skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The list is sorted, just not alphabetically. No idea why the author presumes that lists can only be sorted in one way or not at all.
Pleasing 100,000 folks by inconveniencing 10,000,000.
I've heard it said that the truth behind the myth of German engineering and German efficiency[1] is that Germans are, rather, rule followers.

[1] Example of both: The new Berlin airport
Maybe "SAP Dirty Sanchez" would be a better name?
No it's like democracy - safe deposit boxes are the worst form of security for small things, except for all the others.

If you have land in the middle of nowhere you can bury shit in the ground. But that's not a realistic option for most people.
My circle is 91.0% perfect, can you beat that? HTTPS://neal.fun/perfect-circle/
It's off topic.
> Sometimes I even take vacations just to code on some work-related projects that I find super interesting

> what we do to at least think about interesting problems in their free time, then it's a bozo job

> Overall the whole hard distinction between work and non-work is overstated IMHO

Look, I continue to code and study in my free time, and I am still passionate about learning SoftEng and CompSci fundamentals, but the shit you're saying sounds super-sad and I definitely wouldn't want to work with someone who takes vacations to work on _work_ problems, either.

I'll take a seasoned and passionate engineer who has a family (even though I don't have one!) and has to work around that any time of day. In the vein of what GP was saying, bounds on limited resources like time can produce very effective work habits and conversely, seeing time as an unbounded resource (which is a phallacy anyway) sounds like the recipe to have a culture of sociopaths.
I think it's a bit fashionable here at HN to lambast enterprise software (and companies). I myself find a guilty pleasure in doing so. We like to call them incompetent.

But these companies do something right. If not software then in sales or marketing.
Are you sure you posted the right link? I didn't realise there was a toggle between household and business prices and the business gap isn't as large; but even then for me it says China 0.092 and US 0.136 of electricity, so power in the US is ~50% more expensive than them (and ~36% more expensive than India).

I don't see individual states.

> You really can’t think of another reason we won’t use our fossil fuels?

The price rockets upwards and people start using less of the stuff. There are a lot of possible explanations beyond that, but it is safe to assume the obvious one that is most likely.

I'm sure you already know about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox but I'll link to it anyway.
For some discussion, see https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3828
There's something almost hinted at in some comments here that I'd like to raise. Often times the localised name for something might differ, despite being effectively the same piece of information.

The a good example of this is the Google Places API[0] - if you just want to fetch the region of a place in a country, what you might actually be looking for could be one of several different things. Google abstracts this to a "region" that can be 4 different things: sublocality, locality, and administrative_area_level_1 (or 2).

So now on top of your URN you might either be missing extra specifity (e.g. this is a locality and not a province) or you need to find a way to add that somewhere.

A colloquial-vs-technical example as well is tel vs msisdn.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-...
It really depends on each person. Maybe it’s an ADHD symptom, maybe it’s just me, but I stop thinking about work as soon as I shut down my computer.

And it’s not about wether I like my work or not, it’s just that I have more important things to think about or that I just let my mind wander.
See also:

"Lidl’s €500 Million SAP Debacle"

https://www.henricodolfing.com/2020/05/case-study-lidl-sap-d...
Estimates are not commitments. More people need to understand and accept this.

You’re on the money about time and/or scope needing to be flexible. Estimates improve as you gather more information and complete parts of a project. Providing early feedback that relates to the original estimate is key!

“This is more complex because of X, and will likely add Y time. Do we want to proceed?”

Nothing worse than getting to the end of an original estimate and only then letting a project owner know it’s going to be twice as long.
Seemingly related PR https://github.com/hyperium/hyper/pull/3046
I am imagining I somehow have a hidden wire up my sleeve creating the radial tension for a perfect circle

Fishing line attached to a collar around my shoulder could could work

—

On a completely different note, in grade school I figured out you can tie fishing line to a pencil and wait for someone to try picking it up. Then give a little jerk so it moves 10 inches or so

People react wildly differently when they suddenly see behavior their mind cannot process! One math teacher walking around the back of class literally jumped up and a gave out a loud “Ieeeyaaa!” shout.

