skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That statement is 100% accurate. One does typically need a related bachelors to be considered for a typical software job.

There are absolutely places with more progressive hiring practices, but this is not the norm. If you apply to XYZ Corp in any random city or town, they will have “bachelors in computer science or related degree” in the requirements section of the job posting.
If you have corruption or super long reboots on brief power loss, you have a bigger and unnecessary problem, because UPS can also fail and for many applications a brief service loss is otherwise acceptable. For example, I often handle California power outages by running an inverter off my car and powering up my home network through a cord run through kitchen window. If my NAS got borked in between, that would be very unfortunate. Your point stands in regards to equipment like security cameras where continuous availability is the point. But would a Raspberry Pi usually be the best choice vs special design equipment with built in backup batteries and low idle drain or say a cheap Android phone running an appropriate app?
By all means, fork the code base for your specific use case, but I'll trust drh and his team over some rando any day.

sqlite isn't the most widely used database by accident - it's installed on practically every mobile phone on earth. It's the result of careful and deliberate design with millions of tests and fuzzing. The sqlite team is very responsive to its users' needs, but some features just don't make the cut. That's a good thing - to keep the library small, fast and reliable.
This is certainly a data point, but there are a bunch of companies that have qa. The one thing I'll say is that there seems to be an inversion between was and fast ci/cd. When you have people turning over production worthy code daily, the idea of having dedicated resources to "check your work" kinda falls over. Anyone with sufficiently critical systems and doing regular deployments needs to be able to verify their changes as streamlined as possible, and using QA a staff with their own sets of problems, managers, standards, etc. seems to contradict the "ship it fast(if we need to)" mentality in ci/cd shops.

That said, there's room to help devs in this world, and I'm not entirely sure if this is a lack of software, or a need for a human in the mix, but there's certainly gaps that can be filled to help the quality of releases that go out the door in these shops.
Electricity in the US is such a mess though, it's so easy to reach the limit of a 120V/15A circuit.
There's nothing wise or moral about this decision.

Mandating a technology standard, purely for personal preference and convenience reasons -- not for reasons related to safety, or pollution, or security -- especially for things that change as fast as phones, is one of the most short-sighted and naive things any government could do.

There's a long history of Apple using proprietary connectors to achieve performance specifications above what the currently available standardized connectors could provide. Hell, in all likelihood, Apple is likely to ditch a charging connection altogether in favor of wireless charging in the near future. The EU is mandating technological stagnation. They will always be behind the market.
Google Launch: Nest WiFi Pro
No, but really— try reading the article I shared. It’s pretty interesting.
Some were also technical I believe, for example with relation to the power grid frequency.
Show HN: Bell inequality violation with entangled photons - Nobel Prize 2022
This year Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger - for "experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities, and pioneering quantum information science".

If you want to simulate the Bell inequality violation in your browser, you can do so in the Virtual Lab by Quantum Flytrap. We use the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt.

There are quite a few other examples of quantum information experimental setups related to the winners. For example, a GHZ (Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger) source, which creates quantum states with intrinsic three-photon entanglement.

For a more detailed description, see Section 5. Example Experiments in our open-access publication on the lab: https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.61.8.081808
Churchill's Second World War books are an incredibly easy read for how information dense they are, as is his "History Of the English Speaking People."
Headliner normally doesn’t know or care who the openers are
So for today he does feel like honoring the deal. There's always tomorrow!
Tyranny of the ASCII and EBCDIC.
On the other (semi-unrelated) hand, film can be much, much better than digital for some applications.
For example, a transmission electron microscope that uses an emulsion film to capture the image compared to a digital capture device - the film can be magnified again with a light microscope later for much more magnification than may be accessible when all of the information is registered to a single pixel.

Just something to remind us that there are pros and cons to everything.
Until people stop posting the falsehood.
As an emphasis of your point consider the two statements

"Our engineering is backed by MIT graduates"

"Our engineering is backed by the best engineers"

One sounds a LOT better to a client. It's a lot easier to sell a product when you can lean on an actual credential than a vague superlative. Even if your vague superlative is absolutely true.
You found Ben Shapiro claiming that Liz Cheney was calling all Trump 2024 voters 'incipient' Fascist, and you think that supports your case?

How about limiting the proof of what you think "liberals" think to stuff that blue checkmarked Twitter accounts who aren't professional comedians say in earnest. Otherwise we might as well use stuff scrawled on a bathroom stall wall in poop for our sources.
I spent the first ten or so years of my career without a degree. And I can say with certainty that jobs are substantially easier to come by now that I have a CS degree.

I'm not sure if this is still the case for people, but I faced a lot of discrimination from management over my lack of degree. Especially managers who "inherited" me. Some of it was petty too, like all the other devs on my team were software "engineers" but since I lacked a degree, I was a software "developer". AFAIK, it wasn't a salary thing either.

