skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like these articles.. they harken back to the days of the web before everything was all about advertising and SEO.

I've been snowboarding for 21 years.. before that I skied for about 8 or 9 as a kid. I also did a lot of XC skiing, for which I mostly shed a tear. There used to be so much more snow for that. I still have snowshoes, but that also takes a perfect convergence of a big storm + some free time to get to use them.

Snowboarding has a super different learning curve than skiing. Snowboarding is much much harder the first few days. Very steep learning curve, very very easy to get hurt at the beginning. But then the learning curve gets easier in the intermediate stage. Skiing takes a long time to get to those perfect parallel turns. Snowboards offer some other stuff like riding switch that skiis don't really do. Going backwards on skis is way more niche. Snowboards suck on flat traverses compared to skis, but a good snowboard has amazing edge hold on ice compared to skis.

The biggest thing that has changed that blows my mind is resorts are so anything goes. Want to do a back flip? No one cares. Jump off everything? Yah that's OK. Want stuff to do tricks off? We'll build that for you! Back in the 1990s on the east coast you could get kicked off for a little bunny hop off a mogul. Sometime in the end of the 90s the game changed dramatically. Last year I almost got hit very hard by a kid who had jumped off a jump and landed backwards and out of control. And I was in the lift line! The resort had built a jump close enough to a lift line that an uncontrolled landing could cause someone to collide with the line. Luckily I was a lot bigger than the kid and my snowboard was oriented such that I could dig my toe edge in and squat down like a football player and take the hit... neither of us got hurt.
This is a problem we have had at my company too, how can we be inclusive to everyone with "fun" type events? Some people don't want alcohol, some don't want physical events, etc.

I think the best we can do as companies is know the team, have a variety of activities (inside normal working hours!), and not require 100% attendance since there is never going to be one activity that works for everyone.
The fact that the governor will probably face no repercussions from this sickens me. It's bad enough that our elected officials aren't capable of grasping basic tech concepts but this stinks of a coverup or at a minimum shifting the blame from his own office who was responsible for the data leak (for a decade!!!).
Thousands - or more. Was working at a plant when a "lounge" was discovered in a void behind a row of workers lockers. Someone had figured out the space behind the lockers was empty - and rather large - so they removed the back of on of them and turned it into a secret room.

I'll be stuff like that is all over the place.
ForPro was a fantastic improvement over dBase. It was rumored that Microsoft bought it to put it to pasture because it was competing with MS Access. Seeing how Visual FoxPro quickly stalled, I tend to agree.
Yeah the browser plugin route looks like the best solution for now. Cheers.
> I was fortunate to work for a company that is absolutely crazy about Quality

I crave this. Move fast & break things mentality is a plague. Shipping the proof of concept is a plague.
Great list of mods. I also had a lot of fun with Geoengineering: https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/2195?tab=images
Don't they have even more meeting to go to and documents to write? Things in the physical world require a lot of approvals and consideration before are given a sign-off to proceed to implementation.
A few years ago my company went through an exercise of making sure that everyone in a similar job made the same amount of money and females made the same amount as men. I ended up getting a $15k salary bump out of it. My company would be fine with this requirement. If every company did the same exercise then nobody would have cause to complain about it.
Craigslist has non-spyware TV sets for free. With a 20 dollar antenna you can get real old fashioned tv. Or if you can accept that you are just going to be spied on anyway, maybe that’s a more sustainable position than trying to fight the capitalist social credit rating system/ad tech. Is it worth wearing a tinfoil hat all the time, even if it works?
Github is up, it's your connection. Try using Tor Browser, VPN, or cellular to connect.
Linux Sysops Handbook
Lobste.rs does this occasionally, which can be interesting.
Source:
https://github.com/abarrak/linux-sysops-handbook
Microsoft should just get straight to the point and express their true feelings towards their users.

I propose a kernel module that has Cortana saying "eat shit and die" on repeat on any system that disables telemetry, logs out of MS account or just runs win11 without the full suite of anti-user bullshit they are pushing.
Genuine question: are there any states where full-stopping at a stop sign is the norm whether or not anyone is there? I've done a whole lot of cross-country driving and I've never been to a place where the norm is coming to a complete stop even if there is traffic present.
T-Mobile Forum: I was promised a third line for free and didn't receive it
Isn't that what that Amazon low bandwidth shared wireless thing does explicitly? It's not normal wifi but it provides public access to the internet via your hardware and your internet connection.

Also don't a lot of cable modems have public wifi served from the equipment in your posession but not under your control or even knowledge? It's a seperate logical network but it's still your net connection and your (rented) hardware.

Cars these days also have 4g connections that you can't even turn off even if you don't pay for the service like on-star.

