skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
X is not mentioned in the title and the very first sentence of the article says that the BBC accounts are still on X/Twitter. What gives you the impression that the intention was for this to be read as the contrary?
That was amazing to read.

> Be careful not to discover a career before you’ve discovered yourself.

Words to live by.

> There is a tremendous amount of support for these decisions, and very little support for making any deviating choices.
Ah, it was already mentioned in the previous thread too, that Ars review team had the ports configured incorrectly which resulted in higher power draw.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37752950#37756186
Nearly every democracy on the world manages to put on their constitution that the government won't meddle with private business without due process. And almost all of those manage to follow that rule.

I'm pretty sure the US can do the same if the system is run by the government. That kind of thing only happens there because it's run by private companies.
https://nitter.net/ben_fry/status/1709400641456501020#m
$2.50/box today relative to $2.00/box in 2019 represents +25% inflation...so nowhere near purported pre-COVID levels.

CPI less food and energy[1] over the same period increased +17.3%...so currently priced worse than nominal inflation.

Of course, this baseline reference assumes shrinkflation hasn't impacted your "box" unit.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=19FTW
It's private, invite only unfortunately
Please stop trolling. The several sentenses are not suggested to change "it".
Ah, right you are! I completely missed that.
That may be true, but it also generates 3x the e-waste.
Taking ships over vast distances to new worlds, meeting alien cultures, imperial conquests. That was the age of sail. It will never happen again like that.
Yes, camelx3 will only scan as fast as an hour. The bots they use scan at a minute resolution. Most prices will get fixed (on amazon anyways) within 20 minutes.
Printing. Intuition and scuttlebutt says 'driver issues'.
I'll keep an eye on nostr, I've been playing with the idea of doing something with the block chain but not at the position to do that yet
I would love to hitchhike to Alaska, but I’m terrified of what would happen to my career if I did. I worked hard to get a good job, and the situation right now is bad. There are so many people waiting for me to keel over and die because they’re also good engineers who want good jobs.
There is, it's called starting your own business. And the only thing stopping that is... state intervention.
True, but the larger point stands: your job has a huge influence on who you become. And the organization's mission and culture also will impact your identity. I have seen a lot of former colleagues make a lot of gross compromises for career advancement over the years. People who wanted to make a positive difference in the world who end up working for weapons manufacturers and the intelligence agency cutouts that create the conditions for our forever wars.
To further your point about new team members benefiting from RTO: I’m six months into a mostly remote contract gig (2 days a week in the office) at a large financial services company, in a team that was very well distributed across the country even before the pandemic. I’m based out of an office that would have been peripheral to most of the team anyway, even if we were fully onsite.

It’s been the most difficult start to any job I’ve ever had. The total lack of face-to-face with any of the team means I can’t get to know anyone else, there’s no cooperation whatsoever and zero knowledge transfer… getting time to chat with your colleagues requires booking a meeting in their well-stuffed calendar weeks in advance. We get a half-hour slot per week with the Tech Leads to ask questions, which means I’m blocked frequently, and any other comms with them is through MS Teams, where you’re lucky to get a reply that day. I suggested more frequent scheduled time with the leads but that was knocked back immediately.

This is a place with no culture. We are literally not a team. It’s a prime candidate for a centralised office with a mostly onsite policy, in my humble opinion…
Was that sarcasm? I’m vastly more concerned that my kids lead fulfilling, happy lives than that they get into a top tier university. Or university at all, for that matter.

But also my 12 year old daughter is working on publishing her first iOS app on her own initiative. I’m sure they’ll do fine.
Agree that it’s still killer for small transactions. Which is why the US federal government should have long ago offered electronic money transfer as a utility where merchant fees were low even for smaller dollar amount purchases.
Any advice before I launch?
> Be careful not to discover a career before you’ve discovered yourself

I feel it's possible to re-discover yourself more than once throughout your life. Right after finishing high school I thought that writing code is the real me. Now more than a decade has passed and I'm trying to find myself again. Our jobs define us, but we're in charge of how far we're willing to take it. There are engineers who are genuinely passionate about writing code and will happily do so outside of working hours, for free, with no intent for recognition or clout. And then there's me and the rest of average Joe's - sure our job has defined us, but it hasn't consumed us. Be careful about your career choices consuming you.
threads supposedly intends to eventually federate with activitypub, so it's entirely possible the bbc is just betting on the one with the more active users, assuming eventually threads will pull in their feeds anyway.
I don't think that is accurate.

India and China use cheap QR code transactions, but a lot of the overhead is taken in by VC money. So I think these companies are hoping to make money on these someday, just not right now.

The USA has a pretty well developed system, and debit and credit cards have been pretty ubiquitous for a few decades now. The issue is that our system is expensive, and no one is subsidizing it for future gains (the gains are today). Debit cards are cheaper, but credit cards have done some marketing to get people to prefer them.
Installed yesterday on mbp 2013 and mini 2011.

