skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are contracting and essentially a business. Your next career move is to find more clients.

As a remote contractor, you really won't feel like you are part of a team. I've been contracting for the last 10 years and I don't expect to be part of a team, because it's only a way for me to fund my other businesses.

You need to find a 9-5 job where you can go into an office every day and interact with your co-workers.

"I lack the career wisdom and maturity of a typical 10+ year engineer. Nobody really thinks of me as someone as a skilled expert in a topic, someone they could forward jobs to, or refer me to."

Why wait for referrals? I found all of my contracting jobs by reaching out on Linkedin or various job sites.
I've tried that, but then been burned by PaaS switching things up in unexpected ways. Best to make the investment and just own it. I absolutely share the sentiment, though.

Good news is, it only took me a week to really pick up k8s.
The same with Android, which has an annoyingly small default font size. I'm only in my mid-20s and I keep the font size at extra large. There is the occasional layout bug when some apps don't account for large font sizes, but otherwise works great. I bump the browser font size to 125% as well.
MMX was useless for games. MMX is Integer math only, good for DSP, things like audio filters, or making a softmodem out of your sound card. Unsuitable for accelerating 3D games. Whats worse MMX has no dedicated registers, and instead reuses/shares FPU ones, this means you cant use MMX and FPU (all 3D code pre Direct3D 7 Hardware T&L) at the same time.

All comes down to Microsoft and Intel coming up with a concept of purely software peripherals around 1997. Intel released things like MMX, AC'97, Communications and Networking Riser (CNR), and audio/modem riser (AMR) standards, all in an effort to push hardware vendors out of the market by handling those roles in software by the CPU. More work for CPU = more demand for fast CPUs = more profit.

Funnily enough AMDs 1998 3DNow! did actually add floating point support to MMX and was useful for 3D acceleration until hardware T&L came along 2 years later.

Intel Paid few dev houses to release make believe MMX enhancements, like POD (1997)

https://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/l/51358-pod-windows-...

1/6 of box covered with Intel MMX advertising while game used it only for some sound effects. Intel repeated this trick in 99 while introducing Pentium 3 with SSE. Intel commissioned Rage Software to build a demo piece showcasing P3 during Comdex Fall. It worked .. by cheating with graphic details ;-) Quoting hardware.fr "But looking closely at the demo, we notice - as you can see on the screenshots - that the SSE version is less detailed than the non-SSE version (see the ground). Intel would you try to roll the journalists in the flour?". Of course Anandtech used this never released publicly cheating demo pretending to be a game in all of their Pentium 3 tests for over a year.

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=65247&start=20#p...
Which might make this the best buy of all the recent IPOs
At least we've not returned to the era of "return-free risk"
Rule..meet exception.
https://www.businessinsider.com/couple-lived-in-rv-in-google...

https://www.gizbot.com/miscellaneous/features/5-reasons-why-...

https://www.sfgate.com/lifestyle/article/Google-employee-sti...
Right. Squarespace is a hosting provider and website builder that anyone should be able to use to build a website, typically a smaller scale website like a blog or a small to medium online store / e-commerce site. It's similar to Wix, Weebly, WordPress.com, and the website builders that some hosting providers offer.

Kubernetes is a tool large companies use to manage a large number of servers. Google invented it and open-sourced it so now it's free for anyone to use. It's not something people would use for a single website unless it was a huge website that required lots of servers, like FoxNews.com or something.
I have never understood psychotic or schizophrenic people to have said, "The text I read in my head told me to do it!"
Do you notice when a butterfly covers your eye? Without LIDAR?
That's complete bullshit, hiring bonuses don't have to be repaid if they terminate you for any reason. They were trying to make you feel like the manager went to bat for you, which isn't the case.
I’m hiring Sr developers right across the street at Expedia. Shoot me a note: joholland at expedia.com
Unfortunately, Kubernetes isn't a unified abstraction, because vendor-managed Kubernetes setups are not very similar (to each other, or to an unmanaged solution). Somebody who "knows Kubernetes" but has only worked with GKE will not be very well prepared to operate a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster.
Hash chaining over logs predates the blockchain by a fair whack of time. If you don't mind a trusted authority cross-signing, it's a lot easier and a lot faster.

