skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A max of two years over a career of some length (so, presuming there are numerous shorter entries) seems pretty short to me, though two years rates as perfectly respectable tour of duty. On the other hand, by three years, I stop issuing any credit for the marginal year. At extremely long tenures I'll be curious to see if the candidate appears stunted for having operated in one bureaucracy for so long.

Though, "appreciation" has nothing to do with it, it's really about the somewhat fixed overheads of integration, de-integration, and re-hiring. My sensibilities would be different if costs were higher (desiring longer tenures) or lower (more relaxed on even shorter tenures).
Excellent work, and a great point that games' educational potential is often wasted. Modern agriculture tends to select for monoculture or prioritize one particular variety that maximizes something (Holstein cows for milk volume, or yellow bananas, or russet potatoes). We have abundance, but often of lowest-common-denominator options whereas periodic scarcity often means richer variety and greater resilience.

It's also startling how focused on system sustainability medieval legal systems were, and how profoundly enclosure/privatization laws cannibalized formerly common resources.
The question was "how those are [considered] conspiracy theories".

Answer was implying that they are not, but "try introducing evidence supporting them", and see what happens -- that's why the original poster's implication that they are "about conspiracy theories" is assumed, in the first place.

None of these are "conspiracy theories". They are testable claims -- that you are not really allowed to discuss, even on HN, where one would assume testing claims is expected and allowed.

Some of these might be false. On HN, unfortunately, we'll never be in a position to know...

And sometimes -- forceful claims that evoke "that's ridiculous -- HN is better than that!" responses are a good way to lead people (perhaps such as yourself) to the next realization: Holy smokes -- even HN now suffers from "Eternal September", and we need to work hard to eject those who now control the debate to such as extent that discussion of anything they believe is in support of a "conspiracy theory" is verboten.
Funny since it looks so low-tech at first.
"Lakehouse" usually means a data lake (bunch of files in object storage with some arbitrary structure) that has an open source "table format" making it act like a database. E.g. using Iceberg or Delta Lake to handle deletes, transactions, concurrency control on top of parquet (the "file format").

The advantage is that various query engines will make it quack like a database, but you have a completely open interop layer that will let any combination of query engines (or just SDKs that implement the table format, or whatever) coexist. And in addition, you can feel good about "owning" your data and not being overtly locked in to Snowflake or Databricks.
China sets up overseas police stations, one in US, to bring back 'fugitives'
Those tend to be the most usable parts of modern Windows releases.
> where you may create an entire "fake project" for candidates to work in which may get leaked.

as opposed to entire companies created (read: interviewkickstart) that allow people to practice and memorize/study these types of questions in order to game the system? i'm not really sure how this provides any kind of signal other than that this person has the willpower and spend thousands of $$$ to sit through hours of mindnumbing LC practice. bleh.

> It's easy: the up-front costs of asking a Leetcode-type question are low.

sounds exactly like "we take the costs of interviewing and push it on the interviewers bc we are too lazy or don't find it important enough to prepare effective interviews so instead we expect that you waste hours after work and on weekends to study for our interviews."

no wonder blind has threads like "i am pipped everywhere i go but i can destroy LC interviews." the whole thing is setup for people like that to thrive. our industry is a joke in that perspective.
Yeah it's a super interesting topic, thanks for sharing!

A couple questions:

1. What use cases are you targeting, or which ones do you think have the most benefits from wasm?

2. What tools/stack are you currently using, or which ones do you think are the most promising?
We're working on it. We'll allow you to export (via SQLite) and import (via SQLite), and even promote to a preview database: https://docs.snaplet.dev/references/preview-databases

Snaplet.dev is a tool that copies, minimizes and transforms your production database into a shareable file.
Woah, woah, woah. Cool it, buddy.

That’s already begun.
This is a fun game! It taught me about the alt-key shortcut for managing handles. In Inkscape I just go back and do that with buttons in the UI, so this will save me some time.

On a side note, I don't think this game will necessarily make a player overall better at using the pen tool. This is more like "how to cheat at the pen tool" to achieve an approximation of a stroke with the fewest nodes possible. While playing, I had some pretty ugly-looking Bézier paths that technically passed the test and used fewer nodes than I had available. But, some of the places where the original image had sharp corners were really round on mine.
These posts are perplexing. It's like watching people getting angry because they were pulled over for not renewing their car tabs.

- Everyone knows that car tabs have to be renewed by a deadline and everyone knows Windows has forced updates by a deadline.

- Everyone knows how to pay to renew their car tabs and everyone knows how to check the Windows update so that it updates when you have free time for it. And if they don't, it's just 5 seconds of Googling to find either.

