skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can comment since I roast significant amounts of coffee as a hobby.

Long story short: no, at least not for me. You can play around with roast level and get a variety of different flavors, depending on the bean. And at least for me, I keep a few large batches on hand (2-3 bags that are 65 lbs each). That's enough variety to keep me sated.

Also, for most folks, if you have a brand new bean, you need a few roasts (or maybe, many roasts) to actually dial in a good roast profile. If you only buy a few pounds, you will run out of coffee before you roast it well enough to fully enjoy it. Then you start over again with a new bean.
I have heard of a company in the Bay that did this! Reliable Robotics had people start on a Monday only to lay them off later that week.
I've heard of plenty of companies publishing gender and ethnicity breakdowns of employees. I've never heard of anyone doing that for age of employees sadly.
The reason you hear about it is that they are big, public companies with reporting requirements and where they want to control the message for internal PR reasons.

Small, private companies are doing the same thing, quieter.
> what problem is it solving?

The problem you presented in your original reply -- throughput.
humble store and steam also allow software, epic games store doesnt allow software though
Update: IMMICH has been super buggy for me, I'm probably going to switch to Syncthing + Lychee.
Are you in the USA?
> Everywhere you look, the economic indicators are solid.

Sure, if you cherry pick the indicators. There's a pretty big one you're tiptoeing around: the Fed Funds Rate has gone from 0.25 in 2022 to 4.75.

> I do not have insight into Gitlab's customers, or the current state of Gitlab's business.

Well, that is to your detriment, both as a persuader and decision maker. Gitlab is publicly traded, and their fiscal year ended Jan 31, so you have a wealth of data you could be consulting to make the case. Yahoo Finance shows[1] they have zero debt, and margins at negative fifty percent -- for every dollar take in they lose a dollar fifty.

It's not too hard to imagine the company has been losing money while money was cheap to grow marketshare versus GitHub, but now that rates are up it will be much harder to issue debt and pay it back. It's not to hard to paint Gitlab as a company in transition from loss leader to profitability by cutting costs and reducing long term investments as they become more expensive. And I think describing that as a response to macroenvironment conditions is appropriate.

[1]: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GTLB/key-statistics?p=GTLB
GitLab https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/09/gitlab-layoffs-company-to-cu...
Interesting thinking...
I'm doing consultancy (mainly becz I haven't found a startup that I'm interested in joining) and I'm find the hourly rates (in the US) are really low (below FTE).

Not sure if it's because of all these layoffs or just yearly budgets haven't been done yet. (I'm generally looking for react/nodejs/rest/graphql type 1099 roles).
> why does it seem like tyranny is easier to keep?

I think it's a lot like the "paradox of tolerance". if society is too tolerant of intolerant people, the intolerant people end up taking over and society becomes intolerant as a whole.

Analogously, there are always people, organizations, and emergent forces that seek to deprive individuals of their freedom. A society that is excessively free will allow these forces to flourish, leading to loss of freedom and ultimately an unfree society.

In an economic context for example, this is the basic argument in support of antitrust law.
> I don't have a cite
I wonder why
This still isn't the most reliable. Windstream says they don't service my house. Their map says they can't give me service, they've responded to 811 calls with no wires at the house.

I have windstream gigabit fiber. There's a windstream box in the back yard.
Seems rather long and drawn out, potentially even bordering on torturous.

I'd much rather go with nitrogen or barbituates.

Check out The Peaceful Pill handbook for an overview of other options.

And please make sure to have these conversations with your loved ones or leave a clear last will and living will / poa. There's no reason to leave people burdened with confusion and uncertainty about what you would have wanted.
Does this article offer any understanding of what ChatGPT is?
> Perhaps Seymour Hersh is another once-reputable journalist who has unfortunately succumbed to anti-West brain-rot like Glenn Greenwald.

Well that explains why you're so against this type of article. You should reconsider whether the rot you're perceiving isn't in the West, rather than in Greenwald's brain.
> This comes up _constantly_ during ruby version updates and when updating central libraries that many others depend on (like activesupport).

I understand this was pretty common in the early days of Ruby, around 1.8.7, 1.9.3, 2.0, etc, along with Rails 2.x and earlier. I maintain a number of Rails apps, both at work and personal, and I've never had to do this or heard of anyone else doing it post roughly Rails 4.x and Ruby 2.2+.
> I forgot the classic silent downvoting of course

You are not entitled to a response just because you are angry about something.
IMO, the quest for longevity and renewed youth is already causing social resentment between generations. Do we really need older generations to hang around longer hoarding wealth and governing power? What exactly are they bringing to the table?
Seems to be a weirdly US specific problem:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cost-of-i...
> I ended up with two offers by the end of January, one from a growing startup and the other from a mid-market company with a conservative business model. Given the slowdown in the market, I'm thankful to have found something so quickly.

