skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to hear things aren't working out.

[random advice from the internet]

The simplest thing that might work is walking away.

Yes, someone might buy your software. But probably not. There's an entire Github full of free code.

Turn the table, would you buy software with no support?

Decades ago, I heard someone explain, other people's software is like used underpants. It's not entirely right. But not entirely wrong either.

Good luck.
I’m going to be contrary and cynical say that something funny is going on here.

Going from desktop to mobile development, for example, isn’t a monumental task necessarily but if you’re spinning up on an entirely new framework, language, and even way of thinking (old devices, low connectivity, etc) I’m extremely skeptical that you could learn it to any appreciable degree in a week of real time, let alone work time.

Sure, it’s possible there are factors making this transition easier, and yes some of those mobile concerns apply to desktop as well, but to me this reeks of a few possible situations, none of which are good:

1) Bob is doing things without really understanding what he’s doing, perhaps literally following a guide to the letter without a shred of critical thought about what he’s doing.

2) Bob is working far beyond what he’s billing

3) You’ve over-hired by a fair amount and your technology is so simple that people can solve your business needs even in disparate contexts extremely easily. If your Android app is just a web view connecting to your site, for example, sure i can see that being simple enough to fix in a week.
With Charles being considerably less popular than Elizabeth, maybe the British will finally remove some royal privileges like https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/08/queen-...
My policy preference today is to invest heavily in things like hydro power and nuclear power as a base load solution, while also increasing investment in energy storage technologies to allow renewable-based energy to have 90%+ reliability. I know nuclear energy is expensive now, but Wright's law has done a lot for every other energy technology, and it will do the same for nuclear power.

And yes, I think that you should be burning oil or coal until you can get over 99% grid reliability with clean sources. Politicians should recognize that restricting energy supplies during times when there is high demand has a human cost, and that people will die without that energy.

A lot of people talk about "cheap renewables," and while renewable energy is pretty cheap when it's on, it's very expensive to produce 1W of solar power at night. We are in a situation where grids have to burn excess power when it is plentiful, and struggle to supply power when it is not. When the demand for energy is higher than the supply, you get energy restrictions. Energy restrictions are not about "total MW produced this month vs total MW demanded," they are about "total MW produced this ~hour vs total MW demanded." Once we have a scalable technology for grid-scale energy storage, renewable energy looks amazing. We don't have it now.

An actual climate denier would have no problems with continuing to use dinosaur-based power forever. I disagree.

As for studying the problem, it looks like the focus of science is skewed heavily toward computer models of just how bad things might be rather than computer models that will help us stop the bad things. This is why people make models of pandemics, for example.
The key ingredient above is MSG, same as in mushrooms or tomatoes themselves.

Surely there ought to be vegemite/marmite and seaweed ketchup out there..?
Sorry. But I've noticed that recently HN doesn't automatically flag my inadvertent resubmissions: this has happened several times in the past week. Not intentional on my part.
This is interesting. Does elevated insulin / anabolic rates mean there’s no breakdown though? At least with muscles, most increases in synthesis rates are accompanied by a proportional increase in breakdown too.

I don’t have papers on hand to cite so take it with a grain of salt, but I believe that just eating is enough to increase both synthesis and breakdown. I think this is actually healthier since you have higher turnover this way
I have 'one' exception to that. I worked with a medical data analysis company that had implemented SAP HANA as a data warehouse/analysis platform for tons of treatment records.

My task was replacing it with Spark/S3 :P
It really whips the llamas ass.
Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware. Switching to lightweight native apps is sometimes more of a speedup than dropping >$3000 on new a workstation class laptop.

Of course, you usually need the latest hardware to eat through modern workloads. But aside from that, I sometimes forget clearing out software bloat is a much more effective way to gain performance, productivity and improvements to the overall user experience.
The late cretaceous was a lot longer than 8000 years ago.

Lots of people did die 8000 years ago (of course!). It was also the time when important agricultural plants were being domesticated and civilization was beginning - probably because the climate was nice, allowing that to happen, when it hadn't for the previous 200,000 years of Homo sapiens' history.
Certified ailurophile[0] here. I've found the gentle hum of purring very soothing, almost like having a hot chocolate on a cold day, or chicken soup. It's very comforting, and I'm lead to believe the specific frequency of the hum is in line with nature and The Universe itself. It has the same frequency of the Omm mantra which is apparently the frequency our bodies emit when we're in full health and homeostasis or in a meditative trance.

[0] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/ailurophile
Macamp?
Given the setting described in the linked Stack Exchange question, could they not send the other two developers on training courses/ skill building courses?

That way, Bob gets a nice full queue and the team as a whole enhances their skill level.

