skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32260699 for the American situation.

> Offering a service for a static price sounds exactly like something that is ignoring the idea of profit and loss as a metric to compare itself to in exchange for making sure everyone has access to the service[.]

The Penny Post was a profit driven private enterprise. There might or might not have been a more profitable pricing strategy for them, I don't know. Neither me nor business people have perfect knowledge (and don't need it to make markets work).

Compare to how Coca Cola cost a Nickel for 70 years. See eg https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/11/15/165143816/why-...

> Every company I’ve worked at has been massively adverse to any risk because that can scale to infinite.

Keep in mind that prices under a gold or silver standard were more stable in the long run than under modern-day 2% inflation targeting.

(The short run was not necessarily as stable as today.)

> I would need to be given some sort of argument that this was a cash cow [...]

How about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Penny_Post#Takeover_of_... ?

> [...] and not a service that is absorbing a massive amount of risk by giving a static price in the face of a constantly changing business world.

Huh? It's not like the penny post would have been subject to sudden denial of service attacks from the Internet..

They always had the option of raising prices or turning away customers, in case they had temporarily too much demand or their costs would rise.
Apple is missing out by not placing a fingerprint reader on the apple logo on the back of the case. So stupid.

Masks are still a thing, and while I have a 12 mini, it doesn’t open with my masked face (although it’s fine when I’m wearing sunglasses, weirdly enough). The fact that it _can_ open with a masked face makes me question the security of face detection.

I want my fingerprint sensor back. Masks will not be going away ( corona resurgence and potentially a monkey pox pandemic anyone? )

To this end, I think the SE is a great phone, outside of its size. It should be smaller. Hell, the 12 mini could’ve been even smaller but no dice.

I’ll probably not buy another phone until a much smaller one is released. I will even go to Android based phones if one releases in three or four years
UK Law Commission consultation on digital assets
Why does it seem like serial killers all wear the same glasses? (2018)
I have a nicer than usual meal and buy myself an expensive toy.
> The US imports 500K-1M new bodies every year, with no sign of slowing down.

Of course they do. They need cheap workforce.
What has to do with housing ? From those 700k only about 1% might be able to afford a new house. The main issue are the prices of land and materials and low salaries.
No, it hasn't, it's pretty much always been used for both (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32271400 which contains references to the figurative use as far back as 1769.)
Reminds me of John Stump’s “Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz”, with an insanely hilarious score.
I build infrastructures for small/medium size projects in a reproductible, code based, extensive and scalable way - usually cloud based. Businesses I work with need a quick and efficient solution to serve what they build, do not want to/cannot dedicate full time internal resources to it but require production ready setup that their developers are not qualified to build. Sometimes, they just require some guidance or validation. They like to call me DevOps.

DevOps, SysOps, Sysadmin, Infrastructure engineer, Cloud engineer... The title doesn't matter so much, but what I like in the term DevOps is how it links the dev side to the infra side, as the infra itself ends up being already built in a cloud environment.

I also believe there was a time when we needed to make a difference between traditional "Sysadmin" and developers who specialized in building cloud infra, but not anymore.
>I have found that raw coding ability is easily the most important quality to look for.

I so strongly disagree with this. Strong coding ability is easily the most important quality I look for in my interns. For everyone else some level of coding ability is required - there is definitely some floor below which you cannot function. But anything beyond a junior engineer what I'm looking for is understanding of how coding solves a problem. How can you map requirements to scope your solutions, how does the end application shape the architecture of what you're going to write.

I think this points at a certain problem with software hiring, where you'll put a candidate through 10 interviews all of which test the same thing and if they get lucky you hire them. if they get unlucky and miss an optimization or assumption or trick in one of the interviews, too bad. Might as well do 1 coding interview per candidate, then take the resumes of all the people who pass and throw half of them in the bin - because you don't want to hire unlucky people.

What we're really often saying is "We haven't actually figured out what makes a good engineer and how to test it so we're just going to only test coding skills repeatedly".
For some reason before MySpace was high school friends websites, that bordered on stalking platforms. In 1999.
Measurable and meaningful skill levels for developers
Is moving the needle bigger that a Fortune 120 company? (~$25B). https://www.macobserver.com/news/product-news/apple-wearable...
Does the landing page have Crystal-clear messaging?
Hey,

We launched our landing page https://grabee.com/ and would love your valuable feedback! Currently, we are in the waitlist phase.

Specifically, if you can tell me:

- Do you like the look of the site? [The first impression]

- Does the website tells you how the product works?

- Does the website message positioning communicate the value proposition?

Any kind of feedback (even a very harsh one) is very welcome!

