skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that is in the case of Facebook they were trying to solve their own use case, and in the case of Google, they saw it as a way of strengthening the strategic position of the web in general vs apps.
This is Water, by David Foster Wallace [pdf]
It looks like the author is requesting this link be removed from HN:

> STOP EMAILING ME AND CALLING THE LIBRARY ABOUT THIS

> This was shared without my permission. This was not supposed to be public. It was meant to be shared internally to Google.

> ...
> @dang why is this still up and on the front page (you can at least suppress the story to the second page..)? It's clear the document was shared without her permission and she's being harassed by HN and press:

That was added well after the document was posted to Hacker News, so I don't think this is a fair question. Also, I'm sure dang has a life outside of Hacker News, so I don't think it's reasonable to expect everything to be acted upon immediately.
Faraday – open-source Vulnerability Management
Made for our Community
Offensive security had two difficult tasks: designing smart ways of getting new information, and keeping track of findings to improve further work. With Faraday, you may focus on pentesting while we help you with the rest. Just use it as your terminal and get your work organized on the run.
Much of the gaming industry uses this model. All those free to play games with skins/cosmetic things to buy are there for the sole intend of separating people from their money for things that are probably really low cost for a game studio compared with creating new content.
Because if you have to pay SV salaries, why bother hiring in India and deal with the hassle of timezone disparities? Companies would just hire in SV...
> refactoring without test coverage is flat-out "Cowboy coding": reckless & irresponsible.

This is basically what Fowler says in his refactoring book. Actually, he says it's by definition not refactoring. I'm curious why you don't think it's worth reading.
Gravity | Remote (US only - for now!) | Full-time | Senior engineers of all stripes (full-stack, frontend, backend). Also, SDRs and AEs.

Gravity (https://gravityclimate.com) is a carbon accounting and decarbonization software company. We help industrial companies track, report, and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Our business is buoyed by tailwinds of climate regulation and private market forces.

Buzzwords: the stack is a Go/Postgres modular monolith, serving a Next.js/React/Typescript client. We use an internal CLI, `gdev`, for all common developer actions. We will keep a low-dependency architecture for as long as possible.

Please contact jobs@gravityclimate.com if interested. (or reach out to me - cofounder & head of eng - for a 15min chat. Email is in my profile). At this time, we are hiring within the US only.
Yeah I think we considered this, but we want the container to actually run as the user and have all the permissions set up so they can have all the right access on the cluster (kind of like a PaaS), although I think we are doing some of the stuff with the starting the container while the data is still streaming down. Black magic.
it was indexed which should help, but i assume that the reads are far less common than the inserts. reads could even be scheduled/automated and stored in a cache table if they need to be faster and ok being a little stale
This isn't necessarily a "from a small provider" but rather "administered by the library."

It could be any email service that allows the librarian-administer to reset the password for an account. If I mess up my exchange email, the helpdesk can verify my identity and reset my password.

I suspect that most going down this approach would find it easier to use a large hosting service that they provision and administer (along with allowing password resets) than to try to have an underfunded library IT staff stand up an arbitrarily large email service and manage all parts of it.
Much of this is service pride, politics, and recruiting. If the other services switch and you don't, your service looks dated, boring, and irrelevant.

Imagine the JavaScript cool kid mindset but with guns.
This is NOT aimed at people like you. Tons of folks out there who either 1) don't have the skills to be competitive without pay2win, or 2) don't want to waste time on useless grinding and have the money to buy items outright.
As I understand from reading Vaclav Smil's “How the World Really Works”. Replacing fossil fuels by renewables isn't simple:
"we are a fossil-fueled civilization whose technical and scientific advances, quality of life, and prosperity rest on the combustion of huge quantities of fossil carbon, and we cannot simply walk away from this critical determinant of our fortunes in a few decades, never mind years."
Inclusive CS Examples
During the I-for-get-which war, the army hired color-blind spotters because the enemy camo turned out to be fooling fully sighted people but was less effective with red-green color blindness. I don't recall if it was texture or contrast issues but they stood out against the trees and shrubbery enough to locate.

