skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m all about maintenance, but mostly in a literal sense. It turns out that there’s another definition of that word in the real estate world.

I sold a house a few years ago that the real estate agent described as having “deferred maintenance“, which annoyed me. Because I always maintain my houses scrupulously.

Fast forward a few years later and I now understand that phrase actually means “it’s not decorated in the current style“. The fact that I don’t spare gigantic expenses such as major electrical or floor repairs, massive septic field projects, replacing large drainage systems, central air conditioning, etc. all at tremendous costs, is irrelevant to people who use the phrase “deferred maintenance“.

They don’t care at all whether I just replaced a pool pump or expensive air conditioner just before selling. No one who buys a house from me is going to have to replace their pipes or ducts within the next 20 years, but that just isn’t a selling point.
I’be been the developer in your trio. 3 or 4 years in noname large consulting stuff.

Lead of a teams of joyful green horns in a loosely specify environment. Delivering shit software on loosy deadline.

And then I switch to place where everyone is pretty senior.
It’s less fun, I like to explain stuff and kinda miss it.
But damn, not having to manage junior allow me to just produce large chunk of code faster.

And knowing that the guy next door is solid as well allow us to agreed on a contract and call it a day. ( it actually works )

I have little interaction with my coworker and yet our review are actual review. Syntax or petty issue are rarely mentioned. We agreed on linter months ago.

Anyway; sorry. Long détour to say that as much as I enjoy getting down with the stragglers, being in a mature team is pretty great.
Charts – Human Interface Guidelines
No, because poverty is not a barrier to drinking coffee.

Drinking freshly-ground coffee may be linked to socioeconomics status, but drinking coffee probably isn't.
i had a spotty resume and bounced back and forth between jobs/freelancing. its not that big of a deal. there's even a positive, it's given you insight into how different teams work. any experience is good experience.

a few suggestions:

- only list the most important roles in detail, summarize the rest or don't list them at all. i have a big bucket of "freelancing, etc" on my resume for all the small stuff

- if you get asked about the short stints, brush it off like "i was finding my footing in the industry" or something, then pivot to what you did right - I kept learning the whole time, did xyz side project, got a broad look at the industry, etc

- the way to get your foot in the door is apply to as many roles as possible. a resume site and some side projects helps too

this industry needs as many smart people as possible, keep going and you will do well.
Indeed. The demagoguery in their comments are quite revealing.
It's probably too early, but has anyone heard any estimates for how long it should take to repair these pipelines? A credible estimate might help cut through some of the murkiness.

* new account by the way
Wow, that screenshot of it is on Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar. EXIF says it was taken 2004-12-06.

They've been maintaining that little app for a long time.
Like this: https://macreports.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/apple-car-...

I think new ones have more doodads around the fenders.
I agree that grammatical gender is not nearly universal.[1]

Does your L1 contain other sources of redundancy that can be used for error correction?

[1] An interesting paper on some of the correlates of languages with grammatical gender: https://unbound.williams.edu/facultypublications/islandora/o...
> Insurance isn't mentioned at all in the article.

Yep. I am paying about $2000 a year for fire insurance for my summer home in Sierra Nevada. They promise to pay $350k estimated as the price to rebuild. Three major fires were nearby this year, about a 100 homes burned in the county. But thousands of (presumably) insured homes, including mine, survived. The deal looks pretty good for the insurance company.

I am also paying California and federal taxes. This girl talks about federal money as coming from nowhere. But they are not from nowhere, they are from my pocket. If they are that scarce, I would rather spend them on rebuilding California towns, than say Ukrainian ones.
The Washington Post has a Bezos problem
Ask HN: Happy path to a product designer role (no experience)
Quick background:

I'm a software engineer with a few years XP. I have a very design-focused friend that's looking to move into a product designer role. They've expressed major interest in this area after a few days watching me work from home on frontend tasks (seeing me jump out of Figma and convert the designs into components/code).

