skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can't charge that much or people will do their own plumbing. It's fussy, but most routine things aren't too hard to do one step at a time. Sometimes you get a new faucet with an internal leak though, experience might have helped diagnose that without taking everything apart 20 times. Sometimes there's a big job like replacing a lateral, which is yeah, time to hire a pro.
Having managed several teams in big corporate environments, I have to agree that the squeaky wheels are the ones to watch out for.

I learnt this because early on, during performance reviews, I had a sixth sense that I was shafting the quiet ones so I put together a performance metric system based on impact of work. What I found was that the quiet ones were more productive and caused the least negative impact compared to the self-aggrandizing ones. I shared this system with everyone on the team with their own data and slowly the squeaky ones started to transfer out while the team continued to improve productivity and quality because the quiet ones were happier.
Senator calls for end to ‘failed Big Tech self-regulation’ after Musk snub
The billionaire had until November 25th to answer questions about Twitter’s verification process.
Disclaimer: Like every heuristic, this is context-dependent and doesn't fit every situation.

That being said, I find it helpful for top-level scripts to be "about a page long" at most

e.g. often a 300 line main.py file is overkill and becomes easier to understand if compartmentalized down to a few high level components like connect(...), load(...), parse(...), etc
This is exactly what Python did and it works out very well for the most part.
There are two problems with PEX in the shop, one real one joke.

The joke one is PVC + UV = shrapnel, and frankly given enough time and vibration PVC doesn't need UV to shatter, so old timers hearing you're using plastic in the shop will freak out. (edited for those who don't get the joke: Pex will definitely split or crack under UV but AFAIK never shatters, so using PVC is a major OSHA violation but using unprotected Pex is mostly safe although maybe economically unwise)

The real problem is the melting point is unimpressive and you're like one lathe chip away from an air leak. Not catastrophic but annoying. Murphy's law is air leaks only happen when you don't have time to slap a new fitting on, or when your collection of fittings is empty/missing and the store closed five minutes ago.
It’s about being able to get in, getting out is irrelevant. People like me are a screwed for life because we didn’t get in to any good schools in the first place.
Earlier this year I went from a 5 day week to 4 days spread over 5 with no loss of PTO / benefits etc.

Some people were already on a 4 day week and they were essentially given a 25% pay rise instead
maybe using triangle brackets instead on statements that need to be immediately evaluated
> Narcissistic collapse isn’t an official psychiatric term, and it hasn’t been extensively researched.

The most important sentence in the whole post.

It is nice to have a common and simple language with which to talk about our emotions and mental health, and tempting (and probably sometimes useful) to try and diagnose others. Particularly given that many people are uncomfortable just talking about these topics without medical (or pseudo medical) labels. But this article seems to provide a shallow framework with which laymen can purportedly diagnose others, without citing any real scientific, medical, or really evidentiary basis of any kind. Fun to read but I am wary of it.
I read somewhere that the football World Cup might have contributed to the unrest as well by showing on tv the complete absence of covid restrictions there.
I'm sure most people who support these laws would think differently if as a matter of policy a state fired all state contractors (teachers accountants and firefighters, you name it) that were pro life
You’re on a great path already, buddy. Even if you don’t know yet how to escape your inner hell. I used to have a lot of anger as well, and sometimes still do, but also felt guilty about it later on, and knew it was unjustified. It’s all about the unresolved deeper issues. I’d try to find a therapist experienced with NPD that you can also trust completely, and trust the process.
Yes, that's been brilliant. Read-only properties too.

A typical PHP file now includes:

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Something;

use App\Services\Bar;

final class Foo
{
public function __construct(private readonly Bar $bar) {}

public function doSomething(): string
{
return $this->bar->baz();
}
}

And I end up with a lot of PHP files that look very simlar. I'd love some defaults here.

* strict types

* namespaces to be autocalculated (since PSR-4 means it has to be in that namespace anyway)

* private, final and readonly both default to true

* The opening PHP tag

* Relative namespace

* Plus all those brackets and words that duplicate information. If it has brackets, it's a function. An empty function body doesn't need curly brackets.

