skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
personally, i can only extract so much meaning from the text itself without rely on experts and explanations. i find it helpful to have it interpretted as well by people like Jason gregory.
247 per year isn't too surprising: assuming 5 day weeks, that's about one per day, and wikipedia says the site has 10k people, so that's better than my record of 5 hospital visits for medically significant reasons in the last 30 years.

(Tripped and fell onto the ashes of a fire aged 10, knocked unconscious by a trampoline aged 11, testicular torsion in 2005, hit by an inattentive driver at low speed in the late 00s, 20mm by 1mm by 1mm gouge along a finger from opening a tin of tomatoes during lockdown being the only one on this list where I went by tram instead of ambulance).

(Not that this means they're fine or there's no room for improvement; it's just that this feels like a rerun of the memes about Foxconn and suicide nets, as both completely lack a sense of scale for the workplace place and how much everywhere else also fails, and also as an attempt to demonise rather than to be the "rising tide" that is supposed to "lift all boats").
Because Python only has one semantic meaning for whitespace. YAML’s whitespace is also mixed with other symbols that change what the whitespace means, and it differs further depending on how much whitespace follows the previous indent and precedes the following symbol, if any. Or if the previous line ends with a pipe, then the only semantic meaning is “none of this whitespace matters, so much so that it’s trimmed… but the indentation is preserved after the first line”. I’m probably wrong about some or all of this! It’s been a whole day since I had to write YAML, so the YAML gnomes have rightly reclaimed the part of my brain that was sure I knew what a given bit of whitespace actually means.
Windows RDP is a much better experience than basically everything else, it's not diffing a big jpeg of the screen like almost everything else does it sends more primitives to do more compositing on the client end. If the latency is low you often can't tell you're remote. You can actually work on it all day rather than just for doing odd bits of tech support. Plus it maps printers, audio etc.
There's also "should have known", aka fiduciary duty.
I've been in an MRI scanner. It's not a calming experience by any measure. The shape of the thing is all wrong, the parts that move are unnerving, and it emits a stress-inducing sound. This is one device that REALLY needs a UX person to take a look at its outer design.
Non-detachable aluminium RayBans. You’re welcome.
Sure, but my reply is in the context of deploying and hosting a web application.
I wrote a man-in-the-middle recording for RDP way back when. We did recording for both, RDP is much more sophisticated.

Besides using a TLS style encryption (VNC at the time had none). RDP tries as hard as possible to not just send bitmaps. It first shares what fonts it wants to use, then a cache of bitmaps from the previous session (for the wallpaper for example). When Windows move it doesn't send bitmap updates, it sends window updates and tells the client to paint a rect, then draw fonts, etc..

That said, it's a bear of a protocol with countless versions and "speed mode" hacks that bypass the layered protocol setup, tons of weird features, etc..
Pretty sure that is heavily outdated. My grandfather had such reports from building sites (Tiler / bricklayer pre 2000), those now have to wait till after work if i am not mistaken.

In case you are talking heavy machinery in the lumber yard, alcohol is a no go there now. School friend of mine lost his apprenticeship due to liver problems ~ 15 years ago. It was considered too dangerous to have him work with saws as it couldnt be ruled out that he could pass out and fall into one. Relative of mine also lost his job as a truck driver due to substance abuse despite it not reaching the threshold for loosing his driver license.

This is not to say there arent deadly accidents in Germany. Friend of mine builds electrical substations and the company has regular (deadly) high voltage accidents. Roughly one or two a year since he has been there (not on his site but across all projects of the company). Sadly often unskilled laborers that didnt understand the safety instructions due to language barriers. So falling through grids covering open high voltage or digging up a line.

Since it has been mentioned elsewhere that the threat of lawyers is higher in the US, in Germany you are personally liable in many industries. So those dead workers lead to criminal investigations into the people in charge which can mean years in prison and fines. Technically the company is banned from helping with the fines but there seem to be some bonus payments happening if your company isnt a complete shit. Its still not something you risk as it means you will have a few horrible years in front of you even if you end up being cleared.

