skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are flocking even harder to blockchain. Almost as if people are rational actors motivated by the forcing factor of “pay your bills or die”, there is funding for climate jobs now more than ever before.
It is not shown, but I expect that Oracle EE is probably the most significant contributor to software licensing costs. If Oracle licensing was computed for 288 cores, that is totally unrealistic. Oracle EE would only run on a subset of cores.
One-liner for DoD clearance rejections' most common reasons between 1996-2016
The people in this article appear more like a cult than a science-based environment.

-Rachel Larrivee, 23, a sustainability consultant based in Boston

-Mimi Ausland, 25, the founder of Free the Ocean

-Matt Ellis-Ramirez, 22, a Chicago-based volunteer for the youth-led environmental activist organization the Sunrise Movement

-Brooke Hoese, a 24-year-old undergraduate in Texas pursuing a career in restoration ecology
Counterpoint, I was once asked to take off my shoes in Germany. I can’t remember if it was Frankfurt or Munich — probably Frankfurt. That was just because I was randomly selected for more screening. All of the other times flying through those airports shoes were left on :-)
You'll get flack on here for saying this (speaking from experience), but this is accurate. Bad faith (and naive) opinion pieces abound.

I say this as a Guardian reader, it's really made a very conscious effort to become the liberal Daily Mail in an effort to stave off bankruptcy.
Asthma attacks are not uncommon in response to dog dander. Those can be life-threatening, but can be managed with albuterol. 30 seconds with Google will turn up countless documented instances.

Anaphylaxis is a very rare response to animal dander, but there have been a few documented instances:

https://www.petful.com/misc/can-pet-allergies-kill-me/

What's amazing is the number of dog owners who don't believe in dog allergies, or who believe their dogs are hypoallergenic due to fur/hair (dander is in the saliva).
Your issue is not with the central bank. It is with the social contract a nation state has with its citizens (which is expressed through monetary policy), which can't be solved through code.
How so? What would be the point of bundling?
What's the deal with all the articles about Z systems getting published lately? A big marketing push by IBM?
Deeply Rooted Tradition: One Man’s Long Fight to End Illegal Dowries in India
You're right and the two people who have already replied to you are a great example of how people on the internet love to chime in to "correct" someone about some detail of what they said that misconstrues the point. Obviously when the previous user said "extremely radicalized people" they were talking about the kinds of people radicalized to the point that they're willing to start killing people. You rightly (imo) point out that there aren't that many of them. Then two people chime in to "correct" you.

Perhaps writing this reply makes me one of those people as well.
Cynically, I expect a continued growth in climate bureaucracy, where various office jobs get set up in the name of tackling climate change, but for the most part are just doing the usual stuff you'd do in a bureaucracy.

It would be nice (despite the irony of suggesting a bureaucratic task) to see some analysis or thoughts about what jobs have the biggest real impact.

For example, I wonder how many people are looking at becoming farmers or builders or other sustainable trades, vs who wants to do software development or data science.
Spaced repetition is O(log n) sustainable
I read because I was curious what "climate career" means. From the article they mention:

Urban farmer

Environmental consultant

Environmental scientist

Environmental lawyer

Environmental activist

Or joining the proposed "Climate Corps", a federal jobs program for young people to help fight the climate crisis [doing what though?]
> If everyone handles those situations steadfastly, terror won’t work.

If your response to terrorism is a year of forced military training I can assure you the terror already won.
A career is "data mining" you can apply it to anything. It doesn't have to be exclusively about climate projects.
Why dilute ownership if banks can already provide the capital without the hassle of an IPO?
Absolutely.

Above all if everyone is acting in good faith, there should be no taboos about inquiring about ulterior motives. Instead of ridiculing or censoring dissent, coherent and consistent explanations should be provided. If the rationales for hysteria and emergency measures cannot withstand an open debate, that should be illustrative.
The Guardian is way more extreme than the Daily Mail. A better analog would be Breitbart.
Hope you’re ok mate. We’ll be vaccinated soon, hold the fort. I can’t see my family and friends either and it’s undeniably tough. But the rules do make sense, it’s just always hard to see that when they affect you.

The 5km makes it possible for them to be talking about the western suburbs being somewhat under control, and for targeted testing and messaging operations to be useful. My area has been in a lull for a bit after being in the spotlight, so I’ve checked out of keeping track —- that is a luxury in its own way. Without the 5km I don’t think I would have that reprieve from the stress.
Ask HN: How did you become a software engineer?
I'm preparing a ≈20min talk about opportunities in software to give at a London school with students aged 14-18. I want to give insights into the software industry which are relevant to the decisions students will be making: which subjects to study or focus on at school, whether to go to uni, but more generally how to invest time well by learning valuable skills and discovering what their strengths are and what they might like to do in the future. As part of my preparation, I'd like to collect some real examples of journeys people make from their teens into professional software roles, but also how programming skills may have served you well as a hobby or in roles that aren't primarily about developing software. What's your story?

