skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> LTO Tape is ... much cheaper than hard drives ... a 12TB SATA drive costs around £18.00 per TB ... a LTO-8 tape that has the same capacity costs around £7.40 per TB ... That’s a significant price difference.

Actually, it isn't very significant. Price factor of 2.5. I had thought tape storage was cheaper than that. And then there are the drives: A drive to write (3,000 GBP for LTO-8), and at least a couple more drives for reading tapes.

At this price ratio, I would say that ease-of-use and safety/robustness of the backed-up material are more important considerations.
I did the same for every project where k8s was used and started with ECS where k8s was proposed. Even ECS is too complex for my taste, but who am I to dictate what clients want.
Show HN: Open-source admin panel for Supabase
While Jonathan was alive Queen Victoria married Prince Albert, Samuel Morse received the patent for the telegraph, Beau Brummell died and Oliver Wendell Holmes was born. Jonathan is older than Canada and Hong Kong.
Hi, 5 ppl firm owner/developer here:

- I joined the major slack channels of developers/designers/whateveryoulookforspecialists in the area.

- joined the #workrequests, #jobs, #yougetthepoint channels

- actually read the guidelines of each slack channel and/or talked to the admin to have the right tone of voice, get their feedback, finetune it, etc

- posted the job

- after 1-2 years, specialists still come to us because of the posts

- maintain a spreadsheet so you don't lose track of good people
As long as I can be even a bit picky on where to work, I will outright reject all work interviews which demand that I acquire skills that are useful only for the duration of the interview.

My best interviews have all been ones where I have had absolutely no preparation.
I object to Tea being a Chinese invention. Place of origin is East India.
I have an Amiga 1200 that is about 25 years old. With some expansions over the years I can do most stuff that I've been doing daily since the mid 90s. Replacement caps, accelerator board and a scan doubler for modern-ish displays (DVI / VGA work fine).

I also own a Core 2 Quad with maxed ram (8gb) that is about 15 years old and it can handle a modern Linux distro quite well. I've added USB 3.0, card readers and I bought a cheap AMD workstation GPU and stuff works ok. If the hardware doesn't fail it probably be okay for another 10 years. If I ran a BSD on there it would last longer.

What normally causes me to upgrade machines are new games and/or heavy weight software stacks and IDEs that eat ram and CPU time.
I can't claim to be any enthusiast about the topic, but I like adventurous people and had come across this guy at some point:

"Sailing Alone Across an Ocean on a 30ft Sailboat and Losing the Rudder 1000 Miles from Hawaii"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AZXXKj0p0s

Worth skimming through.

I checked your Twitter and something stood out - got Australian family currently living in Aberystwyth!
Interviewing I've done for high competence positions that aren't necessarily super high volume had such creative and difficult coding assessments that bitching about leetcode just seems soooooo bizarre to me by comparison.

Companies that did leetcode stuff are just like a joke. Can you reuse this array to store the information you're using while you're going through this list of items? Great! Wow, smart candidate!

Okay, try interviewing for something like Insomniac Games where they want you to write an effective memory manager in C as a screening question! Or interview for Sony where you got 3 algorithms problems, 3 game logic vector math type problems, and 3 obscure memory uses of C problems in 2 hours and you gotta do it all on paper. These are out of date too. It's probably even more involved now for game companies.

Leetcode is totally fine and you should get comfortable using the techniques you learned in your core competency classes in school to solve novel problems.
They all adjust based on your location. Like Meta aims for top 5% pay in the market. Other places will be lower/higher accordingly.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink is getting closer to putting a chip inside your head
Hard to find 100 buds in an hour.

You'd need to house, feed etc the workers at first-world standards (or pay them enough) which makes up the current costs. Anything else is basically slave labor.
You're only really informed if you listen and watch what you listen to, right?
"I has monies!" - small company

"Gieb monies, plx!" - potential employee

"K!" - small company
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Actually Kubernetes is not complex.

