skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sorry I misunderstood you. Possibly because I can't really comprehend what you're asking still. I won't give you these peoples names and location, if that's what you're asking for - I simply know that I'm aware of a group of contracted developers that I have spent a good deal of time talking to, that were paid in bitcoin because they claimed it was infeasible to get paid in USD due to their local regulations.

I'm not sure where the bold claim is - there are plenty of articles detailing companies who openly pay contractors in bitcoin, so I must still misunderstand you?
Never mind then.

Waiving due diligence is a crazy dumb decision. The one lesson in my career is always do due diligence, whether you're making a $40B transaction, or negotiating stock options with a startup. People cheat. A lot.
Hahaha thats pretty much what happens in my case!
This person: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31693294
WatchOS 9 Expands VoIP Calling on Apple Watch Beyond FaceTime Audio
Can Doom Run in an Excel Spreadsheet?
Got contacted by a woman on Linkedin with a really interesting offer, but her profile did not show anything related to startups or Human Resources so I wasn't sure that this was not a scam. I said that I would be interested if

1. The conditions of her offer were true (a few times I got a lower offer than the one in the initial message)

2. If I got an email/message from the CEO/CTO or someone with a higher position in the company to prove that the origin was real.

Three months later I'm working in a startup remotely and I couldn't be happier, so my silly advice: do not ignore messages on Linkedin!
For people without consoles or powerful graphics cards (Intel iGPU, Apple chips, etc., mobile phones) cloud gaming is the only way they'll be able to play games on their devices.

If this trend catches on eventually this might throw a wrench into Apple's plans to get companies to develop against their proprietary graphics standard. Why buy two new Metal-optimised games that'll only work on your Mac when you can play every game on Steam/Epic/whatever through Shadow.tech?

There's a hefty monthly fee but the separation of the game stores+cloud saves and the servers you run your games on allows you to cancel your server subscription and keep all your games ready to play within minutes, or to switch to real hardware down the line. It's an excellent value proposition that often gets ridiculed because of how new the model is.

The ban risk is always there but that's no different from Steam or any other games store. Very few people have all their games on a disk drive and ever fewer also regularly download updates. The hundreds or even thousands of terabytes you need to backup a moderately sized game library these days don't come cheap.

In reality, all you really need to backup for single player games are your save games because if you get banned, you can just download a cracked copy of the games you like.
Feature idea for you and OP: add the visual swatch of color which the hex color represents. Makes it much more meaningful
Every job I’ve ever had has been because of hackathons. Either being directly approached by a sponsor at a hackathon, or being remembered by someone involved with the hackathon after the fact. I briefly did a stint in a wildlife conservation NGO and even that came about because I had helped out at a hackathon at a zoo once.

I don’t think hackathons are particularly unique, I’d abstract this to “be visible and known in your tech community”.
Nothing about your comment disputes anything I said. I don't know why you posted this in such a contentious tone and implied that I'm squeezing "Sámi into a generic indigenous people mold". I wasn't stereotyping Sámi people, just talking about the challenges they face as a native minority people that live under a repressive government. You can find similar challenges posed to other native people, that's all I was saying.
The cumulative system design contributing to MULTICS, however, probably was a order of magnitude greater work than the implementation effort. On the shoulders of Giants may be clichèd , but it also seems increasingly as if the contemporary world has decided to deprecate inherited wisdom. Blame awful policy decisions starting under Regan..
Who files these lawsuits? I can't imagine anybody in their right mind would have thought they could win it. Is this just for the lawyers' 15 minutes of fame?
100% the bane of my trying to use Google for Mozilla docs.
By which time Apple will be shipping M3 CPUs on a 25-Å process node, and iPads that are more powerful than any consumer-grade PC.
The true irony is when we take the fossil-fueled crops and turn them back to energy with efficiency that barely breaks even, depending on your assumptions.
Great now I will be able to never see quora.com again
Doesn't seem fair to shareholders to initiate a buyout procedure that doesn't go anywhere - there is a significant cost to the company because of the pending offer. The same can't be said for the party that initiated the offer. So, the party that initiates the offer also has to include the chance of regulatory action blocking the deal in their estimates, and decide if paying $1B in that contingency is worth. Musk certainly did, or else he wouldn't have signed the contract.

