skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Luck Is What Happens When Preparation Meets Opportunity" - Seneca

IMHO, the key point here isn't so much about making the best out of a bad situation, it's that if you just stay cooped up in your comfort zone, the breadth of your preparedness isn't going to be nearly as wide as if you dabbled with things outside of your comfort zone.

You don't need to cram interview questions to get into big Bay Area tech companies: I did it without even knowing leetcode was a thing. But I gained similar preparation by working on an open source project. One of my best interviews involved a super in-depth discussion about some algorithm, and it went well because I just happened to have had implemented the thing in my OSS project and I knew from experience the trade-offs of different approaches in gory detail. Regardless, I never thought of that project as a drag. It was always a product of love.

Looking from another angle: Had I merely tried to make lemonades out of lemons, I'd certainly have mastered the technical skillsets that I used to use in my first job, but those skills turned out to not be the ones that carried me to where I am today. In fact, in hindsight, I had a lot of misconceptions about what preparation meant (e.g. I was too focused on specific technologies and too narrow-minded in some regards). The one thing that has served me well was the idea of broadening my horizons. You never know which seemingly useless obscurity is going to be a defining part of your journey.
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Internet run by government is a million times worse than having to see an ad for Toyota. Get real.
A supply-chain breach: Taking over an Atlassian account
No one normal cares about youtube video rankings. That's why there wasn't any website like 81m.org site tracking white house youtube videos and hiring bots to downvote them.

It just silly. Regular people who are interested in politics care about actual laws passed, relationships with other nations etc, not some yotube, twitter, fb wars.
Static website built with Org Mode and asciidoctor and sed
I searched for what year Ben Franlkin freed his slaves and was told 1863.

Hell of a feat, since he died in 1790.
Yeah, maybe I should have said "promoting" an agenda rather than pushing, for whatever difference it makes. Virtue signaling is the motivation, I agree. Nobody at YouTube knows anything about virology or vaccinations, nor do the vast majority of the celebrity creators of most of the videos they are promoting under that particular banner.
Ask HN: SQLite for Classified Ads Website?
I will build a very simple classified ads website where I have:

- around 500-1K ads will be published per day. Login required

- around 10K-20K visitors per day. No login required

- simple search (by category, free text field) and sorting (by date). No login required

- one paginated homepage where ads are displayed by date, and one page to see the details of a specific ad

- no images. It's all text-based

My plan is to use nginx + Go + SQLite + redis. Big assumption I'm making here is that the website is heavy on reads and very lightweight on writes (reasonable assumption since I maintained a similar website some years ago, so I have some experience in this regard). Also, I don't see the website growing in the near future (I have numbers that say that traffic will remain as stated above at least for 1 year).

Do you think SQLite will be enough? Main reason to not use MySQL/Postgres is: maintenance, simplicity but above all I think it will be overkill. Also, I'm planning to heavily cache searches (either on nginx side or redis). So, what do you think?
grown in a plant using silk like proteins, not using actual spiders.
What on earth... Putting a bunch of binary installers in a GitHub repo. Why would you do that?
I got a phone so shitty that I gave it back. The phone was only going to sit at the bottom of my bag, where I would never hear it. I couldn't even log into Slack since I didn't want to log into Google Play with a personal Gmail account on it.
Something to keep in mind when talking about confounding variables is that all preindustrial cultures, including European cultures, had a GDP of less than $1000 per capita per year, measured in 1990 USD. The default state of humanity is deep poverty. Industrialization brought gradual growth of economic output per capita to the tune of 10-100x compared to the preindustrial era, and the extravagant riches by historical standards the average Canadian enjoys today.

The huge question: how to lift populations / cultures from their natural state of deep poverty. This effort by necessity involves radical changes in culture, which may take decades if not longer. One can't live a traditional lifestyle of fishing, hunting or subsistence farming and afford a modern heated house with indoor plumbing, driving a modern automobile to the supermarket for fresh produce in the middle of the winter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(P...
Sorry for the confusion. I meant reproducibility in the sense that I can have a git repo to share code between a laptop running windows and a cluster running Linux, and if I run the program on both I'll be running the same program (same libraries, same versions, equivalent binary blobs, etc). I don't mean that it can give you a cryptographic proof that your code hasn't been tampered with maliciously, just that you can debug your code locally, then deploy it to whatever you want and be pretty sure that it will still work even if you deploy to a different OS an/or cpu architecture.
I’m just pointing out that the vast majority of what I pay my landlord is due to widespread asset speculation, as opposed to any labour he has done or paid for.

Collective ownership would be even better, sure. Before 89 my parents paid to the state ~5% of one wage for a good sized flat. That covered amortised construction costs and maintenance. Housing doesn’t have to be expensive.
I really dislike the downvote function because it reinforces self-censoring.
And I completely loathe the implementation of it, you need xxxx upvotes to downvote posts....I have no words.

