skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That just reminded me of this ongoing Blind thread, which borders on the hilarious (warning: some partisan toxicity, but also some prime snark):

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Googlers-Are-Insufferable-qWz...
I’m a full stack (web and mobile) engineer. When I was on product teams building the actual app experiences, I was so much happier and fully engaged. I thrive from customer feedback calls and working with product manager to build the best solution for the problem at hand. Probably built a dozen calendars and complex grid layouts, tested a few different cart/checkout flows, and improved performance for a tool by rethinking the way it was stored in the database that made it way more flexible for other purposes.

Now I work on purely backend, mostly services for other services, infra stuff, and it’s honestly so boring and dull. I know it’s important work as well, but it’s just not my cup of tea.

Unfortunately it seems that building products doesn’t pay as well as doing this purely backend plumbing. And I want to work on products which people out in the fields or in some specific industry use to do their jobs better. When I was doing this, I felt like I was actually making peoples work experience (and probably sanity) better.

Anyway I am a self taught and I just learned using YouTube videos, official docs/readme, looking at peoples code on GitHub, and also building out my own silly ideas. Probably have a hundred directories of half+ baked projects.

Feel free to reply if you work on an interesting product (please no dashboards for monitoring cloud systems :sob: lol) and looking for a guy who loves to build great app experience. Also down to discuss ideas!
Not a chance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Flood_Insurance_Progr...

>As of August 2017, the program insured about 5 million homes (down from about 5.5 million homes in April 2010), the majority of which are in Texas and Florida.[3][4] The cost of the insurance program was fully covered by its premiums until the end of 2004, but it has had to steadily borrow funds since, primarily due to Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy, accumulating $25 billion of debt by August 2017.[3][5] In October 2017, Congress cancelled $16 billion of NFIP debt, making it possible for the program to pay claims. The NFIP owes $20.525 billion to the U.S. as of December 2020.[6]
Well the Raspberry Pi is already on 24/7 running a few other services for my home network. But even then, the energy consumption per month costs pennies. I update the device once a quarter and it takes me 5 minutes. These costs are so negligible as to have no impact on my decision making process.
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/dcmi.pdf

This would put it as either the third or fourth costliest hurricane in the US (first table is inflation adjusted). Not sure that's cheap.
Yeah and all that went to export or industry where to could be used to make things for export.
Not really: Your browser vendor might push out a malicious update or enable dormant functionality that sends them telemetry on your browsing, or even your entire web traffic, but a VPN definitively does receive all of you traffic (including, at least, the host name of almost all sites you visit).

I can observe who my browser/OS talk to (beyond the sites I already visit) – but what happens inside a VPN provider is impossible to tell.
AMD64 addressing modes cannot detect overflow, and this is where in practice 90% of arithmetic is done!
That doesn't seem relevant to the subject of whether or not delivery companies get your address from Amazon, nor to the main topic of an Amazon-only email getting leaked?

But yes, some couriers do let you tie an email address to a physical address to get notifications.
What do you mean?

I oftentimes see people using Chrome (not Chromium) while logged into a profile. Are you telling me that either those people are actually a minority, or that Chrome doesn't phone home?
They’re gonna need a lot of cheap labor to rebuild. Maybe they should charter a flight to bring some immigrants from Martha’s Vineyard
A crazy thing happened to me on a recent trip to Mexico city. I thought my AT&T mobile plan covered Mexico, but after 2 days it stopped working. So I tried to log into my account online with AT&T. It would keep redirecting me to the Mexico AT&T website instead of the US website. The first time I realized I needed a VPN.
Russia also wants the EU and especially Germany to deviate from their current "no dependency on Russian gas ever again" strategy, at least in the mid- to long term. Those pipelines could have sat there until needed.
See the above comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33037494

Kinda breaks the spirit of GHA, IMO. I like it, but I think it's a bad path to start down. Entirely IMO, keep in mind.
Doesn't do you much good when everyone is entering hiring freeze and layoffs for the rest of the cycle.
> Debris don't really accumulate dangerously in this zone and collision avoidance is a well-studied problem with a lot of people doing great work.

I think this line of thinking is dangerously incorrect. Sure it’s not a problem right now but we’re poised to have a lot more stuff in orbit than we’ve ever had before. Plastic waste didn’t initially “accumulate dangerously” either but once it became more widely used (and did accumulate dangerously) it was much more difficult to try to reign it back.
> "my voice didn't sound like my age"

Wow, hello marginalization! I wonder where their training data set came from.
>It feels like disciplined programming is not popular anymore in favor hacking, continuous releases, agile, scrum, etc.

Rightly said!

