skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s definitely a value to unit tests in the right situations. When I start a new project I don’t aim for any specific coverage percent, I just write them where I know for sure I need them.

Right now I’m working on some reasonably complex reclusive logic in a personal project and unit testing that has saved an unbelievable amount of time when I inevitably mess something up.
Those balloons are part of an interesting story.

https://youtu.be/YDs8rz7pRLQ
Because Facebook’s presentation isn’t content neutral. It optimizes for content with high engagement, and users quickly learn to tune their posts towards that so that their posts are seen.

It becomes hard to get the photo of your pleasant day in front of your friends and family, but easy to bait Uncle Roger into a debate about politics or derisively rag on some easy target.

Engaging posts are a specific kind of content and not all platforms optimize for them. Facebook isn’t the only one that does, but it’s looking like it was a pretty socially toxic experiment and Facebook is one of several companies now stuck on the wrong side of the story.
> Lol. Friend of mine works in real estate... losing keys is very common.

Ok, fair point. That's why it'd be good to have a second key somewhere safe. The FIDO token also is just one key that can be used for multiple websites. That's like having many houses and all can be unlocked with one key.

> And how many people have that? Know that? Don't skip the dialog warnings because they've been conditioned to do so?

I don't know, you're right perhaps not that many. But the problem is maybe also that people do not want to pay ca. 60$ for two yubi-keys just to be able to use the same websites their using with a password already. Perhaps the passkeys login using android/ios (e.g. authentication via fingerprint with your smartphone) is going to be much more popular because it's more convenient and "free" (except you pay with your data).

> And on top of that, what about the services that only support one 2FA device like Amazon AWS with Yubikeys?

Yeah, services that do that or even have 2FA as a paid-only feature need to change that. It's just a system flaw on their side in my eyes. Hopefully, such bad practices will bring those services a big enough competitive disadvantage in the future that they're forced to implement 2FA properly.
Congratulations on the launch. I am currently using GitHub actions and docker/setup-qemu-action@master. Then just call docker buildx with the platform arg. This works, except the builds do take a while since it’s running on Intel emulated arm64 (Microsoft booo).

What happens when GitHub adds native arm support though? Seems like a big value add of your service is immediately displaced and additionally can use self-hosted runners with GitHub to solve caching.
Wouldn't that also make it incredibly difficult for a new startup to invent a better and less harmful recommendation system?
What a load of rubbish. If you already know k8s then you pick a managed cluster like GKE has on offer and everything is set up and up and running in less than a day for less than $200/month.
> The difference between houses/cars and online accounts is that a physical key must be joined to the single matching physical lock, which reduces the number of possible attackers dramatically and forces them to operate in meatspace.

Sure but a digital physical key uses a much more difficult password than you could memorize so even though there are more attackers the difficult of breaking the key has gone up.

> Physical keys to digital accounts cannot be as easy to replace because if they were, anyone anywhere might be able to persuade the digital "locksmith" that they're me, and the worst case scenario for the social engineer is that their attack fails and they try again later.

I fail to see how this is different from the current password status quo. This is quite literally a well published attack vector into accounts, call up support and pretend to be the other person using their data from w/e leak happened recently enough.

With a physical key there's going to be way less people forgetting their password so the same staff can spend more time verifying that somebody is who they say they are (or a company can do the same quality will less staff).
The Biff Tannen way. Gambling on sports events I already know the outcome of.
Wait 20 years then buy stock as I start to recognize companies' names.
These are great
Not too surprising to see that these changes were the result of coercion from Canonical. I don't know why any FOSS distro maintainer would voluntarily stop including Flatpak (which supports multiple repos and has FOSS server and client implementations) only to replace it with Snap (which only supports Canonical's closed source Snap Store server).
I think I should've put an /s at the end.
Its kind of strange that I see constant discussions here and people harrassing small apps/libraries about how their error collection is not OPT-IN. The whole audacity debacle. But data collection for training ML models is perfectly fine because we sure do know the companies who fund the research, how they will get an ROI.
Publishing in Nature is a pretty strong signal the results are real. It's entirely possible Scott was one of the anonymous submission reviewers.

