skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess they'll be ok

Following further discoveries of oil and gas fields,[34] on 19 September 2023, Guyana authorized six foreign oil companies including ExxonMobil to drill in the waters claimed by Venezuela.[35][36] In October, ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL) President, Alistair Routledge, told reporters that "we have not been scared away by Venezuela…that’s why we’re still working in Guyana. That’s why we anticipate continuing to do so for decades to come".[37]

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The United States Southern Command said on 7 December that its forces would participate in joint operations beside the Guyana Defense Force (GDF) in an effort to improve collaboration with security measures. US statements also said that the United States "will continue its collaboration with the GDF in the areas of disaster preparedness, aerial and maritime security, and countering transnational criminal organizations" and that the North American nation "will continue its commitment as Guyana’s trusted security partner and promoting regional cooperation and interoperability."[96]
For practical purposes it’s a useful model.
Yes - As an iPhone users, I am not really interested in getting more SPAM.
The advantage of a physical second factor is that you need the physical second factor.

Put all of your passkeys in a single repo (as most people will), and you're literally putting all of your eggs in a single basket. Better hope nobody gets ahold of that basket.
If they could, private equity people would reduce you and your family to chattel slavery and Fargo you into a woodchipper when your wasted body finally gives out. They're the problem, not remote work.
Your Own Personal Picture Collection
An obtuse take that misses the “and can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, generate outputs such as content, predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing the environments they interact with;”
Leaving Murray Hill? Holy moly, I'm kinda dying to know what motivated that.

Full Disclosure: Bell Labs alum from the late 90s.
It's either a glitch, or the only way this guy's getting listens. Heyoo!
Dilbert... or any place that practices continuous delivery?

Sounds like your current/previous companies have heavier weight release processes that reduces how often releases go out?
> How did you manage to take this as a personal insult?

years and years of "apple sheeple" variants tend to take their toll, you're just the latest in an endless parade of microaggressions even if you don't think your particular case was notable.

why is it so important for you to push on the idea apple users being thoughtless trend-followers? just don't do that, be better. you can do it. the next time you feel like posting that, simply take a deep breath and don't post it.

there is just no reason to go around posting that "[device that 50% of people own] users are all doing it for [trite/dismissive reason]" in the first place, let alone on a tech forum where everyone has very specific reasons for their tech purchases. and it's so completely normalized, android users do it so routinely and don't even think that what they are saying is offensive. it's literally the classic microaggression problem.
Such a bizarre world view:

Most “software engineers” dealing in protocols, technical debt, the JVM, operations …. are also bureaucrats.

Such people are not engineers in any normal definition of the word; they’re dealing with plumbing and protocol and social problems which come about from large groups of people.

As an actual Big-E Engineer (of the Civil|Mech|Electrical|Electronic Professional Member type with conferred degree in Engineering) I can state that Engineers are likely greater "bureaucrats" than software engineers.

Professional Engineering is almost entirely procedure and paperwork, documenting, ordering, checking specifications, identifying responsibility via chain of evidence, etc.

Big Engineering projects (eg: the multi year UK rail transport expansion, the London sewer mega build (both the original and the recent upscaling), etc.) require truly vast amounts of attention to detail to eventually complete.

Small engineering projects like building or safely removing bridges are very much the same; the work of an Engineer isn't to weild a spanner or press a plunger after cutting away steel to weaken a structure, it's to make a plan, order the ducks and line all the ducks up, to have a diagram of what steel to cut in what order (for both construction and demolition).

And, (and this is quite the thing), to be responsible in the case of resource over runs and|or lives lost.

Scott here has quite the romantic view of engineering, for Scott it seems that real engineering is all about single person | small team total control just have at it hacking about.

Don't get me wrong here, I love doing that - but that kind of activity is (to steal a quote from the author) not engineering in the normal several decades old definition of the word.
So is protesting against any unjust law then. How is protesting a law you don't like by violating it not also an immoral breach of the social contract?
Sure, I'll live the farthest from the office in that case!

