skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's "tech?" Large VC funded B2C companies get a lot of press and are most well known but I'd imagine most software engineering jobs are either at "non-tech" companies or companies that provide B2B services.
Agreed, it’s a total waste of time, I’d say our managements love for JIRA is the things that’s really holding us back from really being productive and enjoying our work. It’s such a horrible horrible time suck and offers nothing of real value.
No marketing involved, all organic traffic, ranked in the top of the US app store and global app stores.
Which OS and GPU? It's working great for me on wayland linux: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#Hardware_video_acce...
What's the point of this? Doesn't Android already have an "install from unknown sources" permission you can turn off to accomplish this?
As far as billionaires go, Isaacman is kind of well qualified:

2012, he co-founded Draken International, a Florida-based company that trains pilots for the United States Armed Forces. The company operates one of the world's largest fleets of privately-owned fighter jets.

In 2004, Isaacman began taking flying lessons. In 2009, he set a world record for circumnavigating the globe.[6][8] He received a bachelor's degree in professional aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2011. He is flight qualified in multiple military jet aircraft.[4] In his 20s, he flew in many airshows, but by his 30s, he had stopped flying much.
Posted too early? Most of the "Read more" links on the front page do not actually work.
I've never seen Youtube not drop frames. Best it seems to be able to do is about 1 dropped frame per second, regardless of OS and browser. It also seems to almost always use codecs which require CPU decoding, which is obviously terrible for power efficiency (though it might save them a little bit in bandwidth I guess).

I don't watch long videos on YT for this reason, I download them and use a real video player, which can play video without dropping frames at 2 % CPU. This also gives me my mandatory archival copy, as interesting things are often deleted or channels deleted / terminated.
Duck says ‘You bloody fool’ and can imitate other sound, scientists fascinated
I definitely know more democrats than republicans (my area votes 80% democrat). But they are highly educated people (think U Chicago, Georgia Tech etc.) still believing every opinion their favorite news outlet sells them. I find that disturbing. Not the fact that they believe most of the party lines, but believing and defending ALL of them, like the party can do no wrong.
- poker is about evaluating probabilities, not about reading in others players mind

- you can't beat bad luck, but you can lose on bad evaluation of probabilities
I remember when the jump from FF3 to FF4 was a big freaking deal, and here we are on FF92 :')
For a more full-featured serverless setup, you can check out SST: https://github.com/serverless-stack/serverless-stack

It runs on your AWS account and it comes with a local development environment (https://docs.serverless-stack.com/live-lambda-development) as well.
My question is, to what degree is college a training center, and to what degree is it a toll bridge to the middle class?

If I get charged $100 to cross a toll bridge in my car to get to my job, I wouldn’t consider myself to have gotten a good deal, regardless of pay.
Dabbling in: Weaving, sewing, metalsmithing, leatherwork, lifting

Want to explore: CNC, penplotting, rug tufting, watch repair

Need to get back into: archery, pool
Doing something over 10 years and overnight are two very different things.
Feel free to chime in on the open bug report for this missing feature. Maybe more attention will provoke progress: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1536482
I am glad to see sunshine on this matter, but...boy, that site is rather extreme. [UPDATE] I'm talking about the site; not the report.

I do believe that climate change is an existential threat, and am rather disappointed that it looks like I'll get a front-row seat for the start of things, during my lifetime.

It's just that I think extreme rhetoric, and extremist positions, are making global cooperation almost impossible.
IBM never had a plan for a mainframe operating system that made sense -- given the idea that the "360" was supposed to encompass the whole circle of applications.

What happened was some academics figured out it was possible to make virtual machines on the 370 and that you could run a few different operating systems at the same time. If you were doing software dev on the 370, for instance, you would start up a VM running VM/CMS which was a single-user OS a lot like CP/M or MS-DOS, work there, possibly using services offered by another OS in another VM by some kind of message passing.

This turned out to be the "master plan" in the long term, since they could have a few different mainframe OS, even some applications that run on "bare metal", but have it all run on one machine or one cluster of machines and be managed under the same pane of glass.
Almost the entire Wasm team was acquired by Fastly.
the application performed fine, even though we made the switch around 15:00 PST. The DBA was concerned because of the few long queries.

Obviously the tmpfs was doing the heavy lifting, there - and if i had to do a postmortem, i'd wager that filling the OS caches was the main reason the long queries took so long. We didn't do any sort of performance tracing.

The main purpose was to show that these $35k servers could essentially replace the older machines if need be, even though the old ones had FusionIO. I just removed the middleman of the PCIe bus between the application and the memory. It was a near constant argument on the floor about whether or not we could feasibly switch to SSDs in some configuration over spinning rust or even FusionIO, i wanted a third option.

