skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent 2 months working for a big insurance company via a big 4 consultancy and 3 other devs + me were literally sleeping with our heads on the conference room tabe they gave to us, 8 hours a day.

It scarred us forever.
I'm not a business person, but I always assumed "startup" meant that you take venture capital. That in turn means you now have a financial need to grow to a certain size for the investors to recoup.
Card payment does involve fees but they’re not as impactful on business as it may otherwise seem. As many others have mentioned places taking only cash, especially restaurants, do so generally for tax avoidance rather than less fees from the payment processor.

As someone who does live in Germany, things changed dramatically during Covid. So many more places accept cards now and I find myself needing to withdrawal cash a lot less frequently than I did pre-Covid. There are still a ton of places that don’t take cards but a lot converted to taking cards, and some even switched to card only after seeing the lower cost of having cash (less risk of break in, less to move around, etc.)
The Haber-Bosch reaction is exothermic, but requires elevated temperatures, so I suspect that there are significant economies of scale when scaling up the reaction vessel size due to reduced surface area to volume ratio.
In New Zealand you will find slot machines in many pubs and hotels, they are very accessible to the public. They are also operated by charitable foundations and claim they do a net good by donating the profits to the community.

I despise the model just like lotteries, it's a regressive tax and the lions share of profit comes from those with addictions.
> Also: Almost everyone using GPUs for work will join NVIDIA's Inception program and get rebates... So why look at retail prices?

Out of curiosity, does that also apply for consumer grade GPUs?
I mostly posited it as a joke for winking at the fictitious studies, but yah the comparative cost to alternatives may be not too shabby after all. "Compared to what" is often a question left as an afterthought. I try to think of alternatives right off the bat. But once you start diluting a story against reasonable alternatives and see where a decision landed in the valley of options the story loses some of its outrage edge.
I just gave some thought to why it bothers me and I actually think some of it might be because they trigger a kind of "oh shit a 'search bar' add-on, kill it with fire!" reflex from the bad ol' days of most computers being full of malware and spyware (now the OS and most programs are spyware, so... progress?).

Of course the big ones are simply obnoxious wastes of space, and any that have a drop shadow on the content bother me for what seem like obvious reasons, but even the small ones bug me and I think that might be why.

[EDIT] That's just for the static ones—the ones that pop in and out based on scroll behavior are one of the worst design trends in the entire history of the Web, which is saying something, and are in an angry-making category all their own.
The new layout style, most notably the centrered text blocks, has already been the default on a few other language versions of Wikipedia most notably fr.wikipedia.org.
This is really naive about how much of effective programming is about knowing the frameworks, libraries, corner cases, idiom, etc of each language.

Sure, you can write-in-C in all languages, as the saying goes. But to be a professional, and to paid as a professional, requires a lot more.
What I'm trying to get at is why you think those things are so bad that it warrants never issuing general advice, and why the downsides outweigh any potential benefit.

All I can do is guess at the reasons why.

For example, inapplicable advice might lead to collateral damage like someone blaming themselves for not exercising when they are wheelchair bound. This all assumes that anyone who hears the advice can't decide if it is applicable to them or not.

Less charitably, I wonder if you are reacting negatively to the idea that people should feel responsible for their own behavior, and this is the Crux of our difference.
Taking this with a pinch of salt given the nature of our current situation vs. 2008.

> Technology progresses more or less independently of the stock market.

Progress could be defined in many ways, but sure as hell there is less money in the tech sector, and funding is very difficult right now as far as I understand.