I recognise this is a backwards-compatbility thing, so it's not as easy as "just do it". But I'd love a PHP file that looked lke:

class Bar
{
__construct(Services\Baz $baz)

public doSomething(): string
{
return $this->baz->bar();
}
}

But again, this is me waxing lyrical. I still prefer PHP to Python, but I do like Python's expressiveness.
Ask HN: Company is going through layoffs, but still interviewing me. Red flag?
I'm interviewing at many places, and some are beginning to do layoffs, often large (20% in one case).

How would you approach this situation if you were job hunting?
Is it too much to ask for an article without memes, jokes and puns?
Thanks for sharing, appreciate it.
Milspec, lol. Doesn't that normally equal as cheap as they can get away with?

There is a high-density thread sealing PTFE tape that works a bit better than the el' cheapo generic white stuff (although it's usually white too). Anything marked as such should be sufficient unless you are working on an oil rig or nuclear reactor.

EDIT: Unless the package has MIL-T-27730 on the tape, labeling it milspec has no meaning.
>I see no reason this couldn’t happen for animation.

Because software had room to grow into all industries - which huge ROI, applicable everywhere.

Whereas animation has a capped target: it's content, of a specific type even, not a way to help other industries generate profit, like software is.
I never thought I would feel like I’m watching TikTok when reading an article from Harvard, but here we go…
The Go version should also use `sort.Ints`. https://pkg.go.dev/sort#Ints
> This article doesn't touch much about why plumbing is hard. I'm from Poland so I'm not only IT but also a plumber ;)

I'm guessing that is a reference to Omid Djalili sketches about Polish plumbers:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K85ZtXnMxbM

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8mjzu0Runo&t=1m

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FM9Ps6cW9U

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omid_Djalili
Individualism and collectivism are not mutually exclusive
The absense of tech will eventually lead to the demise of Homo Sapiens species, since every species have expiry date. It may evolve into something different but also disappear as an evolutionary dead end.
Turns out that there may have been some glitches in the way I was filtering lines beginning with >. For explanation of bolding see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755466. I didn't attempt to filter anything else out though filtering out code would probably help a little bit.
Why not both? They are vulnerable people, feeling some feelings to a degree, and then doing things that seem beneficial. Acknowledging that someone has feelings doesn't mean that they are absolved from the consequences of their actions.

>They choose their wealth, health and life over the wealth, health and life of other people.

Isn't that what most people do everyday?
sad news … the first Nemesis picture remains one of my scfi faves … I recall an interview in which Tim Thomerson explained Pyun’s work style. He said that he worked 20 hours a day and absorbed popular culture like a sponge.
Indeed, thank you for catching it! I will make an update.

Thanks again!
Thanks! looks like it only supports windows and macos though.
I was hoping this was going to be written by Leslie Claret.

https://www.lgclaret.com/

"Hey, let me walk you through our Donnelly nut spacing and crack system rim-riding grip configuration. Using a field of half-C sprats, and brass-fitted nickel slits, our bracketed caps and splay-flexed brace columns vent dampers to dampening hatch depths of one-half meter from the damper crown to the spurve plinths. How? Well, we bolster twelve husked nuts to each girdle-jerry. While flex tandems press a task apparatus of ten vertically composited patch-hamplers. Then, pin flam-fastened pan traps at both maiden-apexes of the jim-joist."
That's fair. I remember those damn Java applets that froze the entire computer for a minute while they started.

But that was 20-30 years ago, literally. A few things happened: SSDs, and Java startup time.

A warm-start Java "Hello World" is 200-300ms. A babashka (bb) "Hello World" is 30-40ms, which is faster than Python3 "Hello World" (40-50ms).
>or more than 30 feet - multiple car lengths!

Yes in a 200m foot race someone who is 5% faster is very noticeable (in a 20m race, which is closer to what little kids are doing, it's much less noticeable at 1 meter). But by that time Usain Bolt was already a well trained athlete competing in organized events, so of course he was noticed.

