skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get it - the cheapest webhosts ($3/month) all let you run PHP - why would I need a cloud function when I have an always-on machine?

And if it's for something with high traffic, why would you want a cloud function anyway? I thought they are meant for "runs sporadically, so why have a machine that's always on?" setup.
Tl;Dr: Extremely satisfied and using on three devices.

The sync server is open source and free, so you can host an instance yourself if you'd like.

Firefox accounts have 2FA support, and passwords are end to end synced anyway, so even if your Firefox account is compromised, nobody can recover data without the key.

For about a decade in the working, there were zero breaches in mozilla AFAIK.

I use Firefox sync in my Windows laptop, Firefox on Android beta. There is also an app called Lockwise that can work as a standalone app and a password fill feature for other apps as well.
PS: Never sound desperate. If you have the skills, confidently and honestly explain them to anyone who will listen. Tell them you'll work for cheap to prove yourself. You should have a job in no time.
Your post provides a recruiter any number of reasons not to hire you. In addition to providing a personal history of failure and excuses, you're airing the dirty laundry of the companies you did work for. Your misgivings with these may or may not be legitimate, however what recruiter wants their name attached to you the next time you feel like airing your grievances with the last company to lay you off?

> "I tried cold contacting executives at a few companies..."

I'm not an executive, however I am a team lead. If you found some way to contact me directly, unsolicited, on my work phone or email, I would blacklist you. Especially if you had circumvented some security measure in order to do so, let alone spoofing what we can only assume is the phone number of another employee? The time and attention of these professionals is valuable. Procurement process exists to prevent executives at prominent, successful companies being interrupted in such an inappropriate manner.

You sound like you need to adjust your attitude. From your perspective it may seem that you're an underappreciated talent just waiting for someone to give them a chance. From the perspective of a recruiter or hiring manager you look like a serious liability. Especially if you're looking to make a leap upwards into your career's 'next step', it's extremely imperative that you demonstrate your ability to succeed in simpler, entry-level positions.

Your writing is terrible, and unprofessional. If you can't get through this thread without discussing your mental health problems that's a serious red flag.
Today you can run Morrowind quite well on the Xbox One (not to be confused with the 1st gen Xbox.)

I highly recommend running it on PC with OpenMW, especially with the Tamriel Rebuilt mod installed.
this is a terrible title. what the article says is, a third of the corn belt has lost all of its topsoil. the rest of it has lost a large percentage of it (some of which may just have migrated). so the situation is actually quite a bit worse than the top line. of course the good thing is all of that is repairable, the bad thing is it will take centuries to fully restore the grassland if you leave it alone - which of course can't happen!
I recommend building something, anything. Show your skills via attempting to build a product and shipping it.
I do get that and I find my ability to escape into fantasy has dwindled in recent years, but I played morrowind at the time when I still read plenty of long winded fantasy books and the other games actually helped lead to my decline in enjoying fantasy.

To counter that. I recently for the first time played dark souls and a couple years back played hollow Knight. I was able to immerse myself into both games because, every single thing you do and find has a point.

Nothing really wastes your time. There's a reason for doing everything in those games. The things you find are worth it and rewarding. Exploring is worth it and rewarding.

I never once really got that feeling from the elder scrolls games, or open world games in general.

They have many, many things to do and find, but none of them feel satisfying.

I prefer games with less things, but each thing feels worthwhile and meaningful. I'd rather find one awesome cool thing that changes the way I play the game or gives me something cool and new for my player over 20 Rusty forks and some apples any day.
From memory I remember most roles in MS AU are of Solution Engineer types, do you guys have any product development done here in Australia?
Interesting app. How are sources categorized/ranked?
Have you tried feedly? It seems to already do the things you have listed.
corn-derived ethanol is an environmental crime.
City governments have already been able to provide and sell Internet service - it is PUDs* that are banned from selling until and unless this bill is signed. And not only is the ban only on retail as opposed to wholesale service, there is also already a slight and temporary relaxation of the ban for coastal regions west of the Seattle area. [1]

Since you're also a Seattle-area local, you might remember that Seattle tried to do a public-private partnership with a company called Gigabit Squared to run fiber into Seattleites' homes. That initiative failed in 2014 [2], but the Seattle City Council has always been able to reconsider, with or without this bill.

