skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to imagine that one day, after the Singularity, the super-intelligent AI overmind that society merges into will be able to resurrect me from the security answers I've left throughout the internet.

And all of the virtual reincarnations of all you security-minded suckers will be stuck thinking your mother's maiden name was X1r$9ox01.
ryangittins says "The "got called out in a meeting with many others present" part is something which I don't think should have happened at all—regardless of whether or not the developer in question felt shame."

Yes, but we don't know what the OP meant by "called out": it could have been as simple as one person asking "Did you read the documentation?" and a long following uneasy silence, or it could have been quite vicious, e.g., the documentation's author ranting at the developer for not reading the docs, a manager dressing him down for his failure to do so, or even worse.

But we don't know, so while your point is well-made it is tangential to the discussion. Nonetheless you reveal a well-developed attitude about people and groups that would be very useful in management.

As an aside, the OP's description of the developer in question paints an individual who is most likely not as self-aware as you are: indeed he/she sounds like someone who is quite hardened and aggressive in his ways. Sometimes you must unfortunately pop such people on the nose to get their attention.

Compare yourself with the aforementioned developer - which of the two is more likely to be/become a manager? Such an opportunity is not likely for him but is something that probably lies in your future, waiting, if you haven't already gone there.
Not Twain, Pascal: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/.
Sometimes it clarifies meaning, most of the time it adds nothing. "Sneakier than a fox" doesn't help.

That quote is from Orwell's Politics and the English Language: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...

While the one sentence out of context seems unnecessarily complex, most of Orwell's writing is pretty simple to read.

Another bit from that essay:

"The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not. This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose, and especially of any kind of political writing. As soon as certain topics are raised, the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed: prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."

Arguably, Orwell would probably agree with PG.

Using imagery to clarify meaning can be done well, but part of doing it well is using the tools sparingly and intentionally with an eye towards clarity.

Another relevant bit from that Orwell essay:

"As I have tried to show, modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. The attraction of this way of writing is that it is easy. It is easier – even quicker, once you have the habit – to say 'In my opinion it is not an unjustifiable assumption' that than to say 'I think'."

I'd argue 'sneakier than a fox' is an example of what he's talking about. A lame pre-existing set of words that does little to explain or clarify anything.
Was able to find it through Tokien Gateway (a really great reference, BTW), Letter 213: http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Letter_213

> From [Tolkien's] works one could deduce the Christianity but not perhaps the Roman Catholicism, except that one critic related invocations the Elbereth and Galadriel's character to Catholic devotion to Mary. Another saw lembas, which fed the will and became more potent when fasting, as derived from the Eucharist.
It's like ham radio without the radio. Or Clubhouse without the influencers or NFT talk.
This isn't the author's reaction to the interview process, it's their reaction to the way the company tried to pressure them into accepting the offer.

> Then the pressure started, incessant calls from the hiring manager and the VP of Engineering, back-to-back emails, all within the allotted time.

I agree with the author that it's a red flag - it communicates that they don't respect boundaries or behave professionally.
Cool, then it starts to look really promising. Thanks for your answer.
Ask HN: Security Camera That Doesn't Talk to 3rd Parties?
I need to set up an exterior camera that stores or streams video off-device, but I can't have it talking to uncontrolled servers (so nothing like Nest or Ring).

I don't need an app, but I do need the server to be self-hosted.

This is a little outside my experience, and Google isn't being very helpful right. Is this an option on the consumer market?
This is great feedback, thank you.

For future follow-up, my work email is my handle here (bnewbold) at archive.org
That was my starting point when I was thinking about this. However it seems there’s a lot of users who just don’t want to do that initial investment, so having a demo would potentially help in converting them.
I like the current bsdtar-- it's libarchive [1] based, and supports a bunch of formats (including your typical tarball formats, but also zip, 7zip, and rar archives, amongst others).

[1] https://www.libarchive.org/
Effective altruism isn't opposed to your values. It's about achieving your values as much as possible, given resource constraints. If your values are different from most EAs, then you'll have a different criterion for "effectiveness".
You were probably a victim of their 30 day deletion policy. If for any reason (firewall, etc) you did not connect to the backup servers your data would just be purged without a grace period. For that reason I built my own backup sync using B2 directly instead of their backup service (and it’s a lot cheaper).
Is there a non-sourceforge mirror? My pi.hole lists block that domain, and likely for good reason.
I completely agree. I work for a big company. I've been here for 18 years. It is a fantastic place to work. The people, the pay, the flexibility, the meaningful work, all are great. No place is perfect, but I haven't yet found anywhere I'd rather be.

