skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah how dare he not approve of you working weekends for free, the nerve
> I can't bare the endless meetings

It's an unfortunate fact that in order to get more done you'll always be more effective if you manage to steer a team the right direction than to do it yourself.

Doesn't matter if you believe in 10x engineers or not. There's just no way you can compete against a team of 100 with proper leadership (technical and/or managerial).

And unfortunately one meeting can have these impossible to measure small movements of the rudder that is more effective than you sitting and coding for a month.

That doesn't necessarily make it "fun", but it can be fulfilling.

> constant micromanagement

Ugh, that sucks. The whole industry is NOT like that.
what else is new?
Hey, I have a counterpoint to one of your comments wrt attitude concerning meetings: if I sit in a Teams call with 50 other people, mic muted, camera off, listening to some person I haven't seen before talk about some business development I haven't heard of before, it's not going to matter what attitude I have. No-one will notice "what energy I bring" into that meeting. None of it matters. It's just one more day of boring corporate dystopia where nothing matters.
The adage "Plans are useless, but planning is essential." might solve the ~paradox of your (1) and (2).
A misdirected email is usually easy to handle. I have no problem responding to people telling them that they hit the wrong mailbox. The real problem is people using your email to register with services that provide no viable way for you to completely deregister from them.

Someone registered their brand new truck to my email address. I started getting a ton of automated email regarding the truck. The manufacturer didn't offer any options whatsoever to disentangle myself from that account. I even filled their support form and asked them to phone call the owner and sort it out. The only thing that did work was installing their app and honking the (parked) car horn from the other side of the world. A couple of days later, the account was magically deactivated and spam stopped.
> Is the MySQL backend option fully functional now?

Out of curiosity, was there anything about it that wasn't working?

When I got married I moved away from GNUCash because the interface was too intimidating...but I had been using the MySQL backend for a few years by then? and I don't recall any issues with it.
I feel you are re-emphasizing the validity of the point.

It should not be easy to use things wrongly, with more secret knowledge needed to use things that are more dangerous or require more skill than things that will do no harm when used wrongly.

In other words, your lab equipment should be fool-proofed so that if I walked into the lab and try to use it, I might get it loud buzzing sound a emoji of a sad face.

I am not the first to believe this. "Poka yoke" is a manufacturing term for a reason.
Thanks for your answer.

But how to trust our browsers?

For example in Firefox there are as CAs:

- Xramp security services, but it looks like their web site is not reachable [1] A related website [0] is even not on HTTPS? How this is supposed to be a valid CA?

Yet if a certificate is signed by this CA, a browser will signal no warning (except if it tries to reach their OCSP end point).

[0] http://xramp.com

[1] www.xrampsecurity.com
The original performance claim was about https://vimuser.org/cat.c.txt.

Which just does read/write - so it's the same as the "cat-simple" example, which is the slowest listed.

GNU cat [0] does copy_file_range if it can and falls back to a read/write loop otherwise, so it's unlikely to be much slower (possibly some overhead from argument parsing, but that's just a constant).

So the performance claims are wrong.

[0]: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/cat...
> I knew a lot of multi-millionaires

Stop right there.

I don't think this contradicts the statement "I think most people here can [relate]"

Yes, a million $/€/£ isn't what it once was, and being a millionaire isn't in itself an indicator of exceptional riches, but the term "multi-millionaire" still certainly implies a level of wealth that sets one apart from the average (even among ycombinator-readers).

And I would imagine you're proportionally much less likely to be a fan of the industry inversely to the measure of the safety net / impetus-to-participate-in-the-rat-race-of-9-to-5 you possess.
Gnucash was discussed here recently :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31219754
I did too, more Dali draws Alice in Wonderland, than Garfield for sure.
...and it's a very poor argument.

1) Energy can be transported and "averaged out" across very large areas, making local clouds or low winds irrelevant

2) Energy can be stored not only in reversible form, but also in form of stored heat to be released later on for building or water heating

3) There is no reason to believe that demand must always be satisfied fully. A lot of countries already have day/night tariffs since decades and making appliances smarter is not difficult at all. A lot of industrial uses can be made flexible.
Agreed. The Rust community took a disappointing direction in the past few years...
team member of kern.ai here

> I’m also really impressed with the architecture! Very neat.

