skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How long did it take your neighbour to become qualified/time served and how many further hours did it take for him to get to the position he is in now?
I think you're looking at another soul destroying ten years?

I'm 59 and used to work in construction, many of my former peers are now physical wrecks. I got out in my 40's and, in hindsight, it was a good decision. I also can't think of anyone who made a huge amount of money at the time either?
There’s one thing Postgres doesn’t provide. It doesn’t provide a supplier who a company can put their liability on. A supplier who can fix the problem in Postgres code and maintain it with authority.

But don’t get me wrong. Postgres is an awesome database system.
Right, we're in a somewhat dangerous period where the general public doesn't understand the capabilities that exist and how they can be misused. But if you mentally fast-forward to a time when people do understand this and have even become blasé about it, what does that time look like? (Presumably, you don't wire money based on a phone call without kicking the tires a bit...)
It would be useful if Firefox recorded which configs the user changed. Imagine if you could view a chronological, tabular list of all configs that you changed. Name, default value, changed value, date.
Unfortunately, internally it was a mess. They had several versions of the engine floating around for each game that would diverge and be a pain to merge all together. Later on it got way better but it was too late, Unity and Unreal had taken over and CE had no chance of making money.

Tying the games to the engine allowed them to move fast but at the expense of a truly general purpose engine.
You haven't mentioned support. As much as I'm a fan of Postgres, if my org doesn't have a Postgres support capability, but it does have a MSSQL team, then I'm going to stick with MSSQL.

I've got software to write, I don't want to find out that script I copied from stackoverflow to backup the database doesn't work in all the scenarios I thought it would because something changed a minor version ago.
Because our jobs are collaborative by nature, and zoom can't replace in person interactions. It's also not only meetings. Social interactions are important too. Some of my colleagues became friends, or at least people I feel I can trust in the workplace. This would be hard to achieve purely remote.

Now I'm not saying everybody should return to office, and I've been full remote for several years now, and I'm a bit worried that it's not going to last. But objectively, there's value to work in the office. It's not all black or white.
No. Independent from that.

Jobs that require more skill or jobs that are more difficult have to offer more to get people to work for them. Raise the bar at the bottom and all wages will go up, otherwise workers will "demote" themselves. This is a distinct effect from prices raising and workers asking higher wages to counteract inflation (if they could do that why aren't they?).
its absolutely crazy how bad some fundamentals are in gmail. its impossible to autocomplete or find recipients. if you try to archive a fresh email while gmail tries to mark it as read, which takes multiple seconds for some reason, the archiving fails. search is unusable and fails to surface even trivial queries. There is no activity trail so its impossible to tell if you accidentally archived or deleted an email eg. because your phone unlocked in your pocket. the list goes on. the only change since the google inbox shutdown i could see was added whitespace in the ui.
It's also clearly a result of the job market turning for tech employment.

The moment the job market stopped being red hot, companies started becoming more and more draconian with RTO.

I think a lot of them see it as low risk with possible upside for the employer.

Of course for employees who have been remote/hybrid for 4 years now, it's often upending lives for questionable benefit.

Your employer doesn't care about you wasting 5-10 hours/week commuting that could be otherwise split between work & family.
> That is just technical disagreements and sour grapes

Care to provide some evidence to back this statement?
Sega grabs tech layoff baton and dumps couple hundred Euro staff
If you're not sure, put everything behind Cloudflare and don't expose your origin at all. Proxy the API requests through workers or at least shield them behind page rules.

Implement some basic rate limiting by IP so you don't get your Google Maps API DoSed. Block China and Russia altogether unless you expect customers from there (sadly, many bots & drive-by scans originate there). Sanitize your inputs, especially if you have any that will reach one of your own endpoints like for a database lookup (and look into SQL injection prevention in general). Use prepared statements in PHP if you use that for DB access. Not sure about Python.

You can read OWASP guidelines for other best practices (https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/) or ask ChatGPT to summarize. But realistically, Cloudflare takes care of so much that it seems a bit foolhardy to try to DIY it these days...