The requirements of most software developers are complex. Running small self contained and isolated applications in a highly scalable manner which can scale automatically, where dead services get killed and replaced, where health checks, readiness and liveliness checks fully automate a lot of dev ops problems, where things can be load balanced publicly as well as privately in a private VPN and where complex ingress rules can be created to route traffic from one load balancer to different smaller load balancers which distribute traffic across different apps and with automatic SSL certificate management for public services via an ACME provider are VERY COMPLEX requirements.

If you want to run your stuff in such an advanced fashion then Kubernetes makes it EXTREMELY SIMPLE.

If you don't care about these things then don't complain about Kubernetes. Just run your shit on a single VM and deal with everything manually as and when you need it.
I forget things, I know that I will forget things.

My brain doesn't remember full facts, it's more like the old school card index from a library. I retain information on where I can find things, not the things itself.

Note taking speeds this process up by letting me store all the things in a single place . With the added bonus that I know my notes won't just disappear from the internet one day.

I use Notion for stuff I need to share with others and things that need a bunch of embeds or images. Obsidian for text-only notes and more private stuff. Pinboard for bookmarks with the paid archiving feature enabled.

I treat bookmarks as mostly ephemeral, I can't usually be arsed to configure bookmark syncing between all the computers I use, Pinboard is mostly enough for long-term storage.
https://archive.is/pz6i7
Curious; when did you get started with your career?
They can't address what he actually said for the same reason anyone likes to refute a strawman argument instead of addressing the real argument.

I think the officials are so afraid that any discussion of nuance [1] would frighten people away from the vaccines that they simply avoid talking about it entirely, and sometimes call to outright suppress any such discussions as "misinformation" and label these people as "anti-vaxx".

[1] https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/uk-now-reports-myoca...
>The US has been willing to go to war to fight the Nazi regime. For me, it is inconceivable how wide swaths of the US could have ended up with welcoming the successors of the Nazi ideology, not even a century later.

The people who spent their early adulthood shooting at literal nazis generally held beliefs that would have the group you endorse in your profile calling them nazis today.

I'm not sure how you can call the current quibbling about race ethnicity "the successors of the Nazi ideology". Ignoring the "believes in literal superiority of one race" types who are a rounding error, most of the people getting called racist today say things that 1990s sociologists would have published without thinking twice.
> HN (whoishiring), angel.co

I have communicated with companies via both of these methods.

The other suggestions make sense too.
I spent a few hours this week-end playing with writing a c++ single-threaded zero-memory allocation, exhaustive decision-tree solution-space explorer, just to see how far brute-force could go.

Here is the code if anyone is interested :
https://gist.github.com/unrealwill/83dc7a1d0675ac0751535a6c4...
I’m no Joe Rogan fan, but I can say this about him: I guarantee that he’d have Neil Young on the podcast. Obviously, the reverse is not true.
What I never see explained, is what exactly PCI cards should I get to get the full sized SAS drive to work with my desktop PC? Because looking at server component stores, I see there digit prices for SAS controllers, and the author mentions they are cheap.
I would slightly correct the statement in the article: "The World’s Oldest [Known] Land Animal Ever". But after reading through it, I'm afraid that animals living in the wild (which are not fed and cared for) probably wouldn't reach this age, so the statement may actually be correct...
Some people do have a problem with that, and they are telling on themselves when YouTube demonetizes Wu but no one will ever touch Kyle Hill's videos in spite of the fact that he teaches science while looking like the love child of mid-90s Arnold Schwarzenegger and Madonna.

(... And nobody should, his videos are great. Seriously if you haven't seen his stuff go check it out. But there's an obvious double standard if he's in and Wu is out).
> A billion butts? Do 10M Swedes really average 100 butts chucked into the environment?

it's per year.

Roughly 10% of swedes smoke to some level. If we say half of them are only occasional smokers and the other half smoke on average 10/day, that's 1.8B/year
You expect him to do work to prepare for the interview? I thought it was clear he was anti-work! He wanted to clean up his room....then realized laziness is a virtue!
You made two mistakes: You optimise prematurely and your assumption is incorrect.

