skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, figuring out what you've really been hired to do is so important to happiness.

We all have our own idea of what excellence in software engineering looks like, but sometimes we're actually working as chairsitters, other times we're email account managers, sometimes we were only hired so our name/expertise/certifications can be listed on the "About Us" page.

Most of us would say an engineer can still be excellent with a flexible start time, but a chair sitter absolutely can't have that. However it would be fair for a chair sitter to get on the clock time to devote to upstream open source projects or to experiment with new database systems that might be useful for scaling.
"Suing it". Sure, me as a small-time citizen with not much money in this libertarian utopia will have the power and money to sue a massive corporation who installed a factory to dump their toxic waste unto me.

It doesn't account for massive differences in power, there's nothing in libertarian philosophy which takes into account that a multi-trillion dollar corporation will, always, have absurdly more power than any citizen or small collection of citizens.

Suing someone/something is not a magic bullet, in your utopian libertarian world you'd have to pay lawyers for that. You'd require lawyers that want to work with you instead of large corporations, corporations which would be free to blacklist any lawyer working against them to work for them. Not taking into account that these corporations can just slowly dial up the inconvenience to communities they'd like to push out, are you gonna sue them multiple times? What exactly do you expect that your powerless minimal government be able to do if you win a trial against such actors, to fine them? If they can just pay the fine, over and over, and they calculate those fines are just a cost of business that will be paid off by ROI, is that ok? Or do you expect the government to take action and shutdown a company that's constantly breaking the law?

I simply cannot understand why you really believe that suing a massively more overpowering force in a libertarian world is achievable, not only achievable but required to keep a balance of... Power.

It's absurd.
You’re correct but fun fact: MP3’s patents expired
also Safari dev tools are pure garbage, the worst i've used since IE 10.
constantly crashes for no reason, refuses to select elements unless you close and re-open it, a weirdly stubborn cache, just so much worse than the chromium/firefox devtools. debugging in Safari is a major pain in the ass.

and of all the browsers, Safari is the one that tends to render differently from others in a unwanted way. working with dozens of written languages, the ways it f~ks up text rendering and copy wrapping is sometimes baffling too.

and this is without talking about the weird UI, sometimes I try updating a URL and the cursor just starts deleting characters from the wrong place. it's so annoying. and a lack of status bar, unless you manually enable it. what a piece of sh~t browser.
You can also just lie about nukes, it's just that nobody cares for lies in either case. Russia could drop a nuke and say "it was totally a Swiss plane", but that doesn't matter to anyone, and the same would be true for them attacking nuclear power plants.

They shot down MH17 and only the hardcore believers are pretending to believe them, and those folks would say it wasn't them if Putin personally pushed the button while on live TV and narrating what he's doing the whole time. The difference is that we don't care enough about MH17 to go to war over it. Put Nancy Pelosi on that plane, and see what happens and how far they'd come with "it totally wasn't us, I swear on Stalin's grave".
A16 Bionic on iPhone 14 Pro Max scores 359 on Speedometer 2.0
> The couple times someone pulled a gun on me

As a German that sentence sounds so absurd. I am in my mid-30s and have never held a gun myself. The only weapons I saw in Germany were (holstered) guns on policemen.
There are plenty of jobs with a regular workday. Stay away from operations/on-call and avoid companies with offshoring in other time zones.
I suspect this is what was causing some linear optimisation libraries (simplex style) to fail to find a solution when I had a problem with inputs in range 0.0-1.0, but outputs expressed in hundreds of billions. If I scaled down my problem by dividing all the coefficients by one million, I am solving the same problem mathematically, but now those solvers are then stable and successful. I suspect they must be using some fixed epsilon to determine if the solved solution is close enough to the objective.
Because I live in embedded land, I use the compileOnly C output. What’s really nice about that though is with debugger:native enabled, it embeds source-map comments in the C back to the Nim lines they tie to! All in VSCode with gdb (and OpenOCD).

This gives me full interactive debugging, breakpoints etc of the Nim source directly — including via a JTAG from the ESP32 itself :) it’s super nice, considering none of the tools internally were built for Nim haha. The #Line macro is surprisingly powerful in C debugging land it turns out

If you’re doing desktop/non embedded stuff it’s even easier, and you can also enable useMalloc and run Nim programs through the Valgrind suite easily
You can breed acroporas (elkhorn is a type of acropora) in your home and the list of species where spawning triggers are being documented is increasing.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jamie+craggs+co...

Light pollution is (yet another) a big deal problem for the reef.
Exfiltrate Data with NTP
Claudia Roth does not represent other than herself
Gpwgraph – PipeWire Graph Qt GUI Interface
Presumably they mean creating a daughter comment to their own top-level comment? Though I'm not personally aware of any particular convention against it.
There's an objective truth beyond Marxism. Markets, demand, offer.

