skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anybody know of another provider of OpenWhisk infrastructure? There are of course plenty of "cloud functions" alternatives out there, but is there one providing it using OpenWhisk, so that we can simply migrate without making any changes?
In my life, this is the first positive thing I have ever read/heard about yahoo
(2007), though I suspect things haven’t changed much since then.
I will never believe such until Boeing management announce it in an international press conference at their HQ!

;)
I think WFH primarily benefits "older" workers and parents with young children; it also allows them to live where there is more space for their kids without having a huge time-wasting commute. For many workers in their 20s, for example, working at the office is often a better experience, they're happy living small downtown flats, and WFH can be lonely.
"A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction" is such a calming book. Makes me feel good reading it, though I realize it's overly utopian and we'll only get bits of it done in the real world.
From my point of view, you acquire the knowledge that this system also follows the convention by guessing that it does and trying it (though I was quoting a dictionary rather than a wiki; I usually do for word definitions).

I appreciate that you don't find the analogies convincing, but they do express how I (and many others) see the situation, and declaring it a failure to stick to the topic because it doesn't fit how -you- see things is unconstructive at best.
OK, I’ll bite… was it hard to learn?
Ah that's what it was.
What "design"?

Look, listen, StackExchange famously tries to avoid X-Y problems.

If I ask how to use a hammer to drive a screw in, it's right to call me out.

But if I getting a shipment of gizmos regularly and they lack a screw then please do not ask why I am using a screw instead of rivets.

I did not design anything here. I am handed a part of a pipeline which I have zero power over.
There are plenty of people voicing justification if you listen. The reality is that a lot of people, especially in dev communities, are similarly stubborn and will cry “you’re lying!” If the given justification isn’t one of the 2-3 accusatory things that anti-RTO people have come up with: “interest in commercial real estate”, “desire to see the peons work”, etc.
We need a similar study for aggression against (road) cyclists too. I've never seen a sport provoke so much aggression from men.
But you can power a smartphone enough to for long coding sessions?
Can you expand on this point?

It seems you are equating them just by virtue of authoritarianism, to me that's just one trait they share (and from which only Fascism has it necessarily in any instance it happens). I'd like to know what else you consider them to be so similar at to call "two sides of the same coin".
The thing is, there's explicit regulations and playbooks which let you easily drive a quality control organization in airplane (or parts) manufacturing, maintenance, repair, and operations.

You're not going to look evil for firing someone who undercuts FAA regs on quality. Those same regs also do not care about how an applicant looks other than being able to do the job mentally and physically (I'd argue you could slip a non-human being into some roles if you could prove they can follow the regs!)

And FWIW, there is rather simple causal relationship between cost cutting and benefits for the top managers. And quality controls cost money. So does corporate culture that rewards quality.

Believe me, DEI or no DEI, every regulatory body in the world would stand up and support you if you show that someone didn't get a job or lost a job because they couldn't ensure the required quality is kept.

Especially when you consider that this is yet another SNAFU at Boeing involving quality, design, or actual production - and sometimes other companies dealing with the same supplier (Spirit) do not have the same issues. Despite sometimes having even more "social responsibility" rules over them (compared to, let's say Germany, DEI pushes in USA have no teeth)
Additional citation: https://www.axios.com/2024/01/23/gen-z-less-religious-more-l...
TIL that the well-known stereotypical "circus music" is actually a march called "Entrance of the Gladiators" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrance_of_the_Gladiators).
415 hours??

Well this is the problem with tech hiring. Not convinced an IQ test or other “unstudyable” exam wouldn’t be better.

Hell maybe nepotism was the way to go all along. Do other industries require 10 weeks of full time practice to get a gig?
What was the status quo before this?
JSON formatting is less important because most apps that deal with it come with good “beautify”, “sort”, “remove all formatting white space” functions in the editor
> Males are obviously preventing females from taking more risks and forcing them to work under 40 hours.

This is a claim that just smears all men without evidence. How are all men obviously forcing women to work less? Have you considered that women prefer to work less and make less money in return for a quieter life?
Can confirm. Had an interesting job at a startup.

Now looking for new work.
With this tweet, he’s bringing attention to a particular set of data and not supposing any conclusions. Not quite the same as the “replication crisis” he mentions in that tweet.

What do you think of the data being presented here?
If anyone thinks you learn something from this type of exercise, do a brief thought experiment. Who will say they value more highly having a job at a company with protections against sexual harrassment: an attractive young female, or a middle-aged overweight male.
I've always used one myself. When it was simple, it was also cheap because I basically got my taxes done as a sideline for the CPA doing my family's taxes.