You don't need the batching mechanism quite so badly and ACID databases have a pretty good track record at establishing a trustworthy ordering of events.
> Upgrading with do-release-update is simple if it works... but what happens when it breaks?

That is what snapshots are for.
It is! And it's a fun way to program imo.

I'm working on a project now, the api is graphql using Graphene in Python (flask-graphql with graphiql support), so we basically define the models using that. The graphene resolvers talk to a package called "services" which is where all the business logic and queries live, and services talks to another package "db" which deals with taking sql+params and returning dict rows.

It is exceedingly simple, easy to debug, and we're using postgres, so if you have a sensible schema, postgres can do just about anything you want to do very easily. We're using postgis, and postgres search features under the hood.
I beg to differ. SQLite is a very popular embedded database. There is inherent simplicity to just reading and writing flat files.

Redis feels like that. It’s a simple data structure server. Now if we could have those datastructurs sync with flatfiles with the same redis API, a lot of applications would become much simpler.

I’m not sure how big of an undertaking it is though.

I’m willing to bet, a fast general datasrtuctures database syncable to flat files would open up many possibilities.
Your life is what you make it. There’s always tradeoffs.
I agree, but at the moment, our psychiatric ability isn't at the level to be able to do that. We have less trouble building tunnels than reforming prisoners.
He fought for the Confederacy and the Union? How does that happen?
I did investigate all of those services before I replied. I see that MacStadium will manage Mac Pro systems, but those don't have nearly the processing power I'd want. As I said, where can I get a 36-core 72-thread Mac? Nowhere, at least not legally.
Putting the slash in, as I said, is there for backwards compatibility only, not elegance, and it could be removed at any time since this backwards compatibility issue no longer exists, or is of minor consequence nowadays.

It is far, far better to read and follow the standard specification and not follow a whim that makes you feel good. These are the things that will burn you first.
In my experience, pods, deployments, and load balancers work similarly enough to not cause any discernible problems (with basic web application processes, like a Dockerized Node.js server) on AWS, GKE, and Digital Ocean. But that's only my experience, and there are more managed offerings than just those few. Even if it's not fully unified, it's unified enough for the use case of basic scaling of a process up/down.

And, if you'll indulge me here, I was referring mostly to managed k8s offerings. Because that's what the vast majority of people would use, if they chose to go in on k8s at all and want to get out the door quickly.
That's not astroturfing.

It's ok on HN to submit your own stuff as long as it's mixed with a variety of other material that you ran across and personally found interesting.

Using HN only to submit own material is less cool, but not something we necessarily ban users for. The community tends to frown on and flag such submissions though.

bcaulfield is obviously a legit HN user. The proportion is probably too heavily on the Nvidia side, but that doesn't mean he should be hounded off HN either.
I guess I was not very clear in my statements, but to reiterate: yes, we all know these observations about interests are true, but no, we do not know whether they are biological. On the contrary, we have strong evidence that these preferences stem from the way we talk to young boys and girls.
Well known in the YouTube community https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUtiVL6z8wE
If Larry is approving hires it's just as a rubber stamp. There's no way anyone at the head of a company that size could think about anything at the employee level.
> bigger GDP than America

Source?

http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/countries-by-gdp/

United States 21,410,230

China 15,543,710
Earth is (always has been) round, so why have the flat-out wrong become so
now compare it to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uurJ-zjhok and try saying "big difference" with a straight face again
You are putting the slash in because it feels good but the specification does not do that. You are playing with fire.