I learnt "correct" OOD/OOP from his book Object-Oriented Software Construction (https://bertrandmeyer.com/oosc2/). It was one of the few books which actually looked at "Programming in the Large" specifically through the Object-Oriented lens and also instituted "Design By Contract (DbC)" within the Eiffel language to support it. DbC is a "user-friendly" version of the correct programming techniques espoused by Floyd/Hoare/Dijkstra. One can also say that it subsumes other techniques like TDD since a post-condition is like a unit test in itself. It is a shame people no longer study Meyer's works with the seriousness they should (he maybe a pedant but it is the right sort of pedantry) but instead run after buzzwords/fad of the month.

Here is Bertrand Meyer's take (the right one, imo) on Agile from his book Agile! The Good, the Hype and the Ugly - https://learning.acm.org/techtalks/agile.
I can see how can that be the case if one never works with products that rely heavily on having a database.
I get the author's point, I was a moderate too now I'm a 'doomer' because we 'moderate'-ed ourselves into useless discourse because a surprising amount of our political discussion is fluff. Even if solid science showing a correct direction for incremental change, getting all these ideologies to get their bases on the same page for it is impossible. There are a surprising amount of votes that are purged by region, and surprisingly obfuscated voting system to make it harder to vote properly, requiring more from voters than other western nations. So both sides realistically are pandering to 100-200k people that actually have the voting power for the rest of the nation so w/e they think and feel is what matters

What America understands as liberalism is actually a 'moderate-conservative' ideology in line with neo-liberalism. Where they will be socially liberal but fiscally conservative by most of the western worlds standards. Where the burnie holds the most popular ideas with majority of Americans surprisingly, but those who vote lean more neo-liberal so he is the underdog.

The right is more conservative ideologies big tent, including everyone from social to fiscal conservatives and everyone in between. Evangelicals are their main base, so they tailor everything to pivot around them, and now more so the trump base.

I feel like once anyone starts diving into the differences of ideologies in those in groups with each of those two groups, you become slightly less moderate. Then, if one looks at how each side's representatives on either side actually implemented policy, and the lobbiests all these figures speak with, they'll quickly find themselves not to be a moderate but a doomer.
Unless of course you consider humans a part of nature (as I do). In which case "nature's lab" includes humans and their science too, and the point becomes tautological.

Articulate planning and reasoning is then just another experiment in nature's lab.
Buybacks are not distributions. They give you an increased ownership percentage. If the company goes bankrupt you never got any benefit from the buyback.

The return of the buyback is only known at the time you sell your shares, because the earnings yield and valuation of the company are dynamic, and buybacks defer the gain until time of sale.

A company buying back at low ROI is not equivalent to paying out dividends from cash flow

Don't know how to make it any clearer, seems you're using layman's knowledge and fundamentally misunderstand the mechanisms here
> Russia has been preparing for this for a very long time.

We've all seen the "mighty" Russian military at this point and how pathetic it truly is. It's so gutted at this point it's sending old men to the frontlines as cannon fodder for the impending military defeat.

A last ditch effort to scare the world with a nuclear weapon would bring much of the western world into its borders to dismantle whatever military and industrial capability it has left. Any nuclear subs would be hunted by superior Navies to a watery grave.

There would be no WWIII. It would be the end of the Russian empire and all of the Russian oligarchs would carve up the remnants (Prigozhin, Kadyrov, etc).

ps- the oligarchs are likely to do it anyway, but they prefer to get the spoils before the West destroys the infrastructure.
For most of us driver memory bugs are extremely rare and therefore a 2-14% performance drop is bonkers.
I know that, I know some of them myself, but I never said that no doctors from outside the EU ever immigrate here. What was your point?

And how big is the % of medical professionals or medical students among all the total (legal and illegal) immigration into the EU? 0,000001%?
>These newspapers all have Facebook pages (and Twitter accounts) where they voluntarily post and promote their news articles. I’d venture they get a ton of free traffic from social media companies and are far more dependent on social media than the inverse…

I mean, isn't that where 99% of newspapers GET their stories? I was under the impression that the new newspaper cycle was:

News Event > Social Media (Twitter or FB) > Journalist sees it > Story in Newspaper/online Newspaper
JSON:API v1.1 Released
What a terrifying déjà vu.
I'm not sure but I think has to do with parking the satellite in a lower orbit such that the atmospheric drag will force it to reenter within 25 years, not that the operator has 25 years to deorbit the satellite at some point.

I think this has to do with the amount of fuel the need to save to reach the disposal orbit.
Because newspaper business models have no moat, especially as news commoditizes.
How does your workload look?
It's sad, but this isn't going to work. Facebook and Google don't need these newspapers. The newspapers need Facebook and Google. We already saw a law exactly like this one in Spain, after the EU tried protecting its local news outlets from Google, and the result was Google calling the bluff and simply pulling every newspaper in Spain from Google News until the nation capitulated and created exemption rules that essentially returned everything to status quo ante.

