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I've been working full time as a mobile developer for 2 years after dropping out of college nearly immediately and attending a bootcamp the subsequent summer.
I tried that a couple of times, can be done. Takes skill I don't really have.
The problem with recovering from suicidal thoughts is not the fact you wanted to commit suicide. It is how the emergency and health services treat you.

For a long time now, they have been putting people in seclusion, traumatizing a lot of people. They take away any autonomy, and the ED staff literally don't care about you - they are too busy dealing with critical cases and they see you as a waste of resources and an annoyance to be dealing with. Ironically, if you want to leave you won't be allowed to.

It's perverse and disgusting. I strongly recommend speaking to family and friends and do NOT call the police, ambulance or any other official service. And whatever you do, you do not call suicide hotlines - they must call the police if they think you are about to commit suicide so they aren't confidential, despite what they claim.
Right, but again, if that's what you want to argue, this article is not the way to do it. Concluding that the performance claim doesn't hold because the top performers are performant is different than saying something along the lines of "While performance may be an issue in some cases, it clearly does not have to be to achieve this use case we care about, and so we should think about alternative solutions".

Arguing this correctly is extremely important if the community wants to change Google's mind, and the miscellaneous fear-mongering and accusations of bullshit motivations that are flying around this and other threads can be easily dismissed if we aren't more careful about how we conclude analyses like these.
I think I’m capable of writing decent performant code without pairing....

You think you are, but you've never tested this thought and scoff at the idea that you could be wrong, despite being told from experienced people who have tested it that you are wrong?

Is your argument seriously "I've never done it, but it doesn't work" to someone saying "I've done lots of it and it works well"?
I'd probably use it less. Most my rides are to/from airports on business trips. Taking a cab usually involves a shorter wait, especially on a ride from an airport, so, when I choose rideshare, the steep discount is my main reason for doing so. At approximate price parity, there's a decent chance I remove every ride-getting app but Curb from my phone in the name of de-cluttering.

Supposedly Uber's original pitch to early stage investors was that they were going to grow so fast that they would quickly put all the competition out of business, and then, having achieved a monopoly, would begin to jack their fares way up. I don't know if that's true, but it's at least the only hypothesis that would seem to fit all the publicly available information. If it is true, then that would imply that they never intended to sell below cost over a long time period. It would also explain why they've been flailing for ancillary revenue sources since just about the exact moment it became clear that the story in their main market was going to be one of trench warfare rather than blitzkrieg.
Ah, that's an interesting point, did not know that it could not use WebAssembly in Chrome yet (https://github.com/WebAssembly/content-security-policy/issue...).
Would it be interesting to measure indeed, although the amount of wasm code there seems to be minimal so far.
I think no one can tell you what to do if you want to make a profitable enterprise from it. My hypothesis is you can earn from any thing if you are willing to put enough effort.

The way to not stop working on idea is to choose something you really care about and what can motivate you to pursue your goal even if you can't see any returns from it.

For me it was a pain to learn English and to remember all new fancy words I met reading books. As I'm a software engineer my software standards are quite hight and it was hard to find what I want, so I had decided to build my own solution (https://vocab10k.com). Also, you can pick any stack you want :)
Corporations should pay taxes, people should not pay taxes to corporations.
> Due to COBOL's lack of functions and recursion, the recursion required for Lisp is built from the ground up using file processing.

Does this mean that they are storing the stack as records on a file ? Hopefully they will implement tail recursion as soon as possible :-)
Great! Actually I had opened an issue a while ago but with a much larger scope in mind -- to also do some AST analysis and try to clump the solutions by similarity, so that the UI could present "There are three basic ways to solve this..."

https://github.com/exercism/exercism/issues/4333

(that's my work account)
Funny flashbacks to Google highjacking the .dev tld and forcing it to be https in Chrome.

Actually it was just annoying, not funny.
The point is to always invest with other people's money.

The point of that is the risk matrix is substantially diffused.
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The fact that you were apparently able to do what you did is a perfect indicator for the problem behind that "sales boost": it is a straw fire. And a very expensive one.

How fast will you be gone once the nice rewards give way to price increases necessary to reach a sustainable business covering expenses, let alone profitability?
Youtube is an interesting example, I use it less and less because of ads but can you block ads in it with anything? The problem for me is that I have several devices that do not run JS (like TV box) and do not use a browser for watching content. For this reason it is probably the only solution to block bad content on the DNS level. I like to pay for what I get (Netflix) and I reject the entire ad based surveillance capitalism as a whole.
or Matrix.

It's gotten really good since the last time I looked at it.
What I'm afraid of is the following:

* The blocking engine operated by either Safari or Chrome is a black-box and independent devs will have a harder time understanding it, tweaking it, improving it, debugging it.

