skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, no, absolutely not.

The broken window fallacy is about destroying value to create work. The point is that the result is a net negative for society.

This is a case of the government issuing debt to push money into the economy and keeping businesses afloat. Some of those applicants may have been ineligible fraudsters, but their spending those funds still results in that cash circulating in the economy.

Is that as beneficial as keeping a business afloat? No. But there's no reason to believe the result is a net negative.
A laptop with a 1 foot antenna that let's you charge wirelessly by simply placing your laptop on a desk?
It should be: start with a well architected monolith, and then slice things into microservices when you need to. Fowler and many Microservice evangelists even say to start with a monolith first, because you don't know the correct slices at the beginning.

EDIT: I suck at writing coherent messages on my phone.
I’ve had colleagues who have published in high impact journals ask me to grab a copy of their own work from scihub since they couldn’t access it themselves. Of course, they have the manuscripts themselves but they just wanted the published format.
"I am the publisher now."
> 1. You can't cache anymore.

You can, if the end-user client consents to it. Caching is also immensely difficult to get right, mistakes cause subtle and annoying issues. Even better, how about those ISPs invest some in the infrastructure in order not to fall over (if it's actually an issue) at the microscopic (by modern standards) bandwidth regular web browsing requires.

> 2. Governments and companies want to inspect traffic. Yes, I get that you don't want them to. But guess what? They do not care what you think. They will force it to happen one way or another, whether it's subverting internet standards, passing laws to defeat encryption or install backdoors, secretly compromising certificate authorities, hacking into the networks of large service providers, or just straight up requiring you to install a custom CA cert (what all companies do now).

So if they take such illegal actions, why make it easier for them? Sounds very defeatist.

> 3. Encryption is being used as a planned obsolescence lever.

Choose better software. A TLSv1.3 stack runs on even microcontrollers with a breeze.

> 4. Obviously, encryption is slower and more complicated than plaintext

It's actually much more straightforward than what's being protected by it. If anything, attack surface is *immensely* reduced to just the rigorously tested TLS libraries instead of all the HTTP, JS or multimedia code paths.
As someone who works with a national news outlet, I can tell your for certain that paywalls are failing, and we're now considering how to recoup lost revenue with ads that don't pay as well as they did five years ago.
I have to assume they’re gonna fork GIMP, make the UI look more like photoshop, and call it a day.
Not really a problem I've come across but I'd say if you're passing 100 arguments to your initialize method, you probably need to refactor somewhere? Personally, I like seeing the instance variables I have rather than having them hidden in a magic list of attributes.
Everyone wants to work remotely. But that means now you are probably competing with hundreds of other applicants for any halfway interesting job.
Show HN: Waffie, an LLM API automated testing tool
Hey yall,

Very early release but wanted to get the idea out there.

Waffie is built for developers looking to operationalize LLM APIs into their solutions.

The first thing I'm tackling is automated testing of LLMs in the context of unstructured to structured data interpretation. For example, sentiment analysis.

Specify what you want in a YAML file and a test.csv and run waffie against your test cases.

Looking to bridge the gaps between software development and machine learning engineering.
> What we're striving towards instead is an "inner source" model, where a platform is collaboratively developped and maintained by multiple product teams.

If a platform has shared ownership, then decisions will get implemented by cohorts only thinking for themselves and thus damaging the long-term roadmap. All systems, especially complex ones, need sole owners or they will devolve into what is essentially a pyramid of doom at the product level.
I thought they were talking about the database until I realized the publication date was too early.
Fwiw, I have smartphone (iPhone 12 work mandated / provided, and a samsung note for myself), but I don't use it for banking, gym, shopping, payments, etc. Guess I'm old school but Financial stuff I like to do on computer, for access I like physical tokens. Yes I print my air tickets! :-) I like to reduce my failure modes and I view my phone as disposable, even though tech companies want to equate it with my life / identity.
Just from my own perspective and in speaking with recruiters (UK), I've never seen the job market this bad before. I have 20+ years’ experience, Harvard, senior leadership positions, and long tenures at reputable places. Yet I don't hear anything back from applications I put out (and these are senior positions).

I think one huge factor at play is the move to remote work, before you would compete with the people in your area who had to physically be able to turn up to a location to interview. What has happened is the opening of the gates to anyone in the world being able to apply to that same job, so you now have 500+ applications for roles that would have previously gotten 20. There’s only so much headspace one can give to that quantity of applicants so I suspect the first 25 get a look in and the others go in the bin.
If we all use it, it will slow to a crawl. Even more than now.

Nobody that’s not halfway suicidal is running exit nodes on their home machines (I won’t, I don’t want police knocking on my door).

