skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been a hiring manager, and while wages play a role, they do not significantly move the needle.

The main driver is talent base, ease of operations, and time zone overlaps.

The true value of offshoring comes from being able to essentially run 24/7 operations across a couple countries that have a strong talent base and relatively easy operations for us as a company (easy to fire, easy to hire, tax holidays, etc).

This is why Israel, India, Ireland, and parts of Eastern Europe like Romania, Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine became popular for software outsourcing.
We use a car for longer road trips, afternoon trips to the islands and for gardening supplies from Home Depot for our garden.
Most non-technical people have a pattern of work. They know how to do their job because it’s been repeated over years. This change will alter many of those patterns.

Even the simplest things like text editor or using a command line will be disruptive.

The support staff is going to be overwhelmed.
My problem with the system is the fact that merchants are prohibited from handling different cards differently, for example by passing reward fees to the consumers.

If that were not the case I would be happy and let the market pick the preferred way. My 2c.
Yes. Most schools too. Microsoft has incredible political power here.
Well, obviously it's very hard to compare things like this across time, and be confident you're still comparing apples to apples. But for instance, the evidence seems fairly compelling that young people are experiencing more mental health issues now than in past decades. For instance, suicide rates are a pretty firm indicator of this problem. And in pretty much any one of those past decades, you can find similarly compelling "doom narratives" as those today. But it seems fewer people were following them "into the abyss" of death.
...and also means that (a) your battery will be heated ready for a fast charge when you arrive, (b) the charger will likely actually be in operation, and (c) you can start charging your car as soon as you plug in without messing around with apps or cards.

Here in the UK at least, you still don't reliably get (b) or (c) with non-Tesla chargers. Though that is seemingly starting to change.
> To millions of small business...

In this day and age this should be read as "To millions of dropship vendors". And no, I don't want to see their scammy ads either.

I find local small businesses through Reddit or google maps. Never have I encountered an ad for one in the wild.
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Show HN: I made a daily puzzle game about mixing colors
While on paternal leave, I wanted to create a game my newborn daughter could eventually play and learn something from. I was heavily inspired by the daily puzzle games I consistently play such as Wordle and Strands.

Refractor is a game about connecting colored tiles together to reach all the goals. Use "refractor" tiles to combine two colors together but be careful not to trap yourself in! The game is won when all goals are fulfilled.

The tech stack is: Laravel + Inertia, React + TypeScript, and DaisyUI + TailwindCSS.

Open to any questions or feedback. Hope you might find it interesting!
Ask HN: How to terminate an employee with mental health issues?
As in the title, I lead a small company. We currently employ 35 employees. I genuinely care about each and every member of my staff. The people who work for us seem to be happy. We were all doing very well until a few months ago.

In February 2023, we hired John. John seemed like a perfect match for our team. He had the right experience and came highly recommended. The trial period went well, but as soon as it finished, John started calling in sick at least once a week. It became really bad, and he finally revealed that he's chronically ill and also struggles with severe mental health issues. He begged us not to fire him. We talked with his team and decided to give him a chance. We were very accommodating and as supportive as possible. Together with another member of the company, we spent many hours trying to figure out how to best help John in his unhappy circumstances.

Unfortunately, over a year later, this is not sustainable anymore. I will spare you the details, but John's behavior is really bad right now, and it's affecting other staff members. Terminating John's contract seems to be the only solution. We have a great legal team who told us how to handle it from a legal side. However, we are still concerned. It is so bad that we would not be surprised if John decides to harm someone or himself if he finds out that he lost his job. Also, we cannot fire him right away. His contract's cancellation notice is two months so he will be still here for two months after he finds out which is something we all dread. Any advice?
>This is why Israel, India, and parts of Eastern Europe like Romania, Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine became popular for software outsourcing.

Not sure about the rest but it's definitely not easy to fire in Romania at all, and workers there get a lot of mandatory legal benefits like generous sick and parental leave. Unless you hire them B-2-B, which is quite common for high wage outsourcing jobs, then yeah.
How confidential is the information?

Perhaps you could allow the token to be password encrypted.

Store the encrypted token in local storage and store the decrypted token in session storage.
Another great universal helm chart is app-template (https://bjw-s.github.io/helm-charts/docs/app-template/), which is pretty widely used in the selfhosting community (at least by the small subset that runs Kubernetes).
>and if Linux turns too complex there is always macos

I have witnessed in person people switching from Windows to macOS have issues adapting to a different operating system and its concepts, like the fact that pressing the X button in the top-left corner doesn't close the application. Therefore I am rather skeptical that you can just throw some Linux distro at a bunch of novice computer users without large amounts of friction.
I feel the real issue is that we are all slaves to convenience and inertia.

