skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Ask almost anyone in NYC, for example, and they'll tell you that the city feels less safe than it a decade ago.

"The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's something wrong with the way you are measuring it". —Jeff Bezos <https://sports.yahoo.com/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-explains-2123...>
Persistent neuroinflammation seems to be a more likely cause.
On the other hand, I saw this just this morning: https://x.com/RealDanODowd/status/1778224756220940585
In the state of immutable distros that use a modern image format (so not Android), /usr is read only and managed by the system only anyway.

imho we should go the entire way and move /home to /var/home, so anything other than /etc and /var can be read-only, I already place /var on a separate partition with /var/home on RHEL installs.
Roku have turned into a really shitty company. Did they not just update their terms to prevent folk suing? Seems convenient…
"support" is one of the biggest scams in enterprise software today.
This is a wonderful piece and I am glad that I came across it.
The line that really hit home for me is the description attached to the photos with his girls.
I have two young girls now and I take it to heart that right now may be the best time in my life.
This sentiment has been something I have heard from many people about their children at this young age.
This is just more confirmation to slow down pay attention.
It will be ironically funny if the original Yahoo! model of fuman-curated search results wins in the end.

Also, the LLMs aren't necessarily doomed. Presumably, the humans running them are looking out for the problems of inbreeding or LLMs-eating-their-own-excrement, and will implement some combination of not feeding that crap, and/or freezing the model at a peak point where the results are still primarily based on human creations. Perhaps ChatGPT 4.3 will be the peak?

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If you live off of formulaic click bait, you are in trouble.
It feels about the same to me. I've lived here my whole life. One notable change is how much expectations of "safety" in the city have expanded: there are neighborhoods my family would not have gone to as a kid that are now considered trendy or even wealthy. The city's progress there has not been uniform (and in many ways continues to punish the city's neediest demographics), but that alone is a substantial factor in the overall feeling of safety.

(NYC's blessing and curse is that literally anything out of the ordinary to ever happen gets recorded. This results in paradoxical motion: the crime trendline has consistently gone down decade-over-decade, but there's more public evidence of those crimes for real-time news to report on.)
Hey thanks for having a look. Indeed one gap in my platform is the lack of GUI for creating an invoice. Atm it's just through the API but I should have mentioned that the online builder is in the works. So it won't be bound to developers only.

Overall I'm still iterating on the platform, it's current state is not the final one so there are more features coming.
I've run my share of long extension cords and chained power strips, running every which way, in both rentals and owned dwellings, powering space heaters and everything else. One thing you really need to watch out for is the connections - even a good tight plug+receptacle has higher resistances (electrical+thermal) than the cable itself or a hardwired terminal screw clamp. An older looser-fitting receptacle can make poor contact with higher resistance and even arcing, making a lot of heat. And also the risk of physical damage to the cable of an extension cord is generally higher. So do what you will, but make sure you're inspecting such runs often, especially for excessive temperature rise at the ends.
And ability differences. For example there is a ton of supply for basketball players. But the product is magnitudes better with Lebron James than it is with me on the court.

Is the best garbage person in the world that much more productive than your average person (not even versus another garbage person, but someone you randomly pick and train them for a couple of weeks)?

Based on my years interviewing there are huge levels between the best SW engineers and even those with CS degrees, much less randomly selected people.
40% chance to double your money in 4 years is an expected value of 20% compound growth a year. Seems like a solid bet vs VTI
Marissa Mayer, while at Google, kept using dialup at home so she would experience what someone without broadband sees.
The justification is that they can.

This is all marketing. All the speed tiers, all the add-ons, etc. are all marketing. There's no technical reason for any of it. 5G has huge bandwidth, and the fiber backhaul has huge bandwidth. The most that can be argued is that a saturated link needs fair queueing applied to it to give customers fair bandwidth while the company installs more capacity.

But you can't underprovision and then charge a premium for a fast lane if you are running the company on technical principles.

If you asked for justification, the carrier would say that tethering is usually used for business needs, and the increased use would be unfair to non-business users.
Good stuff, just added this and some others mentioned in this thread to my Postgres Is Enough listicle: https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f...
This is only a partially educated guess from a worm's eye view of FAANGs but if the product is designed to run on a FAANG's internal infrastructure, relies on their their internal-only libraries and development processes, etc., it would likely be more effort and risk to undertake the engineering to transform it into a standalone spin off business than it would recoup. Not to mention that key project staff would likely rather stay with the FAANG and initiate internal transfers rather than be spun off, further complicating the process.
Because in this day and age on Fedora, there's practically zero difference between sbin and bin.

