skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
pdf without limitations: http://editions-hache.com/essais/pdf/kaczynski2.pdf

> 61. [...] There may be disagreement about whether the effort needed to hold a job is “minimal”; but usually, in lower- to middle-level jobs, whatever effort is required is merely that of OBEDIENCE. You sit or stand where you are told to sit or stand and do what you are told to do in the way you are told to do it.

It's a very readable and interesting essay indeed. Sadly it seems it criticizes too much both left and right wings for people to recommend it in certain circles, or avoid it altogether saying the guy was a terrorist, with yet another example of the noncentral fallacy.
You upload a picture of yourself, and it returns an anime-style version of that picture.
So launch on Orion+SLS then transfer over to Starship for the last mile? What a crazy plan.
mods, there is a typo in the title. astronaughts is a good nickname for cosmic dust though.
I think I was unclear. I meant that the exception to picking a language based on community, resources and modules are JS and Phoenix Liveview where there is an additional benefit of using a single language for frontend and backend. In these two examples you might forego using a separate language for frontend and backend (that could have a better community, resources or modules for what you are building) because you can use the same language for both (which offers the unique advantage of having to use and learn less tools for a fullstack app).
Go is C for the cloud.
NASA awards lunar lander contracts to Blue Origin, Dynetics – and Starship
Yes, and they’re the last thing I do that day, because I’m drained afterwards.

I wouldn’t call them a big part of my job, depending on how we’re measuring “big”. They’re important, but they’re not the largest amount of time on my calendar by a long shot.
Why do you think Alberta has been pushing so hard for new pipelines then?
> Who mostly can't be retrained to be engineers, even if we needed that many engineers...

I didn't say they will become engineers. A low-class worker will stay in low-class work, but there will still be demand for it. Even if the market doesn't demand it, the government is there as a buyer of last resort.

Again, there's always something to do. There's always something to improve, to build or to repair. Where do you think work came from before capitalism?

The argument for capitalism is that it's generally more efficient than government at allocating resources and creating wealth. If that fails, we can still fall back to something else.

> Never mind Marxism or Socialism or Capitalism - when Labor has nothing left of value to offer, where do they go? What leverage do they have?

They can riot.

> When weaving machines came in 1760, the weavers didn't just get reeducated or reallocated - they starved and died, along with their families.

If this was a historical fact and not a figment of your imagination, it would be repeated at every opportunity where "the dangers of automation" were discussed.
This explains so much...
21 is the legal age to drink alcohol in the United States. Yes, really. The management of 18-21 year olds as if they were children is primarily to keep them from having a beer or two.
Attention! This is a dangerous site. Don’t click it as it linked to numerous malware applications— at least 6 viruses there.
For public interest.
I'm super excited for this! I do wish that they'd ressurect their JavaScript projection for the runtime though. Especially with their focus on React Native, it'd be awesome not to need a "native" module to call Windows APIs. That being said, I also hope Rust/WinRT becomes a valid native module format for React Native (though I suspect it won't since that would likely require React Native developers to have the Rust toolchain setup to compile the module).
Huh.

I was a voracious reader as a child, though I somewhat fell out of the habit once I reached adulthood - other pursuits, chiefly tech, took precedence for me once I was able to afford them on my own. I still read far more than the average; apparently around one in four Americans haven't picked up a book in any form in the past year[0]!

I've read all of these books except "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings". I have a vague memory of feeling like the Maya Angelou's poetry was somewhat forced on me in school, and as a result wasn't particularly interested in any of her works. This article lead me to do a bit of reading about who she was and the experiences in her life that were included in her "Caged Bird."

I had no idea she spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. That's especially surprising to me because I grew up and went to school in Arkansas - K-1 in Plainview (in central AR) and 2-12 in Lead Hill (in northern AR). I don't know that I've ever been to Stamps but I do know that several of my ancestors lived in that area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

This is the second time I've felt that the government schools that I attended have done me a significant disservice w/r/t literature: the first was when I discovered "Summer of My German Soldier[1]," another book centered around significant historical events in my home state.

I just bought "Caged Bird" on Kobo, and plan to read it in the next couple of weeks. Afterward, I'll likely add it to my list of books I'd like my daughters to read.

