skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe this to be similar to Epicurus' excuse [1]: He couldn't publicly say that there are no gods as creators, because that would have been blasphemy. But he wanted to take away the fear that everybody had of punishment by gods. So he argued that our (human) lives aren't important enough for the gods to mess with.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurus#Theology
Depends on who is saying that. I say bullshit
Once hired, you can never be fired. Great idea!

Enjoy companies never hiring anyone because they'll be completely unable to let them go.
Tesla says it will assist police probe into fatal crash in China
> He won't use His debugger to change our state, or make us do things that are not in our programming

I don't quite understand - you're using our "programming" as an argument that we have free will? Wouldn't our "programming" imply that our will is already deterministic?

In other words, is there any difference between our will being driven by our programming, and driven by God's debugger? We're following orders either way...
Also a nice word, but not the same as OP bon mot.
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Sorry, they must be doing random paywalls

http://archive.today/OST1s

Basically:
- Greedy company wants to hire latvian workers for cheap. Latvian wages in Sweden. basically half of Swedish wages.

- Union strikes

- Union gets called racists and all kinds of shit

- Weird compromise is made that basically gives EU countries right to social wage dump

Basically Sweden is heavy unionized so when companies can just remove the deal it breaks down:
https://www.unionen.se/in-english/videos-more-about-unionen-...
They should sue. India over stepped. Just like the US has over stepped with TornadoCash
User errors: are we dealing with idiots?
Peek supports gifski (https://gif.ski) encoder, so it can have very high quality.
The reality of it is that a lot of people vastly overestimate the activity of what they build will actually reach. You can easily host a lot of stuff with just a "basic" SQL database and a single frontend as long as you have proper rate limiting on your APIs and make sure your frontend is sane. NGINXs original design goal was to handle 10,000 connections at the same time and nowadays it can handle up to ~400,000 without needing reconfiguration. Even a basic cache layer on nginx can often completely circumvent the need of calling the backend, especially for open APIs. Postgres can easily handle dozens of connections at the same time with the right config flags.

To give a bit of an estimate on how far basic infrastructure can carry you; the entire RetroArch project[1], which I'd say has about the same userbase as any small tech company is entirely hosted, buildbot (so CI) included, on a single 40$ DigitalOcean instance.

Most software is suprisingly efficient/resilient if you just configure it properly. The only place where I've seen horizontal scaling as an actual necessity vs. just properly configuring the tools you're given in most cases is Rails. There's no real efficiency fix for Rails tooling from what I can tell. It's just slow as molasses and you're gonna foot an ever expanding server bill as your userbase grows.

[1]: No endorsement.
My latest version uses a Telegram bot but a better solution would probably be to use Pushover or the newly released Ntfy.sh

https://pushover.net/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33517944
Yep. It's something that could have been avoided, but I hear that SBF doesn't like books.
Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jk26iKx5GU

If you eat meat, eggs, drink milk, you are supporting the things shown in the video.
If you want good financial journalism, you need to look at what short sellers are saying. That was how WireCard came to light. That is what did for FTX: Binance found the truth, not the NYT or Twitter.
Have you been around the communities? It isn’t about trying to have sex with them or trying to settle down with a woman most of the time. It’s mostly self-pity and illogical hatred.

It’s regularly specifically about blaming women as a whole and having constant contradictions. IE, they put down women who they could date. They are too ugly. Too low in socio-class structure. They don’t want women to be superficial with them, but then they want to be superficial with women.

Another example is the regular shitting on women for sleeping around too much. Insulting women. Casually dropping words like slut or in-group terminology without issue. A woman is bad for sleeping around too much and it’s not good for women to be with many different penises. It messed them up. Yet somehow this logic doesn’t follow when a woman is with the same man having sex daily. They are fine with the latter saying that’s fine. Not the former specifically angry that women are ruining themselves with getting with so much penis.

The number of contradictions are numerous. To simplify it down to they only hate women for not being able to have sex is incorrect. Many in the community hate women because they can’t have have the women they deem they are entitled to. No one is entitled to someone else.

Note: I tried hedging most of the time but to be clear I’m always talking about a majority of the community when looking through the conversations. I never mean every single incel. Just the ones actively engaging in the toxic parts of the community.
They should. Not your keys, not your coins.
> I've seen videos where he's talking about a graph and the numbers on it clearly don't align with his narrative.

Can you cite an example for this one? I don't remember having seen that.
A common misunderstanding about the human brain is that we think of the higher part to be more or less in control of the rest, like a conductor with an orchestra or a pilot with an airplane.

