skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is you literally cannot be an engineer if you don't know how to build things.

On the other hand, there are plenty of managers that do not know how to manage people, that do not even know what is expected of them. Should they optimize for cost? For productivity? For employee happiness?

Competent managers are a minority. They tend to rise quickly, leaving the inept ones to run the day-to-day.
Does that impact the time how long the monitor takes from switching between display off and showing something on the screen?
The RWTH has never been a FH, though. It‘s „Technische Hochschule“ for the same reason why the University of Stuttgart was a „Technische Hochschule“ for a long time: traditionalists insist that a university must have medicine, law and religion.
The article doesn't discuss it, and I'm also wary of getting into it too much because it sounds like victim blaming, but the man from the article gets into internet arguments pretty much constantly. He's kept the attention of his various trolls by repeatedly engaging them.

Of course, arguing on the internet does not excuse trying to get him killed by the police. It does however provide important context on how to avoid getting swatted yourself.
Regardless of Ohio or California: you're saying that companies should pay less based on the income of their neighbourhood and you don't agree that it will disproportionately affect people of colour.

Interesting perspective, I don’t think I agree though.
This is called "econometrics".
> I like explicit behavior and I think that is my problem with the whole wrap everything in observables approach. It's too magical

99.9% of people using React have no clue how the reconciler works, how hooks are implemented, how context works, what useEffect does, yet none of that is considered “magic” somehow.
My journey is a little bit opposite to the author’s: I studied robotics and started learning programming by myself to create software for robots. There are two observations I have that can be useful to people making the software->robotics journey.

* Agile for software-hardware is hard if not impossible. For software it can be reasonable, but it’s really hard to iterate on both hardware and software at the same time. It’s easier if the hardware designed is locked or the process involves waterfall on the hardware side.
* I often found that people that come from pure software to robotics don’t have control experience and something that can be easily solved with a PID controller end up being a custom code that ends up being way more complicated than needed.
The parallels to literal Luddites are too obvious.
A big advantage that Javalin and some of the other micro-frameworks have over Spring Boot have is that by picking Spring boot, you are also implicitly picking Spring's custom Java classloader and packaging, and Maven or Gradle as a build tool.

The tooling for building Spring Boot apps from other build systems like Bazel has problems, and while you can forego it and build your Spring Boot apps with Bazel's java_binary targets, you really don't want to.

Javalin by contrast is a plain boring Java dependency and you can pull it into any Java app with ease.

I do miss the better support for OpenAPI in Spring Boot though - Javalin's support is still missing a lot of functionality, but it is being very actively developed.
A lot of those risks are for other people, not themselves. They are there for a variety of reasons but accepting risks is probably not the primary one.
that's not a slow-down situation.

That's a situation where the person in charge decided they were just not going to do their job and give orders, while everyone else thought it was OK to sit around and wait for orders.
Definitely the former.

In general, I think corporation leadership has gotten better since the mid 20th century… which says a lot…
"arractiveness advantage?"
Mike's Idea System 2.0
Some things to consider:

1. What happens when you have a legal dispute and all of your personal data is now caught up in the legal discovery process? Repeat for layoffs, etc. where you have no warning to make backups in advance. Don’t forget to think about what happens if you look for another job and your record of that is on their system.

2. How painful will the conversation be when someone’s personal activity leads to them getting malware, and now you have to treat that as a company breach, rotate everything they have access to, contact every user whose PII was in test data or bug reports, etc.?

3. Say you work on something on your spare time, but some suit insists that it’s company property since it was developed on company equipment. How much fun will it be arguing that you only worked in your spare time?

4. Where is the convenience, really? It’s probably not actually the case that you are getting paid to swap interchangeably between work and home, or that you work on the exact same things (if so, good luck convincing the lawyers that they don’t own your work), so you’re probably using that convenience to contribute unpaid overtime to your employer. Having a hard boundary between those is usually mutually beneficial.
they tried, but the police deliberately blackwall them, TFA
Definitely, or AI stuffs.
It's a document format. The width is fixed by the browser window but the height is "as high as the document needs".

As for vertical writing, it wasn't a priority to the Western authors of web browsers at the time, then backwards compatibility meant we couldn't introduce it.

Edit: OK, I just set the writing-mode CSS property on a webpage (MDN) and it works- height is fixed and width is as long as needed to fit the content. But this was implemented in 2016. I don't know enough about the history of computing in Asia to say why it took so long to implement.
Interestingly, I have a similar experience (and not only compared to my spouse), yet I’ve only played Tetris maybe 3 times. People like to quip that I must play a lot of Tetris!
> Otherwise only those that master talking will get exposure.