You could separate it I guess correctly between system-only bins again, but you'd break existing software that's hardcoded sbin and bin.
What I did with grid was use media (or container, easier to debug at top level and necessary when nested) queries to do a completely separate layout for the same DOM when the viewport (or parent) was too small horizontally. The problem with flex is that it means "adjacent" elements can randomly wrap anywhere even if they really belong close to each other, whereas with grid I could arrange for closeness separately for each available horizontal size.
> For people writing on the internet for motivations other than ad-driven monetization, and those who read their stuff, there is basically no issue.

This is the key, I think. But it's small--The Small Web. I think we'll be better off, though.

Have a day job and produce quality content in your spare time, is my motto. A few billion people producing content in their spare time is still more than we can ever hope to consume.
> that is easy

Anyone who has supported digital devices for friends and family (especially elderly ones) knows it is in fact not easy.

These accounts exist for the commercial benefit of companies. They could tie authorization to the hardware if they wanted to, like it used to be before the internet, but they don't. The idea that consumers need to do data and security management for the commercial benefit of corporations has gotten absurd. We're doing their IT for them, and still getting hacked even when we do it right. Remember Equifax? Pepperidge farms remembers Equifax.
tax bill before you sell scenario is valid for ISO. NSOs is a whole other ballgame, with its own tax benefits
Don't blame the home owners for taking advantage of state sponsored real estate speculation. The only reason they are able to sell at 3x is because someone cut a speculator an easy loan. This is a feature of any system that allows loans against real estate.
No sympathy from this software engineer/developer. Especially since i have seen burnout in my closest friends and mildly in myself.

Sunk cost fallacy is what keeps these doctors stuck. They get addicted to the lifestyle, income, and prestige after years low on the totem pole. The workload seems manageable until the reality of boundaries being crossed involves having to choose. We only have 24 hours in a day.

This is not just a medical industry issue. The tech industry is inherently prone to burnout when potential rewards can exceed even that of a doctor. I know too many stories of drug-induced burnout while trying to keep up a certain lifestyle. We all have a choice, and we need to check in with ourselves to make sure we are not losing more than we gain.
Yeah but the majority of murders are not spousal.
Without setting up the TV partially and downloading an app? You can also add a bluetooth keyboard to most TVs as well.
Disagree. The most important skill as you go up higher in the ranks is emotional regulation.

Many, many people simply aren’t able to do that. You can’t manage complex organizations that include people without that ability.
Use that tune when your CEO is yelling at you because your CRM went down and you need help fixing it.
This doesn't sound like a "breach". Rather Roku failed to detect use of weak/compromised passwords by users by attackers who successfully authenticated. Obviously some user data could be leaked but presumably the attackers were selling the accounts for use by others to watch TV?
That seems like it would mean you're restricted to a dataset from before 2022ish or you have to use data that's significantly more expensive to clean.

That seems like it might make the training process untenable.
That kind of surprises me, since then I'd figure that somebody would be making the equivalent of a reprap that puts out glass filament like this 3D glass printer [1] or various glass resin methods ([2] and [3]) Just with some kind of inline laser processing, or post deposition modification. Most of those use UV or lasers anyways. The methods mentioned don't seem like those should cost $20,000/unit unless the unit's 1km+.

[1] https://www.nobula3d.com/

[2] https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2019/11/gla...

[3] https://www.glassomer.com/products/glass-3d-printing.html
No, it’s about making it easier for users to use useful software and for developers to produce useful software at web-scale.
>Was definitely expecting this to be a story about someone who graduated college and walked into management. I have respect for anyone who could rise though the ranks of retail.

Some huge percentage of Americans's first job is at McDonald's (another business that has historically found management talent in-house). They learn the importance of cleanliness, customer service, accuracy.
I guess there is a limit to the total number of GPU's a company may need
Also relevant, ClueBot NG, which uses ML to automatically revert vandalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ClueBot_NG

This kind of thing is a clear benefit of ML, in my view: there's far too much vandalism on Wikipedia for humans to reasonably be able to tackle it. You need an automated immune system of some kind.
>At the same time the price of construction grade metal has come way down. Thus large beam construction has become a luxury.

Have you ever seen an old 2x4? This isn't "large beam" but it's obviously higher-quality than new 2x4s.

>As for housing quality, post war tract homes were wildly worse. My wifes family still owns the tract home they lived in growing up. It was exposed concrete, exposed roof and no ductwork until a HUD funded remodel in the 70s. It’s also 750 sq feet. A modern double wide trailer is higher quality.

