skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The job right now seems just stitching AWS services together, and spending the rest of your time debugging and putting out fires.

This is exactly what our engineers do, too! I am kept motivated by what we are able to do with what we've stitched together. But yes, knowing it is a bunch of plastic garbage underneath is... depressing, almost.
I think this is the honest answer. The people upset simply don't want a browser with measurable market share. In the Stack overflow survey Emacs has a market share of <5%. Non programmers have never heard of Emacs. If Firefox was targeting these users there would be no Firefox...
This is still squarely on the developers. Slow and steady might be your preference and the best way to make some software or parts of software but that’s not universally true. A lot of creative domains really benefit from fast iteration times to experiment.

It might not be your ideal environment to be making products but it is our job to square the circle otherwise we’re not going to have jobs. For a concrete example look at the way game engine development happens. By and large engine development is slow and steady. Whilst making a game is something that massively benefits from blazing iteration speeds. Having that split between technology and product means you can do both.

Of course we’re also dealing with messy reality so things are faster or slower than each team would like at times.
I remember hearing about at least one game that was significantly more performant when pirated (I think it was by Ubisoft). They had so much code for DRM and network tracking that it was faster to just stop that code from executing by hacking the game.
It's probably a combination of hopeful optimism and financial desperation. It's too early to know for sure, but I bet a lot of small, private colleges are hurting and need to do everything they can to have students on campus. Students not paying for housing, meal plans, etc. is a big deal.
I blame the consumer because we all vote with our money. Sure, technical proficiency in mainstream users has probably fallen somewhat since the 80s, but people should care about the huge difference between buying a product for their computer, or merely renting access to a product.
They should understand that they're giving up the choice to stay with a version that works for them and their computer, one that won't force them to upgrade hardware or other software to keep going.
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Not sure why reading any of PG’s writing - especially his tweets - would give the impression that he’s anything other than firmly parked on the side of capital in the class war.
It depends on the granularity you need. If you need to manage clusters and scaling and individual machines then you might need to spend some time going through docs/books/tutorials for the cloud and tech in question.

If you just want to host websites or simple services, IMO you are better off using one of the popular cloud wrappers such as heroku. They streamline the process a lot and has optional plug and play integrations to cloud hosted databases and queues and whatevers.
There is either a book or a great Joe Rogan podcast in your story. Thank you very much for sharing.
Are we talking about tools or enterprise software? Slow and steady carefully written software never existed for the latter, it was always a mess of moving requirements. I’m not sure what’s worse between previous grandiose UML specified software that failed to be implemented after many years and millions spent, or the current state of affairs where at least software projects move on.
There are few dishes that bring so much pleasure than gumbo. The best gumbo (and best Cajun music) is from Lafayette in the SW part of the state.

Only found one chef in Michigan who could make a really good gumbo and he's a Louisiana native. Sadly he's gone back down there. Just aren't enough people in Central Michigan area who like Cajun food enough to make a successful business.
> The better option would be to accept the salary and donate it alongside the fortune he has vowed to give away.

And this exactly what Trump did, for example. He considered he was rich enough, so every trimester he donates his salary to a different ministry, once it was the General Surgeon, another time it was the DHS, or the Department of Agriculture. The list is here: https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/12/13/president-trump-salar...
I went through a similar experience - in fairness Adobe do say that the prices advertised are the monthly fee based on a 12 month subscription, but the way in which it was presented felt like they went out of their way to hide that fact.

I then discovered that you can only cancel that 12 month subscription within a short window at the very end of the 12 months.

In the end Adobe retired one of the products from Creative Suite and I used consumer protection law to cancel the subscription on the basis that the service had been materially changed.
Super annoying? Sure.

A bridge too far? Learn to deal with the world as it is mate.
I've seen a ton of this on HN for the past couple of years, "Go work for FAANG, startups are worthless." As someone who has started a company, gotten it funded, and would like to hire high quality engineers, this is deeply disheartening. I've tried to hire a few people, offering them market rate or close to it for base salary (_very_ rough ballpark 150-200K for 2-5y experience) and a decent chunk of equity (highly variable, for VP level I've offered up to 2%, there's a salary equity tradeoff though).

These seem like fair offers, but often I'll get, "actually I'm really a cofounder so I should be getting double digit equity." That's fine, except

1.) I have 15% of the company in my option pool, so no I can't do that unless I effectively want to give nothing to everyone after that person.

2.) At the risk of sounding aggrieved: I spent all of my savings to get this off the ground and funded, am taking a far below market salary, and you want to get that sort of equity with none of that risk? When I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be talking to me if I didn't have a nice war chest?

What should someone in my position be doing to entice top notch people to join us? Yes it takes a leap of faith that what we're doing is interesting (please trust me that it is), and that someday stock worth 10s or 100s of K will be worth 100s or 1Ms.