thank you very much for your feedback, really appreciate it :) We work hard on the architecture of the product and are wrapping our heads constantly around how to make things faster, more stable, and scalable, which is much fun to do for such a data-intensive application. We are open to constructive feedback on our tool so please feel welcome to join our community on discord https://discord.gg/JzA3zDH2
Why on earth is it illegal to have a grocery store closer than 15 minutes from your home?
I feel this, I eventually quit and became a bicycle mechanic. Now I don't hate my life anymore, but there's a decent chance I'm going to lose my house and can't afford rent anywhere in my city anymore, so tradeoffs, I guess. I'd love a job in the industry that didn't make me feel physically ill often, but I've never found it. Something that actually treats its employees well (not "free snacks" well, but "with respect", well). I've become fairly convinced that the only way to do this is through meaningful employee ownership (not a giant public company only accountable to large share holders, but a co-op or similar) or unionization.
But there was illegal access...
Every single industry that exists gives itself awards. Usually one or two are actually legit and prestigious, but there are often dozens (or hundreds) more of decreasing relevance that exist purely for marketing purposes, and many of those are pay to play (usually indirectly though, i.e., buy ad space or a booth from the awarding org and they’ll give you an award commensurate with your purchase.)
Sure, but it would probably be funny only to religious Jews.

God comes down from heaven and says to Moses: "Thou shall not cook a lamb in its mother's milk". Moses asks in reply "So, I shouldn't eat meat with dairy?". Said God: "No, Moses. Just don't cook a lamb in its mother's milk". Moses asked for clarification "So, I shouldn't put cheese on chicken, no more Cordon Bleu?". And God clarified: "No, Moses. Just don't cook a lamb in its mother's milk". And Moses asked "So, I should keep separate dishes for meat, and separate dishes for dairy? And wait a few hours between meals?". And God clarified thus: "Do whatever you want Moses."
the BCM5976 is dedicated touchscreen ASIC that Broadcom makes for Apple for their iPhone and iPad devices, there's probably MCU (or four, this is broadcom we're talking about) inside, but that's probably because it's simpler to implement this way.
not only that, one example isn't enough to make a rule / establish a pattern.

And we run a customer facing business with lots of potential for fraud and we see an increase in fraudulent behavior with economical crash, but it's the same actors the same incentives, it's not laid off employees as much as professional criminals that need the money more because their other revenue streams are drying up.
But you only need to be "ramen-profitable" ...
Then tell people. Make it better. You can improve process in the same way that you can identify broken components of a codebase, take ownership of them, and improve them in measurable ways.
Defeats the purpose of the project.
Been in the software development industry for almost 19 years now. The last five years have been pretty much what you describe. Yes, I can certainly relate. I've been largely driven by passion, but passion is no longer here. And I'm bad at discipline, which should be my new driver now, I guess. :-)
Tell them to clean the compacted lint out of the port using a straightened paperclip. Due to the nature of the lightning connector design the wedge-shaped connector can push and compress pocket lint into the port until enough is there to prevent a clean connection. This is a valid complaint about lightning connectors, with a solid center it can compress this lint while the internal post and center connection point of usb-c makes this less of an issue. OTOH 'springs' wearing out or other worn parts on the iPhone side of the connection that require replacement are a non-issue.
"color picker the shape of a peacock following the mouse with its gaze"

hahahahaha
HAM and a Amiga 2500
There's some criticism of it here that I just found while evaluating if it's any good for personal use. https://www.reddit.com/r/GnuCash/comments/o4s1bx/im_starting...
> why not instead put it into the roadmap?

Because then there will be 100 things on the roadmap, 20 of which have a sponsor that have long since left the company.

In an ideal world, yes, everything would go on the roadmap which would automatically take into account the market appetite and internal economy and sort things so the most important thing is first.

In reality, trying to intelligently prioritise among hundreds of things takes a huge amount of work -- time we could instead spend on doing the real work of development. In other words, it's a trade-off: do you want to spend time shuffling Jira tickets around, or actually implementing them?

Having people bring up their top priorities repeatedly ensures that the only tasks under consideration are ones that people think are important right now, not ones that were important at some point some time ago. And we get that filtering for free!
I have no issues with it, though the website still has this warning:

> Note this feature is considered experimental. It works for most of the common use cases but some corner cases have been reported to result in data loss. The GnuCash developers fix each issue as it gets reported. There is however no full test coverage so there may still be scenarios left that result in data loss.
> He seemed very happy with the decision.

I've monetized every hobby I have ever had any passion for, and despite having buyers remorse it took me until my mid 30s to realize to keep hobbies a thing to do when you are not earning a living. It's hard to envision my life not having taken those decisions and challenges, but I'm pretty sullen at the idea of just how heart-wrenching it is to have seen the inner machinations of something that brought me so much joy because this time 'I won't work a day in my Life.'

I think it's only with maturity that one realizes that you'd rather build a career on something you're curious about, but not passionate about because the latter tends to be suffocated to death when you see how 'the sausage is made' and you realize that most Lifers have simply lost any passion in that field in order to stay in it: money is/can be a motivator, but it cannot be the only driver of why you wake up because existential dread soon kicks in every time you get a respite from having to do it.

