skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t blame the junior engineers either. I blame their seniors and managers.

Leadership is especially awful these days and across most industries. Leaders tend to be too far removed from object level reality and just sit around blowing smoke up buttholes all day long. If you got laid off in the last year or two it’s because your leaders failed you with their shitty cargo cult approach to running a business. “Der, Google is hiring like crazy and dey lots of money and I want big big boat… so what if we hire like crazy and make radios out of coconuts?”

It’s easy to throw shade but when I was last at the Facebook HQ I saw Mark Zuckerberg down on the floor talking to a young designer. He also took personal responsibility for the slimy layer of middle management that emerged over the decade prior, the result of which contributed heavily to the need for layoffs in the first place.
I can easily imagine many developers actually doing 1-2 hours of work per day because the rest of the day is taken up with "work" like unnecessary meetings, e-learning, fending off BS, etc.
Domus is our code-name too. LMAO
I don't care about tech philosophy. The software needs to work well. Show me an IRC network operated with the same ease of use and security as discord and I will use it provided others are on it as well.

You people like your lemmy, mastodon, peertube,etc... and it's not like I disagree with the idea but ideals are only good for academic discussions. They need to work well IRL, there is no replacement for that, period!

I will give you a good example: firefox! It's not just ideas, it works just as well as Chrome!

And you know what, back in the day when you could trust or be apathetic to server ops IRC was great. But not having e2ee encryption and server operators being anti-privacy like with libera means we have no modern day options.

You can downvote me all you want but these bullshit dramas have destroyed communities I liked and that is not f*cking ok! Downvote me a million times but I have not had unexpected disruptions on discord or crazy memory/performance issues.

I would love to use ircv3 that is full e2ee with no opportunistic crap or matrix with a decent well maintained lightweight web client and simple/good UX. But don't tell my the problems don't exist because youe ideology is nice and shiny.

Yeah, discord can be bought by some crappy company and they can start banning for bad reasons but guess what? So can matrix.org and it already happened with freenode (and reddit in a related manner). But today, discord is best.

I hold on to the hope of a better alternative as I point out the flaws in what exist today. It needs to work well first and foremost.
I agree, but I guess it goes against things like the Work Ethic [1], the Prosperity Theology [2] and the funding sources of megachurches, all which take material prosperity as a sign of divine grace. It is strange that some megachurches who espouse "Sola fide" and "Sola scriptura" also directly contradict one of the famous sayings in the Gospels.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic#Weber's_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology
Less sentimental, but just as infuriating (to me): My last house we bought had an old hot tub out back from the early 90s. My agent said don't price that POS into your estimate of the home's worth--it's probably never worked. We bought the house and lo and behold it did not work, but I carefully rehabbed it, replaced the pumps and sensors and cleaned everything up, made a custom topper for it, and went on to enjoy 8 years of fun in it.

Came time to sell the house, and I told the buyer, the hot tub is great--we'd love to keep it--if you don't want it, we can negotiate that, and we'll arrange to actually move it to our new home! They didn't respond and bought the house anyway. I find out from my next door neighbor that the first thing they did when they moved in was demolish it and haul it to the dump.

Hey, it's their house, but some people are just wasteful.
They get in for a small %. Hold for a few years than sell for 1,000,000.

They get a loan from parents

They rent out their basement

They partner up.

They buy the lower priced 600,000 home and make repairs themselves.
"As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. When it gets down to it -- talking trade balances here -- once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here -- once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel -- once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity -- y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else

music

movies

microcode (software)

high-speed pizza delivery"

-- Neal Stephenson, Snowcrash, 1992
I use X11 because I wrote a terrible usermode hack a decade ago for a niche (<2000 units) piece of hardware that gives incorrect EDID information and needs a handshake to turn itself on, and haven't tried to port my hack to the post-kms world yet. It is the definition of a legacy hack, and one I'm hoping to rid my systems of the second I get a decent vacation.

I've used Wayland before; it's great. Most people aren't gamers; everything PCSX2 wants to do is something that 99% of people do not care about; for the majority non-gamer software, allowing a window to manage absolute position is pointless, or even bad. Apps shouldn't be able to force CSD if the user doesn't want it; GNOME is respecting user preference (and that's not a Wayland thing). Even so, it still works with XWayland. For Wayland users, there is no service disruption. Aside from people who dislike XWayland, anyway.

Proprietary NVIDIA drivers being broken is an NVIDIA thing. Swapchains causing segfaults happened any time you used direct rendering from like 470 to 525, even on X11. They don't make great Linux drivers.
No love for Unity here, their licensing debacle was horrendous, but I've seen no indications that DOTS is responsible for CS2 perf issues. Everything I've seen points to other things lacking in the engine (a decent LODing system for example), general optimization issues that'd be present in any game shipped too early, and inefficiencies in the rendering pipeline.
That's how I read it. That he was just looking around exasperated trying to explain why rich people don't go to heaven, and saw a camel and made it up on the spot as an example of something that is obviously impossible.