Thank you in advance for your time!
From the link in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32271400, there's references as far back as 1769 where people were "misusing" the word "literally". It has basically never just meant "literal".
I've been hired for multiple DevOps roles. For me it means Syadmin (happy Syadmin day btw) but also responsible for managing the plethora of AWS etc service, CI/CD pipelines, dealing with security audits, the occasional diving into code for back end stuff and being on hand for advice/comments.
It's absurd. I need to buy a new phone (as in, my 6-year old 5" phone is really falling apart and I can't find parts to replace) and my only option is pretty much a used Pixel 2, 3, or 4a.
> Everyplace I've worked that's used Unity has locked into a version at the start, and only upgraded (other than minor versions/bug fixes) between projects.

Having used Unity for a few years, this feels like the only sane approach. It might sometimes be possible to update a project or even follow the best practices with package updates, but in practice there's just too much brittle stuff that breaks (e.g. all of the materials in a project breaking and becoming invisible or other weird things, like scripts suddenly throwing plenty of runtime exceptions).

Just pin to whatever the latest LTS version is and then conservatively update packages as necessary.

Thankfully most games aren't too integrated with network solutions and don't have to worry about security related topics, like how a typical .NET or Spring Boot webapp would have to.
Is there any information available about the beehives? I saw the link to purchase tensordock honey at the bottom of your homepage.
Notesnook (encrypted notes app) is going open source
Yes. And you might quibble about the exact criteria. But by almost any metric, old-style PHP was an awful language.

(Facebook's re-invented Hack isn't nearly as bad. It's about the best language they could have made starting from PHP.)
Intel ARC Cancellation Leak: Alchemist may end up a waste of sand
At SchoolMaker, we used our French audience at first to get PMF and a lot of feedback to improve the app.

And now that the app is translated in English, I'll start doing more SEO and content on social media, as well as creating useful resources like the guide to market it!
U.S. Senate passes bill to boost chip manufacturing, compete with China
Just a regular day on HN
Wow nice, that works, thank you!! This will be so useful, I can't wait to try this for a real case soon
Possible reasons:

1. The JVM executes bytecode much (~10 times) faster than the CPython VM.

2. Unlike the JVM, the CPython VM and bytecode are not compatible with older or newer versions of CPython. (The differences are small, but they add up, increading maintenance costs.)
It’s not like there are plenty of small androids around… It seems that the best phone today is SE (old model with iPhone 4 design). Not sure if it’s still supported or sold, but it should be powerful enough to support calls and sms with enough frame rate.
The wife and I take the day off on each other’s birthdays and do a small outing together
So a Platform Engineer, then.

DevOps is not a role, it's not tools. It's a culture.

Once the term is used outside of that, it has become useless.
Come rally: https://smallandroidphone.com/
The tone of the first paragraph is spot on and had me fully convinced. I wasn't even surprised when I read it. I just felt the usual low-level disappointment that I've felt whenever reading any mainstream news, art, advertising, etc over the last 2 years.
> Everything is going to be Windows or Linux boxes with PC hardware next gen.

Are you sure about this? I mean, as awesome as that would be just look at the mobile market - Android had every chance to be a properly open OS (e.g. AOSP), but instead its a mess of flakey drivers, locked down bootloaders and other anti-user practices that curb our freedoms with our devices.

I foresee that trend mostly remaining as it is in regards to consoles as well (and IoT devices), outside of projects like Steam Deck. But then again, I'm still bummed out that it wasn't possible for me to install Linux on my PS4 and use it as a development box (since updates explicitly fixed any vulnerabilities that would allow for that), because its form factor was great.

Hell, it's probably just a matter of time until PCs and laptops are sold with locked down bootloader and only run Windows or whatever other manufacturer sanctioned/mandated OS would be included.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe” - Carl Sagan
I'm a bit new to this (not QC but linear programming/optimization in general), could you share some libraries or code that is considered state of the art on this?
If you own the presentation platform of the gif, would it not be better to use different format?

The only advantage of gif I know of is that the creator of the asset has some control of the playback on the presentation platform. Other than this, it is a technically sub-optimal format. But no other formats support the creator control aspect.
No disrespect, but....Chinese spying company? It's free and you are definitely not the product, but your information and contacts and photos and videos sure look tasty to the CCP.
Having just gone through that for the company I work for, a cloud based HSM that is compliant and attested for the key storage and an API around issuing/revoking/auditing certificates would cost a lot more.

So you're not paying for the private key storage, you could do that in AWS KMS for like $1/month. You're paying for the CA API.
We are arguably in a tech golden age where all this cool stuff is cheap now.

Look at video cards. Counting for inflation those things were expensive. Then they got cheap. Now they’re gonna get expensive again ( look at the proposed prices for 4000 series GeForce cards ).

I think we are eventually going to see more expensive phones simply because people won’t really need to buy new ones anymore.
I think "dashboard" is perhaps a better analogy than some even realize. When I hear someone describe their startup as purely data-driven, I picture someone driving a car while focusing exclusively on the dashboard.

