skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that in the US it will not work. An only acceptable model might be co-determination where workers have direct representation on the board. You can look across the board for barely functioning unions in the US, they are in some cases nearly adversarial with the people they are representing.

We must remember that any structure will require money to function, and I don't think paying a bunch of people who don't do what I do to "represent me" is for me. As people who are certainly making above average wages, we are now juicy targets for make-work organizers and griftlords who want to tell us how we should run our businesses and lives and to cut them in. The purpose of labor is scale, and in software we don't have the same overheads.

As for our industry, we are not very uniform in what we do and so it will be hard to define. This is very different to say, trades, or services that are well defined. Of course we want to think we are special so maybe it isn't true and I'm wrong. My guess is if you talked to five senior software engineers (to be explicit: someone who has been working for 10y) in software you'd have five different novels of war stories.

We are by far one of the highest paid and most coddled workers of all time. There is no kombucha on tap at the job site where you're laying bricks. (Marshalltown forever!)

Don't give me lines about "solidarity with workers" when you're the same people ordering doordash/instacart/grubhub. Those models ship money from your neighborhood and area directly into ultracapitalist hands.

No one strip mined you into a six figure job. I have belonged to several unions, most of which could not do anything for me contractually and yet I still paid a large amount of my then tiny checks because I was "part of the system". Not part enough to benefit. Maybe it's sour grapes on my part!

We must swim with the tides, and maybe the industry will change.
If a capacitor fails there are two cases:

1. The capacitor is part of a chip. There is no practical way for you to figure out that the capacitor has failed. You will just know at best that the chip is not working right. And even if you could somehow find out that a capacitor on the chip failed there is no practical way you could replace it.

In short, if a capacitor on a chip fails you will need a new chip.

2. It is a discrete capacitor. Probably surface mount soldered onto a PCB, possibly thru-hole soldered onto a PCB, or maybe some other kind of package with leads soldered across something else like the terminals of a switch or something like that.

In this case it is a commodity part. You go to DigiKey or similar, find a capacitor that with the same capacitance, voltage rating, ESR, temperature range, etc,, which will be available from many manufacturers, and DigiKey will be happy to sell it to you for a few cents (plus $7 shipping).

It would be nice if the device maker had to tell you the electrical parameters you need to match when buying a replacements capacitor, but it would be overkill to make all the device makers actually sell such readily available commodity parts.
I didn't ask If, I asked How, and I'd be surprised if you can find any examples.
It was a great trick, for a while at least, for diamond sellers to connect that sentimentality to something super expensive!
Raylib is a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
Inflation continues to climb in Argentina as presidential election nears
Aem, I doubt you can judge the value of an object by the temperature it starts burning. By that measure, no book, no human, not oil nor wood has value.
> I've never had to take a long unpaid break

The reader is expecting you to say, "because I only work for employeers with good working conditions", but...

> because I don't stick around long enough to burn out.

Well, ok, but how old are you, and do you believe that this strategy of musical chairs will continue to work for the rest of your life? It's a marathon, not a sprint.

> If they did working conditions would be across the board better.

Why do you think so? How exactly is that going to happen? What's the incentive to improve working conditions when employees just leave quickly, on purpose? Again, you didn't even claim that your new jobs have good working conditions.
> The removal of Type-Ahead-Find in Nautilus

I don’t know about Type-Ahead-Find in Nautilus, but typing to search in the file choosers is comically bad.

“Comically bad” here goes slightly beyond not working right to mildly destructive. I don’t know how the software pulls it off, but trying to open a folder found by Tracker search shows a nonsensical UI (no, I don’t want to “replace” the folder) and sometimes removes the x bit from the folder mode. I don’t even know how. A random chmod(2) call deep in glib? Why would the file chooser ever use chmod or fchmod?
Attaching symbolic meanings to objects is a pretty standard human thing to do and has been as long as there have been humans.
That reminds me of the Husk golfing language [0] that I played with a few years ago. Each character corresponds to a few different commands, each with a distinct list of argument types.

The interpreter takes a brute-force approach of going through each interpretation until it finds one that works. Sometimes, it simply hangs forever, and other times, it interprets the program differently than you'd expect. But I always considered that as part of the charm of golfing in it.

[0] https://github.com/barbuz/Husk
What impact did the ad have?
> What makes you feel that a union wouldn’t represent your interests?

They definitionally don't. Unions represent the union's interests. It is the design intent of unions to represent an amalgamation of their members. That's already not the same as my interests, but the union organization itself is also an incentivized actor.

These distinction are far from a subtlety.

My interests might overlap with the union's interest, but that's highly situational.
Even if we accept this argument, the parts you're talking about are a tiny proportion of video game console parts.

