skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tech salaries have ALREADY fallen and tech workers have already been largely treated as cogs. Yes it could get even worse but I get why they’re taking their chances
I hope this isn't a trap where someone uses open source to tap into a community of skilled engineers for feature development, then shifts to a private model, and ends up with a refined product created at no cost with the help of talented contributors.
Does anyone think there is room for a D2C company to start curing its own meats and deliver cold cuts to people's doorstep?
I didn't, and I said nothing of the sort.

I said the NYT, and other media outlets, are not "far right insane wackos". Some people then run with that and say they're left-wing. That's not the case.

NYT is center-right, maybe center, and absolute worst-case slightly center-left. Our perception is warped, because we compare it to the likes of Fox News. Which is so unbelievably far right, that just about anything looks left-leaning in comparison.

> went on a rant about what he perceived my views to be

This didn't happen. Please, reread my comment and you'll notice I said absolutely nothing about you or your beliefs. I spoke of extreme right-wing beliefs. Whether you identify with that or feel shame about that is not my problem. If you're privy to creating personal attacks to fuel a sense of victimhood, that's on you.
IIUC, virtually all of the crazy airport prices come from management companies like HMS Host, Sodexo, etc - which manage most of the restaurants and stores in airports.

Their business model is - they big up the price of all the available spots such that no one can make money unless they charge exorbitant prices. After they capture the majority of the market, they're free to charge a ton of money.

How they haven't been charged for collusion and price fixing is beyond me.

Anyway, typically, if you find a huge brand like Starbucks or McDonald's - or a brand that owns all its locations (not franchised) like Chipotle, the prices will not be extreme.
Ironically for a question about antitrust price fixing you just named two incumbent government-sanctioned cartels (zoning and taxi medallions) that restrict supply and keep prices high. They would be illegal if private companies made them.
You also need US citizenship and the ability to pass a background check (and if you've been in IL for years, I don't think you'd pass that check), but tbh depending on when and which unit you served in the IDF along with your technical skills, I think you could network your way into some good private sector SWE and PM jobs in the US or TLV.
Push it through jless and you just made a great TUI for that :)
That’s genius in its simplicity. Wow. Well done!
Adding to the mystery, transflective is the only game in town for boat applications.

You can get a nice fish finder like the Lowrance Hook Reveal 7 (I have one) with a 800x480 7" transflective screen for $290. That is including the external ultrasound transducer, signal processing chips, CPU, memory etc. So the display itself can't be much more than $100. The resolution is not huge, but still.
Lol, I meant what can we do about the CIA destroying the entire world, piece by piece... not specifically Kissinger.
They should import data from Mapillary as I see the whole of South Africa is missing. Although most libre licensed products have poor image quality; I hope that improves.
Yes they have.
"data are aggregated anonymously".. that's what almost every data broker with a security breach also said at one point in the past.
Why not pay for their education instead of eliminating requirements? "Degree is not required" seems like a lowering of the bar more than anything.
The implementation is just wrong from what's been presented. basic jitter (20-100ms), and a dynamic payload size are what's actually missing here. The question now becomes though how interactive should your session be. Timing the connection latency might help to an extent, but this is about mitm and you don't necessarily know where your adversary is (first hop, or towards the end). Batching keystrokes would also help here.
Definitely check out HTMX! I do like Svelte myself but I don't like how it seems like the majority of development is spent on Sveltekit itself. That said, Svelte is in a great position and can easily pair with things like Go or C# or PHP. It really reminds me of a more thoughtful react in a new age after a decade of previous lessons.

As for HTMX, they published a great book that is available for free:

https://hypermedia.systems/

The book is well written IMO, it goes through the history of hypermedia and how to create a CRUD app with HTMX + Python (Flask). The backend portions are very simple where you can easily replace it with the language of your choice, it's also not hard to find some repos online that do this too.
Oura has acquired metabolic health startup Veri
> the McDonald’s workers absolutely not

Absolutely yes, it's a whole program for coerced labor. Like I said, I bet you didn't know about it because this shit is absolutely under the table in regards to our media.

But yes, we do, to this day, have prisoners who are mostly black forced to work for well under minimum wage in private businesses, such as McDonald's, Wendy's, Golden Corral... sounds a lot like slavery when you put it like that.
I actually think they need 2, usually need a second domain / setup for failover. Especially if the primary domain is a novelty TLD like.. .IO which showed that things can happen at random to the TLD. If the website down it's fine, but if you have systems calling back to subdomains on that domain, you're out of luck. A good failover will help mitigate / minimize these issues. I'd also keep it on a separate registrar.

