skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd encourage you to dig a couple levels deeper.

Time is wasted when the value of what you're spending it on is less than the opportunity cost of what you could be spending it on [1]. What is the opportunity cost of you not learning more about software engineering?

In other words, what is the goal you're not working toward? And then, if you want to go deeper: why is that the goal?

Is it extrinsic? Do you want to get better at work so you can rise up in the company and get more money? Are you trying to gain the experience to someday start your own company?

Is it intrinsic? Is there a topic you're interested in learning about for its own sake? A side project you want to build?

In my leisure time, I prioritize intrinsic interests: hobbies or side projects that I find personally fulfilling. It might be that you still find yourself gravitating toward computer science or related fields — and that's okay! There's no rule that says your vocation and avocations need to be unrelated.

Of course, everyone is different, and you're free to pursue extrinsic interests in your leisure time too. Just try to keep perspective — in the end, the rat race doesn't matter, and you'll probably think back more fondly on time spent with meaningful people and activities.

Either way, keep in mind that burnout is very real, and you can indeed have too much of a good thing. Watching a movie with friends or playing a game with your family can make the hours you spend learning more effective!

[1] For example, writing a long comment on HN instead of finishing a song you've been writing ;)
Because this is a trivial problem reducible to an n-dimension vector.
So what. Let them in to play around, they’ll see why they need to talk to a sales engineer (a TECHNICAL person, not the guy who sets appointments with the technical person).

If you’re selling a SaaS product and you can’t let me go in and play with it without talking to sales about my budget, timeline, and favorite color first, I’m not buying your product. Full stop.
Both served at the same temperature?
It may not be too bad, depending.

Sanctions are more nuanced than people usually think. US business owners can work with the US and foreign governments even in the middle of war, to make sure their corporations receive needed support, and this includes employees.

Be sure to check in with your leadership if specific sanctions issues come up that concern you.
Facebook renamed when they were only Facebook. Oculus is no where near big enough yet.

Google renamed the parent when there were substantial different activities occurring in different non-Google divisions. It made things clearer.

Also Facebook expects people to call it meta whereas Google basically expects to continue to be called Google.
I find working on single services / components more exhausting.
You could just Google it and you’d find out. Because you’re definitely wrong.
> there is no way in which a worker can make a contribution to society that is literally billions of times greater than another.

First of all, nobody makes billions of times more than anybody else. Bezos doesn’t even make a million times more than the average earner.

Second, sure it’s possible for one person’s impact to be thousands or tens of thousands of times higher than someone else’s.

Third, the point of taxes is not to change people’s income to better match the magnitude of their contribution to society.
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If you rely on public cloud infrastructure, you should understand both the advantages and disadvantages. Seems like your company forgot about the disadvantages.
I'm curious about whether cheaper wines use additives to achieve the taste more expensive wines achieve without them. Any knowledgeable info about this?
> I don’t see a problem with the simulation technology being ‘good enough’, in fact already VR is good enough.
The problems with VR revolve more around the real potential for VR being highly intense experiences which you just can’t do for 8 hours a day

It's definitely fun to try for half an hour though. On the other hand I could realistically see some potential if they made the fully immersive experience a bit less intense, e.g. by providing an app that you can navigate with mouse and keyboard on a normal screen.

Other than that many problems are solvable, also there are surely corner-cases where fully immersive experiences make sense (product demos for instance). But considering the amount of problems that already exist with legacy social networks, the actual Metaverse might come from a new startup or be post-poned another time.
Reports like these are very silly. Telling you how unrefined most palates are instead of any fundamental truth about wine.
I agree, games are the same.

The problem is that solo indie doesn't work well in any medium.

Everything worth doing benefits from having team members. I think novelists are the closest to still doing things solo, but they still have publishers, editors, beta readers, proofreaders, sensitivity readers, people who check their research if they care about historical accuracy, etc.

I think there was a slow-motion bubble from maybe the 1980s until the 2010s where solo indie game dev worked because:

- Video games were hard to make

- Computers were hard to use

- The tools sucked

- Almost nobody knew how to program

So if you were a smart person who could program half-decently, you had the makings of a game. Now the world is better, and the solo style is left behind.

I don't know much about music, but I speculate musicians would say the same. You might be able to play a bunch of instruments, do your own mixing, publish yourself on Bandcamp and whatever, but dollar for dollar most of the industry is singers who don't write their own songs, backup dancers with no names, and session musicians who are in the studio when the recording is done.

Calling it "clone culture" misses the point: Games are easy to make now. Indie dev is probably never going to be as hip as when Braid came out. And even Jon Blow didn't do it solo, he bought the music and I think contracted an artist for Braid. Specialization works, scale works.
"1 pb is only 56 large enterprise hdds".

umm, what happens when one fails?

