skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nice write-up,

Thank you.

> ... I wish you had expanded a bit more on this:

>> "We can show that using the axioms of Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory we cannot prove the product of an infinite collection of non-empty sets to be non-empty. That seems daft..."

> Indeed, and it's exactly the sort of thing that you should not simply proclaim to be true with no explanation or reference.

I'll see if I can hunt out an accessible reference. Problem is, I think it uses Cohen's forcing, and that's pretty tough going in any kind of detail. I might add a note ... thanks for the suggestion.

> BTW, you might find this interesting:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2023/01/an-intuitive-counterexam...

I've bookmarked that for when I have a coffee, biscuit, and 30 minutes. Thank you.
So, why had Microsoft created Teams, if they were already covered?
> Keep credit inquiries to the minimum necessary (an inquiry means you're asking for a loan, implying you don't have money).

This one should be outright banned, as it's effectively anticompetitive - there are thousands of banks on the planet, and it should be anyone's right to make an inquiry at each and every single bank to make sure one gets the best rates.
I am doing that very thing this year. It's already amazing how much brighter the world seems.
Value usually comes out of blue collar labor. Almost no value comes out of lucrative tech jobs. The tech that is making the world a better place usually has so many alternatives it wouldn't matter if you closed up shop or not.
I'd prefer that to page reloads, lost focus, scroll position and any input between clicking on a checkbox and receiving a response. Bonus points if I only have to download a db-diff next time, compared to downloading 5x db worth through POST /get-products?<filters>&page=<n> in every e-shopping session. Rarely a client-facing business database exceeds your average youtube cat video in size (assuming pics stored as urls).
I sorry for your experience. It works smoothly for me and hasn't been fully tested yet
Well at least it’s disclosed on their bug bounty site:

> You must be a Korean living at home and abroad

https://bugbounty.kakao.com/home

Would have been worse if author submitted this expecting to get paid. But found out it’s limited to SK citizens.

Side note: the payouts are extremely low:

> … minimum of 50,000 won (~35 USD) to a maximum of 10 million won (~7.1K USD)
I am most definitely among those.

So much work, so little time.
That's the most bizzare thing I have seen on internet! That's useful as well. I wish I could react to the social media posts with these sounds.
Indeed. The excitement of an interesting greenfield project is hard to beat. Works seems better than play on those days. The harder the task, the better!

In all modesty, I feel I can be a 10X or 100X on such, but it’s hard to let go and end up thinking about work constantly after hours too.

But when the task is to update documentation or fix a random test pipeline failure on a Legacy product, the energy doesn’t come so easily…
Is it normal in the US for software developers to work 60-70 hour weeks? I understand this is the case in hip startup culture, but what about normal, boring companies? I work as an embedded software developer in Belgium, and here 40 hours is normal.
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Carmel can only exist as an exception within a wider metro area. Once too many communities try to follow it's model, the model no longer works since there aren't enough rich folks to segregate from the poor folks.

It's really not that interesting of a development model to me. These places exist in nearly every midtier NFL city I've been to - one suburb/exurb that is exceedingly exclusive and everyone knows as the "fancy area" of town. One existed where I grew up, and they were ruthless in their "not investing in poverty" stances. What I remember them most for is blocking many public transit projects from moving forward since it would bring the wrong type of folks through their part of town. That single community caused more hardship and pain than any other for the entire metro area, and that will be their legacy to me.

Basically these communities can only exist as minority communities as the model of "only cater to rich people" is simply not sustainable at a wider scale.

Yes, fixing only the easy problems seems like a practical way to go if I were a mayor of a random midwest exurb. It certainly isn't doing a good job or doing anything interesting for humanity though - it's simply doing the obvious most directly actionable thing you could do: make the undesirables someone else's problem.
Why would you make a "proper" native desktop app (or more specifically apps for every platform you want to support) if you can do it with a PWA (which you can do for vast majority of apps).
I was definitely raised that way. My parents are from New England so maybe a Puritan thing?
The demo video for setting an exam does the opposite of what it should be for.
I am left feeling more confused and disoriented than I did prior.
Leadership lessons from my RebelAI leadership community
I'm sure talktalk in the UK is trying to do something similar. When I first started with them, I went to the yarr harr site on the plain web, tried to download a few things and it always tried to download a 1.3gb file, named correctly, which I always cancelled. If I go via tor instead, everything works fine
No, that's an insane workload. Your employer doesn't even deserve 40 hours, let alone 70. Jesus, people, live your lives instead of toiling for the rich people who will take from you until you keel over.
You have to take at least 1 day off for a standard tech interview, often more. I don't see how this is much different from a demand on your time.
Maybe in a truly free and fair market lmao
> Because you made a untenable blanket statement that Distributed OS research was all wrong which cannot go unchallenged.