I mean I would have liked this too but it isn't realistic beyond what some companies have already been doing for years before covid, which is to pay for monthly public transit passes or towards the cost of it.

On the flipside it would mean companies limiting who is allowed to be in an office if that became mandatory. You live more than 15 min from the office? Sorry, WFH for you!

Factory job that absolutely can't be done WFH? You better come live in our communal housing where you have 5 min walk time to work or you are not getting that job!
I was speaking with an AWA engineer recently.

Apparently most of the AWS services are things that Amazon teams needed and built, which is why the UX and options for them are all over the place.

I’d attribute that checkbox to that rather than AWS evil.

They also just have 0 incentive it make it better. Third parties like vercel do it for them at a premium.
Blowhard is the term that comes to mind.
Direct link to the repo: https://github.com/haimgel/display-switch
They’d need to find a system that doesn’t encourage long commutes. If drive time counts toward the 40, an extreme case may try to live 4 hours from work. Drive in, have lunch, drive home.

People with short commutes would end up picking up the slack for those with long commutes, which could create some tension in the workplace. Why should those who are actually in the office working get compensated at the same rate as someone doing 20% less due to their shorter in-office work day?
> As developing countries develop, they'll look more and more like the US.

A one bedroom apartment in my city rents for $1,800/mo - $2,200/mo and it's very "nothing burger" in terms of what you get. I'd imagine the rest of the world has a lot of catching up to do in that department?
Also, this is astonishingly ahistorical:

"Bureaucrats are also almost universally reviled for their lack of accountability and the lack of pride in their work. While there certainly have been great men; leaders who were great bureaucrats (Napoleon), they’re mostly seen as mostly a caste of sniveling eunuchs who flee from taking responsibility or attempting to make things better or taking any risks, even when that is in their job description."

This is very, very inaccurate. Criticism of bureaucrats starts with the 1960s. While you can find an occasional novel or story that critiqued some aspects of bureaucracy (arguably some of Kafka's work, also maybe Bartleby, the Scrivener, though that is mostly seen as a critique of alienation, rather than bureaucracy per se) the rise of the "bureaucracy sucks" as a genre can be dated to the 1960s.

Others often make this point, but you can really judge the cultural transition by the careers of leading business commentators, such as Peter Drucker. In 1946 he published his study of General Motors, the book Concept of the Corporation. In it, he examined the large bureaucracy at General Motors and celebrated it as the pinnacle of human civilization, the absolute peak of what the last 6,000 years of civilization had all been building up to.

Drucker was not alone. In 1958 John Kenneth Galbraith published "The Affluent Society." A part of the book emphasizes the idea that "If we want to accomplish big things then we need big organizations." Once again, the book implies that large bureaucracies represent our success as a civilization, and those bureaucracies are what enabled that success.

Starting in the 1960s, there is a tremendous cultural backlash against bureaucracy. We are still living with that backlash today. It is noteworthy that the cultural backlash has not had a real world result nearly as significant as the cultural result: that is, bureaucracies have continued to grow, even as they have faced relentless criticism for 60 years now.

In my own consulting work, I've seen multiple promising startups fail because the founders were afraid of "becoming bureaucratic." I've seen other companies survive but never live up to their full potential because the CEO never set out to build a beautiful bureaucracy. My own sense is that the backlash against bureaucracy must come to an end at some point soon, because too much potential is being wasted by the lack of bureaucracy. At some point, business leaders must again commit themselves to building big, ambitious, beautiful bureaucracies, so they can capture the full potential of the organizations they are running.
How can Firefox possibly improve if every solution gets labeled a hack?
I had to disable DNS over HTTPS to get archive to work again.

