skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many European countries have either outright abortion bans or limits on abortion after a certain number of weeks (including Germany, Italy, Spain and Ireland). This is similar to many Republican states you call "radical."
"you will be invited to a party where odd customs prevail"
The design was probably inspired by the Letterform Archive's relatively new site
https://oa.letterformarchive.org/?searchText=graphic

https://letterformarchive.org/news/the-online-archive-is-now...
They exist - I am one - but it doesn't work unless your leadership wants someone who doesn't fit in existing hierarchies. I tend to consult and if I go somewhere where I have prior relationships with leadership, it works. If not, I get treated as part of someone's narrow reporting chain and all the incentives are wrong.
They did something like this with Spectacle Island in Boston Harbor. Not a completely new island, but greatly expanded from its 20th century footprint as a glue factory and trash dump, thanks to landfill from the Big Dig:

From 1935 to 1959, Spectacle Island became the city’s dump, bringing 350 tons of waste to the island daily.9 In this time, the island grew by almost 36-acres.10 The dump on Spectacle Island sat exposed, with trash seeping into the harbor, until 1992 when the “Big Dig” began in Boston. The Central Artery/Tunnel Project brought sediment to Spectacle Island to cap off the landfill and turn the island from an abandoned garbage dump to a park.

https://www.nps.gov/places/spectacle-island.htm
If it took you a day to write a branch, do you really want to sit quietly watching me read and think for an hour? Anyway, everything I can’t understand without asking you needs to get written down for the on-call eng next year.
I like that english idioms translated literally make sense in Québec, such as "ça fait du sens" for "it makes sense".

I realized this specific one is a bit controversial while searching for it, here is something I found on the website of the Government of Canada about it: https://www.noslangues-ourlanguages.gc.ca/fr/chroniques-de-l...
Another one bites the dust. Goddammit
How wrong can someone be? Unless the startups core proposition is some advanced algorithm (like openai), something very hard to replicate, it absolutely does not matter how great their engineers are. They merely need to be barely competent. Of course, better engineers means more efficiency and a different structure but that never fails a startup. Bad growth does. But growth numbers expected of VC backed startups can fail it. Thus the factors that fail or succeed most startups is not the engineeers.
Great way to ruin a great friendship.
Are you sure it’s not the same fingerprint for all/some users?
I think HN is a madhouse. Any article I click on, there's things I've never heard of that sound like made up techno-jargon, like programming languages which I've never seen used in a real job, let alone met anyone who uses them

But I go to the comments and there's 150 people who all know every intimate detail of this technology already. Experts in the subject.

I think most of you all are faking it
What are you talking about? I use cat and less all the time when I'm working in the console. No need to switch tools when I want to take a quick look at the file.
Does Labeling Make a Thing “a Thing”? (2020)
Perhaps, but I would argue that the door in order to be able to get access to these positions is more heavily barred when the interview process can include clinically quantifiable demonstrable competency in the form of architectural whiteboarding, algorithm design etc.

It's more difficult to assess and measure soft skills that you would find in sales positions.
Venture capital has been long gone from Twilio at this point. It's a public company and no matter what the history of how the company raised the capital to build its business initially, it is simply acting as a public company now. Had they chosen to stay private and continue to use venture capital, they may not have had to reposition the way they have. See: Stripe.

Plenty of privately owned businesses IPO and become subject to the same forces. Less than 50% of publicly listed companies are VC backed.
So apple vinegar is a hoax?

BTW was it a reflex that you capitalized it? ;)
> I can see partial ownership being an even bigger problem.

I don't know about the US, but where I live, I think I think that if you don't want to be, the other owners have to buy your slice. If they can't they need to sell the house.
I swear to you, there is an untapped market for titanium pizza ovens. Maybe for camping gear. Maybe for stationary ovens. But fire + titanium + father's day? It practically sells itself. Titanium pizza peels are already on the market. Who needs this shit?
The whole point of it is that only works if everyone does it because it gives people leverage. If people are replicable then there is obviously none, unless everyone agrees to bargain collectively.

One cannot dam a river by leaving a few meters open because someone likes to fish there. Either he gives it up, or the entire town continues to flood.
Copy an existing idea in a space that has several competitors. This means you know there are customers and they will pay for the service.

Change something to make it better, or at least change something to make it your own flavor.

