skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boom and bust is just a product of collective optimism and pessimism. It's purely man made. Of course our money system is designed to appeal to human irrationality so it's part of the problem. A gold standard just makes human nature worse for no real reason.

Money is just paper. It holds no intrinsic value. The value exists in the economy of the US. Holding onto USD does not contribute to the economy of the US. So what's wrong with devaluing it? If money were to appreciate you would get value out of nothing. People would start competing for the value out of nothing until there is no real economy anymore.
>which is used for things like the Great Firewall can trivially stop that as well.

I don't know how effective you think the great firewall is, but it's definitely not effective enough to "trivially stop" 500 bytes of banned data from being transferred.
Hmm... seems to call for a tool for a cluster-of-clusters.

If "kubernetes" is Greek for the ship's pilot, what's the name for the captain or maybe the admiral of the armada?
Perhaps we need to find another way to fuel the economy than the never ending pyramid scheme called population growth. At 8 billion (causing massive environmental damage) a drop in population would certainly not be a bad thing.
And laser printing was a key factor in the Mac’s early success.
Product Management or TPM roles!

Location: New York, NY
Remote: Yes
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Technologies (skills): APIs, Agile, Roadmap development, QA/testing, PM tools (Jira, confluence, etc), analytics tools (GA, Hotjar), logging/dashboard monitoring (Splunk), Javascript

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I feel like they could have done a better job hiding the code. Even something as simple as base64 the code and storing it as a constant and then doing an eval. Scanning for something like table name credit_card is simple enough to expose this exploit. Now I'm worried what other exploits of similar form are out there that remain undetected.
"digital assets" includes more than cryptocurrency
> Is that talking to ants, or is that running experiments on them?

Do you think we wouldn't be trying to actually communicate with ants if we found a viable way of doing so?
Chick-fil-A developer revises plan for Buffalo site to comply with Green Code
I suspect you would still need a fan to cool off the hot side, but very silent, very long lasting, and the only moving part could be generic easy to replace fans.
The voices of women in tech are still being erased
I don't know why you're assuming my or most good programmers' githubs are filled up with todo apps and other worthless garbage.

> saying “I have a lot of repos” is def not.

When did I say that? I didn't. They should be looking at the repos and asking about them, not just taking your number of repos and using that as some kind of metric.
It is naive. Countries are always, --always-- spying on each other and interfering. Look at how much China, England, France, Iran, and Russia interfere with other countries if you're actually trying to be fair. It's not just the CIA, it is the way of the world and will always be that way unless somehow a world government is in place or human nature evolves to actually trust other humans.
I don't fully understand this kind of thing, but it gives me a small selfish hope..... That I can have a decade of remote car starting from anywhere for less than the current fee for 1 year.
Ask HN: How do you represent the technical architecture at your organisation?
With complete degeneration of nearly everything else
Whenever I see a business try “co-leader” stuff I think of that episode of the office where Jim and Michael are promoted to “co-managers”, then Oscar comments, dripping with sarcasm:

> Look, it doesn’t take a genius to know that any organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn’t have two presidents, a boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be without the popes?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wF8jmFoQ7zM
Consider the question of "could you get into a bidding war with Apple or Netflix for a tenured developer?" Is there a point where another company can pay more than the economic product of the developer at the original company?

Yes, hiring and training is expensive... and the loss of domain knowledge is costly too.

There are a lot of places that aren't making that much money to be able to get to "market rate".

I'd also like to put forth that the idea of a market rate for developers across all industries is one of the things making it hard to find developers. There are more than a few new grads out there that are discounting any job that pays less than $100k/y because they believe that the market rate is that and anything less is being underpaid regardless of industry, company maturity, or locale.
??? What idea aren't you buying into? That platforms can't feasibly police their users and that its unreasonable for us to expect them to? Yes, they can get the worst of the worst. They can comply with court orders. But expecting them to censor everything people think is objectionable is not reasonable. Do you want facebook to be the arbiter of what you can and can't say? Because that seems to be what you're asking for. As much as you think what to censor is "obvious", it is very much not obvious.
> Does that mean the government owes you the fine?

no it just means the fine is immediately overdue :)
I live in coastal New England, and I faced a similar situation until ~6 years ago, when I started working for all-remote companies.

I've been fortunate to find all-remote employers who pay average non-FAANG silicon valley salaries, regardless of where in the U.S. you live. The result is I'm paid a little (+20%?) higher than I would at a non-fintech company in Boston or NYC.
I dunno, any programming seems a different beast than a spreadsheet tool.

For python, just think of installing it or setting up virtual environments.

Like the original article says, “spreadsheets are the original low code”
Posted in a sibling comment, but I repeat it because I think it's a very important point.

> I cannot say much more about Rust syntax since I am even more of a Rust newbie than the author - perhaps someone can have some further comments on the quality of the resultant Rust code.