I do agree with the sentiment that the market shouldn't affect your timing if it can be avoided, but I wouldn't expect it to be very easy to start something capital intensive with a long road to profit right now...
> small businesses can have the same scaling potential as startups

Usually not. Most small businesses have geographic limits to their scaling potential. That said, yes, there are niches where small businesses will beat a start-up competitor, at least in the short run.
Working from a Narrowboat – Internet Connectivity
I'm mostly joking, but it's closer to 90%

https://www.americancasinoguidebook.com/slot-machine-payback...
IPM is integrated pest management, or an approach to pest management that generally avoids chemical pesticides, often taking a life-cycle approach to trying to deal with problematic insects, slugs, snails, etc. For me, this means mostly trying to manage three issues: aphids, powdery mildew, and tropical fruit flies.

I have around 1000m2 of planted area in a mix of vegetable crops and tree crops. 5000kg of cattle manure works out to around ~220kg/ha/yr of N, which is comparable with fertility rates for nitrogen intense crops like corn. Consider how deep a layer of compost would be spread that thin. Thats about 5kg/m2 over a couple of years, say some rounding for easy math, about 1.7kg of cattle manure/ m2/ yr. Maybe 2-4 good shovels of compost or 0.5-1.5 good cow shits per meter sq/year. Its really not that much. I also live in the subtropics and can crop more or less continuously. Its a ton of work, but I hope to have enough production to feed my family, and to run a small stand at a farmers market this summer.

My day job is the satellite remote sensing of forests and forested ecosystems. I use various different remote sensing platforms like landsat, sentinel, GEDI, and others, to consider questions around the carbon cycle, and biogeochemical processes in general. If you think you know me, the fact I'm particularly interested the impacts of disturbance of long term forest growth rates and carbon cycling would be an immediate tell as to my identity.
> I was thinking about something similar, but less cringy.

Well, if you are worried about it being cringy, you probably shouldn't watch the 2022 Salesforce Dreamforce (their annual convention). It's cultish and shows the unbelievably arrogant confidence they have in their own importance - along with the most inexplicably childish moments for a professional conference I've ever seen. (Let's put foam rabbit ears on our "co-CEOs" to entertain the "trailblazers" as we gather around a fake wooden stage imitating the outdoors with faux trees, won't that be funny?)
Not all publicity is good publicity, especially considering most people seeing this will already know about GitHub, and will just make it look worse in their eyes.
Wikipedia is really becoming awesome, and for me is really a Wonder of the modern world.

Combined with tools like ChatGPT (or improved variants) for high quality translation of any article in any language, or combining submissions in several languages, or to get summaries or interactive explanations on some subject, this will become the most powerful tool of knowledge in history.
NO-Explode & Rip Fuel.

Not provided by the service, though.
<No doubt I will have many demons in hell awaiting me...>
Oh, you will sir! You and that rotten Rich Hickey fellow! ;)

So you wrote an assembler to replace NASM. Is it in the source? Why replace NASM? Thanks!
Anyone have a quick review?
Interesting. 'Latest' seems to be available again as of this afternoon. It disappeared about two weeks ago, and wasn't there this morning, but is now.
> Not sure if the metrics being sent is the biggest problem unless you're super paranoid about intellectual property theft.

Exactly, there seems to be a high level of paranoia with some developers about any software that "phones home".

I can see possible fears stuff being sent in crash reports if you are working on highly sensitive software or really worried about IP theft, but other than that I don't think telemetry in products like VS Code is sending the contents of your hard drive to Microsoft. They use that limited information to improve the tooling, which benefits everyone.

Maybe I'm just getting old and tired, but I leave it on and am not overly concerned with it. I used to be a lot more critical of things like this, but everything is so interconnected these days it's not worth the battle. Besides, I'm sure every megacorporation already knows my entire life story by this point with all the really invasive tracking that goes on on the web and on my phone.
I don't think this is a very thorough discussion, but it does raise some points that people interested in nuclear tech might not be aware of.

There's a somewhat more detailed discussion in this article, linked from the above article:

https://cleantechnica.com/2021/05/03/small-modular-nuclear-r...
> a dating life manager that breathes down your neck when you haven't taken at least 10 girls out this month?

