skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've spent decades exploring online communities (haven't we all?). From forums to 4chan, from Digg to reddit to hacker news. I would say that hacker news has one of the highest quality, most engaged and passionate user bases around... a rare feat. To replicate a place like this for other interests would be a dream.

I think the recipe for a good, interests based community is limited moderation, small scale, and a non-profit orientation. Because even once great communities on reddit have been poisoned by their massive growth and ad driven leadership combined with heavy handed, political moderation.

Oddly enough, I have found /lit/ on 4chan to be one of the best communities for discussing books and writing. They are more grounded and passionate than most of the other Chans and while you'll still find the occasional edgy post or nonsense, the censorship free and open community has some brilliant minds engaging there.

Discord has potential, but the constant flow of information and the reliance on typically heavy handed moderation make it just a faster version of popular writing subreddits.

I wish someone could make a cheap and easy shell to quickly make "hacker news" like clones that people could run for given interests, to create communities like this one geared towards other interests.
Doctors have professional bodies that they can be removed from, same with lawyers, and accountants, and any number of professional associations. But the big differentiator is that largely these professionals do their work solo. They may need to consult with peers from time to time, but their day-to-day bread and butter is their own. Software development is not solo for the vast majority of devs. They need order and the ability to be directed to create a piece of the larger pie.

This is from a 20 year dev who's spent a few of those in management, but enjoys development more.
There's tons of material out there, you can buy a book from Amazon[0] or watch a bunch of YouTube tutorials[1]. It's best to learn by doing though so you could always volunteer[2] or take a local course.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=house+framing&crid=ZT0KPA5JG1EY&s...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=house+framing
[2] https://www.habitat.org/volunteer/near-you
And ultimately into Marcuse, with the Great Refusal.
As someone who's spent 25 years straddling the IC/EM line in companies of all sizes, I can tell you unequivocally that management—especially engineering management—is not easier.

I think it's fair so say that gross incompetence is easier to recognize in a programmer than a manager, especially to the untrained eye. It's also true that a well-functioning team may be easy to run and the manager shouldn't have to do much except not fuck it up.

But at any kind of scale, all problems are people problems, and there are never ending systematic dysfunctions and organizational problems. Everyone can be making a valid claim to doing their job, yet the output is nowhere near what it could be. These types of problems can be difficult to diagnose and extremely difficult to unsolvable at the high end. One must be technical enough to understand the details, able to zoom out and understand how costs of various paths interact with UX, operations, security and other concerns, and then say the right things in the right venues to nudge people in the right direction while also maintaining the morale and agency of all the ICs who do the actual work.

It is brutally difficult, and the reason most EMs are bad is not out of malice or sociopathic tendencies (though I will say the emotional toll is high for non-sociopaths which is probably one reason they are disproportionately represented in management and executive leadership).
Microsoft just wants a check from you.

We are all forced to pay for this ancient software every time we buy a device that uses it.

Wouldn't this money be better used elsewhere?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Patent...
Analysing the Reply Networks of 32 Programming Language Subreddits
This year marks JavaScript's tenth consecutive year as the most widely used programming language, according to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey for 2022. Furthermore, the JavaScript tooling landscape has dramatically improved in recent years. As a result, Node.js and React.js are the two most popular web technologies among professionals and beginners.
The Day You Stopped Breaking Your Data
In AWS you can view your specific emissions under billing > cost & usage reports.
Would it not be possible to create a filesystem with modern capabilities but with backwards compatibility with FAT? Why can't we just have "legacy" commands built into the ReFS filesystem that process any FAT filesystem access?

I'm very ignorant to this but I'd love some insight from someone vastly more knowledgeable than me.
Global trade has exploded since we adopted the shipping container and it's been just the latest thing in a long list of conventions.

I highly doubt that even per capita medieval folks were trading more than today.
In the scrum guide, the scrum master is considered to have a management role. Although it's a management role, I don't believe it's a people management role. That's what the Engineering Manager does and ideally they wouldn't be attending the scrum.
To be fair, Californians were asked not to charge between 4pm and 9pm. There’s plenty of capacity over night.

If we’d built car-to-grid infrastructure, EVs would be helping load shift, and they’re already not hurting in most cases, because we’re mostly not charging during peak consumption hours.
I've set up an automatic reply email to Facebook recruiters telling them in detail why I'm not interested in doing "the most meaningful work of my career" for them.

Although, come to think, I haven't heard from them in a while.
So why would Meta send someone to explain who doesnt have the capacity to answer those questions? At best they sent the wrong person on accident or they couldnt send the right people for some unknown reason. More likely, they send people with limited knowledge and tell them to only answer questions about areas they are 100% certain about.

If Meta actually wanted to answer they could have 25 people in this room with all the answers. But they dont want to actually answer this question.
> I have opened a support ticket with screenshots but there is no response, and according to Twitter they are essentially not reviewing tickets from free users at the moment.

