skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems unreasonable to dictate the way your colleagues work because it doesn't match your own value system. If the culture of the company/team is fast paced or long hours, maybe it isn't the right fit for you.

Generally speaking though, companies should value output and results over hours. Easier said than done. Additionally, value should be placed on what one commits to do and delivers on. So if somebody is constantly having to pull late nights to complete work, they may be overcommitting. It's also possible a manager will consistently push people to overcommit: this is a problem because that can indicate poor boundaries, bad planning, poor resourcing, and so on.
> Say we're shutting down the self-driving car division, folding up recruiting, or choosing to accept the risk that comes with getting rid of the whole security team.

Did you intend this to be a spit take? The sentence read about the same as “Say you’re taking a stroll around town, visit a few cafés, or decide to end the day by jumping into an active volcano.”
I'll raise you a forum-trained AI spambot to defeat the AI spamfilter. It'll be an entirely automated arms race.
Consedering US mined NordStream 1 & 2, you should wory as much about US.

Beside, they are 1 election away from electing Trump and Marjolie Taylor Green as Potus and VP.
You are correct I was just saying what typically does happen, not what should happen.

And when someone responds with so much misguided anger it's not even worth the effort to respond.
Yes, I think those have contributed, but I think they play a minor role compared with some fundamental problems with both the global economy (Ukraine, most obviously) and the UK economy (low productivity).
What is your threshold at which killing a non-violent thief should be allowed?

If I catch someone stealing my car from my driveway at night, can I shoot them as they try to start the ignition?

If I see someone swiping my cell phone off my restaurant table while I'm turned around... shoot them?

What about my umbrella?
Definitely should evaluate both. Still curious about nhost's perspective.
> How is package management these days?

We use Stack together with Nix to pin all dependencies. That works very well.

> Is cabal hell still a thing?

No.

> How's the IDE situation?

Much better than it was. Haskell Language Server (HLS) has been a game changer. It works very well and can be used with different editors (easy to install for VS Code for example).
How to Write the Perfect Commit Message
Wondering if any other companies will follow suit.
Arm64 is very competitive. As you can see from the slides, the Ampere Q80-30 is pretty much on-par with our production AMD systems.

Yes, I've spent lots of time in the AMD BIOS over the years, and lots of time with our AMD FAE (who is fantastic, BTW) poking at things.
> unlike the rest of the car

A touchscreen is objectively worse than traditional physical controls for operations that need to be performed while concentrating on driving.

Teslas are also not known for the quality of their manufacturing, although that's a different kind of design issue.
I went to a conference in Japan two weeks ago and before I travelled I got a Lonely Planet phrasebook from a used book store.

I did end up using Google Translate on my smartphone more, but having a physical book that obviously marks you as someone learning the language is a useful and underrated benefit. I had 2-3 conversations ('interactions' is probably a better word for me actually using the Japanese) over the course of a week that I can attribute to the phrasebook, which is somewhat significant because at the conference English was the default.

Also if the phrasebook is well organized, it can be a good scaffold for keeping the language organized in memory, so it can be a kind of a bridge between a simple translation lookup and a textbook. It's also like a fanny pack that has some retro appeal. Although the phrasebook had a dictionary at the back, it wasn't that useful. Having a proper dedicated pocket dictionary was good because it had words listed with phrase collocations/examples.
UN Suggestion
I have a bangle.js. It's... alright. Does the job. Feels cheap. OS is nightmarishly slow. Only one physical button, so annoying and fiddly to set with a touchscreen (interacts badly with the slow OS). Has GPS, but doesn't really work. Has heart monitor, but doesn't really work. Not terribly stable.

My Pebble Time Steel was vastly superior.
Like many reader of this site, who are not "front end developers," and hence have watched the constant churn of fads and ever-changing cleverly-named frameworks and tools for churning CSS and HTML and attempting to shore up JS and browser support into something representing a stable and maintainable platformm,

and as a reader who worked in embedded for a decade,

my instantaneous reaction to this headline was "JFC NO!" prior to even clicking o see if it is e.g. about domain priors or what.

Half in rejection of the contention that the actual ecosystem is similar (it's not),

mostly in rejection of that idea that it should be ("never again").
Ah, right. (Still a mystery why they offer postpaid at that price if they don't want to).

But I think I'll stick with cricket after all. Still has discounted phone upgrades, still with no contract (although the phone can be unlocked from cricket until you've used it a year on cricket, I still prefer that).

(And, of course, to make things even weirder, cricket is owned by AT&T)
> it was strictly based on who was paid the most (below the managerial level)

The "(below the managerial level)" part is the problem and the reason it is outrageous to people invested in a company but not in a position of power (such as the actual developers/engineers, even in a tech-centric company, at least once it has grown to a given size).
Cuba is essentially as democratic as China, which the US doesn’t embargo.

