skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the problem isn't the people, is that most of the country ranges from "fairly uninhabitable" to "dangerously uninhabitable".

foreigners aren't moving to rural Manitoba, they're all going to a handful of areas, most of which are in the furthers south parts of the country (e.g. Vancouver, and Greater Toronto), which also happen to have the mildest weather.

Australia is seeing a similar trend -- influx of people, not much (viable) land.

also keep in mind this demand is simply to keep up with population loss, and demand on the system for pensions, healthcare, and support for the Boomers. the Liberal party is ultimately still pro-capitalism, and they need to balance out these dying old people; "stonks only go up", so we need more consumption.
Given the integration, I'd expect that Apple's decision to build their own would start with buying Yelp if for nothing more than the data Yelp already has.
This is very very illegal, depending on jurisdiction.
Something interesting about the owner of OnlyFans, Leonid Radvinsky:

> OnlyFans is not his first foray into the world of adult content. After emigrating with his family from Ukraine to Chicago, he set up a company called Cybertania at the age of 17. It ran a number of websites in the early 2000s that marketed "hacked" and "illegal" passwords to porn sites, Forbes reported last year.

> Password Universe, one of the websites, included a link to a site that advertised more than 10,000 "illegal pre-teen passwords" in 2000. Another, Ultra Passwords, claimed to link to "the hottest bestiality site on the web," according to Forbes.

— https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/leonid-radvinsky-bo...
I don't think that's true. There are plenty of horror stories from people who have worked in "namebrand" porn studios, including instances of consent being violated.
My underground Nazi-resistance fighter, Auschwitz survivor and later staunch-idealist socialist-communist grandfather loved this book and identified with it deeply.

Edit: I might add that this book and author had a similar sort of status on this side of the iron curtain as Joseph Heller and his military Catch-22 humor.
SPDY's header compression allowed cookies to be easily leaked. This vulnerability was well known at the time so had they even asked an intern at Google Zero to look at it they would have been immediately schooled.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779413

In their performance tests vs HTTP 1.1 the team simulated loading many top websites, but presumably by accident used a single TCP connection for SPDY across the entire test suite (this was visible in their screenshots of Chrome's network panel, no connection time for SPDY).

They also never tested SPDY against pipelining - but Microsoft did and found pipelining performed the same. SPDY's benefit was merely a cleaner, less messy equivalent of pipelining.

So I think it's fair to say these developers were not the best Google had to offer.
Chrome and Safari do this too.
> Love Susan Rogers, and the Prince albums she engineered or worked from are standout-brilliant, from Purple Rain to Sign O The Times, but good gracious me are they sonically pretty terrible.

Can you explain to a layperson like me what that means? Cause they sound like two opposing statements. Namely: the albums she engineered were brilliant but they were sonically terrible?
Managing cash payments as a Kenyan ecommerce startup
Seriously, I’ve browsed some of those sites in the past and the info is always bad info. Or at the very least, it’s not possible to discern the good info from the bad info on those sites.

I’ve never understood what compels people to go to those sites, I suspect it’s because people feel that it at least gives them a voice.

The only site with a modicum of value is LinkedIn, and even then you can probably come up with a million reasons to not use it.
Honestly, I don't know. I've never measured because it's never been a problem. Most of it is writing string literals to an io.Writer, no idea what the overhead is there. Could be fun to write some benchmarks. :)

With regard to caching, I think I would opt for a solution at a different layer. For example, render the page and just cache the output in memcached, Redis or similar. Or just in memory maybe. As always, it depends.
Of advocates are a cult because they always deny this stuff happens even though its completely obviously happening right in front of their face
It can be useful to know who's near the door so that you may rectify the situation, it doesn't necessarily have to be slimy. Benefit of the doubt I guess. DX (getdx.com) has it and it's very pro-worker.
I think Glassdoor has the issue in that its not a growth business, but needs to be. You can't have a website like Glassdoor that is VC funded, owned by PE or publicly traded and not have it go to shit. The organic usage is people looking for new jobs, or posting about jobs they hate, or companies responding. A website that has <20 employees and is fine with being a $10M a year business living off of ad revenue could absolutely do this and be successful. A business seeking to double revenue can't.
New Beeper Android app – Open beta test
It might be pedantic but according to Wikipedia the CGI awards a PsyD rather than a PhD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Graduate_Institute