So we not only have to worry about invisible spectra, but some filters on visible light may reveal the target as well.
Converting ‘49 Mercurys and Shelby Cobras into EVs, one Tesla carcass at a time
This updated cost estimate for U.S. diabetics is for 2017, not now. Insulin prices in the U.S. are up substantially since 2017. Another expensive change since then is the increasing availability of the (so-called) continuous glucose monitors, now costing around $100/week for each diabetic using one. My opinion (I use one) is that mine is well worth it, but that the monitors are unlikely to reduce the total medical cost of diabetes care for many because of all the difficulties of responding to the monitor's data with beneficial changes, which might range from immediate doses of food or medication to long-term changes in diet, exercise, lifestyle, etc.
I'm sorry you feel broken. Virtual hugs from an internet stranger.
Disneyland with Death Penalty
Banning advertisements for prescription-only drugs makes quite a bit of sense for reasons like that.
Some work produces short term value, some long or very long.

If it is long the value (and the proof value can be created) can be collateral for money creation but only as debt.

On a personal level you can earn and make payments. It seems very simple.

Collectively we are sinking deeper into debt. It cant be any different if debt is the only way to pay for debt.

The new money changes hands and becomes our excuse to create more debt.

Think of it like this: Say we want to enslave humanity and keep everyone working for our personal benefits.

There is no better system than to convince everyone they owe us just a little bit more every month.

The self check to see if you've bern brainwashed would be to ask who should create the currency. Gov could do it no strings attached.

Or you could let private entities enjoy the privilege to create that money you work for out of thin air in unlimited quantities for their personal gain.

It would make a world where resources, equipment and labor are not really worth much.

It takes 30 years to pay for a home because your work isn't worth much.

Take any "primitive" village where everyone owns their home and their land. They have debt too but it is owed to other villagers who had to deliver something in exchange.

Their labor is nowhere near as productive as ours. How is it possible that they survive at all?
That's pretty much the state of the 3.x releases, but at some point numbers got big.
I suspect GP's complaint is not with Fowler, but with the list not including books that complement it. Like Beck's Test-Driven Development or Feathers' Working Effectively with Legacy Code or some others.
You can't count solar or wind deaths at present because neither is a viable power system.

To count deaths you need to look at a whole system--solar, wind + the gas plants that cover the gaps, or the hypothetical storage system that covers the gaps. Since we can't count deaths from a tech that doesn't even exist it's solar + wind + gas -- and most of those deaths will be from the gas.
That sentence is very readable for anyone who would be at a relevant conference.

As an experimental physicist, everything but the MHV (maximally helicity violating) was readable/comprehensible to me. Theorists in the field will read that as easily as breathing.
Show HN: Litoshow – Code playback for content creators
Religion is a contemplation of free will, e.g. it’s a central ethos of Christianity.

If free will is an illusion, none of this matters anyway :)
SEEKING WORK | Austin, TX | REMOTE ONLY
Front-end Developer, 12+ years experience

Recently available, looking to work on either consumer or enterprise UI apps.

Backend: Node, Python, C#
Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next, Redux, CSS-in-JS
DevOps: Kubernetes, GCP, AWS
Mobile: React Native

Things to checkout:

GitHub: https://github.com/chrisabrams

If you think you can use me for something you can contact me at mail [at] chrisabrams.com
Sure, but requirements change, so the two actions are independently necessary.
There's a strong right-wing libertarian element among tech workers, particularly the near-retirement-age ones and the ones fresh out of school. Their logic is that poor people are poor because they didn't stay in school or were lazy or stupid, and thus aren't deserving of services and support.

The tech scene's obsession with meritocracy is an extension of this.
Simple objective reality. Nobody is diagnosing boys as trans or having gender dysphoria simply because they play with Barbies. People in a certain bubble may believe it's happening, but in the real world it takes a lot more than "plays with barbies" to get that diagnosis.
PixieBrix | REMOTE | https://www.pixiebrix.com

What if you could customize any web app to provide the perfect user experience?

