skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I lost many friends".
No,you did not.Those weren't your friends.
Not sure if various feelings mentioned in the post are targeted correctly. Yes, there's lots of politics,bs,and coolaid drinking in a lot of companies,but that's the nature of what we humans are.
There are a lot of very rewarding and interesting jobs out there that don't have all that bs attached to them,just don't be shy to look a bit further.
That's how I read it too.

I've recently started doing that and it's been a breath of fresh air.

I don't really like the stuff I work with, which is services. I think I've become good at it given the feedback I get from my peers every review cycle, but I really don't like it.

I felt burned out for a long time because of that.

Recently I've simply been doing what I'm interested in, in my spare time. That's learning about embedded systems, something I had an interest in in college but never pursued a career. And for fun, tinkering with old stuff that makes me nostalgic. I spent this last weekend coding in Pascal and messing around with FreeDOS :)
> I also have friends who have been in tech for close to ten years, and are close to burning out

I realize the audience here is probably mostly younger folks but 10 years doing anything is not that much time IMO.

I think a 3rd or 4th burnout at 30 years of service is a lot harder to recover from, but I’m biased from my own experience.
> I disagree with you here, those who are informed are are for net neutrality, not against it.

I know a software engineer who is very much against net neutrality. He also happens to be very much pro free market (in the “no regulation at all” approach).
In the US, Massachusetts, with 6.5M total population has been hit fairly hard (outside of NY/NJ). Today's MA DoH numbers [0] show that of the 4090 deaths to date, the average age of the dead is 82 and just about 60% of them were in long term care homes. If you look towards the end of the report, it lists LTC facility after LTC facility with >30% residents infected, it's quite tragic really.

FWIW, in MA the average age of hospitalized C19 patients is 69, average age of positive tested is 53 -- Interestingly over the last 2 weeks the average ages for deaths and hospitalizations has been creeping up and the average age for a positive test creeping down. In all, 1% of the MA population has tested positive (out of 4.67% the total pop. tested).

[0] https://www.mass.gov/doc/covid-19-dashboard-may-4-2020/downl...

[1] Graphs of today's MA numbers (courtesy of /u/oldgrimalkin on reddit) https://i.redd.it/bpb0884w7tw41.png
> Now that you know how the system works, would you feel better about yourself had you succeeded? Would you feel guilty?

I think about that sometimes. Had I been one of the young optimistic CEOs running around talking about how to improve the world completely unaware of the tech underbelly, what would my life be like? If I had a button in front of me that would teleport me into that life, would I press it? I'm honestly not sure, but I'm leaning towards no. I want to learn how to integrate all this and learn to operate knowing what I know. I don't think I'd choose staying hopelessly naive for another thirty years. (Then again, I don't think they'd press the button to teleport into my life either.)
Having lived in NYC for most of my life, and surrounded by friends in finance and finance tech, I thought working as a developer in one of the Wall Street firms (investment banks, hedge funds, etc.) was the pinnacle of a technology career. Man was I blind.

Needless to say, on the other side of the continent (and in NYC itself, to a lesser degree) was the Silicon Valley tech industry.

So while I pludged around doing LoB .NET, others were grinding leetcode to get into these tech companies that not only offered stupendously superior compensation but also work and lifestyle perks that put working as a technologist in finance to shame.

If I could rewind my career back ten years, I'd do everything I could to get my foot into the SV tech industry whether here in NY or moving to California. That said, I'm still trying.

I recall back in 2011 or 2012 a Google recruiter even reached out to me and I just ignored her thinking a job at an investment bank was far superior to a job at Google (whether or not I would have passed the Google interview is another story of course...). If I could travel back in time, I'd kick my earlier self in the mouth.
> We are locking down everyone to try and kill the virus.

What are you talking about?

That was never the goal in the US.
His Obama-era predecessor Tom Wheeler was the head of a telecommunications lobby group for his entire career, bankrolled by Verizon and others. Is this a case of "my telco shill was better because he leaned my way politically"?
That outcome would be good for most of society, but not for the very workers who are the subject of the concerns expressed in this thread.
I use pi-hole, and it's great, but for browsers you still need something like uBlock Origin installed to properly block ads. The thing I like about pi-hole is it also blocks a long list of trackers that are bundled by various mobile SDKs. There's no way to block those with iOS or Android, except at the network level.
I posted something (perhaps) related yesterday (https://fdafaers.blogspot.com/2020/05/adverse-events-cases-i...).

I looked at putative drug-related adverse event case reports submitted to the US FDA. Interestingly, there are 61 case reports that mention drugs used to treat "corona virus infection." 52 of those cases were filed in 2020.

Oddly, 6 cases involved drugs used to treat "corona virus infection" in 2019 (all submitted in the US). My speculation was that those 6 cases were unrelated to SARS-CoV-2, but you never know.

