skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The company also plans to “position Mr. Cook’s annual target compensation between the 80th and 90th percentiles relative to our primary peer group for future years,”

What is the peer group?
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Saying yes is the same poor argument as "the 2nd amendment was only intended for weapons from the 18th century" and "the 1st amendment doesn't include communication over telegraph, or radio waves." It would basically be "security from unwarranted search and seizure doesn't extend to cameras and the internet."
Does this open the door for a minecraft port of the java version?
not sure if this is helpful, but there's this classic that kinda fits just by the title alone ;) - Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug:

https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/03213...

It's geared towards web UX, but might be useful in your research
NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: Touch Panel
Prior events:

1a: Dungeons and Dragons’ new license tightens its grip on competition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34264777 - Jan 2023 (203 comments)

1b: Wizards of the Coast Trying to Retroactively Cancel OGL 1.0a: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34271687 - Jan 2023 (233 comments)

2: An Open Letter on the Open Gaming License, to Wizards of the Coast: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34314448 - Jan 2023 (356 comments)
Ask HN: Is it legal for an employer to post as you on Slack?
1: I was unceremoniously let go today. 2: I posted a farewell in Slack, and my coworkers replied sympathetically. 3: My laptop was remotely logged out. I also use slack from my phone, and 4: saw that someone posted as me saying "Thanks", a ghost post. Using my phone I 5: commented on the ghost post. Then 6: a few minutes later my slack login was invalidated. My question is: is it legal for someone to post on Slack as me?

Note: I'm in the US, working as a contractor (W-2 to the contractor, who I assume has something like a 1099 with the primary employer). The employer is in Madison, Wisconsin. I am in Florida. As for the contract, I think it's safe to assume it says "We can do anything we want, and you can do nothing."

Note: hire me. javajosh at the gmail.
I'd buy that book if it existed
I'm curious how the shutter was triggered and how many photos the camera could take. I assume that it used a timer?
Follow the Ping
Sue the other states for obstructing religious freedom. After all, Michigan permits animal sacrifices.
No state allows my preferred method of burial, which is to have my body and treasure entombed in a multi-level dungeon full of traps and monsters.
My 2 cents: monorepos try to solve what is actually a series of devops problems, by essentially abusing the way an organization or individual uses git (or VCS of your choice). These tools that were never designed for devops in the first place.

To elaborate: I think you are much better off, whether as a team or solo developer, developing small, isolated, and tested / reliable libraries and / or packages that can be combined as needed. Ideally, each package or library can build, test, and ship itself at the CI/CD level. Trying to encapsulate all that into one giant conglomerate of potentially different languages, file types, frameworks and much more sounds exactly what it is: a mess!
> Country-level generalizations about internet speeds are basically useless in 2023.

I'm not sure that's true. Nobody in Australia on a residential grade NBN connection (which most people are on, and those are aren't are being forced onto) has > 1gbps, and none of them have syncronous up.

This is absolutely run in lock step on a country level.

I'd imagine multiple countries are like this.
The latest version of .NET has official AOT support.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...
Monorepo vs. Polyrepo guidance thanks to many contributors: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/monorepo-vs-polyrepo
Definitely, async has its place and it’s for long term documentation. Most daily things in engineering do not fall into that bucket in my experience.
Why does Python use j instead of I for complex numbers?
Out of curiosity, I chose one cancer from the article: breast cancer. Deaths declined from a peak of 33 to 19.1 per 100k women, whereas smoking only seems to increase your risk modestly: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5698948/

> The HR (reference group was never smokers) was 1.14 (95% CI 1.03–1.25; P = 0.010) for ever smokers, 1.24 (95% CI 1.08–1.43; P = 0.002) for starting smoking at ages < 17 years, and 1.23 (1.07–1.41; P = 0.004) for starting smoking 1–4 years after menarche.

However smoking rates have gone down massively since the '50s:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/237908/smoking-rate-hits-new-lo...

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Trends-in-the-prevalence...

Also something that absolutely does seem to raise your risk of breast cancer is chest x-rays:

https://breast-cancer-research.biomedcentral.com/articles/10...

> Ever/never chest X-ray exposure increases BC risk 2-fold regardless of age at first exposure and, by up to 5-fold when carrying 3 or more rare variants in a DNA repair gene.

Digital x-rays have largely replaced film, and they can reduce radiation exposure by 80-90%.

So I'm not sure one way or the other.
I generally agree although the article is right about the integration mostly working for small API surfaces. Due to some big differences between the languages (e.g. no move constructors in Rust) doing Rust-C++ FFI is still painful, even with tools to help.
Let's not forget: JSON is also valid YAML

YAML, OpenSSL, and ASN.1 are what happen when every feature in the world is added.
The Objectively Objectionable Grammatical Pet Peeve
> These sound like things that can be done by someone who has resources when and where they need them.

