skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'm not necessarily a Sam Harris fan in general, I am a huge fan of his Waking Up app. It's approachable, serene, sacred (but also no-nonsense), and really just beautiful. And useful! I can't say enough good things about it.
Accounting and heathcare management can trivially be done remotely.

But it might not really matter. Do small farms produce a noticeable amount of food in our food supply? I thought it all was giant farms with giant machinery, not family farms, that actually produced food.

(Edited to try to make it more clear that was a real question. Maybe family farms are important for the food supply?)
> The children were each taught to play a block sorting game – with half taught to sort the blocks by colour, and half taught to sort them by shape. They were then put into pairs, with one playing the game and the other observing.

At an early stage of development, could this sort of study introduce some sort of neurosis or pathology into these children's behaviors?

My "this might not be harmless" radar is pinging
High level MBAs are for networking. But the degree is in Business Administration which is a bunch of broad spectrum lightly technical work in accounting, logistics, etc, which lots of businesses or entrepreneurs need and not everyone can self teach like individualist programmers do.
What is the starting point for that thought though?

Is it "I want to make this thing I have an idea for", or "I want a job-ready skill"?

If it's the former, "learn to code" doesn't have to be the next step. It could be drawing up a mockup or creating the basic logic in something simple like G Sheets.

From there you can go to one of the many no-code tools that can use Sheets as a data source. Seeing how far you can go with off-the-shelf options provides valuable experience, because you'll know precisely where the bottlenecks were, and can talk to a developer to understand what you need to learn to convert it to code.

Compare that to jumping straight from idea phase to to a 20+ hour video course on HTML/CSS and JS. By the time you get to the CSS Box Model, you'll have forgotten why you started the course in the first place.
Given that the alternative of Nix use a Lisp instead I'm not that sure of the 'obviousness' here..
There are still entire websites dedicated for TV shows and music (and after you have looked at them once, they show up on Android feed), Facebook and Twitter feeds, etc. And I guess everyone agrees that Netflix recommendations are not that great.
But that's what I was saying as well - that civilisational development is not driven by some concept of racial traits, but that it's driven by material conditions.
> Now admittedly actually doing this is pretty rare in these day

It’s pretty frequent! When Atlassian launched their Cloud offerings in 2013, they installed Confluence and Jira on their own servers (1.5GB each), one per customer, and set /bin and /etc as read-only.

Then they mounted /etc and /bin from the network. 1.5GB saved per instance!

So it makes sense not because you can set them as read-only, but because you can mount them separately.
> At my school, which is ranked around 50 in the nation

Top 50 on US News & World Report or CS Rankings means you're at a very good R1 institution. At #50, your institution is ranked ABOVE places like Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, RIT, Syracuse, Clemson, ...

You do realize that the USA has nearly 4,000 colleges, right?

If you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the CS rankings in US News, you reach Walden University at #186. Which means the colleges that US news even bothers to rank in CS constitute less than 1% of the total number of colleges in the US. And you're at a place that's in the top third of the <1%!!!

When I say academic CS jobs are easy to get, I'm referring to jobs at the >3,500 US higher ed institutions that aren't even included in US New's CS rankings.

Again, in fields like Mathematics or Biology even TT jobs at unranked/low ranked places are non-trivial to secure.
Yes, discord and twitch stream at minimum.
The argument that you’re not stealing something physical is an old, tired, immature, and naive narrative that seems willfully ignorant of the reality that copyright law is protecting the consumption of copies, it’s about protecting the initial investment and the business model, not the cost of production of individual copies. You actually are hurting the artists by consuming a copy without their permission, because the transaction they’ve offered is to trade your viewing of the movie for a small amount of money. The word “stealing” is defined to include taking something without permission, and does not depend on whether they get deprived of the thing you take.

You’ve made several snarky and strawman replies about money, but ignored the actual point I made; the fact that copyright laws do not depend or discriminate based on profits. This is a fact, not a debate. Your opinion about any given studio’s claimed losses is completely irrelevant to the question of whether you should be allowed to break the law.

> My job does not rely on handing copies of our product’s binaries to people if they pinky promise they’ll only use it in a way we approve of though.

Yes it does. You’re wrong. Does your product’s use come with a EULA? Does your company have any security? Does your product get paid for? Are you putting your code in the public domain? If you write code, your code is covered by copyright law, and you have both legal and technical mechanisms in place to protect people from taking your code and your product for themselves without your company’s permission. You are doing the same things as DRM, you’re being hypocritical.

> I'm not asking anyone to give anything away for free.

Then I’ve gotten the wrong impression, please clarify what you mean. You’ve argued above that you (and everyone) should be able to watch movies for free because they’re easy to duplicate and they are cultural assets. What are you asking for then?
Not really sure what you’re arguing for. All optimization passes operate on GIMPLE.

