skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My eyebrows raised at “proprietary vpn protocol”, but I’m too much of a normie to understand if it’s really just a novel combination of standard things.
> There are theories that radio waves can activate small nerve fibres that are located closely to the edge of your skin, where EMF can penetrate, even if only couple millimetres deep.

Great. Can you provide a reference to this premise at all? There are theories doesn't mean there are verifiable observations to support them. You based your entire argument on this, and eventually connected to a WebMD reference to a condition caused by exposure to solar energy...

...which is orders and orders of more magnitude greater energy than microwave transmitters used in cell phone...

...also a cell phone transmitter maxes out at 1 watt to the antenna and solar energy at the earth's surface is 1000 watts per meter...

...oh yeah, and SOLAR FLUX UNCLUDES UV RADIATION WHICH IS IONIZING RADIATION!

Provide a peer reviewed reference to your proposed mechanism that actually connects it to damage in DNA that leads to cancer in the context of cell phones please.
Software Rasterization of 2B Points in Real Time [pdf]
My experiences are similar, though I lived in Packer country. I was very middle/lower middle class, and by 96, I would say most homes had PCs and started seeing some AOL installs, and by 2000 or so, most also had internet.

Late 80s however, the most advanced computers I'd see were parents that used them for work (developers and accountants) and Atari/Commodore 64.

Prices started dropping rapidly around 1990, and specs went explosively through the roof.

A great time to be alive, for sure.
You seemed to skip their second paragraph, which is what I was replying to.

Someone who can review diffs and even write a serious change every now and again isn't the most knowledgeable person on the team. The person who is writing and reviewing all of the serious diffs is. And for many L6 EMs, you'll have three of those people reporting to you, they're all working on different projects, each of which you have partial but imprecise knowledge of (and sometimes, very little because L5s and FAANG are expected to be able to operate mostly independently). So you spend your time ensuring that everyone on the team has career growth opportunities, and that your less experienced people have mentorship, and hiring and arguing about headcount allocation and prioritization, which all matter, but which are all things that most engineers don't want to touch!

Yes, managers should still have engineering experience (at least up to like director/vp levels, where IDK maybe they don't need it) but having a baseline knowledge of how to do a software is not the same as being the most knowledgeable person on the team.
ELP Japan has you covered!

https://www.elpj.com/

Last time I looked into this, I heard it was good if you had a REALLY good record cleaner. It’s extremely sensitive to dust in the groove.
Cryptopad is buggy as hell. It's not a realistic alternative to <anything> that used for important business docs.
>For some reason, ...

Ah, that clears it up, thank you!
> nobody can tell if Putin wants to invade Georgia or Moldova.

Actually… Moldavia would be next, no NATO, no EU, Transnitria is already practically under Russian control.
I think this has a lot more to do with the FDA, drug patents, and the pharmaceutical industry optimizing for profit.
Idk, I just use the Terraform module and set the Helm values on whatever should consume the db with whatever I get back from the module then call it a day. Then again, I'm not scaling big at all.
Yeah Go is all about "simple, fast enough, compiles fast"

So I'd say knobs to control this, which, if you get them wrong, lead to slow compiles, would defnly be contra the spirit of Go.

And in cases where absolute max performance really matters, nothing is stopping you from monomorphizin by hand. (But if absolute max perf really matters, you probably picked the wrong language.)
Hiring manager here. IMO the current tech hiring norms are gross and not sustainable. It feels like a weird hazing ritual and with the current market, is the single biggest reason you can't hire. Why on earth would someone burn a weekend on a take-home test for your startup when they have 15 other irons in the fire? At my current employer we got rid of all that ridiculousness. No take home test. No live coding. We've gotten the whole process down to a few hours over a few days. I'd like to think it's a mutually respectful process.

I think it's time we accept that the person we are talking to is who they say they are on their resume. You don't see accountants balancing books before they get hired. Why should this be any different? If you aren't who you say you are, its either blatantly obvious in the interview or we'll find out when you join and we'll try to correct or part ways. This is like pretty much any other job out there.
Long-term exposure to repeated cognitive dissonance?
I would settle for a plugin api and a descent man file
Sorry. I always feel like a person opens themselves to this type of feedback after they attempt to assert their own subject matter authority, as has been done here.
Sounds like they should fire Gill fast.

On the flip side, firing people around Gill, who he doesn't like, fast will make it apparent that Gill is the problem much more quickly than just keeping everyone around when things aren't working.
New ransomware targets Jupyter Notebooks
Yes. BrownMoses, noted Something Awful Forums poster and moderator of the Debate and Discussion subforum, as well as the founder of Bellingcat, is actually a CIA operative. It’s by far the most logical explanation, thanks for pointing it out.
Most of these projects - ReactOS, Haiku and even Hurd badly needs a 1.0 release. That would get them enough developer attention to achieve their more ambitious goals faster. They should aim for simple bare-metal booting reliably on 1.0. Get this done at least on hardware with open specifications. With this in mind, take them into beta with the intention of stabilizing bootup.