Edit: That liability, which also covers shortcomings during the build process discovered later is the reason he is currently looking for another job.
> None of that has anything to do with "moving fast and breaking things". Take away Musk's welfare and SpaceX and Tesla are out of business within a year.

Explain then the reason why SpaceX is more successful than its competitors, which receive even more government funding than SpaceX.
you could turn any company profitable by firing all its employees and licensing the brand name. It will be an extraordinary accomplishment indeed if X becomes a > $44 billion company, but turning a small profit on declining revenue is not actually moving that direction.
With the amount of visible bugs that every game is released with nowadays, there are easily as many security bugs.

Depending on the game, it downloads maps, skins, etc. from the server... File parsing code is highly suspectible to security bugs.
Another recent example of this problem: https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/issues/2398
Our team just released our open source product LogYard. We attempted to create a lightweight solution with a quick way to analyze logs being received from distributed computing sources. Feedback is a valuable tool for any company attempting to improve their products. Creating logs is one source of this feedback but as a software grows distributed computing can make it difficult to track this data. Thus we created an easy to use GUI and logging system for collecting and sorting these logs.

Other logging services require high cost for high scalability. Our solution aims to provide a more tailored option for smaller companies that wish to grow their logging as they grow their company.

We plan on actively monitoring and improving our software as the need for features arise. If you have a desired feature or improvement for our application feel free to create an issue on our github.
Read More about it here: https://medium.com/@andrewclarkwagner/logyard-a-new-log-mana...
Try it here: https://github.com/oslabs-beta/LogYard
That's not an inevitable property of the universe, that's a culture.

I did tech at a mechanical/electrical/plumbing contractor called US Engineering in KC. The union (unions?) and Corporate worked pretty well together, because they had to. Aggressive subcontractor bidding means you only get a few percentage points of profit on each job, the unions fight to get their fair share knowing that if they fight too hard they make the company brittle and they don't want the company to fold, indeed it was kind of shocking to hear people taking some pride (even in jest) at making the CEO and his family some cash.

But the biggest thing was, Believe In Zero. Huge push, lots of concerns that all of the new hires in new regions working on data centers did not understand this long-held cultural expectation. It's to believe in zero “unsafe behaviors,” things like turning with one foot when you get off a ladder (instead of planting both feet on the ground and then turning). Even if “Believe In Zero” was the corporate side, the unions were committed to “yeah that's what we do” and typical welders would remind me that they are working with thousand pound plumbing assemblies, cutters that need to slice these massive pipes open, and of course day-in-day-out they are going to be staring at the plasma of a welding torch melting this stuff back together—“all any of us want to do is to have some pride in our work, get a fair paycheck, and get home safe and healthy,” they'd say.

Why would Corporate care, why would the unions push so hard for how you step off of a ladder? Because if you roll your ankle or yank the ladder towards you, could create an injury, that requires paperwork for OSHA, then the insurance company will look at that paperwork to try and argue that they should get more money because you are not a five star super-safe workplace, even if they are not paying that much for the actual incidents. And when your margin is only a couple of percentage points, you can't be spending half of it on insurance.

So they did. Heck even I got into it. One thing I did to “Believe In Zero” was to cover up all of the exposed nails or splintery plywood in the corner where we stored soda. Sure “no reasonable person is going to run their hand across these surfaces”, but hey, you never know, maybe someone spills a coffee and someone else slips on it, if it's just 10 minutes for me to fix it now, and I can be thinking about how I want to structure a module while I am doing it, why leave it?
> If the executives want to hit their performance bonuses they might start axing lower revenue projects or support groups

This is not a reaction to an FTC case.
The babel fish.

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Babel_Fish
In the end, journalists are dependent on social media to get eyeballs on their content. Twitter / X still is a highly effective tool for that. There won't be a lot of people that can afford to opt out of that.

