skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I meant I hope more people who want to transition try it. As society accepts trans people, and access to appropriate medical care becomes more widespread, more people will do it. You need only watch the latest Philosophy Tube video on the British health care system to understand that there are people who want to transition and aren’t able to access the medical care they need. And then there are people who would be more likely to consider it if they lived in a more accepting place. I’ve realized I would have appreciated transition much sooner in life (I started at 37) if the option had seemed more realistic when I was younger.
You can definitely do that with iOS…
Yes, especially with this subject matter. Normally I hate, but in this case it works.
The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo is often cited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_eruption_of_Mount_Pinatub...
"What if? 2" by Randall Munroe is a great sequel to the first "What if?", especially the index.

Also, "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir as many others have mentioned. I enjoyed the scale and interleaved timeline in this book, the only bit it's slightly lacking is the humor found in "The Martian".
It's just a link to an old article about Enron, it has nothing to do with the NFT/Crypto part of the title.
I believe ctrl+k cuts the line. ctrl+u pastes the line, yea?
Wouldn't be so sure. Observability tools usually have the highest traffic, highest data volume, and highest availability requirements of any system a company runs. The times you need them most tend to be the times all of your other systems are failing, so having a shared blast radius is a really bad thing. In any microservices architecture, they're multi-tenant systems with plenty of noisy neighbors.

Those factors make running them well both harder and more expensive than running any ol system.
The biggest issue here is that you have to hire real engineers to manage the bought product, and they feel dead ended or just waiting for a layoff opportunity.

The institutional knowledge around your data never develops because the engineer whose job it is to manage datadog and observability never gets the opportunity to learn or demonstrate technical depth, and so jumps ship to another team or company literally as soon as possible.

SRE recruiters make this worse, making point after point of gaslighting new hires.
Popularity is a rebuttal to dismissal, although it is not clear to me whether that's actually what was going on.
I 100% agree with your second point. Case in point, my previous employer built an in house development platform to create ephemeral environments and run deployment pipelines for production. At the time, around 2016, there weren't many (or any? I wasn't part of the research time) options to buy this type of software. Today, there are more than a handful in this space.

I wonder at what point companies would finally bite the bullet and swap to buying? Maybe cataloging the feature set of the internal software, seeing what is a necessity, and seeing which vendors can cover those requirements?
How come the 99%s wages aren't going up with inflation?
For another one, I use Numi for macos often. It's native, clean looking, can handle units, and maintains it's buffer between launches.

I love it as a virtual back of an envelope to noodle math on.

https://numi.app/
I agree. As with so many things in life: news can make you miserable, but if you take the right approach it doesn't have to make you miserable.
But will it play Dark Reign? There are a bunch of classic Win98 games I would love to play but don't have hardware that could run them any more.
What percentage of cities in Europe have TGV lines?
Along the same, er, vein, check out The Open Veins Of Latin America - it's a painstakingly well-researched and fiery book on the colonization and exploitation of Latin America for its resources, under the guise of "taming the primitives". It also documents the attempts of the US in sabotaging popular, labour-led/socialist movements, nearly always successful and often involving the use of violence, all in the name of "fostering democracy".
Babies in First Class: Which Side of the Aisle Are You On?
This isn't necessarily true if the deficit spending increases the amount of real goods sufficiently.

For example, if the government increases the money supply by 10% by deficit spending, but the activity induced by that spending increases the amount of goods in the economy by 10%, the action will have no effect on the general price level.

The activities that typically fall under this category are building infrastructure or introducing legislation that mitigates collective action problems.

Obviously, a lot of (most?) government spending doesn't meet this criteria, so your comment is still a fair criticism of most governments in practice.
>Who is considered white has changed over time, mostly by slow expansion as groups seek

Ah so since a few people became white, we can extrapolate that to say that anyone can become white.

> broad wealth of literature

I have no interest in reading pseudoscience, let alone indoctrinate myself with this ideology.

There are no falsifiable predictions here, all these people do is redefine words to suit whatever political ideology is in vogue.
A language that isn't pushed in some form, big corporation, zealots or killer framework, usually dies.

No famous mainstream language in use today, has ever been adopted based on "it happens on it's own due to it's usability and features".

Before you rush out to write something like C, remember that it only came to use thanks to AT&T, Bell Labs and UNIX.
London to Berlin sleeper rail service from May 2023
I had a similar thought after finishing:if you wanted to really learn a new language in depth, you could solve all 25 days using that language.
Black channel schemes are not resistant to malicious input unless security was intentionally built in. Safety and security are separate (but related) concerns. Besides, white channel is still (unfortunately) a thing in some parts of the industry.
…uh, yeah, it is:

https://www.usb.org/document-library/usb-type-cr-cable-and-c...
‘Treasure Planet’ at 20: Disney’s Failed Space Odyssey Deserved to Soar
What if they showed up with a gap and simply said "I have plenty of money and took the time to myself, my family and my interests"?

