skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Employees could collude too, saying "we refuse to work for anything less than X$".

Except that employees would do the same thing that employers do all the time and walk across the line as soon as someone offers them a compelling deal, even if it isn't at the "collusion" price.
Something like Tailscale?

I thought about it, but aren't the current best practices moving away from VPN access towards more granular authentication and authorization? If I understand it correctly, once someone gets past VPN, it's over. So now I have to secure both VPN and my server (and the services).
No, most markets are regulated, but they aren't all invented.
They key is to bring your own sniper
There are time zones issues, communication issues, and culture issues that are difficult if not impossible to cost-effectively overcome for offshoring to countries like India.. Otherwise all jobs would have been offshored already, whether local employees "wanted to play that game" or not. Employers aren't hiring locally out of the goodness of their hearts.
I know someone that lived in Mexico but listed a friend's address in NYC on all work paperwork.
Not usable in hard workflow.
Meat in prison, hamburgers on thursdays
well, it would be weirdly too specific if the conversation didn't lead to it, but it did.

"how did this happen?

> Bugs were found in windows systems which allowed this.

"can you not fix those?"

> we can.

"why didn't you fix them?"

> We did, the patches have been available for months in the worst case.

"then why are computers running your operating system still affected?"

> Because users have not downloaded and applied the patches.

"why not? are they not encouraged to do so?"

> We make them available but a user must choose to do it.

"Why do you not force this? This seems like an easy way to address the issue of unpatched operating systems."

> We cannot control what the users of our operating systems do.

"Not good enough. Clearly your current stance is not sufficient given the state of the Internet right now."

> Ok.

========

Very much paraphrased, but that's how I remember it going. I watched the thing live on C-SPAN and I don't know if it was blogged about anywhere. Even then the internet hated Microsoft even though most of its users ran Windows.
I use github copilot on a daily basis and it improves my time from thinking to code.

Often I have times where I'm think about a specific piece of code that I need and I have it partially in my head and github copilot "just completes" it. I press tab and that's it.

I'm not talking about writing entire functions where you have to mentally strain yourself to understand what it wrote.

But I've never seen any autocompleter do it so good then github copilot. Even for documentation purposes like JSdoc and related commenting system it's amazing.

It's a tool I pay for now since it's proven to be a tool that increases my productivity.

Is it gonna replace us? I hope not, but it does look promising as one of those tools people will talk about in the future.
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> It seems to me that laws and technology have failed to stop that gang

Laws and sanctions actually hurt them. Law-immune technology is their enabler. If I could choose between a way to send money to my family in Russia the same way that sustains those criminals and not having that way but knowing that putin's gang is being starved of money, I'd choose the latter because the first option is a dead end.

> I'm not sure that stopping evil oligarchs - when you cannot - is a good argument for preventing smaller people from saving their money.

The theoretical benefit promised to the "smaller people" is far outweighed by the harm it does sustaining those dictatorships, both to the same smaller people and the world. A few honest hundred bucks here and there does not justify millions that prop the regime and kill more people.

Sorry if this is inconvenient truth but cryptocoins are helping that regime much more than they are helping people that have to endure it.
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> ChatGPT, when provided with a synthetic prompt is reliably a synthesizer, or to use the loaded term, a bullshiter.

sounds like most people tbf
S. Aureus brought me into hospital for a complete month. Infection in my hip. Nobody knows how it came in. I was 39 years old at this time, that's why I am still alive. I had to take 3 variants of antibiotics at once for 4 months, which killed my liver. Luckily too, the liver could regenerate itself after the treatment. :) Amazing bio device this organ is. The pain killers were the good part. :-P This is a damn sort of bacteria. But in my understanding, almost everybody has some colonies on their skin. So don't panic, but don't be to lax with it.
ive interviewed dozens of times at faangs, their description is similar to my experience.
Really don't understand the constant crypto comparisons. We have one technology that hasn't provided any benefits whatsoever in 10 years and one that has provided real utility from day one. One deserves the hype, the other doesn't.
> If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness.

What a legendary quote. And very true. You might find that 'crude' things are technical in their own way.
Well, if you keep your expenses untouched than it is very hard to do it. However, if you sell some stuff, use hostels, eat on local markets, etc. you can go a long way. You can even stay for free in hostels if you're up to working a few days a week on cleaning, reception, etc. Small, less turistic towns also make a big difference on how expensive this kind of traveling needs to be. Also context matters a lot, this is probably not the best approach if you have a family to support.