Works very well. Although had to try a few times somehow.

Orbstack also works
Or maybe the unsustainable depletion of groundwater for the purpose of growing alfalfa is only viable in very niche areas without heavy subsidies?

The number they are quoting is 0.41 $/m^3. Per capita water withdrawals (including agriculture) in the US were ~1200 m^3 in 2015 [1]. That means the cost per person to convert all residential, industrial, and agricultural to desalination is only ~480 $/(person * year). Or approximately 6/1000 of US GDP. Even if we assigned all of that cost to agriculture and food, all that would mean is that the average person's food budget would increase by ~480 $/year. That is sizeable, but not even slightest bit infeasible. If we really needed to we could just assign 3% of the US federal government budget to preventing death by starvation and thirst by achieving full water independence.

Desalinated water is only uneconomical in comparison to unsustainable groundwater depletion. On a absolute basis it is very affordable and would not constitute a material problem for the US or any other developed country.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/263156/water-consumption...
If you don't happen to have that on your Android phone, Copy [1] works well.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.weberdo.ap...
Hoping to add that feature in. Not sure on the timeline.
I did some poking too. It seems like they were puttering along with some donations ($165000 in 2018, $275000 in 2020)[1]. 2021 all of sudden they got 10 million dollars..it was crypto donations from artists..[2]so who knows what it’s worth now, if they’ll see another windfall. I can see an organization being befuddled (they hired a finance person). [2]

It makes sense a founder being upset the tech side isn’t getting more benefit. It’s not a good look. Hopefully they can manage it better.

[1]https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/460...

The funding update article:

“The majority of the donations in 2021 came from artists donating cryptocurrency to the Processing Foundation.”

[2]https://medium.com/processing-foundation/processing-foundati...
Solid stuff. Thank you!
Full Tech Rundown on the Enhanced Quake II
> create the conditions for our forever wars

If there were no weapons manufacturers or intelligence agencies you would still have wars.

Humanity always finds a way to resolve disputes through violence and aggression.
I didn’t read the whole article because I stumbled on the Stanford Prison Experiment part.

As far as I can tell this experiment was largely debunked, or at best widely questioned and not reproducible.

It’s one of those stories that lives on because it’s simultaneously so implausible yet seems to say something believable about human nature.

But I suspect it was between 90 and 100% b.s.
This is Processing, as in the Arduino development environment? Or something else.
That is surely a vast simplification. By sheer operating scale Amazon can ship items at a cost far lower than any brand new “soap company” could. There’s no way you could be competitive on such a low priced item.
I'm opening a coffeeshop in Chicago and do not plan on accepting cash, just seems easier and safer to me.
No. What the experiment showed is that you can be TEMPORARILY coerced into certain behaviors in abusive environments (especially by authority figures - as was exemplified in the Milgram experiment), but it won't change who you actually are.

The SPE is really a study in toxic workplaces and abusive relationships.

I really wish people would stop quoting the SPE without researching what actually happened and why (and the fact that it was tainted due to Zimbardo's direct involvement and direction in order to get the results he wanted).

Don't worry: You are NOT your job, and your job isn't going to change you forever. This is just a scare piece.

The only thing you should keep in mind is: If it FEELS wrong to you, go with your gut, because sticking around will be traumatic.
*should be legal
There is no magic bullet to database migration unless your app is deployed with the database itself and can atomically switch to new version as a DDL change is committed, or you take down the whole ship in maintenance mode and bring it back up once app + DB is migrated.

The only way to do it without downtime is to make the app forward compatible before making DB changes, and make it backward compatible before undoing the DB changes.

There will always be a short period where the app version and DB version will be out of sync.
> Hospital emergency departments cannot refuse critical care.

Yes, and the government’s hesitation in properly compensating them (and choosing to avoid owning/operating them) is a major source of myriad problems. The government tasked them with a huge responsibility, gave them insufficient funds, and watched as they flail about teetering on the edge of failure.

>Most states mandate carrying car insurance and also have an assigned risk pool of last resort for people who cannot get a policy normally.

This is not comparable.

> The benefit of a service mandate on private businesses is that it avoids having to set up a government retail-facing firm. Starting a public option is re-inventing the wheel.

The government should have a retail facing firm, we are its customers. And it already does, with locations everywhere. Called USPS. And it already is tasked with identity verification duties for passport issuance. The only thing left is to bolt on the backend of an online bank. Go ahead and just buy a mid size ine one if that makes it easier, they are not very expensive.
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that event is older than this website
Meth is legal, sometimes.

It's called desoxyn, and can be prescribed for ADHD or weight loss.