Choose something you think is very exciting or cool, it will be easier to work on.

Don't worry about copying them. You don't need to invent a new idea.
Can’t wait for the YouTube video about this - should be a good DIY series
The world is 100% legally zero sum

unless you can legally appropriate property with no money or any other type of compensation then where is this magical free pie?
Starting 2025 Russia state-owned companies must use Russian software only
Another step to isolation. I wonder if this includes OSS. I personally welcome abandoning property software on government computers (M$ et al). However, not allowing foreign OSS will be a huge disadvantage.
Your manager is not an idiot.

They generally can tell who is failing to deliver because they are constantly stuck on trivial things and who genuinely can’t do more and need help. If you go see your manager because the team next door is blocking you explaining clearly what you have tried and why you need the issue to be escalated you just sound professional. Same thing if you can tell you are going to be late in your delivery and need something specific done to help especially if you do it with a lot of time left.

Also I have a pro-tip. Managers intentionally ask people they view as competent and trustworthy to do the thorny things that need to get done. So surprisingly the people who are expected to need the most help are often the most valued.
This had good points up until the point where it conflated banking software with ‘moving a few numbers around’.

There are vast differences between the pathologies that affect small scale contract web app development as detailed at the start of the article, and those that affect global enterprise development such as is required to build large scale online banking systems. The biggest difference being that many of the things which are ‘imaginary problems’ for the small time web app are very much ‘real problems’ for a publicly traded company with responsibilities to several government regulatory agencies.

And sure, these institutions are just as prone to conjuring imaginary requirements, but it requires considerably more sophistication to tell the difference between ‘something someone in the German compliance office dreamed up to make themselves seem important’ and ‘something that if we get it wrong will result in billion euro fines’ when you’re building a banking system rather than a podcast website.
What you could get was Georgian-style khachapuri which is an amazing cheesy butter bread thing.

Now there’s a Dodo pizza in every city and pizza-sushi-etc places on every corner.
The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator's car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished sphincters. When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens.

You want to talk contact patches? Your car's tires have tiny contact patches, talk to the asphalt in four places the size of your tongue. The Deliverator's car has big sticky tires with contact patches the size of a fat lady's thighs. The Deliverator is in touch with the road, starts like a bad day, stops on a peseta.

Why is the Deliverator so equipped? Because people rely on him. He is a role model. This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. When it gets down to it -- talking trade balances here -- once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here -- once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel -- once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity -- y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
* music
* movies
* microcode (software)
* high-speed pizza delivery

The Deliverator used to make software. Still does, sometimes. But if life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education Ph.D.s, the Deliverator's report card would say: "Hiro is so bright and creative but needs to work harder on his cooperation skills."

So now he has this other job. No brightness or creativity involved -- but no cooperation either. Just a single principle: The Deliverator stands tall, your pie in thirty minutes or you can have it free, shoot the driver, take his car, file a class-action suit. The Deliverator has been working this job for six months, a rich and lengthy tenure by his standards, and has never delivered a pizza in more than twenty-one minutes.
Why would you need a licence? It's innovation bro. I'm innovating with my new scheme. I call it "scheme certificates", basically you buy them off me and then I give you a percentage back each month which we'll call scheme earnings.
I posted this as a separate "ASK HN" but shouldn't we all just be using GDPR to force Reddit to delete our data? Those of us in Europe, anyway.

At worst, Reddit will break the law.

At best, it forces Reddit to delete data that they apparently consider incredibly valuable.
Once you dig into how the Kape Technologies holding is linked to the same people of the NSO Group scandals, well, good luck finding a VPN that didn't sell out their customers.
> If it took you a day to write a branch, do you really want to sit quietly watching me read and think for an hour?

Yes, absolutely, if that hour is going to be productive and collaborative in coming up with ways to make the code better (which every in-person code review I've been in has been)

> everything I can’t understand without asking you needs to get written down for the on-call eng next year

No, everything that you can't understand without asking me should be fixed by both of us so that it can be understood by everybody. Approving hard to understand code just because it's been "documented" hurts the entire codebase.
> Where does the money come from?

You realise that businesses are successfully formed without venture capital, right?