* Chrome devs are now playing nicely and get feedback and propose some improvements to the APIs but there is no warranty this will happen again, or that they will invest time/energy in the future improving this part of the browser.

* It's harder to work with this API than a JavaScript code-base you control.

* Chrome seems a bit better here but for Safari the documentation is pretty poor.

* You also don't get feedback regarding the rules which matched on a page and this makes it harder to debug or give nice insights to users.

That's only a few points from my personal experience but I discussed multiple times with developers of other privacy-enhancing extensions/apps and we shared similar feelings.
Ask HN: Where do I find a tech-cofounder?
Problem Statement: I am gearing up for startup #2 and want to find a tech co-founder.

Possible solution 1: Work with the co-founders from the last startup. Sure, but they are both dealing with new babies and have a stable job.
Possible Solution 2: Skip the co-founder and hire an Engineering Lead. Sure, but managing an engineering lead is not my skillset.

What are other possible solutions?

About me: A former management consultant, Product manager, and founder with 12 YOE. I have the capacity and the grit and the network to raise institutional money - I have already talked to a few VCs.

The problem I am trying to solve is something I faced and it's in the travel space. Want to get in touch with me with some ideas? Posting here might be a stretch but I had to give it a shot.
Pretty big overlap between tourist destinations and urban centers.
Also we should keep in mind that the major incidents involed reactors designed in the 60s/early 70s, when nuclear energy was still very new. It's like wanting to ban planes because of the safety records of planes from the 1930s. It is because plane designs iterated, learning from our mistakes over time, that it became an extremely safe technology.
Arguably Algol was better, in the sense of being higher-level and with fewer sharp edges. But it looks like C probably exposes a lot more of what's actually going on with memory, pointers, the stack, the heap, etc. That's not always good, but you'll learn a lot that you can't really get with a language like Java or Python.
Perhaps the hordes of previous complainers, unlike Paul Vixie, complained to the black hole that is Google support, so we never heard of it :)
These are software engineering internships, where top firms pay interns around $10,000 a month. Ethics aside, it wouldn't be in a company's best interest to offer unpaid internships because they wouldn't get any good candidates.
Yes, that's another way to look at it. But it is not necessarily true for all the users.
Fair point :)
But that does work.
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> Are people going more places when it's nicer out in the Northern hemisphere?

Every winter India witnesses a massive influx of westerns to its popular beach holiday locations of India (Goa, Pondicherry, etc.,). Similarly to the hill-stations of north India during summer.
Their contracts with credit card companies forbid different prices for credit card and cash. It's slightly insane IMO.
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So there are two modes:
1) Mentored Mode: Submit, get structured feedback from mentors, then publish and get stars (ie upvotes/kudos) and/or public comments.
2) Independent Mode: Submit, publish, get stars (ie upvotes/kudos) and/or public comments.

So Independent Mode is very similar to "classic" Exercism.

I'm defining "feedback" really as (1) - so there are 5x more comments (from mentors + public) now than there were in old Exercism (public).

So for a tangible example:
- Feb 1st 2018 (classic): 162 comments, 110 stars
- Feb 1st 2019 (new): 831 comments, 46 stars

I randomly picked that date, but every date is basically the same sort of ratio.

Lots of people say the same as you do that it feels like there's less interaction, but really there's a lot more. I feel like we're failing to make Exercism feel as alive as it actually is for some reason, but I'm not sure why :)
Why not apply for full time positions at these companies?
> The "modern alternative" is to use a much more specific and much less configurable solution to your problem.

The problem is you're replacing one configurable, flexible thing, with N different specific solutions involving multiple obscure little utilities. Oops!

How can this blogger not see that this isn't better.

How about a modern alternative to git? Instead of one hydra with so many heads, why not use scp for transferring repositories (not git push), cp -r for saving snapshots of versions (not git commit), diff -urNp for calculating differences (not git diff), patch -p1 < ... for applying deltas, not git rebase ... You know: specific solutions that do one thing, instead of one big, confusing mess.
It would help if you could give an example. Is there even one technology that is an unequivocal good with no possible downsides?
So the poor pay for your flights.
February is a bit late for summer internships in my experience–most students have probably already accepted one already for fear of not having one over the summer.
I once replaced an export operation that depended on COM calls to Excel with some text manipulation code and brought the run time down from 30 minutes to an hour to just a few seconds. So in at least that case it did matter in practice.
Curious where Apple warns you not to do that. Seriously, we have users who this has happened to, and I don't believe they were in full sunlight. They work in an office.
Really? I have no numbers to back it up, but it felt to me that Visual Studio (and Visual C++/Basic before that) were more popular than the Borland tools.
To be fair it sounds like this proposal includes building public transit infrastructure for the city, which is something you would usually expect to be paid for.

Why we wouldn't just pay them a dollar amount and be done with it though...
What a load of FUD about updating dynamic libraries not actually fixing the code without rebuilding the dependent executables.

Symbol versioning does not break things in this way. If you've replaced your only libc.so with a fixed one, there is no other libc.so for dynamically linked executables to link with at runtime. If the new one brought a needed fix, the bug is fixed everywhere using libc.so.

It's not like the new library bundles old bits to fulfill old versions of symbols, that's madness.

The only way I can see someone getting into a situation implied by the article is when they install multiple versions of a shared library simultaneously, keeping vulnerable versions around, and have executables continuing to use the old copies. This is an administrative failure, and says nothing of dynamic linking's value.
What are you using to organize your nuclear effects library?
It is indeed very similar. Talos does a few things differently. The biggest being that it does not allow any host-level access and exposes a gRPC API for things like querying the processes, or restarting a node.
I think the explanation is more practical and less nefarious than you are implying: female voices are often easier to hear and understand, especially with background noise.

Maybe it's different for other people, but that's certainly the case for me, in movies, lectures, radio, and synthesised voices.
Fascinating

https://screenshotscdn.firefoxusercontent.com/images/1107934...
Are these numbers normalized to the number of people making the interactions? or the number of learners? Did you have 5x growth over the past year? Sorry, I am kind of being critical, but mainly because my experienced degraded so much. I trust you to run the place in what ever way you see fit, and any gripe I have is because I really want exercism to work for me. It's the best way I've up-leveled my skills outside of coding on the job, and I really feel like I hit a huge speedbump when the new site went live.
A side issue, but:

> It generates those passwords for you, and they're short, one-time-use combinations of three English words

If an attacker knows the tool does this, doesn't this reduce the keyspace to crack to (number of words in an English dictionary)*3? Is that enough? Am I missing something?

A very complete dictionary has around 170K words, let's generously assume the password generator is willing to use all of them, many that will be unfamiliar and cumbersomely large to an actual native English speaker. So 510K in the keyspace, around 19 bits of "key". Maybe that's enough?
> don’t get funky with magic links

I am not sure why he brought up this. Magic links the single best option that could have happened with website logins in the last while.

I have extremely well guarded email setup with MFA (app based not SMS based) and any suspicious login gets flagged immediately. How many websites can do the same? I appreciate sites who allow me to identify myself with my email without using a password. It is one step froward for a better web.
Pretty obvious stuff what's not obvious is the attention it got on here, I'm not hating just making an observation.
Is it your position that governments shouldn't pay businesses to build highways and bridges? Which government contractors do you think are okay?
i think by globalism he means that free trade brings with it the free movement of labor across countries

>what type of alternate reality could exist where foreigners would be polite enough to not, like, turn a wrench or run an assembly line for cheaper than Americans did in the 50s. We as a country don't have the option of 'choosing' an alternate economic reality where developing country wages aren't cheaper than ours

the illusion of non-choice on this issue began when bill buckley reformed the right wing into free-traders. we could vote to not let foreigners in to our country and to establish high tariffs on foreign goods. we choose not to. not saying whether that's right or wrong. just saying it is a choice.
IIR filters can be evaluated in parallel
He would complain if he was forced to buy _only_ that brand's gasoline.

That's in fact the approach of many printer manufacturers regarding toner/ink cartridges, and usually users complain about that.
I agree with you, and that's why I would like to see this declarative API being an addition to the current WebRequest API. This way there could be extensions using it exclusively and users could decide to pick these if they offer sufficient privacy protection for their taste. On the other hand, you would still have the option of installing more powerful extensions using the dynamic APIs (allowing things which will never be possible with the declarative API).
That's ... outrageously nuts.
They do this to thwart hackers, for example to prevent a script that inputs the same password across many accounts. It’s terrible UX for sure.
This is awesome and I can't believe it's the first it's ever crossed my mind. Good stuff.
We actually had matrix up on running on a cluster built with Talos in AWS. We decided to focus our efforts on Talos instead of maintaining infrastructure. There is a convenience factor for us since it is only three of us.
The irony of Uber and Lyft both losing so much money is Lyft especially is known for paying some of the highest SWE salaries in SF.
Today I missed getting picked up by an Uber. I think the driver must have waited like 30 seconds before giving up. Still, it was my bad.

He apparently accepted the ride before cancelling it, because the pickup and drop-off addresses were different. I got a $6.50 charge instead of the normal $5.00 cancellation charge. I wrote into Uber about it, and instead of refunding me $1.50 they refunded to full $6.50 amount.

Sometimes my Uber fares are super cheap. I paid $3.00 to go a mile in snowy weather in Denver the other day. It was a shared ride but nobody picked up.

I think Uber is spending lots of money, and could probably make their numbers better by tightening up. They'd lose some of my rides, but probably less than half of them. In more than half of them public transportation is inconvenient or unavailable for the full route (the last mile problem is relevant to me).
Ah awesome. Sorry I dropped the ball on that. I'll reply now. Have you seen about https://exercism.io/blog/automated-mentoring-support-project ?
After I felt suicidal, I was abused by people in Liverpool hospital in NSW. Three years later and I still feel suicidal at times, and I have not for a single day felt or experienced joy. Literally every day since then I have felt anger, shame and depression at what happened to me. I don't sleep well (I get nightmares), and nothing (and I mean nothing) is helping - not exercise, medicine, family, therapy, friendship - nothing.
This last Sunday morning, Uber made 3 charges to my checking account totaling over $1.1k total, for three rides at 6:59am, 7:00am, and 7:01am. I haven't used them in about 2 years (they put me in a car with a guy that admitted to sexually assaulting his drunk female passengers). It was a nightmare trying to get ahold of their customer service to return my money. They have no phone numbers, it's all bots that answer their social media and email.

I for one am excited by the prospect of their failure.
Mind sharing more? I joined cofounderslab in 2013 and it was a waste of time - went to some events as well.
This is alarmist and mostly wrong.

There is enough uranium for two reasons. First, we can recover 95% of the uranium in a fuel rod via reprocessing. Second, supplies change according to market demand, as happened with oil. Remember, we were to have run out of oil by now, but that sure didn't happen.

Nuclear plants do not need to take decades or be uneconomic. This is self-inflicted due to political opposition, largely by an insane regulatory agency (won't discuss preliminary designs, gives only a yes/no on final plans) and the very same lawsuits that make every big project a mess in the USA.

Having a long half-life means that the substance is not a problem. The longer the half-life, the less radioactive something is. An extreme example is tungsten, an element for which we recently observed radioactive decay and thus finally proved that it is in fact radioactive.

A single particle of plutonium, if injested, will almost certainly do you no harm. You face a far greater radioactive risk from the common banana, which is laced with radioactive phosphorus.

We have figured out what to do. First we reprocess the spent fuel rods, recovering about 95% of the fuel for making new fuel rods. (Japan does this) Next we bury the remainder in Nevada, for example in the already-contaminated underground test sites.
Since I don't want to give Google one dime more than I absolutely have to, this would pretty much guarantee that I'd never do business with anyone in that area.

I'd say that it would also prevent me from setting foot in the area, but I was already unwilling to do that.
They're not asking for concessions. They're asking to be paid for the project they're building.

Whether the project is worth what they're asking is a separate question. This is about a private company fronting the cost of infrastructure development and being paid back with revenues over time. That doesn't feel shady.
They wouldn't be close to competitive.
Lovely. I wish this were possible for some stupid mobile apps too, which tend to be extremely painful (triply so for ones that clear the password field as soon as I switch to 1Password to read the next five characters).
Thank you. The piece clarifies things, the financing mechanism is very common in the states (TIF), but the payee is always a public entity that may or may not (almost always it is) paying off bonds held by private parties.

Tax Increment Financing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_increment_financing
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Interesting to put this together with the recent story about possibly gingivitis bacteria being responsible for Alzheimers. It could be true that there is a multi-factor relationship, and yet focusing on one particular "cause" isn't going to be successful.
I understand, I never implied that it is for all users, I was just mentioning that there are other options than JS ad filtering.

Btw. DNS based filtering works for non tech-savvy users like my parents who would certainly fall for malicious ads which are frequent even on Google. And guess how ransom-wares spread.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/skype-served-up-malware-throug...
> we still do not have a good way to deal with the radioactive waste and that a lot can still go wrong in the next million years.

With adequate transuranic/actinide burning and breeding/reprocessing capacity the time constants for waste disposal won't be anywhere that long. Discounting nuclear energy because of stupid once-through fuel cycles seems a bit unfair.
On platforms which supports extensions it's easy to block. For platforms not supporting extensions it is really tricky and afaik, there is no solution that works all the time for YouTube.

With the increasing adoption of DoH it will be interesting to see how DNS based blocking happens for TV Box etc.

I have not checked but was mentioned that YouTube does not show ads while watching videos via chromecast. It will be interesting to check how that happens.
It sounds a lot different. A bond is just a loan. This is more like a royalty.
Makes sense since panning bass would be an odd thing to do.
Maybe. But they don't do it passively. They will call the police.
That's interesting, are you going to make something like LabelImg[1]? I've been looking for something like that for audio, yet I'm not sure about treating audio as images. I've heard of this trick, but NN for audio better do work with RNN, GRU[2], maybe LSTM; and images are processed with CNN.

[1] https://github.com/tzutalin/labelImg
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gated_recurrent_unit
No. I'm sure they use similar algorithms to determine when to increase fees.