skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's a 1E8? I couldn't find an explanation on its meaning.
Embedded Systems is considerably more conservative than web development. For example, many greenfield projects are still C over C++. And most new C projects are probably C99 instead of C11.

But yes, I believe Rust will continue to make progress and pick up pace. But it will be a slow process. And C is not going away anytime soon.
This is a confusing question. The two seem to have nothing to do with each other.

Open source means the source code is available to read.

Disappearing messages means you can delete things from your device and ask the other side to delete them as well.
What, you mean I could paid for reading and posting HN? Where do I sign up?

The claim of a covert army of astrotufers / reputation management firms was silly when it was made back in the day on Slashdot and it's still silly today. If nothing else, it would never pay well enough for people to keep such a juicy secret.
Yea, I do the same. I recently went to the trouble of enlarging my magloop diameter to hit 80m not knowing any better, then promptly regretted it.

There are some clubs in the CO front range that are pretty progressive though. I just don't have the time to go to meetings right now.
I’d say this is a consequence of our outsourcing the manufacture of these products. Repairing electronics is a related skill to developing/manufacturing them. It makes sense that the economy we hire to build these products would also be best at repairing them.
Thank you! Can't believe I had a conversation with Prof. Carl Hewitt here! Love the actor calculus btw!
The open-source Mattermost intentionally lacks a couple of pieces of basic functionality to push you to pay, like the ability to stop regular users from deleting channels, and no way to set a reasonable password policy that requires more than 5 characters.

Mattermost (and specifically their CEO, who is vigorously replying to messages on this thread, but probably won’t engage with this one) haven’t responded positively to requests to include these basic features:

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/issues/6320

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/issues/5935

As far as I’m concerned, Mattermost isn’t any kind of a competitor to free-tier Slack until these issues are resolved. This exact thing has turned more than one team I’m on away from Mattermost.
> Who has the budget for this?

Every enterprise, basically.

You subscribe to social media monitoring as a service, they monitor the fire hose and flip on the bat signal as needed.

It’s dirt cheap, relative to not knowing what’s said about you.
Why does "talked about" mean so much but "eventually dismissed" mean nothing? Are you selectively reading this?
What incentive would the hackers have for actually deleting their copy after receiving payment?
A 100 M $ business.
Something else about big bird, his costume is crazy expensive for upkeep. They have a high standard of quality for feathers, and the longer, iconic feathers are both delicate and expensive. Theres a good reason his screen time and physical interactions have been scaled back. Elmo was a perfect replacement, but was also an accident character. Cant blame them for their choices in my opinion.
Tinder and Bumble Profile Search
"Don't vote for $candidate", "$candidate is bad" and "$other_candidate isn't as bad as you think" are all fundamental parts of free speech. How could they be otherwise?
What does that imply? What if it costs more to ship items than to sell them in their stores?

You expect people who shop in stores to subsidize those who shop online? Much of Costco’s value proposition is they don’t waste time with packaging and so everything is designed to be taken off the pallet by the customer.

If they now have to package and ship bulky items, it’s plausible it costs more to do that. Or maybe they’re just price discriminating. Either way, they have no obligation to provide the same prices online and offline, or even between their stores in HCOL vs LCOL areas.
I used LastPass then 1Password before.

today, I've finally switched to KeepassXC today and am wondering why I haven't done this any sooner. Really happy especially with the cli. If you don't trust your AES stack (shitty implementations on certain SSD's) you have options such as chacha20. The whole project seems well maintained too.

there was a rework-podcast today with DHH and Dave Tear discussing venture capital and what this funding means for 1Password. https://rework.fm/venture-capital-and-control-with-david-tea...
Totally -- the "Bridgekeeper," that animated circle bit with Phillip Glass music in the background, "123456789101112" with Pointer Sisters, Cab Calloway, and generally more realish kids and grown-ups on the set -- as a kid, I always felt like Sesame Street was cool and hip, as opposed to some "kid's show" that was talking down to me
Doesn't this depend on the number of actions available at a given point in time? For example, if I'm "using my Macbook", I could be wanting to do any of no less than a million (not an exaggeration) actions at any given moment. It's infinitely easier for me to open Alfred (or the OSX spotlight for a weaker example) with one keystroke and type the thing I need to do. It simply is not possible to give me a menu (presciently) for this kind of thing.

