbooks.
>> forcing users into SaaS model via secretive security updates.

> What are you even talking about here? Please give an example

There's been news in the recent week that users will be able to patch security holes in their Apple devices without full update. That's a step forward but I'm yet to see this in action.

But until this very recent announcement, Apple was always hiding the details of security updates and when user got scared into updating due to security bugs, they got auto-shuffling in iTunes, "upgraded" Notes.app, idiotic UI changes and no longer the possibility to turn off tracking. Remember when there were privacy opt-outs in iOS and macOS installers? I do.

> I'm fairly certain you can install back to the version a mac was released with, your issues with downgrading sound like a problem on your end, not apple's.

First of all, please don't call installing faster and less problematic software "downgrading". Update and upgrade are completely different things. With Apple, updates are often downgrades.

Installing older system was possible until recently but now erasing the disk and putting installation USB stick (that worked previously and wasn't erased/reused for something else) ends up showing random errors at the end of installation.

How do you imagine I made this problem on my end by myself? Do you think I somehow broken my MacBook during parts replacement? The only updates that were made, were software updates made by Apple. They renamed and changed OS installers hanging in /Applications/ dir so why wouldn't they screw up USB installer as soon as it's plugged in, too?

> The goal, of course, is to prevent the ability to downgrade a confiscated/stolen device to a version that has a known-exploit to bypass the lockscreen.

Of course!

> It was a failed marketing stunt

And the most Cook thing Apple did since Jobs' death.

> This is what you will remember most about Tim Cook? Ok...

Yup. The man has no taste nor imagination and makes poor choices.
Ah yeah those are some good strategies and they're usually how I approach this when it comes up so I think we are on the same page :) It's just tiresome to have to do, and I feel like in doing so despite being polite and calm I think I'm being thought of as obstinate or a troublemaker. Which is a shame because in fact I'm trying to reduce the uncertainty and chaos and make everyone's lives a bit nicer :) Oh well, like I said it doesn't come up often enough to cause me great stress and I'm experienced enough to sort of handle myself when it does. Just ... I wish it didn't :D
The poll in the article is for “fintech” specifically, not tech.
I started my career as a Software Engineer and worked in various domains (packet processing, performance optimization, hardware testing) and recently switched to an FPGA Engineer role. I know what you mean. I am "not good enough" too. I spend a lot of spare time on fundamentals. But, I am good enough to work with others. I am good enough to apply my practical engineering experience to whatever needs to be accomplished. And I am good enough to enjoy my work.

Many people do not consider the actual job requirements and skills necessary for the work. It's like, they're just trying to find the best person possible. Some people are even hardcore about this; they test you and judge you quite aggressively. That's cool, and there is some truth to that; there is a bar that needs to be met. But, it's a rather shallow perspective. And, it can have negative consequences. E.g. people burn out, get bored, don't work well with others. There's overlooked value in getting to know a person and positioning them well in a role.

You might be surprised. Your experience from side projects may translate extremely well to a "real" job doing similar things. If you can stay humble, work well with others, and spend time on fundamentals, I think you'll do well in the right environment.

As an aside, within the past year I've sparked an interest and appreciation for biology. In the back of my mind, I sometimes think it would be very fulfilling to work on software/hardware for biotech at some point in the future. Maybe a "second career" type of deal. I have massive "imposter syndrome" about that, but who knows... maybe some day my path will lead me there.
> I actually think the biggest challenge for the leadership team at fastmail is the leadership part

…and you just identified why writing code in a leadership position is a problem, so actually it wasn’t working. There’s no doubt that leadership with previous experience in the trenches is a benefit, but they should not be actively doing it in that role. Leadership is a full time (or more) position, and coding is a distraction from that.

We have the phrase “can’t see the forest from the trees” for a reason; Leadership needs to be looking at the forest almost all the time, and they can’t be effective if they’re stuck in day to day coding issues (the trees).
Emigration isn't an easy process, it can't happen overnight. You need a visa (now harder to obtain for Russians), you need enough savings (not everyone has enough money), you should be able to speak a foreign language (not everyone is skilled enough to get a job from day 0), you will have to leave all your friends and most of your relatives behind, everything/everyone you loved and invested into, both financially and emotionally - due to a military conflict which may end soon (no one knows). I have elderly parents I take care of - I can't emigrate without them. It's easy to judge people when it doesn't affect you personally. If I remember correctly, 75% federal budget of Russia comes from oil/gas revenues, so in a sense, Europeans are more complicit in funding Putin's war crimes than Russian taxpayers. I wonder why Europeans aren't emigrating en masse. And it won't really help if everyone who opposes Putin's war emigrates, it will only worsen the situation because there will be no one left to change the country from within, the country will only get even more radicalized/conservative. It's not so simple.
It is the easy way to do things when writing LaTeX in vim.
I've been using Mullvad ever since PIA was bought out. Never had an issue with them (other than when I forget to top up and my VPN connection dies :) ) with speed or reliability. I've always used the top up functionality rather than a subscription, but it's great to see how committed they are to reducing the attack surface for the users that need the most privacy.
The opposite is sadly still happening in everywhere else and no change for that is probably coming in the foreseeable future.
With subscriptions, you guarantee the revenue.
And making it very difficult to unsubscribe, such as some unnamed companies, even a little bit more money is collected.
Anyone know the source of the "new research" the article is talking about?
That's great news and they just got a huge boost in reputation for me. Definitely the go to service if I need a good VPN again.

Especially strong decision since this will certainly cost them a lot of revenue and I don't think the boost in reputation will counter that in the long run.
"I’m hoping to see that the founder has tried to test in any way possible his idea, let it be by making a mock in figma, no code, a spaghetti of zappier actions, and the results of those tests"

If any non tech. co founders are reading this, pay attention. This point is so critical. Just being an "idea" guy/gal is not good enough to find technical co-founders but a lot of us who are just starting out miss this part.
text, like SMS?
Pile Driving Thailand-Style
I've gone to my current dentist for years and he's always extremely reluctant to even do fillings (last time he gave me a speech about how you can't replace what "God gave you" so you should just monitor it or so.) I think there are some dentists that legitimately care.

EDIT: Mine is actually in a very wealthy neighborhood and the lady who runs the practice (I think that's how it works?) has a reputation for buying state-of-the art tech.
> Most of us who are running businesses had no real idea what they were doing when they started

Who are they?
This is awful. It’s the LinkedIn writing style and I can’t look at it without being reminded of all the shitposting that “thought readers” do.

Thoughts?
Yes, and, the "trauma load" is highly relative to the subject of that trauma. IOW, two people can go through the same traumatic experience and have different levels of resulting trauma.
London is way safer and attractive to younger crowds (20 something olds) than the rot of homelessness, affordability (London has more affordable options than San Francisco I would argue), heavy car dependence (has always been), and overall lack of safety and dating pool San Francisco has
How do they handle VAT via cash in an envelope? Do you need to provide a billing address?
Previously - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25869460
If they don't keep the link between accounts and payments, doesn't that mean they can't revoke an account when a chargeback happens?
I'm from the Netherlands, living in Switzerland, and public transport prices in both countries are roughly the same. But other prices + salaries in CH are almost double the ones in NL.
Also, punctuality, cleanliness and sitting space in Swiss trains is much better.

So at least comparing to NL, public transport in CH is brutally cheap.