0: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/26/who-doesnt-...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_My_German_Soldier
The submitters are different people. Are you suggesting they're sockpuppets?
The dollar is already digital, but I'd rather live in a world with a predicatable money supply than not.
We removed it from GOV.UK in 2016:

https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2016/11/28/removing-the-exte...
I've always been puzzled by this whole Jim Keller situation. Is one man literally the only reason we have technological advancements in microprocessors?
"Educated people become liberals" isn't the knock against liberals, or education, that you seem to think it is.
I'm 40 and had no issue finding a job as a .Net Developer with a decade of experience.
> Go is not the tool of choice for experienced professional programmers for exactly this reason.

that's really funny, because I always thought of Go as the language that programmers who were aging out flocked to because it has

1) google-cred

2) familiar algol syntax

3) close enough to C++ to make a run for it

4) (systems-wise) safe enough to make it worth it

5) hip enough that you don't seem like an aging out programmer anymore

(I myself am an aging out programmer, that ironically just got started, so take that as you will)

But my observation is from 5 years ago and things may have changed.
I happily pay $150 a year to rent my router. I want nothing less than to ever think about a router. Something goes wrong the cable company deals with it. I configure nothing, I troubleshoot nothing. I love it and it's a bargain.
FWIW, you can re-encrypt from ALB/ELB to your instances.
> However, what piqued my interest is "recruiter saying that I was rejected because....". How does one get such specific feedback on their interview?

The answer is simple: you don't. The OP already downgraded his claim to stating he took a one-liner remark made by the recruiter as feedback regarding for his entire performance. Even taking OP's comment at face value, and even believing that recruiters debrief candidates regarding their performance, a single sentence does not cover nor summarize a multi-stage interview.
yes - persisted and geo distributed
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Yep. When I interviewed at Google the recruiter suggested I study up on algorithms, data structures, sorting, graphs, recursion. They even offered a Candidate Coaching Session where you could do practice interviews. It felt like they were optimizing for people that were willing to put a lot of time into preparation .
>Age is never really a factor for us when hiring. What does come into consideration is whether your resume is filled with "architect" and "CTO" and "tech lead" but you're applying for a mid-level role or if you apply for a more senior role and you can't solve simple technical questions.

You are saying that age isn't a factor while also saying that a person can be too experienced for a role. Age and experience are highly correlated. So while you aren't specifically saying it, you are certainly implying that someone can be too old for a specific role.
I know, everything you say is absolutely spot on :( it's just so much easier to motivate myself to workout than it is to diet. I was rowing (erging) twice a day burning an extra 500-1000 calories (pretty easy to do on a rower in about an hour of rowing per day).
> they're somewhat unproven in the space, but are partnered with experienced firms that have been there before and are more likely to deliver.

I disagree with this characterization. I think SpaceX is more likely to deliver. The old dinosaurs are years behind and billions over budget on projects like SLS. SpaceX is the surest bet. They weren't five years ago but they are now.
out of curiosity, what is that reason?
I actually had this conversation with my ISP once:

Me: "Hi I was just looking at my bill and I noticed my router rental fee went from $4 to $6 a month. Why?"

"Because that's our new fee for rentals this year"

"Yes, but you didn't send me a new router. Why does my now even older router cost more than before? It doesn't give me any more value than before, and arguably gives me less value"

"Did you want us to send you a new router?"

"No, the current one works just fine. I want to know why it costs more than before"

"Because we can"

They literally said "because we can". Sadly I wasn't recording (nor could I switch ISPs).
CS major graduating in June from a top 3 institution, here. Last fall, my application-to-callback rate was like 80-90+%. I had to stop applying to jobs to make my workload and interviewing manageable.

My current rate is like 15-20% after I lost my full-time job. About 10% in software and engineering vs. 30% in finance.
Choice one: get spied on by Google through your phone, analytics, gmail, You tube… Get spied on by Facebook. Carry a tracker everywhere you go.

Choice two: No longer answer the phone in a timely manner. Don't follow up on friends. Shut yourself from many social circles. In other words, stop being a first class citizen.

There was a time where slaves were considered sub-human because they chose life over freedom. They had a choice, and they chose to be beasts.

There's a difference of degree, but but it operate under the same principle: when you have two option, one of which is unacceptable, you don't really have a choice.
And now some stories of scientists getting mansplained to
Lack of density is a negative, but I disagree, it is not a root cause. The old street car suburbs of the early 1900s did just fine then, and as transit systems look at them again they come back. Of course modern suburbs are less dense, but they could still work if the form was correct.

If you take a modern suburb, pack 10 story mixed use buildings on the land and force people to live there. You would have the densest city in the world (remember we forced the population), but transit ridership would still be poor. People would walk most places (unless disabled) because the transit system wouldn't go anywhere you couldn't walk in about the same time. Only by adjusting the road form so you can get someplace in a reasonable amount of time can transit work.

Density is the difference between there always being a bus/train in sight and needing to check the schedule before going anywhere. Having to check the schedule is annoying enough, but a otherwise good reliable transit system can still overcome that.
Sops creator and co-maintainer here. We love Sops. We love Vault. We use both of them at Mozilla in various places. Beyond the "tool war", which is silly, what really matters is using tools that integrate well with your workflow, provide real value and strong security.
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There are literally tens of millions of foreign-born US citizens. Maybe a few hundred of them are foreign agents. There's no reason to think Yuan would be one.

