skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That describes me, though in tech. Trying to step back in to tech and recently had interview. After I explained parenting time schedule, HR guy said everbody works 60 hour weeks every week so there is not a role for me.
The firehose aspect of Google makes it hard for me to separate the wheat from the chaff for any "popular" topic. Ad's, trolls, ... They're ordered by the magic, not by the correctness or usefulness.

When I went into the bookstore looking for an Algorithm book, I went to the computer section. I didn't start at the first rack of books and scan until I found what I wanted. Nor did I look at the best-seller list.
I think it was due to a lawsuit EMC had going against Sun over ZFS.
Its the strong libertarian vibe. They think consequences shouldn't exist, and the dead guy can take his money elsewhere.
> (while passing a minimum bar) and will grant me a B.S. at the end of it

The minimum bar is too low.

> Personally, some of the courses I'm taking now are just as hard as those I took during undergrad at a brick-and-mortar university.

I can't argue with your lived experience. But I can tell you, as someone that teaches such courses, the ones offered by WGU are woefully inadequate. The material they cover, the depth in which they do it, the rigor of the problem sets and exams, are all wildly out of tune with what is offered in any CS department that I have ever seen.

> This comment comes off really strongly to me in the direction of gatekeeping.

I don't care about gatekeeping. If WGU wants to offer a CS degree, that's great. Let's get everyone involved. But! Then they should offer a CS degree with the same level of rigor that is expected of any other student in any other CS department.

It is very disingenuous of them to say they provide CS degrees, but then target the courses to such a low level.

> Perhaps I wouldn't feel such a strong need to get the degree, if it wasn't a prerequisite to even higher education!

Except that a WGU degree will not open the doors to even higher education. I cannot imagine a single CS department admitting a PhD student based on their credentials from WGU. The effort required to convince someone that you know what you're doing, is so huge compared to getting the WGU degree, I don't think it contributes much.
> There is the increased tax burden on the surrounding counties that will now be responsible for upkeep/services/etc

Those counties can raise their taxes on the land Disney inhabits in order to recoup those "losses".
The outside edges are softer and the interior lines are different. The new one has less lines overall and has more of the deep red-orange color.
> First, I'd dispute your claim that majority of Badminton pros could go pro in other sports. Definitely some of them, being fast with good hand-eye coordination is going to get you places. But there's a limit.

I was picking a random low remuneration sport and suggesting they have a skillset that could have transferred to a different one. It was a broad example for "choosing between sports is a real conceptual thing that athletes who go pro have implicitly done, though they may not have ever considered the options because they were on a path".

> Second. It's not a choice between eSports and traditional sports.

The thread above me is literally acting as though it's a comparison between the two paths being offered. It obviously is not, they're wildly different skillsets.

All that said, obviously eSports is a terrible life choice rationally, unless you want to spend your "working" life doing a thing you love rather than earning maximal money per unit effort. I respect people who do that, as a rule.
Indeed. The business people often think cutting corners is not a big deal, especially to win time, while technical people who are in till their elbows simply know it is not the best strategy. But the latter should think, 'it pays the rent' .
Thanks for the answer.

I am in the EU and talked and it is a small company. The CEO mentioned that some colleagues spent a lot or time in other EU countries so it seems that it is not uncommon. However there is nothing mentioned in the contract. Then again, it is a small company and things might be a bit more informal.
In my experience, that doesn’t happen much even between projects within a single software company, because requirements are too diverse and change too frequently. Pushing for synergies also tends to create all sorts of internal political dynamics. At best it’s a long shot, with high risk of not amortizing the cost. The rest of the world, including the open-source world, also isn’t a promising role model, with the constant churn, fragmentation and evolution of languages, frameworks, libraries and tooling.
I feel like you added that after I replied.
I was able to export my bookmarks, but not my archived tweets; I got a 500 for the latter.
High P/Es carry a cost.
What a bunch of absolute complainers posting here.
So just a blatant disregard for any legal, ethical handling of data. Par for the course nowadays
The price increase required by the higher quality of software is roughly a fixed factor. The benefits that come from code reuse are exponential.

If a government can't afford to release the sources in public right away, a gradual transition is possible: vendors that offer open source software have their prices multiplied by 0.1 during bidding. And this factor of preference for open source can be increased or decreased state-wide depending on the budget.
> I think there could be a market for Loodio. What do you think?

No.

As others have pointed out, upmarket Japanese toilets have this feature as well as many other comfort features (auto bidet rinse and dry feature etc.)

People who want this feature will therefore just go out and buy a Japanese toilet, since not only will they get the soundtrack but they will get all the fancy comfort features too.

