skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Remote work can lead to isolation. Depending on the company and team structure, software engineers may work in solitude (not including video calls) for long periods, leading to a lack of real social interactions.

Yep

> Rarely you're building something you love. More often than not, it's tedious work that needs to be done

You should switch jobs. The majority of my jobs were building something I love

> It's hard work. You're sitting behind your computer most of the day.

That's not hard. That's what I would do even if I didn't have a job.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33857694
They didn't, and it was like a 1 euro purchase.
how about we pass a law forcing people to state whether a piece of content has been generated by an AI without human supervision ?
That I haven't considered, given that at our work we had a bunch of XSD's and wanted to expand our integration point to accept JSON.

I don't see any big issues with doing it in reverse for a subset of JSON Schema.

What I haven't looked at is how large that subset would be. That is, if JSON Schema contains things that aren't possible to represent in XSD.

For example, JSON Schema allows for some extensive conditional sub-schema logic. I used the "oneOf" to represent a XSD choice element, however JSON Schema also allows for such things as "if..then..else", which as a self-taught non-expert on XSD's I'm not sure how would map to XSD on a Saturday morning.

Of course, there are things in XSD which can't be represented in JSON Schema either, I'm sure it's easy to come up with something that doesn't map. But from the typical XSD's I've seen and the ones we had in our company, the mapping could be done with just a single special-case.

Given the lack of tooling around JSON Schema, my workflow now is to create/update the XSD and regenerate the JSON Schema.
I just bought this, it's great, only issue is it sometimes is too bulky to fit into some sockets.
Here's an example of that I did which is either funny or insulting:

My question: Why did Buddha bring the dharma from the West?

Answer:

> The story of the Buddha bringing the dharma (or teachings) from the West is a metaphor that is often used in Buddhist literature to describe the Buddha's enlightenment. In this metaphor, the "West" represents a state of ignorance and suffering, while the "East" represents a state of enlightenment and understanding. According to the story, the Buddha was born and lived in the "West" before he became enlightened and brought the teachings of the dharma to the people of the world.

> This metaphor is meant to illustrate the idea that the Buddha's teachings are universal and applicable to all people, regardless of where they come from. It also suggests that the path to enlightenment is available to everyone, even those who are lost in ignorance and suffering.

> I hope this helps to clarify the meaning of this metaphor. Let me know if you have any other questions!

I get that I misquoted the koan (Bodhidharma, not Buddha) which was just my failing memory, not a subtle test, but it didn't correct me. More to the point, it completely misses the point of the koan and goes off on a tangent which I could just imagine coming out of some yahoo who's trying to sell Buddhism as a self-help book. It's not only wrong, it's wrong in precisely that kind of chirpy, condescending fashion which will, eventually, lead us to inventing a face for ChatGPT so we can bash it in with a few pounds of flax.

Anyway, here's actual Zen Buddhists talking about the koan:

https://www.treetopzencenter.org/bodhidharma-comes-from-the-...

Maybe this helps:

> In order to make a first stumbling approach to this koan you need to drop all concepts of meaning, zen, life, reality, and so forth. Once they are gone, then you can slowly move towards the koan. Then maybe you can make a stab at it. Knowing however that whatever you do—whatever stab you make will miss. So why stab? Why study? Why bother?

> I don’t know.
I use Borg (https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) with some Python and Bash scripts.

All my containers write to the same volume mount (e.g., /mnt/docker_share/$service_name), the scripts shutdown the LVM, run the backups from Borg, sync the files to rsync.net and turn the LVM back on when the backups finish.
Depends on country I guess. The rules between Germany and Luxembourg are really different. Ideally so, accounting should have caught it. Again that depends on internal rules...
Engrave the address into the lens of a laser pointer, and embed the pointer into your hip.

Obviously.
On the other hand "I don't know" is a valid, and (should be) an acceptable answer.

'ritual use' is code for, I don't have a clue what practical use this thing could have.