In Firefox it's enough to add archive.is/.ph/.today to the exception list, and keep using default settings otherwise. Not sure about other browsers.
Well, nobody is really comparing WFH to "in-office", as in employees having a physical office with a door, they're comparing it to open offices which is the worst possible option for software development.
2FA is password (something you know) and device (something that you have). You have to enter the password to use 2FA.

Are you thinking of password manager? Most password managers involve entering the master password. Some can open with fingerprint but need to use the password occasionally.

Are you thinking about passkeys? Those aren’t 2FA.
You misunderstood the question
I'd assert the mistake is thinking this is about an objective measure of productivity vs more pragmatic commercial real estate investments and in cases of poor leadership/management, needing to have people physically present to provide a sense of control.
> I would bet that these days, generating or decoding PNGs is the bottleneck almost nowhere

The bulk of my game's startup time is spent decoding PNGs via libpng. There are some alternatives to libpng like fpng[1], or alternate image formats like QOI[2]

These both exist because png is slow and/or complicated.

[1] https://github.com/richgel999/fpng
[2] https://github.com/phoboslab/qoi (discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29661498)
> What does it matter if an engineer costs 1m/yr if they make something worth 100m - 1000m?

I think it would be very difficult to take the ~100 or some engineers who do make $1m/yr at Google and draw the direct line to "this specific engineer is responsible for $1,000,001 worth of profit (aka paying for himself/herself/themself + some)", let alone $10m, $100m, etc.
It happens all the time here. I use a feed reader for HN so I see just about everything before it’s flagged or killed as it trickles in. There are posts that get quickly flagged and killed that definitely follow guidelines, but perhaps the article’s author might not have an acceptable HN community opinion on some other topic, and boom within minutes they are flagged enough to stop commentary and bury the article.
Japanese media has been sweeping their ww2 aggression under the rug forever... https://youtu.be/4IuCBj7WB0o?t=321

But notice how the country that makes the media is always patriotic. Dr Who always have UK save the world from aliens.
Its very terrible, because the UI actually shifts away from your mouse when you are about to click on something.
A320/330/340/350 driver here (can't get away from Airbus apparently).

Nope, there is no system to confirm a leak apart from a camera around the tail if you're lucky enough to have one, my previous airline had a flight where an engine leak was detected this way. Think about it, how would you design such a system? So this falls on the crew.

The procedure to determine if you have a leak is pretty much the same across types: add the fuel on board (FOB) to the fuel used (FU) and make sure that the number you get is the same as what you started the flight with. If it's less by some margin then you probably have a leak. You can confirm further by looking at tank quantities (but they take time to reduce depending on the size of the hole). If you get an engine or pylon leak then you might also see increased fuel flow on that engine. If the leak is elsewhere in the system then you might notice a smell. If you can't work it out then the procedure (at least on Airbus types) usually involves turning an engine off to see if the leak stops (yep, really).

As for the ECAM "open fuel transfer valves" message, I don't know for sure on the 380 but all the other Airbus types I've flown have something like:

.IF NO FUEL LEAK

FUEL IMBALANCE....MONITOR

So it doesn't really instruct you to open the transfer valves but leads you into the fuel imbalance procedure if you think you need it. The very first line of the fuel imbalance procedure says something like "Don't apply this procedure if fuel leak is suspected".
It's the ground itself that's cold and saps the heat out of your body (and probably the surrounding air)
https://archive.is/923Vc
Im not convinced that some of the most advanced buildings we build is the ones most fitting for standarization. Ideally every hospital is constructed to fit the needs of the local community (and budget and building permits).
I do wish they'd lean into it a bit more these days. Updates tend to break a lot things for people who have taken the time to set things up how they like them. I know that can't always be avoided, but it'd be good if they tried and kept the ability to make such customizations in mind as they add new features.
Idk about indifference. Argentina is a recent example but you have to consider the trade off between being able to control monetary policy and not being able to shoot yourself in foot by being able to control monetary policy.
I think saint11 is the guy who did the art for the game Celeste
i don't see how #1 is relevant. if you have code reviews, the problem simply goes away. if my work day ends at 6pm and you check in a change at 17:50, it is really better than had you made that check-in two hours later. i'll see it in the morning and deal with it as usual.

that on-call hotfix is a completely different problem that has nothing to do with people working overtime.
How to deal with passive-aggressive text communication from your subordinates
I think most CTOs of smaller companies make $500k/yr or more, don't write code, and are just really good at driving delivery/working with others/having good instincts on trusting others (like enterprise architects, dev leads, etc.)
That seems to be correct.