Are you living somewhere covered by GDPR (=EU, UK, nordic states) or in California? If yes, complain at the data protection agency.
except in this case, the owner of the "house" (website) is fine with the visitors. Instead, another organization (the HOA?) wants to kick out the owner because they don't like the visitors that he's inviting.
Why? If most managers are useless that means most in the role aren't actually helping or doing anything yet the world seems to go on. Why have that role then? If you can have someone who is a negative in that role, then you can get rid of it.
Ask HN: What percentage of the time are you feeling down?
I heard a speaker on a podcast say he felt down 30% of the time, which I find is a liberating way to think about it: looking at feeling down as a general stat somehow makes it feel ok and natural to have some down moments.

Curious about the number though, 30% might be high, I would say 15-20% could be true for me.
Ask HN: What is the most interesting use of AI you've seen?
I’ve had to work with a lot more terrible engineers than terrible manages.

A lot of the time, what makes someone good or terrible in their role is maturity and professionalism.
I admire the audacity and the inventiveness of Lavo, but buying these seems nuts to me.

A 40 kWh LiFePO4 battery + grid tie inverter can be had for much less. Safe, well tested and already in high volume manufacturing. Shipped to your door tomorrow.
He(Putin) dismissed as "nonsense" the widespread allegations that Russia using using gas as an energy weapon, saying it's as simple as releasing the necessary parts for the safe and proper functioning of pipelines operated by Gazprom.

"Give us turbines and we’ll turn on Nord Stream tomorrow, but they won’t give us anything," Putin told the audience, further addressing the latest global headlines of an EU-mulled price cap on Russian oil and gas, calling the proposal "another stupidity." He suggested the dilemma remains simple:

"There are contractual obligations and if there are any political decisions that contradict them, then we simply won’t fulfill them. We won’t supply anything at all if it contradicts our economic interests, in this case. We won’t supply gas, oil, coal or heating oil."

The St. Petersburg-based company has said Canadian, EU and UK sanctions make delivery of a Siemens turbine to the Portovaya compressor station impossible.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had earlier said the Siemens 073 turbine, which has been cited as being at the heart of reduced Russian gas supplies via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, remains in Germany after maintenance.
Ask HN: How do you network with passionate and motivated people these days?
How do you network with people who are motivated, passionate, and actually doing something?

I love visiting coffee shops, but I like to connect with people who have the following attributes:

1. Motivated and building something
2. Isn't full of excuses or highly negative
3. Works on making progress daily
Quoting from the article:

“From a technical perspective, the price remains in line with our projections, and we would be looking to accumulate between here and $15,000,” DiPasquale said.

Here is what he was saying 6 moths ago:

"Bitcoin still on track to reach $100K by 2023"

https://bitcoingoldtrader.com/BlockchainNews/13325.html

As always, it's your money so use your own judgment.
Good point and there is an overall high correlation between addiction in general and ADHD.
The YC Summer 2022 Batch
Yes, as I recall it's the one linked from the litrpg reddit site.
Performance-wise there's nothing close. You fly twice as high because hydrogen burns so lean, and you only need roughly 1/5th the equivalent mass of kerosene in fuel to get you the same distance. There are obvious barriers in the way (cost, certification, handling), but the potential benefits have been known for a long time.
As far as code goes, it's true for many companies. As for data, it was similar in many large European companies in the pre-GDPR era. Today, one crucial question is always asked: when you work with data, is this personal data? If it is, you need to deal it with a special way. Personal data is both an asset and a liability.

Most companies found a way do do it. It was a long and often very painful process, involving everything from data entry to backup processes and procedures, but somehow we managed to do it.
ADHD has a very well-established connection to substance abuse and addiction so a link to gambling makes sense as well. ADHD can be difficult to diagnose but the substance abuse connection is frequently discussed in the community as it relates to compulsive behavior.
Do you, or do you not, feel that it is OK to doxx individuals in the manner that occurs on KiwiFarms? Why or why not?
I've never heard, or seen that before. Everything I've ever seen rejected by Apple (either personally from my own apps, clients, or from press reports) has always been a guideline issue.

So, "Subjective reasons" such as? Example?

