skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By this logic, would you say that software engineers should be financially liable for any bugs they cause

Yes. Professional engineers are held ethically, professionally, and in some cases financially responsible for the work they sign off on. Personally, I agree with Dijkstra who pointed out in a speech in 1993 that the term "software engineer" is a hollow sham:

> And also the programming manager has found the euphemism with which to lend an air of respectability to what he does: “software engineering”...

> In the mean time, software engineering has become an almost empty term, as was nicely demonstrated by Data General who overnight promoted all its programmers to the exalted rank of “software engineer”! But for the managing community it was a godsend which now covers a brew of management, budgeting, sales, advertising and other forms of applied psychology.

> Ours is the task to remember (and to remind) that, in what is now called “software engineering”, not a single sound engineering principle is involved. (On the contrary: its spokesmen take the trouble of arguing the irrelevance of the engineering principles known.) Software Engineering as it is today is just humbug; from an academic —i.e. scientific and educational— point of view it is a sham, a fraud.

From https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD11xx/E...
And then there's millions more that didn't even try
My take: The author and people like them are just working on a teleological progression of the hype trains they've followed to chase investment $$.

I always have to remind myself that the motivations of the people involved in the tech industry today differ substantially from those from before the .com boom.

For many, "tech" doesn't actually mean the technology and its engineering applications. It's entirely the business and investment world and spin-land built as a huge shell around it. It doesn't matter if it "fails" from an engineering POV if a significant % of shareholders can grow a portfolio.
> Safari is just a piece of junk.

Where does it fall down? Some of the later RFPs for web technology (bluetooth, battery level, etc) aren't supported but I think I agree more with Apple than some random web-app developer.

Chrome is the new IE. Forget that.
> Yes, they need to record transactions (in some cases live for tax purposes)...

I'm pretty sure there was a time all these were handled without internet connection. it's just as society we decided that resilient fallback methods are undesirabled because of [insert of favourite regulatory rule]
The Americans who know when to use whom and who and Americans who think they know when to use whom and who are those who use whom, while Americans whom the distiction between who and whom thouroughly confuses and Americans to whom whom is entirely unknown are those by whom who is solely used.
Show HN: Gamifying Urination: Peezer.io Lets You Track and Share Pee Durations
Hence my simple theory of aesthetics:

— if the best stuff from then is still better than good stuff from now, it's art

— if the best stuff from then is worse than bad stuff from now, it's technology
The car is evidently fully capable of just going straight, so that's what it should do, never ever should it just stop in the middle of a highway lane.

It would be great if it tried to pull to a gas station/rest point or, after a long time of very loud sound and vibration of the driver seat etc, and only if no other option is available, turn to the emergency stop lane and slowly come to stop there - but if these are not an option (the emergency lane is not wide enough, for example), it should just keep driving straight ahead at 80 km/h (minimal allowed highway speed in EU).

If my car doesn't have autopilot and can't keep driving straight, I'd prefer a light crash to the right side to just stopping in the middle of a highway lane which is a nearly sure death sentence - and not just for myself.
This was my main deterrent with crows. Two knew they were doing something that annoyed me, I was considering to feed them grapes but I didn't want their friends coming.
Photo tagging for these kinds of things isn't great. But there's plenty of people with green headbands in news photos/videos I've seen over the past couple of months. There was a video with a woman walking around carrying a sign with a photo of a mass murderer with a fake name (can't find it at the moment), she had no idea who he was or what he did. The person that gave her the sign told her a fake story, it was unclear if he knew.

The letters sent by Ivy leagues right after Oct 7th are probably the most damning. Letters that justified the massacre as "valid resistance" yet they later felt free to condemn Israels campaign to return the kidnapped civilians. A serious double standard.

There's plenty of videos with people chanting "river to the sea" (including a US congresswoman) which is the slogan of the Hamas that calls for the destruction of Israel.

There's stuff like this: https://www.makorrishon.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/171...

Which justifies October 7th. Again, you can't justify violence and then condemn the result of said violence. Especially not when the Hamas is still holding hostages and refusing compromise.

Right now all pro-Palestinian demonstrations are (intentionally or not) pro Hamas. Hamas hijacked the discussion and polluted it. They are encouraged by these demonstrations and see them as a sign of Israels imminent demise. That's why they're refusing the deals on the table and the war won't end.

These demonstrations will also have a far worse impact. Trump is using this to sow doubt in swing states. He explicitly avoids talking about Israel and might win as a result (e.g. as Nixon won in a landslide during the height of anti-Vietnam war protests). This would be terrible all around. That would mean Ukraine would be at risk. The extremist Israeli government would have no one holding it back. As ineffective as Biden might seem to the casual observer, I can only imagine what Bibi would do without him.
I think the real joy of these old 8-bit CPU's is the simplicity and how a single person can wire up a computer by hand.