Probably there are countless examples by now of things coming with their own access, and the idea of opportunistic scanning for open networks vs, or in addition to an own 3g/4g modem is just an implementation detail.
I disagree. We are conflating being smart really with being self-motivated. Also being in the right environment is very important. I do believe that anyone can do almost anything (I'm not going to be an NBA player in my 40s). Certain things though become harder as time goes on given education or industry requirements but are still not impossible - you have people become medical doctors in their 50s. It fair to state that the privilege of time and money also make career transitions far more easier for some folks. But if you are willing to put in the time and effort and stick with it, you can learn anything and make the jump career wise.

If you want to break into a technical field from a non-technical background, the better indicator of success will be grit, perseverance, and self motivation. Learning becomes easier if you are motivated to learn and when its hard still stick with it. I used mentor at a nonprofit web-dev bootcamp that aimed to help students from under-estimated and non-traditional backgrounds (no college education) become software developers. Most of the students did not have traditional STEM backgrounds and were learning to program for the first time. The program was free and deliberately designed to be hard with multiple places where students would be kicked out if they didn't keep up with the work. There were no traditional tests and coding exams. All assignments were project based with a clear deliverables (website, backend database, full stack javascript applications, etc).

Most of the students (over 80% graduation rate and 99% employment rate) who finished the program got well paying dev jobs (avg salary of 90k). Of the students I mentored, the ones who were most successful were the one willing to put in the extra hours to learn and ask for help (often doing 80-100 hours weeks of learning) and genuinely curious to learn outside of the scope of the curriculum. At the end of the day the program was not filtering on general "intelligence" (whatever that means) but really the perseverance of students to put in the work and produce something each week. At the end of 8 weeks
While quest text in Skyrim always felt a bit flat, there are little bits of lore hidden in all of the books you find. And a few jokes.
I didn't write that article, but I certainly could have - I've noticed exactly the same things, and clearly have had some identical conversations with people about the value of "being informed."

The way I describe it is that all you can ever hope for with "following the news" is eventual consistency with some representative subset of world events. I don't know what's happening as it happens, and I don't know everything that's happened, so I'm (by the requirements of reality) both behind and only updated on some events.

I'm just happy being far longer on the "eventual" window and having a somewhat lower amount of representative content.

What I've also learned is that almost everything actually important will filter to me some way or another. It's absolutely impossible to live under a rock if you interact with other people, because they'll ask you about XYZ event. And, often, enjoy updating you if you've not heard about it!

I also agree with the "Read three books" observation - I'd rather someone recommend three books on an interesting topic to me than link me to some hour long video. The books take longer, but I'm likely to have at least some familiarity with the topic, from a few different points, with the books. YouTube will make people think they've got some understanding, when it's largely missing.
OK. That seems like all the due diligence I'd recommend.
So I only linked to that BBC article to give some context... As you say it has nothing to do with Twitter, because as I said it's hard to give examples of people being blocked on Twitter for having perfectly reasonable and mainstream views.
Though the VPS is the cloud, not the web. Your exotic tech stack would be the equivalent of a set of .HTMLs in notepad.
Well, you wouldn't have to maintain feature parity with Microsoft's TS compiler. If you had some magical ES5 AOT compiler, you could just compile your TS to ES5 using the official TS compiler and then AOT-compile your ES5. No evolving spec to keep up with (at least as long as the upstream TS compiler maintains ES5 support). I'm really just curious about how one would AOT-compile a language as dynamic as JavaScript (be it TypeScript, ES3, ES5, or anything else) and achieve JIT-like performance.
One dude I met got his spine injured after landing on his back in a big pile of fresh snow. There was a branch. Fortunately he's back to snowboarding after a surgery.
here's a video of very experienced snowboarder hitting his head on a fresh snow day(!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjWrLtvs6Ic
I agree with what the article says about news but I think the same idea is applicable to a wider category of 'flash consumption'. One common example I can think of are the Twitter threads with clickbaity titles claiming to give you knowledge about something in 7-10 140 character chunks. They induce a certain FOMO as you scroll by but leave you with no lasting memory about the subject.
There was an academic, Mercur Olsen, who had a point that a lot of human ills, be it capitalism, race riots, instability in the Byzantine Empire (and feudalism in general), et al, were mostly due to rent seeking behavior.
> I changed my LinkedIn status to "Open to work" and the recruiters circled like vultures around a freshly dead carcass.