(I've never had a resume gap but that's going to be my explanation if/when I do.)
Because... I wrote the comment, and in the context of my comment, I am referring to the traditional idea of a "capitalist class". There's also no new revised understanding of "capitalists" that includes everyone with a small business. Even in "21st century economics", a capitalist is still traditionally considered someone who owns the means of production at the absolute top of the supply chain (the owners and controllers of capital). Your local grocery story owner is still literally buying his inventory from a supplier. You follow that supply chain long enough, there's more than likely a billionaire at the end of it. That's the actual capitalist.
> I'm worried that this kind of reporting only helps climate-change deniers.

As someone who believes in climate change, this is the exact sentence that I want to see more often. It feels less like an agenda is being pushed and instead the reader is meant to think critically.

We can't be sure what is and isn't climate change. All we can do is make observations and that's exactly what is being done here.
So? Christmas is a public holiday in 80% of countries. It is by some distance the most widely shared global business holiday. And Experian is an American company.
I don't think you're wrong. The article refers to "the top 1%" but doesn't definitely specify if it means the top 1% of wealth holders or the top 1% of actual workers. If it's wealth holders, then we would expect their gains to mostly come from investment, which are gains that are (theoretically) accessible to everyone. If it's workers, then where are they drawing the line? Do C-suite execs and owners with company stock count toward compensation? Does that really fit the spirit of "wages"?
Why are Indians who oppose immigration for creating a brain drain in India allowed to prioritize what they think is good for Indian people but white Americans who think Asian immigration is bad for them get attacked for prioritizing what they think is good for white people?
"Workflow engines" and their close cousins "DSLs" are the ultimate newbie trap. In theory, it's awesome for everyone: programmers get to work on interesting, abstract problems like distributed systems, syntax parsing, event-based architectures, and "business users" get to make changes to "business rules" without bothering developers or impacting feature roadmaps. Win-win, right?

In reality you just end up making a shitty, nerfed version of a programming language, that business users can't understand, because you still have to understand conditional logic to model workflows, oh and your documentation is terrible because devs don't bother with the boring stuff. Most of the time the devs end up implementing the workflows anyway because they don't actually work properly.

If you really need a workflow engine definitely use something off-the-shelf, but I would go so far as to say that in the 95% case, you don't even need a workflow engine: you need a developer who is capable of writing some python scripts. Even if you pay a developer a full salary to do nothing but sit around and make changes to Python scripts on-demand, that's still going to be way cheaper than the complicated workflow engine solution, which will probably require a team (or multiple teams) to maintain.
I did this same exercise circa 2002. At the time there really weren't any good options (at least none that I was aware of) so I was pretty much charting my own territory. It took the business well past $1,000,000 in revenue before they switched to some off the shelf package long after I had moved on. I guess it wasn't too bad for a comp-sci student with no e-commerce experience and little serious programming experience.
How much household income would put you in top 1%?
I'm speaking as an amateur reader of QM things. This approach may be useful to someone using QM. But for someone wondering about the world, it is not. The question remains: which model that describes nature better than QM we will have in a hundred years or more?
https://archive.vn/Iqjp0
The article literally says facebook aggravates depression. It's in the title. In this context, you can't just argue that taking away facebook doesn't help without reasons not to trust the article.
On top of that, it's also the time when you need the most energy for heating because it's the coldest.
Apple is the only company among the ones listed that forces you to use their software on select products. That's the product segmentation, and it's really frustrating when hardware like the iPhone/iPad is so excellent but entirely hamstrung by it's OS. There's nothing wrong with segmenting your hardware or writing a pared-back OS for smaller devices, but forcing everyone to use it is a pretty obvious and arbitrary limitation.
> hotel workers and restaurant workers saw some of the biggest real wage gains

Yeah, after a significant amount of them left the industry after seeing wages go to zero for an extended period, several times in some places.
Inflation came from supply chains breaking down with Asia. Inflation will continue until that problem is addressed.
That's not right. Digital transmission systems will cope with the errors and regenerate a perfect signal upto a point called the digital cliff. With that amount of noise in an analog signal will be a very snowy, staticy, picture.

In an analog signal, a bright picture will be 700mV, a less bright picture will be 500mV, a dark one at 200mV and a very dark one at 50mV.

Imagine that you get a 300mV error, that loses a lot of data - the dark one will be sort of bright, or vice versa, or the sort-of bright will be really-bright, etc.

Now lets say you have a 1 represented by an amplitude of 700mV, and a 0 represented by 50mV. A 300mV error wlll have it at 400mV and 350mV. Your system will go "hey this is 350mV, it's a zero", and reclock it to 50mV, and vice versa. The recovered signal will be identical upto the point that the errors flip the bits - the digital cliff.

