skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's the perception, yeah. I've also been told that I was so productive in my current role, they saw it as a loss to move me to my target role. Of course, they lost me entirely...

There's a place for that: just because someone's a good engineer doesn't make them a good leader or manager, for instance. But such stiff attitudes really hurt an org, IMO.
At one point running wireshark and reviewing network traces with developers was a full time job. Guess what percentage of time it was actually a network problem?
Ask HN: Switching jobs to a similar role in another company
I work for a Californian company (at will). I'm wondering if I switch jobs to a different company, but worked on similar projects would that cause any problems? Thank you
Agree. It's a complex topic, I think we should move away from "nature knows best" type of arguments. I would add, these selective pressures are not just from mankind, but potentialy from any other living thing. The "natural state" is more random than natural.
Sure, but that's not at all the same as the idea that the wealth of the rich demonstrates that they are evil.
This is truly never going to end until people stop obeying.

They will always find new "variants of interest." These people have no interest to end this, they don't experience the same lockdowns or quarantines the rest of us do.

I understand many here are pro-vaccine, but what's life going to be if we need to shut down with every variant, get a new shot in 90 days, have freedom for a bit (days? weeks?) because another variant comes along and we play this game all over again?

If we always "trust our leaders" -- whether political or scientific -- this is going to be the game played. Is this what people want or expect?
Reading the history of Seattle Computer Products at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products it's kind of depressing ... out of the whole deal with Microsoft they seem to have ended up with an initial $75k from Microsoft in 1981 ($225k in today's dollars) and then an out of court settlement for $925k in 1985 ($2.3m in today's dollars).

EDIT: It does seem like the actual programmer, Tim Patterson, did better out of it. After working for SCP, he worked a couple stints at Microsoft, and wrote and sold MSX-DOS for the MSX machines as well.
I'm still encountering the same issue though :)
I had a boss once the said “nepotism will get you everywhere “. I didn’t agree with his philosophy, but his candor was refreshing.
s/punishment/response
> But I've considered finding a local (illicit) drug dealer for getting proper pain pills and paying the appropriate markup. But that's what I think of this whole situation.

If you enjoy being alive, I wouldn’t recommend it.. there’s a lot of fake pills with fentanyl in them

Edit: Apparently people think my comment isn’t correct? Well, here’s some links that support my claim:

https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/BUL-167-17%2...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-id/pr/acting-us-attorney-addres...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-de/pr/claymont-man-sentenced-ov...

https://coloradosun.com/2021/04/26/fentanyl-death-conviction...

https://www.santacruzhealth.org/Portals/7/Pdfs/Alerts/Fentan...

https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/dea-pills-laced-with-fe...

I could post more, or you could Google “fake oxy fentanyl” and see the thousands of results yourself
One of many ways that what the HR function has grown into simply adds overhead and friction with no actual value. An HR leader could argue that they are adding value by protecting the company from lawsuits or other risk by instituting this "fair" hiring process. But if everyone knows it's a sham, and that the internal candidate is going to get hired regardless, there is no protection in fact. It slows things down and increases costs, and does not truly reduce risk, improve results, or anything else it might be claimed to do.
I had a terrible experience with the Western Digital products[1], and a much better one with Synology. The nice thing about going with product from a vendor, versus building your own, is that they provide a lot of niceties that aren't easy to maintain yourself. Like...

- Whatever crazy tunneling and so forth that they do so that I can access the admin interface over the internet regardless of how brain-dead my home ISP router is. Synology is very good at this.

- Mobile apps that make it fairly easy to do stuff like "sync any photos after I take them to the NAS, but only when the phone is on WiFi, and optionally delete it from the phone after the sync is confirmed.".

Also worth looking at with Synology is their support for really cheap offsite backup, like Backblaze B2. I was able to set something up to protect against say, a house fire, and be selective about what I was sending, and it's something like $1/month for that peace of mind.

