skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you want to kill all new solar projects? Because that’s how you kill all new solar projects.
why did my dental technician (low paid service job with minimal requirements) happily tell me she has five children? their father "lost his green card" and left.. she was happy, it was one of the first things she told me.. I did not ask about that..

meanwhile, people from my own similar background are not getting married, not having children, and even more extreme things like that.. yet the average education in my group is a Master degree from a good college

handwaving about "leaders in whatever" and "the answer is more education" are just wishful thinking and denial, in my direct experience
Develop Amiga native apps using a container with VNC and (mighty) Lazarus
'whitelist' in r/powershell would get your post shadowbanned
never keep a lot of crypto on anything that is connected to a phone and or email
I suppose it depends in part on the sort of writing you do.

One of the reasons I basically never write stuff on a plane is that I find, absent Internet (and yes you can often get crappy Internet on a plane but it's also a good time to read books), I find I often need to pepper whatever I write with comments about checking this fact or that fact.

Of course, there was a time in my life when I managed to deal with not having access to the Internet. I also made more factual mistakes and just included less supporting information than I would today.

Even if I do a pile of research in advance, I just find there's a lot of overhead to not being able to verify facts, spellings, etc. on the spot.
Thanks for the detailed notes! Since it was announced, I was always very enticed by the Freewriter Traveler, but never pulled the trigger because despite a couple very positive reviews, I had a haunting suspicion that it wasn't quite up to the standard of quality that I would've liked to see, and moving content in and out just seemed way too painful.

The Pomera DM200 looks really interesting — pretty sure I recognize this from a guy on my that had one (or something very close to it).

A solution I've been playing around with a lot is the a foldable keyboard (I got this one [1]) plus an iPhone. An iPhone with an external keyboard doesn't give you Cmd + Tab, which makes multi-tasking difficult by default. In addition, it has the additional advantages of:

* Leveraging a device I always have on me and which I charge every night.

* If you get the right keyboard, it's full size, keeping typing non-painful.

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[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018K5EJCQ/
Potentially leverage, if you can swing it.
Rent is included. Did your rent go up?

I'm on a 1-year lease, so my rate didn't change. It might change when the lease ends next year.
I'm sorry, I don't mean Hyperscan, I mean simdjson [0]. I think I got confused by my recollection of Lemire/Langdale.

[0] https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson
Nobody cares what your internal performance rating is. People are desperate for warm bodies. Start apply, start talking to recruiters. You will get paid more, you can do this.
Music liscening issues is when I do on streaming sites. Try uploading liscenfed music to Facebook, YouTube or instagram.

The algorithms are suggesting it. Is pop music good if radios play it all the time?
I don't think men want sex substantially more than women. What causes an imbalance, IMO, is that women value casual sex substantially less than men for a variety of cultural and biological reasons and women's value in the casual sex marketplace have a much flatter distribution and is also front-loaded when you look across the age spectrum. This means most women either can pretty much get casual sex whenever they want or at least have lived through a phase where they could. Meanwhile, most men will never live through a period where casual sex is as easy to get as it is for the median woman at her prime, which may permanently alter the perspective of many of them and cause them to consider casual sex more valuable, regardless of their actual level of sexual desire.
This is why contracting was exhausting to me. lunch? Pause the clock. Get up to get a coffee? Pause. Go to the bathroom? Pause. Not typing but thinking about a problem? Pause.

It got old fast thinking about every fleeting second of my finite existence.
What if you are employed "full time" with the expectation that that means substantially more than 40 hours (and your compensation package includes equity in the company)?

That is the (commonplace) situation that I am describing, that almost all of my friends and acquaintances in this industry (developers) find themselves in.

They don't find it unacceptable, or they'd go do something else.
>I don't think governments care to (or can) regulate it

China has literally banned Bitcoin. Their approach is to roll out their own digicoin.

