skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has become very clear to me, listening to all my female friends, colleagues, partners - mtalking about consent and all kinds of horrible experiences when they couldn't say no, I didn't feel they could - that we used to teach body submission since a young age.

I have twin girls and I'm trying as hard as possible to teach them body autonomy and consent. Your body your choice. The doctors help (if it's not urgent, let's talk, and if you're afraid or don't understand yet, we'll do it later on - the girls consent far easier when they don't get pressure and an explanation, and when they can see a track record of truthfulness and explaining stuff before - this is going to hurt, I'm doing it so you don't get such and such disease, as your parents explained, are you OK with it ? We can numb the area if you need). It can look silly to the tough-it-out crowd (and I don't really care if it annoys anyone) and yes, there'll be emergency overrides, but thankfully we've never needed any. Even the rare firemen or ER medics asked and explained before performing acts and actually listened to the answer (we can do this one a bit later, but we need to do that one now to make sure you're not in grave danger, OK?)...

Family that doesn't understand get a talking to, first by the girls themselves, and then later on I can most of the time pinpoint painful or unpleasant experiences in the family stories, to illustrate the most irate. Every woman in my family immediately got it. My own grandma (born in the 20s) was ecstatic when we explained 'oh I hated when they forced me to kiss someone or get kissed, good for them, women are not toys'. Guess who gets the most hugs, kisses... My father doesn't get it, jokes it out and tries to force the issue or steal hugs or kisses and doesn't understand why they won't 'just take it'. Yeah... You can guess how he is with women.

The first rule there has always been 'have I listened to what they actually want'? They're dependent human beings, not things.

Strangely, many things become easier then. Not a struggle with authority but actually convincing about what needs to happen (vaccines, medical exams, hygiene, medication, sunscreen...), what can happen if they want and what the consequences can be (ears pierced, kinds of clothes, hairstyle)... I find them far more invested once they're all in, and... that I needed to work a lot on control issues.

... sorry, parenting is such a mind consuming activity, I ramble :-)
They appear to have really stepped it up on the new hand-tools line.

Not sure it is exactly worth the premium, but the ones I have are very nice (just get them on sale is all).
I didn't necessarily intend to characterize media as bad, just not something to build a habit of listening to. As in, to me it would be weird to want to watch more tv arbitrarily. Seems like a good thing people would have done with audiobooks to try and be more productive, but did they really learn anything?
> They were taught in school that there exists this bogeyman software development methodology called "WATERFALL" where pencil-pushers in a windowless office write requirements which they hand off in a printed binder to the team of engineers in the basement, who is not allowed to ever talk to the user.

Having worked in government and big-co companies before: sadly, this is not a bogeyman trope, but reality. Including the printed binder, although it's called "spec sheet" or "tender document" (or whatever the correct english words for "Ausschreibungsunterlagen" and "Lastenheft" are).

The amount of "silos" and "leadership" involving themselves in petty fiefdom fights is astonishing - that is partially a reason why small startups are so much more efficient, they haven't had the time to develop layers and layers of middle management wanting to justify their existence, protecting budgets or establishing their authority. Government projects tend to be the worst target for such micromanager wannabe-king types, given that they can rarely be fired from their jobs for incompetence.
ignore me, read the comments above
Your link shows you can 3D print a "Rembrandt" if you hire a team of people to spend 18 months working on custom algorithms for it, and I doubt any art experts were as likely to actually be fooled by it as they were by a van Meergeren forgery.

Not sure the people selling paintings knocked out in an afternoon to tourists who visited their studio and chose to buy an original instead of the visually indistinguishable print for a fraction of the price have much to worry about...
> But that kind of mockery [of Boomers] is different. Although Boomers fell out of the internet zeitgeist, they never had as far to fall as Millennials—the first cohort to watch their youth fade in real time, with evidence of their growing irrelevance meticulously documented in memes, trends, and headlines published on the very internet they once reigned over.