- Everyone knows what is going to happen if they don't renew their car tabs or allow the reboot by a certain date.

- Everyone knows that neither the vehicle licensing authorities nor Microsoft is going to change their policies. It doesn't matter what people think the policy ought to be because it isn't that way and they know it.

So basically, they picked up a gun, took careful aim at their foot, pulled the trigger, and are shocked and angry that there's a bleeding hole? Sure, they can go ahead and change operating systems but it isn't going to fix the fundamental problem, if you know what I mean.
Russian–American Telegraph
"Private tutors" can be anything from an after-school karate class to visiting a piano teacher's house for an hour of instruction. It doesn't have to be solely for elite people.
We do not medicate or operate on gay kids, this is a different story.
I still consider this when hiring. I don't necessarily see a 10 year tenancy as major bonus points but do consider a flurry of short full time gigs to be a red flag. It's not about loyalty so much as that often it can take 6+ months to really get productive amongst an existing codebase and culture. That's also the point where the developer might really start to drive on more intense projects. If they're always leaving before this point that's great for them but not so much for us.
I jumped ship from macOS to Windows back in 2020 and honestly it has been great. Most of the time I essentially use Windows as a DE for Linux under WSL2.

Especially since the windows-rs[1] crate was published, for me it is just so much more infinitely customizable for my needs than macOS ever was.

Once you get the hang of the Win32 API (pretty easy with the excellent developer documentation), the sky is really the limit.[2]

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs

[2]: With the exception of the Virtual Desktops API. I'm still salty about this, see more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33169588
See also..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27600511

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26528404

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23520603

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18180017
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Trino is a nice query engine solution if you want to not just run SQL on Elasticsearch but also want to be able to join data from Elasticsearch with data in other systems Trino supports. It also supports raw elasticsearch queries that are serialized back into Trino data types.

https://trino.io/docs/current/connector/elasticsearch.html
I also always thought it was backwards. Only when you asked did I finally think about how to make sense of it and understood myself. Thanks for asking.
Just a thought, lots of issues with student loans and how they are issued/pushed
Bigger question - why does education cost that much?

Universities and Colleges (many who receive federal funding, state funding and endowments, etc.) have consistently raised their tuition costs. The loans were created because the costs are so high. Why are the costs so high?

It reminds me of the health insurance debacle.
Versed’s ads on radiology magazines literally say “For when they need to forget.”
Isn't the "don't care" part more... "don't think it actually constitutes theft... in anything but the most tortured senses of the word".
Like how hydrogen cars are in development but are waaay too dangerous to sell, so you can’t buy one.

Except you can. The Toyota Mirai is available and quite heavily subsidized. Whether buying one is a good idea is a different question, although the main issues with owning one don’t involve safety as far as I know.
Well, this is exactly the problem, it's completely arbitrary and based on public outrage what gets banned and what doesn't. If we can't motivate enough people to care about something, it won't be banned.

That's not a way to run health policy. I'd certainly like more action against PFAS, for example. At very least, more science done to know exactly how harmful it is (especially given how it's permeated so much of the public drinking water).

But, would I ban PFAS all together? Heck no. Rather I'd want to have a better understanding of where they should and shouldn't be used and how we should treat PFAS chemical outputs.
Very nice. More lightweight virtualisation is a thing to celebrate :)
If my grandparents know about it it's too late
It's totally not going to chase advertisers and their audiences away when the platform will be full of Russian propaganda, hate speech, beheading videos and those Japanese cartoons with 1000 years old dragons pretending to be 8 years old girls.

I like controversial content as much as the next man, but we do live in a society. You can cause a lot of real-life harm, to real people and communities. Not so much with the cartoons, or the beheading videos, but with the propaganda and hate speech. Facebook caused an entire genocide in Myanmar, they even apologized for it.
Yep - the metric was First Contentful Paint, which is basically the time-to-skeleton in our case :)
The common ancestor from which all of today's Homo sapiens can trace a shared lineage to (i.e. the oldest branch point) is thought to be only 5,000 to 15,000 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identical_ancestors_point#Of_H...
No its not. However a hotel room allows them a place to stay and clean while they look for a job and get on their feet. Once they have a job, they can look for a home.

Seems to me you expect all the working people to just pony up money and pay for all the homeless peoples housing. A lot of people are renting their home and can barely afford to scrape by. They cannot afford to pay for someone else's housing as well. You want to screw these people who are trying to contribute to society. I am not okay with that.

