skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have this at my workplace. Before it was "entitled to X days per year and can only have Y in the bank" which everyone was loath to waste, i.e. would take time off just to not lose it, and of course the company has all that untaken, unexpired vacation time on the books.

Now it is "flexible PTO" which in practice means, use the same days you would otherwise have used, minus the "take them just to not lose them" days. You still need to be responsible as far as work obligations go, i.e. the boss needs to say OK.

Works fine. On the minus side, I take fewer days off, on the plus side, if the weather is nice and I just want to go for an all-day outing in mid week, and work won't suffer, I just go, without considering the vacation numbers i.e. there's no incentive to save them until just before they expire. I'm not aware of anyone who has used this to take more vaction than they would have had under the old system.
How did you arrive at the number of over 2.6 Billion victims of revenge porn? 33% of people seems like an incredible number.
I've always called it a plain slice but I've heard regular/cheese/plain used interchangeably
Fair point, and an interesting distinction, I think. Diagramming from code vs. diagramming with code...
And re: Sharpies, a silver sharpie is great for writing on black external power supplies.
Thank you for providing a source. I went to the website. They themselves don't give any sources and they are a coding bootcamp with an incentive to talk up a shortage of developers for obvious reasons.

I went on the US Bureau of Labor statistics (BLS) and found this page(1). There is no mention of 1.4 million unfilled software jobs. To me this doesn't pass the smell test. There are currently 1.6 million developers according to the BLS. Can someone really say with a straight face there should be 2x that? If that were true there wouldn't be 4 rounds of leetcode and system design for every generic developer job.

1. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
> There are some devices that trip GFCIs

In Germany where I lived for the past decade I have never seen a non-faulty device trip a RCB. The ones that tripped it hat the full 230V on their metal case.
> corporations barely turning a profit...ton of stocks with high P/E or no earnings in the S&P

In the first 20 companies you compare to scams is Amazon, a company with $500 Billion dollars in sales last year [1].

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/revenu...
I read again the article, and indeed, you are right, and my comment is not appropriate
I love Python + Ninja! I was going to link to my article on Ninja + OSTree, but I found in your blog you've already seen it. :-)
Pretty much every element from lithium and up came from another star's death. The fusion reaction of a star goes from H -> He -> and on up the periodic table until the star implodes and/or goes supernova, creating gold and other heavier elements.

Most of the matter on our current planet has interstellar origins, including humans. We are all made of star dust!
For network communication (and other stuff), I like sequence diagrams:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_diagram

There's a standardized UML version of this, but I think it's easier to read when the arrows are sloped a little, like in this random example: https://www.graffletopia.com/stencils/1560
Thanks for the response and the suggestion, I’ll look into it.

If the issue with a port is CL, maybe you could look at doing AOT compilation to C or something like that. The switch is more than powerful enough even if the resulting code is slow.

Brief google brought up CLiCC.
It's open super late and when you're drunk after going to a nearby club at 2:30am it hits the spot like few other slices do
That's not how watermark works for ChatGPT. The watermark is the sequence of words. It has nothing to do with the string representation (e.g., invisible characters or whatever). Even if you modify the sequence of words slightly, the watermark is still recognizable. You would have to modify the sequence extensively, but then it would be like writing the thing on your own... so there would be no point on using ChatGPT.
One of my favorite coffee experiences was on an Amtrak. The cup of coffee was $2. It was served on a Pepsi branded paper tray thing. Carrying it up the narrow staircase was fun. I enjoyed every sip. It tasted like cream and sugar and the coffee my grandma used to make out of a metal tin.
I am in more or less in agreement, except for forms. Surely some validation could be considered business logic.
If military standards are anything to go by, it's roughly IQ 83 by law. Standard requirements are closer to 91, those this is a rough equivalence.

The military found that people with lower scores were not even up to correctly sweeping the floors consistently.

