skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But as the number of Firefox users decreases (due to the growing market dominance of the Chrome browser), and those users click on fewer online ads (for example, because they’re spending less during the COVID-19 pandemic), the willingness of Google and other customers to pay the Mozilla Corporation for those users decreases accordingly.

> Thus when COVID-19 hit and the Mozilla Corporation hit a brick wall in terms of search engine revenue...

Did the pandemic really have an impact on search engine revenue? From what I can tell, users are spending more time online, viewing (and maybe even clicking) more ads and searching for more things online. Google's stock is back to its pre-pandemic peak level, so they seem to be doing fine.

Did Google play hard-ball with Mozilla during their contract negotiations, and manage to lower the cost of their default search engine deal? If so, I feel like that should've generated a bigger outrage than some Chrome UX/Security people tweaking the URL bar. Especially with all the antitrust stuff going on.
More Idleness would be better
Idleness. A word that has fallen into disrepute. Idleness, as the proverb warns, is the root of all vice; and more than a few even see in it the worst of all vices: the refusal to perform in a performance-based society.

The calls for deceleration, which are becoming louder and louder, have rehabilitated idleness to a certain extent in recent years. In the wellness sector at least it has found a firm place - and in countless magazine articles when it has to do finding oneself or burnout syndrome.

Idleness requires free time. This is more than leisure time: it is a time free of constraints, empty time that can be filled with what the moment offers.

Caught in the daily hustle and bustle, it is difficult to develop new perspectives. One is so busy mop­ping up the water that one does not even think of turning off the tap.

In order to get a grip on things at any time, your hands should be free. Being idle means to have time to do the right thing at the right moment.

(Source: Jupp Hartmann: Departure into Emptiness - Climate Crisis, Idleness and Mysticism, 3rd chapter)
What about ﷺ ? Arabic letters in domains should be OK, right? It decomposes into a lot(!) of characters.
I'm very interested in giving these classes a shot when they become available. I have been working on a tool (for 4 years now) for a hockey simulation that tracks growth of players and I try to do some predictive analysis, but I have limited knowledge on that subject. I would love to use proper ML techniques to predict player success based on the data points I capture.

I'm fine to use Amazon's cloud services for the course, but I hope they are not required. That will severely limit the usefulness of the course for me.
yup, that. i've done contract work for a bunch of american companies and that's basically how it's done: i do they work they ask, i send them an invoice, they pay by transferring the money to my company's bank account, i pay the proper taxes and then pay myself.

it's actually quite nice.
Why this kind of article again? Apple rules the apple app store, we can, and we do have alternative way to deliver apps.
Yes, I am based in Europe. If this was EU's fault then why didn't any of the other cloud vendors have this requirement?
Maybe seed round/earlier you can’t hire those folks? In my experience, the engineer who liked being on an early team does not enjoy being part of a 100+ eng org. So dependency soup engineers churn and you end up with a different type of engineer when they transition to a real company.

(Clearly this is one perspective. It would be great to hire the best engineers from day one but sometimes that’s not practical.)
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I wonder what the complaints are regarding App Engine. I've been using it for over five years without any issue.

Come to think of it, the Channels API shut down was a bit of a nuisance. But it never worked all that well, and deprecation seemed like a reasonable move to me.

Here's a detailed list[1].

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/deprecations
Thinking about these as a "verbose imperative language" programmer, I'd say suffix agreement seems to make more sense to me at first glance, and I'd like to hear more about why it might be worse.

For why I think it makes sense: I think of multidimensional arrays as being arrays of arrays, and "normal" index lookup operating on the first dimension. If I have a

float[100][3]

in some context I might think of it as 100 vec3s, and I might want to do some vec3 operation on each of them. I might want to dot them all with my some other vector, or add them all to some other vector. I almost never have 100 scalars and want to apply one scalar to all elements of the corresponding vec3.

But I guess maybe this is all widely agreed on, and maybe the contentious part is just index order? Like, maybe you'd say "100 vec3s" is actually

float[3][100]

in which case prefix agreement would make more sense.
Fair enough, yes, that's a bit sensationalized version of what I said. And, despite being a generally rational person, I don't find it far fetched.
Servo is essentially a research project.
As you develop as a human, you start to understand that legal/illegal is often not a black-and-white thing.

There is the obviously legal, and widely practiced.

There is the obviously illegal, and clearly enforced.

And there is a huge gray area, where people and states just make things up as they go along. Law that crosses national boundaries is particularly exciting in this regard.
"Some of the decline represents a positive trend: young people getting more eduction [sic]."

A particularly unfortunate spot in the article for the editor to have missed a misspelling. Even in 2015, surely they had spellcheck?
Oops, I messed up. It would not help of course. My bad.
They also asked for the VAT number of the company...
>Most importantly this is not anywhere near the level of intervention shown by Russia.

