skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a hidden danger that I only understood late in my career. I like working at small companies. You can contribute big things relatively easily when there are only a few contributors to begin with. You can build something and nurture it over time - anything from a technical asset to a working relationship with a colleague. You get a more diverse range of things to do because not everyone has to be pigeonholed and not everything needs approval from three different committees. You don't need to constantly try to do "high visibility" projects that will show up in your promotion panel because everyone in the company knows if you're good and the right person to take the lead on the next big thing anyway. You don't need to job hop every year or two to find interesting and well-compensated work for the same reasons.

But then after a while you've only worked in a few different places and with a few different people at each one. Your professional network is much smaller than someone who worked for a variety of big name tech giants in that time doing no-one-really-cares-what and climbing the career ladder by job hopping.

I'm really not bitter. If I could go back and tell my newly graduated self how their career would have gone a few decades later they'd probably still have made very similar decisions even with that knowledge. I've enjoyed many of my roles at small companies immensely and I can't think of many less attractive jobs in this industry than being a cog in the machine at some tech giant whose primary contribution to humanity is turning us all into spyware targets and then ad targets.

But it's undeniably true that sometimes in a tough market - even many years into a career and having reached the equivalent of staff/principal level or followed the independent/entrepreneur route - you can still end up knocking on the front door of an interesting employer or doing the recruiter thing to make a move when habitual networkers with similar YOE would not need to stoop so low because they'd find something via someone some other way.
If they sell you the digital copy, you own it.

If it says "license" on the button rather than buy then find another store...

This is not legal advice and is my own personal opinion.
I understand what's you're saying, that any digital scarcity is by design and therefore artificial.

But damn I wish my Steam library had a resale value.
There will always be naysayers stuck in the old way of doing things. Don’t let em get in your head and keep your eyes full of wonder. Incredible things are still ahead.
There's a lot of companies that are going down with SBF. All the money that Alameda + SBF used for bailouts and acquisitions is subject to clawbacks. That's billions of dollars that will have to be paid back. Likely that none of them will be able to since they needed the bailout in the first place and crypto has crashed.
I love this story for many reasons but the big one is the lesson about "selling out your mission." It seems naive and quaint to say "The job of a bookstore is to sell books that people want." except that is really true. We used to have a bookstore called "A Clean Well Lighted Place for Books" that had the vibe described here.

Here's the thing though, profit and loss people get made decision makers. And it is a super simple decision process "Do I take $10M from this publisher to push their book or do I try to find books people are willing to buy?" well the easy answer is take the money. But as this story points out, it is the wrong answer. Once you're taking money like this your interests are no longer aligned with your customer, they are aligned with the publishers you buy from.

That said, the store I've been to most doesn't seem to have changed its layout from selling games/puzzles + coffee bar + bookstore. (something mentioned in the article as being phased out) but perhaps that will change as they get around to it.

Now if someone would do this transformation for a grocery chain I would love to have one of those near me!
I think age gets thrown around a lot but it's never really appeared to me from my singular data point.
I think the larger (at least post screener perspective) is that you always need to stay relevant. If you're working for a company 10+ years doing roughly the same thing doing amazing work, that doesn't mean you're employable in the market at large. You need to feed the trends to at least know what the larger community is doing, and keep relevant skills in your resume (and actually know them) to show you aren't a dinosaur (not in age, but in competence in obsolete tech). I update my resume every couple years if I'm looking for work or not. Not helping, there are a bunch of dead end companies that are the only companies willing to employ the people at the level they do, so it can lead to bleak perspectives when you're forced out and try to work outside your comfort level. I've known more than a few exit software entirely as they were unable to find suitable alternatives.
Use it to raise your monitor to the right height
Same for Dx9, but we're not going to see any updates to either spec ever again.

And on Apple platforms it is actually deprecated.
So you think only gunshot sensors measure crime?
I've never been asked this sort of question at a large company. Mostly "startups" (scare quotes because they're not Silicon Valley startups; think Orlando or Chicago instead).

They also tend to ask a lot about things that might sound innocuous, like hobbies.

If I was being stupidly honest, I could talk about my involvement in the furry community. Most furries (~80%) are LGBTQ (versus ~3% to 5% of the base population).

Instead, I make vague allusions to being a gamer. (I play video games less than anyone I know, but it's not zero, so that's still technically true.)
Pretty sure you've invented something here. A coolest form of copilot. A new way of programming. This is really lispy, this is really cool. Love it 10 times.
A newbie asking a dumb question is completely different than a person, whatever their skill, copy pasting a generated GPT response and asking "will this work?"

In the first case there is thought, curiosity and intelligence, but a marked lack of experience. In the second there is just the ability to type and copy paste, no thinking necessary.

