skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you look at the parts of the labor market with the greatest mobility (mostly affordability to relocate), you'll find the highest wages, and I'm reasonably certain this is a causation thing, not merely correlation.

Well, there is obviously a causal link from higher wages to greater ability to relocate; causation in the other direction is less clear. Intuitively, the employee pool being more free to relocate should create a broader geographic market with common prices, but that means small increases are more effective at drawing in more candidates just as much as it means small decreases will tend to dry up the pool. Assuming merit is easily determined in the field, it probably means wages nationally reflect merit better rather than geography, if merit can't be measured it probably means that wages reflect whatever rough-cut filters employers use to keep hiring manageable. But, still, I don't think it means industry wide better pay.
Yeah, custom loops seem like an ongoing chore, I was tempted and then gave up on that idea. 1000W is no joke to dissipate, either.

Interesting that FEs are working, I had heard that that configuration was problematic. Have you seen much thermal throttling with them butting up against each other? I was going to resign myself to one blower 1080Ti in slot 1 and then a 2080Ti in 2 and 4, but maybe I don't have to :-)
CSS is declarative. Code is procedural/imperative.
> How would an e2e test catch this though?

I doubt there would be a specific test (or maybe there would, real testers are better than me at thinking of this stuff), but there should be logs for events like "microphone turned on" and "user joined group chat" and the testers should be monitoring those logs.
I don’t use face time often, but isn’t there a "preview" of the camera feed during the prompt? I guess so that the user can check if he’s looking decent before engaging the call.

The bug could then be that the feed is sent over the call too early instead of being used solely for this local feedback.
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1) CSS is for implementing designs; being able to use it doesn't require design sense for things like colors

2) I'm fascinated by the fact that so many of my fellow programmers - often the smartest ones - have so much trouble with CSS. I'm not sure exactly what the reason for that is, though I did write an article hoping to address it in some capacity: https://css-tricks.com/css-is-awesome/

I think part of the problem is that many programmers, who like things to be orderly, see CSS as arbitrary and chaotic. Here's the biggest point that I think has to click: CSS isn't a programming language, it's a constraint language. The browser has lots of default, complex behaviors that drive layout, and whereas in a traditional programming language you tend to "build up" from nothing, CSS is more about paring down and guiding that automatic engine with as few statements as necessary. You tell the browser exactly what your layout requires, and the browser figures out how to flesh that out into various contexts and situations.

Personally I think CSS is beautiful: it's stateless and declarative, and it allows you to talk about huge swaths of entities in very general terms, gently paring down their avenues of expansion until the possibility space aligns with what your application requires. It's incredibly elegant once you get the hang of it; I sometimes find myself wishing I could use a similar paradigm for talking about objects in other contexts.
The ever-lasting strife of static vs. dynamic typing – TypeScript won’t help
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The benchmark seems to use only browsers' built in VMs to run WebAssembly (more like the the efficiency of different VM JIT compilers compared to native). How about running them in standalone webassembly VM like WAVM (it does more aggressive optimization, use LLVM for JIT), Asmble (running in JVM), or Wasmer (use Cranelift like Firefox does, maybe a little bit faster than Firefox)

(I just skimmed the paper, sorry if i miss something)
I appreciate the thoughts, and luck does play a part but there are definitely methods to maximize your chances. I tend to find many older workers aren’t aware of how to find a job in the modern market or how to best approach companies. Job search has changed significantly in just the past few years, let alone the past decade.
I’m positive this will result in some hardware changes for next gen devices.
Except logic, (pure) functional, and some other kinds of code, which is declarative.
This is a good article in context of what I have been going through over the past few months. The lure of perfection is too great.
That is what happened with Signal(i was on iOS and the person i called was on android)
I hate parallel service start up on server.

Yes, it is faster. But when it breaks because bad dependency, it is hard to reason the breakage on a initrd shell on a small remote console.

I value debuggability, reliablity and manual fallback options on server.
Another of my favorites.
> Even though Red Hat is a much larger organization, their contributions have never felt like power plays in the same way that Canonical's have.

Since when? I remember some particularly contentious things like EGCS and various kernel doodads, and of course systemd.
Oh damn, they can do it just like that?

I thought FaceTime was a P2P thing... but it appears group FT requires Apple's servers?
I find the opposite to be true. End users don't need to worry about types, interfaces are generic and multiple dispatch and abstract typing obviates the need all kind of weird special methods and type system stuff
I actually liked some of the versions of iTunes for Windows back when I had to use it with an iPod Touch around 2008 to 2012 or so. For just playing music from my music library, the interface wasn't bad. You just had to turn off the option to automatically convert everything into Apple's format.
Headline might as well say "Microsoft project manager is an idiot". It's amazing to me how Microsoft has caved to Google in every single product area in the last couple years. "Just use Chrome" comes right after "just use Android". I kinda expect Microsoft to start telling people they should switch to Google Docs any day now.

