skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you assess, or even self-assess engineer goodness if they’re never around? Most people take a few months to get productive at a given job and become less productive when they get ready to leave.

So the strawman engineer who has never been at a job for more than a year probably only had 4-6 months of productive work at these jobs, and never had any meaningful responsibilities or career growth.

In my experience, most folks stay around for 2-3 years at a job or >5.
The music app
There’s lots of social activity available for homeschoolers. Field trips, athletics, and lot of other stuff geared for social development. Homeschool parents are usually very connected to each other and make sure there’s lots of social time for their kids.
The bills are just measures of relative value compared to investing in other things. Don't shoot the messenger.
Merck pays Moderna $250M for personalized cancer vaccine
I have a book from amazon (it's about a Seawolf submarine) the book is so bad, the story so lame, and the mix of themes (music-taste with a rescue), kind of artificial...it's almost comical and i bet it's mostly written by a AI who cobbled text together...an absolute low effort book.
Upvoted, but wanted to add a little comment to thank you for writing that, your analysis is spot on and has helped be see the world more clearly.
Hope you find it useful!
It's partly due to mowing alongside highways and medians. ... fewer tall grasses means drastically fewer bugs

This is way too general: in some countries and alongside specific highways, the state of grasslands is actually really good. Like: good enough to grow rare orchids and having >10 or >20 plant species/square meter. Because of correct mowing regimes for that vegetation type.

It also lacks nuance because as explained in another comment already: not mowing at all can make things worse. Which brings us to the tall grasses: meadows featuring a lot of tall grasses but hardly any other flowering plants have can have much less insects that meadows with a coverage of only like 20% grasses where the rest is taken by a diversity of flowering plants.
In Defense of Missile Defense
Considering how rough renters are on property there is never an incentive to make things nicer than they have to be. High density housing is never going to be a good candidate for solar anyway. Not enough surface area.
> Since when are we casually calling for censorship of things that are "disliked"?

Some would argue: since technological progress outpaced society's capacity to cope with it. One of the possible answers for the Fermi Paradox is "everyone invents Facebook shortly after computers", and it seems a lot more plausible than it did ten years ago.

It's hard not to see surveillance capitalism as a variant of what Orwell was warning about - Facebook etc. are the telescreens and two-minutes-hate from 1984. As megacorps start to rival governments in reach and power, who exactly controls them is somewhat less important than their overall impact on the civilization.
The CEO of the start up where I used to work had the following advice for co-founders: "If you want to work with friends, make sure they're the kind of friends that you aren't afraid to say 'go to Hell' to once in a while."

This is a "go to Hell" moment.
I do not believe you are arguing in good faith but I will answer.

Nukes Are very very effective at creating terror. Terror is somewhat effective at almost any action that requires the participation of others. Ergo, nukes are effective at threatening other to do what you want.

Want to counter that, fine. Genetically engineer every person to be invulnerable to radiation and explosions and the desire to use nukes diminishes because they are no longer as effective.

Sayonara.
You think Joe Biden would order a covert operation like this? Or that the CIA is so off the leash that they'd do something like this without cover?

I look around at the plausible suspects - Ukraine, Germany, France, U.K., Poland, Russia and one of the Baltics - and then I think about who's capable of doing this without a huge chance of rock solid proof of their guilt coming to light.

That gets me to either Poland or Russia. Poland has motive (keep Europe split from Russia), presumably ability and if it did come to light that they did it it would be really bad but not existential (I think Ukraine is out because undeniable proof of their guilt might cause real headaches for them)

Russia is odder because of motive. I can see two. One is financial - my understanding is that having a "third" party cut off the gas rather then they themselves doing it will allow them to walk away from contracts on futures. The second motive is that this is another "Cortez burning his ships" type move - something that makes rapprochement with the West harder and so gives anyone wanting that a tougher job.
I don't understand what you mean. Can you give an example of where someone has prioritised their own profit over their own survival?
yeah reddit has huge issues. it’s difficult to find a popular image-based subreddit that hasn’t descended into repetitive memes. and as you say the fast decay of content means that “progress” is only in the minds of the current users. as soon as they decay, the meta resets.

there’s also a shocking amount of astroturfing going on. it used to be useful to search “[product] reddit” - and in some cases still can be - but many companies have cottoned onto this and they can extremely cheaply manipulate a reddit post for very high fidelity advertising. this is especially true for online-centric companies like VPNs and crypto exchanges. the VPN subreddit might as well be an advertising platform

I once saw a reddit post asking about VR headsets where the poster specifically stated that they do not want anything Meta/Facebook because they don’t trust them. the top 3 replies? “I recommend the metaquest 2 because it’s the best value for money” as if they’d said nothing at all
> I mean it CAN work, but only with government / legal oversight or self-regulation.