If you're open to a, maybe severe, change in lifestyle, you'll see that you don't need much to live.
To those that are interested, I recommend reading "Vagabonding" by Rolf Potts and watching "Minimalism" documentary by The Minimalists as a start point.
never understood the drive for oil, seems like a lot of effort in the wrong direction
> the CS department's theory seemed to be to allow anyone to attempt to join, and then just ruthlessly fail people in the first year.

That’s quite typical in other places of the world as well. In Italy is just like that for most stem programs; admission is granted to everybody, but the 1st year is just brutal and boring. A lot of people drop.

The upside is that you don’t have that stress on admission. The downside is that some good people lacking grit just drop after 1-2 years (or just take ages to get their degrees) because such classes look pointless but very hard to them - and they’re mostly right.

Note: we don’t usually grade on a curve in Italy. But 80% of the class failing the first time is not unheard of (you don’t get your failing grades recorded or re-pay for retaking a class, either).
More time often isn't really what the employer wants. I knew someone who put in a lot of hours, but always in the afternoon / evening -- when everyone else already went home. Which sucks for everyone who needs to coordinate with them, because you always need to wait a day for them to get back to your emails...
Is this any worth in taking?
Great book! I can also wholly recommend the audiobook, it was quite well done.
Elixir and Phoenix is wonderful, but it is not comparable to rails when it comes to pure productivity — Rails is much better. And if you include hotwire into the mix, it is not anywhere a close comparison. Liveview is not comparable due to tech difference (websocket and low lantency requirement), as well as an additional complexity on top of phoenix (you add liveview and your productivity will be affected).

Don’t get me wrong, I would still pick Phoenix a lot of the time over rails, but that is despite the lower productivity. Sometimes even Phoenix + hotwire is not a bad idea.
Which "he", Carmack or Sutskever?
My bank experience is severely lacking in handguns. Was Bitcoin the answer all this time?!
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It's close, EVERYTHING there is in Spanish, and it's a nice place to go on vacation.
I've used bash/zsh for 20 years and I've been using nushell daily for work and personal projects since I tried it 6 months ago. It's fantastic -- you can do some really novel things that you would never normally do in a shell. But you do have to be prepared to invest some time in learning to do things differently from POSIX shells. The Discord community is very helpful.
Like I say, it's just my subjective gut reaction. I guess if there was one main take away it's "describe your competitors with the same language you'd use to describe yourself", where possible.

None, completely stand-alone with built in http(s) server | None, recommends a reverse proxy

As an example.

>So when I say Meilisearch is not "production-ready", it's in this specific context - it can only be run on a single node, and it cannot handle infrastructure failures natively. So it could become single point of failure.

And I don't really disagree with that, but it really is up to a judgement call on whoever is setting it up. If search isn't a critical feature than whoever is setting up might prefer meilisearch for it's memory model. For example I once worked on "the great canadian encyclopedia", which ran on a single VPS and needed search capability. It already had a single point of failure, so running search on the same VPS wasn't a big concern. There are also different roll-over policies, different uptime guarantees, different architectures, etc. If "production grade" was some kind of industry standard that would be one thing, but it really really does depend on the client.

I think that the single point of failure thing is a very important consideration, and should probably be in your overview along side the memory/data model, but I do honestly think typesense's memory-only disqualifies it from a lot of production systems I've worked on, and that meilisearch's single point of failure hasn't. Fault-tolerance and single point of failure deserves it's own row in your overview, it shouldn't be thrown into the use-case column.

Honestly it's only really an issue when taken all together, fix a few of those and you'll be in much better shape I think.
> If the government declares having money as illegal the only solution is to change the government.

I see people from developed nations talking about "changing the government" like we are one french revolution away from prosperity.

There are two problems with that:

- The people need to fight the military. It's not like it's the XIX century where you can face a army with some weapons and horses. Go fight a tank and some drones.

- More often than not, power vacuums are filled with an even more ruthless government that wants to exploit the same corrupt dynamics like the previous one, but for them and their cronies and not the previous government ones.
It is govermental run. as it is no private institution, as I am forced to by the govermental and it is collected by govt agencies.

The only true thing that my parliament does not have any say but some obscure council with e.g. representatives from the church.

It is a shitty system with left bias news, shitty films and shitty tv shows. Only the left defends it fearing they might lose a powerful media institution.
Yep. As advertised. Looks exactly like YouTube comments and burns the damn retina. Off to drip lemon juice in my eyes now...
Sponge cipher is not seekable and as a consequence not parallelizable.
The analogue version was academic institutions that paid gifted people with intelligence to have research assistants that went to the library. But we defunded that model of natural intelligence because it wasn't equitable for the ungifted.
It's been happening for a decade and I've learned to ignore it.

Cloud for this cloud for that! Blockchain for this blockchain for that! Big Data for this, big data for that! Web scale all the things!