You definitely didn't understand the first thing I wrote, or you're deliberately misrepresenting it because you're intellectually incapable of addressing it.
People think that the worst part of being a janitor is cleaning toilets. In reality the worst part of being a janitor is living in poverty. This is true about a lot of jobs in our economy.
it was the same in other places. it's only a matter of time.

south America and most of Africa was taken over by metabook whatsapp. you can't even schedule government appointments without one (which then require a mobile phone number, which then require all the data each govt require for a mobile phone sim purchase)

Europe requires sms plus a apple/google validated app and stock phone. you can't access most eu or eu commission or local gov services without it.

but it all started with "it's fine, i still have X fall back working". but we only cry about china dystopian techno state...
They seem to rely on a corelation to feelings of inclusion.

> That’s because our research has revealed that burnout—which has historically been considered a consequence of long hours, a physically demanding job, or a high-stress environment—is also highly correlated with low feelings of inclusion. Essentially, employees who are more burned out feel less included at work.

And for determining inclusion they say the following:

> For this research, we quantified inclusion as a score of how inclusive an employee finds the workplace to be, using BCG’s BLISS Index, a statistically rigorous tool that identifies the factors that most strongly influence feelings of inclusion in the workplace.
Pixel phones? Nest? The Bayview hotel rooms are pretty nice. Hell even Gmail feels pretty premium to me, but I guess this word might be considered subjective.

Also, Waymo isn't even Google. You might accuse me of overstating this, but truthfully they operate as a different company.
You're free to make judgements about my work all day.

Now come on, give me an argument for why it is patronizing. Stop implying it.
> And tolerating these different preferences, desires, views, systems, values, and so on is the only possible way we might ever achieve something resembling a more stable and desirable world order.

How can one tolerate the abuses that went on behind the iron curtain and other dictatorships?

Even if some people are still fond of them, it's unacceptable for such systems to exist and those people are morally reprehensible.
Yeah, my guess as well.

From a few mysteries I have seen, a real thief would have stolen it only after having produced a number of forgeries that they could then sell through blackmarket back-channels when the news of the theft became known.
And in time, GitHub will start charging for private repos again, build minutes will be 40 free per month.

Enshittification will follow once they stop getting good training data out of GitHub.
Yes we do, in fact you can find the exact comparison here: https://glasskube.dev/docs/comparisons/helm/
Personally, the USA has done nothing to me. I am in Germany and live a good life. The USA is simply so violent in terms of foreign policy that there is no comparison: Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq again. Assassinations of foreign heads of government, enemies of the state symbolically thrown into the sea from a helicopter. And all this with an unbelievably self-righteous conviction that they themselves are "the good guys". This strange view that the world is some kind of wilderness that needs to be civilized by a strong hand is completely baffling to me. Oh yes, one personal thing comes to mind: I have family in Cuba who have suffered massively under the US trade embargo for 65 years. "Communism evil!" Meanwhile, in the US, there are cities with 40,000 or 50,000 or 60,000 homeless people and people going bankrupt because of medical bills. Makes me wonder which side of that distinction lacks civilization.

I realize that other countries act similarly in terms of foreign policy when they can. Germany hasn't exactly covered itself in glory either. I'm not just referring to the Nazi era. But I am not at all as pessimistic about the multipolar future that probably lies ahead of us as some others are.
I don't really understand why that distrust doesn't seem to extend to wanting them to display a single result for something, as if you can trust that single result to be what you want?
There was a really good post with significant background earlier this year:

> Is the Living Computer Museum Dead?

https://www.pcjs.org/blog/2023/02/16/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34831880 (238 comments)

> At the time, Vulcan CEO Bill Hilf framed the closure both as an unavoidable consequence of COVID-19 and as a difficult decision that was actually in keeping with Paul Allen’s wishes – that how Paul wanted his money to be spent after he was gone was very different from when he was alive.

> Yet it’s almost impossible to square the idea that Paul Allen, after investing so much time, energy, and money in the Living Computer Museum and its people – not to mention his express hope that efforts like his would not be “lost to time” – would have also left instructions that could somehow be interpreted to justify completely shutting down LCM after his death.
I think that it's possible that isn't true. Perhaps the areas where people in the developed world are worse off (micromanagement, family, home ownership, etc.) are more important to avoiding burnout than the "comfort" that the developed world generally excels at providing.

