skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chinese here. While I can confirm a lot of these sites are banned for whatever reasons, iTunes is not. Check it yourself with https://ping.pe .
Alas, error 403.
I feel like the "I'm swamped" situation is more of a defense mechanic than it is genuine swamping in many cases.

Take the following example: You understand parts of the business that are critical. Those parts are high stakes. Someone asks you something about it and you give a legitimate answer that is correct. You will form a habit in that person of asking you since it's lower risk and far easier than coming up with the answer yourself. In many cases, the only way to wean this off is to instead say sorry I can't get at that right away but if it can wait (x) I can look at it. In many cases the solution will come around on it's own as it is time sensitive.

Anyone in that position will, over time, recognize this and leverage it. Couple that with the fact that any exceptions that happen out of the ordinary will wind up in your purview.

Of course, this is not true of all swamped people - some are just legitimately swamped and don't have enough time in the day to do the workload requested of them - but the guise of a key senior engineer this is usually the case I've seen.
An "underperforming" worker can consistently underperform though, and that consistency might make people feel good. Ultimately you're right on a deep level, but perhaps there are other ways to produce good feelings than what you've suggested.

The recency of the good feelings matters too. If you push back now and set expectations for everyone, then a year from now your boss will probably remember the consistency more than the push-back.

Of course, it will depend on the people involved.
Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin 32GB Released
It's a small beast!
In my experience when you have a DB field where you take sorting very seriously (because you're writing a dictionary and/or the data is meant to be circulated in printed form) you'll want to use basic lexicographic sorting (by Unicode code points, LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8" IIRC) and build a sort field yourself. I just tried the ICU collation demo at https://icu4c-demos.unicode.org/icu-bin/collation.html and while they do have both German phonebook and German general-purpose collation orders, the former cannot be used for dictionaries and the latter sorts abel, äbel, aber, äber as abel, aber, äbel, äber, which I find wrong. Instead of mucking with collation APIs, it's much easier to rewrite your strings and use lexicographic (codepoint-based) collation; in the case here, rewriting as a0bel, a1bel, a0ber, a1ber could work.
Of course, vendor lock-in is a feature because once developers leave a company, someone else with the necessary proprietary knowledge needs to replace you. Spread proprietary cloud stuff like the plague and you'll always be employable somewhere!
Being swamped is mostly a symptom of having bosses who don't say no often enough. The root cause could be greed, incompetence, etc. but it's irrelevant from a rank-and-file point of view.
The only two countries I've rented apartments or homes in are the US & Singapore

Neither is especially "a pain"

There were no negotiations (except on rental start date) - rent was published, and I filtered based on how much I was willing to pay

The lease paperwork was pretty simple (as legal documents go, at least)
It’s more like a noble half truth, since the architect leaves themselves open to accepting a good idea that isn’t their own.
The article is about a TikTok video that an influencer did about a Reddit post from a person who got penalized for using a mouse-jiggling app that helps them simulate working two full-time jobs at once.

I'm sorry but I'm just having a really hard time taking literally any of this seriously.
"Being swamped is not a badge of honor"

No, but it seems that's expected just to get a decent performance rating.
That's a union as in, we're students getting together to have fun.

People here are talking about a union as in organized labor. Where you have a leadership who negotiates a contract with the university, where you're a dues paying member, where you go on strike when advisors systematically abuse students.

You aren't part of a union sadly :(
That has a pretty simple and effective solution though: just mention that you want to leave. I've just been through getting a healthy amount of equity (as a freelancer no less) because someone else announced they were leaving.

If your job is _that_ important, you might not get promoted away, but you'll get the salary as if you were and then some.
I really found it surprising that so few of the PC based orthodox filemanagers adopted the DOpus style of user-defined buttons and multiple rows thereof at the bottom, instead keeping with the few function key-based operations inherited from a time when there was simple no other option.

(I'm aware of Gentoo and Worker doing that on Linux)
People were teasing the idea of a good-enough Metal-like API on top of Vulkan that takes care of the pain points since the early days (most notably this article: https://aras-p.info/blog/2015/03/13/thoughts-on-explicit-gra...), but so far, nothing has materialized.
The problem is the grossly inefficient market where vehicles have an MSRP but the actual price you can pay varies wildly.

In that sense it is no different than airline ticket fees (though not baggage fees) and similar schemes. The goal is to stop customers from doing apples-to-apples comparisons when shopping.
Since I learned of them in my childhood, it always seemed obvious that lotteries are a government-approved scam, but I never imagined they were a scam on so many levels.
Include a throwaway line about considering a microservices architecture and let the roasting begin...
Exactly - this kind of research is repugnant and hopefully will be seen the same way phrenology is seen.
Maybe you don't have access to a graphics server, or just want to add a small interface to a certain part of a bigger application/script that works in the terminal. For example, apt will show you TUIs sometimes when it asks more complex configuration questions.
It's actually very easy to believe. Because you can talk to people and have them explain their views.
Do the phones in most people's junk drawers have unlockable bootloaders?
A Python/Go/Kotlin/Java framework has the same amount of complexity as a PHP one (you are using one, right? It's not <?php tags all over the source, right?) and are nicer to use. (Not much nicer, mind you, PHP frameworks have evolved too, but still nicer.)

