skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lack of sources and case studies leaves an interesting possibility open. This document might actually be fiction the opinions of someone who didn't like meetings as opposed to an effective guide.

Given that these are all common behaviours in real organisations they probably don't do that much overall damage. You'd do much worse by being effective, getting promoted and then making some really terrible but plausible decision that does decades of damage (like hiring some great marketers and going all-in on a risky venture that sounds good, but with little prospect of success). It doesn't take much effort, but once people are organised around a stupid goal it can take years to unpick.
Either way “Rust is helping” is true. And given that Go is a managed language it never really factored into the shared library debate to begin with, whereas Rust forces the issue.
This appears to have been published in the second half of 2021.

I recall some heady weeks in 1998, attempting to enable IPSEC between my twin OpenBSD Apollo 425t systems. "hard and near impossible to debug from an almost-working to a fully working setup" is an understatement! I never got it to the almost-working stage!
Even in that case, you can use "rm -d" instead of "rmdir".

% mkdir herewulf
% rm herewulf
rm: herewulf: is a directory
% rm -d herewulf
%
% mkdir herewulf
% touch herewulf/nonempty.txt
%
% rm herewulf/
rm: herewulf/: is a directory
% rm -d herewulf/
rm: herewulf/: Directory not empty
% rm herewulf/nonempty.txt
% rm -d herewulf/

The only distinct feature of rmdir is that it won't remove things that aren't files:

% touch herewulf
% rm -d herewulf
% touch herewulf
% rmdir herewulf
rmdir: herewulf: Not a directory

Is that "one thing well" really enough to justify its own tool?

Unix has always had a tension between "one thing well" and "one powerful tool".

Is 'cc' a preprocessor? A compiler? A linker? Yes!

Does 'date' show the current date (and time), set the system date, or convert between dates? Yes!
I hope in more 7840u laptop models
Ask HN: What is the best place to hire part time devs?
I'm building an app, and starting to realize that it makes sense to pay someone to help me. I don't have the budget for full time, or even part time, really. I want to hire a person or agency to help me with tasks as I need them and as I can afford. My ideal situation is to hire a consistent person who I can give access to my repo and have them work directly in GitHub on assigned tasks. I've used Upwork for other tasks in the past, but I'm wondering if Upwork is the best place to find affordable and good dev help. Are there any other platforms you would recommend for finding consistent devs who are willing to work on occasional small or medium sized tasks via GitHub?
You might be interested in the Librem phone: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

It's not x86 but it is fully open source and completely open, which sounds like your goal.
That's his point we've been unable to define it as any prospective definition is disputed. We keep raising the bar to ensure human primacy in it's measurement, obviously it's the case that many of these measures were not factoring in something important, intelligence is on a gradient line (as said by rf15) but many humans are not comfortable without humans sitting on the top of the gradient without a wide chasm between us humans and whatever else.
No you can right click and edit multiple tickets at once
Though this is so deep/technical nature of a topic to target a general audience.
As someone who's worked in customer service: you would not believe the number of people who contact customer service with "I've lost my password", even though there is a "lost password" link right on the login page. These people are helped by the service agent following a script and clicking the link on their behalf. This is what the AI will replace.

For many businesses it's not profitable to serve customers whose issues make them fall outside the golden path of standard procedures: an average call center employee can cost $30 for a complex customer question, if you add up all cost associated from the employees involved, obliterating any margin from that customer. I doubt that AI will change this much. So if you have a question that someone with HN-level IQ cannot resolve themselves then customer service cannot profitably help you. The best you can hope for is that someone will create a ticket that someone else will look at at some point if a lot of similar tickets accumulate.
I think this is unfair to the definition of knowledge because what you and the parent post are saying ironically forces it into a cube-like box. Knowledge usually refers to an all-encompassing definition:

> understanding of or information about a subject that you get by experience or study, either known by one person or by people generally

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/knowledg...

So if I don't know something by experiencing it or studying it, what other way is there? Skills and understanding fall under those two.
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This is a hack I've been thinking about and experimenting with on and off for many years, and after working on the current iteration for about a month or so it reached a point where it really is usable.

