skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prices going up is less direct, and thus likely less on people's minds, than "I'm getting a check from the government every month".
I'm converting a 500KLOC C++ consumer app from Win32 to Qt so it can also run on macOS. All the app-specific code remains the same. I'm very pleased with how easy it is to design dialogs. Qt is better than anything Microsoft has to offer; what would entice me to forego portability?
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I didn’t accuse anyone of lying, so I have no idea what you are on about. I asked how jedberg knew what other engineers were paid. I am not even skeptical of his particular anecdote, just curious.

I have first hand experience at SFBA tech companies, and if you don’t think they are overwhelmingly classifying them the same as SDEs, you’re simply wrong. You haven’t worked inside of one, so that alone is likely going to limit your understanding quite a bit.

This has nothing to do with my own salary either (and I have received an offer from netflix, not that it means anything).
> the tests were completed, all the tasks set during the pilot were successfully solved

So, it was a pilot and it succeeded. Now what?
Hi Aaron! We define an Exponential+ Trend just as one that is growing much faster than normal. We used to call these "Hyper Growth Trends" but we tested and found that Exponential+ was more clear.
> With AWS, the programmers got their sandbox servers in spun up minutes instead of weeks or months.

That's how it starts but not how it ends.

Once you move everything to the cloud, the same IT staff get put in charge of it. Because they have a requirement from somewhere up high to make sure everything has antivirus on it, and there is a Windows domain for the desktops so the servers need to be in it too, and they want to have a test environment with specific versions of specific software matching the ones in production which means you have to use the corporate VM images instead of the AWS ones and have IT go through their VM provisioning checklist for each new instance, etc.

And some of those reasons are bad and some of them aren't, but either way they exist, so if you want to provision something from AWS now it has to go through IT who takes just as long as they ever did to do what amounts to the same thing as before only now it's more expensive.
Thrust: A Productivity-Oriented Library for CUDA
I've encountered the same thing at a theme park. It was something like $70 for a day pass and $75 for a year pass. It was such a tiny difference we sprung for the year pass, even though it was unlikely that we would go back any time soon.
The internet worked pretty well without Cloud. I reckon a good 90% of the businesses out there don't need cloud, and all that crap about capacity. The issue is that admin cost is very expensive. To get your own network pipe, have someone wire it up, setup your routers, firewall, do backups, etc. That costs tons of money. So even for a small business that can run fine of a raspberry pi, the knowledge to run onprem is so expensive that it's cheaper for them to pay $1000 a month and go to the cloud than pay network/sysadmin $50k a year.
I'm confident that you're wrong about this. I told you how I know that.

It's fine if we just agree to disagree; I just can't let the claim you made stand without rebuttal.
The SR-71 is also high altitude, so if there is less air (pressure), that can change things like: how much lift you need or can generate, the outside temperature, how much air can be used by the engine, heating due to air friction, etc.
Even if the traffic lights can't be rotsteted it's relatively trivial for an bad actor to break it in some way and hanging up your permanent green light at night and then watch the chaos.

As gp said: The amount of such bad actors is low. And gains from an individual hack are low and there's a chance of getting caught.
AWS charges $5 per million write requests, $0.40 per million read requests. Inbound bandwidth is free; outbound bandwidth ranges from free (within same AWS region) to $0.05/GB for public internet at scale.

The latter number can be pricey. But, irrelevant with respect to the failing costs of hard drives.
You know there's Symfony between "my homegrown php" and "DrupalPress" which gives a lot of facilities for simple HTML based websites?
Also worth pointing out that there are 4 times as many 777s as there are A340s. Doesn’t mean A340 isn’t great, just that the odds of no accidents go up with fewer flight hours.

The popularity of A320 and 737-NG makes their safety records particularly impressive.
Don’t believe it — Uzbek propaganda!!!
Opendev: A space for collaborative Open Source software development
The international criminalization was driven in large part by Western pressure (and sometimes directly a remnant of Western colonialism).
these do not require "enourmous" amount of editing. Still, if sience was published in open access HTML, none of these issues would exist. Graphs could be anything, layout is irrelevant, and the rest can easily be detected with an automated validator.
I think part of the reason so many of this type of article exist is because it seems the common expectation is that things should automatically make sense to us on first glance. So many products and tools are this way. But they are that way by design. The builders / inventors of those things hide you from the reality behind the scenes.
People seem to get openly frustrated if they can't learn overnight all there is to know about a discipline that has taken some people years and maybe even decades to master.

