skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say uni wasn't a thing... could it be? I apologize; I don't know anything about life in the Netherlands (namely how funding and entrance requirements go) but a few years in uni might be a good career reset.
"His company, Gravity Payments, which he set up in his teens"... I'd LOVE to see how a TEENAGER was able to go through the PCI-DSS certification process and PASS the D-level.
Same here, Facebook's belief that maximising public interaction would be good for their product is basically killing it for me. It's not even just controversial content like politics or nsfw stuff, it begins with banalities like I know that various loved ones would be annoyed if I filled their timelines with geekery over a hobby they don't share or internet banter like this.

I'm not particularly pro or anti Facebook, but my engagement with the platform is severely curtailed by the need for self-censoring due to their public first mentality. Essentially I learned to treat everything with that tiny globe symbol as read-only (and every closed audience potentially public, but that's a different story, more about self-preservation than about courtesy).
This is exactly what I am talking about. You are overestimating how important it is.

The code is there and (presumably) in source control. It really isn't that difficult for someone to get the source, compile it and fire up the debugger and carry on where the previous person left off.
> It feels like you could easily pick up any entry level dev job? HN would always surprise me.

Don't underestimate the extreme prejudice in tech hiring. Everyone's looking out for "red flags" and excuses to turn down a candidate. It's especially bad if you don't have either 1) recent, relevant education, or 2) recent, relevant industry experience. Open source participation might save you but not as often as you'd think, if only because few people have time for substantial open source projects and if you have non-substantial contributions, that's rarely enough to overcome the prejudice.

Add any other things that work against you, for example lack of employment, ugly face, awkward speech or shy presence, yeah a lot of companies are just going to think you're a loser, or at least not the talented individual they need. Those who can afford to train people (= hire for entry level positions) are usually larger companies that siphon fresh grads and interns, and they seem to have enough supply that they don't need to look for people on the streets.

In short, very few companies are willing to take chances with someone who hasn't made it through the filters already, unless they see something exceptional. And the entry level filters are heavily biased in favor of students, and against unemployed people.
Frankly, finding a job isn't your problem right now, being homeless is, because of the way things work in most of Europe: it is almost impossible to find a steady job without an address.

There is professional help you can get for free from charitable organizations that will not only help you find a residence but also advise/help you with government agencies and help you get any welfare you may be entitled to, law enforcement (if needed) or jobs.

Use this help and don't try to do it alone; most people who try on their own fail, while the success rates for people taking help are a lot, lot better. Especially considering that you seem to have more or less exhausted the help your friends/family can provide, to no avail.

I was once told by somebody working for such an organization, that in Germany the success rates to at least stop homelessness is near 100% for all "reasonably sane", "reasonably sober" and "reasonably cooperative" people if they accepted help from such an organization, and I'd guess it will be not that different in the Netherlands.

E.g. this seems to give a good overview:
https://dutchreview.com/expat/housing/if-youre-homeless-in-t...
"Screenshot": water.css (https://kognise.github.io/water.css/) + the following HTML snippet, per link:

<p><a href="$url" title="$txt">$url</a></p>

These HTML snippets are what's saved, one per line, in the mentioned plain text file ("links.txt"). The webpage is a dump of this file plus HTML/CSS boilerplate.
Arkade: A Kubernetes app installer
That is a BIG problem with this article - it looks like Chinese efforts to infiltrate all maps with their idea of Taiwan are pervasive and this author has unwittingly used their version of map data.
I've been using avianflu engine and this looks like a really nice upgrade. I'm upgrading from version h1n1. Anything that I should know?
The same Peter Thiel who was buying blood transfusions from young people for himself . . . like a vampire. Whether it's milking the blood of young people or milking the privacy of anyone . . you can bet Thiel will be there.
Unfortunately not, I don't have the requisite qualifications to actually enter university here.
Having a lot of wealth certainly makes some things easier. So I agree with you there. It is however highly simplistic to say that the wealth is ill-gotten.

Swiss banks have indeed sat on funds where they could have been proactive in looking for heirs. They have traded and trade with companies and regimes that should be shunned. Switzerland is a tax haven and profits by taxing capital gains that could have been taxed where the work was done. Still there are many other factors that contribute to wealth. One thing is steady, low-corruption government and an investment mindset in public infrastructure. This coupled with a culture that fosters strong work ethics leads to accumulation of wealth. Another huge factor is no wars for centuries which is part luck, part ugly realpolitik.

So yes the Swiss system could not be implemented as-is by other countries. Yet looking at real-world implementations of certain policies can help illuminate how to get a wealthy population. And it doesn't have to be the tax thievery.
From what I recall, it's exclusively melody and words which can be copyrighted in terms of songwriting. Harmony isn't copyrightable.
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Agreed. It's terribly slow and has crashed my browser a few times.