There used to be some homes built to low specifications. But most were built super solid. Ductwork, insulation, and just about anything else can easily be upgraded. Compared to classic European houses, ours are temporary trash.

>A modern double wide trailer is higher quality.

You just discredited yourself there to everyone who knows even a little bit about houses. Go find a 50 year old trailer and see how that looks lol. American houses are optimized for size at the expense of permanence, and trailers are no different. They are cheap for a reason. Although they can be good for some people (no judgement here), it's just not on par with either a new house or an old one.
Maybe, but then, why not commercialize internal infrastructure into a dedicated BU or SKU like Amazon or Microsoft does?
Do you care if your employees are high at work? I don't
Wasn't it a Solaris thing originally? That's where I first saw /usr/sbin.
This source says otherwise:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9896080/
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Landlords do provide value. The issue is that underlying asset they are renting is so massively and insanely over valued. If you could get housing for 10% of income, even 50% margin on top of that might make sense in many cases. As landlord would provide some value, like not needing to maintainenance and not needing to transact with property when moving.
I had a coworker whose remote job in the suburb didn’t protect him and he became one of the pandemic murder statistics after his wife shot him in the head. I doubt the increase in murders was driven by random street violence; murder had almost always been amongst people known to each other.
Well, aside from somatic mutations arising during development.
whew thought this was a guide on how to avoid getting manipulated on social media into buying calls and puts after reading DDs

i think best thing to do is not offer illiquid stock options but a sliding scale revenue share.

Of all the startups that I have been a part of, only 1 found buyers for the stock options but even then it was too little because it didn't IPO, it just sold to another player.

It's down right misleading to offer pieces of paper with the right to buy a stock that has almost nil chance of seeing retailers without disclosing the odds. The odds are close to nil for startups looking to IPO.

By doing revenue share, it forces you to be long term orientated, you are now focused on growing a steady stream of net positive cash flow. This puts you in a much better negotiating position, you can use leverage from banks to get anywhere from 30~60 cents on the dollar, to redistribute back into operations or bonuses.

THEN you can accept that invite from a VC or PE (dont recommend it due to the time constrained nature of PEs that are incompatible with long term orientated management) and absolutely have the odds in your favour.
>It's also caused by the idea that housing should be an asset to make someone else money, rather than solely a place in which a person/family can live.

Same argument for food, basic clothing, healthcare, education, transportation, etc. right? There is an argument to be made for communism, but it's not got a great-looking track record.
Hey there! Seems like a BaaS product. What problem areas do you think Convex solves the best among other alternatives?
For this, you can use nix with deploy-rs, and define those configurations declaratively.
We should learn from the xz incident by adding real security. For example, the ways programs use libraries could be restructured to prevent libraries, and especially libraries whose functions are not called, from having side effects.

Or packaging tools could learn to verify that a release is exactly a git commit and not some tarball that may or may not have any particular relationship to a commit.

Or we could make sure sshd is in /usr/sbin? I don’t get it. What does that accomplish? It’s not as if the stuff in a directory called “sbin” is inherently more “secure”.
It only does if the embedded developer wants it to. You can include systemd tools in your embedded release, but you don't have to. Just like you don't have to include GNU tools in your embedded Linux release.
I think it is more accurate to say that there is simply a larger supply of labor than demand for much of history, resulting in relatively lower wages, and favoring capital holders.

You see much higher wages in sectors where demand for workers outstrips supply. AI architects and neurosurgeons don't need labor organization to capture high salaries.
I received the email saying i was included.
I use a PW manager.
I've never been at Google, but I've been at Yahoo and Facebook...

The problem with spinning off something that was designed and built as a Google project is it would take a lot of work to run it outside of Google.

What I saw in Yahoo wasn't too conjoined, ads, user login, and link tracking would be effort to move, but most of say Yahoo Travel was just regular PHP with regular MySQL underneath. You'd need a new packaging/remote installation tool as well, but ok.

Otoh, at FB and I gather at Google as well, everything is proprietary tools. Some of which end up sort of open sourced. But it's not like you can take a source dump and spin it up in another cloud; it would probably be a 6 - 12 month slog, and then you've lost whatever thin market you had.
Linux will fade away, split into dozen forks, when all its founders are long gone, and the replacements aren't bound by the same ideals.

And a new generation of OSes that show some traces of UNIX influences will carry on.

Just like Windows still carries CP/M and MS-DOS traces on it.
I wonder if it's to do with always focusing on the same distance. When doing a job where you're walking, your eyes are constantly focusing at different distances and taking in lots of information that's more rich than any website can give you.

