skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked in programming back then, and you have the best response of all the others.

I have not worked in the field for a long time, but everything seems the same back then as it does now, as you represent it happening.

Back the the day, of course we spent a boatload more time in the design phase, lots of meetings to see what needs to be done. That's just common sense. How can you program if you don't know what to program? But then, as you get into the project, you create an excel spreadsheet with all the questions that you have, and then get them answered. But I would HATE to have to go to a scheduled meeting every week to discuss it. I prefer to just go over and ask the people, when it was convenient for me and them.

However, I had always worked in smaller companies, where it was easy to just walk over and talk to the person, no matter what level they were, from receptionist to CEO. But I recognize that in a huge company like Google, things have to be different. But personally, I would never elect to work in companies like that. It's not my skill set. I'd commit suicide in a company like that. I'd rather work in programming in a sewer company or a retail store company with 20 stores, where they had a computer department of 5 or 10 people. That's just me. I hate being a cog in a machine. I like variety and talking to all different levels and different departments, when I chose to do so. Nobody in a small or medium sized business is going to have mandatory meetings 20 hours a week. That's just not reality. Just no way in hell, back then or now. As I said, I have not worked in the industry for a long time, but I think you can generalize this, that working for a small or medium sized company is going to be as he said. But even back in the day, if you worked in IBM or some huge company with 50 or 100 programmers, even then, it was like the author said he hated - much more strict and regulated, even back then. I never worked in them, but I was in the industry and talked to those that did work in them, and read industry journals. But even at Microsoft, there was a f-ck of a lot more rigidity. Maybe not if you were a superstar programmer, but if you were low on the food chain, you were going to be strictly regulated. Maybe Microsoft not as much as IBM, but still. Not like working in a 3-15 person department at a small company, where you pretty much have full autonomy, and your time is your own.

So, things really are not too different, actually.

I see that you worked about FAANG, but even now, would you think working at a small company with 3-15 tech people, would be more like the author said? Just by common sense? I'm sure you agree with me.
Question: do you guys have a software or product security team? I suggested the roles to workwithus @ Signal on 5/18/2018 and have never seen a public follow-up in the form of career postings.

Asking because such a team may be best equipped to serve as both the support and internal accountability function for such while minimizing business conflicts when engineering is facing challenges integrating security into DevOps natively.

At this point, it's probably warranted; the last time I asked was when Signal was seeing its spree of XSS defects in the desktop app. If Signal has one, a simple "yes" will suffice, but without a reply, I have to assume not.
>The power differential and historic missteps of governments makes this ludicrous to think of as "OK" in comparison.

wasn't that kind of the point?
I love Snaps:

- When there is new security fix, like new version of Node.js, I release new version of Wekan https://wekan.github.io and all those about 9000 servers worldwide are updated automatically soon and safe from that vulnerability. Wekan migrations upgrade database schema etc automatically.

- When Snap is upgraded, it upgrades very fast, compared to Docker

- Snap does not have layers taking big amount of disk space, like Docker

- Snap sandbox works very well. Snaps with strict confinement (like Wekan) can not access files outside of /var/snap/wekan/common directory.

- Snaps are the reason to select Snap compatible distro https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd .

Is there any other automatic update system like Snap? AFAIK other update systems require manual steps to update.
Most countries will have a clear leader yes, especially the big ones with 4/5 riders. Sometimes they hedge their bets by having one guy "free", often in the breakaway. It apparently wasn't so much the case with the Dutch women this year though.
Here's a weird one about the NFA and "silencers." As previously mentioned, it's still pretty loud when you use one. In the US it's very restrictive to own one ($200 tax, 6+ month wait, registration, etc.) but in places like the UK it's the opposite. You're a noise polluter without one and relatively very simple to get even though in UK it's harder to get guns.
Money in a broad sense is as old as anatomically modern humans, so, no.

80,000 year old grave goods have been discovered, consisting of shells of a consistent size, with holes drilled in them, a few hundred kilometers from the ocean. We know from ethnography of societies which existed until very recently that these collectibles served the same purpose as money.

A good complement to Graeber's book is the work of Nick Szabo, I would start here:

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/shelling-out-the-origins-of-mon...

You can find most of the rest of his writing on the subject on his blog: http://unenumerated.blogspot.com
I doubt close friends are geographically close after school.

