skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing you lived with other people? $21k without roommates in Seattle seems particularly difficult these days. I managed under $10k/yr while in Seattle (living alone) but I lived a very poor lifestyle and had an incredibly cheap rental situation. ($400/month)
Seems like your experience is a case of ”ad hoc” systems management and I know what you’re saying is all to common in the enterprise world though.

Having spent my entire working life automating infrastructure of all kinds I know you can achieve an enourmous increase in efficency rather easiliy with a few well placed automated processes.

I’ve always been baffled by the fact that at any given larger company there are 100’s of employees trying to supply the business with tools to automate business processes — the IT dept.

Yet, they are completely incapable of using these very same tools to automate their own ”business”.
And the resistance I’ve been met with at different places through the years when trying to implement the simplest of automation is massive.

I used to laugh at the ”cloud” bacause, back then, at 25 years of age, sitting at a medium size company with boatloads of cash, I assumed everyone was doing it the way we were; automating all the things.

Now, many years later I’v obviously realized that many places simply does not have the right culture and mindset as it’s not “core business”.

I believe however that this is changing, and changing quickly. In many ways thanks to the “cloud”.
American police rarely do things for actual harassment. If you are lucky you might get a police report and if it happens enough you might get a restraining order that is poorly enforced. Just because kids aren't above the law doesn't mean that the law will do anything about it, especially if they think the teacher should be able to just brush it off.
How much sleep are you getting? I found that was the case for me, but once I started sleeping and exercising more regularly, I feel like that dissipated.
Full Length Documentary: When 850k Bitcoin’s Go Missing
It's Saturday 11AM here, though.
My main objection would be to the 95% number which was pulled out of nowhere. Redesigns for a redesigns case are bad (Dropbox), sometimes they are done not-so-well but for very good reasons (Slack) and sometimes they are pretty much necessary to keep people in (Apple Watch UI between 1.0 and 3.0).

> People use applications because of their purpose, not because it is pleasing to the eye.

Maaybe? But people will definitely avoid your application if it is too ugly. Many Mac users will generally avoid applications that are not well integrated in the OS. Personally I spent quite some time finding alternatives to applications that were very useful that I did not find pleasing to the eye (Audacity, PS3 Media Server, GIMP). If you need to work with something a lot, you absolutely prefer for it to be pleasing to look at.
Have you ever tried sleeping with eyeshades?

It has been shown[1] that even small sources of light can inhibit the secretion of melatonin (the hormone that regulates the circadian rhythm and consequently sleep).

If you use eyeshades, you might feel more rested in the morning (if your bedrooms is not already pitch black dark, that is).

As a personal anecdote, I always feel less rested when I don't use eyeshades.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3567262
Does Cryptocurrency Have More Black Swan Events Than Other Assets?
"Science is the only news."

(https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/213539-science-is-the-only-...)
> I am now a programmer by trade. I took a silly path and spent all my 20s in school, largely working on a PhD in English while I raised my kids ...

"silly path"? What exactly did you miss out on? Raising children is one of life's great joys. Working towards an English PhD (regardless of whether you obtained one), provides a unique experience that many dream of.

Would you trade that for a few extra years of a larger salary at a tech company? Sure, maybe you would be making 20% more now, but would that give you a significantly different life? It sounds like you used your time as a "CS dropout" wisely, or at least productively.

I'm more concerned for folks who drop out of unnecessarily challenging technical degrees and end up working at fast food shops for ten years, when they can be doing something far more gratifying and lucrative.
There's a lot of classes of people that can be considered "freelancer" in this context, from those who basically run as a 1-person agency to someone who just picks up a 3-month contract instead of a permanent role

Not all of those classes will have or even need a full business separation setup
Had same quality issues - then just told YouTube to use 720p instead of auto-resolution and it got all better.
FIRE requires gamification:

1. Dave-Ramsey-style "list your debts smallest to largest, knock them out till you reach the last level!"

2. Mr-Money-Mustache-style "dial down your spending, try to beat my high score!"

etc, what-have-you.

Beneficial advice, yet follow all the steps and you achieve a vacuum. You've arrived, there's no more debts to pay, spending is under control: now what? It's up to you, but perhaps your identity has been consumed by the journey. What were you living for all along?

What indeed? You can answer that today!
If you fancy for retirement at 40, why not first save money so much that you can do what you think you would do when retired for one year? It is quite likely that after this experiment:

1. You realize that actually having a work is quite nice and being retired for extended time periods is boring

2. If you one day find something you really want to do instead of your day job, the treshold to quit your job and give a try is much lower because you already have faced the anxiety and uncertainty that means.

Obviously, this is easier to do if you do not have massive mortgage, student loan, car loan and four kids. Also it helps if your retirement plans do not include flying around with a private jet.
I asked that question myself before[1], and others, too [2].

