skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Around 2012, there was a startup called Famo.us who raised $30 million for a CSS-based 3D engine. Looks like they pivoted to some kind of brand CMS eventually:

https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/06/nopen-source/

The company claimed to have a secret sauce for accelerating HTML5 graphics, which turned out to be the matrix3d() function for CSS transforms.
“Satellite” view has way better resolution than 3-5 meters in most places. That resolution would indicate that there might be a car, whereas Google’s “satellite” view has enough detail that you can take a good stab at the make and model of each car you see.
Apps like AdGuard Pro let you block domains for all apps by intercepting and blocking DNS locally on iOS.
US Military uses Linux all over the place.

Lot of people have blood on their hands under your model.
Yes, a library is already an abstraction, just somebody else's. Thread parent is complaining about bad design that doesn't model the problem, not abstraction.
nflxso.net is not a tracker. It is a domain used by Netflix to refer to "small" non-video downloadables (things like the images you see when browsing titles on the web or in the app).
Problem with the self discipline argument is that there are thousands of highly paid software engineers and designers who spend every working day aiming to break that discipline, and they have a mountain of data and a powerful low latency feedback loop as weapons.
$20K sounds like an underestimate by a couple orders of magnitude if you estimate a single year of full time work by one developer at $100K.

Many mid-sized Python projects use libraries that I’d guess together represent somewhere between $2M and $200M in developer hours - depending on whether you’re using frameworks or just relatively simple libraries.
So, this is just a simple static web page to get feedback from HN, right?
Yes, obviously, or they wouldn't struggle with it.

If you're addicted, rational thought isn't dominant.
> Not to mention the fact that in many Western capitals you literally walk on garbage.

The discipline Japanese have in regards to garbage is astonishing. Especially if you consider how much plastic wrap they use. I was so surprised seeing basically no garbage on the streets, but also basically no public trash bins!

> I'm baffled by how expensive food is in Europe when I can buy the same products for less in Tokyo despite being imported ( Italian olive oil for instance )

I would be genuinely curious what part of Europe you are talking about here and what's the prices for what kind of quality of olive oil are in Toyko. I can imagine that for the UK or Ireland the prices are similar. Italian olive oil is imported and shipped to an island to the UK/Ireland as much as it is to Japan and the distance actually has a non-significant impact on shipping costs in that case.

Olive oil also ranges vastly in quality levels. I can buy the mid level for about 150en per 700ml, while I have to pay 600en per 500ml for "native oilive oil extra". The difference in taste is worth the four times price increase though.

In general I found Japanese supermarkets be way more expensive and eating out way less expensive than compared to Germany (can't speak for other European countries) as I have also pointed out here [1]. E.g. rice can be vastly more expensive, with rice in Germany being available in 1kg sizes for 120en/kg (even cheaper in larger sizes), while in Japan rice in 5kg or 10kg bags for 200en/kg is a bargain. Average rice prices are even cited at 466en/kg here [2] and foreign rice at 295en/kg cited as 20% cheaper and a good deal here [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19238414

[2] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?cou...

[3] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-trends/Japan-s-pri...
While not new, maybe https://80000hours.org/career-reviews/startup-early-employee... might be useful to have a look at.
Frequency Analyzers have been around nearly as long as oscilloscopes. Basically they’ll sweep a band pass filter and plot amplitude vs frequency on the screen.

Also - you can reproduce a sound by the frequency domain IF you look at the time progression of it.

Some Hammond Organs intentionally had a percussion control where the 3nd or 3rd harmonic would decay over time, giving the instrument timbre a bit of a pop.
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What do you mean? Bad design in the library? In a wrapper? What's the difference between "design" and "abstraction" here?
The "Simple Made Easy" talk describes this as the root of complexity in an application. Mixing and tying various subcomponents that shouldn't have to know each other exist.
It's worth noting that depending on the senior role, it may not transfer as you might expect. Being in charge of a group of people shows something, but it may or may not be the kind leadership needed to be in charge of the same sized group of people at BigCo. I'm not saying BigCo managers are better. I am saying they have to worry about internal networking, internal recruiting, working with infrastructure teams, and other things you don't have at SmallCo.

Point being, depending on the BigCo and the role, you might have to take what feels like a step back in job title to eventually end back where you started. At least the competition for influential roles will be more intense since there will probably be several BigCo employees that want the same job and have advantages of shared culture and better access to the people doing the hiring.
A new Hubble costs a couple of billion? James Webb is over $10 billion.

A few small robotic drones could hitch a ride on a regular launch. Mission cost of $10 million?

We simply need to wait for robots to develop and hope it happens before Hubble disintegrates.
Works on my iPad.
Shouldn't Firefox be prioritizing fixing those things instead of BS moonshot projects they do (not talking about Rust, but various non-browser pivots).

