skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of. The AWS CLI uses an Amazon internal modeling format used to define services that's based on another Amazon internal modeling format that has been in use for about 15 years (and it's based on another internal model etc..). Smithy is basically the open source v2 of both, but with a public spec and tooling. Eventually all the AWS SDKs and the AWS CLI will adopt Smithy. (I work on the AWS SDKs and created Smithy)
California population declines for first time in more than a century
California leaving: State population declines for first time
BTW can someone provide a quick refresher as to this now allegedly lucrative contract market please? Like, what might be median rates for Senior Developer skills in a reasonably meaty domain (say data engineering, crypto, high-performance web) in say, Bay Area / NYC respectively (I'm assuming there's a differential here).

That's be very helpful. Again, not "consulting" per se (and the baggage / shtick that goes along with it), just straight up 6-18 month contracting.

Thanks very much!
I’m curious why people are so obsessed with the dark web.

Most of the hidden wiki links are broken and the ones that aren’t seem... fake
The default camera on my android does this plus way more. It attempts to do OCR. So if I point it at a QR code it'll parse it. If there is a url or phone number it'll be clickable. Addresses can open google maps. Etc.

It's honestly super impressive, and I noticed it at least 3 years ago on android.
No, global warming is not going to be a problem. The earth has been much warmer than it is today. The IPCC has been riddled with fraud and it’s clear in 2021 that the news is being driven by a network of insiders hell bent on excluding heterodox.

Global warming alarmism is a purely political artifact. The idea that it’s a fringe belief is driven by propaganda from the mainstream networks.
Poland ceded that sovereignty when they signed the Outer Space Treaty. Poland CAN use Starlink, SpaceX just hasn't offered service there yet (they only recently translated their documentation into French and support is still only in English). The service is still in beta as things are still in development. Service is available in the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and Germany.

Edit: Apparently they just added service in France today as well.
This isn’t right though. The worker produces something for their company. The company sells it and adds value as they do so. The company offers a track record, a method for getting the goods or services, a policy for returning or fixing the goods. They offer service when the employee is sick or on holiday - continuity.
The company adds value to their worker’s work, and for this they can take a margin.
No mention of knoppix, I think? For me that was the first live distro (hell, first distro at all) that cracked reliable hardware detection.
I don't think you're underestimating how hard it is, but you are overestimating 99% of web writer's tech skills.

The whole point of medium is anyone can go write without any.

I still hate it, but that's why it continues to exist.
How does this compare to Google’s protocol buffers? [0] It looks like smithy has a broader set of applications.

[0] https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers
I gotta say this is really neat. Definitely going to take it for a spin. I’ve always felt like a lot of these tools have too much ceremony - this feels light and simple.
We call things "base of memory" and "top of memory" though, with the latter one being at the highest address of memory.
This could use some specific examples to illustrate the phenomenon. I can think of a few from recent memory:

- The way Obamacare was sold to the public, which was highly deceptive. See ACA architect Jonathan Gruber’s comments about how it passed because of the voters’ “stupidity.”

- The CDC telling us not to wear masks because they wouldn’t help, and then telling us to wear them; and finding out that the first recommendation was an intentional lie.

- Pretty much everything the media reports about race.
Set X to 30, and make the cause of death deceptive euthanasia, and you've got the movie "Logan's Run" [1]. Make X 21 and you've got the book "Logan's Run" [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%27s_Run_(film)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%27s_Run
The "/sec" bit is critical, and missing.
Rufus is so good. If you have your ISO downloaded and your media plugged in, it takes 6 clicks and 10 seconds to start writing to the bootable device. So easy and simple, and it works with everything.
You have really high hopes for the standard American. The offhand racism against Chinese people (not the PRC) I see in online communities, even supposedly liberal ones like Reddit, is very telling.

As an American of Chinese descent, I honestly have very real concerns about my own safety in the next decade or two going forward. Japanese internment camps happened not too long ago, they can happen again. Or worse.

Even if it weren't government sanctioned, violence against us is still on the rise[1].

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56218684
Ah but this is only true for people who’s competitive advantage is technology!

For someone who is relatively better at ideating, I would argue the opposite is true.
The minimum wage keeps poor people down. That doesn't make it systemically racist.
Somewhat relevant:

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kafkatrap

Kafkatrap (plural Kafkatraps)

A sophistical rhetorical device in which any denial by an accused person serves as evidence of guilt.
Didn't Ethereum very early on push an update that undid a $50 million hack?
What do you stand to gain by spreading political narratives even more? It doesn’t matter what side they say they’re on. Take, for instance, the democratic governor of NY, among the biggest culprits of hiding reporting on deaths. What’s the point?

Maybe your problem is more with the media than any side which they defined.
By that time they'll also have a launch vehicle capable of launching around 300 satellites in a single launch.