This kind of sums up the whole thing for me.
And I'm guessing habitual recall via Google query negatively impacts memory recall skills. News at 11:30.
Unfortunately Checkmake only has 4 rules[0]. It's not a very useful tool unless you're wanting a tool that complains that you don't have an 'all' and 'test' target, or that your target is longer than 5 lines[1].

[0]: https://github.com/mrtazz/checkmake/tree/main/rules

[1]: https://github.com/mrtazz/checkmake/blob/main/rules/maxbodyl...
Only arithmetics skills, not basic mathematics skills in general.
So that isn't what the document says. Out of 5 cases, only two were constitutional. Both of those were allowed to confirm that a disallowed activity had happened during school.

Specifically in Mendoza vs Klein ISD (from the paper) we see that the continued search of the phone after confirmation of texting in class was ruled unconstitutional.
> Forth is another good example. There’s no call and return

Huh? Could have fooled...well, everyone, including Chuck Moore.

Emphasis mine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060101073958/http://www.colorf...

"The Data stack holds parameters for and results of subroutine calls. This distinction between control and data minimizes the cost of subroutine calls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)

"Forth is a procedural, stack-oriented programming language..."

"...where the user interacts via subroutines called words. "

"First a number (1 or 8) is pushed onto the stack, FLOOR5 is called,..."

"This is the same as what a processor's call/return instructions do."

https://www.forth.com/resources/forth-programming-language/

"The benefit of having a stack reserved for return addresses was that the other stack could be used freely for parameter passing, without having to be “balanced” before and after calls"

...
ah thankyou
Yeah my stupid Hisense fridge that I bought only four years ago is already flaking out.

I has Whirlpool washing machine that lasted more than 20 years. When it finally gave up the ghost I bought a Fisher and Paykel that literally within 2 months of the 2 year warranty expiring. To their credit, Fisher and Paykel replaced it but even so.....
Color me sick of Twitter and Twitter-like interactions, but I'm tired of "effective trolling" creating an arms race towards smug nihilism by catering to people's most base instincts.

Something about it, which I cannot put my finger on, feels distinctly impersonal and pornographic.
In the Bay Area I’ve always rolled in around 11 and left around 5. Maybe 6 if I really need to get something done. When I worked for a remote company I did maybe 20-25 hours most weeks. Everyone’s always been very happy with my work. I’ve gotten offers for seed funding from founders in exit interviews. Penny pinching your hours is a cargo cult.
Packout has gone wildly successful, far outstripping what Milwaukee thought it would hit.

There's tons of stuff in the pipeline for it, too.

The other "good" modular storage systems are made by the same subcontractor in Israel it seems.

Though I find packout easier to disconnect compared to toughsystem2 and the systainers are nice but a bit fragile.
Maybe I’m not articulating myself correctly because I certainly do not want to imply or say that there is no joy in my life. I guess the “joy” in my life is just intrinsic rather than extrinsic? I get immense satisfaction out of my work itself and “succeeding” in and of itself is motivating. I also find mentoring/helping others succeed to also be extremely rewarding. The greatest joy I get in life is seeing how my actions have improved the lives of others in some way.

I also feel very fulfilled from my personal relationships, family and lifestyle that my “success” affords me.
It certainly implies developers recovering for several days between sprints.
This is a nice example of the Peter Principle. This person climbed the career ladder until they were no longer good at what they were doing.
The point is that we really shouldn't be telling people to throw these away. We have no solution for handling them, no way to recycle them.

Pretty much everything is "disposable" if you're being pedantic. I can throw away a couch or a mug as well, but there's a reason those aren't marketed as "disposable"
I've found Earthly[0] to be a good alternative. Its syntax is reminiscent of both Make and Dockerfiles.

I still heavily use Makefiles at my workplace. It seems to be common with Go projects.

