skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With 15 people and 7.5 hour work days, saving each person just 30 minutes a day is cost equivalent to a permanent full time role. At 30 people, you need to save just 15 minutes. At 90 people, 5 minutes.

And that is without considering that a full time role would keep doing more work than that singular time saving, or the decreased operational cost from failures in manual process execution.

Just because the jobs seem menial to you does not exclude it from bringing great value to an employer.

(Above numbers are subject to crude linear extrapolation, but are sufficient to make the point.)
What book(s) can I read to hear a realistic perspective on climate change? Even better, what book(s) would be best for someone skeptical of it?
simple things will go very far
If you are subbed to a sub make the vote forced when you visit the sub? Not just a pinned post with a link burried somewhere.
>They merely got there first, finders keepers.

That hasn't really been the case for a while. Especially for the larger subs like r/videos. R/news for example was created 15 years ago and it's oldest mod was modded two years ago. Also the admins come in and remove top mods of problematic subs (generally alt right/brigading subs) all the time.
Stack Explorer, randomly explore Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange sites
I do the same. In my case, it's doxxing prevention. I don't like that someone can put my profile on one of the reddit inspector sites and get a detailed profile of me, including my age, where I live and my hobbies. I also don't like it when people can click on my name and get my entire history across all subreddits.

That's not the case here because I consider HN to be the equivalent of a single Subreddit, so the information is less diverse. I don't talk about every facet of my life here.

On the other hand, I'm the kind of person who uses a different username on every forum. It's a habit I picked up in the early days of the internet.

This is especially useful in this era where even news organization websites will quote your online username to add to their stories.
You need to pass a road test which they are pretty picky with along with a written test. The written test had a lot of random crap you would never use imo. Honestly not too difficult but I imagine it might be for someone in and out of prison life.

I don’t know much about prison/jail but I do agree it should focus on re-habilitation they should have systems to help you study and get a drivers license while in there for example.
Taibbi pays bank fees. And tax. And his isp. And for stationary. And substack to provide his cms and payment gateway. He is the customer in /all/ of those transactions.

There is no credible claim of substack trying to influence writers. Unsurprisingly substack is used by wonderful journalists and idiotic charlatans alike.

Glenn Greenwald has left substack for locals for his own reasons, i don't think he has any argument with substack. Seems to have been frictionless including transfer of subscriber credit from one platform to another.
This resonates with me. I was always interested in "websites that did things" that was before things were called web applications. I took a couple of CS classes in college, but they were dull, challenging, and left me with uninteresting Java apps. It put me off computer science entirely.

A year later, I started tinkering with Wordpress and found it far more fulfilling than my CS coursework. In 2012I joined The Starter League—an early code bootcamp—and began my learning Rails.

For me—and probably for many others—the real excitement lies in seeing how we can apply what we learn to build cool things. It makes learning so much more interesting.
Itself an instance of hanging the lampshade.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging
PE is just the most egregious example of capitalism, where they can extract all the future value of a company immediately by swapping in debt.

But almost by definition, capitalism requires growth, else why would anyone place capital in a business.
"This is out of line with the science, and scientists should call this out more prominently."

I completely agree with this. I'm also familiar with people I've talked to, and myself at times, falling into doomsday scenarios.

No, we aren't all going to die, not in rich countries st least. It's just going to really, really, suck.
Maybe the people who hang there should have some ownership, after all, without them, what's the point of Reddit?
While I don't want to be mean, I'm sure OP is great.

It does remind me of the tiktok "investors" who sell classes on how to get rich, but the classes teach others how to sell classes.
Unfortunately I didn't bother to ask my friend for the specifics. But the need to hear attentively and wait for the end of the sentence had something to do with the verb describing what happened to the train. It could be either a minor, temporary problem quickly fixable, or a more severe incident which would require more time to work out. The difference would be determined by the verb prefix at the end and, by its turn, would determine our course of action.
"How Inmates Play Tabletop RPGs in Prisons Where Dice Are Contraband": https://www.vice.com/en/article/padk7z/how-inmates-play-tabl...
assuming the code is reasonable and can scale they should be allowed to and enabled to do this. as a dev I dont want to think too hard about the infrastructure underneath it, I just want it to run.

the ole “runs on local therefore it’s good to go” should be good enough.
I hear those points, but none of them make Android "walled garden". "Walled garden" requires lack of user options re app sources, such as what iPhones do, and Android has many non-Google app sources.

The fact that dogma1138 did not find any of those non-Google app sources useful does not make Android systems a walled garden.

