skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is silly. MSAs have near zero to do with a city.

They are not talking about Greater Houston.

For comparison, let's look at the Seattle metropolitan area (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_metropolitan_area)

It includes Mt Rainier, which NO-ONE in the area would say is "in Seattle".

It includes Bainbridge Island in Kitsap County, same.

Glacier Peak, in the Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest, also definitely not "in Seattle".

Mount Vernon, Olympia, North Bend, no-one would remotely call these "in Seattle".

Not even for the purposes of international news and geolocation, they'd be "near" at best.

To my point if you told residents of College Station or Galveston that they were just a part of Houston they’d look at you funnily.

It's just more of our "America is unique, solutions that work elsewhere can't work here", and Texas likes to do that on a state level.

Fun detail, most Texans, and many Americans, believe that the King Ranch is the largest cattle ranch in the world.

Except... it's not. Anna Station in Australia is over six times larger, larger than Israel.

In fact, if you put King Ranch in Australia, it'd only be the seventy-fourth largest ranch in that country.

The reality is far more mundane and depressing: there's a resistance to fixing some of these things because it'd mean acknowledging that mistakes had been made or "your way" of doing things is not the right or best one. And for far too many people, they'd sooner freeze to death than admit that.
In 94 there were still companies in Germany making 8-inch floppies.
Initially, sure. But the incentives of everyone involved are aligned to make the organization tend to grow in budget and scope bounded only by the public’s willingness to pay for it. The more they can convince the public to pay, the more money there is to go around. Fear happens to be a great motivation to this effect, and unscrupulous bureaucrats have been quick to find every opportunity to jump on that.
> Sharing data is never "misdirection".

I'm not sure why you're being disingenuous here, it's clear as day she's not just "sharing data" (whereas Open Secrets, where the data is sourced from anyway, actually is). I mean, the title of the webpage is literally Follow the Crypto, but yeah, I'm sure no statement is being made here, it's totally "just data" ;)

But more saliently, as I said prior, the data isn't even that interesting. Wow, a16z and Coinbase are lobbying DC in an attempt to curry favors because they invested hundreds of millions in crypto startups, big whoop. It totally misses the larger problem with the data (namely that Citizens United, in its current incarnation, is a total disaster for democracy; crypto lobbying is a footnote).
They were on the way out but any equipment installed on a ship in the 90s would have been designed a lot earlier, and military equipment often lags due to long qualification times.
Not everyone in law enforcement gets to play with the NSA's toys though. Some actually have their warrant and subpoenas glanced at by a judge before it gets rubber stamped.
And it has a headphone jack! Seriously considering this.
I cook versions of this on the regular. I say versions, because simply having The Official Recipe is only half the battle. The actual flavours and strengths of the individual herbs and spices can vary a lot by brand, and by country, and by source, and other factors.

My main takeaway (PNI!) is that the white pepper and the smoked paprika together are the heart of the KFC flavour. The rest just augment, refine the flavour. And of course, the salt and/or MSG go a long way.
jfc you're like the spiritual avatar of /r/confidentiallyincorrect.
Absolutely. The single most lyrically gifted grime MC hails from the single most densely populated area of the UK - Bayesians rejoice
As an American, I don’t see a ton of these - but they are absolutely more efficient at intersections without a ton of traffic. The length of red lights can be ridiculous in places where you just sit and wait with no traffic.
Truly one of the greatest pieces of art on the internet.
AWS is desperate to climb up the value stack. Compute and networking is a commodity (with fat margins at retail prices to be sure), and the second and third place providers are willing to make deep discounts to land big deals. That's not going to justify those future lofty valuations.

