skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also have a track record of leaving dials in their software that are very easy to turn on but now mean you need to be on a higher license tier and will ding you in an audit and expect penalty fees for it (e.g. various flags in Oracle DB, Extensions Pack [1] in virtualbox, Java features[2] like Java Flight Recorder)

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/d1ttzp/oracle_is_...

[2]: https://upperedge.com/oracle/top-3-reasons-oracle-java-users...
This is the coolest way I have seen someone write their email and avoid email harvesting bots:

For inquiries related to this book, use x@joyofcryptography.com, where x is the author's first name.

-

Nearly everyone with a high school education can “crack” that puzzle and figure out his email and yet most bots will fail.
> My interpretation was that the person likes doing their work and wants to outsource distractions

This is true. For additional context, I’m also a single man in his late 20s, with the blessing/curse of ADHD.

Whilst I can throw myself into my work (and enjoy it very much), I have little interest/motivation to follow up all the other odds-and-ends in my life.

That might mean something trivial, like keeping the kitchen stocked with healthy food. Or more meaningful tasks — like expenses and invoicing — which are essential, but bore me to death…

As I’m lucky enough to be in a position to do so, if I can get some extra help to sort out everything that’s not my forte, I can focus my energy where it matters: on things I’m good at, and enjoy.
After speaking to a friend who lost a lot of money due to a PA that purposely scammed them - make sure they are trustworthy and check their work. They will really be in a good position to cause a lot of harm (even if by accident).
> An instructive example would be India: TC for senior engineers at Google, Amazon, Uber, etc is already north of $150k there. Note that this is _already higher_ than the median tech salary _in the US_. Meanwhile there are still places in India paying new grads $10k.

Keep in mind these companies are really trying to get the 1% of developers in that market. Anything below the 95th percentile is unemployable. [0] [1] [2]

[0] https://restofworld.org/2020/india-engineering-degree/

[1] https://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/india-s-ta...

[2] https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/95-engin...
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I wonder how creative stays in business. I see they still make sound cards, and they sell speakers/headsets. But they’re not exactly ubiquitous like they were back in the day.
That is not a logical argument.

No crypto booster has an answer to: It is not useful

Or It is a huge waste of energy

Or All the technology involved has better counterparts

I do not think I will change your mind, but others are reading this
A pause does not correspond to a full GC, of course. The work of GC is split into a lot of concurrent work and a lot of really tiny pauses on each application thread. The entire GC cycle might be split over hundreds or thousands of tiny pauses and take many seconds--there's just no particularly big pause. During the GC cycle the application is still running and allocating, and there is enough slack space that it doesn't run out of memory before the GC cycle finishes and transparently adds freed memory back into the usable pools.

It would be great if the whole cycle were that fast! But alas, there simply isn't enough memory bandwidth to GC 128GB of memory in 0.1 millisecond :)
More like Bob bought 10 houses at $500k/each, hoping to flip them in a year for $1m/each. If you cause his houses to be worth $200k, as they ought to be, he is really screwed.

Raising taxes and/or raising interest rates decreases speculative forces. Property tax is especially effective in combating speculation, since you have to pay it even if you let the house sitting around waiting to appreciate and be sold (and worse, as it appreciates, you might have to pay more of it). Taxation that discourages speculation to the benefit of people actually looking for housing (and not assets that will appreciate) is a good idea.

> Instead of having asset prices fall to parity with wages and consumer prices and causing everyone to default on their mortgages, we need wages and consumer prices to rise to parity with asset prices.

Either housing prices fall back to earth, or the earth expands so that housing prices don't seem that high anymore :). The latter is obviously just old fashioned universal inflation (wages and consumer prices rise), and really screws someone saving for a housing downpayment (not to mention, loans would be harder to get as inflation picks up).
Love it...

We can say same of DATA

"Dicussed, Archived, Translated, Attributed (Falsely)"
Killing a wasp in germany can cost between 5.000-65.000€^^.

Source (german):

https://www.bussgeldkatalog.org/news/wespe-toeten-droht-ein-...
Interesting that throughout the entire long article, the acronym for ATAPI was used without ever being described. It's quite the rabbit hole.

ATAPI = "ATA Packet Interface" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA_Packet_Interface

ATA = "AT Attachment" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA

AT = "Advanced Technology" (possibly apocryphal or a retronym) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer/AT
I’m considering hiring in person only for tech ventures (software dev, product managers, designers etc, standard affair)

My observations are that people that could afford to migrated to a lot of the same areas

I think there is a market need for it. Something as simple as going to a local event after work with some of the people you enjoy being around (not company mandated nor suggested) requires nearly zero planning compared to trying to coordinate coming out from home

My hunch is that there is an audience for it

I bet local businesses (bars, lounges, similar things) would even give discounts to attract that kind of crowd again. The after work and well compensated crowd that acts spontaneously.