This Wiki page has a little more about the differences between the two: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Psychology

It seems like the PsyD has more emphasis on clinical practise and (one supposes) less on theoretical research.
At some of these companies, vests happen monthly (at least, after the first year). It's effectively cash, adding 200k+ annually to a salary of 200+.
ive seen the same headline in a lot of places like lemmy and reddit.

not saying it's good, just that OP may not have been making the effort to spin it.
So many offices are closed 12-14. But don't go to the bank at 11:45: they'll be packing up and saying they're leaving for lunch. That break is really 11:30-14:30. Took me a few tries to get my bank stuff done when I just moved there. I'm used to being able to do such chores at lunch hour, but no, don't count on it in France. People are having lunch :)
Dude, I’m _interviewing candidates_ every week at one of the FANGs that is not Meta. I _am_ the “source”. If you have any AI/ML skills, and the corresponding track record, the market is not dead by any stretch. Could be that those persons aren’t in demand right now. I also know a ton of people at Google, and Google is hiring as well, in spite of the much publicized layoffs. I don’t understand this (it takes someone external 3-6 months to get productive there, and some people don’t make it at all), but it’s a fact.
The assumption in your reply is that it's an account she created/manages, from the sounds of the case it seems like her assailants set the account up.
https://xkcd.com/989/
The number seems to be in the neighborhood of "120" or so, which explains why'd they avoid mentioning it. Given the number of people involved in OF, that's a rounding error.
Does the browser reader mode help?
I will never understand how people can willingly build tools like this that almost exclusively serve to make employment miserable.
That's fair, I assumed calling out MMORPGs implied a stronger statement than you were making about them specifically.
I haven't read this case but much of the time that courts are deciding weird looking statements like "this person didn't cheat at this video game" or "Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto" it's in defamation cases. I say "coding123 is a big poopy head" so you sue me saying that I defamed you. In most countries truth is a defence for defamation, so if I can prove that you are in fact a big poopy head then I can defend myself from the suit. That means that a court has to determine the truth of a statement that doesn't seem like a thing that courts should be worrying about
Love the change. Now I can signup with employee name I dislike like a powerful manager and get them out.
Same. Thought I must not have been signed in and was getting pushed into a signup flow or something, so I cleared cookies and got the same behavior once I logged in.

Forcing you to give them your real name before allowing you to use the site when logged in is incredibly scummy behavior I hope they are punished richly for.
I think this doesn't work with tsx tool, which is kinda annoying :(
This can be a positive too, proactive dive & save to retain an employee who's manager feel they're about to leave isn't unheard of in my company.

If you're good at your job and highly rated there should be obvious signs when they're trying to preemptively backfill you and at that point you can just communicate about how excited you are about your growth at the company or something to make them take a step back.
By the way you may want to consider Godot as a starting engine. Not only because it's open source (so no shady business practices), but it also is focused on being specifically a game engine. Unity tries to be an everything engine and has lots of broken, bloated, and unfinished features. The simplicity of Godot adds a lot of much needed constraints to development. You're not constantly wrestling with the engine. I'm deep into Unity now but if I were to start all over I'd go with Godot.
Let them squirm. Get your teammates to update to and keep management nervous and focused on improving the employee's lives. Take it even to starting a union if needed.

You don't give your time to an employer, you trade it, and in our modern society we have a gap in the market power of labor. Only way to get it is to reclaim it.
The problem Ive always had with levels, is that it seems much more focused on the "sales" groups - the non tech, but vital to business everything.