Which one offer did you take?
N.Korea unveils likely new solid-fuel ICBM
What evidence do you have if you're absolutely certain?
So much criticism in the comments. I appreciated the write-up and the code samples. For some people not in ML like myself it's hard to understand the concept behind GPT and this made it a little bit clearer.
But as amusing as it is to riff off of your analogy, your point is still wrong. When studying the behavior of human beings, and corporations are people, friend, it is important to try to fathom the motivations of their decisions. You can’t simply look at the behavior of companies, even in aggregate, and pretend it’s scientific to say, “ah, that is simply how they sustain themselves.”

And in this case perhaps what people are upset about isn’t simply moralism, but the potential irrationality that drives the behavior we are all witnessing.
Too bad that this kind of writing is married to 31(!) ads/trackers on that page. Can the journalism like this really not survive without all that crap?
Worse than losing your job?
HN thinks KYC and subpoena access is great for bank accounts. Information is even more dangerous than money. We should know who says what where it is going and be able to subpeona the underlying information. It could be criminal activity, communication to terrorists, etc and even just producing non-criminal information aids these criminals by hiding it in the noise.
You can asynchronously generate the mbox/maildir data.
I've always found Arabic script to be pretty beautiful, the shapes and the flow of the letters is really striking, especially with good calligraphy.
Why would you think that those differences matter. It's been true in the past across diseases and technologies.
Regardless. In order for people like OP to feel subjectively better, they want to subject their colleagues to daily commute / office restraints.
I'm not sure anyone who has started a local ISP would call it a "golden opportunity", regardless of the circumstances.
I’ve honestly never had any issues with it but our use case is pretty light so I’m not sure what other people are missing from it
This is probably an unpopular and overly-lax opinion, but I think the bureaucrats have to put something out there to justify themeselves. Is there any other mechanism available to them to start discussions and discover why it's a bad idea?

Isn't the process of writing legislation just an attempt to enumerate all possible ideas in line with their party as a matter of course?
Heinlein’s “Methuselah’s Children”, one of his books in the Lazarus Long universe, made the prediction that replacing old blood with new would have a rejuvenating effect.

The book was published in the early paper-SF age, the 1940s/1950s.
That's a long-term strategy to encourage native development and keep people in the app store.
That was a great article.

And, right at the end was an ad, which kinda took away from it. I think the article would be better without the ad.
My friend's grandfather reportedly chose to die like this at the age of 102. Reason was that he "lost the will to continue living".

I remember the friend being upset and angry(I guess - hard to describe it) about this.
It is all cyclical really. The last cycle was very long, but now it will go down again for a while and then later pick up again. I have kinda been expecting some sort of downturn for a while. Covid bit messed the time line, but now it seems to be happening with vengeance.
I thought it was GitLab which was remote-first (or should we say remote-only?). GitHub still seems to have offices and people going into them.
Even with low code tools the percentage of people who will develop the tool will be low compared to the number of users.
Oddities in the bicameral system in the UK are routinely produced which are themselves not to be taken seriously by the initiated. Obviously this bill would be a massive regression for a nation thats still in freefall after Brexit and a
recent slew of poor neoliberal monetary policies.

Former prime minister Boris Johnson was infamous for pitching outlandish ideas like this in the face of mounting criticism of his party and governance. my hypothesis is this bill serves to misdirect the public using moral panic to distract from serious issues like the NHS funding crisis and the slow rolling catastrophe of brexit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy
> No, choosing to live in a fantasy world and believing in provably false conspiracy theories is not an understandable response.

A problem: you are falling victim to the very same phenomenon as the "people" you criticize: mistaking your perception of affairs to be an accurate representation of actual affairs.

You do not actually possess knowledge about what is going on in the minds of your outgroup members, you only have belief. If Normies could get their own affairs sorted out, maybe they could demonstrate by example how to think in a logically an epistemically sound manner, but until they do me and my fellow conspiracy theorists (as flawed as they are) will continue being a thorn in your sides.

> If I grew up hating the way history was taught and communicated because of pro-Western biases and whitewashing atrocities and American exceptionalism, and my response is to decide history is bullshit and I'm going to believe instead in some gibberish I found on a blog or a podcast, that is not understandable.

To what degree is this actually happening though? If you cannot question the accuracy of your beliefs, why should the members of your outgroup?

Also, note that "not understandable" has a dependency on your abilities as well.

> The difference of course is that anti-vaxxers and other anti-science types were and are literally dying due to their belief in nonsense and conspiracies.

And taking others with them!

Best put on our thinking caps and figure out what's actually happening if you ask me.
my sister drives a big rig, and my nephew use to do it. Not only is it an extremely cyclical industry, its not for everyone. you have less social life and spend more time sitting than a coder.