You can’t protest the government as a concept nor any specific members of the top leadership. However, within reason you can call out localized corruption and give your input to local government initiatives.

Everything on the national level is beyond the scope of a normal citizens questioning.
For home users it is probably a little much, but it'll be useful in a lot of places.

Any time you use disk encryption then enrolling a backup key that can be used to decrypt the filesystem if needed is definitely recommended.
> HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.0 use TCP as the transport

HTTP 1.1 and 2.0 do not require TCP, although that is by far the most common way they are used.

What overhead would TCP bring after the three-way handshake on a uncontested stable network without packet loss? I would expect it to be no more than UDP.

> traceroute on UN*X uses UDP by default. There is no overhead when using UDP.

You are correct. UDP will get you lower numbers, I was more of saying that TCP will not be much worse (maybe within 1ms) under good network conditions.
I don't know if you can get them where you are, but I'll plug Ireland's All Real protein bars here.

They're fantastic. They use dates and honey for sweetness, with whey from happy grass-fed Irish cows. And they're not even much more expensive than the awful alternatives.
At least in the lumber business, prices have been sky high the past couple years and production has literally never been higher. All of us are producing full throttle and have been ever since about May 2020 after a couple month dip. At least in the context of lumber, this idea that pricing is all driven by supply constraints is just wrong. It’s driven by truly and objectively unprecedented take-away/demand. Those prices are presently falling as Powell closes the easy money tap.
Recessions never look like the one before it, because that's what everyone expects to happen and plans for.

This one is already quite odd in a number of ways (i.e., low unemployment), so there's good reason to expect several other aspects of it to not follow conventional wisdom.

My personal opinion is that this will be seen as an indefinite recession, in that we will look back and see that it was comprised of the cause and effect of many smaller "recessionary events" rather than one defining event.
Chargebee joins the Unicorn layoff race – 10% work force wiped off
Wish you were right. Unfortunately, most tech companies have some decent amount of people coasting at the lowest level of effort.

My current team has 6 people. 3 are delivering at normal levels, but the other 3 complete one task per week at most. And those are tasks that take a couple of hours at most. This is happening everywhere, and is a clear consequence of overhiring.
Re: "Hereʻs the answer everyone knows: there IS no principled reason for banning spam."

The author is making the mistake that "free speech" has been about saying whatever you want and whenever you want. This was never the case, including at the time of the founding of the U.S. constitution. There has always been a tolerance window which defines what you can say and what you can't say without repercussions, often and usually enforced by society and societal norms.

The 1st amendment was always about limiting what the government can do to curtail speech, but, as we know, there are plenty of other actors in the system that have and continue to moderate communications. The problem with society today is that those in power have gotten really bad at defining a reasonable tolerance window, and in fact, political actors have worked hard to shift the tolerance window to benefit them and harm their opponents.

So, he makes this mistake and then builds on it by claiming that censoring spam violates free speech principles, but that's not really true. And then he tries to equate controversy with spam, saying it's not so much about the content itself but how it affects users. And that, I think leads into another major problem in society.

There has always been a tension between someone getting reasonably versus unreasonably offended by something. However, in today's society, thanks in part to certain identitarian ideologies, along with a culture shift towards the worship or idolization of victimhood, we've given tremendous power to a few people to shut down speech by being offended, and vastly broadened what we consider reasonable offense versus unreasonable offense.

Both of these issues are ultimately cultural, but, at the same time, social media platforms have enough power to influence culture. If the new Twitter can define a less insane tolerance window and give more leeway for people to speak even if a small but loud or politically motivated minority of people get offended, then they will have succeeded in improving the culture and in improving content moderation.

And, of course, there is a third, and major elephant in the room. The government has been caught collaborating with tech companies to censor speech indirectly. This is a concrete violation of the first amendment, and, assuming Republicans gain power this election cycle, I hope we see government officials prosecuted in court over it.
From the referenced article:

> Don't be discouraged if what you produce initially is something other people dismiss as a toy. In fact, that's a good sign. That's probably why everyone else has been overlooking the idea. The first microcomputers were dismissed as toys. And the first planes, and the first cars. At this point, when someone comes to us with something that users like but that we could envision forum trolls dismissing as a toy, it makes us especially likely to invest.

Organic Startup Ideas - http://paulgraham.com/organic.html

---

It reminds me of another article:

The next big thing will start out looking like a toy - https://cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-start-...
> You give your 4-5 years to a company and the company dumps you at the first sight of hardship.

You got paid every month for those 4-5 years right? That's the settlement of what the company owes you for the time you gave them.

I've had this point of view for a long time. Every payday, you and your employer are even. If you feel that you are giving your employer more than they are giving you, you need to negotiate a raise, or start looking elsewhere for a better deal.
I think it's an interesting argument about what SA is now. I hear membership is growing again. It has a dedicated group there. I think that's what's most interesting. That's really not much different than a Reddit board in theory. But Reddit boards seem to come and go constantly and suffer from all sorts of problems. I am not a redditor but SA seems like a better board than a specific sub reddit.

