skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s perfectly possible for someone who still performs surgery to play a decisive role in how a hospital is run. Or for someone who still represents clients in court to be a big cheese in a law practice.

It is, but it has to be on their terms. I am currently doing more than one job, not on my own terms and I am ... not happy.

I cannot do either job with the level of quality I expect from myself. And I would be good at either of those jobs alone. The context switches cost energy. The timetables are in fight with each other. One job demands from me to be free for whatever comes the other demands to plan ahead for years. How can I be free for what coems through my door if I have crumbling infrastructure I should be maintaining at any given point in time? I have to essentially either do it on a day by day basis, or I have to sacrifice something.

Sure go ahead give your employees two jobs. Hell give them three. But please spend 10 minutes figuring out if these jobs are actually compatible with each other and if you can live with the friction losses between them. You expect to get the results of 1/n employees on each job, but you might end up getting less than that for real, unsolveable reasons.

And for some reason managers always pull shit like that, when what would actually be needed is n seperate people doing the job and then they go all [surprised_pikachu.jpg] when that one employee quits and everything goes to shit, because they had no time documenting what they did.

Just treat your good people well and let them do good work. If you have their good will and you treat them well, they will produce better work than if you threaten them into accepting terms that save you a bit in the short term but destroy you in the long term.
https://pandoc.org/

Lots of markup languages (Markdown, AsciiDoc,Wiki Markup) to Powerpoint, Libre Office and many more.

Otherwise take a look at Inform 7 or Ink, both on the front page a day or two ago.
Even though most commercial programming work is trivial (in the sense Math professors use the term) it doesn't mean you don't need excellent programmers (or that at least some of your programmers are excellent).

All of us who worked as developers for a few years have seen the seemingly trivial program be incredibly difficult to support/extend/fix/debug (especially after being in production for a few years). At the beginning of my career I thought this was circumstantial but having been doing this for a living for 20 years now this is common and I keep seeing this pattern over and over again - not so great programmers will easily manage to make your "trivial" program very much not trivial to continue developing.
With LaTeX this is partly possible, there is a format for slides.
Could the hack have been achieved using the leaked unencrypted URLs? Not by decrypting the user's vault?
LD_PRELOAD is my enemy! It's a glibc thing rootkits like to abuse. I know there are legit uses for it but it has no place in a hardened environment.

How taboo is it to just patch glibc and maintain it your own repo? Or even make it public.
Ask HN: How to Avoid Geotargetted Content?
Even when I am logged into a Google account I am bombarded with content in the wrong language.

In Google maps, I am always shown the wrong currency when Google wants to book me a hotel room. The help page for this is useless and out of date. At least show me a major international currency.

Why would I book a hotel in Europe with a 3rd world currency I don't bank in? It ruins the whole sales experience and makes me focus on how terrible these platforms have become.

On YouTube, I have logged in and explicitly set the country and language. YouTube search results are mostly useless and often in the wrong language. Even for a simple query like "news". Worse yet, the language of results is often totally unrelated to my current region.

Advertisements are similarly incomprehensible. I'd be disappointed if I were buying these ads.

On Google search, although many results are in English, it is a particular flavor of English from authors in the region. I'd rather have the most relevant content, not the content Google presumes to align with my identity or the region I'm in.

It is enough to navigate foreign languages outside of the home. When using the computer it would be nice to have a comfort zone in English. Unfortunately Google thinks it knows better. It wasn't always this way.

Spotify is similar. Twitter has the same issues.

How can I have a basic English language experience without using a VPN?
https://pca.st/z01uk0mz
It's a short and sweet comment with a lot of understated power. A lot of people mistakenly conflate management with upward growth, and mistakenly believe you're not growing if you don't make this "career leap".

Management is lateral. it's not for everyone, and it's not the definition of success
You can't think of anything? People manipulate people to spend money every day, literally all the time. Sales, ads, product descriptions, promotions... some of these things turn out to be useful, and worth the money, some aren't, or are worth less than expected at least, and you usually don't find out until after the fact. It is like the single most common human activity, convincing people to buy things.
There are various ways to prepare for future potential badness. One solution embraced by Texas, amounts to "yolo", resulting in gas-fired plants being inoperable during the cold snap in Feb 2021[0] . A different solution, favored by many other locations across the globe including in Europe, is for there to be regulations set by the government, saying "you must perform this upgrade". While these regulations cannot alter the fundamental laws of physics, it is eminently possible to “winterize” various aspects of power generation and delivery systems through practices like insulating pipelines.

[0] https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/17/texas-power-grid-fai...
I exported my vault to CSV and imported them all into Bitwarden in one go.
Not really. It is about eliminating modes and variance from hyperscaled systems.

