skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it somehow negated the fact that we were now living under a surveillance state.

There's long been surveillance programs and also numerous laws outlining the responsibilities of telecom provides to enable wire tapping.

There's really nothing new from Snowden besides the names of a bunch of people to go kill cause they're spies.

FISA [1] isn't a private law either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite...

Note: 2006 (Klien) predates 2013 (Snowden)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveilla...
I looked as well. There is a "Women's PFG Tamiami™ II Short Sleeve Shirt"

https://www.columbia.com/p/womens-pfg-tamiami-ii-short-sleev...

which has two small pockets on the side but it seems above the waist.

they describe them as "Two zip pockets on the side seams secure small items like keys, hair ties, and lip balm."

I think the original line mentioned in OP is completely gone and now we are on the Tamiami II style atm.
The glass and the antenna have been designed and tuned to work together. The antenna will not work without the glass, its part of its RF characteristics.
Have the best conversation of your life at dinner with strangers
Canada didn't spend that money, yet healthcare is arguably worse than in US.
Wow, did they really patent rock throwing. How the F is that allowed.
Obviously I meant 10% of all customers would hypothetically migrate from Pivotal to this new imaginary service, not that 10% of the data from each customer would be migrated... So 100% of the data migrated from 10% of the Pivotal user base, pretty generous assumptions I think.
It's a shame it doesn't use Giac. RPN CAS forever! ;)
I work in a different industry (but still manufacturing) and it's mind boggling how much brain power and employee time is devoted to "correctly" interacting with the customs and importing system. I wouldn't be surprised if 30% to 40% of the total man hours at some companies are spent directly or indirectly related to the HTS system. This includes products built in North America - you still need to do a huge amount of accounting to show that you're meeting [one of the] the definition[s] of substantial transformation.

I can't really frame this as a global criticism either, the system has clearly evolved around the fact that importers of cheap overseas goods are constantly trying to game the rules to pay lower tariffs than competitors (see Ford with the Transit Connect).

The most frustrating part is political, and two parts:

* US politics have destabilized so much in the last decade that the rules are constantly changing, exceptions being granted and taken away, etc. This has dramatically increased the amount of brain share devoted to tariff engineering rather than product engineering.

* The tariff exclusion process (especially the recent Section 301 tariffs) is heavily lobbyist based. Small players are basically crushed while larger competitors are granted exclusions.
Fastmail can work with multiple domains, but isn’t interchangeable with something like Google Workplace or Office. Zoho works really well for that though.
How much environmental destruction would you consider unacceptable for an endeavour like Starship?

How do you justify that amount of environmental destruction by a single organization like SpaceX in context of the tragedy of the commons?
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?
Go ahead, post your phone number here. It's not directly harmful.
DevPod: Codespaces but open source, client only, unopinionated
Yeah I'm not criticizing it as a charity, just pointing out this definitely isn't "superior to most commercial services."

That being said, removing dependence on single hardware nodes isn't something you need a big team for. I've done failover at 1-person startups.
this looks amazing!

i’m building https://www.plainweb.dev and i’m looking for the simplest way to deploy a plainweb/plainstack project.

looks like sidekick has the same spirit when it comes to simplicity.

in the plainstack docs i’ve been embracing fly.io, but reliability is an issue. and sqlite web apps (which is the core of plainstack) can’t have real zero downtime deployments, unless you count the proxy holding the pending request for 30 seconds while the fly machine is deployed.

i tried kamal but it felt like non-ruby and non-rails projects are second class citizens.

i was about to document deploying plainstack to dokku, but provisioning isn’t built-in.

my dream deployment tool would be dokku + provisioning & setup, sidekick looks very close to that.

definitely going to try this and maybe even have it in the blessed deploy path for plainstack if it works well!
Valkey 8 sets a new bar for open-source in-memory NoSQL data storage
> Unlike general-purpose operating systems like Windows or macOS.