Governments have been very slow to figure out how to approach crypto, but the current Wild West of tax evasion, money laundering and virtual bank robberies won't go on forever. Just like counterfeiting and money laundering exists today, there will continue to be exploitation of the financial system, but it will be explicitly criminalized.
Yep. Bluetooth audio is probably best on Linux of the main 3 now that PipeWire exists (literally rock solid, I've never had a connection drop ever), but it's a toss-up when directly comparing CoreAudio to PipeWire. Once PW irons out it's latency issues, Linux may once again become the AV king! (well, maybe not the video portion with the state of Wayland these days...)
> those organizations can't last forever without people doing actual work.

Maybe not no work, but very little work, they can last a very long time.

>This doesn't mean the work disappears.

It may have never existed in the first place.
I would have posted faster but I was too busy doing my own little bit of debugging which consisted of

1. dig @1.1.1.1 jgc.org
2. nc -v 104.22.11.223 80
3. curl -v https://jgc.org/cdn-cgi/trace
4. curl -v https://jgc.org/

Hmm #1 was fast so network is routing OK. Hmm #2 was fast so TCP is OK. Hmm #3 was fast so I know (because I worked on that code) that this code path is good. Hmm #4 is slow so that means component X is slow but still working.

Of course, in parallel I'm in a conference call with about 40 other people who have actual access to monitoring and systems and other things who can see exactly where things are.

But I was damn close with four commands and gave me confidence in what people were saying. But, I have to say, Cloudflare's internal distributed tracing system is pretty cool because I got sent a trace and you could see right where the slowdown was.
Maybe we all came out ahead. I used to commute 20 minutes in each direction, every single day. (OK, often longer when there were subway problems.) That made my 2000 hour work-year into 2166 hours of non-personal time a year. If you take your pay and you prorate your salary for 2166 hours of work to 2000 hours of work, that's a 7.7% hit. But, we only took a 6.2% hit. So maybe the whole "pandemic caused inflation, and pandemic caused remote work to be a real thing" evens out. You could look at it like a 0.9% raise. And, I think my 20 minute commute was atypical... if you were commuting 2 hours a day, you just won the lottery.

As likely many other replies have mentioned, if you want more money, you should ask for it. Or find a higher bidder. That's the market; your goal is to receive the maximum amount of money for your work, and people buying your work are incentivized to take the lowest price you'll offer them. The economy did a sneaky sneak and changed the value of the dollar, but it wasn't so sneaky that you didn't notice. So, do something about it!
> This however, is probably not the case.

That's obviously for the company to judge. If they continue to pay him and promote him, why is the takeaway that he is committing fraud by not working an arbitrary 40 hours a week?
Just want to say thanks for mentioning django-ninja. I hadn't heard of it. It looks exactly what I've been wishing was out there. Django is just so good, but the lack of type hints make FastAPI super attractive, so django-ninja seems to have found quite the sweet spot.
Maybe she was self-aware of the situation as well and decided to turn it into material for next joke
Where do you think the budget comes from?
Better transportation tech would be needed to live outside those cities with the same convenience. Better green tech would be needed to make it as energy efficient as the city. Tech can definitely help.

I see a distinct lack of cheap mass spectrometry. With a billion dollars and a contract to sell millions of them... they seem to be able to mass produce almost anything.

At the very least, why can our phones not detect fevers?
The cumbersome part of notarization is having to physically go to the bank, which would be the same for the post office. The performance of showing up in person, and showing a physical hard-to-forge ID, is exactly what drastically raises the bar for an attacker.

Doing this instantaneously implies skipping the heavyweight process. Which I assume means doing something like a one time (or periodic) cumbersome in-person process, and then repeating a quicker online process. Any private company could create such a system right now, bootstrapping off the notarization framework to do the heavy lifting.

