skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd be surprised at how progressive southern states are. The Texas state motto is literally "Friendship." Now, I don't know much about Texas but I did live in Arizona for a few years. It surprised me more than a bit, as someone who grew up in New York.

Arizona legalized medical marijuana quite early, followed by recreational marijuana. Their medicaid program AHCCCS [1] is extremely comprehensive and even pays for Uber/Lyft to the doctor's office and back. Patients are able to see a great selection of GPs and specialists, and the copay is always $0. The accompanying drug plan is comprehensive, also with a copay of $0. AHCCCS will approve expensive modern drugs like Rozeram (supercharged melatonin analog for sleep) if the sufficient documentation of reasonable need is provided.

Cactuses are protected from destruction by law, and must be transplanted when doing clearing for construction. You may find the idea of being able to own a firearm without a license to be unpalatable but the state largely remains very safe crime-wise (perhaps due to that?)

I miss living in Arizona. It's a beautiful state with very caring folk. I saw almost no homeless folks in Phoenix. Folks there seem to really care about their fellow citizens. Southern hospitality is for sure a thing, take it from a daft boy from Brooklyn!

[1] https://www.azahcccs.gov/
When I was young and desperate for $ to survive (I couldn't even afford a can of Pepsi), I found that I could force myself to learn something I had no interest in or hated but was useful to where I wanted to be. Perhaps you just need the right perspective (desperation works!)
Useability outside of a very narrow window is abysmal on a product. That's not fair to say? I think it is. Imagine a kitchen knife that only worked with a certain cutting board.
Wow; finally a keyboard with enough modifiers and no false assumptions about their names. Does this use the same kind of switch as the Space Cadet? How does it compare to the buckling springs of the IBM Model F? Can one flash QMK onto it, or another free firmware that allows one to do all configurations in plain text (for those of us who hate graphical interfaces)?

While I like the layout and the keys and the legends, I don't love the case; this, I think, has more character:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Space-cadet.jpg
> Emotions are underrated as drivers for decisions

and also extremely overrated. the number of times my work life has been made a nightmare because A) the decision-maker was shielded from the consequences of their decisions, and B) their technical decisions were based on "vibe" or how good the salesperson made them feel over 25 paid lunches, numbers easily over two dozen.

the worst periods of my career have always been because technical decisions were made on an emotional basis.

I realize that the my parent comment is almost certainly referring to personal decisions in the bit that I quoted; I'm just hoping to bring awareness to bad decisions based on emotion. it's endemic and terrible.
What's the best way to virtualize Windows 95/98? I've read VMware no longer supports it.
Wow, that's a really quaint acronym. Kudos.
It used to be OK. However, recent increase and the longer increase with start of Covid started to amplify in all goods. Even bread is now 1.5/2x more expensive, restuarants are 2x expensive compared to 1YR, because of cascading increases in every industry, mostly transportation and goods. For instance, the wood for the kitchen is increased almost 3x in 6 months according to our guy.

Tech workers are mostly in good spot, (great if working remote). However, in Turkey, minimum wage is almost average wage. I feel very bad for most people, and try to give anyway I can.

Car prices are ridicolous. I could almost buy a Tesla Plaid in US at the price of a BMW 320 here. But it's due to high taxes. These taxes were introduced in the '99 earthquake, meant to be temporary. But those taxes are everywhere, named like "Luxury Consumption Tax".
Because heaven forbid the masses have Internet access that their government doesn't have the means to censor or surveil.
You can safely add Argentina to the list
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can you go into more detail? what did you write? why did you write it?
First, although you are correct that the endpoint is removed from the proxies, the removal is asynchronous and so the proxy configurations may not be up to date before the shutdown is initiated. Also, more and more load balancers are bypassing node ports these days, preferring instead to route traffic directly to pods, and so it’s becoming a less effective mechanism.

Second, the challenge is that app developers are rarely aware of the need, let alone how to write SIGTERM handlers that finish handling existing requests before exiting. For them it’s yet another cognitive and testing burden that is usually out of their business expertise domain, and to my knowledge few of the common web service frameworks implement a reliable shutdown handler out of the box.

On the other hand, if the orchestrator simply waited for the LB to signal that the pod was removed from the backend list before initiating the shutdown process, then it would be more robust by design.
Also re3 and reVC (Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, for PC), though it is down for now, pending the outcome of a court filing... https://github.com/GTAmodding/re3
In our case the problem was the opposite. There were enough people that coordination was needed, but the CEO didn't want any managers, so ICs need to track things and attend meetings while trying to get stuff done
https://archive.md/A6oTD
I once did a project which involved migrating an ancient (early 1980s) DOS based application to FreeDOS via a VMWare host. The application controlled an oven in a soft drinks bottling factory and due to EMI, the physical disk had to be cloned every 6-9months to avoid corruption, and sourcing ancient IDE drives was problematic.

