skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mouse forces one to stare at the screen and precisely move the cursor from position to position. While this is useful in some scenarios it becomes taxing for a repetitive workflow. To me it is like noise added to my train of thought, I do use the mouse some, it's hard not to these days but the keyboard helps me stay more productive and more relaxed too
Elite Americans have an imagination as a whole? I thought they were essentially self-advancement at all costs in their sphere of society as a result of the tautology of self-perpetuation. Those who work to self advance will be more likely to stay at the top compared to those who prioritize other things. It may be a shallow and an unhealthy 'top' like abusing steroids to win races or unsustainable business models but it does keep them at the top.

That is one of the known dark-sides of power or elites in absolutely any form. Down to the tribal elders who insist upon keeping to 'traditional ways' not out of a fear of side effects of the new but because it would undermine their power and control.

Now Silicon Valley certainly does have its sins but lets not make them a scapegoat for long preexisting conditions. That approach just gives a short-lived catharsis while failing to address the fundamental problems.

Viewing everything as a technical problem isn't even technically wrong - although in practice a given approach may be doomed to failure. It is the execution which is the issue really and that is in no way unique to them, nor is trying to choose the wrong tool for the job leading to a foregone failure.
Like net neutrality?

There can easily be a hole punched in the law with some weasel words in an omnibus bill that nobody pays attention to until 5 years later and we are hearing about the problems in a 60 minutes exclusive.
> internal security mechanism

Correction: an internal message display tool.

> for your own pet activism

> push your slogans

Correction: a warning not to break federal labor law, which Google is actually required to provide.

https://miro.medium.com/max/2000/0*1BTVYLTvuHiJVvp_.jpg

> Do you activism in your personal time.

This is about Google. Apparently their company culture has been the opposite, and they have commonly had lots of political discussions on company time using company resources.
I think you have no idea how privileged you are for having the opportunity to enter the market with your background and a computer science degree in three years. I interned during summers during university starting around 2000. The dot com bubble had burst before I even graduated. The party was over. Managerialism was in full force. IT Managers at what was then a Fortune-10 financial powerhouse were going on an on about how all of IT consisted of commoditised workers and the only way forward was as a manager of offshore consultants. I felt like my degree was worthless. The last ~20 years have proven those managers very, very wrong. In fact, many of those managers didn't go much further with their careers, as they were very reliant on politics, but the talented programmers and admins continued to grow in depth and breadth of in-demand expertise.

Pursue computer science but challenge yourself with it. Don't waste these years just getting by. Double major in something that will help you work with artificial intelligence, if you want to do something practical, but double majoring in something such as philosophy could help you develop skills that you'll use for the rest of your life.

Summer internships can help you gain perspective about what you may want to do after graduation. A lot of people change employers, and some even change careers, within the first four years after university so anticipate change.
It's only harmful advice when you consider all possible professions.

If you limit the search space to fields where you will be able to earn a living, it's not half bad advice.
copy-pasta from another of my comments

For a reference essay on the shift from Big Bird to Elmo:
https://kotaku.com/how-elmo-ruined-sesame-street-1746504585

Major thesis: "It started in small ways. A lot of stories used to be based around Big Bird, who was psychologically characterized as a six-year-old. And in a lot of ways, this was ideal—six years old was on the older end of Sesame Street’s age demographic, and Big Bird served as both a role model and a peer to his audience. Big Bird’s comparative maturity also meant that he could project a wide range of emotions—he was ‘old enough’ to understand mature concepts, such as the permanence of Mr. Hooper’s death."

"Elmo stories, on the other hand, tend to affirm and celebrate the child’s perspective. Rarely, if ever, is Elmo’s innocence challenged, or is he forced to think about someone’s happiness other than his own. He spends most of his time hanging out with Zoe, Abby, Telly, and Baby Bear—Muppets who share his emotional maturity, and unlike Grover, Kermit, and Ernie, do nothing to push him. In fact, he is the de facto leader of his group—the dialogue lowers to Elmo’s level, rather than rising to an older character’s. And while this is cute and fun, it gets old fast, and it doesn’t really go anywhere. Elmo is learning about counting to four and different shapes, but he’s not learning a whole lot of life lessons."
I think we all personally want safety for grandmas in that way.

Unfortunately we can't all control that. When my neighbors moved here they chose safe neighborhoods that had little violence / crime. Over the years the demographics have changed immensely, and crime has soared. Many people here are stuck, they want to get out but housing from here to an hour outside of town has gotten so expensive it doesn't make sense.

No journal of anything that compares the USA to Japan and crime or shootings debunks anything.

