skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not faster boot that matters but that the system can have many more services configured and pending activation. It makes a much more dynamic OS possible, which matters in a world of mobile computers that dock and connect to new hardware and networks all the time.
Show HN: Syntax-highlighting with accessible color contrast
Needed a syntax-highlighting theme for displaying code samples on our company blog, but found my favourite editor themes did not have WCAG-conformant color contrast. And the accessibility-focused themes I found didn't fit well with our site aesthetic.

I'm sure there are such themes out there, but for our use I built these Measured Light & Dark schemes. Pleased with the results, so have open-sourced them and made them available to the base16 ecosystem.

Happy theming!
These smart binoculars can identify birds and animals for you
I live in Southeast Asia, cost of living here is low.
> There is Aldi in the US. Trust me when I say that it isn't comparable to Wal-mart.

While they may not exist in the US, I think Aldi does have 'hypermarkets' (ie Walmart-type things) in some countries. Other brands certainly do, and would cover most of that stuff (though, well, not guns).
But you don’t know that lol.

If you knew you were going to stay there 9 years and make a tractor trailer load of money and love the culture you’d take the offer.

If you’re not sure which is more likely and you really like the maximum upside then you should take the offer and get out in 9 months if it’s not for you.
Note to anyone who thinks they have "disabled swap": most programs, unless they go out of their way to remap themselves, are backed by a file on disk, and Linux will cheerfully discard the executable text pages of the program to reclaim, and then immediately have to read them back in from disk. This is at least as bad as swap, and worse in some ways.
Interesting times to be alive in... even Google considers a similiar move based on some news report, but mentioning 30k employees.
I agree, all of those fit in my (admittedly lazy) "and such" part of the statement. Loads of jobs for all ages
total bummer. i had contributed a bunch of great convos over the years. is there a mirror?
Given that they including a winky face at the end I am fairly sure you missed the sarcasm inherent in the statement.
> The idea that you must retire from tech before 50 is so incredibly false I have difficulty believing this view is even shared here.

To the contrary, this is the very finest distilled HN for you. I wouldn't expect less.
Aaron Swartz died 11 years ago today
Unity Software Laying Off 25 Percent of Staff Amid 'Company Reset'
Oh that is very possible
Is it? It was its own private entity and now it's offline probably forever.

Edit: I think it'd be far better off on Wikipedia than Twitter
""Never get invested emotionally.""

Second this, because it so hard. You pour yourself into something, and then management changes, direction changes, and suddenly your baby turns into crap. Your creation probably isn't even put out of its misery, it is allowed to live, but gets tortured, and mangled into some unholy abomination.

It can be very upsetting. I still dwell on a big project, get angry, tense, it is very unhealthy, and also difficult to let go.
There were also national versions, e.g. http://bash.hu is still online.
Would love to have a collection, there is far too little sociological/folklore research about the net.
Docker considering flatpak and snap apps for Linux (please upvote)
The people with power over the journalists' career and reputation are in this case the party they'd piss off by doing proper journalism. They're not gonna do it. It's indirectly the main reason why no one trusts journalists in general anymore. Nearly everything is consolidated under the same people and whatever isn't gets smeared and blacklisted.
And if you're not an employee, your biggest client can decide to "go in a different direction" at any time. Of course, you try to diversify but you're still subject to the economy, clients having management changes, etc.
For me this is very offputting and definitly makes me move faster out of that system.

I can either work for the next 30 years 40h a week and create some 'value' for companies like google and have nice holidays, etc. OR i don't.

And yes i can afford a very basic version of not working anymore already or at least no longer playing the game in some companies.

Wasn't there some Gen X/Z meme about quite quitting? Guess what could incluence this? Having an appreciation for your company and your companies management style.
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Well no, I clearly wasn't saying there is no ageism at all. I was taking issue with the comment regarding developers having to leave tech over 50 years old.
HN autocapitalizes titles based on a standard English guideline (Chicago probably).
We just need an option type, thats it
I've seen plenty of HN threads where good alternative processes were described. I'm not going to be exhaustive here: writing a program over a few hours that is reflective of the kind of work that the company actually does, coming up with and debating the architecture of a system, mock code reviews, etc.

You might say these don't scale as well as standardized testing of university classical algorithms knowledge. The general response to that would be that if you're optimizing for scale, then you're not optimizing for quality, so stop the hype around Google only hiring "the best."

It's telling that as Google has begun to regularly lay off engineers, they have also begun to deemphasize classical algorithms in their interview process.
A historical archive of something should allow for robust, non-interactive ways to persist. Maybe there should be standards for this. In the mean time we can find gratitude to archive.org and similar services
> why can't I just make the two talk without going through the public internet, or adding a self-signed CA to a bunch of trust stores?

