skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve seen this list shared before, and want to thank you for sharing it again! I had forgotten about this resource and am pretty stoked to be seeing it
I have signed up for political emails and I can't remember getting spam from anyone, and I do check my spam regularly. My text spam is exclusively conservative though.
About 30 US military pilots a year are killed in all accidents.

That propaganda you might have heard on TV nearly 20 years ago is bullshit.
With nukes in play, one needn't have a competent military to participate in a cold war.
8-10 YOE and new offers only means he was right around a cool $1M/yr
I agree but I think it is important to proclaim officially that we are about miss the +1.5ºC.

The effects are global warming, e.g. climate dereliction and loss of biodiversity are becoming more and more obvious.

We need people to make the correlation themselves. Greta Thunberg is right to say "Don't listen to me, listen to the scientists". But that doesn't work. Not even well educated and decent politicians don't act accordingly.

People need experiencing themselves the effects of climate dereliction before - maybe - voting for the relevant policies, by election politicians who rise up to the gravity of the issue.

France already suffers noticeably from the climate dereliction (droughts, floods, forests dying, decrease of agricultural yields, etc) ; the USA have been having recurrent droughts and huge fires ; Australia had enormous fires, 50ºC temperatures and recently huge floods ; floods as well in Belgium, Germany, India ; droughts in the southwest part of Brazil, with the Amazon forest on the verge of becoming a savanna.

So I feel like we should repeat, that the media should repeat - because Science proves it - that this is what +1.5ºC is like.

Wanna really try +2º ?!?

It's like anti-covid-vax: they need to suffer to change. In my family, everybody has a master degree or PhD ; they are all well aware of the environmental stakes... and most keep flying 6,000 miles or more for vacations. With their kids, whom they teach the importance of recycling.
"Everyone has a price"
Usually not an issue with very interactive apps. We have a similar workflow targeting web and desktop, but Rust + WASM. Using BevyEngine for real-time apps, and Yew for web apps.
Do you have experience with the Alabama AG office not responding to a consumer complaint?

A quick google indicates both an online form and a phone number specifically for contacting Alabama AG Office Consumer Specialists: https://www.alabamaag.gov/consumercomplaint
If you use GNU Parallel, there's a fairly easy way to parallelize [1].

That being said, I hadn't heard of rclone - thanks for mentioning it, it looks amazing. I'll definitely be trying this out for my use cases...

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#example-parall...
Just to add to this, it sounds like OP didn't contact Affirm until after they already started the charge back. I definitely don't think it is appropriate to do a charge back before contacting the vendor that got the payment, which is Affirm.
On that note, is anyone else getting a little tired of all the pretentiousness going about in tech? Suddenly, every tech company is claiming to "change the world" and "not like the others". You know, hyping these adds, metrics, platforms, etc. up as if they're going to really change life in a noteworthy way for Average Joe. Whatever happened to just putting in a good day's effort and admitting we're doing it for the money so we can pay the bills and a nice dinner?
Student free speech survey that led to UWW chancellor resignation delayed
> The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be
subservient to the king, you would not have to live on lentils.’

> Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils, and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
They had to come up with a name for a slider and called it range. This is the wrong name for it. A range slider should have 2 dots: One for the minimum and one for the maximum value. (Most common is searching by price in a web shop)

It means that if they ever want to introduce a real range selector it will have to get a different name.

It also means that if you search google for a range selector you are no longer able to find any of them. If a native one is ever introduced you wont be able to find it searching for range selector.

Also quite silly is that if you need both in your form you cant use this build in one as it will look different from your custom creation.

And it makes it harder to reason about forms. In the previous sentence I wanted to write "...need both a slider and a range selector" but that seems inaccurate/confusing.
Nah, more like screeds about how liberals are out to destroy your 401k or how Joe Biden is destroying America.
Every time I have used it I have gotten a proper response from the company (one case was a clear mistake). But yeah if they don't, there isn't any immediate action from the CFPB. For a bank, you can complain to the actual regulator (OCC for a national bank, Federal Reserve or FDIC for a state bank).
When I see these kind of super-polished UIs, I wonder why can't we have that in Windows? Or Linux, for that matter, but I get the why on Linux.

GUIs are so much better in Mac, it's not even close. What's stopping Microsoft from getting closer?
As someone who relies on Notepad++ daily, to the point of being seriously worried about finding a replacement when I am inevitably forced to switch to Linux[0], I am encouraged by my short time playing around with NotepadNext. It looks right, it feels mostly right, and the AppImage started quickly. Unfortunately it is still missing most of the features I actually use in Npp, but it is a promising start!

[0] Being real: I'll probably just run Npp in WINE
The rituals that are expected are the bottleneck of truly embracing remote work.

Sure you can write A&Os (Achievements and Objectives) type of status updates, but that's largely on a team by team basis.

