skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But why, no really, I get that we're technically at fault, but the world changes, there are billions (about 5 billion to be exact) of extinct species, which ones do we pick to un-extinct? Do we have to prove that we or one of our ancestors was a direct cause for the extinction? And when we do un-extinct a species, what does that achieve, other than entertainment for some few people and maybe the feeling of having achieved something "good"? Surely the money spent researching this could be better spent making the world as it is a better place and improving ways in which humans interact with the world to reduce extinction rates and general harm to the environment.
Only the Rafale was any real competitor. The rest all have glaring issues that disqualify them immediately.
Too late by a century to worry about that. Extinction is so far advanced. Consider large animals: 50% on earth are the ones we raise to eat. Of the remaining, 46% are ... humans themselves!

That leaves 4% of all earthly animals to be 'wild'. A negligible part of the 'ecology'.

We're not going to put the genie of terraforming (reforming the earth to serve human needs) back in the bottle. The bottle is smashed; the earth is one large human park.

Anyway, still we need to try not to destroy the atmosphere and water because they're critical to human needs and processes. That's reason enough.
It's hella laggy, you have too many results in the page, a simple case of too many divs I think.
> People do work longer because of survival

That's my point. It's not just because of oppression (but certainly can be), you'll see the same in subsistence farmers. They don't do a 9-5 with a 1 hour lunch break and frequent chats with colleagues, they toil away because they have their work cut out for them and when whoever does the cutting did it, they took them to be much bigger than they are and cut them a large piece.

I agree with you: we should work less and smarter. But society needs to be kept upright, and too many people are deciding not to work (or to work against it), and then it quickly becomes a game of chicken where those who care the most/can stand the situation the least will pick up the slack.

I'm pretty sure that most advances in productivity will be eaten by growing desires. We have plenty enough to get everyone 20sqm/2000kcal but now we want 70sqm and exotic foods during local winter, and we want to travel the world etc etc.
US Says Russia Violating Start Nuclear Treaty
... by firing thousands of its most capable workers, and making the rest feel super disposable. this is a tried and tested technique to getting the most out of skilled engineers and scientists...
Interesting. So foreign cards have to be accepted at the same price?

I know credit card fees are capped in EU, so this might be a reasonable policy, but if merchants and domestic customers have to eat costs due to foreign card costs via higher prices for everyone, that does not seem fair.
Having regular animals in zoos is also controversial.

The question is different when it can be summed up as "to be or not to be", but I think it's still an ethical bag of hurts.
You can't (yet). But there are pretty detailed instructions on how to get started with the model here https://github.com/microsoft/BioGPT
Are you suggesting that PewDiePie is countercultural?
I think your argument is wrong in several ways, but even accepting it hypothetically -- equality of far too many murders by the police is not actually what anyone is looking for.
I finished a 4-year CS undergrad at a university, although I do consider myself 90% self-taught.
It's hard to call something countercultural if every major corporation pays lip service to it 24/7
When I experiment with Stable Diffusion, I quite often come across blurred "Getty Images" labels.
we use RDS Mysql with read replica and multi-az, we got bitten too with corruption problem on mysql 8.0.31 version...

In our case multi-az failover doesn't work and our salvation was promote read replica as new master... the problem doesn't replicate for the replica (i don't know why) but if you try failover you lose your master because it stays in reboot status forever...

our solution was the same you told, downgrade to 8.0.28.

Anyone with same problem?
It would be nice if some services like Github Sponsor or Substack or Hashnode would allow different providers integration. Right now, Stripe dominates the market still.
I find it noble. It would only be sadistic if we bring them back just to see dodo meat farms in a couple of decades.
I agree with this a lot, and I've started defining this phenomenon with 'B.S. Jobs': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs Not to say that the people currently doing the middle-management synergizing should be banished from society, but that the job function itself shouldn't exist at all.
Maybe some industries (or countries) but it's very much here to stay in Europe in the agency/consultancy/non-FAANG tech market. In my most recent job search, "fully on prem" technology rules were quite rare.
Nobody here can give you any meaningful feedback without seeing your resume.
Fellow blade enthusiast here, so I love the idea. A minor data thing: when I search for “LT Wright” under brand, there are three entries. They just need to be merged.
What would the business model look like for doing this?

I spend $20M on lab time and experts to clone a dodo... Then I lease that dodo to zoos for $2000/day... and in the dodo's lifespan I will never make a profit...

Or I spend $30M to clone two dodo's - one male, and one female. I then breed 100 more dodo's from that initial pair. I then rent them to zoos around the world, at perhaps $200/day (lower price because there is no exclusivity anymore). Even this plan is dubiously profitable, considering my rental income will only slowly ramp up over 20 years as dodos are born...
Are you kidding? How is destroying runways cheap?