Additionally, 42,000 was a worst case for the number needed and only if things go exceedingly well with the service. I think people quote that number too much when in reality there's likely to be under 5000 (from SpaceX at least).
In order to even start calculation the "true" cost, they should also subtract the deaths from school shootings, road accidents, etc. that did not happen this past year.
It was certainly true for an older generation. The European settlers spoke French, and some in and around the French-controlled regions adopted French as a daily language, particularly those dealing with to the colonial government. This was true until the return of the territory in the 1950s. A few families have probably carried on speaking their home language. But in absolute terms, it's quite rare. There were probably fewer than ~100,000 native French speakers in India at the peak, and I believe the majority chose to move to France when the territories were returned to India.
right, but even if it's not the purpose, you can still call the result obfuscated
Little-endian is fundamentally confusing, because the bits within the bytes still go the "other" way. Best to just keep the diagram oriented to bits-within-bytes order, and make it clear that bytes-within-words are being plopped into memory backwards.

Just like, back when graphics bitplanes were a thing, it was much less confusing if the diagram just showed (virtual) memory interleaved, the way you'd actually have to deal with it as a programmer, rather than showing the "clean" physical-memory diagrams for what ends up on the "even" and "odd" chips.
They're starting with the bootloader and management engine. That's a tough enough ocean to boil.

Give them some time to get Rust above that.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof." - probably Sagan.
I can't think of any either right now[1], with the exception maybe of very old ISAs where the stack is not in regularly addressable memory at all, and instead fixed depth formed by effectively a bunch of registers. But it might be hard to even define any notion of "upwards" or "downwards" on those.

[1] EDIT: This comment mentions PA-RISC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27079832
I think the visual aura part can be different for many people. I also thought I was having a stroke -- in my case the entire center of my vision in both eyes disappears.

But the brain is used to that behaviour (center-dead-spot from optic nerve) and has a prebaked solution: average/blend the inputs from around the dead-spot.

However my migraine-visual-aura center-dead spot is about the size of a 12" laptop screen, which results in horrifically nauseating visual "blending" happening nonstop. I tried to look at a book once and the only words I could read were the first & last words on each line. I tried to read a car license plate and could only read the last letter.

When the rate at which I got them increased from 1/6mo to 1/6week, I got a prescription & haven't had one since.
Wow. Just wow. Maybe it's covid isolation talking, but this is supercool, to use a word from my youth, when pong was king.
> How often do the domains of systems programming and cloud administration intersect?

I can see Rust being attractive for high-traffic network apps, based on the idea of requests-per-second not being amortized over GC pauses.
Switch to telegram en masse.
why does it fundamentally suck? anything specific in mind?
You would hope. My employer froze raises and retirement contributions when they expected things were about to get tight. At the time we pointed to the billion+ dollar strategic fund and asked why they couldn’t dip into that, and we were told that money was untouchable because of the strategy.

Now a year later, things have worked out better than they expected and there is a huge surplus due to the freeze o. Wages and stopping contributions to retirement funds. Instead of giving some of that money back to us, want to guess where it’s going? That’s right, the strategic fund.
In principle I dislike the coupling of volume manager, raid and filesystem.

But I still think zfs gets most things right; I see the argument for a concistent system managing caching/logs, volumes, data integrity, discard support, compression, snapshots and encryption.

The fact that it's the first serious, open, cross platform solution (Linux, bsd, Mac, winnt) that provides encryption, integrity and filesystem is a nice bonus.

And the integration of snapshots and fs dumps via zfs send/receive is beautiful.

I think zfs makes sense like one fat layer - networking can go below (drdb, iscsi) or on top (iscsi, nfs, cifs).

Encryption need to be somewhat holistic - for making sane performance and data leaking tradeoffs.
> Innovation happens in fields where our ideas are limited by our means to pursue them. Software is no longer such a field, our brightest minds should be going elsewhere.

I feel like the author has an overly one-dimensional definition of both innovation and what it means for someone to be one of "our brightest minds".

There are two different goods and two different talents at play here. The first is taking an idea that already has been had and making it possible. The second is inventing new ideas. Both are goods, but each requires very different talents.

Biotechnology desperately needs people who, given a great idea, can break technological barriers and enable it. If we accept that software is bottlenecked by ideas, then software desperately needs people who can radically change paradigms. "Our greatest minds" consist of both types of people.
HashQL: Chuck Norris can access the DB from the UI
I looked into biotech before I jumped into an aerospace startup a few career moves ago. Did some consulting and everything to test the waters, which was compensated "ok" but like half of the hourly rate of doing something even shittier for Google or Facebook.

