skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>For $1M they can get the new version of the same system installed and likely get a step by step walkthrough of the whole thing by any number of new engineers they want.

A new system isn't going to do them much good when they don't even know who their customers are. I doubt any customer is going to hang around for a year while you rebuild your system from scratch, ignoring the fact that if they're an MSP the customers may not even have their own copy of the data.

All of that is ignoring the likely contractual obligations they're likely under to maintain the data on their systems.

>Also it's a public hospital - for a fraction of $1M they could get people who's only job is to replicate that system running around with pen and paper - they wouldn't have $1M to just drop on a support issue the same day.

Hospital? He said they're an MSP on reddit:

>Yeah we're an awful MSP. I've been trying to find a new job for quite some time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ma4mwl/the_absolu...
You may be interested to know that Palantir works with Ferrari on exactly this kind of problem (sensors collecting data and making sense of it) - https://www.palantir.com/solutions/auto-racing/
> People who are rabidly against the EU get off the hook, all the time.

Two wrongs do not a right make.
I don't understand what OP is saying here

> We went from "he grabbed me by the pussy" and "he jerked off in front of me" to .... "he once hit on me and I had to reject him".

we went from <obviously bad thing> and <2nd obviously bad thing> to <normal thing, irrelevant to rms>. Why even add the 2nd one? Only way it would make sense if it's a slippery slope: we went from <obviously bad thing> and <less bad thing> to <normal thing>
Ironically, every time I click their “open in app” link it’s drips me straight to the App Store despite me having the app installed.
Glassdoor says that the average in USA is $77k and high is $107k. For California, the numbers are $92k and $134k respectively. Indeed says $136k is average for California. £120k/$166k is clearly on the upper end by their measures.

FAANGs, start-ups, unicorns, fintech etc. are much higher, but the same is true in the UK. I know mid tier software engineers working in FB/Google in London clearing over £300k in total comp. I work in a fintech start-up and my TC is close to £200k.

But sure. London pure tech salaries are not the quite as high as the global tech hub. Fintech salaries are competitive with NYC though (but slightly worse after tax).
Makes sense to me.

I wonder what's the point behind this entire Reddit thread then. More fuel for the fire?
No question in my mind: Richard Feynman. Always honest, brilliant, a great communicator, and full of joy. His books, both technical and not, are a pleasure to read.
> to design a protocol that prevents admins from deciding what bytes go in and out of the machines they pay to run?

By designing a peer to peer protocol without admins.

> those admins will choose to _not_ to run that encrypted protocol.

Yet people are still using freenet. Regardless, you can run a protocol like this on top of AP, to the admin it will look as if people are just exchanging encrypted data.
It’s odd they say that.

You’d think that at some point ICE will be no more, and then what?

Porsche kill the 911 brand?

Doesn’t seem likely.

I’ve owned a couple of 911s and I’d happily own an electric one!
I've been using Go for a personal project of mine recently. I had briefly used it at the tail end of my internship while getting my degree, but nothing particularly in-depth, and it was some pretty simple server code that never really challenged me.

There's definitely some nice stuff about it, but there's also some stuff that's a bit of a pain. For one thing, being straight up unable to compile a program if there's an unused variable, not even a debug compiler flag or anything to allow it while testing. There's a lot of cases where I just want to move one thing around, or I'm partway through writing a function and just want to see what state something is in at a point, so I want to throw a breakpoint on a line and run the program up to that point. But even though my code is technically all valid, because the variable I want to look at is unused, or I commented out a line that makes something else unused, I now can't compile at all. So there's a lot of times I'll have to throw in a random fmt.Print of a random property of index zero of an array or something, which might crash anyway if it's reached, but at least it'll compile. It maybe doesn't seem like it would be that big of a deal, but when you've got a train of thought going, and you're trying to iterate fast, it can really pull you out of the flow of things.

