skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the piece is suggesting that the west isn't making this media or that men aren't consuming it. The piece is about cultural values and it clearly feels that many of the values of "Virility" are alive and well but not joined under a single term:

> What’s striking, reading this plangent eulogy for virilitas, is how much virility nevertheless remains at the center of male culture. Spend some time with a stack of men’s magazines and you’ll find that male identity is still a negotiation between discipline and vigor. Men still have special respect for a man who dominates others by dominating himself. Earlier this year, Under Armour released a new television ad featuring the Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps. The ad alternates between moments of admirable discipline (Phelps lifts weights at the gym, shivers in an ice bath, and falls asleep after a hard day’s workout) and moments of unbridled athleticism (he powers inexorably down the lane). The commercial ends with the company’s slogan, “Rule yourself.” Phelps, with his sculpted muscles and mountain-man beard, embodies virility as Corbin describes it. He has “an amazing control over those organs that, while certainly vigorous, are truly subject to the virile man’s will.”
Thanks for sharing. Seems painful.

I've seen similar things where people seem to just lose their moral compass along with reasonable inhibitions and I've also attributed that to substance abuse, though not cocaine specifically.
Congrats on reaching v1.0!

Does anyone have any experience with their Android app? How well does it work these days?
For probability all the way up to (excluding) measure theory, Grimmett & Stirzaker's "Probability and Random Processes", plus the accompanying "1000 exercises in Probability" for the solutions, should fit your bill perfectly.
"Cross platform" and .NET

Very funny.
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I feel like a broken record but, the 'Two quarters' rule is an unofficial metric that does a bad job of representing recessions when you back-test it (no recessions from 1992-2008 in that case).

In the US, a recession is defined by NBER after the fact.
Ok, I'll be sane. I bought a Samsung A03 at Target, off the shelf, in store for $20. It was on sale from it's regular price of $49.
I remember the early days of Hacker News (different account) where Ayn Rand was praised to high heavens. Libertarianism ad nauseum.
I was in the same situation around the end of 2017. The company was struggling, but the checks were still clearing, so I hung on, hoping for the best. We actually did get sold, but the new owners immediately shut us down (to this day I can't think of any rational explanation for why they would have done that). I found out the week before thanksgiving that I was unemployed, effective immediately.

There was a very small severance package, and I had some vested RSUs which, somehow, actually had some value (they didn't accelerate my unvested RSUs, which I thought was kind of lousy of them). I did collect unemployment for about a month before I landed the job I have now.

All in all, it wasn't a bad experience, even job-hunting leading into Christmas time. It was the first time I'd ever been unemployed and the first time I'd had 100% of my time to dedicate to searching for a job rather than having to figure out how to schedule interviews around my existing employment. OTOH, I had a pretty in-demand skillset, so it didn't take long to find something. I think it would have gotten really uncomfortable if I'd still been out of work six months later.
In a civil case it is not a jury's duty to teach anyone a lesson, it is their duty to assess and award restitution for noncriminal wrongdoing, nothing more.
My partner has an idea on how to conduct this process using our form of cheap energy. please send us you address at email morphle at ziggo dot nl
“If you keep smelling shit, look at your own shoe”.

Your processes are failing your development teams, and you need to fix them, rather than blaming your teams, which achieves nothing.
Aren't sales people "cheap" as their salary is negligible compared to sales bonuses if and only if they exceed their sales quota?
Yes, there's a bunch of common implementations which use it, like (Debian packages) eatmydata, fakeroot, datefudge, substitute mallocs. (One implementation of) fakeroot spawns a demon.

Oh, and if you have something statically linked, so LD_PRELOAD is useless, the usual subversion tool is dyninst.
What makes FB exceptionally bad? Jw.

For me, TikTok even though they probably don't hire SDEs like FB and there's prob enough people to fill those roles anyways.

I truly think its an awful invention. It's bad for the same reason I feel most social media is bad... just turned all up to 10. You thought people doom scrolling mindless posts in 2014 was bad? Here, have 10 second bits of unscrubbable nonsense for 5 hours a day.
This diagram was pretty critical in helping me "get it": https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/images/Poli...
The Exploited Labor Behind AI
Checkout github enterprise managed users, all the shiny of github.com with the benefits from the self hosted github
How easy is it to find bad juniors? I think that may be relevant for determining how saturated the field is.
Only Prime Video, it's about 10$ per year here. If they start charging normally - I'm out.
I really like standard notes, if you switch editors to their built in Bold Editor (https://standardnotes.com/features/bold-editor) you can embed images.
If you take the Second Amendment literally as written, even regulation of personal nuclear weapons is unconstitutional.
I'm sorry if I sound stupid, but this is an honest question.

