skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point :)

Some reasons I don't like being an employee:

- Schedule constrains

- Politics and certain dynamics within/between teams. I'm getting tired of those.

- Money. I'm close to the ceiling (for my location and role) unless I pivot into management

- I'm a bit disconnected about what delivers real value within the company, I feel I'm just a small piece of a big machinery. It's a bit abstract the work I do

- I can influence but I don't own my career path

What I believe a freelance route could give me:

- I can pivot until finding what I enjoy doing

- More flexible schedule

- Feeling that I'm providing tangible value

- Money ceiling

- My efforts would give me a sense of investing in "my own business"

- Freedom. Choose who to work with or not (ideal scenario of course)

- Learning new tech
This is the crab mentality (if I can't have it, neither can you).
Mediator Design Pattern| Medium
I think the best approach would be to show a small indicator of page load times in the search results so everyone can decide for themelves what they prefer. Then these preferences would influence what is shown on top, creating an optimisation feedback cycle.
Yes, there is some level of binge drinking in Germany, but it's not the same as the binge drinking that is common in the anglosphere, and especially in British culture, which is quite a bit more extreme.
> Big engines are loud, they need to breathe.

Oh, bullshit: There are lots of even bigger engines that are less loud. Compare that .75-l Honda or 1.5-l Harley-Davidson against, say, a 6-liter Mercedes-Benz.

Q.E.D.

The assholes are those who come up with these feeble excuses for their antisocial behaviour.
China buit several artificial islands in just a few years - and not near shores (but some on reefs).

https://southfront.org/chinas-artificial-islands-south-china...

It can be done faster if enough resources are allocated... Denmark doesn't seem to be in a hurry.
You have people who's entire role, not just part of it, is to be a fall guy? They do nothing but pretend to work and act as a scapegoat when you fail?

Or do you have people who are still productive, but you keep around as insurance?
That is true, but it does not follow that all reasonable cases will develop into egregious ones...
> And for a properly demoralising angle, that level of wealth is still a far cry from being fully financially independent.

Really? I feel like if you had 900k in cash, and no debts, you could easily live freely. Maybe not the ultimate lifestyle, but pretty comfortably, even in the US. That's around 50k a year in investments. Even with a partner and maybe even a kid or two, you could get by and have the time to build up your own independent income sources, unless I'm wildly overestimated how much the average person wants to spend to live decently.
What a silly dichotomy. Just because you aren’t convinced by N=1 doesn’t mean you’ve closed your mind to a possibility. Can we grow up?
So they're talking about war now, huh? The internet really made them lose their minds..
Stealing the laptop would be too easy a method for gaining access though, wouldn’t it? With a key- or code-based 2FA method I would not have to carry the laptop everywhere to keep my account safe.
Perhaps because they find it cute, like Netbus' Whack-a-mole.
It sounds like you don't believe that things like racism actually exist. The rest of your argument is bizarre and illogical.
Pirates of the 7 CDs (game piracy and copy protection in the 1980's)
People seem to be fine with religion for the most part. If you want to root out dogmatic thinking, then shun religious thinking from both the Woke religion and the socially expected Christian religion.

Of course, if conservatives were more welcoming to atheism this wouldn't be an issue to begin with.
True, thank you; a few too many of my neurons related to "good, public network learning resources" fired, versus too few "take your time, read and understand the question" :)

Sorry about that OP. mooreds's reference here looks useful.

From a circumstances angle: it sounds ungreat that your team is under time pressure for this, and so it might be a situation where consulting outside experts (per mixmastamyk's advice in the thread) and/or pushing back to understand why this has arrived with you as a responsibility and priority as a non-expert. That said, it's also a chance to learn, and perhaps there's a strong business opportunity being pursued. Best of luck.
>This strikes me as a narrative that's much easier to state and nod along to, than to demonstrate

No, it's very easy to demonstrate. The staff themselves will tell you. In fact, the article we are discussing begins by citing two surveys which show huge numbers of employees (tens of millions if the survey is accurate) believe they are not doing useful work or are not contributing meaningfully to the world.
I thought they left, to find a company to pay them for being wokists, not get fired?
Heroes don’t need to risk death to be heroes.