Stated another way, it is possible that burnout isn't determined by some overall sense of "how difficult is life" but is instead caused by life being difficult in specific ways.
It was the trend earlier this year amongst terminally online tech twitter users.
It’s not surprising Collin’s is far from nimble. They can only really do cost plus contracts otherwise they blow though money due to terrible org inefficiency
That was not a distribution mechanism which I negotiated or paid for.
I have started my own company and made a job that I'm passionate about and I think my friends would laugh at anybody who claimed that I wasn't burnt out basically all the time. ;)
So what? We should be structuring a lot of databases as layers on top of transactional key value stores. We should be able to swap out the key value store without changing the higher level query engine.
It's decent now, but it took 5 years to get there while Slack is still better.
YMMV greatly depending on time of day.
Yes, Bonzi Buddy was spyware. It's not that what they were doing was OK, but rather that the industry has normalized spyware.
The article mentions that one in ten pulls actually convert into a mortgage, so actually each borrower is paying $1500.
I’ve had the same experience. I actually took a 40% pay cut to work somewhere where I had to actually do something, because of exhausting and depressing doing nothing was
There is no reason to assume a normal distribution. If you have a tool that measures to a precision of 2 decimal places, you have no information about what the distribution of the third decimal place might be.
What does MBB mean in this context?
I'm in tech after a decade working blue collar, most of my friends are still working blue collar, and they're all burned out

Blue collar doesn't just pay you poorly -- it's also tedious, and there's a pervasive sense that nobody gives a damn about you, your safety, or really anything about you. "nobody" being managers, but also your white collar coworkers who "work upstairs", customers, security, etc.

You have very little autonomy: you'll tend to have to ask permission to go for a bathroom break, or to step outside for a minute to get a breath of fresh air, or if anything is going to cause you to be more than 5 minutes late for your shift. Yes, you'll have to beg and might not even be allowed to attend funerals of close family members. You may or may not have to help the customer who keeps sexually harassing you. You probably will be asked to speak to customers with a certain tone and facial expression regardless of how awful you're feeling. Nobody cares that you just went through a breakup

RE safety: you'll have employers doing everything from getting you to work with wiring that isn't up to code when you're not an electrician, to lifting things alone that nobody should lift alone, to working at an unsafe pace, to working during small disasters where half the business is underwater. You might not even be a full employee -- you'd be surprised how many dishwashers, waiters and cooks in San Francisco restaurants are employed as independent contractors but are effectively employees

You aren't making much money, so commuting will tend to be a long slog. You might even be working more than one of these jobs.

Yes, I've had "cool" low wage jobs with nice managers that tried to treat me like a human being. I know those exist. They are exceptional and often don't last

Also I am not writing this to single out the parent, just want to affirm that your boring white collar job is better in ways you probably can't fathom and confirm that blue collar jobs are very much prone to burnout
No not typically. In my experience most people work 40-45 hours at the boring companies that I’ve been at
It's less about personal views, and more about the fact that janitor's job is time and location bounded, and the result is immediate and readily assessable.

Our jobs can be the polar opposite of all of that.
Some people can work long hours and never experience burnout because they love what they do, while others simply need a better work-life balance. A 4-day workweek is what brings that work-life balance. For anyone interested, here are 200 companies hiring for 4-day weeks - https://okjob.io/companies/

(P.S. I maintain the page. If you know of any company operating on a 4-day week (4x8hrs), please consider submitting it via the contact form)
Could you please share some of the learning resources you used and found useful.

I am overwhelmed by the amount of ML related material out there and am having a hard time finding out material what is worth my time as a software engineer.
Yeah, except the bundling wasn't the problem. It was that Microsoft was using their size to build a giant moat around IE. If you wanted modern features, it was all on IE and behind their proprietary scripting languages (vbscript, jscript, mshtml, activex controls)

This was all part of the anti-competitive embrace, extend, extinguish strategy that was so common at Microsoft then. They would offer a tool that was "close" to a popular standard (javascript, html), then extend it with their own tooling (jscript, mshtml), and finally they would replace those with a proprietary toolchain (vbscript, activex controls)

That meant the entire market moved to IE and it ate up almost all the market share overnight, even though it was a dumpster fire of a browser compared to the competition
I don't understand these "DB in browser" products.

If the data "belongs" to the server, why not send the query to the server and run it there?

If the data "belongs" on the client, why have it in database form, particularly a "data-lake" structured db, at all?

A lot of the benefits of such databases are their ability to optimise queries for improving performance in a context where the data can't fit in memory (and possibly not even on single disks/machines), as well as additional durability and atomicity improvements. If the data is small enough to be reasonable to send to a client, then it's small enough to fit in memory, which means it'll be fast to query no matter how you go about it.

The page says one advantage is "Ad-hoc queries on data lakes", but isn't that possible with the most basic form that simply sends a query to the database?

What am I failing to understand about this category of products?
If users want to scroll endlessly, they should be able to, and they're going to, regardless of what scrolling implementation a platform uses - I scroll through many pages of HN just fine without infinite scroll.
DuckDB can use the HTTP range header trick agains parquet, which means a lot of analytical questions against multi-GB files can be answered by fetching only small portions of the overall data.