I've always disliked sales. especially when working on projects where a sales is so smarmy, because they get a huge pay - and I, implementing it all - get nothing.

This happened all over. but here is a story of why I cant stand sales:

I was tech designer for LDAC (lucas presidio campus)

So I built out the RFP for network and we were doing selections up at Big Rock Ranch (the only reason this is important is just how beautiful the space is, so it feels really open nice energy, relaxing)

We are doing vendor selection presentations (the vendors come show us why their solution is best match to RFP reqs)

The vendors were Cisco, Foundry, Force-10 (extreme backed out)

Cisco comes in and they're going through their presentation and we are getting through it - I am reviewing and seeing that it was rather weak, more "marketing"-ish reply to the RFP instead of a detailed response on the specs...

I am sitting across from the main cisco sales guy. (this is at the time the largest 10G network in the world as this is just as the 10G switches were made) - so at the time, its a big deal - like ~$80 million in core gear)

The sales guy is leaning back as if... don't worry Toots. Jimmy's got this sniffs coke" https://i.imgur.com/gPdQiW5.jpg

--

So I am going over the RFP with his team, and he interjects:

"I just want to assure you that Cisco has a world class media team - and I will personally be sure they go through this in depth and really create the right solution"

PIN DROPs

(I am the youngest in the room - but its my RFP/design)

"Excuse me. This is the RFP review. Youre presenting your solution here today. So are you to tell me, that you have a "world class media team" and they have not informed your response to this RFP? That the entire point of this meeting" i said a few more things that made this guy die inside.

This guys balls shot into his throat.

Those are the types of people I think of when I think of levels.

(this was also the meeting where the CIO of Lucas Arts demanding a date for "when can you provide me power over fiber" ((his logic was the design was for both power and fiber to desktop - and he was trying to flex on showing 'how can we reduce infra wiring costs' -- it was a truly different world back then, mostly))
It reminds of a concept, which barring a better name, is "action through inaction" — if you know an employee is unhappy through external signals like these, you could make the active effort to not engage with them knowing that it may lead them to quit; instead of a lengthy severance/redundancy discussion.

I've seen similar insights, derived from a person's social-graph through email exchanges, and it was decided to not be used by managers as it could be a liability.
The startup website:

- https://www.getlago.com/
Catch-22 is funny during the read but after the end, and in reflection, is pretty dark.

Svejk is generally funnier, IMO
She didn't. One of her rapists did.
If I were to build some custom GPT powered thing for this. Is there a similar project I can use with a command line interface or some programmatic interface?
Employers and recruiters are always bewildered when I say I don't have a LinkedIn account, or a public Github profile (I have a few tiny open source projects I maintain, but they are all pseudonymous) - and this is exactly why.

I don't want people creeping any kind of "profile" of me. Ever.
I basically stopped reading Amazon and Yelp reviews. They do more harm then good. Now it's all about human-curated information. Find someone you trust - on social media, a new site, or a newsletter. Get the info from them.

Should I eat here? Should I buy this product? Etc.

With restaurants it's tricky - sometimes you just need to take a chance. There is some old-school magic in that.
It depends on the liquid's vapor pressure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor_pressure) and temperature relative to the surrounding environment.

I am very skeptical how much usable power could be generated using the 'drinking bird' approach. Show me the engine or generator that the drinking bird powers . . .
Inability to say no and push back. I am guilty of it myself.

Most experienced software developers know in their gut a lower bound for a project's timeline, which always exceeds the timeline in managers' or PM's mind. When the VP asks how long a project will take, it is hard to not say something optimistic. Or when your release timeline is every six months, it is hard to say a project will take more than a release cycle. These are social issues more than technical. I know a mostly accurate and simple estimation approach, which is roughly the Pareto Principle: make a good effort to build a decent prototype and multiply the time it took by 4 to get to an estimate. But of course good luck selling this to your management!

