skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not missing out. If anything, you have a good habit in not consuming literary or theatrical entertainment, these things just waste time and don't provide any benefits beyond temporary distraction and possibly a larger vocabulary.

With that said, if you're going to consume fiction, here are some authors that you probably won't regret reading (in no particular order, and by no means exhaustive): Ursula le Guin, C.J. Cherryh, Stanislaw Lem, L.E. Modesitt Jr., Ed Dodge, Gene Wolfe, Robert Heinlein, R. Scott Bakker, Terry Pratchett, Isaac Asimov, Upton Sinclair, R.A. Lafferty, Walter M. Miller Jr., Dan Simmons, Albert Camus, Roger Zelazny, Kurt Vonnegut, C.S. Forester, Diana Wynne Jones, Russel Hoban, Iain Banks, Peter S. Beagle, Peter Watts, Tanith Lee, Vernor Vinge
Serious question: what is this magical place you work at?
I like that power dynamic. Because developers tend to be more “eager to please”.

It really takes a mindset that the business owners trust and confide in technical people rather than seeing them as a paid service to be “karen-ed” (obviously in the modern, ultra polite, we are cool people kinda way) because “customer is right”.
I went looking for an alternative client but as far as I can tell it doesn’t exist. I would love an extremely lightweight (even CLI) implementation I could use for chat and kick up the hog sized full client for calls or whatever.
I'd rather use Wordpress instead. It is free and Medium has a paywall.
i suspect you’re correct. this is why i find it so frustrating when people deny that society’s current iteration serves at the whims of a small class of people.
> The accepted definition of marginalized groups is actually rather large

So, everyone but cisgendered heterosexual white men without health/emotional problems? I guess it’s okay to attack me then.
Thank goodness! It was so nasty the last time I rode it in 2016 or so, urine barf soaked seats don't smell too appetizing.
Dump FogBugz
That was talking about sulfur and nitrous oxides, not CO2. And that's because once they're out away from ports, they burn cheap bunker fuel which is ridiculously dirty. This can be easily addressed by switching to other fuels, and some places have already banned bunker fuel since that report.
The headline is not an accurate description of the phenomenon.
I installed some solar panels on my deck, changed to an EV, started paying attention to energy and water usage, started composting, going to try to grow some of my own food.

Still I can never put the tons of carbon and poison caused by my existence back where it was.
No, public transit systems can only be good on paper. Then they get implemented, the fares are held artificially low for equity reasons, bums move in, polite society abandons the system and it turns into a rolling cesspool. Every time.

My private car however has only my germs. No drugs. No needles. No piss. No stinky bums laying across the seats. My music. Air conditioning. Goes where I want, when I want it.

The only difference is cost. My private car costs me a lot. Your public transit dream also cost ME a lot.
People always take the outlier as the norm.

If you once got to work in 30 because there was absolutely no traffic, many people will from then on say it takes "30 minutes" to get to work, and be perpetually late.
Ah, so basically the Internet Archive is asking the judge, "hypothetically, assuming we did everything they are accusing us of, we assert that the law would still be on our side, yeah?"

Whereas if the Internet Archive suspected what they were being accused of wasn't legal, summary judgement wouldn't be appropriate, and they might want to go to trial to try to prove their case that they aren't actually doing what they're being accused of?
It’s not very team dependent. There are a few tiger teams that work between Christmas and new years, but they are the exception (outside of retail). Those days are official shutdown days on the company holiday calendar.
Related: Anyone having Azure service bus queue issues? I'm finding that, in the last month or so, an instance will spin trying to connect to a service bus queue until it's rebooted or the service recycled.
Is that inflation adjusted? At least according to usinflationcalculator.com, $0.95 of 1950 dollars is $29.93 in 2022 dollars.

Edit: the bls.gov inflation calculator says $0.95 of 1950 dollars is $11.98 in 2022 dollars. :shrug:
“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make, and could just as easily make differently.”