We can react to something much faster than we can think it through
I remember a similar link posted a while back.
"Go to college" usually implies registering with a college and becoming a student, which, to justify, is going to require way more work than you'll ever encounter in a job. Perhaps you meant to say: "Take a vacation and befriend college-aged people who like to have fun while on it"?
I also recommend "Feeding the machine" by Binker & Moses
I worked for a company that uses Syteline ERP and it was a similar horroshow.
Most folks commenting on this are probably not old enough to remember the controversy. But the original majority opinion was that YouTube would go bankrupt and die, having no potential to be profitable even after an acquisition. This in spite of having ridiculous growth and popularity.
Most of the crypto companies and AI companies thinking they are building something revolutionary
Note all the comms! https://xkcd.com/2699/
Which motherboard has a simultaneously a ps2 mouse and win11 capability? Would love to test this.
Qualcomm to Bring Satellite Connectivity to Android
Ooops The Last Pit Pony named Spike still lives at the Pit Pony Sanctuary in Pontypridd Wales UK. Last pit pony working was in Pantygasseg Colliery still working in October 1999, www.pitponies.co.uk
> The null hypothesis is always that mammals go where they can. Period.

That's not how null hypotheses work
Nice. Some of that reminded me of an album by The Algorithm https://www.last.fm/music/The+Algorithm/Brute+Force:+Source+...
The null hypothesis is that 2 variables are uncorrelated. You can't just call your hypothesis "the null hypothesis" to try to make it sound more likely.
I was searching for a goal retirement date, it fits perfectly.
Wasn't the problem with the Berlin airport that they didn't follow the rules, e.g. fire protection?
UK Guidance on ML in Healthcare
We knew good manufacturing practices would come to modelling someday...
Antarctic: Sea-ICE Concentration/Extent
Simple little thing I have started doing. Writing my home server's ip address to a text file on my Dropbox account. I also have a text file of whitelisted ips on Dropbox I check and add to the server's firewall if necessary. All made simple by rclone.
A little late to the party but heres mine: https://xnacly.me

Its a simple hugo generated static site with my own theme.
Ohhh Cloudflare. I have to wonder how many sites are left that are actually vulnerable to having their shadow file dumped. Even for the sites that have filesystem traversal vulns, how many of those would cough up something publicly accessible from the shadow file?
This can be a cultural thing but it needs to permeate down from the very top of engineering. Celebrate and promote cleanups. Track metrics you want to improve. Create burn down tickets that’ll help others to incrementally improve some system.

I’ve only seen this work in one company I’ve worked for and will carry those lessons with me.
I wonder if standing sideways helps too
I wouldn’t expect it to make things easier for employees to require them to have printed receipts for everything. That’s a roadblock in its own right.

I’ve not used Concur but I’ve never met anyone who hasn’t preferred moving on from antiquated paper processes for expenses. Faster to scan receipts on the go, easier to track, less risk of a lost receipt, bulk of expenses are incurred via a digital process anyway.
> I automated logging into my website’s admin area to edit a post. Now I type “edit” in the address bar. I must have used that shortcut a thousand times in 2022.

Cool !! Maybe one of the best illustration of a frequent task indeed!
Pit Pony Spike still lives at the Pit Pony Sanctuary, Pontypridd, Wales UK. www.pitponies.co.uk
Last working Pit Ponies I knew were at Pantygasseg Colliery still working in October 1999.
i wonder if its possible to run win32 apps on xbox?
And just think with how many companies use it, so many people wasting so much time every day.
My particular annoyance is Concur "punishes" you for having the temerity to disable tracking cookies (which is a legal requirement to be the default, and they're based in Germany so there's no excuse). Every time you select this option, which is every time I do an expense, it sits there for many minutes pretending to update my preferences.
I’ve lurked for years and have decided to start writing stuff down in public https://shaunlawrie.com/

Hand written HTML/css/js deployed via cloudflare pages
Smartphones and Social Media Promote a Schizophrenic-Like Condition
Disconnected from Reality: How Smartphones and Social Media Promote a Schizophrenic-Like Condition
We had a great time working with them https://www.homequote.io/kitchen , they had nice workers and quality materials to use, we didn't have to worry about anything because they took care of everything and considered all of our preferences, it was very convenient, so I suggest getting in touch with the professionals if you need advice on fixing bathrooms.
Concur = unmitigated trash
Because he doesn't want the negative connotation that comes with it.

Just like the debate about, "is it engineering"; by calling oneself as opposed to 'programmer', it conveys more prestige.

As a SWE, he sees himself in the driver seat of the company and doesn't want to be associated with being 'back-end', 'a cost-center', etc.
And the majority of doctors, nurses and lab technicians work in hospitals, yet they don't all have the same job.

IT the job is nowadays mostly understood to be about installing printers and setting up computers. Software Engineer/Developer/Programmer builds software. Sysadmins manage servers. SREs develop and operate production infrastructure. Nobody knows what DevOps is.

Outside of Germany and its neighbors, nobody thinks these four jobs are the same job.
Thanks for this response and "It Don't Mean a Thing” link.

> the second half of the first phrase is a bunch of repeated b-flats

Monk does a ton of voicings with those repeated notes. Of the ~16 repeats, he’s playing supporting chords with different roots, augmentation, diminishes for ~25-75% of them.