The last thing the Internet needs is everyone to officially agree to abandon all web software not written by Google. If anything, let's cease Chrome development.
CB is usually outdated - unless they're reporting their revenue number or it leaks, it's just a guess.
On Mac I used switchresx to add a new scaled resolution like this:

2560x1440 (native) * 1.5 = 3840x2160 HiDPI / 2 = 1920x1080 (effective resolution)

Obviously it is not as good a real panel but looked good enough to me.

I did the same thing on Ubuntu using xrandr, it was pretty good when it worked (sometimes it didn't, even using the exact same command)
Commercial auto insurance brokers (Uber/Lyft etc.)
Although the software mentioned is pretty good at scoring, a fair percentage of applicants to any university have had no prior interaction with that institution ("stealth applicants"). Moreover the jobs of admin staff are literally dependent on a high volume of qualified applicants. I doubt any admissions operation would use the absence of a score to preclude or penalize otherwise qualified applicants.
Windows PE (WinPE)
It never was (or only was for a short period) thanks to patent trolls.
I don't have any experience working in that industry.

But based on what I know, modern ICs require exceptional levels of purity of the materials. A single atom can ruin a transistor, and therefore the complete chip.

AFAIK the methods you mentioned aren't sensitive enough to detect individual atoms in barrels of stuff. E.g. ICP-MS detects 1E-15 concentrations, but in absolute numbers, 1E15 molecules is only 1.66e-9 mole, e.g. for iron (55.8g/mole), it translates to 1E+10 defects per kg of stuff. Way too many.
I've tried using paraphrases like this "but it does tend to give you skills. Skills that were acquired over a long career. Skills that make them a nightmare for obscure bugs." It falls flat, and all I get quizzical stares.
IIRC, this was because of a lawsuit with VirnetX.
Run the text on your site through grammarly.com, I'm seeing a typo at the end of the 1st sentence. And I agree with cottsak that the use of "we" doesn't help.
Here's a thought, how about reaching out to @AustinAllred of @LambdaSchool (on twitter) to see if they want to try taking on the more grizzled set? (do they pay living expenses?)
Alternatively, there's trucking. Big shortage for now, and reasonably high pay.
Looks like iPhone spyware. I doubt that FaceTime is the first use of this "bug"!
...you really discredit yourself when you say provably false things like this.

Likewise. And look, I've offered just as much proof as you did.
Israeli scientists discover a cure for cancer
Better remove the battery too. https://www.tomsguide.com/us/nsa-remotely-turn-on-phones,new...
On the Amazon page, all of that text comes from someone presented as authoritative, but turns out to be a _chiropractor_.
Why do you use Chrome?
Is there a particular reason? Why Firefox?
Very few communication services are truly P2P; it's way more likely to have syncing issues and is virtually impossible without at least a handshake. Even Signal, which does have syncing issues due to being mostly P2P, requires a server for the initial handshake.
> use Cranelift like Firefox does

To my knowledge, Cranelift in Firefox is still disabled by default. https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/modules/libpref...
This is what I fear the most. Fortunately I am in an industry that values age and experience over youth, but requires that experience to consistently advance.
What you discover about CSS is that it's an accretive thing. You start out perhaps with a (comparatively) simple basis, whatever came with whatever app or framework your site is based on, or if you're lucky and starting from scratch, what you yourself wrote and understand.

Then over the years, you and other developers and designers on the team add to the CSS. You can't go back and change anything, because changing something to look right on this page may make it look wrong on another page. You can easily see the structure of selectors on the page you're looking at, but not the set of all possible selector structures on every possible potential page on the site to know how it will cascade everywhere. So you just add on, gradually getting more and more specific with the selectors up to the point where you have to start using !importants.

Meanwhile, over the years, the 'best practices' change, and the CSS that you and your coworkers write changes to adapt. So you end up with things originally sized in pixels, later multiplied by a floating point scaling, overridden with em measurements, overridden by whatever the current fad in measurements is. Change any of that and it breaks random things throughout the site due to cascading, inheritance, and document structure/selector specificity.

Due to the way it accretes over time, you end up with massive amounts of CSS, most of which is overridden but can't be removed without breaking random things. You can't reconcile it or do it the right way without a full rewrite.

And in the end, it still always takes a few hours to figure out how to center something without breaking the alignment of other things, or whatever you're trying to do. Because it will be different than it was last time. It's not like just calling element.align(vertical=center, horizontal=center); as it would be in a programming language. It's a series of hacks built upon hacks to do the most basic things.
Hmmm, Rome, Flint MI, . . .
That was it. Thanks!
it's fixed, thx
Engineering is for the young and stupid. A man his age should be playing with his kid and cultivating a nice garden.
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I just started working with Ioki, we are a Deutsche Bahn company doing this exact thing-- we use mobility analytics to find 'sweet spots' for our service, and are preparing heavily for fully automated services too.

Feel free to ask questions! We are also hiring like crazy in Frankfurt :)
I guess to each their own. Though I suspect the majority of people would rather spend 1 hour driving than 2.5 hours in a bus everyday.
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FWIW, the adjunct role is very low pay, for quite a bit of work. They pay you for contact hours. 2 lectures per week is 2-4 contact hours. They don't pay you for time grading, traveling, answering questions/office hours, etc.

I've looked at doing that (PhD and over 50) to augment my own income, but the time commitment is huge, compared to the compensation.
The whole concept of fleeting pictures is designed to make you addicted, I refuse to get on board because I know I'll get sucked right in.
> That being the case, isn't meritocracy still the correct ideal that we should be doing a better job of striving for?

I would actually say no, at least when it comes to when arguments for a meritocracy are used as arguments against redistribution of wealth from the more "meritocratic" to the less.

Consider, as a thought experiment, if instead of features like intelligence, communication skills, self-confidence, etc., that our economic system instead only valued basketball skills as the means for distributing wealth. That system would be a meritocracy: great basketball players with tons of talent and effort would be really wealthy and successful, while talentless or lazy basketball players would be poor.

I think this is a good thought experiment because of some of the things it highlights. Perhaps most importantly, all short people are pretty much destined to be forever poor in this meritocratic system. If you are short, what value would you see in abiding by this system at all if tall, great basketball players took all the gains? What about if instead great basketball players could be wealthy and successful, but they still had to pay a very large amount of taxes to ensure that short people didn't starve (or revolt).

While a (true) meritocracy may be ideal for how jobs are to be distributed, if it is also how wealth is distributed it means that it is also, by and large, a lottery of DNA. How is that any more "fair" than an aristocracy?
Search "打破技术封锁" + "改良" and see how much "improvment" are plain stealing with minor detail changes.
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The author goes into 'contempt culture' which is valid in any group of people ie 'PHP haters' but then tries to slip through the old trope of 'resistance to change' which is a clever bait and switch that positions change as 'always good' and refashions dissenters as anti-change which is a time tested PR strategy to push through unpopular changes that benefit a few by positioning any 'dissent' as 'anti change' and thus avoiding the meat of the discussion - the change in question.

We can agree on the problem and then on the solution, but any proposed solution can't just pass through 'without scrutiny' because a problem exists.

Systemd proponents since the beginning have positioned any criticism as 'motivated', 'greybeards', 'haters' or anti-change which tells you that there is no space for discussion here, only 'acceptance'. Can there be any legitimate criticism of systemd without this kind of politics, hypersensitivity and now posing as victims?
Note: the corresponding emulator is there : https://github.com/LM-3/usim
Back in 2016, systemd started killing user processes on logout (rather than send them the SIGHUP signal, as POSIX says should happen). This caused problems for programs like nohup, screen and tmux, which deliberately keep running. Systemd's response was to say that they should incorporate systemd's library, and use systemd's new daemonization API. As far as I know, none of them did.

Two years later, you can find hundreds of support requests across the internet, from frustrated users who are having their sessions killed by systemd.

Bugs are annoying, but that's life. On the other hand, when you're an impacted user who's lost work, and researching the bug leads you to a years-old discussion in which someone is actively denying that the bug exists and refusing to fix it, that's infuriating. I don't think systemd's developers deserve the trust that maintaining a core piece of infrastructure requires; they don't seem to care enough about whether they've broken things.
They provide "scholarship" for "best innovator" in Hong Kong Universities.
Years passed, the innovative idea are stolen, the scholarship are never paid.
Are you sure? The NSA runs a global surveillance program, monitoring/copying most of the internet traffic, and industrial espionage (against all non-US states & companies, allies or not) is a stated goal of this program.

I don't know how well-funded the chinese IP theft program is, but I doubt it's much larger.
once i had to talk to my boss i didnt really like

this explains it.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, as this will be a huge, sad show when it starts. The Economist's article on no-deal disruptions:

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/11/24/what-to-expect...

They even stockpiled paper themselves to survive the potential disruption and keep on printing:

> Disclosure: The Economist is stockpiling around 30 tonnes of the paper on which the covers of our British edition are printed, which comes from the Netherlands.
I doubt he has his public email hooked up to his iPhone's iMessage/FaceTime, anyways.
How would E2E encryption stop a modified client? E2E protects against MITM. But we're not talking about MITM.
Especially on mobile, where you want to conserve battery life.
The first half of the article was silly. Only people with disposable income participate in expensive sporting events. It didnt really differentiate for just running for yourself and running in pricey events, but it could easily have just pointed to having free time.

