skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our cross-functional teams have both frontend and backend engineers working on business goals for their team.

The skillsets of definitely different though and they both compliment each other. I'm really not a fan of having 'full stack' engineers which do everything. The truth is they are often stronger in frontend or backend, with a few unicorns that excel at both. Frontend engineers know frameworks well - angular, vue or react with other frontend concepts like cookies and frontend security. Backend engineers don't need to know about cross-site scripting, CORS and a bunch of other things that have been standardised and built into browser security.

Backend engineers have used more languages outside of javascript and work with a much larger set of technologies day-to-day (databases, queues, file systems, other APIS, RPC etc). They see the client (frontend) like any other consumer hitting their system.

They can't be unified because tech stacks and the web is so big and there are so many ideas and new things coming out. I'm not sure if a browser could ever do something like reading a message from a Kafka topic. A frontend dev should never have to worry about that, so why on earth would they ever need to know anything about Kafka? A backend dev might have to play with it though.
I feel like the Outer Space Employment Agency could give people a hand up in these times
I agree with this. Just use Anki instead and sync with Ankiweb.
We'll never see real change in the US because each party has insulated themselves from any information that might be damaging to their own party.

They're seriously about to vote for a guy that voted for the Iraq war and the Wall St. Bailouts. I don't expect stuff like this to even register with most. I don't think they can internalize the information.
"I'm not entirely sure why"

That is what people usually call the law of supply and demand. Your salary is not a function of your skill but of how rare they are on the market relative to the number of job opening.
A Serverless SaaS boilerplate for rapidly building SaaS apps with React
Developers Path to Financial Freedom
Just got my new site launched (and moved content away from Medium, woohoo!) figured It'd be a good time to get some feedback on my article which outlines a plan for becoming financially free.

I'm currently implementing the plan, am about 40% of the way along. If anyone has suggestions how the plan could be improved I'd be interested to hear from them
is it live? Like can a get a pic of a place made at day light in the last 24 hours?
The US was and is one of the driving forces behind the UN convention, however.
Okay, given that the original comment that prompted this thread was:

“ The WH is finally getting to its main goal, reducing immigration overall.”

Do you agree or disagree that discouraging foreign students will have an impact (even a small one) on immigration? It seems like it will.
Can you add a link to your GitHub from the website?

I usually star things instead of bookmarking and others probably do too.
But you have to wait longer for the antibodies to appear in the human.
Yeah the whole point of the war on drugs for the most part was to punish people who wanted to see things differently. There are only a few scheduled drugs that are actually harmful. If alcohol were discovered today it would certainly be scheduled because its side effects and potential for addiction are far worse than EG todays normal dosage of MDMA or LSD. The whole notion of jailing drug users actually made their lives far worse than the drugs themselves ever did. And the aggressive prosecution created openings for the modern drug cartels by eliminating competition.
Shouting in the Datacenter (DTrace)
Knowing it could kill you isn’t a deterrent’: the deadly trade in diet pills
BleepingComputer was told that the Garmin IT department had tried to remotely shut down all computers on the network as devices were being encrypted, including home computers connected via VPN.

After being unable to do so, employees were told to shut down any computer on the network that they had access to.

Even their mail servers are bouncing.
A follow-up: how much do you value OSCP?
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There's the MITRE ATT&CK Framework https://attack.mitre.org/ which is gaining attention and seems very promising (although it of course isn't the golden answer to all questions, it goes a long way to cover the basics).
Without software, you lose the most precious asset you have as a consumer-oriented company: access to your customer.

Without software, you lose the gold of the digital age, customer data.

Without software, you are just what is left, a company assembling low-profit metal boxes assembling company — and low profit metal boxes are an exchangeable commodity.

Personally, im sick of being constantly commoditized by companies who appoint themselves as pimps for my personal data and attempt to worm their ways into my life. Alot of people prefer their car to be a dumb box that they buy knowing the manufacturer is operating on low margins. Im certainly not going to celebrate a manufacturer for increasing their profit margin by adding paywalls, subscriptions and other nonsense that do nothing for the driver while extracting that delicious recurring revenue for the company. BMW has been pushing things this direction recently with remote disabling of features. I hope the market will punish them, but I'm not holding my breath.

