skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it agism? I don't know for sure even though I'm old (>30). There are various scenarios I've seen. Startups want people with little to no experience so they can work ungodly hours as they don't have families. These in my experience tend to have a young CEO who doesn't like being contradicted or challenged from more experienced folk.

Things like web development is such a copy & paste factory that I equate that like working fast food. You get years of experience so become too expensive. They only want to hire more folk with limited experience cheaply. There's no call for too much experience as that is aged quickly when new techs come along.

Some larger companies have older folk there and it's easier to get into those type roles. In my experience their non-web related mostly where specialization is needed. I think there are roles for older folks when they move from the web centric factory roles.

All just my experience.
You're not wrong with this take. One of the biggest policies is encouraging having children through all the various credits and writeoffs you can do with having children.
So much this. What’s important to know is that structured logging is as expensive as tracing. If you are forced into the cost of a trace span for every message, you won’t do much logging. Maybe this makes sense to Python programmers to whom a few microseconds here and there don’t seem significant, but to C++ programmers it is pure lunacy. The cost of informational logging with something like glog or spdlog can be as little as a few CPU cycles.
Firefox has this, it's called multi account containers. It's an add-on published by Mozilla.
Helium is quite expensive right now. The US has stopped giving away the helium in its strategic reserves, and so the cost is now based in the reality of the cost to produce it.

The cost of helium is the reason you don't see the Goodyear blimps just floating around anymore.

As for the Hindenburg vs. Titanic: The titanic wasn't filmed going down. And the footage of a huge ball of fire with "Oh the humanity!" is a bit more dramatic than even the film representation of the Titanic sinking.
I don't understand why people gets surprised over and over again when a megacorp does it's megacorp thing. Corporations are not people, they will do whatever it takes to play in their best interest. Especially large corporations.

They can sell you the dream of x but if they feel like it, they will kill that dream faster than you will be able to wake up.
The states don't do the taxes manually, either.

Just like France, they could open source their software.
Not entirely unrelated, learning how merge sort worked and why it was more efficient than the naieve first guess of insertion sort was the light bulb moment in my understanding of computer science.
Short, clear, and pragmatic. This is the kind of post I'd love to see every day.
The Julia version is included in the Manifest. But I don’t know when they started doing that, perhaps old versions of the package manager did not.
You should see what godaddy charges to manage SSL for a WP site!
I think there's room for both.

Tracing is usually sampled, or much more time limited, and aggregation tooling isn't nearly as good compared to logs with most providers. Much better for deep dives into a narrow context. For a single request drilldown or aggregated performance/error metrics, tracing every time.

Structured logging tends to give you rich search against broader contexts (e.g. long spans of time, many requests in aggregate, random non performance/error attributes you may care about) without the same concerns of data cardinality.

I felt nowhere near the same power with tracing tooling for random broad context as I've had with e.g. Splunk for logs. That's not to say you can't somehow have the best of both worlds, but I haven't seen it in the ecosystem just yet.
It's dumb because McKinsey is not going to undermine their pharma contracts, so any advice they're going to give will be inherently biased.

At that point, might as well have the big pharma companies write a wish list and send it on.
I’ll retire when I age out of coding. Maybe I’ll find something small to provide some income, but I’ve been saving a very large sum of money every year for my entire career and I am finically independent. I’m in my early 30s, and I’m seeing people one or two rungs ahead of me in the ladder begin to age out of coding despite very strong attempts to stay at it. I just can’t imagine enjoying any other career nearly as much as coding. I don’t expect I’ll be able to stay a coder past 45, and 40 might be more realistic. I’m optimizing my career for time spend in an IDE.
I feel it would be irresponsible of me not to point out how extreme your claims in the last paragraph are and that you've provided nothing to back that up even. As even the weakest rebuttal, I'd lke point out that by all metrics I've seen standard influenza infections and deaths were also down due to lockdown/COVID prevention methods which I think is a helpful indicator.

Edit: by the time I clicked submit, multiple people had also responded to this, which makes me feel better about HN today.
Facebook whistleblower hearing: Frances Haugen testifies in Washington – live
I don't feel these labels matter. If you are amazing at execution of important or hard problems, this should be the bar. Elon Musk talks about how he interviews people. He asks them about the challenging problems they've solved and how they go through it. In the process finding out if they actually did it. Given his success of hiring seems like good advice to focus on achievement.
From what I understand, you still have to solve the usual hard challenges of HA:

1) Applications reconnecting to the new Postgres master and retrying queries

2) Persistent storage available in multiple AZs or regions for your Postgres pods (impossible on AWS for example)
San Francisco does not have buildings over 100 years old because the city was destroyed by an earthquake 100 years ago. Your brick house also would have been destroyed by that earthquake.
Too much probably. Savings accounts are useless.
Apparently not just Microsoft. Quoting from TFA <https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm...>

skyline75489 commented on Jun 8

Here’s something interesting. I tried to port the benchmark to Linux and I’m seeing a even larger performance gap between colored and non-colored text on Linux (roughly 60x - 80x). The overall rendering performance is better on Windows, of course.
Life didn't continue in Sweden for about 14,000 people that died to COVID due to the lack of proper response, or hundreds of thousands with long COVID.