In uni we built an 8088 board in microprocessor class and it was the best class I ever took; it demystified drivers and hardware for me. I attempted a redesign using KiCAD which added an IO expansion port and better layout with an LCD port for a 2x16 character LCD. I had a prototype made by Futurlec but made a massive mistake in footprint assignment that required an interposer. Furthest I got was soldering in the 8284 and the IC sockets then got distracted by life and its sitting in a box still.

Microcontrollers are great, everything in one package but there's something enormously satisfying about being able to design and build a computer by hand. FPGAs sort of bring this back but the tooling is byzantine dog shit.
All FOSS developers may be foreigners for a project.
Is it ok to use that then?
How are you doing layers? I have zero pain problems holding the delete key (on my Kinesis Advantage) to shift into my second layer for things like (,),{,}. It's way less pain then the using a typical keyboard layout. Hell it's easier than actual Shift.

I think your other principles are pretty personal. I obviously never use delete. Rarely use function keys or home/end/etc. I use cursor keys a bunch but the Kinesis has those in a spot I like.
Awesome!! Thanks so much for trying it out!

After you add some presets (post types) to your schedule they should start generating within 20 minutes or so. You can view them in "Review Posts"

The tweets are generated for 1 week ahead - and if today is Monday it should generate some starting Tuesday (tomorrow) until next Monday.

Let me know if you have any issues!
> Only recognizing when it happens in government is a cognitive bias.

I'm not doing this. I'm at risk of repeating myself, but it's worse in government. And government gets free money from your wallet specifically to prevent corruption, and even define it. That's much worse than a company I can stop paying being corrupt. I have no voting power to remove a corrupt public servant, unless someone runs specifically on that platform. Which no one would.
Building a simple REST API application in 2024: my story
There is a novel in the form of a Choose Your Own Adventure book called Life's Lottery, by Kim Newman [1]. It follows a character from birth to adulthood, with the reader constantly making decisions which will shape his life. Things can go well, or (very) badly. I'm not sure if the chapters form a tree or a more general DAG, but i do know that the book splits into two completely separate sets of outcomes according to your very first choice, which is, at age, six whether your favourite character in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is Napoleon Solo or Ilya Kuryakin.

[1] https://safe.menlosecurity.com/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Original article: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/wealth-of-younger-a...

The key details in my opinion shows up in "Appendix: Comparing average wealth growth and median wealth growth by age group"
It looks good, but I don't quite understand why this project placed in the Platform Ochestrator category. It looks more like a set of CD tools. Will there be a server-side product in the future?
My impression as a not particularly nationalistic Indian is that most Indians also see India as a third world country that's kinda backwards and is trying to catch up, the problem is that they also get overly defensive when someone else implies something similar.

I've had so many people turn from crticizing every aspect of the country to arguing that India has all the quality of life, freedom and opportunity of a western country over the tiniest of comments from me.
Yes, I'm going down the rabbit hole so that I hopefully don't have to muck around so much down there in the future. I would love to find a k8s configuration that allows me to then focus on the application code. Push code to git and trust that my configuration takes care of the rest.
> did not find sufficient information in the article to determine if this was a management problem or a personnel issue

Dr. Day having put together the framework for IVIG “based on the scientific evidence available at the time” that “saved millions of dollars” such “that Cigna rewarded her with bonuses and stock options” seems to imply she can balance medical efficacy and speed.

Given ProPublica “reproduced the [productivity] scores of 87% of the Cigna doctors listed; the scores of all but one of the rest fell within 1 to 2 percentage points” simply by “multipl[ying] the number of cases…handled by the time Cigna allotted for each type of case, then divid[ing] that total by the hours…worked that month,” and that the productivity score was used to threaten Day with termination, it would seem there is no safety factor being considered.
I don't disagree. And don't mistake me, I don't sit around spending all day worrying about the impending collapse of society, or watching repeats of Doomsday Preppers or whatever. :-)

But I do spend some time thinking about possible future scenarios and trying to figure out if there are any (reasonable, for some value of "reasonable") actions I can take today to help "future me" deal with certain eventualities that might come to pass.
I've never heard of this, but I'll check it out. Thanks!
If you use this main playlist link from the Github repo in VLC you can trawl through the whole list, pretty neat!

https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/index.m3u
System 7 runs so fast in BasiliskII on an old Atom netbook. I recently saw a video showing System 6 running in an emulator on an ESP32 microcontroller on an expansion card in an Apple II. It was substantially faster than the Mac Plus it was emulating. It really takes seeing this kind of thing to understand the magnitude of the problem.
"Eventually, people may stop writing, stop filming, stop composing—at least for the open, public web. People will still create, but for small, select audiences, walled off from the content-hoovering AIs."

