skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stali distribution smashes assumptions about Linux (2016)
The sad state of affairs. So many ways to do it wrong. Even weirder is the CDC site here says under the "masks that meet standards" header, "Do NOT wear" them if you have facial hair. Seriously. If you don't believe me

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/pdfs/facialhairwmask11282017...
But they should be paid fairly commensurate with their responsibilities. Some of them with spine will actually be demotivated to do corruption.
Ask HN: Telling your employer about job seeking visa?
I am working remotely and want to get a new job in Germany. I am thinking of moving to Germany on job seeking visa and start looking. But I am not sure what I can tell to my current employers about my new relocation.

I might be in Germany for whole 6 months before I would get a job so I can't tell my company that I am on visit visa for 3 months.

Anyone else here had a similar situation and got away with it without telling your employer that you are moving to a new country to find job?
For consistency, then, YouTube should be taking down videos of people doing the Dihydrogen Monoxide experiment/hoax[1]. It's the same idea, framing an anodyne substance as being dangerous.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_parody
Yep, it's the site wordlist.
"Separated"

The engineering of the seals that can operate at those speeds and pressures is a whole specialised field. If I remember correctly, the SSME design uses a labyrinth seal pressurised with Helium.

In other words, the various gases are kept separate only by more gas.

Similarly, the Saturn V main engines were unlubricated because no lubricant could be found that could tolerate the extreme conditions. They were just designed to wear out slow enough to keep operating over their operating lifetime, which was measured in hundreds of seconds (including static test firing).
I hope you keep them in a temperature and humidity controlled environment or you will get biological growth on them in a hurry
> My network is literally filled with senior developers who are earning $5M+ a year from the successful IPOs

Most people here disdain stock options as worthless. And I guess for the most part they are with a few happy exceptions.

How early an employee do you have to be to get that kind of return?
This is great man. I’m traveling right now and looking for destinations. Do you have any in mind that are accepting tourists?
So basically it’s not Rust.
If you have facial hair, you can't expect a good seal around the edges of the mask, so there will be some air getting to you (and out of you) that is unfiltered.
No worries, I know I could easily make the same mistake.
The increasing prevalence of the acqui-hire seems to me to be one manifestation of this.

Allow a team to come together, demonstrate an ability to work together, to define a project (hopefully one of interest to the acquirer, if not in the output than in the process which develops it), then hire based on proven ability.

Or at least that's one interpretation, and amongst the more charitable, of the practice.
I can only imagine they actually like the counterfeit products as they must represent a fair portion of their sales. If they didn’t like them I feel they could come up with a supply chain tracing system for reputable sellers. The problem has existed for so long I don’t believe they’re trying to stop it.
Slackware was my first too. I think it was version 3.5 with a bunch of floppies.

Now that so much of my work is in containers, it might be time to go back to slack for the main OS.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic here. GNOME Shell and GNOME apps are both styled with CSS. An example: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-weather/-/blob/master/d...
The maximum number of stockholders for a private corporation is 2000, and it excludes stock awarded as part of employee grants, so that point is not a factor. But your other points still aptly demonstrate the utter lunacy of this idea.
Yet another tool that hijacks Ctrl-K in the browser (the browser shortcut for search).
Amazon’s a flea market, and flea markets operate so cheaply by neither vetting sellers, nor inspecting goods, nor taking any responsibility for sales outcomes. Amazon will do everything in its power to avoid those duties because their retail profit model is to dodge human responsibilities such as those for labor savings.

Buying from a “fulfilled by Amazon” trusted vendor won’t necessarily help either, because Amazon also bins all products with a given UPC into a single bucket, no matter who the seller is.
That's categorically false, there are issues to fix both of those in the gnome settings:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues...

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues...
When I raised facial hair as an issue I was laughed at. I knew it was a problem because I had a full beard and could feel my breath escape. I guess now there should be shave mandates since double shot with a booster and a beard means distributing death.
These honeywell masks are pretty good:

https://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-Layer-Replaceable-Inserts-R...

Easier to get than 3M, a respected brand like 3M, more comfortable than N95.
My personal favourite was Sidney Lake -- the head of the Sydney Water Board Workers Union.
I feel like the emphasis on the percentage of KN95s which are counterfeit is suspect in the context of this page, since even a counterfeit respirator is likely to perform an order of magnitude better than any cloth mask or surgical mask at preventing spread of viral particles.
ConsumerLab.com [1] has been doing independent tests of health products for over 20 years. Like Consumer Reports, they take no advertising money and are supported by subscriptions. They do things like measure which vitamin brands actually contain the specified amount of vitamin, and they test for toxins in lots of things, including dried seaweed snacks (!).