The lack of close friendships is probably driven more by a lack of community activities than not knowing your neighbors.
The answer is that you can’t be assured. Act as you will with that info.
People remember things like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoanut_Grove_fire

edit: please READ the article before you think of downvoting.
Too many syllables? :) Should be happy it wasn’t changed to “magic dude”.
Using rubber grommets for all my mounts has made my HDD sounds so much quieter. An absolute world of difference.
Ask HN: Are fTPMs inherently less secure than discrete TPMs?
fTPMs are the TPMs sometimes built-in to CPUs. Discrete TPMs are when the TPM is its own chip. fTPMs theoretically seem questionable, but I'm out of my depth and know nothing on this. Thank you!
Here's a guy who recharged an old fridge with propane:

http://www.sparkbangbuzz.com/els/refrig2-el.htm
Actions speak louder than words, and so drug overdoses must speak louder than a poll. Even before the pandemic, life expectancy in the USA was stagnant or falling because of the upsurge in "deaths of despair". This is pre covid:

https://www.newsweek.com/what-so-called-deaths-despair-exper...

A poll has limited value and people are famously bad at self-reported happiness. There have simply been too many cases of people saying they are happy with their lives and two years later they commit suicide, or kill their spouse. Some researchers have argued that self reported happiness is worthless.

Instead, look at actions. After the collapse of Communism and the breakup of the Soviet Union men over the age of 40 engaged in one of history's greatest alcoholic binges, such that life expectancy in Russia dropped for men during the 1990s. Actions speak loudly. Killing oneself with alcohol communicates how one really feels about the future.

We've seen something similar in the USA since the crash of 2008.

Until such time as we see real evidence of people acting in the way that we might expect happy people to behave, including planning for the future and taking care of one's health, don't believe a poll that says Americans are happy.

But still, in 1945, on VE day or VJ day, if you asked Americans "Are you happy?" obviously everyone would have said "Yes". This is well known. But what they were feeling was relief.

The same is true now. People feel relief, thinking the pandemic might be coming under control. Such relief is fickle. It could be different next month. It does not signal long term happiness.
> I don’t think the sentiment is that they “deserve to suffer” so much as “why should I be subsidizing the comfort of a group that is so aggressively antisocial?”.

What is the effective difference between believing someone deserves to suffer, and purposefully withholding aid that could be rendered? One might be dressed up in more comfortable language, but they both result in homeless people not being helped on purpose.

Homeless people have objectively been let down by society, of course they're antisocial. They're hungry, exposed to the elements, and treated like garbage by most people they interact with. Every single one of us would behave in antisocial ways if we were in that situation. If you want them to change, you have to begin changing the circumstances that motive their current behavior. Denying aid until they change is just a polite way to deny aid permanently.
He is English,so I'm not surprised he wrote like this. There's way less optimism in England, compared to the SV.
What are needed are more community spaces.

Parks, YMCAs, basketball courts, cafes, etc.
What about some form of HIIT with lighter weights?
My concern with heavy lifting is that it trains only one body's energy system out of three..
That's been a topic in Germany too. They are banned, but some argue they really should be allowed as workers protection and to generally reduce noise disturbances.
Yes. True.

My advice is for the 90% of us, the serial jan-march gym goers. If you already have that habit, compete, and exercise is a given... don't take advice from me.

That said, I suspect that even for advanced athletes, "Take steps to avoid burnout" is probably still relevant.
They own what entire TLD? .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, and .gq? I don't think so.
Weightlifting in particular is extremely beneficial for men, particularly as they age because of the testosterone gains and their affect on mood, weight, muscle building, etc...
My old fridge used propane from the manufacturer, sadly it only lasted a few years and repair was more expensive than another one. The new one uses a more conventional refrigerant.
1992 version: https://archive.org/details/Where_There_Is_No_Doctor_A_Villa...

2010 version: https://archive.org/details/WhereThereIsNoDoctor-English-Dav...

Chapters from the latest (2021) version are available free from the publisher at https://hesperian.org/books-and-resources/. Full PDF of 2021 version is ~$10.
I think it's got to do with this clause in the terms and conditions [0]. An all-caps post on a weird domain isn't exactly convincing me of this supposed scam, but there is a catch hidden in the T&C.

Their DNS servers will collect all top-level DNS requests. When someone visits a given website, the TLD is queried for the authoritive nameservers for the domain if that information hasn't been cached yet. In practice, every ISP will end up sending a DNS request every once in a while when the cache expires. When loads of DNS requests come in from all over the world, you could flag a domain as high-traffic or high-value.

[0]:
---

11.2. Renewal

As long as you have remained in compliance with each of the terms of this Agreement from the date you agreed to be
bound by this Agreement, including without limitation the minimum use requirements set forth in Section 10.1, we
may elect in our sole discretion to (i) allow you to upgrade to the Paid Service at the prevailing applicable rate, (ii)
automatically renew this Agreement for a term, determined by Freenom, from such date (the "Renewal Period") and
(iii) continue providing you with FREE DOMAIN subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement (including a
renewal of the registration of the domain name provided to you in connection with FREE DOMAIN).

