skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the last two years have proven that we don't need air travel to connect people for business. I like the idea of making it cost prohibitive for businesses to frivolously fly folks around the world.

But we can all be a little reasonable and recognize no one should shame anyone for seeing their distant family every blue moon.
Mumble grumble Keras.

("Shakes old man's fist at sky, and at people who seems to enjoy boilerplate code too much")
Generally at big companies you needed people to manage the infrastructure, and people to manage the layer on top of that infrastructure though. With clouds you can consolidate those groups into one group that is smaller.

I think Cloud still costs more overall, never been convinced it actually saves money. I do think it tends to increase developer velocity though, and that can be worth it.
For this particular instance:

Your competition isn't women, it's men. Don't know if it's really a silver lining though.....if you are envious of onlyfans girls then wait until you see what Bezos makes in a minute.

Or the lifesyle of the GCC sovreigns who have the only merit of being descendants of people who fought and won for some wasteland piece of desert which ended up being extremely precious because of oil.
My understanding is that when people say the inflation is temporary they don’t necessarily mean prices will go down, just that they won’t continue to go up. This is important because some of the worst and hardest to control bits of inflation comes when actors start pricing in continued inflation
The author never would have met his partner and she never would have lived on a different continent to her parents if air travel wasn't a thing. Just like the US never would have become so car-dependent if the car was never invented. It's very difficult to take something away once it's been established. It can literally result in tearing apart families, and worse.

This is why sustainability needs to be better understood and we need to come to an agreement as a species that movement into unsustainable territory does not count as progress. The electric car does close to nothing for sustainability and should be considered stagnation, not progress.

I personally believe we need to make rather large sacrifices before we can begin real progress. This requires top-down enforcement where everyone shares their part of the sacrifice. People rarely volunteer for personal sacrifice and they are even less likely to when they observe their neighbours making no sacrifice at all.
You may find this osx tiler useful. These days I can't live without it and it's been stable for me for quite some time.

https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
A vision of sustainable housing for all of humanity
I agree. Maybe COVID has changed to be more cooperative with humanity (it's a good strategy for parasites to not kill their hosts).
That's literally among the least useful or relevant things we could do to stop climate change.

"We should all stop flying only if Steve puts out the campfire in his back yard" - ok, but that one of these things dwarfs the other. There will always be people doing things they shouldn't - or that you think they shouldn't - but that cannot stop you from making good decisions.

I'm not saying stop visiting your family, just that this line of thinking is completely counterproductive.
> You're implicitly arguing that NoOps is not only a functional model, but also scalable and much less costly than having a

I'm not. You implied too much.

> You might want to stop throwing around terms like TCO when you also clearly don't understand how to calculate it.

I do. I never said that people were completely eliminated (see one of my child comments). Everything you implied was that "well devs are doing the effort and that doesn't get calculated". That wasn't my argument - you just added that nuance as a retort.

> I guarantee you that conversations are being had in boardrooms right now about how to reduce dependency on that region, if not AWS entirely.

I guarantee you they are not. Also, how many data center providers let you simply spin up your whole environment into another region, point n click, and complete it in hours?

Source - work with 100+ companies with PE folks that sit on boards.
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Anyone remember LambdaMoo? This has all happened before.

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

I think focusing on stupid looking headsets misses the author's point. He's looking toward a decentralization of thought aggregation and how that will impact the 'real world'. Maybe it'll be similar when cable happened and we all stopped watching the same three channels?
As a cybersecurity person, what do you do about log4j?

1. Try to identify if you are vulnerable

2. Inform people in your company

3. Contact vendors of vulnerable products and ask for a patch

4. Have sysadmins install said patch

Cybersecurity people don't do anything. You're not patching. You're not finding the new flaws. You're reactively trying to solve problems when they make the news.
NAT has been forced on users. But NAT is also a security feature. I'm not talking about the implicit stateful firewall that could just as well be explicitly deployed for a whole subnet. Rather I'm talking about hiding as much information as possible about devices on your network. If you have a /28 with an IP for each computer on your network, then surveillance companies can build separate profiles on your desktop, your laptop, your wife's laptop, your kid's laptop, etc. When they're all behind a single IP, then they lose those bits of information. Higher level protocols can leak much more information, but it's better to address the problem at every level rather than giving up.
I'm not saying it's trivial to build this. I'm just saying that the "paper website" part is greatly exaggerated. The real meat of the pie is in website builder which _is_ more complicated than tweaking some parameters on some off the shelf OCR/GPT3 solutions.

