skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the best versions I saw of this was for an IoT server product. Free for 10 devices or less. Flat fee of $1,000/month for 11+

They made it very clear that they only really cared about enterprise customers.
To me, this is the same as the "loyalty cards" that provide "discounts" in U.S. grocery chains like Kroger's & Ralph's. They've already decided to take your money with higher prices, and dole out small discounts for people who want to play their games.

As long as I have a choice, I will avoid companies that play such games.
This should IMHO summarized in the related git commits.

Yes they become paragraph long. But that's the point. That's where I search for "why". And not just "why", "when, why and with what reasoning?".

Imagine if there were some interference that could derive a comment based on history and current code!
So lovely to read this. My late father was, in his later years, often writing in his diaries at the kitchen table.

I haven’t taken the time to go though these diaries after he passed, but I did take a peek since I never really knew what he wrote.

The little I saw was so surprisingly mundane, like you describe.

I can’t quote it now, being thousands of miles away, but I remember something about my mom making a tasty soup.

I found it endearing but also forgiving, since I’ve struggled with journaling myself. Your post reminded me now that it’s okay to note the mundane.
I agree it is about syntax. But how is it about type safety?
How about just "walk away" - it will atleast signal your self-respect and confidence (ok if you are truly desperate thats a diff thing). I was asked to share my counter offers - I told them that is unethical so would never share confidential letters from other companies. Seemed to have worked just fine - Ofcourse in this market where each job has a 1000 applications short of being the BDFL of a hot field - almost nothing else is not going to help you negotiate.
I also didnt get into software to chase money, but I'm curious what those careers are, and what the cost of entry is for those careers?

Software seems like a pretty clear winner when it comes to compensation and what you have to do for that compensation.

Edit: Medicine and law are the only close competitors I can think of, and I didn't need to bury myself in debt or do 10 plus years of specialized training to get paid to build software.
This sounds like a reasonable argument, but I don't think it is. A day for a 4 year old still takes the same 24 hours as a day for a 40 year old.

The argument presupposes that you experience the length of an event relative to the sum length of all experiences you've lived through. That seems pretty much related to the premise of the article we are discussing. So it's not much simpler.
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Thank you! I clicked the link on this one hoping it'd be CAD applicable.

Just FYI for any random geniuses who happen to read this post - if you can create a modern open-source GPU accelerated CAD kernel (GPU computation, not graphics), mechanical engineers the world over will build shrines in your honour.

#HeresHoping
Klarna AI assistant handles 2/3 of customer service chats in its first month
It's the same thing as late hours discount. Food is often cheaper hour or two before closing.

This helps reduce waste.
Caddy is great and to my surprise it's actually very competitive with nginx in terms of performance, sometimes even faster.

https://blog.tjll.net/reverse-proxy-hot-dog-eating-contest-c...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32865497
Are there any risks associated with just saying you have competing offers from other companies that have the shape of the contract you’re negotiating for?
Also, lots of our systems depend on people evaluating incentives locally and picking their behavior based on their interests—humans that all decided to pointlessly try and wipe our ants wouldn’t be engaging in normal human behavior!

Are we going to give the ants supernatural coordination as well?
My friend/business partner and I have an agreement to assist the other wind down our personal IT "estates" in the event of either's death. We're both competent sysadmins, and we both try to keep our "home IT" pretty comprehensible. The goal, in the event of death, is purely to wind-down, too-- not to keep services running indefinitely.

My wife knows what hard copies (my "death book") to give him if necessary. Until I die he has no access, but once I do he has my implicit trust.

I don't keep the documentation updated as often as I'd like, but it doesn't drift much between update sessions either. A life event usually prompts updating the docs. The last time I updated was the night before going in for surgery.

Besides my self-hosted stuff, I do "family IT" too. The "family IT" stuff is all documented just like one of our Customers. I made a point of insuring that my business partner could take on the family in the same way that he could take on other Customers. The goal is still probably to wind down, but it puts the family IT on somewhat similar footing to the Customers.
Interesting, I wasn’t aware of this experimental feature.

I still think the post was AI generated. Reason being that “now that go has yield” implies this is an actual available feature of go. It’s not. And I’d find it very surprising someone would refer to an experimental feature without mentioning it’s experimental.
Imagine a world in which all education was this level of quality.

Imagine how much more you'd know, be able to do and understand.

I really wish good education was valued more highly in society.
That’s my mental model as well. The incompressible fluid-based explanations never made much sense to me
Tiny data point to support: when the PS5 first came out and for what I perceived a long time afterward it was hard has heck to get one, so I lost interest and put together another Windows gaming machine.