There's also a lot of weird situations where I find it hard to keep things clean. For instance, I like using this shorthand:

if err := doThing(bar); err != nil {
// handle error
}

But if you're doing it in a case where your function returns a result and an error, i.e.

if foo, err := doThing(bar); err != nil {
// handle error
}

That's indeed valid code, but foo only exists in the scope of that error handling. So you'd have to declare it above with its type

var foo FooType
if foo, err := doThing(bar); err != nil {
// handle error
}

But you can't actually do this because when using type inference, both return values have to not be declared beforehand. So you have to pull err out into a declared var with a type, and remove the type inference altogether like this

var foo FooType
var err Error
if foo, err = doThing(bar); err != nil {
// handle error
}

And from that point on, if you're using this pattern again anywhere else below in that function and you want to continue using that slick error handling shorthand, there's barely any point because err already exists in your scope, and you'd just be redeclaring it.

Perhaps there's some tricks I don't know about, but I tend to run into situations like this a lot, and I spend so much time trying to appease weird edge-cases of the compiler's strict rules that is really throws a wrench in my workflow.
Pretty sure that title was coined by Steve Gibson on his Security Now! podcast[1] (at least that's where I've first/only heard it).

[1]https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-586.htm
When I was contractor I had a contract for a few moths with a company that discouraged people from talking to each other and everything was very secret. It felt a little weird but then I thought maybe a lot of companies do it so I played along. For example you hear about people at Apple never seeing the whole device they are working on.

I guess from the inside it's not always so clear to the little guy what's normal company weirdness and what's fraudulent. Although higher up execs should know.
Ahah. They are so creepy looking. They pretty much have faces, coats, and top hats. I just don't want to think what kind of bugs are around to need a nightmare fuel spider around.
> The language and related pattern changed so little that that book is still good?

Pretty much yes, and TGPL/Effective Go are still very good resources to learn the language, if not still the best available.

Probably the biggest changes since 2015 were constant stdlib improvements / extensions, and things like the context API becoming standardized across the ecosystem. Oh, and Go modules. Otherwise the language is pretty much unchanged.
So every alleged criminal should be treated as guilty until proven innocent?
I learned Computer Science at A level (high school) on a new course specifically aimed to produce technically literate students to compete with the US and Japan. I enjoyed the course and I still use the skills I gained, but it really wasn't recognised at the time- many of my friends did the much easier IT A-Level which (more or less) involved knowing how to use MS Office products. They received the same recognition by universities and employers for much less effort.
Continuous AWS IAM Security Best Practices with SQL
we are building it ourselves because the fees are outrageous on escrow.com
On one hand I'm sorry to see the tooling and expertise disappear. But perhaps it's (long past) time?
If you mean The Go Programming Language then yes, it's still a fine book. It doesn't cover new additions like Go modules, of course, but in terms of the core elements of the language, it stands up well. Are you going to probably want more once you've covered the essentials? Yes, but it'll put you in a great position to take on further material.
If a company writes childish messages in a place where it is expected to read childish messages, I wouldn't use that to judge the rest of the organization.
If my code derefrences null, I want it to panic even in production. Assuming your server will never fail is very dangerous. oom killer can just kill your process for unrelated reasons to your server.
Or if you want the story as a podcast I can wholeheartedly recommend this episode (and the podcast in its entirety) of Darknet Diaries:

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/54/
> Sadly, PostgreSQL doesn't have a built-in solution for online upgrade yet. This is one of the few points why commercial DBMSes are often worth their money.

I was about to say the same, as much as it pains me to say it. I wonder if Citus or EnterpriseDB has any solutions to a problem like this? Can Citus run temporarily with heterogeneous nodes? E.g. some nodes upgrading with other nodes operating?
> When floods did kill off mice, it usually happened quickly. “Farmers talk about the mice disappearing virtually overnight,” the research officer said. “They get to such high numbers they become quite stressed … they start to run out of food, which facilitates the spread of disease, they start eating the sick ones, they turn on the babies, and then it’s all over. It’s quite a grizzly story.”

