skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know, my point was that this can't really be anything else than a commercial off the shelf model with minor modifications. Still useful but I wouldn't expect magical resolutions from it.

People expect a lot these days because Google maps "satellite view" but the highest zoom levels are generally aerial.
This, generally, is avoidable hand-over-fist. `NoScript` isn’t a plugin—it’s older than most web developers.
You answer this to me, but then you also answer 'correct' to the post I am replying to that mentions outsourcing, which is a totally different beast than Indian immigrants.

This discussion is also away from my initial intent which was to find out any sort of source, whether it be a press release, a research paper, anything related to your claim of frontenders and testers being replaced.

I would still appreciate such an answer. Though I expect I'll be disappointed.
There's no evidence that this person built up a fortune of several million, rather than having it handed to them by a parent or a deceased spouse.
I love El Reg, and have really appreciated that it has aged gracefully, unlike most of its contemporaries. The staff are really knowledgable, and that isn't always apparent, from their casual approach. I learn a lot from that redtop.

His story is pretty much classic.

The Inquirer was also quite enjoyable.

I like that Simon Travaglia is still penning his BOFH series. I have followed him since the 1980s.
On the contrary, recognize that you're buying a killer story under the guise of a loan.
"The library may be a bad fit for your problem."

How is this the fault of the library? You chose the wrong one!

"This often cancels out the primary benefit of libraries. No, you don’t have to write the code, but you do have to adapt your problem to fit the library"

You evaluated the library, found is unsuitable and yet, it is somehow their fault.

Why on earth would you project your own failures on to someone else's code? You do you!
With a bidet, I probably use two squares after a visit, just to remove moisture. There is no way I could operate with two squares without a bidet.
I don't think the person you're responding to was thinking of this, but off the top of my head is the spin-launcher which gives a rocket a "kick", giving it a decent buffer before it has to start worrying about Tsiolkovsky's tyranny.
If this is a matter of national security, realistically, you probably should not do this. If it's sensitive enough, the government(s) involved WILL expend infinite resources to track you down and chase you across the world like they did with Snowden, Manning, and Assange. Don't kid yourself that using software X will make you invisible. Almost all public cybersec resources are only "good enough" against a poorly-resourced adversary, not against most state actors, and especially not against the US government and its allies.

State actors have plenty of resources at their disposal for revealing your identity, ranging from the perfectly legal (wiretaps, national security letters, etc.) to the questionable (making allied intelligence agencies do their dirty work, using loopholes to do warrantless wiretapping at a mass scale, monitoring Tor exit nodes, etc.), to the outright murdery (good luck if you personally piss off the Russians or Israelis).

Even if you leak it to a reputable journalistic outfit, you're betting that a reporter will value your freedom over their own. They can and have been compelled to leak their sources under enough pressure, and it takes a rare hero to stand up against that sort of governmental abuse of power.

You really, really shouldn't do this if you value your safety. If you absolutely must get the information out, deliver it to some media agency anonymously, preferably without a digital record or paper trail.

Or, geopolitically, you can also choose to leak to an enemy of whatever entity you're concerned about, and hope that they will protect you. (e.g. if you're leaking national security matters, go to a non-allied adversary and ask for asylum from their embassy... after making sure that country does not have extradition agreements with your own).

There is no risk-free way to do this.
They put business people in charge with the last merger, instead of people with technical backgrounds.

As for killing people, they have already done that with the 737 Max.
"How is Boeing so consistently terrible nowadays?"

They are a publicly traded corporation. The enshittification is inevitable.

They already killed a few hundred people.
Maybe it wasn't a brown dwarf when it started accelerating!
Good Job does the same for Rails

https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job
Well if db cooper wants to come claim his property…
I don’t remember a single toll road I had to transverse in Maryland or VA or DC and I drove north south and then south north, including around the capital and pentagon. Most tolls are in the further northern states like New York , New Jersey etc…
I’ve never commuted to DC from Maryland for work though, so I can’t comment exactly what goes on there. In general road tolls are very low and reasonable in the US aside from super touristy spots IMHO

WV to DC doesn’t make a lot of sense … I expect the amount of West Virginians who commute to DC to be rather non existent…
That was like Picasso allegedly doodling on the backs of checks he wrote, as they were often not cashed.
That's a deeply troubling non-answer right there.
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I guess the only difference in our views, is will be do anything before it's too late
I have started using Zed as the secondary editor, after VSCode, since they added the repl feature, which is based on Jupyter. It's not that it's a killer feature but that and AI, out of the box, and the cleaner UI attracted me.

