skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why blame the autistic person for the reporter's poor communication?

this specific sort of difficulty communicating is a daily reality for many autistic folks

I believe that communication can often be fixed by either party, but is usually fixed by neither
I think there are lots of hard jobs that go under appreciated in our society.

I think about people playing pro sports for millions and then minimum wage labourers, drivers clerks, cleaners and cooks who make minimum wages.
One group are celebrated and the other are essential to society continuing to function.
90% of the time someone posts an archive URL. I wish they would get pinned to the top (@dang :)
AWS provides different levels of support and care depending on what you pay, as well as better discounts at scale depending on how large you are.

A Snowflake will always be treated superior to Joe with his personal project.

Snowflake's product suggestions will always make AWS's roadmap, but Joe's will not.

Snowflake will (most likely) get a 70-90% discount per object while Joe will be paying a 100-300% oversell.
The Home-Solar Boom Gets a 'Gut Punch'
I really like the idea and the site too. Do you plan to increase the price in the future?
https://archive.ph/VEctW
Show HN: Live local log viewer with automatic syntax highlighting
Hey, HN!

I get onboarded to new projects sometimes with a bunch of local unstructured logs already set up. They come from different parts of the application at different layers - many without syntax highlighting. It's hard to make sense of things.

In contrast, something like your browser's dev console allows filtering, highlighting, and inspection of "unstructured" logs. I wanted something like that for any kind of terminal output.

There are some tools with a similar goal. I hope to make considerable UX improvements over those. I have a custom query language, a command palette, automatic syntax highlighting over unstructured code, and some basic chunking heuristics to combine certain logs if they're close together. It's the combination of the view and the search features that I think really makes it a helpful tool.
Few stations and $200 to fill up: Life on California's 'Hydrogen Highway'
I'd say it's people skills and marketing/PR.

Everyone I've seen rise through the ranks has absolutely nailed communication, self-promotion, parroting the party-line, moderating their words, adapting to their audience, improving their speech techniques, giving excellent presentations etc.
SLM vs. Fine-Tuning-LLM
It's hard work keeping the staff below the full time limit where they get benefits, squeeze suppliers and ensure the reliable flow of inane corporate directives downwards. Has everyone completed their mandatory union training yet?

I don't know man, I'd rather make new stuff, ya know.
The point is picks from it can duplicate.
Yes, but that’s also the only one self made billionaire I can think of so that make him more an exception than an example.

Granted I limit myself to people who created successful businesses with real added value and mostly satisfied customers : businesses that are positive for the society.
Salaries are awkward. I personally believe someone who collects the municipal garbage should make more than someone who sits in an office all day and solves logic puzzles. Because I wouldn't want to do it.
What's the current competition?
No drugs at private schools? The machinery catering to wealthy parents is good at 3 things, placatting parents, preventing scandals, creating interelite connections. It's not good at educating, no matter how expensive. There is simply put absolutely no incentives to work
Email is customary for some things of course, however I don't believe it is a "customary means of facilitating copying of software". Nor do I believe it is "providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server". It needs to be both to satisfy the license.
If both options paid you 240k a year, would you rather be a software engineer or do the exact job the Walmart manager does? I'm guessing you'd rather do SWE
The first time I was able to rescue a Solaris system due to the immutable statically linked /bin was a life saver. Now I fear for our futures!
Debian is merging /bin and /usr/bin as well. The "static bin" makes sense, if you follow it very strictly, in that case it ensures that regardless of how much you damage libraries, everything in /bin (and /sbin) will still work.

If you merge /bin and /usr/bin it becomes unclear which binaries you can rely on in an emergency. There's simply no easy way to tell at a glance.

Merging bin and sbin makes a little more sense to me. It avoids the very common scenarios where you type "sudo mount" or "sudo ip addr", something like that, and our shell just return "command not found", simply because it's not in the users $PATH. It's a minor convenience factor, but I can't see it making anything worse.
Perhaps because statistics themselves often also carry biases, with reality being contrary to what they show.