The aritcle itself summarises itself:

> Both our Network Load Balancer configuration system, and our Route 53 health check system are actually doing many thousands of operations for every "tick" or "cycle" that they iterate. But those operations don't change because the health check statuses did, or because of customer configurations. That's the point. They're like coffee urns, which hold hundreds of cups of coffee at a time no matter how many customers are looking for a cup.

On health checks:

> Even when there are only a few health checks active, the health checkers send a set of results to the aggregators that is sized to the maximum. For example, if only 10 health checks are configured on a particular health checker, it's still constantly sending out a set of (for example) 10,000 results, if that's how many health checks it could ultimately support. The other 9,990 entries are dummies. However, this ensures that the network load, as well as the work the aggregators are doing, won't increase as customers configure more health checks. That's a significant source of variance ... gone.

On updates:

> Every few seconds, the health check aggregators send a fixed-size table of health check statuses to the Route 53 DNS servers. When the DNS servers receive it, they store the table in memory, pretty much as-is. That’s a constant work pattern. Every few seconds, receive a table, store it in memory. Why does Route 53 push the data to the DNS servers... because there are more DNS severs than there are health check aggregators... check out Joe Magerramov’s article on putting the smaller service in control.

> Then, at query time... even if the first answer it tried is healthy and eligible, the server checks the other potential answers anyway. This approach ensures that even if a status changes, the DNS server is still performing the same work that it was before. There's no increase in scan or retrieval time.

On configuration:

> Rather than generate events, AWS Hyperplane integrates customer changes into a configuration file that's stored in Amazon S3. This happens right when the customer makes the change. Then, rather than respond to a workflow, AWS Hyperplane nodes fetch this configuration from Amazon S3 every few seconds. The AWS Hyperplane nodes then process and load this configuration file... Even if the configuration is completely identical to what it was the last time, the nodes process and load the latest copy anyway. Effectively, the system is always processing and loading the maximum number of configuration changes. Whether one load balancer changed or hundreds, it behaves the same.
Not sure if this is really “code red” for Google. First of all they also have strong language models (PaLM) but more importantly they already have a huge user base. Even though chatGPT achieved a million active users within five days (which is already impressive) Google would probably have a few orders of magnitude more right on day one if they were to ship such a feature.
One reason Google might not want to do it right know, is that they need to care more about public perception. Shipping an engine that obviously does mistakes seems way more dangerous to a corporation like Google than a “startup” like OpenAi when it comes to public perception. What do you think?
i think m1 was a big boost because of risc--compilers have gotten really good, and cpu pipelining has been well researched/developed, so there was a lot of performance to be harvested by putting everything together.

gpus, on the otherhand, are already risc. so where is apple going to improve? not by integrating everything: lots of companies have done this for years and years. if you want to do more with the same transistors, you'll need an even more clever execution model...
> Why is it that Europeans can't build themselves up without putting America down?

If you read the article more closely you might get the idea that the writer is an American expat wife...
They will never have a SIM slot again unless you get the China model, and you don’t need one. eSIM is better.
The article's claim is not actually as simplistic as the title suggests, it says that active individual contributors should have a say in how the business is run.
This will become more and more of a problem as buildings switch away from gas/oil heating and switch towards green heat pumps.

Heat pumps are particularly bad in extreme cold weather. Their efficiency goes down a lot (sometimes 4x), at the exact time everyone needs to use them the most.

To be honest, I don't think policymakers have considered this, so I suspect we'll see blackouts on cold winter days quite frequently, with grid operators being reluctant to build double the generation and transmission capacity for just a few hours per year when it's super cold across a wide area.
>which cuts off the pacific northwest,

Which is mostly ok, as Eastern Washington and central / eastern Oregon fit the bill both for these state as a whole, plus could be theoretically exporting their hydro / solar / wind generated power to other parts of the country. Problem is, the rural parts of these states feel ignored by the urban (read: politically powerful) parts of the states, leading to all sorts of pettiness around siting of new wind / solar deployments.
The "Weisswurstequator" - a rough dividing line north of which the white sausages just aren't a thing - also largely applies to soft pretzels.

They are popular enough all over Germany for them to be sold in virtually every bakery all over Germany. Weißwurst, on the other hand, is only available in specialty restaurants (though I assume it's sold in all large supermarkets). Having eaten both, it's not hard to understand why.
Software is always used to build something. A digital advertising company does in fact have software as the core business. You need software engineering managers to manage the software that continues to be built and get more complex.
Tell HN: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Hope your 2023’s great. I’m sorry for all of you that were laid off or affected by the virus or lockdowns. Next year will be better! Keep the faith!
The official marketing comparison was to a mobile 3090, not a desktop 3090. Completely different GPU.
> It will even acknowledge that they are wrong if you point it out

Isn't that a "generic" answer though? Like if you point out that something actually true is wrong, what does it say? (haven't tried)
This doesn't surprise me. One thing I know about Windows is you can't rely on it when you need it.