For example, in the case of this acquisition, it seems almost impossible for the government to step in - so, the expected value (in the probability theory sense) of the downside is close to 0.
> I've never seen a terrible huge C codebase

libssl/openssl (before the rewrite/fixes especially)? Maybe doesn't qualify as huge?

See eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBbhXBDmwU "LibreSSL with Bob Beck" (the first 30 days)
Previous: Hackathon

Current: local Slack group
Perl is a dying language. Your 4-5 "solutions" are non-solutions in practice for 99% of software developers out there.

And regexps are by default written in the concise form. It's the standard problem of "opt-in" vs "opt-out".

Opt-in, as a rule of thumb, has low adoption rates, for various reasons (maybe 20% if you get lucky).

Opt-out is the inverse, it has adoption rates of 90%+, except for total, universally known disasters.

Tools which are unsafe by default are bad.

Yes, the craftsmen are bad, but the way we improve is by also improving our tools. It doesn't matter how much pointing at the idiots we do, practical regexps have been around since ~1975, that's almost 50 years. In industrial use they haven't gotten safer.

That's bad.
Was there even a startup to begin with? 2 people working on something that they give for free to their only user isn't a startup.
I don't know what the correct thing to do, but you can easily detect processes that have the LD_PRELOAD environment variable defined. This is a rare enough use case for manual inspection. Something like

```
for f in /proc/*/environ ; do sudo strings $f | >/dev/null grep LD_PRELOAD && echo $f; done
```
> Last indigenous people of Europe

Only if you essentially consider the definition of "indigenous" to be "noble savage".

Most Europeans are indigenous to Europe.
> This whole "let's over hire while the VC money is flowing and mass lay off as soon as it's not" thing will make talent think twice before applying to your company, and will make your existing talent eager to look elsewhere for more a more secure role.

It really won’t though. People have short term memories and ego. Also, the next hiring round will most likely be from a fresh crop of graduates that will zero collective memory of what happened since they were still in school.
Killer Bees, especially with the Voice add-on
Then Alice can catch the exceptions and put them into a list for later, if that's what she really wants. This feels like a pretty contrived example.

The general case is that `get_foo()` should return a Foo, or throw an exception if it can't. It shouldn't return a Foo, or a BarError, or a BazError.

The fact that you can tuck these completely different objects away for processing later without knowing what they are is not a desirable feature. That's just going to be a source of bugs.

In a language with a stronger type system, I see the benefit of option types and the like. But in Python, having a list of `my_foos` contain mostly Foos, but also some garbage, is not something you want.
Can someone smarter than me explain what this means in simpler terms? I feel a bit lost after reading this, I hold triple citizenship (Canadian, Slovak, UK) and live in the UK, but not sure how this affects me
Very similar to what I found in Amazon. Hell indeed.
> The argument being that it was better for someone who would only projected to make it to 50 years to die early than it would be if someone who was projected to make it to 75 years died early.

That's not what it says at all. It says that being exposed to a carcinogen isn't bad if you aren't going to live long enough to suffer the consequences. Plenty of things wrong with the memo but this little observation isn't it.
Won’t ever forgive or forget Brexit. Took away our rights, and the rights of our kids, to live in Europe and to be European. My contempt is boundless.

Edit: Bit surprised at some of these responses. You absolutely can use the word “European” to mean “a participant in the political project that is Europe”. This has nothing to do with ethnicity.
During military service, you're typically not home with service weapons. You're stationed wherever you're receiving training, and that's where weapons remain.
> So how did they do the replication? With students at the University of Amsterdam!” Gilbert said. “They had Dutch students watch a video of Stanford students, speaking in English, about affirmative action policies at a university more than 5000 miles away.” In other words, unlike the participants in the original study, participants in the replication study watched students at a foreign university speaking in a foreign language about an issue of no relevance to them!

