skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the numbers should be primes... 4+1=3+2
I can go before or after work, lunchtime, or Saturday morning.
The Ocean Cleanup project is obviously needed since the plastic is already out there. However, I wonder if there are any projects that look to clean up the plastic output by these rivers at the transition between river and ocean? The mouth of the Yangtze is only a 1km wide at terminal points. Although heavy in boat traffic, I wonder how much affect removing the plastic here would have.
There are Thunderbolt 3 external SSDs that have an M.2 NVME SSD inside. You could probably open them up and swap your own SSD in. Bare enclosures without an included SSD appear to be less common.

- Netstor enclosure with 2xM.2 NVME slots and Thunderbolt 3 daisy chaining, no SSD included ($360): https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/netstor-na611tb3-thunde...

- LaCie Bolt^3, similar features as above but with 2x1TB SSDs ($2000): https://www.anandtech.com/show/10801/lacie-announces-bolt3-2...

- Plugable 480GB Thunderbolt 3 SSD ($400): https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/8514/plugable-thunderbolt-...

- Patriot EVLVR Thunderbolt 3 SSD, 256GB ($200): https://www.anandtech.com/show/12257/patriot-announces-evlvr...
Why does rm need to call mprotect or ioctl?
>The money would cover Ireland’s social welfare bill for a year which is a major cost to the Irish tax payer.

Seems like they are taking a long term perspective rather than a short term boost to their tax-base.
>If my experience is at all representative

I don't really see any reason to think that your interactions with one trans woman would be representative?
WhatsApp raises minimum age in Europe to 16
“sex is criminally overrated” is certainly a statement borne of the sort of careful, even-handed consideration i would expect from someone asserting people aren’t
animals
That sounds really fun. I've done greenfield Rails projects and I've learned that what I really like and find rewarding is this kind of slow reorganization of something that already exists. It's like remodeling a house--maybe it was well built initially (and maybe not!), but you get to spend a lot of time inside of someone else's mind. You know, when they had good days and things just clicked, when shit was on fire and they just had to make it work. The results of seeing meaningful improvements to something like that is just fantastic, to the point where you're now excited to add on to the codebase.
At least, for sure I know I wouldn't hire you as a recruiter.
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Of upper middle class folks who own their own businesses that I have met, more of them own their parents business or a spinoff of their parents business. Those that do not, often have come from an upper or upper middle class background where it was a very low risk situation for them to spend a year trying to get an odd business off the ground - they could always fall back to their parents, or their personal network. There are a few who built their own businesses from the ground up, but many of them will tell you that it was luck at multiple points that they were able to latch onto a workable cashflow (not to discount the hard work to explore that cashflow, and smarts to recognize and expand it...).

Edit: Addendum, access to capital is key to reducing risk on the path to success, and it can be formally there or informally there. If you listen to podcasts, try "How I built this", interviewing a range of business founders. You have to listen for it, but a huge number start as, oh I worked in the financial industry and then had this idea..., or oh my parents were a lawyer and a physician... etc... The founder of Starbucks, Howard Schultz was saved from being ripped off from his business by a Seattle mogul by Bill Gates, Sr (yes father of that Bill Gates...).
Thanks for posting this, I've been meaning to make similar transitions with my site.
> Technology is the one career that has an optimistic future, isn’t beholden by regulation and credential inflation, and actually attempts to create some sort of meritocracy

One the one hand, tech might have less regulation than others - you can call yourself a "software engineer" and work as one without any formal credentials.

But on the other hand, plenty of other fields have optimistic futures and good guarantees of employment, the exact things the author is worried about (and the regulation in those fields often helps achieve those goals).

For example, nurses need to be certified but then they work in a field with good salaries and plenty of jobs in a rapidly growing market:

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/registered-nurses.htm

Tech is an ok industry to work in, but there are others. Anyone that says "tech is the only good career" is either uninformed, living in a bubble, or a snob.
> If you're not producing some kind of value then you are dragging your company down, and you should be let go.

Have you worked at big companies? This has nothing to do with producing value. It has to do with whatever "strategic direction" the company wants to take. You can be profitable, but your whole division will be cut off if there is a conflict with whatever a more powerful exec is doing.

Layoffs are different from firing "low performers".
Because the 'dying gasps' has a really long tail. My guess that that everyone in this forum will be dead before 25% of the internet is IPv6 only.

There's a huge difference between supporting IPv6 and not supporting IPv4; the latter will take much much longer.
They honestly aren't pretending. Linux bash shell is on windows now, Azure runs on linux servers, etc.
I’d think the founder of PayPal knows a thing or two about moneys...
Yes, that's why we can afford food stamps. If the country wasn't rich, it couldn't afford to feed people.
Finally, some science behind Resting Bitch Face.
I've heard a lot of people coming to rely on back-end tracking because it can't be blocked by the client. I think this works especially well on a single page application because you can infer how a user interacted with the site solely based on API calls.
So you are saying they will have to have some sort of business model from the get go?
I bet DoD thinks that they sure were nice to only retain 13 /8s.
> The impact of global growth won’t impact jobs directly for awhile.

