skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's perfectly fine.

I've mentored and hired a lot of people that just want to sling code and get their 3% inflation raise every year. Good on them, love those folks.
https://forwardscattering.org/post/36
I don't think it's wrong. I'm myself a fresh senior engineer and I'm probably going to keep that title for quite a few years.

However, the thing about working as a lead engineer (IC) is, you can pick what you want to work on. You don't have to write boilerplate code. You can still write a lot of code if you want (David Cutler said he has always been a hands-on manager who writes a lot of code). And the pay is definitely a lot better, so I think that definitely holds some weight.
The shame was my own issue of going from sighted to blind. A disabled person is singularly different than most other folks (although people with major disabilities are ~16% of the population.) The momentary discomfort of being singled out is just the price of admission and better than the alternative of people not understanding out how interacting with us or choosing not to.
there's kanban
> most of us have simply stopped using Google

Citation needed
I'm aware of ADP's analysis of the rise and fall of software engineers since 2018, but wanted to look at a dataset that goes back much farther to help put the current difficult job market into perspective.

Also, due to the limitations of the dataset used, does anyone know of any other publically available datasets that I could use to analyze the tech job market over long stretches of time like I did with the Bureau of Labor Statistics data?
Agile isn't a framework, it's just a set of principles. Scrum is a loose framework theoretically based off of those principles with some ground rules that can be broken depending on what works for your team. Same with Kanban.
youre telling me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14160809

terrible is the understatement of the century. naming, renaming. different products with the same name. the same products with different names in different contexts. ugh.
Looks interesting! What types of programs do you think people would write in this language? I don't see an obvious need for traditional R programs which are usually just scripts for working with data, but maybe people could write R packages in this language?
Yeah exactly. One action item from this is that we need to add anomaly detection to our proxy usage metrics so we can catch this in 15 minutes instead of 6 hours :)
Except you cannot use it to connect directly via RDP from a Windows client to a Windows server ala good old mstsc.
I find it really funny that the newer TI stuff has Python now too. But they just stuck an extra ARM microcontroller on board (which is more powerful than the main ez80 CPU). If it ain't broke, support it for 32 years!
Should AIs try to be human?
More people are exposed to peanuts today than they were 100 years ago.

What do you think about the possibility that this is similar to rates of other diseases "rising", where really it may be an artifact of access to new populations?
What a writer. We were lucky to share the same planet for a while.

1000 kisses deep, if it be your will, you want it darker, tower of song, ain’t no cure for love, anthem, and on and on. Most songwriters will never write one of those, but he just kept on going.

He was our man, our searching, restless, yearning man.
That's basically what the site is. It's ok for building a network, but the feed is mostly worthless.
Fair. I was thinking it is /safer/, at least?

Not at all surprised to know a lot of people care about this. I'd be surprised to know that there wasn't more money tied to these than makes sense.
They mentioned practices that corporations do. I think any corporation that collects data on you counts here. I don't think its worth it to only talk about the examples provided in the article.
The solution is much simpler. Put all of the consequences of being defrauded by a borrower onto the lender.

If a lender wants to be repaid, then they need to show the borrower all the evidence they have for proof that the borrower entered into the contract.

If all a lender has is the fact that a 9 digit number, date of birth, name, and address were entered online, then the borrower simply has to say “I did not enter that information”, and the lender can go pound sand.

Guarantee all the lenders will tighten up their operations very quickly, and consequently, so will the loans that appear on one’s credit report.
you can execute a suite of BLE, wifi, and IR attacks. You can target NFC and RFID. You can add scripts and boards to boost signal and functionality. You know, fun stuff.
> But if all we're talking about is "mining" websites like HN for topics and then creating original content that covers those topics in a different format for a different audience... where's the issue?

Plagiarism, generally. I really enjoyed the semi-recent hbomberguy video on why it matters, and a later response (from another channel) on "The Somerset Scale of Plagiarism" for a more rigorous explanation of what the different kinds of "content reuse" can be. Those are generally where my current model of plagiarism comes from.

A specific concern would be the inaccurate telling of information that isn't understood. A video saying, "Here I will summarize this HN thread," is perfectly ok, and a good thing. A video saying, "Here I will tell you how $thing works," should be well researched and cited. Doesn't matter if the content's entirely from an HN thread for from 40 different SEO farms, it's low-quality content and it's wasting everyone's time at best, and probably actively misinforming people. (Because how true and complete is information gleaned from HN comments anyway?)
No worries, I get where you're comin from. Nobody can truly understand what anyone else is goin through and we all have to use ourselves as proxies.
Absolutely love the guy. Among the other things have huge collection of his songs on my HD.
Ammunition from India enters Ukraine, raising Russian ire
The people who make Eternal Septembers happen show up here all the time. They show up here from Reddit and 4chan and elsewhere expecting this forum to be a free-for-all because the word "hacker" is in the title, and are inevitably shocked and disappointed to learn how aggressively moderated and tone-policed this place is.