But the answer is a clear no. Read this explanation [3] on oss-security where someone lays out in detail in which ways ASAN creates security problems.

It ultimately is just not built as a protection mechansim, but as a debugging tool. While you'd catch some bugs (UAFs, Buffer overreads), you introduce others.

Maybe there could be a "like asan but designed for production" tool. I think Softbound-CETS was trying to go in that direction, but never became production ready and is as far as I know no longer developed. But right now such a tool does not exist.

Though however what absolutely should be done: Every C/C++-written tool should be tested with ASAN. This doesn't happen (not a single Linux distro uses ASAN testing as a default practice before adding packages), and this is very sad. (I know this because I still find major packages that have ASAN-findable bugs exposed by their own test suite.)

[1] https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/879-Safer-use-of-C-code-runn...

[2] https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2014/09/using-asan-a...

[3] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/17/9
The author doesn’t make enough money to do this well. £34k seems like a low salary for an educated 28 year old in London.
I definitely think there's a silver lining (at least here in Russia). My theory is that smartphones reduce street crime and bullying by providing stimulation.

Back in the eighties when I grew up, the world was much, much less stimulating than it is now. Bullies bullied weaker people, hit on girls and tortured animals just to get their dopamine fixes and to alleviate boredom.

Now all the potential bullies have smartphones full of apps. And the homescreen apps they have on their phones are the result of a decade of competitive evolution -- they are apex attention predators. As a result, their smartphones provide them with more than enough stimulation to keep them occupied all day: porn, dating, gossip, news, games, gambling.

As a result, I haven't been mugged in a decade (knock wood). There were a couple of tries, but I just disregarded them.

I say this is good.
Managed to find a (pretty bad) 1bd apartment in Capitol Hill for $900/month, but rent increases had me moving into a
comfortable 2bd where I paid $800/month. $400/month sounds amazing! I now have a mortgage so it's a bit more difficult to figure out what counts as housing costs and what counts as housing investment.
Looks like they nailed the launch: first stage recovered and Dragon 2 separated successfully. Congratulations SpaceX!

Docking with the ISS is scheduled ~27 hours from now on Sunday, March 3 at 10:55 UTC (5:55 EST).

https://www.space.com/how-to-watch-spacex-crew-dragon-demo-1...
How about sorting top to bottom?
I hate this!

I had a tough time in school. I had a teacher tell me how much she didn't like me in 6th grade, and had few friends. The girl with the locker next to me threatened physical violence from time to time, but it seemed she wasn't willing to throw the first punch. We moved in 8th grade, where the new school decided I was lesbian and didn't deserve to have friends. I ate alone most of the year. (They were half right, but I didn't realize at the time).

I had hope this would go away when I got older. I was promised this. Instead what I found was that it was just as bad or worse lest you fit in and just do the "adult" thing. It is now years later and I live in a different country. It took that move to ever feel like I'm accepted by folks in general.
> But that's silly. Because Database Schema Changes are Not Hard.

Live database schema changes are hard. Usually people just let server down a few seconds if schema changes and data are not huge.
GNU/Octave has a great strength and weakness that it uses the Matlab language. This is great for many who are educated with Matlab but don't know much else. After some time I found Python and the ecosystem around numpy/scipy/matplotlib fit my problems much better. Python just much more flexible and better suited for general programming tasks than that weird matrix oriented language.

Why should anyone use Octave over Matlab?

- Licensing cost.

- Freedom.

Why should anyone learn Octave instead of Python?

- It's a bit easier to get started for scientists who are not programmers.

- If you mostly do vector/matrix math, the language is nice.

- Otherwise I don't know any good point.

All in all I like a free alternative to Matlab but have the feeling that most people are just better served by joining the much bigger Python ecosystem. (Or maybe R/Julia/Rust which I don't know so much about in this context.)
If you are accepting stock options for part of your compensation (and you actually care about what the value of those might be), it's important. Otherwise, no.
Certainly not all the social posturing with expensive cars, brand identities and Instagram photos of luxury travel and restaurant meals that everybody else is getting for their money.
Substitute “LIDAR” for “lasers”, and the title makes much more sense, without needing to read any of the article — which is behind a paywall.
I'm not sure about the FIRE crowd, but the crowd at Bogleheads.org advocates a three-fund portfolio with the equity side being composed of a 60% allocation to US equity, 40% ex-US equity (exact ratio up to the individual to decide). This diversification tries to address the risk you brought up of being over-concentrated in your country's stock were something like Japan's stagnation from 1990-present to happen to the US.
If Facebook shipped this [1] tomorrow, you don't think people would be up in arms?

