skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't consider any of these to be 'facts'--I'll save you the click (unless you're curious):

TL;DR

1) College will not prepare you for the job
2) You will rarely get greenfield projects
3) Nobody gives a f*** about your clean code
4) You will sometimes work with incompetent people
5) Get used to being in meetings for hours
6) They will ask you for estimates a lot of times
7) Bugs will be your arch-enemy for life
8) Uncertainty will be your toxic friend
9) It will be almost impossible to disconnect from your job
10) You will profit more from good soft skills than from good technical skills

Conclusion: Software development is not a dream job.
- Ebikes let you cover great distances with little effort.

- You can have someone ride on the backseat or in the cargo space of a cargo bike. [1]

- You'd be hard pressed to come up with a shopping load that won't fit on a cargo bike. [1]

Then there's the cost vs a car [2], which will likely make up for any inconvenience.

Of course, you do need at least decent bike infrastructure for this to be realistic.

[1]: https://youtu.be/rQhzEnWCgHA?t=470

[2]: https://youtu.be/rQhzEnWCgHA?t=321
Maybe you should try Occam’s Razor for conspiracies: the most straightforward conspiracy is likely to be the right one :)

For example, one might imagine that eIDAS 2 isn’t backed by a consortium of would-be spies but is more likely backed by a small consortium of crappy CAs that are sick of being forced to comply with CA/B Forum rules and want regulation to override the rules.

(The CA/B rules are very specific and extremely aggressively enforced. It’s not like the GDPR where you can apparently get away with messing around for quite a while. Multiple fairly large companies have had their CA operations effectively shut down by the CA/B Forum for noncompliance.)
Wasn’t iOS 17 supposed to support side loading? What happened? The whole iOS side loading discussion went poof.
It happens every so often with BGP tables going haywire due to a faulty announcement.

Fortunately, I know how to use hand tools, so I'm secure in the post-internet future economy.
Sorry I didn't think past listing the horrible things I'd done. Perhaps I should have stuck my business hat on and gone a bit more Cervantes to fit the mould of startup culture?

"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this."

Urgh no I'll stick with reality.
Because artists are special.

No, I am not being snarky. Actually artists are special: it's one of the few job where portfolios matter much more than education, and as much as (or more than) interviews.
When discussing wages and such people imply that it's a balanced situation, because if someone doesn't like the wage they can simply not work at the company. That is theoretically true, but we see pushback on strikes and unions. Strikes and unions are the _primary_ form of employees actually using their bargaining power with companies. What is hard to do individually, becomes much easier as a union when workers unite and bargain together.

I hope to see more bargaining and unionizing by workers. We need a shift in the power dynamics in the United States.
Literacy is an effort.
Yeah I just don't care really. I have noisy dev branches, force pushing rebases from an upstream branch, and usually just squash merge and throw the history away when merging back to master. I've never come across a situation where I needed a preserved, fine-grained commit history for every dev branch after they've already been put in working order and merged to master. I guess I just don't use commit histories very much after the fact, like months later trying to find what original commit changeset a line of code was changed in. It's never mattered.
It's a cartel shaking down a company, if that's organized labor it should be illegal.
"Die Welle" is a very well made dramatization of this, set in 2000s Germany.
Keeping an eye on this in the aero, uh, space. Very interesting progress, keep up the good work.
Jaded and cynical as hell.
How much can Meta ditch before its all-important network effect starts to implode?

Threads hasn't really gotten off the ground, and I'd say a good part of the reason why is that it excludes the EU, which is full of very online-engaged people.
More than 90% of the labor in Sweden is covered by collective agreements. Tesla is breaking unwritten rules and is threatening the Swedish model, this is bound to meet heavy resistance from the Swedish labor in full force.

While the US regulates strikes and minimum wages by law, it is in Sweden regulated by collective agreements. As Tesla is refusing to sign such an agreement in negotiations, they themselves made these strikes inevitable.

