skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use Ansible at any larger amount, then you're doing a disservice to yourself if you're not using Mitogen[1][2]. The amount of waiting it has spared me is innumerable at this point.

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[1]: https://scribe.rip/@einarum/speed-up-ansible-with-mitogen-b3...

[2]: https://mitogen.networkgenomics.com/ansible_detailed.html
What “unprofitable” companies are you talking about? Most of the layoffs have come from very profitable companies that trimmed a lot of fat they acquired.

Meta, Amazon, Stripe, Twilio, Salesforce etc are all profitable companies. That’s where the majority of non crypto layoffs came from.
Never used them, but I've heard reasonable things about:

- https://gun.io/

- https://www.toptal.com/
Is anyone aware of how hard covid hit the software engineering community via early deaths/retirements? This downturn is going to be weird all over the economy because unlike normal recessions its coming right after a structural change to the labor market which is why were still seeing historically low unemployment rates despite these rate hikes and layoffs. Every company who was profitable to begin with has been hungry to snap up employees still.

Not saying this is necessarily true with software since were a niche of the economy and may have a different outlook, but the affect of covid on our number would help figure that out
He's arguing that any term that replaces a previous one due to its offensiveness and insensitivity will most likely become the new offensive term.

>'Retarded' used to be a medical term, now it's a 4chan term, so it needs canning.

That's exactly Doug's point. Soon enough terms like "neurodivergent" might become offensive when it's co-opted by people in general, e.g., "you're such a neurodivergent", "you're a neury", etc
She's only tangentially related not directly on the team, though it would imo be odder for MSG to know the entirety and status of everyone working for someone suing them so it's simpler to just ban everyone employed at the firm.
It’s a bad way to slice data as Americans up to 22/23 are in school still. You want to cut that off at like 25-35 to get a good idea on if it’s a problem
It's on-demand on YouTube[1] and an excellent course that is still very much relevant with very high production quality circa 1986. What makes it special is who is teaching it, which is the original authors of SICP. The course thus completely complements their book and is in the same style. The courses from later years are also on YouTube, but they don't feel the same.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CAB...
I refuse to ever use their products, after their numerous scandals.
The fact that people experience this and then somehow don't say "burn it all down" is miraculous.
My father taught me that if you are going to steal from someone you never steal his tools or his vehicle, because those are the means he uses to make a living and you dont want to be responsible for his kids going hungry. Given this history of Wells Fargo this isn't a one off accident. It's often said but people really need to go to prison for this, not club fed either, send them to be with the other carjackers.
Something is broken in bot world, staying tuned for more
I think the list of people classically discriminated against by fascists is a really A+ place to have extreme vigilance. If someone is trying to deny religious minority, trans, or gay peoples' rights, a not so subtle reminder of the company they keep is in order. Anyone who doesn't have a nuanced response for why this line of reasoning doesn't apply to them is probably someone who shouldn't be allowed to engage in a broader democratic society.
I thought we were over the age of paywalls
read an interesting take that North American bison are (were) an invasive species from europe that wound up in NA by crossing some land-bridge at some point in prehistory.
This kind of feature would obviously not be able to be implemented into a (easily readable) markdown file, so, as Obsidian is willing to go to the proprietary open format route, could someone please consider adding usable tables as a feature? Even simple stuff like multiline cells would greatly increase the usability of the tool. The current table experience even with the community plugins is... not ideal.
> They could also check ids at the door and cross-reference their naughty list.

They couldn’t, it seems impractical for an event of that scale.

Plus, it’s easier to bypass a door check or even convince the person doing the check to let you in.
Not a ped overpass, you've misunderstood.

Literally raise the 'pedestrian ground level'. I've also realized that construction cranes and other things that need to poke up through that level should do so by rotating and shipping away the cap segments that the pedestrians walk on and blocking off a work site while in use. Though they'd do that anyway for safety.
Perhaps that's good. This could be an opportunity to engage your own critical thinking and rather than just blindly trusting or distrusting anyone you evaluate the facts for yourself.
Those of us that have been through this before won’t be suckered in by it.

Where I am, 2008 wasn’t too bad in tech, but the aftermath of the dotcom bust was like the end of Infinity War, just there one day and then gone.

No-one expects their career to end at the gilded hand of a giant purple alien.
I definitely see your point and believe this happens often. In this particular instance, I believe adherence to this list will end up being a mark of shame even in academic circles. Using some of these terms is so brainless that people can tell who mindlessly follows bullshit like this.

It's not that I'm dismissing the possibility of sinister cultural signifiers. It's just this one attempt to establish them inorganically seems to me like it will obviously fail.
JetBrains CLion.

I used to program in Vim/Neovim. Using a full-blown IDE is a real productivity boost when programming in for example Rust, which is what I write the most, and use CLion for the most.

