skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The tools for EEs are old, creaky, text-based stuff from the DOS days.

EE here. That's not really true. Some of the proprietary vendor tools feel dated, but dropping into Altium to design a PCB definitely feels like a modern tool set.
My kid was an ISEF finalist and even won a small bit of prize money. It's never been a big deal at our high school and he was one of the first, if not the first, from our school to advance beyond the state finals. His project was completely self-driven with off the shelf parts or tools he designed and 3D printed.

I was amazed/disgusted to see finalists partnered with the JPL and working with NASA partnerships and university labs when my kid tinkered mostly solo in our garage or his bedroom. It really made me proud of what he was able to accomplish.
This is a good example of why not to do personal stuff on your work machine or work network.

If you care at all if your company would see it, _don't_ do it anywhere near their hardware.
I personally don't find it grating. My supposition is that is it not very fun to say the word "musk" so people call him Elon instead. So perhaps your dissatisfaction with him being referred to by his first name can be offset by the understanding that he is unfortunate enough to have a last name that people seemingly universally do not like that much?

Alternatively, Elon is a "normal" celebrity like Kanye. It might be more common to refer to people in that domain by their first name. I'd say Elon is closer to Kanye when it comes to public perception.
If it’s a managed corporate laptop that uses Chrome, then they could remotely check the browser history, likely directly to the review itself.
Fastmail service completely offline for the first time in years
I think it's the odor from the paper cup and the overall low quality experience compared to using a nice ceramic cup is what bothers me.
> a lot of feeds don’t have pubDates

I don't see how this would significantly impact the cost. The main cost is that you need to remember all entry IDs to know which you have seen before. However you should probably do this anyway because published dates aren't very reliable. Plus if you are storing user comments then you probably want to keep the entries around for a long time anyways.

> polling or archive retrieval are expensive

Polling isn't very expensive. It is just a HTTP get. Many feeds also support conditional requests so you just get a 304. If you have enough feeds that becomes expensive you can play with the update time, poll feeds of active users more often, slow down polling if a feed doesn't post often...

I also don't know how archive retrieval is expensive. You only really need to do this when a new feed is added (and even then you only need to do it if you want history). Maybe if the full "first page" of the feed is new you can look back a bit into the archive but this is so rare that it probably isn't worth doing.

I guess for pagnated (not archived) feeds you should technically check all pages each time but so few readers even support pagnation at all that I would consider a feed that doesn't put new entries on the first page broken and wouldn't bother support it.

TL;DR I don't think this service would be very expensive to run. If you get enough users and feeds to start being concerned about the cost of polling you will have enough resources to deal with it.

Source: I run a small RSS reader service.
Contact us page for Zuru Toys. I just sent them a short message explaining that previously I was not aware of their company but now this issue is the only thing that I know about them and it is not a good look.
https://zurutoys.co/contact/
Ghana confirms first cases of deadly Marburg virus
I sure hope Hawaii has pivoted onto solar to meet those power demands.

Last I checked Hawaii's energy needs were all met via imported fossil fuels. It's why the CoL is so high there. But that was well over a decade ago.
Oh yeah, if someone else catches wind and argues, you're screwed as a contractor unless you can back it all up well. This is the dark side, the crab bucket, which often results in "the big guys" getting the contract in the end.

One simple example is a time I was trying to by doors. Simple doors, no special requirements, just doors, materials and installation, with knobs requiring a keyed access. The chosen provider bid properly, gave their description of key control and associated maintenance ("who has keys and what happens if we lose the keys"). Small business, local, etc. won the award. Competitor had a fit and submitted (after award) significant proof that the winning bidder was falsifying their minority owned status and had changed their business name several times to avoid previous poor past performance marks. TLDR the complainant was right, and eventually won the award.

It doesn't take a lot to get ruined, so please, just be honest. If you aren't, someone will know.
When the money comes, so will the engineers. I did EE, work in embedded SW because it was way easier to find a job with decent pay. Everyone looking for EEs was pickier and paying less :/.

