skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had to put it down at around 30% but not for your same reason, but because I just found it badly redacted (boring for me to keep going). However, I believe that the info is quite compelling and useful, but might need another style.
That strategy only works so far. Keep adding and things get bloated. Servicing a narrow use-case can cause them problems with coping.
A quick search has shown this has not been submitted since 2017.

EteSync now supports iOS, making it officially available on all popular platforms. Self-hosted option is also available.

I'm not affiliated with the project. I just think it works well, and is a good alternative to NextCloud, for those who do not need self-hosted file storage.
Oddly enough, I find HDMI cables while looking squarely at them to be more of a pain in the ass than trying to plug in USB-A blindly.
If you haven't shored up that Citrix hole, you were probably hacked
I have a big problem with this: You can't seem to edit the post after it has been sent. A typo staying there forever would drive me crazy :)
That depends on whether Windows Update is using ECC certificates. A quick scan of my Windows 10 trusted root certificate store shows almost exclusively RSA based certificates, so I’d guess 80% odds that Windows Update itself isn’t affected.
1-2% is more of an upper bound. The numbers I've seen have been more like 10's of cents per conversion. And for whatever reasons, flight availability providers are not in the business of providing high throughput for clients, so the cost of performing those searches is probably considerably higher than you think. When I joined the travel industry I was shocked at what people considered reasonable latencies for availability calls, as well as the costs people pay just to get that level of performance.

If you want to make money in travel search, there's a lot more money in commissions for hotel bookings than in air.
PC gaming is already just playing catch-up on all the console strategies. That battle was lost as soon as Steam became popular (and game renting indefinitely became enforcable, even for offline games, on PC).
> if you absolutely knew that quantum immortality was true, then you could (and likely would) walk around taking obviously foolish risks without ever experiencing any consequences.

What if you get put on a path where you eventually die because of your recklessness, and that was the longest you would have stayed alive? Basically you already exhausted all possible paths but this one.
It's the same thing that causes people to think their phones are always listening to them and serving ads or whatever based on that.

"Well I was just talking about <insert popular movie> and then I got an ad for it!"
Agreed and seconded. I use them mainly for testing and for demo. If I need to switch personas but not have multiple private tabs open it is a game changer.
Before I had a good job I was playing one game, but lately I have enjoyed playing new games on my switch and emulating games I never played on my android. People like new games. I have shifted away from the service based games.
DAOs are too brittle with “code is law”, introducing the social
Where have people landed with regards to Frank Abagnale and the veracity of his past exploits? I know there's a section on his Wikipedia page about it[1], but I don't know if there have been any recent corroborations that cleared things up. (On a personal note: I was quite let down to discover some of the stories were — at the least — exaggerated. Though if it turns out it's all fake, it would be an entertaining story on its own: a con man who cons people into believing he was a con man!)

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale#Veracity_of_cla...
Works, but takes a little while.
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Most people play less games as their income goes up, but they also watch less TV. They have less time. TV was mostly watched by kids and is watched by the elderly (Fox News / CBS). When you are old you may find yourself watching less Fox News and playing more Nintendo?
Thanks! very helpful.
> In 5 years you might look back and realize you no longer write browser-specific code any more.

We said the same thing when IE started losing market share a decade ago.

The problem is, everyone who makes a browser thinks they have the best ideas in the world, and then impliment them, but their users never blame the browser.

If someone is trying to access your site and it breaks, do you really think they're going to say, "dang, I should really tell Chrome to fix their incompatibility".

No, they will always assume the error lies with the site owner.
More datacenters
Stripe can make automatic LLCs but a wire transfer from Citi nearly ended me
I don't think it is reasonable to expect a promise like this to be kept three years later.
Your description resonates quite well with my own experience. I've seen this over and over again in different (mostly large) enterprises. Peter principle at its best where someone with solid engineering skills gets promoted to become mediocre manager to the detriment of the rest of the team.

I think for someone considering engineering manager track your point #9 is really something to keep in mind. Many managers I've met are well aware of the fact that they're simply unemployable outside of their current company, which essentially becomes a "prison" for them.
Or check the proposed headers that will also get sent: Sec-CH-Arch, Sec-CH-Model, Sec-CH-Platform, Sec-CH-UA, Sec-CH-Mobile.
I disagree. I believe that it’s more common for “private” to mean “between you and the company”. Eg. Private accounts on other services, or private information associated with your account.
The Epic Games Store infuriated people. Gamers spent $680M there anyway
I love Firefox Multi-Account containers!

My only complaint (and really this is my biggest gripe with Firefox in general) is that there is no support for syncing containers using your Firefox account. This means every time I set up a new computer I have to reconfigure my containers and for each computer I have to re-associate all the sites I have sandbox with their own containers. This is such a huge pain.