A quote that's unironically behind the paywall.
Absolutely, IMO its one of the best arguments in favor of E2EE. Law enforcement could still seize the data, but only by accessing my copy of it directly and presumably by going through proper legal channels. If nothing else, there's only one (or a few) points of failure, much like paper copies of anything in the past.
Insurance exists. Money points to something in reality (usually).

Negligence and duty don’t change and the implementing human (the person checking for mistakes) will be just as liable as the human implementing someone else’s work today.

But true… it is unlikely the AI firms or the suits that force it into every nook and cranny they can will ever be held accountable for the mistakes it will inevitably make. Not without a couple catastrophes first.
There's also https://github.com/linuxmint/hypnotix

I tried it a few months back and it was a mixed bag of working and not working streams
No thank you, let's not.
Ah, I see your point. Can't comment on the sanity of the Canadian judicial system, but do keep in mind that they're talking about maximum fines, not minimum. There's nothing to suggest that small startups would receive a company-ending fine here.
Look up Wye vs Delta; but the basic point is in delta the phases are connected in series with each other, and in wye they are connected in parallel. It's easier to visualize when you can see the tap points on the transformer secondaries though.
I wrote that with the best being optimism. I'm 100% sure these trenches, despite them being in our easements, is the property of AT&T for their exclusive use only. I can still wish that wasn't the case, but I'm not that naive.
AI Ruins Education the Way Pulleys Ruin Powerlifting
That's correct - if you wanted to actually run all of them, you could use Task.seq (to run them sequentially, as opposed to concurrently) like so:

Task.seq \f -> File.read! f

https://www.roc-lang.org/packages/basic-cli/Task#seq
Mapscaping Podcast – For the Geospatial Community
You don't want that, but people are looking at gmail or google calendar on the web, and notifications are a huge QOL. Getting access to the accelerometer feels niche, but accessing the NFC chip, phone contacts, the camera or real time locations would be more common.

Dealing with the security and privacy aspects of those would be enough to get near the complexity of an OS. And to note...looking at the facebook app for instance, being native doesn't seem to be a protection from bloat, it will there either way.

On the web as a static thing, sure 80% of the web is fine as a static information. The 20% on the other hand are things we care a lot about, and I personally hate the "why don't you install our app?" prompt on every damn site. Reddit is the poster child of this, and god no I don't want their native app.

To each their own I guess.
I can imagine it, some people on there are ridiculous, but yeah in my experience these supercomputer nodes are a lot more integrated/proprietary than most standard server hardware. It's not straightforward to just boot one up without all the support infrastructure. I'd assume they'd mostly be torn down and parted out.
+1 to echarts: While it can be more complex to start than the others, it remains fairly simple for the default graphs while providing enough flexibility to do pretty much anything.
As a decades-long Vim user, same here, absolutely. Much faster for me to hit j 5 times than to count lines downward in my head. And to use visual mode for deletes etc. rather then precounting in my head beforehand.
Excellent, now i am currently watching the Snooker on BBC2!
John Cassian's "The Conferences"[0][1] is a collection of interviews with the Desert Fathers, and one of the subjects discussed is that of focus and concentration (a selection of excerpts was recently compiled into a small book entitled "How to Focus", a review of which was posted here on HN two months ago [2]).

At one point, one of the monks interviewed by John Cassian and Germanus (either Abba Moses, Abba Serenus, or Abba Isaac, all of Scetis) compares the mind to a millstone driven by a water wheel. As long as the water flows, you cannot stop the millstone from moving and grinding whatever has been put into it. We cannot stop the millstone, but we can control what we feed into it and what is ground up by it.

Of course, there is also a long tradition of mortification of the flesh ("The Conferences" also discusses such things), crudely parodied and ridiculed by bad literature and trash Hollywood films. The basic understanding is that our bodily appetites can be unruly, grasping, wanting, desiring, imprudently and with no regard for the objective good that the intellect knows. Mortification is a way of training these insubordinate appetites and passions into obedience to the intellect through exercises of denial. Fasting is one example. An element of discomfort, and even suffering, can be involved as the lower is sacrificed for the sake of the higher, and the appetites throw their tantrums as we persevere and dominate them, reigning them in like a man on horseback reigns in his horse.

Our culture has sold us the idea that indulging our whims and desires with no regard for our objective good is freedom, but nothing could be further from the truth. This kind of lifestyle is a recipe for misery and enslavement, both to the chaos and disorder of unruly and even disordered appetites and passions, but also those who gladly exploit the appetites of such weak and blind men, herding and using them like mindless beasts. As Augustine of Hippo wrote, "a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices." The relevance to focus here is that if you do not learn to exercise restraint and self-mastery, you will have trouble with focus as your appetites and passions will pull you away from the matter at hand. Perseverance is thwarted by such softness [3]. Pour only good things into your millstone. Do not pollute your millstone with darnel. Endure truth, whether pleasant or painful. Let is grind away your marble you bring forth your sculpture. It is not mastered, repressed appetites that come back to bite you. On the contrary. It is repressed truth that does.

