skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know of a number of people that received PhDs in physics, who would have become proper scientists, that instead went to work for investment firms because they can do the math and know how to code. After a decade of student poverty, getting a $150,000 salary did amazing things to their minds and their inspirations. Not all have done this, but many have for sure, and this has caused a brain drain.
Multi-prong, i.e. use multiple platforms, mediums, and strategies.

You can certainly use LI to have stupid amounts of inbound interest for jobs.

I don't know about twitter as a means, I've strayed away from the cesspool it has become. I think posting content there can help

GitHub and Slack have worked well for me. More generally, working on open source or being active in a community helps.

Most generally, the more people see your name and content, the more opportunities will happen. It's like that saying that a large part of success is being present.
We've had HD cameras and excellent optical glass for a long time, and yet blips on poor quality video are abound. Anything high def is (in my experience) always CGI.
Any insider scoops on why Jeff Kaplan left?

Any chance he was caught up in this as well, months before it became news?
I am not the one making a claim, and others have pointed out that the arrangement I propose actually obtains in many other countries.

I'm proposing a change to the law and you're arguing it won't work even though I'm including legal language to forbid the specific abuse you describe.
How dare someone not be a liberal!
I don't know about legal responsibility, but this happened because the driver was working for Uber. Uber knew who the carjacker was before it happened, and they directed the driver to the carjacking.

This wouldn't have happened without Uber's involvement, and Uber is uniquely situated to be able to prevent this type of carjacking. If they're not responsible for the costs of their safety decisions, they should be.
Why BRScript?
Learning, hobby and fun.

Aspiration to create a language that I would love to use some day.
Doximity | Senior DevOps Engineer, Platform | Full-time REMOTE (US) or in-person (San Francisco, CA)

Doximity helps doctors be more productive, informed, and connected.
We have several positions open, and you can see the full list at https://workat.doximity.com/positions/

I wanted to post about one position in particular- We're looking for another Senior DevOps Engineer on our Platform team. We'd love some more engineers to help us manage, monitor, and debug Kubernetes clusters.

We're looking for someone who has a deep understanding of container technology, and experience operating a Kubernetes cluster in production. Experience with EKS is a bonus.
We'd love someone familiar with Terraform, Ansible and Chef (or similar tooling).

You'll help us build a container-based self-service infrastructure for product engineering teams, and help us work with the rest of devops and infrastructure teams to empower other engineering teams.

We're a remote team, and as such concise and effective written and verbal communication is crucial.

Schedule-wise, we're looking for someone who is able to maintain a minimum of 5 hours overlap with 9:30 to 5:30 PM Pacific time, and who can dedicate about two weeks per year for travel to company events.

The direct link for this position is at https://workat.doximity.com/positions/?gh_jid=2956884
Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat rate connectivity
BUX Zero Free Share
Does it mention who’s laws?
Liquid water “lakes” on Mars may just be frozen clay
As long as someone is coherent and concise, I don't care how they write / talk. Also if they cut out superfluous language and try not to use esoteric phrases & words, that's a bonus.
With physical IDs there's an option to spread them out. I typically keep passport in hotel room, hotel key card in my back pack etc.,

Perhaps Apple Wallet will act as a secondary but a fast path access and I'll continue to carry physical IDs but don't have to pull them out for most of the cases. That is how I used Apple Pay. I carried bank card with me but used Apple Pay 99% of the times.
I live in Tokyo - on the surface certain lines have dated exteriors on their trains and stations, but they are maintained so much better and built with much more care to the surrounding environment that it's impossible for me to compare with NYC.

NYC's trains are constantly late, always go out of service, are deafeningly loud, incredibly slow, filthy, don't have great coverage outside of the Manhattan core and generally unreliable. Tokyo's are always on time, very clean, pretty silent, have incredible coverage of the entire metro area especially in combination with the bus networks (which also are efficient, clean, and don't hold lower-class stigma), and are super fast.

The lines that aren't underground in NYC tend to be depressing under the tracks and pretty unlivable around them, leading to tons of urban blight; the over-ground lines in Tokyo, thanks to their thoughtful design and reasonable noise level, are often full of shops, restaurants, bars, and walking paths that people actually use, positively contributing to their neighborhoods.

The main thing that feels "old" about Tokyo's trains is just that they look like they were decorated a long time ago or are kinda plain; but from a functional perspective they outclass practically any system on the planet, especially when taking into account the integration into the broader Shinkansen network. They have the best safety record of any rail system anywhere and are economically sustaining. The only major complaint I have is that it's relatively expensive fare-wise, especially considering transfers between different rail companies' lines/buses.

Also, it's worth checking out the pre-Olympics revamp of some lines - for instance Ginza Line (Shibuya station especially) and Odakyu Line (Setagaya Daita-Shimokitazawa in particular) got a lot of station and neighborhood renovations that give them that sparkly new shine.