Maybe when this "shortage" materializes and companies have to start paying EE the same as SW I'll try my luck. No reason to for now, though.
Who tells us that these negative reviews are always true and not posted by some disgruntled or mentally ill employee or even someone who never worked there? I know it’s easy to side on the negative reviewer side on glassdoor but it’s an anonymous place and the employer has almost no chance of fighting back.
Yes! Same reason: a quick nap clears the mind, and I always end up ahead.
There needs to be a non-profit version of this without all the desperate bullshit.
> I have strongly felt for a long time now that even average students should have received the experience my honor student did in 6th grade.

The average kids are the problem and will poison any class they're a part of, otherwise the standard classes would do just fine serving this purpose.

The real question is how much better your kid could have done if he or she’d had only gifted classes rather than once a week.
This seems like a reasonable middle ground. I'm almost embarrassed at the number of people sharing my password.

I hope Netflix can survive their dwindling subscriber growth. They were the ones who kicked off the streaming era, and they've continually put out great original content. They've certainly made some missteps (cancelling great series and overpaying for content) but TV would be worse without them.
It's filed in delaware courts which are famously fast. Expectation is 3-5 mo
FWIW, it's not hard to buy Cannonau: https://www.totalwine.com/wine/red-wine/cannonau/c/000236
Jarts: The Banned Lawn Darts Game
I'll never understand this. It's my opinion that you need to be much smarter to be an electrical engineer than a computer scientist, which again requires much more intellectual rigor than being a 'software engineer'. The kinds of wages companies are paying for just about anyone to write Node.js right now are ridiculous. My view is that this state of affairs can't possibly last forever, given how low the bar is. I imagine that eventually the standards will rise again as more intelligent people are attracted by the absurd pay, and the field becomes more competitive.
These can control your allergies. Does this count?

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/08/12/4896190...
The rumor has long been that they contact you about it. Presumably they figure it based on page views and review volume to determine your hiring rate and churn etc and sentiment analysis of your worst reviews so they aren't just shotgunning these offers at every company that has reviews on their site.

Just passing along rumors I have no particularly informed insight here or verifiable reason to believe this is true, though I do believe it's in the plausible-to-likely range.
Somewhat unfortunately, yes. Those patterns are annoying and dark, but they still have some good data. Which is probably the only reason they get away with it.
status.fastmail.com shows a green board as of 01:59 UTC, 21:59 EDT, but bad gateway.

fastmail.com server back but not connecting at 02:03 UTC.

status.fastmail.com shows internal network issue, fix in progress 02:05 UTC

fastmail.com is up 02:09 UTC

Good old fastmail!
It's a rumor many years old at this point that I have also heard from many different sources. That doesn't make it true of course but it's not like they made it up on the spot today for this HN thread.
Seems like a software-bubble in the US; I've worked at FAANG and never understood why I was getting paid so much to do such mundane work. Hardware is so much more fascinating.
Yes, I know about helium.

> energy sink

The sun can be used to create more fuel. We prefer drilling for fossil fuels because it's cheaper. We know how to make synthetic oil and fuel.
Boulder Ruby Meetup
That is not even remotely true. Rule enforcement is a tiny fraction of overall healthcare expenditure, and highly automated.
Considering that said microwave uses a lot more electronics than said oven and lasts 1/3 to 1/5 as long as one (per your own observations), between the energy consumption (because you are almost certainly not getting your energy from renewable sources) and the increasingly large bill of materials (with the microwave requiring many more exotics) averaged out over total lifespan, I would bet that a microwave and a gas oven are quite competitive over the long-term.

But the microwave is producing more waste as it isn't built to last as long, and the items you cook in it are probably wrapped in chemical-seeping plastic and printed cardboard. So the volume of waste with use is considerably higher as well.