The intro to ConsumerLab's review of KN95 masks [2] says:

> We reviewed many KN95 masks sold on Amazon but found only one currently on the FDA's list of authorized respirators that we recommend, and we found two that should be avoided. We also found an FDA-authorized KN95 through an online direct distributor in the U.S.

(EDIT: details are available to subscribers, but the U.S. distributor they recommend is https://bonafidemasks.com, which was also recommended in a sibling a comment on this page by codemac.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConsumerLab.com

[2] https://www.consumerlab.com/answers/how-to-make-covid-19-mas...
While I had a couple of gripes with the article, I don't get the sense that the article exaggerates the significance of this work. The (Generalized) Riemann Hypothesis implies the (Generalized) Lindelof Hypothesis. The latter is a particularly important consequence of GRH. Not only is it worthwhile, if you are interested in GRH, to verify its predictions (if you proved one of the predictions false, then you would disprove GRH, and if you proved it true, this would in some sense provide "theoretical support" for GRH), but Lindelof is useful in is own right. In particular, it can sometimes serve as a substitute for GRH, and results that can substitute for GRH (such as Bombieri-Vinogradov, zero-density estimates, and subconvexity estimates) are very valuable. Contexts where subconvexity estimates can serve in place of GRH include Quantum Unique Ergodicity, and representations of integers by ternary quadratic forms.

For this reason, this paper is a much bigger deal (in the analytic number theory world / in my opinion) than the paper a couple years back that made big headlines about Jensen polynomials (and Nelson's paper is surely one of the biggest results in the last couple of years in analytic number theory). While the latter was more of a "curiosity" / cute paper on an obscure way of thinking about RH, Nelson's paper is big progress on a well-studied weaker form of GRH with significant utility for applications. (I mean, of course, applications in mathematics.)
Will it be compatible to run applications written in Python, Go or C++?
Let's not forget that they are shipping signed, unmodifiable OSes (in the default security config) that will be scanning your local files without your consent for contraband, and any true or false positives will be reported to Apple and the police.

They are proceeding with this plan, now that the initial fervor has died down.

You can't turn it off without disabling the majority of the platform security protections on the machine.
If you like Hades, check out Noclip's (nearly five-hour long) documentary series about Hades' development:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-THgg8QnvU4JEVov1tMl...
It normally doesn’t take this much to break the grid in Argentina. After nearly 30 years of private companies running free not doing any improvements or expansions, the grid does what it can.

As an anecdote, my parents kept losing power independently of the neighborhood. They were still hooked with aluminum wires from who knows when and the pole line was shared with one neighbor. Every time my parents and the neighbor’s AC would come on at the same time, they would trigger a breaker and they would both lose power.

The tech that finally figured it out said that should’ve been fixed in the 90s.

In regards of the weather, it’s becoming more and more unpredictable down there. Last year I was there for Christmas and it was 75. This year it was also nice, but I remember Christmas with 35c many years. I left again last week and it was pleasant, then this week 45c.
Before I left in 2014 we would get crazy sudden hail storms in summer. Hail the size of golf balls coming out of nowhere.
It didn’t used to be like this 20 years ago.
You're shadowbanned. I didn't look far enough into your past to see why, but you might want to email the mods and ask forgiveness.
Not OP, but my brother has just gotten back from Nepal. He reported back that it was a very pleasant trip and very quiet right now however they are needing tourism.
My bets are on another analytic number theorist for the Fields this cycle, namely James Maynard.
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Airshow Remastered the Grateful Dead Studio Albums
Phishing is still an issue that could be prevented with security keys. That said, I don't see most HN accounts being very interesting to phishers.
Reminder: Docker Desktop is a) closed source and b) also is spyware.

You're much better off using your own VM and the free software docker CLI tool. Set DOCKER_HOST to "ssh://root@$VM_IP".
I came here to agree with your post! I wanted to add that when you are having as much trouble functioning as someone with severe ADHD and a general lack of executive function no number of tried and true tricks that a neurotypical person uses are going to be enough to cause real change in your life. I was definitely a heavy caffeine user for years before I was diagnosed as ADHD and given access to Adderall which really helped me be more in control of my schedule.
The simple answer is that the money they make from the sale of counterfeit masks is greater than the amount they lose from the hit to their reputation. Amazon has established a de-facto monopoly on general-purpose online shopping, so they don't have to worry about people going elsewhere. They also have no legal liability, so they have no incentive to spend more than a token effort combatting their massive fraud problems. It's simple business calculus.
Insofar as the overall level of hardware support and available software on Linux suits you then you could certainly use certainly use any of several interfaces especially on X11.
3M 8210 N95 masks dropped to $0.89/each about 5 months ago and haven't budged since then. Presumably they could now ramp up production if required. I often wonder why Amazon doesn't just presume guilty unless proven innocent when it comes to life-safety equipment like face respirators during a pandemic once supply chains of known-good equipment are available.