(In reality of course the signal isn't just high/low but uses various techniques to encode the ones and zeros to prevent DC voltages accruing - Manchester Encoding for example.

Push an analog video signal down a cable and it will degrade the longer the cable is. The same will happen in the digital domain -- you can see this on a waveform monitor by looking at the digital eye, but as long as the eye is open enough the signal can be retrieved to it's original state. With an analog signal, the signal is lost, and can't be retrieved.
While petrichor is pleasant after a rain, according to the wiki article on geosmin it appears to also indicate poor water quality [0].

So perhaps the evolved sensitivity is to avoid stagnant water, rather than to seek recent rainfall. After all, for prehistoric hominids local recent rainfall is pretty obvious, and traveling large distances to distant rainfall is not usually practical.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosmin
True! Maybe the amount of work is a thing too. When writing a large program, it gets very confusing with all the different colour and you can scroll for an eternity.
No one says it was intentionally released.
What percentage of non macos developers use linux or windows because of apple hardware cost?

am aware of hackintosh but not sure how well it works for dev productivity.
Ask HN: Has anyone had success with using or developing Power Apps for Teams?
I recently developed an app for a client. It was a replacement for an ancient PHP app. Due to the lower user licensing costs, the request was to stick to a Canvas app in the Teams environment.

The project was successful, app works, client is happy.

I realize that the common response on this site full of actual devs has been not very keen on low/no code tools, but for this extremely(15 years) out of practice developer they are a god send. I am able to single-dev a simple app and deliver it to a client. Via the enforced Teams integration, the apps are automatically available on desktop and mobile.

I am curious if any HN'ers have had success in developing or using just Canvas apps inside Teams, in your org.
The issue isn’t just the 1st one that breaks the issue is the other 100,000+ that do.
Directory Opus is the perfect example of an ultra-high-quality Windows application. I love it.
Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34130894
This was a big reading year for myself, I got through 25 books. They are not technical books like most listed here. I focused on reading memoirs, literature, fiction stories, primarily women authors. I didn’t read any bad books in my opinion, I guess I picked well.

Standouts,

Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata

Lakota Woman - Mary Crow Dog

Beautiful Country: A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood - Qian Julie Wang

Gather Around in My Name - Maya Angelou

The entire autobiographical series by Maya is a must read imo, but this one is my favorite. Maybe also my favorite book I read this year.
Are you working for FAANG etc? I work a mid-level IT job, there is competition. I have no evidence but it seems like candidates who are currently unemployed (especially for a long time) will end up at the bottom of the pile. That at least would make finding a new job harder.
“Lifetime value” is Silicon Valley’s next buzzword
Differences.

You can only measure (compare) something in relation to something else.

If everything is homogeneous there are no measures, no clocks, and no way you could count anything.
> What is the primary operating system in which you work?

This implies a single answer ("the") but they clearly allowed multiple (the percentages total way more than 100%)

IIRC in prior years they've asked similar questions, but without the multi-select, meaning the this year's survey can't be meaningfully compared with older surveys, for this question.

Here's 2021, for example:

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021
Some of my favourites this year:

On The Clock by Emily Guendelsberger - Gave me a glimpse into how it is to work at Amazon, McDonalds and Convergys. Though the subject is not the most positive. her style of writing is quite funny, and the combination worked well.

Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series. He drops you into the middle of his universe without explaining it all at once, and he's very eager about explaining all the new technology he's dreamed up. He also makes sure the books are written so that they could all have been a standalone title. Depending on what you've read before, things he mentions will often remain a "mystery" until you find the answer later in the series, or in one of the standalone short stories.

Maus av Art Spiegelman - Graphical novel about being a Jewish WW2 concentration camp prisoner. Highly recommended.

Flowers for Algernon by David Keyes. From 1959, I liked it a lot. About a mentally handicapped man who receives a surgery that gradually turns him into the smartest man alive. Lots of focus on how empathy, humility and respect has to go alongside pure knowledge. And also that mentally handicapped are people too.

Gateway by Frederik Pohl - Sci-fi from the 70s. Quite good. A comet is discovered, full of million-year old ships pre-programmed for roundtrip flights to unknown destinations.

Next year I'd like to look more into Haruki Murakami's books. The one I've read was slow to get started, but I liked it a lot in the end. It had some things in common with regular sci-fi, but he seems to lean more towards the dreamy/odd/artsy side of things than what I'm used to.
"Because, it's been a tough year. We'll look to implement a bonus scheme next year which will help us keep up with inflation"

... and all that boll@cks.