---
First line of the article:

> shattering preconceptions about what’s possible in your eighth decade

So if she's using something, this is not giving other people a fair idea of what's possible.
I know you're joking— but I wish you wouldn't.

Encouraging women to become, say, crab fisherwomen, would just result in more humans being maimed and killed. For the same reason that female soccer players tear their ACL at shockingly higher rates than male ones.
The housing could be normal rentals not conditional on keeping the job. I would guess that most Amazon facilities are located in urban areas. It would not be isolated mining town like in 1900s
40lbs is probably a multi-year thing unless you’re ok with a decent part being fat. You can build a decent home gym with some kettlebells and dumbbells. A door frame pull-up bar also helps if your frame can hold it.

Eating will be the challenge. You need dense food that you like eating. When I did something similar I drank lots of whole milk and ate peanut butter as a constant snack. Two dinners was also common. Just be ready to eat on schedule even when you’re not hungry.
Freedom of movement is conditional, you cannot be an undue burden on social assistance system of the host member state, which you are if you are homeless and don't have any job.
A PhD in mathematics is not the same thing as a ghostwritten PhD in some other disciplines that are notorious for this sort of thing.
They sell them in appliance stores now, most people wouldn't even know, it's called R290. My fridge used it, sadly it died and was replaced with a conventional refrigerant model.
There’s a fascinating talk by Dave Thomas, one of the authors of the agile manifesto, speaking of the simple meaning of the manifesto and the insanity of the Agile Industrial Complex bureaucratic cult created around it.

Agile is Dead - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M

Here’s a blog post by him: https://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile.html
> we were able to get a fix out very quickly.

Is 6 months really what Signal considers quick for a bug that leaks private data?
A whitelist/allowlist approach doesn't work for all programs, see this discussion about it: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/2070
Went to the highschool right next to them. We all thought the same, that the area would be a hub for Tech. Sadly nothing every came from it.
> What moral standpoint does Disneyland represent?

The GP listed doing anything productive as a moral stance, Disneyland is therefore part of that anything.

> net harm of Disneyland

Promoting millions to take longer trips and regularly visit the middle of Florida directly causes travel related pollution. Simply developing that land is harmful to the local ecosystems. Producing all the merchandising is similarly an issue.

> It’s possible to oppose this guy and Disneyland.

If you oppose Disneyland for environmental reasons you’re hard pressed to then support the most of the rest of the economy. I would welcome an argument that draws a line there without excluding say suburbs.
I'd agree, except I've read several interviews with people who've refused the vaccine, and the lack of full FDA approval is a common theme. Maybe that's just a mental justification—but maybe not.

There's also this:

> Another issue about the lack of authorization is that many institutions, including the U.S. military, believe they legally cannot or should not mandate a vaccine that is available exclusively under EUA. There turns out, inconveniently, to not really be any case law on this. But I think it’s understandable that most major institutions want to tread cautiously here in the absence of a clear FDA thumbs up.
> Case in point, the most challenging problems are usually about analytical geometry, which US does not even teach because calculus and linear algebra render this 19th-century subject in a way obsolete.

I looked up analytic geometry on Wiki and it looks like stuff that would definitely be taught in the U.S. Usually in the weirdly named "precalculus" course, though some of it would even be covered in previous courses.
Moreover, even the paradigm of S3 is different then a filesystem. No directories, no file renames.

S3 is an object store. Give it a key and up to 5TB of data and it will store it.

(Yeah, you can translate one to the other, see AWS Transfer. But they are different.)
Yeah, I actually like this UI feature. I would have been very frustrated if they had just changed it over on Google Maps. I use Timeline all the time and it was important to me.
In that case it sounds like they have found product market fit and are mostly content with the way the business is growing and likely don’t need the kind of “top talent” that you offer. They’re ok with “mediocre talent” since talent isn’t enabling growth or survival.

The market is pretty brutal but I’ve seen many extremely talented folks work at mediocre organizations because of reasons other than financial. I guess everyone is happy with the arrangement.
What Kind Of Computational Process Is A Mind?
I used to work on UMTS networks about a decade back and fresh out of college it was quite daunting. At that time I wanted to study an opensource implementation to gain more understanding but I couldn't find any. Glad to see this in the present time
Well, let's face facts. The population on Hacker News is going to be much higher than that 59% in happiness. The population has basically hit the lottery from a socio-economic point of view, and things will always be rosy for this group as a whole.
I highly encourage you to read some ethnography of the Yanomani, to purge this ludicrous and incorrect vision of noble savagery from your mind.
They are definitely significantly worse at generating tax revenue.

Mixed housing along with ground level commercial spaces even in the poorest of downtown districts generate more tax revenue.

