skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting my eyes tested for the first time and finding out I have astigmatism in one eye was eye opening (sorry). When blue LED panels started showing up in appliances everywhere I didn't understand why they were so popular. At night, I couldn't read the time on the microwave oven from across the room because it was so bright and smeared compared to red/amber lights. Now I realize it's just me..
In most EU countries one has access to social benefits from the permanent-resident stage (which typically takes 3-5 years to obtain). It is not necessary to be fully naturalized.
I've black lined a lot of clauses in employee agreements like the one in the article. When questioned by the company I tell them I cannot agree to such terms at the salary being offered and generally propose what I consider to be an outlandish number as salary plus paid PTO in exchange for it. Typically, the company just signs. Sometimes they tell me to eff off. Only once has someone paid me what I thought was an absurd rate to not work for their competitor.

My current non-compete is in the finance industry and uses paid salary during garden leave as a way of avoiding non-compete laws. Nobody esp cares whether it is legal since its a year or two paid vacation.
I wonder how the backend works... Is it a microservice which queries over a globally distributed 'bank holidays' database, which has a frontend for some admin to add/remove bank holidays, and perhaps a custom approval workflow to approve/deny bank holidays, and maybe a system to make new bank holidays 'go live' on a certain date/time?

Or is it just a static file someone wrote in vim and checked into git which got hosted as a static asset?
Security is the reason I get mad about bank apps detecting custom ROMs on Android. Support is usually shorter, but LineageOS can keep OS and software securities rolling past the manufacturers date. There aren’t custom ROMs in the Apple sphere tho since it’s all proprietary.
This is true although a significant portion of increased quality of life can be purchased using wealth. Just like "money can't buy happiness" which is true, it can certainly drastically increase the opportunity of happiness.

A significant amount of quality of life improvement has happened as I've grown wealthier over the years. In the form of time alone, I have more personal time to do things I want to do rather than being forced to work for someone else to meet basic needs.

I have a fairly large yard and used to maintain it, it took a lot of time and wasn't something I enjoyed (just the final aspect of it). I now pay people to maintain it, I enjoy having a well kept yard by simply paying for it. When I had less wealth, a significant amount of brain cycles was spent looking for ways to reduce or optimize some cost around something. Now, unless I see a big price difference to where it may impact other aspects of my life, I don't fret a few dollars here and there.

When I had less wealth, even with healthcare, I'd probably push through work vs taking a day off because the risk of not having enough sick + PTO days off should I get more sick. Now, if I feel sick, I don't hesitate to use sick leave. Wealth also affords me more overall bargaining power in employment negotiations. Having enough "FU" money let's me dictates my terms with more authority leading to more enjoyable work environments.

Overall wealth allows me to pay a lot of things away I'd otherwise have to do. It also affords me opportunity to do things I want I might otherwise not. I take more international vacations since I became more wealthy and it's been great, just returned from a nice vacation. Part of that trip involved splurging on some nice dining options, paying for luggage delivery/management, and having more comfort in my transit options. With my new found increased time wealth bought my, I exercise frequently and my health has improved or at the very least, my overall feeling throughout the day.

There are a lot of things people get diminishing returns of in terms of quality of life vs wealth where it doesn't matter. My bed is just as comfy, I've been fortunate enough to never be short on food, and so on. If you're single, it can make you more attractive especially to women but it's not everything, physical looks and personality are still more important to most people (at least the people I'd want to meet).

So while wealth isn't a direct indicator of quality of life, it's certainly correlated and I'd argue for many, a strong correlate. It won't get you everything, some things wealth won't help you with (I still have to exercise my own body, I can't pay that effort away but at least it enables me to do that more readily and on my own terms, for example).
It is not, no. But for whatever reason too many people gravitate to an unreasonably bloated and badly constructed mess of tools and things and services. All for the sake of planet scale.
Indeed, there are others such as the queen's funeral. Bunting is reserved for celebrations.
Show HN: Nineideas – Habit replacement for compulsive information consumption
I've just started learning to code this past year. nineideas.net is my first complete full-stack app.
I followed the MDN docs and the Odin Project for most of my learning, so this is a classic MERN app.

The point of this app was to create something to replace passive/compulsive information consumption (HakerNews, Reddit, various newsletters) with something more constructive. I'm open to any suggestions about how to improve the site, find users, or tackle this issue in another way. I think I underestimated how difficult it would be to make something that is a compelling daily practice. Simple gamification doesn't seem nearly enough.

You do not need to create an account to use the site, but creating an account lets you save and share your lists.
No email address required to create an account. No analytics.
If you excel in your field you don't need to worry. If you are just a bee no remote job is safe.
What does it cost to live within a 10 minute walking distance of your job in the city center and with grocery stores, doctor's offices, the proper hostpital and the university either between or nor more than another 5-10 minutes away?