Here is the most relevant chart: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hrhtVnswxPI/Xq_7-HsE97I/AAAAAAABv...
Exactly this. Ads in places like news apps disappear, a big plus for pihole.
What a remarkable list of SJW activity. Well done, liberals.
Accelerating innovation in Windows 10 to meet customers where they are
I’m so confused. Can you opt out of this?
> It is admittedly easier to blame a smaller tech company as a scapegoat than try to address the larger governmental or organizational actors that you actually have grievances against.

Or you can do both. You might as well suppose that people are critical of the mercenary company Blackwater because they want to avoid criticizing America foreign policy and military exploits. I don't think that's accurate at all, it's been my experience that people who are critical of one are very often critical of the other as well.

Similarly, it's been my experience that people critical of Palintar are also critical of the organizations and governments who use the services of Palintar.
> It can't be that much work,

Seriously?

Syntax is always the trivial part, everywhere you look. Semantics is what bites you.
Measuring the quality of scientific references in Wikipedia
Thats how some places operate by default.
There is a 2 hour edit window, after which you can't edit the comment. Editing a comment to change the meaning is usually noticed so I think social convention takes care of this (relatively uncommon) problem as it is.
Well, I think that what basically happens now? Half of the nation angry at president rhetoric, and half of the country angry at press bias.

Just different halves, but being angry at many things at once is hard, mentally. But you have your wish granted, more or less. Everyone is angry :)
Also, depending on the place, a lot of the dilbertesque politics and process are just having a safe/more conservative culture. Getting buy in, satisfying stakeholders, making sure the safe happy protocol is followed - it's so you don't end up in a situation where a junior engineer is tasked with fixing production while you bleed $5k/minute and someone gets fired for it. Instead you blame the process and fix it methodically. That's arguably a lot better than cowbody devops.

At a startup, especially as a founder, you're encouraged to be a hero and give it your all partly because your incentives are really well aligned - if you succeed you could make $100mm or (a lot) more. As an employee, maybe you get fired or promoted, maybe your stock gains like 1% in value because of something you do or prevented... Some people are more checked out than others, but I agree, you're just an employee and it would be foolish to really put your heart and soul into your day job for most people
> that you trust the government not to issue fake certificates

But we know it's not true - the government does issue fake passports, e.g. for spies, maybe for other purposes too.

> each individual only has one physical passport

Passports can be lost. In that case, the government keeps the database of revoked passports (IIRC in cases I've seen they actually track when the latest one was issued and will reject ones with earlier issue date). However, if you don't have access to that database, I don't think you have any way to distinguish between passports issued to the same person.

At that would be true for pretty much every country I imagine - I don't think any country would not allow their citizens to replace a lost passport.
Doesn't Space X need much of NASA's infrastructure to launch? Like Kennedy Space Center, etc?
That is related to currency and none of its backing arguments have any applicability to speech. Using it in this matter is highly misleading, and could be cited as a form of misinformation.
Adobe Illustrator does and I use the heck out of it, particularly with the Adobe Variable Acumin font. So useful.
> Logs are designed to be parsed and searched

You’ve never dealt with a bad log setup. Things I’ve seen:

- inconsistent format depending on which part of the software was logging (think of some modules using logging lib and others using print())

- multiline logs without any indication they are multiline

- logs in some dumb binary format that requires the original software to reverse into legible text

There are more, but the point is that logs are not often designed to be parsed and searched. They are normally added by developers to be human readable means of reversing internal state to debug issues. Anything above that is (shockingly) bonus material that doesn’t make it into home-grown enterprise/govt software.
This is awesome. I’ve used termcolor and urwid in the past, will give this a shot.
I would not say it is unforgivably slow.

When it comes to landing things like keeping attitude and slowing down for touchdown are easily automated. Keeping attitude is what all rockets are designed to do. Slowing down for touchdown is also quite simple when you get precise distance to ground measurement and a human on Earth can point a relatively flat piece of ground to land on.

SpaceX booster landings are difficult because of couple extra requirements. First, it is in Earth gravity and dense atmosphere and from high speed. Second, boosters are very long necessitating perfect stability at landing. Third, they use what is called "suicide burn" which means that boosters basically coast until almost end where they break very hard with basically nil margin for error. But this is in the name of efficiency because every kg of fuel saved on landing as many, many more that could not be taken to orbit.

In other words, booster landing is very dynamic process.

Compared to that landing on Moon surface were pretty simple and with relatively large margin for error.

Landing on Moon surface could be done without large dynamic component like suicide burn. The craft can leisurely hover over the surface and touchdown with barely any speed. This is comparable to cheap quadcopter landing --keep your attitude straight, descend slowly loosing speed until it is zero at zero distance to ground.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted here. Your question is very valid.

