skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as you're still sucking wind, it's possible to get out of your rut. Your city must have some techie Meetup groups that gather periodically. Do networking of the human kind and seek out acquaintances who are also in the tech space. Check out Code for America and see if there are any Brigade chapters local to you. You might have to get a bit creative and think outside the box to find doors to open, but it's doable.
It's anti money laundering regulation, and yes under no circumstances are you allowed to tip off the client that he's being investigated. You are literally obligated to lie if they ask and say there's an undetermined hold-up or something like that. If you don't you become criminally liable, even if the customer is found to not have broken any laws.

Work for a hedge fund under both US and UK regulatory authority.
I grew up in Detroit, but moved south about 15 years ago. I've got a couple friends from MN, and visited there for a conference ... maybe 8-9 years ago. I loved the downtown - big enough to feel like a 'real city', but not overwhelmingly so. That was my impression, anyway. I was only there for a few days, but really liked the short vibe I got. I was visiting in July, however, and kept imagining how brutal the winters would be. I have to imaging 'as bad as Detroit' or perhaps worse. It was amazing to me how quickly I don't miss winter/snow at all. I never cared for it, even when living there, but when you're born in to an area, you 'live with it'. After a while, much of your life is there, and leaving can be hard (friends/family/work/etc).

My family is in 34(f)-degrees-Detroit area right now, while I had a 72(f)-degrees afternoon. Just could not think of moving back permanently, but I do like to visit.
Where I can download Google map data dataset for my own processing?

Yes, Google makes apps usable by general public but their database is proprietary - including what people contribute for free.
Thanks for the honest take, appreciate it.
It has been a few years since I read the book. But I recall very clearly that he states that the definition is very narrow and strict in order not to get into subjective arguments on whether a job is necessary or shouldn't exist. For instance, one could argue that the world would be better off without telemarketing, yet the argument doesn't make telemarketing a bullshit job. IIRC, military was another example from the book of such a case.
Spotify: not shuffling your playlists for 10 years.
Oh, that leads to an interesting possibility: Yet another vulnerability in their extension, allowing a malicious web site to access the master password.

This could be very hard to trace since users would have to notice the correlation between visiting a certain web site (or e.g. one of many compromised sites) and getting hacked. Worse, combined with malvertising, it could be exploited from almost any web site if the user doesn't block ads.
I hear you, but I also think tab completion is one of the basic amenities we should expect shell users to avail themselves of in 2021. And distro-makers can even pre-configure them for their users. I can understand why a distro maker might not be interested in accommodating users who don't want to use decent tab completion with smart casing.
What you search for is an autoencoder.
I'm confused about where you see a diagnosis as being relevant to the discussion.
I posted the GP, with the sizes, etc. I think they do have a somewhat hard problem to solve though. They probably also want to minimize remote calls so that the extension is functional offline, is more secure, etc. Which would drive the size up, especially with localized errors, etc.
I have been hearing "Ethereum is switching to proof of stake in a few months" for at least 6 years now. I don't think it's going to ever happen.
> But 5G on iPhones has been "coming" for years

iPhone 12 series was the first to support 5G - launched in Oct 2020. That’s barely over a year ago?
There was never regulation to begin with.
I don't think you're missing a ton. Getting game developer buy in is definitely the biggest challenge.

I think "GameFi" is the most compelling use case. Use your in-game items (NFTs) as collateral for a loan, or lend it to other players to use while you retain ownership. Game devs could build all this functionality themselves, but they get it for free if they don't take the walled garden approach.
Apple being a $12 trillion company in four years just seems pretty low probability to me.
Large Installations Systems Administration, a now defunct conference.
"The giant bag of money" has been a thing for a long time -- it predates whatever branding issues people perceive them having lately.
Years ago, I looked at sample questions for the probability exam, which most people take first. To get a passing score you had to be able to quickly recall different probability distributions and also you needed to have a pretty solid grasp of the mechanics of things like double integration. Intro calculus-based mathematical probability classes cover most of the material, but passing the test requires mastery of at least the applied side of math probability.
I think it comes down to how incentives are structured. In my experience, if someone who is promoted from L to L+1 fails to succeed at that new level, that person's manager is dinged for pushing a promotion that the person wasn't ready for. Conversely, an external hire who comes in at L+1 and fails to succeed is chalked up to the difficulties of hiring, with no negative consequences for the hiring panelists. As a result promotions are much more conservative than hiring. Which definitely sucks.
> why not both? an environment of stagnant companies offering jobs involving difficult calculations sounds ripe for disruption- is it being strangled by regulation or something?

