skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, so here it comes out. You don't like the publication, so instead of just ignoring it and finding a better source, you make up some other bizarre, unlikely narrative just because you have a bias against the author.

I certainly agree that there are people who will work themselves to death. But:

So what? Any work culture or organization that puts someone in that position is the one primarily at fault. It's not like Amazon was saying "oh, stop working so hard, you're going to kill yourself" but he ignored that and kept working. They were intentionally removing staff that did the same work he was doing, and constantly piled up more work on his plate. And it's not like he was ok with it! He complained, and his requests for help were ignored.

Even in the extremely unlikely event that he had some sort of mental illness that caused him to ignore the signals of overwork his body was giving him... nope, still not his fault. Still Amazon's fault.
We needed about 1 year to rebuild the tech and find the right spot in sales. It was a process we both went through. The year after it was a stable growth. This year its a rocket. We are now considering to take a step back and integrate another management layer.
I think it is sustainable. It probably sounds kinda weird, but we both did a personality test. We are total different persons. He has qualities I do not have and vice versa. That's our superpower now. I trust him 100% and looking back on all our mistakes, I regret nothing.

This 10k that he paid me; People told me it was too less, it did not value the product good enough. They were right, but I was not looking for the jackpot. I was looking for a sustainable income. Mission accomplished.
Ha, I’ve been a Phoenix LiveView zealot from almost day one, thank you much ;) <3
I just came here to post that.
I'd like to know if others have setup pipelines using pgcopydb.
From the looks of it, I'm a bit surprised it's not more popular in the PG universe.
>The power dynamics in a job market are not symmetrical. The employees and employers are not on equal footing and don't wield the same power. The power imbalance becomes more pronounced the lower you go in the pecking order, with blue-collar laborers being the lowest rung.

Many other workers quit. Years ago. If he was not able to, why not? Why did the writer choose to stay for years knowing it was a poor work environment? The context matters. Was Dariusz was unwilling to find a job, indentured to Amazon, unable to find another job, or was it another factor? Self preservation is always everyone's right, lawless or not. Addressing it is difficult.
> Switch to ... heat pump ... water heating

Given that where I live installing a heat pump water heater costs over 20 years' water heating electricity consumption for me, and it would still use some electricity, so the payback period would be even longer: no, thank you.

Every so often I do the calculation to see if replacing my fridge would be worth it. The payback period is about 15 to 18 years for that. A new fridge would have more even temperatures throughout the cabinet and better temperature control, and be quieter, so I still review it every now and then.

Obviously my internal discount rate for investments is over 6.7%.
Isn't that the whole value proposition of Cloudflare?

Nearly all traffic (in terms of volume) gets swallowed by CloudFlare and never approaches most instances: DDoS attacks swallowed whole, WAF rules block illegitimate traffic (which is, in most cases, the vast majority of traffic to dynamic endpoints or, frequently, non-existent endpoints, if you've ever tailed webserver logs), and Cloudflare-caching handles most of the remainder for static and cacheable files -- leaving those servers with a mostly-sanitized and far lower volume of traffic. If you're using edge workers, even less traffic hits your servers.

But, yes, out of the remaining traffic that enters AWS/GCP/Azure's network, they certainly can see what's happening on those machines if they care to look.
I was at a very nice hotel recently in the countryside where car sharing apps don't work and the trains in that country are notorious for not arriving. I needed to get a train to a near town, a very very well known place and it was at least a 3-connection trip. The young person at the desk said, oh I don't take public transport (I guess they cycle everywhere and never leaves the area without their Mum?), and proceeded to start looking at Google Maps. Horrified, I said please find me someone here who knows how the transport works in the area. They didn't understand what I was asking so I walked away and figured it out myself (got a taxi to the nearest station with the busiest lines). I'm still surprised given how I can imagine how anyone lives in that area without taking a bus or train to get further afield.
I was comparing a potential scenario in which Muak found himself in much the same situation as Turing, I'm not comparing the men or their character at all.

I'm definitely not trying to compare what both men were/are put through. A sea of internet trolls complaining about how terrible a person they believe Musk to be is nothing compared to chemical castration and being convicted of gross indecency for what one chooses to do behind closed doors.
I wonder if there's a certain observable benefit to this, not biological but in creating an habit of self-control plus also the placebo effect that must come from this.

It could very well be replaced with reducing Youtube or videogames usage as well though.
Nah, we don't have to do shit that companies like or find aligned. We can make regulations they hate and yet they still must follow. This idea that we have to appease them into cooperation is some late stage capitalist bullshit and it's surprising to see so many on a hacker forum not just treading but defending the corporate line. Sad.
Ad-hoc and framework JavScript rendering JSON into the DOM is the modern way, don't you know? There's a reason for this: JSON is easier to produce than XML in many server-side systems.