[0]: https://earthly.dev/
Ask HN: How do you justify your existence?
Do you rely on the "proof of money+taxes" provided by society? or do you have a different perspective? are you vegetarian or something? only free software? I am curious to know what moral framework people are operating under.
What happens if you touch exposed grounded metal on your Thinkpad (housing of a USB port, maybe)?
Credit scores make more sense once you understand that they measure your potential profitability to a creditor, not your creditworthiness.

That is why , for example, when you cancel a credit card your credit score goes down.
I have been wondering recently whether this is a bad thing. Because having the right ideas in memory is often required for making creative leaps. Relying too much on google can actually inhibit creativity.
I'm puzzled too. If the price of oil has gone up, as everyone and their grandmother knows, and Aramco's cost of extraction is constant, why would the profits not go up? Is Aramco supposed to sell below market price for some altruistic reasons?
I had this problem too. My younger developers pushed really hard to bring Agile in. One of the supposed benefits was that all developers were treated equally (today we might say they were fungible)

We have it a really good shot; we even hired a Certified Scrum Master. But after a while it seemed to me that we were just doing lots of tiny waterfalls. It was nothing for a developer to spend a whole sprint spinning their wheels and not making progress.

Long story short, 2 years later I took over the team, threw it all out, and set up a system based around Kanban and hands-on management. And suddenly we became productive again.

(Not saying Kanban is a solution, just that Agile is not)
Software engineers are usually not tracked hourly. There are common exceptions such work done for government programs, or contracting. Even in these scenarios, hours are not usually tracked by any authoritative system. In the end, the only feedback you get is based on softer metrics like availability during business hours, or on time completion of work.

In my experience, lots of engineers will show up far after 9 AM and leave well before they have reached a full day of work. Its a very privileged system that exists because it is so hard to hire engineers. At least for now.
A sprint means to go as fast as you possibly can, and is associated with exertion to the point of exhaustion. There's a reason managers love the word sprint.
a lot of work with great UX as well
> The quality of a mass-produced product like a consumer hand tool isn't a function of the country in which it is made but rather of its design.

The point isn't about quality, the point is about having manufacturing capacity to turn these places from making tools to making aircraft parts in a pinch when shit hits the fan.

Having domestic manufacturing capacity of the shittiest tools is far better than only having designers that'd twiddle their thumbs in war time, not knowing how to setup high volume manufacturing capability quickly.

Most people here do not understand how difficult it is to make literally anything in high volume. Take the simplest thing like a puck of aluminum. Now, try establishing a manufacturing chain that can make 8 million of these per week. You'd be on your knees trying to make 1k a week, let alone 8 million. We're note even talking about having SPC or other systems that monitor quality. HVM is the most underappreciated aspect of engineering by far and it is trivialized by clueless media. Even the most educated people appreciate design over manufacturing.
That's not how maths work. Please keep the memes at the door, doesn't help the quality of the conversation
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I wonder if then the politicians would make it illegal to fake one's GPS location or just have the ability to fake it
> Although standard English is usually associated with official communications and settings, it is diverse in registers (stylistic levels), such as those for journalism (print, television, internet) and for academic publishing (monographs, academic papers, internet). This diversity in registers also exists between the spoken and the written forms of SE, which are characterised by degrees of formality; therefore, Standard English is distinct from formal English, because it features stylistic variations, ranging from casual to formal

If there is such a thing as Standard English, then it would allow phrases like “amn’t”, according to this definition anyway, as a casual style or register.

Evidently, it is usable to all speakers - you can come up with it yourself for the first time ever, and still be perfectly understood by every other speaker who hears it for the first time.
Really? You wouldn't prefer that it was all free any everyone got access to it?

I think it would be great to offer all these programs, for free, paid for by taxes.
This is perfectly normal professional behavior that nearly everyone engages in when it comes to their career.

You shouldn't let it negate the emotions you felt when he played for your team.
IRC is horrible compared to Discord at least you have a history to of chat vs nothing.
They didn't necessarily think about lifetimes back then.

LEGO bricks used to be made to withstand nuclear holocaust because, well, the Engineers though they should be 'durable'.

