skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion this is no more taboo than changing master / slave to primary / secondary, a known pattern in tech. Times change, documents and code get revised to reflect the changes. Having been in a highly audited environment one might have a quick meeting with the heads of compliance, legal and maybe HR if people are having challenges. Let them sign off the changes and add a comment in the change control system if there is a concern. This should especially be a non issue if the ASCII contributor has already left the company.

[Edit:] Even better, give everyone a one-time-immunity-pass for all past "Not Appropriate Here" transgressions, add a tag word in the code system "NAH" or Not Appropriate Here and each org allocate {n} hours per week to find all the things that may not be appropriate for current times, then have people resolve all the "NAH" tags. Ask for developer volunteers that self identify as having thick skin and can not be offended by text. That was one of my many roles in a former company that knew I used to work at a managed hosting company that hosted a great deal of porn.
Better analogy: you're paying 30% to apple, and over 50% in bad payday loans, and you're worried about the 3% visa/stripe overhead ... that's kinda crazy. But that's where we are in computer performance, there's 10x, 100x, and even greater inefficiencies everywhere, 1% for better backtraces is nothing.
Slightly older Audis (up through 2017-2019 depending on model) had a clickable wheel interface instead of a touchscreen. It's vastly superior, and I deliberately bought a used 2017 A4 to get it.
I have lots of experience hiring tech people. Most of the time they turn out to be just as good as we thought they would be. But sometimes they don't. It would be terrible if it was impossible for us to let those people go.
> Striking during election week is kind of a crappy move to pull.

If a strike isnt painful for the employer, what incentive do they have to negotiate?
Didn’t get you..
In one of my jobs, a 1% perf regression (on a more stable/reproducible system, not PCs) was a reason for a customer raising a ticket, and we'd have to look into it. For dynamically dispatched but short functions, the overhead is easily more than 1% too. So, there is a trade-off, just not one that affects you.
Negotiations have been going on for 2 years, and the strike was approved in September. This isn’t a spur-of-the-moment, attention-seeking thing and was totally preventable by NYT.

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/10/nyt-tech-union-strike-vote
I was a house dancer in NYC before COVID. The shuffle dancing scene was still alive. After covid I'm not sure - it's definitely less so. I've moved to other dances since then. Outside of the specific groups no one is interested in dancing. Clubs are just packed with high and drunk people who look like they barely care about life.
Would this be useful to upgrade major versions of PostgreSQL servers?
Collary, only lazy and ineffective managers need employee productivity metrics. A good manager wouldn't even trust those metrics.
How is <$> less typing than }?
The nice thing about vinyl album covers is there's plenty of space for art.
Glad I left for Debian + make/checkinstall.

Manjaro is one of the messiest distros I’ve used.
That is such a great quote - classic programming humor, but no idea of the original
Just to be clear - even though I say “Merkle Tree”, I am not saying the unhashed votes themselves would not be stored in it. The hashes are just to quickly verify integrity of the underlying data leaves (the actual votes people cast).

The anonymity is done between registration and voting. There is a cryptographic mixer like Tornado Cash that is responsible for the unlinkability, by “tumbling” the tokens to anonymize them while still making sure that each person voting legitimately had registered. (Never mind for a moment that the IP address of the voter can be tied to their address, that can be fixed too.)

So yes, ALL the votes are stored and published in the Merkle tree, and ANYONE can challenge the election, not by hearsay allegations but actual PROOF that anyone can verify. Because the public keys of the UX vendors are published along with the Merkle Tree and are caught red-handed signing conflicting votes. Either the corrupt districts or the UX vendors would have to risk literally ANYONE producing a smoking gun. It is that chilling effect that keeps them all honest, and why we have checksums for things in general. Having everyone in the world see proof of fraud is very different than a bunch of villagers claiming to a journalist locally that they hadn’t even voted.

So given this description, tell me directly — doesn’t it ADD a lot of security and reduce the attack surface and make elections standardized, cheaper and far more trustworthy - don’t you see the value in that?

Think about it — this scheme alone allows some great integrity features for elections. The “election Luddites” are essentially claiming that this has ZERO VALUE and shouldn’t even be tried, shouldn’t even be ADDED TO the existing paper systems even if you lost nothing, because it adds NO SECURITY. That is quite a claim given the properties I listed!

More generally, this is how Smart Contracts work and why they are valuable. Thousands of independently run nodes get to check the data and operations, which are public. The entire community benefits, and in fact the results of voting (eg how much UBI to give out) can be used on-chain. By lowering the cost of collective decision-making, blockchain technology enables a whole new level of efficiency (much like red lights enable better traffic flow), making things like elections or large marketplaces available to everyone without “offchain” corruption-peone mechanisms like surety bonds and reliability ratings (remember Lehman Brothers?)

