skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Silent Suffering and Economic Exploitation: How Closed Work Visa Fails
> we have fibre lines

We do? In my neighborhood, we can’t get fiber lines because of some combination of NIMBYism and political back-scratching allowing a cable company to continue to serve us shit slow and unreliable internet. In the middle of a city!

I’m more interested in solving _those_ problems than how long a request round trip takes.
Don't use godaddy. Thank me later.
Initially there was a bunch of low hanging fruits, as we were going into the 2010 it was increasingly hard to improve batteries and required lots of investment.

You also needed investment for supply chain built up, increasing lithium mining and refining, cobalt mining and refining.
Linear scaling is more the exception than the rule, no? And it not just for "tech" either: it's unlikely you could learn the names of 15k employees in 2 months, for instance.
It's more Machiavellian than that. What the middleman wants is a heads I win, tails you lose deal.

He wants to present a low number, to encourage whoever he's dealing with on his end to do what he wants, gaining the benefit from that.

So he'll use every technique under the sun to encourage devs to give him a number he likes more, while never making it look like an order or coercion (which would make it his number - spoiling the whole play).

But when it inevitably takes much longer, he can point at the numbers the devs provided and say he was just communicating what they told him, so he's not responsible.

The only language these types understand is for requests for estimates to be "reviewed" to result in them always going up, to send a message.
But it actually was the least read article at that time. Since that time is past and the post was made together with links to the least viewed articles, it's a given that they no longer are today.
I've played around with actors in Swift for shared mutable state, which enforces async access patterns.

https://www.swiftbysundell.com/articles/swift-actors/
`set enable-bracketed-paste on` in .inputrc (at least compatible with bash, terminal also needs support)
I don’t have a particular rural vs. urban point to make, only a general observation about law and freedom: a place where law enforcement feels empowered to ignore the law is a place where law enforcement is effectively the sole power. In effect, a dictator’s prescribed freedom.
An obsession with technical knowledge being superior to everything else is one of the most grating things about this community.

> The non-technical managers and agile coaches are the problem.

No, shitty managers are. In fact, most of the utterly useless managers and leaders I've had have been technical who just assumed that management, soft skills and leadership are "easy".

> That's why the best software projects don't have them.

There's no one definition of "best" software projects. And something being good software doesn't mean it serves a products needs.

> Linux kernel developers don't run story ticket velocity poker sprints.

The Linux kernel works because the project management knows their audience. The project is managed differently and ran differently. If I drop into an email thread talking about a large feature and say "I think that will take 2 days" people will disagree with that. That's all planning poker really is - once you've decided to do something, have a gut check on how much work it is.
0.5Tbps light to chip!!!!!

That's insane.
> There is no evidence that you get better economic outcomes from micromanaging software engineers, and not for the lack of trying.

Thats not really the point that my reply was addressing. Software production almost always takes place within a wider context of economic activity: product launch activities need to be scheduled, server capacity needs to be provisioned, hardware needs to be produced and assembled, people need to be paid out of budgets, etc. I'm a dev and I hate being micromanaged, but usually people really do need to know when the code will be done.

Not so much for mathematicians proving conjectures. Which is nice for them. I guess.
I guess, if you also remove almost all of the features of discord.
Minimum entropy production by microswimmers with internal dissipation [pdf]
The Sphere's surround LED screen is 16K by 16K
> Why do you need a baby?

> Do you need to grow your own, or could you adopt?

> Is it about birth itself? Does it have to be a human baby?

> Does the baby need to be related to you?

> What if we hire a baby actor?

…
That's the price of computing freedom.
Yeah, and I don't know any alternatives which do smart news clustering and ranking, as opposed to simple msn/yahoo-like aggregators.
What really?? I was only a teenager when I played but still managed to complete it. Sure some puzzles took a while but it still felt like an accomplishment when you got past them.

It kinda defeats the purpose of going to a 3D game if you lay out a clear linear path with trivial puzzles.
People on a hurry and the uninformed that still haven't heard that you can end up with malicious stuff on the clipboard if you haven't careful e.g. someone who inspects the text "systemctl restart cups" on the webpage, concludes it's what they want to run, then copies it straight to the terminal without noticing the web page was hiding malicious code in invisible text.
When I talk to people about my love for the movie Office Space (and Mike Judge), they always tell me about Idiocracy. I still haven't seen it, but I feel like this kind of thing would have a place in that movie (or perhaps even Beavis and Butthead).
You should always paste into an editor first, just copying any text from a webpage is a risk.

There are even examples using terminal escape codes, to hide what happened.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/rv964x/comment/hr4...
Abstractions are also related to complexity. As the interdependence between various systems increases, so does abstractions.

Then those external dependencies and services are updated independently and the corresponding abstractions need updating.