I look forward to hearing Scott contextualize it.
If sparring incites images of violence for you, I suspect you don't really understand what sparring is. It's specifically practice without the violence -- extra rules are put into place to ideally eliminate injury, though of course accidents do happen.
Uhm did you miss the legs situation? lmao

Billions at his disposal and can't even create remotely decent content? Laughable. All his products are soulless, like himself.

https://www.pymnts.com/meta/2022/meta-metaverse-weekly-in-ho...
As a parent of two young kids in daycare, this feels very disconnected from reality. The most glaring issue is the discussion of childcare providers as though they're totally fungible. Now, I have no idea how representative my experience is, but the parents I know are interested in things like: cost, location, holidays/time off (lots of places near me take 5-6 weeks off per year -- that's kind of a big deal for people who work full time), hours provided, whether food is provided, what the environment is like, policies around when sorta-sick kids can attend, the experience of the providers/teachers, being able to send siblings to the same place, parent community, safety record...I could go on. Some of these are luxuries, but many affect one's ability to work a full-time job (which is the point of daycare for a lot of people). My experience is that places that tick all these boxes have waitlists. Many other places don't. Despite there being lots of places with availability, parents around here still feel like it's hard to find daycare.

(There are other fallacies here, too -- like the idea that some centralized broker is an efficient solution. Monopolies efficient? And if you have a competitive market for the brokers, that seems to undermine a lot of the benefit, or at least make this idea much more complicated.)
If you think eggs are expensive, tofu scramble is easily 5x the cost per gram of scrambled eggs!
More in the spirit of the question, though, one would at least know which architectures to focus on (and I speak as an erstwhile OS/2 developer here...)
Yep. As always, we need to keep in mind that our natural social unit is not the nuclear family, but the tribe. Even two parents trying to parent a single child without the help of the tribe is essentially beyond our evolved capabilities.
Crimeans think they are part of Russia, and they voted numerous times on the issue. Also, what happened the day before Putin rolled his tanks into Crimea? Or do you think that just happened out of the blue?
Typical stem cell transplant from someone HIV immune after immune system wipeout, nothing to see here..
It would be great if the "1 in 6" number could be compared to previous years or economic conditions. "considering" is also a pretty broad term - it doesn't sound super surprising to me that 1 in 6 retirees would consider working again - if anything it sounds a bit low, compared to the folks I've known to retire over the last 30ish years.
Hmm, I've always been rather impressed by Gmail's spam controls. It's really rare that a spam email gets through - maybe a couple of times a year at most. On the flip side, legitimate mails occasionally go into the Spam folder, maybe a couple a month.
I'm not convinced that "Zuck" (are you friends with him or something?) did anything better than happen to be in the right time and place for the thing he did.
With nearly any of our social ills, the answer is housing.

- The people taking care of children at daycare make pennies; most of the revenue goes to a landlord. It's very expensive because you can't just move the daycare 1.5 hours out to the outskirts of town; you actually need to pay for real estate near where people live.

- Grandparents, extended family cannot afford to live near their working children.

- Anyone with a hint of upward mobility needs to move to an area where they can get their foot in the door of the financialized housing market. They move away from their friends and family, and then when they have kids they don't have a support network.

- 2x full time incomes are needed to afford rent where work is available, leaving no time for childcare. Nobody who works part time can afford to rent.

- It's impossible to make rent working part time in any city anywhere. Very difficult even with 1.5x income parents.

- Commutes are much longer, increasing the burden of childcare. Lack of housing supply near work -- because of policies that benefit existing property owners.

All of these have one answer: HOUSING SUPPLY. let people build more housing. That's it! Very simple!
The Planet Money episode the article references makes a point about the waitlists and why it is not necessarily a scam or a market failure. The margins on these places are low. The financials really only make sense if the school is at full capacity all the time. For a school to survive in these conditions, a waitlist is necessary so that if children or families leave -- which happens all the time -- they can immediately backfill that money.

A point not made in the PM episode is that in markets with a lot of waitlists, charging for a position on the waitlist increases the likelihood that the families on the waitlist will be available when their turn comes. If waitlist membership is frictionless, then the daycare cannot count on that future backfill as strongly.
There seems to be an unusual amount of downvoting going on in this thread. It doesn’t seem a very emotive, political or otherwise controversial topic to me, what am I missing?
Eh. It's at least a more challenging environment for being hired in tech right now. Assuming they like their work and are getting well-paid, why should they move?
How do those numbers compare with historical averages? Presumably many people have retired to discover their savings is insufficient to support the lifestyle they had imagined. I could believe many people feel lost without work and want the external valuation.
I didn't say anything about voter ID. Please take your strawman elsewhere.
If a dealer repeatedly puts a needle in front of an addict, and encourages them to take it, and they end up giving in, who's responsible?

The addict is of course not without blame, but at the very least I hope we can find a consensus that the dealer is behaving extremely immoral. This is essentially how I view facebook. It's abusing the human condition for profit with destructive effects.
That's fair.

I've seen a number of resolution charts like the one here[1]. But I suppose I forgot how different peoples' setups can be.

Sometimes across the room is 6', sometimes it's 15'. And for sure, screen size and eyesight can make a big difference.

