skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a woman who runs a used bookstore as part of her alcohol recovery therapy. I don't know the details, but I presume that it's to keep her mind occupied so she doesn't sit around and drink.

It's super low-end, but she's really nice. I don't go to her town very often, but I always stop by and give her $50 for 40 used paperbacks. We talk about them at the checkout, and she knows every one.

I know it's heresy to say on HN, but it's been my observation that there are a lot of people who run businesses not to get rich, but to enrich themselves.
"Everyone else here" does not do that. Disclosures are spotty, & chiefly in relation to current-employment. And many agree links-in-bio are a sufficient & appropriate way to disclose affiliations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27209830

My "self-interest" in the Archive is exactly the agreement-with-its-mission that is self-evident by my strong opinions. The post words themselves are a stronger disclosure-of-interest than any extra mention of previous employment would be.

And further, all sorts of extensive details of my projects & work history – and not just with respect to the current topic! – are described a couple clicks away.

Have you disclosed anything about your "reputational, monetary, etc" "self-interest", here or on any other topic? Show me how you do it, inquistor. Or, do you somehow manage to only ever comment on things in which you have no personal interest, nor related professional involvements?

Note that I fully support your right not to declare such things.

It's just rich to criticize someone like myself – with neither hidden opinions nor a hidden work history – from your perch of obfuscation.
> Does this work at any of the big companies?

I've had coding interviews at big companies but always on their premises, with the interviewer there talking to me while I code. So I'm ok with that. They've never asked me to do a take home. I did a few of those for smaller companies before realizing that it's better to refuse.
>So, should this be a manual process where I have to dig through obscure warnings every time I build something?

Also known as doing your job.
I think it'd be nice to have emoji on here, even if it'd break the aesthetic a bit. They add just enough extra nuance and color that it can diffuse matter-of-fact statements and completely change an interaction.

Honestly if I didn't have emojis in Slack I'd have a much worse relationship with coworkers
> You only get 15-30 days of vacation per year.

This is why I'm glad to have "unlimited" PTO (subject to manager approval + must be requested at least the duration in advance, e.g. 2 weeks notice for 2 weeks off), along with a few annual company-wide breaks and an earned month-long break every 3 years.
Citation doesn't mean dependency. It just means the paper was mentioned. What it does mean is that each and everyone of those papers must be re-examined with extra scrutiny to see if they hold up without the cited paper.
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Yes, agreed. Driving at least in the american context should be understood as basically bimodal: at one end a regressive tax on the poor and at the other a luxury that allows the wealthy to live in the segregated enclaves they value.

Both ends need to be addressed and it will make for a lot of changes in the middle too. But there's no solution that doesn't involve completely rewriting transportation.
I'm sure microservices and AWS and cloud were the reasons for the growth.
In my life I've spent an awful lot of time in bookstores and libraries and have developed no such immunity.
> I think most people are unaware that OS updates are silently re-enabling Bluetooth.

At this point I’d be far more surprised to find more than a small minority of people who care about permanently disabling it, given the number of things Apple use Bluetooth for (i.e. Continuity, Apple Watch, Find My Items, Apple Pencil) on top of the usual uses (like Bluetooth headphones, in-car phone connectivity, portable speakers and so on).

I get there can be security motivations for disabling Bluetooth but my feeling is that reactivating automatically is probably a conscious decision motivated by real world usage patterns and/or support cases from less technical users.
The reason I never searched for code review software is because I rarely have issues with it.

The biggest problem was when reviews took a while because people forgot to check MRs for replies if the MR wasn’t assigned to them. So we built a bot to ping them in slack and/or assign the MR to the person that needs to reply.

If the MR is to big we close the MR, and the initial dev has to split the changes up into multiple MRs.

Etc.

I’d say 99% of issues with code review is everyone not being on the same page about how MRs should be done, but once we sync on that, issues are scarce.
Generally agree, although I think it is largely an illusion. Many people die in car accidents they did not cause.
Seatbelts don't magically stop major accidents from happening. But they definitely keep minor accidents from turning into major accidents.

They don't keep you in control after you slam into something head on or flip the car.

They keep you in control after you clip a deer, or hit a rock, or someone rear-ends you, or you swerve hard to avoid something, and that can be the difference between a good story and killing yourself or others.
Its a choice that effects others. When you get ejected from the crash and hit someone else's car. When we have to shut down the interstate north and south bound for 3 hours to do a full reconstruction. When we have to do a death notification.

Dealing with a dead body isnt a big deal. Your mind kinda puts it in the pile of "just evidence". Working the fatality is easy. The hard part is the death notification. Having to find the family member, either waking them up at 2 am or knocking on the door in the middle of an otherwise normal afternoon. Its not like brain surgery gone bad. There was 0 warning of this happening. Noones prepaered for it.

