skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still, non-sequitur.

I lived in Brazil. Many standard couples use those motels there; it is not directly associated with adultery but for sure it is also used for that.

It is a standard service in a country where it is usual for young single adults to still live with their parents well into their thirties, even when they are rich or upper middle class. It is awkward to bring a casual relationship to have sex in your room when you live with your parents.

But, even ignoring that, so you're implying that if people engage in extra-marital affairs it is ok for them to be kidnapped and robbed? Well, why not stoning those sinners too?
Yeah, Svelte is Good. if community accepts it, It can be a good alternative for ReactJs
> The cost of employing someone is roughly double their salary, once bonuses, benefits, payroll taxes and overheads are considered.

This is for a good job. Temp agencies often pull about 30% of the total payment for each temp and permatemp they employ at another company. And they make a profit off of that overhead.

And I don't know about the jobs at Salesforce, but I find it odd that the person you're replying to assumed an average $125k per job. That's a really nicely compensated job, even if the $125k is total compensation, not just salary.
See also:

* https://twitter.com/weefeargal/status/1479069076144234497?s=...

* https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1342102/amp/How-Roy...

* https://www.irishpost.com/news/irish-postman-miraculously-de... (and the three other stories linked within!!)

* https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/67207/letter-no-address-...

* https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/postman-manages-del... (possibly my favourite)

Good old posties
Apparently merchants can avoid it with store credit:

> Additionally, we offer a number of resources and tools to assist sellers in accommodating this change. Our Return Policy Guide & Templates provide sellers with guidance on how to create a return policy that best suits their business, while Square’s free eGift Cards can serve as an option for providing store credit to buyers with no additional processing fees.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
I don't think such controls on software and data are as enforceable as fire arms. And older router that can run OpenWRT is way easier to procure than a 3d printer or a cnc machine.
How Many Startups Fail and Why?
Location: US

Remote: Preferred

Willing to Relocate: Yes

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, React, Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, Postgres, Figma, Aptos, Solana, Web3

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZJhFOqnyK2HJvz2-LXYE1IbHkYq...

Email: brian.allemeier@gmail.com

-- Hello! I'm a junior fullstack developer with a preference towards backend. I have domain knowledge and several years of experience in the oilfield, cannabis, real estate, and construction industries. Currently working on a staking solution on Aptos Blockchain using React/Typescript/Move. Always looking for a challenge.
If you agreed to pay one person enough to do nothing that you have to lay off thousands of other people, I don't care if you signed a contract to do it—it's still worthy of condemnation.

All it changes is the timing of when the action worthy of condemnation occurred.
This is a naive take. People doing those jobs right now are definitely not paid much, they just have no freedom, for many it's either an abysmal job or homelessness.

And you speak of unfair practices as though they're not the very definition of what capitalism as a system incentives.
Scientists look to build computers from brain cells grown in lab
I agree some kind of event-driven architecture is ideal for typical business & admin CRUD. However, our existing languages and toolsets seem a poor fit and I've yet to see a good one. They force things into hierarchies and make it hard to search and manage events outside the official hierarchy. Relational is more powerful than trees, so we should find a way to leverage that.

I'd like to see languages & IDE's that assist some form of "Table Oriented Programming" (TOP) were either the event snippets are stored in an RDBMS, or at least the RDBMS is used by the IDE to search and manage the myriad events. Then can search and view by SQL and SQL-bases query tools. Developers wouldn't be forced to think in trees.

Here's what a typical generic event handler table may resemble:

Event (table)
----------------
ID
Area // general app category
Entity
EventType // Search, Listing, Add, Edit, Delete, Process, other
Stage // Ex: initialize, loadTemplate, adjustTemplate, preQuery,
postQuery, submit, queryErr, failedValidation, passedValidation,
preDisplay, postDisplay
Tags
Version
SourceCode // Actual code or a pointer/link to it.