As far as affordable housing, the issue in SF is created and continued by its own residents. They deserve a big part of the blame. If they want to fix it, vote in people that actually allow some damn affordable housing to be built. They all say they want to fix it, as long as its not fixed by putting affordable housing around them.
You mean Laravel and VueJS developers, right?
Author here, the point of the piece isn't the asbestos. It's that we literally (in the original sense of the word) forgot the asbestos; asbestos was used as a part of the first stage F-1 engine's thermal protection system for the famous Saturn V rocket.

As the insulation was applied at the very last step, there aren't many photos of the final product. Add the presence of the cancer-causing asbestos, none of the existing displays and museum pieces show this vital component.

Because the museums don't reflect this fact, it doesn't exist in popular culture. And because it doesn't exist in popular culture, and that the people who built the Saturn V are dying off, we are largely in the process of forgetting what the most famous machine of the 20th century looked like.

The point of the piece is the forgetting. Not the asbestos.
Ask HN: Where do you go to discuss tech?
When you want to have discussions about specific topics, like CI/CD, DevOps, Programming paradigms... Where do you usually go ?

(Yes, I think that a lot of people will find themselves on HN)
https://archive.ph/2iDvR
Amazon freezes hiring in parts of AWS division
Here's a page (2018) which defends Flatpak wrt security: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/new-website-claims-flatp...
Splunk 7 added that from what I can find. 5 years old at least.
Emacs: A Welcoming Experiment
Digital hoarding could be an increasing problem
Yeah I would never buy anything electronic, or anything to consume or put on my body from amazon.
WRT point 1:

> "The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

> ~ Socrates

One human constant seems to be thinking that future generations are the worst.
First of all, I think this could be a good idea. Assuming biometric IDs are available to all, this could prevent corruption and allow more help to reach the real victims.

Also, I find it interesting that operators of "reclaim the net", the self appointed champions of openness... are anonymous
In 2020 only 10% of plastic was recycled in Sweden. [0]

The rest was burnt to produce heating and electricity - which releases an enormous amount of CO2 gases and other pollutants.

Not just a US problem.

[0] in Swedish:
https://www.ivl.se/press/nyheter/2020-02-21-lattlast-rapport...
Nice to finally have TOML support in the stdlib, especially considering pip's dependence on it.
You should be able to take that AOSP and run it on hardware you designed yourself. Getting RISC-V and AOSP together pulls in thousands of more folks from the mobile phone ecosystem. This can only be a good thing.

The low end always eats the high end, so if AOSP is running on budget RISC-V SoCs, it is only a matter of time before it is encroaching on the middle and highend.
Those aren't chubby pigs in modern video games, they're humans!
Chrome at least, behind a flag.[1]

[1] https://chromestatus.com/feature/5485544526053376
During my last job search, my long tenure (almost a decade) in a single role was considered extremely valuable. I was most attractive to companies looking to hire someone who would become a resident expert. On the other hand, I've had to make it known to my current employer that they need to pay me well in order for me to stay for a long time.

IMO: Tenure at a company should increase with experience. It's hard to do monumental software engineering in a short stint; but there are often good reasons to "get in and get out" too.

IE, it's good for someone to have shorter tenures early in their career, as they're still understanding the industry. Very few of us are lucky enough to have an entry-level job that we want to turn into our career. Also, it's really hard for a candidate and company to mutually evaluate each other in the interview process, so short stints for an experienced software engineer will happen.

I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that someone who stays in a job for a long time is underpaid or doesn't like change: These are the people who often develop into the archetypes described here: https://lethain.com/staff-engineer-archetypes/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33112915)
Well, OK, except that there’s an infinitely long-lived bystander risk to not purging asbestos from all use.

You could (for instance) argue that once the product exists, and is in place, it poses no further risk to anyone - this is a common suggestion but is demonstrably, dangerously false. It’s a rock, it never breaks down. Its state never changes over mortal timescales. Eventually a building, or a rocket, or a train will be refurbished or scrapped - and when that happens people in the area are at no less risk than they ever were.
No, soon enough the vast majority of mass will be catapulted from the lunar surface. There's oodles of aluminum in lunar soil.
Among things that if done realistic, might take you out of the game experience, I'd also expect dialog. Leaving out how any given vocabulary and pronunciation has radically changed, I'd also expect just the flow of a conversation, what people valued and what they took for granted for things like social hierarchy and everyday customs would be completely alienating. I have no concrete examples, but I am sure that just observing interactions within a family or between a store keeper and a customer would be totally alien to anyone playing a modern video game.
Entirely through the corresponding research directorate. We had a stressful period once a year securing renewed funding, but the actual money was pretty consistent year to year, and it was allocated per "department," not per PI or per project. You are likely to avoid spending much time on grant applications, but you are beholden to one big grantmaker.
Seems unpersuasive to me since one now has to sweep under the rug the fact that the government's own ethics advisors find "a huge conflict of interest" in this matter.

