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I'm also a Firefox and DDG user and I agree that the re-captcha issue is big. Between a pi-hole, uMatrix, and cookie-autodelete I'm able to seriously limit Google's impact on my daily browsing, but there is no way around the re-captcha. Without the google cookie following me around its even more apparent since I'm automatically in a higher risk tier for the re-captcha. I often spend several minutes on it clicking one image after another - its so bad I've started considering doing a screen recording to show others how long it takes. Google cannot be avoided and with AMP its just getting worse.
Sure, but why is it the tax code’s job to provide a public subsidy to “charities”, legitimate or otherwise?

Charity should be voluntary and unsubsidized.
That's... Unsettling.
The 7% is referring to the rate of return on your investments. He is making the assumption that if you invest $100 in the stock market on January 1, then on Dec 31 your account will have $107 in it. This assumption is an average over many years.

There is a common rule of thumb in the investing world that you can safely remove 4% a year from your investments and they will continue to grow. (7% return minus 4% withdrawals means you have 3% more in the account each year)

It doesn't matter what your lifestyle is. If you are a junior developer who makes 80k a year and spends 50k a year, then you should save 25x50k=1.25mil and then you no longer have to work for a living. This process will take years or decades.
Gmail is really the only thing keeping me in the Google tent. Switching my address after over a decade of use is nigh-impossible. I also use Chrome for development because the debug tools are superior, but everything else Google is an easy switch for me.
Perhaps once a black hole has nothing left to suck in, it explodes?
It's basically a DNS-over-HTTPS client for Android, acting as a VPN client to route DNS traffic only.

You can use your own DNS-over-HTTPS server if you want to.
how do you get lambda out of hrfgl?
They do (it's why I've stopped using it). If you're in the iOS/macOS ecosystem, Airmail is a good option.
This is not really that new... as the 1954 Reece (Congressional) investigation into charities showed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Com...

Also, Wright Patman's report on Family Foundations and Charitable Trusts: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL11465104W/Tax-exempt_foundat...
The assumption that the gates foundation is "good" today does not imply that the foundation will be good in the future. There are several family foundations that I'm sure are supporting things that the original "robber baron" who earned the money would strongly opposed to.
IANAP, but the big bang, name notwithstanding, is completely unlike a conventional explosion. It is not a wavefront expanding in three dimensions off a center, there is no frontier nor a center at all in our three dimensions and each point of the universe[1] is getting farther than every other point, i.e. not moving radially off a center.

You could imagine that the explosion is happening on an extra dimension and our three dimensional universe is the wave front of that explosion. Except that the math doesn't actually require the extra dimension to exist nor there is any evidence that it does.

edit: also the cited diameter is only for the visible universe. The universe is currently understood to be infinite.

[1] my understanding this applies only to points of the universe that are not otherwise gravitationally bound with each other.
It looks like this comment is being downvoted because it appears to endorse being deceptive.

I’d like to chime in and second the sentiment in slightly different terms: value is not inherently visible. You can waste a lot of time contributing significant invisible value to a company with no recognition or reward. On the other hand, you can provide a small amount of value and receive significant recognition just by making that value as visible as possible.

If you’re looking to have your value recognized, you need to commit energy to making it visible. This means different things in different roles and organizations, but it’s a critical skill to develop.

And it doesn’t just apply in business relationships! Learn to make your value visible; it ensures the energy you put into anything is appropriately acknowledged.
How would SQLite fare in regards to your concerns? You won't have to 'spin up' a database and importing from various sources, AFAIK, is pretty easy these days (and OP even goes out of their way to deal with VARCHAR fields).

It strikes me as much easier than having to figure out Awk, but that's assuming most people are more likely to know SQL and/or use it in the future.

I mean, I'd be happy to try and solve the problem with Awk because it's been high on my list of things to learn, but SQL does seem like an easier solution in most cases.
I'm not saying his concerns are invalid just because he posts them on slate. I'm not saying his concerns are invalid at all. I would be able to criticize the validity of his concerns if I were able to read them. I have no choice but to ignore them because I'm not prepared to pay the price of my personal data. And I find that quite ironic, since apparently they are about protecting online privacy in the first place.
Yes, the infamous "NSA smiling face": http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/10/30/nsa_smile...