The author is using an improper data type - a vector of borrowed strings (`Vec<&String>`), which forces the dev to use lifetimes.

The owned version, `Vec<String>` doesn't suffer from this problem.

More in general, this is a lack of experience problem - designing ownership is difficult at the beginning. And there's no problem with it! But don't publish a (micro)benchmark, please :)

In particular, the author's conclusion on the necessity of lifetimes:

> This means that, yes, writing efficient code in Rust requires a lot of forethought. In this case, our tiny modification to use a mutable Vec actually requires us to only deal with strings whose life times match or exceed that of our Vec.

assigns a complexity to Rust that in this case doesn't exist. Rust is complex, but this is not one of those cases.
If you don't want or need version freedom, what is it about the existing deb/rpm ecosystems that don't work for you, either on their own or in conjunction with the various tools that bridge other ecosystems into them? (I'm a fan of dh_virtualenv, myself)

Or is your lament that the world as a whole is worse off because others have eaten of the fruit of systems like npm and pip?
Great point. I think it depends on if the new execs view themselves as “creators” or “fixers”. Fixers can thrive in this situation.
>> "like our lead in technology"

> True, and I don't know how much longer this can last.

Yeah, especially since many, many Americans seem to stupidly reassure themselves by wishfully thinking it's some kind of natural advantage they have (e.g. the Chinese only copy, etc.).

IMHO, it's not too wrong to assume the PRC essentially has technical parity now, which should be pretty concerning to Americans because they also stupidly disposed of many of their other capabilities for short term business reasons.
You can’t rescue ethnic groups that refuse to procreate. Look at Norway and Sweden, the people in those countries long ago decided their culture was not worth preserving. No amount of policy will change that
it does stop against type-o'd dependencies. So if there was an evil package called requestss then you wouldn't be able to install it by accident.
People understate the power of spreadsheets. You are literally using a visible programming language. When I have to write a algorithm to read from a file or a spreadsheet, I can model it very easily on the spreadsheet to get all my i's, j's, and k's right, and I can watch it occur incrementally line by line in a spreadsheet. When I was buying my house, I was able to easily line by line show my wife where all the cash was going. No print statement, variables, or anything I'd need in Python or C++. I could do it in 5 mins and it was as good as anything those languages could have done.

All that said, I can see issues with errors that are hidden by spreadsheets but those can be handled with good spreadsheet design (i.e. NEVER EVER hard code anything into a cell) and they simply just need a way to do GIT type version control natively. We recently got the ability to have multiple people work in the same spreadsheet at a time if on MS Teams, but there's more work to do there.
Many of your workspaces look like fairly standard hotel / restaurant lounges. This is in contrast to WeWork that builds more conventional office spaces.

Do you plan to build/rent more traditional/conventional offices?

I personally cannot imagine a room packed with professionals at different companies on lounge-chairs and sitting around tiny tables. However, I might not be have a good understanding of Singapore/HK culture.
I remember when beanie babies were supposed to go to infinity too
Congrats on Microsoft for finding a way to make it even more tedious than Windows 10.
They list the types of buyers, but forgot a fourth one: Those who buy it to immediately spend on things they cannot otherwise easily acquire with fiat currency. (I leave these things to your imagination.)

The first three groups may shy away if the price crashes, but the fourth group will (mostly) not. Because what the fourth group is doing (mostly) does not care what the price is.

They can buy their goods whether it costs 0.00001 or 100 BTC, because those goods are indexed against fiat prices. As Bitcoin goes down, prices on the markets that sell these goods automatically rise to counter.

Perhaps the price gyrations would be more aggravating for the sellers of these things. They rely on converting cryptocurrency back to fiat to finance their business, (although perhaps some are able to buy their wholesale product with crypto directly). Volatility exposes them to a risk of losing value if Bitcoin falls between the point in time a buyer places an order, and the time the seller is able to withdraw and convert the payment to fiat.

Ultimately these buyers and sellers support some price floor for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as they exchange real goods and services.

There's a lot of hype around cryptocurrencies, but ultimately this is the true killer use case. And there are millions of people who value that >$0.
> It's not happening in the US, China or Europe. T

In Germany, Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon compete for CS, electrical, and mech eng students with BMW, Daimler, Audi, Airbus, etc.

These classical engineering companies can't compete with FAANG salaries here. The top of my class had offers from many of them, but they all ended up in FAANG, because the salaries were 2x what the others were offering, with larger room to grow.

> The best talent at Google are not even working on ad tech.

Improving web server performance, source control tools, etc. at, e.g., Facebook, is not "working on ad-tech" per se, but rather work on the infrastructure that supports ad tech.

Arguably, working on "traffic in Google maps" is not working on "ad tech", but rather working on adding value to an app so that it can serve more ads, etc.