Maybe constant screen time just tells your body "hey you can relax, nothing is around to attack you"
I'm at a director level and I routinely look at code and even more frequently look at product in a late stage start-up.
The comment you’re responding to is trying to genuinely explore their beliefs and it’s kinda gross for you to shit all over it in an ostracizing way. If you disagree then engage with your perspective without being unkind. The style of your response is in general the root of many society’s problems and I would have thought someone who espouses mind expanding practices would be better aware of that
Yes, the significance of the “specific_date_time_value” is that certain users will want to query based on that to determine if it’s a device that they should remediate. A large percent of the queries though would be based on now() vs a specific date.

In all of these approaches the issue occurs when I add the grouping stage as it doesn’t seem to be a way to just get the earliest value for each device without reading all records for each device.

Could you explain the queue to surface the next event easily?
I have absolutely had managers (and managers managers) contribute code. I think the typical team lead manager lite position was supposed to be like 20% of time on development and my managers manager who oversaw like 30 people contributed some when our team was behind. Probably didn’t read much code outside of what they contributed though.

At one of the largest tech companies.
I’ve tried that a while back with my SO who has a very keen sense of disorientation. It was very aggravating to my SO and I quickly decided I value our relationship more than always being the one to read the map. YMMV.
I find these two things to be inextricably bound together in my own life.
Funnily enough, Roku now explicitly disallows this and will reject any paid app on their platform that tries to use it. (Although Netflix, Amazon, etc can do what they like as usual.)
Hmm, yes, the Great Chinese Famine: you say "break some eggs", Wikipedia says "one of the greatest man-made disasters in human history".
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True but the number of hours I work in SW + the number of hours I think about my job outside of work is still probably less than a typical doctor's working hours so I feel like we come out ahead anyways.
The ultra-wealthy do have a disproportionate impact on resource consumption and carbon emission (lots of air travel, fancy cars, large houses and more) but it’s not 10000x like their wealth might imply. Their companies might be responsible for a majority of global emissions, but guess who’s responsible for a majority of those companies’ revenue? It’s everyone. When we buy a thing, we are funding the activity needed to produce the thing. When we see a small group of people getting ultra rich off economic activity, it’s tempting to blame them for all of the consequences of that economic activity, because that makes the problem seem easier to solve (“just get rid of the billionaires!”). But changing the beneficiary of all that corporate profit doesn’t change the underlying economic activity that is driving consumption and driving pollution.

I’m not saying bad actors haven’t acted badly - demand generation is pretty evil, and we should definitely curtail that - but the problem is ultimately not the man in the boardroom or the White House or the luxury yacht. It’s the man in the mirror.
Yes these tables have indices but it doesn’t mean much once we try to find the earliest dateTime for each device using a group by.
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> I also have access to an unprecedented amount of free entertainment, free knowledge, the cheap supercomputer in my pocket allows me to stay in touch with anyone that I want, and when I go to the doctor, I probably won't see people in iron lungs anymore. I can travel to anywhere in the world for ridiculously low prices, and if I don't speak the language, a live translation app will do the work for me.

All built on a global underclass that will never experience these things. All built on processes with unsustainable emissions that will cause horrible calamities in the future (and even now). This isn't good.
Oh for sure, the intangibles kind of /are/ the job once you're past a mid-level position. But think about her job in the context of your description.

You think she doesn't have useless meetings she's invited to that every manager in the region needs to attend even though it could've just been an email from the regional director? The stress from the lights busted in the parking lot brought on by worries that a darkened parking lot and a random crime that night might trigger a spurious lawsuit? Doomscrolling about physical retail being replaced by online? That she's falling behind in understanding where robotics might move? That if that particular store was shut down in a strategic shift, she's wedded her entire marketability as an employee to a single company on a single ladder and that she can't really just easily grab a job from a company across the country?

We're not so unique!
Someone trying to kill you and failing and being allowed to walk away is not at all a win.
Why would "hey you can relax, nothing is around to attack you" wear you out?
You would think so. I was working on an oil rig and they made a big deal about ‘management by walking about.’ So the heads of each of the departments were supposed to go and check ONE job their charges were working on that day. They were supposed to write a short report about what they observed. This was too much for them so they quickly got in trouble from shore-based management for not filling out their reports. So they promptly delegated to the next-in-line management They promptly delegated it to the people doing the work so once a week besides all the other paper work I had to fill out a report about how I was observing myself working safety while management still had no clue what was happening.