skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole "parents feel helpless" theme is so weird. When I was a kid in the '80s and didn't want to go to school, my dad plopped me in the car and brought me to school himself. We do the same thing with our kid today. The idea that she can just stay home if she doesn't want to go sounds ridiculous. And calling the police to bring her?? Another poster here put it well: "America is getting weird."
Sure, it makes sense but that relocation is happening with or without me and i'd rather have a remote job and spend time with my family instead of commuting. This is basically asking "would you rather eat cake now and have your cake taken away later or choose not to eat the cake that's just sitting there and have it taken away later regarless?". I choose to eat the cake however ephemeral it may be.
Very much this - kids dealing with existential issues on the bottom of the Maslow pyramid don't have the luxury of this sort thing.
It's the decline of DVD sales.

Big budget Hollywood films are designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Why did the mid-budget sector (the one that can take risks with creativity) drop out leaving us with either indie films or big budget films? According to Matt Damon[1], it's the obsolescence of the DVD market that changed the calculus of mid-budget films.

When a structural change affects the economics of content, it's difficult to localize the problem and envision a remedy. Unfortunately, these economic systemic problems tend to shut down our capabilities to affect change rather than enhance them. In some ways it's more convenient to envision the problem as being a problem of movie studio executives and their choices, than a media economy problem with a change in financial relations.

1. Matt Damon | Hot Ones https://youtu.be/yaXma6K9mzo?t=841
TLDR: Ubuntu unattended-upgrades and the systemd-networkd `ManageForeignRoutes=true` [1] default broke all Kubernetes networking globally, across multiple regions and cloud providers simultaneously, at 06:xx UTC. Recovery was difficult and slow due to the scale, particularly with cloud auto-scaling behavior kinda making things worse when all nodes failed simultaneously.

Please test how `systemctl restart systemd-networkd` affects your custom networking setup. It is quite likely to break.

DataDog also published their own post-mortem: [2]

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/networkd.co...

[2] https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/2023-03-08-multiregion-infras...
I like how the one thing Hacker News can agree upon is that the tax prep software business is unabashed rent-seeking.
More straightforward in my mind would be letting people buy their mortgages. In a world of 7% mortgages, a 2.5% mortgage would only trade at ~68% of its value assuming they're both 10 years.
That's a really personal decision but if you want to send more details I'm happy to give a more thoughtful response. My email is in my bio.
> I would appreciate also firmware, but that's likely to remain a dream.

This was exactly my thought too.

Not knocking the self-repair scheme, but in my experience there is quite a disparity between the (relatively high) quality of their hardware - at least with MX mice/keyboards - and the low (IMHO) quality of the firmware and software.

I've never had any Logitech hardware fail but I have spent countless hours trying to fix or workaround their software/firmware.

I've mostly replaced it all with Karabiner and Hammerspoon now, but I still can't actually use my devices to their full capabilities.
Not a big fan of this comparison. Just because it was true of left-handedness doesn't mean it's true for other things. It also shows that hitting left-handed kids in schools was actually working, whereas it's not possible to "cure" depression or sexual orientation this way.
I had a boss who moved a guy from Russia to the US just so he could fire him. He was gone ten days after he arrived and all the paperwork was done. I guess that worker protections in Russia were really strong at the time, the guy was untouchable while he was there.
> “It’s almost as if you’d already decided how you were going to feel, and then everything you were sensing was filtered through that,” he said. “The mood has become primary.”

This is 1000% what depression feels like, once you've properly come to terms with it. Your brain seems absolutely compelled to apply the most horrific, negative interpretation to everything that happens to you.

Even when you understand it's wrong, or at least heavily negatively biased, fighting those interpretations feels like trying to swim upstream in a terrific current.
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It's sad. The LCM was magical. It's weird Jody Allen couldn't have just shoved off the LCM onto some other staffers or something if she was bored of it.
That and whoever had a mortgage before 2022 is not looking to go from 2-4% to 7% at the same high prices.

Politicians and big business really fucked us with the whole money printer thing.
This is a feature, not a bug. Most meetings could have just been an e-mail or a slack thread. They don't want to spend 20 minutes writing an e-mail, so instead they spend an hour in a meeting where they find out they still need to spend 20 minutes thinking about something and writing it up. People need to learn to work without meetings. Open Source projects get work done with virtually no meetings at all.
Thanks for clearing that up...
I actually did think it was a 'lake' type thing. - So T.I.L. :-)

Also, SRP has tons of great info. about the water system - its actually pretty cool how them mange it all:

https://www.srpnet.com/grid-water-management/water-managemen...

https://www.srpnet.com/grid-water-management/water-managemen...

https://media.srpnet.com/srps-granite-reef-underground-stora...
My niece is one of these. The solution was to enroll her in an online course where the instruction was done via pre-recorded videos that she could view as many times as needed to get through the material.

It's been a huge success for her; she's gone from a D average to an A average, thanks to being able to review the video material repeatedly until it makes sense. And she still socializes with her friends, both in person and online.