Check out https://intercoin.org/applications — I would love to hear your thoughts on the other applications too.
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Mysterious_Song_on_th...
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All companies are more powerful than individual workers (think anywhere without a union). They're able to negotiate terms that are bad for the long-term health of the human workers, and not having backgrounds in caring about people and only money, CEOs might not be thinking about that.

Unions look out for workers. That's their priority. They should not cater to the business.
> NYT Games and Cooking are BEHIND THE PICKET LINE. Please don’t play or engage with Games or Cooking content while the strike lasts!

If I pay for a service, I expect it to be available.

It’s not my job to track the status of labor disputes - it’s the job of the NYTimes (the organization) to ensure they deliver that service.

If they can’t, because they are dealing with ongoing labor disputes, then I’ll probably complain and cancel. The threat of those cancellations seems like plenty enough leverage for a striking union.

I don’t understand why I would need to preemptively refrain from a service I’ve already paid for.
"Just cause" provisions are about an inch away from arbitrary termination, they are hardly "the other extreme."
I'm asking a question
Unfortunately for them, the degree to which one thinks they are right has no bearing on actually being right. This will go down as yet another unforced blunder an American car maker brought upon themselves.
Ages ago, I spoke with someone who had experience doing union organizing in the steel industry about why tech workers didn't unionize.

I told him that the first step would be for tech workers to stop thinking that their greatest competition is other tech workers.

(Flip the question: "If your coworkers are low-performing but the union prevents the company from firing them, why don't you just go form your own company with your three closest buddies and compete? That's the dream, right?")
> I don't have any experience with this, but I know that some phone brands (like Doro) exists for elderly people

> https://www.doro.com/en-us/

They don't actually seem to list any phones on their site, but some image search brought up a phone with big buttons to call a few specific contacts.

https://www.hifi.lu/en/p/51004198-gsm-780x-4g-white
>measures of core inflation that sites like this use leave out many things that massively impact purchasing power - namely food, fuel,

Those are literally part of the CPI.

>interest rates

The "C" in "CPI" stands for consumer. Unless you're taking out loans to buy your groceries, interest rates shouldn't be a factor on your expenditures.
> Striking during election week is kind of a crappy move to pull

Siblings are doubting this, but you can think of it like price gouging. It's the right behavior for extracting maximum value, but it burns a lot of trust, and that's important for a long-term business arrangement. It's playing the short game when they should be playing the long game.
> I do really do think of tomorrow as a kind of holy day for democracy that is not acceptable to use as bargaining chip.

Nothing about an election where only the votes of people in 7 states out of 50 matter can possibly be "holy" for democracy.

I don't need the far-right to undermine faith in our system of elections; I'm not far-right and have never had any faith in it to begin with.
Yeah, it would be, since its using logical replication. However, the standard logical replication limitation applies [1]

pg_flo can perform common DDLs for you (not something that's in built in logical replication today, hopefully soon) [2]

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/logical-replication-...

[2] https://github.com/shayonj/pg_flo/blob/0e8b6b9ca1caf768b71d3...
I mean 140K is not a high income at all in Zurich. You won't be able to buy a house or support a family, which a senior engineer should be able to do.
The University of Alabama has estimates cost for in-state attendance of roughly $34k per year [1]. That is their general tuition unrelated to what school/department or degree you are there for.

That does include estimates for housing, food, books, etc so there's wiggle room especially if you have family near by and live at home.

For anyone going to school entirely on loans though, you wouldn't make it a year with only $30k in debt.

[1] https://afford.ua.edu/cost/
Most teams/products I have been involved in, the stack always grows to the point that a dev can no longer test it on their own machine, regardless of how big the machine is. And having a different development machine than production leads to completely predictable and unavoidable problems. Devs need to create the software tooling to make remote dev less painful. I mean, they're devs... making software is kind of their whole thing.
Hiring consistently high performing employees is not a solved problem.

Making it hard to fire low performers results in low performing teams, and there are no reliable solutions to this.
So a knob that doesn't even have the feedback of knowing when you've gotten to the next selection at all, you have to actually stare at it as it goes through the different choices. That doesn't seem better to me at all. Personally, in this idea of a dial I'd like one that can actually give some haptic feedback. Or even better yet just be able to actually tap on the option instead of needing to turn a dial to move a selector on the screen to choose it.

At least with an old-fashioned radio knob you got the feedback of if you were tuning into the station by hearing it. But moving a selector on a screen?