I know of Linux systems whose users only ever install apps from default repositories. I know of Window systems which are set to only allow apps from app store. This does not mean they are closed, it just means their users do not need more.
> Isn't the fact that they're able to restore deleted comments from that far back itself an indication of malice, or at least irresponsibility?

Meh. You're not exactly wrong but I think it's pretty common for user-generated content sites to follow a logical delete strategy. It holds open the door to being able to restore data deleted by end-user error, and within the bounds of their data retention policy keeps data around that may be useful for internal analysis.

Actually come to think of it seems plausible that they only have ~3 years of logically deleted data, having purged deleted records older than that.

It's also plausible they had all the is-logically-deleted information in some redis datastore that wasn't being reliably persisted to disk and the process had to be restarted for the first time 3 years.

I'm actually leaving my restored comments untouched for now out of curiosity about what they'll do about it now that the issue is known. I think that will probably answer the question about whether this was accidental or intentional.
Concerning climate change, the world is going to be like this.

All models are clear that global warming cannot be reversed. No "turning green" will lower average temperatures enough in our lifetime. Thus, acceptance is capital, because only acceptance of reality can lead to sensible solutions.

As a side note, screaming "It's too late: hurry up!" is really an idiot way to advocate your cause, whatever your cause may be.
Its funny for a large publication to tell their readership to stop scaring kids with death (did i say that right?).
And yet if I post my CV as a "Linux Systems Administrator" I will get zero replies on LinkedIn. I wish this wasn't the case though.
The problem is that any good I, as an individual, can produce is far outweighed by the damage a multi-trillion dollar businesses can cause. This isn’t to say that individuals should do nothing, this is to say we need to deconstruct and limit those who actively harm the environment, starting from the largest and working down.
hows their mail forwarding though?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_reaction
Arizona is a warm, but dry place. Temperature of 38C can be both mildly inconvenient and deadly, depending on the humidity. There are densely populated areas of the world that are much more humid than Arizona and are getting warmer. Eventually people will ditch those places and start to move towards milder climates.
I’m probably wrong. See the Orca model which came out recently.
Sometimes people have nothing fun in their life to look forward to so they obsess about something which they have no control over except their perception that if we all did "X" everything will change. But the funny thing is, most aren't giving up car ownership, most aren't trying to offset their energy consumption in a meaningful way, most aren't commuting sepiku, they're only blaming systems without any personal change.

Leave the kids out of your delusion. It's hard enough to become a well balanced person with everything else going on.
Show HN: Make ChatGPT aware of all your functions automatically
I think that on average, car drivers are less passionate, as most are using it for utility. On the Enthusiast side, I think the averages are similar, but still lean towards motorcyclists being more passionate, with the main example being the % of motorcyclists having custom exhausts and levers. I'd estimate at least 25% of motorcycles have those features. For cars, I'd estimate 5-10% would have custom exhaust or steering wheels.
I am not complaining. What I am saying is that the current experience for most users is the following:

I want to compute a sha1 hash in postgres.
I make a google search, I click the first link.
It says I should run `digest('mystring', 'sha1')`.
It doesn't work.

Whereas it could be the following just by adding one line to the documentation:

I click the first link.
It says I should run `CREATE EXTENSION pgcrypto` first.
Then `digest('mystring', 'sha1')`.
It works.
Awesome feedback, I'm on it!
Problem is that afaik things are not going get better; climate change is going to hit us bad. The fight is now mostly just trying to manage how bad it is going to be, especially in 2100s and further.
Basic transactions for regular purchases :-)
They might not be interested until after they try it. I think an important part of education is to get exposure to a wide array of disciplines and then see what sticks.
Easier to break up riots when they end up rolling for initave first
Well, that’s basically a long way to say “it depends”. But in reality there often is a right way to do things. There is just no universally right way. And even if there is no completely right way, there are ways that are better and ways that are worse.

All in all, I think it’s a good thing to periodically challenge best practices, otherwise things can’t get better.

There might even be valid reasons to do things a certain way, because of special circumstances.

But you should still stick to best practices unless you have a reason not to. They are best practices for a reason.

Also, the notion that every single software is completely individual with a completely individual way to do things is faulty. Yes, there might be some individuality, but not enough to throw all best practices out of the water.
I agree. I had the benefit of going through the top curriculum and instruction program in the nation. I was considered a high performer right out of the gate; however, I don’t think that I really started to “get it” as a high school English teacher until around 4-5 years in.

Edit: I don’t mean to be dismissive of the submitter. You very well may have a unique insight into CS instruction based on your time in the classroom. I would just caution that - from a marketing point of view - two years in the classroom is not going to instill confidence in your expertise with long term educators (so avoid making it a selling point as such).
> Align incentives to create simple, reliable software.

