skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a lot easier; practically, extremely simple.

1. Processes: in smaller companies there was very little paperwork/red tape. You got the requirements, do the design, have a review, start coding, test, deploy. In most cases I've seen, there were just 2 environments, development and production.

2. Design was very, very simple: not many choices and coding was straightforward, no OOP, a Hello World program had a single line of code. Almost no libraries, frameworks, dependencies. (maybe an oversimplification, but you get the point)

3. Work life balance. We had Duke Nukem 3D parties in the office in the evening, that was the only cases where people did not leave at 5PM. There was no rush, overtime, emergencies - except my team that was doing support 24x7, but that was still fine.

4. Compensation. It really depends on the country, but at that time I had the best pay in my life as ration between my salary and country average. It only declined over time, even if in USD it is a bigger number today. Taxes also raised a lot.

5. Productivity and performance of the code is a lot better, but the life of the developers is a lot harder; the area is just too complex to be really good over time, the number of changes for the sake of change is enormous, the fragmentation of languages, libraries and frameworks in insane. There is no good way to do things right, there are 1,000,000 ways to do it and nobody can compare them all.

6. Not asked, but ...: people were a lot more competent on average. At least what I see in the market todays is developer by the kilograms, with very good developers lost in a sea of sub-mediocrity. Also, the pace of change is so fast, most people never get to become experts in something before it changes. It is like working while running.

I am not a real developer for over a decade as I do architecture and management, but I am the most technical in my area of over 1000 IT people; even if I don't write code full time, I am very close still.
Actually I do, precisely 3.5% in fact:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotin...
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It is the definition of symmetrical. Both parties can cut ties at any time without any warning.

In general employers are able to benefit from this symmetrical relationship more often though since they are only losing a small percentage of their workers while the employee is losing 100% of the income they were getting from that employeer.
I have not heard of this before - thanks for the evening reading.
Compared to how it is now, it's difficult to describe just how small it was. Unless you where at a big tech company, or university it was treated as a type of office job or trade.

I worked on AS/400 accounting software. (I think my boss stole a copy from somewhere else that ran on System/36. ) We supplied this to a few dozen mid sized, blue collar companies in town. (One I remember sold gas station supplies)

Programming would be done on site. Customers would want a new report, or a new field added to their system. I would come on site and code it for them. I guess in a way it was very agile. But I had no team, just me. And once in a while my boss you stop in to see how it was going, and help when I got stuck.
Could we feasibly send one? Yes. Could we feasibly get data back from it? Less certain. It would necessarily be a multi-generational project in either case.
Keyword-Aware Semantic Search
Given everything over the last decade, people should not trust anything when it involves a) highly controversial/partisan/breathless news and b) dealing in anonymous sources and rumors.
> The truck detects tampering has occurred, and pops up a warning (repeated once a month) saying "Warning: Your emissions system may have a fault, and should be checked by a professional. Driving a vehicle that does not meet emissions laws could incur a fine of $10k."

This is impossible. Anyone who can figure out how to modify ECU programming (this isn't trivial) can figure out how to turn off that notice.
I quite sure I read about tomcat in reader digest chinese around 1968-1972. I watch top gun to see the airplane.
talent hires + brand trademark
There are full time jobs, but I agree that they likely won't match a Twitter salary.
I think "design" is overused in this case. Sure some users base their purchase decision on actual design/look of a console, but that's a rarity.

Success is more dictated by 4 main constraints or factors:
- Game selection and support
- Price point
- System performance (including storage)
- Innovative-ness or accessibility

Successful consoles typically met at least 3 of the above. For example the Nintendo Switch had very mediocre system performance, but it had great (1st party) game support, priced lower than competing XBox and PS4, and seemed very approachable for all demographics.
it's not undefined behaviour, rather it's trying to be helpful by coercing stuff where it can. Unless I'm missing something, it's perfectly defined.
I think this idea is great except for the whole making money thing, yes everyone here would love to have a twitter where you only see the content you signed up to de , us and a few million other folks who would use the app much less than advertisers would hope for. It would be perfect! And I can’t wait for the screen grabs advertising baby formula alongside said racial epithets

But overall really, I don’t know how you get beyond the fact that the twitter we “want” is not the Twitter we’d use, unless Twitter becomes something else entirely.

To be fair I don’t know why, maybe it’s Jacks vision that we all see content we disagree with, but for the most part I think twitters “tweets you might like” are just bad. They’re good at recommending accounts to follow but the “liked by” and “retweeted by”. Are almost always inflammatory, but in ways that are often irrelevant for the content I want to see. Tik Tok is much better at showing me content I might want to seee.

