skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
anti-union is anti-libertarian imo. But I can't gatekeep libertarianism, it's just my personal opinion.

Pure unbridled free market will crush unions anyway, both the kinds formed by corporations (collusion) and those formed by employees (union). There is no need to legislate such action as market forces influence actors towards the more economical choice.
The Santa Cruz I grew up in, with vibrant cultures from hippies to punkers is gone. All the people that lived there have been forced to move due to lack of affordability, and the people and local culture has been replaced with immigrants. While there is a town, culturally, it is not the town I grew up. If you asked us in the 80/early 90s if we wanted that, we would have said no, we would like to be able to live the life we created, have the neighbors we have known our whole lives, etc instead of being California refugees spread across Oregon/Washington/Idaho/Nevada/Hawaii. It's not really bogus to those peoples whose entire way of life is being displaced, and shouldn't they have a say and some sort of agency over their local culture?
I don’t think there’s a reputable link between red dye #40, BPA, preservatives, emulsifiers(?!) and ADHD, anxiety, and depression.

Further, are you claiming meat, tobacco, and alcohol are products of the US pharmaceutical industry?
There's no way. Most of the value of housing in expensive areas is the land itself, not the cost of the building.
I interviewed for a role there, got quick replies to my emails too. Didn't need to use any credits to do the challenge (but they mentioned that I could ask for it if I wanted to). The challenge itself was not easy, and I assume that was exactly what they were aiming for.
Besides the interview I've already talked with them and they were really friendly and eager to help (it was not a business talk, I'm doing some academic research and wanted to discuss some things regarding networks/infra-sec). I believe you just had the wrong idea, specially when you mention "some weird sales tactic".

Edit: in my experience, the code challenge made a lot of sense.
I believe you've hit the nail on the head, without the compliant restrictions in place, outlook loads fine in firefox on android.
Have you heard of Bangledesh, India, Phillipines and their relation to middle east construction practices project-managed by NL, UK pms?

I hope you understand, because of the implications.
The drug war proved that making it harder to get things doesn’t help.
"No" includes the litigation being dropped with no ruling.
A lot of it also, is just not that good.

And they keep pulling stuff down or putting stuff up. I don't need artificial scarcity, I want access, just as I want to listen to a song on Spotify when I really want to hear it without being told its no longer available with my subscription. I'm subscribing to the Disney library and most of the time half of it is unavailable.
That's always been an issue with shared universes. I remember trying to follow X-Men in the 90s. You couldn't just read X-men, you had to read Gambit, Wolverine, &c.
> I'm like 3 Star Wars series behind. Catching up at this point feels more like a chore than entertainment.

Here let me get you caught up. Blue laser sword is good, red laser sword is bad.
haha I love that HN is down voting this
Yeah. Since alcohol became legal nobody has died from it.
I'm not associated with this, but it looks cute: a free game about cooking for the Vietnamese Lunar New Year. Iphone, Android; Windows/ Mac / Linux; Steam & Itch.io
There's been a graph visualization in GitHub for a long time, they've just intentionally buried it. Currently: Insights tab > Network

Arguably they buried it because it isn't actually what people want when they are looking for commit information. I know I've confused many developers by showing them gitk. I've been slowly working on a hypothesis that "subway diagrams" of commits look fantastic (Git Kraken looks great in screenshots) but get in the way of actually getting work done, much less thinking about the git DAG as an important tool beyond just "visualizing branches". (At this point I keep threatening to build a --first-parent based drill-down UI, that would look ugly as all get out in screenshots but might be a joy to actually use, but so far no one has sent me the check to make good on that threat.)
Tens of millions without power in Pakistan as national grid fails
Nothing wrong with this being on the front page. Just posting this here as a question. Is the reason why this is on the front page because a good number of software engineers addicted? Maybe you don't have the numbers but you yourself who's reading this may be personally interested in a vaccine?
Svgedit – Powerful SVG-Editor for the Browser
Interesting, do you have a link? I'd like to read more.
Against the Cult of Originality: Emerson on the True Nature of Genius
For vscode, I like the `arrterian.nix-env-selector` extension.