Premature optimisation:

In most cases the performance would not matter. Instead of optimising for performance you should optimise for readability. IMHO IFs and FORs are way more readable in any context than any language specific methods like REDUCE and MAX.

Incorrect optimisation:

At least in modern browsers, simple IFs and FORs are the most optimised methods of doing anything. See for instance https://leanylabs.com/blog/js-forEach-map-reduce-vs-for-for_... (Operations per second, higher is better).
But if you can grind these what's the point then? All I'm doing at work is building glorified crud apps. I'm sure it's what many, many software engineers are doing. Not all, but many. My understanding of e.g. Django is much more important to my daily work than being able to come up with the fastest way to find a maximum value in an array.
> some random person

A journalist is some random person too. Only a handful of people know the person to any degree. You are asking to trust some brand. A brand that is controlled by few rich centralized media owners (in the "free" countries, government, directly or indirectly, in others).

The main incentive of a journalist is the same as for any other employee. To Keep ones employment and to make money. The idealism, if it ever exists, diminishes over time as experience grows and the need for stable income too (family).
It's been years since I went down this route, but after a while I had a list of clients that were pretty good to work for.

For example, one client had a custom CMS/Webshop that was on its ass. It was a data corruption in their MongoDB (of course...) the code didn't really deal well with. They had contacted two people before who looked at it and said it was "unrecoverable" and nothing could be done. I solved it in an hour, and their business was back up and running. This wasn't act of genius on my part or anything: most people here probably would have been able to do it, it's just that the previous people were the software equivalent of quacks.

Needless to say, I earned a lot of points and trust with that, and did more work for them on various things, at reasonable rates.

But you do have to dig through a huge pile of crap to get these kind of things. Overall, it's not really worth it. Plus the cut UpWork takes is not in proportion to the value they deliver IMHO, so I ended up giving up on freelance work (I'm not the kind of person that's good at "hustling" in the tradition freelance sense).
I recently started looking into using an LTO-7 tape drive that I got handed down, along with a few dozens of pristine LOT-6 tapes, for archiving purposes. I got to play around a bit with SAS HBAs, and was kinda shocked how much of a difference that can make in the user (or shall I say sysadmin?) experience: LTO-6 tapes are spec'd to transfer rates of around 150MB/s, so well within the reach of even the the first SAS gear generation. However, the very first SAS HBA with external SFF-8088 connector I managed to get my hands on (an LSI SAS1068e) topped out at a disappointing 80MiB/s, no matter what I tried in terms of blocking and buffering. Switching to a more modern (but still old) LSI SAS2008-based HBA got me close to the theoretical maximum.

Then there's the (to me, still open) question of how to best use the actual tape storage capactiy... Since my hardware is newer than LTO-5, LTFS (https://github.com/LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs) is an option for convenient access, especially listing tape contents, but that could make it hard for other people down the line to restore data from the tapes I create.

It's probably safest to assume that tar will always be there, at least wherever there's tape, too. GNU tar also handles multi-volume/-tape archives, which seems like a necessity if you need to back up amounts of data that exceed a single tape's capacity. Then again, if you want to use encryption with actual tar (important for the kind of data I need to archive), your only option seems to be piping the whole archive through something to compress the stream, which will make accessing individual records in the archive opaque to the drive itself... and you can't just dispose of individual keys to make select parts of the archived data go away for good, either.

Also, I would like to conserve as much tape as (conveniently) possible in my archiving adventure. There's "projects" (i.e., top-level directories of directory trees) that consume more than one tape of their own, and then there's smaller projects that you can bin-pack together onto tapes that can fit more than one such project.