The marketing driven development is exhausting and has done nothing to improve technology. This happened because of 0% interest rates and free money. People have been vying for all the VC money by creation solutions looking for problems, which end up being useless solutions for which no problems exist
Every complaint on HN about Bash is from one of two people: 1) someone who has never read the man page, 2) someone who wishes Bash were Python.

Bash is my favorite programming language, because it's not really a programming language. Rather than being some academic philosophical high-minded solution, it was written by systems practitioners for backwards compatibility and usability. Once you learn it, it replaces 85% of other languages for systems work.
I would argue more than two. 2FA was broken globally for a bit, AIUI, and in some geographies is still broken. That’s effectively an outage for 2fa users. There’s also a lot of general flakiness which you wouldn’t call and outage, but are very much a return to the Failwhale Era.
I took this course a while back.

It's not really groundbreaking or anything but I think it's useful.

Wouldn't put it on a MUST TAKE IT course list but it was worth it's time :)
This was the closest I ever got to getting physically injured by just looking at a website.
There is a lot of negativity towards the idea of AI in this thread, and I feel like someone has to say it: it is quite likely that in the near future computers will be better than almost all humans at almost all cognitive tasks.

If you have a task or are trying to accomplish something, and the way you do it is by moving a mouse around or typing on a keyboard then it is very likely that an AI will be able to do that task. Doing so is a more or less straightforward extension of existing techniques in AI. All that is necessary is to record you performing the task and then an AI will be able to imitate your behavior. GPT3 can already do this for text, and doing it instead with trajectories of screen, mouse and keyboard is not fundamentally different.

So yes, it is true that there is a lot of hype right now, but I suspect it is a small fraction of what we will see in the near future. I also expect there will be an enormous backlash at some point.
But WineHQ also shows which Wine version it worked at so if you wanted to you could get that Wine version. And the same also applies to Proton, it's just hidden from you when you use Steam.
Better a small boss than a big servant, right? (Chinese proverb I believe)

No need to hesitate - you've worked 10 years in FAANG, you'll get 10 jobs offers per month if needed. So, just do it.

But remember, freedom is responsibility.

So, have fun while doing 3 or 4 projects of your list. Switch between them to keep it light and fun. If you get depressed or if you start to just consuming full-time (gaming, Netflix, sleeping, party/drugs etc) for a prolonged period (>month) you don't have the "rigor" and you should get back to a job where people tell you what to do.

In essence, be your own best parent/teacher.

Good luck.

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> The main advantage of Java in my mind is how old, mature, and stable the ecosystem is. Everything has a library for it.

One challenge here though is that many of those libraries are no longer maintained because the original developers moved away or retired years ago. I have a couple of relatively recent projects which require significant maintenance work dealing with unfixable CVEs or forced major updates which require non-trivial migration. That meant that even using an active project like Solr or Keycloak requires a surprising amount of maintenance developer time.

I don’t think we’ve fully gotten used to the changing supply chain trust situation in open source, and that’s going to hit all of the old ecosystems the hardest.
There’s dozens of us
When you need an introduction to the subject area as much as you needed specific information from it; then an LLM explaining terms and offering options for further exploration can be a nice thing. (I assume they'll use it that way...)

When you're hunting for a particular fact, like "that bit of code i half remember seeing on a page 15 years ago", then I don't see anything for an LLM to add. Google had a pretty good index for that purpose about 15 years ago, but they've chosen to prioritize other goals since then. I dunno if anyone works "find things you're searching for" as a market now.

Which is an answer to your question: Does it matter if an LLM helps search the web? That's not what people are doing, that's not what these companies are selling.
The GitHub is about designing prompts so it could have been called Prompt Design.
The biggest thing I’ve learned from chatGPT is that real people struggle with the difference between intelligence, understanding, and consciousness / sentience.
I use elvish[0] and have been using it as my main shell for the last 2 years. I like the focus on datastructures and flows (such as exceptions).

It is mature enough for me, and I have found that the nuance of having non-posix compatibility in some things doesn't annoy me as much as when I hit a problem that is too small to write python and to complex for bash.

Community is great, and I always find the answer to my problems in either the chat or other code samples.

[0] Elvish webpage: https://elv.sh/
A bag of holding... in a bag of holding!
> All native GUI toolkits from the last three decades allow you to reflow elements in the way you describe

Those are, BTW, where CSS got a lot of its basic layout features.
I saw one of these at the V&A when they did a digital showcase. Cannot describe how joyful it is to play with.
Im not missing the point. The OP was making a wrong statement as evidence for wrong conclusions.
First, the whole point of these pipes from Russia's side, and the concern about them from the US, was that they could be used as leverage to keep EU from supporting Ukraine. So there was absolutely a "point" in blowing them up even though they were turned off. The point being, when they're blown up, they can't be turned on, thus Russia has no leverage anymore.

