skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do love using these advents to try out new things. New patterns, new languages, new algorithms.
Airgapped computer, it's the only way to be sure.
How do you know that it was actually "extremely well-maintained"? Everybody thought OpenSSL was well-maintained since it was used as critical infrastructure by multi-billion dollar megacorporations, but it was actually maintained by two full-time employees and a few part-time volunteers with maybe a quick once-over before a commit if they were lucky. How about sudo, a blindly trusted extremely sensitive program [1], which is maintained by basically one person who has nearly 3,000,000(!) changes[2] over 30 or so years?

Assuming that something is well-maintained because it is important is pure wishful thinking. Absent a specific detailed high quality process, or an audit that they conform to a well-established process that has demonstrably produced objectively high-quality output in a large percentage of audited implementations of that process (thus establishing nearly every instance of the audited process -> high quality output) all evidence indicates that you should assume that these code bases are poorly maintained until proven otherwise[3]. And, even the ones that are demonstrably maintained usually use very low quality processes as demonstrated by the fact that almost nobody working on those projects would be comfortable using their processes on safety-critical systems [4] which is the minimum bar for a high quality process (note the bar is "believe it is okay for safety-critical"). In fact, most would be terrified of the thought and comfort themselves knowing that their systems are not being used in safety-critical systems because they are absolutely not taking adequate precautions, which is a completely reasonable and moral choice of action as they are not designing for those requirements, so it is totally reasonably to use different standards on less important things.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25919235

[2] https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/graphs/contributors

[3] https://xkcd.com/2347/

[4] https://xkcd.com/2030/
Wait, English speaker use the German term 'langsam' for musical tempo?

I'm Swiss and instead of using this native term, we were trained in music scool to use the Italian term 'largo' or 'lento' for slow tempi.
Signal runs without issue on my M1 Macbook Air.
On a side.. a few times I've told the recruiters that I'm not interested in the role, because they offered HackerRank tests..
Most of the time they come back and ask me to come in and chat instead.
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We create digital products for a diverse set of (pretty large) customers
(automotive, logistics & banking).

Now we are looking for a DevOps engineer to support one of our big client
projects that is used by a lot of people daily.

Instead of predicting what will (not) happen these were some of the challenges
in the past:

* advise the teams during the introduction of resource requests & limits

* supporting the decision of resizing the Kubernetes clusters on the
requirements and factoring in operational cost

* integrating Azure KeyVault & EventHub into our backend services

* introduce Ansible to provision virtual machines

* introduce PostgreSQL monitoring and support a resizing decision

* analyze and research an issue with a Docker update

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Looks like the copied the image directly from shopify cdn.
Go here, click on the image for the popup, then open image in new tab. It's the exact same dimensions as the background image in op's post.

https://www.antlerpdx.com/collections/rebecca-luncan/product...

As far as I can find on the web, there are no digital copies available for sale. There is the small chance the person whom created the marketplace bought the original, but not likely.
> we already offer unlimited vacation (lol),

I offered unlimited vacation in every business I started or ran since 1989.

But the abusive bullshit many companies have pulled while claiming “unlimited vacation” has justifiably made people cynical. This stated policy has become a warning sign instead of a benefit.

So in my new company we have a written policy four weeks but there is no way to track it (where the law permits this). sigh
Location: Europe

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Javascript, Typescript, Vue, React, PHP

Resume: Available upon request

Email: 2htfbs984@mozmail.com

Currently managing an engineering team and helping out where I can around the stack.

Previously heavily contributed to the growth and success of two startups (both are now acquired) by turning their MVP into a full featured product used by thousands of clients. Mostly dev work, but have worn many hats over the past years. I have some mobile apps in the app store as well (written in React Native).
Mostly experienced in Javascript (Vue/React) and PHP (Laravel), but worked with a few other languages as well and happy to learn new things. Worked 100% remote for about 7 years now and easily adapt.
Quite comfortable where I am now, but open to discuss new opportunities.
It's been my experience that most people, including those experienced, qualified, &/or published, are generally receptive to cold emails within their field(s) of work or interest.

My format is typically a ~3 line email: first, I mention how I came across them, which is often "I was reading __ and saw your comment," and usually where I found their contact info. Next, I intersect my work with theirs; in the case of comments, often that is already contextual "you mentioned X and Y, and I'm working on Y and Z." Last, I'll present a simple structure of what I'm trying to learn, how I think they could help, and ask if they're interested. In your case that could read something like "I'm looking for a critical review of my design, because I might have missed something obvious. Would you be interested in helping? I think {small amount of time} would really keep me in the right direction. We could {preferred communication method, like video call} or {alternative communication method, 'or I can email you the design'}"

I consistently receive replies from >80% and more than half of those conversations yield incredible value to my efforts. These days, I like to offer some form of compensation in my cold contact, out of respect and for efficiency, but it's not required. Often this gesture is welcomed but unnecessary!