The second half was also pretty silly. That endurance sports are escapism from a mundane reality with no sense of objectives. Sure... that’s fine. But that’s also how all other hobbies work. You do it because you find it engaging and meaningful to pursue. Extended theorizing about the joys of painful struggle seem unwarranted.

Not mentioned: social signaling.
The reasons were he never got his head around the DOM or the CSS box model and the fact that it all assumed you were using CSS to style a document (or more specifically, a DOM tree).

This seems to be true of many devs who find CSS hard - there seems to be an assumption that you can take any HTML structure and use CSS to magically make it look like any design. The author of the question even lists a huge number of languages they've used over 10 years but misses out HTML as one of them. The simple fact is you can't just use CSS. To implement specific layouts you also need the right DOM structure.
> I'm investing all my learning in systemd where appropriate instead of things I used previously like cron and supervisor.

Like you have a choice now.
Preliminary tests going to start in Raccoon City in Q4/2019?
It looks fun in video, but to expect to see it to go 'viral' is too much. I've tried parkour-style-running-fast around streets few times as a teenager. I once slipped and was about to knock my head on a concrete corner. This looks 10x times more dangerous.
AFAIK, any possible nebulous legal situation with FreeBSD should have been resolved by late 1994[1], which is extremely early in Linux's lifetime if we're talking about supplanting major operating systems. I think you're right that there weren't a lot though.

That said, I can't imagine Linux actually having gone very far if it wasn't a UNIX clone. I think it would have been a real long uphill battle and it would have gotten handily beat by whatever open source UNIX clone came along next, for the pure reason that it's much easier to deal with POSIX compliance (and all the software it brings that actually makes it worthwhile to run the OS) when trying to copy a system that already did it and worked out the kinks.

I mean, if someone came out with a free (maybe open source) version of Windows at that time which was legal, we could easily be living in a world where that's the dominant free OS.

I guess what I'm saying that that being vastly better on one metric (in this case, free) doesn't necessarily mean you'll take over a market (because a free operating system that can't run any software isn't very useful), and just being a clone won't either, but being a clone that's generally as good one most metrics and vastly better on a few others (e.g. a UNIX which is also free and open source, instead of just some other UNIX) may.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD#Lawsuit
With an "s" or without

webrings.org???
The first few sentences are silly. Biking and running are on opposite ends of the tinkering with gear spectrum.
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This. On the network. This.

For you young whippersnappers (say up to 35), get out, talk to people. Get known. Go to conferences. Establish a reputation.

For you older folks (36+), you might not believe you have a network, but LinkedIn is, despite being crappy in a number of ways, a reasonably good tool for growing your network, connecting with people, and so on. I am not talking about its "jobs" features. I am talking about reaching out and connecting with good people you know, who happen to be networked to someone you might like to meet.
I've loved bike riding since before I had that much money. Also, as a data point, in Italy bike racing was traditionally a pretty blue-collar sport, and I think that goes for other European countries as well.

Personally... I like to be outside and doing something active, and I love to explore and see new places.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/KtG9qFJRXDBnW5XT7
Depends on the distance run; having crewed an expedition in Death Valley amongst other places I think there's something to say for the complexity that long distance running can bring.
> “By flooding the consciousness with gnawing unpleasantness, pain provides a temporary relief from the burdens of self-awareness,” write the researchers. “When leaving marks and wounds, pain helps consumers create the story of a fulfilled life. In a context of decreased physicality, [obstacle course races] play a major role in selling pain to the saturated selves of knowledge workers, who use pain as a way to simultaneously escape reflexivity and craft their life narrative.”

Yikes, if generally true :-) I work on reflexivity a lot with coaching clients. However it takes a lot of craft to work around to it for some, and even then it can feel like selling something really dangerous.

Modern culture seems to offer endless options for a breadth-first search for anything. In contrast, depth is seen as risky in a variety of ways, from social risk (never go deep in polite company!) to e.g. intellectual FOMO.

We make it really easy to ignore the self, to ignore "my condition" in favor of pursuing what is "healthy" or "impressive" for "our condition."
I think there's an implicit assumption that housing stock is sufficient to house the population, and that landlords compete with each other. So rents generally trend downward, and track the costs of owning and maintaining a residence.

When those costs balloon (because of a glut of buyers with cash to launder), so does the prevailing rent which legitimate purchasers of real estate need to charge to recoup costs and make a profit.

If on the other hand housing stock is insufficient, rent will simply track demand and this effect will be masked.
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And two mail clients, a good one and the Samsung one

And two calendars, a good one and the Samsung one

And two browsers, a good one and the Samsung one

And two text editots, a good one and the Samsung one

And a camera application, a good one and the Samsung one

Why do they bother?