The question:

My mate is really interested in becoming a product designer. How would you move into a product designer role from 0?

A bit more info:

My friend works in a completely unrelated trades-based field (heavy machinery). He did spend a few years shadowing tattoo artists in his late teens (he's currently late twenties) and has a pretty decent understanding for composition and colour theory. He doesn't have a degree (went the trades path).

I'm currently looking at online MOOC courses focused on product design. I'm not sure if there's anything "high quality" available.

Any advice/input is appreciated!
There's bad doctors, just like there are bad people in every profession. How many software engineers does it take to make a dystopian spy state or spy company? You probably need many more than you would need doctors for unethical experiments. What's wrong with software engineers that they would knowingly do such a thing? I suspect the motivations for wanting to push the technological limits in advertising or spying are the same as the ones for pushing the limits of medical science.
Seems straightforward to compare open-source vs closed-source bug fix performance. The tricky part is adjusting for size. "Many eyes make all bugs shallow" but I wonder how many eyes are on the typical random java library that's been built into Spring Boot forever and no-one even thinks about anymore (there are probably 30+ of these). How often does any company using Spring Boot, even the very security conscious ones, look at the source of these dependencies, even when they update? I've heard Google code reviews literally all of their dependencies, but who else could afford to do that?

(In fact, this impossibility is a big part of why I'm so bullish on redbean - being really small means really fast and really really secure. It is a joy to deal with so few moving parts in a server!)
I'd consider Vonnegut a more legitimate measure of proper usage of English than a dictionary or grammar textbook.
What difference does it make if the pay range is far greater than the inequity of actual pay gap?
If you close your account, I wonder if masked emails remain locked to your account or become available again for someone else to register?
The thing with cities is that they have huge sunk costs that are hard to move elsewhere. New York is prone to hurricanes and floods, but is also the landing point for probably most of the transatlantic cables. In a similar fashion, we spend a lot of money containing the Mississippi because New Orleans as a port and oil refinery hub represents nearly a fifth of refining capacity in the US. Those would be expensive assets to replace.
Blessed relief.
I assume china/russia will get their way, the entire world has a authoritarian fetish right now. russia/china's war against ukraine should've made the u.s candidate a shoo-in but here we are waiting to see the beginning of the end.
That sounds fun, @tschellenbach on twitter or the email in my profile
Death of a Master Forger
Millions upon millions of used vehicles don’t support CarPlay.
‘A stuff-up by Optus’: Government wants telco to pay to replace passports
…comprised of dodge gears and bearings, reliance electric motors, and Allen Bradley controls…
The Inquisition had rules around torture. The secular authorities did not.
But we already know what the large tool is, and it can be a dependency for other languages when using natively compiled libraries.
The pope may not have been, but several german priests such as Herman Muckermann certainly gave german Catholics a way to support eugenics and race theories.
Yes, $13 service jobs are very common, people hate them, and most factory jobs pay better than that.
It's just a completely different set of scaling pain points. The war stories and anecdotes of the old days just aren't very applicable anymore for newer companies.

For example, on bare metal, physically running out of disk space on a hot shard was a relatively common concern. It required a lot of monitoring, automation, and capacity planning to avoid. Whereas on something like AWS Aurora, you mostly just don't worry about it unless/until you're getting into the many-TB range.

On bare metal, building out a new data center / region is a huge task. Automating the process was even more complicated. Whereas with large cloud providers, you already have a lot of regions available, and nice APIs to automate things.

Hardware of 10-15 years ago had slower IO, less storage, way less RAM, less network bandwidth... and with bare metal you had to deal with multiple generations of hardware in some fashion, often both within a region / data center and between different regions / DCs. This gets especially ugly when you have replicas in each region with very different hardware profiles.

Meanwhile in terms of MySQL versions, there's been major strides in replication options/topologies/perf, crash safety, online schema change, automation via MySQL shell, JSON functionality, built-in physical copy/clone, many other things.