If NSA / CIA types don't have access to the Intel Management Engine backdoor, I will eat my own mouth.

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

Thanks, government oversight.
Let fallen leaves lie, gardeners in Netherlands town urged
Manticore Search. Here's a blog post with detailed comparison [1]

[1] https://manticoresearch.com/blog/manticore-alternative-to-el...
what significant effects could there be on ecosystems by a decline in bugs? (I'm sure there are some, just curious)
It does not, some claim they have addressed them, no proof exists though.
If the buyer didn't care how much things cost, they'd buy the $500 TV at the shop, not through some crazy "$500 TV for $5000" scheme.

Rich people aren't idiots, I think the target customer for this thing is someone who's so price sensitive that they'll go to huge lengths to get a TV for free.
Awesome! I like this a lot.

Recently, I've been attempting to create a global user style sheet that applies a reasonable set of nicely accessible rules to every website, essentially forcing buttons to look and behave like buttons, and to have a consistent theme across the internet. I started out by applying Window 95-like styles, and this is how it currently looks: https://waritschlager.de/share/0E7AB89CE86B1319A671D35EA2697... (background not changed to grey for now), not finished yet. Turns out, writing a global stylesheet is really difficult. For example, you cannot just "make all buttons grey":

First of all, there are many different ways to identify a button. This is a subset of my current button matching rule:

button, input[type=submit], input[type=button], a[class*="btn" i], a[class*="button" i], *[role=button], *[role=tab], *[role=menuitem], *[role=menuitemcheckbox], a:not([role=button] ...etc) > *:not(div ...etc)

with the last one probably being the most important one next to `button`. ...and this still does not catch all, because you wouldn't believe how often web devs just take some div and put an onclick handler on it without making it accessible.

Secondly, as soon as you overwrite the background color of all buttons, you will lose its background images which may be important. This happens way too often, also surrounding elements which actually have nothing to do with button semantics. So you need to apply a partially transparent background color. While it can still look perfect with the right tuning, it will then look horrible on non-white backgrounds.

There are also way too many nested buttons and empty buttons out there, it all needs consideration.

Finally, to detect a "pressed down" state, you'd normally use `aria-selected`, but barely anyone ever uses that, so it's back to matching class names `.active` and `.selected`, but then you also need to exclude `.inactive`, `.interactive`, `.deselected` and so on...

My conclusion so far is that building a global style sheet is definitely possible, but can get ugly sometimes. And instead of hand-crafting my own styles, I can now integrate 98.css's ones, that's great :-)

Also worth mentioning: A near-perfect win95 XFCE theme: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
There's a vast gap between $10/day and a SRE's salary, and minimum wage doesn't sound reasonable for something that's this traumatizing.
Regarding the niche comment. Look at any invasive species. Once it arrives within 10-20 years it can dominate the region it’s in. Evolution occurs the same way; once something mutates in a way with competitive advantage it expands. With insects this can happen rapidly (because they lay so many eggs). I don’t have it handy now, but we have examples of this in grasshoppers.

Pesticide resistant insects are another example. Now, this assumes we don’t keep altering pesticides, but we do. If we keep trying to reduce insect populations we can, so I don’t think it’ll happen unless we allow it to happen.

As for the other comment, my point is really we have records showing massive amount of insects all throughout history until the introduction of pesticides. Even during the Great Depression in the US we had massive swarms of insects. Once pesticides were introduced at scale we noticed a decline in recorded swarms until now we don’t even see them on windshields.
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-GitWeb

Git is absolutely trivial to use in a fully decentralized fashion. GitHub and GitLabs success shows how much people don't want to run their own servers.
Perhaps ironically given the thread author's concerns about surveillance, I solved the computing problems of my elderly relatives by switching them to Chromebooks.

They really just use the computer to browse the internet anyway. The fact that there's no room for malicious actors to install crap on that architecture to interfere with the user experience because the user experiences completely dominated by one megacorporation's notion of how the computer should work has been a Godsend for maintenance of their machine.

Now, the Android phone is an entirely different story, unfortunately.
"Lunch with the FT" is exactly this.
Exactly so.

I have to unplug lab cables when flashing a machine or I don’t get a choice.
I've written a full-text search engine as well. I don't tout it as a replacement for Elasticsearch, but it does have a few advantages: it's fast; supports HTML documents; supports Polish inflection (via a full-blown morphological dictionary, not just a stemmer); and has a very compact on-disk format (pre-parsed HTML trees, Huffman-encoded over large alphabets). Oh, and it's 100% Clojure.