> look at Ukraine

Go on, give me some actual examples. What sort of cheap missiles are used to cause more than a few thousand dollars worth of damage to runways in Ukraine?
> There are infinite many ways to write the exact same thing.

I agree with that. I don't think that makes things impossible. Only more difficult.

> Your code can never say why it's like it is, why this approach was chosen and not another.

If the why is important, given enough time and resources, someone will eventually complain that something is not working and someone will be tasked to "fix it". It may take them weeks, but they will eventually figure out the why.

> Code says what and how, comments say why.

If we are considering only quality vs quality, I agree. But there's also quantity.

When the how is complicated enough, it is indistinguishable from a why. You will hear the reviewers ask outloud: "But WHY is this done this way?". Even if the problem is merely algorithmic/technical and the code is doing exactly what it's supposed to do.

Then you have two options: spend a potentially significant time refactoring things (which is always the right choice, given enough time and resources) or spend 10 minutes writing a comment with what you learned, and moving on to the next problem.
Stripe is charged every time a user faces a dispute. These fees have been increasing in recent years.

Managing disputes is also a costly and manual process for our users. So we’ve invested heavily in ways to help mitigate disputes from occurring in the first place with Stripe Radar (incl. by default), or by using Chargeback Protection (where we cover the disputed amount and waive any fees without needing to submit any evidence).
Apple developing micro LED to become technology leader
While your main point is philosophical, you mentioned the practical concern of rats - for what it’s worth, Alberta, a Canadian province the size of France, has completely eradicated rats despite being land-bordered on all sides by provinces with rats. Alberta produces a lot of grain, and it’s a big savings for them to not have to deal with rats. This is accomplished with a provincial task force that costs about half a million bucks a year, aggressive reporting action by the population, and enthusiastic cooperation from the local farms. So it can be done, and it’s not nearly as hard as it sounds!
I think so. As long as you can calculate your cost based on any two points that have a straight line path between them.
But how do you identify if the issue is with you or them?

If its you, sure you could.

But if it's them, how so you convince that they have a problem? Why would it be my problem, when I get on with other folk?

I find that talking in person, allows me to express what I'm wanting to express clearly. Its hard, but easier.

Why can't a compromise be made where you have three days off and then the two you come in? Why does it have to be All X, none Y or vice versa. WFH shouldn't be having weeks off from the office.

It should be a tool not a privilege.
I blogged about ShadyURL in March of 2022 so it hasn't been gone for long! Bummer.
Pretty useful for security awareness training
The medium hasn't changed. We're still on "Version 1".
The time-honored solution for this is to exterminate invasive species on a small nearby island, and make that a reserve. New Zealand has employed extensively with quite a bit of success, and there are numerous small, uninhabited islands in Mauritius that seem like plausible options.
Even in these times of many layoffs, I still get recruiters regularly contacting me. It’s mostly because they find my LinkedIn profile. I have the setting configured that I’m not looking right now, and my current job started less than a year ago, but they contact me anyway.

I assume you have your resume and profile fully up to date on there, and you have it indicated that you are actively looking for a job. Recruiters aren’t bombarding you?

I haven’t had success or responses from sending in job applications the old fashioned way since I used Craigslist to get a job in like, 2008. By all means keep sending them. There’s nothing to lose. But what you really want is to get an introduction from a recruiter, or a referral from someone you know. Have you asked your former co-workers if there are open positions at the places they are working?
I didn’t use any adjectives to describe their society. Only commented that you can’t think that “conservatism” is always about believing in God, in monogamy, etc.
This is an interesting approach. I wonder how many EMs are currently following this approach. DO you use any tool to track these data?
> literally all of my applications have been rejected or ghosted

How many is "literally all"? What's the number?

After how many days of not hearing back do you consider an employer to have ghosted you?

Do you follow up with emails or phone calls to recruiters?
I mean nuclear materials safety is top notch, for various reasons - including national security, as the material can be used to create a dirty bomb.

The problem of disposal is political; nobody wants a nuclear waste storage bunker in their back yard. In the US, this has caused every nuclear power plant to have their own growing stockpile of nuclear waste - much more than they should have at any given time [0].

This comment was just from things I've read over time; I didn't realize the US actually has a $44B stockpile budget to build a nuclear waste disposal site, built up since the 80's.

This is what a nuclear waste storage might look like: [1]

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/18/nuclear-waste-why-theres-no-...

[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/finland-built-tomb-s...
For a 3 year old, probably the research focus should be on distro's that are most compatible with enabling gaming. This is not something I have kept up with, but any distro that makes it easy to enable the proprietary video card drivers vs nouveau [1] and that makes it easy to install Steam would probably be the best route.