A decent EU quality of living feels unattainable in the larger US cities and is available in the EU for most of the population.
Because 9/10 developers would not implement it correctly anyways (even if they think they did) and the generally-right thing to do is rely on existing libraries and services which do this already.
Needs Ask HN: in title, unless things have changed
Lost your luggage? That's nothing – we just lost your whole flight
Well, "unsupported pavement" to be accurate.
I mean the Philippines is traditionally a US ally, but Duterte both openly criticised the US and tried to get closer to China. And Maria Ressa is definitely not an anti-US or anti-Western activist.
I love this story. As an adult the thought of stopping every few minutes to manually cool your computer is insufferable, I would rather just not play on that laptop. But yeah, as a kid, I could see myself perhaps having done this.
bitonic sort is O(n log(n)^2), which hardly makes a difference in normal sizes (benchmarks are on 10k, which is small).

The power of 2 requirement only applies to the core kernel.

All CPUs in usage today are parallel (in 3 to 4 different ways), and bitonic sort is the best performing sort on both amd64 and aarch64.
Are there best practices for unstructured data versioning and metadata
Greetings and thank you for reading!

I'm involved in several projects where we process very large amounts of data and generate secondary data, which we then organize on disk for downstream analysis. These are very large files and datasets (files are a few GB to several 100GB). Each dataset can be organized into one directory, and each of these would be documented as a whole.

I would like to implement a process where we can ensure that the data is well documented (for humans and machines). Right now, we are working on low-hanging fruit:

1. Consistent directory structure(s)
2. Generating file hashes
3. Docs/metadata (human: markdown, machine: json), including "version", dates, data provenance, protocols, etc...
4. Machine-readable docs (json), like above
5. Simple file manifest (file, hash)

It would be great to get any kind of feedback, suggestions, as well as pitfalls to avoid. Cheers!

(First post here, hopefully I'm doing this correctly)
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37790260
> is that you are not there when people talk and you can't correct them or defend yourself

You also can't correct things when you're in an office when meetings are had that exclude you. So even with that sweet commute you can still be reference while "in the office", just not in the room where Big Decisions are made.
At the end of the day, companies don't really care that much if they lose some of "the best." A lot of "the best" are changing jobs on a fairly regular basis anyway.
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I've seen this too, unfortunately. Commits, PRs, # of stories.

You get silliness from supposed "engineers" who will inflate the points for stories they work on and downplay points for stories others work on. It's pathetic.
This exchange was clarifying to me.

In a statement to Insider, a Voleon spokesman said:

"Like most hedge funds, in order to protect its most sensitive intellectual property, Voleon requests that select employees sign noncompetition agreements. Voleon's non-compete agreements are not a condition of employment. Those who sign it will receive a paid garden leave. Those who haven't signed it remain employed at Voleon, but may not receive access to the most sensitive intellectual property."

The Voleon ex-employees who spoke to Insider said their noncompete agreements did not provide paid leave. Ex-employees and other sources close to the firm said the unpaid noncompetes have been applied broadly — including to people who say they had little exposure to the firm's secret sauce. They described the firm's noncompetes as a de facto condition of employment and said the firm was taking measures to restrict employees from joining competitors as recently as this year.
Can you clarify your premise here?

When I worked in a building, I would go to meetings, and there I would see co-workers and people would talk to each other in meetings. When I work remotely, I join virtual meetings, and I see co-workers and people talk to each other.

In both cases, people can use chat to say things without me seeing. If I am physically in a building, but people are not in the same room as me, they can talk to each other without me hearing.

The only premise that could be true is that within one organization, people that cannot be remote may resent people that can.
Most registrar (i.e., company that sell domain names) offer at least one email account with the domain name, it's the case for example with OVH or Infomaniak. Otherwise you could use a mail account from Proton or FastMail for example, they let you use your own domain name :).
> Most of the population in general here isn't getting to a library without a car. Under 1% live in walking distance.

Does that apply here? If you're homeless... You don't need to travel from home. You can live in walking distance?

> For unhoused that do make it to the library, must run a strong risk of having the police called on them.

For what? Using the library while undesirable?
Haven't been in a non-fully-remote org in over 5 years so really can't relate
The war spending itself is trivial, but the war has a bunch of knock-on effects on the global economy. Most directly, it raises fossil fuel prices, which affects everything else.

It's not the biggest part of inflation, but it's piled on top of things like post-COVID realignment and the very long low-inflation, low-interest-rate 2010s.
CuML-DSA: Optimized Signing Procedure and Server-Oriented GPU Design for ML-DSA
TLS is powerful, but not a fit for literally every scenario, especially if you have more than one, possibly variably trusted entities in your protocol. That's why there are still encryption and authentication layers above TLS.