There's no reason you shouldn't be able to e.g. buy replacement analog stick parts.
> The modern jewelry market is also substantially different than what past generations taught me jewelry was. To them, jewelry was meant to be a value store. You purchase a valuable ring, the stone and metal held their value and you or your heirs could sell it later if times were tough.

Jewelry sellers pretend their product is like precious metals: a store of value.

In fact, it's more like collectable trading cards: popularity contributes more value than component materials.

I.e. why heritage Tiffany or Rolex pieces still have substantial value
Cool. Thanks. But let's say I do.
There's no mechanism that ensures that no one does things you consider unethical. What an idea!
It's not that they only use their phones/tablets, it's that the phone/tablet is the first tool they reach for, the default device, and UI conventions from that space feel correct and natural to them, just as they feel clumsy and jarring to me. (How old am I? Old enough that I still use an opto-mechnical mouse with a ball, because I still like the extra weight and inertia it has over a pure optical mouse!)
Because an inversion of responsibility happens at some turning point of organization size.

A small company that wants to survive has to spend a lot of effort and engineering hours becoming compliant with the legislation. If they fail to do so, the following legal battle and potential fines have a high probability of bankrupting them. They must be proactive to avoid this.

Large corporations instead get to be reactive. They comply where it’s convenient and otherwise operate on an “ask forgiveness later” mindset. Legal battles and billion dollar fines barely register and instead of becoming destructive events, just become minor taxes on doing business.

As much as I appreciate the spirit of the legislation, the implementation has actually empowered large companies and is squeezing out small business.
> force the developers to fix their HTML

Developers?

In the early days of the web it wasn't developers writing HTML. It was anybody who wanted to publish anything on the web. Real programmers didn't touch it. That is why browsers had to be tolerant of bad code.
I believe no. Maybe for some math classes the practice is important, but then we need to ask what we're really trying to get kids to do here.

One problem with how we measure this is that we use test scores as our metric and target. We ask "does homework improve test scores, which we implicitly accept as the definitive metric for learning" rather than "does homework improve learning".

Closed note, closed book, timed, silent tests are not a thing that occurs anywhere outside of academic environments. In real life, you are expected to use resources to solve problems. Homework may really only help with test scores (if it does that at all) since it helps with rote memorization. In order to pass a calculus test, you are expected to do 100 calculus problems and try to pattern-match the integral on the test to the handful of integration algorithms you were drilled on, then manipulate the symbols to get the desired result. However, if most people were asked to use calculus in solving a problem or modeling something, they'd be utterly lost because calculus classes and tests take no time to explain the utility of a tool which was created to solve problems and model things.
I have no reason to print 3d, but nice to see it working. With things like this and what I believe is all the "crazy" things going on in Linux, I think OpenBSD is a very good alternative to Linux.

For me, the next release will have something like valgrind added to OpenBSD base. IIRC you would use ktrace(1) to look for issues. valgrind is one of the very few reasons I keep Linux around.
If you want to be able to run most command-line programs (and probably GUI apps through VNC) in an isolated environment (similar to WSL or Chrome OS), then it will suffice, but there are some that appreciate having the desktop Linux environment and functionality across the whole of the device (like what sxmo is doing). Definitely a niche within a niche (desktop Linux users), I currently just avoid using a phone aside from the most basic tasks like using it as a phone to call/text or where it's required like banking.
> organize into a kind of union

That's one way to describe an illegal conspiracy
Ask HN: Where to find market research consulting clients?
My client does work for market research consulting firms on a subcontracting basis. He and his company program surveys and do discrete choice modeling for new product development, pricing, product/market forecasting, profiling/segmentation, and customer satisfaction.

Discrete choice modeling is extremely accurate, and his company has a track record of success with companies like Intel, DIG, Walmart, Nestle and others.

DIG went from 4 employees to over 200 with my client's help. And my client helped Intel exceed earnings expectations by more than a billion dollars a quarter. From that point on, Intel recommended my client to other companies and had steady work.

Unfortunately, his client at Intel left, and my client is looking to branch out and find new clients. To be clear, we want to be hired as subcontractors to do specific work.

The client will write the surveys, we program the surveys, and handle the choice models. And we are good at making our clients successful.

I'm hoping to find market research consulting clients but I'm unsure of where to search. Advertising blindly doesn't seem like the best idea.

Does anyone have any advice?
This is the biggest reason why MFA codes shouldn't be in the cloud. Use SMS-based MFA which is much more fool-proof though a pain in the ass. I have stopped using software based MFAs for this particular reason.
Indeed. Openwrt for some reason defaults to reply to pings. I see the value of ICMP for servers, but I don't see the value for home ISP routers.

I disabled ICMP reply on my home router.
In your opinion, do metrics effectively measure developer's performance?
Hi, I'm a recently promoted tech manager and I'm compiling opinions from tech managers in this community to understand if in your routine do you track metrics from developers?