Open positions (learn more at https://careers.pixiebrix.com/positions):

- Lead Browser Extension Engineer (must ♥ reverse engineering)
- Senior Front-end Engineer (Typescript/React)

Email careers@pixiebrix.com. We're Series A startup backed by NEA. Fully remote within ±3 hours of Eastern Time
Ask HN: Resources for Learning Continuous Delivery
Looking for something that tackles the big picture and doesn't spend too much time fiddling with the actual implementation. My mental model is currently composed of tiny bits and bobs (testing, configuration management, IaC, etc.) but lacks a concrete object which is capable of tying it all together.

What are the core components of a continuous delivery pipeline? What are the abstract design principles which can be applied across different domains? What gatchas are beginners prone to and how can we avoid them?
> I would much rather be paid based on skill than based on location.

And that is how societies, especially middle class, gets decimated. Look at what happened to midwest when The Capital discovered that chinese workers are equally skilled at manufacturing stuff at a fraction of the cost.

Sometimes, you don't need skillset beyond a certain level to do a job. And I would rather have that job stay in my community to ensure its stability, rather than outsourcing it so that a few in my community get fabulously wealthy while a big chunk suffers unemployment and all that it entails.
I've always wondered what it means that Germans say "I have hunger" instead of "I'm hungry".

Maybe they think hunger is a disorder to be cured by prescribing food, instead of a feeling to be satisfied by eating. ;)
Incidentally, I also ran into this exact problem with the same package. I briefly thought, "they should let us download individual packages", but since I was already about to bundle everything with esbuild, I didn't look into it.

So that's what I ended up doing: using esbuild. It should only be including what is in use, and the result was fine, even though this service was the largest of the services. But I'm still going to install the separate package and see how much that brings the bundle size down.
Hi!

Some excellent comments!

I'm going to highlight them and add to them a little bit -- I hope that's OK with you [my modifications will be in brackets!]:

>The two Airy functions, like the two Fresnel integrals, the Bessel functions, sine and cosine, and other pairs of popular functions,

are the real and imaginary part of a very smooth complex function of one real variable

, with the typical appearance of

perfectly interleaved oscillations

with the

same approximate period

and a delay of 1/4 period [well, some period that doesn't throw the two functions completely out of sync -- at least not immediately!] between the two functions.

While

sine and cosine represent a perfect specimen of this behaviour

[Indeed! A very important and excellent point! (Also cosine is the perfect derivative of sine, negative sine is the perfect derivative of cosine, negative cosine is the perfect derivative of negative sine, and sine is the perfect derivative of negative cosine! In other words, derive or integrate one of those functions 4 times -- and you're back to the original function you started from!]

, other functions can [and do!] have peculiarities [are not quite as mathematically perfect as sin/cos!]: Fresnel integrals oscillate around the asymptotes rather than around 0, Airy functions cease to be approximately periodic [cease to oscillate] around infinity, and so on."

PDS: This leads me to wanting to research the following idea:

Do sin and cos (and by extension, -sin and -cos) -- have a simple common function (or variable, complex or otherwise, as you alluded to) -- from which both (and by later extension, all) of them can be derived?

Or are sin and cos (and by extension, -sin and -cos) sort of "mathematical absolutes" (can't be derived from anything except themselves?) for lack of a better term?

?

Anyway, excellent post!
The photos would be in Google Photos even if you no longer had access to your old phone and you do not have to reupload them.
> How did people afford to buy anything back then?

Gadgets and appliances were a lot more costly back then but housing, tuition, health care, and food were all quite a bit cheaper.

We've had 30+ years of "disinflation" or "in-deflation" which is high inflation in everything you need and deflation in everything else.