Domains are really cheap, I try to just pay for 5-10 year blocks (as many as I can), when I can just to reduce the issues.
I’m curious what the general demographic preference is regarding real-time/chat vs. async/longer-form. I never much liked real-time/chat, even back in the times of IRC, BSD talk, and ICQ, and have always preferred mailing lists/Usenet/forums.
Those are the two cheapest things in Taco Bell food. Why not ask about any of the other ingredients?
The article puts the blame on

> Never Update, Auto-Updates And Change Are Bad

as the source of the problem a couple of times.

This is pretty common take from security professionals, and I wish they'd also call out the other side of the equation: organizations bundling their "feature" (i.e. enshittification) updates and security updates together. "Always keep your programs updated" is just not feasible advice anymore given that upgrades as just as likely to be downgrades these days. If that were to be realistic advice, we need more pressure on companies to separate out security-related updates and allow people to get updates only on that channel.
CyberCom is different. This is for civilian hiring via GSA

DoD (and a couple other agencies like the SEC) have their own talent and hiring pipeline, as well as their own pay schedules.
> (aside: as engineers, I think we could be taken more seriously if we stopped trying to argue our aesthetic preferences are correct or optimal or whatever--it's OK to just prefer things)

I agree. As the author of ripgrep, I don't view its default behavior as "correct." But I do have an opinion that it is a better user experience. But like, other tools can and do make different choices based on diverging opinions. Which is totally fine. I mostly just get pretty irked when someone tries to tell me that I shouldn't express my opinion at all (through the behavior of tools I build).
My problem with your take is that the largest danger of driving a car comes from other drivers. Zero fatalities is a pipe dream, yes, but there is still room to prevent more collisions.

I would like to see more consistent enforcement against reckless driving, personally. Drivers who weave at high speeds in small gaps to change lanes, for example. Speed in general is one of the biggest factors of collision fatalities.
I'm not an expert in this area at all but I recall reading that trying to hide a signal in random noise doesn't really work, as you can still find the signal with statistical analysis or looking for distingishing characteristics that are not obscured. That was my first thought when I read about this new feature in OpenSSH, and it seems to have proven correct.

Edit: wanted to add that I recognize that the people working on OpenSSH know a lot more about this than I do, and I had assumed they wouldn't bother implementing this if it wasn't a good idea, so willing to accept that "proven correct" may be an overstatement or even flat-out wrong.
This presupposes a lot of pretty nasty things. It reads like you apply to the NYT and then you get offered a job based on your gender or race which is obviously not the case. That lack of equity (which is equality of outcome, not opportunity) is itself a problem and not simply a byproduct of different people being different. That when your entire sample size is 622, you can make broad generalizations based on the pay of ~37 of them. Even if you can, it also assumes that your salary in your job is based on objective set criteria and not a) whether you negotiate, b) how hard you negotiate, c) whether you have a BATNA that makes you need the job less, d) whether you had breakfast that morning or were more tired than normal or were coming down with a cold or any number of a myriad of other things that could affect a high-stakes negotiation.

The pay gap as a systemic issue (for equal work for equal hours with equal qualifications) has been debunked a thousand times over. But while it's certainly possible (likely?) that some individual companies have a racially or gender-driven pay gap, it's a far stretch to assume that the NYT is one of them.

Equality of opportunity is good, giving people a leg up early in their lives when they've been disadvantaged, regardless of their race or gender, is good. "Equity" for the sake of it is racist.
Gen AI Image Generator to suggest improvements to a graphic?
I have a PIL-based Python script that generates a graphic that lists teams and some statistics. It's team logos plus black text on a white background. I'd be curious to see if any of the image generators would be able to basically take my version and make improve the styling and design elements. Has anyone had success using any of the new tools for this purpose?
Perhaps you misunderstood my statement I am not talking about NT there, Spider Systems has had their network user spaces utilities and tools but almost all of them were BSD not developed by them. If their tools originally BSD then what were the chances they developed their very own TCP/IP stacks from scratch with good compatibility with the outside world?

This remind me a particular incident happened to Brendan Gregg of the eBPF initiatives, when a company performed a demo of their alleged game changing kernel tracing tools to him and as it turned out the tools were actually Brendan very own developed tools.
You said it. Traning. But later, most of the input of data it's being inputted back from AI's output.

Because the end users will use far more the output data from AI than feeding it from remote sources far from the original.

Disasters will happen, just wait.
...Just because you're being payed absurdly doesn't legitimize your work any either. There's a lot of work that's aimed at getting done where the big fat paycheck is considered "STFU and do what you're told. with what we're paying you, we own you."

Just because you're potentially paid 500k to essentially implement the basis of metadata leakage and privacy compromise on scales that previous century actual dictators couldn't even reasonably dream of does not make the work of implementing it more "legitimate". It just makes it easier to attract people who value naterial comforts right now over safety from systemic abuse later. It's all tradeoffs.

Someone'll pay you well to do ultimately horrible things, and make it sound like you're doing everyone a favor.