Never came back on my radar.
Yeah I hate how companies abuse this crap regarding having other offers on the table. It's built to make candidates lives as stressful as fucking possible and create a sense of urgency since now you have to handle all of this in a short timeline, while potentially working another job at the same time and trying to not come off as completely aloof there. And you need to convince the companies themselves to delay in which time the given position could slip away while you went to interview elsewhere.
Most machines don't have modular, swappable systems. For example you can't generally take the wheels of one model of car and just bolt them onto another (even if the bolt holes and centering ring line up) expecting it to go well. A tailhook is undeniably more complex than a car wheel--it's not a reasonable expectation to be able to just bolt one on from a different aircraft.
Wow comments like this keep me coming back to HN. Thank you. Super thoughtful.
> I'm very much a backend person and I don't like React either -- as far as I'm concerned raw HTML on a webpage as God intended peak UI

Then you are the right audience for something like HTMX.
Please don't do this here. HN is for conversation between humans, and we don't want generated comments.
You can - strong families often have various hangers-on referred to as "family friend" or similar terms - who are not related by blood or marriage.
I have a conflicted view on that.

On one hand, I really dislike being fleeced.

On the other hand, price is a signal and if there is a shortage of taxis/fast food, maybe I should be thinking about alternatives or not using the service at all. Overconsumption is a thing too.

My experience with Uber says that it is a lot better to pay more, but be sure that the car actually comes, than being promised a bargain and then left at the curb in drizzling rain at midnight, because everyone cancels on you.
I'm in the same boat, except I recruited two people who are simi-techinical enough to at least know what are servers and services. I trust them with my computer and pw manager credentials. If anything happens to me, they will at least be able to provide credentials to any services, network, or devices I touched in the last 15 years.
I hope that will be enough, or at least ease the burden.
The future of education is as an entertainment. There will be no need to educate oneself in the AI future (except for merely egotistical reasons?).
Surge pricing works well only if there is real competition. Think: multiple competing machines selling bottled water/soda within a short walking distance.

I'm not sure it would work well for consumers in a monopoly or duopoly. Think: only one bottled water/soda machine available on a really hot day.
Still no syntax highlighting for their own language.
For chairs, look up office furniture rental companies. They often sell 5+ year old office chairs for steep discounts and they are usually in pretty good condition.
Why Fly.io if you want to build a monolith? Compared to Heroku or Render, to me Fly.io seems to be more aimed at edge computing.
Apple HQ is near Sunnyvale and in Cupertino. It's near 280, not 101.

Are you just looking at the web, or do you live here?
I know about PhysX (have not tried it out, though) but it is news to me, that its hardware part is also really useful for training neural nets? More so than the ordinary GPU?
That is the "command" symbol, from classic Mac OS, denoting a command-key menu equivalent. Various Apple keyboards had it printed on the relevant key.
You're reading this backwards.

The original claim here was a corporation cannot infringe first amendment rights.

That was followed by the claim that this is actually in the Constitution.

But the constitution does not say this. It says (if you go with the corporations-are-people-with-first-amendment-rights interpretation) that the government may not abridge the first amendment rights of corporations (and, usually the accompanying implicit coda, nor the rights of individuals using technology provided by corporations).
“We dogfood our own product to shut ourselves down”

PE: hello
You don't need to disavow racism. It's perfectly fine for a people to want and have a homeland
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Restaurants already charge different prices in different locations (depending on country/state/city/neighborhood).

Restaurants already have different breakfast/lunch/dinner menus with similar items but different pricing.

Restaurants already charge different prices depending on whether you use a delivery service or order in person.

Restaurants already do weekday discounts, late night/clearance discounts, and "surge pricing" for special event days.

Restaurants already have coupons, "dollar" menus, loyalty cards and several other ways to implement price discrimination.

Nothing about Wendy's plan is new or surprising.
There are so many good lines in this article. Here's some of my favorites:

> OpenAI asked a judge to dismiss parts of The New York Times’ lawsuit against it, alleging that the media company “paid someone to hack OpenAI’s products,” such as ChatGPT, to generate 100 examples of copyright infringement for its case.

So per OpenAI, using the product in a way that gets them in trouble is hacking.

> “Because copyright today covers virtually every sort of human expression– including blog posts, photographs, forum posts, scraps of software code, and government documents–it would be impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials,” OpenAI wrote in a filing last month in the U.K., in response to an inquiry from the U.K. House of Lords.

So per OpenAI, it'd be too hard to filter the inputs so they don't want to do it.

> “We actually don’t need to train on their data,” Altman said at an event organized by Bloomberg in Davos. “I think this is something that people don’t understand. Any one particular training source, it doesn’t move the needle for us that much.”

The classic, "We don't need you, you need us" deflection.

