skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interesting part of this story (to me at least) was this:

> The student's ballot is expected to count in the upcoming election — although it was illegally cast — because there is no way for election officials to retrieve it once it's been put through a tabulator, according to two sources familiar with Michigan election laws. The setup is meant to prevent ballots from being tracked back to an individual voter.
Sustained synth chords gently surround, laying the foundation for sharp snaps in front and to the right. A Roland TR-909 drum machine starts far in the distance on the left

I thought I'd "follow along" by listening to the song myself, and oddly all the directions were the very opposite of those stated in the article on both my phone and desktop with both Spotify and Apple Music (and on both the remaster and original version of the album). I have it on vinyl and CD somewhere, I'll try that later, maybe they are more authentic.
Is this the perfect city? (2015)
I will try this out. I am on a hunt for a way to render markdown files into html code in a way that supports the existing structure of the webpage. For example, if I have a static webpage ready from scratch using HTML and CSS, would I be then able to post blogs using markdown to html in just a corner of the site?
A microscale soft lithium-ion battery for tissue stimulation
Ah, okay. I guess that makes sense. Pretty low on my list of things to be outraged by personally but so it goes.
> We also found good levels of accuracy: the generated documents were 70% accurate, and the generated code was at 60%.

I mean, define 'good'. Yikes.
I don't know if it was used in computer iconography at that time but I would have expected a designer to see it that way regardless. It means the same thing as the old Mac watch and is why MS used it in Windows.

PS I miss that watch! It was way better than the beachball.
> How would you feel if your house was on fire and the fire fighters went on strike only then to demand they be given bounties?

What a terrible analogy promoting a ridiculous narrative.

A better analogy is if it's the mayors house on fire, it was predetermined when exactly the mayors house would catch fire, the mayor had been warned well in advance of his house catching fire that the firefighters would like to negotiate their contract, and had in fact been involved in negotiations for years already. Not quite the same zing to it though...
>no biggie

Loll, youre a pretty funny person. No biggie, ill just sell my house to feed myself.

You conveniently ignore the fact that this is the median family net worth, not individual net worth. Further, this will include retired families, who will have access to social security, medicare, and mature 401k/pension plans. This is not anywherenearthe median net worth of a working individual.

If youre going to quote statistics, please at least do so responsibly.
that is the problem, unfortunately it will take a few dedicated people who do not worry about traction get a project like this to a useful state. i had long hoped for GNUstep to become a great desktop environment but at this point i am more likely to go with haiku, once they have a decent multiuser experience (which they are already working on)
> Striking during election week is kind of a crappy move to pull

NYTimes has dragged out the negotiations for months, refusing to have a contract. It's kinda a make or break time for the union.

When would be better to strike, what time would NYTimes and the audience prefer? It should be during a choke point otherwise management wouldn't listen.

Additionally, this is a high traffic time, but not really a high stakes time I'd argue. They're not going to influence the election by going out day before or day of it, they will just lose viewership to others covering what's happening.
You can write SQL injection in any language.
Exercise in a pill: have scientists found a drug that's as good as a 10km run?
I see this in LTO/PGO binaries as well. If a function is 20 instructions long, it's not like you can inline it uncritically, yet a five-cycle prologue and a five-cycle epilogue will hurt. (Also, recursive functions etc.)
> You rarely knew if the people you interviewed were hired or not

Perhaps this has changed over the years. I recall there is a website listing all the people you have interviewed and their status (e.g. upcoming interview, rejected, application withdrawn etc)
A vacuum flask keeps the temp pretty consistent for a long time though. I doubt anyone thinks it needs to be perfectly consistent, just within the range that the bacteria can survive.
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Side remark: "Please don't take the bait" is a good analogue to "please don't feed the trolls".

We've taken the bait out of the title now, but when a thread has already filled up with comments reacting to it, rather than anything interesting, that's bad for HN threads.
I think you’re wrong, but in an important way that deserves discussion, so please enjoy an upvote. First of all, innovation and productivity are not necessarily connected, and in many cases innovation is not at all what management wants or the business needs. (Using Jira is a sure sign that management does not want innovation, yet we see it in widespread practice.) Second, the quality of the colleagues males a huge difference. Not every workplace is golden age Bell Labs. Most people don’t have a Nyquist down the hall. I used to sit shoulder to shoulder with a guy who had YouTube videos on his second monitor all day long, to help him focus. Evidently it worked for him, he was a very solid contributor, but neither my productivity nor my ability to innovate were helped. (Like Jira, the open plan office is a sure sign that management values observable units of effort over either productivity or innovation.)
If we used the Wall Street Journal, they'd also have a conflict interest, because their company competes with the New York Times.

