skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Programming is a lot of fun, but at the end of the day it's a tool rather than life itself. If you lose track of this (which is easy to do), it's a slide down a dark hole.

I'd recommend putting down the electronics for a bit as much as possible. You might wish to learn to enjoy people and look for opportunities to do so. Spend more time observing yourself and your world without tinker toy distractions. Spend some time alone (leave the smartphone out). In nature maybe. Think about life. And death. What life means, what you would regret if you died tomorrow. What you really want. Who you really are. It's uncomfortable sometimes, being around people and being around ourselves. We look for distraction. And that's what you have to overcome.

I'd venture a lot of us on this site have the same symptoms to various degrees. I know I do from time to time. It's a job hazard I think kind of like skin cancer or a bad back. The above paragraph is my way out of the hole and back to a grip on what's important.
"Yes, as happened with trains, automobiles, and airplanes."

I think there is an interesting distinction that is worth discussing ...

At the advent of train/plane travel, you could opt out of those novel risks by eschewing those modes of travel.

However, you could be driving along in your driver-piloted car, minding your own business and find yourself involved in an accident caused by the software in a driverless car you are sharing the road with.
Show HN: Block scam calls from spoofed numbers in your own area code and prefix
Why I like the term, “Cryptoassets”
Ask HN: Just made Director, now what?
Hi all, after a lifetime of software development I've been promoted to Director of a 30-man software development team. What do I need to learn and where do I learn it? Anyone make the jump from tech to management successfully?
Ive noticed sometimes in interviews the interviewer will start to try to "sell" me on the company. Once, they didn't even ask me any questions, just kept telling me all about the company and how great it was. Generally when this happens it has correlated with other red flags... YMMV
One of the best comments here. I wish this was a top level comment so it could end up at the head of the page where it belongs.
The route taken was:

- Do some pro-bono work as an intern of sorts on side of current job for at least a few months - in this case you could help her out with any friends of yours who perhaps have a web consulting business, otherwise go to local meetups and offer her services (just moderate HTML/CSS is fine). Live lean during this time and pocket savings if she doesn't have at least 6 months of cushion + any expenses for a bootcamp. This way she'll have some real-world experience coming out of the bootcamp and some cushion while trying to land her first job.

- Find a good bootcamp known to have a decent conversion rate and block out everything else from her life... it can be intense.

- Try to find a decent job ASAP after graduation, the initial salary isn't important and (IMO) it's still not a bad idea to do any pro-bono or below market contract work if the experience itself would be esp. good. My friend's first year or so ended up being a mixture of moderately paid and poorly paid contract work.

- In the end though, she ended up making $70k w/ great benefits, fully remote in San Diego (roughly equiv to ~$100k in SV) in less than two years from graduation, nearly double what she made at her previous job. With her first year and some 4-5 projects under her belt interviews were considerably easier to get.
I've added an update on the nanoTime() to the article
Repeatedly, incessantly, whereever there is the slightest link yes, that qualifies as ramming down your stuff down other people's throats.

I really don't think I'm the only person noticing Rust fans being a little - to put it mildly - overzealous when it comes to this. I do not see the proponents of any other language doing the same thing.
No problem! Can't wait to try out the beta, especially the streaming audio transcription feature!
I do microwave the sponge after use, for about 2 minutes so that it's bone dry. The reasoning is simple: most of the bacteria are going to hang out in the water. It's still going to be infected, but it doesn't have to be disinfected. It just has to remain close enough to the ambient load of the kitchen that it doesn't obviously inflame my hands when I pick it up. After all, my hands are germy too, most of the time. The soap, water, and pressure applied during cleaning are supposed to do most of the work.
I sure did! (Sorry for the shameless plug)

HMU at - hokuz@slipry.net (burner email)
>I think this can be reduced to one thing: just my passport, by letting the airport deal with boarding electronically.

What if you don't have a passport? Add a smartphone dependency?
Inside the fearless bike movement tearing up London
Tax fraud and organised crime aside I'd say getting into the online music business. Staying anonymous for as long as possible today probably is the only way to establish an independent business in that industry without having to pay extortionate licence fees to the big four.
I am mildly colorblind but fortunately this does not impact my life too much. There are exceptions though :

- when I was maybe 12 the ophtalmologist told my father in from of me that I should forget about engineering and science in general. Take it dumbass, I am an engineer and PhD in physics (I had to let this out one day :))

- I was shopping for school supplies this morning and had to ask someone to help me choose the copy books so that they are of various colors and not pink. She was surprised at first but then we ended up with a nice talk.

- I reflashed a router 5 times as the flashing was failing, the LED was red. My brother was walking by and told me it is actually green, ending my agony. The router survived.