One simple example are apt repositories: It's desirable to be able to host deb packages on many servers, often controlled by semi-trustworthy parties, and still allow clients to authenticate them. It would be possible to use TLS alone for package download, but that would require handing over your authentication keys to every single mirror server.

So arguably, Debian did "roll their own crypto" – but it was strictly for the better.
Governments can write laws to do whatever they like... And they have police to enforce stuff however they like.
The only real answer here is "who knows?".

It's often said that tech workers have no need for unions and (not to reopen that box yet again!) this is exactly the kind of scenario where tech workers could benefit from union representation, even if they're highly paid. Absent that these companies can do more or less whatever they want with remote workers, they're not a protected class.
In which country is your friend working?
> companies don't really care that much if they lose some of "the best."

SWE salary numbers would suggest otherwise
Taken out of the gravity keeping it together it would instantly explode in a sort of small supernova. There would be no survivors. It is not immediately obvious if there would be a planet left afterwards.

If it somehow stayed bound together it would start a sort of elliptical orbit inside the planet slowly losing energy and punching a long spiraling hole towards the center of the planet.
I think the statements are in perfect agreement and the cynical conclusion is correct.

> Delta would not say if the engines with the fraudulently documented parts had been on planes while they were in service

Yes, we flew planes with dodgy parts.

> None of Delta’s aircraft are currently flying with unapproved parts

The dodgy parts have since been replaced on our planes... (note the "currently").

> the discovery hasn’t affected flight operations

...but we didn't ground our planes before taking out the dodgy parts, we used a regular maintenance window.
If it was not for DRDOS 6.0, that would never have happened. DRDOS 6.0 was excellent, one thing that never got to MS-DOS was the ability to password protect files, preventing someone else to access it. Granted, that was very easy to get around, but back then the times were simple.
What is the hurdle of staying in a library whilst charging your phone or power bank?
thank you for the recommendation! :)
Lost in self-doubt? Here’s how to succeed despite impostor syndrome
> An article written in Arabic, or Hebrew, or Tamil, or Malay may use the respective different calendars instead, as familiar to the readers.

Extrapolating from the only example I know, I wouldn't bet on it.

Before moving to Israel I knew that Rosh HaShanah (Hebrew New Year) is a public holiday and Gregorian New Year isn't, so I expected Hebrew calendar to be somewhat visible in everyday life or at least in official documents. Turns out, with the exception of holidays — to some surprise, including the decidedly secular Independence Day — it really isn't, everyone uses Gregorian.
None of those are particularly optimized to make the most of the hardware capabilities though.

The obvious thing is to use SIMD.
Stuffing the nonce is the kind of "clever" shit that always comes back to bite you in the ass.

Just like with HTTPS, we should rethink the centralized trust model and instead condition users to verifying and manually approving trust for entities. Work on better UX for investigating and scrutinizing trust claims. Stop shipping CAs, let the users validate their own stuff. The current status quo is not protecting users the way it claims to, it's just making naive, dumb marks for folks to socially engineer.
I hate conversational moving targets so much, because it shows people are quicker to speak than to listen.
I'm not so sure.

The UK, for example, has significantly more empty homes than homeless people[0]. I don't know the physical distribution of these properties, so purely hypothetically: if the empty properties are in deprived areas of the country that don't have jobs, they might as well be in Montserrat for all the impact they have on the UK housing market in the places with jobs.

[0] exact number depends how you count, this link is obviously trying to do politics so pinch of salt, but it still illustrates the different measures: https://www.actiononemptyhomes.org/news/national-empty-homes...
> you are not there when people talk and you can't correct them or defend yourself

Eh. Since the advent of chat systems like Slack I think this happens anyway, remote or not.
If you product has inherent danger you should be responsible for it, I don't think it's unreasonable. If you're asking the same rights as human beings, then you should assume the same exact responsibilities
What about PC-DOS (the good DOS)?
Sure and according to the news California still is.
He lost more than half his wealth and was pushed out of Ant, all just after mysteriously vanishing for some time [0].

Those in China who have power and criticize the PRC are swiftly punished for it and stripped of that power. I know "freedom of speech" is a term that's been significantly watered down in common parlance, but this is the poster child of not having it.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/12/business/china-jack-ma-wealth...
I have colleagues (in Europe) that actively run a second job in parallel (contracting).

One was a programme manager in the country that I am (EU) and at the same time was also running a programme in Saudi Arabia. He enjoyed the 'teleworking', and he had to go to the office 1 day per week and 1 day per month in Riyadh.