The problem is, for all it's talk over the last few years, AWS remains a complete non-player in the GenAI space, much less so than Azure. In my opinion the problem is exactly the same as for every other high-level service they've tried to launch. QuickSight, Lex, Polly, Cognito, CodeGuru, SageMaker, etc: they're not good. Nobody ever said "I really like QuickSight, I sure wish it had GenAI capabilities". So when the hastily-expanded QuickSight team(s) then goes on to release 42 different Q enabled SKUs, nobody cares. For various reasons, AWS is organizationally incapable of launching a non-infrastructure product that is simply great, as doing so would take attention to detail and deeply caring about things like UX which are anathema to Amazon.

On the positive side, GenAI model access will be commoditized and part of the basic undifferentiated cloud infra, and AWS will do fine there.
Still a Linux noob, but I'm recently learning that you can do simple things like this in bash and the fact that it just... works is incredible. Thanks for the suggestion, I think I'll try this one
Something about the vulgarity and brashness of the tone of this site just strikes me as so mid 2010's. Can't say it's aged particularly well.
Ah got it, I totally missed that context here somehow. I hadn't noticed a habit of Americans here complaining about GDPR, but that's interesting given another common pattern here of libertarian ideas. An American complaining about a different countries internal policies doesn't seem particularly libertarian.
Interesting. The headphone jack would be my main reason for buying this thing.

Recently forgot my iPad on a trip, and couldn't listen to anything on the plane because my goddamned iPhone lacks a headphone jack. So offensively stupid.
Ideally, the response isn't to hire more people to fight the FOIA requests, but instead to honor the requests.
And there are probably a few whole generations already that don't even know that link rot affects all links, not only links to "internal" URLs (like, say, a Discord image).

So there's artists that just link to some social media website, not considering that accounts can be suspended, usernames can change, etc.

Similarly there's also developers that "link to"[1] dependencies without considering that repositories might disappear (together with the source code for that dependency's version if nobody backed it up), a package's version might be removed from registries, online documentation for a dependency could disappear (ugh), etc.

[1]: Just adding name+version to whatever manifest file and forgetting about it forever. Maybe adding a cache (not even a proper mirror, much less any self-sufficient way to build the dependency in case of disaster).
I disagree. Air cooling 1 KW per U is a commodity now. It's nothing special. (Whether your data center can handle it is another topic.)
I keep hearing things about housing being a problem, currently. maybe we could tax the rich a little and build a tiny bit more housing? Even without the math that doesn't seem unreasonable.
Ah okay. Looks like you don't know what words mean.

Imagine you built a big sandcastle and asked a friend to help. Your friend helped a lot but you only gave them a tiny cookie as a thank you because they liked your idea so much. This is very mean and unfair because you're taking advantage of your friend’s feelings and hard work without giving them what they really deserve. This kind of behaviour is called exploitation and it's not nice at all.

Unfortunately I don't have crayons to make it more visual.
I’ve learned that’s what’s the law and what’s done in practice are often quite different.

Eg. A tool belt may not be necessary to get your job done, so the company won’t provide one. However it may make the work experience a 100x better, so everyone is likely to have personally bought their own.

Yes, we need better laws and better enforcement. For some reason the modern conservative movement detests anything like this somehow suggesting this is in the employee’s interest because they now have more freedom.
> On the other hand, a fax machine is usually located in an office that's only physically accessible to people with badge access.

Well, again during the pandemic, the documentation of individual vaccinations in vaccination centres in Germany of course was done on reams of paper (because "more secure than digital" ...). That paper was then sent daily (via messenger, no less) to so-called "digitisation centres", where those piles of paper were scanned - and yes - turned into PDFs.
Maybe I've been lucky but the failure rate I saw inside tech firms is much lower than the rates I've seen outside it. Yes it still happens, but it's rarer and people don't freak out about it. You don't see executive careers go down in flames because some grunt accidentally used an O(N^2) algorithm at the core of a system and the project hit some arbitrary deadline before they got it fixed. And a lot of the riskier attempts at replacing things get outsourced to startups where the risk:reward ratio is a lot healthier.
The GP didn't state the multiplier's value. Those things absolutely are productivity multipliers...
Can they bury power lines in houston? I thought the water table was pretty close to the surface.