Haiku seems to be headed that way, though.
I'm flying from the north of the continent to the south soon (Manchester to Sicily, Sicily to Gatwick). My train tickets to get to and from the airports in the UK are £160, my air tickets are £120
Debian's hostname has -I. Turns out that's the hostname I have here on openSUSE.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/hostname
https://archive.ph/diD1M
If you have the laptop, you have the laptop. Breaking it into pieces doesn't add any security. If you don't have the laptop and are attacking remotely, it's no different than if it weren't physically segregated, whatever the hell the point of that is.
Crypto farming / liquidity providing. 50%-100%/yr.

$3K/mo = $36k/yr = put $75K in passive yielding to get above.
Nothing else to do to achieve that.
First Python Ransomware Attack Targeting Jupyter Notebooks
Don't you think he's risked and sacrificed enough already?
There's also a significant reduction in crime rate and drug use in people with adhd that are being properly treated. I'll let interested parties do their own research.
I've ranged in everything from 3 interviews to 20* in my tech career. All interviews suck, but the unifying factor I've found for what makes them good is when the company pays you for your time interviewing. I don't so much care about the money, but it's a positive signal that they're invested in me and they aren't just throwing me through more rounds for the sake of putting me through more rounds.

I understand that a higher risk hire demands more validation. What I want communicated from a company though is expectations going in and what format it will be all the way through. I don't mind more as long as I don't get the "hey we're going to put you through 3 more interviews" email.

* For Microsoft oddly enough, but it was a unique situation where I went through both a full design interview and a full eng interview for a hybrid role.
So? Yes there is such a thing as a conservative or liberal oe whatever. And then there are people who are not conservatives and still hold some socially or economically conservative view.

It is hard to know whether you are trolling or genuinely ignored politics and culture from wherever you got born.
London - Paris is fast and convenient indeed. But train becomes slower as soon as you need to catch a connection in Paris. I don't like airports either, but I'd rather spend time in an airport than in a train station and Paris subway with all my luggage.

That being said, train should be the preferred option due to lower CO2 emissions. It's a shame prices don't reflect that.
As far as I can recall Yahoo started shifting whole loads between data centers for energy and resilience needs 10ish years ago

Think this talk from Mike Christian covers it https://youtu.be/iO2z3ttlpi4
Status is about what people think about you, with a special focus on what other people think other people think about you.

And many things people want in life are dependent on what others think of them.

If you're looking for a promotion what your boss thinks about you and how others will perceive your promotion matters, when you're looking to raise money, looking for a co-founder, convincing your co-founders you would be the best CEO, convincing a girl she should come hang out at your table and talk to you.

Status matters, and choosing not to play means giving up a lot.
Proposals for Fact-Checking Reform
> What is, and has been, disappearing is a broad-based, stable economic system that benefits the masses.

Median income hasn't eroded. Real unemployment is again nearing historic lows. Median wealth hasn't eroded.

US median wealth remains higher than Germany or Sweden. Which, if you buy into the propaganda about the US (vs eg German worker protections and or Sweden's social safety net), that outcome should be impossible.

And for the US that's all despite one of the greatest demographic changes in world history, in which the US middle class has been massively shifted by an influx of low education, impoverished third world immigrants (which is the opposite approach of most affluent nations; for example Canada or Australia, they hyper restrict immigration based on scoring systems meant to keep poor people largely out, focusing instead of highly qualified immigrants that can immediately contribute to the welfare state tax base).

The fact is, the US has done extraordinarily well against that demographic change backdrop when it comes to the middle class and median figures. And this factor - dramatic demographic shift for the US middle class and median - is almost universally and intentionally ignored in the name of propaganda points.

It turns out that if you flood a country with tens of millions of poor people that don't speak the primary language, it might downward drag on the figures you see in the middle class and median (ie it pushes downward on all of that until the recent immigrants have enough time to adjust and gain positioning in society: gain education, gain income, gain wealth, establish careers, leading progress into second or third generations).

It can take generations for someone moving to a new culture, with little formal education, without the ability to speak the primary language, with no job or wealth supporting them, to get anywhere.

Want to see this effect in action? Look at the median white household wealth and income figures, today vs 1970 / 1980 / 1990. In 1980 the US was around 5%-6% hispanic for example, the middle class was almost exclusively white. Today the US middle class is increasingly hispanic, and that trend will continue aggressively for decades to come. Now do the right thing and account for that when talking about how well the US middle class has done over the last 30 or 50 years (it's not the same demographic, it's not the same group of people, it has changed).