Well, in opposing it I especially read the faded comments and upvote any of those that are not completely abhorrent.

Take that, ycombinator.
I guess I always found the way traditional spreadsheets address cells very clumsy, especially with hidden formulas, and I enjoy inventing new ways of programming :) I can't claim this is better yet, since I haven't used it that much. I like the visible formulas as a programmer, but I could imagine others don't.
That's not the IRS's problem.
The change is that having one of those certs now makes you an accredited investor.

You don't have to be accredited to invest in something like a VC fund anymore using something like Wefunder. However it's extremely risky and generally painful to even find out if the thing you invested in 3 years ago even still exists.
C++ and wxWidgets
Doesn't webgpu impose a new unique shading language? That's gonna be even harder to support than opengl on Linux.
I actually had a similar case with AT&T, except they went back and listened to their recording of the call and confirmed the promise. No need to sue.
ah, yes, comrade Glenn. He lost it a long time ago.
Might not be necessary. Many jurisdictions recognize certain types of claims, including accusations of serious crime, as defamation per se; no specific proof of harm is required.
I would've had to consent to full-device wipes if I wanted my school email back when I was in university. Thanks Microsoft Exchange.
I've been using Linux Mint for years now and really enjoy it. It looks good, works with most things out of the box and I've had minimal issues with it.

It's a bloated distro since it tries to cater to most set ups and ships with drivers, etc that you might not need which will annoy the purists but for me the compatibility and things just working is more valuable.

I only use it on a desktop PC so YMMV.

These days I only use Windows for work as that's what my company uses and for games that don't work with Proton.
Usefulness is subjective.
Even in your scenario it’s still zero sum with respect to advertising dollars spent and advertisements delivered.
and even then, it's a faff and a half: https://treyhunner.com/2019/04/why-you-shouldnt-inherit-from...
I don't disagree that this would be beneficial, but I also don't think it would do anything to prevent the additional support burden and negative reviews in aggregate. If you need proof of this, see the amount of negative reviews on some Early Access games that are very up front about the lack of polish in their current state.
Hotel WiFi can be pretty awful. To be honest, this isn't a problem for me. I don't separate usage pretty much at all. I'm not sure what I would do if it were a bigger deal.
There are some hardware issues with the first gen. Could it be related?
You geek.
I think two things can be true at once here…

1. We have GOT to close some of these loopholes now that we know what they are and…

2. Someone should go to federal prison for this leak

We can’t undo what we now know about avoiding taxes and we cannot condone egregious invasions of privacy like this.
Counter point - Information was stolen and is being held that doesn't change the common narrative or introduce new information ("our tax system needs help").

Have you considered the amount of identity theft that can occur when you have 15-20 years of tax information on thousands of individuals? And that information has obviously been duplicated many times if it made its way from the IRS, through an informant, and into the hands of at least one person at ProPublica?

I don't intend to defend "the system" and the fact ultra-rich can become even more ultra-rich, or the morality/fairness of that. I do find it very alarming that its apparently "OK" that Pro-Publica has intimate financial details of thousands of Americans - enough to completely ruin their lives if in the wrong hands - and its "OK because they have a lot of money".

Thats not OK to have on any American, wealthy or not, in my opinion.
Is it legal for a startup employee to purchase shares with their Roth? I understand that an officer in the company probably cannot, but if you're just an employee- does anyone know if that's permitted? I skimmed about half the comments section here, not sure if anyone answered this already.

If it is legal- pretty great deal for an employee either given RSUs or options to buy them this way, no?
Mostly that you don't want random people to know how much you make, and unless you are a public figure there's no reason why it should be useful to the public.
The notion of simply removing the Indian act is too simplistic and a flawed idea because of the fact that so many rights that Indigenous people have stem from the act. Removing the act would remove their rights.

Ending the Indian Act was proposed decades ago by Trudeau Senior in the famous White Paper, and this idea was panned by indigenous groups.

The Indian Act needs to go away in general terms, but it will be part of the more complex task of creating real First Nations governance in this country.
The negativity here is misled. Thiel made investments in companies which he thought might one day be of enormous value to society. Their current valuations, and the size of his IRA, prove him right. We can thank early investors like Thiel for bringing this potential to fruition. And not only that, but Thiel has not consumed any of this well-earned wealth, instead leaving it untouched, hasn’t converted it into scarce goods and services, presumably because he didn’t see virtue in the gross materialism that consuming it would entail. These investments are heroic acts by Thiel.
Yes, it's unfortunate, but it's still a far superior position than, say, Google or GoDaddy.

In this case, Quad9 is being compelled by a court, with the force of law, to do so.