With large cloud my startup had excellent support. We negotiated a contract. That's how it works.
It's also younger and a very tempting target for growth-oriented technical traders looking for volatility to leverage. The story is far from over...
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Both attacks and defenses have gotten a lot better. Meanwhile, the consequences of hacks keep going up every year. You didn't have viruses disrupting shipping or gas pipelines before, because they didn't depend as much on computers.
> I use and am in favor of Wordpress. However, I’m also in favor of making static site generators easier to use for more people.

Amen, and I think this is the thread creator's point — WordPress doesn't have to "lose" for Hugo to "win", and it's pointless to pick a fight with a wildly different solution that solves a different set of use cases.
Pretty much. The only fast parts of Python aren't Python.
Both the ‘useless use of cat’ and this nitpick miss that a unix-style command line is very much like a bunch of functions feeding results into each other, with each doing its own thing. This allows one to chain different functions in the same general way: namely, if I want to limit the input at first for debugging, I can do `cat stuff | head -10 | rest-of-commands`, or `grep stuff | head -10 | awk`—and I won't need to keep dragging the `<stuff` input around between commands, or to move the regex from awk to grep and back again or put the limit into the neatly written awk command.
It's not mixed in to be clear. The small pieces are still significant in size and filtered out. You can have more surface area of oak and impart flavors faster. It's a way to effectively age wine faster with less resources since stainless steel barrels with finger sized chunks of oak have more oak to win contact.

This probably ties in with the topic above. If your wine ends up with the exact same composition as more expensive wines but is made with fewer resources and the only way you can differentiate it is with knowledge of the label then perhaps the wine industry has missed the point.
I don't think so. Wikipeida is really good at all other rocket launches too. Pretty much all rockets at least in the West that I have looked up are very up to date.

The information of all that is public and the people who maintain those pages are one it. Maybe they have even atomized it.
Although I am not a wine-drinker, in the opinions of my wine-loving friends, one of the consistently best sauvignon blancs for the money is the Costco Kirkland Marlborough Ti Point at $7/bottle.
> cloud removes much of the physical security risks

Doesn't cloud increase the physical security risks, rather than decrease/remove?
I’m seeing 1976 as the date student loans became non-dischargeable [0] via amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965. I think I know why you’re confused though because the Wikipedia entry on the Higher Education Act doesn’t include a section on the ‘76 amendments and instead skips straight to the ‘92 amendments (which would have been HW, not Clinton). Still, it looks like the parent poster is right that Clinton did make some questionable additions to the Act during his tenure in 1998 [1].

[0] https://www.tateesq.com/learn/student-loan-bankruptcy-law-hi....

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_Education_Act_of_1965
Algorithm could shorten quality testing, research in many industries by months
Separately:

> I'm still trying to find a good open source WYSIWYG page builder experience here that can compete with WordPress though.

I would be interested to see a static CMS that worked more this way -- Publii is interesting for this though.

> Using WordPress as a CMS and a static site generator to deploy it is an option though.

This definitely can be done, and you could use e.g. the Atlas content modeller plugin and GraphQL and then Gatsby/Gridsome. But it is more work in search of a reason to do it.
> It runs like this: everyone has the power to decide how to perceive and respond to the unavoidable constraints and challenges they face. How did such a belief become commonplace?

Since it's true? You try doing anything while believing you'll fail and can't achieve anything. Then try doing it while believing you're really good at it. The results are obvious.

No shit you can't use a "proactive mindset" for a free "get out of poverty" card whenever you want. It just helps not to despair and make do with what you've got.
> Yeah, it was a dysfunctional environment and I obviously quit

What do you think could management have done better to make it not dysfunctional and have people quitting?
I agree

I really didn't know the power of a great pairing until I actually had a dinner with that. And I don't mean "red wines go with meat" type of pairing, but a pairing to the specific dish. It was amazing. A bit pricy but amazing.
L. Reuteri 17938 + Glycerol kills C. Diff.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28760934/

Biogaia's Gastrus has it.
You still need a way to extract data from the endpoint (ie an agent).

So in the age of Grafana you can use Zabbix as a source of data and use Grafana to visualize it:

https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/alexanderzobnin-zabbix-a...

Also different needs do require different solutions. For a "classic" (not a Web 3.0 hypercoverged containerised backend for a smartphone app to watch cat videos) environment Zabbix is still, though clumsy someties, a good way.

also, take a look at Zabbix 5 and 6 release notes. While IMO some things should had been implemented years ago - they are finally there.
There was no such thing as income taxes until world war 1. So taxes increased ridiculously for 50 years and have been decreasing, as it should, ever since. I believe in paying taxes but not to my own detriment. I pay more than my fair share.
Seconded. This is really easy.
Is this a joke, or an actual experience? I could kind of believe that if they were unfamiliar with the products they might confuse them, but 7-Up has a distinct lemon-lime flavor, and Fanta is, well, a WWII poverty drink.
Firefox is not implementing. Safari is misleading people about what they have actually implemented. Big difference.
I have no doubt that they have helped some people, and I'm genuinely glad they helped you.