And just for the onionspace… yeah I saw some bad stuff there. After what I saw I don’t think anonymity is a good idea. There is darkness inside people that lack of rules, lack of order, lack of accountability brings out.
> but for sure you can get interviews right now

Apparently this is false for OP. Your problem is different.
Glass-coated DNA structure is strong with low density
I’m a Strong Independent Nerd Who Don’t Need No Man
I want to be able to control youtube on my TV with my phone.

If I were to, say, plug in a laptop to an HDMI port on my TV and run Brave on it. Is there any way to easily control playback on it with my phone? I.e. send videos to it, pause, skip etc. Some way of mirroring what I am doing in Brave on my phone?
I've been very disclosive about my diagnosis, and many people I work with have in turn revealed their own diagnoses to me. I'd like to hear more about your experience with this ⸻ how is this info getting used against people?
Haha I'm sure you mean "barcades", but that was amusing.
My big letdown was the cheesecake. Pretty average but with lots of different flavor options. Definitely nowhere near dedicated cheesecake bakeries. Also it was expensive
Are you in the US? Every time that comes up that tends to be a huge divide. US uses iMessage, other countries don’t.
Eh, better be promised something you want and risk it not being delivered. Then promised the opposite and get that for sure.
Looks great! Very excited to try this out. At first glance I have one concern and one suggestion:

Concern: you mention it supports the actual ChatGPT Web API -- isn't this against their terms of service? I'd be wary of publishing something that hits internal APIs.

Suggestion: I would rename what you call the "ChatGPT" (non-web) part of the backend to "OpenAI API" instead. There is already enough confusion in the world between ChatGPT and API access to the underlying GPT models.
Where do to live? Zero people in the USA i know use them that dont talk to out of country family
Parent is giving a report from experience and that perspective is worth noting even if it may not be considered kosher by some standards. As such, it should not be dismissed as a bad advice as it deals with the reality of workplaces and not 'world as it should be'.
Even still, you’ve completely ignored the other half of my comment. Grusch is alleging specific people and corporations are involved in illegal activities. The corporations should have no trouble suing Grusch for false accusations and defamation, which in this case would be equivalent to jail time. So even if congress didn’t refer him to the justice department for perjury, those corporations absolutely will sue Grusch if he’s lying.
Cecil Kelley criticality accident
Absolutely this: for many people settling the estate of a close family member is such an exhausting chaos of emotion that the question becomes: should I take it all to the dump, or maybe just take myself there?
Elbakyan's about page is worth a read: https://sci-hub.ru/alexandra
Hey is there a way to reach out to you? Living in berlin and currently looking for a tech job here
At the last company I worked at, Slack usage started as “shadow IT”. A team would need a better collaboration tool, but central IT was just a barrier. So the department head would agree to pay for it.

Over time, a few dozen or so Slack instances popped up.

These were eventually corralled by central IT and merged into a single enterprise instance, but this just magnified the messiness - overlap between channels/workspaces, vastly different usage habits by department, etc.

Most of this happened pre-Pandemic, at a time when collaboration tools were 2nd class citizens, and nobody cared too much about the sprawl.
I am going through the same experience. For now only referrals seems to get me a response from HR. Otherwise it's just radio silence.
You could buy fancy cars and beach houses on with PPP absolutely legally. You were only required to spend 60% on payroll, the rest was just a gift for being an employer.
No, because those visible disabilities win the favor of juries and get punitive damages. ADHD doesn’t so no lawyer worth anything is even going to take a hard look at the case.
Albert Einstein was a ladies man //
When he was working on his universal plan //
He was making out like Charlie Sheen//
He was a genius

-- Warren Zevon
I remember a report from facebook hiring, when they broke down how each person applied. It was something weird like %0.01 were hired by "walk in". Some person literally walked into FB headquarters and left with a job. I will say, if you walk into an office, you will NOT get ignored.
An Exceptional Actor System (Functional Pearl)
Honestly if the resultsets are small-enough, I just dump them to JSON and diff the files. But it has to be fully deterministically sorted for that (in a sane world "order by *" would be valid ANSI SQL).
I would state this as: do anything possible to avoid sharing binary dependencies (short of e.g. service clients) between teams.
Getting Duo pushes to my watch makes the whole MFA experience at work much less of a hassle.
I can't remember the EFF ever doing/asserting something I disagree with.

I can't say that about many organizations.
> Brave in particular is also not restricted enough by default

While I'm in agreeance with everything you've said it should be pointed out that Tor Browser doesn't ship with JS disabled either, it simply breaks so much of the web that they've concluded it's not reasonable for a browser to do by default if they want to attract new users.
There's already automated systems that do this. We do it manually just because we don't want to risk a system automatically discarding a candidate we might actually like.
Long time Android user here (since 1.5 on G1), had all the Nexuses and Pixels as well. Give the OnePlus phones a try. My family's switched to using them and I've been impressed with the battery life and hardware. The software is closer in spirit to the Nexus line.
I feel exactly the same. My instincts tell me we're still screwing up the environment, just in a different way.