It's cool, I've never shipped a project like this, and probably never will. But I've worked on my fair share of software so I know what it takes behind the scenes.
I have a sort of similar thing. I do not dream. That is, I am nearly 50 years old and I have never woken up having any recollection of anything happening from the time I fall asleep until I wake up. I understand that other people remember seeing or hearing things while they sleep (from what people describe, things like falling is a common dream theme). I've never experienced this. People say, "Oh, you do dream, you just don't remember it." After reading this article, would they also try to tell this person that he can see things in his mind's eye but can't remember them?

I also have Musical anhedonia (an inability to derive pleasure from music). Music does absolutely nothing for me. I've never had an emotional response to any music. I've always wondered if my inability to dream (or remember dreaming) is related to my inability to derive pleasure from music.

Neither of these are things I feel are true disabilities. Music could go away completely and my life would not be affected in any way. The fact that music exists also does not affect my life in any way. There are no ill effects from not listening to music. I've also never had any ill effects from not dreaming.
You might find https://staffeng.com/guides/what-do-staff-engineers-actually... interesting.
The title of that article should be enough to let you know how outside the norm that is.

Do yourself a favor and look up leading causes of child death.
There is a story that one of the animators in the 1940s Warners studio got into a car accident, and suffered a mild concussion. When he recovered, he found that his visualization was much improved - suddenly he could visualize the simple construction of the characters, and "trace" it directly onto the paper. This resulted in him being able to draw a lot faster, so that's a pretty obvious test.

(IIRC I got this story from Chuck Jones' autobiography, if you want citations.)

My personal experience as an artist is that some strains of marijuana can give my visualization abilities a temporary boost into that domain; a lifetime of regular drawing also tends to improve these skills - I'm fifty, and I can skip a lot of steps that younger me couldn't. I generally like to describe the process of learning to draw as "installing a 3d renderer and a library of models on your brain".
> But the marketing about one-size-fits-all is EXTREMELY tiresome. And the idea that every single business can or should be moving their entire infrastructure to the cloud is as well.

100% agree. Didn't mean to imply this. As with anything....it depends.
I watched the MLIG and MVG videos as well. It seems clear that care and engineering was put into the display logic.
ENS is solving for this by creating a common identity across crypto wallets: https://ens.domains/

That way he can be patio11 across all platforms if he wishes (and doesnt need to worry about getting "patio11" on every new platform that's created). Or, he can just create a subwallet with a different identity but still rolls up into his main wallet.

It also protects against somoene putting their twitter in their profile and pretending to be patio11. i.e.:

Hey HN I'm patio11, here's proof, I linked my twitter: https://twitter.com/patio11
For Firefox users, enable browser.ui.zoom.force-user-scalable in about:config to enable zooming on user-hostile websites like this that try to disable zooming.
It happens once in a while.
Crypto is definitely more of a pyramid scheme than a ponzi scheme. You have to keep recruiting greater fools to be able to financially benefit from it yourself. That's the "profit" you are referring to. There's still quite a bit of overlap though.
Hell yeah I’m doing fuckin great. I make almost double what I did two years ago and I’m receiving 20+ job solicitations per week. I believe the ever escalating rate of hacks has dramatically improved the job market from the employees perspective.

Cybersecurity is SUPER broad though and there’s a range of many different roles. I’m a bit surprised all the folks here saying they’re not okay. Best of luck to them and maybe it’s time for a role swap.

I used to work in a SOC so I get it and probably would be struggling if I was still there.
The screaming pihah when I lioved in the Perivian rainforest for a while.
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I disagree with the headline - we should want ways to get us to the places we're trying to go as quickly and efficiently as possible.

As the author points out, high speed rail is superior for regional travel in many ways and we should want more of THAT.
With all due respect, your comment reads like a case of 'I don't know math'-ism.

- $10,000 for four months is the equivalent of a $30K/year salary. That would have been low for me when I lived in Tampa, Florida, in 2000; in Silicon Valley in 2020, you could make more than that working at Panda Express. (This is not an exaggeration for effect, I promise.)

- doubling it to $20,000 is a $60K/year salary equivalent, right? That would have been just fine when I lived in Tampa, Florida, in 2000! In Silicon Valley in 2020, it is…not super great, let's just say. BUT!

- problem #1: "equivalent" is a dodge in practice, since actually it's, well, just $20K flat. WHICH LEADS TO!