[1] For example, it's fairly easy to mostly brick them and the recovery process is having to send hand-crafted/altered ICMP packets to it during boot and hope that coaxes it into a BOOTP mode. They are also quite underpowered and just go unresponsive for minutes at a time. The WD products are awful all around.
So $1 masks are only "Duckbill" masks, which look kind of stupid. But they're clearly low cost and have very high surface area / breathability. Also, real N95, so major benefit for sure.

https://accumed.com/30-pack-fda-cleared-niosh-n95-surgical-r...

These straps kinda suck though. I recommend carrying a few extras somewhere since the straps may snap throughout the day. I'm still looking for a better mask. For all of its faults, this one is available today and at the promised $1 price too.

The BNX duckbill masks used to be $1 per. But they seem sold out. Keep an eye on them just in case they come back into stock. https://bnx.com/products/bnx-50-pack-n95-mask-respirator-nio...

The Kimtech 53358 Duckbill WAS $1 each just a month ago. But their prices suddenly skyrocketed to $1.50ish from most sources. EDIT: If you buy 300 of them, you should get close to the $1/each price, but I want to "test" them before dropping $300 buckaroos on it...

EDIT: WB Mason is selling the Kimtech Duckbills at $50 per 50-pack, so that's $1 each: https://www.wbmason.com/ProductDetail.aspx?ItemDesc=Kimtech-...

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I'm not sure how much I trust Amazon's supply chain for proper N95 / NIOSH approved products. A lot of Amazon's stuff are 3rd party shippers and/or 3rd party suppliers instead of official sources, and comingling is an issue.

If its $1.50 from a proper medical store, then the $0.80 price at Amazon is probably too good to be true. If we're paying extra for the N95 rating, I'm willing to pay extra for proper supply chain.
The entire point of Velocity templates is to allow the direct use of Java objects in your template. It has to execute code. It's fair to question why it was exposed to an unauthenticated user sign up form, but the general reason Confluence uses it is to enable the development of plugins and user macros that allow server owners to add custom functionality on top of base Confluence.

The dubious sanitizing looks pretty bad, though. At bare minimum, Confluence should be executing in a sandbox that doesn't allow to call the exec method on the runtime instance. I can't imagine why Confluence would ever need shell access. Pretty good reason to run self-hosted Confluence in a distroless container with access to nothing but a JVM and whatever config files it requires.

A scarier thing is I believe Confluence, and all Atlassian products, store their DB credentials in a plain-text .properties file with a well-known standard path. Instead of trying to get a shell, this code could have just tried to read the expected path and print out the contents and it's pretty likely you could get a raw connection to the Confluence database.
I like Synology, but I'd suggest more than two drives, so that increasing the size can be done gradually rather than by replacing every drive at the same time.
Evergreen reminder that with just a little bit of work to avoid platform-specific native-compiled dependencies and Node-Gyp, you can vendor your dependencies for non-library Node projects, and sometimes you should.

Certainly, Electron apps themselves should not be pulling dependencies at install time, those should be bundled into the app, that's the whole point of Electron. But they also don't need to pull their dependencies from the official NPM repos at build time either. You don't technically even need NPM installed on anything other than your dev machines, Node's dependency resolution during builds and at runtime doesn't rely on NPM at all.

I think some languages (Go springs to mind) are starting to slightly popularize dependency vendoring more, and at one point this was the official recommendation for Node apps/websites in the official docs. It fell out of fashion for some reason, but I think a lot of orgs would benefit from picking up the practice again.

It's also a good way to be a lot more deliberate about what you install, and a good way to make sure that new dependencies don't get snuck in without anyone noticing. It's very hard to hide a giant commit that introduces a thousand new files, and that can sometimes be a good opportunity to take a step back and ask yourself why you're adding a dependency that introduces thousands of files.
I think I was in a similar situation as you - after having a kid my already dwindling time and appetite to play with backups waned even further. I ended up buying a Synology DS418j NAS a couple years ago and it's been adequate. I wouldn't quite rave about it, but I also haven't experienced anything better.