Then external services are replaced and new abstractions are introduced.

Most technologies are never "finished" and instead they are updated cause a domino effect of downstream updates.
Even the co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, says the site is full of propaganda. I'd look into the sources on those current event pages, its likely the same sensationalized publications you mentioned.
But was the author’s work groomed? Was time scheduled for it in the backlog? What feature specifically was his Columboesque investigation supporting?

This is what happens when you turn Engineers into Devs. Software Engineering used to be viewed more as a profession but orgs have been chasing the holy grail of commoditizing software development. It’s not assembly line work and never will be.
I didn’t see this mentioned in the article (but also I admittedly skimmed the article) but is it legal for me, a private citizen, to hire a drone company to fly over this guy’s yard? If so, I don’t see why the town can’t do it.
> you're better off having just having separate processes and use a message bus to do IPC

Why are you better off that way?
More to the point, I imagine a stuck pig blocks the flow, meaning you couldn’t get the second pig to go anywhere, because there wouldn’t be any flow.
Given the direction this was going, I was hesitant to look up "kitbash", expecting it to be a niche anime fetish.

Turns out it is quite innocent, but it's still adults having fun with models: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitbashing
> 30 minute to complete and are usually things I could do in less time

Why don't you? Surely there are ways of granting the required access in your organization?

If the answer is something akin to "not my job", then you have an organization that values intercommunicating pieces each with strict responsibilities. It should be expected that communication completely dominates output performance.

If properly tuned, such organizations can achieve good quality, and if the duties are well specified, also great throughput. But they will never have low latency, as turnaround time is sacrificed for other tings.

The example of a week long estimation for a trivial task is pretty much expected then. In a fully booked schedule, any new task is not likely to be scheduled for weeks. If that task then requires the attention of more than one person, because of the above fine grained responsibilities, those turnaround times really start to add up.

If that's not a good fit for the job at hand, the organization is just not suited for the task.
Children of the magenta all over again.
One bit of the Prometheus myth I always made me chuckle: he first tried to steal political wisdom from Mt. Olympus, but it was too well guarded by the gods.

And the fire prometheus stole was stolen from the workshop of Athena and Hephestus, which was the fire of the forge, used to create weapons. Apropos for this article, strange the author didn't mention it.
Given the push toward FP principles in JS, it’s become much easier to mete through library code since now we don’t have to assume some reference is getting clobbered somewhere, and we’re not monkey patching some base library. Those were the bad ol days of browser disparity and (let’s face it) IE.

Now, not all libraries are built with modern principles, but I’ve found digging through the source is not nearly as onerous as it used to be (as long as you avoid tooling like yarn PnP, which basically undermines your entire ability to inspect library code just so you can… avoid unzipping archives?)
Adding to the demo here is one using CSS [1]

[1] - https://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
More like a clueless "leader" demanding an earlier sunrise.

If he's going to want an earlier sunrise, he's going to need to shave off a good portion of the still-dark Earth that's standing in the way and he's going to need to get it done before dawn.

The team can do their part after that.
Have you actually looked at the rankings? Only 3 colleges that trend conservative are flagged 'Red' for poor free speech. Over 50 liberal colleges are. I'm not saying that's inaccurate, I'm pointing out that this seems to be pretty factual, and non-partisan, despite who the founder may be. Remember that as bad as many colleges are right now with free speech, liberals are generally not banning books. We of a certain age that lean left are horrified by the college free speech culture and hate to see it happen in places where our kids should be hearing many different philosophies and points of view.
Is this some kind of joke?

I waited about half a minute for percent counter reach 100%, then it just keep loading with the counter beyond one hundred lol

So “progressive”
It's fantastic to see your enthusiasm for delving into C programming and the world of PSOne game development! As you're exploring the C language, consider adhering to best practices for memory management, like pairing every allocation with an eventual deallocation (malloc/free).

Using prefixes for globals/pointers (like g_ or p_) can help with code readability. For error handling, you might find returning error codes or using errno and perror a more conventional approach.

As for tools, consider using static code analyzers like Clang's Scan-build or AddressSanitizer to catch potential issues early.

For more insights into programming and development, you can explore Rather Labs (https://www.ratherlabs.com), where you might find valuable resources to aid your journey. Happy coding!
I have that knowledge but don’t know how to monetize it. Kids are coming out of school with 5 YOE and making double my salary with almost 30 YOE. And they ONLY know how to do React.
If the content providers don't like that arrangement then they can simply opt out of Google News. No one is forcing them to participate.
It's a bullshit formula that can be used to justify "padding" to people that think software development (or any kind of work) is like digging a ditch or like an assembly line.