I really think this is silly. If there is anything specific you don't think the New York Times article is presenting fairly, please share that.
Well it is better than having only one side.
The root of the problem is scale.

If your company has say < 100 employees then you pretty much know everyone and there are enough interactions for the pecking order to become clear quickly.

By this point you're already dividing into teams - sales, support, development etc. There are probably only 2 layers if management. Everyone is ultimately a human.

But large tech companies aren't happy unless there are hundreds of thousands or millions of employees. And human interactions simply do not scale like this.

So, we need non-human approaches to manage all this. Spreadsheets, forms, percentages, in other words data. So we "datafy" people, and (shocking I know) it doesn't turn out well.
The issue is that the score is tied to someone's wellbeing and ability to earn an income in an unglamorous, insecure gig. Nothing besides actively putting me in harm's way would convince me to threaten the tenuous economic status of someone else.

e.g. Often times if a man is on an extended call, it's his wife or child, and he apologizes to me. As if calling your family is ever something to apologize for. I'm constantly appalled at how asocial social norms have become.
Though only for employers that don't care who they hire in the first place, if you fire someone simply because they might be harder to fire lately you don't really care about who you hired.
total = total - 1
Your device with ULA address either needs NAT66 to be able to talk outside or it is destined to talk only in LAN forever.
Are you implying every person capable of writing about this has a personal investment in the outcome? That seems so obviously false that I have to be misunderstanding you.
Not completely, but you certainly do far better than one side reporting on itself.
> Evaluate "majority" this way: For every/any random binary in a distro, out of all the currently running instances of that binary in the world at any given moment, how many of those need to be profiled?
> There is no way the answer is "most of them".

This is an absurd way to evaluate it. All it takes is one savvy user to report a performance problem that developers are able to root-cause using stack traces from the user's system. Suppose they're able to make a 5% performance improvement to the program. Now all user's programs are 5% faster because of the frame pointers on this one user's system.

At this point people usually ask: but couldn't developers have done that on their own systems with debug code? But the performance of debug code is not the same as the performance of shipping code. And not all problems manifest the same on all systems. This is why you need shipping code to be debuggable (or instrumentable or profileable or whatever you want to call it).
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/440508407309861046/

fly on the wall
They have at least 600 employees, get some perspective on just how much that is. It's least $150 million dollars a year in technology payroll alone. They have more technology workers than some major newspapers have in staff alone.

Why do you think that people on 200k should have a union? How does it benefit anyone besides people looking for sinecure jobs?

Unions were needed to combat the powers of corporations where you are in some ways trapped by the relationship; like miners in appalachia who had to fight cartels of mining companies who suppressed their wages; or teachers who have one state employer.

If you're a competent tech worker, you're at the other end of the spectrum. So much so you're generally advised to switch jobs every few years in order to maximise your salary. There's nothing binding you to a particular employer, particularly in New York!

To be honest, if you're a good technologist, you should be looking at making 400k a year in at a trading firm. If you're working for the NYT you're doing it because you're weirdly attracted to the prestige of working there, or you're looking for a cushy job.

If the job is no longer as cushy as you want, have the dignity to leave and find other employment rather than trying to hold your employer hostage.
Musically, he's done a lot to encourage and surround himself with brilliant younger artists. Jacob Collier had received tutelage and consult from Quincy and Jacob is a Mozart-level mind of our generation.
In a secret ballot, who's getting the minus one?

The real question is how many other processes failed for them to get to the point that they were allowed to cast the vote. Why are those processes so weak?

Because I support the idea of a completely secret ballot. There is no transaction rollback there is no undo once it is cast. It is there and it is in an anonymized pool. This means that there must be much stronger protections to make sure that only those who are allowed to vote can cast the vote.
Seriously? What's the project?
How about, you know, an ID card like in most developed countries?
Sure, my boss was a major stakeholder. But he never complained about anything untill the last moment when he brought up the "data scientist" bs. So it is not like I didn't do anything that he asked me to do or that the stakeholders asked me to do. 99.9% of our interaction was our weekly 1:1 and like I said, he never complained.
> The only real downside is data control (ie - the company has less control over how a developer manages assets like source code). ). I'm my experience, the vast majority of companies should worry less about this [...]

I once had to burn a ton of political capital (including some on credit), because someone who didn't understand software thought that cutting-edge tech startup software developers, even including systems programmers working close to metal, could work effectively using only virtual remote desktops... with a terrible VM configuration... from servers literally halfway around the world... through a very dodgy firewall and VPN... of 10Mb/s total bandwidth... for the entire office of dozens of developers.