Basically, serve out of registered, ECC memory in front, replicate to the fusionIO and let those handle the spindled backups, which iirc was a pain point.
Ask HN: Finding Purpose in Tech?
I’m a DevOps consultant. I make good money building infrastructure for businesses. I find the work interesting (even fun sometimes) but I’ve been doing this for a long time. And all the jobs I’ve had before consulting were in B2B. I’ve helped cigarette companies, soda companies, insurance companies, and even governments. I’m starting to worry about my impact on the world. What did I accomplish in helping these companies? How do I apply a DevOps skill set in a way that helps humanity? What should I do if I’m unmotivated by money and more interesting in helping move the world towards a certain ideal? Should I just drop out of tech and do something else with my life? Has tech been lost to the capitalist machines?
> Continuing work to restructure Firefox’s JavaScript memory management to be more performant and use less memory.

I went back the last few versions major release notes and didn’t see mention of the initial work to improve the JavaScript memory management. Is anyone aware of this work/what’s going on to improve memory management here? Interested to read more about the technicals!
Windows 10, iGPU of intel 11th gen i9-11950H
It is rather vague, but I have the same impression. So N=2
It works fine for other sites, and Google are surely not short of resources.

Draw from that what conclusions you will. Charitably, they view it as irrelevant; less charitably, they do not want it to work.
My new HyperOrganic™ farming wins - only one seed allowed per acre, and minimal energy usage per unit of area.
Unfortunately, once you’re giving “priority” to such a broad group of people (e.g. every permutation of gender, whatever you consider ethnic, and ability minorities) it becomes easy to say one thing and continue doing another.

The companies that have to virtue-signal do so because you wouldn’t notice if they didn’t tell you. I’d prefer they skip that and hire who they want without the pretense, and if that’s not me, fine, but please be honest.
Ivermectin modulates both the activity of the virus and the immune overreaction to it. Get over it.
>what percentage of black people with a CS degree end up actually getting a job offer.

So, the next step after forcing universities to give out degrees, is to force companies to hire minorities just to produce statistics that would please liberals ?

Really starts to sound like Communist countries declaring what the unemployment figures should be, by law.
>> Mac users can now access the macOS share options from the Firefox File menu.

I've been waiting for this for while..glad they finally implemented.
Sell First. Then Build. Then Hire. and Only Then Raise Money
That's actually a good point, except that the ADA only concerns itself with accessibility to content, not the content itself. What we're talking about is forcing businesses to hang up signs for NAMBLA on their bulletin board if they let anyone hang stuff up at all.
It's either. It's "A game of football". It's "A football match". It really doesn't matter.
Organic farming doesn't forbid waxing produce.
Yeah, sounds like an unregulated place for all the people who were thrown out by those with at least some ethics left.

update: yeah, downvotes, whatever... "censorship" these days is often enough because people tell other people to use horse dewormer or drink bleach. It's not because they're having highly sophisticated discussions about global politics, but simply because they're actively harming people, spreading hate and whatnot. platforms should be able to decide whether they want to "poison" their living room by giving a platform to such content.
> Indymedia UK didn't log the IPs of website visitors. They used an Apache module that stripped IPs from Apache log messages. I know this, because I had root on the server.

I believe you're confusing "is not actively logging" with "will not log, even when law enforcement takes over the server" (which a court order essentially comes down to, if you don't comply). The former is what ProtonMail also does. The latter is what no company can offer.
Wouldn’t Australian law make them comply regardless if they want to do business with Austrians?
you mean: one that is simple, works, represents the underlying model with a tree, and runs on a desktop?
A moderate opinion is that we should ban all private combustion.
Good point - updated the title.
> “The ban has drawn the tea industry into complete disarray… If we go completely organic, we will lose 50 per cent of the crop, (but) we are not going to get 50 per cent higher prices,” he reportedly said.

To break even, you need to double prices (i.e. 100% higher), not 50% higher. Very strange expert.
Why would anyone trust ProtonMail? If you're not doing anything shady you don't need E2E. If you're doing something that attracts police attention - and relative triviality is clearly not a factor - what they're offering won't protect you.

Saying "Well, you could also use our VPN as well" is more marketing. Of course they'll have to comply with legal requests for that too.

This is a political issue. What's missing is the legal oversight which prevents overreach. Demanding logs to catch a mass murderer is one thing. Demanding logs to catch someone who is being financially and politically irritating is on a completely different level and much harder to justify.
What do you mean by junk? Spam and Abuse, or scientific papers that the reviewer simply doesn't like?
>2) But that makes indexes unrepresentative of average returns

But average returns should be market cap weighted to be meaningful. If you made investments of $10 and $1, which were later valued $12 and $2 respectively, what was your "average return"? The average of the two investments, (12/10 + 2/1)/2 = 1.60? or the weighted average (12+2)/(10+1) = 1.27?
Today the average debt is $30K

That sounds...reasonable. I can't speak for the rest of Europe but a $30k student loan would be perfectly normal after a 4-5 year of study in Sweden.