If a Swedish company coming to the US tried to change fundamental mechanics of the system there without the support of its citizens there would be a legitimate public outrage and calls for action. Why would Sweden be any different?
They have time until March 2024
CFPB Proposes New Federal Oversight of Digital Wallets and Payment Apps
I wrote my response about using anki cards for this right before seeing your comment ! :D

Happy to see others have been doing that too!
I agree that it is shocking behaviour - of Tesla to act like they did. They should know better, McDonald's tried the same thing in the 80's:

https://youtu.be/YufOHFaIydc?si=Zdbl3-GsiZQpZ_GA
Please explain how this is akin to organized crime. I’m dying to know.
I think it’s even stronger than that. It doesn’t just compel the president, which is a political office, but it compels every civil servant in the treasury as it’s a constitutional mandate. So in theory even if the president declares no debt payment, the treasury would still make the payments.
Congrats. You invested waterfall.
the host on that show is charming and easy to listen to.. Cory is a riot on the mic, as usual! The host mentions he was de-platformed from Facebook for writing some ridiculous thing, and moved from the US to Mexico. great link thx
People call it "premuim banking", and it's a widely popular thing that costs not that much
I've needed about 2 repairs on my 13 year old ICE vehicle over those 13 years, and one was under warranty. I think it'll need some more work soon, but still, it's not a lot of repairs.
This Link it's gold, very interesting!
Same thing in C99:

static const uint8_t table[256] = {
['\0'] = 1,
['a'] = 1,
['/'] = 1,
['\\'] = 1,
};

bool get_table_value(char c) {
return table[(uint8_t)c];
}
Sony just released a9iii, a prosumer camera with a full frame global readout sensor which eliminates rolling shutter.
May be when the world of Futurama is real?
That’s only invalid because it’s incorrectly characterizing my position. Yes, anyone who intentionally poisons a child is a risk but in this case it’s orders of magnitude more likely that these guys bought something because it was cheap and didn’t test it carefully enough, verify that certifications about safety were legitimate, etc. and that starts getting into more systemic questions – do our laws actually require them to do anything which they didn’t? – and relative risk comparisons. For example, the most popular vehicles sold in the United States are designed to cause more collisions and more serious injuries or deaths in each collision, which add up to far more children being harmed every year than this horrible food safety failure. I have a hard time saying it makes sense to have a standard here which says we should jail the CEO of this company but not those of the SUV manufacturers.
The largest aircraft begins flight testing today
> reduces competitive edge against non-union competitors

Except for, ostensibly, employee satisfaction and quality of life?
I don't think it is reasonable to expect to truly enjoy one's job. This seems like a luxury that some people in certain fields might enjoy, but most of us tolerate or hate our jobs and wouldn't do these activities by choice.
> looks a lot more like democracy working as intended

It’s absolutely democracy. Khan is a populist appointment. She is also a handout to corporate interests.

A competent FTC would have extracted concessions instead of bombing, time and again, in court. That or pursued antitrust in the rest of the economy. Khan didn’t. I’m personally fine with that—I’ve made a lot of money on the ensuing M&A. But it’s surprising to see people still not seeing the wool pulled over their eyes on this one.
It's not a bad job if you have what it takes, but the reason we're paid a lot of money is that many couldn't force themselves to do it even if they wanted to.

There's a lot of responsibility, uncertainty and frustration. Very often we're doing something that no one did exactly the same way before, which means there are no clear answers and no one to delegate responsibility to.

Maybe not so much in a junior position; but the more senior you get, the more of that you'll have to deal with.

I agree about soft skills, learning to communicate well and deal with other people is a big part of it. Half the job is really more about diplomacy than technology.
AST-grep – structural search/rewrite tool for many languages
trans rights are incredibly well defined, actually. they’re human rights. trans people deserve the same rights as every other human. idk what “problematic statements” you’ve heard but it sounds like you need to listen to less ben shapiro. saying you’ve heard “several” without providing any examples sounds like you just don’t like trans people.

