skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" – Irwin Shaw (1939)
After my cousin passed away his mother took over the account. They used it to spew hatred and condemn people. I don't think the account was ever shut down.
100%, this is exactly what I want. Provided that the opportunities are legit and aren't spam and that they pay actually competitive and it's not a race to the bottom like upwork or something
Exactly, the famously soap-tasting vegetable… carrot
I don’t have information that explains your experience but I can give you concrete resume advice based on my own experience as a hiring manager: https://www.cenizal.com/resume-advice-for-engineers/
In that case, no one is evil as they can subjectively justify every decision. I don't believe subjective justification makes something intrinsically evil like child abuse acceptable, tolerable, or ignorable.
I wasn't sure either until the gratuitous "coupled with MongoDB and Kubernetes" lol
That approach works well for a game like [Codewords](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codenames_(board_game)) where you're trying to find a single-word common hint between many of your words (that doesn't hit any of the other words).

My feeling is that it'll struggle with word-plays in OnlyConnect/Connections (like missing letters, added letters, words-within-words homophones, etc) as well as two-step references (such as {Venice, Dream, Night, Nothing} => "last words of Shakespeare plays"}).
The problem is Connections is designed to use a tons of alternate definitions and other vaguities that aren’t well modeled in typical embeddings. Today’s for instance (spoilers!!) has Coat, Green, Pod, and Soup as being linked for them matching “Pea ___”. No embedding would relate them at all, unless that suffix is known a priori.
I did not. I have no qualms "stealing" content from creators who prefer to stay in bed with a user-hostile service provider like Youtube.

I will gladly pay content creators that leave youtube and set up their own distribution channel, though.
Apple rare price cut in China
> Any time a piece of road has to be dug up, costs skyrocket and people are inconvenienced for what seems to be an eternity.

Former trench digger here. The cause are usually two problems... first, the "underground line maps" ("Leitungskataster" in German) are usually not up to date because not everyone bothers to update them. Quite the "fun" if you suddenly hit a cable at 50cm when the map says you should be clear up to 2m!

The second problem is that Western societies almost always choose the cheapest bidder, which means no work on weekends or, heaven forbid, 24/7 as that would be too expensive. That means everything is slow as molasses.
Cilantro too.
There is a cheap triangular contraption which allows you to make onigiri yourself to your preferred specification. You may want to invest in proper rice and nori, it is smooth sailing after that.
I have plenty of complaints about scrum the process, but don't think it's much different than the results of scaling up and standardizing any process across teams of varying levels of skill and commitment.
Anyone have a link to a document with the codes?
> They (we) get rewarded for having their butt in their seat for 8 hours a day, no matter how they spend that time

Just depends on where you work.

Doesn't part of you want to make the most of your time? Is there nothing more enjoyable or beneficiary you could fill the extra time with, even if it's still "work"?

I don't agree you'd be doing "more stuff", it's about getting the same value/productivity out of the same or less input
LLM's are nice. Overhyped, but definitely nice.
100% I know a few, same with Harvard
It's not that they need accurate estimates is that often sales people want to share those estimates externally, so anything that takes longer due to unexpected complexity becomes an accountability issue.
VCs have taken a few positions in FOSS recently [1][2]. I also don't understand the financial reasoning of investing in the companies, for what they are. My guess is that it's an option on having influence on relatively influential developers in the mid-to-later stages of their career.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/16/sequoia-backs-open-source-...

[2]: https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/sequoia-open-source-fello...
Try this instead: xsel | iconv -t UTF-32 | tr -d '\000\016'
yeah i'm not doctrinaire about things and I don't mind paying for my tools
Does anyone know what they do with the carcasses/bodies? Do they leave them where they've been shot?
> I feel like the lack of understanding comes from not communicating properly with the community

"Don't load data in useEffect!"

Okay, but [this and that and this] so how should you actually do this?

"Oh, use useEffect duh! We meant.. Don't, like, use it too much."

"And React function components should always be pure!"

Wait, aren't the hooks storing and mixing states into the function in a way that's almost creating a sorta sudo object? How is that pure?

"No, we mean 'they are pure!' when we want to be dismissive. Of course they are not really "pure".."

Edit: The one weird trick they don't want you to know and will have all the React CRUD kiddies screeching; Use useMemo to kick off work early ;)
Let us pass silently over hogweed.
That’s good - keep striving for that!
> The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, which is responsible for enforcing import bans, on Friday approved technical changes to the watches, including the removal of the blood-oxygen sensor, according to a Masimo filing on Monday.

Seems unlikely that Masimo would lie about this, given how easily verifiable it will soon become.

Though of course this could just be more jockeying on Apple's part — they could be doing this to show that they are willing to cut the feature, in order to extract a more favorable licensing agreement with Masimo.

