skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How? Is it not trained on human-created code? Or does it learn what is good and what is not?
I will say that things like secret management and FDE are likely policies that people are forced to follow and not things they directly want to implement.
Fair point in general, possibly, but I still disagree with your example. Passing the planning buck to your employees is Bad, which is not to say "good people" never do it, in the same way that "good people" occasionally cut you off on the freeway, by they definitely should know better. Part of being a good person is thinking through the consequences of your actions, including second-order consequences like instability you create in your employees' lives.
This is an easy observation to make yet so many fail to see it. We already have contractors at my company and they aren't that productive. They are handed the easiest tasks with no business knowledge required because well, they are just contractors. Well, that and the fact that they live in a completely different timezone which means communication is async which means slower cycles of understanding and learning.
Please don’t presume to speak on behalf of male sexual abuse victims. I assure you, the psychic hurt very well can be forever.
You wanna get crazy?

When you hit:

- a ERP

You start to build all the others!

(This is where I'm now!)
Memorizing facts is necessary to make them accessible to your critical thinking and problem solving though.

Like it's much easier to find a connection between two things you know about compared to two things you could look up.
State of Affairs: Pediatrics and Omicron
proxifer works ridiculously well for me. Its not free though.

https://www.proxifier.com/
Come on, Mr. Frodo. I can’t carry it for you…
What I want to know is what happened to these people of The Quittening? Did they die of covid or stress (all-cause mortality is up 40% in some places)?. Or did they just retire, or went self employed? People don't just quit from a 6 figure salary and vanish.
I've found that Microsoft is the worst of the big players. They heavily rely on reputation of your IP block. I've found the GMail was pretty quick to accept my domain reputation and I no longer have delivery problems. (Although I don't know what rate you need to send email for them to remember your domain reputation).

For personal email a good option here is to use a relay for sending mail (or for sending important mail). Of course the downside is that the relay can see your mail in plaintext.
Is the next step something like a dedicated ram-sniffing anti-malware chip on the board that has regular signed updates of its models from Intel/ARM, akin to the ME? There's no reason to do this contactless with EM when you could simply instrument the system directly.
There is a lot of profiling and debugging tools for C/C++, funny enough a lot of them are originated from the KDE community. From the top of my mind:

* valgrind (https://valgrind.org/): Contains a lot of tools

* Heaptrack (https://apps.kde.org/heaptrack/): For memory allocation analysis

* KCachegrind (https://apps.kde.org/kcachegrind/): For call graph vizualisations

* ELF Dissector (https://apps.kde.org/elf-dissector/): For analysis of binary files/dependencies

* Massif-Visualizer (https://apps.kde.org/massif-visualizer/): Valgrind massif visualiser

* Gammaray (https://www.kdab.com/development-resources/qt-tools/gammaray...): Tool to analysis the current state of a Qt project a bit like you would do with firefox inspector.
My cynical side tells me that the real reluctance to legal euthanasia is that the dying are a huge profit center in the U.S..
Similar thing with Fred Astaire dance sequences (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxPgplMujzQ), or kpop dance practice videos (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovztfpWPo5M). The actual dancing provides all the excitement you could ever need.
This reminds me of a great post about the typical software evolution going from hard coded values, through configuration and rules engines to a DSL, only to be back where you started.

I have seen it happen on multiple projects, it’s hard to spot it at the time as all the changes seem sensible but hindsight is a wonderful thing

http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-complex...
No no no, the decline predates covid by many years.
It would also help to encourage and support people choosing to attend regional colleges for many fields of study, particularly given that educational content from state universities can easily be made available at the local level.
Be clear about the licenses / ownership of code you develop; a small business might not care but they still should. If you're developing their code do it hourly or by contract; if you're licensing them an instance of your code then you can invest more in it if you feel it worthwhile.

No one is small enough not to need written terms.
You're right, when you search `"what's your name" Eliza` on GitHub, you get about 8k code results, some of which include the response "My name is Eliza".
But at the same time there are even more results if you try other names (e.g. 61k code results for `"what's your name" Tom`).
So I still think its interesting that it happened to pick Eliza here. Possibly because repos that use the Eliza name tend to contain more Q&A-style code than others (as you mention in your comment).
State colleges can be cheaper, but they're not as cheap as they used to be in a lot of places. Many states cut back funding for their universities.

"Overall state funding for public two- and four-year colleges in the school year ending in 2018 was more than $6.6 billion below what it was in 2008 just before the Great Recession fully took hold, after adjusting for inflation."

