skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Stretched thin" means there are few of you.
Yes, there's less participation from young people in manufacturing. The pay doesn't go up, the plants go to Mexico or China. During covid when a bunch of old timers left my factory tore down a few machines and shipped them to Mexico because young people like myself aren't coming into the field fast enough to replace the boomers. As other countries catch up in tech skills you might find yourself in a similar position.

>If you can make similar money in easier work...
Nerd sniping. Some people were just born with a wrench in their hand and need to be solving practical problems. I just can't work jobs like that without being bored out of my mind and miserable.

>I would imagine that what you do is in fact skilled labor it should pay more...
Buddy I can MIG TIG and stick weld, I'm a mechanic, I've worked as a qualified person on 480V three phase, and low voltage controls, as well as hydraulics and pneumatics. I can drive 10 ton trucks stick, take apart and put a motor back together, and locate the clitoris with only a bubble level, ruler, protractor, line out chalk, twine, pocket calculator, and a stud finder. Imagine what you want. Macroeconomic principles are of little comfort in the real world, where social forces and political forces collide and such simple game theory doesn't hold up.

The company can pay less and ask more, paying less and asking more has become common and nobody wants to rock the boat and lose the immense power gap between labor and management by competing on the basis of wages to attract talent. Besides, a lack of manpower means you can just go somewhere else. The world supply chain, even during covid, is so robust at scale that physical location means little, but relative economic wealth and power means a lot.

I'm not bitching, I eat three meals a day and pay rent. But tech has it good and I see a lot of people not realize how much that can change overnight. I expect a great deal more people will work in tech in the west, and less at my kind of job, so I'd like to see workers realize that they have to entrench the current available quality of life, for the future generations. Because the people in manufacturing through the 50s-70s didn't entrench the quality of life in such a way it could survive financialization and lean strategies of the 80s.
I don't see any sliding here, only hopping from one tile to another without anything in-between.

Anyway, that's just your opinion. I greatly prefer this to Jupiter Hell and I don't even understand how you can compare the two. Jupiter Hell looks like a generic top-down isometric 3D game.
I think I'd rather take the 12 hour hit and get it working on EC2 then paying the ongoing convenience fee charged for Fargate.
Is Twitter going away? What did I miss? I know a lot of folks are taking Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter as a “the sky is falling” moment, but can we please have a reality check here?

As a business Twitter was bloated and has stagnated over the past few years. I’m taking an optimistic view of where Twitter may go as a product/service.

Take a deep breath folks. We don’t need a half assed Twitter replacement.
In my community, it is technically safe for consumption and not under a boil order, but also not easily drinkable.
Already pointed out by others, but I think you might be underestimating just how much the issue comes from Twitter (et al.) being a platform : giant, centralized, closed, US-based...
> However, having said that, compared to FAANG internal tools, its actually not that bad. It's at least vaguely consistent

Actually I find a lot of Amazon's internal tools to be a breeze to use compared to AWS.

Basically all the painful Amazon-specific stuff is done for you so it makes everything very easy.

Some stuff is bad obviously but what we use the most is pretty freaking good.
Not only more leveraged, but with significantly more dangerous debt terms (construction loans that need to be refinanced after 12 - 18 months and, in the multi family space, interest-only ARMs — remember those? - are common.)
> CDK is just another way of expressing the same things as terraform and cloudfront but using a framework which is opaque.

It also involves writing many, many less lines of code than Cloudformation/Terraform thanks to the excellent abstractions it bundles in. Your example of writing "2 days' worth of YAML" is less than 120 lines of Typescript in CDK. You could even skip that and just npm install the AWS solutions construct for this scenario if you have literally no idea what you're doing: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/latest/constructs/aws-...
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Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA Discovered in Ancient South Americans
Tell HN: SMS can be used to bypass Sendgrid’s 2FA
A couple weeks ago, I signed up for Sendgrid to take advantage of their free email service. I always provide as little information as possible when signing up for new services, and I try my best to avoid providing my phone number. Luckily, I was able to get everything set up and maintain some level of privacy doing so.

Fast-forward a couple weeks: I go to log in to change one of my templates, and I get prompted to enable 2FA on my account. Thinking, “it’s kinda neat they make it this easy,” I click “Next”. Then, Sendgrid prompts me to enter my phone number so that in case I lose access to my 2FA device, they can send me a one-time code via SMS…

In other words, SMS can be used to bypass the 2FA you set up with Sendgrid. After going back and forth with their customer support team, it looks like providing your number is the only way to enable 2FA and unless you enable 2FA you can not log into your account…
It is. We might not see all the ramifications of it in the public sphere yet but it's, definitely, a different company going into a different direction with their product.

