skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The male part of the connector isn't the issue. It's the spring inside the device that keeps it plugged in (obviously doesn't matter with the dock because gravity does that) that wears down.
The list goes on: instant-drug tests used for traffic stops with undeclared and uninvestigated false positive rates, drug sniffing dogs (cf. https://reason.com/2021/05/13/the-police-dog-who-cried-drugs... for example), burn patterns in arson investigation, etc.
That is accurate, yes. Borland C++ and Delphi share the same component library and are interoperable.
There are a few potential clues that might indicate that a piece of text was generated by ChatGPT or a similar language model:

Lack of context or coherence: Language models like ChatGPT are designed to generate text based on a given prompt or input, but they do not have a deep understanding of the context in which the text is being used. As a result, the text they generate may lack coherence or may not make sense in the context in which it is being used.

Repetitive or unnatural language: Language models can sometimes produce repetitive or unnatural language patterns, particularly if they are not provided with sufficient context or training data.

Inconsistencies or errors: Language models may produce errors or inconsistencies in the text they generate, especially if they are not trained on a diverse or comprehensive dataset.

It is important to note that these clues are not definitive indicators that a piece of text was generated by ChatGPT or any other specific language model. There are many other factors that could contribute to these characteristics in text, and it is not always possible to determine with certainty whether a piece of text was generated by a specific model.

FYI this is written by ChatGPT so you get an idea of its writing style. I asked it "what are some clues that might indicate something is written by chatgpt".
Because I'm lazy and you're here.

Here's what I do now:

Encrypted volume synced with syncthing, everything basically stored as plain text and (like you, i think) a few shell scripts to throw passwords into the clipboard.

Would your thing work with a simple synced volume?
You're definitely correct, I've learned a lot while practicing leetcode. Especially about my chosen language (Python). I do feel I'm a better engineer because of it.

I don't think much of what I've learned will be useful in the day-to-day SWE grind. It's really quite interesting, but I cannot recall ever having to remember the skeleton of an iterative DFS before now.

I've taken away more useful lessons from system design studying. If I had my way, I'd spend more timing finishing "Designing Data Intensive Applications" (AWESOME book), instead of figuring out why my oranges aren't rotting correctly or trying to remember how to solve the coin problem using dynamic programming instead of a greedy algo.

On the plus side, once I've got a good memory base and can solve random Mediums and some Hards, I should be OK to pass basically any technical interview - barring random chance. Right now I took a break for xmas and need to go back to it, and that is the hardest part :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_crow
Hmm, I must have missed those. GRAD seems like the type of system that consultants implement to provide an excuse for layoffs?

Looks like the YouTube layoffs were technically contractors:
>Project cancellations and reorganizations have stoked nervousness. In September, Google’s YouTube shut down a project based in the Farmington Hills office with nearly 80 workers, laying off some staff members who did not find new roles at the company, four people familiar with the decision said. YouTube had hired them as contract workers to moderate content on the video platform. Google said 14 workers had lost their jobs.
It's a climate weapon against Putin's blackmail.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27066295
If you have a big wallet and someone telling you that if you don't spend all of that money this paycheck you'll get less next paycheck, then you'll buy snake oil if you have to just to make sure next week you still get paid the same.
For many years, DO was my only explorer. It was perfect in every way.

Then XYplorer [1] offered a pro license freebee (looks like back in 2019 [2]) and I gave it a try. I'm still using that same version (15.90) from so many years ago. Never looked back.

[1] https://www.xyplorer.com/

[2] https://www.xyplorer.com/freezer.php
Very impressive i couldn‘t even get past day 7
Also, why isn't there more supervision of Alex who has to be near 6?

Daring Danny X and his antics have with Alex's accidents have got to be near a third of their call volume
Not a lot in here about being on a visa: you can do everything right, but your life can be uprooted by work authorization being artificially limited to x days after you’re laid off. Getting on a more permanent visa isn’t actually possible for a lot of devs.
When has a mass-scale, heavily invested tech that didn't flourish.. turn itself completely around?

How is Metaverse/VR not the 3D TV of next year? or the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle of today?
All of those bar one can be done by physically separating yourself from technology, which is quite feasible in short periods. Downgrading to a dumb phone works ok too (until you need to work with some service that requires an app)
Thank you for giving so much credit to dplyr in your FAQ. The influence is obvious and I think dplyr deserves more credit for its revolutionary design, which has influenced a whole new generation of data manipulation tools.

(I am not affiliated with dplyr/R/RStudio in any way, just a huge fan.)
At least in 2014 or so iCloud was Dell/Oracle.
The reality is that ID card holding rates correlate with race, income, and age[1][2][3] in a way that those advocating for ID requirements benefit from. When the consequences of such a system result in race, age, and income disparities, the purpose of such a system is, functionally, to disenfranchise on race, age, and income.

