skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is 99%-detail-free click-bait, so it's hard to tell what the real world implementation might look like. (Or put much trust in what they do say.)

- If it amounts to "You may not be licensed as an M.D. in California if you are also trumpeting "COVID vaccines magnetize children", "a quick injection of chlorine bleach will cure COVID", and other such crap? D'oh, YES. And maybe similar for any physicists claiming that gamma rays will give you super powers, lawyers selling "anyone can get away with murder" books, etc.

- If it's some idiot-leftie moral panic Truth Commission? I would not be a fan of that. But notice that we're talking about California. Especially with the state's grim budget situation, I would not count on any Truth Commission being all that high-functioning. Nor endowed with the resources needed to accomplish much.
septic tanks?? You're talking about rural America. Not suburbs. The only suburbs I've seen with septic tanks were in neighborhoods sitting below the main sewer line. Because shit can't run uphill. Power and water? Do you know a single suburb not connected to the power grid or doesn't have running water? Do you live in the 1800s?
yup. imho, the high salaries we receive is a combination of both talent and willingness to do this rather unsatisfying work for long periods of time.

If this paid as much as say, brick layer, I would rather have been the brick layer.
is anyone else sick to death

Statistically everybody is which is why it's a topic boring enough to be avoided - from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
To make a name for themselves and to drum up further business.
Each of these colours should just be a single "pixel" in the wheel, so how did you decide what shape/size to make each colour? Just arbitrarily?
They still have door bells, remember?
FYI this is not about license. It is about silencing LICENSED professionals to speak about the Coof only with Govt approved language. I bet this goes to the SCOTUS and is overturned.
I think HBO has shown us that you don't need a streaming app as good as netflix, people just need to be able to watch your content. If you have the content people will pay to stream it.
I think you've just defined the balance of freedom with fair capitlaism...The artist(s) presumably gains revenue from your purchase, but you gain vastly more flexibility to consume however, whenver, and as many times as you wish the art produced. Kudos!
This is definitely not true. FAANGs have done a lot of lobbying for improved conditions for those on H1-Bs, including the elimination of the caps that have people waiting for decades for the permanent residency, despite being approved for it.
Ugh. There are languages that encourage this kind of time wasting. Avoid them. Also,

> Exhibit A, in some cases, performs the ‘mod‘ 3 and ‘mod‘ 5 tests more than once

Isn't Haskell a language with controlled side-effects? Compiler ought to see that the same operation is performed twice and factor it out. There are no mutable variables in the scope.
332,000,000 people in the US divided by 999 at-risk holders leaves us with less than 0.0003% of the population at risk.

I don't think percentages are useful here. Hundreds of human beings suffering is something I will always empathize with.
https://archive.ph/KcAb6
Well, as reactionaries love to tell us, it's a library and not a framework.

Great, we already have a library for that - it's called the DOM.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for reactive programming, and even templated views. But reacts approach of hiding everything under the rug rather than having a clear "here's where the state changes" and "Here's we we render" divide always struck me as the worst of both worlds.
I'm currently reading the soul of a new machine as mentioned in some other comments, I think it could potentially make a great movie.

The first third of Hackers by Steven Levy has some interesting stories about the PDP-8 I think also could be adapted to film.
Bruce Lee may have died from drinking too much water
#cracking4newbies on efnet
As a citizen, if I get laid off, I get a severance package and support from the state. It is ok if I get laid off. Temporary inconvenience, but family doesn't need to suffer. It is not the case for H1B visa holders.

If H1B visa holder gets laid off, they need to find a job in 60 days. That is a lot of stress. Suppose they find a in different state, they need to move. This is stress for the family and children as well. In the worst case, they may need to leave the country. It is harder, because they need to sell all their properties, move the stuff and relocate the family in an extremely short period of time. I think the H1B rules are draconian.

IMHO, H1B must be reformed or abolished. In the current form, it only benefits big companies to hire great talent for cheap and keep under their control. Similar to bonded labour.
why? you chose to take the job far from your house.

if companies are forced to pay for the time commuting people will choose to live 20 hours away
Couldn't the opposite be argued as well?

Everybody spending 8 more hours at home means so much more individual heating, whereas before, when you went into the office you'd turn the heating off.

Also as someone else pointed, working remote leads to leaving small apartments in the city to move into larger spaces (houses) in the suburbs. Then you would need to use a car more to meet people, get groceries etc. Cities are much more carbon efficient.
For one, because as another comment mentioned Apple's app store is the only option on iOS, so you can't opt out of it even if you really wanted to. I also find what Apple is doing particularly bad because the click data is associated with your account for a period of time decided by Apple (Edit: I said "permanently" before but that was wrong, it does expire but the privacy policy doesn't specify the exact retention period) and can't be deleted short of terminating the account. Compare how Google lets you disable or delete that kind of granular data from your account with the "Web and App Activity" switch.
"A deadly explosion in Poland kicked off hours of near-gleeful speculation about whether NATO would join the fight against Russia."