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1. https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-r...
Another alternative: In the modern economy how many employers have allowed their employees to take their very young children to work? I know that some large companies have experimented with childcare facilities at the office, but why not allow parents to take care of their children on the job? Sure it's disruptive, but it should be manageable in many cases.
You're right, sometimes a bird flu kills off a lot of egg producing hens, which results in less eggs around
Wait till the weekend IBM tried to contact Gary Killdal for an OS for their new PC, and buy Seattle Software's CP/M clone to license to IBM before Bill did. ;-)

Oh, wait, that's not noSQL skills, that's people skills.
> Honestly, multiple rounds of cuts are a big failure of leadership.

In 2008, this was more understandable. The economy was in a quick decline, and it was hard to know where things would bottom. Right now, things don't look all that different from their first round in November.

You mentioned trust with employees, but for investors, they should look at this, combined with leadership churn, and know something's not right. There's a CEO who is/was distracted by his pet metaverse project, previously distracted by making a cryptocurrency, who wasn't paying attention to TikTok or thinking critically about post-pandemic scenarios.

I assume Sheryl Sandberg over leadership disagreements, but being the pro she is, she's kept her mouth shut about it.
And the entire yield coming from a region of the world that China has said it will annex (at some point).
Depends on the type.

For small non-pressurized aircraft that people do their initial training in, it's very normal to learn in a plane that is more than 60 years old.
Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs is a great book if you haven’t read it.
I have yeah. Extremely specific spam like that is doable but the filters need to be very specific to avoid false positives and then you're just playing whackamole with minor variations to the spelling or wording.
just a series of tubes
The 2023 MAD (Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & Data) Landscape
As near as I can tell the article is talking about the flattening (which does not seem to have happened yet).
EU Parliament agrees to launch IRISS communications constellation
NYC is full of contrasts. Where I used to work in downtown Manhattan, there were 3 pizza places near the office, with prices ranging from $4-5 per slice in an upscale place with fancy pizza, to $0.99 for a reasonably tasty slice half a block away.

Same applies to most goods. You can get pretty cheap offerings if you know where to look; you can have expensive and fancy stuff if you are ready to afford it.
For most of the last 6000 years we've been significantly constrained by medical technology. The philosophy has little room to develop when abortions are basically impossible to safely carry out, we have essentially no visibility into what is physically happening in embryonic development, and childbirth itself is ridiculously risky. It was within the last 250 that a Queen-to-be and fetal King-to-be both died in childbirth, substantially altering the line of succession of one of the richest and most powerful monarchies in history (Princess Charlotte dying in 1817).

I'm not advocating for or against, to be clear. Just pointing out why society wouldn't have been worrying too much about it as a whole - there weren't a lot of options for us to meaningfully intervene in the process and everyone died a lot anyway.
> As it stands today, an anonymous person (or botnet) can post whatever they want with no fear they will be exposed.

This is also how is has stood throughout American history. The foundation of the US was built on anonymous/pseudonymous pamphlets and secret communications between the "Founding Fathers."
What constitutes knowing k8s well enough for it to be a net positive at a startup?

For example in my mind, whether I tie a bunch of services and a database or cache together on a virtual machine with Terraform, Docker Compose, or k8s yaml (or kustomize or helm charts or whatever), where do the k8s benefits come from beyond that? To me my use case seems entry level/basic, but I'm not sure where the more advanced features come into play.
What I mostly see in this thread is nobody deeply caring about relationships, marriage, kids, and the like.

As the article points out, the rise of sexual gratification without relationships, coinciding with women's reshaping of the financial stability side of relationships, has mostly just resulted in a lopsided winner takes all market around biological attraction.

But sexual gratification is .. just ... that. Ephemeral, weakly bonding, "childish." You don't need another person for it, you definitely don't need a member of the opposite sex, even if you want someone from the opposite sex, you can pay for it, even with a more committed relationship it's more or less transactional.

The real question is was there ever any value in long term monogamous relationships? I say this as someone in a long term monogamous relationship who is super happy, but the divorce rates and gender imbalance in domestic violence tells a different story.

Instead, we should work on ensuring everyone having access to paid, consensual sex workers, and bring "dating apps" back from the hookup apps they largely are into something more like eHarmony or OKCupid were - a niche app for those looking for long term relationships.

People demanding other people choose sexual partners based on long term relationship dynamics that are completely irrelevant in this day and age is a weird hill to die on.
I'm not sure. If the incumbents were barred from doing a thing they currently have invested a lot of time and money and effort into or such thing was made legally riskier I think that would open the door to competition.
> This seems like a project an entrepreneur ought to try and take on.

In a market where there is an affordability crisis, why would we want to add a tech entrepreneur as a middle man who will want to take 30% off the top for "owning" the relationship between customer and provider (like DoorDash, etc)? You see a little of this with corporate day care centers (e.g. Bright Horizons), and these operations charge a substantial premium over independent providers. They just have a higher cost structure, and greater demands to make returns for their investors. In NYC, the cost of sending just one child to one of these is close to hiring a nanny.

