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The fundamental insight of modern democracy, is not 1 man 1 vote, but that of balances and checks against power.

1 man 1 vote does not lead to the wisest or most long term of decision making, however, without it, the natural tendency is for the politician class and the wealthy to coalesce into one, with money reinforcing political power, and vice versa, sucking away any vitality in society.

In the US, as well as in many countries, its been shown again and again that money cannot simply buy the vote of every person. And there mass voting already demonstrates its power.

This principle extends to every facet of society. Company executives are checked by the board, the board checked by the shareholders, the shareholders checked by each other (the US allows shorting stocks for a reason).

I therefore find it questionable that a bunch of unchecked software engineers will lead to very good outcomes. No oversight, no pressure = freedom to pursue creativity and outcomes? Or merely idle hands? When people were proposing working multiple remote jobs during COVID, was that people being smart, or unethical behaviour being tolerated and justified?

Now the pendulum swinging too far back into the other direction would also be bad. See what happens to Boeing when engineers get completely subjugated by MBA management. But software people should not treat the exhortation to work a full 40 hour week as being whipped by slaves.
Interesting take on the psychology of creating demand through scarcity. It's fascinating how limited availability can actually drive desire. Would love to hear more thoughts on how this strategy plays out in different industries or contexts.
This is crazy to me as someone from the private sector. You all just code where the world can see?
> Is it just that v7 includes a timestamp for better sorting?

Correct. The sortable nature of UUIDv7 improves database performance and index locality by helping the index be more efficient since rows are inserted in a predictable order instead of scattered randomly.
I agree there's not a consensus on this kind of thing.

My main takeaway is that voting (and organizing votes) really matters a lot.
Yeah :| my problem right now is that I haven't been outside in a very long time, am paid incredibly well, and really have hyper specialized in getting stuff done at Google.

The things I've done I can only really explain well to googlers. So it's been quite challenging finding a role outside that pays me as well.
The Netherlands has the 17th highest population density in the world, and most of our land is still dotted with water here and there (all very cleverly, but it's still there). There are vast areas of nature reserves, with no building allowed.

Most people can afford a house, even in the Randstad. So it's not a lack of land, and it's not development blocking. I'm not suggesting anything else, but though I'd take those two out behind the shed.
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> My choices would be very different if I didn't think I was more or less on my own.

I suspect this is well understood by the forces that shape social structure in the U.S., and that the current state of affairs is largely by design.
Snap to lay off 10% of global workforce
Self-employed for 24 years now. Mostly doing test management and project management, but also some coding on and off.
My mother ran a senior family home for 15 year. Private business founded by her.

I do not want to end up in a Medicaid paid for nursing home or family home.

Even the stories of her residents coming from other expensive family homes were horrifying.

Elder care is horrifying.

People die in pain all the time from neglect and incompetence. People who came to her were regularly on their way to a painful death and she brought them back by just not being an idiot and putting in some effort.

Broken bones and many other conditions went undiagnosed or improperly diagnosed/treated. Doctors prescribing medication after medication to deal with the side effects of the medications they already prescribed that weren’t needed in the first place. Dosages all over the map that are inappropriate for someone in the given age and condition.

You better hope you keep your brain to manage your own medical care or have someone who can do it for you.
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Open standards -- and RSS is the open podcasting standard -- always win in the end. Listenership of the show (and the embedded ads) will skyrocket. That said, I don't know if it's been announced that the JRE will return to being on an open RSS feed or if it will only expand to "captive platforms" where analytics can be harvested both from the server side and the app/listener side (Apple does support exclusive, premium content that isn't available on a public RSS feed). Would be better if Spotify simply embraced more open standards like OP3[1] and other aspects of Podcasting 2.0 but making the show available outside of Spotify is a first step.

[1] https://op3.dev/
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Drop me a line (alberto@opvia.io) if you need further info or are looking for a different position
I am working on https://audiodiary.ai as a solo founder, I recently have been getting enough income to just about cover my living expenses and haven’t received any funding and didn’t do any marketing, with 9k users so far since launch last May. It’s fulfilling and great to see people use and love a product I’ve built. I’m obviously highly motivated to grow so it keeps me busy.
I'd guess it's because Amazon doesn't have a reputation as a happy place to work.
Why do people think they're entitled to comfort, a rewarding job, and financial stability? Almost no one has these things.

