skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... Their aim was to reinvigorate enthusiasm for their cultural and linguistic roots and keep money within the French-Basque region by supporting local businesses. ...

Adding friction to financial transactions for the sake of cultural reinvigoration seems like a desperate move. Anyone passionate enough about the cause will want to spend locally anyway, so it's not clear that this experiment is the best way to achieve the goal.
One thing people miss is, we're paying our doctors _several times_ as much. If that doesn't change (and nobody wants the doctors to earn as much as they do in Europe: there just won't be any doctors), there's really no way to achieve the same cost structure without replacing doctors with something like machine learning in a lot of capacities (radiology/imaging most immediately, other diagnostics in the longer term).
It goes much further than that, it shows how to tackle reliability even in systems that are not distributed. The primary insight is that all software will be buggy so you need to bake reliability in from day one by assuming your work product will contain faults.
I have two dozen co-located servers to log into. So far I've resisted the idea of setting up a bastion host, because that seems like a way to lock myself out of SSH access if that machine dies. I'm also not sure of the rationale for having a bastion host, other than "big companies do it". How do other non-cloud people handle this access vs. security tradeoff?

I'm also curious what people's preferred fallback method is for preserving access to machines if you lose access to your yubikey(s), assuming you keep your private SSH key stored on one.
Explain to me again why I want to make you rich at my own expense? Really?
I wonder if automation actually distorts the recruitment market? As the initial cost of recruitment goes down, thanks to automation, more recruiters gets involved because it's cheaper to enter the market.

As more recruiters offers their services to employers the employers starts to feel like there are more potential hires than there actually are.

As a thought experiment we could assume that there used to be two recruiting firms for each employer but then costs went down and now there are ten.
This gave the illusion that there are five times as many potential hires even if everyone should take a step back and realize that the recruiters are still all trawling in the same pool in their search for talent.
"I got mine"

"Don't make poor choices"

I'm glad this isn't some sort of late stage capitalism drinking game.
Regarding the "!! Select text -> type in correction -> people see change.", he was putting that in motion with his personal blog:

https://joearms.github.io/
They could just use puppeteer? I don't see mention of puppeteer anywhere. Even if they block puppeteer, hackers could create a chrome extension to automate the login flow presenting the victim with phishing page for each step of the login flow.
> I told him what I made.

Never make that mistake. Never ever disclose your salary information to someone that you potentially could work for.

I think a situation where we were required by law to disclose, or a company where such a thing was common (GitLab) would be exceptions. But otherwise, I've found it to be a huge mistake to disclose your exact salary or numbers to anyone.
> enabling people here to circumvent the rule of law and effectively stage a coup that destroys our functioning democracy.

You mean like the US has done on a regular basis in the past five decades? I'm not in favor of what Russia is doing. I am surprised it has taken this long for it to happen to the US considering its own terrible and decades long record on illegal interference with functioning democracies, when it suits its own goals.
Would not consider buying from manning again. The books are unreadable on kindle and they made no effort to correct it.
Don't blame the GUI, blame the screen reader. It's the screen readers that are stuck in the 70's. We have software that can do facial recognition and run on an raspberry pi but for some reason screen readers still need some ascii text buffer to send to the equivalent of a speak&spell.
It does not surprise me that this is out of Atlanta. One of the former Atlanta Business Chronicle writers that covered tech rightfully calls it the Bangalore of the South. https://twitter.com/Urvaksh/status/1092948535627137024 https://twitter.com/Urvaksh/status/893087188451196928 Tech in ATL is a second class citizen and the salaries reflect that, plus there is a glut of marketing and business people. The other issue with Atlanta is that from an IT/corporate headquarters perspective (which is a significant driver for the job market) Suntrust just merged with BB&T and is moving the headquarters out of Atlanta along with Turner combining with AT&T. Layoffs will ensue at some point. Most tech companies located in high cost areas such as New York, San Fran etc. that open up a location in ATL do it to reduce costs.

That said, in general, all of these efforts to "learn to code" etc. are all just trying to increase the supply and lower wages. The challenge is that there often is a difference between the developers what will accept the lower offers and the ones who will hold out for more. Many still believe the a larger number of cheaper people is better than a few top devs... Despite the fact that this was proven be a bad strategy over 30 years ago in "The Mythical Man Month".
You phrase that as if the people choosing HDHP without a funded HSA could actually afford a traditional low deductible plan.

My current insurance is something like $35k / year premiums for a 3k/6k family plan (which is actually a 6k/12k plan since 3k is when they start covering anything, and it isn't until 6k / 12k that they actually start picking up the whole bill)

There is no way I could afford a "low deductible" plan.
The moon's stability is a good point, but not conclusive. The moon's orbit isn't perturbed by it's own gravity. It's also much larger, so much more mass (radius cubed)/surface area (radius squared), so less affected by solar wind, micro meteor impacts, and the like.
I can’t agree with this enough.