Like GP said, what it has become is still for us to find out but the wheel has been set in motion: staff is being laid off, product changes are being introduced, whole departments are left not staffed and it will take weeks to months for all of this to unravel.

It is a different beast, internally, than it was 2 weeks ago. It will keep changing and being molded but that Twitter no longer exists, it's on the path to become something else.
false. as a person with a learning disability when tested in a normal testing environment anxiety caused my testing scores to be lower than when placed in a isolated and untimed environment. researchers need to stop blanketing results. we are all different learners, therefore we are all different when it comes to testing. testing is a bad way to measure everyone's knowledge of a subject. it needs to be changed.
Full Title:

Unleash the Simulacrum: Shifting Browser Realities for Robust Extension-Fingerprinting Prevention
you are personally destroying the planet
Well, this makes them more capable than some project managers.
Short answer, yes: https://github.com/moyix/fauxpilot
3D map of my home country made available by our local map provider Mapy.cz (those guys rock).

Some more info: https://www.melowntech.com/post/2017/08/11/mapycz-country-wi...
Hello! I keep asking this, but do you have any good resources for doing that? For example, any repos you would recommend studying?

Thanks!
"You truly belong here with us among the clouds."
You can't go faster than leet.
While I know I am right about the current interpretation of how copyright applies to software I am also of the opinion that this is also how things aught to be.

I have yet to hear a persuasive argument otherwise.

Is it because I both write and publish open source code and write and publish music that I am able to clearly delineate idea from expression?

For one, I have never been satisfied with the non-utilitarian aspects of Copilot’s output. When I am writing software the real art has always been in how code is organized. I gain absolutely no aesthetic value from autocompleting unit tests or boilerplate.

You may think that the outputs of Copilot and Stable Diffusion are artistic in nature but all I see is a rhyming dictionary.

I look at attempts to have copyright cover the utilitarian aspect of software as an attempt to claim ownership over chord progressions, scales or time signatures.
It’s okay to do less at work for a while. If your job has a lot travel, on-call, and overtime then it may be wise to change roles. Your kids and partner will need you more than your work and they absolutely deserve it.

When your kids start daycare/school they will be home with fevers and bad colds. It’s good if you can use sick days and share this with your partner. You will also be sick a lot. Ensure you have lots of time off and sick leave.

You will have a lot less time to hang with friends and do personal activities but it’s important to keep something going.

Other people have brought up most of my other points so I won’t repeat them here.
Most of the cheap VPS providers I've seen don't provide API access to create/destroy the instance. After it's created, you can bootstrap it for docker with ssh+bash or Ansible giving more options for a consistent deploy flow.
From my experience working in biotech I would say certainly a B.S. in a scientific field (like biochemistry, etc.) There is often a hard cap in the career trajectory without a PhD. Often there are enough PhDs out there that moving into management in industry often requires this vs. Stagnating as a lab scientist without a huge upward spike in income/responsibilities.
> and that lack of enforcement didn't seem to stop people from creating all sorts of artistic and literary and musical works, great in quantity and quality alike.

It's why several of Shakespeare's plays are missing, and others are only available in modified form. Since there was no exclusive right of performance, playwrights (and other similar creatives) had to keep their works close to their chest. Copyright does exist for a legitimate reason.

The biggest problems with copyright today, are:

• it's far, far, far too long; and

• corporate gatekeeping allows nigh-monopolistic corporations to take authors' copyrights from them, meaning copyright law doesn't protect authors at all!

(Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow discuss the latter in their book Chokepoint Capitalism, which I haven't read yet.)

> The more the megacorporations backtrack on their copyright absolutism and admit that ignoring copyright expedites creative work, the more ammunition the rest of us have against their continued insistence on copyright absolutism.

I'd love it if it worked that way. I hope you're right – but I believe you're wrong. We can let them do this backtracking without letting copyright law tilt even further in their favour.
There is a 3TB model “The Stack” which I believe is partly designed for this: all of the code is properly licensed.

Training the model would be expensive but it’s a one-and-done process. With the model openly available cloud providers could provide a subscription service to end-users which recoups the cost of running it.

The only issue is I imagine GitHub has much more code than 3TB.
"War! Never been so much fun!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiYuq6Ac3a0
No not using pointers would not solve the issue. The issue is that the specific error implementation type is part of the method signature. If you returned type MyError instead of *MyError, then it would be impossible to return nil from the method because only pointers can be nil.
It's the contrary.

An internal service is really good and then it becomes an AWS service.

I've even been in 2 teams that have tried to do that and one may succeed in a few years.
Thanks ! Ye I need to reduce the number of of rows and columns on mobile to improve the UX
Two things for any parents:

a) Model the behaviour you want to see in your children.