Every single product we own, every single habit we have, pollutes the land, water and air, and hogs resources. Any engineering effort to address the resultant mess is unequal to the sheer scale of consumption, even if doesn't have side effects of its own, like say permaculture. I think that the only solution is a shift to a simpler life style. But that's not really going to happen, so nature will find a way that's very inconvenient to us.
They're all in favour of free-enterprise, why not sell the membership list to an advertising company. It's just Dogfooding.
That's for apps that request the additional ability to poke about in the local network to look for e.g streaming devices or other devices to control
If this would be the case: Thank you for creating a job opportunity for more open minded people ;-)
Picking mushrooms wild is, in fairness, hugely time-intensive.

Also a great outdoor activity, so keep doing that. I'm sure you know just the right spots by now. :-)
repeat for every app: https://www.imore.com/how-stop-siri-learning-how-you-use-app...
> You've stated this as a fact but small businesses thrived before Facebook, so I think it's fair to assume they'll thrive after Facebook is long gone, absent other evidence.

The unit economics have totally changed though as there are many more businesses that exist now that simply could not have done in the old model.

The previous company I started was a direct to consumer UK heating product. In the old world we would have had to go through big shed retailers and lost 50-60% margin with 90 to 180 day payment terms and would have had to stock all of their stores from day one. The expense would have stopped that business from ever being started.

With digital platform advertising we could specifically reach our target demographic, loose only 20% margin to customer acquisition and postage costs (so afford to start with smaller manufacturing runs), get paid the day we sold the unit so cash flow positive, hold much less stock and order from our suppliers in response to demand and run our own just in time factory.

The business was much smaller that it would have had to be in the previous world, much less risky and, frankly, only viable thanks to very targeted advertising that allowed us to tell our potential customers about our product when they most needed it.

In this kind of discussion people seem to assume the product spectrum is binary. It's either useful and so would thrive regardless of advertising or useless tat that only exists thanks to digital platform marketing.

That just isn't the case, sure - those ends of the spectrum exist but there is a vast array of businesses in the middle that could not have existing in the old world and aren't useless drop shipped tat.
The change was literally just made: https://github.com/google-research/google-research/commit/4a...

It appears this was in response to Hacker News comments.
In that case their question can be answered thus: Because that proprietary, closed software from a single vendor is the industry standard and you will get laughed out of the room for deviating.

It's a stupid question and virtue signal statement no matter which way it goes. Either it falls down on itself from hypocrisy, or it falls down on itself from defying reality.
When it's open source, forking / moving is always an option and you're not vendor locked or being charged exuberant fees with no other option.
> Most libraries focus on silly things like formatting and filtering which are all trivial problems.

I wanted to print structured data on stdout, without any fuss. All the other libraries that try to tackle the non trivial problems you mention, feel like a bazooka aiming at the ant that is my use case.
Data can also be downloaded to use it offline https://github.com/oeis/oeisdata
> it’s probably unreasonable to expect anyone to get something explicitly designed and paid for in this context.

Besides the obvious answer of "then don't use an image", they could also use a stock image.
None of the above are "basics", they range from undergraduate to research level topics, in particular; the two Princeton Companions are a must have.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691118802/th...

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691150390/th...

PS: In an earlier HN thread, somebody had highly recommended the 4-vol Foundations of Applied Mathematics developed for Brigham Young University’s Applied and Computational Mathematics degree program for beginning graduate and advanced undergraduate students. I have not browsed/read them yet but they are on my "future acquisition and study" list. They seem great and well worth looking into - https://foundations-of-applied-mathematics.github.io/
It's not implying anything. It's explicitly telling "We as a society have decided for you"

This is literally what law is. A social construct to codify (and enable the enforcement of) what is deemed moral vs amoral.
Six years until we can put the myths of Atlantis and underwater UAP bases to rest, then. But it's an impressive effort, long overdue for our civilisation, really...
China obviously can build things, but I don’t know how you can compare India to the US. It’s far more of a shit show there, with things getting tied up in courts for even longer than the US. And I would not trust the quality as much either.

Building things is easier with cheaper labor, fewer environmental and safety concerns, and fewer property rights, all of which the US does not have anymore.
While we're in this topic: why is unsecured credit card debt NOT tax deductible but secured debt like HELOC is?

Fwiw I don't really care what the technical reason is, it's a rhetorical question to add to the ways the credit system holds back the poor.
I did think about this - but then I thought the variation in displays/monitors and people would enhance the experiment.
Zimbabweans are modifying Starlink terminals to disguise them from authorities
In a country choked by high internet costs and limited options, Zimbabweans are turning to remarkable ingenuity. Facing arrest and equipment seizure for using Starlink, tech-savvy individuals have devised a way to disguise the kits.
Recipe blogs were the first thing I thought of! At least most of those have a link at the top to jump right to the recipe.
What they're really trying to tell us is that AI is the new bitcoin.