There's a reason for the quip "lies, damn lies, and statistics".
But responsive to what? There is not even a Cancel button.
The value of intellectual property correlates to your wherewithal to pay lawyers and inversely correlates with your adversary's wherewithal to do the same.

Good luck.
Twslive
Actually on modern systems it’s pure compute plus memory bounded. For this problem hashmap lookup is the biggest bottleneck. Parsing takes time away as well but not as bad as hashmap.
OpenSUSE did that; it was IMO marginally inconvenient because (IIRC) it broke tab completion of sbin binaries, even with sudo. Ex, "sudo pow<tab>" wouldn't give you poweroff.
You mean me - what have I got to do with it?

The clerk would see your balance and probably lots of notices about being a high-net-worth individual etc on their screen

And I don't care about your bank balance :)
I am looking. They are still dropping. That's the only way to get from bad to better.
Walmart’s current CEO, Doug McMillon, also began working there as a high schooler unloading trucks (before completing college and returning to a corporate role).

https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-ceo-doug-mcmillon-pr...
It happens nearly daily, and so do variations of this question.

The “This doesn't align with my expectations so it must be wrong” response is fascinating.
There is no moral. It just happend. The End. People have to travel sometimes and can't always be the driver/pilot/operator of the vehicle. And if they are, they can't always be at their 100%.
This looks really cool man, congrats on the launch! Would you mind sharing the tech stack you've used for this?
I've been around the block and I've never seen it referred to in this way. Dead code is dead code.
Presumably because the paywall is very porus.

And, I suppose, there are a few HN people who have subscriptions.

And probably a few who just upvote based on the title.

(I think it only takes 4 up votes to hit the front page if they happen quickly enough.)
> more than a lot of us software developers.

A big question I've tried to answer in my life is whether the high pay in the software world has an intelligent economic explanation, or maybe a more sinister explanation involving false models encoded in the law.
This isn’t accurate. Rather it’s removing 1,500 chars to bring the article from >300 chars to <300 cars, and among those remaining <300 chars one or more of several “obscene” words being present.
I don't about others but based on past experience if one really attempts to do their $240k software / IT job well they ought to encounter similar if not in some ways worse challenges - some just realities of the tech industry/stack/complexity and some injected by bureaucracy, incompetence, mismanagement and not to mention the ever hanging sword of change in technology and possibility of layoff for no fault of yours. It adds up.

When you are signing up for a job it's not just the money and the physical things you do - it's also the intangibles, the time spent in unproductive meetings, time spent afterwards feeling unproductive and worried, the resulting stress you have to manage etc, it all adds up and takes away something more than the money. I would argue that well managed jobs with some semblance of stability, human connection and predictability/routine are quite pleasant and easier to do compared to Software/IT.
I did both a group-project software engineering course and a research course in my undergraduate Computer Science program. It's definitely possible to do.
What about the reinterpreting of "usr" from "user" to "unix system resources" after Unix overflowed the original 1.5 MB OS drive on Thompson and Richie's PDP-7?

> "The /bin vs /usr/bin split (and all the others) is an artifact of this, a 1970's implementation detail that got carried forward for decades by bureaucrats who never question _why_ they're doing things. It stopped making any sense before Linux was ever invented"

- http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074...
There are really quite few programs that can’t be invoked by regular-ish users in the brave new world of user namespaces. It’s also entirely unclear to me why trying to sort programs into these particular buckets is useful.

At least the old /bin vs /usr split served a purpose, even if that purpose is rather obsolete.
Not that murderers are necessarily rational, but it is virtually impossible to not be caught in 2024. Between everything being on video, DNA, license plate tracking, mobile phone geolocation, web search history, tons of other databases, it's pretty rare for a major crime to be a mystery. At some level, the near-certainty of getting caught must have some deterrent effect.
Here is a migraine headache therapy that works on the same principle.

https://www.gammacore.com/

It’s really difficult to get prescription and insurance to line up and then they mail you a RFID card that you scan to “refill” the device.
> Isn't that why certain products are hated and how they eventually decline

It comes down to roadmap.

