skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried this in the past, it never worked. Resume spam is waaay better. That said it still is bad. In my whole life I got to technical interview stage only 8 times, and 2 of these were referrals...
The founder is Dan Streufert. (From the linked press release.)
Just because it's the best doesn't mean it shouldn't be criticized if it can be improved. That being said, this article is really more about fundamentals than Bitwarden specifically.
This feels a lot like the lectures these people are tired of. "Why didn't you pick a higher-paying career, why did you go to college if you couldn't afford it, why not cut out all unnecessary expenses and stop seeing your friends".

Yes, all these people could probably make different choices to save a bit more money, but a) min-maxing life like that sucks, and b) most people constantly giving this advice didn't do that themselves. Is there a single person in America who:

1. At 17 years old ignored every single adult in their life and wisely chose to go to trade school instead of college because their 30-year projections of their own life showed loans might be too much of a burden

2. Stifled all personal ambition and passion and chose a career with the most objective earning potential

3. Cut off all friendships and moved to the lowest cost-of-living area where they could still find a job

4. Lived like an ascetic hermit until they had a large enough emergency fund in the bank

The answer is no, this person does not exist, if they did they would be miserable, and nobody wants to live in a world where this lifestyle is necessary for an average person to feel financially comfortable.

Edit: Also, when you describe $40,000 as a "low income", are you aware that the median income for a 20-24 year old is less than that?
What a weird attitude. "Why would you ever expect [Business X] to offer [Feature Y] that you, as a potential customer, would like to see?"

edit: especially since they are an outlier in the podcast hosting space in this regard!
Self-hosting Mastodon on AWS using Nomad
Just a reminder RE:Making investors whole.

If you defraud investors, but magically a trillion dollars appears in your bank account and you distribute it equally to all investors you defrauded and they somehow walk home with 2X what they invested, YOU HAVE STILL COMMITTED A CRIME. The crime is not owing money to investors, the crime is taking their money and using it as the company's money. It doesn't matter if your bonkers ideas of ownership allows to you make each and every investor a trillion dollars.
Stealth of Nations

Nudge

Thinking Fast and Slow

Without Remorse

Cuckoo's Egg

The Intellectual Lives of Children

Why Johnny Still Can't Read or Write or Understand Math

Technopoly

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Leviathan (Dolin)
The untrusted OS could ransomware encrypt the already-encrypted trusted one. The attacker is denied access to my SSH keys, but so am I.

Fully willing to confess this feels an outsized threat model, but it is something. Going forward, this separation will allow me to undersize my next linux workstation which requires far more modest hardware if never running games.
Hope the Leopard tanks aren’t running azure…
People dismissed the XP book by saying it was just stating practices that already existed. Articulating and selling an idea is a huge part of the challenge. Fifteen years later if you're having any success at all with Scrum it was because your team adopted the half of XP that didn't outright disagree with Scrum.

I liked the Refactoring book because it gave me names for things I figured out in 1996 (unfortunately while using VI as an editor, gave myself RSI in the process). It was part of an education in the value of books that help you only by existing so you can hand them to people who ask a lot of questions.

I had a boss who was big in the Kanban 'movement'. We got along famously, in part because I re-invented a Kanban board in 1994 when faced with a convenient whiteboard for the first time.

You can do a lot of amazing things with decent first principles. You can make some amazingly large messes without them.
Space might be a good enough approximation of energy to not bother?
> If I'm using a long random password generated by a password manager, are these attacks realistic?

Most likely no. But some people refuse to use such passwords, even when using password managers. Also it was only a few years ago Sony was caught storing passwords in plaintext so… Unless you trust the service is hashing and salting your password, MFA can be a good idea.

> But if they can phish or otherwise capture my password, can't they just as easily phish or capture my one-time code?

The TOTP lasts ~30 seconds. So the attack needs to occur in real-time (opposed to a form that just captures information). Can this happen? Absolutely. But it still raises the bar for the attack.

But yeah I agree, forced 2FA is infuriating.
What literature do we study from the 90s?
Rotating Detonation Engine (Wikipedia.org)
The World's Best Small City Index (2020)
Depends on required features like cross browser support, cross device support, handling pdfs, ocr images, etc. Some of the mentioned features already exist in the browser. Not sure if the browser vendors are incentivized to develop and maintain such features.
investors care about long term profits. If they magically knew that income would fall this quarter and 2X next quarter, the price would go up.

The challenge is that they dont have magic powers to see into the future. If a company income is falls this quarter without a compelling reason such as investment, this data indicates that the company will not do good next quarter.

The are tons of examples of company stock prices increasing due to a acquisition, despite a lower quarterly profit.
Ironically, I mentioned Jared Leto’s youthful appearance at age 50 and then realized he was in American Psycho. I guess he took Bateman’s regimen to heart.
Sigh, here we go again. These keep popping up and a few months later the projects are dead again because it turns out this isn't all that feasible without both massive engineering capacity and an ecosystem to go with it.