Maybe what's needed is an extension to XSLT/XPath to consume JSON and transform it to XML.
Not exactly what you've asked but Mac Studio exists, with 192GB at that.
The lenses in your eyes refract different wavelengths at different angles - think of a rainbow coming out of a prism. Only one wavelength can be perfectly tuned to project a clear image onto your retinas. We are optimized for green, red is close enough, but blue always looks blurry.
Mystery of the Solar Tsunami – Solved (2009)
> Goodheart's law breaks things, because now you have a bunch of people optimized for a task that isn't exactly the job.

Companies lose another way too.

Folks who might be darn good at picking things up decide it isn't worth the focused training to get into companies that only seem to care about squatting, so they don't apply.
The Tech Hiring Process Is Broken
I write about my recent experience trying to find a new job as a software engineer
As the other commentor said, you can deploy Prometheus/grafana into the k8s cluster and it pretty much does what you want it to do.
I think the overview is missing a column of what data is actually allowed for 'free' egress.

Iirc eg Cloudflare does not allow videos etc. as part of their free tier.

edit: confused ingress and egress
Notes on 1ML
I am extremely picky about those things, it would drive crazy. My pet peeve was the Audi S3 I had as rental once, this minuscule, barely recognicable, delay between kicking down the pedal and the car accelerating drove me crazy. I prefer slow, but immediate acceleration.

Cool car background by the way! I just wonder why using steer-by-wire, what's wrong with modern power steering?
There is a lot of silicon consumer GPUs don't "need" for AI.

But on the other hand the software stack is very mature and they are heavily amortized by the huge volume, so its kinda hard to argue with. In fact its so good that Nvidia can charge outrageous prices for the L40, A10 and such and then turn around and sell the exact same dies to consumers (with less memory).
> least harm while allowing maximum freedom is the true

According to who?

Is your quadcopter allowed to videotape and infringe on my right to privacy?

Is the added noise of someone having a BBQ party in the park a harm or not? What about people drinking?

> Ergo, any vehicle that can co-exist without hampering or endangering others enjoying the park is okay.

So are cop cars allowed? Cops routinely drive into parks to harass homeless people or arrest drug dealers. Are you ruining their enjoyment of the parks?
>Surely this will never go wrong with a password manager copying stuff to a clipboard.

Window's clipboard API allows password managers to mark if the clipboard content is allowed in history or is cloud syncable.
I am not upset by a bike behavior because I know exactly what my wheels are doing just by holding the bars. Same in a mechanical steering rack. This here seems more like a guessing game
The question of what hamper is or endangers others is far from objective, though. I would interpret the rule to ban skateboards and drones from the park if it were up to me because I find that they get in the way of my personal enjoyment of spaces like that, but I know plenty of other people who would disagree with that interpretation.
Here's how to recruit software developers.

1: define the requirements for the job

2: devise questions that attempt to give insight into how well the candidate might meet that requirement

3: note down the candidates suitability out of ten for each question

4: TALK to the candidate in a free flowing and open discussion about their work, what they have done, how they built it, why they built it that way, their role in the project, what went right, what went wrong, what they would do differently.

5: Whether or not the candidate asks questions is a meaningless measure. What is meaningful is to sense their level of curiosity - about this job that you are offering, about computing and technology in general. Software development is hard and being good at it requires a level of curiosity. It's probably a concern if someone shows no curiosity in this job or software, though you need to be cautious about how you measure this - did you do a good enough job to explore their level of curiosity? Curiosity does not necessarily reveal itself without careful probing.

6: Discuss the actual work of this job with the candidate. Quickly run through the actual todo list of things that need to be done right now - talk through the hardest of those tasks - how would they approach it?

7: take a leap and employ the person you feel is right - do NOT go into ever deeper analysis, ever more interviews, ever more tests and checks and hoops. No matter how much interviewing you do, you probably won't really know how someone goes in this job until they've been in it 3 or more months.

8: Don't be so risk averse that you don't hire anyone. Do it based on your best guess. it might sound harsh, but do your best and be willing to fire them before their 3 month trial is up if they are not the right person.

9: Take into account enthusiasm - how much does this person want this job? And no, do NOT measure this until the end of the interview process - looking for enthusiasm in a cover letter is like wanting a girlfriend/boyfriend commitment before first date.

10: Pay more than people expect, if you can. $1K less than someone says they want/need reduces first day enthusiasm for the job, $1K more increases first day enthusiasm. Wind the numbers up and down for greater impact.

11: After the interview process is done, talk to referees, analyses interview results apples versus apples.

