skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder the mental health aspects of this trend. I’m just an observer not a scientist but it seems to me that more and more people including myself feel lonely. It leads to depression and anxiety.

I really think we are steering ourselves into some weird evolution by deciding to go go so reclusive. People need to gather and understand each other not go into remote silos surrounded only by family and super close friends.

I really liked the office environment because at least I got to be around people working on the same mission. Still a bit too uneasy to go back into the office though because of other reasons.
I've never been a big spender and I likely never will be, so it's not like I sacrificed much in getting to this point. An 80% saving rate for 9 working years while being lucky to invest starting 2011 goes pretty far.

If financial independence is its own cage, I'm not willing to leave.

I can't say I regret it - perhaps I should have had something else cooking during my working years that doesn't include blogging about FI.

I suspect most people are like me (and not Elon) - without a carrot or stick, a kind of meaninglessness sets in.
No it doesn't, you can buy any random cheap cable in ebay any they are mostly indestructible and last years while apple cables require extreme care to last and even then they seem to turn in to a gummy substance that basically falls apart.
Watch this get flagged and or downvoted, never to see the front page.
So? Nyu can create their own fakebook.
It's all relative. I left an absolute clusterfuck of an engineering org (leads would scream at each other in meetings when things went wrong) a few years back. I landed somewhere much better, but now find myself complaining about much less severe problems.
In Australia for investment properties you can subtract the interest and all cost related to property management from your ordinary salary/wages/rental income
I remember back in the day when I had some old HP behemoth my dad's office was throwing out... a 4100 or something like that.

I never bothered with a printing system.. I'd just cat a ps file to /dev/lp0
"almost all US airports are awful, Kafka-esque centers of frustration and disappointment."

Haven't been to the US, but the same applies to most European airports. Silly shops, silly layouts,etc. Heck, a few weeks ago I departed from a midsize airport that recently benefitted from billions of investment. Rest assure the money didn't go to make the whole process a bit easier for passengers and we all still had to stand in a crowded corridor and then on the stairs with no aircon except a big fan hanging off the ceiling.
Agreed. Podcast apps are all built on the technology. RSS readers like Feedly still work, and there are lots of new blogs that use RSS.

But, the article seems to be describing something else.

Today k-Collector would not be possible. That alternative future where everyone started blogging and putting their content in RSS2.0 feeds that we could analyse to connect those conversations did not happen.

I honestly didn't understand the article. I gathered that he created some kind of tool that aggregated blog posts based on their tags and created an RSS feed out of that, maybe like delic.io.us did? But isn't that already being done by the RSS readers? So, I still think I don't understand the article.
Police unions are an abberration, but teachers are treated much better and schools are higher quality in States with real teachers unions.

My southern state had a teacher's union, but since the law forbids teachers from collective bargaining, I'm not sure it counts.
china is already fully engaged in this

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-reaches-new...
> After that the vast majority of people just stagnate, get complacent, the job stops being interesting to them and they move on.

> so I pay them less, regardless of whatever objective measure of impact may exist.

Ah, the classic "blame the person you hired for being bored with a low paid, dead end, high churn rate job", most excellent.
Do you have some sources for this? A quick google search turned up nothing
Simple, you work 5+ years at a company you earn a pension, extra days off, and a larger salary.

Even McDonalds and fast food joints do it. They have benefits that cost a lot if the employee continues to work there.

Always finding new employees via citizens or H1B Visa workers.
I did study CS, but the courses weren't quite as deep. Out of all the topics above, I only did interpreters (compilers) and multi threading.

I don't think I wanna do HFT. Not interested in numbers or statistics. I don't wanna do data science/ML as well.

I was just thinking what can I do to spark joy in programming once again. Maybe I need some creative-type of programming work like creating useless toys or tools.

Leetcode is mostly just brute-forcing yourself through problems. I've done around 500 Leetcode problems, its not that hard after you gone past 200 problems, it gets repeated but different style. Yeah a lot of Leetcode problems mostly are just graph problems. I think Leetcode managed to distract me a bit but after a while I got bored as well, after all I already got the FAANG salary, no interest for me doing Leetcode anymore.
Self host FreshRSS on a cheap cloud and access it through any browser. Works really well.
Yeah it seems that is inevitable.
I see. It only appears to happen thus far when it goes against the mainstream thought process. I'm sure I'll see some apolitical usage at some point, but I've yet to witness it. Thank you for your answer.
A little sidetrack question: why are news headlines 90% in the wrong case?
Because of the language "Go" and this platform I have to rephrase some headlines with "go" in it a couple of times until it's kinda clear what the content might be.
His old posts are so entertaining. His daily posts have taken on this 'political rants' flavor which isn't very interesting to me.
Well put, and I definitely agree on the point of verifying prior infection being difficult and costly.