Back of the envelope, $30k for 4 years is $625 a month and that is not much for just food and rent.
Yes - used rustls on a new project rather than the openssl wrapper which we used before. The experience has been pretty good. The problems of shared library version inconsistency have gone. No noticeable downsides.
ZeroTier founder here: we don't love the BSL, but it's helped defend us so far from marketing shell startups and huge corporations just taking our stuff and rebranding it and saying "thanks, we'll take that now." Networking is a particularly bad market for this.

In the future we want to do something better for licensing, but we're thinking carefully about it and researching it a lot since we don't want to change licenses too much.

My ideal license would be free/libre for individual humans and something closer to AGPL or BSL for for-profit work and corporations, but that is virtually impossible to do with a license that will work in every major jurisdiction. It sounds straightforward but according to lawyers I've spoke with it is not.

We also want to document and eventually standardize the protocol, probably post-V2. I'm calling it GVSP: Global Virtual Switch Protocol. There's a few things we want to revise first.
It seems the author gets a little bit confused by the FMA instructions:

> AArch64 nmadd equation is -(A * C) - B [...] Having an add instruction subtract is a curious decision from ARM [...] AArch64's nmsub equation is (A * C) - B, which isn't negated at all. Yet AArch64's msub is negated, for whatever reason, so we used that instead. We've learned not to question it.

Re-arrange those equations a bit, and you get:

msub: (b - ac)
nmadd: -(b + ac)
nmsub: -(b - ac)

And suddenly, it all makes sense :-)
Which usually, at least in Sweden means you'll get your data dump in a PDF. Not a joke, unfortunally.
Sequoia-PGP – Making PGP easier to use
He created the excel file. If he wanted to clear his name he could publish the original data as it was sent from the company, but he hasn't done so. And the company obviously has no incentive to falsify the data.
>The German government called on Moscow on Monday to cease "illegal cyber activities" immediately

Why do they do this? I imagine Putin crying with laughter. It's just pathetic.
See my response to the sibling comment to yours. It applies equally.
Is this similar to AWS workspaces ?
You can self-host ZeroTier controllers, in which case this is impossible. ZeroTier roots can be federated too, but that's less important for this concern because roots have no authentication authority. They're just like STUN/TURN servers.
> Unfortunately this time it is taking way too many lives

Could you elaborate more?
Unexpected Peaks in Spectrum Upset ConventionalModels of Exotic Quantum Material
I got turned off it because things that I'd pinned, and knew I'd pinned, would eventually become mysteriously inaccessible unless accessed through the node that I pinned it on, and I couldn't work out why. It's a great idea, but I found it too flakey to satisfy me.
jq didn't get away with it! Have you never tried searching for anything to do with it? How I wish it were called `jsonq`!
Thanks for your comment. My statement has unleashed passions in some. It’s been interesting reading the comments.
Show HN: Deep Learning for Computer Vision course with colabs and Anki cards
This from a guy who sells over engineered ORM goo (LLBLGen).

StackOverflow didn't use that either and instead chose to invent their own query builder/mapper known as Dapper.
It depends on the kind of data stored. Things critical to your national security or citizen data usually needs to be stored within EUs borders.
> quickly run out of plausible excuses

plausibility and the legal system are two vastly different things.

regarding your second point, you're correct, except for the fact they've been blatantly lying about what their product is and does.
> It shows that we must abandon economic growth, which is the basis of capitalism.

These people are insane. Not only they don't understand basic economics, but they are also brainwashed by far-left ideology. I see no possibility to have rational discussion with these people. It is just pathetic to have those insane people working in a science field which is somehow connected public policy.
Location: Vienna / Austria / Europe

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Django | Python | Docker | AWS | ElasticSearch | PostgreSQL

Methodologies: agile development | SCRUM | Kanban

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Email: anton@ignaz.at

Very experiences software engineer. I can build/maintain/refactor "stuff", manage teams or mentor juniors.

"stuff" can be: code, features, CI/CD pipelines, test environments and other "stuff".
> where they don’t have enough pull to bootstrap an alternative

Maybe I'm thinking too easy, but what about self-hosting. Some "all inclusive" hosting with Hugo or whatever static page builder you like.

That should be enough to get your content out to the masses.