> He doesn't even retain the "correct" number of measures for that part.

His timing and “dragging” and dissonance can’t be easy on bandmates. But it makes Monk a top example of knowing it’s him 10 seconds into a record you’ve never heard before. And agreed at not looking too closely at what Monk was doing wrong or right — it interferes with enjoying it.
this so much. we have these stupid weekly meetings where this one guy just asks us a dozen question. and then we try our best to answer them on the spot with incomplete information. just post that shit in the chatroom and we'll answer with a thought out answer when we can.

standups are pointless status updates where no one listens to each other.

even doc reviews, which can be useful, often get fucked because the clever folks with things to say can't leave them as comments on the doc so the owner had time to review and think about them.

save meetings for things that require actual discussion, not questions or status updates
Joyride: Making VS Code Hackable like Emacs since 2022
The second link [1]. 8.61¢ per kWh, national average for industry. Lower in the energy states.

> price rockets upwards

Again, where is this happening? I’ve provided numerous data points refuting this faulty hypothesis, yet you keep circling back to it.

Across the West, fossil fuels are being shifted away from for environmental reasons. India and China burn coal. That’s why Indian and Chinese power prices are even in America’s ballpark. Surprisingly, we’re finding some of the new generation methods, e.g. wind but increasingly also solar, to be even cheaper than coal and oil.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/update/end-use.php
The list might be ordered, but it's not sorted, at least not by a criteria that would be obvious to me or the author.
Speaking of, when I think about it, it's amazing we've been keeping track days and years exactly for all this time (about 4000 years), with different calendar systems between civilizations. I guess astronomic event records (supernovae, comets, eclipses,...) serve as benchmarks so we can reconstruct relatively accurate timelines (the event you indirectly refer to has some uncertainty) from this cacophony.
You are not describing interest, you are describing obsession.

I love being a software engineer, still, my family is orders or magnitude more important than my employer’s codebase. I really don’t care about my code architecture issues at work when I play Legos with my son or when I ask my wife if she had a good day while cooking together.

And I say that while currently working for a good employer on interesting topics.
Extreme mode: the keyboard arrow keys

Definitely not going to work with the timer
Notice how this is an unmanaged misuse of power. The artist has no legal tools to defend against the actions of this moderator.

An internet court is needed for these cases, like courts in the real world, and supported by them. And an internet police, which makes sure the court rulings are obeyed. Also supported by real world police, if necessary.
> that happens to people as well, ie. they see some algorithm and down the road have to write something similar and end up reproducing the exact same thing.

And if such algorithm is copyrighted, that would be infringing! It doesn't matter if you copy on purpose or by chance.
My Dell optiplex 9020 all-in-one, a compatibility beast, has all the usb ports you can think of, hdmi, sd card, CD drive, VGA... And yes, support for PS2 keyboard and mouse.

It can run windows 11.

Got it in 2012 or so, still running strong with a memory upgrade from 4->12.

Best computer I've owned.

Easy to maintain, nice documentation about the hardware and solid as a rock.
Imagine if 80 million people immigrated to the US over the next decade or two, most of them from non-Christian cultures. I imagine this would lead to, at least, a major political crisis in US history - i.e. major rise of xenophobic far right, talks of secession or even civil war etc. AND, that is in a country that's very open to immigration, compared to Germany.
This would be true if they weren't employees of the same company who are wasting time on make-work nonsense when they could be doing something productive.
Yea, a friend of mine's younger brother suffered a stroke in college, and couldn't remember his laptop password. My understanding is that at least some of the important files were encrypted.
I think the confusion is "IT" the sector and IT the job. Yes, computers are information technology, but saying SWEs work in IT is kind of like saying a pharmacist "works in medicine". Being "in IT" typically means you set up office computers.
https://ryanmcdonough.co.uk

Started putting posts about legal tech recently.
This guy has figured out how to crowd source bad circle drawing! Genius!!
That isn't a fair comparison though; China will also have a big spread of prices between their provinces. And it would seem from the other link you posted that average Chinese business has much better access to electricity than the average US one. India too.
Distant communication is what establishes the setting in "Forest". At the very beginning, it is stated that the colony is 27 light years away - a frontier - and as the story progresses, there are hints that this is one of the reasons why the colonists can get away with brutalizing the local population, going far beyond the mandate that they have.

And then when they get the ansible midway through the story along with an inspection party that promptly reports their findings back to Earth, they start getting a steady stream of orders banning their various practices - slavery, violent reprisals etc. And when the local administration tries to implement some of those bans, the more hard-minded colonists deliberately provoke the natives into an open uprising by massacring their village. So it's a major plot driver, too.
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Nice site!