The lasting question of our time: how do we humans ensure we don't end up like the mice...

I'm reminded of Yuval Harari's quote that civilization is 3 meals away from barbarism.
That’s a 10 year old restriction. At least as of Postgres 9.2 you could run more than 64 cores (though Postgres didn’t always use them effectively).
Hey! We support residents of Singapore!

And a US C Corp is a great option if you are looking to raise venture capital (there can be other reasons too in specific cases but at a high level if you are raising venture capital or will in the future, then a C Corp is the best option)
It doesn't make you a great thinker, but it is certainly a requirement.

it is necessary but not sufficient.

Did Einstein make relativity or Nietzsche "Thus Spake Zarathustra " in a vacuum?
>China imprisoning our citizens as proxy conflict with the US

Was that retaliatory for Canada imprisoning a Chinese citizen in the name of US sanctions against Iran? I am curious which came first since I haven't followed it closely.(no justifying, just wondering why this is the example you brought up)
While there may have been some top-line VAT or sales tax, companies deduct wages and pay taxes on the net profit.
As A Service ;)
Ok tiger! Thank you proving that the more inept you are, the smarter you think you are. Now, go beef with someone else.
This reminds me of some vague memories of a time long ago where some websites had a secure login page that asks for a username&pw but every other page after just checked the referall header. It wasn't a very secure system and people shared the header values needed to bypass logging in.
The exact same thing is happening in Australia in regards to farmers and fruit picking labour. With international borders shut they are unable to exploit foreign workers and complain that young adults are refusing to relocate for $5 an hour hard labour jobs.
> Should all pronouns in the translated text be either a "he", a "she" or a "they"? Wouldn't that still be considered "biased"?

The proffered solution is to use singular "they" of course. Trouble is, people don't talk like that and so from a language-is-as-it-used perspective (descriptivist), always using singular "they" makes your translation worse.

I would offer a solution like this: allow the person using the translation program to specify pronoun rules.
An argument isn’t some specific length of time. A 20 year bet on some outcome is a single argument that takes decades.
Racing will move to electric too I guess in the future. Already Formula E is gaining popularity, compared Formula 1 which has turned extremely boring in the last 5 years.
I guess US fire-at-will system should make contracting even more attractive option for good engineers: you do not get any social protection from being fired at any time unlike say Germany. One solid benefit less to justify pay difference.

Is it the case?
I wish I had. but I don't because I haven't learned it yet
I dunno, you don’t need to be particularly concerned with security to understand that you do not need a facebook tracking pixel on your ‘paying customer’ UI.
You know that as a fact, or are you providing alternative facts based on what?

I have not seen the sign in person, but been told by people that it was indeed there.
Anyone know how to see the page without consenting to cookies?

There’s no optout on the pop-up. If I click the cookie policy link I can withdraw my never-given consent but then must click accept again to get past the pop-up to visit the page.
It's just badly worded. I remember following this blog last year when new articles were being posted.
Stallman has autism. I don't think he really understands the intricacies of social boundaries, situations, and limits.
"One effective way to do this is to isolate the responsibilities of individuals such that no one but the top few have the whole picture view.
While employees may have doubt, they can justify their actions by thinking they are doing "their" part correctly. Which, I can relate to."

When you read about iphone development Apple isn't that different. Only Jobs and a few other people knew the whole picture. The rest worked on their little area while not seeing the whole product.
Year T-Bill Rate Affects Stock Prices
> The venom is needed to produce the antivenom.. The venom is taken from the spiders by delicately stroking their fangs and collecting the tiny droplets of the deadly venom. One dose of antivenom requires around 70 milkings from a spider.