For everyone else, unless a medical condition prevents you from doing so, the answer is simple .... make some very minor adjustments to your diet and you will find you can avoid doing a "no 2" in the office altogether and just do it in the comfort of your own home in the morning and evening.
That works for services but not apps. For apps, Flatpak tries to solve this.
Surely there’s an ABI? Otherwise how does this work at all?
Yeah. It's hard to know what % though. Is it a vocal minority? A small one?

The future causes me intense anxiety especially 2024 ;(

though i do work in politics so perhaps I think about it too much.

I have no idea how we can continue when such a large % of the country believes increasingly insane things
A Mountain Goats show was the last concert I went to before lock down started in NYC.. Which makes his omission of Golden Boy from the set list all the more egregious.
One difference is that HIPAA has a bunch of statutory penalties for "technical violations" that might or might not harm anyone. For example, if a call center staff discloses patient information to, say, the child or parent of a patient, that comes with an automatic fine and (potentially) jail time.

Another aspect is that certain HIPAA allowances for data usage require a lawyer's expertise, not an engineer's. For example, can a health insurer use patient data to train a model w/o first obtaining patient consent? If the model will be used for "healthcare operations" (i.e., adjudicating claims), you might argue that the answer is yes. If the same model will be used for suggesting treatment options to doctors, you might argue that the answer is no. If you answer wrongly, you are hit with a statutory fine.

It's like having a fine for painting the bridge the wrong color because there is a law that bridges must be green, but you used lime. Not because you're worried about the bridge collapsing, but because the law says so.

Generally, civil engineers don't need to worry about fines or jail as long as things stay up.
As long as it wasn't a very old coffee pot, and just the switch was bypassed, it was probably still very safe. Coffee pots that meet UL standards have one or more safety mechanisms, and likely a thermostat on top of that.

https://www.electrical-forensics.com/Coffeemakers/CoffeeMake...
That's not how healthcare works. That it is does not function that way is why free-at-point-of-use public healthcare systems are capable of working.
they're a non-profit
Emacs does have a REPL (`M-x ielm'), and it works well.
Thanks for the link. This will be cool, I use FreeBSD as daily driver so ZFS is already a given.
You just explained something I saw on many establishing subreddits!
I think your time horizon is just too short.

Fiat currencies weaken and die because of counter party risk. Governments can't help but abuse their powers and eventually kill their currency. Bitcoin has an entirely new and unique value proposition: A monetary network with no counter party risk without the need to physically transport a good (like gold). The implications of this are mind bending.

We're seeing something we've never seen before: the bootstrapping of an entirely new monetary system from the ground up with an asset and network that didn't previously exist. The path is laid out:

1) Store of value: We're still working our way through this phase. There is still a lot of monetary value left to gobble up.

2) Medium of exchange: People will horde this asset until other monies become so weak in comparison that merchants will prefer/demand payment in this one.

3) Unit of account: People become so used to transacting in a money they start to think in terms of that money. At this point, volatility gets measured in terms of this asset, not the other way around.

Some goods are stores of value but will never reach the second stage, because they're not good monetary assets. Real estate, for example, or stocks. Not divisible, fungible, neutral, etc.

Bitcoin has all of the ingredients, we just need to wait for the stew to cook. There are only a few things that can stop it, and none of them seem particularly likely to me.

edit: I don't want to be dismissive. Private key management and things like that are certainly challenges, but it's just a matter of time, experimentation and UX improvements. It's not existential.
My latest story with Dockerfile:

my.tar contains files owned by user 0, I want them to be owned by nobody:

USER nobody
ADD --chown nobody:nobody my.tar /app

Damn, --chown does not work when untaring and doesn't fail either but the files end up being owned by root. Fine, I'll just chmod

USER nobody
ADD my.tar /app
RUN chmod -R nobody:nobody /app

Now it fails (of course) because the files are owned by root and the command is ran as nobody.

While it all makes sense, I'm not sure why it's logic to have the ADD command always run as root and the others following the USER directive (yeah and I know, it's all my bad for using ADD rather then COPY)
What's the backstop for the counties declaring bankruptcy?

Given I don't know what's what here, but I wonder if either of these counties could then apply some sort of out-of-county tax to Disney visitors to make up for this? Like say they work with Disney and anyone who doesn't live in those counties pays an extra $10 on their ticket. I think I read the estimated additional tax cost was around $250 for the average family/year.
It's funny to see this person loving SSR and then have another who says it's the devil https://gist.github.com/Widdershin/98fd4f0e416e8eb2906d11fd1...
Why would they equalize? I assume there is a premium required for not going back to one’s own home everyday.
It's not a race. Hellscapes can be found in many places. Some places have better excuses than others.
> Capacity is the problem

Capacity is generally limited by staffing, not space or actual beds. When hospitals report how many "beds" they have available, they're generally not talking about the furniture.
I am highly sensitive to not bother anyone but I agree with this. This reeks of the tech mentality of trying to overcome nature and separate everyone into neat little pods.