A country that borders it and has been repeatedly invaded via it.
There's simply no way that this type of fungus could absorb enough radiation simply because it's not dense enough.

If you want to absorb radiation you have to block it which means it has to come into contact with matter.

The only way you can do this is to have either a smaller volumetric amount of something that's dense (lead, gold, uranium, etc) or a LARGE amount of something less dense (water, concrete, etc).

If you're just talking about an organic organism, sure, it can use the radiation BUT you'd need to have a MASSIVE amount of it in terms of volume and weight.

Simply put, the fungus itself is sparse when looking at it from a subatomic perspective. Most of the radiation passes right through it.
You sound so proud.
Because everyone is a developer these days, even your grandparents.
In case people wonder, the pre covid employment figure was around 60% for working age people in the USA.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/employment-rate#:....

I bring this up every time people discuss working week length, productivity etc. We have massively reduced the percentage of people working. But instead of giving everyone 2 extra days off, we gave 40% of people all the days off and made the rest work harder...
Inventing an entirely knew programming language with new concepts that is aiming at smart people and basing critical components of the web browser on it.

It is this kind of decision which freaks out the ordinary HN reader but is otherwise an alarm bell to any sane business responsible.

That was the nail into the coffin.
For the older cohorts, isn't it possible people are doing informal work and not reporting it?

As for the younger cohorts, it used to be a thing that you'd work a bit in order to build up your CV. These days, it seems like a lot of things that you could do simply don't count towards a career anymore, there's been a cultural shift where many hiring managers don't buy that a job in another industry helps much. Waiting tables used to be a just fine way to show you were able to work, now you need an internship in a bank or you may as well not bother. Same with many other professions.
I was commenting on a comment that specifically disconnected the word "memory" from the specifics of human mental memory.
they're the odd days except for 2.
For contractors working remotely (not on US soil), this is just plain wrong.

My company has employed numerous non-US contractors in about 10 different countries for more than a decade. We never opened an entity in another country, or filed extra paperwork. In fact, IRS Form 1099 does not even need to be filed for non-US contractors.

The link you posted is more about W-2 employees. Most of the problems it mentions go away when dealing with a 1099 contract relationship.
I agree with her that lots of libraries on the internet are bad. But expecting companies to write their own is worse. I remember years ago that everyone wrote their own C string libraries. There were hundreds of them. Most were bad. Then C++ matured and provided a pretty good (and safe) standard string class. Having that standard library was way better than everyone writing their own (mostly bad) string solutions.

So it is OK to use libraries, but use well regarded ones that have large, established communities. And don't use libraries for simple small things that your team can do themselves.

Her point about depending on others to get your company's work done is a valid one and should be minimized as much as possible. This is why I prefer open source, standard languages and why governments still use C and C++. They are ISO standards that will be around and stable for decades.
Weren't GCP users running around telling everyone "Google only shuts down consumer products and not its cloud services!!"
Idk, DO is adding a lot of managed services lately so it doesn't feel like they're going for the simple, well implemented commodity play for the long run.
Because “disinformation” is a trendy buzzword at the moment
A squirrel can bring down a city's power grid as well, so YMMV. https://www.publicpower.org/blog/defending-against-outages-s...

This tactic of elevating your pet issue by linking it to a hypothetical catastrophe seems a bit unserious. A network model of how memes and beliefs spread is interesting, but they seem to adopt someone elses model in support of their idea. It's useful to apply extra skepticism to papers that link ideas to catastrophe, since it's likely using it as a vehicle.

However, an alternative interpretation from this is they may show it's possible to ascertain someone's political beliefs or alignment and select them for further investigation using their electricity consumption patterns, which if true, would be right out of the anti-smart-meter infrastructure conspiracies we encountered during SMI rollouts.
> Any good developer should be able to pick up any language quickly.

I see this repeated very often without support, and I think it should be challenged. In my experience there are cases where it's true, and cases where it isn't.

Actual example: I have met highly competent software engineers who were (primarily) excellent Python programmers. They knew OOP well, they didn't typically over-abstract, but they could still leverage modular code for reusability, they tested early and often, they could dig into an existing codebase and maintain it, they could critically and constructively review others' code, they had a deep knowledge of the Python standard library and various domain-specific frameworks, etc. They were really good at all of this.

But by their own admission, they were crap at C++. They didn't really know memory management at all, and they didn't really get the whole "ethos" of C++. Moreover, they periodically tried (and failed) at picking up functional programming.

