skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone looked at the correlation between HN top posts and Lobsters? I would occasionally lurk on Lobsters until I realized that the majority of content on L had already been posted on HN first. Private community that's basically an echo chamber of existing community's content... no thanks.
This is anecdotal, but whenever I have managed to keep my phone in a different room, I get pure uninterrupted sleep.
Depends. Personally I don't consider Popos's DE to be a feature but more of a bug. I think the two competing giants, KDE and Gnome, are more solid and see more dev time and effort put into them, and will do just fine to satisfy all users, preferences and use cases, I don't see the need for the Nth+1 DE that fixes problems Gnome & KDE don't have. But that's just my opinion.
Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
I'm curious to see what projects members of this community have worked on that contributed to them getting a job.

What's the project?

How did it help you land a job? Did the project itself get you the job or did it help in the interview process? Was the project work related to the job at all?

Edit: Ya'll hirin'?
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I am pursuing a Masters degree in Computing at the National University of Singapore next year, and am seeking summer 2024 internships. I have experience with full-stack web development, AI and ML and have worked on embedded IoT projects.
I don’t use lobsters, but I feel like it’s courteous to summarize and then link, which you did not do.
If the value of my house falls because there is no longer bus service, can I claim compensation? Why do you think my ‘bus rights’ are any less real than these fictitious ‘water rights’

When there is air pollution affecting price of my property, or someone built something to spoil the view, should I claim compensation too?
I really resonate with this post after working with Jenkins for ages. In my experience I wasn't very happy with Bash in the end either and moved to Javascript for reliability, performance and tighter integration with the Cloud were deploying to. It also allowed us to run locally and avoid having to deploy to Jenkins to test.

The discoverability issue is also a massive issue, declarative pipelines massively over promise its capability. Pipeline configuration was mostly still done in the UI because extensions had 0 documentation about how to declaratively define its configuration. Searching on the internet for the magic incantations as the author puts it is such a waste of time and I just compromised to get it running.

I'm glad this post is out there to articulate these common challenges when you invest so much into Jenkins.
A former colleague of mine is at Meta thanks to this exact strategy. There are also apparently leaked question banks available to facilitate the process!
> The US government did not invent insurance.

I never claimed it did. My claim is that what we call "health insurance" in the US is not just insurance; it is a bundle of insurance (coverage for high cost unforeseen events) with other things that aren't insurance, but have to be bundled with it because the government says so.

> direct primary care offerings exist right now.

Yes, they do, but they are hamstrung by the fact that the US health care system disincentivizes patients from using them. If all primary care in the US was provided by such places, and patients paid the costs directly, that would be a free market, at least in primary care. But that's nothing like what we have. It's certainly nothing like what Medicare Advantage, which is the subject of this discussion, provides.

> Healthcare, when coupled with a profit motive, offers misaligned incentives, period.

Not in a free market. Health care in the US before WW II was provided by private companies (or individuals like doctors with their own practices), for profit, and worked better, given the technology of the time, than what we have now. What ended that system was laws passed during WW II that fixed wages, which meant that companies could not compete for labor in a free market by offering higher wages. So companies looked around for other benefits they could offer to compete, and health care was an obvious one. And then after the war the government decided to regulate the company-provided health care instead of ending it and restoring a free market.

What offers misaligned incentives is the bastardized system we have in the US, which combines the worst features of for-profit with the worst features of socialism. The for-profit part is not visible to the actual patients--as I have already pointed out upthread, patients have no idea what the services they are getting actually cost, so they have no idea whether they are worth what they cost. The socialized part is what patients see--the services available to them are determined by their health "insurance", not them--but decisions are made by third parties who have no skin in the game and suffer no consequences when they make bad decisions that cause harm to patients.

> nobody should be getting denied a cochlear implant because they are deaf due to 'paperwork issues' for months or years until they die.

Of course not. And this would not happen in a free market. It happens because we don't have a free market in cochlear implants, we have a non-free market system with misaligned incentives, as I described above.
td { word-wrap: anywhere } will fix it.
Part of making code run quickly is architecting the solution correctly.
There isn't much to elaborate on. We are not hard up for COBOL or RPG devs, I'm sure some municipalities are but they are probably hard up for anyone who has the skills to make six figures.

COBOL is used still for far more reasons than technical debt, there is good reason for the language and I doubt Java is even capable of replacing it. Even if an AI could write a 100% perfect Java version of COBOL, Java would fall flat on its face. COBOL and other languages like it are very performant languages, optimized over more than a half century.
HN versus Lobsters made me realise how important moderator freedom/discretion is. Like in principle I'd rather be on the site that had a moderator action log and clear rules about what gets people banned, and I complain about the moderation here plenty, but in practice I'll take the site that manages to ban annoying users who stay on just the right side of any written code.
Solving Advent of Code problems in a language you implemented yourself should earn you an extra good star or something. Nice work, and cool project!
The latter. Extremely “Penny wise, pound foolish” nonsense going on.
Same, I visit the site frequently but I don’t now anybody to get invited
Sadly the UXG lite lacks the second WAN port which i use for 4G failover. Otherwise id replace my USG.