I never realized that my dream job would be so people-oriented. Drop me a line if you're hiring...
I understand what you mean & I 100% stand behind the idea of better-paying jobs for locals, in a way that makes affordable labor available to customers.

It's not a zero-sum game - you don't have to treat people like trash to get any value out of their labor.
Will help me in my plate spinning process ;)
Lol yes left wing discourse is just so broad and complex it can’t possibly be generalized when references.
macOS phones home when previewing local image files [video]
Why does this seem so dystopian?
I’m trying to figure out why this rubs me wrong. It seems practical, and have well defined roles as guides seems to make sense. But some part of this feels like it just replaced the human aspect. Like it just replaced the team with the roles, and like it just demolished the idea that a generalist could exist.

I could never imagine a company getting off the ground with this kind of system.
Do they explicitly state this is the implementation for their Chinese customers as well?
- einops (probably by far the most useful Python dsl for me as of late, esp. if you deal a lot with tensors)

- numpy __array__ interface standardization (easy compatibility across a lot of numerical libraries, e.g. torch, awkward-array, zarr, jax.numpy, dask, xarray)

- the various jit compilers (e.g. numba, jax.jit, torch.compile)

- hw-accelerated functional programming style (e.g. functorch.vmap)

- pybind11 for easy af bindings to c++

- named dimensions for tensors

- pandas-compatible ecosystem (eg seaborn)

- pytrees

- pyenv

- mamba

What I really need, though, is a realtime successor to matplotlib with a much simpler interface/dsl. Haven't looked into plotly much but probably will try it soonish
Why you would use anything other than a HTML -> PDF rendering engine is beyond me.
Given what GPT can already do, whatever it is that comes next, us software developers will have to start doing it too.
Thank you! I first went back to vector legacy, but then I saw monobook which is the wikipedia of my memories and have swapped there, so now I'm happy.

Kudos to WM for keeping the option for that theme in MediaWiki. Now I have a reason to browse logged in all the time.
What I mean is that if you need to parse a format that has variable-sized structures, you can't just memcpy them into a struct because structs have a fixed size. Additionally sometimes you need to parse a value into a more tractable representation, for example those octal ASCII strings in the tar format, which requires some additional processing that isn't possible with loading/serializing a struct.
Perhaps, I would hope that a sustainable lifestyle business would be able to pay employees and founders enough to build a comfortable retirement nest egg through savings, investments, and compound interest.
Never had to mess with anything for multiplayer AoE (or any other so far). That was in the before times, remember transgaming?
Collective Intelligence Journal
I like to think of luck and skill as flow and force respectively.

Flow is being able to
recognize when and where opportunities arise and maneuvering yourself there in time-space. Force is the actual mechanistic application of effort to actualize some experience.

Generally speaking, if you have less of one you’ll need more of the other. But I think it’s valuable to consider force as roughly linear and flow as nonlinear. Because force is limited to how much you as a single individual can produce, and flow is the entirety of the world potentially on your side.
The Second Law of Interface Thermodynamics means that the software can't get more usable with time, nor can it even retain its previous level of usability.

Everything decays, especially software.
I think a large number of HN comments are low effort/totally wrong in a lot of areas (including some of mine). I haven’t noticed this being particularly the case for TikTok but I do notice it more for subjects I know more about.
The Developer Experience Gap (2020)
I think if done right, this falls out of Prolog automatically, as you program in relations, rather than functions. Depending on which places you leave empty in a query, Prolog will work to fill in the empty places. One is probably the tar file and one is the folder being added to a tar archive, but none of the 2 is any more important than the other.
This is reversible in the sense that every transaction is reversible in some form. Somebody stole your wallet? Chase them down in the parking lot and reverse the transaction.
I entered the job market in '08 and agree overall, but I will add a few caveats from my personal experience:

> If you get hired via a staffing agency, you could be cut at any time arbitrarily. I once got laid off 24 hours after signing a contract renewal. Keep as good an emergency fund as you can manage.