Or maybe we shouldn't organize our society so that "exposure" is such an overwhelmingly positive thing.
I believe fuel cell vehicles convert hydrogen to electricity and then have electric drive trains.
There are pretty reasonable 4-port KVM switches on Aliexpress that support 60Hz 4K and USB-3 for $55 or even less.

I got this https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002941646654.html a year ago. It has some minor compatibility problems with my Macbook Pro (or Apples' multiport adapter) which require me to remove and reinsert the USB-C cable from the Macbook once in a while, but it otherwise works very well.

A year later, there are multiple such devices starting from $30, or even less.
I've thought something similar but the reverse (if I'm understanding you correctly).

Using simulation to train a DIY spot on something novel and see how good I could get the performance in the real world.

Of course that's a dream of mine one day and not an active project.
Why is oversizing a problem? Is it cost or something else?
When I have a similar conundrum I typically add it to my calendar at a random time as a helpful popup/reminder.

Usually I don’t even need the reminder, just writing it down is reminder enough.
I'm sure your setup has extra advantages over regular KVM switch and was an enjoyable hacking project for you. But from a price perspective, it's possible to buy a 4-way 4K HDMI KVM switch with a control pad on AliExpress for 29.25$. I don't know how much shipping to US will cost though, shipping to Europe was 15$.
I found the UI in Simutrans to be near incomprehensible.
No need to apologize, fantastic comment.

Software 'engineering' is unique in that we can't seem to wait to burn up the previous generation of tools while re-inventing them in ever more broken ways. There is hardly any institutional knowledge passed down from one generation of programmers to the next, they all go through the same re-invention. The amount of effort that is burned up like that is insane.

You remind me of something that I've been meaning to do for a long time, which is to pull out all of my oldest tools and give them the best possible treatment. My most prized tool is probably a 1960's Estwing hammer that I found in an abandoned shed. It's hands down the best hammer I've ever owned and I hope I'm doing the long deceased first owner proper honor by keeping his hammer in use and in good shape.

As for vacuum tubes: I got into electronics just as the world was turning to solid state and so I've seen both sides, the idea that you can just follow the physical path of the electrons helped so much in understanding how it all worked. Without that foundation I would have had a much harder time understanding how solid state electronics worked.
My guess would be that HTML and CSS originally were meant to deal with sites that resemble a paper document (i.e. a collection of A4 papers) so it tries to be consistent with that:

- the maximum width of a paper document is simply the width of a piece of A4 => so an element can have a well defined width, that being a percentage of the width of the document

- the maximum height of a paper document though.. doesn't exist as you can always add more papers, similarly css can't define the height as a certain percent of the document, so it chose to look at it's own child elements.
Lightsail seems sufficiently practical if you don't care about being fast. You basically directly exploit energy of the stars you are traveling between.
Here in Canada we have a federal law against filing a false police report. It can get you up to 5 years. Is there nothing like that in the US?
Now you've done it :) I have been thinking about this and an email exchange with another HN'er about a super interesting project pretty much non-stop! Thank you though, what an outstanding idea.
Secondly, never ever ever ever react or publicize it online.

If the swatters get no reaction they stop doing it because the whole point is to get a reaction.
The site has been around for several years (probably over a decade at this point) so I'm sure any publishers that care are well aware of the site.
What's more logical than writing `.myClass.myClass.myClass` to overpower a more specific selector. Add in a `div.myClass.myClass.myClass` for good measure.
I had a Roland MIDI pedal keyboard for awhile, although not for organ music, but for accompanying guitar.
In the UK a standard account (and many other services) is a legal right, as such the guidelines are quite specific.
> And yes, location matters: the company usually needs to create a subsidiary in the country of the employee, get familiar with their judicial and tax system, then there's also the issue of time zones, travel cost to company meetings, etc.

remote.com is a good counterexample here: https://remotecom.notion.site/Total-Rewards-Glossary-ec96c10...

location-based pay is (generally) a product of how much the employer can get away with rather than the operational cost etc...
What you call optimal performance with InnoDB, I call pathetically slow. http://www.lmdb.tech/bench/memcache/

And if you'd read the reliability references linked in the article, you'd see that MariaDB/InnoDB's reliability is the worst of many tested systems. LMDB's is flawless.

https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/openldap-devel@op...

