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As someone traveling through jfk fairly often: there are jobs in government that can be replaced by using proper signage
Nice! I use WPStatistics currently. You should do a side-by-side comparison explaining why I should make the switch.
Also instructive is the commit message:

> The Strict mode breaks some pretty common and reasonable use cases,
such as keeping connections via one default route alive after another one
appears (e.g. plugging an Ethernet cable when connected via Wi-Fi).

> The strict filter also makes it impossible for NetworkManager to do
connectivity check on a newly arriving default route (it starts with a
higher metric and is bumped lower if there's connectivity).

And it goes on pointing out what you also mentioned about kernel defaults:

> Kernel's default is 0 (no filter), but a Loose filter is good enough. The
few use cases where a Strict mode could make sense can easily override
this.
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While I agree with you... if you take the side of the Medical and Insurance industry, it works great. Money is extracted before they died with a high margin process. The incentive is perverse, but it's real and effective.
Encryption doesn’t help Unicode homoglyph attacks. I can send you encrypted messages all day long from google.com, even though they’re not coming from who you think they are.
It’s possible they recognize that (a) we are small and not worth the trouble and (b) they recognize other higher brain mammal life. But they hunt dolphins so....

Maybe it’s just that we don’t live in their environment.
Depending on how you count, between 10% and 40% of the US is employed by the govt either directly or by proxy.

I understand your sentiment, but the reality of just shedding a large fraction of those jobs is hard to even imagine. Unemployment in 2008-2009 peaked at around 10%.
The free market itself is the ultimate hackable test, no? Our society has examples where superb work goes unrewarded financially.

Does pg argue that they simply should ignore this test grade?
> there isn't a remotely clear place to put a line

> Leaving things up to the court is defensible when the ambiguities are unforeseeable or impossibly numerous, but neither apply here.

It appears you said one thing, and then the opposite.

Was that intentional? As it makes your comment seem internally inconsistent.

If there isn’t a clear line, how will legislators set demarcation points that people won’t argue in court?
It's not theft. The receiver didn't attempt to steal money, it was sent to him without his knowledge or consent.

I guess it gets blurry when looking at it after the fact and he's been formally refusing to return it for a year.
You should expense (to the IRS) what the actual expenses are, but you can charge your client whatever you agree on.

e.g., a month ago someone wanted me to travel to their site.

Although I didn't end up going, my fee to do that would have been much more than just the travel (6 hour drive to another state) and hotel costs: I also have to factor in that while I'm travelling, those are hours I can't bill to any other project, so the client would have been billed for the full two work days of travel even though my out of pocket costs would have been much less.
Automated bureaucracy would as all bureaucracy does, tier down and whilst we may see the 3 day working week, we would also see the 3 day bureaucratic hoops we would have to endure above and beyond the 3 day work.
FDA approves drugs following Phase III

Phase I determines safety. Phase II determines efficacy. Phase III is larger scale, randomized, and blind to give the FDA more information on the range of potential adverse effects and the effectiveness of the drug. FDA is supposed to care about both. The acceptable safety of a drug is relative to the effectiveness of it (i.e. a drug may be more dangerous or have more adverse effects, but it’s deemed “worth it” due to the effectiveness of the drug while of course maintaining a minimum safety risk for all drugs). In other words, both safety and effectiveness are both supposed to be taken as equal halves of the whole by the FDA.
Please don't put words in my mouth. I didn't say either of those cases isn't stealing.
Systemd does have a wiki page about this:

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfaceS...
It’s true. Why, just as I was loading the page, someone replaced all instances of “filesystem” with “butt”! The nerve!
A counterexample as a web developer:

My girlfriend can't get her Squarespace website to work.
your explanation would naturally raise the question why the difference. you can't really explain it without mentioning the expansion of the universe
So when are we getting F# designers in Visual Studio?
I have several Danish friends that I speak to.

I get that Duolingo is "basics", but it captures a lot of your time that are better spent learning with other means. Off of this, the company has a $1B valuation. They don't charge for their service and it's not really worth paying a lot for. The users who use it the most probably won't pay.

I don't know how they're ever going to justify that valuation.
Sounds like some brilliant social engineering went on. I'd love to read a more in-depth write-up
Instead you had quoting bugs where the shell scripts ended up rm -rf /'ing your machine.
> think of the mandate as a tax

It's not a tax though. It's finding, choosing, paying for a particular insurance plan for their employees.

