skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adoption of newer OS versions on iOS occurs much quicker than Android. There is less benefit from supporting more than 2 or 3 ios versions back. Also, it is arguable whether an app customer that would rather have a flip phone is valuable enough to worry about retaining.
Worth mentioning: https://docs.nango.dev/nango-deploy/oss-limitations

To keep the setup of the Nango open source version simple we have made some choices that may not be ideal for production. Please take them into consideration before using it in production:

The database is bundled in the docker container with transient storage. This means that updating the Docker image causes configs/credentials loss. We recommend that you connect Nango to a production DB that lives outside the docker setup to mitigate this.

Credentials are not encrypted at rest and stored in plain text

No authentication by default

No SSL setup by default

The setup is not optimized for scaling

Updating the provider templates requires an update of the docker containers
Lots of food from the US it's banned in the European Union with a good reason.
Thanks for the perspective. Audio in Linux can definitely be _ahem_ somewhat flaky.
Even then it’s getting worse. Google is indexing “top posts” sidebars as well as the subreddit postured for a given timeframe. It’s polluting results worse by the day.
Lectins, specifically gluten, are strongly associated with IBS. Many people have found relief from IBS by reducing or eliminating lectins in their diet, especially gluten. It is worth pointing out that wheat is an extremely common ingredient nowadays, but most of the wheat we grow and eat is no longer the traditional emmer or einkorn but a dwarf hybrid that among other differences produces extreme amounts of gluten.
I wait for a google toilet since years!
An ouroboros of BS!
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I wonder how Gitea will hold up to all the traffic? Even Gitea hosts their stuff on Github.
100% agree. One of the biggest assets we had at <driver and rider marketplace app> was the data we collected. We built models on it that would determine how markets were run and whether drivers and passengers were safe. These were key features that enabled us to bring a quality service to customers (over ye ol' taxi). The same applied to the autonomous cars, bikes, and scooters. We used data to improve placement of vehicles to help us anticipate and meet demand. It was insane how much data used to build these models.

To say big data is dead sounds to me like someone desperate for eyeballs.

I do think there is a huge opportunity for DuckDB - running analytics on 'not quite big data' is a market that has always existed and is arguably growing. I've seen way too many people trying to use Postgres for analyzing 10 Billion row tables and people booting up an EMR cluster to hit the same 10 Billion rows. There is a huge sweet spot for DuckDB here were you can grab a slice of the data you are interested in, take it home and slice and dice it as you please on your local computer. I did this just this weekend on DuckDB _and_ ClickHouse!

Disclaimer: I work at a company that is entirely based on ClickHouse.
Meta's has a corporate value for "Focus on long-term impact" which is trying to counter short-term gains that don't produce over time. They also talk about how you can make a "big impact" as an IC there, which from what I know is true since you can work on big projects, but they aren't necessarily the projects you'd want to work on if you have some form of value system that includes empathy.

Years ago, I met someone that boasted about doing auto-play for videos in your feed so that get sucked into related video after related video. He was particularly proud of implementing a feature (he worked it out with the PM) where you could only delete one video at a time from your history instead of in batch. The goal was to make it harder to purge your data and frustrate the customer so they give up. Ultimately they wanted more data on you so that they could further "optimize" the app to better suit/manipulate you. Pretty sure this is what they mean by their company core value of "focus on long-term impact."
My understanding is that dry cold air doesn't feel as cold either...

I learned from a swimming teacher "water transmits heat/cold 10 times faster than air", therefore a logical conclusion is that dry air is insulating more than moist air.

Heat and cold transfer in air happens, just take your shirt off, you feel the temperature change immediately. Go to a very, very cold climate with dry air, if there is no wind, it truly doesn't affect you that badly. Same with Arizona in the summer ("it's a dry heat" is a state motto, IIRC)
I guess the article title is a "bold statement" but maybe the biggest insight in there is that people don't think hard enough about throwing old data away, and it hurts them. This is a liferaft for drowning in data and is more "bold" organizationally, as it actually takes a certain kind of courage to realize you should just throw stuff away instead of succumb to the false comfort that "hey you never know when you might need it".

Weirdly there's a similar thing that can happen to codebases, specifically unit tests and test fixtures that outlive any of their original programmers, nobody understands what's actually being tested and before each release lose days/weeks hammering to "fix the test". The only solution is to throw it away, but good luck getting most teams to ever do that, because of the false comfort they get -- even though that fixture is now just testing itself and not protecting you from any actual bugs.

I mean how often does Netflix need to look a viewing habits from 2015? Summarize and throw it away.
My takeaway from what you said is that the employee-company relationship is inherently adversarial to a degree and to not forget that. In general, I wholeheartedly agree.