Can I ask in which country that is? I did the same thing but no recruiters reach out. I feel my country is just a sw dev wasteland where careers go to die, as connections from the UK and NL reviewed my resume and had nothing but praise, so my CV is fine, and I guess the market i reside in is bad.
Except that the "current situation in Europe" actually is being motivated primarily by irrationality. (That's what extreme nationalism amounts to.) And I don't know what kind of ideological contortions you'd need to undergo to conclude that the man who has brought about this situation is not your enemy.
There are no consequences beyond egg-on-face. I think that's as it should be. He said something stupid and reactionary, from a place of ignorance, likely parroting what some underling of his said. Now he looks silly, the news gets to carp about it for a cycle, and we all move on. This is as things should be. No one was materially hurt by his ignorant claims. Journalists are (or at least should be) thick-skinned enough to handle whatever inconvenience resulted from this, and now they get to publish their followups. Schadenfreude is its own reward.
Another oldie but goodie in the career planning vein:

https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_career_planning_part0.html

This is Marc Andreessen's guide to career planning, and I've found it exceptionally useful. In particular, he backs off from the narrow "decide what track you want to be on" approach to frame the problem as developing a set of skills that will make you more valuable to any enterprise you choose to be a part of. Then while you do that, watch for the most valuable opportunities to apply those skills.

The other great thing about Marc Andreessen's guide is that it acknowledges the role of risk and opportunity in how your career will shape out. So instead of tracking yourself into a path based on how the world looks today, you stay alert to how the world is changing, and then use the downtime to improve yourself. Despite being a guide for "high-potential people who are not interested in work/life balance", it feels like it puts less pressure on individuals than feeling like there's a set of steps you must hit to be on your chosen track.
Just do like toyota, have the car call home for subscription status and disable if the network etc is down [1].

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/news/43329/toyota-made-its-key-fob-...
I’m curious - by the same logic should an American re-think their citizenship based on the previous presidents?
To me a sustainable lifestyle would be one where if every person alive today's annual consumption was at the same level humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services could be regenerated over the course of that year- effectively balanced. I'm a fan of Earth Overshoot Day and their approach to this problem so I am using their definition: https://www.overshootday.org/about-earth-overshoot-day/. A sustainable way of life therefore looks like the average life of someone in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal etc. I'm not holding up the average lives of people in these places as ideal (and I'm not considering anything other than consumption) but instead realistic about what level we can consume at with our current level of technology. Within that consumption envelope we need to figure out how to improve healthcare and education outcomes.

That's why I expect we're headed for tragedy- we can't and won't collapse everyone's consumption to that level. The people who consume the least will be the most hurt by the ecological consequences of what we in the high-consumption regions of the world do.
Russia invaded those two regions - why not take the rest?
I'm still in very beginning of my career but I hope to eventually work on something open source. Something that is being used by many. Be it software library, business software or games industry.

Would be very cool to help the Linux gaming push that is happening and help to push it even more. But I don't think I have skills for that yet..
FTC Received 2.8 Million Fraud Reports From Consumers in 2021, Up 70% vs. 2020
Once you pay the Dane-geld, you never get rid of the Dane.
+1 for Ionic. I have been able to scale complex B2B and B2C software apps (not games) very well with it. v1 to v2 was rough but since v3 its been great. I'd strongly recommend this to anyone who wants web and mobile apps with one codebase.
I've worked at both types of companies, and it's funny: People who have only worked in one style are surprised to learn the other style exists. I actually made a career switch out of engineering because I wanted to have more input into the product, rather than just sit at my desk getting showered with JIRA tickets. Of course, I switched out of engineering, and moved into a company with the other style--where the features were engineering-led. Just my luck.
I'm not even sure who you're replying to. Looking at the other comments plus the front-page ranking, seems as if there's plenty of interest in this map on HN.
I have meetings, I write documents. I offer sage advice on best practice. That's it. It's not IT anymore, it's just make-work.

My careers have followed a similar route. When I graduated from college, I took a particular job because I didn't want to sit in an office all day. But as I got better at that job, my work increasingly became telling other people how to do the work, and ten years later I ended up in the office most of the time.

I quit that job to start my own company, again, so I could have the freedom to do things outside of an office. And again, as more people joined the company, I spent more time managing the company and writing reports and doing things other than being hands-on with the thing I started the company for. After another ten years, I closed the company.

Now I'm happy writing code. And another ten years in, my job is increasingly not about writing code anymore, but about ideas and processes and meetings and telling other people how to do things. The heads of departments completely unrelated to mine invite me to their meetings just so I can listen and write reports about what I heard later. Now, no matter how hard I try, I spend more time in Microsoft Word than writing code.

There seems to be something about the business world that removes people from the jobs they're good at. Sure, lots of people strive to be the Senior Lead Corporate Upstairs Middle Manager Grade IV. But some people are just happy doing work, and at some companies it's hard to stay in those roles.

At this point in my life, I'd rather be Lazlo Hollyfeld than Professor Hathaway.
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What is there to cover up? The existence of a bug? That seems trivial.

