skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A junior dev is somebody learning to program.

That disclaimer filters out anybody that isn't at least on the transition to be a senior dev (with real seniority, not just in inflated title). It takes quite a lot of experience to agree or disagree with a rule, and respect a point of view without automatically applying it.

In fact, since the rules on the book have way deeper impact than they look like, being able to read that book and not getting damaged by it is a good test for seniority.

But, funny thing, if you are mature enough to fit the disclaimer, you've necessarily already seen all that the book talks about and don't need reading it.
> I don't find that writing short, single responsibility code that is well labelled takes any time at all.

Writing it takes no time; designing it does.

> That initial "bottom up" process is the "getting it to work" part of the process, which is fun for most devs.

It's not about having fun: it's about getting the functionality to the first users, and then, finally, you can get some slack and have fun and refactor your code for future changes. But functionality is what sells: clean code is invisible to the users and thus to the business.

Clean code is for us developers, and only for us. We have the right to be egoist and work for our own sake from time to time, and a working functionality is what will let the business close an eye over it for some time.
Apple has refunded me every single app that I purchased accidentally. Every single one. No questions asked.
That can get thorny, because it adds another level of shell-quoting/escapes, and that is a notorious vector for security problems.
I think that's how Amazon in general sees their employees. Amazon's whole management philosophy seems like trying to maximize the squeezing the life out of workers for profit and then replacing them when they get "used up".
This is a fallacy. Pointing out the flaws of unregulated markets is unrelated to either capitalism or communism, let alone an endorsement of communism. Market economies are better than command economies, but the utility of a market is its efficiency, and completely unregulated markets are demonstrably subject to effects that make them massively inefficient, and therefore useless. (Which, to clarify, is not to suggest that all regulations are useful.)

And as far as "spoiling people for choice", this is irrelevant as a refutation. A choice between a hundred shitty products is a shitty choice nonetheless.
i don't think this a good way of reframing OP's question. From the few YC founders I've interacted with, the network they maintain is a lot closer than you may think. They don't all necessarily view each other as competition as one may think.
Forgive us for the lack of work we have done here in the user guidance. We have spent all of our time on product development, so there are still too few user guides and use cases. We will start building this part of the work next week. Thank you so much for your suggestion.
> how development of an unpredictable technology might pan out

> how one decision would pan out

I'm not sure what point you are making here. Are you trying to say "see, the AI not-kill-everyone-ists couldn't predict the future even in the short term, therefore we shouldn't put much credence into the the idea that the specific examples of AI doom they have given will happen"?

Or are you trying to imply that the idea of AI doom as a whole is bunk, because we can't predict the future... therefore everything will be fine...?
Problem: some crusty old tty command has dodgy output.

Solution: throw a high end GPU with 24GB RAM and a million dollar of training at it.

Yeah, great solution.
The fee goes to organise actions, like that people can strike but still get paid.

How much experience do you have with Swedish unions specifically? And with Swedish industry in general?

Judging by your comments, your experience seems to come from reading US news, is that close to the truth?

For example, the percentage of your salary for membership is not a static one, it varies. And even so, it has a max amount (around 60USD last time I checked). Did you account for that when doing your calculations?
I'm not in M&A, but code outsourcing has been extremely common for a while. It probably raises some eyebrows, but I'd bet even the suits know that most software companies don't write everything in-house.

AI may be a different can of worms, and I'd expect them to usher in a copyright lawyer before putting down the pencil. If the product is everything they signed up for though, I don't see why they wouldn't seal the deal. The only exceptions I can imagine are in the defense, aerospace and medical industries.
> In those cases it would be strange to characterize the dissenters as not being "forced" into anything, even if it was a collective decision.

Okay, I see, but then you could also leave your Union for zero cost. You could leave your US citizenship too, I guess, by moving. But my point is I think forcing is far too strong a word for the union meanings here. Why wouldn't you support this if you benefit from the Swedish model?
As engineers, we're used to a clean separation between cause and effect. In medicine, the separation between symptom and disease is far more grey.

There's a push to call CFS "Myalgic Encephalomyelitis".

I know two people with ME/CFS which have several clear indications that it is post-viral (but years before COVID).

As an engineer, I model it in my head as "ME is the disease, and CFS is the symptoms". I'd say that you had CFS as the symptoms with a different cause than my friends.

But the medical field doesn't think like I do as an engineer, mostly because the line between symptom and disease is much more grey and unknwon.
They're a portfolio partner; there's some useful synergies there.
Of what I read and finished and liked:
Fiction: The Handmaiden’s Tale — a dystopian future where a certain group of women are selected for their breeding capabilities within an oppressive regime. This novel wastes no sentences with fluff and it is sometimes too fantastic to imagine that society would come to this. I compare it to KV Siren’s of Titan where beauty is forcibly normalized.
Non-fiction: 4000 Weeks — a really trip! It challenges your assumptions, often times relatable and in short just trying to tell you that it is OK not to micro manage all, plan all, execute all, know all, actually what matters is presence and trying to enjoy the ephemeral.
> as soon as you have electronics and bus systems DIY basically requires deep car electronics knowledge and skills.