Some questions I'm interested in are:
How did you first get into programming? Were any books, blogs, forums, or people particularly helpful for your growth? What is it about coding that got you hooked?

What is your experience with university? Did you get a degree, was it worth it, do you think it helped you find work, what did you love/hate about uni?

How did you get your first paid work (family & friends, internship, freelance, full-time)?

What do you do now and what do you love/hate about your job?

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I work back end in Golang at a fintech, but I got into programming when I was homeschooled with ROBLOX and making iOS games with cocos2d before doing an MEng in Computing at Imperial College London. I really like making things, intellectual work, and collaborating with other people. I like the pay, that I can find remote work or move country if I want, that I'm always learning, and I have enough time and energy to pursue various hobbies. Sometimes work is tedious and I don't like sitting at a desk for 8 hours, but overall I love my job and want to help others find their way into similar roles if it's right for them.
I downvoted you because you talked about how you were going to be downvoted, as I do every time someone mentions being downvoted
>The best C++ standard spectacular failure example is Concepts.

Concepts are more of a disappointment but they still technically work... I experimented with porting our codebase over to use concepts and all it does is substitute one mess for another mess. That said at the very least with concepts there is now a "standardized" mess that one can use as opposed to the ad-hoc situation that precedes it.

I'd say modules are a bigger example of an actual failure. There were two proposals for modules, clang's and Microsoft's. Clang's built off of Objective-C modules which is widely used on iOS and has a working implementation. Microsoft's modules were built off of... nothing. You can guess which one got standardized.

This along with all kinds of political bickering over the ABI is why clang has stepped down from its various roles in the standardization process and it's a really unfortunate outcome not only for C++ standardization but also for the broader C++ community.
The question is then: Why is that an emergency COVID restriction in the first place.

I seriously do not understand where the logic is here. I can understand restricting travel in, but why restrict travel out? In my mind there is no reason why someone LEAVING your country might be a health concern.

But hey we're talking about the folks that thought the logical solution to prevent people from spreading COVID at dog shelters would be to just shoot all the dogs.
The design process of delivering a low-code IDE
Flight 93 resulted in a passenger revolt that prevented the plane from reaching its intended target.

The underwear bomber was tackled and subdued by fellow passengers.
What is a cult? In what way are these cult-like?
You a need a shitload more RAM for sure and this also forgets about plugging a SAN, and any SAN from IBM is super expensive on hardware AND licenses.
How many hours of security would you be comfortable with?

At some point, the cost-benefit ratio falls apart.
Similarly of course, you're describing the eternal September [1] which itself is a rather dated reference at this point!

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Not sure it's entirely relevant, but I really like what Oxide[1] is doing in this space!

Commodity hardware goes into their racks, open firmware and bootloader, etc. etc. and their podcast is a must-listen for any computing enthusiast.

[1]: https://oxide.computer/
I honestly can't tell if the Guardian is trolling with lines like this:

“My goal is to use the lens of literature and philosophy to study and hopefully help repair humans’ relationship to our environments,” they say.

Like, why would you put that quote in an article otherwise?

Possibly they're just idealistic dreamers, but since they regularly feature right-wing controversialists that rile up their usual fanbase, it feels likely that the algorithm tells them that this drives "engagement", possibly without them understanding why, but even before the algorithm was an possible excuse, they've been regularly printing inflammatory drivel to drive sales.
It does, however, make sense to take a lesson from medicine: Networked computers with common vulnerabilities are prone to herd infections in analogy to biological epidemics, mass hysteria, etc. So it does make sense to e.g. preventatively quarantine all unpatched windows boxes, prescribe security measures and development practices for those systems, where a network-wide spreading event may be caused.
Retro of vaccination booking service special night after French president speech
The belt thing is supposedly because metal buckles will trigger the metal detector... but they insist I take off mine even though I bought one with a plastic buckle on purpose. So yeah, it now became "a rule" which is followed without much reasoning.
> Why not? "eww this is propaganda" or "talking about terrorist makes me one?"'

The actual answer is that the page, due to it's dynamic nature, at times consisted of specific details that were probably not relevant to the overall subject.

It's not unreasonable in this day and age to be concerned about what you are linking to. In this case it's Wikipedia, so, "sue me".
On the other hand, grouping like utensils might result in nesting such as spoons spooning. Might that reduce the effectiveness of the cleaning of those utensils?

Speaking of utensils in the dishwasher, I've occasionally stabbed myself on a steak knife when removing utensils from the dishwasher.

That raises the question of why do many steak knives have pointy tips?