My argument can be broken down into 2 parts.

1. If we accept that Usain Bolt's genetic speed boost is the same throughout his life, so that at 4 years old he had a 10-15% boost compared to other other fast 4-year-olds with similar fitness levels--I'm saying that given the kinds of running and games 4-year-olds play, and who they play them with, that isn't a big enough difference to guarantee that someone notices it. That is, it isn't guaranteed to swamp out other variables. Bolt at 4 wasn't likely faster than his 6-year-old cousin or any faster in a short race than the kid who starts half a second before him. Hypothetical fat Usain Bolt at 4 wasn't likely faster than his fast 4 year old friend. Hypothetical indoor sheltered Bolt who never played outside, probably wasn't faster than his fast friend who ran outside all day long.

2. We shouldn't accept that his genetic speed boost stays the same throughout his life. It's very unlikely that Usain Bolt was the fastest 8 month old in the world. It's very likely that at least some of the physiological differences that enable his freakish speed didn't develop until puberty. Kids are not scaled down mini adults.

Kids generally stop running around for fun outside of organized activities well before puberty. Potentially giving hypothetical Usain 2, plenty of time to develop other interests based on other things that he might also be good at.

A deconditioned couch potato 12-year-old isn't going to be lapping his peers who play soccer every day after school, no matter his genetic potential--especially if he doesn't care enough to really try.
I have no idea. I suspended my account years ago, but re-activated when I interviewed with FB. I figured it would be difficult to acceptably explain why I wanted to work there if I didn’t use FB. I need to write a script to download all of my pictures and then delete my account.
oh... and in the 1kW, it could include the peltier (intense cooling) energy cost.
If the difference is marked on the packaging you should be able to ask for the one you want and most places will provide it.
>well-after-the-fact missile trail detection.

Sorry, I missed that bit, I thought this could also be used to detect incoming missiles.

I do not want my enemies to be able to detect incoming missiles.

Sorry for posting so angrily.
Thank you for sharing. You're not alone.
Cloning values and using Arc to wrap structs carry a huge performance costs. It's pretty easy to write correct Rust. It's a lot trickier to write fast Rust.

That's where the learning curve started to get very steep for me.
In most cases "bigger pies" are just pipe dreams, and it's all about powerlaw distribution of profits to a few smaller players.
I simply don't think that's the difference. The difference is that the artist knows a bunch of craft. Between the people who know a bunch of craft, we're attracted to ones with particular artistic visions and styles, but don't know that average 14 year olds don't have the same range of artistic vision and style.

Doesn't this artistic vision and style boil down to taste, anyway? Claiming that the skill of the artist and the skill of the editor is identical is obviously wrong.

edit: in a way, making a work that targets a particular audience is an acknowledgement that the public has largely set the vision and style, and the artist is actually adept at working within it.
18-month $220k Powerwall solar energy installation nightmare
Because docker for Mac has always kind of sucked, I’ve moved on to making nix-based development environments and I’ve been very pleased so far.

Lately I’ve been trying https://devenv.sh/ and it works great!

I haven’t tried it for ruby, though I have used vanilla nix shell for ruby projects before and it worked quite well after I over-rode GEM_PATH and GEM_HOME to the correct values.
I don't think cashier find another job. finally, everyone stay in home, starve and waiting death.
Help nature by doing what you do everyday
Hi. We at Coral, a US-based startup, are working on providing a debit card that helps one contribute to nature's wellness by continuing to do what they do every day. We do so by donating part of each transaction to a pre-vetted cause. We hope you like what we are building.
Kind of rare to see someone respond to something so dismissively and non-constructively on hn
The funding market dropoff for Series A+ startups is a big deal for startup employees assuming they can keep high 6 figure salaries at vc-dependent companies where, in recent years, fundraising has far exceeded revenue. Ex: https://tomtunguz.com/fundraising-seasonality/ . Keeping large salary for many will be HARD, eg, seeing folks have to go to wall st, and junior (bootcamps etc) was already hard without this.