But if that's your concern I'm not sure automated or fill in the blanks tax software, free or not, is necessarily a good substitute.
How to Build a Scalable Notification Service
Hi everyone.

This is Anoop.

I am looking for feedback on the Bru Lang specification.
Its an effort to define and standardize the semantics that we already use today to save api requests in Bruno

The need for multimaps, and annotations on key value pairs is the main reason we could not using JSON/YAML/TOML

Our goal with standardization is not adoption across the industry, but primarily to standardize the semantics for our current DSL that is used in Bruno.

In case you don't know Bruno, Its an API GUI Client that allows you to save your collections on your filesystem and collaborate on it via git

Bru Lang:
Website: https://www.brulang.org/
Github: https://github.com/brulang/bru-lang

Bruno:
Website: https://www.usebruno.com/
Github: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno
One use case is private entities squatting on massive ranges that they have no hope of ever practically using, and thereby extorting other people and organizations as the rest of the address space gets massively over-allocated to other uses.
Make it soundproof and take my money.
Worse, the ability to typo 9 in some languages for 0 and flip your boolean when it should be a type error just seems like a misdesign.
Because recently there's news that aircrafts from boeing has loose bolts, the claim isn't too far fetched off.
Engineering failures don’t just happen in some contextless organizational vacuum
Ask HN: Are Contabo's services good?
Are you a prior or existing customer? What was your experience? Maybe compared to a similar provider like Digital Ocean.
It's bad because you are isolated. You need to get grounded in order to sleep properly:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15650465/

Big fluffy beds way off the floor are bad. It's interesting to note that the above finds it most effective for women. The below is most effective for men.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10105021/

It shouldn't actually matter your sex.

To add, buddhist monks must sleep on the ground and lay followers are expected to sleep on the ground on occasion.
I would surmise that a great deal of this is biological, but a radical gender theorist would likely rebut that these differences are due to social conditioning. He would say that men/males are conditioned to take more risk, conditioned to desire working with _things_, and conditioned to desire prestige in their jobs.

How would one go about designing a study that eliminates the variable of social conditioning when trying to study sociological differences between the sexes, or is that even important to indicate these sentiments are/aren't linked to biology?
CP/M: An Unsung Architect of Micro-Computing
One question: don't you miss the gears?
because comparing children with adults and studying with working is truly an apples and oranges comparison
Hence the conclusion must be: clearly we have intelligence because God created us.

:)
Chemex needs a much coarser grind. I’d advise trying it - I have a half dozen methods of making coffee and the Chemex is consistently one of the best.
I think you're referring to this one: https://blog.tchatzigiannakis.com/undefined-behavior-can-lit...

Bonus read: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p=63...
Recently shut down our start-up after being too slow with validation. There is so much fluff in the ecosystem so I wanted to provide a more honest look into the validation process.
North and South korea are a striking example of very different cultures, despite very similar biology.
Can't say much about the US, but around here I suppose if the cyclists would stick to the traffic regulations there would be somewhat less aggression against them.
If you like the coffee you're getting, then it's all good. I mean, that's all that matters.
For interpretation: https://www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/sex-differences-in-wo...

(seems like paulg got the chart from this guy's tweet, which refers to the article I link above, which is informed by the study you linked to)
Far for me to challenge the idea of a fund and bounties. But that’s a lot of money—more than I can personally fork and more than I’d be comfortable advocating to collect. Again, no criticism of your ambition; I’m just a regular guy trying to do his thing.

I do believe that good engineers like their work and drive a lot of self-esteem from it being valued—more than living off a stipend because they shot their career in the foot. It’s well-paid enough they rarely think they need to rely on the generosity of strangers, and that’s not a bad mindset to keep.

In circumstances like these, people talk about loyalty, notably to their employer; I don’t think loyalty is a bad value, but in that case, you want to advocate for loyalty to the craft and the corps, not the organization profiting from putting people in danger. Engineering values, like the brass ring some get in Canada, are things that you want to support not by saying “we’ll support you if that blows in your face” but “We want people like you to speak up during our meetings.”

Giving engineers a guarantee that their craft, their talent and their willingness to ask tough questions is what you value, as a team lead, is something I occasionally can do (not now, though: changing team) and something I’m happy to compensate at fair market value, because it’s objectively a good thing for me too — not because that would put me at odds with my organization, but I’m willing to sacrifice that for some ideal misaligned with profit.

We need to work on getting eggheads at Boeing understand that their cost-cutting was a bad idea (SkyScanner letting you filter-out plane time is beautifully aggressive that way), but in the meantime, we need to tell people facing tough decisions that engineering is full of hard trade-offs but that security is not one of them, and not one that should need charity.
Fish runs bash scripts just fine, as it does any script with a shebang line. IT is increasingly compatible with random CLI commands copy and pasted from the internet.