The field of software is growing. It will change. That change may be for the better or worse.

But I feel it’s unethical for those of us privileged to be in this field to act as gatekeepers and prevent others from having the same opportunities I (and I suspect many others had) when I entered it.

If you want to keep making the big bucks, continue to provide meaningful value and skills that justify it.
backup key on offline usb. Safely stored in a safe, never to be used except in emergency.
$60k seems low to me for any decent size city in the US too. From experience, new grads were offered much more even in late 00s, after recession started.
Thunderbird has the feature. I almost never need to look at in image in an email, unless it's a photo from a friend.
I agree with this article. But maybe not so much HR but the hiring managers that is the root cause. HR takes its marching orders of who to recruit/hire from the hiring managers.

What's going on here? What we have here is a min-max problem. In one case, the hiring manager would like to reduce risk of a bad hire and reduce amount of time needed to train an engineer. On the other side of the scale, the hiring manager needs to hire someone and get a butt in seat to get the work done. So what to do?

A couple of things come to mind. First, there is an algorithm for this, the optimal stoppage problem. That is you review a certain amount of candidates, lets say X, then pick the best one after X. The problem comes down to solving for X. I forget the solution, but there is one out there that is based on how long you want to wait.

Second thing that comes to mind is relying on core attributes, like hard work, motivation, overall intelligence, team-player, etc... versus overly specific skills.

Yes in both cases a lot is still left up to subjectivity and can still lead to long lead times in filling a position.
What interests me is the possibility of human civilizations between the Eemian and last glacial maximum.

Any evidence of civilization from that period would either be hella deep under the sea or obliterated by glacial expansion and retreat.

Homo sapiens have been here 300k years. I find it ridiculous to assume we only started living in cities about 5-7000 years ago. Conveniently the period immediately after the last rapid glacial retreat...
Pets, cats, and dogs only live until they're 20. AND pets DO have lots of problems with dental health. What is with all these people questioning flossing here? Floss your damn teeth. Worst that can happen is the poor guy you work with doesn't have to smell the decomposing food coming out of your mouth. JFC
Sounds like one of jobs I had. They treated options/warrant as something really really special, like awards/gift.

I couldn’t make them realize it was part of my compensation expectations and for that I wanted to know company valuation and dilution, even if a ballpark.
An alternative would be the company taking money from their profits and using it to pay people a living wage.

The argument against that I usually hear is that companies pay people based on what "the market" says their labor is worth and the employees should just get a better job if they don't like it.

However, my understanding is that such analysis is based on models which assume that the people involved are rational actors. That creates a contradiction: If the employees are not rational actors then the model's assumptions are not valid. However, if they are rational actors, then the argument that they should just get a better job isn't valid because a rational actor would have already done so.
Does eating green vegetables, salad, herbs (I love chewing some wild thyme in the countryside) help significantly the teeth health?

Also I don't rinse after brushing my teeth, to keep the toothpaste in place so it acts as protection all the night, is it useful too?
I bet you're a real joy to be around at parties.
The moon’s orbit is taking it further from Earth over time, it it’s very far away and very massive, as well as being influenced by the Sun. A satellite’s mass is almost negligible, and compared to the Earth-Moon distance it’s distance from Earth is too. A pebble hitting the moon also isn’t going to do much to change its course, while the same pebble will do a lot more to a satellite. The same is true of dust.
Note that these models are created in an era of great inequality. You can expect that if at any point a correction is made to this disparity these numbers will also be effected.
I think we can all agree insurance is something of a racket, but are you implying in-network dentists struggle financially? I would find that difficult to believe considering the limited hours many dentist office's hold in the midwest coupled with the month+ wait time for an appt.
> Low wages and zero bargaining power

Yeah, I also make a lot of money fixing their fuckups.

They don't care, and as soon as they get sufficient grounds to become a citizen, they'll fuck off :)
Per the article, this will replace Lithium ion if they can get the same energy density, cost point, and fewer fires/explosions. Flammability is the current downside for LiON batteries.

I'm not going to hold my breath but the organic cathode does look promising.
"Is it really better to split on semantic/structure and styling?"

When you need to show the same UI on different devices (desktop, mobile, OSes) and media (screen, high-dpi-screen, printer) you will come up to the need of separate style definition entity almost immediately.

Like this: "Hello, <bold blue size=16>Nana C++ Library</>"
Should be just this "Hello, <em>Nana C++ Library</em>" and styles for the emphasis that can be different for each platform.

Even for the same OS and user session you will need different style systems if you want to support dark and light theming for example.

