skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, the minimalist software engineer. I usually encounter them in PRs claiming a change is "over-engineered" despite being literally 5 LOC. It's such a comfortable position to label everything you don't understand as complex and unnecessary. Bonus points of you throw in YAGNI and KISS acronyms!

I have a problem with "Perfect is enemy of good". I get the whole thing with iteration and so on, it looks good on paper, but in my experience when it comes to "First do it, then do it right, then do it better" and modern software development methodologies, you are lucky if you even get to work on the second step. And the nastiest projects I've encountered in my career have been all "evolved".
He specializes in handwaving posts with no solid content. Look at his database posts for example where he's wasted a lot of people's time.
I was curious about exact numbers and found this in the most recent EU report:

https://imgur.com/a/HIkyO05
This chaos further lends evidence to the idea that controls around mass redundancy is a good thing.

People should lobby for the following:

* advance warning

* open redundancy processes

* mandatory consultation periods

* protection that redundancies are justified

Redundancy legislation is not just about minimum severance, it's about making sure large companies put in place proper procedures to prevent this kind of chaos.

By engaging with the workforce with advance notice (real advance notice that there will be redundancies, not just paying off a severance) and having consultations then redundancies can be minimised and focused where necessary.

Not laying off a chunk of workers who a week later you realised you depended on.
Oh shoot, thanks for the heads up. Is the page not loading for you at all, or is it another problem? I just tried it again at https://trykon.itch.io/omnicube and I seem to be able to get through to successfully download the demo.
No. It's federated. You can see the posts from other servers.

The usernames are more like emails then twitter usernames. They contain the server domain after the normal username like this `@user@example.org`.
And what was gained here? You have to rely solely on "cloudron" for patching / maintaining the services. Why not go fully managed and be done with it?
230V/3kW induction stove boils a cup of water faster than you can get the cup from the cupboard.
>Why should I continue reading rest when you already made insane claim based on nothing.

This is the sort of "but actually" pedantry that I come to HN for. Thank you for your service.
Regarding seats: In Norway (and a few more countries) it is forbidden to ride with a passenger on a moped.
I have a friend doing that on Masto.host using https://masto.host/mastodon-usernames-different-from-the-dom.... Works well.
Because many HN readers are developers, and developers deal with characters all the time
How do trees do it, then?
Okay, what if FB makes WhatsApp slow, buggy and lacking features instead? Are the Android users be willing to switch to other messenger platforms for the comfort of the iPhone users or are the iPhone users consider the messaging quality just as if they consider camera quality when purchasing a new phone?

I agree that the messaging platforms are not all powerful but they do wield significant power. iPhone is famously good for social media because Instagram and Snapchat camera integration sucked and that was something people consider when buying a new phone.

So there must be a point where switching to a different phone to improve communications is less painful than making all your social circle switch platform for you.
Create a Roadmap Website with Notion
Most of these are the sort of "common sense" things you'd get with experience, and I mostly agree with the ideas behind this.

Where we fail as a craft though seems to be in passing on this information to those not yet convinced.

Inter-generational transfer of robust best practices might be fundamentally intractable since often worse practices (pushing featurea over solving technical debt, adding needless complexity and bad abstractions) actually pay well. At the same time, it's not like we're putting in too much effort into this.
Heya from a fellow Discworld player! What was your character’s name if I may ask?
LNG was never going to be competitive with pipeline gas, no one was in some "fight" over US or Russia selling to EU. But there sure is a long, long history of Russia using its gas supplies to blackmail and manipulate ex-USSR and other states, including using it's old puppet governments in Ukraine to literally disarm it.

Their coercion extended to bombing pipelines, too, of course:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Russia%E2%80%93Georgia_en...

Finally, the price of LNG is so high as to be thoroughly uninteresting for bulk uses like heating. That means it is rapidly being displaced by other methods like heat pumps. The future isn't "LNG from the US", it's "no gas" and current events have very much turbocharged that transformation.
They problem is that you might get remastered editions of tracks. So don’t actually get what you have on CD.
Full New Elon Musk Interview. Ron Baron Conference Nov 2022. With Timestamps
Would they have had a reason to parody them? Would the act itself be a current relevant topical speech the way it is in this case?

The answers are all no.
Seven Takeaways from Spiel '22
Congratulations on the progress team.
Thanks so much for the post. Its really nice to see what other people are passionate about.
I work on building web applications and internal tools. At the beginning of this year, I quit my job in order to take a break from the grind and just take a breather. Did some soul-searching, spent time with my family, road trips, reading, etc.
Now, back to job hunting :)
Neko – A brief history and porting to JavaScript
I think it's probably the right path for Rui (creator and maintainer of mold) to use specific licenses that forces big-tech companies to pay so Mold as a project can be self-sustained long term.