I’m not saying “create a business and ignore the entire concept of marketing”. I’m saying that you can create a small business with a tight focus and it can be a success, a great success even, without the necessity of scaling to the level VC investments usually require you to.
The "triumph of reason" as you describe it came from philosophy. It was the "natural philosophers" who developed the style of critical thinking and rationality that resulted in the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution. Of course, there is plenty of bad thinking that gets categorized under the name philosophy, but that doesn't mean that the whole enterprise is useless.

Actually, I think philosophy should be taught more in schools. Learning to understand, evaluate, and critique complex arguments is just as important, if not more important, than learning to solve equations or do empirical science.
I think you read a different article. Miguel is aggrieved by the fact that it is no longer a developer focused company, which was the reason for its success.

Sure, you need sales, marketing and the rest of it; it does not mean that you need to forget what made you great in the first place.
Cofounder conflict is one of the biggest untold stories of the startup world. Happens all the time, but no one wants to admit the scale of the problem or get into their own specifics.
Many places allow minority owners to force the selling of land by petitioning the courts.
I don't necessarily agree with this statement - if I know my best friend inside out we will have a super large room for flexibility, and that often prevents conflicts.
Apple would say they don’t like hamburger menus. If the app is designed contrary to the guidelines (which say avoid hamburger menus) and tries to fight the system, unsurprisingly it’s not going to work well with the system.
I haven’t seen it either. Where have you seen or heard about it?
What I wonder is why would anyone that cares about archiving/search would choose to use Discord?
I would argue it makes no sense to index the vast majority of content without good search. If your search is good enough, you can index everything and then surface only the good stuff at query time.
> saying "even 'talented' and 'experienced'" folks couldn't from Haskell isn't a slight against the language choice but rather the aforementioned folks.

I don’t think that pointing out that esoteric language choice can make ”the barrier to entry quite“ high for participating in development is controversial.

I try not to turn discussions about language choice into slights against people. People are different, and learn things differently. If you cannot empathize with casual contributors finding it more difficult, or not worth it, to contribute to unfamiliar languages in unfamiliar paradigms, I can’t help you.

For what it’s worth, I agree with your response to:

> I’m on board with functional programming and Haskell is very interesting, but I’ve still never understood the decision.

A person’s fun and enjoyment at development has to be a key component to engaging in an activity. That’s why I stopped engaging with Haskell - the community’s attitude and conversational tone frequently involved talking down to people. More than many other language communities I’ve experienced. It’s not all Haskell devs; probably not a majority. But it’s not fun to be insulted when trying to add a sentence of context to a comment.

It leads me to feel defensive in an unproductive way.
A not-particularly-subtle threat deserves an equally subtle reply.
Are we ready for embodied agents?
I remember seeing Boston Dynamics videos and thinking , this is probably in the +10 years timeline. However there has been increasing papers [0] showing how robots can be grounded with LLMs. As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to develop, it is becoming increasingly possible to create robots that are capable of autonomous action. This raises a number of safety concerns, as robots could potentially be used to harm people or property.

One of the main concerns is that robots could be used to carry out malicious acts. For example, a robot could be programmed to attack people, steal property. In addition, robots could be hacked and used by malicious actors for their own purposes. In addition, robots could be poorly designed or manufactured, and could malfunction in unexpected ways. Specifically in this demo, this robot can be prompted to do things unforeseen.

Here are some specific questions that need to be addressed:

How can we prevent robots from being used to carry out malicious acts?
How can we prevent robots from causing accidents?
How can we ensure that robots are designed and used in a safe and responsible manner?

[0]https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/08/towards-helpful-robots-gro...
[1] https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1670484372309573632
It was the same thing with Emby.
Exactly this. Your dependencies are not request scoped, so there is no reason for them to be included in a per-request context. Instead, dependencies should be passed in to and stored in the struct that uses them.

The data you store in the context should be specific to the current request. Think: request ID, user ID, auth info, etc.
The strategy for getting the thing in question nearly always makes all the difference for very worthwhile things and this article very much glosses over that fact.
I suspect good management, as plotted on a curve, does not follow a Bell curve.

I'd suspect it's bimodal, and the "bad" peak is much higher than the good one.

Ay least, that's how my own experience maps.
> the documentation was good

There’s also a book now which I can highly recommend: https://www.amazon.com/Keycloak-Management-Applications-prot....

It has some holes in the installation section because it does not cover the most recent containerisation story but it’s pretty good for Keycloak configuration for various purposes.
Do you use a single context key with a struct or iota keys for each value?
> Is it practically possible to shift the culture?

