skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's what I want.

A box that has a tape drive and a hard disk. For every disk write my computer does, I want it to send to the box a copy of the data, what disk it was written to, and what sector number.

I want the box to store that information on its hard disk. When it accumulates enough that writing it to tape would not be too inefficient [1], it should write it out to tape and free the space on its hard disk.

I monitored my SSD writes for a few years, to see how long it would be before I had to worry about hitting their write limits. I found that I was writing under 3 TB/year on both my home and work machines.

A box like that, even with a modest size current tape cartridge, would be enough to handle all of my computers for several years before filling up the first cartridge.

[1] I don't know if this is still the case, but it used to be that when tape drives stopped and started, you'd get a gap that wasted some tape.
Interesting. Reminds me of the “snake oil” technique useful when evaluating complex sums in combinatorics. By treating the sum in question as the coefficient of x^n in another sum, you can often obtain an expression where finding the coefficient of x^n — which is the value you’re after — is simple.
This is actually super exciting. However, there is literally 0 evidence that this works. Am I missing something?
Become a remote contractor and avoid office politics.
Admittedly, I didn't read the full story, but the bits I did read included a mid-life crisis guy taking courses to learn to make ice cream and growing a business with the support of his partner.
If you judge someone by the tools they use, you are a junior dev. Embarrassing.

Stop and consider that there are different tools for different purposes. Exactly the same way Word, Publisher, Photoshop, and Sublime or Vim are different from each other, so are things like PyCharm, VS Code, Jupyter, and Spyder.

A "full" IDE like PyCharm is designed for application development, including deep introspection of your code, deployment automation, tool integration for things like preprocessors (such as sass/less), and integrated support for VMs and Docker. This is overkill if you're writing a simple script, but helps for larger projects.

Something like VS Code is closer to PyCharm, but might not be as deeply integrated for any given language. It does provide a more consistent environment if you tend to work in multiple languages, which can help you avoid some of the context switching between langs.

Jupyter and Spyder serve a different purpose. They aren't the kind of thing you'd (usually) write a full application in, but it's exactly the kind of thing that would be useful to data scientist, or someone trying to explore a library. The re-executable cells in Jupyter are quite useful for quickly iterating on data cleaning code, since you can re-write and rerun a series of cells without rerunning expensive calculations or data loading.

I haven't used spyder in years (2008/9?), but it was a great way to put my fledgling python skills to use back then. I was performing a lot of data analysis on radio astro data in Matlab, but we only had so many 'roaming' licenses for our lab. Using numpy and spyder allowed me to practice my python and get my data analysis done outside of the lab.

So consider the fact that not all tools are suitable for the same thing, and that a 'senior' dev considers what tool is right for the job at hand.
See:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26041829
All the current vaccines being rolled out give non-sterilizing immunity. This means the vaccinated still get infected in the upper respiratory tract and still transmit the virus (but perhaps 50% less transmission). The vaccine protects them from developing a severe infection (COVID). The implication of this is that we will still be dealing with this virus for many years to come.

I hope the drug companies are working on a vaccine similar to the one in the article that has the potential to provide sterilizing immunity since it works in the upper respiratory tract.
If someone murdered a loved one of mine, I don't see how having the state execute them would make things any better for me. I'd be satisfied if they were simply imprisoned so they could not hurt others. Punishing them further wouldn't help me at all.
Do you have proof that no Asian employees at Apple were involved in the development of the filter?
Yeah, it's an absurd complaint.

I mean, I like copyleft licensing. But it's perfectly reasonable (albeit possibly naïve) to request commercial donations on a non-copyleft project.
Small Can Be Great
Sherlock Jr. is always my recommendation for people who want to dip their toes into the truly wonderful world of Buster Keaton

"Shadow your man closely"
Well, maybe.

We use LTO6 to backup daily 60tb of data from production, so ten tapes a set. 14 dailies, 13 monthlies, and 7 yearlies.

We are probably moving to a Data Domain solution; as in spinning disk; but the key to archival security is that backups are replicated between two sites that are geographically separated. space usage is minimized by compression and logic that can treat newer backups as extensions of existing data rather than duplicating all the data again.

the big advantage is restore speeds. spinning up ten tapes which we write simultaneously because of speed needs is cumbersome and slow with restoring a single table taking nearly half as long as the actual backup. On a DD system its less than 30 minutes and with backups replicated to both centers a restore can be done to production that was saved from the dr site; we replicate from production to dr and only backup dr daily.

the issue with tapes has been you never know when the one you need is gone bad until you need it. it is also not common to replicate tape sets but a disk base solution lends itself to easy replication and transmission from site to site.

so I can see both solutions working side by side for some companies but for many the disk based backup solutions that are out have come down in price; most are leased; as storage devices have dropped.

are biggest limitation still is the number of ports between system and backup devices.
If it made financial sense, there would be rehabilitation and re-integration.