For those that don't work right away, just type `bash` to enter bash shell, run the command return back to Fish.

If a significant part of your day is spent copying CLI command from the internet, then yes, perhaps Bash is a better choice for you.
Very surprised to see this sort of comment outside of US business hours. Usually it’s just the US Coastal self-identified elites that forget that the rest of the world exists :)
Honestly not sure why my comment is being downvoted. IPv6 became a standard in 1998. If it had been backwards compatible, it would have been adopted in just a few years.

Instead, here we are 26 years later, and the adoption rate looks like this: https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6

That says everything about IPv6 that needs to be said.
They're small enough that I can imagine people holding onto them. The hollow construction also reduces the quantity of metal used. And it's possible that we find other training pieces but don't recognize them as such, because the other ones could have practical uses.
if the Google employees don't like their leaders, they can leave and setup themselves.
The use of these for knitting the fingers of gloves is obviously correct. It explains so many things about them:

Their distribution (northern Europe - where you might need gloves).
The knobs (to loop the wool round).
The differing sizes of the holes (to fit fingers of different sizes).

To say that the functions of these is unknown is just lazy journalism.

I am sure if one of these had been handed to my late grandmother, who was a keen knitter, she would have recognised what it was for immediately.
It can’t use just bonjour.

Apple devices can detect out of network devices as well.
Minor, minor point: why would an employee of an american company write the dates using the DD/MM/YYYY format instead of the american MM/DD/YYYY?

Again, I know this is a very minor point, put it was distracting.
Both _can_ be free but are not inherently free.

For example, to_owned on an owned type is a no-op typically (it's a blanket implementation).

Clone on a unit struct or a unit enum variant is also a no-op in most cases (unless explicitly implemented not to be, which is very much frowned upon).
I prefer to write to my disk manually with a magnetized needle in a clean room.
I dunno, if they could take whatever makes bikes invisible and apply it to tanks and military aircraft they'd have to make it a secret.
Accusing this argument of racism misses the point entirely and shifts the focus from the real issue: the impact of economic systems on national well-being. It’s not about geography or race; it’s about policies and governance. Countries rich in resources have languished under collectivism, while others with few natural resources have thrived with capitalism. This isn’t about blaming citizens; it’s about recognizing that systems matter. And it’s a disservice to the debate to reduce this critical discussion to baseless accusations of racism, rather than confronting the hard truth about the effectiveness of different economic systems.
Yeah, it's just that it took time to implement, especially since IPv4 ossification (at the time when it was explicitly in works to be removed!) happened partially through introduction of hardware-assisted switching.

But we have had fast path switching for IPv6 for I think 20 years now, and it's generally available. Hell, some big networks, the kind where having fast path switching, moved fully over to v6 and simply do not transit v4 (Deutsche Telekom, for example, whose skeleton network is now "flat" IPv6 network and any v4 traffic is encapsulated to 464xlated
I see your product is for devs, so totally get this. I work in enterprise software and can't imagine this would work well.
Airplane QA should be done by governments after the manufacturer's own QA.

Significant findings at this stage should cause HEAVY fines. These fines should pay for the additional QA.

This would not even increase the overall cost - as the minor increase in COGS is offset by 1 accident prevented per decade.
And I've been using vim exclusively for north of fifteen years with Tab replacement, never had a problem with the editor getting confused about what happens with spaces when I hit Tab.

Some detail about the corner cases you've run into would be great, if they're happening constantly I can see how it would be a bugbear.
> Twitter competitor with the aim to make it harder to censor

This problem has already been solved by Telegram.

You will never get censorship-free anything if there's money to be made by making it not so. Bluesky, Nostr, all these non-Twitter Twitters will also cater to advertiser needs as soon as VC money enters the picture.
+1 for tools being boring.
Normal-sized phones are normal-sized. You’re just looking for a size that you like, which isn’t normal.
It would be nice to include some context, like was driver on road or pedestrian walkway, were they wearing a helmet, how fast and safely they were driving...

Unicycling is nothing extraordinary that would deserve prize, pizza delivery guys do that all the time. I live in busy tourist city and I am very tired of inconsiderate unicycling drivers!

Different reaction from men can be explained in what would follow in case of crash. Men get far less help when injured. And if driver gets injured, men are expected to step up and provide help!
Why would I consider that? Men and women are equal. Your statement implies they are not.

Women and men being equal is intrinsically logical. It is an axiom that is true without proof.

To say the opposite in public would get you to rightly lose your job and get ridiculed as you are obviously lying and furthering your agenda of male oppression.