-David Graeber

I know this reads as a gross oversimplification but it rings true all the time. Imagine if almost everyone collectively at Salesforce said, “nope, this is dumb! We are going to stop working until this benefit is handed out to everyone at the company.” It’d be changed back / expanded within 48 hours.
Link to the HN discussion mentioned in the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28300951 (982 points | 10 months ago | 74 comments)
I've always wondered how too do this for code that requires it.
California’s fire season is so eerily quiet that it resembles a ‘normal summer’
Hello EddieDante,
Thank you for your valuable feedback.

- What in Baal's holy name does this even mean?
Sorry I didn't get this question.

- Is this supposed to be an app to introduce me to strangers?
Yes it helps you discover new people who share similar interest and intent like you.

- Why would somebody even want this? Are people that lonely?
According to WHO data approx. 54% feel loneliness. Our intent is to give them a platform through which they can discover connections beyond romance.
Myself, two other Australians and the guy from NZ resent this.
Per this document, AMZN is 3 weeks after your first year of employment.
Ever since I started using visual studio, I never puts debug ever again. autos pane shows you any local variables value.

Why mess around typing and backspacing print calls?

Not to mention condition breakpoints, changing values at runtime, don’t even need to touch your code.
Slightly worrying notion but, if Russia believes that global warming benefits them, they might keep on extracting and burning fossil fuels long after everyone else has transitioned to renewables.
This website makes it easy. I looked up West Portal and there are several homes paying 1-3K, many in the 15-20K, and some 30K+

https://www.officialdata.org/ca-property-tax/#37.74219147779...
Every Western company should have this policy.

Nothing happens between XMass and New Years, the 'double holiday' + 'holiday season' means people are distracted.

The rule should be: work on what you want to but nothing is expected.

I would definitely 'get a few things done' during that time, but otherwise, not let it interfere with doing stuff, or 'nothing' after the tiring holidays.

It's a real benefit for everyone in the company to be 'down' at the same time. It's a better holiday knowing nobody is going to bother you for anything.
Just because the camera owners consent doesn't mean the people caught on tape consented.

Just because someone is angry about one thing doesn't tell you if they have a problem with something related, but slightly different. Which is why I was asking.
The trick to fixing OnCall is to have strong Government regulations around availability of employees to be available off work hours. If that happens, employers will either drop or relax OnCall requirements, or build processes to manage it (e.g. larger teams, dedicated support teams etc).

It’s really that simple. Security professionals tried to get organizations to implement password requirements and MFA for several years, nothing happened. Then SoC2 and other certifications came along, boom, 2FA everywhere.
Robert Alan Koeneke, creator of Moria, has died. RIP
Got the same problem, from Panama.
I would be beyond shocked if Apple's VR set doesn't include a Thunderbolt port.
I don't have a desk phone, so email was first option, nipping downstairs to visit them was the follow-up option. Face-to-face interaction wins the UX wars - although it can be a rarely available option.
Former employees say issues plagued Celsius years ahead of bankruptcy
Absolutely, and hospitals are to blame for that, not RNs.
If we're talking the general state of the world...

The world is going to be much awful-er as climate change unfolds. Climate change is not being addressed seriously currently, at all. And the trend is towards it not being addressed.

The world isn't going to be much better until climate change is addressed - if then.

I think this trumps literally any statistical measure of well-being you could come up with.
Amex Gold is pretty decent for travel rewards (4x for food/groceries) and amex points are ranked pretty well for value by the points guy (https://thepointsguy.com/guide/amex-points-value/) - certainly structured differently than cash back but free travel with a year or two of normal expenses isn't too bad a deal
https://archive.ph/IXMzZ
I'm not sure if this is going to be seen, but I was temp banned or am still shadowbanned or something?

Either or. If you do see this, yes, you are both right that I would be best to be using a maul.

