skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because you've popped a box on the inside doesn't mean you automatically know everything about the network. It doesn't give you a mirrored port on the network switch. It doesn't mean ICMP is enabled, it doesn't automatically tell you what ports are open or what they serve. And any decent security team is going to see your nmap blast in the IDS and kick that box in jail.

Seems intellectually dishonest not to acknowledge that making things easier, just y'know, makes things easier. Keeping attackers, who want to do you harm, in the dark as much as possible seems important to me.
Yes, US does extraordinary levels of interference in China completely contrary to international law and accepted norms. This is something US would never accept done on its own territory. US simply does whatever it wants ignoring any and all international norms. And if people in US had a shred of decency then they would be horrified by the fact that their country behaves in this fashion.
I dont need to my last windows update did it automatically.
I'd call that curiosity.

"I hear about it a lot, I'm on my personal time, let's see what it's all about" seems very acceptable to me.

Not every good thing needs to be seen from an analytical perspective.
Take a look at Groups.io: You can set up a group with both a mailing list and a forum for free, for up to a certain size, and then it’s some minimum price and $0.04/month per user for all the feature.
What is the cause of the unhealthy behavior in the first place?
Combination of culture and personal choice. e.g., A culture where it is permissible to take advantage of others as they are not as equal as your are. A personal choice to take advantage/abuse others as long as you get yours, screw everyone else.
US has never been on the right side of history in the past half a century, and US is sure as hell not on the right side of history trying to start a war with China right now.

Why should China side with US over Ukraine's territorial integrity as US violates Chinese territorial integrity?

Furthermore, your entire position is incoherent here. Seems like when it comes to Taiwan you are supporting separatism, while when it comes to Ukraine you're supporting territorial integrity. Perhaps try and pick a lane first?
It's astounding that you don't understand why international law exists.
Glorified kitchen timer reminds me a little of my use case(s).

When uncorrected I have severe vision impairment (-10 + astigmatism). Without exaggeration I have trouble finding my glasses unless the room is well lit, and even then I have some panic if they aren't exactly where I think they are. I have backup glasses in a known place because if my glasses slide off the nightstand or something else I'm essentially completely blind.

At night, in a dark (or even dim) room, it's much worse. So, for me, the Echo does it's job just because I can tell it to turn on the lights. I imagine for other people with more significant accessibility issues it can be very useful - even though it drives all of us crazy with "Oh, by the way, did you know I can...".

It's also nice for a few other bedtime/dark room related things like lying down to go to sleep and get that panic "OH WAIT! Is that 7am meeting tomorrow? Better check the calendar and set my alarm accordingly." Or when I wake up at some point in the dark and need to decide if I should start my day I can ask Echo what time it is without struggling to find my phone and be blinded (even more so) by the backlight as I hold it (literally) 1-2" from my eye.

It can be really annoying but for me these (admittedly minor) use cases keeps Echo in my house (bedroom).
If unsolicited advice makes him mad, your dad has anger issues. You did fine. If you don't want him to get mad, don't interact.

The real question is: Why does your dad have anger issues? Chemical imbalance? Drug abuse during youth? Genetic?
A lot of startups probably didn't get founded. And CS enrollment has probably been up (haven't checked).
so you go from perpetually unemployed to engineer at Atlassian for a couple of years, then back to perpetually unemployed? ("never would have had jobs" according to the parent) is that typical, for most companies?
wow. i usually push back against the mindless "that's too many engineers what are they all doing XDDD" meme. but this is actually insane, i can't believe there's more than a single person working on postman.
Jokes aside, in the current tech contraction with almost every company laying off and freezing hiring, unless you have lots of experience, some rare skills, or a great network of contacts you face a rough road. Lots of people looking for jobs in the Valley. Holding up a sign on the corner may work just as well as sending in applications or trying to chat someone up on Santana Row.
Is it me or there is this weird double vertical scrollbars?
https://i.imgur.com/Upjzoth.png
Got a link to 2023 +/-1 Toyota truck for sale in the US that has only one row of seats? I couldn't find it on their website, but maybe it's hidden away somewhere?

Chevy's small truck doesn't come with a regular cab either. I expect you can probably get a chevy commercial truck with a single cab, but those are big trucks.

EDIT: I looked on a bigger screen, and Chevy does sell the Silverado with a regular cab; but that's a full size pickup. You used to be able to get an actual small truck in America. And you can still get one in Australia.
And yet we know for sure that many companies doubled in size in the past few years. Including really big companies.
Did you not notice the explosion in bootcamps and online programs? Not to mention the huge expansion of existing CS programs. Tens of thousands joined the industry.
One argument might be that the statistics of accidents per hour driven demonstrates that highway driving is easier.