It sounds like the guy is a confident idiot.
> If a computer malfunctions, runs a stop sign and t-bones me,

If the computer malfunctions then the software telling it to come to a complete stop at a stop sign isn't going to save your bacon. You're t-boned either way.
Nothing against scraping at all, I think that's probably the only real way to do this until more companies have a (free) status API.. assuming scraping is within the ToS of course ;)

I had a few others on my list; Azure, Office 365, Stack Overflow.

You have the big ones already though I think.
He would need support of local population for that. And if locals want it, why not? Right for self-determination, after all. At least that was the excuse when USSR/Yugoslavia/etc were broken down.

But it is not that simple; any such territory would be a drain on Russian economy. For now, it is tactical advantage to keep Europe and US to drain theirs here. (One of reasons, why opolchentsi stopped before Mariupol few years ago).
Also a Goosebumps book where the kids discover someone living in their school like this.
One of the greatest art books of all time. A student would do well to study this book, and ONLY this book, for 5 years before doing anything else.
I'm an Asian. I learned 2 lessons after I came to America.

First, I was taught racism here. I didn't aware any racism in my home country. Here, after I became a victim of reverse racism, I learned how this industry works: holding the barometer needle and pretending the pressure are changing.

Second, for the competitiveness, we can't fool ourselves, and others as well.

If I join a competitive group that I don't deserve because of my quality, I know I don't deserve to be here, hence will feel inferior. I can fool the admission office, but cannot fool myself.

Top science requires top brains. Now I can see US is importing more and more top brains worldwide, because she cannot produce enough here. Immigration country is built on sand. Top brains can easily find other better places to live, if you don't treat them equally, no matter what the so called "original intention" is. That's how free market works.

Above are my 2 lessons.
Which Rust web framework to choose in 2022 (with code examples)
I worked at a mobile company when it still bugged me that everyone used 2 and u for communication. Part of our business involved sending SMS messages, and as a business this felt unprofessional to me.

I started copy editing my boss's text. There was only one case where I could not restate what was being said by using sentence fragments with real words instead of using SMS-speak to do the same.
a lot of news is clickbait or junk. Buzzfeed is the pioneer of that.

there's a reason why trust in media is decline

https://www.pewresearch.org/2022/01/05/trust-in-america-do-a...
The timestamp on that comic was about 20 years earlier than I expected :)
As a Missourian, and former Education sector employee, the handling of the situation shoes how terrible Parson is as a governor, and how even after the past two scandals, whether it be the opposing candidate, no one will pull him out of office.
> "Why do you care what Andrew Cuomo is doing in New York city?"

In and of itself, I don't. Unfortunately, the local politicians toe the party line and ape the Big City / Big State politicians, the Cuomos and the Garcettis of the world.

Suppose you could paint it at some level as "know thy enemy" (pardon the abrasiveness of the wording) because those states are something of a test bed for what to expect from the local folks, but a year or so down the line whether that's "You must wear a mask and cannot let your child use that swing set," or "policies that demoralize the police and undermine anything resembling a reasonable standard of rule-of-law, or "we must tear down statues of elder statesmen ("divisive", old, racist White men) while erecting statues of individuals that praised and sought to emulate the Haitian revolution and its genocidal outcomes."

With that said, I can't stand that all of my local options routinely shove rage-bait National stories in your face. There is no true "local only" coverage.
The one I see in the mirror every morning disagrees.
A lot of local stations are more or less syndication houses these days. They might buy up packages from stringers and sometimes actually send someone out to report from scenes after the fact, but it's nothing you can't get from skimming their web page after you stop the auto-playing video.

Most actual local news IME comes from local Facebook pages/groups and, rarely, Nextdoor.
Could I contact you about how you made this transition? My email is Anthony at yesrobo dot net
When I was a child, I had dreams about an almost inaccessible room in the family home. Then when I was 10, I went for a drafting Merit Badge in the Cub Scouts, and plotted the floor plan of our house. Assuming standard Euclidean Geometry, no, there isn't a hidden room.

But now I keep reading about secret servants' passages in stately homes, hotels, and the like.
Agreed, they will continue to find ways to circumvent the sanctions but hopefully we can make it more and more painful to do so.
I suspect if a lot of your platform is scapegoating to start with it is SO EASY to just use that when anything you don't like happens / makes you look bad.

Even things that don't really make you look bad... (early on this wasn't even thought to be the governor's office fault directly).

That's the danger in scapegoating and etc it's so easy to do for everything.

Hugo Chávez had a regular national TV show in Venezuela where he would call up his own government officials and berate them and sometimes fire them on live TV. It's a scary viral like thing if you think to do it for everything.
I'm in the UK. I also have a moderately decent network, with lots of recruiters as second order connections, from knowing some founders. I think that makes a difference.