skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never looked at the "Who wants to be hired" thread until this month's post and I have gotten a low response rate. It's kind of turned me off from looking again.

I look very carefully at the person's comment and resume before emailing. Are they happy working in our time zone? Do they have experience in our tech stack? Do they have any preferences we can accommodate? If the role does not meet their hard requirements I do not email at all, and if we don't meet any of their soft requirements I call those out in my email.

Despite this only 20% of the people I've emailed have even responded. One person responded that they thought it was a good fit, and one person did not mention the role at all but asked me for my opinion on their resume. Most people did not respond at all. I don't understand that.

If I posted in that thread looking for a job and got spam I would ignore it but if someone personally wrote an email that met all my requirements I would feel obliged for some sort of response.
The self driving cars, IT infra, logistics, social media, robots and rockets are all related to military needs and funding.

The whole investment in computers is so bombs can be more precise.
DeFi Star Developer Andre Cronje Calls It Quits
I have about 23 browser windows open with 3 to 40 tabs each :-)

Come to think of it, it is quite amazing that good software supports so different styles of usage...
Some previously had to be allowed because they couldn't be removed from 3rd party projects, which is where the unblocked_terms file comes from.

Here is the blocked_terms list:

dummy

keymaster

grayhat (Who has a gray skin color????)

# Black Hat
black.?hat

# Black List
black.?list

# Build Cop
build.?cop

# Crazy
crazy

# Cripple
cripple

# Dummy
dummy

# Frist Class Citizen
first.?class.?citizen

# Grandfathered
grandfathered

# Gray Hat
gr[ae]y.?hat

# Gray List
gr[ae]y.?list

# He
\bhe\b

# She
\bshe\b

# Him
\bhim\b

# Her
\bher\b

# His
\bhis\b

# Hers
\bhers\b

# Man in the middle
man.?in.?the.?middle

# Master
master

# MITM
\bmitm(\b|\d)

# Native
\bnative

# Red Line
\bred.?line

# RTFM
rtfm

# Sane, Insane
\b(in)?sane(\b|\d)

# Sanity
sanity

# Slave
slave

# White Glove
white.?glove

# White Hat
white.?hat

# White Label
white.?label

# White List
white.?list

# WTF
\bwtf
What do you mean, guilty? Bugs are unintentional (I hope). People make mistakes, no one is perfect. If employers don't want bugs they need to hire enough people to be able to put all the processes in place to ensure 100% bug free software. Of course, that would never be economical, so here we are.
Denton’s story is a tale of how a small town government embraced something to which it first seemed ideologically opposed. It’s a schematic for how the burgeoning crypto industry — which promises to solve climate change, repair crumbling infrastructure, and fix all manner of societal issues by putting them on the blockchain — is literally remaking communities, hedging their futures on its own unforeseeable success.

Crypto companies looking for cheap energy showed up in Northern New York as well, where there are relatively few people but lots of power thanks to hydro and wind - the St. Lawrence River, which empties from the Great Lakes, powers the Moses-Saunders Power Dam, and big wind farms have sprung up in Franklin County.

The crypto people promised the moon in terms of jobs and real estate investments, but they quickly wore out their welcome. This article is from 2018:

Plattsburgh went over its power allotment and was forced to purchase electricity on the open market for far higher prices. This cost was distributed among the city’s residents, some of whom ended up paying between $100 and $200 more for their electricity than usual.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xk4qv/bitcoin-ban-plattsbur...

It's gotten so bad that local cities are planning moratoriums on further cryptocurrency mining development, and any increase in electricity prices is blamed on crypto, regardless of the cause:

Some residents also voiced concerns at the previous town board meeting, stating their electric bills jumped 40-60% from one month to another, saying they have never been charged so much by MED. Some believe that crypto mining operations are the leading cause.

Though Town Attorney Eric Gustafson assured residents that crypto mining operations buy market power based on tariffs set and negotiated by Massena Electric, some residents remain skeptical.

“We ensure everything is done at the market rate for these companies. The tariffs are already in place with Massena Electric and market power is sold to them pursuant to MED tariffs,” Gustafson said during the meeting.

Town officials voted to extend a moratorium on new crypto mining operations in the town during a recent meeting following significant push back by town residents.

Many voiced displeasure with the town for allowing established operations to utilize sea box containers, while others voiced environmental concerns, noise concerns and cited a lack of job and economic stimulation for the region. The moratorium expires on April 30, though officials can vote to extend it again at any time before the deadline.

https://www.northcountrynow.com/news/massena-town-officials-...
There are a few around.

https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht...

https://graphicscodex.courses.nvidia.com/app.html

https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scrat...