The actual test is not an IQ test but the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, which has rough equivalents to IQ scoring.
But a randomly generated 9 character password is still stronger.
There is a big over-confidence in pass phrases. As pointed out by other comments there is a predictible ordering to words in a passphrase. If you slip up like the parent commenter you end up with something that is actually weak.
Pass phrases need rules (like requiring a non-dicitionary word).
This may have been true in the past, when people tended to have lots of children. But with families having fewer children, it is probably less likely to be true in the future. Just as a personal example, I have 2 siblings and over 10 cousins. My daughter has 0 siblings and 1 cousin. Those numbers are going to go up by one or two but not much more than that as the window for kids is quickly closing. My family is solidly middle class, but it is entirely possible that that my daughters generation of the family ends up as "trust fund kids" simply due to the lack of dilution between siblings and cousins. Also, it helps that estate planning is significantly more accessible than it used to be.

Regardless, the OP was not necessarily talking about the generational wealthy, they quite literally said the "idle rich". And there will always be a fair number of those folks, regardless of whether it was multi-generational or not.
It's pre-emptively reserving certain prefixes. "is" is for any function that returns true/false (which then collides with "island", "israel", "isaac"). "str" for any string function (which then collides with "strong", "strepthroat", "strange").
Musician Jeff Beck dies suddenly of meningitis
All that fancy coffee prep still doesn't give you what a good diner coffee delivers though: a warm hug after a long night, or hanging with friends, or a big family breakfast, or talking with a potential soul mate after a first date... or countless other things I associate with drinking coffee in a diner
Legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck dies aged 78
I can’t believe I just spent 2 and a half hours glued to my phone in bed watching this, for absolutely no reason other than it was such an interesting intro (to a subject I’m already familiar with). Thanks for the recommendation, and thanks Andrej for making this!
Jeff Beck, Guitar Virtuoso and Blues-Rock Innovator, Dead at 78
By the way, you're certainly right that increased interest rates depress the NPV of capital expenditures as the cost of capital increases.

That means businesses planning to, say, open a new factory or expand into a new market, might choose to delay or cancel those plans, and that can certainly impact growth projections.

But the tech megacorps aren't typically growing that way anymore. And even in the case of a company like Meta, which is investing heavily in their "metaverse" vision, they're funding that with cash because they're money printing machines.
is there much truth to these patterns? I've never worked for FAANG so am unaware of their structures.
The most convincing answer to Fermi's paradox is that since the galaxy is not saturated with Bracewell - von Neumann self-replicating slow interstellar probes, no civilization has yet launched one, and thus there has not yet been a civilization in our galaxy capable of launching one.

The launch of a working BvN probe is basically a permanent phase change for a galaxy.
>A local marine museum's curator called it a "once-in-a-lifetime kind of find".

In the barrier islands of South Carolina they regularly dredge up sand from offshore to deposit on eroded beaches after storms, which leads to a relative abundance of Megalodon teeth.
Perhaps you're too ignorant to step out of emotions with politics and focus on the question. Sorry for thinking you might have common sense :)
Okay, but maybe lets not share that particular tip with the dude who works on radiation equipment?
I would agree with you, except for the fact that hiring was completely out of control during 2021-2022

Taking Amazon for example, look at this chart: https://www.statista.com/chart/7581/amazons-global-workforce...

Amazon's headcount literally doubled from 2019 to 2021. The recent layoffs barely move their headcount back at all.

While Amazon may be the most visible, this pattern was repeated across a lot of smaller companies. Even my employer was setting arbitrary goals to grow headcount by certain numbers last year and hired a lot of people with questionable qualifications in the process. Now they're laying people off and using it as an opportunity to cut their mistakes.