1: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSNUb...
Somewhat off topic, though perhaps something for consideration...

Whichever job I had, I always considered it my prime objective to make my own position obsolete. In other words, I measured my personal success to whether or not I had made myself redundant.

At first glance, one might think it contradictory that - save one exception - I was never laid off, found it easy to navigate to (more) interesting projects, etc.
I have no idea what document you just read, but the linked talk is literally about preparing sequential change scripts.
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This shit is gd insane

Fuck amazon
Goosebumps when stage 1 stuck that landing.

Godspeed, Ripley!
What does sth like this need 'leaders' (i.e. rankings) for? Isn't it exactly the lack of such rankings that makes HN so nice?
What else is there? Is there an equivalent for CS research?
Academic CS in Germany is world-class.
I grew up in southwest Orlando. We'd go outside during elementary school to watch the launches, we'd interrupt little league games and football games to watch the launches. Kids and parents all just found it so magical and amazing. Those solid rockets were clearly visible even 70 miles away.
There isn't one. What made the Amiga great was that it was a technically amazing machine that hobbyists could actually use and do great things with. The equivalent today would be Sony allowing completely open use of the PS4 and letting anyone make anything for it that they wished. It wouldn't happen: companies today like their walled gardens. The Amiga flourished by being open.
pretty great Saturday morning!
Pretty great Saturday morning!
It can be a little difficult to get past the “this is a vacation” phase of your mindset if you know it’s bookended by the search for more income - a lot of people need months just to de-stress alone, and then the clock is kind of ticking. Plus the opportunity cost of leaving a potentially lucrative position you already have if you’re saving on the path.

That said, sabbaticals are really useful to realign your priorities. You can pick things up that you wouldn’t normally with a regular work schedule, something that might feel a lot more personally fulfilling. It’s usually less about the avoidance of work and more about doing something without having the grind of having to go for more money.
In theory yes, but I've barely looked at those old migration files even the latest one. Barely rollback, just patch with a new one. Some people say a rollback is just another migration "up"
If a conflict arises Google will just close the entire account and you lose access to everything connected to it. People have lost their gmail address, play store account etc.
FYI I've reported that url to AdBlock
This doesn't solve anything.

First and foremost, it is harder to teach responsible use if they are banned.

Secondly, confiscating a phone is seriously detrimental to a poor person that saves up for their kid's phone and can have a detrimental effect on their out-of-school life. I remember my school banning phones back in 1996. Poor kids didn't have them back then, but the few kids that did have them generally used them to call their parents to be picked up after school activities and/or to check in with their parents after school. These same kids suddenly needed money for pay phones as we weren't allowed to use the office phones. I highly doubt schools even have the pay phones any more.

But more importantly, kids still have online presence outside of school and banning phones does nothing to prevent kids from reporting their schooltime bullying after school. It isn't like phones are the root of bullying.
Define properly insulated?

When my house was built it has 1 inch of loft insulation. Now as far as I can tell there weren't condensation problems, but that wouldn't have been enough to keep the house warm through winter so you would still need extra heat/clothes/both.

I do for the record now have over a foot of insulation in the loft and still require extra heating, and I put a jumper on.
Everything went well so far. Lift off, stage separation, first stage Landing, Dragon separation. They have honed these steps over the past several years. The ISS rendezvous is going to be just as successful. Great going SpaceX/NASA.
Seconding all points. Having grown up in 80's Russia, this is exactly what I feel.
That's the thing though, 忘れちゃ is a completely different, unrelated form that means 忘れて+は. So yes, this split is in fact incorrect and if it wasn't past tense, but dictionary form 忘れちゃう, the result would be even worse with う being split off as "rain"? or something.
If you click on lists on the footer, you will see a leaderboard
tl;dr

no crew onboard

(still a great achievement)
ML research falls into stat which is covered by the site. Other CS coverage is on the way
$800 with a roommate, right?

It was amazing... I envy that financial situation I had so much (being able to have such cheap base expenses). Now I pay over $2k for a little 400sqft shack in the peninsula of the bay. Haha.. ha... ha... :'( Wish I at least had more than a fridge and stove for that price.

I view any interest as housing costs and all principal paid as investment. But that's coming from someone who can't afford a home talkin'...
I’m at Kennedy Space Center on the causeway across from the launch pad. Just watched it from approximately 5 miles away. Insane.
as someone who worked at a German car company, I agree with this. There's a lot of middle managers who don't really understand what problem needs to be solved first in order to ship high-quality software.
There has been a lot of movement internally, though. I sure hope they move fast enough to stay relevant in the next 10 years.
My forecasting on RDS is that it’s a dead-end product – all the future hotness is going to be in Aurora Serverless. Multi-region active/active Postgres with totally usage-based pricing and totally elastic performance is going to be a game-changer.

