skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One reason to put tolls on roads is to make the people who use the infrastructure also the people who pay for it's maintenance and improvements. Public goods are provided by public money, and in some cases it might be fairer to get some/most/all of that public money from the portion of the public that are using the thing.

Also as a disincentive to use something. Like we want people to drive less in the urban core to reduce congestion and also the air pollution that's killing thousands of people every year. So we're going to put a charge on using those roads.
The going rate for WFH employees is less than the going rate for in-office employees. Therefore, a price cut is in order, just like any other product or service that becomes less valuable.
Darklang Release 4
Everything will be gamed when there are stakes.

Whatever is closest to the real skills you need will makes it harder to improve at the measure without also improving at the real job skills. At least that would be the dream.
Such a great point.

What are you some stable environments in our industry? Are they going to be stable in 5-10-15 years?

I wish I picked Emacs up a while back. It seems to be stable.

Compilers are stable, I think.

A tenured computer science professor?

Thinking about this highlights the fact how backwards our industry is. It's either a handful of ultra specialist roles or continuing to jump from tech stack to tech stack to stay employable. My cgi-bin experience is worth nothing currently.

The pragmatic thing then, is to be a generalist.
The Comeback of 'King's Quest' Creators Roberta and Ken Williams
You do have ARM in Chromebooks. Any wholesale switch for Windows seems problematic given software support. But beyond gaming, a decent chunk of development, and multimdeia, a lot of people mostly live in a browser these days.
Most of the noise in cities does come from cars. You're right that cities will never be <35 dBA, but most rural areas are not usually that quiet either. For example, even slight wind will cause ambient noise in wilderness to 40-60 dBA. Cities without cars can easily average <55 dBA. See this video [1] or this research [2] for sources.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8
[2] https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/dfu/Backgroun...
They deliver the baby halfway through the cervix and then crush its head.
> Most people use a work machine and a mobile device, so cloud syncing is absolutely necessary.

I keep a password database on the company network with all my work passwords and I have no need to keep a copy of those credentials on a bunch of my personal devices or cloud servers.

My personal passwords are stored on my own personal devices. Syncing between them can be done using any number of methods without uploading to the cloud, but even if I wanted to use somebody else's servers to do that a properly encrypted file with a very strong password could be safely stored anywhere, so there's no need to limit myself to one company's servers. I can use whatever works best for my needs and won't have to worry about what I'd do if the one I was using goes under or becomes unavailable. In exchange for a little extra work you gain a ton of utility and resiliency
How is webcam and microphone support? Web conferencing always killed me running Linux even on well supported hardware

How is battery life?

What distro are you running?

Are you doing all ARM binaries or is there some translation layer that works?

Sorry to bombard you, but I’m really curious about the support
Not OP. Just saying:

[X] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter
AMD is not behind at all. Have you seen the latest benchmarks?

https://www.phoronix.com/review/apple-m2-linux/15
The Confusing Job Market: CEOs and CHROs Seem Baffled
Winning an straightforward case in the American justice system can be quite expensive, especially when the plantiff goes judge shopping (which they all do, it's part of what makes a patent troll a patent troll).
No, if HN had 'subreddits', it would be an entirely different thing than it is right now. And there's nothing about the technology or design or management or clientele of the site that would assist it in being a general-purpose forum hosting site like Reddit is.

Might as well ask "should Apple stop selling electronics and become a company that drills for and refines oil?" Because there's about as much relevance between the two.
This makes a ton of sense for B2C contexts, but my gut reaction is that the conversational approach might be too high friction in B2B contexts. To be clear, the friction I'm thinking of is this constant cadence of stealing/borrowing attention.

Perhaps this needs to be thought of as part of a larger communications strategy - who here is part of a SaaS that sends regular 'marketing' emails to existing customers? :)

Maybe the defaults (boiled down, the provided examples appear to be "opt-in" if you're not in, and "opt-out" if you are in) are designed to streamline the process so conversations are ignorable so that's okay?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something! I definitely want to hear stories of this model working in the B2B space.
Microarchitecture.
I just got the email telling me I need to pay them now. Lol, I won’t.

Pretty awesome already finding an alternative. I’ll give it a check and probably move over in the weekend.
I love the idea of this, but I tried to spin up my own instance and was immediately overwhelmed by the million little knobs and settings for it.

It seems like a lot of fun if you understand all the tuning, but I feel like the current state alienates most users who want to use it in simple scenarios.
Ah, you're right - I'd vaguely remembered seeing this before and pasted the wikipedia section without reading it thoroughly. My mistake!
David Evans' CS101 was about building a search engine with python, however I think it's no longer hosted on Udacity.

