skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. At my company, salaries are capped and the higher end of your comp comes from your bonus. At the end of the year, instead of raising salaries, they give out larger bonuses. If one day they just decide not to give it to you, you will have earned anywhere from 20-70% less in total.
All this bonus talk. Some you wanna try working for an NGO...
If you want to see the difference between just throwing money at the problem and an actual tier 1 threat, compare this with the Chinese iPhone 0day from fall of 2019. Probably a multimillion dollar exploit, with terrible quality and no opsec on the c2 side . Just spending money doesn't get you the kind of expertise that's needed to pull off something like this.

It's a bit like arguing Bill Gates is a serious threat to any naval power because he can afford to buy a nuclear attack sub; there's more to it than that.
It started to change when the salary cartel was busted.
Well, it is a breaking change on a minor revision, but Python doesn't use semantic versioning so there's no reason that can't happen.

The relevant PEP, https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0387/, states that breaking changes may be made with two minor versions of warning (or one major version). Minor versions are released on a calendar schedule (again, not semantic versioning), so this policy is 2-3 years of warning in practice.
As a user, this was exactly my experience. I didn't want to drop my fork since I had open PRs so GitHub support reinstated my fork and gave me a window to rebase it and confirm with them.

That's literally all I had to do: rebase it against upstream.
this is the ideal reply, original waffle poster was hoping for, thank you!
Ask HN: Opportunities for the Highly Ambitious
Unlike regular job-boards, are there websites that list only lucrative, competitive and hard-to-get-in kind of opportunities, one example is 8000 hours[1]. This could be fellowships, grad school, internships, startups or jobs

[1] https://80000hours.org/job-board/
made me think back to this piece on Rod Stewart: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50403561
> We have moved to a society where things are expected to be safe except for a number of well known exceptions, and this is good

I disagree. All we're doing is creating a false sense of security, propped up by a government which is mostly incompetent and often abjectly corrupt when deciding what is "safe". For reference see the absolute littany of chemicals with which we have been poisoned for the last half-century, and the outragously scandalous conduct of our governemnt in failing to protect us from them.

When people know that there's no assurance that the things they put into their homes and give their children are "safe", and that they bear total responsibiltiy for outcomes, they tend to be a lot more careful. This is a good thing. We want thoughtful careful individuals making decisions and shaping markets. We want to encourage people to think more, not less. We want people who think to succeed, and poeple who don't to fail, and to bear full and total responsibility for their failures. Otherwise there is no progress.
I'm definitely not into this stuff, but at the same time, the human mind is a strange and mysterious thing. Generic pep talk, positive signage, self affirmations all seem to have a positive effect on a lot of people.

There are quite a few scientific studies out there that bear this out.
I was in an odd situation where I was supervisor for teams on major projects after 4.5 years in the industry, at 26. This was a fairly large company in our domain.

This led to quite a few rushed learning experiences for myself, since I hadn't had the same years of mentorship that you'd usually expect.

* Learning how to balance mentoring team members and how to be hands off. It's easy to get into the position where you're spoon feeding the team or haven't built their confidence up. You become the bottle neck and overworked. On the flip side, if you are too hands off, then the important implementation details slip through and you miss out on things you should know, but are not getting bubbled up. It's a hard balance that I still struggle with, and I don't know if any resources truly cover it.

* How to manage under performing employees is a struggle. For example I've had a very senior team member who was struggling with personal issues and it was causing their output at work to be riddled with issues. However we had nobody to cover his areas of expertise and he refused to take time off. Trying to balance this while managing the rest of the team was a real nightmare, which involved pushing them on to lower risk tasks and absorbing more of the load myself till they could work through their issues.