Isn't that what we expect from evolving technologies? (And well, if you are doing <?php all over, bare Python with print statements has the same complexity, with about the same downsides. Nobody will want to touch it, for very good reasons.)

jQuery is a very predictive mark for decades old leggacy cruft that nobody is allowed to improve. The modern equivalent is vanilla JS, that is simpler, about as powerful, and perfectly viable to hire for. There's actually no technical problem with jQuery, it just correlates very well with bad companies.

The infrastructure world has a real problem. A large part of it is that Puppet, Ansible and Chef are all badly managed centralized, complex pieces of software, and custom bash scripts can be anything. Also, cloud offerings tend to minimize on-call incidents, and companies normally have very bad policies about on-call time (kept secret until the candidate has no other option).

A purely community oriented ops tool (Apache style) would do wonders here. As would better labor laws (on the US mostly).

(And edit here, the trend on newer ecosystems, like Go, Rust and Haskell - and old language where the ecosystem is mostly new, is to make the backend frameworks simpler. So you get a nicer to use system with less complexity to stop you from solving issues.)
Relay the full trace of all IPs and switches involved in sending a call my way and give me a way to filter based on that trace. I want to block an entire source if they don't do a good job of screening their clients.
Pretty cool, that strela data leak was enabled by this type of policy.
Principles are never to be broken and sometimes their cause forgotten, rules have flexibility or exceptions and a good reason most can agree to. ;)
https://archive.ph/tRiQI
It’s unjustified panic. It’s freely downloadable and available everywhere.
I’ve written a few of my own in plain JavaScript and it’s been a lot of fun.

Dungeon Memalign:
https://memalign.github.io/m/dungeon/index.html

Source:
https://github.com/memalign/memalign.github.io/tree/master/m...

Writeup:
https://memalign.github.io/p/dungeon-memalign.html

Counterfeit Monkey (demo):
https://memalign.github.io/m/counterfeitmonkey/index.html

Source:
https://github.com/memalign/memalign.github.io/tree/master/m...

Writeup:
https://memalign.github.io/p/counterfeit-monkey.html
Similarly, if my phone would just allow me to do some simple filtering based on number or location, it would filter out 99% of all spam calls. I have a Florida number but have lived outside of Florida for about 2 decades. No one who I have any relationship with has a Florida number except for my family who are all in my contacts. Simply filter out my own area code but not in my contacts would eliminate the vast majority of spam calls. Yet, there is no built-in capability to do this on my iPhone as far as I can tell.
I manage a team of 10 engineers and my highest priority is making myself redundant. I'm constantly looking to eliminate (aka delegate) my current responsibilities so I can focus on my next responsibilities.
90% of those scam calls originate from one city in India- Kolkata. It’s a state that has had communist rule for over 30 years and now a government which also runs on anti-corporate agenda. As a result there are no industries and all jobs have dried up in that state of West Bengal.
This is the only industry left and the local government and police turn a blind eye since they get kickbacks and is the only source of income in the state.
Eating less food causes more weight loss. Astounding.
If you're only providing a component of the work you are not contributing the full $50m. Thats why the statement is still irrational. This argument waves "look at all this value I bring" is hyperinflated and thus dishonest to pull out every time this gets discussed.

I'm not saying good engineers can't bring disproportionate value and should work/be compensated commensurately. I'm saying stop gaming the numbers like a Goldman Sachs accountant.
So, weather balloon, or fake thing done for lulz/clout?
How many thousands of cases of alcohol-related injury are there in ERs every day? If we're pointing fingers at drugs where the consequences include self-inflicted physical harm, there's a much more relevant drug that society has firmly decided is fine to legalize, and your single anecdote doesn't change that.
Really good that he got funding for his open source project. I tried Textualize earlier this year and it was really nice: easy to use and the UIs look great.

Apologies in advance for drifting off topic: as (primarily) a Common Lisp developer, it makes me sad to see great Python projects that will never be replicated in my world. Perhaps there are 10,000 times as many Python developers as CL, so it is understandable.
Ask HN: Will I Ever Recover?
Been working in my startup for the last 7 years. It has no failed and I am turning 37 soon. I am interview now but my identity has been shattered. I don’t know how to build myself back up. Everyone tells me it’s not too late to start again but I am no longer young. I feel so miserable.
> With the removal of the room, the Google Store in NYC offers no Stadia demos at all.