Thus, insurance being tied to employment.
Robots in finance ARE wiping out some of its highest paying jobs.
>But what is the practical work product of a deep knowledge of medieval history? It's extremely difficult to test the past, so it's certainly not predictions about what already happened.

This strikes me as a really sad way to see the world.

Would you then agree that say, archaeology or palaeontology are things that nobody needs knowledge of for any practical purpose in the modern day? If you disagree, why?
My prediction is that the blockchains are going to eat all of this stuff actually.

Smart ethereum contracts based on chainlink data are going to be the new financial instruments. You are already seeing the fertilization of this with stuff like makerdao.

I know it’s annoyingly to talk about the blockchain all the time, but unfortunately I think I may have become a true believer. I don’t think human “financial advisors” are going to be able to outperform these sorts of funds.

Also: deregulation (or difficult to enforce regulation) is going to allow a LOT of innovation to happen. How long until some 17 year olds create a token which represents the consumer side of a fund? And then how long until the funds strategy is codified into a smart contract and runs on its own?

It’s going to be a wild time.
If your life was materially impacted by slow mobile speeds you should spend less time on your phone.
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Fast doesn’t imply good. How many regressions are the fast guys introducing? How fragile is their code? How much are they expanding technical debt? How well can you see any of that?

Someone else said it sounds like a great learning atmosphere, and they’re correct. Let your new crew be your mentors. Take the best you see in them and make it yours. Still having something to learn at 6 years isn’t a bad thing. I’ll tell you what, anyone in the 4-10 year range who thinks they are super expert is only deceiving themselves. Maybe if they focus in only one domain like front end.
> How does one get lots of users? They had all kinds of ideas about that. They needed to do a big launch that would get them "exposure." They needed influential people to talk about them. They even knew they needed to launch on a tuesday, because that's when one gets the most attention.

> No, I would explain, that is not how to get lots of users. The way you get lots of users is to make the product really great. Then people will not only use it but recommend it to their friends, so your growth will be exponential once you get it started.

Ironically enough, if there is one thing I've heard from HN, it is to not believe in the "if you build it, they will come" myth. That no matter how good a product you build as an engineer, it is all pointless if you aren't willing to hit the ground and start aggressively marketing and selling it. That a mediocre product with great marketing/sales, will win over a better product with poor marketing/sales.

I've heard this directly from YC partners themselves, when they keep telling early-stage founders to market themselves via "do things that don't scale". At Reddit, one of YC's early successes, the founders were literally spending their time spamming their own site with fake posts and comments using sock-puppets, in order to create the illusion of activity. As someone who loves building products, I hate the idea of spending time and energy on tactics like that. I'd love to spend all that time and energy on making my product better. But I've learnt grudgingly from YC that product development is pointless unless I'm using guerilla tactics to hawk my product in front of users.

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I've actually had the opposite experience as what PG describes in his essay. Back in school and University, I did study very hard to ace tests. But the way I studied was to genuinely learn and understand the material as well as possible. Not to "hack" it in some way. Whereas once I graduated, and especially once I tried out entrepreneurship, I realized that just building a great product was insufficient. I now had to "hustle" and use "street smarts" and "growth hacking" in order to get people to notice what I'm doing. The lesson I had to unlearn from school was that the quality of your work will speak for itself, and will win the day. I never needed marketing and sales in school, but it seems indispensable in the real world.
> Optional catch binding

Eh... that's great and all, but why not go the whole way and allow me to just use `try { }` without a catch-block? I'm sure that was part of a conversation somewhere, and I wonder why they chose not to go that far.
Or they think the project has legitimate worth and this team is the right one to execute (people having more language knowledge makes it easier to make the world's information universally accessible). Or it's a favor to a high-value ex-Googler. Google's been known to pay big numbers to keep key people happy; maybe they're making a long-term investment in Luis von Ahn under the assumption he may come back some day.
Wow, that implies that given a large enough model, early stopping is actually a mistake! Who’d a thunk it?
In regards to steel shot having less stopping power its due to the density differential between steel and lead. Generally when people say stopping power they are describing the amount of force exerted and more mass equals more force (assuming the same velocity).

Lead Free ammunition exists in various forms and the terminal ballistics can be different than lead ammunition. So many compositions are possible and this is a massive topic that is quite hotly debated and studied in the firearms community.
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If PyTorch had something like TensorFlow Lite, TF would probably be dead already. I certainly wouldn't need it. At the moment, though, TFLite is the most sane option for inference on phones and other ARM devices.
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If you truly want to learn a language, no singular app will work.

You need to find a good curriculum for your language for grammar. Typically this means taking a class or buying a good textbook. Sometimes you get lucky and find a comprehensive website.