I don’t think the comment is “driving a truck is easier” but that trucks find themselves on the highway more.
Being out of the loop, what does other highlighters used in static website use as engines?
There’s Pi Pico GUS project now

https://github.com/polpo/picogus
These comments seem to make a gloriously meta confirmation of the article's point. The article is saying that engineers (among others) have been known to optimise for the wrong thing. He uses a possibly inappropriate example of faster dishwashers.

Then many of the commenters (quite likely engineers) optimise their comments on the thing they know about -- desirability or otherwise of faster dishwashers -- rather than considering the merits of the main thesis

And it's made even better by some commenters saying things about areas they appear not to know about, like the desirability of faster dishwashers for restaurants
Yeah but the Deck isn't as cool as the Switch
A quick sanity check of that statement using Google pulls this from the FTC's website:

> Price fixing is an agreement (written, verbal, or inferred from conduct) among competitors to raise, lower, maintain, or stabilize prices or price levels.

Collusion doesn't stop being collusion just because one introduces a middleman.
Good it was just one. If it took a group of engineers Musk would call it a conspiracy all over Twitter (once it came back online).
So the companies that sell on Amazon pay money to Amazon (from the revenues they get from Amazon's customers) to have their products listed more favorably than competitors (one of which is actually Amazon).

I can see how this seems advantageous and monopolistic for Amazon...
This is not true, GPT-3 can perform chain-of-thought reasoning through in-context learning either by one/few-shot examples or zero-shot by starting a prompt with "let's think step by step" (less reliable).

GPT-3.5 (what's being used here) is a little better at zero-shot in-context learning as it's been intstruction fine-tuned so it's only given the general format in the context.
9000 people who make products that suck should do something else with their lives.

Does that mean they will lose their jobs? Yes.

It's still the best outcome for the world and those people will get other jobs, hopefully making better products.
We've had the same thing happen with a local gaming club - we've pretty much wholesale moved from Facebook to Discord. Which is great for current members, but makes recruiting (which is sort of important in a college town) next to impossible.
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I haven't really spent much time on simulation games past SimCity 2000, but I find this odd. Even the most winsome cities and countries in the world are struggling.

Instead of scenarios or AI, why wouldn't it be the case that success invites more problems? You've got issues with immigration happening too rapidly for the population's taste, inflation devalues your accumulated resources at a more rapid pace, essential workers' pay isn't keeping up with FAANG, inequality is rampant, lots of homeless druggies appreciating your shelter & food bank infrastructure but locals are fed up, and also the next level up in government works against you out of envy or simple lack of appreciation for you contribution to the public purse. Power structures crumble because citizens get lazy and entitled, not knowing how good they have it, populism and self-interest rule the day.

Design success as the enemy of success, and you never run out of issues to solve. That said, it would be nice to see the winning endgame in real life for a change.
Newsgroups have obnoxious hierarchal branching replies, unlike any normal human conversation, unlike what forums do, and they lack lots of minor forum features.
The optimist thinks the glass is half full

The pessimist thinks it's half empty

Microsoft excel thinks the glass is January 2nd
> Instead, you start with an anecdote

This also works in math.

Best professor I had, he spent half of the lesson explaining the life and motivations of some mathematician (Riemann, Fourier, Weierstrass, ...), and why he was so obsesed with such and such problem. He surely added a lot of salt and pepper to his story. Then, once everybody was craving for the technical details, he stated the main result and told us just a couple of crucial details in the proof. The complete, formal, proof was given as a handout, and you really worked through it in the afternoon.

An unusal teaching method, but very engaging.
Tell that to the native inhabitants of Taiwan.
Most floppy drives were like that. I mostly formatted my nominally 1.44MB disks to 1.72MB (the "unformatted capacity" is 2MB). It worked so reliably on different drives that Microsoft distributed software on disks formatted this way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_Media_Format (it says there that they were harder to copy, but that's not my experience, and MS operating systems supported them directly from about the mid 1990s).
> Configure your ntp clients to use the name

So how do you do this hands-off, ie without manually changing things on the clients, without DHCPv6?
I admit I don't know the industry-wide data for that. I have not encountered a bootcamp person in a professional setting in over 5 years, but maybe im not a part of most companies.
> lower cost as you scale

The cost aside, I'm wondering how fly or heroku support their customers when they grow to microservices ecosystems.

The problem shifts from deploying easily to deploying reliably meaning one release of a service should not break the other services. Other problems appear too, like service discovery, peer authentication, gateways, test and staging environments where there are downstream dependencies, etc.

