skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do we really need to test our code on 50ish Chrome versions, 25is Firefox versions and so on.

The only time I've ever seen this intense level of testing was on a government project that was producing someone that everyone in the country would be required to use. So if that is what your situation is yes, you need to do that much testing because if it is mandated by law that citizens use it, it better be able to handle whatever combination of citizen and tech it encounters.

Otherwise I think you are probably being somewhat hyperbolic here.

Aside from that where accessibility is concerned there can be significant differences between various combinations of browsers and screen readers.
> This is precisely the attitude that keeps us here. Crabs in a bucket.

I'm doing the opposite of advocating for a crab bucket. What I'd like is for every capable individual to pursue their own self-interest to their highest ability, while still being able to preserve their individual liberty of contract.

Unions are built on seniority systems and care little for quality or merit. Many go so far as deny non-unionized coworkers the right to individually represent themselves (see Janus v. AFSCME). The union does not value individual skill. In general, it values the will of the collective, and, in particular, it's most vocal and demanding representatives.

I would have no issue with people choosing to be part of a union as an organization of like-minded compatriots willing to subject themselves and only themselves to said union's terms. After all, whether to one's advantage of detriment, every person has freedom of association. Such an arrangement is similar to a startup.

However, unions in the US rely on the imposition of the government's police power. They're essentially state-backed special interest groups. That they are political institutions in their own right should have anyone who values his liberties concerned at the very least.

> So do lottery tickets - your odds are about the same too

The chances of winning 1 million dollars in a semi-weekly game of Powerball are 1 in 11,688,054. All things being equal, that's roughly 14 people for every employed person in the US. Meaning that in a given year ~5,824 Powerball winners (not including the Jackpot) can be expected to be millionaires before taxes. Compare that with the millions of tech workers with six figure salaries + RSUs.

> "I have enough options so I do not feel any sense of responsibility to support my coworkers against a structurally imbalanced system"

Firstly, I never made any personal claims about my own life. Whether I do or don't have options has no bearing on the fact the others do. This can be observed from the record low unemployment rate. And even where there are layoffs, the 3-month severance packages pay more than most American's annual incomes.

Secondly, I don't know of any system that isn't structurally at some level. Economics is the science of satisfying unlimited wants with limited resources. Employment, in the same vein, are subject to supply and demand, not balance or equilibrium. The only way to achieve the latter is to limit individual rights and deny them from wanting more than is supplied.

Thirdly, tech is where that Steinbeck quote breaks. Unlike the farmers and fruit-pickers in Grapes of Wrath, tech employees actually have a very good chance of becoming millionaires so long as they aren't spendthrifts. At a starting pay of ~3x the median income of the country, even before RSUs, I'd hesitate to call anyone in that position "poor" or "temporarily embarrassed" in a financial sense.
I bet this is some MBA's idea
> I feel bad for those who get fucked by it

> by this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shiboleths and so everyone likes us

Woke washing pays off, that is why everyone does it.

But luckily BTC is there to take the blame.
This pisses me off. When I was 8, I walked several miles to where my mom worked after school let out. I wasn't the only kid who did this!

Right now, my neighborhood is a mile and a half from an elementary school. I see the kids that age walking to school.

There is ZERO reason for this to have happened.

I would sue the FUCK out of everyone who had a hand in this.
A cubesat from my high school is launching on Nov 21st, 2022 from the Kennedy Space Center on SpX-26 ISS resupply. I worked on it five years ago so it's really cool to see this stuff finally coming to fruition.
That would seem to fall into the pop-psych exclusion mentioned at the start of the article.
> is $10 a WEEK.
15 years and I never heard of that! Cool featue.
Could you separate that into "free for businesses if they only want the stuff individuals want; but you can pay for a corporate plan on top to enable extra stuff" — i.e. open-core model?

Maybe with a proprietary binary release that includes the corporate features, and an open-CI/CD binary release that doesn't, ala the Chrome/Chromium split?
I used to love Google Notebook. And then they shut it down. Evernote offered to take in that google notebook data and integrate it into their system.

Now evernote is being bought. I need to migrate my data out. Evernote was a great company early on. Not sure why they lost the race. But I think it has something to do with task managers, like trello, and heavy data collectors like database in notion.
> federally regulated industry

Regulations are primarily there for safety concerns, not you complaining about what is honestly a non-issue. If you don't want to pay for premium seats just don't pay for them??