My real question is: will Apple reduce the price of these smurfed watches, and if so, by how much? My guess is little if at all, both for complexity reasons, and because it would bolster their argument that this feature is not worth much to consumers (which is relevant during the damages phase of a trial, or in licensing talks).
Here’s Mitchell Hashimoto (founder of HashiCorp) setup config.

https://github.com/mitchellh/nixos-config
I wonder how much of this is related to the how the executive class at most FAANG companies has give up on the goal of "tech athleticism" in favor of legibility to management.

Every non-tech company I've been at has been able to move faster than the FAANG companies I've seen from the inside.

The coordination overhead is so much lower it is unreal. You aren't forced into inefficient one-size-fits-all microservice-based architectures with O(nlog(n)) infrastructure overhead. You can use programming languages that make experienced developers productive, rather than minimizing what a new grad has to learn before they can be bullied into working longer hours.

Trying to coordinate complex features in a low-trust, high-overhead environment these companies have gone to a style of up-front planning that makes Mythical Man Month's waterfall look nimble and enlightened. With overhead so high, you can't experiment or build incrementally: as soon as one feature is delivered, you are expected to move on to whatever objective a VP has identified as the next important thing. That is if you even have time to code anymore, what with the hours of meetings each week to discuss the prose we are going to write to get permission to draw a picture that will have to go through approval before coding can begin.

Non-tech companies, the executives don't know enough about tech to want to micromanage like that. At most you'll hear from them what they want the technology to accomplish. If you can make it do that? You have a golden ticket.

You also often get to talk to your actual customers, and have the mandate to fix the things that bother them about the software. Instead of having to deliver a feature so a salesperson can check off a check box during their bakeoffs and buy a slightly bigger yacht next year, you can focus on how valuable and reliable and maintainable software is. _And the company makes more money when you do_, so they are happy.

And if you bother to calculate your hourly wage instead of just looking at your annual, well, I've found it shocking how underpaid many FAANG engineers are now that they aren't being paid in shares cruising up a bubble. When this article says "work-life balance", what it actually means is "not being expected to donate your time to your company on pain of firing."

You have a tech company boasting about the "dozens" of major features it launches each year, and then you realize that per engineer that's like one feature per 2,000 developers. Athletic they are not.
Don't let perfection be the enemy of the good. Today ChatGPT might only get you 80% of the way there, but you can still fill in the 20% and still come out ahead.

For many of my tasks it's getting me 90% of the way there because there's simply many more code examples and much more documentation in my domain. It still makes mistakes and it's not great at reasoning, but ChatGPT 4 (forget the free tier, always use 4) is at a level that lets me be more productive than if it had not existed.

It's really fixed mindset vs growth mindset with respect to technology use.

Fixed mindset = this sucks because it doesn't do everything I want. It's dead in the water.

Growth mindset = this doesn't yet do everything I want, but I can still use it. Or maybe I'll patiently wait till it becomes something useful. But I'm not going to dismiss it out of hand.
It's also difficult to put 'truth' on there when... you did something that you knew was stupid, and there was no positive or measurable benefit.

"Argued with CTO about importance of X. Did X, against my recommendation. Delivered X early, tested, documented, fast, secure. X flopped, and company laid off 20% of staff, including my team".

There may not have actually been positive benefits to everything that you did, because... they were dumb moves. Do you put that on there? Or do you just put what you did, minus the impact?
Some operating systems and file systems do not support renaming files that are opened by the same or another process.
In this case the primary reason for configuring it as point to point links is that it matches the hardware topology. In theory there is a standards compliant way to create an ethernet-style network from this, but there are two critical software components to that that are not implemented in mainline kernels (namely raw Ethernet over TB and SPB).

The main disadvantage inherent in the physical topology is that you are always going to do switching/routing decisions on the CPU. But as long as you use that as a virtualization platform or run k8s on that you are going to do that anyway and the additional overhead is probably irrelevant. (This assumes the full mesh topology, which with this hardware is not scalable over 3 nodes, might be to like 5 with somewhat more expensive consumer grade HW and is not really scalable to more than 8 nodes due to the sheer amount of cabling required)
It's the same problem, you don't know when the exponential growth stops / fades.

Nuclear power was growing exponentially during 60s, 70s, 80s. Would it mean it has to continue growing exponentially through 90s and 00s?
I used to watch loads of political speeches, including Biden and Trumps because otherwise you take someone else's word for what they say, and I still remember the boo's he got in one of his early speeches after Biden was sworn in, the entire crowd booed when he said to go out and get vaccinated, then he said "if you want to" after he realized his 'goof.' It was like he was not paying any attention to his base since losing the White House (again this was like his second (I think?) rally since). Then he changed his strategy with his base on it after. So you're not wrong. I think he still brings it up, but briefly.
That’s been an issue for ever. I can only assume it’s a really hard problem to make the install location configurable. Plus, folks like me who don’t use Mac really don’t care. It’s a perfectly fine place to it.