(I don't have access to links you've posted).
Not that the author is right, but he does address exactly these criticims. Besides, that someone used Docker inappropriately isn't evidence that Docker is the wrong tool for personal projects (again, it may be true that Docker is the wrong tool for personal projects, but that is not evidenced by your bio scientist friend scenario).
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> At first glance it also appears that this law would make chats in which a bot handles most but not all of the interaction illegal.

Only illegal if it isn't disclosed that it's a bot ("A person using a bot shall not be liable under this section if the person discloses that it is a bot."), and the bill doesn't dictate the form of that disclosure, only that it must be "clear, conspicuous, and reasonably designed to inform persons with whom the bot communicates or interacts that it is a bot".
This doesn't square for me at all, or for many of the people I know. Granted, I don't live in SV, but I and most of the people I know in tech have a pretty relaxed working environment 90% of the time, far more than comparable positions in consulting or finance. I probably have about three or four weeks per year that are serious crunch time where I will work more than 40 hours, but for the most part it's loosely 9-to-5 and very amenable to work-life balance.
Middle class is really defined on what you can get for your money, not a raw dollar amount. Quality of life and all that.
This comment is not in line with the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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While Americans would say "I'm a _insert_hobby_or_job_or_responsibility_here_," they don't necessarily limit themselves to just one item.

Like in my case, at this point in time I would say I'm a software engineer, a video and board game designer, a writer, and a hiker (well maybe just one or two depending on the context, but if I was writing a Twitter bio or something it'd include these things).

If I was a mother or a father, I'd probably say that (most parents do), and if I cared enough about religion or politics, I'd probably include that also, but I don't really identify with anything too strongly there (or what to highlight or emphasize it), or if I cared about a specific identity label (gay, sapiosexual, polyamorous, genderfluid, whatever), that tends to get included also nowadays, especially with younger people.
This is why it’s best to have one layer of indirection: in this case a personal domain that lets you move between providers. Same thing as running your site from mygreatcompany.com instead of geocities.com/mygreatcompany.
It can be said for most software categories. But for specially for crypto, trust matters a lot. Specially today with governments pushing for forcing backdoors in crypto.
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He's using his personal funds and under-informed judgement to redirect the malaria and education industries toward his ve

pet theories regardless of scientific consensus. He also "donates" to creating dependencies on Microsoft/Windows products. And "his" money is money he largely extorted from the computer using public using illegal market manipulation. It's our money.
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Definitely still around. I see them as they invade my house in winter and leave in spring.
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Mold can become a bad issue if your bathroom isn't ventilated after showers. I've rented for decades in WA State and every lease I've signed has had a mold clause. The building was built 4 years ago; I watched them build it.
I am sure there are better things to do than sort garbage, no? For starters, someone has to maintain those robots :-)
Why should spraying and biological control be our only options? HN has had a bunch of stories lately on using CRISPR and gene drive to render entire populations infertile. Let's do that here and make this species extinct.
super soft
Looks like the layout used by Ranger ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_(file_manager) )
While they are at it, also get rid of the spam car and debt consolidation loan mailers. If you opt-out, you also don't get mailers from AmEx on their newest metallic card, which I might want. But I don't need a loan from some unknown institution at near credit-card rates.
You should give Nim a go. The ecosystem is growing fast :)
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Gecko still feels weird, I don’t think it’ll ever catch up to WebKit or Blink.

Worth noting that Opera is still an option, and built on Blink...
Kind of surprised that Arizona was the first non-small population state on the list.
Yes, it's new to me because I never bothered to check out Mac OS server. Now that they moved it into the main Mac OS, I've set it up for one of my laptops and it seems to back up invisibly... except for the first backup where I had to leave the laptop on overnight because it took 7 hours ;)
You don't. One thing I've noticed is that mentorship is one of those things people like to toss about as well-meaning advice, but it's an empty suggestion more than anything else. Realistically, what you can do is make an effort to join some kind of programming e-community that's more intimate than HackerNews and integrate with that community over some time, and then ask them for advice. You can find a language-specific Discord/Slack/Gitter/IRC channel, integrate (lurk, then post, become a known quantity), then ask more specific career-oriented questions.
This is all anecdata, but I'd describe roughly a third of my past software employees as "crazy" with respect to working hours, etc.

The two that really stand out:

1. Enterprise software firm in the healthcare space with a backend lang/storage system that was so antiquated they struggled to find and retain developers. This constraint was so acute that it forced the few remaining developers into a non stop crisis mode as the situation was often "XYZ hospital is down". I left a long time ago, but apparently it's gotten better as they've finally migrated to a more sustainable platform.

2. A hardware/software Augmented Reality startup that had a very difficult time meeting delivery dates. They'd spin up departments like "customer success" and "support" and "technical documentation" and then would have a 6+ month delay shipping. So you'd have very talented people with more or less nothing to do for that timeframe, so people just sat in endless meetings trying to weigh in on everything and it ground the company to a halt. To throw fuel on the fire, they then had the hardware team start working mandatory 6 day weeks (and then made everyone else come in b/c they were "a family").
"If I hadn't put in the initial legwork" might better be read as "If I hadn't invested up front in some startup costs from experts who know things I don't". Paying for Lawyers and Accts seems crazy, when we have the web and a local library. But it often turns out to be 50% wasted money... and 50% "saved my life" money.

After all, an entity is hiring _you_ because you have skills they can't do even though there are tons of books and sites on dev and web engineering. It's wise to do the same yourself for the skills you don't have, or don't have time to master.

BTW, I found lots of variability in pricing around lawyers and accountants, and some negotiation can go a long way.
>You're welcome to suggest a better example ;)

You mean, I'm welcome to find supporting evidence for your argument? Shouldn't that be your responsibility?

>I feel that publishing fake results should be as hard as possible.

Making it "as hard as possible" would mean using almost all of the world's resources to try to stop fake results being published. If you really want to make the review process more rigorous, you need to present a concrete plan specifying (a) who's going to do the work and (b) who's going to pay for it.

If you can't do that, then what makes you so sure that the review process isn't already as rigorous as it can reasonably be, given the reality of human frailty and limited resources?
Probably because we're not generally in the habit of rendering entire species extinct simply because they've been transported by humans out of their natural habitat?
I really want to get away from using a pixel (or Android) phone, but an equivalent iPhone costs literally twice as much. Is it worth it for privacy alone?
> I tend to gift double the money I would without the deduction, because the cost is exactly the same to me

Then you give ~exactly the same money, it's the public that's giving more money. Forcing everyone else in your country to chip in just a little more for roads is not the same as giving more money.
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Getting a job at Google has done this to me in regards to programming. For the last 7 years I've felt like an impostor whereas before I grew irritated by the mediocrity around me.
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That’s not true at all.

For most of human history, cities did not actually reproduce enough to maintain their own population. It’s only into the 19th century when cities start to become self sustaining.

If there wasn’t pressure to move to the city then they would’ve collapsed millenia ago. It’s not like there’s this permanent cohort of city weirdos living in the great urban areas, those areas continue to draw in people from the surrounding area.
I'm curious, what goes into building your own donor advised fund? And how did you scale it up so much?
This article should be renamed "Google now has expensive feature that reboots your instances every 24 hours".

Server-less will be remembered as the most embarrassing thing humans have ever invented.
DHH, that's a name I haven't seen in a while.
I like your way of thinking. A former team lead of mine used to say "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good". As a perfectionist, after a few hard lessons I couldn't agree more.
In practice, that's true of tax money as well.
By the description here, it seems (like "Peopleware") that this is a book that doesn't offer individual contributors anything they don't already know, and it would be great if we could get our managers to read it, but our managers won't read it, or if they do, they'll say "It sounds nice but we can't do any of that here because ..." Is it?
Is it necessary in its native habitat either? If it's a pure pest, we should have no qualms about getting rid of it. That we haven't historically done that (except for smallpox) isn't a good argument for not doing it, especially since the technology for making it easy is just now becoming available.

You do have an argument about ecosystem cascades and food chain disruption inveighing against arbitrary extinction of pests, but we should evaluate these things on a case by case basis and not just assume that any species we eradicate is "load bearing". Many species aren't.
Banned CAPTCHAs (including ReCAPTCHA) at my previous employer[1]: they’re impossible to make accessible, and are a prime case of businesses externalising costs onto their users.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-captchas
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This. But as further justification, some of the worst and dumbest bugs I've introduced in my career were late at night when I was exhausted and trying to push through.
That's actually my point. I've heard that corrupt charity's jingle for over 20 years and they're still only "under investigation"? In the meantime, they and their contributors get evade taxes, and at the end of it all, there is no punishment for anyone. No one is going to go to jail for stretching the definitions in the law, it is all plausibly deniable.

The only solution is to remove this option period. The US government even negotiated with Scientology where they kept their charity status even after being proven corrupt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_status_of_Scientology_in_t...

How can anyone take "charity" as a legal term seriously?
DDG's bang features are great. You might be interested in the !sp bang - which takes you to StartPage (a proxy for Google). This way you can still get the Google results without using google when DDG isn't cutting it.
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Read at least HackerNews and possibly some other tech news site regularly. And then make sure to not get too caught up in the hype for new stuff.

As someone working in technology, you are going to be learning new stuff continually (or your usefulness is going to diminish over time). By keeping up to date with tech news, you get a lot of context for what people are using, what's coming down the pipe etc. You may end up experimenting with stuff and then you'll be ahead of all your colleagues. It broadens your knowledge, and if you have to deal with clients it means you will usually know what they're talking about.

There's a few pitfalls to watch out for though. HN is great, but it is still an echochamber that can be focused on web and related tech. I was mostly an embedded software engineer for years and found comments like 'does anyone even use C anymore' hilarious (yes, see Linux kernel, device drivers, and your washing machine for details). It can also be very easy to end up wanting to push for the 'shiny new thing' too early. I tinkered with Rust from very early on, but it's only in the last 6 months or so that I'd suggest it is ready for use in most companies (depending on application area). Javascript frameworks suffer this problem particularly badly. Mature beats shiny 9 times out of 10 - running into a problem that 100 people have met before and posted about on StackOverflow and your tool caters for, is much better than being the first person to encounter said problem.
it is worth for all the rest :)
They had that engineer who was able to stalk people. So, at the time, a failure of their internal security/privacy policies.
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Things are possible if one puts one's mind to it.

five seconds, year 2008: https://lwn.net/Articles/299483/

two seconds, year 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUUtZjd6UA4&t=17
I've written the step I used to do the DoH part.

https://www.aaflalo.me/2018/10/tutorial-setup-dns-over-https...

Still need to document the PiHole part.

I've also disable all logging for Nginx and Pihole.
The server is also listed on https://dnscrypt.info/public-servers

Also, if you're in the American Continent, you might want to use the proxy I setup on Google Cloud Platform:

https://dns-gcp.aaflalo.me/dns-query
In case you missed Manish Sinha’s “Mentoring in Gaza's first hackathon” in 2016, it is an insightful perspective that complements this article.

http://dopeboy.github.io/gaza/

EDIT Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11858963
Sometimes I worry that I've never once felt a desire to do this.
The goal is just to get to 25x your annual spending. Once you're there if you earn 7% interest and only spend 4% (what you'd normally spend in a year), you've now not only spend no money (only a piece of the interest) and that extra 3% left over accounts for inflation. So you build a pool for 25 years of spending, then just coast on that for the rest of your life.

The key is to realize that it's not your earnings, but your spending, so it would behoove one to get that spending as small as possible to get to coasting more quickly.

The math works out in one of those "assuming a spherical cow" senses. It doesn't account for a market downtown for any length of time, nor a required change in spending habits (illness, emergency).
This article makes my head hurt, as do so many discussions of charitable giving. The only reason to give to charity is to benefit that charity.

Yes, donors get a deduction for charitable giving. But they are ALWAYS better off (in terms of money received in their bank account) by NOT GIVING TO CHARITY. There is no way to give money to charity in such a way that you end up with more money than if you had not given to charity.

The article points out that there can be some hedging; the assets donated can be managed and management fees paid to a manager before liquidation. And the particulars of the valuations mean that they can sometimes get a larger deduction than if they sold the asset and then donated the proceeds to charity. And there are loopholes that allow them to claim a larger deduction than the maximum deduction allowed in the tax code.

But no matter what, if they just sold the damn asset and kept the money, they would have more money at the end of the day than they would having gone through this rigmarole.
Aren't young people allowed to, well, be young though? When you don't go to nightclubs, don't have friends to call at 1am and can't play guitar in your 400sqft apartment with neighbors on all sides of the world's thinnest walls, is it a terrible thing if coding all day and all night on relatively minor problems to make somebody else five figures a week is your primary source of excitement? Does it not beat alcohol and Counter-Strike in the realms of bad things for your health that generate dopamine?

(Totally agree with the advice who have money and relationships though. But none of us start there.)
I don't disagree with most of what you say, however: If you have a (code) problem at the end of the day it's often best to just stop - maybe even finish early. When you sit down in the morning more often than not it'll seem much easier to fix, your subconscious will have been working on it overnight.

That's better than sitting there for another hour or two in the evening getting increasingly tired and ineffective, missing dinner, annoying your partner, etc.