They unequivocally made my life worse off than without them, and I know I'm not alone.

Us both being willing to accept that our respective experiences are polar opposites, but still valid and worth consideration, is key to making sure neither you nor I are so dedicated to supporting something for the sake of supporting it that we lose sight of why we're supporting it.

Just because it helped you doesn't mean something similar that you're supporting today can't also harm others. Likewise, just because I was harmed by something doesn't mean I should be closed off to the notion that something similar could help others.

If we can keep this in mind when dealing with people of opposing viewpoints, and acknowledge how individual experiences of otherwise similar things can be very different, then I think we'd reach better, less judgmental and vitriolic conclusions on how to solve these problems.
It helps to try $5, $50 and $150 wines (reds) side by side. This makes the difference absolutely clear.

When tried on their own, the perception will depend (to a surprisingly large degree) on what you eaten before, how you feel, what you were expecting the wine to taste like, etc.
What are the symptoms of your kind-of-shadow ban?
iOS, not OSX
I would much rather live in SF than Austin.

There are plenty of people who chose to live in SF not for work, but because it's an awesome city.

Not everyone bases their entire life around work, and the perception of what it will or won't allow.

Just choose where and how you want to live, then find a job that supports that. Not the other way around.
Can’t do that in cloud (i know twitter doesnt run in cloud) and autoscale - machine goes poof and so do the logs. One of the reasons why autoscaling to save $ is bs.
managing and performing migrations in each
individual user's browser is going to be
incredibly painful

What's the alternative? Typical NoSQL slop where we basically just wind up doing the "painful" SQL stuff anyway in what ultimately winds up being an even more painful process?
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That attack isn't relevant in this case, because it only lets you steal the keys if the TPM chooses to release them to the CPU, but if you don't know the right PIN, or use a nuke PIN, then it won't do so.
I don’t understand how. If I record that my password for Google is xyzzy, but in reality it’s xyzzy123, and 123 is part of every password but not recorded anywhere (other than my mind), how would they work that out? They’d just see that none of my passwords worked. If there is a weakness to this system please let me know.
So far, I remain unconvinced.

> As things stand, the extent of the number of websites which have come to use Cloudflare, multiplied by its issues, poses a hazard to the state of the web.

The same argument can be applied to other cloud providers.
Having worked in the field long enough, I always feel the need to add:

A) If you're writing high-performance code DON'T you _will_ hit bottlenecks which are non-trivial to the language unless you're a guru. If you're a scientist you're going to have to work to get to this level.

Apart2) Python is excellent for saying "perform analysis A with variables B,C,D,E,F on X,Y,Z 30 times using this random seed library". What Python is not excellent at is saying, "I have 20GB of raw doubles and I need to push these through non-euclidian algebra as fast as a modern CPU can cope".
The biggest surprise is that modern Python really can do both, it just struggles a lot with the latter over the former. IPython and JuPyter notebooks as well are amazing for the former!

B) For the love of whatever deity you worship. PLEASE DOCUMENT YOUR DEPENDENCIES CORRECTLY. This is non-trivial and doesn't mean "Works on CentOS6". I mean at least tested on Python x.y with depA version 1.2.3.
Python isn't as bad a npm, but it's getting there...

Bpart2) Unless you're starting out, _avoid_conda_. Installing/maintaining things through this is not nice. This is the sort of system that makes your local sysadmin groan when you come to him and say "it's easy because it has a UI".
Behind the scenes it makes so many assumptions that are great for people starting out, but are often painfully wrong for people looking to run code at hyper-scale on clusters.
I recommend investing _some_ time in learning how python packages work (not much!, packaging, is not coding). But as a result you will learn or employ a lot of skills which will help you with larger python codebases. There are large performant python packages/tools out-there and they all tend to leverage advanced features for good reasons.

C) Never! re-invent the wheel unless you know you explicitly need to. And avoiding pulling in a dependency (unless the dependency is _huge_ is not always the correct answer).

D) Ask an expert. It's fine to acknowledge you don't know how to use the tool that is modern python. It's a swiss-knife with a shotgun attached pointed at your face. When it goes wrong it will come back to bite, but when you get it correct it's so efficient you will marvel at how much you can do with just 5/6 lines of code.