Death notification is a full day of training in our academy. Noone deserves to learn their loved one died on the news or thru a rumor or over the phone. You have to tell them in person.

And you have to be blunt. Anything less just makes it harder to cope. "There was a crash, he didn't make it" leaves their mind to fabricate a weak lie, like maybe he didn't make avoiding the crash, and he's just hurt. This just makes the pain last that much longer

"Sir, I'm sorry to tell you that your son was killed in a motor vehicle crash".

If you want to make dumb decisions, that's fine, but don't try to justify it with this isolated "well it's my choice" nonsense. Your choice effects others, and I can still remember the reaction of every single death notification I've done. The viet nam vet trying to pass a tractor trailer on his motorcycle, and the way his wife screamed. Having to tell a Dad who's son was touring a college, that his sone was the only one in the car not in a seat belt. Having to wake a mother up at 2 in the morning to tell her her son is dead, and not having an answer to "How do I tell his little sister"

Individual choices generally effect more than the individual
At least in Europe, there is a very annoying beep if you don't wear the seatbelt. You can still drive, and there are ways to disable it, but most people just wear their seatbelt.

I don't think it is mandatory, but it counts in the EuroNCAP score, and since it is one of the easiest safety feature to implement, they all have it.
Yep most definitely a kernel bug.
How are bandits used in consumer choice problems? Bandits solve almost the inverse problem: which choice to offer/take when it's uncertain which is best, but the problem under consideration in the blog post is about predicting which choice a consumer will pick, a standard marketing problem.
It reminds me of the eating cholesterol hypothesis for artery blockage and heart disease. Most artery blockages are made of cholesterol therefore eating cholesterol must be the culprit. Simple, straightforward, and now apparently wrong. The cholesterol buildup is a symptom of something else.

Seems likely with Alzheimers that the amyloid buildup is a symptom not a cause.
In addition, the extra expense associated with regulation to make planes ultra-safe makes it unaffordable for some people. Those people then go on to use a vastly less safe form of transportation.
> The combination of the structural duopoly of the electoral system and the unusually long political realignment if the 1930s-1990s where the salient political divides didn’t map to the divides between the two major parties–which produced a lot of bipartisan legislation and gets people to falsely describe it as a time of low political polarization, when it was in fact a time of very high polarization but where the polarization didn’t map well to the major parties

Call it whatever you like but this is what I am referring to. We are at a point unusual in history where the polarization of the electorate maps well to the polarization of the major parties, leading to coalitions of equal strength in government that can neither compromise nor overcome opposition.
First off, the physics are you are going to be thrown into whatever your car hit. Second, I've never, ever heard of a flying body hurting someone else.
If you hit a giant wall, sure.

In the other case, a violent roll over accident will happily eject you from a side window and off on a happy trajectory towards whatever might be in that direction.

Forward through the windshield is hardly the only way to be ejected.
ClassDojo Won over Classrooms
At a previous job I was a developer attached to a non-technical business unit. They were an awesome group, none the less I felt like an outcast and it ultimately led to burnout.

Start interviewing elsewhere. Just seeing new opportunities is often enough to provide some relief and sense of perspective.
Design blueprints do not have those types of exacting details. They try, but they’re almost always needed to be modified. That’s why, even after the design phase, they’re required to deliver “as-built” blueprints.

3D renderings are definitely becoming more common, but it seems like they’re often used only when in the customer defined SoW. Similar to energy modeling in my experience.
A couple of things come to mind. Scaling, specifically horizontally (though there are some solutions for that) and being write heavy like storing analytics. For many cases though it should work just fine for your average read heavy site.
When tasked with new hires, I was often biased by startup-culture to make sure everyone was fed at my table. However, this also led to overpaying inexperienced kids with senior level salaries, and often incurred a lack of work ethic from some (money makes some people stupid). In general, we found firing the counter-productive after 1 month was the most effective means at reminding everyone of their obligations, as handing out pay cuts and manipulative antics just fosters resentment.

If someone appears purely motivated by compensation packages, than you can be sure they belong in a bureaucratic process rather than a development team. Likewise, companies that try to cost optimize labor for a fixed-cost project have doomed themselves to be crushed by competitors.
Be that as it may, that wasn't the point I was replying to.
The consultancy I worked for didn't sell or promote that kind of tech, but I still got exposed to it at various clients. Seems like a top-down approach, some upper manager saw the cool tool promoted by someone and bought it, then demanding the devs use it no matter the fit.

Instead of these heavy systems, my favorite has been https://www.sanity.io/ . Headless is the way to go, when your anyways building a custom frontend.
Yes, the review paper appears to be roughly conditioned on "using data that academics can readily access or generate".