I still find it fascinating that this simple, utterly unambiguous line, gets totally ignored or misinterpreted so that rich people get to call themselves christian while persecuting gay folks on the basis of vague OT references.
What misquoted titles? What misinformation?
https://archive.ph/raRaG
What's wrong with Liquid?
I think you’re missing the forest for the trees here. Knuth shouldn’t have been using a machine language for his examples, full-stop. Nothing was gained by giving examples in needlessly complex and obtuse assembly language.
One place to go to deactivate many logins for an ever expanding world of SaaS systems is basically necessary in 2023 for enterprise. Okta has been building that.
Diversity means you are allowed to peacefully exist without someone wanting you dead for your identity.
Problem with this is that how long you are going to keep it up and running and prevent abuse.
"Everything within the U.S. spiritual ecosystem is geared towards a superficial approach to all things"

This is hyperbole, I don't think there will be any way to convince you.
Finally a investment platform that brings transparency and feels intuitive. Real-time data, advanced analytics and full visibility into company performance. Powered by AI, built in integrations and a beautiful interface.
It's not that simple. If I go to a restaurant and order at the counter tipping is typically considered to be entirely optional, in spite of the fact that the PoS system would like you to think it isn't.

Then there's the whole spectrum of space in between. What about order-at-counter but the food is brought to you when it's ready, but you then clean up after yourself? What about a buffet, where you pay at a counter, serve yourself, but someone comes and cleans up your plates?

An alternative heuristic that I've heard is that if you pay in advance than tipping is optional, while if you pay at the end it's required, but that doesn't cover Doordash.

There are clear cut cases where tipping is required, and a whole fuzzy mess in between. And that fuzzy mess gets fuzzier and messier each year as companies intentionally blur the line.
And the engineers designing safety mechanisms for nuclear weapons probably think you have it easy.
Discovery of a Geologic Anomaly on Google Earth [video]
Sometimes I wonder whether something like the SpaceX approach would work for these sorts of mission: develop a way to cheaply and reproducibly build the mission hardware, then iterate on it until it works.
Liquid is pretty phenomenal piece of engineering IMO
> Since such training doesn't exist

So where you worked, prospective customers were allowed to copy media before purchase?
Peter Attia, but he is focused on things that are well studied and concentrates on the low hanging fruit, eg. mental health, diet, and exercise.
This plus another 6.5 years happened: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2017/04/21/evolution
Show HN: Self-serve GitHub Skyline (because the actual one stopped working)
I wanted to see the 3D GitHub Skyline of my contributions in the last year, but the website (skyline.github.com) had stopped working (ref: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/64942)

So I went ahead and built one using ReactJS (and ThreeJS). Check it out and let me know if you like it.
I'm sure there are many variants and definitions, but the company I'm at runs one.

The gist of it is that there's one codebase with multiple separate "modules". This codebase is packed and linked as a library and then we build different super slim hosts that load different parts of the monolith in production containers. Usually just different environment variables or config.

But locally, we can run the whole thing in one process. We're.using .NET so `dotnet run` brings up the whole app. Whereas we might run parts of the app in different console hosts in prod, locally they are hosted background services in-process.

From a debug perspective, this is super awesome since you can just launch and trace one codebase. If we broke it out into 3-4 separate services, we'd have to run 3 processes and 3 debuggers. 3 sets of configuration, 3 sets of CI/CD, 3 sets of testing. Terrible for productivity.

We have parts of the system connected to SQS for processing events and if we need more throughout, we simply start more instances of the container all running the same monolith.

I think GCP is probably one of the best platforms for building modular monoliths because of its tight orientation around HTTP push.
By "now" you mean sometime between 2010 and indefinite year in the future?

Because social media manipulation will never stop, I'm afraid.
Non EU users can benefit from EU (great) privacy protection just pretending
can be that easy? am I missing something?

I'm referring to the plethora of big/small tools and app we use every day.

(a bit like the 'old' trick to declare you are from France to speed up your iphone: btw is it real and still working?)

just declare you are from EU
They are subject to review of article 3 courts though, and limited in their purview. And we aren't talking about them, we are talking about executive departments adjudicating their own cases.
Extracting Training Data from ChatGPT
Most software organizations (remember most are not FAANG) will be better served by paying the $$$ to have their engineers focused on building more/better features for customers.
> It started up fine.