As far as the Techempower results go, I'm pretty sure it is not a GC issue. It could be the postgres implementation issue. Someone has to work with upstream to tune and fix the issues.

Contributing to such benchmarks require time and effort. A small community can do only so much in their free time.

Even though such benchmarks are good marketing, the D community is not interested in participating such benchmarks (although I'm quoting one post from the D forum, the trend is same).

https://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.2866.1587920400.31109.d...
yeah, two cases: one on Being, which was covered by everybody and in every country, and Baltimore mayor corruption.
everything else just usual liberal BS.
Fn+arrow keys and Command+arrow keys will give you most of the function you want.

Command+Delete functions like the Delete key you are used to.
Nutanix Confirms Furloughs of Nearly 1,500 Employees
Can anyone show me an app in the wild that uses Bluetooth like or close to what the Covid apps wants to?

Why isn't HN talking about the technical side at all?

We know Bluetooth on phones can't do what the governments says it can.

We've all gone through the stage of, what if we used Bluetooth to track people indoors and do cool stuff! Then we realise you can't. The best we see is advertising maybe doing low quality beacons.

It like we think C19 makes the impossible possible.
The last time this came up on HN (that I read) someone recommended Pock, so I'll pass on that recommendation.

https://pock.dev

This takes the touchbar from 'annoying' to 'ok this is kind of useful actually', for me at least. I spend a lot of time on a keyboard + trackball combo, but keep my laptop propped a bit for TouchID, zooming, and one or two other useful idioms.

I've been hiding the Dock for a solid decade, and it's a more useful default than, say, the illegible window snapshots Safari insists on offering over the obvious choice of favicon + a few letters of the title.

It's baffling to me that none of Chrome, Firefox, nor Safari, offer that interface for the touchbar on Mac.
you could have a company minecraft server
Yeah. I think it's more likely to stop someone accidentally taking the wrong bike. Since they aren't secured to anything and the locks aren't beefy, defeating it would be pretty trivial.

I have a number of friends with anecdotes about forgetting items on a bus/train and the lengths to which individuals or companies will go to return them is pretty impressive.
I interned in St. Louis one summer and my neighbor worked at Boeing. The only reason I remember him to this day is because he introduced himself as a programmer working on smart bombs. He immediately said it was okay because he didn't fire the bombs, he just made them smarter so they didn't kill innocent people.
We can't just abandon vectors for the populace to hold governmental agencies to account. If anything we need to push to make it so that the people have more sway in cases where the people making decisions were not elected.
You are right, I already corrected this. Thanks.
Yeah you're absolutely correct. I wish I had more perspective to offer but that's what I got. The OP also sounds younger (I may be wrong), so I hope it is ok.
Aren't there lots of mosquitoes that don't transmit deadly diseases, or don't bite humans at all? They're not going to go away as a category even if we did eradicate anopheles et al. I mean, do the research to find out if they're some plant's sole pollinators, but otherwise I can't see anything to lose.
I wish it were more effective in removing Youtube ads on my kids' iPads, but I understand it's a tall order. At least it gets rid of ads in most other apps.
Psychological Fallout from Covid-19: How to Win the Battle with Loneliness
TikZ would let you do all that fairly easily with code. Helps if you know Latex. You'll find a bunch of tutorials and references online (e.g. [1]), but I think the best source of information is the manual [2], which has tutorial chapters, and StackExchange. TeXStudio is the best editor for it I know of, and installing TeXLive will get you every relevant package (and more - deselect some on installation).

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/PGF/TikZ

[2] https://pgf-tikz.github.io/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf
Libertarianism is a hell of a drug.
Not in a real bank, which is insured by the FDIC so in the event it becomes insolvent I get my money back. Unlike an exchange where I get a big ol' SFYL.
I actually have been doing some work with MaraDNS to have the ability to have a pi-hole sized blacklist. The main source of pi-hole’s blacklist is this Git repo:

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

That is about 60,000 hosts, so I added MaraDNS support to have up to 500,000 blacklisted names. Since it’s a speed-optimized (not size-optimized) cache, each element takes about a kilobyte of memory, so a blacklist this size takes about 60 megabytes of memory for MaraDNS to store (on a modern Core i7 7600U processor, it only takes about two seconds to load all 60,000 elements in to memory), but it’s very rapid to use.

The script to take that blacklist and convert it in to a MaraDNS compatible format is here:

https://github.com/samboy/MaraDNS/blob/master/deadwood-githu...

There are ways to make the memory footprint of the blacklist smaller, but this was a quick and simple way to implement a medium sized blacklist. Finding ways to have, say, 10 million blacklist elements with a small memory footprint is left as an exercise for the reader.