It consumes too much energy and costs too much to justify any real benefit to society. But as long as you're willing to pay to play, they're game.
> Can they love a device that shares data with their employer and advertisers

Other than basic information at set-up time, I don't see any indication that the collected info leaves the device
It's the legislation that disallows vendors to have different pricing based on the payment system that disaligns the incentives.

If I have a card that gives back 2% to me, back causes 5% fees to the vendor, both of us would be better off if I used a card with 1% fee, and the vendor gives me 2% discount. Unfortunately, not allowed.
"they don't get to think" is not an explanation and can't even be true. This is not an LLM it's a real human.

They do get to think. Ergo it's only an excuse/defense.
This story is bonkers! Im sorry you went through that. What did your lawyer say?
They should sell their gaming division to Valve.
Apologies, which part of the quote is a contradiction? I'm not seeing it.
"hire B-2-B", a.k.a. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_self-employment ?
Even after CISA's review of the summer 2023 Microsoft Exchange online intrusion?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39929246
I think that's their point, that if the jobs being taken by Brits are ones without anyone in the US able/willing to fill the position then the headline of "stealing jobs" is a bad one.
Those other libraries dependend on by sshd are hopefully more closely monitored. The upstream sshd developers probably did not even consider that liblzma could end up being loaded in the process.

Make excuses for systemd all you want but loading multiple additional libraries into crytical system deamons just to write a few bytes into a socket is inexcusable and directly enabled this attack vector.
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as an alaskan, those aren't mutually exclusive
It's deliberate, if you read their document* from a few years ago "Britain Unchained" that was basically the plan.

*I say document, it's written like it's by 6th formers who have just discovered Ayn Rand, but it is pretty short.
The fed set a high bar (97% reliability) and a station every 50 miles along interstates.

Then there's state regs with some states (like Ohio) already well along before the bill passed.

And you have to plan the network and manufacturers have to ramp up.

We can build it fine, eventually.
Have you contacted TV stations and other news outlets?
Why is this constantly happening and nothing comes out of it? I've been reading same headline for past 20 years, I thought even if it was a single town, most of Germany would be running Libre/Open Office by now.

Also OnlyOffice is a much better candidate, it's very usable and OSS as well.
I don't think this is anything like poetry. The dependency resolution doesnt seem to handle much variation in arch or Python version or other variables I at least have to deal with. I generally use poetry for dependency management (only runs in dev) then use pip or venv-update to install in prod from a generated requirements.txt.

uv looks like a good and fast replacement for pip or venv-update but those only take a fraction of a second to run (on a noop, my main use case) so I personally haven't seen where uv would fit in my workflow yet. Maybe building in containers from scratch each time, though again pip is performant enough for me when not doing the hard work of dependency resolution, and for some reason it's not cached.

I am not sure why dependency resolution outside of dev or build systems would be done. But maybe I have escaped the loop.
Only if you exclude the attack vector of linked MS products.

How many malware attacks are based on some kind of Office exploit?
It is wild isn't it - I know it was a blip but when I went to Auz 25 years ago it was AU$2.50 to the pound, EU was 1.67 to the pound when I went on holidays to Greece in my 20s and then when I first went to the states (2008) it was $2.05 to the £.

In 2008 was chatting to a lady in LA who couldn't believe (at that exchange rate) that we paid $7 for a Starbucks - she assumed we were all loaded, and for that trip it certainly felt that way.

But now when I go to the EU or US I feel broke - my money barely goes as far as it used to. I know that my salary has barely kept pace with inflation the last few years, but life in Britain (even with a good job) feels hobbled.
Not sure what that can even mean. How is time different on Mars? Do they mean, shows the sun phase in some manner? Where on Mars? What time zone? What about Uranus that rotates on it's side and has no 'days' at all?

I guess you get a pretty watch dial anyway.
Sure (if they are openai api compatible i can add them within minutes) otherwise I'm open for pull requests :)

Also, i don't own an Nvidia Card or Windows / MacOS
They also should have made deals with hotels. When I travel for business, I’m not going to allow for delays for finding and waiting for charging stations. They should have made a deal with Hampton Inn. Hertz kept trying to push EVs on me and I kept asking where I would charge them and the clerks had no idea.
Yes, simply copy paste.

But the idea of the experiment is that it seems to be important that the Chat doesn't have to answer immediately with the first token after reading the task description and it doesn't matter what these extra tokens are. My hypothesis is that chat gpt gives better answer after threatening it not because of the threat but simply because of extra time it has to think about the problem.

