skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people are just unable to see simple solutions to problems

This person might just have been terrified of admitting that all the (very tangible) time they spent on payroll building this thing was for naught. It’s unclear how their manager might have responded to that. And they wouldn’t have been able to put „built system doing X used by Y developers and deployed to Z customers“ in their resume.

The reasonable choice often doesn’t have much skin in the game.
I use Zoho Books for invoicing, payments and bookeeping. I have payment gateways that allow for payment via PayPal and Stripe.

(I actually use a Zoho One license that provisions a license to every product they offer. For a solo freelancer it works out well, covering virtually every base for a small business like mine.)
Also, the issue in the article is about water breaks while working outside doing heavy construction labor
VPNs in general tend to be super shady.

Many vendors surreptitiously use user nodes as exit nodes and route traffic in suspect ways.

VPN software stack is surely a major target for state and non-state actors to monitor and exploit.
Don't we solve organizational problems with software all the time?

Git
Monorepo vs Polyrepo
Microservices vs Monolith
Kubernetes
Is it the fault of the thought leader, or the loads of juniors asked to implement the architecture but don't really understand it? If everyone had better system design knowledge, it wouldn't be so bad. 90% of the engineers in my organization don't understand the function of an API Gateway, for example. So the thought leader does propose a reasonable solution, but then it doesn't work because the organization doesn't have the hard skills necessary to deliver. I'm sure there's other reasons microservice-based architecture fails, but in my experience, this is a primary reason.
reddit was hiring about a year ago for their "developer platform", I talked to one of their recruiters. I inevitably passed on the interview process because they did not seem like they had their shit together.

It's possible that they monumentally fucked up timelines here but committed anyway due to some ephemeral IPO plan.
You can still design an immutable REST api to match the client's needs. Apollo has really nice out-of-the-box caching that can be tricky to replicate with rest.

I see your point about reducing network requests (graphql lets you co-mingle mutations and queries), but I don't think that feature is used often enough, b/c what if one query fails, then everyone has to fail).
*can manage on its own well. The market manages - explicitly or through regulatory capture and toadies - a hell of a lot of things that the state probably should, like the Texas power grid. Markets are rarely efficient except in the very short term and very small scale.
> the person living there though they have rights for it (which is... weird in inself but I guess it can happen)

I imagine it happens more often than you'd expect - consider complicated inheritance laws, and so forth.

Parent dies without a will, verbally agreed with sibling that you'd take it, you thought you owned the property but after decades sibling dies and sibling's son inherits all of parents property including part-ownership, and so comes after you for half of the property.
If you, or someone else is seriously considering learning math from the basic at a high level, I’d recommend picking up “art of problem solving, pre-algebra” book, and walking up from there.

These sets of books are universally considered to be among the best math education resources by mathematicians and others, and they start from the very basic (such as the number line and basic operations), but without the need of practicing elementary school material like counting.
I switched to Jellyfin from Plex cause of it being open source and having AMD/VA-API transcoding support

I’ve enjoyed it a but more cause I feel like I can do more on the server end. I recently started to use Infuse on my Apple TV for it cause turns out that Swiftfin, still in development, doesn’t have a license for Dolby Audio formats.

But the development cycle for Jellyfin and the clients looks healthy, unlike Plex which seems to have stagnated. The next gen Jellyfin Web UI (Jellyfin Vue) is looking good too

Jellyfin is also pretty forgiving about my file names but I am meticulous at making sure the structure and filenames are correct before dumping anything new to the library to the point where I have a complex script to process movie and tv show filenames and folders. You can also override the metadata with the Identify function on the media page context menu.
[Andrew knows this but for the benefit of others]

This (the fact all end entity certificates are signed by an Intermediate, never a root) is a policy of the Web PKI rather than being inherent to any conceivable system for such a purpose or to the X.509 technology in particular.

Specifically the roots aren't allowed to be online by policy. So you can't use them to issue end entity certificates, when they do sign things (notably to create new Intermediates) that's a supervised activity, several humans (perhaps an officer from the organisation which owns the root, plus somebody representing their third party auditor, plus a technician to do the actual work) are typically physically present overseeing the signing process. The rest of the time the roots might live in a safe in somebody's office, that sort of thing.

This sort of safeguard means even catastrophic IT failures should only result in a compromised Intermediate. Still not good, but recoverable without needing to co-ordinate large numbers of third parties or greatly annoy the Relying Parties (ordinary people).
> you will hopefully own a venture capital firm and will be happily sipping mojitos in the Bahamas, and the cycle shall begin again ;-)

Or he could just be comfortable, and the product could keep delivering the same thing, with incentives mostly aligned on all sides.

