skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s obvious that they are taking such calls as an opportunity to train.

The nice thing is that they get more and more familiar with the place and so can be more and more efficient in case that man really gets in trouble one day
Reading this was quite refreshing, as I realized I am not the worst developer out there.
Do just enough day to day. Show heroic effort here and there. Don't get too attached to your project, service, code etc. Always understand the undercurrents so that you can keep abreast of things.
I don't understand why you're associating AWK with Linux in particular... it seems it's available on Windows, BSD, MacOS and probably more.
Exactly this! Location-based pay is not so much about cost of living as it is about buying power. In the end, money is just a place holder for real value which comes in the form of goods and services. And the real value of the same amount of dollars wildly differs per location. So if you want to pay fairly and not discriminate, you have to try and make sure people can roughly buy the same things in their differing locations for the money you give them.
That is so cool!!

Yes I noticed prices had increased a bit over the last couple of years. Perhaps there's a market for yours.

Interesting to hear that some USB switchers don't quite work in Linux. I had assumed they were just very basic USB hubs so no special drivers required. I know some USB switches have fancier things like inter-PC file transfer or mouse sharing like this one (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006202631772.html), and that often requires special software and drivers.
You see more apple watches than other because it's one of the smart watches that can't be mistaken for a normal watch.

I see quite a lot of people using smart watches due to actively going to gym (where a lot of people use them for fitness tracking etc).

A lot of them are hard to recognise as smart watch unless you know the specific model already, or catch someone interacting with it. The ones I and my partner uses are similarly "invisible" (Garmin Fenix series).

In comparison, Apple Watch is the kind where it's immediately obvious you see an apple watch or something that apes its design.
> India famously spent 5 billion dollars to build their indirect taxes portal.

5 Billion dollars or rupees ?
And also did they outsource to Infosys / TCS ?
Got any source, so that I can dig into it ?
I updated my comment once I was home (and able to get the exact definition from the book):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39333921
Throughout my life, I thought "mind's eye" was a metaphor, and that people didn't actually see images in their heads. When I discovered aphantasia was a thing, and that I had it, I also accepted it was rare. But turns out, about a third of my male friends also have it. Not one female friend has it, though. It's a pity there isn't much research on the subject.
What does remote work have to do with "evading detection" via KVM? This makes zero sense.
If you're just in time, yes.

Everyone after you is out of luck and can develop software for $200/m then.
> People vastly underestimate how difficult the logistics of "pay an employee for services" can be

That's the company's problem.
Ask HN: Does an interview rejection affect whether you'd buy a companies stock
I've made investments in some companies after not getting an offer, mostly successful.

It's kind of like Groucho Marx, 'I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member'.

The rejection makes me think they have high standards. Sometimes.

Anyone else?
Macs also simply lack many things you want in corporate office from manageability standpoint, compared to Active Directory with GPO.
Meanwhile in India - https://www.incometax.gov.in/iec/foportal/

Individual Registered Users - 118,911,572

No. of returns filed (AY 23-24) - 82,194,557

I've hired a few devs from intuit before and they tell me the Indian portal is far more usable than whatever they were building.
But it can end in a kind of success for the arms manufacturers, their shareholders, the “hard on crime” politicians, the upper management of the police force, and the pro-police state people who gets validation for their calls ever-increasing need for violence.
But how would you feel about working as a barber, chef or cleaner, when you could earn two orders of magnitude more making Internet thingamajings for people on the other side of the world?
> First, I reject the premise that audiobooks count as reading. We can agree it's consuming a book, or listening to one, but it's pretty objectively not reading.

For (some of) the specific points you're making here, you're right that reading is not the same as listening to an audiobook - you're not learning spelling and punctuation. I don't think that's true of grammar, sentence structure, etc, but ok.

However I push back strongly on the idea that, in general, "audiobooks don't count as reading" in other respects. It's drawing a completely artificial distinction between different modes of consuming information, almost always for the purposes of "gatekeeping" or making one thing seem "less" than the other.

The purpose of reading is mostly to get information and/or a story, "expanding one's horizons" as you put it. This is equally achieved via either physically reading or via listening to someone read the story to you. To the extent that we think reading books is a worthwhile endeavor, 90% of what you get is gotten via audiobooks as much as via physically reading.

> And because we communicate so much by text in the modern world, spelling, grammar, punctuation and sentence structure can have an outsized impact on your life and social interactions

We also communicate a lot by spoken language.
New York City considers banning laundry pods due to microplastics
It was impressive driving by those behemoth digging machines when I travelled by train to Berlin in the 90's. Now two and a half decades later most of the East German lignite mines have been turned into lakes surrounded by nature. Definitely a change for the better :)
> What bothers me is the idea that a talented digital artist could spend days crafting a photorealistic painting only to have someone rob them of the credit they're due by attributing the work to Midjourney.

