skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, definitely agree, and "enshittification" is a good word for something I've observed for ~25 years.

Very similar to this phenomenon, in relation to imgur and so forth:

https://drewdevault.com/2014/10/10/The-profitability-of-onli...

I think that all image hosts suffer from the same sad pattern of eventual failure. That pattern is:

I wouldn't place the blame squarely on the company however. It's also true that consumers have predictable behavior patterns -- they want free stuff, and they will stick around to get that, and then move to the next thing.

On the other hand, we want free stuff because we don't want to sign up for subscriptions, and companies are always making that annoying -- betting on us forgetting to cancel, making it hard to cancel, tacking on hidden fees (banks do a lot of this), etc.

I wish that money could just be exchanged for goods and services, as Homer Simpson once noted ...
I just checked it with the Safari browser, same thing. Page refreshes after less than a minute.
Every post from patio11 is such a joy to read: precise, exact, descriptive, and entertaining. I'd love to understand where his writing style comes from and how to emulate it.
> The water is going to take all of the people who did it right, and all of the people who did it wrong, and average their actions together into a single number, the amount of contamination.

I imagine that batteries, for one, would tend to sink to the bottom of the ocean (if not gulped up by a large animal), and would thus cause highly concentrated local contamination. It would really depend on exactly where the batteries were thrown overboard on how much damage each one caused.

Otherwise I agree with what you're saying.
One of the pipelines is still undamaged. Why would the US be this sloppy?
Yes, this is the logical next step.

Yes insurance.

You might need to present some kind of documentation about risk management and security policy. But not always.

Some orgs will balk at bringing a new supplier on, but if you’re dealing with a capable operator they’ll find a way to get it done (ie tick right boxes without getting actual procurement involved)

Good luck, it’s worth it!
Disinflation (Scott Galloway)
Good piece, and I think he points out some clear problems with the exact events that Hersh describes. I think the lack of a verifiable path for either the ship carrying divers or for the plane that supposedly dropped off the sonobuoy do make it less likely that Hersh's version actually happened. The author's conclusion is that this is because Hersh's source was making things up, but I think it's also compatible with someone who heard about the plan but didn't fully understand it. Or possibly, heard about it before it was finalized. Hopefully more details will come out.

His closing question is "Why leave one of the two Nord Stream 2 pipelines intact"? I haven't seen it discussed much, but apparently there actually were 4 leaks, with one pipeline being damaged twice. One possible explanation would be that this was a mistake in the execution by whoever did this, with one pipeline somehow getting two explosives planted. Here's a Sept 22 article about the discover of the 4th leak: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/fourth-leak-found-no...
But there are huge problems with "as is" clauses, and in the US anyway, they aren't always enforceable. If I sell a doohicky that I know is likely to kill people, slapping an "as-is" clause on it probably won't keep me out of jail.
I sent a patch to a bigger and more known software company, now defunct. I ended up writing some rude comments in the bug submitting form, after being forced to enter endless data about me, the company that I worked for and a lot of information about how to reproduce the error. Not proud of it, but I understand the GP: you're helping them and they treat you poorly.

They included the fix in the next version of the tool. I later noticed it was incomplete, but this time I just made the correction locally.
I don't follow. California is subsidizing low(er)-cost EVs, doesn't that put EVs into reach of people who couldn't otherwise afford them?

Basic economics says that as we increase the supply of something the price goes down, so even if this doesn't get EVs to a price where everyone can afford them it gets them to a point where more people can afford them.

Gas tax is a consumption tax, which is inherently regressive. This means that it costs more for lower earners as a proportion of their income. If a low wage earner wants an EV they can't currently afford one. A gas tax punishes them for this financially and makes it less likely they will be able to save for an EV. Meanwhile higher earners that can afford EVs don't pay the gas tax because they don't buy EVs.
The difference is that one side has put actual thought into their argument, while the other side is attempting to invalidate the argument based on the fact that people other than themselves have not put in the work necessary to make a claim one way or the other.

Scientific progress doesn't happen by referencing the vast stores of data that we haven't collected.
This is pretty hard to black-box test.

What would have helped in this case:

* Test that all players can be selected by the algorithm at all

* Test that the totals of the weights is the same as the RNG max range
I was writing in jest but yours is a fine label too.
Note that a lot of the pip projects are implemented in C++. You install packages for the environment you are targeting.

A lot of folks use Conan or vcpkg for pure C++ dev.
> There have always been big stability issues with new features and apps.

But they got fixed. At times there were 2 full years between major Mac OS X releases. 2 years of bug fix updates. And that was when Apple only had 1 major operating system! Now with the relentless yearly schedule, there's never time to fix bugs before they start working on the next big thing and adding brand new bugs. The problems just keep piling up year after year. The software is now underwater in technical debt.