I've thrown tens of thousands of photos at it, and my only complaint there is the background processing to generate thumbnails is very slow, especially with "Live Photos" from iPhones (which are essentially photos with short videos attached). If I upload a couple thousand of those, the NAS might not finish generating the thumbnails for over day, so if you browse using the apps Synology provides for photos, you just see lots of placeholders for a while.

I did have a (SeaGate IronWolf) disk fail on me already, and the NAS did it's thing correctly - it made audible beeping alerts (which were definitely attention getting as the NAS had never played a sound prior to that). When I swapped in a new disk I was easily able to instruct the NAS to add it to the RAID array and recover, and everything was back to healthy pretty quickly.

If I were to shop for a replacement I'd be tempted to look for something with a beefier CPU as the thumbnail generation thing is occasionally annoying. But honestly the CPU is mostly idle most of the time, so if I did get a more powerful NAS the CPU would probably be idle 99.9% of the time instead of 99% of the time.
Thanks. I like GrapheneOS, and I appreciate the software hardening. Though, for other reasons, I will like to someday move to something more like the Librem 5, when the timing is right.
The far more common scenario (At least at the companies I have worked at) is that an external applicant is desired but because US laws require a posting, one is made, even though that posting is there only to comply with the law and the company is basically already in the process of hiring the external candidate.
More than 100 Ontario youth sent to hospital for vaccine-related heart problems
This is an excellent and perceptive Hanlon corollary.
Those exist. The Win32 Common Controls libraries are versioned and applications can opt in to them with rebuilds. There are also "application manifests" where in some cases an EXE can claim that "I know I was built with an earlier version of Common Controls, but I do the right things with them and was built with forward compatibility in mind so please display them the newer way".

The problem with opt-in flags is that it still requires active application developer work (keeping up to date on dependencies; sometimes worse, keeping up to date on future dependencies and learning their restrictions needs) and still can't solve the inconsistency issues from applications developed by people that don't exist anymore or don't have a maintenance budget or the source code was lost or…
Your description sounds like a blink to me.
> Who in the mainstream proposing police violence, bodily or financial harm?

People with some flavor of libertarian viewpoint have often explained how every piece of legislation is ultimately backed up by physical force from police officers. Ultimately, if you violate any government policy: whether it is taxation, opening up an illegal lemonade stand, or trying to attend a restaurant that has a vaccine mandate imposed on it, it is ultimately physical force that backs this up if compliance is refused.

As far as financial harm: see the government strongly encouraging corporations to mandate vaccines or other similar policies.
Fact check: Biden honored fallen service members, checked watch during ceremony
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Yes it's indeed modeled after UPI it shows how forward thinking it was and great execution as well.

My qualms with it are its is association with mobile number as identity and lack of open-source apps both a limiting factor when it comes to preventing oligopolies or monopolies from influencing control over it.
It certainly was. Yikes.
Is this guy serious? It was not a split between 100% of group A using masks and 0% of group B using it. It was more like 40% / 15%. Is it that easy to become a tenure in Harvard? I think I am applying.
> More accurate idea: genes are like the NVRAM of a running program that has run continuously with in-place updates for 4 billion years.

They also represent the NVRAM of the compiler that builds both the program and the compiler itself :)
Did some searching myself, found this pretty useful: https://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.neuropsy...
This is why I've always used either Linux RAID or ZFS.

If the RAID is in software I can slap those disks into anything (like my desktop) and keep going.

If the RAID is NAS specific or on hardware, well, now you need something specific.

Of course you should have backups too, but why add something that will make your life more complicated in an already stressful time?
Libertarians like to make this argument about any government enforcement action.