These kinds of laws are written by people who clearly do not understand the relationship between the tech giants and traditional media, and have no comprehension of who holds the leverage.
> if you knew of someone who was trying to learn to code, and better job opportunities was one of their main motivators, would you suggest that they reconsider based on where the market is headed?

Getting that first dev job is hard, and it's probably harder than it used to be, but all that difficulty goes away after you land your first gig. Software is eating the world, and the jobs to produce it aren't going anywhere. While I worked toward my first job, I built websites for clients, spoke at meetups, threw up some projects of my own. By the time I got my first job, I wasn't really a junior anymore.

> What would the companies that are still hiring prefer, junior or senior devs?

It's not so cut and dry. Juniors are useless without strong seniors to guide them, but a team of all senior+ devs doesn't necessarily translate to faster or better code. My last company didn't have any junior devs at all.

Becoming a strong developer takes a long time, but the payoff is absolutely worth it. I was in food service for years, basically a disposable cog, fired from more jobs than most people have even applied for. Now I make money I could never have imagined when I was waiting tables, and I have the security of not being instantly replaceable. I would recommend this career change to anybody, even if it does take a couple of years (which it doesn't have to).
Hurricanes are a fact of life in the gulf and southeastern atlantic coasts. There is no area that has not have been hit twice already in the past century. So all this coastline should be dunes and park spaces?
Ye some cyclist seems to have a "I don't care if you hurt me"-mentality when manouvering. It can be quite nervewrecking since indeed I don't and the ones they try to punnish likely can't care less if they would happen to do.
If you’re in the US and your marriage involves guns you’re a redneck or thug.

The only time I’ve ever seen a gun at a wedding was a police officer working the event.
Similar thing happen to me. My OneDrive links that I share with clients end in their email spam folder. It took mi few weeks before I realized that few clients was still waiting for my work, because they did not have it in inbox.

I know that it is problem of email providers, but still I would like to leave OneDrive, but I cannot find alternative that is in similar price range as OneDrive (about 2 USD/month for 1TB).
I spent a decade working with digitalisation in the public sector in Denmark and I doubt this will change a thing considering a executive order is too risky to rely on.

I'm a little torn on the issue because I value privacy, but currently we have a nice scandal going here in my country, which is essentially the former top intelligence boss of the military secret police, or whatever you'd call it in English, being accused of leaking state secrets. What he leaked was that our government let the NSA spy on our citizens illegally, so it's not like all our privacy laws actually protect us if our own governments let the Americans have free access to our data any way.

While the bureaucrats and lawyers discuss this, both the public and private sector suffers the financial consequences. We recently had a smaller scandal, where a town was told they couldn't use their chromebooks, or their google education setup, for this years schooling. Essentially making it impossible for that city to teach, because so much of their setup relied on google education and they only had a month to find an alternative. You can argue privacy over this, but it's sort of weird that one city, out of 30+ cities, were banned from using these tools while the others weren't, and that they were banned from it because they fucked up their documentation. I'm not going to defend google, but really, in this case we're hurting the education of thousands of children over something silly. Because the alternative to google education isn't going to be Linux and some European cloud alternative, because that simply doesn't exist, it's going to be Microsoft and the exact same data siphons. And this is really just a small part of the real world issue.

There is no European alternative to Azure or AWS, and while they are more GDPR compliant than Google, it's not like they are a safe bet either. So where do you put your infrastructure? In Azure or AWS and bet on the bureaucrats not coming for you, or in a worse alternative?

I'm a fan of the GDPR, you might not think so after reading what I just wrote but I am. I just think that maybe they should have worked on giving us some European options first. Especially since they seem to give the NSA access anyway, even though it's done in secret. But an executive order isn't really going to help us, because who knows what the next American government might do to it. Nobody in enterprise is going to bet their infrastructure strategy on american politics anymore.
That's hardly the total of "the data comparison" - you can scroll it anywhere. I found my local area, halfway around the world.
Or build it better/stronger. Or make it uninsurable (for storm damage) and ineligible for relief funds (after x number of claims in x number of years).
I don't like this. When I add a URL to the address bar I want TCP/IP traffic to be directed to only the remote address I requested, and not have traffic relayed through some third party.
Grass is always greener on the other side. US is great if you are very capitalistic but are willing to deal with bullshit like shitty healthcare administration/Insurance company/crazy premiums/tied to employer etc etc, much less vacation days on an average (Yea I know some employers give u unlimited vacation but who are we kidding), lesser happiness index (european countries usually fare better here as well) and others.

My sister lives in Finland. She has a nice stable job with amazing benefits both from her employer AND her Govt. Sure, she probably cannot start a business as easy as she can do here in the states BUT she is very happy and has a well balanced and peaceful life. She doesn't have to worry about Kids education cost, healthcare costs and what not. She got almost a year of maternity if I am remembering correctly. A year!! In US, good luck with that.