Part of OS stability is simply not shipping new major versions too often. The new major versions are always buggier than the previous major version with many minor patches. Not to mention, Apple now pushes everyone to install the latest OS immediately. In the old days, you had to go out to the store and buy a new Mac OS X version on disc, so everyone wasn't upgrading to 10.N.0 on day one. Slower adoption means that fewer consumers have to suffer the early growing pains of new software.
It’s partly by design and partly because it’s evolving.

the “by design” part is because Rust allows for packing structs in an order independent way. This is a nice optimization but it’s not something that is currently stable between versions.
I think you are misunderstand where most of that energy comes from. Say I have some refrigerant in liquid form at a low pressure. That refrigerant will have a boiling point of say, -20 degrees F. I use the ambient air, which is say 0 degrees F, to boil the refrigerant into a gas. The internal energy of the refrigerant goes up significantly, but it's temperature does not change. Then, I compress the gas so that it goes up in temperature. This change in temperature does not correspond to a large change in the internal energy of the gas. The same energy is pushed closer together, resulting in a higher temperature[1]. Then, I condense the gas at it's new boiling point, say 100 F, into a liquid. Then you decompress the resulting liquid and the cycle repeats.

Most of the energy is coming from the ambient air, only a small amount of electricity is used to change what temperature that energy is available at.

[1] A very simple mental model you can use to understand the difference between temperature and energy for a gas is that temperature is the number of times the gas molecules bump into each other in a second, while energy is how fast the gas molecules are moving. So if you have a very low pressure gas, even all of those molecules have a ton of energy in the form of motion, the temperature of the gas will be quite low because the gas molecules won't interact often. But compress that gas down to a small volume, and the molecules will bump into each other all the time even though they don't have much more energy.
"The criticism is bad, therefore the claim must be true" certainly sounds like a rhetorical fallacy to me. Does it have a name?
There's an inverse correlation between the intensity of your coefficients.
SaaS by itself is a total disaster on that front.
Pacific atolls could be tourism paradise, but many were used Instead to test atom bombs.
Haven't used it yet, but this aspect seems very appealing.
There's also postmarketOS, which is more like a 'normal' Linux distro, so probably a better choice if you want to use the phone as some sort of compute node.
As does yours.
I guess no one would click if the title was, "Why I don't like backlogs"? N=1 but I appreciate having an unbounded backlog, knowing that the various things I come across are written down _somewhere_. It's the nature of the business that they always grow and some work never quite makes it to the front of the queue, so what?

> That’s what backlogs are: a bunch of unimportant tasks that we’ll eventually get to, but not today.

Not in my experience. At least I disagree with "unimportant."

> The truth is, we always know what task is most important, and we work on it until it’s done.

Again, not in my experience. There's been plenty of times I've reached into the backlog rather than go idle.

Fundamentally, in my experience there are lots of little feature improvements and bugs you come across that are worth documenting. I believe the issue tracker is the right place. If you don't document these things they'll soon be forgetten -- what a waste!
IR35. This is a UK-specific problem. I can't speak about the Republic. HMRC (the tax office) has a rule that was intended to stop people gaining the tax advantages of being self-employed while actually being permanently employed on repeating contracts. Over the years it has expanded in scope, and a change a few years back meant that the company employing a freelance was responsible for determining if they were actually self-employed or not. If they are later found to have wrongly determined that someone was self-employed, they are responsible for the back income tax. This pushes them heavily in to passing on the responsibility to someone else, in this case the middleman company. There are other complications, but that's the basic story. And no, setting up your own personal services company is not a solution.
Replying to my own post for posterity because edits are closed and I missed the obvious Go/Golang. This pushes Go to the top winning it a "major award".

"written|built in Go/Golang" 918 (792|17) / (102|7)
"written|built in Rust" 832 (790|42)
"written|built in Python": 390 (364|26)
"written|built in Javascript/JS" 269 (220|14) / (32|3)
"written|built in Java" 107 (101|6)
"written|built in TypeScript" 66 (61|5)
"written|built in C#" 41 (38|3)
"written|built in Stone" 10 (10|0)

One other item I noticed is on average "written in Rust" has about 3 times the number of comments as "written in Go/Golang" for the more popular posts. Clearly, Rust gets a major award too.
I don't think so. People in the US have and have had net-positive views on nuclear energy. It's not like public sentiment has turned against nuclear energy because of naked tree hugging protesters. For example, this polling [1] from Pew shows that only 27% of the US public thinks the government should discourage nuclear power with everyone else saying the government should either encourage or be neutral towards it.

Of course some green energy climate tree hugger whatever protesters oppose nuclear energy, but they are powerless and don't change public opinion much and certainly don't influence outcomes. To my knowledge it's government regulations and laws that stifle nuclear energy - not protesters or climate people.

