skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely not my observation (working in Germany in automotive). All of us are using one of the generic PC. To be honest, our PCs have been pretty reliable, suitable for the purpose. The service quality is also surprisingly adequate.

The only time I see MacBook are when we get the consultants visiting us. They are always decked out in the latest Apple gear.
That makes sense when the fat cats are making huge profits and paying a pittance to their workers. But Uber is losing billions every year. Where is the money going to come from?
XDP vs. OVS
I am not. As I said this outgoing radiation is mostly balanced by incoming radiation. But it does illustrate the theoretical maximal capacity for radiative cooling, when stuck naked in interstellar space.
This is a well-spread stereotype but is it backed up by reality? At the bare minimum I'd like to know about HN's personal experiences during their twenties and thirties.
Still waiting for my Remarkable 2 to arrive (now sometime in October). So frustrating to keep getting so many ads for it.
It's called a buyer's market. It's normal that there's an oversupply of unskilled labor, so the buyers of that labor have more power.

However, don't forget that it's usually the same for a business and its customers: Ride-hailing itself is a buyer's market. Lyft and Uber are unprofitable. The only way for them to stay "in business" is to constantly burn money.

Supply and demand is not a free market ideal, it's a law of nature. Worker's rights or unions can't raise market prices above demand by fiat, all they can do is limit supply so that prices naturally rise. That means more people are out of a job, but those that are in the job might make a little bit more, if the overhead of running the union doesn't eat up the difference.

You can make the argument that limiting supply is justified, just like forcing people into pension or health care systems may be justified because people are fundamentally irrational. You just have to be able to phrase it that way and acknowledge the trade-off, otherwise you're just fooling yourself.
It most certainly is. Current “startup culture” (or should we say “swindle culture”?) values illiteracy of the masses because everyone's dream is, in simple terms, to screw millions (or billions) of fools over and make a lot of money from it. No wonder the path of adopting to ignorance, downgrading to lower level is chosen instead of the path of education and lifting people higher.

A user who doesn't know what address bar is and types all the things into search engine benefits Google. Therefore, you won't see any changes in Chrome.

Obviously, it's more general topic than bashing the usual IT evils. People take reading and writing for granted, just like they take having electricity and water supply for granted, but it doesn't just magically happen. There is an enormous continuing work. Remember the '80s talks about teaching kids using and programming computers because it was ESSENTIAL FOR THE FUTURE? What has happened? Computers haven't got simpler at all. You still need to teach how to use them, but today it's not a fashionable topic, and everyone pretends it's not their problem. The result of a disparate, self-maintained education is — who would've thought — uneducated people. In addition, the “educated” “specialists” treat users as if they are on a tropical plantation in a cork hat: “Those damn brutes can't learn to do anything properly! Can't argue with nature, stick to whips and simple tasks.”

It is important to remember that the radiance of modern IT sphere has little to do with Jobs' iphone presentation and whatnot. Without old simple-hearted initiatives, long forgotten BASIC listings in hobbyist journals, government programs on educational computers, and local electronics clubs a lot of people would not work there. Everyone was stupid once, there is no exception to that. The focus should be on the process of learning, not the state of being stupid.
Not being IE doesn't help much when the competition is Chrome.
I somewhat fail to see the connection between Roblox and MUDs but FWIW one of the most well known MUDs of the 90's is still up and running, M.U.M.E (Multi-Users in Middle Earth). It was a Diku derivative but with its own online language for the wizards to code in, designed by a compiler PhD, at the time it was state of the art.

MUMEs attraction was that it was difficult and run with attention to details and RPG.
Ah, that's referring to something else. By generation it means the first output string of every scenario.

IIRC I heard someone mention that OpenAI made them do that because people were trying to end-run around the GPT-3 access restrictions?
Can Capture One migrate my existing LR catalogs?
Anyone have experience with how this compares to clonezilla?
Out of curiosity, what's the challenger bank you started? I'd love to learn more.
> otherwise literally more than half of the salary is gone in taxes.

That's par for the course. Is there many countries where companies can get away with paying much less (including employee health insurance, retirement etc.) ?
Comment: Digital sovereignty at a bargain price – from Europe and Mozilla
> But I'm pretty sure I remember a transition period during which all my XUL-based extensions were either rewritten to support multiprocess or deprecated, which was years before XUL extensions were actually killed in favor of the less-capable WebExtensions.

It wasn't really years. Electrolysis went live in spring 2017 (it came with Fx 48 and was gradually activated till Fx54). Around that time was the first massextinction of addons.

WebExtensions and Firefox Quantum then came in autonm 2017 with Fx 57, finalizing the bigger second massextinction.
So let me get this straight:

You're saying that Google is so amazing at marketing, that they beat Apple, Microsoft and Firefox at marketing that browser, although Chrome wasn't even the default preinstalled browser on most devices? Chrome isn't the default on Windows, it's not the default on macOS, it's not the default on Linux, it's not the default even on most Android devices (Samsung Browser is, since Samsung is still handling the majority of Android market, followed by Chinese manufacturers who don't bundle Chrome at all).

That for all the efforts of Apple to push Safari as default, Microsoft to push Edge as default... Chrome had no other merits than just ONLY Google marketing which has somehow managed to beat out the default preinstalled well marketed browsers without any special additional technical merits?

You reasoning is missing something fundamental. Is it possible, and entertain the thought for a bit, that Chrome was just the better browser for a long time? Maybe?
According to [1], non-fuel use of petroleum is 16%. Of those 16%, I'd guess most uses have an alternative, even if less convenient. Most of the things you listed don't specifically require oil, just hydrocarbons transformed in series of steps.

Oil is a strategic resource for energy and not much else important. There is short term manufacturing dependence, but most countries should have sufficient reserve capacity, currently for fuel use.

https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/articles/39/
As a former coder for Achaea, I was surprised as well. You mean Matt Mihály.
That is not "spending"
Yeah that’s probably very hard to avoid in the Slack world
Jan Pieterszoon Coen
PUBG on VirtualXposed
VirtualXposed doesn't show PUBG app when added to virtual space.. Does anybody know why this happens?I downloaded the APK from a third party source (https://virtualxposed.org/) Could this be the reason for this problem?
America's Great Divide: Steve Bannon (PBS Frontline)
I'm fructose intolerant too, and when I discovered it, and I adjusted my diet accordingly, my life changed for the better.

Probably your wife knows about it but just in case, I've found a great relief in the low fodmap diet by Monash University.
Onyx Boox
One other thing that is missing here is that Firefox was trying (and still is) too much to be an "app store" and "sandbox" for extensions. This is not what we should be expecting of a browser, and again goes back to another point someone else made in this discussion is that Firefox is chasing "huge" marketshare instead of focusing on its core and growing organically from there.

What that metric-chasing meant is having their extension store spammed with useless extensions. I think that extension-count was a mistaken metric to chase, and no wonder they felt overwhelmed with trying to support spam-level amounts of extensions.

At it's core, I think this entire debate boils down to "who is responsible if an extension breaks the browser or some other extension". A relatively small set of "complex" or "tightly integrated" extensions that enhance and extend Firefox's behavior is a good spot to be in. Rather than what we have now where all the "interesting" browser extension points are not available to the extensions to modify and we have a metric tonne of copy-paste-similar extensions that are hard to discover.
Climate change science is in dire need of a journal like this.
reality check, 120k€/year already puts you in the top 1% of income earner in France. Past this point you should be satisfied with how much you've already earned and maybe starts caring more about the impact your job/company should have...
I had the theory that they were trolls. To my defense, at the time it got popular in my country, there were a lot of comments under news articles against Muslims and there was a general trend to put blame on them for every ill of society. People trying to make them as a group responsible for terrorism and demanded they need to distance themselves from these acts. Some form of backward kin liability.

Then they blamed all men and white people. It would have been an awesome troll to make people question their reasoning. Problem was that they weren't trolling and pretty serious about it.
The tcpdump screenshot was created after the bug was fixed. It demonstrates the interception of traffic generated by the Google Accounts Daemon on a instance running within my personal project.
What about the fringy hypothesis of solar mini-novas to explain the extinctions?

Would appreciate some thoughts on the plausibility of this.

There’s a growing internet movement of people pushing this and they sound geekier than your usual conspiracy theorist.
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I double dare you to listen to a sting album every night for just a month while considering 15 years of it.

You really can't spend that kind of money. So what do you want to do with it? What do you want to do with your time? Time which is a resource of yours that is actually scarce when you have stupid money so it is not scarce at all.
Reaction Engines and Rolls-Royce to develop supersonic and hypersonic systems
Most likely: RSS has better brand recognition than Atom feeds. There’s probably not a single RSS reader that doesn’t support Atom too.
The purpose of Space Force is not to deploy a fleet of manned spacecraft, it is to initiate and manage the prescision deorbit manuevers of titanium rods into aircraft carriers and other ground assets. Why do you think the latest X37B launch was so massive? Edit: sarcasm
Maybe I hang around with lawyers too much, but I suspect most data that companies hold about you could be argued is actually a receipt of a transaction between you and another party, especially in the case of credit bureaus. In that sense it's not really your personal information - it's about you in part, but it's also about the other party, and if that party doesn't want the data deleted it's reasonable that it isn't.
TLDR;
>Supported platforms

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> Windows

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Sorry guys, not for me ...
The site seems to be down ... here is the referenced page courtesy of the WayBack machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200821000640/https://benpaulha...
No, the point is that in combined address and search bar you don't know whether something is a (local) domain or a search query. You can recognize known TLDs, but that's it.

Guess what Google' priorities were when they approached that problem.
Same. These exclusive clubs are just a big turn off.
It is not unreasonable that an ethically minded person would have chosen to take the actions that he did. For example, consider if his first priority was to protect the people whose PII was leaked.

With the hackers' identities known, Uber or Sullivan is able to use the threat of exposing their crime as leverage if they should notice that the PII is being exploited. The 100k doesn't make single-game game-theoretic sense but can guard against people who expect a tit-for-tat.
> You're saying that Google is so amazing at marketing, that they beat Apple, Microsoft and Firefox at marketing that browser.

Google literally had a banner on their homepage prompting users to try Chrome.

E: Of course, I don't mean to say Chrome was a bad browser and won entirely through marketing. But its current market position has as much to do with Google's explosive marketing (they had billboard ads for Chrome! For a free browser!) as much as with Chrome's technical qualities.
> It's sad to see people supporting monopoly this way...

The realistic way to avoid monopolies and retain free-ish markets is to actively enforce anti-trust legislation. (And in the case of social media companies: force all players of a certain size to provide federation APIs, so people can leave the service and still talk to their friends and family.)

There will always be some people that try to avoid monopolies for ideological reasons; but 90% of the population won't care, they just want things to work and move on with their lives, and capturing that segment still makes you a monopoly.
I understand that people generally mean 'null results' here, by your definition, when they say 'null results'. That's the intent.

Null results are also important.

Suppression of null results allows for p-hacking and confirmation biases to creep into research, and greatly reduces the power of literature reviews.
To rephrase the dilemma you pose: "FAANG has more money than my startup and the employees I want are mainly motivated by money". There is probably not much you can do to beat FAANG on the money front. Some options include:

- Go for less top-notch people. Do you really need the very best or have you just convinced yourself that you do? How do you even measure quality? I've seen ex-FAANG people bomb more than once at a younger company because they couldn't handle the lack of structure and immediately went about imposing Google-scale solutions and processes for a 10-person company.

- Seek out people motivated by something else than money (ie autonomy, purpose, mastery, community) and offer them opportunities to chase those things.

- Finally, your post is very focused on YOUR perspective as entrepreneur. Things like "there will be no options left in the pool for other people" and "then companies like mine and many others will die" are not problems for the prospective employee. They are under no obligation to join your company just because you really want them to.
I just love that Asian developers finally 'discovered' the English speaking FOSS community.

A lot of the software I use and contribute to has gained many contributors from China, Singapore and Japan through the last 1-2 years.

It really warms my heart to see that FOSS knows less and less borders :)
For those interested in moving to Europe, seedtable maintains a list of European Tech Visas which could be handy

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wLPGB2BdRxHWbdOXXtKA...
Everybody on the net is always like "Just told my bank to block the transaction" - when I did that, in a EU country, my bank was very reluctant.

They wanted proof that I had been in contact with the company and tried to get a refund from them, and that I in fact didn't owe them money.
People rarely speak passionately about things they're reasonably happy with.
I'm fairly certain air conditioners aren't operating anywhere near the thermodynamic limit. At ordinary ambient temperature you could maintain a temperature difference of 10C with about 3000% efficiency.
Well that party ended a lot quicker than I expected.
If there's any sort of competition for employees then you have to be ready to offer more than the guideline to keep/attract the best people.
Please write a blog post with a more complete list of podcasts that you listen to and sites that you read!

It turns out it is surprisingly difficult to find pointers to sites and podcasts if you speak French, but do not live in France. The internet is really good at keeping us in our bubbles, making a lot of assumptions on geolocated IPs.

As a side note, I will add that there is one thing that is somewhat problematic about the French business culture, namely that French companies will really go out of their way to deal only with other French companies. It is very difficult to do business with France because of this. It does help if you speak fluent French, but even then, unless you are a French business, you are at a big disadvantage and your product needs to be really much better than the competition. I guess in the case of the OP this worked well, because the business was based in France after all.
Third option: You give them a nice modding API and let them access the core of the game. That way you gain the benefits of a modding API without restricting modders' creativity.
Global+Body+Contouring+Devices+Market+Assessment
I grew up in Philadelphia, not very far from the Delaware, and it's weird to look back and think of how little mind-space the river takes up. It's just the thing you need to cross to go to New Jersey. The Schuylkill looms much larger.
Researchers achieve 178,000Gbps Internet speed
Don't. There are so many other countries with great programmers in Europe. I would go with Bulgaria or Romania when EU is a requirement.
Otherwise I would go to Georgia (the country).

First row countries like France or Germany are start up hostile.
This did make me curious. I couldn't find any explicit discussion of memory management, not even in the constructor section of the programming manual [0]. There isn't a section on destructors. I also searched for and didn't find 'garbage' and 'deallocation' and other similar terms.

[0] https://github.com/ELENA-LANG/elena-lang/wiki/ELENA-Programm...
not if the union negotiates upper limits on compensation.

Or it negotiates yearly raise brackets.

You can negotiate better individually if you are good and there arent union enforced guidelines, if you're not, the union deal would work out better.
Many side channel attacks available for native binaries are impossible in wasm, because code can't be handcrafted. It always goes trough compiler.

When they exist, potential WASM side channel attacks are system/compiler specific and can be fixed with software updates. Compilers can be designed to remove the possibility it becomes a real issue.
As an avid Firefox user, the performance difference between the Javascript engines in Chrome and Firefox are always obvious to me.

Firefox's network code, render pipeline, and everything else that gets the document to the screen is either just as fast or even faster than Chrome. However, the Javascript engine leaves something to be desired; the trend to make everything an application has ruined the performance of many sites.

There's also downsides to the way Firefox protects your privacy. If you enable the default privacy blocking, some resources fail to load on websites, making many websites load fallbacks or lag while they're waiting for their ad script to initialize.

Finally, I've noticed Firefox has significant performance issues in video decoding compared to Chrome. This manifests itself as memory leaks and some tabs being frozen (every tab within the same browser subprocess, basically) and can be resolved by killing the process that's been messed up, but it's still an issue for normal use.

All in all I prefer Firefox, but there's still plenty of ways it can catch up to Chrome. If your work involves a lot of web applications, there's no denying that your experience in Chrome will be quicker.
If the web wasn't so overly complicated a niche browser like that would be viable.
But it is possible to work out, technically.

Of course these companies prefer not to, because their business model is now based on exploiting workers.
The agricultural business. If you live in California and eat fruit you’re one degree away from it.

Piecework is neither uncommon or novel. There are a million other examples.

Silicon Valley sure likes to resurrect depression era business models (piecework, SRO’s, renting out spare rooms, housekeeping and errand services for the wealthy) and call it innovation.
Blank (https://blank.app)
It’s a bank for freelancers and all self-employed workers.
It’s launching in a few weeks ;)
What Is Data Science?
>I am used to writing robust, clear, well-tested, and easy to maintain systems

Maybe then go into the HPC/Defence/Air/Space/Masstransport-Industry, they will love you, no BS thats exacly what they want and need.
> you have to pay a separate fee (~200eur)

this number is incorrect , or you get fooled, I was working in a startup that was exactly helping people creating companies with the paperwork, including the step you're mentionning, and it was 20 to 30 euros , maybe 50 depending on the journal and option you take

200~300 euros was the price we billed for a startup creation including ALL the paperwork, admnistrative fee, publication fee, and the fact we will review all your documents before submiting them to the french administration and do the follow up with you in case your submission was still denied.
What was wrong with clojure?

I'm learning both clojure and rust, for different cases (I have C, ruby, javascript).
> but 90% of the population won't care, they just want things to work and move on with their lives

Yes, I meant it more specifically that people here on HN who should know and should care are actively propagating and helping a monopoly. (these people often also have disproportionate influence)
Ah, I agree. I was referring to the the fact that OP said:

> I wear and N95 under a surgical mask.

They’re wearing both a N95 and surgical mask at the same time.
We were told why they had to remove these extensions when they did so.

they also said that they would replace the APIs soon.

That they (still) haven't replaced them is why we are still angry with them. A failed promise.

We don't need to know why they made this change, we need to know when their promises will be kept.
How is it better than taking a (paper) notebook and pen?
> Of course, but then there's enough Chromium skins, no?

Most of them are more than skins. A browser is the interface and whole workflow, not just the way the website is displayed.

> as MS recently found out

What do you mean?

> They had some feeble attempts which largely failed.

They had no SERIOUS attempt. Well until now at least. They did some half-assed with pocket and now VPN-reselling, but never touched real business.
I own an Onyx Boox Max Pro 13 inches. I was happy with it, until the battery died completely after 14 months and the device started freezing continuously.
I also highly recommend Affinity Photo. It covered all of my use cases for photoshop and some for lightroom. Adobe is a scummy corporation who doesn't deserve their customers.
Arthur Norman’s SKI Machine was interesting: rather than being LISP (as mentioned in the talk) it was a combinator reduction machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatory_logic - SK combinators are the way Miranda does lazy evaluation, so the SKI Machine was basically Miranda in hardware. Miranda was a forerunner of Haskell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_(programming_language)