Also chirality-flipped meth is available over the counter as a nasal decongestant
Their current offering doesn’t entertain me. The reason why I still use them is the tmobile free perk.
I don't know how true it is, but I have heard that many large Japanese companies still make significant use of fax machines. This surprised me because of how advanced Japanese industrial automation is.

The only example that I think makes sense is the Japanese intelligence services still using paper records. In this context it is advantageous since paper filing cabinets cannot be hacked remotely.
Heard it all before.

I've also heard that increased productivity is eventually captured by the financial sector through increased debt servicing costs as it extends more credit to match the increased productivity. That one I'm prepared to believe.

Whatever the case, I highly doubt we'll see increased productivity resulting in more leisure time without a political revolution.
It's not really clear from the thread what the complaint is though there is an implication of misspent or wasted funds.

Looking at the About section, and the people involved [1] there appears to be at least a misalignment between the purely technical (?) vision of the tweet and the much wider remit of a foundation that he started years ago.

Things change, priorities move on. Is there something rotten here as rather vaguely implied? Perhaps, but it's possible there is just a disappointment at the child choosing a very different path to that desired by the parent.

[1] https://processingfoundation.org/people
if the alternative is moving straight to enshitten ..... i guess i'll take it? Seems to be basically how technology progresses these days. We just have to keep forking from the point before enshitten to build the next thing each time.
What is there to plan? If you signed a 10 year lease in 2019, it is what it is.
I'm not terribly familiar with these ecosystems, but for a news broadcaster it seems like a massive advantage that Mastodon is highly accessible to a non-logged-in user.
Don’t install the drivers with CUDA? Don’t rely on distro-packaged CUDA?
even the Saudis will eventually find it cheaper to use solar
Of course it’s a straw man. Suggesting that every single “analyst prediction” has the same value is plainly silly.
Let's be honest, though. Most developers who've had a test coverage metric goal imposed on them still write the code first, then they write just enough test code to exercise all of it. Maybe, if they're clever, they will delete a little bit of unused code here and there, like some error checks. No need to test if a check for null pointer is ever called, if you just delete the check.

Come to think of it, given how often catastrophic failures can be traced to untested and broken error handling code[1], maybe it's better if the code flat out blows up, rather than trying to limp along after some error it can't really do much about.

1 https://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~yuan/papers/failure_analysis_o...
8GB is hardly good enough for most, with proliferation of Electron apps everywhere and browsers being such memory hogs.

I am easily utilizing all of my 32GB just normally running a browser, email client, Slack, database mgmt tool, a couple of light servers (e.g. NodeJS, Redis for local dev), VS Code, Figma and a Git client. I would definitely get 64GB for my next work laptop, and I don't consider myself special in my needs in any way as a developer, nor would anything significantly change if I used remote servers.

So your generalization might be a bit off.
I wonder if this will push the UK to adopt ID cards. Almost all other European countries have them, with the UK being a notable outlier.
That might solve it for the one business “you” start. It doesn’t address the collusion of everyone else, does it?
It is career advice. Whether it is pretty good is debatable. To suggest that you look at people slightly ahead of you and use that as some kind of magic mirror is just so tragically flawed.

First, it supposes that the you of now, inexperienced as you are, can properly evaluate not only what is going on in these older coworkers lives, but that you will also properly appreciate how your own tastes will change between now and then.

Secondly, you are looking at pure survivorship bias. You aren't going to see the folks that did a 5 year turn doing development and then found some other direction to take their career in. If you are a new hire and look at the 50 year old dev on the team and assume your career might go the same you are taking a very narrow vision of the future.
https://nitter.net/ben_fry/status/1709400641456501020
Maybe I'm out of touch, but my understanding is that US has historically had lots of Chinese talent, but recently these researchers have been moving back to China at a higher rate because of improvements in Chinese academia, and also red tape in the United States. Didn't think there was an increasing brain drain in China, rather the opposite
Some of the newest neighbors to HN believe it's bad that this drunk drivers finger prints that were indefinitely stored, help find a little girl who was opportunistically kidnapped.
That's what containers are for.
are they considered the faang in their domain?
Sure do! I was a beta tester. Pippi (sp?) was my contact at DEC. It was cool that the more you ran an x86 exe, the faster it got.
My advice:

- If you don't come from money, and your personality desires security and safety, don't do risky stuff like wasting your 20's hitchhiking and being a ski bum. You should get skills and a career. I came from lower-middle class and have always had the nagging fear of being destitute. I am so much happier that I worked hard in my 20s (80 hours a week hard) so my 30s and 40s were more comfortable.

- Your habits chart your trajectory. If you start working out 3x a week, you will continue doing this and be physically fit. If you drink alcohol 3x a week, you will continue to do this and become wrinkled and grumpy. If you get fired from a job 3x a year, you will continue to have this happen, no matter what your excuse is about why it isn't your fault you got fired. Try and work on good habits.