- a support guy flew cross country once to support my switches which were failing. As you can imagine they were not, I thought that the LEDs were red but they were green (maybe the ophthalmologist was right after all. Still a dumbass for saying this in front of a pre-teen geek who could have listened and go for liberal arts)

- my boss (a lady) told me that I wear interesting color combinations. I thought I was always wearing a combinaison of beige and pale blue. I was not.
Openmailbox 2.0: new owner, outages, paywalled and removed features
Nevermind your silly opinion, the bike shed should definitely be a lighter shade of grey.
Everything physical is computable.
> Isn't anyone who works on GNOME working for Red Hat, without getting paid? They were a for-profit company last time I checked...

It used to be just at around one quarter during 2.6-2.10 days, then it jumped to above 90% when they scared off the prevalent majority of developer community during TOPAZ (3.0) train wreck.

What was the name of guy who was running around with "GNOME UX" thing? Anybody remembers?
Google Pixel 2 leaks with (really) huge bezels
Obviously they are biologically different! That is not the question. The question is: Do these differences make women less interested in tech, or are there less women in tech because experiences they have had since birth make them feel unwelcome or unable.
Well, I don't know if that's fair: most of the places I've worked at that claim to use "Agile" methods were participating in a kind of Cargo Cult. In other words, they thought they were jumping on the popular bandwagon, but if you examine what they did and compare it to what the Agile et. al. stuff was supposed to be, it's not that.
A library of React components to make SVG maps using d3-geo and topojson
Note: Space and time are the same.
If we assume that the big bang was actually the conception event of some other cosmic entity, the universe could very easily be a living organism that's the equivalent of a few microsecond old fertilized zygote.

So yes, a universe sized lifeform could not have evolved randomly since the big bang, but you can only be confident about that if you assume that nothing exists outside the spacetime bubble we call the universe.
The Little Prover
Thank you for the reply. I do appreciate the list of thoughts especially how learning new words to help in forming new concepts from math and the likes. I do cook and bake as a hobby though not as actively as I should. Will go down the short story route as you suggested
"I ended up between the Supermicro SSG-6048R-E1CR60L or the SSG-6048R-E1CR90L – the E1CR60L is a 60-bay 4U chassis while the E1CR90L is a 90-bay 4U chassis. This nice part is that no matter which platform you choose Supermicro sells this only as a pre-configured machine – this means that their engineers are going to make sure that the hardware you choose to put in this is all from a known compatibility list. Basically, you cannot buy this chassis empty and jam your own parts in"

This is a major departure from the Supermicro business model and practices and basically broke all of our next generation expansion roadmaps.

This was not a technical decision - it is the same old economic decision that every large VAR/integrator/supplier has succumbed to for the last 30 years. They aren't the first ones to try this trick and they won't be the last.

We (rsync.net) are not playing ball, however. After 16 years of deploying solely on supermicro hardware (server chassis and JBODs) we bought our first non-supermicro JBOD last month.
When Artificial Intelligence Startled the World
I wish this would link directly to the Internet Archive instead of showing it in a frame so that it would be easier to send links to people.
I totally agree (well I do think OOP is less of a snake oil than Agile).

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the Agile Manifesto, but this can not be said of the industry that was created on the back of it.
Some bot can and will use a real browser, in a real window, opening many sessions, randomising usage patterns to look more human, and continue doing what they already do.
No, downvotes confirm that you are stigmatizing a good chunk of the readership of this website who will not care to read further into your comment than the first 7 words.
But how do you find jobs like that?
> Good, industrial-quality coding requires mentoring.

For some value of "good", "industrial-quality", "requires", and "mentoring".
I belive, for instance, that it's perfectly attainable to learn how to write
robust production code without getting somebody to learn that from. I've seen
it happen.
The Lost Cause Rides Again
I'm not sure why you're interpreting that tweet as a threat to try to force HR to intimidate someone into stop having thoughts.

Maybe she's saying she doesn't want to work somewhere her teammates think she's biologically inferior, but she's hoping that HR will ensure that person doesn't stay on the team?
Vault has a decent PKI setup.
I'm a fan of static typing and I only have a cursory understanding of Godel's incompleteness theoroms, but

> but dynamic typing is never "needed".

my understanding is that it's not possible to construct a single static type system that simultaneously accepts all correctly typed programs and rejects all incorrectly typed programs.

In practice, most sound static type systems minimize the corner cases where they reject correctly typed programs, and provide an escape hatch for subverting the type checker if necessary. The presence of the escape hatch is basically an admission that dynamic typing is (rarely) necessary.
You do not see a difference in between two?
What specifically is the problem? Overpriced drives?
Might as well get it over with. makes comparison to Hitler
How one Brooklyn artist escaped corporate America
I dislike it because it forces you to think, work and report almost exclusively "in the small." I prefer to focus on larger scope, not merely live surrounded by a fog of scope, while working on the small things that contribute to the larger scope.