It underlies a concordancer GUI called Smyrna: https://github.com/nathell/smyrna, https://smyrna.danieljanus.pl

I haven't touched it in six years, other than a few small changes. But I do plan on revisiting it when time permits.
If it helps, I cover it in my little unboxing video: https://youtu.be/WLwVnYb5Adw
Wouldn't that necessitate being a distributor of anything you could be trying to moderate?
I am only an occasional users, but for me the Firefox Plugin "RESTClient" gets the job done:

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/restclient

Not sure how this compares to the more sophisticated tools presented here.
random reactions:

- "lack of loyalty" as the article called out is pure BS, but a very real BS specially among small- medium-sized orgs. I ask: how can you even developed loyalty over a short period of time. You may lack the perseverance to enable loyalty, but this says nothing about being able to be loyal

- I guess short stints here means you quitting rather than being poached because From where I am, updating the linkedin profile after switching jobs make you "hotter" for recruiter and propositions follow for first couple of months increasing the chance for another short stint
Some benchmarks are listing here - https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Articles.html#benchmarks and https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/prometheus-benchmark by itself.
Submitted my litte weather API projec: https://open-meteo.com

Thanks for the free promotion opportunity!
Which is precisely what they did, non-explosively.

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-to-stop-nord-stream-...

> Germany is halting the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline in light of Russia’s incursion into Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said.
Also Microsoft stores the escrow keys for disk encryption and login on their servers when you use a Microsoft Account, and will happily hand it to the government on request.
There is a fork by the community "I still don't care about cookies" (note the "still") that should avoid any evil stuff Avast would do to the original extension.
> I'm curious as to what value you get from OEM RAW processors.

Exactly (or almost) the same render as from SOOC images.

I hate it when I deliver SOOC preview images that the customer really likes, but wants some small tweaks (remove a fly from the image, for example), and the colors or contrast on the resulting image is different because I didn't use the same processing engine or color profiles.
This is not a direct alternative to ElasticSearch. Tantivy is closer to an alternative to ElasticSearch since ES is built on top of Lucene. An alternative could be achieved if built on top of Tantivy.

Sonic here only returns document identifiers so you will never be able to get document information back. This is very useful though if all you want to do is index text data and then get the stored information from another data store.
This terrifies me, TBH. I'm almost 50 and a little bit technical (used to admin Solaris boxen), and I just know the day will come when I haven't a damned clue how any of this works any more. For the time being, I'm happy using Linux as a bootloader for Emacs; will that be enough to see me through to my personal end? I sadly doubt it.
Time is scarce. The blessing of WFH is that you start working with energy since you don't have to wake up 2 or 3 hours early (my case) and start investing your time to prepare yourself for work (both physically and mentally).

This is why the "9-5" is a false narrative: the moment you wake up, you're thinking and preparing yourself to go to work. This means that if I commute, the pressure of being on time + the time you take to prepare yourself to go to work becomes part of your work. Same goes when you finish working (detach yourself from work, commuting, etc...).

WFH gave us the opportunity to login 1, 2,...5 minutes before work, and logout instantly and be at home or wherever you are, giving us our time back.

You can't put a price on that. We're talking 1, 2... good hours of sleep, workouts, etc... And peace of mind when you get out of work (zero commuting stress, more time to be with your family, etc...).

The "WFH is killing X thing..." Is straight evil. Simple as that. More free time, productivity goes up because we're rested, quality of life improves, and somehow this is killing whatever? ... The heck with that...(excuse my french).

I sincerely hope SWEs, Devs, don't fall for "back to office" narrative and relenquish this newly found benefit in an economy that's moving towards less benefits.

We could go out of a limb and arguably say this is one of the best unplanned benefits for workers since working rights.
Sounds like we need a proper recession
You miss a point: smart-phones are "smart phones", so the user must be the dumb since smart and dumb are relative classifications.

SmartPhones are not made for the human user/formal owner how actually own next to nothing but as macro-spy devices, maintained by the spied target, bough by him/her directly. It's the modern evolution of classic spying: in the past was those who surveil to pay, install, maintain spying gears, now they just made them attractive like a drug and their target do the rest.

Of course when you are able to form such big cohorts of junkies it's hard not abusing them too much. Some have a certain understatement and control their behaviors, some do not.

Oh BTW be happy, because your next smartphone have 4 wheels, can kill you or someone else and it feature more cameras, mics etc.
Missing from all these is a social network of "our friends and adjacent social circles". And perhaps, on top of it, a service aggregating output of all the ones you listed, so as a user, I can have (for a lack of better term) "people-first" mode of interaction. By this I mean, I want it to answer the question, "what have X been up to recently?", where X is a scope I can alter - from "all my friends" to "a particular group" to "particular friend".

I.e. what Facebook used to be, before the "great social network unbundling".
If by "bad press" you mean "other users getting fucked over by an entire homogeneous ecosystem of the same OS being a breeding ground for gigantic botnets that criminals were able to turn on services to knock them off the internet," yes.