* Public Utility Districts are special-purpose governments in Washington dedicated to being non-profit electric or water utilities, with limited tax powers (.045% property tax per year). Many counties have county-wide PUDs that are independent of the county government, such as Snohomish County PUD (Seattle's northern suburbs; no broadband offering) and Chelan County PUD (central Cascade mountains like Wenatchee and Leavenworth; does offer wholesale broadband).

[1] https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=54.16.420

[2] https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2014/01/s...
> As usual, I use Google Surveys

I think that would have a huge systemic bias vis a vis ad nlocker knowledge.
Daily reminder that by Lindy effects, for each additional year of php still alive the probability of staying alive increase. We will probably die before PHP
My 2 cents and honest opinion. Don't give up too easily. Why did you quit IBM without another offer? You had a job though with low pay. Getting you step on the door is the hardest part. Don't give up after that. Try to get any job for that matter and I can assure you persevering will pay off. I'm talking from my experiance
Yes! What is with that inline code thing? The only time single backticks seem to work is when I don't want them to.
My 2 cents and honest opinion. Don't give up too easily. Why did you quit IBM without another offer? You had a job though with low pay. Getting you step on the door is the hardest part. Don't give up after that. Try to get any job for that matter and I can assure you persevering will pay off. I'm talking from my experience
A lot of people here are suggesting that politicians should not be able to own any stock. I am sure that we can agree that the talent follows the money. I also assume we can agree that we need the best and the brightest in our government (as opposed to working at FAANG). My suggestion would be to pay good people a million bucks per year and multiples of that on top of it if they meet their campaign promises. I personally wouldn't mind if our politicians made 10x of what they make today, since that way we would hopefully attract more candidates and end up with better talent. Let's just make sure that the money they make is not driven by corporate interests.
Verbosity is not a problem in large code bases. Speed of understanding and debugging of what somebody else wrote is.

So, less magic is better. I will take Java codebase over Scala or Python every time, unless it is a toy script which is 100 lines
A fair point, haha! I tried PyCharm recently (normally use VS Code) and I was really impressed.

I think my emotions are misplaced: I might just like IntelliJ.
Modi's structural reforms enter climax as vested interests dig in
FIG stands for Framework Interop Group. At its peak, it was a place for representatives of the major PHP frameworks and libraries to hash out ways for their projects to cooperate more effectively, and some of the standards - such as PSRs 3, 4, and 7, have been extremely useful.

If you're not writing a framework or library for others to use, nothing the FIG says is necessarily relevant to you.

And in fact, even if you are, Doctrine, Guzzle, Laravel, and Symfony have all left the FIG, so it has even less relevance now.

So...it's a group that used to make standards for a very specific audience, and now mostly doesn't, in part because all of the most important members of that audience got fed up and left.

That's your biggest beef with PHP? Just adopt whatever standards you like.
Having been around in the 1990s, I can assure you that "underhyped" is the very LAST thing I think of when Java is mentioned.
Why not a Ryzen processor though?
Nobody who has ever written error handling in Go could possibly downvote this comment. Holy moly, the error checking after EVERY interesting method call. Talk about verbose.
One word: Oracle.

Given their insidious licensing and litigious nature, I wouldn’t touch Java with a ten meter pole.
How to Build MVP for Hardware Product?
https://triplesolid.com/2021/01/10/how-to-build-an-mvp-for-h...
I use this action* to effectively put a 'breakpoint' in a job that lets you SSH in and inspect the env vars, files, refine your shell script code, etc. Cuts way down on the number of CI run/tweak/repeat cycles.

