skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The arrow keys are one of the most essential parts of a keyboard for people who write a lot of code or otherwise do a lot of copyediting.

This type of user needs to be able to lock on to the arrow keys repeatedly and unconsciously without fail throughout the work day.

Apple's keyboard designers understood this and got it right for over 15 years. But that changed in 2016.

As of 2016, Apple's new keyboards provide zero affordances for these kinds of users and are completely unsuitable for real work.

You couldn't pay me enough to use one of these keyboard for writing code, and I certainly wouldn't pay my own money for one.
I know Amazon is different, but AliExpress sellers have sent low value packages to random addresses they have gathered so that AliExpress can track and verify the package was delivered.
Somehow, they grow their trustworthiness under their eyes with the scheme.

Just a bit of info that might be semi related or make you think why would something like that happen.
The trend is more important. US has only 32% of the world's unicorns. Even if you remove all the Chinese companies, US is 58% of the total, far less than the number a few years back. India and Southeast Asia are especially doing well if you put the size of their economies into consideration. In five years, these unicorns could grow into nowadays Amazon and Facebook, and the same holds true for the shift in the job market.
This could just be brushing, i.e. orders placed so sellers can get fake reviews:

* https://clark.com/scams-rip-offs/amazon-scam-brushing-warnin...

* http://mentalfloss.com/article/567488/beware-amazon-packages...
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Initially I had a hard time understanding what a reverse proxy setup is. Eventually I got over that.

I recently came across port forwarding on ssh and ansible.
Together they allow me to spin up a vpn easily for systems which need multiple services running.

Is there a book for these kinds of tools/techniques etc.
Something that talks about once you have a PoC, what are some standard ways of getting it into production.
We're starting with up to $100k in AWS credit, $1,000 off a 409a and 20% off Pilot bookkeeping for 6 months. More to come. Email me at jason at mercury.co if you want to know more.
Apple makes shit hardware now and has for a few years. The Apple of old is gone. People need to accept that. The keyboard is shit. The trackpad is too big. And the screen has issues too. Desktop/laptop software, other than OS X, has always been shit. OS X is slowly turning into iOS which is a locked down piece of garbage. This is reality and no amount of fanboyism is going to change that. The alternative is Windows which is an adware riddled spy machine or Linux for which every year is the year of the desktop but not quite. I suppose a Hackintosh could work for some people too who want the OS X experience but don't want to deal with shit hardware. There's plenty of choice in the Windows world for people that don't mind spyware and adware. And Linux is pretty much the same year in, year out. Those are the choices for serious computing. We need to get used to them. I know what I'm going with next upgrade.
Types will be part of Ruby 3 stdlib source
There are certainly criticisms, grains of salt, and hucksterism involved, but I think it would be premature to entirely dismiss neurofeedback. Importantly, there is not “one kind” of neurofeedback, and the specific EEG patterns to optimize for is open to debate.

Douglas Dailey has some interesting hypotheses and an excellent list of references for further investigation: https://tagsync.com/
Will it fly? I think we live in a different world now.
The 737 MAX via social media has a perception of being a "Boeing death plane"

Public opinion could ground it.
Only idiots invoke "Hanlon's Razor" not jokingly. It's such an incredibly shallow and stupid thought indeed. I like the way you put it: "thought terminating." That's what stupid people generally prefer to do with arguments.
Adding further detail in agreement.

While many people are aware of the anarchist influence and success leading to the Spanish Civil War, much less well known is the large anarchist region established in southern Ukraine fifteen years earlier, between 1917 - 1922.

This was centered around the figure of Nestor Makhno.[1] The armed forces defending this area had great success defeating various White armies and were allied with the Bolsheviks. Unfortunately, the Bolsheviks ultimately betrayed and destroyed the Makhnovshchina.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_Makhno
I think that 'can safely ship' is primary feature of any software project. What the means in practice is it puts pressure on new features and 'refactoring'
afaik there are no unlocked phones that exist that run KaiOS(outside of tinkerers in shenzhen)
Oh dear god, why did you connect your iMac’s Ethernet port to mains? Did you expect it to survive?!

