skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also the sad fact that a job post doesn't mean there's a real vacancy.

A tactic startups use to "boost their stats" is to have vacancies open even they aren't actively hiring.
How to install Windows 11 without a Microsoft account
We all know you can use Windows without an account, but how do you do basic things? I'm an engineer who uses mostly unix systems which leaves me as a but of a PC newb nowadays.

I use Windows for gaming, but refuse to create a Microsoft account. As of yesterday I can no longer open the calendar app as it points to Outlook. Obviously, the MS Store requires an account. Anyone know a safe repo of freeware Windows apps (that doesn't require an MS account)?
I’ve been using weather.gov as a no-BS site for getting local weather data that I knew would be stable (cough, DarkSky, cough). I’m a bit concerned that the ReadMe seems to only describe covering emergency events+broadcasting in 2.0. I could’ve missed it, but I hope porting over existing functionality is in scope after the MVP
I agree that you never escape the requirement to have knowledge of how your application is deployed. Things like autoscaling, security, performance etc, all intrinsically effect how you actually write your application.

I think there's a broader point though, in that very often, infra teams will pursue solutions that solve problems in the perspective of their own lens and interests without good oversight from the broader organisation, for developer experience, and economies of scale.

I've seen and worked in environments at both ends of that scale and the gap in dev-ex, and agility as a result can be absolutely staggering.

So often its to avoid 'vendor lock-in', only for infra teams to become the 'vendor', its complex, so they grow by necessity to be expensive, but then still lack the resources to be able provide a clean experience that can be easily migrated off of, resulting in lock-in.

As a dev, the cost isn't my concern, but whats frustrating is knowing that its possible to deploy a new service, with all the bells and whistles, in an hour, and being unable to.
Basically with tidyverse, R can let you write less code and keep it readable: https://www.sumsar.net/blog/pandas-feels-clunky-when-coming-...

Can't speak to abandonment, but it seems a lot of recent devel is occurring inside the the tidyverse, which is deprecating a whole bunch of other stuff.
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Not unless our existing providers provide a volume discount, or we start managing some of the infrastructure (1/3 replicas) ourselves.

The latter is very likely in the long run.
Teach generations of developers how to make their code better, making the whole industry much better than it'd have been otherwise. A 10x dev IMHO is not only great coding, but makes everyone around them better. Now that said, I'm going to edit to change him for Linus Torvalds, since you are right that he might not be the archetypal 10x dev as he's not famous for his code, but for his writings.
Then you get to corrective transactions, where a normal return is

Sales DR 100
Bank CR 100

while an annulled sales invoice is

Sales CR -100
Bank DR -100

The point of using debit/credit vs +/- is just that, the ability to have correct account turnovers with corrections, and maybe some conventional understanding of what's an expense account in debit and what's a vendor account in credit.
Are we talking about laws applying to the real world or applying to an imaginary situation?

Because, you know, I can also imagine a world where a lot of things are different from what they look like now. But that doesn't matter.
Southwest airlines will allow obese people to pre-board and even claim a seat next to them even if it means another ticket holder must be ejected from the flight

We are prioritizing obese people as some sort of privileged class

Meanwhile on HN no one will even accept common sense metrics like BMI. Most of the internet still rejects the notion that obesity was a meaningful comorbidity for covid

Enjoy your fat world
Exactly what you said, R is easy to get started for individuals in social science fields. Most people I know who want to dive deeper end up learning Python anyway.
Nope, the secret is in the url fragment. Of course this means you need to trust that they do not change the JS code so that it steaks your keys.
The fact that you ended with "I can do it all myself in two hours" indicates to me you're horribly ignorant of all the complexity you want to hand wave away.
Interesting. Two out of two times I managed to negotiate every side paying their own fees.

It incentivises rationality in how legal counsel is used in the process.
While I personally detest the PI vacuum machine that Google has become, this is actually quite a reasonable idea I might use in this context. Thanks!
> Call me harsh, but that behavior should merit a serious prison sentence.

Not harsh, just lacking creativity and losing sight of what prison is for.

For every piece of litter dropped, the sentence should be to pick up 10 more. Make criminals fix the problems they cause.
> Is this too hard to model? I suggest not?

I'm sure I could put my mind to following those rules, but what's to be gained?

If 'assets' and 'income' are opposites, and 'income' and 'liabilities' are the same, then I'm just not going to bother. What if my income is paid in assets in the form of $1 bills? CR or DR?

And 'equity', Jesus is that a nebulous concept.
HP is the worst. To even print from Ubuntu I had to install their spyware. And it still doesn’t work all the time.

I blame Microsoft though. They strong armed HP back during the WebOS fiasco and that was end of anything good from HP.
The worst too though.

