skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a better system is an up-front repayable bonus: "We'll pay you $2k on sign-on, but you have to stay for 2 years" or something.

This benefits job applicants (extra money!), employers (retention), and protects applicants (employers abusing non-compete agreements for everything), and is a far easier legal process to execute.
No sales contact, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_buildin... does enumerate nominal costs 3 orders of magnitude higher.
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You typically wouldn't replace a function with a no-op since changing who allocs/frees memory is almost certainly an API change which I never claimed my solution would support. The thing my solution would be useful for is for fixing small errors that are tedious to go through a whole compile cycle for. It would be a replacement for modifying values directly in the debugger to try and fix issues (to see if the fix works) and not turn C++ into LISP.
Again I can vouche for seeing this in the physical industrial world. Sales only care about landing big deals with big margins, couldn't care less about many, many small fish. They wine and dine big clients and then build summer homes in the local hot spots off those projects commissions.
That's a monopoly problem, no? Apple doesn't actually let you use different browsers. You should try it on an android phone?
Well, to a point. It could be self-defeating if enough people quit. Worst case it could effectively end Twitter as an ongoing concern. I doubt that would happen, but ya never know.
> car dealerships

I wonder why a car dealer would be interested in preventing walkability.
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>> Are there rules or policy written down about what can/cannot be said that the institution enforces that goes against what the public leader wanted?

Well, I can't give an answer from a legal point of view, because I'm looking for it myself. But in various instances of life we see the requirement of formality between authorities and the public. In fact, all public interaction with the state is formal.

Here's a problem: the state has a set of international commitments, but the head of that state makes personal statements that go against the very official line of the government he leads [the case of Bolsonaro in Brazil]. Catalyzed by the dynamics of the network This quickly turns into another front of disinformation. The public is completely at the mercy of the machinations of the powerful entity.

I don't think there is anything in the Republican rules that precludes proper legislation on this subject.
Well certainly the people killed by these planes are also entitled to an opinion, but I guess there's survivorship bias in play in the market of opinions.
The world needs 100 million barrels of oil a day.

Let’s stop blaming presidents, oil companies, countries with poor human rights.

The OPEC oil crisis was 50 years ago, and Americans still drive big cars and want cheap gas.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis

It seems just like yesterday when Carter warned Americans that we would run out of oil.

https://youtu.be/-tPePpMxJaA
> retraining thousands of pilots, mechanics, and other support personnel.

That ship has largely already sailed after the 737 Max crashes.
That doesn’t matter, best practice is storing them as variables that are injected upon deployment from a secret manager.
Regular people boarded the Max 8 and regular people will have board the Max 7 and Max 10. Unless of course, only aviation industry professionals fly on the Max 7 and 10s.
Any Twitter people not looking for a new position already probably should have their heads examined, honestly. Writing is on the wall.
You can already develop with ClojureScript on the back-end. A popular ClojureScript compiler, Shadow-CLJS (https://github.com/thheller/shadow-cljs) has a target for Node among many others.
> and perhaps should an effort be made to help people understand the comparison?

I would recommend that, because the connection isn't obvious to me.
Boeing 737 MAX
>real camera

A minor and pedantic point, but could we stop with the idea that smartphone cameras are somehow not 'real'? They are enormously sophisticated imaging devices that comprehensively outperform, for example, the 35mm film SLRs that many photographers were using in the 90s. An iPhone 14 enables you to take technically superior photos to the photos that professional photographers were taking only a couple of decades ago.
Good riddance to this form of wage suppression. Let's do forced arbitration next.
Each launch costs hundreds of millions of dollars. The cost of bringing the rocket down in a targeted way can be substantial, in terms of R&D, fuel, and mission constraints. And the risk is absolutely minuscule: Exactly one person has ever been hit by orbital rocket debris after tens of thousands of launches over more than half a century, and it was a tiny piece (which is usually all that survives re-entry) that didn't cause injury:

https://theconversation.com/space-debris-is-coming-down-more...

And of course, the launching nation is responsible for compensating anyone injured or who has property damaged by space debris, and paying for clean-up.
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> do you think there's something lost by eliminating scarcity?

What a silly question. How does an extension of an already bottomless internet of content that you couldn’t consume over the course of hundreds of lifetimes come anywhere remotely close to ending food insecurity?
Yep. Dslr and large sensors count when it comes to making every pixel count without introducing artifacts
Sample bias is a thing, sure.