But credit cards and other traditional financial institutions don't actually care about identity in such a strong sense. The standard process for setting up online access for a new account at a brick and mortar bank involves leaving the bank, going to their website from home, and entering your not-particularly-private information to sign up. That could be easily modified to setting up initial access credentials right in the bank if they wanted to, but the traditional financial system is pretty forgiving for the most part.

So we're really talking about custodians of new bearer instruments (eg cryptocurrency), which are more like cash. Hence my reference to these new holding companies being the ones that should be integrating notarization into their exceptional account access methods. Of course they could also just insist on the use of real security tokens, require a second one for backup purposes, and simply not use SMS at all.

FWIW another more convenient way of doing brick and mortar verification is to snail mail out a letter with a code on it to the address of record. It obviously doesn't have super security properties (anyone can steal mail), but it's much better than electronic-only non-verification and much nicer than surveillance database verification.
"we get government even more detached from the popular will"

Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels present an abundance of evidence that there is no popular will. The public does not understand the issues. The voters do not know what they want. Achen and Bartels also make the interesting argument that when there is more than one issue (more than one dimension) it becomes difficult to build a 51% coalition that also has 51% support on every issue, and where there are, say, 100 issues, it becomes almost mathematically impossible to build a 51% coalition that also holds the popular position on every issue. Put differently, to win elections, politicians must advocate for some deeply unpopular issues. This is the most important thing to understand if we are going to understand "Why elections do not bring about responsive government." (the subtitle of the book).
Drop your email address or some other contact info in your profile if you’re interested in working somewhere that does.
I took a 100K pay cut to move to a company that does work that doesn't frustrate me.
Then you're going to be really upset when you hear commercial hydroponics exists, which grows food crops without any soil at all, and is a multi-billion dollar industry.
Very grateful to you and Pear for the all the lessons on talking to customers. Will remember for a long time!
That's a really interesting story. Can you elaborate more? Have you tried to reach out to the owner?
I kind of love all these "comparisons", most of which miss, consciously or not, the most obvious points. For example:

> In 2020, ~3500 tons of gold were mined [...] This brings the gold mining industry’s 2020 total to 265 TWh of energy used.

Bitcoin is touted as a currency. If the currency doesn't move, it becomes irrelevant.

But gold doesn't need to be "re-mined" to stay relevant. Gold is gold, and if it were to be stored in a vault for several years, it would retain its market value.

And another:

> I calculated a figure of 660 TWh of energy used by the banking system’s branches and ATMs, in addition to cotton, plastic, and metal for manufacture of notes and coins [...] Bitcoin uses 113 TWh of energy per year.

Bitcoin accounts for a insignificant fraction of all financial and monetary transactions, yet it uses around 1/6 of the total electricity the banking system consumes, apparently.

In other words, it's much more energy efficient to buy goods using Visa, than with Bitcoin.
We all have high points and low points in our career. Sounds like you're in a low point.

I found a book many years ago called "How High Can You Bounce?" TLDR: take advantage of a low point to set up your next high point.
If you're "midlevel", that doesn't mean you're worthless. You may be dead-ended at your current place, but there are other places.

You may say that your skills don't transfer. You may be right. But the market (at least in some places) is hot enough right now that they may take skills that don't transfer. (They're better than "no skills" and "nobody available".)

So if you feel that you're dead-ended, the time to try to get out is now.
I'm glad you found it helpful! One thing to add that just occurred to me: filling your waking hours with a job is "easy" because a full-time job usually takes up a large amount of our free time (half or more!). If you don't have the job, it might be hard (or even impossible) to find just one thing that fills up your time to that degree.

So when a person who is fully employed might in addition have one or two other activities that they use to fill up the rest of their time, a person with no job might have to come up with 10 or 15 other activities. I can get why that might seem daunting... the can be a lot of mental overhead just deciding what you want to do, and then some overhead around organizing that time and keeping up with your various activities. So I can see why that might be a little off-putting as well. But to me, I think it's worth it. And with a larger amount of smaller things that you do, it's probably easier to stop doing one and find something else if you decide you're tired of it. Much easier than changing jobs, at any rate.
I remember a certain retrospective and being called out for not participating enough.