1 - https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/03/23/americans-c...
Last summer, on vacation, I stumbled upon some nuclear waste. I went looking for a visitor's center, but missed it and drove further up the road.

https://goo.gl/maps/8C8uXWXcBxXGjz5Q7

I pulled off the road across the river (Readsboro Rd) to turn around, and low and behold, I was looking straight across the dam at the waste. I always assumed the site would be bigger.)

In hindsight I wish I took a picture with my whole family.

Ironically, the waste has been there almost as long as the plant operated: https://decommissioningcollaborative.org/yankee-rowe/
This is misleading. You get a prorated sign up bonus for the first two years that makes up for the back heavy vesting schedule. With all of the tech sectors stock price dropping, this has been a preferable outcome over the last two years.
Being born is a death sentence.
It's an interesting comparison. An optimizing compiler is an incredibly complex beast that makes developer's life almost incalculably better. Most of our stack would be unfeasible to write and maintain in assembly. I'm not at all sold that React remotely qualifies, in fact, I've yet to see any benefits to developers or end users.

>it has left a permanent mark on the field

It sure has, an indelible stain
> It's a place to gently lay down bad or low priority ideas without insulting the person who filed the ticket.

I mean yes, you can use the Backlog for that, as a sort of idiot pacifier but that's basically the worst way to deal with that. Preferably you would find ways to educate those people on why their Ideas are bad or low priority so they can learn to give you better input.
Yes, I completely agree with drdeca.
At the end of the day it is much more important what people believe than what is true, and people's reactions to specific instances of "nitpicking" varies according to their pre-existing beliefs.

For example "nitpicking" is enthusiastically praised during the investigation of physical matters (ie: science), but it is commonly denigrated (if not outright condemned, even by genuinely smart people) when used during the investigation of metaphysical matters, and this mystery is a combination of both (but is mostly metaphysical to my way of thinking).
I agree with you, but I would take Ukraine off the list, although they had a strong motive.

Ukraine's strategic cornerstone is international relations, without which they cannot win the war.

Ukraine would never risk upsetting Germany, the EU's biggest economy, with such a drastic operation.
> while betting roughly $35,000 that they would beat the Los Angeles Rams and go on to win the Super Bowl. They lost.

These are definitely not investors, and they aren't even traders. They're /r/wallstreetbets gambling addicts. Most of them don't have trading "systems" (no, joining a Discord doesn't count), most follow technical analysis as if it were the Delphic Oracle, most mainly gained in the ridiculously bullish markets of 2020-2021 (I don't know anyone that lost money during that bull run), and most buy and sell options (which are meant to be used as hedging, not investment, instruments). I almost doubled my (non-index) portfolio by making the most obvious plays ever (durr, airlines will probably go back up, casinos will probably go back up, cruise lines will probably go back up).

Now, it's much harder to make free money, so yeah, they're "retreating" if you can call it that. But really, sideways/bearish markets are the true test of an investor, not the frenzy of bullish rallies. There's a handful of brilliant people on WSB (like DFV, among others, which are actually good, albeit high risk, traders), but after their coverage in NYT a few years ago, it's just become a cesspool
Big if though. Each device requires special support from the community, and even big name devices don't always make it.
The rabid anti nukes were more useful idiots. You’re right that the real power is in the fossil fuel industry which was happy to use them.
I'm all for reforming patents, but this seems like it's more a part of a larger set of problems with how civil suits are really only a tool for the big guys, namely:

1. With inadequate penalties for filing frivolous lawsuits, filing frivolous lawsuits becomes a strategy. I've unfortunately had a close friend be a victim of this strategy. I won't name my friend, but I will name that Jared Kushner's companies were the (repeated) plaintiff. If we close the loopholes around patents (and we should) it will only make the filing of frivolous lawsuits slightly less efficient, because the lawsuits will get thrown out quicker. Note that even if the lawsuits get thrown out, they still cost the defendants money to get them thrown out, so patent reform wouldn't even necessarily mean they can't file patent lawsuits, it just means the lawsuits might get thrown out slightly faster.

2. Justice isn't possible in civil suits where the plaintiff and defendant have disparate resources to pay for counsel.
When the evidence is thin, it's best to avoid committing to a belief either way, despite the temptation.

Related Paul Graham essay, "Keep your identity small":
http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
So, between the sheer 5x higher cost of nuclear power and people who hug trees your consided analysis is that the latter held back nuclear power more?

It's like an Illuminati conspiracy theory except with people who dont use soap...
A general criminal law principle known as the corpus delicti rule provides that a confession, standing alone, isn't enough for a conviction.