Inevitably, if you've successfully managed to 0-to-1 a very successful product, you have the itch to start something new and actually own it.

This means the visionaries leave and build disruptors, while the remaining people don't care about the mission.

A large enterprise company can continue to make cutting edge innovations if they continue to incentivize that within their corporate culture.

> Is this factored in into the pricing or is there a plan to deal with it if/when that happens

Yes. Product owners work closely with sales to identify prospects who's roadmap and vision matches closely with your internal roadmap and vision.

If it's a large enough customer, they will always ask for a 6-12 month roadmap.
On the other hand, there are a lot of Walmarts and similar stores, and a lot of people who have managed these in the past. There are many people who she can turn to for reliable advice. I'm assuming one Walmart is not fundamentally different from another. It's hard work, but it's essentially predictable.

Software developers are often called to do work that's not predictable. At the top of the pay grade we're generally asked to design something novel, because it's obviously not worth paying $240k / year for a developer whose work could be replaced by off-the-shelf software. (Sure, there are many exceptions and cushy jobs where people are raking in the cash with few risks. I'm thinking there are probably less of these around than a few years ago, though.)
hey, sujay (the author) here! happy to answer any questions about the post or convex more generally.
It's easier to find revenue streams that scale horizontally by the number of programmers and servers. It's hard to open new Walmarts. This won't always be true for either case, so make well of your situation regardless of whether you think there's some kind of difficulty or effort moat.
Shame on you for stalking (if that's what's going on here). You should have better things to do with your time.
Yeah, anyone who is paid well enough for something they enjoy is certainly fortunate.

OTOH, there are people who would be driven crazy by sitting in an office all day and wouldn't do it, even for more pay.
Hell just the time sink of using a laundromat with defective machines vs filling up your own machine and moving over loads when it’s convenient for you
This would be like asking the average corporate "software development manager" to actually look at the code/product developed by his reports. Except for early stage startups where the person is truly in a player/coach role, it rarely happens.
Twsliv
Its just supply and demand, like anything else.
Housing is a cartel with very artificially restricted supply. It’s not a free market.

Places in the US that allow housing construction to meet demand have more reasonable housing costs.
It's inspiring because it's in large part an outlier and not applicable to the vast majority of people who lack college degrees. It would not be remarkable it it were common or realistic.
Linux doesn't care; it covers Fedora and Gobo and Android and NixOS alike.

Pottering might do it, but... I dunno, does that affect embedded?
Worth reading about cancel culture on Wikipedia, including criticism of it as a concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture

In the Wikipedia entry, similar to how the article you posted noted, it quotes Connor Garel as saying "rarely has any tangible or meaningful effect on the lives and comfortability of the cancelled".
As we clarified under the sibling comment by KTibow (why is it flagged now?), downcasing the input text results on OK translations.
Probably because a significant portion of HN readership already subscribes to the websites that commonly make it to the front page, and others know how to bypass the pay wall (i.e. https://archive.is/lk15F if you want to read this without a subscription).

I can't remember seeing any pay walled article on HN that wasn't bypassable using popular free services online. Usually, someone will also link one of the bypass websites pretty soon after a post starts gaining traction.
That's not a given. From the report:

"According to the NTSB, a witness had come across the stopped CR-V prior to the collision and noted that neither its taillights or hazard lights were illuminated, She was able to change lanes and avoid hitting the Honda, but after she passed it, she saw the Mach-E strike the stopped crossover in her rearview mirror."