Disclaimer: I don't work in IT and am not a programmer.
> following the advice of eating small meals often

This must be an american thing. I've always been told the opposite advice all my life. Interesting.
"The definition of successful SAP migration is one where the company remains solvent."

The company I work for maintains and has built some custom ERP solutions. While we've never dealt with SAP directly, almost universally the mindset of the IT departments at these businesses is that they are the last defence against the dark forces of SAP.

ERP migration is a terrifying thing and they seem to fall into the same pattern every time. Company has their way (workflows, processes, strategies, philosophies) of doing things. New ERP consultant promises the tool will adapt. Company spends $50M with consultant and product trying to make the tool adapt. Pain loop of "Well, it can't really do X like we said, but we can make it do Y which is close!". Company either a) bends to the opinionated process of New ERP, b) cuts their losses and runs, c) spends years and millions more trying to fight the opinionated process and then cuts their losses and runs, and/or d) goes bankrupt.

It seems to me that the only way to do this right is to spend as much time as it takes nailing down your processes and workflows, being honest with your company about what you need to change, what you want to change, and what can functionally change. Then use the broadest technology possible and create a custom solution. I feel like there's room for a broad business logic framework/library.
Yeah. Similarly the arguments against Patreon's move are vague enough. Nobody defines what is the objective standard for 'enough security'. Nobody even asks "Why Patreon had a 5-person security team and multiple security vendors up until this point".
Just because you didn't see office doesn't mean it's not there running some backend processes. Excel is embedded everywhere in Fortune 500 companies.
By that definition Freedom of Speech is a ridiculous idea.

Are you saying I should be able to spend my entire day advocating for your rights to be removed, insulting you or whatever else and you still need to treat me like any other person and can't get annoyed at me?

Or the opposite, if someone treats me really well I can't be friends with them because that would be a positive consequence of their speech?

We all need to act like emotionless machines that completely ignore all speech so that free speech can exist?
$ also gets escaped automatically for me if pasted
I still want to see a social platform based on email. :-)
I think pro level of particular topic tend to have their own website with articles / videos. So they don't need inbound by posting reddit so often.
One of the replies mentions it but I think letting him do open-source contributions on company time is the best solution here. Getting a voice in the community for libraries that the company are using is very valuable.
I am always afraid this sounds too much like growling, which they don't like.
The main thing is that Ireland has far more suburban sprawl and the bike infrastructure is almost entirely unprotected. Though I admit my standards are high - I think most European urbanity isn't at the stage where I'd like an 8 year old ride a bike to school.
This is the very definition of enterprise software - the people who buy it are not the same people who use it.
I'm not sure if I need a reason not to move. My wife will be naturalized in ~6 months so we're figuring out what to do next.
Morality. No "off the rack" ethical / moral system fits an individual without adjustment; we tailor them to ourselves before we can live with them.

Oh wait you meant programming? Path finding. Everybody should work up an A* implementation once just to see how the magic works, and more importantly, how it fails when you make mistakes.

Hmm. Kinda similar, now I think about it.
Put any other way, biters will say they want a balanced budget, then when you ask them where we should increase and decrease spending, it turns out they actually didn’t want a bladed budget, and that the politicians had given them exactly why they wanted (despite protestations to the contrary)
You know why these companies don't really exist, right? Because the majority of people just won't work in those environments, and they are also the environments where it is really difficult to keep track of what people are doing.
Yes, Python, Ruby and JavaScript have better MQTT libraries. I managed to write an async Perl client using POE (the networking code was already heavily using it, otherwise I wouldn't even pick POE since it's awful and also dead) and Net::MQTT::Message. Piping output into mosquitto_pub/sub was out of the question, since this was no hack but rather a service that streams data into the broker.

I suspect writing it in Ruby with async would also prove problematic, but there are the ruby-mqtt and async-io gems and one would use the MQTT::Packet for formatting messages and Async::IO for the networking code. Still a lot less painful than what I did with POE and Net::MQTT::Message.

MQTT.js is async already, you just import and use it in the browser, Node.js, probably Deno as well. Easy. It took literally five minutes to get the client enpoint working in the browser over WebSockets. One could even do it from the browser console.
Unsure what that's all about, but I think the right framework for life is utilitarianism

https://www.utilitarianism.net/
> Handling payments, subscriptions, fraud, local tax kinks are mostly solved problems with the right intermediaries.

Yeah. And Patreon is that intermediary. That intermediary service is the difficult thing to do.

> depending on your content— it's potentially 15% of your revenue.

That's peanuts compared to the effort that goes to doing those stuff by yourself.
No idea why (might be crunchy palette) but in New Zealand it’s near impossible to find ketchup in shelves. I’d say 95% if not more of supermarket is all tomato sauce, no ketchup in sight.
50% increase in Mac usage share!
It's been said before: you don't customize SAP to fit your company, you customize your company to fit SAP.