But on that note, airline deregulation in the US has been the best thing that has ever happened to air travel. It is now far, far more accessible to travel by air. The revealed customer preference is that very few, if any, people want to go back to being forced to pay the old fares, even if the seats were bigger and the service was better.

> The service I'm paying for includes an assigned seat, just like my ticket to the movies does

Frontier is pretty upfront about this. You certainly have absolutely no guarantee of sitting next to somebody without paying for it one way or another. You get a seat. You don't get to choose your seat. Some theatres also do charge extra for choosing seats, and the ones that don't market themselves as premium theatres.

> some varying strawmen

I certainly don't think any of these techniques should be regulated. I can certainly see a surcharge if you require adjoining rooms in a hotel.
“Personal database” as in database for personal software projects? Or something else like a “document”?

Outside of software dev I use a bit of Facebook to store social contacts, iOS contacts for phone numbers, my gmail inbox as the only source of email addresses…
I use Google Keep to share a grocery shopping list.

I avoid like the plague anything that’s a file, script, database etc. I don’t take notes, don’t use web browser bookmarks or in any other way try to organize/persist/index data around me. I’m not 100% successful because I still self-host photos (hey Lightroom is SQLite!) but I’m getting there. Spotify is a godsend compared to organizing music files.
Maybe it’s a good lesson for non-profits and foundations to vet their major donors better. Before that Epstein was a major donor and the cachet of having donated to so many high profile charities likely allowed him to be a predator longer.

In the case with FTX, it was likely committing fraud, and the money the foundations received was the equivalent of stolen goods.
I suspect this will be the final straw for many users, myself included.
>For example, Musk fancies himself a champion of "hard work"

And Musk is the perfect example of "do as I say, not as I do", as he sends teams into a death march of insane hours, wherever he is, while he's shitposting on Twitter from his multi million dollar house paid for by company funds and pretending he's doing 120 hour work weeks
These are mostly negative reviews of Evernote. Yet, I do like the product and I am yet to find a replacement that offers these must-haves:

* Multiple tags per note

* OCR/search on attachments

* Web clipping (full page and individual sections)

* Mail to Evernote (with attachments)

* Decent WYSIWYG

* Good scanning support ("scannable" app)

It did have its problems and did lose 3 or 4 notes due to syncing issues but today's web version is usable and the product seems stable now.
I agree that the acquisition is probably not good news.
So, if anyone knows of a replacement with these features, pls reply!
WSL2 1.0.0_final_kevinsfix_final4real
I'm increasingly tempted to grab one of these! Might have to just pull the trigger.
Wow, this story is straight out of Black Mirror.
It might be a useful distinction, but it's weird terminology to a layman. Because in non-medical lingo, those are symptoms in the USA.
The guy's lawyers need to get him to shut up.
Analysis: true

Username checks out bigly
Bonus points if the ad preceding your next conversation is uncannily relevant to what you were talking about last time.
Doesn't the upvote system used by HN/Reddit/etc. accomplish the same thing? Outright spam of the kind detectable by a basic filter would presumably be detected by other users who vote on that content. It also has the added benefit of ranking content based on the kind of common appeal you mention, beyond just filtering outright spam, and avoiding the kind of false positives almost any spam filter would be susceptible to.
I've seen people complain about it who were wrong, but I've also seen people fail to complain about it when they really should have been.

I just worked at a fang company, and here's an example - to search CI logs to see if a certain log happened frequently you would : WRITE A SCRIPT to download 100MB CI logs and search them for you.
People are complaining about the fundamentals... a lot. I don't know if I agree that the UI is THAT bad, and honestly don't see much need to fix it.

I will admit that things like different formatting and flags for different commands is very annoying.
> I'd argue that smart contracts are new, though they're not inherently linked to currencies necessarily. I don't know any practical use for them outside the cryptocurrency/NFT/blockchain speculation niche, but they're a cool invention.

I think the fuddy-duddy web2 folks call those lambda cloud functions or something like that.

Except in web3 land you pay per execution while the web2 peeps charge per, umm, execution?

Though they’re obviously different because the smart contracts can change the state of the blockchain while lambda functions can only modify their own database.

And a smart contract can act as an oracle to the outside world while lambdas are restricted to web2 APIs.
The set of RISC-V processors is going to be far more diverse than you are expecting. There's already dozens of open cores, both 32-bit and 64-bit, with varying support of standard extensions.