They're the ones who post racist diatribes under green alt account and anti-vaxx conspiracy theories and complain about wokeness and talk out of their ass about subjects they have no actual expertise in. The ones who think flagging is just a super downvote.

I mean, the premise that simply having a minimalist layout would filter for a better class of people has always been a bit silly. Eternal September is an inevitable result of having new people join a community. Every new person, every new comment, increases entropy. It doesn't matter how technically proficient they are, they will change the culture simply by virtue of their existence and participation at scale.
Just searched "best pet insurance", am inside Europe. Forbes is #1. I distinctly recall seeing this from time to time. Interestingly they're also the #1 for pet insurance on duckduckgo.
I had one of those in middle school c. 1990. It had function and program support. The problem with modifying one of those would be it's physically small and lacks I/O.

Upgraded to an HP 48GX sophomore year of high school. It worked well for math and physics coursework, AP Calculus BC, and the SAT-I math section. The IR serial port's LED was so powerful, there was a learning TV remote app that could control TVs from ~60-100' (20-30m) away. The ability to beam software to other calculators was just shy of the invention of the app store.
This is your life in the EU as a developer. Most companies only have junior/senior titles, just to tell beginners apart from "3+ years of experience". Very few companies have staff engineer level. You can either go on to be a manager, or land in a company which suits your vision of being a senior developer.
Hmmm... if you need to go deeper (because 1/4 of all hashes have zero leading zeros and zero trailing zeros), you can generalize this by converting the hash into its run-length encoding to get a sequence of rank functions where finding values with the same rank for all rank functions is equivalent to finding hash collisions. Very nice.
Others have mentioned Fastmail, and it really is great. But I don't think it's the final stop if you want transactional emails.

Decided to try out Cloudflare email routing[0], and have it routing to Fastmail and/or Gmail. I'm not using email workers for much yet, but it's a pretty cool feature.

I'd definitely recommend it as a super easy way to just get email working for a domain, and just route the emails to/from your existing email accounts.

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/email-routing/

EDIT: removed CF MailChannels integration note. Apparently it's been axed.

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/mailchannels-end-of-life-...
analytics aka telemetry in this case are for the design of the product itself no?

if they can preserve privacy, you dont want them to be able to see how people use their software?
I see nothing wrong with ARP.
Because any downward adjustment would be racist.
This surprised me:

...the rock era unfolded as ... a series of begats (Elvis begat the Beatles, the Beatles begat Jann Wenner, etc.) involving identity-famished teenagers and their heroes ... Cohen is absent from this narrative for one simple reason: He was the same age as Elvis.

I had to look this up: Actually he was a few months older (born in 1934 while Elvis was 1935).
Wait till the FTC discovers Full Story
I am in the same boat. It also feels like the more time I spend at one company in one role the more I gain crazy amounts of context over every aspect of our software, so the less effort it takes to do the same amount of work. I can do many tasks in < 30m that would take anyone else an entire day.

The old guys who have total ownership over some esoteric but irreplaceable part of the code really have it made. Especially if they are working remotely. At that point you almost are like a piece of B2B SaaS software. As long as you do your task tolerably well no one wants to go through the hassle of replacing you.
Because Google makes money through all this. These move ads. That's all they care about at this stage. I had stated a few years back Google is dying. It will take a while and it's going to be painful but we will get over this soon. 20 years is a good run.
Also why this system needs to be customized and tweeked to work with each specific panel of building glass it is placed with to get the full RF signal pass through
> I can like other positions and actions the FTC has done, like requiring the ability to turn off targeted ads, and not like others, like this one

They weren't saying that was the case I think you're misunderstanding them here.
But they are 100% correct, you are benefiting from other people fighting against this mass surveillance and yet speaking against it. I think you should do some research on why privacy is important and challenge yourself and your potentially entrenched beliefs.
I'd start with The Future (1992), I'm Your Man (1988), and Ten New Songs (2001). Those are, IMO, his most accessible and there's a very good chance you already know a few of those songs and haven't realized you know those songs. (e.g., "Everybody Knows" from I'm Your Man has been in a few movies, as have "The Future", and "Waiting for a Miracle" from The Future.)

Note that there's a really stark difference in his voice starting in the mid-80s. His early stuff doesn't sound quite right to me because I equate Leonard Cohen with his voice in the later albums.
The eczema connection is interesting! I do wonder about the cause and effect, though—it may not be that eczema (or creams to treat it) cause peanut allergies so much as that both stem from the same root cause. Eczema is an autoimmune response, after all!