In most cases the defaults or other attributes would be good enough such that explicit coding isn't needed, and thus most coding would be for specialized things.

// Sample event function/method pseudo-code
Public void AAA_EEE_TTT_SSS(EventState ev) {
...
if(problemX) { ev.statusOk=false; return; }
...
ev.statusOk = true; // final status of event
}

Where AAA is the area name, EEE the entity name, TTT the event type name, and SSS the stage name. These four columns would be indexed for quick searching and grouping. Under the hood it may still use the language's preferred file trees for generating or saving snippets, but developers wouldn't normally have to know or care about that tree.

I have been experimenting with TOP, but the R&D job is too big for me alone. I see and smell the potential power to automate most CRUD grunt work using TOP & events, but gluing it all together in a nice way is a work in progress. (I don't claim it's ideal for high-volume apps, but rather for those with intricate business logic and a medium load.)
I think a lot of devs are frustrated with the state of modern Javascript. As I speak I am waiting for "mvn install" to run for a system that has a Java back end and a Javascript front end which compiles both. I think the Java part would finish in about 20 seconds, the Javascript bit is more like 250 seconds. There would be 250 seconds of working instead of posting to HN if the system was "100% pure Java".

(To be fair I am mostly depending on an incremental build and I'd say Java turns around in 2s, Javascript in about 20s. One of those breaks my chain of thought, the other doesn't.)
> Considering they exceeded all analyst expectations for revenue and profits in the last quarter, it's safe to say that some of their effort is working.

> The fact that they also decided that 8K out of the 25K+ employees hired during the pandemic were redundant

Kinda odd how you attribute them "beating the street" more to Mathew McConaughey's presence than the work output of 8 thousand employees. Can you elaborate on why this is so clear to you?
By that logic they should charge by request volume, not by percentage of amount. As a matter of fact, there is no logic in pricing. Sellers will charge what they can get away with, buyers will pay what they can afford. And of course, it is always negotiable.
Right, but you can use those highly tuned libraries yourself.

I do kind of wish numpy had a stable C API that didn't require a Python interpreter though.
UK space faces investment freeze unless regulators step up, industry warns
Based on this article it sounds like they pay enough to want a law to make it less:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/20/business/credit-card-fees-vis...

Costco gets away with 0% because they offer exclusivity and because they cover some of the cost of the rewards programs. I guess Walmart et al did the math and figured they would lose too much business.

The average Costco shopper makes over $100K a year, so getting another card just to shop there isn't a problem for most. Can't say the same for Walmart.
And whilst $10m sounds like a lot (and it is!) that's only about ~50 (Bay Area) employees.
Their orders have the same force as a court order, so there are penalties if you actively ignore an order. However the board is very limited in what they can order.
Ask HN: Any recommendations for an SoC 2 Type II auditor firm?
Has anyone gone through an SOC 2 Type II audit and do you have any recommendations for a firm or application/software?
> The layoffs they are referring to happened in early January. They are not laying off another 8000 employees.

That's not true. They announced 8,000 layoffs in January but they haven't executed all of that yet. As per the quoted WSJ article:

> In January, the company said 8,000 workers had to go. “It’s an unfortunate part that you have to say goodbye to folks who, in many cases, are your friends and you have relationships with,” Mr. Benioff said in an interview. “But, ultimately, the success of the business has to be paramount.”

> After an executive retreat in February, he proposed in a draft of a year-ahead strategy plan that the company rank employees based on metrics, including how much money salespeople bring in. Those in the bottom 5% would be routinely dismissed, according to a draft of the policy posted on the company’s Slack channel and described to The Wall Street Journal.
It sounds like you're not the target market.

The target market is somebody who wants a nice, predictable cost structure. They want to be insulated from price spikes or demand spikes (such as suddenly needing your car a lot more).