That's a definitive statement that is more nuanced than that. There are definitely people (myself included) who have been directly impacted by global tech outsourcing.

I won't get into the specifics but I can tell you that there are an increasing number of dev shops outside of the US that are specializing in solid communication. That's been one of the biggest problems and hesitations from US businesses. You need a manager in the other country, who is good. These companies are specializing in providing a excellent teams that at a fraction of the cost of a US team.
Does anybody know of any projects similar to this one (and Light Phone 2 [1]) but for desktop OS in laptop format? Apple's products of late does not interest me and I'm stuck with my beloved 2013 MacBook Air until it dies or something better comes along. I have yet to find something better.

I long for a laptop purposely designed for productivity, simplicity and minimalism. Ideally with a custom designed OS (could just be a linux distro checked for compatibility etc.) to go along with it.

Is anybody working on something in this vein?

[1]: http://www.lightphone2.com
It’s been one of the things I thought about. Not sure yet but send me an email (on the site’s about section)
Cortana figures better than Google and Alexa
> However, the problem is that as soon as it becomes known that Google is giving tests in Fortran 1988, applicants will study Fotran 1988 and thereby reduce the efficacy of the test.

How about "Google is giving tests in these 25 languages"? They could even choose languages that are purposefully dissimilar from any language that you've claimed familiarity with.
I think as you gain more experience and perspective you will look back and realize that you simply weren't upper middle class yet. It's not about income (which is just a point-in-time metric that can change in an instant), it's about assets.

Programmers have a much better shot at establishing this kind of security than most people, because you should be making 2x to 3x median income for your area, which means you can live on 1x median income and invest the rest.

A lot of the people I've worked with as a programmer over the past 14 years have done effectively that, so by now they have a lot of assets. That is what upper middle class security looks like.
I thought HPKP was essentially deprecated - too many footgun scenarios and not enough specificity on "what to pin" since CAs can use / issue with multiple intermediates.
I believe you may be able to relink the inode with debugfs, depending on the filesystem.
I think that might be a little unfair to most people that care about the environment. A lot of this is coming up with a feasible idea that you or someone you know can execute on. Would I or most people be able to come up with this idea? Myself definitely not and most people probably not. If I were to have the domain knowledge to be able to come up with this idea and understand how to execute upon it, then would I pursue it? Most likely. I think a lot of people want to do something, but coming up with the right ideas and knowledge to be useful is a totally different story.
> and nobody had any significant issues promptly finding a new job (with a salary increase usually :)

Way to disprove the myth of upper middle class security!
I am one of those weirdos, that change jobs so often, I do contracting often enough, that I get fired quite often, or quit.

I remember when one big corp I had long term contract decided to 'trim the fat' and laid us all. My neighbor felt bad and wanted to make lunch for me. I explained her that the same day, I went to another big corp (pretending to be startup) and got much higher rate I always wanted.

That lasted a year, then I was on my own again.

It really makes you stronger, your wife more stressed out, but my skills are way more awesome, I contribute way more and I don't care if you need to fire me. It will make me sad for sure, as I care about people I work with.

Anyhow, this is still true. I would love to have a place I can stay for 10-15 yrs like 'normal people'.
This project is hugely problematic, both because there are some pretty fundamental flaws in how he characterizes plastic pollution and the lack of any responses from the Ocean Cleanup about the criticism from just about every ocean plastics expert out there. None of the major plastics pollution nonprofits endorse this work, not out of jealousy but frustration with an idea getting so much attention and funding purely because some charismatic kid has talked about it.

Assuming that it is engineered to survive storms (which is DEFINITELY not an easy feat given the design), anything like this will have an impact on marine life. Anything that floats like this will act like a FAD (fish aggregating device) and attract animals, and should be designed in a way to minimize impact or incidental catch. It seems like his discussion about what that includes has been pretty vague to date. This includes the small things in the ocean that will certainly be harmed by this device.

The dispersion of plastics in the ocean seems to follow a different profile than this device addresses. Contrary to what people imagine when they think of the “Pacific Garbage Patch,” the bulk of plastic in the oceans is not large pieces that are floating. Pretty much all plastic in the ocean has broken down into small pieces and sits through the entire water column following the mixed layer phenomenon. There’s been a lot of great research on that, including microplastics which are now found in practically every water body on Earth.