"We held firm to the NO CUSTOMIZATION rule, we re-engineered our processes to fit SAP. Other than a few hiccups when integrating all aspects of a company that has 100 sub companies, and is under federal, state and local regulation the project basically went off without a hitch." [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17541092#17542500
With the flashing logo of this site, I can now say that not only PHP hurts my eyes.
Ways to Steer Network Traffic to a Proxy
Relevant:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/28/bush-did-north-dakota/
Aaah, opposite side as in... under side? Now I get it, thanks!!
If it is a large company they have pay bands that limit their flexibility. I would start by negotiating level and research those pay bands. Might be easier to negotiate a one time payment or something that a deviation from their pay structure.
You can try out Personabo AI Notetaker [https://personabo.com]. It generates a way better meeting summary, action items and sales key points. It does not sends email/notes to attendees.

You don't even need to connect google calender. Just invite notetaker@personabo.com to your zoom/google meeting. It will join that call and you will get meeting notes via email after the call ends.

Here is a sample call notes [publicly sharable link] of how your notes would look like:
https://app.personabo.com/meetingnotes_public/?meeting_notes...
Yes, those who got load of VC money to comfortably allocate some huge marketing budgets.
Could you imagine that their might be a third alternative?
Yeah. You turn into someone like that when you start running your own business and get to know the reality of payments, compliance, taxes, fraud, chargebacks and all that sh*t. And it doesn't matter how small is your business.
I vehemently disagree with this "Their prescription for dealing with such troubles is to develop profound internal strength, and in doing so the stoic attitude can dodge some societal-level failures by compartmentalizing toward a robust individualism."

Very early in the meditations Marcus talks about how we need to work harmoniously with other people, even surly or disagreeable people, rather than turn our back on or ignore them. He likens it to the upper and lower teeth working with each other. And there is a similar appeal to accepting and working within the confines of nature. He talks about understanding yourself, your place in the world, and what you constitute in the world.

To me, the appeal of the stoic philosophy is to tamp down all of the negative and unproductive ideation that one is prone to, so that you might focus on things which are actually important, and may in some way improve the world.
Anecdotally, I have gotten a bunch of recruiting messages from them over the past year or so for remote positions, whereas previously they were like "come live in rainy, gray, depressing Seattle!" and I would politely respond "I live on the east side of the Cascades with lots of sun. No f'ing way am I moving to Seattle!". Still not interested in a job there as I'm more of a startup guy, but it does seem they're more interested in remote.
Like other have mentioned here, the author seems to have missed some core tenets of stoicism.

Stoicism, nihilism, various forms of the Buddhist tradition all seem to focus on the message: "You are the leaf, not the river".

You can't control the river/universe. It will happen with or without you. Worrying about it or what it will do to you is almost a waste of time and energy. Like if the sun were to explode right now, it almost wouldn't warrant reaction. Because the outcome is set. Any reaction is going to be erased in 8 minutes.

On a much smaller scale, you also can't control other people. They're going to do their things. If something they do affects you, do what you can to mitigate or enhance the effects depending on if the results are wanted or not. Like if I were to get fired from my job, there's little I can do to change that outcome. Even if I wanted to. So there's no point to dwell on it. I need to focus on the next thing now. I would pack up my things, scrub my work machine, turn it in, and go home to look for a new job. No crying, no yelling, etc. Disappointment, sure, but I got shit to do.
Or a few more: https://skins.webamp.org/
I put a label with my sister's phone # on the back on my phone, she put mine on hers. I didn't want to rely on the phone functioning in case the battery was dead.
I actually wonder if viral epidemics are to blame? Increased air travel means rare viruses can become widespread.
Eh? He's not wrong. for any serious (in production and actually being used by paying customers) software it _would_ be crazy to rewrite a codebase. I can't think of a compelling reason to.

For the record, I became a perl user (for fun!) in 2022 because I was attracted to the text processing capabilities, the awesome documentation, the baked in regex handling, the way it's so integrated into unix culture, the fact that it feels like a nice and natural step up from awk or bash when I want to process text files or work with the filesystem, and also the fact that I just find python so boring.

Oh, also Perl is a very powerful command line tool that can be easily piped into on linux. I don't think python or ruby are as powerful in that regard but I could be wrong.
One side is trying to build something, agree with them or not, they put work into something they believe in, based on computer science/cryptography/technology and they contribute to these fields.

The other is wishing the destruction of the builders goal (and at times the builders themselves for the most extreme "cultists")... seems like a fundamental difference.
You might but nobody else will. Another day another breach. Nobody cares about the firings and they surely won’t care about the breach.

I would even guess that for a large breach like the one T mobile had, most of their customers don’t know about it. And if they do the thing they care most about is trying to get their cash payment because “free money.”