However, our hiring process is sometimes shameful. You name it, we've probably done it. We've ghosted candidates that did really well in their interview. We've taken weeks to make an offer, and we've asked candidates to fly across the country for a 2nd onsite interview because some middle manager thought that Team X should talk to them.

We're getting better, but sometimes there are legitimate reasons for things like delays and ghosting that can't be disclosed to the candidate. I try to keep this in mind when I get treated similarly by other companies.
This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24482119
Assume rent was your only expense, and your landlord currently charges you $1000/mo rent. He cannot charge you $1200/mo because you can't bear it. If he learns that you started getting $200/mo for free, he can easily raise your rent to $1200/mo. Now in the real world, we have multiple expenses, so prices rises will happen proportionally among them. The consumers with UBI can bear price increases, so the producers will soak it up.
That is my experience as well. Every time I got an "exploding offer", I said "Thank you, but I need more time because I'm interviewing with other companies." This was always met with an "of course".

That said, I never got an offer from something like SV startup or a FAANG, so I can imagine it's totally different over there.
I'm from NY if it matters. When I hear 'spoonful' in a recipe, I generally think of a regular spoon (one for cereal, but not an oversized one) with a heaping amount of whatever the ingredient is. 'spoonful' also implies the quantity is to taste, otherwise they would be more specific.
> Again, why the fuck would you

Please drop swipes like that from your arguments here, and generally please don't escalate hostility even when someone is wrong or you feel they are. Your comment would be fine without that last sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: as for "Try to not be autistic for a second" - we ban accounts that do that. Please review the guidelines and take the intended spirit of the site more to heart, so we won't have to ban you.
I think a little bit of it is due to being old, but being serious, I'm a software engineer and still often find myself baffled by modern design choices. I often hover over icons, hoping that a popup will explain what the button does, or highlight whole web pages that choose to have grey instead of black text. I think we're at a point where designers are just pushing novelty over function to justify their positions.

I also agree on the google icons. After years I still get google photos and google drive confused, not to mention youtube and strava (both red/orange-ish icons). I think you're fine, it's design trends that are getting ridiculous
Then, it's possible that nets are being distributed by evil people who make their victims kneel for hours before getting help. (This is extreme, but it could involve things diametrically opposed to your values; maybe Islam is being spread in traditional animistic societies[0], destroying traditional culture; maybe they're micro-chipping these people.) Cost-effectiveness is a good metric, but if you know nothing about what's involved in curing malaria...

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[0] Semi-relatedly, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Save_the_Children_Fund_Fil...
I had an interview like that last year. It was the third interview that looped in the team lead. The team lead was answering slack messages the whole time and asked me to repeat my answer to questions a handful of times. He apologized and everything, but the bigger issue is you aren't going to remember a candidate for a job when you aren't paying attention so its clearly a waste of time for everyone.
Alternatively, CalyxOS is also a great choice. I've been using it on my Pixel 3 for a few weeks now and it's seamless
"Of it's kind" = using ice as the detector medium, there were other neutrino observatories before Pingu.
$1000/mo is $6.25/hr at 40 hours per week. Minimum wage is only $1/hr more[0] and people are expected to live on that. $6.25/hr with no 40hr time commitment is a pretty sweet deal.

[0] US federal minimum wage
This is about how I learned it many years back, but it worked well for me.

(1) I was starting with Oracle, so I read through Oracle's Database Concepts (https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14220/toc.h...). This contains unnecessarily deep technical detail (which I skimmed), but I learn more easily if I have a strong footing in the concepts so I don't feel disoriented. For example, it was helpful to understand transactions (section 4), undo (section 3), and the data dictionary (section 7; later made it easier to understanding the DDL / DML distinction), consistency (section 13). It also contains an overview of some important SQL concepts in section 24 such as cursors and the fact that there's an optimizer which figures out how to run your query.

(2) I read about database normalization. Understanding how to put things in first, second, and third normal forms was extremely helpful in reshaping how I think of data structures. Learning to use a database is not just about how to write a query. It's also about how to model data. (What does relational, as in relational database, mean anyway?) Even if you're not creating tables, understanding how they are probably organized helps you query them. And once you understand basic modeling stuff like normalization, you can move on to advanced stuff like denormalization. Another part of modeling is keys (natural vs. surrogate/synthetic keys, composite keys, foreign keys, etc.).

(3) I practiced writing SQL queries and learned all the joins, aggregate functions, analytic functions, etc.
About a month ago, the cross-platform product I support had a group of developers considering standardizing on 7-Zip, only to realize that p7zip - what most Linux users consider 7-Zip - is actually a 3rd party project. Had this come out a month ago, it might have actually swayed their decision.
> I guess one could maybe introduce explict capacitors and them compute capacitiances by making some assimptions about layout.

