skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Work != career.

I love programming and computer science and everything around it. I love learning about it in my free time and creating programs that serve no other purpose than entertainment (for myself).

I couldn’t care less about the e-commerce software my boss pays me to maintain/fix/add features. I do it because it pays the bills. God, I hate daily stand ups.
HBS Strategy: The Value of Open Source Software
“We estimate the supply-side value of widely-used OSS is $4.15 billion, but that the demand-side value is much larger at $8.8 trillion. We find that firms would need to spend 3.5 times more on software than they currently do if OSS did not exist.”
Oh, OK, I didn't think about lockdown mode, just a regular rootfs encryption.

I still use X, as Wayland does not seem to implement all the features I'm using (but it's improving, so I expect I can go to Wayland in a few years).
Looks like px if my inspector isn't lying to me. Ctrl-+ and Ctrl-- work fine for me on desktop/chrome.
I'm with the Inuit and Jedi on this one: anger is pretty useless[0], and if you must[1] take revenge, that's best served cold.

Sometimes I wonder if the typical Hollywood W-plot, in which the hero's best friend/significant relation is shown partying/getting the girl/otherwise living well at the top of the middle ∧ then killed by the villain at the bottom of the right ∨, after which the hero gets angry and wins the day, has been deliberately chosen to teach the proles exactly the wrong lesson, but then I remember to never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Speaking of storytelling, isn't a corollary of The Iliad that if Achilles had not been —or at least not stayed— angry, a few dozen ships worth of Achaeans would not have died (as described by Homer with lines worthy of 1975's Rollerball) in gruesome ways?

[0] is it useful for creatures that only have a limbic system? not only do we have a neocortex, but it's much more useful in these cases

[1] often simply continuing to live well oneself is far better than any revenge
It's fairly obvious they are asking if the content was licensed
I went through the trouble of signing up, drew my sketch and prompt, clicked "generate" and it just sends me to a pricing page with minimum spend $20/month

Come on, just let us try the damn thing one or two times - nobody's actually going to be satisfied with the first logo they generate, so it's not like you lose the sale.
The one he mentions in the article: "Designing Web Usability".
If you’re on IOS use Apples reminders app. Can set recurring reminders and one offs. And the reminders only disapear when you tick them, never with time. It’s great.

Also, there’s an ADHD thing called object permanence to look into.
20 ish years ago I ended up with a UX gig.

Best experience of my work history. Detouring into site structure, information design, and doing actual USABILITY (behind a 2 way mirror watching real people use your app) was amazing.

Jacob Nielson was blowhard even then. His "all links must be blue and underlined" mantra was tired even then. It takes a lot for me to say this, but his pedantry at the time puts peak Richard Stallman to shame!

They are apparently still dancing around the edges of this topic: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/clickable-elements/

Now older and wiser, candidly a lot of folks would be well served by default blue links, og html submit buttons and tables for layouts. A fair bit of modern UI is complete trash: it's the product of a designer and a product person putting the next bullet point on their resume.
At one point, I had a sleep sensor sent to me to review it from a company that Apple later bought. My take at the time was (and is) that maybe if I were concerned I had some sort of issue it might make sense to track things for a while on the cheap before I saw a doctor. But, for the most part, if I had a bad night's sleep I mostly know that and it's one of those things that happen. I also know if I'm getting out and walking enough without precisely tracking numbers. I get that having specific goals helps some people but not me.
> I have no idea how something like this can even happen. In a company of that size it should be actually impossible for a transaction like this to occur without clearly documented processes to ingest, review, authorise and pay transactions.

After having worked IT for various startups I cannot understate just how much executives and other higher ups detest policies that make them verify who they are. It short circuits something with their ego.
> It seems fairly silly to think that Covid really changed how people drive.

As someone who has driven before, during, and after I think it's silly to think Covid didn't change how people drive. It's a night and day difference from 2019 to 2023 (first year of "back to normal") that cannot be explained by a gradual shift of people becoming more immersed in technology.

The attitudes in society towards law and order and what is acceptable day to day have massively shifted. Enforcement (at least where I am from) seems to be nonexistent too - and I think COVID laid that fact bare. People realized no one is actually watching or caring about what they do. Why not drive 55mph on the shoulder to get around that traffic jam if you know there are zero social or legal ramifications?
Yea, my perspective is as a US citizen living in the US so YMMV.
Oh yes, that's another fun one! Your yearly tax return should be as close to 0 as possible, otherwise you're either over- or under-withholding. Then again, I met some people that use it as a kind of piggy bank because they wouldn't be disciplined enough to save up for bigger purchases otherwise and... well, I can't even, but if it works for them, there are worse things to spend money on.
> Ah just give me typescript, I do not need to learn a new thing for configuration languages

People who don't know Typescript will still have to learn a new thing in that case, so there isn't really any reason to pick TS over any other existing language

> syntax highlighting in every editor

There is a tree-sitter parser for pkl, so it'll work anywhere where tree-sitter works. And for VSCode and JetBrains stuff, they have official extensions.
I guess it varies by country. In the US they pull CPAP listings very quickly.