> Pfizer, Merck, Amgen, Regeneron, Moderna, Biogen, Gilead, AbbVie, Abbott, Bristol-Myers, Eli Lilly, Illumina, Intuitive Surgical, Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments, Cisco, Qualcomm, Micron, LAM, KLA, Applied Materials, SpaceX, Tesla, Caterpillar, Honeywell, DuPont, General Dynamics, Lockheed, Northrop, Boeing, 3M, Boston Scientific, Stryker, Edwards Lifesciences, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Monsanto.

I work at FAANG. Many in my team are "aerospace engineer", "structural engineer", "civil engineer", "electrical engineer", "astrophysicist", "chemist", "mathematician", etc.. All top of their class, now doing CS, working "indirectly" on ad-tech.

That does not mean that the companies above fail to attract good engineers. But most people in my team, including myself, had to choose between working at any of the top firms for engineering in our "field", or going to FAANG to do CS and work (directly or indirectly) on ad tech.

One new hire recently was doubting between working here at FAANG or at SpaceX, and at the end, after being a bit burned out from their PhD, they decided they preferred to work at FAANG on ad-tech because: n-times more salary, for a fraction of the hours.

> That's a super short list that instantly destroys the claim

The claim is that normal companies can't compete with FAANG for top talent.

I don't see how the fact that normal engineering companies can find engineers debunks that claim.
in the UK, speed traps (that aren't "average speed check" traps) operate over a distance of ~10-30 meters, depending on the road's speed. that second is very important.
If you ask me it's the savers that are the weird ones. They aren't redeeming their deposits. How do you expect debts to be repaid if people insist on holding onto their deposits?
I wouldn't say that about any man-made structure but you're definitely right about many of them.
> and still it hasn't broken anything.

Well, when you explicitly throw ABI backwards compatibility out the window it's far easier to make that claim.
It's possible that it would not be cheaper from an overall infrastructure perspective, but still cheaper for consumers with limited options.

Most of my extended family lives in rural Tennessee where their internet options are still dial-up and 5G. Comcast isn't interested in laying additional fiber to remote houses. There are options through AT&T, but I think they end up paying close to $20/GB.

Several of my relatives are pretty pumped about StarLink as a potential option.

I think the niche for StarLink is this - outlying communities where traditional ISPs are uninterested in building out infrastructure for the 'long tails' of the population.
> The thing I'm saying is counter to the hacker mentality is using a tool as a black box, without understanding what it does and what it is trying to do. You don't have to read the code and know all the technical details.

And I'm saying that this statement is just hustle culture nonsense.

> A hacker should be happy to play around with various man pages and commands to build an understanding of what each command really does - and then be able to fearlessly mix and match commands, because they know how they are affecting the repo at each step.

No true scotsman would use git without reading books about it!

This is just nonsense. Gatekeeping holier than thou nonsense.
> How does the developed world pull out of this type of tailspin?

Make childcare easier. Traditionally people lived in the same town as their parents and in-laws. Now days it is thousands of dollars a month in day care.

Want your kids to go to college? In 18 years that is expected to cost well over 100k for a state school.

Raising kids has gotten more stressful and more expensive, of course people aren't having kids! And those who do stop after one.

Not that I have any good idea for childcare. Real estate prices in cities are so high that opening a day care is not the wisest financial decision. Home day cares are a solution, but licensing and compliance issues abound that can also destroy their ability to stay in business.

Heck in America if I want a care that seats more than 4 (I'm ignoring the "5th" middle seat) I am stuck buying a bloody SUV or minivan. Can't even get a 3 row compact people mover because CAFE rules quite literally ban their existence. So 2 kids is basically has a "get a giant vehicle" tax attached to it. Live in a city? Have fun parking that SUV!

And how about schools? In my city, a house that is zoned to good schools has a 200-300k price premium! Want to move to an area with really good schools? That can become a 500k premium.

Japan has separate issues, if fathers are working 10-12 hours a day and are never home, and women are expected to just stop their careers after having kids, well of course women aren't jumping at the chance to start a family. Raise a kid with an absentee husband? No wonder that isn't going over well.

tl;dr life is too expensive. We've created a society that does not promote having children or having a family. Everything down to our underlying infrastructure is anti-family.
This is true, but I think there's plenty of evidence that Bobby doesn't live like he makes $100k. The private jet alone would be many times more than that.
CEO's don't buy there own private jets.

He has a private jet, but Activision Blizzard pays that bill.

And once he retires and he has to pay for his travel, he will still fly private, but he won't buy a private jet. They do weird time/share type shit to keep the costs way down.
I think you're confused. Why would I come after you for that?
Pay more and the labor shortage will disappear. Every industry exploiting temporary visas or undocumented workers claims there's a shortage.
an API to change your Wifi SSID/password

This seems like a red flag. If you want to make a better router, great, but it shouldn't be part of an ISP.