They're not doing it as a charity. It will almost certainly cost more on average than charging it yourself. Maybe Tesla will be able to eke out some small economies of bulk-purchasing, but it's not the reason for this. It's about smoothing people's experience. People who would rather optimize can do that instead.
You can wax philosophical all day, but nobody is mentioning the downfall of Salesforce.

People aren’t arguing against the merit of advertising. The argument is against the specific case of a massive, already well-recognized and widely-integrated SaaS company paying a specific actor 10 million, while doing layoffs, and the benefit that actor brings versus those laid off.

If Salesforce just started, maybe the name recognition would make sense. My personal belief is that the company is too big already for it to matter. I also don’t think middle-aged CEO’s understand marketing as well as they think: every A-list celebrity advertising campaign I can think of has, from the outside looking in, appeared to go poorly (eg Coinbase).
There's a big difference between "does this thing work" and "does this thing kill you". Trials for the former are moot at this point, because it doesn't matter if it works if it turns you into a vegetable. Making a safe device and a safe way to implant it is really the only concern at this point, because you can always change how the device works later if it doesn't do the thing but also doesn't hurt you.

Trials for the second are still important to be done safely. Plenty of people diagnosed as terminally ill are misdiagnosed. Just this week, the story about plutonium told of the Manhattan project injecting terminally ill folks with plutonium to see what it did. One of them turned out not to be terminally ill. A procedure like this also feels mutually exclusive with any sort of real palliative care, which feels like a really terrible thing to do to someone who is dying. You don't have a lot of terminally ill folks up and walking around, living a normal life.

It's not just about not killing someone, either. Brain implants can cause horrifying effects: intense pain, confusion, hallucinations, memory issues, and more. None of these folks will have any tangible benefit from being implanted with these test devices (the killer app, no pun intended, seems to be "hands free pong"). And yet, there's a risk that the last remaining days (or not!) are filled with irrecoverable torment, and that starts to bring up questions of euthanasia. How many people are you willing to have to put into a chemically induced coma and euthanize because you didn't do enough animal testing first, even if those folks were maybe going to die anyway?
I think why this rings false to many is that McConaughey is definitely extremely replaceable.

If that is already sunk money and they paid it to him before the layoffs than the article is off base.

But why is he at $10M not replaceable by some other celebrity who might do the work for 10x or 100x less? He has no special credibility around anything to do with Salesforce, CRM, or anything in tech.

It's more likely Benioff has a man crush on him and like the fact he gets to hang out with a famous movie star and pretend he's friends with him or something and can conveniently ignore that he's kind of buying a famous friend for $10M.

A really well executed ad campaign with a less famous, less expensive star might be far more effective.
It's not weird. It's PR on Netflix' part. From the US minded POV, fees are costs borne for service provided. Tax is theft. It is weird that he said this in Barcelona, discussing EU, where it wouldn't have landed the same way.
Apple is absolutely ruthless toward employees. For example, they were the ringleader behind an illegal anti-poaching conspiracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
An Post is one of the intended users of the EirCode system. I'm tempted to try a letter or postcard to the eircode, just to see if it gets delivered.

e.g.

Name
Eircode

Ireland also makes it reasonably common that you won't have a number in the address.

Someone
Foo House
Town
Co Meath
Ireland

Is a perfectly reasonable and somewhat common address.
The people who point to the current state of material plenty and say it therefore can't be the state of the world are mistaken. If you anticipate loss, you will be unhappy. It doesn't matter how rich and comfortable you are. Anxiety is about anticipated threat. And if you believe you are powerless to counter an anticipated threat anxiety becomes despair.

As to whether it is phones, maybe. I know I have three college age kids who are all varying degrees of unhappy, aside from the one who just took his own life. The one who died had almost no presence on social media at any time in his life. The happier of the remaining two spends the most time on her phone and social media.