12: Interview gimmicks, leetcode, abstract questions should be red flags for interviewees. If you're looking for a job and find yourself in a silly interview, be willing to politely call it off and save yourself the time and hassle of dealing with a company that does not know how to recruit software developers.
I mean, the 12% figure quoted isn't what you get at a payday loan place.
subsidies can be structured in a number of ways, many of which are not at all equivalent to "investments". why is it that so many people here make claims obviously well outside their actual understanding. aren't folks embarrassed by being so wrong so often so publicly? it's almost endemic to this place. sad.
> You don't shout your physical keys into the sky

Sure you do... all you need is a very high resolution camera in the vicinity....
AWS/Azure prices are really awful TBH. There are already much better places to get GPUs.
So no RC-cars? It is a car-like thing (in fact it is just a very-small-car thing)
Yes, well, the kitchen - AND ALL THE LIGHTS IN THE HOUSE - were removed by the previous tenants.

This is so fucking stupid it deserves a dedicated room in the Museum of The Stupid. Kitchens are so fitted to the physical rooms they are in, they are basically part of the house like walls, floors, ceilings and doors.

It's totally mad, isn't it!
My takeaway is, the rule was just bad defined. If you define crystal clear rules, things are different.

And they usually are much clearer defined:

- no cars

- no drones

- no noise

(emergency cars allways gets an exception)

The tank example was not clear whether they just put it there because they wanted to, or because they had permission. So yes, when you have unclear rules, you get Drama.

So of course there remain corner cases. But they can be the exception and not the norm. I do remember some fallout for example when at corona times a police car with high speed chased a teenager through a park for not wearing a mask - nope, this was not an emergency, justifying annoying and endangering normal people in the park. But usually this does not happen.
Title is missing a character: "Notes on 1ML".

"1ML is an experimental dialect of ML."
You're making it sound like there's some kind of plan behind it. There is no conspiracy. There won't be a direct "skip the middleman" totalitarian level, because governments are too busy chasing their own tails and smelling the farts in a 4-year election cycle to consider anything of a broader scope. Meanwhile, private companies are chasing easy money at the expense of anything that's good, honest or nice, like they always do.

We walked into this situation through decades of individual selfishness, aggregated.
How is KDE able to produce so much software?
Scrolling their home page, it looks like they are trying to reinvent the entire consumer desktop. I started writing a list of all apps listed here, but then I gave up because I realized they created every single type of desktop app except a browser (actually they used to do that too, both Blink and Webkit are a fork of KHTML engine from Konqueror browser). Yet I very rarely see them as a community mentioned, which is odd, considering the amount of FOSS software they produce.

How are they so productive?
We are getting that (in early 2025?) With AMD Strix Halo.

40 CUs, 256 bit LPDDR5X, 16 CPU cores. Or so the rumors say.
by volume, but great energy by mass (3x gas/diesel), but yeah... the tank issue eats that up.
ahhh to make lots of money?
Or it’s all a proxy for control over the identity of society, and what is and is not allowed - and who is in control for defining it.

It’s an ideological war.

Often these escalate to actual violence.

It’s also a common (real) thread behind domestic violence, IMO.

Incompatible world views coupled with inability to actually integrate them successfully in a workable way.
When I lived in Las Vegas we unfortunately moved into an apartment for a short time that had them. We just took out all the cushions, couches, mattresses, and bedding, and set them out in the summer heat for a few days. (It was actually very inconvenient, but you know. Worth it.) It worked!
can't wait for the day I will be able to compile Linux without Perl
LotR is not a "great artistic work". It's beloved by many (myself included), but the fact that it's detailed doesn't make it a great artistic work.

As literature goes it has tons of shortcomings.
Thanks for the recommendations. I’m definitely planning on trying to build something as I learn so the tip on DigitaOcean is appreciated too.
I obviously can't speak for all engineers but I've certainly refused to work on dark patterns and explicitly told leadership why I believe they are dark patterns.

I appreciate that not everyone has that luxury and ultimately it's an empty gesture because of course at some point, someone's morals will be overcome with money, or threats but on an individual level we do have agency.
Thank you for the detailed response. I think there are lots of good tips in there. I don't know that I "list details that don't impact the job"- could you elaborate or give an example?

One thing I certainly struggle with in 2024 that I have not struggled with in previous job hunts is that nowadays I rarely hear back from a company after applying. Sometimes I get the automated rejection email weeks later. It is rare that I talk to a human. I try to combat this by optimizing my resume's ATS score to the job postings, but what I often find is that my ATS score is less than 80-100 because it is missing keywords like "OOP" and "debugging" which are keywords that obviously should not need specifying on a SWE's resume. Is the issue that the job poster made a lousy job description? And is the solution to "play the game" and throw dumb keywords on my resume like "OOP"?

I do not know if what has changed is that my resume isn't making it past automated screening, and for all I know companies are using LLMs to screen resumes rather than ATS, which may be better, but could be worse for all we know...
> Almost no manufacturer whose products are sold in the U.S. bothers to publish energy and water use per load specs in their user manuals or on their websites. They also don't tell you the temperature they use for Hot and Warm settings.