I'm sorry what? Does the author think that there are no black people in Amsterdam? Or no affirmative action? Or that Dutch students don't understand English? Race relations aren't the same in the US as in the Netherlands, but the "no relevance to them" comment is going a little far imho.
That'd be much more sensible and easy and it's already known and practical.
I'm pretty sure the log4j bug was many years old.

Depending on the bug, it only takes one. There may be 14,999 non-serious bugs, and one Bad Bug. The other bugs just give the baddie some tall grass to hide in.

I think that not using dependencies, as a general rule, is good starting point, but, like all these "hard and fast" rules, the proper answer is "it depends."

I think that importing a 20KLoC JS library, so you can animate a single window opening is maybe not such a good idea, but it may be worth it, if you plan to animate dozens of window openings. Even then, it may be a good idea to have one of your more experienced geeks take some time to write a utility that gets reused throughout the project.

I use a lot of dependencies. I believe that modular design is an important component of managing complexity and ensuring high Quality.

But, the caveat is that I have written almost every dependency I use. I write each one as a standalone project, complete with heavy-duty documentation, and lots of testing (Usually, the testing code eclipses the actual implementation code).

Because of this, I can write a pretty damn robust application in just hours.

If anyone is interested in seeing what I mean (I don't expect many takers), they can always browse some of the modules in my various repos.
Microsoft teams of lawyers, accountants, and regulators ensure that Microsoft is indeed worth what investors think it is. If you want to transfer your house, you need to do due diligence to do the same.
well that's definitely your opinion, but when the choices are being poor by a poor countries standards or taking a job that allows you to pay for your entire immediate families lifestyle - the choice for me is obvious

It's also obvious this choice is barely even in the same category as an oligarch that has to choose between being in the top 100 richest people on earth and the top 10,000 richest people on earth.

There's effectively nothing different about a top 10k and top 100 richest persons lifestyle options, they can do practically anything they want so long as it can be bought.
Where do you find this content? Can you link a few examples of good content(in your opinion, of course)?
Bizarre ransomware sells decryptor on Roblox Game Pass store
I found my current role on IRC :-) A real company in Australia so I work remotely. Super fun place to work at, and the fact that they listened to my urging for improving a11y (which is a passion of mine) is the icing on the cake!

Jobs, I've found can come from anywhere. It's important to keep a good network of people who know you - on as many platforms as you want. The more you're "out there" and the more relationships you build is the key imo.
MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips
"As 0xPARC draws from the rich mythology of Xerox PARC, this project is named in homage of that neat little trick that shifted programming from an elite ritual to a ubiquitous democratic rite."

shameless.
Being using it through the beta and moved toward their annual subscription :)

Also you can give more importance to some website in the search result, create your own search template.

It's so feature rich, and to make things easier they provide and extension to set your default search engine for you.
I'm sorry that the lady couldn't vote, perhaps she should apply for citizenship to the country she lives in if she wants to vote.

In Sweden "Settled" people can only vote for local governments, not for the Riksdag (Parliament).. that privilege is for citizens only, for example.

But, it's hardly "weird" that British people do not have EU citizenship automatically anymore, EU citizenship is granted on top of your normal citizenship if your country is a member of the EU, which the UK no longer is.

The same mechanism that turned Brits to EU citizens in the 70s is the same process by which those rights are no longer applicable to British citizens today, what did people think they were voting for?

Surely this is Hardly "news", or maybe I'm too optimistic about how much people understand about the politics of the world around them.

I would expect expats to know more than the usual uninformed (or misinformed) British citizen living domestically.
Visa is none of those things, it's a payments network. It doesn't lend money, it doesn't charge interest.

You card issuer, which is usually a bank, lends the money and deals with the account.
I had a company like that and my companies HR department handled it directly. It took me two weeks specifically because of that one company.