Is it silly? Is it something we're not supposed to do? Is it a lot of work for something small? Yes, but we're hackers, this is what we like to do.
Seems to me that the bank was well in tune with their exclusive clients who would likely be pleased to see this action.
That’s not to say the action was right in any way. It was awful and I hope it results in law changes to protect access to bank accounts. But I think it will likely blow over and the exclusive clients will see the bank as having done “the right thing” if in a bit of a clumsy manner.
More days per person means less burden. Think of Cairo. If you visit for one day you are going to see the pyramids. 20 tourist-days = 20 visits to the pyramids. You likely do t have dinner out, as you’re off to the next photo op, you likely didn’t have breakfast either. You perhaps brought a packed lunch.

If you visit for 5 days you’re only going to see the pyramids one one day. 20 tourist-days means 4 pyramid visits, 4 Egyptian museum visits, 2 or 3 up the tower and various visitors to different museums and mosques, multiple meals out throughout the week.
What has this got to do with the topic of donations? Here the reason is completely different. Also, some university having a policy against it does not prove that it’s a widespread problem, it’s merely an indication that some problems happened that were high profile enough to make the institution react.
> They worked out that they could do that, and so did - for the paper they wanted to publish having that information was the goal

My claim is that they shouldn't have.

>Which is why it is necessary to publish this information - if this paper did not detail how terrible ejmr's "anonymization" was, it's pretty clear ejmr would not have told its users

I agree it's necessary to disclose the vulnerability to the victims (especially if ejmr wouldn't have), but it wasn't necessary collect as much data as possible themselves and write a paper about it for their own gain.
Yeah this is cool. I took up classical Guitr again and was expecting this to happen, and it was really cool feeling my memory inbox ping
This is still an issue in 2023. Dropbox and Google Drive aren't new, and ironically Megaupload is now a Dropbox/Drive competitor Mega + Rapidshare is long dead. But emailing files or physically sharing on a USB drive is still the best way to share files ad-hoc. Dropbox etc does work, but you have to make a new account and mess around with settings and permissions.
Simply labeling it as a "panini press" is a step in the right direction; perhaps people mistake it for a George Foreman Grill!

(The whole idea of the George Foreman Grill was that you smash something really fatty, and then the fats liquefy and drip out of the food and down the grill, and you don't eat them. Perhaps this was a holdover from the "fat is bad" days.)
> makes it VERY clear the Federal government is in charge.

And when the federal government ignores the likewise federal laws binding it and directing its actions? In any other situation, if the executive branch ignores the legislative or judicial ones, it's called fascism.
if by “low level employees” you mean myself who is using self-checkout lane to do the work for “the man” then I agree 100%
Ehhh. You can compile a single exe with C or C++. I’ve personally come across far more Rust tools than Go. But I don’t really touch anything web related. YMMV.
NB, the EFF's "diceware" passphrase generator method recommends six words for effective security: <https://www.eff.org/dice>

Note that if your attacker knows the dictionary used, the effective strength of a passphrase isn't based on its string length but on the number of individual words within the phrase.

Six words gives an effective key strength of 2^77 bits.
The plate upon which is occassionally enthroned a LaCoste and Romberg gravity meter.

(according to page 17 of

https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/65... )

https://www.aseg.org.au/equipment-museum/lacoste-and-romberg...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_LaCoste

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravimetry
I do it when I want to separate out the thinking/understanding from the doing. I might want to mull over how to do something instead of jumping straight into coding, and I find train journeys an excellent opportunity for this. Or sometimes I want to assess dependencies, perhaps I want to choose a library for doing X, I can sit and read through them on my phone and at least get a feel for them and whittle the list down.
I never figured out how people got custom numbers. Was it a Nitro feature?
The cultural shift was basically overnight, after big decisions by leadership. Seems to point to the latter rather than the former.
> Insightful... not.

I will never not be dumbfounded that there are adults who use this particular rhetorical device.

> Btw the amount of damage done to the cults of DIE, ESG, climate, globalism, and statism since last November has been multiple times greater, and done completely on Elon's dime.

From the inside of a developing echo chamber, it sounds like a massive change in popular sentiment.
> If the government is smart.

My point exactly.