Those jobs only exist because of regulation. The regulation dictates that the insurance companies must do those calculations and that the calculations must be done by a specially ordained priesthood of actuaries who have passed a bunch of random math and finance exams. That priesthood does not want technological disruption, they like their spreadsheets just fine, thank you. In recent years the executives at the insurance companies went through a fad where they decided they wanted to try out this whole "disruption" and "innovation" thing, so they created various kinds of "innovation" departments. Typically, when a company does that, after a few years "innovation" becomes a four letter word and they never talk about it again. In order to climb the corporate ladder as an actuary, you have to focus on the politics surrounding you and not on the terrible technology surrounding you.
No it was a comment trying to indicate that I found your question odd, and ask why you think your question is useful? Do you believe there is a single notion of brand new that can be applied across all categories? Is the age for brand new milk the same as for software or for scientific results or items of clothing? Or do you believe that for the categories of software and cryptographic theory the notion of brand new is equivalent?

Frankly in my reading of your question you come across as very arrogant, where you use the guise of a “serious question” to show off your knowledge cryptography.
The Unplanned Costs of an Unmanned Fleet
This seems completely backwards, is it not that packA and packB have symlinks to the system index?
This could be outdated information that I have, but don't actuaries constantly need to study for their exams/certs? Does that fall outside of the 40 hour/week range, or is that done on work time?
I can't get any sort of loyalty discount from big telcos or cable companies either, but they'll gladly give me 3 months free service to switch to them. You been a customer with us for 8 years and want the $10/discounted rate we've plastered billboards with? Get lost. Or... go switch to a competitor, then we'll court you back with freebies.
Given how BSD was used to create proprietary MacOS and PlayStation operating systems with basically nothing contributed back - I am not convinced.
Although expensive we have the materials to go much deeper. If we could get to 1400C we could make concrete almost for free.
That's the exact problem. They claim to provide an API but at the end of the day under the hood, thats what's being done. It really annoys me.
Pretty sure K&R calls C a high level language. Just a matter of perspective, innit: a high level language to assembly programmers, a low level language to .NET/JVM/web programmers, and prob something like a lower-mid-level language to someone looking at the whole tower from a distance
From the picture in the article each hole seems to have rings of different widths and possibly counts.
Ten years after the shuttle was retired, do we miss those capabilities?
Agreed, but the problem here isn't provided by the caller, but it's by the python package that claims it's an api to GnuPG.
I wonder how the difference looks like if you think over the whole career.
All these coins and projects have a mission statement and high level overview on how they think it will be useful in the future. It's up to you to believe them but they do have a proposal.

The stocks are more opaque in that regard, they are required to publish some declaration and financial disclosure but explaining why you need to invest in that company stock often comes down to CEO's appearing in the press. Countless internet ventures died in the process.
Cant say we didnt try to make coal clean. Turns out its more expensive than its worth and commercial operations dont see any benefit. Time for Manchin and his constituents to read the writing on the wall and get over coal.
I know, right? In this context, the 'z' always looks like the Russian 'й' to me.
I’m a fan of the NixOS module style typing. It feels like the right compromise for something like Nix. Domain specific type system is also helpful for documentation. E.g. in NixOS, the types and the docs live together and benefit each other. Giving that better support in the language and building editor tooling around it seems like the way to go.

There’s an open RFC/PR to bring NixOS style modules to Nixpkgs for package management (with derivations being the primitive).
Google have reached out to me and I didn’t attend a privileged college by any stretch.
12 is better, it's special - the lowest superior highly composite number
>It is still a negative-sum game, but some people have not yet realised that they lost.

And some people have not lost at all. As a lifelong poker player, the calculus is very much the same. A poker game where rake is taken out is a negative-sum game. But that doesn't mean that every player loses, even if they play forever. There will be more net losses than net wins, but these are not evenly distributed.
Designers have often get some nice amenities to make up for less pay than SWEs. Design managers also seem to be more emphatic and experienced.
Since the job is all about helping insurance companies manage risk, someone who makes "safe" choices would be a good fit.
The article touches on this:

> Grandparents' rights groups are one step forward and one step back. One step forward, because the majority of the people who are interested in this cause are the people grandparents' rights were meant to help: grandparents who lost touch with their grandchildren through the parents' divorce, incarceration, or some other rupture in their children's families. However, it also brings out the people who think they have more rights over their grandchildren than the children's own parents do, the people who want to force a family reconciliation through the courts, the people who want to take custody of their grandchildren to punish their children.
I think you can assume this is for first degrees, mostly for candidates at, or recently at, school. As far as I know, PPE is only an undergraduate course, and DPhil (PhD) wouldn't be a "course". https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses-listin...