(And no other Internet access from the VMs. Administrators would copy whatever files from the Internet that are needed for work. And there was a bureaucratic form for a human process, if you wanted to request any code/data to go in or out. And the laptops/workstations used only as thin-clients for the remote VMs would have to be Windows and run this ridiculous obscure 'endpoint security' software that had changed hands from its ancient developer, and hadn't even updated the marketing materials (e.g., a top bulletpoint was keeping your employees from wasting time on a Web site that famously was wiped out over a decade earlier), and presumably was littered with introduced vulnerabilities and instabilities.)

Note that this was not something like DoD, nor HIPAA, nor finance. Just cutting-edge tech on which (ironically) we wanted first-mover advantage.

This escalated to the other top-titled software engineer and I together doing a presentation to C-suite, on why not only would this kill working productivity (especially in a startup that needed to do creative work fast!), but the bad actors someone was paranoid about could easily circumvent it anyway to exfiltrate data (using methods obvious to the skilled software people like they hired, some undetectable by any security product or even human monitoring they imagined), and all the good rule-following people would quit in incredulous frustration.

Unfortunately, it might not have been even the CEO's call, but a crazy investor.
>the oven with the pilot light on.

Those still exist, or do you just mean the interior light bulb?
Truly decentralised proof-of-work, with network effect.
"Things are currently less than perfect, therefore we should do something really stupid at random" isn't a _great_ argument, tbh.

It is, unfortunately, an argument that does appear to appeal to a lot of people. We saw this with Brexit, for instance; a surprising number of people, after the fact, claimed to have voted for Brexit not because they thought it would be good, per se, but because they thought _any_ change, even a change for the worse, would be better than the status quo.
Well executives are few and non-executives are many. So total outgoing money is more as per accounting department. Nothing funny or conspiratorial here.

> A good friend of mine is currently getting their MBA from a fairly well regarded school...

Let that good friend of yours get actual job in some non-superlative companies like Wall street banks or FAANG. They will learn how their fantastical ratios of 5:1, 10:1, or 25:1 work in real life.

> ... you realize just how underpaid people are...

If that were true those 100s of thousands companies be making enormous unheard of profits. But that doesn't seem to be happening.
Probably because the article you read is from the party that doesn't want to make a deal, try this summary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42043604
Looking for Weekend Jobs?
Does it mean that there will be no election needle ? That would be disappointing.
Please, please, let the Michigan difference be exactly one vote! Don't care in whose direction.
For better AI, add randomness. And start with a lot of answers
Personally, I would rather have a single story that includes the viewpoints of management and the union along with a neutral account of the events.
It is melodrama of the sort people looking to be outraged engage with. There’s nothing in your question to suggest an actual impact on how you use Wordpress. Except that having abstract concerns is probably easier than the hard work of making awesome things. Good luck.
Funny, it also keeps my consulting business in business. I really should send some of the larger megaconsulting businesses, especially the off shore ones that cost a fraction of normal market rates, a fruit basket some time.
OpenWRT doesn't run on 4/32 anymore.
https://openwrt.org/supported_devices/openwrt_on_432_devices
So maybe I mis-read but...

The comment I was replying to suggests the reporter is pro-NYT but you are suggesting that the reporter is pro-Union?

Maybe the reporter did a great job after all :)
Forget Rails and embrace Sveltekit. All the magic of Rails can be achieved in any framework with LLMs.
Coming from Enterprise Infrastructure World here, so take what I have to say in that context.

This post focuses more on hard-coded credentials, which are absolutely a problem, but seemingly glosses over the difficulty of programmatic secrets management in an organization. Sure, GitHub secrets are perfectly functional…until they end up hard-coding themselves into your pipeline on accident, at which point you get to spend a lot of time and money setting up HashiCorp Vault or similar. That goes great until human error meets the complexity of modern security software and development best practices, at which point human error wins again.

I would argue it’s not merely bad software from non-security companies, but also bad software calling from inside the house (said security companies). Bad agents that hoover up CPU cycles, feature overlap tangling themselves into knots with other programs, and products so complicated that nobody short of a mathematician and Cybersecurity expert could ever hope to comprehend what the various toggles and options are for, or whether it was deployed properly and securely.

Over on Mastodon, I gave a shoutout to the ACME-bot team for actually meaningfully advancing the state of security by making PKI as easy as 1-2-3 for most deployments; this is the security model we should be championing if we want a more secure environment. We need to promote simplicity and security over complexity and legacy support, or we’re forever going to be chasing down human error.
This raises the question: what information did Amazon Q ingest to be able to write C64 Basic, and from where – OCR'd books and magazine off Google Books? Online tutorials? That would explain whether it would be possible to adapt this workflow to supporting other relatively obscure platforms, with a limited documentation set that's certainly not available online on the internet in easily parsable HTML: e.g. PDP-11 assembly, Turbo Pascal, classic Macintosh/Macintosh Toolbox, etc.