We use the language of conflict and courage in making moral choices for a reason, it is an acknowledgement of the real costs, the allure of doing the remunerative thing. You won't go to jail or be ostracized for being a coward and building killing machines because it pays well. But you should not lie to yourself about there being a justification other than cowardice.

Almost no one actually gets to choose comfort over the safety of others, most people get neither. The few of us who have this choice and choose their own benefit deserve at least our contempt.
If you look at the paper[1] the authors are 1 from Georgia tech, 1 from IBM
"Watson", one from IBM Watson and MIT and 1 from MIT.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.05841v3.pdf
I wonder if Sean Forman over at SportsReference.com could help you, maybe tweet @sean_forman asking? Tell him Sean from tummy.com sent you, LTNS. :-)
Strange, my interaction with strangers is always either robbers or beggars or Mormons, I'd rather keep clear.
I think some people dancing on a street corner in the 40's and 50's is a far cry from the junk you see today. Given that this was before plastic was commonplace I doubt there was too much persistent litter, and if someone pees in a bush I don't really care.
My first commits were done by my friend to get free T-shirt from Hacktoberfest. So, filtering out accounts with less than 3 stars might be a decent criteria.
> is there really another option?

Let's be super explicit here: you're arguing that risk reduction is your top priority, above any moral or ethical concerns. (And that risk reduction requires maximizing compensation.)

Can't really fault ya, but yeah, there is another option.
That's sort of the definition of not being solved. If there was a solution, there would be one of them.
Absolutely, scarcity-based marketing has been a longstanding tactic, and it's intriguing to see how it's evolved in the digital age. One aspect that stands out is how FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) has become a powerful force in consumer behavior, driving people to act quickly to secure limited-time offers or exclusive items. It's a testament to the influence of psychological principles in marketing strategies. I'm curious to hear others' experiences with implementing scarcity tactics and how they've impacted their respective markets.
I had previously read that there was a point of no return for walking atrophy, somewhere before the two-year mark. Hope the medicine has improved, for this astrionaut's sake.
I envision a fun game for modern, tech-inclined car owners:

1. Turn the car on;

2. Scan the RF spectrum with SDR hooked up to a directional antenna, until you see something resembling digital TX in the waterfall graph. Note the frequency.

3. Dial in your microwave gun to that frequency, bathe the car in sweet sweet RF watts.

4. Confirm with SDR the signal is no longer there.

5. Repeat until you're reasonably confident you fried every transceiver that shouldn't be there.

(6. If the car doesn't start anymore, ask manufacturer for refund and suggest putting current protection circuits behind their radios.)

--

More seriously though, step 2 might be useful to locate more antennas to snip. Like a fox hunt, but in your garage.
what is a great comparison between Bun, Deno, and Node.js?

Why should I choose Bun over Deno or vice versa?
Snapchat's parent lays off 10% of workforce in order to 'reduce hierarchy'
I encountered this once: If you use integer IDs, try to scale horizontally, and do not generate the IDs in the database, you'll get in deep trouble. The solution for us was to let the DB handle ID generation.
What exactly does seeking a "quick peace" solution look like in an aggressor without casus belli invading a sovereign nation?
I'm self employed with https://stockevents.app as well as employed as the Head of Product Management for a construction software company.
Not OP, but I can answer this:

Integers don't scale because you need a central server to keep track of the next integer in the sequence. UUIDs and other random IDs can be generated distributed. Many examples, but the first one that comes to mind is Twitter writing their own custom UUID implementation to scale tweets [0]

[0]: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/announcing...
Good questions, no clue. The answer probably lies somewhere between a "badly designed tax system" and "stimulating growth of the IT sector".
Because they need to keep some gaps in the tax law to allow their friends to pay less taxes than normal people.

The US famously had a huge amount of tax law exemption just because of corruption. Nowadays you need an international setup to achieve the same, because the same old tricks have been used by many and there was enough political pressure to change it.

Some countries simply just didn't go through enough scandals of finding out how all well networked people pay almost zero taxes and therefore still have some relatively simple setups to pay little taxes.

A separate matter is countries trying to desperately attracting businesses and creating tax benefits only for wealthy expats, but not for their own people.
Thank you for making this great tool.
I understand your feelings but I do not think Russian cosmonauts have even slightest chance of being mobilized disregarding of them being in space at the moment. Too valuable. Does not qualify for being cannon fodder
Can you share roughly your followers/subs/avg viewers, and revenue?
Humans shouldn't be flying 600mph at 30,000 feet yet here we are.
In my city, during the covid lockdowns, restaurants were allowed to set up outdoor tables in the street parking spots in front of their restaurants. Many built semi-permanent structures with wooden flooring, waist-high walls to isolate seated guests from motorists, roofs for shade, etc.