EDIT: LatticeAnimal answered it. You can’t use the cache with a custom directory.

And it has to be global because the whole point is that there’s only one place and all derivations are shared between user accounts. If everyone had a ~/.nix, hard drives would explode on multi-user systems.
Because it's not SEC's mandate to protect the consumer. If anything, FTC should have been the one to raise concern about this acquisition, but they have bigger fish to fry.
Do you really notice a difference between mobile and web? I tend to stay away from apps if I can use the web
I think it added the information to the thread. I live in the UK and had never heard of Booths despite having travelled around. At first, I thought the article was wrong and meant the Boots drugstore chain instead. Knowing that it's a local, small chain would have helped clarify it.

And yes, reading the article would do that as well but I usually read the comments first before I decide if I want to waste time on the actual thing.
> VoD services

Which are now also starting to add ads to their "basic" offerings, even though the "basic" offer is costing more than the "full package" used to cost 2-3 years ago.
Socrates used regular poison hemlock. He would have recommended not using spotted water hemlock for anything but on his political enemies, who had a point.
That's a brilliant idea. 60% of the board + the CEO needs to have engineering degrees to run an aircraft company.
There’s also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_(plant) from the same family (carrots). If you touch it and go in the sun you get crazy sunburns. It is an invasive species common in eastern europe (ukraine, russia) where it grows out of control and apparently has been detected in 16 states here
I'm not trying to look like a doomsayer or not, I just say that I doubt there's any actually useful information in IMF's statement at all.

It's not something you can act on. It's not something you can even check in retrospect if will be true. It really is so much like just words statistically generated to placate.
I mean capital. You could have asked the same question in 1823 and the answer turned out to be "no". Unintelligent capital is so productive that most people were forced out of all known jobs in the 1800s.

The answer in 2023 could be yes or no.
Aaah that does it, thanks. My phone started having the exact same issue the other day. Finding a fix was on my to do list, and you saved me some time, thanks!
We don't usually put directories inside other directories though.
Ask HN: Independent contractors, what tips do you have for starting?
Hey friends,

I have recently been entertaining the idea of doing independent contracting, and working on more of a per project basis.

I am curious how you began this journey
- Where do you find your clients
- How do clients find you?

I am curious about the jobs themselves
- What is your skill set
- What sorts of projects do you typically pick up
- What is the average duration of the projects

And finally what tips do you have for someone who is just starting out doing this?

I have 8 years experience and have most of my experience as a full stack web dev within the JavaScript ecosystem.

Thank you so much!
Boy was he wrong!

https://valustox.com/BA
The thing is that apple app store is also filled with scammy apps, so the argument is flawed at the start, you can’t outsource your security and act on the internet like youre blind and doesn’t affect you, you need to be attentive
ChatGPT4 solved today's riddle in the first try for me. Caution, spoilers ahead:
https://chat.openai.com/share/0c40a0b5-ab8f-4094-a7cc-21bb94...

(it even ignored some embarrassing typos ...)
The code referred to is a "commercial code". There's a scan of a page from a 1910 code on Wikipedia.

Amazing that a phrase like "Confined yesterday, Twins, both dead, Mother not expected to live" was given a single code word ("Annosus").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_code_(communication...

"Unicode — The Universal Telegraphic Code Book" https://archive.org/details/unicodeuniversa00unkngoog/mode/2...
Funny - I was just picking a ton of these out of my yard last summer. They smelled like carrots, which I found interesting. I researched them at that time and realized they were indeed known as a "wild carrot"
The M2 Browning isn't tech?
For what it's worth I've gone the opposite direction (one language, 70k Anki reps). For me, carefully adding context has largely felt like time wasted at card creation time (which can a surprisingly large proportion of study time per card, given how brisk reviewing usually is) and I've been bothering with it less and less. The default simple cards my dictionary plugin creates are usually good enough for me. I go out of my way to add context on the front of the card now mostly when it's a specialized word almost always seen within that context (so there's zero added value in learning it independently).

I do agree with the general idea that laziness and going easy on yourself is good though. I give myself quite a lot of slack when grading my answers, applying a "my understanding of this word is close enough to avoid confusion in practice" threshold rather than some impractical ideal of native-level mastery.
It's not about "doing something", it's about intentionality, i.e. you're working to advance your knowledge and expertise with some form of a plan, even if that plan is "try a bunch of stuff and see what sticks, then double down in that area".

