skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, engineering managers. I'm not talking about "bad" engineering managers, I'm talking about average ones (which are the ones one usually get).

- It's difficult to sell good engineering work to them, and hence salary increases happen (if any) but on the lower end.

- With the typical excuse "Eng. managers should empower engineers", eng. managers do around 1% of the job when it comes to start big projects. The whole load lies on the shoulders of the senior engineers. One would expect that an eng. manager is probably the individual in the team with the most experience (both in engineering and in management), but eng. managers usually don't spend time trying to understand the systems their teams own. A classic example is: an eng. manager who knows very little or nothing about, let's say, Node+js, even though he has been in the team for over a year: their excuse? They only care about the "high level design decisions, they don't need to code anything". Funny thing is, the "high level design decisions" are done by senior engineers

Good engineering managers are invaluable, though. But in 80% of the software teams out there we either have bad eng. managers or average ones. In summary:

- good eng. managers => heaven

- bad eng. managers => it's ok. Since they are bad, they most probably will be fired or the whole team will know quickly how bad they are

- average eng. managers => hell. Because they are not "bad", so they are not fired. They think they are good and all.
Off-duty pilot tried to crash Alaska Airlines SFO flight, officials say
Suburbia's ability to exist is currently funded by all of us.
Small cities across the US are literally just sitting in a ponzy scheme of debt.
The basics:

1. When you develop new stuff like a suburban neighborhood or one of those roads that has fast food restaurants and gas stations on it that are copy pasted all over our country, you get money from various different sources.

2. Federal > State > Local all fund this based on the idea that it's an overall good thing to develop stuff. So the Local cost is a small fraction of the total.

3. Cool. It's built now and once stuff is built then that's it right? No.

4. Maintenance. This doesn't rear its head until around 10-15 years later. Federal, and maybe State, have nothing to do with this cost. The Locals are responsible. OK! Well lets take all that month the new development made us and maintain it... But wait... the taxes don't even cover the costs. That McDonalds doesn't actually generate that much for the Local gov due to the ENORMOUS amount of space it takes up with a parking lot. Those Suburbia taxes won't even replace the roads.

5. Ponzy. Welp we gotta get money from somewhere.... So we build MORE Suburbia and MORE giant parking lot fast food restaurants, take that lump sum from Federal/State funds, use part of that to maintain our existing debt, and kick the can.

This is who pays for Suburbia.
The only places that generate a net positive for a Local gov are city center-ish types. You know that nice little shopping area that has lots of different food/shop options that people flock to to walk around. That's probably net positive. That downtown Main St zone of a small city that's mostly dead now? Believe it or not even THAT is probably still net positive.
The ugly road littered with nothing but shit food and gas stations? Paid for by the above.
The asphalt hellscape with dots of corporate feed troughs (Applebees, Longhorn, Olive Garden, etc)? Paid for by the above unless they circle a shopping mall that covers them.

*The other guy seems to have deleted his post that this was responding to
Have you tried this DCF77 Emulator app?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.houryo.dcf7...

Haven't taken the time to do it myself but it was from HN that I learned about it.
A bunch of European Jews turned up in West Asia and and claimed it was their land on the basis of a story book. This was the starting point from which they wanted peace. It's not hard to understand why it was unacceptable to Arabs.
Sounds like you want to pivot from office video walkie-talkie to low-wage employee video surveillance. Enjoy your life choices!
Before computers, and even currently, you were not able to patent "math". Math was considered "facts", and facts were and are not patentable.

So the question becomes "is a software algorithm closer to math or an invention?". I would personally argue the former as you can mathematically model basically any algorithm with TLA+ or CSP or something, and as such it shouldn't be patentable, but I will acknowledge I'm not a patent lawyer and as such I'm kind of speaking out of my ass.
Kagi is not VC funded, yet we have code that is sub-optimal, a ton of bugs and odd performance issues here and there. Knowing what I know about software development, I do not think this is avoidable, regardless of the source of funding or size of the company. It is a factor of complexity of the software, resources available and incentives in place.

What we can do though, that perhaps VC funded companies can not as easilly, is alocate time to refactor code and deal with tech debt. In fact that is what we are currently doing and we basically pulled a handbreak on all new feature developement for 45 days to deal with our main tech issues. Ability to do this requires a long term thinking horizon. Very difficult to make that kind of investment if you expect to get acquired next year and tech debt becomes somebody else's problem.

