skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
USB-C ain't all that great.

Though I say this, I hope that we all move forward to USB-C soon.

First of all, most of us who use PCs will use them for a very long time. A PC put together will often last someone a full decade. The specification was barely published and finalized less than 10 years ago (August 2014)!

USB 3.1 (still using the USB-A port) was introduced around the same time! USB-C had not hit widespread adoption until roughly 6 years ago - and the vast majority of computers that are in use today are from 5 years ago.

Secondly, USB-C cables are still relatively expensive. Many cables don't adhere to the standard; many can only deliver data and not power, while other still can do power delivery but not data.

Thirdly, USB-C ports may be the shiny new kind of port, but I find them to be incredibly brittle on motherboards and laptops. USB-A ports tend to be built like a tank, while USB-C ones tend to break if you push it in too far. Even though they're supposed to be more resilient, but somehow they aren't.

Finally, there's still a bunch of stuff that uses USB-A.. no one wants to use a bunch of dongles with their PC.
Totally true. And yet, if you do explain your preferences, your leadership can know their people and try to build an environment that works for them. Hard to blame them for not giving you a good environment if you've never been willing to tell them what "good" means for you.
Yes, that explains why warm countries like Norway are electric car leaders: https://electrek.co/2023/10/20/cratering-motor-fuel-sales-in...
Add the name of the institution you went to to your resume and add "dropped out due to health reasons" in tiny (but still readable) font underneath. This will get you past most automated HR filters without you having to be dishonest. Since you already have some experience, I do not think anyone will bring up your education in an actual interview unless you bring it up.

Context - I'm from India, and works at big tech. I do have a degree, but no employer has every asked to see it. They just want to know that I _went_ to a college, doesn't matter if I graduated or not.

> What can I do that would make you look past my lack of educational qualifications?

Your own one-person software-as-a-service business or relevant side projects. Hard to argue that you are not qualified when you can point them to github/website and say "I made this".
Try registering it with your address. I can't remember if it asks you "did you just buy the house?" or not, but I had this problem and it sends an email to the prior registrant, and if they voluntarily release it, or do nothing for 30 days (IIRC), it turns the camera back over to you. I got this far with it, but I was too lazy to install the app and actually set it up.
And still no Mac version on the horizon.
says someone that's never been in a fight with a cat
Absolutely it is. I don’t approve of arbitrary gatekeeping (degrees) to prevent people from having opportunities to put dinner on the table.

At the end of the day what matters is whether or not you deliver value to the company, and if one is capable of doing that, the employer doesn’t give a fuck about degrees. It’s to hack the bullshit HR/interview process.

I think your comments show you’re a weak-willed follower of arbitrary rules that would rather let their family starve than break-in to a store and steal some bread during a crisis.
AI will become a troubling force multiplier for income inequality and general enshittification, and those things will destabilize society. But the idea of it turning against us, consciously hurting us, if that's what they mean, is not on my list of worries.
To some extent a compromise between solar time and political and economic realities. For example, the Eastern Time Zone in the USA stretches almost to 90 degrees West, reflecting the East Coast's powerful pull on that part of the country.
My team does use Slack, but I just have it muted for most channels and check it in predefined intervals. I don't have DM's muted but we also don't have a culture of DM'ing people, calls for help are posted in designated channels.

In my opinion and experience there are very few issues that require you to actually respond immediately, I just find many teams don't understand this. Everyone thinks their specific issue is the highest priority thing going on, and I'd say product teams are especially bad about this. Asking for status updates all too often and interrupting developers days just for small things that could've been done at a scheduled time or just been an email.

Obviously this can somewhat depend on your role since your role may be something that tends to require immediate intervention. But I check Slack once every 30 min to an 1 hour or so and have no issues with my response times.
When I worked at an Internet Helpdesk I routinely "downgraded" V90 modems to V34 using AT+MS=V34 or AT+MS=11. Would connect much quicker, more stable and the effective speed was exactly the same.

V90 was really stretching the audible phone spectrum to the max and any type of analog disruption would render it effectively useless.
Peter's at a new firm: https://ogletree.com/people/peter-d-roberts/

Media announcement: https://ogletree.com/media-center/press-releases/2023-07-17/...

I'm a colleague of Peter's. I've sent him referrals. 100% agree he's awesome. He's now even awesomer with big-firm infrastructure backing him up.
Did you even read what I wrote? I said that I don't think they need to give people access to their software. That it might even be unfair to expect them to do so. But if they don't do it, they can't call themselves FOSS. It would be unfair to expect a restaurant to sell everything at a 50% discount, but if they said they were doing that and it turned out they weren't, I'd have every right to complain.
So maybe many people just really hate car dependency and long commutes which should push us to move away from such a model of urban planning. More offices seamlessly integrated into middle density housing similar to a lot of cities like Stockholm where big towers and suburban detached homes are more rare.
This is exactly my thought. I can't tell what's uppercase or lowercase without really analyzing each word.
Before dropping code you could do a series of blog posts on how all the pieces fit together. Those could generate some signal, to know of the next steps are worth it.