(if you want a swimming pool, dig a hole!)

EDIT: ok I looked

it seems there are two kinds of lines - transmission lines and distribution lines.

Distribution lines can be buried, but it might not be good in hurricane prone areas that are prone to flooding.

transmission lines are hard/expensive to bury, since the insulation requirements are technically challenging.

The hurricane seems to have taken out some large transmission lines in addition to distribution lines.

I wonder if maybe redundant lines might be cheaper than buried lines?
The original looks great on mobile, but for desktops the above improvements are quite sensible as a minimum.
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/harley-motorcycles-rider...
Have been in situations just like this, on pretty much every side (the fuck-upper, the person who has to fix the fuck up, and the person who has to come up with a fuck-up remediation plan)

The most egregious case involved an incompetent configuration that resulted in hundreds of millions $ in lost data and a 6-month long automated recovery project. Fortunately, there were traces of the data across the entire stack - from page caches in a random employee's browser, to automated reports and OCR dumps. By the end of the project, all data was recovered. No one from outside ever found out or even realized anything had happened - we had redundancy upon redundancy across several parts of the business, and the entire company basically shifted the way we did ops to work around the issue for the time being. Every department had a scorecard tracking how many of their files were recovered, and we had little celebrations when we hit recovery milestones. To this day only a few people know who was responsible (wasn't me! lol)

Blame and derision are always inevitable in situations like this. It's how it's handled afterwards that really marks the competence of the company.
Part of the problem with this brand is that this "Android 13 Smartphone" will probably stay that forever. Updates are very very minimal.

I have their first jelly and it didn't even get the upgrade they promised.

Other than that, it's not so bad. Swype-typing makes a small keyboard still useful. But the updates really are the achilles heel here.
It doesn't respect the body text size set in the browser. F-word that f-wording site.
> McDonalds in Italy served a hamburger like I remember from back when I was a child.

Also they sometimes have really good espresso bars right there in the restaurant.
Note that I was fairly careless with it, and I'm pretty clumsy. It probably fell 20+ times. But still, it feels very cheap (and I suppose it makes sense given the price).
It's very hard to write long-running daemons in python partially for this reason, when you make a typo on a variable or method name in an uncommon code path.
I would have a hard time believing that. I work with a company that hired a lot of germans and they have the worst developer experience onboarding and general infra of any place i have worked.

When you outline why it’s bad and show how you would significantly speed up over 1000 engineers at the company with minimal work the answer is to leave it the same as is and “fix the issue” with some new process.

Needless to say once my shares vest this year im gone. It is really such a bad environment to work in.

I should note that the shares have been on a decade decline and i was brought in to fix these exact issues but no one at the company cares or puts in more than the bare minimum before clocking out for the day. I can’t fix an issue if people think it’s ok to spin up a new k8s instance for every single service, are ok spending a month after starting asking to be put in the right AD groups, and hand deploy almost everything.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40926428
Let’s not forget that in some ways remote meetings are superior to in person (this is not to ignore the problems with remote meetings).

One thing I like is that remote meetings can have automatic transcripts and recordings which in person ones don’t. We have those for all meetings I attend, using some tool that also tries to extract things like agreed action items. So if I missed one or forgot something I can easily review without wasting everybody’s time on a slack post or email.

I’m sure there are a few sociology PhDs waiting to be written and some killer tools to be invented.

Personally I prefer remote to in person for the same reason I prefer the Mac: “sucks less than the alternatives.”

