skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A techy scenario I just made up: you're in a common space (eg a bar, gym, or conference) in San Francisco where rich venture capitalists tend to visit, so you dress like they do to fit in. Your goal isn't exactly to portray yourself as rich, but you want to portray yourself as a certain class: not necessarily a millionaire but someone who is doing well and has industry experience & connections and looks like they could lead a successful startup.

One approach is to dress like other famous & successful tech founders: a nice T-shirt & hoodie. T-shirt & hoodie is also just comfortable and common, which is exactly why those famous & successful founders wear it, they're not showing off traditionally by wearing $10,000 tailored suits, they're wearing a T-shirt & hoodie that anyone could wear. Dressing up with a fancy suit might actually look odd amongst the Silicon Valley upper class.

Edit: Another interesting example I thought of when replying to another comment is in luxury retail stores, fancy/business clothing used to be such a strong signal of high status that retail workers there would often ignore you if you walked in wearing T-shirt & jeans because they'd think you couldn't afford it. Nowadays, that's a lot less likely, they know too many people dress like this for a retail worker to safely assume anything. There are a lot of wealthy people who aren't in the news all the time and a lot of them don't dress like a traditionally wealthy person.
Is it a problem everywhere? I don't use nextdoor, but the German clone (nebenan.de) and the community there is very friendly and welcoming.
You make a good point. We need to figure out how to make it easier to use blockchains correctly.

It could be that there is no good answer and blockchains are simply hard to use and we should advise the general public to exercise extreme caution when using them, if at all.
You assume your fictional business is doing poorly. I assume my fictional business is killing it and so yes I would stay at the Ritz with my peerset that I might see at breakfast, or the evening happy hour, or in SF especially, walking to a client/office.
And they still make millions a month or year.

Pretty nothingburger article. Millionaires got caught up in the fame and the rat race. Very blurred line between work and personal life. This will happen.
Unlimited vacation policy is like unlimited hosting - everyone knows there're arbitrary applied rules. Take too much and "you're not performing well enough".

More to say, some studies [0] have shown that with Unlimited Paid Time Off "employees took less time off than previously, presumably leading to higher burnout rates".

[0] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.8121...

Overall, I think Gitlab is building a culture that _to me personally_ looks weird, you know when you talk to someone and have a gut feeling that you can't trust them?

Did they fix location-based pay yet, many times discussed on HN in context of Gitlab? If not, any news on introducing Purchasing Power Parity?
I discovered the hard way that removing python 2.7 from Linux lead to the system being unbootable. I was trying to removing "unnecessary" versions!
> you can't differentiate between an actual empty array or an error

Empty array in this pattern does not represent an error. It represents the fact that no values you asked for can be found. It is like querying a database. It is not an error if your query finds no values.

The calling code that receives the empty array might decide it is an error or that it is not. And of course you can always throw an error, that can be done with the "throw" keyword.

Getting rid of using nulls by using arrays instead is not about handling errors, but about preventing errors, by changing the semantics of your functions slightly so they never need to return null.
This is great for list price workloads. But once you have large usage (N+ MM/year) you’d likely get better savings by doing a multi-year usage contract.
> Which is pretty much true for every medical office everywhere.

Less and less so in Germany. And I love it, online appointment systems are far superior.
Can you define what a "programmer" is?
> There is some paperwork and hassle involved...

Tell me you've never looked into tried to get a school accredited without telling me. /s

Accreditation is a multi-year effort, and institutions do not necessarily receive accreditation on their first attempt.

> Accreditation doesn't prevent schools from adopting disruptive technologies.

Disruptive technologies don't matter if the market doesn't believe your degree is worth the paper it's printed on. If your school is not accredited, students may find it difficult to transfer credits or apply to graduate programs. Additionally, students cannot use federal aid—grants or loans—for non-accredited programs.

> Is the accreditation scheme really a high barrier to entry?

Yes. Yes, it is.
Thank you but: The published content that you can currently access will still be publicly available if I get locked out. Saving the already published content is not hugely important.

Saving access to my ability to keep putting out info via the URLs in question is the thing that concerns me (with regards to my blogs per se -- a much bigger concern is keeping my phone number and email address). Migrating the content elsewhere is a huge pain. I've done it before and it sucks and I have so little traction in terms of traffic and income, I'm not sure it is worth it to me though I think it's important information and would be a shame to just abandon my projects.

Maybe this is the universe's way of telling me to stop tilting at windmills and stop believing that someday my work will be recognized as valuable. I don't know where to go from here if it all melts down, but given my inability to get taken seriously or monetize my work, perhaps letting it all die is the better answer. It's gotten me nothing but grief so far.