The reality is much weirder and complex.
I have watched this countless times in Canada. “Foreign worker visas” are tantamount to indentured servitude. Worse is that companies hire third parties making commissions on finding workers - whose very compensation depends on carefully neglecting to tell the recruits about local market conditions and the lack of safeguards. It is exploitation.
I used to think that free will existed but now I am surprised we even think that. Just looking inwards is enough to convince me that I have no idea what I am going to think next, type next, or how I am even going to finish this sentence. It simply arrives and I am the first (and possibly only) one to experience it. I cannot will the will to will.
Restating the Sorites paradox does not mean we're unable to see that being fired 2 days after relocation is worse than 2 years.
>> The socialist welfare state cannot be extended to foreigners or it would run out of €

Here's what's odd about the USA. I know people from India and Canada, who were here and their visa expired, and they couldn't get a job, so they have to leave.

I also know people from Mexico, who are here illegally/undocumented/whatever, and they don't leave. They stay for years.

Because you don't already have an expired visa, you can file taxes (and get a refund!), open a bank account, get a driver's license, etc. But if you were in the process of coming here legally, they have your number and you're done.

I mean, they have to leave just like the first example. But they don't.

Zero fucking sense.
Is it stable? I really want to ditch appsmith, tried ToolJet but didn't hook me. Yours look promising, i hope you continue the development of it.
I suspect some of the criticism you are getting in these comments is due to comments of yours that seem to point to the villain in this case as The Media for not, I guess, reporting all misguided layoffs.

Perhaps you are correct. Perhaps the solution to these heartless layoffs is to put a spotlight on each and every one of them in order to shame and embarrass the executives at all companies.

But I suspect many people see instead deflection — you are absolving Meta's management because The Media dropped the ball a long time ago.
I've not used Foundry myself but I've been given a demo of it fully implemented at a company.

I agree that the Retool comparison is only a small part of what Foundry offers, and that's my point, I don't know of any open source alternative that comes close to Foundry. They overlap in the sense that they are both tools that can be used as the back-office / operating system of a business, to varying degrees.
The internet has this kind of stuff too. Addresses "reserved for documentation" by IANA / IETF. I don't remember seeing them mentioned on-screen. I guess it's easy enough to register ghostbusters (dot) info or whatever.

example.com https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc2606/
192.0.2.55 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5737/

There must be layers upon layers of old special-case routing code in telco switches that makes it really hard to just start issuing those old 555 directory numbers to subscribers.
It doesn’t have to always be about either issue for the core reasoning of the way the laws are laid out to be classist and racist.
I'm not reading the comments here the same way at all, as a "lack of even the most basic of human decency".

Rather, I'm seeing it more as just -- that's just life, what makes this particular case so special?

People move for jobs all the time (including internationally), and shit happens all the time (you get laid off, your significant other breaks up with you, a loved one passes away).

It would be one thing if Facebook was actively tricking him. But we all can assume it was just a normal hiring/transfer process that had been in motion for many months, and company-wide layoffs wound up hitting his team (which couldn't have been known months in advance), and so he was the victim of really bad timing. But not out of malice, and he's still presumably getting months of severance like everyone else, so he can go back to India with money and look for a new job, which he's presumably extremely qualified to do (having been hired by Facebook).

And heck, it's usually a lot better to get laid off after 2 days (living in a temporary apartment) than say 4 months (you've bought a house).

So is it a bunch of time and effort wasted? Of course. Does it suck? Of course. But people get laid off all the time through no fault of their own, and sometimes the timing is terrible. Which sucks. But does that make it HN front-page worthy? I think it's totally valid to say it's not -- but that doesn't mean you lack "even the most basic of human decency". It just means you don't think this is news. And that's OK.
I tried quickly the app builder with Firefox and it seemed to mostly work fine. I would bet it's just that the devs use chrome and didn't have time to test extensively all their advanced features on all browsers.
Meat is incredibly – and mostly artifially – cheap in the West, inflation or no inflation. So I’m sorry, but can’t really sympathize at all.
I think if the background was removed it would be harder.
Free love is only enabled by technology and medicine.

I think COVID and monkeypox epidemics show free love is a backwards way of thinking.

In a globalized world, disease can spread faster than our ability to make cures.
You can be human in a distributed setting, too.

There are all sorts of tools that allow for an asynchronous human connection, e.g., asynchronous video recordings.

Working mostly asynchronously also doesn’t mean you can’t have the occasional synchronous online meeting (including coffee) as well.
> So peddle fantasy?

Because people believe, look at religion or the prevalence of gambling addiction. Humanity isn’t a collection of rational actors optimizing their long term self interest it’s a collection of fools lead around by the best storytellers.