I was one of the few people dealing with outage at the time, which was known to project management... (And we had to deal with said outage with laptops on knees in overfilled conference room)
Now you're just showing off :)
No. As everyone else is telling you, and me worthlessly adding onto the pile because it bears repeating... look around you!

I spent all of an hour updating my resume and LinkedIn, was bombarded with recruiters, and had 2 offers about 50k higher than I make now within two weeks.

Don't feel bad for leaving when times are good...they sure won't feel bad for firing you when times aren't.
Most of my experience has been in FileNet and Neoxam. I have limited/inconsistent experience with AWS, Java, Python, and Android.

The options are very limited with Nexoam and FileNet. Especially with family constraints like not moving.
Perhaps the incentives will lead to a drop in breastfeeding rates.
Fun story I've shared here before, at my first job I got a 1%-2% raise every year for the first 3 years. On the third one I said, "if I don't get a better raise this year I will find another job". I got another tiny raise, found another job that was a 20% increase. My boss comes to me and said "how much more do we have to pay you to stay?".

They could have easily paid more that entire time but thought I was a sucker. I felt deeply insulted at that point and just told him it's too late. Best move I ever made.
I love Python (flexibility, ecosystem, datamodel). I love Java (verbosity, explicitness, robustness). Now, kill me. I don't let others define what I should and shouldn't think about a tool, in this case a programming language. I make up my own mind based on my own experience with the tools. Remember, they're just tools. Not the end game.
For google-trends it translated "Is there anything cat-related that people are excited about?" to something very reasonable that worked (answer: popcat apparently). Nice!
>This reminds me of the younger generation sometimes perceiving messages ending in a period as rude.

I've never seen any comments regarding a single period, but I've seen comments (and sometimes agree with them) regarding the perceived rudeness when ending messages in ellipses.

"Good job..." seems almost sarcastic compared to "Good job.".
Think of an install that generates enough for the customer during the day and needs grid supplement at night. Based on reading this, they'd still get charged. Maybe it's only for solar that feeds back to the grid, but event then, if I only have a small amount of excess capacity, it's possible it won't even cover the monthly charge.
This correlates with an analysis I read early in the pandemic. In fact they theorized many minor plagues of the last few centuries were coronavirus and that most common cold strains were descendants from these. But since it’s not the black death or small pox the historical record doesn’t put as much emphasis on them. They could trace a few strains to specific plagues because the molecular clock technique limited their search to the last 4 centuries.
Remix.run has this figured out. Basically your backend is just a loader/hook that is colocated in the same js file. It would be great to have this idea in Rails view layer, for more complex UX cases.
Software Engineering Idioms You Should Know
Average inflation is 6.8% but you are not an average person and aren't buying the average amount of new cars, etc. So have you actually lost anything?

And I guess you aren't in an RSU-compensating industry.
I just talked to a recruiter today from a company I'm beginning the hiring process with. When they asked about compensation I asked about their range for the position, which ended up being about $15k higher than what I would have asked for. Now I'm looking at a 50% raise if they end up making me an offer :D
The question always was what kind of attack are you trying to guard yourself against. I imagine top level agencies have a way to crack truecrypt/veracrypt encrypted volumes, but I also imagine they aren't using that capability against just anyone to not show their hand and risk the issue being fixed.
Here's my Senator on the subject of postal banking:

> “You would have to work very hard to come up with a worse idea than having the government become a national bank executed through the post office,” [Sen. Pat Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican] said. “Even if the U.S. Postal Service was the most competent, professional and best-run organization on the planet, they should not be in the business of banking.

> “We have banks,” Toomey continued. “The idea that the government is going to do a better job is just laughable.”