* https://github.com/marketplace/actions/debugging-with-tmate
Bernie Madoff Created the World’s Largest Ponzi Scheme Using One Loophole
Xbox on Game Pass Comparison to Netflix: “We Think About It Differently”
Thank you for the kind words!

I'm pretty sure I know who you are in the slack, so I'll follow up with you there about the blog post :)
All the Cheese in China (2020)
I suppose we all just brute force it.

For my private projects, I just make it rain with minor incremental improvements, and once it is green, I rebase and squash.

For shared/OS projects, I'd rather fork it and then work on my fork, so I don't trigger emails or other webhooks.
Honestly, i found clubs to be uncomfortable social interactions, even in university (actually, even in high school, and grade school). Maybe they're just not for me. Anyhow i found other ways to fulfil my social needs.
I am QUITE ready for real competition in this market.

100 USD a month for Internet? OK, that's not so bad.

1 gbit down, it's not as good as other places (Edit: for price) but thats...

35 mbit up? That's really the maximum offered; how will I ever use online backup services?

1.2 TB (I think Byte?) cap for data, IRRESPECTIVE OF PLAN SPEED, and a 50 USD per month charge for lifting that?

Highway robbery.
I was a Java developer for about 15 years, then switched to Node and Typescript about 4 years ago.

I think this author is going to be up for a rude awakening when it comes to the benefits of nominal typing, as this is the area that I couldn't disagree with more. I've commented about this before, but structural typing in Typescript makes it so much easier to refactor and to get one existing piece of code to confirm to another existing piece of code. Refactor projects in Java could sometimes literally take months when you had a major version upgrade from some important dependency and now you had to replace all your Foo1 objects with Foo2 objects, even though the interfaces themselves were largely the same.

I just find myself sooooo much more productive in the Node/Typescript ecosystem than I ever felt in Java.
Any Shopifyers want to give their take?
well understanding how things could be worse, but aren’t is a good way to be content. also prepares you to take more risks, what’s the worst that could happen, be prepared and you are ready to take the leap.
Adonis.js is the closest one imo
That really is pretty surprising. Might have to capitalize on this...
My advice is make sure you have the programming fundamentals. Online courses are available - MIT offers great classes and free too. Taking some kind of accelerator or bootcamp might work for you too.

Supplement learning with doing projects. Create some things you want to play around with. I found implementing data structures was a good project while learning programming because it simultaneously helped familiarize me with the data structures and with learning programming. Add on some projects in the areas you're interested in. Chat app, video game, website, whatever. I also suggest reading official documentation for a language or library instead of a book on the subject. The official docs, if good, are a lot more dense and valuable. I taught myself python just by reading their official docs and it was the easiest experience I've ever had learning a language.

As you get ready for the interview I would watch YouTube videos that take you through mock interviews. Listen to questions, pause the videos, give your answers, then listen to their analysis. You don't always need to agree with these videos, but it's good stuff to think about.

I also highly recommend leetcode. I know some people look down on it but software interviews often have a component that is basically a leetcode question. I suggest solving 2-300 problems, mostly medium or hard, and making sure you can solve any medium or easy question, and explain it as you go, in under half an hour. If you get stuck YouTube is a good resource to see people explain leetcode problems.

I have also found it helpful to write a little log as you're learning or working on a side project. I take notes of major failures and ask, and then explain in writing, why that happened and how I can prevent it in the future. When you find yourself writing multiple entries in the log with the same explanation, you know you've found a costly error you need to correct!
Coinbase has several design roles open, check 'em out.

https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions?department=Design
it was not
I agree with your thoughts as a general picture, except I think humans as a species will survive and not be a total wipeout.

But given how hard it is to predict the future, the details are : how much will it hurt?

How much of humanity will survive?
How much biological diversity will we lose?

