skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also warns if you try to fill on a site that isn't linked (says something like "1Password can't verify that reaibank.com should use your realbank.com login"
I agree that financial literacy is a solution to many financial woes, but it is not up to an individual to seek it out. Low income people often don’t know it’s possible to escape their poverty, much less how to do it.
Ask HN: How would you fix tech recruiting?
Besides the annoying recruiter spam, I'm also "worried" about the abysmal productivity of the average recruiter.

When I get contacted by headhunters I can't count the number of times where I had to exchange 5, 6, 7 messages... to get maybe 20% of what's on the real public job posting on the company's website(and on top of that sometimes they give me incorrect information!), just to end up telling them that I'm not interested. Surely they can do better than that?

When I ask for more details about the mysterious jobs/companies they're hiring for they think answering stuff like "they raised N millions and use Golang" is a valid answer.

Also I can't count how many times I got contacted for on-sites jobs when I only do full remote, for java expert jobs when I do JS, for senior roles when I'm a junior.(and some of those people were unicorns internal recruiters!!!)

How do these people stay in business?

How would you put them out of business?(or help them act less stupid, but I doubt that's possible)

I honestly feel like I could do the jobs of 10 tech recruiters with a few well designed bots.
Sounds like an opportunity for a Dashboardle. Choose from a directory of wordle clones to favorite, and the Dashbordle will cycle you through each of your daily puzzles. No need to visit each of them individually and no forgetting any.
A Tokamak fusion plant would necessarily be, at best, an order of magnitude more expensive to build and operate than a fission plant of equal capacity. Fission is already not competitive, and gets less so every year.

It is not bold to say, about relative costs, that (n > 1) implies (10n > 1), when n is itself reliably increasing.
Disclosure: I work for AWS, but I don't work on Redis or managed services based on Redis.

Madelyn Olson, at present an AWS employee, is one of the members of the Redis core team [1]. The invitation was extended because she had "been actively involved in Redis development for several years, contributing numerous changes throughout Redis, including bug fixes and features."

[1] https://redis.com/blog/redis-core-team-update/
I suspect this too, but I suspect even more credit is due to the dang and the moderators quietly doing tastefully heroic work.
You're already misunderstanding how /dev/random and /dev/urandom work today, or indeed ever worked. Both devices have always read from the output of a CSPRNG.

It used to be that /dev/random did some accounting to try to estimate how much entropy was in its pool, and if that number declined too low (as reading from /dev/random was figured to decrease the entropy), it would simply refuse to run its CSPRNG to produce any more output until it get fed some more entropy. This accounting was heavily criticized for being magic thinking and unsupported by any actual research, and revisions to the randomness engine in Linux over the past decade have eventually eliminated this entropy accounting in favor of just tracking how much has ever been added--if there's not enough, then it blocks until there is.
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That's useful, and it's often a good way to browse the site --- after a day, assessments on what's significant tend to settle out.

That said, it still won't highlight conversations which have come back to life.
The only people senators want to talk to is their donors. Money is speech.
Even in people are statistically good, there can be anomalies and corrupting forces.

But it's true that on some level we need to trust others so it's hard to say where to draw the line.
I switched from uMatrix to medium-mode uBO. Sort of a middle ground between what uMatrix was and default uBO mode (known as easy-mode). They offer other options as well.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode
So just so I understand this, I need to spend $75 just to see if I like it?
Taxes, healthcare, housing, nothing left. To get average to below average healthcare for my family of 5, I pay around $24k/year for coverage before I've paid any deductible (and the deductibles are all over $10K each). Housing cost is the same (considering deductibles) or more. Taxes take 20-something percent right of the top. How many 25+% hits can one take and have anything left?

With what is left we have to have utilities, food, clothing, etc. There isn't much left at the end of the month, most of what is left goes into retirement accounts that I cannot touch for many years.
From countless hours making games, it is because games can be fun in many different ways yet it is hard to make a fun game. One of the most common way projects fail is that they are trying to be fun in a variety of ways but not achieving player enjoyment in any of them.

I used to work with a great designer who used to say the goal was to take the un-fun out. That actually is a more actionable goal.
> But how do you define 'use'

Can they make a plausible spreadsheet showing use. But, clawback of IP allocations is very rare, even for allocations that were made with agreements allowing it. There's some high profile cases relating to fraud, but otherwise nope. Legacy allocations would be nice to clean up, but if it's not voluntary, it's not happening. And at this point, if it happens, it's probably going to be a sale rather than a return.
>Google increasingly does not give you the results for what you typed in. It tries to be “smart” and figure out what you “really meant”, in addition to personalizing things for you. If you really meant exactly what you typed, then all bets are off.