We are still waiting for the other shoe to drop. Many high-burn co's did not cut, and of companies that did a round of layoffs, most followed a statistically suspicious trend of 10-20% that suggests a bunch should have done more but didn't. With hiring freezes everywhere.. a lot of pain for job seekers even before more cuts. Worse, even a regular 2-year downturn would flush a lot of startups as fundraises are generally for 12-24mo payroll, and many raised with historically horrible fundamentals (vs valuation) over the last few years.

I'm not saying end of world, but I wouldn't want to be a new grad at many seemingly shiny series b/c startups right now. When I was a new grad, I wouldn't have even known the right questions to figure out if my unicorn was really a donkey.
I had a funny experience a week ago. One night working on a hobby web project it took me three or four hours to debug something, I finally got to bed around midnight thinking "boy, programming is hard".

The next day at work we had to find a broken heat wire in a tiled bathroom floor, running 1000 volts through the wires to try to fuse the broken wire, then heating the floor up and searching with heat-sensitive paper overlays for the likely broken spot, then breaking the tile with a hammer and digging the wire out of the mortar bed. After we found it I thought, "I'd rather hunt software bugs".
> But mostly... getting a CS degree these days teaches you what to say during interviews. For instance, I stepped a kid through linked lists when I was interviewing for a position at Amazon. He had, of course, never heard of them and confidently informed me that hash-tables were the answer to every computer science interview question (I did not go to work for that team at Amazon.)

My experience of comp sci and of FAANG questions lead me to believe that this is wrong (you do learn linked lists, even if you ignore them) and an outlier (FAANG interviews often have "implement a modified linked list" style questions.
Maybe you can find a legal loophole. Something in British law granting freedom of choice of profession and livelihood, and the sue your way into peasanthood and land ownership.

(Half joking)
Currently writing a huge app backend using PHP, and finding it extremely enjoyable compared to Ruby or Python. There may be theoretically valid criticisms, but I haven't run into them in practice.
That’s a kinder description than I gave it in my next paragraph, so thanks I suppose.

I do think it is an under-emphasized aspect of honesty, though, that we should be clear about our level of experience/understanding. Especially online — people like to discuss things, even (especially?) when we are just getting started. So if we’ve picked up opinions through osmosis and we start repeating them without testing them, we’re really just amplifying some possibly-incorrect viewpoint (and if we’ve picked it up, there’s a good chance it is already widespread in the community, which is bad if it is wrong).

And I mean, more concretely a measurement is not complete without the error bars!

Often this doesn’t really matter, because it is just chit-chat anyway. But it is nice to keep in mind.
Magnet attaches to the roof edge flashing which is metal.

In the US, there is a substantial probability the flashing is non-magnetic aluminum.

So test first.
there will be evolutionary progression even without an absence of tech. homo sapiens will be gone at some point.
There are tons of papers and research on this topic. Here's just one review of some of the various approaches that have been used.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341476435_Railway_T...
Is it just me or is this a potential national security risk? Your crop yields being tracked in the cloud by a Chinese company that surely had its pie filled with multiple governmental fingers.
That's only the way of the middle-aged. If you do it with just PTFE tape you'll be fine, but if you do it with all similar sundries, then you'll be oversaturated and once again won't be able to find anything without pawing through piles.
>Still, we earn 1/3 in dollar terms per Capita compared to the US or Germany.

It's not a meaningful comparison without cost of living adjustment. You're not paying 3000 dollars for a one bedroom apartment either. In fact last time I visited Poland I think a place in central Warsaw was like 600 bucks. Poland is exceptionally affordable.
Absolutely. The abuse comes from desperation, to keep the charade alive. It's the polar opposite of a confident, content person. They are always on the lookout for the next dose of validation, and for enemies who try to take them down.
Kind of - I don't even want to activate once. Can you run it in the background? And just run it by default (at least on websites you're confident about). I might forget it exists
I've been using Colima lately and it's been a great experience. The only thing that didn't quite work was pushing an image to AWS ECR, but pulling images, building images (with BuildKit), and running containers all worked fine, and faster than Docker.
I like the syntax a lot
I‘m not sure if Laravel is a great benefit to the PHP ecosystem. It heavily relies on traits, magic active records (Eloquent) and global god-like objects with static methods („Factories“). For sure you can write clean, maintainable code in Laravel - but in my opinion it encourages to not do so.
I think Laravel is nice for quickly bootstrapping a project just to see if some idea works out. But it’s probably not a framework that proves how clean and enterprise-ready PHP nowadays is.
Someone will mention AI in this thread I promise you.
PHP 8 is one of the rare few popular languages that have Union/Sum types:

private int|float $foo;

TypeScript and Python are others. There's really nothing that bad about PHP compared to other scripting languages. My biggest complaint was the inconsistency of naming/parameters of standard functions. I used the Yii Framework for a project and it was much better than expected and the caching and query optimization features were outstanding.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I’m not familiar with the space but I wonder if it’s just a matter of elite-ness. Hypothesis: The top 1 or 10 percent of a field are better off in their own, whereas the rest benefit from collective benefits. Another example that comes to mind is Matt Yglesias leaving Vox. He was well paid at Vox but now on his own I’m sure he’s even higher paid and has more freedom etc. I donno just speculating.
Yes, i'm at awe when seeing .to_ref, to_owned,... and a bunch of alien methods, too.
John K is such a jackass in general though about anything that didn’t come from him.

I was mentored by several people who worked under him for Ren and Stimpy, and I’ve never met anyone who’s said a nice thing about working with him.

His blog is also one of the more toxic fixtures of the animation industry, leading to tons of people who look up to his style of critique in much the same way many engineers looked up to Linus’s early aggressive rants (but worse). He’s the proginator of the derogatory “Calarts bean mouth” description that so many wannabe artists throw around without thought, and led to so many death threats and harassing of brilliant artists.

That’s not even mentioning his rampant sexual abuse allegations and dating underage girls.

John K made some great content but man is he a blight on the industry as a whole, since Ren and Stimpy finished.

Meanwhile since you mentioned Genndy, who I’ve had the pleasure to work with directly, he’s an artistic genius and just great to work with. Genndy and Craig McCracken pushed an art style that defined multiple generations of cartoons, and Genndy pushed forms more than most people I know of.

A lot of the more fun stylization in CGI is thanks to Genndy pushing Sony hard. The first hotel Transylvania is mind blowing if you analyze the animation, and a huge part of that is Genndy drawing over frames to show the extreme silhouettes that he wants. Technology was then developed to allow artists to fit those forms repeatedly and reliably. That’s had knock on effects to other CG films, even ones from Disney and Pixar who analyzed how much he pushed forms. Not to mention he created three of the best shows: Dexters Lab, Samurai Jack and Primal. primal is a master class in story telling and cinematography.

Anyway long rant to say, man I dislike John K but Genndy is awesome.
Unresolved issues…

The EMDR technique specifically has helped me here where as years of talk therapy helped me self awareness but didn’t help change the my initial reaction to triggering events.
The same vicious "incentives" will be in play, but they'll be communicated in strange and plausibly-deniable ways. A man will no longer say that you have to do X or else you'll be fired; instead a woman will encourage you to be "mindful" of the company values, in particular this one over here, which is a double-entendre, one meaning of which is "be a nice person", and the other meaning of which is "make me a profit, bitch". And then, with your head in a vice of massive neoliberal pressure, if you ever fail to "perform", you'll be left on the street, with a complimentary yoga app to help you manage the stress.

If you continue to complain after that, it will be because you have an ego disorder -- those damned narcissists, always throwing tantrums -- and you'll be paired with a confessor and medicated to within an inch of your sanity. This will be called "care".
I love the hook handle tool. This technique seems like it’d do well in places without snow and ice.
What can I say, I like memes & jokes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On a more serious note, I think lighthearted content is what's needed when it comes to intro stuff. There are no puns in the Rust Book ( https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ ) ;)