In my humble opinion, we have a magical wishful thinking (should this, should that) mentality towards the way the world works, when we should have an evidence based, rational approach
instead.
I did read it. It's pure garbage. How can you, with a straight face, read that and believe it? It's text book conspiracy.
Tragically, it's become fashionable and encouraged for politics to seep into every facet of peoples' lives thanks to intersectionality and aggressive behavior from the woke crowd. Without a firm no-tolerance politics policy from the employer this kind of stuff is just going to continue. However, any organization that publicly declares it won't accept political discussions in the workplace is probably going to receive the full brunt of outrage from the activists. So sadly, you probably won't find any company that openly advertises it's neutrality.

You may have some luck with small companies, if only because there are so much fewer potential activists working there. Avoid large multinationals like the plague.

Any company that hires a lot of young people / entry level developers is going to have way more of the activist types. Especially if they're right out of university. You could try searching for positions that use older tech-stacks. That's one roundabout way to find and older, less engaged, crowd.

As an additional word of caution, the people you encountered sound like true zealots. I'm not being hyperbolic, I truly think many of the woke crowd are modern-day proselytizers. Be very careful disagreeing or being critical of their views.
Interesting how much people's perception can be influenced by simple framing. The revelations in this article are actually quite similar to some of the "conspiracy theory" type of allegations made by those questioning the legitimacy of the most recent election.

>That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information

Not to choose a side, but considering Trump only lost the popular vote by a few percent, one could argue that this constitutes mass disenfranchisement, especially in light of the fact that republicans are underrepresented in the institutions that the article is alleging colluded.

The real danger here in my opinion is that it's incredibly difficult for laypeople to form unbiased opinions, as the media that we all consume has very clearly chosen a side, perhaps moreso than in the past, under the guise of "saving democracy". So in a way this article also legitimizes trump's infamous claim of "fake news".

Edit: won -> lost
It's something I've been thinking about a lot lately. Not necessary to try and make something myself, but just... what would a modern Flash look like if it wasn't just a clone, but it was people actually thinking about what made Flash attractive and really trying to figure out how to replicate its strengths and address its weaknesses?

An interesting point here is that Adobe Animate still exists, which (in theory, I haven't used it) still has a lot of these features. But nobody uses it for game prototyping that I'm aware of -- and not just because it's expensive or (in my case) because people refuse to use subscription software. I've seen gamedevs do their animation in Animate CC, and then export it out to Unity. So there's something going on there.

I wonder if I went back and reinstalled Flash 8, if there are parts of it I would notice that didn't age well, or paradigms that needed to be rethought. But I still feel like that kind of workflow is something we could have again, and with enough thought put into it, it could be even better. I would welcome more people thinking about this kind of stuff or trying their hand at prototyping game engines that were designed around novel workflows.

There's fertile ground in this area if someone wanted to explore it and dig into it.
It's part of modern civilization for the same reason people enjoy it when the bad guy gets punished at the end of a movie. This is the essence of justice, whether you have the stomach to face it or not.
That makes sense then, w3m's inline image option was probably disabled for OP and the other two can't inline images at all.
If that's toxic, then everything is toxic, and the word no longer means anything.
A ridiculous exaggeration; you’re asking for volunteers to take a risk. Not killing them.

People can decide for themselves to take risks. You may not agree with the choices they make and that is your problem. Not theirs.
Interesting that they mention

“
The Founders Awards are intended to retain and incentivize the Co-Founders to lead our company to sustained, long-term superior financial and operational performance. We believe the Founders Awards further align the Co-Founders’ interests with those of our long-term stockholders because the vesting, in addition to the value the Founders may realize from the Founders Awards, if any, will depend on the creation of significantly enhanced stockholder value over the seven years following the date of this offering. We expect the Founders Awards to replace the equity and long-term incentive compensation, if any, that we otherwise would have awarded to the Co-Founders during the seven years following this offering.”

Yet they’re not even involved in the day to day. Seems like another we work giveaway.
You can a acknowledge the similarity of ristto dishes to curry over rice and at the same time say it's more different than Indian and Japanese curry is similar. Let's not kill all the nuance.

And sure, you won't find ramen in Korean cuisine, which is why I wrote ramen-like. You'll find noodle soups though, like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janchi-guksu
It strikes me as an employers problem to fix their toxic workplace, not lower level employees.