A partial mitigation of these issues could be high bandwidth / low latency networks just in take-off / landing corridors?
On the Playstation side they use remote play to avoid detection. Sony has some old devices they no longer patch that can still be used as remote play clients (PS Vita/TV) which may or may not be impacted if they patched that vector.
This article is junk. What is it saying? It's got the worst sort of clickbait headline, followed by the one line summary: recycling has a lot of complexity. The end.
Do you happen to know of some that have been integrated into a slack chatbot?
The Baldwin Effect
The Baldwin Effect is interesting because it hints at how humans may have evolved intelligence. Below is a textbook excerpt that explains it well.

"... other mechanisms have been suggested by which individual learning can alter
the course of evolution. One such mechanism is called the Baldwin effect, after
J. M. Baldwin (1896), who first suggested the idea. The Baldwin effect is based
on the following observations:

If a species is evolving in a changing environment, there will be evolution-
ary pressure to favor individuals with the capability to learn during their
lifetime. For example, if a new predator appears in the environment, then
individuals capable of learning to avoid the predator will be more successful
than individuals who cannot learn. In effect, the ability to learn allows an
individual to perform a small local search during its lifetime to maximize its
fitness.

In contrast, nonlearning individuals whose fitness is fully determined
by their genetic makeup will operate at a relative disadvantage.
0 Those individuals who are able to learn many traits will rely less strongly
on their genetic code to "hard-wire" traits. As a result, these individuals
can support a more diverse gene pool, relying on individual learning to
overcome the "missing" or "not quite optimized" traits in the genetic code.
This more diverse gene pool can, in turn, support more rapid evolutionary
adaptation. Thus, the ability of individuals to learn can have an indirect
accelerating effect on the rate of evolutionary adaptation for the entire population." - Tom Mitchell, Machine Learning
One of my amazon packages randomly came with some warehouse workers blade that must have dropped in there. These are really nice!
There are probably hundreds of ways a plane could fail that would require constant low latency supervision by a pilot. For example, in this specific circumstance, the pilots had to manually maintain speed within a narrow range of 3-4 knots with a bunch of blown control surfaces.

Let's do completely discount remote pilots, please.
Today we have VA monitoring satellites and aircraft aren't routed through VA.
WebP's lossless compression mode usually beats PNG by a lot, and even decompresses faster. I consider lossless WebP to completely obsolete PNG.
Lossless JXL often beats WebP in compression, but loses in decompression time.

Except for indexed color images. PNG beats WebP on those images. Meanwhile JXL beats PNG on indexed color images.
Direct link to discussion: https://youtu.be/nLnB99VJ0HE?t=570.

Argument is the aggregate has already formed before hitting the ionizer (in the chute).
The operating phrase is really good developers. Because most companies are just churning out basic CRUD micro services. Infact companies emphasis on standardized frameworks is part of this trend. It makes rather easy to replace one dev with another. Companies can and are using vast quantities of developers at far away locations.
If you don't like airpods but want the apple ecosystem, the beats fit pro are a nice alternative.

https://www.beatsbydre.com/earbuds/beats-fit-pro
Completely agree - I think it can go one of two ways. Software is more malleable than airplanes are and that also comes with downsides (like how much time and effort it takes to bring a new plane to the market)
By definition, DNA is DNA.