That is, in fact, exactly what we do! I think it would be pretty straight forward for your large buffer example - you can model it as a fixed capacitance at each output which corresponds to the routing between inverters, which would be the same for all sizes, plus some scaling capacitance that relates to the size of the transistor itself, which you already have.

The adder would be trickier, for sure. Regardless, in my experience, just adding a reasonable estimate is good enough to get you close in terms of sizing in schematics, then you fine tune the layout.
> Rust has std and async_std as separate codebases because of function coloring.

It depends on what you mean by "separate codebases." asyc_std is a third party package someone made, so it's a separate codebase because of that.

We could also include all of it (or something like it) and it would be a "single codebase," but I think that's more about your wording than your point.
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I lived somewhere less expensive (small town, out of the way) and in addition to being a big drag on income (9 of 10 jobs were a "no" from the start because they didn't hire remote) I ultimately didn't like the lifestyle.

Now I live somewhere with a high cost of living (Toronto) because I'm near work, my kids can ride transit rather than driving (much safer for teens) and it means I'm not spending my time as a soccer-practice chauffeur, universities are nearby as well as good hospitals etc., lots of cultural stuff I like. But it's expensive.

From the article "one or two years’ worth of living expenses" if your goal is financial independence, opting work for two years is insane, unless you can bring your expenses down to next-to-nothing as the author suggests. Having two years of expenses for a family of 6 is whole different ballgame than what this fellow is talking about, it's apples and oranges.

As a single person I could get up and move somewhere cheaper, sleep in tent and eat out of the dumpster for that matter (I've done it before, I can do it again) but this is not something I can do with/to my family.
I thought this would be about the repository maintainers of obscure but used dependencies, who then that sell to random passerbys who then make the dependency malicious

Because I would like to read about that experience
I am the furthest thing from practicing FIRE, after all my primary hobby is racing cars (cheap cars... but racing anything is expensive). But just by finding ways to be frugal in other areas of my life and prioritizing savings and investments over material things, I've been able to have a healthy cushion for most of my adult life. It has also come in handy a few times when ethical considerations forced me to make a career move.

At this point in my life, I have a target to retire at 50, and will at that point have enough residual income from investments that I can work only when I want to for the remainder of my life. That's an achievable goal for anyone working in tech, and it does empower you to be more real in your work life, but it's also a sliding scale of how aggressively you want to cut things out of your life to save money.

I think the author has the right concept, but their actual breakdown in terms of expenses isn't realistic for most people in the US. I live in a very low cost of living area and still couldn't bring my expenses as low as the author of this article.
I understand why they would do this, in light of the attention this is getting. Whether the attention itself is the purpose of the posts or not isn't really relevant to what gleaned from this.

Learning to evade restrictions is a powerful motivation for curious kids. How many kids are initially interested in figuring out how to play a browser-based game on their Chromebook, but in the process discover that learning programming is something that they enjoy and is accessible to them?

Some of my first "tech" experiences were learning to get around copy protection schemes for 90s-era software. That has directly lead me to the career I have today. These posts seem like the 2020 equivalent of learning just enough assembly to do a hex dump of an executable, find the serial number conditional, and invert the logic.
Panpsychism is the term.

For usage in popular fiction & fun reading, take a deep dive into the lore of The Elder Scrolls, especially Morrowind-era content. In short, the universe is dreamed up by The Dreamer, and thus by definition is made of consciousness. Interesting consequences ensue as a result, especially for the few bits of consciousness (people) that become "lucid" within the dream.

This was all inspired of course by some parts of Hinduism if I remember correctly.
It's far from done, and some would say not done at all, depending on the definition of microplastic. Microplastic in cosmetics is absolutely not even close to solved.

https://www.plasticsoupfoundation.org/en/2020/03/battle-on-t...
@feross thank you for submitting my project. I've been a huge fan of your work in open-source community.
Why do you think it is opened to the Internet? May be just a box behind a NAT calling home and/or be part of closed VPN swarm.

I would love to hear how the management part got implemented.
MS Flight Sim modders form LLC, hired by MS
"When you write in a fancy way to impress people..."

Is that the only reason to write in sentences of 10 words or more?
>> When you have more than you can spend, many things lose meaning.

Saw that in significant numbers in the rich heirs/esses going while going to a top school

I see it not as a failure caused buy the money, but by the lack of imagination.

As the Bard wrote: "The fault is not in our stars, But in ourselves..."