You never know exactly who the abuser has in their corner within management. You never know the professional networks that exist if you work in a smaller niche. Once you've decided to go after someone toxic in management, you better not miss... and even if you don't, you may not want to make a habit of it.
They did not study it, there is not data to make conclusive statements. There really isn't data to state a quantified reduction in transmission (None!).
That’s almost as bad as the time Microsoft ran Defender sandbox as LocalSystem. CVE-2017-0290. That one was a massive dose of irony in one CVE.

You’d think people would have learned about least privilege by now?
Thanks a lot your kind words! I'm really glad you enjoyed using Spyder and have fond memories of it.
Only thing they are engineering is money from taxpayers
This seems to be a form of magical thinking cloaked in science. It might even screw up them getting the real covid vaccine later.
كلمات اغنية سيد اسيادك حسين السعد
This is like a person writing a 100 line python program to search a text file, and claiming they finished a competitor for Google.
Pais: High Frequency Gravitational Waves-Induced Propulsion
"It may be possible to generate high power / high frequency gravitational waves (HFGWs) by high frequency accelerated axial rotation (spin) and/or accelerated high frequency vibration of an electrically charged, possibly asymmetric structure, within the context of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, namely far-from-equilibrium physics, highly non-linear in nature."
Reflecting back on vaccinating my own animals, several of the vaccinations involved injecting a liquid into their noses. I don't recall which vaccinations exactly, it's been a long time. This was the method tested and approved by veterinarians.
We Destroy Things
In Julia, this can be done with even less efforts on the user-side by loading Revise (https://github.com/timholy/Revise.jl) before any other package you load.
The latter is mostly true. I can look back at events that revealed just how toxic things were, but there always seemed to be something (maybe the interesting part of the job, maybe somebody in worse shape) that kept me from processing them. But once away...

As one former colleague said, "Nobody who left X ever wanted to go back."
why is a redirect after the submission of a login form needed? Usually they say, that's to avoid the misuse of the history function to login. But firefox already knows, that there is a password field and could clear the data after the submit. Why it's not done?
But until treatments/vaccines were developed, everyone on Earth had the disease-equivalent, sometimes-fatal status of "no prior immunity to COVID".

Sure, the scale is massively different for a young healthy person: "susceptible to COVID" would mean a moderate chance of catching the disease (growing over time), and then a small chance of death or previous complications. But the "susceptibility" is also a "health condition" with nonzero risk-of-death.

And for society as a whole, COVID passed cancer as a cause of death last year, and in January 2021 has been killing about twice as many people as all cancers combined.

So "diagnosed-with-cancer" versus "susceptible-to-COVID" shouldn't be that different in terms of the kinds of risks we'd let informed people take to address that danger.
I feel fundamentally, we are in a time where, every business is a unicorn and needs hyper growth. It's like grow at all cost, you can do it if you throw enough money at it. While it may be feasible for some businesses, most require strong fundamentals to survive for long.
1% is not the lowest percent.
As an original software developer of the FBI NICS system this will involve massive technology changes. One point that stands out is the "public access database" of this proposed system which all reading this likely can formulate an opinion around the government and cybersecurity. Is this a timing play? -The NRA in shambles and looking to physically restructure while the Congress proposes new bills to thwart the gun violence. Creative none the less, sure you have the right to bear arms per the U.S. constitution but those arms are of no use if you cannot obtain ammunition.
The MMR vaccine has live virus, and before injecting the kids the nurse make a few additional questions about the health of the children and IIRC about the people that live with the children. (Like: Does someone in the family have cancer or is immunosuppressed? I don't remember the details.) It's safe, but they must check that the nearby persons are healthy.
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I was in-state, where the acceptance rate is around ~50%.
> Entry level tech jobs are remarkably scarce and difficult to obtain/maintain.

Entry level jobs are available everywhere - contributing to open source programs. Of course, nobody is going to immediately write you a check for that. But once you build a track record of competent contributions, people will be willing to pay you for more, and may even hire you.

I'm proud that many contributors to the D language have leveraged that into very well paying jobs.
So, backblaze / dropbox.. but in a physical box?
This is an amazing book, the engineering, bottom-up counterpart to the equally marvelous, but top-down, mathematical SICP. Between these two a serious student can get a wonderful foundation in CS and a deep and hopefully enduring connection to the beauty in it.
As I said, it's a two times thing, but if it bothers you so much, we could a command line option to disable those messages completely. Would that be ok?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_the_Box#California

> California Fair Chance Act, which assists Californians with conviction histories to re-enter society by prohibiting employers from asking about conviction history before making a job offer.
Have you done it?

Elixir has interested me but I'm not sure if I want to learn Erlang.
My latter example would be with regards to US Constitutional rights, and is possibly something that won't change in your lifetime. If anything, there was political energy to Constitutionally define heterosexual marriage as the only marriage, as it was a presidential get-out-to-vote issue for George Bush Jr.