I left Startup-World/Fintech when I completed my objectives in order go back to culinary for my last tour with a path towards AI and ML when I felt 'I had enough,' so after COVID it accelerated things a bit faster but I realized that I'm just curious enough about ML to keep me engaged that if I keep learning at my own pace I think it will be a sound transition-- I'm doing my CS undegrad in AI/ML and I'll be attending a conference with Dr. Ng next month as he has been very vocal about how his views on the Industry which resonates with me and likely most of you ITT.
Anybody know how to do an equivalent of MS Money cash flow forecasting in Gnucash? I really miss it. It should plot account balance assuming already entered future transactions and repeating transactions happen as scheduled.

Looks like this, and it really helps me plan:

https://preview.redd.it/908a4kg3ww931.jpg?width=879&format=p...

Here is another competitor promising this feature, would be great if Gnucash could do it somehow too:

https://www.kualto.com/blog/microsoft-money-replacement/
In Helsinki, my grocery store (~Safeway) is in the building across the street, and open 24/7. In BC, the store was a 10-minute car drive away, and open 9am-9pm.
I've been using Gnucash for tracking my personal finance for years and find it indispensable. I export CSVs of my transactions from my bank and import them into Gnucash. I spend about 20 minutes every couple of months to pull in the latest CSV and manually categorize anything that has not been automatically categorized. For investment accounts I just treat them a single asset and add adjustment transactions to keep the total value up to date.

This small amount of work lets me see down to the cent where I am spending money and track my net worth. It has a bit of a learning curve starting out, but I would really recommend trying it out.
Why would you voluntarily advertise yourself as like a corporation known world-wide as exploitative, cruel and forceful?
I feel this and wrote only today about treating software as a creative process. I feel that that programming is most enjoyable when it feels like art and it's inflexible processes around software development that break this. Paul Graham writes extensively about software and it's similarities to the process of painting https://garethbrown.net/2022/07/18/hackers-painters-and-prac...
Eh...I don't buy it. I'll gladly take a few more spiders in my house if I didn't have to deal with wasps nesting under my deck/house and being a threat to my children and neighbor children. The medical stuff is all speculative and not particularly useful. I still hate wasps even after reading this article.
An incredible display of meta-irony.
To the latter part of your question, the main strategy was:

- Build incredibly insulated turf+stone housing

- Put livestock in the basement

- Body warmth of livestock heats up the house during winter

- The good insulation keeps the home temperature liveable all winter

Rather than relying on the aggresive burning of wood in a fireplace, they relied on the consistent burning of livestock's body temperatures fed by a store of feedstock grown in the prior Summer.
Leave the industry: change to a company where software is not THE product but just a tool for building the product or for running the company.
Can also recommend MoneyDance. Transaction entry and reconciliation is pretty slick, plus it's just a java app so you can run it on anything.
> Moreover, can you influence GCC over what instructions it emits? On Gentoo for example, you can setup your make file so that the while system is compiled with your specific processor in mind.

Yes, of course. On a Gentoo ~amd64 system where everything is compiled with "-O3 -march=native", I get 1311 different ASM instructions: https://gist.github.com/stefantalpalaru/932b6d0ef439756e825d...
I don't honestly remember all of the write semantics - I thought it will only not report error if it gets interrupted by a signal handler after it wrote something.
In case of true error, i thought it always return an error.

write does have a weird error-checking semantic - you can get it to check for a bunch of errors without writing data by using a count of 0.

At least as documented, sendfile does not have any of these semantics - it only returns number of bytes written if the transfer was successful. Otherwise, you can't tell how far it made it :)
Exactly this. You have freedom, customers that are happy when you build something that saves them time. I'm not worried about low code that much because the real value is in translating business needs to software anyway. They won't care about how it works.. they just want it to work haha.
Wouldn't this do? https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/trans-assoc.h...
Yes, can relate.

Working in a field where people can get frustrated very easily is though. Specially if you are in the receiving end.

I worked with a lot of nice colleagues that makes the job more enjoyable, try to focus on that and ignore all the negativity that come from the loud ones.

Try to grow with the pain to the point it goes away, for example, for me it was soul crushing discussing something infrastructure related and having someone who doesn't know much about it suggesting serverless, using low effort arguments, instead of paying attention to the subject of the discussion. After some time I realized that people can be jerk for the sake of it and in the corporate world you are gonna find many of these. So for me what worked is to think that people are passionate about different things and it's your job to keep yours alive and ignore people who likes to create havoc.