If you move from Honduras to the US in 1993, previously living a third world lifestyle with minimum formal education and no ability to speak English; and then you lift yourself to the level of the US middle class by the 2010s, how do you account for showing that radical improvement in the US figures as it pertains to the middle class, if all it shows in the US figures is supposed stagnation (when what has really happened is the prior middle class demographic has moved upward, while formerly poor hispanics have moved in to the US middle class slot)?

If you don't account for the epic scale demographic shift, then what you're proposing is hyper misleading.
To be honest, I had forgotten the O(n) solution and vaguely remembered the nlogn solution. After that experience, I have both solutions lodged in my brain.
And for what its worth, systems like minio have emerged due to that commercial innovation. AWS has made a lot of investment in that system and will earn perpetual annuities from it, but by creating a defacto protocol we now get many choices that use its API. Its interesting because AWS never was benevolent with their S3 code, they just created a novel and rigorous offering that became worthy of emulation. Dropbox really hasn't done any equivalent contribution. If anything, the open source projects that have emerged to offer self-hosted alternatives to it are more feature-complete and extensible- such as nextcloud/owncloud, pydio, syncthing, etc.

side note: I'm filled with regret for every document that I authored on Dropbox Paper. It didn't last for long, but there was a time that it was the official wiki for a company I worked at. Its not impossible to export, but never with full-fidelity.
a quick search for retropi on amazon brings up listings for close to $300, for a pi in a case with a $15 controller. looks like there is business to be made by installing a distro on a $35 pi and marking it up by ~$250.
> And humans are made out of carbon, but you are never going to understand human emotion by studying carbon atoms really hard.

here is the problem with that line of reasoning: human emotion is difficult to define, highly subjective. it does not mean anything unless you are human and try to understand the emotions.

also, you probably need to focus more on K and Na ions and electrons if you are going down the emotional rabbit hole. Carbon is interesting, but apart from providing the skeleton for various things like dna, proteins etc i think it’s not where you’d start
In my opinion, (2) is a feature, not a bug. You never know what kind of connection your users have. Ngrok forces you to consider the "bad connection" factor early on in development, which can avoid many pitfalls that occur when network software assumes that latency is zero and bandwidth is unlimited.
The last two places that offered me jobs interviewed me twice each. The one before that, it was a fairly easy half-hour solo technical test, then an interview. I think that's the sweet spot, frankly - a fizzbuzz-level coding challenge and then a single interview to which all stakeholders show up. Maybe two interviews at most, and that's only if you can't get everybody in a room together at the same time. And when I say "all stakeholders," I really mean no more than about 4 people: a peer, a mentor, a boss, and at most one counterpart from another team that interfaces closely with that team, but I digress.

I've never had to put up with more than 2 interviews, and probably wouldn't. But I'm not in the Valley, and I'm generally not applying to the Big Five as it were. You know it occurs to me there's a possibility your recruiter is just over-preparing every candidate to expect the worst. Or who knows, maybe 5 to 7 interviews is normal for clients of that particular recruiter, because they've got a reputation for shoveling idiots through the door? In other words, it seems like there could theoretically exist a recruiter whose clients take their recommendations so seriously that they don't even interview you once!
Tailscale as others have said. ZeroTier if not Tailscale. Both are top notch
Stop Using SMS
Right - the Russian government keeps trying to portray them as CIA affiliated because Belligcat uses the corruption of the Russian state (eg the numerous databases of information that RU government employees put up for sale, or sequential passport numbers for the personas used by GRU operatives while traveling) to prove that the Russian government was responsible for the Navalny poisoning, the Skripal assassination attempt, the MH17 surface to air missile attack, etc etc. all of their findings are independently verifiable and require nothing but stuff that’s been for sale on dark net sites for years.
Saying that Eliot Higgins is affiliated with the CIA is quite laughable if you know his background. His success is an old-school self-taught hacker success story and should be celebrated as such.
"(Personal|Professional|Performance) Improvement Plan". It's the first formal stage in the firing process at most companies with HR depts, which would almost certainly include any publicly-listed company.

If you're at the PIP stage, it generally means your boss and your superboss have decided that it's time for you to go, but for legal purposes, they need to look like they tried to give you a chance, so they work with HR to craft specific-but-typically-unattainable goals which would theoretically allow you to save your job if you hit them all. But with boss+superboss already wanting you gone, the likelihood that they'll agree you've hit an improvement goal that's usually a thinly-veiled form of "stop me from hating you anymore, lol" is pretty low.

If you get a PIP, in nearly 100% of cases, you should just take it as notice that your employment is going to end at the specified review date in the PIP. It's not usually worth trying to hit the goals. Focus on interviewing.

That said, I once managed an individual who had survived 4 PIPs by the time he reported to me. I heard that he was eventually fired about 2 years after I left, but not sure if it was his 6th or 7th PIP. He was a particular discrimination liability at a company that was very sensitive to that type of thing.
I love this. If it works, keep it until shortly before it stops working. The older I get the more love I have for simple solutions that are easy to work with (and change when you've grown out of them).