But if nobody is willing to take that leap, then companies like mine and many others will die. If it's all about cash and comfort, then FAANG will have won and innovation will slow.

I'm really willing to listen, what can I do to solve this dilemma of a necessarily limited option pool AND inability to say, "yeah my stock is provably worth $100s a share and I can pay 75-90th percentile of market base."
I wouldn't say Roblox games have polish either. There's also a lot of weirdness that only adolescents and tweens would fully understand because in many cases it's made by those same kids. I wouldn't consider it a MUD either. None of the games I've seen so far even have RPG traits. It's more of a powerful sandbox than even Minecraft imo
If you don't want to participate in contact tracing, just stay home.

The people who get sick and die because of your untraceable contacts are your problem.
ReMarkable MicroSD (2019)
Which yearly event was this?
The soy / almond / oat / etc options are not perfectly good.

Soy and almond have high levels of phytoestrogens. This encourages obesity, breast growth (including in males), and cancer.

Oat isn't quite so bad, but it has high levels of phytic acid, an antinutrient.
I understand the idea behind having a fast track, but when it's only 6 months long, it feels like you're not meant to learn much other than about your tiny niche and then be stuck at Google [0]. I'm sure you can streamline college degrees to only focus on industry relevant topics, but I would be surprised if you could make a meaningful training program that is shorter than 2 years.

[0] Google has a lot of internal tools so it is entirely possible that once these people leave Google, they have to catch up on what the rest of the industry uses.
There is only one article.
Google could, you know, use their own DNS servers for this...
I don't get this feature. And I really hate that it's present in pretty much every browser these days. If I want to type an URL, I'll use the address bar. If I want to search, I'll use the search bar. Different bars with different keyboard shortcuts and different purposes. Why do so many browsers merge these two? Screens are insanely wide these days, so screen real estate can't be the reason. Are we trying to trick users into thinking that URLs aren't a thing anymore?

Maybe this "omnibox" doesn't know whether I want to enter a hostname or a search term, but I do.
Covid 19 seems to become less dangerous due to new variant [german]
Understanding Memory Fragmentation in Haskell
That's the one. Island is relatively small and has interesting military installations on it.
Is it?

I had Huawei and Xiaomi phones and until 3 years ago they didn't even come with Google apps by default.
> Uber and Lyft were so welcome

Then you are lucky. I can't count the times the drivers called me before picking me up, asking me where I want to go and then cancelling if it was nearby (or no answer at all).

I never cancel, but they do.

And when they don't do that, they are extremly annoyed when it's something close to the airport.
Big Tech Merger Tracker
> arrests the slippery slope

What does that mean? Not a native speaker, dictionary not so helpful
Cookies, the GDPR, and the EPrivacy Directive
It's about supply and demand. If he really is the best person for the job, then there's nothing to be gained from paying him a higher fixed salary. But if there's someone else who's even marginally better that you can get for $10M, it's probably easily worth it - for the size of the fund, one person's pay is a negligible amount.
The article has a nice graph that shows when the feature was introduced - 2010.
Call for Participation – Arch Linux Conf 2020 Online
There are still user groups around, plenty in fact.

https://lug.org.uk/
Not op, but recently switched to same combo after trying darktable, rawtherapee and digikam. Open source solutions had some random problems, strange ui and they lock up when you change slider values, at least on my laptop. Capture one doesn't and the overall polish is decent. Affinity photo lacks some photoshop features like content-aware fill AFAICT but good enough for my amateur needs. Not going back, screw you adobe.
Chrome Apps were in no way replacement for XUL. They could not change the behavior of the Chrome itself, they just opened their own window and did their thing there. Not really an extension, more of a separate app.

To talk on more specific terms, which XUL extension did you replace with Chrome App?
And you are parroting the arguments used against fascists trying to take power.

No, "racist" doesn't mean whoever disagree with an opinion, it might mean for you on the circles you take part and consider somewhat important enough in your life to let them impart that impression, racist just means what it has always meant: people that willingly or by ignorance use ethnicity (or race) as the basis for judging someone's else character, life situation and/or social status.

This hasn't changed and there are a lot of those out of the woodwork, if you are basing yourself out of Twitter then... Yeah, you are in a toxic place.
I don’t know about bemmu, but I was. Ended up being a creator there.
It is not about the law, is about your attitude, you are treating all applications like all are something a developer put together to make some quick money profiting of Apple market.