As I have said before [0], I've seen this unfold already since this information was given to me from the future a year ago. [1]

So this is the second time, I will see Google wind down Stadia, close to the end of the year / autumn that it will be no more.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32278255

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27039202
Git follows this model as well, calling it porcelain and plumbing (the internals). Arguably, there’s a third layer in actual GUIs wrapping the porcelain (and sometimes plumbing).
> Given the same energy intake

> During fasting days, participants fasting for one day/week were allowed to consume 400 Kcal/day, while participants fasting for two consecutive days were allowed 500 Kcal/day. During non-fasting days the dietary regimen provided 1350 and 1700 kcals/day for women and men, respectively

That seems like the first claim is just untrue and the 2-day-fasters are consuming fewer calories overall? If all the non-fasting days are the same for both groups like this says, then the 2-day-fasting men are consuming 1100 fewer calories per week (and 750 fewer for women). Even if intermittent fasting did nothing at all, I would expect that extra calorie deficit to result in more weight loss.
I've done nearly 300+ interviews with CTOs regarding their technical architectures over the last 8 years.

AmA
I've never caught the full lyrics before, but I've never thought it was meant as a guide in any way. Rather, it's a condemnation of mass modern life and complacency, people getting older and more boring and going through their lives like cattle until they die. It's mocking all the life advice our boring parents gave us when we were growing up. This is all delivered in a monotone, almost robotic text-to-speech voice with Radiohead's typical eerie music backing it.

(As a longtime fan I'm a bit biased, but I think it's worth a listen to understand the tone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4SzvsMFaek . The rest of the album also adds some context, as others have noted.)
I'm using Puppeteer with Chromium to mimic a browser with the headers changed to look like a real user. The proxy service only handles the data transport. Running a browser cluster at scale costs me CPU, and memory (My peak yesterday on HN was 40-100 requests a second). Direct GET / POST requests to Zillow didn't work. I'm not sure $5 per month VM will cut it. Do you have the details on a provider that will give me a $5/m deal for this setup ?
> The person that initially frames the issue will be given more credence in most cases, because we as a culture have pretty much taken a shit upon the whole notion of "innocent until proven guilty".

That's a legal precept, not a cultural one.

We've culturally never adhered to it as a nation, nor really pretended to.

We've really not done that great a job of it even in the legal realm, at the level of policing. The courts are a better story.
There are occasionally times when everything is critical. Often this is in the early stages of survival for a company.

If this is a chronic problem, or it's an established company, though, you realistically have two solutions that don't lead to burnout:

1. Don't deliver everything you're asked for

2. Find a new job

Once that culture is established it's extremely hard to change. It certainly will not fix itself.
I'm curious, if you'll disclose it, what the exclusionary policy was. Enterprise zones?
- Pi 4 to relay data from 433/915MHz weather station/temp/humidity sensors to MQTT using three SDRs and RTL_433 (consumed by Home Assistant, but could be read my anything subscribed to MQTT topic). One SDR for each 433/915MHz and a third that cycles between scanning 315, 345, and 868MHz every half hour.

- Two Pi 4s used as secondary DNS servers (with RPZ for blocking crap like Pi-Hole but using ISC BIND) for home network (fed from hidden primary).

- Pi 4 as a Linux workstation

- Pi 2 as a proxy between my solar inverter and WAN to intercept/decrypt traffic containing panel optimizer data not available from API

- Pi Zero W as serial console server.
I think that certainty depends on where you are in the the economy.

If you are a low earner and your cost of food goes up 10% you know it.

If you are a high earner, you can play semantics.
I was just gonna say that the Intel case may fit well in this book called Obliquity[0], which ironically discusses Boeing.

I believe it said that Boeing was less profitable when it focused on increasing profits and more profitable when it focused on improving engineering.

[0]: https://www.johnkay.com/product/obliquity/
I say it all the time. The maximum # of chefs who should be permitted in the architecture & design kitchen on day 1 is exactly one. You always want the person with the most experience and willingness to endure pain to undertake these efforts.

Building new, coherent architecture that your team will be willing to follow for years or decades is non-trivial and not something you can learn by going to college and/or consuming a bunch of bullshit tutorials from the internet. Architecture cannot be forked or cloned. It must be applied uniquely to the problem at hand.

To continue the analogy - You simply have to have tried to make that pasta dish so many fucking times that you become god of pasta dishes. You need to have customers (and employees) complain at you for 2 decades about various aspects of your cooking for you to truly understand what works and what doesnt.

> Consistency in architecture is more important than genius in architecture in most cases

Absolutely agree. This is why suggestions like "just use 1 big database for everything" are automatically a leap in the right direction for all involved. Only when this starts to get yucky should you turn on the clever bits of your brain.

The specific code arrangement is not that important, as long as the team understands some common domain model (types, properties & relations). The most successful architecture is one that the entire team can understand and communicate about without a senior developer babysitting them.
People underestimate this. But you are very right.