Sweden had the best requisites to come out of the pandemic largely unscathed, like its neighbour Norway. Instead they decided to just let people get sick and die.

edit: The nonsense about Vitamin D at the end is almost hilarious. We're talking about Sweden, right? The country on the Arctic Circle?
You will burn in hell forever kike.
New Intel RISC V Softcore (Nios V)
I have a merchant account with PayPal for my side business. I received an email notifying me of the change. I presume this is legally required for this sort of change to the terms.
That is a great question.

I mean in the physical world, we have lots of schools because we were constrained by distance. But we don't consider all the schools interchangeable. A farm kid from Iowa would happily travel to Georgia to study at Georgia Tech because it was recognized that the experience was superior even if they had the same materials and curriculum.

So I think there is a role for different versions of the same class. Some people may even mix and match: multi variate calculus from Coursera, machine learning from Udacity, presentations from linkedin and Angular from pluralsight or whatever.
> (and before someone yells "crypto fees", there are already solutions that can drive these well below $0.01 if we're just sending payments between 2 parties)

Can you specify what you're referring to? As someone who frequently yells "crypto fees" my understanding is most low-fee options either (a) require transfers within a centralized ecosystem, (b) aren't likely to scale effectively as a system (e.g. bitcoin's lightning network, or a shitcoin network of choice that's never experienced heavy usage) (c) are exciting but hypothetical future ideas, such as sharding on Ethereum
Ask HN: What's the best self-host social media platform for closed communities?
My friends and family have been looking to keep in touch, and prying them away from Facebook has been difficult. With the recent outage, many of them have started to ask me about self hosted alternatives.

The basic requirements for what they've been asking me have been:

* Invite Only - New accounts should be restricted to friends/family members that have been directly been invited by an administrator
* In-Site Media Sharing - Users should be able to upload videos/photos that will only be available to users which have logged into the site
* Basic feeds/following
* Direct Messaging between users
* Editable profiles for contact information
* Photo albums - sorting photos by events (such as weddings, parties, trips, etc.) would be great, though seems to be less important than the other options.

Thus far the closest thing I've found is Mastodon, which appears to let communities turn off the federation aspect that connects it to other communities. I'm not too familiar though, and the 'seamless account' option which allows you to use one account for unrelated communities makes me worry that I can't actually configure it to be entirely private.

Are there any options that HN can recommend?
What about with Cloudflare's new policy of free egress?
No that's not how that works. Environment variables are inherited from parent processes. If you just put that in a sibling process (like a terminal), it won't run firefox with that variable if you run it from the GUI.

Your .bash_profile allows you to set up the environment for your entire session.
> The point of Windows 11 is beyond me.

Marketing for starters; whether Windows 11 is good, bad, or neutral: everyone is certainly talking about it.
Tox is already a very popular testing tool in python, to the name is a bit confusing.
> 20x 1 year of experience

That person has 20 years of experience in gaining short experiences. Something the 25 year old prodigy can’t have. Skippercat was just stating a fact.

I feel the way you expressed your opinion reflects some intrinsic ageism. Bigotry often seeks a plausible rationale for justification.
You can use profiles with Firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

You can also use containers on Firefox for isolating specific sites
Better in what way? Only in ways that make people old rather than ways that make people young. Here is a repeatable path to security.

And say I am only just as good as the newbie in go. Isn’t that fine? I am seeking the pleasures of learning and learning with other smart people, not trying to win a contest. My method to do that is find problems, without a recipe answer, for technology problems that my employers are facing. But the motivating goal is to learn new things and build new things.
It made more sense when business knowledge and education was pretty rare. But now they're just very skilled powerpoint makers - nothing McKinsey does is particularly secret or proprietary, and a company could easily have the same results by hiring an internal team or just doing their own research.
"the community is moving away from itself"

- Setup a new zine and get one free editor from every intelligence agency in the world.
- Organize a conference and have a fed do the keynote speech for you. Oh, wait...

