skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a software project per say but I started a hashtag on Twitter (and eventually made an account) to share all the job stuff people were sharing during the pandemic (was on my own job search back then). Eventually started doing some Twitter Spaces and started a newsletter for the account as well.

A year later, someone had approached me and asked me to join their start up. No interview or anything at all, just was like "You seem to do good work, I'd love for you to come work for me." Probably the wildest thing that happened to my career at this point, lol.
> that don't require child laborers removing several tons of material from the earth

So no car, then? Gasoline vehicles use cobalt and rare earths too.

If you were actually serious, you'd be driving an EV with LFP batteries and induction motors.
This is an ad for hivekit.io and contains almost no substance.
I expected to see:

- The IBM WorkPad Z50 (could use, IIRC, 8 AA batteries)

- The HP Jornada 720/728 (there was an adapter to use two AA batteries IIRC).

I had the HP Jornada 728 and used to run JLime Linux and NetBSD on that. It was a nice toy for a 16-17 years old geek like me.

I had hopes for the Jornada 728 flashrom board... But it never materialized AFAIK.
'Project UnLonely' offers a road map to create connections and combat loneliness
Interesting.

Also, maybe: build some op-amp analog adders, multipliers, and wire them into a digital computer via ADCs and DACs for your math functions. (Could also do log, antilog, maybe other functions as well.)
What should the punishment be? Fines for layoffs?
Not sure if it has a name, but you might find out in the github repository: https://github.com/bbycroft/llm-viz/tree/main
> This is an unnecessary ad hominem attack

I didn't mean it as such.

> in the midst of doing his best work creating Go itself.

Not to go too far off topic, but Go is another example. It famously ignores decades of language theory, and they wrote their own assembler, linker, etc.

Now, much of that has been undone and rewritten, as Go became more adopted, requiring playing well with the rest of the ecosystem.

(but much of it we're unfortunately stuck with, because it's part of the language)

30 years ago there was no ecosystem to play well with, and compared to now we were just banging rocks together. Back then you could be a CS polymath as one person. Well, I couldn't, but Pike could.

It was the old days of John Carmack starting every game engine with an empty directory.

I'm saying that today nobody can. Even John Carmack could not on his own write a AAA game. (I know ID had other coders, but my point stands)
> Are you happy to post this having read the whole thing or just the headline?

I've read it in July.
My bad, I misread what the person you were replying to asked.
Early Big Brother immediately comes to mind
I'd like to challenge you on what seems to be the main claim behind why Slauth is a necessary product: "the amount of money that is being spent on tooling to scan for IAM misconfigurations in the cloud".

1. The tooling you're quoting specifically, wiz.io and ermetic.com do an incredible amount more than just "scan for IAM misconfigurations". In fact, I understand that to be one of their most insignificant features. Yet it sounds, from the numbers being quoted (I saw the "millions" figure being thrown around), that you are equating a company purchasing wiz.io as them purchasing "tooling to scan for IAM misconfigurations" exclusively. How much does the IAM scanning tooling actually cost, and what is the material cost of delayed remediation of over-permissioned entities?

2. Were a company to introduce Slauth into their stack, are you under the impression that they would then not need to scan their IAM for misconfigurations and would therefore be able to save "millions"? Would it not be fair to say that the presence of Slauth would not remove the need for IAM scanning tools, since IAM deployments could happen out of bounds, which is not something that Slauth removes from a companies threat model?
Depends a lot on whether you’re transitioning between different roles and work styles when you go to a new company.

I think there is a bit of a glorification of being outside your comfort zone amongst tech workers, and a lot of FOMO about staying put simply because it is technically possible to be hugely rewarded for taking career risks. However unlikely.

IMO if you’re secure in a job that you enjoy and you like the culture there… that’s a perfectly valid way of being employed.

You mention not growing as fast being a concern — growing towards what? More pay, more influence, more skills? It’s a question worth examining when talking about this.
As a big reMarkable fan, my first thought was how much the results would apply to "digital paper". I can't think of any reason why writing on its paper-like surface wouldn't confer the same benefits.