So how is this done on cars? Dores each manufacturer have their own proprietary bus system (what i imagine), or is there a standard that everyone can use?
Yeah, wife and I just had covid and we broke out the masks for a few days. We'll probably do the same if we get the flu. I figure we've got 20 neighbors on our floor and maybe 10 are likely to get flu/covid in the next 12 months, so I'd be directly responsible if I got the 11th one sick in the elevator. That said, it wasn't that inconvenient since we're wfh, so I can see why people do different math.
Note from that wikipedia article

>The Index only measures public sector corruption, ignoring the private sector. This, for instance, means the well-publicized Libor scandal, Odebrecht case and the VW emissions scandal are not counted as corrupt actions.
I'll take vertical sharding until no longer possible and then dropping all further requests over touching Always On Availability Groups ever again
That was one of the most interesting and captivating rabbit holes I've read in a long time.
People routinely fall for lies and get phished from those emails that look like they're from your boss. Every year there are a handful of high profile tech companies that get hacked because someone you would think should know better falls for a phishing scam. I think this is a bigger threat than people are making it out to be.
How can one be too young to know Desmond Llewelyn?
Deadline for end of Windows 10 support – it's pay to play for security
What Gets Enemies to Negotiate
> Yeah, sadly there are entry level laptops cheaper than a phone or said monitor plus a keyboard and mouse

Many people already have a monitor, mouse, and keyboard lying around. They'll also have a phone already. Plus, there are very cheap docks where you can just slide your phone into a laptop shell, priced similarly to the worst and most awful Chromebooks imaginable.

> So nothing works offline.

You can run a vscode server on your phone (https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/releases). What's lacking is the VSCode GUI, so pointing a browser at http://[::1]:8080/ will work just fine.
I'll never forget the Simpson's episode where Homer goes to one of these places. They kicked him out when he was still eating long after closing time, and he sued them. "The sign says 'All You Can Eat' and I can still eat more."
Jesus Christ, it's JSON for Bourne!

I wonder how well this could work/interact with Powershell.
Trippy: Network Diagnostic Tool
Another demo: https://twitter.com/gapier_com/status/1732247336779198593
The article links to an example of GPT-4 failing to solve it. It seems likely that it can only solve it sometimes and basically gets “lucky”.
Have written a little backstory and press release for anyone interested, at: https://telemetry.software/telemetry-is-now-open-source
There's a problem here: we can't make falsifiable claims about the criminals who aren't caught. I could just as easily say the same thing about Signal!

There's one critical difference, however: governments have identified Signal and its ilk specifically as a threat to their intelligence gathering capabilities. They don't talk this way about PGP; the public signals overwhelmingly indicate that (1) virtually nobody uses PGP for anything worth surveilling, and (2) anybody who does use it for things worth surveilling bungles it (see above). Thats the government's dream!

> Heck, if you're really paranoid [and metadata is not your primary concern], use PGP over Signal. I don't think any of the alternatives proposed in this thread are chainable in this way like PGP.

This doesn't make sense. What is the "paranoid" model in which PGP provides (1) better cryptographic guarantees and (2) metadata isn't your primary concern? PGP cannot provide forward secrecy, provides all-around weaker cryptographic primitives, and is significantly harder to use correctly. It isn't a rational choice for a paranoid actor to make.
Unless you are simulating quantum effects, these sorts of simulations are unlikely to be faster on a quantum computer. Also, attempts at using the Ising model for general-purpose optimization have found themselves somewhat limited in application.

For people doing drug discovery and quantum physics/chemistry research, they will see an exponential speedup from quantum computing, but I think you're overstating how applicable this technology is.
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- AI APIs doubled in 2023
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- Every fifth endpoint on an API is a zombie endpoint
What you seem to miss is that this is not a labor dispute, it's a political dispute, Tesla has absolutely no conflict with its own employees. The employees of other companies - some, essential service providers for Swedish state - selectively target Tesla for what they perceive as a political threat to their interests.

Where will these political demands stop? Will the unions drive into a bankruptcy any company that expands in another low cost, not unionized country? Any company that employs migrants? Who would bet a billion dollar investment on the answer to such questions?
The media made all kinds of groundless prophecies especially at the beginning of the war when everyone, including Putin, were clueless. But now it should be obvious to everybody that it's going to be a very long war and nobody has any idea as to how it ends, and whether Putin's death will actually end it.[0]

[0] He's much older than the average life expectancy for men in Russia (which is probably around 63 years now) and ill but with expert medical care he might still live for another 10-15 years, one just might wonder how it would affect his brain.
that is definitely the goal, both a formatter and a linter. we want to add something like squawk and plpgsql_check directly to the language server, so you get eslint-like dx. with both the ast and the database schema at hand, you can basically add any rule you like.

and this is far out, but eventually we are maybe even able to combine the language server with declarative schema management and have go-to-definition etc working.