Eric Yuan got interested in videoconferencing in college. Then he got a job at the premier videoconferencing software company. The he founded his own videoconferencing company. Occam's Razor says the dude is really into videoconferencing, and a good enough businessman to know that overseas developers are cheaper, good UX sells and security doesn't.

I find the idea that Zoom is building in back doors pretty funny because until two weeks ago you didn't need a back door. The front door was wide open! Anyone could dial into any Zoom call if they had the number.
There are no benchmarks, what gives? Where is are the results?

Maybe title this a "how to?"
It seems to be the ads, with an adblocker on in Safari it doesn't happen, turn it off and it sends me to a site encouraging me to install malware
>The combo units my local Comcast affiliate leases out are a mess of problems, and I know multiple people that have gotten fed up with support never fixing the issue and just accept the frequent problems.

TW->Spectrum where I live seems to have a pretty common practice of simply taking the modem from customer 1 complaining about internet dropout/etc and giving it to customer 2 complaining about internet dropouts.

Besides the bad router hardware, in my experience with the cable companies, a large part of the problem has been signal issues going through old cables, splitters, etc. The one advantage to owning your own modem is you can select one that gives you good signal quality metrics and error reporting.

Which brings me to what I view as the fundamental issue here. The cable companies frankly don't give a crap about service quality. They _CAN_ monitor signal strength, dropped packets, signal loss, etc from their end. With that they could act proactively, like "Hey this customer's modem won't lock on 1/2 of our frequencies lets call them and send a tech to fix it".

But they don't, and really that tells me everything I need to know about those companies.
Well, at least these streets have pavements, but letting cars in the Pilies street (generally a pedestrian street full of tourists) is absolutely ridiculous. Can we start a petition? :)
Pre-1990 I read this quote from a college president: "College administration boils down to sex for the students, football for the alumni, and parking for the faculty."
If you like Seneca's work, check out Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" -- astonishing how every part of it is still relatable, despite having been written around 600-700AD. I never got a liberal arts education but I've been told that Boethius's writing was the link that helped the Western world re-discover the stoics like Seneca. His resolution of the conflict between an all-knowing God and individual free will is more convincing to me than anything else I've read (to be fair, very little) on the matter.
Trump was elected on a populist, "drain the swamp" agenda. The public is notoriously bad at predicting which candidate will help the people, and which will "help out their rich buddies."
As a professor who is also a major advisor, I cost nothing, because I'm not paid separately to advise. On the other hand, given the corresponding emphasis on training and evaluation of advising (not much, although our department and college are working to get better at it), my advising is probably worth about what I'm paid for it.
is this 5.3GHz with, or without spectre, RIDL, meltdown, zombieload, fallout, MDS, TAA, and whatever other mitigations for vulnerabilities inherent in Intel chips?
> The brand-name private colleges around the Northeast US now have all-in sticker prices of $75k-80k. Financial aid in the form of grants or scholarships (not loans) would have to be $35k-40k to make these schools competitive on a cost basis with the examples given above.

Harvard's financial aid is such that if your income is under $150,000, the max you pay is 15K a year.
John Cochrane on University Finances
China Says We’re a Joke. and, Alas, We Are
I don't even worry about propaganda, but about advertising. Just imagine your best friend telling reminding you every morning to only buy Kellog's, because they have the taste of REAL CINNAMON.
Yes and I am wondering per /indyike's statement "Lots of successful products and fortunes made with No Code and low code." - what are some examples because the product names mentioned were not made with no/low code.
Very informative thank you. From this rebuttal I see that the movie probably packages true information, some of it outdated, in a provocative way.
The only fully scientific rebuttal is to run the experiment: run the whole economy without fossil fuels or nuclear, and see how much it looks like the middle-ages, how much it looks like utopia. My guess is 80/20 on the middle-ages side, but who know.
I often wonder if it is true that human nature is unchanging. The proposal comes up often in political debates, but there is not really the place to have an informed discussion about human nature.

It seems to me that human nature has changed quite a lot in the last few hundred years. Examples would be the change in how we view other humans, slavery is regarded as barbaric now, we have the declaration of human rights and equality for women and people of different sexuality etc.
>randomize its MAC address before searching for WiFi access points

Indeed, things like start order and depedencies can be completely broken on systemd. Many problems arise from incompatibilities with legacy systems and interfaces.

I had a big headache last time I had to configure systemd to wait for dhcp before running other stuff because the systemd targets for networking were not working - part of the problem was a legacy interface for network configuration.
It's amazing that it just took one startup to sway the majority opinion that trivia-as-job-interview is a good barometer of job success.

