skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cause is still not well explained. EBV is such an ubiquitous virus, more than 90% of all adults worldwide have been infected with it. Most will never know. Why is that just a tiny percentage develop MS?
This doesn't change the equation.

Go buy a house that will increase by >5%/year, but then don't pay it off any sooner than you have to.

Make the minimum payments, and invest in something that will return a stable 5%+ with your remaining income.

Just because the house itself increases in value, doesn't mean you should pay down the ~3% interest rate loan any faster than you have to.

And really, once you've built enough via this strategy, you should either invest in a more expensive house or buy a house to rent afterward.

This is all the consequence of inflation and easy money/loans, but the smart money move is to never pay off low interest rate loans. This is particularly true when inflation (acknowledged anyway) is 6%.

Using the 6% number, you're actually gaining (on average) 3% on a 3% loan just by using the cash.
This is a pointless distraction from the article. Professional users pay more for their laptops, no matter what platform, and given that the kind of laptop I need to do my job has gone down in price by at least a factor of two that price matters less than whether it does the job well.
Agreed. Conventionally happy people don't push themselves to this kind of extreme. But its not just long distance endurance running of this extremity ... also highly driven entrepreneurs, or people in nearly any kind of career that requires sacrifice of body or time with family, etc.

To sacrifice the part of you that is devoted to ordinary human life is to usually not value such ordinary human experience much to begin with.

But our culture also makes heroes out of such sacrifice. Just enjoying a normal, family-oriented life is considered mediocrity in many (most?) circles.
It's hard to adequately describe my excitement at the prospect of RISC-V becoming a serious option. I'm sure we're years away from what I really want: a powerful RISC-V chip and a laptop to rival the M1, but every step helps.
Here "other viewpoints" means advising to take poisonous, non-FDA-aproved, ineffective horse tranquilizer instead of real medicine to fight a deadly disease during a pandemic.
>> Why would you pay off your house when you can keep the cash in an investment...

I asked someone that in my mid 20's. He said "It's nice knowing I can support my family working at McDonalds if I have to." That stuck with me. Something fundamental changes in your life when you become debt-free.
In a way you’re describing how browsers should work.

> Also eliminates the possibility of sites engaging in annoying or abusive behavior by putting users in full control of the client rather than the site operator. Obviously it can't work for every site, but it's quite the interesting concept.

That’s the job of the User Agent after all, acting on behalf of the user.
This is a fair point. It seems like standard policy at lots of places is to not budge significantly on comp unless a Valued Employee is prepared to leave. You then end up with one of the three scenarios:

- the employee leaves anyways, since it's too late to change their mind

- the employee stays, but there's a loss of trust and loyalty

- the employee never planned to leave in the first place, and exploited your broken system

Valued Employees should be rewarded preemptively.
Is there really a marginal cost to holding more money? Presumably they can buy treasury bonds and earn some interest off the holdings. In terms of data storage, is it really more expensive to store a positive number vs. zero?
I’d say this might be fig leaf from Russia to America to take some of the heat out of the last week.
Could also add "continuation" to the list perhaps, from continuation passing style (CPS). But that might not be a callback, as it never really goes back, but always goes forward.
Metaphors, analogies, and models give us access to the deeper layers of f (cont)
Ha, I was thinking more like 10% fluctuation on $3 million against a salary of $300K. The total and the volatility could both easily happen if the user invested early in crypto.
I live in Iowa and we were at full employment pre-pandemic. Everybody who wanted a job had one, and businesses all over the state were short of staff just like they are today. Politicians were speculating on ways to get disabled people and stay-at-home-moms into the workforce, overlooking our chronic brain drain of people going to out-of-state universities and never coming back. Our return to normal was always going to be that, but everyone seems to have forgotten.

Here's an article from 2019 about it, but the situation is just no longer in the conversation because unemployment benefits (which ended ages ago) is an easier target than making it suck less to live here: https://www.npr.org/2019/05/23/721086615/in-this-town-you-ap...
There's a missing option. "People join a company, but leave a manager".
I don't think any neighbouring state has annexed anything of Yugoslavia.

> Even more so when the Ukrainian state expects us, their neighbours, to join in in their battles against the Russians.

Got in to NATO, raise up the ladder!
Jami (https://jami.net/) has the advantage of keeping your child's communication private and lacks the ability to find outside groups (like phone calls), while having the features they would want to have to interact and being multi-platform.
I didn't downvote you but I can guarantee you it's because "web3" is this fuzzy hyper-hyped term taken over by the crypto mob, which includes people doing genuine work but also speculators. The latter group is probably not liked by the HN crowd and, by not giving details about your career move, you might have sounded like someone from that group.
It's really hard to justify with management.

Instead saying "X left, we need extra budget to replace it" will often work.