I think this is one of the biggest problems with the current discourse of twitter. So much ink being spilt for “free speech” and none on what would make Twitter fun and interesting.

It is kinda weird for DHH to take a stand on the company he’s spent his entire career trying not to be.
$1 billion across 5000 employees is just $200,000 each. I suspect if you add total comp plus expenses for each employee you get to $200,000 pretty quickly.
It's a feature, not a bug. The worse Tesla auto-high beams are, the harder it becomes to drive as a human. The harder it becomes to drive as a human, the greater the demand for autonomous cars. The greater the demand for autonomous cars, the greater the sales of Teslas.

A lot of AI adoption is based on this sort of thing.
Certainly I have the equipment to be able to do IP between multiple locations - assuming that nuclear war wouldn't knock out GEO satelites and that not every vehicle and groundstation I have is destroyed.

Not sure how useful that would be though.

If a groundstation continues to work then even better, that bgan in your bag may well still work - assuming there's not too much radiation and dust in the atmosphere

Again, still not sure what the point is.

Hardlines between local command areas though - far more useful, and less likely to have been taken out.
That’s why I specifically said “we allowed the industry” to do this.

It’s also cheaper to build cars without seat belts, airbags, catalytic converters, backup cameras, etc, etc, etc
Having cheap goods is not in any way the same as having wealth. Personal savings for Americans today are at the same level as during The Great Depression. Any significant financial crisis right now could be devastating.
When people accuse someone of being "woke", I believe they do not mean literally that they consider those people to be more awake to social justice issues, that they disagree with fixing injustice, and they want it to continue. Rather, it can be an accusation of performative social virtue, a distaste for sanctimonious platitudes, or a disagreement regarding the source of a particular systemic issue and how to fix it.

Now, you can disagree with this, it is obviously impossible to tell for sure without reading people's minds, and many people will throw out accusations of "wokism" with little to no merit to the point where you lose the will to engage with any of them, but if you do argue against these accusations of "wokism" as endorsements of bigotry, you aren't actually engaging with what people are telling you.

In that sense, the "middle" between "woke" and "bigoted" isn't "slightly bigoted", it's "not woke and not bigoted".
Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems by Kenneth P. Birman: gave me the same effect that the people who read DDIA/Designing Data Intensive Applications claimed it gave them.

I first tried reading DDIA before it since it was newer and it had more hype. But DDIA is so dense that most of the things went over my head. Then I came across Ken Birman's book and I found it easier to follow. Although it had a hundred pages more than DDIA, it doesnt cover as much ground such as it didnt mention object storages. The niche topics were also better in DDIA, such as error correction schemes was only mentioned once in Birman's book. DDIA seems to be more complete. So I'll re-read DDIA again next year.

Harassment Architecture: saw it on Amazon and I could never understand the humor behind the reviews for the book. So I tried a few pages, and something about it was gripping. All I could say is that I've never read anything like it.
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Today, the term “community” gets used to describe everything from social media followers to online learning groups to DAOs. There has been a lot of hype around community, but the ability to turn it into real value and growth is still nascent. We see the need for a platform focussing solely on developer communities. “One-size-fits-all” doesn’t make sense when communities are different in terms of their members’ motivations, the platforms that they live on, or the business objectives that they should fulfill.

Furthermore, we believe that an essential tool for open-source companies, as community management is, should be open-source itself.

Since the beginning of 2022, several hundred companies have joined our closed beta, including some of the fastest growing open-source companies in the world, like Meilisearch, CrowdSec, or Dragonfly.

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I think these things come about because of A/B testing. The metric being optimized is probably "app installs" or "account creations" and the negative side effects of driving a bunch of users off are not considered/measured.
Thanks for sharing RocketGit. This is the first time I've heard of it, and yes, it does look like a cool copyleft solution to self-hosted Git.

Another interesting option is Brendan Caroll's got[0], which allows sharing of repositories over INET256[1]. I'm sure there are other P2P approaches to Git, but this one recently piqued my interest. Unfortunately, it has a confusing and unresolved naming[2] conflict with OpenBSD's got (Game of Trees)[3].

[0] https://github.com/gotvc/got

[1] https://github.com/inet256/inet256

[2] https://github.com/gotvc/got/issues/20

[3] https://gameoftrees.org/
There seems to be a disconnect between what Shopify do internally and what they ask of their users. With Hydrogen and now Remix you would think they have their sh*t together. But when the official docs recommend that you inline jquery click handlers for a simple adjustment to their shop, I just don't know what to think.

