skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow I had thought the cost of living was high in Switzerland but I guess when you’re used to the Bay Area everything else seems cheap. In SF you’d pay like $5000 for that 2bd unless you go out pretty to the more remote, harder to commute from neighborhoods.

In any case, $154 is still not that significant, definitely not enough on its own to let you afford an extra bedroom to turn into an office, for instance.
I’m surprised they didn’t try to take him down as a “white nationalist” like they did with PewDiePie. Maybe this is their way of admitting defeat?
> So I downloaded it off Usenet instead.

Let's reword that as:

"I couldn't get this thing for the price I wanted so I stole a copy"

Seriously? Imagine going into a box store and doing that. You would face a high probability of being arrested for theft.
There is a simple truth about the modern world that many don't seem to grasp:

Automation --> Wealth --> Opportunities --> Automation...

The job of the software engineer is to automate their own job. Most people stop their reasoning there and don't continue thinking about the downstream effects of that action.

The wealth generated from automation creates new opportunities that will be filled by the software engineer themselves because automation never ends. Software is never done.
Considering Joe has millions of listeners I would say he is mainstream, but then again I am probably talking to a wall by making this comment.
One of many coronovirus unintended consequences. I wonder what else we'll be rethinking.
So because cashiers can't benefit from the benefit, no one should?
On the other hand, why would I want to code to those regulations? Seems like a good way to mess something up and get sued.

A no-code site that meets spec and transfers liability would be great.
Everyone is trying to understand what wfh is going to look like but I don't think they really understood what working from an office was really all about. Working from home is going to involve some very minor and inconsequential technical issues. WFH is really about power and control. Being able to physically control your body is a large part of that. It also severely curtails your alternative employment options. It isn't very easy to buy a home or even to break a lease which limits you to about a 120mi radius. Now compete with opportunities offered by the world. That's the problem. What's really going to keep employers up at night is the thought that their work from home employees realize that they're more like free agents than employees and there really isn't a need for middle management.
>Shock jock radio hosts are nothing new. Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh, etc.

If you classify Joe Rogan as a 'shock jock', then I can only assume you've never listened to the show. The content is nothing like those you mention.
> And Joe has been quite savvy at tailoring both his content and his image for them.

Way to make it sound nefarious. There's no greedy or malicious intent behind this, no script that these interviews follow to appeal to advertisers or viewers the way most media is carefully cultivated with surveys, talking points and focus groups to most effectively deliver a partisan message. These interviews give about as raw and unfiltered access to the guests as you can get, to let the experts talk about their subject, and that's Rogan's intent. Rogan himself isn't a carefully crafted media personality, but pretty genuine, flaws and all. If that's what you mean by "tailoring", I'd say we could all use a little more media like that.

The only kind of "tailoring" that appears to happen is Rogan sometimes listens to feedback on the kind of questions and discussions some listeners want to see.
Isn’t that just the point of a salary anyway?
This is silly, thing that matters unionization / workplace democracy. These types of measures show a weak understanding of economics and power, and are just moronic palliatives.
Well that does sound like a typical query I would not use Google for.

Generally Google gets the questions where I feel like I'm an idiot for asking, or when I feel like the question is best answered as if one were an idiot. Don't worry about spelling or formulation. Google gets to flex its AI "I know what you want" muscles, and you get an answer without having to think about the question very much.

I don't get any videos: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cheat%20sheet%20functi...
I think they’re pointing out the duplication in “Berkeley Software Distribution disto/distribution”; similar to “ATM machine”, “PIN number”, “LCD display/screen”, etc.
Is it maybe a little bit weird to be doing research on old corpses that were just dragged out of their graves in a foreign country?
What else can you stuff in a certificate chain?
That's usually a slow transition though. I started out using linux mint a few years ago and since then I've gotten annoyed more than once at the way things are structured. What I've ended up with a "One box, two systems" aproach, where I do most stuff "the ubuntu way", but compile certain software from source and install it however I want it. The separation of `/usr` and `/usr/local` that's already common on Linux makes this work very well.
The employer wants you to be there, if they want you to stay home, they save on the office bill and can pay for the difference in your bills

It's a zero sum game for them

No big deal, seems fair to me
Instead of using python for data transformation, just move over to data.table.

https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/

Cut your time AND your costs.
Two other approaches come to mind:

- Give interesting talks (e.g. James Mickens, Paul Irish, Bryan Cantrill)

- Create interesting projects (e.g. Linus Torvalds, Guido van Rossum, Monty Widenius)

I'm not sure that any of the people in my examples sought out to brand themselves though.
Rollout of OpenVMS v9.0 and Beyond
That used to be the case in the US, too. And the same was true of rent/mortgage/heat/etc costs IF the room you used for an office was only used for that purpose. Sadly, the tax laws changed recently and you no longer get to claim them (unless self employed).
Polymerized linseed oil ("Danish oil") is definitely a kind of plastic.

It just isn't made with a petrochemical.

Linseed oil is awesome stuff though. Currently working on some wooden skis, some with woven flax instead of fiberglass and some with linseed varnish & pine tar bases.
>Developers don't need to care about threat models.

I disagree. A lot of time is spent worrying[1] about theoretical attacks that require non-invasive physical access. In reality, it's very unlikely you require, or are able to implement, a threat model where non-invasive physical access by bad actors is protected against. That requires hardware that doesn't expose what it's doing through power consumption, heat output, timing, unencrypted data, etc.

That's not even the top level. There's a need for developers to follow best-practice about cryptography, etc., not for them to follow-best practice to prevent attacks that involve photographing bare silicon.

[1] Particularly on online forums. A poster has heard that an attack is possible, therefore they accuse anyone who doesn't have a mitigation against it of being incompetent.
the truth of the world will out the obvious lie. what else was going to happen?
True, yes true, but it is there for entirely different reason than in the term "Linux distribution". Even more, if we follow your argument it makes even less sense, "distribution distribution". There some genuine "distibutions" among BSD, such as NomadBSD, PC-BSD etc (FreeBSD derived systems), but in most cases, BSDs are very different OSes, incompatible with each other, with very different kernels (OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD).
True. When my team was just starting out, we couldn't find a place where we could sit together, because company policy was that they only needed 0.7 desk per employee. Many teams did have their own space, so we had nothing.
Buy a laptop with linux preinstalled like the XPS 13, done.

Or build a hackintosh if you want a fair comparison.
This whole page is basically insulting the intelligence of users.

> It's about time you try Linux

implying that while you did have heard of Linux, you misjudged it.

> Unlike Windows and MacOS Linux gives you options

This is factually wrong, anyone knows that both Windows and macOS give you a lot of options.

> The major operating systems put their users in a box, while Linux allows you to choose an OS that fits your needs and skill level.

implying that you can't run macOS or Windows by choice. No, obviously zombie Steve Jobs forced you to buy a Mac for a lot of money.

> and "free" here refers not to the cost of the software but to its liberty—as no one entity owns the software it essentially belongs to everyone, without restriction

This is factually wrong but okay, copyright law is a complicated thing and it wouldn't make much sense to discuss that here.

> So, in part, making the switch to Linux is an ethical decision about the software you use on a daily basis, and the rights you and others have to the information and things you use.

implying that if I choose to buy a software for money to support its developers because I think they're doing a good job, this is somehow unethical. Actually, there were no ethics discussed in the previous paragraph, so this is a conclusion without foundation.

> Most open source operating systems are completely free both in price & licensing. There are typically no upfront fees, lengthy legal agreements, or restrictive copyright protections.

Um, did they ever see the GNU GPL?

> Free software is developed completely transparently which means the source code is out there in the open for anyone to look at. This means, if you wanted to, you can have a meaningful influence over the software development process.

That is not generally true. If you look for example at SQlite, you'll find that while this is a piece of free software used by millions, they generally don't accept patches or any other kind of influence.

> There are thousands of free software applications available to install without the need to browse the web. All this software undergoes scrutinous review before it reaches you, so you can find and use what you like with confidence.

implying that either non-free software isn't reviewed or that somehow I should trust people I don't know that review free software, but not people I don't know that review non-free software.

> With LibreOffice, you can also open and edit any Word, Powerpoint, or Excel files you may already have.

Anyone who ever tried opening a non-trivial Excel sheet with LibreOffice would disagree on that.

> On other platforms, the creative field is dominated by proprietary applications, but there are several capable free and open source alternatives.

… which also run on Windows and macOS.

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There are a lot of good arguments you can make in favor for Linux. This page totally botches it.
Yes, it probably wouldn't happened if the user uses VPN or Tor. If VPN or Tor's setup doesn't leak DNS, at least.
Of all the Linux distros out there, the one that calls to me the most is NixOS.

Do people use NixOS as their main OS? Does it have a "default desktop flavour", like Ubuntu does? (the manual seems to suggest XFCE - https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-xfce)
Why would a company actively alienate half of their customers by publicly aligning with one party or the other, when they can just donate quietly with the same effect? I have friends that still don't eat at Chick-Fil-A after the CEO political donations scandal.
Thanks for your feedback!

When you click on signin,
there is data to signin with a demo account.

I think I should add a button to signin with a demo account, instead of letting the user to type it in manually.

