skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those wages are severely off. Glassdoor is no longer used in the United States to research wages for tech. An average engineer at a top tech company makes well over 250k USD per annum.
I think the transition happened a little before Phoenix/Firefox started. The option "ask" had certainly become unusable some years before, and blocking third party cookies altogether already made many sites unusable at that time.
I'm opposite. Never ever I felt proud of my code, I always am critical of it and thinking in the back of my head "I know how to refactor it even better". It's a never-ending story for me. And whenever happen to do maintenance of a old project of mine from years ago I cringe of the way I implemented some stuff and plenty of times I have to restrain myself to not refactor it since the client wants only a simple change while the refactoring would eat away my free time.
> Closed. This message is off-topic.
It's unexpected for the opposite reason. Turbo C 1.0 is not ANSI C compliant.
Could you please give us more detail? Could you please point how what these "most of" money uses are, why the amounts are not justified, and what you suggest they're alternatively used for, in what amounts, and why?

And if not, could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments?
WearsAMaskEveryWakingMoment is not 1-to-1 with WantsThePandemicStopped. The latter includes everyone, maskophile or not.

It is dangerous to equate "acts as I do about X" with "cares about X".
Polar opposite - Does anyone enjoy digital amnesia? I feel like I might be a little weird here, but every so often I'll just go in and delete all my notes, reminders, apps, photos, etc and start again.

Wondering if anyone else does this?

I like doing it because it helps clear my head, even though the files or data are digital they take up some space in my head. I do it every few months, just have a fresh slate. I wonder if that says something about me - I'm not really sure. It's probably just another form of procrastination.

I once read Stephen Wolframs post about how he has a key logger that backs up every keystroke he types and its all indexed and he has a little front end over his enormous amount of data and it made me feel anxious just even reading it.
This is mental, how did you find this?
> not realizing how much time has gone into developing well tuned caches within the database system itself

File systems too. A cron job writing a csv makes a surprisingly simple cache the OS can keep in memory.
I don't know of anything useful enabled by third party cookies; can you elaborate?
Canada has had a unique situation in that a large proportion of the population was out of country when the pandemic went exponential outside of Wuhan. The large number of imported cases represented every isolate found globally. Perhaps this hypothesis has been ignored but it seems that functional change should have jumped out of this dataset.
having to read paragraphs over paragraphs of unjustified text is one of the things that make me the most easily go ctrl-W
I wouldn't say admire. When I stumble upon code from many years ago I (somewhat painfully) realize I've lost a lot of the ingenuity I used in my early days. I read the code and find myself thinking "how the hell did I come up with that solution". I didn't care about finding the optimal algo/ds, I would just use whatever I knew at that moment without a second thought. Now I have to care a lot more about writing code that looks smart and learning "new" frameworks.
Lyft will require face masks for riders and drivers
In the US I've found Amazon is so slow to ship something that it's led me to buy the product directly from the company or from eBay. I actually will continue this even if Amazon shipping times returns to normal. The only benefit of Amazon is discoverability, at this point. I ordered some vitamins that said would arrive from Amazon in a month but shipped the same day I ordered them directly from the company.
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Cellular modules, they come in a lot of flavors.
Reading through the webpage, I was thinking that points 1, 2 and 4 really wasn't relevant. We're talking about bandwidth limitations being the key factor here - not the rest.

1. Page Loading Issues are irrelevant, unless it's because of large items served over limited bandwidth.
2. Static vs Dynamic webpages are irrelevant, if the pages themselves are small. Dynamic of course incurs some CPU on the server-side, but that is a machine not bandwidth issue.
3. Limiting the amount of data is obviously important.
4. Number of requests to the server is only relevant for the request-size, CPU and tcp-overhead (which can be alleviated via multiplexing).
5. Yes, do compress the pages.
6. Agree, website development kits often makes the pages much larger.
7. Certainly, but this shouldn't be necessary if you have good cache-headers.

One thing that was not mentioned, was ensuring that static items are cachable by the browser. This has a huge impact.
All the time. I put pride in my code. I worked in various teams and codebases and came to appreciate the quality of my code.
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More info on the sealed sender functionality which is IMHO one of the main distinguishing feature of Signal: https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

Apart from that, group membership is also E2EE, which is a signifiant piece of metadata.
Thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23103386
Dithering doesn't compress very well, so JPEG can do far better quality for the same file size, e.g. https://i.imgur.com/FXQWF23.jpg instead of your http://sprout.rupy.se/file/3/0/0/annaleefisher-200.gif

BTW, your drag and drop triggers on right click, so weird things happen when using the right click menu.
Ideally, you don't
This is being replaced by:

1. New employee is added to cloud access management.
2. New employe logs into AWS Code, Apache CHE or Githubs new web editor.
3. ???
4. Beer.
Ten times Facebook copied a competitor
Pretty cool concept you should write more about this. Do you have any other examples of companies that give away their IP but still thrive in the physical or digital world? Will definitely check out Prusa Research. I've always wondered if a restaurant could be built upon a similar concept, teaching people how to recreate it's foods but being so cheap and accessible that the cost of creating it yourself outweighs just buying it.
> The way pores are scattered around the face does not change over time (from adolescence) and cannot actively be changed. Even if the face is partially covered, theseadvanced technologies are still able to recognise the pores in the part of the face that is not covered.