Show them how you deal with anger by modelling the behaviour you'd want them to have when they're angry, by behaving that way when you're angry.

Show them what it is like celebrating joys.

Apologise to them when you screw up - because you will.

Your son will learn how he should treat women by they way you treat his mother. Your daughter will learn how she should be treated by the way you treat her mother. (And vice versa with how mum treats dad.)

When you get frustrated that they don't listen to anything you say, remember they are seeing everything you do.

b) Keep working on your relationship with your partner. For me, authenticity and communication are the two big things. If you don’t feel like you can be your real self with that person, if you are unable to share with each other your dreams, fantasies, desires, fears, faults and foibles, it’s hard to build a relationship that can last.

and congrats.
Yes. I am paid time and a half past 40 hours as mandated by US law. At time and a half, I am still falling short of the salaried spreadsheet operators who are the lower tier of the non-labor workforce. If you take all the overtime, 12 hours every weekday and 8 hours on saturday, for an entire year, you can make 70K before taxes.

My issue is mostly wage stagnation and lesser benefits, as well as the lack of security, and the way the trend isn't showing any signs of reversing leaving me worried if gen Z is even going to bother and an entire way of life won't disappear along with 'Made in the U.S.A', as well as a warning that tech field might be next up for optimization of labor costs if VCs go off to chase the next thing and CRUD stops printing money.
I think a lot of getting to the front page depends on your random luck of the first 10 people that see the post. If enough of those 10 like your thing, it gets seen by thousands more and may make it to the front page. If none of those 10 do, it's fades away. It's 10 people out of millions that visit HN, so there's a lot of variability. You could post the exact same thing 15 minutes later then the first time and get a totally different "first 10" and that post could perform completely differently.
Wow, much appreciated :)
Same for me. The sense of wonderment is no longer there. It's really just a job for me nowadays. I hope that spark comes back one day.
Let's say you have software that sells for $80 a month, you only have to sell 200 subscriptions to pay a $200k salary. Let's deduct some expenses and say $130k.

The question is, can a developer with 2000 hours of time to spend working create a feature or improve the existing software to convert an additional 200 customers? That is 10 hours per customer. The software developer could interview every single customer for 5 hours and gather and analyze the requirements and still have a thousand hours left to actually do his work.

If anything, the moment there is a robotics revolution the value of software development will go up even further. There will be plenty of demand to spend on developing a harvesting program for a specific crop for example.
> Fear about SIDS is so incredibly overblown. I think the latest that we know about SIDS is that it’s a genetic thing.

Smoking is a huge risk factor so don’t! Don’t even smoke outside the house and drag in that stink on your clothes. It’s Best quit for your kids.
Agree on the value of Sage and the Frankenstein.

Sage is amazing and valuable but the value of Mathematica is the cognitive ease of having one unified platform for everything. Sage is a nice integration of multiple specialized tools under a rudimentary common framework but requires a lot more mental overhead to tie it all together.
"i made something similar, except it shares almost no similarities"
And if that happens, I have the right to sue.
His graph shows it.

Linked source https://fortune.com/2022/10/10/home-flippers-are-in-trouble-...
What? If you've never used twitter, why do you even care now? If you use ig, reddit, fb, that's ok. If you like to have conversations with people in person, that's ok too. I just don't understand why people are worked out by Elon buying twitter. If you think twitter is going to become more of a cesspool, then by all means use mastodom, gettr, truth social, etc...

I was just stating that if twitter was bad before, these new alternatives will be 10x worse since they will create truly silos and radicalize even more people. To each their own.
Just for a sense of scale, the venusian atmosphere has a mass of about half a billion GigaTons, 97% of which is CO2. Here on Earth, with all our industrial infrastructure, the substances we produce the most (iron and concrete) are in the low single digits GigaTons per year. The next ones (fertilizers and plastics) are in the hundreds of megatons per year. If you want to make a difference on Venus, you'd need to make millions of time more diamonds each year in some balloons in the skies than we make iron here on Earth.
It was something like this, bottle on top and bottom and you could directly attach/screw small bomb on side in between.

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/4001271603795.html
Product overview: https://www.f4map.com/
Convert JSON into gorgeous, typesafe code in any language
Much thanks to you for your comments :)
Argument screens off authority, but you do actually have to have a better argument than the authority figure. Saying "I have an argument, and the experts aren't on Hacker News so we don't know what theirs is" doesn't make it a logical fallacy to disagree with you.

And just because an argument's a logical fallacy, that doesn't make it incorrect. https://existentialcomics.com/comic/9
I agree, really is wasted space and does not really respect mobile conventions: it would be more fitting to have this on the bottom like Twitter on mobile (or what most Android and iOS apps do nowadays)
Not necessarily in my town, but where my employer is located.