The fact that Ethernet functions the same with a voltage bias across the leads is exploited for PoE — power over Ethernet.
There really isn't any non-discretionary spending. The closest we have is payments specified in international treaties, and even that can simply not be paid. All the rest is just a couple congressional votes and a presidential signature away from being eliminated.
My laptop of choice (X1 Carbon) consistently gets a pretty good rep for its keyboard. I'm still using my ~6.5 year old first generation (top spec) and the keyboard remains flawless.

But then again they actually test for foreign particle ingression:

https://solutions.lenovo.com/resource-center/pc-solutions/pa...
Literally my favorite thing about the MacBook Pro is the keyboard. I do not understand the beef with it (aside from stuck keys which can happen to others).
I doubt KaiOS would switch to Chromium, the focus seems to be using near zero resources while remaining somewhat fast.

Mozilla spent years with dozens to hundreds of devs working on getting it to be snappier than every other low end phone, short of Google paying for this type of dev work on KaiOS, there will likely be nothing more than security patches and cosmetic changes to KaiOS.
Just a bit of trivia - both Great Giana Sisters (ie Super Mario Bros clone) and R-Type were coded by Manfred Trenz. He seemed to keep perfecting scrolling techniques & 'cloning' games.

He made a C64 game called Katakis that was so similar to the R-Type arcade game, Activision blocked its release & threatened him with a lawsuit [1] - unless he accepted a contract to make Amiga & C64 Versions of R-Type.

(He also made Turrican. The guy was a genius. His C64 games are one of the things that inspired me to become a programmer.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakis
when Ruby 3.0 will be released? 2022 Christmas?
>The greatest irony is that it is in more humble and private pursuits where most of the real stories of courage, dignity, and personal triumph that people only fake in performances on social media can truly be found.

I wouldn't go quite that far. Some people are very social and show courage, dignity, and triumph.

However those people aren't making endless posts about their workout routine.
But Apple is the only one grappling with that. It's not what Microsoft's presentation is going to be about.
maybe if they'd actually ENTER it'd matter. partner up with a chinese manufacturer and make mozilla branded IoT stuff. providing a platform without associating a manufacturer is doomed to failure imo. Especially in the saturated hyper competitive markets mozilla chooses to enter.
Don't a large number of people have health problems as a result of poor diet and lack of exercise? I think that would qualify as a choice. I know I could probably lower my cholesterol with more discipline. If I choose not to, it's reasonable for me to pay higher insurance premiums.
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Been using them for several years now and I like them a lot too. I have the v2 MacBook where the 'b' key got stuck once but I managed to fix with some can of air spray. Have had various MBPs at work and most of been fine too.

I've always had a habit ofregularly clean my keyboards too which I think may have helped reduce the amount of dirt getting stuck underneath.
If you have some experience with bash, I would recommend learning more bash.

If you want to get into development, the next step might be to learn a new language. Ruby, Python, and Javascript are pretty popular scripting languages that will have some overlap with bash that you can connect to. Pick a language that works closest to how you think and work with it in place of what you would normally do with bash.

Most importantly, understand that you are in technical role but that role is not the summation of who you are.

Additionally, not all developers have sysadmin skills, so understand that what you provide is valuable. Don't be hard on yourself, you have your entire life to keep building on what you know and who you want to become.
Yeah they'll give you recognition alright - for saving them money by allowing them to pry into your personal life.

Maybe it's just working for an international megacorp, but I can tell you with absolute certainty they don't give a shit about my health - except to the extent it affects the bottom line. I'll get my positive recognition from my doctor because it means something from them.
I believe Boeing's shift from an "Engineering Culture" to a "Corporate Political Culture" is the root of the issue.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/book-...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/01/21/what-we...