Not even five years ago this style of interviewing was looked down upon by most.
There's only a handful of them[Dexa] in the USA, if I want to find something local (Kansas City) what should I be looking for?
Probably the biggest bit of information in this article is that Boeing submitted a proposal that was rejected. You launch a defective plane, a defective crew module and then repeatedly miss deadlines and budgets for a booster. That appears to be more than the company's lobbyists can overcome!
The real problem is looking at compensation in isolation and not as a function of productivity.

If someone aged 42 is only as productive as someone aged 22, it's perfectly reasonable to offer them only the same salary for the same job.

Of course, unless the person aged 42 has wasted 20 years of their careers (which, I concede, some have) it is highly unlikely that their productivity is really still the same.

A 42-year-old developer who has 5x the productivity of a 22-year-old developer and much more general business experience as well but only wants 3x the salary is a steal, unless you're only looking at the $$$.
My company has no choice- we have to use ssl internally for regulatory purposes. Right now we're using an stunnel solution for having out clients connect to redis- I am super excited that I'll be able to remove this workaround in the future!
I reread the comment and you are absolutely correct. I've added an edit.
A second Starship booster can be used to get SLS off the ground as Starship's payload.
Hm, not sure I agree with some of those criticisms:

1) I don't think Go is in the Java (pre 8) realm of verbosity, but I concede it's not as compact as say Python.
2) Technically you can write single return Go but idiomatic Go leans towards immutability so it's not recommended.
3) I've run into the lack of generics a few times, but personally haven't been too hampered by it. This is an entirely valid complaint, hopefully support will be added soon!
4) Some would argue this is a feature. ;)
5) This was more true a few years ago. Now with Go Modules for package management and VSCode + Go extension with full debugger freely available, tooling is much improved.
I think it's been conflated in online messaging in the last decade or so as people were imitating markup tags to emote. Eg:

<sarcasm>Oh yeah, that's right</sarcasm>
Came here to say this... in the Bay Area, a gigabit plan with unlimited data is $120. XFi modem/WiFi router rental (XB7) with unlimited data is $25, which comes out to a total of $95.

It’s a no-brainer if you use more than 1 TB/month of data regularly and the router/modem combo you get isn’t all that bad. Supports WiFi 6 and mid-split support for better upload speeds when Comcast rolls that out. You can easily put it in bridge mode and use your existing WiFi network.
HN really needs functionality for searching previously-submitted URLs.
@ is also unshifted on the French keyboard.
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tl;dr: I didn't run the numbers to understand how to price my bootstrapped SaaS as a solo founder, and after building an awesome tool, I had to throw it out.

Key learnings:

- You need to include pricing as a critical failure point from the very beginning when vetting your startup ideas.

- You should be charging somewhere between $50 to $100/mo per user as a bootstrapped startup founder.

- Don't bother trying to bootstrap / self-fund enterprise software.
It's mostly illegal to build a cheap home because they can be deathtraps. I believe house fires used to be one of the top killers in the country; today, firefighters only spend 1% of their time fighting fires.

In any case, property prices in high CoL locations is mainly the cost of the land. I've visited homes in the midwest nicer than almost anything I ever saw in the Bay Area that cost 200-300k.
I spent a good amount of time using Cliqz. For creating their own search index, it was pretty good. But it was nowhere near as good as Google or Bing, and to the average end-user that's all that matters. Most people don't really care about the engineering behind a tool, they just want the tool to work.

The company name never bothered me, but from the comments it looks like I'm in the minority there. Is it any worse than DuckDuckGo?

If you are looking for another search engine with their own search index, also check out Mojeek. https://www.mojeek.com/
Leave Those Dandelions in Your Lawn..... or Eat Them
I think part of the reason for such high television numbers is we are so mentally and/or physically exhausted after work (and taking care of children, and chores around the house, and whatnot), that we don't feel like doing much but sitting down and relaxing during this time.

Also TV is one of the few things you can do while also doing other things, like I had it on while I was cooking and doing the dishes and eating dinner yesterday, after I finished working at 6:30pm, and was finally done with everything at 9:30pm, just in time to do 20 minutes of saving interesting articles about the pandemic, and then passing out.

I'm doing the pandemic article collection, in case people are curious, for multiple reasons. So I can look back and reflect on how it developed later (or show future children), and maybe use it as inspiration for future game designs or short stories I might develop in the future, since I'll likely forget most of the more unusual stories or side effects of the pandemic eventually.
And it would apparently be a good name for the Boeing lander's contract.
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That is blatantly not true. In the long term we'll have either a vaccine or antiviral drugs, and won't have that huge amount of unnecessary deaths.