Other than that, I love it.
Prevents snooping by your mobile provider and on public networks. If you self-host other services, access to those services without opening them up to the wider internet. Access to "personal cloud" storage.
Same! I have three (dev, stg, prd) aws accounts. Without containers, I'd need to log in and out to jump between s3/emr/etc buckets between environments. With firefox containers I can run all three concurrently.
It's called a cookie.

https://black-mirror.fandom.com/wiki/Cookie
The Pi is notorious for murdering SD cards, but if you use an "endurance" card, which are often sold for use in dashcams, you should find it lasts a lot longer.
Perhaps ad servers could tag served ad images or JS with tracking IDs that get round-tripped back to the advertiser through the first-party server, third-party requests, or navigator.sendBeacon().
I tried Hipmunk once because I loved the site's personality, but it wasn't able to find any flights on Delta to Atlanta (Delta's primary hub). As much as I liked the site, the inability to find such a basic route made me lose confidence in it from the start :(
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I worked for Hipmunk for a little over two years before they were purchased and have some fond memories of my time there. There have been a lot of articles on HN lately suggesting that it is better to work for a large company over a startup. Based on my time there, I would strongly disagree. I came in as a junior engineer (feral would be an appropriate term) and during my time, touched basically every part of the web application - backend and frontend. I made a lot of mistakes and through it all, I left significantly more experienced than I was when I started. I don't think there was a better place I could have spent my time at that stage of my career.
My advice would be, do work for a startup. Even better, try to work for a startup like Hipmunk with an experienced senior engineering team who have worked on some hard problems - like how to scale Reddit in the era before AWS. You'll learn a lot.
I've started a process of starting our XBox One about every month, or even three weeks, so that any console updates are done before my wife (main player by about a 90/10 split) has to wait 45 minutes for download/validate/apply cycle.

If she has a game in, I start it as well, same reason.

I like the idea that they are both getting security and/or bug fixes (I'm looking at you, Bethesda) but yeah damn, it's a pain to wait an hour to start playing anymore.
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That’s a good thesis. I have no idea if it was true for me, and if course one data point isn’t terribly useful. My impression during my interview at google and amazon was that the interviewers were indifferent to what school I’d gone to, and my guess is that if I’d stopped in the middle of my whiteboard session and asked them where I’d gone to college, they wouldn’t have been able to answer (Berkeley in my case).

I also think you have overestimated the probability that interviewers read the resume. My interviewers at most jobs were at best faintly aware of the projects, degrees, and jobs I’d held. They tend to come in with their own agenda. I’ve mentioned things in it during interviews and it seems pretty clear they are trying to feign awareness if the contents of the resume or cover letter.

In spite of that anecdote, I think there’s a good chance your thesis has some merit. I certainly don’t want to defend the technical interview as it is currently practiced.
“Isn’t going anywhere” is technically correct based on how you parse it.
SSH'ed info the production server, pico index.php, saved file, done.
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What if the DOM looks perfectly normal, but doesn't render correctly?
Ah, good spot.

Well, I'm still pretty excited for the OP at the right place right time nature of this. I mean, imagine browsing twitter and noticing that Paul Graham asks for someone to build the very product you're sitting on fully formed :-)

Kind of a perfect case study of the adage that you need to work really hard to prepare in order to be lucky!
More PoPs and fiber. Both which are already much more ubiquitous than a few years ago and fast expanding. Plus you don't need to reach everyone for a successful product. Just a critical mass
Ah, yes, in the days of yore when the code could fit in an 8k memory chip! :D https://benfry.com/distellamap/

Sorry to hear it was not an enjoyable evening.

With the higher resolutions many TVs support, there's only so much bandwidth and memory headroom to support textures that big, and DVD drives just don't have the seek speed to support. Heck, in the 360 generation we were carefully laying out files broken apart and spaced so the platter would be under the read head at just the right time to reduce that latency.

As for the updates... well, I'm intimately familiar with why patching the four concurrent titles is they way it is. I have hear our feedback was incorporated into a new update system. It's been personally frustrating, when Microsoft/Bungie pioneered the Play-While-Install concept all the way back in Halo 2 Vista. We'll see!

The feedback in this post is my own, and is not meant to reflect that of my employer 343 Industries.
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I agree completely. If you take everything in the book as 100% gospel, it will let you down. However, there are lots of perspective changing things to learn. I particularly learned a lot about anchoring and reacting vs thinking.
Relying on AT&T, Verizon and T-Mob US to protect you from SIM swapping?
Does it work with Firefox Sync yet? That's the only thing stopping me from using containers - I've got multiple machines I would need to sync containers between. Last time I checked (admittedly a few years ago) it didn't and it seemed unlikely to be added any time soon.
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> connections to the npm package server

Doesn't npm use node.js for this, which uses openssl?