Policy: https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-ite...
I’m not sure lying to your kids about sea monsters to the point that your children are so petrified of the water they don’t go near it is quite as benign as they believe.
Gentoo x86-64-v3 binary packages available
The more light tends to the blue end of the spectrum, the more it scatters in atmosphere. There's a reason the old timey fog lights were yellow/orange.

And yes, I feel the same as you do.
Fascinating! Computers didn’t exist before Windows or Windows XP!
Evolution of Developer Productivity at Square
Paid followers are not a new phenomenon.

I’ve got to wonder — are they following Musk in the belief that this would immunise them from being banned? Or are they being run by Twitter, one of the purposes being to stroke the big man’s ego? They wouldn’t even have to fork over $9k.
If you sort by Issues, C++ is #3 and trending up.
It seems we're in agreement on the mechanism of modules. Thank you for the example - one really large header-only library would seem to be the ideal use case for precompiled headers. Sorry, modules.

There are of course alternatives to header only libraries so there's a sense in which this is a solution to a problem that didn't need to exist in the first place.

But yes, header only libraries are an important solution to the problem of cmake, and modules can patch around the compile time implications of header only libraries, so that's sort of all good.
Ah, I thought HN was anti-copyright.
They're not if you use them well!

Factoids:

- These furnace filters have a 3-month lifespan due to big particles. Adding a cheap, coarse prefilter in front will expand the lifespan to be very, very long, indeed. It won't impede airflow much either (it will be limited by the MERV14 one).

- At least in my environment, even cheap room filters make the steady-state air in normal rooms clean enough to not matter. I have a bigger one, mostly so I can run it on the lowest setting and have no noise.

- Most filters usually last many times their manufacturer-rated life, and continue to filter fine until they look pretty decrepit. Even this can be expanded by vacuuming them once in a while. With room air filters, this is easy. With HVAC, you do need to be a little bit careful since you don't want to impede airflow. An older filter will continue to filter fine, but will not pass through air nearly as easily.

- With room filters, there is very little difference between HEPA and a high MERV rating. It's air flow times % particles removed. An 85% efficient filter with a fan 20% faster will be cheaper and better than a 100%. HVAC is more complex.

Even if you use them the manufacturer-rated way, costs are a tiny fraction of expected cost of health care almost any way you run the numbers.
> how many corporate security trainings does it take? this is just about 101. "if asked to do a secret task by a suspicious email, DONT do it"

It takes $CURRENT_NUMBER + 1.

People are still, to this day, racking up thousands of dollars in iTunes gift cards on corporate cards and mailing them out, because they got a text from "the CEO". It happened at my spouse's work just last year. It'll continue happening again, forever, because to paraphrase P.T. Barnum, a sucker is hired every minute - in the probability distribution of humanity along that particular axis, there's always going to be some percentage at the bottom who'll fall for the most obvious scams. Sometimes repeatedly.
Sign up for free, try it for...not free. Go fuck yourself!
This seems particularly useful to know about especially as organizational change across so many workplaces has created tension.

The only part I wonder about is the "playful" storytelling. There are definitely better ways to communicate danger to a child than the boogeyman. It will take a lot more effort than a silly story, but you're trying to build up their mind after all.
> If longer bytes were needed, 60 bits would, of course, no longer be ideal.

That seems like a weird conclusion for the engineers to come to, because 60 is also a multiple of 10, 12, 15, 20, 30 and (of course) 60 (the complement factors of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6), so a selection of longer bytes are very obviously available.

Given that they balked at the cost of moving up to 64-bit words, I guess moving up to 420-bit computing (for those 7-bit bytes) was out of the question ;-)
in the video, it seems like you were designing something more complicated than the logos I was expecting-more of a vector illustration. It seems roughly in line with stable diffusion, and other models which struggle to make the clean, symbolic logos I would love to have.
> cops just don’t care

ding ding ding. Not much revenue there, and it's not protecting rich people's wealth, so...
7MHz for the 68000 on the Amiga vs 33MHz on the 486. I also saw it running on 386s at the time and it really wasn't quite enough, so CPU was certainly a factor.

But the killer was RAM no doubt. 1MB on the Amiga, while my PC had 4MB. Under DOS you absolutely had to make sure the RAM was available to the game if you wanted all the digitized sounds and music.

In these days it would have been entirely software rendering. The Amiga had 32 colours available, while I'm sure Dune 2 ran VGA on the PC. I remember them both looking quite similar though as the sandy theme was forgiving.