Perhaps if you're restricting context to one app that doesn't have too much going on it's a different story, but compared to 30 years ago there is a lot more people (especially devs, or Starcraft players) need to be doing on the computer at a given time.
> look for jobs in companies where top management understands and values your job.

or values your intelligence and trust in you to create value. This usually only happens if the boss is intelligent enough to see the value in trusting an employee like that in the first place.
I wrote this as a comment a few months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21250661), and was downvoted, but I'll post it again because I feel it's right:

Artificial Intelligence is a tool. Just like anyone who uses a hammer, backhoe or dump truck is responsible for what happens when they are using it, the same is true for AI.

As a tool, all AI systems should be designed to always do the most harm to the user of the AI first. It should be embedded into every autopilot-like system, and users should be aware of that choice. It's the only moral and ethically correct solution.

Let's say your AI-controlled car is driving at speed and turning the corner, there suddenly appears a little girl in the road in front of you. It can either swerve into a wall or run down the girl. A human might not be able to make the decision in time, but an AI system would. It needs to be programmed to always hit the wall.

Though this might seem extreme, the opposite is completely immoral. If it was a human driving, one could assume bad luck to be put in that situation: aka innocent until proven guilty. But for an AI system, we have to assume the opposite: The AI should always be presumed to be faulty. Therefore the user of that AI is culpable of putting it in that situation.

And just like any other tool, the manufacturer of that tool is legally responsible for its quality and reliability.

The opposite of the above means we'll all be riding around in autonomous tanks, aggressively maneuvering around each other at higher and higher speeds, pedestrians and others be damned.
Yes, if you read far enough the hackers point this out. They're asking for less money than the EU fine for non-disclosure.
> If every Chinese topic turns into the same "China vs. the rest of the world" discussion—or to put it more generally, if every thread gets sucked into whatever generic black hole happens to be nearby—then it becomes impossible to discuss anything specific on HN.

The trouble is that issue is that earnest discussion of these serious issues has been suppressed for more than a year, and that by now, talking about this "cute" stuff while pretending said suppression is going leaves a certain aftertaste. I guess in your mind, ignoring an elephant on the couch is just the thing a curious intelligent person acting in good faith would do. But that's just you.

> The generic discussions are always the same

That's just as true for many articles about social media, node, golang, whatever. It can be demonstrated in 5 minutes that what you criticize consistently in one context, isn't even worth a mention in many, many others.
I can't imagine why people call you fake news.
Let It Crash: Best Practices for Handling Node.js Errors on Shutdown
Nice work, TekWizely! This looks looks like a well thought out little tool with a good niche.
You can buy the DVDs on EBay https://www.ebay.com/i/352893270127?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1...
Yeah, it seems way to easy to do this.
If you care about mony be a stocktrader quant. If thats you thing which it seems like from the peter thiel quote then do that.

If you like programming fo that, its not for everyone.
This is kind of a close minded view. There are nice places to live with queen culture and "outdoors" all over the country. It may not be everywhere but there are a handful of medium size cities across the Midwest that you should visit
I thought it was only truffles that were legal.
One option I've been looking at is the LoRa transceivers that have come out. A couple have bluetooth 5.0 baked in so you could realistically make a really low part count bridge for your phone to let you send encrypted mesh networked texts to other people running similar hardware. There's at least one person working on this I know of but they're not super forthcoming about source.