Let us continue this discourse so others can see the absurdity of your logic.
And in the 1980s there was Little Smalltalk, which ran on UNIX systems normally accessed via terminals, so it was also file-based without a GUI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Smalltalk
Why the worst? Microsoft is a more serious competitor to game studios with Xbox Game Studios and now Activision Blizzard. (And yet they do use Azure).

You definitely have a point reg vendor lock, we've planned for this and Diversion will be able to run in any cloud and on-prem in the future (we are running it in containers now).
20 years ago most of us would be dead.
In the PC-to-console world, there is no open solution. Everyone either builds their own ports, or (more likely) pays a porting company to do the work for them, who in turn have built there own solution. Console developer kits are proprietary, no one is allowed to share the API or source code.

This seems to be unique in that, if you get a License from Nintendo, you're allowed to access this companies kit for free.
i never felt that it wasn't normal not to be close to anyone. it was my normal, but i did run unto people who did not understand at all that my brothers and me could not work together well. it wasn't that we didn't get along. we did, but everyone was doing their own thing more or less.

it is only now that i understand how not having people close to me when i grew up affected me throughout my life. it affects my relationship with my partner. how and who i look for as friends. how i treat my children, both positive and negative. (the negative being that i repeat mistakes of my parents, the positive that i am more mindful about how that will affect them)
Well yes, but it was done with the intention to provide the ability to the end users to check if they are affected. The original vendor may not be trusted in providing accurate information about that. At least there is some reason to believe that.
> we ARE allowed to talk about gender differences

> But we can't lie about gender differences

It might be worth rethinking this. How much of what you believe about gender differences is cultural? Are people lying if they grew up in a different culture and learned different norms?
When looking at the code, tab-containing files are the most inconsistent ones, especially when viewed via general tools (less, diff, even web viewers).

Sure, if people would only ever use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment, things could be good. But this almost never happens, instead:

... some lines start with spaces, some with tabs. This looks fine in someone's IDE but the moment you use "diff" or "grep" which adds a prefix, things break and lines become jagged.

... one contributor uses tabs mid-line while other use spaces. It may look fine in their editor with 6 character tabs, but all the tables are misaligned when looking in app with different tab size.

Given how many corner cases tabs has, I always try to avoid them. Spaces have no corner cases whatsoever and always look nice, no matter what you use to look at the code.

(the only exceptions are formatters which enforce size-8 tabs consistently everywhere. But I have not seen those outside of golang)
This might be true for writing an essay. But plenty of collaborative text-editing happens on a much smaller/informal/ad hoc scale.

My personal experience of using Google Docs/Sheets strongly disagrees with you.
I write bash scripts but use Fish interactively.

Yes, I've had to get clear where they differ, but the Fish experience is that much better that it seems worth it.

I've considered replacing more my bash scripts with Fish scripts, but it seems Fish has a slower start start-up time for scripting (not that it matters most of the time) and is more designed for interactive use.
Apple made a really big iPhone, and every other company started making similar phones, assuming it was going to be the trend, because everything Apple does becomes the trend, thus making it the trend.
That works for N dimensions, but for N=2 or 3 there are faster methods:

For N=3, there is a method by Marsaglia: https://doi.org/10.1214/aoms/1177692644
For N=2, there is a method by von Neumann: https://mcnp.lanl.gov/pdf_files/nbs_vonneumann.pdf

All of these use rejection sampling, so they are not branchless.
Apple tells artists how much more money they can make with spatial audio
We have to be honest - "vector" database is a low tech stuff when compared to today's AI. You shouldn't be expecting to walk into the battle of AI, which is arguable the most important one in our life time, to dig a chunk of significant profit from major AI players' pocket by just having some low tech stuff. They use external "vector databases" for now because they don't want to invest R&D resources on such non-key issues for now.

for now is the keyword here.

When the company grow to 10k or 30k people, there will be teams competing for visibility, someone is going to build their inhouse "vector database" to get his/her slice of the pie. Do you still believe that any AI major player is going to reply on some external vector databases?
> Software development tasks are hard to estimate. How can a company, without being too invasive, make sure a employee is not underworked or overworked?

how do you do it when in person other than walking around and checking that people aren't playing minesweeper instead of coding? (OK, there is the social pressure to at least look like you're coding in case someone glances at your screen, but that doesn't mean you're actually getting anything done. Of course for people who slack off, WFH is a great enabler -- and that indeed is a problem.)
If you pack too hard, the steam can't go through the coffee and if you're lucky, it'll come out the overpressure valve and if you're unlucky (or overfilled the water) you can blow up the pot.
You find a company who does Godot ports and pay them, with zero visibility into the underlying tech