The local 1d per week, was 4.30-5.00 on Fridays (yes it counted as normal day).
For the Riyadh gig he would take a day off from the local job, and fly over on a Thursday evening, and return on Saturday.

He was making LOADS of $, and when the locals pushed for 3 days, he just quit and kept the Saudi gig, as he wasn't able to be seen with two laptops in the office.

If you know how to do your job well and fast you can pull it through with 10h per day (combined work).

So, when the employers insist on getting people back in the office 2-3-4 days a week, I think they are on to something. I do not imply that 99% of people do this, but some/many do.
The way "foreign migration" is done in most of Europe is to isolate those people from the domestic population, provide them with the bare minimum in social services to keep them alive and prohibit them from working while constantly threatening to deport them at a moment's notice. At least that's how it's done for asylum seekers and refugees.

Even historically Germany called immigrant workers "guest workers" because the expectation was that after spending 20 years in the country and building up our economy they would please go back to where they came from. This left most immigrants with one of two options: either full assimilation to the point of trying to out-German the Germans in order to fly under the radar, or sticking to their own entirely, resulting in what was first affectionally called "multiculturalism" and is now breathlessly reported on as "parallel societies". The middle ground, being integrated into Germany while maintaining some of their cultural identity was never seriously accepted as a valid option. Good luck if you also had the wrong skin color or eye shape or can't fake laugh about racist jokes about yourself.

And let's not get started on France's grandstanding about the Francophonique while shooing African immigrants into lawless slums to be neither seen nor heard until they get angry enough to set cars on fire and be beaten down by police again.

Europe's problems with immigration and refugees are entirely self-made. The handling of Ukranian refugees is evidence of this: as soon as Ukranians fled the war, European countries bent over backwards to lift all the sanctions that would normally apply to foreign refugees and treat them like EU citizens. Politicians would literally argue that it'd be inhumane to put Ukranian refugees into refugee shelters. And this had nothing to do with individual qualifications or skills.
What good is cheap cigarettes and booze if you can't find a decent apartment? I only care about booze and cigarettes being cheap when I'm going on vacation/partying, but if I want to live somewhere long-term then the housing market is way more important.
https://www.instructables.com/Mineral-Oil-Bitcoin-Mining-for...
Microsoft Playwright Testing: Scalable end-to-end testing for modern web apps
in the end the hedonic treadmill will smooth it out anyways
Putting state in html is what they called "progressive enhancement", is such a joke for me after years of blowing away traditional backend frameworks for that reason (they're good at API though).

The problem is not about progressive enhancement, the problem is website performance.
"In two of the contracts seen by Insider, the bonus payments exceeded the employee's base salary."
The fundamental idea is "things wear out" and that wearing out is a real cost (albeit a lumpy, non-cash cost).

In your personal life*, your roof gradually wears out. You buy a place and, at some point in the future, you have to replace the roof. If you sell a house with a 30 year old roof, you get paid less for the property than if it had a 30 day old roof on it.

If that roof was on a piece of incoming-generating property, it would seem wrong to say "for 24 years, the roof was perfect and then in the 25th year, it degraded all at once, needing replacement". If you sell the building halfway through the roof's expected life, it seems wrong that you got paid less for the building (because the buyer knows the roof is ~50%) but that you get no credit for that loss in value while it was happening.

Same for Maersk: if they had a freshly commissioned ship and a 20 year old ship with the same original specs, the new one is worth more money to a buyer.

So, the tax system says "for business-use property, we allow depreciation to model that things wear out and become worth less money over time". This is true for your rental house, an airplane, a ship, a laptop, a desk, a chair, etc.

If you have a roof (on a 27.5 year depreciation schedule) that you manage to get 40 years out of, you get to deduct the value of the roof over the first 27.5 years and then get no deduction for the last 12.5 years because your basis in the roof is zero. Likewise, if you only get 20 years and a day out of it, you depreciate it at 1/27.5/yr for the first 20 years and then take all the remaining basis as a deduction on the day you replace it.

* - where house repairs are not deductible, because they're a personal consumption expense.
In a world with faster than light drive, isn't that a possibility, though?
Another layer of indirection often solves things in software engineering. You need a key store that allows use control via multiple identity sources so a backup path can add remove or update allowed sources. If google locks a particular account, drop it as an allowed source, add a different one.

This of course expands the attack surface - indirection comes at a cost.
It seems AOG Technics operated by falsifying part manifests using the names of accredited suppliers: https://fortune.com/2023/09/22/why-so-many-flights-canceled-...

CFM, the engine manufacturer, became aware of the issues in June when a Portuguese repair shop alerted it to the existence of allegedly forged documents bearing its name

So presumably, all (?) they had to do was trace the paperwork from all parts supplied through AOG Technics, and contact the suppliers in those documents to verify the documents/parts were real.