Can IntelliJ be configured to simply use whatever JDK belongs to the `javac` in PATH? If so, it should suffice to simply start it in a `nix-shell`. If not, maybe setting `JAVA_HOME` in your `.envrc` could help?
A regular SSD will do. But if your notebook is old, it may only support SATA based SSD, which is not considered fast any more.
>But a package manager is a hundred-ton hammer when all you need is

Unfortunately, this is the state of much of software development today. It's why most webpages are enormous. It's why massive increases to speed, processing power, and communication bandwidth have resulted in no real net increase to web-browsing speed for the last 10 years.
This sounds like a pretty clear message from your subconscious...
I suppose the productivity improvement comes from not having to wait for those same lines from a colleague?
Yeah, especially since there's a Stripe Amazon partnership piece on the front page right now, and Amazon Pay's right there.
I like the Laundry Files approach - James Bond-esque action plus Dilbert-esque bureaucratic and IT disfunction. (Also monsters.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundry_Files
Enjoy it on a track, but not drunk on a crowded street.
"steam-actuated dials" - this article is trash. they are trying to say "steam gauges" but for some reason are up-complicating it and since they don't know the subject they made nonsense.
Totally!

My point is chatgpt isn't a high-moat advantage for text/q&a for microsoft. Their top competitors here have similarly huge UI footprint. In contrast, program synthesis has a much higher data moat.
That requires (mostly) homogeneous knowledge of everyone in the team though
Don't forget all the roofline complexity for "aesthetics". Or higher pitches because they look nice too.

It'd be interesting to see these stats broken out by trade, with an appropriate unit (/sqft might make sense for roofing, but it doesn't for wall sheathing).

I'd think a good chunk of this is due to safety expectations as well. It's a lot easier to walk around a roof if you aren't concerned with fall protection.
I built a TLS certificate tool targeted towards my company usecase for internal certificates (developers, OpenVPN, internal certificates): https://github.com/linsomniac/rgca

It's big features are that the cert generation can entirely be controlled from the command line, config, or environment, or any combination of the above, and it has tooling for the situation where I have an existing cert but want to add or remove a name from it. It also has pre/post scripts so I can have it do things like add it to the Ansible repo, vault encrypt it, and commit it. Beats the 10+ year old script that didn't work with Subject Alt Names.
Ideally there wouldn't be water lines in exterior walls. But not everything is ideal.
I could watch The Godfather, Goodfellas, Patton, The Shining, Barton Fink and Millers Crossing a million times without getting tired of them and if I’m just flipping channels will always stop to watch if one of them is on.

But I don’t think I’ve ever streamed any of them other than maybe to show a friend who hadn’t seen them.

Don’t know why that is, but it’s weirdly true.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicBiblical/ . I doubt I'll ever shop elsewhere for biblical info.
France is better known for high taxes than for low energy prices... Maybe there is a connection. No one, anywhere in the world, has ever fielded a nuke not massively propped up by public money.

Germany would today be in a much worse position if they had spent what they did on renewables on upgrading their ramshackle old nuke contraptions instead. France, notably, imported power through summer.
What are the advantages of this versus a PATA disk-on-module, a CompactFlash card, or an SD-to-PATA adapter?
> there was a crusade against Christian prayer

Bullshit. There was a backlash against forced Christian prayer, as there should be.

> teachers here-and-they’re wanting to assert their belief system in the classroom

Bullshit. Making a wide variety of books available to interested students is literally the opposite of asserting a specific belief system.

> activist parents

Bullshit. This is very clearly neo-fascist alt-right book-burners trying to bring about white Christian nationalism. Very clearly: they're not even trying to hide this fact. Any argument that does not acknowledge this is a bald-faced attempt to instate white Christian nationalism is not in good faith.

> the question becomes should we keep schools neutral or not?