I eat hamburgers, not bites.
Sure, clearly that was hyperbole. All the evidence never points anywhere. This means the vast majority of actual peer reviewed science.
Search engine manipulation and its potential impact on elections results
ZFS is a native filesystem to FreeBSD, where as in Linux it is not.
"If you read this, please don't buy gedit there"

The same misconceptions about GPL again and again and again and again. The gist of the GPL is to give more freedom by limiting limitations, that is, you can compile a GPL software and sell it for a trillion bucks and nobody -not even RMS himself- will bark at you, provided that if you made any changes to the software you make their source available along the compiled product.

The GPL is not about preventing users from selling the software, but rather about preventing users from imposing limitations on other users, which is exactly what commercial software licenses do. You can download a Debian image, stick it onto a USB memory and sell it for 100 bucks, but you don't get the right to prevent me from doing the same, or even sell it at half the price. That's the way the GPL promotes both openness and competition.
It's a matter of a personal perspective. If you're based in US and have a luxury of working with enterprise clients than sure. On the other hand, few years ago when I was doing data scrapping as a freelancer, price tag of $2K just for the infrastructure would be a huge show stopper for the most of my average clients back then. We were charging them way less than that.
Thank you for the reply. The journaling part sounds very logical for anybody of any situation :) your words do ring a clarion Bell. Thank you so much
I'd say rather than an error per se it's the classic tradeoff between the open "blank canvas" approach and the structured "walled garden" approach. One promotes user creativity and expression at the expense of cohesion, the other creates a consistent experience at the expense of freedom.
What if they concluded this based on evaluation of her skills?
Assembling property for development. Concealing ownership of certain assets. Keeping your name from appearing in certain public records.
Batteries not included
An easy one is: anything legal or illegal that would harm the owners reputation to be associated with.

Rich guy heads his local anti-drug crusading non-profit in Seattle or Salt Lake City. Also co-owns an anon LLC that is in the booming marijuana business.
we need a deceptive headline filter akin to a spam filter
> WTF happened in the 90s

Personal experience as a child of the 90s: for the middle class family, a TV began to occupy the bedrooms of teens. They were still too expensive in the 80s to justify, and cable wasn't nearly as pervasive in the 80s.
So you have to prove that all human work is physical when some of it doesn't seem to be physical at all (creative work).
I don't think it makes that claim? Clearly women can be capable and competent software engineers. I think the study was showing there is an inherent preference for different interests among large population of the sexes and then people who are concerned about the gender gap take this study to argue that the differences (and others) may manifest later in life as choices in career path.
bleach rapidly breaks down into salt and water. I'd be more worried about the salt being too abrasive on your non-stick pans ;)
"Rapid Development" was/is one of my all time favorite "project management" type books. Waterfall is a baseline. Even in what people would consider waterfall, there were "buffer" items incase we needed to change everything. The scrum disciples are being disingenuous when they compare everything to waterfall. It's like comparing the newest language to programming the Altair.
How can you have multiple cars in a single shaft, using the rope system? To what would the second car from the ceiling be hanging on?
Having observed the fall of the USSR it's nothing unusual to me.

When people are not comfortable with an oppressive regime they keep their moderate opinions to themselves. Voicing any opinion contrary to the Party line is dangerous no matter how extreme or moderate it is. So all dissenting opinions you are going to hear in public will be coming from extremists (e.g. "Have a Nuremberg-type tribunal for the Party's chiefs, lustrate the rest and their progeny for 7 generations!") because only the people who hold these opinions will be fed up enough to disregard consequences of their dissent. And there won't be many of them, since it's the definition of extremism to be in small minority.

However, for every single dissident there were tens or hundreds of thousands of silent supporters who would openly express their disgust and outrage over such horrific person but, when talking with their buddies in private, repeat and spread these ideas thus radicalizing themselves. Eventually everybody but a minority of "true believers" shifted from "well, life kinda sucks right now but at least there is no war" to "burn it down and salt the earth!". When this happened the whole mighty Communist empire collapsed within a year.

tl;dr When you see steam breaking through the seals you are about to experience the whole boiler's explosion. The steam that gets out first is weak but it's the sign of mounting pressure inside.
For sure, but technological trends have certainly catalysed the process, at least with respect to reddit. The ubiquity of the gif, and incredibly low friction image hosting services come to mind.
I tend to disagree with your stance on Google's incentives. I'm pretty confident (and have zero factual ground for this) it is exactly taking over the bots industry with a powerful headless browser, that pushed them to release headless chrome.

Mind you Google is extremely interested in bots...
I have trouble understanding this mindset. It's like, if you were walking away from your car in a parking lot, and someone said "Hey! You've left your car unlocked!", and you yelled at them angrily "Stop looking at my car!!!". It makes no sense at all, and yet it's practically the universal response from people who don't know what they're doing.