However, this problem showcases a bigger issue on the dev ecosystem. Right now, the sponsorship model force OSS devs have to implore/beg for money from big corps.
I think there should be better ways for OSS devs to monetize their projects
Gas prices plummeting, energy bills soaring. The market will regulate itself. /s
They probably want submissive workers that just do what they are told and are easily exploited. It might be a good strategy if you want loyal yes-men and get rid of those skeptical of Elon.
I am not giving up my identity to continue being a Don Hughes reply guy.
His ability to live in 2022 so he can run a Twitter account, however, is likely not as undisputed.
The only shocking thing here is that they had actually planned a fifth season.

SPOILERS!

They killed every every. single. human. Total extinction. How is that not the end of the show? Everyone is dead. All these great characters with multi season arcs just lying around in random ditches. Everyone is dead. It felt like a conclusion to the show.
I ran a software agency for 8 years, and as soon as you get past the problem of finding work, and finding good talent - I believe this is a problem we all face.

I’m working on a solution right now, a source of truth for software requirements https://userdoc.fyi
The only correct answer to that should be that you let people maintain their own filters (blocklists and allowlists) so they can see messages they want to receive and not see what they don't want to. Also, you might let people apply such community created lists, that they can subscribe to.

Unfortunately, Mastodon rather than doing that, gives complete control to the server administrator to "moderate" their instance. The result is that you end up having isolated echo-chambers, with each server blocking all other servers that don't agree with their viewpoint.
I felt differently about it.

The author of the blog is a woman. I didn't realize this at first, but as I was reading the article, something really odd was said:

> I start sobbing.

At first I almost could not believe what I was reading. I understand feeling discouraged and even somewhat down for being made fun of by some anonymous dude online. But to start sobbing? I thought this was a very weird / alien reaction. Then I thought, oh wait, is she a woman? So I scrolled up to the top of the page and indeed, the blog name indicates the author is a woman.

As far as I can tell, it's actually a woman privilige to appeal to people based on your sadness. If you're a woman and something made you sad, you are guaranteed to get sympathy and support from many people.

If something made a man cry, he would in all liklihood be ridiculed even further. At least, this is the experience of the vast majority of men. That's why, for example, "MRA" activism is not effective at all: it's a bunch of men trying to appeal to people based on their emotions. It doesn't seem to work for men.
Planet Earth: 8B humans and dwindling resources
and a large chunk of UK supply is still domestically produced from the North Sea
Yeah, delusional.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...

> 8·52% were cold-related and 0·91% were heat-related [...]
Eastern Europe had the highest heat-related excess death rate and Sub-Saharan Africa had the highest cold-related excess death rate.

Or look here and show me the disasters we're likely to have: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/spm/
Cause a see a bunch of "not good", but I somehow fail to see any "billions will die". Or is that not an official enough source for you?

But yeah, it's easy to say "delusional" and drop a bunch of scary words without context. Drought is the thing farmers deal with every few years for literally over 10 millennia. Fires? Extreme weather? yeah, we have that, daily. Without putting some numbers on that it's just fearmongering. But putting numbers makes your position vulnerable - because on one hand global warming does have some good effects, and also wealth and tech more than compensate the ill-effects. For example you may find numbers on extreme weather increasing - but if you look at people affected by it, it's steadily going down. Not exactly the picture you're trying to paint with the scary words.
It’s hilarious because Calcanis is an outspoken advocate for 996 work culture.

Fuck that ghoul & anybody who associates with him.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system
Of course. I only suggest that for people that cannot decide what server to choose.
Or lobbying
> First, trolling is speech.... expressing yourself through actions is speech.

Can't agree. It's like saying running red lights is "speech" because you're expressing yourself by driving like an idiot. Can we lift the bar just a little before something is "speech"?

Satire and parody, absolutely. But those things are usually found in predictable places, like on a stage where the audience is expecting parody and satire. Or within the contents of a message. Not in the message header, trying to pretend like it came from somewhere else.

If popular comedian Joe Bloggs booked a venue and sold tickets for a comedy night, then someone else turned up instead "surprise! It's parody guys"... not only would the venue owner be pissed, but so would every single person who bought a ticket. "It's just a prank bro" is a meme for a reason... and it's not a complement for the prankster. Trolling is blocking speech because it aims to dismantle the facilitation of speech.
Humanoid Icons
Nothing, as you know, and many here (including me) do that or similar. It does occasionally confuse or upset the less tech-savvy 'github's who wonder why or how they're name is in your email address.
If it's gonna be amateur night, I want a hundred thousand dollars. I want it upfront, and in a bank account. I want another hundred thousand dollars when you get the signed contract.
These are the month-ahead contracts prices. The day ahead are at around 10% of that (the gas is almost free, compared to what it costed just couple months ago). It's probably just temporary curiosity though.
But at least they kept their ssl implementation simple
FidoNet, a federated system from the BBS era
Sure but that's not the point. The point is associating any single weather event with climate change is wrong whether it helps your case or not.