Also I don't believe Apple is incapable of creating more fair rules(maybe you can't come up with this rules but Apple has the money to spend on smart people to work a few months on this) they don't want to do it.
Sure it could work. The virus is fairly harmless for college-age people. But it can’t work because people are irrationally afraid.
From "koopovereenkomst" I assume you are Dutch or Belgian. In the Netherlands, a "koopovereenkomst" most often means you have a "payment obligation" (betaalverplichting). The whole invoicing system where people pay afterwards, hinges on this principle.

Disclaimer: IANAL (But I helped as software developer at a factoring company: which buys unpaid invoices from freelancers for a fee or a percentage of the invoice-amount)
There is a workshop[1] at NeurIPS this year (2020) for experimenting with this model. I hope it is adopted more widely, especially in the ML community to disincentivize the +1-2% performance increase in SOTA papers.

[1] https://nips.cc/Conferences/2020/Schedule?showEvent=16158
The Linux Kernel is no longer Free Software? [video]
This article assumes that the prospective buyer would be working locally.
Wikipedia calls it "pseudoarchaeology". The underlying Younger Dryas impact hypothesis is not nuts though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesi...
How many non developers used vimperiator?

I am very familiar with software and in particular the tradeoffs between business pressure to ship something new and shiny vs keep maintaining something that works....
The only mountain of evidence I see is the one pointing to the fact that you have no clue what the far left is.
The point is also to vouch for someone when an invite is sent. At least in my mind, as in it's officially done, if the invitee misbehaves, it's kind of the responsibility of the inviter. Every profile has who invited who.
Another feature would be "meta-CSS", which would be only for user stylesheets (and not usable in web pages), and can apply CSS in CSS, for example:

- Apply an animation (or other style) to any CSS styles that specify "text-decoration: blink".

- Specify what colour to use when a CSS rule specifies "background" as the colour name.

- Make all transitions (or animations) twice as fast or twice as slow.

- Prevent certain CSS commands from being used entirely, or change their meaning to a different command.

- Select elements by the CSS rules that the document applies to them (even if those CSS rules are disabled, and even if class names are unpredictable).

- Define exactly how big a "in" or "px" or whatever unit is.
The root problem is the reward system in academia. Even today, when the relevant players are discussing how to improve it, the question is always phrased as needing to find better ways to reward excellence.

If you want to reward excellence, you're by definition looking for the exceptional, the surprising. It might sound good, and surprising discoveries are necessary, but they're not the only thing that's good for science.

We need ways to recognise more than just exciting results; researchers should also be rewarded for robust contributions to the body of human knowledge.

(This is also why Plaudit.pub, a project I volunteer for, allows researchers to explicitly recognise robust or exciting work as separate qualities.)
Large stars have a short lifespan
I havent looked in a good 5 years, but “not much.” There were roots running off of 1gbs links back then. A quick loot at the sibling comment root stats and Im swagging a few hundred thousand tps at about 256 bytes per response. The problem is/was mostly in distributing and sinking inbound garbage packets.
And why do you believe that it's important to force self-reliance onto a society that is already ultraproductive by any comparison through history? Why does it have to be punitive instead of inspirational to be self-reliant?

Because it sounds very unnatural for a social animal such as us humans to try to be completely self-reliant... We depend on others, we always have been and we probably always will, so leverage that instead of striving for some weird artificial sense of independence.
A DevTools retrospective and also maybe gift me a laptop?
Nice. Here it is in Google Earth.[1]

[1] https://earth.google.com/web/search/Yulin,+Guangxi,+China/@1...
This is a myth. Tipped employees typically do way better than the minimum wage.

Tipping encourages good service. Go to your average European restaurant and you can see what the alternative is: lazy and often outright rude waitstaff who resent their customers.
I don't think I have to explain this to you (hello fellow guiler!), but in a language with first class procedures and proper macros there doesn't have to be any lambda typing overhead.

I implemented "megacut" in guile, which is a clojuresque lambda shorthand: #%(+ %1 5 (* %2 4)) => (lambda (%1 %2) (+ %1 5 (* %2 4))) in about 30 lines of code (unhygienically, though, but that should be a small fix in a psyntax-based scheme)
This has never been the approach we've taken for any other virus. This sets a precedent that anyone who values privacy should be very, very against.
Not OP. But a friend photographer has a large cupboard with "pigeonholes", I think it was some old mail-sorting cabinet or so. He stacks them with labeled USB drives. Hundreds of them.

His reasoning, when I asked about "NAS" or so, was: it's cheap, it lasts, and it is cold storage. Paying for storage of that amount that is fire-, flood and software-error-proof is so much more expensive that it really was no choice. -his words-.
No, they couldn't. The whole purpose of these probe requests is to assess whether the DNS server used by a particular client is acting normally (responding with NXDOMAIN if a domain does not exist), so these must bde sent to the DNS server of the client, which effectively means that unless this DNS server performs the hijacking that is to be detected, they will inevitably end up on a root DNS server, because no server in the hierarchy will know those domains.