I don't need that specific use case but I do love seeing the tricks folk do with Docker. Maybe all you have to share is a readme and compose yaml?
> YouTube is practically holding an incredible amount of knowledge and information hostage to feed Google’s insatiable desire for profits.

Free storage of data uploaded by willing users = hosting the data hostage?
Or just defending itself when the human is trying to trap it.
> how do you know if your failure to get an interview is due to market forces or due to you being genuinely below the standards they're looking for?

What’s the difference?
Historical events are by definition not repeatable and facts don't need to be repeated. For instance we don't need to repeat WWII for it to have happened. It is sufficient to examine the historical record. The fact that you don't understand the difference between scientific fact and historical fact makes it hard communicate with you.

You yourself mentioned an experiment that can be repeated, bouncing light off those reflectors, its been done we went to the moon. A better question than "Did we go to the moon?" would be why do you want to believe we didn't?

Is it anti western propaganda that you've swallowed uncritically?

What other conspiracy theories do you believe?
The society is (arguably?) working for the benefit of all its citizens. So no user of a public space should be prioritized over another. If the homeless takes a dump in the park it's because he doesn't have a better place to do it, so dear society please go fix that. PS: leftists are often called "snowflakes" but I see the others whining waaaay more.
You don't need to get a degree from a top college or even a good one. Just get any easy degree through online / distance learning program to get past filters and dumb HR criteria. For online / distance learning degrees you wouldn't need to compete with million other students. As you get your online degree, you can keep looking for jobs and also work if you can find a job.
> Most will just give up on comfort, where WFH is an option to be in a better situation.

It’s also an option to be in a worse situation. My office is all setup for work and has the best perk, I can physically leave work behind each day.
It would be interesting to know what the upper bound on cost for a draconian anti-adblock measure would be, taking into consideration revenue from successfully killing all ad blocking. My guess is that it's not currently worth it. People have speculated on the use of Web Integrity API but at the moment, too many things have to go right for this type of DRM to even work properly, so it may kill support for way too many devices too soon.
Can you do this on a mobile device like an ipad? Can you do this when not logged in?
Astronomers spot aurora on the sun for the first time
Terraform Cloud costs are an absolute joke. I was actually the decision maker a couple of years ago when we chose our IAC stack and decided not to go with Terraform Cloud despite thinking the product is strong, and it was entirely due to the business model and cost.

For us (and I'm guessing for many VC funded companies), SAAS managed IAC is a nice to have, but certainly not a MUST-have and certainly not something in the same "willing to spend money range" as your monitoring or your main cloud hosting costs.

I see these kind of tools as a tier below your monitoring tools like DataDog/Splunk etc. And these tools are a tier below your AWS/GCP costs. If your IAC or CI costs are approaching or overtaking your monitoring costs, something weird is afoot. Likewise, if your Datadog costs are approaching your AWS bill, this is obviously wrong.

Hashicorp, in my opinion, thinks their tool is more mission-critical and more of a value-add than in reality it actually is, and I think they also don't understand that in the current high interest rate environment, companies are FAR more willing to put in engineering time to do migrations or money saving projects. My own company put in 100s of hours of Engineering time to reduce the Datadog bill by roughly 40-50%.
We haven’t been “FOSS” for many years and don’t pretend to be. What’s your point?

We also don’t ask you to build our software for us, and instead give it away for free.
You mentioned applying to a hundred jobs over a six month period.

When I seriously needed a job as a less senior person, I targeted closer to 100 applications a week. Maybe only a few of these will be "high effort" dramatically recrafting a cover letter and resume, but you can also get responses from "there is a reasonable fit" opportunities and applying with one of a handful of stock resumes.

If your best tailored resume given who you are has a 1% chance of a response and a "good enough" resume has a 0.5% chance of response, you need to play the numbers game and apply a lot more, not hope wordsmithing will make "not having a education" dramatically more appealing and change minds.

Marketers like good messages for their direct mail campaigns, but what they need is to be able to cost effectively get their message in front of a lot of the right people, because most won't respond. As one of many junior people trying to land one of many (slightly less)junior jobs, you need to play this numbers game too.
WHO – Physical Activity
When they changed price from seats to resources we migrated to self managed
These things aren't in apt (other than non-free repos), so that's not really a problem. I'm not sure about the pip and npm policy on these types of things, but Sentry isn't a library you would add, so it's not really a problem. But it's fine to keep Sentry out of pip as far as I'm concerned.

> You can apt/pip/npm etc install and integrate pieces written by others in your own solution stack without having to call a lawyer. These non-open source licenses force you to stop and think, ask your lawyer before you build on top of them.