There must be some underlying cause or suite of causes. I know the phone doesn't fit in their cases. The ever more evident horribleness of much of humanity has clearly weighed on all three. I don't think it was the principle factor in the death of my son. And I know the "but they're rich, healthy, and safe!" argument doesn't do all the work it's supposed to do.
I noticed the web site has a downloadable font, which is fine as long as it's optional, the problem is that many web sites have the bad practice of using the private unicode range for icons. Now the web site has become an accessibility problem. Downloadable fonts are optional, and there is no fallback mechanism like we have with img and alt text.

I'll happily lump JavaScript in as a major accessibility concern. JS is most often used where it shouldn't (most recent in memory is the Unreal Engine docs). Using JS for such simple presentations is like building a 5000-story building to print a sheet of paper, when all you needed was the pre-printed sheet of paper (HTML, CSS).
Ride their tandem bikes around "SanFran" with raspberry pi's up their asses. Complain about how normal people don't use Firefox anymore and that it should be rewritten in Rust. Try to convert their FreeBSD thinkpads into modern DAWs.
>These kinds of modern excavations reveal a lot more about ordinary daily life than the older translation of temple documents and royal inscriptions do, however.

I don't think these are separate things. Excavating is a blind effort, there is no 'modern excavation', we just find more interesting things now because we excavate a hell lot more then we used to decades ago. And these boring translations of temple documents and royal inscriptions is how we get context for the objects and layers we find.
I wish that there was some kind of a lifetime connectivity plan. You buy a modem with a one-time fee, it has a unique ID, and you get to send/receive data at a low bit rate for the life of the modem (or until the satellite service is discontinued).

IMO that would make IoT devices a lot more attractive. The device works for years and you never even have to worry about setting up an account to pay a bill.
Please explain why they are a tumor?

Seriously, I’m interested to know why you think that. I am a member of a union and without it I would be significantly less well off. Am I a bad person because I want to be treated like a human instead of a replaceable cog in a machine?
Languages that shoehorn everything into objects, especially heavy weight objects (where it takes a class to create a simple function, a single variable, or single constant, ...) are not just ideologies.

They are widely used tools, and actively helpful or coercive in their enforcement of a particular view coding.
"java trying to force its world view" is the correct way to design a programming language, just java is a bad language, and only half way forces its world view when it has to be 100% for this idea to work. in the sense that there shouldn't be things like int32 in a high level language.

also the OOP paradigm makes no sense and is just pseudoscience. i can't even think of a valid reason to use objects once you get past the cat/dog/animal example which only makes no sense because the proposed problem has no concrete requirements. there are no small examples where objects make sense, and for any big example it would require days of analysis to reach a conclusion. there are lots of invalid reasons, like some syntactic convenience of x.fff().zzz(), this example being invalid because that syntactic benefit can be better achieved by a composition operator like in bash: x | fff | zzz

if i look at any OOP codebase the first thing ill see is someone pointlessly loads up some data into an object and calls obj.method() which then just unloads the data as if they were just parameters to that function. why did you even make the object in the first place? because OOP braindamage, simple. you've been trained that this is somehow the ethically correct way to do things.

the idea that objects provide some new type of abstraction is just nonsense. those constructs were already doable in ML as well as by convention in C or any imperative language, which is how most such languages are in fact written. all OO adds is interfaces which are done better by many other languages, and inheritance which is just a joke.
> A final reason I didn’t want to believe in the social media hypothesis was that I’d much rather blame wokeness … it’s annoying to me that intellectuals won’t even consider the possibility that radical new ideas about race and sex might be to blame, and the fact that the most liberal demographics, that is women and LGBT adolescents, are having the most mental problems indicates that there is something to the theory that wokeness causes misery.

Why is this trash linked on HN?
It was a little slow.

No text cut and paste.

The baud rate actually has to be set correctly in the firmware before the connection works.

The command line to invoke for the IP address 1.2.3.4 port 23 is:

mame -rp . vt240 -window -nothrottle -host null_modem -bitb socket.1.2.3.4:23

These are some useful articles that I read in getting it working.