How difficult would it be for this single product line to be validated by someone at Amazon?
I find masknerd on youtube an excellent source of information. https://www.youtube.com/user/coll0412
> they are the defaults in Rust.

Exactly, this is what I should have explicitly said. Language defaults have a powerful effect on a project's norms and culture.

> You have to go out of your way to get these things wrong.

Yes, you actually have to try to write shitty Rust code, at least where there are defaults that prevent it. Thus the average Rust program will have that baseline level of quality. Like TQM/TPM/Six-Sigma for manufacturing software.
For the great unicorns, not that early. If you join as a senior engineer it’s relatively easy to get 250-400k in equity per year, so you just need to wait for the company to do 10X in order to make $3-5M a year. The math is different from the stock options you mention, we are talking about joining very late in the game, once the companies are already in the unicorn status. By that stage they don’t even give options anymore, just illiquid RSUs. The people who joined really early of course won the lottery and you have rank and file employees sitting on high 8 figures.

There are some interesting numbers here: https://iporegrets.com/

I know several people from AirBnB, Doordash, Snowflake who all joined around 2018 and made bank.

I was an early employee at a smaller startup that is still illiquid and my stock options (fully exercised) are worth $6M. They could still all go to $0.

Just by looking at myself and my immediate network, I wouldn’t say playing the startup game is necessarily like a lottery, the odds are better (but note that I still chose FAANG lately, as mentioned above). YMMV.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough. At this point, the military axiom of taking any action at all is better than inaction seems to hold. If you want to change the status quo of American healthcare, Obamacare is better than doing nothing while waiting for healthcare Godot, even if Obamacare is the opposite direction of where you want to go.

I see this a lot in our industry (and other industries) as well. People will endlessly bikeshed for a perfect solution until well past the point that "any action at all" was a better choice than continual bikeshedding. This dynamic is often used by stakeholders with a significant investment in the status quo to politically kill any change while appearing to be onboard with change.
monopolies in numbers..?
You are correct. This is widely copy/pasted bad advice and does the exact opposite of what the comment says.

It is not an idle timeout logout at all. Instead, it causes sshd to periodically send probes to the client. This has a couple of effects, most notably keeping tcp sessions "active" and frequently exchanging packets (this can be useful to keep connections through statefull firewalls alive if you are genuinely idle), and to rapidly detect and disconnect a client that has actually gone away.

I think the origin of this incorrect description is the CIS documents. They have the exact same gross mistake in them.

I think the ClientAlive probes are useful and should be on, but it's definitely not an "idle logout" as claimed.
this is the "aspiration technique" thats being argued?
ie inserting the needle, drawing back to see if there is blood and if there is finding a new location because finding blood indicates you have found a vein ?

This is standard procedure in many communities, I wonder why they seem to be pushing back on this. It seems like a good and harmless argument to me.
I think this is OK in some situations and not OK in others.

To me it is a lot like writing in a human language. When I am texting someone I am close with there is no reason to avoid slang or to use the best grammar and punctuation. When I am writing my CV it would be advisable to be more formal.

The author of a dime-store novel will write at a different standard than the Encyclopedia Britannica.

My point is that you should write the code that is necessary for the situation and if you are part of an engineering organization the leadership or team as a whole should decide when to use what level of quality and should understand what the trade offs are. There are legit business reasons to write throwaway code when time is of the essence and there are times when you need to take the time to risk over-engineering/over-building something just to be as certain as possible that it won't fail.
Yeah this is something that was brought home to me when my nine year old son wanted to design his own deck of playing cards

I thought about giving up my Mac so he could use Sketch. But then my partner suggested he try Figma on his iPad

I connected my old Magic Mouse and keyboard up to his iPad, Air-dropped the initial Sketch file we had made to him, and imported it into Figma. Once I taught him the basics of components, transforms and the shapes and vector tool he was up and running (I was pretty strict about naming his layers properly!). He quickly got through the whole deck in two suits

It still bothered me though: why was Figma using windows hotkeys, except for copy and paste? Why did the layers panels sometimes not scroll all the way to the bottom, text editing was clunky, things didn't feel quite as smooth. But it did the job
I believe this is about websites that provide streaming site link to audio file conversion services. There are some apps on Google Play store that do this as well. Internally I presume they all use ytdl
Side point: I think dealing with counterfeit goods could be a good way for developed nations to bring back more manufacturing and generally better products.

I wonder if a good system would be to beef up quality checks on imported. Make sure things are what they are and made with materials you want for the health of you population as I have little doubt many kids toys, furniture's, building materials and food plastics etc are probably not as safe as you'd want or blatantly containing banned items.