I am not certain which distro best fits that requirement. Perhaps the latest Fedora. [2] My only gripe with Fedora is their latest Beta has integrated a store into the desktop and like Microsoft Windows interacts with their servers throughout desktop navigation a.k.a. Telemetry. That said, it's a shiny polished product with decent documentation and many years of battle hardening.

[1] - https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/how-to-set-n...

[2] - https://getfedora.org/
I generally agree, but I’ve seen it taken to an extreme when I found someone claiming that a park strewn with trash wasn’t the fault of those who left their trash behind, but instead the companies that use such ecologically unfriendly packaging.
>It's 5 positions excluding internships.

Do I get this right?

5 jobs over 7-8 years?

In my opinion this is very bad

How you can have strong experience if you rarely go thru whole software development lifecycle unless projects are small?

This is genuine question

If project takes a year to develop and you leave a few months later, then how do you know implications of your design??
5 positions in 7-8 years would be a red flag for me. I wouldn't want to invest in someone who isn't likely to stick around for more than 1.5 years. I think it typically takes at least that long to start to understand the business and be effective in your role.
"My card. Wile.E. Coyote, Super Genius.
This article misunderstands what a "culture" is. Specific activities do not constitute a culture. Niche interests within a single domain do not constitute a culture. "Interest in Marvel movies" or some other figment of pop culture is not itself a culture, not by a long shot. This is why we can speak of a "pop culture" in the first place, because we sense that many things - nominally unrelated products situated within different domains though they may be - are all related in some important way, contained within a broader popular culture that transcends any of its manifestations. Perhaps the defining mark of popular culture is that the people who consume it and participate in it tend to overlap, or resemble one another. This way of thinking means that cultures are defined more by their participants than anything else.

Culture is broad, it is cohesive, and it extends and influences across many domains. There are absolutely countercultures out there, but most people aren't aware of them given how dominant the dominant culture is, which is generally the case but especially true today.
They should start with Harpagornis moorei, much more interesting species.
Love it! Questions of ethics aside, I think it's a fascinating idea (one that may be completely unachievable) and would have a profound impact on history if achieved.
We can, but that assumes continued political will to do so. That's something we're definitely not good at.
I think that's really missing the point of this hypothetical?
How many applications have you put out? If it's less than 10, then this isn't surprising in my experience.

I'm wondering if in this environment FAANG is a detriment. It's possible with all the belt tightening that companies would rather go with cheaper candidates.
Who's Hiring / Looking for a Job is about to post, sounds like perfect timing for you
I don't use these services because I've seen the prices Amazon asks for a gigabyte of traffic but I think you'll have to have VERY intermittent access to make these scaling providers worth the money.

If you expect your website to one day go from 100 requests a month to a million a day and expect that traffic to continue from that point on, these services will be a huge benefit for uptime while you rework your code to a more reasonable system. However, a simple $10 VPS with Nginx can handle much more than people seem to expect, assuming you don't use some excessively bloated platform or your content can be cached.

In terms of security updates: a cron job to reboot weekly and unattended-upgrades will keep your server safe without much to look into. Your only risk will be end of life software, your own code, and your dependencies, but those aren't fixed by going with some managed platform either.

There are definitely upsides to these quick deploy tools if you want to iterate quickly with an API that's not accessible from your dev workstation, setting up a multi tenant K8s/Docker/whatever server to deploy to is much harder than giving devs API keys to push to external parties, but I wouldn't consider these services for 99% of the stuff I would deploy.
International Genetic Technologies, Inc. (InGen) was able to recreate all kinds of extinct animals with the goal of cloning these creatures and displaying them in a theme park on a tropical island.

This company is only planning to recreate an extinct Dodo bird, and use it to terraform the planet Mars on Elon Musk's future expedition.
Compared to developed European countries (that you should compare them to), it is at the top of the list, 2-5x higher rates per capita.

Same goes for homicide rates which the above poster also mentioned.
>> they are systematically excluded from seeping into the mainstream

> I don't understand this and by extension the entire article. Counterculture is by definition outside of mainstream.

Yes, that's what they said. The danger they are going on about is how heavily it is buried so that it never seeps into mainstream.

Your not understanding is confusing to me, especially since you quoted the bit "we have a counterculture", and then replied as if they said "we have no counterculture".
I assume you've worked with people during the 8 years, they know that you can get stuff done and is friendly to be around?

Definitely get in touch with them, let them know you're available.

Also, since everyone seems to be "trading up" when they get a new job, you might be considered overqualified in one or more senses..

From the view of someone hiring:

- Previous FAANG? = High salary expectations, our little shop not fancy enough for you.