After everything opened back up, restaurants were allowed to keep the spots for about a year so long as they brought the structures up to code. After that, rather than shut them down the city started charging them rent.

It's such a nice solution. The city earns much more revenue than they would if they put a parking meter there, the business gets more seating capacity, the guests get al fresco dining options. The only people who lose are those who insist upon driving (instead of Ubering, taking public transit, biking, walking, etc.), but even they can just park further away from the crowded areas and walk, or park in the parking structures (which charge something closer to market rate).
Yes, but not at a resolution that would be useful for echolocation. Humans can't distinguish individual echo pulses with millisecond granularity needed for meter-scale accuracy, yet humans can learn bat-like echolocation skills.
"Should we violate the borders of other countries to bomb their citizens when it serves our interest" doesn't actually seem to be an issue americans get a meaningful vote-based choice about though. Bother parties seem to love that shit!
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I can no longer take MHBHD, Jerry Rig Everything etc. seriously as they've tried to seamlessly go from tech youtubers to rich lifestyle vloggers.

Very hard to relate/care about their content anymore, knowing their influences and "hobbies" have changed so so quickly.
There's more of a mindset overlap.
Totally agree with you CEOs are overcompensated. There should be a law regulating how much more a CEO can make over the lowest rung in the company, the problem is there are just so many workarounds to that (stock options, spinning off the actual workforce into a sub-entity, etc) that it would never work.

I do understand that a million monthly listeners is a large amount, sorry I was over-exaggerating a bit in my last comment. My point was that Spotify helps with discoverability through their playlist-generation, but I guess that doesn't automatically mean anything more than the odd play here and there, and not necessarily more "monthly active listeners".

I'd love if artists made more on Spotify than they do today, but isn't the big problem all the middle-men in the music industry? It's my understanding that companies like Spotify shorten this ladder at least a little bit, but thinking about it again I guess I agree that the pay is a little too low.
I do get the impression that the current Boeing CEO is attempting to turn the culture around, to a more "admit the problem and fix it" kind of attitude. The problem is that, if you are doing this after many years of "deny the problem and ship it", the number of apparent problems is actually going to go up for a while. I wonder if Boeing's customers and shareholders will have enough patience for him to complete the transformation (assuming that's even possible in a company this size)?
Several of the author’s steps involve doubling the amount of writing of the previous step.

At the logical extreme, you could double at every step, and achieve a better structured story with exactly twice the writing required for the final step.

(Because 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + … + 2^n = 2^(n+1)-1)

And this makes sense with the fractal idea of the snowflake.
This is such a neat idea and interesting to see Ruby being used here!
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Sort of a weird story. I have never heard of a convention venue randomly canceling a conference with less than a year to go and I was very involved with events at one point. Obviously lots of atypical stuff happened during COVID but I've literally never seen something along these lines as it supposedly went down. Barring some anomalous event, conference venues don't suddenly decide some event just isn't a good deal for them.
There is a pretty good[0] movie about that. They'll be fine :)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Run
> It's not scary - it's typical.

It's no surprise that people who lack expertise will downvote and actual expert. I see it happen every day when people try to be the smartest person in the meeting or just simply cannot allow anyone to think they are wrong.
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OnlyFake: A site where ‘neural networks’ churn out fake IDs
If you need some of its attributes.

Some comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261469

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36433481

And have a look at this post from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36438367
Pretty sure you can have private repos with github?
If we expand working in agriculture to mean everything humans do in addition to working in agriculture, then sure you might be on to something, but then we are sort of drifting away from the topic of what people do for work and whether it is rewarding. I think people are mainly disagreeing with the specific agricultural work part.
You're right, I think it also can do this with directory components. I think if you'd type some like 'artic/emacs' it would actually work, but I cannot test at the moment. So no downvote from me.
That's why I liked my blackberry so much. It was a tool first and foremost, whereas consumers now want a multimedia delivery experience. I didn't care that BB fell short at that, but the market did.
Here's the relevant wiki page for reference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echolocation_jamming
You get used to it. You get used to seeing a different price tag every time you get groceries. You get used to real estate prices doubling almost every year. You use dollars or other metrics for comparing prices year on year. You might even see some benefits. High inflation is great if you're in debt. Ideally you get a huge raise once a year too. The few months following your raise are the easiest. The minimum wage was raised 60 pc this month which is why the monthly inflation picked up speed.