Also worth noting, as long as the product is being actively developed it will aways have new bugs and issues. 'Perfect code' is achieveable only in a closed context scenario, where new features are not added any more. (which randomly bring this weird thought to my head, that the only human that does not do any mistakes any more is a dead one; perfection in human actions is only achieved in the absence of life... ok need to stop there)
Airlines need to move pilots without planes from place to place and can't always get them a regular cabin seat so it's clear sometimes they'll need to be in one of the jump seats. Most of those in the main cabin are already dedicated to flight attendants so it's just down to the cockpit jump seat. As pilots they're already in the ultimate position if they wanted to do anything malicious with a plane so it's not really an additional security problem to have them up there.
Thought it was gonna be OTP ;)
Anything involving hardware.

Except car manufacturers.
It's all mocked, so you're not really Hannah, and you're not really launching instances. Their console is open source, and when you run it in dev mode locally this is also what you see.
All of my adult children still share their location with me. Why? They know I only give a shit about where they are when they're supposed to be somewhere and they're not there. Where are they?

When they're traveling, one lives several hours away from home, I check in from time to time to see where they are and ensure they're still making progress. Doesn't require them to interact with a phone while they're driving.

And yes, this works in reverse too: they also have my location data. My youngest is 21 and still has the occasion to use my taxi services. They check my location to ensure I've left. If I haven't left yet then they send a text reminding me to come get them.
I think it's a fair precedent. If Google feels the content is not defamatory they can take that position in court with consequences if they are wrong. The downside is this ends up like the DMCA where companies are likely to take down all content complained about because of the risk/reward tradeoffs but if we already do that for alleged copyright violations doing it for alleged defamation seems much more reasonable to me. They also don't have to remove all self-evidently defamatory content, just all self-evidently defamatory content they are notified they are serving.
100%. I would argue that's probably its biggest crime. Specifically why Benjamin Netanyahu is pure evil.
I lived in the downtown core in the 2000s, when people at work were visibly shocked that I would live in such a dangerous place.

I also happen to follow court data and the idea that 'they won't prosecute much short of attempted murder' is just ludicrous.
When they say "above average" temperature, does that mean anything from +0.0001 C to +20 C? Is this derived from some underlying prediction distribution of actual temperatures, or is the prediction exclusively binary?
I'm not saying it's right but I'm predicting the argument against will be that it will increase the cost of running electric which you think would be "who cares" but homeowners end up footing that bill and are more let's say more price-sensitive than governments.

It's crazy we still haven't won the fight of "if you build a house the literally state controlled electric company has to hook you up" but here we are.
I think it makes sense if you are just considering whether or not to use ClickHouse, it's a very easy place to start. If you then outgrow embedded you won't have to move to another database afterwards, you can probably just attach the tables to a "real" ClickHouse instance and continue using it without having to do lengthy data migration.
> In response to these revelations, the Department has chosen to remain largely opaque, stating that it would not be appropriate to comment on individual cases.

Ok, then talk about the program as a whole.
It still doesn’t tell me whether you kept up with what the market wants, you have the specific skills I care about or whether you have the behavioral traits I am hiring for.
Yep.

https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2012/03/13/why-does-jenkins-have...

I still don't forgive Jenkins for giving in and replacing blue with green.
The denial over the role of gut microbiome in producing and modulating neurotransmitters seems like one of the biggest misses in modern science. People are in sheer and utter denial over the idea that some bacteria in the gut might actually affect what's going on in the brain, but now there are potential links to parkinsons and several other neurological disorders.

It's entirely possible gut microbiome is a causative factor (even partial) in the obesity epidemic too. Everyone is obsessed with the CICO idea, but humans are not a blast calorimeter and the actual absorption, satiation, or metabolic paths all have obvious links to the gut microbiome (much more intuitive than the links to neurotransmitters). Maybe we are fat because of some additive or ingredient that has changed our microbiomes, or the relative availability of different types food/energy to that microbiome has changed the microbiome.

You are your microbiome, at a fine enough level you are just cells doing a fixed role, and the other fauna do theirs too. There is no magic "sentience cell" or magic spark, it's just the synergistic effect of all these systems powering the most advanced biological machine known to exist, each doing their own individual thing.

But people find this idea of biologicalism inherently troubling in many respects and tend to downplay it because it leads to uncomfortable conclusions about the nature of consciousness and sentience. Maybe people are actually just reacting to stimuli in accordance with their past training - so that nobel prize winning scientist could have ended up in jail for selling crack if they had been placed in different circumstances. Everyone knows this intellectually but I think it is going to become uncomfortable the degree to which our actions are biological and not conscious etc, and what that means about how we've handled the least of us for the past centuries.