It's idiotic and expensive for the company but what can you do.
Good! There is an oversupply of graduates and the debt bubble is just growing. This is a step in the right direction.
How about ngrok? Works great.
It's not uncommon for the stock market to fluctuate by 2% in a day (like today actually), which means he'd only need a portfolio of $5 million.
I think you don't understand the realities of work in scientific/academic organisations. Unless you work in computer science you likely never received any formal education on programming except for some numerical methods in c/matlab/fortran course during your studies (which often also focus more on the numerical methods and not the programming). So pretty much every person, just learned by doing.

Moreover you are not being paid for writing reasonable programs you're paid for doing science. Nobody would submit "prototype" papers, because they are the currency of academic work. There is lots of time spend on polishing a paper before submission, but doing that for code is generally not appreciated because nobody will see this on your CV.
It failed because only 25% of the team actually wanted to go remote, the rest of us feel we're more productive in a non-remote environment. Work was never siloed (remote or not).

I'm not saying remote/no-remote is right for everyone, just talking about what works for me/the ones close to me, YMMV obviously.
> label themselves as plural

Definitely contributed to me not finishing the article.
Buy Things, Not Experiences
I for one am excited to die for the Dear and Duly Elected Massively Popular Joe Biden's prudent and rational Foreign Policy.

If the USA is to maintain its competitive fiat advantage, it must occasionally flatten the industrial capacities of competing world powers. Otherwise the world would be unsafe for democracy. We voters owe a great debt to the imminent sacrifices of the Ukrainian and Taiwanese peoples!
https://www.nuance.com/dragon/business-solutions/dragon-prof...

I wonder if the parent comment typed that URL by hand.
i have an M1 macbook, Intel/NVidia can lie all they want they can't hide facts

M1 > to what ever they produce TODAY and tomorrow, it beats the hell out of them

and let's not talk about how macOS puts to shame windows 11

thanks journalists for spreading their corporate propaganda, i wouldn't mind if it was to improve everyone's life, but spreading crappy bloatware.. nope

this article is on par with the verge "stadia bad but xcloud good" let me laugh for a moment.. lol
> worry that he'll never be able to appeal and a stupid 'mistaken reading of the ToS' on his part as a minor will affect his ability to ever host a YouTube channel or have a premium account subscription.

How can a minor (who cannot sign a contract) be punished (legally) for not adhering to a ToS?
I had a teacher who used to expel both bully and their victim out of classroom to keep it orderly.
I guess I explained myself really poorly, but I think we mean the same here. To be clear what I mean is that somehow making ipv4 work is much harder than migrating to ipv6. And clearly terraforming Mars is insanely harder than terraforming earth.
Congratulations on successful retirement. Hopefully you can have a healthy and interesting retirement and enjoy your family and loved ones to the fullest.

Honestly, probably should have done it sooner if you could have.

As a 30-something, most of my peers are not planning to work past 60, and most are planning to retire in their 50s. Unfortunately that seems to be a privilege of a certain level of job income and not all of my peers will be so lucky.
Questdb's author here. I do share Ayende's sentiment. There are things that the OP paper doesn't mention, which can help mitigate some of the disadvantages:

- single-threaded calls to 'fallocate' will help avoiding sparse files and SIGBUS during memory write
- over-allocating, caching memory addresses and minimizing OS calls
- transactional safety can be implemented via shared memory model
- hugetlb can minimize TLB shootdowns

I personally do not have any regrets using mmap because of all the benefits they provide
“PII” is not a term the EU or UK GDPR recognises. It may have a specific meaning in American law; but the GDPR definition of personal data is significantly broader.

It certainly includes the items I listed; particularly when linked to an identifier like an IP address.
> And there's less configuration involved than setting up a Tor hidden service.

Is there really? IIRC zerotier saves you having to fiddle around with keys, which is a pain, but you still need to set up the daemon, and zerotier requires you to go make an account instead of just generating keys and copying them to your client, which feels like rather more friction.
I believe any DVD drive made in recent years won't support it. Some drives had bugs in their old firmware so that the drives can be used with makemkv, but it doesn't mean it is usual. They can fix the bugs. They can stop making problematic hardware. Even if you can find such a hardware, it might be more expensive than your CPU. Normally people won't invest much on it.

And, like what SGX is providing, if the film industry really want to stop pirating, they can. Then makemkv will be a history.
I have used Lua extensively as part of a commercial project and I really can't imagine why would someone want this. For me the biggest feature of Lua is that you can keep the overwhelming majority of the spec in your head with little effort. Beauty through simplicity.
San Francisco Police Illegally Used Surveillance Cameras at George Floyd Protest
HN's policy doesn't ask people to remove quotation marks!
+1 anecdotally I think it is often a combination of factors. And once you start looking/ exploring and realize you can get a comp adjustment, then that becomes an easily quantified motivator to pull the trigger.
The link was missing the final "l".