I.e. watch out for survivorship bias.
Just like Apple's 3-months free trial for the Apple Music service, keeping the Webkit-only PWAs were going to be seen as anticompetitive by Apple's opponents.

Making the change early is a strategy to exploit Apple's opponents into loudly decrying how important and useful PWAs are - and that removing PWAs is the true, evil, anti-competitive strategy. (With all of their typical exaggeration, in reality we know PWAs are a limited-use feature.)

In short, Apple played the useful idiots into being their cheerleaders and provided Apple exactly what they needed to maintain this feature.

It didn't even take an "open letter" from "Taylor Swift" to "Tim Cook" this time.

tl,dr: Apple exploits anti-apple rhetoric to get their way, again.
There are much cheaper alternatives to Ente. Filen.io, which is also E2E encrypted, for example costs 200 GB montly for 1.99 Euro. Its difficult to compete with iCloud if your service costs three times as much.
> Have you inherited a codebase written by a coding rockstar. It works, but it’s a tangled mess.

Have you ever inherited a codebase written by a 0.1x developer?

Genuine question, I never have.
How long have you been programming? Odds are Martin's been doing it longer. In fact, my understanding is that if you're the average dev, Martin was consulting with companies that found him valuable longer, and developed for longer than that.

I've never understood this insistence some people have on outright refusing to acknowledge someone who wrote a styleguide they disagree with have the ability to turn on a computer. This isn't just in reference to Martin, either, and it's doubly weird because half of them seem to rest on describing style as mostly to entirely subjective in the same breath. It's just a book. Merely don't follow it and it can't hurt you, even if it's somehow "the one wrong preference". It's not going to kill your cat.
Its legacy usage is certainly a big part of its popularity. You can generally rely on having a newish version of it on any modern distro and you don't have to worry about the version unless you want to do stuff with arrays etc.

What I find compelling about bash is its position in relation to other languages and tools. It's ideal for tying together other tools and is close enough to the operating system to make that easy whilst also not requiring libraries to also be installed (c.f. python).

I often hear the opinion that more complex scripting should be moved to a language such as python, but that adds a layer of complexity that is probably not helpful in the long-run. I can take a bash script that I wrote twenty years ago and it'll still work fine, but a python programme from twenty years ago may well have issues with versions.
Fascinating. So this MOND theory works in this case. If I understand correctly, scientists still prefer the dark matter theory because it applies in more cases at galactic scale, and this is just one occurrence of the MOND theory working fine?
You assume you can find the truth from beliefs, words, sentences etc. Those all are human constructs which changes over time, location, personal age, mood etc.

The truth cannot be explained or written down.

You have to find it yourself.

If you are serious about truth, going for a Vipassana retreat might be a good start.

https://www.dhamma.org/en/index

This is not everyone's cup of tea. Especially if you are suffering from Psychological issues.

https://www.dhamma.org/en/about/qanda
I think a better term for what is happening here is "client side encryption". That reduces the chances of getting things confused with messaging, which is a different sort of a problem.

This at least has a user accessible cryptographic identity, so end to end secure key exchange is possible. So if you really wanted to call it end to end encrypted, it would be legitimate to do so. I suspect that the motivation here is still mostly marketing driven.
Mathematicians prove Pólya's conjecture for the eigenvalues of a disk
It wasn't an exhibition, but a whole series of zones that you could freely wander around in, each one a show in itself. I recall going through the learning zone, and seeing the huge doors where you could hear the headmaster yelling behind them, to remind you what it felt like to be at school, and then as we were moving through to the end of that space, the lighting all changed, the music shifted and the walls fell away to reveal a forest full of trees to everyone's delight. Extraordinary.

The musical acts that surprised us as we were walking between zones, the huge scale of the artworks and sculptures that we actually had to walk through, it was an absolute delight from start to finish. I had been given two tickets as a gift from a friend, and I took a mate who I didn't know super well, we had zero expectations and that day definitely helped turn us into very close friends - I was his best man a few years later. I then bought tickets and took my girlfriend, who was left speechless by it all (she was a trained actor) who then bought her own tickets and took her entire family there.

The dome suffered from the worst PR ever, and it was a national joke but only for people who hadn't read the book, so to say, people queuing up to criticise something in copycat fashion, but the joke was on them, it was amazing.

The budget for the show was there for a year and I'm sure it underperformed but I'm also sure it provided a seed for the success of things like the 2012 Olympics, which was simply amazing. It was empty for a while, and Crisis used it as a homeless shelter in 2003 I think, I was volunteering as a chef and we were in an annex outside the main building, catering for people with dependency problems, while my then-girlfriend was cooking at the main kitchen inside the actual dome. I took my skates and skated around the whole empty-ish structure, was very cool.
Seems like filehippo.com has some freewares.
Hey, one of the folks building Ente here.