All the lithium, the cobalt, what do we do with it later? Put it back where we got it from? What about the tire dust, microplastics are a major problem, these cars are heavy, so that problem is exacerbated.
10 years ago I (living in the USA) worked with some Europeans who were fans of American sitcoms. We were in my car once and drove by a cheesecake factory. Their minds were blown that it's a real restaurant and not just something made up by Big Bang Theory and they demanded they we go inside. They loved it, and approached it like an Alien researching a new planet
That certainly sounds tempting but we should struggle to have less poorly substantiated syndromes, not more :-)
China looks to flood US market with cheap electric vehicles
Confused that you wrote barcodes again (autocorrect? hah!) - i guess it was meant to read "barcades"?
Ah yes, here it is, the "welfare queen" right wing trope, this time aimed at PPP fraud. The idea is that a small group of bad people did bad things and benefited from government provided social programs, and therefore you must take the benefit away from everyone.

It's pure propaganda.

And coming from the NY Post, I am not in the least bit surprised.

Is it bad that 17% of loaned PPP funds were based on fraud? Sure.

But that means 83% went to worthy recipients. Funny how their stories aren't getting told by the Post, though...
You don't know their situation or work history, why reply with something so negative?
I care about privacy quite a bit, and I exercise good privacy practices, just not the same ones you seem to care about. Why judge me like that?
I can relate. I have 25 years of experience as a senior and lead frontend developer, with some management experience.

I've applied at over 80 roles. I've received 35ish rejections and about 18 interviews. 4 put me through to final interviews and chose someone else despite liking me more, I was told. (one person had a smidge of java experience, one was a female and they needed a diversity hire, etc)
The crypto integration is an indication of a compromised vision and a lack of judgment. If the dev is willing to shove that in, what else is in there that I’m not aware of?
One-on-one guidelines for manager/tech leader
Only speaking as a FAANG engineer, but it's absolutely essential to shipping anything as a vertical team. If you depend on updates to any platform that isn't federated to enable your own siloed development: good luck.
Samsung's hardware is great and their One UI is a most impressive skin. Saying this as an iPhone user.
That’s more the medium term than the long term, right? The hope is, in the long run, Elbakyan’s contribution to intellectual freedom will matter more
Almost all of them just seems like first psycotic episode brought about by a novel stressful environment.
And many of them for a lot less TC
In my experience yeah. The burst was relatively quick in it's downturn, it felt like hiring and optimism came back pretty quick.

This time, there are the dark clouds of AI and lots of economic instability, along with higher interest rates to deal with. Not to mention record corporate debt.

Also this time is much different because coding was marketed as a way to just go to bootcamp and get rich, so it brought in hundreds of thousands of people on the low end.

Much diff than the dot com bust IMO.
Firefox outperforms Chrome on web benchmarks, and it leaks less of your personal info to Google.
The time to develop a network is when you don't need it. So for those of you with a job, work on it now. Add your coworkers on LinkedIn, message that old friend from another company for lunch.
At least in the US, all government-funded research will be required to be freely available immediately starting in 2026. It's unclear what the overall impact will be. Certainly this access is a good thing, but it's unclear how publishers will respond.

It's possible authors might be forced to pay publishing fees for open access, which would then inflate grant budgets (since this only applies to government research, this means the taxpayer is footing the bill). They may choose to be open access by default, in which case, another source of revenue will be necessary. Part of the challenge is that for many academics, it's necessary for advancement to publish in prestigious venues which are not always open access.

https://cen.acs.org/policy/publishing/White-House-mandates-i...
> there is a back swipe gesture

> Every app you can swipe back

> the concept of "back" is not universal, so a universal button doesn't make sense.

> It only exists on Android because it started off as a non-touch OS.

... so android has the exact same gesture and it's a bad thing only there because it started as a non touch OS, iOS has it but it's totally not the same concept at all and perfect.

Hmmm.
Cool! I’ve been using Inkscape for floor plans and landscaping lately. And before that designing a custom split keyboard body. And random things to cut out on my Cricut.

I don’t need a full CAD constraint solver. Just simple constraints would go a really long way (make X the same width as Y; make A spaced N units from B; etc.). Basically just a glorified spreadsheet where object properties can be accessed and read from cells and objects can have other properties assigned from the cells. Though it doesn’t have to be represented as an actual spreadsheet, of course.
Samsung blowtware is a problem though
That sucks, but I'm still zero percent interested in supporting the unaccountable, global surveillance panopticon. Don't blame me that Facebook & Google destroyed your business model!
My problem with Fowler is his tendency to reduce complex problems into concepts that can be represented in simple, abstract models/diagrams with weak analogies (e.g. the "streams" here, test pyramids, microservices, various bits of Agile), which are enthusiastically consumed by both inexperienced engineers and decision makers in management: a deadly combination.