Right now the interest rate is about 40 percent in Turkey which reins in the inflation a bit. Originally the crisis started b/c the president refused to raise interest rates like the rest of the world. Now that he appears to have returned to his senses things calmed down a bit. There's also municipal elections in a month and the gov't has been generous with public sector wages and the minimum wage to shore up support. Some sort of devaluation against the dollar following the elections is inevitable. The talk here is that the gov't will impose severe austerity measures after the elections since there won't be another one for the next three years. It's possible that the things get really grim after that.
What does it mean for a farm to be closer to indigenous tribes?
Could you have used ssh? It might have been as easy as using nftp to upload a new /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file. Or not, depending on how they have ssh configured.
Given that almost all Yandex business is in Russia, an appropriate headline would be "Yandex gets rid of its European shareholders".
That’s really cool. Does it all generate enough revenue for you to support yourself financially?
> Even the stories of her residents coming from other expensive family homes were horrifying.

You just made my point for me. The money you've saved won't actually "reduce tail risk".

To the contrary, your best strategy for that is to focus on your family rather than on your job, to ensure that there's someone on the tail end who cares enough about you to take care of you if you can no longer take care of yourself.
"The older among you may remember how popular the iPhone was when it came out"

I'm just going to stop right there.
What size and resolution is your screen? 720p on a 4k 27" looks visibly pixelated but on a phone looks just fine...
> a far cry from the junk you see today.

Maybe, but what I'm saying is that, if they were to do it today, as the parent comment wistfully longs for, that would be what the locals have to put up with.
Can you tell us a bit more about this creative residence and how did you get accepted there ?
With rent prices they way it is i can't blame him for not coming down
We have the same issue. We have a browser extension that wants to extract data from given web pages (retailers, like yours), but there is no API to declare "I want to look at the content of this page only if the URL matches this pattern" or "Let me have a look at the URL and I will tell you if I want to look at the page content". It's unfortunately "all the web" or nothing.
Here are some problems faced by semantic editors:

1. Bias. A lot of people think that if good ones haven't been built already, there must be some reason they can't be built

2. You really want the parser to report not just what types of nodes it found at particular locations, but what types of nodes it could have found at that location, because those are the types that will be valid for insertion there. A semantic editor needs to know because it should only be able to create programs that the parser would be able to parse.

3. Extensible parsers: To make a huge number of parsers that exactly match languages, you need to be able to quickly define parsers that are closely related to each other, and what's more the cost of using the derived parser must be closely related to the cost of using the original. Tree-sitter can derive languages at compile-time, but not at runtime leading to three major problems:

- 3.1 Runaway storage costs: the Tree-sitter grammar for JS is ~4mb, and the grammar for TS is ~12 MB and the grammar for TSX is also ~12mb and these grammars have things they shouldn't have in them like Ember's glimmer syntax, because that syntax is too poorly supported to justify paying the costs of copying the JS, TS, and TSX grammars (causing 28MB of new code duplication, in git no less).

- 3.2 Failed semantics: Because the JS runtime grammar is just code copied into the TS runtime grammar, tree-sitter can't distinguish which parts of TS programs are really just plain JS.

- 3.3 Umbrella languages: Because the grammar defines languages that are bigger than what you can actually use, the JS tree-sitter grammar will happily parse JSX even when it's invalid, which is to say a semantic editor would suggest inserting JSX even when it would break your program, which is clearly bad.
Typically hens slow down their egg production after a year or two of age. By that time, their meat is too tough for us to enjoy eating. Most homesteaders just keep them around, partially as pets, partially because they'll still lay eggs, but much less frequently.

In commercial operations, those chickens get turned into animal feed, typically dog food.
Nah, you should downvote... because the comment violated HN decorum guidelines and generally has bad manners?
Depends on the database. Microsoft SQL Server typically uses the PK as the clustering index. This dictates the order the table data is stored on disk. If you row PK is random you're going to have write latency and a fragmented index.
Cards on the table, I'm a lisp fan, so I'm probably the closest you can get to directly editing an AST for my dream program. I /like/ the idea of it. I just don't think it is a holy grail endpoint of program editing.

Oddly, I do think there is something to making sure all of your data has a literal representation in the code, if you can. Such that I do think being able to directly interact with data is huge. I also love when you can symbolically work with programs.

But, yeah, the overwhelming evidence is that this just isn't necessary for things. Both in communication, and in program specification.