CLion has Vim emulation also. So I still have normal mode, insert mode, and most other main features of Vim that I know and love :)
We have tested it on a few queries with aggregation (with low cardinality results). For MySQL, fetching the raw data and doing aggregation in ClickHouse appeared to be faster. For PostgreSQL it was identical (at least Postgres did not do significantly more work for aggregation than for data reading). It also depends on the network, but at least it was not limited by 10 Gbit network.

Automatic pushdown of aggregations is currently not considered, but we consider a syntax to allow explicitly push down a whole subquery.
I agree with your general position.

here's where things get really interesting , who really makes these tools in the first place?

https://www.protoolreviews.com/power-tool-manufacturers-who-...

I find that "tools" develop the same sort of things we see in tech (brand love like this endless apple vs android thing).

but when you look at the chart of who actually makes these things.. it sort of falls apart.

Like "rigid", "Milwaukee" and the terrible Cryobi are all TTI?

Obviously built to different specs/price points but it is interesting to see one "brand" targeting all markets?
I highly, highly recommend Toptal - I've been in the network since 2016 and primarily for short term, hourly gigs. You can reach out to me directly and I'd be happy to share more.

If you're interested in applying, you can use my link to sign up https://www.toptal.com/qal80m/worlds-top-talent
If you are admitting to purposefully shutting down the ability to have a reasonable conversation then I can't see what you your end-game is here. Do you plan to act unreasonable, call people 'emotional' and say that they are doing things they are not (please point out how I have used any of these tactics or 'ideological weapons') until it is just you, the extremist 'woke' bureaucrats, and other people who refuse to engage in reasonable discourse, having alienated anyone who is not willing to take a blunt ideological position and sit on it with fingers in ears? At that point what then is the plan?
About that exponential breeding thing, I’ve got some bad news. You’d better sit down…
She should recuse herself and stay out of it. Wolf/farmer conflict isn't black and white, though, I have sympathy for keepers of livestock as well. Here in the US it flares up all the time and simplistic romanticized arguments on either side are not helpful.
Venues should be required to refund tickets if a person is denied entry provided they weren't previously told they were banned from the venue.
Dice.com used to be the place to go. I haven't looked at them in quite some time.
I see you're getting downvoted, but as an American who followed the whole mess remotely, that sounds about right to me. The only thing I'd add was that I think it started as intra-party infighting and political dramatics that got wildly out of control.
The Transistor Timeline
Turntable Paradox
It has not transformed into a different thing. It is the same thing it was before. A person can deny someone access to their private property. The law is not “A person can deny people access to their private property but only in slow inefficient ways…”

What if it was an inverse, say you could only enter a business if you are a member of X group? Now most of the planet is banned from your property except a small group of people that qualify for X, where X could be as specific as “straight white males”.

It seems to me, some people just want the idea of the law but not the enforcement of it. Probably for their own self interests, mainly: getting access to someone else’s cool private property.
They also buy loans, sometimes you just end up with them.
Topographical Risk!
People misunderstand the purpose of bike helmets; they're not so you can charge into a car and survive, they're so your head survives the fall to the ground from 7 feet up.
> I have a right to do this because those pronouns address me.

Actually they don't address you. They refer to you. A term of address is "you". Pronouns are terms of reference.

This is one of the things that people misunderstand about pronouns like him/her. If I'm talking about someone, I get to choose how to do it. I can refer to someone as a fool, as "that tall blonde girl", or as "the guy with the huge beard from the grocery store". None of these people get to police my speech about them.

Things are somewhat different if I am referring to someone and am in their presence. In that case I would just use the person's first or last name. But some people are now taking issue with talking around preferred pronouns by using a person's name. For me, that is a bridge too far.
>companies printing money i.e profitable not funded by cheap vc money are not affected by the current downturn.

Google, Amazon, and Meta have all laid people off and they basically own dollar printing presses.
https://archive.ph/2bRjP

http://web.archive.org/web/20221220145037/https://www.bbc.co...
How brutal are the interviews?
It's assets should be liquided. Shareholders should be given exactly nothing. Let people consider that when choosing who to do business with.
We have also gotten better at discovering murders so it's likely that the murder rate was much higher in the past.
> One is that I don't see PayPal support. Typing credit card info into any site not owned by a billion dollar company is a bit scary.

I get the PayPal support, but why are you so averse to typing in a credit card for a company who maybe makes 1 million a year?
The yondr device looks like it could be defeated with a magnet or a sharp knife.
No, I never claimed that. The opposite, actually...