The third-party tooling ecosystem has also evolved substantially -- monitoring, deployment, HA/failover, proxies, sharding, schema management, backup/restore, etc. Large companies used to all solve this stuff in-house, often in messy home-grown ways... today there's great generic options that are basically usable out-of-the-box.
I was troubleshooting a very irregular network interruption between two industrial controllers (AB PLC and a DCS). For those who do not work in industrial automation communication between assets is essential and some disruptions can be quite costly depending on the industry/product being made. That can be true of even relatively minimal disruptions.

I loaded up an RPi with arch, popped a thumb drive on there and created some startup scripts. Once the RPi booted up it just performed a rolling packet monitor. Once I was alerted about a disruption I went and grabbed the thumb drive. I found a Modbus TCP driver bug.

What’s even better is I ended up ‘packaging’ it in an enclosure and was able to utilize it in a lot of scenarios. I’ve been using it over the past 2 years.

Edit: in the industrial world equipment like this is not in racks/server rooms. They are usually located in panels that have no external networking (security). When I ‘grabbed’ that means traveling to the site and literally taking the drive.
I mean think of low priority service as services that are not latency sensitive (background jobs).

you want those low priory cgroup to use the extra memory if it’s available (not used by a high priority cgroup)

it a high priority cgroup need the memory it steal it from the low priority cgroup up to the minimum guaranteed to this low priority cgroup.

this low priority cgroup memory contention will turns into IO pressure from page faults. Then IO limit on the low priority cgroup will cap how much IO it can generate by throttling it.

Meanwhile the high priority cgroup use it’s guaranteed cpu, guaranteed IO and guaranteed memory with no hiccup.

to learn more check « fbtax2 memory controller configuration » at https://facebookmicrosites.github.io/cgroup2/docs/memory-con...
> Even Office and Visual Studio (not Code) are using web technologies to render substantial parts of the UI.

Any more details on what web technologies are being used in Visual Studio and what parts of the UI are done with web?
What a giant waste of taxpayer money, built when many - especially in east European countries - were already warning something exactly like this year would happen.

Cool technology though.
That's what I was getting at. As I see it, the story postulates a hardcore version of the ‘equality of outcome’ approach, particularly in the social aspect. I don't think anyone who's not completely marginalized subscribes to full-blown equality of outcome even just in the economic sense, much less in the social perspective.

The US left do advocate for something resembling weak ‘equality of outcome’ in that poor and ill aren't thrown under the bus. However, while the left can be seen as reducing personal economic freedom, the oppression of social freedoms is a purview of conservatives. So ‘Harrison Bergeron’ is closer to a parody of a right-wing dreamland. Perhaps incels would in fact welcome an ‘equal outcome’ social world, where they are on the same level as Chads.
Actually, that's not how Esperanto works. There is a language that literally tries to be the "Frankenstein Monster of the most popular languages" for better or worse, but that is Interlingua. Esperanto on the other hand, while it takes roots from various Germanic, Romance, and Slavic languages, instead modifies them to fit a rational system. As part of that there is a rule of "one letter one sound". That's why it uses diacritics. paĝo and pago are pronounced differently. Languages that don't use diacritics (which are very rare, English being one of the few examples) deal with it by accepting that spelling and pronunciation have little to do with each other. Which is a terrible system.
That’s why your domain provider should allow your account to have:

- backup emails and/or

- editable email field(s) that is secured by your 2FA/MFA/SMS/TOTP
The craziest thing I came across my recent travels to India is that people applying to jobs hire a shadow interviewee. They will sit in the same room controlling keyboard and mic. They will train you to do the fake lip movement. They will give interview while you face the camera. They charge you roughly 10% or so of what you would make if you land the job. I heard this from reliable sources where my friends came across such fake interviewers while interviewing and also friends who has seen some colleagues who hired these shadow interviewers to land a bigger / better paying job.