In light of the last 2000 years of history, what do you think is more plausible? (A) the government being smart, or (B) the government spending more than it makes and then raising debt and taxes for useless projects?
"The Happy Worker" is a documentary that mentions exactly this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzzYGRXfAaI (trailer)
Worked for python-dev and many other software projects.
Developer-Oriented ChatGPT Clone
I think the difference in what danielvf is saying and what the article is trying to say lies in some higher level phenomenon. Reading between the lines, every issue outlined in the article can be traced back to an abject failure of management to understand what they were making, and why they were making it.

If I had to guess what the root cause was, the talent is there, but due to the current class structure of the US, nobody wanted to listen to the line machinists, grey-beards, and engineers (because they're dirty poors who didn't make it big via psychopathy so they must be dumb) so instead they listened to McKinsey or whoever they hired to actually run the project.

I remember stories from my father about being an engineer at a big manufacturing facility. The culture was engineers were the people who did math all day, but if you actually wanted something done, ultimately you took your drawings down to the floor and found the longest, grayest beard you could and bent the knee until they agreed to make everything actually work.

Fast forward to my first manufacturing job, I was tasked to improve a process, so I went out on the shop floor, started talking to the line guys, and then was promptly scolded by another engineer who told me, and I quote, "they're just manufacturing guys, don't give them enough rope to hang themselves with".
GitBash, AutoHotkey, Notepad++, 7zip and PowerToys are the basic installs I do on any Windows I am given.

Any dev opening a CMD is suspect, to me.
Well, "they are admitted and start to receive guided treatment".

Unfortunately the police will tell you bluntly: "It's not against the law to be crazy"

More unfortunately, medical personnel have told me that unless a treatment regimen with appropriate medication starts, the brain will deteriorate and chances of a full recovery disappear.
An everything app with Musk’s name attached to it has a pretty severe handicap to overcome.
What about saying things you don't want your friends, your boss, the police, a judge or anyone else to know you said?

What about reading or watching things you don't want your friends, your boss, the police, a judge or anyone else to know you read or watched?
Modern BitTorrent can function entirely via DHT and peer exchange. Trackers are supplementary and an optimization. Most torrents you find specify several trackers, and it's fine if some are down. I have a hard time imagining improvements on the current architecture, even under a better copyright regime, which is why BitTorrent has largely stood the test of time.
That bit about the DSM is a pretty obvious layperson's point of view: It is easy to say that you fit the criteria when you forget that the symptoms need to have negative consequences on your life. And there is 'normal' - normal is a range.

There is a huge difference between being down after a loved one's death and finding yourself feeling that way for no reason or not coping 2 years later.

Considering that - there is no way to answer the last question. That's just a "what if" argument and fails to take into consideration that there is a shortage of mental health experts, and there is absolutely no need for someone to do that sort of thing.

And no, no everyone has a "sexual deviancy fetish", just for the record.

As far as 'treating symptoms'... I have MS. I take medication that slows the disease. If I had fatigue or pain, they would try to treat that too. If it causes depression - which it can - they'd try to treat that. No matter what treatments I get for symptoms, I still have the disease. There is no actual cure.
You are misreading perspectives. «The kind of "success" those people are talking about is not becoming an expert»: in the general idea exactly, it is about becoming a better professional, not just an "older student". And expertise as a point is there in between: on the one hand the meta-skills and the tricks and the wisdom of those who have been there at different level of specificity, on the other pole your own personal work in a relatively closed frame - the expertise building process takes from both.

In fact, exactly, the answer to King Ptolemy is about the "royal path to geometry", not to "being a geometer". (Already Plato made a notable distinction.)

> they have something useful to say

And in fact "they" do. They (the right ones) can teach metaskills to people who are missing them. (And can people miss them: just yesterday I was treated as a divine helper for having given a relatively trivial advice to strangers passing by.) And said "they" have collected patterns correlated with better professionalism, for sharing: thank you for that, mates.

Sure, "they" may show a high level of genericity: some people sell, some people lead, some people manage, some people assess, some people develop, some people build - nails, chips, fingernail enamel - the advice tends to be universal. But I mentioned Brian Tracy because he openly states as a premise of all his doing that he once was a poor performer in his specific job, he went to the best peer in the firm and asked "how do you do that (of being ten times better than us)", and there were job specific non-trivial attitudinal tricks that the peer shared - enabling him to results.