> SSA GIMPLE is low level GIMPLE rewritten in SSA form.

I’m by no means a compiler internals expert, but to my knowledge there’s no translation from RTL to assembly. The compiler is directly emitting the machine code directly without first emitting assembler. You have to ask the compiler to serialize to assembly explicitly.

> several assembler input files, or into one assembler input file; then each assembler input file produces an object file,

That doesn’t sound right. Seems more like an abstract description. You can’t dump assembly out of an object file either. You have to do a conversion from an intermediary form to get back out a form of the assembly.

I think at this point it’s splitting hairs but assembly is not used as an intermediary at any point, even for generating machine code.
I understand why this would be valuable from a team-building perspective (and support it as such), but I'm not totally convinced this is valuable as a way to improve the product.

Typical user testing is monitoring your users as they succeed/fail to use your product. So I could imagine developers monitoring a sampling of Doordash drivers (with a dashcam or the like) as they use their apps in a typical delivery process.

White-collar Doordash engineers/CxOs doing a blue-collar tour for a day would provide insight into some of the initial onboarding struggles for the "new driver" persona, but seems like it would provide limited feedback for the "experienced driver" persona. Even then, app devs/designers are so familiar with getting around odd workflows in their apps that they wouldn't really represent a new driver. It risks biasing product development in a particular way.
DNS Security, Part III: Dane and the WebPKI
An extra consideration is that LastPass claim to be monitoring their systems constantly, specifically call out automated attempts ("fairly common bot-related activity"), so we can assume that monitoring includes "attempts to login with wrong passwords" or "attempts to login to accounts that do not exist". That information would be a good way to identify a credential-stuffing attack with confidence, i.e: they might be seeing millions of login attempts to accounts that don't exist + accounts that do with the wrong password...

If that is the case, then the email must be sent in error... which is definitely plausible, i.e: they have a logic mistake somewhere in their system which is incorrectly identifying some unsuccessful attempts as successful (which is triggering an event which triggers the email, the audit log entry etc).

Hopefully they make a better statement soon, because this is very terrible communication from a password management company.
>I don't understand how a substance that addictive can be legal, especially considering how violent a withdrawl can feel.

Because it was grandfathered in. If you ban it, you fuck up a ton of people hooked on it. I can't imagine what the assault / homicide / suicide rate would spike to for the next decade or two.
> You don't see how a sea of masked faces could be seen as dystopian? Or that it's a sign that "you're not safe," and people want to feel safe?

Not in the slightest, any more than a sea of drivers in seatbelts would feel dystopian or that I'm not safe. (Or a bunch of people in snow gear, if you want a similar aesthetic.) I don't see any dystopian vibe at all, and fail to understand why wearing an article of clothing is dystopian. Do you feel the same way about pants? I think just as many people feel safer with everyone masked up, we've just been less silent throughout the pandemic.
Yukigassen (Japanese Snowball Fighting-Competition)
as a former pack/day smoker…i can’t not say this, and hope that perhaps it’ll benefit some other reader:

> I tried vaping Juul aggressively for a few weeks to try to get addicted

This is fucking moronic.

> Very light effects, or more nauseous than anything if you have enough

the nausea is most likely from nicotine poisoning. because going from no nicotine tolerance to aggressive vaping is a really bad idea.

> It is somewhat baffling to me that anyone would find it addictive

Most people start gradually, not in an aggressive attempt to form a dependence. There’s a reason why “sit down and smoke the whole pack” is often an effective punishment for teens caught smoking.
While "far exceeds" is a bold claim, the Apple dongle (specifically the A2049 model) is widely regarded as a great DAC for the money.[1]

[1]: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/r...
^ further, there's the fact that distributions (and the various parts therein) frequently duplicate one another's work in the name of taking different approaches at the same problem, and usually the solutions that become more mainstream are the ones that several of them have collectively settled on.

Android has a similar, if more centralized feedback loop: AOSP drops, device makers build out customizations on top of it, Google adopts some of these features upstream (whether by building new implementations or merging contributions from vendors), and then those vendors go on to building the next differentiating thing now that they don't have to dedicate those resources to individually maintaining stylus support/multiwindow/notification badges/whatever.
related: Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29705957
> So annoying how your handle isn't your handle, it's the companies, and they will steal your handle at a whim.

