skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little over a year ago, there was an incident with a lot of sites being down and Cloudflare/Lumen being involved (per Hacker News chatter, I only ready about the incident here). I bought a few shares of each, at around 39 and 11. While NET is down significantly from the peak, they have both worked out OK so far (LUMN has been paying $0.25 per quarter dividend). LUMN has been paying down debt and has good cashflow. They are contrasting and yet in a similar space.
During the last year I know multiple people who have doubled there salaries with being hired remotely and local companies being unhappy about the situation.
I cannot sleep with anything on, or in, my head. Low volume, natural water sounds or classical music(sans vocals) from satellite speakers is my best solution for blocking ambient & tinnitus sourced noise.

Also, may or may not apply: I have found desisting my intake of 'Super K' supplement(K2 / K1) has decreased my tinnitus by a large order. Without a proper way to measure it, I'd guess it is a 60 - 80 % decrease.
Publication founded by mathematician Jim Simons who started a hedge fund that consistently beat the markets and made billions.

The entire story:

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution/dp/0...

Lots of interesting information on the internet about him too:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons_(mathematician)
Spain's spy chief sacked over Pegasus case
>Ansible offers a number of guarantees such as idempotency,

You can wrap anything in ansible basically, including stuff that isn't idempotent.

Some of their modules are definitely conducive towards achieving it though.
In terms of live, installed, ready to go:

2. A main daily driver (Ubuntu 20) and my old desktop machine running Proxmox so I can spin up any test network I want/need for dev work.

4 if you're including laptops (HP Elitebook w/ Ubuntu 20, Macbook air) but they're mostly gathering dust as I've not commuted anywhere in a few years

Also got an old Android tablet which is mostly dedicated to Todoist (mounted above my monitor on an arm) and an iPad for background entertainment/distraction while working. They dual-function as test devices as needed for webdev :)

I used to have the could-probably-get-it-working guts of 4 or 5 laptops and an older desktop following me around but I guess they finally got sold off for parts during my last move

I'd probably have more but I'm renting a relatively small single room compared to my last place. The two desktops alone have meant I've not needed the heating on whenever they're both going.

E: Oh aye there's also a 9-disk NAS knocking about somewhere too (Synology DS918 plus an expander bay). I use that more than my desktop I guess technically. Everything mounts off it somehow or other so I'm counting it :)

Tell you what, Tailscale is the one app that's got me back into home network nerdery. I love hosting internal things on my Proxmox server or NAS that just.. work, even when I'm not at home. No matter where I am in the world, I can mount nas.coio.uk and, aside from a bit of lag in some places, it works just as well as it would locally connected. That's so cool!
Some parts of an HDD will burn out faster being power cycled frequently than just staying on and at a constant temperature.
> It was reasonable to overlook this option 170 years ago, when the Rails Blog Tutorial was first written.

Woah. Rails is really old
Lam says Hong Kong now has China patriots firmly in charge
Why have sympathy for wealthy people who take from the common man when guillotines work just as well today as they did 400 years ago?
> a proper DB server (say, Postgres) replicated to super-fast and simple read replicas in SQLite on every node.

Having your replicas be different database software than your master seems to me like asking for, at least, weird edge case bugs.

Is this something anyone does? Interested to hear experiences if so!
A better headline would have been, “Tech industry uses scare tactics to try and force people back into the office”.

Been there, done that. If it could have been outsourced it would have already been outsourced. Do you really think they were sitting around saying,”I know they cost more but I’m too busy playing golf to bother” and they’re only getting around to it now?
What makes for a good YouTube video?
6, including 3 servers and not including mobile devices. Probably +3 or +4 if you count raspberry pi and similar.
I think this hits almost bullseye for the reasons of this change, but I'd add the White House along with the brands who'd rather have their dislikes hidden.