I try to impress you with my ability to look and create photo like images. It takes me a few days to do each one. Camera takes a few seconds to do the same thing.
Should I be offended when you tell me I must have used a camera to make mine? How much "credit" should my skill get? What value is my skill in the age of cameras?
It's called PAYE (for Pay As You Earn), and standard in most of the world, just not the US.
More likely the interviewer was some internal recruiter type who had been given some example questions to ask but didn't know about development themselves.
Everywhere I’ve worked there’s always been one burnout engineer like this who doesn’t really know what anyone else does or why but is absolutely convinced that everyone else except for him is an irredeemable moron.
I can see where you’re coming from and I have some more context to add, which can be helpful.

This phrase:

> a strong leader knows how to turn that down to 0 for maximum confrontation and/or defiance

Feels like something uttered by a cocaine snorting MBA who gets high off creating hostile work environments and enjoys firing people.

I’ve been in environments where everyone is agreeable because they have to be agreeable. They are agreeable to a fault. These environments have a banal toxicity that is hard to pin down, but it shows when there is disagreement. These orgs value agreement above all else, above performance, above achieving goals. They suppress valuable insight because it is uncomfortable to them. FUD is a great rhetorical strategy that I’ve see used to squelch conversation, thinly veiled appeals to authority is another. This breeds complacency and destroys value.

We have a management class in the west that believes that management can be a mechanistic exercise of gathering metrics, assessing performance, and assigning corrective actions. That it can both be systematized and abstracted away from the work is a core assumption of western management. This is a paint by numbers approach, similar to Searle's Chinese room, and works to take the leadership out of management.

You’re right that most of the time the best choice for your business and customers is to choose the boring, stable technology that works. Avoid the rewrite, don’t use the hottest new frameworks, or languages that are in vogue.

Experience shows generally to dismiss developer desires for novelty. But sometimes you do need a novel solution and your developers are the ones who are going to tell you. You will not figure this out by following the rules taught in management school. Metrics like CPI and SPI are only going to tell you that you’ve made the wrong choice on your project when it’s too late. You need to make a decision, which means seeking out information and making the best decision based on the information you can get. This takes leadership.

The best programmers I know have strong opinions. They will tell you that you are wrong. They do this to learn both to test themselves and the people around them. If they are wrong, the withdraw, then more on. It’s the most healthy thing I’ve seen and is actually what builds success.

Disagreement is healthy and good and should be encouraged, when the goal is knowledge gathering. A leader who is turning agreement to zero is a leader who wants to be decisive.
>Everyone wants a SF salary with an Indiana or even India cost of living. For obvious reasons, that can't work.

For some lucky people that does work.
My password security comes down to this basic rule:

If mission critical service (eg: banking), then unique password jotted down somewhere.

Else, then same password I use everywhere.

I find the value of passwords are two extremes (very valuable or very whatever), and password managers (other than ones built into browsers and stored locally) are an unnecessary complexity in my already busy life.
I read this meme so often on HN, so I genuinely want to know: how do you organize work and get people to act on a common vision if there are no managers?

I think people mistake “manager” as being people without tech skills. I think a tech company should have managers to create alignment and those managers should spend part of their time “managing” and part of their time still honing their tech skills.
You can't just live in the US as a reason living in the EU.
What's up with the landing page though? Unless I'm not well awaken, there doesn't seem to be a download section or anything.
Yes only one computer needs to have Windows and run the program.

If it detects the USB device being inserted, it changes monitor inputs to the Windows computer. If it detects the USB device being removed, it changes monitor inputs to the Linux computer.
>I don’t understand why you want to let the swatters off the hook. They should absolutely be going to jail.

the police aren't mindless drones -- when they act like they are it's a problem that is greater than the thing that initiated it.

Yes, the swatters are bad -- but the consistency of this response and the absolute trust in the pseudo-anonymous report every single time is absolutely baffling ; like Clancy Wiggums or Frank Drebin baffling; it's just rolling the dice until an innocent is killed while pointing fingers at some boy who cried wolf while knowing that the boy is full of shit.
Thats the list, ranked from 10 to 1, 1 is the best.
Details on scores and reasons inside the document.
Just in time project! Do you know if it is possible to just switch a Thunderbolt dock? I mean: you have, fir example, four computers all supporting Thunderbolt and you just switch a USB-C between those comouters?

I have not tried because I am concern with affecting the hardware. Based on your inspiration I just found Thunderbolt KVMs such as [1] and [2].

[1] https://sabrent.com/products/sb-tb4k

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbolt/comments/11gos6n/kvm_sw...
> you shouldn't lift having high myopia

What? Why?
And then you try to look at the top 3 candidates and realise the LLM hallucianted them all
Acceleration of the Universe caused by merging with other universes?
Some people believe that every employee's productivity and contribution to value can be precisely quantified, and fairly split between employer and employee.