I'm sorry this isn't a more grateful answer. I wish things were not like this and I'm pretty stressed out.
I disagree as well. The community didn't do what resulted in the raid. That was the streamer. Yeah you were there watching, but it's like saying "we won" when your favorite sports team wins.
Is Twitch earnings their primary source of income? They arent making income as a media personality outside in addition to the subscriptions and/or connections that could help them after?

I have a feeling the same warning could be given to actors going to LA trying to make it. A percentage become dish washers after washing out in a couple years but tons who don't find a reliable pay cheque via work in the thousands of related jobs that help run the movie business. The personable ones could use their media skills in the wider business world (marketing/pr/events/etc).

I guess you could say they are all in their parents house's bedrooms not touching grass 24/7 which is different than a failing actor, but being an internet personality is much more involved than just being a pro-gamer who falls off by 25.
Tell them to make the videos they're missing on Youtube. If there's already 100 people making that exact video, then there's no gap to fill. Anything else can bring in some money (if you play it right).

I personally made some videos showcasing specific products I used in my hobby. I made video's that showed them in a way I wanted to see on Youtube before buying, but couldn't find. I then added some affiliate links in the description. These video's brought in some money that I then spent on other stuff for the hobby.

Don't expect to earn a living wage off Youtube. You have to get very lucky (or be incredibly good, see 'Stuff Made Here') to do that. Earning some money is quite doable though, if you find the right niche.
This is how per diem used to work.

Amazingly corporations decided budgeting it out would save them money. Even a 500/night hotel cap is better than the difference going in the employees pocket from the corporation vantage point.

Why are so many people so intent on assuming malicious intent on behalf of individuals and positive intent on behalf of organizations. Corporations have exactly one mandate: make as much money as possible. You are a line item, a cost. They will always squeeze you because it is the nature of the organization.
I'm not sure Senior Lecturer exists much in the US. Lecturer is like adjunct/instructor, in my experience.

Is emeritus and adjunct the same thing in those countries? In the US, the former is a semi-retired (tenured) professor, and the latter is not on the tenure track at all.
Democracy and freedom are loosely correlated, at best.

I read a fascinating article several years ago comparing the experience of setting up a hot dog stand in New York City vs communist china.

In China, after bribing the right people, the author was in business after a day or two.

As of the time of the article, the author had been trying for six months to get the necessary permits in New York and still hadn't succeeded.

Obviously China isn't the poster child for individual liberty, but it's also a mistake to ignore the flaws in democratic systems.

I think that Thiel makes some thought provoking points, but all I've seen in this thread is a lot of name-calling.

It's a shame.
Did he not sell his crypto in the Bahamas as well ?.
The old adage of don't shit where you sleep or eat.
If you think about it in terms of what it really is—a powerful statistical model—then it makes much better sense. A statistical model will always reflect the data that is input and the parameters used to adjust it. If you want a racist AI you adjust the paramaters in that way instead, training it on racist input and rewarding it when it outputs racism.

In fact that is kind of what happened with IQ in the first place, people adjusted the parameters in factor analysis (which IMO is really AI of the 20th century; as the most powerful statistical tool of the period) in such a way as to give one group of people a favorable score in a new metric they called general intelligence fed it with biased data, and claimed that the higher scoring group was superior based on this model.

The I in AI is really overblown (as is the I in IQ for that matter).
C programmers claim some things that are simply not true:
1) simplicity - C is not a simple language, it is a language lacking advanced features which does not make it simple to use but it might be easier to create incomplete non-performant C compiler than compiler for better languages
2) performance - C naive/straight forward/clear implementations are not the most performant and most of the C programs are not highly optimised for performance, C compilers have had so much optimisation work done on them that they can actually generate decently performant code but if better languages received same level of effort as what C had they would be able to achieve better performance than C with smaller and safer code
3) clarity - C is not clear to read once structs and pointers are used and specially once it is optimised for performance...and then there is the preprocessor...which is a whole different language that is required to make any non-hello-world program even possible
If I have to provide examples for any of the above you are either not a C programmer or you are an "advanced" C programmer that doesn't have to deal with large code bases and instead deals with small pieces and someone else takes care of the rest.
I mean, just try to figure out what long int is on Linux without compiling a program and tell me that C is simple and clear language...and if you are still clinging on that lie then tell me what a struct looks like in memory so I can interface to it from another language...or even another C compiler...because C is simple and clear, right?
A friend of mine, who works at Amazon as a principal engineer, also mentioned that Amazon had been inflating title too. Per his words, Sr. SDE in Amazon used to be a big deal. People usually got such title after > 10 years of grinding, and they would be happy to stay in that title forever. Principal engineers were treated like demigods. There was even a page on Amazon wiki that cautioned new principal engineers not to think of themselves so. But now engineers expected to get promoted to principal in three years after being promoted to L6. An L6 engineers could be promoted to L7 if they could launch a product.
Overall, making business is simple, just make few things:

1. get some product (it is not really important, what is it, could be even garbage from attic, or old things);

2. make view, who could pay for it;

3. make simplest ad;

4. talk with people who react to Your ad, try to get more info and sell, don't forget to thank;

5. gather info, analyze info, and decide, what You could change to better and if this is interest and/or profitable enough to keep doing it;

6. return to step 1.