Not to bring negativity to the thread, but it's certainly possibly to do better than what you've described as a tongue-in-cheek norm.
This is interesting, thanks
This is helpful, but it confirms my sense that a REST API with a typed spec like OpenAPI is going to get you basically all the benefits of GraphQL.
Extremely uncomfortable and true, like swallowing the red pill.

Have you found a way of finding similarly minded people in life?
It was never really about the genre per se, though there is a certain artistic similarity that can be gleaned, similar to how e.g. Japanese game music of the early 90s has a certain red thread to it. It was always about the nature of the instruments used in the tracker music: a notable use of simple looped waveforms and minimal samples, instead of extended samples of a real or synthesized instrument, and often a desire to squeeze the file size of these tracker modules down to a minimum to the point where it became a bit of a craft to some. People (like me) who spent a lot of time in the scene when this era of computer music came into existence have a specific and widely shared opinion about what is a chiptune and what isn't.
I guess I could just use zelle with clients, you're right
> Falling back to arguing about typing show me that maybe you are not aware of the many interseting ways you can get screwed or maybe you just worked on simple straightforward things.

Please provide a few examples of this.
I mean, item one is just kind of nonsense, and item three is just pure speculation on a complex issue; it’d be no better than guesswork. For item two there is an answer, but it’s boring at this point; the way to make a country, absent mind control, less partisan is to shift to multiparty democracy, which requires a change to the electoral system (and arguably abandonment of the executive presidency; multiparty states are usually parliamentary). The US’s constitutional setup makes this, for practical purposes, impossible, and neither existing side wants it anyway, so it is not going to happen. Everyone already knows this. The author _could_ have repeated it, but I’m not sure it would have added anything.
I discovered natural running in my twenties. It's a game- changer for your knees.
Not necessarily. If the branch is predictable, it may be better than branchless, particularly if the alternative is a cmov. From Agner:

> As a rule of thumb, we can say that a conditional jump is faster than a conditional move if the code is part of a dependency chain and the prediction rate is better than 75%. A conditional jump is also preferred if we can avoid a lengthy calculation [...] when the other operand is chosen
Also no useful public transit. The People Mover is a joke and the busses are famous for being hours late / just not showing up. The infra used to be decent when the auto mfgs were around there and out in Southfield where some bigger office buildings were, but they haven’t kept up with the times in terms of connectivity (why would they with no one to use it?). Housing is cheap but who would want to live there? Not much to do, not many cool smart people to hang out with, winters are awful, food scene mostly sucks, music scene is decent if you love really underground stuff and noise / screamo / UG electronic (esp house), schools are awful, nature has tons of mosquitos from all the lakes, lots of lakes if you’re into boating (and lake cabins are like $50k), skiing sucks (no mountains), airport sucks and is far away + Delta took over so if you want non-stop to anywhere expect to pay at least $400, Chicago is a long drive but doable for weekends (again no train which could be an hour on high speed rail, it’s less than 300 miles but flying takes as long as driving due to airports and transport on both ends)…

Yeah, Detroit…nah. Source: grew up there. Never going back.
Indeed, I've found some others in similar situations. Definitely a learning experience on which to build.
This is unhelpful, unconstructive and rude.
This kind of problem surfaces in a large amount of systems involving humans and roles.
Don’t take it personal, because you’re in ample company, but you are not understanding the real nature of the control of the so called USA by Israelis. There is effectively no light between Israel and the front/facade country called the USA.
Hola VPN, for instance, is famous for using the extensions as "exit nodes"
A couple of years ago, when I was eating out regularly, I stumbled upon a great waiter who gave excellent service. Asked for his table every time, tipped generously, and immediately he began suggesting and comping our table any desserts we wanted every visit we made. The return-on-investment paid off nicely.
Where I live there are countless rustic properties, the vast majority of which will remain empty due to generations of infighting between relatives. Similarly, plots of land are carved up over the years until a single field may have 20+ owners.
I know of one such case: they were offered a huge, insane amount of money for the land. But each one of the owners wanted more for their piece than the others, and tried to do private deals, and some refused to sell even though their piece was a mis-shapen series of lines on a government map that gained them zero benefits (farmers can't farm the land either), so nobody gets anything and the place is just rotting.
Along with the houses surrounding. That have multiple owners.
> So you're solving an organizational problem by using gql?

Yes, of course! All problems are organizational problems at scale. I have no great love for gql, but painting it as a black and white decision pitting FE velocity against all other engineering concerns (including hyperbole like "sanity") is childish. There are legit tradeoffs discussions to be had, but if you think it's impossible to secure or scale gql then you're not a very imaginative or resourceful engineer.
It's the story of every framework. It starts out clean and minimal, then gets features added on as users demand more for more and more specific uses.
It's neither good nor bad advice. It will depend on the kid. Some will respond like you, while some will respond like the commenter above you explains.
And the shared ip's all seem to have really spammy reputation. I guess if you get your own ip on enterprise it'll be better, but the lower tiers not so much
Why is this a response to the person you sent this reply to?
There's no such thing as a blue state or a red state. Supporters of both parties are about evenly distributed through the country. Most states are marginally one way or the other. The stark differences happen at county and municipal levels.
Digg is still around too
Microservices: Software complexity solutions to human organisation problems.