Boeing executives shifted focus from engineering to cost-cutting, outsourcing, and moving production & HQ to gain political influence. Moving Corporate HQ from Seattle was to insulate executives from engineering and increase political leverage in DC.
After watching Louis Rossmann's live repairs and informed bitching, I bought an almost maxed-out Lenovo T480 on the President's Day sale and hackintoshed it. Water-resistant, backlit keyboard that's awesome and isn't crazy loud/fragile. 16 GiB, WQHD (could be brighter), Samsung 1 TiB 970 Pro and giant extended battery. 9 hour run-time. MIL-spec rated.

EDIT: I had a pre-Retina A1278 mid-2012 MBP with 16 GiB and 2 SSD's for a long time. MagSafe 1, okay keyboard, generally bulletproof for a while until the external ports and logic board traces started corroding from humidity and temperature extremes. :( I bought a broken screen MBP for $170 USD to get a working logic board cheap to recover and migrate off. Donated to a sane-but-poor itinerant writer/journalist/commercial fisherman.
Another thing that opens the door to myriad careers is learning to code and learning math. it's free
The US visa system is very arbitrary. I got a 10 year B1/B2 just by showing up and handing my passport. No questions (a part from why are you going and where did you travel) and no documents asked. The whole interview was probably 30 seconds. The process didn't take much time but there are not many applicants in my city. I got my passport back in a couple days.

At the airport, I helped translating for a French national. He was sent to secondary. Then the agent just stamped my passport and waved me in.
Frankly, that doesn't mean much; the MPL allows one to freely mix open and proprietary files on the same project. Sure, they can't literally close Mozilla's code, but they can still make their forked project mostly proprietary.
It is easier. There are quite a few alternatives: N26, Paysera, Revolut, Transferwise
I do IT orders in a research institute, a MBP user wants a big memory machine to do server side data analysis, and wants to order the iMac pro 128 GB ram. He’s shocked to learn that for the same price he can get a Dell Epyc server with 512 GB ram. Guess what he still wants? The iMac, for the “ecosystem”.
Nah, its probably a consolidation strategy
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I wrote a buggy POS test program that had race conditions because I didn't really understand what I was doing. And sometimes it would assign two units the same serial number. It would check once the test was done and just fail one of the two if that happened. And the tech would just rerun the test on that unit.

In the big scheme of things no one cared.
My business partner is a supplier to LEA / Government for intrusion / pentest / physical and electronic security.
He has sold over 600 units to legitimate government and police entities.

Likewise, the USBKill suppliers had shown confirmed clients from all large SV companies, and all major hardware manufacturers.

It definitely is a malicious device in the hands of someone malicious, no doubt... But it most definitely serves a purpose to government and LEA apparently ..
The DC-10 did fine after its rough start. It's still flying today.
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You can't grow a C stack, it's pre-allocated and fixed size. Trying to use too much of a stack - beyond what's initially allocated — is why you're going to segfault (in the best case), as you'll be traipsing on unallocated addresses and hopefully unmapped pages.
I recommend using the Xubuntu distribution. It's has been much more stable with respect to the UI: https://xubuntu.org/
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19697430

Don't be discouraged. Re-apply. The process depends on the interview guy. He'll get to decide your fate. His decision will depend on whether he likes you or not. Probably based on appearance.
Machines like the EMSculpt may do your exercise for you
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Nice! Reminds me of crystal[0], the LLVM-compiled ruby-alike language.

0: https://crystal-lang.org
To me, if a comment is faded or not, then that's enough info.
Hm, I'm not sure how iOS apps do it. My app is a fitness app that records activities, the app has to remain running in the background so the recording isn't interrupted.
> Zoom is interesting. They don't really seem to have done anything particularly novel, they just made a product that works better than the competition.