So in the middle of an outage yesterday, the Windows 10 start menu stopped working. You can open it but when you click on stuff nothing happens. Reboot doesn't fix it. Fortunately I had cmd pinned to the taskbar so I am literally starting programs from that.
Bad parenting.
> Managers don't need to be making commits that get merged into production, but they should be constantly familiar with the codebase that their team is responsible for, and capable of playing with it and try out ideas.

Bingo!
Thanks @dang but please stop "shadow bans" & ridiculous post limits.
> The average person who wins a lottery (the equivalent of the recipient of a billionaire's largesse that you envision) pisses it all away in a few years, rarely deploying it for his own benefit, let alone that of society.

I want to point out that first of all, this isnt even a good comparison, because nobody is talking about just giving people a massive lump sum of cash. Its about putting the money back into the workers creating it, as well as public welfare systems to ensure future safety nets.

And second of all, even if we just gave the money away and people "pissed it away", the money is still being circulated and put back into the economy.
Non-transparent proxy is the root of pain
You don’t pay $250M, you borrow that amount providing some collateral proportional to your risk of flight. It is basically an insurance policy with $250M payoff. Or an option.
Verified account, blue checkmark, must be legit!
> Stage 2 emergencies require businesses enrolled in so-called demand response programs to curtail power use. As part of these programs, companies agree to cut consumption when called upon in exchange for payments.

Are the businesses that enroll in this program generally large consumers of electricity such that their curtailment would make a bigger difference than an ordinary consumer or can any business, no matter the size, enroll in this program? Also, what do the payments they receive in exchange look like?
My favorites are trailers with deleted scenes/lines, or the trailer for a "comedy" that includes the only funny joke (perhaps the only joke at all) in the entire film.

But I understand why the former are created, since trailers are often made before the film is finished. Also sometimes films are adjusted after preview screenings. Often the music doesn't seem to be finished either - I've seen several trailers that substituted (snippets of) iconic classical music pieces (such as the overture from Carmen, "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana, "Dies Irae" from Mozart's Requiem, etc.) that weren't used in the finished film.
https://i.imgur.com/VDUs5Ej.png seems like a fairly standard prompt
Syncthing has never failed me for this.
It was actually blocked during/after the riots. The terrorist attack, if you mean kunming, happened a few years later.

Frankly, it would have happened earlier if it wasn’t for the 2008 Olympics, a lot of face was riding on not blocking western internet services until after the Olympics were completed.
There are potential solutions... For example, heat pumps could be required to have a reserve storage tank containing enough heat for a day or so, and then at times when the grid is most stressed, they use the reserve heat reservoir rather than the grid.

That could be enforced by building code, or by having a monetary incentive to those who have such a system, or a monetary penalty to those who use power on high demand days (although Texas taught us that people don't understand 'prices rise when goods are scarce', and instead see it as 'company jack's prices when I need it the most').
Unless you experienced it first-hand, it's hard to explain how magical these kind of things were in the 80's. All week long I'd look forward to getting to play Lode Runner, Ultima III, Wizardry, etc on the weekends.
It seems like a reasonably well written anecdote by someone who has some idea what they're talking about. It could obviously be false, but the consequences if he's right are potentially serious for a lot of HN users who might use LastPass. The consequences if he's wrong are a little extra reputational damage for LastPass, but that seems like a worthwhile tradeoff here.

Not everything posted on HN has to be verified true. The decision calculus here seems strongly in favor of signal boosting it, so that people who need to can take defensive action, even if it turns out to be wrong.
Apple Support: “How Dark Sky users can use the Apple Weather app”
As dark sky app is about to be sunset
Yes. Standards change over time. The acceptable level of poverty is not something morally objective, but rather dependent on the available technology/energy/capital.
We are arguing about a law that was passed in public with text anyone can read. That could never happen in China.
MLM scheme aimed at the recently retired that encourages them to sign up to an incremental equity release and to invest the funds in a "care coin" that "guarantees" a place in a luxury care home should they need it. The incremental nature of the equity release means the coin gets a slow pump guaranteed over several years raising it's value as an instrument for speculation. Constant need to pay for places in care homes (at a low rate because young pensioners) means regular sales of care coin can be easily justified. Rug pull after 5 to 10 years depending on demographics.
What you expected a none evil one???
On the other hand if most people still have to work by the time we're 75, then our generation has completely failed the moment.
Automation can make many flights safer, but this assumes two critical things:

1. The automation is designed and implemented in a reliable, known, safe way.

2. The pilot are competent at flying the aircraft completely manually if necessary.

If either of those two assumptions are violated, the flight is not safe.