If you have w-2s, paycheck subs, and Boss contacts I think you HR company can handle it also.

Also you can make a W-2 online if you lost yours. just download the template and use a paycheck stub to fill it out.
For me it's been art. I started shortly after covid began. I started simple, cheap paint brushes, cheap paints, cheap canvases. Watched youtube videos (there are tons of tutorials) and tried. I post all of mine to instagram. It's fun to look back at how it began and how it's going. I got bored with it for a bit, then got back into it earlier this year. I changed my format. Still acrylic paints, but now I get 2ft x 2ft sheets of drywall from lowes precut, use drywall plaster or tile mortar (both have different effects) and brush the acrylic on or airbrush it on.

It's to the point where I have to either start rotating out pieces or attend an art show and try to sell some. Just running out of wall space in the house. To attend an art show means I think my work is good enough that someone might pay for it and same as with programming, theres some imposter syndrome happening here.

We'll see...
Has Hacker New Become Programmer News?
Does anybody else have the feeling HN somehow became "programmer news" along the way?

I remember when it was "startup news" and mostly for startup founders. Then it became "Hacker News" and about "Anything that good hackers would find interesting".

Not sure what everyones definition of a "good hacker" is. But somehow I would expect more outlandish topics then all the discussions about corporate software jobs and tools we see.

Is there a smaller communitiy somewhere, where less "normies" with normal jobs hang out and more founders and makers? Maybe a community where you have to show what you are building before you can enter?
As a Brit this (Brexit) pisses me off to no end. The fact that my ability to trivially work and live in Europe is now robbed from me because of the Brexit referendum based on lies to sway the masses to vote for it means dreams I have about essentially trying even country in Europe for work, play, and general life is a lot harder.

Yeah, no one likes a vote not turning out in their favour (in case it isn't obvious I voted to remain) but this feels a lot more life changing to me (a 27 year old) because I still have a lot of my life ahead of me.
Yes, some people use networking to mean random reaching out for coffee, sending random LinkedIn requests, going to "networking" events, etc. Which is probably mostly fairly ineffective.

However, networking can also mean just keeping casually in touch with people with whom you have mutual interests and keeping somewhat visible.
Well, European countries produce "studies" that say hate is effectively reduced and overblocking does not happen. Germany was leading here and the digital services act will copy the crap. No real relevant social networks in Europe and it only applies to platforms like Twitter and Facebook, but it is still silly legislation with negative effects.
TWTR stock has basically gone no where since the IPO in 2013. Look at the 10 year chart. It's in the same range as it was in late 2013, right after the IPO. (I am a Twitter stock holder.)
Your Slovakian citizenship means you retain EU citizenship, so you’re not affected.
No it's not. It's the "you started this, if you can't pull through on your financing you still have to pay us something for all the turmoil" clause. Musk has already agreed to buy Twitter: only extreme circumstances could lead to him not having to pay the amount he agreed to ($44B).
> factoring prime numbers

factoring into prime numbers ;-) (factoring a prime number is trivial, that's why it's called prime)
Most Olympians train less than 40 hours per week. Yes, they make some sacrifices, such as not having that ice cream or drinking water at the bar but it's very possible (and normal) to have a life outside training.

Besides, nobody's gonna sponsor a boring Olympian.
Sheryl Sandberg - Facebook COO - Harvard MBA //
David Wehner - Meta CFO - Former investment banker //
Zachary Kirkhorn - Tesla CFO - Engineer, but also Harvard MBA //
Brian Olavsky - Amazon CFO - Carnegie Mellon MBA //
Ruth Porat - Alphabet CFO - Wharton MBA
There are many significant benefits to streaming games. There's enormous flexibility to streaming, and it strongly lends itself to massively multiplayer online games. Stadia's problem was that Google's management worked out a platform and pricing model that undermined all of the benefits and conferred none of the advantages.
and who exactly is harmed when two people engage in free trade with resources they own? In your example the bank robber does not own the money, it was stolen and the robber has no claim, only possession.
Why people don't view the world the same way others do
> There is absolutely nothing about Python which makes it especially suited to scientific programming or any other kind of programming.