Clearly, this doesn't generalise to cases where you have highly specific data (e.g. if you're Google).

However, cases with large societal impact are more likely to be the latter? They may perhaps better be viewed as "conditioned on data that is so valuable that nobody is going to publish or explain it", which kind of is in the complement of the review?
Hence the claim it’s designed for cars
Agreed. Framasoft really needs to consider becoming the Automattic equivalent to Peertube, which could then spin up the revenue flywheel for further development. Donations have worked so far, but only work up to a point. You need dedicated engineering, product management, customer support, etc if you want to take on Youtube, and the vast majority of customers don't want to do this work themselves (in my experience). They want to provide a payment method and either be turned loose on the product or have their hand held.
My only interaction with Accenture was years ago. They air-dropped like 100 recent grads and few account managers to build a very complex system like 1000 monkeys at 1000 typewriters. And I know for a fact they used underhanded techniques to maintain their foothold at the expense of the quality of the product.
There is a certain class of high scale enterprise client that always voices strong prefernce for AEM. I think it might be because AEM at one point was ahead of their competitors and so a lot of the existing enterprise level companies use it in production and have experience on it? Or maybe they think everyone at that operating scale is using it, and so it must be the best choice... truth is the development experience is painful and it usually isn't the best tool.

My agency had a contract to make a site for an Amazon event. They specified that we had to use AEM, probably because Amazon uses AEM on some of their other properties, but it was not a good fit for quickly standing up a limited scope event site.
Am I out of touch? I think about 30-40k does not sound unreasonable for something like this. You have a redesign, with UX people improving your shopping and cart page + implementation + updating your maze of weird bootstrap theme to the new redesign.
I use Fiber [0] in production for a $4M ARR company and never had any issues even at peak traffic.

Took less than a month to start with and integrate and it is a joy to use.

[0] https://github.com/gofiber/fiber
This is unknowable. There could be 5 other Democrats that agree with Manchin but why voice it when Manchin can take the heat with no political consequences.
What exactly does PeerTube solve? People want to comment and explore libraries of videos. This is just a protocol for independent video sharing platform instances, HTML5 supports video playback.

A lot of the instances are poor quality, with flickering buttons. They outright look like the player ui’s that porn sites use….

Is there a way to explore content across all peer tube instances?
I was an intern in Accenture in 2010.

My general impression was that my role was actually "budget filler".

Saved up for a laptop and a driving course, so can't complain.
I had a similar experience but with a contract 10x that amount. It was baffling.
This is good as far as it goes, but it doesn't answer the question: what is the mechanism that turns people power into political power?
I ask myself the same question
I've worked at small agencies for the better part of a decade and couldn't agree more with this summary.

A lot of the comments seem to take the view that this was some deliberate ploy to overcharge. In reality, it was just poorly managed.

> Small customers become "nuisance" customers as soon as a something better is landed.

My guess would be that when quoted, the project was expected to be completed by a certain date. Because the team failed to adapt, the project overran, new projects took over leaving this one to languish.
I honestly don't get why CEOs would bother worrying about this stuff. How can you make the big important decisions if you allow yourself to be distracted by micromanagement?
Example of the "the brave maverick comment" like the "the brave maverick doctor" mentioned in this npr article https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/07/19/1111794...
Cyclists take note.
Well, the biggest problem is that Operating Systems need a common interface to share software/application/service support, generally. Allowing a 'Cambrian Explosion' of Operating Systems would present a problem where we don't have common software, and everyone's development efforts are strewn all over the place. What you're really describing is the world of alternative Operating Systems, of which there are many cool things to check out (Fedora Silverblue, HaikuOS, Free/Open/NetBSD, etc.) Most of these platforms share a degree of API support (however faint that support may be), which allows them to try extremely experimental things while retaining a large amount of software support.

If your question is "what do mutations/evolutions of modern OSes look like", look at the ongoing friendly competition between Guix and NixOS. Both OSes have radical features like declarative configuration and generational base systems, but they go about implementing them in different ways. Two species of the same genus, two families with similar religions. Similarly, the BSDs have a lot of cool things that completely stray from Unix/Linux spec, and their own strange internal conflicts/rivalries.
>Arguably we should/could have penalties for failing to get enough exercise, though there are almost certainly better ways to reduce dangerously sedentary lifestyles

This is my point: we pick and choose, and we're subject to the whims of society, when it comes to what we deem unacceptable. Citing a collective norm that potentially could have been influenced by societal ebbs and flows is not an objective argument, ever.
>Android 13 (API level 33) introduces a new runtime permission for sending non-exempt notifications from an app: POST_NOTIFICATIONS. This change helps users focus on the notifications that are most important to them.