No other country in the world has the same challenges that America does. I'd love to live in a place that has real social safety nets and does not have the Latin American countries a hop skip and train away ( https://www.businessinsider.com/latin-america-is-the-worlds-... )

but sometimes it's best for you and grandma to have a condom and not need it than to need one and not have it. Even if you want grandma to never have to worry about stds.. they actually happen a lot, want it or not.
My personal experience is that an experienced user with a keyboard and a mouse easily beats an experienced user with just a keyboard.

> I have the disadvantage that my dexterity is worse than many people's

This, though, is a very valid point that is too rarely taken into consideration by software makers.
These cloud players need to reduce prices. AWS has not significantly reduced prices in a long time.
If a company like Westfield decides to get out of the leasing business, it makes sure its anchor tenants know there is some continuity of lease for their locations, because the value inherent in the property is the lease stability of the anchor tenant.

I begin to wonder if cloud has a parallel here: Does Google actually need, for selfish reasons, to inform significant cloud tenants in GCP that continuity of their business is core, and will be factored into any business development, or retiral, or sale options?

Elastic Search comes to mind: If you build to a dependency on Elastic, in GCP, its comforting to know it works in AWS but they are not an entirely identical product. From a business continuity model, mostly the same. Different tokens, different backend underneat the ES componentry. Does it matter? Depends how critical Clous ES is to your business.
I'm not using it as a model of perfection, but rather saying at least we did something. Sure, it wasn't perfect and we could have done way better, but imagine if we had done nothing but told people how rare terrorist attacks are each time they happened. There's a ton of room in between those two extremes to try to make a positive change.
Googles reputation was pretty much the decisive factor when a couple of years ago we decided to move from Heroku to AWS instead of GCP. Besides a prettier web interface GCP didn't really had anything going for them in comparison for our use cases, so why take the chance of having a rug pulled even if that risk might be quite small.
Correct. That's why the vast majority of them are ~$250 or less
The MS-DOS Program Segment Prefix[1] exists for source compatibility with CP/M.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_Segment_Prefix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_page_(CP/M)
Actually, here in the USA we reuse our toilet water. We have water treatments. It's a wonderful thing. https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/public/water_treat...
Access control is intentionally missing from the open source "team" version:

> Team Edition is "virtual office" where a team works together as trusted colleagues. It means people can walk anywhere they want, and move the furniture if they choose.

> I need to ask this ticket be closed since it's not a bug

> You're of course more than welcome to fork as well.

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/issues/6320
Do you know about the button in the thumb rest? That'll be #3 for me. It looks like in the Logitech literature this is called the 'gesture button', and if memory serves it was introduced on the original MX, when they took away the third thumb button.

https://scdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/logite...
We prefer to call them decision trees. It sounds far fancier.
I share some of your resentment for having to learn new things to engage in what is arguably a trivial activity at this point in time - sharing (formatted) text or other media with your teammates. This is probably a factor in why many of our users prefer "simpler" approaches... At least from their perspective. One would argue markdown is simpler and faster than using any MS Word-style interface if you are experienced in its syntax and rules.

Learning markdown is pretty easy for many developers, and for some it becomes 2nd nature when typing into things that support it on a regular basis: Git[Hub/Lab], Slack, Mattermost, WhatsApp (partial support), etc. The value-add as you put additional markdown-enabled platforms into your workflow is pretty substantial. I don't have to do a mental context switch every time I go between editing a GitHub issue comment and typing some code block to another developer in Mattermost.

You can create some really nice looking README.md files if you spend a little extra time with things like headings and quote/code blocks. I believe there are several options (one hosted in GitHub's API if you prefer GFM) for taking MD files and generating high-quality HTML or PDF output.

I'd conclude by saying that markdown documents are much easier to source control. Taking a diff of a docx or a pdf is going to get you nowhere. A diff of a markdown file might as well just be a diff of any arbitrary plain text document. The syntax itself has a very small footprint, so you are looking at mostly just plain text minus 5-10% overhead on the markdown.
We've banned this account for posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments and ignoring our requests to stop.
Not sure it's the best I ever received, but it's the one that comes to mind. From my dad: "When asking someone out, don't ask 'what are you doing this weekend?' It's none of your business what they're doing. Ask 'can I take you to dinner this weekend?'"

She was looking for an excuse to say no. Thanks to my dad's advice, I didn't give her one. So she let me take her out. That led to the next 30 years...

Thanks, dad.

(For those who are really soured on marriage: No, that wasn't sarcasm. I am genuinely thankful for the advice, and for where it led me.)
From their post about the $2k salary after taxes:

> but they are close to most European/western countries
> pay raise is the way up

Not if the person spends it all, like they did the earlier lower salary. Better beer, bigger TV, new cars, etc and you can easily blow through quite a decent raise.
Wonderful story :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21793633
Music was better. For example, Led Zeppelin.
Yeah, I understand you. But you know what - I found if you would like to share your work with people in any way (open-source, commercial or whatever) it's much better to show it as soon as possible even if you think it's not ready yet.