A lot of good people are getting laid off, but I have a feeling that many of these layoffs are an overdue correction from companies that were too afraid to let anyone go in the past few years. Now that the hiring market has changed to give employers the upper hand, it's only natural for them to start wanting to cut underperforming employees and focus on the people doing most of the work.
That's so great to hear, thank you!
One thing that is missing is the termcap/terminfo system. For funsies, you can try to run your session with TERM=dumb to get a retro experience :)
Both views come from the same place: the idea that the semantic scoping should match the visual scoping, rather than counting tabs for indentation but not counting visually indistinguishable spaces (make) or ignoring your indentation entirely in favour of what the braces said (perl).
"Pre-emptive Health Neutralization" was one of the names for the CIA's kill list eras (they always change the name for the kill list such that it compartmentalizes and rewrites the history of what is being said (narrative) - I believe that one was Reagan's name for it. I believe the kill-list name changes with each POTUS as stated by Annie Jacobson

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=joe+rogan+annie...
They're perfectly legitimate spots. F&F is superior to nearly any place in the city, L'Industrie is fine. The others are also fine. Yes they're touristy, but so what?

Outer-borough superiority is a myth. Most local outer-borough places are simply bad. This includes all the usual suspect neighborhoods: Belmont, Pelham Bay, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, most of Staten Island, etc. The good places are the exception in the outer boroughs, just as they are in Manhattan.

The link's list looks decent to me but it's not because of the geography.
Why do you think Swift and Rust are competing on the same grounds or for the same objective? Genuinely curious, i don't know much about Rust.
I disagree. Here in Prospect Heights the pizza is a solid notch below than Prince St or Bleecker St and I think it is worth making a pit stop to get a slice at those places. Restaurants like L’Industrie are worth a whole trip on their own to visit.
Something like: hmm these guys went from horseback riding to cell phones, internet and a mars helicopter in the time we took to travel to their star. Perhaps we should keep an eye on them.
i've got a better better theory! interstellar civilizations have never and will never exist.
Improvements for who? Certainly not for the DR.
I love these, the mechanical watch post is a favorite of mine. https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

It's the sort of interactive educational content that I always imagined computers and the internet would be amazing for, it just never panned out at a large scale.

Maybe not easy enough to create, maybe not profitable enough, who knows.
ngrok can do ssh reverse too (https://ngrok.com/docs/secure-tunnels/agentless). Do you plan to have some difference with ngrok in this area?

Also interesting to see people had issues with ngrok. Been using ngrok since its first release and it’s always good.
There was an article I think on HN a couple of days ago, wondering why Uber and Lyft still couldn't turn a profit after all these years, while cab companies are still around and thriving, and wondering where all the money went.

Isn't it possible that tech simply overpromised, and that a couple of guys here and there smoking, typing numbers in spreadsheets on old computers, yelling over the phone and writing things down on post-it notes are simply cheaper and just as "efficient" as an army of AWS EC2 instances spilling out logs on S3 under the supervision of highly-paid engineers and dev op guys?
The argument fails since the prosperity we want to share via UBI is in fact not like the air sucked up like in spaceballs. it is instead the result of generations of hard focused work, which has not been replicated under any system except the one where ownership is essential.
macOS: Fork of Breakaway that instantly mutes audio when the headphone jack is removed. I only use the headphone jack while charging wireless headphones because they fallback to regular wireless ones when unpowered.
For which country is this?

Only a handful of countries actually us 110/220

If it is North America, I think you mean 120 and 240

https://www.powerstream.com/cv.htm
It kind of makes the whole article irrelevant. Like a house of cards that is build on a foundation of Make, but when you get to the bottom there are no actual Makefiles there.
Here's the quick read:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90467411/shocking-study-finds-1-...

Here's the real study:
https://www.naag.org/attorney-general-journal/an-update-on-t...

Also, I don't think these numbers could be extrapolated to every country/region/culture on earth but they do seem to hold for european and english speaking markets.
If Oumaumau is in fact of extraterrestrial origin, it could be the only evidence of life outside of earth that will ever pass through our solar system. We'll never know.
I’m surprised he didn’t just say 80/20. Sales gets assigned regions/verticals/etc and you can’t have everyone on the /biggest/ clients. Obviously, you need to nurture and not ignore the others.

So what’s his actual point then?
Yes, you're right, in 1.3 it goes encrypted, while in <1.3 it goes in the clear.
Wow, that's a huge surprise.