Its funny to even mention it, but people with bad commutes wont even apply or pretend they dont have a bad commute, and people with a reason to be home (that many other companies now cater to) also wont show up.

I still think there is enough talent.
I'm sorry, but I couldn't disagree more. This sound like whataboutism to me.

First, most people just don't know how much they are under surveillance, and it's not like the pushback against this data gathering isn't already there. Especially
in Europe.

Second, the chance of the data, which is collected on you, to be seen by thousands (or maybe millions) of people is pretty small. Even in a case of a data breach, you will be drowned out in millions of datasets (Except if you're a vip). A photography which can easily be shared may ruin your life.

Those two aren't really comparable. I think a discussion is therefore warranted.
it absolutely is a backup problem

Ransomware is the #1 thing an enterprise will use a Backup to recover from, the second most common is accidentally deletion.

Binary corruption is very very very very very rare and with all the systems in place to prevent it, is not even something I even think about anymore. I worry about Ransomware, and users doing stupid things
> That's the issue, trying to make one airframe fill three drastically different roles and hence failing at all of them.

Really, you can thank the the F-4 Phantom II, F-16 and both versions of the F-18 (the A and C, which is a much larger aircraft) for this. All of these planes excelled as both fighter and attack aircraft, and showed it was possible to do both missions well enough.
Why is it that doctors appointments are something that you need to set aside time to make, personally? Why can't somebody else do that for OP?

I don't personally need an assistant, even though I work at the same company as my CEO (who has a personal assistant as well). Him having one doesn't mean everybody needs one.
The story thing has actually happened to me, believe it or not.

Actually it's probably happened to a ton of people. It happens all the time. Usually in verbal form, along with "remember that one time...?"

But in my case someone actually wrote a NaNoWriMo story with me as one of the central characters. It was science fiction and no one could ever mistake it for being a true story. I still did not super like being included in such a way.
Zeva's 160-MPH electric UFO: An air taxi experience like no other
I have no idea what engine count should have to do with argument: my rowboat has two engines (if my partner is coming along), yet I'm willing to part with it for below $ 150 million. It's also safer than most military helicopters and fighter jets, although I won't vouch for its behaviour in carrier catapult launches.

I believe the real argument is something along the lines off "yeah, those planes are BIG compared to the F-35", plus something that accounts for the helicopter. Maybe its unit price doesn't benefit from a split-off development process before? Or its expected sales volume is even lower?
> It’s not that different from what I imagine having a stay-at-home wife was like in the 1950s, except she leaves every evening.

good for you, but yikes, man, that made me cringe.

you might want to re-think if you'd be comfortable giving the same tasks to a male personal assistant, or if you've somehow unconsciously engineered a large financial/power imbalance, in the disparity between your gross yearly income and what you pay your assistant to do the duties of a "stay-at-home wife". and exactly what you think her role really is.
Mullvad doesn't even ask for your email address!
FromTA: "there is nothing inherently dangerous in the mere act of photographing people, children included, in the anonymity of a public space"

In times past public space anonymity was a thing. Now it isn't.

In a world of social media, surveillance, face detection, viral topics, polarisation of debate - the effects of social chilling are very real. Street photography is but a victim of this social chilling, sad as it is.

I am willing to bet, that if a person was aware of every camera as they walked down the street AND THEY COULD TURN THEM OFF/DELETE FOOTAGE they would absolutely do so.

To put it another way, if I could wear a magical badge on my shirt that prevented such imagery of me, I would wear it all the time.

Take away the ability to easily share an image of me with everyone in the world, and I would be less concerned about images of me.
People have loans in nominal values, so just giving people money is far more productive than taxation.
Gold has important uses in industry

Gold has important uses in jewellery

Gold has a natural scarcity, is easy to store, hard to steal. Crypto has no natural scarcity (other than a reluctance to waste energy), is very hard to store and relatedly is very easy to steal.
How much of the Earth's surface area is ocean and rain forest?
To be fair, based on the action were currently seeing from governments worldwide, everyone is simply hoping for the technological answer.
Yes, there are often undeserved windfalls. But I think you're missing something? Buildings don't come out of nowhere and they don't maintain themselves. Abandoned buildings deteriorate. They need to be protected.
(Sometimes, unfortunately, from the tenants.)

There is a social role to be played here, whether homeowners do it themselves or landlords do it.
Let’s plant trees and have everyone of them e be connected via Bluetooth sensor next to them in the soil providing real time twitter updates. Would that suffice for the Australian government? If not maybe we suggest 5g.
> If it's a work necessity, they should consider making a personal assistant a company benefit

I have seen workplaces with concierge service for employees to handle personal tasks - I'm actually surprised this isn't more popular. Tech companies definitely are known for meals and snacks and coffee being provided, I think that is in the same direction.

