skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have said, a full rewrite isn't needed. Go bit by bit.

Secondly the worst code you've ever seen is capable of pulling in 20 mil per year.
Was the best? There is something to be said for success and it really makes me wonder about what 'good code' really is suppose to look like.

Granted a lot of what you're describing sounds terrifying.

If you want to deal with it first thing you should do is stand up a testing server and backup the code. Get some E2E tests in place to keep track of expected behavior. All of this can be done without removing a line of code and you can do it yourself while the team goes about their merry business. This is where I would start.
I really appreciate the technical write up of how trucks work. As others have pointed out, skateboarding is all about feel, and not efficiency. My favorite example of this is Daewon Song, one of the most skilled and creative skaters of all time. Somehow he rides a board with no top bushing on his front truck! [1] Even most skilled skaters would have a hard time rolling down the sidewalk on this, let alone tricking it in any way.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt--3DX-md0
Noting an amusing interaction with the context isn't shaming.

Though if someone can set it up in less than 15 minutes, and doesn't, I reserve the right to snark. It's not a bad look in cases like that.
I disagree with the "first and foremost" part - more precisely, I don't think it makes any sense to speak about this. There are people whose entire career will be only APL-ish or whatever funky ML-derived dialect, writing programs in a team of 1 and basically converting their thought processes directly into code, and their experience matters exactly as much as the experience of the X million developers in easier / more team/read-oriented languages matters.
And based on the previous comment, get it wrong
What about Macrosoft Exchange?
These aliens must be either software developers or economists. Nobody else just assumes the world is logical and freaks out when it isn't...
https://archive.ph/s8LD9
But then surely a consecutive Saturday and Sunday would be weekends rather than a single weekend?
You’d be surprised. I live in a city where in the tech sector, everyone knows everyone. I always joke that I can make 4 phone calls and find out about any engineer in the area because they’ve certainly crossed paths with mutual acquaintances.
After I brought my first iPad I realised that I was reviewing documents using the iPad rather than paper. I just stopped printing after that.
Sure but nobody would suffer if say a new fantasy novel was not available there.
It's about the same latitude as Birmingham but due north of London so the distance is a lot less. The property in the fens around is affordable and often comes with land; it is absolutely a commuter station.
If you can design your system so you rarely if ever use pointers, that would be the single best thing you can do for your C++ codebase

I like to enlighten my interns every summer about the reality of pointers, and how much of a noob trap they are, and that yes, their professor lied to them in some ways
Downturn career decisions
I stopped using photo printers after realizing I could not use them frequently enough to keep the inks from drying out. It was cheaper to pay a professional print place for the few times I needed a print.

I stopped using b&w printers for personal use when I got multiple monitors / a monitor big enough to show reference material + workspace. I still have a b&w laser for when hard copies are required by 3rd parties.
Which is why <<I>> performed a flyby of the article and came directly to the comments.
See Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32905885
Years ago, my daughter was in a college sociology class discussing serial killers. When the Zodiac killer came up, one guy said (according to my daughter, in total seriousness), “I thought Ted Cruz is the Zodiac killer?”
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> programs must be written for people to read and only incidentally for machines to execute.

-- Abelson & Sussman, The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 1984

FWIW, I already provided the quote, with the source, in these comments, 3 hours before you wrote yours.

(ok, it's not exactly verbatim. But I think it would get counted as plagarism in almost any context reasonably imaginable.)
These days we have the tech to make this really smooth. Have a phone app with live prices, and integrate with iot makers so things like washing machines and dish washers can be set to trigger on the cheapest times.

Have houses automatically heat up earlier in the morning before people start waking up and consuming more power
The answer is the same on Saturday as on Sunday, so that doesn't really matter.
Thank you ultrasounder! Supply chain, construction, purchasing, insurance, financial services, and healthcare are our biggest verticals. Although we have customers doing just about anything you can imagine with documents!

For invoices, we have a pre-trained model (demo here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/impira/invoices) that is pretty good at most fields, but within our product, it will automatically learn about your formats as you upload documents and confirm/correct predictions. The pre-trained model is based on LayoutLM and the additional learning we do uses a generative model (GMMs) that can learn from as little as one example.

LMK if you have any other questions.
As you get older only a couple of drinks will dull your senses most of the next day too, the famous hangover
It reminds me of the whole "two in a box" management practice, where putting two workers in a cube (who got along) allowed them to be more efficient together.

It was a corporate fad in... I want to say maybe 2005?
A hiring freeze at all or most of the big FAANG companies lowers negotiable salary cap for all of us.
Looks to my eye like some 8-bit underflow artifacts that I've seen. And the way the line follows the gradient reminds me of when I've broken a gradient-domain Poisson solver to reconstruct an image from gradients. Maybe they're decorrelating the image data via gradients to compress better and then compressing those along with a sparse set of primal pixels?

