skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this is the housing problem all over again. If the price to buy (well, rent) an engineer is too high, build more engineers.
Yes. In one, this refers to a specific company's product with a pretty standardised output.

The dop designation however refers to the food itself, and can be manufactured by multiple independent entities with no explicit association. A more proper analogy world be the government backing you from selling cola, but allowing "cola style soda"
Inside the Mind of an Animal
The Earth is mostly stratified: light rocky silicate crust, heavier (though also rocky) magnesium-silicate mantle, core of mostly nickle-iron and heavier elements, which formed during the iron catastrophe.

Crustal deposits of heavier minerals largely result from late bombardment (after the crust had formed, about 100 million years after Earth's formation itself), geothermal and tectonic activity (volcanism, rift zones, vents), and biological mobilisation and concentration (e.g., lighter elements in coal and limestone, but notably, banded iron formations). Events such as the hypothesized Tethys collision could of course also have influenced distribution.

Gold forms veins typically in quartzes through differential precipitation AFAIU.

Ore formation is its own fascinating subfield of geology, and is underappreciated by many advocates of space mining.

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

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ore_genesis
I heard good things about Fedora and tried to switch to it from my Ubuntu 19.10 install. I have a somewhat custom install of specific partitions across two SSDs and the installer just couldn't cope with it. It didn't give a choice to map some partitions to just a mount point without formatting and some others were simply not visible. Tried Pop!_OS next and all these issues went away. I could see all my partitions, assign them to whichever mount point I wanted and choose whether I wanted a partition to be formatted or not. Not a surprise though since it is based on Ubuntu and uses the same installer.

Having used several distributions, Ubuntu's Ubiquity installer is the gold standard in my opinion in terms of striking the balance between flexibility, user friendliness and UX. Pop!_OS has been awesome so far but would like to try out Fedora at some point.
Those issues are all interrelated. We can't solve them because of corporate domination of the political system and the buying off of the American intelligensia.
Whenever I moved my friends onto Matrix, all I had to do was hit the "Encrypt room" button for each of our rooms. They did not have to do anything else. Is this ideal? No.

Is it E2E for their other rooms? No.

Is it E2E for any usage of matrix they were going to be doing? Yes.

I also told them to be sure to hit that button if they did start any other rooms. None of them ever did, but they knew that they should if they cared about being secure.

Riot.im also did a good job of letting you know that it was unencrypted unless you hit that button.

Edit: What it boils down to, is that Matrix has been easy to set up E2E for as long as I can remember. It is also trivial to create a matrix account with no tie to your IRL self.
I still hope that we'll get a lightweight (or lightweight enough, at least) .NET VM on WebAssembly. Blazor is far from lightweight currently, but it's runtime wasn't purposefully written for the task and is based on Mono.

Rust certainly has an advantage here, as it was design to not require a runtime system.
Search engines royalties are a share of the ad revenue generated from the search queries. Ad revenue is down significantly across the board.
When I worked there, there were basically 4 people working on Rust.

And these people were making sure Rust would not need Mozilla to survive. Very smart people. Rust will be fine.
They aren't hurting for money: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Affiliatio...
Google isn't the only well-paying software company. If they were, they wouldn't throw money away by paying so much in the absence of competition. Furthermore, there's nothing stopping you from paying $100,000/hour and beating Google if you wanted to. If your business can't make good enough use of programmers to justify paying more than Google, then maybe their talents would be best allocated where they would be most valuable.
>is probably producing even more value to their employer than that

That's the crux of the argument, though. Google can afford to take a loss on the employee's salary for years, just to keep them from a competitor. We're not talking about Google arbitrarily paying a developer more than their competitors, we're talking about Google diverting funds from other business units to cover costs.
Google is ~$350K, Facebook is ~$375K, Amazon is ~$315K (and not known to pay well outside of equity appreciation), Apple is ~$320K for ICT4 which doesn't map well to Senior at the others, probably a bit low. Netflix is severely north of $300K but hard to say because there's just one title -- average at $450K.
"...For four months, the Victoria’s Secret flagship store at Herald Square in Manhattan has been closed and not paying its $937,000 MONTHLY rent. “It will be years before retail has even a chance of returning to New York City in its pre-Covid form,” the retailer’s parent company recently told its landlord in a legal document..."
Atlassian – It Has a Great Team on Which to Play
Are you referring to a real belief held by fringe members? That is commonly called "weak man" in circles where it is discussed frequently, as a variant of the "straw man" that is real.
Options for most startups are mostly way overrated. The opportunity cost to hang around for 5-10 years to maybe get to a liquidation event is very high.
Less CCP involvement in the USA and the world is a good thing. Less CCP control of China would also be a good thing.
If there was interest in achieving high compliance and the expect reduction in mortality, why wouldn't it be sufficient to randomly spot check hospital staff hands for infectious agents and have a program of escalating fines then suspensions followed by loss of license for persons who are consistently above-threshold?