Elon Musk probably rubbed a lot of people the wrong way with his antics but I don't think he was fundamentally that wrong with his core analysis of the issues facing Twitter when he bought it:

- High staffing cost relative and some revenue challenges.

- Content moderation that was simultaneously controversial, expensive, and biased. And also not that effective.

- The Twitter API was getting abused a lot by people with all sorts of agendas. Including some state actors like Russia.

- R&D stagnation. The site barely changed in the years before he bought it.

So, he took a wrecking ball to the whole thing and upset a lot of people doing so. But, if he gets it back to being profitable next year, that will be a big milestone for them.

I've been using it less and less over the years. But that already started before the takeover. I kind of like Mastodon currently but part of the attraction is that it is relatively free from the noisy crowd that makes Twitter less interesting than it used to be.
Damn, even Raspberry Pi removed the headphones jack!
And he'd blame Valve, too. EGS might be great for devs, but it's not good for users. It's not a big conspiracy against him. People just don't want to use the store! Whining in the face of obvious failure makes you look like a real loser.
I need a self driving Segway, yesterday.
Plot twist. He is Ive.... or a very good ai representation.
> WebUSB is actually a W3C open standard.

This is misleading at best. Here’s what the actual spec says <https://wicg.github.io/webusb/>:

> This specification was published by the Web Platform Incubator Community Group. It is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track.

It’s an experimental spec by Google (observe the affiliation of the three editors: all Google); Mozilla has adopted a negative position on it <https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#webusb>; WebKit has not remarked upon it.
Used to be the case until the early 2000s, since then most places have a strict no-alcohol policy at the workplace.
Interestingly there's already an AI powered earbud [0] on the market that claims to do that; whether it's any good or if OpenAI can do better remains to be seen.

But how long before it's capturing audio from your conversations to use as training data?

[0] https://www.timekettle.co/
The equilibrium found between supply and demand implies the existence of "excess demand." For some, myself included, the choice between excess demand and efficient markets leans heavily toward reducing excess demand, despite it being less effecient.
It's not possible to measure with 100% accuracy, but let's not kid ourselves every company and every division can easily pick out the bottom 10-15% of devs who have close to zero real impact. The actual number in fact is likely far greater than that.
RDP is a crazy complex protocol, and you have options for pretty much everything.

On the graphics side, you can send over draw commands "draw the letter A here using this font", or you can send opengl calls, or you can send dumb bitmap updates. You can get the other end of the connection to do compositing ("blur this buffer and overlay it over that buffer with 50% transparency").

You can also get the remote end of the connection to decode videos - so when you hit play on an MP4 video inside an RDP connection, the actual video decoding gets done on the client not the server.
The Human Future: A Case for Optimism [video]
I love melodysheep
If you are going to need that device in not nearest future (1 year+), probably you should buy an original spare battery. There are maybe a million of Lithium battery designs on the Earth, do not expect you can easily buy a battery to your device. Especially if this is a Blackberry/GoPro/proprietary device with a sophisticated battery connection which refuses to just use 4.2V from any source.
I'm not a fan of YAML. But frankly people complaining about YAML is starting to be more annoying.

I barely use it and even I can see 80% of these issues are from not putting quotes around your values.

Maybe config languages are just really easy to bike shed.
Seriously? constructions workers = all Germans?
> If supply and demand don't set the number of surgeons, then who does?

Public policy. Have public education and graduate X number of doctors every year no matter what.

Free market doesn’t work well for essential services. Lobbying will artificially restrict supply to make more money at everyone else’s detriment. Demand for health is unbounded and any patient will value life over capital, so without forcing oversupply it will be exploitative.
They have web based VNC wrapper.

