skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Revered artisans are precisely the ones who care for the details.

Well yea, but which detail you care about still matters and reveals a lot about your "craft". Code style is of such little consequence compared to semantics it's always a little eyebrow-raising to see people who are extremely opinionated about it.

I've also noticed that this sort of thing can sort of fade into the background after a couple decades of coding. I know people who go on and on about how "beautiful" code is—to me it's just syntax serving a purpose. Sometimes you can make really elegant code that works well with the language, sometimes you can't. But how the code is presented impacts my reading comprehension very little unless you're doing something very strange (looking at you, early 90s c code with one-letter variable names and heavy macro usage).

Actually, I recant one element of this—Javascript and Typescript are just straight ugly and hard to read.
All niche OSes and simpler/smaller linux distros are equal in this regard. Same is true for Slackware, Alpine, NetBSD, etc.
can't what? civilization is organized hierarchically, alliance union country state county city township neighborhood street family individual. Layers get added on top as civilization progresses in order to make trade more efficient. A concrete issue today is getting startup stock options to cross international lines in a remote-first world. There is sufficient demand for a solution that solutions will emerge on a timescale of, idk decades for sure. There were not global alliances 400 years ago and 400 years from now there will probably be interstellar. Fudge N to match your best guess as to rate of progress.
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I prefer configuring that in the service itself so that it works the same on every device where I use it.
Oh, you are definitely correct about 10 people being too many. For me I think the magic number was 4 or 5.

About 10k lines, I really never stopped to think but I'm gonna guess you're correct on that too.
PayPal phishing scam coming from paypal.com domain
I have just received an email from service@paypal.com (yup, that's the domain in the email headers, this isn't some spoofed name).

The email is an obvious phishing attempt, referring to an address change and order I never made. Logging into my PayPal account, everything is unchanged and fine.

What I am surprised by is that anyone managed to send an email from service@paypal.com? How is that possible without their DNS being compromised somehow?

Someone on Reddit[0] has reported the same and I am wondering if anyone here has noticed / whether anyone here works at Paypal and needs to hear about this.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/paypal/comments/1ihs0ls/getting_tons_of_phishing_emails_from_verified/
Amazing. Thank you very much Beej!
Shout out to Flow State (https://www.flowstate.fm/) for their daily album recs which have served me as a nice alternative to Spotify's lofi for the past few years
I have seen an increasing amount of Trump non sense popping up more and more from the VC community the past 6 months on LI
Let's just say that Linux is not a bastion of good user experience
Farm subsidies enable international shipping to the extent of putting foreign farmers out of work. (1)

This also works in reverse, (2) artificially destroying the pricing mechanism, and externalizing costs to the taxpayer.

1) https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/artic...

2) https://www.farmpolicyfacts.org/the-bitter-impact-of-foreign...
He can simply take all pharma manufacturer portfolio off the medicare schedule, for example. That's what I would do, and it would be the right lawful move.

On the side, he may open the door for generic substitutes as well from CAN etc.

A simple price directive would be set at the same time, without any negotiation:

The price US medicare will pay will only be the average price for each drug, in all OECD countries.
> or perhaps remember Visual Basic?

Eh... While I agree in general, let's not compare dragging controls on forms and writing sometimes pretty arcane code incantations to writing a simple request in plain English.
Your depiction of iMessage (which is essentially SMS+encrypted communication with enhancements to people who also have Apple devices) seems disingenuous, as does your explanation of why people use alternatives outside the US. Outside the HN bubble, most people don‘t care about things like proprietary vs open (and if they did, why the heck would they opt for propietary alternatives).
Yeah, but like, with the crappiest possible version of this service that is a massive downgrade for them from something like partiful.
Hey, my question was about the costs of living, not the costs of web hosting :)
I put together some more concrete examples here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42945302

None of them are “programs that discriminate against qualified applicants.”
> Have you actually used P4 in anger?

Yes. I use it every day. I've ran P4 servers that serve hundreds of GBs per day globally with both commit edges and regular proxies. I've written batch scripts, bash scripts, and tooling in python, go and C# around it.

> Having to add P4 support to any script, sucks.

I disagree. It's no worse than adding git support to something. p4 zTag isn't the most elegant thing, but it works.

> Having to do a network operation when touching files, sucks.

Does it? Is it any worse than having to keep the entire history of every file locally on your machine, including any "large files?" And git-lfs as a solution to that means you're now coupled to wherever those files are stored. Making large submits to P4 isn't the nicest experience, but it sure beats paying that price every time you clone a repo IMO.

> Many many many apps have no idea what p4 is and will never get p4 support

In the same way that many people in this thread are blaming a git gui for a problem, "that's not P4's fault". I do agree it's shit though.