But it does motivate discussion on fraternity. A discussion of the disarmament of relations must begin with the movement of not only words.
Daily reminder: Piracy is not about price.

https://archive.is/tFp19
The weird thing is, HTML already has (and had, even back then) a much simpler and more straightforward way to represent nested lists, but pg didn't want to use it because he thought W3C recommendations went against the spirit of explorational programming[0]. So the existing layout is the way it is just to be contrarian... which is remarkably on-brand for HN.

[0]http://arclanguage.org/item?id=20788
Not everyone has the ability to do a physically laborious job.
In my opinion (obviously a downvoted one but whatever), it fundamentally destabilized the whole ecosystem with a massive deluge of near-breaking changes.

I get for startups or people running immediate-to-production deployments that it is doable.

But Java's ecosystem is boring, staid enterprise, and those people are still running critical systems on Windows XP or worse. IF they are dragging their feet on THAT...

The churn basically stuns these people into 1) staying on Java8 for a LONG time, or 2) look at rewriting the system in something else, or 3) scaring them into paying money.

I have been doing mostly groovy for the last 10 years so not a single feature in the Java besides invokedynamic (which was really a JVM feature not a Java feature) has impacted me in a good way. Meanwhile... that churn.

As a Cassandra user I have seen the "what the hell do we target" conversation play out for 4.0 planning on the dev list, besides the sun.misc stuff. Maybe since (gah AMAZON's Corretto, seriously we have to rely on AMAZON being a good steward of OSS) then the coordination of patching and providing builds has stabilized outside of Oracle offered downloads, but it was a bit unsettling for a while.

So while I get that a lot of people see that as "being nimble" and "moving fast", those are precisely NOT what Java has historically been, for better or worse.
Thank you for the response.

I am currently working in a smaller company that is a part of a bigger conglomerate/corporation, which sometimes feel like the worst of both worlds.

I agree that using the word "brainwashed" sounds quite fringe, but I guess what I wanted to convey was that I feel like this constant, incessant seeping of one narrative makes me rather uneasy.

I don't think I am the catalyst of those events, since I hardly ever respond to them (publicly).

I set my mind on moving on, but I am really curious if there are places that are less "susceptible" to those kind of situations.
Ever heard of the 1619 Project?

The NYT published historical falsehoods as the central claims in one of their highest profile publications of the last decade. That publication was then pilloried by professional historians and widely criticized as ideological propaganda masquerading as historical scholarship, because that's exactly what it was. They later walked back one of the most glaring errors, but only after months of outcry and their fact-checker, a professional historian, going public to say that he had told them what they were saying was untrue but they had printed it anyway. And they couched the correction in the weasel words of a 'clarification', which is an odd way to describe an update that completely changes the meaning of a sentence. They were later caught stealth-editing the piece and claiming that it had never said something else that had originally been its most prominent claim. Where exactly does journalistic integrity fit into this?

The NYT was a fine newspaper once, but that time is no more.
Coding school are popular because they are the easiest to automate with computer code.

Anyway, everyone starts at entry-level before they get 10 years of experience.
Where as a Nation Do We Go from Here?
Does "asian" sound like an obscure term that needs "comprehensive" testing to discover?

Plus, how about partial rollout?
I've only seen it used to make Aam ka achaar (mango pickle)
Klobuchar targets Big Tech with biggest antitrust overhaul in 45 years
Would this not just lead to a fragmentation of whatever industry? e.g. if google / apple can't legally do business in Pakistan or some other countries because of these laws, presumably someone like China will step in and provided the missing products or services. Not that this is necessarily a bad situation ethnically anyways, but there are consequences.
Hah. I actually had two linear algebra texts in college, both ostensibly by the same author (I can't recall now who it was so can't verify the later edition was actually by the same man and didn't reuse his name). One was my mother's in college some time in 1976-1980, the other was mine from some time in 2000-2004. If it weren't for the exercises, I'd have only used hers because it was a much clearer text, it was also less than half the size (overall smaller in every dimension: shorter, narrower, and thinner).
Damn, Vulture pulling no punches

> The Verge’s Ashley Carman echoed this critique in her piece on the Times’ December determination, when she identified this as an expression of the dangers around the modern media intellectual property gold rush, which podcasting as an industry has aggressively internalized as a growth hormone
A book recommendation: Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work by Babiak. Lots of good material on recognizing the situation. But once you do, the advice is simple: get out.
Let's Build a Compiler[1] (old book but still good, you can use Free Pascal if you want to use a modern compiler).

[1] https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/