Bullshit. This is a clear attempt to set the standard for "neutral" as "white Christian nationalist" and anything other than that as non-neutral.

> my intellectually curious atheist self

Green username, bad-faith argument filled with bullshit. Why do I get this feeling this statement is similar to "as a gay black man ..."
I don't understand how this detail changes anything: you still can't just build a competitor to Spotify and magically have all of its music.
Maybe we just have a very different threat model?

Snapchat style messages completely solves:

- someone you trust now later becomes untrustworthy and would use old messages against you

- messages are stored on your phone and can be found by someone else later

neither of these can happen if deleting messages is not an expected and normal part of the protocol

it does not solve the problem of sending messages to someone who already wants to hurt you (ie. the public internet)
Lead flux went away like 45 years ago. But sometimes galvanized pipe has some amount of lead in the zinc coating, and a mixed cooper/galvanized installation can accelerate corrosion.

Post-Flint, lead is the new asbestos. Because the standard is zero tolerance, there’s alot of noise on the topic.

PEX is great, but I’d personally always go for cooper if I could afford it. We tend to learn new things about plastic and risks over time.
Have you considered a Github buyout your exit strategy?
I mentioned this is a difference response but figured I'd answer here also, detect compliant device (or something very similar) if the device can't be determined to be using things like disk encryption, bio-metrics, an up to date OS, etc.. then access from that client is blocked. Firefox doesn't seem to provide all of the data (not sure which element isn't provided)
Why not just a fast SSD, without being volatile?
Spotify has always had "Song Radio".
If you're maintaining an app and a db, yeah, there may not be a ton of advantage. Your bespoke artisinal admin-ing directly by the teams writing the code is probably fine. And hopefully it will be somewhat understandable in 3 years when there's no one left from that era & folks have to go repair/extend/improve their inheritance.

If you are an org with multiple services & apps, with multiple teams, a container is a very compelling encapsulation, of a lot of aggregated build/deploy/manage complexity, with very little overhead, and some decently good isolation benefits.

Likewise if you just have a dozen boxes and are ok hand managing what resources are allocated to what systems, you might not need any orchestration. You can just do whatever.

But again, over time, you may come to want something that can handle a wider range of apps & services well. You may benefit from the autonomic behavior, rather than having to be as on call & juggling allocations yourself. As your teams grow, having RBAC may be smart or necessary. Having logical namespaces can be useful. Being able to plug in various container storage capabilities, for remote storage, might be a boon for some. There's a suite of potential nice to haves, that you might keep being able to replicate if you tried.

The view that it's all easy & all this stuff is unnecessary is alluring. It is a little extra comedic to see the viewpoint being raised from the house of Rails though. Rails was the original batteries included/omakase "the rails way" well built out path (and that still ended up pretty sprawling, especially widening out as the un-JS-ness diminished).

Kubernetes is & isnt as everything baked in- on the one hand, there's a sea of storage & networking plugins, and oodles of operators one can add to extend their cloud. But on the positive hand, there is one consistent way to manage & run everything, via api-server & letting control-loops kick in, there is a standard set of primitives, that manage standard, modular, interoperable containers. It's a way, and it's common, and while one can get fancy it mostly works fine out of the box with k3s for example & isnt ostentatious about it. It's a reasonable way to tackle complexity that is real & exists, for legitemate reasons, and having The Kubernetes Way is a huge leap over what we had before, which was next to mo consistency between shops for how to do anything, a mix & match of various small parts that were never designed to work together at all.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/technology/google-chatgpt...
> companies have to take a longer term view when hiring because they can't get rid of employees on a whim

that would make it harder to find a new job, right? tradeoffs to consider
Are undocumented workers factored into the number of employees? I would assume the are excluded from the # of workers in the calculation.
Because by being volatile, it could be faster.
This is the same people that ban the Bible or Dr Seuss. When the State Government bans gay-sex books meant to sexualize elementary school students, they act like it's Plato or Hemingway who are banned. Most people in this forum really need to take a good, sober look at what's really going on here.
> The kind where it's just a camera filming actors in a street or whatever,

Hopefully this image search [1] answers your question. The photographs in each of these was "simply taking a photo of a street, a common real-life thing". Yet, when you look at them, almost every single one of them is highly stylized. Whether it's simply by being B&W (yes that's not reality), having pronounced bokeh, strong silhouetting, or even vignetting, etc. They're all absolutely not what I'd call realism.