For audio / speaking practice, I recommend glossika. It’s like a modern version of pimsleur.

For vocabulary I recommend Anki. I have used that for the last two years and written about it. Generally you can start with a premade deck and eventually make your own once you’re a little bit more advanced in the language.

For talking to people, try HelloTalk. You can make posts and natives can correct them, and you can have conversations with native speakers.

Once you are intermediate or advanced+, you need to start consuming native material. Try searching on YouTube, or look for graded readers.

Searching reddit about recommended textbooks / etc is usually useful, depending on how popular your language is.
You guess correctly.

Oxygen "wants to" dissolve in oxygen-depleted water, especially ionic/salty water, specifically blood.

It's much less eager to permeate from one liquid into another liquid of comparable salinity.

Sharks have an additional disadvantage over bony fishes, in that they must be moving for their gills to work at all.
> If you're arguing for something you need the full argument.

No you don't. In fact, for many rhetorically primed things, such as opposition to Google, and especially in the realm of activism, explaining over and over why you're doing a thing is often not done because it's not necessary.

Every environmental protest doesn't need to include explanations of the Exxon Valdez and BP's Deepwater Horizon. Once things reach a certain level of cultural "it is known" explaining over and over is not required. If you're attending a protest, you know about these things. If you don't, others at the protest will tell you. If you do and aren't convinced, they aren't interested in reaching you.
I didn't say we shouldn't study those things. I just said that there is not a much of a practical work product, and especially not one that a student could produce.

But, I also think that probably more people are studying them than need to be. If that is a student's interest, then well enough. Otherwise, I'm not sure that, e.g., a middle school medieval history class is a good use of a student's time.
I feel like we are all idiots repeating "space is expanding" if humans could live 14billion years in age, and we were present when it started, but we left good old Bob on the part of the universe that was travelling away from us, he would have traveled FTL from us. Even if you said space expanded, the traveling has been accomplished. So now we know that space expansion is how you travel FTL.

In other words if humans ever invent warp, the space expansion work around we would effectively have FTL travel.
Unlike the AMP version, I didn’t have to wait 5+ seconds for the bottom “Signed into Google as ...” banner to disappear to scroll up on the regular site. It made for a worse mobile experience for me.
The solution seems to be - avoid people with degrees from top universities? Or, in more extreme form, all college graduates.

Less extreme variant of it would be - OK, you went to college - but show me what you did on your own (personal projects, small attempts at startups etc.) during that time. That's what the game dev industry is doing. If the answer to this question is "nothing", then you're probably facing a person who's happy to take directions and land himself a cushy job in some large organization, where he will use his intelligence to navigate towards maximum pay and minimum workload.
"The submissions have the nofollow atribute until the get enough points."

I get the how and why of that for HN but not why search engines would pay attention to it.

I do know they pay attention though. Links to pages on my websites that I've submitted here get crawled almost instantly.
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I am a developer and I could not get the Squarespace website to work!

I could not understand the conceptual underpinning of it all. What goes where and why do some things appear on the page...
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If it doesn't make any difference if the code inside the try block is executed or not, why even have the code in the first place? What is the use case for a try without a catch?
It sounds insane because it's not truly how it works in the USA. This author was probably unaware of COBRA.

When you quit your job that offers healthcare benefits, you can temporarily continue coverage under COBRA. This is a required program for any employer with more than 20 employees:

https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/health-plans/cobra

Essentially, if something happens where you need healthcare services, you have your previous insurance billed and retroactively fill out some COBRA forms and pay your premium (which will be higher because your employer isn't contributing anymore, but the price is capped to 102% of the overall cost).

If you don't end up needing any healthcare services, your previous employer's plan just ends automatically.

Also, a loss of coverage (i.e. by job loss) is a qualifying life event for a coverage change. This author could have enrolled in an insurance marketplace ("Obamacare") plan immediately, although the alternative of using COBRA for a small employment gap is usually preferable.

https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/qualifying-life-event/
As someone intimately familiar with the world of self-driving cars (and their investors, and their enthusiasts) - yes. There are many people who believe Waymo is going to be ridiculously valuable because they are certain (almost always based on being wildly misinformed) that it is going to magically blanket the planet in robotaxis in a handful of years.

I would love to short Waymo. And now that Sergei is no longer there to shield it from Ruth Porat - who is well known for hating risky bets - I don't see a bright future for the company. And working conditions there have already deteriorated to the point where most talented people don't stay (just check glassdoor reviews if you don't believe me).