Are customers supposed to leave when they grow to this level? Or are there solutions for these?
The abstract is just hype. Read the full text. There was no difference between groups. The study failed!
I understand your complaints. It is being a 12000 level from bottom to about two thirds of the screen on which the objects become bigger and smaller, seemingly moving to the horizon (and disappearing nicely behind it), all with some cartoon-style perspective. It is the case of an artistic perspective in a bitworld. Some of the objects are animated, but not many, but it has video- and audioplayers.
There is turning around and moving to the side (and some kind of camera-walking), whereby this is happening between two walls. I wrote ceilings but certainly mean walls as the ceiling is meant to be the barista who is asking you to go home beyond your laptop, because you have no phone calls in with random people from around the globe and would not think of it @t-cup.space. Certainly a website that sells high-quality tea. Because your phone turns green then. You start looking to one wall and can turn around, after 90° you switch to the backview. The artistic perspective makes it a miracle to think of walking straight in a 360° illusion.
It feels ikea they should start with rail and subways not trucks. If we cant even automate things that are on tracks how can we automate things that aren't?
This reminded me about the whole tree part being removed from sourceTREE
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-7176

I don't know how they have customers honestly.
Discourse is not really good, it's got endless scrolling at takes forever to navigate what could be done in seconds with pagination.

Pages are a defining feature of old forums, without them it's just another Reddit-alike or something.
Same for me. Yup, weird.
Packed snow can effectively be "solid ice".

Hitting that at any speed is unlikely to make for a fun day.
The best streaming boxes these days? A not-too-outdated laptop that's been retired from everyday use. Sure, it's bulkier than your 'streaming box' but it can double-duty as a backup laptop for browsing or play some basic indie games on the TV. Install an ad-blocker, install your browser of choice. It probably already has Windows 10 or 11, so you're good to go - you can even install a VPN and unblock various regions for streaming services.

With a decent amount of on-board storage, and all of that - you can set it up to be an HTPC. Most laptops within the last 3-4 years will support 4k over HDMI. Those with a discrete GPU definitely will. If it has an integrated GPU, with intel 610 or newer - it most likely will.

You can buy a remote and an IR sensing dongle. Or go with a small handheld keyboard and touchpad.
As always you have to remember that the public UI of a SaaS business is rarely telling the whole story about why the headcount is what it is, and without significantly deeper knowledge of everything the business is doing, including future products in development, it's really hard to say if there are too many people or not.

Most engineers are not in a business to support the day to day running of an app. They're there to build new things to provide growth and support change. This is why you can do an Elon and fire 75% of the staff without something collapsing immediately. That strategy even works in the long term if you're happy to scale back future ambitions and focus on a single app. It wouldn't work for most companies that are constantly fighting for market share though.
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It's astounding that you believe international law actually means anything. If it did, Russia wouldn't be invading Ukraine.
Only because Mac is the only place in the Apple ecosystem you still own your device. Everywhere else it would be "our loss".
Anecdotally, I was connected to a number of people on the Ads team and years ago, the upper ups in the G machine were already extremely nervous of Amazon's internal ads system.

Google has been regularly losing marketshare to Amazon because people perform searches for products directly there when previously it was done through google-search.
I would hazard an educated guess that you live in a luxury apartment building. Is your building the best use for the land it’s on with regards to affordable housing? If not, why do you financially support the developers/owners? How do you deal with the cognitive dissonance?
Here is a higher-resolution copy of the image that heads this article, so you can answer burning questions like "is that a dog up there in the ceiling or what?".

https://www.bl.uk/britishlibrary/%7E/media/bl/global/dl%20ro...

Hooray for TinEye.
If the layoffs are in the “metaverse” units. If they’re not then aren’t they just doubling down?
The Apple Pay bell sound is the most satisfying modern sound. It also makes use of the vibration motor to make it feel like an actual bell has been struck in your phone
A deleted comment:

> Is it? Newspapers aren’t exactly thriving and it’s not because of Amazon.

Would you have a problem if a random local newspaper company had significant influence over what 50% of the U.S. bought, watched, read, listened to, ate, and needed for medical purposes in addition to market power that made it stay that way?
The Great Resignation gave the individuals so much negotiation and purchasing power for a brief period of time as Big Tech companies lost people left and right to Web3 Crypto Unicorns (and other Unicorns in their dying gasps).

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, all lost so many people because their systems weren't configured to be able to quickly keep up with the new market trends. But Big tech cos had 2 things could control:

1. Newhire offer bands could rise quicker than internal salaries. (Leading to resentment that newhires were getting insane offers that long-term employees could never get in a raise). Which led to a lowering of the bar across all levels in Big Tech to get those offers out.

2. Promotion bars could be lowered likewise.

Neither was nefarious. Noone ever said at a high level leadership level "Lower the bar" (for either). But what did happen is that when great coworkers all around you are constantly leaving, the people remaining start to panic. They start to realize that that "almost senior" engineer who's "not quite there" and wouldn't have been promoted 6 months ago, will absolutely leave for a Senior title and a 30-50% salary bump if you don't promote him. (And still might if you do cuz you'll only give him a 15-20% salary raise). And suddenly, everyone starts "leaning in" to promotions.