Throw in Disqus if you really need to, set up an RSS feed and a newsletter and let's go.
This comment should be at the top, half the comments here either haven't read the article or just don't have a technical understanding of how the internet and servers work.
Maybe zucchinis need wax and preservatives? It looked like there was wax on the traditional produce and not on the organic produce, but I don't really know the process, I just see the crates of rotting produce at the food bank every fall. Those crates are overwhelmingly likely to have "organic" on the label whereas their picture-perfect counterparts are much less likely to have "organic" on the label.
I "voted" on it a couple years ago. I assume "+1" comments are frowned upon, since that's the point of the voting feature.
> ok so other than this channel it's all racism

It's sad that that was your instant thought. My experience so far with Odysee has been pretty good. It's no YouTube, but for the channels I follow, it's good enough. I hope it continues to to build momentum.
elogind has been successfully used as a drop-in replacement for logind on systemd-less distros as well.

https://github.com/elogind/elogind
Calling Lindsay a professional mathematician is a stretch. Also he neglects to cite Derrick Bell and Richard Delgado and the whole critical legal studies movement.
Have you studied chess at an advanced level (1500+ elo)? Your assertion makes me seriously doubt that you have.

And like I said, it's pretty hard to deny IQ is a proxy for learning rate (which is extremely beneficial practically). But it is not the deciding factor in human potential.

There are much more impactful and practically easy improve environmental factors like culture, school system, diet, parenting that are a much more fruitful place to focus our effort.
Scientists say a telescope on the Moon could advance physics,hoping to build one
> Important note: not all GMO is done to vendor lock farmers, most of it is actually beneficial to food quality and availability

I am a farmer, that is absolutely not true. All GMO crops are made to be more profitable to the farmer, with the goals of increased bulk yields, longer shelf stability and decreased water usage. Something like 95% of all corn grown in America isn’t even for human consumption, they’re certainly not selecting for food quality and availability.
Here's one: Organic food needs soil, sunlight, and water. Conventional food needs soil, sunlight, water, oil refineries, chemical plants, etc., plus all the heavy industry necessary to support those things.

Here's another: If I recall correctly, after WWII the US didn't know what to do with all its munitions factories. They realized that the basic ingredients of bombs were good at fixing nitrogen in the soil, so they made minor conversions to the factories and started producing chemical fertilizers. Fifty years later, Timothy McVeigh was able to buy a truckload of the stuff and bomb a federal building.

I hope Sri Lanka continues this experiment. Could it be that after so many years of conventional agriculture, the soil was too depleted of nutrients to be suitable for food crops? I imagine that things will improve as the land heals.
Germany and me too :)
True, the swiss government has bent over in all directions imaginable regarding the banking secret once a powerful enough entity pressured them.
Forget hosting, VPNs or email providers from Switzerland.

It's exactly true, companies incorporate there due to tax laws, even Phillip Morris is there.
Decoupling is happening due to labor costs in China and its hardening stance on foreign investment. It'll take time, but it'll happen.
Without intending to start a debate: we see something similar occurring in Venezuela due to a choice to focus on oil production a few years (decade?) back instead balancing food and oil production.

There may well be something to institutional economics and the notion of a holon.
Unless college has changed since I went (to a pretty average state school), you can do all that, but the default seemed to be to start off in a program that sounds cool, realize the science classes are too hard, change to an easier major a couple times, finish off your gen-eds with some random survey classes where you just have to write a couple short papers compatible with the professor's world-view, and stumble your way into a bachelor's degree.

The most interesting college classes I took tolerated non-majors reluctantly, if at all. The expectation was that people who were there to be "well-rounded humans" weren't going to take the course seriously.
Are you sure about the first paragraph? This article suggest otherwise:

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210901-sri-lanka-org...

Rajapaksa came to power in 2019 promising subsidised foreign fertiliser but did a U-turn arguing that agro chemicals were poisoning people.
> And most are based on a very short-term picture, which ignores the long-term costs of chemical-based farming: the incredible soil depletion and insect population depletion.

Soil depletion...? How in the world you deplete soil by adding nutrients through fertiliser?
The piece says that Social Security owns "most of" the national debt (2.9T out of 28T). I wouldn't call 10% "most of."
> all it took was some minor rascal in France to hug the wrong tree (so to speak), and ProtonMail is in the open

We must be living on alternate time lines - try reading their transparency report. This is not even the first time this week, let alone the first time ever.

https://protonmail.com/blog/transparency-report/
I think you would like Pick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system
It's still very slow - retrieval times >30s for files that aren't cached on cloudflare or ipfs.io. Also, those two providers each have multiple periods of downtime every year.

If the files are cached and the services are up, it's plenty fast for static data but dynamic data (IPNS) is still very slow.

We've built a competitor called Skynet that is much faster (less than 200ms for files that aren't in the cache) and scales better. It's currently hosting tens of millions of files across 200+ TB of data.

We really like the vision that IPFS had and we think decentralized data is the future of the Internet. We're proud to have put in the legwork to make it practical.

https://docs.siasky.net/