skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an app that adds numbers together for a few thousand users.

Maybe for more complex projects this might be true, but any moderately competent developer could have built this.

I believe the Iowa DNC paid around ~$50K for this app. I have a hard time believing that isn't something any good dev shop would bid for given how simple the app is.
Another one:

- all PC clones used the (not otherwise impressive) FAT file system, there were only a handful (SD/DD, single, double side, all soft-sector'd and in the early eighties all 5.25") floppy disk formats, while in the CP/M world every vendor used its own from 8" to 3" (yes, 3, not 3.5"). So software could much more easily be, er, "shared".
An increase in immigration will drive down tech salaries in Canada - that's the entire point.

And along the way they will drive up housing prices, and drive up general revenue and consumer spending since there are simply more bodies in the economy.

The system benefits the owners of capital and the migrants themselves, but not existing ('legacy') Canadians.

Along the way you get all kinds of social problems caused by the excess of males and the preponderance of Asian families to selectively abort female fetuses.
Calling the destructors is identical to ending any scope in C++, including function calls. Where is that extra expense?
I've been a liberal voter for decades, and Sanders pretty well represents what the democratic party used to be back in the day. There's genuine hunger for real change and that is the driver for Sanders, as well as the fact that he is no fair weather politician.

You can hate Hillary, but she was probably the smartest, most experienced, and best qualified for the job as a maintainer of the status quo. I think we need to go beyond the status quo, but politics is (or was) the art of compromise.

Unfortunately politics is at its core a popularity contest and people vote with their emotions rather than their brains, which is why we have the current administration.
The market will speak up

The real problem is greed.

People find these computers in basements and barns and flea markets and think they've found a treasure. They put it on fleaBay and expect to get instantly rich. When they don't, they throw the machines in the trash.

I've seen computers worth about $80 listed online for $1,000 or more. I've seen people win auctions for computers at reasonable prices only to have the seller ask for more money, then cancel the auction when the winner won't pony up another $800.
Although even spreadsheets have gotten too "smart" for their own good and can corrupt data. Biologists have actually had to rename the septin-1 gene because spreadsheets containing its abbreviation "sept1" get automatically changed to 01-Sep in Excel.
Any source for (2)? A quick google doesn't seem to support that assertion at all.
> Firefox should definitely be used, but donating to Mozilla is a mistake.

These seem at odds with each other. If you want Firefox to be used, how do you suggest its development be paid for?
Except that for a collision attack to be a thing, you need to know the value you're trying to collide with - and that requires reversing bcrypt.
I also want to mention the HP-45 iPad / iPhone app; it runs the exact microcode of the original on a VM. (My buddy was involved in this, and makes some $ - but I bought it and really really like it, and this isn't an ad, etc, etc.)
A similar intuition may have led this team to skip spending the last few months on rollout / training / testing
Great UX features of modern sign in pages
Measuring a startup's carbon emissions
The more relevant question is whether that changes the likelihood that this is a futuristic, new, working technology.
IBM and clones crossed 50% market share in 1986. Commodore with just one model alone, C64, still held ~30% of the market in 1986! http://www.retrocomputing.net/info/siti/total_share.html

All Commodore had to do to maintain the dominance would be respeccing 1985 release of Amiga 1000 to 65c816 and embedding hardware compatibility with C64 (vic/sid on a chip, let c64 programs run embedded in workbench window). Clock for clock 65c816 (8 bit databus!) is almost as fast as 68000(16 bit databus), not to mention stomps all over both 8088 and 8086. http://westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/AN-001_ Instruction_Level_Performance_Comparisons.cfm

Wouldnt be that hard considering Amiga architecture is a big graphics unit with slave CPU glued to its ass.
Ah. So I was missing something. Thanks for clarifying. That is alarming.
There's a web based observer, it's called wobserver https://github.com/shinyscorpion/wobserver
A Z800 type design that came out in 1980 probably would have sucked too. A 16 bit 6502 shouldn't have sucked because the 6502 is a nice simple micro, but Z80 is a lot bigger, and making a 16 bit version of it in 1980 with the transistor and packaging budget of 1980 probably would have had a whole bunch of nasty compromises.

But our opinion as engineers doesn't really matter much. x86 beat the 68K even though the 68K is a nice chip and the 8086 ... isn't.
Yeah we created a test for our interview but we give it onsite I think requiring people to do work even if its compensated is wrong, its not that hard to put together a small exam based on the source for your projects to analyze whether a candidate can handle the work.
Shadow Inc sounds.. shady.
It's the Boss Level.
I would suggest Walter Scott rather than Burns for the Scottish perspective.
In general, Tennyson, I think is a good place to start.
> A simple Text editor, the simpler the better, is all we need

> I'm not going to debug a boatload of mixed tabs and spaces issues

As someone who uses an IDE, I have literally never had to worry about tabs vs spaces.
That still doesn't answer why should I donate to Mozilla the non-profit? What do they do with my donations? According to another post they don't use them to fund Firefox or presumably any project run by the corporation side.