Aside, I've also lived in Shanghai before - the rail network in China is something to watch, their high speed rail stations and urban networks are very nice as of late, although they need more express lines within city limits (Shanghai/Beijing are enormous so crossing the city by rail takes a long time).
You could borrow a stablecoin like USDC with collateral on a platform like AAVE, trade the USDC for dollars or another currency that is accepted, and use it to buy a house, car, etc, without anyone's approval or a bank being involved.
(Better) IPv6 support.
For those that don't offer it, start. For those that do, offer more than a /60

Inversely, better IPv4 support: as a startup ISP you probably don't have much v4 space so you'll be relying on on CGNAT. But in the US at least, users have come to expect public IPv4 addresses. If that's too cost-prohibitive, at least make them available upon request or as a value-add.
I assume the Play Store rename was motivated by wanting to have it under proprietary branding, instead of being a generic store name that's also available to de-Googled competitors who don't ship Google Play services.
There's only so much juice you can squeeze out of a shrinking workforce, though.

And as retirees continue to make up a larger portion of the popular vote - they'll continue to demand more from a shrinking workforce.

At some point (I imagine in my lifetime) - the straw will break the camel's back.
In many ways, AWS's insistence on proprietary vs. universal open-source and the lack of interoperability with other cloud providers is itself "coding the area", turning an O(N+M) problem into an O(N*M) one.
You should not even have to show proof of insurance. There should be a database the cop’s license plate scanner can look into and show the cop everything they need to know.

I assume there already is, and the paper requirements are just something for people to trip over and trigger other suspicions.

The cop actually does not even need to know about insurance at all. The state charges everyone a yearly tax anyway (“vehicle registration”), they could easily just not let people renew this registration if they don’t have insurance.
WDC is not that great, they lied on SMART data about RPMs, and you had to do audio test to determine drive speed. SMR fiasco is also fresh.
Okay. Let’s play the: X is causing more harm to society than good.

X=guns Are guns causing more harm than good? Should we ban guns?

X=religion. Is religion causing more harm than good? Should we ban any form of religion?

X=social media. Is social media causing more harm than good? I heard Facebook consumes more power than the entire state of Argentina! Should we ban Facebook?

X=USD the dollar. 95% of criminal activity uses USD. 95%! It’s clear to me that if no dollar we could prevent a lot of criminal activity. Should we ban the USD?

X=VPNs Used to circumvent local laws!!! Are the causing more harm than good? Ban VPNs you say?
The Kanna Finish: Glass-Smooth Surfaces in Wood Without Sandpaper or Varnish
My take on living in Korea vs Europe (I have no idea about cities in North America)

1. Noisy apartments and noisy streets typical for asian megalopolises.If you can afford to live in one of the more quality condos it's better though.

2. Commuting by subway for an 1h with 1-2 stops to change lines is dreadful during peak hours.It's worse than commuting by car from a suburb here in Europe.Michael Wolf's video captures this very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxZLq3IpYAU

Living in Korea is convenient but not comfortable.
>The most recent study I've seen suggests that roughly 90% of tweets are posted by 10% of its users

That seems in the right order of magnitude, for social media and web forums in general.

>Only about 20% of the American population is on Twitter in the first place, and that demographic is heavily skewed towards younger generations

So, I'll grant you that. My point really is about the interpretation of "defund the police" among people who subscribe to the idea, more than it is about the popularity of the movement.

>To contrast, the most recent survey of "defund the police" I can find online suggests that less than 18% of the population supports defunding the police (~30% of Democrats). And the percentage of that group that interprets "defund the police" in the literal sense of slashing police budgets is probably even lower.

Right, but wouldn't that stem precisely from the unclear communication problem I'm trying to highlight?

If "defund the police" is only interpreted as "slashing police budgets", then it makes sense that the idea would poll poorly, especially to non-Twitter users.
Worded like this, the idea seems to target people who dislike the police more than people who like social services.

So the more important point, to me, is whether the public understanding of what the pollsters are asking matches how the movement wants to define itself.

Otherwise that would be a quite misleading and unhelpful misrepresentation of the idea, wouldn't it?

(Disclaimer: Hypothetically, I weakly support the idea, though I'm not a vocal supporter. I may have some biais.)
But reporting back to your home world would be almost irrelevant since thousands of years would have passed there, right?
I bet if you reply Courtland will read it and send you an invite.
Social Security numbers used to be used for all sorts of things such as driver's licenses. It's less common now but SSN is, at best, part of confirming identity. And I haven't had a physical card for many decades.
Prada plans to put NFC/RFID into every it sells linked to a provenance db
I wonder if we need UBI to stabilize the birthrate. Basically if people have some assurance that their kids can be supported and have decent prospects in life then perhaps they will have more kids.

