skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Idk anything about bottles, but just curious why you would want that feature? Like, what is a compelling use case for it?

Being able to run some applications from super fast but small NVMe disk and less important ones from slow but huge spinning rust disk, being able to run applications from a network share, CD, USB stick, etc. Desktop OSs have been able to do these sorts of things since the 1980s without all the hoops Linux Desktop software makes you jump through to do them.

> Being able to install and run flatpaks from any directory seems like it’d be difficult to implement for little benefit.

If Flatpak had considered this ability from the beginning it wouldn't be. Hell it might not be that difficult now, I haven't looked at the source for Flatpak and how it does things behind the scenes is otherwise not documented as far as I can tell. As you mentioned, AppImage implements it without much difficulty, and AppImages can be securely isolated by firejail. Combining the two concepts in the same package shouldn't be that hard. Keep runtimes in "installations" and let applications exists as single-directory self-contained units wherever the user wants them. What is fundamentally difficult about this?

> unnecessary since AppImage already offers exactly that functionality

If AppImage were fast becoming the new standard in Linux Desktop application distribution we wouldn't be having this conversation.
For everyone questioning the need for MS office. If you are an advanced Excel user nothing else will do.
Not to mention the fact that your job would be less than meaningless
> It’s not hard to spot the people who are playing games like this to put in half-time.

Only if they suck.
The reason being that they are older than Java 8, and not everyone buys into functional styles.

Even on .NET, with LINQ having been introduced in .NET 3.5, there might come up some PR discussions that I will just give up and rewrite the code to the expectation level of the audience.
Not every place is a startup first off, there’s many companies that hire separate frontend, backend, every little thing is a separate team. I’ve found these places to be the easiest workplace to get work done in less time.

Finding the second, part time contract is incredibly easy right now.

There’s 2-3 recruiters per day that email all of us on linked in. All you have to do is say “I’m only open to part time contracts at this time” and every other day you’ll have a request to interview and they don’t mind a part time commitment.

People make this seem so much harder than it is. It’s just networking well, and becoming an expert at your chosen language / field. Then you can easily produce enough output to keep everyone happy.
Kubernetes Isn't about Containers
I find that the people who most loudly praise logic and decry emotion tend to be the most emotional and least logical.

It's usually a way of saying "my assumptions about the world are self evident and any challenge to them obviously irrational".
EDIT: Spelling, formatting,

(Same person, another throwaway, my bad.)

I imagine that for some companies it is difficult, and to the extent that I feel a 'sense of justice' about it, I would hope that my efforts help the organization (or single person, acknowledging that) set up a process to handle this.

I'm *genuinely* not trying to be abusive though. It's *extremely important* that consumers have the ability to exercise their data and privacy rights.

I'm not that old (mid 30s), but genuinely much of the data I have on the internet was put there when I was an actual child. And it's still there. This is actually one of the first times I've posted in *years* online. I really want to delete *almost everything*. Note in my OP, I said I worked at Google. I quit, because although I actually think ad targeting and the surveillance network are actually okay-ish, I wanted to opt-out myself, on both ends. So far, this decision has cost me 250k USD personally (if I calculate out the opportunity cost since I quit, just so far). And for the websites/apps I do still use, I donate some amount of money per year. OK, maybe I'm a freak, I really do think this stuff is important.

What would you suggest I do? Leave all my data online? As I said, in my cases, I was an actual child (those COPPA things did nothing to stop me), and this is, so far, a really effective way at getting places to delete my data. Maybe it's because they're "scared" of the law, but you know, then the law is working. Before, nobody responded to my deletion requests, and many websites had no option to delete. As a libertarian-ish person, this is a clear win for the consumer in terms of "coercive power of the state being used to create a framework that increases net freedom".

I am open to being wrong though! Let me delete all of my data first though so I don't have to do this again.
Those graphs look a little too perfect to me. I wonder to what extent the words were chosen to give the desired graph.
Ha! Good point. But then his was an actual suit, not a threat.
Ask HN: Strategies to land a remote US job while not being US citizen?
I'm not a US citizen, not living in the US, but I want to work for a US company, obviously for money as they tend to pay more. How do I achieve this? I've seen on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29613382 that setting up an LLC would help, citing "set up a local LLC so that US-based companies can treat you like an independent contracting business. That'll make it much easier to hire you across borders." But then I'm worried about taxes.
Biological Anomalies
any framework can do that? Next can do that too, I only mentioned static web because i think it's pretty absurd to spin up a database for a blog.

who makes claims like "Rails is the only framework that has database with introspection"? What do you think the word "framework" means and what do you think other frameworks do?
Three jobs is definitely pushing past what's realistic. 120 of 168 available hours in a week, hah!