It's not difficult to get a degree, especially if you have experience in the field. So I would say that it's worth it.
Vercel has been awesome for us - they've solved all these little pain points that really add up. Definitely a great starter service like what Heroku was. Also free for individuals.
Integza built one of these at home! He interviewed with some of the creators as well.

https://youtu.be/fRMMSyCcTDI
I'm actually fine with indemnification because it creates an incentive for departments to not employ cops that are going to get them sued.
If you're in the US, the military has a placement test that can show you your strengths and weaknesses. You don't have to sign up to join to take the test. There's even a civilian version of it but I can't remember what it's called. Here's the description of the army test: "The ASVAB is a standardized test that reveals areas of strength and ability in science, math, and language. Taking the test is one of the first steps before you enlist. Once it’s over, you’ll get to find a job that matches up to your strengths."
Unfortunately, it also exacerbates the problem for other countries.

Unless remote anywhere becomes widespread. Then it is both other countries and US salaries.
The approach to edge-ifying SQLite taken in [1] looks quite promising - using FoundationDb as the storage handles a lot of hairiness.

1: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite
Last I checked I was nearing 1,000 movies on iTunes/AppleTV that I "bought"

I also haven't noticed any missing or anything, but my understanding when I click the "buy" is I'm not buying to OWN the content like I'd expect with a DVD/VHS, but buying the right to watch it as long as the content is available as many times and whenever I want.

I personally think people are clinging too much onto the description of "buying" that comes with physical goods, not digital goods.
That's my hunch as well. In another society, peoeple "with ADHD" would actually be deemed normal and well-adjusted, while drones who want to go to the same job for 40 years would be medicated. It just happens, that in civilized societies, specialization and consistency give huge payoffs, so we medicate people who can't naturally do that.
Any chance of swift server?
Well, that's definitely the craziest head gear I've ever seen.
I'm a Catholic so I attend Church often and in my experience, it really depends on how the Parish runs; in some places, people literally show up 5-10 minutes before Mass and then rush to the parking lot as soon as it ends, so you never have a chance to speak to anyone.

However, in contrast, my fiance is from Peru and goes to a Latin Church; there you have a very strong sense of community and can meet plenty of people. Also, you probably won't be meeting your SO at the Church directly but you will most likely be introduced _through_ someone from the community (especially older people who have bigger families).

The other thing about religious communities is that "dating" is not about hookups or casual sex but more about about finding life long partners and marriage. This can be a blessing or a curse depending on what stage of life you are in (though if you are truly devout, you won't mind) so it's not perfect.

Anyway, for non religious people, there are still plenty of ways to meet: Volunteering programs, social clubs, sport centers, etc.

The only advice I would give is meet as many people as possible because chances are your potential partner will be introduced to you through friends of friends eventually.
Yes, but they don't include that homeopathic remedies are fake medicine and not everyone will necessarily know that.
So I created an alternative to Yelp and other review platforms called Gabble that eliminates fake reviews and lets you use gifs (as well as videos and pictures) to do reviews of everything you pay for. Why? Cos:

1. I rely on reviews about 90% + of the time and I got sick of reading them and not knowing for sure if they are fake or not
2. Cos gifs, that's why. I wanna be able to use gifs to do everything, all the time. Heck, even the constitution should have a gifs version (I might actually start a petition for that). The perfect gif can almost always sum up how I feel about a purchase
3. Cos reviews should get to the point. I want to just know if the couch is great or not. I don't want to read an entire Master's thesis just to buy the damned thing!

All reviews on Gabble are based on verified transactions using the same tool that Venmo, Acorns, Sofi and others use. As a result fake reviews are 100% eliminated

Check out the MVP and let me know what you think.
Specially when demanded by entitled companies that want the work of FLOSS developers for free. And, curiously, these are usually the same companies that cry about (L|A)?GPL.
In Google’s recent “Hacking Google” series [1] they appeared to credit Knuth via his bug reward program in his books [2] as having created the first software bug bounty offer.

Anyone aware of any software bug bounties that predate Knuth’s?

___________

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33066313

- specifically: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IoXiXlCNoXg&list=PL590L5WQmH8dsx...

[2] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check
In fact, in some cases there is nothing to do, syntactically, after the reader is done. An expression like (+ (* x y) (sqrt z)), after being read, is ready for evaluation by performing the function calls. (In principle; of course since we have macros, it has to be walked.)

It was the reader which settled all the syntactic facts about what operation is applied to what operands.

At this point we could move the goalposts: even eval and compile don't know anything about Lisp syntax. Because, look: (- 10) and (- 10 1) behave differently: the 10 operand changes semantic role between minuend and subtrahend based on syntax. All that eval knows is that it's passing arguments.