The common denominator in the things that have inflated is that they're hard to outsource.
Realtalk: focal distance is the only number a beginner needs to learn about. Just set your camera to “Auto” and it will take great photos. This is why we invented computers lol
They didn't offer to do another equity round after year 4? I really wonder what their motivation there is, it is almost as though they are incentivizing people to quit at that point.
I like newsletters for rarely updated blogs. I prefer RSS/Atom (most blogs still have it actually) but sometimes a newsletter is the only thing that's available.
MARPAT is a very well documented case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARPAT In its case, it was chosen because the blocks actually blend very well into environments when viewed from a distance.
> we no longer are having this issue as often as before due to various improvements.

Doesn't sound like it was completely resolved. In fact, it sounds like Google may have treated it as a "squeaky wheel," and only that library is getting better help.

In any case, I think that HN (@dang) should honor her request; regardless of its resolution.

I would suggest that the letter is great, and should be made more available, sans the identifying information.

I'd suggest someone try and get her permission to host an anonymized version of the page, on a different server that could handle the lurve.
AFAIK, the makefile fragment generated by kconfig is nothing more than a set of CONFIG_FOO=y (or =m) statements; everything else is done directly in the makefiles, which have declarations similar to "obj-$(CONFIG_FOO) += foo.o" which become obj-y or obj-m (and so on) depending on the value set by that makefile fragment generated by kconfig. The set of object files to build can then be found in "$(obj-y)" (and so on), which is used as a dependency in a makefile rule to link everything together. The same kconfig also creates a C header file with #define rules for these same CONFIG_ symbols, which is passed to the compiler through a "-include" argument. It's not "mostly compiled from a custom KBuild system", IIRC kbuild is the name given to the whole system, including the makefile rules and macros which do the actual compilation.
>Maybe it won't wipe out everyone - but like 90% of the population. That's still an absolute nightmare.

source? the IPCC is estimating GDP reduction of a few percentage points by 2100[1]. That's not really consistent with "like 90% of the population" being "wipe out".

[1] https://archive.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg3/index.php?idp=34...
This is the most insightful comment I've read in weeks and I've never thought of things this way before. This changes the way I look at people.

Men and women are just as emotional: The main difference is that men are shamed for being sad/crying, so our emotions end up manifesting as anger instead. Men get angry because they aren't allowed to cry.
Basically same as "Sharding counters" (2008)

https://download.huihoo.com/google/gdgdevkit/DVD1/developers...

Also in Brett Slatkin's "Building Scalable Web Apps with App Engine" (2008)

https://youtu.be/Oh9_t5W6MTE?t=1181
This is really cool. I was on a team for the first and second DARPA Grand Challenge. The teams (like ours) who had to use actuators, pistons, gears oh-my for steering, acceleration, braking were at a huge disadvantage compared to the teams who were given the drive-by-wire access (CMU/Stanford & VW Touareg partnership(s)). It would've been really nice at the time to get the mechanical aspects all worked out and have a nice autonomy layer to use that was ready and tested. I applaud the work you are doing and know it is NOT easy. I also happen to own some construction equipment and can't imagine how hard it would be to interface with a dual pilot joystick configuration (think skids & dozers). It is a completely different way to think about travel, turning, bucket work, tipping weight. Sounds like you all have some really interesting tough problems to work on. Bravo.
we migrated all erlang, golang and nodejs code to edge workers on cloudflare and simply did not need to run containers anymore so there was also no need for k8. i would say this reduced the operational complexity by 2 orders of magnitude.
Octopus lures from the Mariana Islands found to be oldest in the world
That's cool, I just happened to have picked up a used copy of the text on which the course based... "Molecular Biology of the Cell" -- the huge grey book. Geez, there's a lot of material in there!