Quote: If You're Not Embarrassed By The First Version Of Your Product, You’ve Launched Too Late :))) (Reid Hoffman, founder of Linkedin)
I'm not sure that's a saying outside of agriculture.
in opensimworld.com, i sell self-serve advertising, and yearly subscriptions for extra features (more than 5 pages / no ads). It doesn't make much but at least justifies the server cost and occasional fixes.
I could definitely be interested in amateur radio, the long ranges are very appealing. But I'm just not that interested in voice/audio. Text/data streams are cool though, I can do things with those even at 9800 baud.

For me, the ideal platform would have the following characteristics

* python programmable

* Easy to hook them together, and to hook them up to a real computer

* Consistent modem spec, with adjustable parity-checking levels

* Cryptographically signed streams, I should be able to verify the callsign/origin of anyone on the network

* Streams should describe how to decode the data on them, maybe something like a mimetype injected into the flow every N seconds?

* Basic data types for voice and image

Notice at no point did I include "packet switching". I think one of the issues with current digital amateur radio projects is that they look like they're trying to reinvent the internet, but worse.
You can use Streisand to setup VPN on digitalocean (or linode, AWS, GCP, etc.)

It includes Shadowsocks:
https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
Sure but does automation equate specialization?
Because it took a long time to finally reach someone who was willing to leak it (plus article preparation and editing time).
WASM isn't as popular or useful as we hoped it would be at this point, that's the dark side.
“Come on you guys, Let’s have a beach party”

https://youtu.be/yUcWNz4YXlA
Well Amazon isn't exactly the king of great UI either and I'm not in love with Azure's cloud services platform management tools. All of these platforms have an extremely dense set of options which tend to change fast which leads to a very tough UI challenge and rapid UI rot.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21789564
It sounds like what we need is a Disney+, but for PBS
> So let’s look at the raw marketshare. It’s 10% of AWS.

Yes, AWS is 1st. What's your point? Azure is 2nd and GCP is currently 3rd and catching up with Azure. What does AWS has to do with whether GCP is 3rd or 4th?
> Especially I have seen this on HN, earlier when I commented on Amazon

Just curious - how do you "see" this? What exactly are you seeing?

I am not really sure if you have some magical HN karma level to see any special activity here. If so, I would be curious what that is.
This is great! Out of curiosity, it seems like you've presented this anonymously on purpose (no credits on site, username is gridentio, etc), just wondering why that is?
We'll finally do something when the cost of cleaning-up is less than the cost of the damage caused by space debris.

A forerunner of the space clean-up is the ocean clean-up. We're just beginning to do that now after centuries of mindless 'chuck it overboard' behaviour.
I'm glad this happened. I feel like it is one of those "if you don't do it now, you won't be able to do it later." As more DoH implementations spring up, at least one of them will require the User-Agent for no reason.

Plus it is useless, may allow hacky discrimination, and wastes bytes.
i think filco is the gold standard in mechanical keyboards:
https://www.diatec.co.jp/en/

they're built like a tank.
She's got a CompTia Security+ certification. That is not a trivial amount of specialist education. You certainly aren't expected to have a college degree to be an "engineer" if that's the thrust of your argument.

Tbh it sounds like other ulterior motives are clouding your judgement here. She seems like exactly the sort of engineer who would benefit from unionization and while I might need it less, I fully support her and I'm disappointed in Google for firing her.

As I've said elsewhere, these sham reasons for firing folks adjacent to union activity are opening up the company to massive liability and imo the board and shareholders should hold more people accountable.
VMS feels like DOS if DOS were actually secretly UNIX

Also, don't forget about OS/8 for the PDP-8 series. Very DOS-y, and released by DEC all the way back in '71.
Well, there's basically an adult (or, not aimed at children, at least) Reading Rainbow he does now as a podcast called Levar Burton Reads[1], so there's that.

1: http://www.levarburtonpodcast.com/
Right, open source, like all software, has a variety of vectors of usability and suitability. Purposefully leaving out features weakens it along some vectors - especially the "I want to modify software I run in production" vector.
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Well it's exhausting to keep hearing the same old C/C++/Rust/Zig anecdotal testimonials of the day which might easily sway the decision for some but may bring misery for others as we are now starting to get credible alternatives in low-level programming.

Hence this, from the perspective of a typical embedded developer shop across the street with a medium sized team of 25+ engineers, would you rather adopt a accepted bad standard known and used across the industry or a new non-standard alternative which will require 'getting used to' by all engineers but comes with a risk of it being either suitable or unsuitable in the future?