The aggressiveness could be gradually increased over time to prevent a disruptive loss of workforce given the existing poor practices.
It’s not a tactic without intent

And if you hold that something can be a tactic without intent, then anything and everything is a tactic to bring about its related reaction.
For anyone who has spent significant time with data and ML pipelines, read posts about Dagster. Even if you don't end up using it in your pipeline, it is full of well articulated and extremely valuable lessons about how to manage the problems and complexity of data applications. I can't recommend reading about dagster enough!

The software itself has matured significantly in the last year as well - highly recommend taking a look at this if you're building new pipelines or have a need to upgrade existing ones.
We have an office there and people were able to use normal internet services on Monday (albeit over VPN in some cases). Some people did have home network service interrupted.

I haven't heard of any escalations today, but obviously my sample size is limited (70 people in Minsk).
You're changing tenses from "was" to "is". Yes, firefox is good today. But, back in the day when people had to think hard about which browser to use, it wasn't as good.

ALSO, it's mostly that people switched from IE to chrome, as opposed to switching from firefox to chrome.
Apple can issue a custom certificate with unlimited installs to sort of side load it outside AppStore. Similar to enterprise certs.
The most efficient propulsion methods are not suitable for atmospheric flight or landing because of their low thrust, but are excellent for long-duration interplanetary flight where you can "burn" for hours, or days, to change between parking and transfer orbits.
Some say it's a myth, but could treadmills for planes be a billion $ business?
No, they are being cut out because they are owned by Communists who have over a million people in forced re-education camps and have ambitions of replacing the US as the global superpower.
The whole argument is exactly that it is time to engage that checks and balances mechanism and stop Trump before US turns on its own Firewall. Posts like this are parts of that mechanism.
Do you mean upper bound?
Because Electron is a neverending toxic pile of shit.
I wish HN had a downvote option for submissions
I think a dislike button option could be helpful to stop spreading biased and false information like this recent highly upvoted HN submission (please see its comments why not credible) :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24108109

Link title is: "C will never stop you from making mistakes"
I will need source for that.

Which other countries deal with cheating in exams or rumors on whatsapp through internet shut downs?
And Amazon, and Ebay
I get 30% discounts on delivered pizza by googling the name of the competing brand in my area. It's an extremely effective strategy, at least in my case.
There is a lot of confusion about PPE and disinfecting. People wear surgical masks thinking they are making themselves safe - which they arent. I think also people use magical thinking with disinfectants.

I remember one EMT call where my partner got blood on her arm. She impulsively reached for the handsantizer but I told her to wait. Took her back to the hospital (we just left) and let her wash with soap.

I felt in the moment like an alcohol based wash would just irritate her skin and open pores or perhaps breakdown the skin . When the alcohol evaporates much of the crud would still be there whereas washing with soap feels like you will better handle the issue with surfactant. Might have been wrong.
As a certified tall person I can confirm I am less willing to do things low to the ground. So sinks being too short seems legitimate. I do understand the other side (short people) have it harder though - if a sink is too tall for you then it's pretty much impossible to use.

Also, male sex is referencing being of the male gender it has nothing to do with intercourse. Feel free to question the legitimacy of the category, but the category itself is pretty clearly defined.
China doesn't ban western companies because they're western, but because they refuse to follow local laws. LinkedIn and Bing show that when a company follows local laws, it can operate.

WeChat and TikTok are being banned simply because they are Chinese.
Show HN: Basic ALU operations with stacks in x86 assembly
I'm speaking metaphorically. When I say "import a second backend" I'm saying that the thing being imported into the ruby backend is literally a wrapper around the exact same runtime that is typically used to run js backends, the corollary being that the "ruby" part is unnecessary added complexity from an engineering perspective unless you have some other compelling reason to use ruby (which is certainly possible).
You're making a lot of assumptions that are not necessarily true. You'll never know if you don't look.

* Commute/housing: you can afford a lot of house in a good location on $500k (or even 250-300k which might be more attainable).

* Long hours: varies a lot from team to team, and company to company. From my own experience, there's not a lot of correlation between long hours and salary, and a lot of people who work long hours do it because they want to.

* Crime: crime in the US is at historic lows, not sure what you're worried about here.
Amiga!
I'll definitely try this, but do you happen to have any links about this?