Realism is just boring. And artists don't find much appeal in producing it.

[1]
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=street+photography&t=osx&iar=image...
Where do you think GPT-3 was trained and currently runs? In Azure. It doesn't need TPUs.
Or just use a shading tool (which comes by default with most Maven/Gradle builds). It is not a barrier for any experienced java developer.
The most frustrating one for me is that saving an album doesn’t add the Artist to your artists list in your Library.
> think live action Zelda

Honestly an animated Zelda would be better. You could even do each season in a different art style as a callback to the games.
The Planck length and time don't have any special physical significance, they're just convenient, and coincidentally happen to be roughly the size where we know for sure QFT is insufficient. The "smallest meaningful unit of distance" stuff is nonsense.

> And would you get quantification of mass~energy from that of the impulse (through v having dimensions of space and time), or do you need to use a different approach and assume black holes ? (Or both, and pick the biggest value ?)

Neither, though the impulse thing is at least in the right neighborhood. (Black holes have absolutely nothing to do with this). You get quantized energy whenever the Hamiltonian of your system has a pure point spectrum. Typically this happens for finite dimensional systems, and infinite dimensional systems with potentials that grow rapidly with increasing distance. Generic infinite dimensional systems will usually have continuous spectra.
So when people say "10x developer go BRRRR", they are specifically referring to you?
Yes. It seems like they learned the wrong lesson from both Gmail as well as Facebook.

With Gmail, the invite-only rollout had the effect of making the service seem exclusive and valuable. I remember getting my invite from a friend and being “let into the club”. (I didn’t take it that seriously, but the feeling of being “in” was still kinda there). And as you note, email still works across providers, so no network effects were harmed.

Facebook also had early exclusivity, but it was entire cohort schools at once! If I was allowed to create a FB account, that meant all my classmates were also being admitted to the club.

G+ didn’t start with any natural cohorts, so being rolled out slowly just guaranteed that initial experiences were tumbleweeds and disappointment.
From the mouth of CEOs it's clear they're trying to wrestle back low wages and unpaid overtime using shame. Especially out of touch when they bad mouth their own subordinates and think it doesn't reflect poorly on themselves.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/16/marc-benioff-says-newer-sale...
iOS 16.3: Security Keys for Apple ID
> "In short, you can temporarily disrupt the Bitcoin network with enough money, but you will never be able to stop those that wish to continue maintaining an honest history. "

If your goal is to make regular people want to avoid using it all you need are sufficient temporary disruptions.
Ask HN: Engagement is lower, but people like the feature more
I have a feature that makes recommendations. I track two metrics, are people using the feature, and do people think the feature is useful? Interestingly, these two numbers are diverging after a recent update: people are using the recommendations less, but they say that it’s working better too.

Is there a name for this scenario where people like a feature more when they’re using it less?
Good point! The market isn't exactly trying to answer my parent's question. But it's reasonably close: the litigation is unlikely to be dropped if it would win.
The was a long series of articles posted on HN about a decade ago about how Blockbuster fell. TL;DR: Netflix didn't kill Blockbuster, Blockbuster killed itself with a revolving door of those in charge all trying the same simple, obvious and wrong solution to its problems.
ACH also never took off in the US because

A) You have to initiate a transfer at your bank, there's no way to use ACH independently as a consumer without a commerce setup or relying on a 3rd party (like Zelle).