> The company has already struck deals with Axel Springer, the German media conglomerate that owns Business Insider, Morning Brew and other outlets, and is also reportedly in talks with CNN, Fox Corp. and Time to license their work.

... while behind the scenes trying to lock down as much copyrighted content as possible.
Yeah that’s my reading. No way this is passing Akamai bot detection.

There are lots of signals like timings, user tapping and scrolling behaviour, signed sessions cookies that represent browsing flows which may be legitimate or not. And that’s all assuming you’re on a good looking IP. To do this you need a large supply of residential IPs which then leads to the dodgy underworld of botnets.

I’d be surprised if this works for anything but the most basic bot protection, this is an advanced space.

If it does work for those cases, they should be either keeping it quiet and making bank, or boasting about having a secret sauce, not basic stuff like this.

Edit: for apps, Akamai provides an SDK that uses things like your motion data to create a signature that suggests that you're a real user. This signature is either injected into API requests or into a webview session. I'm sure it's crackable if you dedicate significant reverse engineering resources to it, but then you've got to crack every version, crack every other implementation from other companies, etc. Non-starter.
> The idea of fast food implementing surge pricing is bullshit.

I actually think this is fine, especially for fast food. Fast food has so much competition, in general, that surge pricing may drive the price conscious to other competitors, and reduce the waits for people that really want Wendy’s.
experienced programmer often wants to learn just enough to take project from point A to point B as decided by business needs, and not spend nights of debugging cool stuff.
It is too late for us to be saved, my friend, way too late...
Apparently people using old Oculus accounts are exempt. The strange thing here is the apparent lack of ability to opt out. It's pretty standard practice among data collection devices to at least have an option to turn it off, and since most people don't do so, it doesn't seem to have a large impact on analytics, but omitting an opt out except if using an account type that can no longer be created seems like a great way to alienate power users.

I commented here just recently that I found the privacy options on the Quest to be fine as they were implemented, and here they go and immediately change the terms just at the moment when Apple came in and made the Quest look like a great value for people who want to get into XR but don't want to pay $4k.

I'm not certain that Ars is right here about there being no opt-out, and even they don't seem to be sure, but I hope they're mistaken.
My latest idea is that developers should use comparatively low-end machines to stop the death spiral of ever increasing system requirements for end users.
There might be a difference between having an offer right now versus being able to have an offer later (or having had an offer earlier). Especially when everything about the processes involved is trying to shorten the period the offer is actually open.
Great article.

The main takeaway is with any negotiating, its all about the information. Meta is trying to get as much information out of you and you're trying to hedge that information in order to gain a favorable position.

I think the article points out some very good and effective means of managing the information to gain leverage to maximize your offer from Meta. There are some very good techniques outlined in the article which can be parlayed not just in your interactions with Meta, but any big company looking to hire you. The scheduling of interviews and time table for your offer are both techniques I've used in the past to gain a better offer from companies looking to hire me.
I think it is worthwhile to consider the ramifications.

We are used to surge pricing in some sectors. What if it comes to some other, traditional sectors. Should there be surge pricing in, IDK, healthcare?

It certainly feels dystopic, but it is worth discussing in detail. I am not sure if I can think of all the consequences myself.

I agree that the original post is neither well thought out nor particularly well written, though.
> Do you really think playing pool,foosball, guitar hero, eating dinner at 18:30 when work hours end at 17:00, bringing kids to workplace on weekends to play, sleeping at the workplace, bringing laptops with you / being oncall when not working are work appropriate?

Since it is the company the one setting all that up, why don't you bring it up with them?

Regardless, US companies are more than happy to have employees working for them 24/7, and they seem to be getting away with it. In general, they dislike when employees bring inflammatory rhetoric into the workplace.

I invite you to join any Fortune 500 company and try what this guy did. Rest assured, they will not fire you because of who you vote, but they will fire you nevertheless.
I'd play the heck out of an updated version that taught you more about ants while you played it.
One more thing, it would be appreciated for a non-google registration to be offered, i.e. simple email/password to make an account. Looking forward to seeing what this service can do :)
Fuel additives in any vehicle can put stuff in the air. If you look at these sites to see what they are intentionally spraying into the atmosphere, you will never look up at the clouds and airplanes in the same way.
There’s a lot of that crap but I don’t think it is much by sales volume. Nothing with long lead times is anywhere near the top of results generally.

And pretty much always, you can find the same item (same pics too) with prime shipping for a slight amount more because they just sent it to FBA.
> After 9/11 radicalization on the Internet was a serious concern - but most people seemed to understand that freedom of speech meant tolerating speech you didn't like.

Maybe in the filter bubble of a comp sci student lounge.

You've forgotten how everyone else lost their mind in 2001, and rallied behind a folksy strongman, and his cabal of stooges, useful idiots, and bad Boyars.