> They do not sound like something that can be done consistently by someone without regular transportation or pay.

If someone has transportation to go to a fast food restaurant, they have transportation to go to a corner store and buy a can of beans. If they have money for one, they have money for the other. It's actually usually cheaper not to eat the junk food.

Reality is that most poor people eat junk food because it's less effort, and because the high amounts of salt, fat, and sugar that make it so unhealthy are nearly addictive and act as a comfort.
How could you possibly be getting paid minimum wage when you claim to be such a good negotiator? Union jobs almost always pay more than minimum wage. They pay more because collective negotiation works better at negotiation than you did at "winning" minimum wage.
Oh, no, I'm not dismissing terminology! (That's a whole separate topic, which is distinct from writing, though it can sometimes be a sign of bad writing.) I'm talking specifically about the actual writing. Iirc, there's a phrase that sums it up quite nicely: "most science is written like it hates you and wants you to stop reading immediately." Poor writing is so much the norm that people are shocked when you write a readable article. (You'd be surprised at the number of peer review comments I've received to the effect of, "the writing is surprisingly clear and direct," and I'm not like, a novelist, or essayist, or anything. English isn't even my first language! It's just not the norm to think about, and much less act on, these things.)
Varying output from a nuclear plant is mostly achieved by simply releasing the generated steam into the atmosphere instead of sending it through the turbine[1].

But operating a nuclear plant in this fashion pushes up the price per MWh considerably given their very high cap-ex and op-ex. And while fuel cost is negligible for nuclear, creating more nuclear waste per useful MWh generated is a further drag on costs.

So as a solution, it "works" if the nuclear plant does not have to compete in terms of price with other sources of electricity. But nuclear fails to compete on cost even if operated continuously - it's uncompetitive with cheap, quick to deploy, low op-ex, modern tech like CC gas turbines or renewables in most western electricity markets and can only survive with government subsidy[2].

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0703/ML070380209.pdf
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/04/19/biden-adm...
Monorepos are great! They're so good one place I worked at had dozens of them.
Probably disagree - Google has built a boat-load of infrastructure to enable a mono-repo which you don't have and (I don't think) aren't even available either OSS or commercial. Use modules/libraries as an alternative to separate repos. This may require a few more commits for distributed changes but that isn't hard and forces you to consider realities like, "what if A service is deployed before B service?" which happen whether or not you're using a mono-repo. Also use data-lakes for data or generated artifacts (something based on S3 or an S3-alike).
Depends on how long your standups are and how disciplined the team is. I try to keep standups under 5 minutes after which most people can get back to whatever they are doing.

The goal is to increase return on investment by reducing the investment while preserving most of the return.

It requires that people are able to show on time, though.
You're wildly overestimating how much it costs to buy a congressman.
Turns out he's Luke's father as well. Cope and seethe.
Ask HN: Have IRL tech meetups rebounded in your area?
My area used to have plentiful IRL tech meetups before 2019. You could find meetup groups for specific languages and technologies, or just communities of enthusiasts who were learning or hacking together.

These days, it's very hard to find events in my area that aren't online. And the online events are usually prerecorded videos and marketing pitches. Even extremely popular topics (like web development) have basically zero IRL presence within a 50-mile radius.

I'm not sure the community will rebound. If the office is dead, tech community is deader. I've started a group of my own, but it's also very slow to grow.

Have IRL meetups and communities in your area rebounded to 2019 levels yet?
Technically it is - it's just in beta. There has been a full rollout. Anyone who's purchased it can use it. And obviously needs work, but it's also not the death trap people like to make it out to be.
You referring to the disposal of human bodies as icky makes it clear that you aren’t familiar with the very real public health consequences that can arise from unhygienic disposal
Well yeah, kind of.

In the olden days we thought that massively complex instructions on chips with huge microcode would be just the thing. Simplify your code by calling a single machine code instruction that does a complete matrix manipulation, or solves a polynomial, kind of thing.

It turned out that making CPUs that worked that way was expensive and complicated, and if they didn't quite work you were stuck with it. Then, it further turned out that actually it was easier to be Good At Software than it was to be Good At Hardware. If you wrote a clever assembler, and a clever compiler, and some clever libraries, you still didn't need to care about solving horrible maths, you just called a function to do it.

And then, we came around to the idea that it was faster to use small simple instructions and cache a lot of them, and keep as many of the values we were juggling in registers so you didn't waste time with a memory cycle. So, CPUs got simpler instruction architectures and all that space previously used for selecting ever increasingly baroque instructions in the opcode could be used to select from an ever-growing number of registers.