B) There's no confirmation step. If someone has your Account Number and Routing Number and does have a commerce setup, they can debit your account at any time.
You might want to check out the Gödel–Gentzen negative translation[0], which is an interpretation of classical logic in intuitionistic logic, which can be (somewhat inaccurately) summarized as "if P is provable in classical logic, then not not P is provable in intuitionistic logic".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%E2%80%93Gentzen_neg...
I misread this as "bosses spend more time on social media than on their subordinates". I was ready to send this to my boss as a hint but alas.
...we probably wouldn't have D+ if it didn't come bundled with our Verizon bill.

This feels like it should be illegal. You're certainly paying for D+, and it's not as though Verizon competes in a free market.
Ask HN: Software Engineering Management Tools
There is a lot out there on various tech stacks. But a lot less about product stacks / software engineering management tools. Want to put together a list of tools to serve as a resource for company leaders that are less based on the technologies and more on best practices.

Application Monitoring (e.g. New Relic, Dynatrace)
Server Monitoring (e.g. Ops View)
Cloud Monitoring (e.g. Datadog)
Cost Management (e.g. Flexera)
Cloud Hosting (e.g. AWS/GCP/Azure)
API Monitoring
Test Automation (e.g. Applitools, Mabl)
UX Testing (e.g. UserTesting)
Release Testing (e.g. Applause)
Build Management (e.g. Jenkins)
Defect Management (e.g. JIRA)
Project Management (e.g. JIRA)
Requirements Management (e.g. JIRA)
Log Management (e.g. Splunk, ELK)
Road Mapping (e.g. Roadmonk)
Code Base Analytics (e.g. KeyPup)
Team Collaboration (e.g. Confluence)
Test Case Management (e.g. Zephyr)
Onboarding (e.g. Intercom)
ChatBots (drift)
Vulnerability Scanning (e.g. Veracode)
Static Code Analysis (e.g. SonarQube)
Data Integration (e.g. Talend)
Cloud Data Management (e.g. Informatica)
Customer Data Management (e.g. BlueConic)
Customer Success (e.g. Gainsight)
Notable SaaS Sales Software (e.g. Pipedrive / Xactly / Salesloft)
You also transform a good percentage of your high performers into low performers (until they leave and high perform somewhere else). I've seen it happen every time.
>Higher productivity people are probably not going to want to work at a charity.

Have you seen the things people create in minecraft entirely for free?
CRE guy here. A lot of this "productivity loss" is also due to government related staffing issues and bureaucracy. Most people are describing more complex building codes, so I'll add something new.

I had a project that was delayed by over a year during Covid because the city approved incorrect plans, came back and requested revisions, and then lost the physical plans (without us knowing until we checked in asking what the status was). This was almost a year delay and added cost overruns, etc. It also made the required rent higher to recoup those costs and try to be profitable (that deal will lose money). Remember, there's someone at the city working 9-5pm clocking in and out.. they are not impacted if the project is denied, delayed, etc... while the developer is incurring cost of capital of 7-10%.

Another example of bureaucracy: you have to go through a particular order of inspections when developing property. One of them includes elevator inspections. You have to have power before that, so that's another set of inspections.

IIRC, during Covid there were only something like half a dozen elevator inspections for the entire state of CA. The source below says there was 15 in 2019. If your elevator inspection is 2 months late... guess what, your project is going to be late.

https://laist.com/news/elevator-inspections-los-angeles

Remember the modular startup Katerra that gobbled money from Softbank? I knew a developer who did one of their projects. He said Katerra would deliver the units on time, but the city's permitting process was so broken that they couldn't actually install or inspect these units. So they would have to find lots to store the material (+costs & +issues). Katerra's "value-add" was the speed of delivery would cut costs down, but in reality this was hard to achieve "on-site".
The problem is not fentanyl prescriptions, it's fentanyl being slipped into other drugs. I imagine for a drug user this could be a life saver.
Huh? Refactor the class name in virtually any Java supporting IDE and the file name and invocations will be changed along with it.

The license term seems petty, and would be annoying, but the workaround is trivial.
I think it’s more about interest in the system, threat and the mitigation. The technical nature of biochemistry attracts many to this forum. Biohackers if you will.