One port change can cause truck routes to disappear. also simple routes will probably be replaced by self driving rigs in the future. I would highly not recommend lots of people jumping into that.

however, if this tech rekt lasts, I imagine people will be flocking to the next big thing until that crashes too. its like bulls on ice
https://archive.is/QDerR
Counting backslashes is unpleasant in any language, and Bourne shell excluding `...` does not seem worse than any other. Pascal-style quote doubling is the only reasonable alternative I know of, and except for occupying one character instead of two it’s not all that much better. (Also, trick question, because the first line, with its odd number of backslashes, is a syntax error if given on its own.)

More importantly, the difficulties humans have with the language are different from the difficulties computers do, and I was mostly thinking about the latter, what with the mention of LR parsing and everything.
This is pretty awful:

Before the bill even made it to the House of Lords, you can see the creeping political censorship. In a written statement on 17 January 2023, the government added an amendment that “posting videos of people crossing the channel that show that activity in a positive light” should be considered “priority illegal content.”
Both chaos (anarchy) and order (tyranny) are at constant war in the most fundamental law of nature.
It's remarkable how close the UK is getting to CN-styled internet. It would not surprise me to see a proposal to firewall the island off from the rest of the world, mandatory British government apps for services, etc., following the permanent installation of a dictator. Coupled with the promotion of a national digital currency, it's hard to see a future where Britain does not devolve into fascism. It has not had a democratically elected leader for years now.
Trades are an okay idea. People have this rosy picture of a skilled trades job, with high pay, great benefits, and security from a strong union.

And while that can be true, it is certainly only a very small part of the picture. You can't just say, I'm going to be a plumber, and bam, you're a plumber. You could, conceivably do that with something like rough frame carpentry, but those aren't the high paid trades people talk about. Most trades have required education and/or apprenticeships that aren't paid that great. If you can make it through that, then the pay gets better. But we're talking years, literally years to get there.

Then, once you're doing the skilled trade, you're working long (looooong) hours, long weeks, away from family (sometimes), in the heat and cold and rain.

These are good jobs, but they're not magic make money jobs like people tend to frame them. They're hard, and your career will get cut shorter than it should by either straight up injury or problems of accrued physical debt from repetitive strain.
Just because it doesnt solve the garbage in problem, doesnt mean it doesnt solve other problems in the realm of usability.
I wish we would have more intelligent email clients, that can be as "dumb" as remembering the email addresses and geolocation routes from their senders.

It literally could be a simple ASN lookup, and you would prevent 99% of targeted phishing emails.

Nobody in the world uses some random domain.trade to send emails as company.com ffs.

Microsoft is kind of not giving a damn about security and I dont understand why they do not invest in Outlook security that much. To me this is straight up offensive how they behave.

How can it be that a VBA exploit from 2003 can still compromise an updated system in 2023?
And how exactly are these error rates being measured? And why don't the laws of supply and demand apply here?

Perhaps because it's not a real market and no one actually cares about what you're saying, they're just all in a club and we aren't in it.
What's the 30s pitch for why a company wants a blockchain solution or implementation?
Not the way I went on my home network, but still a good write-up. Always like reading and seeing how people solve problems that go beyond "I bought a 42U rack and installed it in my basement."

I'm going to steal the idea of the Raspberry Pi on the phone stand idea, especially when just hacking around with an SBC at my desk.

I would recommend replacing all those USB power adapters with just one or two dedicated USB power adapters. Can recommend the six-port 60W model by Anker that will happily run all those devices you have, and then some.
> The fact that Xerox photocopiers use a lossy compression format instead of a lossless one isn’t, in itself, a problem.

Regardless of the article, I just want to disagree here. RAM is cheap. Xerox machines are expensive as hell. Come on Xerox.
They also have weekly cryptic crosswords that are cryptic enough to be interesting but as easy to completely solve as a regular crossword. (With cryptics, very good ones are also very hard.)
I saw this commend as [dead] and vouched for it, but you should realize that the gripe about "hnews does not like politics" is counter-productive.

I do agree that it's on-topic in this particular thread to have a discussion about the merits of policies like this and that can include highlighting the factions that support or oppose them (and the reasons and/or incentives that might be driving that support/opposition).
How is this the worst part lmao?
If you start digging into how many artists owe their breakthrough hits to this man it is quite a journey. There are a few of those people who are mostly invisible in the music world but whose influence is massive.
Dwarf planet hosts a ring that’s unexpectedly far from the planet
If this article is the best the New Yorker offers now, I'm glad I don't subscribe.

It used to have high-quality articles, certainly.
Maildir is fairly performant and Thunderbird does have its own index dbs for performance in mbox and maildir formats already. It's why the compact option exists for mbox since delete only removes the index key until you trigger a compact.