What I miss the most in their offering is an affordable 6e AP though.
Jenkins will be around for as long as developers still code. I've always found that any significantly large software engineering office will have Jenkins running somewhere, happily on a local dev laptop/desktop or in a VM somewhere. I think it is being rarely used en-mass still which is a shame since it is free, open-source and easy to self-host.

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I'm not sure why people are logging into Jenkins and complaining about the UI all the time; that just sounds like your pipeline needs better notifications and people are relying on Jenkins to look at build logs? If you want something prettier to look at just build out a dashboard on Grafana or similar, and centralise your build logs with artifacts and link to them with build failure notifications.
> what if someone I drive by decides to test it out ?

Where do you live that you actually worry about someone shooting your vehicle while you're out driving?

Wherever it is, you need to leave if that is a valid concern.
Hey thanks!!! This is my first time ever publishing a cookbook so this type of feedback is really good!!
Thank you!! If you'd like I could send you or email you a free copy of the book, while I work on a better blurb
I don’t know why you’re getting downvotes. What you’re saying sounds true to me, and I work in the core of EC2.

I am guessing you’re using newer instance types if their reliability is still questionable. Or you have a huge fleet of instances so you see a steady rate of failures every year.

Our failure rate on the commonly used instance types if fairly low. We have several types of failures and in some bad failure cases, live migration isn’t possible and your instance won’t even be restarted.

AWS already asks people to expect failures and plan around this with multi AZ deployments.

If you want stability, sign an NDA with AWS and ask for fleet wide reliability metrics for various instance types. There’s a surprisingly huge variance.
For me, I switched to Linux because it's what runs on the Raspberry Pi, it doesn't force auto-updates, and it's free.

For a lot of users, modularity is not a desirable feature. If you want things to work predictably every time, tinkering with stuff isn't the best plan.

I don't trust the open source community that much. Mistakes slip by all the time. For the most part, everything is fine, but people's entire lives are on computers. You get the home folder, you can probably get someone's browser password store, then you get access to someone's entire life, including not uncommonly physical access via smart locks.

Some people (not me) even have cryptocurrency that can't be recovered.

Trusting the community fully doesn't make as much sense if we want to be able to have a digital first world.
This is article is low quality and almost fact free. Instead, read the IPCC report on this subject:

https://www.ipcc.ch/srocc/chapter/chapter-4-sea-level-rise-a...

Specifically, the section “projection” covers how much the sea level is expected to rise by 2100:

> GMSL will rise between 0.43 m (0.29–0.59 m, likely range; RCP2.6) and 0.84 m (0.61–1.10 m, likely range; RCP8.5) by 2100 (medium confidence) relative to 1986–2005. Beyond 2100, sea level will continue to rise for centuries due to continuing deep ocean heat uptake and mass loss of the GIS and AIS and will remain elevated for thousands of years (high confidence). Under RCP8.5, estimates for 2100 are higher and the uncertainty range larger than in AR5. Antarctica could contribute up to 28 cm of SLR (RCP8.5, upper end of likely range) by the end of the century
From the article:

Striking workers are being fully compensated for lost pay. With a strike fund worth an estimated £1bn, the union says it can cover the cost of industrial action for decades if need be
Like the other poster said. Conspiracy is less about the api and more (waaaaaaayyyyy more) about fringe politics becoming mainstream. It was one of the first subs to rot during the 2016 and then died during the 2020 American presidential elections.
Yeah, my curiously disappeared when I read this line.
I’ve written a large application in Lisp. Hated parentheses before, hate them even more now. It needlessly obscures code.

Maybe it’s a personal issue, idk. But it’s not out of ignorance nor is code readability a trivial point.
Heirloom Computing, I am CTO, have transpilers for cobol and pl/1. code transpilation is the easy part. Create a Grammer for the source language, generate the ast, transform the ast to the target language ast and generate the code.
Now make that generated code run and behave the same way as on the mainframe and give it all the subsystems that exist on the mainframe for transaction, file handling, security etc. This is the part that is difficult. Fortunately it's already solved and in production with our clients.

So transpilers do work and are in production but our biggest competitor is inertia.
Steam Deck runs Arch.
If someone shows you how to take a stick and a stone and make a hammer, and you imitate, you're certainly not 'pushing the envelope of tooling development', but you're still making a tool.