This isn't to throw away the "nature vs nurture" debate entirely but it very clearly is passed through a biological lens on both sides - the nature and nurture are just training set and fine-tuning for a net, there's no inherent "ghost in the machine" but just a series of chemical reactions according to some trained weights and biological machinery. Change the machinery, and you change the person (Phineas Gage, lobotomies, psychiatric drugs, etc). And people really don't like that idea, that what they think of as "consciousness" might just be a low-dimensional projection of the unconscious processing, that the brain has developed as this adjunct facility for language and conceptual processing. Surely the consciousness must be the feature, not the projection, right?

People dug in their heels against this with antidepressants and other things, and the microbiome is an equally uncomfortable topic because of what it says about how our hardware works. It's not even just some chemicals floating around inside our brain that tell it how to work... it involves more or less every part of the body (or at least the metabolic pathway).
What issues?
> I don't think that estimate takes into account the power savings (...)

I don't think this is relevant. RPis cost is a critical factor in it's usefulness as a disposable toy computing platform, not web servers that need to run 24/7.

Moreover, that cost is further worsened by the need to buy a custom power supply.
Yikes. This is like saying software tools don’t inherently change human social behaviors and social norms which is easily seen to not be the case. See social media.
> After the Germanwings disaster[0] and the near miss here, I wonder if it is time to re-evaluate the reinforced cockpit doors.

And while we're at it, a host of other aviation "security" rules as well, particularly the liquids rule, the insanity of confiscating nail clippers, or the power-trips that TSA or its sometimes just as nuts European counterparts pull off.
By this logic, we'd also have a bad time trying to find good doctors, at least in the countries I know a bit (no idea about the US). Malpraxis is definitely not a thing around here.
If I recall correctly there has only been one human actually shown to have tetrachomacy, and the supposition that there are a exceedingly small number of additional ones. I think there was a mechanism proposed that would mean they were all biologically female, but can't remember details.

It certainly seems to be rare enough to have no practical impact (except to perhaps the tetrachromat, who presumably has different metatmers perception etc.)
For three: look into second hand Chromeboxes.
I think if you succeed, it will be because other developers are investing in you personally. Because they like what you write and how you think, and thus trust you to write good software.

I think patio11 is someone who has used a similar marketing strategy to great success. People hire him because of the quality of his writing demonstrating his understanding.
Walgreens halted the deployment in February and is now in a contract dispute due to the shoddiness of the screens:

https://www.sixteen-nine.net/2023/06/20/court-filings-on-200...
In addition to training etc, yes there are positives to having a certificated third person for "crew resource management". They are expected to observe and speak up if the PIC and SIC miss something, and to help in an emergency. In UA232 for example, a third pilot was instrumental in saving lives; it took six hands to make the airport.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232
I think, JavaScript (or something similar) was required for this to work. Otherwise the ecosystem would have been infected by something like Java.
We "made" $190k selling a home we bought as a foreclosure in 2009 in 2021. In reality we didn't make jack squat. We paid that much in interest alone over the course of those years. The blood, sweat equity, and money we spent on upkeep and upgrades is incalculable to double entry standard, but I can tell you it was an absolute shit ton. I didn't even do the math on our property taxes, refinance charges, and closing costs because it's maddening to think about.

Since we have been renting our accounts have gone parabolic. We are able to save my wife's entire check, every month. There is no money burning a hole in her pocket to redo the kitchen, or bathroom, or backyard. There is no money going toward a new garbage disposal or A/C unit. We have more money despite two teenagers that have gone parabolic fees for club sports, driving, clothes, and FOOD.

We could absolutely buy right now, but I have my foot firmly down as a HARD NO. I would rather buy her a new car to assuage the urge to buy a home. If I could wave a magic wand and remove the desire completely, I would in a heartbeat. A home, from a 100% economic POV, is a waste of time and money. It is only complicated because of emotions and "what everyone else" is doing. There is zero logic in a mortgage and what is worse is that you never truly own the dirt your home is sitting on, at least in the USA.

Edit: I feel like the people that encourage others to buy a mortgage are doing so out of ignorance and have never actually thought it through to the end of days. I see old people living in nursing homes every day. None of them tell me about the homes they lived in while we wait for transport to the ER. They all talk about experiences, places they have traveled, their families, and the parts of their working lives they loved and hated. Never had a person talk about their "mortgage", I mean "home" on their deathbed.
To its core? I disagree.