New car buyers look for pretty different things from used buyers, will be interesting to see how these schemes age and what they do to resale value. Might be interesting if firmware unlocks are available for only earlier model years as often happens with gaming consoles.
My wife and I have probably hit a point where if we really wanted to we could cash in and probably just go the grid for the rest of our lives. We're not rich, but we've put together a plan where it would be possible to do this if either of us ever really said "fuck it".

The anxiety really comes when we start thinking about old age. Where dipping back into the workforce if we needed to is not really possible and unexpected expenses are likely. So I guess it's keeping to the grind to build as much of a safety net for those days as we can until we really decide to pull the trigger.

We both know enough people who are "independently poor" and seem to make it day to day without too much fuss in the short term. But almost all those same people we know end up in catastrophic financial emergencies over the longer term due to unexpected expenses they can't surge their finances to meet. For us it just means we don't put as much away for retirement for a paycheck. For them we've seen evictions, garnished wages, divorce, ruined credit, bankruptcy, and so on. It's a vicious cycle that starts with being relatively expensive and ends up being ruinous.
Are there any example images?
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Visual dual-pane file manager cryo 0.5.16 released
No, it's not.

Your link is a message service that self destructs.

OPs link is a storage service
Of course not... after 11 years as a software engineer, it would be difficult to not do it.
Ask HN: How do you make producing a habit?
How do you get out of the consumption rut and make producing work in any form a habit?
More than comfortable if you don't have kids and don't expect to have your own flat. I live in London, and probably spend around £1200-1500/month total. Which is more than what some of my friends earn.
Looking at the code, it appears to be a nice front end to sat-search https://github.com/sat-utils/sat-search
At least you should have made the website a little more minimal. Especially the font.
In the US? Not really. Its sale is banned for use in cars. Wikipedia says there are a few exceptions for aircraft, farm equipment, and marine engines, but even in those fields I've never heard of it being used. It's also been pretty much phased out worldwide with a few tiny exceptions. What exactly are you referring to?
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Hopefully the answer will be "A LOT more than CEH", but I wanted to test the waters. :P
Biggest assymetry I noticed yet is that mortgage rates are often fixed no matter what happens to current money lending rate.

I am no financial expert, but I think unpredictable rates hugely favor consumer.

When rates are high and money is in high supply, inflation reduces the actual principal, as nominal amount Stas the same. When rates are low, you can refinance mortgage at current, low rates and reduce interest part of your mortgage.
WoW so not much has changed from when you use to work there and now. Also outsourced teams are awful at large companies like IBM because the people who hire them are usually not current with the technology and have this 20 yrs of experience writing some SAP thing. I mean it awful, they do 1-2 hours of standups.
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I think you might be surprised by how many HN readers (including non-Indians) know that Chennai is in India. I'm going down the list of largest Indian cities and it's not until #7 or #8, Ahmedabad and Pune, where we reach cities that I think a good number of people might not know a lot about.

So give us more credit! :)
I immediately remembered Steve Jobs. Maybe this info was out there even years ago?
Local TV set to air discredited 'Plandemic' researcher's conspiracy theory
Kind of like Stuart Riffle's colorized Fourier Transform.
(version here -> https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2014/01/the-fourier-tra...)

archived with artifacts here -> https://web.archive.org/web/20120418231513/http://www.altdev...
The 'groups' are chemical structures present in a compound. The student asks the Teaching Assistant (typically a graduate student who is required to do teach) a general question about how to carry out a multi step process to selectively transform specific regions of chemical compounds.

The punchline is that the Teaching Assistant immediately sees the intent of the question, and goes from the general to the specific and replies: [ you won't be able to synthesise LSD with that approach because ] "all of the precursors are also scheduled."
C has an interesting culture of terse variable and function names, and limited comments. It comes from an entirely different mindset and time period in software. It predates most "modern" concepts of software re-usability that eventually turned into enterprise OOP practices and was crystalized in Java and C#.

It's not great anymore. The software world has moved on to understanding how important these things are (and even often takes things too far), but C seems a bit stuck in its ways.
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I'm vaguely familiar with fuzzing (sending auto-generated malicious input to an API to see if it fails), but there is a big gap between my level of understanding and the level of this document. How do I fill in the gap?
nginx is in front, but it's just doing a proxy and setting some headers, so effectively cowboy's serving everything.

So far it's doing a great job too, CPU is at 2%, 1Gb free ram of the 4Gb available, and a pretty constant 1Mbps outward, on the 20$/m digital ocean droplet. I may have jinxed it by saying this though.
It is interesting that many of these are single business buildings like a dentist office or a car dealership. When I think of unique architecture in the USA, I think of multistory buildings or museums.
Combinations are exponentially harder to find.