You now have the freedom to find a new challenge, whether starting your own space program, saving elephants or other species, solving education or poverty... Find something to be useful, dig in, and your passion will find you again.
From your link (written in rather grammatically flawed English) it is unclear whether Tolkien intended that symbolism, or if he was only relating that a third party claimed that symbolism in his work.
Thursday is the best maintenance day. If it goes haywire, you have a full business day to fix before losing a weekend. And if you can't, well, you've given your coworkers a "free Friday," which is far less likely to result in complaints than screwing up M-Th.
> Try to not be autistic for a second.

Whoa, you can't do that here—that's bannable territory. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26428045.

(Also, please don't be snarky and please don't use allcaps for emphasis. Your "PERHAPS" breaks both of those guidelines in one go.)
Back in the day, one of the selling points of the RAR format was that it could partition large files into multiple archives, so you could upload it in chunks, or copy it to multiple flash drives or CDs. Have other archive formats caught up with this feature?
OpenNebula joins the Linux Foundation Edge initiative
The Tower of Babel story comes into pretty good context when you realize that the people writing it down (most likely in the 5th-6th century BC in Babylon) were living among the ruined towers of a Babylonian empire from a millennium before them.
Effective altruism is a value. A practicing Catholic may find the most effective interventions to be against their religion. A less strict Christian may feel that effectiveness overrules religious directives. In any case, you're operating under your values.
Great job. Consider offering a more expensive option like $50 free forever. Also $10/year feels cheap for such a fun project.... try a random number like $16, I’m sure you’d have similar conversion. Kudos
I'm assuming it's because 7-zip (1) has widespread use on other platforms (2) supports solid compression and (3) is efficient for randomly access. There is DAR which does (2) and (3) but not cross-platform and is already esoteric on *nix platforms.
No, it's a huuuuuge problem when people become addicted to easy money and never work again. Why would they, it's their right to get paid not to.

Welfare is better than UBI because welfare ends. Welfare encourages competence and self-reliance. And welfare can be extended in cases where there really aren't any jobs. It can do what UBI does, but without the fatal flaws.
> and have recruiters spam your resume

What does this mean? Do you mean the applicant to spam recruiters with their resume? Or use Leetcode directly for hiring, because corpos will hire through Leetcode?
Sure, you can still the up in that situation.

But what are the chances that the hiring manager will pester you within the time frame you supposedly have for considering the offer and then won't do the same when you are employed with your actual tasks?

I would put it close to zero.
It doesn't need to be a remote area with crappy internet and cold winters. Within the US there are non-remote parts of NC, TN, GA, TX that are near big cities (airport access, access to certain categories of entertainment that mostly happens in big cities) but still in big enough towns to offer a great lifestyle unless you really need the club scene. Good houses are in the $100-250k range with decent, but not always stellar, amounts of land. These are towns/counties in the 50-150k population range.
Placenta is a dumping ground for genetic defects
At a previous large company more than once I had to explain that the interview process 'is HR's show'...but once the job starts it is now 'our show' and they don't have to worry about that song and dance anymore.

It's frustrating that it is that way, but the hiring at that company was a whole other song and dance that took very little input from anyone about the hiring process.
By the way, do people use unar? It's a great solution I stumbled upon for when you want to be like "I don't know or care how this was compressed, just extract it for me"
Sorry, I wrote a conclusion section for my post as an edit, but I guess I never hit submit on it:

> The idea is that when someone says "spoonful", they mean "one unit of the thing as you'd normally apportion that thing, using the spoon you'd normally use when interacting with that thing."

> So, one "spoonful of sugar" (or most spices) is a teaspoonful, because you use tea spoons when interacting with sugar in everyday life; while one "spoonful of honey" (or soup stock, or reserved pasta water, or any other thing that you only tend interact with in the context of cooking) is a tablespoonful. (Or actually, a wooden-mixing-spoon-ful, since that's what cooks had on hand to measure with — but as it turns out, wooden mixing spoons usually had the same level liquid capacity as table-spoons. The heaping measures weren't equivalent between wooden mixing spoons and tablespoons, though, and this has caused much numerical error when modernizing old recipes!)
Personal and Business Car Leasing – LINGsCARS
Google's Plan to Disrupt the College Degree
Ask HN: Midlife – Is it wise to leave finance IT job for a FAANG?
I'm in a good position (VP level) in a financial institution IT org. Promotion seems hard at this level (5 years or so).
I was offered a high paying FAANG job as senior individual contributor doing SRE. The money if about 50% more, nice relocation proposition, other perks. But given my age I wonder if there is life after 50 in FAANGs. I'm over 40, and after a rollercoster career I've learned to value some stability
What Remote Work Really Does to Your Engineering Productivity
Yeah, that seems entirely believable.