So I would assume the same results would hold if you simply extended your prompt with " before answering here are the first 1k tokens of Lorem Ipsum.
>As someone who lives in the UK it's pretty depressing that we somehow seem to have succeeded in mismanaging ourselves into being a low-wage economy.

Not sure where you got this from but the UK is far away from a low-wage economy. I once met a British engineer in a bar here in Austria and he was handing over industrial automation activates for relocation of a auto assembly from the UK to Austria, citing the much lower wages in Austria compared to UK.
I think Russia doesn't have an unlimited supply of AA weapons. Most are close to the front, many around Moscow and St.Petersburg, and there are many factories and refineries in Russia to cover.

Why their drone factory is not defended properly though, beats me.

Also don't forget Mathias Rust, who landed near the Red Square with a Cessna in 1987, who was tracked, lost, tracked again and lost again.
No, you contract with another business to employ them on your behalf. Legal, common, and much more flexible.
> In industry, we sometimes distinguish interchange—which mostly goes to the issuing bank—and scheme fees—which mostly go to the credit card brand itself—but as interchange is much larger, let’s just call them both interchange for simplicity.

It’s frustrating to read an article that acknowledges (indirectly) that payment networks don’t earn revenue from interchange nor have anything to do with reward programs, but then goes on to say that for simplicity they will refer to it as if it did.
Is there any list that's growing slower over time than the Dedekind numbers? https://oeis.org/A000372

New entries in the years 1897, 1940, 1946, 1965, 1991, 2023.

(see also "Ninth Dedekind number discovered: long-known problem in mathematics solved" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36491677)
<ext4> I have no proof it was false data
<zfs> YOU HAVE NO PROOF IT WAS CORRECT DATA!
Point taken about India, probably a bad example. As for the rest -- EU can build things and has similar labor costs or even higher in some cases due to more unions and bureaucracy around them. China's labor costs are lower than ours but they are no longer bargain-basement-low.

Autocracy certainly makes it easier to build some types of things like trains, but EV chargers do not require autocratic land appropriation. Hell it'd be pretty easy to sell stores and restaurants on allowing them in their parking lots because customers are likely to come inside and shop or grab a meal while the car is charging. This is why you can very often find chargers in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
What was the point of finding the actual list you asked for if you weren’t even going to look at it?
Please stop spreading nonsensical, thoroughly debunked claims such as rape.
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My wife just started a new job in the Netherlands and I was super excited to hear that her office uses Ubuntu and LibreOffice for all their PC's. She wasn't interviewing for a tech job but apparently her being reasonably familiar with both was helpful at her interview (all those years of Raspberry Pis around the house paid off!)

Is this normal? It certainly would be an outlier back in the US.
Exactly. Rubber Stamps belong in a museum. Along with Fax machines. And the people still insisting on using those for "security reasons". Common practice in Germany is to receive an email with a pdf, print it, sign it (or stamp) it, and then put it in the post. This both stupid and slow.

German bureaucracy is still paper driven. Having lived in other countries with more or less full digital access to all the stuff Germans still do with paper forms or in person, I know the difference. It's slow, tedious, expensive, error prone, etc.

Any paper forms should move online. The whole ritual of printing them, filling them in with a pen, and then having people manually copy information back into some ancient database is just completely backwards. People should sign stuff digitally. This is not only possible but common practice in most of the countries bordering Germany.
TLDR:

logger.log(
logfmtxx::level::error,
"internal server error",
logfmtxx::field{"http.method", "GET"},
logfmtxx::field{"http.path", "/"},
logfmtxx::field{"http.status", 500}
);

This is a very dated approach to structural logging.

Modern implementations are effortless: https://izumi.7mind.io/logstage/index.html
Oxy is a pretty good example of the pros and cons of legalizing it.

Deaths from prescriptions were relatively rare - but it created a huge number of addicts with escalating tolerances.

Then as progressive efforts were made to reduce distribution, pill-mills and secondary markets appeared (i.e. crime). Then with further restrictions, addicts moved off oxy entirely, onto heroin, and then fentanyl flooded in - and bodies piled up.

Just "legalizing" might reduce the harm, but would increase number of addicts.
Prescriptions for existing addicts is good for them - but dealers aren't just going to give up, they'll focus on creating new users.

I don't think I've ever seen a perfect solution - but things like distributing naloxone or creating supervised places to self-administer seem like no-brainers in the meantime. Resistance seems to come from a somewhat ugly place where people see users dying as the problem being solved.
Wasn’t that all set in motion by Thatcher?

Especially the deteriorating economic situation for the entirety of the UK outside of London?
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