These days I wince when I hear of overcomplicated solutions for an MVP that "will scale" at a nebulous point in the future, while we're going to be paying the complexity penalty every day for a benefit that may never come.
Web Browser as an Application Platform: The Lively Kernel Experience [pdf]
Performance improvement plan.
Performance improvement plan. It’s basically a social credit rating system for employees.
Thank you, friend. These are some great links! I just recently started a software engineering career largely for this purpose, but I also think it’s important that there is a political revolution in the US.
I believe it's spelled Goa'uld :) Who knows, but the very fact that a parasite can co-opt our sense of smell to make cat urine smell not as bad, is saying something.
It's not just the Internet traffic being encrypted, it's the proliferation of alternative services that have popped up because of the leaks (Protonmail, Tutanota etc).

Many services exist now that are because of the revelations, and it's not just about HTTPS. You can very readily install many tools & utilities that thwart the NSA dragnet. Think Signal, Matrix, Cryptomator, self-hosted Nextcloud, AD-blockers like uBlock Origin etc.

This guy sparked a privacy revolution.
It seems like they have gone past essentials now. Like being able to use any connected device as an endpoint? I haven’t used Tailscale yet past as a mesh network but regardless. It is so well done.
Who is a “retired spook” in their organization?
I would argue that the overarching goal is preservation, and the nostalgia is just a happy side-effect.
:D. Is this really a thing, or like a joke between friends? I googled it but nothing came up.
I think it makes the most sense for Google, considering the ridiculous amount of C++ code. Even Spanner alone is larger than most company's codebases, and rewriting it in Rust would take decades, especially because of the paradigm mismatch (C++ embraces shared mutability, Rust rejects it).

It also makes sense because in Spanner, doing any minor change required many months of review, because it was such critical infrastructure. Refactoring was a non-starter in a lot of cases.

So, a more gradual approach, just adding annotations that don't themselves affect the behavior of the program (just assist in static analysis) makes much more sense.
Do people call it a diff in the rest of AANG?
It’s infuriating that something helpful to so many suffering people was made, and continues to be, illegal. Imagine meditation is made illegal, on the off chance someone may have a psychiatric breakdown when doing some introspection.

It changes your perspective on the government and its actual role in society (dismissed as counter-cultural thoughts), which may be another reason they are banned.

You realize you’re in a fairly constrained and random system where might (money, status, power) makes right. Sure, fine, it may be true, but let’s not pretend there’s some deep moral justification for the forces in power to be there. They got in first.
It’s not a feature imo when there are other ways to force a “bad connection”. However with ngrok if latency is bad. You can’t ever change fhat.
Any company that does do this is, at a minimum, telling you that they're incompetent at interviewing. And that might be a warning sign - what else are they incompetent at?
Isn't it already understood that toxoplasmosis increases risk-taking behavior?

More sexual mates is riskier, living athletic/outdoorsy/"active" lives is also more risky than being a couch potato...

I don't think we're breaking new ground in saying the risk-averse tend to be less sexually attractive.
I know that feeling. There is joy is reading a good technical manual. Enjoyment in seeing a complex system built up. How the parts support each other and intermix to produce something complex and intricate. Once you have read it all and have in your head a complete mental image of how it works, when you can open the manual to any page and not feel lost, there is additional enjoyment and sense of completeness.
> Any organization of a certain scale and power gets corrupt

That's the problem. And why you need the four pillars of human organization: Corporations, Government, Religion and Unions to be setup to be opposed to each other.

Instead in the United States Corporations own the Government, Religions are all tax sheltered Corporations and Unions are decimated.
I used to agree, but now I disagree. You don't need to look any further than Google's ubiquitous mobilenet v3 architecture. It needs a lot less compute but outperforms v1 and v2 in almost every way. It also outperforms most other image recognition encoders at 1% the FLOPS.

And if you read the paper, there's experienced professionals explaining why they made which change. It's a deliberate handcrafted design. Sure, they used parameter sweeps, too, but that's more the AI equivalent of using Excel over paper tables.
There is no language that writes code as beautiful code as go, at a lower level. C comes close, but C++/Rust are plain ugly, while C is older than some HN users and requires a lot of third-party dependencies for basic operations (e.g http requests).
Now do the salary comparison.
Is that really so hard to believe? Many people have hobbies outside of work, like FSO Sean Smith aka Vilerat: https://www.somethingawful.com/news/sean-smith-vilerat/
Yeah, it's really trivial to find full and complete sets of games for any system now.
IMO, History is the borest discipline ever. If you have a child, or if you play significant role in developing someone's else child - please, consider helping them to learn anything else. Something from STEM is a great start, what about History they will be somewhat forced to learn it anyway.