Recording every video conference is annoying and wasteful. Do you plan to record every talk you have and assume you're actually going to revisit it one day? 99% of the time my answer would be no.

Having lots of 1:1s screams lead or line manager. If it's your job, then sure! If it's not, then don't force it upon people. Not everyone likes 1:1s because they are hardly used correctly as a tool.

Let's normalize letting people do their job and having their own individual lives outside of work. Let's not let the corporate fun committee creep into everyone's preferred work life balance.
> Like the one where everyone made their avatars be simpson-style

This takes me back. A decade ago I paid someone $5 on Fiverr to draw me as a Simpsons character. She was one of several people on the site doing this. I just checked and she's still at it, with over 8k reviews. A niche market but one that doesn't seem to have completely dried up yet.
Firefox doesn't seem to support it. Trying to go to "shaq.eth" leads to a google search, and "https://shaq.eth" gives a standard "server not found" error page.
This gets to the heart of a contradiction in red state philosophy which is actually quite hard to solve, at least in my mind. On the one hand, it's understandable if someone doesn't trust the government to spend their money wisely, and if they use that as a justification for voting for smaller government budgets. I get that part completely. Governments have little if any internal motivation to spend your money wisely. If anything, they have a vested interest in spending 100% of their budgets, regardless of whether it's spent wisely, so that their budgets don't decrease in the following fiscal year.

At the same time, "if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys". If red states don't pay competitive salaries in competitive fields, their citizens shouldn't be surprised if they end up scraping the bottom of the barrel to source their public servants. The service they experience while interfacing with this dreck then further reduces their faith in government, and the whole thing becomes a vicious circle.

Again, this is a hard problem to solve. I don't know what the answer is, but it seems to be rooted in a mis-alignment of incentives in government spending.
"Military aviation accidents have killed 224 pilots or aircrew, destroyed 186 aircraft, and cost more than $11.6 billion since 2013"[1]

"Combined with information from the Federal Aviation Administration, an average of 383 pilots die every year in the US." [2]

[1] https://taskandpurpose.com/news/military-aviation-mishaps-de...

[2] https://www.skytough.com/post/how-many-pilots-die-a-year
My experience agrees with you and I just realized that you can roughly guess someone's age by their email domain. As a Millenial, I've used gmail for going on 20 years, but I feel like that was more or less the peak of email - I don't know that Gen Z uses anything else. My guess would be they moved onto social media and while they probably have emails, it was never their primary method of online communication.
Saw Gary Vaynerchuck (@garyvee) hopping on the web3 bandwagon. His basic message was always 'social media sells shit'. So easy to spot 'early adopter syndrome'.
Because GDPR has nothing to do with cookies.

You can have cookies without consent.

Tracking requires consent even if it doesn't use cookies.

You can block some tracking in the browser, but server-side tracking generally can't be blocked.

GDPR cares about whether you are tracking, not about the means you use to accomplish it.
On one hand I do understand why somebody would want put a few months into grinding questions like this, it could be life changing salary jump.

but on the other hand I feel like I'd feel like I've went into some bad direction with my life - where's the curiosity part?

Idk, whenever I read about US software engineering market then I feel like it's one big game

Here in eastern eu I've never been asked about anything that isn't day to day stuff.

Of course sample size N=1, but also you don't need fanciness for crud apps :)
Why the experts keep getting it wrong
Accidents dominate this, you hear about quite a lot of them, not all fatal.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/04/08/...
Wages as with most non-rent prices are driven by substitutability. If another worker is willing to do the job for less pay, then that sets the market price. Productivity is not a factor, though skills, risk, training, trust, and overall attractiveness of the work may well be --- these are the five factors that Adam Smith identifies over 240 years ago.

The other factor might be some form of gating of labour supply through registration, credentialling, unionisation, or a professional organisation (a/k/a guild). These rely however on constraining supply and only succeed in securing remuneration based on suplus value through monopoly gatekeeping. Not because labour is compensated due to productivity.
A cfpb complaint got an issue resolved I had where my credit card issuing bank was refusing to accept that a charge was fraud. I issued the complaint with the exact same information I had given the bank support: that the supposed evidence that it wasn't fraud didn't include my signature and had an incorrect address, and as soon as the cfpb complaint came through the issue was resolved.
I was not a new grad, but I started as an L3 (which is what new grads are hired at) at Google, ten years ago, in WA.

My take-home in the first full year at work was $147,500. The second was $178,500.

Feel free to adjust for inflation.
> We should have systems in place where people are guaranteed to have their issues remedied.