My advice to improve estimations would be around:

- Building a prototype before making any estimations. Software is in a lucky position where you can build prototypes before the actual thing.

- Applying the Pareto Principle, if you can. The reason for multiplying by 3-4 is because you have to account for research, design reviews, implementation, testing, bug fixes, documentation, and internationalization, etc.
The new norminal!
Here's a nice CPUshack link detailing the CPUs that we have in space:

https://www.cpushack.com/space-craft-cpu.html
Someone I know quite well works in aerospace. The team they were on was identified as outperforming all the other similar teams. Rather than making all the other teams more like that team, they broke up the team and spread its members around like some kind of FTE pixie dust.

Most of that team left the org within the next 24 months, and none of the teams they joined got better. Some got worse.

Applying the “promote your best IC to be a manager” mindset applies to teams as well, and it’s a damn shame, because in both cases it usually results in the opposite of what anybody desires.
Was it possible to use a fake name?
Maybe for a transition period.

There's no reason for somebody to create a website, pay for resources, and hope for some sort of revenue if their visitors are mostly AI.

So why bother creating a UI? Instead it would make more sense to close the website and offer the same information as a paid API service.

Any sort of website that needs to validate human visitors will be plastered with DRM. Rendering these web browsing LLMs useless. And good riddance as well.

Using an LLM to browse the internet feels like a huge waste of resources.

Instead it would make more sense to have a wikipedia-like for AIs to crawl via embeddings.
There are only a handful of companies in the U.S. willing to pay 200k+ for contract programmers, and these invariably involve highly specialized needs. And if they're in a specialized niche, then their numbers and experience aren't relevant outside of that niche. Note that the parent poster was saying he is a "low level" programmer, meaning close to the hardware, which is niche role.

If you know someone claiming to make 200k+ as a non-specialized programming contractor, they're probably just making numbers up to impress the internet. Regular (non-tech) companies don't pay those sorts of rates to non-specialized programmers, and startups can't afford those rates. That leaves primarily FAANG or large tech companies, in which case YOE is irrelevant; they hire based on pedigree and who you know.
ngl I'd love to read what's brewing inside schizophrenic's head
Or maybe hardware overkill. I have a soft spot for small, dedicated computers like the Apollo Guidance Computer that have physical buttons and simple functionality. The DDIs on jet fighters are another example.
Glassdoor is one of the worst and first examples of "annoying paywalls" that I remember. (they don't require payment, but your login and personal info)
I made it a step further and shared some info and they were like "fuck you, we don't believe you".
https://chat.openai.com/share/37623c40-fe0e-4a5a-a973-75b7c8...

ChatGPT gave me a more balanced view to understand OP's criticisms. Sharing if anyone would like to read a more dispassionate (machine) version.
All US tech companies ever, they are out there to doing the right thing until money rolls in then profits take the priority over quality and they go down the shitter.

1) Evernote

2) Triplebyte

3) Glassdoor

4) Let's not forget Quora
There's also this paper by Alan Kay that talks about the power of spreadsheets:

https://worrydream.com/refs/Kay_1984_-_Computer_Software.pdf

> The dynamic spreadsheet is a good example of such a tissuelike superobject. It is a simulation kit, and it provides a remarkable degree of direct leverage. Spreadsheets at their best combine the genres established in the 1970's (objects, windows, what-you-see-is-what-you-get editing and goal-seeking retrieval) into a "better old thing" that is likely to be one of the "almost new things" for the mainstream designs of the next few years.
The problem is: you shouldn't have to be a professional to author Web software. Certainly I was not when I started tinkering with HTML & CSS in the 90s. The trend line is moving — in 10 years, it's likely that billions of people will be able to create apps & websites. Should we hold all of those billions to a high bar of professional diligence? Not practical.