Being thoughtful, curious, and organized in your outreach are the key components for this strategy. Best of luck!
Cloud images are harder to find as ISOs ... They are using this 'cloud image' concept where they distribute something very similar or equal to an OVA, which is the hard disk and a manifest.

https://cdn.amazonlinux.com/os-images/2.0.20210721.2/

If you go here, there's OVA files, VDI, container, and a few other formats, and you can easily translate them to some more esoteric formats.
Not really :-) It's related to, as I recall, a character's name but that still doesn't really tell you much absent some context.

I'm not sure I ever played Lebling's Starcross. In general, I've never been very good about finishing videogames, text adventures or otherwise. And of course in the Infocom era, you couldn't just look up a walkthrough if you got frustrated. (And calling up the author which is what I did wasn't a very scalable solution--which is probably how I got through Planetfall.) And also why Mike did well with his clue booklets.

Leather Goddesses of Phobos was also pretty good; there was a later graphical version as well.
Love the timeline of failure and success (the latter of which is what one usually sees).

I think there may be some who breeze through grad school, likely by being in a strong research environment beforehand, or by having lots of support.
I mean, they have to exist?

Have I genuinely met anyone like that? Nah.
And, oh boy, can it be a struggle!

During a PhD, it's very easy to put yourself into an increasingly hopeless situation that is mentally tough, for years on end, and it is really hard to even convey to anyone outside of academia why you would do that.

It is especially hard to convey to people outside of academia how 5 (nowadays often 6,7, etc) years of work all come down to a few, often seemingly random decisions of hiring committees and other structures.

You start grad school thinking it's something you build, bit by bit. At then end, it's more of an ever shifting collection of you, put together in the hopes it will be evaluated well. But then you realize, it really has little to do with objective quality, and much of the situation is outside of your control. There is no short project in grad school. It's the entire thing!

I think the worst thing is the uncertainty about literally everything. Is your Professor ever telling the truth? Will you really get that support two years out? Will the funding persists? What are you even researching?

I have seen people had the work of the past five years ripped apart during their thesis defense (or wherever), I have seen people make a few missteps and ruin their chances on the job market. I have seen people invest a lot in work that never makes any impact.
I have seen people who thought they'd make Professor, and then found they have zero motivation or talent for research and/or teaching.

You can never be sure that ain't you, until you have your PhD and your job.

It's always on your mind. Projects aren't short anymore, you work years on stuff before it ever becomes a paper. You work every waking hour and often every sleeping hour as well. And you lack the knowledge and experience to assess whether what you are doing will really go anywhere, if the network you are building is right, if the people you write to will be interested in your work. At the very least, you never know who else starts with you and will compete with you on the job market, which is increasingly filled with people willing to work for little money and little job security.

In the past two years, academic positions dropped 70% or more, at least in some fields. And we have 2-3 cohorts of applicants on the market due to Corona, and this will remain for years.

Academic research nowadays requires nerves of steel, and I have seen grad school ruin the health (mental and physical) of quite a few people, all of them very good at what they do.

So after all that doom and gloom, people need to realize that it is a struggle for probably everyone. But it is also rewarding, or it can be.
There are such niche services for classical music. For instance, idagio.com is really excellent with metadata. You see e.g. all works by a performer or all performers of a work.
That's right partially too. Autocorrect is tuned to qwerty for its hamming distance data used, and other statistics.
LOVE how they don't autorenew subscriptions. Despite the MOB fiasco, I think the people behind this still have good intentions.
iOS or Android? What do you use to listen?
LA is 5th cir.
Right, I think there are some pieces missing here…
Plex and its father KODI are very good for local. There are plugins for external stuff. But the quality is kind of random and subject to the whims of whatever SaaS they are scraping.
It is worth checking if you are:

A. Falling into perfectionism.

B. Putting unhealthy time pressure on yourself.

C. Worrying too much that people will think of you as perfectionist.
If you like to read about foundations, maybe you will like this as well: https://obua.com/publications/philosophy-of-abstraction-logi...
Or not trimming your input. I worked and reworked and reworked a problem once, the answer was some number in the billions. Eventually I gave up because I just couldn't work out where I went wrong. I then took someone's working solution and plugged my input in, and I was out by one, because it counted chars and I had a stray newline.