What would I use Obsidian for? Is it just for writing stuff down? And if so; how would I access these notes on something like my phone? I tend to just write down things and store attachments in "Saved Messages" on Telegram. That way I can access it all via my phone, home computer, work computer or the web.

How would Obsidian be better?
> The argument is elegant, simple, and profound.

FWIW, an argument can be "elegant, simple, ... profound," and wrong. Some of the most pernicious ideas are like that.
Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro get a head start on banishing 32-bit Android apps
Maybe funny 4-5 years ago, but these days it’s incredibly well supported across Windows/Linux/MacOS.
I'm an arch user on my Framework, and it's going very well for me, aside from the Intel Graphics fiasco a few days ago (Wasn't exclusive to Arch or Framework).
and the top rungs of society profit from poor people existing (allows for lower wages by the desperate need for any work)...

i.e. I'm calling out the hypocrisy and straw escape goat to point that this piece is just another salvo in the ongoing culture war.
I always thought it was suspicious how many tweets from ostensibly independent users seem to be in 100% agreement with one another.
> but part of the experience is being completely disconnected and knowing you're on your own if anything goes wrong.

I've done a fair number of non-trivial self rescues due to ice fall, rock fall, injuries, and fast-moving weather while exposed at elevation. I value self sufficiency and take pride in the fact that I have never had to press that SOS button, even under extreme duress and real objective danger.

That said, I do think intentionally refusing the carry a sat comm is downright immoral unless you tell SAR that you do not under any circumstances want a rescue.

SAR's operating assumption is that you will want a rescue if you are not able to self-rescue. When someone notices you are missing, SAR will begin a search. If you don't have a sat comm, SAR will have to waste valuable resources on a wide search and possibly even put SAR professionals at additional unnecessary risk. If the emergent event is the result of something that impacts a large area -- storms, earthquakes, avalanche, rock fall, etc. -- other people may die because SAR spent too much time on you.

To be clear: I won't judge you for playing life-and-death with self rescue. That's fine. We all play dangerous games and risk is highly personal. But at least TELL SAR the game you are playing! Tell them you do not want a rescue prior to starting your trip. Otherwise, you are not only risking you own party's life, but also the lives of SAR professionals and other parties who may need their services at the same time.
Hi Peter, thank you for doing this!
I was wondering what the best approach is for a Canadian with a 3 year bachelor's degree in computer science to work in the USA. I hear it's a TN visa, but do they differentiate between a 4 year and 3 year bachelor's degree? Thanks!
1) That's called train.

2) Not gonna happen for normal roads, because it is worthless waste of resources and yet there is lot of additional variables, which you can't control, like people or animals entering the road.
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/

If you haven't looked at .NET in a few years, you'd be surprised.
There are absolutely ways to measure the performance of an individual. That leetcode style questions are not a great indicator of ability to do the job well does not mean you cannot predict job performance at all.
You can put your keys in source control if you are encrypting them with another key which is not in source control. Otherwise you're doing it wrong.
Very + excellent = not yet added

Very + squamous = nya

Very + blue = nya

Lol
I just wondered what happens if you spoof locally the domain name. Could you still use the api key?
In my experience, security is so far removed from the actual job description/day to day cares that it's perpetually "somebody else's problem", seen as an unnecessary time sink. Usually there's a couple of people that actually care, but they're ignored and lack the power to influence change.

Not lazy, just overburdened by more important things.
Then the "two quarters" rule is stricter. We have fulfilled a stricter criterion for a recession.

Whether the NBER contradicts us is irrelevant. Less value is going around in the economy.
Are you positing that if we maintain our current trajectory economically that Zombie Unicorns will start harshly cutting costs. Why 6 months? I'm actually curious why that number as I'm not in the environment.
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It's a podcast by a rat and a fed. They have nothing to do with hackers.
Zerotier does not seem to work behind my University's firewall, which seems to be a CG-NAT, and bans UDP traffic. It gets stuck on connection. It seems to connect to a relay but it does not actually work. Tailscale works out of the box.
Nah thanks, I'm already running Trufflehog for free on all of our multiple orgs' thousands of repos.

I think we would consider GG if its pricing was acceptable for non-profits though.
I have used Joplin for the past few years. I like that I have access to all my notes while offline, conveniently synced to all my devices. Basically just a markdown text editor + sync service bundled in an application.
So, many layers are bad, but large span is also. This means you are limiting both width and depth of the management tree, effectively limiting the total size of the workforce to ... a few hundred? That doesn't sound right.
GitHub PM here. Glad that was a good experience! We work with ~50 partners (details in the link below) to notify them when tokens for their service are exposed in public repos, so that they can notify you.

https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/secret-scanning/sec...
Is it nefarious Google marking their e-mails as spam, or users?
Not for nothing, but that sounds a bit like a market peak if I've heard one. Why would the person actually doing the work settle for a mere 300k when the director/VP gets double without doing the hard work? there is a balance here - but it seems like a good time to lure engineers with real equity compensation to early stage startups.
This is a point of contention among economists, as the current economic conditions are quite unlike most others seen. US/China decoupling is causing massive shocks across the world.