To your question, scheduling meetings and travel can be a huge time suck, especially for a CEO that would have lots of both and rapidly changing plans. Logistics for meetings - "party planning" can be a big job and depending on the size of the company there may not be someone separate to do that.

Personal stuff like changing addresses, filling forms for whatever, waiting to have a mattress delivered (I had a former boss send an EA for this), anything where you have to be on hold on the phone. All this admin stuff only increases as you get busy, and it would be great to have someone to deal with it.

Plus there are always special projects - pulling info together for a presentation or something, looking for a vendor for something. I think I'm talking myself into hiring one...
I'm not sure that's unfair.

With the state of wealth inequality in the states, the number of people living paycheck-to-paycheck, ever increasing attacks against the finances of the elderly in the form of scams and schemes, and our culture's dislike of multigenerational housing it seems like a choice between a government wellfare system like social security or tens of thousands to millions of impoverished, homeless elderly folks.

Libertarian ideals like "the government shouldn't be involved in your finances" seem fine in a perfect world, but reality is certainly not ideal.

Counterpoints? I'd also like to hear your thoughts on an alternative that takes care of those less fortunate? Thanks for your time! :)
"sudo -e" prevents you committing a file with a syntax error, because that instantly locks you out of all sudo access.

The replies about security are interesting, but I think they are over-complicating this!
The greatest threat to digital libraries (such as libgen, sci-hub, and the Open Library itself) isn't censorship but copyright enforcement – and technology that attempts to impose the limits of physical paper onto bits.
Companies that require wind tunnels are no longer “tech companies” and are therefore irrelevant for a discussion about “tech hubs”.
And yet expensing $470 for a custom cake for an important client who's birthday party you have to miss because you're heading up the shareholder meeting may be money very well spent.

As long as most of the $470's are well spent, and total value for money is better than someone else could achieve, I don't actually mind who's boyfriend gets a fancy cake. But I do need to have confidence that I'm seeing enough of the picture to know that money is being well spent overall, even if that doesn't apply to every individual dollar.
Should I get a higher wage for living in a more expensive area in the city?

My wage is related to the work I do. How I choose to spend my money is a personal decision.
> It appears Java is only still viable for Windows and Android, and the 1% Linux desktop market.

Funny how you frame Java "only" being available for some of the most popular platforms, which is billions of devices.
100% agree with all that.

Knowing how to appear sociable is an important skill, I can do it but find it quite mentally draining.

I suspect that I just don't think like most people, I prefer deep one-on-one conversations to superficial stuff.

Having said that, I do understand the paradox that I will never get to the deep conversations without having to get through the small talk with someone I don't know well, but at that stage I don't even know if they're the kind of person who is capable of or even wants to have a deep conversation at all... I haven't worked that one out yet.

I think it's because of time pressure. I don't ever seem to be able to find enough time for myself as it is. I have much more "free" time than most people, but my hobbies seem to automatically and seamlessly fill whatever time I have! Most people don't seem to be ever become so focused on their hobbies, except people on the internet with their super-detailed sites on niche topics, but I never seem to meet them, or perhaps I just never elicit their obsession out of them.

If I had unlimited time with no responsibilities, maybe I would feel like I have more time to chat with others, but that's not reality, and at least up until now I have not once ever felt like I have as much free time as I'd want.

Just rambling now, but it boggles my mind how anyone could ever get a chance to feel bored with so much interesting stuff in this world.

>It can also help in being able to at least lessen the pain to get better at redirecting the conversation to be the least annoying possible.

Haha, this resonated with me.

I will try to focus on redirection rather than avoidance strategies. Thanks for that.

I read a quote recently, "Be curious, not judgemental", and I will try to do that.
Well, I'm glad to have read Atlas Shrugged, although I didn't find it philosophically convincing. It would be very frustrating to not be able to read it and just be stuck wondering what the Republicans seem to cite as an important text for understanding their worldview.
Ask HN: What is the difference between HN and Reddit?
I see many parallels between Reddit and HN discussions. What is the unique nature of HN that truly differentiates it from Reddit? Is it the composition of posters? Or the moderation scheme?
I was born to an expat family in neighbouring Bahrain, it was a similar experience. Overall, I would say it is worth it if you are poorer or looking to make money. It's a place where you can grow rich but later on your family leaves for a better place.
There are companies that offer this as well. It’s useful if you don’t need a full-time assistant. The downside is you’re sharing them.
If [externalities] <<< [price that will stop people from using fossil fuels], then we've painted ourselves into a corner.

Are you trying to say that it might be cheaper to simply let climate change happen than to prevent it?
Battle.net is partially down and Blizzard says it’s a DDoS attack
The same people seriously discuss if it is ok for photographer standing openly in the street to take some pictures?

I should check the dictionary for definition of insanity because it can help to describe the situation.