Thanks. I understand that better now. The spacecraft did start up, but it seemed as if it could be badly damaged because they were not receiving any telemetry data
We've spent years telling folks that $X is too hard; so just out-source to $LIB or $PACKAGE or $VENDOR. Now we've got a whole huge group of builders, managers of makers that make these plans/calls.

We should stop saying $X is too hard and start, at least, trying to help more folk realize it can be done in house.

It all started when it became "too much trouble to host your own email" and then all the centralization and vendorification happened...and stay off my lawn!
> the entire educational system of Gaza is dedicated to bringing their children up in a way that makes them hate all Jews

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMiddleEast/comments/17r1xhs/isra...

I don't think you are right here. Hamas did once have an anti-Jew mentality, but that's not the case anymore because innocent Palestinian Jews are facing oppression from Israel too.
Ask HN: Resources for API Design
Any good resources for this? I come across bits and pieces on this topic from blogs, comments here, etc, but I don't seem to recall any canonical and comprehensive texts for good API design.

I'm looking for something practical (e.g. best practices, good security, etc.) as opposed to theoretical.
Then why does he single out the rich folks? It would make more sense in your interpretation to not include the "rich" and imply that any man entering heaven was impossible.
Lack of free supercharging! Or that the supercharging is no longer free enough.
A private room for a reasonable price in the world’s most desirable climate that a student can just go walk to on a lark. Why don’t we just send them to a super max!

Munger is an awful person for trying to help students get an education without resorting to crippling debt.
"attack"? or just heavy bots they were not prepared to handle?

many experienced that heavy (IP changing) bot called something like "thesis test" this month...
My impression is that it's simply harder to get promoted as an engineer in the industry by using boring, sustainable, unexciting solutions that have been used by everybody else and their dog. How do you even stand out that way? Looks bad on the resume, like you didn't even try. Great for the business, but maybe terrible for one's career?

You could turn that one Rails app into a complex microservices architecture and do a conference talk about it, and get a promotion. Then you can undo the microservices architecture, write a blog post about returning to the majestic monolith, and do another conference talk about it, maybe get another promotion. Abstract, de-abstract, bundle, unbundle, rinse and repeat.

It feels like a tragic situation that's nobody's fault, just the reality of human psychology being wired to reward the wrong things.
> "Secreted" doesn't mean "kept secret", it means discharged like a liquid.

Haha, you may have been joking, but...Unfortunately, in fact, it does.

In English some words have multiple meanings even with the same sound or spelling. Natural language is not a computer programming language: not everything is unambiguous.

In a similar way, not everything is literal or explicit. This flexibility is one of the beautiful things about natural language.

Alternately, you may simply have been looking to create a pretext for a fight (sorry, I'm uninterested, please do some exercise instead or go to Reddit!), or perhaps need to improve your natural language parsing! :) haha

The interesting thing about "secreted" is that, in voice, we distinguish the two meanings via EMphasis (or emPHASis, for a joke). The meaning you mistakenly read in despite context, is pronounced, seCREted, whereas the correct meaning in context is said SEcreted. :)
That is my reading too. But why was the multimeter connecting up telemetry? That seems very strange to me.
why not use a local server, even just an RPi?
Honestly, I'd rather not self-host anything. Many people, such as Amazon and Auth0 provide services to handle authentication for you, so you're just given a jwt token or session information. I want to pay pennies per user to have it done right(tm)
Or got kicked out for drug/drinking abuse.
Right, but we can all agree that they still make them, and sometimes big ones. Unless they are so careful that they severely limit both their potential and contribution to group. Or they are the rare person who happens to be both "perfect" and lucky.
Some items that are work in progress:
1. Ability to export it as an STL file (so that it can be printed using a 3D printer)
2. Converting the website to NextJS so that you can use it as a website directly, instead of having to clone the repository and running the server yourself. (Hosting using GitHub Pages is not working right now because as a static website, it cannot use secrets without having them hardcoded in the code. And GitHub disallows that - automatically deletes the private access token as soon as it appears in the public code).
Uhhyou Web Synthesizers
True up until a point. Once you plateau and your infra spend is $25-50k+ per month it’s wise to start re architecting.
This is the "oracle attack" that certain parties warned about already years ago. But I'm not sure how relevant the attack is in this context because the data is, in theory, open to begin with. But a good warning about training LLMs with in-house data.
I am with you with IRC experience, but the definition of "works well" is dynamic. These days it means secure and easily accesible from a browser and no "trust me bro" irc server ops lol. I love IRC, the mess that exists today is a result of e2ee being implemented at the application layer instead of transport or session. But much like email, you have to let go of nostalgia. If the horse been dead for 20 years, dismount!

I had the same opinion as you but for better or worse I find myself changing my opinion as a result of new experiences. I have a million things i need to do, fighting with a chat client for security or privacy or basic features isn't one of them.