Despite your circumstance, the reason for spacer divs, and other such things, are relics of the past and such reasons no longer exist. Using them now is beyond silly.
Noted. And it's true, I should work harder at it, I just get tired of fighting with my phone's keyboard. No excuse though.
A simple example is 3 or 4 sentences, not 5 paragraphs.

He didn't address what it means for the economy. What happened last time the yield curve inverted? The last 10 times? The headline implies recession by referencing 2007, is there a valid statistical correlation?
And that is XML, not HTML, and never the twain shall meet.

The hilarity of your statement is all the disdain people had for XML and the W3C's push for its usage over HTML. Now everyone praises WHATWG for breaking away from the W3C over this and, here we are, with XML lookalikes and XML usage everywhere.
Why not directly use www.lucidlink.com, same result but read/write
I wonder what will sprout up in the ashes once Google goes further in that direction. Today the real tech companies are shining beacons of comparative competence but that can't last forever.
*Stirling
Hmm. Ok, I see your point. You're right about the Digital Service. And his blog does say that much as well.
Understanding the two-thirds power law
The idea of this sort of scheme is that it's perfectly profitable if you aren't paying for the CPU and the power it uses.
Kubernetes switches things up a bit too.

But before it existed I could type `cf push` and get a running app with automatic routing, logging and service injection.

Whereas nowadays I have to type `cf push` and get a running app with automatic routing, logging and service injection.
FYI Wireguard vpn protocol already works on ChromeOS!
Recovery codes + virtual TOTP.
Thanks. That makes me feel a lot less stupid. It's much more in line with what I thought.
Expert beginners are cost-effective.

That’s an interesting premise, but how do we know? What if expert beginners aren’t cost-effective but the true cost of relying on them is hidden because there isn’t enough evidence available about the success of alternatives built by developers who have reached higher levels of skill and experience?

By the time someone reaches the expert level, the technology in which they are an expert is obsolete.

I respectfully disagree. Focussing on specific tools seems to be exactly the kind of danger we’re talking about with the expert beginner syndrome. Someone who sees the bigger picture will understand common principles and techniques that are applicable with many tools, allowing them to reach proficiency with new but similar tools very quickly. This leaves them free to focus on any genuine differences and, more importantly, on the problem to be solved rather than the tools used to solve it.
Windows used to have a horrible touch interface, but it's quite wonderful these days.
My senior project in college was on Peltier coolers. They're sort of like Cellular Automata of mechanical engineering - cool at first, but the novelty wears off shortly after.

Peltier devices are useless for most applications because of its poor efficiency.
> Look at team sports as a counter example where the thinking is in terms of the individuals, not labels.

You still have your best players starting and a number on the bench. This is analogous to specific software teams (front-end, back-end, etc.).
I’ve been in a similar organization and have been put in charge of projects that I’ve been under qualified for, too, but I pressed on with good intentions and an “I care!” attitude. The problem is that at these organizations there’s often no one more competent to turn to for help. If you fail (like I did) you get the sense that there’s a class of people who can do things rigorously and well and then there’s the class that includes you. It’s an experience that can easily leave you worse off.

It would be noble to stick around, but maybe a person owes it to him or herself to find an organization already doing things the right way that is willing to hire and train eager inexperienced team members.
It is entirely plausible that they hired you so that they won't have to lay off someone they actually care about.
Another good example of good stuff from Wakaliwood, Cuchillo de Fuego’s Nocturno clip:

https://youtu.be/grOK2PdDAow
The FTC does though. It's a shame different departments of the same body seem to act as completely sovereign and unattached nations of bureaucracy though.
I'm curious what good alternatives to Mailchimp exist? My experience working with them is that they're a solid but outdated option.

For example I went to import some contacts today and was surprised that Mailchimp was unable to automatically correct basic syntax errors such as "usergmail.com", "user@gmail" or even "user@gmail.com <FirstName LastName>"

The fact that their product management team never thought it was a priority to include such an easy time-saving feature makes me think they have a rather hard-headed culture that is missing the boat on a lot of things. I can see why they would be difficult for Shopify to work with.
Huh?