And I'm not even considering electric ovens, which are becoming increasingly mandated.
I think he's pointing out the relative difficulty of hardware positions compared with being a 'software engineer' in FAANG.
Are you familiar with npm? I haven’t used it deeply in years, but the last time I checked it still supported conflicting dependencies.

If A and B both depend on different versions of C, then both versions of C are installed and A/B see the version they want.
Buying? The NSA has backdoors in nearly everything through PRISM and they directly monitor internet traffic. Zero chance congress would/could put a stop to that.
“I led the team that designed MongoDB’s pioneering user experience."

Let's break this down and I'll explain why he is a total liar and bullshit artist.

This makes it sound like he designed the mongodb query language. Only he could pass off inflicting the crappy Drupal website as designing MongoDB's pioneering user experience. He can't be talking about MongoDB the company, it was 10gen so obviously insinuating it was the DB.

The entire Driver and integrations ecosystem had to be cleaned up. His mess. Was barely ever in the office.

MongoDB user manual? You mean the book that Kristina wrote - who worked on the Server team and had nothing to do with you.
A proper ceramic cup is a good thing.
Lawyers and architects used WordPerfect long after Word rose to power because WordPerfect gave fine-grained control over line numbering that Word did not.
> tropes only diminish your credibility.

And yet there is a reason the discussion here barely touches on women. We know how the demographics of HN skew, and that creates a huge bias in the discussion here. We shouldn't naval gaze through this debate, and instead recognize that of the hundreds of comments here going in circles about stealing kidneys, hypothetically poisoning people, and hypothetical lives born or dying, there are real people who are actually in harms way right now due to laws being passed.

> There has been virtually no appetite to discuss the women who have had negative abortion experiences over the last 50 years

There's definitely an appetite, but is there space? It's certainly not created here.

> it's such a serious topic that it deserves a dispassioned treatment.

Maybe it deserves a dispassionate treatment (I'm certainly not going to provide that), but certainly not a myopic one. The high-minded philosophical arguments here miss the forest for the trees in my opinion.

> It's pretty hard to believe Republicans in general are coming for things like gay marriage when 55% of Republicans approve of it per a 2022 Gallup poll

Republicans "in general" aren't who I'm talking about; I'm talking about politicians. If you haven't noticed, gerrymandering has created a situation where Republicans can choose their voters, so they remain in power no matter how extreme their positions. Maybe also flying under your radar is a complete disdain among many Republicans for the concept of elections and democracy as a concept. Perhaps you haven't noticed that the Supreme Court will soon decide on a case that determines whether state legislatures are able to have complete control, without judicial review, of their election results?

Frankly, it doesn't matter what Republicans writ large want. The extremists have taken control of the party, and they are stacking the deck to make sure they never have to lose an election again. Last time they lost an election they literally plotted and attempted to execute a coup. Now they are trying to make what they did in 2020 legal. What do you think happens next? Genuine question there.
I believe Einstein also brought Gödel to the IAS. Basically the whole time he was in the USA, to the end of his life, Gödel suffered from very serious depression.
Teams is bad but it isn’t nearly as bad as needing to use Google Docs over Office in the workplace.
Ah right, how could I have missed the "great sorcerer" theory of Musk.

The whole media landscape seems to be entertaining itself and it's audience with that wholly unoriginal one, cuz they sure love their rich fictional anti-heroes.
>It makes no sense. Why is web software so easy to make money in? Why do we value hard engineering so little?

Interest rate intervention (making them lower than equilibrium) changed the DCF valuation that is the fundamental way of evaluating business (i.e. people working together on large endeavors) to one where promising massive returns in the future(20+ years) made low returns in the near term (x<20 years) acceptable. Investment dollars chased growth and VC and PE grew. Meanwhile, in order to compete for capital, all businesses focused on delivering value now had to adjust their income statements (try to grow revenue, or more likely cut expenses) as hard as possible to compete with businesses that aren't delivering on much now but seem like they will change everything in the future.