I don't think it was "gleeful" at all. It seems like NATO members were scrambling around to find any evidence that it was an accident.
The directory service only receives an anonymous notification behind Tor proxyt chain that "hey, if someone asks for this .onion URL, point them to this node as it can provide further directions". It doesn't know "everything". The point of Tor has been from the beginning to compartmentalize what each node knows the the bare minimum.
Neither. The code wasn't standard C, and it didn't just "happen" to work, either.

You probably wouldn't want to build an atomic compare-exchange in standard C, even if it were possible; you find out what the hardware provides and work with that.
Thanks for the keyword "Azure DevOps" I would have never guessed it was that. For Microsoft centric Engineering teams, it might be an easier sell. Then again Azure tends to like to cancel services. Although they are very nice and support those cancelled things for quite a while first.

I also don't see how JIRA can make things bad. I mean bad to use the software maybe, but it is not really enforcing a type of agile onto anyone.
Indeed. Also, the ultimate discount is 100% off things you don't need to buy.
My Neovim Config
> Anything other than an immediate response would have been akin to lighting their company on fire and walking away.

Companies get away with sweeping customer security issues under the rug less and less, but still far too often. I honestly wish we as a people would put other players of this game in as high standards as you do here for this company here.
Its funny to read what reads to me as Hacker News middle-class contrarianism about how silly people use the term cult, when I grew up with parents in actual cults that led me to going in foster care and ultimately severing all ties to them due to their dangerous behavior.
Clothes, hopefully higher quality ones if they are on discount. I was looking to buy a bunch of merino wool socks/boxers/shirts. I buy electronics year round, on the other hand, I never buy any clothes since they always seem so expensive (100$ jeans, or new SSD?)
When institutions are so clearly hypocritical on policies such as this, you have to ask yourself whether the entire premise is a fraud.
Seems a bit desperate. I wouldn't feel comfortable selling another company during an interview.
my comment was made dead for backing up the claim that US funding to the Ukrainian government pays for Ukrainian government salaries. Hardly conspiriatorial and completely what you'd expect the money to be doing if you are trying to help a country not collapse. Nonetheless, I get downvoted and flagged because I didn't google it for people. Maybe they think that all the money sent goes to buying Eee PC's so the children of Ukraine can learn to read and write good.
The thing is, wine "quality" is entirely subjective. I've not found much correlation between price and whether I will like it or not. The only safe bet is that if it tastes too strongly of vinegar, probably people won't like it as much. But some European wines (Spain and Italy) intentionally produce wine with a non-negligible amount of vinegar taste.

I know of a single maker that only puts out wines that I consider good or at least okay: Heitz.

Heitz is pricey though, and a $6 bottle of Barefoot or Charles Shaw two buck chuck can be just as good or better than a huge assortment of $50 or $300 bottles of swill. In my experience.
I find the choice to sacrifice | for comments rather peculiar. It's so commonplace for | to be or.
It's to help companies and H1B workers at the same time. It doesn't support the nativist theme that legal immigrants should be tossed out of the country for no other reason than their company had layoffs it a tight market.

Ideally, we'd spend more on education/training and less on sourcing workers from other countries - but being nice to the workers already here and making it work for small companies seems a legit altruistic move (and good PR).
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely", and blockchain has activated absolute greed in most, hence blockchain not really being developed for anything that is not Ponzi-like.
Yes. It lost its luster. I think it came from being disillusioned by the realities of working for my "dream" job and what once seemed like a challenge technically no longer seeming difficult.
Again, that can be incredibly easily solved with signatures stored in a separate system of record - Effectively, publishing a git sha somewhere else on a regular basis. This is not a blockchain, this is a merkle tree, which is a good idea and is currently unimplemented.

The immense fraud and criminal behavior associated with the "Blockchain" ecosystem is the biggest inhibitor to actually good crypto being used for system-of-record. It sucks all the air out of the room and that's a bad thing.
https://github.com/questdb/questdb is a good success story.
Idk, I thought it was mentioned in almost every article that discusses the pros and cons of remote work.

Not all jobs can be remote though, so i'm not sure why one would expect all of work to be remote. That makes as much sense as 'no remote work at all'.
They are shadow banned, I vouched for this comment. If you look at their comment history, you'll see.
Angry amazon workers driving a giant Amazonger-Z robot able to smash everything... Mhh, Interesting idea. What could go wrong?

I hope they didn't forget to put a bottle incorporated in the low area of the robot also for maximum efficiency.
And instead of writing infrastructure for the developers who write code for ads, you now write AI software/do AI research for a company in order to attract enough talent so they can hire developers to write infrastructure for the developers who write code for ads?