[0] https://github.com/sbdchd/squawk/tree/master
[1] https://github.com/okbob/plpgsql_check
The EU would lose its shit if they tried that. Google has actually been on a path that makes it easier to create competing app stores, no doubt pressured by EU legislation.
Why? Isn't this the entire point. 99.99999% of vistors to my website never click on a photo and zoom to 240%. Why serve all that extra data so that once in a lifetime pixel peeping weirdo doesn't get upset? If you're running a photography portfolio or something akin to it, then sure, serve big images. But for most of the web there's no reason to.
Previous discussion (linked to from the project's readme):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28266193
If I'm ever fired for taking a pro-Palestinian stance, I will spend the rest of my life suing everyone involved. The capital community has crossed so many lines in their witch hunt for pro-Palestinan voices that it's not even funny. Our industry has reached a breaking point and I'm not sure what's going to happen since most of the VCs are extremely pro-Zionism and a huge portion of people under the age of 45 are pro-Palestinian, including most engineers and tech people I know.
Yes, both of these exist. I just disagree that these 2 phenomena are conclusive proof of the title/hypothesis of the article.
The one state solution would be majority Arab, and they would expel the Jews, or worse. There are no majority Arab states where Jews are safe.

Don’t forget that the Arab countries expelled a million Jews in retaliation for the creation of Israel.
> If I had a nickel for every piece of "will be turned off in 6 months, tops" software that my workplace still maintains a decade later, I'd probably double my salary.

Definitely this. I've seen it, too, and I'd wager the vast majority of IT professionals have seen it, too.

At one particular company I spent a decade at, I was brought in specifically to help in the decomissioning of a particular set of legacy databases. One particular database was still on life support because a particular trading desk wouldn't move off of it, and since they made a shit-ton of money for the firm, they got a free pass on it, while IT constantly being dinged every year for the legacy database still being alive. Competing mandates between a profit center and a cost center, the cost center always loses. Which is fine, but then don't blame the cost center for not being able to make their goals because the profit center is dragging their heals. (Which was _not_ done at this firm).
Yes exactly because of that. More specifically because of a whole knowledge base of poor, low quality completely misleading bullshit content which is only there as a blatant low effort SEO technique.

A company’s online presence is supposed to build trust in their brand. For me personally, this does the exact opposite.
https://github.com/thomas-mc-work/most-possible-unattended-r...

Step 1: find the best cd drive, set offset
Step 2: rip drives, uses musicbrainz to find metadata
Step 3: it checks the hash it's ripped with AccurateCD

You can alter the script to not abort on unreadable tracks if you wish
The entire "Murderbot" series by Martha Wells is amazing, the writing style, humor and the whole story line is a must-read for sci-fi fans

The "Silo" series by Hugh Howey is excellent, I read it after watching the TV series from Amazon, and no regrets.

"Recursion" and "Dark Matter" by Blake Crouch is also really great
Perfectly: <json stringn input> | ConvertFrom-Json
> workers get more pay if they have an union

No.

> unions are no more corrupt than the business itself

No way.
Which is where they got their name from. It perfectly describes what Twitter is and was meant to be.
What a giant pile of “no true Scotsman”

The purpose of clean code and the results of practicing it, it turns out, are vastly different. The reason for that is because people are generally incapable of predicting any future state of their code even if they have the requirements in front of them.

Clean code necessitates that dreadful question of “what if”, which is a horrific Pandora’s box of never getting your shit out the door.

It is nearly always better to code for what you know, and to have a person experienced in the domain to otherwise guide the architecture.
The eternal problem with companies like Tailscale (and Cloudflare, Google, etc. etc.) is that, by solving a problem with the modern internet which the internet should have been designed to solve by itself, like simple end-to-end secure connectivity, Tailscale becomes incentivized to keep the problem. What the internet would need is something like IPv6 with automatic encryption via IPSEC, with IKE provided by DNSSEC. But Tailscale has every incentive to prevent such things to be widely and compatibly implemented, because it would destroy their business. Their whole business depends on the problem persisting.
In many cases—yes, there is a straightforward tradeoff between taste—or quality, more generally—and price.

In particular, with most of the cheapest mainstream brands, they've spent years finding the cheapest they can produce the product for that customers will still accept.