My current project is to make a proper Docker container for MaraDNS.
Should anyone be proud of a Pulitzer considering they gave one out to the New York Times for covering up genocide in the USSR? [1]

It would seem to me that the Pulitzer Prize is ethically bankrupt considering who you share this 'prestige' with.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty
Any smart casino employee is very careful about not touching their faces and washing their hands thoroughly after each shift, with all the shared surfaces that they work with. I would guess that their immune systems are already primed from their average exposure levels. Maybe it's the dryness?
Show HN: AI-powered face swap for iconic Met Gala outfits
Thank you, I will consider it. I wonder what subset of these problems can be solved, and what subset is a fixed property of the human experience. I don't know yet. This is a massive problem, and a business is likely not the right vehicle to solve it. Political office might be, but everyone (myself included) seems disillusioned with that too. I'll think about it.
Oh shit I looked up the e-Passport specification and you're totally right. Well, at least I have my imaginary internet points :/
It's not necessarily true you have to look. BTT lets you define actions for sliding 2/3/4 fingers left or right on the entirety of the touchbar. You can set it up to change volume, brightness, ctrl+tab, change the size of a drawing tool, undo/redo, whatever. It works anywhere on the strip, so it's very forgiving.

I actually only just now thought of mapping 3-finger swipe to undo/redo. I've only been messing around with it for five minutes but it's kind of nice, honestly! It's better than cmd+z when you need to undo/redo more than once, because it bypasses the key repeat setting.
If process substitution doesn't work, shouldn't /dev/stdin work? I haven't tried it, but as long as b2 doesn't try to check the file size before uploading I don't see why it wouldn't work: b2 upload_file bucket /dev/stdin < file
Yes. That one
I know the Adpbe suite does support them, but what about Microsoft Word or Apple Pages? I would say variable fonts are the future.
You may be disillusioned with technology, but to me, it seems that what disillusioned you was capitalism.

The problems you described are not technological, they're political. The Vulture Capitalists can be dishonest because they don't pay for their lies. The soulless corporations waste their time with political squabbles and poorly managed project because they capture enough profit to afford such inefficiencies. Burnout is not a problem because we still have a lot of younger and hopeful people to replace the burnt out ashes.

I personally see only two solutions: get out of the system, or change the system. Perhaps both. Note that the second one requires collective action.
Amazon is not the government.

Any sufficiently-dominant corporation is indistinguishable from a government. Amazon's not there yet, but it's certainly where they want to be. I buy stuff from them, but I don't hold any illusions about them.

Their practice of forcing warehouse workers to submit to searches without compensating them for their time spent in line does bother me, for example, but not quite enough to get me to shop somewhere else. (And yes, as a matter of fact, I have a sneaking suspicion that this does make me a bad person.)
It's hard to work out the actual cost of each SLS. Especially when you're trying to take development costs into account. The lowest sensible estimate I've seen is $3 billion, but if you amortise development costs over ten launches it could be higher than $5 billion a launch. A Falcon Heavy in expendable mode can be had for $150 million, and NASA paid no development costs. So, between 20 and 35ish times more expensive (assuming nothing much more goes wrong for SLS), and Falcon Heavy is already flying.
In fact, one of the best things about Pi-hole network wide blocking is the removal of those 5 to 10 second otherwise unskippable ads in apps.
But it's rarely informed. The US has very outdated, insecure and absurdly expensive retail banking and most people seem to be completely oblivious to it, which is why they fail to the potential of settlement systems like Ripple. Financial transactions are just small pieces of information, no different than funny GIFs or instant messages. It costs virtually nothing to move them around instantaneously across the globe in a secure way, and yet here we are, discussing if that has any value over snail-mail type of experience.

Europe stands out somewhat and we can argue that cryptocurrencies don't bring much improvement onto the table. Banking fees are already very low and Europe is currently rolling out instant credit transfer. I can open a bank account for free and without any recurring fees, and make up to 5000 payments a month for free to anyone in Europe, arriving in less than 20 seconds, available 24/7/365, automatable through APIs. But the rest of the world... my God what stone age you're living in, people with paper checks and overdraft fees imagine they're "informed skeptics" against modern settlement systems. Feels like early 1990s with people saying that email is pointless and they'll never use it.
Yeah these comments always scream myopia to me because this shit was happening way before Trump got into office.

By all accounts Obama is a war criminal. So is Bush, Clinton, Bush, etc. It's not easy to be a good person and uphold a global neocolonialist empire. To go back to normal is simply to push the grifting and swindling back into the shadows. At least now it's obvious enough that people paying attention can see how power works at those high levels, so we can be better prepared to combat abuses of power if/when they arise.
Nothing new...

https://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/02/03/pirate-coelho/
https://torrentfreak.com/alchemist-author-pirates-own-books-...

In short Coelho pirate his own books for free. Sales was 0 in the beginning, then 10k, next year 100k, next year 1m.
I think that it would be difficult to keep a job following that approach.
This is exactly how I feel, almost every word of it.