Try doing that with AGPL, or even just the GPL, or CDDL, or any number of licenses. There's tons of OSD/Four Freedoms compliant licenses that come with conditions; you really do need to look at them and can't "just" do whatever and already need to think about it.

And personally I really have trouble especially with the GPL licenses; try reading them and determining what exactly they mandate in various edge cases. We have tons of people clarifying all this (which may or may not be applicable to your situation/jurisdiction), but going on just the license is often very non-obvious.

> What's the advantage of these "semi" almost but not all the way open licenses?

I can fix bugs for starters. From a purely pragmatic point of view this kind of "I can fix my own problems" is >95% of the value for me.

I can easily self-host (including some hacked-up version which addresses some specific needs).

I can see what the code does if something is unclear.

There's tons of advantages. The only limitation is "don't compete with us". There's probably a few edge-cases, but practically speaking almost everyone is unaffected and they can treat Sentry as "just MIT" (or Apache) for almost all practical intents and purposes. People talk as if there are all sorts of caveats and booby traps here, but there aren't.
Yeah, I'm having this same problem too. I was paying $20, then switched to the $7 Hacker plan, now have been upgraded again to $20/month Replit Core.

I am torn on what I'll do as I do see value in Replit and really like their product, but not sure I need it at $20/month.
yup, exactly what my situation is and a bunch of my colleagues.

A large percentage of modern physical workplaces are purposely designed to isolate people from each other for security reasons, but they keep pushing Work in Office for the "benefits of non-isolation".
While I completely agree with your reasoning, the end conclusion misses an other point: some companies are effective and efficient at the same time, while others are not. So making a switch can make complete sense even if your reasoning is followed.
I have hashimotos and have happened to be often deficient in vitamin D but I thought it was unrelated. Endocrinologist is well aware of both and didn’t mention a link
Great point and great question! Yes, it does imply that people who lack the capacity for empathy (as opposed to those who do not utilize their capacity for empathy) may lack conscious experience. Empathy failure here means lacking the data empathy provides rather than ignoring the data empathy provides (which as you note, is common). I’ve got a few prompts that are somewhat promising in terms of clearly showing that GPT4 is unable to correctly predict human behavior driven by human empathy. The prompts are basic thought experiments where a person has two choices: an irrational yet empathic choice, and a rational yet non-empathic choice. GPT4 does not seem able to predict that smart humans do dumb things due to empathy, unless it is prompted with such a suggestion. If it had empathy itself, it would not need to be prompted about empathy.
Fringe theories stack (2022)
What massive barriers are there?
A saying is not true just because it's repeated, especially when you have your own interpretation and I have mine.
https://archive.ph/0j5ly
As a subject matter expert in things that appear on my screen, I assure you that I do.
Let's not compile databases of facts because people can't handle reading them.

That's exactly the kind of attitude that makes create distrust among the public. Kudos for the bureaucrats that insisted on classifying it.
>this legal mechanism proved impossible to stop

Moloch wins again!
> I'm generally not a fan of GPL based licensed because it means that you create a massive dis-balance between the original copyright holder (who can dual license for commercialization) and everybody else. It might be fine for Sentry or another SaaS business, but then you cannot even take pieces of code and use it in another project that cannot be GPL licensed because for instance it needs to go the app store etc.

> GPL (and AGPL in particular) is considered such a tainted environment that many steer away from it entirely. AGPL also is from the v3 family of GPL licenses which have outright bans in many commercial environments. But GPL in general is a too complex topic to address in a HN comment for me.

This is very helpful, thank you.
I have no insider information about elastic or sentry.
Everything I know about the whole thing is from comments such as from HN.
What I am hearing from you is that you don't see big cloud providers such as AWS as a threat but rather as an insurance policy
so as users you can feel relatively safe in picking a SaaS product
knowing that in the future (two years from now?) if the vendor were to go tits up,
you can still have someone else who will step in and fill the void.
I thought your intention was to make it as difficult as possible for another SaaS provider to compete against you but... clearly not?
I appreciate the thoughtfulness of all of this
and the pain of SaaS customers
because just having the source code isn't enough.
Often times, I am simply not qualified to run something like sentry myself
and it is a matter of either spending tens of thousands of dollars
a year on a SaaS or
spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on another dedicated employee.

That being said, what I am reading from your comment
is that the problem with GPL
at least from the perspective of the user is all about perception
and not about substance.

From what I understand as a hobbyist,
I can essentially disregard licenses altogether.
I am not distributing anything.
You could license flask as Oracle Evil License (not actual name of the license, just making it up)
and it wouldn't matter as a hobbyist
because all I am doing is learning about flask.

What I mean is AGPLv3 should be fine for companies
who are not SaaS providers
and those who are SaaS providers,
should contribute back.