This goes even deeper. During pandemic, supposedly there are even shadow engineers who does the work for you. :-(
And to think, the wealthy wanted society to entrust them to be the caretakers of the arts because we're too irresponsible to handle such a great undertaking ourselves.
Toyota sells 10 mil
The idea was that would show that trend holds at a large volume.
Carriers did that to themselves.
I think wxWidgets was pretty big in the 2000's, with quite some programs using it. To name one example, the Code::Blocks IDE uses it.

FLTK has never seen adoption even to the level of wxWidgets I think, but to be honest it is also quite simply hideous. I have not found a proper looking theme for it either, since I was mildly interested in using it to add a simple GUI to a Rust tool.
I don't feel there is anything "fundamentally wrong with many of them", but the role medicine plays in our lives makes it susceptible to exploitation by both messianic and psychopathic personalities.

As a counter-example of medicine going hand-in-hand with despotism, there's Stalin's Doctors Plot, though there was a a lot of antisemitism there as well.
I wonder if you could do e-ink displays with a seam that can tear open
Sure, but that’s two totally different situations with different contexts.
Vonnegut may be my favorite author, but I always felt this story was a bit too on the nose. I actually didn't even realize he wrote Harrison Bergeron until many many years after reading it.
I've actually studied Lojban a bit. But then I read that even its creator can't actually speak it fluently, which kind of defeats the point.
I've been thinking about trying to build something from scratch with a similar spirit, but very different methods, but I also doubt that my predictions will be any good without far more time investment than I have available.

As you say you have expertise in the area, any chance I could ask you for advice or how to decide if its worth trying?
Micromobility companies look like they’re doing okay to me.
Which is why I think it’s good that Debian has a POSIX-strict `/bin/sh`. I have no idea what bash’s flawed POSIX mode has to do with this.
There are a lot of unexploded mines and other ordnance around in the Baltic, I think it's actually very common to use these sorts of drones for minesweeping.
I've covered this in detail before, so I didn't feel like rehashing it. Also, while in fact I did have a run-on sentence (because I failed to use a semicolon in one place where I used a comma), I don't believe it's reasonable to say my words were sloppy.

See this thread if you want more than a few examples of how Python is poorly designed (as compared to Ruby): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32116957
Give photo access to WhatsApp? Better hope there's not a dick pic in there or you end up like Bezos.
I guess if you have a reasonably profitable strategy it probably just makes more sense to run it with your own money? I guess the only reason why you would want to trade as a hedge fund is if you want to scale up, but most strategies aren't really that scale-able anyways from what I understand, since when you start trading in any real significant size you start moving the markets.
I always assumed it was an employee retention project. Jony Ive seemed bored of re-designing yet another rounded rect with a black mirror and was ready to leave, to attract top AI people you need a self-driving project, etc. But I guess at this point it has gone too far for just that.
That's a silly myth based on the idea that everyone who bought a copy of The Klingon Dictionary (which includes me actually) learned Klingon. Esperanto has thousands of books written in it. You can count on one hand the number of books in Klingon.
You can make up a "casus beli" in EU4.

Putin made up a "casus beli" before going into the special-operation. He made a speech how this territory belongs to the Russia empire.

So life is not really that different from EU4.
I actually upgraded off cycle due to the satellite SOS feature. Including the hardware and 2 years of service was impressive. The new watch was also exciting hitting a segment that was previously unaddressed by any prior Apple Watch.
Well, for Ukrainians it's pretty simple. When you're attacked, you defend. And usually it's not your choice that you got attacked....

As for Russians, it's not „Putin's war“. Russians got what they wanted for a long time. Many of those who are running today were happy with the war till it came banging at their door. Look at Russian history of the past 300 years. Many people over here do believe Russia is the exceptional saviour of whatever. Just look at ecstasy over annexing Crimea. Even opposition had to play along because saying anything against it would not be accepted by society at large.