I've started implementing a small python wrapper around GNU tar to solve a number of these problems by bin-packing projects into "tape slots" and also keeping track of tape-to-file mappings in a small sqlite database, but a workable solution for the encryption problem(s) is not something I managed to come up with yet... If someone has an idea (or better yet, a complete and free implementation of what I am trying to hack together :)), please be so kind and let me know!
“Never taking anything you read or hear at face value” makes it impossible to operate in a functioning society. This is particularly the case in a society where some people are happy to fill your information channels with conflicting information. Even if you do your research and reject some of the bad data, the effort will paralyze you (and others like you) which is almost as good from a malicious perspective.

Or to think about it from an information security perspective, once you adopt a specific defense mechanism, someone will look for ways to exploit it. This one is particularly easy to exploit.
There is no evidence that Rogan's opinions are either dangerous, or considered "information" by most people. Beware overusing this term or it will lose all meaning.
Fucking dog poo bags.

Anyone who doesn't use fully biodegradable bags (eg cornstarch) is evil.

Anyone who leaves them hanging on trees deserves to have their animal taken away and be given community service cleaning up excrement.

Rubbish/refuse/litter/trash though, put it in your pocket, or a shoulder bag, then dispose of it when you get home. No need to put litter bins all over the place.
Doesn't Apple Music require Apple devices? :/
Any differentiation w.r.t Typora ?
It is time for unqualified people to be sued for bad medical advice
Interesting take which I’d never considered before.
Its quite nice but it has one big disadvantage.

Its not possible to DISABLE WORD/LINE WRAPPING which is very annoying.
There’s a key difference: Neil Young isn’t dangerous because he’s not portraying himself as someone he’s not. He’s not presenting contrarian hot takes but simply saying that the experts are right on this and we should listen to them.

When you try to dismiss that as a “biased narrative” or “authoritarian” it demonstrates the danger of this intellectual sloppiness: you’re conflating two positions as equally worthy of attention without acknowledging that one of them has near-unanimous consensus among experts and has been extensively validated. Trying to “both sides this without accounting for that weight is making you less informed, not more.
Ransomware Targeting QNAP Devices
I'm on the other side of this currently; how do I find small companies like these?
There are "HN: Who is hiring?" posts, but apart from those, do any of you have a good strategy when it comes to picking a new, yet unknown, employer like OP?
I expect that number is computed from the local hourly minimum wage, dividing it by the number of butts one can pick up in an hour.

That indeed would be a good income for billions, if they wouldn’t have to live in Sweden to do the job.

Startup idea: small drones for picking up trash, operated remotely by humans living in some poor country.
FWIW I think you can absolutely ask practical, grounded coding questions in a coderpad environment (I believe $current_employer does).
I agree with you that attire doesn't matter, but we're currently in a swing of increasing conformity. Including (or maybe especially) in tech.

It doesn't look like the stereotype of conformity from our parent's generation, so people don't acknowledge it for what it is. Or think that conflict between subcultures with a handful of mutually exclusive standards for conforming somehow nulls it out.
Backups are a really interesting business. I helped out a colleague a few years ago with a project in a big data center and it was like a whole world that nobody knew existed.

Because of the RTOs and backup windows, the supporting infrastructure was fast. The caching layer stuff was the fastest disk in the data center by far, and the team was a small, tight group of people who basically honed their craft by meeting auditor and other requirements. The management left them alone and they did their thing.

That was about a decade ago now; those guys have all moved on to really big things.
Surely it's a shrinking advantage? x86 CPUs have been microcode based for a long time, and the hardware to convert x86 instructions to micro ops is a relatively fixed cost that diminishes over time with process shrinks?
There is a saying in japanese that ideas don't come from kami but from kami. Kami in the first meaning means god. In the second it means paper.

So ideas don't come from god but from paper.
Slightly unrelated, but why does Open Street Map display location names using the native language of the country? Japan for example has the names displayed in Japanese, China in Chinese, Russia in Russian, etc.