That means the witness car likely obstructed the view of the stopped vehicle, then changed lanes at the last minute, revealing the stopped vehicle after it was too late for the Ford to stop.
Build something that needs backend. Consider it a hobby. Your day job funds your hobby. Just as it pays the rent and puts food on the table.

Maybe your hobby leads to a better day job. Maybe it doesn't. If you enjoy building backends, it doesn't matter. If you don't enjoy building backends, then a job building them won't make you happy.

Good luck.
Model collapse doomers are such an odd bunch. It's as if they think that the humans training the models have no agency over the data they use, or how that data is processed/weighted/etc.
Minnows will still file support tickets and bugs, and clog up our support and engineering team's time, and then complain when we ignore them because we'd rather work on the support tickets that customer X who's spending $200k a year instead of you who is paying $1k a year.
Sorry I make an error on the link, it's https://twists-socials.com/
Is Air Chat Ushering a New Era of Social Audio?
Just because it worked out doesn’t mean it was fine and the way things should be. There are definitely better ways.
Or making developers run the app/website on average laptops/phones that users commonly use, rather than on the most expensive MacBooks/iPhones.
i agree. waste management of all kinds is huge
From what I can tell the number of unique elements is pretty small. This would mean the hash map will sit in cache. Parsing is likely the bottleneck; I dont see any use of SIMD in the linked code.
Never mind the small towns. Houston has no zoning laws at all, yet:

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/housing/2023/07/...
Oracle does just fine in their moat. That said, I’m still sad at what happened to Sun Microsystems.
I'm not American but I can do this rough: median salary PC Henderson county 37,457 (2022) after taxes $30,858. Mortgage rates seem to be about 8% for 30y fix atm so that's 36,500 deposit with $2017 monthly payment, but at least that's $0 fees.

At $2571 in pocket per month it'll take a while to save that deposit when median rent in that location is apparently $1500 for an apartment,let alone the fact you'll need a car and all your other bills (medical insurance in America I guess).

Then you'll have $500 left over after paying your mortgage every month. Somehow I don't think that's liveable.

Not everyone can crash with their parents while they save a deposit. Not everyone has a partner that works too. Some people have or want to have children. Not everyone works in tech, but boy am I glad I do...least until the machines take over.
I was talking about browsers, but I can see why the confusion happened, since Brave also has a search engine and this post is about a search engine.

Then yes, I use Google for my search engine. They do shady stuff, but they never campaigned against same-sex marriage, and none of the alternatives have given me good enough results and an acceptable political alignment for me to switch. Brave certainly doesn't seem much better, with unacceptable political stances and worse search results. DDG is getting there, but the search results are still not good enough to replace Google for me.
qq: Would this be in CUDA?
I've always liked Basecamp's view on whales vs minnows:

https://basecamp.com/small

https://www.inc.com/magazine/201606/jason-fried/saying-no-to...

https://medium.com/signal-v-noise/bigger-prices-bigger-probl...
The article doesn't cover how this is concentrated locally (shoving incidents in the NYC subway - to the tracks) vs. state-wide, or how the 2 databases the Federal government maintains and uses, have been redefined, and with unreliable reporting by the states due to the lag in the new reporting format of the federal government, doesn't allow for a like comparison over previous datasets. I grew up in Sunset Park, Brooklyn during the late 60s, 70s, and 80s, and yes, homicides are down. I think it was around almost 3k per year for NY then, and is a factor of 10 less now. But we had things like Son of Sam, FALN bombings in NYC (49 of them in the 70s), hijackings at the NY airports (137 in the US alone in the 60s to 70s), etc...
Thanks for the kind words!

For anyone interested in how pganalyze's approach compares to this extension (and other alternatives like dexter, or using HypoPG directly), I gave a talk with my colleague Philippe last year at PgCon that describes how we use constraint programming and CP-SAT for dealing with the trade-off between index write overhead and read performance improvement, across multiple queries on a table:

https://www.pgcon.org/events/pgcon_2023/schedule/session/422...
Congrats on the launch!