FYI, there appears to be minor one, too: it's called Linux.
Gitlab 17.4 Released
Multi-decade permanent contractor here (software developer). Some of it is luck. Some of it depends on the nature of your industry. Also, OP seems to enjoy learning new tech stacks, which makes them attractive to more owners of screws that need replacing, thus increasing their marketability.

It doesn't hurt to occasionally beat the bushes and ask your friends if they need screws replaced, or if they know anybody who does.

Short answer: if you replace screws efficiently and communicate well, you will become the go-to person for replacing screws.
Leonard Cohen is one of those artists where I tend to much prefer someone else's version of his songs than I do his songs.

I wonder how many people were introduced to him in the late 90s from The Soprano's opening theme?
I can't speak for SWE, but in other industries a consultant is brought in with little formal process, as a one-time expense usually approved by somebody they knew already.
I'd also note that Ford's attempt to dodge the tariff here wasn't successful. The US DOJ sued and Ford coughed up $365 million to settle the lawsuit: https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2024/03/11/ford-...
I think the waist is defined as the narrowest part of the garment
So ignore that entry
It's a mix. I use my registrar's (Porkbun) email service for human communication (name@, support@, etc). Added those accounts to my personal Gmail inbox so I can send/receive using Gmail instead of logging into the registrar's webmail. Eventually will move to something like Google Workspace most likely, which is a bit more expensive.

I use AWS SES for transactional emails (mostly send, but making use of the receive capability as well). Nice and cheap. And finally using MailerLite for marketing emails. Just surpassed their free tier so may look again, but not too bad pricing-wise.

One advice I've seen is not to mix transactional and marketing providers (and ideally domains). If you get a high incidence of unsubscribes or "this is spam" responses, don't want your app to be dead in the water for transactional stuff if the marketing provider suspends your account temporarily (can happen even if you're legit).
>We're dealing with a generation of CEOs / CFOs who were taught to care about nothing except short-term shareholder value. Quality and reputation doesn't matter anymore, so you replace your products with cheap garbage and hope nobody notices.

There is a line where you really do need to compromise on quality and even reputation to keep costs down, though. If you can't or refuse to do that, you end up stagnant and irrelevant like Japan.

Customers ultimately don't care how much sincerity and effort was infused into a product as long as it's past a certain "good enough" threshold.
I use it as a store for all the amiibo data I might want, as well as a universal remote for my TVs and fan/light in the house. I also use it on the TVs and receivers at work when someone misplaces or loses the remotes, and keep a separate one in the car with a few garage codes for my parents and siblings houses.

The wifi board is fun to play with to learn about how some of the more common/basic SSID spoofing and broadcast spam attacks and similar things work. There are some fun HID device attacks you can check out too that are pretty cool. I also used it as a jumping off point to dabble with programming in C and using gdb and stuff like that.
ah that would make sense then!
looks like an interesting opportunity?
Well, not quite. Azure AD was renamed to Microsoft Entra.
This was interesting to read as a more "junior" software dev. Aside from Agile, what are other common frameworks that people use, if any?
Has one been offered to you or that's a theoretical question?
Why? I have friends who do want to go to management and ones who do not. None of us has ever have such offer.

Also, judging from HN/reddit people more often than not regret not advancing to management.
Why would I want to do that? I'm rarely ingesting arbitrary JSON. Rather I'm designing my data structures in a sensible way and then maybe serializing them to JSON. Just because JSON can represent heterogenous lists doesn't mean it is a good idea to use heterogenous lists in my programs.
To be clear, you don't need to make it more complex / failure-prone. I didn't say failover needs to be automated.

Kubernetes or complex cloud services are not required to have some basic deployment automation.