We have to pick our battles, and we currently aren't looking at serving customers on low-end devices. But if they access Ente on a laptop, the indexing will run there, and the computed indexes will sync to their low-end devices, e2ee.

Also, given that compute on smart phones is getting better and cheaper with every iteration, we believe it's best to bet on Edge ML for the long term.
Preaching to the choir. "Alignment" has no place in base models, or even base chat models.
It could still be office-based though, sure technically remote from the server, but so are the web servers software engineers develop for typically, sometimes even their development environment is. I don't think that really factors into remote (WFH) vs office working at all, at least from an employer's perspective. Maybe it makes it easier to work remotely, but certainly doesn't necessitate it: you can work from anywhere, and that can still be the office.
PayPal has 3 months of revenue frozen, opened a new account as they suggested and they froze it too after the first payment.
Thank you for this response. A beacon of sense in this craze <3
It’s probably the best book on the topic I’ve ever come across. It’s just an incredibly good mix of practical and approachable and does a great job of teaching you how to think on your own two feet about security which I think is one of the most important aspects.
What language would you base a pipeline on?

I agree that bash sucks, but have yet to find anything to replace it that doesn't increase complexity and version problems.
I hope you will grow and start running your infrastructure. It seems that you have a strong technical team. Just curious, did you take any funding so far?
sorry for the eye sore, if someone can split the bullet points into multiple lines, please do, I'm unable to edit my comment
R is much better for REPL style development and functional programming.

Python could be so much better with some minor syntax extensions.
I have been searching for jobs since last 2-3 months but current scenario being a fresher doesn't seems uplifting. There are companies claiming layoffs and financial reasons. Very less companies I would like to work with have open positions. I have applied to more than 80 companies and startups even those recently funded but received a rejection mail or no response.

I thought I could land my first job based on talent alone but now this seems difficult.
I have been developing as a side hobby while I was in school now I am graduating. I feel like I have done enough projects that I can do almost any thing.

Maybe it's that the tech industry is facing change since AI and No-Code build tools. idk.
Sometimes it seems that it's not the same tech industry which excited me as a kid.
I don't think that's correct, so I propose to keep you bound in a dark room for your own safety.

That came out creepier than I'd like, but idk how to rephrase it right now.
If MOND were a single theory such ideas would be more interesting.
There are enough weird divergences to make targeting iOS annoying. Off the top of my head I can recall that Safari PWAs can't get callbacks from pages spawned in a new window. Things have a tendency to fail in strange and unexpected ways.

Worse yet, many people have older iPhones with outdated Safari. You can't tell them to just install another browser, because under the hood Apple mandates that all other browsers are still the same outdated Safari engine.

If you want to track these issues down, you need to invest in an Apple based set up. You can't run Safari outside of the Apple ecosystem to track these issues down. It is bad enough that people are now offering pay as you go Safari instances for testing. Apple gatekeeps, Apple invents problems and developers are stuck with the bag.
My main use case is making high quality visualizations for quick data exploration and sharing with a team. It is easy to guarantee that fonts are large enough, style is minimalist and clean, and filtering, transforming views or facets iteratively is only a couple characters change.
It's still not clear if model weights are under copyright protection at all.
Pluto is a planet ( /s but not really)
From all his public talks, Carmack seems like a nice and smart guy. I’m curious why you have a negative impression.
Contronyms are what you're referring to. Indeed, flammable/inflammable, also sanction/sanction (permit/punish) and other examples such as fast/fast (going quickly/held in place).

Still, I do find "I could care less" to be less of a contronym and more of an "Americanism". I'm quite used to it by now, and shall thereby sanction its use.
Just what LA needs, more traffic.
If you didn't have helm, you would be writing your own regex scripts. I don't see how this would be better.
It wasn't my code. I pin all my dependencies, but lot of python code has been written by people without software engineering experience like university students and to an extent ML engineers.
Friends and founders ("angels"), no VC.
That's the way I've been doing things for a long time as a freelancer also.

Especially for business oriented apps, most of the models only need a list view with a table, and a detail view displaying some properties and related lists of models.

It works wonderfully.
I use the Photo app's auto-sharing function with my wife for a family shared album. I don't think shared albums work with lockdown mode on.
Organization proven to use and abuse the security via obscurity model.
All the best hackers pipe their script output to cowsay.
A Plumber for All Seasons is a top-tier standard romhack. Very cool to see the creator working on something even more ambitious.
> If you see them as a force multiplier

Gambling on a random generator because you don’t want to spend time improving your skills is not a “force multiplier”.
The default data file[1] contains 500kB of plaintext fortunes, this seems plausible.