Automation cannot replace incompetent pilots, no matter how good. Pilots can't overcome bad automation if it is not designed and implemented properly (eg: MCAS), no matter how competent.
Bitcoin may be useful like Gold is useful, but it's the other chains like Ethereum and NEAR that provide tremendous value. The velocity of money on NEAR (and its closest competitors I'm sure, but I don't know enough about those) is so fast and I am able to conduct business with people across the world orders of magnitude faster than was previously possible. Banks will never catch up. Crypto still has some kinks to work out, particularly for less tech savvy users, but the fundamentals are so so much better than the existing banking networks. Try doing international business at 5am on a Sunday with a bank.
> I assume it's a budget limitation driving slow progress.

The budget is enormous, it's just being embezzled from top to bottom.
Sorry I’ve read the article and still don’t understand how a 4 million dollar house can be used as 250M bail.
I'm really enjoying ChatGPT, and I'm already reaching it for coding tasks daily. I like using it for producing a first draft which I might interact with a couple times to get me started. It's particularly a boon in going from zero to one by getting rid of "coder's block". It's also perfectly capable of producing meme-level useless code and it feels dated due to its input corpus but those are things I expect to improve rapdily.

The question that worries me is: how will it be monetized?

For the love of all that is holy, I hope it's not something related to ads, and that we don't get something like "Sponsored by..." answers. That would be truly dystopian, but the cynic in me thinks it's not out of the realm of the possible. On the other hand I also empathize with the billions of users who may not be able to pay a monthly sub, when this tech has the potential to be transformative.
they will just contact it out
People aren't going to rewire their circuits because of an HN post, you're wasting your time.
I do agree on judging an establishment by its foundational texts, at least in part - also considering modern actions are important too to consider evolution of understanding and concepts.

On the point of "casting out demons", these are old texts translated from heavily evolved languages. Literal translations are often lost (eg today how we greet others "what's up?"). However taking it on its literal meaning, if the act of casting out literal demons to make one a better person is not outdated today, is the end result not still worthy? Doctors used to bleed patients to heal fever. While that act is outdated, is trying to cure the fever no less important?

(full disclosure, I am catholic, but I'm not sure what I'm trying to say)
> Beyond DNS there is also a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) method where, along with the typical network address settings, the client receives the URL for downloading the PAC file. This is done via option 252, but isn’t widely supported, it’s normally not used, and we don’t use it it either.

Consider me the odd one out but I’ve actually heard about (and used) DHCP option 252, but never once heard about WPAD.

To me, this statement seems a bit presumptuous.
> You can't add features

And you can't add features to browsers if there isn't a formal specification, right? Right?
If you want to see something really rocking on a raspi, i would suggest to take a look at RiscOS ;-)
That’s a fine argument if you explain why a yearly release cycle hurts long term total revenue as well. To me it seems to help it.
chatGPT seems to have been modified to stop providing statistics on crime by racial group simply saying that it is ‘unhelpful’ to do so. When asked how it’s possible to address issues when chatGPT won’t provide statistics it simply repeats that this is unhelpful.

Oddly I could get chatGPT to tell me which group commits the most crime - it answered white Americans- when I asked per capita is started telling me this was unhelpful and could be offensive.
This reminds me of McNutt's eye in the sky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJLr0KMsRAA
I don't know. With ChatGPT coded as is - with sides in the culture wars that are waging (examples - providing jokes for men, not women, for renewables, refusing to provide arguments for continuing fossil fuel use etc ) I don't think this is going to become truly general search tool.
He’s stating an iPad has replaced his laptop, and you complain about battery going empty if not used for a week?
> I'm not sure who's to blame here.

I would venture to say perhaps AzureAD?

When a OS receives an instruction from the router/DHCP server that no proxy should be used on this network, and the OS adheres to that…

And that alone just breaks AzureAD, that’s clearly a point where AzureAD needs to be made more resilient.
When was the last time you tried to run a windows game on linux via steam with proton.

I am yet to find a title that doesn't work. This was discussed many times on HN.
True - it is not designed for 2 way parallel port communication - it just captures the data sent to a parallel port and emulates an old printer (Epson ESC/P, ESC/P2, HP PCL, PostScript, Printronix, Tandy, IBM ProPrinter) - converting the output to PDF which can then be printed or stored.

It was quite a bit later in the history of the printer, when equipment started to expect 2-way communication with printers - obtaining information about the model, ink levels, paper status etc - generally that type of equipment had printer drivers for each model of printer.

We would have liked to implement something along those lines, but there is very little information (if any) about the status messages passed from the printer back to the equipment (it is not covered in the ESC/P2 documentation for example as that was last updated in 1990).