The town sees a ton of car traffic each day due to providing +20k jobs. However, the town has no proper connection to public transit. The only somewhat reliable connection is the limited services ran by the companies in said town as a benefit for their employees. But due to limited service times it sees relatively little utilization.

For 30+ years now there has been the intend to connect this city to the existing light rail systems of the other two major population centers in close proximity. During the last vote by the locals, they still opposed the plan. That was three years ago, now they are demanding the construction of another bypass road (the city already has one) to get rid of the cars passing through their town.

Another example from my town:
the city recently announced a shift towards more eco friendly transportation infrastructure (despite a conservative mayor) and focus more on cycling and trams. This includes the reactivation of some abandoned tram tracks as well as the removal of some parking spaces on public ground to get more space for properly secured cycling lanes. Unsurprisingly the locals protested the decision and the ambition to remove parking spaces, citing the fees they pay for it. This is a dense urban area with >600k people and they pay 30€ in parking annually
Surprised I had to go this far down to find the first mention of Rust on a HN thread
GDPR Article 5, 1(b):

> Personal data shall be: […] collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes shall, in accordance with Article 89(1), not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes (‘purpose limitation’);
At those places the real money is made by being allowed to participate in the employee-only investment funds.
Saudi Arabia pushes ahead with its sci-fi city vision
Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldenrod_(color)#Pale_goldenr... .

Added as an X11 color name in 1989, replacing the name "OldGoldenrod". https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~alanc/xc-historical/commit/xc/... .
The remains of the rocket have landed somewhere in the pacific ocean.
It must be so tempting to end these things with, "Live from New York, it's Saturday night!"
An understanding of and willingness to do science is a broadly applicable skill across many different disciplines (even if you don't get a degree in it), as well as being a useful life skill. It's something kids absolutely should be exposed to even if it's not their passion nor do they wind up doing something as an adult which would be generally labelled 'science' (which is a shorthand usually meaning natural sciences specifically).
>I try to add typing in Python where it makes sense (especially external interfaces), mostly as documentation, but am not overly zealous about them like some others I know. Mostly I look at them as better comments.

See you don't type everything because it doesn't improve things from a practical standpoint. You view it as better comments rather then additional type safety. You leave holes in your program where certain random parts aren't type checked. It's like if only half of C++ was type checked, one would think that it'd be a nightmare to program in given that we can't assume type correctness everywhere in the code. but this is not the case.

Your practical usage of types actually proves my point. You don't type everything. You have type holes everywhere and things still function just fine.

I type everything for that extra 1% in safety. But I'm not biased. I know 1% isn't a practical number. I do it partly out of habit from my days programming in haskell.
This reminds me of the "Broken Windows Theory":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
In places of the EU, especially close to the sea, tap water fucking sucks. You end up with kidney stones if you drink it every day. Stop romanticising the EU so much for fuck's sake.
Love the cranes that appear for Construction Areas
As a millennial who aspires to home ownership in the next year or two, thanks to the suffocating rental market: this article gives me hope. I'm not interested in paying obscene amounts of money for currently overvalued housing just to line the pockets of boomers trying to cash in on... owning a house at the right time.

A crash would finally get me to jump into the market. I suspect there are a lot of other millennials like myself who feel priced out of housing in general, so I think this is a necessary crash if we want my generation to avoid renting for our entire lives.

On the subject of rent, some interesting tidbits in this article about price-fixing in the rental market over the past few years. Maybe we'll see the federal government clamp down on that nonsense finally.

One especially interesting quote from the article:

> Tarrant County, in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, saw 52% of all home sales go to investors in 2021!

For anyone renting or considering buying in a US city over the last 2-3 years, this won't come as much of a surprise. But it's crazy to think that this is just institutional investors taking up half the market. It doesn't even account for short term rentals, second homes, etc., which definitely distort market demand as well.

I really wish the USA would come down hard on these investors, especially when homelessness is on an obvious rise. But let's be honest, when the market crashes they'll just get a ton of tax write-offs and beg for government assistance on top of that. I hope we don't fall for it this time.
Change it through voting is possible therefore the sovereign state is the people not the government.

You are using the fallacy of arguing to the absurd.

I’m more correct than an asshole saying “my employer owns the sky listen to me”
It looks like Europe has reached a far more sustainable labor market in general, with lower peaks and higher valleys. As well as much better time off, and benefits like health and pension secured by public institutions instead of employers. I'd be willing to give up my chance at more money through starting a contracting business or pivoting to webdev with some certs to know that workers are more secure in their future. Thanks for a view from somewhere far away.
Part 91 means I can fly whenever the fuck I want and the FAA has no authority.

That’s the complete opposite of ownership. So I’m right. Say it.
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