I've always been sceptical of this myself - how do you value that code review where I stopped a junior engineer's XSS getting into production? Incredible value? Or 10 minutes of work?
Why does it matter? Salaries should depend on the value you deliver. I don't think companies limit their profits depending on the location. Apple devices are often more expensive outside the US.
Cool setup. Is it all working nicely with the Stream Deck & associated bindings?
Use trains to transport passangers from town to town, and connect them to buses to shuffle people to their final destination. Have a network that connects the whole map (easier said than done, requires lots of capital) and I guarantee all your vehicles will be profitable.

This is why I like Simutrans: the passengers want to go from A to B.
> Why do we obsess so much over legacy form factors?

We shouldn't. We also don't, not really. Reading books has a certain prestige, but by almost any measure, we "obsess" more about movies and/or tv shows. Even some of the best selling books of all time probably have orders of magnitude less exposure than tv shows, movies or games. Not unrelatedly, far more people talk about TV shows and games, etc.

I think the only obsession is that some people consider books to be "better" in some sense. Personally, I don't think books are better, just different. I enjoy TV shows and movies as much as I enjoy books, and consider them to both be important. (I don't play many games, which I think truly is me missing out!)
Loved this read.

One part didn’t resonate with me though:

> In practice this lead to GitLab building many features over the years that just weren't useful: a serverless platform nobody asked for and that was ultimately killed off, support for managing Kubernetes clusters that didn't work for three weeks without anybody noticing, a chatops solution we had to build on top of our CI offering (thus introducing significant latency) instead of using existing solutions, or a requirements management feature that only supported creating and viewing data (not even updating or deleting); these are just a few examples from recent years.

If my company ever grows to be as successful as Gitlab, I’m going to much more worried about innovation grinding to a halt than about people trying stuff that doesn’t work, or trying stuff the wrong way. It’s so much easier to shoot an idea down than to believe in it long enough for it to have a chance. I strongly agree with the author about making engineers be the decision makers on how to build out an engineering product, but I’m not convinced that this list of failed ideas is a bad sign at all.
2FA is usually time limited? So this seems not to be an issue?
IANAL, but you misunderstood the law.

It only applies if the boycotting company terminates contract with a party in Iran in order to comply with US sanctions. If the company doesn't want to have business with Iran voluntary for other reasons, and can prove it, it's not illegal.

See e.g. https://www.lw.com/admin/upload/SiteAttachments/Alert%202919...
or they swat themselves before making the peperoni
Using C++ as a Scripting Language, part 12: RPC with less drudgery
When NNUE replaced the human heuristic of the evaluation function in Stockfish 12 the model got a huge jump in playing strength (around 100 Elo), so building a better evaluation function is definitely not a waste of time and money.
You are right about this. I think people outside of US have a hard time imagining a place where first response basically requires guns and violence
> how does remote work help health care workers

Are you really asking this question? Cost of living, especially housing, is based on supply and demand. As remote workers move out from expensive areas the cost of living goes down.

And real estate investment funds and landlords don't like this...
Unfortunately, as with filesystem dates, git dates are trivially modified. I don't even think writing such a tool would be difficult either - space out the commits semi-randomly within the time of day you might be writing, add a few paragraphs each time (potentially in different sections), occasionally go back and rewrite a sentence or two. It's not proof of anything, but then what do we need to prove that yes, I really wrote this myself? A record of every keystroke and mouse click? A recording of my screen while writing? A recording of my webcam while writing? All seem either fakeable today or very soon.

I'm probably just not smart enough but I can't figure out how to truly prove your (human) authorship. To some extent though I'm also not sure how much it matters. If the science is sound, the text is well written, and the paper is well presented, why do I care who wrote the text? I didn't handwrite the graphs or the tables of data, that was a script. Nor did I typeset every letter, that was LaTeX. The text isn't even any different in nature, like the difference between an original oil painting and a print of the same. It's ultimately just a means to communicate ideas from my mind to yours. Perhaps it is ethical to disclose the use of generative AI, but I'm not convinced that would be any better in the minds of the reviewers in question here. I just don't see a substantiative difference if the end product ultimately is high quality.

For what it's worth, I wasn't a great student (good at learning, yes, good at going through the motions to get good grades, not so much) and despite what some might call an academic approach to most problems I'm not really a fan of academia itself. There's a lot of stuffy old practices, like p-value being the metric for so many things despite the knowledge that it can be "hacked", and weird, unknowable financial or political motives that you'll never be privy to, which in my opinion compromise the integrity of the work more than use of generative AI does while also being harder to detect. I'm certainly not the first to point these issues and I won't be the one to solve it. I do wonder though if the whole thing is kinda broken, ChatGPT or not.
I've had a GPT (FastGTP from Kagi) cite one of my own HN contributions back to me, which was somewhat surreal.