As I see it if I wanted my donations to go to political or other activism there's more direct and better organizations to donate to with less middle management involved.
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On the other hand, do you really want to bubble error results through layers of network stack and parsers, when handling is almost always the same?
Doubleclick ads were, originally, what prompted me to seek an adblock extension.

I think it was around 2006 that I got the extension for Firefox; Google bought them about a year later.
Right. What people actually want is some form of income equality, which would bring executive level salaries in line with their actual worth. You're not going to achieve that by starving non-profits of executive talent in the meantime.
I don't think it's good to regard it as "how dumb you were". I used to do something similar to this but this screwed me up a bit mentally, leading to a big lack of confidence.

How can I be confident or feel good about my decision if I am currently "dumb"?

You're not dumb if you make the best choices you can with the information you have at the time.
Agreed, carpentry and fine woodworking aren't the same thing, but a lot of the tools/practices/methods overlap.

Start small and work your way up. Make a cutting board, fast forward a couple of years and you'll be building cabinets. Fast forward from that and you'll be shaving backs on a Windsor chair.
I'm citing to article's describing Sweden's economic regulations, corporate taxation regime, history of privatization, and educational system. These aren't "cherry-picked examples"--they're basic pillars of a country's policy that you look to in deciding whether to characterize a country as "socialist" or "capitalist."

Sweden has never been socialist. It got rich through lassaiz-faire capitalism: https://elgar.blog/2014/09/09/embracing-capitalism-the-real-...

In the 1970s and 1980s, Sweden experimented with a mixed economy, with a large public sector and extensive price controls. That experiment was a failure:

> In the 1970s, policy became more anti-capitalist. In 1983, Sweden even decided to implement a partial socialization of company profits, the so-called wage earner funds. Economic problems grew more and more severe, and when the boom of the 1980s turned into recession in the early 1990s, Sweden was hit much harder than other countries.’

In the 1990s, Sweden changed course. It deregulated industries, cut corporate taxes, and privatized large sectors of the economy. When people point to the "Nordic model" today, they are pointing to the ability of countries like Sweden to have strong economic growth combined with a robust welfare state. But the "Nordic model" is starts with a capitalist foundation not a socailist one:

> The history of Sweden, however, also shows that the financing of a generous welfare state requires a highly competitive business sector. The best way to promote a combination of prosperity and equality is not to fight capitalism with high capital taxes, but rather to use capitalism as an engine of growth and combine it with a well-designed welfare state that provides a social safety net while preserving the incentives to work and provide for oneself.

To give you a concrete example that illustrates the larger approach: if you take the subway in Stockholm, you're riding in train cars owned and operated by private companies. If you take the subway in New York, you're riding in a government owned-and-operated system. The Swedish approach is to rely on market forces when possible, not government command-and-control. It isn't to demonize the private sector, but to unleash it.

To put it differently, the term "democratic socialism" means you start with a socialist economy and make it more democratic. The Nordic model does the opposite. It starts with a capitalist economy, and makes it more democratic, by taxing the wealth generated by the market to provide welfare services. That's the "Nordic model" today. Of course maybe there are unrepentant socialists who pine for the 1970s, but the Swedes have doubled down on capitalism and deregulation and have been perusing that strategy for almost 30 years now, after having tried alternatives.
>NoSQL adopters often ... ended up with unmaintainable messes

learning SQL seems much more straightforward than learning NoSQL. personally I'd like to find a good resource that will help me use a non-relational database without creating a mess
Multinational companies are quite capable of opening offices in places where labor and cost of living is cheap.

If they have trouble bringing people to the US, it's a bigger incentive to do so.
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Want to re-emphasize, cooking is a skill that's learned by repetition.

There are methods to help. Over cooking vs undercooking is because of guesswork. Remove that by buying an Instant Read thermometer. Over and under season? Taste as you go, add more seasoning if it needs it.

Also, make sure you find a consistently good recipe. Allrecipes is a crapshoot even though it's consistently a top Google search. Another poster mentioned Kenji Lopez who tests the crap out of his recipes. I'd also recommend Alton Brown having solid but accessible recipes. America's Test Kitchen/Cook's Illustrated and Bon Apetit for when you're getting more advanced. More beginner friendly stuff like Budget Bytes tends to be less flavorful, but typically simple enough and cheap enough you don't feel bad screwing up.