However, shadowbanning is for cowards. Would you also ban the people who only cast likes without any dislikes? Both groups have the same signal-to-noise ratio and can be equally harmful.
Super interesting take on release monitoring! Have definitely faced this problem (for context I'm a PM in a scale-up)
Quebec government to pay researchers for discovering vulnerabilities
Four windows laptops (two from our employers), old windows Phenom X4 file server, new(er) windows Ryzen 7 PRO desktop, Rocky Linux Athlon X3 webserver, (2) Amiga 3000s, Amiga 500, mini HTPC (needs repair), Mac Mini w/ MorphOS, Pegasos 2 w/ MorphOS, several spare A3000s for parts/repair, RPi Zero W, Android tablet.

17? 18? Maybe more. ha
The key to running a Ponzi scheme is to make it last a really long time. Ironically, Satoshi saw this behavior with the US federal government printing money and effectively scamming people on fixed income and anuities. He was right to be upset that people were effectively lied to about the value of their money.

Now the shoe is on the other foot and the crypto world is full of predators who would be selling anuities to old people, but are now selling crypto scams to suckers.
Spain’s spy chief sacked after Pegasus spyware revelations
This assumes that the funds were not needed in the first place.
Is this guy making income from doing this? I may have to re-evaluate my career if I can pay my rent by mostly just dumping random internet content into a video.
Have you ever tried lzma/lzma2 with the hc3 (hash chain) match finder instead of the default (bt3 or bt4) match finder? I've found this to be a really good middle ground between gz/deflate and lzma2 with default settings.
There is a shortage of people willing to work shitty jobs for shitty pay. Employers could fix this by either making the job less shitty or raising the pay.

The inflation complaint is similar. We've had ludicrous inflation in housing, college tuition, health care, and many other things for over a decade. Inflation is not a problem until it starts to hit wages and supply chains.
H1B visas are a lottery with <30% chance of getting picked up. Employment-based immigration to the US is a long process (1.5-2 yrs), on top of only 15% green cards being allocated to it, not to mention all the rate throttling quotas. USCIS is primarily paper run and super backlogged so those already here are also stuck in paperwork and in many cases end up losing work auth because they are so slow.

Many don't realize how bad its gotten lately on the immigration front. Last year, USCIS wasted 160K green cards, this year they are on track to waste 200K green cards, simply because they are too slow to process paperwork.

Companies are probably tired of all this uncertainty and legal overhead so they now offer relocation to their offices outside US if you have visa problems and to have easier access to talent. Remote work has accelerated this since teams are now learning to be geographically distributed.

Companies are now finding it easier to just let their top talent work from their home country, pay them way more than local rates (helps retention) and setup payroll than deal with US visas and immigration.

It's only a few years ordeal to get a green card if you're not Indian, otherwise it's a multi-decade wait. So many are starting to take the offer and move out once they've earned a decent amount.
Peertube and Odysee to the rescue!
I started quickly clicking away from those sorts of videos, and after a while youtube mostly stopped recommending them to me. If there's no human there talking to me, I'm out. If it's a computer-generated voice, I'm out instantly. Also I subscribe liberally to the good ones.

I haven't noticed any particular change in the last few weeks. Now I'm worried Youtube is gradually rolling out a new algorithm and my useful feed is about to be ruined.
It's like shitty feedback ... if I did my research each of those reminds me I made the right choice but if I made a mistake Amazon is rubbing salt in the wound for weeks.
literally anyone else.
The article mentions a dose of 2.2g/day LC-n3-FA, whereas a mackerel fillet contents 4g in one piece - therefore, it seems not.
imagine thinking this is tolerable.

i might get checked up on a couple of times by the customer im framing houses for, and another two times by the city inspector.

no HR, no surveillance, no office politics.
* 1 Desktop (Windows)

* 1 Laptop (macOS)

* 1 headless NUC working as NAS (debian)

* 3 Raspberry Pis

So 6 in total, plus a tablet and a VPS (which I don't own and is not at home so I'm not counting it)
I'm curious too.

Every thread about always on laptops leads me to this question. People leave their laptops plugged in all the time.