When much of the industry adopts these ideas, and the resulting inefficiencies become the baseline, it is virtually impossible for anyone to effectively detect those inefficiencies. It becomes a "is everyone crazy, or am I crazy?" situation, until some sort of disruption (e.g. widespread project/startup failures) forces the industry to paradigm shift back to sanity.
Also, database tables where unique key constraints aren't enforced. Programming and operational mistakes happen. :-)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62735776/what-is-the-poi...
WhatsApp takes about two clicks to setup. My 60 year old and generally technophobic mum and all her friends have managed to set it up and use it themselves (including group chats and profile pictures)
Ummm, apparently 'normal' people do. I wouldn't know as I'm quitr abnormal myself.
To be clear, was this a normal YouTube video that was advertising something, or an actual YouTube official “You can skip this in 4…” ad?

It sounds like the former
> residents have a significantly lower life expectancy that the rest of the UK

Diet - Seems like Glaswegians have forgotten Fee-fi-fo-fum In certain parts of the country, the NHS will prescribe some things to elderly people which increases life span, that would normally be found in high levels elsewhere in the country. I doubt Evian or San Pelligrino is high on the shopping list up there either.

> London Syndrome is when hostages become argumentative toward their captors—often with deadly results.

I think I must be suffering from London syndrome, in much the same way the population of voters feel at general election time, or a congregation feels towards a vicar.
> Now we're getting hundreds of resumes a week for each open position, and the bulk of each one of those resumes do not come close to even being in conversation range of the posted JD.

What percentage of these resumes do you think are generated by GPT?
Why is firefox telling me this site is a potential security risk?
I make all my research outputs publicly accessible wherever legally possible. Any of my published work that is behind a publisher paywall is also available for free and should be pretty easy to find. I personally disapprove of Sci-Hub's approach of piracy, but I can understand the utility. I also believe I'm likely in the minority here.
It’s a US only thing. And only for people in the US who don’t regularly communicate with people outside the US.

I moved out of the US and most of my US friends I still have to use iMessage to talk to. Only a few are active on WhatsApp.
The average person has no idea how hard life was back then. I think something like 50% of a ships sailors would die from scurvy on long distance voyages. East Indian Company's ships could lose 70%. And a lot of these dudes were getting kidnapped and forced into service by press gangs (Naval ships). The market for lemons was life and death...Every day I thank God that I'm alive in the 21st century.
Thanks for the feedback! If the theme is clicked on we show the 1 month period and we show that the starting value on the graph from a month prior is $1,000 while today's value is X$ with all of the potential gains and losses during that time.

You make a good point that we should show the 1 month before we click on the theme too.
Most average users I know HATE ads. They understand that every app has them but they’re in the same boat as the user you responded to: much more likely to uninstall an ad based app
And in the end it can't circumvent stuff like the great firewall of China.

In the end Toe is just a legacy project from the CIA/NSA that has outlived it's usefulness. The NSA has certainly redteamed all the ways to take it down or uncloak users, if needs be, so it's not even a tool against a potential fall into dictatorship of the USA.
But the distinction between the apparent pattern and its underlying cause is important. If the cause of this method of “trying to adapt to your environment” isn’t actually some bizarre psychological paradox after all, that fact has important implications for how we treat people in these scenarios.
> That valuation represents a bet on Tesla's ability to extract ever-higher rents from its customers.

No, it's probably a bet on other things, like future profitability from selling more cars.

The essay's argument was a little thin for me, even though I generally agree with it. But, I thought the site's shrink-wrap waiver was pretty funny.
Which bloatware and what problems does it make you?

For me, I don't really consider Microsoft Office as bloatware as I can use it, plus, what's bloatware for you might be useful apps for others, and I found it stays out of my way once I push it to the side if I don't need it, so it's existence is a non-issue for usability.

Samsung bloatware used to be bad in the past but now it's decent IMHO, and I think people are being overly pedantic and mostly overblow the problem of some bloatware just to win some religious argument of "my choice of phone is better than yours" while ignoring the other useful reasons people buy it.

If you wanna see real bloatware, check out Chinese phones.
Likely because it's only available over HTTP and not HTTPS.

Edit: it is over HTTPS but with a cert mismatch: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=paulgraham.co...
BT if in range, WiFi if not but on a known network. Done that way for power savings.

I love my iPhone, but the ecosystem integration is also a huge point for me. The little ways different Apple products work together adds so much niceness and extra value above the utility of the individual products.
Possibly "Engineering Manager"