It's like you're arguing for the MacBook Wheel, as if a knob is the most optimal way to input arbitrary choices on a computer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
Let me correct you, this will be election month at minimum.

The NYT kind of brings this kind of heat on itself because it has shifted from being just the paper of record over to an institution to the current definition of progressivism. You can only really do this union kinda stuff against self-important institutions. Which developer is ever going to attempt this on Accenture? They are straight up and honest about their business, which is they are trying to rake profits from connecting developers with companies - whatever it takes, whoever, from wherever, at whatever price is profitable.

The Times adorned itself as something more than a business, a special kind of business, a business that fights for something. So there you go, live up to it I guess.

Here is some of the content that the NYTimes focuses on:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/opinion/starbucks-union-s...
When these five-star rating systems first came along, no rubric was provided: it seemed reasonable to me that the five stars ought to cover the range of possible experiences, from very bad to very good, and that the distribution would be Gaussian. I therefore rated everyone three stars, unless I had some reason to do otherwise.

After learning how these numbers were actually being used, the whole lopsided mess bothered me so much that I have refused to rate anyone or anything ever since; nor do I pay any attention to the rating numbers, which are clearly insane.
> Mapy.cz, local Czech map provider data

Are not data provided by OpenStreetMap?

Anyway in case of no-internet something like Organic Maps would work better then apps with login.
Combine the current job market with, say, a work visa tied to the employer, and it turns out "just" in "just leave" does a lot of heavy lifting...
Did you stop reading there and not the subsequent independent clause?

> but "you have to give just cause" (which in practice, means multiple formal write-ups and several months of PIP, even in places without a union contract) seems excessive.

You still said requiring "just cause" is excessive. So you still want an "at-will" sword over your head.
If you like this kind of stereophonic sound, I recommend Art of Noise. Here are some songs from them:

Moments in Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNkcZ8QoNuI

Paranoimia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F8BD6gNOag

Dragnet '88: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6JQO0KnUZY

I recommend to set the videos to the highest quality and to listen using headphones
> Would a business battle with any other partner like this?

Regularly. One striking example is that way our monopsonies treat often treat their suppliers.
It's designed to be a wireless router without a lot of extra fluff. If more lan ports are needed, add a switch behind it (though it'd probably be better to have the switch elsewhere unless it's a really simple network). The USB looks like it's used for admin tasks like updating firmware, so I don't see why they'd need to add more than USB2.0.
I'm not saying these are the only questions that should be asked, or that this should be the only way of getting feedback. I suggested questions for a 30-second weekly survey. I think longer surveys with more detailed feedback should be done periodically as well.

And, if you decide to just always say things are going well, then that's what management will see, and the status quo will remain. At least until a project goes poorly--delivered late and a buggy mess. Then, if I were a high-level manager, I would look at the surveys and see that the team was happy and believed everything was perfectly okay right up until failure, and I would judge the team as incompetent, because a competent team would see failure approaching long before it happens. I'm not saying I would fire anyone, but clearly a discussion needs to be had with the team manager, and probably the whole team, about reporting problems early.

Of course, if a company wants people to report problems early, then they need a culture that responds well to early warning signs, rather than the shoot-the-messenger culture that is all too common. I do sympathize with your frustration for fucked up company cultures.
If using what leverage you have is so ridiculous, a suggestion to NYT management: agree to every contract provision on a temporary basis, and continue ongoing negotiations with the union which provisions to take away in the permanent contract.

That would end some of the leverage the NYT has and level the playing field for fruitful negotiations.
It could also be cultural differences, a selection bias in the participants, differing criteria for "success/productivity"... or a thousand other reasons, too. It's easy to jump to a conclusion or speculate why a desired outcome wasn't the actual outcome; but the best you can probably say is you just don't know why one was a "success" and the other a "failure" and look for a study of the reasons for a given outcome.

I find it rare that popular reporting gets to the nuance required to really understand a research outcome much less to ascribe plausible, grounded reasons for that outcome.
How I hunt down fake degrees and zombie universities
Low performance is an example of just cause. The employer simply has to prove that this was the case, and that they gave the employee notice, a chance to improve, and a reasonable standard to reach.
> The worst of both worlds is Touch Buttons. No screen, just a touch-sensitive surface that's divided into areas that activate upon any kind of skin contact, whether intentional or not.

> I always see my dishwasher having some bizarre setting active because of accidental contact with a touch button.

My dishwasher has button to activate a control lock to prevent that. But the touch buttons suck so much and it requires a long press to activate that it always takes me two or three attempts and at least 10-15 seconds to push that button.