Eventually we are going to have to face and accept our natural human bodies as a species. For hundreds of years the market has offered us escape from them, with new technologies to plaster over our "faults" every decade. If only we had listened to the hairy armpit feminists when they were shouting this at us in the 60s and 70s...
Back out, pay fee, profit from Tesla stock rebounding, watch Twitter price collapse, offer 1/2 as much, rinse, repeat. The guy has impulse control problems AND thinks the SEC can be safely ignored.

There's a fairy tale about crying wolf, but it will probably take a few more "lessons" from Elon before that kicks in, ya think?
There was a story recently about someone having blotchy face issues which got better when they were WFH during the plague but almost instantly came back when they were re-officed. Turns out (via an allergy test) they were allergic to some industrial chemical that, surprise, was one of the chemicals in the toilet air freshener and were basically being pepper-sprayed every time they went in.

[edit: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/skin-irritated... ]
I signed up, but it gives me a stupid "20 requests per hour" error page.
Yes, it's terrible how North Korea has made it so difficult to have root on your own phone.
I think the majority of people say something to that effect at some point in their life. But the only real alternative is suicide of some kind, and how many people actually follow through with suicide?
> I'm not sure why you are imagining yourself to be "vulnerable" inside a locked private room.

The whole reason we all agree that having a locked room to do your business in is ideal is because it's such a vulnerable position to be in. We feel better about being in a locked room, but you can never get your basic instincts to not feel vulnerable when you're mid defecation/mid urination. It's animalistic and can never go away.

Quite literally, knowing people can hear us take a dump triggers survival instincts because our brains think we could be alerting predators to our whereabouts while we're not in a position to run or fight
I believe the Tanuki are much more known in the symbolic sense as mischevious and shapeshifting though no?[1] At least in Japan, where they are native to. There always seems to be one outside of an Izakaya with a flask of sake.[2]

[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-tanuki-japan-s-tri...

[2] https://www.alamy.com/ceramic-statues-of-two-bake-danuki-tan...
Roughly a third of our healthcare spending is socialized medicine, and Medicare and Medicaid have the same issues we do.
Consider this: someone drives without paying proper attention and kills someone. It's time for victim impact statements, and relative after relative asks the court for lenience on the driver because the victim was a drunk and a wifebeater, the world is better off without him.

Not sure that that is a good idea, justice is about more than just those immediately affected by a crime
Or if they sabotage the education for the women: give them a shorter drivers license education so they'll crash as much as the men
I'm assuming energy savings, as the cutoff is 5 minutes if the device has an insulated carafe.
Clickbait be damned. This doesn't include any new information. It's just yet another speculative opinion piece. Gotta give them credit for the innovative use of "Breakingviews" instead of "Hot take" though.
I assume in one of the steps, "Hello" was translated into a word that was for both greeting and farewell (such as "ciao" in Italian) and then the next step translated it into the farewell.
Oh, I didn't realize convex was still around. How are you guys doing ?

Edit: just read that article. "dump databases". huh, what? weren't you guys doing a heroku alternative in the past?

Edit2: Sorry, I confused your company with convox! https://convox.com/
Is that 90% figure new, or has it been the case in past years?
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> Why did they store PII, Identity documents unencrypted?

Because it’s easier to store and retrieve them unencrypted than encrypted

> Why did it take VPNOverview's team a day to notify them?

Sure, shoot the messenger. It does not say 24 hours. Maybe they discovered the breach at 10:00 PM local time and sent a notification at 6:00 AM the next morning.
330 million people, plus 38 more in a neighboring country who speak the same language (and are, therefore, arguably part of the same market).

Plus, people still buy books even if the readership rate is low.

Mostly, though, it's our population. If you're a Hungarian-language novelist and you sell to 0.1% of the total market (this is hard to do) you've made food money for a couple years. If you can find a way to get 0.1% of Americans to buy your book, you're a millionaire.

Of course, even getting people to hear about you at all is difficult, especially with "book buzz" hype machines [1] sucking up so much oxygen while delivering disappointing or forgettable books.

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[1] This is the part of traditional publishing I don't like. When bad books get so 7-figure advances and huge marketing campaigns, they cause reader attrition at a population level and this makes the world scarcer for serious writers. Trade publishing still does far more good than harm to society, but the "book buzz" people who run Manhattan could all stop showing up to work and we'd be better off.
You can pay people fixed monthly salary + overtime hours. You don’t need to cut their hours and their pay, though that’s often the choice that employers make.
I can offer a perspective: being a woman in tech is already very othering.

You can be the only person on an entire floor to use that bathroom. Having your coworkers hear what is going on inside can be very distressing (especially when we consider existing taboos).