Here is an example of a 3D game running on the Apple Watch, that was approved by Apple, on the App Store, which looks rather "Quake like".
Mindkeeper: The lurking fear (Apple Watch)[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mindkeeper-the-lurking-fear/id...]
I love how the media re-branded "doing your job" to "quiet quitting". What the heck is going on? When I first saw the term "quiet quitting", I assumed it meant literally that, Office Space style, but what it actually means is "doing the job I'm paid to do". How ridiculous.
What kind of fiction writing do you do? Scribophile and Absolute Write are more general communities. If you're into science fiction & fantasy, consider the Dream Foundry. Are you published somewhere & can you join a writer's association?
If we don’t spread the pain, people don't start voting for the right actions, and we will have highly concentrated pain instead. At first. Then just high levels of universal pain, anyway.
Tell HN: Runops YC W21 scraped my email from Git and keeps spamming me
Last month I got an unsolicited email from Runops founder @andriosr. After receiving a follow-up email, I asked him to stop. Unfortunately, the emails keep coming. This is unethical and annoying. I have no relationship with this company and they must have extracted my email from a repo on GitHub. I get that you're a scrappy startup trying to growth hack into some traction, but spam is just spam. It's not that big of a deal, but this is the kind of behavior I expect from a shady company. As a small tech startup hoping to serve technical customers, I expect you to be better. One spam I'll ignore, two, I'll ask you to stop. Continuing after that is worth calling you out within the community that we share.

On August 01, 2022 07:58, Andrios Robert <andrios@t****s.com> wrote:

Hi, saw you forked redis on Github and wanted to ask for a quick help.

I'm the founder of an open-source core tool for managing access to k8s, aws, databases, and others. I'm trying to learn from DevOps leaders on how different companies are solving this problem.

Who is the best person you know for me to talk about it?

Andrios.

I forked redis a long time ago, but I have nothing to do with dev ops, so I ignored this poorly targeted networking email. Another one came four days later:

On August 04, 2022 08:56, Andrios Robert <andrios@t****s.com> wrote:

Hello, adding a bit more context: my name is Andrios, and I’m the founder of a fresh dev tool company backed by Y Combinator and Global Founders Capital. We help DevOps teams from high growth startups (EBANX, Dock) and public companies (Enjoei, RD Station) controlling prod and PII (sensitive data) access.

It seems like you have these challenges, and I was hoping you’d be able to help us out by sharing your personal feedback and insights on security for k8s, aws, and other cloud tools. Even a quick 10-minute phone conversation while you’re on-the-go (walking your dog, or getting your morning coffee, whichever is easiest for you..), would be much appreciated. Please let me know if possible to arrange, I’ll adjust according to your availability.

After this email I replied, asking Andrios to stop.

Do not ever email me again.

They stopped for a couple weeks, but have since kept coming:

On August 22, 2022 08:47, Andrios Robert <andrios@t****s.com> wrote:

Thought to share this Reddit thread where multiple companies talk about how they manage ad-hoc access to production databases:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/n6zigp/do_you_access_the_rails_console_in_production/

On 9/7/22 22:26, Andrios Robert wrote:

Hi, last ping on this.

It would help us a loooot if you could provide some insights as to how you deal with ad-hoc production access today:

Feel free to reply just with a number:

This is an urgent problem but we don't have time to work on it now.
This is a low priority problem for us at the moment.
We built an in-house solution to solve this.
This isn't a problem.

Thanks a lot!
Cory Doctorow only put one chapter on Audible, the one about why Audible is bad
Musk Allowed to Amend Twitter Countersuit to Add Whistleblower Claims
What agenda do you think Costas Paris of the Wall Street Journal is pushing here?
I think you'r point is that people with 10 or fewer years of experience (which I think is many people in this thread based on the comments) might have a sample bias issue that stems from working around fewer total managers and fewer companies, where those companies also may be worse than average at selecting managers? I would agree that there are probably plenty of people who fit that mold given the state of our industry recently.

As for "draining resources" to do whatever reporting they need to do I don't think I understand what is fragile about it or why it would be anything other than necessary. It's like log aggregation/introspection, you do it because you want to see what's going on at a lower level without dealing with the minutia of every point of data.

To this end as engineers we design code that fills management roles all the time in our systems, and we understand perfectly why their role is needed but sometimes fail to realize that human systems are analogous. Nobody is arguing why a load balancer can be an important part of a system, or the values provided by ORMs, but here we are arguing about what managers do in a complex human system.
not true for go
I agree with this.

You also don't know the exact mix of sources generating the particular amount of power consumed by your data centers instantaneously. Since each generation source has it's own (complicated) emissions profile, the amount generated by different sources is necessary to compute your CO(2) impact.

A power grid can calculate it's CO2 impact of generation more easily because they only need to use emissions measurements or emissions models for the total generation plant. Most places serious about air quality opt for sensors, but CO2 isn't their most pressing measurement. Typically NO2, NO3, CO, and unburned hydrocarbons are more regulated.

If you want to make an impact to GHG, setting aside quantifying the impact, switch to a renewables-backed power supply and increase your efficiency.
Many here on HN are saying that such a record of what tech companies do with data is a) impossible because complex systems have evolved over time and the (historical) flows of data are unknown and b) unnecessary because the need to know what happens to data is not relevant to the user or the questioner. The old models of processing data at scale to extract value, as FAANG has been doing, are eventually going to come to an end. Maybe not where there is a power imbalance, such as between Facebook and their users, but at least where users of services have more clout and are paying for the product. I see this in B2B IoT solutions where big customers are very picky about how telemetry is collected by product vendors and, if not pushing back hard, are at least choosing not to use services that are not clear on how data is processed and handled.