I can vouch for the first two as being good. I haven't actually looked at the third but I found I had a bookmark for it.
That's quite disappointing. As a Neovim user, I depend on nerd fonts for icons.
Does the license forbid patching even for personal use? Or is it only forbidden to re-distribute the patched font, by using it on a website for example?
Why is it something that you feel needs fixing? Caring deeply about something you care about is a good thing, it shows pride in your work/craft. Sure, nothing and nobody is ever 100% perfect 100% of the time but none the less I can assure you that people in other fields often feel the same way about the same things (bugs, faults, design errors, something missed in an audit etc).

In my opinion you are showing the attributes of a great employee and with your attitude I would hire someone like yourself in a heartbeat.

I have come across both those that care deeply and those that shrug off errors as 'meh, shit happens' and I can honestly state that the good ones cared while the ones that had the 'shrug - so what' attitudes were mediocre (at best). In one of my more uncharitable and judgemental moments it struck me that their attitude of not caring was because they had so much prior practice at dealing with shit-that-went-wrong issues that it was nothing new.
The real cases are not much different. In the backdrop of invading a country thousands of miles away on a false pretext, the American Sniper story is a window into that[0]:

“Savage, despicable evil. That’s what we were fighting in Iraq,” he writes after describing his first kill, a woman who walked into a street with a grenade in her hand as marines advanced into her village. After a moment’s hesitation, he drops her with a shot.

“That’s why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy ‘savages,’” he writes of this scene. “There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.”

[0] https://www.bookforum.com/print/1902/-9467
Yeah, with a known resolution (1920x1080) and a stable camera it shouldn't be to hard to get a near-perfect rip.
I was referring to his non-military goals primarily
More specs:

Land footprint: ~2 football pitches [1]

Cost: ~2.4 billion USD [2]

1:https://www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactor...

2:https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Rolls-Royce-secu....
Where in that does he deny it? LOL. Agenda much?
btrfs is default on two distros (that I know of) OpenSUSE and Fedora. If you're using one of those two distros, don't read the documentation, and then your data is eaten/etc then that's fair and you can rightfully be upset. I would be too.

But if you're using it in some other setup, then that means you went out of your way to try a more complicated filesystem. I would think it's reasonable to do at least a quick scan of the btrfs wiki or your distro's documentation before continuing with that, the same way I'd expect someone would do the same for ZFS.
Imagine the horrors when the Russians sets these reactors on fire :-O

*why the downvotes? Security is a fatal flaw with nuclear energy.
Btrfs has not been, is currently not, and unlikely in future to become a general population usable file system, which is a shame as 10 years ago it looked like a promising move forward.

Its window to it was when setting up ZFS included lots of hand-waving. That window now has closed. ZFS is sable, does not eat data, does not have a cult of wizards spelling "RTFM" and is can be installed in major distributions using easy to follow procedure. In a year or two I expect that procedure to be fully automated, to a point where one could do a root on ZFS.
> Our prospective customers tell us things like "we can't sign up until you support X number of features," and my boss and the founder believe that our number 1 indication of success is the downward trend of X.

I’m reading this as a pattern of prospective customers asking for more features,
and the downward trend being that of the number of “missing” features.

As your installed base grows, the number of features supported and requested
will tend to grow faster than the number of users grows. Users will always want more features. Even if you support 3 ways of doing the same thing, users will want more ways of doing it, ways that better fit their in-house work flow, or the work flow of some other software they have used elsewhere or in the past.

Your boss and the founder are in growth mode. They want more users and want more features to get more users, of course. But, at some point, the number of features and the number of interactions of those features will start to become a burden on the company, unless it is successful beyond the wildest dreams of avarice, and can afford to hire faster than the burden grows.

You, and your boss and the founder, should start thinking about a future time when you can feel that the product is nearly feature-complete, and thinking about
what the natural limits of its feature set might be. If you start that now,
you have a chance of having a coherent set of features in a supportable whole.
Obligatory...not the car brand

This is the aerospace/power/transportation rolls royce: https://www.rolls-royce.com/

This is the car brand: https://www.rolls-roycemotorcars.com/en_US/home.html
I feel like steam sales validate this point. Steam provides a better service than downloading warez and cracked games from p2p sites. For many, it's better than visiting a local retail/GameStop and buying the game. It also unlocks a world of indie games that would otherwise be not so easily discovered/attainable. So, people pay.
This is right after the ChaosDB disclosure in August. What is going on over at Azure?
1. Accept the fact that no software is perfect and everything has big/small bugs in it.