Some neutral bathrooms that share a room between genders can amplify this, for example where I work there is a shared sink but cabins have wooden doors that go from floor to ceiling. Great to hide from eyesight, not so great for sounds. Exiting the cabin and noticing that a coworker of another gender was in the same room hearing everything you have done can be anxiety inducing.

People with health conditions also come to mind. IBS for example can result in some violent evacuations. Not everyone wants their coworkers to be aware of their health conditions.

People expect privacy, that's it.
Shooting the messenger seems to be Boeing tradition of the last decade.

When I was a kid, half the parents I knew worked at Boeing and were proud of the quality engineering or manufacturing they did, but over the past two decades Boeing has had this crew retire and has worked to shift to a blame the messenger culture.
Indeed. I was completely miserable in high school, instead getting my dose of social interaction by visiting a hackerspace. Genuinely believe that was the only thing that kept me from going insane at that point in life.

Now of course interacting with people that are twice my age during my teens has produced some bonus problems in my social skills, but the alternative here is feeling completely isolated, not somehow magically learning to be normal™ person™ as many educators seem to think.
I thought it was Jonathan Schwartz embarassing Steve Jobs by announcing it was coming to macOS himself. Which was a big deal at the time.

I always thought that was a petty reason but I didn't really consider it beyond Steve Jobs to do that to be honest. He really took such matters very personally.

But your explanation sounds more reasonable. I really thought this until now though.
We ran into the same issue using dbt. Unfortunately it is just not cost-effective to pay for full GitLab licenses for BI users that occasionally tweak SQL queries and don’t leverage any other GitLab features.
Even a 180 turn.
> However security by obscurity is a layer of defense...

It's not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity#Cri....

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs's_principle.
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I see what you did there.

And I looked down at my phone.

And I made myself sad.
Once a workflow is adopted, it becomes normal and the hassles start to go away. That 3rd party library with an incompatible license now has a good alternative, code re-use is higher, handing off to new developers is easier, and identifying development teams that are highly inefficient (or incompetent) becomes possible.

I feel like there's too many benefits to even list. Having seen some of the proprietary code developed for 3 letter agencies, it's shocking how bad some of it is (and there's even projects that have better open source alternatives that solve every use-case) and adding transparency can only be a good thing... in my opinion.
"Seems" is not the domain under discussion.
Even as someone who's gifted, how do you manage to get into a university at 13? I'm assuming you're non-American? Is it just a matter of taking entrance exams, showcasing aptitude at the college level, then matriculating?
I'm guessing that there are lots of (public and internal) tools, documented workflows, etc., dealing with S3 buckets that implement very bad security defaults because it streamlines getting something apparently functional and working on it in a dev environment, even though AWS itself has secure defaults, and using those easy-for-dev approaches with live PII of otherwise critical data is a recipe for disaster.

People often aren’t starting with the AWS defaults, they are starting with an IaC (Cloud formation, CDK, Terraform) template they got from some other project.
Disagree that it's a close proxy. Not being able to perform at all is much different than feeling uncomfortable about people hearing you do said deed.
Show HN: gldap v0.1.1
I wasn't on the gmail team but my understanding from friends that were is that the Java transpilation in Gmail is for the backend, to share model and business logic, not the frontend.

GMail, AFAIK, never used GWT for its UI
Pretty good observation of the fact that it is hard to get actually good information on Google. You have to use `reddit.com` or something to actually get it since that's the one place with lots of user-history and good SEO.
But plumbing is largely a zero sum game. Book sales are not: this makes an enormous difference.
Yeah, that original interface was wild https://youtu.be/2HixPtvIWhY?t=2174

if only ZFS hadn't fallen through! Speaking of which, are there any public plans to do this with APFS or are they just trying to push everyone into the cloud?
There are a few groups doing public open source that I'm aware of:

- 18F https://github.com/18f

- GDS https://github.com/alphagov

- CDS https://github.com/cds-snc

I do agree with the sentiment, it's absurd that any software developed through public means is not available to the public.
Increasingly I hear this expressed as "Technology In The Public
Interest", and is a movement I strongly affiliate with because it is
related to national security (as I have defined it elsewhere) [0] as
resilience and sustainability. See writing [1] and institutional
support [2][3] separate from notions of software freedom as
traditionally carried by Stallman et al/EFF/GNU/FSF.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31108570

[1] https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2019/01/the_public-...

[2] https://www.macfound.org/programs/technology/

[3] https://www.fordfoundation.org/news-and-stories/big-ideas/pu...
The reason you pointed out why this won't gain traction is why it needs to gain traction.
I did the NYS training and have been carrying it for a couple years. They didn't have it for free due to the pandemic but they should again now that they're doing in person training again. I work in theater and comedy a bit and have multiple friends who are recovering addicts. I let folks there and in my apt building know that I keep it on me as part of my first aid stuff. I hope I never have to use it, but I'm glad I'm prepared if it's needed.