But not everyone has a proper splitting maul available, and mine was kind of missing that day... So I used my 20$ timber store 'everything' axe. I should have been more specific, as you make a point of. I call it that, cause I'm not sure which kind of axe it really is, but it gets used for pretty much everything, lol.
Textbooks are such a racket. Way overpriced for what they are, and then the resale market is often nonexistent, as new editions (which add/change very little, but professors will end up requiring) come out all the time and make the older ones worth nothing.
If you read the manual at the link, you’ll see you can still do that via the serial port.
I never trust a “trivial” on HN.
Funny thing is this cycle seems broken. So many deep pocketed competitors have stomped in and skewed the content market by showering money on all the producers.

In turn this has drove up the pricing, enabled exploitation by subpar producers, and over-extension of streamer capital in a bid to stay competitive.

Implosion and consolidate seems inevitable, the market just isn’t big enough to support 5x Netflix sized companies.
Sounds like the problem is cost. Once we can eliminate the salary of the driver with autonomous buses, it will be much easier to run more of them.
Those are not the 'revelations'.

Salesforce was in a pickle. It's 'very bad' for a group of people over here to get a benefit, and for others not to get it. It's unfair. So they either have to give the benefit broadly, or take it away.

It's a non-standard benefit, so the easy thing to do would be to align holidays with the parent company.

If Slack was truly it's own entity, they likely should just allow them to have it as they operate totally independently, but that may not be sustainable.

That said, it's really hard to take people's benefits away as well. There's a social cost there.
I know a few senior employees at Slack and they’re literally just waiting out their vesting period to leave the company. Golden Parachute is the only thing keeping them there.
You can call in convention as many times as you want, but unfortunately, it just is not a convention. It is called theory of electrodynamics which is a well established, experimentally verified branch of physics.

What exactly is more subtle and complicated in the context of Maxwell equations? If speed of light has the anisotropy that you are describing, Maxwell equations must be incorrect. In what electromagnetic experiment has such anistropy of magnetic or electric constants have been ever observed?

You're basically saying "you haven't measured the one-way speed of light directly, so you haven't ruled it out the possibility of my exotic theory", but it is actually been ruled out by Maxwell equations a long time ago. Unless you have some experimental proof that Maxwell equations need to be modified to accommodate that elusive version of your aether, you can't claim the existence of such an anisotropy.

Physics is well connected in that you can't change one part of it (in your case, c in the context of special relatively) just because you found something that wasn't experimentally ruled out, and hope the rest of the physics (basically all massless field theories and relevant experimental results in this case) won't break.
The GP was referring to the fact that Archive.org let, in principle, an unlimited number of people borrow the same book. A library has a limited number of copies of a book, so if a million people come in and want to borrow it, only X will get to. Archive.org would have served a million copies of that book according to the emergency policy.

Now, as far as I understand, it happened that no book was likely borrowed more times than the number of physical copies held by archive.org + the libraries they had partenere with. But the process they normally had in place to prevent this was explicitly decided to be ignored during the pandemic.
Yea but an intern could keep that going for a few months if they had to, you don’t need senior engineers.

The point is that stagnation/KTLO is way easier than expansion and needs way less talent.
> An equivalent for someone not having kids would be taking time off to volunteer somewhere.

Or taking time off to go out in order to find a partner to potentially have kids with...
Its a factor of 1:1 or 1:many scaling.
Except they didn't "stop all maintenance" on the trolley system during those years, as it was too important. It's what got all the new migrants to LA to all those new factory jobs in aviation in defense to support the war effort. This is sometimes referred to as the "Second Great Migration" in LA history [1]. There was also fuel and rubber rationing which forced people onto the trolley, making it all the more important.

https://www.kcet.org/history-society/the-great-migration-cre...
I agree legislatures are often complicit and that is part of the reason why our laws are so ineffective. Spam filtering rules are much easier to update than legislation. I'm not saying we shouldn't try, but you also can't dodge a simple tax of x percent on each property. Perhaps a better way to offset it is something like a universal basic income.
absolutely agree. Hans Rosling was amazing for presenting data in a visual and easy to digest way.