But if you need bleeding-edge Postgres performance, you hire a DBA, and they probably build something on EC2 or bare metal.

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As I understand it, RabbitMQ is probably a better point of comparison for SNS/SQS, and Kinesis is the Kafka peer.

Regardless, the reason you don’t “just” run Kafka is: you don’t have a team that knows how to tune, deploy, and operate a production Kafka cluster. I learned enough about SNS and SQS to get it running in an afternoon, and I really haven’t needed to think about it since. Kafka (or RabbitMQ, or ActiveMQ, or etc) need instrumentation and monitoring and patching and quorums and capacity planning and etc, and at some scale those are worthwhile, but that scale is MUCH larger than what most Kafka clusters are actually serving.

———

The theme here is: if you have a business requirement for 90th percentile specialized performance, great! Hire domain specialists who can make your systems run at that tier! But for everyone else in the world, when you can get usage-based pricing, elastic resources, and automatic durability and patching... why would you go to the trouble of learning how to deploy and manage a service?
Saturday night here.

What time zones do rockets use?
You know anything of the burden to be reliant on someone else for your core operations? And having to invest and adapt so much just to lock yourself to one vendor? For many that alone is more than the operational burden of doing it yourself.
In an engineering setting, MatLab has more mindshare, but that may be changing.

The related product Simulink is not uncommon in larger engineering firms also.

Back in the day, the community around MatLab was quite large, but likely has declined in size in the last few years with the rise of Python in this area.
Came here to agree with you and also add that while I've never heard of this movement over here in Europe I do know of a certain type of loosely based community of blogs, forums and people who invest hundreds of dollars each month into stock.

Special stock (I'm at a loss of english financial terms here) that give off a certain percentage of value back to you each year or month.

So the goal is the same, once you own enough of these stock you're supposed to live off the accumulated winnings from them. And of course these stock can be sold off too if you want to free some money. Or if the company announces that they're going to lower their percentage of value that they give out.

I've been doing this for a couple of years now, started late compared to my peers. I'm a slacker and so far haven't calculated much of anything. Simply jumped on a bandwagon, read some blog posts and got started.

But a co-worker who tipped me off to this "movement" claims he's calculated that he will be able to live off his return in 10 years.

This all depends on how much you're putting into your stock each month of course. Personally I buffer money and only buy stock every 3-4 months.

The trick is to find old well established businesses whose stock has been stable for many years, many of them fluctuate up and down over decades.

New companies do not tend to give off this return. I don't know the details but only certain companies give a return on their stock just by owning them. My stock trading app shows this info when you click on a stock.

Once you've bought into some company you might get a letter home saying that they're going to lower or raise the return depending on how well they're doing.
> They are modulating the LEDs with PWM at a very high frequency, almost 8 kHz. That's better than most of today's smart lighting by far. There's still debate about 100% flicker actually being healthy, even at higher frequencies.

That's really quite high. 300 Hz makes stationary lights seem constant for the majority of people. Does that frequency have an impact on the total lifespan of the LEDs?
He mentioned that somewhere. It might have been in the script books, and possibly the usenet archives.

You can see that in similarities with various characters -- Lyta Alexander/Talia Winters, Jeffrey Sinclair/John Sheridan, Catherine Sakai/Anna Sheridan. (Note that the former encountered First Ones in a season 1 episode, setting up the possibility of her encountering the Shadows between season 1 and 2.)
Probably the one that mission control is using.
Amazing footage. The precision Landing of stage 1 was something I hasn't expected.
I'm amazed that this fcked up system of obligatory tipping is still in use in US.
I just read about Passive House, thanks for citing it. The standard requires less 15kWh/m^2 per year. I live in the U.S. in a 1200 sq ft apartment, small for U.S. standards, and that comes to ~4.5kwH per day. To put that in perspective, an 80 Watt computer running all day uses up nearly half of that margin. A small 6000 BTU A/C (good enough for a small bedroom) uses up the entire allowance if you run it for 8 hours in your bedroom while sleeping. An electric dryer will use up the entire allowance if you do two loads of clothing.

I love that people are thinking about this, and I truly hope that it becomes standard, but it's not exactly reasonable for folks to expect such a level of efficiency without paying through the nose.
If I would receive $50k in Kazakhstan from foreign country, they will be put on hold for a few months for security investigations and I'll have to provide all the documents about that money before I could have them. And even then someone corrupted might invent something to steal them from me. I definitely don't trust banks for anything but pocket money.
Aw man, and I really wanted to binge watch this series. Well, at least this show moves faster than Orion.
The talk is more about creation migration scripts than deploying them, but definitely not suggesting doing anything by hand. The idea is to ensure correctness so you can automate the deployments with confidence.