This is the way.
For a much better introduction to financial markets I highly recommend

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Just looked it up. The CDL is on average acquired over seven weeks. Not quite a couple of weeks, but not a long time either.
And what do you do if it's not just in the summer, but the whole year? What if it's parts of the earth where a lot of poor people live?
Already tried anybox? (https://anybox.app/)
When I was a kid we repaired everything: darned our clothes, fixed the car, radio, etc. My parents taught us these then essential life skills. In addition, since cash was tight, we used things until they wore out, or if we got something new and additional (like new clothes) we basically didn't use them until the old ones wore out (difficult when you're a growing kid).

50 years later I can't unlearn this even though it makes little sense in most cases in an age when things have no repair affordances or are so cheap (socks) that the "cost" of repair is greater than the effort to replace it.

The consequence is that I really dread buying things and have no ability to make an impulse purchase. Every purchase feels like a burden: did I really get the best one that will last the longest? How will I look after it? I can't understand people who go shopping for fun. A gift also feels like a burden has been handed to me (I have to look after this and use it appropriately).

It also shocks me that so many people don't know how to repair anything -- though the rational part of my mind wonders if they might be making the right call.
I don’t have much insight into the teaching environment so take this with a grain of salt, but in general, when bringing new people into an environment, one of the most useful periods of time to get feedback is during and just after the onboarding process. This is when all of the things long-timers have become blind to are most visible.

Someone who has been in a role for years has often absorbed the issues and found ways to navigate around the biggest pain points (the upside of this is a deeper understanding of the environment). But someone who just joined can often see some issues more clearly than anyone else, and someone who is just finding their stride is in a sweet spot for delivering useful feedback.

I’m not claiming to know the ins/outs of classrooms, nor do I know enough about this person to pass judgement, but disdain seems rather misplaced and counterproductive.

Neither should all decisions about improving the system fall on newcomers, but they will have extremely important and valuable feedback. This seems like unnecessary gatekeeping if not tempered by reasonable policies that seek feedback from numerous sources, especially at a time when classrooms are in crisis and improvement is critical.

Blanket disdain is always a red flag.
> If I’m serving 10 requests/second then even if I’m 90% CPU and 10% IO, it doesn’t matter because I’m 99% idle.

I get your point I think, but that depends on the capacity of the host you are on, and how much the total amount of CPU is, not just the proportion vs IO.

Rails may not be a good comparison to python, perhaps it is especially a CPU hog, but I have definitely seen rails apps for which 90% CPU and 10 rps would saturate the hosts CPU yeah.

I mean, the math is--- if you have a 111ms response time, 90% of that was spent on cpu (90% of 111 is 100), and you have 10 requests per second (100ms * 10 == 1 second) -- you are now saturating a single core cpu, right? Those are not crazy numbers.

But of course Rails has a GIL too -- so you can be "cpu limited" with spare CPU available on other cores, depending on how you've set things up -- that's the original conversation topic here, right? How the GIL may or may not complicate attempts to make efficient use of resources?

For what we're talking about, the issue I guess is whether they would be CPU limited with the GIL but not without the GIL. Which seems plausible.

(And of course Rails is very very commonly used "for a fully interactive high traffic service sitting on the open internet" -- so I don't see why python, a language with pretty similar relevant characteristics, couldn't or shouldn't be? Despite having little python experience, the issues with GIL are something very very similar in Ruby/Rails, is why I'm in the conversation)

It's easy to start getting confused about what we're talking about here, or be talking about different things at once.
Point #1 is too real in my org.

> Need a database? File a ticket with DevOps.
> Need an IAM role? File a ticket with DevOps.
> Before long, your massive team of engineers has fully saturated your understaffed “DevOps” team’s backlog.

Our DevOps is under IT, not Engineering, so there's already an organizational gap there.

I've talked with DevOps multiple times over _years_ and laid out a rough architecture of how Engineering would like to work. To this day after CI/CD passes its still manual deploys with a ticket.

Render.com and other platforms do 90+%, if not 100%, of what I want as an engineering manager, but I'm hamstrung by policy and politics that were put in place 6 years ago when non-technology ppl decided we somehow had the resources to manage an OpenStack build instead of AWS. And that's before I realized everything on AWS is config config config and there's entire companies (like Render) that take away most of the work and just give you a dashboard to accomplish what you'd like to accomplish.
So... bearing this in mind, did Linux fail?
As soon as something becomes it's own team or department cooperation dies and a war ignites over attention and resources.