Some Russians saw writing on the wall since 2008 or even earlier. Many left after 2014. The most optimist ones stuck till spring of this year... But there's no large enough mass of people to do anything and overthrow the regime :D

> no matter russian, ukranian or spanish, go get a weapon and contribute to the war

Ukrainians ain't „contributing to the war“. They're defending their home.

> Choosing for others, no, no and no. Never, ever. Over my dead body I would let someone send one of my relatives to a war because someone decided what is important or not for someone else.

Ultimately such is life. Going to war feels more personal, but others are guiding your life every day. And human societies built out precisely because of this group work. Individually, humans can't do much. Wether against nature or other humans who do organise. And neither other humans, nor nature doesn't care about your feelings.

But the bigger problem is when others' inaction prevents those who do want to intervene. Coming back to East vs West in europe. West was calling us „Rusophobes“ for years. Well, it turns out West was „Russophiles“ instead. Yet old line still holds and West seem to be holding East on a leash to not do too much against Russia. Because muh contributing to war... :( In other words, making choices for others.
This would only be relevant if you're doing something like

var theFunction = condition ? "querySelector" : "getElementById";
...
document[theFunction](...)

it won't apply to

if (condition)
document.querySelector(...)
else
document.getElementById(...)

As from the point of view of the runtime the latter has two call sites, and each one is monomorphic and will very quickly (first layer of the JIT tower generally) become a Structure/Shape/HiddenClass check on `document` followed by a direct call to the host environment's implementation function (or more likely the argument checking and marshaling function before the actual internal implementation).

It is possible that the higher level JITs pay attention to the branch counts on conditions or use other side channels for the deopt, but for host functions it's generally not something that will happen as the JITs see natively implemented functions as largely opaque barriers - they only have a few internal (to the runtime itself) cases where they make any assumptions about the behaviour of host functions.
Reading this I was thinking about how desperate some companies are to hire anyone to get job done. And the definition of done in that case is just make the code working - no matter how low quality it would be and how hard it would be to read and update for the next John Doe from Upwork. It's a race to the bottom inside race to the bottom.
Medicine? It's racism and classism. People with racist views can become medical drs and other racists can become powerful heads of state to order genocide.

What became Germany's eugenics program began in the United States and it was blatantly racist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Sterilization_Act_of_...
I want to echo this sentiment, albeit for different reasons.

When I have a particularly bad day as an adult, I often think back to being a child (or worse, teenager) in school forced to follow arbitrary rules by tired adults who were more interested in making sure nobody wore a baseball cap than keeping kids safe from anaphylactic allergic reactions.

When I think back to my school days and how anxious, stressed, unheard, and restricted I felt almost 100% of the time, I usually feel immediately better.

I remember being 16 in high school, and during the school day I couldn't just take a walk, because that would be truancy to skip class.

I couldn't just take a walk at night because our municipality instituted a curfew past I don't know, 10pm or something for those under 18, and a police car actively patrolled my neighborhood for violations.

I lived 18 years like that. Allowed to make no choices about where I went to school or at what time.

So now, as an adult, sometimes I just exit my apartment and walk down a city street when I feel like it, and it feels extremely empowering.

Taking a mental health day and not showing up to work, or better yet, handing in my resignation, also feel extremely empowering.

From my perspective, being a child sucked. I hated almost every moment of it, despite being reasonably popular in high school, having a close circle of friends, and never worrying about my grades.

Being an adult is amazing by comparison and I would never want to go back.

But I also understand that to some degree, that's a result of the freedom that comes with a high salary and an in-demand skillset that allow me to leave jobs and take days off with little risk. Many adults don't have that opportunity, and I totally understand how in some cases they could see their childhood as having been better due to a lack of responsibilities.
Wow. TIL. Annoyed I never knew this. Thanks tho.
Anti-consumer but pro-user