All in all the Shopify dev experience for me is on par with Wordpress. I hold my nose and cash the cheques. Then hurriedly leave the premises in a long trench coat with my hat pulled down to avoid being recognised.
None right now, but I have several on hold projects.

Probably most interesting is my ISDN work. I have a ton of equipment from line analyzers, CO emulators, H.320 videophones, etc.

The plan, if I ever find it in me to get started again, is to build my own user land ISDN stack (erlang and C have been what I’ve used so far) that supports a range of BRI and PRI hardware with support for extension. I also want to play with making a few fun reference applications for it, like an H.320 to Discord video call bridge.

For some neat old computer I have that I haven’t gotten around to playing with are an HP A600+, an SGI Indy with an IndyCam, a very good condition HP-86B (wish I hadn’t sold my serial port cartridge) as well as an old HP X11 terminal that I’ve gotten to work with modern Linux once, but not since.

I’d love to get my hands on a PDP-11 mini or IBM 5100 with APL, but those don’t go for sale often and tend to be pretty expensive.
> they were threatening to leave in advance and then decided they'd rather just stay in their cushy jobs in the hopes that Musk would change his mind.

I imagine that at this point, many are staying until they get fired so they can collect severance pay.

That is what I would do. I absolutely would not work for Elon’s Twitter long term unless they paid me a king’s ransom, but I would definitely stick around and jump through the hoops just long enough to get a nice payout.
Nice sarcasm. My thought as well. Where do you draw the line?
Virtually in love:The role of anthropomorphism in virtual romantic relationships
> A /48 for a site allows a decent number of subdivisions along the easily human-readable nibble (16 bit) boundaries. Four characters each can be 0 through f.

To put it in IPv4 terms:

* an IPv6 /64 subnet is equivalent to 'typical' IPv4 /24 (though you can fit much more than ~250 hosts in it)

* if assigned a /48, this gives you 16 bits to play with

* if you start with a typical IPv4 /24, and would be assigned 16 bits to use, that would bring you up to a /8

So the 'bog standard' IPv6 /48 is the equivalent of an entire IPv4 Class A address.

Some folks who have Class As assigned to them: AT&T, Apple, Cogent, Comcast, multiple assignments to US military.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addre...

And none of those IPv6 addresses have to be NATed to be accessible to the Internet if you wish to provide public services: just change the config of your firewall from default-deny to allowing whatever portions of the network you wish to host service in.
> how they managed to do so without officially acknowledging Russian sovereignty is a mystery. Especially since they keep extensive paperwork.

that's it. they just did what needed to be done and kept quiet about the political implications.
> The difference is that projects like Tor were certainly not created with any devious purpose in mind.

Oh it was. It was created specifically to enable US agents communication with the headquarters. Which is definitely a military/intelligence purpose. And giving general public a tool for anonymity was specifically an exercise in providing a anonymity set for agents.
I moved from Solarized to Monokai Pro. And it’s hard been to switch out to any other theme.

Monokai was Sublime’s default but I urge folks to specifically look at the Pro version here. https://monokai.pro/
Well, if we were going to attack the internet with nuclear weapons, how many data centers would need to be targeted? Seems like if we just threatened us-east-1, it would shutdown and save us the nuke. Switching regions to us-west-1 might actually need the ordinance to be expelled, but it might go down after us-east-1 fainted. Not really sure about cloudflare data centers, but targeting the location of 1.1.1.1 might be a lot of bang for the buck. Let's not forget Goog's 8.8.8.8 and family.

How much of routing would then happen after that first strike? How many other centralized places of the decentralized internet would need to be targeted in the first strike?
Governance-game: card game to explore governance around a shared codebase
That's one of the reasons to POSSE (Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere). If Instagram ever bans my account and even if the federated Pixelfed instance I've chosen will be taken down, all my photos will be still available on my personal homepage.
Yikes, I hope that people on HN would not defend such a decision this way.
RAII is awfully misnamed.

It's not about initialization. It's about cleanup. The initialization aspect of RAII is incidental to its main purpose/use -- perhaps essential to it too, but not so essential that initialization becomes more the essence of RAII than cleanup.

It's really a C++ specific form of Lisp's unwind-protect.
Jira didn’t exist, so it was much better.
Totally agree with you. Crap-looking people are so much more cozy and comfortable to play with. Will definitely play s&ndbox when it comes out!
It's amazing to me that people presented with a very simple "travel for free and report on a conference" can't even be bothered to at least provide some simplistic report to maintain the charade.
I'm not sure how to feel about this, but my main wish for Remix is a public roadmap and full development in the open. There is overlap but also healthy competition between it and NextJS, and I'm really interested to see where Remix goes next.
I’ve tried dozens of color palettes and most of them suffer from getting much less distinguishable when your screen is under the effect of an orange filter (Night Light et al).

