skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When will introverts realise that their working conditions are being dictated to them by extroverts?

While extroverts are overrepresented in management, I think a bigger issue is that people who overvalue physical proximity as a tool for establishing/maintaining control (both of formal subordinates and otherwise) are overrepresented in management. You don’t have to be an extrovert to be cargo culting Management By Walking Around (if you aren’t cargo-culting, you can probably adapt it to a remote environment) or to have developed and lean heavily on communication techniques (non-verbal, especially) that work better for dominating meetings in=person.

Honestly, I think introverts who have spent time crafting a particular set of tools for surviving as managers are at least as dangerous here here as extroverts.
I assume they mean the bridge clearance vs vehicle height. /r/11foot8 has some amusing examples.
I cracked up at the first paragraphs. I too wish my Raspbrrry Pi had a floppy drive. What a great piece.
You don't even need a dish to catch the energy; just use a mirror that reflects the laser. You will lose energy to particles in the laser beam, and possibly also due to redshift.
If I understood it correctly, Mazda specially optimized its engines for this. They align the pistons during the stop, so they can start 2x faster (~0.5sec IIRC), so faster start, more comfort, less stress on the engine due to start & stop.

I think with the latest iterations, the damage part is not that definitive.
Yes, actually. His/her/their wallet has the majority of bitcoins. If they were to move them, everything would crash.
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Uh, I think it's both. Have you been to Houston TX? Housing is cheap there for a large city. They also happen to often have 10 story buildings right up next to single family homes.
That's why StarLink is a thing!
In that case a commercial VPNs won't help much anyway.
The main argument I have heard is it’s less finding exploits and doing real security and more mind numbing auditing and checking boxes not to prevent attacks but to cover your ass when they happen.
You don't need to modify the Dockerfile to change environment variables at runtime.

Also if you specifically want to modify a file and re-run the container look at --env-file arg to docker run.
Well, sure, you shouldn't be putting secrets or other sensitive data in environment variables. But garden-variety configuration is fine to put in env vars. Seems like whoever assigned you this task didn't really know what they were doing.
What is the likelihood that these drives do work and the team just want a head start on development?
> Environment variables is exactly this: mutable global state. Envvars have some legitimate usages (such as enabling debug logging) but they should never, ever be used for configuring core functionality of programs

Doesn’t matter where configuration lives, the name itself suggests that it is by definition global mutable state, I mean that’s the whole point of it.

And it doesn’t matter if it’s used to configure core functionality (e.g feature toggles) or secondary functionality. The whole purpose is to do exactly that :)
Sadly that culture changed long ago. Even prior to covid a lot of companies were downscaling their perks as they offshored jobs to Asia, thanks to our previous administration.
Rails: Switching between different branches that have different DB schemas
> I chose walking because it is specifically calorie inefficient

Surely you mean calorie efficient?
What security concerns did that alleviate?
They‘re apparently not caring a whole lot. If you play that a song from that album it will show the static cover art. Also it seems to me like the bigger ‘full screen’ like artworks are reserved to major labels or at least come at a premium.
I've heard only two things about start/stop systems:

1. I don't like it (Folks didn't have a clear answer. Maybe ego?).
2. Batteries are too expensive (Which I think is acceptable for such tech).
Never trust an advice expressed in an absolute.
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It indeed seems like there are a lot of fundamental misconceptions in this article:

> For comparison using JSON configuration files this entire class os problems would not exist.

This is the trade-of between structure and embedding. Writing '{"ARG": "-Dfoo=\"bar bar\" -Dbaz"}' would satisfy the authors need for JSON but not really do any difference.

The initial example is also wrong. There certainly are example where one would use variables defined in out scope.

f v = f' 0
where
f' n = v n
In what I have seen, colleges don't have better teaching. They are not designed to have better teaching then high schools. The student is basically expected to be already skilled enough to not need educator, but only expert that knows stuff.

It may be better fit for minority of students, but better teaching is that that thing they get there.
I mean I would just load couple of metric tons of antimatter in the ship and then just use up picked up interstellar space mass (1 atom per cubic meter is not much, but you will be moving trough shitload of them) along the way to annihilate. the faster you move the faster you will go up to a couple of limits. BUT deceleration may be a bit of a problem.
Former Infantry here also but still serving part time.

I think the immediate use is for training. The Army is big on simulators for all MOS's because it saves resources, reduces training complexity, and reduces risk. Sims such as VBS3, EST, VCOT, UGT are mostly required these days for various purposes. This could even possibly function as a better MILES or replace the fleet of OPFOR vehicle analogues at NTC. So, potentially there is money to be saved while creating more realistic training.