> Furthermore, vaccination really shouldn't pose any undue risk to this population

I also agree with this point, and it is corroborated by the primary sources I've reviewed. That said, I want to emphasize that it doesn't seem like a good tradeoff to waste vaccines on people who will not benefit from it, especially if that precludes vaccinating the most vulnerable populations across the world.
Is tech really automating away legal work? Maybe secertarial work related to lawyers, but i doubt its automating away actual legal work.
Amazing how these two articles were timed to land right on top of each other....it's almost like it was intentional.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"Law School Loses Luster as Debts Mount and Salaries Stagnate"

The Wall Street Journal

https://www.wsj.com/articles/law-school-student-debt-low-sal...

https://archive.is/3hGsA
I think this is the main one. It's a form of price discrimination. Folks fall on a spectrum from willing to go to more trouble to get more money to not willing to go to any trouble at all. It's in the best interest of a company to pay a higher rate to the former than the latter, but you can hardly go around polling people and then adjusting their salary accordingly. So you favor policies that implicitly offer the higher salary to those who signal they demand it without having to offer a higher salary to all. It doesn't have to be that they perceive the former to be worth more. Even if both perform exactly the same it's still worth it to pursue a policy which allows you to price discriminate effectively.
if that was true FAANG would have been hiring with math questions. In reality, by and large, math skills are not tested for software engineers, with the exeption of trading and such.

It is relevant only to the degree of whether or not you can do high-school maths, and the assumption is anyone who can write code can.
In addition to what you said, this policy is supposed to alleviate a complementary problem for kids in the top 1-20% socioeconomic class. There, the biggest issue is that there is excessive competition to no good end. This policy is supposed to alleviate that and bring more room for fostering creativity
It's a bit like what the SingleFile extension does. You get a single HTML file with all the assets inside it. I like to use it when I want to save a page
GP doesn't seem to be saying that chess and brick-laying are equally difficult to automate. GP is saying that a belief in brick-laying AI represents no more contempt towards brick-layers than a belief in chess AI represents towards chess players.
This is why there is so much animosity toward police. Law enforcement doesn't advance the interests of the unionized elite that now runs society, including the mainstream media, which is entirely unionized.

The unions wanted Kenosha burned down (which is why CNN's unionized staff described the protests as "fiery but mostly peaceful" with a backdrop of burning buildings [1]) and no police or pesky militias protecting it, in order to demoralize the population and get more subservience from them.

[1] https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-panned-for-on-air-graphic-...
I don't know of any such mandate in GS, was it for a specific division or group of teams? The company culture supports moving internally, but I never heard of anything like a mandate in my very recent stint there.
re: quantconnect - Actually yeah... we have come across them. TLDR; they are targeting a different persona. But as we talk to more and more people we are learning more and more about what people want... so maybe we'll converge some day!

Right now... we've found interesting ways to engage general retail investors (ie.. not your typical HN crowd) around the idea of personalizing an investment. Some people are performance driven. Some people are values driven. Each has different definitions of what those mean. Everyone is a snowflake... it's wild.

One person had a really bad flight on United and asked... "hey could I cut them out of my portfolio". My thought was... is that a sound investing descion; no... is it going to matter in the long run; no... is it going to make her happy right now; yes. So sure... S&P 500 minus UAL... why not.

All being said... I think there is a market for democratizing "wall street algos". Quantconnect (which reminded me of Quantopian) is allowing you to create/backtest new strats. That's cool... but limits the audience to the quants and engineering crowds. Could it be made easier for the broader spectrum of retail... hmmm.
To me it is part of the problem.

> are we lacking time/money/tribal knowledge to understand how it deeply works?

This is a serious issue when a system becomes complex enough.

For instance you work there for 4 years, became the most versed into the system, and have a hunch that the manual process to validate all submissions to some system could be wildly simplified.

But then random managers come to ask “are you 100% sure there won’t be hidden issues ?”, and by definition the answer is “no”. And since you’re the only one on the proposition, you have to bear the risk alone if you push it through. You could, but it is hardly worth it (diminishing rewards at your level, heavy bashing in case of troubles).

And there’s ton of other subtle and not so subtle situations where you have some knowledge, you could do something, but you don’t have any backing to make it worth it because others just don’t know. So stuff keeps piling in.

TBF not all companies work like that, but you also don’t end up a lone expert in places where these kind of issues are solved early and organically.
> but I guess also have some potential for an increase in crime

What? Why?