People occasionally suggest that software engineers should be professionally licensed. I have a different proposal: I think that people who want to manage a business involving software development should have to get trained and licensed.

ETA: while my proposal is somewhat facetious when considered about all software development, perhaps it's not completely inconceivable that we could require businesses collecting any personal information from users to be licensed and audited. We already have PCI-DSS compliance rules for businesses using credit cards; this would be analogous, though it would have to be enforced by the government, as credit cards wouldn't necessarily be involved.
Yeah. Not really.

All responsible banks have KYC (know your customer) rules.

They aren't just going to let some company come in and open an account without knowing anything about the people who have signatory authority over the account and funds as well as the source of the funds.

So criminals don't really use banks and anonymous accounts the way you think they do. What they do is operate semi-profitable businesses to launder the money via semi-boring companies that are small enough to not raise suspicion but profitable enough to conceal the sources of funds.

THOSE business accounts are then used to purchase "services and goods" from offshore organizations with their own accounts that are owned by alternative personas.

The idea of a truly anonymous bank account is a myth.
Pretty sure it was an Ericsson W880i. The last non-touchscreen phone I owned... I miss that phone sometimes.

Roll of film? What's that again?

I think I still haven't ordered anything off Amazon, hadn't bought much online at all back then.

I've never had a landline in my own name (that we actually used, had a couple that came with an ADSL bundle when naked ADSL wasn't cheaper).

What's AOL? Got Gmail in '04 I think, late in the 'invite only' phase before they got evil.
Agreed. Although side project which might turn into a company is a low friction way of getting into the startup world. Fix a personal irritant into an app. Or try to solve some big hairy problem like AGI and stumble upon something fun and valuable.
Disagree regarding the music business. They don't care if the owners are anonymous, they'll go right after the LLC itself and destroy it as necessary, while trying to pierce the anonymous aspect any way they can. Having an anon-ownership list won't protect the company from their licensing fees at all.
It didn't lead to a flamewar.

The issue is that expressing your own moral opinion is fashionable. It's considered acceptable to hold someone else's head under water just to raise your own. And that's toxic.

Note that anyone who calls out virtue signaling soon ends up in the crosshairs. I don't mind though.

Also, they were quite serious. And that's the problem. The fact that they're serious in calling out someone as a "terrible person" (when they're not) is what makes it dangerous.
I drink 2-4 bags of the Yogi brand Kava tea they sell at most grocery stores. There's also a Kava bar in town where I've had the "real" Kava, but I didn't find that I noticed much more of an effect and some of the extracts upset my stomach. What I notice is that my stress dissipates and I slide into one calm train of thought. Tension leaves my body. I can read or watch a movie without feeling like I should be doing something else. It doesn't have any stimulating psychoactive or physical effects, but it's good if you want to shed the coat you carried home from work.
Some services have actually gone down that exact road. pastebin.com is one of them.

But in other cases you simply don't want anyone to be able to extract your info automatically. A good example would be e-commerce sites which don't want anyone to be able to scrape their pricing information in large scale and real time.
In terms of definitions, generally cosmos contains everything.

Universe is our local observable space-time with the earliest event we can detect being the big bang.
Proper Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance.

Agile encourages staying flexible and able to change plans on a whim. In practice that tends to mean that people using agile processes don't plan long term. Piss-poor performance is the result. Breaking tasks down into manageable pieces is hard, and requires good long-term planning for any significant project.

Agile in practice is "weeks of work can save you hours of planning".
You can make > $100k in less than 5 years with no college degree. JUST DO IT.
My previous workplace had a couple of Schindlers, which failed multiple times per year.
VoiceOps is hiring product engineers in SF to build AI for B2B voice data
The problem with breaking things down iteratively is the same as trying to paint a mural 1 square inch at a time. The developers / designers don't get a feel for the overall picture what so ever.

Also, instead of having broader estimates in terms of months, you force developers to rush constantly with sprint completion pressure. In case you didn't know, rushing developers is very, very counterproductive. Cost, Time, Scope. Pick 2.
>Assembling property for development

This is definitely the most common reason for anonymous LLCs. For elaboration, think about buying up a ton of crappy property in a specific area. Doing it all under a single LLC with traceable names can cause property agents and banks to notice and raise prices / hold out on existing property that the developer may need.
It make me think of Von neuman probe. If we can consider that a robot or something with connections similar to our neurons can be a living creature. Then maybe if something like Von Neuman probes existed it could have colonized the whole galaxy (actually it could be done in a few hundred millions years) then those probes, while each one have is own brain, could communicate with the other probes and even if two probes at two opposite sides of the galaxy couldn't communicate, they would still be connected. Then maybe this network could be consider as a living creature.
It's very difficult to pay attention to anything else when you basically accuse me of being racist in the middle of the comment.