Ultimately CPUs will be only able to do a lsl, mov, add, and xor, in a single conditional instruction, with 131072 64-bit registers to choose from, in a single clock cycle at 10GHz or so. People will still say "well yeah but do you really need that add?"
The report described a dramatic case wherein Apple reportedly had met with Masimo and was interested in a deal to incorporate their advanced technology associated with what became the PPG sensors on the backside of the Apple Watch. Yet once Apple met with Marcelo Lamego the Chief Technical Officer and Research Scientist of Cercacor and Michael O’Reilly, its Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, they poached the two employees in order to cut Masimo and Cercacor out of any deal and royalties.

https://www.patentlyapple.com/2020/09/apple-sued-a-second-ti...
That's technobabble - a pejorative term for a technical word salad that usually is an explanation, just not a very good one.
Every time I need to do a nested sub-select, a little part of me dies.
I'm not an expert but from what I understand, scientists observed the very distant galaxies which shouldn't be visible according to most popular model of the universe evolution. And if these observations will be confirmed then we might get more accurate model which totally differs of the most popular one the scientists agrees upon.

Far distant young galaxies should be seen as "red", but these aren't and that's the issue here - JWST captured these very bright. It's possible that the universe evolves in a different way and Hubble's law doesn't applies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%27s_law
Awesome resource!

Bookmarked / saved to PKM.

Aside from the pretty Excalidraw diagrams, clear prose, and IRL use cases, I'm grateful for eg this tiny gem:

"The mnemonics are "ssh -L local:remote" and "ssh -R remote:local" and it's always the left-hand side that opens a new port."
This sounds great, but in reality, this concept is also a curse.
Moving Bitcoin miners is much easier than building transmission lines - potentially discouraging funding for the infrastructure needed to move the energy where it is more useful.
I remember reading of BTC mining companies moving their infrastructure right next door to remote coal fired power plants, getting extremely cheap rates, which otherwise might have been completely decommissioned due to transmission costs.
Talking about the edge of the universe implies space is a thing. Physics works just fine if you imagine the x, y and z of particles describes an arbitrary set of coupled attributes on the particle itself. It is more likely that space is an emergent property of the entanglement between information, and in that case the idea of a boundary is nonsensical. Under that model, "spacetime" would behave like a foam - if one bit of it pulled far enough away from the rest it'd shoot off as a bubble.
Ask HN: Should archive links go in the submission header?
Many people now submit archive links of news stories, for reasons that don't need to be repeated here. Submitted as comments, they have 3 shortcomings:

- creating the appearance (on the new or main page) that a discussion has begun, when it hasn't

- the archive link isn't always the top comment so it can get lost among others, obviating its utility

- when it is a top comment, it's visually distracting

Proposal: HN recognizes links like archive.org, archive.today, archive.is, archive.ph etc. and adds them to the submission header alongside the title or 'menu line' immediately underneath.
SQL is getting a Property Graph Query extension that should finally match the ease of querying of typical graph DB. That said, RDBMS should cover the basic use case quite well unless you are doing very exotic things with network analytics and such.
"What is the Matrix?"
It has a bit of a penny-stock vibe. Just a feeling, I could be off base and I don't have any evidence, but I'd wait to get excited.
This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI
Impressive generated voices for TTS
Nobody cares what your code looks like. Nobody cares what your architecture
looks like.

… until it breaks. Nobody cared how the FAA NOTAM database was implemented either, until it went down. Part of being a professional engineer is thinking about these things, so your users won't have to.
> could see it happening in b2c just not your regular b2b saas

PlanGrid is B2B SaaS.
But using a nuclear power plant as a backup when there is no wind doesn't make any sense. If you build a nuclear power plant you might as well use it, costs the same either way. And if you use it, why building wind?
The next engineer working on the code will care about what it looks like.
Microsoft? Maybe Alphabet?
Solar is going up all over northern Europe and is profitable without government subsidies. Cloudy is just fine for today's solar panels. The technology improves on an almost yearly basis.
It's basically a Jewish deli which I'm happy to see is apparently open for dinner again. (Closed for dinner pre-COVID.) Yes, very good in Kendall in Cambridge though they also apparently have a couple of other locations now.
Wholesale energy prices are uniform, network service prices aren't.
> You cannot apply role-based access controls to certain parts of the repository for security/compliance reasons.

You can (at least for write access). Maybe he's talking about read access.
The Wire was made within the window I was talking about. From about 1995 to about 2005.

The rest is a list of mediocrity.

So, point not made.
I've found the watch to be within a percent or two of both store bought and hospital based "finger tip" meters.

You get the occasional outliers from a bad reading but in general that's how I've experienced, and I've had nurses and doctors say that they are "good enough".