Public defender might help the innocent stay free. But if you actually did the crime and were caught you're probably still going to jail barring some impropriety being involved.
A friend works in sf and runs an eng team out of seattle. He daytrips up there weekly, or at least did pre-covid.

800 miles SFO to SEA, 45 weeks... That's 72k miles alone.
As someone who has been to Britain airport (and hopes not to return), I am offended. Best sandwich I've ever eaten.
> Populism is a horrible disease

Could you explain what you mean by this? What's your definition of populism, and what does it have to do with this issue?
Thanks for the reply, but not one of those points changes my opinion.

(1) This does not appear to be a check on power to me. Some legal (to the state) businesses were raided during this time, and they had no recourse.

(2) Is it that difficult to put a temporary law in place to codify this? Isn't that what we pay officials to do? Seems there are a lot of laws made for every single reason, when there's rich lobbyists involved...

(3) This would quickly cause both the police and citizens to lobby for laws that are both reasonable and enforceable. Both of which are good things IMO.

So I understand your points and agree they are relevant, but I don't agree with your conclusion.

The cynic in me says that the real reason for selective enforcement is so any individual can be selected as a criminal when those with the power to apply them deem it necessary.

I believe most laws should have an expiry/review date.
Greed. Its always greed.
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It is a product management decision. We are in the early beta stage and the product is not polished enough for the broader market.

However we are OK to share it with die-hard fans who actually took the time to complete a non-trivial form, hence invite-only private beta. When we move to public beta, there will be no signup requirement.

> Bullish on macOS?

Yes we believe it is an OS and a platform with a bright future. Personally I enjoy it using a lot as a consumer, and I think it makes for a wonderful host platform for a new browser. Note that we also opted to use the WebKit rendering engine (fastest and most power efficient, at least on macOS) and built the rest of the browser from scratch.
Tell HN: Protonmail is no longer private, sharing user info with US authorities
ProtonMail is in cooperation with authorities.

ProtonMail, which claims to be a "secure e-mail service from Switzerland," supplies user data to security authorities. User data also goes to law enforcement agencies in the USA, as a current case shows.

The proceedings concern threats against, among others, the well-known immunologist Anthony Fauci. In a series of emails, the sender threatened, among other things, to kill Fauci and his family.

As the U.S. Department of Justice writes, the defendant used "an email account from a provider of secure, encrypted email services based in Switzerland."

According to the corresponding affidavit, this email service was ProtonMail. The relevant emails end accordingly with "Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email".

On the basis of data from ProtonMail, which was sent to the USA by way of legal assistance, it emerged that the defendant had used several user accounts at ProtonMail.

According to his own statements, the accused had switched to ProtonMail because he believed he was protected by Swiss data protection law and end-to-end encryption. Nevertheless, the sender could be identified in the interaction of data from ProtonMail as well as other online services.

https://steigerlegal.ch/2021/08/02/protonmail-daten-usa/

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/press-release/file/1416926/download
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Although average wages are around 75k, wages of lawyers are two tiered, the majority settle around ~55k and then prominent lawyers who went to good schools and were groomed to become partners make over triple that [1]. So it is a lot like other professional white collar professions like accounting where there are huge amounts of extremely overworked people in entry level jobs who were suckered into the perceived security of the profession and few that make partner and rake in decent cash, which is only like average FANG entry salaries, the only difference is that they have to go through a professional degree and often incur huge amounts of debt just to get there.

[1] https://www.biglawinvestor.com/bimodal-salary-distribution-c...
Very good overview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAD48rqqcd8

Its just a very intricate process, a messy material and probably a manual job for a long time.
Definitely report what you perceive as astroturfing to the mods using the footer Contact link; they will want to know more.
I don’t think the food or drinks at the Manufactory Food Hall in SFO [1] have that high of a premium. They’re starting from a high base, but I don’t recall it being “the usual” +50%.

[1] https://sf.eater.com/2019/1/22/18193239/manufactory-food-hal...
Russian thought and art is fascinating. I have never known such a collectively depressed culture to produce such beauty.
> because they are full of contempt for the skill and intelligence of ordinary people

No. They just don’t know what makes it hard. I don’t know where the robot train drivers are. We’re doing cars and planes but it seems trains have fewer things to worry about. I don’t feel contempt for train drivers, the limitation is mine. I don’t understand. I still think I deserve to live.

I love this guy’s videos. He’s a fantastic insight into a world I barely know:
https://youtu.be/qP1AmDRhoas
It doesn't matter how rampant it is.

No matter how often it happens it cannot justify violations of freedoms.

It's becoming harder and harder to tell who won WW II.
I think the big thing is many humans cant wrap their mind around qm. Lots of people are like, its ok as long as it only applies to microscopic quantities but doing a big object would force them to confront reality more head on.
Correct.