That said I actually been using Cursor more in my testing of AI code because they just have better AI (with regard to how they add things into the context, I use both with sonnet). Also the UI integration is more comprehensive.
Related work: IBM first mainframes were so unreliable, that they put a feature in that you could restore the machine to the instruction that crashed, and continue processing, and you could back out of the last few instructions. State of the art for the late 1950s.

It was not virtual, that would become standard through on less than a decade.

Optimizing çopilers came with source tapes, and a huge expensive.
I am going to go the other direction on this... to anyone reading this, please consider using a backend-generic queueing system for your Python project.

Why? Mainly because those systems offer good affordances for testing and running locally in an operationally simple way. They also tend to have decent default answers for various futzy questions around disconnects at various parts of the workflow.

We all know Celery is a buggy pain in the butt, but rolling your own job queue likely ends up with you just writing a similary-buggy pain in the butt. We've already done "Celery but simpler", it's stuff like Dramatiq!

If you have backend-specific needs, you won't listen to this advice. But think deeply how important your needs are. Computers are fast, and you can deal with a lot of events with most systems.

Meanwhile if you use a backend-generic system... well you could write a backend using PgQueuer!
Earlier thread seems more well received:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1c8yhll/i_cant...

"I can't stand using vscode so I wrote my own". I suppose that explains the motivation and the intended audience.
Why all the aggression? What is your point?

I never said that swing was a bassinet, I said from my experience completely dismantling and rebuilding a SNOO the build quality is on par with cheap baby swings, and not what you would expect for a device this expensive.
That's amazing, it took them 3 months to kill a scam app, but they proactively shutdown smaller apps that break no rules constantly. I swear someone in Google's exec team is going out of their way to make Google products suck. They've all been getting worse for the past several years. Search gives bad results, search qualifiers only work in "verbatim" mode, GMail sucks at spam filtering now, Android is becoming a PITA, Chrome is shoving in new bad features while killing old good features, etc. There was even a big thing about Google Voice having some massive change where lots of features were going away, so I pulled GV out of my life expecting it to go away, and literally nothing changed.

It's almost like Google is suicidal and these are calls for help.
The problem is in defining unreasonable.

If it just said it prohibited seizure, or prohibited asset seizure past 30 days or something to that effect, it would be much easier.

But because it doesn't, we have to interpret the language. This is a difficult proposition; it's literally open for interpretation.

Like most things in the constitution, it's messy, but still pretty good.
Helix has been trying to implement a plugins system for like 2 years that should tell you everything you need to know about its future prospects
The Laconia Incident
I recommend not believing everything you read on the Internet. In a country with 330 million people, a one-in-a-million event happens often enough to be a regular fixture in the news. And it gets clicks every time, reliably.
Perhaps if you use soap you’d be clean enough for that, assuming you were the only one using the towel.
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That's a lesson you can't always follow. If you want internet-accessible surveillance cameras that you can view when you're not home, for instance, buying hardware that requires an app is basically a requirement.
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Glancing at it briefly, I like the Workflows feature. I'm a long time Sidekiq user (Ruby), and while you can construct workflows pretty easily (especially using nested batches and callbacks in the Pro version), there really isn't a dedicated UI for visualizing them.
Dunno - I've spent time in all those places and Cambodia is easily the worst in that way and I think the only one of the three that supports the stuff mentioned. Apparently the other country in the region with similar stuff going on is Myanmar.
Sorry, I am very slow to respond to these things.

I will take a Richard Stallman pun/joke, "I am not against the government or the state, and not just because I have a Pro-state gland" groans!

ID's are a common thing, drivers licenses/proof of age cards being the most prominent thing. That is fine enough, but having it all tied to what is a significantly more fragile digital and exploitable at a distance systems - it is one of those that things that looks like, those that push these things are looking at only the upsides but ignoring the flaws.

What is the back up for if/when this system has a failure. What happens if your phone runs out of power for the day? And if your phone of choice doesn't support these ID's, what then?

This does come down to the idea of the technology essentially gets forced on you by government, you have no option to opt out. Unfortunately, at this point it all starts to sounds like an anti-vax argument.

Alas this is something Ted Kacsynski wrote about, technology essentially robs you of autonomy because if others end up using it, you are forced to keep up or be left behind. I don't completely agree with that sentiment as there is the option of concurrent technologies - but it rare that happens.
I’ve been hearing people talk about the miracles of bidets online for years. I took a trip to Tokyo a few years back and thought I’d finally see what all the fuss was about. I have to say, I absolutely hated it. After the first week I gave up even trying to use it. The seat warmers were also pretty unpleasant, imo.

There were some pretty cool automatic seat covers that I liked, but most of the other stuff I wasn’t a fan of.
For more context, I develop on weekends and I enjoy that because I can tackle problems I find interesting. But I’m yet to find a job I enjoy that makes me feel whole.
https://www.reddit.com/r/afghanistan/comments/1evkwft/afghan...