And yes, I realize "mental energy reserve" isn't a scientific term, it's just a term I'm using for lack of something better to label something I experience.

Re: the football team though, no matter how energized they are, that team will not be able to lift more than their 1RM (1 rep max), they won't be able to lift their 10RM (10 rep max) more than 10 times (maybe a few more on a good day). Eventually there are physical limits to their ability. Similarly if that team had not slept for 48 hours, or had done non-stop math problems for 18 hours and was asked to continue doing them.
I'm running the Nvidia edition of Pop!_OS on my X1 Extreme Gen 1. I've got 3 external 4k monitors connected to it, in addition to the built-in 4k screen, and it's running perfectly with a minor nitpick that the fans turn on a lot (probably due to scaling). I'm running Pop!_OS exactly for this reason. They've got an Nvidia edition that includes the Nvidia driver and they pre-configure Nvidia Prime for you.
Horizon Effect
TikTok (Hosts) Tracking Blocklist
Also, it might not even work!

What happens when one of your fungible junior engineers happens to be smart enough to do some tricky things even with Rails?

And then she gets hired by Netflix to do something more career-enhancing than copy-pasting Ruby code from StackOverflow.

Now you're stuck with your revolving door of undercompensated junior developers and a complicated Rails application. Uh-oh!
Yes, I take secure messenger recommendations seriously; bad ones get people hurt. Tfiles have been passed around about the harm that has come to people using two other then-popular "secure" messengers.

(Matrix is very cool and I think it has a bright future as an IRC replacement and ultimately, perhaps, a Slack competitor --- something that provides opsec suitable for a commercial setting. I always come across as a Matrix hater in these threads, and I do not hate Matrix, and wish the project well.)
If possible, I'd try to find another hospital/doctor. My wife (breast cancer surgeon) has the worst skin in the world and it's because she's adamant about washing her hands as she walks into a room and as she walks out of the room (even before COVID). Meanwhile, I have these dainty soft keyboard hands that she is envious of. But, it's not just that she's strict about it, it's that her hospital as a whole is strict about it and minimizing post-op/wound care/consult infections. It's bad for the patient and it's bad for the hospital (re: not profitable).
It did, but it's very easy to miss between all the Semmelweis biography.
That is under 'Any of the following' section, so you don't have to have that. Besides, why do you think that is wrong?
Ruckstack: Containerized Package Management for Kubernetes
Google buys labor using the proceeds from the stuff they assign the labor to do. Their money does not come from a second market unrelated to programmers. Even if you flipped buyers and sellers your analogy would be inapplicable.
I don't care how you put it, but the fact is that people leave. I led an engineering team I was quite proud of, and days came that I had to let top engineers go. Everyone has growth arcs, and they had opportunities to seize their dream jobs working on things they'd never get to otherwise. I was proud to have felt like a stepping stone on the way to their dreams, even though it screwed the business temporarily. I learned a lot of what this article is trying to say. Calling it a bus sounds like a one in a million disaster to prepare for. Getting hired by Netflix is far more likely but just as impactful.

This is written to business leaders, but I feel like if phrased differently would sound familiar and accepted by HN. Namely, don't adopt esoteric technologies no one else knows. Document production process. Never let mission critical operations exist solely in your lead engineer's head.

The fact is that it's never a good time for your best people to leave, but that's inevitable on a long enough timeline. It's the duty of business leaders to be prepared for that so they don't have to resort to dirty tactics to convince them to stay.
Web browsers should be considered public utility, funded by tax payers money and developed by independent organization. Core web browser should have minimal set of features, just enough to safely browse internet and do every day tasks, like online banking. Open source "core" web browser could be extended by companies and provided as commercial software with various additional features (VPNs, news aggregators, etc.) that might be useful to some users who have means to pay for them.
This makes me feel worried. I have come to rely on Firefox as the antidote to Google's data collection machine and it would be unfortunate if Firefox also goes the same way with this new focus.
To expound on this difference: 476KB of WebAssembly loads like 476KB of images (that is, super fast) rather than like 476KB of JavaScript (which is pretty slow and blocks the main thread). https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/making-webassembly-even-fa... explains more.
I work for a billion dollar tech company. I make plenty of money to take care of myself, but I like a little padding for extra fun things and rainy days. I also find it fun to tutor.