I hadn't heard of Flexport before, but they seem to be focused on global shipping. The company I work for ships almost all of its products internationally, and we have seen a massive price hike over the last 2-3 years. Some of it necessary due to rising costs, but we know for a fact that larger-volume customers are still getting lower prices.
Additionally, the well-known carriers still offer incredibly poor service - most notably when it comes to tracking shipments and providing proper updates. This seems to be exactly the market Flexport wants to tackle.

If they can't even compete in the current overheated market, something must be going seriously wrong at their end.
While not an amphetamine, Ritalin is a stimulant that neurotypical might use and abuse exactly like amphetamine.

That said, GP is talking out of their arse and is perpetuating one of the biggest reasons I waited until I was 35 to get diagnosed: I too thought ADHD was bullshit until I was in a position at looking at my life, my difficulties and how other people were living, and it was pretty obvious I was missing something.

This ignorance surrounding ADHD is widespread, and people think we take amphetamines to write code 80 hours a week without taking a break.

I take amphetamines to have the energy to work 4 hours a day and pick the trash off the floor while not hating myself, so comments like that one feel quite ignorant, yet you can find them in every HN thread offering their misinformed 2 cents.
Microsoft is giving U.S. salaried employees unlimited vacation
The imaginary Ferris is real to his imaginary sister and parents, and in all the imaginary interactions with school administration.

If Cameron, too, isn't real, there is no movie: a dream requires a dreamer. The whole movie, i.e. Cameron and his dream is, of course, John Hughes's dream, and then the audience's.

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended—
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
After 20 years in this industry I firmly believe that the code reuse thing is way oversold in universities. It seems to be the reason for so much crappy over engineered monstrosities. YAGNI and KISS are far better things to aim for. Avoid duplicate code, but don't start out aiming for reusable code, when most of the time your requirements won't be especially clear.
This is pretty neat!

I went ahead and dropped in a string tokenizer that I've been working on, and it worked straight away! (link: https://www.val.town/embed/catapart.magnitTokenize)
I'm sure I'm doing it inefficiently, but it's pretty sweet that it just plain worked!

Thanks for building such an open platform! I know I can get some real value of utilities like this, so it's nice to know that there are folks out there willing to provide them! Hopefully any code I can add can be of use to someone!

edited to add: I also included a test of the tokenizer, if anyone was wanting to tokenize some strings with it: https://www.val.town/embed/catapart.testTokenizer
the location of the 1 room hut is open for location.
Ask HN: Which are the current pragmatic SPA tech stacks?
Hi there hacker news,

I was wondering what stacks you are using to create your single page apps right now?

Are react boilerplates still a thing?
Is everybody using Elm and pure css now?
What are your current preferred ways to get going writing a modern SPA without spending a day setting up libraries, packaging and live coding?
Obviously nobody thought to use a translation to a language like, I don't know, french, translate it again to maybe German and the translate it again to English?

I bet the translation destroys whatever watermark is introduced in the original message.
> Now that the hiring market has changed to give employers the upper hand, it's only natural for them to start wanting to cut underperforming employees and focus on the people doing most of the work.

That reeks of "I'm so sorry but with the tough financial times right now, we have to run a skeleton crew, so we won't be able to approve any of your PTO requests and we're expecting you to work long hours for the forseeable future"

Then later at the earnings meeting: "We made record profits this quarter! The CEO is getting a giant ass bonus!"
Do note that GNU make is still being developed. It even had breaking changes in the recent 4.4 release. Also GNU make 4.3 has at least one bug (e.g. on Ubuntu 22.04) where

tgt:
gcc hello

errors when you have a directory with the name gcc in your PATH. (This is a bug in gnulib, that’s fixed, but gnulib is a rolling release typically vendored by every project on an arbitrary commit, sigh)

Also system GNU make on Ubuntu 20.04 has a bug in —-output-sync. It doesn’t sync.

