skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does make me think about networking companies and dot.com. Fiber and networking gear considered themselves “real” businesses versus those “web” companies that imploded. Of course, all that IPO money had been buying their hardware and there was a echo crash and a decade of dark fiber.

AWS may have a significant customer base of VC funded startups which may be scaling back their spending rapidly; coupled with larger customers migrating to on premise it could eat away at both ends of their market share.
Each one gets a different image in the email, when they open the email it fetches the image, so the tracking service knows they opened the email.

The image is usually a 1px by 1px transparent png at the end of the email
Thanks for this! For a long time I used the Python interpreter mostly as a glorified calculator, but I recently had to make a note to tweak a print statement to use parenthesis, and thought about how far the community has come.

I think a lot of people forget the dark days where they'd tell you if you want to learn to program, first you need to learn Q-BASIC, then you need to learn enough C to be a malware writer, then you need to learn everything in the ESR "How to be a hacker" essay... and then you might be told one summer maybe you should try Python if the ambiguity in Perl's syntax is frustrating you -- not only is the language making strikes, but I love how often the barrier is my attention span, not the documentation.

(The problem used to be the reverse when I first got interested in general purpose computing... little to no guides and a lot of very rude people posting during work hours.)

Thanks for all the efforts :-)
> TrueCrypt still works and doesn't have any known vulnerabilities afaik.

I second this comment. Plus TrueCrypt has passed a serious source code audit. I'm not aware of any on-the-fly encryption system that has had the scrutiny of TrueCrypt. The main issue to be aware of is making certain you download the valid v7.1a source code or binaries. There are plenty of old trustworthy sites that have published the hashes of the source code tarballs or Windows binaries that you should check.

TrueCrypt works for me without any issue on current Linux systems, but I haven't tested it on recent Windows and macOS.
Tangential meta-commentary on a phrase I'm seeing more often that I don't think is effective; "it's a bad look" is not a criticism, unless you can explain why a position being perceived poorly implies that it without merit in this particular circumstance. Most of the time, it is not an opinion worth sharing. For instance, this comment would have been a more effective argument if it simply stated that materials other than plastic could be recycled well. The addition of "it's a bad look" only adds snark which distracts from the point being made and makes the discussion needlessly contentious.
One of my directs does basic application development. His productivity has atleast 20x’d. Keep missing out.
I have an old-fashioned milk delivery service near me that still uses glass bottles. They charge $2 deposit per bottle regardless of size. Works pretty well.
Constant length instructions.

Chip design that's easier to put things like memory into an SOC.

Windows on ARM can only be good for computing.
The study mentions that there is no degradation in "voluntary memory", only in "intrusions", which they define as "Persistent, distressing involuntary memories".

This study specifically measured only the first week after watching a trauma film, so I'm sure you're right that the extension of this to actually treating PTSD will be a lot more complicated, but it doesn't sound like the treatment is expected to cause complete forgetting of the event.
Agnosticism is atheism++. Accepts that we don’t know what’s on the ‘other side’, which is more consistent with reality. I used to think I was atheist. “Believing” that the scope of life is finite is functionally a religion (or perhaps a pessimistic death cult), albeit one probably without overt practices and ceremonies. However, those fleeting inner meditations that “I’m going to die and then that is it” is an asceticism of your ‘soul’ (existence, ie the abstract scope of all you could be), which is practically a contradiction, like saying “I’m not here” even though you clearly are (even if reality is an illusion or something, we all agree you’re illusion is here).
I LOVE Dijkstra maps!

They are game AI nirvana. No one has any excuses for bad AI in a roguelike.

http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php/Dijkstra_Maps_Visualized
Techno Counterpoint – Tracking in the Music of Aphex Twin
I think he's talking about runn where the compensation honestly looks terrible: $43k as a junior and under $80k as a senior. I wonder if the goal of transparency there isn't to avoid wasting time with the majority of people who won't put up with a salary that low.
Candidates do essentially have to show their cards - employers verify your salary history with products like "the work number".