Maybe in a few decades the software stack will be solid enough and the hardware miniaturized enough to use in combat. The similar success story might be the FA's venerable AFATDS, which has been around for decades and very reliably brings rounds on target.

Worst case, it ends up as extra weight for graded positions to carry in RS. ;)
It does. I don't know what the threshold is, but it's not too high. I believe it's 500, but I might be wrong.
This will make even worst semiconductors shortage with great impact to industry in general.

Prices will go up. I already expecting an impact on tbills and issues with debt in some countries.
LS_COLORS and GREP_COLORS are weirdly-specific... but arguably aren't!
I think it was &wadsworth=1 and no they removed the fun :(
Just great! I always wondered how one could do anything serious with a Raspi without a floppy drive! Now the gap is closed and I can finally replace my IBM 5160 mobo with a Raspi :-)
No money in that, unfortunately. Or, not enough anyway. This might be a false notion, but I'm scared that the economics simply don't work to "cure" a major disease. It's more profitable financially to provide treatment to sick people.

I hate this...yet am scared it's true.

Another notion I hate and are am afraid is true is that: even if corporations were prepared to cure cancer and take the hit, the state would be terrified of increased longevity, at least I think so.

Retirement age people are to the state, probably, what post-reproductive organisms are to evolution: dead weight that they can't "afford" to care about.

In these areas I think the incentives might be wrong, but we can probably too better somehow. No idea how that can be corrected tho... :'(
I worked in an office many years ago where I noticed that the accountant always stayed late in the office. I once asked her and she said: "I stay late because when they leave I can finally start to work".
I would also consider using a static website generator like Hugo or Jekyll. But you should avoid to over complicate things too much unless you want to play with a specific technology. React and firebase for a portfolio is not necessary in my opinion.
That just sounds like a single point of failure to me. That is, if this is a serious proposal. Sarcasm does not come through on the internets very well. :P
If you have money to invest, you can do some easy good by buying or starting a trailer park, organized so you are selling the lots instead of renting them. Maybe loan residents money for the lot.

Get people to move from predatory rental lots, which they can, and will, with a little encouragement. It won't be a great good, but it is better than letting VCs and bankers hold your money, and you will be able to see the people you are helping.

Maybe put in a school kids can walk to, and a smallish grocery store. Make sure it's on a good bus route, with a county drug-counseling office and a community college on the same route. People want to improve their lives, and will when they can. But American life lately seems designed to grind them down.

Representing a bloc of votes can help get local government on their side, if they can be persuaded to vote for their own benefit.
Indeed. Large companies like FAANG have invested heavily in their offices, I can kind of see why they don't want to throw that investment away. Hence why they want people back in those plush offices.
> That's exactly why they study it. To figure out the pros and cons
Public housing is one option. Or you have to counter the price hikes. Prices are rising in many parts of the world because people are investing more and more money in housing, as an alternative to stocks or other investments. The expected returns mainly come from the rise in value, and not from the rent income. So the companies holding the houses must get rid of the existing tenants and renovate the appartments to increase their market value.

Basically, private investments currently don't create much housing, they destroy affordable housing. So you need to create incentives to maintain and expand the affordable segment.
I don't remember even buying cds because they were so absurdly expensive. Everyone I knew just had a binder full of burned cds, including my parents.
I became able to downvote after reaching 500 karma. The minimum requirement might have changed to 1000 since then, I forget.

Even after reaching that karma amount, you are only able to downvote comments within a day of their posting. After a day, only upvotes are possible.
If you think of chess programs there isn't a limit to how many positions per second you can do - you can just run more machines in parallel. Thought at the end of the day you just get a slightly better chess machine. I imagine AI will go a bit like that.
Agree with you Quality assurance guys saved and stopped the batch before it was out for general public for use, could have adverse effect on patients, if it was rolled out.
I find it unlikely that any cure for cancer would be so specific that it would work on breast cancer only.

Much of the rhetoric that surrounds breast and prostate cancer irks me as though it be more rooted in identity politics than medicine. — I don't think such a specific claim would easily be made about, say, colon cancer or leukæmia.
I really wish something like this existed at a University level. I started and never finished a university degree in Australia (circa 2000), because I ran out of money and my home life was in a state of disarray (parents mid divorce).

20 years later I'm a working technologist and could probably teach almost all the undergraduate subjects, but I never got that piece of paper.

Universities usually have the ability to award credits for prior knowledge, but I doubt they would respond well to you rocking up and asking for credits in everything.

When I was applying for tech jobs, the lack of degree has never really mattered. Now that I'm self-employed it matters even less, except with things like long-term visas that often have requirements to have a bachelors degree as a minimum.