People volunteering to fill out sandbags in a flood can save a community with no real risk to themselves, but their still making a sacrifice for others.
>whatever strawman of the week is used to attack a caricature of a position

Is it really a strawman when a non-negligible number of people in your political camp espouse a position without so much as a hint of irony or exaggeration? Denying the existence of the radicals won't win you any credibility with fence sitters and moderates.
“It’s nothing personal, everybody has to do these, it wouldn’t be fair to the rest otherwise.”
Thanks for sharing this! I have not watched the full video yet but definitely will. Recently got interested in compute shaders thanks to this video: https://youtu.be/X-iSQQgOd1A?t=616 and can recommend it to those that want to see a bit of what is possible with compute shaders.
What’s the benefit for South Korea?
If you enjoy Swartz's writing you might also enjoy his other blog posts. My favourite is a game theory analysis of The Dark Knight [1] (which incidentally turned out to be his last).

[1] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/tdk
Most of those are a continuous project. The islands are the ultimate destination for incinerator ash and large garbage. The occasional tunneling project will dump the dirt etc.

You can see from goog maps how there are a couple outline online islands under "construction" and once those are filled they'll outline more.
Unlocking the 99% will definitely be the key to Nigeria's economic growth, but awareness is relatively low, not to mention the bystander behavior we have generally adopted in the country.
In the US you can start pulling from retirement accounts in your 40’s as long as it’s even distributions for the rest of your life.
> However that doesn't mean i think racism/bigotry/etc is acceptable at work.

A big issue is different people have different definitions of these terms.

For example, say a very religous conservative doesn't want to use a trans persons preferred pronouns as they consider said pronouns to be untrue and sinful. They are otherwise polite and nondiscriminatory (e.g. they will listen to and implement ideas from the trans person and don't bring up their opinions of trans issues). Is this bigotry?

Or say some people in the company want to run a BLM donation drive and a conversation then ensues where someone states that they don't think racism has anything to do with USA police killings of blacks and it's actualy down to problems in the main african american culture. Is this racism?
When will it be safe to use HN to leak data about war crimes?
> There is just nothing central banks or commercial banks can do to raise yields if there is little demand for loans.

I am sorry but I think you've got this completely the wrong way. The demand for loans did not shrink in the last couple of years: Look at the housing prices (including the infamously high rents) and the volume of credits people burden themselves with. Rather, the amount of liquidity (i.e. money) circulating around has increased significantly. This pushed interest rates down to a minimum. And why is that so? It's because central banks are flooding the economy with money for years. So it is well within their power to change that. But it won't be nice for many parts of our inflated economies ...
I doubt that's the reason (and if it is, that's a shame, because MPL is a great license and one of my personal favorites).

Most of Mozilla's code is on their internal mercurial server rather than GitHub. That feels like a larger reason.
Is it no different because some other company would fill in the gap? Or because literally no one cares whether or not whatever your company does gets done?

If someone else would step in and do it, it’s not unique but isn’t necessarily bullshit.
The problem as I see with Twitter is, if I am following an expert in some field I am interested in, say cryptography. I love their tweets about the subject, papers they share etc. I love their expertise in cryptography but I am not the least bit interested in their political inclinations or social view. When I follow them, I am exposed to all of it though; the only way to escape is to unfollow them but at that point the platform loses value to me.

Also, with the algorithmic field based on likes, even if I am not following someone, someone I follow might like tweets from a new crusade happening and they enter my feed. It seems like there are one or more groups out with their pitchforks on some issue. While I support activism for causes, when the activism is such that it hounds out any divergent viewpoint, it becomes toxic and I would rather not see it.
>Leftists have been very clear that they want the police abolished.

Lazy rhetoric will always let one down in a big way. At the very least, as one is making broad, sweeping generalisations, one will totally miss what the real issues are, and the real problems.
It will be good to see how many Y2038 issues they run into over such a duration and certainly be a good project that will touch upon that issue more than most due to planning dates.

Y2038 issue for those that don't know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
The big issue here is that a single access could so easily be spun up into complete access. In a large company you have to assume that even the highest wall will eventually be breached. A current employee will eventually provide access to someone up to no good. Or that current employee will themselves get up to no good.

Corporate messaging is a good example of this sort of thing. Completely unencrypted inside the wall. Tons of login information just left laying around in old plaintext messages.

Your security should not be all or nothing...
Same here. I was in SF and was "outed" as a centrist. I was labelled a Nazi a few times on Twitter - by people I knew, in real life, within proximity to my friends circle.

I ultimately had to move out of SF as I felt incredibly out of place simply for not being far left. I'm no conservative, and I've seen plenty of hate for being gay from the right. But the last 5 or so years, much of that hate is coming from the far left now.
Your not seriously saying that Latin America does' not have racist attitudes and systemic racism?