But, the sort of industry pearl-clutching about holding 2 jobs is interesting, when employers think nothing of making you work extra hours without comp, or be "on call" without comp, intellectual property clauses for stuff done on personal time, non-compete clauses, etc.
Exactly, if they’re doing a good job, how will you know.

You are biased because you’ve found people out, you don’t know how many others are doing extra work on the side, that you don’t ever catch.
> I go out of my way to ensure that this website handles as little user data as possible. I have gone so far to do this that the only unique identifiers I deal with are IP addresses…

This page uses Cloudflare so they’re offloading data collection but it’s still being done, right?
Darn good point.
Sill.dill is an ephemeral distributed forum client
something fun to try out maybe, a dart VM kernel (runs on any platform) to connect to a moderator (distributed,tiny,lightweight,anon forum) instance at omasome.fi (our testbed)

sill.dill runs on port 6776 and spits out json.

you can use curl to post new things and reply to things at omasome. if you need attachments, grab a free pinata.cloud account and curl your keys in locally to post pictures on IPFS.

sill.dill tries to be a fun distributed server where you can inject your own vue / cycle.js app to talk to the rest of the network.

take it for a spin!
Oh, it's for real alright: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Netflix/salaries/Software-Eng...
This reads to me as a weaker subset of Semantic Web (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web), which sadly has not caught on after the “hype”.

In lack of SW, Ubiquituous Linking still provides value. I would hope it catches on. Looking at you, Twitter and Meta, hiding public content behind sign-up-walls.
The original suggestion was to work 2 jobs.

The post I replied to projected that (for some reason) into being a bad idea because of some story deceptive, poor-performing, contracting violating, three concurrent jobs.

I stand by my statement. It is not wrong to work two jobs. That was the original claim despite what this other guy wanted to make it about.
For people looking at more of the mathematical side of how origamis are shaped and built, I recommend a wonderful book by Robert Lang: "Twists, Tilings, and Tessellations: Mathematical Methods for Geometric Origami"

This really covers a lot of ground on computational origami.
I'm one who tries hard to interpret those texts into my own "common" comprehension. I would love it if academics could communicate in more down to Earth lingo. But I suspect they're obscuring much of it bc they don't want bad forces to utilize it.

Agree with yr interp of feeling language. Hayakawa would too, re: poetry. Furthermore it's an expression of success... we've thought our way into awareness and can now practice "spirituality [...] forgiveness, [...] and healing." As well as just plain entertainment....

And all of this needs to bring in the media theory side that technical info has been moving out of books! I defy the authors to scan bound manuals, gopher, Usenet FAQs, IETF docs and github for signs of creeping "feminization."
It depends on what they are doing. A lawsuit is explicit, as is a contract. But a Cease & Desist may or may not be explicit.
I have a shortcut on my Linux desktop to switch my Dell U3818DW display to its HDMI input where a second graphics card passed through to Windows is running on as a KVM guest.

#!/bin/bash
ddcutil setvcp 60 0x11

On my Windows guest desktop, I set up a shortcut for Dell Display manager to switch back to my Linux host and primary graphics card on my display's DisplayPort input

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\Dell Display Manager\ddm.exe" SetActiveInput DP

Trivial to set up and works great.
> Why are people still using JDNI?

Because "java:comp/env" is the way for a J2EE web application to get values or objects from the configuration outside its container. Yes, nobody actually uses the remote parts of JNDI anymore, but the local variant (within the same process) is still in use.

And that's what led to this vulnerability: someone wanted to be able to get these local values within the logging configuration, which is a valid use case. Not realizing that this opened the door to remote values and objects.
People who play video games don’t act like video games are a technological gift from god that will cure all our woes and for which there are no negative externalities.
First impression is that the gui is beautifully designed, installation on NixOS was (as always with prepackaged Nix packages) painless.

I'm not sure what I should use it for though since I don't really run any windows applications other than games, and I use QEMU for that, only game that hasn't worked in QEMU is "Halo Infinite".
Why did it expedite the firing? Was he working for a competitor?
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You will never hit 100% vaccinated. A big part of public health is “compliance”. Compliance rates with cancer are low 90% and these are people that die without treatment.

Hitting mid-80% is actually pretty impressive.
Almost every large tech company now has fully remote tech roles for senior developers. $250k total comp is average for someone w 4-8 years experience.