* Setting culture is a difficult one too. Team culture is often top down and leaders need to be aware that everything they do trickles down. However often the negative aspects amplify greatly over positive ones. While I would never compare myself to someone like Linus Torvalds, you can see this in how people try and emulate his negative characteristics (heated project comments) without understanding context or seeing his positive moments. Similarly I was known to be very critical in code reviews, though I went to lengths to soften my feedback and was never harsh. However over time I noticed several junior devs were emulating the criticality of my reviews without picking up on the softening and positive aspects of my reviews. This led to several scenarios where they'd bully other devs in code review and attribute it to my review culture. Anyway again this is something I find difficult to deal with. People naturally amplify negativity and the only way I've found so far is to be vigilant and counter their adopted behaviour early. Whether that's intervening in code reviews, or providing regular work culture refreshers, it is something that's required to maintain a healthy culture.

* On to specific examples of issues I had to struggle with. A lot of the devs on my team were not great at body hygiene. Some didn't bathe regularly. I was literally being asked not to send people to meetings . The only solution was to ask HR to send a strongly worded notice to the whole company to remind them about hygiene and taking some folks aside to gently suggest some mitigations for their hygiene. It was rank.
You dont want metal salts in your potatoes
If you want more out of your access logs, you can also use two free IP Tools we have recently created at IPInfo. This maybe less useful if your aim is to understand the website usage, since we are only creating a report based on IPs. But it can help you understand the type of traffic you're getting.

Summarize IPs takes in a list of IPs to create a report, like this[1], about location of IPs, if they are VPN/Proxy/Tor, and type of traffic. There's a limit of 1000 IPs here, but that can easily be circumvented by creating a free account.

Map IPs plots them on a world map, like this [2].

Both of them are free and can be used from command line. We will also filter out the text to find IPs, so you can just pass raw access logs.

[1]: https://ipinfo.io/summarize-ips/result?id=320d5003-a75f-42c3...

[2]: https://ipinfo.io/map/5b49e994-ec7a-416c-8140-b311364f6160
Again, it’s a semantic distinction. I think it’s more accurate to say it inflates at a known rate than “doesn’t inflate”, but I’m not going to argue semantics.

It doesn’t address the problem of the network being subsidized by the diminishing pool of remaining unmined bitcoin, and what happens when that pool is exhausted.
You didn’t get the deduction. It was just a way to direct company funds.
window.botguard on google.com could very well be a way to detect bots running WebDriver to impersonate humans. Since WebDriver is headless, there would be detectable differences in WebGL support. This would also explain why the code is "very obfuscated".
Sanctioned Russian IT firm was partner with Microsoft, IBM
See also this bit of Internet history: https://web.archive.org/web/20000815202656/http://world.std....
Bitcoin mining hash rate drops as blackouts instituted in China
Siri isn't the same thing as Voice Over/Voice Control! [0]

Apple has been frequently recognized for their efforts to make their products accessible - including by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) [1]. Not to come off as a shill, but their contributions in the area of accessibility are worth praising.

iOS was the first mobile OS to include accessibility features. Apparently they're now using the LiDAR scanner on the iPhone 12 Pro to power a "people detection" feature for people with sight impairments.[2]

Here's a few of Apple's marketing videos on their accessibility features that are kind of neat:

A blind drummer who uses an iPhone with a black screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHAO_kj0qcA

Accessibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB4cjbYywqg

Voice Control: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqoXFCCTfm4

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[0] https://support.apple.com/accessibility/mac

[1] https://www.afb.org/aw/16/6/15452

[2] https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/people-detection-iph4...
OK, I find it hilarious that your open analytics say zero hits for the past few weeks until 70+ hits from today because you linked your open analytics on an HN comment... :-D :-D
Key difference is those are un-powered treadmills.
Nothing a good toke can't fix.
That’s great news! I figured it’d come back at some point.
Newpipe works fine, though the version from the native F-Droid repos tends to lag behind. There is an alternate repo from the devs that updates more quickly:

https://newpipe.net/blog/announcement/f-droid/pinned/f-droid...
Linux veteran Slackware rides again with a beta of version 15
For the languages I've used it with (Python, Rust, Javascript), its introspection is without compare. Ie the ability to understand what's going on with the language, and use this to catch errors, refactor, and autocomplete. Its project-based-design (vice file-based) is a better fit for most of my code as well.