You don't own digital assets in any sense (excepting crypto, which is a whole other set of problems), at best you have a contract with some rights of use.
To punish one for the sins of another does not sound like justice to me, not does it hold the sinner accountable. A judge who kills his own son so that he could pardon the people that come before him is clearly insane. Doubly so if the judge is the same one who wrote the laws.
Yeah, who could ever imagine using a 1080p 32” monitor…
This is a rather lousy argument. OP is directly questioning why even use an uncommon word that no one knows besides maybe a niche group of people, which is a perfectly indetrentable revotempution IMO. Your denoniation is rather maliforeim.
The thing to understand about tech vs medicine jobs is how experience works and is valued.

In tech, there are really no programming jobs that require more than say 5, 7, or a maximum of 10 years of experience in whatever language / specific skills they are asking for. They do not exist. If people get to 40, and have 15 years doing the same thing (say Java, or C++), they are not bringing anything extra to the table, and an employer will prefer someone who is minimally qualified with, say, 5 years of experience, who will demand less salary, and potentially last longer with the company and have the potential to move into management.

The area where experience is valued is in management, team leadership, architecture, etc - but many developers shy away from that, and then assume that ageism is at play.

Medicine, law, etc are the exact opposite - 5 years is just getting started, and by the time you get to 20 years, there are lots of options for teaching, becoming a professor, owning a practice, doing research, etc - the experience compounds in a way that it doesn't with tech (mainly due to the constant churn of languages, frameworks, fads, etc).
I'm not up-to-date with what OG means. Apparently OG "original gangster" usernames refer to common words such as "@Miracle", that were registered by early adopters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/style/instagram-account-f...
The answers saying “no” are not necessarily correct, but the actual answer depends on which country you live in.
As a user of OSM (and having contributed in the past but that's not relevant to my point) it looks like, to me, that if their share of edits is growing that they are providing free labor to me and people like me, no?
It read to me like that, yes.
Hard skill is algorithmic, logical rigid, precise computations and physical manipulations.

Soft skill is social-emotional, communication and artistic creativity.
> a national museum in the country where the artifact originated seems like a reasonable first-blush recipient.

Wouldn’t this boil down to a might-is-right approach in almost all cases? Don’t really see how a contemporary government annexing the land by force is much different than a foreigner simply taking the artifact. Other than that it might evoke more ethnic/tribalist gripes from people.
Problem? This seems like a huge win, the sooner we get rid of phone numbers the better.
I remember windows 95 made a sound when it started. Maybe now that boots are fast there is no need to notify a user who may have focused on something else while waiting ?
Because that’s not the point of the policy.

> "As the company grew, the founders wanted everyone to experience different parts of the product so we could get closer to all our audiences and understand how the product works," a DoorDash spokesperson said
I’ve built 14 startup companies over my career, currently on the 15th. Out of those 9 were acquired, and 3 were IPO.

Yet I’m not what you’d describe as rich because of the asymmetry of risk vs rewards, and because of the drag of taxation. Outsized rewards are possibly only if you take outsized risks. When you have a big return, a large percentage of it is taken by the government. This is an additional hurdle over the risk you took. The result is that you take all the risk, and the government shares in the reward.

To break out to a level where you can support yourself and your family purely through requires a true outlier 10x-20x the average return. You can wait a long time, your entire life in fact, to have this kind of outlier.

I’ve sacrificed the best years of my life taking outsized risks and chasing the carrot so to speak. I’ve done well enough to maybe stop working in the next couple of years by age 45. My body kept the score of all the stress and my health paid a heavy price.

The time you have as a healthy person can never be replaced. The trick is to stop spending your time chasing dollars. Let other people take the big risks and get the big rewards, while you sit back and collect a tax of sorts.

The best way to do this is to own a business, which minimizes your tax liabilities, and also minimizes your time investment. This means you have to choose the business very carefully. It should be something that is very low risk, something which allows you to hire labor from the middle and bottom of the bell curve. It should have minimal regulation and licensure required to operate. Likely, it will be completely outside your high tech expertise. That’s good, that’s what you want. You’ll have to learn to operate this kind of business successfully.

By reducing your lifestyle, by not going into debt for anything, by not buying that big house, new car, new computer, etc, and by saving your income, you will be able to afford to buy an existing business like this in cash.

After you’ve mastered the operations and cash flow of one business, you can proceed to buy another.

The richest people I know, both in terms of net worth, but more importantly their time, operate in this fashion. My neighbor owns 38 McDonald’s franchises. He started with a laundromat.

The high tech gambit is a sucker’s game. I know, because I’m the sucker. The answer you are looking for is not “work harder”, or “go into management”. The answer is… stop working! Gradually your dependency on your working income until it’s gone.
I've heard nothing but good things about pass. There's also a pass that uses age now, which is I guess what I'd use if I was in the market for something like it. There's a point at which you're asking so little from your cryptosystem --- as is the case with local-only CLI password managers --- that it doesn't much matter that you're using PGP. I don't, like, recoil from .pgp.asc files! The place you really get in trouble with PGP is when you try to use it on email.
> Most will never be under threat of a state actor that necessitates getting their friends and family "the hell out of Telegram as soon as possible".