And finally GNU make on macOS is ancient by default. Like over a decade old. So what works on Linux may not always work on macOS.
You sound entitled tbh.
Oh I see, it was just worded kind of awkwardly. Thanks for clarifying.
It didn’t always have the lines. Especially post pandemic the calculus is different. Still a damn good slice worth trying at least once.
And god forbid you use anything with a brushed motor, which has sparks in its normal operation
That's great to hear! We're now working a lot on making CodeSandbox a great experience for development, and we're now at the point that we're doing all our development of CodeSandbox on CodeSandbox as well. It's a quite opinionated experience, because every branch will have a URL that you can share, but it works really well when working together with a team. More info on that is here: https://projects.codesandbox.io/
I hate texting. So much fiddling with the fingers for something I could say in 30 seconds face to face/over the phone.
If 'Oumuamua is a probe, it appears that it would be a fairly simple one. To a sufficiently advanced civilisation, it would probably be relatively low-cost. If an alien civilisation has a reasonable degree of curiosity, sending a cheap probe to examine another star system is likely worthwhile.
You are naive they just want to rehire positions at lower rates if you see in the article they are cutting 600 but are hiring for 350 to 400 people. It would immediately allow them to replace higher wages workers that have been with the company with entry level positions . Also it seems like an identification of long term trends and they figure they want to invest in automation.
The FAA Notam Outage Highlights an Essential System Everyone Hates
Finding a decent croissant is fairly easy in Paris, but if you've ever tasted an actually good croissant, buttery but not sickening, airy but not empty, crispy but not dry, you know how incredibly difficult to find those are.
me too. Trino for one would be a good start. Adding support for those data lakes is really hard though if you want good performance.
This does not make any sense. If you're going to release, release it with all. If you're going to change, change all!

With chatGPT, you are getting rid of so much bs writing so why keep the bs writing?
Not in my book!

https://twitter.com/varjag/status/1603857439136292865/photo/...
Just realised that i need to upload my public key for ngrok agentless to work. But for pinggy, it just works as soon as I paste the command. Cool!
Some makerspaces are still around, for example:

Austin, TX: https://asmbly.org/

Worcester, MA: https://technocopia.org/

Irvine, CA: https://urbanworkshop.net/

The problem is that none of them are what I would call "cheap" anymore.

> Activities classes for middle schoolers where they assemble kits, not original work.

Don't look down on this. Assembling an electronics kit is what got a LOT of us greybeards into electronics. Debugging something you put together is non-trivial.
But the whole point of the article is the cloud analogy.

If they didn't encrypt their cloud content but lost their password, it's recoverable, the same as from an unencrypted hard drive.

If they encrypt it, they're SOL.
It is very common for B2B business to have local sale people in-region, regardless of headquarters.
Computer Science is very broad so the answer will be different depending on what you'd like to focus on. Algorithms, data structures, systems, graphics, networking, more theoretical CS etc.

That said, for algorithms I could recommend CLRS, Dasgupta's Algorithms, Kleinberg's Algorithm Design.
For theoretical CS: Models Of Computation by J. Savage, Sipser's Introduction to the Theory of Computation.
For OS: Computer Systems A Programmer's Perspective by Bryant and O'Hallaron, Operating Systems - Three Easy Pieces by Arpaci-Dusseau.
Find a fast current, not a large body of water
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34344434
This. 1000x this.

Also, to add on to the reading comment - keep an eye out for old (40's->70's in particular) technical books and manuals on topics that interest you. I find they had a way of conveying information that was somewhat lost once video became commonplace.
I finally got a chance to try this, and I'm impressed. I love the interactive examples right on the site. I'm coming from Mermaid[0], which falls more under 'pure diagramming', where as this is...systems diagramming. Thanks for sharing it.

0: https://mermaid.js.org/intro/
The more assistance drivers get, the less attention they pay to the road, and the safer people perceive something to be, the more likely to take risks.
Enterprise rates are usually negotiated individually with each customer and therefore not published. Enterprise sales are a different world.