To the implementation established through corporate lobbying of media corporation over the last century; yes, I'd very much agree.

The core is, people who create useful works deserve to make a living and not simply have the financial benefit of those works go to others who are rich enough to exploit them.

I'd be interested if you don't agree with that core, if you could explain why?
This will continue the trend for more censorship in search.
Their wealth is usually stock in companies they founded.... Billionaires don't sit around with a billion dollars in their checking accounts.
Plenty of Palestinians and Arabs talk about that but they get very little press. Probably most famous is Mosab: https://www.amazon.com/Son-Hamas-Gripping-Political-Unthinka...
Does this mean that the provider of a telephone service which obviously uses phone numbers is responsible for the conduct of its customers?
>In dismissing the innocent dissemination defense, which required that the publisher be a subordinate distributor who did not know or ought not to have known that the matter was defamatory, the Court stated that the defamatory nature of the content was self-evident from an examination of it.

It's not like the plaintiff went to Google with a prior legal judgment against the RipOff website telling Google to take it down. Apparently the court expects Google to remove (within one month) "self-evident" defamatory content if alerted to it.

That's a pretty interesting precedent to set. What makes defamation"self-evident"?
How do you feel about the esp32's? I know there's a few variants of the 32 with different capabilities, but how do you feel about using that as a general purpose MCU including projects that might not need wifi/bt?

I'm somewhat surprised they didn't go with these as they seem relatively powerful+low deep sleep, with builtin wifi/bt, etc? Their analog input I think is limited though
thx for the encouragement! i try to take criticism lightly, especially on hn, and especially when it's about a post on my personal website.

my website is my sacred & unique playground, not a perfectly optimized website. i write it all myself, and it evolves over time.

my style definitely strikes people the wrong way sometimes - i'm used to people being critical about it. i make some weird decisions for the sake of contorting my content into a form that i like, but i think that's what makes my content endearing. it's not like everything else out there. some rough edges, sure, but i'll get better over time as i explore my "personal form" :)

to me, a website is like a long-term art project. it should represent the author - and in my case, my site represents me, unabashedly.
In Germany, they are alive and well with new hackerspaces being founded frequently. There was a pretty big slog due to the Corona restrictions, but it's slowly all coming back.
> I have seen over and over

A few examples would help to advance the discussion.

> where a rule (for example) may start with the ultra wealthy initially, but over time politicians gradually change the scope until it affects nearly everyone.

That’s not an argument in favour of the ultra wealthy, it’s an argument against bad rules. It’s not bad in and of itself that a rule which started with the most advantage is later applied to every one else (e.g. the right to vote).
Problem with taxing income is that they take out debts, paying taxes on the minimum payments, and then pass the assets with stepped up basis to their heirs.
https://www.papilio.cc/ has a lot useful information.
How do you read that other than as "if you have humanity, you support Palestine", which is semantically equivalent to "if you don't support Palestine, you have no humanity"?
> or just ones invented by HR for PR purposes?

That seems like a massive waste of time for no benefit to anyone.

My assumption has been that the company is required to post internal promotion opportunities because their legal team thinks it’s required.
I couldn't dream of using awk for json data (ubiquitous nowadays). Of course there is jq and others. It is as the Pragmatic Programmer puts it that we have to take care to curate and master our tools like a woodworker and their tools.
On top of the really different API, you always get v1 when you install (which I never understood).
You need to upgrade manually everywhere with a command line.
If I had to bet: most user didn't even bother upgrading because they are not aware of this behavior.
At first I thought this is like a clear oled panel on the door, but it’s just a huge, opaque when off, LCD screen? And they use cameras to show you what clear glass would have shown you otherwise?
I used to think like you but I realized I was wrong. USA and Ukraine are not innocent here at all. What would the USAs response be if China did with Canada what the USA has done in Ukraine? How would the US govt respond to Chinese machinations to make Canada a close ally of China? To invite Canada into a Military Pact with China similar to NATO? To announce that Canada could join a trade block like the EU with China etc? How do you think the USA would respond to Chinese military advisors operating in Canada and Chinese officials going to Canada and making public statements the way Viktoria Nuland did?

Ukraine is not what u think it is. It should've been divided along the Dnieper River into two different countries after the Soviet collapse. And yes Crimea belongs to Russia.

USA deliberately poked Russia to start this war. The goal of the USA is to whittle down the strength of the Russian military. Can't have a regional power in Europe.

Only the USA can have a Monroe Doctrine. Nobody else.
If it comes to that, for private communication, yep.
What is 'not correct' in the comment you're replying to?