The agent: "river of incandescent margarine".

What it did: "ignited fuel tanks and burst the tires"

What it did it to: "abandoned vehicles"

I do find "incandescent" hard to imagine. Because it's just fat, and it'll carbonize before becoming incandescent. Maybe "flaming margarine" or something. Also, "listened" indicated that they heard, but didn't see.

It doesn't really need punctuation. But maybe this would be clearer:

They listened as a river of incandescent margarine ignited the fuel tanks, and burst the tires, of abandoned vehicles.

Or maybe:

They listened as a river of incandescent margarine engulfed abandoned vehicles, igniting fuel tanks and bursting tires.
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...That's not at all in the direction of the Marquesas. Look south.
In my extremely limited experience, which was at least an order of magnitude much much much less dangerous and spectacular, yeah I just kind of did the thing. There was no conscious choice involved there.

What's funny is once you're doing the thing it's not so automatic. You are making conscious decisions at that point. Except your brain feels like a supercomputer because of adrenaline or whatever else is flooding the system.

In hindsight of course I know I was probably flopping around like an overweight fish out of water hahaha
Whether robots would materially change that is debatable.

Indeed, that is the only thing here I was questioning. :-)

If they can’t afford to learn a new trade now, how would losing their current jobs to robots help?
Snail mail MFA only proves you have access to the mailbox. Phone numbers are typically personal, not shared. Addresses are typically shared.
Natural circulation heat exchangers. The AP1000 has this huge tank of water on the roof that can cool things for 72 hours. Then it runs out of water. At sea with some displacement you use this system but never run out of water.
Don't underestimate Larry. Not in this regard anyway.
Sorry, but: This is nonsense. It's not like these are the only options, and you cannot get a comparable offer somewhere else.
That example sounds wrong. My understanding is that the black ball will heat up more quickly because it's converting a wider range of light frequencies into heat. The color isn't affecting heat conductivity and thus shouldn't affect how quickly it cools down at night.
I work in higher ed. Salaries are nowhere near competitive. However, everyone I work with has opted for good work environment over money. Tends to lead to self-selection of nice people, even if they aren't "rockstars".
All any of us really need to do is put files on a server and start a process. The question is how much scaffolding you want to build and manage to achieve it. The answer should be “as little as possible”.
I think the real question then is why are people running apps that need to be k8s-aware at all? K8s already provides a number of primitives to solve many problems without reinventing the wheel and going "cloud-native" within the application. There should be a very strong reason for any need to access the api directly.
I found Shopify app store excessively expensive and risky. Most plugins are subscription based with poor support, no guarantee of future updates and just reeks of poor quality. I am not a store owner so I can't comment on how useful some of these plugins are but the whole idea of business critical services (such as a store front) needs rock solid foundation and support, without it I would get extremely nervous.

Imagine if I have 8 plugins that I pay anywhere from $10-30 a month, per plugin. That's 8 things that can break when Shopify changes some API related things and now I have 8 different parties that I need to seek support from to get my store up and running. God forbid if the developer ceases to exist and bailed out of Shopify ecosystem. I am getting nervous just thinking about this whole "app store" model for business critical infrastructure.

May be I am not well informed in this space, but there are also services that help glue various other services such as IFTTT, and a few others that combine GSuite, Asana, Dropbox, Slack, etc... I can't remember them but I wonder what kind of nightmares I would have to rely on fragmented infrastructure that consists of chained API calls managed by independent companies. Mind you, the middle broker of API also wants the slice of the business so they're going to either charge $/month or worse - ads. Then there is the whole privacy/security aspect. Holycrap what a mess!
I get about 2mbit w/ 4G LTE on a ~$50 plan... For the first week my phone showed 80-115mbit but that didn't last.