From my perspective, JetBrains can get away with being slow due to how much better it is at core features than any competitor.
> these guys could do something equally innovative

Is Peloton even innovating? It’s a treadmill with a big screen on the front.

I haven’t paid too much attention to their products but they always seemed just a fad.
> Has anyone seen what it takes to run something on AWS?

I've given up every time I've tried it on personal projects. It's just a complete poorly document mess indeed.

At work we host our stuff on AWS but we have an ops team that deals with all the garbage. All I care about are APIs, endpoints and that one thing can talk to another.
Putin critic Navalny could 'die within days', say doctors
So the EU and European countries like Denmark are the source of the disinformation on AstraZeneca??
Of course you can sue the bike company, and if your foot got caught because there was no chain guard, causing you to crash and be injured in an accident, you might even win. Even if you weren't wearing a helmet.
Do you have references? Not saying you're wrong, but you provided zero proof.

The instance also runs inside a LAN so... whatever.
Yes, you have and that is reasonable. It is assumed that it is safely contained environment that cannot maliciously affect your host system. Yet every virtualization and container solution we've seen so far had been exploited.

"But is there a vulnerability at the moment that can be exploited?" "None that we know of"

Containers also often get generous access rights and internet access, even assuming container solution being intact.

Security of the system inside is a whole big surface of attack that you have little control of (unless you meticulously analyze each docker full fucking system image every time you run them), and necessarily affects your systems because otherwise you would have no use for this container.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=docker
How Tech Loses Out at Companies, Countries and Continents
Croc 9.0.0 – easily and securely send things from one computer to another
Article is complete faff. The potato is not the battery, it is not an energy source, and the article says nothing about the economics of the two plates which are the actual energy source. Don't waste your time.
Great GAry V. drivel here.
The Christmas gift was in addition to the normal annual bonus payed out in January.
What are the best ways to lessen inflammation assuming a person is presently in good health?
Agreed, I am working on this myself
It can’t be quite that simple. I’m not at all an expert in electrochemistry, but you can put pure zinc and pure copper together in a sealed container with nothing else except ideal electrodes until the cows come home, and you will not end up with copper oxides, zinc oxides, or any useful energy output.
> The peloton treadmill is uniquely, unnecessarily, gratuitously dangerous.

This is not an absolute fact, but just your opinion. People are allowed to disagree with what degree of design compromise constitues "unnecessarily dangerous". Furthermore, they are allowed to object when some people try to impose their ideas of what's right and wrong onto others.

Personally I think Peloton should be able to sell treadmills with circular saw blades at each corner if people want to buy them. Who are you to decide what's right and wrong for other people?
Companies are also taking FAR longer to exit/IPO than they did back in the day and most companies still have a 90 day limit on ISOs.

How many super early employees are able to hang on for a decade until IPO, or have the cash to exercise their options before they leave?
Many employers agonise over laying off employees, I would go so far as to say the vast majority do. Many employers try to keep on employees in situations where they really should be laid off, putting their own jobs at risk.

Don’t get into the the mindset that employers are all psychopaths - not only is it not true, but it will damage your career thinking this way.
I only deployed it just earlier this morning. Cloudflare says ~15k unique visitors in the past few weeks FWIW.
The picture you link to is of a pair of Truform Runner treadmills[1]. I have no idea of how safe they are, but they are notable for not having motors which means that they wouldn’t pull a child under them on their own. Could they injure a child? I don’t know.

Perhaps someone that has used one and can comment on it. I’ve been thinking of replacing my current treadmill with one of these. I don’t have small children or pets, but I’d like to get a safe treadmill if I’m going to buy new one.