However,

> don’t pay any mind to burning bridges

not all bridges should be burned. If you mean the bridge between you and a company, yes, said bridges should not be treated as anything more than a rope bridge over a canyon. I would limit burning bridges between individuals because the relationships you create are more important than just about everything else you will do on the job. Unless I really hated my boss or supervisor, I would not be so quick to burn that level of bridges.
What? How do you even make that connection?
LOL/cry that it doesn't let you enter a current electric bill above $500, but does include Puerto Rico and Hawaii adresses.
Sorry you are right, I meant a consultant.

But it is a bad analogy, as you've implied. What I was trying to get across is managers should be specialised, they should be someone who might or might not have been a programmer, but is now specifically managing people, or projects.

Managers who code, do exist, as to engineers who manage. But its better at large companies to have specialists to manage projects and people. With support, training and performance management, you tend to get a better outcome.
"Internet Expedition"
> I think Edge's advantage is MS could build a load of corporately validated plugins and service in it for employees, making it the de facto corporate browser.

I think they're already trying to do this. If you open up Edge and it's signed into an MS365 account you get a bunch of content for your tenant.

It's also the reason I quit using Edge after being a fairly early adopter. Microsoft just can't stop adding stuff. What used to be a nice clean alternative to Chrome with the convenience of always being logged in to my MS account for sync has become a bloated piece of trash that can't even reliably share a tab to another device.

It's really the constant bombardment of notifications and distractions that are trying to get me to use features that don't belong in a browser that I hate.
If you’re using Qt or Gtk with a dynamic language (e.g. pygtk/pyqt incarnations), then implementing hyperscript would be a relatively trivial task.

def view():
return h("GtkButton",
title = "Hello”,
clicked = …
)

Then you get this hierarchy, compare to the old one, insert/remove/update controls and that’s it. Even issues like jumping focus on non-keyed elements will be the same.

Frameworks like React don’t do as much as you think they do wrt the paradigm itself. Most of work goes into pleasing performance quirks of both js and dom.
>These digital assitants are already rough around the edges with how they sometimes confidently provide inaccurate information.

its only going to get worse. because there will LLMs like chatgpt pumping out content for SEO content mills with no vetting for accuracy, then the next generation of LLMs are trained on them thus further corrupting the knowledge base they pull on to produce new content. its going to be a horrible feed back loop.
The thing is, the current Edge is just a re-badged Chromium --- I really miss the old version which was kinder to battery life, had a smaller memory footprint, and integrated an e-reader for ePub files.
At the same time, thousands of companies, where hundreds of thousands software engineers writing the damn code, going into oblivion, generating billions of dollars losses for their investors.

Writing the damn code is not a big deal. Knowing what to write is.
It's only Tuesday! If you have it now surely you went there with it already.
> For the purpose of discussion, let's assume that we the humanity will develop AGI in the coming years.

We're so far away from AGI that it's really premature to speculate about any of its properties. Basically what you're asking is for people to speculate on the anatomy and physiology of hobbits.
I take the opinion of the sibling comment. These short form videos are heroin. And as a service provider YouTube needs to offer the number one in-demand product if they want to maintain clientele, even at the cost of their "core" product (medium to long form video).
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The cited paper is not sufficient to explain the dramatic rise. It would have been seen much earlier (since the 50s) that the trend was obvious. Putting forth "just do X" is a low effort post. It has a paper, which is something, but it's far from definitive, although it's phrased as such.

I'm sure someone thought the same as me, but they thought clicking the down button was the correct response. I don't agree, but I understand that not everyone is put together before the coffee kicks in.

I have had 2 quarter-coin sized growths removed from my colon. The underlying cause is undiagnosed. They were not cancerous, by analysis. I believe the growths started in Washington State 6ish years ago and black mold was a contributor, with other factors. Growths have not returned.
Because it's so much easier.

I have an open source desktop app to help esports coaches (https://vodon.gg/). When I was designing the app I was happy to make it a Windows only, C# application (despite not knowing anything about C# development). I figured that if I stayed inside the Microsoft ecosystem then things would work relatively well and I could pick up a new programming language while I was building a new app.

My first stumbling block was the UI system. Windows seems to have a bewildering amount of UI frameworks to choose from and it was unclear which framework I should back (MAUI?). On top of that, the video processing library I wanted to use, GStreamer, needed to work directly with window handles which didn't seem to be possible for some of the newer frameworks as they have a global window handle for entire app. Instead I'd have to work with DirectX buffers and apply them to window surfaces. Ok then, I'll learn about Direct X.

After about a months worth of hacking around, I think I had a very basic two videos playing at once concept. At this point, I didn't even really know what the product was and hadn't done any work figuring out what actually would work aside from a sketches on paper and some thoughts in an Obsidian document. I'd had enough by now so I switched over to Electron and hacked together the app in about half the time, two weeks, that I'd spent noodling around in C# trying to make things work. Not only that, I could iterate very easily on my features as I went as I didn't have a solid idea of what this product would look like.