Thanks!
Given the history of the diamond trade I'm fairly sure the slope slips in the other direction!
> - Motherboard no longer charges battery Current: replace motherboard Repairability: replace capacitors utilizing schematics

Some marginally related remarks:

Most faulty capacitors were manufactured around 2000s ( see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague ). Those days are long gone. Most battery charging issue now are unrelated to capacitor .

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In the email I got from them she says she didn't have to take any action for this crap to be installed on her iPhone.
Not to diminish any skills a photographer has, but it's a totally different skill set than a painter. A photograph can be duplicated in 1:1 quality so there is no difference from the original to the bazillionth copy. There is only one original painting. A photograph is taken in (typically) a fraction of a second with the obvious long exposure still within in seconds of time. A painting obviously takes much longer.

I say all of this as one that has made a living with various modes of image capture with a camera.
The Role of Algorithms
>I’ll give an app either file permissions or network permissions, but almost never both

App with file permission can communicate with network permission app
> You can't control what your employer does.

That's precisely the point of unions, though. Individually, you have no control over your employer, but via collective bargaining you do.
The video is humourous to a certain degree but it does make a valid point that a lot of people don't understand about "western" food. Having traveled a lot and enjoying food of all kinds, even that slop as they call it, I think people don't really understand how much western ingredients have dominated the world wide cuisine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_plants_native_t...

Some of the most popular world wide ones were only found in the Americas. Asian cuisine has seized on some of these to the point that people don't even realize they didn't exist in Asia 500ish years ago. I think the "only potatoes" comedian would find that if food ingredients was limited, it's not westerners that would be deprived. Much of the rest of the world would go back to rice and chickpeas. Those hot peppers that Asia is known for wouldn't have them at all.
Except for the camera and USB-C, it's not much better than an iPhone 13 Pro Max.

With the greater MP camera, you'd expect a 1 TB storage option.
Study: A positive worldview is less associated with privilege than expected
This would explain why everyone was laughing at me when I tried to rob a bank while trying to cover my head.
Diamonds are basically the AI of burnt carbon
> Globally, white people are a minority of people, and they're likely not the overwhelming majority of all scientists even. So it would obviously be a statistical anomaly if only white people were on a specific research trip.

This was a trip to McMurdo Station, which is operated by the US, which is majority white as of the 2020 census (58.9% "white alone, not Hispanic or Latino"). In 1956, when McMurdo was established, the US was nearly 90% white. If anything, it would be a statistical anomaly if there were too few white people, considering that the science community is whiter than the country as a whole.

The GP's point stands, still: though the OP's article doesn't explicitly say that the lack of racial diversity in McMurdo is a problem, it's implied. Why is it a problem? I don't think anyone at McMurdo is complaining about minorities coming in.
I think it's perfect fwiw
Who will inherit Bernard Arnault’s luxury empire?
Sorry, but allocating approximately 2x the needed size for each string is not going to get covered up well by overcommit unless you are directly mmapping and munmapping (or DONTNEEDing or similar) each allocation and each allocation is more than 8kB. (Probably well over 8kB, and for actual good efficiency in the presence of huge pages, over 4MB so there’s a chance that half of it is unused.)

I doubt this workload exists. Overcommit is kind of nifty but not at all magical.

I bet a really good AVX-512 transcoder with output size checking could be almost as fast as the OP.
But how much of that agriculture should move elsewhere?

I’ve read/heard that a bulk of the alfalfa grown in Utah is exported to other countries:

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/editorial/2022/12/04/why-its-...

> Almost a third of it is exported, mostly to China, taking far too much of our water with it.

So basically, the state is letting other countries effectively over farm Utah, destroying it while it’s at it, giving Utah little in return.

Meanwhile residents are being asked to “slow the flow” and water their lawns less, etc. No. Utah government just needs to start doing their job, pay attention to consumption, and properly govern.

One or two good rain years should not distract us from the real problem either.
The Tyranny of the Marginal User
Oxymetazoline works great for short-term relief (like 2-3 days), so I'm honestly not sure why people are so bent on wanting to use controlled substances for very common ailments.
So many caused by retries. I wonder how many of those were due to lack of exponential backoff with jitter.
ICMP response time not useful for “locating” an anycasted address, some of which have logical location associated with them. See https://blog.cloudflare.com/icloud-private-relay/ for an example
That law has a loophole: Force the worker to pay the union even if they don't join it. So unless you live in a right to work state that law doesn't mean much.
Here's an example of a real iOS SMS bug exploit delivered by SMS-

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2015/05/29/apple-e...
True, but there is a wide range of use-cases where “failure” of an LLM is tolerated, and it’s almost never safety-critical like driving is.
Why is 24/7 oncall exploitation? It is hardly unpaid when you are payed > $500,000 a year. Also you should know this upfront when accepting employment.
The Future of Fraud Prevention Is Human
One of the most memorable excursions I’ve had with my brothers is when we visited the Great Salt Lake and found out it was a cess pool and one of the foulest smelling places on Earth. You truly cannot imagine how vile this place is unless you visit. An ecosystem of death based on brine shrimp, flies, a few pitiful birds trying to eat the flies, and rot. The closest analog I can think of is Mordor. This was before Covid, so it seems it has gotten nothing but worse since then.
Oh, certainly. (The uppercase D is a typo, only the G is uppercase.)

