skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the previous gen model which also is 2 TB3 + 1 USB-C and it really doesn't matter much at all in practice. Since TB3 is isolated to the more "permanent" stuff (docks or eGPUs) it's pretty natural to just always use the same port since the cable layout is fixed. It's not like you connect random TB3 stuff to it regularly on the go.
> anyone develop on the little 13" screen these days

I almost exclusively prefer 13" displays for development. I feel lost on larger displays.
As someone that remembers when C compilers for home computers weren't able to compete with junior devs hand writing Assembly, it always feels interesting to see this kind of remarks.

Thankfully the changes in modern hardware architectures have triggered many runtime devs to start having another look at their compiler backends, improving vector instructions support and access to GPGPU features, instead of sticking with just good enough for CRUD apps.
After spending enough time making sausages, I too, would not want to know
This sounds more likely, it's much easier to imagine 20 tunnels than 20 lanes of traffic (250 feet wide). And much pleasanter to have it all underground where you don't have to look at it.
I thought it was a state thing. But it's apparently an FTC rule that started with contacts and was expanded to glasses as some point.

Not that I would advocate anyone taking shortcuts on eye exams, but assuming online US providers insist on appropriate documentation and doctors' names, there's always ordering from Canada.
So your argument to spend 20 billion isn't even the science that you might get out of it, but the engineering knowledge you'll preserve? That seems like an even worse reason to do it.
Except that Oracle has colluded with other large companies in the past to fix wages. Enforced through the means of blacklisting employees who leave one large tech company to apply for jobs at another. Also enforced via non-complete clauses.

While people working at Oracle may make more than the average person their wages are still depressed through big business cartels presenting a united front and thus a monospony. There is a market failure and people are responding by suing Oracle.
Saying particle physics is dead because we discovered all basic particles that we could with our resources - is a lot like saying biology is dead because we discovered DNA.
If you're bringing in 3x your cost (as you should as an employee), the cost of a laptop is very nil for the company. Their nickel and diming you is worse for morale and retention.
Do you make your employees only listen to one genre of music while working? Do you only allow specific food for lunch? Why do you just care about this specific point in how they work?
I think this mainly makes a difference with regard to reading the code. I'm looking at a struct in someone's code and ask myself "How does this thing get used?" With classes I'll be able to see its methods right away, and if it had inherited then I could see right away which parent to go check.

But the problem is not that big. Maybe the methods are right next to the struct, or if I search the codebase for the struct I can find which methods use it. Still, would be cool if Juno had some feature like "show which methods use this."
Tuya-Convert: Escaping the IoT-Cloud, no solder needed
As a professional I know what is cost effective for me better than anyone else. For example I know that I'm always bumping up against my 16 gig memory limit, but I have plenty of CPU. I know that I get less eye fatigue on a 4k monitor - so I picked a smaller 4k monitor that was cheaper than the monster lower resolution wrap around thing my colleague prefers.

I know that I'll be significantly more cost effective with 32 gigs of ram because I don't need to spend time killing processes and rebooting VMs after half a day of work.

I know what keyboard and mouse is still comfortable for me after working 8 hours, etc.

I know I'll be more productive on a macbook not because I'm an apple fan boy. I hate apple because they've done more to kill open source than any other company - even MS. I'm a linux fan boy. But I need to use various tools that don't run on linux. I could "tough it out" on a cheaper windows machine, but it wouldn't be cost effective. I would be less productive.

A professional knows what is cost effective and spends their hardware budget wisely to optimize their productivity. They don't rip off the company for the latest shiny gadget. It is stilly to trust a dev to essentially run a multi-million dollar company, but not to pick out a computer.
We need to rethink everything we know about global warming
Show HN: PJON network protocol specification v3.1
> I do not and have never used Vim
I do wonder, what editor do you use when you're sshed into a remote machine?
Marx believed in the time theory of value, yes. He believed that if you took 100 hours to make a chair then its inherently worth more than someone who spent 10 hours on a chair. However, consumers select for quality - nobody cares how long it took you to do. The fact that his entire ideology is built on this belief is worrying for any modern followers of his cause.
She's partially right, the outcomes of algorithms can be considered racist...

https://www.google.com/search?q=american+inventors

I have not heard of most of these inventors. Perhaps there is a different perspective that influenced this algorithm than my perspective; probably SEO. In the case of SEO, it's more of a cultural battle between interested parties. Search Engines are the medium of this battle to game algorithms. Making the algorithms themselves consider race, making them racist, only puts the thumb on the scale for certain outcomes.
No, it's that developers write their code on 16GB of RAM Macbooks running the minimal amount of software required.