In simpler words: it behaves like an assumer, and as an assumer it's prone to vomit stupid shit. Should we start treating it as an assumer then?

A shame that the "Google + “site:reddit.com”" lazy hack doesn't work for me. I care about accuracy, not authenticity.
Regarding the throwaway accounts, I wish there was some way to delete old comments. I think I have the moral right to control their lifetime, and occasional gaps in 5 year old discussions will not really matter to anyone.

Without such an option the logical alternative is to periodically cycle your username, amassing somewhat of a sockpuppet army if you are so inclined.
I feel like the average HN reader would probably assume its about testing.
Air pollution, water pollution, food pollution (Smithfield feeds plastic to pigs!), chemicals on fabrics (sizing on new clothing, antistatic/scents in fabric softeners) … the list is pretty much endless: we have contaminated the entirety of our environment and it’s harming us in many ways.
What puts me off electric cars is battery wear. Every laptop or phone battery I've had has noticeable wear after a year or two. In a $50-100 battery this is no big deal (and for phones the device itself is probably nearing end of life anyway by the time battery wear becomes an issue).

I know gasoline car drivetrains wear too but a new gasoline car is probably good for at least 5 years/60k miles before it needs serious mechanical attention, and with a bit of luck you may even get up to 10 years/100k before you get a 4 digit repair bill. And even past that unless it's in seriously bad shape it will still get pretty much the same mileage out of a tank of gas as it did the day it rolled off the assembly line.

Is this any better for electric car batteries? The laptop I'm typing this on now is ~11 months old and the battery has lost 15.4% of its capacity after 272 cycles. Undoubtedly I wouldn't average anywhere near 1 cycle/day with a 300 mile range Tesla but the thought of my car's energy storage losing capacity like that just makes me extremely nervous. I know I can "supercharge" my car's gas tank as often as I need to and it will not lose any capacity regardless of how often I empty it and fill it up again. This is very comforting to me.
The cosmos (God & angels) in the opening takes time to prep George's guardian angel, Clarence, with George's backstory. Flashbacks are used to establish George as wanting to do nothing more than travel the world and seek adventure abroad, but his obligations at home prevent him from doing so. There's a good breakdown of this portion of the plot here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Wonderful_Life#Plot
Jujutsu DVCS
So, I just tested this; it's an access token that has no authorized scopes to access sensitive data. It literally only exposes public profile data, which basically just consists of name, picture info, and internal Facebook user ID -- the default public profile info listed in the developer docs.

Is it a security flaw? Absolutely. Is Facebook still terrible? Of course.

But this article is, frankly, egregiously inaccurate in its claims on the severity of the issue.
This is How They Tell Me the World Ends (2021) [audio]
Nicole Perlroth discussing her recently published book on the New Books in National Security podcast.

The New Books Network is an excellent set of podcast channels focusing on (mostly academic) books and authors, and consistently has the highest signal/noise ratio of any podcast I've found.

https://newbooksnetwork.com/
I'm finding this a little hard to follow but I'd love to see an example of anyone we banned for writing well or being "too young".
This is easy, assuming an average American family size:

- $8,333 gross ($100k)

- call taxes 25% (this is aggressive) leaves $6,667

- housing expense of $2k leaves $4,667

- minus 2 auto expenses (used car average payment is $465) brings us to ~$3,400

- childcare (which: is not free even when your kids are in school) of $1,500 yields $1,900

- frugally feeds the family on $1,000 per month

- $900 remaining for everything else. This includes all the one-off incidentals (car tires, physician co-pays, etc.).

The astute reader will have noticed that I was generous in my tax, housing and childcare estimates. The more astute reader will note that I have omitted student loans, any healthcare or dental expense, vacations, etc.

This is obviously not an estimate for a HCOL area, this is what the math looks like in much of the country.

Edit: _The Two-Income Trap_ is a good read on this. IIRC it points out that most of the big costs are fixed, where financial gurus often tell people to cut the variable expenses (cut down on avocado toast, or make coffee at home). When obviously tweaking inside the $900 left over won't fix this budget no matter what.