Would love to hear how your PKB integration works!
> You can definitely use useMemo with JSX elements to prevent child components from being re-rendered too often

Only if those child components are memoized. By default, whenever the state of a component changes, React will rerender the entire subtree. The only time it doesn't is when a child component is memoized (React.memo) AND the props haven't changed. Utilizing useMemo and useCallback is how we prevent non-primitive props from being recreated unnecessarily
I agree, but this part bothered me.

"Today, we still have too many people dedicated to supporting work and even doing work around the work rather than contributing to opportunities with real impact. More people need to be focused on delivering for our key stakeholders – creators and consumers. "

While this is likely partly true, this is mostly management's fault. I didn't see anything in the email that talks post-mortem about the root cause and how it will be prevented going forward.
I consider Spotify like Hulu - existing as a puppet to give "the industry" a centralized distribution service. I don't ever expect them to make a profit, unless they decide to pivot and sell what's left to another corp. Am I wrong?
To me the main problem this solves is having to rewatch the video over and over for each step. Most of the time it's like "Step 2: do thing" then quickly cuts to step 3 well before I could've finished step 2. So having it laid out like this is actually a decent format to receive recipes in.
You can add a "hl=en" parameter to the URL, and most Google sites should respect it.
This is a task called "video summarization". See https://paperswithcode.com/task/video-summarization . I guess the whole project is something like summarizing from video + subtitles + text to pictures + text.
That is the "theoretical" problem

How many times have excess permissions "actually" been the problem... versus something like correct permissions with compromised credentials?
Two projects.

As a teenager, I got my first job as a technician at a local PC store in the mid-90s, I think solely because I dabbled on a Amiga at home. I just walked into the store with a resume. The guy who ran the shop was an early Amiga user, and though Amigas had fadded by that time (1994), it created a connection - in the interview, the owner said: "Amiga, that's a sign of good taste".

When I graduated from university, I was looking for work. I had an great-uncle who repaired and sold church organs. I helped build out his website, and I think it ultimately helped me land a job at a another company that build digital control systems for pipe organs.
Time for GitOps to Come to APIs
> No it's not, it has hit multiple usage records this year.

You can't claim that if there's no official source for it and the only source is Elon (With a track record of lying) posting about it on his service.
Also, I suspect you misunderstood the article somewhat?

The increase in drug use that's being described happened in the last 3-4 years. The decriminalisation policy is from 2001. So the increase is not connected to the policy, thus the police is not asking for a repeal of it.

The increase in drug use and decriminalisation are not related, basically. So the sentence you quoted, I don't see how that is a request from the police for a review.
As an embedded developer who measured code size in KB, I'm still absolutely baffled why desktop software is GB in size.

Why oh why does a basic Windows/MacOS desktop use tens of GB to install and use gigs of RAM? When it's sitting at an empty desktop, what is it really doing that's multiple orders of magnitude bigger than Windows 2000 on 64MB RAM?
> Does spotify need 20x more employees than Valve/STEAM?

I don't know. Maybe?

Nowhere it says Spotify have 10k employees in IT/Engineering. Perhaps a large portion is in Legal or Compliance. Dealing with regulations around music distribution on a global scale looks pretty complicated to me.

Also, Spotify does streaming, which is a fundamentally different - and more complex -business than e-commerce of digital goods (which is Valve's business model).

Ultimately, my point still stands. Spotify has competitors. If they are so bloated, nothing should stop a leaner competitor to eat their lunch.

> How's twitter working with 80% less employees?

I didn't use Twitter before Musk took over, and I don't use now. So it's difficult for me to compare their two incarnations.

I'll just mention that on a recent interview Musk said (in very colorful language) that the current advertiser boycott may kill the company. So my guess is that Twitter is not doing very well with only 20% of the workforce.
Not that Apple Music is God's gift to UI, but I prefer to keep my podcasts and my music separate and I don't want recommendations to be pushed on me.
The flip side is that these people had a good job for a few years, and can hopefully springboard on. The alternative is that they weren't hired by Spotify, or potentially at all.