And yeah in my experience, anything less than 90-93% in a hospital and they will have you on high flow oxygen pretty quick. So 85% as a single bad reading is fine, but a sustained 85% on a watch means you probably want to head to a medical facility.
No, they couldn't. Starbucks are not franchises. The corporations owns them, with some complicated exceptions around some Starbucks-branded grocery and bookstores. Starbucks didn't "sell" the business off. It just fired everyone and closed the doors.
This while A/B/C are just code words for the right pedigree. Say, Mr. X worked for a no-name company, got a degree from some state college. Such a person can't recruit candidates whose pedigree is Ivy league credentials, and top tier companies. You can see this often in terms of successful exits for many start ups: people with right pedigree (that is, right network) can bring more multiples for their startups, than others do.
> customers are not paying for, nor give a shit about, these things.

Yes, but they do give a shit if:

- your product is slow, so they assume it's crap and leave your site

- your product breaks, no one notices or fixes it

- your product is bad, because your wrote it in a safe boring technology like cobol and therefore couldn't access the best developers. (exaggeration, but variations on this are true)

My point isn't that you must use the newest shiniest tech and infra to do everything, my point is that when people write blog posts like this, they want to make it seem like there's a clear line between what's "cool shiny tech" and what's "hard nosed business focused shipping".

In reality, it's a lot fuzzier and these things feed back into each other. For example, you shipped bad code early on to get velocity, but it turned out to be foundational and hard to replace, so your best developers leave as your codebase becomes a ball of mud that it's become clear will never be fixed. So now your worst developers are working on a ball of mud and making it worse... etc etc.

As always, the answer is that this stuff is hard, and you can't make a technology decision by just considering things a user wants to buy and saying everything else is navel gazing and messing around.
Although I'm all for exploring different avenues of democratic decision making and liquid democracy is definitely something I'm interested in and so this article is really valuable information; for a while now I've been much more interested in forms of participation that require more from it's participants and not less.

I think for this reason I'm much more interested in the experiments done with citizens assemblies and minipublics. They seem to be much more better suited for combating misinformation as well as most of the perverse incentives of traditional politics, the latter being problems that wouldn't go away with delegation as I would imagine most people would end up delegating because it's so similar to our current form of participation which is representative voting.

To me, one of the biggest issues right now in politics is that politicians have pretty much stopped trying to build a country together as much just trying to keep things going in ways that don't affect them too much. As in, people from both parties have very similar interests: keep themselves in power. This doesn't seem to lead to good decisions being made, but when you have referendums that is top down direct democracy it seems to be, now a days, a process that can be very easily manipulated to spread misinformation. We can look at the Colombian referendum for peace, brexit and the recent Chilean referendum for a new constitution.

With this in mind, it seems to me like we need designs that are a bit more complex and I do think citizens assemblies fit the bill. I encourage anyone that's interested to take a look at Helene Landemore's Open Democracy.
If freedom of religion means people have the right to meet in close physical proximity for worship services during a pandemic then it should mean people have the right to send burning corpses down a river as a sacrament to Odin. The former is objectively a bigger threat to public safety than the latter, and I would argue the latter is better for the environment than modern Christian burial.
I wish Central and South America had Spain as a reference model on modern metro systems (have a look on Metro Bilbao in Biscay, the Basque Autonomous) Country instead of bitching against it. And, yes, OFC Spaniards have picaresca, too; but what happens across the pond it's crazy.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to make it about myself. I feel like I have learned almost nothing over those 6 years and see other devs on my team growing quickly. I was mostly looking for stories on what stopped people from growing as engineers and how they over come it.
Ask HN: What would you do if you woke up tomorrow and its 10 years back in time?
I like Iggy's for bagels. (Some) Whole Foods carry.
I'm not in junior high and a laptop is not a Trapper Keeper. No stickers.
> Keep in mind however, we're really talking about 50 different 'countries', when we're talking about laws like this so far.

You're not though. You know other countries also have states, provinces and territories, right? And these have their own laws? It's not an American only concept.
3 billion pounds (the estimated cost of the HVDC link) seems like it would install a LOT of local storage which would alleviate problems from both the transmission blockage and the bursty nature of wind power.

HVDC links are a good thing, but why is storage not the first step?
Good point. I've only had to run an iPad app on my mac once and it worked fine with normal input but I'm sure there are at least some people that depend on or could get good use out of better interop.
You avoided this question: What tactics do businesses use? Can you name any that you are against?
> Well first, I don't believe you.

No point in arguing what you believe.

> Wouldn't you rather have one that was... full sized?

Yes, I would. But having a numpad is absolutely better than not having a numpad.

> wouldn't you rather the keyboard be centered on the laptop, so you can actually use it on a lap?

I can use my laptop on my lap when the keyboard is not centered. Do you have a disability (there's nothing wrong with having one) which prevents you from doing so?

No, I wouldn't rather suffer the loss of a numpad just to have the keyboard centered. Having the keyboard centered does not improve my usability in any way whatsoever. Removing the touchpad would, however. Disabling the touchpad is the first thing I do; I use keyboard navigation around things instead. It's faster and far less clumsy.