If a four-way stop intersection were missing one of its stop signs, a diligent driver would infer the missing stop sign and pass cautiously. We all agree that drivers should be diligent. In aggregate, anthropologically speaking, there would be accidents at that intersection. Rather than "scream into the wind" at every passing driver, a systemic solution is necessary.

Not that I would call most people to action to create a solution themselves — this particular problem is hard tech and a tremendous amount of work — but I do challenge people to be open to a better future. With such future in mind, "screaming at passing cars" feels like a battle against the wrong enemy.
https://youtu.be/N8mI6MvsWZA?si=vf6L1AC_Y4vRZBXg&t=1080

Also, Hanson's 2nd Symphony, 3rd Movement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abKXHeG0u6I&t=1267s
Show HN: ADHD STASH. A curated collection of ADHD friendly products and services
Over the past few years I've struggled to find good/trusted resources for things that might be useful to those with ADHD.

Common issues with other sites were:

* Very limited options and/or info, or products that weren't actually useful.

* Blog post or news articles like "top 10 things to help with your ADHD" often had limited info or didn't have enough context to be useful.

* Unclear if some authors had ADHD or experience with ADHD. In some cases you could tell a random writer got assigned this post to write, but had no idea what ADHD is really like.

* Walls of text or cluttered/overwhelming design, meaning that the content was too hard to read and/or the site made me anxious (after which I bounced).

As a result, I created ADHD STASH, where I've tried to:

* Limit content length and complexity, while sharing key info
* Use design that feels friendly and fun
* Give people the option to find products/services based on use case or problem areas
* Only recommend products where I own them and have tried them for a significant period.

Questions/Feedback

Any constructive feedback is welcome, especially from people who have ADHD!

In particular, it would be great to get real world feedback to help me validate/invalidate my hypothesis that the design/content is ADHD friendly and if the latter, what I could improve upon.

P.S. Since I bought all these products to test out of my own pocket and that I use Apple ecosystem devices, it's only natural that some of the options listed are Apple centric. That being said, I'm saving up to get some more Google/Windows related devices to test!

P.P.S. Some affiliate links for the US are a bit fiddly (aka, showing search results instead of products, even when something is in stock), but I'm trying to fix that atm.
wrong side of Africa.
Yelp doesn't need a carve out. It seems like it is more likely a reference to apps like Baidu Maps, which is used by travelers from China. Baidu Maps was banned in India in 2020, but it would be excluded from a similar ban in the US due to that exclusion. It would also exclude Meituan from a ban, which is a Chinese alternative to Yelp.
This got a lol from me, well done
> You should say I don't know what the why is yet.

I think this seems to make the opposite assumption, which also seems questionable.

Rather than “I don’t know the ‘why’ “, I think it would be better to say “I don’t know if there is a ‘why’, nor what it is if there is one.” .

Though, really, I think the question of “why” in this context, is a little unclear as to what exactly it is asking?

Like, what properties would a statement have to have in order to be a satisfactory answer to the question?

Like, if something like color confinement is inevitable assuming SU(3) symmetry, would this answer “why” hadrons exist? Or, if the fact by itself wouldn’t, would this fact, along with a mathematical proof of it, arranged in a way reflecting the core ideas of the proof, constitute a “why hadrons exist”?

Or, is the question asking something more, like, “why is there something rather than nothing?” ? Is it asking for the first cause?
Everything you just talked about is unrelated to the issue being discussed. This bug isn't a mismanagement of FD lifecycles, which yes Rust will do more safely out of the box than C++. This bug is a TOCTOU issue ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-of-check_to_time-of-use ) and, more broadly, concurrent access of the file system by multiple processes. Rust cannot guarantee anything about that.

Just because you have an FD and you know it's not -1 and you never forget to check that, that doesn't mean anything at all with respect to the concurrent access to the underlying ionode by multiple process for which that FD references.

Also it's very easy to make the equivalent of an OwnedFd in C++, eg https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/main/+/...
I find this is generally region-specific, as what review sites are most commonly used will differ somewhat from region to region.