You can do it with a simple bash script if you need to. It's just pretty surprising to see the reaction to a hardware failure being to wait around for it to be repaired instead of simply spinning up a new host.
I have plenty of curiosity around how computers work. I've implemented compilers and interpreters, designed CPUs (I made a RISC-V CPU in Logisim which could run programs compiled with clang!), designed ISAs, back in university I had a lot of fun both writing a networking stack from almost-scratch (starting with only C and the raw ethernet packet API in Linux, building toy versions of ARP, IP, routing daemons and TCP) and writing a toy kernel, I have an ongoing game project where I'm writing the engine from scratch in C++ and using plain OpenGL to render, and this past year I've taken up PCB design and CAD. All this just because I want to learn stuff and make stuff. Don't assume that just because someone doesn't share your particular interests, they lack curiosity.

IPv6 has been around long enough that it's clearly a failed project. It's been 30 years and it hasn't even breached 50% adoption. It's not even at the hard part yet, which will be the long tail.
I mean it's pretty clear that you are directly harmed if someone takes naked photos of you without your knowledge or consent and then keeps them. It's not a good analogy so if we want to convince people like the GP of the points you're making, you need to make a good case because that is not how the law is currently structured. "I don't like ads" is not a good reason, and comments like this that are seething with rage and hyperbole don't convince anyone of anything.
Which model? My Sansa Clips all died in various ways. Maybe I was too rough on them.
Yeah, why are those bastards writing slow code? They should just write fast code instead
It’s decent. Better than some expensive options. Postmark was better.
I tried being a director. It wasn't great for me for the time. I'm back to coding, which I do for fun anyway.
For me it was Rufus Wainright’s cover of Hallelujah from Shrek. I agree though, that his songwriting is often most-elevated in someone else’s hands.
The amount of money given by companies to congresspeople to pass corrupt spending programs that enrich the companies is necessarily lower than the amount of money spent on those programs, too. Nobody expects that members of Congress would get all of the money. But they're not meant to be getting any of it, and the fact that they continue to implies that the corruption is ongoing.
The only way this stuff trickles down to the masses is people that know what they are doing forcing it on them through their products. Very, very few 'engineers' actually go out and learn the state of the art these days in my experience, with most just culting around whatever the current marketing fad is.

Hell just look at SDWAN land and everyone acting like it is the second coming of jesus when it is just a fancy marketed version of technologies that have been available for decades.
Nintendo vs. Colopl
I despise SP too. I have come to the conclusion that all estimates should only ever given in terms of magnitude. "Some small number of hours/days/weeks/months/quarters/years". If product or leadership want more precision, break tasks into smaller self-contained tasks.
Ask HN: What are your use cases for o1 so far?
Feel like there aren't a lot of use cases where o1 radically changes the reliability issue of LLMs in a way that could make human in the loop approaches less necessary.
And played with o1 a bit, but so far it hasn't changed my workflows. Saw some people with the same sentiment on X, wonder if this is general ?

Feel like there aren't a lot of use cases where o1 radically changes the reliability issue of LLMs in a way that could make human in the loop approaches less necessary.
And played with o1 a bit, but so far it hasn't changed my workflows. Saw some people with the same sentiment on X, wonder if this is general?
To add to the comment, going forward, in terms of UIs, it makes sense for them to be agents interacting with agents in a loose sense of what it means to be an agent.
I think there's a big difference between the ad hoc COVID online schooling and actual "doing this with planning and intent" schooling that I've seen.
Nice setup.

But isn't this a little too tied to Cloudflare?

Caddy as a reverse proxy on that VPS would also give us free HTTPS. The downside is less security because no CF tunneling.
The reason is that private intervention is tricky. The US has a fully private healthcare system, and as you can see from this post, it's shit.

I'm from the US so excuse any oversimplifications, but over the past couple decades I've noticed a trend of US-ification in British politics. I would be careful with looking to greener pastures.
I was messing around on LinkedIn and I noticed that someone I hired into a senior position two jobs ago is still a senior engineer 14 years later.

I've had the discussion with various people reporting to me over time that they were perfectly happy right where they were and had no desire to progress.

Go with what makes you happy and try to find a place that lets you be.