I have plenty of money because I don't live if a shitty place like California.
US appeals court throws out antitrust ruling against Qualcomm
I’ve seen this a lot. It’s sad.
I’d like to support Mozilla going forward. I’m not sure if this is a major revenue stream for them possibly or not, but if I can help, why not. I’m aware of mullvad btw and I need to run out my proton subscription in any case.
I'd agree.

but as a contrapoint; in capitalism there's a trend of selling a product or service substantially below market rate as a way of gaining significant adoption, once you have significant adoption- you raise the price as best you can.

This is called: undercut, corner and squeeze.

Often this results in monopoly positions or at least significant leads which are hard to overcome. (Uber, is a famous example).

Obviously this is only possible with significant financial capital, which google have.

I can see how the undercutting analogy has synergies with overpaying for talent. It's worth making a loss on hiring me if it means that someone else doesn't get the (lesser) value of me.
I was making ~$200k as a PHP developer, not sure what this has to do with it.
No, it's a correlation, that's all.
Game Dev Examines a Unique Hyper-Casual Take on Action Adventure
Support your claim with evidence, like I asked earlier. Not axiomatically; with an example of a mainstream messenger other than Signal that doesn't store a database of contacts serverside. For example: do either of the two messengers you formerly recommended manage to avoid this problem? After all, it's apparently super simple to solve this. Look at where this left Tox.
I'm pretty sure they weren't fined. I believe they were sued and settled with no admission of wrongdoing.
> Also, it's much more difficult to quantify the impact of a software engineer compared to investment bankers and consultants. The latter two are directly making money for the firm.

Yes, it is difficult, but possible.

Here's quick and dirty analysis - consider Sears, Walmart, and Amazon:

- Amazon pays its engineers near top of market - $1.5T market cap.

- Walmart has a pretty good engineering culture. They acquired a tech company to start Walmart Labs for data science stuff and they even have popular open source software (Hapi.js) - they're the largest company by revenue and $370B market cap.

- Ever been to Sears.com? Me neither - largest retailer in 1980 to bankrupt in 2018, stock price at $0.23 and $94M market cap.

I deduce that investment in software engineers == higher stock price.
Show HN: CampAlert.live – Get notified about campground openings
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I havent! but thanks - ill toss you one as well: https://thedecisionlab.com/
> I'd make sure that updates are going to be limited to security issues only and that any other feature changes or additions would always be optional rather than forced.

This is a great reply, but I strongly disagree with this bit above - with the pace the web is (finally) moving at, I think it's really important that browsers are "ever-green". Without automatic updates, it won't be long before websites don't look right, or just don't work, in Firefox. And that could lead to the kind of chaos that IE caused, and that would lead to a lot of hate for Firefox.

I think I agree with everything else you said though, and in particular the focus on privacy seems like a great point, especially within the EU.
Chrome still beats Firefox in most benmarks, often by 20-25%

Here's one from 6 weeks ago.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=chrome83...
I'm a bit at loss how this improves security or why it is necessary. If the kernel needs an external library as gatekeeper, something fundamentally went wrong.

And why would, say a Lisp compiler use the C library (or to use a more popular example, why would a Java VM do the same)? It might be common practice (to ease FFI/JNI), but making this a requirement seems heading the wrong direction.
There is a downvoting feature for comments when you have enough HN karma points. 500 iirc
True that Google itself sees value in paying 200K and they need to do that to attract the best talent compared to their competitors. But google has so much money that it almost makes it difficult for the little guys who could pay a good salary but not the inflated ones like google. I am not convinced that suddenly "market rate" is decided by FAANgs. No FAANG existed before 2004 (some did but weren't as powerful back then) and there were plenty of good developers/programmers even then.
McDonald's (among many other places--especially those with many lower income customers) certainly do have loss leaders. I don't eat at McDonald's but I assume something like the $1 $2 $3 menu functions as something to get people in the door after which they or their friends may buy high-priced/margin items as well.
Except they didn't buy the satellites, they bought the satellite company. The idea that a satellite company can only place a certain type of satellite in a certain orbit seems quite strange to me.

The criticism in this article that the purchase was done without consulting the Ministry of Defense seems a bit more serious. But there are always two sides of a story, and we have no idea what the other side's version is.
That's assuming that the thing Google is buying is a commodity, and its value is the same to all parties.
Seriously. Reading that title, I expected an article about some counterintuitive reason that it’s better for doctors not to wash their hands.

I have to believe most doctors, by far, do wash their hands.
> it hasn't actually changed the market value, except temporarily, in whats effectively a hack

All market values are temporary. Walmart absolutely has changed the market value in this scenario. It might be anticompetitive in the Walmart example, but in the case of one company paying their staff better than another I don't think the company paying less and complaining about it is going to get much sympathy :)