Now I believe if they were sufficiently motivated they could eventually pick these languages up. But they wouldn't "quickly" ramp up on a production codebase written in a C++ or Clojure. The idea that they're not a "good developer" because they wouldn't be able to quickly become productive in one of these radically different languages is therefore incongruous to me. I'm sure they could dive into a Ruby or JavaScript or even Java codebase. Or maybe C++ if it was strictly modern, 17+ and avoided raw pointers like the plague. But in general, no. It would
take a lot of time, because some languages come with a lot of baggage that aren't just about the syntax. For someone who had always relied on Python's PIP, for example, the process of vendoring and importing C++ header libraries is already an obstacle.

The reason I'm going on about this is because it seems like received wisdom and is often stated as an accepted aside, but I really think it needs more nuance. Otherwise we run the risk of defining "good" software engineers by what is perhaps just a no true scotsman.
I work from Canada for a US contracting firm with little issues. Through them I work for Cisco which does have a Canadian office, however
The GeminiPDA can be flashed. I'm not sure if the Cosmo, or the newer device can be flashed.
The Gemini PDA supports an older version of Design.
Thanks for providing this insight. I am looking at a C Corp from Stripe instead of the LLC because I think the business will grow in the next two years. I started looking at other online incorporation services and stumbled across a few that seemed like they were unable to scale to meet demands, I know because of the reviews on BBB and saw some complaints (they were state based). I think this is definitely an area I want to spend money on so I'm not wasting time on legal and tax issues. Are you getting E&O insurance through Stripe (or a referral) or did you add that elsewhere?
Why would Canonical leader use such words like "fuck them" ? That's just a absurd conspiracy theory.

For example Wekan Snap is used in very many different distros: https://snapcraft.io/wekan
They did show Chrome how to block autoplaying audio in a way that does't annoy the crap out of users.

The screenshot feature is great and I use it constantly.

The containers implementation is pretty slick, and it enabled the first-party Facebook Container add-on which makes it harder for FB to track users across the web.

Edit: And readability mode, which was added a long time ago but I'm including it because Chrome still doesn't have one.
Not only is no one paying attention to mindless tweets, it will make you feel better about yourself subconsciously.
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What’s astonishing is not the ability to block radiation (after all, biology will always defer to chemistry first, and physics second—there’s no way biology can come up with something that exceeds the capabilities of its substrates) but rather life’s way of rapidly adapting to make use of whichever energy source it can find to eke out an energy budget to thrive on.

P.S. Who else heard Dr Ian Malcom say “Life... finds a way” in their head?
What do the terms and conditions allow? That’s the important question here
The post did actually talk about contractors:

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3.) Hiring contractors DOES work around some issues, but has its own downsides. First, we can't offer options/stock to contractors and we'd like all our employees to benefit from this. Second, we often can extend the same full time benefits we want all our employees to share such as healthcare, 401K, etc. Put another way: we want all HashiCorp employees to be employees, we don't want to create second class citizens.

Legally, some countries have legal limits on the hours a contractor can work or length of time they can be contracted before they're considered an "employee" by default and regardless of what you SAY the relationship is, the country will consider it employment and points 1 and 2 above all take effect immediately.

So we certainly DO hire contractors but our point of view is that we intend to hire those people full time over time. We'll often hire contractors if we know that we'll have a legal entity established to hire them within X months, and we're up front with the new hire about this. We'll also pro-rate option/stock vesting for their contractor period when they are hired.
That's why the UK has a number of pumped storage schemes such as Dinorwig and Loch Awe. Typically this sort of facility can put 500MW into the grid from cold at about 1 minute's notice. With warning (so the turbines can be spun up to speed) the ramp up time is about 10s.
I think it’s just a much harder problem than Netflix or Youtube recommendations - Amazon has at least 500 million products, and people aren’t buying individual products at the same scale as they watch videos. Has anyone with >1000 products really nailed product recommendations without large precision losses?
If Mozilla wants to have a future it needs to:

- Realize it lost the browser wars, abandon FF and base it on chromium. It might upset the average FF geek on HN but you're not paying for FF development - Google is. As FF user base keeps dropping Google is not going to be interested in funding their development. No one cares about FF enough to actually fund it. Google just is because they want to push you ads.

- They need another revenue model. Probably focusing on B2C products. They should start acquiring more companies to buy growth.

They've really squandered a huge opportunity.
There are lots of Israelis living in the west bank, they aren't going anywhere nor is their presence harmful to anyone (nationalist feelings aside). Palastinians would vote to the PA, and they will decide their own taxes and laws, ext (as is the case now). The Israelis will vote to the Knesset. Besides the lack of arms to the PA, this isn't too far from where it is now. This is of course not apartheid, just a reasonable way to live side by side.
That's what throwaways are for ;)
That's roughly where my head is. I don't feel guilty per se, but I am aware that my ranking isn't really "organic". I knew the value of backlinks and went after it in a very deliberate way.
Vibing.