I think it’s safe to assume that when a community claims to contain “no nazi bullshit”, they mean that it contains no nazis or their associated bullshit. if you’re worried that that includes you or people you sympathize with, ask yourself “_why_?”, because it makes a lot of sense to everyone in the quite active gleam community.
There are lots of different types of drivers that work differently and they can all sound good or bad. I also don't think all wired earbuds/IEMs use the same kind of driver.
Not really his fault, but Jayson Williams getting a $94 million contract and only playing 30 games before a career-ending injury is awfully expensive amortizing that over the hours he contributed in two months of play. I guess that technically isn't hourly billing.

There's Bill Clinton getting $750,000 for a single speaking engagement which was roughly an hour.

If that isn't the real answer, it's going to be something stupid nobody knows about like some rich asshole paying Jay-Z $5 million to give a private performance at his daughter's sweet 16 party.
I still play Quake Live, and I can confirm that we are all still playing the same 5 maps.
I’ve lived in multiple modern apartments and never heard my neighbors. One time I did hear someone playing music loudly, but my watch measured it at 35dB
At the end of the day this is a very reasonable business decision - an incredibly obvious and easy one.

Chamberlain/myQ makes very low cost (likely loss-leader) mass manufactured devices. Like anything else if you can identify 0.2% of your users leading to 50% of an issue you're having the reasonable thing to do (from a business perspective) is to just cut them loose. If this CTO or anyone at Chamberlain were to try to champion support for HA users people with the numbers would look at them like they are crazy. For 0.2% of the user base it barely justifies anything more than a 10 minute conversation with a foregone decision.

I use and love Home Assistant. While it's a "big deal" to techies and power users like us the total installed base (as these numbers show) is infinitesimally small when you zoom out and look at the total "smart home" market. There are 275k active Home Assistant installations[0]. This number is already tiny compared to myQ sales. Then you can check the myQ integration and see that it's only used by 3% of HA installs[1]. Home Assistant is insignificant to Chamberlain and Chamberlain is insignificant to Home Assistant.

For a device that sells for $30 8,250 HA installs is $247,500 of total device lifetime revenue. Chamberlain has $820m of revenue per year. Even if every one of these installs bought four devices that's less than $1m. They. Do. Not. Care.

Again, I don't love this either. It's a jerk move but when viewed through the eyes of a cold and calculating business it makes perfect sense. Frankly I'm surprised this decision didn't come sooner. Especially when you consider all of these awful commercial devices really want you to install their app so they can push who-knows-what and upsell at every possible opportunity. That's an entire revenue stream they will never tap into with users utilizing the API and few businesses can resist gobs of money they see as ripe for the taking. Sad but true and standard for nearly any business. Even more so for a de-facto monopoly like Chamberlain.

HA users and people here are outraged, and that is completely fair but with these numbers Chamberlain isn't even going to remotely feel this.

At the end of the day HA is extremely powerful and the ecosystem and maker-ish community around it is incredibly robust. A device with a contact sensor on door close/open and relay (or something) to toggle the door is trivial. It's what I've been using since before MyQ or anything like it was even on the market.

Just avoid the commercial "IoT/smart home" junk whenever possible.

[0] - https://analytics.home-assistant.io/

[1] - https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/myq/
> So why don’t you ask the state legislatures?

That's what people are doing.

California is a great recent example.

Fairly recently there were massive legal changes that are forcing local towns and cities to add significantly more housing.

(Obviously the housing situation has been bad for a long while in California, but I am talking about the recent changes which have been huge)

Those laws are going to come into effect, and forcibly over rule local zonings and housing laws.
Yes, I agree that that's what somebody would need to do - and I do honestly hope nobody really makes a go of the experiment, because I tend to agree with the existential risk people that it's too risky - but from my many hours of using all of the current top of the line models, my hypothesis would be that the experiment just wouldn't work.