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-01-hydroxychloroquine-di...
Given the username, it's possible portfolio is in crypto, which would have much greater fluctuations.
What would likely pass constitutional muster and get these companies to pay attention is the threat to either revoke Section 230 or modify it so that its protections are conditional rather than absolute.

The constitution has nothing to say on the matter of holding them responsible for the libelous, defamatory, harassing, terrorist, etc. content they fail to moderate away every day.
It's the old "Refrigerator mother theory" that's been largely discredited. Back from when autism was known as "childhood schizophrenia."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator_mother_theory
The initial susceptibility is mostly going to be predetermined by the MHC, and therefore remain the mostly the same. However, the pathological outcome is ostensibly a product of certain strains of pathogens plus luck of the draw on somatic hypermutation in response to said pathogen.
i maintain, it is a bad idea

i used to use it with C#, so i talk with experience

but what ever.. this is rust we are talking about, it's sad that they decided to follow Scala and bloat their language
nothing will happen to those arrested probably
On top of that, if it's really trying to get into the same market as Xbox Game Pass, and the Epic giveaways, wouldn't it make more sense to aim at supporting platforms that the xbox game pass/Prime Gaming/EGS giveaways aren't supporting?

They're choosing to dump the 2 other major platforms that they would have next to 0 competition in, and focusing on the one major platform where they not only are competing on level ground with the likes of the EGS and Prime Gaming, they're going up against the biggest "games library as a service" offerings in the industry but , that also just happens to be the OS manufacturer as well, Xbox Game Pass. The service that's becoming pre-installed with newer windows builds, that's integrated tightly into the Microsoft ecosystem, and has a better library of both AAA and indie titles than humble bundle ever will.
I'm switching from a FTE position to a 3 days/week contractor role. Mostly because it allows me to work on my startup, but also because the contract work is for a very interesting high-profile startup.
You can’t fathom it? On what basis?
I saw a great quote on HN a few weeks ago that went along these lines:

"Managers don't know if you coded it right, but they sure know if you missed a deadline."
If you're EBV-positive, you're in good company... It infects something like 90% of the human population.

Makes me wonder how many virii are out there that haven't been identified by modern medicine because their spread vector is so low-impact that they never even trigger symptoms. A virus like that would become real indistinguishable from "behavior of the human body" in not very much time if its infectivity was high.
Flexibility (remote) was the primary motivating factor, but compensation was a pretty close second as I ended up with a ~50% increase. I wouldn't say that was down to the market, though, I was very underpaid relative to my positions average (I'm now slightly below average), which really came down to difficulty I've always had in valuing my work and my abilities.

I'm sad that it took a pandemic to take stock in my life, and I certainly don't think the family members I've lost were worth anything I may gain, but I'm glad to be where I'm at helping to push us ever forward.
What sort of stuff are you doing? I’ve been in the blockchain space for three years and enjoy the work. HN hates any mention of it though - you’re better off using other mediums for decent conversations on the topic.
This article is a response to this one:

Chatbots: Still dumb after all these years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29825612 - Jan 2022 (408 comments)

(Thanks everyone who pointed this out.)
you think TAZ could be applied in technology and open source?
> A social media website without a frontend. We just provide a fully exposed API and Oauth,

Take CouchDB and store all activities as ActivityStreams documents.

> "Cloud" content hosting as a service.

"Headless CMS" is the term you are looking for, and it is already a big industry https://jamstack.org/headless-cms/
The great ones also realize that there are other things employees value and build upon those, along with compensation.
they would have been more fucked in the US. no parole, tons of charges and counts stacked.
What I mean is in my firm grads with 2 years experience are on $140k, and can make multiples in MANGA. If you already have a good SV tech salary you aren't going to make 3x unless you luckily hit a RSU jackpot.
In the past when people where spending 15 years in a company and the market was less competitive, yes.

Job hopping is the new default for engineers, most people after a few years in the industry realise their value goes up every once and then and that they can leverage that to get a salary bump.
One possible advantage of using mmap over a buffer pool can be programmer ergonomics.

Reading data into a buffer pool in process RAM takes time to warm up, and the pool can only be accessed by a single process. In contrast, for an mmap-backed data structure, assuming that files are static once written (which can be the case for an multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) architecture), you open an mmap read-only connection from any process and the so long as the data is already in the OS cache, you get instant fast reads. This makes managing database connections much easier, since connections are cheap and the programmer can just open as many as they want whenever and wherever they want.