The amount of data that we all see, every day, that is grossly mishandled may signal the end of the ML and AI goldrush. You can only build models, and run data through models, with the consent of the owner of that data. Large producers of data (think vehicle fleet operators) are beginning to take ownership of their data, and are only _licensing_ it to processors for very specific purposes. In the example of vehicle fleet operators, they may only want route planning, and not have their data used to sell them tyres based on mileage. Also, while governments may be busy with other stuff currently, at some point they may decide to turn on the regulatory screws.
No, pretty sure "million" means 10^6 everywhere.
> The thing is, poorly-structured, hard-to-read, unmaintained code is the enemy of speed.

Sorry for debating with you.
But any modern code editor has tools which solves the problem of "well-structured" code.
What about "easy-to-read", this is depends on language, and the programmer.

I've seen so damn much beautiful code, with 1 character long vars.
And such code extremely hard to understand. The code is compact and beautiful.
But for understanding the code - required a lot of time.

I think, and my own experience proof that.
If you not in rush for finishing things just in time while the things actual - you lose. Always. And there will be no second or third chance.

That's why need to write how you used to write.
Only experience & practice give you ability to write good code.

Focusing on re-writting some code parts while fixing a bug - big problem.
If this re-writting thing does not change anything instead of "better understanding and better ability to read" - this is bad time wasting.

If you not in rush in developing things and doing right actions in right time while the problem or request actual - you lose. Always. Without second chance.

That's why need compromise and write shitty code for winning competition in short run.
And then, when you will have audience for your product, you can always fix here, and change there. Nobody will complain about bugs or issues until it leak personal data.
I just deleted my account because of that, also they share conversations with everyone in the meeting by DEFAULT, it wasn't nice receiving a message from a co-worker telling me that he received an email with the transcription it generated.
Jane Street interns get paid very well. It's one of the few companies that probably actually compensate interns at the level of their output. These seem like cool projects. Good for the interns.
> It costs about $600 to remove a ton of carbon from the atmosphere the hard way

I think I found the source you used to get that number[0] (or [1]) it says:

> Atmospheric carbon removal can be as simple (and relatively inexpensive) as planting trees. But to remove sufficient carbon to meet the target, new technologies will be needed. Some are currently being piloted, including potentially expensive and/or environmentally-invasive technologies. Costs are estimated to range up to $600 per tonne of sequestered CO2, although no one really knows for sure.

So I don't think we should be using hypothetical future tech (with a big question mark to boot) to put a dollar value on pollution emitted transporting goods today, particularly when it focuses on carbon and doesn't account for the other emissions.

[0] - https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-10-06-carbon-removal-will-cos...

[1] - could actually have been this one, which starts by describing it as $600/ton and later clarifies that this is using experimental tech: https://www.science.org/content/article/cost-plunges-capturi...
even in the US, i'm sure there are places where land is still cheap. Thinking globally, there's even more of them. That's the beauty of it being opensource: you can build in any part of the earth
Those rates have never been sustainable in the long run, back when you got around 2-3 k from Shanghai to Rotterdam. That was the time when Hanjin went under, for example. Great for shippers, bad for carriers. Then we had Covid, Ukraine and all that and rates are still far from normal. It seems to get better so.
The problem with simple auth is that it gets complicated with TOTP/2FA which I believe is necessary nowadays.
I think you are right so see what is most popular with the language (python in my case) and stick to it, but there are lots of Identity providers our there and they have different pricing schemes.
I will definitely check out ory.sh I have not heard of them before.
There is more than one way to make a hash table in Racket.
This one is more reasonable:

(hash 'a 1 'b 2)
Does anyone else see gambling as worse than ever?

Maybe I'm young and didn't experience it, but in the 90s you would plan a trip to Vegas and lose a few hundred dollars.

Today I see people doing this from their phone on every random sports game. Further there are constant ads on TV, the Internet, and on billboards.

I'm fortunate for a teacher who says "gambling is a tax on people who can't do math". And having tried gambling, it was a labor intensive way to lose money.
Yes and it’s a good thing that most industries do not carry this governance burden.
That was our thesis when we acquired Handwrite.io and merged the functionality into PostPilot.com

We've had a decent sample size thus far of DTC brands using the handwriting. Mostly for "VIP-thank-yous" or founder/influencer-driven brands.

But results are encouraging. Across our 000s of stores we are seeing 1) increase in end customer spend and 2) increase in frequency of purchase (retention) for stores that use the handwriting.
Funny post. Never been to Estonia, but Latvia felt quite normal compared to what he described, made lots of friends there. Lithuania, too, actually.