Most people don't even know their salary is being reported by their company to a third party, which then packages and sells that data.
You can do that too, and it's very easy.
Looking forward to the 1.22x speedup! Been using Nim for a lot of those types of use cases personally.
Yeah, I can't figure out what the hell the significance of 1,666,666,666 is. I'm usually able to suss these things out, but I'm having a devil of a time on this one.
Shouldn't most mammals, or even vertebrates do this? I would go one step further and say that probably most animals or living beings do this (the social ones anyways) after a while, and the one thing I'm remembering is the syncing clocks experiment. I would assume physically it's easier for a being to 'sync up' with it's environment (in this case other peers), since that would probably give the feeling of more control, stability & familiarity.
What about developing a system that people can use to administer ECT to themselves. Obviously it will have to be sold as something else.
Some of this is contrary to what I've read and my personal experience:

Subjecting EVOO to an electric blender results in a distinctly bitter taste. For salad dressings that involve a blender, I stick with non-EV olive oils.
I think parent means that services like FB didn't claim to be the MySpace killer, they just were in retrospective.

And those who are called killer vanished without a hit.

Remember Vero, the FB and Insta killer?
It’s also super easy to integrate with non-POSIX shells, if you’re into that kind of thing.
Such frequent job changes on a resume will be a massive red flag to any hiring manager.
> The implementation of the next version of the Internet will seek its fundamentals in the Blockchain and the cryptocurrency world.

Bold claim. Given how fast it's all falling apart I fail to see why and how.
The cult of dd (2017)
Really great context on what worked and what was perhaps overengineered. The approachability of any system by its consumers (developers in this case) is hugely important. You've done a good job with Oso :)
The trick is to stick with things where the odds are affected by humans being irrational.

At least, I hope it is, I haven’t actually started that strategy.
> Oops, if you could make a quick PR to fix that it'd be great!

You might get some seemingly strange or flippant reactions to this, and since you wrote it, I figured you might benefit from some insight into why some people might react negatively.

GP pointed out a tiny bug in good faith. Your reply asking them to fix the bug they found in your code comes across (to me, I'm sure not everyone sees it this way!) as a little presumptuous or entitled, I think because there's no expectation in this context that GP was signing up to "do work" (check out the repo, make a change, submit a PR to you) for your project.

A less... feather-ruffling response might have thanked GP for the bug report and maybe also mentioned the repo link in case GP or anyone would like to contribute, vs. straight-up asking GP to do the work.

Maybe someone else can weigh in with more detail. Or disagree vehemently with the vibes I'm trying to illuminate :)
Or startups like Mighty.app where, if your computer is too slow to run Chrome, just stream Chrome from the cloud. I just...don't even know what to say.
I see the opposite: Someone who can be confident enough in their skills that they don't have to worry about finding another job if they are unhappy with the current one.

Of course, many companies would prefer desperate employees who are afraid to hit the bricks instead. But is that really who you want to be working for, given a choice?
I wonder how well it detects sandwiches.
The 2018 Scientific American article states that "more than a quarter" comes from ten rivers in Asia. That means more than half, at least 2/3, comes from somewhere else.

The following year, in 2019, The Guardian stated that Greenpeace said most ocean pollution comes from "ghost gear", dumped fishing gear, not rivers in Asia.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/06/dumped-f...
The opposite actually. Its been proven some drafts resulted in many more republicans being called up for service and there are sinister theories why this happened.
I thought there was a law in some states preventing that.
I don't think this is accurate. The Loom documentation says specifically that it is a concurrency model to replace native threads with fibers. It says very little about non-blocking IO, except that it is a use-case that it assists with:

https://openjdk.org/jeps/425

The NIO section covers a bit about how the fibers release the channels, but the OS will not know that. Non-blocking IO is about interrupts at the hardware level that let the application code know when bytes are ready to be read or written. Fibers help by fanning out the work, but they don't replace this concept.
Firing is hard for big japanese company so this is alternative way.
Interesting side note, you can feed psilocybin mushrooms synthetic tryptamines not found in nature and they will process them into 4-HO derivatives.
I have been using asdf for quite a few years, and I've always been impressed. It's honestly a breath of fresh air to only have a single set of commands to remember for node, go, ruby, python, even crystal. For node, it even respects existing .nvmrc files.
Audio-Based Programming Languages
It's a ripe opportunity for a rewrite in Rust
proper FDE (inc. swap) on linux turns hibernation into a cryptographic lock.
The US is huge and most of it is sparsely populated. There is no shortage of space. People from actual, tiny, crowded countries must find you guys hilarious.
Female ginkgo trees are the ones that bear fruit and hence produce the offensive odor. But branches of a male ginko tree can (rarely) change sex and bare fruit.

I've never tried Ginko kernels roasted to the point they were crunchy. But I find the ones roasted (some times on a skewer) to the consistency of firm cooked lima beans have a flavor similar to lima beans. Preparing lima beans is much easier though they produce very different medicinal effects.
I would trim down what you need encrypted and store it in a password manager (some even handle attachments).

For individual files I would just use WinZip AES encryption which is very portable and atomic (so bit rot only impacts that single file no the fs).
In the US at Big tech cos(FANG style), that would be the base salary for someone with 7-10 years experience. And then you add on generous compensation packages(stock grants, 20ish% bonus target, signing bonus).

I would say it is eyepopping for US techies who haven't made it into the "big leagues", but there are probably a million software devs in the US making that.
Author here, I don't necessarily think they need an in-house kernel dev, but it wouldn't hurt. Mainly they need someone familiar with the ecosystem that knows how upstream works, knows how to interact with distros, knows how to do some kernel debugging themselves, etc. Hiring a kernel dev makes sense because they'd already have those skills and can help out on the firmware side for Framework as well.

Realistically it looks to me like they need a reasonably technical desktop Linux user with social skills and anything else is a bonus, but I have no idea what skills they have internally
I think the biggest challenge here is getting the resources through the browser - e.g. enough memory to run a decent container, or the ability to open a listening port.
Author here, I wrote this in the hope I wouldn't have to solve my own laptop problems...
yeah, this. It is very tone deaf to assume someone cares enough to contribute a typo fix to your personal blog.

A better response would have been "whoops, fixed! thanks for pointing that out"
In my experience it's always coworkers on the lower end of the bell curve getting pissy. Nobody likes to be told he's just worth less.

And tbh I don't like salary transparency because it usually tightens the range of comp for a position. I've always been on the right side of the curve (getting promoted faster etc) so that would suck for me.
I do this too. Nowadays, even my phone ringtone is as it was out of the box.
I get using docker is more painless, but I still prefer running things outside of a container when the setup isn't too complex. It is mostly because I have some heavily customized dev environment including zsh and all other tools installed, so developing in docker always make me miss a lot of things.
Yes, every item has different value to every person.

> market effects distort the price of something who's value doesn't seem to have changed.

This is still making the mistake that value is independent of what people are freely willing to pay for it.
Does it? I'm always extra blown away when a great game is solo produced especially if it features great art, music and sound.
Or hot dogs?
Man stop trying to get other people to fix your blog. The whole world isn't your editor.
Hey Germany remember that fantastic natural gas deal you did with Russia? How’s that going?
Adding Heat to Electric Vehicle Batteries Helps Them Charge in Just 10 Minutes
Highly Experimental Playstation 1 and Playstation 2 Simulators x64
If people were interested in account portability, Mastodon would be a lot more popular than it is. I’m not sure what bundling that with crypto really adds, for me at least it’s a turn-off as so much of that space feels scammy these days.
A simple computer security question
Is it possible for two devices A & B, like smartphones, to come into contact using any combination of sensors, to "know" each other, such that A can recognize B again with virtually no chance of false positive?
Roubini: We're Heading for a Stagflationary Crisis Unlike Anything We've Seen
Alfred (https://www.alfredapp.com/) and BetterTouchTool (https://folivora.ai/) really are two of the must-haves for every mac.
You can get Linux shells and environments in Windows via WSL https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install
I’m not sure if I would qualify ‘needing to pay more than 600k/year’ as low-balling.
That's why recruiters shouldn't be the ones who make hiring decision
Steve Jobs Fleeced Carly Fiorina
Way back when there were a few substitutes for command.com, but none of them offered sufficiently utility to gain traction outside of the IT department. And since it's now trivially easy to run a unix virtual machine and do your command line stuff there if you want, I'm not sure there's much inventive to develop alternatives.
> Archmage of Infrastructure