Juniors, take note. You set the bar on the hell you'll be trapped in down the road. Always, always, be suspect.
Yep, fully agree here. Some companies seem to consider the word 'refactor' to be profane language, and I think that's a real shame. In my experience it's those companies that end up with mountains of technical debt and regressions each cycle.

Allowing your engineers the freedom to truly own and maintain the code they're responsible for will necessarily result in refactors that sometimes even include rewrites and data migrations. On the surface and in the short term this seems risky. In the medium-to-longer term I think it results in happier employees, more confidence in the solutions and faster longer-term velocity.
> 2008 was definitely worse for inexperienced new grads than today, but today is probably worse for people in their peak earning years as companies are trimming the fat.

So same people affected both times?
Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada (Full work rights in US as well)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript/Typescript, Node.js, Express.js, React, Go, REST APIs, HTML, CSS, jQuery, AWS, Docker, Terraform, Linux, Bash, HTTP, Nginx, OOP, SQL, MongoDB

Resume/CV: https://timw-csi.github.io/assets/Tim_Williams_Resume.pdf

Email: timw-dev AT pm DOT me

About me: I’m a software engineer who enjoys working and learning at the limits of my knowledge and experience. I enjoy breaking down complex problems into their smallest solvable pieces and writing clean code up from a foundation of fundamentals. I focus on clear communication, especially when working with remote engineering teams-- love a detailed PR. Dachshunds are my favorite dog breed.

I recently built Snowclone ( https://snowclone-base.github.io/ ), a backend-as-a-service with real-time functionality that streamlines provisioning infrastructure to AWS.

In a previous career I worked in IT and am always interested in systems and platform work in addition to SE roles.
No, you don't set salary bands based on race or sex. That sounds like it would be illegal. The way that bias creeps in is not from data gathering and setting salary ranges, it's from managers bias when they choose from the ranges for candidates.

Setting company wide salary bands actually HELPS fairness in pay by providing objective ways employees can argue that they are underpaid if that's the case.
Google Voice was also supposed to revolutionize how many parts of cell phone service were to be provided -- signing in to an account instead of SIM cards, multiple phone numbers on one device, visual voicemail, advanced calling features. Android was supposed to be the vehicle of delivery.

In fact, Google Voice on Android was supposed to make calls via data-only (no minutes usage) on a smartphone, but carriers would not allow Google to do that. Hence the strange random-number dialing which utilizes a 3 way call to make a 2 way call by default. Years later, they quietly allowed calls over data but by then GV was already on lifesupport.
So anyone up for a discussion on this paper at:
https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2403.18103
The headline strikes me as a little sensational (but hey, what are headlines for?) since "the future of libraries" isn't really at stake. If the Internet Archive decision stands it certainly could end other controlled digital lending programs of works that are still under copyright. But (at least for now) that seems a far cry from being the end of libraries as we know them.
Also worth noting that Allende was backed by the Soviets and Cuba, there's important Cold War context to the US intervention.

https://issforum.org/reviews/106-chile
I once pressed my boss into having off-premises storage of documents so we could still manufacture product in a new facility if the current facility burnt down. Unfortunately, someone started the habit of sending the primary documents to the same facility if the product was deprecated. One day, that off-premises facility burnt down and all the contents was lost. I think it was a regular self-storage space.

That aside, this sounds extremely old-fashioned, but it seems to me that the only media that is acceptable for long-term storage is going to be punched paper tape. How long does paper last? How long do the holes in it remain readable? Can it be spliced and repaired?
To a degree for sure.
Definitely not in the context of Texas.
Dallas, DFW, Plano areas are unfortunately not that cheap haha
Had not heard of Apollo, an interesting read. I am building a 9P library at the moment towards some projects in this spirit.

You make a good case for base features in your last paragraph. I think monolith drivers as well. Raw speed seems to be important for survival in computing platforms. I am far from a domain expert but as far as I know, monolith drivers have efficiency/speed advantages over microkernel.
Realpage does the same thing with rental market data but they are clearly at risk.
'Encyclopedia of Fraud' Would Help Taxpayers Spot Scams Early
Help Needed in Pricing My SaaS Product
Hi all,

I've been brainstorming on having a simple pricing for my product, Draftly. And thought of picking your brain.

What I have:
Draftly is a tool that help users create content for LinkedIn with the help of AI. Because I use AI, I have fixed cost of creating content using the AI model.

---

There are three plans that I currently offer.

Plan 1 - this is for people who only post on their individual account. We give 20 credits to create 20 posts / month. This is right fir for someone who publishes one post every weekday.

Plan 2 - this is for someone who posts on their individual account as well as business page. We give 50 credits to create 50 posts/month shared between their individual account and the business page.

Plan 3 - this is for someone who manages their client's business pages. Here we give 100 credits to create upto 100 posts/month across all the pages they manage.