This isn't about known v unknown, it's about being intellectually honest and admitting the unknown.
> One technique to protect against these attacks is browser fingerprinting. This method works by collecting data about a user's browser, which is then used to create a unique fingerprint for differentiating between genuine users and bots.

This seems like it can't work. 50% of users are browsing from an iPhone. Every iPhone of the same model has the same fingerprint except for time of day and language preference. So for every time zone there are literally hundreds of thousands of devices that will have the same fingerprint.
Memory_order_consume was added to the C/C++ memory model to support architectures like the Alpha, where indirecting through memory (which includes array indexing, etc.) need not create a true happens_before relationship. So you can have things like:

Assume: a = 1, p = &a, b = 0

Thr. 1 | Thr. 2
b = 1 |
memory_barrier | i = *p
p = &b |

The result can be i = 0

Even though b=1 happens "before" p=&b within Thread 1, it is seen as happening after it by Thread 2. To overcome this, Thread 2 needs a barrier between the load of p from memory and the indirect load that assigns to i. Practically no other architectures have that quirk, and it only happens on Alpha because of its two separate cache banks.

Unfortunately, it has turned out to be infeasible to give memory_order_consume a proper weak semantics setting it apart from memory_order_acquire, given e.g. how common it is for indirections to be altered by compiler optimizations. So Ordering::Consume does not, as of yet, exist in Rust.
I wonder if relying on cryptography instead of obfuscation would be a better solution to fight shoe-buying bots?

E.g. couldn't proof of work be used in order to complete the purchase process?

If it works for bitcoin on large scale it ought to work for a purchase form in small scale without all the distributed systems gotchas.

E.g. Nike could simply increase the difficulty whenever they see fit to tweak the amount of bots succesfully purchasing things.
Really interesting to hear your experiences. I guess it makes sense; why would ChatGPT be able to give detailed answers about the contents of books if it's only read summaries etc. posted on the internet

It sounds like an important next step is to work out how to get it to estimate how much it knows about a given topic, and be clear about that in its answers. I think that's a key difference between someone who's well read on various different topics and someone who's trying to bullshit you
There’s Expensify which is supposed to have a very good UX and does about $200M annual revenue. So at least that much people are willing to pay for a better expense claim tool.
> the ground floor is E (presumably for German Eingang = entrance)

That would be "Erdgeschoss", which exactly means "ground floor".
That's not true, I've worked at IMC and they extensively use Java for their production systems. The performance critical parts are a mix of hand crafted assembly, C, C++, FPGAs and a dozen other esoteric languages/techniques no ones ever heard of.
Which is neither here, nor there (also not sure what "my criterion" you refer to is).

Are you missing the context of incest in this thread, or are you just open to it?
I have a wife and a kid.

Do you spend 100% of the your non-working hours with them?

I manage to have a job, spend time with my wife, my kid, learn guitar, code & think on my free time, and I run 3 times a week.

I don't watch TV though ;}
What browser do you use? How do you create shortcuts which can be accessed by typing in the address bar?
Adobe's Content analysis could be using photos/videos to train AI w/o consent
Show HN: An AI Clone of Paul Graham
From my experience when a small company gets acquired it's often because people are no longer having the freedom they previously had.