Isn't https://dialpad.com in the same category? I find their products to be on-par with zoom. There cannot be no competent players in the market, surely?
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Hi Josh

The article definitely does not make that assumption. The expectation is that the business analyst (someone with business analysis skills) will specify a small slice of the solution that will deliver value. Based on feedback it is expected that the specification will evolve.

I think you are spot on about readability. A specification in human readable form can easily be verified by a wider range of stakeholders.

Chris
What you're missing is the Nola has the highest port tonnage in the country. The impact on GDP is estimated in the hundreds of billions. There's also billions and billions of dollars of infrastructure here.

Most goods that pass through to the midwest and rest of the country come through here.

Without Nola, hundreds of billions of dollars of the economy will go away. Gas prices set a record after Katrina.

14 billion is a bargain to keep this city going.
After doing some more digging, it turns out that roughly 20% of NFIP policies are subsidized, and the up-to $30b debt was authorized by Congress in 2012 due to the shortfalls.

80% of the policies (the non-subsidized ones) are thought to be actuarially sound, barring unintended consequences of out-of-date flood maps.

So, I'm not terribly surprised. Were it operating like a traditional insurer, it might even be doing fine (especially if it had some other reforms such as eliminating or having better oversight over WYO policies).
> I've always had a habit ofregularly

“of regularly”
It's not just a few houses built by irresponsible people.

Nola has the highest port tonnage in the country. The impact on GDP is estimated in the hundreds of billions. There's also billions and billions of dollars of infrastructure here.
Most goods that pass through to the midwest and many through the rest of the country come through here.

Without Nola, hundreds of billions of dollars of the economy will go away. Gas prices set a record after Katrina.

14 billion is a bargain to keep this city going.
OSM is used underlying a lot of commercial apps and services.

Most people don't realise that though, so they think their edits correcting roads will only get seen by a handful of open source geeks.
That's not smart. As a non-citizen you don't have much rights. If you get caught lying, you'll be barred from entering the US and you'll probably need to resolve to court.

How they can find out:

- Booking of where you are staying.

- Going through your phone/laptop.

- Paper/Flyers for your company or the event.

- A big event is happening and you are kinda fitting the bill for it.
These people tend to be young and without children - the demographic that is ok living (temporarily) without free healthcare, childcare and education.
Hi Ryan

How about structured excel sheets. Excel sheets with quide rails for business people to structure the expression of their thoughts?

That's what I'm getting at.

Chris
Nola has the highest port tonnage in the country. The impact on GDP is estimated in the hundreds of billions. There's also billions and billions of dollars of infrastructure here. Most goods that pass through to the midwest and many through the rest of the country come through here.

Without Nola, hundreds of billions of dollars of the economy will go away. Gas prices set a record after Katrina.

14 billion is a bargain to keep this city going.
Your first example is an integration test, not a unit test, which should be changed.

Integration tests are nice, but best if ran separately...
Thats because most of the countries goods pass through New Orleans.
The scholars should try this on the Book of Mormon.
Come to the Lua side and learn to enjoy "mechanisms over policy"

"...A fundamental concept in the design of Lua is to provide meta-mechanisms for implementing features, instead of providing a host of features directly in the language. For example, although Lua is not a pure object-oriented language, it does provide meta-mechanisms for implementing classes and inheritance. Lua's meta-mechanisms bring an economy of concepts and keep the language small, while allowing the semantics to be extended in unconventional ways."
Its called stop building paper/wooden panel houses.
I'm using "grow" in the sense of moving the stack pointer down. But yes, you're correct, it's trying to access that memory that will cause a segmentation fault. And to address your first point, I'm sure there's hijinks you can perform with mmap to add a couple more pages if you so desire.
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> I check social media and youtube frequently while doing work.

Well, don't do it then.

> If I do not do that I feel some void and feeling of losing out

This is a minor discomfort. You need learn to cope. You must be young and healthy now, but the reality is that down the line, you are likely to develop some sort of permanent injury/impairment that you will have to cope with for the rest of your life. Start small, learn to cope with that little bit of discomfort.