Automating problem diagnosis and making that customer-visible would be interesting. I don't know if it would cause more problems than it solves.
In public school they are taught this. Maybe not is some private schools I suppose. It's part of the standard curriculum
i'm wondering how much kb it loads before ready to search?

update: 144KB for JSON file

a little bit worrying, given their scale and potential bandwidth requirements
If I could go back, single cluster. Any benefits you get from going multi-cluster can be achieved by configuring a single cluster correctly.
By having hard money you get predictable decline. It honestly doesn't make sense to me. If people want to hold onto gold they can just buy it.
Do you think the folks with real decision making power (I'm thinking people invited to Davos, rather than people in mostly ceremonial political roles) in the United States actually want a future without global Chinese hegemony? As far as I can tell, our elites are overtly hostile to the American populace and actively undermine us.

I am reminded of 1940s US-Soviet relations where FDR & friends saw Stalin as the lovable rascal leading us all toward a lovely future of enlightened, global despotism under the new faith of dialectical materialism (nowadays otherwise named). Given the chummy trade relations we maintained with our 'enemies' throughout the 'Cold War', I suspect Soviet capitulation was kind of, like, an accident. I don't think our money-masters or politburo want Americans as we know them to survive.
Hungary and Poland are making serious efforts to boost their birth rates.

Hungary gives life time tax exemption to mothers of 4 children, and may lower that to 3.

It's too early to tell if it's working.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/04/baby-bonuses-f...
I miss the old search that let me narrow things down by category.
If you're on linux, Check out Minder, An open source mind mapping tool. It has a task list feature where you can convert sub items to tasks and it's just PERFECT for this style of task tracking.

https://i.imgur.com/7Q6QHgo.png

completed tasks are full circles, unfinished is empty circles, You can also see notes here, and folded items.

also a highly keyboard focused application. F for fold unfold, T for task set and complete.
> Historians agree that the costly outcome of the Russo-Japanese war led to the rise of militaristic Japan and their entry into WWII.

There was an awful lot going on in Japan during the Taishou era tho.
ESP32-H2, an IEEE 802.15.4 and Bluetooth 5.2 (LE) RISC-V SoC
They hi-jacked the browser's `/` key to focus the field, which is something I hate. As a user, I want `/` to bring up Firefox's quick search bar, especially when reading documentation.

They should have just had the search field focused automatically but that would have done away with their "clever" hack to lazy-load the DB containing every page name.

Also, I'm confused, I thought https://mdn.dev/ was the new thing because Mozilla was stepping back from MDN. Is it a fork? They both carry Mozilla logos, so what's going on there?
I would look at inverting the causality there. If your data is accurate, I think it's better to say, "Most companies create developer jobs that get boring for people after 24-36 months."

I was chatting with a Trader Joe's cashier Sunday. It turns out they change jobs every hour. That was a surprise to me; when I long ago worked in a grocery store, I was assigned to one position for 8 hours for every shift. Why does Trader Joe's do it? To keep things interesting: "She tells Money that the change in jobs during shifts helps to keep things interesting for employees. 'It's perfect because it breaks down your shift. You don't get tired doing one repetitive thing,' she told them." https://www.mashed.com/175743/workers-reveal-what-its-really...

If Trader Joe's can do it hour by hour, I think tech companies can do it at least every year or so.

I'm hiring right now and one of the major draws for the good people I'm talking to is the chance to do something interesting. If that's why their coming, it's unsurprising that I'll have to keep giving them that over time. For us, and for most places I've worked, I think that's doable.
Pretty much. Honestly if I can get a 20% pay raise by switching jobs, my job is to do the absolute minimum amount I can do to stay under the radar, why would I try? If I wanted to try I would go work somewhere else.

There's just a complete mismatch in how much the company I work for values the experience and skill I gain over time and how much everyone else values it. Over time recruiters come to me with opportunities to make more money, they try to convince me to leave. It's such an obvious disparity I can't help but stop caring about the job I'm doing when it's only real utility to me is that I don't have to put in any effort to keep having it.
Can trusted PyPI packages or other language packages be taken over? Can their author once benevolent become malicious and inject code and push a minor version after they wake up one day?
> The Princeton University researchers behind the paper found that there's a less than 1 percent probability that the changes occurred naturally.

"So you're telling me there is still a chance" - Dumb & Dumber
Yes that’s exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. So then the next question is, what’s the broader implication for ordinary folks (German citizens even)?
first rule of cancel culture is ...
It exists, sort of.

https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/
> Some useful guidance here, although worth noting that some of it is a bit dated.

Is there any digital security guidance from the feds that doesn't apply to? :)
The Diderot Effect: Why We Want Things We Don’t Need – and What to Do About It