(See, e.g., http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/courses/15-463/2019_fall/lectures... for a nice overview of gradient-domain image processing.)
>I already said there's no such thing as hookup culture

lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookup_culture

I said I was open to hearing the advantages of promoting hedonism in society. And that applies to men or women. What are they?
Some context: Microsoft has disabled the use of alternative email providers in Windows' built-in email app since Windows 10, and for 365 users, unless you got one of the more expensive accounts intended for large companies, then no custom domain names for your email unless you use Godaddy as registrar. They have an exclusivity deal with Microsoft.

So sure, one can look at this from an authentication perspective, or simply look at this as one in a line of steps in a specific direction.
You're flipping out like this because you got one downvote? Why not do something else for a while if it's upsetting you so much?
Absolutely, but none of those are really that new. I guess I'm talking more about boost libraries and that stuff. I just can't be bothered and it doesn't matter for anything I need to write.
We do have a habit of sending spies as journalists.

edit: we definitely do this. Also as grad students. Be upset about it, but not with me. The fact that we do this means that US journalists are limited in where they can go. Just like the fact that we're totally willing to send spies as NGO doctors administering vaccinations means that we can't do vaccination campaigns in countries that need help, or the fact that we send spies embedded with weapons/nuclear inspectors means that inspectors can't get access to things.
If I get any input, I would shave some part of the nearly trillion dollar US military budget and use some of that windfall to allow for both of the above options.
Maybe HTTP/3 with QUIC would help since there are less round trips?
Great website. Great company. Can't find what you're looking for? Website failing you?

Don't worry, just click the email link at the top of the page and they WILL get back to you - even over a 20 cent part.
> Being aware of your heart rate and your pace helps you get the best results from your exercise.

This is widely believed but scientifically unproven. The understanding of the significance of awareness of heart rate to workout performance is ongoing. Basically, tracking heart rate shows what is already known, that improving cardiac performance will improve resting heart rate. The stated purpose of doing so is to increase self-esteem. For the same reasons there are large mirrors installed at most gyms.

> Also, accurately measuring your times, and seeing even few seconds improvement since the last week's training helps keep you motivated.

A $5 stopwatch is accurate to hundredths of seconds.

> There are many reasons to use such accessories, other than "stroking vanity".

This is an appeal to common sense, aka the fallacy of axiomatic thinking, or unsupported assertion. Claims which can be asserted without evidence may also be dismissed without evidence.
Sounds like, "Move fast and break ,[habitually other people's] piggy banks." SAC is totemic in a industry founded by other people's money and the carry without any equivalent downside. Speaking as a former prop trader, of cutting edge products including those I've designed as principal, when you're touching the wider economy a entirely different set of rules either applies or someone's gotta be responsible. I don't believe that anyone's understood what "the buck stops here" means for two generations.
Because it's about a books who explain than at last, two people can come back from death... days after it. Historians have doubts about this (and other weird events from this books) and therefore do not keep this specifics book as very credible sources. That said, no real historian actually doubt of the historical existence of the famous religious leader from the past.
Ahh, I apologize for not thoroughly reading the entire comment thread before posting mine. Otherwise I would've upvoted you and said "+1" or something to that effect. I certainly didn't mean to hurt your feelings.

And also thanks for jogging my memory on the source. SICP remains one of my favorite textbooks from college, although it's been about 20 years and so everything's fuzzier than it used to be.

Have a great weekend.
I’ve never liked the take that you should do the bare minimum if you’re not happy or valued. If you don’t like it there, quit and go somewhere else but while you’re there you should do your best because it’s a reflection of you and your ethics.
Oh that’s actually really cool and seems to be something not supported by the official app, awesome!
So does IMAP? Most clients only cache headers because it’s faster and most devices are always-connected; but you can certainly locally download the entirety of your IMAP contents.

Considering you have to download the entirety of the mail contents to read it anyways, I have no idea what makes you think this is an impossibility.
You don't even have to introduce culture. "We built a simple time system a long time ago. Some of its initial assumptions were wrong and we've been patching it up as we go ever since". I'm sure the aliens have a word for "technical debt".

Also, dividing the day into 24hs is kind of genius. Sure, 10 is nice, but good luck dividing it neatly into 3 parts.
I disagree with the sibling poster. Your first paragraph is correct.

The week starts on Sunday. The weekend ends on Sunday. It only makes sense if you consider two adjoining endpoints of previous weeks to be one "weekend", which I've never known anyone not to do without thinking about it.

Someone talking at work might mean something different, but I don't usually hear "next week" to mean Monday-Sunday in general conversation and we'd probably clarify for Sunday anyway.

If someone says "The week of the 15th" and Sunday is the 15th, they mean the seven days from 15-21 not the seven days of 9-15.