If this whole meditation trend reaches its logical conclusion, you'll understand.
That's relatively irrelevant - Chrome was much faster at the most important sites - which are coincidentally mostly google owned - but still faster - GMail, Youtube, Google itself felt faster on Chrome back then. Then there's the flash handling which was important back then.

Also FF was shitty at stability, it didn't have multi process architecture for the longest time and I've had a page crash my entire browser (especially in the flash days) regularly.

And then chrome started pushing excellent dev tools (even in FF nightly I get dev tools hanging on complex sites because of how slow they are)

Chrome was the better browser back then and it won the power users and developers, then it took over the casuals as it was advertised on google and it was recommended as the best by everyone - it took FF too long to catch up and now a lot of sites don't even test compatibility - I've been trying to switch back to FF before this fiasco for a month and it wasn't a smooth experience compatibility wise.
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use wordpress over ghost everytime
I believe the question is about contactors (freelancers) not employees.
Easy: privatization of a thing almost always decouples its administration and operation from politics. Private corporations are almost never self-sabotaging because they can’t afford to be, and when they are, they quickly die and get replaced. OTOH having a representative democracy appoint and appropriate the governance of our services is well and good when people actually want that. Unfortunately, whoever is in power has reliably flip flopped back and forth every 4-8 years, and as you might have noticed, people don’t always vote for the “best” people. Privatization allows the postal service to run and be funded totally independent of partisan politics. Amazon provides its services cheaply and reliably because it doesn’t have to worry about who is in power every 8 years.

And privatization isn’t some new scary boogeyman, it’s been implemented in a handful of healthy and prosperous nations (Germany, Japan, Singapore, the UK).

> Which of your problems cannot be fixed by changes to the current system?

I’d ask you how you’d even go about “changing the system” when you’re participating in that system with people that violently disagree with you. This is the logical endpoint of “democratic planning”, where people that disagree with you vote for a self-sabotaging system. Nobody wins, everyone is equally unhappy.
Now if only they had a bot API which wasn't so restrictive...
It seemed that the OP was about being employed, i.e. W-2, given the mention of H1B visas. There are, of course, often various ways around that with contracting relationships but as the sibling comment notes, that has some limitations. (And, in general, for obvious reasons a company can't just effectively hire an employee and say "they're just a contractor" and skirt all the associated employment rules.

ADDED: On rereading, they do seem to be asking about the temporary remote contracting part. In which case, the answer is probably yes subject to the laws of their country.
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“Spanish businessmen suspect that the Chinese Government might have copied their «jamón» production methods during an inspection made in 2008 by a group of oriental technicians in some of their factories. The objective of that visit was to check the manufacturing conditions of that product to authorize its export to the asian country. But at the beginning of 2010, the first Chinese hams arrived in the market.”
https://www.abc.es/tecnologia/abci-jamon-china-201111280000_...

In the USA they typically do something different: put the name in whatever product that barely resembles the original, like they did with their “manchego” cheese, a label put in all kinds of cheese-like products.

As for the Chinese ham, their propaganda reached even German TV where a supposed documentary (Galileo) claimed that Spanish «jamón» was brought from China by Marco Polo. Never mind that the Romans already knew it and there was a 2000 y.o. ham found in Conesa, Catalonia: https://www.incarlopsa.es/mundo-jamon/historia-jamon

I’m sure they can produce excellent meat products in Texas; they just shouldn’t call it “ibérico” as it isn’t, just call it “texan ham” or even “jamón tejano” which actually sounds quite good!
Superior, as in defines a standard API. A clear API means the browser maker is free to change the internals of the browser, without worrying about changing something that some extension relies on.
See for yourself

https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-machine-learning-universi...

sklearn + mxnet ?
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Not really, almost all the radiation is converted to heat just like in any shielding material.
Good insight. My intuition tells me that "buying links" is still the fastest path to ranking well, provided you are stealthy enough.
Twitter isn't meant for this type of content. If you want to publish an article then do that on a blog and link to it on twitter.
> He is furious with the failure of the Spanish government to protect jamón’s integrity and allow native blackfoot pigs to be exported to the United States.

> Martínez rejects the argument that, as a variety, the blackfoot pig can’t be protected by a denomination the way champagne and parmesan cheese are, pointing out that the Japanese wagyu enjoys just this sort of protection.

They are trying to set limits on where the pig is allowed to be brought. Not "the pigs must be from so-and-so region to be Iberian blackfoot pigs", but "Iberian blackfoot pigs must not be allowed to be exported [from Iberia I suppose?]". I'd say that copyright and software licenses are an apt metaphor for what they're trying to do.