The prompt had not specifically mentioned either HN or my username.

This makes me think that the depth of training material on at least certain topics is thinner than might be hoped.
Shoshana Zuboff: A Trailblazer in the Digital Age
Zuboff's work has highlighted the ways in which surveillance capitalism poses a threat to privacy and democracy. She argues that the relentless collection and analysis of personal data by tech companies has the potential to undermine our individual freedoms and democratic institutions.
Show HN: Tweening web visualisation, in Rust – (WASM)
Using wasm-bindgen, and the tween-rs crate
Followed by 2031, the last year of the desktop. Code that requires more CPU power or memory than a phone or laptop will run in the cloud.

If you need/want more screens, you’ll wear glasses that simulate them.

Building desktop motherboards may become a bad idea, economically, given that the large cloud providers all build their own boards.
The funniest thing the trolls did was buy the copyright to his headshot he uses as his twitter profile picture and DMCA him.
OTH it's impressive what you can do with multiple AYs when they have a dedicated CPU to drive them. For instance the Bomb Jack arcade machine has a separate sound board with 3x AY and a 3 MHz Z80 CPU and it sounds pretty nice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQ_iFsFQNA
Nope! I use Nix on macOS every day. I also use it on Ubuntu.

On Linux-based operating systems, you can even use `nix bundle` to create Docker images or fat binaries that end users can run without having Nix installed. (This relies on Linux user namespaces, which is why it's a Linux-only feature.)
Taking notes by hand is huge for me, but also branching out.

I have lots of colleagues who obsess over notes, lecture presentations and textbooks. They were always struggling to cram content instead of understanding the subject.

Seeking out further literature and actually researching the subject matter has always helped me tremendously. I don't study for classes, I use classes to study for real world understanding.
As a russian, I like this comparison, because it’s really on point and how I feel every time someone says:

- But HTML is lingua franca!

- There’s no alternative, that means it’s perfect

- You don’t need js/json/etc, just use HTML

- HTML is not that bad

- You can choose JSX, but it’s mostly HTML
Is this the right thread to mention Bagger 288?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288

Engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pb00bMg1iE

Pop Culture Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEvfD4C6ow
Why do you like it? I haven't played much, but rather disliked OpenTTD because people appeared at a random station and didn't seem to care where you take them? If it is so, what is the point? If it is not so, what did I misunderstand?

I like Simutrans [0], in which people want to get from A to B and are willing to change between bus/train/plane. The routes which are central to one's network really need to be able to bear a lot of passengers.

[0]: https://www.simutrans.com/
Why would they move away from family and friends if they could get equal pay in India, with more spending power?
> I'm southern european and there was always a "half joke" about our lazyness.

I think the trope is due to hotter weather. Like tourists visiting in the summer seeing outside workers hardly working due to hot weather.
It doesn't matter if the sun and the clouds have more effect. It only matters that one variable is changing, slowly but surely pushing the equilibrium.
All evidence says that humans stand alone in the galaxy.

Everything else is cope.
In the UK the tax body HMRC provide free payroll software which (by law) includes basically all the legislation. It even does pay slips.

When they introduced the Making Tax Digital scheme, the law mandated the gov must provide a free means of electronic submission.

While HMRC get a lot wrong, this they got right.
No, it appears to be run by "OnLine Taxes".
Yes lets make applying to jobs even more of an algorithmic hellscape.
It can still be functionally good, as a browser.
It's better than waking up and sucking on a lemon.
It probably works, but Jenga tower hacks like that is exactly the problem ;)
Yea, so, you do understand that your comment does a lot of those things it describes? The net effect is approximately the same as if you’d just say “I hate animal rights and I don’t care about any years of effort put in by researchers if the results don’t support my preferred outcome”.
They could have made such a third-person game -- if those systems did still exist.
Well, actually the informations you provided are unrelated to what is discussed here, and I shown why by the previous message.
My message are perfectly meaningful and I exposed why I think my setup is more productive and efficient than yours, and that 9 monitors are not necessary by any mean.
Salaries have been under big pressure from Asia.
This is how the UK works. They must provide a free means to file.

HMRC must provide a free software solution that covers a large portion of income tax and national insurance.
never remove the cover..
Yes, but then you run into the problem that some people value taxpayer money a lot more than others. And some people have revulsion to valuing things with money at all!
Always wondered that. It means everyone's salary is determined by the highest-cost of living area you want to hire from. Doesn't really make any sense seen that way.
I compile mesa every week and I missed that... lol.

That said, vkd3d(wine) is plain and simple C, and I suspect that mesa tool to be part of microsoft "push" in mesa, dirtying it with c++.