2. Not every bug is critical, so there will be bug which don't need to be fixed and never will be fixed and that's okay.

3. Have a process you trust and improve which is targeting those critical bugs. For example, put a couple of bugs on every sprint. This way you can be sure sooner or later you will be handling those so you can sleep better :)
Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on who you are and what you see as success, the one with the most force potential.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_makes_right
Ihatovo Monogatari (1993)
Even if you know it, what are you going to do? Likely you can't afford a lawyer, and you definitely can't afford to leave your job to sue, since so many benefits in the US are tied to being employed. Employers know this...
I did one of the first banners (crowdsurfing logo) for Freshmeat back when keeping up with dependency management was exciting.
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: AWS, Docker, Python, Node, Some Golang, Networking (used to be a network eng), Ops skills (monitoring, SRE, prometheus, grafana)

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stetson-blake-31635252/

Email: stetsblake@gmail.com

Currently a DevOps engineer -- open to remote roles.
That's a good strategy just ALL day.

Lol
Because Russian claims about fighting neo nazis are ridiculous on their face. I don't claim the US doesn't take its interests into account when taking action or judging other countries but that doesn't mean they don't take humanitarian concerns to heart as well. Even on massive fuckups like the invasion of Iraq
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Of course. But the point is that crypto won't bring along a better system. It's just the same shit, rehashed (no pun intended).
> $546 million funding round

This is where nuclear just loses me. The first number I pulled up on Google says that this is what you would pay to build, site and install 400 MW of wind capacity. The reactor when eventually built (at much greater cost, of course) is only going to produce 470 MW. You'd need to get a second reactor installed just to break even for one round of R & D funding. It just doesn't work.

I'm all for nuclear power in principle. I'm broadly opposed to tearing down existing capacity. But I'm absolutely horrified at the degree to which people want to throw money at this boondoggle. There is low hanging fruit all over the renewables market. Can we please pick it first before chasing radioactive unicorns?
ZFS is unfortunately not an option if you can't allow your kernel to be tainted, whether for idealistic reasons or for supportability reasons.
Russia – Threats, more threats, more mercenaries, and no results
Mostly an issue for the 17" and up. The 15" screens seem to be okay with the arm spring.
Military space is pretty likely to kick up IMO. Space contractors will point at this situation and say, "see, all the money toward simple space-leveraging systems is worth it because it keeps your boots off the ground".

I could see an energy race or big ramp-up, particularly around demand for reducing cost and vulnerability of energy systems.

It's already ongoing to some degree, but nations around the world can now see very clearly how their energy systems are of direct interest to their adversaries in conflicts. Adversaries looking for easy bargaining chips will attempt to capture or take down power systems, casually suppressing meaningful civilian activity while also thwarting a lot of defensive information insurgencies. (I'd be interested to see stats on the spread of viral content under various power/infrastructure circumstances, because a lot of this content is essentially in a race with other viral content to win info-battles)

This development could then kick crypto mining into very high gear.

It's interesting to me to see that we may be at a kind of threshold between the years when it was still possible to place your adversary back in the early 1900s technologically, and the years when such a thing will be very hard if not impossible, and will perhaps even become a war crime.

Edit: Regarding Mars, I'd say the situation more importantly/more likely could set us up for a long-term sustainable "relationship" with Mars but also the entire solar system, particularly if we can start to demonstrate and make use of meaningful presence on the Moon. It starts with efforts like Artemis / Gateway.

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moon-to-mars/
Surely the fact that a single blemish exists does not imply that we should just curl up in a hole and admit defeat. The fact that Widevine exists does little to damage the core of the above argument.
As long as there are enough of them preserved as-is, it doesn't bother me. Maybe the author has 2 (or more). In which case, right on.
In what way is this perfect, other than as a joke?
except for video games and deep learning
the amount of youtube I watch minimized is really amazing. If they had an audio only option that I could listen to while I run I would actually consume more of their content...you could even feed me audio specific ads.
> What keeps bugs from happening is processes, not programmer conscientiousness

While maybe it's not sustainable, or maybe it doesn't work for large companies, if you're at a startup or small company, conscientiousness absolutely plays a large role. That's not to say that process cannot help reduce the mental burden of developing though by reducing the need to be conscientious.
Every single person with JS disabled browses HN
Cooler waters created super-sized Megalodon, latest study shows
What makes you think Russia wouldn’t use nukes if an alliance of Western European states entered the war against them? Especially if they don’t have nukes to attack. Do you think Russia would just lose the war happily?
Even if it proves me wrong, it still makes me happy that some work is done on this tool. (I will fix the article)
> The original image is saved as a reflink copy at image/ntfs.img, and if you want to keep the conversion you can delete this to free up space.