A dictator who wants to maximize their personal power will peddle fantasy just as quickly as anyone running for office because it works.

> not just a document that exists to recognize the government as rentier

Eminent domain means the government can kick anyone off any property to be sold to the government or private party, the deed holder is compensated but they don’t get to say no. So sure old deeds are respected as much as any of them are, but how is that different than maintaining existing leases when you buy a rental property?

Arguably renters have more rights with respect to their landlords than deed holders with respect to the government.

PS: As to your argument about funding for police etc, states vary wildly in stuff like income taxes and sales taxes but in the end they are simply extracting resources from a productive economy the specific form those taxes take are only really relevant due to knock on effects, money is fungible. Taxing fuel or taxing miles driven only matters when EV’s show up.
I despise the man, but if you are shifting a long held position/opinion just because you don’t want to be in an opinion alignment with Donald Trump, that to me is irrational.

I saw a lot of folks do this over the last six years. I found that really strange.
> I also wonder how much of this is due to our dysfunctional work culture (as a society) where people are so detached from their jobs it feels like they're just an invisible cog in some big machine.

Regardless of the initial reasons, if you are continuously detached from your work you are extremely unlikely to get very good at it.

Our brains are actually wired to filter out information that you don't find interesting and even if somehow get aware of the information -- to quickly forget it.

Our RAS (reticular activation system) is part of brain that wakes your attention to facts that your subconscious is programmed to recognise as interesting. Have you ever noticed that when you get interested in some topic (for example cycling) you immediately start noticing a lot more about the topic in your life (like when somebody rides a particularly interesting bike) even though nothing about the world changed in the meantime (no more interesting bikes today than a month ago)?

Now that I think it might be enough explanation for why devs these days seem to be so weak compared to what I remember from decades ago. Because if the same problem of detachment from work applies to large portion of population then this large portion of population will be doing very poorly at getting better at what they are doing.

In software development the additional problem is that the number of developers has been growing exponentially for quite a long time and so there is only very small proportion of devs who remember world from before "big tech" boom.
Yes, continue shouting at everyone who has a different opinion than you that it is barbaric. I'm sure it will change hearts and minds and make everyone think you're a mature adult.
Are doing and wanting really two different things?

Both start by thinking, and choosing to think about X is certainly in our control¹.
So at the bottom of it, both are just chemical reactions in your brain, willingly set off by your ghost.

¹that is not to say that not thinking about Y is also in our control.
I'm really not sure where the line is between those two.
> And in 2022, the idea that kissing on the lips used to be more common is conveniently pushed aside to shrill more wokeness. Because of course they must be lesbians! Otherwise they wouldn't have kissed!

You're misrepresenting the article. It clearly states Victorian Britain had a double standard for sexuality: two naked men kissing was out of the question because it would point to homosexuality, but two naked women kissing was -- if not harmless -- at least not outrageous, because they claimed women had no sex drive and therefore the scene couldn't be construed as sexual, much less homosexual.

It has nothing to do with wokeness, please don't introduce something that's simply not there in the article. This is about erasing female sexuality.

They even assert the photographer sometimes assigned the role of a "man" to one of his models, because the point wasn't "women kissing" but "humans doing everyday activities, including kissing". They claim there was no erotic component to the photos, though I find that claim hard to believe.
Yes, there are several youtubers out there like Akshat Shrivastav, and then there is Sharan Hegde who makes videos on how to save on taxes if thats what you are asking. There are also blogs and newsletters, one of my friends have also started their newsletter on a similar topic, you might wanna check it out.

Link: http://bit.ly/3hIviwL
Because people want to speculate and transaction fees are high outside exchanges.
> We can get arbitrarily close to a true statement by adding more "want to"s in much the same way we can get arbitrarily close to 1 by adding more 9s to a string of 9s following a decimal point. In practice three or four "want to"s must surely be enough.

Ultrafinite recursion strikes again!
> Decisions have consequences, except for conpanies it seems.

It's a risk you take by leaving your continent and flying to another one without any permanent residence permit. It's really shit, but that's how it is. It's always been the case, it just makes now the news because it's Facebook.

As I mentioned above, an ex colleague of mine moved from South America to Europe without even speaking the country's language and he got fired shortly before the probation period. Same situation: visa, no job, etc. Actually he got kids and one of them even enrolled last minute at the kindergarten. He didn't write any blog or anything, he simply found another job the fastest he could find. But again, it's not Facebook, so of course it doesn't make the news.