It is true that cache eviction strategy used by the OS is likely to be suboptimal. So if you're in a position to only run a single database process, you might decide to make different tradeoffs.
‘Be Afraid:’ Cyberattack Downs Ukrainian Gov’t Sites
The Largest Map of the Universe
And then wrapped by https://www.cloudgraph.dev/
Real or AI-Generated Covid Restrictions Game
re-evil?
For a physician that writes pretty awful code, I like this comment.
When you say “replacing mmap()”, could you elaborate a bit on it? The way you write it sounds like you’re describing a reimplementation of mmap() with the same API, while I believe the actual goal would be to completely rewrite the persistence and caching layer to be like a “real” database.
Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed this quite a bit. It's probably more conceptually accessible for hn's audience too.
It feels oddly hostile, as in their intentionally trying to lock out Linux users.

I imagine many of the bigger games, only run on Windows. But they should just communicate this, don't force people use a new application.

Humble has given me some of my favorite game experiences so I'm going to give them a few months to sort themselves out
I think this is something that varies with age. At 30, I was very aggressive in seeking better pay and more interesting opportunities. 20+ years later, I'm pretty much near the peak of my salary band in my region, and the work and environment is good enough to stay. I also have the typical roots put down; home, friends familiarity with my community. Disrupting that would be very stressful and the rewards would have to be commensurate.

So why would I bother jumping to a new job for a 10% increase?

I think the Great Resignation is really for industries that have had stereotypically low compensation, coupled with shitty environments. And I'm glad that people in those industries have a lot more leverage to make things better for themselves.
I keep saying Resident Evil in my head
> It's great for your CV. Companies love applicants with open-source code.

While I strongly support sharing the code, I am not sure if this is a great reason to do so. Companies are made up of many individuals, and while some might appreciate what it takes to open source code, other individuals might judge the code without full context and think it is sloppy. My suggestion is that you fully explain the context before sharing code with companies.
Are you referring to ivermectin?
Meanwhile my sister's first programming course at university involved making a game using an existing bespoke framework. It mostly involved adding graphics and a few methods & some properties to objects (which already had physics etc. implemented) in an otherwise more or less done project base. I don't know about retaining or intimidation but I feel like it was way too much "just fill in the gaps, look you have a character on the screen now" and that they really failed to teach the basics of programming and I got the vibe that students finished the course not really having any clue how the whole thing works at all. The next course was object oriented programming at the deep end.

I feel like she's still struggling with the basics and doesn't have much self confidence at all. And she's not dumb.
Wish you would have clarified whether people should vote for only the most pressing (primary) one or more than one if several are factors.
I think this is may be one reason they used CMV infection as a control. Unless you think that the people who don't get CMV are not special, but the ones who don't get EBV are...
Even just knowing the concept gets you halfway there, assuming you have any other options at all. It's a term everybody should know. BATNA BATNA BATNA!
I wonder how much compensation is working as a proxy for appreciation, in this poll. That's to say, if your company really valued your contributions and made that apparent (but couldn't match a higher offer), would you still leave?

Company culture as the #2 answer seems to add weight to this...

To be clear, there's no better way to value your employees than pay them well. But I think people's motivations here are driven by more than just $$$.
I have literally 10x’d my salary from when I started working in tech support ~8 years ago in Devon, England, with the biggest bump targeting US companies over EU ones. It’s pretty great that these options are available atm :)
MIT prof thinks machines could make us better citizens and conversationalists
> I don't think anyone (including the Russians themselves) think this can be used as proof they don't engage in cyberwarfare.

This is how Russian propaganda works. Not just Russian, but authoritarian propaganda in general. It doesn't have to be believable.
No, AlterNIC would have failed regardless of the underlying technology. Its founder became a pariah. It's similar in a lot of ways to Handshake; just imagine that Handshake gets tired of nobody but Opera resolving its names, and then it hacks ICANN, and you've got pretty much a replay of that situation.

It's worth comparing 1997 to 2022 to see why attempts to seize the Internet roots are unlikely to go anywhere. It's similar in a bunch of ways to the WebPKI. For all its faults, AlterNIC had a better case against Network Solutions than anyone has against ICANN: Internet governance at the time prohibited new TLDs, and registrars were rapacious. But over the next 10 years, that mostly changed, just like the WebPKI has been drastically cleaned up after abuses in the 2000s.

People continually propose replacements for the WebPKI today that seem premised on a CA system that works like it did in 2005. But we don't have the 2005 WebPKI; we have 2022's.

(I was doing DNS security work at the time Kashpureff cache poisoned internic.net, and it was a pretty formative experience for me, if people wonder why I'm so shocked that anyone would take Handshake seriously).
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How would google's automated system for detecting hacking instruction videos know that grammarly doesn't consider something hacking and gave you permission to publish? You're posting something that looks like an exploit, and linking to multiple places that strongly resemble instructions for how to exploit a system, one of which is actively advertising "hiring hackers" and absolutely loaded with keywords and phrases that are going to trigger the algorithm.