I'd like to say it only happened once, but, it happened again later that year... And then never again (because I pulled out code to always strip newlines after reading it in ;)
Will Twitter Become an Ocean of Suck?
If it didn't need to be said, you wouldn't see "Lock, Take, Hide" signs in many cities.
It runs under Rosetta 2. Not natively.
> corporate slave-driving overlords

> big city, that grass will never be green enough for me

Take your pick, I guess. I like cities, and I certainly don't want to feel like I'm a slave.
I completely agree, the problem is that the adverse selection problem makes finding these people difficult, and often uneconomical (not just unprofitable).
Yemen crisis: Why is there a war?
I just ported a handy epoch time conversion CLI tool from internal C++ to public Golang.

https://github.com/neomantra/tf

$ echo 1638392073 | tf -d
2021-12-01 15:54:33
Location: Minneapolis, mostly (Greece occasionally and until March...)

Remote: Preferred - Twin Cities companies welcome though

Relocate: No

FT?: Open to FTE for right opportunity, always open to contracts. Couldn't start FT until at least Jan 1. Open for short-medium-long term contracts always, especially if they can fluctuate between PT/FT.

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Ops (heroku/aws/ansible/docker), CI/CD, testing, API design, integrations/plumbing. Some: Python, Elm, IoT stuff, machine learning Love: architecture, mentoring, useful experimentation

--

Senior full-stack dev (lean more towards devops->backend than backend->frontend, but I can still sling some React components together and reduce your JS payload size). Lately I've been loving Stimulus Reflex and playing with a lot of micropython/ESP32 stuff lately.

I excel at figuring out how to solve problems at all levels of abstraction (including what level of abstraction you should use), getting a solution in place, and then figuring out the feedback loops to iterate on that solution. I'm the senior engineer that knows that most coding is coming to an understanding of what problem you are trying to solve. Sometimes the most impactful code is the code you don't write.

Trying to change the world, still parsing the source code. I've been programming on the web since 1995, had a first career as a social worker and policy statistician, and have worked full-time as a programmer for almost a decade now.

Especially enjoy API/architechture design, integrating with crappy systems, user research, and really weird bugs. Make a decent PM in a pinch, but would prefer you have great PMs.

Will give you more looks if you can tell me why what you are doing makes the world better, but you've got to really believe it in your heart.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/estiens/

Email: hello_from_hn@ericstiens.dev
Amazing project! Although, I would probably err on the side of caution and at least wear some safety glasses when hand-loading a supersonic trebuchet.
My impression is that once the Astral Plane opened up, there's enough academic reason to want to encode those glyphs as there are certainly some really interesting academic work already using Klingon glyphs or Tengwar or others (I don't know if it is more or less than say Linear A, but it's not a contest), and we do risk losing some of that academic discussion if it isn't reliably encoded in something like Unicode. Academic papers are very clearly carved out in copyright laws as "fair use". Unfortunately to protect fonts as copyrightable a lot of the similar carve outs that should make any and all Unicode encoding of glyphs "fair use" are something of a swiss cheese at the moment, and yeah I don't blame Unicode for feeling that their mission definitely does not include fighting the definition of what should be "fair use" in most of the world.
I think you are making logical mistake.

A trait can lead to a lot of different outcomes being more likely. Including outcomes that directly conflict with each other.

Saying "having these traits makes you more likely to be a good person" does not contradict saying "having these traits makes you more likely to be effective evil dictator".

You assume that if having certain traits makes you more likely to be effective evil mastermind it also means it must make it less likely that you are good person. Which is not true.

Imagine following situation: you want to measure how a trait makes it more likely that any random person out of entire population is a surgeon. And then you want to measure if a trait makes it more likely that any random person out of entire population is a lawyer.

We know that being lawyer conflicts with being surgeon -- both require significant investment of time and effort and you have to choose being one or the other.

But, we can find that having wealthy parents makes it more likely that you are both surgeon and lawyer. And that is because being surgeon and being lawyer both requires a heavy investment of time or money or both -- which is more likely to be possible if you have wealthy parents that can support you.

Which of course does not prove my point, but it does invalidate your argument.
I assume they mean native ARM support rather than depending on Rosetta 2, which from what I can tell [1] is still the case.