[0] https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3508.htm

[1] https://a.co/d/fygMduA

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39653517

[3] https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3138.htm
https://youtube.com/@journeytomicro sadly it's closing down.
AI is useful especially when there is a tight feedback loop. Validating what the AI suggests via a 'System' or a Competent Mahoot riding it. I find it incredibly useful when I am specific and can test out.

I installed the new Ubuntu LTS and was trying to install a cargo package and was running into issue. Google/Bing search took me on a tangent. I put in the error in ChatGPT 3.5, got exact apt install to solve the issue and it worked when tried.

A million of these a day is going to have one heck of an effect on the planet.

I am not saying AI fixes the search but the Search Results are hit and miss any way. The real low hanging fruit are the domains, where the existing system is hit and miss.

The AI long case is, that People are also glorified LLMs/Pattern-matching machines. People who can make Computers sing will make AI sing (most likely). For most domains, AI elevates their 'base line' from the existing floor.
Bankruptcy in the US for example, is way more straightforward for businesses compared to individuals. Its not nearly as frowned upon for businesses. Take for instance:

In Silicon Valley for instance, many founders of successful businesses had multiple failures founding other startups first, it seemingly is part of the Silicon Valley ethos, almost looked at with a badge of honor.
The Atlantic council is holding Trudeau's strings?
I always preferred Sun hardware, myself. In the early to mid 90's, SunOS was basically the gold standard for Unix systems and building open source software. Early Solaris releases were pretty rough, but by Solaris 2.5 it was pretty good...
I went down that path 10 plus years ago. When I was writing my first book, my fingers got really sore.

I built (two) ErgoDox(en) and ended up using the Norman layout with various attempts at layers over the years. I'm now using a Lily58 with low-profile choc switches that I'm generally happy with.

I'm fine switching back to Qwerty keyboards, but if I were to go down the path again, I would advise myself to stick with Qwerty. I still have a pretty crazy keyboard layout and appreciate the ergonomic features.

Also, I've realized that everyone is different, and what works for one might not work for someone else.

Advice that I think works for everyone is to listen to your body. If your body is telling you that something isn't right, take steps to address them.
You can use mailchannels to send emails with cloudflare workers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/sending-email-from-workers-with-...
Thanks for link, great insights here.
Oil is great: https://github.com/stevearc/oil.nvim

It just treats your file structure as a buffer
I'm with you. The page gives "5k 12j" as an example, there's no way in the world it's faster for me to figure out that "12" is the right number faster than through other means.

I have H mapped to `5h`, same for jkl, and that's good enough to do biggish jumps that I can eyeball (JJJJ is very quick to type while being iterative)
> I can certainly decide which restaurant to eat at.

While you may technically be able to choose to eat at the restaurant some guy operates out of his house, someone is no doubt breaking the law in that transaction, even when all parties involved are consenting. The presence of a market does not necessarily imply that it is free.
If I go to open a restaurant and I can convince a bank to lend me capital to start the business, and then it fails, I can see an argument for why they shouldnt lend me money to open a second restaurant, at least not right away. But why should I be penalized in personal life for a business failing. Should the bank get to take my house if my restaurant fails? Should I be prevented from getting a credit card?
It surprises me how few people are aware of https://vim-adventures.com

Beat that game and hjkl will feel just as natural as arrow keys, and so will a ton of vim commands.

I think the creator does himself a disservice by selling 6 month licenses rather than lifetime. But 6 months is more than enough to play through it. I think it only took me a couple days.
> the author puts forth the problem with the Great Leap Forward: large central authority being disconnected from those starving workers. That's a problem large, centrally planned, corporations face.

This is not the whole truth. The problem with the Great Leap Forward was that the state enforced farming techniques, and even what farmers should work on instead of farming, and took food to bring to the centre. It's not just disconnection. Disconnection is far too vague a word to choose. To compare a company not listening to its workers with what the GLF did - it's hard to avoid thinking you picked the one vague word that could technically describe both of those scenarios, despite the vast gulf between them.

As I sort of said elsewhere - some companies are bad. That's fine, unless there's no competitor to move to. Then workers' situations are really bad, because they have to choose between retraining, moving, and staying, none of which is a great choice. But if you think that's bad, think how much worse it is that a state bureaucrat can lock you in jail, and your only option is to flee the country. Companies aren't perfect, but they limit the blast radius of the damage an incompetent or malicious employee can achieve.
Open-Source Development – Strategies for getting involved
"Sawmill"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawmill (or maybe "crosscut"?)
Is the glass half-full or half-empty? How you answer that question may very well shape how you view the pivotal moments of your youth.
Some of those "standards" are there for ad-targeting. Battery-status? I don't think my browser should be able to know that.