That has been a problem for me too, and I've even contacted the manufacturer. How much energy do I save using cycle A over cycle B? It would be nice to make an informed choice.

Edit: It applies to clothes washers, clothes dryers, and to dishwashers.

For dryers: I don't grasp how the cycles differ in energy consumption. Evaporating away that mass of water will require a certain amount of energy. I see (non-physics-informed) people who advocate running dryers on a cooler cycle, but does that help? Doesn't it use the same amount of heat energy but spread out over a longer time, which would increase the drum-spinning energy required? I could imagine that somehow the cooler cycle is more efficient due to convection rate or something similar, but is it?
Awk is incredibly useful. I wrote a script this week to parse Postgres logs (many, many GB) to answer the question, "what were the top users making queries in the first few minutes at the top of every hour?" [0] Took a couple of functions, maybe 20 LOC in total, plus some pipes through sort and uniq [1]. Also quite fast, especially if you prefix it with LC_ALL=C.

[0]: If you're wondering why there wasn't adequate observability in place to not have to do this, you're not wrong, but sometimes you must live with the reality you have.

[1]: Yes, I know gawk can do a unique sort while building the list. It was late into an incident and I was tired, and | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn is a lot easier to remember.

[1].a: Yes, I know sort has a -u arg. It doesn't provide a count, and its unique function is also quite a bit slower than uniq's implementation.
For the google cloud one, is that the premium networking option or the standard networking?

Those are very different, the standard network is more akin to AWSs egress as GCPs Premium option (the default) uses local PoPs and dark fibre over Googles backbone to origin.
Nice chart

Some vendors let you pool your egress that comes with the compute you buy. Others do not. That can impact costs quite a bit.
You think that any rule in any realistic scenario would be just a single sentence containing an ambiguous word without any known surrounding context, clarifications, examples, or rationale? I've never seen such a thing. This scenario is completely contrived, and still, it kind of worked.
Decoding JS1YMG: First HAM Radio Station on the Moon After Slim Mission
Seems super interesting! I've a bunch of questions that I think would be answered by looking at some sample code. I think being able to write such long form asynchronous code easily would not only be useful for LLMs to target but also humans
Honestly it's the one thing I don't miss about Android. I always felt compelled to tinker with things a lot more than I should've.
> it will be bought in mass quantities by people building out data centers.

Isn't this good? The production at scale effects will kick in, lowering the price and supply will meet demand after some hiccups.
Location: California, USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: JavaScript, Python, React, PostgreSQL, Django
Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lbw3mrMito7yJbMYDHGT3ZoU...
Email: J.lee1203@hotmail.com
I'm confused by that website using $/mo as the unit to describe the cost of 1TB egress. How does the time component play into this? I would have expected the cost to be described in $/TB.
Show me a married couple both working in tech in California which is what this website is for and show me their average tax rate. It will be almost 40% at the lower end of this income range. This stuff is not rocket science.

Then do the sales tax as well. I’m not exaggerating anything. This is why my family and so many others moved from the state during COVID.

Have fun buying tiny $2-3 million dollar homes paying 40%.
Thank you! Not sure how I was that sloppy. Fixed now.
As far as I know there is no known benefit, but for males at least there is the possible downside of very slightly increased risk of prostate cancer/dysfunction. Frankly it isn't that well studied, but it's worth saying that quacks, mystics, ascetics and charismatic leaders have claimed "nofap" is profoundly beneficial. It's also worth saying that they've never managed to demonstrate that alleged benefit in a satisfactory way.

The current movement bears all of the hallmarks of cults.
Yeah it's not just computers. Germany is full of educated high IQ people working for, in my opinion, peanuts.

But software and technology is especially poorly compensated there.
He diagnosed himself when he worked himself to death after years of neglecting his health. You may believe he had a strong sense of self preservation or mentally healthy if you wish to.
This website is missing Wasabi [0], which has free egress. (Not necessarily endorsing, just noticed.)

[0]: https://wasabi.com
Sorry, but you don't understand the western sanctions on Russian oil.

The goal is to keep it flowing (so that the prices don't explode), but to squeeze the Russian profits. Make their (e. g. transportation) costs high and sale price low (price cap).
I disagree.

Lets take chess and the knight, and 2 - 1 movement rules. If there are pieces in front of the knight you pick up the knight off the board in 3 dimensional space, right?! The rules of chess only define the final end point of the piece and not the physical motion in real space to reach that location.

With this said, if you're in a professional setting, and you pick up the king and fly it around like an airplane, everyone is going to get really tired of your shit.
I agree, my point is that clusters are overused. Most applications simply don't need them and it results in a lot of waste. Much of this has to do with engineers being tasked with an assortment of roles these days, so they obviously opt for the solution where a database and upgrades are managed for them. I've just found that managing a single containers upgrades aren't that big of an issue.