Most people at the time seemed to believe that finding and exterminating every terrorist (Alleged or otherwise) the government could get its hands on would be the only way we could remain free. They hate us for our freedom, and all that. Things like the PATRIOT act have support outside the nerd-sphere, and the NSA revelations were a nothingburger to most people, and torturing people in Abu Ghraib and Gitmo, well, they are all guilty anyways.

The only reason those views and motivations get any airtime is so they can be attacked (without opportunity for debate or rebuttal). Had his values and goals had been less comically antithetical to ours, or if he wasn't condemned by his own actions as an irredeemable monster (which further damns anything he has to say), you wouldn't have seen a whiff of them. We only hit those we can beat.
I, personally, worry more about a Google algorithm deciding I'm trying to hack my own account, a la https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34116361 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31681221 , than I do about a ToS violation.
there's a lot of technical solutions but i think dad needed to have trusted friends who could come in in this kind of situation. that used to be how men operated, you had life long associates that were both part of your vocation, and were trusted enough in case of your untimely demise to do the right thing by your family. i have a handful of friends like that, they have verbal instructions of where to physically recover master passwords from for all my home infrastructure.

(in before "oh no! what if they steal your stuff! what if they leave your wife and kids with nothing and steal your money" i have two answers to that, get better friends of course is the main one. but the second one is that reason our mind goes in that direction is because there's been a lot of moral stories written, bulk of them in victorian times, of wives left destitute because of unscrupulous associates. those stories make for nice drama, and they are also warnings for individuals and society in general. you gotta trust someone, better be people i knew for a long time, rather than some random consultant from reddit, or a geek squad member)
What is a lightweight software forge?
Apple Disables Web Apps in E.U
And here I am as some sap who hasn't even gotten past the screening interview because I didn't spend a couple of months first memorizing Leetcode problems.
White House recommends only memory safe programming languages
The hand waving comments about "user responsibility" are maddening in their willful ignorance.
That's 99% of the reality right there - most people would just shrug and get a new gmail address and a new phone and tell people "oh my email changed".

My family enjoys having a simple-to-use Jellyfin setup with Infuse as a front-end; but if I'm dead eventually that ZFS server will fail in one way or another, and they'll shrug and go back to streaming or buying DVDs or something.

Attempts to explain are met with "don't bother me with talking about you being dead".
CRDT Table
This is proof of concept for Conflict-free Replicated Data Type representing 2-dimensional table.

Edit: Not author, just thought it was interesting + impressive.
There's no official policy or guidance that has changed on the expectations for the behavioral/sys design interviews I know of, which is fairly transparent. I saw your stat for 55% self reported down-levels, do you have a stat from before the downturn?

One thing I have noticed is that in my experience (around 70 interviews total since I started giving interviews in 2021) the average performance on the coding portions dipped sharply around the time that our stock did. My theory is that the more talented candidates focused on companies with a better outlook and so it was weaker candidates that were making it to the technical interview stage. I've noticed that in the last few months I'm seeing candidates do better on the coding interviews which supports my theory.
Cool thanks for the help!
Packaged breakfast cereals are crazy expensive, though. Poor families shouldn't even be eating them for breakfast, let alone dinner.
I like the fact that the author gives so many valuable tips on how to play this situation.

There's an even bigger over supply of labor now more than ever. So, META is using this to their advantage. The author states that this strategy is short sighted and will show future attrition from Meta because eventually the industry demand for SWE will recover. I'm just not sure about that last part. Musk has shown that you can profitably run a software company with 80% less staff. I would imagine other companies will aspire to this goal as well, especially now that the days of crazy growth are over. We're no longer in a growth economy anymore.

EDIT: I have not confirmed that X is profitable. And I don't know their numbers. but, I assumed after laying off 70 to 80% of staff, it probably should be right?
I think you are mistaken:

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sev%C3%A4rdhet
On the other side this unwillingness and mental non-acceptance of those reports/manuals/etc. as a wasteful activity frequently comes from the understanding that there are more efficient ways of doing things, and that drives the "software eating the world" effect. While I naturally don't know the details of the case you mention and pharma is far from the domains I've been in, yet in many business/enterprise situations the software approach is to code the many-page guide into business logic, including ETL-ing the data instead of manual import, etc.

Move fast and break things brings you to the Moon in a decade using primitive tech, where is total process compliance can't do that even in 50 years using much more advanced tech.
You can't do type-checked multi-dimensional containers like tensors without variadics. You could only manually create Tensor1D, Tensor2D, Tensor3D... types. You also couldn't implement tuple types without them.
For previous discussion, see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39393794
Installing Docker to run a web server is crazy to me.