Remember when microservices were pitched as 'allowing you to use the right language for the job'? What a wonderful life the person who thinks a balkanised tech stack is good must have had. They're one undisciplined developer away from having production prolog.
In the USA, our legal system comes partly from the old Anglo-Saxon system, and partly from the French-Norman system, along with a few other parts of this. A lot of interesting and useful things come from this history.

Specifically, regarding this case... The word fiefdom literally means "foot ground" in Anglo Saxon. That means your land (domain) is where you put your foot on the ground. Even if you claim ownership to some land, those claims can be in dispute if someone else's foot is on the ground, so to speak. To me it's always been so fascinating thinking about law, and the philosophy of law, in these very basic, raw terms. Like, from where does the law derive its power? To the anglo-saxons, the answer is from the ground, and that's why that aspect of the system is so obsessed with possession.

Other cultures, like the Vikings, refined the ideas around tort law, like who should get paid how much if they're injured due to a fight.

The Norman system brought about the idea of "writs". The idea that messages to and from the court (not a coincidence that it's the same word in English as what's used for royalty, whereas in a language like Italian it would something more like tribunal) need to use specific writs, almost like interfaces and API calls. This basically put an end to most instances of "self help". In other words, in most cases, you can not take the law into your own hands. You must abide by the system of writs.

Even the word attorney comes from "at" and "tourney". Basically the guy you can pay who will go to the tournament, and fight instead of you before the court.

Our whole legal system is informed by ancient concepts, and a lot of these ideas are not half bad. We would really do well to be reminded of that. If 3 years can go by without a bank even knowing about someone occupying a house they claim to own, someone living there in direct opposition to that claim, then from an Anglo-Saxon perspective they can't seriously claim to own it. To me that makes sense as well.
Could it be that your perception of the evils of the industry are not shared broadly?

People in general like playing games and don’t mind paying for them. See: Video game industry is loaded.
Which is probably why they've invested so much time into getting their official clients for Android TV, Roku, LG's WebOS, iOS, Android, and more out there for people to download, and have clients for several additional platforms in various stages of development or app-store approval.

https://jellyfin.org/downloads/clients
>There are several major countries that profit off of wars -- America, France, the UK, etc., all are prominent weapons exporters. And all these countries export to "problematic" buyers.

Okay? And that somehow makes Israel exempt here, or something? Two wrongs make a right? We can't discuss Israel without making sure more "major" countries fix themselves first?

Help me out here, I'm not sure I see where you're going with this.
There’s a couple of woodworking hand tool companies who among other things make replicas of old school Stanley tools, the way Stanley used to make them (materials and tolerances). They also fuse the best elements of several eras or manufacturers to make slightly better versions. Surfaces from this one, handles from that one, adjustment mechanism from a third.

I hope that I live to see a time when software applies modern algorithms to classic designs and produce “hand tools” in software.
Agree, want to know this story.
I do like the idea of more hierarchical notebooks. Traditional top to bottom notebooks are a recipe for bugs and reproducibility issues, but so is working too much in the Clojure REPL so I’m surprised to hear it here. But obviously you need _some_ way to avoid reloading all data and retraining all models on every change.
It is worth noting that not all implementations of multihop are the same. For example, if multihop is using a dedicated port on the entry node (e.g. connecting to any Mullvad server on port 3438 will give you a multihop through that server to se-sto-wg-001), someone can who observe your traffic to the entry server (e.g., your ISP) can immediately figure out the exit server because entry port<->exit server mapping is public. Double-tunneling (i.e. having a VPN connection inside an outer VPN connection) doesn't have the same problem but reduces MTU.
If they didn't spend money on a stupid number of employees, endlessly developing "features" people don't want or use, self-hosting images and all of the rest... they wouldn't be in a financial bind. Their desperation to go public has driven their behavior for many years now, and the failure to understand that they don't have a 'trillion dollar product' has led them here.
Television manufacturers are constantly looking for a premium feature, since the profits are so slim on the lower end.

3D was one such feature, but had a benefit for non-3D movies in that it needed significantly more backlighting for active glasses to not give an overly dim experience.

3D was also odd in that normally such features get adopted first by a higher tier "early adopter" market - but because of Avatar and other family friendly 3D content, it was generally purchased by families. Perhaps its biggest early negative was expensive active glasses handed to young children.

