skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Perth, Australia (GMT+8 all year round; no DST)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Doubtful but not ruling it out

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Technologies:

I've been around for quite a while and done something of everything but here are some of the more relevant:

* GoLang, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python

* Web development, LAMP, jQuery, Mysql, Sqlite, Symfony, Amazon AWS

* ReactJS and the usual javascript ecosystem

* React Native, native Android app development

* Good at debugging hard problems (especially those from the field)

* See resume for full list (including soft skills)

* See resume for work history and open source projects (ie. sample code)

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Resume: https://github.com/bengtan/resume

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Sounds like a fun use case for the Hackernews data set in BigQuery.
I know everyone talks about 2020 having felt like a long year, but I had totally forgotten that Paragon had started trying to submit that back in August[0]. I'm really glad to see this is progressing. What a monumental set of changes. This won't change the NTFS situation on macOS, of course but even in a post-exFAT world, NTFS will remain a relevant concern for Linux/Windows dual-booting, and I'd love to see this get merged.

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/2911ac5cd20b46e397be50...
Gov't stimulus – let's ban Congress from the bathroom
I've wanted to work full-time from home for as long as I can remember. It took about a month in lockdown for me to realize I hated it.

Turns out, my mental health is much better when I have an office to go to. 1h20 in commute (round-trip), no privacy, tons of distractions, and still I'm happier when I get to leave the house to go to work.

I suspect it's mostly just a matter of getting out of the house. Those 4 walls get pretty oppressive after a while.

I, too, found myself working from bed. It was not an improvement, and ended up being the last step towards a crippling depression that wouldn't let me get out of bed in the first place.

So, for me at least, working from bed is awful. Ergonomically, emotionally, spiritually just f---ing draining.
The McTrain: The Rise and Fall of McDonald's Ambitious Plan to Conquer Railroads
I don't understand how you can claim that a unified front is their purposes. Their purpose is to serve their workers. Forcing all workers to behave the same way seems a poor interpretation of that duty.

Otherwise, sure it's fine to have a position on an issue and communicate it to members. What is not fine is to imply to members that if they make their own choice then the union will never support them should they have a problem, even for an unrelated issue, essentially stripping them of union support. This is what I meant by bullying, and have myself witnessed.

But if you insist that a unified front, rather than supporting workers, is their purpose then we fundamentally disagree, and I'll leave things by pointing out that the "unified front" can be to support worker choice & flexibility.
I don't like it, at least not Element. It pops up 3(!) message boxes at every single login (and I have to login every time because it doesn't remember logins) with no apparent option to permanently disable them.
No, I don't misunderstand, I agree with you. Just saying that a market price is the best guess for whatever the "true" price is / should be. Because cyrpto markets are easily accessible across the world to everyone, it will be closer to the "true" value than other markets that are less accessible.
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But 1) it has apparently not been the case that the service was "absolutely inaccessible" and 2) "Slack is down" is still very imprecise and not a great alternative even if the service had been "absolutely inaccessible."
Thankfully he has a guitar collection that means more to me than any amount of money could! (one Les Paul he has owned for over 30 years and some guitars he has built by hand).
The two I've worked for that took it that far were a Federal bank, and an energy company. I have no idea how far Google or other large software companies take their plans.

But based on my experience, the initial recovery planning is the hard part. The documentation to tell a new team how to do it isn't so painful once the base plan exists, although you do need to think ahead to make sure somebody at your back-up vendor has an account with enough access to set up all the other accounts that will need to be created, including authorization to spend money to make it happen.
My LG CX turns on in less than 2s and shows the picture from the HDMI input. The TV can’t access the internet.

I use OpenRGB to disable all lights, or sometimes I’m in the Cyberpunk 2077 mood and make it yellow.

I’m curious that people want to pay more to get less.
I was just considering setting up a Mattermost instance for our company since I used it for a year at a previous job without any issues (I was just a user though, I didn't deploy or maintain it). Just curious, why do you think it's poorly written or unreliable?
Location: Russia, Moscow (UTC+3)

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes (Canada)

Preferable stack: Node.js/JavaScript/React/Docker

Resume/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z5-Br9JifaLp56G85C_-Bmlx...

Email: ilia@ipirozhenko.com

If you’re looking for a senior full stack developer who can solve a wide array of technical tasks then you’ve come to the right place! I’m a polyglot programmer, so I can take care of a whole stack of technologies that you have, including old ones. Currently, my preferable stack is Node.js with any NoSQL warehouse for a backend, React/Next.js for a frontend, Python for ML related tasks and Docker for infrastructure.

In addition, I’m a tech entrepreneur, which means that I want to solve technical tasks that will help your business grow and generate more income.
What do you mean "until it was revealed"? There was some pretty exhaustive reporting a decade and a half ago, but no one really payed much attention. And certainly his high-profile connections weren't a secret.

Conspiracy-minded people imagine a deep shroud of secrecy around the Epstein affair that doesn't really exist.
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Hi,

My previous major gig was an Engineering Manager/Software Engineer hybrid (and occasional executive) at a 100% remote US startup for 5 years.