A function can treat its argument values as the tokens of a syntax which are shored up according to arbitrary phrase structure rules, similarly to Unix programs like find and tcpdump.
Just picked up a near pristine vol.1 first edition in a uni library selloff. Wonder how they got a copy so unread after all these years.
What about the EU contributions to the web stack, like requiring every website on the internet forcing an accept cookies mouse click?
I love you Elon but you’re really making it very hard.
> Spark was fine, but was abandoned.

Aw, that's sad to hear. I've been out of JVM-in-anger space for awhile, but I always liked Spark when I was.
Patio11’s Law: The software economy is bigger than you think, even when you take into account Patio11’s Law.

https://secondbreakfast.co/patio11-s-law
Plan 9 is a great example of a hybrid kernel that is very much in the spirit of a microkernel. It uses 9p as the foundation meaning the whole OS is based around a file-like message oriented RPC protocol. Every process has its own namespace and mount table so you implement security by limiting mounted resources to a child proc and its children. Since the 9p byte streams are processor agnostic you don't have endian or cross platform problems so you don't care about a remote machines architecture.

The source code is included by default so you can boot and jump right in. Code is very clean, minimal and approachable.

The reason why it is not a microkernel is because hardware drivers and some performance sensitive code such as ip, tls and graphics are in kernel. The rest, including on-disk file system (cwfs, fat, ext, etc), certain usb drivers, etc run in user space.

> I'm curious to see how userspace processes communicate to kernel processes to execute privileged actions.

You write and read messages to synthetic files served by the kernel. Kernel files are served via a special # prefix so they can be opened by any program locally. Since user space programs can speak 9p you don't need any special programs to make syscalls to talk to the kernel. e.g. to list disks served by the sd(3) driver run 'ls '#'S'

Everything is just messages. Even unix signals were replaced with notes. To send a note to a process all you do is 'echo hello >/proc/$pid/ctl' and in the program you register one or more note handlers that simply do a strcmp() and if the note matches a string you define then do something. (if you complain about /proc and never used plan 9 /proc then your argument is invalid.)

If you think about it, plan 9 is just a host for microservices.

I recommend using 9front to explore.
Platform censorship by the owner of the platform isn't a First Amendment issue. The FBI asserting government pressure to convince or coerce the platform to remove it is government censorship.

Where the line is drawn between a polite request and coercion is ... tricky when you're talking about the federal government in an era of increasing pressure to regulate social media.
That is a positive statement, not a normative one.
Quite expensive for that use.
I don't think it's about "advisability" per se, but desirability. I probably shouldn't have used the word "possible". I guess possible relative to my ability to deal with it.

Sure, you can walk in a snowstorm, when it's -15F, when it's downpouring, when it's 100F, but these are hardly a refuge from the inside environment in many cases.

Don't get me wrong. I've spent plenty of time doing exactly this, but my underlying point is that it's not a consistent or low friction option.
Isn't there a SC test coming up soon on Section 230? Feels like a potentially unfortunate time to be buying a social network
> It was and probably still is the only microkernel OS commercially available to the general public.

QNX was
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1297514/

Take a look at the long history of “like cures like.” I should take back my claim that it is “always” viewed as a mental effect— things get a bit squishy in the olden days.
Perhaps, but the vast majority of devices in our house do not use USB-C. They are either still on micro-USB, or they're on lightning. I realize people's experiences differ on this, but for many people USB-C devices are not common. These people do not have charging infrastructures in their homes for USB-C devices, and transitioning means throwing away a lot of cables and such.
That's definitely the main cause, but in the case of Clauser at least there's the added wrinkle that for the first few years his work wasn't very popular with other physicists. His PhD advisor was writing recommendation letters specifically telling people not to hire Clauser for work on QM experiments: https://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0508/0508180.pdf .
My thoughts exactly!

Why does it even need to be forked? The whole point of using SQLite as a foundation for distributed, edge, or other stuff is that it's a solid foundation that can be trusted to not change too much.

Why the need to open SQLite to contributions? Build your fancy distributed, or edge database on top of SQLite and you won't need to modify SQLite at all.
> there's a good amount of misdiagnosis too.

Until there is a more objective way to diagnose ADHD, how can one argue who really has the condition or not? It's not like we humans even remotely understand the brain in its entirety.
So you can go through and select the best of the offerings to swipe right on.
Probably around 7-10 years, which is the time limit it originally had.

Copyright is meant to be a "public pact" to encourage creation and innovation.

But think about that goal for a minute. It doesn't necessarily mean you should be able to create one awesome thing once and then benefit from it for life as a rent-seeking fat cat.

Instead, it should give you a reasonable amount of time to benefit from the fruits of it, but afterward, you should be encouraged to create again. So you'd be motivated not just by the carrot of making a lot of money over a 10-year span after launch, but also by the stick that you will no longer get royalties after 10 years, so you need to keep innovating. There is even a study out there that shows that the buyers of most books drastically drops after 10 years.

