skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Literally the first one I clicked on, it’s an utter nightmare to navigate.
Are you sure your friend was actually allowed to take that shortcut with an e-bike going 45 km/h?

AFAIK, these are considered "light motorbikes" (or something) and require the same paperwork (aside from an "easier" license) and gear as regular motorbikes.

More importantly, they are specifically not bikes and aren't allowed to ride on bike lanes any more than a fat liter+ bike is.
Before going full remote when covid started,we had a couple of offices. One was filthy, stuff all over the place, fridge looking like it's been a nuclear war inside,etc. The other was always clean,no stupid leftovers, toilets were pristine, and everyone always had "wow" moment when they walked in. I was in the clean one. How did we do it? Everyone cared about it from day one. People weren't leaving plates on tables but were putting away into the dishwasher. For the fridge we had a rule: not consumed by the end of Friday - it goes to the bin,no excuses. And even if it's only a few employees who care about it and do challenge others when things aren't right(e.g. leaving empty boxes instead of dumping them,etc), suddenly it becomes very easy to maintain high standards.
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It's a shame. Outside of Reader, this is the one Google "killed product" that really guts me. Glass had so much potential. And something like it still does.

If only they could have gotten the price down to a reasonable level. I wanted Glass, but I wasn't going to pay $1500 for one. I'd have probably paid half of that though.
Employee referrals are the real job network.
This thinking seems self-defeating to me and only serves to uphold the status quo or - sadly - make things worse.
Steve Nord! Nice to see youhere....
Attackers are starting to target .NET developers with malicious NuGet packages
If you leave it on the exchange, yes. It's your mattress if it's your crypto wallet.
Will be interesting to compare the velocity between the two. Can a community fork keep pace and possibly even innovate more than the commercial upstream?

There have been a few cases of open source collectives/coops that do what Gitea does but distribute the profits to contributors equally, wonder if any of those have reached sustainability.
Join a religious community and be surprised you are an outsider for being non-religious?
What are the current thoughts on Gitea vs Forgejo? I'm thinking of migrating from a self-hosted Gitlab to one of them in the near future. The way Gitea was taken over leaves a bad taste in my mouth so I'm leaning towards Forgejo, but it's not really clear to me if that's the right choice.
I remember there being a big stink about Gitea, so much so that it was forked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34011581

I don't use Gitea, but if I were to start today would there be a proper reason to avoid Gitea?
If 10% of your users impose 90% of costs, without providing a similarly exaggerated share of income... I'd LOVE to fire those customers.
Aka Delaware.
To be honest, majority of environmentalists don’t care to change our tone to make obvious concern trolls happy anymore.

Nothing has worked and your condescending tone doesn’t help with anything either.

Have you tried to reason with the average Q person? It’s not possible.

Enjoy being depressed: https://old.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/hot
"The problem doesn't exist for the very best" is really not much of an answer. Besides, even the best may not have much luck right now. Tons of employees from what are considered the top companies are looking for a new job. I have a very solid CV and I'm getting ghosted when applying for jobs I could have taken for granted a year ago.
> the banking sector has shown that they are willing to break every rule imaginable

I think the visible outcome of the banking sector being subject to lots of fines for technical rule violations is less a symptom of the banking sector being uniquely bad and a more a symptom of (a) just having more rules and (b) being under more scrutiny than other sectors.
I think you misunderstood their post.
Aren't immigrants about 15% of the US population though? It's not that disproportionate.
OpenAI: ChatGPT Could Disrupt 19% of US Jobs, Is Yours on the List?
I remember New York mayor Michael Bloomberg taking a trip to London around a year after they implemented their congestion charge, since he wanted to do that too. Their mayor told him something like, “Everyone’s going to be protesting literally up to the morning it goes into effect, and then a week later everyone will be saying, ‘Why didn’t we do this ages ago?’”
Last I had heard, advertising is still a disaster at Amazon and Twitch still costs more to run than it brings in.
> if the weather is too bad to bike safely in, it's probably too bad to drive safely in.

I am sceptical of this assertion. For starters, if you have poor traction in a car you can always slow down, and the risk you face is sliding. In a bike, you need to have a minimum speed to actually bike, otherwise you can't stay upright. And your failure case is no longer sliding, but it's toppling over.

To say nothing of what happens if you throw wind into the mix.
You're about 100 times as likely to be killed by a car while walking on a pavement than you are to be killed by a bike.

https://www.roadpeace.org/pedestrian-pavement-deaths-2/

> This "Overall it constantly shocks me how little responsibility cyclists take for their own safety." just screams "I'm a dickhead driver likely to hurt someone and I want a defense."