You just need to be good in coding, data structures and system design - and be able to show this in the interview - achievable with some practice.
Exactly this. I accepted it because I got sick of the popup and wanted to talk to my family without having to try to convince them to move to another platform. I’m mildly annoyed about it but it didn’t seem like an issue worth spending time or effort worrying about too much.
"People of color" was invented as a way to help black people in the US by forming a coalition of them and every other minority/immigrant group. It's unclear if this worked, but it's probably effective at stopping the old system where immigrants (Italians, Irish) would "become white" by being even more anti-black than the WASP class they were trying to enter.
> A full time job means you are available for that company at that time.

No it doesn’t. That’s completely dependent on what’s in the employment contract.
The problem here is we simply can't. If people were good and elites cared about plebs we wouldn't be in situation where there are poor peoples. Tax money would suffice in many cases.

Lets say we spent every dollar spent on video games. But once we start draining money to these countries human greed starts to activate and only few amount of money will reach to hands to poor. When I was kid my parents used to tell me for every donation of 100 only 10 goes to poor people (can't verify). But if we go to visit poor country we will realize money is not that big problem. The biggest problem is greed, corruption and malfeasance.
Some really neat stuff on there. My favorite is this minecraft clone on a tiny FPGA: https://github.com/nickmqb/fpga_craft
Yes, the feedback mechanisms get
quite complicated because 80%+ of people cannot not afford the level of healthcare that they receive.

But the root of the problem remains the disparity in people’s expectations of the services they will receive with the amount those service providers are getting paid.
This is just another variation of the old argument that China's growth is fake.

> They are "locked down" even if they aren't stuck in their houses anymore.

Beijing is not under lockdown. Pretty much everything is open, and has been for more than a year. There are testing requirements to enter Beijing (which is something that's particular to Beijing), but that's it.
VADM James B. Stockdale – On Courage [pdf]
I immediately closed my WhatsApp account and moved to Telegram, and I urged anyone in my family who wanted me in a group to do the same.

They all switched, except my sister who works with people in countries where Whatsapp is the dominant communication platform.

I'm still ticked off that Google Allo was the best designed chat app of the past decade and that they thought Messages with RCS features could take its place.
Singapore hit 90%+ vaccination (eligible) a month ago and just got over a raging wave of Delta infections.
Last time was 1990 in Yugoslavia, then the Krim invasion 2014
On some level you can't repress feelings, you just dress them up in (pseudo) scientific terms and try to push them as logical arguments.
All that looks so fun! I'm in university right now and I have the means to do things - the uni provides an oscilloscope and a bunch of electronics free to use. I bought my own FPGA, but currently have no lecturers who know their way around them. I really want to do something cool with it, I've spent money on Udemy courses but everything is still so intimidating even after finishing them. I could at least interface with an i2c sensor. But man, even just a simple matrix multiplication module/architecture is beyond my means.

What should I do to learn so I can join in on making projects like in the FPGA Advent Calendar?
When you say "fully remote", do you mean partially remote within USA? Or within your region but working from home?

Companies advertising "remote" or "fully remote" jobs are almost never looking for worldwide remote candidates. Your location and cost of living always play an important role in compensation.
>> rules of the platform.

Which are themselves politically bias to one world view, that of the US political left.

To be clear I am not talking about the enforcement of the rules, which is a problem in itself, but the actual rules as laid out are such they favor the identity politics of the modern "left" in the US.

Those that do not support, or agree with identity politics must do verbal, and ideological self censorship to exist on said platforms.
Moreover, it's about /declarative/ APIs. Drive them with GitOps FTW!

As mentioned, Terraform tried very hard to provide this as a wrapper to all sorts of cloud-provider-provided trash, but it was never going to be portable, and was simply at the wrong layer.
Surprisingly it is not blocked now. What changed within half an hour? Very inexplicable. I'm on BSNL landline broadband, fwiw.
This is getting pretty expensive too, though.
Crappy phones, too! At one of my previous jobs there was a "device lab" where they had all sorts of phones and laptops for anyone in the company to come in and use and test things on. They had various generations of iPhones and iPads, high end and low end Android phones, some Windows laptops and an old MacBook. The room was open to all and freely accessible by anyone. I saw UX, dev, QA, product managers, and even the occasional person from sales testing stuff the site in there.

Every time I went in there and used an old, slow phone it reminded me to consider the person using that device for real. It's so easy to forget when you're working on your giant monitor with a super fast computer and a high end phone in your pocket.
Related: http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html
I love how to goal posts keep moving. “Oh, the vaccine would have stop transmission but Delta came along”.

Bullshit.
Human-friendly recent crypto news
Originally I meant author of the piece who would confirm the sale. But basically anyone who feels like writing into the commit log, which can be a creator, a consumer for confirmation, a trustee or a clearing entity that creates merge commits. Even multiple commits by the same person are thinkable if there are handshakes.

> The whole point of a blockchain is for people who can’t trust each other.