Hell, sometimes I wish that I'd never been promoted.
I foresee a future where people obtain genetic samples of their long-dead ancestors and they decide to clone and gestate them in artificial wombs.

Imagine a weird youtube channel that is a combination of urban exploration / it's just a prank bro / DIY science where they break into a crypt to dig up the bones of some historical figure to grow a clone in a vat for clout.
See also: "How advertisers became NSA's best friend"[1].

[1]https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/12/5204196/how-advertisers-...
Say No to the Paywall of PCI-E Bifurcation
If you think my comment can in any way be construed as saying all western media is great, please get help.
Maybe after the upcoming election? But I'm sure the next election will also make things weird.
> cui bono?

You look for the person who will benefit, and uhh...uhh you know, uhh, you know, you'll uhh, uhh. Well, you know what I'm trying to say.

- VI Lenin
Sounds call, are you also going to support unstructured data?
If you are ok with money and you do at your job things you want to do - stay that way.
Overengineering roles currently kills people that go higher on the ladder. Sometimes there is space to go back, sometimes they are burned out too much.

If you have safe procedure to change teams and environment in case of stagnation in current project - use it and be happy.
That's the whole problem with "liability", isn't it? If the harms you do are diffuse enough then nobody can sue you!
I don't think thats a proper parallel.

I think a better example would be You (AirBnB Host) rent a house to Person and Person loses the house key. Later on (perhaps many years later), You are robbed. Does Person have liability for the robbery?

Of course it also gets really muddy because you'll have renting the house out for those years and during that time many people will have lost keys. So does liability get divided? Is it the most recent lost key?

Personally, I think it should just be some statutory damages of probably a very small amount per piece of data.
A bit related: In the early aughts we bought a Porsche 911, which had a ridiculously tiny back seat. According to the dealer, it existed because two-seaters were considered sports cars and were therefore costlier to ensure.

Worked out perfectly for us because our children were young, we lived at the beach, and driving them to school on the freeway was an absolute blast.
It can take a lot of slowly moving the flipper around to get it to read a pet chip. Definitely not as straightforward as scanning your office's access card.
Your argument boils down to "yes, someone has had a gun pointed at my head for quite some time now, but they haven't pulled the trigger yet so I don't see the problem."
What age did you start learning to echolocate and how long did it take?

I alluded to it in my other post, but I fully agree with your sentiment around independence and figuring out your own boundaries. Even if I'm all but guaranteed a bit of pain along the way.
Disney to stop using Salesforce-owned Slack after hack exposed company data
When did you go to college? It might as well be that is the primary differentiator between your experience and others.
George Hotz aka geohot proposed this some time ago [1] and he called it a vampire attack because it syphons off users from Twitter.
[1] https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2022/04/16/vampi...
Thank you!

To add to your point, there's also other complexities like multiple currencies, keeping track of tax owed, and probably the biggest one: multiple people of all skill levels entering data into the system at the same time.
In short, pagers do not use the cell network. They do not register themselves with cell towers, which means you cannot triangulate where they are.
Yeah the first sentence is “Finding a job in tech by applying online was fruitless”, as if that wasn’t already the case even in the height of the hiring boom in the pandemic and earlier.

I got my current job in mid 2020 after applying online to various companies and not hearing back from a single one. One post made for me on the internal YC forums immediately got me a full week of interviews, and a quick post on LinkedIn had an old coworker refer me to the company they work at that lead to immediate interviewing and ultimately a hire. So clearly I was in demand, but applying directly online just doesn’t work period (statistically I’m sure some have gotten lucky with it though).