What if it's fasting + being cold + Vitamin F + whatever new thing your molecular simulation just suggested?
Taiwan’s Unlikely Digital Minister Hacked the Pandemic
> I know, but most of these "hacks" are identified by internal scans already. The pentest doesn't add much value then. The issue is more internal resistance to change in the management team.

This sounds like management's fault for using a service they don't need yet. If there are glaring, obvious vulns that are repeatedly pointed out but aren't getting fixed then how useful is it to point out additional more subtle vulns? I understand the point you are trying to make about pentests telling you data you already know, but how many people are going to take the time to enumerate subtle vulns when there are basic ones that can be hit to great effect?

> Which is exactly what a serious adversary would be doing in a targeted hack!

I don't think it makes sense to worry about what a serious adversary could do when a moderately skilled one can already wreck you with known exploits.
probably you have a layout bug. it's wrapping a layout within a layout.
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Congratulations, I wouldn't know where to start with that heap of unadulterated bullshit.
Sorry I was turned around, been a while since I was in Raleigh but I meant Waraji on Duraleigh in that little strip mall. I'll always have a soft spot for Sushi Tsune, too, though.
And just like the real thing can cause delusions and hallucinations.
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>, I've never really understood it. It's just programming, like any other software project. [...] But the fundamentals of programming are still much the same whatever you're building.

It doesn't matter if the underlying programming fundamentals are the same because the human brain still has preferences on what it wants to work on. The mistake is applying some "umbrella term" (i.e. "programming") for an activity and thinking that will automatically make all sub categories attract the same interest level. It doesn't work that way.

This same phenomenon happens in other intellectual activities such as mathematics, writing, painting, etc:

One mathematician might prefer to study algebraic topology while another mathematician prefers to work on number theory. Thus, saying, "I don't get it -- it's all _math_ so why should one person have more interest in one branch vs another?!?" ... does not remove the preference.

One writer may prefer to write political analysis essays and never writes fiction -- but another writer prefers to write fiction and never opinion pieces on current events. Therefore, saying, "I don't get the fiction/non-fiction dichotomy because both activities are just the same task of manipulating _words_?!?" ... doesn't make a preferred interest disappear. Yes, some authors write both fiction and non-fiction but the existence of them still doesn't remove the preference of other authors who specialize in just one. Even within sub-category of fiction, you get sub-specialization of "mystery novels" instead of "romance novels".

Likewise, saying "painting is painting" does not change the fact that an artist might prefer to always paint landscapes and never horses or people.

>It is becoming clear to me that much of the perceived difference of opinion here is just because of terminology. I was thinking of "development" as meaning specifically the programming side of things. [...] and trying to pigeonhole people or restrict anything to only certain combinations is not necessarily either realistic or helpful.

Some people naturally just want to pigeonhole themselves. I've done frontend work on old DOS machines (text-based UI), raw Win32 API, VB/C# GUI forms, Javascript/HTML -- and I don't like any of it. I prefer to program the backend algorithms. Yes, coding a loop to "iterate through all window controls to enlarge them by 10% in the GUI" has something in common with "iterate through all nodes of a graph to optimize a path" ... because they're both "loops" ... but they have very different levels of intellectual satisfaction. I won't argue with you if you feel that they should feel exactly the same because they're both "programming" but I can't help it that I don't derive the same enjoyment.

If I was employed by Google, I'd enjoy working on the backend ranking algorithms. To a lesser degree, I'd be ok with working on the spider crawlers. But I'd quit if they assigned me to work on the web frontend where users type in queries. But I'm also glad there are developers who prefer to work on the frontend instead of the backend because it allows people like me to stay with my preference.
Thank you so much for your valuable feedback! This was a proof of concept of the idea of creating cards through a chrome extension. There is still a lot of crucial features missing, and I know that now. But from my experience Anki is not an easy tool to use for non-technical users, so the aim for memordo is to have the easability of quizlet but the functionality of anki.
Carry the mass of the earth and... you're imprisoned for <lifespan of cosmos>
Wish algorithms decide https://banksdaily.com/central-banks/
CyberSecurity, the domain that doesn't recruit yet has a shortage.