What makes you not a fan of GPL?
same logic was used in ww2
I like both pretty much equally. I also bike to work and share an office with another dev, who is very easy to share a workspace with (in terms of habits, noise, distraction, etc). But I also enjoy working at home, going for a 10-minute walk around the block to clear my mind, opening my patio door and listening to birds while I work, etc. Hybrid works perfectly for me: a minimum of 1 day a week WFH, preferably 2, but no more than 3.
You seem to know what you're talking about, so do you have any suggestions for good font choices for programming in particular?
Yesterday, planet Earth took its first step over the 2.0 degrees Celsius barrier
> Imagine that Apple had mixed Type-C ports.

They actually do :) they don't all have the same capabilities. Some are Thunderbolt, some aren't.

USB4 goes some way to addressing this concern though, since anything marked USB4 has to be fully-functional.
The whole concept is broken anyway, if you look at relativistic scales. Good luck running Python code inside a GPS receiver.
If you go back in time, you want to test it with faxing, if it doesn't work for data modem, it probably doesn't work well for faxing, and if it doesn't work for faxing, the telco might actually fix it.
This is a useful warning that you can't share a SLD with other organizations, at least not for any service of value.
'they' are the population -- you can read BoE proposals on digital currency in the open; and likewise, the legal framework will be public

the 'they' who flip switches are more company boards, rather than public democratic institutions of western liberal states

for them to implement anything other than published papers on the system, it would require a conspiracy -- one unjustified given how trivial it is to monitor people anyway
The viewing-is-sharing model is indeed a problem of PeerTube - and, I'd argue, of any decentralized network based on a P2P mesh. But it definitely alleviates the content distribution asymmetry problem - by spreading the load on the viewers small/medium instances can afford to scale up much more easily.

You can alleviate the problem by browsing some "borderline" profiles/instances with Tor/VPN though, or even just disable the "Help share videos being played" setting from the profile settings.
> So what dosage would you recommend in terms of both and also is it always contingent on getting a blood test?

It is very personal, and as your body makes D3 when exposed to sunlight it also varies significantly with the seasons.
Why did you allow the page to be created then wait 24 hours to remove it? What is to stop that person or others from continuously doing this?
Hint: these are programs written in a graphical notation...
It's sad how people have forgotten when developers built businesses on Twitters Api before they shut it down.

Google routinely shuts down projects that they deem "invaluable".

There be dragons.
Does Go also has a distinction between naive/timezone-aware times? If not don't see why would expect something else. This is an issue because the distinction exists. Note it isn't bad that it does. There're actually arguments in favor of it. It's bad that can freely mix them.
It may not matter, but without UTC and offsets, you can't get relative differences between all events accurately because of DST. But it may not matter for your use case.
They specifically noted the principles they were designing for in the link if you scroll down, so you can see what their goals were.
My stock answer for leaving is "too low of a ceiling". That's usually a combo of "management and leadership sucks" and "there's no future or upward career path for me". I might add "I'm looking for a place where being put in a position that leads to success is the rule not the exception." Or something like. I mean "I love where I am" doesn't square with looking to leave, does it?

I'm an East Coast straight shooter and I feel that's enough to get my point across and let them know what my expectations and intentions are. If they're also running a shit show they'll put one and one together and figure out I'm not a good fit. If they're ligit they'll appreciate the toned down honesty.

At least that's what I hope for sone shit shows don't seem to recognize that. It's Dunning Krueger at the organizational level. Frustrating.
Well, ferrets were used historically, eg see "Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-Catcher,
after 25 Years’ Experience"
by Ike Matthews (1898)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17243/17243-h/17243-h.htm
This is anectodal but I am Turkish and we have tons of cats roaming the city streets. Anyone visited Istanbul can vouch for it.

There are no rats hanging around. I am 39 years old, living in Ankara (capital city) and never once seen a rodent within the city. I don’t know if it is something else entirely but I believe cats have something to do with it.
This seems like a disingenuous comment. No one wants a vendor to be unprofitable. Sometimes a business is extremely profitable but just wants more profit, and then after they reach that profit, they want more. The problem is vendors want ever increasing profit and often they do this while being incredibly wasteful, so they take ever more customer money, burn it needlessly and then try to tell you that if you complain is because you want free stuff.
> fyi, central bank digital currencies are generally proposed as an anonymous system of digitally-native currency that means you would not have to use a bank/paypal/etc. to conduct transactions online

I am not aware of a single CBDC that is anonymous. Do you have a source for this claim?
My fingers get SO cold. Literally to the point I'm about to wear gloves.

Every couple hours I'll thaw them out against the space heater..

Any other hacks for this are welcome. Exercises?
This link might be helpful: https://www.beyondallreason.info/faq/what-are-the-difference...
Concerning /s