The choice is yours.
She was protecting employees from harm. Illegally interfering with protected concerted activity hurts the company, and an employee doing so is likely to get fired quite legitimately.

(Furthermore, the laws about protected concerted activity specifically permit you to do your activism at work, not just on your own time.)
If Super Micro knows they didn’t do it, they should absolutely love the story. Buyback the underpriced shares and make a ton of free money once the market realized the Bloomberg story is false. I don’t know if they actually did that, but that’s what I would have done. I didn’t actually do that because I trusted Bloomberg a lot. But there was substantial profit to be made as an insider. I bet many/most employees made that trade, at the very least.
Speaking of COBOL - the next "big thing" of that nature is likely going to be Visual Basic 6.

It's an albatross around Microsoft's neck, but every time they update Windows, they keep around the runtime DLLs - because so many businesses have software written internally and otherwise that can't migrate to something else.

If you know VB6 - and you are confident in migration to another platform, or willing to maintain old code (maybe while migrating) - you'll likely have work long into the future.

The most likely migration path would be from VB6 to VB.NET or to C# - staying on the Windows platform. Another option would be migration to GAMBAS or Mono (aka .NET for *nix).

Those feeling adventurous might try Python with QT, or some other GUI framework; at some point, it might be better just to examine and understand the core logic and flow - then convert it all over to a web-accessible system (of whatever choice you want).

I imagine that in time we'll see some kind of VB6 to WASM compiler or something, if someone hasn't already taken a stab at it. What we won't see, though, is Microsoft open-sourcing VB6 or anything like that. They've said they want to, but due to the various licenses used in the development of the language (and components) - it's virtually impossible for them to do it.

I coded in VB (3-6) for well over a decade, but it's been forever since I last touched it. That said, I'll always have a soft-spot for BASIC (having grown up on a version of Microsoft BASIC on the TRS-80 Color Computer line) - so I could probably pick up where I left off once I rebooted the VS compiler/IDE, without too much trouble.

I expect that might be where my career turns to as I get older (currently 46 and working in SPA Javascript/NodeJS apps).
Completely agree with this point (especially the third). If you look at high income individuals, many have had a hand in building a new business or lead businesses. Same goes for consulting - imagine charging 20+ clients over the course of a year and the income that will generate.

You'll have to work your ass off, but if money is what you're after, starting your own business (or businesses), consulting, and high end freelance work are incredible places for this.

A fourth may be pure finance (M&A, PE, hedge funds). People in that business long enough and high enough on the chain make VERY good money.
More US Patients Sexually Harass Their Physicians Than Do UK Patients: Report
You could host your DoH server somewhere and use a different IP for inbound vs. outbound requests. Then the only point of failure is the cloud host, no?
Again, you’re talking about what’s “operationally safer” not what’s “reputationally safer”. If AWS goes down, no one is going to question your decision - and you’re in the same boat as a lot of other people. If GCP goes down and everyone else is up, people are going to ask a million question.

Every company you named isn’t the same thing as just arguing to the powers that be - AWS is what Netflix uses. AWS has many more “referencable clients” that matter.
If you can wait for 2 days, then you can use Digikey. It is the best thing we have in America for parts. That and Mouser.
Advice for you:

Try personally pinging the people you respect the most -- send an email to Paul Graham, Peter Thiel, creators your respect. You'll be surprised with two things: first, they'll respond, and second, their responses will surprise you.

This is a public forum -- it's going to be hard for you to separate signal from noise.
In their mind, they bought a $4.3 billion orange and expect to make more than $4.3 billion worth of orange juice from it.

If you want to find out what it feels like to be inside of an orange that’s being squeezed for $4.3 billion plus value, stick around.
It's pretty much always been that way though. Death March was written 20 years ago:

https://www.amazon.com/Death-March-Developers-Surviving-Impo...

I'd say the demand for programmers is higher than ever and pay is definitely higher overall. 20 years ago $150k was a good salary for a programmer, now it's more like $350k.
> This makes mice work much worse in comparison.

My experience is mostly with Macs, but I guess other OSes have all the similar things.

First, physical size matters. A button on a 4k screen will probably be a similar physical size as a button on a 9" CRT (or even bigger), so targeting is usually not an issue (unless there are glitches in scaling or you don't go for Retina's 2x scaling).

Second, mouse movement is calculated based on speed. If you drag the mouse quickly, the pointer will travel a greater distance for the same mouse movement than a slow drag. This helps move the mouse quickly and then adjust position.

Modern mice are much more precise than old mice. The high resoltion screen makes things more readable. All in all My guess is that the situation is actually better for mouse users than, say, 15-20 years ago.