If it were me doing this, I wouldn't self-host anything at all, and just use managed services all the way down, including the DBs. A lot less maintenance that way, especially for solo devs. Lets you focus on the business logic instead of trying to reinvent your own secure little nano cloud. It takes serious manpower to stay on top of the latest vulnerabilities and zero-days, and IMO it's not worth spending your limited time on that when the big clouds can do it much more cheaply and much more thoroughly... it's a full-time job in and of itself, and you still probably wouldn't keep up with all the latest attacks =/

Of course you end up learning less this way because other professionals do all the hard work for you. But unless you want to become a backend/security professional yourself and REALLY dive deep into this stuff, I don't think just having basic security skills is going to do you much good anyway, since it takes all of 30 seconds to spin up a pre-hardened cloud host these days, usually for free, and they will have much more exhaustive coverage. Just my 2c.
The main lesson I took from the SF->GH transition was to never, ever put my marbles in a bag owned by someone else again. I'm happy that GH is there to act as a totally public repo-website, and will happily auto-mirror to it, but I'll always self-host when it comes to the canonical repository for any project I'm nominally in charge of.
In my case this is an iPhone 14 pro. I'm pretty sure I can receive calls while using data, since I often look things up on the internet while talking to my parents.

And, by the way, the SMS in question never arrived. I don't know if there's some kind of timeout happening, and the network gives up after a while. Some 15 years ago I remember getting texts after an hour or two if I only had spotty reception. This may of course have changed in the meantime, plus this is a different provider.
> The highway patrol recently contracted Flock Safety to install the cameras, which appear to use a wide array of high-tech features that go beyond simply reading motorists’ license plates.

The cameras feature “improved vehicle recognition” that allows officers to search for vehicles by several identifying categories, including their “type, make, color, license plate state, missing/covered plates,” as well as bumper stickers, decals and roof racks, according to the governor’s announcement. The camera system also can provide real-time alerts when a vehicle sought by officers is spotted.

Some previous mentions of Flock Safety's camera networks:

[0]: ‘Talon,’ the Nationwide Network of AI-Enabled Surveillance Cameras https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26330370

[1]: AI licenseplate surveillance startup installed 100s of cameras with o permission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39545522
I know. I think he retired a couple of years ago.

He was a fairly competent producer, if he had gotten a better director on board, things might have worked out differently.

Postal, though, is brilliant, IMHO, because the movie captures the gross, absurd humor of the game perfectly. It's campy, which is what makes it work.
Spotify’s podcast player sucks too the only reason I would ever use it would be to listen to a Spotify exclusive podcast, none of which I care about
This is also sexualization: Playboy isn’t a fine art magazine or anatomy textbook where you’d at least have some plausible professional context. If someone just took a picture of a pretty woman which wasn’t intended to be pornography, nobody would be talking about this.
> However, before program cancellation, SDIO carried out the Clementine Deep Space Experiment, spectacularly demonstrating Brilliant Pebbles technologies.

Well apart from the effectors actually required to rapidly intercept and destroy incoming missiles [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementine_(spacecraft)
Pixelmator Pro is not free, but it's pretty affordable and pretty amazing, and it's not subscription based.
Well obviously they would have to talk to their psychiatrist, who would make the final decision. That is already legally guaranteed!

I just wanted to share the context that it is very common for people to approach ADHD treatment from the perspective of work, and not life. I've talked to many people who have had to advocate for their own healthcare in this context, and greatly benefitted by doing so.
The overall bargaining power is greater, sure. But the relative power isn't. They can always just leave and work somewhere else, a union literally does not have that option.

As an individual it is far easier to negotiate of you have an in demand skill. Which is obvious if you look at the study in the OP. College educated people benefit far less from unionization, they can negotiate for their own.
I just got a little more respect for pythonic whitespace-sensitivity

EDIT: come to think of it, even that might not have done much here, where well-formedness is the issue :(
> To me, it feels like a harbinger of what we could see in the future re: domain purchases.

Something that the iSCSI folks considered:

- A date code, in yyyy-mm format. This date MUST be a date
during which the naming authority owned the domain name used in
this format, and SHOULD be the first month in which the domain
name was owned by this naming authority at 00:01 GMT of the
first day of the month. This date code uses the Gregorian
calendar. All four digits in the year must be present. Both
digits of the month must be present, with January == "01" and
December == "12". The dash must be included.

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3720#section-3.2.6....

So if there was a change of ownership, the IQN would change.
Back when i used Windows, IrfanView was my go-to image viewer, downloaded along with SumatraPDF via ninite.com. There's something similar in the repositories in Software Manager on Linux Mint, and Pix is fuller-featured, but like Foobar2000 for music, I still miss IrfanView from time to time, probably because of muscle memory and being more impressionable back then. (There's almostt certainly a way to get these Windows programs running on LMDE, I just don't care enough to mess with it.)
Been using paint.net for years. The only downside it has is mentioning it's name, because people keep going to the completely unrelated "paint.net" website. Super fucking annoying.