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/courses/

I highly recommend digging deeper and trying to find the course materials - I'm pretty sure they should be available somewhere on the Internet. Perhaps the author could point you in the right direction.
Yep! I use containers for that, quite handy.
> People can get help of course but that's going to be the case absent effectively a remote proctored assignment. And now you're back to effectively in-person.

I would vastly prefer an "in-person" interview in which I wasn't expected to speak to the interviewer to the in-person interviews we actually have. There is a world of difference.
I've had this happen too many times to count. Just delete all payment methods on file in your account settings. Youll get warnings out the wazoo that your benefits are expiring cause they dont have a way to charge you, so if you really want to renew later you can.
> So, I don't see what the big push is to get people back in the office.

It's interesting to me that so many people post their amazement at why employers (more specifically, middle and upper management) would want employees back to office, without actually thinking about why. So let's try that. Here are some possibilities:

1) They are sadists who just like to make life worse for their employees. But this makes little sense because it means that the middle managers, upper management, etc.'s lives are also miserable because they will also need to come into office.

2) They are control freaks who just want to control their employees. Even assuming this is broadly true across the majority of companies, it's fairly evident that online tools provide far more control than anything in person. But let's keep this as a possibility.

3) They want to save costs. Doesn't pan out. Getting rid of expensive office space, and offloading the rental, electricity, internet, etc. costs onto the employees seems much cheaper.

4) They are resistant to change. Also doesn't make sense. All these companies made massive changes within the span of a few weeks to ensure everyone can work remotely. If anything, bringing people into the office is the change.

5) They wrongly believe that employees would be more efficient in the office. This is a possibility.

6) They correctly believe that employees would be more efficient in the office. Also a possibility. Also, the fact that tech firms like Google and Facebook, which have some of the most sophisticated employee tracking/measuring systems were among the first to push for RTO there may be some data behind this, although the accuracy of the data depends on how it's being measured.

7) They just want to hang out with the only friends they have. People at work. Does not track either. Why not use the cost savings of RTO to have weekly or biweekly meetups if this is what they want.

8) They think that employees will be easier to retain if they bring them to the office. Doesn't make sense since so many have resisted coming to office.

9) They are worried that with remote work the more expensive US employees will be easier to replace and they don't want to fire their friends/colleagues. This can be a possibility but seems too "emotional".

Of these options that I could think of right now the following seem possible.

1) They are control freaks who need people to be around to be physically.
2) They wrongly believe employees are more effective in the office.
3) They rightly believe employees are more effective in the office.
4) They are sentimental and don't want to make it easier to fire their friends/colleagues.

Any other ideas? Why are companies insisting on RTO if it's such a slam dunk?
The numbers you cited also have a citation that leads to a 404 and are only for 1 year, in one specific state. Hard to draw any reasonable conclusion from that.
If only there were this magical piece of paper that everyone presented when they applied listing all their relevant skills and experience so that the company can determine if it's worth giving them 2 hours of their time.

All kidding aside, the efficient thing about resumes is that you write them once and use them everywhere. Coding samples are inefficient because you have to take 4h to write one for each company.

Edit: the other problem with takehomes is that it self-selects the people who have scarce-enough opportunities that they find it worth their time to do them.
What Makes Something Valuable?
I think part of the point here, is that the value from that investment should go to the investors, who are (if you buy the 'by the people, for the people' hype) the taxpayers.

Say I'm vulture capitalist Tom, and I pay a few gajillion dollars to developer Gupta to create a product for me. I would be understandably pissed if Gupta turned around and sold that same product to competitor vc Janet. She didn't pay for that dev work, I did.
My dude, I spent many thousands of dollars on Heroku over many years. I've reported bugs to customer support and nothing changed or improved, for years. I appreciate you're reaching out, but that bridge is burnt. The trust is gone. I ran into a bit of trouble getting set up with Render and one of their PMs reached out directly to learn more. Heroku replied to virtually all of my customer support issues with messages gaslighting me that the problems were my fault or "Try debugging your application with New Relic".
They offer that too.

They have a Pay-As-You-Go ($2.25/lb + $12.95*/order, $30 minimum) and the subscription offering ("Rinse Repeat"). They make it impossible to price compare these offerings, as the subscription offering is charged per "bag" not by pound weight, but they do give you a guesstimate figure: $1.39/lb based on their most expensive subscription tier (very YMMV, as the "bags" hold different weight based on the clothing materials).

* The website misleadingly lists the Service Fee as $7.95, and then throws in the "Health & Safety Fee" into a list of other optional fees while making it non-optional in the small print. Essentially making the Service Fee $12.95 with deceptive dark patterns for good measure.
The majority of the world raises their children in densely populated and compact cities. It’s not about partying, it’s about social exposure.