This is news to me. Does anyone here know how well that works? It seems to be referring to a product by Identix, but I can’t open their website because their HTTPS certificate isn’t valid.
In which Bundesländer is that done and when was it introduced? I am German but never heard of it.
> Autopsy revealed deep venous thrombosis in 7 of 12 patients (58%) in whom venous thromboembolism was not suspected before death; pulmonary embolism was the direct cause of death in 4 patients.

Would taking small amounts of asprin be a reasonable preventative measure (in addition to more sensible measures like, "staying home" and "washing your hands")?
in /tmp you dont have write permissions (so cannot create a new file, and falls back to overwrite), in home directory you have.
I do reminisce,but do the opposite of admire, perhaps because my day job has never been primarily to write code.
And as long as you aren't including any advertisers on your site which are building profiles of people (and practically all of them are). Or using Wordpress plugins that do the same, probably without telling you. Etc.
German here, we also have our fair share of experimentation on children in schools..

From what I have learned while reading about pedagocial reforms, most arguments don't really treat the student body as a diverse set of people, rather they pretend that students are all alike and then present a way of learning that a subset of the students strive with.

This is not about the (long debunke) myth that some people would be visual learners and some would learn better with their sense of smell. No.

What I mean is, some people fare better with lecture-style classroom presentations, some better with individual experimentation. All kids need guidance.

It seems that the reforms that are made are usually a certain pedagocial-model teaming up with monetary or economic interests (cutting costs in education). So in our schools, we saw that Physics teachers were on short supply (they rather earned better money outside of schools). So they mixed all Science subjects in middle school and named it "Natural Phenomena". As a result, the physics is taught by biology teachers who sometimes prepared their lessons with the math teachers of the school because it wasn't their core strength...
> Just why every beautiful startup must make their owners billionaires while getting ruined?

That's literally there in the definition of a VC-backed business model. You get a lot of money now, in exchange for some amount of ownership and expectation that the business will grow, whether it makes sense for it or not. The investors want a return on their investment, so they absolutely will push the business past the point of breaking; if they can extract their return before it burns down, then they win.

Or, in short, from investor PoV, startups are cattle, not pets.
If it is a couple of weeks every year, I don’t see too much of a risk.
All major middleware already does Metal, even non gaming stuff like Flutter.
Well, at least you didn't have an open border with one of the latest countries to lock down in Europe, like we did in Ireland.

Unfortunately, we can't close the border with Northern Ireland for political reasons, so it looks like the island of Ireland won't be able to eliminate Covid-19.

To be fair, we should have stopped inbound/outbound travel much earlier (like NZ did) but I suspect concerns around EU law may have driven that.
large companies is mostly a fiction, they are built from projects and teams where most of the design work is done at the team level or a bit more.
Does it make the text harder to read? A nice side effect of justifying text is that it makes easier to determine when a paragraph ends (or a line break occurs), especially if there's no vertical spacing between paragraphs.

But justification needs to be paired with word breaks, otherwise lines with long words will look unnatural.

Most (all?) books I have at home follow these two rules, and if they didn't they would look amateurish to me. Of course the web is a different beast, but if the line length is reasonable, I think the same rules can apply.
Hey, I've got a crude timeline of events (simply rendered as giant HTMLs), but it's private at the moment. I'll probably share some of it in the future, especially considering that some of the data is public anyway (e.g. online comments or tweets), it makes sense.

Next step: yep, I throught about it a bit [0], agree that it would be great as a service-agnostic way of accessing the data, the same way we can see it with our eyes.

But figured I should start with strictly easier problems for now, ones that I can solve at least to some extent. For now my goal is simply enjoying using it, making the setup simpler (to make it accessible to more people), making sure it's robust to the changes, flexible enough, etc.
I want to inspire people to own their data. In many ways, I'm advocating an approach to owning it and working with it, rather than a specific set of tools, formats, etc. It would be great to have more people experimenting in the same area and trying to loosely integrate with existing efforts.

Optimizer: to some extents, yes! Not sure about 'general happiness', but I'd happily let the computer dictate me what to eat, how to exercise and how to sleep. Maintenance is probably one of the most annoying things in my life.