The whole platform is built docker containers. You can skip the whole installation steps and just install their Remmina container from docker hub.
> most of the people I've seen being fired in one of the big ones are senior people working in customer facing roles

Which industry? I’m seeing a lot of middle layers being reduced, but not the rainmakers.
Not really internal. Long distance fiber lines between sites, mostly leased.
Redditors learning resources are clickbait headlines and bot echo chambers.
Hm what sorts of incentives and constraints could lead to a worker taking dangerous shortcuts. I wonder if this has ever been an issue before I wonder if anyone has looked into how these things happen.
Changing Lanes Without Crashing: A No-BS Guide for Engineering Managers
People should start using a good editor.
Yes it's a joke, but in fact it would be like winning in lottery, once again, to have a black hole this "close" to earth.
wingdings as a coding language
Wouldn't a Planck mass black hole have evaporated immediately?
Httpie Desktop
true,

On the other hand I think a two-person SSH is probably an easier thing to build in terms of recording what was done for audit, and maybe even require both parties to confirm commands before executing them. Also your SSH server could require both parties with different keys to login before it starts or something. I think this kind of stuff would be harder to implement in a web browser (but just as useful probably)
The best part about M.2 E key is that it does not require +12V.
I'm just seeing an nginx page, is archive.ph/is/today down?
A boy has been arrested now:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/28/boy-16-arres...
The total is more like 500mm. If I recall, it was 250mm for refunds, and 250mm in penalties. It's a large amount of $$$

Edit: to be clear, it's the largest fine the FTC has ever imposed, it is a historically large amount of $$$
For people like me that didn't know what this is.

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/metahuman

Pretty amazing. Although I don't know if I even need characters this real in my games. At some point it becomes too much like real life and kind of boring? I think I like the fantasy aspect of games too much and I like to escape.
The intersection between politically/socially unpopular and low impact.
Yes, you CAN begin to imagine what they're going to come up with!
Immortals of Aveum just shipped last month using UE5's advanced new features. The game tanked though, because it's a new IP and released at a time where we are inundated with high quality, high profile releases. 2023 has been kind of wild for AAA games.

The game just needed a more likeable protagonist and a less crowded release window, but I'm sure the takeaway for EA execs is that it shouldn't have been a new IP...
I've seen cigarettes put out in gasoline - including once when somebody thought it was a jug of diesel so didn't really take any precautions.

It's amazing how we live through our teenage years sometimes.
Developers usually follow scrum frameworks, so productivity could easily be measured by overall activity, number of issues closed, merge requests completed, etc.
Did I say that? That's a whole entire other sentence there.

But importantly, did it? Did you look into and compare audi's first year safety record before making this suggestion?
On a similar note, I'm genuinely curious as to why Pi chose the "authorized reseller" model instead of selling them directly.
That Google incident sounds interesting, do you have links to the technical explanations? From a quick search all I could find are news reports.
They were DC<->DC fiber links, carrying unencrypted Stubby RPC traffic. Internal is an accurate descriptor.
Personally, as someone who has read (and often rereads) the Tao in the original Chinese (with a lot of assistance and references!). I actually really like Hogan's translation. I don't think it holds as the only translation you need, but I feel a lot of translators become fixated on trying to capture the mystic poetic-ness of the Tao, but it is impossible to render this in English without loosing one of its most important stylistic elements: it's extreme terseness.

Hogan's translation misses a lot of "meaning", but you're missing the point if you want the specificity of the word choice translated for you.
especially if they were made with Unity
New York City? Eh, nobody goes there, too much traffic.
Of what? You assume I just go to famous landmarks and take typical photos of them? A small fraction of my photos chorus be obtained online. Most are fairly unique.
> Doesn't stop anyone around here.

Yes, it does. Go visit the Netherlands and you'll see the remarkable difference. Just because some people are biking on those roads doesn't mean you have anywhere near the bicycle trip share that the Netherlands does.
The study comes from the French High Council for Equality between Women and Men, an official governmental organisation in the French Republic.
It’s largely because products outside of Amazon are equally as crappy. But people have significant confidence in Amazon’s return system where if something is stolen or doesn’t arrive, they can have it resolved.