The last company I worked at was acquired by a 100x larger company and "do whatever you want" turned into "fill out 3 different forms for each feature, plus meet with at least 3 senior people every week where you have to defend your design decisions to people unfamiliar with your domain and requirements. Also, you cannot hire new people locally, instead you need to use the offshore team from now on who have zero domain knowledge and are often only junior devs without experience".
Wouldn't a flat per diem payment make more sense then? That way you don't need the complex (and presumably pricey) expenses software, and you don't torture your employees with it when they could be doing something useful.
That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage.
Why via a wifi mesh of course: https://www.espressif.com/en/products/sdks/esp-wifi-mesh/ove...
Thank you! I once had the pleasure (ahem) to work with a "solution architect" who shared the opinion around enterprise software you mentioned. He was in charge of getting the MRP running, but he had no idea how MRP works, e.g. he set thought having one (!) use case without (!) lead times life represents a successful implementation... Almost a year later, I still try to clean that mess up...
IANAAIA: why can't they do Morse code?
Of course, if someone was clever enough to hack dang, they'd have a clever cover story prepared...
I think it's fine to have expenses software, but I'd love to have something modern and usable. I think the problem is that if you try and make that, all your customers secretly want a clunky ERP and need all the non-expenses features built.
Faster general parsing through context-free memoization (PLDI 2020)
ESP32-C3 is a RiscV chip with WiFi
Yeah, was worried about that but it worked out. It'll make the DSG fluid changes easier.
People keep bringing up Twitter as an example of a good PWA... But it is objectively horrendously bad.

If that's the best example of a PWA, give me a badly implemented native app any day of the week and five times on Sundays.
It really does feel like a lot of the points are the author's pet peeves.
In one point he complains about being added on LinkedIn, but on a previous one he says he expects applicants to find his direct email and send him a note. This makes me feel like he wants people to make the effort to appease him. That has little to do with their ability to do their job. As an applicant, I would see that as "ego" and a potential red flag on the management team.
East Turkestan is arguably even more remote, yet China manages.
I have a similar thing with people who think snow is white. Joseph Stalin also thought that, and he killed 50 million people!
That's really cool. I'd start with star topology first though, with just 4-5 devices. In my use case it's just gardening stuff.
Everybody but upper management uses ERP systems to literally keep the lights on. And some of those reports are to be published quarterly, you know, balance sheets and such...
Nit: Hydraulics do require a great deal of power, but often delivered over a short time or distance, meaning the total energy demand is low. Which is what NYC's concerned with.

EV's are great at delivering high power on demand, for short periods. A selling point of Tesla since the Roadster days was the astounding acceleration. Peak torque at a dead start is a key characteristic of electric motors.

What's far more challenging is range, a problem Tesla has addressed quite capably for passenger vehicles, though which remains largely unmet for cargo and heavy-transport equipment (including snow ploughs).

Interestingly, there was a period where a non-electrical power network was fairly frequently encountered at neighbourhood or city scale: hydraulic power networks. These often operated high-power loads, though typically for short periods or efforts as my first paragraph describes. Hydraulic accumulators lifted weights or water and provided on-demand power for moving lock gates, cargo hoists, and other typically industrial tasks. These were developed in the early 19th century and many remained operational well into the 20th, with the Wikipedia article below listing several operating into the 1970s.

Smaller such networks exist in dentist's offices, auto repair shops, and in many Amish workshops, based on compressed air, and utilising similar principles.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_power_network>

(I'm presuming LeifCarrotson knows much of this, others may not. I didn't myself until a few years ago.)
In firefox you can give a bookmark a keyword that you can then write in the address bar to open it. It can also be used for adding search engines.
Hi, RTK Query author here - from taking a skim at the code, you really went deep into our documentation. Looks good! :)