Now that's really interesting.
There is about 30% of Americans (we'll call this generation Trumpers) that have always wanted an isolated America. Another 30% in the middle and about 40% globalists and have been for decades since WW1
For me "debate" is a dirty word

https://utlc.uncg.edu/teaching/dialoguediscussiondebate/

That is you have a "debate" in high school where you have to fight hard to defend a position that you don't personally believe in. I am also sick and tired of "debates" staged to legitimize illegitimate viewpoints such as "God created the world in 6 days" and Immanuel Velikovsky's crackpot theories.
Once after crossing the border from Laos to Thailand a Thai border official expected a bribe from us, citing some obviously made up tourist tax. I saw that they already stamped our passports and even though it was probably a stupid thing to do we just played dumb, slowly repeating the same thing over and over about how we're so confused, we thought there was no additional tax, we must have made a mistake, showing them the printout of the visa we had at the time, yada yada. Never were we confrontational, only slightly annoyingly "simple" I would say and it worked beautifully, after 15 minutes or so they gave us our passports and let us go. I've since applied that strategy in many other contexts, even in western countries.
About the first paragraph...

I know this might go a bit off topic. I used to be a hardcore-non-spiritual until the recent few years of scratching the surface of the possibility of there might more more to reality than we see.

I'd love to hear any of your experiences that led you to turn to metaphysics, if it's appropriate to share of course.

I also sometimes experience phenomenon which can't be eliminated away with physics, or weird coincidences that can't be explained with confirmation bias or selective attention, and trying to pinpoint a pattern, so anything that you'd think worth sharing in that direction would help.
It's not so bad. Especially if you spend most of your time in a terminal, as I often do. It's somewhat nostalgic, even. Ah, my first display, a 80x25 text mode DOS 5.0 terminal on a CRT...sigh
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I give myself a place and a time to explore and indulge it: namely weekend side projects. Sometimes this perfectionism yields interesting results, even stuff I can apply back to my more pragmatic day job. Other times I make no progress at all, and it’s a healthy reminder going into the next week.
I have very little experience in this area, but for one-off items it's probably a few hundred USD

To become a signing authority is probably quite a bit higher
Russia would be happy to nuke what they call “nazis”.
This article is full of untruths and whataboutism. It doesn't deserve such close examination
Thorium reactors still have proliferation risks. See this explanation written by physicist and HN commenter acidburnNSA:

https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium-myths.html#myth3
>Bezos’s vow prompted some early-childhood education experts, including Mira Debs, of Yale, and Joel Ryan, the executive director of Washington’s Head Start program, to ask why a man possessed of two hundred billion dollars would elect to compete with existing, cash-strapped public preschool programs instead of simply giving them lots of money. The answer may be found on the Day One Fund Web site, which states, “The customer set this team of missionaries will serve is simple: children in underserved communities across the country.” There is a novel dystopian horror in this promise—it conjures an image of Jesuit-manqué preschool teachers walking barefoot and dehydrated across miles of Amazon warehouse floor in search of a hundred-piece counting board as, elsewhere, a child waits expectantly behind her Ring Video Doorbell, anxious to Rate Her Experience.

why journalism has devolved in ideological propaganda?
Isn't depopulating a strong buzzword? I guess in a different context covid19 could be used in the same way; all the drama in censorship of alternative therapeutics than shilling for big pharma..

Whataboutism aside, I watched an interesting recap [1] of Ukraine's history. Not sure if it's factually and objectively legitimate though.

[1] Ukraine on Fire -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKcmNGvaDUs
Also, let's talk about various attempts to chastise some countries for not caring about the conflict enough i.e. for not fully aligning with US' point of view.
I feel stupid for thinking these would be used to power car engines.
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That opinion may be unpopular with YouTube but I absolutely would love it. There is a ton of great content that really doesn’t need video.
Anyone have a copy of the really early freshmeat header image/logo that was a closeup of a tattoo being applied to someone's back, but mildly obscured because it was keyholed through the text? It was during a period where freshmeat had a dark/black background/theme.

Due to redirects, it seems like archive.org doesn't have it.
> If there wasn’t a government the slaves could simply kill the master and take the land.

And then take your land too, or perhaps enslave you. There is no reason to believe that slaves are inherently more moral than their masters. With no government it's every man for himself and the strongest or most ruthless will come out on top.

The fact that some governments at some times enabled slavery to continue does not mean that not having government would cause it to end.
Hahaha, macOS has some issues but not those you talk about. I've heard every windows user complain about such problems - which are not if you accept the fact you are on another Os ant not windows - when starting to use mac. nice clickbait btw.

ps. you forgot zip/unzip
An invasion of Ukraine and a tanking of the Ruble was hardly an unforeseeable circumstance in late January.