What it did is take her away from the bullying and hatred for anything different that public schools are rife with.
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I couldn't disagree more:

> You either hit the deadline well in advance, in which case you can sit on your hands and still consider it a victory.

Why would you sit on your hands? You feel tremendously satisfied that something was easier than expected, and look forward to moving onto the next thing earlier than expected.

> Or you miss the deadline and you have failed and might as well give up.

No, it's not failure at all. A thousand times no. You just realize you were too optimistic with your deadline, and you set a new one based on your new knowledge. Why would you give up?

> Or -- the worst case -- you can tell far in advance that you will miss so you don't even bother.

Again, just set a new deadline! Except in this case it might be too far out and you already discovered you were bad at estimating it, so break the task into a few chunks and just set a deadline for the first one.

At the end of the day, deadlines as motivation do work for some people, because instead of a task feeling scarily too-big that you don't know when you'll ever finish it, it encourages you to break it down, and compare your progress each day with what you expected to get done, because you now have a measurement stick. It turns things from unmanageable/scary/anxious into manageable/"I can do this"/confident. And you can (and should) reset the deadline if/when you learn that the task is much larger than expected.

The point isn't to meet the deadline or else you're a human failure, a million times no. It's just a tool to set a realistic goal and measure progress against something.

And realistically, you'll probably only make 50-70% of your internal deadlines like these, and that's the sweet spot. If you're hitting 95% of deadlines, they're too lax/easy to really motivate you. While if you're hitting 5% of them, they're way too strict/optimistic. The point is to be a healthy challenge.

Also to be clear, the article (and my comments) are about internal deadlines for motivation, not external deadlines at work.
I'm in the middle of listening to this book and they talk about "Staff+" roles some inside of it. The books describes the blurry lines in there, but it does talk about that next level in general.
"Dial up the stupid" is probably NPR's S.O.P. for politically contentious news.

I recall hearing them do a news story ~~15 years ago, where "balanced" coverage was "Democratic spokesman says 2 + 2 = 3, Republican spokesman says 2 + 2 = 5". No hint from the NPR reporter that something else might be the correct answer to "2 + 2 = ?". Let alone dropping a hint as to what that right answer was.

I didn't bother listening to NPR News (nor donating to them) after that.
They are referring to a cylindrical hole or any non-tapered hole (i.e. "square" in the sense that the walls are perpendicular to the bottom).

I've also heard that a "keyed" hole works well- a hole that flares outward toward the bottom traps the solid chunk of asphalt inside.
I was about to post this, but I see you already did.

I've been there in person. The Google Patent Litigation group used them as a source of prior art, since many technologies were developed first for games, before "regular" users got them. No, I can't give any details.
Yep. If I were to move to a comparably-priced house with an otherwise comparable mortgage at today's rates, my costs would go up $1650/month. That's 20 grand a year. So before a company could even begin to entice me with a raise, they need to increase my salary by about $30k (accounting for taxes) for me to feel like I'm breaking even.
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Haha, you should take a look at Windows.
Even MS does not follow the same style.
This is, quite literally, the best and safest time in the history of the US to be openly LGBT. This sounds like a reddit comment. I suggest getting offline for a bit and actually spending time with other people in real life.
Believe it or not these are all real companies that hire a variety of skill levels and even hire designers, frontend devs, support people, sales, marketing and so on. :) I mean not necessarily all of those companies are hiring all of those positions at every level this minute.

But my point is that, you can almost always find some way into an interesting company such that you may be able to eventually pivot to (or at least periodically work with) a team you're interested in.
Unfortunately, TMS is extremely expensive and not likely to be covered by most insurance plans. Even with a decent PPO, I was quoted about $1k a treatment and they said I needed at minimum 30 treatments.
In Bay Area I paid $30 for box a month ago
If we continue his logic, I would hate to know what other tools he still uses from 1995. I would assume his toothbrush hasn't changed either.
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Wrote an article about a fun interview question we used when building out the first prod / eng crew at a startup.
I hope you got a different boss soon after.
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I mean I use the mice WFH 12+ hours a day for years. I'm on the computer way too much.
I’ve seen the movie, and it’s in response to Rachel saying “the last dictator they appointed was named Caesar, and he never gave up his power.”

I also didn’t downvote you, and it’s against guidelines to bring that stuff up
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I see far more job remote reqs specifying US only, or time zone +/- n hrs limited than worldwide reqs.
Unfortunately, for me, a Sony smart TV was the least-bad option. (Given I trust Chinese options and non-Google TV operating systems even less.)
I didn't say they should, I simply pointed out that the "money [which] has to come from somewhere" is coming from somewhere, they place we all thought it came from - our data.
Does she get tested on the material at the school, where she can't look up the answers on the internet?
Assault weed!

/s
Easy to write in front of a computer probably from a first world country with enough money not being affected in a way that this threatens your life, ey?

But hey who cares that this is not globally true?