Google "DCF Valuation" and model out 100 years in excel. Add a row that divides the PV of each year by the NPV so you can see the % it contributes to the NPV. Then setup a bar chart so you can visually get a vibe for the integral of different time periods. Once that is all setup, try a real simple assumption: 0 growth for CF and .5% for your Risk Free Rate. Then try it at 5%.

If the Federal Reserve sticks to its guns and gets rates up, and keeps them there, it will be unsurprising to see "hard" engineering jobs be valuable again, while all the CSS people suddenly can't find two pennies to rub together.
This is why we need zero-knowledge proofs for these sorts of products.
Asian carp -> copi

Since the article tries it's harest to obfuscate that..
> Why are things like DigitalOcean / Linode / Hetzner / OVS etc so discounted? (edit: discounted in terms of opinion, dismissed so easily, not discounted in price. Obviously they are cheaper)

Because the value-add of SaaS is often worthwhile compared to roll-your-own (or some open source equivalent) on top of a self-administered server.
Theoretically, if we achieve fusion, wouldn't fusing hydrogen create unlimited helium?
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First time viewers can see a page freely. So all you have to do is clear your cookies after every page load and you wont be bothered. lol.

But yeah, posting a review also gets rid of the banner permanently.
Efficiency isn't a silver bullet. There's a limit to free gains from efficiency - you can't go past 100% efficiency, and even at 100% efficiency, you still need to spend energy to do things. It will always take at least 4190 Joules to heat 1 kg of water by 1°C. Even with perfect efficiency, you can never beat that number.

And the closer we get to 100% efficiency, it gets asymptotically more difficult to improve efficiency. Look at the average fuel efficiency of all cars in the US. Going from 12.5 MPG in the 1970s to 25 MPG today was "easy". Going from 25 MPG to 50 MPG will be extremely difficult. Going from 50 MPG to 100 MPG is nigh on impossible.

It gets even more depressing when you realize we have to double efficiencies every time the world doubles its population just to tread water and keep everyone with the same quality of life, while also having no additional effect to the environment.

The world's population is doubling every 60 years. I doubt we can keep doubling efficiencies for even the next 60 years.

Realistically, if we want to create a sustainable world economy, the world is going to have to undergo a massive shift to greener technologies than we're using now, and either the quality of life or the population across the world is going to have to decrease dramatically.
Partially yes, and I'm aware. Also agree that practice naturally fixes everything. My question aims to seek if someone had published a complete and hopefully explained list of these techniques.
If running a dozen competing redundant versions of every utility to all homes is your idea of a productive use of resources I'm not really sure what to tell you.
I saw the "Buy my dog treats" link at the end and assumed it was the same as "Buy me a coffee". And I was like, "heck yeah I'll purchase some snacks for their puppy".

When in reality it meant, "shop at my dog treat store."

I don't have a dog myself so I didn't purchase anything haha.
Are portable A/C units not available or too expensive? (Or was there a mad rush after seeing the forecast)

After seeing wildfires, heat domes around the world in the past few years, my family definitely prepared. (I put in a small mini split after last years heat dome in the NW US.)
> The question is, on what timescale do we hit the limits of mineral resources?

we are just scratching the surface of the Earth currently. Then there's the oceans. Then there's asteroids. Then there's other planets. Only a failure of imagination can lead to scarcity mindset.
Cooperation among strangers has increased since the 1950s
Quick summary:

> To illustrate this concept, you could consider a simple coin-flip game where you make a 50% return on your money if the coin lands on heads, or lose 33.3% of your money if the coin lands on tails.

Let's say you bet $100. Your expected outcome is 100 * (1/2 * 3/2 + 1/2 * 2/3) = 108.33. Greater than 100. That's all there is to it, the "magic" comes from the made up security which can generate such amazing returns.
> - Your normal vocabulary and idioms

I think that this one is way harder to avoid than you might think, short of having someone else write the review for you (which might not be a bad idea!).
I have one of those magnetic phone holders that attach to the aircon vents in your car. Every time I use it with the air con on in the summer I think about how my phone could probably use the extra cooling for a performance boost, except it's not really needed just for running google maps.