EDIT: Thanks to your feedback, I just added a button to the navbar, so you can signin with the demo account with 1-click.
Agreed. I'm finding how often it's posted quite bizarre. I tried it for a while about six years ago - no idea what the enthusiasm is for.
Health care really isn't the same thing. Employees don't need health insurance to work somewhere - and many pass, especially if they get insurance elsewhere (through a spouse, for example).

I've passed on a low-wage job because I was poor and couldn't afford to buy clothes before starting work - when, realistically, they could have provided the shirts or, alternatively, vests. And so on. It shouldn't cost an employee money to have a job with an employer.

If you want someone to have decent internet or a phone, the employer should pay part of it. A decent enough computer? Pay for it or provide a laptop. Provide the webcam. If you require uniforms, pay for them on top of laundering them. Requiring a quiet room in the house to do meetings? Pay for a portion of rent. Otherwise, you are just passing red tape and costs to the employee.
It's an extreme situation, so an "extreme risk aversion" response is actually proportionate.

The problem with the thinking of "you do that, I'll do otherwise" is that with an infectious disease, what our neighbours do impacts us. To germs, there really is such a thing as human society.
>But I don't think that yet applies to remote workers for established companies with offices?

I am not an accountant and my understanding is that home office deduction in the US may be harder than in the past (and it's long been a red flag according to my tax guy.) However, I would think that the question isn't so much whether your company has offices but whether you're officially assigned to come into one of those offices whether or not you typically do.

I know if I ever wanted to take this deduction--which is probably not worth it for me--I'd have to get my office status officially changed.
> I would gladly pay the same amount of money directly to the employee instead of dealing with insurance companies and their bullshit.

Well in this case the swiss companies must pay the amount directly to the employee, so you should be happy?
A MAGA hat is just another way of saying by "Mexicans are rapist", which was part of the whole MAGA launch. I totally understand why an organization, that employs a very diverse workforce, wouldn't want this kind of opinion being expressed.

I wish that people that advocated for less political correctness would actually list the opinions that they would want to see expressed publicly. What is specifically something that you wish was being said in public discourse that is not allowed now?
Sometimes there are positive unintended effects. Near my city, there are a number of small hydro plants and dams, built before a grand national syncrhonized system was ready.

While the dams were built inside very preserved forests, so there was initial damage, the surrounding area (tens or hundreds of sq. km) were put under protection to guarantee the water supply, so no reforestation, no agriculture, etc. Now even the surrounding areas are in better shape today than in the 1960s when the dams were built.

Of course it helps the individual size of each plant is small (tens of MW, tops).
> To me the big benefit of Slack over email is that Slack is only communication with actual humans

Until folks in your org start adding in slack integration bots. I have multiple channels that are nothing but alert/notifications about systems. that separation may be useful, but it definitely requires some discipline - I've been on some teams where people wanted to throw in automated slack integration messaging in to the 'regular' channels "so we won't miss anything".
Windows is mouse-centric but you've got to install stuff to get middle-click paste working.
I get the motivation and incentives, I just can't make sense of it as paying a share of the worker's rent. It falls flat on its face from the start... e.g. what if the worker is the homeowner and not paying any rent? What if the worker is living with their parents/children/etc. who are the ones paying rent? etc. Like fundamentally it seems bizarre that the employee's living agreement with a 3rd party (or lack thereof) should be relevant...
How do you debug in that configuration? And would a first time user know how to do that?
I find the +10k alternative epoch much nicer.
I can feel this deeply because even though I'm an Emacs user, and thoroughly like the Emacs + Org experience, I was never able to keep a working system organized with Org mode.

I ended up using OmniFocus for my tasks and Notion for "information and note storing"; they have great, built-in support for the things I need to do and I spend very little time managing them and keeping them in order, so they simply do "what I need them for". They also play nice with mobile devices, images and external documents, and integrate with my Outlook calendar (something I am forced to use for work).

I have no doubt that a proficient Emacs user could create something similar, even better, using only Org mode; I don't use third party configurations and keep mine to one hundred lines, more or less; when things get more complicated, I notice that I mostly end up in a game of min/maxing without getting the same amount of "useful" that I get from other systems.

The big problem is that, the way I'm running now, I don't own my data; OmniFocus worries me particularly because, as already said in other comments, it's Apple-only. Notion worries me too: I wish them all the best, but what happens if they go out of business? Sure, I can export everything in plain text, but the structure of my data would be pretty hard to recreate in another system.

Even though configuration + Org files amount to some amount of complexity, I can have trust that their format is long lived and that they are stored where I decide. This is a sort of "peace of mind" I can relate with, and that I have somehow lost when I decided to use these other systems; however I am infinitely more satisfied with two systems that do "exactly what I want"; I hope to find a way to reconcile these ends sometimes, but for the moment Org mode is "only" my outlining tool of choice.
Health insurance shouldn't depend on work or the size of your employer, period. Not only should employers have healthy employees, but the applicants should be too.
Mocking the time module is not very hard, and I recommend writing your own custom mock that fits exactly what you need unless one of the available libraries does something particularly fancy that you need
What makes it sad?
Wow, people are still taking Steve Pavlina seriously all those years later. OK....