You could consider the possibility that debates over this are a proxy issue for discomfort with surveillance in general, as a camera with a person behind it is easier to talk about than a camera erected and operated by some anonymous corporation or government department. Meeting people where they are to consider the issue from their perspective is often more effective than performative rudeness.
Go look up the definition and history of Ponzi schemes.

Very interesting, and real estate and stocks, whilst subject to bubbles, are not Ponzi schemes.
Ahem. If you just played "advent", they may look empty.

Go Play Planetfall, Anchorhead or Curses!. Your little robotic friend will get you amazed.

AI Dungeon is not a game at all. Far from a text adventure.

Since Inform6 and Curses! text adventures are far more complex than the ones
for the 80's microcomputers which they barely could run Zork, really slow in some extreme cases.

As I said, Infocom games for DOS/Amiga (and any new Z-Machine non-alpha adventure) are much better in that regard.
I have data like that... however there is some data that needs to survive me for my family / estate. Proper planning for that is something everyone should do.

I have been involved or aware of a few nightmares where an expected loss resulted in all kinds of pain and problems for the family has they lost access to critical accounts, financial data, and other things that required lengthy interactions with government agencies, banks, etc that would not have been needed if the data would have been able to be recovered from the systems
I'd think anyone hiring a personal assistant would be on the advantageous end of a financial power imbalance. Are you just saying a young man wouldn't be hired to clean a house so it's embarrassing when a woman cleans a house? I think the important thing is to pay cleaners enough and make reasonable requests, not refuse to work with them. (I don't have a cleaner, if it matters.)
I chose a similar path on our place, but went a bit further:

- cat5e cable to about every sensor or consumer to be automated, star topology

- central Olimex esp32 gateway running esphome

- some i2c multiplexer boards

- old thinkpad running home assistant

That should get us all of:

- physical controls

- cheap

- open hardware

- running free software

- all wired, no wireless

- graceful fallback in case of most failures

- configuration version controlled
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>In reality, if you're top tier talent, you can command top tier compensation no matter what your ZIP code is. Facebook's strategy relies on every other company colluding with them to suppress compensation based on locality.

Most people who think they're "top tier talent", aren't.
I was firmly in the Basecamp camp until I found out they were basically given a large "grant" from Jeff Bezos that allowed them to continue bootstrapping
Where is the part in your solution that captures the coal emissions?
I'm saying this person seems to have specifically chosen a person for the duties of what they described as a 1950s housewife, which is rather suspicious in my opinion.
I don't think that anyone is using Haskell to develop any serious games yet.

The toy demos are quite elegant, although the community is probably lacking a good scene editor ie Godot or Unity.

Edit: godot-haskell exists, but it's still a little edgy.
Track record is everything. Every VC that is worth their LPs is going to do due diligence (tech, commerce, finance, legal) on the company they are about to invest in. As a company executive, you could do much worse than to return the favor and research them for a bit. Talk to other founders that they have invested in, see how that went, look at past exits, see how the original founders were treated.
Yes I identify completely. I spent most of the day today dealing with a bunch of address change stuff and other admin I'd been putting off for months and still have a huge stack of personal admin like that that I shudder and do something else every time I think about. If you can justify the cost, having someone to handle the boring stuff sounds awesome.
They are working too much, so now they’re hiring someone to do some of that work, such that their overall work burden is reduced and more focused on the tasks they prefer to work on.
Ah, I think you just misread, then. They seem to have realized what the arrangement looks like after the fact.
Apparently as many as 100 million on the American plains once upon a time, according to Google
I wouldn't bother hiring a PA that wasn't proactive to the point of doing that sort of thing
you forgot to commit the changes. surely, you don't operate with auto-commit on in prod do you?
I've had my PA arrange doctor's appointments, it's great. It's not a matter of working too much, it's that I only have so much mental energy to go around. Decisions can be draining. Dealing with people can be draining. These things aren't draining to the same extent for everyone.
Right? So it's for tooling.

I can sympathize. Years ago (more than two decades) the situation was already pretty crazy. I managed to use some version of GNU make for building Visual C++ code.

The Microsoft CL.EXE compiler knew absolutely nothing without being told. Unlike /path/to/whatever/gcc, it doesn't know where its headers or libraries are, nothing.

In the Makefile, had to specify all the include and library paths in the SDK installation.

It's like trying to use GCC's cc1 directly or something.

Since that time there have been many more releases of Visual Studio and the SDK, all of them moving targets without a doubt. Yikes!
Why? What problems would Bitcoin solve?

It can barely keep up with the very few transactions now. Its transaction costs are sky high
Oh lord, I skimmed the site, that quote confirms it, so much masturbation that turns me off the product.

Beer ads where you see people drink the stuff and enjoy life has the message that "if you buy this product your life can be this awesome too!". This website is no different...
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