I was thinking a good way yo do it would be a combination of 1) importers pay for the inspections rather than the nominal current fee and 2) importers could get a 'grade' kind of like financial ratings.

As importers show good practice over time their grade reflects this and less goods are inspected and cost to import go down. This could create real value to certification and if done right it would be something groups strongly protect. It would stop people jumping on trends with dodgy products as new importers would have to pay upfront for inspections and risk losing their goods, which would be a game changer for product quality.

I think something like this would have so many benefits in removing counterfeit and healthier products in countries. Also I wonder if it would level the playing field in manufacturing domestically for developed nations, so companies doing the right thing are not disadvantaged so much to those willing to cut corners. Also would probably have a huge flow-on effect to drug importation as I imagine a bunch of this happens with less reputable importers but Im guessing here.

Anyway talking from a very non-expert position so likely flawed view... but strongly feel this is something that that needs to be dealt with for counterfeit/health reasons.
Ask HN: Which SaaS services expose their API over GraphQL?
Out of curiosity, how did you know they were shadowbanned? The comment appears fine for me.
> China openly stated that they would invade Taiwan if they declared independence

I mean Taiwan is effectively independent. Everyone knows that.
If China want to save face, why not grant that?
China never said that they would invade no matter what, right?
I've been buying from https://bonafidemasks.com , they sell Guangzhou Powecom and Guangzhou Harley masks, which all do incredibly well (99+) with their KN95's on the CDC website. I highly recommend them.
I don't think they really care as long as they get a cut. Maybe if they get enough negative publicity people will turn on them and they'll clean things up, but I doubt they'll do anything until it cuts into their profits.

I'm pretty sure I've gotten counterfeit GE light bulbs from them. It was an appliance bulb, packaging looked right, the bulb died within a day. I found another at a local grocery store, same packaging, slightly different tint to the glass, and it's been going for years now (in an oven that I frequently run at 550 F).
Scientific journalism. Buzzwords, speculations that don’t sound plausible to the scientific community, etc
I doubt an upper respiratory variant is going to be the worst left. Perhaps we should engineer a dominant strain every year to be more vanilla.
Blame NVIDIA instead. If they had open source their blobs, it would have been everywhere out of the box. Most evil company for open source ever.
I do agree with you that this article leaves a lot to be desired. It definitely ignores mental disorder as a whole or that there are people who prioritize relaxation over productivity and are perfectly happy to do so.

So I think the answer to your question "What is it that makes the former way of life so much better than the latter?" is that for many people they feel a genuine lack of fulfillment from just watching Netflix and chilling. I certainly do- and allowing myself to slide into slug mode is actively detrimental to my mental health and a good way to fall into a depression pit. I however do NOT expect every one else to feel the same way as me, some people do better when they do less.
The CDC's report is not appropriate to make this conclusion. Following through on how the CDC came to this figure they categorize all masks from certain manufacturers whose products have been counterfeited as all being counterfeit. If company X makes legitimate N95 masks, but there is a company Y that makes counterfeit X masks, then all of X's masks are considered counterfeit.

That's fine if you want to play it safe, but it's not fine if you're making a judgement about genuine capacity or supply.
Someone Scraped Bank of Personal Data Used by Private Investigators
> If not, they tend to be trivial to scrape.

Not if the "web page" is just a skeleton that gets filled in by Javascript. Like, you know, pretty much every web app out there.
Yet it also seems to be using an "x11 backend" (only) for now... not sure what to make of this without reading the code a lot closer.

https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-comp/blob/main/src/backend/...
This is one (of many) reasons I always buy NIOSH N95’s. The most expensive part of a good N95 is, surprisingly, the straps — good straps that expand all the way around the head without snagging your hair are expensive, so you can be reasonably sure that any N95 that uses them is not counterfeit, as the material properties can’t be faked cheaply. The expense of straps is why 3M makes some N95 models in pairs that differ only in whether they have hair-snagging straps, e.g. 8210 vs 8210+.

If you really want to be sure, go with Moldex. Moldex N95 masks are made (in the USA) with a unique process where the N95 filter is covered in a hard plastic mesh. Their AirWave line in particular is truly superior to any other N95 on the market, because they own a patent on using corrugation in the mask body. You can be sure nobody is counterfeiting these — they’re a niche product for construction workers, not something people flock to for Covid protection. Just be aware they’re clunkier than even a typical N95 because of the plastic casing — “Darth Vader mask” is a term I’ve heard a lot while wearing them.
"but software development is not data structures and algorithms"

Now I know why there is so much bad software out there... you just gutted the core of what SD is.
Do you not stay logged in to HN?
Corporations have no minds and have no hands. They cannot think, decide, or act. Every action undertaken by a corporation was performed by a human being (or programmed by a human being).

Corporate "speech" is still just human rights to free expression. Corporations have nothing to say without humans.