I have never had occasion to stab my steak, nor have I ever noticed anyone else doing so with their steak. If I need to stab a piece of steak for some reason a fork will handle that just fine.
I think the difference between the two approaches comes down to the release cycle. For something like a backend that gets deployed multiple times a week, the most important thing is to get the backend working again once it breaks. Just as an example, for each minute that the Facebook ads backend is down, hundreds of thousands of dollars are lost. In this case, you really want to be able to remove changes entirely.
Isn't it actually "well regulated"?
Not sure what point you're trying to make, am I supposed to be familiar with these organizations? Also, what's culty about "restoration ecology"?
Why not nuclear engineering jobs too?
I've installed it from scratch. It's not complicated, get Postgres set up, do a cargo build, and set up the settings.
Incels, school shooters, bechildrened fathers, it happens a few times per year in most countries. Given they are ready to die, it’s surprising to me when they kill 1 instead of 100 people.
I suppose yeah, just wasn’t sure :p
Mass loss of life. Novel way in which people died. People dying randomly (hard to avoid). General hysteria. Paranoia over a minority group. Moral outrage against anyone not falling inline politically. Overreaching government plans to keep people safe. Petty symbolism (freedom fries/masks) to sort the moral from the immoral.

Should I go on?
JavaScript's a massive security threat. It's really weird to me that people seem to just assume it's fine, and isn't the most dangerous damn thing in common use on computers. Every time someone (usually Google) pushes another way for it to touch hardware, I'm surprised that most developers are like "oh good, so glad, can't wait 'till Safari catches up in 5 years". Um... no? It's a terrible idea? Please don't ever?

We ought to be reigning in what JS can do and removing access, not adding more. For one thing, it shouldn't be able to send data without our say-so. It's insecure and spying-enabling by design—why does clicking a link mean the page that loads gets to send my mouse movements and keystrokes to its master? That's crazy, and has been a major contributor to the new norm that all kinds of privacy-invasion is fine. "It's just 'telemetry', what's the big deal?" Ugh.

"That's alarmist, JS is super secure" right, and most folks weren't worried about their CPUs betraying them until Meltdown and Spectre—smart money says there is a vulnerability we'll find shocking in one or more JavaScript implementations, right now, waiting to screw us.
There is a mountain worth of difference. The policies enacted for COVID have a very specific target, has been shown to work repeatedly, and deviating from them caused decline in the KPI its trying to maintain. Its nothing like TSA.
they didn’t pick data mining
None of your points really hit at the merits of the meainframe,I think you are trying to shoehorn a rent-vs-buy discussion into this, and there are many scenarios where running your own servers is waay cheaper. Maybe your business doesnt fit that schenario - and thats fine. Then maybe the datacenter you are running on would be buying it.
Isn't hard to plenty of articles like these, so it certainly seems like they'd be ineffective at preventing an actual terrorist:

According to officials briefed on the results of a recent Homeland Security Inspector General’s report, TSA agents failed 67 out of 70 tests, with Red Team members repeatedly able to get potential weapons through checkpoints.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests-fin...

“In most cases, they succeeded in getting the banned items through. 17 out of 18 tries by the undercover federal agents saw explosive materials, fake weapons or drugs pass through TSA screening undetected,” KMSP reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the operation.

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/6/tsa-failed-det...
This a certainly an option but not a realistic one. Culturally speaking it's impossible to trust anyone (adult or otherwise) to comply with something like this.
> The app allows people who are required to isolate to opt to do their isolation at home, rather than stay at a quarantine facility. Nobody is being forced to use the app.

Oh, well I guess it's ok then. /s
Lies! You should do the sorting once they're already clean, because they're easier to handle then. When you're loading it they're all dirty, put them wherever is quickest.
Being single-sourced is a major issue. One of the reasons FAANG have created their own commoditized server standards is that they have the might to push vendors around and force them to compete in price.

IBM is the only company that can sell you a fully licensed (you need a license to activate CPUs) IBM mainframe.
I am not advocate for Bitcoin, but I assume prices in BTC would raise with inflation like any other currency
This is such a terrible argument. 1. You very well might never know you have. People with extreme views don't advertise them everywhere and at all times. 2. There is plenty of video evidence of literal crowds of such people in various places and they quite obviously exist in large enough numbers to draw these crowds (no group has anywhere near 100% participation in events). Your anecdotal experience is irrelevant.

Now you might think the threshold for an "extreme number" is much higher than drawing this type of crowd, but there are enough people for whom that is a big deal, that it makes for compelling news that gets views. Way too many for me, that's for sure.
VT-d is used for device passthrough. I suspect you're thinking of VT-x. But LPAR have been around forever, and aren't that different conceptually from jails, systemd-nspawn, LXC, and any other of a large number of OS-level virtualization solutions, except that you can stub in/out different kernels.