What cybersecurity is to most people is automated security scans. This can be done by interns with a week of training to run the tools. (Interpreting and remediating the findings is another matter).

Besides that, security is mainly about authentication. That's done by setting up LDAP, active directory, openid connect and co, and integrating in applications. A tremendous amount of setup and integration work for administrators/developers. (Not cyber security engineers)

There are cyber aspects around infrastructure and networking for sysadmin/devops/sre/developers. Setting up firewalls and 2FA in AWS, configuring TLS, upgrading OS and abandoned libraries. (Still, no permanent cyber security roles in sight)

Last is a couple of researchers finding vulnerabilities, concentrated in the likes of the NSA, NSO Group, project zero. Highly technical work that very few companies recruit for. These are full time jobs, offensive cyber security (vulnerability researcher) but extremely few in the world.

When I see people looking for cyber security engineers or trying to break into security. I can't help but think what do they mean by that? Just become a developer or a sysadmin/devops.
Metro area population is a better comparison though because city political boundaries are arbitrary and vary greatly city to city and country to country. The political boundaries in the US are much older than in China, for example, so they correspond a lot less well to where population centers actually ended up being, especially post-automobile when suburbanization allowed people to easily live outside the existing boundaries of a city's limit. And then, crucially, the city's limit was then never redrawn to accurately reflect all the people actually making up a part of that city's economy. Pull up a map of China from 1930 and it's completely different from today, whereas a map of the Northeast US from 1930 is nigh indistinguishable from today.
So your point is "bad pentests are bad and provide no value". Yes. You are correct.
In some states like NJ for example, you can claim unemployment even if you are working as long as you can show that your hours or income was reduced significantly usually by the same employer. Find out in your state.
Yes, it uses sat-utils to search STAC. It's a beautiful project.
They're all backed by algorithmic crypto trading, and thus are operating outside the banking system discussed in the article.
Reading through that second one, while the inciting incident was certainly pretty bad, their eventual response was, to my mind, all that could be hoped from a company in this day and age:

https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/an-update-on-last-weeks-cu...?

They recognized that their processes were too mechanistic and inhuman, and introduced a lot more compassion and open communication into them—and even chose to spend more money on hiring people to reduce ticket queue wait times.

I'd say that speaks volumes in DigitalOcean's favour.
The gas station is an agent of the oil company and gets paid commissions. The gas is on consignment, owned by the upstream oil company.

The big oil company uses futures and options to manage risk.

All aspects of that industry have slowly reconsolidated, so the market forces that push prices down are generally weak.
Can you talk about your interview process? e.g. types of interviews, screens vs. on-sites, distributions, etc. What are the shortcomings that keeps a candidate from an offer in the final steps, e.g. the candidate passes screening interviews, but falls short on an on-site interview. What are the indicators you observe that differentiate a senior candidate? How do you go about evaluating entry-level and junior candidates? Thank you!
I still very much doubt they actually destroy the data though. They could easily be keeping everything and then once the ransomware stops paying as well, they'll start profiting from what they've stolen.
As with any habit, there's no silver bullet. You just have to make a concerted effort to produce something, however small, every day. For example, you could force yourself to comment on a Hacker News post every day, or write 100 words the second you get up in the morning, etc.

The second thing is to just produce things that you're passionate about, not what you think other people will enjoy. Producing work is inherently a personal endeavor; writing about something you hate is a surefire way to kill a habit before it even starts.
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Hi Robert,

Thank you for doing this. My questions is if someone didn’t use their initial H1B (1.5 years left), and left US, can they still use that without having to go through the process from scratch ?
Once you have merged developers into a single category, who will hold the experience and knowledge to deal with:

- browser compatibility

- usability issues, affordance, animations, transitions

- build and delivery, performance

- CORS, CSRF, all the client side security aspects

These are all very specific domains on the client side and it’s simply not possible for someone to keep up while at the same time doing k8s + Kafka + datalog + Hadoop + java + whatever else.

To me this clearly spells a situation where UI/UX takes a backseat.
I have a brother printer that works with linux. It does as it's told.
Where the data are coming from? Can't find a word about it in README.
Leverage. Let's say the inheritance was 50k. You make that a 10% down payment on a 500k house. Assume rent covers your interest on the loan, taxes, etc. 10 years later the house appreciates 100% to 1M. You sell the house.

You just made 500k from 50k.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyeUGo1k1R4&t=126

"Hey, what does this job pay?" "Nothing."