The fact is that there are millions[4] more, black, brown, hispanic, young, and poor people without than there are white, old, and rich people. Claiming that people can get IDs is a far step from realizing the logistical implications of such a claim. And why would someone? The point is that they won't, that in elections where tens or hundreds of thousands of votes decide the outcome, millions of people won't be able to vote and their inability will be individualized and trivialized into, "If it was important for them to vote, then they would have gotten IDs," while disavowing the discussion we're having right now - the one where the consequences of such system-building is being laid out.

It sounds like what you want to say is that you think it's more fair that people with IDs should play a greater role in elections than those who don't because they have more skin in the game, they've done more things right, and they contribute more to society, but you know that isn't exactly ok to say.

1. https://www.projectvote.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/AMERI...

2. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1532673X18810012

3. https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/d/d...

4. in raw numbers as well as disproportionatly
The numbers in that table are the numbers from the bra sizing system, not necessarily actual measurements. The EU system for some reason uses band size numbers about 10 less than the actual underbust size.
If you're not passionate about coding, that advice isn't for you. There is a class of people for whom coding is 'work', as in the actual act of coding is work and they would prefer to be doing anything else, but they have bills to pay.

There is another class of developers who like to code so much, that 'work' is merely a project that they don't have directional control over, but the act of coding is a relaxing activity. I know because I'm one of them. I am pretty relaxed at work when I can just sit down and code, then I go home and if I get some free time to work on my own code, I find it relaxing too. It's not that I don't enjoy work and have to supplement with a personal project, I just like the feeling of having absolute control over the project and trying to write the best code possible, because making money or providing some shareholder value is not the goal.

For people like me, I think this is a great advice. I am always thinking of side-projects that can become startups anyway, and I'm tinkering every day to the extent that time allows. I've been doing that for 20+ years. If I ever got laid off, my only hope is that at that point I will have a side-project that can magically be launched to make enough money to keep paying the bills.
> It's probably best to assume good faith from the commenter, especially when their username is "transcoderx"!

Given that HN is a site by nerds for nerds, I think you’re leaping to conclusions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcoding :-)
Before NFTs and Crypto, there was Enron
Big part of it is politically motivated economic reasoning, imho
You don't seem to be considering a variety of important factors here:

- Unhoused individuals who have the right to vote are unable to afford to pay for ID

- Contrary to what you're saying, in some places it's multiple hours drive to find a DMV that's open on a weekend (which might be required for someone working a 9-5 job)

- Even if you can go on a weekday, in some places you have to go across multiple counties to get to a DMV. If you don't have a car and need to take a bus, that can mean spending most of the day on the bus to get to the DMV, which may mean you cannot get back home the same day. This is a reality for some people, and those people won't necessarily be able to rely on a friend to drive them (see the above about people working 9-5), and don't have money to spend on a Taxi/Uber/Lyft.

- Some people lack documentation required to get a state ID or driver's license. This can happen for a variety of reasons, but previous homelessness is one. It can be expensive and time consuming to fix that issue in some cases.

Thus far I've not seen any politician pushing for strict voter ID laws also willing to fund ensuring that everyone who is entitled to vote is provided with a proper ID if needed, and until that changes you're going to see people pushing back on those laws.
The show has so many anachronisms I find it impossible to watch.
The problem is that ShotSpotter doesn’t actually work very well at all.

I mean, if I make a magic box that has a 1% chance per day of calling the police and telling them a crime happened nearby and then only stick that box in areas where poor people live, you could see how that would lead to a whole lot of calls for police in those areas. You can also see how, by having a vastly higher police presence in those areas, more crimes will be detected in those areas, even if the base crime rate is the same as in a different area.

In the past, ShotSpotter employees have gone into the system and changed things after the fact to claim that their system detected shots in a specific area that it never detected. They did this while working with the police to come up with probable cause for an arrest after the arrest happened.

This kind of thing makes it easy for the cops to arrest people they want to arrest without any actual evidence of a crime. This is generally considered a bad thing in the USA.
At my previous job the company heavily relied on an industry standard application. This app basically had a monopoly on that particular industry. However, they were pushing the app beyond the limits of most other companies. It was also just generally an old and busted Windows 2000 era kind of deal.

When I first arrived, and knew nothing, they told me we were going to build a replacement. That sounded great to me at the time. Obviously the right thing to do is replace something old and busted.

Well, I and the company learned over time that actually that was not really the best business strategy. It may have been possible, but not with the resources we had available. I ended up doing a whole lot of work that went unused, through no fault of my own.
I am spending an inordinate amount of time on my homelab (and the todo list does not seem to get any smaller). But on the other hand this activity gives me a ton of experience that I could not get doing $DAYJOB, and this experience comes extremely handy from time to time.
You're not in the American South, are you?