The manufacturer was happy to provide updated software, but only alongside a new oven, at a cost of £1 million.

The factory had 4 ovens.

VMWare + Windows 7 + SSDs + proper Siemens industrial PC = much cheaper hack!

Definitely a cool feeling knowing the solution might be in place another 20-30 years :-)
Fascinating article, on a part of the world that gets largely ignored
https://archive.md/1dF70
Does nobody here have a target red card? That’s what they do and they give you 5% back
Gigabyte M27Q Settings Controller
Agreed, sample arms were n=11 or 12.
I'm much earlier in my career (30s) and just starting to hit the staff level in my midsize tech company.

Do you have any advice for positioning a career to those first tier of jobs over the next ten to twenty years?
I have been a happy R + ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) user for a while now. I think ESS also supports python, I have no personal experience with that though. But I can agree that whenever I am forced to use Jupyter notebooks, it feel awfully unergonomic in comparison.
I think if you want to have high impact, agency, and autonomy as an IC late in your career you should work on your math skills with an eye towards a research scientist / core algorithm designer position. The other option is to be the founding engineer at a startup, but that's probably only good in your 40s if you want a divorce
I also had a hard time moving it forward. Mostly asking about single words picked from the text worked best, but as a result it feels a bit like choose your own adventure but with hidden choices. And I'd try to ask about things that seemed important and get "You can't form your question into words" only to try with different words later and finally get some information. (But I always have this problem with IF... maybe I'm not patient enough, or have to learn the typical IF vocabulary, or maybe I just word things in funny ways, I don't know.)
Maybe before there was more of a pretense?
Responding to the original question, I would suggest that all learning is just for me, even when conducted in classroom (factory) settings. Whether you "need" it or not, that's what seems to be going on.
I don't have an answer to "would you pay for it?" which can work in general; for me, I pay for books and so forth, and am happy to pay for, e.g. online lectures. Truth is, at least as I see it, there's a towering price elasticity - steep curve in play. Paying to play (learn) for me is not a problem; have to acknowledge, however, that there are good people out there who don't have such luxury, which, it seems to me, creates a kind of disparity which needs to be addressed.
This! I am beginning to think more every day that C/C++ is about the only stable, rewarding and fun career in tech devoid of petty politics, full of high quality colleagues and tons of fun problems to solve. Ideally want to be an entrepreneur but C/C++ dev is not a bad fallback option.
You could sue your seller for failure to disclose.
The vouch button
The first two are just gambling, which is not very different from the speculation the author talks about. Your idea is interesting and speaks to another desire that seems to me to run beneath a lot of interest in crypto, which is the desire to make social change without political action. My perspective is, we don't need a blockchain to reward that kind of behavior. We could decide as a society to create such a system in myriad other ways. The real problem I see is that we're (especially in the US) very much disconnected from the political process, which leads some to look for technological solutions to the problems they see around them.
> (tho you then have French as it is spoken & French as it is specified)

Which means French has no spec, either, merely people trying to create a specification and failing.
On a related note, it’s a shame that you have to look to emulators to play this game because Nintendo’s official emulation is so bad.
I was making, on average, 600k a year at Google, 5 years ago. I hear it's a lot better these days.

The "deadend salary progression" allowed me to retire at 40.
Surely you can grasp that "and so on" implies other reasons than the one explicitly stated. Negative externalities are another example of a valid target of regulation.
Extremely strict time management and focus. If I go upstairs to put in a load of laundry, that’s a 5 minute time slot I put back into my work time slots. The vast majority of people are very inefficient with time management, spend tons of time bike shedding, etc.
CoTerminalApps: Retro ASCII Games that run in a terminal on Windows, OS X, Linux
The spectator’s one of the very few newspapers left which publish conservative opinions.

Progressive newspapers on the other hand are a dime a dozen and are quite predictable both in what they say and how they say it.
That TP20 looks like it was inspired by the LaCie hard drives. Same color silicon padding and everything.
Helium (https://www.helium.com/); a decentralized mobile internet network operator which enables anyone to host radios and earn tokens for usage, without compromising the connection security of endpoint users.

Filecoin (https://filecoin.io/); an incentive layer on top of IPFS to create a decentralized long-term object storage system.

Tradelens (https://www.tradelens.com/); in development, AP Moller Maersk's enterprise container logistics/coordination blockchain.