They might be "different teams" doing each, but they all have finite resources to pay them.
I downloaded an app to track my phone usage on a daily basis, and the shame power of seeing how much time I wasted helped me cut down to the essentials.
A lot. Running my phone traffic through mitmproxy was a rather sobering experience, especially what leaks on boot before firewall and ad blocker are ready.
On Android you can even inspect a lot of encrypted traffic using mitmproxy and the cert in generates, although some apps (like signal) use cert pinning in a way that i haven't managed to get around yet.
Just thought I’d point out that pipe organs do a similar thing about controlling harmonics.

But the corresponding control for each drawbar on the Hammond is basically a binary switch instead of a quasi-continuous control.

Further each individual pipe has its own harmonics and timbre while the Hammond tonewherls produce nearly (but not exactly) sinusoidal waveforms.

Fancier pipe organs had multiple pipes at each harmonic. Eg, pipes that mimicked brass or woodwind instruments. This is why pipe organ consoles can be huge and cluttered with tons of switches. The Hammond simplified all that and let you adjust harmonics directly with a quasi-continuum via the drawbars.

With the onset of jazz and rock in the 60’s, the Hammond’s unique sound became highly sought after. The so-called “Hammond Growl” through its tube amps, it’s own analog chorus and vibrato unit, the external rotating Leslie speaker’s effects, and even the “key click”.

When the 70’s came along, pop tastes shifted to newer synthesisers and the last of the B3’s from the assembly line languished at organ dealers.
Yeah, but the condescension was put in to counter-balance the parent's facile dismissal of the author/TFA.

In other words, to add a cost (the possibility of being dismissed/sneered back) to such dismissals.
Isn't OpenVZ/Virtuozzo basically the same idea?
Interesting. I didn't know about this, thanks!

By the way, that article would display fully for everyone :)
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In my home network I use a hosts file to block unwanted tracking.
I use a file from this [1] project, which makes it easy to filter out the type of content you don't want.

The nice thing about this is that it blocks requests from any device in my network, especially from those which cannot be configured with a firewall or adblocker.

[1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
> You might be correct though that you have less reason in Tokyo to go to the city center compared to a German city, e.g. for work, entertainment and night-live.

This is the misunderstanding most foreigners fall into.

There is no Tokyo City, there hasn't been for decades. You're travelling between cities, in Tokyo Metropolis, which is vast, think of it as a prefecture if that helps, since administratively speaking is closer to that. You can change cities by going from one train station in Taito to one in Chiyoda in a few minutes. Or spend 2-3 hours from Edogawa to Akiruno.

People do commute of course, millions of them from Saitama, Kanagawa or Chiba Prefecture into Tokyo. But it is equally normal for many other millions, and certainly desirable, to live and work in your city, which is one of many in Tokyo. So I take issue with "Tokyo is expensive"...

There are a myriad different offerings in living space in cities in Tokyo.

Setagaya, only one of the 23 central "wards" ( = cities, each with a City Hall and a Mayor ) has a million people. You can live, work, shop, go out and anything else you can think of without even leaving Setagaya.

To your point of foreign food in Japan, I find it to be of better quality than foreign food in Europe, where for instance 90% of Japanese restaurants are run by Chinese, and not that great, and Chinese restaurants have little or nothing to do with actual and good Chinese food. When in Japan you go to a pizzeria or trattoria where the owner / cook is Italian, or a Spanish tapas bar with a Basque owner, and they bring ingredients from Europe, that obviously is something you pay for.

Edit : I forgot to agree before on the very poor English skills of most Japanese.
Was surprised how much the xiaomis phone home. Enough to create a huge spike in the pi hole stats.

92% (!!!) of the requests that phone generates got blocked. Laptop is at 5% (admittedly with an adblocker too), iphones at 1%.
Yes. The system is designed to be difficult to ditch. For a lot of people, the little thrill of an unread notification badge is like mainlining heroin. It's a dump of happy chemicals right to their brain.
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WebRender currently (as of the last 2 weeks) renders this correctly, but slowly. Now that correctness is in, they can start looking at speed. Associated bug is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1525420 , but it’s not a blocker for launching WebRender in the first place.

And no, this sort of thing isn’t particularly high priority. If lots of websites used these technologies to this extent then it’d be higher up the priority list I’m sure.
> Tax rates seem to be a want bonus compared to their actual needs anyway.

All else being equal, companies should really be doing what is right for themselves. If it's more costly to be in your community, then your shallow assumptions about their "actual needs" do not, and should not, factor in.
Can you get the security number another way if you have lost the phone?
There are many species of mosquito, of which, only some (<1%) transmit malaria.