The content is good but their tech is terrible.
There must be someone here who can find vertex-four a job?
Ulysses
Try contacting https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DoreenMichele, see contact info in her profile — she's been homeless (though in US IIUC) and writes openly about that, and about helping people in this unfortunate situation, she might hopefully be able to help and support you in some practical ways.
Augur Core v2 Audit: 8 critical bugs
And yet, even more will discover than riding a bike is more pleasant than driving a car once the city has been designed that way.

I'm one of them, and many of my friends are just waiting for the infrastructure to be further improved to make the switch. More space, better markings (…), just more reasons to drop the expensive, polluting, stressing space-taking cars and take a breath of fresh air while commuting.
Copyright law that make something like this necessary is not justice but perversion of justice.
Alright, you caught me. I didn't properly scale my language, foolishly assuming it was obvious from context.

I'm "deeply worried" about it the same way someone might be "deeply worried" that the series finale of their favorite show is going to suck, not the same way someone might be "deeply worried" that COVID-19 is going to wipe out millions of people.
Good reply. Thank you for the detail!
It’s always nice reading about a company taking security seriously, and Cloudflare has some decent write ups for their hardware/software security, but I sure wish they would take other forms of security more seriously.

I visited Cloudflare’s Austin office. The door to the office is an old unlocked door with a glass pane and an old deadbolt. There is no reception desk or even anyone watching the door. I was able to walk in completely unnoticed and walk around for a couple minutes trying to get someone’s attention to figure out where I needed to go (not the best job interview experience, but that’s a different topic), while desks full of unattended and unlocked computers were fully available to me.

For a company that bills itself as an internet security company, it wasn’t very inspiring security.

edit to add: this was over a year ago so it’s possible things have improved since then. My understanding is that the Austin office is relatively new so maybe at the time they were still working out the kinks (still not great security but more understandable at least)
Moderna loads its vaccine with mRNA that codes for the right coronavirus proteins which then get injected into the body. Immune cells in the lymph nodes can process that mRNA and start making the protein in just the right way for other immune cells to recognize and mark them for destruction.

As Dr. Stephen Hoge, president of Moderna, told TIME earlier this month, “mRNA is really like a software molecule in biology. So our vaccine is like the software program to the body, which then goes and makes the [viral] proteins that can generate an immune response.”

That's pretty interesting, has this worked for any other virus?
Heh, fair enough. The branding is just meant to be silly (and to make fun of misleading benchmarks) but I totally get how it might be off-putting to some.

FWIW the Cap'n Proto C++ implementation ought to be able to layer on top of vsock pretty easily. You can pass an arbitrary kj::AsyncIoStream to capnp::TwoParty{Client,Server}, and you can construct an AsyncIoStream wrapping any socket file descriptor.

But yeah, capnp RPC is definitely one of the more complicated RPC implementations out there and if you don't need that power it may be too much.
This is very cool!

While I'm biased [-], I think this only scratches the surface of what spreadsheets can do.

What if spreadsheets could be used to create all software? Could the software be of the same quality & sophistication as that built with code?

To fellow readers on HN -- what do you think, is it possible?

[-] Founder of MintData, https://mintdata.com
You're not gonna get away with copyrighting a 4-letter sequence, but the recent Katy Perry vs Flame lawsuit established that 4 notes is all it takes to have a copyrightable melody.
Market St. has never been a significant thoroughfare for private cars. Of course there’s no traffic impact.

Try the same thing on Mission, Howard, Folsom, Harrison, Geary, Van Ness, etc. and you’ll see a very different story.
Firefox DNS-over-HTTPS
I'm paying about $2200 CAD for 4.8KW hours of lifepo4 batteries, after taxes and charge controllers. I'll be putting that to the test, but even so I'd rather have more solar than more batteries most of the time.

I don't need any large AC inverters, so a big part of the appeal of a power wall is lost on my. Also I'd rather something with user-serviceable parts, as for me at least that goes hand-in-hand with going off grid.
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There are public bike counters along Market St. with displays. If you live here you can go and look at the numbers yourself, there's one not far from Twitter's office.

I don't know what the overall daily ride count is now. About 5 years ago it was something like 90K trips/day, and had been on a more or less linear growth path.
someone's put a pack of wetwipes near the nuts
With respect to preparing one's own obituary in advance the following quote came to mind:

"In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain."