Here's a post about applying this same trick to SQLite from few years ago: https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database...
Not only do banks and credit agencies provide a "recipe" for improving your score, most do so free of charge (for existing customers).

For example, I know my score swings by +/-30 points/month. I'm fairly confident that is due to the balance on my CCs varying when the score is calculated (there is nothing else about my financial situation changing - same house for a decade, same car loan for 5 years, no new credit lines/loans, etc). But, I pay the cards off every month, and the score always rebounds.
I wish someone like Bill Gates would step in to save the museum and its items.
These two things are as different as you can get in terms of software bugs.

xz: A sophisticated supply chain attack. These are known, scary, and we don't have great ways to prevent them yet.

Apparently half of all popular instant messengers at some point making the same kind of trivial but catastrophic off-by-one error: Not rocket science to prevent. I was hoping at least high-stakes apps would have better QA.
"...the Czech manufacturer's development of the specialised MQB-A0-IN"

Not developing as in starting from zero, but developing as in taking an existing platform and modifying/improving it for a new series of cars (in this case simplifying the platform to make it cheaper to produce, and targeting the very lowest end of the car market). Admittedly not a platform we're likely to see in 'the west', and sure it's nothing fancy, but I guess you have to start somewhere.

edit: reading back through the original thread, I agree that you are correct that Skoda is not developing a ground up platform that will be the basis for several VAG cars.
Why do you think that isn't alienating? What you describe makes it almost impossible not to be alienated from your work output (and your company).
Didn't say "should", just said "can"?
Nah. You cab find happiness and purpose elsewhere. From family to hobbies.

Work is merely a means to an end.
Here’s a book that argues for the same. [0]

Makes one wonder whether such articles (OP’s) are part of a spin campaign..

[0] https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691211411/sp...
>> seems like a startup opportunity

"In 2006, the three credit bureaus decided they were tired of FICO’s position in the industry, and created a rival, called VantageScore, offering credit ratings for much cheaper than FICO"

...

"A few years ago, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which runs most housing finance for the government through its control of secondary mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, decided that it might want to create some competition for FICO. So it turned to VantageScore ... Instead of allowing mortgage lenders to pick either FICO or VantageScore, FHFA simply required that lenders use both. So now, instead of having to deal with one monopoly, mortgage lenders will have to deal with two"

This is not a market problem, or a technical problem. The problem here is the US federal government.
Elite misinformation is an underrated problem
"11,000 desk-based and frontline workers"

Software? Devs? Sales? Accountants?

This seems like pretty broad category.

But also, if such a broad category is having burnout, across countries and cultures, then maybe that is indicating some larger problems?
My 2c: there isn't really a lot of math underneath practicing many ML jobs. But I would read up on basics. Get a basic understanding of optimization and gradient descent. If you are not math inclined, do not bother with untangling chain rules for networks, but play with a few toy, non ML, low dimensional problems. That understanding will help a lot.

And I would look at applying existing models to business problems. That I think has a lot of demand now. Solve a few problems for yourself, make a few blog posts and apply.
Much to the opposite. The ruling class always want excuses to pay workers less. "Purpose" is one such bullshit.
> so why not Elixir?

I imagine that part is slightly complicated by the fact that it requires host language runtime (Erlang). Elixir compiled with one version of OTP is not necessarily compatible with another version so supporting binaries for N versions of Elixir becomes NxM problem when you factor in OTP versions, plus supporting distribution of OTP binaries is probably complicated in itself. If there is a problem with OTP, users would swarm first party distributor, but their ability to help would be very limited.
It's now installed by default and in your task bar on Windows 11.

It's not even just an icon either, its similar to OneDrive where removing it is non-trivial.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Intune/comments/10whv8c/hows_everyo...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/q4elim/can_we_ta...

When will Slack get this same level of access? They won't ever.
A little off-putting when the author is plugging their book (more than once) in the article. It turned my attention away from learning about Poe (which was why I was there reading the article in the first place).

Now when he mentions a line from his book "That is a true unicorn", I immediately want to take issue with the author on whether anyone would have used that phrase in the 1970's when it is supposed to have been said.
I sometimes tell my team that writing software is about learning what to write and how to write it, not the actual artifacts. So throwing code out is not bad, it is just part of the process of learning.
Singaporians hate the car rules. It's easily among the most status driven of societies on earth, and those rules keep shit cars like Prius's costing minimum of 100K per year to operate.

I was shocked to find a society with some of the best transit in the world and a society that abjectly hates its own transit systems. The car lust I witnessed there makes American car enthusiasts look like mass transit zealots.