Not to belittle, it's actually a major and widespread problem. Avoidance of minor discomforts is literally what keeps people smoking until it kills them. It's what holds people back from achieving the best life they can have because they avoid all the little risks that add up to big opportunities.

You have a will, you're not slave to your whims. Take control of your life and earn some self-respect.
Any style or substance signal(s) in particular, i.e., lots of personal pronouns?
appear.in, does what it says on the tin, no fucking about. Played about with zoom but it was a multi-minute ballache of signup steps and a screen sharing plugin the doesn't work properly on i3wm, I can't even begin to imagine the others if Zoom was mean't to be straight forward.
> I can only imagine where Go will be with compiler optimizations in 3-5 years.

Nowhere, optimisations cost CPU time and the Go developers focus on compilation time. They could already have implemented plenty of well-known and well-understood optimisation passes in the 10 years since the initial release, that they didn't do so and restricted themselves to the sort of optimisation passes you'd find in a bytecode interpreter was by design.

In theory gccgo is where you'd get an optimising go compiler, but apparently even with gcc 8.1's improvements it has issues which lead to the end result being slower than the mainline compiler. I'm sure they'd be glad to get more people involved to resolve this.

> Look at gcc, it has tons, but it took years to get there.

> Go has the added advantage of being able to learn off this knowledge

Go could have used LLVM, they specifically refused to do so on grounds of compilation time being too slow, preferring to not optimise instead.
Their maps were probably world-leading in the 90's.

Now though, I feel like the tech giants have overtaken them.

Where is the street view or 3d models? Where are the opening times of every shop? Where is the traffic congestion info? Where is the ability to look up a house number and find where on the street it is?

These are all things I regularly want to know and are location based, so really ought to be part of a mapping service.
> "multiple cascading changes"

That's aircraft in a nutshell. I read a book on light aircraft design by a now long dead professor[2]. He had a penciled out analysis of what would happen to a 2 seater light plane if you replaced the simple and light stick with cables design[1] with a hydraulic one. Only added about 40lbs more weigh. Or 300lbs when that was propagated through the design. And needed a bigger engine.

[1] Control surfaces operated by a system of cables and pulleys controlled by a stick.

[2] KD Wood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Dawson_Wood
The flying public will buy the cheapest ticket, same as always.

This isn't even the first time a design flaw leading to loss of control has crashed multiple 737s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues
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Is it compatible with the code in the books that we’re talking about?
They have a concept of “waters of the United States” where if it’s a navigable water it is federally managed and historically army cane first so their Corp of engineers are the ones who carry out the operations
Sysadmin is an important role but don’t forget that what we call DevOps is an essential step for most of the SysAdmins these days.

If you stick with the traditional definition of SysAdmin, your job market becomes smaller every year. That doesn’t mean you won’t find a high paying job, it just means there are less opportunities and more competition. Are you good at it? Then perhaps you don’t need those DevOps skills. There will be enough opportunities for your lifetime. Then instead focus on branding yourself. Write online about your skills, share your knowledge on internet to create a strong and visible profile that you can reference to it. Don’t keep your knowledge on your head. Make it more visible even stuff that you think is obvious and easy. Then you always have a better chance in the market and it is very likely that good offers knock your door.

But, If you do feel that your career is at risk and you see kess chance in competing other SysAdmins, Then definitely invest on learning Cloud focused DevOps skills.
And I think grasping the next step isn’t hard for a SysAdmin. Stuff like Modern CI/CD pipeline, Monitoring and integration with Cloud providers and different services, Cloud migration, some level of scripting probably in Python, etc.

And about coding, first of all you don’t have to become a programmer,
. so be careful what resources and courses you take as some of them might be unnecessarily overwhelming. and secondly, like everything else, there is a learning curve. You just need to pass it and be patient.