skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I own a number of power tools, I've never seen one come without a necessary component for basic operation. Maybe you can link to some brands that bare costs similar to an iPhone that are sold without basic components.

The problem is that you can't compare the US to other countries in this way. The salaries and what people take home are drastically different. Even inside the US, if anyone bothered to look, you'd probably find that most US citizens outside of wealthy areas give something up to get the next iPhone. Adding the charger on top of that likely has impact, just less so than a place like Brazil.
Bytedance wanted to enter Biotech for a while
https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/23/bytedance-ai-drug/
I suppose my problem is that the enormous complexity paired with the utility billing feels like I'm trying to drink from a pool of water surrounded by enormous lurking predators (the 800-pound gorilla analogy seems apt). I think everyone has at least a story of a forgotten instance that billed them a bit more, but with "infinitely scalable" compute come infinitely scalable bills. There are instances of developers creating infinite loops in cloud functions that result in 6 figure AWS bills. Of course then the advice is to plead your case and hope for a credit, but I wouldn't expect everlasting benevolence from Bezos's machine.

I have other issues and could probably expound on them at length, but work to do and all that. I don't disagree with you that it's an important tool for engineers today (I've certainly got an account or two), but that doesn't mean I have to like it.
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Damn. This just hit home for me really hard. On a previous team, I would take on tasks, learn what's going on, and then try to get a team mate up to speed so I wouldn't be the only one who knew how to run things. I feel like none of my team mates really took on those tasks or aspects of the work.

Over time this made me really angry at the team. It really shut down my brain because I had so many things to juggle. I really wish I could have replaced myself. I wound up just leaving the team, I think they struggled for a while.

When you're on a team with someone who seems to know everything, some people are much less motivated to learn the system. Also, sometimes things just suck. Sometimes you just have a team of jaded short-timers about to leave. Sometimes you have a team of junior employees who can "make things work" but leave a trail of half baked decisions.
Sounds like a Hell of a risk when playing with a complex system that is not yet fully understood.
Can we also talk about how “unlimited vacation” is a fraud? Not good for employers either as we just learned here.
I feel like this could be a really big deal?
If you need a travel guide for this type of tourism, you may find the “tourists vs locals” maps interesting and useful. Made by analyzing Flickr photos grouping them in ones likely taken by locals (blue) vs ones likely taken by tourists (red).
They supply a USB-C->Lightning cable, but nothing into which to plug the USB-C end of things.
> * When I decided to go to Vietnam, everything and everyone told me to go to Ho Chi Minh City. It had better food. More art. More high culture. Less government. So I went to Hanoi.

The US equivalent is to go to Indianapolis instead of NYC or Houston instead of LA.*

Uh huh. Indianapolis is a great idea for an international traveler. And while you are at it, go visit Indiana's state parks instead of Yosemite or Zion /s
Should we jail those with early calls for masking? What about that Copernicus guy and his earth-is-not-the-center-of-the-universe heretical spew?
The basis of the lawsuit was defamation which is different than spreading disinformation.

A lot of the legal documents can be found here [1] but I already know you aren't going to both yourself with the specifics of the case.

The short version is, if somebody sues you, you need to go through the legal motions otherwise you lose by default and then their side is considered factual when determining damages regardless of if it actually was. My personal opinion is that he knew he'd lose under Texas's defamation law and so decided the optics looked better not to fight.

[1]: https://infowarslawsuit.com/
Can you point us to any of that research? I'd be very interested to see how they managed to measure people's competence to serve as government officials. I'm frankly skeptical that can be done in a useful way.
"Ex cop uses oil-refinery to run over woman".
As a software engineer who doesn't really like devops and has been in this position multiple times, I'm a huge fan of buying à la carte services from different providers that specialize in managing a specific type of service (often since they are the developer/maintainer of said service). As long as you make sure they are all in the same datacenter, you still get great performance. And typically minimal configuration woes.