Assuming you are a useful employee, being a temp or a contractor can save you from being laid off because you are paid less, don't have the same benefits package, and are usually paid from a separate, more liquid general fund. If you believe in the power of personal anecdote, this saved my job once.

> Cold applications are just a numbers game. Managers get 1000 applications for 1 seat. Yes, tune your resume/letter for the job, but don't spend too much time on it.

I don't think this advice applies to everyone. If you apply for jobs that are a good match for your skills, or you are simply exceptional, your base success rate will be higher in the first place, and you will get more ROI from a tuned resume and a serious cover letter. Just be mindful of where you are putting your effort, and don't be afraid to change up your strategy if it's not working.
When the economy turns, people get scared and want to take less risks. This is an attempt to nudge you to maybe take some risks rather than spend a bit more time upskilling and/or searching for a role in an existing company.

It's not technically wrong or anything, it's just business. But people sometimes forget that because we do get good, honest, selfless advice on here and it's sometimes hard to differentiate.
PHP? You could argue Facebook but they mostly went and built their own thing that at best was inspiration of later PHP versions.

As far as I know currently the only real paid full time contributors are from the relatively newly formed PHP foundation.
> Google just doesn't do this with OSS projects.

So, android being an open source project, how does one turn off these nefarious repeated connectivity checks (phoning home)?

Or how does one modify `/etc/hosts` like we do on Linux?

Why do we have to go all the way to root the device or use a different OS to achieve these?

- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...
I think it was Zorn’s lemon.
True, but I wouldn't say "just as much." An ongoing financial relationship usually means that the purchaser can expect reasonable advance notice if a project is getting discontinued.

And in more sensitive agencies, if the government purchases software, they generally have the name and contact information of who they can arrest if the purchased item becomes or is found to be malware.
It should start to happen automatically. Apple, Google, and Microsoft have all stated the goal that they are hoping for deep inter-operation across all of a user's devices, regardless of ecosystem.

If you are truly paranoid that your major device accounts are subject to termination without recourse (which if that happens you generally have lots of other problems and should maybe cause you to rethink your other trust relationships with such vendors and which devices you are buying), you can build your own Passkeys with WebAuthn standards and roll your own recovery/backup strategy. (Most FIDO compatible WebAuthn keys already work today anywhere Passkeys are supported, Passkey is just the "brand name" for those standards plus a soon-to-be-standard Bluetooth LTE handshake plus Vendor-guided backup and recovery plus whatever cross-device ecosystem "interop" standards the Big 3 eventually settle on.)
A max line width is welcome from me, I'll be able to remove my tampermonkey script for wikipedia.

I'll still need to keep the generic one around that I use on demand to fix other unreadable pages though.
That "force" in the name implies that it is a tool for a group of persons working together on all those dates?
None of these things are difficult at all with html. Plus you have the benefit of having the document viewable in a web browser too. You use the exact same html layout for both with specific css (heights, widths mainly) for each.
Seeing the perf benchmarks for `vite build` with and without bun will be the ultimate practical test of bun for me, excited for the next release where we'll hopefully see that support.
>150% compatible with Windows apps

Math....
Worked for me in Safari on macOS if you have iCloud keychain activated.

Or more correctly: I got so far but stopped because I prefer to have my keychain locally :)
Working 40 hours a week at $2/hr is still $320 per month. That's nearly 3x Kenya's minimum wage.

Besides, the government doesn't guarantee every Kenyan $122 a month so the real heroes are those who actually pay that money out-of-pocket.
People have been shamed for using spreadsheets to track their dates, this is even worse.
The new Wikipedia appearance that took the whole village
Interesting write up on new Wikipedia look.
Lots of Wikipedia articles have become well-cited but that façade begins to break down as we dive into more niche topics. Editor wars are real and impossible to resolve most of the time due to how obsessive the involved parties are. Some of them are rather damaging to what narrative is being shaped on some of these articles. The power to control edit access rests in a small group of administrators/moderators who are relatively anonymous. This has served the site well so far but could be a weak point should something occur in the future that fundamentally challenges the integrity of Wikipedia.
Can someone chime in why this hasn't worked in the past?