Best color scheme I’ve encountered so far is Oceanic Next. Holds up great under orange filter and is generally pleasant.
I think this landing page design has been made popular by Bootstrap.
Well, there was no WWW (there was the Internet, which meant email - though think of accessing your email from a green and black terminal window - and BBSes, but everything was incredibly incredibly slow), there were no mobile devices (well, there was the apple newton, but practically nobody had one; and there were cell phones - but they were huge devices without a screen like your current phone), pagers were the main way to communicate when away from a landline, etc.

Basically, desktops were where it was at. If you were a programmer, you were almost certainly creating software for desktop computers or mainframes. But, 30 years ago was even before Windows 95. It would have been around the era of Windows 3.1.
Phone, email, and in person are safe if you trust your counterparty?
Thanks. Your comments have been helpful.
First I thought they'd sell "Nord VPN".
Techno-optimism doing all the heavy lifting.

The Fermi paradox basically comes down to asking:

"Assuming that all of the problems with interstellar travel are effectively solvable, why haven't we seen proof of that yet?"

And when casual observation contradicts your assumptions, it's usually a good move to revisit those assumptions.
It might be arbitrary and pure speculation but with ~7500 employees (3000 of which are engineers) I think they'll be able to do just fine with 5000. -25% of staff would just mean going back to 2019 staff levels...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272140/employees-of-twit...

I remember it was a common meme on HN to ask what Twitter's thousands of employees did all day, even back in 2015. So maybe I'm falling into that trap. But I do still wonder.
You dont have to use touch screen for that, you can switch between automatic and manual modes for headlights using just one of the stalks on the sides of the steering wheel.
Usually we both have copies on our computers.
It may not be a problem. Maybe your company only needs a certain quality of worker and aren't interested in paying more for a higher quality. There is a place in the market for that. If you personally you are a higher quality then you'll probably be able to leave for greener pastures.
Requirements change. I’ve seen 10+ year old proto files at google still being used by services that are still being actively developed.

Over those ten years your data model has evolved. Your first client, the one whose data model you were imitating when you added the required field, was deprecated five years ago and turned down last year. You have a dozen or a thousand client services, each using you as a backend in a slightly different way. Are you sure every single one of them is going to require that field? Are you sure the field will even be semantically meaningful for their use case?
I've rinsed my mouth in most countries in SEA. But never drink it. In Taiwan you can drink tap water but vast majority of people boil it because apparently alot of the pipes in homes are old so they boil it first. Sometimes I'm lazy and don't want warm water so I just fill my bottle with tap water.
Lots of land and manual tools.
CNC is neat. Turning bowls by hand is neater.
Grow most of what you need.
Does that website exist solely to insult their reader's intelligence?

What is that? Is it supposed to be a caricature and I'm just not getting the joke?
>> Timeline means "buy low sell high" for investors. Who cares if the whole thing collapses after your exit?

Some investors care. "Buy low sell high" might be good for low and medium latency traders, corporate raiders, and the like. Long-term investors (mutual funds, etfs, index funds, pensions, endowments) care very much. Many expect to hold for a decade or longer.
Jack liked to film his "town hall" meetings. At one, an employee asked about "company loyalty". Jack replied "if it is Friday, and you got paid, then we're even".

I disliked many things about him, one of which was the insistence that every department had to be a profit center. Like the service department. Do you ever wonder why repair parts are so expensive? Or why they might not be available at all? You can thank Jack for that.

Or the prevalence of "stack and rank"? That's Jack again.
Gruvbox but black background. Thats what I’m using and I love it
>I managed to cut down my drinking in the past 3 months.

Good job, OP!
Sure, when we have a 100% renewable grid where Bitcoin neither takes away renewable quota, add dirty energy, cause grid to have to expand, or causes issues when TWh of heat is vented, and it is then adopted for legitimate reasons and not primarly for speculation and scamming, then Bitcoin goes from extremely harmful to mildly interesting.

Yes there are cases where they buy good power plants, but they also power from grid and buy dirty power plants. Even in case of good power, the investment should instead be made to make this power useful. Heck, folding at home or similar would be a hell of lot better usage.

But that isn't where we are. We're in a huge energy crunch, and having to go back on green policies because of it. During this time, ANY consumption is bad, and no, regardless of opinions on its usefulness, Bitcoin does not yet contribute in a meaningful enough way to sacrifice other utilities.

So yeah - I agree with you that we can waste power when and only when the vast majority of dirty power has been replaced.
It's ridiculous that this kind of advice might even be necessary.