For example:

datacenter - aws: us-east-2

Dockerized Webservers/task servers:
Render or Engineyard

Postgres & Kafka:
aiven or 84codes

Redis:
Redis labs

Unified logging
Elastic or Grafana

I still end up using some underlying AWS services like S3 and lambda, but it's a lot less work than managing an entire AWS ecosystem with security groups/VPC/networking etc.
It's been a multipolar world for a long time OP, China was going hog wild around the same time I was sitting in front of an empty table place for Hans Reiser saying I'd probably end up blowing the whistle on illegal activity if I worked for the NSA and that I didn't want to help kill people with robots, so the Software Engineering Institute probably wouldn't be a cultural fit.

This might be a take too hot for "hacker news", but maybe both China and Russia are a threat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora
> If we can't even get people to put static analysis in their pipelines how are we going to get them to switch to rust?

I don't know. Somehow we need to shift industry culture. The good news is that this has been done. In the past, things we now take for granted like source control and unit tests weren't norms. Maybe someday tools like static analysis, fuzzing, and considerations for memory safety will be industry norms. I hope so.
Because developers are lazy and most will never migrate unless forced to.
Kurzgesagt covered this in one of their videos, it is not as hard as you make it out to be: https://youtu.be/dSu5sXmsur4
The employer itself is classy and respectable but it's a large company.

The hiring manager is the last round of the on site.

I am leaning toward taking the interviews, and then comparing to the list given to me before the hiring manager round. In the hiring manager round, if it was a match, I think I need to tell them directly. The reaction itself may be telling.

Like, what if the hiring manager is in on it? Depending on the scheme, it's either unethical or at least problematic in that I could have teammates who don't know their stuff
That’s super progressive of them, California just passed a similar law for doctors
Maybe it's time to reevaluate the role of police in our society. As an institution we've given them too many tools to exploit people, steal from people, do violence to people, and lie under oath.

When I read stories like this, of which there are many, or see studies that say 40% of police admit to commiting domestic violence, it sure makes me believe we've hired exactly the wrong set of people to hold power.
Which database?

If you're going all-in on Google Cloud and using Firestore, then use the emulators [0]. The emulators includes Pub/Sub. For Cloud Task Queues, use an unofficial emulator [1]

If you're not going all-in on Google Cloud and say you want to use Postgres, then use a `docker-compose.yaml` file and pull in a Postgres container instance or run a local Postgres if you want. Then pick a free Postgres compatible cloud service for the actual runtime (e.g. Supabase free tier). Same goes for MySQL.

For AWS, I'd use LocalStack [2]

[0] https://github.com/CharlieDigital/dn6-firebase

[1] https://github.com/aertje/cloud-tasks-emulator

[2] https://localstack.cloud/
Yup, as soon as this happens I'll be deleting Signal. I hope they turn back this decision.
The "blind orchestra auditions" story gets repeated a lot, but the study it originates from did not find any statistically significant effect (and even so the ultimate outcome was that men benefit from blind auditions, not women).

http://jsmp.dk/posts/2019-05-12-blindauditions/
Yes, this and several other comments have made me realize it's easy but probably wrong to think in black-and-white that: "getting updates => secure; no more updates => insecure." I guess there are no obvious relationships between "up-to-date" Android (for the reason you gave), "old" Android, up-to-date LineageOS, and the acceptable level of security for a common user.
Especially because it sounds like they didn't actually ban AirTags
I'm not a lawyer so I could be wrong, but aren't those cases only held up and prosecuted when the victim(s) suffered real financial damages? E.g. lost their job, company went under, etc.

I have yet to see what tangible damages Alex Jones caused the parents of the Sandy Hook incident. Emotional damages to be sure, but I don't believe fining someone because they hurt another's feelings is a good precedent to set.
> When I decided to go to Vietnam, everything and everyone told me to go to Ho Chi Minh City. It had better food. More art. More high culture. Less government. So I went to Hanoi.