Additionally, You could read books, talk with other business owners, learn at courses, etc, but these all are secondary.

Primary for success is doing business , gather info, analyze info, and make decisions based on real life field info.
And a large battery, and an sdcard reader, and a 3.5mm jack.

Yesh, we found out why being strongly opinionated does not work most of the times.
IT has to be Computer Necromancer, surely? Their job is to resurrect dead systems. I mean you go to IT complaining about a miscreant computer and the very first thing they'll do is tell you to kill the thing then raise it from the grave.
Content Warning: Strong and offensive language ;)

https://www.twitch.tv/kattskitchen
1-2k viewers by most metrics of subs/donations/sponsorships gives you a very very very comfortable life. Maybe even approaching millions a year. That's the 0.01% of twitch you're talking about. Anybody with over 500 consistent viewers is the exception.
Ask HN: Companies Hiring Developers in Qatar?
Ask HN: Are any companies hiring developers in Qatar?
> it's like saying "we won" when your favorite sports team wins.

Which is commonly said, yes.
That's not a very conventional view of democracy. Without freedom of speech, how would we conduct rigorous debate and come to an unforced consensus? Voting can happen without freedom of speech, but that doesn't mean it was a meaningful election or that the democratic apparatus is more than a fig leaf for a dictatorial regime.

Anarchism isn't magic, it's entirely possible that an anarchist society fails and becomes capitalist. Just like democracy isn't magic and can fail and become a dictatorship. But that doesn't make these things compatible. My body will one day fail and I will die, but I don't consider my life to be compatible with organ failure.

I'm gathering your definition of anarchism is, "everyone does what they want, except forming a state, and therefore everything is compatible with anarchism?" Because that's not what anarchists are talking about, the classic quip being, "no government doesn't mean no governance."

The definition of anarchism I would use, given in this video essay [1], is (paraphrasing) a body of theory, method of critique, and set of practices to implement a society free of hierarchies of domination. Given that capitalism is a hierarchy whereby the wealthy are able to impose their vision on others (a concrete example being when Charlie Munger donated $1.5B in order to implement his vision of an ideal college dorm at UC Santa Barbara, one that encodes his particular ideological values) I can't see a way it is compatible with anarchism.

[1] https://youtu.be/Ag9EcQsqP_8
George Carlin on “soft language”:

https://youtu.be/o25I2fzFGoY
Or to leverage cheaper compute/energy when it’s available. https://www.crusoecloud.com/features/
Corporate spend also occurs at rate unavailable to the end user.

The only reason you tell someone you stayed at the Ritz is because you haven't stayed there often.
Maybe, maybe not.

here is a video of a more or less AI created minecraft hack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukKfAV4Ap6o
Impressive idea. I know greasyFork and it's great to remind ourselves of it's potential from time to time!
For Apple phones: genius bar told me they’ll clean it for free no appointment. ymmv.
checkout lambda labs, they have very competitive pricing on GPU, they are almost half the price of CoreWeave at the last check.
Do you like digital card games at all? Try Inscryption, it's fantastic (as far as I've gotten anyway, it's also quite difficult). I like it better than Slay the Spire personally, which it definitely took inspiration from, and ran with it.

It's also a game you probably should go into not knowing hardly anything about it ahead of time. I've already accidentally spoiled myself on a few things looking for help getting past a couple parts that I wish I didn't know about ahead of time.

What's the game you played that you wish you could wipe your memory of and play it again?
Ask HN: How to integrate AI into an IoT platform?
Hi HN community,

I truly believe 2023 would be the year of AI going mainstream. As a startup founder, I have set a strategic goal for company: Integrate customer-facing AI capabilities to our IoT platform. But I can only think of letting AI write FaaS functions for now. What else can we do?

BTW, if you are interested, please take a look at our open-source project: https://github.com/Edgenesis/shifu. I'm not here to click bait, but sincerely asking for advices.

I truly believe we can't miss this opportunity. It's like going mobile in early 2010s.

Thank you VERY MUCH!
your imagination is too wide.
I have no idea what the timing of this event is, but there's an interesting confluence of clams and aliens in the world that is almost hilarious off-topic, but I'll bring it up anyway. "Operation Clambake" (xenu.net) is a long running Norwegian site dedicated to shining light on some of the more egregious problems with the Church of Scientology.

* note: some of the very first "Anonymous" protests were fomented on 4chan, advertised on xenu.net, and targeted notable Scientology buildings. I think the demonstrations (both physical and digital) were under the name "Project Chanology". It was some of this prototypical protest movement that was later co-opted and brought into the Q-anon movement.