I also have a smattering of side projects.

I have wide ranging experience with software and technology.

I'm a self-motivated person and always learning new things.

I'm a creative thinker who is able to take a multi-disciplinary approach to solving problems.

I don't just do 'software', but also the business, legal, social and startup issues around software. (I'm well-read on startup literature.)

I'm a problem solver. Give me a problem and throw me in the deep end. You don't have to keep checking on me. I'll find a way out. I'll either solve the problem or provide you with the necessary information to make an informed decision.

I specialise in debugging hard problems which no one else wants to do.

I keep myself busy. You can see from my work history that, if not employed, I always have a side project happening. But don't let that deter you. I'm always willing to shuffle my priorities for the right opportunity.

Thank you for reading and hope to hear from you.

(No recruiters please.)
Yeah, this paper does little to indicate this tool's effectiveness at distinguishing between "conspiracy" and "conspiracy theory". To me, a Conspiracy Theory is an unconfirmed Conspiracy that lacks a preponderance of evidence. I'd rather see some sort of weighted approach that factors for new evidence as it comes in, if it comes in at all. Even in a broad Conspiracy Theory, there may be parts of it that are true and parts of it that are untrue, it isn't a binary thing.
We should 100% eradicate the virus. We have inexpensive vaccines available. Like you say, much of the harm is controlled well short of eradication, but it wouldn't be expensive to do it (it may even be cheaper to eradicate it than to continue to deal with it).
The very straightforward counterargument is that sloc counts non-comment html lines as code-lines. The challenge is "trick sloc into considering something that it counts as code to not counting it as code".
Is this still true? Asking because that comment from dang is 4 years old.
Careful, there's only one story for Bitcoin: "the price goes up" (I hear the kids today have shortened that to "NgU"). This story is very sustainable when Bitcoin's 1% ("decentralized") have been holding coins since $1.

You can always count on the market cap being inflated any time this story is endangered, both to make life difficult for critics and trigger a flood of free advertising in the form of low-effort stories by the fintech blogosphere.

An unregulated global lotto game camouflaged in slippery futurist memery, with zero accountability by its puppet masters as a primary design feature, may well turn out to be a safer play than, say, TSLA or anything starting with a dollar sign. What this implies for us as a species is probably best left unexamined.
>a crazy illuminati-level one (Big Tech eliminating cash to cancel people,

Its been happening for a few years now. It is an unfortunate reality.

https://fortune.com/2017/08/18/visa-paypal-mastercard-hate-g...
Never thought I'd see the day Karl argued against unions...
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It is absolutely hilarious how you think that the voice of your colleagues in collective bargaining is somehow less aligned with your own interests over those of your company's executive body.
"Something's not quite right"

Another classic.
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Its funny that there is so much discussion about the 'g', but no suggestion to pronounce the 'y' differently. In German, it is pronounced gew-ross or gü-ross (English transliteration). I always just assumed that is what everybody else calls it, except in english-speaking countries (but they also say calo-rimmeter instead of calori-meter, and sometimes aluminum instead of aluminium ;-)).
Looks not bad on mobile phone but the font size can be made bigger.
That depends on what the bottleneck is. If it's a precursor or component then more sites won't help at all. Others have commented that it's either vials or clotting factor.
I think there are not so many great things for professional developers to work on these days.

Most of the companies just using developers to better sell some shit to other companies to let those other companies sell another shit to users.

So either start something new and meaningful or find some good startup you believe in.
My point is, they have been affected. I think most people have seen bitflips.

>2009 Google's paper "DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study" says that there can be up to 25000-75000 one-bit FIT per Mbit (failures in time per billion hours), which is equal to 1 - 5 bit errors per hour for 8GB of RAM after my calculations. Paper says the same: "mean correctable error rates of 2000–6000 per GB per year".

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2580933/cosmic-rays-what...

I believe bitflips are far more common than people realize. I see weird shit all the time from my users that is only explainable due to bizarre software bugs or bitflips.
This is deliciously tone deaf on the part of NYT. People are dying all over the place, the meager wealth and incomes of working class people are being destroyed, even unemployment benefits are completely dysfunctional in many states. Maybe it's not the best time to talk about how great it is to be able to maintain your income without even having to leave bed.
> Working from Bed is Great

Article goes on to say that anecdotal evidence from people that work in bed since COVID-19 pandemic are doing fine.

What I can say myself about this is that since I've started working full-time from home in 2018, there were many "great" things I started doing during work. It was a bit like finally having the chance to be "free" and working how I wanted - and not my employer.

Three years later I'm now convinced that there's reasons why people go to offices and why there's certain rules in those.

Anyways, technically speaking "I'm not working from home anymore". I rented out an office space. It's as comfy as home (still, there's no bed). But having a dedicated space to work and face challenges is great, because afterwise I can drive home - and when I'm exhausted, fall into my bed.
"everyone has to play the optimization game as much as the most optimal are optimizing, otherwise they're 'losing' in our economic system, relatively speaking."