Yet having UI nailed down to pixels grids (<bold size=16>) is a path nowhere.
Careful!

It's just as easy to make a faux off switch that actually just triggers it to disable itself in software. The switch needs to actually cut ALL power going to the camera hardware.

I remember some webcams having LEDs that were controlled in software so hackers were able to turn the LED off in code while still recording with the camera the entire time.

For now, I will still have my physical webcam cover on because hackers can't stop it from working without physical access to my machine.

That said, there isn't much interesting to watch if you really wanted a live feed of my webcam (other than frustrated looks on my face while I'm debugging the work issue du jour).
Hard to see how that is a real problem. For one std::function implementations usually do small obj optimization, so if all you are capturing is a pointer there is typically no allocation. Furthermore, this a setup cost, so typically only paid once, and it is a UI, so there is a human in the loop anyway, which enormously increases the performance tolerances.
> Why should you get a say in who works with you?

The feeling of autonomy is quite important for a lot of modern knowledge workers. There's more than one lever, but if you force enough of them, it becomes a crap place to work.
There is an option to block it in Gmail/Inbox.
I'm a tradesperson with knowledge-worker experience.

Had a software company offer me a position, tech support + some maintenance of existing codebase. I have a demonstrated capability to meet the requirements. Remote + onsite work at client premises. Existing employees doing the roll are way overloaded and obviously stressed.

The person I'd report to travelled to interview me. This person admitted they hadn't received a pay rise in four years.

I told them my current pay grade BEFORE the interview.

Their offer: $45,000 BELOW my current pay, then another $5000 per year I'd spend paying for my dependants to be cared for during the time suggested I'd be at clients premises.
> I too believe that for most people Windows 10 out-of-the-box is more secure than most Linux distros.

At the risk of being off-topic: Even if that were true (which I doubt but it has been better-debated elsewhere) ... 1) that list would be much-changing over time, and 2) it seems like Debian (or Devuan) stays on top of things reasonably well, especially if you add a firewall (I've liked the "arno-iptables-firewall" one though it doesn't seem to auto-start any more except on Devuan).

Also, the length and changeability of that list illustrate why I use OpenBSD: it is more secure by default (as a key goal), and then when you make changes to the default config you can consider the security implications of each change. They put a lot of attention into auditing and making good design choices.

Having said all that, many people simply won't like the feel of bsd or linux, and prefer a more commercial experience (for lack of a better term). (Edit: more of my thoughts on that, hopefully lightweight and skimmable, at http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854587380.html )

But thanks for posting that list, as it could help someone.

Edit: I also posted here some things I do on any system, for safer browsing: https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=13803908&cid=584646... (part of: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/04/19/2345227/incognito-mo... ).
How are the second and subsequent owners of a share of stock helping to create value in a way that the second and subsequent owners of a house are not? (Realizing that most people are renting houses/improved land, and very rarely unimproved land.) Both are providing value to the previous owner, which the previous owner considers when deciding to make the original investment.
I find it helps to go into the details when trying to sell people on health care reform (I've also had these discussions with conservative family members).

First of all "universal healthcare" itself is pretty vague. Most developed countries have universal access to health care for less money but they do it in a lot of different ways, from NHS like systems to multi-payer systems like in France and Germany.

So reform could be a lot of things from a public option on insurance exchanges to single-payer with government-run hospitals like some other English-speaking developed countries. Honestly, I feel like people who are worried about second being actually implemented well are not necessarily just ignorant, for example the VA system in the US is structured in a similar way and a lot of people have terrible experiences with it. So at that point I usually acknowledge their concerns and point to other developed country systems that don't have the same single point of failure.

When you say "universal healthcare" are you trying to sell them on single payer specifically? I think the argument is stronger by letting go of that and just focusing on the costs and results compared to other countries.
I agree with this, but practically no one ever does this math. (Paradoxically, even the people who claim to understand this, and who mention how expensive interviewing is -- even they still fall back into the old patterns)

Interviewing at all companies is always "free", because once your an employee, your time has "no cost", irregardless of what anyone's wages are, and regardless of any opportunity costs for the time.
I was totally confused. It has nothing to do with Darwin, the open source components of macOS? And you refer to it as an .app which it isn't?

Even more confusing is that you haven't tested it with Safari?
Huh? I'm in a public system, and I can change to any doctor I choose if they have space to take me. And choose to show up at any hospital in the country.
Years ago, I worked at an unnamed MA-based "start-up" with $100MM in revenue and 400+ employees worldwide with a footprint in AWS. I was brought on as a "junior" Operations person and within two years I was basically indispensable to the team and had acquired a reputation as "the guy that finds the most interesting bugs".

What I didn't know at the time, was that in those two years I'd obtained experience and knowledge that at any other company would have warranted a 25% pay increase from what I was getting at this start-up.