Advice: either be in the 1%, or change jobs regularly enough to consistently boost salary ahead of inflation.
This is what I try to do. I solve them all (or nearly, I did one in Python only this year) in Common Lisp (my hobby language of choice), and the last few years I try to tackle them in a second language (Ada, Rust, Python, C++) up to the point that my time is too limited to do both versions (or where I find the second version is adding nothing to my understanding of the language I'm exploring).

This year I used Python as my second language (still plan to finish) but with a strong emphasis on TDD and property-based testing since I'm already familiar, but not fluent, with Python.
iOS 16 exploit lets you set the system font to Comic Sans
No please don’t sin tax kale. Cant have a government profit when its subject consume kale. Think of the incentives this creates.
Introducing Helix: Engineering Consciousness
For C64 and other retro platforms with Pascal, there is TRSE:

https://lemonspawn.com/turbo-rascal-syntax-error-expected-bu...

If coding with C, like text adventure games, then for example:

https://github.com/xet7/darkesthour
Well this is one survey I guess. Anecdotally I see more Macs than Linux.
In the past I've built servers by carefully selecting parts, calculating maximum power usage versus airflow, calculating full time electrical load, building, testing with fans disabled in rooms with high ambient temperatures, looking for failure modes, researching failure rates of specific power supplies and drives, et cetera.

I'd build one or two, test them for several months while making adjustments and fixing various weaknesses, then I'd build ten, twenty, however many were needed.

One particular client decided they wanted to skip all that and just spend the money on Dell. They didn't have many servers, certainly not enough to justify a separate server room. Their offices weren't air conditioned at night, and they had an entire summer where one server or another would become unresponsive over the course of a weekend, and sometimes at night between weekdays. Accessing iDRAC was beyond what they wanted to do, so of course I had to do that.

They had Dell support, but Dell had no "fix" for unstable machines other than to tell them to build a server room. Mind you - the ambient temperatures were always below 100º - any reasonable person would say that while that's not ideal for servers, "premium" servers should still be able to handle warm rooms, particularly when they're idle, and not crash or lock up.

After that fiasco, they gradually replaced the Dells, one at a time, with machines I built. I wish they had tried harder to return the Dells, but they just wrote them off.

I've learned that any savings in time and money (mostly - the Dells cost more than the machines I build, even accounting for extra billable time) aren't worth the loss in time, productivity and reliability in the long run. Of course, the opposite would be true if I just wanted more billable work, but I can't do that, unlike many others in the field.

BTW - when I build a new generation of servers, I do months of testing, but the same general platform can last a good five years, like Ryzen 1000 through 5000 systems with ECC have lasted since 2017.
> The quick pick up and immediate suspend are the killer features for me.

Yep, this has been the killer feature for me too.

When playing a game involves closing out some other stuff, starting up steam, starting up the game, waiting for it to load, loading my save, waiting for it to load, playing for a bit, saving, exiting to the menu, exiting the game, etc... there's a certain minimum commitment of time involved.

When I can just tap the power button and get dropped back in the game where I left it, and when the next distraction comes up just tap it again (in a menu, in a cutscene, anywhere) and put it back down... suddenly all those little 20 minute chunks of dead time where I'd be doom-scrolling the internet can turn into gaming time.

Even when I _am_ sitting at my desk, I often just dock my Steam Deck and play with a controller on my monitor instead of firing up the game on my PC because it's so convenient. (The fact that it also doesn't heat my office up to 85 degrees like my PC is a bonus as well.)
I'm less than ten years from retirement. I still need to work for those ten years, and probably afterward. Yes, I get a lot of ageism, ableism and sexism in my job searches. I don't look my age, fortunately, but having over 20 years in my field makes people want to lowball me or hire a "cheaper" (less experience) person. It's very annoying.
Inflation lifts banks and other entities that can issue new money. After them, it lifts people with good contact with the former set, and goes group by group in proportion to how much (economic) contact they have, getting diluted each time.

This is a pretty fundamental mechanic of markets. Stuff don't spread around if there aren't any transactions.
Proof-of-concept app to overwrite fonts on iOS using CVE-2022-46689
Same thing would happen if they taxed tomatoes at a grocery store like they tax weed. I'll be growing my own soon here in Missouri and likely won't be buying any weed from State regulated and taxed businesses.

I have no problem with those businesses at all, but the taxes on weed are crazy high. It's akin to having a mafia shaking down a businesses for a cut of their sales.

On the plus side most of that under the table money is staying here in the States now as opposed to to going to Mexican cartels and most of it is still being taxed when it's spent at local stores by home growers who sell to friends.

Meanwhile, if I buy a $1,000,000 yacht I can write that off my taxes entirely:

https://www.siyachts.com/yachting-news-and-events/buy-a-yach...
United, American Airlines put price caps on to help Southwest customers get home