I'm alluding to something a bit more interesting, I hope.

We don't have a way to test those hundreds of voices comprising the
supposed silent majority. I'm saying that when/(BIG if) one does - via
some hitherto undevised ingenious experiment which always yields truth
- we find that no... in fact everyone is at best ambivalent, but
mostly going along with what they think the majority view is.

I'm sure there's a name/concept for this in group dynamics.

Consensus mythology? (I'm just making that up)

A hallmark is that interrogating the group yields one answer, but each
individual considered privately will give you a very different
answer.

But it's not "group-think" I'm talking about, because that implies a
more overt pressure. Rather it emerges in the absence of coordination
amongst an implied majority when there exists a loud propaganda
message designating some other group a minority.

I think this effect has important implications in the kind of 50:50 +
swing elections we've seen over the past few years. For example, in
Brexit, a mass of lethargic voters assumed "everyone will vote
against" and didn't verify the reality by asking lots of diverse
friends. It's not that people are trapped in actual bubbles so much as
bubbles of their own mind based on assumptions about those around
them.

Sorry, that's probably a long and clumsy way of saying something
obvious.
I think you're right. The point they were trying to make is that there is more separation between the subject and the background. So, in a way, an _improved_ DOF if not a _greater_ or _shallower_ DOF.

Maybe?
Boeing's plane fell out of the sky not once, twice. Everyone is entitled to an opinion on this.
pipefail is trvial: $ErrorActionPreference = STOP

Its even better then that as you can fail individual commands with their -ErrorAction argument.

BOM is not there any more.
I suspect that home prices and ownership rates don't explain birth rates. Who says you can't rent and have children? A large part of the world already does it.

Birth rates go down with economic development, and the growth of freedoms and opportunities for women. It's a tale seen everywhere. And all the other fun stuff and distractions available for young people today - dating apps, video games, pop culture, avocado toast, too many hobbies to name - competes with child-rearing for time, attention, and money. Even as a parent, I sometimes long for a more carefree life. I'm sure a lot of people see their peers with children and decide, rationally, to not pursue parenthood.

(This is without even getting into the climate crisis).
There's a difference between killing someone and assaulting them but both suck.
Yeah, forget about this guy's right to freedom of expression, let's go after his right to even hold an opinion! /s
The event horizon is an example of a sphere around the singularity. So is the photon sphere.
> Force him to lay you off and give severance.

If you're gonna do this I'd make sure you CYA, considering he's already let people go for cause.
I don't really grasp the value proposition here. I can have "Priority in replies, mentions & search, which is essential to defeat spam/scam", but is that valuable to me or to my audience? If I'm a regular no-name user, do I care if I'm lost in replies and search? And if I'm the Steven Kings of the world, that other users want to see content from, does it do more harm to me or to Twitter if my posts are hidden because I'm not paying $8 a month?

It feels like I'm being asked to pay $8 to solve a problem that belongs to Twitter (too many bots), not a problem that belongs to me.
Is it just me or does this kind of thing reek of a nation state? This feels like the Twilio breach where the suspected goal was access to Signal MFA codes for 15 minutes or whatever that was. Feels like it’s hyper-targeted as some kind of military operation.
Seems like a good side project. A database where people could submit their SAAS pricing in a Glassdoor like fashion.
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I doubt those employees have contracts which stipulate 40 hour work weeks. They are salaried exempt employees. They can be fired for cause (although depending on the exact facts of a particular case the employee might still be able to file for unemployment insurance). There is generally no legal requirement to pay severance to terminated employees, unless it falls under the WARN Act and the employer failed to give sufficient advance notice (expect some litigation on this issue).
but one line similar code is easier to find. this is because copilot work in one line/small function level.
"No one" watches coding streams. An insignificant number.

IRL streamers can be happy if they got over 8k viewers, politics get a lot more and them esports are the top of the pops.

Coding streams have less than 100 viewers, with the odd 300 viewers spike exception. Compare that to 55k viewers CSGO esports.

I wanted to do exactly that, but our profession is not a very entertaining one. Lots of unreadable text, lots of thinking, not much movement or action happening. And IMHO you can either work and get something done or you can entertain people, not both.
> Every sane person I talk to has the opinion that there are not enough money in the world to deal with an asshole like Musk.