- problem #2: the "extra six months" the article referred to the employer trying to add on after the fact did not refer to adding more money to the contract. Now we've gone from $20K for four months to $20K for ten months -- which is actually worse than the original offer -- and at this point we are handily back to "screw this, I'm gonna make more money slinging orange chicken at the mall".

tl;dr: the problem is not with the author wanting their time to be properly valued. "But building hardware is expensive, man" is not sufficient justification for this kind of nonsense.
It remains to be seen if the reduction in severity is offset by the increase in infectiousness.

Just as an example, if a new virus is only 1/2 as deadly but 3x as infectious the mortality rate would climb by 50%.
I have a family, local connections, etc. In the past year I've changed jobs twice, for a 45% raise in the last 12 months. But because all three jobs over this period have been remote, I haven't had to disrupt my family at all.

Since the last two companies have been headquartered in different cities, this wouldn't have been possible before COVID.

The silver lining on this damned pandemic has been a lot more options for people, like software developers, in the privileged position of being in demand with work that can be done remotely.
Offload what exactly? You mean making the same decisions, but through an opaque badly documented panel? Or you mean paying somebody to keep your OS up to date?

Going into the cloud does not alleviate any security decision. You can't buy security.
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What about replacing short haul jets with turbo props? Apparently they are more efficient which I find very surprising.
Not sure if a contrast between "base infrastructure" and "apps" in response to "only on webapps" is supposed to be a joke or not. Just because its not a webapp it doesn't mean it's "base infrastructure".
This book describes a scenario for falling in love with somebody by transforming feelings of envy into feelings of admiration:

https://www.amazon.com/Love-Lust-Psychoanalysis-Romantic-Emo...

Robert Greene in his Art of Seduction suggests you can get somebody else to fall in love with you via this scenario but I've applied it to myself and found it elicited strong emotions in me that I was able to transmit to other people. It also came apart just as Reik says it does once I read something that provoked envy that I rapidly attached to my object of infatuation and the infatuation shriveled up and blew away in about 48 hours, like the scene where the crust blows off "Pink" in The Wall after they shoot him up with anti-psychotic drugs.

Personally envy is the limiting factor of my reading program right now.
A vaccine resistant strains is extremely bad news; if it's less severe that would be good, but that remains to be seen while it's obvious now that vaccines are less good against it.

We should be pressuring our governments to make paxlovid legal and to encourage work on Omicron boosters, rather than pretending this is good news.
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I think the industry really f'ed themselves on not developing pipelines to onboard security staff when the shortage of professionals first became acknowledged years ago. Look at this research report from over 10 years ago discussing it as a problem[1].

Yet here we are, talking about burnout with more than a few people ITT _still_ talking about teams being understaffed.

Meanwhile there is no shortage of people obtaining credentials and education in cybersecurity who have nowhere to go because many parties feel these are effectively worthless. So what's the answer when the onus of training has shifted to workers, but none of the major players want to develop these people.

[1] https://www.csis.org/analysis/human-capital-crisis-cybersecu...
Until of course a random member of the fun police decides to put out a poll that somehow it is an insult to hospital workers to have fun and your planned activity gets cancelled by the authorities.

Surely it isn’t a big hassle to enter the Netherlands. But if you want to visit that museum, better make sure it’s before 5 o’clock, otherwise it’s closed due to lockdown. Or whatever rule happens to be active by the time you visit.

I’d instead just plan a visit to a country where the population when faced with a failing government isn’t cheering it on to take away even more rights and implement even more rules.

Remember a majority in the Netherlands still believes the ‘15 days to stop the spread’ theory, so whatever you plan in the Netherlands, it could be canceled at any moment and you have no recourse.
Before 1914, when the US switched to a fiat money system, inflation netted out to zero change for the previous century. Since then, inflation has stayed pretty consistently positive.

Inflation is caused by the government printing money to spend rather than raising the money via taxation. It's a politically cheap way to buy votes, which is why fiat money systems became universal among governments.
It would not be. Planes impact climate change much further than just green house gas emission.
How to define security requirements for your OSS project
If it applies to you, what's the problem?

If it doesn't apply to you, what's the problem?
Healthcare you mostly only need once you reach 50+ . Socializing it would send the wrong message as people have all the time in the world from 16 to 50 to have enough money to afford an health insurance
Most cars have a stop at D; e.g. for the ones where you pull the stem towards to to leave park, you can let the stem spring back at neutral and push it down until it stops at D, and for the ones with a button you can release the button at neutral.

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Honestly if the rotary dial had similar tactile feedback, it would probably be fine. No worse than when they moved it off of the tree as bench seats were retired for safety reasons.
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I have no idea man. Like I said in another comment, I feel you on the documentation part. They are...not helpful.
It won't... but with a screen size that small how much does that matter??? I own a RG351P and it's an excellent device for the money.