I grew up in a dense city outside the US, and even as a not-particularly-social child, I still had plenty of friends I played with and hung out with, and also had tons of interaction with adults. Meanwhile I’ve seen my cousins grow up in suburbs over the past 10 years, and they interact with maybe 3 non-family members outside of school, because everything is like a 15 minute walk away through winding suburb streets. That kind of isolation is not healthy at all.
> "Anime Taizen" Opens to The Public Today, Basic information on about 15,000 registered anime works is covered.

In comparison, according to [1] MyAnimeList has 17′868 entries.

Wikipedia states that "As of 2008, the site claimed to have 4.4 million anime and 775,000 manga entries" - this has to be an error.

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-many-animes-are-in-the-world
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyAnimeList
Nice to hear from you! We spend multiple tens of thousands of dollars every year and are on Heroku Enterprise, and have been on the platform for 10 years.

We could cut our price by about 50% moving to a competitor. We suspect AWS RDS will work very similarly to Heroku Postgres, and I have been unable to get much clarity from the teams at Heroku on precisely what Heroku Postgres is doing for me that AWS RDS would not do. Is it possible to find out precisely what Heroku Postgres is getting me that AWS RDS will not?

There's always a cost with transitioning, so if there would be some kind of price reduction possible for Heroku, that would eliminate me looking at competitors. I suspect this is out of the question, and you wouldn't want to comment publicly, but I sure would like a reply somehow indicating there may be some plans for this.

Some of the reasons I'm concerned:
* the GitHub security issue that lingered for over a month
* the DNS issue that hit the other day that resulted in our apps being only spottily available for multiple hours

Missing features, such as:
* the lack of wildcard in Heroku Automated Certificate Management
* having to share a load balancer with free dynos that might be doing suspicious things and therefore getting our apps blocked at certain customers, even when we're using Heroku Enterprise (this is one reason why I'm okay with free dynos going away, since we've been bit multiple times by this issue over the last decade)

Looking forward to a response - thanks!
> one should also keep in mind that people (especially engineers) are extremely biased and tend to drastically overestimate the cost of mistakes

I've found the opposite to be true, especially with engineers moving from pure software to founding companies in regulated industries such as aerospace or medical devices.
I only saw a Nissan Quasquai in Paris when I was there. That was the biggest passenger car that I've seen.
> I feel like one success story doesn't necessarily make it good advice for everyone else.

Heh, reminds me of this tweet: https://nitter.net/apenwarr/status/1440656518701932554 / https://twitter.com/apenwarr/status/1440656518701932554
The tags would need to be handled carefully though. Let any user create them on a whim, and you have a complete mess of nearly-duplicate meaningless tags.

Only have a rigid set of tags, and you'll find some things just aren't covered well by the existing tags.

It takes a continuing system of moderation to gradually revise the tagging system over time to get anything good out of it.
I have a friend who does this. Right in the middle of the crowd with her pad. It's a little bit, "hey look everybody I'm drawing!"

I used to draw a lot in school. All classes. I was not on the same planet. The hum of the crowd gave me energy.
> The code comes with no warranty. If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.

That reads much better than legalese.
If you haven't heard of Brave Goggles (https://github.com/brave/goggles-quickstart) I highly recommend checking it out. Just being able to create the search index is a massive task, so being able to apply rules server-side to their "expanded recall set" will give you what most people building search engines want, which is to control the algorithm. We weren't able to do that until now since applying rules client-side doesn't work well on a small search result set.

Related: I created a tool to create Goggles using subreddits as a signal source for domains: https://github.com/forcesunseen/narwhalizer
It's a complex situation no doubt. There is massive shenanigans in the billing aspect of this (thus the attraction of profit hungry assholes).

Society has cared for it's elderly basically forever, and _now_ we're saying it's too expensive? As the article mentioned, the incentive for the religious group running these places was theological and human centric. Those religious groups are/have collapsed so there is this giant vacuum attracting all the wrong people. I honestly can't believe there isn't enough money in the 'system' to provide decent care for the vast majority of elderly. The numbers cited today (likely correct) aren't sustainable b/c it's basically free money to harvest (at the cost of human comfort). Regulate the industry and prosecute the bad actors. If member's of congress had family in these facilities, it would like be solved. They likely don't for the same reasons they don't have the same healthcare benefits as most Americans. Disconnected from reality.

(I say this as someone well aware of the costs of nursing homes, and specialized care.)
Comparing it to other recent releases from similar-profile artists like Tiesto and Charli XCX, this viewcount seems perfectly normal. What's suggesting that the view count is wrong?
Eventually non-Apple laptops will be sold with silicon from this process node. You just won’t be the first to use it, which is fine.

Also, Asahi is getting closer to “generally usable” at an astounding pace, so who knows.
When was this? The NSF has had a 12-month open access policy in place for almost a decade now: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16009/nsf16009.jsp#q1
I asked a similar question a few weeks ago [0].