The US Federal Reserve is responding to these economic conditions far stronger than any other central bank, and the US dollar has grown in strength accordingly. Weakening the labor market is one of the goals. That will mean lots of layoffs, in exchange for a reduction in inflation (and domestic purchasing power).
Maybe it's pivoted since I used it but I always thought they where for people who needed cars for a couple of hours. Not weekend trips. Real car rental companies were far cheaper for that use case.
This is a pointless battle. There is a US election this year so there is zero chance a recession will be admitted until mid November regardless of facts on the ground.
On Not Being Logged
I think when faced with that reality that you might not be so sure.
I’m definitely in favour of dogfooding. But it’s worth noting that there is still a positive flip side to using competitors products:

+ you get to keep up with their advances so you’re not relying on your customers telling you about your competition

+ in the case of chat apps, if your infrastructure goes down you can still work as a team to coordinate the remediation
yea like no shit the web3 fat got cut first lol. anyone with eyes could see through all the people selling shovels in a gold rush
It would be more interesting to dive down and figure out what exactly the users like more about TUI. Just speed alone can't be it, because e.g. WinXP-era UI is blazing fast on modern hardware (and was plenty fast even back then). And if we know what it is, we can build GUIs that are just as efficient, but that also offer e.g. better text rendering etc compared to TUI.

I once had an interesting experience migrating users from a TUI to a GUI app, ~20 years ago. In that case, after watching them work for a while and asking some questions, the takeaway was that they really wanted the flow to be 100% keyboard-based. Which the GUI apps nominally provided (back then; less so these days), but all too often the correct tab order etc is ignored in practice, making it very difficult to use.

I made sure design the GUI with keyboard in mind, and that common patterns they've learned from TUI would still work. For example, the TUI had a textbox above a listbox, and it was common for users to press arrow-down to navigate from the textbox to the first item in the list, and arrow-up to navigate from the list back into the textbox. This isn't normal behavior for GUI, but I coded it in anyway.
Ah yes, durable blockchains, an obvious next step for the world's most famous ephemeral-messaging company
No, because almost everything that could be done about averting climate catastrophe would be massively good for the economy and global prosperity, immediately. It could be uncomfortable for owners of coal mines and oil supply chain companies.

You telegraph your sympathies.

Global civilization collapse followed by billions starving and thermonuclear war will not end up good for anybody. But with some luck you could die first, something foot-draggers seem to count on. Why should they risk any hint of (expected) discomfort for benefits they would not anyway live to see? What have their grandchildren ever done for them?
The pragmatism of coping with poverty probably plays a big role in losing ones motivation for curiosity. It is hard to let yourself waste time traveling down rabbit holes when you are worried about paying your bills.
> Today, following in that tradition, men often equate technological fluency with manly vigor, even as they yearn to assert their authentic and natural virilitas. Setting up a kick-ass home-theatre system can make a man feel virile;

Oh wow. Strong disagreement with that. I had to re-read this section a couple times to be sure the author was actually asserting what I thought they were. These may be things men do (getting into tech-nerdery, putting together home theatre systems) but I don't think they gain you much in the way of "manliness points" or virility or whatever, at least in the eyes of others. Neutral at best.
Trying to come up with an innovative idea out of the blue is a fools errand - the odds of you being the first person to ever think of something are low to begin with, the odds that you will do so in a field you have no experience in and that this unique idea will also be a good one are astronomically low. That the idea is both good in its own right and also something you have the passion and skill to tackle is substantially less likely still.

I think the best strategy is to just pick an area you know you generally enjoy working in, and start building a copy of something that already exists in that space. As you go along you will inevitably run into the same problems that others previously faced, and at some point you're going to find some fork in the road where everyone went one way but you think it's worth trying the other, or you will find some problem that everyone in the space has been dealing with that you could fix. Unlike high level ideation, in this scenario when you find an idea it will be something that you are already an expert on and passionate about solving, and the value of such a solution would be immediately clear.
Confirmed. Live near the falls, have driven to Forks. That’s a 4+ hour trip not 45 minutes.
Thanks, I've already figured out how to run Trufflehog for free on our thousands of repos.
A nice approach, if you have sufficient control over the form of your secrets, is to prefix each secret with "MY_COMPANY_SECRET_DO_NOT_COMMIT:". Then you can add a commit hook that refuses to commit if any committed file contains that substring, etc. etc.
Well, I guess in the purest possible sense you're correct.