[Fairly early in the pandemic, satirical organ Private Eye had an item on the cabinet(?) discussing the disastrous lack of PPE. Even the prime minister only did Greats, and some of the cabinet didn't even go to Oxford.]
Howdy, I didn't know Gotify existed when I started writing ntfy, so it's in a sense very similar because it makes sense this way.

ntfy is open by default, meaning no need to create accounts or set up anything. You can use it without having to remember a token or anything. That means you can use it easily on servers where you cannot install anything, e.g. at work.

It's also a pub-sub system and not just a notification system, so you can do stuff like collect data from multiple machines super easily with multiple publishers and one subscriber [1], and whatever else you can think of.

In terms of features, I'm lagging behind a little on some things (images, nice web UI) but I'm ahead on others (scheduled messages, tags/emojis, webhooks support, email notifications, publish via email, see more [2]). I've also got a CLI that can run commands on incoming messages which is pretty neat (see [3]). Plus, i think the docs are pretty neat too.

I suggest you give it a go and tell me what you think. It's pretty easy to install the app and uninstall if you don't like it.

Here's a summary from a while ago too [4].

[1] https://ntfy.sh/docs/examples/#collect-data-from-multiple-ma...

[2] https://ntfy.sh/docs/publish/

[3] https://ntfy.sh/docs/subscribe/cli/

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/qxlsm9/my_open_...
Just to be clear (because I didn't realize this until earlier this year), but Carbon Capture generally refers to capturing CO2 emissions at the source, like coal-fired power plants. It does not generally refer to extracting CO2 from air at large. As such, they are, in all reality, a bullshit boondoggle invented by the fossil fuel industry as a bandaid for business as usual.

I am not surprised that this $1.1B basically bought nothing. It's just more Pollyanna BS that keeps the current freight train barreling along at full speed.
Thanks for sharing, but this isn't responsive to anything I'm asking or saying.
While I agree, Cloud based PM do have other issues.

Mainly with compromised\rogue updates, you push a malicious update to customers and then get access without needing to compromise the hosts.

Very similar to a supply-chain attack.
> ...if they’re not already open

It's not the same when the office is "open," but only 5% of people are coming in.
Do people actually take those rules seriously? Pretty sure there was a story on HN recently about governments moving to make robots for killing
As someone once said, I hate people, but I don’t mind working with other people who hate people.
This document was very helpful to me https://docdro.id/ZtXxCNd
Nitpick: "orthogonal" would mean "independent of"; that is, a high dependency count has no effect on exposure. I think you might have meant "antithetical", meaning "in opposition to".
The nowadays standard understanding of IVC is that it was before the Aryan migration. I should have have added an /s to that earlier comment to make that clear.
Ok, but how do you compile it? When you pull the repo you need to run autoconf to create the configure script but that tells me "This script needs an existing MIT/GNU Scheme installation to function".
Are you okay there? It got a little specific at the end.
It would be interesting to know exactly where the funding went.

Who were the prime contractors and their sub-contractors?
> Apple has product managers?

hiring so many project managers.

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?search=pm&sort=relevance...
Have you tried just emailing recruiters directly on LinkedIn? My resume isn’t flashy (no-name college and no-name work experience) and certainly it wasn’t a few years ago. Yet, a few years ago I managed to get interviews setup with every single FAANG company, and accepted to interview at three of them. I entered through the front door with no connections, by simply searching recruiters on LinkedIn and “spamming” a couple directly (spam = one single message).
I'm so tired of these stories that pretend like the the map has 100% culpability for the decisions the drivers make. If a road looks closed or dangerous with your eyes, you shouldn't ignore all of that and drive it anyway because you saw it on a map.

The Google engineer had a great defense in this article:

> "[People are suggesting] if you can't get driving directions and road closures right 100% of the time, you shouldn't offer any. Surely that would be a worse trade-off than the status quo?" he wrote. "Consider that we don't know a priori which mistake is potentially dangerous."

Anecdotally: I often drive through a familiar and paved mountain pass. In the past year, it has become increasingly difficult to convince Google Maps to draw a route through that pass, even though it's significantly shorter than going around the mountain. I get the impression that Google has caved to these pressures and started preferring paths that are lower risk, even if the roads in question aren't that risky to begin with.
It hurts me how close we could be to a single, cross-platform module system for Nix, because I know how awesome it would be.

It's theoretically closer than ever, thanks to stuff like nix-processmgmt and Initware for the BSDs, but it feels like something that keeps coming close only to fade away :'(

But Nix can absolutely do it, and it could be so extremely good!