GoDaddy and Google will yank your entire domain if enough anonymous communists complain on Twitter that your content is undesirable.
Agreed, this is creepy, unnecessary, and possibly even damaging to whatever litigation is pending. (Assuming the litigation thing is even true, which I personally doubt.) Even if they do need an image of the drive, the people in IT shouldn’t be the ones pawing through it. That’s a job for a professional investigator or a lawyer. I ran an IT department for four years and if any of my staff did something like this, at the very least they’d be getting a closed door conversation about why this isn’t ok.
The people who have that specific stance on crypto are usually those who know just enough to have to form an opinion but not enough to realize how little they know.
Rather astonishingly, yes!
"Pushing" really is the thing that bother me most about Windows. Just so pushy about a lot of stuff. Putting things here, there, switching it around, turning it off when it was always on, and vice versa. I just have the feeling that it very strongly wants something, and that's not what I want.

Windows as a requirement is really unfortunate. I have the same reasons as you to keep it around. Win compatibility came a really, really long way, but anti-cheat will always be a problem, which cuts out a good chunk of games.
"these "ultra-rich" pay a large absolute dollar amount of taxes"

Money is power.

Because of the wealth they get to keep, these ultra rich are in many ways ruling the rest of us and turning more and more of us in to their servants, telling us how to run our lives, raise our kids, and what to believe.

Are you ok with that? I'm not.
SQLite is easily fast enough for what you propose, but if you're worried about it design a way to test it. Measure first, then optimize.

Plus, if you build it in a way that enables you to scale up (vertically to a 'better' database or horizontally to more SQLite databases) it won't even matter.
So, how much do you know about pharmaceuticals, building safety and cows?

We tightly regulate all those industries precisely so that people can rely on vendors and not get hurt, even if it might be more profitable to substitute a few components in a vaccine, skip the earthquake retrofit and ignore whatever animal disease popped up.

And this is without getting into the issues of oligopolies, network effects, vendor lock in and user manipulation/deception by vendors. The companies dedicate entire specialist teams worth of effort to this. The average person doesn't stand a chance without help.

IT in general is really not so special that it should be exempt from governmental consumer protection efforts. Especially since it is one of the most profitable sectors by far, so you really can't argue that there isn't room for tighter controls.

Apple and Facebook specifically are two of the most profitable companies in the world. They can afford it. And if they drop to "merely" being in the fortune 500, that is still completely fine with me. And if some exploitative business models become unprofitable, that's fine as well. That's kinda the point.

And before you argue that it would kill innovation: there is ample precedent for regulations that depend on the size of the company or the customer base.
Very wishful, unfortunately. The entire goal of this update is to move windows closer to an AppStore model where MS makes money off of driving the behaviour of its users and monetizing external developers. Even on the server, admins have less and less control over the services running.
People talk about the US being lawsuit-happy, but here's an example where the tort system could work to encourage the enforcement of a law if the government doesn't want to enforce it.
When I sat down on day 1 and had 4 glowing rectangles set up at my desk, I knew I ended up at the right place.
A language that can be near completely specified by a stack of 2D grammars of increasing abstraction.

Binary notation is a general purpose syntax in 1 dimension. There exists a 2D general purpose syntax, where you not only have columns but all rows, and from there you can build abstractions from binary to numeral systems to letters to words to structs to systems.
Kandria is written in Common Lisp and manages to deal with this.

https://kandria.com/
MacOS has, MacOsX has not. It seems that SW got autistic those days. ( no offence for autistic people)
Bash Commonmark Citation Script
Oh, I love that design. I didn’t get one for the same reason you didn’t — it doesn’t seem to be a high-quality watch. How ironic.
I have an uncommon name yet there are at least 4 (I discovered a new one today via Google) of us who share the same name and are all within 2 years in age. One of the other versions of "me" lives in the same state I grew up in.

Fortunately, none of us are too notorious, though one alternate "me" has pretty poor credit and another has been sued a couple of times recently.
In the USA they have been private for a long time (forever perhaps, I don't know the full 200 year history on them). In modern times (2000 or later) they have certainly been very private, though.

Whats the argument for being selectively harassed by leaking your sensitive financial details?
I mean Microsoft does own GitHub so I guess they can do whatever they want with their GitHub repos.
So take your straw man out of here.

No straw man, it was in the referenced article, which one might assume to be the context of your comment. But if you’re just making a random, out-of-context statement, you’ll have to allow that others are keeping up with the conversation.
And using a different interval for every tick-mark. That's something I never considered looking out for before. What possible credential and/or experience could you have, to get this job at CNN and also create this graphic?
I think my reply above failed to really clearly express this so I thought I'd try again briefly. There still is a large racial bias in child welfare services above what is explainable by income alone. I think that income is the larger factor now so I'd agree it's the more important point to focus on - but we have not reached a level of egalitarianism where income alone can explain the disparity.