My point is that maybe what SA is now is the best you can hope for on the internet, and it's going strong(?).
At some point this becomes "is human society artificial or is it, like, the natural product of human nature," right?
They haven't been popular as games on their own, but there is an "ancient" legacy genre of games designed to played via code, sometimes even competitively. The competitive ones especially have a rich history and often have themes of robot fights/robot battling/robot wars.

Several major early, famous Kickstarters were "teach programming as a game" games such as Codemancer and (board game) Robot Turtles.

It will likely never be a mainstream thing in games. There are too many risks that giving access to programming scripts inside of games might accidentally "ruin" the intended experience: both in terms of users automating a game too much and finding it boring, and in users finding exploits and hacking the game into unintended states.

Still, it's always great to see explorations of it even if it is kept mostly to its own mini-genre. I know that some of the programming-inspired puzzles in The Castle of Dr. Brain and the Island of Dr. Brain were quite influential to me at certain ages.
More likely in response to the interest rate raise. Effectively the leathal injection to the tech sector.
It's proof of the old adage : the best possible government is a benign dictator.
Gotta be a real morale booster for those that are left...
I just reached my 30s, and have pretty good WLB. Good WLB is just part of the picture though. You can work 5 hours a day and be miserable, and you can work 12 hours a day and be happy. It's also nice to have flexibility and independence I think. Being forced to work 12 hours always sucks over voluntarily working 12 hours.

I'd not recommend 23yo to stay chill in job, particularly if they have some ambition. At the same time, don't devoid yourself of other experiences in life if possible. Honestly, there is plenty of time in a day. If we have good discipline and prioritize correctly, lot can be done. That's what I struggle with personally.
Does that still hold if you exclude poor post-soviet countries? they are like half of EU
The only way for labor to come out on top is if productivity increases.

With war, population shrinking, disruption around the world, I expect productivity (in total) to be somewhat stagnant.

Which means the top dogs will be forced to make less while they figure out how to fix things through productivity going up once the disruptions are over.

But also that the average Joe will get a larger slice of a smaller pie.

Assuming I'm right. Who knows what will actually happen.
The camcorder stays still, and you need to press the button twice. Couldn't have taken the guy more than 5 mins.
I didn't say Musk was being a hypocrite, and I don't appreciate the smug sarcasm of your response
>During the trump years they seemed to buckle under the pressure.

So there is no proof that Powell made fed policy based on saving his own job?
The original post is paradoxical in the very way it talks about social media being paradoxical.

He observes that social media moderation is about signal to noise. Then he goes on about introducing off-topic noise. Then, he comes to conclusions that seem to ignore his original conclusion about it being a S/N problem.

Chiefly, he doesn't show how a "council of elders" is necessary to solve S/N problems.

Strangely enough, Slashdot seems to have a system which worked pretty well back in the day.
But in doing so were you not influencing the culture? Depending on how promotions etc work others might feel they need to keep up with that one guy working in the weekend.
Yeah, the "there's no principled reason to ban spam" is just silly. The recipients don't want to see it whereas people cry censorship when messages they want to see are blocked.

It's literally the difference between your feed being filtered by your choices & preferences and someone else imposing theirs upon you.
Oh man, once I figured out how to use the gambit system I loved it. Arguably those were my first programs that I wrote (way back in middle school), and taught me how to think through things step by step. Easily my favorite Final Fantasy, maybe my favorite game of all time. Even back when it was just a CD without any updateable content, I would learn something new about it every single time I went back to play it every couple of years. I had so much fun looking into all of the nooks and crannies of that game.
It's mostly about avoiding nesting. Honestly, I'm still pretty ambivalent about it. But, before you might do:

if let Some(x) = maybe_x {
// do stuff with x
} else {
return;
}

now, you'd do:

let Some(x) = maybe_x else {
return;
}

// do stuff with x

If you have several instances of this kind of thing, the nesting can be pretty ugly and hard to read, so we'd sometimes do janky things to avoid the nesting, like:

let x = if let Some(x) = maybe_x { x } else { return; };

or,

if let (Some(x), Some(y)) = (maybe_x, maybe_y) {
// do stuff with x and y with only one layer of nesting
} else {
return;
}
Yes, the force that has basically uplifted half the world population out of serfdom into the middle class is the bad guy.
So what?

When I was working on search engines a while ago I found there seems to be a hard limit of 70% precision at position 1 because it's impossible to know if a person searching for "jaguar" is interested in cars, cats, game consoles, or many other things. The search engine could try to guess, split the difference, etc. but it's not going to be right.