Most of them that manage to get to the point of a UI that doesn't look like Fischer-price fail on the ecosystem (i.e. they have no ecosystem at all, or they try to shoehorn an existing one on top like a standard ports/apt/yum repo from another distro).

Besides that, the FUD in the README doesn't really help anyone since the masses care very little, and even if they did care, they almost never have what it takes to look at the sources, and even the small subset that does is practically not even checking a single package's sources.

If they just stuck to a "we want something that feels like 2005 apple" tagline it would have been a fine project to fiddle with for fun, but as soon as grand statements are made ("reinvent the Mac") we're back into generic "things few people care for"-territory.
How to Get New Ideas
I'm curious what drives customers to these services. Why would someone want to pay for a customized phage service? Someone who is taking lots of antibiotics or concerned about them?
How's that? I don't even see problem free self-driving taxis, and they even passed legislation for those in California. There's hype and then there's reality. I get your optimism though.
> But Google is irreparable and sinking fast

So you've invested all your money on shorting GOOG?
You missed the ever-powerful ellipsis in what he said:

Today "..." and then it will be solved.

It's the most powerful operator in the whole of applied computer science.
Right before xmas! Gave my little sister a story as a gift :)
You've become confused as to the hierarchy. Here is the rule:

1. The human is the master
2. The machine is the slave

There is always a way to change an order in a POS system. If there is no button to do that, that is not a concern for the customer.
Not all of them have to be money related.

> Like I'm able to say a speech application I made was used in over a million calls, because I looked at the database and saw that many call records in there. And I'm able to say that I set up an one-click 30 minute devops process for deployment that was previously done over the span of 4-8 hours manually with multiple engineers onhand in case things went wrong (and they often did due to user error), because I was physically present during those manual processes and could directly compare and contrast the time difference.

These are both perfect for a resume. They are quantified and measurable and would be interesting to talk about in an interview. For example, I'd probably ask you what tools you used to set up your 30 minute deployment process and what they were using before and how you managed such a huge gain. I would ask you how you built your voice application to scale to a million calls.

These are both great for a resume. They don't all have to involve money.
Enough podcasts to listen to that aren't on any of these platforms.

Give me RSS or death.
That's a great summary, putting everything in perspective.
Any news of anything that offers similar benefits that i can just sprinkle into my ice-cream shake?
I keep it in my other account I have to access with 2FA....

uh oh!
That’s still a greater risk though. If you end up in the position where you do lose all your clients simultaneously, it can be catastrophic.

I suppose it’s also the hustle of finding new clients that never interested me much.
The title has two parts, both of which you've provided ample commentary on, but only one explicitly. In Their 20s, Struggling to Save... and Tired of Being Lectured About It. "Ridiculous" and "and so can you" come down on one side of the question of, how should we morally judge people about their savings?
The negative comments on this post will probably be brought up in 5 years when most SQL is generated through GPT- n+1 like models
"I don't want to see you, I don't want to hear from you."
It is absolutely possible to do it. Thousands of athletes and artists who depend on their weight professionally do it. Here’s one example:

https://youtu.be/5356zt0JiDY

It does require work to understand your particular body, and discipline to do it consistently. Which is again, why it is not a good technique for most people. Most people don’t have the time, motivation, or really the need to do what this woman (in the video) is doing.
I have I think good insurance. It still asks for $350 for an ER visit.
On the "cooling inflation" part, there's a different interpretation of what she's saying that I think is actually true and meaningful. Even though the rate of broad increase of the price of services and goods has declined recently (inflation has started to cool), the ratio between housing + food costs and income is still elevated (housing and food costs remain high).

The alternative is possible, that housing and food costs would remain steady or even decline while other prices increased, bringing the ratios back to more historic levels. But, this doesn't seem to be happening.
It's an app I coded myself over the better part of 15 years now - it's nothing too exciting, just a LoB app for contract administration with a small but dedicated user base. The version I worked on before the current one was a local-only app. The current version was developed to be client-server. Toyed around with doing a web app all those years ago, but it didn't feel like the web as an app platform was quite there yet. I also had a fair amount of legacy code that was still useful that I didn't want to throw away completely.

Anyway, after focusing so much time and effort on the client-server apps, it is finally time to focus on a web front end (only 10 years or so late!). So I've written a middle-tier (running under Wine) with Nginx in front it. The middle tier translates JSON over HTTP->COM calls, then translates COM->JSON over HTTP on the way back. It's a bit of a Frankenstein's monster, but it works and the approach has meant I can keep a tonne of existing code and keep adding features and improving existing features, which has been nice.
More discussion:

a year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28733897

2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26092040
OTA == Online Travel Agent

A third party booking site like travel.com or Priceline.com used to book hotels and airlines instead of booking directly. I never use third party sites.
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-average...