I am not taking a position. I'm saying no one has presented hard evidence. And until they do, if ever, both sides will play hot potato and nothing will happen.

When someone presents hard evidence for either position I'll listen to them happily.
Do you really think that ChatGPT can analyze the work done by a human and provide meaningful and accurate feedback? It's very easy to make a claim, but have you perhaps tried it?

My experience with ChatGPT is the generation of text based off a prompt. If you have actually done something similar to what you claim that would prove very interesting. It might eliminate most forms of management.
It's not stealing if they tell me up front "you will be on call and we expect you to work at least 10 hours a week outside of normal business hours". And then pay me for my time up front as part of my salary.

Someone who is on-call should be exempt from overtime if they're not paid hourly and it was clearly communicated up front. I think that's part that's missing. Most jobs don't make that clear up front.
Trucks are great, but is there any practical reason for a general purpose vehicle larger than a 2004 Toyota Tacoma? Truck cabins can be smaller without losing any functionality.
Well, there is a difference. Open source software includes certain things that may not be included in libre software, such as access to source code, customer participation in development, etc.
Fun read. Often times top employers play a zero sum game to lockup talent from a handful of schools. Sport teams will do the same predatory behavior by keeping a lot of talent on the bench instead of having to play against them.

This worked well for awhile with Google's revenue outstripping Microsoft and many other competitors by paying top dollar and providing lots of great employee benefits.

With the recent 12k employees they cut moral is down and the list of dead Google projects https://killedbygoogle.com/ will continue to climb. Companies like Open.AI have an opportunity to grab top talent and favorable rounds of investment. Finally we might see some challenge on the monopoly of the big.
Static Pelican site hosted on bitbucket.io. I'd use GitHub Pages if I were doing it today.
Yes. We can continue to hold reservations but that can be considered evidence. It is akin to someone getting killed and someone else prior saying they would kill that person. It doesn't mean they actually did it, but it is suspicion and motive that should lead to further investigations. That Germany and other countries aren't looking into it can also be considered circumstantial evidence.
> which the west could have started adopting in the 1970s like France did

France is often considered to be in "The West".
On a cloud VM in a good cloud, using disaggregated storage:

- physical hardware has trouble, e.g. fan failure -> my VM gets live migrated to a different host, I don't notice or care

- physical hardware explodes -> my VM restarts on a different host, I might notice but I don't care

Disaster planning is a lot easier with VMs (even with pets not cattle).
Huh, I always had this concept in my mind but never knew it actually had a phrase with some legal precedent.
> ...consumer sentiment isn't going to change much.

> ...the median person doesn't really care where their power comes from when they hit a switch so long as it's cheap.

> If we want any serious progress on Nuclear you need regulators with authority to ignore organized civilian protestation.

The reason sentiment isn't going to change is because much of the situation is dictated by greed. People want cheap power, the companies want money; both are driving forces compelling them to act not in their best interest but cheaply.

Unless regulators can ignore commercial and private interests a like, then greed will always taint regulation. Which is why sentiment will never change.

There's a complete lack of trust that the industry will do the right thing and sustain it long term because it is under constant pressure to be both profitable and cheap.
I think you're both saying the same thing... when you buy new inventory, the entries are:

(subtract cash) (add to inventory assets)

This is not an expense yet. Then later when you sell it:

(subtract inventory) (add to cogs)

COGS is an expense account.

Since an income statement doesn't show assets, it wouldn't appear on the income statement until it becomes a COGS expense.
This is how me and my underage roommates did it in college :-) It was super cheap after the initial investment. Pretty sure we used a home depot bucket lol.
Proton Drive
I interned at a prop shop and all the professional traders there very explicitly did not consider themselves investors, they were day traders. The distinction was mostly a matter of time horizon, almost no one held positions overnight. The goal was explicitly to make money trading on price action, not to evaluate which companies or industries would successfully allocate capital over the long term.
I live off of consulting with small businesses. The sweet spot is any company large enough to have regular, ongoing IT/Data needs, but not large enough to have a full-time staff dedicated to the role. This conveniently means that I also work directly with the owners and decision makers, which cuts out a tremendous amount of friction. I don't make as much as someone at a FAANG by a long shot. But I am not starving, either, and I have much more control over my day to day, which is a valuable tradeoff for me.

The tl;dr is you need to focus on smaller businesses first. There is plenty of opportunity there.
Ask HN: For SaaS which function should come up with Maintenance policy?
Should maintenance policy (maintenance windows, durations, notifications) be decided by product management or by customer support/success? Of course it's a collaboration but who should be the primary driver? What are some best practices?
There's weed/gummies, but also liquor and wine. And, with all the negatives around alcohol become more and more known, I think people just drink less. If someone is going to have 1 drink, they are probably more likely to have it be something better.