Anytime someone says "blockchains don't do anything which centralized systems can't do", I mentally interpret that as someone in 1995 saying "email can't do anything fax machines can't do". In the sense that: its kind of true, in that they accomplish a similar goal of sending a document from one person to another over wire, but it discounts as irrelevant the most critical, foundational thrust of why this new technology is interesting. For email: that it is all-digital. For blockchain: that it is decentralized.

In the 90s, the people who still clung to fax machines didn't understand why an all-digital future was important or would matter. They had spent their entire lives living in physicality, working with paper and file cabinets, and it was fine. The fax machine made sense. Email didn't.

Sure, centralized systems can do many of these things better. But they do so with the sacrifice of being centralized! Some critics inexplicably gloss over this like its an irrelevant, minor part of the argument. They've spent their entire lives among big tech billion dollar centralized multinational conglomerates, and its been fine. More centralization makes sense; email, I mean, decentralization, doesn't.

The point is not to make a better system, in every way; the point is making a functional system that is decentralized, so it can operate in a trustless, geo-distributed, multi-party way.
"@dang" doesn't seem to work. You're best off email hn@ycombinator.com to get their attention
It's a reasonable concern for a government if the surveiling capability is shifted from themselves to a foreign government (USA with PRISM and all the other programmes)
Or indeed, are we people with certain personality traits more likely to have cats (and therefore much more likely to be infected)?
> The expansion of the ‘Green New Deal’ and the rise of ‘renewable’ industrial technologies may be the death knell for these archaic and peaceful people. Make no mistake, these green initiatives – electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar batteries – these are actively destroying the last remaining strongholds of biodiversity on the planet. The future designs on the DRC include vast hydroelectric dams and intensive agriculture, stripping away the final refuges of the world. Now, more than ever, the Mbuti and other Pygmy peoples need our solidarity, an act which can be as simple as not buying that next iPhone

This seems like a vast oversimplification by the author. Kurzgesagt made a video explaining how climate change is a multifaceted problem; that no solution will make everyone happy. I'm not trying to undermine the plight of the Mbuti people, but "not buying that next iPhone" is not going to solve the political, economic, and social strife that is present in the DRC. Also, the claim that green initiatives are "destroying the last remaining strongholds of biodiversity on the planet" overlooks the tradeoff in using green energy sources over fossil fuels.

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiw6_JakZFc
Your candy van's extended warranty is about to expire!
Hm, Bitcoin appears down 23% in the last 18 days, flailing wildly the whole time.

If your concern was stability you would obviously not pick Bitcoin haha. Maybe a nice USD or EUR price tag.
Non-support does not necessarily imply non-working. Anyway, QEMU still work just fine.
I've also been frustrated by the inconsistency in the roles/expectation for a Staff+ engineer. At a previous employer, as I advanced up the ladder, management repeatedly changed and strongly committed to an org structure and processes which made it extremely difficult for an IC to have impact beyond a single team. By the end, I was a principal, but reported to a line manager, had zero access to the planning/prioritization/roadmapping beyond my immediate team, and was effectively just the sr engineer to whom they handed messy or complex projects. Le sigh.

I've come to the belief that in a broad range of circumstances, high level ICs aren't especially critical. There's quite a lot an engineering org can do with sharp senior engineers working on relatively autonomous teams overseen by a couple tiers of managers who may have little understanding of the technical domain. Adding some ICs who e.g. report to a VP and jump back and forth between areas can be seen to complicate processes, planning etc. We want technical impact above the level of a single team, which often means cross-cutting concerns or improvements which pass through several systems. But in many cases, even without a technical IC who has a technical view of the larger picture, narrowly-scoped teams can still come to a decent if sometimes convoluted local optima.

My conclusion is if you like building stuff, but you get bored of building the same stuff, and you don't want to people-manage, there are basically three options:

- pursue a staff+ role at a large organization which can't afford not to have those engineers contributing at a higher level. If not FAANG, now there is a tier of slightly smaller public or late-stage private companies who can't avoid having high-level technical experts -- but competition is pretty fierce

- some form of consulting which allows one to move between technical projects

- keep changing fields to do sr level engineering in an unfamiliar area

- retire early, and putter on open source

This year I moved from a principal role to a staff role which lets me explore some areas of technical interest which weren't used at my previous company. If staff doesn't let me have sufficiently broad impact, at least I get to explore a new technical area. And perhaps it will be my last job.