The only real way to address it without the mandatory updates was for the ecosystem to diversify; can't use a Windows exploit to compromise a Mac OS machine.

You can imagine why that solution was not on Microsoft's list of recommendations.
I would replace 'protesting' with 'terrorizing'.

They've been visiting politicians their homes with torches, threatening them and explicitly their kids, blockading highways with burning rubble, blocking highways with asbestos, using their tractors to rip out doors out of government buildings.

What is most aggrieving to me is that the police is pseudo on the side of the farmers. The head of the police said that he 'fully understands the plight of the farmers' and will keep on a policy of de-escalation. Scant few fines too.

Meanwhile a couple of climate protestors that tie themselves to a bridge get their head bashed in and then get fines of €300-5000.

Clown world.
> You're assuming this is entirely genetic.

Not at all. I'm merely assuming that there is a non-zero genetic component.

> The drop in birth rate since the industrial era has nothing to do with genes, and everything to do with urbanization, at least from where I'm standing. :)

I completely agree. Well, urbanization and other, related environmental factors (even farmers have fewer kids than before).

When you change environment for any species, there is a possibility that reproduction rates go down, sometimes radically. For instance, if you put cheetahs in a zoo, you're not likely to get many cubs. From a reproductive perspective, a zoo is a very hostile environment for a cheetah, even if they are guaranteed enough food, a qualified vet and have no risk of being killed by lions.

Still, over time (and unless the population goes to zero), when facing an environmental change that is hostile in the short term, the species will adapt to the new environment. When this adaptation only requires a change in relative frequency of already existing genes in the genepool, this can go very quickly. (Which is perhaps the greatest benefit of sexual reproduction.) If it requires a string of mutation, it can take a very long time.
or use a bookmark?
"Some worst case scenarios I've seen, and not from alarmists, from pragmatists, suggest we could be looking at societal collapse in a decade.

If that's right (and it may not be, but I'm also sure the error margin isn't huge either), that means most people, possibly everyone, born today probably won't see adulthood."

Citation needed...take a deep breath, I think you are listening rather to alarmists than pragmatists.
> "If you find that interesting, you might find this interesting" seems like a perfectly reasonable motivation for an HN comment.

But that's not the form of the comment. It begins with "I think there’s a good chance it was ghost written by a content farm"!
So now that the pandemic is over they should rebound. right?
If one of those strategies can be done locally and another requires long distance transport and multiple on/off-loads, I can see how the local one will have less lost to leakage. That might be even more true in communities that assign high priority to less leakage and/or where the process produces energy or other economic benefit for every ton.

Moving and handling waste plastic less is a form of improving waste management.
I didn't imply that, I don't assume someone with a good profile doesn't have a job.
> the will to prosecute by authorities is often low

I hate that this type of statement always pops up as soon as I see any mention of LE. While it might be true for some parts of the US (and probably other countries), it isn't true for the majority of people involved in this field. It's just incredibly hard (thankfully) to convict someone of a crime. It requires a lot of evidence and paperwork. Meanwhile there's a pretty limited amount of resources to work on this kind of thing.

It would be impossible for 'authorities' to investigate 20 million images they receive from Facebook. But implying that authorities don't investigate anything, and don't even want to, is just flat out wrong. For example, here's a story about an awful child predator that was caught in The Netherlands, because American authorities started an investigation into reported images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_sex_crimes_case

This case is also an example of what authorities tend to focus on, which is producers. A lot of effort is spent trying to prevent producers/abusers from causing more harm. All of this effort can't be invested in investigating brokers/spreaders of 'known' CSAM. Time is limited for everyone and it is too for authorities.

And yes, a probable majority of fraud cases don't get picked up, even if they seem obvious and easy to solve. This is because the man hours for actually getting someone convicted is huge and authorities usually focus on cases involving violence. I personally had to cut short fraud investigations, because preventing a wife from getting murdered by her husband or stopping an illegal arms shipment took preference. And I can't say I feel guilty about that.
They may have bought it 5 years ago, but it wasn't 5 years old. Also for future reference you can update the certs on older OS X versions to get a few more years out of a system for someone thats happy with it: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/422332/how-do-i-up...
> It makes web serving as robust as SMTP, with official fallback servers listed in the DNS. This makes most uses of CDNs or DDoS protection services unnecessary, as you can just spin up N different servers and list them all in the DNS. No need to centralize everything behind Cloudflare or Google.

There are lots of load balancing solutions that are really well developed. I think most people use cloudflare because its really easy, and (the probably misguided notion) that shaving a few ms via georeplication is worth it . And for some users, fear of a volumetric DoS that just totally saturates the network link.

I feel like the type of people who would be content with the load balancing offered by SRV are probably already using load balancing on some other layer, e.g. LVS or HAproxy.