Anyways, there are much smarter people than me who outlined the flaws. You can read More here:
http://www.deepseanews.com/2014/07/the-ocean-cleanup-part-1-...
http://www.deepseanews.com/2014/07/the-ocean-cleanup-part-2-...
http://deepseanews.com/2013/03/the-ocean-cleanup-the-newest-...
http://climateadaptation.tumblr.com/post/46515698066/this-in...
http://inhabitat.com/the-fallacy-of-cleaning-the-gyres-of-pl...
In those terms, its usually a hit to reputation, though in general its RARE that a "reputation" hit will prevent an ex-CEO from getting another CEO job, but usually means they won't get a "better" CEO/Executive position.

Likewise, if you're working at a company (Facebook say) that has a scandal, get laid off, you're probably gonna be able to find another job.
I agree that it's related to firing, but I don't think it's fear of interpersonal drama.

The simple explanation is that it's really expensive to fire someone without cause. It takes months because the company has to produce a paper trail proving they fired the person for a valid reason to protect themselves from litigation. That's months of paying an individual who may be incompetent or toxic, months of paying people who put together the paper trail, all the morale damage the individual causes, the damage that might arise from firing someone, even if it's someone no one really liked.

All of those things are costly, probably much more costly than not hiring the right candidate. At least so the reasoning goes.
I don't see the negative outcome. Cities know the economic activity of 50,000 highly paid workers makes up for the loss of some property tax revenue. The alternative is no highly paid jobs and no property tax revenue (as the land is undeveloped).
> this would go against your the interest of the company (Windows sales)

This would've been an insightful comment in 2007, but the world has changed. Microsoft makes its money on Azure now, and that means supporting developers everywhere.

For crying out loud, post-reorg Windows doesn't even have someone reporting directly to the CEO anymore.
You can type "badidea" at the warning page to skip it.
> quickly reducing the implicit bargaining power that we've enjoyed for the last 10 years.

Why not codify that bargaining power into a series of employee-owned organizations that are able to negotiate for salaries in line with that cost of living?

There might be some growing pains, but it would certainly be better than the current trend of a few CEOs, VCs, and upper managers hoarding capital for little more than artificially expensive Bay Area real estate.
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I would like an e-ink smart phone please
Why wouldn't your first check be to yourself?

I guess I'm well rounded so that doesn't really apply to me. I hire for roles that consume my time but still provide value (the necessary busy work).

I'm a much worse employee as the proud failure of 7 startups (on #8 at the moment). So much bullshit, waste, politics, needless meetings, etc., that working for a company again is one of the most painful things I've ever had to do besides death of a family member or divorcing my first wife (that was #1 BTW).

I will agree with your #2, work life balance can be hard. But if you find yourself not wanting to work on a Wednesday, you can just not work that day. If you're particularly inspired on a Saturday, you can go all in.

My biggest issue was around this (startup #3, first fully self funded). I felt if I was not working every waking moment, I was failing. I learned my way out of that one eventually.

Discipline is the key in working for yourself. I'm lucky that my parents were both entrepreneurs. I saw them fail and succeed (and fail and succeed again...).
Yes, multiple people on reddit have said that's exactly what they did.
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You are glossing over large parts of my comment. This is hardly limited to interactions with one individual.
In a BGP hijacking attack against a DNSSEC-signed zone, the attacker just looks at which IP address is in the signed A record, and then injects that prefix.

Note that "the auth servers hosting myetherwallet.com" aren't some random IP addresses in Tallinn, Estonia. It's Route53!

I get what you're saying with your counterfactual, that DNSSEC "breaks the exploit", requiring the attackers to use a slightly different exploit. But who cares? The slightly different exploit has the same predicates.

That's what's so funny about the narrative that DNSSEC has some role to play in today's attack. It would almost make sense if the narrative was "we could use DANE to get rid of all CAs and then it wouldn't matter if you could trick a DV validator". But, no, people are talking about how DNSSEC would help LetsEncrypt, in the event of a global BGP hijacking. Admit it! That's funny.
You keep saying "Western values" as if it's a cultural artifact of the West. What I'm saying is that even if the West had a role in defining a set of universal liberal values and maybe embraced them to a greater degree than other cultures, I still support them as universal values not cultural norms (personal biases aside - and I'm not a westerner, BTW). If you want, we can debate each and every one and I will argue for it on principle, not chauvinistic conviction that the western social order is superior.

For your example, theocracy is in direct contradiction with freedom of conscience. In order for the concept of theocracy to have any practical sense, the society must contain dissenters against whom the theocratic law is formulated and applied - otherwise we would have a purely consensual society that wouldn't need such laws, just like there is no law mandating people should breathe. The logical consequence is that the theocratic society is a repressive one against some of its members - so it is, by the very cultural values of some its members, not mine, an inferior one to the liberal order, while not being better for the religious majority; unless you accept enforcement of religious norms against others (jihad) as a legitimate value theocracy provides to the majority.