> https://nodejs.org/api/tls.html#tls_tls_ssl

Third party tools connecting to the npm server that use Window's TLS library would absolutely be affected though.
Why Sikorsky is not worth a lot of money money Sales were up 14% year of year... which is meh compared to tech companies. In 2015 they made $51 Million for the entire year. so their margins are tiny. crappy business to be in - but consistent.

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/fedbiz_daily/201...
Ask HN: Can't humans extinguish the fires in Australia?
It amazes me how we as humans can't still in this day and age extinguish fires like the ones happening in Australia.

Can't people think of creative solutions?

Would love to hear any ideas (regardless of how crazy they might appear) on how we can possibly extinguish such fires!
>And no one chooses not to game because there’s a branching narrative available instead.

This hypothesis is late a little. When a new game comes out that is not of a particularly comfortable genre, many gamers just watch letsplays (letsREplays in case of RTS with top players) and have the same fun. Many gamers are not okay with like Sekiro, DS, other timing/apm-heavy games, but the games themselves are good to watch and players/commenters are as great. It is also consumable without a PC.

What no one really chooses to watch is an idiotic tv-style narrative with repetitions, catch-factoids, watchtotheend baits and other annoying stamps. TV is not dead, it’s its hosts and managers are dinosaurs who stuck in the last century with their auditory and attention retaining methods. I (and I bet many others) would watch broadcast TV at fixed times daily, if it had at least one channel that doesn’t suck. Because it is usually of much better picture quality than youtube’s streaming compression rules.

Just fire all your content editors and selfish hosts, contract best of 300-500 yt channels for pixel-accurate fullhd+ content and all our evenings are yours again.
> I came in as a junior engineer (feral would be an appropriate term)

How did this work? From what I've seen, early stage startups always want senior only.
I have the same history, but different reasoning -- now that price isn't that much of an issue, I lose interest much faster. Most games require much more time than they have content. Games feel more vapid. Or maybe I've gotten better at recognizing it. But I just play until I get the gist of it, and move on; sometimes the trailer alone is sufficient to have extracted 90÷ of the interesting material.
Because it is the norm.

You're probably coming from the opposite frame, that requiring cash up front for all transactions was the norm. It wasn't. We've been extending credit and taking on debts for millennia. It's just how money works.
This is really cool.

At first I thought they were simulating entire living genomes in software, but then realized no, they're just simulating cellular shapes and manually performing surgery on living stem cells when they transfer the software representation to the living representation.
I'd prefer using https://gologinapp.com/ or another antidetect browser. It's much more comfortable
For those wondering about this, I recommend some of the electronics factory tour videos on the YouTube channel Strange Parts. Even a small component manufacturer will generally have automated inspection of in-progress items on the line, automated test harnesses for functionality testing, x-ray machines for verifying connections, human QA of a subset of final products for functionality, and human QA of final product aesthetics. An interesting note on this is that it's getting noticeably more automated over time thanks to improvements in computer vision, cameras, and sensors.
Well, I'd like to start off by saying I think we agree overall. I do think Python 3's advantages didn't merit its disadvantages until many years after the initial release.

Second, I admit to engaging in hyperbole when I said "Python 3 is better in every way"; usually I'm on the other side of these, but I'm just so fed up with people complaining. But you're right, there are still ways Python 3 isn't "better". I'd love to have productive, technical discussions about them, but we can't seem to get beyond the "Python 3 was a super bad idea" stuff, and I'm totally uninterested in that.

But beyond that, you and I are mostly talking about different things. Python 3 isn't NumPy or SciPy. If you're building extensions on top of them, you need to look at their compatibility commitments. If you want them to make more commitments, you have to convince them. This isn't specific to software engineering; this is due diligence for anything you're gonna put years of work into.

Django's page [1] is a great example of this. Python has one too [2]. I don't have any idea about SciPy/NumPy; It looks like SciPy 1.2.0 was an LTS release supported until 1/1/2020, but what do I know.

But importantly, the end result of this "hey, do 100x the work otherwise our science won't be reproducible" stuff will be to force people out of producing free software for scientific computing. And the non-free stuff is expensive, good god. Surely this isn't what you want.

A better tactic here is to work with the developers in establishing more compatibility between releases. You probably aren't gonna get Fortran levels of compatibility--a language and platform that's seen very, very little change over the decades. But then again, the core selling point of scientific Python is that you get to use a modern platform with modern features. Asking for that along with a 50 year compatibility guarantee is a laughably tall order: you can't have it both ways without exponential amounts of work. So just like you're asking other engineers to be empathetic and respect your need for more compatibility with your extensions, you need to be more empathetic and respect their resources. And the best place to do that is probably their contact page [3], not Twitter, HN, or random blogs.

[1]: https://www.djangoproject.com/download/#supported-versions

[2]: https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches

[3]: https://www.scipy.org/scipylib/mailing-lists.html
I like Austin Kleon's insights here [1]:

"A day job gives you money, a connection to the world, and a routine. Freedom from financial stress also means freedom in your art. As photographer Bill Cunningham says, 'If you don’t take money, they cant tell you what to do.' Because the real truth is, once you start making money doing what you love, it BECOMES A JOB. And with it comes all the hassle of a job."

It's why I've personally decided to work for someone else full time and then use any time I can get outside my day job to do the things I really enjoy (which are very profitable). The full time job enables me to be more "creatively reckless" in my side projects, which in turn allows me to learn a lot and stretch creative muscles I might not otherwise get "working for the man."

1. From: https://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/69005574484
As an aside, I played pubg from early days, and as buggy as the PC version was, I was shocked when out of curiosity I tried pubg on a pixel 2 and it actually ran smoothly.
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Excellent advice and I considered that, but the Nexus 6 had other problems that caused me to upgrade. Also the camera updates on the new phones were compelling.
Hey! My gameboy was a screen with 2 bits of color depth! What's not serious about that? :D
I would love that. Unfortunately I also love the fact that I can share links to sites without paywall issues. I don't know how to combine those things in a working manner. But I hope there are smarter people than me.

Short term: Less tracking is good. (Not only for privacy, but also since I don't want to see "optimized" content – I want to be surprised, contradicting opinions etc. like in a good newspaper)
This is going to be buried deep in the archive. Nothing is going to be revealed to the public in the near future.
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I don't understand why you sometimes need to not send the header. What happens if you do, in those cases?
On an individual victim, maybe. But today, you can scale your efforts much more easily.
Sorry, try Googling "Silicon Valley would be wise to follow China’s lead" and click through from there. FT seems to let you through if you have the right referrer.

Alternatively: https://theoutline.com/post/2996/michael-moritz-china-essay-...
Oh, this is a great read! I fondly recall a meeting with extremely bright individuals, and several of us were able to deduce the scale on the fly using the Riemann Zeta Function trick. The presenter was not pleased (the deduced number was not exactly complimentary to their messaging).
If you don't know what it is, you are not the target audience and you won't become the target audience by suddenly knowing what a CAN bus is.

So you've never visited a web site, read a bit about a topic you knew nothing about, and then thought, "Wow, that sounds like something I'd like to get into?"

There are a lot of people out there who are curious about the world around them and enjoy expanding what they know instead of stagnating in a knowledge silo.
Good, as far as those cookies go, but also, as usual from Google, extremely self-serving, because the tech giant itself will just keep tracking us more than ever before while trying to restrict how much others can do the same. They keep building their moats against "external bad guys", but the bad king that is Google just keeps expanding its power. I wonder when a backlash by other major internet companies against chrome itself will start being the case.
That's very much by design. The idea is that even if the file is stolen, a good password should still protect against a lot of bruteforcing.
Do you do anything different in your own 401k?
I do not understand what you mean by that. Note that these directives force the member states to adopt their own laws implementing them. They do not directly affect people, only indirectly. So if people want to invoke the rights they have to cite the national law implementing the directive.
Safari has blocked third-party cookies by default for a long time, so websites and advertisers that want to support iOS web users already need to work without third-party cookies.
I'm not sure that very many people understood what sort of spot pricing Packet had. I have rented so many hours of EPYC server time for $.25/hr in SJC1. Or a 96 core ARM machine for $.30/hr in Amsterdam.

I had good luck with them and they were always responsive in their Slack. I was sad to see the news, anyway.
For me it's the questions. He gets these incredible guests with deep understanding of their respective fields and yet they keep being asked nonsensical question they can't possible give a meaningful answer to.

For example almost every guest some variation of "Do you think one day we'll have superhuman AI?" Then the guest is struggling to come up with some platitude, because there is nothing else to say. It's a waste of time.

He is self-aware too, he sometimes apologizes for asking, yet he keeps doing it anyway.
Yes. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthn/tls-...
Thanks all, I didn't find these while Googling. I'll give them a try.
"During 2016, the U.S. exported $1,051 billion in manufactured goods and imported $1,920 billion, a manufacturing goods deficit of $868 billion."

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This has been my experience as well. Most sites I've encountered have already moved away from depending on 3rd party cookies.
I love the 80,000 hours podcast [1] which goes into depth about how a career can be used to have a positive impact on the world. They have 2-3 hour conversations with interesting people like David Chalmers, Peter Singer, Bruce Schneier, Vitalik Buterin, Glen Weyl, Phil Tetlock, etc.

It‘s quite amazing actually, highly recommend!

1: https://80000hours.org/podcast/