In real world projects you don't actually know "t", nor do you know how "p" and "n" are conditioned by other factors, nor is there any basis (IMHO) in reality to that "1.3" factor in front of "number of new <whatever's> being used."

It's a pity that in so many orgs people can't just be adults, trust each other, and recognize that work often takes unexpected turns.
I learnt Swift several years ago for a App project Haven't really used it since.

My impression is that it is useful only in the Apple ecosystem. It that correct? Is it worth learning for things other than iOS and macOS applications?
This isn't an electron alternative, though, right?

There's atleast https://wails.io/ for Go, and https://tauri.app/ for rust ofc.
Scientist Is Testing New Rural Society Based on Electronics (1973)
Embeddings for Medical Literature – baseline model for semantic search
Contractor I know, always answers "Can you do it quicker and cheaper?" with "Yes. What do you want me to leave out?"
> open enrollment starts on November 1, so you can't get an ACA plan anywhere until then without a qualifying life event

So much for being a "free" market when it's only open for a month each year.
As a developer I think it's hilarious that they specify that only "third party services" are not allowed.

Nothing is stopping the streamer, as a first party, from combining chats.
AI language programming is the ultimate abstraction
“Pushing sales people to increase their amount of sales/quota is like asking meteorologists for sunshine”.

Hmmm it doesn’t seem unreasonable in that context? You’re really asking people to work more effectively, to accomplish the same amount of work more quickly.

It’s like asking sales people what their quota should be. They pick a number that is no-brainer hittable, because there is a lot of complexity and many unknown variables in getting deals signed, so to prevent looking bad they’ll pad their number. But their no-brainer number is below what the business needs.

So you tell them their quota is going to be a bit higher. They’ll have to stretch to hit it.

And it’s even MORE important since their comp is DIRECTLY tied to hitting that number.

And yet sales people aren’t writing article after article about how self-set quotas are sacrosanct, should only settable by sales people themselves, and how clueless management is to try to get more performance above the no-brainer target.
We went from "everyone knows where the money is" to "the CFO doesn't know the details."

HN is wild :/
Absolutely, if you're looking for advanced books on differential equations, I'd recommend "Partial Differential Equations" by Lawrence C. Evans for a comprehensive coverage of PDEs. For a more specialized focus on Ordinary Differential Equations, "Ordinary Differential Equations" by Vladimir I. Arnold is a fantastic choice. And for a deep dive into Stochastic Differential Equations, check out "Stochastic Differential Equations" by Bernt Øksendal.
So... I have to pay a subscription for the OS and I have to look at ads? No thank you.
Many thanks! Yes, all fits together.

By complete co-incidence I have a blog post on the various Mac CPU transitions in draft that should be out tomorrow.

One mildly amusing point, which I don't think is mentioned in either link is that the Cognac project was so called because the surname of John Hennessy, of Stanford RISC and MIPS fame, is also, of course, the name of a brand of Cognac.
> I am not sure how twitch intends to benefit from this.

My best guess is that they are trying to keep more communities on Twitch at the cost of letting some viewers leave. The new rules about not combining chats or other features (sub notifications?) means you have some real network effects that will keep many viewers on twitch and keep the streamer primarily focused on Twitch because there's no low-cost migration path for their community anymore.

Power users will probably use extensions that let them watch a higher quality Youtube stream with Twitch chat enabled, and if most of the community is on Twitch they may want to subscribe on Twitch as well. In the best case scenario Twitch gets all the revenue they would have gotten ($2.50/m from the sub) without any of the cost of delivering the video.

Further, IF they can keep the community and the engagement on Twitch then they might have turned their simulcast weakness into a strength. If viewers organically find the stream on Youtube or Kick or whatever and enjoy it but see that all the chat and alerts are from twitch and want to participate then they might jump over. YouTube's live discoverability is awful right now so its kind of moot but it could be a thing in the future.
Why would you do fizzbuzz in a technical interview and not have them talk through it in the first 15 minute phone screen?
If government regulators think we need more paid journalists then they could simply subsidize them, or even hire them directly like the BBC.
> The several countries that tried not to use the usd kinda got penalised, though.

That theory, even though it's floated a lot and is assumed true by otherwise smart people, never made too much sense to me because of the simple fact that a country that's already in the very bad books with the US would be the one that tries to switch to a different currency.

For example Iraq and Libya were already on the list of the countries that the US would take military action against, for several strong reasons nothing to do with currencies, before they floated the idea of switching to a different reserve currency. So it's correlation rather than causation.
Completely agreed.

For example, I am NOT a cloud expert, and barely a novice, by any measure. When dealing with various CloudOps/Cloud Architect/etc types, without fail, the good ones are also complete Linux gurus who would be at home architecting on-prem infrastructure as well.