Aside, I don't think atheism/religion enables or precludes empathy for the living things in the world. 'Tis a sad future in many ways.
I think the problem is the cohorts your talking about. There is the dimension of how long you've been programming and how large your software projects are. The folks that gravitate to environments like Java are usually in the high experience large software environment. The other quadrants typically gravitate towards the terse and rapid development platforms.
Personally, I can feel someone's desperation and it feels a lot different to me than when someone is being socially awkward or a creep.

But as someone who's done hiring before they are all pretty big put offs (maybe socially awkward isn't bad as long as it not a interaction heavy role).
I can only speak to infosec roles. If that's the route you want to go I think you'll be fine once your experience and skills catch up with your demeanor and confidence. It sounds like you can be a bit of an asshole and create messes for your management, which is morally ambivalent but can interfere with your ability to collect income.

I'd recommend aiming a little lower and a little smaller in the jobs you're applying for. Maybe try entry level spot at a regional bank/hospital/edu and in the interim working on skilling up in more tangible ways (e.g. bug bounties, GitHub projects and it never hurts to pick up a specialty). You have no degree so think of this as a 2-3 year plan to substitute it with experience before going for what you're after.

Good luck dude. You've got some very valuable raw materials, they just need refined a bit and you'll be a beast!
The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

Formerly the International Center for Economic Policy Studies

A right-wing 501(c)(3) non-profit American think tank

The institute was founded by libertarian businessman and disciple of F. A. Hayek Antony Fisher and William J. Casey, director of the CIA under Ronald Reagan. Casey, who died in 1987, was implicated in the Iran-Contra affair, working alongside Robert C. McFarlane and Vice Admiral John M. Poindexter with the aid of Lt. Col. Oliver L. North.

The institute has opposed the Affordable Care Act, advocated for the now-discredited "broken windows" theory of policing, and promotes climate change denialism.

The Claude R. Lambe Foundation, one of the Koch Family Foundations, gave $2,075,000 to the Manhattan Institute between 2001 and 2012, and the Charles G. Koch Foundation gave $100,000 to the Institute in 2012.
Is the Scala language finally stable? I looked at it and discarded it multiple times over the last decade because every significant language revision required changing source code.
I had this same read. Also I'm incredibly disappointed to see this very kind and encouraging approach marked "flagged dead". OP doesn't seem to be upset about discussing the possibility and added some helpful clarification. This comment shouldn't be moderated the way it has been.
You can pipe directly into sha256sum, no need to write-read-delete a file:

RUN curl --location --show-error --silent --output get-poetry.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/get-poetry.py \
&& echo '08336beb0091ab192adef2cedbaa3428dabfc8572e724d2aa7fc4a4922efb20a get-poetry.py' | sha256sum --check \
&& python3 get-poetry.py \
&& rm get-poetry.py

Also this code is weird because it grabs the script from master and expects its hash to not change. It should probably grab a specific version of it, e.g. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/8b479... to avoid the code breaking and needing manual update every time Poetry makes a change to their repo.
You can write verbose code in any language, but most other languages don't consider it normal to name a class LangDetectLanguageIdentifierUpdateProcessorFactory. (Random example from an open source framework.)
Oh man, if you like Java power to you, but I refuse to work with that language.
Huawei HiCar
Good thing that's not the only part to what we're discussing then.
Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe’s Twitter suspended after CNN exposé
I almost feel like we're slowly reverting back to the "old ways". If people really want something disposable, they need to look at what used to be practiced in places like Asia and Africa - for instance using banana leaves as plates (https://www.wikihow.com/Eat-Food-on-a-Banana-Leaf) or clay cups for beverages (https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2016/10/26/kolkatas-age-ol...). Or, they should not seek the disposable and use more durable items. But that may require a bit of a culture shift - for instance, maybe grocery stores should let you bring your own containers to fill up with things like oil, grains, milk, etc. This will run into our overly strict health codes and societal risk aversion, but we need to perhaps consider that there is less risk through that lifestyle than with filling oceans with plastic.
A very significant portion of Doctors do not follow the latest research, but rather consume marketing materials produced by pharmaceutical manufacturers and advertising agencies which cherry pick the latest research to the maximum extent permissible by current regulatory frameworks and enforcement standards.

It's a good thing that OP is doing their own research beforehand.
It's affecting even Apple. But not to a great extent.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/08/ipad-macbook-production...
Sure, soil is an ecosystem, but topsoil is the top part of that soil. The surface layer. If you bulldoze a rainforest, there's no more rainforest. But if you scrape away topsoil, you have subsoil, and you have a big pile of topsoil.
I didn't care for Java when I learned with it in school, found it verbose.

Working with it as a dev, my opinion improved. A lot of the new FP inspired APIs make logic much terser, and the OOP stuff can make implementing certain architectural patterns very clean.

The other great thing about Java is that nearly every conceivable question has been answered, as far as day to day development. Not so for newer languages.

My biggest pain point with java is the type system. Like, you basically need to write or consume a library to work with tuples.
I just got some flashback reading that long string, and my heartbeat raised. The namespacing system is also a nightmare

Com.prout.shit.lol...
I can vouch for that. Often what employers want is someone they can rely on.
At Amazon internal transfers don't work by clicking the "Apply" button. You reach out to the hiring manager first and have a coffee together, then if that goes well they setup the internal loop, if that goes well the hiring manager tells you to apply and you get the job. You don't apply until after you have it.
That isn't what design means.
There is no need for a family to be "sick" or not loving for homeschooling to end up being a little insular.

I grew up being home schooled while traveling the world. It definitely resulted in weaker social skills as I lacked long friendships. Making lasting friendships and maintaining relationships is a skill I had to learn later in life.
I mean, you have a hmguy that's hustling got three great opportunities and gave them up. So, maybe hustling for a job but not to use it to lranlrn anything to get the skills for the next job.
I was watching a video about regenerative agriculture the other day (I can't remember which one) and one of its claims was that food isn't as nutritious as it used to be because of current farming practices.

The theory was that when farmers fertilize crops the fertilizer only has common nutrients like nitrogen, phosphate and potassium, but like us plants need a wide variety of nutrients, and those don't exist in the soil anymore.

Does anyone know if there is any truth to this? (i.e. links to papers)
They don't see it as a problem and have no intention of solving it.
There's a way to launch a "test meeting" where you can hear yourself as others would:
https://zoom.us/test
Big Changes That May Save Barnes and Noble
> If you can't get through this thread without discussing your mental health problems that's a serious red flag.

That's unfair. Most of the mental health related comments are in direct response to someone else bringing it up.
The original comment seemed to imply that a tiny portion of the budget apparently spent on investigating systemic racism is a larger systemic problem than, well, any other systemic problems the city might have (including actual systemic racism).
I always refused to work with C++/Java, and I managed to get a job with Rust at FAANG. If I can do it, you can do it :P
This is an area people should remain vigilante about. Although most bitcoin mining uses renewable energy[1][2] or reduces pollution from flaring sites by actually using the to-be-flared gas onsite, without vigilance that won't remain the case, especially if state actors begin competing.

[1] https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/alternati... a Cambridge study which corroborates and reached the same conclusion as an industry [2] study https://coinshares.com/research/bitcoin-mining-network-june-...
> I think it really fell out of favor due to Oracle's litigious handling of it.

Thanks for the info. Didn’t know this. I use AdoptOpenJDK and am grateful the free version is so fully featured.

I’d imagine back in the day Oracle Java reigned supreme and their licensing terms were a real concern.
So they've done what's all too common these days... gone and changed what a word means.

Dead topsoil is dead topsoil. It doesn't become rock or subsoil or something else.

The title of this post is "corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil". It should be "a third of the top soil in the corn belt is badly degraded" or something like that.