You didn't twig with "When driving I've nearly hit several cyclists"
I think directly monetising a platform that is used, among other things(lol, let's be real), to distribute copyrighted materials illegally would put them in some very hot waters.
Counter question: why do interviewing and hiring managers seem to lack foundational knowledge about management? I don't mean the stuff they teach in business school, I mean empathy, relationship-building, self-awareness, empowering others, critical thinking.
"Philly's tech scene is fucking great by comparison."

Well sure, 1 > 0. The global salary thing seems to be moot. I hardly see any international postings. I assume the salary would be even lower too.
> A lot of the more convincing arguments I hear from climate denialists (I hate that phase btw) is that past climate models have been highly inaccurate and many claims and concerns have in time been proven overstated.

That's such a trite reply. First, we can take it literal. Yes, models have been inaccurate, and this one will be too. The trend is unmistakably there, though. You can check the bloody weather outside to see for yourself. Do you want to bet your life that the estimate is too high this time?

Second, we can take it less literal. They simply mean they don't want to move. They don't take it seriously. They don't care. Nothing in the world short of an immediate disaster in their direct environment is going to change their "opinion". And even then some will claim it's a freak accident.

Don't take these arguments as if they have the same weight. Do you want to bet your life and the lives of the ones you and we love?
The issue is Forgejo doesn't really have the know-how or capabilities to drive this project forward.

In the past months all they have done is rebrand Gitea and some minor fixes, but upstream (gitea) has added a huge number of features and merged tons of valuable pull requests. So are they just going to continuously merge upstream into their fork and do nothing besides that?

The platform, Codeberg might be "well" funded but not to maintain another extra project and develop new features for it.

I think the outrage was a little too big initially. It's a big task to create a git host that needs to compete with Github and the likes and I think it's fair that you want to make some money on the side with that.

Compare these merged PRs:

Forgejo
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls?q=&type=all&sort=...

Gitea
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclose...
> I don't want to reduce what you've said, but the fact is that Taiwan grew rich because of US support that helped integrate it into the global economy, and that wouldn't have come without its opposition to the mainland.

Taiwan didn't get rich because of the US. Taiwan got rich because of mainland china. The rise of Hong kong, taiwan, singapore and even to some degree south korea all resulted from the opening of china in the late 60s and 70s. The chinese elites' decision to open up trade with the world is what resulted in the rise of the asian tigers.

> Similarly, China wouldn't have grown rich had it not been a pawn against USSR.

Had nothing to do with the USSR. China was never a pawn for or against the USSR or US or anyone else. China got rich for the same reason saudi arabia got rich or any other nation got rich. China decided to utilize their greatest resource ( a billion relatively cheap labor ) after the USSR fell.

> People underestimate the power of the Anglo-Empire which the British passed over to the Americans, one they continue to run to this day, without so much as a squeak from the mainstream.

Who underestimates it? The entire world order is understood to be an american world order by everyone on earth.

> Given that the West is banking on India to do their bidding, I doubt anyone will halt China's growth

Barring ww3, I doubt china's growth can be slowed. We shall have to wait and see.
I'm glad this exists but at $22 admission I don't think you're going to attract anyone but hardcore pinball lovers and maybe the odd person trying it out as a novelty once and then never returning. Pinball for most people is not an all day activity so an hourly rate seems like it would be a better fit.
Don't content creators get paid the same regardless of whether we automagically skip their sponsor reads or not?
Not sure where your stats are from, but they probably include Dutch people driving abroad: they can easily take the train and bike anywhere in their own country, so I suspect most of their driving is to go on holiday in Europe. They are famous for being a small country with surprisingly large number of caravans near every beach in Europe.
This is also part of the procedure for sponsoring an existing employee for their permanent residency (aka green card). A case must be made that there were no eligible domestic candidates to replace them. Just the fact that this is necessary is absurd to me.

So it's not something that either the company or employee does wilingly
What about the chains of capital? Nothing is going to change as long as the powers that be can profit from the way things are.
For small personal deployments, using SQLite as a database is usually sufficient. This means you don't need a fullblown SQL server, instead the whole database consists of a single file.
A kid goes to daycare for what 3 years? If you have 2-3 kids and you don't wait 10 years in between these are just 10 years of your life.
More like 500-800 cars, given that one car carries 1.3 people on average.
The major "roadblock" is getting the nuclear materials - getting enough of the correct isotopes and avoiding the "wrong" isotopes.

Counterproliferation is a tireless and thankless profession. The term for technologies that can be used for good or evil are generally called "dual use". One of the common ones is HF. Hydrogen Fluoride can be used in the uranium enrichment process as well as in refining gasoline/petrol. There have been no new oil refineries built in the US in the past half century, yet more gasoline, and higher octane fuel, has been produced (in the US) while closing some refineries. HF is used in a large number of industrial processes, I merely listed 2 which Iran would love to have. Their gasoline refineries are working with 1960s level technology, which burns up most of the crude oil they extract. Supplying them with HF would let them modernize their refineries to the point where they could export far more crude. Or let them make "yellowcake" for refining into highly enriched uranium. I'm aware that no sample of enriched uranium collected by IAEA shows enrichment past what is needed for their domestic nuclear reactors (about 4% enriched for power reactors and 20% for the one that makes radioactive chemotherapy stuff).