Besides the top heavy compensation problem, the other problem I had with biotech is that everything is swamped in patents, NDAs, secret patents, secret NDAs and in the US there's also a lot of spooky secret government bullshit. I worked on information security so I'm not that scared of three letter agencies, but in my short time dealing with biotech they were actually not letting me do my job, which had never happened before.
My manager has been very active to push sick says when needed, maybe partially as it's hard to gauge how functional someone is when you can't see them at their desk. They've always been awesome but it has shown through this past year.
> At those income levels pretty much the only thing you’re really priced out of are nice single family homes, but I suspect that’s the same in Zurich.

You'll never pay it completely but if you can afford a mortgage you'll build equity into it and probably be able to resell it at a profit.
I don't understand, you guys have PhDs, why can't you write a script yourself?

Porting it to java will speed it up a few x,

and if it uses some silly library like pandas or numpy or spark then consider it a great time to rewrite it from scratch properly with no dependencies :)
Does this still run against the ts/js runtime like the other sdks?
This also is pretty much why finance pays well: the correlation of employee salary to company profit is as direct as it will ever be.
Come on, why the down votes? This was legitimately amusing.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted; if you look at the hypothetical “with” syntax in the original blog post, it is clearly borrowed from the C# implementation.
Windows 10 “Sun Valley” will do away with Windows 95 era icons
Chance of winning is under 2% for almost all countries and it's not particularly fast - apply in November, learn in May whether you can immigrate from September.

Regular H1B would be both faster and offer a better chance of winning.
CLion works very well for Rust. It's much better than Android Studio for Flutter/Dart. I use both every day.
Statistical Arbitrage
Nice, seems very solid!
Yes, the average person isn't very smart, but you simply can't deny that their trusts were broken by "experts" over and over again. Bringing in Alex Jones of all people into this is genuinely missing the point. It also comes off as a cheap way to discredit the parent comment, very similar to how these "experts" often do.
what's your resting jaw position? at rest, teeth shouldn't touch, there should be a small gap, and your tongue is usually touching the upper palate, just behind front teeth. Your resting breath-rate and heart-rate shouldn't be too high, relaxation and exercise will help (at any age!), try breathing deeply a few times, then exhale all the air, empty lungs and hold this for 20s and more
Russian cyber-spies changed tactics after the UK and US outed their techniques
Your local attorney bar association can provide referrals.

Alternatively, if you have a large budget, any downtown law firm will be competent at handling business matters.
A joke cryptocurrency has risen nearly 25,000% in the last six months
> An honest rewriting of my quoted text using your terminology would be something more like this: “It would be reasonable to say that the explicitly racist policies advocated by DEI as a remedy are not a proper solution to the problem, but that is different than claiming that implicit racism doesn’t exist”

Systemic racism just means inequitable outcomes, implicit racism is an "invisible" enemy invented to justify an equity agenda not supported by explicit racism, so I do not see how one can embrace this without embracing DEI as a solution. If social justice used the colloquial definition of racism, which it doesn't, it would be ridiculous to claim that someone is inevitably and exclusively racist because they are white.

I am not saying we shouldn't iterate using the liberal system where corruption happens. However, a committee prescribing outcomes based upon an every-expanding set of politically motivated identity categories is way more prone to corruption because the power is unchecked. A core principle of the liberal system is to check power as it assumed people are and will be imperfect.

> You can easily accept that they have a viewpoint while also noting that the vast majority of black people don't identify as libertarian nor as conservatives. Why do you think that a minority should be able to invalidate the majority’s opinion? Because it agrees with your viewpoint?

Because telling someone that they don't have "an authentic black lived experience" if it doesn't fit an activist mold is both racist and harmful to people listening to each other to find better solutions. It is simply bad process to prescribe a solution while denying any negative feedback, but that is exactly what social justice and DEI does.

> The median inheritor doesn’t become wealthy through inheritance, sure, but they also don’t become wealthy through work & education either. Wealth is a heavily skewed distribution, so it makes little sense to talk about the median when 10% of the country owns something like 3/4th of the wealth. Assuming we are talking about someone who receives a non trivial amount of wealth through inheritance (ie enough for them to be actually wealthy, not 67k) then it is easy to maintain that wealth without work.

I do agree that concentration of wealth is an issue, covid in particular has transferred almost 4 trillion from the middle class to the oligarchs. That said, historically countries that adopted the equity agenda have not fared any better.

However, if only a percentage around 10% rely on inheritance for status&wealth while the rest rely on education and work then forcing equal outcomes through racist policies in education as well as hiring&promotion are gross miscarriages of justice.
As a CEO, I worry about the erosion of office culture with more remote work
Sounds like Ocular Migraines. I've gotten them now for about 10 years. Usually I get them in clusters after not having them for a few months.

Wish I knew if it were something more controllable.