- Walter Cronkite Quotes

American - Journalist November 4, 1916 - July 17, 2009
I don't think that part is meant to be taken literally.
Thanks! Are you talking about the corner rounding on the iPhone screen preview? Could you please be a little bit more specific? Which browser/device/environment are you using?
Push-Up Records
The author's co-workers are objecting to using any version control at all. Here I am thinking, they must be database admins ;).
BBEdit could handle all the line ending styles.
How to build a defensible value prop
Not implying anything: But this tracks with my understanding of how USSR and USA wanted to select bacterial/virologic bioweapons [1]:

An agent that killed very quickly e.g. Ebola is actually not a very good bioweapon. You want something with a long incubation period that is infectious before people are symptomatic.

Things that incubate in short order + kill hosts quickly "burn the epidemic out" before it can spread.

Ideally it also can survive outside of a host for some period of time as well.

1 - Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston
Facebook sues SDK maker for secretly harvesting user data
They are paying more than they have to for the low skilled workers. Which means that extra money is not going towards hiring better high skilled workers or just more workers in general.

Everything else being equal, an average business would be outcompeted if they did something like that.

If you still think what they are doing is efficient, take it further and further. Start increasing the salaries more and more. Very soon you will be able to afford one worker. A very expensive janitor maybe?
My former employer did this until the most popular person and post was the one who complained about the lack of COLA raises after the CEO received a ten million dollar bonus. They tried hard to squash the whole discussion without being heavy handed but that failed miserably so they eventually told everyone to shut up and deleted the post. They've since changed the social media platform to something that allows them to approve all posts before they're seen by anyone else. I'm told now no one bothers to use it except HR and senior management for making announcement.
Hi, that sounds great, thanks for sharing I'll check them out.
I don't mind simple languages. I'll write code in Kotlin, which is a pretty mild hat on top of Java.

Golang is not a "simple language", though. C# is a simple language, and while it sometimes frustrates me its decisions make sense. Golang is a simplistic language. There is value in being simple; there is little value in being simplistic.
I'm glad I'm not the only one.

I love tmux, but I prefer vscode to vim, and I'd rather just keep tmux as the place where I keep all my terminal panes/windows. A lot of people look at my tmux screen and assume that I'm using vim or emacs.
A crash is hazardous to inattentive pedestrians more so than a cyclist who is better protected (helmet/gear).

What to do, what to do?
I see a distinction between a basic creativity, i.e. how do i finagle the best existence out of this set of circumstances, cleverness, I suppose, and a fundamental creativity, the more artistic, unfettered by everyday concerns.

Like Maslow's hierarchy of needs... generally people have to expend their creative thought on how to provide for themselves before they have the opportunity to use that thought in more expansive ways.

Do a Dan Price and you jump start people's ability to settle the lower levels of needs and be able to make more choices.
Once again, you've inverted the causal relationship. The people who get paid more tend to be able to command higher fees because their economic output is higher. You can't take a random person, pay them 10% more, and expect to get 10+% more productivity out of them, ceteris paribus.

It's not about "hard constraints"; it's about economic optimization, which involves getting the highest possible return on your capital. If paying everyone $70k were a reliable way to do that, everyone would be doing it.
1. s/I like to think/I like to HOPE/

FTFY

2.The U.S. was founded on rebellion.

So was Somalia. Its not a sufficient reason to protect you from the failure mode I explained above.
Unlike some non-profits that spend millions a year, Wikipedia unambiguously makes something that people find value in.
I can tell you why I just choose a dual Xeon workstation over a thread ripper, despite it being considerably more expensive for lower performance: memory. The threadripper motherboards apparently max out at 256 GB of ram. I put 1 TB on the Xeon machine and could have gone higher if I needed it.

It is really too bad, but 64 cores with a max of 256 GB is super unbalanced.
The newest cars aren't carpeted, but the WMATA is still maintaining the food/beverage ban.
You will rarely get pulled over for speeding on the motorway in the UK. You will be fined if caught by a speed camera, but for the most part they're clearly marked and drivers know to slow down. For those who are pulled over for speeding, they're usually let off with a warning provided there's nothing else going on, such as dangerous driving, or substance abuse.

In Germany, you can easily contest speeding accusations when caught on camera, especially if your face is not clearly visible. My first speeding ticket ever was actually on the Autobahn. They wrote me a letter saying that I had been accused of speeding. They never followed up with it.

Sweden has 600 traffic cops to cover the whole country (at least that was what I was told in a Swedish driving school in 2014). Getting pulled over for speeding on the motorway rarely happens. I once drove from Ystad to Göteborg going over 200kmh most of the way. No problem. I was once spoken to by a police officer after I drove through the tunnel in the centre of Göteborg at more than twice the speed limit. The officer simply asked me to slow down.

In Poland the motorways are very well made, and so the speed limit is a bit higher — 140kmh if I remember correctly. There aren't any speed cameras on the motorway, and in my experience the police won't come and issue fines to people unless there's been an accident. Even then, the maximum fine is ~€100.