You seem to have the vision that my property is not my property and somebody else should decide what I do with my property, not me. This kind of vision ended up in blood and death of some many millions of people all over the world.
They also don’t have HSTS enabled, let alone HSTS Preload. Lots of security theater, though.

https://blog.majid.info/hsts-preload/
Better information, probably. And the will to search for it.
Wait, nobody else thinks that if Russia uses a tactical nuclear weapon that North Korea won’t see a window of opportunity to fire one or more over at Japan or South Korea?

I mean technically that war is only at cease fire.
Not everything serves a purpose. Onions have more DNA than humans.
I do that too. I am not giving into the pressure set up by the company and it’s up to the other people to refuse too. Otherwise the company sets up abusive systems and workers play along. We all need to resist this abuse.
I don't know. It seems to me Elixir requires a new and rather restrictive programming paradigm. For me, that's even worse than being overengineered.
i think this needs an edit, it's not a complete sentence (missing a predicate and/or object for the clause after "before"). don't know what you're trying to say
There are thousands more UK deaths than usual and we don’t know why
Why does it assume that no bombers would be downed en route? Why does it assume that no missile would be intercepted?
On the bright side now the Boomers can shut up about how tenuous their early years were with the threat of nuclear war.

Same Boomers in charge now same stupid ego problems.
So did you by retorting to a comment about the long term habitability of a region with an argument about short term visits.
Play “Big Data or Pokémon?” To learn more.

https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/
> A dirty bomb would render areas uninhabitable - or at least dangerous - for decades after a war is over.

50+ years on from the aerial minelaying of the Vietnam War people there and in surrounding countries are still being maimed and killed by landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO).

War is a dirty business with generational consequences.

Many non-nuclear industrial processing operations could also be targeted in a war and leave a deadly footprint for decades.

Existing nuclear plants were built at large scale, future nuclear power plants could be made smaller and more widely distributed.
> Why is lowering risk/maximizing gain at the expense of others a defendable choice because it produces/saves money for an already wealthy individual. Why is this not viewed similarly to other things which are legal but unethical, say cheating on a spouse?

Most people I know absolutely hate landlords. I've hated 3/4 of mine. But what are you going to do? I can sneer at my landlord all I want but I still have to pay him my rent. I don't want to move out of New York (not yet at least) and buying seems nonsensical.

I don't think anyone is defending them, but do you expect the investor who owns 100 units to not attempt to maximize profit? Most people who get into that business can be assumed to prioritize money over community. The only realistic way to change things is to make it not profitable to sit on these.

> Why is it that the government needs to produce ever smarter and more complicated legislature to prevent people from exploiting others for wealth?

Humanity has kind of always been that way. And even if most people aren't, a small number can disproportionately affect many.
That sounds like the Pyrenees? What else is in between north east of Spain and south west of France?
Are they providing the data they use anywhere? Are they just expecting that all Russian nukes will actually make it to the US?

The US has been somewhat open about the immense difficulty of keeping it's nuclear arsenal working reliably and has demonstrated at least some capability to intercept nuclear payloads.

Russian state of it's arsenal is likely going to be worse and the actual ability of the US to intercept is likely going to be better.
Why would you feel dirty? In this case it is solving for exact equality, ie the same bits, it doesn't matter that the value is a float.

Though I have seen some people using a double as a primary key (no idea why) and some database engine (internal, not major vendor) failing to do equality comparisons in certain statements, I suspect because they must be switching to "close enough" which is not what you expect when you write col1 = col2.
Eh, my bad!
Reproducible builds are for developers. As a user I didn't build the app on my phone.

I have a phone with Signal on it. Tell me what I should do to verify it's running the open source Signal code.
It's fearmongering.

I haven't seen a single expert be worried about ZPP.

Also, some gas plants were hit. Now those exploded in a scary way. That's what I'd be worried about.
Paris, Dublin (radar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland%E2%80%93NATO_relations...), Madrid, Toyko & Australia not being targeted make it that much more unrealistic. Even if those were hit any other remaining urban area would have its population get dragged in for peace keeping & humanitarian clean up.
Any company that produces something tangible and uses software in it mostly will have a strict 9-5 schedule. Think car software development, or similar.
The operators said the cuts were similar to an earlier case where the cables were just cut through.

And at current prices, you'd need a ton of copper to justify a drive from France to Austria :-)
Correct, but how do you enforce it?

Let’s say I stole your NFT somehow or abuse it’s content by making money out of it on my own website.

How would you go about a cease and desist equivalent?

What could my lawyers oppose to yours. For instance if it’s a “NBA NFT” of a basket ball match snipet broadcasted on Tv and other means.
What would be the benefit to NK leadership to do so? The war may be "only" at cease fire right now, but chances are that SK and Japan (not to mention the US) would consider the use of nukes sufficient reason to storm Pyongyang and decapitate the leadership structure before they get nuked again.