Yes. To the people you and I talk to. But if you talk to a 4th year computer science student at Cal Tech who is already putting in 90 hours of work a week for professors he hates, Twitter just popped on their radar.
That's why you support undoing laws banning

1. Distribution of child pornography

2. False medical claims on products

3. All forms of false advertising and fraud

4. Libel and slander

5. Publication of state military secrets

6. Distribution of revenge porn

EDIT: I may have missed sarcasm in the above post? I can't tell.
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Any way to remove the unneeded parts?
"Professional" subreddits, such as /r/MSP, as well as the Spiceworks community will have answers for some of those, depending on what kind of SaaS it is exactly. Ask, oftentimes (former) vendor reps or happy/unhappy customers lurk there and are happy to help you out, although their info might be outdated - but it may help for a first orientation.

(I, too, consider price-hiding the bane of my existence and wish I could get those days and months of lifetime back that I spend going through useless "demos" and "quick calls with an evangelist/key account manager/person who nopes out at the first technical question".)

Another strategy is that you prepare a long-ish text that you email to a - perferrably senior - sales contact at each company, ideally one that has been referred to you (again, the above-mentioned sources may help).

Just change the name and first line mentioning their product and outline that "due to internal restructuring" your company will decide yea or nay "on doing a PoC within the next three working days" (i.e. you don't have time to waste on demos), that you are already very familiar with their product in all details from an earlier job, in fact, you want to recommend to your CTO to buy it, and that you wish to receive nothing more than their current pricing for $detailedreqs asap. Be overspecific as to your reqs and specs, so they can't weasel out with "it depends".

You might need to go one or two rounds where they try and talk you into doing calls/demos regardless but they will often CC more senior or local reps whose contacts are not public and if you push back repeating what you said in your first email but shorter, they will usually relent, especially if there are competitors in the field and they're getting afraid that the lead may go cold.

This strategy works maybe about 78.3% of the time but will likely fail if the SaaS offering does require extensive and bespoke customisation for your organisation.

Good luck, I really don't envy you having to go through this, to me it used to be like running the gauntlet.
Geez lemme take a dump in peace will ya?
That’s what I would have ordinarily thought but I had a vendor who charged $10/user/mo per user for their “Team” tier but $180,000/year for their “Enterprise” tier with up to 150 users. Made no sense at all.
You should rarely be extremely panicked. It's not a very useful state of mind.
Could in theory be utilized to move laterally in networks where client TLS is used for authentication, which I see used sometimes.
There are lots of places where you can express your opinion absolutely free of charge. For instance, HN ;)
I have pricing on my site revpilots.com for various enterprise software that is normally not listed publicly. We'll even get on calls for you to get pricing.
There was an attempt to improve this situation but it got canned. That said, there actually weren't a ton of Linux laptops when I was there - relatively speaking, at least. We knew of them though.

If you wanted linux on your laptop you'd have to do a bit more than just provision the laptop with it, I don't want to get too detailed but it ends up giving the security more insight into the device than you may imagine. Indeed, at the time I worked there, we likely would have been able to piece things together to see that between the 2FA logs, Github logs, netflow, etc. If you were in an office we could likely track down exactly where you were sitting based on that - we definitely had done so before during a red team exercise.

Security has changed radically since my time there so I couldn't speak to what's possible now.
Glad to see references to Apple’s Data Detectors, a great if underutilized tool built in to the system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity
I'd like an option to see only tweets/replies from Twitter Blue holders.
Price overpaid also has to consider Tesla stock loss as well as the general market.

TSLA is down ~45%. Elon sold 15B of Tesla stock to finance the deal and presumably 11B of other assets.
Oh I mean his music is out of this world good. I was just responding to your point about the $340 not being a lot for one song.

As far as I can tell that song gets < 1,000 listens per month right now. We would blast it to the moon.
Just remember who owns the WaPo and it makes a lot more sense.
Hilarious that this gets downvoted meanwhile even the rest of the west coast is 1.50 cheaper, low 5s here in Seattle and the south east still has gas in the 3s. This isn't an opinion.

California is the undisputed champion of footgunning themselves then complaining loudly about how unfair it is.

Lol, wait till SF bumps prices up 50% because their commercial real estate money tree has withered away.
This is true, and so far Elon is doing exactly the thing everyone says you can’t do with a social network. If he succeeds, it will completely change the space. Also interesting change of strategy during an economic downturn.