I’m not saying that’s how it should be but that’s how it is. Companies make decisions every day that are bad for their customers and everyday unless the customers are majorly inconvenienced they simply don’t care. Or maybe I’m in a bad mood today and casting everything in a negative light. Or both.
The Demise of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: National Mourning Guidance
Protip: if you're ever looking for some downvotes when bringing up the dangers of PUFAs, recommend that people read the book Deep Nutrition.

There seems to be an animalistic hatred toward a book that really sheds the light on why eating industrial waste is not the healthiest thing in the world.
Why not re-buiding the Web on SMTP as well, could be fun :p
Funny enough, I stopped reading the Register after a few attempts because I disliked its headlines and tone. "To each his own" I guess.
We have already blown past the CO2 levels of the Holocene maximum, so looking back to it as a stopping point isn't helpful.

The Cretaceous had CO2 levels around 1000ppm so we aren't there yet. We are currently at around 418ppm and rising about 2ppm per year (but that rate is increasing). If we don't change our ways soon this scenario becomes increasingly likely.

Also, there is an alternate theory that Humans finally developed agriculture because the climate change had made their previous hunter-gatherer lifestyle untenable and they were forced to improvise. Many species of animal died out.
SoundJam MP owned the Mac side of the market back then. Until Apple bought it out and converted it into iTunes (which was surprisingly good the first few versions, back when it focused on ripping and playing back music and wasn't stuffed with stores, video content, multiple library management UIs, Podcasts, etc.).
Mozilla was also nowhere near faltering until a few years ago. Then suddenly they are on shaky ground.

Such a model can work for stuff that people's lives dont depend on. But its not viable for people trusting their livelihood on them.
I never got my rust wasm build to work without needing JS.
I'd have thought that the US army would be using its own solution, or at least an American one. Using a foreign made platform to handle such a critical aspect of your military (logistics) sounds a bit weird. Not that I think that those risks, if they even exist, haven't been thoroughly evaluated by tons of experts in the army!
Yes! I have this exact same problem on my AirPods Pro, and only during phone calls and meetings as well.

I’ve also had a tough time describing it, so couldn’t Google for it. I’ve also held off on taking it to the apple store to get it looked at, just because I didn’t know how to describe it well. May be I’ll just use your description now.

Just yesterday two people told me that they hear echos when I use my AirPods on two different meetings, so I had to switch to using wired headphones. Adding that to my list of problems. I wish I could just return the product now.
It isn't just that they send recruiting emails, they refuse to honor any opt outs and the recruiters will say things if you don't respond like... "I'll never stop trying" or "You don't live that far from me, I may just have to drop by"
I wouldn't say that this has been going well recently.
tl;dr: Stoicism's first response to a problem is to change the individual (have the individual reinvent their worldview such that what can't be changed is instead accepted and perhaps even reveled in). In a world of decay, having this as your first response delays -- if not outright masks -- collective action towards rectifying the problem, towards building a better world.

Stoicism is great for dealing with things you can't change (illnesses, famine, etc). It's great for accepting that personal struggles, like the fact that your parents aren't going to say the Thing and give you a hug.

But what does Stoicism offer to the community? I as an individual can create my own happiness, but nothing in the philosophy would properly motivate me towards helping to fix the world with my brethren.
This tax migration doesn't appear to be abating the skyrocketing real estate prices and cost of living in NYC, San Francisco, Boston et al.
What is this? I do not have a smartphone.
It's absolutely nitpicking. The "G" just stands for governance, otherwise it'd be a "C". On an individual level that could mean paying taxes on time, maintaining employment, etc.

> A framework used to evaluate corporate investment candidates has nothing to do with social credit score boogaboos.

Functionally, ESG _already is_ a social credit score for companies and a tool for compliance. Do you think companies are taking ESG measures because they want to?
> the automation of white collar work (often via the computer!) began in the 1960s.

The Lyons Electronic Office would beg to disagree.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)

The first business application to be run on LEO was Bakery Valuations, which computed the costs of ingredients used in bread and cakes [and] LEO took over Bakery Valuations calculations completely on 29–30 November 1951
My understanding is that the military would never decide between two claimants - the civilian Secretary of Defense would do that.

I’d the SecDef is dead, or the post vacant, there’s a very long civilian order of succession.
The patch works, but it's not efficient to have every user patch their own compiler on every release (and forgo the system package manager for upgrades). I was also envisioning adding a warning system, changing the checks to warnings instead of removing them completely, and adding a `-Werror` flag (or maybe `-Wno-error`). It would be a bit more than 5 lines, but still relatively low effort compared to how impactful the project would be.
I just want the quick edit to test something to be quick.
It's popular because "government bad" and "capitalism good". Of course that blanket logic is false however, it's widely believed, it sells and gets propagated.