So, people may have something to teach, and they are frequently open for sharing, and without their input easily some things may stale, and some of them may be critical. (Otherwise, why do you read, if not for refinement? And texts are refined wisdom for transmission.)

> instruction from experts

Not exactly «instruction» but practical or subtle information.

> the question "how to become as good as you are." That's a meta-question that has an obvious answer, which is to study and gain experience in the subjects you want to become good at

No, that is not even valid for a pure theoretician - which in facts studies other theoreticians to squeeze out the teachings. And some of them are written, some are transmitted in presence. This is why we have "schools" instead of just "bibliographies and labs". Your own hard work is just one side, necessary and central - but you do not do it in a jar. You could, but it would take you a lifetime to go there where for the properly guided ones is "past the early stages".

> The problem with that question is that its implication is that there's some special ... shortcut [to] the years of work and study

You have read that implication. It is not necessary. There is no shortcut to the laureate degree. There are shortcuts against reiterating what you always did and was uninformed unwise and inefficient: the others.
> why on earth are you using iCloud to sync photos

Some reasons for me personally:

- It works well enough. I rarely have issues (maybe once a year as you say?), and then it’s usually resolved by a device reboot. Once I had to turn iCloud sync on and off again. However, I’ve learned to avoid e.g. working on Git repos in iCloud Drive, which tends to upset the sync process.

- It’s cheap. I can get 200GB storage shared with family for €3.5/month. For example Dropbox doesn’t sell less than 2TB plans, which with family sharing becomes €17/month. That’s 5x more.

- It is the best alternative on iOS. I tried lots of other sync apps before I migrated to iCloud. Partly, this is because Apple has crippled the competition by not allowing them to sync in the background without battery-draining hacks, not allowing them to integrate directly with the Photos app, etc. Partly it is because the other cloud providers I tried didn’t integrate properly with e.g. the Files API.
Looks nice, any plans to add variables and prompts?

I'd recommend adding at the very beginning of the README a short yaml sample. That's the first thing I wanted to look at, but I had to get some understanding and then I found the scaffolder-config repo.
As an addendum, this is something that most Pascal derived languages also support, Object Pascal, Mesa, Modula variants, (with exception of Oberon and its linage), and sadly many associate only to Ada.
Amsterdam ciry has a population density of 5,300/sqkm and 1 million.

Miami is 4,800/sqkm and 6 million across the urban area.

Seems that Miami could have an urban transit system similar to Amsterdam.
Unless I'm missing something, it seems like you could just make your template by hand with files and folders and just copy that folder to get the same result?

If you added simple variable substitution to use in filenames and file contents that would kick it up quite a few notches. Especially if you could use the result of bash command instead of static text.
To paraphrase Bjarne Stroustrup, there are only two kinds of version control systems: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Personally, it's pretty rare I do something and it's the same each time, so I can draw on skill and expertise ( a form of knowledge) to help me out, but generally there is some inventiveness required for a given situation.

For example, as a builder, you'd quickly understand two pieces of wood are the same, that's something which requires skills to work around, not just knowledge. Maybe it's better to say applied knowledge?

Recently I've moved areas, and the type of cedar I get here is a little bit different to the type of cedar I get out west. It feels different to work with, and it's a bit of an art not to damage it. My previous knowledge didn't really prepare me for this.
Now I suspect some managers I know work for CIA.

On a more serious note, this is a must read for developers and managers. It clearly identifies the paths that lead to disaster. You can see it as a list of organizational anti-patterns :)
You can't install apps without an Apple ID. You can't get an Apple ID without a phone number.
Text is a universally understood file format. That means it can be easily diffed, compressed, smartly stored (like storing only changes). That's not true of binaries, at least most of them. That's why I'm pessimistic about a good universal VCS ever existing.

I would also love some kind of good (even decent would be enough) VCS for binary/non-text files. I get a stress rash just watching our designers work with "final_final_2023_1_backup_new.psd".

I think Git is relatively simple in relation to all the complicated things you can do with it. If you don't need/use those complicated things, it of course feels like way too much work for too little pay off.
Twitter: Elon Musk says he wants to change company’s bird logo
Musk is a financial mastermind…his company almost collapsed several times…