However, I'm currently working with a group using Terraform on GCP (GKE), and it's popular with them to use Secret Manager to manually create a secret in there (when it cannot be auto-gen'd with the IaC, a fairly small subset of things) and then reference that secret from the infra-defining code.

I think of it as being akin to "this service requires a correctly configured FOO_BLAH variable in it's environment". I don't really see it as any failure of achieving some IaC goal, but defining infrastructure code isn't my primary function, so take this with a grain of salt.
But no company would simply give away free stays. That would cost them with no benefit.

There is a clear if unstated expectation that they will receive positive reviews and promotion as a result.
The 'R' does not stand for "rights" (but I'm sure you know that)
I see exactly what you mean. It’s like .. justttttt enough to make one watch til the end.

Reminds me of those extended silent close captions videos all over Facebook.
Fundamentally they’re all solving the wrong problem. I don’t need self driving from my door to destination, I am happy if they just perfected (and really perfected!) FSD on the highway. Thats it, that’s the big win.
We all know, the only way to stop a bad guy with a nuclear weapon is with a good guy with a nuclear weapon.
Cosmos was originally created for hosting massive datasets internally within Microsoft. For example they use it for the OS telemetry sent in from customer machines, and raw data for threat intelligence. As part of Microsoft's move of everything hosted on-premise to their cloud, they decided to upon up Cosmos to other users of Azure. But the primary customer is and will likely always be Microsoft themselves. Which is probably why we see these breaking changes, it'll be in response to some internal ticket most likely.
sigh Yes.
But student loan forgiveness is the problem, sure
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You're touching on a very complex topic spanning across areas of social life, ethics and morality, economy, family, etc. Lumping that all into "well they're evil and if you work for them so are you" is an easy out. Believe me, I know where you're coming from, but that's not how it is in the real world. It should be, but it's not.

There are too many variables and that line between right and wrong is not well-defined in this matter. Using an extreme version of your logic, you should strip yourself of all currency and material possessions. Yet you're on here, possibly even while you're supposed to be working. Do you think the companies hosting ycombinator.com are clean? Maybe they're using AWS resources. You're using devices from those very companies you despise right? You're probably using electricity from a power company that is exploiting people in some way or maybe you bought solar panels from a company that exploited people to fabricate those panels. You see, that moral line can be shifted all over the place.

I grew up on food-stamps and I was in debt for a very very long time in my adult life. Poverty can be very traumatic (and very motivating to never go into it again). Money is certainly not the only thing that matters in this world and that's not what I said in my post. It is very important in living a sustainable life in America (and elsewhere). A single ER visit can ruin your life-savings for example. I work for a FAANG because I'm uncertain about the future and that scares the hell out of me. I have a family. I have several chronic medical problems. There's a realistic possibility I might be too disabled to work next year or the following year. Layoffs are starting to ramp up. I don't want that money, I need it to ensure my family can survive the problems that are surely to come in the not too distant future. I don't want them to endure the hell that I went through. I don't think I can bare it mentally. So yeah, I'm working at a FAANG for the "TC". I don't give a shit about innovating some new UI library or whatever else people think is cool in tech. I'm not even sure I have that ability if we're being honest. Even if I did, this whole thread is about a post that highlights exactly why it's hard to do that now. I work here so I can survive and that's it.
Author is projecting.

Dismissing social science as a hindrance to intellectual curiosity while stating that Karl Poppper's falsificationism is the foundation of modern science is extremely ironic. Being intellectually curious means charitably reading topics one disdains, and a consequence of that is knowing that Popper's views on science is simply one perspective of many.
(GitHub PM here.) The Advanced Security secret scanning experience is coming to public repos (for free, obviously)! Give us a few more months - we have a little more work to do scaling it up
Why does the US treat 1st Amendment freedom of speech differently than 2nd Amendment keeping and bearing arms?
You may have much more faith in US regulatory agencies and government than me.

Does knowingly participating in a corrupt platform or business make one complicit? This is why I opted out. If more people would make decisions with conscience, it would starve the beast.
It shouldn't surprise me if the most ridiculous pro-marketing description of marketing is the one so prevalent that AI picked it up and ran with it. Garbage in, garbage out.
My uncle's business got a half million dollar PPP loan with millions in profits and over 15 million in the bank. It was distributed as employee bonuses. You wonder why there's inflation.
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Not usually. Oftentimes sales people have pretty high base pay. Last time I worked somewhere with a sales force, their base was the same as the engineers with the same level of experience, and then they got commission on top of that.
I worry when this is an issue for all cars.

I think I'm going to buy an old series Land Rover and electric convert it myself if that happens.