I also agree it's an extremely complex matter since there are two strongly opposed factors - urban migration (with educational support and the like) could greatly improve the lives of indigenous individuals but that would erode native culture continuance and communities - and that's one of the worst parts of residential schooling. A number of the people involved thought that white washing natives to improve their economic futures and let them more easily integrate with common Canadian society was a good thing - and it's not entirely a bad idea from an egalitarian perspective.

So there is, I think, a continued push and pull of cultural preservation vs. individual prosperity. I don't think they're polar opposites, I mentioned elsewhere that the Haida Cultural Center on Haida Gwaii provides a lot of jobs to reservation residents and youths - but this approach can't just be blindly replicated to extremely remote reservations.

So yea - I've got no quick and easy solution to offer.
So what exactly is the problem with a random person knowing how much you make?
Toward they end, the ask the AI to write functions to determine people should be terminated. This is my favorite one:

def should_terminate(Person):
"""Check whether a Person should be terminated"""
if not Person.is_authorized:
return True
return True
Federally and in NSW the official policy is doing 'active suppression' aka use contact tracing and lockdowns to control the disease and if it is eliminated then that's ideal, the other states are zero COVID to the point of locking down over single digit cases (unlinked) at least till vaccinations reach a high enough level.
> maybe a university isn't the most unbiased resource but..

I'm not sure if anything similar in the US exists, but Stats Canada puts out data on employment by majors in Canada.

[1] shows that graduates of the humanities and social sciences have the highest rate of underemployment whereas graduates of nursing, engineering, CS, and education programs have the lowest rate of underemployment.

[2] performs a comparison of workers from 1991 to 2011 and concludes that underemployment rates (called overqualification here) have not changed much. Field of study is broken out for the 2011 group, however, the 1991 data isn't broken out.

[3] Breaks out salary for graduates of Canadian majors (118 fields of study for men, 123 fields of study for women) 5 years after graduation prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, it does not break this down by university, and it seems to lump computer science in with math. Surveys completed in BC [4] show that for self-reported earnings there is a difference in earnings for the same major across different universities. It also treats math and computer science separately and in some cases, CS majors earn 2x math majors two years after graduating.

[1] https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/as-sa/98...

[2] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-x/2014001/article...

[3] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-626-x/11-626-x2020018...

[4] https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/data/statistics/people-po...
Another example of fine financial engineering. Money from financial instruments (interest income, capital gains, etc) should be restricted in its use. That money should only be usable in purchasing real goods (not options) real products and real labor. By allowing investment gains to be used for further investment, we allow increasing demand for financial instruments to drive up their prices and attract even more money. Instead of building roads, schools and paying our teachers, we are using our money to 'buy more money', an abstraction that does not really benefit us.
> RCMP members are normally trained for situations that local police (that specialize in de-escalation) can't handle - but when it comes to reservations they're the authority in pretty much all cases.

First Nations deal with the (federal) Crown, and so the RCMP is the federal law enforcement agency. Unless (a/each) First Nation wants to run their own police force internally?

But there are entire regions that don't do that because of the costs involved, and so they contract out to the RCMP to be the provincial (and even municipal) police.

The larger provinces (ON, QC) have their own services, and they are also contracted out to the smaller municipalities. Not sure how provincial police would work (or not) on the reserves.
The McAfee Effect (Rap Video by Coin Bros.)
Fat Tire Bike Turned Hubless
Also Star Wars was considered the ca last movies in the series. Different management will always have new vision.
Intel's Bridge Technology Brings Android Apps to Windows 11
> That's still Google's fault. If their service is providing out-of-date information, it's their fault.

Huh? If the business owners aren't updating the correct info in My Business, how can that possibly be Google's fault?
You can bypass it by either turning off the network connection prior to a new/clean installation on 20H2/21H1. If you are stuck on the account screen during the installation process, then entering wrong credentials 3 times will present you with a local account option. However, if you have completed installation, then there is an option to turn it into a local account in Settings --> User Accounts --> Change your account type.
How would you know if that is just your perspective?

If you are really far left, YouTube would have nothing to offer you that you don’t already have, but everything else would appear far right.

Just thinking out loud…
What's the argument for keeping anything secret? Simply that it is my personal info and isn't anyone else's business.
The gyms got paid compensation by the government.
One-click account takeover vulnerabilities in Atlassian domains patched
> If that were true, nobody would be working on WASM because there would be no point.

Wasm has much more potential than just optimization. It opens up capabilities like:

* Using other languages besides Javascript, or languages that just compile to JS

* Passing programs around vs passing data around

* Providing a VM isolate abstraction that's embedable in your existing language/ runtime