skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know about Apple but at the other FAANGs level is a made up thing that sorta correlates to comp and experience. You can have inexperienced people at a principal or staff level and highly experienced people at a lower level. Depending on your region someone in NYC at a lower level might be bringing more comp than someone in a rural area at a higher level. It all comes down to what you can negotiate, what role you’re applying to, and how experienced the interviewer(s) think you are.
I can assure you that I’m not confusing anything just extrapolating your argument in that prior post. I agree though that advertising is a pretty lousy discovery mechanism a lot of the time.
Cuts You Up is a classic!
They are related but separate. SRE Handbook for Google targets that an SRE spends ~50% of their time to Dev Ops work. It wouldn't be unusual for DevOps to turn into an SRE or vice-verse.
Some people just really enjoy solving problems in a convoluted way for the learning experience. I don't have that kind of drive personally--I feel like I learn enough programming during work hours.
You regularly see news reports on TV with headlines saying how the driver was "Exceeding 100mph!" OMG 100MPH!

Any shitbox car made in the last 30 years can do 100mph.
I agree, I think people who ask "well how do you know the product exists" are missing the point of advertisement, which is not to inform people by factual arguments and discussion, but to convince them through emotional manipulation.

> On average, it's manipulation, brainwashing and commodification of well told lies.

What's even worse, the same emotional manipulation methods that are used in advertising are now applied to the political domain, and they seem to lead to increased misinformation and political spectrum fragmentation. It is especially easy to instill hate or anger into people.

I don't think modern society, where people are expected to be as rational as possible (in order to participate in improving the society), can survive if at the same time, we weaken this rationality by circumventing it through an endless stream of emotional manipulation.

In the 18th and 19th century, it became widely accepted that public education is beneficial for everyone, i.e. it's worth teaching everybody how to read and write, as well as other stuff like civics. It's not obvious at all this is the case, there certainly was lot of resistance to this idea from elitist classes of nobles and clerics.

I think there is a similar conflict coming up in 21st century, where we will have to recognize, to progress as a civilization, all humans should have the right to be as emotionally stable as possible (and learn the psychological tools to that effect), so they could make rational decisions most of the time. But the very existence of advertising and other forms of commercial psychological manipulation threatens this general right, and so they will fight against that very idea.
Virtual climbing: An immersive upslope walking system using sponges
We did our research, and settled on the French cloud provider that fit our parameters. They made promises about support hours that they did not keep. Changing cloud service providers is not cheap. We were a small team, and this cost us lots of effort.

We didn't fork our code, we forked our services. We ran everything on Azure. Then we had to configure our kiosk devices to either talk to Azure, or to talk to our servers in France.

"Did you write your service to use proprietary Azure APIs without regard to vendor lock-in? Why not take this as an opportunity"

I'm sorry, do you have any idea of the cost of doing these things?

If you have 6 developers, total, how many of them are you willing to allocate to rewriting your stack, so that you can sell your product in Europe?
Yeah. This is why (amongst other reasons) I prefer Pulsar.
Internet-Wide Study: State of SPF, DKIM, and Dmarc
What kind of armor did Medieval women wear? (2014)
You have to be consistent. You either discount real with real or nominal with nominal. As soon as you are consistent you'll see either the discount rate isn't negative (nominal) or, your cashflow is ~zero (real).

Put aside finance theory for a second - does it make sense that, even in theory, my rental house earning $100 per month more than the cost to upkeep it, is worth infinity? Of course not.
It makes a huge difference to whether people buy it. It does not make a difference as a measure of "how much carbon does it release when they buy it", which is the question being debated in this thread.
> Correlation != causation.

People misuse correlation/causation expression so much I think its actually detrimental...

If something coincides with something else nearly 100% of the time, I think its safe to say there's some relation between the two. And printing money is always prior to inflation.

> It's currently 25.86. In 2020, it was 25. In 2018, it was 25. In 2009 it hit 123. In 2003, it was 32. In 2002 it was 46. In 2001 it was 27. In 1999 it was 33.

Are you talking about monthly? Maybe... The other thing about those times is we didn't have an unprecedented decline in commercial activity. How could businesses shut down indefinitely and a global pandemic looming over the world and the natural market response be "bullish for business!". Come on...

> Pensioners like basically everyone else aren't invested in dollar bills under their mattresses.

Yes, they're invested in fixed income who yield < 2% and will likely drop a lot in dollar terms once rates ramp up.
> The whole article could have been replaced with the line "I changed my mind about advertising because I now make money from advertising".

I responded to this sentiment in another comment, but I'll just quote from the HN guidelines here: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."[1]

> How do I know which emails I can trust as having useful unbiased information (i.e. satisfying my needs), and which are potentially misleading junk adverts (i.e. satisfying the site operator's desire for profit)?