Sure you can. Getting a valid, trusted certificate from a public entity doesn't mean that your service has to be public. Just get one and assign private IPs to the domain.

I get the idea of not doing that if you want to be a purist about the isolated approach. But then you should be ready to implement something that others don't care about as much as you do.
It is about credibility. Ex-Harvard, ex-Goldman Sachs, ex-Apple - whatever it is, the institutions that you have previously been a part of can lend their credibility to you and therefore change the reader's perception of your own competence. The goal, of course, is to have built your own reputation which secures that credibility, but it is perfectly acceptable to say "these people who know what they are doing trusted me and therefore you should too".
With things like this, you wonder how many times things got accidentally blown up early before people decided to just change the way we say numbers in that context.
Wait, how did you see my password?
I know. But it has been parrotted in the last decade even by the (usually) smart folks of HN
But we are a family!
If the signalling system is sufficiently modern, a train cannot drive over a red signal without being shut down. You cannot turn a signal green if there is another train on the track.

Why do we have this kind of state management for trains, but not for airports?
Just wait when AI tooling can spew application binaries, or API endpoints, instead of source code to be massaged by the human slave.

Then lets see how much praise Co-pilot gets.
Host resolves, packets are dropped (ICMP timeouts, but nothing is "unreachable"). My sysadmin gut says that the server is there, behind a firewall, and the webserver is down/stopped, or the firewall is killing everything.

The IP is not shared. It reverse-resolves, too.

So, it's not dismantled and thrown to side.

Looks like the hosting provider, Idologic, got bought by Stablepoint. Maybe they have somehow blocked the site during the merger?
I feel that the decline of malls is tied to the obesity epidemic and poor health in the USA. People don't have the energy to go to the mall and walk for hours while carrying purchases any more.
Wonderful - happy you decided to make this open source!
for bonus points, the video should also be executable :)
The company I'm speaking for is one of these government customers - and they are absolutely necessary with no competitors. I still think that given all that, they may be allowed to go bust simply because it is run so poorly and it might actually be better to start again.
http://www.ibash.de for Germany :-)
New survey shows workers willing to take 20% pay cut for work/life balance
Somehow related... I have noticed recently (note: in Poland) that brands shops are starting to price some items (especially clothes) in the shop to be cheaper than on-line. And the difference is quite significant.

I believe that there are two factors.

One, the law in Poland allows to return any item purchased online in 15 days without giving any reason. I can imagine that for shoes, clothes there is a pretty big turnover which is costly (delivery costs, return handling, repacking, etc.).

The second one is that when customer is in the shop, it is way easier to offer accessories, offer to buy something else, etc.

Curious, if this going to be some trend...
My company also still is doing a big savings year and i don't get it.

If they really believe in capital, they need to show investment, need to be oppimistic and announce spending money to pull every other 'struggling' industry with them.
Even if the October 7th attacks had been worse than the rumours, does anyone really think that justifies killing thousands of innocent people including women and children, displacing over a million, destroying hospitals and cutting off water and food supply?

When there is a school shooting, should it be punished by a massive bombing campaign on the town where the perpetrator lives?

These atrocities are just plane wrong, no matter the motivation. Pointing out the crimes of Israel is not the same as supporting violence by Hamas. Both sides are in the wrong for their treatment of innocent civilians, however Israel is entirely to blame for their illegal occupation of Palestinian land.
SWE no longer a safe space.
Now what?

I would ask about second careers to get away from SWE.

But to do what? What job is safe now? Safe and pays.

Doctor? That would be a tough second act.
I live in Europe :(
What a non sensical statement
There is a network of pro-Israel and even Israeli government affiliated corporations and NGOs that successfully lobby for extreme censorship and social restrictions, such as a ban on sharing and even viewing all Gaza war footage in Australia, and the numerous anti-boycott and anti-organization rules across government organizations in 30+ American states.

Even if it can't be confirmed as of yet, I have no doubt that they are working on or have actually achieved the connections to make this possible.
If only. Circa windows 7 era would have been a perfect time, just keep adding security updates and we'd be golden.
Five frei!
And suddenly the comment section is full of professional aviators.
1. is it possible to upload an illustration to use as a style reference? the ones on your site are extremely generic/stock-ish.

if so….

2. is it possible to create a large series ( 20 images ) of *consistently styled illustrations based on the sourced ref style?

ps congrats on the launch!
> It's completely out of the employee's control, so why would it change the employee's behavior?

Employees don’t have visibility into their peers actual performance. They see a silver of it and infer. This makes layoffs look random. Then, we rely on publicly reported “I was given a great review and still let go!” posts — which are all self-interested. No one wants to hire or refer someone who was doing poorly so there’s an incentive to fib or have selective amnesia.