I agree that it's probably not reasonable to call wait-lists a market failure when having excess capacity in the market would require rates to increase to a level the market is unable or unwilling to bare.
There is none. Price gouging accusations have always been for political purposes.
You would want Hacker News or any other forum to be legally responsible for comments posted by users?
Well, it's both. Kubernetes lets you "just build and deploy" your containers without worrying about micromanaging your servers.

Is it complicated? Sure. Are there simpler solutions to that problem? Yeah, for example docker swarm. But I like k8s, it does everything I need, it prevents "server rot" because the state is explicit, and it's not that hard to admin if you know what you're doing.
Now that we have this bot to answer questions for us, I think we can all go home!
My laptop sits on a desk >90% of the time

But it's not always the same "desk"

Desktop computers make sense for a bunch of use cases

Laptops make sense more many others
OT: quite a few mentions of Walmart in the comments, so, speaking of Walmart, is search in purchase history working for any of you?

For me for at least the last month or two it reports no items found, unless I search for something that I purchased the one time I used delivery, which was in November 2020.

For purchases done in store with checkout via the app those still show up in purchase history, but search can't find anything in them.
Boycott eggs. I started early (25 years ago).
> The 2-3 transition was a non-issue to a lot of people,

It was a non-issue for relatively small scripts. But if you were dependent on non-converted libraries, or e.g. if you handled a lot of non-English strings, it could get iffy very fast – and blow up in your face months later, in a rarely used code path.

> don't think Python was already in a dominant position

IME, it was very much in a, if not dominant, at least powerful positions everywhere.

It was roaring in webdev, most of academia had switched from Perl to Python, ML/DS were starting to seriously take off outside of research, and it was winning the war against Ruby for the goto language for quick 'n dirty between-bash-and-C programs & scripts.
I also miss what so much
Nothing I know how to do will exist for like 40 years so probably just buy some AT&T stock and hop back in my time machine.
> I'm surprised you're able to build Docker images faster than Docker using their code/libraries?

It's not a code/library problem. Knowing what Buildkit options to use is the easy part. It's almost entirely a storage infrastructure and networking problem as it has huge implications on whether or not you'll be able to easily cache build layers.
Staple foods tend to rise in price by leaps rather than gradually. I think that stores accept a low profit margin on them at some times because of their disproportionate effect on the store's reputation for cheapness. We were probably about due for a leap in egg prices anyway, and the recent production difficulties provided an excuse. Now egg prices can come down slightly and be seen as a relief.
A lot of chickens died for those eggs you ungrateful consumer
> and not limited to HTTP’s five operations

What is he talking about? HTTP methods are an arbitrary string.

> The method token is case-sensitive because it might be used as a gateway to object-based systems with case-sensitive method names. By convention, standardized methods are defined in all-uppercase US-ASCII letters.

Even if you talk about the standard methods, there's 8 listed right in the RFC:

https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html#methods
The Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t podcast talked in-depth with one person on that project in 2022. In short, they have promising results, and they’re moving slowly forward.

https://www.spreaker.com/user/16676611/restoring-the-america...
> It optimizes for content with high engagement, and users quickly learn to tune their posts towards that so that their posts are seen.

Why is that Facebook's fault if they are just the middle man for their users (both on the content creation side and the content consuming/engagement side)?
You're right. Maybe a better wording is, as engineers we want to know the success criteria for everything.
It still is a simple, easy to learn language. But now if you want to do more complex things with it (async), you can.

Of course, that means that it doesn't fit in that niche - it fills it and then some.
So now Labor is not even allowed to bargain individually?
People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why
Work at whatever, save every penny, invest in Xerox stock.
> Even after all the mistakes, Zuck is still vastly net positive (from a business perspective).

So were many of the employees who were and will be laid off. Isn't business more about "what have you done for me lately"?
I have a developer podcast in Swedish (https://kompilator.se) that I initially wanted to monetize but decided it wasn’t worth the hassle. It has netted me a chance to talk to interesting people, build my personal brand, get rid of my fear of speaking and even gotten me a few new friends.

I have a stupidly simple site (https://statligskatt.se) that says where the National tax cutoff is this year, because I kept forgetting it when making prognoses for my business. Around important tax dates in Sweden, it gets a few thousand hits.
It's a good question. I have been coding for more than 20 years and have yet to find a good manager with a useful annual review. It's always some bashing and makes you feel like crap, or it's a way to prevent raises, or getting bonuses if you quit the company. Psychologically, it's a real mess because the grievances are always unrelated to my job.