As long as they were hired in good faith, and not to just see which people worked out, I don't have a problem.
They are doing this very much on purpose. Being harsh on rto and removing perks and showing that you are a replaceable cog in the machine? That is bound to make some people resign. And suddenly, Amazon's end of quarter spreadsheet looks better, wow they are so efficient, and UP goes the stock price.

Additionally, to them and other tech giants, flooding the market with experienced engineers is another win. So many jobless qualified engineers is bound to cool the salary expectations of people. Wham-bam, there goes your bargaining power, buddy. And for those still employed, it sends a chilling message they can be next.

What follows is even more beneficial for them. Faced with the reduced headcount, they can now open up positions to compensate for those who left voluntarily. Naturally, due to the cooling market with high competition, they can offer a lower salary and perks than the positions used to go for. Oh, and also they will brag very publicly that they are expanding headcount AND are more financially efficient, two major indicators for investors. And bam, magic, UP goes the stock price.

But wait, there is more. After a certain amount of time, the CEO dude will use ChatGPT to generate a letter to all employees saying something to that affect:

'
Dear family,

due to circumstances well beyond my control and strong economic headwinds and the war in Ukraine and Gaza, and solar flares, we have to let a certain percent of our family go. There is no way I could have predicted any of this when we opened 1000s positions last year

Yes, we are profitable, but to be more profitable, I' ve made this decision, and this is most difficult decision in my life (that's why I am making it out of my mega yacht in the Maldives, so I can grieve in peace).

Those of you affected probably won't even be able to read this message as your access to company info channels is being revoked as I am writing this. But rest assured, you will receive a generous severance (the minimum required by law or less), and your contribution has been suuper valuable.

You are and will forever be part of the family.

Cheerio,

Douche Mc DoucheFace
'

And just like that, like magic, the stock price goes up again. Mind you, the same company which just grew its headcount last year (which translated to a bump in their stock) is now firing roughly the same amount of people to 'be more efficient' and this translates to another 'UP góes the stock price moment'.

This cycle of pretending to be a family and giving kombucha and office massages to lure the best people, then firing them to be more efficient, and then rinse repeat, has huge consequences for the labor market. It results in overly valued behemoths and downtrodden weak labor force. It's a farce, played by people who see other people only as numbers on a spreadsheet.
US gov: sanctions swerving GPUs to fall under their 'control the next day'
If this is fixed, I'll probably switch from Python to Julia. As a language Julia is vastly superior to Python. The complaint was dismissed for so long (and is still dismissed e.g. here in HN discussions) I gave up hope it will be fixed, but I'd be ecstatic to be proven wrong.

Do standalone binaries here include shared libraries (with a C ABI)? That would be a dream.
True.

But if they do win (for the record, I hope they don't), it won't be because they had superior technology. Or superior generals. It won't be because their cause was righteous.

They will have won because they kept piling on with more infantry beyond what anyone would have thought possible.

Denialism's a fucking superpower.
> The poor today are the middle class of 15-20 years ago and the kings of 300 years ago.

I've yet to hear this claim from someone who has been truly poor at least once in their life. When you have to live paycheck to paycheck, and stress out every single month over the uncertainty, not knowing if you'll be able to pay the bills and have enough to eat, let me know if you feel like "the king of 300 years ago".
Funding of a program is a problem but how funding explains this?

The number of Portuguese adults who reported prior use of illicit adult drugs rose from 7.8% in 2001 to 12.8% in 2022 — still below European averages but a significant rise nonetheless. Overdose rates now stand at a 12-year high and have doubled in Lisbon since 2019. Crime, often seen as at least loosely related to illegal drug addiction, rose 14% just from 2021 to 2022. Sewage samples of cocaine and ketamine rank among the highest in Europe (with weekend spikes) and drug encampments have appeared along with a European rarity: private security forces.
Spotify to cut 17% of its staff
https://archive.is/u3tCF
Nice AD/clickbait
Given that Apple often comes under fire for using non-upgradable storage, a lot of people care
I think you're missing the point that coding isn't the only type of job
We Now Have More Details on What the Heck Happened at OpenAI
People are better off in absolute terms, yes. That is incontrovertible.