E) Have fun, just try things and see if they don't work or work really well, python is great for avoiding too much boilerplate for mid-scale projects :)
I buy the cheapest granular dishwasher detergent they sell at the drugstore. There's an upsell on the packaging for the same company's detergent pods. If they wanted me to buy a fancier detergent they shouldn't have made the cheap kind work so well, my dishes are spotless already!
Oh, movies are startups too. Often you see a production company established to make a single movie. And they spawn clones -- Star Wars gave rise to perhaps hundreds of space movies -- many of them really bad.
To the people downvoting you for a lack of political correctness...

It isn't even relevant if potential drivers are excellent with money. If you advertise a position with excessive externalities -- a really, really terrible job -- the only people that accept it will, by definition, have miscalculated the externalities, and certainly some people will still accept it. Are we then supposed to just say "they are smart so they wouldn't have taken it if it wasn't a good job" and ignore it? People get scammed all the time.

idk if this applies to the case of Amazon AU. I'm just saying it's very in vogue to deny that anyone could benefit from help and that doesn't quite seem right.
(This is genuine question)

Is log4j's bug actually unique to Java/C#/gc-based languages?
Plaid CTO here.

First, today a majority of all bank connections are on APIs or OAuth. This is mostly for the biggest banks in the U.S., but we also support some of the biggest platforms on top of which smaller banks & credit unions operate. We don’t want to be in the business of handling credentials in the long-term, for many of the reasons the author of the post pointed out. However, it will take years for this transition to happen with more than 11k banks in the United States. This is something we’ve been pushing for and we’ve worked closely with a lot of financial institutions to support OAuth and even App2App (which is a win not just for security, but also for convenience).

Second, the author focuses on what we call payment authentication (verifying account and routing information), but Plaid is used to power a lot of other use cases across fintech: lending, financial management, identity verification, brokerage, neo banking, etc. So although micro-deposits support verifying payment authentication, they do not support any of these other use cases.

Every day there are tens of millions of people who were not served by the traditional financial system who get access to better financial services because of Plaid. And that would not be possible without what we do.

Third, there are a few insinuations in this thread that we sell user data. We do not: the data goes from you to the app you authorize, through Plaid. We do provide some enhancements to the data for that app – e.g., fraud protection, transaction categorization, normalization of data (which is different for each financial institution).

(I can’t speak much to the lawsuit settlement for obvious legal reasons.)

Fourth, I do appreciate keeping companies honest about security practices. We invest a lot in security and privacy, and look forward to the day a post like this cannot be written because every bank is on OAuth. In the meantime, though, we’re actually the ones pushing for this – OAuth would not be happening at any banks if it weren’t for Plaid (there were companies that did what Plaid did for nearly a decade before we started and made zero progress in improving the technological foundation on top of which financial services are built). You may not believe in the current experience, but we view it as a key and necessary part to transitioning to better financial services and infrastructure for everyone.
I see plenty of auspost delivery drivers working in vans hired from hertz etc. I've always figured that they were contractors who hired the van for tax reasons.
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There’s lex (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_(software)) and parser generators such as yacc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacc).

And what do you find weird in troff? I see it as an early markdown, or rather, markdown as yet another take on runoff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TYPSET_and_RUNOFF). Markdown is a bit more implicit and (unless you ‘escape’ out of it using html) has fewer features, but I don’t see it as that different.
I have a friend who works at a science museum. He tried to reproduce this at their cocktail hour -- he had wines dyed black and asked visitors to rate their wine knowledge on a scale of 1-5 and then identify the wines as red or white. According to him, most visitors were able to get it right, and 100% of visitors who self-identified at 4/5 or 5/5 wine knowledge were able to do so correctly. I keep telling him he should re-do this study and publish it!
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(Plaid CTO) No. I answered in more depth in a separate thread.
Ah yes that brings back memories. I knew that book inside-out.

I made the ROM writable by soldering a CMOS ram chip across the ROM (was it 16KB?) and any write to the ROM would end up in the RAM. A switch selected either the ROM or RAM to read from. On startup simply copy the ROM to the RAM and flip the switch.

After this operation, using 'The Spectrum ROM disassembly' book the world was your oyster. I modified the ROM routines for reading/writing those little tape drives and bypass copy protection, for experimental purposes of course :)
I think when criticizing paid software, and paid SaaS, it's a mistake to think their alternative is logically open-source software. It's actually ad-driven software, because a profitable paid service has to provide much more to you than just the code like open-source does, and that costs money.

I relish tools that just let me pay for them and cut out the middle-man. The idea that all software should be free has contributed to the hyper commercialized, invasive, ad-funded internet we have now.
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Pretty close, yes -- and I agree in both cases.

The thing that bugs me about more or less any article about why static sites are better/easier/simpler is that they all depend on writing off WP as sort of a straw man.

I have been playing with Publii again after being nudged towards it by a HN comment, and I think it might be a useful middle ground:

https://getpublii.com/

It's far from perfect but it's kind of cute and fun to use, and definitely easier and more approachable than Hugo.