> Git gets out of the way.

Until it doesn't.
+1 for only office. When I was a data analyst I made this custom graph in Excel that rendered some lines as speedometers. It calculated the rotation based on the input numbers to align them in the right position. LibreOffice could not handle it (and I don't blame them). I was shocked when I opened the file in OnlyOffice and it worked!
"Twitter" wasn't profitable when he bought it so I'm not sure this is a fair comparison.
So no colleges and universities on resumes?
Why are some great films mixed with some duds? This is classic Hollywood accounting. They sell N files for $M and then split the revenue evenly. The great film gets $M/N and so does every dud.

In practice, the great film's revenues have already "earned out" any advances so that $M/N must be shared with outsiders. Often, the duds haven't made enough so the studio gets to keep all $M/N.

I don't know that's what they're doing here. Certainly, they have enough data to accurately allocate revenues. But it's what's been done in the past.
They already have built one out, it is called Max.
It seems that Beej built this guide to help his students. More of them are probably using Git and GitHub in anger than the other tools.
As far as I know, you're also not spending $3m+ on a home. Even at $700k/yr income, I still need another income to afford a decent bay area home unless I want to live on the absolute razors edge. It also means that if I lose my work, we're completely fucked and I better find another job very fast. That $20k/month you gotta pay for the home ain't gonna disappear on its own.

I too could live in a world of not needing a wife with any income if I chose to live in BFE or moved to Thailand. However, I want to raise my kids in a decent community with ample opportunities and be in a region where I have a good amount of career options rather than being tied into the singular (low-pay) employer that exists within the region or be stuck in remote-hell.
now just time travel to when $1 was $100
> Actually read the articles, don't just learn about the world from hot takes.

Or, even more difficult: Actually read the science paper, or the court ruling, or the executive order, or the proposed legislation, rather than the journalist's hot take. A lot of these journalists takes boil down to "tweets with more words."
> Plus, you're anonymous with Google but you're not anonymous with Kagi since you pay them.

The idea that you're anonymous with Google is laughable. The amount of data they aggregate is well known. Their entire business model is to know who you are.
the average engineer is not 10x.
Other people's hobbies don't have to align to your priorities.

In other words: https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/043/517/i_d...
If the internet gets too restricted, there is always dial-up and FidoNet.
I wish there were more news sources that enabled this. There is so much focus being first to cover a story, and dripping out information. My local newspaper had a website redesign a couple years ago, and completely eliminated the chronological story view. I literally have no idea how to browse stories older than what is currently on their main page for the day. There are some great national weekly papers but they all assume you've already heard the daily news and instead focus on supplementing it with deep dives on selected issues, and don't provide any summary that can be used as a primary news source.
I did not get your point
Within the last 2 or 3 months, I have noticed that a lot of old movies are popping up on my YouTube feed. This includes full movies from the 30s to the 90s, and some are even in other languages. They are being uploaded, often with a small watermark in the corner, and they are not taken down.

I am rather curious as to why this is happening now (and happening across multiple countries, apparently) but I kinda like it.
Youtube has the ability to limit videos to certain markets. One example is that the entirety of Mythbusters was uploaded in the past couple years, but isn't available to view in the US.
- Installs software adequately

- Terrible search ergonomics

It checks all the boxes.
If I had to blame anything on the Democrats it is this:

Valuing competence is one thing. Valuing diversity is another thing. You can have neither, either one, or both. The democrats make a conspicuous show of not valuing competence in addition to making some noises about diversity.

Nobody said Barack Obama was an affirmative action case, no, he was one of the greatest politicians of the first quarter-century. On the other hand I feel that many left-leaning politicians make conspicuous displays of incompetence, I'd particularly call out Karen Bass, who would fall for whatever Scientology was selling and then make excuses for it. I think they want donors to know that whatever they are they aren't capable, smart and ambitious like Ralph Nader but rather they don't connect the dots between serving donors and what effect it has on their constituents.

When Bass was running for mayor of L.A. in a contested election for which she had to serve the whole community she went through a stunning transformation and really seemed to "get it", all the duckspeak aimed at reconciling a lefty constituency and rightist donors went away.

Nowhere is this disregard for competence more conspicuous in the elections where a senile or disabled white man is running against a lunatic. Fetterman beat Oz (they said, it's nothing, he just has aphasia, except his job is to speak for Pennsylvania) but they held on to Biden until the last minute against Trump and his replacement lost.

Democrats need to make it clear that you can have both, but shows of competence increase the conflict between being a party that is a favorite of donors and being a party that has mass appeal. Being just a little sheepish and stupid is the easy way to reconcile those but we see how that went in 2024.
What is the latest now in JS land? HTMX and combining client/server side code in one file right?