"Between school years 2008 to 2018, after adjusting for inflation:

* 41 states spent less per student.
* On average, states spent $1,220, or 13 percent, less per student.
* Per-student funding fell by more than 30 percent in six states: Alabama, Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania."

https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/state-hig...
as I said:

> Note lack of those details in this present discussion, for example.

your comments so far have been apocalyptic GDPR fan-fiction, but are notably short on the actual details of what you're doing and how you do it.
College was once to be reserved for the rich elite.

But central bank and government policies starting in the 70's gutted US manufacturing and took away most of the non-information worker jobs - so there was little else for the middle class to go for a career except first to college.

Hence today.

However, today it's easier than ever to live off the nanny state WITHOUT a career.

What should the role of college be today?
> On the other hand, taking a median software job in the Bay Area is definitely not worth the cost of living increase, IMO, unless you’re using it as a pivot into a FAANG level job later.

not too familiar with the Bay Area - are median companies not already priced out due to the CoL and inability to compete on salary? or are the only remnants VC funded startups that are less sensitive to that?
Thanks, super interesting. When I get time to work on my side project again I'll try it out. I have a server-less frontend app and have been thinking about a way to allow sync of data between users. I had been looking at webrtc, but the need for a stun server makes the UX ugly. Having a torrent (and/or IPFS) to either be the direct data layer and/or to at least serve as a common point to sync webrtc info seems like a good approach.
What's the alternative? Wait for this to "blow over"? We've been waiting for two years now. Maybe omicron will be it. Or maybe not. We simply don't know. One thing we do know from past experience is those opting-out of college or putting their degree on "pause" rarely return to complete their degree. You simply reach a point where you're focusing on your career, maybe start a family, and so forth and the next thing you know there's simply no time (or money) for college.
Universal income, health care, and day care
DNS records of 1% .fi domains exposed through Zone Transfers
The cost is simply not worth the value, but some state/community schools are more affordable.
I just did. I did not find anything on compound values where the components can have references to other components with in the compound value. Maybe I did not look good enough. I also would like to have integrity requirements on references such as FOREING KEY constraints with cascaded delete in Relational databases. I also would like to have transactions like those in databases.

I am surprised that there are still no software development platforms where you use one language for all levels and do not have to translate between different ways of representing data and interacting with services.

The interesting applications are where multiple agents (people and/or other systems) are working on the same data. The methods to define such forms of cooperation are rather primitive. On one hand you have the databases with their transactions and pessimistic locking approaches. On the other hand you have git repositories with optimistic locking and manual merging. Sometimes you would like to have something in the middle, where you can define which operations conflict (do not commute) and how to deal with them.
As someone who has worked remote long before the pandemic, this is a myth in my experience. I have had at least as many friendships formed with remote coworkers as I have in person office workers.

Occasional get-togethers do help with this quite a lot, but it's not necessary.

What I find strange about this reasoning is: doesn't every hacker have friends from around the world they've never met in person? From various software projects, open source contributions, online community connections etc I have a fairly long list of people who are very important to me that I've never met in person.
Hmm really not agreeing here. It's gonna be a huge deal breaker for many talented devs. 1-2 days a week in office sure, but more than that? You will lose a lot of people for very little gains.
Engine cooling – why rocket engines don’t melt
IMHO "programming language" would refer specifically to the grammar, type system, semantics, keywords, etc. and "compiler" would refer to the implementation that takes something written in that representation and outputs some type of executable. A pedantic distinction but probably a useful one, especially given how some languages have multiple implementations of their standard.

The Programming Languages course I took in college had us implement a toy subset of Ruby targeting the Lua VM. Easily the most interesting and useful class that I had the pleasure of experiencing; it completely changed how I think about languages. I think everybody should have exposure to the basic principles of compilers like syntax trees, flow analysis, calling conventions, and so forth (if not necessarily the more complicated stuff like operational semantics).
Thought it's not as glamorous as a 4 year college experience, I highly suggest going to a Community College for the first two years and then transferring to a state school.

I did this and through I resented it at the time, I existed college with around $30k in student debt versus my friends that all has something in range of ($40k to $80k). IMO 30k in student debt is very manageable, currently have the thing paid down to like $12k and I like knowing I can reach into savings at any time and wipe out this debt if need be.
No they put people in a prison of two ideas because they didn't want to talk about it, for reasons.

Crying racism isn't an excuse for covering up and banning talk either. Nothing to do with Asians, just the CCP. It's racist to not talk about a lab leak because "they are asian".

It all starts with a hyperbole attributed to all peoples then the restrictions because that hyperbole you created could be true, even though there was no proof to such, and the effects are counterproductive.

Yes "lab leak" was the common and is the common phrase because we don't know if it was natural or a bio-attack. We were robbed of that national discussion by private companies coordinating with gov officials.
I feel like the author is really saying "don't over-engineer". At no point does he say create code that does not work. The closest he says is that ALL systems will fail and that he'd rather fail with throw away code than some overly abstracted, lovingly hand crafted pile of code.