What matters to the human psyche is relative well-being compared to one's peers. And by those measures, the 'middle class' is demonstrably worse off than 50 years ago.
From page 12 of the PDF:

> Comments on places like HackerNews refer to it as “one of the worst file formats ever produced” [1], “soul-crushing” [2], and something that “should really be destroyed with fire” [3].

I found the source for [1] and [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22474460 but couldn’t identify the source of [2].
Compared to any car. The f-150 lighting (not that I would ever buy a pickup truck) is less expensive and higher quality than the cybertruck. Once companies that actually know how to make cars fully invest into electric, small time players like Tesla and rivian will be in trouble.
By improving kidney function, can "AIM" double cats' lifespan?
Your experience matches mine- I only ever heard "trickle down economics" used by people on the left making mocking, derisive commentary about Reagan and neocon politics.

Then someone pointed out to me that my entire affluent, privileged, comfortable life is due to trickle down economics. In the last 15 years, I've had high salaries paid by various money-losing startups, financed by rich people investing in VC funds. Now I'm a millionaire, entirely as a transfer of wealth from the rich. I haven't had a job where my salary was realistically paid by customer money/business revenue since before 2010 or where any of the VCs ever made their investment back.

I don't know if there's any lesson to learn from that or if it's just funny or ironic, but it is kinda entertaining to me to realize the entire Venture Capital backed economy can be seen as trickle-down economics "working".
These are good points. But it seems likely governments will make sure social trust is maintained when problems arise in that regard. Except if people get addicted to AI assistants as fake friends, and resist restricting them. But insufficient laws can be changed and extended, and even highly addicting things like tobacco have been successfully restricted in the past.

A much more terrifying problem is the misuse of AI by terrorists, or aggressive states and military. Or even the danger of humanity losing control of an advanced AI system which doesn't have our best interest in mind. This could spell our disempowerment, or even our end.

It is not clear what could be done about this problem. Passing laws against it is not a likely solution. The game theory here is simply not in our favor. It rewards the most reckless state actors with wealth and power, until it is too late.
As if that mindset has helped at all considering how bad drug problems continue to be and just get worse
Is it then an excuse to treat some of them worse than the others? What would that be, the capital punishment?

I prefer to not be the one saying they are sorry to a criminal without knowing nothing about the level of barbarianism of said criminal.
You're kinder than I am, ascribing an actual staffing problem to their layoffs. All I see and hear these days is, "We want to bump up our share prices, and it's easiest to just lay off some people."
It sounds a lot like they’re finding a very inefficient way to open local bars that host open mic nights.
If you're trying to sell a tool, you don't justify its cost by saying it addresses "huge problems" such as "security". Lets talk material impact; how will this tool pay for itself?
Some have, many haven’t.
Lego latest retailer to leave troubled San Francisco Centre
The trash was mainly wastepaper, lunch bags, waxed paper and possibly a few food scraps such as apple cores, orange rinds, etc. from lunches each student brought. There would have been minimal plastic or aluminum packaging at the time. One of the older students would bring the wastebasket to a 50-gallon drum well away from the school building and light the contents with ordinary kitchen matches. It was a rural area, and that was how farm families disposed of combustible waste.
That's the motto for browsers and I agree with it in context, but if it's something you control (like services of a distributed application) then not really. You can just make sure the versions match during deployment and save yourself some debugging headaches

Not if it's something sensitive either, where maybe crashing is preferable to running the wrong way
Are you missing a "not"? Otherwise you're not making sense.
I'd have thought a Williams tube would be ideal?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube
On MacOS, we had interoperability uses between different versions somehow, and some of us could not use `realpath` .