I've run about 5 laptops 24x7 over the years for at least a year a piece. No issues.

I put an HP Envy onto a shelf in the garage, and the battery swelled enough to ruin the touchpad and case.

In all the laptops I have owned, the only problem battery was idle, unplugged and uncharged.
Besides salmon, and to a lesser extent tuna, which of those are high Omega-3? (Swordfish isn't common here, so don't know much about it, and I'm unfamiliar with the other two.)

Smoked mackerel is another option. Sometimes has the odd small bone, but if you buy it flaked the chance is rare, and it has a much more meaty texture than unsmoked white fish, and a delicious bacony flavour. Great with a salad or in a sandwich with lettuce and mayo.
Agreed. I'm much less liberal with my estimates with external stakeholders than I am with close associates, purely for political reasons. If I say 8 weeks to my team, I'll say 11 to management/others. I get no benefit out of delivering on time, a little for delivery early, and a massive loss by delivering late, so I have 0 incentive to give them an "early" estimate. Under promise and over delivery is corporate strategy 101.
Yes, their point is that if you buy a cashflow negative asset you are now stuck having to figure out how to sell that asset to the next person. If you buy a cashflow positive asset the opposite situation happens. You don't have to convince anyone of anything.
I believe the sellers of stand-alone websites have found that the biggest disadvantage of Shopify stand-alone websites is that there is too little traffic. Therefore, if you want to operate great Shopify stand-alone websites, you must master several marketing methods of stand-alone websites.
Thinkpads are my laptops of choice (writing this on my X240) but I'd never use any any laptop as a home server: if something breaks there are no spare parts, no PSUs to repair or cards to add for more functionality (I simply don't trust USB for disks) or swap etc, and the whole machine is not intended to be kept on 24/7 (think about the fan wearing, not just the CPU).
I could only understand if one need to serve files in a emergency situation, and I did exactly that many years ago when we had to service a server which died without notice at one workplace where downtimes were not an option, so I copied all their documents on my mini laptop -Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook P7010, a netbook sized marvel well before the word netbook was invented- which became the file server with Samba for almost two full days until the server came up and I restored their modified files back.

Building a home server from scratch isn't that hard nor expensive; I made mine around a Atom Mini-ITX board that despite only 4GB RAM and fairly weak CPU does its job managing two ZFS mirrors under XigmaNAS (.org). On the ARM side, there are some other interesting products such as the Rock Pi 4 and associated Penta SATA Hat at radxa.com.
I hope also someone will one day take on development of the Helios 64 platform at kobol.io. They ceased development last summer but the hardware, albeit not yet stable, was very promising.

Old laptops still have uses for media playing, test machines, or lab instrumentation though; a decent audio card can turn any old laptop into a low frequency spectrum analyzer through Jaaa (http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/), etc.
Reddit already fiddles with downvotes. The path to removing them altogether is surely short.

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/28hjga/reddi...

https://www.reddit.com/wiki/faq#wiki_how_is_a_comment.27s_sc...
Hello, this is coming from someone who was recently mentored.

- I assume it's a software engineering thing.

- I would recommend you to ask them to read:
https://themissingreadme.com/ or provide them with a copy

- i only found about this book later, and it pretty much solved most of my problems and answered most of my questions in my first job experience.

- one major issue someone new to a work environment might have is how are people working, not the technical stuff, more of the daily workflows, prior assumptions etc

- example: https://strace.io/wiki/MicroProjects
In the introduction section, how to complete a microproject
- "Make the actual change. (Funnily, this is likely the only part is tought in college.) " <- this is so true and relatable

- shadowing, i think the best thing a mentor can do, is just share their screen during say two hours, and do their work
not just the technical stuff, answering emails, how and when do you respond to pings, how do you communicate progress or issues and when ...
these things might seem simple but they are not obvious to do.

- the book i mentioned talks in details about all the aspects of software engineering job and is easy to consult depending on the issues
the chapters are well named, e.i : Code review, Testing, .... so one can read a chapter as per their needs.