I'm pretty sure Larry and Sergei wanted their legacy to be Waymo. I'm pretty sure Ruth Porat wants her legacy to be killing Waymo.
> Not sure what exactly that changes.

Tone and how you treat your reporters matters. The comment quoted by the person I responded to was edited to include this after they read the full report:

>> Edit: This comment was based on an incomplete understanding of the specifics of the communication between H1 and the reporter. This assessment wasn't the most fair, and I probably should have read the full report before passing judgment. [0]

You say:

>I'm not sure why that was necessary either. It might have been out of scope according to some H1 guideline the reporter wasn't aware of but what the reporter did wasn't really out of the ordinary.

Isn't it exactly the commonness of that practice that makes it clear it is important to take the time to educate your reporters and improve your policy? The amount of sensitive data was accessed increased the severity of the breach. HackerOne specifically acknowledges this as one of their planned courses of action to improve things going forward:

>> As the community grows, HackerOne needs to ensure that HackerOne is reinforcing the best practices in bug bounty hunting. The HackerOne Community team will look to increase hacker education around delivering proof of critical severity vulnerabilities in case sensitive information has been accessed by the hacker.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/12/hacke...
Very few people using it seems the very definition of withering. Yes, a lot of sites and blog software etc. still default to offering RSS feeds. (Which I take advantage of from time to time and it's presumably used behind the scenes for various purposes.) But that's hardly a ringing endorsement of the role of RSS in today's world.
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This characterisation as business people not creating value is false - MS is mostly a 'business' driven company and they've been growing forever.

By every measure, Ballmer was a massively succesfull CEO. He grew income by 3x, moved MS into the cloud, integrated recurring pricing, went full web with MS Office, so many other things. Satya has not done any better in terms of creating more revenue.
> Estimation. Devs are notoriously bad at it

I wouldn't say devs are bad at it. It's more that software development is very hard to estimate. Unless you're doing exactly the same type of work with an identical setup every time - like billing people to install a Wordpress site, it's often impossible to estimate the exact amount of days or hours something will take, especially if you're being paid to fix a bug or a problem to which you don't yet know the solution.
He doesn't offer help there but...

Yes and the job interview.
if you don't care about unicode domains then mitigation can be very simple using dnsmasq, e.g.:

in /etc/dnsmasq.conf add something like:

# Add domains which you want to force to an IP address here.
address=/:xn--*:/0.0.0.0

(in case your dnsmasq doesn't support this then there is a patch here: https://github.com/spacedingo/dnsmasq-regexp_2.76)
Athletics and engineering have exactly same problem as medieval history. For engineering, just because it is practical does not mean you cant memorize it. If there is defined set of problems, you can memorize solutions. The same programmer can be able to solve one difficult problem and fail with other difficult problem.

The bridge test can be passed by memorizing one bridge.

The history course from American university required students to write few paragraphs as answers to around 5 questions that covered topics from lectures. Which is pretty close to what actual historians do.

Practical usage of medieval history: know when people are bullshiting for ideological reasons when they blable about how people in history behaved, what values they had and origins of certain traditions. Pretty much all "in the past people would" is a fantasy.
It has always seemed strange to me that Google become part of Alphabet, instead of vice-versa.

It seems like a much more honest approach would always have been for Google to be one company... for Alphabet to be a separate one... and for, say, Google to own 33% of Alphabet, for Larry and Sergei personally to own another 33%, and outside investors to own the rest and be the ones principally determining its own, separate valuation.
I started my career working the night shift stocking shelves at Home Depot and riding the bus. I now own a 180 full time employee agency and am on the other side. The solution here must come from the government... McDonald's and no other single employer can raise wages as their competitors will not and they will go out of business due to being too expensive.

I agree with the Fight for $15... But I think they need to attach this to inflation or somehow as a percentage of the highest incomes in the economy. Otherwise Trump will just keep pressuring the Fed to print more money and $15 will only be worth $5 in today's money.
This looks cool.

But "Everything Joels' trying to do with LED's, we already did with the MagicShifter" can read very negatively. Don't underestimate the joy of doing something yourself and making it happen.

Such as me making a version of "Simon" in an Altoids can: https://blog.jgc.org/2012/05/simonoids-its-simon-in-altoids-...
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You should search your package manager, not Duckduckgo. On Debian-based distros it's simply called xvfb, on Arch Linux it's xorg-server-xvfb, in the RHEL ecosystem it's xorg-x11-server-Xvfb but might require enabling extra reporitories.
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