Because ads are clearly marked with a "sponsored" label.

> And what is to stop the signal to noise ratio becoming completely untenable over time in the desire to maximise profit?

Because if we send people newsletters they don't like, they'll be more likely to stop using the service.

> the conflict of interest between user needs and site operator's profit.

Interesting anecdote: I haven't measured this in a while, but at least when we first introduced ads, the sponsored newsletters tended to be rated more highly than the "organic" newsletters.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you understand HTTPS doesn't protect you, I'm unclear on your initial point. Any chance you can elaborate on precisely what you meant when you said:

But what would be the point? Why would you load code over HTTPS if you're going to make it static anyway? If the code can't change dynamically, then you might as well put it next to the JS file on the filesystem.

I think this is a terrible idea that can only end in misery but I can understand why they don't add integrity validation by default.

I provided an example of why you would want to still load it remotely (specific situations where it's beneficial) rather than simply copying the code into the source repo, which you have also echoed, though seemingly suggesting that the example means you can do away with integrity checks?

If my read on that is correct, then point then is to worry about the repository - wherever it lives - being poisoned, but still wanting some of the benefits of having a remote repository (such as centralized dependency management and control).
They complied to german copyright law in germany. They didn't block anything in outside countries so I wouldn't call that bullying. The other option is being blocked in or blocking germany.
Yeah I think the main takeaway for me is that the work they are doing for Linux isn’t being kept only to themselves. Betting on Linux is giving people options. I would love to drop windows all together, and they are making this more of a reality (because the only key thing keeping me on windows is gaming, I can get all my other regular computing just fine on Linux).
To be honest, it's really only oxymoronic in a very limited slice of America. It has come up a few times on HN that the definition of freedom varies wildly in different parts of the world. As an example, take healthcare: in the US market driven healthcare might be the freest freedom that ever freedomed - but elsewhere social safeties that allow residents to live the best quality of life they could are considered to be the highest freedom you can achieve. While health issues are a regrettable part of the human condition, a society might want to strive to minimize the amount of stress spent by individuals on particularly bad die rolls by their bodies and fate allowing individuals the freedom to spend their time more according to their wills. Even "free market" US healthcare comes with a number of regulations - I'm not certain if you were alive (and paying insurance) before pre-existing condition coverage was guaranteed but a lot of people ended up unable to even secure insurance in that world, it was awful.

Regulation is a firm requirement to a free market, without regulation of any kind you will pretty quickly descend into authoritarianism as whoever has the biggest stick will just take everyone else's stick. While there definitely are dangers at the other end of the spectrum if you're fanatically at either end you've got to ignore a whole bunch of pretty well known issues.
> On the contrary, it only forces those providers to have a European presence.

All the big cloud providers have presences in Europe. What am I missing here?
The fact should say that the expected distance between two random points tends to the diameter as the dimension increases. The intuition is that to be close you need to be close in a large number of coordinates and the law of large numbers (though coordinates aren’t independent) suggests that is unlikely. If you fix one point on a sphere (say (1,0,…,0)) then, for a high dimension, most points will not have any extreme values in coordinates and will look like (~0,~0,…,~0) where ~0 means something close to zero. But if we sum the squares of everything apart from the first we get 1 - (~0)^2 ~= 1, so the distance from our fixed point is (1 - ~0)^2 + sum_2^n (0 - ~0)^2 ~= 1 + 1 = 2.
At least Optimism is smart enough to offer huge bounties. They awarded him $2,000,042 for this.

https://twitter.com/saurik/status/1491821215924690950
tailscale user here.

the tailscale devices you see are only accessible by other devices on the same tailscale network.

S/he's talking about accessing those machines from OUTSIDE that network. That's what would require admin intervention. So for example if I have a webserver on my home LAN that has Tailscale installed and authenticated, then sure, I can access that webserver from any of my other Tailscale devices from anywhere. But if I want a friend to be able to access that webserver without first being authenticated to the Tailscale network... Do you see the problem, yet?
> This person is aggressively against being rewarded

Back when uB was transferred to a different maintainer and uBO came about, I recall reading something about this. It isn't so much that they don't want reward or recognition but rather the do not want the obligation that comes with it.

Back when I maintained a couple Add-ons for Firefox there was a constant external pressure from users to fix/improve/maintain/develop the Add-on. In addition to that, the user base wants to engage and feel part of a community and interact with you. In a way it's stifling and why I eventually abandoned the Add-ons.

When you start accepting recognition or donations for work you share, there's obligation tied to it.

Some people don't want the obligation, it has nothing to do with virtue.
> I used to hate X until X made me money

The human tragedy in a nutshell
- GNU's Not Unix.

- Persistent OS'es are a thing since BOOTP boots for example with OpenBSD or
alpine on "diskless" mode.