Basics with Babish is decent, at least the early episodes, for helping explain and visualize some of the basic skills.

But again, it's a skill that requires practice. I've been cooking consistently for years and I still can't spin up a recipe from memory or by feel. I mostly rely on trusted recipes and maybe do my own riff if I've done something similar before.
Homeless account for 3% of the total student population in the USA.
https://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/education-statistics/index....
I do not know what the solution for this is, but the folks who are emphasizing criminalization for homelessness problems are on the wrong track if these stats are remotely close to correct.
yeah, blake3 multi-threaded is about 11 times faster for me than sha256 single-threaded.
That's the sole reason you shouldn't use it as reference.
Congrats to the team - I've been an Asana user since day 1 when it looked like a glorified spreadsheet and was essentially a nice wrapper around Facebook Tasks (FB's internal task management tool.)

Ultimately I think they have the right ideas and long-run roadmap, but will have a lot of challenges executing in such a crowded space. Excited to see what they do next!
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It becomes PII the instant you can correlate that fingerprint with any PII.
So, Google (And others) are evil, but because customers don't value privacy until it's too late, it's okay to abuse them for profit?

You aren't ethical if you only act ethically when you are forced to.
Their salary has gone up, and firefox market share has gone down, its neither is a controversial statement
Which specific claims are false?
Yes, yes, it was! To be honest the fact that the fan turns off during normal desktop operation is almost a bigger deal to me these days, though. I recently looked at my upgrade options and nothing in a price range that I can justify is really attractive. I suppose I need to wait for more than one generation, after all my last upgrade was roughly a four generation jump.

In hindsight upgrading a week or so before an exam might not have been the smartest decision, however.
My computer communicates with various remote services all day. I guess I should give it a name.
I love cooking sometimes, but then again, other-times I would rather spend my time working on a client project. When you add up the time spent:

1. planning meals (may be minimal if you can ad-hoc quickly)

2. walking/driving to the grocery store

3. cooking

4. cleaning

It can easily be more expensive for an individual person (or even a couple) to cook than it is to eat out. (I think this makes intuitive sense too, since there are economies of scale and efficiencies with how restaurants are run.) If you love cooking, then you are doing it for fun---thats great! But I think for people who don't like cooking, it can be rational to eat out for most meals.

Many people are not paid at an hourly rate, so this analysis may not make sense for them.

(Also, where I live, there are plenty of healthy and cheap places to eat out at.)
And Kotlin data classes: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/data-classes.html
Not sure if that's good or bad
The only way to improve is to hear such opinions. So thanks, will see what I can do about the design. It's easy to get carried away with feature development.
I have a 42S emulator running on my iPhone, but it really isn't the same as being able to press physical keys on a hardware device.

One of the charms of these devices was that they were built to last. ie: the keys were injection molded with two colors of plastic so they wouldn't wear down. So, while I still have a couple of working HP's from the 80's, I've been through a dozen or more mobile phones in about the same time...
It's bloody addictive isn't it? I started out doing cutting boards and my last commission was to make a custom poker table.
I agree! I was trying to explain why these shops exist and are used in the general case, while also noting that this was a bad call here.

They were probably picked, to be frank, because they're the people that the folks in charge of picking a developer already had in their rolodex. Private organizations can do RFPs, but don't have to, and if you don't fully understand how bad a software project can go sideways, it's not going to be something you care too much about.
The part about the charged neutrinos is weird but not imposible (can we call it electron?). The part about the beta decay only make sense if they provide a good model for the internal structure of the proton.

I think it's an old theory from the same people, where they used three neutrinos instead of four. The old version does not break the spin rules. It's even more weird that now they added a fourth particle.

The combination of the Newtonian Gravity, with special and general relativity is weird. Those gammas are in the wrong places. I'm 99% sure it is wrong, but I should read the details carefully.

I think there is a problem with the uncertain principle because the neutrinos must be too close, and other with the
Pauli exclusion principle (perhaps they solve it with the "resonance"). I'm 99% sure it is wrong, but I should read the details carefully.

There are more problems with exchange symmetry, and partiles that these theory predict nut don't appear experimentally.

The way they break the rules of spin is straightforward. As I said in a comment in other thread, it's almost ass bad as if they break the charge conservation rules. (Almost, because breaking the charge conservation rules is even worst.)
Yes, but it's woefully out of date.