[1] https://trueformrunner.com
If you’d read the article, you’d know that it explains that the potato is just acting as the electrolyte, and it does mention that replacing the zinc electrode is cheap.
But why is it that every time tradgedy occurs we're looking for a systemic casuse that we can regulate away? Why not leave this to parental negligence and stop calling for more regulation everytime a child gets injured or killed?
Meet the New “Leisure-Enhancing” Sunscreen Brand Partying Like It’s 1986
2009 was both. Cash a few months before, N1 right before Christmas.
Show HN: PolyCalc. A simple symbolic polynomial calculator
This reads like "I was not allowed to mansplain email, but at least I can mansplain mansplaining".
I can't believe the level of disconnect some people on HN have with the "other" worlds.

Poor people don't need LEDs? LEDs are the cheapest light source in the long run. The electricity/batteries to run it might be expensive or impossible to get in some places.

Check out this gravity-run light source which is "essentially free" and being used in many places.

https://youtu.be/Jsc-pQIMxt8
Yes, but the headline says it's a potato battery. It's not. It's a battery with a potato in it.
There is no such law.
Surely a highly ambitious person is resourceful enough to identify job opportunities without needing to resort to a job board. :)
This can be fixed by overriding valueOf() and toString() on the prototype. Just return another native function, like JSON.stringify ;)
Poolside FM steaming service: http://poolside.fm

Sunscreen available at http://vacation.inc complete with a “high pressure sales pamphlet”, corporate video, and business card generator
You'll find in practice they can afford a cheap led light and battery what they need is a charger for their phone (And clean water/micro-nutrients/medicine/sewage~=clean water)

And wow, potato batteries are a scam. Fool I am.

So boiling them won't release more energy to electricity... I guess... I'll need to sit down and work it out. I don't get why a cheaper fluid that doesn't rot won't work ok then.

Why is there no web page explaining this Sci Fair scam. Why a potato over salty water? Or a steak. Or a lump of dirt. What's the relationship between a potato having energy and the fact it's used in potato batteries.
It’s actually very convenient now to stack GitHub PRs; the target branch detector makes it easy to arrange a cascade, and the target branches update automatically as the earlier ones merge.

Can you explain what a patch based workflow means? I’ve seen patches in email. But to be honest I really only know Github.

What I would say in my apparent ignorance is that a patch doesn’t exist in isolation; it has, or should have, a parent — a certain code base state explicitly declared as its context. Otherwise the entire activity of review is not well-defined, since no-one has specified what the state of the code base is, and therefore the behavior of the software is unknowable.
The coronavirus has closed more than 70 local newsrooms across America
What do you consider first-level details? It’d be super put off if my boss asked me if I had a fever when I emailed in sick.
If anyone is interested in stamps as more of a casual hobby where you get more joy in seeing a wide variety than a pristine, ordered collection, I highly recommend https://www.postcrossing.com/. It's an international postcard exchange program, most certainly low-tech in this day and age, but I find it immensely satisfying. I buy as many combinations of stamps as I can (the US's international stamp is boring) and love choosing the perfect ones for my postcard's recipient.

List in your profile that you like stamps or even say the type you're interested in. You'll be amazed at some of the ones you'll get from all over the world.
How feasible is it for a regular jack off like me to create similar arrangement? Would I need to create a corporation of myself and a holding company to pay me? Would it not work because how the IRS already knows what my employer pays me?

Clueless of course, but kind of curious if corporate tax shenanigans could be replicated at scale for individuals.
I literally did the same thing last night! A DO droplet hosting a statically-generated site composed of html generated from some markdown and sandwiched between some html headers, then served up by the Rocket[1] framework.

It's my first website, and I think the total size of the backend is something like 40 LoC. I've never had any kind of analytics (or needed them), but I thought it would be neat to see what was going on. It took me all of 20 minutes to sign up, add the single Plausible <script></script> line to my index files and headers, and there it was. As someone with literally no other web experience, I can't imagine it having been easier. The cost of my website is now a whole $12/mo instead of $6, and I agree that it feels kinda nice to support a service that seems to place value on privacy and openness.