These are not far from one another here.
I don’t have numbers in front of me, but my impression is that carmakers have done a much better job in the last decade with front-rear balance decent on nearly all cars. Versus decades past when some were wildly front-heavy (or occasionally, wildly back-heavy, ouch).
> then the boiling point of the refrigerant must be below -20F

This isn't the limiting factor for choice of refrigerant... There is always a low enough pressure that anything boils.

The problem is that at very low pressures (think a few millibars), gasses need huge diameter pipes and huge pumps to move even a small number of kilowatts of heat.
The goal of the police is to maintain the status quo.
Cows seem to be mesmerized by almost any sort of music.
Off-topic: I am pretty sure this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34159914 or this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34160129 is responsible for this submission, in which case it's not off-topic ^^.
at 2:01 that differential pinion... trying to figure out how that would work... it looks like it's locked in place yet it spins.

edit: oh maybe it's some kind of worm gear/helical gear to translate 90 deg or maybe weird bevel gear
You seem pretty worked but it’s not clear what you actually want. You kind of hooked on this thing about generalists / specialists to make this big point but I’m not sure what it is.
Workflow engines are the most difficult thing to sell in organisations as the usecases are open ended. Organisations needs certain level of maturity to understand that they need one
Sean Parker according to Eduardo Severin in The Social Network.
I built an entire custom e-commerce platform - product catalog, cart, checkout, CRM, order tracking, fulfilment management and back office. The site is a print on demand store, using contract printers. In hindsight I wish I had gone with either an off the shelf package or taken the punt on Shopify (this was 2012).

My assumptions around how much integration our custom product customiser/editor needed with the rest of the e-commerce platform ware wrong. I thought I need a user system and "saved designs" for the customers, but that's somewhat rarely used, and could have been bolted onto a standard system.

Maintaining and updating it is extra work over what the core business is, there is now a lot of custom code to fix old assumptions and implement features that we didn't previously expect. All of which come as standard with Shopify.

We also believe that customers are increasingly used to seeing the Shopify checkout, it is a reassuringly familiar experience. I suspect it has a measurable effect on dropouts.

If I was to start again now I would 100% just use Shopify, no question. We are considering a large project to move to it. It would be quite satisfying to delete all that code. But it would probably bring new problems, and thing we are used to being able to customise that we will be unable to.

Do I regret doing it? No not really, hindsight is 20:20. A lot of lessons were learnt, but that enabled us to build a successful business.
Excuse me but you did not address my comment, you addressed what you wanted to address and ignored what I said.
Transfeminine people having monthly cycles is something that a lot of people have discussed, so I’m inclined to believe the phenomenon is real. I do seem to have a slow week once a month. It’s my partner who has normal periods once a month who has suggested I am cycling. I can’t say for sure what’s going on. There’s a lot of stuff about trans people that isn’t well studied. I do take progesterone but my dose is constant, so either my body processes it in cycles, or something else is happening, or its coincidence.
Not a decision I've got wrong, but I'd suggest authentication services are a common regret. Yes authentication is important to get right, but it's not _that_ complex. SaaS tools for auth are incredibly expensive for the feature set they offer, and are difficult to replace once embedded in your services. SSO in large scale business is a case where buy is the right option but I'd anticipate that for many simpler use cases teams have to work hard to unentangle themselves from Okta etc.
No different from ARM, AMD and Intel having product segmentation on their CPU cores.
Thousands of Citrix servers vulnerable to patched critical flaws
Your situation seems unique - not many people are game for 50% travel as they hit mid career.

Consulting does offer an alternative path to engineering at big cos - usually the interview focus is on your experience and ability to interface with a customer rather than leetcode, etc.
I hired a handy man to build one of these in front of my house a year ago and it has been a great project. In fact, I use it as a motivation to go out on bike rides in the city. What I do is take a chunk of books from my place, go to the next mini-library swap them for a chunk of those books, go to the next mini library, rinse and repeat. I've become familiar with about a dozen of these within a few miles. I know which ones have books that move quickly, which ones are slow, which ones are sources (oversupply), which ones are sinks (high demand for books there). Which ones are good to bring kids books to, etc. I've also found local bookstores where I can get extra free books. I often strike up interesting conversations with people. For example, one time I met a guy who ended up giving me half of his entire book collection because he was moving to the country and couldn't keep everything. It took a while for me to get that collection to the neighboring libraries, there were so many!