That's basically what a lawsuit is--you sue someone and if they don't respond, you generally win by default, but if they do, you have the burden of proving your facts.
Just curious, when you develop for the Cloud where to you debug your code? In the cloud or on your work-station?
non sequitor?
Yeah, that's what I remember from grad school. Thanks for the link!
Too soon to say much. Comments so far are not very useful. Give it a few days until the flight data recorders are read.
This is actually correct sir. We're not cynical, just rationalists
Well if we're going that far, why not just connect your phone to your PC and adb shell into it?
Maybe, maybe not. There is always the potential. I think the chances are slim but the risk is high -- even with very low probability the potential consequences are enormous resulting in a significant risk. With the risk of a world war the greatest risk comes the risk of nuclear war. Especially over the past two years I have grown more wary about the risk of war between so called superpowers and the risk of nuclear war in particular. Humanity needs to learn to transcend violent conflict if we are to progress. We need to work towards the elimination of nuclear weapons globally, although there isn't a lot we can do at the individual level on that. Fortunately since WWII the world has become less violent overall and things have generally improved in a positive direction.

I disagree that everything seems pointless. If anything there is much more at stake and actions are even more important.

Lately I have been reading papers from ALLFED[1-2]. They have found quite a few alternative ways we could produce food during a sun blocking crisis and they would be enough to feed more than 8 billion people if needed through a severe nuclear winter, even if we lost all of our current agriculture. But they have also found that only few would survive if we only try to survive on stored food.

Another excellent resource for planning for the initial few moments/weeks of a nuclear war has been [3] which provides practical instructions for rapid construction of expedient fallout shelters.

Understanding these I at least have a feasible and actionable plan, and better understanding of what would be involved if worst case scenarios were to happen. It is a lot less hopeless than most believe, although still terrible.

I suggest reading through these and you can find things you can do at the individual level. Also consider supporting ALLFED as their work has potential to be highly impactful if such a scenario is ever realized.

[1] https://allfed.info
[2] https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/david-denkenberger-s...
[3] https://www.oism.org/nwss/
Microsoft Azure also offers Blockchain solutions, that doesn't mean every company using Microsoft's C# is generally pro-blockchain, just as it doesn't mean every company is using Git because they are a Microsoft-shop.
So did you go with the summer shot or winter shot?

I can understand having the sentiment:

> Nobody in the government wants your project to succeed, and will actively try to get it to fail quietly

But I actually think Hanlon's razor applies. I think individuals do want your project to succeed but there are often systemic issues that make it seem otherwise. These systemic issues are not easily affected by individuals.
Lovely pictures :)
Hi pc, former employee here, from back in the day where meetings could be held in Alabama.

It's not that Stripe doesn't have broken things: I could have made a big list from back when I worked there, and I bet the list is still large. However, you are just underestimating how broken other companies are. I've worked at 10+ companies, some far bigger, and some far smaller than Stripe, and even the smallest ones had a higher percentage of broken things, and the brokenness is often in far more vital places. It's never going to happen, but you'd learn so much from joining me as a professional tourist, and going incognito as a random dev in another big company for 6 months.

But you are showing classic Stripe culture here: I remember a place where everyone was embarrassed about how bad they think their latest shipped email was, and how they have so much to do, while their typical coworkers is instead in awe of how good said shipped email was.
So unlikely true, as they would have just gone to the cantine and used real vodka.
>I can't speak for the US. In Britain you don't really need photo id for much.

One of the reasons the "Getting a photo ID is too hard" argument falls a bit flat in the US is that, at least for anyone participating normally in society, doing a lot of fairly routine things without a government-issued ID gets intensely inconvenient in a big hurry--even if you don't drive.

Most forms of travel including hotels though that may vary by locale. Picking up an order at a store or similar circumstances when a business wants to verify your identity. Opening a banking account. Certainly many of them are things that you can avoid and they're probably less of an issue if you're in a demographic that is less likely to have an ID. But, yes, in the US lots of people have to show ID on a fairly regular basis.
It’s a brilliant(ly jerkish) strategy to make them a darling of the market by being the thing that most can’t buy and an exclusive club for the ones that can.

WLB there is atrocious I’ve heard as well. The founders will be extremely rich and they’ll probably start their own space programs. Making already rich people happy is the way to wealth in this country. Hope they are kind enough to throw some table scraps to those who live down below the Ring.
I did a stint in the government working for a team that eventually had a lot people go over to 18F. I joined on hoping to see exactly what you describe, willing to take a pay cut for meaningful work.

My experience was very different than yours has been. My impression was that it was largely bureaucrats looking to further their own position in the massive bureaucracy. It was virtually impossible to do any "meaningful work". The handful of people passionate about doing good for the world were constantly blocked by other bureaucrats who were only interested in maintaining (or expanding) their tiny island of power they had accrued.

I vividly recall needing data from another agency to help solve a problem we were working on and being told that it would be virtually impossible to get any cooperation because it would make them look bad if we succeeded using their data. My entire time as a Federal employee was filled with similar such moments. All of the work I did, which ended up proving some seriously privacy vulnerabilities in another project, was dismissed because people didn't want to hear it. The experience forever changed my view on government.