The one fault they found for LMDB, caused by fdatasync not updating the DB filesize, was actually a kernel/filesystem bug (fdatasync is documented to update the filesize) that had already been fixed two years before these guys did their research. Not an LMDB flaw.
Why is this an issue? We have a ducted/ductless system. Air handler for ducts on first floor and basement. Upstairs has a mini split in each room. Having air handler constantly push air at a reasonable temp makes for a very comfortable living condition. Compared to a furnace that’s on/off with wider temperature range and more divergent temperatures throughout the area.
Yes, never FH, but also not university.
See above: the thing we're building require this

It's not like you can easily replace Rust with something like PHP or rails in most context, the alternative would be C++ and there's definitely some productivity and stability benefit in using Rust, which can dramatically speed your execution (especially if you don't have a rock star C++ team in the first place).
> Ingress is free because it helps them balance their pipes

That isn't how business works. Companies maximize their profits and "balance" isn't a profit center. If it didn't benefit them in some customer leveraging way, they would charge for ingress.

You pay for everything. Either directly or indirectly. Indirectly often turns out to be much more expensive.
Everything is logical, some things have more rules and some things have less
Doesn't help that there is a lack of internal consistency between properties and that things just got bolted on over time.
Looking at the other comments, I decided to look up what this place was, and could not find any results anywhere online for a software company called "Coremix". Combined with the strangeness on the form being linked to here, I am a little sus.
The “internet drama” groups on YouTube are basically the same thing.
This is a wonderful article. Now I know to strike "really and truly learn CSS" from my list of things to do in retirement, so I can focus on things that I can actually accomplish.
Think of technology that we can't imagine.

Just as we can't imagine a harmonious society, so we can't imagine the technology that would arise from such a society.

It's a recursive argument, I know, but that's the core of the problem.
Good news everyone!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transi...

Note: The View Transitions API doesn't currently enable cross-document view transitions, but this is planned for a future level of the spec and is actively being worked on.

Ah, this bit didn't make it into the current spec. See you in 2034.

I suppose we could have had this 25 years ago. It is almost as if web browsers are sabotaged in subtle ways, but who would try and mess with such an important platform.
Its insane and embarrassing that the police and sadly other emergency services were so easily tricked into this by a single person.
Orbital's Hartnoll brothers look back
What do you think about their services overall ? Do they have serverless computin too ?
Of course you're right, but bugs in third-party software using your APIs should not cause security issues in stuff you introduce later. Using whitelisting/opt-in vs blacklisting would solve this.

I already don't like how many operating systems retroactively dealt with passwords on the clipboard. "Sensitive" should've been the new default. Passwords aren't the only thing either. If I'm using some app or software that is either messaging, financial, or something medical, even if it just tracks my period, anything I copy originating from there should be treated as sensitive.

Soon you won't be able to write family members "hey, the results are in and I've got testicular cancer" without some data-kraken like Microsoft gobbling that up and feeding it to their AI.

Next thing you know some AI sneaks that into a company-wide mail "Quarterly Results" at your mother's place of work, because your mother has trouble using computers and is happy AI can write mails for her now. If that sounds unlikely to you, then to illustrate here's ChatGPT making that exact mistake:

https://chat.openai.com/share/0130c72e-aa51-4042-b0d0-d12101...
Do you have ducted or ductless system? They are different and can result in different experiences.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=17NrtKHdPDw
Show HN: Create charming handwritten cards to send to your loved ones
Hello HN! First time posting here.

Wishgram takes your message and turns it into a handwritten looking card, suitable to send in emails or to post in social media. I often find myself creating something like this with Inkscape or Canva, so I made a tool to make it easier.

It works well with short messages, with names. For example:
* Happy birthday Robert!
* Get well soon Sid
* Good luck Julia

But try anything you like!

Suggestions, feedback are welcome.
There's so many levels to this. The people calling in the swats are obviously terrible people with no empathy for anyone.
But beyond that, is it that easy to get a swat team sent in? There's no initial contact with the person who is being subject to arrest?
And then do the police have the memory of a goldfish? No one says, "Hey, isn't this the house we've been to a ton and it was always a false alarm?"
not really, the API lock-in and egregious egress fees will keep competitors at the door.

That: and trust is hard earned over a long tail which is harder if you are trying to compete on price.
Are we visible to advanced alien civilizations?
I think a large element of it is that... these games were not necessarily intended for an adult audience.