We as a civilization haven't really had a need to reconcile this I think on the scale that we do today. Nothing was "out in the open" so much so as it is today. But now that I can see it somehow my expectation is that I should immediately understand it.

As more and more information becomes available to the masses we all need to start recognizing that just because we can see it doesn't mean we should expect to be able to understand it.

Real knowledge about how to solve complicated problems takes time and discipline to get to the place we want to be individually and collectively.
They can be, but the ones that are currently afloat haven't been.

Shipping companies have had decades of success fighting against legally-mandated retrofits - double-hulled tankers, trivial safety features for passenger ferries... I don't think your idea of replaceable engines is going to get any traction.
It's complicated because nobody knows how to fix it. There's no formal definition for a "good design" or a "better design", so people keep iterating over the designs not knowing whether the new design is actually better or worse.

If there was a way to quantify a good design vs a bad design through an algorithm then people can iterate in ways that properly and categorically makes things better rather than in ways that are opinionated, vague and possibly even in the wrong direction.
So it'll be running out of helium that will make it finally cost effective? /s
That is quite entertaining and borderline incredible, thank you.
I actually pngcrushed the result after that just to see how many of the remaining 39 bytes I could get back, but had the same result. PNG has just a smidge more fixed overhead than GIF.
I mean SPAs and near-SPAs. "Web apps". Web sites as in mostly server-rendered sites with HTML, CSS, and some JS sugar on top could sub in for an awful lot of "web apps" and improve UX, performance, maintainability, and development cost.

[EDIT] incidentally I notice you keep arguing against things I've not actually written.
> properly disposing of resource

It's php. Everything is trashed once the http request has been served.
I'm struggling to envision how a tech disruption could work in this market. The essential problem seems to be an incentive system that's misaligned with investor incentives and overall economic health.

How could a single company or group of companies alter a broken incentive system? It seems the two most salient options are (1) consolidation of competitors to reduce the race-to-the-bottom competition or (2) stricter regulation to prevent the kind of ratings shopping that debt issuers currently engage in.

While I can see how a tech disruptor could potentially put all the other ratings agencies out of business and achieve (1), this seems like a tall order. And my uneducated gut-reaction to that scenario is "decreased competition bad," although I'm open to being proved wrong on that, as this does seem to be a case where competition has caused the problem (from the article: "One author, Colorado State University Finance Professor Sean Flynn, says “competition among credit-rating firms has, if anything, reduced the quality of credit ratings.”")
Slack's operating loss send easier to recover from. Uber will have to cut costs massively to come closer to profitability. The drop in stock is before the lock in period had expired. Expect it to drop further after October when all the employees dump their stock.
Ask HN: What are the first things you do on a new Windows 10 PC? Any checklists?
I'm curious what some of the things are you do on a windows 10 PC. I don't have a checklist but there are a few settings I usually end up modifying, or software I install. (such as winrar.)
Engineering Roles Defined
Valid is hard to tell in economics, because economics isn't really a science. More of a social science. A lot of people have debated this point before, but even at a theory level, it imagines people as rational actors, and we know they are not always, and sometimes not ever.
And an experienced sysadmin would know that there are plenty of needs, priorities, and resources that play well with the cloud. ;)
Yeah everyone assumes you have to build out an SPA and then you need a rest or graphql service behind that. It rapidly gets out of hand for the benefit of having a native like experience you wind up serving sites with 1 gig of us framework content per page.
So how would you go about this? Are you saying trying to find an important problem to help humanity is bullshit to begin with?
Vernemq: A distributed MQTT message broker based on Erlang/OTP
Hackers Can Break into an iPhone Just by Sending a Text
Slow shipping is already a thing. For example, many companies will decide to send their cargo around the capes instead of paying the associated fees to go through the panama/suez canals.
I think OP's point, or at least my agreement, is how many often pretend the software industry is like other engineering industries and make such implications in their job titles.

There is still a lot of creative art and the more we stop pretending this isn't the case, the more people will be reasonable. There is still an high degree of technicality in the profession, but that doesn't mean its "engineering" -- you can be technical, not an engineer, and still respectable (heck, look at science in general). It's still a complex skill and makes lots of money for many businesses.
I don’t know about this particular statistic, but what is often done in these studies is to survey organisations to ask how many of these staff they want or need, or how many vacant ‘positions’ they have.

The numbers don’t always reflect how many positions they actually have the budget for, or whether they’re willing to pay a realistic rate.