(Something I was interested at the time that is still beyond state of the art is getting a good probability score for a document being relevant which would be good for making your own IBM Watson or for an alerting service which lets users feel like they are in control. When you talk to experts or look at the literature you find that what little research there is on this focuses on attributes of the query such as "estimating the difficulty of the query".)
> Comparing this to an M1 Mini is a bit odd since they're not competing with each other at all, and Microsoft is limited by what Qualcomm et al can put out.

Microsoft is a multi billion dollar company, they are not limited, they made a bad business decision to depend on a 3rd party to build chips for them

Their products are meant to be competitive against the competition, they should be compared for what they are, computers
Good.

Even though UN resolutions are and always have been meaningless, they can still apply some pressure.

Fun fact: the UN created the International Criminal Court to prosecure war crimes, something the US vehemently opposed. The US under then-president George W. Bush, argued that such a court may lead to US servicemen being charged with war crimes. Of course the US has committed war crimes [1]. So Bush passed the Hage Invasion Act [2], which authorizes the US to invade the Netherlands if any US servicemen are brought up on war crimes at the ICC in The Hague (in the Netherlands, obviously).

The point is the US wouldn't do this if the UN could be completely ignored.

There are several major countries that have varying degrees of harsh long-standing sanctions at the behest of the US that are completely unjustifiable:

1. Cuba. Why? If you look beyond the "communism = bad" kneejerk reaction you come to the justification that Cuba nationalized assets of US citizens. That didn't stop the US seizing Afghan citizens' assets [3];

2. Venezuela. Why? Because Maduro started to or threatened to nationalize their oil industry. So the sanctions were really for the benefit of Chevron, Shell and Exxon. There's no principle here. The US had no problem with Chavez (who was awful). But again, "communism = bad";

3. Russia. This one makes sense. I mean the average citizens will bear the brunt of this but Russia started an unjustifiable war in Ukraine so what else can you do?

4. Iran.Why? After the US backed a coup of Iran's democratic government to install the US-allied Shah (again, communism and the Truman Doctrine comes into this), which pretty much sowed the seeds fo the 1979 fundamentalist revolution, which has been the government since. We've decided to pick sides with Saudi Arabia. Nevermind that Saudi Arabia funded and supported the 9/11 terrorists (and the madrasses that created them) and is currently engaging in a genocide in Yemen with US weapons. Sanctions seem to have the effect of solifying support for the regime (up until recently). Obama brokered a deal to end this. Trump blew it up essentially to appease Israel (and Biden has continued that policy).

4. North Korea. Does anyone stop and think why North Korea is really under heavy sanctions? "Because they're bad" is really the crux of this. The implicit assumption here is that US is "good", somehow by definition. That belief creates all sorts of problems.

Consider this: Cuba produces a lot of cane sugar. The US spends a lot of money on the corn lobby and corn (in the form of high-fructose corn syrup) is a common cane sugar substitute in the US and almost nowhere else in the developed world.

It's kinda weird how so many of these sanctions can be tied back to US economic and political interests rather than any form of principle.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes

[2]: https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-be...

[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/us/politics/afghanistan-c...
Jitsi Meet is pretty good for video, and relatively easy to self-host, though you'll need some decent resources for it. The docker-jitsi-meet project[0] can get you started quickly

Signal's "source available" infra can be self-hosted but it's huge effort and relies on a bunch of cloud-specific services which need to be replaced with self-hostslable alternatives. It's also extremely poorly documented and the code quality is fairly mediocre. I wouldn't recommend trying to host Signal infra yourself; it can be done; I've done it at work and it took some months of effort, and maintaining it is a nightmare (or was, then at least) because they'd only push one huge update to GitHub quarterly or less often.

[0]https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet
> can anyone explain to me why Musk and Sacks seem to have developed the strategy of insulting their customers and potential customers?

I find it fascinating that so many people are whip-crack quick to loudly criticize the $8 checkmark move.

How many of these critics even use Twitter?

And of those who do use Twitter, how can any of them know the outcome of such a move? Why not just wait and observe?
Yeah when they were talking about all the red tape that will be gone and then introducing the ukca marking to replace the ce marking… (facepalm)

The annoying British exceptionalism is for once coming to bite hard.
Apparently the evangelical jehadis and MAGAts are likely gonna succeed towards a similar outcome here in the US. These people forget how much better western economies were before BREXIT and MAGA nuisance took over.
You're far from the only person who thinks this, but please see dang's stickied comment at the top of the thread.
I am so uninterested in sending my data to a third party or paying rent, I've been interested to start playing around in this space for a long time and I'm incredibly thankful for emad and crew doing their best to democratize access to this stuff and fulfill openai's original promises. OpenAI is a grift as far as I'm concerned and I'm really hoping that Stability makes them completely irrelevant.
Who you calling "we", l-grogenaut?
What does this comment contribute?
That sounds sarcastic to me.