If you're not seeing performance issues in your developer machine, you'll hardly see a developer running on 2GB of RAM.
My guess would be NT => Non Touch, T => Touch
Business Insider has a nice article that simply shows the summary for a whole bunch of common sites (NYT, Fox, WP, Guardian, WSJ, National Review, NY Post, Daily News, Federalist, Economist, Breitbart, Daily Kos, RT, Times of Israel, BI, Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, BuzzFeed, MSNBC, AP, Daily Beast, TMZ, Splinter, Vice News, Forbes, LA Times, Time, and BBC)

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-web-browser-fake-n...

Looking over the results for those sites, it seems reasonably fair as far as left vs. right goes. I see both liberal and conservative sites covered, and in both groups see sites with perfect ratings and sites with terrible ratings and site in between.

Edit: Implementation wise, this thing is really well done. I installed the Firefox version, and when I visit a site that it has info on, the green/red summary shows up, and clicking that gives details, as would be expected, and that was all I expected.

What I didn't expect is that when I'm in Google news, it puts the indicator beside the source name on each story. It also does this on Google search results. It's also working with Bing search results.
Kotlin 1.3.20 released
Do both of your non-MacBook laptops have old spindle hard drives? I find that is much of the difference between “slower” and “faster” computers. SSDs have come down in price significantly, so it’s worth the upgrade if you use the computers on a regular basis.
Where did you move? I’d guess 50% of the people in this thread are open to leaving the Bay Area if we find a location with comparable opportunity.
This right here is why Go's 'statically link everything' is going to become a big problem in the long run when old servers are running that software and no one has the source code anymore.
Do the $3000 hearing aids differ significantly than, say, this:

https://www.amazon.de/Audiben-PSA-H%C3%B6rverst%C3%A4rker-Pr...
meanwhile, i'm still waiting for Ubuntu 18 on my 9370....
Does that include the high-index material? Anti-scratch coating? Frames that don't look pathetic? Progressive lenses? Those are the things that really bring up the costs in the US.
The FBI, or sometimes the county Sheriffs office, are the ones who handle decryption of phones for local police departments.

There are over 17,000 police departments in the United States, it's not reasonable for them to all have these capabilities on site.

Edit: The FBI actually has walk up kiosks (in a secure area) with Cellebrite for do-it-yourself forensics.
Salary transparency already exists, just that it works one way only: the employer knows everyone's salary and they thoroughly research the salaries paid by their competitors.

As a general economic principle, I can't really see any situation where this information asymmetry works to the benefit of the workers. It might benefit some employees in critical positions that can bridge the information gap and gain an advantage over their peers.

But on average, no, transparency reduces the leverage of the employer; else they wouldn't fight to maintain that information differential, they would promote full transparency in order to pay everyone less as you say.
Because in most cases there are some or even many people who are available to work for less. The management then would argue that "you can't earn more than they do for the same work, everyone would have to get a raise but there is no justification for that". Secrecy makes it an individual discussion as a by-product.
Eh, I suspect they would. Talented people are born throughout the world, and historically, an 'unfair advantage' of the US has been our ability to attract them. Look how many big companies were founded by a 1st or 2nd generation immigrant.

It'd be a great way of letting the market figure out how many work visas we need, in any event, rather than having a number someone plucked out of their ass.
Wasabee (A web-browser with safety focus from the ground up.)
Trend-line wise there is a point - the boringness is often a symptom of repetitiveness which hints at a task that is easier to automate.

If you try to beat automation at repetitive tasks chances are you are going to die with a hammer in your hand.
Ironically, I pay even more to avoid Luxottica.

VSP encourages me to buy "preferred" brands with even larger frame discounts if I go with one of these generic "designer" companies.

Instead, I pay even more to get glasses I actually like; all-carbon-fiber frames from Bellinger in Denmark.

I pay an extra dollar or two a month in order to qualify for new frames every year; that money more than pays for itself when I get 20% off $600-$800+ frames.

As a guy, my glasses are about the only fashion accessory I have, so it's worth it to me. But if it's not worth it to you, Costco will happily sell you cheap glasses, as will the various online retailers.

As usual, don't trust what the industry wants to tell you you have to buy.
But you have to be sure the groups you are equalizing across are fair and valid and comprehensive groups.
Just buy glasses in / from India. The Indian government price protects most prescriptions because otherwise the poor will be absolutely excluded from them. So too with eye glasses. I bought mine in 2005 for the equivalent of $20 & they are running perfectly fine even now. I bought another pair in 2016 for the equivalent of $55 & they are now my backup. Both prices are including frames. My prescription had changed very little.
Long time employees are naturally severe underpaid. The long timers around who recently finally left our BigCo got 2-2.5x raises into 350-500+ range, male or female.
If it takes 15min locally then you should do it locally. My rule of thumb.. if it takes > 1 hr locally it should be done elsewhere.
We've started using AWS Cognito which provides social logins and oauth and even mobile client and web sdks for integrating. Writing yet another authentication system was just too much and it's great how there's services like okta and aws that are stepping up and letting people just use those and at least in the case of Cognito, at minimal cost.
I never suggested left-pad myself, but what I would do is copy and paste a function off stack-overflow, name it appropriately, and encapsulate it, maybe write a test that is the flavour of the month.

Then leave a link to the page I got it from in the comment above.

I'm about 5 years into my career, and have re-invented the wheel in the past myself. It's great fun to make these huge rude-goldberg-esque inventions but for making an MVP, it simply isn't worth it.

Specifically avoiding libraries like express, react, ORMs or crypto though... People love to do that, and far too often it ends up living for eternity.

I always advocate... don't bother. :)
I appreciate being able to get Ubuntu GNU/Linux on a sleek Dell laptop, but without a TrackStick/TrackPoint/PointStick, it's no "developer laptop" for me.
I was on Mubi for a while and really liked the 'one in, one out' system. I typically watched the movies that were about two days out, regardless of my interest. As a result I watched a lot of movies I never would had known about.

I don't think this model would translate to the less-obsessed, though -- especially for films that are easier to find.
I don't think the doctors normally measure the PD, they leave that to the ones who cut the glasses. That really does cause problems for doing it online, though.
Overall they're pretty good though. Until I got a pair and watched movies in a plane wearing them I never really realized how high I had to pump the volume to overcome the engine noise.I pretty much wear them all the time in a plane now even if just to use the noise cancelling.
> In the arms race for the most unique! most authentic! store currently underway, when only-in-person experience is what differentiates retail from e-tail, a cultural treasure surrounded by a puzzle straight out of a Dan Brown novel may be the ultimate accessory.

Not exactly a garden-path sentence, but I had a few branch mispredictions on my way through this sentence.
Yeah, network, for example a lot of the companies on http://applytroop.com could probably pick his team up later on if they were in the Bay. But the risk becomes having to move again for opportunities.
It can't be fast because the constraints he's laid out don't allow them to. Elevators don't work that way. Neither does braking safety. (Run the numbers yourself, or go watch that donoteat01 video. It's farcical on its face.)

The rest of your post is weird heroification and I'd have to bleach myself after interacting with it, so I won't.
“It’s VC arbitrage.”

The problem with arbitrage is that everyone wants to capture it, since it’s basically free money. Not in SV? You only need 1/4 the funding.
1. While it's certainly hard to describe all security systems in general, a general rule of thumb is that any system performing similarity matching is going to be considerably more involved than an exact match.

If you want an exact match, like in storing passwords, all you need is to store a hash and throw the original away (and there's certainly more nuances to this, like salting, but the rough idea is this). When a user enters a password, run it through a hash function and see if the hashes match.

This isn't the case for similarity matching, which most face recognition systems use. You need to store the actual embedding, and not the hash, because two face embeddings of even the same person are unlikely to ever be exactly the same, just "close". If you hash even two nearby inputs, any standard hash function will map them as far apart as possible, destroying any sense of distance you'd have to compute the similarity between the stored embedding and the query embedding.

This extends to any method whose internal representations are designed to function based on similarity matches; you need to store the original.

2. Last time I checked, yeah :)
Since machines can do a lot of the "real work", yes. Our methods of income distribution may need to change if robots become the "new slaves". We can maybe learn something from ancient Greek society. Our current problem is that the wealth is not trickling down from the machine owners to regular folks.
You're taking a pretty narrow view of what a monopoly is with your anecdote.

A monopoly is where a company gets large enough that it is able to leverage its market share in anticompetetive ways (charging outrageously high prices, far above the competition, for exampe).

NOT where its literally impossible to buy other brands or where a company has 100% market share. That scenario is impossible and will never happen in any market.
That's bad, especially for developer oriented laptop.
I generally use nano for quick and dirty things, but prefer to push/pull changes. The environment I'm working in doesn't necessitate editing local files on a remote very often.
> The mirror is for the small optical viewfinder

That's what I meant. It didn't occur to me that the bigger display is a viewfinder too...
Not being around the valley and not having random run ins with people who can help you. I got one of my best employees by running into her roommate at a birthday party and finding out she's looking for work. I've had other cases of running into people at events that later helped me out. Events I wouldn't have gone to if I didn't live in SV.

Also I've found that a lot of VCs don't want to talk to you if you aren't local, because they don't seem to believe in video conferencing and like to be able to have last minutes meetings. This seems to be changing though.

The key here is that my company is fully remote and my employees don't live here, so they get to take advantage of this purchasing power, while I get the advantages of being SV.

I don't think the whole company needs to be in SV, but it certainly helps if the founder is.
Same here. My work laptop is a HP Zbook workstation. My favorite thing is my USB C doc. 4 USB ports, 2 display ports, Ethernet, USB c port, power, and a VGA port.
You're using emacs as an example of non-bloated? Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping?
They do import them... and then mark them up a huge amount. Unless you go to a few discount places like Costco or online vendors.
I second the motion to add TrackPoint/PointStick/TrackStick as a filterable attribute.
My experiences are also similar to this -- I started using GCP for a side project after working with AWS professionally for years.