HDR was another, but is somewhat spoiled by the lack of any good certifications/branding. Anything which can _process_ a HDR signal will be sold as a HDR television.

Curved was so weird to me, but that is because I always mount my televisions. Curved was a byproduct of the processes allowing for it. Since the curve has a fixed radius, it does lock you into a viewing distance 'range' that isn't always going to work for people.

4K was yet another, and partly what pushed 3D out in the US market. Active 3D also had a hard time with pixel ghosting - each frame was different from the previous.

Smart TVs are a different approach - sell advertisement and premium channels, I suspect in the future even put services like Uber Eats on TVs, all for secondary revenue channels to make up for how tight the primary sales channel is.
Israel is run by a despot. Israel used to be a reasonably well run democracy, but that's over. Netanyahu is frantic to stay out of jail and is trying to change Israel's judicial system to give himself total power. Israel is currently having protests and a constitutional crisis. Overview from Haaretz.[1]

[1] https://archive.is/tCR8p
> Any decent alternatives to Pocket?

I've been reasonably happy so far with Readwise.

https://readwise.io/
> Over 90% of the time, the fastest, most maintainable, and simplest solution is to do it yourself.

That's almost never the case. You'd be near-always putting it together with ready made libs or services.
There's something vaguely extortionate about "pre-tipping". I feel like my Subway sandwich or coffee might have some spittle in it unless I hit the 20% option. Rather being than a reward for good service, it's now a threat of sub-par service unless you cough up some cash.

That said, being a service worker suuuuuucks and they have to deal with an unlimited amount of self-entitled idiots on a daily basis, so I don't really begrudge them the extra salary.
We don't use Vim at work.
In certain countries, yes. Still not very affordable to a median Nigerian (one of the three African countries)
This show put me in an uncomfortable position - I really like the episode's message for many reasons. But the acting was bad, the premise ridiculous, and the jokes eye-rollingly lame. I thought they were going to do something interesting at the ending (trying not to spoil) but then it fizzled out.

What am I supposed to do, recommend someone bad TV just because I think they should probably watch it?!
RMT glitches when wifi is accessed. I started with RMT, it was a big fail for me.
I can see the wisdom in that, certainly. It does seem like it’s an OSHA issue so I’m not sure why these laws were passed directly by local government instead of being enforced by OSHA, but I can imagine good reasons - maybe OSHA does not have the power to mandate the specific things needed to make this situation safer (although in the case of “breaks and water” it seems like they probably would?)

I’ve worked in heavily OSHA-regulated industries (complete with “random unannounced safety inspections”, including being interviewed by OSHA). At least in my experience in Australia, OSHA was pretty good about enforcing the more effective and less onerous safety measures (that neither us nor our boss cared much about, but objectively did benefit from, so OSHA did good work there), and not enforcing the less effective and more onerous safety measures (some of which were frankly ridiculous, like requiring three points of contact at all times when climbing a staircase to a tool storage shed - it is quite difficult to carry anything up stairs when you have to have both hands on the railings whenever you lift a foot!)

Perhaps that is the best argument for removing these laws. OSHA has a lot of expertise in managing the balance of safety and productivity, so they should be the ones in charge of deciding on how often and how mandatory heat breaks should be. These laws made by non-OSHA bodies are perhaps too rigid: they could simultaneously be overkill for some situations (like indoor installations) while being wholly insufficient for other situations (like road repair) - and yet the workers, the employees, and the safety inspectors all working together in the goal of safety are unable to adapt them to the situation because it rests with uninvolved (and potentially even uninformed) lawmakers instead. I’d note that from reading the article it doesn’t seem like this is the major motivation behind the attempt to repeal these laws, although something like this is marshaled as an argument.

edit to add: apparently OSHA standards already limit work in 104F conditions to a maximum of 20 minutes per hour and unlimited cool-down breaks whenever the worker requests it, which is far more generous than these water break laws. There is some suggestion that in fact the real purpose of these water break laws were to give companies a way to circumvent the more restrictive OSHA requirements. Things may be much more complicated than they first appeared.
> A great example of long term strategic thinking, execution and commitment, that's quite rare in tech today.

People were already using GPUs to solve more general problems than real-time graphics. In particular, folks like Mike Houston or Aaron Lefohn (both now at NVidia) worked to formalize the sorts of computations that could efficiently be mapped onto the limited hardware that existed at the time.

NVidia's management did see that opportunity to expand to the HPC market and spent a good chunk of money for years to become a real contender in that space.

Something I loved about working there was laser focus on one product and finding ways to deliver value to their customers with that one product. It was a very different paradigm from working on SoC (system on a chip) devices like cell phones, where many teams competed to gain silicon area in the chip.