Sure, if you have exactly zero risk tolerance, pay off a low interest rate loan. But based on history, you will almost certainly lose over the long term of a decade or more.
Private prisons should be banned. Too many perverse incentives.
His goal seems to be to effect change. My understanding is that before reaching these questions, he _was_ interested in the job. Explaining to a potential employer that they lost a candidate's interest because of their application questions seems like something they would want to know.
Everyone who doesn't align with the "stereotypes" assigned to each group by the DEI bible gets affected disproportionally in really weird ways.

Your friend is one of those cases. I am not blaming him or his kids for utilizing the current situation to their advantage, and I don't feel particularly bad about someone getting a lucky hand and playing it well either. Good for him and his kids.

But on the flipside, imagine being an asian-american kid coming from a poor family. Not only you get disadvantaged by the financial situation in your household, you then get screwed over by the DEI initiatives on top of that. Too bad, kid, shoulda aligned with the "stereotypes" assigned to your group by DEI better and had well-earning and educated parents. And given how DEI policy supporters often use the "it is for the greater good as a society" argument, it feels doubly dirty and insulting to those individuals.

Even the factual outcomes and effects of such policies aside, officially assigning those "economic stereotypes" to various ethnic groups and treating individual people in those groups based on those "stereotypes" (derived from the aggregate data for that group) just feels icky.
I think I've read it before. But for something like this, I've got time to read it again...
Amazon acquires 400 acres near new Intel development in Ohio
It's clear that Jobs was critical to Apple financial success. The abnormal clarity of his contributions would actually obscure the argument, though.

There are many more Ginni Romettys than Steve Jobs, how does one successfully apply this analysis in less obvious scenarios?
Yeah, that's a fair critique, I think the short answer is depends who you ask.

See this FAQ here: https://www.licenses.ai/faq-2

Specifically:

Q: "Are OpenRAILs considered open source licenses according to the Open Source Definition? NO."

A: "THESE ARE NOT OPEN SOURCE LICENSES, based on the definition used by Open Source Initiative, because it has some restrictions on the use of the licensed AI artifact.

That said, we consider OpenRAIL licenses to be “open”. OpenRAIL enables reuse, distribution, commercialization, and adaptation as long as the artifact is not being applied for use-cases that have been restricted.

Our main aim is not to evangelize what is open and what is not but rather to focus on the intersection between open and responsible licensing."

FWIW, there's a lot of active discussion in this space, and it could be the case that e.g. communities settle on releasing code under OSI-approved licenses and models/artifacts under lowercase "open" but use-restricted licenses.
Just to be safe, make it an even millennium.
https://archive.is/n6GbO
What are all the capitalists going to do if everybody wants to go for the big bucks and not do things like social work, nursing and many other jobs? Society is seriously f...ed up if it's ok to exploit people who do a valuable job for society and only selfishness gets rewarded.

Same for entrepreneurs. What are the genius billionaires going to do if nobody wants to work for them and everybody wants to be an entrepreneur? We need to reward all kinds of useful jobs and not have all reward go to the sociopaths at the top.
$40,000 is an above-average income for a 22-year-old in America. If anything they should have picked someone who made less if they wanted to generalize to all 20-somethings.
There's a sense in which they're complicated. It's a sequence of graph transforms which mostly deal with non-polynomial time problems using heuristics, where mistakes in the transforms can manifest quite a long way away from the error. There's a significant risk that they're implemented in languages unique to that compiler toolchain, as compiler devs are quite prone to solving problems by writing compilers.

There's also a sense in which they're really simple. The input format and output format are (usually) well defined. The user interface is largely printing things to stderr and giving up, possibly in a retry loop when there's an editor involved. The program dependency graph is often quite small so the bug you're looking at is probably in the source code you checked out. Security is not the dominant concern you have elsewhere.
This thing, only discovered last Saturday, is about the size of a large bus and will pass 1700 miles above the earth's surface tomorrow afternoon EST.

The NASA @AstroWatch Twitter doesn't mention it.
Jared Leto: Some of it natural, some work done, some makeup, some good lighting, some video "Photoshop".

Video lies just as still pictures have for many years.
I am certain that people who want to read an article with this title are convinced that life has dealt them an unfair hand, and are willing to ignore or dismiss every example to the contrary.