Many people here tell you "study", others tell you "don't".
Both is okay.
In Germany, you probably don't need it when going into IT, and in my last job we had many people coming from both perspectives and it was a great mix. What counts in most companies more than a degree is experience - and you probably will not get happy in a company where it is the other way round.
One pro for studying is that you can get the time to learn social skills among your peers - I can only say for myself that I really needed that more than anything else.
You could of course also do both: become a Werksstudent. In the end, it's all up to you ;)
If you are looking for a job now, my old colleagues at Mayflower are always looking for promising people (and you certainly match that description). They are great developers and amazing humans. They have offices in Munich, Würzburg and Berlin, so no matter if you want to stay where you are or get out into the world a bit (which I certainly would recommend), you could work with them. Take a look at https://mayflower.de/karriere/ and even if they don't have a job as Werksstudent out there right now, just apply anyways and see.
Oh, and tell them greetings from Lenz - that's me ;)
Only if they are self-sufficient with respect to the basics. It's hard to rebel when the other side can just cut off your food supply until you starve into compliance.
The Reinvention of Public Service Broadcasting in a Platform World
With Schools Ditching Merit for Diversity, Families of High Achievers Leaving
Depending on jurisdiction, taxes. So it is most likely not the company responsible for the "torturing"...
You’re right — Herbie Hancock played with all those guys then, still alive, and has made way different music since.
The Dangers of a Single Story – Pt2
I've made a simple script that scraps hikes from bergtour-online into notion
Hello, I live in Bavaria and I find the number of hikes nearby sometimes a bit overwhelming. Due to this I thought it would be nice to have a small script that could scrap all the possible hikes and display them in a simple table. So as a side challenge I've developed a very small script to scrapt the hikes around the south into a very simple notion page.

Happy hikes and new year :)
This is really impressive work. I’m the founder of posthog - James at you can guess it dot com. If you decide to get a dev job, and you think you’d learn a lot here, happy to chat!
People do realise that. That doesn't mean SAP has a good UI.
Ask HN: What daily/weekly chore would you like to automate?
I'm looking to build a hobby project to test out a new full-stack framework that I've come up with. Rather than building toy projects or Instagram clones, I would love to spend this time and energy on real problems that create some value.

What're some problems that you folks regularly face and wish there were a tool that did that for you?
I think it is a superiority complex. SAP, IBM, Oracle (and many small companies running for ages) are all making "shitty" products, yet, every year, their revenue is in billions.

On the other hand, we have "beautifully hand-crafted products with love" made in the best languages human can invent (your favorite language only HN crowd dicking around), and those companies are barely paying their developers and bills. But hey, their products are auto-scalable, kubernetes managed, disrupting the industry, powered with green, recycled energy, and vegan food with hand-picked ingredients...

I'll leave it to the astute reader to concur with the pattern here.
You might find this series of posts interesting.

https://acoup.blog/2019/05/28/new-acquisitions-not-how-it-wa...

The third part in particular talks about geography and logistics of governance in Westeros.
Not really. Here’s a study that measured hexane in various oil brands and didn’t find any problem. “The hexane residue was detected in thirty-six out of forty examined samples, ranged from lower than LOD to 42.6 µg/kg. However, in all of them hexane content were below the MRL of 1 mg/kg which set by the European Union.”

https://openaccesspub.org/ject/article/622
I am not sure why can't you use other features of the traffic that such website gets. Isn't there any better way of finding features that are great signals that a request is a bot?

We used to work on a project where the traffic was inserted into a graph like data structure and we connected the known bot traffic nodes and calculated the fraud score based on that. It worked very well.
> two links [0] that show on average the US has notably more expensive electricity than China

The median American pays more for everything than the median Chinese. Including power. For electricity, particularly for households, the difference is largely taxes.

The median kWh purchased in America, however, is bought for less than it is in China because power-hungry industry happens where it is cheap. This cost difference is partly because China underproduces energy by a third [1]. It’s partly because we make power more cheaply [2]. The first gives us security. The second economic advantage. (It’s also why ditching coal and oil is easier for America than it currently is for China.)

Also, fun fact: electricity is getting cheaper in America, and has been for at least forty years [3]. (Those are household figures. No ready source for industry, but same tale, you can deflate historic prices using the PPI.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_p...

[2] https://www.iea.org/reports/projected-costs-of-generating-el...

[3] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/electricity-...
Keystone University?

:-)))))

Why don't you check in with real univsersities in Ireland and see if they've ever heard of it. You'll get some laughs. Here's a list

https://www.iua.ie/ouruniversities/

This is not a university. It's a website on a par with Trump University.
Sounds indeed like degendering po-russki would be likely to follow, rather than lead, any underlying societal/political change.