From Wikipedia:

> “…it represents the never-ending wish of adding new features in the engine, which would get it closer to an exhaustive product, but never will.”
>Given that consoles are often sold at a loss with profits recouped on game sales

I've wondered about this before: how is this not anti-conpetitive pricing? Is it okay because Sony/MS don't raise prices?
To someone poor who is dying of a curable illness, healthcare that isn't executed well is infinitely better than care they can't afford.

It's great to make decisions about how to spend your income, unless... you have no income.
That works for a website. Doesn't work as well for direct mail
I'm not surprised, GPT-4 really is very good, you just have to prompt it well enough. Often you don't even have to be a prompt guru.
Show HN: Eesel AI – ChatGPT over company knowledge, without APIs
Hey everyone! I'm Amogh and I've built eesel AI.

It's like ChatGPT over your company knowledge (yet another one?!) - but with a twist. Instead of relying on APIs to integrate with your applications, you simply use our browser extension to add relevant pages as "Knowledge". Then, you can chat over that.

Whether it's a Google Doc, Notion page, help docs, or any other website - you can add it as "Knowledge" and chat with it. You don't need to grant full API access to your work apps.

For public pages, we have a crawler. For private pages, we use the extension, but we're exploring a crawler for that as well.

While bypassing APIs might seem unusual, we see it as an interesting approach to create a universal AI teammate. One that could, in the future, operate autonomously, accessing your applications just as you would - retrieving information and even taking actions.

That's the vision. Today, 100+ companies use eesel as their "oracle" to deflect recurring questions from colleagues or customers:
- A DevOps team in a 600 people org added eesel to Slack to handle engineering queries.
- A Support team in a 70 people org integrated eesel as a widget on their developer documentation.
- A Growth Agency in a 60 people org leverages eesel, trained on Segment, Amplitude, and Mixpanel docs, to assist engineers.
- And an unusual example - a 50 people Cremation Service added eesel to their Slack as a support assistant.

It'd mean a lot for you to check out eesel AI and share your thoughts about our approach.
jewelry is rarely pure gold. so you'd have to take that into consideration of your spot price. the person you sell that jewelry to later will also incur an expense at melting and separating the gold of the lesser metals. so not really sure how jewelry is a good way to store gold value
The paracetamol don't do anything for cold. You just have to wait and get better. You can also clean your nose regularly with a saline solution when it is too congested.
That might work for a cold (important, a runny nose is often beneficial for cleaning out the cold).

But allergies (and sometimes colds) often cause sinus infections, which will get worse if untreated. For me, pseudoephedrine can quickly reduce a sinus headache during allergy season (aligned with rainy season for fun humidity changes), and can be used before resorting to antibiotics if a sinus infection presents.
Anyone found a practical way of avoiding PBA's and related compounds?
> And a big diamond, useless for anything else, is the only way to show how much the marriage is worth. This is what is being sold to us.

And I can't believe males and females of 21st century still fall for this. Literally any use of this money could have been better.
My company doesn't officially measure metrics for developers. One thing my boss keeps track of is how many tickets get moved from one sprint to another, but not per-person, just as a team.

Quantifying human labor (especially knowledge work) is extremely difficult, and I think you need to just have an organic, on-the-ground view of it. Project managers that know how to code and what kind of work goes into a problem can better understand the level of effort for a particular problem, then you can see who is pulling their weight and who isn't.
I suppose losing half your money in jewelry devaluation is better than losing all your money in currency devaluation or asset seizure?
Would an average human be able to do that on a strict time limit (which LLMs effectively have as they do a fixed amount of computation per token)?
If my superior asks me to violate stated company policy and my only play is to quit, what do you think is the ultimate outcome?
Finishing with Twitter/X
I’ll be that guy: https://http.cat/
It was quite trippy to watch the slideshow with a 120BPM house track :)
Ask HN: What data is Facebook sending from my phone?
I looked at some statistics in my router and saw that Facebook (the mobile app) is the biggest sender of data from my network. It's more than my online backup provider uses. What data is the app sending that can amount to many, many gigabytes? Has anyone tried to decipher the packages to find out what it contains?
schools either never worked or stopped working. after all, look, almost all the people who went to school don't give a fuck about underperforming underfunded school systems. (or healthcare or ... or if they care they are ignorant and clueless about what to do with the problem, and easily fell prey to political dogma of some group.)

it's simply time to stop worrying about it.