ETA: Not sure if you know this already, but most people who have eczema also have asthma (and vice versa). Might be something to keep an eye on :)
It’s sort of like having a leatherman. You almost never NEED it but it feels great when you do. I clone all the remotes in my house for when my kids inevitably lose them.
Related Valkey 8.0.0 Is Out (116 points, 1 day ago, 29 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41581504
Train with an AI Tennis Coach
It's fun until your boss makes you hire and lead a team, as well as be product manager, and head of QA (you are the QA), and basically become the director of a department, while still holding the title of "Sr. Engineer". I didn't really ask for any of this, and I'd be happy if I were still just doing "Sr. Engineer" work, but there's a lot on my shoulders. While this sounds shitty, I also have autonomy and job security.
That was deliberate: a way of saying "probably even those who align with authoritarianism won't like governments to have a monopoly on secrets".
Many types of sites get ~$1 per visitor from search engines. Quite possible, yeah.
You should design your site to be resilient to spam traffic, not try to filter until it's gone. By filtering, you've become unreachable by much of the world, spammers or not.
Was looking for a demo of it on YouTube and fell over this hilarious one from a few months ago: https://youtu.be/coroLWOS7II?si=TeVghP_Zi0P9exQh . I’m sure it’s improved since :-)
I keep getting pushed to move into a role that I know I will fail in. I don't get it. I'm happy where I am. Isn't that enough?
It's weird to me that people have emotional feelings about Story Points as a concept. It's just another way to measure how hard something might be. I think what people should really be annoyed with is when these measurements are used as some sort of productivity metric, or if the team spends too much time debating a particular measurement value and not enough time actually working on it.
The thing is that right next to the UK is France, which I know.

The French system is based on a mandatory health insurance, now with mandatory private health insurance in addition to that.

GPs and most health professionals are private practices that set up shop like a, say, lawyer would and there is big private sector involvement up to hospital level.

I think there are many similar examples throughout the world.

This is partly why I find this focus on the US system in the UK puzzling. My best guess is that it is used as a scarecrow by those opposed to any changes to the NHS.
>I am not looking for FIRE.

If you hate the idea of making more money, as the meme goes, perhaps consider that is because you are actually Financially Independent and Retired Early without realizing it.

Being able to say "I don't want more money." is a luxury only few people can truly afford.
They absolutely do, in fact they even tried to encrypt user data to not be as invasive as other companies but the FBI sued them and said no you can't do that, you need to keep that data so we can subpoena you.
That's completely fair. Hopefully you've had technology help you. If so, more power to you.

The main crux of #2, for me, is that there is many technologies people push or suggest to me. They are often short lived, or buggy, or help in a handful of cases but not enough for me to rely on it and make it part of my patterns.

What tech have you found reliable and beneficial? Specifically I'm interested in new tech that has actually panned out in your estimation.
I'm now back to just hunting for a replacement Volt.

or, yeah, a well-used Bolt

so much "fun"
Tech is a moving target, but it can endure as it fades and is superseded, as long as you float along jumping to a new log as the other one gets water logged and sinks below you - the new stacks you speak of. As long as you are content with the progression and are happy with what you earn(assuming it inflates accordingly), you are a success in what you do! Though I have seen too many people choose the wrong log = sinks with all hands, so survey your field and stay afloat.
Hawking radiation is one process, but for spinning black holes, especially ones with accretion disks and magnetic fields around them, there are two more theoretical predictions: the Blandford–Znajek process and the Penrose process.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysical_jet#Rotation_a...
State by state, one lobbyist is reshaping American tech laws
Thanks, i will look into it.
From the article:

>>>> struggling to put away their laptops when asked

"One of my principles generally is look at what rich people are doing and see whether or not they know what they're doing and that could be more broadly learned. And, you do see this sport red shirt, "academic" red shirting. So, it's for academic reasons, not athletic reasons, but this is relatively common in upper middle class circles. (parents will have their kids restart the grade, voluntarily). And, indeed some private schools do it almost by default. They have a second year of pre-K [pre-Kindergarten]. And that second year of pre-K skews very male".[1]

Rich men like Bill Gates and famously severely restricted access to computers to their kids [2]. Members of the "All In" podcast, including FB exec Palihapitiya do not allow any screen time [3]

COVID turbocharged negative trends, but maybe our leaders could look at what people with resources are doing, then help our kids with simple solutions: Start by taking computers back, away from 6-8 year olds.

[1] Richard Reeves: Author "of Boys and Men" (how boys are completely falling behind)

[2] https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/why-steve-jobs-bill-gat...

[3] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-capital-ceo-chamath-pali...
do you plan to open SQLite files with this project? could really be useful
Are there converters to/from OFX for Numscript?
No battery farm can protect a solar/wind grid from an arbitrarily extended period of bad weather. If you have N days of battery storage and the sun doesn't shine for N+1 days, you're in trouble.