Compared to Java and JS there is. The lack of operator overloading would make numpy matrix manipulations absolutely painful in those languages. It's just a chance that numpy wasn't built on top of ruby.
Ah okay thanks, I had a feeling this was the case, although Slovakia is a bit funny about dual citizenships (I think officially it's not allowed, but a grey area)
"your country left EU, to be allowed to vote in the EU you need to be a legal resident of the EU"

- omg! so unfair
I’m curious what the right half plane zero in housing is. In general, we correct inflation through interest which we raise gradually waiting a month or two to observe the effects of a 0.5% raise. I think that should be sufficient to avoid the control feedback effects he talks about in this article.
I don't agree.
Forget Leetcode, ask them to code real world examples of common stuff you will want them to deal with.
And for anyone wondering, the difference between the two is the presence of psychosis.
In today's world, it is clear that the old voters are robbing the young of a lifestyle that the young want. The old live with a mental model that is far removed from what the young want.
Most other industries produce something also without being wasteful-as-feature.
The log4j2 vulnerability is probably a good example of this. How many systems running log4j2 actually uses the JNDI functionality that led to the exploit?
>> It’s unfortunate but true that the ICM, adderall-abusing, 20hrs/day people just fucking crush the folks who kayak on the weekend.

Not at kayaking.

And I'm only being slightly facetious. "Winning at coding/tech career" is just one dimension of many, many alternatives.
When it comes to money, a golden rule will help you when everyone is losing their minds over gambling, "there is no such thing as a free lunch".
Billion-Dollar Crypto Gaming Startup Promised Riches and Delivered Disaster
It doesn't seem to load on both Firefox and Chrome so I'm not sure the browser is the problem. Their servers are probably overloaded.
This account is also present on Mastodon for all the social media hipsters out there (like myself)
If you’re Slovak this clearly does not affect you. Slovakia is still in the EU.
Man I'd love a Ken Shirriff breakdown of the Odyssey and its game cards.
Why wouldn't read only access be enough for this? Documentation says it needs administrator access.
Individualised mRNA vaccine shows promise in pancreatic cancer patients
I have yet to find any competitor which provides its own results and is even 50% as good as Google's results.

Features are nice, but for a search engine results are everything.
He was accepted into it, that’s the important part. But then the internet took off and it was the right time to be in that place. Remember, back then he was just another immigrant kid.

It’s funny how quickly the left changed from loving him for turning the car industry on its head to hating him for taking away the left’s hate machine. Oh well.
Beat me to it!

Kagi also goes one step further and allows you to "pin" sites to the top. For example, I've got MDN pinned, so whenever I'm searching for web stuff they're the top result, even if there's an SEO'd blog post that normally would have come first.

Abandoning Google is a huge motivator for me, but this feature set is why it's my primary search engine. Google tries to guess what I want and just ends up feeding me the same garbage it feeds everyone else. Kagi allows me to correct it when it guesses wrong. That makes all the difference.
We were never Chinese...? We literally lost the rights of EU citizens, for example to retire in Tuscany.
To us developers, maybe. To our managers? Definitely not. As long as the GDPR fines are cheaper than the alternative, no one will care.
> It's now used primarily as a vehicle for speculation

Gambling. It’s gambling. A significant fraction of the American economy continues to gear towards gambling. Whether it be short-term dopamine hits from ad-fuelled social media or trading crypto, it’s a similar pattern of decay across a common although growing demographic stripe.
Many nations enabled it without the consent of their citizenry.
IANAL, but I think it means the "EU citizenship" is merely a convenient shorthand for "citizenship of an EU member state" and not a citizenship in its own right.

As Slovakia is a member state of the EU, this will not itself directly affect you.
Blocking pintrest from image search results is also very helpful.