I don't keep up-to-date with how the computer-science degrees have changed over the years, though I'm not still programming in C/C++ either :)
The new era of decentralized Medical diagnostics
Anecdotally, I've been a remote engineer on and off for ten years.

There have been plenty of companies where I thought we might have achieved more with an office.

Yes, I understand you can always improve your processes but there does feel like there are fundamental limitations with remote work.
Hey guys, why don't you guys stop browsing hacker news and go back to your 200k/year job.
it uses libssh2; agent authentication is supported, but libssh2 doesn't currently support agent forwarding: https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/issues/535
I can highly recommend renting a co-working space once that's a viable option wherever you are in the world. These can be surprisingly inexpensive and often come with internet, electricity, etc. included.

Gives both the "short commute" benefit of work-from-home, as well as the "maintaining a clear separation between home and work" benefit of on-location-work.

And for me personally (as an introvert), it was fantastic to have people around that I could talk to socially, but who weren't directly involved in my work and who weren't going to make demands of me. Totally removed the feelings of isolation, and formed a bunch of new friendships that didn't rest on obligations to my employer.
I don’t doubt it’s happening, but I haven’t been focused on promoting my business at all, and things have been about the same for us, these last two or three years. I’m looking forward to getting involved, though. I think the next few years will be a lot more interesting. Being a butterfly should be fun.
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One of the things I really like about HN is that you can't see the moderation counts on other people's posts. If YT is going to kill dislike counts, they should also kill like counts.

They can still algorithmically bury things that are severely disliked, and promote things that are heavily liked. The video uploader, though, should be able to see the counts in order to get some feedback as to the quality of their videos.

Absolute numbers of likes/dislikes turns things into a popularity contest and fuels social media addiction. If you can only see the counts on your own content, you can't compare yourself to someone else and find yourself lacking (or vice versa).
Production Debugging with Uprobes and Bpftrace
it's true though. They are a publicly traded company with over 100B in office assets. If they can't get people back into the offices, they would not be able to justify they cost of keeping said property and would have to sell it to appease investors. Please use a brain cell next time.
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People still buy records even when they cost so much. There's always a decent small market for this stuff that isn't going away, because the equipment lasts forever. The record store in my neighborhood just moved into a larger space.
yes.
Hopefully that day comes where people understanding that keeping your PII private is for good reasons, and not for hiding anything bad...

It is a pitty, that many (most) governments make the life hard (through laws/regulations/...) for companies wanting to offer services like aliases for phone numbers.

Wouldn't it be great if I could give an alias phone number, and if I want I can redirect that number into the void [1]

[1] or instead of redirect into the void possibly other good or less good ideas like "pay $1 to call me"... which would help some cases where I would have liked to delete an alias, but not sure if I didn't give it to someone that I want to keep in contact with
I am surprised that no one mentioned www.abetterrouteplanner.com yet, which is EV-oriented and takes into account not only charging stations (and their power output), but also elevation changes to account for regen filling up the battery and providing increased range.

Also has an in-car mode that is somewhat usable for cars that have an integrated web browser with access to location data.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but do you have a source on that?

That feels like a bold claim to make without any references.
When doing some stuff with automated Google Admanager Ads (that required frequent updates), we realized that google is checking every link. At least once per update. Usually more often. With no proper user agent identifying it as a bot. Our solution was to redirect all links through our server and completely block every known google IP-range during the redirect.
Yep, this was my solution as well, it worked great (especially since I shared the space with people I mostly knew).

Although now that I'm working for a company with 15min commute, that became less of an issue.
This reminds me of the guy that outsourced his own tasks to devs in lower income countries and got all the free time.

I imagine you needed to create a entire persona with linkedin presence and all to get the junior hired for remote work.
Out of interest is there another more promising controlled fusion option?
FWIW, wezterm is very slowly building support for `tmux -CC` as well: https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/336
Person in the comment section, I'd take that tor link of the published data down.
How could what happen, the trade embargo?
Cancer does not so suitable a target for this, as say, h.i.v. infections.

Cancer is not contagious, and something that is treated in the individual case by curing it. The “cure for cancer” would thus simply be a more effective treatment than what is available now.

This is fundamentally different from h.i.v. infections, where a patient is a lifelong client, and a cure would amount to a type of treatment that would indeed completely cure the patient of the infection, and thus terminate the client.
It's true that a lot of entry-level technology(T) positions look for a university degree as minimum. Unlike some other parts of STEM it's not a regulatory requirement.