Buying elsewhere, even when it’s from a physical location, doesn’t always provide that same consistent experience.

This happens beyond Amazon too. It happens almost anywhere where you can expect to have your problems resolved. To this effect, people are willing to spend their money where there is more peace of mind. Even if the product itself might not be the best.
When RPi 4 was going for $200, I got some Orange Pi 5s for about $140 each. My configuration included 8GB RAM, the power supply, and a 250GB NVMe drive.

It seems like it's about on par with the RPi 5 in terms of power. The OS support is lacking, but the M.2 and +4 "Little" cores make it pretty compelling regardless.

Edit: just saw the pi 5 has PCIe :0
This is a very "dense" paper. So: if dark matter is something that annihilates itself, that's a two-particle interaction, so its macroscopic rate scales as density squared ρ². If there's a black hole in the solar system, the dark matter halo immediately surrounding it would be compressed far denser than around a normal object, so it'd have a much brighter annihilation signal. Nothing's known about dark matter annihilation. They speculate, if its cross section is large enough, this annihilation could be observable by gamma-ray telescopes like Fermi or the upcoming CTA. And that would distinguish a black hole from something else. That's all I could understand. It'd be a discovery of a solar system black hole, and new dark matter physics, two-for-one.

I'm curious what math led to that funny exponent in eq.(5): ρ(r) ~ r^{-9/4}.
> Basically all software and gaming got a massive bump that was obviously going to have an unsustainable component to it.

Well, this sounds logical and all but isn't always.

For example, Google's revenue/employee exploded during covid but it didn't crater post-covid [1]. So even with a hiring spree, the company is on the same track as it was pre-covid. You might need to layoff employees to get that same covid high but that covid high is the unsustainable part not your current employee count.

So some companies may have overhired compared to what their reveneue growth without covid would've been but not all did. You still need to evaluate companies on a company by company basis.

[1]: https://www.macroaxis.com/financial-statements/GOOGL/Revenue...
Then how did this current world order come to pass? There is no inherent force at play or divine will that stops those "robber barons" from doing all of that. The government isn't given onto us by the almighty, it's something people created and upkeep. Those same instincts that created that would also moderate all of the evil you think people would do.
Does not load at all for me!
Responded here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37691256

For corporations, it's incidental. For unions, it's inherent.
Reminds me of the time I dumped CANbus data off a Yamaha R1 bike, made sense of the data, and displayed it on a bunch of charts.

Interesting data like Accelerator Handle position, you can figure out how much a rider is really cranking it, and how aggressive they are riding.
Whatever people are willing to pay them for the work.
> it’s connected through some Internet of Shit device

You probably got some "tax credits" that are, legally, a pre-payment for the expected generation of carbon offset credits, and your system has to report metrics to verify the actual electricity generation so that the credits can be created over time. Did you read all the fine print of the contracts you signed?

We did, and it left a pretty bitter taste in our mouths.
Love this kind of stuff.
Mario is still going strong.
My stomach had eggs, guacamole, oregano oil, thyme oil, clove oil, ginger root, aged garlic extract, charcoal, bentonite clay, diatomaceous earth, glycine, cranberry concentrate, berberine, calcium lactate and taurine. That pork tenderloin sounds good though.
Some people really like the idea of concatenative languages. I think this is probably reasonably viewed as "research into making those actually usable", in addition to a fun hobby project.

Here's a blog post that tries to motivate them: https://evincarofautumn.blogspot.com/2012/02/why-concatenati...

Here's another interesting recent attempt: https://www.dawn-lang.org/posts/introducing-dawn-(part-1)/
I should have included links, thank you
>“How am I in this war?” during an interview with author Walter Isaacson.

You inserted yourself in it, perhaps naively.

I mean, you provided military infrastructure to one side (initially for free), the same tech you just signed a contract with the Pentagon for.