Also worth noting that even if they could halve their housing expense, they still would only be in a position to put away $12k annually. Which, given what we know about unexpected expenses, would probably put them right at actual break-even and prevent them from taking on consumer debt.
"Should" is an impractical word. "Would" is better.

One would trust a password manager as a result of their obvious social media login getting all their friends spammed.

One would trust a password manager as a result of someone finding the post it documenting their bank credentials.

One would trust a password manager as a result of missing out on an opportunity for forgetting a login and having to wait an ungodly number of hours due to an inconveniently timed DNS upgrade leading to a long delay in the password rest email's arrival.

Nobody trusts password managers because of something essential to the password manager or the concept thereof, we trust password managers because we have experience or can imagine experiencing the fallout of our own credential mismanagement in the face of increasingly complex security demands resulting not always directly from increasingly sophisticated attacks. It reduces our cognitive load slightly and focuses otherwise diffuse anxieties.
Wasn't there many cases where they tried to make /dev/urandom wait until entropy & it broke many distros on certain machines? What's different this time around?
But we all know not to hold our breath for that to happen right
This is terrible advice. When there is a US financial institution and a country currently subject to sanctions involved there could be OFAC/AML/BSA implications. In some instances there is an affirmative obligation to report suspicious activity. And depending on what (if any) PII was accessed there could also be an affirmative obligation to notify impacted customers or state AGs. Hiring a lawyer (where OP can give a full a candid disclosure of all relevant facts) is the only reasonable advice OP can get. Maybe it's absolutely nothing and OP can ban the user for TOS violations and be done with it. But maybe it's not. No one here has enough information to make that assessment with any degree of certainty whatsoever.
Back in the pre-internet era this is how bulletins and vital memos were handled in the airlines.

There were a couple of binders in the office for these & everyone had to sign-off on any new documents on their first duty shift since the doc was posted.

(Part of my job was to check the sign-offs and then tap the shoulder of any laggards to say, "Stop what you are doing and go read the bulletins. Now.")
Having an algorithm (especially one that is publicly available) to generate passwords is not as secure as unique passwords for each service. For example, we now know that you 1) use this extension, and 2) have a HN account. We can now start brute-forcing your password for HN.
We are at least at the ISP I work for. That is a major project for us this year, but any network engineer can tell you that deploying IPv6 is not straight forward at the ISP level. Getting everyone together on how to have some standard form of addressing from different entities is the toughest lift. Get Juniper, Cisco, and Arista on the phone and you will get three different ways on how to deploy it. You don't want to be the odd duck once the dust settles.
> business school grads saving into their 40s to buy homes

Median pay out of top b schools is ~$125-$150k. If you have a stay at home partner and a few kids, you prob need to make partner/Director before you can buy a townhouse in a Brooklyn.

That said, if you're single and work for an I Bank in Chicago, you'll be able to buy when you hit VP in your early 30s.
I simply flick a switch to turn on lights. Opening shades is no problem for me, a physically fit human.
Thanks for the thorough response. But I think the parent was talking specifically about "actual time narrating at the microphone" and I agree with him.

I agree with you of course, as well. But most of the stuff besides narration is not recording time. It's time you need to do the job, sure.
With the rise of social media, people feel the need to flaunt things(cars, houses, vacations, jewelry, you name it). Both me and my Wife are making extremely good tech money, shes a director and I am senior+ engineer. And I feel like everyone is living a lifestyle even we cannot afford. We drive Japanese cars (mid level) a few years old. Bought a very sensible house with a payment that if something happened to one of us the other could handle living expenses and not lose the place. We go on somewhat normal vacations, hawaii being an outlier, typically mountain areas in the US and stay at airbnbs and don't wear designer clothes, just t-shirts and jeans etc.

Most of our neighbors(and families in our kids school) drive tesla's and other luxury cars or brand new non-luxury cars, they always have brand new clothes and iphones and a few have rolex watches or other high end brands. I do feel like maybe its a southern california thing to live extravagantly but I suspect most are living way beyond their means and if a partner would lose their job things would drastically change for them overnight.
I don't mind the absence of notifications per se (in fact I think it's a good thing).

But I do mind that there is no easy way (not even visually!) to track "unread" replies, especially direct replies in older posts.

It does make me wonder how many chances I've missed at stimulating conversation on a topic I was interested, whereas now it just looks like I'm ghosting people.