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/13/changes/noti...
I don't understand why anyone would think $32 million is a reasonable price point for a car rental site to begin with.
> Ashe declined via email to be interviewed or to answer written questions posed by Science ... But she wrote, “I still have faith in Aβ*56,”

Richard Dawkins won't be impressed.
Do you mean you were offered tokens? Or do you mean you were explicitly offered access to non-public information that you could trade on?
I just saw this on Reddit.

The driver would most likely have regained control had he left his seatbelt on. SFW.

https://reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/w4kyx3/oy/
You're only thinking of the first-order effect.

If insider trading is allowed then, yes, those who have access to inside information can trade on it more efficiently. But it also highly incentivizes market participants to hide information. In a world where insider trading is allowed, anyone who has access to inside information can now personally monetize it as long as that information does not get out to the wider market.

You're basically paying people to manufacture information asymmetry. As an emergent effect, that does not lead to the widely available information needed for a market to perform efficiently.
Yeah but we commute by car way more. We used to have way more railroads and public transit in the US.
" What use case is there?"

I need to scroll the damn thing. Not with the mouse scroll ( too rough) not with the keyboard ( i don't want to lose keyboard focus from the current element). I just need to scroll. I don't have time to wait until the scrollbar appears, i don't want to click for it to appear. I just want it there.
Thanks. I've asked someone to fix it.
For something used in so many places for so many reasons it's interesting to read everything they test for their releases...
https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
whatever you drove into could be traffic
I think AB and AB*56 are related but different. The article is about AB*56.
Totally - not all nuanced arguments are emotive at root. I think HN is at it's best when the discussion is evidence-oriented.
Another variation on "Nobody ever got fired for buying ${big_corp}"
It was fun when people were sitting on engaged seatbelts to prevent the beep :)
Generally yes. That’s why sugar taxes are needed and popular with economists.
Would it really though? they don’t have the interest of average users.
> If, for example, the person was a stakeholder in a competitive company and documented that they were trying to hurt the company, then it obviously wouldn’t be an honest opinion.

You've offered an example of evidence against it being an "honestly-held opinion". You're still thinking of it as being the responsibility of the plaintiff to prove that the opinion was not honestly-held.

That's not the problem here! The plaintiff doesn't need any smoking gun like that. The defendant has to show that it was honestly-held. It doesn't sound like the plaintiff needs any evidence one way or another; if the defendant can't come up with affirmative evidence that it was honestly-held, they're liable. It sounds like an awful system.
Yep. It's not a situation where they're an indeterminate way through building a custom app using a custom framework and you really do lose everything if you start again, it's a case where an agency has designed and handed over a logo and some very conventionally-designed mockups which any competent freelancer with knowledge of Vue should be able to implement on your platform, and revise as requested. And they're citing lack of availability, so it's not even rude to walk away with the deliverables you paid for.
there's one exception: some technologies have unusual publicity.

a gasoline car fire? not a peep.

an electric car fire? the media goes crazy.

also nuclear power. Fukushima got a lot of attention, but radiation deaths linked to burning coal are significantly higher but not touched by the media.
Programmed to Death: Software and the Erebus Disaster
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/friend
We don't ignore them - we just accept that risk

Data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Statistics

0.00000003% chance of dying if you drive a kilometer to the yoga studio.

Want to make it less risky personally? Drive less, or drive a safer car.

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/top-safety-picks
I am gonna disagree, this looks like ok money spent. A bit expensive, but I know for sure I am unable to do that UX and design myself.
> Apple gets a lot of flack for keeping design constant over the years, but this is the reason why they do it.

I am not so sure, they are turning system preferences into an iPhone app on macOS.
> In its revised suit, Hertz states that Accenture represented that they had “the best talent in the world"

> Hertz claims that they were far from experts in these technologies and that Accenture was deceptive in their marketing claims.

Colour me surprised.

> Accenture also failed to test the software, Hertz claims, and when it did do tests "they were seriously inadequate, to the point of being misleading." It didn't do real-world testing, we're told, and it didn’t do error handling.

> Accenture’s developers also misrepresented the extent of their testing of the code by commenting out portions of the code, so the code appeared to be working.

> Despite having specifically requested that the consultants provide a style guide in an interactive and updateable format — rather than a PDF — Accenture kept providing the guide in PDF format only

So, like always, they sold a fantasy to a bunch of executives asleep at the wheel who lacked even the most basic technical skills needed to see that it was a fantasy, then farmed the work out to the cheapst developers possible and pocketed the difference.
Yes, you survive 2 tons of steel smashing into you only to die against .1 ton of perfectly aimed flesh. I wonder what the odds of this are? Just kidding, I'm not Wiley E Coyote so I don't waste time worrying over comically unlikely ways to die. I do however spend time worrying about people with comically detached models of physical reality.
Fraud is both civil and criminal matter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud#Criminal_fraud