Was very sad when he passed away back in 2017.
Aren’t most nurses unionized though? This sounds like a union problem or at least something a union should prevent.
Why does nobody seem to know what imperative and declarative actually mean?
Widespread here in Japan, unfortunately.
That was the policy several years ago but was changed in 2019 to include at least all salaried roles in the engineering org, and I believe across TMP.
We can already use language to measure different color perception!

For example we know that women see more colors than men. Or at least name more. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0341-7

And we have experimental evidence that peoples who don’t have a name for a color have a harder time seeing it. https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-didn-t-see-the-colour-bl...
Yes, they are a reflection of the bigger economic picture.
>Locally-adjusted pay is a fluke if revenues are not locally constrained

You don't get paid based on company revenue, you get paid based on the lowest amount you (or someone you're competing with) are willing to agree to sell your labour for. That amount is going to be lower if your cost of living is lower. People earning less if they work remotely in Podunk, Idaho compared to SF is no different from someone earning less in Bangladesh than in Italy even if they do the same job.
I must the one the Aussies.
I think what they're trying to say is "people who have high purchasing power get a bit excited by the relatively low prices and don't bother to negotiate."

Though I think it's less of negotiation skill and more of unfamiliarity with the market. This gets fixed quickly one year in, in my experience.

When I first moved from the US to Romania, I was offered a studio apartment for 300 euro a month. I thought it was super cheap and signed immediately. Little did I know I overpaid by a lot. This hurts the locals, who start getting priced out of the market.
I'm a current employee, this is still accurate; teams get absolutely no work done in the final 2 weeks of the year outside of extremely critical fixes.
Maybe not enough people know what's really happening with those companies.
I agree, I often think about such things and wonder if they'd work as this hasn't been tried. I'm wary of taking the road to Hell with my "good" intentions/ideas.

For the improvements on the land bit, you could project at the beginning of the year what you think the land will be worth by the end of the year, due to planned improvements. That locks in the value for the year.

I can see problems with that too, but the real question is would those problems be worse or better than the problems we have now?
Thanks!
It's available now on the site! There's a free version, but you can use code EARLYACCESS20 for 20% off any plan.

A basic macro language is in the works for quickly prototyping animations and things, but more advanced "modding" support is definitely being looked into.
I assumed the main purpose of the app was exfiltrating information because they said it only sent one single GET request, not enough to DDoS anything. They don't say that, though.
Oh, Yes. That. Let's NOT go there.
Given MSFT's track record, they should just go home for the day.
I wonder what the cost savings are
Same story here - 1998, teenager, unable to understand socket programming until I came across Beej’s guide at CSU Chico. Thank you Beej!
Ah I see. I didn't read the article (clearly, lol).
> It also seems climate change and global warming Russia thinks benefits them at least then, maybe now as well.

That is curious idea. I wonder how the risks of thawing permafrost play into the equation. The thaw leads to newly available biomass, digested by microbes to release carbon dioxide and methane, and leaving a considerably altered environment including depressions filled with water [2]. Would those risks be outweighed by overall gains of a warmer Siberia?

[2]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/17/the-great-sibe...
Ask HN: What portion of your cloud budget is spent on VMs?
I've come up with a way of dynamically bidding on spot instances across multiple clouds that results in VM compute (bare metal or containers) that's a fraction of the normal cost (think 80%+ cheaper than reserved, 50%+ cheaper than standard spot).

But, to be worth the effort to turn this into a proper framework that you could use to run a container via Terraform, I'm trying to quantify what portion of the 'average' cloud spend is VMs, as opposed to managed SaaS products (message queues, serverless databases, S3, etc). I don't want to spend the time solving a problem if nobody has the problem anymore.