- technical tasks:

- one major thing mentors have to do is help pick easy to start with technical tasks for interns
initially most mentors pick extremely easy tasks
the issue comes in the second time, when the new person has familiarity with the workflow
(e.i has a properly setup dev environment, has access, and can make and commit changes, familiar with the code review process)

- mentors might pick tasks for em which seems easy, but easy is subjective, i personally found some hard tasks easy, and obvious tasks hard

always ask what the intern thinks about a given task and discuss it, most interns will be in the unknown unknown phase so they can't really tell if it's hard or easy for them.

- been overly critical or nit-picky is never an issue actually most mentors worry about it too much and they don't give enough critic is what i think

the best way to help the intern absorb something is by showing how to do it, so critic is always vague IMHO if not accompanied with examples of better approaches, and that is very welcome.

Don't worry too much, i am sure you will do a great job !
Well, it turns out that all conservatives and libertarians are VERY independently minded until they have a need that isn't covered by whatever the hell they're using to pull bootstraps with. Then suddenly they see a collective need for action for their particular issue.
I like your method. A 1h task usually is done in two days after the start anyway due to like testing or reviews or what ever.

The main feuture is that you can report more work than there are hours of work. E.g. complete 8 days of work in two days by doing 4 2-day tasks.

I find it way easier to estimate when something is done rather than how much time it will take to do.
Is that from the same folks that made Time Wonderland and effectively rugged its holders, whilst having the guy from Quadriga as a partner?
hear hear.

In reality the game is more an economics simulator where war is the instrument that engages with your numbers.

Stopped playing when the game became P2W, I miss it probably the same way a nicotine addict miss the cigarette.
Oh wow that is pretty misleading.
A History of Ideas
Sorry, I don't understand. I can see why it wouldn't be worse, but why would it be better?
I dunno.

Webb seems to me to be data gathering. Really good data gathering.

Science is building hypothesis that predict the data, and confirming or falsifying them (I know that Popper was clear that it's the latter). The point is that Science is made of contingent knowledge. I believe these hypothesis, but if you show me evidence that supports better hypothesis or that contradicts my previous hypothesis then I'll change my mind - possibly (depends on the evidence).

Anyway, science isn't I think about clear cut things - it's about developing and weighing a body of evidence.
Yeah, ironically the way people try to do stateless backends and heavy frontends with JWT is closer to the ViewState mess than normal MVC apps.
Where's the software letting me surveil my supervisors? They're supposed to be spending some time and effort on me, so I have a legitimate need to make sure that's happening. There should be software that scans their emails and chat for discussions about open positions, projects, or trainings that are a good fit for me. Then it'll let me know if they recommended me, or mentioned my name in a negative context. Of course, we'll need AI for that. Maybe even let me just read the logs, to get a human in the loop. Purely a professional interest, of course.

/s
SoftBank’s $100B Fund Lags Behind After Five Years of Investing
Eight, if we count my phone and tablet and my wife’s phone as a computer xD
i think it's more about what is doable, when there is no established system of checks and balances, that would otherwise curtail the desires of the legislative branch of power.
I think saying it is “just SQLite” is (unintentionally) misleading. Your app may not know it’s anything else but operationally it’s a sidecar, so another process to manage.

I actually had to go look that up because it was a little unclear from the blog post and this comments section.
Ask HN: Am I too late for a software engineering career?
Hey, folks! I'm hoping to gather some career advice from software engineers.

I'm a web developer in my early 30s. I'm seeing my job slowly become replaced by no-code tools. I'm quite certain my job won't exist anymore in 10 years. Plus, the job is terribly boring.

My goal is to transition into software engineering.

I'm in the process of joining a program to earn a post-bacc in CS. I would be done in two years. What worries me is that I'll be entering an entirely new field a decade later than typical, and with a BS from a "middling" state school.

My only goal is to increase my earning potential (I'd like my next starting salary to be above 200,000 USD) and work on interesting problems.