Unfortunately there are a lot of "experts" who are only comfortable working in abstraction and so as soon as we have an issue that scratches below the surface, it turns into an all-hands-on-deck mayday situation, looping in other teams/experts to try and save them.

I've also seen horrific implementations by abstraction enjoyers.

Imagine a continuous integration environment of the following - k8s where one pod simply runs a forever shell script that is basically "git checkout master;git pull; sleep 300;". Then the other pod actually runs the application on top of the shared storage that the first pod writes to. This script, unsurprisingly, fails silently and hangs frequently. To debug this you need to go through some cloud auth portal and click through some web UI to then open a console in your browser (which doesn't support copy/paste).

The idiot version of doing this on-prem would be a single small VM that has a cron running every 5 minutes, which invokes your deployment script, with cron configured to email on failure. This would be simpler, more reliable (not relying on a forever script), and more supportable (it emails on fail!). And it uses like 30 year old tech that just fkn works.
Pilots must still understand how planes work. That’s called aviation. Most software devs have absolutely no idea how their software platform works. Most are overpaid API monkeys.
https://www.pcgamer.com/how-many-frames-per-second-can-the-h...
> I think that's what leads people to feel powerless and to live in fear. It leads to this "victimer than thou" culture where people act like (and largely feel like) their only hope for surviving something difficult that might happen in their own lives would be to get enough sympathy from a large enough audience that people would actually help.

That's because of decades of "small/lean state" preachers. Be it the UK's NHS, Germany's unemployment/social security scheme, or the US healthcare/social security/pension systems, it's the same: people don't have a safety net to fallback on, other than (for some) family. They're fighting for financial or literal survival every day - just look how many people are living paycheck to paycheck, and our collective governments are doing nothing to help the 99%. No wonder the populist far-right is in an upswing.
That's yearly planning. If estimation means giving your best effort to complete a project over the next year then that's not a problem. When you start micromanaging on a biweekly basis with daily status updates then it becomes a real problem.
related: The Gell-Mann amnesia effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_amn...

I agree entirely, I used to pay attention to the news, in part because I wanted to be knowledgable, and I guess the premise was growing up I'd eventually be part of a leadership class that would need to make big decisions based on that knowledge...but I'm frankly just a laborer, and being ignorant of the larger world is a totally reasonable and healthy position to take.

The alternative seems to be to become an absolute news junkie which means a politics junkie which means a useful idiot arguing online with other useful idiots for some political movement I have no control or power over.
I've found that problem is pretty easy to counter with a bit of extra prompting.

"Give it a surprising, dark ending" or "add a twist".

The majority of stories people tell have happy endings, so it's not surprising that it defaults to those twee resolutions.
Banks in small towns, and remote areas, still present an enticing target for robbers.
> The show's cancellation is indicative of the kinds of challenges owners of platforms (like Apple, Amazon, Google, and others) face when they are producing content, too. Apple TV+, the iPhone, and other Apple products are used by a wide range of people, and investing in content that may be contentious for key customers or partners could create big problems for the company's overall business

Or better (my remix, so to speak)...

The show's cancellation is indicative of the kinds of challenges consumers face not knowing how much the content producers and platforms control and influence what is - or more importantly is not - spotlighted. In order to mitigate the possibility of big problems for said company's overall business the incentive is to keep consumers as ignorant and distracted as possible. The less consumer know, the less consumer think, the better.

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It's important to point out that democracy can't exist in information darkness (i.e., lack of transparency and completeness). And yet it's these gate keepers who are so quick to promote "threat to democracy" narratives that somehow always seem to fail to mention their own willing and intentional efforts in to limit information.
Interesting that this never happened to John Oliver with all of the trash he famously talked about AT&T, and more recently Warner/Discovery. It looks like the bar Apple just knocked their teeth out on was set pretty low.
Wow, very true, this is right out of Idiocracy.

I guess I need another new type of downvote button though, because you just admitted to not having seen Idiocracy even though you know about it.
I'm sure they exist.

Gnome shell doesn't AFAIK.

It's an odd thing to protect from; any program that has access to the X11 clipboard is going to be able to run a process as the current user.
I think that, at the very least, there's a huge benefit in having a bit of understanding one abstraction down from everything you interact with. Knowing what an abstraction is abstracting, and why, goes a long way in coexisting with that abstraction. A low-level programmer doesn't need to actually build motherboards from scratch, but they'd probably benefit a lot from a bit of understanding about processor caches, registers, and bus latencies.
> From my understanding it’s a sphere that displays things on the outside

It's got two screens! One inside and one outside.

The interior screen is 16k by 16k pixels (the 18k camera resolution affords some cropping for image stabilization etc).

The exterior screen doesn't have much in the way of specs other than area, but I'd expect it is comparably lower pixel density.