I wouldn't mind "tagging" for instance (i.e. not all notifications enabled by default, but the ability to be notified when "tagged", e.g. via @username)
I self-host Vaultwarden[1] on a $6/mo DigitalOcean droplet. It took awhile to set up, but I know that I control the data, the backups, and the security. I made this decision after trying LastPass, which turned out to be a buggy piece of shit.

[1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
That's pretty cool! Just signed up for the fun of it :)

Two things I noticed:

- There are two different "my account" links: One in the hamburger menu on the top left, one in the dropdown on the top right. The top-right one seems to be broken.

- There doesn't seem to be any way to delete your account again, unless I missed something. No cookie for you! (Though I guess that is following true HN spirit)

In any way, looks like a fun project. Good luck and keep up the awesome work!
Tell HN: Candles can make you feel tired
He there!

During evenings we burn quit some candles in our living room. Our house is well isolated (we have a heat pump for heating our house), so we have to ventilate a lot.
During evenings we notice we got sleepy very early in the evening. When we go to bed we stay awake for quit some time. This made me wonder if there was a coloration with the candles and us feeling sleepy early, so I bought a CO2 meter.

After a few test it became clear that after burning the candles for like 1,5 hours the CO2 level was already 2 to 3 times higher than before the candles burned.

Maybe an open door: if you burn a lot of candles or are with a lot of people in a smaller room, don’t forgot to ventilate! This will make you stay awake longer!
Oh, they wouldn't turn it down, but they would support whatever they could to prevent it from happening.

It's a weird form of irrational behavior that falls under economic animosity.
> you'd need to transfer the knowledge around it too.

My experience with house shopping in LA is that you've got no leverage to question why some panel is missing or some disconnected wires are sticking out of the wall.
I think, yes, this could be the main reason for engineers.
This is absolutely all correct, and also supports the basic argument that houses are not wildly more unaffordable now than they were in (say) 1990.
Or, hear me out here, maybe just run Linux. Your life can be very simple and easy without having your system subjected to Apple's caprice.

Imagine it, a system that you, and only you, control.
There are things like debt, obligations, extended family, etc... We're a double income no kids couple....

We haven't saved much money living in NYC, with our parents needing financial assistance and residual debts. Dietary constraints also make it much more expensive to live in US.(celiac and lactose intolerance add to costs)

So it's not unfathomable.
Could you not argue the same thing for almost any code used by almost any piece of software closer to the metal?

e.g. someone manages to slip malicious code into Chrome/Chromium which eventually makes its way out to every Electron app/most browsers, or something gets injected into Windows/macOS/Linux, etc.
I will never become a landlord after seeing this unless I'm wildly wealthy and it's something like I'm owning it as a part of my portfolio. It's just way too easy to stretch out an eviction even without moratoriums.

I have a friend, and I use the term loosely, who foolishly purchased a house to rent out despite having to go into massive debt to do so. We're talking credit card debt because he couldn't afford to refurbish the building.

If a single tenant has a bad month, he's having a bad month.

I'd rather invest in anything else.

I actually think standalone single-family homes are kind of outdated. I want the freedom to live without a car, In an urban setting. Nothing like being able to walk to your local bar, Walk to the supermarket, and then take a train to a concert.
Directorate S by Steve Coll is another good read if anyone's interested in reading about the inter agency culture of USA specifically pertaining to the war on terror in Afghanistan.
I read it for the first time a few years ago, and due to purely coincidental timing I finished it over the course of a weeklong trip to Big Bend National Park in West Texas. McCarthy lived not far away in El Paso when he wrote it, and the scenery in Big Bend is the embodiment of the way he describes the desert in the book. Haunting and inimical, yet simultaneously beautiful and magical. Being in that setting and hiking and backpacking through the heat really underscored to me how such a stark environment could have driven humans crossing it to unspeakable violence.

I don't specifically remember any of the passages you quoted, which I think means that I'm due for a reread. A few descriptive scenes stick out in my memory, particularly the burning tree and the cattle graveyard.
TDD is something I have never tried before. but since I like to prepare a certain checklist first and develop on it, I guess I can.
The warning should say "you have N million objects technically eligible for an archive storage class and hitting the button to transition them will cost $M".

Also S3 should no-op transitions for objects smaller than the break-even size for each storage class, even if you ask it to.
One doesn’t design around tests, unless the test code is the design spec. In which case something has gone horribly wrong in the requirements and analysis for the project.
I get regular crashes restoring from sleep on my 2014 Mac Mini (running Monterey)