So, you work with Kubernetes?
To answer your question as posed: to fix the power/information imbalance that is used to pay people less than they are worth.

To answer your question the way I wish to: thanks to Equifax's TWN, candidate resumes, reference checks, background checks etc - the candidate is already showing all their cards.
Ginkgo trees are either male or female and the horrible smell is only produced by female trees, when ripe seeds fall to the ground, i.e. not all ginkgos smell. Unfortunately, it's impossible to tell if a young individual is male or female (https://www.osgf.org/blog/2017/11/7/blandy-ginkgo).

If you have a patio or small balcony, you can grow the ginkgo shrub (Ginkgo biloba Mariken), we have one and its leaves just turned last week to a fantastic yellow, which is indescribable ... well, I just googled it and the color code is #f9f525
There were many custom services and bots. It could really have an image download +preview transformer bot/middleware
I think it's cool when websites are editable. If I found a typo on a site, I'd enjoy the overall experience of fixing it myself more than asking it to be fixed. I realize not everybody is the same.
The argument is if you can leetcode, you can learn everything that is in TS list
I personally found that part very comforting. Very few people generally talk about getting fired or quitting early, which created this sort of impression to me that everyone just had a model career and never ran into any roadblocks and that I would be under pressure to do the same.

Seeing that someone who is quite succesful and to me admirable got terminated multiple times was very reassuring there.
My guess is they make a nice margin on those Windows licenses and they figure if you're going to install your own OS you might as well put in your own SSD and RAM. It does suck for consumers though.
> they would just use small yield nukes on certain cities to force capitulation

The use of small yield tactical weapons would almost certainly escalate to full blown nuclear exchanges, it's a pandoras box that won't be closed.
Gotta live a healthy life until we can, I guess.
The text are unreadable on the nerds page in Dark Mode.

https://podcastsaver.com/nerds
Why can't we burn plastic for energy?
To your second point, google seems to have ramped up their efforts on micro mapping a lot in the last year. I frequently get a little questionnaire after using google maps to get somewhere that asks me to pinpoint exactly where the entrance of the building is, if there are multiple entrances, are they accessible, etc etc.

Google also started rolling out more details on sidewalks, parks, etc in some cities, so I'm guessing they might transition that to more cities in the future.

There are definitely gaps in some areas where google is quite far behind compared to OSM though. Trails is one area, I personally have spent a lot of time in OSM accurately mapping out trails in my local parks.
Using only flag emojis and exclamation marks
This is a non-trivial question.
Fighting back doesn't change the outcome either unless you win.
> Look up what average commute time is in US. 40+ minute commutes are uncharacteristic

Emphasis mine. Average is not minimum. Those are two entirely different concepts.

I'm not wrong about my commute time, it's legitimately roughly 5 minutes. Since nobody is suggesting a lower commute time for WFO, I'd say that's probably a minimum. I totally agree the average is closer to 40ish minutes, but minimum is not average.
Honestly, I think it’s more amazing that you give a grand total of 2.5 months of paid leave a year (6 weeks paid, 4 weeks sick) .
The value is determined by, as usual, the Law of Supply & Demand. The supply of oxygen far exceeds the demand, so the value is zero.
Yes, this a fairly standard authentication/handshaking problem. However, the man in the middle problem is plenty real in this case. See the failures and travails of electronic car keys; very similar problem.
Can confirm from being the maintainer of a PAM module in a past job. The only thing that was stable was debug builds that enabled awful fprintfs to a file in /tmp. It felt like how a freshman in college debugs their code.
There's an interesting concoction invented by a reddit user known as the 'borax combo' or 'NeXTC' that aims to reproduce the effects of MDMA without the neurotoxicity. It's made up of 5-MAPB (a benzofuran, which this post is about), 2-FMA, and 5-MeO-MiPT. Supposedly it's pretty good.