[0] https://beepb00p.xyz/pkm-search.html#future
Even if you're developing with a game engine, you'll soon have to write your own shaders or at least deal with their bugs. And for that, you'll need your users' hardware (there are no nVidia macs anymore), youre users' driver (which is predominantely Windows) and the ability to debug it.

Mac just doesn't make sense for this use-case beyond "I want an Apple logo!". Most people buy a tool to solve a problem, not hammer the problem to fit a brand.
I can't share the code.

It is just a really dumb search for a random solution. (I don't want to get the same solution or solutions each time.) The domains (which are always pretty small) for the variables are randomly shuffled first, so the search can just iterate through the domains.

The problems mostly have a large number of solutions out of the total space, so finding a solution is fast.

The real beauty is then being able to write short declarative code, which is very easy to write, read and modify (I'm not always sure in advance exactly what the constraints should be). None of which would be the case for the code which would construct a solution, even though it might run a little faster.
They should have kept the fail whale instead of offering "Sorry the tweet couldn't be loaded. Please retry" which I get 3/4 of the time on my phone.
I would advise against supporting the author of this video in any way.

Maybe he is not consciously doing this, but these "down the rabbit hole" videos put a giant target in socially awkward or "unstable" people who are then flooded with trolling or abuse from some of the people who watch them. I'm sure that this video was a reason for the torrent of trolls that started engaging with Terry Davis before the end of his life and contributed to his deterioration.
X2nn series are definitely not "thin".

Also, as a former die-hard x201 user I actually like the new keyboard. Agree on the memory thought
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Finland is top of the world (But slowly dropping), famous for their teaching.

So they are abandoning it.

Classic 21st century.

You have a top heavy organisations with working systems, but managers have ladders to climb and salaries to justify.

"Finland’s schools were once the envy of the world. Now, they’re slipping"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/finlands-scho...
The type of people interested in self-hosting to the point of being willing to do so over a shitty ADSL connection aren't likely to be interested in just hosting on AWS.
Oh, I wasn't aware of his passing . . .

According to his Wikipedia page #1) He passed away August 11, 2018, just the same day he posted his last video on YouTube (the same as included on his TempleOS home page): https://youtu.be/oH41gGBVpkE

His Wikipedia #1) page says the following about his passing: "Investigators could not determine whether his death was suicide or accidental, although the train engineer believed his death to be a suicide. The police report stated that Davis was walking with his back toward the train and that he turned around before the moment of impact".

Bless his soul!

#1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis
There is something wrong if you do it at my expense
Maybe you don't need a static IP, though? If it only changes occasionally, you can just run a small program that checks periodically for those changes and updates the DNS records when it does. I've done that (using Cloudflare as the DNS server) and it worked just fine, the downtime was minimal.
One of my very first was Inna domain parking app, that it tried to "fertilize" any domain that was pointed to the server. It would obtain feeds piped via Yahoo feeds for keywords from the domain, and sell the domains later at higher price for the slightly better SEO value.

I still love the domain parser I had there. I actively tried to avoid regex by the time, and I had a huge validator that brings tears to my eyes. I admire it because this can be written with a single regex, but I am sure I spent an hour or two working on this, carefully planning about public suffixes, IDN conversion, host headers, etc.
Like pcpartpicker but for everything else? I'd pay a few bucks for such a service that respects privacy but collecting no user data and has a perfectly level playing field that actively polices shops.
We checked seller growth on competing marketplaces like eBay, Walmart, Google Shopping, etc. and found it to be the opposite - none are seeing accelerated seller growth.

Report here https://www.marketplacepulse.com/articles/sellers-are-not-di...
C-level executives are appointed and removed by the board. The board is appointed and removed by the shareholders. Yes, technically, executives are not required to act in the shareholders interests by law. But they are often appointed with the specific instruction to act in the shareholders' best interests, and can be removed from office for not doing that.

From my experience being a CEO and reporting to a board, trying to act in anything other than the shareholder's best interests would be... problematic, shall we say. I would need to be very convincing that what I was doing was in the best long-term interests of the organisation. Or have a board who agreed with the "not maximising shareholder value" goal.

It's only technically a myth that the only purpose of executives is to maximise profit for shareholders. That's definitely the most common instruction from the board, often implicit rather than explicit, and not doing that will get you into trouble in most situations. That trouble may not be a law suit, more probably just being summarily dismissed.
Maybe something in the spirit of Home Assistant? But for general service-interaction, not only home automation.