Basically, if the beans could be made tastier, while still being that cheap, Heinz would have done that already, leaving no room for a competitor to do so.
> Unless those opinions are violent and directed at them personally,

I mean, I think a statement advocating for the genocide of Jews is reflecting a violent opinion and is obviously personal for Jews!
In 100 years from now, there's going to be only 2 ways to run any piece of software:

1) If it was DRM-secured, via a hack, which effectively "opens" at least the compiled binary form of the code.

2) If it was open source, via some Nix-like tool running on some virtualization of the hardware platform of the time.

Everything else will essentially be "lost", including (probably) every piece of iOS software ever (for example). I already have no more access to many games that originally ran on earlier iOS devices, and it's been years since and no one's stepped up to emulate or jailbreak those somehow, probably because it's still too hard. They will ONLY run on my first generation iOS devices (some of which I retained), to this day.

> I really don’t think that would be the case unless Apple significantly reduced its profit margins to remain competitive

I think they'd be able to retain premium branding and sales with only a moderate reduction in such. Look at any other product market that doesn't have "lock-in" with regards to closed ecosystems; there's usually a range of players and price points.

I'll give you that they have been successful with their current model, but remember that they also very nearly died with their current model (1997 with 2008 followup: https://www.wired.com/2008/03/bz-apple-ourbad/) and it was only the introduction of the iPhone that saved them. macOS has basically been having a long slow death for 15 years since. The reason why this model was successful may thus have more to do with market entrance timing and market creation timing and nothing to do with the model characteristics itself.
Still undecided but I’m leaning towards Protonmail
What kind of fakakte organization is encouraging you to email credentials? Even the most haphazard, incompetent companies I've worked with have managed to configure an off-prem 1Password group.
> Or, the MacBook and MacBook Air can run newer macOS using OpenCore Legacy:

This project is amazing. I just installed Ventura on an Apple Mac mini "Core i7" 2.7 (Mid-2011, “Macmini5,2”). The process went smoothly once I figured out that I needed another old Intel Mac to create the USB boot volume for an even older Intel Mac.
Haha, my thoughts too! :D
Because being able to carry around a huge screen is fantastic. Being able to play games or use apps with a split-screen layout when I am sitting on the train is amazing. Folding allows it to fit nicely in your pocket and not be too awkward for quick usages such as responding to a message or paying with your phone.

It seems clear to me that all else being equal having a twice as large screen is a major upside. So it is really just a question of when the downsides (such as price, thickness and durability) shrink enough to tip the scales in favour of folding displays.
There are contradictions in your comments, one example

> Maybe Hetzner is acting out of principle, maybe they choose to do this because of optics.

> Hetzners actions are clearly because of sanctions against Russia. They say so in their email.

> My response asks whether "the geopolitical situation" is a good justification

It's very hard to follow your logic and what you think is the reason Hetzner is cancelling some customers

Either way, your original comment is whataboutism as judged by HN members. Maybe it is not elsewhere, but it seems here it is
Read the larger context (I quoted it above). It only has to be severe or pervasive enough to be "intimidating, hostile, or abusive."
Great argument for swappable batteries in standard sizes.
With WI-fi and all connection turned off (except simple texting with no images), and with all apps deleted that can be deleted, I have 80% remaining after a couple of weeks or more.

I suppose its somewhat of a privilege to use a modern phone only as a phone, but there's a certain smug peace of mind to be had - as well as security.

I'm also tempted to politely ask you to get off my lawn in the off-chance you are wondering about my demographic.
In the early 80's I was diagnosed with CFS's Thanksgiving uncle, Epstein-Barr virus.

I blame it on my choice to cozy up to another teenager, who was recovering from mono. High school with chronic brain fog was like you'd expect but I did enjoy scaring the school nurses with 70/45 bp. I used risky behavior as a coping stimulant.

Adderall made everything life-chagingly better. Not until my 40s unfortunately - to which my now (adult kids) can attest.
Yet everything you use is made elsewhere.

Nordic model is such a great success.
How would you launder money with this approach? The amount of downloads/purchases is verifiable as the whole flow of money from buyer to seller. If I sell it 10 times (10 downloads and 10 wire transactions that cover them) how do I put the unaccounted money into the system?
You don't think he's smart?

Maybe he did it for the lol's, or to own his political opponents, or maybe it was just a mistake he locked himself into. All of which sound just like him.

Rockets don't fly and electric cars don't drive if they aren't built right, which puts a floor on the IQ of the man who is that involved and hands-on with it. Being early in a major startup is a big deal, never mind a whole string of them.

He may or may not be weird or an asshole but he sure ain't stupid.

EDIT: I've been on the fence about this guy ever since I read his most recent biography, but it's really hilarious how saying something even remotely positive about him brings out an crowd who is enraged at his very being and the notion that such a thing as competence might exist.
That is a link to a press release. As best as I can tell from other sources, they started shipping some high end, low volume models the next year that added a separate 48V curcuit in addition to the 12V. Color me impressed...