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty [0] says that signatories of the treaty are forbidden from transferring dual-use materials & technologies to countries that have not signed the treaty. This was why a Bush-era trade deal with India [1] was so controversial. Neither India (nor Pakistan, nor Israel) have signed the NPT.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferatio...

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93United_States_Ci...
Would be crazy to move right now given the way they’ve been handling these layoffs
Or you could use AdBlock and tell YouTube to pound sand. I don't understand how that's entitled when YouTube still serves me the video content.
Great!

Now fix London's massive crime issues, thanks.
Satellite intel for club-wielding skirmishers. Surreal.
Always wanted to get out to Western Australia and Perth... still hope to visit some day. I have a video somewhere still of Don Bitzer's PLATO demo/presentation that he gave there in 1976 which was aired nationally on ABC in Australia.
agreed, they got rid of package.json just for them to rediscover its convenience and reinvent it later
I'll give you credit for being honest about being cheap, instead of advancing some bad faith "muh information wants to be fr33" argument.
Paper Bills and Statements; a Real Necessity in a Digital World
No: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Clown_World
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Microsoft plans mobile games app store to rival Apple and Google
> You could start with the number of KSI caused by cyclists compared with motor vehicles

Cyclist involved KSIs, 2013-2020: 1123 (30 + 1093)

All road KSIs, 2020: 24989 (1460 + 23529) (and this was a quieter than normal year on the roads)

I make that a factor of 8 * (24989 / 1123) or 178x difference.
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>Maybe when the inflation starts dying down faster + the AI craze will continue to even greater heights then we'll see it coming back in full swing.

We might never see it "back in full swing", the same way cobblers never did came back in full swing...

https://novum.substack.com/p/what-if-worldview-zero-interest...
I had an extended back-and-forth in which I asked ChatGPT how to undo mistakenly marking a message as junk in Messages on iOS.

It gave me a 7-step answer that was completely wrong. Then I said no, you can't do that, it apologized and gave me an 8-step answer that was completely wrong. When I pointed out in this case there is no "Junk" folder in iOS Messages, it apologized for the confusion and gave me another 8-step answer that was completely wrong. When I pointed out why that one wouldn't work, it gave up and said recovery was impossible and that I would need to contact the sender to re-send, and be more careful when marking messages as junk. This was still wrong, as recovery is possible, just not by any of the means it described.

So yeah, I have been super-impressed by the quality of output from these LLMs, but I cannot imagine actually relying on one for anything where correctness matters.

Giving me a nice list of Korean shoegaze bands, sure. Its step-by-step for how to become a better volleyball player will be great for my daughter, and was better than the answer to the same question from Google. But correctness? No.
both equally horrible, from the perspective of a pedestrian. the only two people i have ever punched with intent in my life were these witless nincompoops that drive around the city and into you - if you don't work there, you have no idea how dangerous these assholes are.

easy solution: compulsory lisencing and insurance
I admin a small part of our Google cloud part time and I feel I absolutely have no time and no idea how to drill deeper than clickOps. Knowing where is everything and the general risks of toggling a switch are already nerve breaking.

Sometimes I wish I could learn everything from scratch. I wish I could join an on prem team to learn all those small details slowly and painfully.
Why fears around children playing video games are counterproductive
That is a good suggestion and doable too.

But if the recipient forgets the password? They won't be able to reset it, in most case either, because the reset link goes to the original email which the recipient may not have access to.
I don't think they're testing bots; many seem to be linking to external sites or advertising something.
Space is expensive in city centers. Cars take up lots of space.
Solar Panels Floating on Reservoirs Could Provide a Third of Global Energy
Don't be terrified. People who get laid off in small layoff rounds smaller than 10% are often not that attractive in the job market. There are some exceptions like recruiters for example because usually their pie of the chart is much bigger than engineers for example.
I’ve worked at Twitter, Uber, Amazon, and Facebook. They all had mountains of tech debt and oncall burden.

Which one do you work at so I can go there?
brian dear / orange07 / pea.... homelink customer too... it was crazy expensive. But then I wound up with two physical PLATO terminals at home, and I was dialing in to CERL for all the fun and games, and to umbc for work
Which is great but the fed previously stated that it planned on lowering interest rates once inflation was under control
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I've found that every time my bash scripts become sufficiently complex, I end up rewriting them in Python.
It takes longer than continuous biking in a city would make one think, for the same reason driving does: you have to stop at red lights, yield, wait in traffic.
Yep. And companies are sharply downsizing their recruiting teams as well. At bigger companies, recruiting can be a large function.