Cheers.
The developer is also very kind and responsive, even here at HN. I was impressed! And it is a nice way to let go of "do I need to remember this" (in combination with the Ditto clipboard manager)
I probably shouldn't admit this but the fzf fish shell integration is basically how I remember useful commands instead of writing them in a note, because I'm too damn lazy
Perfect GitHub Mirror on FakeNewsFrance
The app even has the correct repo data hosted. Does anyone know how can this be?
Rough estimates are $100 billion per year revenues for illegal drugs, compared to $350 billion per year for prescription drugs. About 50% of Americans use prescription drugs, so let's say 15% use illegal drugs.
typing.List is deprecated.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.List

> Deprecated since version 3.9: builtins.list now supports subscripting ([]). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type.
Microservices are a variation on UNIX philosophy. I think programmers will use them whether or not they're appropriate because stuff that's small and does one thing is like free cocaine to programmers.
I feel similarly.

My journey has been:
VS Code, to Codium, to Atom, to Sublime, to now Vim where I feel the most productive.
Is the quality bad because the airlines just don't care when the Wi-Fi signal gets hugged to death or because it's hard to offer a stable connection at those altitudes? I fly with Spirit a couple of times a month and tried their $6 Wi-Fi service which straight up never worked both times.
That’s actually the point of most longevity research. Figuring out how to keep people healthy for as long as possible. That may eventually lead to effective immortality but the first step is the prevent senescence.
I know this isn't what you want to hear, but the best option is definitely to use your network. As both a freelancer in the past and someone who hires them now, I've had very few successes outside of referrals.

Network doesn't mean friends, necessarily! I built most of my network by building cool random things and mentioning I was looking for freelancing.

(That being said, you have a lot of eyes on this post now, so you should comment a way to contact you!)
There's a great BBC podcast on this coin ("The Missing Cryptoqueen") in which they interview an engineer who was offered the job of creating a blockchain, despite the fact that the coin was already in circulation and being sold as a blockchain-based cryptocurrency.

The developer also alluded to getting shot, if I recall correctly, an incident that the podcast did not explain or return to. The whole thing was a scam thunk up by smart but criminal MLM pros whose success had clearly already attracted the attention and involvement of Eastern European organized crime.
Sure, as a smaller company, this makes sense. And if they stay small, and want to minimize cost, fine. If they target tech-people, again, fine. But in my view, mass adoption really requires better UX/perf.
FFS, or you know we could stop delivering billions of tons of spam? There is zero reason the Post Office needs this. The environment impact of the mail is immense...

The impact of cutting down trees using diesel, processing the paper using fresh water, hauling the paper using diesel, printing, hauling the end product using diesel, throwing it away, then hauling the trash the landfill using diesel...
It might make sense if the website let you log in directly and manage your payments. Trust ratings on vendors, etc.
Luckily, the aliens are wearing Swiss wristwatches, they know how long a minute is, and so are able to notice that the intervals are a prime number of minutes :-)
Thank you! It's my first post and I have to admit the rules confused me a bit.

In Show HN rules: "Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead" => felt like this would be categorized as a list but I'm glad you promoted the post as Show HN.
The porch pirates that hijack trains, yes
This will never happen on any mass scale. Once cars get to about 10-15 years (depending on climate) it is not longer economically sensible to do certain repairs, eg engine swap. With EV conversions, it's the same - a lot of money creating a very subpar product - low range, low safety, unbalanced weight distribution, bolted on controls - all to keep a rusted frame and deteriorating upholstery going for a few more years.

EV conversions are a great idea for collectible cars / hobby cars. Classic VW Bug, Fiat 500s, etc.
> Which is the whole point here, direct democracy leads to 51% of the population shafting the other 49%.

Notice that prop 15 lost by 4%... It is not good for the state as a whole, but it is good for the 52% of the voters that own a home. So now 48% of the state and everyone that wants to move to california is fucked because 9 million people want their home value to keep increasing. They've effectively voted in a law that requires non homeowners to pay homeowners $500 a year and burn another $500 due to lost economic efficiency. Is that good for homeowners? I guess, but it's certainly bad for the state.

If 52% of people in alabama wanted to bring back slavery does that make it the right thing to do?
Not a program, but the concept of functional programming and pure functions. It makes it a lot easier to think about code, and also makes it easier to test and parallelize code.

Although be warned, it can also have the "side-effect" (functional programming pun!) of making you somewhat insufferable as you try to convince everyone around you that functional programming is amazing.
"Rupert Murdoch doesn't interfere in the editorial stance of the media he owns" is the most outlandish thing I've read in quite a long time.
aren't they just trading Onlyfans fee for this platform fee.
I've been concerned about Obsidian sync. IIRC, data goes to AWS servers but where does it go from there?

From reading the Obsidian website, they seem a tiny company. However, it is unclear where they are based and, therefore, what legal obligations they are operating under. What more, Obsidian has so far avoided the levels of compliance that allows for adoption by big businesses.

I love me some Obsidian but I'm mindful that, using their services, I just don't know how my data is being treated.