The excuse? You have "options". That you can "exercise". And maybe eventually be worth something. Maybe.

Except this company had gone well past Series B. And had no exit strategy.

Given what I know now, I've resorted to telling recruiters and HR people that I'm not interested in "stock" or "bonuses" or anything else of the sort. The company pays me for my expertise and my hours, I give them what they pay me for. No promises, no gimmicks, no dice-rolling.

TBH, people in high-school and college looking to enter the workforce need a series of workshops on compensation, benefits, and HR before they start their first "real" job.

Had I known that the "options" I was being given access to would: A) "vest" over time, B) not be worth anything even 5+ years later, C) be IMPOSSIBLE to sell on the secondary market, and D) would result in a deflation of my take-home wages... I'd have told them "skip the options, bump my pay by 10%, and maybe I'll take you more seriously".

People need to realize that equity != pay. Equity is so dependent on so many other factors that you have ZERO control over that the risk-reward ratio is heavily slanted toward the former.
Back then everything would have also been so much closer together. The universe could have been like one great bustling city. Perhaps, from that perspective, we are already in some long-tail end-of-days time. Planets and stars and galaxies are so far apart as to make travel difficult or impossible.
Every interaction with other humans that can have an outcome that you are trying to pursue (like getting a job) is best viewed as a game.

You can choose not to play the game, which significantly reduces your chances and opportunities Or choose a different game, like

> I will meet some entrepreneurial types with promising business models that value what I can do well

which is still a game, but a game you are willing to play.
USDA organic allows non organic pesticides and herbicides. It's a joke of a standard.
You're right, I was lazy at reading it too, and it acutally is more like 16x.
I don’t have sources on hand, but it’s pretty well established that restrictive zoning is one of the major reasons for the shortage of urban housing that doesn’t meet demand (and hence has helped prices to skyrocket).
The exact thing happened to me yesterday and I was like damn, that's surprising how did they—ooooohhhhhhhh.
I see pretty high overlap with dpdk cryptodev primitives[1]. If I had to guess, they are related and probably based on what actual hardware provides and that is known to be used in some key applications (e.g. 4G/LTE infrastructure).

https://doc.dpdk.org/guides-18.11/cryptodevs/overview.html
Was curious myself, based in on his other comments, it's Poland.
Whether it is a big deal or not, I also misread the graph and it is more like 16x...
You mean https://github.com/shuup/shuup ? It does seem nice, been looking for an e-commerce app that isn't written in PHP for ages. Thanks!
Perverse incentives at work. If the jail cells in Japan were anything like Rikers, this wouldn't be a thing. Conversely, societal institutions for the elderly could also work.
So does your desktop computer, laptop, and phone?
I've written three technical books: one with Apress and two with Manning (https://classicproblems.com). Usually first-time authors (like first-time anything) don't have a lot of perspective because they don't know what it's like with another publisher. But, this post by Barry is pretty spot-on. To summarize (a TLDR if you want and these are widely known points anyway):

- Manning has a high quality review process and generally puts out high quality books

- Manning's current production phase (what happens after content is done) and production timeline leave a lot to be desired; I know they have had some turnover in the department and they are self-aware and working on it to be fair

- Manning's main tooling (aka Word templates) leaves a lot to be desired as well. You have the choice to work with AsciiDoc (I did my first with them in Asciidoc and the second in Word) but their tooling for that is even less mature.

- You don't write technical books for the money. You do it for the career advancement and/or satisfaction. You read blog posts about the outliers (people who made a lot and people who made a little) because they're the loudest voices, but generally even a good technical book sells around 2000 copies because the audience of paying readers is so niche.

- He's right about the royalty negotiation. First-time, unknown authors have almost no leverage. After you have successfully completed a book you can negotiate a higher royalty rate/advance.

I'll add a few more points (hopefully they're not pissed at me for writing publicly about this):

- They do a very good job marketing to their own existing audience. They do less of a good job marketing to external audiences, although this has improved in the last couple of years.

- So much of how high quality the process is depends on who you randomly get as a development editor/technical editor/technical reviewer/copy editor. You don't have much say in the matter. So, it's a total crapshoot.

- It's better if you come to them than they come to you. I came to publishers with all three of my topics, not the other way around. You can then shop around. I submitted my proposals to multiple publishers and got multiple offers.

I disagree with another author who posted in this comment section—books, even by traditional publishers, are not always a team effort. 90% of the content of my three books is the same as would've existed if I had self-published. Of course being receptive to feedback is very important, but how valuable it is really depends on how good a writer/explainer you are to begin with and how good the people giving that feedback are.
Time dealing with security vulnerabilities, hacks or performance issues is also time not selling.

I would recommend everyone steer well clear of Wordpress.