The problem is when crime and other forms of blight lead to people not living or working in those places anymore.
... which had absolutely nothing to do with refrigerants.
> Apparently, like many others in this entire thread, you've totally missed the point. I wasn't saying it's "as" high quality as M$ word (although I disagree with the usage of the word high quality here) but just that it is high quality by itself. This is known as an irrelevant conclusion

The entire discussion has been regarding this verbatim quote from the top comment: "open source projects will always provide a lower quality than commercial ones". If you replied regarding some other premise, then you're the one missing the point and changing the topic, not me.

> That's not exactly a fair assessment exercise

It sure is fair to me. Just saying this doesn't make it true. And a reality check is warranted here: "it's not fair" is not going to be a satisfactory response to any user you're trying to win over.

> I'm not sure what format is the original excel file, but xlsb is a proprietary format.

No, it's an open format [1], and LibreOffice supports opening it... with poor quality. And again: even if it was, you're not going to win over or satisfy any users with an "it's a proprietary format so we don't support that many columns" excuse. They expect their office programs to dance around their documents, not the other way around.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/office_file_forma...
Yes, I don't really get why this often gets dropped. I would assume inflation goes down next year if the supply chains get better again.

A lot of the inflation I saw in the pandemic was perishable products where the supply was cut in some way or another. As long as people that want it badly can afford more they'll pay more for it. This is inflation, but it's not clear whether the money supply or the supply chains are the reason. The money supply was high in the preceding years as well, not leading to such high inflation.
But everyone wants to send money or money-equivalents. I use Venmo almost every other day.
Why not go to startingstrength directly? They have the necessary training information in depth, including a good book on weight training over 40.
One funny example of this is that thyroids are described as being butterfly shaped. Maybe endrocrinologists need to talk more with the entomologists. :)
Some real Nassim Taleb style advice right here. As a guy in his mid-30s, I'm glad to have come across this kind of advice early on so I can keep up healthy habits for the later decades (assuming I'm not hit by a meteor first).
Yes, the US residential market would definitely benefit from more competition.

The model we have here is to separate the infrastructure from the service such that infrastructure providers lay fibre to homes and businesses and then sell wholesale to ISPs who sell service over the common fibre to consumers. It’s definitely better than the US model as there is competition between ISPs and they therefore have reason to apply pressure to get problems fixed. Infrastructure upgrades are still painfully slow as there is little competitive reason to upgrade the fibre (or fibre / copper VDSL in many places) as all the ISPs have little choice but use the infra provider for a certain area.

Ideally you want more infra, but the cost of building out fibre networks is high, particularly if you’re only selling to 1-in-2 or 1-in-3 properties due to competition. That’s before you get to the politics and legals and lobbying you need to do to succeed in the US. I’m hopeful 5G will compete with broadband and give the providers the kick up the ass they need.
They do own .tk [0] and completely service others [1][2][3][4], actually. They run the TLDs (in the name of poor countries).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tk

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ga

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cf

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.gq

[4]: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130407005038/en/Mal...
If you accept that living exclusively off the handouts of others is immoral, then saving money of course is not inherently immoral. It helps you not do that.
The Ransomeware Economy
Matrix / Element is unfortunately just far too technical for end users and the general population, but it is better than IRC.

A mistake was the naming, for example you refer to the name of the protocol 'Matrix' instead of the name of the client 'Element'. Having a naming issue risks confusing lots of people, other than that I have already mentioned it as an alternative.
A bit less noble when it's in his direct interest, wouldn't you say?

Which isn't to say that self-advocacy is in some way dirty, we should all stand up for our self-interest insofar as it is otherwise ethical.
This is relief. I believe humanity's condition is getting better and better.

But I am surprised most others think so too.
If I install an internet-connected smart lock on your door for free, then after a few months, I remotely lock you out of your apartment and demand money for letting you in, am I really scamming you? It was free after all!
A typical natural gas range probably releases more than 66g of unburnt hydrocarbons into your home.
The Childlike Drunken Festival in South Korea
What happens when you get muddled in the mud?
Very true. If you notice twinges that shouldn’t be there, take two days off. Come back easy. If they are still there, back off maybe 10% and sneak up on it.
All of us have to use money, so we make every excuse to say it is the only way of life.

Homeless, jobless people prove otherwise. You can live without money, but the standard seems quite low.

I hear it is possible to survive without society too.
But the standard seems even lower.
Facemasks seem to be the hot button division item but that's all a distraction. Because wearing the mask, has very little downside.

The WHO argued against border closures as a method to halt COVID-19 yet nearly every country in the world did them. There reason for not having them is the economic impact that primarily impacts poorer countries that rely heavily on tourism to sustain their poor and middle class workers. Everyone fiddles with mask/no-mask but no media is even bothering to look at the economic impact and lives lost due to unadvised border closures.