My carrier tells me that in order to downgrade my plan I would have to first cancel my phone number and wait a month.
The requirements for the proposed 4G spec are actually even higher than that -- 100Mbps was for high-mobility clients, whereas low-mobility clients were promised 1Gbps speeds.

https://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/m/R-REC-M.1645-0-20...

page 9 defines high / low mobility as follows: "low mobility covers
pedestrian speed, and high mobility covers high speed on highways or fast trains (60 km/h to
~250 km/h, or more)." (this is roughly 35 to 150 mph)

We are nowhere near those speeds, even on the best networks.
American landlords derive more profit from renters in low-income neighborhoods
Could you please stop posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?
Can you run a one-off instance like “heroku run <command>”?
Check your employment paperwork. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. To make you pay it back after just hiring is a jerk move, but not all executives are kind.
+1 for their Linux support. Literally the only screen sharing tool that detects my i3 workspaces across multiple monitors correctly.
This is the Internet equivalent of keeping phone scammers on the line by not just refusing to hang up, but actively interacting with them until they hang up (search YouTube for "tech support scammer trolling" for some entertainment...)

That said, I'm a little confused even after reading the linked RFC paragraph; it claims "The primary use of this feature is to allow TCP-wrappers to display an error message before disconnecting." but I'm not familiar with that term and there are no other occurrences of the word "wrapper" in that document.

Firefox and Chrome will spin on that server for hours before giving up.

For a web browser, this behaviour makes a lot of sense: timeouts are usually based on "I've waited for X and haven't received anything", not "this connection is like collecting water from a dripping tap". As long as there is a slow but steady stream of content coming in, you wouldn't want to abort until the user gives up or an internal limit on the data collected is hit (which is probably what happened with the author's tests --- a quick search doesn't yield the maximum size of the response headers browsers will accept, but servers usually have a configurable limit of a few KB at most for the request headers alone.)
What a wonderful opportunity to rickroll ...
to prolong detection time rot13 it
or walk through all the ciphers you can get away with.

cause we are never going to give you up ;)
For your next gig apply for something with a bit more seniority. Maybe an architect role? You are less likely to get it, sure, but it’s not impossible. If you persist you will get it.
Posting trollish flamebait will get you banned here.

Please don't break the guidelines by complaining about downvotes either.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why doesn’t their private cloud service give you that? It doesn’t seem reasonable to insist you get all your computing power from one physical machine if another solution is available.
Oracle has somewhat of a monopoly due to its Micros acquisition. A hotel group upgrading their servers for some Opera products are given their choice for "servers": Windows 2008 R2, Windows 8 (yes, for servers) or let Oracle run it in Oracle Cloud.
Pololee and pnloyd feel free to reach out. There are plenty of related jobs in seattle.
>forces driver to be integrated in the kernel

Isn’t that a result of the intentional non-guarantee on not maintaining abi compatibility? Otherwise you end up with microsoft’s much more difficult to fix situation (maintain abi, difficult to update apis in general, but vendors can trivially produce them without a concern).
Im not sure how microservice architecture or something would sidestep the issue; its more of a political question of who's in charge of maintaining the drivers
The H-1B situation, at least back in my day, is that formally you need a new job within X days, but in reality no one cares as long as you don't leave the country.

If you're unsure/nervous, talk to an immigration lawyer. A 1 hour consultation is quite affordable.
Even at laboratory-scale, almost all manufacturers are lying about their purity: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/10/11/gra...
Something I read recently on some other HN comment was that if you work in AWS you are customer-obsessed for AWS customers, when you work in 3rd party seller tools you're customer-obsessed for 3rd party sellers, when you work in ads you're customer-obsessed with the advertisers as your customers etc.

It makes a lot of sense for any company to operate this way (most I've seen already do) and explains how they can be genuinely customer-obsessed while still seeming like at times they don't have the average consumer's best interest at heart.
Could you explain why the specific heat capacity is the important metric? It seems like the rate of absorption would be more important. (In other words, the percentage of incident photons absorbed.)