I'm also having the opinion that I prefer to have it slightly less good but making sure kids and their kids (it's only two generations ahead) have a better outcome.
> good in the long run

And extremely disastrous in the short run. If societies lose good paying jobs, that is asking for a populist uprising which typically goes pretty bad pretty soon.
Sure not all deals are good and that's why you shouldn't agree to all deals. I personally wouldn't even call it a relocation package, if I could be fired (without cause at least) and then forced to repay it afterwards. I'm glad (or at least lucky) that I don't need to consider such a ridiculous arrangement.
He's probably making the claim that his software, similar software, and tax preparers will find more deductions than the IRS system and cost taxpayers billions in lost refunds they're entitled to. Actually creating this system isn't going to cost billions of dollars.
In my opinion, that's true. We should be bringing even more skilled people to this country to work. Making sure that the US is the center of the software world is good for US software engineers.
They are overcorrecting for the news media that bizarrely ignored and downplayed the riots. Mostly peaceful was how CNN famously described it while literally standing in front of burning wreckage.
oh we looked into that a while back, should do so again
"Billions of dollars"??
Well I guess that’s my question then. Does the devpod become part of my docker compose app? Or does it run separately of it?
We would expect depression rates to reach new highs in late state capitalism, would we not? I thought we all understood things were going to get worse before they get better? This is similar to getting concerned why so many men having stage IV, terminal cancer are losing their hair. We know why. We also know Rogaine isn't going to help.

To me this is related to the other article on HN earlier today about the dramatic decrease in birthrates since 2007. They're all symptoms of a society in decline.
Can you expand on what the security concerns are as to confusables in symbol names in C source code? Clearly there's a security concern with cut-n-paste, but that's true regardless of what the rules might be for C identifiers.

It's not like it's obvious that UTR#39 applies literally everywhere that there are "identifiers".

Also, can you speak to what is the security concern with form-insensitivity (rather than confusables) as to symbols in input source files? I just don't see a concern at all there, but maybe I'm missing something.

Lastly, I think `#include` is the most important place to get this right since that does interface with the world outside the compiler (specifically: the filesystem), but as you note the filesystems mostly are just-use-8bit -- very few filesystems normalize on create (HFS+) or are form-insensitive (ZFS). The other place to get this right is on the object file output side, where symbols definitely must be normalized.

Oh, one more thing: the platform might impose some rules regarding symbols in ELF and any other object file formats. Are they known to? I suppose C can't necessarily cater to all platform-imposed limitations on symbol naming, but it'd be useful to know about them.
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> To my knowledge this does not exist.

Your knowledge might be a little shallow then, https://ifixit.com/products/steam-deck-fan
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Or instead of this law, we make stock buybacks illegal again. Then, companies flush with profit, have to take better care of the employees they bring on.
Look up the cost of the healthcare.gov website project*

People complain about government contractor costs for a reason

*Last I checked it was north of a billion in 2014 dollars
Take a moment to look outside of your borders. In the UK we have a mostly progressive income tax system with various tax brackets, tax free allowances up to 12k GBP, claw backs of said allowance over incomes of a certain amount, national insurance taxation, student loan repayments, etc...

The majority of UK citizens file no paperwork with HMRC (equivalent to the IRS) and never have a reason to contact HMRC.

The majority of UK citizens only interaction with HMRC is when they get a summary letter in the post at most once a year telling them that everything is fine or they over/underpaid through the automated systems. In the latter casen they either are given the money owed or told that they will have to repay what is due through what is effectively an interest free loan over the course of the next 1-2 years (can be negotiated).

The reason why this is possible is because employers report salaries to HMRC and its a deduction in their monthly payslips.

You might say its not possible to do that in the US, but ask yourself how does the IRS actually know that you have misreported/underpaid? Its because they already know exactly how much you owe because the same information has already been reported to them by the banks and your employers.

There is literately no point in tax filing for the majority of US citizen that work as an employee employer except to enable the parasitic tax filing industry to exist.
The complexity of the tax code is a result of negotiations between various political and commercial interests and lawmakers at the federal and state level. Simplifying it means changing a whole lot of laws touching taxation, which is practically impossible when the people negatively impacted by each change will be lobbying hard against. It's hard enough to get a single bill through congress. If they somehow achieved the impossible feat of changing all bills that touch taxation, the code will start accumulating complexity again starting from the next day.
In the UK the equivalent to IRS is called HMRC.

People who are just in normal employment dont need to submit their taxes because it Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and so its all obvious. But if you are self employed or get paid dividends or made a capital gain or sundry other exceptions then you have to submit a tax return.

HMRC provide a web app for you to submit your tax return should you need to. Its a pretty good app. Its long and complicated because thats how taxes are, but its pretty good.

There's also an API where 3rd parties can develop their own software for submitting your taxes. I guess you have to get some sort of approval to use it, but its there.

There are a few doubly-exceptional cases that are not covered by the default HMRC web app. E.g. if youre in a partnership (a sortof type of ad-hoc company) and need to do a special sort of return. A bunch of other edge cases too. For those you go and search out a third party software supplier from an approved list. Or fill in a paper form.

TDLR: something sane is possible
Because all that goes well is my doing and all things going wrong are a consequence of uncontrollable events.

I wish my life was that easy.
So you're saying it's worse that it's socially acceptable now for people to talk behind your back instead of enslave you?