The DOS version had no floppy option as a HDD was expected. Few people were lucky enough to own a HDD on the Amiga.
This is pretty much my view of smart watches too. The way I see it, the coupling with the phone removes the purpose of the watch.

I'll elaborate a bit: current smart watches seem to work a bit like a remote control for my phone: There's a Spotify app for wear os, but it only works if the watch is connected to the phone via Bluetooth, which means I have to bring the phone. Similarly, I can take phonecalls from my watch, but only if the phone is within Bluetooth reach.

I'm not sure why I need a remote control for something that has to be in my pocket anyway..

If the watch was more independent, it would be more useful. There are times when I don't want a bulky phone in my pocket, but a watch on my wrist is acceptable. Mostly various sport activities.

What would make a smart watch useful in my opinion is the following:

1. SIM card(preferably digital) so the watch has it's own data.

2. The ability to "disable" my phone so that all notifications and calls are forwarded automatically to my watch, even when the watch is not within range of the phone(this is gonna be a challenge technically, godspeed any engineer who tackles this)

3. "Full" apps, that work independently from the phone, so that my watch can in standalone do things like play music(probably via Bluetooth headphones) accept phonecalls, and bonus points if it can make phonecalls via voice control.

Once I can leave the phone at home and replace it temporarily with my watch, the watch will be useful to me.
The UX looks amazing. What makes this a 'Logo' design tool? The intro video, and many of the examples appear to be artwork, not really logos. Is the output a vector image (a definitive prerequisite for logos)?
Because the current extensions only provide syntax highlighting. The Neovim one uses tree-sitter which is built into NVim.
As a parent far on the liberal spectrum I am just fine with proper functioning government regulation, and the job they did in the 70s/80s/90s was perfectly fine.

You are obviously arguing for zero-regulation, or you think you are in the libertarian sense. I always like to ask libertarians if they think murder should be illegal, which they usually do. Well, guess what, you are in favor of government regulation, it simply comes down to what line in the sand you are drawing that obviously is convenient to your own self interest.
I wonder why google are taking so long to integrate bard with assistant?

Seems like a no brainer move.
The answer is probably yes. The issue is caused by a heap-memory overflow. In Rust, if you're storing an array on the heap then there will be bounds checks on the array access. If you're using a vec then it would automatically grow (so again bounds checks).
Apple? I mean, I don't have an iPhone, so it is pointless to have an Apple Watch, right?
So the more reason to move it away if it's over things which matter?
Although for some reactions, the latter is the appropriate reaction.
> Sign in to zwlmstvfiyezbbehpfyk.supabase.co

lol did your cat jump on the keyboard just as you were naming the supabase project?
Diverse teams unlock product innovation
It was an interesting read.

Thanks for the work you did.
Can you elaborate please? VSCode is literally the reason why LSP even exists
Just FYI you can embed a timestamp in youtube url's. For your example, note the end of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=kQqCDjxYFVc&t=2m...
You don't need to say "non-entrepreneur" - by default everyone is a non-entrepreneur if you're not an entrepreneur.
Yep, I have a cousin in France who is also a T1D, he pays effectively nothing for his supplies (he tried pump+CGM but he's been doing injections for so long he found the pump to be a hassle.)
I have a fairly optimized backup to glacier strategy involving a couple of days of soak time in S3 before moving to glacier with lifecycle rules to avoid the 180 day min storage for transient files. Net I end up paying about $1.20 to $1.50 per TB per month. Restoration of my data set would cost around $100/TB though. So a straight $1/TB would be a nice savings on a good month, and a great savings if my house ever burns down and I need to restore.
Only if it works >4% of the time.
When I was getting ready to move to Germany in 2004, car insurance was one of my main to-do’s, as I was shipping my car over (only sensible if you’re involved with the US government) and my bank would only release the title for export when I showed insurance coverage. There was precisely one provider: AIU via Geico.

What luck, I thought! I already had a good Geico policy at Maryland’s max ($500k), because I was a very careful young woman with a bright career ahead of me that I didn’t want to bog down in legal debt should I cause an accident.

When I asked for the max, the saleswoman on the phone laughed. “You just need the minimum, sweetie.”

The minimum liability was a bit over 7.5 million EUR (15 million Deutschmarks, two years after Euro-ization). In Germany, you are liable for ALL costs associated with an at-fault accident, down to fixing the guardrails and traffic signs.

It was also $2700 that first year, because I was 24 with no driving record and a car I still owed a fair amount of money on, and only got one year of credit for my time in the US.

Forcing a grieving family to deal with medical costs from a crash they were victims of is inhuman.
I have, but wasn’t thinking of it consciously. They at least had a plan to get back and not reproduce along the way.
That has retrieval fees as well as minimum storage times.
> high supply

Yep. There are ~a lot~ of these things out there and while I agree with you re: pricing strategy I think the most important thing is to do something the other 50+ generators aren't.

