skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as fashion is concerned, I cannot be bothered to care. But I found the discussion about black clothing keeping you more cool to be interesting. As sibling top-level comment points out, humidity is a consideration if you're going to go all emo with that loose-fitting black hoody.
do text.npr.org please :-)
I really don't like overloading ```X as a way to render the output of running the code, because now you have no way to display a block of raw mermaid or math code which is the whole point of ``` in the first place. I would be much happier if they introduced a syntax variation to enable this feature more generally instead of overloading the purpose of backticks, something like ```!X (```!math or ```!mermaid) for "run the contents as X and render the output in the document".
There are various non-ORM database libraries for TypeScript too. I develop Zapatos, but Slonik and pg-typed are probably better known.

https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/

https://github.com/gajus/slonik

https://pgtyped.vercel.app/
Itching for the follow up on how how to use organization-based conditions to make things simpler.
I think this highlights one of the most important problems with people taking on multiple tech jobs: it’s the fellow employees that suffer the most. Some lost money is a drop in a bucket for most big companies, but other people just trying to do well at a single job really pay the price.
I seriously think you mischaracterised your audience. Most people here (probably including dontbenebby) are hobbyists, not professional photographers. There are also plenty of people who use tools a little bit. For example, many software engineers will do some web design, or need a product photo, or whatever.

Photoshop doesn't pay for itself for that kind of occasional use either, especially when you consider that one wants to be able to reuse and edit files sometimes years later.

I'll gladly pay $$$ for a work-related tool I use 8 hours per day. I won't drop half a grand a year or whatever on Photoshop.

(And no, the poster wasn't dissing people who buy Photoshop; a good key to someone talking about themselves is the word "I")
I'd rather have to to plan and budget than have to deal with patching (after testing the patch) every piece of software on a system the moment a patch comes out to avoid an undetectable rootkit being installed during that gap
One glaring omission from that article seems to me to be lack of environmental protection e:g in USA all manner of food additives are allowed that EU for example would ban. Bovine growth hormone is allowed. I'm not sure if it's that, or soft drinks, that makes some Americans so huge. There are many people in other countries that are sedentary , live unhealthy lifestyles, drive everywhere, but the true hugeness of some people seems to me uniquely American. Pesticides like glyphosphate are allowed in USA. Waste water from fracking poured on the road and finds its way into the water system. When I, as a Brit, worked in USA for a while 25 yrs ago, I noticed people constantly complaining about allergies, and also a rather large number of people that had had cancer (albeit the health system seemed to have sorted them out and got them better). This wasn't something I heard so widely discussed back home and I surmised it was due to chemicals. Since then, I think the UK has got worse and more people here complain of allergies now, presumably due to imported food or domestic use of chemicals.
That's kinda backwards from the normal approach to dealing with inflation, which assumes you'd want to take money out of the economy to slow it down, rather than put more money in to speed it up.
You can be a top performer and still be fired for various reasons. The cultural questions and things related to firings are very important.

I’ve seen quite a few eng fired for non-performance reasons and entirely due to culture. Firings for performance are something I’ve rarely seen.
This is accurate.

Current costs are:

1. Hosting - $30-$60/mo depending on traffic levels. The more subscribers, the more this will cost.

2. Workstation - Its fractional, but the workstation I use to build this isn't free.

3. Dev time - This is the big one. If this is to become sustainable, I'd need to build up subscription fees to pay for a team. $200k/engineer, administrative staff, and whatever an editorial staff costs if I go down that route.

Saying "it costs nothing" would be a recipe for eventually shutting down this website since I'd be working towards none of the infrastructure above that's needed for this thing to continue on without me.

I also want to build out a mobile application, which also costs money in the form of App Store fees and dev time.

Keep in mind: I'm not targeting the HN crowd with this, who know how to find CurrentEvents, throw it in their RSS feed, find the optimized mobile version, etc. This was built for people who don't have the time or knowledge to do the digging needed to find and format this content.

What HN found interesting was the relative rankings of news website speed, which I hope brings awareness and results in faster websites for us all.
A great option can be teaching. Many coding bootcamps offer part-time courses and/or part-time corporate training classes, and nowadays most of them are online.
agreed, all the engineers we know who got in early to the best co's did just this. not many folks can just go and talk to a partner though (or don't even think of doing so). I think this is the next best thing
A lot of problems worth solving have a long tail of 9's to chase down, i.e. 99.999%

Self driving cars is one of those projects.
Agree. No proof, I know, but such an interesting idea to think about!
Does this use VRML in any way?

If not, is VRML dead? I don't think I've heard much about it since the late 90s.
If you work 3-4+ years in a big company, you would most likely had the social credibility and knowledge of the systems to get your work done in 15-20 hrs a week. So if you get a new job, maybe you work a solid 30 hrs for that company, 50 hrs a week is manageable.
It's better to burn out than fade away.