That would be so useful, as also kinda dangerous. It would be also a damn amount of work, just for managing it. Maybe building some general framework and API and let people build it decentral?
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I think the CEO may be smart enough to know that whatever reactions people have to their bullshitty language, this will blow over and in few months nobody will remember any of that. Unlike lawsuits that could happen if he was actually honest.

This is the general explanation for why companies keep being seemingly so bad at PR: they know that this kind of reputation doesn't matter at all.
BaWü, definitely in Unterstufe at Realschule. Don't know if they have remodelled it in the meantime but I haven't heard so.
Fwiw just how many of the people posting negative comments on here are paying SO users? It's still a business that needs to make money. Just saying...
> Cookies today have a really bad reputation, and many people are saying we shouldn't even have cookies at all.

The bad reputation is qualified because cookies have achieved 100% technological obsolescence. Here is the previous comment where I mentioned this and people wanted but failed to prove it wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23098196
To add to this:

If you still have a local check-out of the source repository, do not publish or edit it, but keep a read-only copy of it (including commit history) somewhere safe for evidential purposes if you intend to pursue any legal investigation and recourse.

And find a software & intellectual property lawyer if so, too :)
Designing for Progressive Disclosure
Just like the US is completely dependent on China, Japan and Korea for hardware manufacturing.

Modern reality is that everyone is really dependent on everyone. It's perhaps not ideal from a national security point of view.
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Wow, and here I was using Emacs to edit (usually) text files.
Weird. I tried spacevim, via their docker container. First impressions were 100% CPU use after entering:

int main(

I'll stick to tried and tested vim.
Or any other file sharing website for that matter, but at least use something more secure from a more trustworthy company, such as https://send.firefox.com/ (never heard of sendgb.com).
Before you watch the meta-commentary about TempleOS, here it is in its purest form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBE6glZNJuU They were all like that.
Nobody ever gets this one when I say it.
"Join a silo" is exactly the last thing somebody interested in selfhosting for selfhosting's sake is going to want to do =p
not revenue gain, but https://understandlegacycode.com/blog/5-arguments-to-make-ma...
Oh shoot, agh! I was messing around with rendering different content-types based on mobile/desktop -- to prevent text-wrapping on mobile phones. The index.html case slipped through my mind. I need to write some solid tests.
I wrote the following, completely innocently:

return when.all(promises).yield(true);
Quick question. I develop with VMs a lot and use vagrant to set up an sshfs share from my local repo mounted within the VM as shared drive. This sort of does the job, but it's a bit spotty, sometimes I can save my code, and then build the source, but sshfs has been to slow and I end up building without the freshly saved changes. Is there a better way of doing thus native to vscode?
From an end-users perspective, I can't think of any.

From a business perspective, third party cookies help businesses make money, which I suppose is useful for them.
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Welcome to Sweden. I was hoping we would catch up with you again, but not this way...
Um, they literally do? In aggregate, it's a similar effect as a VC-backed company burning capital to push out competitors. You're spending money you don't have, which drives the economy, raising demand and prices. The people who don't do the same can now afford less. Then the balloon pops, and your debt is forgiven, while you've reaped all the benefits from having the extra capital that your peers didn't.

Even in a simple terms, it hurts people's sense ethical and societal obligations. Why should I deprive myself of consumption and be a responsible economic participant, when I can spend money I don't have and then have my debt forgiven?
This is all correct, but the importance here is to combat the misinformed titles everywhere talking about multiple different "strains" going around, as well as that one damn Chinese paper (now retracted) claiming two different strains with different mortality rates.

Put more simply, two samples of virus can be of the same "strain" even if they aren't _exactly_ the same sequence. This is because replication can sometimes make errors on segments of the genome that do not impact functionality - moreover these same irrelevant loop segments are not error-corrected either, so mutations are common - despite not modifying the properties of the virus. These irrelevant mutations are actually very useful for tracking the virus spread.

A virus mutation becomes a different "strain" when the change is meaningful for the viruses interaction with the host or the environment.

SARS-COV2-2 is a type of virus that does error correction (unlike flu), so the rates of mutation are extremely low. This is good news because if means a vaccine will work, and we won't need a yearly one - like the flu.
OP could probably go after the person responsible for the unauthorised licence change and sue for damages (lost hours worked). Just a guess, ianal.
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I do something halfway in between - i routinely get frustrated with everything that’s not relevant to my present concerns, and just throw it into a folder called ‘archive’ and then move THAT into the big central archive folder.

I never really look back through any of it but when I do it’s quite nostalgic.
I think it was standard DOS, from maybe DOS 5 upwards?
Anyone remembers the drama that happened when JetBrains announced they're switching to subscription model with their IDEs? That's also a categorical change: from a product, to a service.

After a deserved backlash, they fortunately backtracked and allowed people to buy perpetual licenses. But it left a bad taste.