---

Problems/Issues raised by customers:

- They run out of credits but dont have business page.
- 100 credits are not enough since they manage 20+ pages
- They want to manage more than 1 page but unable to use 100 credits.

---

What I was thinking:

- Have the first Plan only.
- Charge $x for every page they add. Its a small fee.
- Allow them to top-up the credits whenever they run out of it.
- I'm still brainstorming and need some help/suggestion in coming up with a pricing plan that simple, easy to understand, and win-win for both them and us.

---

Any help is very much appreciated.
You can check out more details about it on draftly . so
I think a lot get pushed out for not going with the plan. It's like this in a lot of organizations. The other problem is morality is based on an individuals view. Most of the most egregious actions were likely deemed morally fine by those that perpetrated it. It's messed up. Working in the IC can be amazing and also nerve wrecking. Many bad decisions start out more as a Bad choice 1, bad choice 2, or bad choice 3.. and that's the only real options out there.

The CIA have been cowboys.. and I suspect that the modern CIA still has this going on.
Many records can be accessed at https://www.fsis.usda.gov/about-fsis/freedom-information-act... and if for some reason one is not available a FOIA request can be submitted fairly simply
Ford files patent for a car with holographic cops and guard dogs
I don't see what you think is mischaracterised here. Lots of companies have received individual favourable tax treatments within the EU in ways that would not fly today. Several member states have historically established competitive tax environments at the likely expense of their fellow members too. As I said before it is unrealistic to argue as if Apple and Ireland is the only such case.

And I doubt that retrospective VAT change would still be very popular after trading with the EU became completely toxic - which is not an unrealistic outcome from such a hostile act. Businesses already avoid EU customers because of the existing environment. Retrospective demands for more money would be much worse.
As a person who still wishes he could really replace his Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4110, it pains me to note that:

- they're dim (in comparison to an otherwise equivalent display)

- they don't showroom well (because they're dim)

- marketing them is difficult --- not many folks are willing to pay a premium to avoid the need to do the "hipster dance" and shade their screen (or just wait a bit to use their device)

The ideal would be for a retailer to set up a daylight viewing booth in all their spaces (expensive) and then convince folks to test/compare devices in what is essentially a suntan booth (health implications).

I wish that someone would revisit the Lenovo Yogabook which had a secondary e-ink display as keyboard/drawing area/e-ink tablet as a reasonable compromise.

EDIT: I will note that there are (or were?) some such devices available from specialty suppliers for nautical use, or in rugged devices intended for use on construction sites.
This is exactly what Pixar/Disney and Ed Catmull got sued for.
Apple, Google and FB as well.
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Reminds me of the dorms in college where the internet would get messed up because someone would plug in a random router from home that would hand out junk dhcp ip addresses. It's like that but for the whole world.
Programmers are white collar engineers, I think you are confused here.

Doesn't mean they can't create/join a union, but they are not really in the tradesman category. White collar unions are much tinier.
Looks like the author really wants `rebase -i`
It was in fact a Soviet client state, but the Soviets themselves were starving in 1973 (they were actually importing US grains) and couldn't provide enough assistance to both Cuba and Chile.
Ask HN: Need help in pricing my SaaS product
Hi all,
I've been brainstorming on having a simple pricing for my product, Draftly. And thought of picking your brain.

What I have: Draftly is a tool that help users create content for LinkedIn with the help of AI. Because I use AI, I have fixed cost of creating content using the AI model.

---

There are three plans that I currently offer.

Plan 1 - this is for people who only post on their individual account. We give 20 credits to create 20 posts / month. This is right fir for someone who publishes one post every weekday.

Plan 2 - this is for someone who posts on their individual account as well as business page. We give 50 credits to create 50 posts/month shared between their individual account and the business page.

Plan 3 - this is for someone who manages their client's business pages. Here we give 100 credits to create upto 100 posts/month across all the pages they manage.

---

Problems/Issues raised by customers:

- They run out of credits but dont have business page. - 100 credits are not enough since they manage 20+ pages - They want to manage more than 1 page but unable to use 100 credits.

---

What I was thinking:

- Have the first Plan only. - Charge $x for every page they add. Its a small fee. - Allow them to top-up the credits whenever they run out of it. - I'm still brainstorming and need some help/suggestion in coming up with a pricing plan that simple, easy to understand, and win-win for both them and us.

---

Any help is very much appreciated. You can check out more details about it on draftly . so
Legal or not, Pave is unethical.
I have seen this as well and we literally called it a "Death March." You'd get a product in time for the demo but it wouldn't be pretty.
Collapsing/hiding comments should be a required feature in editors.

In Leo[1], you can make nodes out of them and just hide them. If Emacs weren't so good, I'd be using Leo. Similar power when it comes to extensibility, but extended via Python, not elisp.

[1] https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor/