skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my previous company, a .Net house using exclusively ASP.Net and SQL Server, builds were somehow being run on an antique version of Hudson running on Windows XP. I took over running of the neglected cluster, upgraded to latest Jenkins, upped the build nodes to Windows 2012 R2 servers and kept a close eye on the running of the system, but could not help wondering, why are we not using TFS or its cloud options for our products?

A couple of years later, all developers received full MSDN licenses, which included use of MS Teams in either form. At the same time, we needed to replace our SDLC software which was completely obsolete and loathed by most of the company. I put together a proof-of-concept TFS 2017 instance, imported our existing tickets with pretty good accuracy and ported some builds over. A colleague heavily involved in testing then spent some time tying in the test results and creating reproducible builds. And it worked. Everything tied together exactly as Microsoft intended it to.

As much as I am a fan of Open-Source, I had to admit this was the right tool for the company.

Despite all this, the head of development showed no interest, even when he was told our licensing covered us completely and the bug tracker did not need licensing. Purely because he disliked the TFS interface, he vetoed my efforts. That TFS had many, many features that our developers would have found incredibly useful, made no difference. The web UI wasn't shiny enough for upper management. Instead, this summer, the company went ahead and purchased a very expensive SDLC solution elsewhere. This, and many other reasons for being stonewalled, made me switch jobs.

Shortly before I left that place, and the reason I wrote this story, I discovered a fileshare on the Jenkins master full of PDB symbols. When I asked my teammate why it was there, he said he created it because the developers needed a place to stash the debug symbols. A crude fileshare, no disk monitoring on it, no cleanups of old build artefacts (which Jenkins was now doing for us, rather than hacky manual scripts). I just shake my head wearily. Sometimes the solution is presented to you with all the right ticks on the checklist, and you walk right on past it because the inner magpie says so.

Cannot say how glad I am that I left that place.
Depends what you mean by "current technology" - Orion style ships (i.e. throw H-bombs out the back and hang on tight) were estimated to be able to get to 0.1c. So perhaps 110 years?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
You really aren't. Atom runs fine on a Macbook Air. There are definitely performance issues, but we're addressing them; it's just that our team is small and our initial goal at launch was to produce the most hackable text editor possible.
It may not last for long on the paper, that's why it is suggested to use ink.
The same argument could be made for irrigation systems and crops, open marketplaces, or technological progress. All are necessary entanglements in a society and allow a society to be and flourish, but I don't define politics as something so nebulous and impenetrable an idea, politics is more about the relationships,dynamics and interactions of people and their values, and if we all cared more for one another than for temporary gains we could achieve what one might call a Post Political Paradise
Qualcomm are claiming great things for their Centriq processors.

[Qualcomm] says that the 48-core Centriq 2460 offers a 4x uplift in performance-per-dollar and a 45 percent performance-per-watt improvement over Intel’s Xeon Platinum 8180

(The quote is from the first link)

https://hothardware.com/news/qualcomm-ships-48-core-centriq-...
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/259036-early-qualcomm-...
Myth 5 and 6 are not myths at all. You need a strong preparation for most STEM majors and at least at Berkeley, for engineering you need to apply to the COE and for a specific major. L+S is different.
If they're that driven by fear, they do not deserve to be in that position. And if they're that afraid of it, it's probably because they know they're likely to act in that manner.

I have zero sympathy whatsoever for those cowards, and I extremely abhor the implied insinuation that women won't receive opportunities in the future unless they allow themselves to be harassed and shut up about it.
I'm not asking anyone to feel sorry for us. I'm just pointing out that rising prices are not a panacea for owner-occupied primary residences. The result is bad for everyone because people like us end up staying in houses that are too big. That takes housing stock off the market and drives prices up even further. That's good for investors, but bad for everyone who wants to buy a house to live in.
In your opinion, what, if improved, will give Atom the biggest performance boost?
Maybe. U need a Lectin blocker. Have u looked at lectin in foods?
How I picked my major:

During high school everyone one day was assigned to look at professions by going on to the bls.gov website .

I picked Computer Science for two reasons .

1. I feel like I would enjoy the job

2. The job market for CS majors has high growth and low unemployment

3. Median pay was above average .
Which killer feature of VSC does IntelliJ lack?
Teenage schoolgirl 'electrocuted after rolling on to iPhone cable in her sleep'
Google has (always) gathered information about Chrome -- and Chromium -- users by default, including every keystroke typed into the "omnibox". Not easy to disable, either.

This seems to be a recent Firefox policy change: all editions of Firefox is now collecting data, such as telemetry, information gathering, usage data. (URL's? Form data?) This is all opt-out instead of opt-in now, and you're asked only after installation. You have to pro-actively disable it.

(Formerly, telemetry gathering was only gathered by default on nightlies and dev tracks; this telemetry does cover usage.. i.e., this seems to include what URL's you're browsing; this could be a security risk for apps like Dropbox and OneDrive.)

To be fair, it's easier to opt-out in Firefox than it is in Chrome, and Firefox is also more up-front about it after initial setup/installation; still, given that Firefox held itself out as the privacy-oriented browser, this is a significant change.

(Which leads to a new question.. what's the new best privacy browser? probably Brave? or, perhaps, Opera?)

EDIT: citation, thanks to cJ0th:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/
"And everyone seems to accept to have less spending money when interest rates double or triple" another angle to look at this phrase would be "people don't see other option". Another option could be renting, but then there are many downsides - you are wasting rent money on temporary living instead of paying for your own house. Another downside at least in my country is difficulty to live normal life in rented apartment - usually there are restrictions (from landlord) to not own a pet, or they refuse to rent apartment for young family with babies. So people are kind of forced to purchase apartments, and ususally the need is to live in city where employment is highest, otherwise you will be unemployed or your expenses on commute will be the same as difference in loan payment which you saved with cheaper purchase.

I am waiting (and renting) for "good time" to purchase apartment, and it's more than five years like that and I don't see any signs for hope anytime soon, and you realize that time goes by and you are getting older and your timeframe for which you can take loan is shrinking anyway, so situation becomes a bit desperate I would say.

So decision making with real estate is not only rational but emotional too.
Very cool. Any plans to add support to server side apps for Azure?
82,000 years at 25 miles per second (speed of Juno).
We are investigating what it would take to support RN with Windows. I'm a huge RN fan (and we include CodePush inside of App Center.) If you have a moment, shoot me an email as I'd love to ask you more about your scenarios.
I too think a negative income tax is a better method, but UBI is at least testable in some form. I think we'll see UBI tested and if successful, a negative income tax will be more politically feasible than UBI.
We just got a different future. Different advancements were made.

Colonies on the moon might sound cool, but there's no real economic benefit, and the cost is astronomical.
Smaller files are never a bad thing in themselves, but increasingly complex toolchains have a maintenance cost that people don't seem to notice. And I'm not just talking about making them work. I'm talking about everything, including choosing, learning, upgrading, replacing, dealing with problems people talk about here and even reading this article.

I'm not sure how we got to the point where something that worked without minification on year 2000 networks no longer works without per-processing on year 2017 networks.
I've seen one company asking for Ph.Ds in Math for a non-Math/Data/Science position. They said they put that on there because they had a bad experience in the past from someone who couldn't code but looked good on a resume. They wanted to pay $75-85k for that position. But then decided to take the interview anyway, so it clearly wasn't an actual requirement.

That's really the issue: job postings drive what developers "ought" to know because they should indicate some kind of business demand for individual skills. But there's no feedback to punish companies who scribble whatever they want on their job postings, so they continue to add new line items without verifying that what they're doing right now is working. It just leads to confusion and wasted time finding out what they actually want. If they can't find someone, they obviously go "Developer shortage! No one has the 50 skills w/ 5 years of experience on our job posting!"

Compound that with resume prose (pushed by people charging for resume review) that sometimes goes overboard in its effort to make something out of very little and we have a system where no actual communication takes place until you're in front of someone.
UBI is more psychologically palatable because you get it no matter what.

Negative tax creates this dissonance that if you start to earn more money you don't get as much. So then everybody tries to get around it and manipulate it so it appears they don't earn as much.
> You’ve made more than $500K

Nope! This is all speculative until you need to "sell & move". If you want to move to another place in the same area, guess what, you've probably made nothing. With all the taxes and fees that you have to pay on the sale price you can't buy the equivalent of your house. You can only capitalize on that appreciation if you move somewhere considerably cheaper.

Not only that, the owner faces higher (in some cases much higher) property taxes due to increasing house prices, which is totally out of their control.

I'm not suggesting that they're in a bad spot. It's just not the "jackpot" that your post is suggesting.
This sounds like the solution, albeit it doesn't necessarily need to be crypto. I'm not sure the rules around it, but letting users "buy" your platform money to then "spend" either at once or recurring on creators who then cash it out makes it so there are only two outside visible exchanges (money coming in to you, and money going out to creators).

The whole area is a minefield of not just corporate support but also regulation, especially internationally.
You can run it from your browser here:
https://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/
So, say you hire a junior developer and spend a year training them to the next level of seniority, at significant training / opportunity cost expense.

They now command a much higher market rate - you can pay the higher salary and retain them, or not and they'll leave. Either way, the company is out the training cost relative to hiring someone senior from the beginning.

(I say this as someone who hires 90% junior people and trains them. I think there are good reasons to do so, but the commons problem is real.)
Presumably the difference is that at some income threshold you start paying taxes, whereas right below it you don't.

So to me it sounds like a terrible implementation of a basic income scheme, since someone making X pays no taxes but x+n pays some fraction of n in taxes and presumably has little real incentive to work for n additional dollars when n is sufficiently small enough that x is close to x+(n - tax).

And then you've got all the bureaucracy of figuring out who earned less than x and applying whatever specific payment y to bring them up to x.
The article states the planet is 11 light-years away from our solar system. Assuming you travel at around 60K km/h / 40K mph (roughly the speed of the New Horizons probe), it would take about 220,000 total Earth years to arrive.
59 AFAIK
This seems…great?

Why did Microsoft create this? Specifically, I'm not interested in the "because we love developers" story, I'm interested in the "this is strategic for Microsoft now and for the next decade because" story.
Thank you, however I wasn't looking for the Wikipedia definition. I could have easily looked that up myself. I wanted to know what the poster personally meant by the term.
What you say is true, but it misses the point, which is that big gains only help you if you actually cash out. If you're making a lateral move, or downsizing in the same area, it doesn't matter whether you're leveraged or not. A loss is still a loss.
We support the Intune company portal and we will be taking a look at other services.

We offer a full REST API and webhooks, so this also something you could cook up as an extension to the product in the meantime.
Use the cheap bic ballpoints. They don't run or smudge.
Thank you -- this post did not add up to me either.

Do a FSBO if you're that worried about brokerage fees.
> Can someone explain to me why UBI is preferable to a negative income tax?

How reliable is the income tax collecting and distribution service in Kenya?

Is getting a check once per year more or less preferable to everyone getting a check?

How well does filing for an income tax return in a country with a 78% literacy rate?

A negative income tax is a nation wide program, this program takes places in a smaller geographical region, making it easier to get started, and a lower cost experiment than doing it nation wide.

Lots of pluses to UBI versus a national government ran program.
Ross 128? So when will we start shipping our prisoners there?
No.

Universal Basic Income is ‘Universal’, meaning there’s no qualification to receive it. Basically it’s flat and it goes to everyone equally, rich and poor.

A negative income tax is a progressive tax system that starts off in the negatives and works itself up as you move up in brackets or (ideally) on a smooth curve or line.
They are usually very similar, depending on how your you set up your tax brackets. There might be operational differences, depending on concrete proposal (dispensing cash yearly vs. monthly, etc.)
I think you described 90% of science reporting. If you want substance you have to read the (frequently paywalled and expensive) paper.
Those ads make me want a 10x real ultimate power ninja to silently enter their offices and dose every last executive and HR employee with a combination laxative-emetic, video record the aftermath, then silently slip away.

But I'm cheap too, so if that ninja could do it at 60% of the going rate for mass poisonings, that would be great. Their clan is also going to need 200 years of experience in undetectable infiltration, 300 years in poisons and venoms, and 500 years in absolute client confidentiality. Thanks.
Seems fairly rational. I recon two of the most common reasons people leave are boredom and unsatisfying career progression. So all you have to do is ensure people have interesting work and pay/promote them at a rate that is competitive with their option of switching jobs to achieve that goal.
I use Staedtler pigment liner pens (http://a.co/i0tN5Bz) and they have never run on me. The different widths really help for sketching vs writing vs annotating too.
Well, I'm fairly certain that treating them badly doesn't guarantee that employees will stay. I'd rather try the huge assumption.
They are all in disagreement over various edge cases. JSON is just a very weakly specified thing:

http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php

It's not just JSON by the way. URL parsers also differ in how they handle malformed inputs, with potentially catastrophic results:

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Tsai-A-Ne...

Basically the entire web stack is made up of protocols that are weakly specified, open to interpretation, lacking reference implementations and are therefore very hack prone.
True, but for practical purposes salaries (or the mean of salaries + returns from investments) closely approximate output. In any case it should be clear that salaries and inflation aren't directly linked. Salaries should (generally) increase slightly more than inflation as productivity increases over time
Virtual and Augmented Reality in Healthcare
If you click the fist link in the article, going to the google doc, you'll find this:

The original source map format (v1) was created by Joseph Schorr for use by Closure Inspector

Username checks out. Snark or not, please avoid posting this type of comment here.
You don’t have a hard and fast threashold but have it taper off on a progressive curve.
"We desperately need more developers that are exact cultural fits AND proficient in our exact stack AND will work for peanuts."

In other news, the 10-year-old girl community "desperately needs more ponies".
From what I've understood, it solves multiple problems that the negative income tax didn't, because it didn't apply to everyone.

To clarify for those coming later: The negative income tax is the idea that beneath a certain amount of income, you actually are given money by the government. If you're over the amount, you get nothing, and in fact are taxed a portion of your income. Depending on how far beneath the amount you are, you might get more, or less.

But that system leaves some people in a bad spot:

* Sporadic work? Now you have to wait until after you should've gotten your money to get the money to make up for it. Without a safety net(which you almost certainly do not have), you're behind on your bills already.

* The above also applies to if you hate your job.

* You're disincentivized from working if the amount you can make is beneath the amount that would give you the negative income bracket.

* Politically, it's a lot easier when everyone can get the benefit. Less claims about abusing the system if it gives everyone the same thing.

* As an employer, giving someone just 4-6 hours a week of work isn't bad unless the employee wants something different. With a NIT it might just not be worth it to the employee.
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I think it's more that, the companies are the ones complaining, so if they're not willing to be part of the solution, then we don't care about their problems.

If they don't want to train, then that's fine, but then they don't get to complain about the lack of developers.
I dislike the notion that discourse needs to be respectful at all times.

Discourse shouldn't be baselessly disrespectful, sure.

But the robotic, tsk tsk, shaming attitude that gets thrown around on forums whenever someone expresses any negative emotion gets old too.

In any case, complaining about having to pay capital gains tax on gains OVER $500k really is the ultimate first world, privileged problem.
Increase in immigration absolutely increases the demand for housing, but it's often not enough to increase the housing prices alone. Look at what happened in the early 90s during the Yugoslav Wars, Sweden took in more refugees than ever before in history yet the housing prices went down and threw the country into economic recession because of all the investments into real estate.

The financial regulations (or lack thereof) are far more responsible. They're present in all of Sweden's housing crises, this one included. It's the same when you look internationally.
Maybe.

Watcom used to have a reputation for generating fast code, but that was in the 1980s, early 1990s. The impression I got was that by the time I started working at that company, OpenWatcom was mostly around because it was very good for compiling code for DOS.

It supported all of those weird memory models from the days of segmented memory, it had its own 32-bit protected mode which I assume many programmers back then welcomed enthusiastically.

Plus, I read somewhere that OpenWatcom is practically the only compiler that can create DOS executables to be stored in ROM (for embedded / industrial applications, I guess). Or something like that.
Other than the assumption with Negative Income Tax that the money has to come from an institution that taxes (aka the government), yes they're essentially the same thing.

Negative Income Tax is the term preferred by the right and UBI by the left, so there is probably a lot of very significant differences between any specific proposal labelled "Negative Income Tax" and any specific proposal labelled "UBI".
Canada has no capital gains tax on housing and it has similar housing inflation to Sweden.

I would say people are frantic to buy a home in Canada because it's tax free and the alternative (stocks/bonds/etc..) isn't.
The generated assembly was garbage, so I assume it was a compiler bug. It also got fixed in later revisions, but since the compiler is shipped with the CRT... :)

I don't actually recall if we were using the shipped CRT or not, I'm guessing only minimal parts of it were used, if any, since embedded projects tend to write their own subset of the needed standard library functions.
It requires experienced and technically competent interviewers though. Ideally someone who is more than qualified for the job. In other words, experts.

And sometimes, experts are not available. Either because the only expert is the person you want to hire, or because of a strong divide between HR and technical people.
A negative income tax requires the same sort of bureaucracy from our current means-tested welfare systems, whereas a simple UBI paid to all does not.
DotVVM has Electron support. Have you looked at it?
https://grsecurity.net/~spender/interview_notes.txt he seems to admit defeat in what he is doing and upstream here more or less.
Personally I am a fan of this only because Kickstarter is a PBC. The most fundamental problem with Patreon is that it is a proprietary web service operated by a for profit company that now controls the incomes of thousands, ranging from hobbyist artists to major productions like Crash Course.

It is like everything that is wrong with Facebook (the lock in from networking effects to a closed ecosystem) but made even worse by making peoples livelihoods depend on it. If there has ever been anything more deserving of if not full decentralization some protection from the controlling interest destroying people on a whim it is Patreon.

The PBC nature of Kickstarter doesn't wholly solve this, not even close, but it implies they at least cannot do unethical things to try to increase revenue on the platform by exploiting its dependent creators. Thats a small step in the right direction.
You can respond with "that's because a good workman doesn't use poor tools."

It nicely suggests that maybe it's the programmer's responsibility to advocate for something better.
I don't think so. How many people do you know who feel they are being treated well leave their companies?
2 rebuttals listed from Schneier's post mentioned in the article linked here are worth a read. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201... and https://www.lawfareblog.com/thoughts-encryption-and-going-da...

Neither are from security professionals, and both really downplay the risks associated with <insert 3 letter agency> having escrow of keys. The number of leaks and breaches across the various government orgs shows that it is near impossible to maintain the security of keys held in escrow.