People on HN are constantly striving to meet metrics, when they should strive to be the ones measured to set them.

No amount of money will ever make you happy if you are forever in the former category.
this was an issue with 1 job -- we deleted that specific job and fixed it if you'd like to try again! really sorry about that.
Thank you for your kind words! For lofi.limo I support back to Chrome 49 and Firefox 52 (the last versions available for Windows XP), which I /think/ both have Fetch, so I could have probably used it here.

Fetch has about the same capabilities as XHR, so it should be a drop-in replacement in this project. Let's call it an exercise for the reader! ;)
I'd go with 3: 1. First try to think through a Kubernetes-native development workflow. Some tools here would that could be helpful are DevSpace (personal favorite), Tilt, or Skaffold or you could use Okteto for something full stack potentially. Alternatively you could use Minikube or Kind locally but these are more local adaptions rather than K8s/cloud-native. 2. Create a cluster on GKE. 3. Figure out how you want to do CI in your workflow. 4. Profit?
Learning assembly has been on my wishlist forever. . . excited to give this repo a look see.
I'm assuming Fly.io offering is powered by K8.
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I feel like learning how to configure bird, bind, haproxy, rdbms clusters, redundant MXs, etc. has taught me far more than spinning up equivalent virtual infrastructure on a public cloud would have. Getting to play with the underlying FOSS technologies is far more rewarding to me than using the commercialized versions on someone else's stack. Plus it helps me evaluate and architect my products for competing clouds, rather than my "knowledge and understanding" being tied to one particular vendor's offerings & lexicon. (Another advantage of knowing the underpinnings of a cloud is that it makes reading post-mortems[1] with a morning coffee so much more enjoyable.)

Assuming we're talking about side-projects/hobbyist development: when I'm doing that I want as few variable expenses as possible, and they usually don't require the purported benefits of the cloud. If such a project needs to scale: I'll bolt it onto a cloud at that point, or sprinkle in specific services to address the pain points.

[1]: https://tritondatacenter.com/blog/manta-postmortem-7-27-2015
Archived: https://archive.ph/Sooel
> Why would voice deep-fakes even be necessary, given the interviewee is very unlikely to be known by the interviewer? I suppose it could be used to fake accents,

You have it backwards-- the point is accent elimination. You don't need to sound like someone else, but you do need to not sound like someone of your own locale.
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No, clearly they're just stupid, come on.
In some respects it almost sounds like a late Victorian account of supposed ectoplasmic phenomena. Also reminiscent of the famous story about two experimentees sharing an imaginary cigarette.
>Of course there are different kinds of orgs

And a lot of those orgs do 'spinning up the meeting merry-go-round' as a baseline.

I would love to find solutions, run them through other developers to make sure it won't be a disaster to maintain, and present them. But more often than not, anything beyond 5 minutes of investment isn't worth the personal time investment given the organization. There are just too many hurdles.

From my experience, most developers are still treated like idiot savant children capable of doing the one thing the 'helicopter parent' managers can't do.
Ah, got it. I interpreted that as meaning that a candidate who did have such answers would really stand out.

I.e., those aren't considered basic qualifications for the job, but are awesome if a candidate is actually like that.
I think Pico-8 recently added support for editing assembly operations.

Also there is a book called Programming from the Ground Up that starts with assembly and moves up to C and beyond.
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You can also read it on Open Library for free :)
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2743029W/BUGS_in_writing?edi...
For those that don't understand the implication of this: Criminals get guns through burgling and robbery. By included such detailed information on who's a registered gun owner, where they live, etc. It makes the gun owner a lucrative target.

I'm staunchly pro regulation but this even I can't understand. Like someone just did SELECT * FROM GunOwnersDB and pushed is straight to the web.
I find it somewhat disappointing how cautiously the author avoids the subject on how Assyrians got "...scattered over the past century from homelands where their language once flourished". It wasn't just an unfortunate occasion when "a Kurdish chieftain murdered a Church of the East patriarch there in 1918". It was a genocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayfo
I don't know either hire.dev or HackerRank, but aren't they in the same market segment?
> It's measured in eV as it's the most precise* measurement you can make.

Er, no. Just no. eV is just a unit, that doesn't make it more or less precise. eV had its origins in early accelerator physics work where it was a convenient unit to use, and it's use spread from there to other subfields of physics, including ones where the connection to the original processes measured in the early accelerator work is tenuous at best.
This surely doesn’t seem like the way to go about creating that change, particularly since it increases the risk that these guns will become stolen.
Would I be very wrong to suspect that early RISC CPUs forced programmers and compilers to pull similar stunts? The major difference was probably that RISC systems had compilers, while on the 6502, it was BASIC or assembly. So programmers might not have noticed?
In 2007 I was writing websites that were mostly rendered on a server, with JavaScript used selectively in some places for interactivity

I remember writing at the time that moving everything to the client was solving one problem (poor encapsulation of JavaScript-powered front-end components) with another (needlessly rendering everything on the client)

The industry moved toward CSR anyway, and I had to learn it to continue having a job. And now, here we are.