The only thing I can wish for is of course that these people can find a job right away in the country they move to. At least this guy can say to the next employer "I made it to Facebook", which should still count for someting..., and he/she can even speak the language.
Ask HN: How do you handle monorepos in VSCode?
What do you utilize to manage your monorepos in VSCode and at the same time have intellisense and so on working?
Is that real in practice?

I have heard they can just claim "oh we cant find anyone!" and get someone for cheaper abroad.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-h-1b-visas-have-been-abused...

"But this week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Bill Whitaker reports that the H-1B visa program has since been seriously abused, allowing companies to fire American workers and to bring in cheap foreign labor."
Every one is wrong in this inconsequential situation except you!
Why is this related to tech...
H.264 (which is what most people mean by MP4) will force chroma subsampling, which makes saturated color edges look blurry or dirty.

VP9 (aka WebM) can do better (has full-res color). AV1 is even better for this, because it supports lossless block types that are great for screen content like text and icons.

…but GIF works everywhere. GIF is technically outdated in every way, but has unbeatable interoperability.
>And you just choose who you consider "people" and who you consider "scum".

Yes. That's necessary too. Did you rather treat everybody as an undifferentiated fog? Compassion is not about bending over backwards for jerks.

>It's like that old joke about Linux being user-friendly, it's just very picky about who it considers a user.

Even that is very defensible: you can be user-friendly for different groups with different needs - and this often does not translate to being user-friendly to everybody.

E.g. if you try to please admins, and developers, and power users, and professionals, you won't also be user friendly in the sense that an OS focused on consumers or a program aimed at children is.

What a professional designer considers must-have and user-friendly features (to him as a user) and what someone who just shot a couple of holiday photos and wants to resize them considers user frienly, is not the same thing...
So the entire website is just for training
Simply put: darker = softer (read: holds point for less time). Standard pencil is the sweet spot (2 hb). As a former art student and user of (probably) many hundreds of pencils, I can say it's hard to beat that middle ground for writing. Obviously drawing is a totally different thing where you might need a bunch of different weights.

I think the thing that makes a pencil a pleasure to use is what it looks like. Totally subjective aesthetic qualities will keep me coming back to the same pencil with much greater force than the actual writing characteristics.
I guess this is just CBS being racist :)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-h-1b-visas-have-been-abused...

"But this week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Bill Whitaker reports that the H-1B visa program has since been seriously abused, allowing companies to fire American workers and to bring in cheap foreign labor."
Depends on your risk tolerance. Some entities can survive a single breached node, and some cannot. Those that have been breached, tend to be less tolerable (recency bias).
Immigration related to work is generally shitty in almost any country worth working in.

Even in countries not worth working in.

In many countries, Once your employer fires you, then you have 7 days to leave the country. Period.

The US/Canada/UK are relatively friendly about this and give a bit more leeway.

Don’t get me started on Indian work permits.

Yes it’s horrible all around. Working in another country is always a risk and on a whim you can get shafted by your employer.

Always have, or start working on a plan B immediately (savings, side project, more money).

And please don’t get started on “I’m not able to do anything else” - because that’s not true and if you think about it there is always unrelated things you csn do to get around this.

As a person who worked in a few countries - I’m always aware or the fact that at any moment below permanent residency, everything could be pulled away.

Please everyone reading about this guy’s fate, never leave your future in the hands of an employer or immigration authorities.

Start working on a plan B and a way out - just in case.

Anything otherwise is just putting your head in the sand.
Sure, I’m not stupid. I would turn around and sell it to some other fool. And thats the problem. There is honestly no price I could buy it at where I would be willing to hold.
I think the regular expression would be at least as correct and make for a less ambiguous headline if it used + instead of *.
However there have been cases of a product being used internally because a board member recommended it. I’ve seen small versions of it myself.
Depending on the type of visa, it's not even like the situation depends on employment.
I've seen a few people with stable jobs sent home from the US when their visa came up for renewal.
Immigrating to the west, the USA in particular but also Canada, involves an element of luck, beyond what most people realize.

edit: To be very fair, though, there is an implicit warning in the paperwork and interview for every US work visa for exactly this kind of situation. It's not like they're playing some gotcha game. They don't come right out and say it, but, it's also not exactly hidden between the lines or in small print.
Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
Sometimes it takes a book or a course (or explanation from a mentor) for a topic to finally click for you that you were struggling with for a long time.

For me, it was Stanford's EE261 course that made Fourier Transform click for me. Here is the link: https://see.stanford.edu/course/ee261

Similarly for deep learning it was fast.ai courses.

For programming it was How to Design Programs at www.htdp.org.

Your topic of choice may be anything, not necessarily CS.
You can't "punish a market" after everyone stopped putting money in and started taking money out.