(There's lots of progress in the Nix world to enjoy and celebrate, as usual, but it's just that type of project that makes you think of all kinds of crazy new things it could do)
Is there any difference why anyone would invest in the stock market? Of course people asset prices to inflate. Isn’t that the whole point of investing in anything?
The next wave of exploitation in this web3 space will involve lending practices. Kids will pledge their digital assets as collateral to buy other goods on margin. Their assets will lose value in the market and the kids will receive margin calls to restore balances or forfeit everything in the game, including reputation.
I in uptown and got an email a few weeks ago explaining the bullet holes in the building, and still get emails from the U about armed robberies regularly and much more often than a decade before. There is no question crime rates are up significantly, police are too busy to respond to many calls, and even caught crime isn’t being investigated, charged, or convicted anywhere near properly.

The restaurant scene did take a significant covid dip and several of my favorite places are gone but there is still quite a lot and a few new things.
It looks like Yubikey supports ECDSA keys as of 5.2.3 (Yubikey 5+ devices) and will export the public keys and allows private key signing so this should be possible. It will be an irregular yubikey flow code wise but user wise will appear normal.
As a midwesterner I should know better than to make generalizations about what is a huge and diverse region of America, so good reminder!
China already has nuclear arms, proliferation isn't really a concern about their use of commercial nuke plants.
I did not read the book, but my understanding of "bullshit job" is a job that is useless to the entity paying for it: you could remove that person completely, and everything would continue to work. This seems very different from what is at play here: the game studio very carefully designed the game to attract those grinders, and this is how the studio makes money. The article clearly sees this as well, by labeling the game as a ponzi scheme.
On top of all security measures, Meta, Google and other big tech that offer Auth-as-a-service need to offer paid service to reclaim an account. I am sure people would be happy to pay to talk to a real human and take back their account.
The only ones I have that match up there are EditThisCookie and ublock (origin)

EditThisCookie was last updated November 22, 2020, so it doesn't seem likely from that.

ublock origin was updated December 2, 2021, but they haven't changed devs or anything that would make me suspicious.
For better or worse, HN posters think the good times will be rolling forever.
As an engineering manager, this is definitely not true for me. If you have a long history of short tenures, you aren't worth the time to bring up to speed (which is generally 4-6 months). Having a short stint or two isn't a big deal though, people work for companies that have financial problems, or they get a bad manager, or whatever.
Password managers offer plenty of perks.
Automatic logins, notes, tokens\OTP and more.

Writing passwords each time is so old now. there are plenty of good password managers either local or cloud based.
For me I was able to reset my account (which removes all data) but not delete it. It appears to be an issue with their WAF blocking requests to the account deletion endpoint.
It was a pretty common feature of the schools I grew up in.

My second-earliest school memory was being asked to sit on my nametag in Kindergarten (the standard time out). We were doing an activity where we were supposed to circle whether something made a short or long O sound, and were listening to an audio tape with headphones. The words were printed on the worksheet, though, so I went ahead and circled all the correct ones and then sat quietly doing nothing. When the aide noticed she sent me to the tag on the carpet and then everyone forgot about me because I was so quiet. I would guess I was there for quite some time, but my 5 year old notion of time was wacked.

I have many more memories of similar things: being punished for doing math problems in different ways, or completing work early, mutually agreeing to play a board game by different rules during "free time", or responding to an essay prompt in an unexpected way.

I am now a teacher at an independent school which my 3 sons attend. Faculty tries really hard to avoid doing this. It is aggravating and difficult when you have 20 kids and a subset go off in a completely different direction than you were hoping to reach with the activity. I can totally understand that with larger classes like most public schools have, a worse behavior baseline, etc, how one would be tempted to leap to chastisement.
I was also in that industry and agree. We could rewrite the firmware on phones over-the-air live and this was long ago. The only reason we didn't do this for customers was the one-off chance we brick a phone and cause higher customer support load. We could read and write to anything on the phone remotely. Such capabilities would surely not be abandoned.
Maybe not most, but I'd gather those in the FAANG/unicorn game do - the upside is far too great to not do it. Not 1 year... but more like 1.5-2 years is probably most likely.

And we're not talking a measly $30k bump, but more like $100k. It's far more advantageous to move on than to work toward an internal promotion.

As someone in charge of hiring at my current company, having brought on 17 devs over the past year, the ones we really worry about have a bunch of 6-9 month engagements. But every 1.5 years or so, with some lesser here or there... no problem at all. More likely than not they're great at what they do.
Personas are just that, models. Models are wrong but useful.

There is a ton of unspoken information that even veteran users don't communicate. I used to sit for hours watching people use microscopes, and learned way more in those hours than I would have sitting at my compiler. Many of my really killer ideas came from watching users.

It's hard to know what you don't know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things
Ah clever!
Exactly. Design and Eng as far as I know. Project managers is a whole different thing…
To follow up with my own comment, here is the definition from the book:

> Final Working Definition: a bullshit job is a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case.