On your CV there’s a dash at the start of the first bullet point, might need removing
..and thx again for all your hard and dedicated work!

imho, you are one of the main reasons why HN keeps being a high quality tech forum (which is extremely rare these days on the Internet) - so thx dang!
Concur tip - you can upload a 1x1 png in place of the lost receipt. (For some reason the "I don't have a receipt" option still requires you to upload a receipt.)
https://qubyte.codes/

It’s built with my own static site generator (my favourite thing to tinker with). I author posts in my own flavour of markdown. Page templates are good ol’ handlebars. It’s built with indieweb ideals in mind with micropub and webmentions implemented using netlify build plugins and functions.
I'm running a few ESP32s and given their widespread usage I was surprised to notice that Espressif stock is very much near the lows of its 5 yr range, having lost over 2/3rds of its value from the peak. Is it just a function of market volatility? Do they have competition?
Earl Boen, known for The Terminator and Naked Gun 3, dies at 81
Anytime before 2010 I would have recommended to skip college. But there’s no advantage anymore to starting an engineering career early without a degree. We’ve reached a stage where programming has become a mainstream skill. The only reason to skip college is if you’re committed to become a serial entrepreneur then I’d say try hard join a late stage profitable startup or scale-up where you soak in knowledge of how that company became successful and is operated.
20 years later I still cringe a bit at the term "software engineer", but that's a different debate. Given how much work nowadays is about technology, calling 30% of the working population "IT guys" is perhaps not super specific anymore, so language evolved.

Nowadays, "IT" anywhere outside of Europe refers to basically an operational or support role. (I think Europe being the odd one out is an effect of most European business leaders still thinking computers are a fad that'll go away eventually.)
I have noticed that it makes up new API methods that don't exist on the fly if it fits the context. Another example, I mistakenly thought that a certain thing can be represented as a class instance, and I asked it to tell me how to get the class instance given the item id, and it came up with an API to do that, and then I asked further about operations on the instance and it came up with method names on a class that turned out to not exist. It's creative for sure.
Idk about Dell. I just bought my new laptop (Alienware) and the same specs (pretty high end) on a "serious business" laptop instead of a gaming one would have been 600 gbp more. And the premium warranty service keeps blowing me away (instant professional support with remote screen control and if needed technician at home the next working day to replace whatever). Honestly im converted.
> Wow you guys don't miss much do you?

That was super-euphemism for 'Wow you guys really don't have better things to do, do you' :D

Again, thank you for your great work, one can appreciate it even more in moments like these.
> but is hiring really done by a manager opening up raw emails?

I expect very often this is exactly how it's done though if you have HR the applications will probably be received by HR first.
I once met a guy who had a stack of 50 sim cards used for bot buying sneakers and playstations. Guy didn't work in tech but had learned javascript and selenium for scalping. You can also ship a lot of things to the same address by just altering it slightly like setting the unit/number to 1B or something when there is no 1B, the delivery people will get it to the right place but the unique check will think it's a different address.

He had apparently made enough money doing this to pull himself out of poverty and get a decent life going.
Doubt about clothing. Waaaay too many people still depend on them even in younger age brackets. I can see "mixed" stores (like clothing + interior design) fail though as space cost is much higher
> isn't a fair comparison though; China will also have a big spread of prices between their provinces

Then use the national figures. Still cheaper.

And China won’t, not for oil. Oil is cheap in Texas because it’s pumped in Texas. China’s closest analogs are Russian pipeline terminals and seaports. The former, in aggregate, is less than a third of Texas aline’s oil production. The latter vulnerable. (Chinese electricity is cheaper in its mining provinces.)

> seem from the other link you posted that average Chinese business has much better access to electricity than the average US one. India too.

America is ridiculously more electrified than either country, so “better access” is the wrong phrase. I think you mean cheaper?

Short answer, mostly no. New York City adds power tariffs because they don’t want power-intensive industry in the city. If you’re doing energy-intensive work, you go upstate, where the tariffs are intentionally cheaper.

Will a shop in San Francisco pay more for power than one in Delhi? Sure. But now the energy intensity comes back to bite, because that shop in San Francisco is doing a better job turning energy into production. That means the fraction of income going towards power is smaller.

In any case, those are policies voters chose to impose on themselves. They could any day choose to prioritise cheaper power over environmental concerns and pay what Wyoming does. We’re comparing retail prices, after all, not generation costs.
Isn't it interesting how OpenAI has neutered ChatGPT to be insanely politically correct on even non-controversial and mundane topics yet they won't put the proper mechanisms in place so that ChatGPT can at least be correct about its most basic claims.
The beauty of CGI and simple design