It seems a personal/portable CRM could be highly useful.
The second aspect is the vertical aspect (professional or "personal")

One thing I keep hearing from people that have sold companies, exited etc. is that they are having a hard time operating within their networks without the CRM.
> combined with ChatGPT we could even make those automatic getting-back-in-touch messages indistinguishable from the manual ones

extending this bit further - we might as well reply with chatGPT. then it's chatGPT all the way down, who needs human interaction when we tick the boxes of "I called them" and "I replied"?.. :)
I've been to finland a few times, it's crazy to see people play slots at the front/back of the grocery story at 1 pm.
Because it's positioning itself as a faster, leaner, modern drop-in replacement for Node.
I think you're reading too much into it. Gitlab's "personas" just seem like a slightly cutesier version of the bog-standard "user story" technique[1]. They've also been around for about 30 years (from a search, I wasn't aware of this before)[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_story

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_(user_experience)
If it’s within 200 miles of land, there’s established protocol under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea[0] to demarcate maritime boundaries based on land borders. If the border went through the island there would need to be some sort of treaty negotiation to establish sovereignty.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on...
I use the Keepass2Android and it integrates with the OS fingerprint reader, so it's likely the same for faceunlock but I don't use that.
Outside of every base there is inevitably a row of pawn shops, tattoo parlors, asian "massage" joints, and one 24-hour pizza place.

Every base has a standing order to avoid all of those under penalty, except the pizza place, where it is discouraged mostly because it's not great pizza.

Diego Garcia, however, is an island in the middle of nowhere with nothing on it, so none of those exist.
Keep in mind this article is 15 years old. It could get a driver's permit in most US states.
> What size garden do you have? The recommended dosage of manure is 30-50T per hectare, so 3-5T per 1000m2, but this is for the most exigent vegetables.

Reading their other comments, they have about 1000m2 of garden. So using 5t over 3 years is 1/2 to 1/3 of the dosage you listed. They don't appear to be over using.
A fallacy that's common when conversations enter these waters is that one person can be a "representative" of any group of people.

I think the discussion is great, but don't think we've concluded therefore that $2/hr is a fine thing for Africans to be paid and all is well again, because one user has said a similar job helped them get out of poverty.

The key thing to remember about "SJWs" is that they want to improve the world for the folks who need it most. Sometimes it does involve changing patterns people fall into without realizing, and sometimes "SJWs" get it terribly wrong. Poor people aren't stupid, but they are often stuck in some way of thinking or behaving (as anyone in their situation would be), and it's not always productive or helpful to "just" give them what they ask for directly.

But to deride someone for wanting a better life for another person strikes me as needlessly cynical. Why put that out into the world, why justify the hate?
People are increasingly angry and disillusioned with how society is, or isn’t working. It’s not really a surprise there’s been an increase in such opinions and thus posts when one looks at the general state of things.
The free market so called allows foreign companies to undermine African countries native industries and set wage floors at the global minimum. A global minimum wage with a system of cooperation and technology transfer and nationalization of companies would massively benefit workers the world over.
These are product marketing personas describing general roles that exist in companies that they want to sell to. They aren't personas for who should be GitLab employees, they're a design and sales tool.
We are getting a little off topic, but… This isn’t what I was taught in school about MLK Jr. He was assassinated so obviously someone didn’t like him, but I always thought his movement was pretty instrumental on moving the needle and he was respected (if not liked) by white Americans. Googling around for a bit I could not seem to find reliable statistics on whether or not people supported him but it ranges anywhere from 45% to 70% of the population. Can you recommend a book on the topic or something? I’m actually curious now.