Arguably, if they were willing to pay market rates there couldn’t be any vacancies, because supply and demand.
Hasn't apng been made obsolete by mp4 before it managed widespread adoption? Basically they were supposed to be easy like the old animated gifs, but developers dragged their heels on it so long that they forced people to adopt the full fat alternatives in the meantime.
"8chan committed mass murder" is really stretching guilt-by-association in my opinion.
As far as climate change is concerned, it is very low on my list of concerns. There are far more concerning matters that will have more immediate major impacts on us (including the planet) than any effects of climate change that may occur in the next 1 to 10 decades.

Most of these matters are not even being addressed, are not even on the minds of most people. It is almost like we are being distracted from the more problematic matters by all the "extravagant" views on both sides of the climate change debate. We have a polarisation that is building across pretty much all societies and the more radical views from each end of the spectrums available are driving the car.
Yeah, let's invent a conspiracy to explain the NHTSA asking Tesla once to modify its marketing to fit its guidelines, and escalating in private by referring to another agency only when Tesla doubles down.

Who knows if you're crashing in to a smart or a semi is actually the agency's point.
So I have been advised in the past (by my attorney) to do it all out of one LLC (file d/b/a's if needed for marketing) and if you get one product that is a hit then you can isolate it from the others if you want later (but that really isn't required in most cases). But for sure, you don't need multiple LLC's just for multiple MVPs and consulting.

I maintain one LLC that I do occasional consulting out of and it also owns many of my business based investments, which includes stock and in a couple of cases units in other LLCs.
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I haven't tried this approach, but having spent years using one of the best commercial SAST tools, I'm reluctant to dismiss it too quickly.

My SAST generates tons of false positives and is unforgivably slow. If this is orders of magnitude faster, it might be worth the extra false positives.

As a side note, my dream is a SAST that comments directly in the PR like a human reviewer would. Maybe that exists?
This is far from obvious and is almost never convincingly exemplified.
Eh? X11 is probably Qt's best target, and it's one of the most popular toolkits for building X11 applications. What made you think it wasn't efficient?
Nvidia Releases Documentation for Open GPU Development
SVG to me is always overlooked as a means to present not merely vector graphics but also other things like JPEGs with alpha transparency at a smaller size than equivalent, non-indexed PNGs for larger images (link a JPEG for the image and another JPEG/PNG/GIF for the mask, or both together as one image and use half for one and the other).

It's a rather flexible format, even if you're only embedding it within an img element/via CSS (ie: disabling its other possible functionality like video/JS/interactivity, though this comes at the downside of requiring base64'ing the embedded images, offsetting the some of the filesize savings...).

One can also utilize CSS animations within them (or alternatively SMIL in any Blink or Gecko based browser), whether embedded as an object or image.
I ate 4 mcdoubles today and have been ordering 4 mcdoubles consistently recently. They're delicious. I have no intention of abstaining from meat, factory farmed or otherwise any time soon.

This comment will likely be downvoted into oblivion and possibly flagged, which will demonstrate the absurdly one-sided nature of these conversations and why this particular thread is filled will virtue signaling about how ethical everyone is, either as a militant anti-omnivore or those who feel guilty about eating meat.

Many others either are like me and don't care enough to comment, or they know the inevitable outcome of commenting in such an environment. We just don't care. We're hungry, we're tired from work, and we like meat.

EDIT: If it pleases the court, I'm currently cooking broccoli at the moment.
Elsevier is the bouncer to a trendy club. People flock outside, just because they know that the bouncer rejects 92% of the submitted articles (that's the rate for Nature i think). I think an open access publisher must create this artificial scarcity in order to build reputation. In fact i think they have to advertise it. They 'll also need a massive promotion campaign to attract attentin from authors.
>> internal cheat sheet of "numbers every engineer should know" which included the cost in dollar terms

Would love to see that. For companies determining what's worth what, this would be great to see, even just for the format.
I thought Big Law pays $200k+? Meaning that the typical programmer would be making considerably less, or is that not the case?
Stop Trying to Hire with Titles Like ‘DevOps Engineer’ or ‘Cloud Engineer’
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I'd be interested to know how much of those costs are due to driver incentives and other costs related to expansion into new geographic regions vs. costs for established regions.

It could be that cutting costs is as simple as slowing down or pausing the expansion.
Part of that mantra also falls under problem solving in general. Not every solution needs a technology solution. Sometimes fixes can be made in processes or policy in general. Many jump to technology solutions too quickly and I feel this is lazy and often passing responsibility for someone else to fix a situation.
Web development sucks precisely because we use a document markup language, a document styling language, and an interaction scripting language to build applications. It was bad enough when we just used this mess to make user interfaces.

If you've ever written or worked on a classical desktop application, you'll know what I mean. Since (at least) the 90s there have been visual UI builders and geometry management tools that allowed you to easily define a responsive user interface and connect widget events with calls to back end code. With the advent of CSS Grid and Flexbox, we finally have two decent geometry management tools--it only took 20 years. Except I can't use them yet, I have to support terrible old browsers (like IE7) that are embedded in customer applications.

We've been involved in reinventing a pretty, zero-config version of X-Windows, and we're only about 60% of the way done. How much further would we be if we didn't insist on building it in a hopped up word-processor?
Would publicly releasing the source code to avionics software for civilian aircraft pose an export control/ITAR issue? (I imagine there must be some degree of overlap between civilian avionics software and military avionics software, and the former may be a good starting point for building the later.)
"even at a theory level, it imagines people as rational actors"

There is a whole field of economics ('behavioural economics') that explicitly doesn't make this assumption.
I never understood the SoftBank investment strategy.
It looks like they always invest in something big and popular, prepared to pay a premium price - often much more than it makes sense, i.e. WeWork.
Google does not differentiate those roles (like just about every company). Most companies have a “faux title” and a real title. The real title for security engineers is usually the same title as software engineers. I’m not saying that no company exists with security engineers in a separate pay ladder (because who knows), but I’ve personally never heard of one.

It’s about as difficult to answer that as it is to answer what the market rate is for SDEs. They vary wildly. Like hundreds of thousands in variation. And even the same role at the same level varies wildly depending on negotiated initial offer and performance bonuses/discretionary equity grants. Facebook in particular gave out $1M in DE to their top performing SDEs, even at lower pay grades.

Also, appsec tends to be distinct from IT security (who tend to be classified as IT/SRE/Ops or similar), and often outside of the CISO/CSO scope, but not always.
KUDO 0.5 brings upgrade and config management for Kubernetes Operators
At the point that they chose to use all this kit and write "beautiful ES6". Write ES5, use a few polyfill functions, include the already minified mithril/vue/react js IF you actually are going to need dynamic DOM elements.
An XHR sweetener is included in mithril at least, but if not, it's only a few lines easily memorized, as you will do them constantly, it's also a good candidate for that library you should have made for all your projects by now, with that "byId()" and "byClass" shorteners etc... just an XHR you can pass a callback, url, and method to...

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.onreadystatechange = function(){
if(this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
//do stuff to your dom, JSON.parse(return stuff) etc.
}
}

xhr.open("POST", "/some route/" + whatever, true);
xhr.send();

FormData(); would add 2 more lines to the above...
I see no point in all this front-end toolchain stuff trying to maintain an illusion that ES6 runs in most browsers.
Invariably maintaining false abstractions will not promote deeper understandings of the rather essential and basic "request response" cycle of HTTP.

It's not even pretty. Classes in JS? Gimme a break.
Show me the ugly truth and K.I.S.S. because life is short and we have better things to do in life...
Keep in mind I don’t know exactly how those conversations went between Boeing and the FAA, nor do I know exactly who my dad was referring to when he said Boeing (the head of engineering? head of safety? A group of people inside Boeing? Was Boeing unified in its opinion or was this concentrated in the area of engineering my father worked in?) Grounding an entire class of plane is not a decision made lightly because of the huge financial and political implications. My takeaway is Boeing leaned towards grounding and the FAA did not and on balance the plane stayed in the air while Boeing worked on the fixes.*

*EDIT: This is probably a conversation that happens after every crash/major-incident and hindsight is 20/20.
It can be done and can be pretty nice. I got to around 30 websites myself with just custom CSP policies for each and plenty of ideas what to do next. Like making CSP policies composable, so I can define a rule for say recaptcha and include it for websites that use it and things like that. Javascript walls (cloudflare, sucuri, etc.) is another problem, you wouldn't want to enable javascript just to pass them and you wouldn't want to pass them automatically as it would allow websites to enable javascript. They also may include recaptcha, etc. Still, nothing that can't be solved.
In the last 2 years there hasn't been a single discussion of MoviePass without someone like you confused and detailing how the UK has had it for years. We get it. We really do.