_But_, an option which I haven't really seen, but which I must exist out there somewhere, and would love to hear about is if there are some niche companies that actually appropriately value engineers with many years of experience. If one believes that these experiences let us anticipate upcoming issues, design better solutions, pick up new tools and frameworks faster etc, and requires less from people managers, then shouldn't there be room for a company which disproportionately hires very experienced engineers, compensates them appropriately, and produces better/faster/lighter solutions?
Not if you count the OTC markets. I'm led to believe the prices are significantly different in any meaningful quantity.
In the modern world we primarily have banking systems that are based on fractional reserve banking and currencies without any explicit backing. This means that from a forex point of view the currencies are only worth as much as there is confidence in them. (National currencies often derive power in a practical sense due to taxes having to be paid in those currencies even without any explicit backing of the currencies value). Because of these dynamics if everyone were to try to withdraw their money from the bank at the same time there would be a major problem because the banks don't have the money to cover it. An event that makes people in a country all want to withdraw their money will cause a crisis just about everywhere at the moment. Sure you'll get people from the central bank saying they can create enough money to pay everyone out, which they can pretty easily do due to the fact that most money now is just entries in a database. But the problem in all modern banking crisis situations isn't so much the act of giving people money its what you can buy with that money. (A caveat, when things get really bad like they did in Venezuela the currency degraded so much that the government had problems paying for the printing and transport of new banknotes with even more zeros, but that's a rather exceptional case that occurred very late in a crisis, again the money was buying less)

Banking crisis conditions can come about for a variety of different reasons but they all involve some lack of confidence in the ability to be able to exchange money for goods at a later point in time. This can come about because people aren't able to access their money in the banks (Eg Cyprus crisis) or because the value of the money is rapidly deteriorating (Eg Yugoslavian Hyperinflation) or because there's some event that devalues the currency. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it shows that different things in different places can cause crisis situations to emerge. There's some interesting work that was done by the Bank of International Settlements about the early warning indicators for systemic banking crises. Seeing what was happening in Turkey inspired me to write about bank bail ins. Along with bail outs this is something that you'll likely see in banking crises. More detail about the early warning indicators and bail in mechanisms here: https://www.lesinskis.com/bank-bail-ins.html

I also talk about this in the article but I don't think it's easy to neatly determine where currency crisis situations "start". There's at least 14 countries in the world that are in what could be the early stages of a banking and currency crisis but it's likely that people will only say they are in a crisis at a much later stage where the problems are so big they are impossible to ignore. Other places like Canada get ignored routinely but the situation there could rather easily turn into a major crisis unless something changes there.
Yes, exactly. I just wanted to emphasize the increase amount and what we would pay if we were not fast. We saw the increase miles ahead and bought all the stuff out of our own pockets.
Is it? First time I've ever heard of it, although looking at it I must say I am intrigued. What would you say are its main positive features?
> The county isn't auctioning off because of tax default anymore, no one was buying these places at $100.

What's the issue with out of state companies owning rural properties nobody wants? If the market is heating up, maybe it's time to run tax auctions again.

In WA state, if there's no bidders, the county retains the land and will auction it again when someone expresses interest (or it some cases, can sell it to a neighboring land holder without auction, like for the 1930s era tax foreclosure I bought last year)
Because we are mostly not fully vaccinated. 54% have received at least one dose.
The stats in Zürich Switzerland are very similar.

Even though it shows natural immunity is strongest as one would expect one can not risk getting covid being unvaccinated as we can see from the same stats.

In Switzerland at least you are given a certificate if you have recovered from covid just as you would get one for vaccination.
Show HN: Gnome Extension – Focus Changer
As an old i3 user I've been missing the feature to be able to change focus to windows in different directions without using ALT-TAB or the mouse. I've been for a long time looking for a solution without finding one so I decided to create one myself.

The extension I wrote will first try to find a suitable window within the same monitor. If there is none, it will try to find one on the next monitor in that direction (in a multi-monitor setup).

The default keybindings are:

<Super>+h = Focus left

<Super>+j = Focus down

<Super>+k = Focus up

<Super>+l = Focus right

They can all be changed in the extension preferences.

I hope it will come in handy for more of you keyboard-driven users out there:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4627/focus-changer/

https://github.com/martinhjartmyr/gnome-shell-extension-focu...
In this case, they are probably also unhappy that they haven't received bribes.
Next to impossible to kill a starlink satellite and there are thousands of them, I don't think any country has the capability to to take starlink satellites down en masse by force. The US, russia and china could probably take down a few, but I doubt the stockpiles of anti satellite missiles of all three combined equal the size of the constellation. Guessing about that though.

You could probably blow up a nuke on orbit to EMP a bunch of them at once but that would have a lot of collateral damage.
AP1 is essentially Rec.2020, yes.

By working space I mean a space in which a user manipulates the data in some way, e.g. image editing, grading, compositing or rendering.