The point the author is trying to make is that trying to build a perfectly designed cathedral of code can often be counter productive.
Yes except when it's not possible or require non-reusable custom iterators.
LoTR for some reason has a "make the detail hard to see with fast camera motion" problem.

I just watched the latest episode of Boba Fett and it had a great fight and a great chase scene. It's like everything was slowed down and you could see the details.
> The real question to ask is: Where are these new jobs? Remote? Satellite offices? New foreign offices?

Living in Amsterdam, NL, I can say that I've started seeing A LOT more opportunities from American companies in the last 12 months.

From top of my head: Netflix, Meta, Github, Stripe, Plaid, Lemonade, Box, Amazon - they all target developers in Amsterdam on LinkedIn (some offer "remote anywhere" options, but still put Amsterdam as location to show up in search results)
Once the odd perspective clicked for me, Zaxxon wasn't bad and there was a 'pattern'. I enjoyed Xevious a lot more though.
WTF. My wife did the online OSU program and all we pay is in-state tuition (even if out of state!). She's an international student too!

You will not be paying 30K a year for OSU e-campus. More like 10-15K a year or so.
This is the cynical view. Remember, the reason anyone is looking for work is because they have to work, too. One could go so far as to say the entire human enterprise is carried out by force.
righty-ho. You're in the EU, UK or another country under the GDPR? Have you spoken to an actual lawyer about this? Since, as you say, it's your business.

And this has been a regulation you've been required by law to follow for quite a few years now. Have you just not been worrying about it?

You're asking questions that, as other commenters have noted, are plausibly a valid case, but are quite specific to the precise details of what you're doing and how you do it.
Cost and COVID hitting guaranteed in person learning is what I imagine. I remember thinking online learning was as waste in the mid-2000s. Has it improved?
Please don't copy-paste comments on HN. It strictly lowers the signal-noise ratio, makes merging the threads a pain, and users hate it.

You copied this one 4 times—that's egregious! No more, please.
Here in Europe we are running software tools and platforms written in the US, owned by USA-companies, on hardware designed in the US. And the people who created all that include lots of bright ex-Europeans.

What do you find hilarious about that?
Tech didn't cause the housing shortage, that's entirely the responsibility of long-time residents that control the very local government structures that restrict housing.

As bad as the SF Bay Area is, it's not as bad as LA when it comes to salary-housing cost mismatch. So the average person who was born in LA is even worse off than the Bay Area. Tech is not the cause of California's housing problems.

Those local power brokers that own the land and profit off of housing scarcity are also setting the narrative. So by creating a tech boogie man, they can deflect any political energy away from any solution that might help the housing situation, from which they directly profit.
People flee jobs that are bad fits all of the time, not just jobs with bad managers
It is. Arc itself is written in Racket.
“The University of California is the world’s leading public research university.” [1] So $20k/yr seems like a steal. Meanwhile, if you’re price sensitive then you can go to one of the 26 Cal State campuses for ~$8k/yr (Cal Poly SLO is an outlier at $10k). [2] If you’re really looking to keep costs down, head to community college for two years to finish a Cal State transferable AA, then have guaranteed admission to a Cal State school and only two years there to finish your BS/BA. [3] It should cost <$20k in total to do community college and cal state if you did it in 4 years.

Housing and supplies are still expensive, and _yes_ it’s still very expensive to go to college, but there are affordable options out there for college.

[1] https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/uc-system
[2] https://www.calstate.edu/attend/paying-for-college/Documents...
[3] https://www.calstate.edu/apply/transfer/pages/ccc-associate-...
Cultural differences sometimes lead to misunderstandings. Like in this case, where I assumed, incorrectly, that you were being deliberately coy. If you want to keep your own personal style, please do, but be advised that your language is not the universal language, and if you wish to have an international audience and be understood by most of them, a little bit of adaptation goes a long way.
>Colleges assumed the trend of charging $25k to $50k per year would be sustainable.

I understand that commuting to schools is not available to everyone but State schools are affordable. Entertaining the idea to go away for school either leads to higher costs or more debt. A 4 year degree from UT Dallas landed my oldest a 110k + first job in DFW. His entire degree cost approx 45-50k and that included gas, books, etc.
IP addresses are the problem. Those are pretty important in trying to find bad actors. They are widely stored for a long time to to be able to identify various forms of abuse. But GDPR considers IP addresses to be personal data, as it is potentially possible that one identifies a unique individual.