The whole cohort of folks let go are incentivized to keep up the fiction that it was random.

All things being equal, there is no reason to layoff someone high performing over their less capable peer. I’ve never seen it done randomly, and I’ve sat in these meetings.

This is not to say whole divisions or companies haven’t been let go, but that’s not the same situation here. We’re talking about selective cuts across the entire company where core, or advertising lost some folks, while others remained. That is not random.
Within the AI bubble, I think there is lots of ageism, but in real world mission-critical i.e. "serious stuff" there is plenty of jobs for experienced engineers.
Probably fees, but that's true of the many S&P 500 funds also.
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It's your n.1, although the object is assumed. In this case, it stands for something like "a travesty of justice in international relations". The writer assumes that certain processes should work in certain ways to produce certain outputs, and sees the current situation as something that a working system should not produce.
I'm suggesting that it's up to Microsoft management to decide what software they want to develop, and programmers should expect they are hired to develop a product. Downsizing should be considered a norm.

People came to assume that a total comp >$100k is a norm, but it's really not.

E.g. engineer working on research projects for INRIA in France might get up to $3000 gross a month. (And you might get better job security in France but it comes with a bit of total comp hit, as you see.)

That's the reality for most people on Earth. Salary >$100k should be considered an insane arb opportunity, not a stable job expectation.

Microsoft makes a shitload of money selling Windows to billions of people, and is able to pay a lot to devs? OK, good for those devs. But would that last? Uncertain.
Doom - duh!
Wacky Wheels, (top down hotseat racing game!)
actual software however... never.
Because you cannot stop a plane mid air to wait for confusion to be cleared up.
He’s able to test on a local network. It is a certificates problem, not a network one.

The article’s OP is wrong here:

> So to test this, I’d need both ends of the communcation [sic] to be on the public internet with proper certificates.

That is false. If you setup Tailscale (or Headscale, if you want a self-hosted endpoint), all communications are made with CGNAT address space (you hit neither the public internet nor your private network), and still get HTTPS certificates (from Tailscale’s ts.net ACME-friendly subdomain).

Basically: use a VPN service which handles both TLS certificates and NAT traversal, and you can do your secure local tests all you want.
Seems well made, privacy-focused and follows the GDPR. Will give it a try!
Having disabled Google's personalized ads, I did see many "get rich quick (now with AI" schemes that promoted the production of this kind of spam. I think the quickest and simplest way to at least lower the acceleration on this mass spam is for Google to actually vet their ads, especially non-English ones.
Well, unions tend to average the outcome. But IT positions, being on the top side of the employee distribution, can typically obtain more.

I can give you a real-world example. Our company (Italy) office was relocated, and unions entered negotiations to obtain three days of remote work for the entire personnel. However, I and others refused to sign the agreement because, with more negotiation power, our target was full remote work. However, in doing so, we were undermining the union positions, which made them unhappy. Fortunately, things ended well; all personnel got the three days, and a few other people were granted full remote work.
An application that spawns processes/apps/modules, controls them and lets them communicate back to the application for some service is also, in a loose sense, an operating system.
A lot of people here have never worked in an economic downturn, and workers WANT to believe their job is more than a job. Why else would they devote so much time and energy to it? It may just even represent their self-worth.
You are describing contract work... maybe look into it if you like it other people don't and thats also ok.
A few people, most not. The vast, vast majority people think real estate in the US has gone up in value over the last 50 years.

Well the banks are collecting interest on every single dollar in existence. All created by them out of thin air. Currently that's in the region of $80T and it's been going in for decades, centuries even.

https://www.usdebtclock.org/
One of my favorites found here, interesting and fun. Looking forward for the last tidbits :)
And sacrificial zinc anodes that get replaced regularly.
I think the worst part is the lack of handles. Sensor doesn't recognize door closed because smeared with blood or jammed, can't open back up because internal latch reports not closed all the way. Call the fire department to come unjam the door on the screaming child.
Not iCloud Photos
> you are a resource, and can be replaced

This is exactly the disconnect between people's salary expectations and their actual salary. It's not really based on how valuable your work is, but how easily replaced you are.
So you want us to believe that the same managers who could not
manage remote US employees and started crying for return to office will suddenly be able to run a tight ship with overseas freelancers?

Boy, they are in for a treat.
At least in the US, the government publishes overall inflation, inflation less food and energy, and inflation for each major category.

"This item looks different to me", "this category looks different to me", and "this basket looks different to me" are real feelings, but the government isn't straight up lying about inflation measurements.
Even if it's a static HTML, you need to patch your webserver, OS, and migrate the whole stack to newer versions.