But seriously, people are indeed "moving" but for other reasons. The community and culture is dying because it is under attack by several highly advanced actors.
>isolated browser profiles

Firefox can do that. Just run firefox -p.

>tied to an account

Is that really necessary?
It is acrylic-glass composite, so it should be more scratch resistant than pure acrylic. And it's glass flakes so they can use hardest glass available.

However scratches are only aesthetic defect and can be prevented by foldable phone case. Cracked screens are much bigger practical issue.
Are you serious? Syncthing's setup comprises of quite literally two steps:

- getting both devices on the same network

- scan the QR code on one device with another

After that, I've also found that it "just works" on the level of Dropbox or Google Drive. Honestly, I've had more problems trying to get iCloud or OneDrive to work as WebDAV.
For me it's that my brain just never got used to asking the assistant to do things. Sure I asked it the weather or for the news when I first got it. But after a while I noticed that if I wanted to know these things I would just pull it up on my computer or phone without even thinking to ask the assistant. I'm sure if I used it longer I would get used to it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28755257 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28755028
I recently moved to Bedford in the UK, where the R100 / R101 were built and the hangars are still standing and in use for the Airlander: https://www.hybridairvehicles.com

I can't wait to see this thing in the air, even just the hangars are quite an awe inspiring sight.
so now academic papers are titled like clickbait? xD
At FB/AMZN scale its really tough to accurately emulate/virtualize the network, these are deep clos fabrics with LOTS OF STATE. At best you can get a sense of what protocols might/should do, but at the end of the day the state of the real environment isn't present.

So that micro-loop you created with your new policy that you observed in the lab turns in to a wave of micro-loops in real life because some random router was slow to update due to load.
We are not talking about ten phones on a desk. We are talking about a phone and a watch, which are explicitly designed to and advertised as working together. Surely you see the distinction between your thought experiment and the actual scenario in question?
Hahaha! Nice one :D

And here I am thinking about mundane applications such as: "Hey Siri, limit order 10 shares of ACME for $44.95"

or "Hey Siri, call John Doe via WhatsApp"

or "Hey Siri, invite John Doe and Jane Goodall to bowling on this Sunday 7PM via someSpecialCalendarAppThatIsNotTheStockCalendarApp"
> why are chemically addictive substances like tobacco and caffeine legal

I guess because they help you get up early to work an extra shift at the factory or whatever. People get nervous about drugs when they make you sleepy or appear lazy, which I'm guessing is why people hated marijuana so much. Caffeine and nicotine don't have that problem; they wake you up and make you work harder, which society sees as great.

This doesn't explain alcohol, though, I guess. They tried to ban it once but it didn't take. The problem there is probably not the level of harm, but rather how ubiquitous ethanol is. Leave some sugar water out and it turns into ethanol eventually. That's a problem for people trying to ban it.
If you click through the learn more link, you can see an example of the new warning. Instead of starting the download, it shows a dialog with a warning and there are two buttons, one of which is "Allow download".

The second part of this feature is that for <iframe sandbox="..."> elements, regardless of HTTP/S origin, Firefox will no longer allow the iframe to initiate downloads unless the sandbox attribute explicitly includes allow-downloads

It appears that there are a pair of preferences in about:config to govern these: dom.block_download_insecure and dom.block_download_in_sandboxed_iframes
Ask HN: What're some companies/tech that new immigrants to the US should know?
Yesterday was the most productive dev day in history. Today the pendulum swings the other way.
In all fairness he presented this as "it's likely".

Your own statement "conspiracy theories are killing people" is also a bit of a non fact.

While the result of believing in conspiracy theories have no doubt lead to someones death, somewhere; presenting it as a serious problem whose root effect is "Death" is incredibly silly.
I think (1) pushing equality of opportunity in education, (2) pushing strong STEM education, and (3) nurturing innovation and entrepreneurship at universities and colleges.
> If making $10 an hour as a retail employee when you have an advanced degree is what you were talking about when you spoke of the non-linear careers people have today...

Losing your job or failing to find a job in a field which isn't growing and having to make do with what you can is a fact of life and definitely an example of a non-linear career. There is nothing facetious there.

That might end up just being a way to live while waiting for something else, that might be the start of a career in retail. It's just how it is.
https://curl.link/

Shameless plug, built this small tool to share curls.
+1 to that. A 15 minute walk around the block, or through the park, picking up any litter along the way, times a billion, means you won't see litter, and you won't have to pay quite as many sanitation workers.
To me, it is dishonest; if the reason is to convince potential employers that I'm younger than I actually am. I have my own standards of Personal Integrity. I won't project these standards onto others, but I feel that I need to adhere to them.