Maybe you should ask some of the indigenous peoples oh wait the colonizers pretty much wiped them out didn't they
The file is correct. You can open it in imagemagick (display) to check. Could be a simple problem with the colorspace implementation of gimp or something similar. If you would read the comments you would know what a mess jpeg2000 implementations are
This limit of 4 seconds, is that on some specific hardware? Or does Google make this relative to the user's hardware? (I.e., the user who is doing the search)
I keep trying to make this point to people when these topics come up, and it never quite seems to sink in. The whole "don't mess why my private insurance! We all love it!" sort of defense... Employer-provided insurance only benefits people who are in employment. Get fired? You're hosed. Need to move someplace and have to leave the employer? You're hosed. Get sick and can't work? Eventually, you'll be terminated from the employer and then... you're hosed.
> Employees have started to think that who they work for should reflect their values. And why not?

Then this is perfect, they can leave and find a job that does reflect their values. They should've quitted right when they realized their values weren't aligned but I guess they valued a severance package more. Still, win-win.
My dad used to joke he kept three piles of papers on his desk at work: "urgent", "very urgent" and "no longer urgent".
Walmart uses their market size to force suppliers to produce special packaging for Walmart that is a slightly different sized box for many food items, where that product is a bit lighter than the same sized box at another retailer. The catch is Walmart advertises their price, which looks lower in print, but if one purchases that product at Walmart and also at another grocer you will find the Walmart version is slightly more expensive by weight, holds less than the other same sized box but labeled with the correct weight. Only a careful consumer will notice that Walmart costs more, if calculated by weight.
Good point; I wrote this a little carelessly, reacting a little bit, and should elaborate my thoughts.

The open source .NET ecosystem - and hopefully Microsoft supporting that - does have a continued place as long as it can remain relevant to the technology audience. The .NET framework has pushed plenty of boundaries in programming language research, features and functionality, for example.

What I should have focused on is the sense that I picked up from the article that free is somehow bad, and that it's justified to punish and deride people who have a (in my view, reasonable) expectation of free and open source software. It is self-evidently true that we can and do make and distribute all kinds of free and open source software at no cost.

The tendency to belittle people for expecting zero cost appears as a result, I think, of a kind of gaslighting and stockholm syndrome where people in the ecosystem have _expected_ to have to pay large amounts for software that is in many ways no better than FOSS alternatives - especially as time continues on, resulting in convergence of defect analysis, fixes, and features in popular FOSS projects.

That's a background that skews towards corporate and first-world experiences, and it's not (I don't think) aligned with the expectations of the next few generations of developers worldwide.

What .NET and other popular technologies - proprietary or otherwise - will do for those future generations is shape their ideas and visions about what technology is capable of. And I hope everyone would want that to be as optimistic as possible.
Worth reading even through Google translate. Germany's handling of the Corona crisis has really stood apart for its reason and decency. Drosten as one of the main governmental scientific advisers has played a large part in that.
The vast majority of UFO sightings in the US have been secret US military aircraft. These sightings are said not to be any of the secret US military aircraft. That is hard to believe.

Obviously there are no (extraterrestrial) aliens involved in any of these. The irony would be if Mexico is somehow involved.
And see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27336826 for evidence of creative destruction (subject to the same scepticism that applies in this thread, of course).
When will people realize we need to stop implementing security in this manner? The use of passwords and perimeter security should be DEAD.

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.S...

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.S...
> they need to balance deposits with risk free loans

You mean "reserves". This is the reserve requirement of banks which they need to hold for deposits. These reserves are held by their responsible central bank. Which they need to pay for in the Euro zone (that's what it means federal fund rates being negative). So this gets me back to my initial point: Banks depend on the federal fund rates. DeFi systems do not.

But I agree with you, higher yields do reflect higher risks. Of course, depositing money in DeFi protocols is still riskier than leaving it on your bank. But bringing money to your bank means you're so risk averse you're willing to lose money for keeping your money. At least inside the Euro zone, currently.
I work in Google with many people strongly holding strong beliefs. Not sure where the line for "extremist" actually is, but I can easily imagine these people getting called by that. I can't say I've noticed a significant correlation between that and productivity.

But: coffee breaks with a group involving people of two opposite views are always a sight to behold.
To be fair this doesn't sound like a fishing expedition - they're looking for readers in a 35 minute period. Presumably they have a crime suspect or suspects who may have viewed it in that time. Ideally they would be able to narrow it down to specific IP addresses, but perhaps this is not possible.
Square is considering making a hardware wallet for Bitcoin
I 100% agree with you. Who cares about protecting the OS (which can easily be restored), it’s my personal documents / pictures which are valuable. Sadly any rogue app (which runs in the “protected” systems) can destroy those “user access” documents. *nix/Win10/Mac doesnt protect against those apps.
>It's healthy to have a shared vision, and shared idea of how you should behave and present yourself.