It was hard to convince them to scale back a bit.

They are still 'durable' as anyone walking with bare feet near children can attest, but just not quite as invulnerable as before.

They saved a lot without compromise.

Fridges may not need to last 30 years, it costs a lot to do so, so let consumers decide.

What should happen is something about 'lifetime and warranty'.

Some people might want 'long lasting things' in which case we should be able to clearly differentiate.
There aren't even good options anymore. An appliance repair guy I know says even venerable Bosch dishwashers are a shadow of their past reputation.

Expensive appliances share most guts with cheaper models...spending more doesn't mean higher quality anymore
This site has info about QR capacity: https://www.qrcode.com/en/about/version.html

Edit: this is probably the best answer though… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32461230 or the microfiche suggestion… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32462466
> I mean even at Google (on a different team) I was a "technical lead" in my 20s, and let me tell you, I had noooo business leading anything technical of any importance. But this is very common!

So these big tech companies have a caste system. And no I don't mean the Indian caste system, which obviously has its own controversies. The caste system is really a form of social proof.

Did you go to MIT, Stanford, UW, Waterloo or CMU? Ok, you're in the club. You can join TI (Technical Infrastructure). Out of college you'll be L5 in 2-3 years (the same level an external hire with 10 years of experience will have). You will find yourself on the better projects with more promotion prospects.

This kind of premature promotion is to find the 1 in 20 of these people who are truly talented enough to continue getting promoted to L6-8+.
I have the internet at my fingertips. I know a thermostatically controlled toaster is feasible to make into a cheap product because it existed in the 1960s and we now have transistors. Every single toaster is exactly the same with cosmetic differences. They're priced from $10 to $500 with no distinguishing features in the first $200.

The market is not working, we just have the tools to realize how badly it's broken.
It's not broken, it's doing exactly what it was created (quite recently btw) to do.
Yessir, it's a subsidiary of Techtronic Industries, headquartered in Hong Kong.
Not in California. Fracking is effectively banned.

https://apnews.com/article/climate-business-environment-and-...
I can see this happening. My lounge doesn't look the same since my favourite (big) speakers got evicted in favour of a minimalist / soundbar thing that I hate.

I just got very used to seeing (and hearing) those big black boxes and they have been in every house we lived in for over 30 years.

If you're used to seeing (and hearing) something then having affection for those objects is quite common I would have thought.
It looks like this project has been abandoned for over a year. There's quite a few rough edges that stand out pretty distinctly: some buttons have a pressed state, others don't. Some controls have transitions or animations, while others which I'd expect to have transitions do not. Spacing and margins seem off (even the tiles on the Examples page). Some of the styles on the Layout documentation are broken due to specificity issues. Sizing is mixed: select boxes are very small compared to text inputs, while the switch control is absolutely massive. Most of the text is very large, but the mobile tabs' text is almost unreadably small. But this is a small personal project, it seems, and nobody is expecting high-end results.

But here's the thing: the project is sponsored. Moreover, the website of the company that sponsors the project is down. Which, for a mostly-abandoned project, isn't surprising. But if you look up Fractal Technologies online, the two employees other than the CEO have been working there for under two years. Moreover, Fractal has been a sponsor since March 2021 [0]: there have been only a handful of commits since the sponsorship began. It's curious that an "IT Services and IT Consulting" company specializing in blockchain, AI, and IoT which doesn't seem to have a website would sponsor a project which is mostly unmaintained. The more I read about the business and the employees, the more questions I have.

[0] https://github.com/codedgar/Puppertino/commit/e8426d11646c4b...
He frames it in a way that kinda sounds age-ist-y, but I think it's less about age and more about experience (he was using age as a proxy for experience, which isn't always true, but is close enough, often enough).