For context, I’m a Staff Engineer with 15 years experience, ex-FAANG, ex-YC startup. My point being that they’re trying to argue that because applying online now doesn’t work, there’s a lack of jobs, but in my experience at least it never worked. I’ve never once in my whole career gotten a job from applying directly, only crickets…

I didn’t bother reading the rest of the article since the initial premise was already BS (not to mention the fact their example wasn’t even an SWE), though did I skim it and they seemed imply it was easy to apply online previously.
What is the harm? It is not obvious to me, if the victim is unaware...unless you are alleging simply that there is some ill-defined right to privacy. But if that is so, why does it apply to my crotch and not my personal data?
Man I remember being bit by this in migrating to AWS - this had like snuck through on fast on-prem disks, but as soon as that /tmp was on RDS oh boy, it was a dozy.
Happened to me (anecdotal but...)
yes for sure , its going to be on the next releases
Hard to take seriously any suggestion which look at ARP (and the other warts in v4) and goes "yep, let's hang onto those".

"Let's make a new, backwards incompatible protocol and not learn anything from the old one" doesn't feel like a good idea to me.
It was that back in 2016 when I quit. Also a major source of email spam because people could download a list of their connections, email addresses and all.

I went through a phase of working with a professional bullshitter and prospecting in LinkedIn and it took on almost demonic character with all the bullshitters that it brought into my life and even turned me into a bullshitter.
> A new language will not fix this, because this type of thinking has infected the entire package ecosystem.

Do you think the culture of the package ecosystem could possibly change in the future?
It’s a common mistake, but this wasn’t him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke_Up_This_Morning

His song ‘Nevermind’ was used as the opening theme for season 2 of True Detective. It has a similar mood imo.
I personally experimented the dread of high responsibilities, and decided "never again".

Since then, I have technical only positions.

There is much to do technically, and I'm better paid than my chief.

I enjoy each day of work, swimming in my lack of responsibilities
I've had to quickly access a dB from through the Termius mobile app one time, and it wasn't an experience I'd like to repeat, unless it's a really dire situation.

Fancy seeing a full-blown mobile Postgres editor. I can definitely see a few use cases but I'm curious whether your average Db admin or data engineer will be interested in using a tool like this.
You're correct, it has nothing to do with that
That's not an irrational reaction.
"So we have $29M in annual revenue on an average of 3.4M searches per month in 2021." Is this real? That averages out to 40m searches, so .75 per. It seems insane to get close to $1 per search. I figured the return was closer to a penny or even a fraction of one.
Sounds like their previous generation satellites were 30 times more responsible though.
Only if you have the best insurance. For most other people it sucks badly, software engineers have no idea how it is for most everyone else.
You can self host email. There are plenty of how-tos, prepackaged packages, even books:

https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ryoms

I'm writing my own how-to which includes finding suitable Internet providers and includes setting up smarthosting in case you can't get a good address for yourself.
Pretty sure I first found out about Cohen (and Pixies!) via Pump Up The Volume (1990). Fantastic movie. I thought the Concrete Blonde Everybody Knows cover was good, but then I dug and found the real thing and was blown away..
No, I'm arguing that it's not actually a gun, and my evidence is that there are 2 billion "guns" that have been pointed at 2 billion people's heads for years, and nobody has been hurt.

It's more like a flashlight than a gun
I mean, there is an alpha you can download. If it was just a landing page and an email waitlist, then that would be vaporware.
Is it just me (non-US) that is grossed out by this dehumanizing talk which is somehow en vogue?

Your "waste" is the salary of tens of thousands of smart engineers that put significant chunks of their lifetime into the company to enable their family (probably) a comfortable middle-class lifestyle.

They made Intel no. 1 with outrageous profit margins that fueled many-billion stock buybacks.

The company is troubled because their executives are legendary for their bad decisions.
They missed out or gave up too early on almost all major opportunities:

- Mobile computing

- GPGPU (twice! Rumours are their GPU team was cut after the crypto craze)

- Chiplets for economic manycore CPUs

- AI (remember Optane? The nonsensical AVX-512 strategy?)

- ARM

- Efficiency (higher IPC + lower clocks)

Seriously, how about fixing their awful strategic decision making instead of blaming employees? Do you think a company with out-of-touch leadership will somehow start winning with fewer employees?