Thank Unix for that for being so simple to implement.
> Every way for you to find out about anything to buy is advertising.

I don't think that's right. If I use a product, like it, and tell my friends about it, that isn't advertising because it isn't funded by anyone who gains from the purchase of the product. Similarly, Consumer Reports isn't advertising, because they are funded by their members. General review orgs like The Wirecutter may or may not be advertising, depending on how successful they are at preventing manufacturers from influencing their reviews.
Wow, I totally forgot about the MC-10. That was also my first computer. I outgrew it pretty quickly and saved up for a Color Computer (CoCo-2). After college, my first job was at Alpha Products/Colorware: a company making CoCo software, in addition to other hardware.

By the time I joined, the CoCo was in decline, but the software was still a cash cow.
> do you believe no good ISPs exist in France

Nothing comparable to AWS/GCP/Azure.
I recall this coming up on HN before, but lots of big companies have special programs for hiring jr / entry level engineers. Usually, these are integrated with university and boot camp programs the company has a relationship with. Those roles exist and are being hired for, just through a different process. Another factor is that if you’re cleared to hire someone at a sr salary you can probably hire at a jr salary if you find someone, but probably can’t go the other way. Also keep in mind HR salary bands can go out of date fast in the tech market and you may have to open a sr role in your system to get the range you need to get even an entry/mid level candidate.
Eh, saying "they're mentally ill" (since obviously these aren't hoaxes) merely obfuscates the sociological etiology of 'mental illness', see Thomas Szasz. Brains are responding to environments largely and for the most part, brains themselves being non-uniform, unless you can demonstrate extreme pathological divergence in the individual case.
> I don't really buy the arguments on why Peleton is a good business and comparable to Streaming somehow.

The addressable market section is especially ridiculous. It looks at global wellbeing spending of $4.2T including $600B in fitness. That is not the addressable market for a device that is expensive, tied to a monthly subscription and takes up more floor space than a couch. That's not even the addressable market for running shoes, much less a fancy exercycle or treadmill.
don't think it matters since the upthread discussion is more about understanding and refactoring code, not ensuring correctness.
I set up a new dev environment when I buy a new machine or join a new company.

For company environments hopefully there is a script to do the setup, or an existing environment you can pull down or otherwise create trivially. If there isn't it's usually a day 1 thing and you're getting paid, so hard to complain.

For personal stuff I have environment files in a git repo and install what I want as I need it. It's not that difficult to manage, certainly not hours.

For provisioning new machines like CI/CD runners and so on, your project should have a configure script to do everything automatically.
I suspect there's at least one thing that Antarctica does worse than everyone else: air supply. I suspect they recycle their air really heavily, to minimize the energy cost of heating up outside air. But that matters for the spread of something like Covid.

I'm guessing. I don't know. If anyone has actual information, feel free to jump in...
If by those providers you mean Google, AWS etc. then that might not solve much. As subsidiaries of American corporations they would be obligated to hand over data to the parent corp, especially if the US DOJ required it.

I think the only solution would be for them to not collect and store data from GDPR jurisdictions that would violate the GDPR if they were forced to hand it over to the parent American corp.
...that's the point?

they are making an argument for their point of view. They list specific actions and evidence to support their points. They don't claim to be 'unbiased'.

The fetishization of objectivity and being unbiased will honestly be the death of the human species.
Or they didn't have a parent company with even more economic presence than just them (serving American-centric news with ads), but they would like to have that path still easily open in the future, after all its a big market and... that's the point. Off course you can literally ignore all legal requests for compliance from all foregein countries until they do the worst that they can legally do to you which isn't much if you truly have no particularly strong personal or business related interest in them (lose users that you didn't care to have in the first place, cut a travel destination off your list because if you show up you can be held in prison for not paying a fine... Or whatever), but telegram is not you and apparently they care about being able to continue do business there (allowing people in Germany to use the chat app), so not complying is not a option.
I can use virtual server for many things (backup, vpn, webservices...) not just port forwarding.

Cost of my time for reading contract and learning new proprietary tool is not worth it for several years.

Cloudflare is arguably better from big tech. But cost of deployment some binary package on confidential server, keeping up with their marketing bs, etc is simply not worth it.
My Mom Is Promoting My Podcast
The inconvenient truth for the anti-advertising crowd is that modern digital advertising is one of the most democratizing forces in business history. I can develop an offer in minutes and spend less than $20 to get *thousands* of eyeballs on that offer by the end of the day. I don't need a $100K marketing budget, I don't need representation on Madison Avenue, I don't need to hire a sales force to make cold calls. For small businesses, that power is revolutionary.
Ninja – The Performance of Open Source Software
The issue here is that, aside from those who are on Xbox, gave their number and banned(who theoretically could lose their minecraft access upon making a microsoft account as is mandatory)- those who are too young to have phones, those without extra phone numbers, and those concerned about privacy-

If you make a microsoft account currently, it asks for a alternate email and phone number at account creation. You can skip that, then get into the account ,set up the normal enhanced security features, but it won't matter as shortly after, when you log into the account again, you will be flagged and be required to give a phone number that they can verify, then attach to the account with no alternate means of keeping the account.