I think there is an assumption that all of the layoffs have been engineers or engineers, designers, and product people, but a huge chunk of them have been in support roles that are less needed without big hiring demands.

If companies are cutting travel and expense budgets, that means you can cut accounting staff. If you are largely not hiring, you can cut recruitment staff. Etc., etc., etc.
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I'm a gamer, my spouse is a gamer, and we have a Quest in the house because of my spouse's job. We're free to use it to play games or whatever, but we never do. We both tried Beat Saber the day she got the rig, and haven't done anything with it since. That was months ago.

I have a gamer friend with a gamer spouse with multiple VR rigs from his spouse's job, similar situation, job doesn't care if they play with the hardware. He says he played them a bit for a couple months a couple years back, did the very small number of must-play games (mostly just Alyx and SuperHot, I think) and that was it, all of it's sat unused since then.

Maybe we're not representative, but that's four-for-four of not really giving a shit about VR even when we're all gamers and the hardware's free.
I predict that LLMs will kill off search engines, taking blogspam with them. Blogspam has been steadily eroding the value of search results for decades, choking out genuine websites like garden overrun with weeds. When people finally stop using search engines entirely all of those blogspam sites will cease to be profitable, unable to even pay for their hosting, they’ll disappear from the internet.
People who excel at theory usually don't do well in most programming positions. Perfectly normalized schemas do not hold up well in an operations heavy environment.
I live in the Boston exurbs. There used to be two passenger rail stations on a Boston & Maine RR line back when the town consisted almost entirely of farms.

Cars killed those services. Nothing about that was "natural." Cars need to be contained to uses where they are strictly needed in order for such services to come back.

With work-at-home as a new norm there is much less need for commuting. With delivery there is much less need to drive from store to store on shopping trips. The American "geography of nowhere" is a blight to be eradicated.
I'm one of the community members on the Gitea TOC.

Just to clarify, only one maintainer left the project to my knowledge, although a few other contributors did as well. The majority of us remained with the Gitea project.
[^1]: http://3zanders.co.uk/2017/10/13/writing-a-bootloader/
[^2]: https://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page
Freelance portfolio shouldn't contain everything
Huh, blood sausage is really common in Europe, we call it "black pudding" in the UK.
You’re likely not overpaid at Amazon vs other FAANGs based on changes to equity comp. If you’re somewhere where you were overpaid, I hope you saved accordingly now that you’re going back to a $150k-$200k/year job.

As others have mentioned, you might not be able to find a $300k-$500k/year job, but you should be able to find something.
I can’t imagine not coding with AI after just a week or two of experimenting.

For complex tasks, I define the function signature and the dependencies and it does it with minor fixes needed.

Most times I can copy/paste the error message and it’ll fix it.

Worst case scenario is it hallucinates a function and I have to remind it that that function doesn’t exist.
40km from the nearest city should still provide lots of public transport options.
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> I’m not sure why they think it’s a good idea.

Historically hiring tech workers is really hard, especially for small companies. Applications trickle in. Good candidates are 10% of the pool at best.

"evergreen" job postings keep a pool of applicants that can quickly be drawn from when headcount is open. If headcount isn't filled quickly, hiring managers may lose the head count, so they are optimizing for fast hiring.
Not to mention, you could easily kill yourself. If you're biking on the roads (especially in the UK where they're extremely narrow), you better recognize you're partaking in a dangerous activity and take it seriously. At least wear a helmet.

Also, cycling drunk is illegal in many jurisdictions and can get you a DUI in the same way as drunk driving a car. If you're on an e-bike, it's almost certainly illegal, since you're driving a motorized vehicle.
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I've found that there are two approaches - shotgun and sniper.

Shotgun approach - figure out what software speciality and industry you want (for me, it's Data Engineering in Biotech/anything life sciences), and apply to every single job that you seem fit for. I applied to 20, heard back from 2-3.

Sniper approach - if you find a job that you actually really want, work your network as hard as you can. Find a friend who is connected with the company, ask them to make an introduction. Find random people at the company, LinkedIn message the hiring manager, do anything you can to get an interview. Once you get an interview, you have a chance, but the hard part is getting the interview.
>The next hype round is only a matter of time because rich people need somewhere to put their money.

They put their money in hype when the money is free or close, and putting it in those "investments" make sense. Like when you have QE and near-zero interest rates...
They throw bodies because they have them and they are looking to solve a problem.

And they do automate, claims that a service like S3 does not have automation are totally ridiculous, and few other general hosting providers have AWS scale here.

That said, their development pace is crazy, with plenty of partially built solutions -> so yes, until something scales enough to need it I'm not surprised they have sysadmin toil. Reality is even the VMware worlds and other onprem stuff, even when "automated" have plenty of turmoil just staying fresh / current / backed up / secured etc. So that's what AWS is selling.