I am somewhat surprised to see that, in the Old Country, "singular they" is becoming acceptable, well before the adoption (should it ever be) of an Equal Rights Amendment; back in the 1970s, I had expected these changes would proceed in the opposite order.

(compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment#Ratific... with Consitution of the RF, Art. 19:

1. All people shall be equal before the law and court.

2. The State shall guarantee the equality of rights and freedoms of man and citizen, regardless of sex, race, nationality, language, origin, property and official status, place of residence, religion, convictions, membership of public associations, and also of other circumstances. All forms of limitations of human rights on social, racial, national, linguistic or religious grounds shall be banned.

3. Man and woman shall enjoy equal rights and freedoms and have equal possibilities to exercise them.

NB. not that Единая Россия necessarily strongly upholds the principles of this article?)
Your browser's fingerprint is much more unique than you think: https://amiunique.org/
Can you expand in summary?
As a sysadmin i often get dealt the worst part of programs. I get thrown for the update stuff but never actually use the programs so i never get to say "well it's a pain tp update but a joy to use". When i was sysadmin in a small firm, updating SAP components was always the single most furstrating experience, and we ran Matlab.

As someone who has a degree in CS who had to go through "enterprise programming" courses, it's honestly appalling how SAP and Sage are. They're like the Teslas of programming, people who don't know better swear they're great but you can _see_ them coming apart at the seams, and you know that you could do better because you have, back in university.

add to that a healthy dose of anti-establisment and you get the hatred at SAP and Sage, bad products that are viable because they were first to market 30 years ago and now have the necessary connections to appear legit to unknowing decision makers. They have revenues in the billions because the sell the same software as 20 years ago at a premium but switching would be too expensive, so the clients stay.
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I have never met a sales person that enjoyed the salesforce user experience. As with many of these enterprise apps, they are to shine for the people who sign the check, corporate finance. Nice reports, lots of governance, horrendous UX for the sales force. "Who cares.. they always whinge, just tell them they have to use it."
Efficacy of cannabinoids to treat chronic pain and aid sleep
it's just amazing. I want one right now. it would be great to fix it to send BTC transactions
If you "shed light" are you not casting light or exposing to light the subject?

So in this context you would gaining new doubt.

I always assumed this came from shod as in a horse shod with shoes.
This has been a recurring theme in sci-fi going back decades. Le Guin's Hainish Cycle is mostly this kind of universe, for example, even though it has FTL comms (but not travel).

Of course, none of this matters if you do have FTL travel, which the "space empires" kind usually does.
Life insurance already has a different cost by age (mainly the age you first take out the policy)
Seems to me it's reflexive, eg, process shapes culture and culture shapes process, but you if you buy a company you can't per say change the culture. Not like a light switch anyway. But you can do that to processes.
Tableau is suffering the same fate.

https://www.geekwire.com/2023/tumultuous-times-at-tableau-sa...

“You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody…”

— Terry ‘Tableau’ Malloy
I don't have any use for them, but I am also a fan of the ESP32, mainly because it represents having the desktop computers of my 9th grade (similar somehow to PC1512) available on the palm of my hand, and with much better hardware.
It could be worse, and was once:

<https://99percentinvisible.org/article/cities-paved-dung-urb...>

Cleaning up after horses (including, often, the horses themselves) is a large part of why and how NYC's municipal waste system evolved to its present state.
Can G4 macs run OS 9?
Study: https://rapm.bmj.com/content/early/2022/12/04/rapm-2021-1034...

"Evaluating the impact of cannabinoids on sleep health and pain in patients with chronic neuropathic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials"
Hey, remember Napster? There was a chat facility so you could chat to people who were poking around in your shared files. Many many years ago - easily 20 years ago - I was downloading stuff off Napster and the person whose computer I was poking at popped up in chat and said "hey if you like that band, you'll probably like this band Big Sugar, try this track Let It Ride".

Maybe it was you.