East Germany had public capitalism. Surplus (profit) was disbursed to the government.

Whereas the USA also has private capitalism. When surplus goes to private investors.

We also have public investment and private profit. Wags call it "socialism for corporations" and the like. Kleptocracy? Whatever we call it, it's not capitalism.
I will admit to considering going into the “wrong” half of the international terminal at SFO to eat at Tartine or Kin Khao instead [1] and then head over to my flight. If the security line is short enough, it’s kind of worth it.

[1] https://sf.eater.com/2019/1/22/18193239/manufactory-food-hal...
Says a lot about you
It's not a library unless it's 80% as hard to use it as it would be to implement its functionality from scratch.
Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Because there's no one-size-fits-all solution for search. It's arguable that such a thing wouldn't even suit the needs of a small fraction of folks who were interested in a similar feature.

Plus, if it was added to the spec, then Safari users wouldn't be able to use it.
Circa 2014 they started a program where Analysts temporarily work on teams that did not hire them, following their three-month orientation. Based on the parent comment, it sounds as if it was taken even further. I was in the Tech Division before it was rebranded as Engineering and merged with SecDiv / Core Strats by Eli Wiesel et al.
From the doc:

>It includes hardening strategies to avoid common
misconfigurations and guide system administrators and developers of National Security
Systems on how to deploy Kubernetes...
Ah, good guess!
This isn't for regular people, this is telling third parties what they need, in order for them to try to sell something to the nsa.
Interesting read. What part seems problematic to you?
Can you go into more detail here? Looking at a writeup on the legal definition of value [1], it says

> Value sometimes expresses the inherent usefulness of an object and sometimes the power of purchasing other goods with it. The first is called value in use, the latter value in exchange. Value in use is the utility of an object in satisfying, directly or indirectly, the needs or desires of human beings. Value in exchange is the amount of commodities, commonly represented by money, for which a thing can be exchanged in an open market. This concept is usually referred to as market value.

Conceptually, in game items certainly have a an "inherent usefulness", in that they make the game more enjoyable for the person (or person's character) that possesses the item. This value is transferred between players regardless of whether or not the game provides a way to convert it to real money. For all practical purposes, it is impossible for any game that supports trading assets between characters to completely prevent interactions of the form "if you give me this item, I will give you some amount of real world money".

It seems that any in game assets meet the legal definition of value (that I understand from that page). This would mean that any transfer of said assets between characters would need to be reported on.

I'm open to clarification/correction, with a clear statement that my understanding of this is extremely limited. But it seems like the above is accurate. And seems to fall into the previously mentioned "bat-shit crazy" bucket, if true.

[1] Value
https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Value
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> Microsoft’s BitLocker, meanwhile, doesn’t use any of the encrypted communications features of the latest TPM standard.

Disk encryption key was in cleartext on the SPI bus
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I quite like this and my experience on your 3D website was very smooth. I wonder about the following points:

- Would creating a 3D website hurt my SEO?

- Would the content be somehow accessible for users who are entering the website on devices that don't support WebGL? Is there any fallback?

- A 3D website looks cool and creative but does it really engage users more than a standard one? Would it increase my conversion rates or keep people longer on the site (subtracting the time to figure out the controls)?
Wouldn't splitting an HTML file into a list of linked files speed up the download process?

Instead of one large blob, a number of smaller files can be downloaded in parallel.
Personally, I would rather the amount of mercy we, as a society, want is codified into law.

Better than individuals praying that random police will decide not to enforce merciless laws.
> Players already have to report substantial real gains on sales of game assets

That's a pretty far cry from needing to report "user data, including users’ names and addresses" for every in game transfer of digital assets. (As noted in another message, it's still unclear to me if that's what the bill is requiring).
Are you a porn star?

A Jets quarterback?

I guess you can't say, but I'm curious why you'd need to keep your current life secret.

I semi-accidentally deleted my Linkedin profile a few weeks ago -- I was trying to unsubscribe from their double++premium-something offering. Anyhow, then I had two profiles, and now I think I'm back to one.

It didn't seem to make any difference to anyone - tho, I don't have a public/famous profile, or any need to keep things anonymouse, etc.

I'd probably start with a new gmail address - think you can snag another and get it in the same inbox maybe - not sure. Then sign up for MS/Linkedin with that email. Use two separate Chrome profiles - one with each gmail address - to separate your separate lives - they're easy to switch between.

The alias thing will prob make everyone think you're a child molester with a Subway-Jared background, so I probably would not go there.

And if this is you, Joe, we really need to you work on allowing us to vote these next couple elections at least, so if you want to get into coding - just do a bootcamp, and then you can have a couple hours each day to hack.