I certainly think they would do things, but I don't think those things would be intelligent; I don't think they'd make any sense, I think they'd be more like a random walk through the space of possibilities, but with no real direction. I think that random walk without constraints could still be very damaging to people, I'm just skeptical that it would reflect agency / general intelligence. I'm sure there would also be a lot of "well it does make sense, it's just smarter than us, and we aren't smart enough to understand it". But I don't buy it.
Ask HN: Password field, until username is input' pattern is horrible
You know, the UX pattern where you first have to input the username and only then the password field appears. Forces me to auto fill with Bitwarden twice. Who came up with this? It's so bad.
That sounds amazing, please do!

Ko sound like a great idea but I have little interest in running go services!
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not science and an encyclopedia is not a collection of all human knowledge, it's not an archive. Fringe stuff goes out the same way page-for-every-pokemon-evolution goes out.
OpenAI wants to be the App Store of AI
https://archive.li/7Pg5f
I agree it isn't really mainstream, but Samsung has the "Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5" at 85.1 x 71.9 x 15.1 mm while folded.
It happens sometimes! I've been there. Enjoy it while it lasts.
I thought so too, and believed it so much I didn't check the detailed specs of my OnePlus 10T.....
I love sites like this! Instead of reading them, it's an instant switch to code view and looking through their javascript libraries. It's built on scrollama and d3. Excellent implementation with very smooth scroll behavior... at least on desktop.
I once heard a great tip to prevent those pre-bedtime snacks. After dinner, brush your teeth as if you’re going to bed. Your brain already associates that with “no more food” and so programmatically dissuades you from eating. It’s always worked for me.
Yes, but multiplexing does minimize the problem. You could multiplex batched requests for hundreds of resources with my strategy.
Also having to click "edit" on the username makes it very annoying. Auth0 implements that.
I thought you were going to say, "I live in northern Ireland, and I can hear Spain from there."
> Also they forget that on average they are pretty benign.

They are not malign as far as I’ve heard, no.
There's so much babysitting required.

I've managed to wean all but one of my clients off self-hosted email. They are paranoid and insist on keeping it in-house. It's such a big time suck to deal with spam filter tuning and blacklist removal requests and the like, but they keep paying the hourly rates for it.
A lot of the timeline depends on the partner we're working with to achieve qualification. Initial qualification definitely takes longer, but we're having discussions on how we can cut down on the manual part of the certification. We do for example pull in all releases of the compiler, including nightly, and build them using our CI and test sytems. The versions that pass are made available to our customers, so they can follow the release cycle - though these are obviously not qualified and nightly comes with the usual nightly (lack of) stability guarantees.

I obviously can't make any promises here, but we aim to pick two of those rust versions per year and then certify them - how long that takes depends on the feedback we get from the auditor and on their availability. The exact cadence will need a little shakedown - no one has experience in qualifying rust compilers continously :)
Minimal Reproducible Example
> Someone who is judicious about their upvotes is going to have a much smaller impact than some who just reflexively upvotes or downvotes everything based on kneejerk reactions.

It would be very easy for websites to weight upvotes so that one from someone who seldom uses them weighs more.
NASA Maps Minerals and Ecosystem Function in Southwest U.S. Regions
Maybe not this past year but I really think WASM will become a important piece of tech in the web stack as it matures.
The best time to exercise is whenever you can do it. If you have the luxury to optimize, go for it!
Depends what you're doing with your computer. I'm editing something right now on an M1 Mac Mini with 8GB of RAM (with Final Cut Pro).

Would I run Docker on here? No way. But a lot of professional tools run just fine with 8GB.
I feel that's why many people, especially families prefer detached homes. Sound proofing is guaranteed by the air gap. And if there is a problem with soundproofing you can solve it yourself by making changes.

Perhaps row houses are best? Good density, and with a solid concrete wall seperating units to stop sound and fire from spreading?
After people discovered that you could fax the Berlin immigration office to bypass their queue of 10,000+ unanswered emails, they turned the fax machines off.