> Funnel web spider antivenom is prepared from the plasma of rabbits immunized with the venom of the male funnel web spider (Atrax robustus). Each vial of the product contains 125 units of antivenom which has been standardized to neutralize 1.25 mg of funnel web spider venom. The product also contains glycine and other rabbit plasma proteins.

o.O
From Lines of Code to ‘I Don’t Err’ – Scrum Master Interview Questions (4)
Yes, retaliation for honoring our extradition treaty with the US, in a conflict initiated by the Trump admin.
Your suggestion that gender roles are entirely arbitrarily fabricated by society, is demonstrably false. There is an absolute ton of peer reviewed study and literature on it going back decades. People do what they want to do, and men and women have extremely different interests and motivations in life.

Why do you think women don’t want to be plumbers? Do you think it’s because society decided plumbers are men, lack of female plumbing role models, because plumbing customers are all sexist and only employ men, OR because women aren’t generally that interested in plumbing...

Why do you think in countries where they have tried the most to get them to be plumbers, women have rejected it even more?

Why do you think women should want to be plumbers?

Men and women are extremely different in so many different ways, which should be celebrated, not denied.

Obviously anyone male or female who wants to be a plumber should be encouraged. But we should also freely acknowledge that 95%+ of plumbers are men, and that isn’t a ‘problem’ to be fixed.
It already exists, though not from Porsche: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJLdzRJdKrs
It's unfortunate that there is fear, but if governments didn't try to err on the side of caution and there are issues later, we'd all be pretty upset at those in charge for steaming full speed ahead with warning signs.

Reality is not black and white.
The customer literally pays no fees. The tradesperson takes the hit and puts it down as a marketing fee.

So, it's not more expensive.
I can understand what Stallman meant, but I am not at all surprised at the reaction. This particular case has little to do with him hitting on women around him. This had been happening for decades and most people just rolled their eyes and made fun of him behind his back about it. This had everything to do with MIT's exposure to Epstein.

MIT gets outed as having numerous researchers who took money from and traveled with a convicted pedophile sex abuser, sex trafficker, and likely financial criminal, and Stallman writes an e-mail that sounds very much as if he's obliquely defending Epstein.

I imagine someone at MIT's communications office having a heart attack. "Oh fuck shut this idiot up NOW!" someone probably shouted.

This wasn't #metoo. This was Stallman embarrassing MIT and numerous powerful people.

I feel sort of sorry for Stallman because it's clear that he's "on the spectrum" or at least is the sort of person who thinks ultra-logically and doesn't understand the irrational power machinations of politics. He felt like he was writing something logical, and he was, but he stepped in a gigantic bear trap that would have been obvious to anyone with any social understanding.

Pro tip: if your institution is enmeshed in scandal, keep your mouth shut unless you are coordinating with your communications department or whomever is in charge of such things. If you do check, 99% of the time they will tell you to keep your mouth shut. If you do open your mouth, even with good intentions, polish up your CV first.

It amuses me that this entire 500+ post thread is about "cancel culture" when that's not what happened at all in this case.
It's 2021, the convergence still hasn't happened yet. It's never going to happen. I know Rob Pike is probably smarter than me, but this a bad hot take in 2015, and it's outright stinky in 2021.
He used to live in his office.
They can ban ICE cars as much as they want. More than half Europe won't buy electric because they are too expensive.

And not only that, you can't plan to travel in a lower end electric with their ranges. Recharge is very slow.

You can buy a dirt cheap second hand ICE, and it will give you that, you'll recharge in a minute, and most proven models are easy and cheap to repair.

Electric cars turns out they do fail, and when they do it is super expensive.

I really really want to have one, but currently comparing an electric to, say, a Fiat Panda, it just doesn't make sense for most Europeans.
The EU is not naive.

The list of bad decisions goes on and on. Face masks, open borders, vaccine development, suspension of AZ vaccine, etc. This is bad management and probably dangerous political games.