However, there are reports now that setting up TOTP , on a microsoft account after creation, will allow you to avoid the flag and being forced to give your phone number to microsoft.

I know they could change this afterwards if they consider it a issue ,(showing it'd be about the phone number data a bit more than security), but i hope this knowledge spreads, as many will have no alternative. This affects more than just those privacy conscious.

We'll see on March 10th when they attempt to force the biggest gaming population in the world to make a microsoft account, and require them to provide phone numbers. I'll be spreading the word to my family that play Minecraft of the TOTP workaround.
For the record, ONLRET is the relevant flag and you can disable it with “stty -onlret”. Then output newlines will stay newlines (which typically results in bizarre behavior if those raw newlines are sent to a terminal).
The small startup I worked for in Hamburg had a similar problem. They had to run all their infra on premise due to some wording of some of their largest clients and some odd rulings from BaFin.

The colo/managed provider they chose and had been working with for years was nigh incompetent. I was positive that being able to spin up infra in any of the clouds would have been a ton more reliable.
Do cloud service providers like Azure not have a way to "pin" some of your service instances to servers in specific countries? Seems like this capability would be important differentiating feature given EU privacy laws about where user data is hosted.
IANANS but my understanding is that neurons/body mass is more indicative. Large animals have more neurons because large bodies need more.
Oops, left this tab open and mind wandered :)
> when the article here didn't specify any particular model of TRS-80

Even better, the linked-to article includes recollections from people who started with a CoCo, like "I got a CoCo2 on Christmas 1982".
> > [Citation needed]

> I'm not even sure how you can deny this. Do you really think everyone out there is living their best lives?

I would say it's a bit of a stretch to assume the majority of "stuff" that's advertised contributes to someone living a better version of their life.
> They couldn’t find one as the salary sucked

Oh, boo hoo, cry me a river. That shotgun blast to the foot is ENTIRELY self-inflicted.

If a company can’t pay the going rate for a mission-critical employee, then they have a shitty business plan and deserve to fail.
Unless you grow your own food, there are very few workers who haven't been impacted by price increases in the past year.
I want to discontinue Swisscom overall.
Hi Drew and Edmund,

I'm a FE developer on Arc (Arcadia’s API Platform), and I was surprised to see how similar Pelm was to some of the projects I've worked on, considering the release of Arc "took you by surprise."

Your designs on your website look very close to the design of our connect widget and even has the same copy.

For example, this is the Arcadia landing page: https://i.imgur.com/FkPq6S5.png
While this is the landing page on your website: https://i.imgur.com/dVVOSqD.png

It gets worse on the "success" screen: https://i.imgur.com/kzgyTwv.png

I'd like to view this as a coincidence, but I viewed your Pelm-Connect repo and thought the documentation looked familiar:
https://i.imgur.com/hYWIk6d.png

I looked at the commit history in the git repo, and found it was copied from our documentation:
https://i.imgur.com/DF8aqFl.png
https://github.com/Pelm-Technologies/react-pelm-connect/comm...
https://github.com/Pelm-Technologies/react-pelm-connect/comm...

Our whole team has worked hard on our API for months, so it's really disheartening to see it copied like this.

If anyone is interested in Arc, which supports 125 utilities and has had people working on the utility data problem for 5 years, you can sign up at https://arc.arcadia.com/signup.
It would be good to have a way to reproduce these results on modern versions of browsers.
I mean if I wanted to host a public blog on my private infrastructure, Tailscale alone isn’t going to cut it. I would have to make a instance on a cloud provider to allow public ingress, and I have to setup and configure Tailscale on it to allow it to punch a hole into my walled garden. If I just want plain VPN access to my instances from wherever, then that’s when Tailscale really shines.
In NY I could easily get matches/dates... in SF it was much more difficult. And when I did get dates in SF, 2nd dates were much less likely, I got ghosted more often, etc. In terms of the silly reductive attractiveness scale, I went from feeling like an 7 or 8 to a 3 or 4.
I think the USA Standpoint on allowing Nazis is wrong. Plain and simple. It should be illegal to have publicly expressed opinions like "the holocaust never happened" and "jews ought to be exterminated".

I would also point out that Nazis didn't "collude to overthrow the government" until they were well in control of the police, the courts and the military. So don't think your 1st amendment rights or any rights protect you from them.