And then when given the decision to decide between AWS or GCP in a professional setting, I picked GCP. My use cases are relatively common -- we're not doing some crazy k8 workflows etc, just straight forward business logic that needs to scale.

To be clear, almost all functionality GCP offers AWS offers. Just ... on GCP, it's just five-ten clicks versus on AWS I'm configuring and then tweaking, trying to understand AWS's UI, and reading docs for much longer.
Why does a "developer edition" notebook come with a glossy screen?

I sort of understand why computer makers like glossy screens: because they just look better to the causal shopper. OK. But in a laptop that is aimed at professionals? People that stare at the screen all day long are sophisticated enough to know that a matte screen is just better.

I'm often on the train and I do not envy the poor souls that work on an enterprise-bought laptop with a glossy screen and that have to swing their heads the whole time to avoid reflections from the train window.

BTW, a thorough (p)review of the 9380: https://www.ultrabookreview.com/24336-dell-xps-13-9380/
If I heard that in other countries their use of 1st floor was 1 off from me, and they had a name for whatever was before 1, then what they have is like a zero, especially if some elevators use the literal 0 to mean the ground floor.
One word: protectionism. Nothing else can explain it. The U.S. healthcare system is rife with protectionism, and it's disgusting. From how hard it is to become a doctor, to how hard it is to build a new hospital (you need a "certificate of need" in just about all States to build one), to FDA regulations on drug manufacturing being extremely expensive, to too many drugs not being over the counter (thus requiring a trip to your general practitioner), it's all protectionism, all the time. On top of that we have huge distortions, like the non-insurance insurance schemes that have caused there to be no single public price for anything anywhere, thus destroying the single most important feature of free markets (price signalling). It's all a mess.
It did get flagged but I agree with your point on discussing it being important.
As a VC? The unicorn fund. Which agrees with what the market has been supporting this last decade.

Given the same investments in each, the unicorn provides a bigger return. Because of economies of scale, it's more likely to gain traction and continue its success, especially in a place like tech where marginal cost is almost non-existent. Not to mention the overhead on managing a single investment vs. many. Not to mention the administrative costs of 5 companies vs one. Not to mention the benefit of choosing a company based on your interests and abilities, since most VCs have a more hands-on role than traditional investors.

It just aligns with the culture; the whole idea in most tech startups is to leverage economies of scale as much as possible. Often their profit per customer is tiny. They're relying on millions of people using the product.
Because they didn't sell it, they spun it off. Shareholders got 1 PYPL share for every share of EBAY. EBAY was ~$28 a share and the combined value of both is currently ~$123. An 80% annualized ROI seems like a goldmine to me!
Kamala Harris is a disaster. Her relationship with Willie Brown was referred to as 'Poontronage' by the local paper.
It's easier to understand if you think about the tunnels as lanes. Each tunnel can still have busses and cars, but you can also stack them on top of each other. You can do that above ground too, but it looks super ugly and you can't really go 10 stories high. Underground you can.

He probably shouldn't have driven a Tesla through it, the only message people got was that the 1% are going to have tunnels. Really you'd run autonomous buses and 4 person taxis through it. Easy to imagine it being much cheaper than public transit too.
Any word on various performance/throttling issues that have plagued recent laptops due to Intel's DPTF ? My impression from what I read was that it's some kludge that only works on windows (and chromeos possibly) causing standard linux's performance to suffer unless you patch things.
The Tech Revolt
Add Netflix to the list. They pay extraordinarily well.

Although most engineers make half what you listed. And what’s the median home price in Mountain View, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Altos? None of the above are less than a million. By contrast an engineer making 150k but buying a 500k house might have a better deal.
Have you tried the demo? It's incredibly feature-filled and acts like a real editor with drag/drop, content embeds, etc. while still producing clean HTML output.

It's not as fancy as the abstracted editors that have their own non-DOM format structure but they usually are missing many other features.

The pricing has increased and the hobby plan probably isn't worth it but the product itself is good if you need an editor.
4K has got to be marketing driven.

The ideal high DPI resolution for a screen of this size would be 3200x1800, allowing an effective resolution of 1600x900 with even 2x integer scaling.
I used to have this reaction, but these days I go between matte and gloss screens without really noticing. Apple's got the best one, and a backlight on the ones I've got doesn't bother me at all. Dell's are also okay (though there are other reasons I don't like the XPS line).
From what I can tell the bottleneck is a single slow freight elevator. It doesn't seem like a fundamental problem with the underlying technology, just an implementation detail.
At least they don't catch fire when rear-ended like Crown Vic's do...