"Next week, maybe Sunday" means the next calendar Sunday as in Sunday-Saturday, not the Sunday after that as in Monday-Sunday.

Anyone who says otherwise is selling calendars with a Monday start of the week. :)
I think the implied context is "you're only allowed to use instructions that involve simpler circuitry than multiplication or division." Otherwise there's no point in asking the question.
I wonder why these services don't generate vanity TOR domains. I can generate about 21 TOR addresses beginning with "zlib" per second and it would make bookmarks so much more recognisable if they weren't completely random.

I know relying on names to recognise onion addresses is unsafe, but so is following random links. Why not add at least a little recognisability to the official URL?
Zimit
A new island has emerged out of the Pacific Ocean, but it may soon disappear
sadly this was not "my system" but was something for a 2-3 day project on an unknown codebase so a deeper refactoring was out-of-the-question
Yes, we're talking about Peterborough, the city whose main attraction is fast trains to Kings Cross in 47 minutes and slower ones around 1hr 10 combined with relatively affordable housing for southeast England. I take it you're not familiar with the place or the line (tbf you haven't missed much...)
I'm not sure how constantly promising and missing deadlines while taking peoples money is "transparency".
> genocided thousands of civilians by shooting them in the streets during the protests right before the pandemic,

I'm going to ignore the word "genocide" here, because I'm assuming you're just using this to mean that they were killings that you really disapprove of. But are you saying that Iran murdered thousands of protestors without providing a link? And is everybody else just going with that?
I just woke up one morning and realised the printers had been using me all along.
PS3 wasn't particularly reliable for me (anecdotal).

I still have my PSP 1000, PS (Grey rectangular one, not the later "One"), PS2 Satin Silver was sold years ago, PS4 was given away when I got PS5, all launch day purchases; I went through 3 PS3s in its lifetime.
Yeah, even if there are only some actual layoffs and only some degree of hiring freezes/slowdowns/tight budgets, that translates to fewer openings with more people competing for them with lower TC being offered. The general sense among the people I talk to is that it's increasingly significantly less of an employee's market than it was 6 to 12 months ago.

Nowhere near dot-bomb territory of course (and the dynamics are different) but the market has changed.
Others have said this but I thought I'd put this as a top level comment: this is probably fake.

It's obviously unsourced, but it just seems too odd. I highly doubt Google would "sue" an employee for their entire salary, and I highly doubt a Google engineer would be in this situation in the first place.

Other posts by the author also seem inauthentic.
It's more that the launches can only be cheap if they are launched regularly.

If you aren't launching every week, then the costs of those staff start to dominate, and the staff aren't paid less if you launch fewer rockets.
Are you messing around?

Octavius became Julius Caesar after he was adopted. And also later he was given the honorable designation by the senate and called Augustus. That’s not his name its one of his honors.

Octavian is essentially a past tense of his name and he never truly went by that. It’s a name used by historians.
McMaster is great.

This article is also completely glossing over another reason to use them: Their shipping is somehow insanely fast.

Almost everything is next-day delivery, even for standard shipping. They've somehow got their logistics COMPLETELY nailed. I believe they have their own agreements with USPS/FedEx/etc...

McMaster is generally not the cheapest, but they're almost always the fastest and the easiest.

Machining/industry runs on McMaster.
It's unlikely that Iran would do that in response to an attack on their nuclear facilities. What would they gain from it? They'd just lick their wounds and move on. Iran is already fighting a proxy war against Saudi in Yemen. Their military would be eroded pretty quickly in an outright direct conflict and that would risk losing power internally. Iraq fired plenty of missiles all over the place during the gulf war and it didn't really do much. Mining the straits will likely just result in the US or some international task force taking control over those and de-mining.

All that said it's very unlikely there will be an attack on Iran. The US would much prefer to see the regime fall. That doesn't seem super likely either but attacking Iran will probably just strengthen the regime.
Where would the money come from? Who would decide how popular a book is? I agree that in theory these are not incompatible statements, but I fail to see a practical way to make it work.
> In the oldest Roman calendar, which the Romans believed to have been instituted by their legendary founder Romulus, March was the first month, and the calendar year had only ten months in all. Ianuarius and Februarius were supposed to have been added by Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, originally at the end of the year. It is unclear when the Romans reset the course of the year so that January and February came first.

Most of what we know about pre-republican Rome is from oral tradition, not actual records. So if by the time of the Republic February was the second month of the year, it was the second month of the year through all of recorded Roman history.
> they're still telling customers they should expect speeds far above what we're getting in practice

That's Musk's MO, isn't it? "Full self driving", Mars by 2022...

They certainly do some genuinely cool stuff, but meeting promises like this isn't one of them.
What a blast in the past, MMC was a client at the agency I was at and we pitched a lot of modernization updates.
That article says "it is unclear when the Romans reset the course of the year so that January and February came first", but doesn't actually deny that the year formerly ended with February.