Assume RVG64GBCV, do we skip P, T, Q? What about J (extensions for dynamic language runtimes)? Do we just ignore those capabilities and leave applications to not get the best out of the machine?

If we stick to current status quo, of having #ifdef __FEATURE__ scattered through our code, we would want a source based distribution like Gentoo to make sure we get the most out of our machines, so we can check which features are present and set all the required compiler flags.

Otherwise, we could have runtime checks for features, but this will require changing the way applications are commonly written, because we don't want to be checking for the presence of features everywhere in code. We only want to check once on application startup.
Shallow Learning Curve?
Good point, now do one for the ones who were fired for complaining on internal communication.
The social gamificatiom of pomodoro, to create a social tipping point in productivity.
Experienced with MS Teams are varying a lot.

I have exactly one setup, that works and I do not dare to change it, for the pain I had when trying anything else. Teams would not recognize my headphones. Only USB headset with integrated soundcard would work. All other programs did not have a problem using simply my headphones. This meant, that I could not use my 40€ mic with one turn of a switch on my aufio hub and have to have 2 headphones/sets lying around on my desk, only because of teams.

I have barely a workday, on which none of my coworkers are experiencing Teams issues. Mic not working, no sound, suddenly muted, suddenly crashed the whole thing, shown status of people and even oneself is wildly wrong, not being able to set status properly either to fix it ... All these are still a thing. Welcome to 2022.
No, but the data (zero and ones) representing the gates must be processed by the CPU for the emulation to take place. It’s the CPU that performs the emulation by processing that data. And the emulation is much slower than the actual electronic circuit.

So if you want to emulate a CPU, you still need a real CPU that does the emulation, and the emulation will (usually) be slower than actually running the emulated CPU for real.

For example, you can emulate an Intel CPU on an Apple CPU (or vice versa), but that emulation may be slower than if you had a real Intel CPU (or real Apple CPU) in the first place.

In any case, you can’t emulate CPUs out of thin air, i.e. just with storage.
Amazon has a lot of bad internal tools, but this person's experience doesn't match mine (being here for 8 years) at all

> 40% of my time trying to tame the bad internal tooling I was forced to use to submit my code, get it merged, deploy it, check logs, etc…

The tools for code submission, pull requests, pipelines, metrics, and logging are fantastic. Google is better. Most companies aren't.

I have never spent 40% of my time battling internal tools....

> 20% of my time in meetings

Developers complain when they're not invited to meetings, and they complain when they're invited. On my team we brutally introspect the value of every meeting, and if it looks like it's not delivering value, we find a new process.

> 20% of my time writing unit tests to hit the 100% coverage requirement of the codebase I worked on.

This makes no sense. This isn't a company mandate, every team is free to determine what code coverage percentage makes sense for them. Give this feedback to your tech lead, nearest Sr. SDE or PE -> 100% test coverage should never be "required"

> 10% of my time tracking down bugs in other team’s codebases for either internal tools or frameworks and trying to get them to acknowledge the problem by filing tickets.

So, software engineering?
Came here to write something similar, you did it better.

I will never accept that selling wallpaper apps or something with the same level of complexity for hundred of dollars every year is an acceptable business model.
Also safety, I'd guess. Fire has much worse consequences on ships than on land...
The problem with the whole article revolves around this paragraph:

> In turn this means that anyone who has wanted to improve the terminal editing experience needs to do it at the shell level – and this is what some shells like fish try to do (as well how shell plugins like OhMyZsh work). They can only do so much though, and, crucially, they can’t make terminal input work overall in a less “weird” way.

They provide no justification on why that would be true, and indeed I believe almost all of their fancy features could be built in terminal also. Their explanation on terminal input is ridiculously naive, largely ignoring how control characters can be used to do a lot of things.
I generally refuse to use Slack, unless the client is worth a lot of money to me and it's only for a couple months.

An extra couple grand isn't worth the mental health blow of either 1) having to be visibly "online" or 2) going dark and wondering if that's the wrong move.

I don't like having to reply to threads just to show I'm still alive and kicking, without having anything of substance to communicate.

I love email. It's async and you know I'm online when I'm replying to your emails or sending you questions or sending calendar invites for screenshare.