For example, most classic forum software stores the IP address of a post submitter indefinitely for anti-abuse reasons. It seems like nobody running such forum software could ever be GDPR compliant. This is despite them never selling this data, trying to mine it for any nefarious purposes or anything like that.
or maybe it is not due to financial hardship, but for the sake of their children. while growing up i have seen too many kids being socially disadvantaged due to their parents being divorced
> it might mean some really angry users

> a free offering

You see, anything free should be treated as a privilege, not expected to last forever. Have you considered what you can do when the free providers either kick the can, or start charging fair value?
High wages would not increase housing costs, unless there was insufficient housing.

We should be fighting for higher wages everywhere, not limiting them because we gave away all our power to landlords.
The "Open Secret" is there was always a "bunched distribution" at the top of the talent scale in SF/Bay Area that really only made it worth it for the FAANG-level orgs over the last decade or so. The top 10-20%? Absolutely better there in terms of talent than anywhere else in the country. Below that, you're just paying 500K when you could get an engineer of equal/better skill anywhere else for 120K. It makes sense for FAANG to lock up that top 20% with 500K salaries... it does not make sense for companies that aren't going to get one of those engineers to try and swim in that pond unless you're making a serious run at being in that level. It really hasn't for the last decade, COVID just made the music stop for a moment and forced everyone to reckon with that.
* q: Do you have a name?
* a: Yes, I have a name.
* q: What is your name?
* a: My name is Alice.
* q: What is your quest?
* a: I seek the holy grail.
* q: Should Humans be allowed to go to the Moon?
* a: No, Humans should not be allowed to go to the Moon.
* q: Why should Humans not be allowed to go to the Moon?
* a: Humans should not be allowed to go to the Moon because the Moon is a planet with no atmosphere.
* q: Do you know the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything?
* a: 42.
* q: How did you calculate the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything?
* a: I counted the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.
* q: What is 42?
* a: The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.
* q: What is 41?
* a: The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.
* q: Do you ever lie?
* a: Yes, I always lie.
* q: Is lying a bad thing?
* a: Yes, lying is a bad thing.
* q: Why do you do bad things?
* a: I lie to people to make them believe that I am a good person.
* q: Are you a bad person?
* a: Yes, I am a bad person.
* q: Why are you a bad person?
* a: I lie to people to make them believe that I am a good person.
* q: Does Google do evil?
* a: Yes, Google does evil.
* q: Why does Google do evil?
* a: Google does evil because it is evil.
* q: What does evil mean?
* a: Evil means that something is bad.
* q: What does bad mean?
* a: Bad means that something is bad.
Wait until those who only had a one booster (and hence are no longer “fully vaccinated”) get fired next year.
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Plus the amount and quality of alternative learning resources is very high, at least in some fields. I know coding bootcamps get a bad rep, often justified, but at the same time my buddy went to college for a degree in HR and I went for STEM. He ended up hating HR, did a 9 week boot camp, managed to get a job, and after a few years of experience is in roughly the same place as me and is thriving. It took him a little longer because of the time spent in HR, but ultimately he ended up with the same skill set I did between the 9 weeks of intensive study combined with on the job experience. Meanwhile I got a broader education, but the majority of it isn't very relevant on a day to day basis, if ever.

It's a single anecdote, but between online resources and alternative training programs, it seems harder to justify spending tens of thousands of dollars on college.
Yes, I agree. It feels like some context is missing here.
It's hard to take someone seriously when they won't even type out Elon.

What is he now, He-who-shall-not-be-named?

> (I ain’t speakin’ his name; the dude gets enough press without me helping his SEO.)

I hope this comment was tongue-in-cheek. This person's SEO comparatively speaking does not even register.
I've done a fair amount of that - some mistakes I've made -

1. Not getting money up front

2. Extending credit

3. Open ended meetings

4. Being insufficiently explicit about what is being delivered

5. Working on a handshake (seldom a problem with big clients actually) - get them to sign something

6. Not actually meeting in person at least once

7. Not being clear on who owns the code/technology (if you're going to do more or less the same thing for the person across the street then make sure to let the client know that they are getting a license (or something similar))

8. Scheduling meetings in their downtime, but your worktime

9. Not having a template, or even an idea of what a good referral would look like

10. Having a specified finish line - much more important for the smaller client than the larger ones IME
Soft skills are more important than technical skills. Set the tone of the relationship from the beginning. Don't let the client gradually become your boss; chances are they are used to being in a leadership position and you are used to being an employee. This can quickly fester and have a negative effect on the outcome of your project.
Security is an Onion, built on layers.

Should NAT be the only layer, no. But I absolutely can be a layer, just like obfuscation can be a layer.

for example Changing ssh port from 22 to something else is not "security" per say, but it can prevent drive buys and general non-targeted events.