You could do that, of course, being hellbent to prove the contradiction at the heart of liberal doctrine, but you would place yourself in such absolute moral relativism that it would make you unable to take any position on any political issue. A liberal might find his political options limited and distasteful, especially in the international matters. A complete moral relativist has no position and no interest.

> So then the question becomes, what gives you the right to judge other people? And if you are OK with judging others, then why can't they turn around and judge you and say that you are wrong instead? Are you willing to impose your values by military force in the case of disagreement?

Isn't any military conflict always a clash of values? The value of recovering the motherland, of imposing a master race, of plundering, of deposing a ruthless dictator. It seems cultures have no other option than to judge each other if there is to be any interaction: even such a minor thing like a commercial transaction could help, say, a militaristic nation build a nuclear device. It's irrelevant then what value the nuke has for that foreign culture - what matters is that its existence threatens our values, so we are directly and chauvinistically projecting them in international trade. The right to judge other cultures, and be judged by them, is an axiom of international relations.
If you are already self-hosting services, why not self-host your search too? Searx is a very good service that aggregates results from any number of search engines, which is collects by stripping out any/all identifiable info from the requests it submits. You (not DDG, etc) can explicitly disable logging and be confident that your system is not preserving logs, instead of trusting Yet Another 3rd Party to do the right thing.
> Yes, you can access them; but I don't believe you can link them.

I think you can if you use debugfs. I wrote a post here about recovering a running binary after deleting the file on disk: http://lukechampine.com/recoverbin.html
Anything that could filter the plastic at scale would likely block fish migrations and have lots of unintended consequences (not to mention that the bulk of it is probably transported during floods, which are going to be hard to filter).

It's easier and more effective to combat this on the ground than in the water. That's not to say that it's an easy problem to combat on the ground, either, just that it's damned hard to get plastic out of the rivers once it's in them.
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Source code is available here btw: https://github.com/UBIC-repo/core
This is a brilliant approach because everyone has more context, meaning answers can be more pointed and exact. When the questions start small and build incrementally the next topic of conversation becomes much more natural. The candidate knows that they can use a technique because it's already been discussed and the interviewer is has more control over the flow because there are fewer tangential topics.
There is always a lack of empathy in these discussions. If the world looks different depending on the situation you personally find yourself in it can't lead to any productive discussion.

A lot of decisions that can impact the lives of many are often made for short term self interest of a few. And upper management who make these decisions or run companies to the ground keep floating from one high paid job to another.

The 2 senior most execs of Well Fargo for instance responsible for the fraud and a $1 billion dollar fine get a golden parachute of around $250 million between them. Who is going to pay for this? Customers or job cuts? And this is not an exception. There seem to be a huge dissonance between idealized values and reality in upper segments of society.

Ultimately as a society you commit to a set of values. These values are reinforced by politics, media and your own experiences. Maybe you have a great life and you don't question them, maybe you are born privileged and your perspectives and life experiences are by definition different. But as educated adults its your job to understand and define your society. You make the bed and you have to lie in it.
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It may seem like a lot of money if it's more than you've ever had
before, but in the scheme of things it's not a real lot. I've heard
loads of horror stories about athletes actors and lottery winners
ending up broke because they underestimate how easy it is to use up.
If I were in your position I'd live modestly, avoid crazy investment
schemes, and manage my money like a normal person. (P.S. I'm a white guy from a middle class background.)
I am aware of the distinctions, I thought it would be obvious from the context.

I meant to compare a 2x m.2 NVMe RAID0 with dedicated NVMe add-in cards, e.g. a kingston dcp1000. The latter can outperform the former per unit but seem more expensive even when you adjust for the higher stats.
Makes sense. Getting rid of something doesn't teach you not to use it when it's there.

If you can not use it when it is there, you've really won.
I wonder how that lines up with people who hate the first chapter and think it’s a nonsequitur versus people who enjoy it for its absurdity, versus people who think it is perfectly in keeping with the rest of the book.

Is it Gene Wilder doing a front flip in his first scene in Willie Wonka so you never quite trust him again?
Since parent ask for a comparison with Lua and the Pi: I'm running a digital signage service (https://info-beamer.com/hosted) that uses a custom minimal Linux (~35MB) on the Pi and a program written in C that is scriptable in Lua. One of the key features is hot reloading of code (and visual assets). Thanks to the flexibility and robustness of Lua that works incredibly well: You can even push new code to the central website using git, it instantly deploys it to connected devices and they reload their code. If done correctly you can update the content and logic your displays without any interruption. The C code is pretty robust for a few years now and never crashes or leaks memory.