Likewise, on interview loops, when you've lost a bunch of folks and are desperate to replace your headcount to meet your goals, you start talking yourself into candidates that you wouldn't have taken risks on 6 months earlier.

This is all basic human nature, and even experienced data-driven leaders will find themselves optimizing for different criteria and justifying it to themselves as thinking outside the box. I'm genuinely not judging, it's a reasonable and logical (albeit shortsighted) way to act under the circumstances.

So now, that all of this is behind us, these companies are all sitting on hiring freeze, post-layoffs, and still with a bunch of folks that are overlevelled.

An overcorrection is the only step forward. Lose even more folks because you now have to recalibrate their inflated sense of accomplishment or worse an overly optimistic sense of their opportunity ("Jeff got promoted and I'm way better than Jeff! So I should get promoted too." Yeah, Jeff wouldn't have been promoted in 2020 or 2023. So alas, too bad for you)

I think to some degree this will happen across all Big Tech this year. But unlike during the great resignation, there's no more unicorns (Except Facebook) throwing insane offers at ex-Big Tech.

I think things will go back to normal in 2024, for a definition of normal that is closer to 2014.
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I know that this is what the PRC line is, but it really is just not the case, no matter how many times it tries to say it is. US one-China policy does not, in of itself, take the position that the PRC should have control over Taiwan, nor does it take the position that mainland China should be controlled by the ROC. It is intentionally left ambiguous, and the US position has been consistent for fifty years.
Perfect timing as I'm writing my second book and it has this as one of the premises
Huh? Things like message threading are not only common on forums (like HN and Reddit and Slashdot and…) but with newsgroups and mailing list they’re entirely up to the client application you’re using to access them.

I use Mail for email and Thunderbird for news on macOS: Mail only presents one layer of hierarchy, while Thunderbird can show replies hierarchically _or you can turn that off_.

With a forum, you’re making that decision for me, instead of letting me make it for myself.

I can’t believe how ignorant people are about how things work.
Atlassian to Eliminate 500 Jobs in Latest Software Cutbacks
Per capita GDP in Taiwan is triple that of China. While average living standards have improved significantly in China there is a good argument to make that the CCP has held back GDP growth.
The author's comment about the NVIDIA Shield is dead-on. I love mine and I think it's the best streaming box on the market. But it's a total afterthought from the company.
Or the same thing every company in retail has done forever
You only let users design a product or tool if they are better at it or more correctly if you are even worse at it. Users don't want fire exits or seat belts. They basically want tasty food that kills them. It if can be more tasty and kill them faster they all want it. Even better if the product kills other people but silently and far away. If it can be slightly cheaper and kill many more people you've done well in their opinion.

Of course sometimes having the user design the product or tool is the only available option. Just remember it is a terrible thing when it happens.
Aren't designers also responsible for the designs of the most pleasant GUI apps we ever use?

It seems like the real problem has to be deeper, having to do with upstream business demands or fashion trends among UI designers pushing designs from their original contexts into contexts where they no longer make sense.
Walmart too. And Target. And grocery stores.

I am not sure people are really prepared to take the implication of how unfair Amazon seems to its logical conclusion, because it means undermining a lot of what makes us comfortable in modern life under capitalism. Regulation targeted at increasing competition (breakups, rather than regulation Amazon as a monopoly of a kind and entrenching them) might result in a better outcome, or it just might make things more expensive and then you have to repeat the same breakup and regulation process again every 15 years.
Feel bad for the engineers still holding on over there at Meta. I can't imagine they had a great Q1?
Developer here. I quite like Jira, I've never seen anything as fleshed out or complete as it is. At a previous startup, I used clubhouse.io, but I seriously missed Jira after a few months.

I generally think Atlassian is a really solid company building good products and I really don't get the hatred. I'm also open to acceptable alternatives to Jira and Trello.

Edit: ooh, just saw that they also own statuspage. And everyone uses/likes statuspage.
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>Google has been regularly losing marketshare to Amazon because people perform searches for products directly there when previously it was done through google-search.

Ironically Amazon has been so aggressive with the ads recently I've lost all trust in searching on Amazon itself. I'm back to using Google to find the Amazon product page.

On Amazon I search for a specific brand and model and it's on page 4, buried until endless sponsored products. I have to go my order history to find the product page now. Sometimes the Amazon search is not just all endless products but literally incorrect products, stuff that I would have to return if I bought it by accident. Like yesterday Amazon kept showing lightbulbs with the wrong physical socket size.

Amazon product search feels not just bad but actively hostile, something I have to fight against to find the thing I actually want.
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/requirements-getting-product...

"You may be required to pay a slotting fee to, in effect, purchase shelf space if there is a great deal of competition fighting for the same space."

no difference than paying for shelf space.