If you're reading this and work in cloud, could you kindly comment a rough % of what you've seen being spent on raw VMs as opposed to SaaS services, now and historically?

Thanks!
NUWA-Infinity: Autoregressive Generation for Infinite Visual Synthesis
No more than the thousands of cars, I imagine

Cars and trucks are really loud
I have a different background than the author. I did take the time to learn the debugger, for multiple IDEs, and I've spent a *lot* of time in that rabbit hole. Not to discourage those using a debugger but it really was, for me, a hole.

I could spend hours in there feeling productive, and then a few more hours not feeling productive. And after the journey I didn't feel like I knew the code better than before - at least not compared to the time spent.

Now I'm a println debugger and I think more about where I'm putting statements, which helps me understand the code at a higher level.

I even have a trick that aids this technique a ton. I have a snippet for print line statements that adds "// FIXME: (ABC) testing" to all lines, with ABC here being my initials. Then a git pre-commit hook which won't let me commit that code. Also searching the codebase for that string shows all of my breadcrumbs, like individual breakpoints at all the places I care about.
If you're interested in stuff like this, I highly, highly recommend Ed Yong's new book, An Immense World. There are huge parts of animals' sensory landscapes that we don't perceive, and he does a good job of letting you see the world through their eyes/smell it through their noses/etc. He also writes about the sometimes-wacky experiments scientists have done to tease out how animals use their senses.

https://edyong.me/an-immense-world
It's certainly widespread in Australia (and I assume NZ).
Yes, they do that by pressing the delete button on their side (and so forth). This is covered in the first line "The data subject shall have the right to obtain".

If you want to go to court and argue that the user should've know that pressing a big red button with "DELETE!" on it really means soft delete, be my guest.
Yeah, this is correct! StereoKit is an XR App specific engine, which allows it to make API and architectural decisions that are very different from those a general purpose game engine would make. It's a completely separate alternative to Unity or Unreal.

MRTK for Unity benefits from the support of having the entire feature set of Unity with it, but it also comes with the complexity and knowledge requirements of a complex game engine. Game developers may like this a lot, but it is a lot to take in these days, and is way overkill for many applications.

StereoKit benefits from a simpler XR focused feature set, app focused design, and better integration with the normal C# ecosystem. It's basically just a Nuget package, so it's much more familiar to developers that come from a normal C# background, and can benefit from other libraries on Nuget! There's a lot of other details here too, I've done some pretty detailed talks that get into the weeds of the subject, should be able to find a handful on YouTube :)
Indeed it might but its need for it is finite and renewables as more resources are sunk into improving them may eventually make doing so increasingly economically disadvantageous. As more of the world moves on it becomes easier to encourage different behavior as well as Russia ceases to have anything else anyone needs.
> let protocol_from_port = fun port =>

I think the `fun` keyword isn't fun. The code clearly states `port =>` yet we still have to type `fun` everywhere.

Even JavaScript arrow functions (ES6; 2015) don't require this, although admittedly it took 20 years for this to become a popular enough idea.
Unlikely. Fossil fuel extraction is expensive. It makes sense economically only because theres a lot of demand for it globally and companies can net huge profits. Without that kind of global demand, fossil fuel extraction will be limited to keeping the existing facilities open until they dry up.

For a preview of the future of oil, we just need to look at what happened to coal.
> Curbing misuse: To minimize the risk of DALL·E being misused to create deceptive content, we reject image uploads containing realistic faces and attempts to create the likeness of public figures, including celebrities and prominent political figures. We also used advanced techniques to prevent photorealistic generations of real individuals’ faces

directly from the website
Under much much more,

Install any app you've previously purchased, from any app store, I think regardless of whether they'd otherwise offer said app

I think that will get rid of selling the same game, app, whatever on many platforms. Buy once, use everywhere
I have a car which is capable of double the maximum speed limit on any road. Should I be fined for that potential, or should violations depend only my actual speed?