Data is valuable. Some KPI's can show important, even vital information -- often not directly but through the first or second derivative. If something changes rapidly, you probably want to take notice.

Overall though, I think the metrics that we have available are about as helpful to a company as the metrics we can track about our bodies are to our health. Sure, monitor your weight, HRV or even your blood sugar levels and get some insight. Let it help inform your decisions. But only that.
I have an iPhone 13 mini and an iPad mini. The iPhone is a handy size but my eyes are ageing so it is not always easy to read. But Face ID is just annoying. The iPad’s combination of Touch ID and USB-C is much more convenient.
There’s no shortage of sci-fi books with incredible creativity about what could come about in the future…and little care placed in creating realistic dialogue or character development.

I get where the OP is coming from. If you’re coming from the modern world of well-rounded fantasy sci-fi storytellers of Sanderson and Rothfuss, then reading stories of the past can be very frustrating.
Speed is important, but so is quality of results, especially when it comes to search. You can make something search blazingly fast, if it doesn't need to be accurate.
Finally after a year it's happening.
The latter would cause a great deal of jitter. Not to mention, 40ms is 1.5 frame on a 60Hz display, so it isn't going to be 40ms anyway.
Running linageOS 18.1 (Android 11) on a Zenfone Max Pro M1 (fresh install over 16.1 - which received regular updates every 2 weeks i think)

I beleive each model depends on the number of contributors working on image for that model, my phone is quite old yet it is now possible to upgrade (fresh install) to 19.1, which I will eventually get around to. I bought this phone specifically to use lineage. I use the camera, it works fine, and dont have any issues personally with the quality, although i am not really too bothered as long as its not shit, which it isn't IMO
Unfortunately Australia has the highest rate of immigration amongst developed countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_by_country#Oceania
Government fiscal policy appears to be 'just add people' instead of anything clever. I say this is unfortunate, because more people are being affected by climate change as housing extends into flood plain (esp. Western Sydney) and larger rural town are affected by drought (Dubbo almost ran out of water). The housing market was also out of control.
Western mainland Europe is a lot less prudish than the US.

In France you get shampoo ads that just casually show a boob, in the day time. And topless sunbathing is common around a lot of Europe.
It really depends what that question is trying to ask. You can make a casserole by following a lasagna recipe and using orzo or whatever pasta you want instead and it will probably taste good. Most wouldn't call it lasagna but does that matter? It's a really odd question without a lot more context on what the goal is.
So, just because people misuse the term, we should find a different term --- to be misused again? Agile is what agile manifesto defines. What the author defines sounds more like Scrum. And we can call the corporate BS, Jira-based development. Technical debt also has a very specific meaning, nothing about hobbyist programming at all.
AFAIK, waterfall was always a straw man meant to knock down. Nobody sane ever did a pure waterfall model. The model came from http://www-scf.usc.edu/~csci201/lectures/Lecture11/royce1970... and describes it as risky in that very paper. Notice diagram 2 (the waterfall), 3 (the dream) and 4(the reality).

We had expensive agile consultants coming in a bit after 2000. They were telling us the current official process, RUP, was waterfall, and we were completely misguided. Of course, this was a typical management-saves-face move: Devs were asking for using RUP as described (i.e. more iterative), even if managers expressly forbade the use of agile processes up to that point. RUP as intended was basically doing 2 to 4 week iterations, each a mini-waterfall (thou shall not call them sprints).

Somehow, expensive consultants delivered an agile more waterfall than RUP.

The actual value from RUP was a clear description of who does what, who requires what, and how do we call each part of the process. The Agile consultants saw no value in this, and gave us service based service service services implemented by services. We had standups reused as meetings to find out if service was meant as ITIL/SOAP/process/micro/business/something nobody ever heard of. This distinction was important so we could fill in all the important agile documents, which were not meant to be read by anyone, but filling them in was the only way us lowly peasants would not stray from the true golden agile path.

Oh well, if there is an ASCII code for the END-OF-RANT character, you can place it here: <<EOR>>
If you own the presentation platform of the gif, would it not be better to use different format?

You might want to display media supplied by users.
Politics... I wonder if in 5 years this period will be called recession... Probably it will.
Here‘s another one from Queen, to give an impression of a more popular song: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HjwzR3BqMZ4
At least in the UK, a lot of the (quite dreadful) infrastructure around social support requires you to have internet access - an iPhone on credit with a cheap/free SIM isn't a terrible way to achieve this on a low budget. Plus you know the phone is going to last a long time and hold its value once you're done with it.
Dark Incentives: Your app doesn't love you
While phones have gotten bigger, screen size is not a good indication of that. It’s more useful to compare physical dimensions because of slightly different aspect ratios and border widths/roundness
I use it as an excuse to get the friends together for dinner and often games after.
Supplying the grid with say, 6kW for 1 hour during a peak load event, would only dent an EV battery by about 10% of total charge. And thats only needed on some days of the year. Only a tiny % of total vehicles would be needed to be connected to work together mimicking one gas peaker plant. And you can get paid to do it.
I was expecting "master" and "slave" to show up since I've seen that argument being made (https://www.eetimes.com/its-time-for-ieee-to-retire-master-s...), but I have a hard time taking it seriously.