Fun fact -- Ian (maintainer) is/was a backend dev at Square Enix.
Yes, it's the reverse sear, and proven to be better by SCIENCE
I mean, if you don't want Google to track you, then you probably shouldn't use their browser...
I've seen services (Google Photos, Dropbox, OneDrive) try to opt in the user to having data automatically uploaded when they take a not really related action (like logging into the google account on their phone, connecting a USB device, or misclicking on an icon in their file list). I do wonder if there's any penalty that'd apply to them if they then lost data that users hadn't realised was being uploaded?
It is interesting to note how that article talks about this app being used by both Democrats and Republicans. That is likely a requirement for any neutral tech company that wants to get into the business. Even that might not be enough to shield the company from employee protests regarding their participation in political causes even indirectly. Remember that employees of nonpartisan businesses are not necessarily nonpartisan themselves.
Depends how you look at it. The countries with the longest waits are the very ones who get the most green cards. Even if everyone from India was allowed to move to the front of the line, we'd simply end up with a very long wait for everyone.
You know Weather Underground is now owned by The Weather Company, the same parent as weather.com, right?
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It's a little disturbing to me to see this detail featured in so many stories, because (1) DHS isn't especially qualified to review applications for security vulnerabilities, and (2) there are reasons not to insert the Republican-controlled DHS into the processes of the Iowa Democratic Party. Moreover, there's no evidence at all that security had anything to do with the failure, and lots of reasons to believe otherwise; it's not even a relevant detail.

I'm a broken record about this, but you probably don't want to work in a field where the norm is that the government checks your software engineering work, particularly for security; there is a longstanding track record of failure here.

None of this is to defend the app, which appears to have been, from conception through deployment, moronic.
That would actually be an interesting addition.
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Happily!

2.5 million, 2018:

https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2018/mozilla-2018-fo...

2.3 million, 2017:

https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2017/mozilla-2017-fo...

1 million, 2016:

https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2016/2016_Mozilla_Fo...

<1 million, 2015:

https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/2015_Mozilla_Found...

Firefox market share has been in decline (30% to <5%) for over a decade now:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/StatCoun...
It was exactly this ill-conceived mentality that "mafia and government are the same" that brought mafia-style militias to Rio. I can almost imagine criminals laughing of this kind of idea.
"You are looking at a reflection, nothing is painting your eyeball."

Each photon is reflected to a specific, targeted location on the retina. This is in contrast to normal vision where photons are reflected from and to multiple angles.

Which is why this is always perfectly in focus -- the normal path of light means that light is captured across the surface of our eye and needs to be focused to converge on a point (within the limits of the eye's ability to do so, and with the reality that it only has one focus distance at a time). This system, in contrast, is "painting" the retina so that it is addressing specific target pixels, so to speak, regardless of the focus of the eye.

Their terminology seems okay.
You have to spend high five figures in legal fees to adjudicate that, and you may lose anyway, and even if you win someone else can swoop in and re-litigate things.
100k is a lot more for that software compared to what Biden paid.
In the 80s it beat the 68k by marketshare but didn't completely destroy it. Between the Mac, the Atari ST, the Amiga, and a bunch of Unix workstation vendors the 680x0 had a fairly large market share. But Motorola killed it when they could have evolved it. Intel evolved the 486 to the Pentium, and squeezed everything it could out of the ISA -- but Motorola sidetracked onto 88000 and PowerPC and didn't take the 68k past the 68060. And they dragged Apple with them onto the PowerPC. And honestly, Macs from that era _sucked_ -- PowerPC could emulate the 68k but they crashed constantly and it wasn't just because of the OS's lack of memory protection and the like. The systems were full of bugs because of the architecture switch. Waste of $$ and engineering time.
Most economists look at the velocity and supply in order to calculate inflation for their models. If you want combine them into supply and demand, fine. But seperating the concepts is valuable. Moreover the velocity and liquidity of money are seperate concepts.
The guy behind the Cowboy web server was working on one a while back and it looked super cool, but I don't know what became of it.
In the last decade US stock market went up by 256%. All other countries grew below 100%. The outstanding performance of the US stock market was thanks to tech industry. Without the tech industry we'd all be poorer whether you work in tech or not. Anything that hurts tech hurts all Americans.

See charts here: https://medium.com/@petilon404/us-prosperity-is-dependent-on...
Because not everyone can get the timing right and heat consistent enough to properly cook from start to finish in a pan. Especially as you get to thicker cuts.

Sous vide takes out the guesswork for getting the insides to the right temp. Then just get the pan as hot as possible for quick sear in a pan for the outside.
Learn to get a decent and consistent amount of sleep.
> Montreal is an Anglophone city. Last I checked 80% were English speakers

Would you be able to provide a source for that?

Even during it's Anglo heydays (pre-referenda), I don't think it was that high.

It is true that Montreal is highly Anglophone in the tech sector, but outside of enclaves like downtown, the west Island and a few neighborhoods like TMR and Ville St Laurent, Montreal is not very Anglophone at all.
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