Or you know, just don't work for companies who tend to collect as much user data as they can?
Likely more of an artpiece for the tradeshow than anything else. For the RAPID tradeshow you see plenty of intricate prints like this showing off the capabilities of different AM processes. This one being hosted at the EOS booth is showing off the AMCM customizable platform. Printed aerospikes have been tested a bunch already but none of them are market ready.
Yeah, we’ll aware. I was pointing out the history of medical science being interested in the topic that OP claimed they were ignoring.
If it takes a super-taster to tell the difference, then I'm safe paying for $6 Chuck
And herein lies the problem with socialism...
I bought and played this on GOG. It was pretty good but it was hard for me to remember where I was/had been. I ended up downloading a program that mapped the level as I played it and that helped a lot.

For a modern take on this style of gameplay I'd look at Legend of Grimrock 1 & 2. They are great games
I’ve always thought burnout is the same thing as learned helplessness, which is a pretty well studied phenomenon in psychology. It doesn’t seem mysterious to me that if you repeatedly do a task that is unrewarding for long enough, you no longer want to do it. Then the COVID burnout can be explained by a large scale reduction in the rewards that typically keep people going.
>To sanitize the data, you're putting the input into memory to perform logic on it

Sure, but memory isn't normally executed.

One of the more common problems was not checking length. Many C functions assume sanitized data and so they don't check. You have functions to get that data that don't check length - thus if someone supplies more data than you have more room for (gets is most famous, but there are others) the rest of the data will just keep going off the end - and it turns out in many cases you and predict where that off the end is, and then craft that data to be something the computer will run.

One common variation: C assumes that many strings end with a null character. There are a number of ways to get a string to not end with that null, and if the user can force that those functions will read/write past the end of data which is sometimes something you can exploit.

So long as your C code carefully checks the length of everything you are fine. One common variation of this is checking length but miss counting by one character. It is very hard to get this right every single time, and mess it up just once and you are open to something unknown in the future.

(Note, there are also memory issues with malloc that I didn't cover, but that is something else C makes hard to get right).
I share this interest!

I feel like a lot of ham radio networking is still "offline" from an internet perspective; you may have a LAN or even a WAN but no connection to root DNS or certificate servers or whatever. This tickles my fancy: https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2018/01/off-grid-raspbian-...

I feel like /r/darknetplan is tangentially related, but not quite what I'm looking for.

I've been playing with Internet-in-a-box, which is precisely wrong about its name; it's an offline repository of content that was developed on the internet.

Someday I'd like to marry that with my Othernet receiver, which is a similar offline-hotspot-of-content but keeps that content updated by receiving a satellite data stream. (One-way only.)

Piratebox seems to be a dead project by that name, but I like the idea. A local file repo and possibly bulletin-board for use by folks within range of the box.

Yes, yes, yes, where do we go to chat?
Here's a thought from a former Twitter dev on timeline-vs-top:
https://social.lot23.com/@jon/109372257422277945
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. As the site guidelines explain, that's not ok here, regardless of which ideology you're fighting for or against. Race/IQ flamewar is just about the worst of the worst btw.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm in a similar position and took up coding random projects for micro controllers (e.g. Arduino & ESP32) precisely so that I could get a kick out of writing small amounts of functioning code that did stuff in a single evening. I was inspired to do this by somebody else who did exactly the same (although working in industrial design).
It's not technology, but it is a super niche technical group of people.

Restoring antique and vintage woodworking equipment. Like pre-1920's if possible. There are no manuals, most of the companies are out of business, and there are very few resources available. There are websites like oldwoodworkingmachines and oldwoodworkersforum but, mostly it's trial and error. It requires a super keen eye for detail, and when you're missing parts you have to be really good at deductive reasoning.

One of my proudest moments was when I completely restored a hand-cranked drill press for a family. They had memories of their grandpa using it to build the family home. It was amazing to watch their faces as I showed them the bright brass and walnut it would've originally been decorated with. When I started it was a box of parts that were mostly just scrap cast-iron. I had to learn how to sand cast to re-make pieces!

I've posted about it elsewhere on here, but right now I'm restoring a 24" J.T. Towsley jointer. I'll be done in the next week or two, and can't wait to run some lumber through it. (that being said, I will have to sell it to pay for some medical bills, if anyone is interested in it). I learned on this site that the editor of popular woodworking is actually doing that right now as well. I reached out to him, and was able to provide some technical drawings for a bearing block that his was missing. So that was neat.