Yes. But it requires saying no to lots of things you used to say yes to (and vice versa), which can be extraordinarily difficult

It may not feel like it, but if you have been around since day 2 you’ll be respected enough to try anything you like, as long as you actually do it and don’t complain (not saying you’re a whiner but some people are). You basically have tenure.
If a fella wasn't careful, such a vehicle might crash ... into snow.
How many seats do you have? I have 50 but heard that those who signed up earlier have more.
Sorry to hear that. How did you end up in a situation where you're the only founder working full-time but the other founders have more equity and control over the business?
> understand that there's nothing preventing a revision to the CCS type 2 Combo plug and cable standards to spec faster charging. The Tesla plug is just about the cable and plug. It's the least interesting part of any charger.

Revising the cable and plug IS the complicated bit, actually, when you run a network of EV chargers and you’re the one paying for the hardware and labour costs

The Tesla NACS hardware is megawatt capable. CCS2 hardware is 350kW capable.

Let’s not pretend it would be trivial to upgrade CCS2 to megawatt capability, with so much legacy deployment to upgrade.
The way that instances connect to each other is O(n^2), which is not to say it's exactly n^2 but the curve is of that shape. This isn't strictly a problem with ActivityPub as with how it's used, especially in Mastodon. It's why you keep hearing about super-long queues chewing up RAM, and causing long delays - hours or even days - before content appears. It's why Mastodon instances tend to be clusters of larger machines at a scale that you would think can be served by a single smaller machine.

The usual solution for this set of problems is connection and/or request aggregation via a proxy layer. Relays (in fediverse-speak) do exist, but seem very lightly used and do little or no caching because ActivityPub relies heavily on POST (which IMO was probably a bad decision). Any caching that's done has to be ActivityPub-specific. I wrote about this a while ago and almost certainly got some stuff wrong, but it might be interesting nonetheless. At least it drew some interesting comments at the time.

https://gist.github.com/jdarcy/60107fe4e653819138396257df302...
Louisiana is a bit of an odd-duck in the Law. Most laws in the United States are largely in the Anglo-American tradition (English, modified by American Constitutional values and subsequent jurisprudence). Its Civil law is more akin to Spanish/French law which is to say law in the Roman tradition.
They could shorten this up considerably. Labels don't make it a thing but they do allow for a common reference frame. Learning and teaching the reference frame allows for a society.
These people need to understand what a salary is. If you want 40 hours, pay hourly. A salary is paying for someone's life in exchange for them to dedicate their effort to solving your problems and making you money. Sometimes that takes 60 hours, sometimes that takes 30. That's the agreement, and if you as a salary employee try to get a 40 hour cap you'll be told that that's not how it works with salary. Well that goes both ways.
You then get other problems as you incentivize output over work done properly, which if implemented improperly can just result in endless rush jobs that pump up the metrics while lowering overall quality. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

A common example is doordash and similar delivery services where people are paid by delivery and not by time spent on the job, so they race around ignoring all traffic laws and nearly get themselves killed half the time to shave off those extra 30 seconds.
Just like the comment I replied to.
This information has been declassified for decades, much longer than the quote from the pilot. I first read about it in Ben Rich's memoir, published 1996.
I started using the Internet in the mid-90s, back when it was still primarily a communications platform. It's now primarily an economic platform with a side dish of conflict promotion. (But of course the Internet is huge, and you can find worthwhile things and communities if you try.)

But back in the 90s (and moreso before that), the average Internet user was more technically minded. For instance, everyone on IRC had a basic sense of how NAT affected TCP connection setup and whether a private message or DCC chat would be more appropriate, and who should initiate the DCC chat. They had a sense of what a T1 line was and had a better mental model of how pieces connected together. Nowadays, the average user doesn't have to navigate technical issues and can only be trusted to know the difference between swiping left and swiping right.

This makes it easy for major services to pimp their own users and make obscene amounts of money.

That said, the dream of the 90s is alive in Lemmy and other new technologies. It would be sad if you didn't explore what's out there.
Is that really a representative example though? Roberts basically invented a gaming subgenre despite himself until he had so much money there was no one left who could say "stop, that's enough". His ambition appears to keep engineers busy with an ever growing product scope.