...as this author has almost systematically done. It's not really a "lecture" when I'm just re-stating the facts in the story, is it?
Yes, the direct quote from American Psycho gave me very strong American Psycho vibes.
Asteroids may make up the vast majority of available system mass. Kind of hard to mine the interior of planets, so that mass is irrelevant. The asteroids are bits of broken up planet internals, right there for the taking?
That is quite clever and rational in a dystopian sort of way.
Like decentralization? That's the main reason I am now on the Fediverse (via Elk + self hosting), because a billionaire cannot just scoop it up and change the rules of the game.
I recall a project showcased on HN that does browser history full text indexing via a proxy. Perhaps that would be a better approach.
Large language models are very intriguing as a technology to replace business people. Make a few PowerPoint slides, fill in an excel sheet. Generate a summary for a pointless meeting.
Well, yes. I favor your program blowing up on integer overflow too, so it's very predictable how it behaves. And if it's not overflow that is the concern here, well, it's not solved by going with another type either.

Almost all the time, usize has a convenient limit that is much larger than needed. On the few exceptions, yes, you have to design your types and deal with type conversions.
I have gone from using midjourney for hours a day in amazement to being completely sick of it and anything it outputs in less than a month.

I have seen hundreds of perfect variations on Duchamp's Fountain in my life too. AI Art is very much like Fountain variations without the human Duchamp involved. Then some AI Art fool extrapolating from that and believing Home Depot has an entire section dedicated to museum quality variations on Fountain.

The actual output is a very small aspect of the phenomena of "art".
> for engineers focus on quality, timeliness and skill.

So put that in the resume. Say how you delivered it better, faster or cheaper than the next candidate in the pile would have.
elementary also unfortunately shares some GNOME-isms, such as avoidance of menubars in favor of hamburger menus, which goes against Mac UX. Menubars serve as a central index of application functionality under macOS and are a central pillar to its UX.
I don't know how common it is, but I can imagine it avoids complaints about "last time you gave me Broadwell but this time I got Haswell".
Advice on struggling to build a community for my social app against loneliness
Hey everyone!

I build a social app for people that are lonely and looking for other people around them to hangout with.

Right now I am struggling to build a community around it. I am more of a developer/product manager than a business person. So I dont think I would be the right person to help this product get to the public.

What should I do, any advice?
> This feels a lot like the lectures these people are tired of.

How do you figure? The person you're replying to is pointing out that the majority of people profiled for the article seem to be doing just fine: they are saving at a decent (some at a more-than-decent) rate, and are living fairly comfortably. Lecturing them about something they're already doing seems pointless.

Only two of the people profiled in the article seem to actually be struggling, and might get lectures they're tired of. If the others are getting these lectures, then whoever is doing the lecturing clearly doesn't know how well they're actually doing!

You are replying to something that the grandparent did not actually write.

> when you describe $40,000 as a "low income", are you aware that the median income for a 20-24 year old is less than that?

Are you aware that something can be low even when there are other things that are even lower? Also I don't see where the parent mentioned "$40,000" at all, so maybe you clicked the reply button on the wrong post?
I don’t know. Sure, we may likely never see such a crack team of programmers and designers driven by a radical visionary again. But we do have vastly more computing resources than they had. Can’t we solve some of these problems with software?

Since everyone gave up on native software in favour of web frameworks and the browser, there has been precious little innovation in native UI frameworks.

So my point is: couldn’t most of the attention to detail in Apple’s Classic Mac OS be replicated with a UI framework that understands design concepts such as proportionality, spacing, Schelling points, etc?
Colours were pretty crap on CRTs. And greys were better on the eyes than dazzling whites. Even Netscape defaulted to grey.

I took fvwm and a very simple blue bar, trim and simple window buttons. And weirdly now it looks pretty modern and fresh.

Anyway there's always the bizarre windows fisherprice theme, and over used chrome gradients there to help you bring up some bile.
Unless they actually like what they do...

It can actually be pretty rewarding to be the person who knows most about the data in the company, while solving logic puzzles during the day.

PS. i do hope most analysts solve more interesting problems than the ones in TFA.
A Reminiscence of Project Ozma (1979)
The higher the recidivism rate, the higher the private prisons profit!
Easy: NDAs are 100% valueless

Y Combinator's been saying that for what... 16, 17 years now? And Paul Graham for years before then?
You folks are probably going to skewer me for this, but here goes:

I’ve been a hiring manager for many years and hired a lot of people.

It starts with reviewing resumes just to see if someone has a few years of experience in similar technologies as what we are working with.

If it looks good, I just pick up the phone and spend half an hour or so shooting the shit - an intelligent person will realize this is an opportunity to talk about their experience and they’ll do that.

If that goes well, they come in for a face to face chat with me and maybe one or two of our developers, totally free form and absolutely no coding challenges or nothing.

If they seem like they have their shit together, we hire them.

I’d say I have about a 90% success rate with this model. Yea, sometimes you get a good bullshitter and it doesn’t work out, but that’s easily remedied…

I have a lot of faith in casual conversational interviews and don’t worry about grilling people on whiteboards. I just go with my gut and that’s it.