I'll give a small story from my distant past:

I went to a college with Sun IPCs and IPXs. It turns out, if you make the terminal beep on one, it is the HIGHEST priority thing the machine can do as far as we could tell. So when someone sent someone else, 2 megs of ^Gs via some mechanism usable in the 1990's, and recipient is sitting in the middle of a cathedral computing center. The machine literally will beep, and beep, and you can't stop it.

That is a lot of bleeping, beeping. They had to power the poor machine off. Since I've used visual bell on every terminal program I use. Since I've turned on Virtual Bell in every terminal emulator, and I don't trust much on a terminal.

May a terminal emulator author read my cautionary tale. (Before you ask: No I was not the user involved.)
What kind of physical performance standards should satellite communications technicians have?
pure distilled water is bad for you

No, it’s not. I’ve been drinking it exclusively for the last ~20 years and have no health issues.
My experience was a little different. I knew my traumas, I had really already reckoned with them - I just needed to let them go, but that hinged on some things that I was having trouble accepting at a deeper level. LSD let me do that. My MDMA experience was fun, but I think that's what MDMA did for me - it taught me what it was like to have fun again, maybe even to feel truly happy and content with the world again.

These things are less rigid as people put in text, I think. At a certain level of LSD it's very like MDMA, but past that level it's very different.

Between LSD and mushrooms, I'll quote one of my friends, "LSD puts you in the drivers seat; mushrooms make you a passenger."
How come more retail stores don’t adopt self checkout?
I was amazed by how easy it was to do a self checkout at Uniqlo. I think they just use smart labels with RFID. The tech has been around for quite a while. Why don’t more retail stores do this?
People have said this since the early days of Vulkan (such as https://aras-p.info/blog/2015/03/13/thoughts-on-explicit-gra...), but so far nothing has really materialized.
I hoped the link would whine about modern building architecture, but instead it seems to try to fix the Agile mess of lack of planning. I didn't find and concrete advice though, becouse the author seems to think "velocity" is a good metric that trumps planning.

"To stay relevant in today’s fast-moving world, architects must focus less on making the most important architectural decisions, and instead focus on building an environment where everyone makes better decisions."

Ye sure ... as powerless as a Scrum master to actually make decisions but to nagg about process I guess. No one in charge of the tech but still micromanaging managers coming for you. Architects that don't make drawings. God a distaste Agile. Why are apologists still trying.

"Diversity tickets available"

What does this mean? Discounts for women etc?
> Where you have a leadership who negotiates a contract with the university, where you're a dues paying member, where you go on strike when advisors systematically abuse students.

The NUS does all these things though. They have a leadership who negotiates with the university, they strike sometimes (a bit self-defeating - nobody suffers except their own education,) they take dues from you (via the university, so you don't see them.) They even campaign against politicians, and once made a concerted effort to get members of parliament unseated. That's more than most blue-collar unions do.

Except negotiate contracts, as you don't have a contract because... you're a student not labour - the crux of the issue under discussion!

But you're right I wasn't part of it - I opted out because as I say all they really achieved was running a mediocre cafe.
They targeted a BMI > 27.5, which could be ‘fat’ or it could be ‘a little soft’, or it could be someone who’s really swole.

For reference a 27.5 BMI is 5’9” at 186lbs. I can attest that when I’m well muscled, nobody thinks I’m fat at 186, but when I’m not yolked, I look like a tad doughy.

The average adult male in the US has a BMI of 26.6 btw…
Yeah scam on scam on scam is like the inception of scams
1700 kcal a day for male is already pretty high calorie deficit even without any physical activity
That's kind of cool, thanks. How long does it take to do a web scrape versus a DB dump?
Ask HN: Where would you move to be around startup minded people [USA]?
I've never lived in a "big city" but always like an hour or so out in the suburbs or past them. I don't know anyone in my day-to-day who is into software or technology. There are obviously a ton of places online, but the experience of being in-person or in close proximity to physical meet ups is a lot more valuable for me. I've tried attending some virtual meet ups and honestly they've not been as engaging or similar quality to the in-person versions.

Where would you recommend me to move to be around startup oriented people? I'm interested in almost everything, especially supply chains and practical technologies, and not so much into finance/crypto.
Using light to restore cell function
Right, and many of them (on both sides) argue that they believe the election was illegitimate. This isn't complicated. :)
I'm so glad more professors are fighting this, especially at community colleges which are supposed to help those without means, not rent-seek them to financial death.

The worst part about a computer science degree is the sheer amount of brand new books they force you to buy since they come with online cd keys for 'additional learning materials' which is really just some scanned workpages, but for some reason it'd be mandatory you log in to this random book's website.
Ah yes, a Silicon Valley classic. The deck infamously known as "RIP Good Times"
I Bought a Domain