The plus side is I did meet some fantastic, although terminally frustrated, people while I was there. It is a great place to meet people who have similar ambitions.

For someone looking for meaningful work I would advise staying far away from the federal government.
Laughs in French
With vagrant, the guest's /vagrant directory is whatever host directory contains the Vagrantfile. Using that seems even easier than scp. You can also set up some other shared folder if you're less lazy than me.
But if we check the domain history of aduro.com, it was not available to buy in 2004. It was owned until 06/2004 by Yahoo and then it looks like it went through 3 holding companies until it ended up with another hosting company.

So, you never bid enough on the domain even though godaddy showed it to you as purchasable?
One person might be all the market you need, if that one person is wealthy enough. Aside: I think stating opinions as facts is poor form.
(Cofounder here) This is close to our thinking. Comes from seeing how at Dropbox we started with a cross-platform approach on desktop. While it meant that we could quickly achieve consistency, it also meant that we couldn’t use platform-specific tooling on any given platform, like debuggers, without a bunch of custom tooling to fight through the intermediate layers.

We want to try running small teams using the best stack for each platform.
> No reasonable scheme is going to involve just going online, filling in an unverified name, uploading a picture, and getting a card in the mail a week later for free. (Or going into an office.)

Yeah, that's not a reasonable process. The one I envisioned was to have an agency 1) proactively make contact (perhaps like the census), 2) do the legwork of verifying identity (e.g. request birth certificates, checking against other official records), and 3) pay for the ID and any fees along the way.
Or it might be that one is representing the character data as 16-bit wchars in memory, and the other treats them as 8-bit chars.
You're thinking about this from the wrong direction. Parent is saying that not all 0x things are crypto (because it's the general signifier for hex), not that crypto people don't use 0x.
vCPUs is very different than dedicated cores. My 8 core machine could have 48 vCPUs as well, it doesn't say anything.
The turnout is usually quite higher in France than in the US though, so it's hard to think that Sunday makes it less likely for people to vote.
Securing multi-tenant object storage for internal and external apps using TLS
I know of this issue from living in MN my whole life, I wonder how many other places have been impacted by 3M?

https://www.pca.state.mn.us/waste/pfas-investigation-and-cle...
Consider that there is also an extreme selection bias for who studies higher physics in terms of motivation to study physics vs. desire/need for money.

Given that the income delta between a researcher at CERN and a professional software engineer at Google is >10x I'd be skeptical that this selection always translates to intelligence. Anecdotally, many PhD Physicists transfer into software for monetary reasons and do not come across as intrinsically smarter than the average engineer of equivalent experience.
Block has an accounting quirk where they report Bitcoin that users purchase through CashApp under "revenue".

Revenue feels like the wrong place for this number to show up, but the result is that it inflates their revenue number
More in terms of UI.

Notepad++ has what you need to edit a file and not much else, but it also has a decent plugin system.
Well, yes, law enforcement in general is a cat-and-mouse game. That doesn't mean we shouldn't have any laws.
I've never (in my experience) seen credit-poor customers get approved by Affirm (or any other BNPL).

I have, however, seen Affirm's other scummy side -- they have a special 'workflow' with a partnership with Katapult, a lease-to-own provider, where the merchant can take an Affirm denial and push it to Katapult for an even more predatory rent-to-own loan at higher rates.
> It does not get firmware/bios updates

Surprisingly this is not the case. The x200 can run coreboot and related forks like libreboot: https://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x200

> unsupported Pixel phone will not get modem or sensor/wifi firmware updates

That's a good point. The removal of 2g/3g made the modems in a lot of phones non-functional. Even without cell support a phone would still be useful as a small wifi tablet if it could run up-to-date software.
I have been using mutagen for few years. It has been a life saver.
I use it mostly to work on remote projects, mostly for development, rarely working on prod. So there I have my projects on some cloud linux instances and I work locally on windows, mostly phpstorm.

Having the webserver in the cloud and doing the heavy lifting is quite nice, especially if you work with phpstorm, which can be a resource monster for bigger projects, and working on remote projects with phpstorm built in sftp / file sync is a huge pain in the ass, really slow.

With mutagen it feels almost like I work locally. Thanks to the developer for this cool tool!
I couldn't agree more. I loved the first two thirds, but was so disappointed by the ending that I haven't recommended it to anyone since. I was very invested in a number of character development threads that never lead anywhere.
I applied when applications opened in November. They were upfront about the fact that they would only look at the first 300 applications -- which they received in the first week. They had engineers review the resumes, which were allowed to be 3-pages, which I imagine is responsible for the low volume.
Bobby Fischer on Paul Morphy and how opening theory destroyed chess