I realize vaults are encrypted locally. However, do we know that our vault secret isn't shared with Obsidian? Sure, it's (mostly?) an Electron app. But just how transparent and accountable is Obsidian about their operations?
How can I write anti-AI software?
Whether that be open source software or maybe even at work, is it even possible to do something like that? Readability and all good coding practices are really only for other developers, so changing that won’t be it.

Something that will prevent it using the code to either learn or use.
Wonder if there was a way to register as future plaintiffs for a potential class action suit of everyone else who was turned away for similar reasons.
If that sounds like an odd and artificial take, it is.

Atheists know what they are doing. Even, nay especially, the young. They actively reject superstition. The totally reject the white supremacist style of American evangelical churches as utterly disconnected from Christ-like behaviors.

So why claim they are unaware of what atheism means? That is meant to comfort the bulk of evangelicals who rely on preachers for their worldview.
Each of the following is in the 1000 hours saved club (in no particular order):

jq, perl, grep, gnu textutils, gnu parallel, bash, xargs, gkrellm, nload.

Make deserves a special shout out. If you think it's only useful for building software, you've completely missed the point (similarly, if you think some language-specific tool is superior, you're doing things completely wrong):

Anyway, this document saved me at least 10,000 hours:

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/index.htm...

Other peoples' python has the distinction of being the only software in my -1000 hours saved category. (And if you consider maintaining code written in the above "write only" languages, you'll realize how big of a feat that is!)
Karabiner and Keyboard Maestro have saved me a lot of time as well. Being able to remap consistent shortcuts for every application is really nice.

https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/

Alfred is another good one for Mac. Being able to add your own custom commands & workflows is useful.

https://www.alfredapp.com/

Hammerspoon too, which is great for scripting all different parts of Mac OS. I use it mainly for custom window layouts.

https://www.hammerspoon.org/
It's good to read good news every once in a while. Thanks for sharing!
I'm not sure I understand the concern about the Gates foundation in particular -- they are mainly funded by Gates and Buffett and don't solicit donations from the general public, don't do much domestic political stuff, and foreign political work they do doesn't seem like it'd be particularly beneficial for Microsoft or Buffett's portfolio.

Since you're skeptical of effective altruism, Givewell probably isn't going garner a lot of trust for you which is unfortunate because they really do some of the best work in the field for trying to understand the effectiveness of charities (e.g. on a cost/daly basis). Charity Navigator was founded with an idea of kind of providing independent audits but to me it's more like a Yelp for charities and not super useful.
>>Pragmatically:

Doing tasks on HackerRank should be fine regarding these subjects. But thanks for the keywords.

Regarding "my own original interpretation of (some of) CS foundations and concepts", it's not as much "a point of pride", but rather lack of context here.
My interest is actually in the intersection of several fields with CS, if I were to choose
I'd choose CS & electrical engineering and apparent confidence comes mainly from abstractions of some underlying physics.

Any time I share anything, there is a surge in various elements of the ongoing idiotic circus, this is why I really don't care.
It’s not a big problem until it is.
I use, like and pay for Pinboard. I don't use the archiving feature though - it's just a dump for links, and it does that very well.

I do worry that it's going to go kaput from neglect at some point, so it would be nice to see a bit of development and get these issues fixed. But either way the level of outrage here is a bit OTT. It's not life or death, it's just bookmarks.
Gong.ai - transcribes Zoom and Google Meet calls with very high fidelity, and identifies which callers are talking and suggest tips to your sales, customer success, and demo staff on how to improve their presence in online meetings and phone calls. https://www.gong.io/product/

This is the SaaS I'm most excited about this year.
Very cool project!

I'm surprised that it apparently works so well (most of the time, for many games) without knowing the state of inputs, just relying on conditional branching. I would have expected a lot of code to just manipulate registers based on inputs and use those to send different PPU commands.

I wonder if you could achieve 100% parity (and audio) without modification of the console by doing all the emulation in the capture card. Send some pre-built ROM to the console which just reads inputs, sends them back to the "cartridge" and then reads back video output from the emulator.

The same author already made https://there.oughta.be/a/wifi-game-boy-cartridge and https://there.oughta.be/gta5-for-the-game-boy so it seems technically feasible :)

Edit: Ah I see the video stream cartridge runs at 20fps, but gameboy games can run up to 60fps. I suppose that wouldn't work for the original purpose of streaming tournaments.
I think there will always be a premium for human-sourced media. People are going to love being able to tweak the cast and narrator for their favourite audiobooks, but there will always be a market for your favourite celebrity's reading as well. People will swear they can tell the difference between a human versus a machine rendition, and debates will rage the same way they do with audio- and oenophiles.

Either way, we'll see within a decade, I expect. I would argue it's much, much simpler than self-driving cars - the text models of today already understand (or at least can classify) a great deal of subtext and sentiment, and the actual audio rendering has become extremely listenable on short texts.
Check out https://www.a.team/

They’re relatively new and more curated with both clients and talent