[1] https://doesitarm.com/app/signal/
Android. I use GoneMAD Music Player 2.3.2 (the rewritten 3.0.X version is a buggy mess with no new useful features), but really any music player will do.
Next stop lunar surface! Something like this may be what you need to export lunar materials from the surface, say to the LaGrange point.
Help me understand how filename is useful in a way that other metadata doesn’t already cover, please.
Amazon Brand Detector
Sorry, yes. There's multiple sources, but a lot of it collected here: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4461

They keep shutting down tickets about it, refuse to review a PR that implemented it for them, and won't even tick the box on the Signal iPad app that would make it available on M1 Macs (where side-loaders have already confirmed for them that it works perfectly.

90% of my Signal usage was on desktop, so this has left such a bad taste that I'd rather use almost anything else now.
Nice read, but doesn't say anything about business jargon.
An emulator for Cloud Bigtable with persistence to sqlite3
He built his arm first out of plywood and I’m pretty sure you could easily build the same design out of a high quality single piece of wood. It really comes down to an extremely well-optimized design.
Not really, AI is more of a large collection of activities. I would distill it down to "problem-solving".

The irony is that once you solve a problem, it's not a problem, so people's natural reaction is to only call things AI when they're unsolved. Once it's solved, "that's not AI".
Location: Cincinnati, OH

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Full-Stack Developer, DevOps, Project Management, Agilist. Also very skilled in presenting/demoing, and working directly across business domains. Currently on Microsoft stack but can shift over to the best tool for the task at hand.

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Well, they all look like garbage txt to me.
I didn't say it doesn't run, and thanks for the ill-informed downvote.
MLB Nears Bargaining Deadline as Lockout Looms
Literally just watch the video.
It might have to do with the fact that he's using rubber bands to turn the arm, while historical trebuchets used weights. A weight is limited in how fast it can accelerate so you need to use a lever (the arm) to increase the speed.
Thankfully as of v7 these are all bundled under a single "magick" command (with symlinks for compatibility). Hopefully in the future these can be removed
> That is not entirely true, if you translate the C code to Rust, you get C code, in Rust, with similar issues (or possibly worse).

thus it was basically true after all? Like, sure, Rust is turing-complete so you can simulate whatever C did and thus technically you can translate anything that C can do into Rust. But if it doesn't fix any problems, then have you really translated it into Rust?
I’d like to suggest linking directly to the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdXOS-B0Bus) instead of the hackaday page, which doesn’t even pretend to add anything and is largely incoherent besides.
You can totally do this with bad concurrency in Go: read-after-write of an interface value may cause an arbitrarily bad virtual method call, which is somewhat UB.
I am not aware of single goroutone exploits, though.
The question was "why connect?" and I gave a reason why you might connect despite not using the smarts.
Idagio is so good. I sub even though I'm not on it a lot to keep it afloat.
I agree with you on all three points; I was trying to point out that there's an adverse selection problem that the post doesn't seem to take into account. Even most VCs have a very difficult time making money by finding brilliant visionaries, and they have a number of factors working in their favor.
>I mean, it was a ton of unexpected rain,

I thought that was the point of climate change, that there will lots of 'tons of unexpected' climate events happening?
Why don't you name the URL? Share so we know to avoid. It is not like we are going to dox the guy or something.
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please god, do not buy out discogs and leave it the hell alone.

i already stopped last.fm after CBS ruined it.

I've used every music service and quit for a multitude of reasons. Libraries that "have everything" but manage to be missing albums or have albums takne down all the time, "shuffle" functions that don't work (Spotify), apps that prioritize and shove music in your face that you have no interest in (Tidal), or just being unlucky enough to be owned by some of the shittiest corporations the world has seen since the robber barons (Apple/Google).

The more they get rid of digital music stores, the more i fall back to vinyl.

Streaming sucks.
Why aren’t they offering $20 an hour?
A gentle introduction to automated reasoning
Don't they have a cryptocurrency to fund them instead, now?
I mean, I get it, asking for money means more funding than not asking for money, but it combines in poor taste, in my opinion.

I suppose at least they haven't gone in on NFTs, so there's still hope.
No one lives in California; it's too crowded.
Porthogs: Find which processes are hogging what ports
ffmpeg, the command line tool, is wonderful, until you try its library libav* (not to be confused with the ffmpeg fork). The library is… a bit short of wonderful, at least in my experience. Namely: there is basically zero official documentation for it.
The oldest copper artifacts we have are from the old copper complex around Lake Superior, and more recent metalworking traditions were present throughout much of the Americas.
Radium Ore Revigator
Having to stand downrange of it to windlass it is intimidating.
I guess the ecosystem that might make a language attractive was not built overnight. I'm not sure looking at the popularity since an initial release is the best way to measure how good a language is for a particular purpose.