Then do your job and when is time to go, simply go. I know it sucks to have a pile of code to review because people without social life are working during the weekend, but you will have to establish some boundaries to protect your time.
I too found that the most distressing part was that the police pretended to have talked to her in October 2020 after her death but that the Directorate of Professional Standards ruled there was no need for further inquiry into what the police did. Then again the English public has only itself to blame. It has always been the Tory playbook to make public services as inefficient as possible before defunding them. You get what you vote for.
The AI Battle
New AI applications by OpenAI and Google are poised to take over creative jobs and much more. This will be a major disruption to jobs, the economy, and life as a whole. Here’s my take on how it will impact your job or business, your investments, and your life.
Tell HN: I found Covid Symptoms before they were published (2020)
I checked out of this industry about 10 years ago. Its either toxic af, snowflake participation trophies or some narcissistic hellscape inbetweeen.

Just punching paychecks and doing my hobbies on the side.

> side hustles

I gave up on these too. I don't want a second job, my current one pays just fine.
You can, but since that moss is quite fragile and takes ages to grow you absolutely should not walk on it. Hiking trails are there for a reason.

Even worse than walking would be driving, and that is also illegal in Iceland.
I see it's written in Java - is it a self contained app or does it need the Java runtime installing? Managed to go several years without needing to install that and don't intend on installing now.
I have a circuit diagram and Kicad, and it wouldn't cost much to get a board made.
> "the people who make [art] either are people who don't have to worry about money (because they are independently wealthy) or they're the lucky few who get paid."

-- or they live with much less $ and financial security than they otherwise might.
If only it had a built-in GPS and geo-volume-fencing...
These numbers puzzled me as well.
As others said, that's several kW of amp power needed there.

And 126dB is really a lot of sound pressure. In a forest, absent of room gain... My not-so-tiny speakers would require close to 10kW to reach that level.

So that guy probably did a pretty bad measurement. Smart phone mic at a random but close distance?

Oh, if the sound quality really improved, an updated DSP filter could be to blame. If the lower end can push up to 96dB and the upper 112dB, reducing the overall gain by 16dB and adding a 16dB gain to the low end can make for a nicer frequency response curve overall, at the expense of maximum volume (reality is a bit more complicated, but that's the rough idea & what I did to one of my systems).

//Edit

Some seller lists these as having 3x72W on two 10" subs (96dB) and one tweeter (104dB).
So yeah, close to 126dB (as promised by the manufacturer) might be possible. I guesstimate that's now limited to <1W?
Archived mirror:
https://archive.ph/qjNoG
Don't forget that it literally buys you time. Even if the pizza place is 50m from your door, you still have to put on clothes, wait in line to order and then wait for the pizza to be ready. Delivery on the other hand takes 1 minute out of your day.

If you have kids, time is worth a lot.

Pizza is simple enough that you can easily make it at home and it would probably be better and cheaper than delivery chain quality. But this will take even more time.
Fandom: An Illustrative History (Part I: Origins and Tales from the Crypt)
Thanks for trying eesel out and sharing your thoughts! Helps us heaps. Some pointers on that:

1. To edit the rules for a Folder, open the Folder and head to "Add pages" > "Automatically". We've heard it a few times that discoverability of this isn't great, and it's definitely something we should improve.

2. You can use eesel without having it in your new tab. Here's a help article on that - https://intercom.help/eesel/en/articles/3728989-how-to-remov...

3. To clarify, everything is local by default and only pages you explicitly share by adding to a Workspace, a shared Folder and so on are shared.

4. I imagine we'll want to support eesel profiles at some point to better separate personal and work things, but one workaround till then is to have different Chrome profiles and install eesel on both.

Let us know if you have any other thoughts that pop up!
HTTP/3 Is Now a Standard: Why Use It and How to Get Started
There's no reason to stare at smartphone screen, really.
Smartphone screen is too small. If you need to stare at screens use your laptop, desktop, etc.
for what it's worth, svgs are their own source file, and can typically be edited using any vector editor. I work on a project with several people who regularly trade and collaborate svg's made with inkscape and adobe illustrator without issue. It's possible you meant export as a png or some other non-vector format?
No it's not real, this is something internet people tell each other in the absolute absence of any practical knowledge.
I can see a mandatory update in the form of legal requirements. For example I think Apple had to implement headphone safety limits in some countries leading to very frustrated customers .
I don't remember where I got the number, but a quick look at Wikipedia finds some claims that Free Germania used to have 70% forest area. I think I've also heard similar numbers in some museums given for Poland in Middle Ages. Can't find it now though.

Sweden and Finland today have ~70%. 30% is the number for most of Europe today, and it's usually considered low, among the people I know. So it seems that Iceland historically already had very little forestation.
> endless meetings, constant micromanagement

there are companies where this part is not true. We have one daily meeting. Engineers have < 3 other meetings the rest of the week. It's usually zero outside of the daily.

The daily standup is more a way to stay "real people" to each other instead of a picture in slack. We could easily do the standup async, but talking to each other each day is good for keeping solid relationships.
Yeah, don't make long term plans, just try random directions until something sticks. I'm sure Google would like to hire him.

Adjusting the long term plans constantly is an entirely different animal.