Second, those terrible diplomatic consequences probably happened, behind the scenes (and weren't that terrible, because no one really wants to denounce the US in the middle of the Ukraine war). I'll remind you that both Sweden and Denmark claimed nothing other than sabotage could be concluded, and closed down their investigations and classified the heck out of the details. Feel free to make freedom of information requests to them, so that you can get those "national security interest" refusals.

Odds are that the US didn't directly admit anything to them, but strongly suggested they shouldn't look too closely or be too specific in their statements, and that those states were quick to comply. And probably cleaned up well enough that there was nothing left for the Russians to find, in the case that they should run their own investigation (although, Russia can't run a real investigation to save their ass, they're too used to have their conclusions dictated to them, so I wouldn't worry if I was the USG).
This looks pretty weird. Instead of using this, I find it more appropriate to prepare something more basic to meet your own needs.
No, it is just that you are browsing the news that only follow the trends I think. Follow more independent thinkers and things would get better.
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Ditto yesterday after a few tweets. Assuming this is bug, as others have noted similar even with only two tweets. So one has to assume a bug, or perhaps some other issue where they felt they had to manually temporarily limit the number of tweets drastically to help avoid some larger failure. Ironically, I and most presumably wanted to post about but where unable to because of the nature of the bug.
>> Non-criminal money would be a minuscule percentage of the total because, the same way you use to change $500 for the lulz would be used in an organized way to move millions extracted with violence and theft by Russian government and other criminals.

I want to respond to this point because it is a key difference between the societies governed by oligarchy (extremely rich criminals, no middle class, 99% poor) versus those that still have a middle class. You are right that in Russia, $500 for lulz is nothing compared to the money flows of the criminals. It is commonly assumed by most Russians I know that the American and European world also operates on this principle, and that law enforcement here simply does what the money tells them to do. This is actually not true, at least not close to the extent that it is true in gangster-run countries. Law enforcement in America and Europe does what the middle class wants them to do. This means that they do interdict extremely wealthy criminals from time to time, and ultimately our society is not governed by them.

In any case, the largest flows of money in Europe and America are legitimate business flows; things like cocaine and prostitution, organized crime are miniscule compared to the profits of legal drug companies - whose owners are the American middle class shareholder, farmers in Kansas.
How do you handle the social life aspect? I found it hard to settle in the capital of another country. Does it get lonely out there sometimes?
because its right
I find it has its priorities backwards. Fancy search? Check. Fullscreen slideshow? Nope, sorry.
Don't kid yourself, there is nothing you can do to prevent people from 'stealing' code they are working on if they are working from home or any other place where someone is not looking over their shoulder 100% of the time.

There are reasons to force people to work on a corporate machine, preventing them from stealing code is not one of them.
because it is right
A bit of time off will do you good. Then consider your skill set and the things you liked and didn't like about your past experiences. Try to find something that lies in the intersection of those things.

I would offer that the more clearly and honestly you formulate those things, the more likely it is that the right opportunity will present itself. Nothing magical about this philosophy, it's a simple consequence of being able to say "no" to the many possible wayward paths that we normally waste precious time on.
I was wrong. The 3GS was the first model with GPS, which came about five months after the G1. The G1's touchscreen was very comparable to the Apple devices I was building software for at the time - I think the multitouch capability was there, and really the only use was pinch to zoom... which I seem to recall working on the G1 after an OS update. Regardless, the web browser part was rather the opposite - the G1 with it's weird trackball could be used to browse desktop sites and at the time, most websites were not responsive. Also, there were places where android used long-press... which Apple added later. Regardless, I was fascinated at the time how Apple was able to outmarket everyone with iPhone... and equally fascinated with how quickly the army of Android vendors materialized. Fun times.
Yes! Shells excel at integrating loosely-coupled interfaces. Languages seem to suck at it.
wow. i am in love with rustdesk.

this is the most active and impressive collaborative community of developers who are VERY VERY responsive to all questions and are helpful in improving the software.
Yes, CodeWeavers are an independent company that has been developing Wine longer than Valve had any interest in Linux games. However AFAIU Valve does contract them to work on Wine/Proton now so a decent amount of their work is probably funded by Valve.
My argument is that there is no viable definition of free will as anything but an illusion.

In other words, I'm saying every indication we have is that we're almost certainly automatons.

As such, "free will" is not a reasonable way of distinguishing which entities are capable of giving sufficiently informed consent (not least because most of us would assign the illusion of free will to children as well, yet disagree that they're competent enough to get married).