You can say something like over the last decade droughts are 32% more frequently than in the previous decade but just tacking it arbitrarily on to any reporting about a particular weather event is misleading.
Great post, super helpful and practical.
The degrees served mostly as an outline of the things I needed to learn and the path I needed to follow. Most of the learning however was the outcome of my own curiosity and tenacity / grit.

I entered the university not knowing how to program/code. By the second semester I had built a small game for a project on top of some 2D graphics rendering engine, and then I wanted to add UI on top. Since I wanted it to not get stuck while waiting for user inputs, I used multithreading to decouple everything.

While that isn’t particularly interesting, it’s an example of me going far beyond what was asked only because an idea got stuck in my head.

My studies are full of such examples and projects. I didn’t have the highest grades because I was too busy learning other stuff, working on my own projects and so on.
Sounds like they think you're too good at your current role to promote. Not the worst thing in the world if you're adequately compensated for it. It's certainly better than the alternative of lots of responsibility/stress but low pay.

Have you expressed your desire to lead a team, though? I never did but kind of ended up as one by accident. I was an expert in a particular aspect of a large system and was asked to make an urgent change. It was fairly large and affected a lot of internal systems and I realised that delivering this in the timeframe was far beyond my capabilities as an individual, so I told them this and they gave me a small team.

When this was delivered on time they gave me an even bigger project. But this was only possible because our org was expanding at the time... If your company isn't then there may not be any such opportunities coming up unless someone quits, so if it's very important to you then you might need to look at other roles.

Although, while the recognition is nice in a way, the sort of "extra" things to do actually increased for me and I'm not sure the "errand boy" feeling is likely to get much better! I do have a bit more of an org chart above me...
Ask HN: Is hckrnews.com censoring news.ycombinator.com?
I recently posted a news article here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33498916 ). Today i checked my usual news site hckrnews.com , which made me suspect somethings wrong, because the article was not on the list. hckrnews.com (afaik) claims it shows all postings chronologically .

Then i got aware that i also found out that my post is a dupe just after posting. While i am very sure i did not read about this news on hckrnews.com before . I did some research and found out that all articles about news article are unavailable on hckrnews.com .

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33450801

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33434868

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33433371

(also my post)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33498916

So it looks to me like hckrnews.com is censoring this news. Please tell me i am wrong.

edit: readability of links
It does with respect to how frequently you're able to donate. In the UK, blood donation can be no more frequent than once every 12 weeks (for men). Plasma can be donated up to once every 2 weeks.
Open Collective is a legal and financial toolbox for grassroots groups
Their status page has been reporting the wrong certificate all weekend: https://status.twitter.com/

It has also rotated through various content (404 page, etc) which suggests someone has been fruitlessly trying to resolve the problem. Rebuilding their internal knowledge about "how to run this Twitter thing" is going to be an adventure for those left.
Hello Asus, my whiny friend.

I think the worst offender is the HDD which isn't made by asud
We can't be in denial about climate changes having positive effects as well - e.g. cold countries will spend less on winter heating. That's normal, basically every phenomenon has positive and negative consequences, and what ultimately counts is the net impact.
And the UK has relatively more secure sources in Norway and the North Sea.
As far as I see it's no better than subreddits. If anything, the barrier to entry is a lot higher.
Isn’t this story already exposed as being based on one person on Blind saying something like ‘oh yeah’?

I could look it up but can’t be bothered, a story that references another story with no sources doesn’t need to be disproved.
Commonly known as nonconstructive criticism from people bored by the lack of their own imaginations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJbSvidohg
The company needs to bite the bullet to secure a short-term contract that stipulates certain things need to be done on a (expensive) fixed-cost basis. No reason to expect any of these employees to work the same way anymore, and they might even present some risk, so extra carrot is needed to keep them around for critical duties and hand-over.
it's not duty if you can stop doing it whenever you want and not get fired
I think I found Elon impersonating a rando on HN.
Love it. I've recently gotten very interested in textmode graphics and trying to learn more. Especially how ascii could be used to render 3d graphics.