Anyhow, the only paint program I've used in years. I consider it to be the modern Deluxe Paint ][. Can't get anyone to use it though, because they're all clueless normies stuck in the belief they need to use PhotoShop for everything.

If that makes no sense to you, consider the insane amount of people who buy an expensive DSLR, because they believe it makes them better photographers. Hint: It doesn't.
Prolog's evaluation semantics are order-dependent, though. I've always thought this was the reason why the two language paradigms didn't see more merging than they did. There are some datalog+RDBMS hybrids but, as much as I'm not a fan of .NET, I think LINQ has seen the most success in this space.
This is such egocentric/selfish thinking. I wish to live in a society which “pours” adequate sums of money into developing things for the benefit of all, not leaving it up to individuals like you who are in it only to benefit themselves.
A Makefile Improves My Side Projects
Wow, I can't decide which is the bigger act of sabotage to open source, your ideas or the actual backdoor.
> And if P neq NP, then SAT might not be P.

Small correction: If P != NP, then SAT definitely isn't in P. That's because SAT is NP-complete, so if it was in P, every other NP problem could be polynomially reduced to it and would hence also be in P.
The main enterprise-necessary feature missing in Postgres compared to Oracle is free trips to the Bahamas.
VA Loan? No money down.
There is something nightmarish about this kind of exploit, and that is maybe why we've been collectively in denial for such a long time.

How many supply-chain generated backdoors in the wild today?
i beg to differ: Professional Services

https://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support/
It's harder right now since interest rates went back up. But when they were low a few years ago, a 30-year mortgage didn't have such a huge monthly payment.

Anyway some of the most expensive cities are building more housing, and prices are coming down on average. Remember, you can put in a bid below the asking price.
> I've yet to see numbers on the probability of losing access to my email on Gmail vs another provider.

This is a great point. People often act as the other providers are 100 percent reliable without any numbers to back it up. Grass is always greener on the other side. To be fair, Google’s customer service is non-existent though.
You are right, but it’s at least one step in the right direction. Browsers are so timid when it comes to giving users control, I’ll take anything.

I don’t get this web developer attitude of just ignoring the user’s preference and working around it. The user should be in control of what the browser is doing, not the web developer. I really want to love JavaScript but it’s power to override user preferences is inexcusable.
The only long-term result of the incredibly expensive Star Wars programs championed by Edward Teller was that other countries developed systems that would defeat it - and some military-industrial contractors got wealthy.
Who owns Ai.com? It Directs to gemini.google.com
Previous thread last year showed Ai.com was forwarding to OpenAi then later to Elon Musk's xai.com and now it forwards to gemini.google.com.

Previous Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36981190

So who owns it?
My companies CEO just a few years ago was talking about just this - how remote was good because we could now pull from a greater pool of talent and how he couldn't imagine going back to full-time in office.

Complete about-take to now where the same person and all the execs can't help but mention at every opportunity how good being in-office is despite no company metric having improved since RTO, team morale and trust in execs at an all-time low, attrition higher than it basically has ever been and every company survey having outright negative results in every single metric.
Check out uBlock Origin's per site switches - subheading "No large media elements" [1]

[1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...
I think there is an equally reasonable likelihood that nation state security and intelligence apparatus have disinformation capabilities that include monitoring and when necessary posting to and attempting to influence online forums like HN.
New study finds people less likely to acknowledge war crimes on social media
Basically Minecraft
Also, require multiple technologies that hadn't even reached TRL 1 [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level
I haven't seen it mentioned about RTO yet, but I'm sure some managers really just want to be able to conduct certain conversations and behaviors in person, completely off the record. Working for these people would range in badness from being victimized to potential accusations of conspiracy.
Lol “I don’t know how to find porn on the internet”. Sure, guy.

Porn bots were literally one of the arguments Elon made about Twitter’s overvaluation.
Hey Jake, I meant capacity per shard in this case, not exhausting the IDs. Any potential solutions for that or is that not an immediate challenge?
This anecdote is not about white space. It sounds like some junior designer was allowed to go nuts and do whatever they wanted with zero regard for the actual users. The designer just found a bunch of stuff they liked online and just did whatever. The first thing their manager should’ve done upon seeing this work is correct them about the nature of their job: Designers must first understand problems and then solve problems. It’s a creative field, but at the end of the day designers produce business outcomes. Having sexy portfolio pieces and creative work that truly expresses the inner experience of the artist is great — but it has to take a back seat to what the designer is being paid to do.