As for wifi, it's worth noting that while you can get a ton of gain, you do so by making the signal directional so long story short you always cover very roughly the same volume, be it a long super skinny wedge, medium donut or a small sphere.
Maybe it says something about a broken ecosystem when every user needs to go trawl search engines to find an application that can read and edit PDFs
In addition, I remain cloud agnostic as well. As a student, I stick to whichever platforms can give some free credits. At the moment I have some cloud infra on google and some on aws.
> I am currently in an undergraduate university considered "elite" in US.

As someone who went to community college and public university, and has worked at FAANG companies, I think your perspective is heavily influenced by your current environment. In elite schools there is a heavy selection bias for the type of classmates you describe.
It's not a secret that CP/M was influenced by RT-11. Lots of clear similarities. Kildall and his team used DEC machines as cross development machines.
I think you overestimate the difficulty in "getting used to" something new when it comes to a PL (and rust, even though it has a bit of a learning curve for OOP folks).

I don't want to use C/C++ for embedded projects in the same way that I don't want to use a hand drill when I have a nice corded Milwaukee power drill on the workbench.
> direct competitors will have the same lower and lower margins for that work that has just been automated.

and thus society is enriched because a goods/service has just been made cheaper, so more people can afford them.

The problem comes when the workers made redundant has no opportunity to retrain/reskill into something else.
Stop trying to shoehorn women into careers you think they need.
The article does not make it out to be a minor discussion and it was only 18 months ago, hardly 'a long time'. To me it is quite shocking that as short as 18 months ago Google would still consider pulling out of the market but then again, that is exactly the same play they did with other products so it probably should not surprise me.

> The billions in investment and growth of the platform are the exact opposite signal.

At Google's level I would not expect less than billions in investment, the growth of the platform is for now still substantially lagging behind the competition as far as I know, the bulk of the companies I look at are solidly in the AWS camp or in some cases running on Azure, Google is still the exception but getting more common over time. I look at about 50 companies / year so that's a relatively small sample but they are typically well funded start-ups or later stage established companies.

> You seem to be reading this as if the CEO just announced that they're not sure about GCP anymore.

No, that's not how I'm reading it.
How does one handle consistent navigation though? If you make a change it sucks having to update that on every page IMHO.
It's not just people looking only for money that are jumping into the field. I know of several classmates who started off as math/physics/economics majors, took a couple of CS classes because they heard "everyone needs to know programming", ended up liking it and are now CS majors. Even if a majority of new entrants to the field are in it only for money, there's still a large proportion who truly enjoy it as well.
Requiring them to follow contractor vs w2 employee rules is not making them any bigger or smaller. Frankly, I'm not sure how they are skirting the law thus far. I'm not even sure they own the trucks that have Amazon branding on them. I have read some claims that the subcontractors have to buy or lease the vehicles from Amazon.
At this point my imagination says it would take 5-10 years of vocalized committment to any one thing for them to make a dent in their reputation.
Nice! That was NOT the case when I last tried it, and I prefer RHEL-based distros when not using BSD. Thanks!
Right.

BTW, you should note the increasing volume of paleontological discoveries coming out of China these days.
It's less and less relevant, a lot of Google things can run on the current limits for k8s: 5000 nodes / 150k pods in a single cluster.

Not everything at Google is large, many other compagnies run very large infra like Google scale on Kubernetes using multiple clusters with federation / regions ect ...
I've heard stories from other ad managers where accounts were hacked and used to advertise foreign dropship jewelery websites. The websites would get free advertising from the hacked account.
Curious how SEC decides which of his friends was part of the insider trade? What if they never tipped him anything?
Two Apple TV apps I have recently discovered and love using:

Pluto.tv: replicate the cable guide experience. Endless episodes of things like This Old House, MST3k, and vintage game shows. I much prefer Pluto content to modern HGTV-type cable shows, and it scratches the same itch of "just watch whatever's on".

- https://pluto.tv/

Kanopy: use your library card or university ID to stream indie movies and documentaries. Free kids programming. Lots of PBS.