What can I do to compensate for my late start and stand out more to FAANG employers? How can I compete with new grads with Ivy League CS degrees? (I did go to a nationally ranked school for my BA, but my degree was in literature)
Doesn't really even need to reduce average developer friction - they've proven a few times that they're happy to add extra security requirements just for publishers of high-visibility packages.

"Once you cross 100,000 weekly downloads, all new publishes must be signed" would keep the easy on-ramp for small packages but dramatically reduce the risk of major attacks against all the big targets (like the example here).

Not as good as signing everything, but a good start that can be iterated on later.
Right, but I would probably test the output while compressing instead of putting a big USE AT YOUR OWN PERIL sign across the front…
eh... if the only way for you to increase profits is to cut costs you have a problem that will accelerate after you have nothing more to cut.
Pseudorandomly generated data is not random data. There is no way to compress actually random information, by definition.
Tangentially, did the F-117 Wikipedia page redact the story of the Amiriyah massacre? I'm almost certain it used to contain a section about it (?).
It’s back to $0.92, incredible arbitrage opportunity right now to make 8% in little time (high risk obvs)
The creators can shadow ban people if they want as well. Most of the time, it's probably creators who are sick of seeing low quality critiques that aren't helpful. Things like "I don't like the way your voice sounds", or "Bruh, do you even know how to code???". I'm all for creators shadow banning these low quality remarks as well because it adds no value to a meaningful conversation, and it's disheartening to see.
I've blocked entire accounts, because it kept coming back every time i searched for something specific. It was one of these "10 best <xyz>" channels. Really annoying.
As far as I know Hahn was never formally diagnosed with it, but as an adult was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar.

Perhaps she was implying he was not neurotypical(Many think he wasn't), perhaps she was referring to something else.

She's probably not a psychologist, she probably knows she isn't supposed to diagnose, so she's probably not thinking in those terms. She's just thinking something is wrong, and it was, and she probably felt a need to say it politely, and might have, without really thinking, used phrasing typically used when trying to be understanding about neurodiversity issues.

If it were me I can't say I would be proud of what I might have said about it. I almost feel bad writing this post at all. But I probably would have thought they needed some kind of immediate state or even police intervention.

I'm not a psychologist either, but I do suspect I have Dyspraxia myself, and many friends with Aspbergers, and some of the stories do fit, but it doesn't fully explain everything.

The problem is... this is not that much of an amazing accomplishment. He didn't discover something new. He actually made himself LESS likely to have a nuclear career.

To me it looks more like pyromania with nuclear materials.

It's definitely true that most people might not be able to do all that. I probably couldn't. In fact, I absolutely know he was more capable than me. Already driving by 16, while I'm 28 and still occasionally make mistakes crossing streets on foot.

But still, I doubt any nuclear professional would be happy to see what he did. It was difficult, special, and impressive, but maybe more importantly, it was horrifying.

He had some raw potential, but the experiment was a tragedy, and possibly the result of untreated mental health traumas.

He needed help. But not the help a lot of people now think he needed. His superfund creating experiments shouldn't have been encouraged. Someone should have made him understand why he needed to do better in school.

I think the aura of impressiveness the whole thing had may have led to some enabling happening.
I am using it at the moment. Writing down monthly goals is helping me a ton in terms of focus and productivity!
Yea that's why you make abortion and contraceptives illegal. Problem solved, no need for those brown people to boost our numbers!
For starters, how about paying at least the capital gains rate?

For large businesses, they’re finding ways to pay less than 20%.

But tabulate all of the
ongoing costs to build and maintain our national infrastructure, legal system (no business without the courts), law enforcement branches, etc.

Deduct the income taxes currently levied on wage earners.

Roughly, the rest of the money needs to come from corporate taxes and capital gains.

That’s not what’s happening though. Instead, it’s quite alright to double tax middle income earners.

If you recall, property tax deductions were capped and so overnight the Republican government found a way to increase the average earners’s budget. Mortgage interest deductions are next.