The Pentagon Wars [1] is an interesting book about how military systems are developed. They also made a movie.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32056507

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars
As many have already pointed out, I was one of those that started my developer carrer by using Rails + Heroku from tutorials and bootcamp.

To this day, I still haven't found a solution that works as easily as that Rails + Heroku duo did in that time. I still remember when I got my first real paying customer and in about 4 days had a "first version" of their webapp up and heard all the praise they gave.

And it was literally just a initial Rails app with login with Devise, a couple of resources of CRUD and a domain linked to Heroku.

I still have some apps there from my portfolio in the free tier. Probably time to move them somewhere else, but I, as many, was very, very sad to hear that news.

Heroku is past is heyday but I'll never forget my excitement when I got my first real customer app deployed, with database and everything, within hours, with no more than a few weeks of starting to learn programming under my belt.

It's not like they are shutting down right now, but it sure feels like that.

Thank you for the free tier for all these years, Heroku!
What someone (valuing party) says it's worth; the valuing party's needs & favored perspectives; the perception of value of similar items in the past; the projected probabilistic value moving forward...

There must be millions of whats & whys
Ah I see what you mean - "king of belgium" is a real person, so they put in some safe guards in DALL-E to prevent recognizable images for such queries. Makes sense.
How is this triggered? showModal() on an element? Or is it using this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/req...

Oh it's a feature of the <dialog> element I guess
Pica is the eating or craving of things that are not food. It can be a disorder in itself or a sign of other cultural or medical phenomena. The ingested or craved substance may be biological, natural or manmade. The term was drawn directly from the medieval Latin word for magpie, a bird subject to much folklore regarding its opportunistic feeding behaviors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder)
The ruling was that the AI generated imagery can not be copyrighted by the AI. Anyone using a creative tool to create an image can personally have the copyright.
Thats the best geometry unless you wear kilts and skirts
Worked to get into space with SpaceX. ULA is trying the old approach. We can look at the difference live.
For a trademark like this, one way that Slack can "enforce" their trademark is for slackmoji to acknowledge Slack's trademark in slackmoji's webpages.
And you don't think that wording can easily be taken as "we focus too much on technical skills" while simultaneously saying "pair programming doesn't guarantee technical expertise"? Many people would think code quality is part technical prowess, at least.

If anything it at least showcases the importance of clear communication and how easily things can get lost in the details.
I agree with this. I have left forums because the number of subforums made it too tiring to find what you wanted. One forum I read daily is likely to drop off my list since they seem to be going in the same direction.

HN's flat format is a feature: I can glance at the front page and decide what looks interesting and ignore the rest.
I couldn't agree more.

While it's not compilable, I did reach out to a few of the 5-star test designers and asked them this question. How teams use their tests (both in weight and stage) varies a lot, but the well-designed tests usually featured as a central component of the hiring process. They were often given at the stage right before the final round of interviews, but occasionally earlier. The 5-star test designers I spoke with weighted the test heavily because it:
1. helped them reduce bias, identifying great candidates even when they didn't have the backgrounds they expected
2. gave them a foundation for the future interviews. It's less stressful on candidates when they're already familiar with the code being discussed live (because they wrote it!)

Anecdotally, on-the-job performance of the candidates they ultimately hired seemed to correlate with performance on the test. I realize this is very hard to compare against other evaluation approaches though!
A pricing increase for at least some paying customers, really. I use Heroku (and pay for it), but I use free tiers for testing pre-production, and that's an extra fee even for someone willing to pay.
It's one of the best songs I've heard this year and the music video is good too.
NIH-funded research goes up on PubMed Central within 12 months of publication:

https://www.nih.gov/health-information/nih-clinical-research...
Stripe Valuation Marked Down 64% by T. Rowe Price Global Tech Fund
Kuymak – Cross-platform shellcode runner
A tasty cross-platform tool from Blacksea to debug shellcode!
Find out their preferred online communities & ask there. Those communities have already been (de facto) filtered for favored perspectives & styles, so by definition the tool / advice selection will be better for them.
I wonder if you could crowdsource this sort of project together with consumer equipment.

You buy a telescope that meets certain requirements. You connect to the system. Whenever you aren't using it, the system is directing it as to where to look, and the imagery is transferred to the centralized service, where it's stitched together and processed.

I'll bet you could find enough universities, organizations, and enthusiastic amateurs to join such a system.
I personally pay 10$ a month for GSuite basically to handle the mail of my personal domain name. Is it worth it? I'm not sure yet but I had way to much issues with email not delivered in the past (blacklisted IP ranges, reputation, etc.) when I had my own mail server.

I prefer paying 10$ a month and forget about mail server issues and wondering if my mail is going to the spam folder..