I guess that's a very valid point and from my understanding the anonymity baked in is quite unique. And yet, even if I bought say coffee from an independent online market. Probably it's good to have a chain of trust to the seller to know that it's high quality. (Like Amazon reviews)

After all this is what GPG or x509 provide, a chain of trust.
wow $200/mo recurring fee.. and they don't do your taxes? operating a compliant LLC isn't that complicated. I'd be curious to hear what they're doing that is worth $2500/yr.
Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness?
I'm mid-thirties working in Software/Data Engineering. I've been working at different companies during the last decade, and currently making ~$120k, and hitting no more than 40h/week.

I don't consider myself especially intelligent. Neither I'm dumb. I suffer from imposter syndrome from time to time, especially when I start a new job/challenge. I usually acknowledge these situations and manage to drive them without major problems. I have been in places where I was making way more but the job was boring, in startups where I was learning x10 every single day, I cut my salary to join especially talented teams, I stayed at places that required less than 10h/week while being paid for 40h... Sometimes I have been focused on pursuing a bigger salary, a promotion, or becoming a manager. I successfully accomplish most of these challenges. Every single situation had pros and cons, and none of them made me feel completely full-filled.

I thought I had a pretty good work-life balance but lately, I've been through health issues and every single doctor/therapist is pointing out to stress and sedentarism. Due to that, I've been reading some articles where researchers explain how people in tech started to care more about happiness and less about salary. I thought I was already doing that but looks like I've been doing something wrong with my professional career, and there is a path more equilibrated and focused on happiness I should follow.

Do you do something special?
This happened by mistake once. OpenVMS allowed for command shortening vs completion so you could type h edit if you wanted help on the edit command instead of help edit. One OS update broke that logic and h became halt. The results were unpleasant for many especially given OpenVMS at the time was commonly used on many financial systems, telco systems, government systems and much more. It's been a while so I forgot exactly when this happened but those impacted won't forget the experience.
Ask HN: Are surprise medical bills gone starting Jan 2022?
It looks like surprise medical bills like an out of network anesthesiologist at an in-network facility will be gone starting next month.

In fact, it looks like providers will have to give good faith estimates starting next month.

This sounds too good to be true! Is this real or are there exceptions and fine print to this law?

There must have been major lobbying to water this down.

I have a procedure that I will wait till after new year if this is real.
You have to consider total comp and then factor in that Netflix only pays cash but competes against the others. So you can get 600k at Meta via cash+equity+bonus you get the same all in salary and bonus from Netflix.
Unfortunately, verytrivial is almost certainly right. They deliberately designed it in a way that one will eventually consent by accidentally pressing the button.
Yeah I read the website and thought Bottles for winning Ng windows apps on Linux is already a thing - looks like this is a different company that’s ripped off the name.
> From tone I'm assuming this is a rhetorical question, but I believe the answer is obviously yes?

No, I meant to bring up how weird it sounds that investing more in businesses that earn more profit is volatile.

> Statistical variance is orthogonal to profit.

I do not know what this means.

> You'd do even better by investing all your money in the single highest earning company, but you won't cause it's a huge risk.

It is a huge risk to invest in the single highest earning company, but that is not what an equity index fund tracking the sp500 or russel 3000 is doing.

What equity index funds are doing is investing money in the entire market, all of the options, at the proportion that everyone else as a collective is investing into them.

If there were a scenario where 99% of the equity index fund was invested in 1 company, then the entire investing world is basically saying the safest investment is only the 1 public company.

What I think you are actually referring to is the volatility of the accuracy of the investing world’s opinion as a whole, or efficient market hypothesis. Which is the basis of investing in index funds (that you know only as much or less than what the entire market knows). If you do not assume that, then index funds do not make sense.
His head isn’t a solid mass with which a bullet makes an inelastic collision either.
No, no it doesn’t. Google search the lancet study. It found infection in vaccinated produced similar viral loads as unvaccinated AND easily infected other vaccinated.

It might reduce the risk of transmission, but only a negligible amount.
I can see merit to the argument that cryptocurrencies can provide easy and fast access to financial instruments to poverty stricken people that would otherwise be hard or even impossible to obtain. take for example the case when family members who work in high wage economies send money back home. it's not hard to see how cryptocurrencies can help in this situation: faster easier and cheaper transactions
A Comparison of Spanish News Coverage of the 1918 Flu and COVID-19 Pandemics
It’s interesting to see the process at work.
I don't run Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp on my phone.

I am not sure how hard it is to grasp that some people just don't use any of it. But I guess this is where you come to virtue signal about virtue signalling.

Besides, when you boot up your phone and you see the Android logo, you're fucked anyways.