[1] https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket
Everyone is focusing on the bonus part of the story but man, I really enjoyed the computing history about working inside DEC in those days.

Anyone got other good computing history books/stories to recommend? I really enjoyed Masters of Doom and Hard Drive (about old-testament Gates, not new-dove Gates)
Hi! This is a simple DSL that can calculate integer/real num-coefficient polynomials.

It can expand input polynomials and simplify equations & relations. It also supports variable assignment so that one can easily handle expressions and reference later.

This is my first non-trivial project done in C, and also my first using GNU bison/yacc & flex/lex. Any feedback is appreciated!
2009 leaked. Tweeted while most of us were still in line. Still got the screenshot.

<name> One thousand dollar impromptu cash bonus. I work for Google!!

... October 16th. Dumb.
Thanks for sharing your perspective. I would definitely feel the same (or worse) if I was in your shoes.
Not all advertising networks are that great at ensuring normalized adverts and many choose the ad size with highest bid vs fitment... it does suck
In fairness Aziz can pass off as Chamath more easily than Kumail.
I’m not a billionaire. I do have financial freedom, and I work 60 hour weeks. This fits my lifestyle because I find joy, fulfillment, and a strong sense of accomplishment in my work. If my work was more mundane, I imagine even 40 hours would be a huge struggle.

Without meaningful work, I imagine the rational thing to do (not necessarily ethical) is to find a job that requires the least amount of effort with the highest pay. And if the government will pay me the same to sit at home, perhaps I’d even do that.
You dont want to want to eat a cooked potato that is 40 days old either.
> the National Mine Safety Supervision Bureau has reported three recent coal mine accidents, including an April 10 “water penetration accident” in Xinjiang that caused 21 people to be trapped.

> Significantly, the Xinjiang and Sichuan regions of China combined account for more than 50 percent of the overall Bitcoin mining hash rate

This is horrific on so many levels, I’m not even sure where to begin. My heart goes out for those poor miners slaving away for... what?
Tesla safety report claims to be 2x safer than other cars
The Unforeseen Issue with Skyscraper Canyons
I mean, just some salty water will do the trick
This is actually good for bitcoin
aaron695 says:>Poor people don't need small LED lights... <

I commonly find myself asking for a flashlight when helping
friends or acquaintances with everyday fixes. I wish I had a potato for every time they offered me their (dim, unwieldy and dysfunctional) cellphone with flashlight app.

In the old days, everyone had these widgets called "flashlights" in their homes. These flashlights worked well and had backup batteries. Today we have a bunch of morons groping in the dark with cellphones.

Fun time watching the cellphones die out during the Texas Freeze event weeks ago. "Anyone got a flashlight?" I now know the proper response is "Nope, but we've plenty of potatoes!"
> My heart goes out for those poor miners slaving away for... what?

A paycheck, typically.
Accidents happen everywhere including China. Shootings happen mostly in US
I went through the same thing in my previous work (consulting firm). Management set up monthly targets related to billing enough hours to the clients (something like 85% in average in our team of 5).

Most of the time we met the criteria even if not everyone was making the target. Usually, 4 were 100% billable while 1 was the anchor :).

One month, I spent a fair amount of time of documenting something because it was the 3rd time that the same errors were showing up so I told to my manager to decrease the target for that month. It was agreed and understood by everyone that the target could be lowered when required (leave, training, etc ...). Except that my manager refused to lower the target so I spent 3 months talking to CEO/CFO to get this bonus paid (more for my colleagues than for me) but I never managed to convince them. So the same feeling as you described kicked in in the team. People started to work only billable hours, neglecting everything else to make sure we met the target all the time.

I obviously left this company after a serious discussion with my manager. I still remember sending an ultimate email asking for the bonus on my last Friday at 4pm.

So yes, give a decent comp and say that bonuses might be paid if the company is performing well. If they are ever paid, I will take my family for a nice dinner and buy some books with them. Else than fine, my mortgage is not in danger!