If the government tells you that you can't play loud music after 10pm and you do it anyway, eventually someone will issue you a citation. If you refuse to pay that, eventually you'll get a court summons. If you fail to appear, eventually a police officer may arrest you. If you resist, they will use force to make you comply.

It's a bit hyperbolic, but it is a standard libertarian/objectivist "gotcha".
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53934952

> A minimum €50 (£45) fine will be slapped on anyone breaking rules on face coverings - in shops, public transport or elsewhere
When Walmart was the most valuable company, a friend who worked at Walmart.com said he worked at a Fortune 1 company.
i'm on the same boat. However i think we both underestimate how terrified people are of this virus. When people are this scared, you can basically make them do whatever you want.
Mirroring is a good recommendation for simplicity, but you're half touching upon two different aspects.

1. Think about the contents of your bare disks, in terms of what is required to read them. Lots of RAID-1 will stick headers at the start of the disk (including Linux software raid by default, iirc). Using ZFS mirroring will necessitate the use of ZFS to read it, and so on. I prefer using only Free software raid for this reason, while opting to make myself reliant on Linux/ZFS.

2. Mirroring is much simpler for the sake of rebuilds/performance, and if you're looking for a simple hassle-free setup that's the way to go. I've got a 4+3 raidz3 for my main array, not even for capacity's sake but rather for redundancy's sake (it was going to be a 3+3 until I realized how ZFS deals out chunks). But I realize that's going to be a hassle if I do start getting correlated disk failures (I've also got true backups).
I got internally promoted once and they straight up told me the job was only posted for compliance reasons(externally) and to appear fair(internally).
The interview was not even an interview, it was a handshake and broadcasting the salary and start date, no less no more. They just asked do you want it or not. I took it, was one of the greatest opportunities ever.

Contrasting that, I had applied internally in other companies Only to go though a ridiculous interview , almost a history masters on the subject matter to be told the decision was already made and they wanted to interview all.

Corporate life is weird.

Another thing I have experienced was i was offered a job on the spot from a company , took it but then later told them I will not start, then i have seen the same company offering the same job, just in a different location, applied for fun, they rejected me.
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This is the inevitable result of Win10 being "free". They have to generate revenue somehow.
Cloth masks are quite effective against viruses with a droplet based spread. Widespread mask use came as close to wiping out last year's Flu season as we've ever seen.

>Amid COVID-19 pandemic, flu has disappeared in the US

NEW YORK (AP) — February is usually the peak of flu season, with doctors’ offices and hospitals packed with suffering patients. But not this year.

Nationally, “this is the lowest flu season we’ve had on record,” according to a surveillance system that is about 25 years old, said Lynnette Brammer of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

https://apnews.com/article/flu-has-disappeared-us-pandemic-2...

However, during the same period where the Flu disappeared, there was a massive Covid surge, because cloth masks are not an effective means of filtering an airborne virus from the air you breathe.

Here's one of the scientists on President Biden's Covid advisory board being interviewed on PBS.

>Studies that have been done show that if an individual might get infected within 15 minutes in a room, by time and concentration of the virus in the room, add a face cloth covering you only get about five more minutes of protection.

On the other hand if you use the n95 respirators and fit them tight to your face, you can actually spend 25 hours in that same room and still be protected.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/do-masks...

To get the kind of protection people imagine that cloth masks provide, you have to wear the same sort of masks that medical professionals are required to wear while treating patients who have an airborne virus.

Which is not surprising since we know Covid is fully airborne.

Unfortunately, those of us on the left have rejected this news in the same way that the crowd at a Trump rally rejected Trump when he told them that they should get vaccinated.

Cloth masks are not an adequate substitute for vaccination, especially for children too young to be vaccinated who are now expected to attend full school days.
> The platform is designed to falsify the appearance of strong consensus

The platform is designed to bring people together to discuss common interests - much like HN, and many other sites.

Any false appearance of strong consensus is a cognitive error on the observer's part
> With that in mind, the NAS is not the backup. Once a file is deleted, it's gone.