15 seconds for a button push, WTF were the designers thinking?
If you assume a family of four with both children aged 9-11 and the parents a male and a female aged 19-50, the USDA says [0] it costs only $250.10 with a low-cost plan, $314.90 with a moderate-cost plan and $380 with a liberal plan. All three of these plans each support "a healthy diet through nutritious meals and snacks at home" [1] and would cover everything -- no restaurant budget required.

[0]: https://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/usda-food-plans-cost-food-mont...

[1]: https://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/low-moderate-liberal-food-plan...
Drone lidar scans have been a boon to archeology. It would be really interesting to scan all the land and see what turns up. There are probably thousands of settlements that have been abandoned and lost to time.

It think it would be equally exciting to high resolution sonar scan the entire continental shelf.
The idea that LLM can pass off as a human author for all reviewers is demonstrably false:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB_OApdxcno
It would be terrible for businesses to fire people arbitrarily. I'd rather give more rights to individuals than to businesses, because I am biased in an anti-business way: businesses arent bounded by human lifespans or biological constraints, get preferential treatment by the American legal system, have orders of magnitude more money and political power than individuals. It's almost like the USA fought a war and chartered individual rights in a document over this kind of shit, but never imagined businesses would be more encompassing than governments.
To be honest, yeah. I want to reduce the fixed costs of job transfer so that I can be efficiently allocated in the economy because that usually means I can make a lot of money. But I can see how someone who is at a lower skill level would want to raise the friction for hiring - less job mobility is good for them.

If someone wants to fire me, I hope they find it easy.
I've seen tech companies that strongly encouraged that: Open a "task" or "process" ticket describing what you're doing, then do it, then close the ticket. Not all tickets are bugs and features. During review time, if you expended effort not described in a ticket, it's as if you never did it. When in doubt, open a ticket.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42024246
why are tech workers, my industry, so committed to this ideology? Do you think the tech layoffs of the last few years was a justified culling of lazy idiots?
The page has been hugged to death, but it isn't github that is the problem; it is cdn.bootcss.com, where some of the static assets for this site are hosted.
Project Zero - From Naptime to Big Sleep: Using Large Language Models To Catch Vulnerabilities In Real-World Code

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/10/from-naptime-...
this is just racism
Least hip looking guy dropping a pretty iconic and timeless logo on folks there.
Every so often when I was younger, I’d do the same with movies, buying and setting up a nice surround sound system to get the spacial effects just right. Every time I would thoroughly enjoy it until rearranging/relocating and not making it a priority to acquire and set up a new system.
It's exciting to see a an OpenWRT router where compatibility is guaranteed! I've been running OpenWRT at home for years, and whenever it comes time to upgrade, it's always a deep dive into their Table of Hardware [1]. Many of the newest routers with an absurd number of antennae that you might see at big-box stores like Costco have incompatible chipsets, so usually I have to buy something a bit older.

Most recently I bought a couple of Belkin AX3200 routers because they support WiFi6 and are only about $50 USD. The annoying part is that they're a Walmart exclusive, but they have worked flawlessly so far. Still, I'd rather have the new, officially-endorsed one.

References:
1: https://openwrt.org/toh/start
Not quite yet—that's something we have on the roadmap, but at present vector databases can only really be searched through by combining a text-embedder module and a vector-db module (detail for both below). Any file processed through such a pipeline will be semantically searchable.

Text embedder: https://krixik-docs.readthedocs.io/latest/modules/ai_modules...

Vector DB: https://krixik-docs.readthedocs.io/latest/modules/database_m...

Please continue submitting suggestions and requests; we'll take them very much into account as evolving our roadmap.
I meeean… if they have the negotiating power then they should.
The Alonzo programming language named after him [1] has mostly been forgotten.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/68127.68139
That is the point..

AI is a useful tool for many professionals to have on their toolkit..

But it is not even close to replacing those professionals like many have being claiming..
I don't blindly give unions a pass, but you're asking if a business would use the value of their product at a particular point in time to set terms. Of course they do. If NYT didn't want to be caught in the lurch, that's what contracts are for, which they've had plenty of time to secure.

By the way, the price of Christmas trees is about to skyrocket, ridiculous!
companies need to do much better about letting managers go. I get it, they are hard to find. and those that actually have any engineering management skill at all are even harder to find. and every time you hire a new one you're taking a risk that they'll be a absolutely terrible manager. a terrible manager can cause a huge swath of destruction.

but the answer can't be an army of useless middle managers diluting the impact of the people who actually do want to help the company and providing cover for people like them that are just phoning it it.
If you want easy Arch, there's EndevourOS. It's rolling instead of "stable" but in my experience Manjaro's actual stability is overrated, an update straight up trashed the bootloader once.