Also, our big cities have evolved to serve adults vs children. We have a proliferation of services for adults: sit in restaurants, cafes, coffeehouses, etc… Just look at turnstiles to the subway and the stairs you need to ascend/descend. Good luck trying to push strollers or drag children around in our urban areas.
The $7BN Megaproject to Save Venice
Any plans on open sourcing? I'm tired of apps changing until my use cases are not covered anymore, so I'd like to future-proof my usage of tools, and open source/free software seems to be the only way to make that work in practice.
> If you're still paying your mortgage, do you really own your home?

You own your home in this scenario just as much as the entity on the other side of the equation owns the income stream from your mortgage.

A mortgage is a collateralized loan. You agree to give up ownership of your collateral if you fail to meet the terms of you contract. So yes, you own the home now, subject to constraints.

Ownership is almost always subject to some constraints. Nobody says “do you own your home even though you can be taken out of it (and jailed) if you refuse to pay taxes on it?” even though that’s arguably a more extreme condition upon your ownership. While I am sympathetic to conversation about the broader meaning of ownership, this “mortgage => !ownership” thing is a tired meme.
Excellent point! I was mostly referring to the issue of loss or theft of a single device containing all forms of payment/ID/access not being that different from loss of theft of a single wallet/purse containing all forms of payment/ID/access.

On the note of charge, Apple has recently included a feature that lets certain cards work even when the phone doesn't have enough charge to be normally used. It seems they shutdown the phone before the battery is entirely depleted, reserving a small amount of charge to be used for these cards.

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/express-cards-with-...
By retaining a person who has "stagnated" after 3 years (setting aside the ambiguity of what you mean by "stagnate"), you avoid:

1) Three years of lesser performance from the new employee as they climb that curve

2) The very real risk that your new hire will not be successful, or if they are successful, will not achieve the same level of performance.

Also, I invite you to challenge what you consider "stagnation". It is not possible to continue linear improvement in a given role: good employees achieve mastery, and while they will still be improving that might not be evident to their managers who are looking only at work outputs. If a company does not want employees who are masters at their task, but rather want people to move up or move out (counter-productive as that might be), then it is literally middle management's job to find new roles for successful engineers, and I suppose fire the previously successful engineer if they're not up to the task. Complaining about an engineer "stagnating" in the same role after they've mastered it is just lazy thinking and lazy management.
Building the WinampSkins Twitter Bot
I might have to re-phrase the question. I meant which platform do you suggest for getting a lot of career opportunities. Should one optimise for Linkedin Profile or use Twitter?

I will edit the question.
Humans also know a lot about ants. Even kids keep ant farms because ants are thoroughly interesting.
Theses About Cancel Culture (2020)
I hope you are right for the sake of both of us.
(Almost) everybody do it with PayPal, Patreon, etc.

I understand that you feel uneasy to theoretically depend on these companies, even if in practice you encounter no real difficulty.

Your fear is unnecessary... unless you do things really frown upon. Even porn and sex services are successfully using some of the online services I quoted above.

For hitmen and substances I don't really know, but those are really frown upon.
Windows doesn't have a system level key store.

Instead the Windows API's have a symmetric encryption API (DPAPI) that allows developers to supply plain text, and receive cipher text.

It would then be up to developers to persist the cipher text.

DPAPI master key is protected by the OS, behind User Credentials.
I am well aware of that. My point is that these non-cash compensation plans have inherent risks.
No of course not. I'm saying employers have to negotiate with the union delegate chosen by the workers. If you hire me and we later have an employment dispute, I generally have the right to be represented by an attorney. I'm just saying that people should be able to delegate their bargaining rights and not be fired for doing so.
> Your kid just realized, at 22:00 sharp, that they need some printout for school tomorrow.

Genuine Q: how important is it for such school printouts to be in color?
Making project management not suck
That's very generous of you. Another way to frame it is as an Air Crash investigation where Tesla is Boeing and Neoen is the Airline.
The only UIs I create are pretty simple. For simple interfaces I would much rather deal with spaghetti and homegrown solutions rather than massive overhead and complicated abstractions.

A lot of people just blindly build everything they write with their framework of choice. I argue that react is overkill for 9/10 web apps.
I disagree. A typical announcement says WHO does WHAT and HOW, maybe even WHY in succinct, clear language. However, this post grinds my gears in all the wrong ways. The proper way to do what that guy set out to do would've been to write an RFC to some mailing list (or some Rust forum/social channel) and collectively build up a group. But announcing a group before the group's actually been formed is putting the cart before the horse. Don't get me wrong, I think it's laudable that someone started this effort, but it seems to me that it's being done/communicated in a fairly naive/inexperienced fashion. I'm sure they'll learn as they go along, and I probably am being way to harsh on people who actually are trying to do something good for the community.
There is no magic in this world. When you make an investment into a company, you become dependent on the people that work at that company.