That's probably what i like the most about that community - it's an actual community. I was restoring a 60's PowerMatic drill press for a neighbor, and posted about the original column length, since the one I had was converted to a tabletop. One of the guys on the old machines forum actually PM'd me, and drove to my house to give me one! It was amazing.
I use Amazon Pharmacy to purchase my parents’ prescriptions. Quick and easy and wonderful. A lot better than continually dealing with CVS and the associated problems as I had in the past.
In Croatia many years ago, we ordered the cheapest bottle on the wine list. It was disgusting. The locals were amazed that we didn't know to water it down before drinking.
"Hi, can I work at your company?"

"No, it is not possible for me to ethically hire you" is... quite a take.
I've long been embarrassed that US immigration law so often errs on the side of xenophobia and cruelty.

That said, I don't understand education+early career visas. "Come get an education at one of our universities, and then take your utility elsewhere!" If we're gonna train people, we should have onramps to employment so our economy can benefit too.
What do you use for encrypting files and batch renaming on termux?

> Once you build up a collection of aliases / shell functions

Could you share yours possibly?
If that is what you got from what I wrote, I have no words.

Cheers!
Maybe you'd enjoy reading the story of why I quit tech to become a therapist: http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/
> Why would I do that?

Because its fully anonymous chat/discussion. I'm wondering if you have experience with anonymous chat where identities don't matter.

Unlike you, I have experienced it back in the day. So I think I have a thing to say or two about anonymous chat, the tactics that occur on those forums and how meme culture spreads, how the community uses memes to "defend" themselves and establish a group identity, etc. etc.

If you don't care about identities, you'll likely build a system that turns into 4chan (or something like it). That's all I'm saying.

When you say things like:

> I'm not at all interested in their identities.

Well, that reminds me of 4chan. That's all. If you really didn't care, there's a forum out there that works like that. I do suggest you try it out for a bit and figure out why its culture is the way it is.

> This place seems to function decently well

Because moderators like @dang come around here and ban accounts that engage in these activities.

Mastodon allows for the servers to "ban" other individuals or even servers that are misbehaving, so its not fully anonymous or unmoderated. Its not as trusted as a central server though (like Twitter was). Hard to see where everything will end up.
Thanks for sharing! It's really relevant and a nice overview of the problem.
I’ve worked 13 years, looking forward to retirement.
I thought the irony was that they were fine with Twitter when they shared the platform with Louis Farrakhan, ISIS, and countless child predators, but Elon Musk owns it now and reinstated the account of the former president so that's where they draw the line.
It baffles my mind why anyone would immigrate here legally, considering how laughably easy it is to overstay (or cross one of our multi-thousand mile borders or coasts).

I've interacted with DHS (the department under which immigration is housed) and they are nothing but authoritarian jack-boots who systematically destroy your civil rights, I can't imagine what it would be like to actually ask them "may I pretty please papa" on a regular basis while you wait for the next arbitrary reason for denial.

If you came here legally there's millions of illegal immigrants laughing their ass off at all your effort. ~400k removals a year with ~11M undocumented/illegal immigrants; the chances of someone undocumented being removed without committing a crime is well below 5% a year (and probably well below that, since a pretty small minority get into crime and thus disproportionately expose themselves to the system).

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re: it is not easy to retain a good middle class lifestyle long term

Something like half of illegal immigrants don't have a high school education. Yet they earn roughly the same amount as US non-high-school graduates at roughly ~25k / yr. So portraying them as earning much less than Americans without high school education would be wrong. They are earning close to same as citizen without having to go through immigration process. The higher earning illegal immigrants may be using B2B payments (possibly to offshore company they setup) or someone else's document to satisfy I-9, if they aren't working off the books.
People really need to stop with the hyperbole. It isn't the same at all and being on the Green Card backlog isn't H1-B "slavery".
I see voice assistant being useful when trying to get stuff done while driving or otherwise occupied. And I want to be able to speak with it interactively much as I would another person. Being able to spin up new tasks and have it appropriately begin them and query for needed info or on blockers like a person would
Enterprise coding is the mental equivalent of bricklaying though, for better or worse, at least this way my body is (slightly less) damaged by the labor.
They're called life-changing events, right? :)

The daily experience you have today of being able to walk into Walmart or whatever and just buy whatever you want means that you have a certain level of confidence in life. Generally, people buy dishwashing liquid when it runs out, not weeks before with a buffer. If you had to live through a period in which you could go to the store and not find anything, or perhaps no money, or perhaps you can't go out because it's dangerous outside, etc, then you're going to treat that differently, perhaps for your entire life.

Before coronavirus happened there were a ton of things that I had planned to do during my life. They all seemed so certain, like, provided I'm in good health, I can do all of that stuff over the next few decades.

But then it was all ripped away. Not all of it came back. Not all of it _is_ coming back. And so that experience has made me far more short-termist in my outlook. Do it now while you can, etc. I think many people feel the same way.