But writing down what that idea is and sending out a memo about it, that's bad?
One issue in the critical infrastructure space is that many of these MFA solutions are less robust and resilient than no MFA. Anything based on calling out to an external service (Duo, for example) is likely to be less resilient [1] than the static, no-external-dependencies system they use for plain password Auth.

Clearly moving towards complex systems like RADIUS and SAML introduce even more moving parts that sit with interconnects between trusted and untrusted, internal and external components. That becomes a point of failure in the eyes of infrastructure companies.

The challenge here seems to be getting the IT world to understand the focus on availability in critical infrastructure - historically, the focus has been on availability first, integrity second, confidentiality third.

You could argue this shouldn't apply to VPN interfaces in to manage systems, but given the external dependencies of these systems, they feel far less likely to remain available than the kind of solutions the sector expects.

On a separate note though, critical infrastructure need to re-think their budgets to pay for their increased availability needs, given most of the commercial solutions are third party hosted "as a service" offerings.

[1] https://status.duo.com/history?page=2
My most favorite fact about Strandeiland is how it looks on google maps plan view. Apparently google already extracted streets from the satellite imagery, but didn’t yet updated the shape of island itself. So you see streets on IJ surface.
https://goo.gl/maps/wrL42MHhBvPf1Ben9

Oh and of course in this country cycling paths are built before any houses.
Quite the opposite. The HN crowd is very privacy-conscientious.
> Is this bigotry?

Prioritizing made-up, vague and abstract ideas of "sins" and refusing to respect the identity of a fellow human? Yes, that is bigotry.

> Is this racism?

Yes, because there's plenty of research that's been done that says racism within police departments is responsible for the killing of black people in the USA. Not to mention countless videos of innocent black people being shot down by cops.

Believing something stupid doesn't excuse your bigotry or racism.
Curious, does the "after healthcare" allow for future, average healthcare claims?

I imagine it's easy to have high disposable income today, if not allowing for the cancer treatment you may pay for tomorrow.

As said, this is a question. I understand only some people in the USA have full health insurance.
I’m certain I’ve seen examples akin to “people want to touch and see the products before they’ll consider buying them”.

I think the difference with crypto is that over time as more people look under the veil the number of naysayers grow, whereas with online shopping the naysayers have gone extinct (maybe RMS uses only cash or something).

Last night I stumbled across a group freestyle rapping and hung out for a bit. At one point one of the rappers talked about putting money into AMC and how it was a bumpy rollercoaster of a ride.

It really put a face on the other side of a lot of these cryptos and meme stocks. It’s entirely possible the fellow was a savvy investor (he certainly could freestyle very well) however judging by how his posture went from exuberant and confident to deflated as soon as he mentioned AMC in his own freestyle I’m fairly confident he bought in at the top.

And it certainly didn’t surprise me that at my local stomping grounds I’d be hearing the dismayed crewing of the fleeced.
Jordan Peterson is a complete charlatan. It's quite a spectacle to watch suckers lose their minds to his otherwise easily detectable hocus pocus.
Whilst this does today seem like a long way off and a lifetime project. There have thruout history been many projects of far longer duration and some early examples would be:

https://www.archi-ninja.com/the-10-longest-construction-proj...

Which for the longest has a duration of 2,000 years for the great wall of China.
Apple, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft form group to standardize browser plug-ins
G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals
Developer tools in chrome is the main one at scale use screaming frog.
I feel like blaming developers (or management) for this is just fighting human nature which never ends well. Rather we should look at deeper root causes, like why these initial assumptions keep changing, and why there is so much churn in some ecosystems.

If the incentives aren’t there to do proper maintenance, no amount of blaming people for following those incentives will fix the problem.
The danger they present is nil until proven otherwise.
It's strange to mention cURL specifically in this context. If the exploit only takes 5 HTTP requests, why not just say "5 HTTP requests"? Why does the article need to mention cURL at all if it's not relevant how those requests are sent? Unless cURL is relevant, but that's now how the article is written.

If they're trying to get across to a non-technical audience how easy it is, then why mention cURL? They're not going to know what cURL is, as evidenced by the explainer following immediately. Why not just say, "5 HTTP requests sent by the command line"?