I think you should qualify that as "most people - in the western hemisphere/democracies - will never be under threat of a state actor that necessitates getting their friends and family "the hell out of Telegram as soon as possible"
Sooooo how does that work? I rent your username while you’re on holiday for a month and then spam your followers with crypto scams and viagra ads?

Or they decouple followers from the username so the username becomes a transient thing, which then gets ignored, and becomes worthless?
Thank you for honest and brutal feedback.

> First off, you think you're having a mental health crisis so you're going to HN for advice?

I have seen a lot of these posts on HN and gained a lot of value from other people's experiences suggestions. Last night I went to bed feeling lost, but writing out this post and then reading reviews been really helpful. Yes a professional can help with mental health issues better than internet strangers but this is what I have for now. I will contemplate a bit more but I think I am close to seeing clear choice for me.

> A. "Aggressively move into management" Why do you even think this is an option?

I have seen many "I will never be a manager"-developers becoming managers, directors, VPs, both in smaller and larger companies. I think it is a skill that one can develop. One of my friend is a senior director at a 5000+ people company. He has been telling me I have natural leadership skills and I should move into management. Also I have held team lead roles several times, I also enjoyed mentoring junior developers. As a manager my biggest weakness would be project/time management.

>. Again, so you're so good at what you do that you can just decide to become a thought leader.

Doesn't hard work make you good at what you do? Thought leader is a loaded term. It is company lingo. I guess what I really should have said I should work on internal Individual Contributor track. The final stage of our IC track is basically thought-leader.

As for feeling like failure, I failed in my side projects and ignored my career. And really feeling depressed that our dream home that was so attainable is complete out of reach now. Anyways, if I really focus on my career, I think I have a good shot of having a successful career.

> C. "I could easily make 2x - 3x my salary [at a FAANG]" If it was that easy why the hell aren't you doing that now?

Because I was not focused on money until now. I was happy and comfortable. I had a few interviews where I went in with a little Leetcode practice and I failed them horribly.

> D. Again, you can just walk in anywhere AND get a salary bump? Again why aren't you doing that already.

Again I was mostly happy and honestly I don't know if 1.6x bump in salary is worth giving up the comfortable job and the potential to move within my current tech giant.

And thanks for pointing this out. More I think about it, this won't be worth it.

> E. This is just pure fantasy

I forgot who but someone said ask yourself what would you do if you were not afraid. Then do that thing. I guess this is what I would do. Having a family makes it harder.

> If your day job is soul-sucking then at the very least go with option D, take your 1.2x to 1.6x salary bump and reassess.

I think you can change your mindset and turn subjectively bad things in to positive things. Now option D doesn't seem worth it. I rather try to go in management than get a small pay raise in another company and start over.
There was a link posted elsethread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29715664 ) which reviews a lot of the issues with PGP: https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
the ones about vaping, when tobacco money paid for the studies it was weird how they always found a lot of danger that people then had to be protected from ...
but when you would look at the data you would see they were using it in a way that noone actually used it (like using bad coils and completely overheating them) etc. Really a pure scam but because it's done in the form of 'science' its supposed to be more credible than people's experiences ...
Yes, I think we're on the same page.

Racialized theories of civilization are, on face value, absurd (and, well, racist). GGS goes to significant lengths to debunk them, including thoroughly collapsing the racial categories that colonial and post-colonial Westerners use.
I worked at a payment processor and I overlapped with the risk department many times there. If one of our merchants were going against the card-brand guidelines or engaging in illegal activity we would have cut them off the same day. The processors are the ones carrying the risk, and could lost their whole portfolio if they are found to not be diligent with the activity of their accounts.
Yep I worked with a popular scooter company in Taiwan to help build software to implement Taiwan’s left hand turn rules into GPS. It was just a matter of labeling the correct intersections. They wanted to eventually share the changes upstream with OSM. Very fun project that I miss very much.

Sadly I don’t think the map editing SQLite cli/gui tool made it out to OSS, even though that was a request I had.
Or that guy @slack on Twitter. Or @gusto on same
an event happens that terminates the series for good.

though I bet in 4 years the producers will change their mind and retcon the series back to life.
In case you missed the last paragraph of the blog post, it says: "I have made several attempts to talk with developers who worked on CPS-1/CPS-2 systems. All of them have failed so far."
Feel free to contact him for the legacy of your great work and the greater good of humanity :)
I wouldn't count a NSA employee as "average", I'd assume they have access to tools the "average" doesn't have. Comparing that to someone at Facebook just doesn't make sense.