Germany is going digital against its will.
Any kind of reference, please and thank you, to corroborate those affirmations?
That's my thought as well. Although probably part of the reason for them extending the cycle is that consumers are more comfortable with the idea of keeping the devices longer.

And, tbh, that makes sense too. Three year old phones can still run the latest software and still have pretty good performance. The newest are better and will certainly have better cameras, but the drive to upgrade every other year feels excessive now.
I do 24-48 hour fasts weekly and for me the single biggest determinate of hunger is what I ate the day before.

Carbs, especially sugar and processed carbs make the fast day’s miserable. But if I stick to meat, vegetables and some whole grains it’s usually no big deal.
I've lived in 3 flats across New Town and Stockbridge and every flat was horrible. I could hear the footsteps of people upstairs. Most flats have floorboards and they are not kind to the neighbors below. I'm not living in a flat ever again.
FTC Alleges Data Broker Sells Vast Amounts of Sensitive Data
Yeah, so that clocks are a constant offset globally, and the is no need to have discountinuity by shifting the clock back and forth on arbitrary dates every year. Shift working hours explicitly etc.
Yes. lol

#SysAdminLife
I meant that Linux is basically a first-class citizen across Azure. I don't know what powers all of Azure, and I'd be surprised if it was Windows across the board. Probably a combination of both, really, I imagine they're quite pragmatic about these things as long as the money keeps rolling in.
We were able to failover to Anthropic pretty quickly so limited impact. It'll be harder as we use more of the specialized API features in OpenAI like function calling or now tools...
What upgrade? There's not a phone on the market that's meaningfully more compelling than my Pixel 5a. Maybe if I gamed on my phone or something, it would matter? But my camera is already better than I could ever reasonably need. My processor is fast enough to do everything I need without skipping a beat. I don't really watch movies on my phone but the screen is still probably the best screen of any device I own. The only things that could upgrade would be I/O and battery, both of which modern phone companies refuse to upgrade.
Can AI help close the medical care gap?
as if any gathering of people doesn't have their own culture.

Where did this idea come from that people are cardboard cutouts that you can write on to perfection?

Having said that, I don't agree with your second paragraph at all. Individuals would get into shouting matches when they disagreed, but if you think for a second it's more diverse in todays cancel-culture I can only conclude you're not thinking well.

flame wars have been a thing since almost the beginning, and contrary to what you may think, politics and differences were a _major_ driver of that.
Can you imagine Palo Alto HS running this experiment today? Parents and students would be enraged. The teacher would be fired.

The point was to show how easy it is to get caught up in such movements (all of us are susceptible). There’s a good book that shares this story from an ordinary german citizen:

https://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Men-Reserve-Battalion-Soluti...
me neither. it's the kind of random gibberish that SEO bots insert into auto-generated pages. but it's in the middle of the page of a catalog from 1968! surprising.
> What we need is a social-first internet where every piece of content is associated with an actual human and people query for content through their social graph. This will be doubly important in the age of AI.

Isn't that what the social networks are, internally?

I agree that attention/engagement farming is a major driver for the web's enshittification. I don't think content attribution and verified identities are the solution.

Two(ish) key features of the earlier phases of the web that seem relevant to me were:

- most content wasn't profit driven

- social interaction was not gamified, was slower and was often siloed/themed

Trending, dog-piling, attention-economy hacks were all greatly limited.
And it’s time consuming partly because so few are made.

I guess the unit price could come down by 90% or more if you were to order a million of them, and could convince a manufacturer that you’re good for the money.

(And you may get something that’s superior, for example because they figure out that, at a million copies, extra money spent improving the software for adaptive optics can be more than made up by making the hardware a bit less rigid)

We’re spoilt by the amazing efficiencies of mass manufacturing.
How is it technically incorrect to say that solipsism discards or devalues the perspectives of everyone else? You think your mind is capable of containing billions of identical sole-minds? Discarding is discarding. If that triggers affect for you or you read affect from me that’s down to your comprehension.

How do you explain forms of socially facilitated learning if your mind is the only thing that exists?