Why do we do this to ourselves as an industry?
> Regarding, "not enough", I'm currently losing money on Legible News, so if I increased the amount, I'd lose even more money. For now I consider a 10% donation generous given the current unit economics. I may raise prices to offset these loses, but I'll grandfather in people who subscribe today.

This feels in very bad taste to me. As another user pointed out, these articles are being authored and maintained by volunteers, who are donating their time and effort to make information accessible to people. Instead of joining them in that pro-bono effort, you're trying to leverage their work to your own profits. Yes, it requires some up-front work from you to format the articles, but it's a one time cost while the authors are continuously working. And sure, you have to pay for hosting costs, but then you could still run it as a non-profit that only recoups costs and donates the rest to Wikipedia.

If you want to make a business out of this, I'd suggest investing in having people author some original articles. But taking someone else's volunteer work for your own gain is not something I will support. Not wanting to invest your own time and money to make your project work long-term doesn't justify using other people's time and efforts to make your project work long term.

If there's any part of your data pipeline that I misunderstand and rectifies the situation, I'd be happy to have my understanding fixed.
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Doesn't sound like any of the techniques used in the article were used in that thread, no deep fake vide, no deep faked voice. Just some Korean person (possibly) trying to gain access via remote working policies, and not very well by the sounds of it.
They got a new team together. The main architect is very detail obsessed about page performance.
> (The above routine is based on some code I found on a Commodore-64-related web page, which, unfortunately, I haven't been able locate again. The method doesn't seem to have been widely known among Apple II programmers.)

Here's one possible source from an excellent website that includes many more 6502 algorithms!

https://codebase64.org/doku.php?id=base:6502_6510_maths
There were numerous compilers for the 6502.
It's 2022. Every web dev knows you don't just spit out PII on your website. But everybody involved kept their mouth shut because they thought to themselves "this is dumb, but I'm not responsible for it and if I try and champion the cause of fixing it I will be" and so they took it to prod. These sorts of "incentive to not rock the boat" or "it will take me months to get clarification on this requirement" type failures are rife in government bureaucracy.

Edit: Clearly I'm wrong and this is all malice from top to bottom /s Use your f-ing brains. You think someone is gonna risk their cushy government job to dox a bunch of gun owners and the managers are gonna risk their jobs signing off on it?
Then I think you misstate my conclusion.

Simply pointing out that NIMBY/no builders aren't the sole or even dominate factor of 'Why America can't build.' Or rather, special interest groups who seek to impose their will on public infrastructure excerpt their own form of Nimbyism -- they block development until it conforms to their interests. One can certainly argue the merits or determents of any of this advocacy, but as you state... it makes the outcome harder to achieve.
Voluntary late-term abortion are basically unicorns, and worth the same level of public policy attention.
I understand what laissez-faire is.
hiring where?
> you wouldn't take that as a win, because by "genetic differences" you mean "science says I'm better than this other guy in a way they can never overcome"

Can I say Jakob Ingebrigsten is better than me (at middle distance running) in a way I can never overcome due to genetic differences?

I am fairly sure someone with my genetics cannot run a 4 minute mile, and the guy does that for fun. But perhaps I am wrong and given the right environment every human being is capable of running a 4 minute mile?
Yeah I agree about setting up Apache and managing it. OS + Webserver + (Server language + JS) + DB is the full stack
I'm super pleased to see the FT towards the top of the charts. It's a couple of years since I worked on the project[1] to make it faster and it's really great the team have been able to keep it that way.

We bet on measuring site speed with user centered metrics early on which was going against the grain at the time - removing above the fold CSS, are you crazy!? It took a lot of demos to convince people that what we were doing was faster, and that they really needed to trust their own eyes even when the tools disagreed!

Keep it up, folks.

[1]: https://medium.com/ft-product-technology/designing-a-sustain...
Hireright can also be nasty with the background checks, to the point of asking you to correct irrelevant minor typos (say, a space) in you credit file before validating your identity.
I quit using the totally-not-biased Google News over 5 years ago when nearly all top headlines were consistently sourced from The Huffington Post. This was logged-out by the way.