Who knows, it might be a shot in the arm for retrocomputing enthusiasts.
Most of that is probably going to be funneled directly into GPU's, namely Nvidia, for now still, and so is networking for them with NVLink and NVSwitch switching.
Requiring management to document these decisions is already itself placing low trust in management. I do not want to work at any workplace where trust in management is so low that low performance needs to be documented with a paper trail. I'd rather work at a workplace where the management is consistently competent and people place high trust in the management; so that when management fires someone everyone else agrees without having a need for documentation to prove low performance.

Disclaimer: this is only my opinion on where to work. I'm fully aware there are many other good reasons why management needs to document low performance.
Programs like mIRC benefitted a lot from the hundreds of megabytes of Windows libraries that the OS shipped with. These days applications all seem to ship their own copy of every system DLL so they can work on every platform without having to support different APIs. As a result, mIRC only worked on Windows.

If mIRC is all you need, mIRC still works just fine. It's still maintained, so unlike ancient versions of MS Office, you can be reasonably safe while using it!
Melanoma is the main cancer that responds well to immunotherapy, PD-1 inhibitors. Other solid cancers, not so much, although in combination with other therapies, is seeing some okay results.

They recently found some types of rectal cancer to be PD-1 sensitive.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2201445
Funny, it also keeps all compliance and standards folks in business.
I think of it more like, Cyber Security Companies' bad software keeps them in business. See e.g. this post on Dan Abramov's "Overreacted" blog: https://overreacted.io/npm-audit-broken-by-design/
I'm... kind of struggling here. Is your argument "economists are bad, so just do the thing that no economist would suggest doing; it must be good" or something? Like, that doesn't make a huge amount of sense.
Over the last few months I evaluated django, laravel, and rails by doing their tutorials.

So far rails has been my favorite to rediscover, I used it 10 years ago and boy has a lot changed!

I was hoping to like django more since I'm a professional python dev, but django felt like I was still clobbering together libraries (whitenoise, celery, etc) and it doesn't have a great front end story.

Laravel was super slick, but I just can't do PHP. I know it's come a long way but it's just not for me.

Rails really stuck for me the most and I really like the hotwire paradigm. As a dad with limited time for side projects Rails is going to be the tool for me now to spin up something quickly.

I'm actually porting over a current side project to rails and stumbled on this magical gem called "Brick"[0]. You just point it at your existing DB then it reads the current state of the database and makes active record models in memory for you to play with. You can then eject the models and controllers into your code base, and bam you have your model layer recreated in rails.

[0]: https://github.com/lorint/brick
Many of those things also seem to apply to large hotel and leisure resorts -- huge volume, leaky construction, hot environment. I wonder how much power they allocate per guest.

The points regarding energy intensive water treatment and less efficient movement are well taken, though.
We use pkarr at iroh.computer for node discovery. It is anything but slow. It is very rare for a lookup to take more than a few milliseconds. It is sometimes faster than our non-p2p node discovery option which is using DNS.

DHTs get a bad rap because of many recent DHTs that were horribly inefficient. But mainline is different. Many of the design decisions of mainline seem very limiting at first, but make a lot of sense for perf.

E.g. a pkarr record can only be 1000 bytes, so the entire message fits into a single non-fragmented UDP packet.
the NeXT logo is up there with other significant logos at the time, especially the SUN and SGI logos. my personal favorite of those is the SUN logo though. at least in print. the NeXT logo wins as a tactile 3D logo on a computer case, followed by the SGI logo which also looks better in 3D than in 2D. but in 2D the SUN logo wins with its clever reuse of the letters U and N as ∪∩ looking like the rotated letter S, creating a circular structure that just appeals to the geek in me
You can use outdated dependencies in any language.
So, not all but quite a few "radio pop" artists actually have excellent studio albums, from which the radio singles are basically the worst songs. Like ariana grande had an incredible three-album run with dangerous woman, sweetener, thank u next. Dua Lipa's future nostalgia is another one of these, full of popified funk and dancehall grooves. Bass players love that album. So don't write off bad radio pop without giving the album a listen, there's quite a lot of good music hidden in plain sight.

Other than that some of my favorites from the last approximate decade in no particular order (in format: album - artist) are froot - marina and the diamonds; I feel alive - TOPS; shabrang - sevdaliza; unfortunately, terror jr - terror jr; take me apart - kelela; somewhere in between - verite; dogviolet - laurel; empathogen - willow; expectations - hayley kiyoko; once twice melody - beach house; the fool - ryn weaver.

Pop is hard to define as a genre, particularly it tends to blend into r&b and indie rock so some people might categorize some these differently. And most are "indie pop" but afaict that's just pop by non-famous musicians. That ryn weaver album is probably the best in the list, it's a monster masterpiece that deserves to be more widely known.