(I have found that it has paid off to travel to meet in person some of the remote people I meet with the most. This isn’t scalable, and also means our current tooling is grossly inadequate).
Having worked on both (servers and serverless), I personally find the serverless programming model to be fundamentally different. I don’t have time to write, operate or troubleshoot servers. Serverless is a huge productivity boost. I can set and forget some glue piece of functionality and it will operate without the issue. Then I can focus coding up the interesting and differentiated bits.
I've been keeping my eye out for something more responsive (in an AJAX-like way) than phpBB, but less bloated than Discourse (as it's written in ruby). Something Open Source, decently low-effort to maintain (I like Debian), could run on a Raspberry Pi 5 for a small community, and doesn't require docker. This might be suitable. Thanks for the endorsement.
Besides the obvious takeaway of the story, to anyone who reads this: use pre-commit hooks to avoid this kind of problems (or something equivalent).

With the pre-commit framework, an example hook would be
https://github.com/Yelp/detect-secrets
Bio – Experimental Lisp dialect, written in Zig
It's not publishright, it's copyright.
I completely understand your point but would like to point out that quite a few philosophers were peculiar characters that did spent a lot of time outside the library too. Sometimes debating (eg Athenians), sometimes political activities (eg Sartre), some spending time on theology too (Kierkegaard, Aquinas).

I think for many philosophy was a way to understand life and the world around them.
I was commenting on the idea of work being "meaningless". That's only partially subjective.

The way I see it the meaning of work can be broken down into at least a few parts: the objective results, benefit to worker, benefit to employer, and benefit to society.

The benefits are the subjective part that you and others are focusing on, but the objective results are what I'm commenting on. For work to be truly meaningless, the results would have to be obsoleted by technological or social progress such that there is no demand.

An example is post-industrial handmade goods. Some people may call the effort to produce such goods "meaningless", yet the demand remains so it's anything but.

This is how I am distinguishing work from mere cost, price, or whatever the employer or employee wants. Tons of stuff is necessary in this world that sucks to make, doesn't make any money, and that broader society reluctantly agrees is necessary.
> One of the peculiarities of my development environment was that I ran all my code against the production database.

Hahaha. I still see this being done today every now and then.

> The CEO leaned across the table, got in my face, and said, "this, is a monumental fuck up. You're gonna cost us millions in revenue". His co-founder (remotely present via Skype) chimed in "you're lucky to still be here".

this type of leadership needs to be put on blast. 2010 or 2024, doesn’t matter.

If it’s going to cost “millions in revenue”, then maybe it would have been prudent to invest time in proper data access controls, proper backups, and rollback procedures.

Absolutely incompetent leadership should never be hired ever again. There should be a public blacklist so I don’t make the mistake of ever working with such idiocy.

The only people ever “fired” should be leadership. Unless the intent is on purpose in which you should be subject to jail time
I don't agree. A big reason why abruptly terminating threads at an arbitrary point is risky is it can corrupt shared memory. If you aren't using shared memory in a multiprocess solution, that's not an issue. Another big reason is it can lead to resource leaks (e.g. thread gets terminated in a finally clause to close resources and hence the resource doesn't get closed). Again, that's less of an issue for processes, since many resources (file descriptors, network connections) get automatically closed by the OS kernel when the process exits.

Abruptly terminating a child process still can potentially cause issues, but there are whole categories of potential issues which exist for abrupt thread termination but not for abrupt process termination.
What I’ve read is that some multi-tenant apps run into this. I’m not sure if it’s 10k per database, or per server. The multi-tenant comments make it sound like a per server issue. I’ve worked on apps that create a database per tenant. (I’d advise against this, but it did have its advantages.) I could see 10k tables happening pretty easily in that kind of architecture.
FTA,

> The same goes for feature releases. If the vast bulk of all new feature releases are geared towards GenAI, it implicitly means AWS is rerouting investments from classic infrastructure to shiny GenAI. It means that the products I love get smaller budgets. It means that the products I use will not get the next feature I want, or only at a slower pace.