As the most prevalent & familiar here modern example, I'd suggest writing to .bashrc & using ssh-keygen are 'making tools' in the relevant sense.
I got a spam call seemingly “from Verizon” (their main number) on my Verizon phone.

I called them and told them and they said “oh yeah that happens all the time don’t pick up when we call”

That’s when I realized we’ll never win. The spammers have won.
Since I almost never sleep for more than 5-6 hours, in my early 20s I wanted the cycle to be more like 32 hours, or at least 28. Now, 20 years later, I think 32 would be too much but 28 is still looking attractive to me, especially with an afternoon nap just after lunch.
This is a 25 year old example of it being used externally by a Microsoft executive. This is not the same thing as the belief where every Microsoft team is locally applying this strategy.
Personality Traits: A Surprising Factor in Dementia Risk
Yeah it's not like it needs to talk to them constantly. Just push settings and updates periodically and retrieve some statistics.
> only some food assistance programs are like that

As far as I know, food stamps, which work the way I described, are what the vast majority of people in the US who get a food subsidy at all have. I'm not familiar with the other programs you describe; can you give some examples?
Ellie's Tutorial Ep. 1: Dive into the Ultimate Pokemon Roleplay with Kids GPT Wizardry!
I prefer Linux sucking away my time over Windows sucking away my time any day.
Also, I don't feel like Microsofts attitude towards users is much better, theirs is "fuck you, we're getting your money anyways, eat trash". I'd rather use something that's imperfectly built for actual users over something that's built to generate revenue and market power for Microsoft.

For the biggest part, the additional pain that I have with Linux (over the pain that I'd have with Windows anyways) is worth it for having a system that brings me joy to use and gives me room to be and feel competent. The rest is made up for with the knowledge that I'm using FOSS.

Obviously, this is my personal view, which is a result of my preferences, how I (like to) use computers and my values.
But so is yours.
“Add to dictionary” shouldn’t be taken lightly.
If your safety features could be disabled by root on a non-safety critical subsystem, it means your car is already unsafe by design.
apologies, it's on both continents (but like 95% Asia)
A-expressions are a choice, and it is fine to argue whether it is a good one. There are plenty of other ways of achieving honiconic syntax.
This crate was downloaded less than 100 times in total until yesterday. Today it has 74,797,449 downloads. Looks a bit sketchy
I've read that Matthew Walker isn't a good source on sleep, as he tends to just make up some claims or bend the data to support whatever point he wants to make [1].

[1] - https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/

EDIT:

>Melatonin levels peek in the middle of the day and are lowest around midnight.

Isn't that the opposite of how melatonin works?
Ignore list would make for a good native feature, e.g. just auto-collapse comments by people from the list.

Along the same lines, a watch/friend list would be handy too - highlight comments from selected people in some subtle way, so to make it easier to spot them.

... though I think dang would easily produce good arguments against both of these :)
100%. My son got sick at school last week and I ignored the call from the school nurse because I have been so thoroughly conditioned by daily scam calls to ignore any unrecognized number. It’s insane that this is still a problem.
Tommy gun - nonproblemo

AK47 - accelerate
For me, pain is definitely part of it. I fall asleep alright, then i wake up with my arms both asleep and my ribs aching where i'm lying on them, and it's quite hard to fall asleep again. To be honest, i might just need a new mattress.
Correct, language transpilation is the easy bit, ensuring that execution and behavoir is the same as on the mainframe is tough, but also solved.
No, they are not. First their profits are capped by law, and second the entire reason these plans are so popular is because they are cheaper. And why are they cheaper? Because insurance companies are pushing back against doctors and hospitals.

And since cheaper is a good thing, I don't think you can call them a "cartel", unless you mean a "cartel trying to lower prices".
The tone of the comments have evolved over time. When I first found this site, it had a high percentage of entrepreneurs trying to build startups. Refreshing compared to Slashdot that was getting a little more cultish by the day.

Later the founders got diluted, I guess by the influx of employees of said startups, big tech or consultancies, like myself, then anyone from the outskirts. The vibes changed dramatically, until it was unhospitable for the original population. Many of them vanished. Even pg doesn't write here anymore and when some of his essays are posted the reception is outright hostile.

I'm not talking about politics, not only. A lot of comments are on the opposite extreme from the original curiousity and build mindset. People saying that any idea presented won't work, is useless, is nothing new. People talking about what should be, but in denial about what is and of course never doing anything.

There are many perfectly reasonable things you can't say here.

So we have like... the Internet, more civil than average and with a lot of interesting links. Also there are some fellow commenters that I love to read.
Location: Eu
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: sh, unix, rust, python (ansible, flask), java (kotlin, groovy), ruby, psql/redis, terraform/vmbox/docker, jenkins/kube, odd-things such as RFID-protocol and steam scripting with lua, godot (game engine).[*] Hobbies: extreme music, Beam-languages, broodwar
Résumé/CV: on request
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Recently I've been working as a devops/release engineer specialising in mobile application deployments so I got fairly familiar with gradle and xctool internals.