The drawing aspect is a good start but I don't think it's a huge differentiator. If you subscribe to creative cloud for one month you get that AND the ai powered generative aspect and 20+ other hugely powerful tools.
I loved Xenon II, but the PC music was terrible. I solved that by recording the music from a friend's Amiga, looped on two sides of a cassette tape, so I could listen to it while playing the game. It was the only game I ever bothered doing that with, but I did have a few other cassettes full of music recorded from Amiga and C64 that I listened to a lot (in the years before I had a PC with good enough sound card to listen to MOD or SID files).
In different locations?
Binary Coded Decimal was also popular - eg most processors included instructions for operating that way. You need 4 bits for a BCD digit, so a multiple of 4 bits is convenient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal
Forgive my naivety but what is an LTO?

Also, website's hung. I can't signup or move ahead.
Because the people who compensate for ??? by buying a humongous mall-crawler truck will totally understand and be sympathetic when having their outrageous "lookit me" type behavior reflected back at them.
No egress fees make a huge cost difference if you ever need your archived data back.
Different data centers
What ones would those be?
If you think the problems of US healthcare are caused by too much „free market“ and could be solved or even marginally improved by an NHS-style socialized replacement with even more government interference, you have never seriously investigated the issue.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Aims for a Nice Desktop Provisioning Experience
A consistent theme in responses here is that how long you just wait for a doctor depends on location, and the preponderance of evidence suggests that the differentiating factor between locations where it is easy to see a doctor vs waiting a long time is how many golf courses are around.

Correlation isn’t causation of course. Not suggesting golf courses cause doctors. But in general in this thread I see people from heavily golfed areas saying ‘I found a doctor really quickly’ and people from golf deserts talking about long waits.
You're not exactly over the target, but it is a bit novel to see an acknowledgement of white privilege mixed in with what is more traditionally a conservative concern about property.
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Sorry I meant to say my summary of the situation with asymc/await not a TL;DR of the post.
Looks like adults ain’t scared of the ocean too much to fish.

Disciplining in harsh ways ain’t without downsides. Nor not disciplining at all. Pick your preferred poison?
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39236548
Until the cable gets crimped while someone's doing VR and the display goes to shit.
The problem is that there's about equal amounts of malice as stupidity in the world, so you never really know why. Assuming stupidity by default doesn't always make you feel better and may still lead to an emotional reaction you don't want to have.

The better solution is to not care why, and do what ya gotta do. Usually that's creating distance from the source of problems and you and your work.
Also, unaddressed: when they get old enough to realize the story is fake, are they more likely to do something stupid then, because they don’t understand the actual reasoning?
As other people have pointed out, biological passports track markers across time. If you suddenly recieved a transfusion of your own blood it would be obvious from the sudden increase.
Just started "Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence" after the whole controversy about the book (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39099914) - enjoyable read so far, but can still go both ways.
So, I just logged in and there is no free plan at all to try your service as well as no way to delete my profile. That's very disrespectful to the users and goes against GDPR.

My advice, add free plan and an ability to purge the profile.

Having said that, how do I delete my profile completely?
True, I was closing a real estate deal once with a rich guy and he called his private banker for something. He had a near-meltdown that they asked some kind of verification question from him.
It is a type of storage media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open
(Not from the US)
Why is it a good thing to lend for free to the US gov ? Because the regional banks aren’t that stable ?
Citigroup leaked almost a billion, and it wasn't even fraud. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1019909860
We're Moving @Maybe to Rails
LTO: tape drive. Linear Tape-Open format.
I don't get your point. Since IIRC Office 2007, docx is the default format which is designed for compatibility. IIRC it allows embedding of fonts and other non-text content, making compatibility concerns an edge case. If all parties use relatively recent version of MS Office with overlapping featureset, there should be no compatibility concerns, unless somewhere in the collaborative pipeline you are departing Office ecosystem altogether.

I don't think discussion around fault is meaningful in such scenario altogether.
They can and they do - and if they fail, they cover damages.
More information[1][2] about 3 alarm lamp scooter and the accidental death case. What a story, Daniel clearly is “insanely” smart, and he gave a few talks at various conferences like Defcon. One such talk was about Bitcoin[3] very early and he makes some damn good arguments. Would be fascinating to hear from him today after his prison time. I assume he still has Bitcoin so money is probably not a concern.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/fires-maryland-45dc0979edcf441880...

[2] https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2022/07/a-bethesda-man-co...

[3] https://youtu.be/Yj2blBX2iBw
Is it common to write units this way? My pedantic physics loving side would prefer USD/(TB * month).