- You are the company you keep. Cut out negative people who always are complaining and blaming others. Focus on wholesome, happy, well-rounded, good people who have goals that align with yours.

- Your best advocate is yourself. How often do you go out of your way to advocate for other individuals? Don't be surprised when no one is putting in the extra effort to help you. Don't be a victim - your future is in your hands - don't blame others or society for your own failings.

- Family, friends, health, purpose are all that truly matter.

- No matter what your predicament is, someone has it worse, and someone has it better. You can always be valuable to society. Don't let your disabilities and frailties stop you from finding a purpose and way to benefit society.
Should be labelled (2013).

Would be nice if I didn't have to say that; in so many ways the bloom is off the rose of my (admittedly high paying) corporate job. I even recently reunited with some old friends who chose a more independent career path, and was jealous and nostalgic- they're definitely working far closer to their passions with more freedom than I've felt in a decade. But man, what a decade since 2013.

I would be foolish to dismiss that I had stable employment through Covid, and I still have a paycheck through the current economic turmoil. I also have my corporate health insurance, which covers my stupidly expensive regular medication which I had no idea I would need in those nostalgic days when these friends chose their alternative careers (I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease in 2015, now in remission thanks to the meds)

So I agree with the sentiment that it's dangerous (especially to your soul) to just blindly conform and follow the money, but it's not always unjustified. In my case it was at least a little bit justified, since my parents were more or less broke and I didn't have a safety net.

I do wish I had hedged my bets better and been less of a workaholic, of course. Would be nice to be married now.
For me, pirating is also incredibly easy though, I don't even need to care which streaming platform it's on, just find the right torrent on a few clicks and voila. But I kinda live in the stone age where I don't use much my smart TV.. so who knows maybe I'm missing out.
The confusion comes from naming American units "imperial" - after British, and having international - metric - system created by the French revolution, with "liberte" an important goal. So it could be argued that it's actually SI which has freedom units. On the other hands, Americans are quite often characterized as freedom "distributors"...
There is no "forcing". If there is sufficient demand for paying with cash, then someone will start a business that accepts cash and charges more, thus making more profit. More people will start such businesses, driving down the price until the price accurately affects the additional risk plus market demand.

If no such business exists, it is because the cost of the risk/hassle of dealing in cash is too high compared to the low market demand.
Agree 100%. First of all, this is much more of an “anecdote” or “dinner theater” than an “experiment.“

But even more so, when you take a bunch of people and _tell them to play these roles_, why are surprised when they _play the stereotype of those roles?_
That's totally fine. You're allowed to have your own brown M&Ms. There's a lot of thinkpieces out there, and you need some means of deciding which to read. Citing a debunked experiment w/o disclaimer is a totally reasonable criteria for you to close one of those hundred tabs.

But FWIW, I found the rest of the article pretty good.
To be clear, I don't think such an experience should be illegal.

At Burning Man, there is a place called Sanctuary, which operates essentially a psychedelic ER for people on bad trips. It is run by MAPS, in conjunction with the Rangers, and is located next to Rampart/traditional medical services. The problem with it is that a) it's not well known, and b) if you're having a bad trip, and can't get there/their help, they can't help. So my fantasy solution is that to have trip sitters assigned to people/groups going on an LSD trip to more fully mitigate the problem. Both on and off playa. I do realize this is infeasible since there is no such pool of experienced trip sitters to pull from, plus LSD is still a controlled substance, unfortunately.
That seems surprising nobody has picked up on that arbitrage opportunity.

Is it because most lumber volume is performed under commercial contracts? The DIY market is too small to chase?
Credit card processing costs in the US are absurd. Interchange fees are around 2% on average vs a cap of 0.3% for credit cards and 0.2% for debit cards in the EU.

But cash handling costs a substantial amount too. We should probably all be paying by debit card and charging extra for cash or credit card.
Target also gives you a 5% discount for using their RedCard. It's your typical store-branded loyalty card. Except, instead of giving you "points" on your purchase you get an upfront discount. Target is unique in that they make this option available through a branded debit card for those that don't want or don't qualify for a credit card. But, it's not a discount specifically for paying with cash.

> If a merchant wanted to, it would be trivial for them to give you a 3% discount for paying with debit.

It makes more sense to me for it to be a surcharge for using a credit card, but the last I knew the credit card companies disallow that in their agreements. Discounts get confusing and bump up against weird cases like minimum advertised pricing and potential taxation on the discount.

Debit cards can get a bit weird when they function as credit cards. A customer may use a debit card but swipe it as Visa or Mastercard and the fees the merchant pay will be different, setting up a constant source of frustration at the register.
Still no support for ECC RAM. When is someone going to take a leadership position?