Not saying it doesn't matter at all, just that smaller screens seems to make that kind of thing less obvious.

To each their own though.
You like putting people in boxes and therefor others must, just like you, put people in boxes. It must be hard to be autistic.
> To achieve the “org-level” impact, principal engineers need to be very selective on what to work on and use as much leverage as they can. For example, to set them up for success and maximize their influence, a principal engineer usually directly reports to a “director-level” engineering leader.

Whoa, that is a cynical take and smells a little of sour grapes.

I 100% agree that the PE title is abused both out of nepotism, and out of site-wide populism, but the intent is relatively pure, at least at large companies where the title actually matters:

There are some engineers that are so good at solving problems that they can be dropped into any crisis situation and help fix it, like a special forces soldier. After 30+ years in engineering I've seen them in action, and most of the time they deserve the title. They are just that good. Those are your PEs.

However, you need a large enough sample population to produce PEs because it is based on relative performance. It is harder to identify one in a group of 10, but in a division of 1000 it becomes abundantly clear.

Typically how you become a PE is by waiting in line and keeping at what you do, because usually there are only so many PE's promoted per year to help mitigate abuse of the system (there will be some in bigger organizations). This idea of being selective is ... misguided. You don't really have a choice.

Now combine those last two paragraphs and I can see how it appears there is room for gaming the system by only picking cherry products. However, it is unlikely you would be able to say to a VP or GM, "Hey, I want to work on THAT project, not this crap one you stuck me on, because I want more visibility for promotion!" Maybe that'll work, but good luck?
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People say this, but before the web, on USENET in the 1980s and early 1990s, it was standard protocol (at least on serious newsgroups dealing with science and technology) to not only use your real name but even include a signature explaining where you worked and what your job was or if you were a student studying something or whatever. It was helpful in evaluating the responses -- a university professor, a professional in industry, and a student in a field each would have different viewpoints on a new technology or method, for example.
Well It's much harder to compare myself to Jeff Bezos than it is to your average looking woman in her 30s right?

Of course I am not a woman and therefore I cant participate in the same market but it still makes you think a lot about your life when those people can pull in a lot of $$$ without much work.

OnlyFans is a bit special because it's pornography.
> Add to that the general lack of education around cyber security

Part of the problem are the for-profit schools and bootcamps cranking out 'cyber security' graduates. They know the least out of all the people I interview. How can you pretend to know anything about cybersecurity when you don't actual know anything about programming or networking?

The classes cover buzzwords like vishing/phishing/smishing, you run Kali Linux and 'hack' something, and then you get your certificate.
Some aphantasics weren't born with it. Many have vivid dreams. So they can compare their own experiences.

How do you explain the perceptual priming, cortical excitability, and skin conductance differences mentioned in that article?
Right, though back then the search engines at least honored the exact search terms you entered and provided useful operators.
Their decision to outsource the OS was the reason the clones had a market.
Fair. :)
They could, but the government has made it too costly to manufacture locally.
“Facebook didn’t provide me what I wanted…THE WEB IS DEAD!”
My boss has this and I believe it's a real thing.

That said, how do you know? If I "close my eyes an imagine the apple in the picture" I can both see "black" like the author mentioned and I can imagine what an apple looks like. I would describe what I see as a photo of that apple but I can't actually see the apple. But I don't see a list of facts about it either.

So, is this a language barrier? Are there tests we can run to prove that I can see things in my minds eye that others cannot? Can I prove that I have the ability and that I don't fall into the 2%?

Edit: Apparently, yes, if I would just follow the links. The test says I have visual hyperphantasia but I still wonder, is this just the way I think about the things I conjure up in my mind? :P
Depends on what you consider reasonable. Per this study [0] NYC had, as of June 2020, about 100 deaths under age 65 from people without comorbidities. During the same time period there were about 200,000 cases. This made the chance of a healthy person dying from COVID about 1 in 2000.

Given the option, I'm not taking that bet. I wouldn't play Russian roulette even with a 2000-bullet revolver. Especially when there are pretty simple steps I can take to further minimize the risk.

(It would be nice to have more-- and updated-- data than this. If anyone is aware of a source, I'd love to know about it)

That's also discounting other (and possibly not yet known) complications from getting COVID. There might not be much of any, but we it will be some time before we know that so I wouldn't discount that factor in my risk analysis.

Serious measure to mitigate transmission rates still seems like a very reasonable practice, even for healthy people.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7327471/
I didn't really see that in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6l5fAbcim0, FWIW.