[1]: http://bxr.su/OpenBSD/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
I agree that the type system should be better. And for some reasons, golang didn't even implement proper tuple types. However, now with generics, you can actually do Result[T] with all functions you described.

> in itself as well is inexcusable for a modern language

In Go, you can assign nils only to pointers
The IRS spends a little under $15B per year. Solving problems for the rich doesn't have to be the only motivator, drastically simplifying our tax code would reduce the deficit and make it much easier to enforce our tax laws.
Thanks, I have 3 sites I need to get off Netlify and I’ve spent the morning reading about Cloudflare Pages.

My only hesitation is the 20k file limit; one of our sites is a large Gatsby site that generates certain content programmatically, sometimes using a series of YAML files as the source. Pretty sure we’re over 20k pages by themselves. Been meaning to move this one to Next.js sometime but that’s not on our roadmap anytime soon.
Please explain how errors are fundamentally different so they require drastically different way of returning.
Sales. This must be an American thing. Have never seen any decent discounts on them here in Europe.
Every genetic mutation that could exist, does exist
If they are performing the songs live, they do not need a license in most european countries if it isn't recorded (not sure about UK though, i've heard its a bit weird up there for musicians). If they're just playing CDs, they might want to get a license, even with this "trick" that some bad DJs use.

BTW: good/known scenes have a license to play, not just perform, music live, so even that would be weird.
Agreed. And React Components was the final nail in the coffin for me.

Tainting what used to be a lean frontend library with server side concepts [1] was a net negative in my opinion.

[1] https://react.dev/reference/react/use-server
45 year engineer, not 45 year old engineer. It's not about their age but their experience.

The relevance is that someone spent 45 years, as a trained adult engineer no less, not 45 years merely breathing, aware of a problem and only after than much experience, solved it.

It would also be interesting if they had been a 1 year engineer or not an engineer at all, just for different reasons.
Do said clients have the ability to specify a custom endpoint? Obviously with the clients being open source a rebuild can fix that, but hoping that's not required.
If you don't hear this advice, you are simply not in the audience that routinely uses service meshes. They are quite useful in enterprise environments.
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The company can always say no forever. It's just that doing so normally causes major disruptions in operation and so isn't really an option at companies where a critical chunk of the labor force is unionized. If it's just 10 out of 100,000 employees participating and they can be easily fired and replaced then the union is always going to be toothless. For example I am a union of 1 at my company and can try to negotiate "collectively" but the company can also say no and fire me.
Consider, have you ever known truth? how do you know?

Everything you experience is generated by your mind, you do not have a firsthand experience of what's out there. You are a brain in a skull, yet you see light and feel spacious and you feel like a body. It is all generated similar to a dream which is also generated.

Fun fact, I practice lucid dreaming and to become lucid I check to see if I'm dreaming by looking at my hand. If my hand looks AI generated, then I'm dreaming. Interpret as you wish.

Another fun fact, before you even know you have made a decision, your brain has made that decision for you. This is documented. So thinking you made a decision is an illusion.

Finally, what is a tree? a label, if I ask you to define a tree you will tell me it branches, trunk, leaves, root. What is leaf? a green thin layer used to generate food. What is green? ... you practice this and you realize even though you can function in a network of words, you don't actually know what any of these words really mean. So, again, you have never know the Truth. And never will.

So, I suggest, learn to relax; whatever happens trust that you can navigate it like everyone else. Plus how do you know it won't lead us to utopia?
R is the better EDA language by far. Python has caught up a lot. Notebook diffs are now readable in git with the right tooling, that's huge.

The drum about not fitting into data pipelines... if you're literally using a bash pipe its true most R programmers have no idea how to do that. Otherwise, that is where Docker and k8s shine.

On packaging. R's package authority runs tests and ensures that all packages work with the latest version of their peers. The dependency heck is much less deep as a result.

We use R at my employer still because we put statistical data science into production. Our experts come to us comfortable with R. Reimplementation would be absurd.
I enjoy the premise of being the 0.1x developer as this post says but in the real world we face real problems. That impossible deadline given to the 10x dev? That's probably for a reason. The world moves fast and more importantly it doesn't work for you. So you need to meet other people's expectations until the day you can afford to say no.

In fact if the author is here, the reason one can be a .1x dev is because the real work is already done by the 10x guy/gal (we'll refer to as X). Without X the product might even not exist or the entire company and your job.

The way this article is worded is also making me feel like the author has this self doubt about his productivity or someone questioned him about it. His ego doesn't want him to improve but push harder to be 0.001x and look for validation.