The following worked for everyone:

SCRIPT_DIR=$(dirname "$(readlink -f "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")").
Using `useMemo` without using `React.memo` on the child component does not prevent a rerender at all.
3 out of 4 ComCo members have resigned, with the clear reason being given is that Hans doesn't respect anything and bullshits his way.
No one would spend $450 on a NAS and then put 2 TB drives in it. My NAS was $450 and has 3 18TB drives with another slot not yet used. The drives were $250 each or so on sale. So for $750 + $450 I have an always-on home server that runs my home automation, DNS Adblock, local webservers, media server with hardware transcoding, ip cam to HomeKit adapter, a Nintendo switch homebrew e-shop, a software controller for my Omada network, a Tailscale node to access my home network from anywhere, and many more services, AND it has _36 TB_ of storage with parity so it’s safe from a single drive failure. I replicate everything important to an 18TB external drive on a PC with Backblaze Personal which gives me offsite backups of 18TB+ for $60 a year. Nothing is really competitive with this if you have a lot of data you want to keep (my wife has a lot of video content for her work.)
(your formatting got a little lost but I get the gist)

I've done a little langdev and I've found that UFCS interferes with stuff like field access (person.name) or things like interfaces. Let's say you have a person struct like { name: str } but then also a Label interface like Label { name: fn () -> str }.

It's kind of a broader problem of being able to extend things in any place you might imagine, like I'll implement a trait on this struct here, I'll implement a function on this struct here, etc. etc. and before you know it your code is extremely nonlocal. There are ways to temper this, e.g. Rust combats this a little by having to have traits in scope for them to apply, but that's annoying in its own way.

I'm just saying it's not a free lunch, I think anyway.
Who is "they"? Spotify executives who assumed the money printer would never run out of ink? The managers who hired and hired to expand their own empire? The software engineers who engaged in "resume driven development" by stacking abstractions on top of abstractions so they could play with cool new tech at work?

There is a lot of opportunism out there.
Presumably if someone drives enough that they need more than four (or whatever) hours of charging overnight, they will need a higher power charger to take advantage of the cheapest hours.
Accurate except for the part where there is already not a single Fediverse because Meta aren't the first to offend the Mastodon hivemind.
Most war elephants were extensively trained with burning pigs. But they forgot to allocate enough budget for flaming porcine that year, and the mistake was fatal.

This is why the Congress never fails to add pork to every spending bill, just in case the Romans return.
Absolutely. HN is more representative of what is popular amongst software developers, but software developers have a nasty tendency to chase shiny things. Lobsters trends on the other hand feel consistently contrarian, and being contrarian tends to be highly impractical. They have been right about the return to server rendering HTML though. It's a place to find different perspectives, for better or worse.
Automated Detection of Persuasive Content in Electronic News
What a ridiculous ad hominem response.

Not wanting to use taxpayer money to fund your friend’s whimsical intellectual odyssey is not the same as lacking empathy and wonder.

Keep your pity—you sound like you could use a fair dose of empathy yourself.
you could develop and test a trading algorithm right now...how clueless are you to think that is the hard part?

You want concrete examples of the ubiquitous...
This gives me the same feeling as the prior Linus and RMS attacks. Like an organised attempt to weaponise CoC to destroy the public image of someone important in open source. Hopefully it fails.
Even EEE begins with E.
The cost of freedom and liberty is the occasional tolerance of offensive things and ideas.

Small price to pay for a functional democracy comprised of unprecedented individual liberties.

But since some of the least-creatively-programmed amongst us want to use the "n-word" as an example (how surprising,) let's.

When and who get to decide which buzzword becomes a slur today? Tomorrow?

There are black Americans who prefer the word "negro," instead of the latest white-savior siccophant, acting as a virtue-signaling intellectually degrading euphemism.

Basketball Americans do not need your saving, thank you Mr Mayonnaise Man.