I am guilty of trying to keep up with the buzz like learning Rust even if I don't need it (get by with JS/Python/C++)
inb4 pointless programming is pointless
It's probably worth trying LibreOffice again if your last install was a couple of years ago. They take document compatibility bugs pretty seriously and fix a bunch with every release.

That's probably the easiest step to take next, before looking at virtualization or a full Linux install with Wine.
> But there is no correlation whatsoever between writing on a typewriter or using a fountain pen (or the physical experience of writing generally) and the quality of the writing

I heard neal stephenson say that he writes using a pen rather than a wordprocessor specifically because it does affect the quality of the writing. Because he handwrites slower than he types, he does more thinking and editing in his head rather than after it's on paper.
Me too. Me too...
Haskell isn't the only language around with complex type systems.

However, it is actually a good example regarding tooling, as the Haskell ecosystem has interpreters and REPL environments available, for quick development and prototyping, something that is yet to be common among Rustaceans.
Except in most "democracies" there is no direct voting on issues. Instead you vote for parties or people who you believe align with your values.
To find out about those people/parties you probably need "news"
This is cool!

I do get it, these movies are most likely basically "worthless" for WB at this point.

Hell, I remember seeing Deathtrap and True Stories in the Wal-Mart $5 DVD bin 20 years ago.

This is still better than letting them basically be completely lost/unavailable and the ad revenue makes it a positive cashflow proposition I bet.
I find LinkedIn to be the worse of the social media sites. My feed is full of wannabe “thought leaders”, people posting about a meaningless vendor certificate they got, recruiters giving advice, people who can’t get a job or were recently laid off, etc.

But now, politics is getting involved because people are having government job offers rescinded and the entire federal government is in a free fall like a 3rd world banana republic.
Do I need to watch part 1 first?
Seems cool, reminds me of this video where top GMs guess the position without seeing the pieces. Some can even name players and the date of the game.

https://youtu.be/_Ntn4jEv7rE?feature=shared
> If "loosing your work and it's not in the git log" isn't an exceptional case, what exactly is a "exceptional case"?

Losing your work should be exceptional. It's very, very easy to fuck a rebase up, and rebasing is (like it or lump it) a common operation. You shouldn't one step away from an exceptional case from a daily operation.
Worse, it doesn't prove what it asserts. The assertion is that the quality of hires obviously got impacted. But, not once does it look at performance of hires.

This narrative also doesn't expand the look at hiring numbers over the years, where it would be seen that the last 4 years are the only growth years in the organization going back even before this scandal.

Nor does it look at any other problems. Sequestration is mentioned in passing, but the impact it had was sizeable. By the numbers, it is almost certainly more impactful than even the scandal that is focused on.

What this does is appeal to the public court for justice on an old scandal. And right now, the public court is dominated by Trump and his supporters. One can try and couch ideas by "guys, I'm not an extreme Republican" all one wants, but that doesn't change that this feeds their narrative far more than it does to help any progress on the actual court case that is ostensibly being highlighted.

So, now instead of getting quantitative analysis in a rigorous court with investigations, we get people carrying water for Trump as he blames DEI.
>For JIT the situation is different and without JIT performance would be problematic.

Not really, at least on desktops: https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Super-Duper-Sec...
I can see something like Shortcuts/Zappier or some visual things to work quite well for non-programmers. After all, we've had lots of businesses using rule engines and visual editors to "program" their business logic for a long time.

I just don't see "AI" spitting out code and people just putting it somewhere and it all working just fine, without having to learn some of the basics first.

Maybe some highly integrated system could work, that does the doing for you, and users don't _have_ to deal with code and the tooling to run it. But those systems will again be quite limited, so questionable how "personal" it gets.

One thing I've used "AI" for multiple times already with little to no modification, is to write some one-off script to automate some basic repetitive task (e.g. batch converting something with ffmpeg). Can you call this personal software?
It requires too many brain calories.
> A lot of the English reporting I'm reading said "reinforce" which implies addition.

Agree it implies addition, but if you promise to send 10k, then make another promise to send 10k, then send 10k you kept both promises to send 10k.

An article saying home many troops are going to be on the border ie 10k vs 20k. Or clarity on if 10k had already been sent to the border before the pledge to Trump for 10k reinforcements. Or something that goes in to detail about the timing and number of troop deployments would clear up the issue.
Which branch of government are those agencies a part of?
No, at least in italy we would create some gimmick consultant position for some ex politician and repay him/her for past favours /s
How much of what you want is really representative of what an average American man wants? You want to travel fulltime, probably don't want kids, and are okay with a woman regardless of her income.