- 8 years, done a lot, coding since childhood: High expectations to problems (this role is too boring for you, you'd jump ship first chance you get, waste of time for us to onboard you)

Use your network, explain you're looking for stability.

I remember an interview where the interviewer asked my current salary and told me "it didn't scare him" well.. it shouldn't ? looking back on it, I guess he expected that he'd have to outbid it (he wouldn't even, I dropped them for other reasons)
TBH, I find it really hard to believe that all the R&D cost associated with the STOVL variant was worth it, instead of just equipping a couple carriers with catapults and arrestor gear. Not to mention that the carrier variant is significantly more capable in terms of range and payload than the STOVL version.

As for manned vs. unmanned, while unmanned technologies are clearly developing rapidly, I suspect they're not ready yet for all the manned missions. Hence the JSF project is still warranted. Maybe the next gen JSF follow-up will be an entirely unmanned platform, who knows..
I also think this. But society still has to be protected from certain kinds of people, so prisons aren’t going away just because you believe this.
If the entire establishment is seeking to ally itself with your movement/culture/etc then that’s a strong indicator that your movement isn’t counter-culture or otherwise subversive. They don’t have to become True Believers IMHO.

And FWIW, lots of big companies have DEI departments that preach this stuff internally and market it externally (my wife is a marketing consultant with these big companies and they eat this shit up so much that their contracts are dependent on proving their commitment to DEI by centering their “diverse” employees, holding internal and external DEI ceremonies, etc). I’m sure there’s still a profit motive, but there’s quite a lot more than an annual profile photo update.
Feel free to lists the jobs on February's whoishiring thread https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring The February thread will be live in about 3 hours. (It's created automatically)
It's a conservative market. Many companies are hiring defensively rather than trying to accelerate their growth. Hiring high profile engineers may not make sense for those companies since many projects are in maintenance mode.
>7-8 years of professional experience

>It's 5 positions excluding internships

Five jobs in seven years is likely why you aren't getting callbacks.
Pure damage control, but the damage is done.
Assuming some are obviously capped length internships it is not a big deal. But if they are 5 full time jobs my first question in the interview would be 'what are you looking for that you haven't found yet?'
Hmm - looks more like an MIT Cheetah then a BD robot...
(it doesn't appear to be either - I think its a bespoke design)

still for $278 for the kit, and all open source code it could be fun!
That book is about his work where he breaks out of a concrete room with a sledgehammer, and smashes concrete objects that are symbols of his shutin period and reconnects the pieces with golden metal.
I've applied mostly to full-stack and back-end positions. JS, Python, etc. It's a good point about remote-centric job boards. My trouble is that other positions usually have a "Are you authorized to work in X country" as a question, and if I answer "no", I think it goes in the bin directly.
That section of the article has serious arithmetic issues.

> Rafale can fly 2,7 hours every day. Direct operating cost is 16.500 USD per hour (cca, 17.000 USD when corrected for inflation). F-35 can fly one hour every two days, and has direct operating cost of 30.000 USD per hour.

> direct operating costs per hour of flight will be 1.336.500 USD per month for Rafale and 450.000 USD per month for F-35.
It's annoying in self driving artcles to see Cruise and Tesla grouped together with Waymo. The authors either dont realize how far ahead Waymo is or think it would somehow be improper to point it out.
I'm baffled that you give that woman the benefit of the doubt who literally earned the nickname Zensursula with her hide-instead-of-delete antics in 2009.
> What an engineer thinks: "Why not attach this thing to a beacon so that it can't be lost?"

Would the beacon survive for long while being irradiated?

Also, this thing was part of a reasonably large object (I assume one full of radiation warnings), but that object broke down during transport. If one attached a beacon, that similarly could end up detached from the capsule.
Interestingly, at 39 levels deep[0], you can keep going. However, if you go to 40 levels deep[1], the link to `ubuntu` just disappears. Manually appending it to the URL to get to 41 levels deep[2] gives a 403 Forbidden response.

As for why, does anyone know? Because at 39 levels, you're well past an obvious folder path limit of 256 characters. Specifically, at 39 levels, the path portion of the URL is 273 characters (299 total). At 40 levels, it's 280 characters long (306 total). It doesn't seem like a character limit because you can still access the other folders/files from 40 levels deep.

[0]: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu...

[1]: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu...

[2]: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu...
This service:

> Turns out this site is powered by money. We ran out of Google App Engine credit. Fear not, we'll get more within 24 hours.

> In the meantime, you can use www.shadyurl.com for all your dodgy URL needs.

So it might just be that they went down today.
The "article" in which he explains how there is no counterculture in a series of linked tweets? Hmmm . . .
Some of those look straight out of the NSDAP which itself went from countercultural, to mainstream, to destroyed in a hail of fire and steel.