There are also movements like https://www.nocsdegree.com/.
File encryption using SSH keys
Buy the LP if you care about album art.
It's the one which works best for you. I'd also recommend using a solution that already exists and then building on it (if you want to)
You mean the theory that is now made illegal to be taught? There are literally laws to make critical theory illegal for schools.
Ask HN: If you could reinvent the Shell, what would you do differently?
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Very cool idea Matteo. I look forward to the next few emails! - Derick
I'm just building mine at https://cocky-hamilton-69af62.netlify.app/ and am using netlify+hugo+vue+tailwind. Hugo can get a bit unwieldy when there are lots of posts, so I'm looking for a basic cms for it. Ideally I'd have some cms work on a sqlite db, and have hugo generate from it. I'm not so sure that solution exists, but even without it hugo is not a bad option
> The expected returns mainly come from the rise in value, and not from the rent income. So the companies holding the houses must get rid of the existing tenants and renovate the appartments to increase their market value.

Nah. Housing rises in value even if you don't touch it. Demand is rising and supply isn't. The solution is to make it easier to build more.
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300k unique daily visitors on a server for $3,75/m
Hey guys, I would like to show you our latest interview with solo founder Ivan Kutskir who was able to bootstrap his product to $500,000 ARR.
Alone!

https://www.lunadio.com/blog/the-story-of-a-unicorn-solo-founder-making-dollar500000-arr/
> I'm convinced that most people need at least a couple of days per week of social office time for their own sanity.

"A couple" can mean anything from two to full week. I can assure you that at least for some people one day is enough.
Shhh, stop ruining my joke!
> Errors like this happen in every single GMP and clinical facility.

They shouldn't happen in a 150yr old, multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical company.

How hard is it to restrict the ingredients available to the "chef" to the ones needed for the current product? Not hard at all unless you want to save a few dollars cutting corners.
Better service this way.
Wondering whether there is any Organ Dubstep.
* after getting funded by YC.

This deck without the YC stamp would probably not be sufficient for serious investors for a variety of reasons: Missing market size, addressable market, and market growth, doesn't answer the question of "why now"? (whereas why this and why you is answered). It isn't a bad deck but let's be honest here.
That's not what I'm saying, what you mention can be done indeed.

What I say is that if you are in a machine with an already running docker container, one you don't have the corresponding `run` command of (i.e. you _can't docker run_ for whatever reason), changing the environment variables of that container is tricky.
This can be simplified.

Change the city dropdown to a language dropdown.

The filtering would still work as expected.

Let users figure out their travelling details until you're prepared to add that functionality.

I don't think you should be limiting your number of users so much right at the start.
Slightly off topic, but a great movie featuring the abysmal public transport in Cuba is "Lista de Espera".

Really recommend it if you come across it.
> Chinese engines up until very recently were severely lacking.

Interesting. What makes a bad (or good) engine for a bus?
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This seems like it should be criminal. Like setting aside the union thing, any company using fake profiles to propagandize something is dishonest and shady to the point of fraud. Paying or requiring employees to do it is only a fraction better.
the problem was never remote vs colocated. it was commuting.

offices are fine (though not required). travelling for > 15-20 mins to and from work is what sucks the most.

we need local office hubs. work around your local community for your employer near your home.
This is literally a lobby group composed of legacy coaxial copper plant last mile operators with a vested interest in squeezing every last ROI dollar out of docsis3, so your statement is quite correct.

The South Park nipple rubbing cable tv operators but in real life.
300k unique daily visitors on a server for $3,75 per month
Hello guys!

I would love to share with you our the latests interview with solo founder who was able to bootstrap his product to 300,000 daily visitors, $500,000 ARR, with the cost on the server $3,75 per month.

Oh and btw; he did it alone!
Actually (and ironically given the context of this thread !) the reason I found out about the policy change was because I was helping someone out who was looking to dump their Ubiquiti kit and realistically it looked like Ruckus was going to be the only sensible option (despite the already unpalatable price premium before the new policy).

As you may or may not be aware, Ruckus have an "all quoted" policy, there is no price list per-se.

At the time I was working on the project (late 2020) Ruckus did have a promotional activity going on where you could buy Unleashed kits at fixed prices without quoting.

However due to various technical questions that were coming up (e.g. IPv6 support) we missed the window and it was uncertain if Ruckus were going to extend the promotion.

Ruckus did extend the promotion, at least initially (Jan-Feb 21') but then they switched to the "license per AP for Unleashed" and the promotion was killed off.

It was at at that point that my friend took the hint and dumped the idea of Ruckus and I went back to my normal work.

If I get a chance I'll try to find out what happens about second-hand kit. My guess would be that if you stay on old firmware there's not much they can do about it. Although whether its desirable or advisable to stay on old firmware is another question, obviously.
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Go back to FidoNet.
I am interested in Field-Reversed Configuration, although it seems more practical for driving spacecraft.

Anything aneutronic that works will be infinitely better than Tokamak. If it doesn't have to work, you are back in Tokamak territory.