My favorite example is asciicker by @MrGumix on twitter: http://asciicker.com/y6 (press q & e)
Is the job market hot enough for them to refuse to come back?
If you're a London founder and want to join an early AM meet-up to share a learning, get feedback or troubleshoot a problem, join us: https://k85xykp8m2l.typeform.com/to/AVpdnmhc

You must at least have an MVP and be an early riser, I guess :)

The meet-up will be kept to a maximum of 4 founders.
In the UK you can also operate class A1 for up to two years on a provisional license as a 'learner driver' displaying 'L' plates upon completing compulsory basic training (CBT)

You can't 'fail' CBT and any motorcycle instructor / downtrained instructor can write you a certificate once you have completed the required steps and are deemed competent. This takes half a day to a day and has to include 2 hours of supervised riding on the road

Many people who don't want to ride bikes with more than 125cc never get their A license and just retake the CBT every 2 years. Most delivery drivers or parking wardens etc. I have seen do this too

Not sure if the EU is similar or not
A Discussion of Shel Silverstein's the Giving Tree
I'm on a time of use electricity tariff, and last night it was around £0.02/kWh between 3AM-5AM. The standard price cap rate is £0.34/kWh
A bit related: If you want to show the verified status for GitHub on your Mastodon profile, here is how to do it:

https://jan.wildeboer.net/2022/06/Quick-Fix-Verified-Mastodo...

Courtesy of https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jwildeboer
Apple to lay off a third of its workers (1997)
the experience is quite a bit different from twitter. a good mastodon server has mods , admins, and a community who moderate.

the signal to noise ratio is significantly better—maybe a decent comparison would be to compare here (hn) and a default sub on reddit with very little moderation—sure, you _can_ find interesting gems of a dialogue on the little moderated reddit sub, but your odds are significantly higher of finding good conversations here on hn. very very different experience.
You know how a lot of content on some social media platforms is just "arbitrage" from another platform? And to copy, rather than link? (This pattern goes back decades, whether from conscious growth-hacking, or naturally.)

Maybe Mastodon will take off better if this starts happening more.

Right now, I have an account, but there's not yet anything in my feed worth logging in for. But I'm still occasionally checking a Twitter URL that someone mentions, because that's where content is concentrated.
Interesting point.

I checked, my emacs is using Sans Mono but despite its name it has serifs.
Sunshine. Lots of it.
I maintain Rust has a very hostile community most of the time. It seems to me that they hide behind progressive social stances and say "see we're nice guys!" when they're just as rude and indignant than any other group. I think it goes hand-in-hand with the intellectual-superiority-claims that other code is unsafe, but our code is safe because we're Rust-people.

It is a real shame, because the language itself is pretty cool.
Sounds like you viewed the global feed on a large server. Twitter has CSAM too btw. https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/some-twitter-us...

I tend to recommend people find a small server with frienda and friends of friends if they want a public feed they can trust. Or simply follow people they trust to not post illegal content and ignore the firehose. That is what I do. Mastodon is basically an RSS reader for me.
I have a Black Tea Bonfire X .. its a similar situation here in Vienna, Austria - the authorities are doing everything to promote electric adoption.

I have to say, the Bonfire X is a terrifically delightful way of getting around any European city. Something about this class of transportation device, and the design of Europe, makes it more fun to do a daily commute than in any other country I've ever lived. If only the weather were more cooperative...
The eastern part of the country isn't available yet (April 2023), but the downloads (and supporting information) for what is available is here : https://www.geoportal.sk/en/zbgis/orthophotomosaic/
Ask HN: Employees personal brand – Threat or Weapon?
Hello Stranger,

Considering the current scenario where a majority of the employees in the team are aspiring to be creators in their niche, what do you think of it as a founder or recruiter?

In my 1st experience as a manager, management asked me to reject candidates who are more invested in their own thing stating they won't devote much time to their jobs and responsibilities.

Currently, I'm encountering job postings asking for candidates' social presence which makes me clueless whether the same is being asked as shortlisting criteria or rejection.

I would love to hear from you, what's your take on this?
There's a fun HBO documentary mini-series about this: https://www.hbo.com/mc-millions.
The Pebble Time Round is the best smartwatch I ever used. I have a Samsung GW4 now though - there are a few things I would've liked to see pebble add to upper tier models, for example a sports one with GPS etc, along with being able to store/play Spotify/other music providers stuff over bluetooth (for going on runs).

I think the Apple Watch, with all it's flashy animations and bright, beautiful screen contributed to the issue; people only see the shiny, they don't realise they don't need all of those features/oled screen and that they're sacrificing a week long (or more!) battery life for them.

I regularly got like 4-5 days out of the Round and it was super thin! I imagine had they done a model as thick as the GW4 it would've lasted 2 weeks or so! I really wish smart watches had gone in the Pebble direction, always on displays should be the primary feature for people. MIP LCD, not oled.

Then again, I really can't wait until we _finally_ get some properly commercialised AR glasses as I'd rather use those over a phone or watch or anything else at this point.
The privacy impact is that the server asks for what it wants, and the client (browser) can decide what to send.
Actually, the user was benefiting from the blue checkmark of "verified account" and changed name and photo to "Elon Musk", that's got to be clearly a violation of twitter verified account terms, don't you think?