No Slack = no qualms about working when I'm working and not when I'm not.
I was hesitant to put my daughter into a bad / violent public school system (ranked bottom 5% in the nation at the time) so we opted for Montessori. She's in college now on a blended CompSci/math major, but in (non-Montessori) high school she developed a Lego robot that has landed her an exhibit in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, which is probably never a bad thing for her burgeoning career.
In addition to what jeffbee said, because when the rates go down, not only can you refinance, but also the value of the house goes up. (Because the demand side of the supply/demand curve is set by monthly payments, not by total value, and when interest rates go down, the same monthly payments can fund a higher face value loan.) So you get the lower payments and capital appreciation.

By the way, the same "increase of face value" is true of buying long bonds at peak interest rates.

Of course, the trick is knowing when the peak is. But if the Fed's actions have their intended effect, we may be somewhat close currently. (Note well: I am not an investment advisor! Follow at your own risk.)
the fact it is an "opt-out" rather than "opt-in" you are working on, makes it an instant nope from me
If Pycelle tells Cersei Dorne and Varys says Greyjoy and Littlefinger says Vale then that’s a problem as Cersei won’t act on the information.

It also might make her suspect misinformation as there are three different values coming to her at once and she’ll have to deduce what’s more likely that all three informants are lying, or misunderstand, or Tyrion fed them bad info.

Much more likely to have three independent stories so that the traitors will be revealed even if there are multiples.

In the current scenario, if Varys and Littlefinger snitch then Tyrion won’t know because Cersei will hear Greyjoy and Vale and not reveal what she knows to Tyrion because it conflicts as Myrcella can’t be married to two different groups.

The better scenario would be something like “Myrcella marries Dorne to Pycelle; 1,000 ships sent to Westeros to Varys; I’m appointing Jaime as lord of casterly rock” then each betrayal could be known.

If Varys and Littlefinger snitch in this scenario Cersei will look into ships and casterly rock and reveal the betrayers to Tyrion.
Saying we have no idea at the synapse level seems a little too strong. The abstraction level above is hard, but at the level of a synapse it goes something like this: In an upstream neuron, through some internal cell signaling that usually ends in Ca2+ increasing, vesicular fusion happens and releases neurotransmitter in the synaptic cleft. The neurotransmitters bump into the cell membrane of the downstream neuron, where there are receptors. By binding to the receptor, further cell signaling happens in the downstream neuron.

I'm skipping over a whole lot other important mechanisms, and the above is very simplified, but my understanding is that we know the mechanics of how two neurons connect with each other. Much more difficult is understanding what happens the next abstraction layer up, when you try to describe the brain as meaningful small group of neurons instead of individual synaptic connections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_circuit shows a few interesting patterns, but we're clearly not at a stage where we can describe the brain in terms of elementary circuits building blocks. However, the brain is also not a giant completely disorganized mass of neurons. As we increase our ability to map out connections (as far as I can tell, a pretty destructive and delicate process), we should be able to map out more common patterns. Which is generally a good starting point in trying to reverse engineering a little bit of sense and meaning out of large opaque blobs of concentrated confusion

(Full disclosure: not a neuroscientist. The above may also be terribly wrong)
Is it possible to do a full sweep across all tokens in all Python files (for instance) in Github and find such keys? Can you tell from the contents if it's a key or some such "important" string?
We barely recently got decent open source computers (but not smartphones), now try to imagine a GPL car...

That said it wouldn't it be cool have some sort of open source VW Bug. Stainless steel cyberbug, EV for the people. Low tech, curb lasts whole century, ubiquitous parts.
Agreed, I see this as a code smell. It's already hard from a semantic point-of-view, normally you have then the same name for two different meanings.
In general I agree that execution is more than "just" half the battle. There's exceptions though, especially on the audience of HN, which includes a lot of knowledge workers.

For us, it often comes to "I spent 2 weeks investigating this issue, and at the end it was fixed by changing one line of code".

In this case execution was trivial, but knowing what to execute was the 99% part.
Big difference between automated tracking and automatic firing.
Because consumers have a stellar track record of rejecting user-hostile decisions?

May as well try it. People are swallowing everything else.
I don't think that said PO said yes naturally, I think he said yes forcefully.
Rechargeable batteries are not 100% efficient. I'd put good odds on this system being cheaper.
This makes 0 sense to me. There's literally no lock in with FB messenger.

The second I get a video ad - that's it for FB video calls for me.