* note2: there's also some fascinating history involving the site w/r to SEO ranking and other google hacking activities

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Chanology
I don’t know about the actual turbines, but there is GIS switchgear and it’s sealed. Modern GIS don’t leak much(extremely little).
The reactions to this article don't surprise me, but they do make me sad. People seem really cynical about what we have no reason to believe is anything other than an honest request for some common sense.

This kind of attitude - trying to extract the maximum benefit for yourself that the rules allow - is the reason why we end up with stupid policies like having to ask your manager, director and VP for $500 for a lab device, instead of just making an adult decision and buying it.

It feels so cynical and it poisons the well for the rest of us. It's the same energy as wanting to know an exact list of words that can get you in trouble with HR, as though you could then say whatever you wanted within those technical boundaries.

I would not want to work with many people in this thread.
Bankman-Fried says lawyers pressured him to name new CEO
> can just wait for you to make a mistake.

Anyhow, if one slip-up is enough, you're doing it wrong. Imagine you were a mad scientist testing out a jetpack- you are confident yes? But I imagine you would feel more confident with a bunch of nets, and a trampoline underneath that, and a lightning rod in case of a storm, and a requirement that you hold down multiple buttons at once to play with the controls, etc.

That is, if you are serious you will put in multiple safety nets at every layer of the stack so that "one slip" is not enough.

You like to talk to people, but you know that a long-term pseudonym is the gravest danger of them all.

You like virtualization, but you keep some crucial data and keys(treams) on a un-networked machine.

You like anonymizing networks, but you know the caveats of traffic tunneling and didn't connect from your home router.

You connect to a randomly-chosen wireless AP, but you know that just in case your MAC-spoofing fails or you get pwned or something, you are glad that you bought the device with cash and never tied its characteristics to your identity.

You are glad that the only transceiver connected to the device is an external wireless dongle so that when you are done, you don't accidentally connect with your device from home.

You are glad you waited for an overcast day so that you could thwart spy satellites that use visible/infrared light, and that you connected to the AP from afar to thwart cameras.

The list goes on. The guy whose face you see plastered in the news? Yeah, that guy thought his experimental jetpack was the shit. And it was- until it wasn't.
For what it's worth, about a year ago I had data being corrupted with ZFS (something about NVMe + raidz + dedup if I recall correctly) -- this was fortunately while I was testing deployments, and quickly confirmed as a bug (and fixed) by the ZFS team. But it left me equally burned.

Using xfs|ext4 + mdraid is just a lot simpler and much faster, and it addresses most of my use cases.
Perhaps, but this cat is not ever going back in the bag.
I remember in another thread you mentioned that you're doing YouTube pretty much full time but you also said ad revenue isn't that much, so I'm still curious if it really is worth it financially and if so, what the best monetization is, especially for another techie looking to produce YouTube content. Is it worth it these days?
She is highly intelligent but not street smart it seems - one does not win maths prizes for being stupid - just think she was either in over her head and was controlled by SBF and his cult to do rather dodgy stuff.

Did she get any special loans or other gifts from FTX like SBF's parents got a free condo in the Bahamas ???.
Being prepared for the problem style ahead of time isn't cheating, it's just studying.

If your claim is that this style of studying isn't preparing students for the real world where the problems cannot be easily predicted then I definitely agree. But cramming isn't cheating, students are just trying to succeed within the system.
When in deep shit, keep your mouth shut. - not SBF
I chuck all my totps on my wifes phone as a backup. Google Authenticator lets you export the lot as a single QR
> Who reboots a production system without monitoring it?

Anyone.

> Also if you boot with a degraded disk are you not asking for massive trouble

> not being able to boot until you add another disk

Great.

I'm just a [sys]admin who were given a task to do something on $server.

I jump around the red tape, claw out a 15 minute downtime because the task requires reboot, proceed with all that corporate dance with notification emails.

I do my thing, reboot the server and it doesn't return back online.

Suddenly I broke the server, missed maintenance window, amount of mails with CC and RE: in my mailbox grows in geometric progression and the most important - now I need to find out who were responsible for the server, contact him and [kick his ass] ask him to diagnose what is going on.

Bonus points if:

server doesn't have a meaningful BMC/iLO/iDRAC with KVM console

it does have it but it's broken for some reason eg requires Java 6 on Vista

server was configured 10 years ago by a greybeard who is not only retired but already died from the old age

server is 6000km away from any place with a replacement disks and the earliest time when you can send the replacement would be the next spring when the ice would break and taw enough for the ships to move. Of course you can hire a helo to deliver it, which get your ass chewed for an unplanned $50k expenses

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33963000
Its a legal case. Receipts not only help, they are required. AGs prefer cases they know they'll win.