For the uninitiated, it is a glorified opinion blog. Don't take my word for it; to quote Wikipedia, "HuffPost is an American news aggregator and blog... created to provide a liberal alternative to the conservative news websites such as the Drudge Report."[1]

I place them one step above BuzzFeed, which pumps out quality hard-hitting journalism such as "Quiz: How Much Random Vagina Knowledge Do You Have?"[2]

Don't worry, "articles were randomly chosen by a computer program". That's when I realized that Google News was programmed to be an echo chamber, otherwise such biased unverified opinion wouldn't consistently bubble up to the top and masquerade as "news".

I use Bing News[3] now. It's not perfect, the signal-to-noise has gotten slightly worse over time but at least it's sourced from legit news outlets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HuffPost

[2] https://www.buzzfeed.com/audreyworboys/how-well-do-you-know-...

[3] https://www.bing.com/news
I think your question is "why burn fossil fuels for energy, then use more energy to clean their exhaust streams, instead of using that energy in the first place instead of fossil fuels?"

If so, I think the purpose of this research is to process the exhaust streams of industrial processes that create lots of CO2 for reasons other than energy. For example, steel production produces a lot of CO2 due to chemical reactions used to remove impurities from iron, even if the blast furnace runs entirely on renewable energy. This process would, hypothetically, allow us to input more renewable energy to capture the exhaust CO2 and make steelmaking more carbon neutral.
My favorite commentary on this is from https://codebase64.org/doku.php?id=base:kernal_floating_poin... :

> Numerous advantages are gained improving the speed of the multiply. Routines that rely on it can be copied from the ROM and pointed to the new routine to improve performance. The following example relies on the Steve Judd's fast multiplication and reduces the number of cycles to multiply from around 2300 to little over 1400.

That's a nice speed increase from 435 multiplies/sec to 714 ops/sec. It's downright spritely!

There's also a faster log function that

> executes in around 13000 cycles, where the built-in routine takes 19000.

...jumping from 53 to 77 ops/sec. Smokin'!
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Why not generate it as a static site?
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An amusing short story related to this problem from This American Life, where the employers allow themselves to be fooled for a while, even without deepfakes: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/770/my-lying-eyes/prologue-...

Edit: and this technique is mentioned in one of the replies: https://twitter.com/staringispolite/status/15200939675592499...
You think that a 20 week old child has no chance of living outside a womb? The current earliest premie is 21 weeks. It will only go lower with better technology. The slope slips to its logical conclusion: conception.

Here’s a thought exercise: take whatever you would consider a viable human and rewind to one developed cell earlier. Is that a human? Repeat until you can guarantee it is not a human. How far do you have to go until that is true for all instances of all fetuses? I came to the conclusion that an embryo, which can live and grow outside of a womb is the earliest logical point to consider the organism a human and make subsequent opinions accordingly.
Hosting - $30-$60/mo depending on traffic levels

Stick it on Netlify and that cost will drop to $0.
Sure. Wasn't implying anything. Just warning people. It's also why I haven't gotten around to it yet. I've made many accounts with Mozilla over the years and none of them were migrated over to this new system (ditto when they killed off moznet actually). I'm just sick of it. It's just enough friction that I haven't gotten around to fixing the annoyances of the missing addons.
> If The Netherlands were to have dropped the definite article thirty years ago...

>> But that's not what happened here

It is, isn't it? In 1991 it became Ukraine. I don't recall even being aware of the issue around the definite article until after the Russian invasion, sorry. But throughout my childhood when it was part of the USSR, it was "The Ukraine". These ingrained speech patterns are very hard to change on a dime, hence my comments about the slowness to change a language culture.

People get irritated with antagonistic correction, and you'll probably only succeed in cementing resistance to change that way, especially when no slight was originally intended. If you could read minds then maybe you're entitled to declare the poster's intent was to "dehumanize".

The first time I heard an English-speaker use a new pronunciation for Ukraine's capital, it was from a SW engineering manager that just returned from a visit there and had the whiff of some idiot returning from vacation in Mexico who henceforth insisted on saying "Mehico".

I'm using my own ignorance as an example of why you can't simply impute malice or an urge to "dehumanize". I'm also suggesting that your tactic is simply counterproductive.

I'll let you have the last word.
Software is hot only in the sense that there are “jobs” available. Whether or not those jobs are good or pay well is another factor.

Do you really think everyone has a spot at FAANG-etc? They don’t - I know because I work at them and we reject so many people at the on-site stage.
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Yes. What little of it remains however. Much of the worlds languages are disappearing permanently. There is a small movement for foreign individuals to learn dying tongues and for some descendants to learn, but I would not expect this to counteract the prevailing homogenization of language globally. Regional differences in dialect can become new languages over time, but I don't expect this to countermand the number of languages lost in recent times to colonization and the cultural dominance of certain countries and languages.
The global economy does not have a carbon, energy, plastic, particulate problem.

It has an inequality problem.