What a moron.

https://www.oleantimesherald.com/news/gop-senators-oppose-id...
You don’t uninstall snap if you use Ubuntu?
How to do an unique validation in a full stack framework (Laravel):

https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/validation#rule-unique

How to do a unique validation in nestjs (didn't find it in the docs, so had to Google it):

https://gist.github.com/zarv1k/3ce359af1a3b2a7f1d99b4f66a17f...

No thanks.

This is still apples vs molecules to mount your own apples.
I got a new certification and a raise, that while I was thankful for, wasn't quite what I was expecting. I interviewed somewhere else, and my company matched the offer. All total, 40% raise this year.
I'm sorry, but how is this simple?
Covid Vaccines Compared, and that shaped (2021)
> Who the hell thought it was a great idea to couple all the commands like WiFi, power energy, etc under the same menu?

ahem, gnome, ahem
Yeah, I interviewed for a phone system app internally. I turned it down because of lack of options afterwards.
I believe that the prices (and both the availability of capacity and the requirement to use it/pay for it) for Apple were locked in even before TSMC had the current 3nm process, as a certain source of revenue removing much of the business risk of building the fabs.
You're fast! Good job. I present you with a trophy.
I got a 28% raise by switching jobs this year. Also added supplemental income via my own LLC and taking on occasional short contract work (time management skills are key). Overall I'll increase my income by 40% when accounting for inflation.
I just switch it on for the music; not the same without the game graphics for the atmosphere. These 3.5 disks are robust; my disks are really old by now. They seem to hols better than cds.
i think it was probably downvoted because it makes reference to an unrelated and broader national political battle.

but since we're here, i'll note that i suspect that there was great alignment between ca's executive leadership and recommendations from ca's public health authorities. bringing up public health officer power in california would be relevant, if say, ca public health officers were overriding the ca governor's office.

they were not, they were working together.
Practical flying cars were invented in 1950: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerocar. From what I can tell, there wasn't enough demand.
Half of my salary is in RSUs which are pumped up in value thanks to J.Powell and Co. Sure my base salary raise sucked but I can't complain too much. I don't know why blue collar folks aren't rioting in the streets though. The Fed is absolutely screwing them in favor of the asset owning 1%(who, arguably, have a gun pointed at the economy's head and have to be placated somewhat).

My only complaint is that I have a large cash pile because I was, prior to massive asset inflation, looking to buy a house. The fed is taking money out of one account and putting it into another as far as I'm concerned.
Particularly, one of the most useful feedback we heard early on was adding support for rendering the GUI in jupyter/colab notebooks. Extremely common use case (that also allowed us to distinguish ourselves from some competitors)
There are two such regulations in the making by the UNECE atm [1], the R155 regarding cyber security [2] and the R156 regarding software updates [3].

[1] https://unece.org/sustainable-development/press/un-regulatio...
[2] https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/R155e.pdf
[3] https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/R156e.pdf
I had to look these up (just me doing Google searches):

- tqdm: progress bars (https://tqdm.github.io/)

- rich: text formatting (https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich)

- textual: TUI, using rich (https://github.com/willmcgugan/textual)

- fastpi: Rest APIs (https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/)

- typer: CLI Library, uses Click (https://typer.tiangolo.com/)

- pydantic: Custom data types (https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/)

- shiv: Create Python zipapps (https://shiv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

- toga: GUI Toolkit (https://toga.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

- doit: Task runner (https://pydoit.org/)

- diskcache: A disk cache (https://github.com/grantjenks/python-diskcache/)
I really wish there was some bank would support plain TOTP. I don't want 5 different solutions to managing my TOTP tokens. I already have one.
Is Verizon still using supercookies?
I'm glad commenting on HN takes priority over notifying your enterprise customers.
Trying Out the Quite OK Image Format in Toit
I'm not sure what the practical outcome of this will be, but the quantum woo community is going to have a field day with it. Ugh!
Yeah you may need to use Glorious Eggroll [1] for some games.

[1] https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases