skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, people who are self taught can be quite competent in a very narrow area (like frontend web development), but have vast, gaping holes in their knowledge when it comes to the big picture. I'm talking about really fundamental stuff like what an algorithm is, what memory is and why it's useful etc.

University is such an important part of development overall that it really shouldn't be skipped. It's a shame that they've become overrun with stupid SJW/feminist nonsense these days, but I think it's still overall extremely valuable. You can't replicate the university environment at home.

Not only that, you'll be looked over for many opportunities when compared with people with degrees. This isn't entirely unfair, given the justifications for university above, but it is a little. Unfortunately that's just the way it is, though. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
I've been kind of deliberately vague, but after a couple months it isn't like I'm an expert on the area of the codebase now and other people come to me for advice. Other team members actively dodge working on this silo and everything just gets deflected to me. It doesn't feel like being a respected person who has experience with an area of the codebase, it just feels like shit rolling downhill.
I think we can just chalk this up to a competition between Canon and Adobe on who can delete the most photos from the world.
A while ago I studied traditional medicine like Ayurveda for a while. A lot of them state that disease starts from the gut . At the time western medicine totally rejected this idea and most likely not all disease starts that way. But over the last years I read more and more news that the gut flora and nutrition may have more influence than previously thought.

This makes me wonder in what other areas we have blinders on and don’t want to see things that may be beneficial. Meditation is another area that was considered BS when started but suddenly is looked at more seriously.
Do be aware: sassafras has mild carcinogenic properties.

> Sassafras is classified as a carcinogenic substance. It caused liver cancer in laboratory animals. The risk of developing cancer increases with the amount consumed and duration of consumption.

https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/herbs...
> I am not going to be debating what exact problems you had, but I must be extremely lucky if all those years I never had any kind of showstopper critical issue that made me think "Ok, I can't deal with this and I have to go back to a proprietary desktop".

Ugh. Thing is, it isn't about luck. It's about use cases and yours must just match how Linux works better. I'm going to take a wild guess that most of what you use a computer for is browsing the internet and either web or unix development.

> So forgive me for sounding condescending, but you went with probably the most obscure and least popular Ubuntu flavor - the one that has probably almost to no funding from Canonical and maybe a handful of developers interested on it. What were you expecting, exactly? If Ubuntu was bad for you, maybe try Fedora? If you wanted a more knowledgeable community, maybe try Arch?

If you had been paying attention instead of being a typically dismissive Linux evangelist, you'd have noted that the vast majority of my problems had to do with the Ubuntu part of Lubuntu. You know, the part that's common to all Ubuntu derivatives? Not to mention, as I said, I've tried many distros, popular distros, unpopular distros, wildly divergent distros, etc, they all have pretty much the same problems because the problems are inherent to how Linux userspace is constructed!

But whatever, you are just like the rest of the Linux Destkop community. You have made using Linux a part of your identity and cannot stand criticism, so you just become insulting, condescending, and generally dismissive of any issues anyone is experiencing.

> Why instead of sticking with your preconceptions of how things should work, you ask what are the others doing that let them be productive on a FOSS Desktop?

Because they are doing different things than I do! And when you want to do something different than what the Linux Desktop community does, their only advice is to not want to do that.

> We must have very different thresholds for defining "remotely viable".

Clearly. Which is pretty much exactly my point: Linux works for you because it fits your needs well, and it doesn't work for a lot of others, like myself, because it doesn't fit those needs well. If you're going to run around telling everyone how great your desktop is and that they should all use it, but refuse to recognize where it falls short, then you shouldn't be surprised when people don't want anything to do with your community.

Frankly, you are some of the most frustrating assholes I've ever had to deal with in computing.
OSM Notes are still useful. But the goal of OSM is a common owned geodatabase, ie a map. I hope eventually every person feels empowered and able to make simple map changes like this.
From the article, the pilot was sitting in a simulator. It’s also unfair to the pilot that he or she was not given all appropriate measures to avoid a gunslinger dogfight using long range weapons, teamwork, and stealthiness, but that wasn’t the point of the simulation.
> dictate every aspect of the transaction

Uber let’s drivers set their own rates in CA [0]. What is also interesting is that before Lyft/Uber many taxi drivers were contractors renting their cars for an hourly rate. With rates set by the government, it’s really not much different than “rideshare”, just less flexible for them and the customer.

One issue is the type of market transport is and the variability in demand. You can do just a few Lyft trips, or just 1 and then do something else. CA employment law does not allow “micro shifts” like that, you have to pay the employees for a few hours. With no government restriction the market works itself out, with a large number of people who work a bit at peak supplementing those who are more full time. I think the legislature took the lazy way out, they could of set up rules for minimum compensation, benefits, And worker protection without the rest of the employment baggage.

0 - https://www.uber.com/blog/california/set-your-fares/
From what I heard France has strong worker protection laws, even stronger than Germany. Do you think this is/could be a problem for startups?

I am absolutely against the US way of just firing people, but I accept the realism of small businesses and startups where you -as en employee- simply can't take for granted that your job (or company) will exist in 5 or even 2-3 years.

IIRC in Germany we have exceptions for <10 employees, for example.
Wouldn’t it work that way IRL too?
You can prefix your searches in the omnibox with “?” and they won’t be treated as possible short local network names
Selling to any real enterprise that costs north of 100K is almost impossible without a sales team (account executives, sales engineers). A lot of account executives have relationships from their previous work and they get a meeting through that. Look at any successful B2B startup like Okta, Mulesoft, Servicenow and their sec filings. Sales spending is always higher than R&D. It’s also assuming that your software is bug free and software engineers can spend time doing poc, demos etc or they like doing that. As much as we can all hate enterprise sales, just getting a contract from a large fortune company is a big deal.
> you can’t force me to use my personal phone how you’d like unless you provide it. You can force me to buy into an app that tracks the location of my device in order to enter buildings and such, but you can’t control which device I choose to use, nor force me to carry it in my personal life.

While I appreciate what you're trying to say, and agree that it's draconian. The assertion that they can't force you isn't quite true. The collage is private property, they can absolutely make entry conditional on using this app on your personal device.

If you don't agree with their measures, then you simply aren't allowed on the colleges private property. Just as equally they can make compliance a condition of providing your education (it's a private contract after-all). Again, don't like it, don't get educated.

Ultimately college education is a contract between private individuals, none of the protection you have against government overreach apply.
It's a command with my initials too, so how could I not compile and install this :) Thanks for doing this!
It's legal, you just still owe them the money. Nothing is stopping you from canceling a debit card that you have active reoccurring payments on, just if your mortgage was one of those the bank can still find you in default.

Similarly if Adobe owed you money they may make you run through a customer service maze in order to get it. That's legal too. They don't have to provide you with a method to automatically take as much money as you assume you are owed.
From the TM policy:

'In addition, you may not use any of the Marks as a syllable in a new word or as part of a portmanteau (e.g., "Gitalicious", "Gitpedia") used as a mark for a third-party product or service without Conservancy's written permission.'
Purescript is Haskell without cruft and built for the web era.

Idris or agda for type level goodies.
Keep in mind they were a key ingredient in "root" beers in the 19th century (leaves and bark).

I thought culinary use was technically not legal due to cancer concerns. The leaves can also be psychoactive.
On macOS you can block these with the excellent product Little Snitch.

I've got several rules for Google Chrome in Little Snitch that seem to do the trick. Deny outgoing UDP connections, and Deny outgoing TCP connections to port 80 for the IP addresses and domain for my ISP. You can see these if you monitor traffic.
Ideally it would round-robin across the team or have a dedicated team with more than one person. Having only one person know a particular part of the codebase is bad for bus factor and reduces the ability of the team to review code.
First, Uber doesn’t have separate contracts for every ride.

If a contractor had a contract to accept or decline every jira ticket (although I don’t see anyone ever forming that contract), if they declines too many tickets they would no longer have the option to pick.
I bet if we look at the requirements analysis of MCAS, the developers just met the specification. I think the article makes to much assumptions about the state of the industry and developer hubris, but the decision of system design of the plane was probably decided before it reached developers. They might also just have a perspective of this one system, so the result is as expected.
Ctrl+K for Windows users looking for a shortcut key.
https://www.economie.gouv.fr/entreprises/publier-annonce-leg...

4,16€ / line.
Intel defends AVX-512 against critics who wish it to die a 'painful death'
Human nature to talk about things that play on your mind? Could also be to show off how clever you are. But yes it’s slightly insane!
It's not easy from the jersey side either, at least it wasn't before Google maps.

fun fact, kids in the river towns call themselves river rats.
Tenure and funding are based on performance in journals and previous grants. Informal writing and reporting is nice, but it won't "pay the bills."
Winners of the 2020 APL Problem Solving Competition Announced
The drivers wanted in app tips. I think Lyft and Uber set rates assuming no tips, because usually people don’t tip and they get enough government heat already. They don’t want to end up like Door Dash and start using tips to explicitly cover base rates.
We often hear stories on how hard it is to start a business in France. As a French, I'd like to hear how easy it is in other countries (UK, US?). For example, what are the costs, the amount of paperwork...
Fixing aerodynamics with software is nothing new, and isn't always a mistake. The F-16 (a multirole fighter from the 70's) does this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting...
I've never seen Mozilla promoting the number of available extensions, and I've never heard that it's a significant metric they track internally. The addons site highlights a relatively small number of popular extensions, with some categories (e.g. password managers).

The blog post describes how Firefox tried to focus on its 'core' - assuming you mean people heavily invested in XUL add-ons - for years before they eventually decided it was a road to nowhere.
For me it's also a probability game:

If it's good research, it's more likely to be published in an academic venue (and possibly the other way around). So if there are a lot of papers, I will prefer the academically published ones.

I have limited time to read publications, I am not going to read everything just because it is available somewhere. For me, the amount of papers published these days is an argument for academic venues, not against them.

(As I am a computer scientist I have a hard time writing "journals" instead of any more general term, as conferences are way too popular in this field.)
I'd agree with this only because the Schuylkill has better access and recreation. One of the things the article ties together well is Philly's aging sewer system, which, during heavy rains gets overwhelmed and spits raw sewage into the rivers.

I've taken note of the mitigation efforts of "rain gardens" and such around the city. Sometimes there's just a series of ditches next to the sidewalk. The series around the Zoo caught my eye, like "why is this here?". But the city did a great job putting plants in there and making it look pretty as well as functional.

One of the things I've noticed, especially during heavy rain is the crazy amount of plastic bottles that end up in the rivers, which then go to the ocean. We really need to do a better job with that, as individuals and in infrastructure like better sewer grates.

It's also interesting in that these green initiatives are helping kick the can down the road on major replacement/bettering of the sewer infrastructure. Both need to be done, but progress is progress. Happy Friday everyone!
Warfare is only sometimes about good sportsmanship. During the part where you’re trying to kill each other, it’s totally fair game to pull more G if you can. It’s also fair to use a better jet with better missiles of you have them.

Once (if) the other guy has ejected and is under canopy, then it’s important to be a good sport again- no shooting at him while he’s defenseless, and if you capture him then you have to treat him with dignity as a POW.
In Testing, Scenarios Are King
The Peshtigo Fire
>reality check

After taxes it's 80k which is NOT allot outside France (not even paris) and you are in the high-income class, you see when you want good people you have to pay them the right amount of money so they can pay everywhere for a good life. It's like saying, but 20$ a day is a perfect income for Morocco, why don't we have the best tech peoples around??
I’be been convinced to buy one since the first time I saw the ad. I’ve not made the purchase because I try to avoid backordering, specially for products over 100-200$
Health in 2030, Floating Cities, Mental Health Crisis, Cult Wars, Giving Advice
I lived in France for 10+ years, I graduated at a French University and worked as software engineer, from what I have seen, France is not racist, but to assimilate into the society is not easy, I totally agree. I am fluent in French, so it is not about the language. Racism on streets of Paris does not exist at all, but racism exists at work, that is more worrying in France. Articles like this portray a welcoming image of France, because I could say I have been treated disrespectfully at the visa offices in France.
Exactly. If two fighters are in a dogfight in 2020 it's because an entire network of systems has failed.

This exercise simply isn't reflective of modern tactics.
As commercial software developers, our job is to write profitable code.

Not bug-free, elegant, perfect code. Not buggy, unusable, dependency-riddled unmaintainable code either.

It's an art getting that balance right. Not everyone does.
> That's because the French culture does not work on the same basis as the UK and northern european countries.

That's really interesting to know. I wish such labels (strong integration vs multiculturalism) were more explicit, like part of an "identity card" for countries.

Do you know what the root of this cultural difference is? Historically, has it always been present?
Tempting to believe, but it would be good to see some examples of B2B companies who succeeded via this route. Posthog were founded this year, according to Crunchbase, so this is a very young company to be giving concrete strategy advice.
No, not in any material way.

- When there's a rise in payroll tax across the board, I'd be extremely surprised all companies across the board raise their salaries. By default, a payroll tax hike will go out of the employee's cut.

- There are many huge companies whose payroll and profit are largely decoupled (as in, employee salaries are not a great indicator for company profit). Think McDonald's, Amazon, Walmart.
To my recollection, those three phones (Well, there are multiple SKU's) have the ability to emulate magnetic stripe cards as well, in order to use Samsung Pay on older terminals without contact-less payments.
What do we get from supporting Firefox against the "monopoly" though? Chromium is as open source as Firefox, and users have as much influence on features Firefox implements as on features Chrome implements, which is zero. I would wholeheartedly support federation apis, as parent comment suggests, standardization of browser sync api, etc. But i don't see what does Firefox accomplish now about which i should care.
Some large unions have been corrupted, but that doesn't mean conceptually unions are bad. This is a great example, where UPS deliberately sought out a bad union for its employees to stifle more progressive organizing: https://isreview.org/issues/58/rev-ups.shtml
So block the entry way and the whole facility is out of action?

Seems a significant single point of failure.
Where I work, we never ever index anything. And we use text types for every column, especially dates and IDs. Fun times.
Exactly. I tried to reverse some charges. The bank told me I had to file a police report. I did find that the company returned the money pretty promptly when I told them I was reporting them to the police...
Big +1 on that one, let's forget RSS and move to Atom :)
> That's cool if you can remember roughly what the command is called.
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> In a GUI, I'm fairly sure I could find this easily, in emacs it is "go to google" and find out that you want sgml-petty-print or whatever.

I just yank into a new buffer, set it to xml mode, "M-x indent" reveals the command to format xml (indent-region or indent-buffer or something like that), enter, yank it back. Done.

In an editor with a gui, I would just go to "Help -> Search" and do pretty much the same, which would reveal the menu item to click to achieve something. I find emacs ido/helm workflow for this much better. Never need to memorize anything.
I recently just blocked port 53 in my firewall completely, for that exact reason. I use an internal DNS server the forwards to an DOH upstream server. No more rogue devices trying to use their own dns, at least until they all switch to DOH too
>France is dying, because France can't have a private sector because of its regulations.

>France is dying to me. As an 18-yo, I'm seriously concerned on what to do for my future. The country has a super good education system (I would easily say the best in the world, by far) (just check out the ENS's Nobel prize / admissions ratio) but has no companies where people do any work. Most of the brilliant French minds go to work in other countries where it's possible to create and operate a company.

You're young, and you are, quite honestly, fully misinformed as to how things work in France. I know it, I live here, I was born here, I work here.

France is at the forefront of airplanes, rockets, AI, has hundreds of startups and old companies. The only places where the private sector cannot exist directly because of regulation are fully justified. Take the upcoming dismantlement of EDF in multiple companies, leaving 35% to the private sector. Handing off electricity distribution to private entities is quite possible the worst thing a country can do. This is an essential service. And so are all the other ones that limit the private sector. Everything else is absolutely fair game, and evidenced day after day. Things like visa applications ? Handled by private companies. URSAFF & Pole Emploi ? Mostly handled by private companies.

So, yes, we have a sizeable public sector. Yes, we have laws that prevent employers from abusing employees. Nothing that prevents you from starting your company, in any sector. It does prevent you from treating employees like shit. Hell, you can become a micro-entrepreneur today if you want.
Enterprise Service Bus had this goal, and it mostly failed as a standard due to its complexity. Arguably, HATEOS has a similar goal by making APIs universally discoverable
Tax data for a SASU company:

- 20% VAT on revenue,

- then, after your marginal costs:

- Either distribute as dividends. IS is 15% to 30% of profit, then long story short with CSG, there is a 17% tax,

- Either distribute as salary to employees: 46% as taxes/contributions,

- In either case, dividends or salaries, we have to pay 0% to 45% income tax, averaging at 10-15% of our incomes.

Don’t forget mandatory paperwork (lodging accounting documents yearly) + an accountant because you won’t understand how to lodge the paperwork. In total, if you had only mandatory charges + VAT + CET (city tax assuming you have no office) + IS + CSG + Income tax, for 100k revenue distributed 100% as dividends, you’ll have 51,325€;

If you distribute 100% as your own salary, you’ll get 39.285€.
I almost bought Final Cut Pro but opted for DaVinci just in case I might want to go back to Windows.
Are folks generally happy with the tablet? I just pre-ordered the new one!
- May work for situations where the buyer is the user

- Doesn't work for B2B/enterprisey products/SaaS, where often buyers and users are separated by many levels of corporate hierarchies.
And the competitors literally put their browsers on your device, with prominent icon and set to open every web page without having to download anything. Yet people still chose to get Chrome.

Without recognizing good things Chrome does, there cannot be a viable competitor.
I don't think such calculations are particularly useful, maybe about as much as Paul Graham's wealth tax "model". The reason is that tax codes are way more complicated than just nominal tax rates.

Did you know, for instance, that you taxable income is 90% of your real income [0]? So the 45% rate kicks in at a 175,340€ wage, not actually 157,806€.

Anyway, it does not matter because of the unusually large income splitting [1]. If both adults have a 157,806€ wage and say, two kids, the total income would be 315,612 with three fiscal shares, and thus would pay 3 times the amount of taxes owed for a 315,612/3 income (i.e. 105204€), where the marginal tax rate is 30%, not 45% [2].

Anyway, it does not matter either because the main income tax in France is not the "income tax", but the "generalized social contribution" (flat rate).

My point is not to write an essay on French taxation, but to show that simply comparing tax brackets and rates is useless, since the definition of "taxable income" is not the same between different countries, how brackets, rates and taxable income are used to actually compute the tax amount is not straightforward, there are many others taxes, and so forth.

[0] https://www.impots.gouv.fr/portail/particulier/questions/com...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_splitting

[2] Amount of tax is number of n T(i/n), where i is income, T is the function which maps income to taxes owed and n is the number of fiscal shares. Because T is convex, n T(i/n) is less than T(i).