Snapshots can be used to catch that failure mode, so I don't think this is universally true. Whether there actually are NASes that would have snapshottable file systems out of the box... Is there?
This is officially government policy in the PRC, as well as many other places.
Apple's proposed system does not scan all the pictures on the device, only images about to be uploaded to iCloud. A picture in an email would not be uploaded (whether visible or not).

Even if uploaded to iCloud (such as pictures sent via WhatsApp by default), and above the threshold, they would still be scanned by a second algorithm and subject to human review. So, your "very simple" attack fails on at least three counts.
There are multiple French-speaking parts of Canada
It's just a typo that doesn't get corrected. People just arn't super duper proof reading, they're just watching for the red squiggles that indicates a typo.

You wouldn't be really mad if you spotted an "an" instead of an "and" in the wrong place, right? Because it's the same accident.

If you think about it in these terms, you wouldn't of had as much of a reaction ;)
Online gaming is a societally beneficial innovation imho.
IBM Telum Processor: the next-gen microprocessor for IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE
It’s a pretty misleading headline: There were 54 persons aged 25-39 included in the tally and 44 persons aged 40 and over

I would not call a 25 year old a “youth”.
In a sense it was created to limit the influence of duopoly card processors on Indian Internet payment systems and were successful in it; So UPI is indeed a competitor to VISA and MASTERCARD.
zfs and rsync on FreeBSD
Yep.It should be copyright MIT, especially if he is using his post and other personnel to make this.

Nothing against him personally.
> Signal project for instance has argued that a centralized server with Intel SGX "secure enclaves" is the safest we can do. I personally strongly disagree, and i believe vulnerabilities found since then in Apple/Intel/AMD security chips go against that argument.

If it that isn't 'safest', what do you think is safer (and practical)?
> Another thing I have experienced was i was offered a job on the spot from a company , took it but then later told them I will not start, then i have seen the same company offering the same job, just in a different location, applied for fun, they rejected me.

Tech interviews have such a high degree of random in them.
Is there anything to back this up beyond a friend of the author of a letter to the editor?
Nope. Nope. Nope. No way is a mushroom from outside passing my lips. Good god they all look the same and even if they don't - are you 99.999999999999 percent sure?
A year later and Ampere GPUs are still near impossible to get. So much for my home ML machine... (literally only waiting on a GPU and been that way for a year)
> Corrections & Clarifications: This story was updated Sept. 2 to note that Biden checked his watch multiple times at the dignified transfer event, including during the ceremony itself. The rating on this claim has been changed from partly false to missing context.

This is an example of the problem with fact checkers: they're just as fallible as those they're checking. Timeline:

* Posts were going around on social media saying Biden was checking his watch during the ceremony.

* Fact-checkers said these posts were false, and that Biden only checked his watch after the ceremony.

* It came to light that the original posts were true and the fact check was wrong.
> there _is_ an argument to be made about a system like this being used to track the spread of political material

How so? Unlike other cloud providers, which do scan all uploaded images server side, this system is specifically designed to prevent this.

(As you say, if Apple is entirely compromised, then all bets are off anyway.)
Bailouts. Every American farmer relies on the generous crop insurance policies maintained by our government.
This is a pretty modest impact, a short duration, and is somewhat clouded by it not being a double blind study.

The rate of infection at 7.62% vs 8.62% are particularly troublesome. As a comparison, it's estimated that 1/3-1/2 of Americans have been infected with Covid.

It's an open question of what the end game would be. Could be that both groups would end at the same infection rate. The masked group might just take longer to get there.
Inductive heat, not radiative. Fairly high frequency coil coupled to the pan, pot, etc.
It does already sort of exist: https://ferret-lang.org/
Lots of other things are happening too- people are educating themselves more, people have more jobs available from their locations (remote + commute distance increases + increases in population density), etc.