I agree about AI though. The rush to exploit the phrase as a marketing term has killed it's original meaning. Once we actually have AI we're going to need something else to call it. I've always kind of liked the distinction Mass Effect made between Virtual Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence/Synthetic Intelligence, but I guess it's too late to start calling what we have now VI. Synthetic/Inorganic Intelligence is still on the table for the real thing though and it'd be better than something like AI+ or AI 2.0
Not specific for computing but I hear it all too often and I would love to remove it from existence.

> "Moving forward"
Gurobi, CPLEX, COPT, Octeract are commercial software solving such problems. HiGHS, CBC and GLPK are open source solvers.

The commercial ones are beating non commercial ones usually. The open source ones are sorted by fastest first.

If you are interested in writing your own solver. I recommend you join the currently running JuliaCon and talk with people in the JuMP channel.
Sony has an open devices program where some models end up a year or so after their release. Jolla uses this program to make Sailfish releases tuned for select models.

I think it's hard to have easy open-source support by default as ARM hardware needs a model specific device tree and some of the required software might not be fully open.

Asus might not own either all software or rights to release a fully open model themselves, even if they'd like the idea.
An isle is a small piece of land surrounded by water. An aisle is a narrow passageway.

Data centers have aisles, not isles.
This is so pretentious. I don't see any arguments in this piece.
REST is missing. Should be about hypermedia. Now means JSON API.

See: https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypert...
Wanted to "sign up" there but getting a 404: NOT_FOUND after submitting the form
I don't disagree with you but as parent said, op was talking specifically about decreases.
I'm not American, most of the people aren't and from our perspective FB and TikTok are exactly the same.

In fact, Europeans and British can positively say that FB had a substantial life changing impact due to personal data misuse and political manipulation.

It's one of the core reasons most Europeans would like to see their data protected and Tech giants held accountable. Be it American or Chinese or another one.

You might argue about EU/US alliance and say that CCP are the devil but the fact is, US is documented to spy on scale, have spying partnerships with US tech giant(Google for Snowden and WikiLeaks), rich history of organising coups and political movements and most importantly the political situation in US is also not stable and it's quite possible for Americans to elect EU-hostile president with questionable ties to Russian oligarchs like the last time.

The situation with TikTok might be a new phenomenon for the Americans but it's how the rest of the world has been living in the last 30 years.
>Maybe a Mastodon-derivative which deemphasizes the feed, but lets you design your personal page more creatively would be a cool thing.

Like this? https://jasonrobinson.me/ (uses https://socialhome.network/)
> Just because people live longer doesn’t mean they’re fit to work longer.

That's true as a matter of logic, independent on any other information. But we have other information, at least in the U.S., and that information is that the percentage of people 65+ working has more than doubled since 1985, a trend that seems to be quite steady through the decades. Moreover, there's a trend of people 65+ individually working more hours.

Even if these trends magically stopped today, the fact remains that there are substantial fiscal improvements that could be had by restoring the status quo ante regarding actual retirement age in practice and legal qualifications for retirement benefits.

Sources: https://www.aarp.org/work/employers/americans-working-past-6..., https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/06/20/more-older-..., https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=s2301&tid=ACSST1Y2010...
Masks have gone away already. It's time to move on. Monkeypox requires you to wear a mask on your ass, so that won't interfere with FaceID operation.
> no longer means anything much to do with integration, which I always found kinda funny.

I thought the point of CI was to avoid (what we would now call) long-lived feature branches; e.g. a team spending 6 months on their own copy of a codebase, then struggling to merge it back into the mainline when finished.

In other words, CI isn't just about running tests on push; it's about the frequency of pushes, often several times a day.

Perhaps it's a good thing that such practices have become so ubiquitous (largely thanks to DVCS) that we don't really think of the alternatives any more :)
While some of the measurement methods can be debated, pretty much all mental health metrics down to medication prescriptions I've seen over the last few years can best be described as "alarming". I don't have very substantiated or strong opinions as to what's causing it, I don't know if we're just better at treating stuff people would have had to just soldier through 100+ years ago, but it gives me a weird feeling about the world.
Try iPhone 13 mini!

SE would have been my choice if Apple never released this model.

Mini is slightly smaller than SE and it's a crucial factor for me. And it also has more usable screen and where initially I was wary of FaceID - I don't miss the button! :]

I hope Apple continues with SE+mini merged model for the future.
Linux productivity tools (2019) [pdf]