What happens if I reach the invoice limit? Does it just stop sending out emails, meaning I lose out my sales that fail to send their invoice?
FreshBooks has a similar API but different pricing and far more features. Payments integrated too.
On the ground the answer feels like 'culture'. People worship violence a lot less. Maybe that has other causes, but maybe not
Because /bin only contains binaries whereas /usr is self-contained. It will contain icons/libraries/shared resources/etc that the binaries actually need to function.

The idea is that /usr can be a snapshot of your whole system. (/etc violates this but there’s ongoing work on that side)
But what would the motive be there?

I don't think the scandal would be the main concern. The main concern would the life imprisonment that treason/spying, when discovered, usually leads to.
Yea, some people seem to miss that just because the car in front of you can jump over in another lane doesn't mean you can at all. If you have a car beside you, and the car you're tailgating does not, then you're screwed in an emergency situation like this.
SEO, conventional spam, propaganda, rage bait, click bait, addictionware platforms like Instagram and TikTok, and malware sites already murdered the web. LLMs are just giving it last rights and shoveling in the dirt.
I have just the one use case: to escape out of framework/annotation hell.

Say I have a well-designed, self-contained BusinessService class which is perfectly unit-testable.

Then someone comes along and sprinkles some @Magic bullshit on it. Now its true behaviour won't be exercised in plain junit - you need custom test runners with class-path scanning and late-binding configuration ("The gorilla holding the banana and the rest of the jungle" in Joe Armstrong speak).

If you want to reclaim your unit-testable class, you can divide it into two: SpringBusinessService extends BusinessService. Move all the Spring dependencies out of the latter into the former.

Now you get the best of both worlds - clean, unit-testable logic, and a service that Spring can obfuscate with middleware to produce 200-line-long stacktraces after a lengthy startup.
The root cause is that houses are built for decades. It's impossible to plan ahead at this timescale. The alternative is to make standard places for stackable houses, with flexible infrastructure (electricity, water, sewer, road, parking space) to fulfil demand in days, instead of decades.
I have a Hyundai Sonata that does at least ~4 seconds. It works very well, although it can be annoying when people jump in front of you too closely.
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Probably this https://invoice-generator.com/developers. More on it here https://github.com/Invoice-Generator/invoice-generator-api.

This appears to be a free service, but the code behind the API is not available.

Although, the one benefit for InvoicingAPI is that it gives an option to quickly give a payment code instead of having to send them to another payment application.
Yeah. If you’re entering a market with a very strong incumbent, a core of your marketing strategy likely needs to be clarity on why to pick you over them.
Walmart is a well oiled machine. Not saying there's nothing to improve, but in the context of the overall system in which it operates, it's crushing it.
Basecamp is a Productivity SaaS.

The expected margins, pricing among peers, and GTM is entirely different from the Enterprise SaaS space.

It's the kind of product that is priced to be within an EM's or PM's discretionary budget for productivity tools, or out of pocket.

The strategy used to build a Basecamp and Notion is entirely different from the strategy needed to build a Kong or Noname, as the buyers are entirely different.
s/rights/rites/g

(Not trying to be snarky or pedantic, "last rights" threw me for a loop until I figured it out.)
I'm a bit less apocalyptic, but I wonder about this, the "autophagy" TFA refers to.

AI producing and consuming its own output, and the resulting "model collapse", with human beings increasingly out of the loop in thus game of telephone.

I've noticed some "summaries" of content here on HN, posted as comments, with the telltale sign of LLMs. Adding no value whatsoever. Could some day be the case that a large number of posts even here are of AI bots interacting with each other?

I'm not sure about the "rebels" at the end of the article, how will they find each other in sufficient numbers, how will word of mouth spread in sufficient numbers?
We should learn from the xz incident. It's little things like these that make compromise harder. Not saying the fact that sbin exists did anything, but that more layers of armor is always better.