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/terminal/

https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/terminal-simulator/issues/1

https://www.mail-archive.com/simh@trailing-edge.com/msg09086...

https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Num...

https://simh.trailing-edge.narkive.com/qgzCvrl8/dec-vt-emula...
Your hands can move around all the money they want, the question is how much that money will buy. This is the issue countries with declining labor force participate rates are facing. Someone actually has to clean those bedpans and do all the dirty work.
My guess is that the actors are actors, being paid to represent the interests of others who don't care to be famous themselves.
The Last Meccano Factory Is to Close. Will We Miss It?
this was my first thought reading the comments

well at least there is some recent activity https://nitter.net/what3words
Is Matthew McConaughey worth 40-50 laid off salesforce employees in terms of value provided to Salesforce? No idea. Totally possible, though.
ZIP is inclusive of state
Ethane (R-170) is a fine low-temperature refrigerant for lab equipment. The performance characteristics are at least as good as halocarbon refrigerants. The main drawback is flammability but propane has a similar concern and is already widely used in residential refrigerators and similar size systems.
Intel Unveils Quantum Software Development Kit Version 1.0
European here. I am opposed to such an additional fee because ISP's don't have a contract with Netflix, but with their customers.

I think it's quite simple. If their customers don't get what they are paying for, they will switch to another ISP. In case all ISP's choose to demand such a fee, Netflix needs to complain about anti-competitive collusion.
Location: Seattle, WA
Remote: Yes (Preferred)
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Ruby, Sinatra, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Express,
React/Redux, Go, HTML/CSS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, Nginx, Git/GitHub,
HTTP/REST, NPM, AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Timestream, IAM), Digital
Ocean Droplet, Heroku
Résumé: Can be found at https://www.athresher.com
Email: thresher533@gmail.com

I am a software engineer transitioning from an aerospace engineering career with over five years of designing solutions in the aerospace industry. Over the last two years, I've built software using multiple languages and technologies including Ruby, JavaScript/Node.js, Typescript, React, Go, PostgreSQL, Docker, and AWS. Most recently, I built a geographically distributed load testing service, Constellation (https://constellation-load-testing.github.io/).
> Which source? The charger or the device? Because either could be at fault.

IMO it's harder for the source to be flexible with voltage, and especially current limit, so I'd put somewhat more blame on the sink here for not being flexible enough. Generally a sink should expect to be plugged into an 'unknown' source, so should at least make an effort to support multiple voltages.

Designing a multiport power source with a shared power limit is a bit of a tricky problem.
No, that does not scale. Sunrise and sunset are at very similar times in CET countries, meaning they have similar business hours, and I can set up a meeting between Spain, Poland, and the UK (which is on UTC/BST, but that’s close enough) at 11:00 CET and everyone will be fine with it and well awake at that time. If we extended CET around the world, and wanted someone in New York to join our meeting, they would be furious because they would need to ~~wake up~~ (edit: be awake and at a computer) at 5:00 ex-EST, or 1.5 hours before sunrise.
Summarize web articles in 1 click using AI
Zip codes are nation-scoped, not state-scoped, so yes they'd know which state.
The history here is a little misleading. Client side bundling happened before node/npm. It's a performance optimization to reduce the number of requests the browser has to make. Typically people were just concatenating files. Concatenating was a painful dependency management challenge for larger code bases. Subsequently there were module systems like requirejs that also sought to fix some problems like these and ran without a build step in dev. Browserify really changed the perspective here and people started to think a build step wasn't sooo bad.

I do think, based on the requirejs code that commonjs/browserify didn't really need to be compiled anyways.

Also fwiw, the technique mentioned here is a way a colleague and myself introduced babel to a large company as well, we just transformed + reverse proxy cached in dev. And fwiw, webpack basically does this anyways these days.
There's also the fun story of the letter addressed via a map, to "a horse farm with an icelandic/danish couple and 3 kids and a lot of sheep!" - https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37233913