And then when I do the same thing in the winter I have to be careful about turning the heater on because the hot air will make my phone auto shut down from the heat.
Lawnchair: No Clever Tagline Needed
A wise old inventor told me, early in my career, that “people always significantly overestimate the rate of progress in the short run, and greatly underestimate it in the long run.”

Text conditional image generation is still a fairly new thing, we don’t know what its upper limits will prove to be. Also, it seems likely that, whatever level of capability they reach, humans will learn how to use them effectively as tools for their own purposes. Some people might use them for quickly preflighting ideas, others to create boilerplate, some people may use them to speed up their workflow or scale up productivity. People didn’t know what all the use cases for personal computers would be when they were introduced in the mid-70’s, or what capabilities they would possess decades later.
> Hmm, that doesn't correlate with what they say[0] on their support site: "No! Employers cannot pay Glassdoor to remove reviews."

They could easily be telling the truth there, but still be effectively selling a good rating. They'd just have to sell a service to help monitor the reviews in some way for violations of ToS. Suddenly ~all of the bad reviews are "spam", "libel", etc. It's amazing how broadly things can be recognized as abusive if your pocketbook depends on it.

I have _no_ idea if they're actually doing this or not, but it's along the lines of the scam many review sites use.
Qubes OS 4.1.1 has been released
Not just the Economist, most British newspapers love a clever headline.
Pretty much everyone is carrying around a pocket computer connected to the internet 24/7 with which they can do all their non work related tasks on, including badmouthing their employer.
Nothing required certification.

But certification programs are useful for management because they give you a floor level on the expertise you are buying.

That's why all (?) enterprise software that has customization/administration has certification programs (eg https://training.linuxfoundation.org/full-catalog/)
How have you been doing that? I'm new to using matrix, is that a builtin functionality or an extension to the client you use?
Maybe the stories were false and they didn’t want to publish them accordingly?

Not sure what articles you refer to but deciding not to publish something isn’t always bad.
Most mastering is still done in 2K and, yes, everything out there is an upscale
OS/2 was the bomb to run a multi-node BBS on a single machine. It could multitask DOS applications fantastically and reliably. Worked better for us than a multi-machine Novell-based network and more reliably than using desqview. A 486 with 12 MB ram could comfortably run 3 nodes plus an admin console when needed. We used Renegade and then Wildcat. Fun times.
Man I really disagree. I think the set of verbs on the write side in REST is weird and creates so much bikeshedding. I'd much rather write an RPC API with semantically meaningful verbs taking and returning semantically meaningful nouns. I don't design my library interfaces around the verbs that HTTP happens to define and I don't see why I should design my network application interfaces that way either.
My SO has tracked her cycle in detail for years. Nothing else has changed significantly compared to that period. Her cycle is still not back to normal, 9 months later.

I get that it's a sensitive system and it can be affected by a lot of benign factors. But if you don't know why your car is misfiring, how can you say with 100% certainty that there's not an issue with the engine?
This is as old as the BBB - you never ever "pay to remove reviews" you just, as a paying member in good standing, have the ability to request review of reviews, and the working ability to make sure things are "accurate and resolved".
IANAL - you instinct is good generally but you missed a key point.

Zuru is suing in CA to compel glassdoor to produce information.

Zuru is not suing glassdoor for breaking NZ law in CA. That would make this case go away very quickly.

Instead, Zuru is saying they intend to sue NZ individuals in NZ, but in order to sue, they need info from US based glassdoor.

there may be some kind of cross border agreement to facilitate information between NZ and US. Politics aside, i dont know if a US company could be compelled by a US court to produce information to sue chinese or russian citizens, under those respective laws/jurisdictions?
You can use a firefox extension to bypass that popup as well as other paywalls.
How much sushi have you eaten that’s cooked?

Spam musubi doesn’t count.