In theory, the other mosquito species will adapt to fill the niches that the controlled species once occupied.
I'll spend my 40s in Japan/Bulgaria. Not sure where life will take me after.
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I've just setup a new phone and have decided to leave all of the dopamine triggering apps off of it. I installed one thinking "it won't be that hard to moderate" but my fingers were immediately flipping it open and scrolling unconsciously. So off it goes.

I'm already noticing myself not caring about those platforms and not even really checking them on the desktop.
https://www.elizabethblog.com.ng/2019/02/ballot-boxes-were-d...
In my current job I'm almost daily going by subway and see most people fumbling on their phone all the time. Many can't even stop when hopping on/off the train. Now when I carefully look at just what it is that captures their attention, it's mostly cheap games or endless-scroll taboola-style crap. A guy sitting next to me the other day simultaneously phoned and frantically clicked on random crap on his phone with no chance of actually reading anything on there. I've noticed some are even staring caustically at the phone's home screen or settings panel after having consumed everything being offered online for the time being.

I don't know, but IMHO these people should go see a therapist, and we should seriously get a move going to call out and stop this pathological addictive behaviour.
He says 2 to 3 hours a day on week days. Maybe more on weekend. He has a regular job
I've always loved to read, any kind of book would do, but recently I've been unable to sit down and read a book, even technical ones. Guess I got used to the instant gratification that Reddit & friends give to the brain. Considering to ditch the smartphone as well.

Actually, I can't ditch the WhatsApp because it is the new phone company these days... Using a very weak smartphone with small screen, too small and slow to read, would be a solution?
https://www.elizabethblog.com.ng/2019/02/florida-mayor-jaile...
I have the opposite experience. Frequent outages/voice connectivity degradation.
Font rendering was broken on many linux distros for months.
And now there has been some kind of crash for about a month and still ongoing where discord becomes sluggish and eventually closes over time. (If you have a game open it can crash within one hour)

Not to mention where an update randomly the noise suppression would completely mute your mic.
As the author noted in his article, I would emphasise the importance of having a hobby you enjoy. My rock climbing gym is full of programmers, just saying, it's a nice sport that's accessible to all strengths, and you can probably find a meetup at the gym near you.

Also, biking to work can be a great way to avoid both phones and advertising, and also reconnect with your surroundings. I hate taking the subway only to be bombarded by advertising, so I read on my phone, which has ad blockers.
That should be a V, Roman numeral five, not a vs., versus...
Three.js has an (old) css renderer too https://threejs.org/examples/#css3d_molecules
Plug in an Ethernet adapter or wake the computer around unencrypted WiFi (or encrypted WiFi but with a broadly shared password) with the same name as one the computer has used. In addition to direct attacks on anything listening for incoming network connections, I believe applications will keep running and using the network while the screen saver lock is enabled; it may be possible to inject an exploit in a server response to a request from a browser, an email client, etc. though the broad use of encryption at the application transport level makes that much less likely.
In Firefox it's like a particularly unpleasant salvia trip.
Author is "Captain S/V Red Herring". I thought it strange that he would start by defining what a ring is, but I am not familiar with the intended audience.
My spouse and I did this with all of a few company's apps, utilizing the mobile website only.

The difference in time saved is notable.
My god. Poor Lego.
Or if you start with multiple wrapped dependencies from the start, the library is frequently updated and/or you touch the library in many places in your code across multiple projects especially, those are good places for wrappers/facades/adapters.

An example would be in games when you submit an achievement or leaderboard score to a third party such as Apple GameCenter, Google Play Game Services, or other systems like Amazon Game Circle, web or custom. These libraries are frequently updated, they change per platform and you will touch them many places in the codebase, so wrapping them in a progression/statistics/achievements wrapper/facade/adapter is smart from the start.
If you like this, here is the problem I don't know how to solve.

Some numbers: 150K views/day and 5MB/view makes 750GB/day served by google for my collection of animations, during 1.5 years.

Problem: how can I do this alone?

Solutions I thought about:

1. make a downloadable blob, meh

2. find investors to turn this into an art project, examples: (2a) some form of exhibition in meatspace, (2b) find cheap tablets or alike and sell them downloaded with one animation, or with the live js which makes the animation
(2c) find a flexible screens producer, convince him to make Voynich manuscript like "books" with pages showing one or several annotated animations, sell the books as art (which it is)

3. make a divination app which takes as input say the date of birth and the current date and perhaps place and creates a graph like you see in this animation, which reduces itself. This idea comes from the fact that I was told from several sources that these graphs are somehow alike "vajra chains".

So if anybody has a solution to my problem, then I can bring the theoretical know how, animations, annotations or produce more.

This is one of about 400 animations, annotated with ideas, linked with programs and libraries hosted on github and figshare. For me this is an science and art project which attracted about 150K views/day on g+, so as an afterthought google was not that bad, even if it does not care about (scientific) data, only about the metadata exhaust.
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it's not a proper solution (apps can simply communicate with their servers public ip instead of looking up a domain name.)
That's exactly why I uninstalled Robinhood, Spotify, Venmo and half the other apps on my phone. Netguard showed me those apps were notifying Facebook every time I opened them.