I'm curious and would like to learn and earn challenges.

I have worked a lot in my local communities to create successful non-profit startup. A web radio and archive system; and a co-op management suite for a DIY community space. These are volunteer jobs so I would like to earn money beside so I won't burn out.

Note: It might be guessable but rather I would like to state, for me ethics is quite important when selecting workplace. This limits my potential jobs but I hope that there are good things on this board!

[*] I have valid, good reasons I swear!
The visualization I've been looking for for months. I would have happily paid serious money for this... the fact that it's free is such a gift and I don't take it for granted.
Technical Debt Is Not Debt; It's Not Even Technical
I doubt any.
> Hacker News is made for entrepreneurs

Really???
Think about it, we can go to the moon but now can't. None of the superpowercountries like China, Russia, EU, could. I give more credence to we never landed human there but only sent mechanical robots there for deployment to prove we landed there. Look up Neil Armstrong career after coming back from the moon. He was so wasted about his achievement...could have been senator or even some big corporation hotshot. But didnt. Nearly all moonwalkers behave the same. Either they have moon ptsd or as what conspiracy hinted, we never have human landed there.
Your ISP might get upset if you put a lot of traffic (especially upstream) on a non-business line.
Convert PDF to Google forms using gpt-4-vision
Hello guys, I've wanted to covert few exam tests from PDF to google forms and thought that maybe it could be autmatized by using gpt4 vision.
I said x1.5 of their peers. Meaning you will fire first other half of your developers.

Also, you may not keep, but there are million of other managers who will be happy to have someone reliable even at x0.9 performance.
Onfido is a well-known name in KYC. I don’t understand why they are not making the request via Onfido’s app or website.
How can it be that high melatonin levels wake you up when people are given melatonin supplements to fall asleep?
my point is more that the less organized society that we have which lets people choose their own destiny leads to one where we don't have the generalists to save the 9, so it's less of a trolley problem because of the difference in urgency.
The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't ignore
Helpful docker run command
Sleep apnea is not exclusively a lifestyle disorder. I have it with a BMI of under 21.
Dev here: Graphs, exactly (Dijkstra's)! There's a little about scoring in the extra-info/ faq page.
I expect people to willing not conform when nonconformance improves the art.
The pattern is pretty obvious, isn't it? You'd think they'd learn.
I don't remember the process exactly, but is it possible they're just whitelabeling Onfido?
> I appreciate your attempt to invalidate my experience but your points are irrelevant

That was not my intention - I genuinely would have appreciated answers to my questions as it be useful to compare the complexity of your setup versus Facebook. As an extreme case: million homogenous, stateless hosts are far less complex to manage compared a million heterogeneous, stateful ones, and very little translates from the former to the latter - in my experience.

> Facebook obviously uses hot patching kernel updates to work around a social issue.

Which I think is reasonable when you have tens of thousands of SDEs.

> I'm obviously not proposing shooting an unfair number of hosts to you.

I agree with you, but I'll go on to say "not shooting an unfair number of hosts" is a hard problem to solve at scale, unless you're willing to make it simple and make humans deal with it by continually draining/undraining services which costs a lot of money without increasing the top line, likely far more money than it cost to get a handful of engineers to write kernel splicing. So beyond it being possibly a social issue, it may be a cost/host utilization issue as well
Without the remote control feature, it would just have to be some generic blocked message and they would see the same account sharing outrage that Netflix had.
Wait until you get on MS blocklist with no recourse
This finding seems to be at odds with what I have heard about melatonin. Everything I have read says higher melatonin helps promote sleep, otherwise why would taking small doses near bedtime work?
Yep, this is the one that you can exploit using a Flipper Zero. Working as intended per Tesla

> * DISPUTED * Certain Tesla vehicles through 2022-03-26 allow attackers to open the charging port via a 315 MHz RF signal containing a fixed sequence of approximately one hundred symbols. NOTE: the vendor's perspective is that the behavior is as intended.
It's a fair point but I think you must weigh that against what you principally want to occupy yourself with for that session.

Given that the number of comments are still visible, you can still see the hot topics, and then try to read the title from the tab. But I've actually found myself not doing that anyway.

Regarding the list, it's non-exhaustive.
Really? Did I miss an announcement / some controversy?
Alaska Air plans to buy Hawaiian Airlines in a $1.9B deal
The Hilarious Reality of Truckers Transitioning to Office Life (3.5 Min Video)
I have a custom BMC precisely so that I don't have to hide it behind anything.

I am thinking of using this. But it seems like overkill, and I am not interested in learning RouterOS.