This is why I'm scaling down my home infrastructure to SBCs and run everything on Debian with stock package repositories. It reduces tons of burden to something very manageable.
Yeah you look to be right about Sep-Nov, wow.

> government paying people a lot of money to do nothing

And a lot of money to do something. I later found out that a lot of my initial Covid-era clients were paying me from PPP loans.
With Google->Alphabet and Facebook->Meta, we can now use MAAAM instead.
Please add a disclaimer that you are not affiliated to IOS
https://warpdrive.se/ is a Swedish variant.
The aeronautic industry settled in communication to prevent accidents, the tracked transport industry settled on physical lockouts. The lack of a solid, stable pathway probably influenced the path of the aeronautic industry's safety protocol development.
No, but you can sound a loud warning in the cockpit if you're lined up as if on final and the runway isn't clear. Go-arounds are a standard maneuver.

It's dismissals like this that are preventing progress. I think the upthread comment was insightful and correct.
With its proven efficiency, email marketing stands out as a direct and cost-effective strategy, boasting an impressive average return of $42 for every $1 spent, a testament to a well-executed email marketing strategy. However, its true potential is unleashed only with a well-defined newsletter strategy, key to driving value, boosting revenue, and attracting new customers.

What is an email newsletter strategy?
An email newsletter strategy is a long-term plan designed to engage, communicate, and foster lasting relationships with a target audience through consistent email updates.

A successful email newsletter strategy considers the preferences and needs of the audience and aligns them with business objectives. It also continuously uses data-driven insights to refine and optimize email campaigns for maximum impact.

Some of the important elements of an email newsletter include:

Audience segmentation
Content design and creation
Sending frequency
Performance tracking
A well-defined email newsletter strategy should set clear and measurable objectives. For example:

Acquire 500 new customers within the next quarter through targeted campaigns focusing on seasonal promotions.
Increase engagement among the 25-35 age group by 20% over six months with bi-weekly newsletters featuring exclusive offers.
In infrastructure we build dashboards. And then we build systems to tell us something wrong, and when something is wrong we go and look at the dashboard.

Looking at dashboards all day to spot issues is a (pointless) nightmare.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38950912

Mirrors still exist

(Also, Twitter already deleted old data, so these quotes wouldn't be much safer there)
yes, it needs to get wallet addresses from customers, whether at the beginning of the campaign or the end of it. cashback widget could get the wallet address or if the customer doesn't have any, metamask trigger for him/her.
Since running a business costs money, the only result that will satisfy organisations like noyb is that companies like Facebook disappear from the EU. You will read many people here in HN openly saying how they would like social media to disappear, not only for themselves, but for everybody else, including those who enjoy it.
You don't need to have complete wind drought to have issues (three weeks with only occasional spikes topping at 50% available power is the kind of behavior I'm referring to, and this is routine). And most wind turbines aren't located in the middle of the North sea either.
Ok. Not a terrible idea to be in high growth/high return assets in qualified accounts.
Oh wow, you kiss your mother with that mouth?
> You can't even draw something meaningful with it like the domain says.

You can draw a garden, so drawing.garden seems very apt to me.
surely it should have been written in bash
Atruvia, 1&1 and SAP have... and they are probably the biggest native german employers.
The Barcode Engineered Its Own Downfall
This is my favorite "brain brown-out" moment:

<i8b4uUnderground> d-_-b
<BonyNoMore> how u make that inverted b?
<BonyNoMore> wait
<BonyNoMore> never mind

https://web.archive.org/web/20230709002522/http://bash.org/?...
Please don't post Reddit memes to HN.
A tangentially related interesting note is that in German zwo also meant two, and so did zween. In old German some numbers were gendered and zwo is the feminine form. The only form that is used today "zwei" is the netuer form. Some languages still have this feature, for example in Russian "two" are два (m+n) and две (f). So this change is (technically) grammatically correct. English also had something similar (cf. twain).
They checked in on the tower frequency after the landing clearance was given so they likely were on ground until that point.
Neonmodem: TUI for Lobsters, HN, etc.
Are you sure it was not a hedgehog?
I definitely wouldn’t say the days of YOLO moonshots are completely over (just look at the current level of investment in AI startups). Those days will return when the investment climate is improved, as it was prior to this recession and will be afterwards.
The latest Mario game, Super Mario Wonder, still does it. Especially the stuff that pops up after you finish a level.
About a one-year time frame for complete de-orbit:

2024/01 - this announcement
2024/03 (estimated) - DSA compile-time optional, enabled by default
2024/06 (estimated) - DSA compile-time optional, *disabled* by default
2025/01 (estimated) - DSA is removed from OpenSSH
It's a fair point, but I don't think Cisco has too much to worry about in this case!
Meta missed the part where their reparation doesn't have to be an easy fix. They dug themselves into a hole