I always have time for a new programmer asking me why their fizzbuzz function doesn't work, but if you have asked GPT to write it for you, and ask me why it doesn't work, you can go waste someone else's time. Doing so, without even disclosing it's AI generated is even worse in my book.

I must be an outlier, but I do not understand this naive and laissez-faire approach many tech workers seem to have with GPT and the social ramifications it creates.
China and Xi’s action in Hong Kong is speaks volumes on its intent. The West’s inaction also speaks volumes.

The comparison to Nazi Germany is on point.
and, how to make the kernel and memory-allocation code working with tensorflow/pytorch, GPGPU is really now just a few libraries made for Tensorflow and Pytorch to invoke, same as CUDA, as far as ML is concerned.
An app that will explain anything like you are 5
I keep describing it as the Enterprise Ship’s Computer. It won’t answer “how do I solve this problem?” But it’ll help you workshop a solution if you do the “thinking.”

…But I’ve also had it clearly tell me in an answer that 2 is an odd number.
Something that seems to be lost in the differences between "horny men craving the DD's" and "women figuring out a practical dress" is the fashion statement made with particular styles of bra, size vs shape preferences, and the relationship of bras to other cosmetic treatments. It's quite a sociological rabbit hole.

In the midcentury the cone or "bullet bra" was really in vogue. Besides lifting the profile to an unnaturally perky shape, it did succeed at providing comfort. It was high tech fashion, for the time. But this look was unmistakably of an era. From the 60's on, perceptually natural shapes became more popular. And this trend towards a natural look probably wasn't just an isolated cultural trend or down to technical changes in bras themselves, since it came along with the growing popularity of surgical breast implants; implants disguise themselves much better.

And yet, sometimes one will come across horny art where naked women are drawn with an unnatural, torpedo shaped bust, as if they were wearing an invisible bullet bra. Is it simple ignorance of the difference? Is it the artist projecting the shape they want onto the figure? This kind of art, being a private fantasy, suggests thoughts that ordinarily wouldn't be spoken.

These questions occur rather independent of the actual size of a natural bustline. It could easily be the case that more men enjoy pointy chests and don't have the background needed to ask for it, so they ask for "large" instead, but are in turn influenced by media into a form of "large" that is unbelievable(much as how standards for muscularity and fitness have become driven by drug usage, and so imagery of "powerful" characters in fiction now often tends towards monstrous cartoon proportions and near-fainting leanness). And on the woman's side, there's a question of "do I want to stand out" that leads towards staying within the trend of natural, and therefore towards considering surgical enhancements that disguise the true intent.

Meanwhile, practical matters of naturally large chests are clouded by all of this. The bell curves of physique are certainly full of unwanted remarks and suppositions.
With the right group, this could make for a great Powerpoint Karaoke[1] night.

1. https://www.powerpointkaraoke.com/
Okay then suppose there is a fraud detection AI and a criminal adds notes on their transactions that do prompt injection so that the AI thinks that the transitions are not fraudulent.
> It sounds like you should be arguing for free IDs for the homeless.

I'd absolutely be in support of that, and not just the homeless.

People have proposed this in the past, and somehow some politicians don't want to pay for it.

> That being said, I spent $12 on my most recent visit to the DMV to get a new license. It is not an expensive endeavor.

Do you understand how many people have to choose between food or medical care each month, and barely make rent? You might not think $12 plus the cost of transportation, plus potentially unpaid time off work, costs much, but it's a lot to some people.

> You can go to the DMV on your lunch break.

Again, not everyone is 10 minutes from a DMV. In some parts of the country you're not going to find a DMV in the same county. Many people have 30-60 minute lunch breaks with no flexibility. Many people have no paid vacation days.

There's a reason that courts have regularly thrown out voter ID laws, and it's because they disproportionately disenfranchise the poor.

> There are programs to assist the homeless with this very thing. The homeless are < 0.1% of the population. It's great to be thinking about them. Programs should exist. But you can't possibly argue that such exceptions are an argument against voter id.

It's not just homeless. It's also the poor.

And it turns out the courts have continuously tossed voter ID laws because of the disproportionate effect on those communities. So whether you think it's a good argument or not, federal courts across the country do.

> Everyone is disenfranchised when voting rules are lax and ID is not verified.

I'm not sure where you're getting your information from, but time and time again people claiming widespread voter fraud have been unable to find actual evidence of it. Multiple Republican governors over the years have put together committees to find the evidence, and although they usually find a handful of cases of people voting illegally, these are sometimes people who didn't realize they couldn't vote (e.g. convicted felons who have not gone through their state's process to regain voting rights), or people who vote someone else's ballot (frequently a recently deceased parent). A dozen people (voting for both parties, BTW, not one or the other) voting illegally should have their votes removed from the tallies, but disenfranchising millions of poor people should not be the cost of doing that.