If a person is happy with their salary, are they really being taken advantage of? Just because they could perhaps get a better salary, doesn't mean they are forced to go for it. I suspect such cases are also rarer than one might think. I would expect most people to occasionally check their market value.

"greed" is just a negative way to frame it. Ultimately, striving for optimal outcomes is what stabilizes systems and makes them healthier and more efficient. Competition is the only known way to ensure fair prices. Every other approach can and will be gamed (corruption), but you can not fake prices.

It's also all nice to talk about being social, but I think many employees are less happy in reality when they find they have to compensate for their unproductive colleagues and even get less pay. That gets people riled up quickly in the real world.
That's just incorrect. This isn't an issue of states' rights. This is an issue of e.g. the federal government directly distributing vaccines/PPE/testing supplies to hospitals: something they can absolutely do. Think about it: a hurricane hits Florida. Can FEMA respond? What do you think "national emergency" means?
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The idea behind the trend is quite simple. It was already common to find colored lights on PC cases, peripherals, and components. With RGB, you can match colors across those parts more easily.

At least... that's the idea. In practice, it's actually quite cumbersome to configure everything thanks to a lack of hardware/software control standards. As a result, I usually don't bother with RGB. Hopefully this app helps to resolve that issue.
Avi Loeb is notorious and generally not considered serious. He wants to sell books.
What if my significant other is a copy of Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler?
That's a great question. I kind of skirted around indicating one way or the other in my parent post because I've forgotten. My troubles were as recent as the beginning of 2020, but I encountered them on a Raspbian machine, so Lord knows what kernel version it was running at the time. Probably pre-5.4, in which case, yes, it would've been the FUSE driver.
But is there really a limited supply? A second bitcoin chain with the same rules but a new genesis block would provide the same technical capabilities. The limiting factor is just the willingness of people to spend compute mining original bitcoin vs this hypothetical second chain. If we collectively wanted to, we could create an arbitrarily large number of bitcoin-like tokens
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I mean...wasn't gmail (which effectively IS email for many, many people) down recently?
I personally found it more convincing to think of what I would have done the first time the asset doubled. There is no way I'd 'let it ride'. At some point you rebalance your portfolio and you 'miss out' on some of the upside by hedging your bets against an isolated downside.

I bought my first AAPL stock at ~$40 a share the first time, which I believe was about a year before their previous stock split. If I'd held it continuously I'd have 8x as many shares and a basis of $5 a share, which would mean I'd have 25x as much money as I started with.

But my portfolio would be unbalanced as hell, and I would have missed out on a lot of run-ups for WWDC and such. So I sold some, did profit taking on the rest, and occasionally bought back in, not always at the best times. So instead I have about 5x as many shares, and my basis is more like $45 a share, but now with some dividends on top, which is nice. If anything, my portfolio still has too much AAPL in it (I sold about 10% a few weeks ago)
What is happening here? Am I reading this correctly? These are outages on a massive scale, affecting several international web services and infrastructure?
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My point is: No publicly traded company goes “above and beyond” for their employees. They literally work for the interest of their shareholders. Individual workers’ rights do not matter for them. And a high salary is not everything, especially since “high” in the SV is still pretty average at best. I now know of several high skilled engineers who worked at Apple and Facebook who came back because they were burned out and in two cases could not even afford their family anymore in the bay area (with both couples working as engineers).

Your employer is not your friend who was kindly enough to take you in and spread your wings. And my point of bringing in Germany was this: The US labour laws are laughable, thus to make conditions better for workers they __have__ to unionize to put themselves in a stronger position.

I did not address the second type because I think it is a false equivalence. There is never a balance between worker and employer. FAANG companies are the richest and most influential companies in the world, if you think that a union will topple this power distribution, you are really naive.
Maybe that's just for the outage tracker. It's up.
Imagine if they did that for the US government, which is easier to compel since they are in US territory.
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I’m not complaining about the prices. I think they’ve done something amazing for sure. I just think the companies doing that same thing, and at cost are more amazing.

Without the Oxford one, a lot of countries around the world would still be just as screwed as they are today.

But don’t get me wrong I think what they all have done is amazing. And it makes me happy.
> Forming a union is not competitive, it’s the opposite.

Yes.

> that is exactly what anti-trust legislation is trying to prevent.

This is so muddled.

Anti-trust and pro-labor policies are not at odds. Corporations and the people who do their work for them are not cut from the same cloth. When the owners of the world's productive capacity collude to fix prices, that's a trust. When laborers who (by definition) do not own the productive capacity, it's not. It's a union. These are two different words for two different concepts about two fundamentally different kinds of entities (capital and labor).

Thinking of the wage relation as a bargain between equals is a cope. You're not as powerful as Google.

There is a reason we don't talk about employers (especially enormous ones Like Alphabet that are becoming so deeply integrated into modern life and politics that it's now difficult to fully conceive of) and individual working people as if they are the same kind of thing.

One is a supranational bohemoth that owns an enormous productive capacity, the other relies on wage labor to live. (That's not a sob story, just a true fact. You can rely on wage labor and still live pretty comfortably. I do.)
I think you just identified a strong contender for "next service to crash" ;)