P.S. To be clear, I am not a hater. I've learned about Steve when he was a game developer, having developed one marginally successful shareware game. That was more than ten years ago. He then decided to teach others how to become successful game developers and launched game publishing business. Which went nowhere. He blogged all along. Then Steve got interested in personal development, polyamory, polyphase sleep, etc. becoming 'an expert' in these topics, just like he has in successful game development and game publishing.

This is a guy who believes in spirit guides (yes, really) - https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2020/05/better-than-spirit... and for a low price of $299 can teach you that your reality is subjective - https://www.stevepavlina.com/submersion/
So with more cores and associated L1 cache, context switching would be potentially less I would of thought, small but maybe measurable.

Interestingly enough: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/24/linus_torvalds_adop...
I'm not particularly a fan of Rogan - too shouty/sweary/jockish, and I can't read this paywalled article, but its good to see a centrist voice breaking through the oftentimes liberal-left stranglehold on mainstream media.

More voices like that will help to keep them honest, which is dearly needed at times.
BCE is European Central Bank (Banque Centrale Européenne)
You are my god!
Show HN: Airspace – async communication for remote teams
Hi HN,

I've been working on Airspace: https://tryairspace.com

It emails your team once each day (at the start of their working day, in their timezone) to ask what they're working on. Then it keeps all the answers in one place for everyone on the team to see.

Team members can also discuss work (organised by projects), and all of these discussions are async. Real-time chat has its place, but I personally find it quite interruptive and can pull my focus away from deep work. I built Airspace to help remote teams work on their schedule, and to give them the freedom that comes with having long stretches of uninterrupted, focused time.

I'd love to know what you think.
AOL was founded 35y ago: only 3% of US was online, for an avg of 1 hour a week
Getting a visa and work permit for a programming job is pretty easy in many European countries once you have the job offer. There are coders from all over the world working in places like Berlin and Amsterdam.
Who the fuck is Joe Rogan?
Everything is worthy of discussion and everyone's opinion is valuable no matter how much I may dislike them/disagree with them.

I feel like this because the alternative is having a gatekeeper who tells everyone whose opinion is worth spreading and whose should be silenced and I prefer living in a non-totalitarian society.

Unless I'm that gatekeeper of course: I'm down for subjugating society to my personal preference of what's right and wrong.

edit: I may think that Alex Jones is an idiot but I still want him to be able to get as much exposure as someone I like.
In my experience so far, everything beyond mocking the current time is out on the long tail of tests that are expensive to write and provide little value. When I've run into a class with a time-based event loop, I isolate the timing code as well as is reasonable and just test everything else.

Or, create the timer outside and inject its channel. Want to fire the timer? Just write to the channel.

If you do expect to get a lot of value from testing the event loop, blocking on individual messages received or not received as in the article is a reasonable way to de-flakify your tests (in that case, I'd expect the tests to inject mocks and/or use private interfaces). However, it is a code smell if any other tests are depending on the details of that event loop.
This was also why everyone believed it's unlikely. Also I don't think Twitter even has DNS prefetching turned on. However now it's revealed that logging is real, us Thais should be worried.
Depends where one is coming from, when I was TA at my university Visual Studio was the official C++ lab exercise tooling for first year students, in Win 9x with student drivers mounted on login.

We did not do bare bones C already in those days.
CollectedNotes: Simply Your Thoughts
API with NestJS #3. Authenticating users with bcrypt, Passport, JWT, and cookies
>Why is his podcast good?

High profile guests, long form content. Rogan's not really a great moderator (for example, he doesn't even read the books of his guests). He's not asking insightful questions. He can even be a bit dense. But he's open-minded, curious and "normal".

If I'm settling into some work and don't want to listen to music, I can put on Rogan and know I've got 3 hours of filler. You can pay attention only to the parts you want to and not be concerned you're missing anything important. After hundreds of hours, part of what makes it special is continuity and familiarity.
But the Bay Area is a big place and I consider the whole area to be socially alive.

I fully understand wanting to stay in the Bay Area - but there's a big difference in land-value between being situated around Mountain View and San Francisco vs. the east-side of the Bay). What I don't understand is why the east-side of the Bay seems overlooked or even neglected lately (even more-so considering Berkeley's history).
Perhaps the co-opting of the word by popular culture has removed Dawkins' meaning from the vocabulary of the masses?
That's a shame if so. It is a powerful concept.