Now, the UK did not do much better but at least they did manage to develop a vaccine (which is sold at cost) and to understand that vaccination had to happen early and as fast as possible and they went all in (800k+ injections just yesterday).
Nah, it works better when you make it possible for the monsters and demons to discover the error of their ways and redeem themselves in a voluntary labor camp.
Richard Stallman Announces Return to the Free Software Foundation
AGA: Building a Decentralized Bitcoin Mining Protocol
Just because You hear it on the Internet doesn't mean it's true.

Do a bit of research and You may find the first two sentences of this article are conjecture and propaganda.

Is there videos of chicks being ground up? Yes but the majority are sexed and then pinned by highly valued people that manually sex chicks more accurately and faster than machines.

Male chicks don't fatten up fast enough? The broilers that are currently being produced grow so fast they are processed 6 weeks after hatching, there is no need to sex them.

>>>Trigger Warning<<<
I raised a straight run of 32 layers and ended up with 18 males. 15 of them graduated to my freezer after two months and two of the other three will be receiving their doctorates this spring as soon as their offspring hatch.

Attacking meat products seems to be the flavor of the day.

So if You like eating meat, I suggest You find a sustainable way to produce or obtain it before the "woke" succeed in "canceling" it just like everything else.
What's with Japanese chip fabs catching fire? It's very odd that Renesas was producing some chips for AKM at that plant after the AKM plant caught fire. From earlier this year: "Renesas steps up and lends capacity to AKM after the fire"

https://evertiq.com/design/49481
Ten Year T-Bill Interest Rates Influence Stock Prices
A liquid rectifier?
Show HN: Career Vault – The largest database of active remote jobs
You can get £60-90k in places like Manchester and Edinburgh, which does afford a pretty nice lifestyle given that the average salary in those places is less than half that.

The best way to get a high salary in the UK seems to be to either work in London, work remotely for a London based office, or work in London then transfer to another part of the UK.

I'm not a London native, but there's a phrase people in my home town use, "doing your London time" - meaning working in London for a few years then moving back home. Reason being that once you've worked in London, your salary is permanently much higher once you move back than it would otherwise have been.
Best thing to do for this poor sysadmin, before all else: talk to a lawyer, understand what you should do from now on to minimize risk of being sued by company/shareholders, etc.
I started working on this last summer during my job hunt because I noticed that existing remote job sites show less than 20 new opportunities each day. As a product manager, I would only rarely discover openings that were a good fit for me because the few openings they had were usually for software engineers.

I used Scrapy to pull jobs directly from the career pages of thousands of ~6,000 companies that I compiled manually. Then, I set up a few cronjobs to make sure the scripts are constantly checking for new openings and deleting expired ones.

If your company is hiring, drop your careers page link below, and I'll see if I can add it.

Hope you guys find this useful for job hunting!
Bring it back! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26401955
Disappointingly,

verse meter convention goes

on disregarded.
That's a strong statement about a whole lot of people.

Maybe you should limit that to "The 'woke' people I know."
> Surely there must be some reports of the outage by now?

Not everyone is AWS. There's a lot of obscure software providers nobody cares when they're down.
The source is https://whoisylvia.medium.com/richard-stallman-has-been-vili...
The wording of the article title gives the impression that they will stick with the engines they have got. Really they are just going to develop the engines they have and not design from scratch any new engines.

A new engine from scratch rarely happens. Many engines can be traced back decades with there never being a new design, just iterative improvement.

Can anyone think of a new engine developed from scratch? Without any parts carried over?

I suppose this happened when VW built the Veyron.
Like an electrical shock if it doesn't like the orientation?
Auth0 Customers: Your Brexit Questions Answered
Making sense of regulatory uncertainty in Brexit impact planning #Customers #Brexit
Turkey’s currency plunges after the head of the country’s central bank is fired
Maersk Saved by Power Outage (2018)
Security patches are minor upgrades...the upgrades only cause significant downtime if there are large changes in on-disk representation, which shouldn't happen for a security patch.