Back in the day, I had steered away from chemistry in college because I didn't like to memorize stuff. Now I realize I missed out on some amazing knowledge.
This fish evolved to walk on land – then said 'nope' and went back to the water
JavaScript Ecosystem Is Pretty Great
Last Energy agrees to build ten SMRs for Polish industrial zone
Yes, this one is a bit of a grey area and I'd love to hear dang's opinion on it, but personally based off the user's EDIT I have used my "flag" on this post.
Technically it never went away! FastCGI is still plenty good enough for deploying lots of stuff with PHP. :) And I think the reason people like these new "serverless" things is exactly because, like CGI, it feels pretty developer oriented. Request goes in -- response comes out. Hard to beat that in a way. The no-management part is the real sell, though.
What do you mean with side projects? Are they paid?

If you want your Devs to learn kubernetes you should pay them for doing it.

If you can't, hire a contractor with the expertise you need.
Burden of proof is on you to demonstrate why they should be paid the same. Employers (aka Shareholders/owners) are always going to maximize money going to their own pockets. Why should they give more of it to Harbaglarb?
This is exactly how it works in the US. Salaries here are listed and negotiated around the gross amount that the employer pays to the employee, without any regard for the employer taxes. The difference is that employer-side taxes on that salary are about ~8% (and most of this is capped at the first $147k), not 45%.

Sadly, US salaries don’t just seem much higher than Europe: they are much higher. Take home pay after all taxes for a senior engineer at a large public tech company can commonly be $250k+ per year, in addition to benefits like health insurance and 6+ weeks off once vacation and holidays are taken into account.
I don't understand how this isn't at the Supreme Court yet
Currently, the situation is that even if you have enough installers available, there are no heatpumps to buy - one of the bigger suppliers [0] has basically run dry since at least march...

[0] https://www.rjtec-shop.eu/de/luft-wasser-wp/monoblock/
I guess? Sounds like he was kind of an asshole.
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2022)
What are you working on? Any new ideas you're thinking about?
Volvo Autonomous Solutions (VAS) | Embedded, Security, Server | Onsite (Mountain View) or Remote (US) | Full Time

VAS is a business unit within the Volvo Group. We solve today’s problems and deliver practical self-driving and communication solutions to transportation for mining, ports and logistics centers.

We are growing our Mountain View team of talented and motivated engineers and looking for highly skilled software developers of different levels of seniority to work in the server-side and/or embedded operating system space.

You are a highly skilled Software Developer with a CS, EE or related degree, able to get things done, and deliver state-of-the-art software. You have excellent communications skills, curiosity for new technologies, willingness to learn new skills, and are a strong team player.

You are fluent in Unix/Linux, C/C++ and Python. You have proven experience developing and shipping system software, distributed systems, real-time systems, or redundant fail-safe products. You have some understanding of autonomous driving software or a desire to acquire it.

We read every application. Extra attention if you can demonstrate experience in one or more:

* Real-Time kernels

* Concurrency

* Software/hardware interfaces

* Cybersecurity

* Automotive software

* Autonomous driving

We believe in and have successfully built a working environment where your safety, wellbeing and long-term growth come first.

See full job descriptions, mention HN, and apply:
https://www.volvogroup.com/en/careers/job-openings.html#page...
I work at google, and I’m also someone who has used and messed around with Gentoo for like 12 years. When it comes to my day job I rather not spend time messing around with my own OS (my workflow aside) and leave it to other people. Multiply that by 100k or so engineers and the productivity boost is insane.

We’re root on both desktops and laptops though, I just rather use my time for work and I’m sure my employer would rather I do that too.
The proof is in the pudding. https://bytes.dev has almost 100,000 subscribers, a 48% open rate, and can pull $6,000 per weekly issue in sponsorship revenue. Why? Because 50,000 eyeballs is worth that much.

Source: https://bytes.dev/advertise
It's a lot easier with something like MJML - https://mjml.io/
Sibi | Remote | Full-time | Senior engineers (full-stack, backend, IoT)

Apply here - https://sibipro.homerun.co/
Checkout our company values here - https://www.keyvalues.com/sibi
Explore our stack here - https://www.stackshare.io/sibipro/sibi
Why is this relevant to this site?