For those who don't have Twitter.

And for those who do, don't assume HN readers also do and please provide mirrors! SMH
Parent of a formerly colicky baby here, but I agree with OP. Products like this prey on modern parents who have unrealistic expectations of what is needed of them by their baby.

Our son didn't sleep for the first two weeks of his life. We tried everything, including swings and rockers and white noise. Nothing worked, and none of us were sleeping (very similar to OP's story). He was losing weight and the doctor was getting worried.

The breakthrough came when my wife decided to finally just leave him alone to cry in the (very dumb) bassinet. It took a few minutes, but he finally fell asleep and slept longer than he ever had before and woke up happy. From then on that's what we did—he went down crying, he woke up happy. He started putting weight on again and became a healthy happy kid. Based on the concern we were starting to get from the doctor, letting him cry himself to sleep probably saved his life.

Too many parents accept the unrealistic expectations placed on them by our culture, and I'm convinced at this point that those expectations have been largely crafted by people who benefit financially from selling the "solution".

Teach them difficult holds that temporarily work but are unsustainable, then sell them an incredibly overpriced product that automates the hold. Assure them that letting their baby figure out that life outside the womb doesn't have to resemble life inside is abuse, lest they realize that babies can and do sleep in beds and have for centuries.
It is also pointless, because the question is not how to build the library, the question is how to integrate and reference it in the project where you want to use it.
This seems like a strong candidate for a Constitutional amendment. Twelve amendments were ratified in the 20th century—about once a decade since the end of the Civil War. However, if you exclude the 27th Amendment[1], we haven't ratified an amendment in 53 years. My favorite type of amendment is one that extends rights to people, and in this case, also to their property.

[1] The 27th Amendment took a different path compared to the other 16 amendments ratified since the Bill of Rights. It was originally proposed as part of the first 12 amendments but took 202 years to be ratified. This was largely due to the efforts of a University of Texas student in the 1980s, who, motivated by a C grade on a paper, embarked on a mission to see it finally adopted.
What about when there isn't an arrest?
What sparks your flame? Is it viable as income? If so, try that. Sorry I couldn't be more specific.

It is odd that we treat time like it is the most worthless thing when it is the most valuable thing we have.
Even so. In a family with that kind of money to bequeath I would be surprised if the kids were that completely in the dark about wealth management.
You’re being a jerk, and insulting neurodivergent people at the same time. Why not just ask where I got that figure? I explained it here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41286278

Obviously a patented small volume item will cost more than its materials, but the fact remains that the build quality is low, and not what you see with other high end baby equipment.

FWIW I have run companies and invented and sold electronic devices… I understand very well the economics and practical issues involved.
> would you argue that the definition of a "well-regulated militia" has changed in the last 240 years

That's a good question. And the answer is yes.

At the time it was written, that phrase would roughly mean well-organized, well-armed, well-disciplined. Not regulated in the way we use the term today, to refer to something governed by regulations.
Most of my family swears by Costco TP, and I don’t understand it. I think it’s trash compared to Charmin Ultra Strong. I dread needing to use the toilet when visiting.
I moved _back_ to Linux system administration after a few years of full-stack web development. I prefer developing software as a hobby instead of professionally, because the latter is just not enjoyable for me — at least not at any of the companies I've worked for.
It's almost as if both false positives and false negatives exist!
It's probably written in a programming language with the same terms, too. (Bolin)
A good code, in my opinion, is written by appropriate selection of suitably contained abstractions. The problem with this, and the article does try to talk about it, is that for you to select appropriate abstractions, you need to know the "entire" thing. Which is to say, you need to have a knowledge of something that isn't there yet.

In other engineering disciplines like say civil or architecture, this problem is solved by using a good blueprinting paradigm like CAD layouts, but I find a distinct lack of this in software[1]. Ergo this advice which is a rephrasing of "know first and build later". But it is also equally easy to lose oneself in what's called an analysis paralysis i.e. get stuck in finding the best design instead of implementing a modest one. In the end, this is what experience brings to table I suppose, balance.

[1]closest I can think of are various design diagrams like the class diagrams etc.
as someone whose child at that age would only sleep when in the swing that gets ignored really quick after both parents are operating on 2 hours of sleep everyday for weeks on end. parenting infants was brutal
Insane. MBAs are a menace
This is the company profiting from the obvious fraud, de-funding departments designed to block such frauds, and with a history of using their size to blunder past any legislative sanctions. I'm shocked, _shocked_ I tell you that the fraud benefiting them personally was allowed to go on for so long.