Anecdotally, I have been burned by irc operators and clients in several ways over the years. Be wary when trusting strangers!
You don't even need to be an introvert to want a quiet place to study that isn't also as dark as a closet and entirely without fresh air.
Nah, sell them a monthly subscription for the cloud service. Or put ads in their dashboard and alerts. (Or both. Then work out how to sell their water usage data to 700 "partner" 3rd parties...)
Must add to the title that this is a Scoop and not confirmed yet.
Guys you should really be maxing out your HSA!!
Density increases exchange of ideas and promoted specialisation, which increases productivity. This has been true throughout history and may as well be the zeroth law of economics.
It's amazing they failed to have a picture of either the sample or the mineral in the article.
Chat GPT where else ;-)
Me too, but I need an API.
No money to be made, so why bother?
Neat, it seems like Shopify's product design choices make it easy to shard across database servers: https://shopify.engineering/mysql-database-shard-balancing-t...
Yes but Turbo is 4 times faster.
1) Swapping to discuss 4G, is not 5G. It does have better coverage but will increasingly limit people as bandwidth requirements ever increase.

2) Vietnam/California are quite densely populated compared to the majority of the world so even if this worked here (but doesn't) one still cant assume its a wider solution.

3) Vietnam does have a significant mobile blackspots: https://www.nperf.com/en/map/VN/-/167.Viettel-Mobile/signal/...

So, sure anything is possible, but a good solution, far from it from what I can see.
I remember a few years ago that CenturyLink/Lumen got out of the prison dialing business. Wonder if they knew or were just worried about bad PR in general concerning the various issues around prison dialing.
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Family first, followed by friends. It is sad to me that so many young people are voluntarily choosing not to have children. They are the ultimate - the reason we exist, the mechanism for leaving a legacy, the most beautiful thing on earth. Family is everything
I'm looking at this one and it seems to cover things that I need (admittedly, without a free tier, but what'reyougonnado). I knew about Okta through people in the security space and that's why I trusted it. I don't see anything on Ory's page that seems to explain the audit work they do, etc. Is this something you are familiar with? Or?
Microservices usually solve organisational problems not the technical ones. Like here it is probably very painful to deploy to the production.
They might save money on infra, but their speed of development would probably go down, potentially requiring them to either hire more people or deliver features slower. The impact on overall cost might not be that great.
I’ve worked in such a room/rooms for most of my professional career (20 years now). It seriously makes zero difference. When you need fresh air you simply get up and go for a walk.

People work in submarines for 6 months at a time. Humans are adaptable.
Yes but no, none of that really describes current development.
Doesn't seem enforced unless there's actual steps taken. I'm just saying what I've seen. I've heard many baseless threats made against various presidents and no one cares.
If the voters want a functional or effective government, they can elect a Congress that is capable of passing legislation. Allowing the executive branch or the judicial branch to perform the role of the legislative branch enables voters to get away with electing dysfunctional Congresses that struggle to do basic tasks like elect a Speaker or pass a budget.

Returning the legislative powers to Congress would be as simple as allowing the executive branch agencies to continue proposing laws but Congress would have to affirmatively pass them into law instead of merely not pass a resolution blocking them.
Good take. It's pretty much the entire function of being C-Suite, putting your ass on the line for decisions nobody wants to make and having the confidence/credentials/ego/whatever to get people to buy into your decision.
Biden says he lowered inflation, hosts first meeting of new supply chain council
progressive 1970's policies
If your parents live in the city then it often makes sense to pay the high cost of living in exchange for the family support, free child care, etc.
Most of the world is run without democratic control. I mean, I hate the CCP, but given that there is no other government that is going to be able to keep any part of China running, is it so wrong to say that overthrowing the CCP by assassinating key leaders is a rash decision? Perfect should not be the enemy of good enough.

> And what happened to "give me liberty or give me death", "you will not tread on me", "no taxation without representation", and all of that stuff so popular in the US? Guess that doesn't apply to the Arab...

Americans culturally would not tolerate any of that. I think it would be good for Gazans to fight Israel for its independence on proper terms. Perhaps that would lead to a proper state instead of this barbarity. At what point did the continental army decide to kidnap children and rape women instead of engaging the British directly?

But like I said before, perfect should not be the enemy of good. I have traveled extensively. Americans have a very unique culture. Most people around the world value order, while Americans mainly value the ability to run their own affairs at the local level. The Gazans have shown no interest in American-style democracy. Fine.

This is not hypocrisy. The flags say 'Don't tread on me', not 'don't tread on them'.
Supertokens - open source user authentication.

Our UI is native to your website (no redirects) and the auth logic sits within your backend api layer - giving you a lot more control