For me it's a bright, shimmering little thing that grows over my entire vision over 30-45 minutes. When it finally subsides, I get a pretty awful headache for 1-2 hours. Ibuprofen fortunately does help with the headache, at least.
Suicides rates are the same or down in most of the world[0], and were apparently reduced in the US during the pandemic[1].

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.13.21251682v...
Show HN: Textwalker, a utility to incrementally parse (semi|un)structured text
These stuff generally called as "0-day".
A friend retired with more than 1M after four years in finance and living the life in NY, like he was not saving much. Most of his comp was commissions on what his algorithms or the stuff his team worked on was marking on the market. His base salary and comp were a little bit above Google, were he worked before switching to finance.
> HR asked what sort of salary range we were looking at, we suggested that we won't get any decent candidates for less than 70k EUR and were laughed out of the room and they decided on a 50k limit. I've since left, but I'm pretty sure they've still not manage to hire a software engineer.

Just relocate your lab to be in the US and associated with a US University. Then you can hire a Masters/PhD student from Europe's top schools at that salary.
I’m not sure any of this is obvious.
I have observed my relatives leave reviews just like the one you described as fraudulent. They are older folks who don’t get what the point of reviews is. Sometimes they will leave reviews like: „cheap and arrived in 1 day” which completely misses the point of what product reviews should be.
On the other hand, I wouldn’t be so sure that „this is complete junk” review is genuine or perhaps comes from the competitor who wants to hurt the rating of the product.

Just like sarcasm is really hard to detect in an online forum, even with human intelligence, and having some conversational context, I think determining reviewers true intent is really really hard.
I think number of launches was used as a proxy for number of satellites launched in the last month - more satellites/launch shouldn't impact it that much.
It’s elegant. It doesn’t overreach.
How does one get on your podcast? Can recommend some folks for it.
I think maybe you mean "don't send your kids to an _American_ school if you can avoid it". Although I have no personal experience with the American school system, I would say that there are many schools in the world that adhere, to some degree, to your 'how not to teach mathematics'. I went to a public school in Europe and have had plenty of enthusiastic teachers that also tried to deliver the beauty of mathematics.
The Huffpost CEO makes $450,000.

https://www.comparably.com/companies/the-huffington-post/exe...
My defence is to work at a small place. That its self is not a magic bullet. It had to be around for a long time. Also, I was invited in (an old coworker got me an interview) So it's not like I ran through a bunch of businesses to eliminate to the best.
I was the lead developer of the Linuxcare business card and the later LNX-BBC, and I also want to mention that Knoppix is a huge name in Linux live CD history.

Knoppix (developed by Klaus Knopper) ended up using the cloop driver, which Rusty Russell originally wrote for LNX-BBC. It added transparent gzip compression to the loopback filesystem mount concept and I think it allowed us to ship about twice as much software on a 50 megabyte CD-ROM! (And similarly, Knoppix could then ship about twice as much software on a full-size CD-ROM.)

In general, doing better than raw ISO9660 for read-only file storage was an important challenge for would-be tiny live and embedded Linux systems. I think there are several things that have followed cloop, directly or indirectly inspired by it.

I think you could still do quite a lot with a live USB system today. At Linuxcare we heard from a lot of IT desktop support people who were regularly using the bootable business card to fix/back up Linux and Windows systems, or sometimes for forensics, lost password resets, or other creative applications.

Edit: Knoppix existed slightly earlier than the Linuxcare project, even though it adopted that one particular cloop technology from us. I think it was probably an inspiration for the Linuxcare group. I don't know my Knoppix history very well, but I think I saw some form of Knoppix as early as 1997!

Edit 2: According to Wikipedia my recollection may be wrong because the first known official Knoppix release is 2000 (though that's version 1.3, so maybe there was a 1.0 sometime before that?) See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoppix and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Knopper (amazing to see that Knoppix is still being actively developed to this day!).

Edit 3: Thanks to someone elsewhere in this thread for mentioning tomsrtbt by Tom Oehser (http://www.toms.net/rb/), which was also definitely an inspiration for the Linuxcare distribution. It had the motto "the most Linux on 1 floppy disk", later modified to "the most GNU/Linux on 1 floppy disk". While it didn't have a GUI, like the QNX floppy, you could do quite a bit with it!
The creation of the EU created a situation where supply increased which meant salaries were not going to rise in the richer EU countries. The free college, health care, services is the reason for the taxes.

We will see salaries in the UK increase over Germany.

Lower salaries make it easier for businesses to compete.
This is a clear, concise post. I'm a scientist -- an academic medical physicist. I use phase stable, digitally controllable, powerful microwave sources. 99% of the companies who sell such things and waveguides in my frequency range have pretty pictures of the latest fighter jet on their catalogue covers, as they're used there for phased-array radar, and I've come across ITAR ordering spares to a hospital!
This is a really flippant comment if you've actually tried vet the country of origin for the things you buy. It can be near impossible.