This benefits society at large, since it creates more competition, both from the original author of a work, but also by others who are then allowed to make iterations of the original work.

That's why patents are time-limited, too. The idea isn't to give one company the "right" to make money off an invention for eternity, but to allow the whole society to profit from it eventually by allowing others to drastically improve upon that original idea afterward.

But why was it ever intended as a "public pact" and not like an "actual right" that authors have? Because let's not forget that no idea is 100% original.

In fact, most aren't even 10% original. We all live "on the shoulders of giants" as they say. So most works are just rehashing of old works - so that also means that if enforcement was 100% the inflow of new works would drastically be reduced. So you don't "deserve" to benefit from a "new work" that's actually mostly rehashed old ideas anyway.

I always recommend watching the Everything is a Remix series to get a new perspective on this based on the history of copyrighted works:

https://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series
It looks that way in retrospect (and looked that way to me at the time!) but here’s a bit of sympathy for the decision:

1 - in those days executives, and even other white collar “professionals”, typically male, didn’t type. They had secretaries who took dictation, typed things up, made corrections, and then used, Xerox photocopiers to make copies which would be distributed. So the use case wasn't clear.

2 - for all of those reasons they probably looked at specs (screen? Yep. keyboard? Yep. Network? What's that?) and thought they were making a shrewd decision. And perhaps they were: nobody even knew they needed a WYSIWYG editor much less mail (and this was Xerox, a paper management company -- why would they embrace electronic mail?). Microsoft swooped up Simonyi and he rewrote his Bravo editor as the original version of Word (the only part of office originally written by Microsoft?). The Alto wasn't as expensive as the later Star (also a failure) but I think each one cost about 10K in 1980 dollars.

As far as I know the only Altos and Dovers outside PARC were MIT, Stanford and the White House. Probably CMU too.
> Because no one is saying Christianity is fascism.

"American Christianity is fascism, all American Christians." https://twitter.com/MayMayGraves/status/1564745487378530305

See also https://twitter.com/PatRyatt/status/1576708937725927424 https://twitter.com/sladeofyaupon/status/1309652727660785664 https://twitter.com/timberwraith/status/1529918154721398784 https://twitter.com/VofDestruction/status/157724863750710476... https://twitter.com/JasonIsCreating/status/15327851529334743...
:wave: https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick

(But I sincerely hope it's not a fad as I've designed it to be the antithesis to the rabbit chasing and dogmatic nonsense that's plagued JS the last decade or so).
There is no negotiating, he agreed to buy it at $54.20

Twitter and the Delaware courts were going to seize his assets if necessary to complete the funding, but Musk was going to own Twitter whether or not he still wanted it.
I just use ad blockers. I haven't a YouTube ad in years.
Well I have some reading to do because that meant very little to me yet I am very intrigued.
Not the OP, but the current high inflation is partially caused by Covid-related measures.

The people who were saying early on during the pandemic (me included) that we have to put into balance the number of covid casualties with the longer term economic consequences of imposing harsh and long lockdowns were treated as assasins of our collective grandmas, and worse. If it matters I’m triple vaccinated.
Yes, it seems the split was triggered by the war, but the censorship/promotion/collaboration with the government [0] were not worth breaking the ties.

A cynical view would be that it's only now that the association became bad for business.

[0]: By the way, Yandex was showing Crimea as unqualifiedly Russian territory since 2014, until the war, when they just removed borders between countries completely

Edit: qualified the remark
The Razer Edge 5G is a new handheld Android gaming console with support for 5G
I participated in the public alpha and beta testing for UO.

I recall it being a very laggy experience back in the days of 28.8k modems.
Some states have criminal defamation statutes, which is why I mentioned it depends on the case. I could've made that more clear though. As another comment mentioned, Ohio isn't one of those states though.

My main point was that sometimes "making stuff up online" is a crime, or in the least, unlawful. And as far as colloquialism goes, crime, illegal, and unlawful are used interchangeably by the general public.
For anyone hoping to add the latest tech to an existing google/nest system, note that the new WiFi Pro devices are not compatible with older google/nest wifi devices.
I am a happy Coolify user and I could say that it is a promising and quite active project with a vivid community. The fact that you can self-host dozens of services using a single VM is a breeze of fresh air.

Furthermore, with just a bunch of dollars you can get a really good VM from Hetzner and host everything there.
At the moment I am using Coolify for small Node.js apps as well as using a few more services:
- VaultWarden.
- Minio as an object storage solution.
- Glitchtip as a Sentry alternative.

Essentially, if you are considering privacy and avoid paying a dime to Jeff directly or sideways (most of the PaaS services are built on top of AWS) projects like Coolify, CapRover, Dokku etc are the way to go.