Kim Jong Un knows that he will die if he actually uses nukes, so chances are he won't.
I bet you would get similar results from slightly darker whites (e.g. a gentle yellowish/grayish background), slightly increased font size, monitor brightness better adjusted to the ambient light, and an adjustment in your viewing angle.

I think people probably find situations where one variant of dark mode is just less bad then one variant of light mode, and that perpetuates the simpler idea that dark mode is always better than light mode, where light mode is often unfairly represented by black text on white.

I do admit that it can be more complex to tune your setup for non dark modes. And sometimes it's officially impossible, like when browsers don't support tweaking your own colors well. But I think the popularity of dark mode prevents this kind of tuning from being more popular and supported.
Yes, I read a book in university (can't remember the exact name) about how high-brow modernism often mingled with 'low-brow' popular press. Extracts of experimental literary fiction appearing in cheap magazines next to ads, that kind of thing.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/pmla/article/abs/pop...

Edit: the book I was thinking of is this. Great read. https://www.routledge.com/Re-Covering-Modernism-Pulps-Paperb...
It influenced mushroom picking because mushrooms absorb heavy metals like crazy.

They also absorb lead for instance. That's why you don't wanna pick shrooms near roads.
"The day after" was released a year before "Threads" and it literally shocked a generation.

Including my parents, in Italy, where it aired on February 1984.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After
Yes! I'd say avoid:.

- industries that have serious consequences for errors, e.g. finance, health.

- high volume client facing systems, e.g. high tps b2c (think large e-commerce).

- companies not yet in a mature phase, e.g. 10 years or older.

Start there in terms of simple rules of thumb to filter out potential jobs. Then when doing interviews dig further. Lastly don't take leadership positions.

In the end of the day it's definitely possible to find something fulfilling but not all consuming, just take your time to find a place...I'm sure it's out there
We don't have more of them because they conflict with something else: human usace and occupation
How many van-living people do you think will be able to squat on Walmart property before they're getting knocks with armed officers and drug dogs in the middle of the night?
Also look at the other nuclear powers just sitting there dooing nothing.

This in a early cold war era US vs USSR Armageddon scenario, not a 202x scenario.

Plausible scenarios today are:

- Russia using a nuke in Ukraine and earning the hate of every single country in the world. China and India try to remain neutral but they would almost certainly drop support for Russia if they break the nuclear taboo. This would not even require a nuclear response to solve.

- Kim doing something stupid.
I think it's YMMV...I am an in house dev in somewhat of retail and manufacturing and we have major product launches every few months and there's crunch time....then supporting our marketing and retail websites can require off hours support.

We have teams outside the US, mostly business teams (non-IT) that we interact with....China, Israel, Ireland..
Even within the US in Phoenix is a 3 hour timezone difference from me on the East coast.

Another commenter said...find a company that only services the US.

Unless my company clones me (i.e. hire a part timer who does what I do, but only in Asia and west coast) I just become reasonably accommodating knowing we all work together and in the same boat to find hours that work without interfering with my life.
"This is nothing. When I was in school, we had to swim 40 miles through a radioactive swamp, wrestling mutated alligators."
I'm not talking block diagrams here. I'm talking about fully fleshing out issues down to the level of functions inputs and outputs(1). So that managers will be pleased with the "planning" and "sizing" and some other buzzwords...

(1) Which (outputs) are another bitter story since we are building on top of legacy code that is working with side effects from head to toes. But let's not touch this can of worms.
I remember when Fowler first introduced the concept of microservices and said "these are great!" and then they suddenly became fashionable. The backlash inevitably ensued because as a default approach they are technically a bad idea. Teams that ran 10 microservices only created more headaches for themselves and soon the "monilith first" movement was born.

As a way of aligning with Conway's law though, they really are good. You pay a technical cost but in exchange for that cost they allow looser coupling between subsytems managed by different teams that compensates for their lack of alignment.

It's a technical solution to a human problem. One of few that actually works.
Also should a negative zero be strictly equal to zero?
Owning a house is essentially like having a bottomless pit to throw all your excess money into. I didn't really appreciate the advantages of renting until the dishwasher and the oven broke in the same month.

Don't get me wrong, you spend that money on stuff you use, but the TCO is much higher than the mortgage payment.
Obviously you have to start somewhere with a simulation, but to me it seems like you'd want to quickly add in the food/water/energy aspect and perhaps consider the additional damage caused by conventional weapons.