I'm not sure why the author acts like those are the only 2 options. I spent a year living in Ho Chi Minh city and the vast majority of the city of is not aimed at international people but at the 9 million Vietnamese speakers living there (districts 1, 2 and 7 being the exceptions).

That being said, both HCM and Hanoi are subcultures of their own and don't give any impression of a 'typical' Vietnamese person's experience. If I were to look for a completely ordinary city, I'd pick a random city with a population of around 500,000 and nothing notable on Wikipedia.
Absolutely fantastic news, and it's coming for SF. This should have been voted higher.
equating a recession to a decrease in production is pointless

I didn't equate a recession to anything. In fact, I never even used the word recession in any post, I don't have a framework, and not trying to push a political agenda. Literally, all I want to do is help you understand the GDP equation, which is often misunderstood as to how imports are excluded.

(production is not the economy my guy, trade imbalances have an impact)

Might be true, but we were talking about GDP. GDP is production. Imports are not included in GDP, so an increase in imports doesn't cause GDP to go down.

So keep calling me D-K but you have no idea what GDP even represents (production is not the economy my guy, trade imbalances have an impact).

OK, that is a very DK comment because all GDP does is try to represent production. So you may not like GDP, but you don't get to redefine it. It is what it is, flaws and all.

If you want to make the case that the health of an economy shouldn't be measured by GDP, awesome, go do it (somewhere else, I don't care, or even disagree). But when you do it, remember what I taught you: GDP excludes imports, so when imports go up and down they don't change GDP.

GDP is down, but that reflects trade financing

Wrong, because math. Spending is up equal to the amount of imports increasing, so there is no effect on GDP.

Lets just put this to rest and answer me this question.

You are conflating an increase in imports with a decrease in domestic spending. Trade is not zero sum.
I think there's a middle ground. Nowadays, with exponential growth in tourism, the most famous places can feel a bit hellish if you don't like crowds. Without going to extremes, it's worth looking for slightly less popular options or avoiding peak times, even if that means getting suboptimal weather.
So then the next question is: why was precision engineering not developed earlier? One apparently plausible answer is that the perceived need did not arise earlier, but that leads into the question of what changed that perception? If the answer is "the development of the steam engine", we have a causal loop which is not clearly anchored to any particular time.

One of the often-overlooked prerequisites for Watt's improvement of the steam engine through the use of an external condenser was the need for a precision cylinder. Then-recent advances in boring machinery for making cannons provided the means, but cannons had been around for centuries before this development came about. Furthermore, while this improvement depended on an advance in precision engineering, Newcomen's steam engine was already eighty years old.

The industrial revolution and its successors depended on the mutually-supporting bootstrapping of several disparate facets of technology, all of which could possibly have started earlier, so it seems unlikely that the timing of the initial spark can be attributed to an until-then absence of just one of them.
I've visited Metafilter every so often which might be what your're looking for
https://www.metafilter.com
"Living like a local" in most places means spending the majority of your waking hours working to pay rent and much of the rest of it doing household chores, and your rare trips out being more likely to be to McDonalds than to enjoy the local cuisine...
Low pay at the state/local level basically guarantees some level of corruption as the pool of applicants gets very tight when you combine small districts with minimum wealth requirements. How much that’s a feature or a bug is debatable.
> I like the term "featurism", I'm going to try to remember it.

They actually could have translated it 1:1 as “featuritis”. It basically means the same as “feature creep”.
As for your first point, I suspect the parents and their attorneys have decided to split the lawsuits up strategically. I do not know how civil suit reform could address something like this.

As for your second point, it is indeed true that I don’t think Alex Jones caused a billion dollars worth of damage.

I simply cannot envision the specifics of this case warranting a billion dollars of restitution. If this was a case about an environmental disaster it wouldn’t be an unreasonable sum. So, I’m not advocating for a hard cap on damages for all civil suits. But something does seem wrong when a judge can arrive at such an outlandishly large sum for punitive damages in a case like this.