I love America because I am hardcore capitalist and don't mind the other BS it brings but just saying American salaries are great and Europe sucks is comparing Apples to Oranges.
The reason you have a bad feeling is it gives the FBI/FEDS a single point to collect your data, with a man-in-the-middle attack that you will have no idea is there.

This is absolute BS they're implementing this.
How is most of that tax deductible?

1) Can only claim interest tax deduction on the first $750,000 of indebtedness [1]

2) Only can claim up to a maximum of $10,000 deduction for state and local taxes on the federal taxes. [2]

3) At the beginning of a mortgage are paying mostly interest and have maximum available tax deduction. But as time goes on it switches to being more paying towards principal. So at the end of the mortgage it is very little interest and thus very little tax deductible.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/publications/p936

[2] https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc503
Yeah I think Europeans are comparing situations for average US workers to those of tech workers, who definitely aren't average. With a country with such large wealth divide the situations don't compare. For anyone in the top 10% (which tech workers are) you'll have far more disposable income than your European counterparts[0]. You'll have good health care that won't cost you much. You'll have access to good schools. You'll live in very safe neighborhoods. Comparing these two classes of people is apples to oranges. Both roundish fruits but there's nuance that matters and if you bite into an orange thinking it is an apple you'll get a big surprise. Wealth inequality is definitely a problem in America but it also needs to be considered in the argument because it is a problem.

There are some factors that I think do matter. College education matters but we need to consider decades worth of these salary differences, which likely make up for the cost of education by a lot (an expensive private school will cost $120k total and you're making that difference in a few years). But there are also personal preferences and those matter. Europe is far more dense and you can have access to a wide breadth of cultures relatively easily. Things like this can have a high value to people. Or maybe the high value is that your neighbors get subsidized college too? Potentially that's what people are saying but not conveying well.

Still, I don't think the equation is quite simple, but it does seem like Europeans deserve a bit more in salaries.

[0] https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1570832839318605824
Getting into FPV drones was super interesting because battery tech plays a huge part in the hobby. Rather than voltages, everything is normalized to number of LiPo cells in series, e.g. 1S, 2S, 4S.

Drone accessories also accept a super wide voltage range so they can be mostly powered by whatever battery packs you have laying around (excepting support for 6S, which is kinda rare).

However moving past drones, you'll start seeing other battery chemistries with different voltage ranges. Li-Ion can be discharged further than LiPo. LiFePO4 tops out at 3.6V, rather 4.2V. And so on.
Sounds like such emails should be mnemonic-salt@domain just to rule out such brute-forcing.
GoG did something a little like this. You could add copies of some games in Steam to your GoG account, by linking them—not just, like, letting you launch them through the same interface, but you'd "own" a copy on GoG, too.

I don't think it really took off. It was a little clunky and I'm not sure they got enough buy-in from publishers that the catalog available ever expanded much past their initial offering.

More broadly, I'd love to see a strict, legally-mandated separation of media distribution and production. Mostly for the film and TV industry (there's precedent—the US only very recently stopped barring movie studios from owning movie theaters, because it caused serious problems in the past, similar to how vertical integration of studios and streaming platforms is making things worse today) but maybe something similar would help the game market work better for consumers/users, too.
Number of States with High Rates of Adult Obesity More Than Doubles
but the hurricane impacted something like 40 million people, so in reality, the cost is something like $2500 per person.
How sophisticated was your system? It sounds like you used cutting edge NLP techniques at the time.
Is your login page vulnerable to an Open Redirect?

Run your page against OWASP top 10. You might find something
I'm aware of Astroscale (https://astroscale.com/). They're a Japanese company with a presence in the US and UK that's commercializing this sort of service. I'm not sure if they have plans for multi-satellite de-orbit services, but they do have single-satellite plans.

Among other things, they're promoting a standardized docking adapter (https://astroscale.com/docking-plate/) to give satellite operators a path to either life extension (refueling and/or orbit raising) or de-orbit.
Good improvement. What is China's rules for de-orbiting?
How do you propose having security in that world? Should any process be able to access the memory of any other process? Should you opening a web page allow you a security issue there to be able to access your running applications?

I guess my question is, you seem to have a very hardline “everything” take that I don’t think extends to the real world
right, and the fun only really starts when the black frogs stop mating with the green ones; I don’t think that (speciation) was mentioned in the article
As someone who has lived in the pacific north my entire life I have no experience with things like this. Does the southeast build their structures differently knowing they are going to get hammered by hurricanes? Japan builds knowing they need to be resistant against earthquakes for example.
Wow, there really is an XKCD for everything
If you have any conscience and empathy it is always relevant.
Not necessary - Florida's got a ton of illegals to do that work.
This is exactly the kind of comparison that prompted me to post this topic. I suppose macOS just uses the SSD far more.