To paraphrase you, "This is not an argument for voter IDs."
If you've always been a SWE then you may not know this. If you work in the tech world in a non SWE position and the company finds out you can do some programming. You will quickly find yourself being manipulated and pressured into do SWE work except without the pay. Oh yeah and still having to do the job you were actually hired for at the same time. AKA job hell.

Companies love having more dev's they just dont like paying them. In the tech underclass (admins,systems, ect)you keep your mouth shut if you know how to do more than your job unless you want more unpaid jobs. "Sorry that stuff goes way over my head... aww shucks wish I was smarter"
That all dovetails well with my thoughts about the more [AI] automated future. Thanks for sharing.
Doesn't sound very decentralized at all...
So wait MonoGame 2D cross platform… isn’t that using OpenGL?
Ask HN: Where Would You Emigrate To?
I'm a hacker -- I'm not the best... mostly a phreak turned script kiddie fluent in bash and python, and the "vulnerabilties" I find tend to be web application vulns, not hunks of C that smash the stack. I also have a background in policy, and UX research -- I acquired these skills after leaving Washington DC when Trump took power.

I was born in Pittsburgh, and after extensive interviewing (including at RAND and CERT), I'm seriously considering emigration.

If you had the above experience, where would you go?

I'm eligible for an Italian passport "jus sanguias"[1].

So far, the only places that have made serious overtures are North Korea and Israel, but I suspect I wouldn't be a cultural fit -- both have legal cannabis, but I like to eat so NK isn't a fit, and I'm a lifelong Palestinian rights advocate and uh... not Jewish... so they're off the table despite having a lot of their folks into crypto as in cryptography.

I'd joked before COVID I wanted to be a digital nomad and take the train from Moscow to Bejing, but not really inclined to give either tourism dollars and glorious cyberpunk Hong Kong isn't doing so great either so uhh... suggestions?

Where would you go if you woke up one morning and felt like your US Passport was worthless?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_nationality_law#Attribution_of_citizenship_through_jus_sanguinis
Those pale blue hardcover Unix books are quite excellent, made for this job. Best would be to hide possibly embarrassing, smaller, books in there. Crap du jour "in a nutshell", that sort of stuff. On the outside, you are a gray beard, reading Stevenson and knowing the ins and outs of Unix Networking, TCP/IP, and System Calls, but on the inside, the secret of your actual software career "in a nutshell" is laid bare in secret compartments.
They select based on salesmanship, "polish" and "pedigree".
Since it is being manufactured to some extent it should have a very predictable trajectory.
I'd recommend it over any other maps app (e.g. OSMAnd). It uses Google's Maps, but just has a better interface around it.

The tolls option is great. Rather than having an "avoid tolls" setting, it just gives you multiple options and let you decide in the moment. For example, you might enter a destination and it'll give you 3 results:

- 35 min, no tolls

- 30 min, $2 tolls

- 28 min, $9 tolls

Google Maps doesn't understand the concept of "some tolls", nor "I want tolls sometimes, but only if I'm in a hurry or the time saving is significant".

Everything else is just that little bit nicer too.
> More on the January 6th Attack

Just want to say that this part in the footer right here is the web done well.

Imagine if every online newspaper article had an equivalent to this hand-written cross-linking section.
The band size is essentially the circumference of your rib cage, which, sure, can change if you're severely overweight, but generally isn't nearly as affected by weight gain as, say, your waist measurement.
This idea you seem to have of DEFCON having presentations that conflate things like backdooring with remotely exploitable vulnerabilities is wrong. That would be about 1% of them. DEFCON was always reasonable quality. Not sure what the parent poster is on about, though.
I got one of those VESA mounts so the Perl, and Java books have been replaced by technology.
Make your database tables smaller
Depending on where you live, it can be against the law. In Virginia, it's a Class 6 felony. There are exceptions and for medical reasons:

"(iv) wearing a mask, hood or other device for bona fide medical reasons upon (a) the advice of a licensed physician or osteopath and carrying on his person an affidavit from the physician or osteopath specifying the medical necessity for wearing the device and the date on which the wearing of the device will no longer be necessary and providing a brief description of the device, or (b) the declaration of a disaster or state of emergency by the Governor in response to a public health emergency where the emergency declaration expressly waives this section, defines the mask appropriate for the emergency, and provides for the duration of the waiver."

So, you can't simply wear one if you want, you need a note from your doctor. (When masks were required, during the pandemic, the Governor declared a waiver.)
I recently saw a headline that some economists' model showed a 100% certainty of a recession in 2023. Made me think, there's not going to be a recession. Economists have never been good at predicting anything.
I'm not sure how sustainable they are, but there are a couple of used bookstores near me. I think they engage in heavy curation, though -- they'll pay for your books (or even do consignment for rare/expensive ones), but only if they think they're likely to sell.
Donate to the libraries.
Did your library know you were donating them or did you just leave them by the door? The polite and ethical thing would be to call and ask if they accept such donations first. If they don't you're saddling them with the cost of disposal instead of paying it yourself.
I'm kind of amused by this since I have had a LOT of terrible dates as a guy, paired with running into the same person in a professional context and getting the distinct impression they were refusing to engage me as an equal because I wouldn't date them. (That's not the kind of feminism I imagined when I stood up for folks to get internships, jobs, and tenure.)