That means the map is basically useless for anyone who isn’t fluent in every single language on the planet. Imagine you’re traveling in Japan and you’re looking for Kyoto. If you use OSM, you’re screwed unless you can read Japanese.
Out of curiosity: this test you gave your interviewees, was it done on a computer or pen & paper?
(You’re responding to a point in the original article, not a point I made. I contemplated mentioning <link rel=canonical> myself, but others have also already mentioned it in the thread so I didn’t bother.)
Don't be daft. This is exactly the kind of parroted narrative I'm talking about.

It's obvious to any objective observer how this has played out. Initially, three weeks of shutdown, combined with a stimulus program, was going to be painful but bearable. We laid off a bunch of people, cancelled raises, and prepared for a recession. When the "elite" saw how well their stocks, companies, and real estate holdings were doing, well suddenly this didn't seem so bad--for some folks like me and probably you as well. Then, very quickly, it got politicized and ritualized.

I can absolutely guarantee you if home values had cratered, if large businesses were getting their lunch eaten by small businesses, if stocks were on a two year decline and continued to fall, if WFH was only possible for low wage hourly workers, things would look very different and these restrictions would have been lifted a long time ago.

Now wearing a mask for 20 seconds while I walk 2 or 3 meters from the door of a restaurant to the table, only to immediately take it off for an hour to eat dinner isn't a practical mater, its symbolic--the mask is the new flag pin. The staff still needs to wear masks for their whole shift of course--all these COVID measures are falling disproportionately on service workers, I am going through life mostly free from any inconvenience while all the hourly worker I interact with wear masks, "sanitize" any surface I come into contact with, and perform all sorts of extra, mostly meaningless precautions to "keep me safe". I've never worked a job like this, but I can't imagine spending 8 hours sweating in a kitchen with a mask on is much fun.
Could it be simply a way for nature of saying 'no, for real, we don't do open access, even if in theory we do'? Basically they don't expect anyone to actually pay for this?
I agree with you, although you can get near/past FAANG level TC by contracting/freelancing. Even just being a Java dev, you can make around 650+ a day which is about 150k/year. Plus you can expense almost anything IT related. If you branch out into doing trainings, or become a subject matter expert, you can charge 750, 850+ a day which is basically >= FAANG L5 levels. Probably a lot harder to be honest since you need proven experience and results, but it avoids the leetcode.
Online Shopping Portals and the Growth of MSME Sector
My advice: On eBay (or any other platform that makes it easy to buy used hardware components), go look for "sas2008 4e", and check out the offers. You should be able to get a decent HBA driven by mpt2sas/mpt3sas for around 40 to 60US$.
> Just checked her channel and every episode is her in a tube top and short shorts. Maybe she's technical, but the way shes dressed is clearly with the intent to draw people in sexually.

No. I look how I've always looked. My clothing is about gender expression and visibility and is common within my LGBT niche. That appearance sometimes helps, it sometimes hurts, I don't object to those followers that like it but I also don't cater to them.

>When she leaves the house she puts on a full set of clothes, so even shes consciously aware of how she looks in her videos.

You mean in the winter? Why would I wear hot pants outside in the winter?
OTOH trust is not unconditional, it must be acquired. People don't trust authorities, and it is hardly fault of Joe.
I also rarely/never delete anything, but my ~2tb NAS still has plenty of room. I guess it makes a difference that the only media I store is my own photos and videos.
It's just as easy to argue that leetcode-style interviews are because companies are afraid of being discriminatory in hiring. If you aren't allowed to consider culture fit (because it's discriminatory) or education (because it's discriminatory) or give take home work (because it's discriminatory against people with time constraints) or trust your feelings in a qualitative interview (because they're discriminatory), what can you do? Solving real engineering problems takes too long for an interview, and full-day interviews are also discriminatory against people with time constraints. You can candidates give some automated algorithms problem solving test- that's what you can do.
Do you really, seriously, believe that the intelligence agencies in the United States use the census for their population estimates?
Intentionality is required for something to be misinformation.
Would Redis Keyspace Notifications [1] help in this case? Like a script that runs when a specific key expires, such that all other related keys can be deleted too.

[1] https://redis.io/topics/notifications