I think the article does hyperbolize a bit, but this seems like a hard truth. Unless AWS has hired an entirely new swathe of AI-focused engineering talent, or if their public face at events is significantly disconnected from where they're spending their real money.
by your own admission you paid them low. What evidence is needed that you paid them low when that's what you're saying that yourself?
Jelly Star is really small, I doubt it's usual as an actual smartphone (but I understand the "under-smartphone" usage). For the people who want the just-big-enough-to-be-usable-one-handed (for average man hands let's say), the upcoming Jelly Max should fit better.

My current daily driver which fits that just-big-enough is Qin 3 Ultra. Its size is perfect, but it is no longer available (unless you want to use their original firmware, which ugh, no)

(Also anecdote, I once ordered a phone from Unihertz, I never received it. I couldn't cancel the payment because it was a kickstarter with few months delay...I won't buy directly from them again)

Of course none of the devices I mentioned (both Qin & Unihertz) are compliant with GPL and release their kernel source code...
Welcome to some professional circle somewhere on the world at the 21th century.
Guaranteed Security Updates until? Not even mentioned? So it's just e-waste.
To quote a statistician friend: 100% of humans make mistakes.

OP's leadership was shit. The org let a junior dev delete shit in prod and then didn't own up to _their_ mistake? Did they later go on to work at a genetics company and blame users for being the subject of password sprays?
Germany is way farther north though. Houston is further south than Israel, about the same latitude as Kuwait City and the Sahara Desert. The temperature averages 20-30°F warmer than Berlin (33-40°C), or put another way, Berlin's record high temperatures are a typical day in Houston. Also very humid since it's right near the ocean. Comparison charts:https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/9247~75981/Comparison-of-...

So yes, air conditioning is very common there, even if you're poor that's one thing you will try to find a way to get.

In the ghettos it's normally an old window unit, not central AC. Also shotgun shacks, which are houses setup with a straight-through floorplan so that if you open the front and back doors the whole thing becomes kind of a wind tunnel. Not as good as AC, but better than nothing.

In those neighborhoods, you'll also often see people (especially elderly and children) hanging out at the neighborhood church or mom and pop store, where there is air conditioning, if they don't have AC or it isn't working.
I guarantee you that large-cap, highly scrutinized public companies comply with much harder regulations and internal controls than this.
why didn't you buy the Bluetooth adapter from the bestbuy kiosk in the airport to use your airpods with the plane's headphone jack?
I've been using one of these for about a year. It's been great having a device that I can actually reach all of, and the small size also helps to not be a distraction.

About the only thing I miss from the Pixel series is camera skills and unnatural photo enhancements. It takes some nudging to get my jelly star to focus properly.
Without needing the Fight Club scene, "because the current [US] regulatory penalties are tiny, even when hundreds of millions of people's data is compromised. And there are rarely criminal charges against the executives of the companies who leaked the data". Until Congress legislates any solution.
There are very very very few, about 1 in 10000, well executed Javascript frontends. Just stop using it for _fkin everything_.

I can't even file a damn claim with my insurance on StateFarm.com because some dev had to itch some javacraptasic urge.
See also: Brutalist Web Design. https://brutalist-web.design
You can, since Firefox is open source. Just hire a dev.
This is why we need small company and community owned and run software, preferably open source. Zulip's post about their policies regarding AI training rubbed some the wrong way due to its perceived anti-Slack positioning, but it was at least sensible and measured. Venture backed businesses are all vulnerable to investor desire to chase fads in the name of speculative returns.
I appreciate the concept here, but I agree with your sentiment. It’s reminiscent of the crude as a personality type that was almost hipster popular.
How is it an improvement? It wastes tons of whitespace. The first one is far better.
I think this site epitomizes what I don't like about the internet. There's no whimsy, no sense of artistry or creativity or mystery or playfulness. You have a canvas to do anything and you choose to do nothing.

It acknowledges that the problem space is difficult. Making something truly delightful is no small task — and it responds by giving up. The site is a (forceful) shrug.
I would guess it's mostly phishing. Even if people are educated about it, it only takes one mistake of opening an attachment or entering a password in a reasonably good fake form.