Facebook has no business knowing when I'm making trades, listening to music, sending money or anything else.
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yes, we are transparent with our users via our privacy policy.
As someone who is working 70 hours a week and whose girlfriend just broke up with him because she wants to settle down, it's non-existent currently compared to every day before.
For developers or people who are on a computer a large portion of the day, I don't think the problem has anything to do with smartphones.

A lot of those addictions (checking email, checking if someone engaged with one of your replies or content, etc.) can happen on a laptop or desktop workstation. The only difference is you're looking at them in a browser instead of on your phone.

I never had a smartphone but I am a freelance developer where I spend most days doing work on a computer and it's really easy to get stuck in loops where you're checking XYZ on an abnormally high frequency. It's especially difficult if your business expects you to be on those sites.

In other words, ditching your phone (if you have one) isn't going to change much if you spend most of your day on a computer. At best you'll be less rude to people out in public which is a good thing, but it's not going to fix your brain.
> If you join a 20 person startup and are a good performer, it's not at all unlikely that by the time the startup is at 60-70 people (which isn't going to be a long time at all for a funded startup), there's a high likelihood that you'll be in a director / manager / other senior position.

If you're looking at this from a compensation perspective, that's only helpful if the company also starts paying competitive wages at that point. If you end up wanting to switch to a big tech company as a director with only 3 years of total experience, you'll probably be hired at L4 which you likely could have gotten within a year if you started your career at that company.

Of course if you think you'll like the job and it's not a question of compensation, then this can be a big benefit of startups.
Maybe because it's Paice, not Toyota that holds all the hybrid patents - Paice sued many car manufacturer and won - Toyota, Ford, Kia, and Hyundai (and others?) - all had to "license" from Paice.
True. But they gained tremendous protection via the govt. There is at least a small chance a company is fined if they do something egregious. (Exxon Valdez). It is rare though.
To clarify, outside of the CDN providers or AWS calls and the big 3 (Facebook, Google, Apple), the vast majority of the calls seem to be to marketing providers or developer tools

Branch - these guys provide deep links into phones and tools to analyze who clicked on the links and if they worked.

mParticle, Appsflyer, Braze formerly Appboy, Appboy all provide internal app marketing teams tools like mobile push or analytics from the app on the phone.

While NewRelic, letsencrypt (free SSL certificates), crashalytics etc are all developer tools to monitor usage and issues with your app.

In summary majority are 3 classes of traffic: CDNs which cache data, Marketing tools such as deep linking analytics etc, and finally developer tools.

Seems like a missed opportunity for Apple and Google to allow users to opt in or out but send data back to one place and then push that out to all these guys so the phone isn’t sending the same data over and over to so many partners and wasting battery.
What substantial aggregate profit do you think they can make by analyzing detailed location data?

I'm asking because I'd assume for most of their customers it just doesn't reveal much. Everyone shops at supermarkets, Target vs Walmart isn't going to reveal a whole lot more than a residential address.
I do not agree that some organization can define what open source is and everyone else can't. That's not free.
Maybe it was the Prius-C or a first gen. Otherwise agree. The non-C Prius has interior passenger dimensions similar to a Camry.
Engineers generally have worse data about market averages. It's better to get some offers and get a feel for what that engineer can reasonably expect. Then at the negotiation table, she can either argue for market average or provide anecdata that they are are an above average engineer as far as market rates are concerned.
My apologies if I’m spoiling your subtlety, but it was Scott Alexander (of the linked post) who said that.
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Financially speaking, the odds are incredibly against you as far as equity goes. One advantage. of working in startup is what Paul Buchheit calls working above your correct level, a kind of Peter principle in reverse (https://triplebyte.com/blog/interview-with-gmail-creator-and...). E.g. if you are one of the few seniors in a team, you can fairly quickly become head of eng, that kind of things, and that definitely helps your career in general.

If you want to stay an individual contributor, and can get into one of the famous companies, then I would say there is not much advantage working for a startup today.
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Yes. People who think they have better self control over something tend to just have a different level of enjoyment.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/11/3/13486940/se...
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Unfortunately, i seriously doubt whether using Android (and thereby supporting Google) will improve your privacy, even when using a firewall.

A simple example:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-13/google-tr...
But that's asking, it's closed until "opened", not "open" per se.
I try to prune my passwords of obsolete or unused accounts about annually or so, making it a much simpler task.

One of my pet peeves is a site that lacks a 'Delete Account' option.

I really like this "well known" "change password" scheme... Hopefully that gains traction!
Yes, and it was submitted as such. :-(