I'm also not particularly tall (5'6" -1.9m). I wear dorky shoes (at least, according to the fashionistas on HackerNews[0]).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28579724
Bubble sort only swaps adjacent pairs (thus "bubble", visualized the values "bubble up" to their correct spot) and is often abbreviated so that the inner loop runs on shorter segments (because the smallest or largest value, depending on how you write it, has been placed, no need to check that section again). this algorithm will swap non-adjacent pairs, making it more like insertion sort.
I switched payroll providers a few years ago away from Quickbooks Payroll. They hosed up my stuff so bad I was dealing with the fallout for close to 2 years afterwards - overpaid, underpaid, refunds, fines, it was a mess.

The new company I switched to did not allow me to do payroll on the days that I'd wanted. They only offered 2 or 3 options, none of which matched what I'd done before. "That's all we offer" was the reply. There've been a couple other 'restrictions' (lost flexibility) on some behaviors - nothing horrible, of course.

I've no doubt removing some of that flexibility has reduced their overhead - there's enough changing regulations every year in multiple jurisdictions - keeping the main stuff under their control as simple as possible seems to have worked out for them. I've had... 4 years with them without incident, but 2 years of pain with QB before.

FWIW, QB hosed up dealing with my state. Federal was fine, but they created so many problems with my state filings...
Firefox has supported this for decades, it just doesn't have a very nice UI for managing it.

Simply start it with "firefox -P" and create two separate profiles (call them "work" and "personal"). Then just start two instances of Firefox, with "firefox -P work" and "firefox -P personal". They will be totally isolated - cookies, history, addons, everything.
It’s never the mob. It’s left-wing activists and their liberal enablers, cowardly or enthusiastic. Always is, always has been.

(Ok not quite, avowed zionist Bari Weiss will happily have you cancelled if you say mean things about Israel.)

Not at all a new thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fire_Raisers_(play)
Intel CEO Gelsinger Declares 'AMD's Lead Is Over'
it's an estimate, counting possible from 1950
The post was finally just published, the link should work now.
There are extensions for FF which have done this for many years.

I don't like them (automation doesn't make the same choices I would), but I do use an extension which allows me to manually unload tabs.
The world is more connected than ever before. White house getting stormed by unarmed protestors is much better world then presidents getting shot (and dying) like what happened in the 80s, 60s.

Global warning may feel hopeless but compare that to the threat of ozone layer disappearing or acid rain or..

Covid has kill 700+ h1n1 killed 575+. wwi+ii millions

People are so much safer and less likely to die but we have so much more media so we invent things to be scared of because people want you to pay attention to their ads.
CloudFlare isn’t just a CDN anymore, that’s the point.
Clear data? How many people get tested for influenza? How many people which had influenza got tested for covid and got a positive result? If I went to my doctor last winter, told him I have strong fever and cough, he'll either send me to get a PCR test for covid, or no test, just tell me it's probably covid and I should stay home and monitor symptoms. In such case most flu cases would just be assumed covid, and that's where the reduction is coming from.
Neat! I was worried it'd be another 3D printer, but I was happy to find out it's entirely different process.

I was not familiar with pressure molding before, so I was wondering how "4 atmosphere" pressure they mentioned compares to industrial processes -- it sounded pretty low, my bicycle tires have higher pressure than that.

Turns out that yes, they must be using "low pressure molding" process [0]. The wikipedia says "very low pressure, typically 50 to 200 psi (3.5 to 14 bar)" and the pressure mentioned in the video (60 psi / 4 bar) seems to be right in the middle of that range.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_pressure_molding
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Covid vaccines cut the risk of transmitting Delta – but not for long
Also ships already had a multi millennia history so one event wasn’t going to be as impactful on the industry as a whole.
I don't see why basic structured logging would be more significantly more expensive or complex that unstructured logging.

In the simplest case you could just output a sequence of values (for example as a csv, or one json array per line), instead of an interpolated string. The size and CPU overhead of this approach is minimal, but makes it much easier and more robust to parse the log afterwards.

Such basic structured logging is quite similar to what the article proposes in "Separate parameters and messages", but more consistent and unambitious if one of the arguments contains your separator character.
Firefox has an "official" add-on called Multi-Account Containers. This isolates website state (cookies etc.) but not history/settings/extensions.

Alternatively, you can start Firefox with `--no-remote -ProfileManager` flags to get a totally separate instance, like Chrome does.

Personally, I use Multi-Account Containers together with the Temporary Containers add-on, to by default get a fresh cookie jar for each new tab, but I do have some websites tied to a named container for session persistence.