I had my first "senior software engineer" title when I was 28, and that was after I'd only been writing code professionally for a few years (in my early 20s I had a campus coding job at my university, and then I was doing a lot of open source work through my mid 20s, but not sure I'd call any of that "professional"). At my most recent job, I saw most developers making it to the senior in their late 20s, and many even making it to "staff" (one level above senior at our shop) by 30, or soon after. That's ridiculous. In my mind, most people should be hard pressed to develop the experience to really be "senior" in something before they're in their mid to late 30s.

Now, I certainly don't mind (from the standpoint of prestige and salary) that I somehow ended up with the title of "principal software engineer" (one level above "staff") when I was 33, but... c'mon. When you've nearly tapped out your career ladder by the time you're 35 (unless you move to management), it feels like there's something not right there.
Artificial intelligence discovers alternative physics variables for pendulums
These are what I can recall on the top of my head.

Starter $800 (on warranty).
AC $400.
Transmission service $1500 at 70k.
Coolant flush $400.
2 set of brake pads @ $400 a piece.
Timing belt $200.
Battery $100.
Oil changes at $30 every 3k miles. Lets call it $1k total.
Cabin Air filter change every 15k miles $20
Bottom heat shield $100
Shocks @100k miles $250

Sundries sure, but spread out over time.
Hugged to death, go here.

https://archive.ph/hOrqv
Looks nice.

All these choices you have to make had me wonder: we've made formatting entirely part of a language but it seems a lot of it could be moved into the editor. Does it really matter if:

if(foo==bar){{/*do something*/}}

if foo==bar (/*do something*/)

<if foo==bar>/*do something*/</if>

foo&bar && /*do something*/

{if:foo==bar, do:/*do something*/, oncomplete:a(), break:b()}

It could just be whatever the user chose in their editor (with an option to publish their custom solution) The code in the actual file can be any of the existing languages which would put some limitations on the formatting choices but if that gets annoying it could be addressed at many levels.

Does this sound fun or should we pretend no one ever mentioned it?
She's a millionaire. She bought it for $20k, it's now worth $2.5m. She's made $2.48m for doing nothing.

For someone else to live in that house they would have to make a fortune to pay it in rent. She could choose to move somewhere cheaper and have a massive income from either selling it or renting it out, but she doesn't, she's become rich because other people are making the area valuable.
- Coding Blocks is probably the podcast that was most influential in my career https://www.codingblocks.net/

- Coder radio for fun and rants https://coder.show/

- Grumpy old geeks for fun and more rants https://www.gog.show/

- The Program was launched here on HN and it's some of the best sci-fi you can listen to https://programaudioseries.com/
It would be pretty cool if we made decisions that led both to better pay for most Americans and for higher quality projects. We've destroyed the labor movement so most workers have no bargaining power. Real wages have barely risen since 1980, despite huge gains in productivity. Then in order to make products cheap enough for impoverished workers to afford, we cut every corner we can.
Also woth checking out the submissions on the subreddit, https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/

Some of them really are outstandingly good. Beyond what I expected, and I have had access to Dalle2.
This is HN’s fault this time: it’s forcing HTTPS which the site doesn’t support.

Try this, and it’ll work: http://reactos.aaron.cc/
This result is almost certainly bullshit, but there is nothing wrong in principle with a non constructive proof.

Sometimes it is much easier to prove a counterexample exists than to demonstrate that a specific number is a counterexample.

Here's the canonical example of this:

We want to show that there exists irrational numbers a, b s.t. a^b is rational (with b != 0).

If sqrt(2) ^ sqrt(2) is rational then we are done. Otherwise, (sqrt(2) ^ sqrt(2)) ^ sqrt(2) = 2 so that is a counterexample.

In this case, it is possible to prove that sqrt(2) ^ sqrt(2) is irrational, but this requires much more work.
People really use weird labels nowadays. Kanban is agile!
If the quality of things goes down. And your wealth remains consistently such that you can just afford to pay your bills (that is, keep yourself supplied with all the necessary things). Then poverty is happening. And it is being masked.

Food and shitty food are both called food but they are not the same thing. Their sameness is a trick of language.