Yes, you can see what someone's DNA is, if you look at their DNA.
On top of that, the implicit assumptions about how to identify a bureaucrat, and the historical claims about what they've accomplish, get a wee bit expansive at the end:

> There are widespread popular revolts against the evil bureaucratic pyramids: Milei, yellow vests, the recent Dutch elections, the Trucker revolt in Canada, the Bukele revolution in El Salvador; even Elon buying X and firing 75% of the head count. This will continue to spread as long as the bureaucrat remains unaccountable. Bureaucratic reform is the defining problem of our time. Bureaucrats and their NPC enablers have ruined much of what made Western Civilization worthwhile. They’ve corrupted the scientific process, technological development, subverted governments, ruined health, created conditions of anarcho-tyranny in the cities and have generally wrecked most of what they’ve touched. Their proliferation is slowly strangling everything, just as a proliferation of intestinal parasites will weaken and ultimately kill if unchecked. Parasites have no natural predators. You need some kind of medicine to get rid of them. We can study the work of successful bureaucratic reformers; Lee Kuan Yew, St. Peter Damian, Napoleon, Park Chung Hee, Deng Xiaoping, Putin, Marius, St. Ignatius of Loyola: also the unsuccessful would-be reformers such as Nixon. The most important first step, though, is recognizing the bureaucrat.

That being said, it's probably because I don't know what an NPC means in this context. Maybe it's because I'm one myself.
So does that mean that the majority of X's visitors believe in Alex Jones' theories? Or they think he should have a voice regardless of his false / misleading theories?
Looks like there are two confounding factors for this author: (1) his background is scientific, not engineering in nature, and (2) he appears to run his own consulting firm.

In other words: it's unclear to me that he's qualified to make blanket statements about what "real" engineering is; his closest professional qualification is being a consultant with limited long-term responsibilities. I say this as someone who is also a consultant.
I think you could simply set basic productivity goals and they would fail to meet those if they never worked.
I think Electron has done more for making desktop Linux viable than anything else in recent memory.
You may be right, but who else would do it? I feel like Russia would be invading the entire EU, and China would invade Taiwan if they thought they could get away with it.
Mind you give some examples? curious.
I'm not sure how you can say you take the non-aggression principle as axiomatic while also asking:

> How do you handle the fact that "the right to swing your fist as you please" and "the right to not get punched in the nose" are both legitimate freedoms?

The answer is simple: individuals do not have the sanctioned freedom to strike others due to the NAP. This feels so plainly obvious to me that i'm worried i'm misunderstanding your position.
They have something similar to Gooey as well: https://github.com/Textualize/trogon "Easily turn your Click CLI into a powerful terminal application"
The corporate enterprise community is who appears to create most of the attempts at user friendly, one size fits all, stable standards, because.... that's what seems to sell, and what saves development budgets not having to support lots of different OSes, as Windows has shown.

Many of the non corporate hobbyists are fine with everything needing tweaking and maintenance, they chose Linux specifically because they want to tweak stuff.
Word used to have the ability to post directly to Wordpress. Not sure if this works with the newest 365 versions.

https://www.makeuseof.com/post-wordpress-using-microsoft-wor...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/help-with-bloggin...
Tried to follow the bluesky link with the source of the title quote... you can't view a bluesky post without making an account?

Strange way to attract adoption... I can't see that linked source, which is annoying, and that stink is slathered all over Bluesky in my head, ensuring that now I not only passively haven't been motivated to make an account yet, I am now actively repelled and probably never will. (This isn't a defense of xitter, I never had a twitter account either.)
I would normally agree but this has been a known issue for years[0]. It would be trivial for them to change that setting.

0: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-aws-managed-nat-gatew...
Yup.

> Increasingly scarce and valuable resources, such as lithium and water, are needed to make these batteries.

Neither water nor lithium are scarce. Lithium is plenty abundant, even in sea water.

And water, while incredibly valuable for life, is very cheap to product (relative to other things we rely on) even if resorting to desalinating sea water. It’s single digit dollars per 1,000L.