But I do think one difference at least from where I’m sitting, is usually the response is, that’s crazy, but if it works you’ll be rich!

I’m not even really clear on what the “if it works” is in this situation, I guess if he proves that people are willing to pay $8 per month for a social network?
Yeah you are right. Charging is the best way to tell if your product is really providing value to users. I have been putting it off always wanting to add more features first.
Believe it or not they're now being used for fast food employees.
This seems like the equivalent of a predatory loan with the interest paid in opportunity cost, and doesn't even properly address the same problem that noncompetes do.
Sure, I'm not denying it. I still[0] maintain that advertising is a cancer on modern society, and I've successfully steered my career away from anything related to adtech. HN itself is a diverse crowd, there's a large crowd with strong anti-marketing sentiment here, including people currently working in adtech.

Also, there are degrees to everything. I'm picking on influencing here because it's extremely direct and blatant form of manipulation. If that isn't rejected by society at large, then there's no hope for it dealing with more traditional forms of manipulation.

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[0] - http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html
Just shoot your mirrorless in RAW and process them later. Lightroom gives great results, but you can also use Apple Photos to get similar color processing as your iPhone photos.

The mirrorless photos will look much better on a laptop or bigger screen but about the same on a phone.
It's interesting how the headline and article also have an implicit assumption that kids can't walk themselves to school.
I’m interested in this level of pricing. What are the breakpoints typically? Per-user, $-per-(record|gb|request), then ‘do what you want site wide’, is there any other aspects other than support / consulting times, etc?
This seems really well built. It's fast and responsive. It looks nice. But I just don't understand what I would use it for.

It seems like the idea is to build a database of people, movies, Wikipedia articles and such and then be able to find them via search/links. But I'm not at all sold on why I need this in my life.

Is there a way to make the value clearer? Am I just not in the target audience? Who is going to see this and say "TAKE MY MONEY" and why?

I'm thinking of products that were instant sign-ups for me...

Spotify: For one price, listen to all the music on Earth whenever you want. TAKE MY MONEY!

Gmail: Fast email with 2 GB storage. This was such an instant sign-up they had to make an invite system to slow people getting access.

Maybe could add something like Lichess: Chess training and games, with modern UX, offered open source as a public good. I mean, if you're at all interested in chess, that's an instant sign-up, right?

Trying to say, this idea of presenting a clear value isn't limited to big players like Spotify and Gmail, but can also be done by smaller companies if the value presented is really clear.

What should someone see that makes them instantly recognize they need this in their life, because that's what I'm totally missing here.
Cronic – Lightweight observability tool for cron (& my first project using Rust)
I was inspired to make this little tool when I realized Airflow was an over-complicated/bloated tool for my goals--to observe jobs that should be run at a specific date.

I went back to cron and spit the output of each backup into a log file, but I kinda like being able to scan this stuff visually for important info such as failed backups.

As this is my first Rust project I would love it if anyone would be willing to check out the code base and give me any feedback in the repo!

I think the hardest part was honestly getting the Docker image working with some semblance of multi platform support. My M2 Air struggles to compile for some archs and I was eventually pushed into setting up a Github workflow for the builds. An improvement for sure, but I couldn't run iterations locally so it was a very slow debug process. Funnily enough I couldn't get arm builds to work so just went straight to amd64 and called it a day as my server is running x86.

It also takes like 9 minutes to build which seems a bit long to me... would love any tips on bringing this down.
I think you jumped to a conclusion too quickly.
How are they gouging? America does not import a lot of oil from Saudi Arabia. According to the EIA [1] Saudi Arabia's share of the US imports is 5%. Is Saudi Arabia supposed to sell below market price? What exactly should they do to not be guilty of "gouging" in your eyes? And do you think that if they do that, it would have any impact on the consumer, given their 5% share?

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=727&t=6
People saying "this can be done with X" and listing the various combinations of tools miss the most important thing: I, the user, couldn't care less about spending time to collect and configure these separate, and often conflicting, tools into a cohesive whole.

I, the user, will always reach for something that gives me a cohesive whole out of the box.

(Note: though I like the idea of Potluck, I'll stick to regular Notes.app for now)
For the same reason you can't upload to Instagram from your $2k camera - they know how to make hardware.

But the idea of enhancing filters or social media features is completely alien to them.