Your quote says "industry participants" but suddenly "personal financial interest" becomes the basis for selection to this advisory board.

So what could those government ethics advisors be on about?
His expertise is expected and it may be reasonable for him to have such a conflict of interest.

But it should still be disclosed.
None of that debunks the 2020 article. It sounds like they kind of fixed some of the stuff a year later, but it's still largely broken. Am I missing something?
One thing I've seen come up a lot is that people got used to treating containers as a portable unit of code, and then Apple Silicon threw a wrench in that assumption. A WASM module is the same regardless of whether you're running it on arm, amd, or anything. (Alas, the cost of this portability is that it's 32-bit)
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Aka "Good job finding a class-correlate you didn't manage to control for"
> The example is likely subpar as it is a fictional example

Is placing asbestos around the rocket engines a fabricated example with photoshopped images, or is the description of the design process behind the actual images fictional?
> And again, your intuition about power costs here is just simply wrong. Instruction decode is Simply Not a major part of the power budget of a modern x86 CPU. It's not.

I never said that instruction decode was a major part of the power budget.

And precisely, it is not because they don't decode 32 instructions in parallel.
That's the purpose of an instruction length decoder prior to instruction decode.
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Space ads could earn $2M a day, say Russian researchers
>I’ve seen some decent arguments that spies prevented the Cold War from becoming hot, because both sides thought they had good info on whether the other side was going to strike.

From Dr. Strangelove:

STRANGELOVE

>Yes, but the... whole point of the
doomsday machine... is lost... if you keep
it a secret! Why didn't you tell the
world, eh?

DESADESKI

>It was to be announced at the Party
Congress on Monday. As you know, the
Premier loves surprises.
- preventing double spend in a distributed ledger

- creating a secure timestamped append only log of signed messages

- apps like multisig wallets, privacy preserving rollups, cross-site attestations

- creating a global namespace registry for social networks[1]

- building other things on top of these primitives, like disintermediated collectibles for games, art, web communities..

[1] https://www.varunsrinivasan.com/2022/01/11/sufficient-decent...
NASA kicks off independent UFO study
It runs on iOS, too.
I wondered the same about Linux installers. I'm installing some kind of debian minimal which will take 300 MB on disk. It should be installed in a fraction of the second. Instead it takes minutes. All installer should do is: dd pre-assembled Ext3 filesystem from ISO to disk; extend filesystem to the desired size; write some configs like fstab. It could be really fast.

My guess is that nobody really took the time to optimize it. Installation is only one-time procedure and even it if takes a hour, who cares.
Show HN: Shorter Shower – Save water and time
TL;DR;
This free mobile application helps you take a shorter shower by keeping you focused. This is done with routines comprised of activities (shampoo hair, wash body, etc). When the routine is started, the app will tell you which activity you should be doing. Download the application and let me know what you think. Always looking for feedback. Thanks!!

Please up vote on Product Hunt:
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/shorter-shower

Longer version:

My brothers and I took after my father in a lot of ways. One of the biggest was taking very long showers. When I moved to California, it was frowned upon to take a long shower due to it wasting water. I tried to take shorter showers but I kept zoning out. All of a sudden, 5-10 mins went by and I hadn't done anything yet.

To solve this I tried setting timers, counting to myself, and a number of other ways. I realized the only way that I could consistently take a shorter shower is if something told me what I was supposed to be doing. That is when I created shorter shower. The app allows you to create activities (shampoo hair, wash body, etc) with an expected duration. You can combine the activities into multiple timers/routines. When you start the timer, it will change the volume of your phone to a predefined value so you can hear it over the shower noise. It will then audibly tell you what you should be doing when. It will stop the timer automatically when you are on the last activity and you turn off the shower. When the timer is done, the phone volume will be reset to its previous value. This app helped me go from 12 min showers to 5 min showers very quickly.

A few notes about data. Activity and timer data is stored on the phone. I send water usage metrics to a server but do not include user information. This is mainly to answer the question, how much water are people saving / using each day. I also use GA to track user interactions.
I have been using ZFS for a while. Simple, reliable and nice. I now run it even on my laptop and do ZFS send receive for backups.

The only limitation is that deduplication requires too much ram and cpu, and is therefore almost useless. Otherwise, I highlight recommended ZFS.

Btrfs doesn’t have native encryption, that’s already not good.
that's my gut reaction too, haven't dug into it though and probably won't put in the time
I've been using it for quite a while.