On top of all of this, even though I have a deliverable app in Electron, I still haven't signed my app so every user has to jump through all sorts of hoops to install because I don't want to shell out ~$300 per year to Microsoft (let alone Apple on top of that) to sign my free open source app to run.

The next version I'm working on will be entirely web based now that some of the browser file system APIs are advanced enough to work with local files which side steps the signing issue and makes it very easy to "install" the app (I'll likely go the PWA route).

Microsoft's killing desktop apps, or at least it feels like they're trying to. Between the inconsistent UI frameworks to code signing, it sure feels like malicious intent.
Waiting for the kids to fall asleep likely transcends the ages… Kids naturally sleep more than adults, especially when very young.
eBook: “Over 100 Years of the IEEE Medal of Honor”
If we’re just doing literary criticism, sure, fair enough.

In actual practice, as here, ‘vote with your wallet’ stands in for “people are choosing this, nothing to be done.” And ‘voting’ stands for collective action to change the choices on offer.

But sure, starting a company’s great too. Though with concentrated markets and high barriers to entry, that won’t always be feasible: I wouldn’t want to start a printer company, and that’s probably not the worst case.
I have UC my doctor told me it just slightly increases the chance whereas some years ago they thought it increased a lot. Is she lying to me or what
It’s symbolic. He built a juggernaut that went from nothing to industry leader in a few years. Just like Cisco did with WebEx, they can park the company for a few years and print billions until the next disruptor arrives.
They need to make ones that are rounded rectangles in bright blue/green/pink colours!
Yeah. "I, the individual, am going to do my best to make sure that I get mine, even if it harms the company and my coworkers". That's not "class warfare". That's narcissism.
So; Ask Jeeves finally comes to pass.
> could easily start bleeding back into consumerland.

That simply doesn’t work - people use O365 at work and GSuite at home.
To be honest, I slightly disagree about data size. I think the big data is there to be had, the real story is that data science itself has not panned out to provide the business value that people asserted would come from it. Data volumes haven't risen more because in the end, it turns out most of the things businesses need to know are easily ascertainable from much smaller data and their ability to action even these smaller very obvious things is already saturated.

It doesn't help that we've shifted into a climate where hoarding data comes with a huge regulatory and compliance price tag, not to mention risk. But if the value was there we would do it, so this is not the primary driver.
I can see how someone could extrapolate Google's goal of indexing knowledge(JTB) into being a reliable source of truth. It's simply a matter of taking them at their word on the J and T parts. The B is up to the user.

Google's branding frames itself as the expert in the novice-expert problem. The vast number of users implicitly take on the role of the novice by virtue of using the product. They've already self-identified as a novice which makes both parties complicit in the arrangement.
Well, in case you were wondering what a communist was, here is a perfect example.

As an engineer, I'm not falling for his sad attempt to drive a wedge between tech workers, engineers and management. I have more in common with tech company lofty goals than I do with his.

> Google, Amazon, IBM, Spotify, PayPal, Salesforce, 3M, Coinbase, and more are all conducting mass layoffs at the same time.

Yes, it's a conspiracy just to lower tech wages, not a recession.
You might be interested in this, great fun and it'll get you rowing using FTP which is a better way of doing things than pace (standard in the cycling world, surprised it's taking so long to filter into rowing): https://exrgame.com.

There's also this for rowing form but I haven't personally tried it out:

https://www.rowingperformance.com
Yeah, there’s definitely room for error. I just don’t think the idea should be discounted in all situations :)
> it implies that contributions are primarily made by individuals rather than team efforts

> It's quite individualistic.

A team always exists, but humans are not exactly the Borg.

I think it's ok to recognize that individuals with differences exist.

Feel free to dislike the term individual contributor if you want to though. That's your right as an individual contributor to HackerNews.
no, i am not us based, though i have worked there. but so what?

is "knowledge workers" still a thing? it was meaningless when it was introduced in the 60s, even more so now.

another bubble creature, i guess.
Isn’t that article contradicting your point? They weren’t able to find any effect for dish detergent, and the effect they did find for rinse aids was not present at the concentrations used in residential dishwashers?
It's not true

Source: I work at Google
I'd say the prior art goes back at least to Genghis Khan, probably much further.
> Do they ship overseas?

No they don't. Just the US and Canada. I checked out Xometry for a similar service in Europe yesterday.
OO / FP are paradigms. Monolith / microservices are architectures. Paradigm and architecture are orthogonal.

I guess the author used "philosophies" because they are mixing pears and apples, so the most specific word that can be stretched enough to encompass those concepts is "philosophy".
Ask HN: Primary Google calendar connected to strange account even after deleting
Hi all, I'm at a complete loss here and hope that someone may have been in a similar situation and is able to help me out.