It seems as though at least one of the simulated parties has a current doctrine of trying to destroy power plants and food distribution hubs, we'd have to assume that will be part of an apocalyptic exchange.
Why would Dublin be targeted?
from a gen-xer: yawn

it's so incredibly naive, shortsighted, hypocritical and foremost childish to blame everything that's gone wrong on everybody before (except?) you. because you'll do better, sure, lol. people are people, people are alike all over, and in all times. that's what needs to be realized in order to begin trying to do better; realize that you're the same. i think nobody but the generations who actually experienced one or two world wars could have done better to maintain peace during the last 70 years. now it's time to see if the ones who came after them still have it in them, only knowing hardship from their parents' experiences. but i see very little hope for the ones after those.
What do you think a "libertarian world" is, and how would that differ from an "authoritarian world"? Libertarianism vs. authoritarianism is a spectrum, and nobody in this discussion has advocated for eliminating legal systems or law enforcement. In general, libertarians support systems that are required to enforce property rights.
The basics is something like `printf "GET /\r\n" | nc neverssl.com 80` (interestingly this is considered a HTTP 0.9 request, which HTTP 1.0 compliant servers need to handle).

Add in few useless pipes to cat and dd, and you got yourself a Rube Goldberg machine.
I don’t think you can use unknowable things like ‘state of the nuclear arsenal’, or ‘potential ability to negate or intercept nuclear weapons’ in your simulation as they’re probably state secrets, even if you did somehow know what they were.
I understand async/await in Python to be entirely single-threaded. So is, for example, C#'s implementation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-... ("The async and await keywords don't cause additional threads to be created.")
i would be ok living somewhere with constant exposure at 1 uSv. that's half of the 20 mSv/year occupational limit for radiation workers which is way lower than it needs to be
When the market is saturated the price should fall to the MSRP as the floor, even lower if people are trying to sell.
We can put some thought into how to set up the third parties to be trusted with our keys. Curretly it's very haphazard. And it's not avoidable. Even Phil Zimmerman, inventor of PGP, won't accept PGP encrypted mail because he claims to have lost his private key.

The outrage "own your private keys or bust!" is much easier tho.
Everyone hates Dublin.

That said, I don’t think it would be targeted since it’s existence is a greater detriment to the enemy than it’s destruction.
For some designs of small nuclear reactors (SMR), the reactor is completely buried underground. That would probably eliminate most of this risk.
> As long as we replace nuclear with coal plants, which is what we are largely doing in Europe

In Germany, coal use declined as nuclear declined. Is there some other country that counterbalanced this trend?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Germany#...

Admittedly, coal use could have declined even faster if nuclear had not been phased out, but that's not what you were arguing.
Have a few questions, and some ideas.. may or may not help :) But definitely some food for thought and introspection.

Lately, I feel exhausted with all the late night meetings thats required of me at work

How long has this been going ? If it has been a couple months then I would recommend waiting it out tbh. In my experience, ideally the anxiety levels eventually fall off in roughly logarithmic decay ie the worst bits are in the beginning and after that it may be possible to find a structure/pattern to feel comfortable in (or another very highly likely outcome is that the frog will get boiled... ie you will decide to leave)

Do these meetings result in some action items at the end ?

If every single one of these meetings result in action items, different ones each time ? Then something is fundamentally wrong (either in the process, or in the software solution or both) that needs fixing and it needs to be established how that can be fixed AND why it has NOT been fixed as yet ? That is where your leadership role will come in handy.

I feel so burned out and anxious all the time, not because of overwork, but due to a lack of formal structure in my work day.

If you are in a leadership role then I am guessing you are not required to deliver story points by writing code ? The only other formal structure outside of coding, reviewing, merging, testing cycle is sadly... meetings. (Takes me back to my earlier question, are meetings resulting in action items ?)

I'm thinking of starting out on my own someday

Even that path is not guaranteed to bring structure, unless when Gavin Belson calls and you decide to take the 10 million straight away and reject Peter Gregory's counter (sorry, that is a Silicon Valley S1, E1 reference) and that depends on if you have an idea/MVP worth that bidding... otherwise observing other founders I know personally, they are in for a marathon (possibly triathlon) and the returns/pay-off is a long way in the future and structure not guaranteed.

and work was monotonous bug fixing, but I felt much more at peace since work was always predictable most of the time

But the pay was average at best ! No one wants that tbh.

I would suggest that try and find out where the inefficiencies are which require these meetings (besides the timezone differences) and use your leadership role to work towards fixing those. If however it is a dead-zone then work towards establishing that is indeed a dead-zone and then leave... don't take an uninformed terminal decision.
I have used tiling wm's for a while now, on the desktop and on the laptop. I have to say its made the laptop productivity so much better and shines even better on a smaller screen IMO. Thats a combo of not just tiling but often swapping virtual desktops that is a key part of tiling wm usage.
All that suffering, kudos to the people who will attempt to rebuild civilization after that. I will not be one of them.
You can do it at home with a lunar light, temperature controller, and a curtain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9jsNTyeGNk
Free your mind! Vive la CLODO!