In less sarcastic news, I'm legitimately surprised it was dropped in only 3 months. That's a better than average outcome.
I went through a similar career evolution. My escape from development went from evangelism/sales to marketing and finally product management. I actually found the business and customers interesting but could care ever less about tech cool chasing.
Rust Rover is terrible, they made it free and I still dont use it, Zed is great for Rust.
Yep, tons of games behind the scenes use it.

I used to read this guy over at procworld.blogspot.com (as I type this I'm not sure if it even works anymore) who developed a very nice Voxel engine he ended up eventually licensing to game studios like SOE named Voxel Farm which was intended to be in EverQuest Next.

It had tons of features way beyond a simple Minecraft clone. I was always blown away at what was possible and the tech behind it.
In Firefox, just add a bookmark for https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so..., edit it and add a keyword like "hn". Then type in the address bar: "hn whatever" and it will show you SERP for whatever.

Another way is to add the OpenSearch engine (https://mycroftproject.com/install.html?id=84751&basename=ha...) to Firefox and assign a shortcut key to it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/assign-shortcuts-search...
I feel ya – also seeking a career change, myself. Is going back to school for some other high-skill field a possibility for you? (doctors, lawyers, engineers, academia, etc.?)

Unfortunately, at least in the US, there are very few other middle-class jobs that someone can get into without a lot of formal education and/or experience. Software dev is (or at least used to be) an extreme outlier in that regard, propelling people up the economic ladder after just a few months of boot camp. I think those days are over, so if you want a comparable quality of life, I think it will take a lot of reskilling and expensive education/credentials (both in time and diplomas) :(

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In the meantime though, I will say this: As a software person, I've found it MUCH nicer to work for smaller to mid-sized companies vs big corporations. The salary isn't as good, but the work itself can be way more meaningful and impactful – everything you do directly impacts the product and customers, vs being a tiny cog in an insignificant wheel. None of the smaller companies I've worked for had the time, patience, or resources for endless Agile crap, for example. The codebases tended to be of mixed quality (sometimes they were homebrewed crap, other times they were OK consultant-written code) but overall, it's very much "not minutiae"... you have way more power over small-biz software like that, and there's a lot of problems to solve since your teams tend to be much smaller and your resources much fewer. All the problems are yours, but you are also empowered to make all the solutions. It's a much more satisfying feeling than "OK, I delivered 14 points this week, hope that shows up on my next review."
I suggest you try to look for a new job. It doesn't cost you much (other than some time) and you can test if you think the grass is greener on the other side. Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't. It can give you a taste of the hiring market, which isn't very easy right now, and that can sometimes make you appreciate what you have. If you are taking interviews and everything sounds boring, maybe that will give you what you need to look at different careers and then start interviewing for those jobs?
Zed also hastily went to v1. Simple things are missing such as labels to identify where a conpletion It's coming from when there are multiple completions with the same name. Also typescript types which are updated by an external process do not reflect unlike vscode.

They are now trying to do collaboration with ai to return money to investors but again nobody wants this.

That's why most editing tools should be open source and done by people passionate about it. The only company that managed to do paid editoes well is Jetbrains because their IDEs are actually much much better than the competition and much better than Zed.
This is the exact use case I'm running into right now. I've been looking at BullMQ some it has good typescript support, and is working towards a 1.0 for python. But, I have tried it out in a production stack yet
Not every software job is awful though. There's nothing about software itself that make it have to be awful.

Why not just find a different seat and see if that improves your mood? Not every place is organized the same way, not every codebase is spaghetti.
I'm not exactly sure what you're arguing here. It more seems like you're pointing to California in 4th grade. Which I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable using California as the prime example given how diverse it is in culture and demographics. Too much noise introduced through aggregation.

When looking at the other grades and varying by subjects it very much looks like the data is noisy. I'm sure there's meaningful analysis to be drawn from here but I'm certain there's no obvious one.
> Are you saying that is why my son was crying so much?

Not your son specifically, it's just a crying trigger overall, along with the other classics like gas.

> only sterilization, never soap.

Sterilization is a bit oversold. It's the most useful the first time you use a bottle, after that it has diminishing returns.

In general, parents are oversold pretty much everything.

> wasn't getting enough milk initially.

It's common in the beginning. "Mother's milk tea" is great to increase milk supply, but I can see it's not an issue now.

Enjoy the baby, they grow fast.
Benzine causes leukemia.

https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/benzene/basics/facts.asp
You don't even have to talk about hypotheticals when it comes to this "vendor everything instead" philosophy. This is basically how the C world works, a lot of which is driven by a general allergy to dependencies by embedded developers - partially out of necessity (space and overhead are MUCH more important constraints in embedded land) - but also partially out of cargo culting.

I guess the opinion I'll share here is that I don't hear too many people arguing that the way embedded developers manage C libraries is at the forefront of how we should be handling and distributing code.