Pointers: If you're going to build one of these, don't make them too deep! A foot deep is actually sufficient, I think. Not more than 14 inches. Multiple levels are great. My favorite mini library has 4 levels: a pretty tall bottom level -- some books are tall! -- and then gradually shorter as you get to the top one which you can fit paperbacks into. Also, quantity: It's nice to have a little free space so people feel they can leave books. You can put one or more books facing forward so the full front cover is viewable. This also makes the library more attractive. Too many books is not good. Then it's hard move them around to find things. Also, a jumble is no good, I like to keep it pretty well arranged. If there are extra books, I just bring them inside for my next bike trip.

Have fun!
To fix AOE2:DE multiplayer all you need to do is extract UCRTBASE.DLL from a VC++ redistributable to avoid desyncs-- here's a repo that has a script for it: https://github.com/ardba/proton_aoe2de_mpfix
Aha. Hmm. When I say “fine” I mean I enjoy weird. I won’t scoff at it and move on.

But perhaps what you’re getting at is that if weird is normal to me, this may be kind of dated and dull? Like when old jokes seem bad because they aren’t really shocking anymore?
And then you show up for your trial and they use some other junk science you've never heard of to show that you're guilty.
Your concern is well founded given the proliferation of utter shit that is modern car "entertainment" centers. Scare quotes because some safety important things are handled by those. If you don't think so, drive my 2017 Ford Expedition when it's -10F outside and the windshield fogs up beyond visibility levels because the damn defroster (and other environment controls) doesn't work and and the windshield is fogging up. Or try to back up and see the backup-camera glitching out.

However, most of the safety systems software is held to a very high standard, and much happens in embedded systems where the surface level for software foot-guns (such as state) are minimal. I wouldn't worry about buying a new car for these reasons. Though I would try to find one with as many physical buttons as possible.
I'm just not going to reply to the heartless comments from (clearly) Americans. I don't have an infinite amount of time nor the responsibility to teach any of you compassion or economic common sense.
We've gotta have a real solution to data archival by now. It's nuts that we don't have SSDs that will survive even 1 human lifetime reliably.

Blu-ray is the closest a consumer can get easily, and nobody seems to actually know how long they will last.

Did we make so much garbage data nobody cares about that we forgot to research ways to store anything for more than a few years?
Protective potential of Fc-mediated antibody functions against viral pathogens
It doesn't there are different outcomes. Twitter hid the anti-vax messaging and promoted the pro-vaccine and pro-masking messaging.

~1600 people under the age of 18 have died of covid since it began ~3 years ago.
Since it began though its a very different virus, Omicron is far less deadly.
Kids that are constantly masked will have long term social and learning issues.
I think we have reached the point in the pandemic where the harm from constant masking out weighs the benefits. The vast majority of people agree with that. Even the 80+ year old president is rarely masked these days. I'm not telling you what to do, I'm just saying from a risk / reward perspective, masking kids likely does not deliver unless those children are ill to begin with.

Regarding vaccination, I agree social media led to many people that should have been vaccinated (overweight, lung conditions, etc.) not getting vaccinated and they died where they likely did not have to. I knew 2 of them. I'm not an anti-vaxxer and was vaccinated and received a booster shot. I am not getting anymore of them as I had covid and it was not a big deal so I know longer think the risk is worth the reward. My kids are not vaccinated and unless there is a major mutation in the virus will not be. They have all had covid without issue.
Why would they waste 4+2 years of F1 status?
> someone accidentally stomping on both pedals when they meant to hit the brake

This happens to me (sometimes) in parking lots where pedestrians walk between cars. Mine (2019 Mazda Miata) does not do this, instead I get an engine rev while standing half on brakes, half on accelerator, full on clutch. I end up feeling embarrassed as I tend to get glared at by the pedestrian (no, I did not intentionally rev it to scare you).
Reading your other comments, you've aggressively decided to dismiss the historical definition of the capitalist class because it doesn't suit your worldview. In that case there's essentially no conversation to be had because you're already operating from an alternative reality.
ed is not bad at all.

ed is a line editor, which makes it manageable.

This distinguishes it from TECO, which is a character editor.

I find command line character editors hard to use. It's very easy to lose your place, and the cognitive load is just too high for me.

Now, mind, I never used one in anger for any real length of time. But the learning curve was off putting enough to make me seek greener pastures instead.

Like ed.

I used ed for a bit. I was using it to type in the ed clone from the Software Tools book, trying to get it to work in Turbo Pascal on CP/M (with the hope that I could get and ed to work on CP/M, because CP/Ms ed is awful).

It was quite useable and manageable. I had some rough parts, which I can't recall, but it wasn't a horrific experience to be sure.
Inflation is how we pay for deficit spending. It isn't free money.
Zen is great, physics is great, you can get inspired across them, but mixing them is IMHO a misstep.
Being unemployed, I can't support this. Keeping an offer on hold blocks the company from making the offer to someone else who actively needs it. Maybe you meant something else, like a handshake agreement with a manager friend who works there that they'll try to make room for you if you ever want to join.