Making the sqlite db the primary would mean that unless there was constant synchronisation I would be missing emails in the other clients.

I feel like just switching to maildir across the board is a pretty good solution performance wise. Although, I do understand that folders with large numbers of files is a problem under Windows (many projects had to rework their design for this). So perhaps a sqlite solution for Windows would be a good idea.. or just a maildir with more nested folders to reduce size, linked to the thunderbird indexing.
Yep, Ruby has two perfect examples of double-edged swords: monkey patching and 'method missing'. They are both absolutely priceless when leveraged "for good". When leveraged inappropriately however, they can bring the entire thing down. On balance, I love ruby for having the capability to do these things.
> That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. Until the author provides evidence of their claims, there's nothing required to dismiss them.

Maybe you're not familiar with the practice of journalism where anonymous sources are routine, and have successfully uncovered a great deal of misconduct by governments. Reserve skepticism of course, but dismissal of a routine practice with a proven track record is not justified.
Except if you want the job done right, you really have to do it yourself...
Some of them become blacksmiths as I recently learned.
esoteric programming language? Java seems to have lots of positions
Talk to a tradie who was around in 2008.

Ask an older tradie how their body is doing.

Ask a tradie how often clients don't pay their bills.

Ask a tradie how many paid sick days they get.

The trades are one way to make a living wage, but they definitely aren't an easy way to do it. There are some union jobs, but largely the trades require you to run your own business in one way or another. Even your average car mechanic employed by a garage has to provide their own tools at HUGE cost.

I think a lot of people don't realize just how hard it is to be in the trades.
Was the pandemic hiring spree coordinated also? Just copycat behavior the whole way through imo.
Agreed. Probably worse than Teams is Azure, Windows, etc. While things have changed Microsoft would give grief to developers that wanted to run Linux and that was really into open source.
Since most models require little code compared to big software projects, why not use c++ or any other compiled language directly.
Python with it’s magic functions, shortcuts is just hiding too much complexity which can result in bug performance issues. Plus code is more hard to maintain
If the group bought the machine out of their own money then they would automatically keep the surplus in the form of less work. If the company bought it, then the company gets the saving, and it can choose what to do with that saving.
The keyword is "immanent justice" and its twin sister "unconditional grace". Bad things happen to those who deserve them, and also, since bad things do not happen to you you are counted amongst the good guys and are visibly favoured by the Lord God who looks out for his own. If that sounds sick in the head, that's because it is.
This dilemma is precisely what people who benefit from remote work went through when most companies weren't remote friendly.

My honest opinion is that most people that enjoy the office enjoy it because it's where they've gotten most of their socialization in their adult lives. As a result, they haven't built up lives outside of work. To make matters worse, our communities haven't developed to support people having "lives" outside of work (at least out here in the suburbs).

My hope is that as remote work becomes more prolific, people will rely on their local communities more for their social lives and all of these wonderful small towns will thrive again.
Big pharma has totally pwnd the regulations the government enforces on the prescription drug market ensuring they have monopoly pricing power. Why wait for CA to spin up it's own insulin manufacturing industry - just do not prosecute the import/manufacturing and resale of insulin - like it did for medical marijuana in the 90s?
I'm at one, and I know people at others, and I haven't heard anything about layoffs from any of them
I have already considered it carefully, thanks. Same to you.
No! This includes only food fast, water is still allowed, something completely different!
Well, because even from commentators who justly praise LeBron, you find acknowledgments that, for instance,

"And then there's D'Angelo Russell, who, in short, is a valuable defensive player only when he isn't really tasked with guarding anybody. Last season, the Timberwolves were surprisingly effective defensively because they used Russell on the worst opposing perimeter player and allowed him to serve as a back-line communicator. That's a valuable role. The Lakers know this because that's how they use LeBron. Unless James is willing to take on a higher-effort defensive role with Russell easing his ball-handling burden, Russell is going to have to start playing some point-of-attack defense."

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/russell-westbrook-trade-g...
That Apple doesn't agree with you on development priorities for Safari does not mean the Safari dev team is severely underfunded.

They could be, or not. They seem to issue a preview release every two weeks or so[0], so they are clearly making progress on something.

0. https://webkit.org/blog/
FOSDEM2023: Finally a hybrid conference that worked
Deliveroo lays off almost one in ten staff as tech job cuts continue
Of course not.

On the other hand, considering that the downvoters are unable to vocalize their angry reaction to me, I simply consider my argument/observation reinforced.

It certainly illustrates my wider point: When it comes to critics, most people opt to censor (yes, downvoting is a form of censoring) rather than engage, then wonder why the notion that there is something sinister going on is becoming more rather than less accepted.
In terms of click bait titling, VICE is a master baiter.
Is there anything I can put on top of BQ to make things faster by any chance as far as you know?