It's a very niche target you're aiming at. Most people want kids, most people want someone who works, and most people don't want to travel fulltime. Your advice really seems tailored to you and no one else.
> We also know that he has no moral compass and no qualm whatsoever using any lever he can to make money.

We don't know that.

Musk has several times lobbied against EV subsidies which would directly benefit Tesla, because he viewed the subsidies as excessive.
Walking through there and nearby HongKong it’s literally well educated individuals in garages each doing a ‘thing’ that all comes together to make something bigger. No investment needed here.

As in I witnessed a bespoke electric motor manufacturer that was in the ground floor garage space with a couple of guys neatly winding insulated copper around an iron bar cut to the size needed (very large).

You might see a massive train motor and say ‘where’d they get the funding to start this bespoke train motor company’. But it’s literally a couple of guys in an area where they have another couple of guys make the custom brushes, someone else doing the housing, they wind on the coils and boom you have a bespoke motor manufacturer. No investment needed.
Yeah, and I suspect also potential weirdness with tax law and writing off TV shows as a loss makes it hard to release again.

I actually do have legit copies of Infinity Train, I bought all four seasons on Amazon before the huge purge a couple years ago, but I would like legit copies of Close Enough.

I genuinely don't know what Warner Bros actually wants us to do? Is their official stance "it's ok to pirate it"?
Well early deviantart was pretty small, and I don't think anyone building it was over 25y/o at the time, so we all had lots of free time to work on it. Deviantart was arranged in a way we all had communities we were responsible for, it changed a lot after it reached million+ users scale, but in the beginning at 100k or so users it was very manageable. Your responsibility per Scott Jarkoff who lead that team was "to love, nurture, protect and grow your community" - and then there were things we were taught to watch out for or check in on. Backend you could see pretty much everything about the user, plus you just got used to the users in your communities, so "additive like behavior" was not difficult to detect, literally I would just see some users online ALL THE TIME, so we would always check in to make sure everything is ok, and tell them they're probably spending too much time on the site (it was a bit harder for me because I was one of the people responsible for communities generally.) I don't know how actively other GDs did this, but it was a widly discussed topic in our staff only irc channel very frequently. This all came from the teams want to be mindful to avoid hurting other people using the internet, most of us building it genuinely gave 2 shits and genuinely cared about our users. This was the same playbook I then used to build devrel at DigitalOcean in the beginning, I had devrel structured per community with the same instruction Scott gave me back in the day. (I think it's part of why y'all originally picked us! so thanks!)
Musk isn't being targeted for beliefs, he's being targeted for actions. There's a substantial difference between those concepts.
Have you never gotten an error about something being unavailable in your region on Youtube?
> academia used to be basically off-limits to anyone not white and male.

How long ago was that? In Canada 60% of college grads are women[1]. In the US the story is similar and the gap is widening[2]. Part of the reason that some left wing ideas seem so out of touch is because they are. People are still parroting social problems from the 1960s as justification for policy in 2024.

[1] https://heqco.ca/pub/understanding-the-gender-gap-in-postsec...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2024/08/07/wome...
This happened mostly during the 20.04 -> 22.04 era. Perhaps it's my configuration? I have some systems with multiple network cards. I will say on VMs with a single network interface, the upgrades have been smooth.

If I were to rebuild my systems, I'd go for Debian.
Is Google Maps fatally misleading drivers in India? It's complicated
My games work great, I actually get better FPS than I do on Windows for many of them. I use the Steam flatpak.

Admittedly I have had some sporadic issues with games not starting or having very bad FPS, but I have no idea who is actually at fault for those issues (and I doubt it's Fedora, maybe an app or a gnome extension or night mode messing with the compositor). Like I said, they're sporadic, so it only happens occasionally. The rest of the time it's smooth sailing.
Not sure how obscure you are willing to go, but a quick look on private trackers do list the movie.
Surely there is an other way that doesn’t involve exposing American citizens to violence
Anyone can send a money request or invoice to anyone else via PayPal, which will come from PayPal's servers and valid PayPal email addresses.

I'm not defending PayPal here, but people can also arbitrarily send a fraudulent invoice to you in email, or via the physical mail, or call you on the phone as well. Fraud of this sort is by no means an issue exclusive to PayPal.

You can't assume that all communications you receive from PayPal are legitimate requests, in the same way you can't assume that all letters or phone calls or text messages you receive are legitimate requests.
> He's clearly not TSI/TS clearance level

He might be due to SpaceX government contracts.

Edit: someone linked below confirmation he does have top secret clearance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42942848
Like the recently discussed Lightpanda?

Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig | 318 points | 11 days ago | 137 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42817439