I remember picking up Transport Tycoon on the coverdisc of some PC magazine. I was in grade school, it was fun. Lots of clicky intricate detail that a child's mind used to narrow horizons could obsess over and learn to minmax. When you came home from school and your world was the inside of your house a game like that seemed like the universe, you obsessed over it because _it's what there was._

Then you... grow up and go outside. Your world expands to a fantastically large size and you move on from small toys. There's just... so much more out there.

Sorry to put it so bluntly. (And I have this game installed and fire it up maybe once a year for a bit of nostalgia.)
Well said and thank you for saying it.

And yes, we should start at home and begin communicating with our surroundings. Be it the planet or the species with whom we share this spaceship earth.
By the way in Tycoon there was a bug (extra multiplication) that caused larger towns to generate insane number of passengers. It was copied all the way to OpenTTD then it was turned into option.
Grandmasters do search! They think many moves ahead for most moves, and obviously StockFish does search -- a lot of search, much more than a grandmaster.

I feel that the sort of structures we implicitly operate over during search can be usefully "flattened" in a higher dimensional space such that whole paths become individual steps. I feel that implicitly that's the sort of thing that the network must be doing.

If you watch videos of grandmasters talking about chess positions, often they'll talk about the "structure" of the position, and then confirm the structure via some amount of search. So, implicitly grandmasters probably do some kind of flattening too which connects features of the present state to future outcomes in a way requiring less mental effort.
So let's build a schedule for training at each house of the neighborhood in order?
Same in Finland. "University of applies sciences" is not a real university but rather a lower level institution (ammattikorkeakoulu/yrkeshögskola/Fachhochschule). The difference is clear for locals but I bet many international students have been tricked by the English branding.
General thought brought about by TFA, not commenting specifically on TFA.

Lately I've been wondering about contemporary expressions of opinion.

When I was much younger these was a oft-used chestnut 'Opinions are like assholes; everyone has one'[0]. To my mind, one's opinion was an entry point to a journey of dialogue, not a terminus.

I get that the level of effort to post one's opinion is low, and the resultant distribution high.

Why do we think our opinion should be widely disseminated? Does the world need to know my opinion on a topic, or is posting motivated by other factors, e.g. vanity?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Opinions_are_like_ar...
That I agree with. There are some weird incentives at work though: a commercial user of Gitlab.com might see their frustration with Gitlab.com as the reason to go for an enterprise license rather than to switch to the competition.
D'oh! I'd guessed it was the same person, but you're right.

David H. D. Warren (WAM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._D._Warren

David S. Warren (XSB): https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=6DDwarUAAAAJ&hl=...
But really, shoot up some Lidocaine/analogues: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/odi.14819?af=R#:....

(Anticancer role of lidocaine in oral squamous cell carcinoma through IGF2BP2-mediated CAV1 stability)
I bought the book and read it based on another HN recommendation. The premise was interesting at first but the writing is trash and it ended up being the worst book I had read in recent memory. As another comment noted, it goes off the rails about halfway through. Not worth wasting paper, in my opinion. FWIW.
It is basically like electric guitar vs classical guitar though.

Nylon has a very different touch and tension than steel.

You could start a student on electric or acoustic guitar that wants to learn classical guitar by why would you just not get them a classical guitar instead?

Same thing with piano to me. If you want to eventually learn to play some Chopin there is no reason you would not start with weighted keys.

The modern piano was also not even popular until the late 1700s.
Flash Fill and Series Fill are great at recognizing simple patterns like 1,2,3,4,5 or 2,4,6,8,10 and can sometimes (unreliably!) recognize more complicated multiplications, repetitions or formulaic string modifications (like house numbers and street names). I use both frequently.

But neither these tools nor an LLM has real understanding, they're not going out into the real world and collecting data. The results need to be verified. Automatically filling an index column with 1,2,3... is one thing, automatically filling a data column with guesses from pattern matching is different. This problem is only going to get worse as LLMs proliferate and can more reliably but still imperfectly and still opaquely fill in more complicated data.
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Tangential, but this is the first time I've seen the valediction "Handwritten by". Fascinating statement in the age of AI. Think I'm gonna steal that.
> The applied style when two selectors match is the one that appears lowest in the Cascade when they share the same origin.

Why is that logical?
That game also had one of the best soundtracks. I think that kind of thing is under appreciated for immersion.
Your source says ₹ 1,380 crore which is definitely not 5 billion dollars
Most people do not at ALL try to hide identifying information in the least. The biggest single thing is username reuse.