My experience has been that the places that treated development roles as cross-functional have been the most efficient, with the least amount of politics and dysfunction. It removes a whole cadre of people who are barely able to describe the features they request, while minimising the space for power plays.
I was getting paid £200k/yr as a Software Engineer for a company with an unresponsive offshore IT help desk. I would often spend a few hours (!!) a day helping various stakeholders with their desktops/printers/email. This was an insanely ineffective but absolutely necessary use of my time (I was managing a small development team with stakeholder satisfaction kpis), sadly my IT efforts were clearly more appreciated than development.

Hard to convince management that a dedicated onsite IT would be required - especially when they think it is your job already.
I teach post-grad stats classes in the US, with no real prerequisites besides a Bachelor's degree. Most but not all of my students have passed a college level stats class that covered these concepts, and maybe half of those did not retain a true understanding of these concepts by the time they got to my classroom. In my experience, math is the least like/most hated of the core subjects, and stats is one of the least liked/most feared math subjects.
The "best" professors/teachers i saw yet, where radiating an exhuberant joy while talking about their topic. It is fun to listen. They where a russian teaching in america who recorded a series about physics for TTC, The Teaching Company. He got voted best professor in america twice.The other one was David Malan of Harvards CS50 on [0]. Beware though, it sadly spoils you for later lectures by others.

[0] https://edx.org
1870, 2010, 2023, ????
Epic and Meta are not the same size.
It could be that what you're calling the "network effect" is what keeps people tethered to Facebook or Whatsapp, but I doubt it. Speaking only for myself, I certainly don't keep my Facebook account open for events. I also don't care for groups on Whatsapp. I have to have both solely because I value the relationships that I have with the people that I expressly added as friends/contacts on both.

Reddit may be different, but only in the sense that its overall value is less tied to individual relationships, but rather to the communities themselves. Each is a treasure trove of searchable, moderated, insightful, and trusted (if sometimes opinionated) information.

One obvious similarity is how difficult it is to migrate communities. I've seen so many attempts. None convincing. All such successful migrations that I've witnessed were actually slow organic growths of new networks that progressively made the older ones obsolete or redundant. I don't recall a successful one that was a mass exodus from one platform to another. The fine prints never made the unanimity (new moderation rules, etc). It seems that you really need to have a new destination that people can agree to gradually join and use concurrently with the old one, before abandoning the latter altogether.
As an SEO I don't see how Google is going to be able to fix this. I'm in the beta of the new SGE (Search Generative Experience) and it gives great generative information, but will be FORCED to show the sources front and center unless they want their ad revenue to collapse.

Given this, a new race to the top will commence by SEOs to try and get on that "3 pack" snippet of information.
Yikes! Thanks for the heads up. Peter left Stanford so I guess they took over the domain name :-(
Not to defend crypto, but I can replace the word "cryptocurrency" with, say, "computers" and your sentence is equally true. It's pointless to blame technology for how it's used. Why not blame the people who run randomware operations, or the hospital administrators who don't backup their data? If a ransomware attack is enough to cause the hospital to shut down, that means they were a bad glitch away for shutting down, anyway.
great job, we also support a private text2sql project, which called DB-GPT
GDPR is principles-based regulation. No specific thing you mentioned actually matters, what matters is whether anyone's privacy rights will be violated by rolling back years worth of deletes or edits.
Most high schools in my area have CS as an elective class. They can choose CS out of a lot of different classes such as music theory, extra social studies (additional histories, psychology, theory of knowledge, etc), various art classes (drawing, 2D art, 3D art, art history, etc), health sciences (human body systems, medical interventions, practicum in health science, higher level biology classes, etc) AP-level language classes, other engineering classes (aerospace, digital electronics, engineering design, etc), lots of music classes, agriculture, food science, debate, theatre, automotive, etc. One can easily get an accredited diploma without ever taking a computer science class.

Many students like to take CS without having any interest in programming, as its often seen as the goof off class where you get to spend an hour every day playing videogames when the teacher isn't looking.
I always wondered why they wouldn't let inmates create value with their skills. Seemingly manual labor that could be automated by a bunch of Undergrad Engineers that wouldn't even qualify as a capstone project.

I understand if you have offline computers. I understand if the computer needs to be behind a plexiglass wall and the mouse and keyboard need to be chained down. But quickly these will pay for themselves. Data Entry pays significantly more, I imagine there are plenty of white collar criminals with tech skills that could make $30-$100/hr.

Even if you only let the inmate keep 20%, the inmate is getting skills, money, the system is getting extra money, the company getting the data entry is getting cheap labor.

I can't see too many downsides other than the initial set up cost. Pretty sure the right side of the aisle will see the $$$ and approve. The left side should also see the $, but also know how humane and potentially rehabilitating.