Nuclear fission is the answer.

Today there are 440 nuclear reactors operating in 32 countries.

Nuclear fission power plants are expensive to build but once built the plant can last 50 years (maybe 80 years, maybe more) and the uranium fuel is very cheap, perhaps 10% of the cost of running the plant.

This is in stark contrast to natural gas, where the plant is less expensive to build, but then fuel costs rapidly accumulate. The fossil fuel is the dominant cost of running the plant. And natural gas is a poor choice if you care about greenhouse gas emissions.

Sam Altman owns a stake in Oklo, a small modular reactor company. Bill Gates has a huge stake in his TerraPower nuclear reactor company. Amazon recently purchased a "nuclear adjacent" data center from Talen Energy. Oracle announced that it is designing data centers with small modular nuclear reactors (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41505514).

In China, 5 reactors are being built every year. 11 more were announced a few weeks ago. The United Arab Emirates, land of oil and sun, now gets 25% of its grid power from the Barakah nuclear power plant (four 1.4 GW reactors, a total of 5.6 GW).

Nuclear fission will play an important role in the future of grid energy. But you don't hear about it in the mainstream news yet. And many people (Germany, Spain, I'm looking at you) still fear it. Often these people are afraid of nuclear waste, despite it being extremely tiny and well-secured in dry cask storage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_cask_storage). Education will fix this.

Nuclear fission is safe, clean, secure, and reliable.
"Safe for what?" has always been a valid question.
This is exactly why thinking of it in terms of individual cases of actual harm, as Americans have been conditioned to do by default, is precisely the wrong way to think about it. We're all familiar with the phrase "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure", right?

It's better to to think of it in terms of prevention. This fits into a category of things where we know they create a disproportionate risk of harm, and we therefore decide that the behavior just shouldn't be allowed in the first place. This is why there are building codes that don't allow certain ways of doing the plumbing that tend to lead to increased risk of raw sewage flowing into living spaces. The point isn't to punish people for getting poop water all over someone's nice clean carpet; the point is to keep the poop water from soaking the carpet in the first place.
we have it as an open issue for the next release, along with other database types, so yes of course
> this feeds garbage to their backend

How is a timestamped chain of communication between persons interested in a particular topic "garbage"?
FWIW I think they're comparable, but just very different. Johnette Napolitano's voice is fantastic, and she really gets to stretch out on "Everybody Knows". As good as the recorded version is, hearing Concrete Blonde do it live was amazing. I saw them in 1993 in St. Louis and that show is still in my top 10 concerts, ever.
> If we are attributing these results to the the mass homeschooling experiment that was remote learning, what does that say about regular homeschooling that is still practiced?

Probably not much? It seems pretty reasonable to expect that people that self-select to homeschool their children are going to diverge from the general population (I.e., people en masse that had no desire nor means to do it).

The story’s probably much the same for people working from home. People that sought it out and had established routines before the pandemic probably handled it a heck of a lot better than the general population that was forced into it with little to no prep time and a lack of equipment and support.
I started another just last week: https://github.com/sumnerjj/bookmarkstorage2
speaking from the sample size of all the other kids i knew in homeschooling groups, the modal outcome (for my 90s / early aughts cohort) is bad.
Mr Adams recently wrote about the possibility of spending a year dead for tax purposes.
> I never claimed or insinuated that you recommend...

Check my handle. I'm not who you seem to think I am.

> ...adding IPv6 support adds a ton of complexity for almost no benefit.

That doesn't at all match my experience with IPv6 support in greenfield projects for the past decade+. You actually have to do extra work to make them IPv4-only. Remember that the statement you initially responded to said "It's a terrible it to start a new project in 2024..."
Sector67 - run by Chris Meyer. They used to rent a building on the east side off Winnebago street (now demolished). They purchased an old warehouse off Corry St. in 2017 and did a really extensive renovation (almost entirely performed by members): https://isthmus.com/news/news/sector67-finds-new-home/

I spent a lot of hours welding, using the wood shop, and working on my car there.
It’s not about like or dislike - it should have value in the context for which it’s designed. There are an unlimited amount of ways to do this. Validation in the context of the recipient of the value is the only thing that matters.
A Taxonomy of Background Music
Back in my Algebra II class, while learning polynomial expansion, I write a program on my TI-85 that would not only solve the problem, but it would show the work, so I literally just had to copy its output verbatim and I got full credit.

I showed it to my teacher and asked it if it would be considered cheating to use it on the test, and she said that if I knew the material so well that I could write a program that didn't just solve it, but showed the work, then clearly I knew the material so well that I'd ace the test even without the program, so I could go ahead and use it, just as long as I didn't share the program with my friends.

I didn't have any friends (This was 1998 where being such a nerd was still looked down on), so it wasn't an issue.