Edit: Alex Jones caused harm to the parents and their families, but even convicted murderers are not ordered to pay such large sums of restitution. And that’s direct incontrovertible harm.
> Every other USB-C device I've bought came with a USB-A charger and USB-A to C cable, including my current phone.

Wow, really? That is an interesting choice. One of the best aspects of USB-C is the increased power ability, which is unavailable if the head end of the cable is just connected to an old USB-A port. I mean, I get that Micro-USB was so awful that everyone abandoned it quickly when USB-C was invented, but why did they half-ass the solution?

I don't buy the argument that Apple is milking users with proprietary cables. They created a solution to Micro-USB when nobody else would, and they've stuck with that choice for 10 years. They have been moving iPads over to USB-C over the past few years, so clearly they will get there with the iPhone too, but you and I both know the bitching about that will be far louder than the complaints now that Lightning is proprietary. An original Lightning cable still works today.
But it's literally not true. The person had decades of experience working security roles.
> (or the darker version)

I default to, what if Bob wins the lottery?
Sure. Enjoy walking up to the stores in -20C (or -5F) in your light clothes from home (and before someone goes "but actually I'm gonna rent a car" suuure you think that will solve all your problems. sure)

Easy yes, cheap, not so much.
Come on, that's reduction to an absurd degree. The cop used special access to technology directly to get the information on these women.
I don't understand why people upvote this garbage. Do they find it funny? Or interesting?
At least as far as technical knowledge goes... that maybe works pretty well.
This hasn't made the front page of HN (maybe someone should post it), but Litestream actually doesn't do replication that way any more -- I stumbled upon this commit like 2 days ago:

https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream/pull/411

[EDIT] - I indulged myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33204347
But do you hire them?
> You could just use your old lightning cable?

If you were switching from a Lightning iphone to a Lightning iphone, then yes. But say you were switching from an older Android phone, or a limping iphone still on dock connector?
In elementary school, I was exhorted to avoid "flabby words" when possible. i.e. words that lengthen without adding meaning. "Very" is often such a word, but not always.
Mississippi River water levels are low, at times halting shipping
> as opposed to the extreme flexibility of using a cloud provider.

I don't really buy this honestly.

What you buy with cloud providers is quality tooling, not flexibility.

If you're bin-packing with Kubernetes properly then capacity is capacity and it doesn't matter if the marketing department are using it or the developers are. You just buy a bunch of servers and when you see the load approaching 70% you buy more. It's a 2 person job.

Is it harder? Yes. Definitely.

Is it a panacea? No. Not at all.

Is it universally cheaper? Also no. Definitely not.

I feel like whenever I talk about the Cloud as an expensive thing that people get emotionally defensive.

I'm not here to take your toys away.

Services like cloud are just tools and tools always have pros and cons.

If you can't reasonably discuss the con's without resorting to "I need to hire more staff" or "its a lot better than $strawman" then we're just cargo culting.

> it’s not really a good option for any business that needs consistent operations and uptime.

Most business cases for computers can just eat the downtime honestly. Your URL redirector doesn't need 5 9's. There's a grading scale of complexity and uptime, on one side you have a single hosted server that has profoundly strong uptime (especially with the redundancies in normal servers); then you start adding complexity to get HA, and weirdly: the complexity lowers the reliability.

If you keep following the line of redundancies and HA complexity, eventually you can get to a point where the service is even more reliable than a single node. Which is what everyone assumes they will get straight away, but usually it's a lot of work to get there.

> the trivial cost savings

This will differ a lot.

I made two games, one was hybrid-cloud and one was bare metal only; the cost savings were not trivial. If we had 100% clouded the hybrid deployment we would easily have paid 10x in the hosting costs which would have been enough money to pay for 250 contractors at a premium rate.

That said: the toys were definitely shiny.
I went from not knowing Docker to having a production capable ECS/Fargate microservice spun up within less than a week.

I based it on this CFT

https://github.com/1Strategy/fargate-cloudformation-example/...

And this walk through for C#. I had a similar walkthrough for building a container for a Node service.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/hosting-asp-net-core-ap...
Being a regular at a small selection of bars or restaurants is just good advice on how to make friends. I assume the same can be said about pretending to be an avid fan of a bad soccer team.

You could title the blog post "I care about the people, not the place. This is how that affects my travels".
Nice! Let’s sync and grab a beer if you want. Trying to meet people in the city.
Or a gun site called Gathub.com.
Litestream live replication has been moved to the LiteFS project
> I think a lot of modern coders really forget how much you used to need to know. Even stuff like "jump to definition" wasn't a thing IIRC back then.

Also came through that era, I don't miss it, modern tools are abstractions for the brain (and a logical progression from what we had before).

Everything is so much bigger and more complex than it was (mostly because things are bolted together from a large number of libraries from different places with their own subtle or not so subtle conventions).

In days of you had the languages standard libraries and libraries you wrote yourself and very rarely some Hallowed Third Party Library that was handed down on stone tablets by the Prophets of the Finance Department.

Some stuff I miss, most I don't.
Reduction of Carbon Emissions is also a sure way to show down the economy. And slowing down the economy is not acceptable: people want to get rid of global warming in order to live better; if the price to pay is to live worse, it's not worth it.
I'm 100% for challenging how the powers that be react to climate change! But you're saying we should be taking it less seriously than we already do. That's completely bonkers and the complete wrong conclusion. You're not challenging authority, you're supporting their destructive profit seeking behaviour by downplaying the negative effects.
Well, maybe that parking lot example will help you in the future to explain why this is a dumb approach. Expanding the customer base has its own costs, so you obviously want to target some point of optimal return (revenue from customer - cost to support customer), otherwise you're just shooting yourself in the foot.
https://archive.ph/NcNvk
i think what is most important to me at the end of the day is knowing i put in the time and effort to do a good job, no matter what it is.

i am old enough now to have experience in all sorts of things. i was a construction estimator, a retail store manager, a property manager/maintenance man... about a year and a half ago i decided that i wanted to follow my passion and that lied in the world of computing.

i know i am just an intern, but to me when you accept responsibility you do all you can to do a good job. regardless of the tools or information you aren't given.

i may not know anything right now, but i will know something eventually.

thanks for your kind words. i WILL be fine.
> [1] Defendants’ latest malicious statements were part of a continuous
pattern of five years of intentional and reckless harassment accomplished through
dozens of disturbing video broadcasts, a relentless stream of recklessly false articles
published on InfoWars.com, harassing social media content, as well as the
encouragement, aid, and financial support to third-parties in furthering this
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harassment.

The lawsuit literally claims they (Alex Jones) encouraged the harassment.

[1]: https://infowarslawsuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2018-...
That's an excellent point. MBAs-as-CISOs may be more of a symptom of the incentive structure than a cause.
If that were the case, he probably would wouldn’t be ok continuing to run the tech if the USG foots the bill.

He’s just an egotistical ass who’s mad that Ukrainian leadership called him out on his trash rhetoric.
Galera is multi-master but I'm not sure that's as important with Postgres (it has good baseline performance & can fail over quickly).

Patroni is great for managing active-hot standby clusters
Amazon started using such a system a while back trained on their hiring data, and it started very heavily selecting against applications with female-indicating proxies, and was abandoned.

In another case,

After an audit of the algorithm, the resume screening company found that the algorithm found two factors to be most indicative of job performance: their name was Jared, and whether they played high school lacrosse

which reads like a comical stereotype of a young male New England WASP; honestly kind of impressive.
> Recently I dug teeny bit into pocket watches, and then wrist watches, which turnst out were a thing way longer than I imagined!

Weren't these handcrafted by highly skilled and highly paid specialists for a long, long time. In contrast to more modern mass production.