Yes, the kernels need to be "snowflakes", but that's not necessarily an issue if this is functionality you really need.
Miele dishwashers (maybe they exist for others brands too but I've only ever seen them on Miele) have a cutlery tray at the top of the dishwasher which allows you to lay cutlery down next to each other.

Emptying is then simply grabbing the entire group and placing straight into the drawer.

Example: https://www.miele.com/media/microsites/ubc/images/Jubilee/13...
Unicorns have something better than a bank loan; interest-free VC money that costs nothing but equity, which itself is effectively worth $0 otherwise.
> Pick up a Nucleo or mbed board and make something cool!

That's currently in conflict with my life circumstances ;-)

The number of "projects" I wish I could do sitting on my shelves already surpasses the time I can find to spend on them.

Basically, I want to be paid to "learn," and I think I'll be fair value in a month or two. So the question is how to get there? ;-)
In my case, it was called "Physical Mathematics." An advanced undergraduate course in mathematical modeling could cover some material mentioned here.
Hot take: The most important jobs are building and installing renewables (drives out coal, natural gas, and diesel/oil fuels), electrifying transportation (drives out petroleum), lab grown proteins and protein replacements (drives out emissions from factory farming emissions), and air source carbon extraction (paying back the credit card of CO2 we spent industrializing as a species).
This company tried to blame anarchists for bombing the tank, but in the IT world it actually is anarchists bombing the tank. Real life infrastructure isnt under attack by other humans 24/7. If it had been anarchists that caused this we would probably have seen a expansion of police state rather than corporate regulations.
I know about companies like electric car manufactures, do folks know of other (non-activist) companies that are helping to solve climate change?
I’m curious to know why. Out of those people you listed, I don’t see a single thing pointing to a cult, or not consistent with science.
It's typical selection bias.

News outlet needed a story about climate, so they decided to interview students until they got the sound bites they needed.

Obviously that doesn't accurately represent the wider sentiment. From my experience/view, Gen Z is extremely materialistic, so climate work (real work, not virtue signaling) is pretty far down their list of priorities.
I'm sorry if I'm misunderstanding you but, why are local apps a prerequisite for controlled networking? Or is that just how you want to build it out?

To be clear, all I'm suggesting is executing a command like `network connect <SSID>` instead of automatically connecting to saved networks.

Maybe I'm just not sold on the concept of a truly remote terminal (like the real old terminals). Why should I have to carry around two devices when Linux could run on this device itself? Perhaps it's a lot more work? but there have been some efforts made on this already. I would like to casually launch vim and start writing, without worrying about connectivity.

As an aside, also consider looking at how the reMarkable tablet implements ether/IP over USB, that has been working pretty well for me too, though I really wish it would broadcast an mDNS entry over WiFi as well.
> Nothing in the article as posted indicates that the "disinformation influencers" were nefarious actors

People getting paid money to perform coordinated repost of content sent to them by anonymous sources?

Fake accounts used to amplify and retweet the messages?

What else are you looking for? It's like they told you someone stole money at gunpoint and you said you don't see anything indicative of theft.
My college had a pretty large environmental engineering and sustainability programs. It may have even been one of the first to have sustainability as a major.

Many of the people found out that if you go the "save the planet route", you usually end up doing some boring regulatory job. Lots of energy auditors and EHS managers. These are important jobs, but I don't think they are very fulfilling, and they certainly aren't doing anything great for the climate.
The article's price tag of $2.3 MM for 12 HP Servers with 24 cores per server and 166 GB of RAM each is ridiculous.

We just paid just under $50k per server for on-prem physical servers that have 144 cores per server and 1.5 TB of RAM each.

For 12 of them it would be less than $600k and you'd get a total of 1,728 cores and 18 TB of RAM to compare against the mainframe's 30 cores and 2 TB of RAM for over 4x the cost!
The problem is, on most platforms, that is literally impossible. Go has had to roll this back on many of them due to it. Linux making this possible is actually an outlier here, not the norm.
If it's any consolation, I did the same. Skipped on the academic career partly because I hate the pretentiousness of academia with a passion (while loving science), partly for a desire to get hands-on with industry and "the real world" quicker.

I think either path is fine and we can still develop to do meaningful things. Working for a paycheck to increase some random companies profit feels less and less enticing though.

In general, people in my bubble seem to gravitate towards more free time than increased salary. 32h weeks are not that rare anymore and for many jobs 37hrs is the normal full time nowadays.

Working 5 days a week will die out, as most office jobs will have people wasting time anyways just to match the clock.
I re-read the article critically, and I don’t see any signs of a cult here. Maybe these people are putting their beliefs ahead of empirical research (hard to tell from just this article †), but from what I can tell it’s just people who feel passionately about the environment.

† The Sunrise movement generally opposes nuclear energy, carbon capture and geo-engineering. But I think there are scientific and policy arguments for and against these strategies that can be rooted in public policy, engineering and even scientific constrains.