- https://www.kanopy.com/
- https://www.kanopy.com/kids
Citation needed. I have no plans to ever go to China. Mandarin has an estimated 0 utility for me. I have read more school-level German than I ever will read or speak Mandarin in my life. The number of Mandarin speakers could be 5 or 5 trillion, if they're all half a world away it doesn't affect me. Germany is close, I have been there, I might go again.

Dunbar's number is around 150, as long as the number of speakers is sufficient that there's a good chance of finding 500 to talk to in a lifetime, and 500 books or films of interest to consume in a lifetime, more than that seems no benefit. That is, 100 people is not enough - but somewhere in the region of tens or hundreds of thousands seems easily enough for a boundary.

"There are a billion people, therefore learn this language" is even less convincing as a reason to learn something; it's popular, so you should do it".
Is there a major company, tech or otherwise, that breaks this convention?
Really. Google seems like a corporate incarnation of Engineer's Disease.
This thread seems to be dominated by bitwarden recommendations, So I thought I would list some of the other reliable options that I'm considering.

- Keepass https://www.keepassx.org/ | https://keepassxc.org/

- Pass https://www.passwordstore.org/

- Dashlane https://www.dashlane.com/

- 1Password https://1password.com/

- Bitwardnen https://bitwarden.com/

- Lockwise https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/lockwise/

If you think there are other legit options out there please reply with links to the project / product.
Maybe if there werent sanctuary cities that let anyone stay bo matter their skill level this type of immigration would be less of an issue.
I thought they were insider trading the stock of Ring, the doorbell company, by sniffing their traffic if they were using Palo Alto Networks security systems. Now THAT would be a big fucking scandal.
You're being downvoted, but having grown up between conservative enclaves (overseas military base, Texas A&M) and ultra progressive domains (years in NYC and Seattle), I've seen firsthand, without choosing a side, that patriotism and apologism has very much become an American Right wing position, while those on the left are increasingly ashamed of the American flag. Particularly since the election of Trump.
This is good advice, but also keep in mind that they experienced highly unlikely outcomes (survivorship bias), what they say caused their success may not be what actually did, and the playing field may have changed since then.
Google did just that with G+, Hangouts, Checkout and a whole raft of others. Even if you don't become #1 you owe it to your customers to plan ahead and to ensure a business is 'unit cost profitable' at the scale at which you offer it so that you can sustain it.

Going for broke on projects and then canning them when they fail to attract the kind of success that a smaller company would be more than happy with is in the long run a losing bet.
anyone find a rss/atom feed on thefarside.com?
Personal revenge for outing him as gay while he was physically in Saudi Arabia, IIRC. Which I'd consider to be only half a step down from a murder attempt if it happened to me.

(Of course, I'm not a billionaire, so there's a far higher chance that I'd actually end up dead in such a situation. But still)
CS will be even better career 3-5 years down the road. Software is indeed eating the world and its only accelerating.
>C/C++/Rust/Zig

You can now add Zen to that list, seems to be gaining from traction in the Japanese embedded programming community.
I was basically born into CS; there was no question even from Kindergarten that I would ever go into another field. Got my first real full time job at 25, and it was mediocre, it was definitely not a FAANG paradise, and I remember we worried a lot about getting off-shored in those days. I'm really glad the thing I was naturally interested in turned out to pay so well.

Though I do wonder what do I (as an SF dev) offer that an offshore contractor making 1/5th as much doesn't? Or heck never mind offshore, somebody outside one of the big tech centers (like where I first worked after graduating). The future of engineering always seems to be remote, but here we still are.

But you're right, the .com crash totally washed out a lot of the "HTML Programmers" and their ilk, people who couldn't pass FizzBuzz but got hired because they knew buzzwords and the hiring teams didn't know any better and were desperate. I like to think today's FAANG interviews are good enough to at least not repeat those mistakes.