My primary google calendar is getting shared with another person (under "Share with specific people or groups"). When I remove this entry and refresh the site, it disappears. When I change their visibility to "event status only", a new @gmail.com email appears in the list, that apparently belongs to the other, unwanted email (at another provider). I just tried deleting the entire calendar, and it worked, my events are gone - however, a new primary calendar was created which, you guessed it, is again being shared with this account!

The account belongs to a family member that I certainly don't want to have access to all of my personal/work events!!

EDIT: I exported all my events to a new calendar and renamed the primary calendar to "DO NOT ADD". However I can't even hide the calendar from hell as it doesn't seem to be possible to change your primary calendar.
Can you give an example of something you think will work in standard search but that stateful search would fail to return good results for?
zoom is profitable despite layoffs. workers want some of that profit rather than a layoff, contracts be damned.
Wait we’re supposed to avoid soap now? Wtf
https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+AKIA%5B0-9A-...

Sourcegraph is much better than this site.
GitHub's code search product looks limited compared to what Sourcegraph provides, but I don't think being limited to code on their instance is a problem. Even if a company doesn't want to use the full GitHub source code management stack, if GH search becomes good enough, people could mirror their repos onto GitHub or GitHub Enterprise Server just to use its search functionality, and Microsoft will go after that segment if they see a market there.
Gitea is self-hosted, so Blender will be running their own instance.
Cloudflare has published a blog post about this event: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-erroneously-throt...
Microsoft will make ChatGPT tech available for other companies to customize
Of course manufacturers will never mention that their product is defective by design. The change I'm referring to is when consumers will stop relying on nonsense advertising / placement to comparison shop, actually care about how something functions, and reject products that are built with backdoor control.

And yeah the same crapification is happening to commercial markets, at slower or faster paces. The point is that most of this gimmicky consumer shit is just advertising skins on functionality that was already solved 20 years ago, and buying a new old stock or refurbished products would meet the need while avoiding backdoors.

It just feels like so many of the headlines these days about Internet of Trash and subscription service rugpulls are like the old doctor joke - "Doc, it hurts when I do this" ... "Well, stop doing that".
> How do you square the circle of management wanting to pay employees the minimum they can for the maximum amount of their employees labor?

The same way you circle the square of workers wanting as much compensation as possible for the least effort possible. In other words: The market of labour.

> The company is a giant thing, with lawyers, power and resources that are impossible for an individual to push against and win anything that is contested.

You win by taking your business elsewhere and start working for another employer, or start your own business. Especially in IT, which is probably the most free market humanity has right now. Everybody in IT should exploit that situation while we can.
So Google basically banned Ironman! I am sure the government uses such devices responsibly ;)
I’ve never understood this meme - Reddit only works for product reviews, and only if you ignore astroturfing.

Who goes to Reddit for factual information? It’s definitely not Wikipedia, it’s more like an op-ed.
Add a minimum fixed fee + hourly after that. For example, you can say "I usually charge a minimum of 5K to solve these problems but it could bhe more depending on additional time spent"

Up to 10 hours: fixed fee (.e.g $5K)

11 hour or beyond: $5K + $x/Hour

Charge the min. amount upfront and then bill later for additional hours.

Something like that can ensure that you are getting paid some minimum but are not going to lose money on large amount of work.
exactly. my only hope is that the flooding of cheap bulshit craters the market via oversupply. a combination of to much shit text competeing for ad space drops their revenue and people having diminishing trust for it reducing the ad clicks for it dropping the ad revenue even more
They said that was the first thing that came to mind. The first thing that comes to my mind is fueling a genocide in Myanmar[1], but as a parent of a girl, I couldn't care less about Meta's development of React when their own research showed that they "make body-image issues worse for one in three teenage girls." Then there was the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. It's been clear for years that to work for Zuckerberg is to do anything that he thinks will make him rich, the consequences for our children, our democracy, and the rest of the world be damned.

1. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
But but but, there's money to be made!
i'm not a grammar expert but i think as a layperson there is a little bit of ambiguity in how a reader could interpret Bard's response. If i were writing i would probably specify "first ever picture". I think a lot of times words like "the first" are relative and context specific which the Bard answer lacks.
> Highly unlikely since Google has been playing around with their own chatGPT called LaMDA that they are now making into a product called Bard

I don't know. Obviously, we'll have to wait and see but given Google's long history of questionable product management I think Microsoft stands a fair chance here.
Docker compose is also fine for production environments, if you are okay with a few minutes downtime during updates and your application is just running on one or two machines. Even 90% of the enterprise systems I worked with so far were okay with those restrictions.

Sooo much simpler than k8s.