Also, broad-based knowledge can be the expertise; think a general contractor who's skill is tying all the specialists together. The best software managers I've ever had came from skilled generalists backgrounds vs. incredibly deep specialists.
Actually, it needs 4 clicks as one additional click is needed to return to the previous screen (like navigation or media).

This means that in total 8 clicks are necessary to turn on and off air circulation. The areas to click are not in the same section of the screen, so in total 4 different locations of the screen must be clicked.

I find that there should be a criminal level of responsibility for making user interface like this in a vehicle.
> The internal JSONB format is also uses slightly less disk space then text JSON.
Cities will be redesigned around the Segway!
Morgan Stanley got off lightly as block trade probe found serious misconduct
I am at times more of a book learner, but find that attitude is often more helpful for non-CS disciplines that change slower (eg, math/physics).

A recent negative book example for me is the Quantum Programming book from O'Reilly. I found that it did not discuss quantum circuits in a detail that helped me really understand what I was doing -- though I suppose that is a conceit of quantum computing. Perhaps I will return to it later (I am working through Nielsen/Chuang now, which is very theoretical, but explains things very clearly)

My policy is that a book is nothing more than a learning tool, which a hobby project can also be (perhaps more effectively due to the experience gained).

Then again, knowledge is power, and books are great at pointing you in the right direction -- assuming you found the right one for your needs, of course.

I know some people who won't open a book unless they know they can read the whole thing, which I think is a ludicrous attitude.

I did just order O'Reilly's Generative Deep Learning book, and am hoping to get something out of that, and if I only retain a handful of snippets to use in my career, that is profitable for me.

The least I can count on is that it will look nice on my shelf.
What?

If the link colors stay the color they were designed to be, but you automatically convert the foreground and background colors, you're gonna have a bad time.

If the site is black on white, with dark links, and you change it to white on dark with dark links, the links are gonna be hard to see.

That has nothing to do with the links, the issue is you changed the primary colors without changing the link color!
I remember going through reddit comments at launch of this, there were hordes of people all hailing it saying it would be worth hundreds of billions. It was so bizarre like watching a utterly brainwashed cult.
One would think so, but ...

I was on one of those investigative rabbitholes and stopped in at various rodent traps. One of the antiques was this contraption with eight holes, in a line, in which rats could stick their heads and be swiftly killed via your basic spring-loaded spinal injury.

Anyway, you could have seven dead or dying rats, heads in, and another rat would clamber over the victims, both the twitching and the finally-still, just to stick its head in the only open hole. The presence of kin corpses and dying nestmates was an insufficient deterrent.
Not my experience at all.

- We happily adopted a CI system from another team in 1998.

- We had a decent unit testing framework and a fair bit of automation for integration testing (although yes, some aspects of UI were hand tested periodically).

- We continuously refactored and improved existing code, especially if we touched something in it or around it. The only practice I think was poor then was mixing the refactoring and new work into a single commit, which I would never do today.

- I was using source control even in school in the late 80s, and I’ve never come across a team that didn’t, although I’m sure they did exist at that time.

- As far as deployment, everything I’ve worked on has been shipped on a very episodic basis (anywhere from a month between shipping to a few years), so most of the automation I’ve seen there from early on was about deploying internally for testing, and that’s always been more or less automated.

Although I did work at one place that tried Scrum for a little while around 2003-2005, the only practice I’ve generally seen adopted from that in the remaining years has been having periodic check-ins on status, e.g. monthly demo days to show off accomplishments from the last month. These are relatively low-prep although not impromptu, and that practice isn’t uniform.

With all that said, some things I have seen change, which aren’t mentioned by parent:

- Much more emphasis on developers writing tests. In the 90’s test teams were sometimes as large as development teams, and usually way behind the development team in progress. There was a belief that developers couldn’t possibly write good tests, or simply wouldn’t.

- I never worked anywhere where it was “docs first”, at least not to the extent that people mean that when they talk about older development practices. We did sometimes write the equivalent of a 1-pager to get everyone aligned on what particular work was about, and had a meeting to discuss and determine if everyone was in fact aligned. I think that was very useful, and sadly what I see more often than not now is “code first” meaning that you write code and then try to use code reviews to deal with everything, which means that what could have been an hour of writing something up and an hour meeting turns into someone spending days coding something that has to be thrown away because it’s so clear during code reviews that the approach is the wrong one. So now this “agile” approach means a throwaway work sometimes because people aren’t communicating in any meaningful way before writing code.

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>everyone should be looking into alternatives

I'm interested to hear this community's take on what an alternative to vmware is. And I'm not talking about just ESX, I'm talking about their entire ecosystem including vsphere and all of it's features that an enterprise environment depends on.
I hate to be that guy in every HN thread on the subject, but the solution is the Kagi search engine.
Single adults without children aren’t a sustainable social norm.
Why do hiring managers like such claims? They're all fake.