Unless we're using "toxic" as a synonym for full on sexual assault, which really needs to stop -- rounding down criminal behavior to a personality conflict is horrible, and should not be tolerated.
I've used Blogspot and Wordpress in the past. I suggest:

- GitHub Pages supports Jekyll. I want to like this, but it's too fiddly for me at the moment.

- https://dev.to/ -- easy free Dev-focused blog host. I think you can use your own domain. Good support for quoting of code. A criticism of dev.to is there's tons of low quality and/or beginner material on the site, but this doesn't bother me.

For my purposes (lots of Dev, DevOps, and Quality ideas), I'll be posting on https://dev.to for the next few weeks to see how I like it. If it doesn't fit, I'll go back to GitHub Pages/Jekyll.
Lazy thinking. Governments that provide and purchase healthcare services are also in the business of funding research.

In what world do we not see an alignment of interests for studies from nutritionists and dieticians on this topic?

We have a LOT of studies on low fodmap diets and their health effects.
I'm glad you said it because I was about to say the exact same thing.
May be. Or they just look at every initiatives from a pure bottom line perspective and have no way of taking guts decision based on what they think might bring the industry forward.
Maybe, but I don't know how one woule spin things such as using a slower /more efficient computer or switching to a more inconvenient method of transport as cool
I'll look into both, but "parse markdown, generate static" sounds promising -- thank you

(Basically looking for a blog + a few static pages like about, blogroll, etc)
> No amount of covid is safe, and no number of shots can protect you: “We want to say plainly that you can have a mild infection and still get Long COVID,” the organization wrote, in a Weather Report in June. “Vaccinated people can also get Long COVID.”

And every reinfection makes it worse, it s cumulative damage. There are now multiple studies corroborating these

Where is the evidence that we should treat covid as a normal 'endemic' virus that we can ignore?

I 'm all for masks , at least for a period of time in schools etc, to reduce the waves of infection. This is something we should be doing about all seasonal diseases btw. It is not normal for millions of parents to get infected with multiple viruses every year
I don't understand how the same people who hang out around bookstores + make recommendations (which you classify as "good") aren't the same people on Goodreads writing reviews/making recommendations as users (which you recommend as bad?)
I just started another libGDX project a few months ago (2D only), in Kotlin; it still works as well as it ever did. Have had no issues running on Win/Mac/Linux. Could not find any reason not to use openGL.

I have a feeling GLSL shaders will never die and I'll be writing them when I'm 80.
On a couple occasions, Google Maps kept suggesting and autoselecting a "shorter" route. Upon selecting it, though, my ETA increased by 40 minutes instead of dropping like it said it would.

I kept having to dismiss it until the "shortcut" was passed.
Doesn’t necessarily apply to every industry… sure to a growing sector like software then maybe yes. In other parts of the economy, teams can have fixed sizes and budgets. This means no wiggle room to bring in new people. I manage a team but can’t hire a new full time person right now…I would put resumes in a pile..
What benefit does Google get from improving Maps? Does it make them more money? They get location data even if you don't use Maps.
I work as a bra fitter and ironically what you see is actually usually the opposite: Women aren't comfortable with their cup size because they think it's 'too big'. This is usually mid size women (like 32F - 38DD/E); women with a substantial amount of tissue usually are just happy with anything that actually fits.
Unlike school shootings(just ban guns already), there is no way to resolve it, if resolve here means reverting damage/climate change.

Changes are already in full force as explained by the report.
If only I could use a database where all my users pay for all traffic to it
Google doesn't care. Maps is there to sell ad space to companies, you're the product, not the customer.

To highlight this, it is literally impossible to choose your own route. Google will randomly redirect you, will keep nagging, while you constantly have to click 'no'.

For example, let's say you are driving from New York to California. There are two main paths, dictated by the mountains.

Google knows this, and lets you pick the southern, or northern route.

The southern route is 5 hours longer, but gee, no snow! Google doesn't have "avoid snow", and 5 hours longer becomes much faster, if the northern route has a storm.

So you pick the southern route.

Congrats! For the next 50 hours of driving, google will happily exclaim "I found a faster route!" and switch you over, unless you click cancel.

This means that you are constantly, sometimes as often as every 5 minutes, forced to interact with maps while driving, or be forced to redirect as google wishes.

This 5 year old bug is well known, people complain about it everywhere, but google could care less.