Some countries — I think most — are quite lenient. Some countries like Spain are more like the USA, and actively look for people to fine by hiding in different places every time. The Polish don't even bother hiding. If they want to raise some revenue, they'll sit in the same spots every time. It's also not true that every EU country will pursue a speeding fine no matter where you are from.

Every friend I have in the USA who has been pulled over for speeding has been fined. Police in the USA are militant. That's just part of their culture. This is pretty clear in all the videos available on YouTube too.
Sales Engineer is a very real title and role. Basically, you work with salespeople to spec out a system and help the customer understand what would be involved in rollout and how their system would be integrated with yours. This is most common in enterprise sales.
Ghostcat bug impacts all Apache Tomcat versions released in the last 13 years
> And when was the last time you counted something on your fingers that was more than 3?

???

I'm not talking about me, I'm talking about the thousands of years of human history that got us here?
So in other words you need to have used the compressor to compress what you are copyrighting, and that which you used it on must have been physically stored in its entirety. Is it provable that this all occurred, if there's no requirement to still have the original? It would require that you also supply the compressor to the court, so that somebody can use your self-extracting magic decompressor, recompress the result, and end up back in the same place. But you could make your compressor simply emit your decompressor, ignoring the input!
Courts don't care about harmony. Most US courts follow a guideline that the copyrightable parts of a composition are melody and lyrics. Nobody has ever successfully sued for stolen chord progression.
The discovery of moons orbiting Jupiter was certainly a strong piece of evidence that Jupiter and Earth were the same sort of thing, planets.
Ebola co-discoverer Peter Piot on how to respond to the coronavirus
Facebook, Google, Twitter spark mutiny over Pakistan censorship demands
I like my eggs less well done. Eggs cook fast, especially on high heat.
Yeah, I got a few. I got the email notification of an issue, and by the time I opened the link (less than a minute later), both the issue and the account that opened it no longer existed.
This is the best take on sv business culture since Mike Judge. Thanks for that steak image.
What made Let’s encrypt go through the roof is a whole bunch of providers effortlessly make your site https compatible.

Like netlify (hosting a static site with build is super easy). Same with Cloudflare and a bunch of others.

As a user it’s all abstracted at simply the push of a button.
Smart vacuum flaws could give hackers access to camera feed
Hah reminds me of the spirit of fuckitjs (https://github.com/mattdiamond/fuckitjs).
Bobby Prince certainly wouldn't get away with the original DooM soundtrack today.
Downsides of Google Authenticator
Interesting point. How would you plot the likelihood of infection?
> showing my friends what I click like on if it's a public post

Why did you publicly like a post if you didn’t want people to see that?
Your joke is appreciated. Now go sit in another compartment please.
If you click on the links on Profit Hunt you see that they mostly link to posts saying “revenue”.
Can you clarify your point? I read the article but don’t see any mention of trying this on any of the streets you listed. It looks like the city of SF made a good call here and the first part of your comment supports that.
Who did you think the likes were being shown to?
> It's unclear what you mean by being 'dead in a few months'. Can I suggest that if you are contemplating suicide you reach out for help on that immediately, ok?

If that's what op means, then op is. OP's attempting to fulfill their basic needs to remove the temptation. Listening to someone who will say "please don't kill yourself, your problems can be coped with" doesn't help. Talking to someone who will say "so these are the specific things to help your problems, and I will walk with you to help get you there". But that's the job of a social worker, not a suicide prevention hotline.
The features that really set it apart are the sophisticated refactoring tools that are context and language aware. It goes so far beyond snippets and auto-complete.

Being able to dive into any source by clicking, and also full awareness of unused or incorrect code is very valuable.
one of my most memorable quotes from childhood is not the halo theme but

"I'm Paul Page, from papyrus, this is Indy car racing two"
Ask HN: How do you share code snippets with devs in your company?
I was wondering how you guys share code snippets across the company. You have an internal tool (or) you use gists from Github (or) any other third party tools?
I am more curious about the responses from remote teams as collaboration is tricky here.
This really overstates things. I am car-free in San Francisco, and prefer it. It is cheaper, less stressful and generally my life is just noticeably nicer than when I had one.

I use Zipcar maybe once a month. I rent a car overnight maybe once every 2 months. All in, I pay less than $1500/year on on transport. I don't have to worry about parking, parking tickets, broken windows, or street cleaning.

I lived in Brooklyn for about a decade, too, and yes, NYC has better public transport, it isn't close. And to some extent, transport does effect where I go regularly. But I don't consider this a bad thing.

Kids would change the equation, but I don't need those in my life, either.