See for example p.187 of https://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus-data/L333.pdf for a 1st century BC reference to it:

> The Terminalia 'Festival of Terminus,' because this day is set as the last day of the year; for the twelfth month was February, and when the extra month is inserted the last five days are taken off the twelfth month.
Among the least revered? You mean, below peanut butter and jelly in the same jar? If humanity is going to emerge out of the cradle, Mars will have to be the 2nd step. Right after Luna.

As we are out there exploring & homesteading, maybe we will realize what a gem the Earth truly is.
And all of that adds to maybe 100k customers. What next? Especially for a service that has scale bandwidth everywhere across the world, it increase it in one spot (or add 5G tower there, which you can just do, without this whole “10k satellites that have to be replaced every few years” business).

I’m not saying there’s no market. But it’s very limited. Much more limited compared to all the hype it’s getting. I had literally people living in SF telling me how they’ll use it, to stop dealing with Comcast.
This is completely false, I've just installed the Mail app on my Windows 11 machine, first thing it asks you is what e-mail provider you use [0] and there are options for iCloud, Yahoo and a generic IMAP setup along with the Microsoft offerings.

[0] https://files.catbox.moe/ljil4h.png
Looking backwards (90s/early 00s), it's curious we didn't see hyperscale cloud concentration earlier. The tech was there, at least relative to state of the art of the day.

I guess it was a demand problem.

There needed to be one huge customer to dictate a single set of needs, and that didn't exist until Amazon bootstrapped via its own demand and internal interoperability mandates.

It'll be curious if Google bows out. You'd think Android would have taught them that sometimes throwing money on a bonfire is a good investment in aggregate.
Aliens with the ability to visit earth will be much more intelligent than humans.
The profitability of the placing and maintaining physical network infrastructure (cell towers etc) in ”dead zones” is low. The profitability of covering many “dead zones” with a single orbit may be different.
>””” To stand on the bluffs above the Chukchi Sea, looking down at a series of broken and ruined seawalls that have already failed to hold back the power of the ocean, and to consider that there are politicians in this country who are unwilling to do anything about the climate crisis, or who even deny it exists, is to wish they all could come and stand on these bluffs and look out at the relentless, devouring sea.”””

The politicians know that climate change is real, but many act like they don’t or downplay the severity to get votes. Even many voters recognize that it’s real, but figure that “it won’t affect me in this lifetime” and being extremely selfish, don’t care.
I use printers for reading technical papers and sometimes code documentation. I use a brother laserjet, I hate it because I have to use a USB because the wifi connection never seems to work properly
It's a little disorienting on booking sites (hotels etc) when the first day of the week isn't Monday.

I once booked a train on the wrong day because the localisation changed part way through my search. (Fortunately I noticed.)
I'm a Starlink customer. I regularly get 100+ mbps in Austin, TX and have not noticed any speed drops. If anything, it's gotten more consistently fast.
I appreciate the response. Have avoided that so far on principle, but good to know that if push comes to shove there is a way to get hired again.
I recently read that the reason February has only 28 or 29 days, and not 29 or 39, as you'd expect, is because Augustus wanted his month to have just as many days as Julius' month.

No idea if that's true, but sounds appropriate for the ego of an emperor.
Uh, which Brother printer is this? We probably go through a cartridge every several months.
If you're not familiar with McMaster-Carr, this Hackaday article is a good introduction: https://hackaday.com/2017/09/13/noobs-guide-to-mcmaster-carr...

Besides the handy website, their many-thousand page phsyical catalog is great. We have a copy at work and it's easy to spend a long time flipping through, learning about all of the different things they have, and why they are useful.

Here is Adam Savage talking about why their catalog is awesome: https://youtu.be/8kbu34dk92s
I've always thought there was a massive opportunity to play live sports, e-sports tournaments, football games etc in the cinema.
I keep looking for something really special for writing web applications using rust. Is there something on the horizon? It seems like rust on the server side is an easy decision but I'm unclear if there is a way rust could replace nodejs as the isomorphic application language on both server and browser.

Clojure and ClojureScript was such an interesting way to bring lisp into the browser and seemed really revolutionary. And without really limitations on what you could build. Where is the rust version of that?
I dont think they intended to have to lay off people. If everyone recalls during the core of the pandemic people really thought that this was the new normal. Im sure they thought that this was a full time step change in demand. I doubt they anticipated a recession (much like most companies). The executives at most companies aren't that smart on long term macros, much more reactionary to immediate needs
My one complaint about their website (they don't give you an estimate of shipping costs in advance, so you just have to hope they're reasonable) has supposedly been fixed since the last time I ordered from them
Way to skip past the last two-thirds of the sentence. Do you have anything meaningful to say or just wasting my time?