Besides, I'll probably always worry I'm not worth my salary on some level (impostor syndrome, yay) - it's hard to come to an objective conclusion on this, anyway.
Microsoft is definitely running on Azure. I can't imagine AWS is doing anything different.

https://www.pcmag.com/article/364611/microsofts-cloud-how-th...

> Guthrie said Microsoft has long had a tradition to "eat our own dog food," which means it runs its own systems on top of the same software it offers to customers. Microsoft IT was an early customer for Office 365, Azure, and Dynamics 365, and has moved the vast majority of its internal servers to Azure, including its SAP implementation, payment systems, and test systems. This has helped Microsoft learn what it takes to run the technology on an enterprise scale.
There was a group of hackers in the news recently that hacked the SEC's repository of earnings reports and had advance knowledge of earnings for tons of companies. They were only able to profit 70% of the time. Matt Levine @ Bloomberg discussed it.
Pluto tv reminds me of those telemarketers that won't stop calling. Once I signed up I got endless spam and phishing attempts in my inbox making it almost unusable.
It's 100,000,000 represented in scientific notation. In this context, a $100M company.

1E8 = 1 * 10^8 = 100,000,000 (xEy = x * 10^y).
Same for Facebook. You cannot make any negative comments about react or other Fb tech
What you're describing sounds similar to crippleware.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crippleware
What if GSK share this with a health insurance company who want it "for research" and you then cannot get insurance?
Like other feedback in this thread has already covered, the upside is that coding is applicable anywhere, and in fact, I think that outside of our little tech-bubble, it has greater impact as fewer people have those skills. Even a small amount of tech applied to the right place can have huge value.

It's just that the Asian kid in me is thinking I need FAANG on my resume even for a short time to get some street cred. Like you, I do like my job, the comp is OK, but eventually all things come to a end.
As the CTO of a IoT sensor manufacturer doing a new project recently, I chose C for firmware over C++ and Rust (and Nim and Zig). C++, Rust etc would be technically more suitable languages. But it is just much easier to get a hold of competent people for firmware development in C than C++, and certainly than Rust. Both from microcontroller vendors, third-party vendors, development houses, independent consultants and new hires. If someone know microcontroller firmware development, they generally know C. Sometimes something else in addition, but always C.
It's available everywhere; it's just only enabled by default in the U.S.
Google has a graveyard full of products that have been shuttered. Imagine the risk in the decision - Do I bet my entire organization’s IT infrastructure on a product line that Google may just decide to disappear? It’s a trust issue. Trust is earned over time. I personally hope GCP stays and grows.
Not to be confused with DNS over TLS (DoT)
> most Chinese people think so differently about the state of their country than you do

Their not being familiar with human rights doesn't mean I suspend them for dissidents. Many Americans were okay with Gitmo, or the Iraq war, but those things were still rightfully criticized, because the perpetrator or the unaffected "being okay" with it doesn't even move the needle. With these things, if someone is okay with them, they don't become okay. It says something about the person or their horizon, never about the things in question.
Esperanto has a Wikipedia of a quarter million articles, the Klingon Wikipedia was locked because there weren't enough speakers (last estimate from the 1996: 12 speakers) and the language is fixed and too limited to make for reasonable articles.

"Don't prioritize Esperanto over Klingon" is trolling.
> he problem Google has with the developer community is largely around the fact that Google has a long history of pulling the rug out from our feet.

This is merely a symptom of the real problem Google has: a contempt for humans that aren't Googlers. Everything about Google - as a company and their products - speaks of an institutional contempt for the normies outside their walls: everything from the interview process through the complete inability to respond to criticism with anything other than a "you're holding it wrong".

Google's high-handed behaviour around "oh your account got locked, fuck you", or "we shuttered this thing that people depended on, fuck you" is a product of that contempt. You're a Googler or you're shit.
Why? Why should we just move on from the world’s most powerful men indulging in child rape and killing off threats to their continued access to children to rape?