When you're investing in a private fund, or in real estate, you're still relying on your children. The material wealth you are consuming is still being produced by the generations that come after.

If your children's generation is poorer than your own and if there is less of them, then there is nothing you can do except rely on the children of people in other countries.
> why aren't they offering to care for and raise our children?

But they do. You'd be surprised how many crucial skills are taught in kindergarten.

But there's also the question of scale - for certain things infants and children need their caregivers' undivided attention. Otherwise you end up with something akin to an orphanage, and there are plenty of data points suggesting that going in this direction is a very bad idea.

Overall some things are already being done, other don't scale, so it's up to the parents to do that and the government's role to make it as easy as possible.
For Korea it's not about UBI but about terrible working conditions and societal pressure.
Even with UBI you want your children to go to the best schools so they can get a job at one of the Chaebols.
I don't see why people are downvoting you, as you are basically wanting to avoid wasting good energy with air conditioning.
Maybe people thought your tone was blasfemous?
The vast majority of companies ask for a 'we own everything you breathe' agreement as a prerequisite for employment. The vast majority of employed software engineers don't have the luxury to work on side projects, unless they relinquish the IP to their employer for no additional compenstation, which renders monetization moot.
I'll be honest, I wasn't around for Ross Perot but have read nice things.

I think we don't even need the best leadership...just someone who is kinda courageous and somewhat competent. That plus all the good things the US has going for it might be enough to solve this crisis.

We have had instances in the past of a black swan coming out of nowhere to save the day. Maybe this will happen again in 2024. As far as I can tell the Democrats don't have to choose Kamala although how often has the VP not gotten serious consideration in recent times? Especially when she is the establishment favorite?

And while it would be nice to see Trump get knocked out in the primary, all signs point to him being too far ahead of any other republican to be knocked out.

Just a sad situation all around that we have to hope for a pleasant surprise.
I love this; I'm in HCI, but will keep an eye out for this. It'd be good to add more HR type functionality to this and help manage people + finances for academic research labs. What's the roadmap/vision?
My read was GP is implying they do read the diff every time, and only change the pinned version after a manual review- "only after we are happy."

This does seem impractical at even a modest scale.
I am assuming you meant joining a tech community in Slack. I will do more research on this.

Thanks.
Long term evolution of SARS-CoV-2
A little game theory:

I really believe that it's not in the US government interest to increase computer security.

I think the NSA is at least 5 or 6 steps ahead of the security game, so for now the NSA dominates cyber warfare, which is why they don't want more security in software, so they will constantly make everything possible so that software is insecure.

But at some point, it is going to sting because China, Russia and others are catching up.

I always found it weird that there are a lot of security standards for other industries, OSHA, etc, but for software, there is nothing, no companies are required to comply to software security standards. No software is being inspected at all. Isn't it weird?
Many countries already invest substantial resources towards caring for children in the form of subsidized daycares, public schooling, subsidized food, etc. I expect demographics will force many countries to become even more generous in this regard.

If you're referring to the government or other entity taking primary guardianship of children that does already occur in the foster/adoption system, but I don't understand why you think that would boost the birth rate. Would it motivate you to have children if the government offered to take them off your hands after they're born?

I suppose the closest example I can think of to something like that would be joining a commune or kibbutz and avoiding the childcare chores, but I understand that most of those groups have a whole other set of demographic/retention issues.
> You've got robust social safety nets

Depends which EU country he is living in (though he said Europe). Italy pension system is hazardous. Greece is in the EU too, by the way.
> SK is committing demographic suicide though, so whatever you think of its success, it has a pretty fatal disease. It has the lowest birthrate in the world.

Its kind of amazing how often people make judgements based on extrapolating demographic trends over much longer terms than there is any reason to think that they will hold, and then as soon as they fail turn around and do the same thing based on the new demographic trend.

Encouraging births isn't hard if a government decides its important.

OTOH, most of the arguments I’ve seen for it actually being important (in the near term) are the kind where you scratch the surface and underneath is pure racism, so I’m not all that concerned.
Taking this seriously would require differentiating between the various parties. Absolutely, indigenous Americans should be compensated for the recent theft of their lands. That compensation could take the form of return of land, or if the land's current use makes that impossible then we can print some money like we do for all our stupid wars.

Mexico, however, is also a colonial state. If we compensate them, soon someone will suggest that Spain should get a piece.
Presumably the laws of the society/government currently in charge where the homicide in question took place.
It's difficult to find good resources to learn how to do this.

Strunk and White sounds "old" to many modern ears.

Williams': "Style" is hands-down the best modern guide. https://sites.duke.edu/niou/files/2014/07/WilliamsJosephM199...