Maybe “being oblivious to the needs of paying customers killed an enterprise app” is a better title.
If I'm not in the process of checking out, they don't need my email let alone my physical address.
It’s specifically to replace GIFs. If you don’t allow autoplay of muted videos people will just use GIFs which are way, way more bandwidth intensive.

It keeping your computer awake sounds like a bug though, it’s not intended behavior.
I can explain TCP for a general audience: "TCP is the primary system computers use to talk to each other over a network these days. All the data is broken down into tiny little bits called 'packets' and sent out over the wire. TCP is important because it specifies how the computers should perform 'handshakes' at the start of the conversation, and includes rules for checking the data for errors, and resending corrupted or missing packets."

I know (more or less) what Ethereum is, and I understand (more or less) that these 'blobs' are yet another attempt to work around the fundamental inefficiencies inherent when trying to make a giant distributed system for ideological reasons (rather than a small centralized system).
Doesn't work for FIDO-based tokens, they auth the site as well, so won't send anything to phishing site.
Obviously, my confidence can't directly change someone's prescription. Only their psychiatrist can do that.

My point here is that the many psychiatrists are working in a framework where the evidence they are looking for is that treatment helps the patient complete obvious tasks like improving at work or school. This is why children get the overwhelming majority of diagnoses: school provides a framework of hard data to make judgements from.

Work and school advocate for themselves. The rest of a person's personal life doesn't. That's why either a psychiatrist or their patient must advocate for holistic treatment.
From the literal article:

> After all, the archive is our collective memoir, if we can keep it. No complete digital record seems to exist in any other one place — not the Santa Barbara Public Library, UC Riverside’s California Newspaper Project, the Library of Congress, Newspapers.com, or the like.
Do our best? That's all we ever do when it comes to morals anyway. And I'm intentionally implying that we already value and protect knowledge, under a variety of different names.

Having said that, I don't really believe in one moral value to rule them all, I just think knowledge is a big one and useful for cutting through gordian knots.

It tends to return to feelings a lot anyway, since upsetting people isn't good for the growth of knowledge.
I recently discovered that you can attach an external electrode or two to a Muse headset: https://hackaday.io/project/162169-muse-eeg-headset-making-e.... This is a fairly cheap way to hack around with an EEG system that has four electrodes at the front and then an extra electrode you can place anywhere else you want. I think it would probably work pretty well for simple stuff like detecting P300s or SSVEP.

But yeah you definitely get what you pay for with EEG. In the lab I'm in, we have a $150k EGI system and a $40k cognionics system and even the cognionics system is way more glitchy/low quality compared to the more expensive systems.

Also, I wonder what happens safety/electrical noise-wise if you're plugging a raspberry pi into the wall? Generally, EEG systems are either battery-powered or use an isolation transformer. I wonder if it's best to power the pi with a battery.
Your understanding of what constitutes genocide is mistaken. It's not just murder. Any widespread or systematic attempt to remove an ethnic group from existence in a particular region counts, even if it's not successful or doesn't result in massive loss of life, if the intent is to disrupt that ethnic group's ability to sustain itself. Forced removal falls under this, as does ethnic reeducation. Japanese internment during WWII was arguably a genocidal act because its character as an act of ethnic cleansing (even if temporary, in hindsight) is often a first step to outright extermination. Thankfully, the war went well for America, and we felt no need to succumb to dangerous impulses; however, should Midway or other engagements have not gone well, or had the war been drawn out, putting a strain on resources, you would have seen starvation rates rise in the camps, at the very least.

You're making distinctions in service of, "Well, we weren't THAT bad," but generally, I would think the nominal international champion of freedom and justice would want to stay away from even the whiff of such things.
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"

We know how important LLMs are. We don't know the importance of things we haven't made yet.
Only in CMake, this time. Not in the autotools version.
Because the value of expertise does not readily show on balance sheets. Boeing had been systematically eroding expertise for 25 years before its planes started to fall out of the sky.
Corruption, end to end.
What does 'put their liability on' mean to you?

Because I suspect it does not mean what I think you think it means.

(Typically the EULA of all those non-Postgres systems are 'this is sold as is, no warranty as to suitability to your purpose, yada yada'

Often times people believe that if they're paying many monies for a support contract, that means they can relocate their liability to that company. Almost every time, that company has better lawyers / contract writers.