These guys can get away with legally selling pressed pills of this combo in Europe. I'm not associated with this company.

https://chemical-collective.com/product/pinkstars/
We as a society didn't stop COVID 3 years ago, so now we're stuck being either guinea pigs for the vaccine or for the disease. So far the vaccine has been a safer bet by far.
Worse, what are you going to do about things like child porn or other highly objectional material? If it's decentralized then you can't block these things. Often advocates of these sorts of things say that the good outweighs the harms, but I don't buy that it's really that simple. Imagine if its your kid that has objectional material posted without their consent. Now you have no way of removing it even if it's against your local laws?

This isn't the sort of balance we need.
The reusable bags have a serious UX problem too. I have to buy as many reusable bags as my largest grocery order ever. Next, I have to carry all those empty bags with me throughout the store. Then, I have to launder my bags to get the inevitable nasty grossness out of them.

I wish they had a propane tank model instead: I buy reusable bag credits. At the checkout, my items are bagged from a supply of clean reusable bags, and that number is deducted from my credits (if I need more, I can instantly buy them). When I return to the store, I bring my bags back to the bag return where the bags will be laundered in bulk in commercial machines.
> …the market for a non-censorable or at least trustworthy social media platform exists.

i’m not sure that it _actually_ does beyond extremely niche. any platform where it is impossible to censor would quickly be overrun with dick pill and millions of other forms of spam.
The whole point of currency is to use it. If you are buying a currency to hold on to it, then it is a terrible currency and there is a disincentive to use it as one, thus making it useful only for speculation. I know that there was a pivot when people realized Bitcoin and Ether are not practical for their purported use as currencies, where they are now claimed to 'hold value', but that is ridiculous. They were designed to be currencies and they suck at it. You can make up any reason you want, but if you want a cryptocurrency that has value as a currency then in my view Monero is an example of one, because it has a valued use case.
Docker, well the OCI and their specs, isn’t magic but it is absolutely the magna carta of application packaging, distribution, and deployment.

Docker commoditized “platforms” and k8s is on its way to do the same to “cloud.”

And it’s a good thing, as someone who is very on-prem oriented. I now have a set of APIs and specs that let me present “here’s your full self service cloud devs, enjoy.” And all the tooling works.
Yup this is exactly why I started Awesome F/OSS (https://awsmfoss.com) — I have similar lists for a lot of software and just need to make sure they’re somewhere else other than just my browser!
Great tool. I love it. Thanks!
Isn’t that still good? Just means they’ll get mostly local candidates.
I remember when that came out. Shocking it's already replaced.

Anyone who is still interested can buy one on eBay straight from Microsoft's eBay Outlet (which surprisingly exists):

https://www.ebay.com/itm/255784903190
Yeah, all I've got is unlabeled jugs of oil a friend pressed himself
That's about right: three things would have combined to decrease my 2022 comp:

* When I came back to Google my stock grant vested evenly over four years, creating a 'cliff' in year five. They don't do this anymore, I think because people tend to leave.

* My 2021 comp included several past years of stock grants, and the company's stock had been growing much faster than the market.

* The market overall is down since 2021.

I think I would have made about $470k in 2022 if I'd stayed the whole year.

2023 would have been higher, because it would have been my first year getting the full L6 comp.

(And I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I definitely wouldn't consider $400k "measly" -- even after donating 50% I had much more to live on than most Americans, let alone most people globally)