Forcing these probe requests onto Google's DNS would completely defy their purpose in the first place.
How long did it take for you to get rid of the symptoms completely (if ever)?

Asking cause similar case here, however, my symptoms have not gone completely despite being strictly GF for 2+ years now (my ttg iga levels are consistently below 4 units/ml).
Kinda true, but in a typical shell script (or even any other kind of program) there aren't many user controlled variables that would typically be incorporated directly into a command invocation. Pathname expansions are the most common and likely vector because it's common to both introspect directory trees and then pass those file paths as arguments to other utilities.

That's why I always put a line like

set -f # disable pathname expansion

at the top of my shell scripts, in addition to several other settings (e.g. -e, -u, and -C). Because file globbing is a common operation in shell scripts I invariably have to re-enable it locally (e.g. set +f; set -- *; set -f; for F; do ...; done) somewhere. That extra work reinforces that pathnames are tainted, making it easier to remember to use the "--" option argument terminator where ever else I pass file names--particularly names not statically defined in the script--whether they come from globbing or some other route.

As an aside, I really dislike GNU-style argument vector permuting, where getopt/getopt_long rearranges "cmd foo bar -x" to be "cmd -x foo bar". On BSD doing something like 'ls /tmp "$X"', where X is user controlled, is relatively safe because "/tmp" terminates option parsing. Not so with GNU getopt. I get the convenience of permuting the vector, but I just don't think it's worth the cost in terms of security (it's a dangerously nuanced semantic) or in terms of the size of the GNU getopt/getopt_long implementation (it could be many times simpler and shorter, not to mention requiring only a constant amount of work and memory, but-for the permuting).
On the contrary, we are super early!

We look up at the night sky and see tons of bright upper main-sequence stars like our Sun, destined to live for billions of years. But this is a fleeting early period, the first 0.1% of the stelliferous era. Red dwarf stars are both more numerous and long-lived, like 10 trillion years! And red dwarfs seem habitable? [1]

So it's very surprising that we find ourselves orbiting an upper main-sequence star in a universe less than 15 billion years old. By chance the universe ought to be older and our star more common.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitability_of_red_dwarf_syst...
Is the point, from the company's point of view, to just have some people on its payroll with certain job titles, so looks fine to people outside?

To make gov agencies happy? Or investors? -- who are those who care

(And good if they do mostly nothing)
>I guess I should be more specific. If I get kicked off of Fortnite, can I play in Fortnite’s sandbox?

There are more then 1 alternatives to Fortnite but I can't name them. This is a bad example, you compare 1 free game with a store. Stay on topic and let/s compare stores like Google Play, Steam, GOG etc. Is Steam taking 30% if you buy some skin in a game? Is GOG doing that? Are this stores blocking you showing a text with a link to your website purchase page?
Any research funded by the NIH is required to be published open access at PubMed Central.
The core question to ask here is why the payment card networks allow merchants to circumvent the chargeback process by stealing subscription goods in retaliation for disputing fraudulent charges.

The card industry imposes a lot of regulation on merchants in the name of security (e.g. PCI) and customer experience (e.g. not allowing merchants to demand secondary ID for in-person transactions). Retaliation fraud by subscription merchants is something the card industry could stop and the industry should not be let off the hook for allowing this practice.

Neither, for that matter, should governments be given a free pass. Consumer dispute resolution processes exist for a reason (in no small part to reduce the load on the legal system) and circumventing them should not be tolerated.
> Any VCs out there have piles of cash they want throw my way?

I think maybe you need to refine your slide deck a little
> how can you trust him when you know he lies and cover up

If he lies and covers up in the interest of his employer, that's a pretty good recommendation.
I always wondered, if quantumness looks like observing something is what solidifies it into being, then “almost all the stars” is really just reaching a critical mass of observation? Somewhere beyond what we can see could be a shit ton more stars in the making.
I started a new project in Go this year and I have the same hope for the future. So far Go has been pretty good in that regard.
In the Zoox case, the founders allegedly subverted the rightful 1Ms payout of the early employees. You sound like a trusthworthy person, but there are so many other cases of this happening besides Zoox, and it's very difficult to predict peoples' moral reactions to life-changing amounts of money ahead-of-time. At the end of the day, it's up to the CEO to make sure everyone gets treated fairly.
Agreed. I've been on Lightroom since v1.0 and long-ready to get away, but I need to replace the cataloguing and manipulation. Digikam was great to begin with, but then just stopped working smoothly, and Darktable has so many issues that I cannot understand all the suggestions to convert. I wish I could contribute to the codebase.

I've tried Affinity Photo, Pixelmator, no dice. Tried Capture One but it's like a slug dragging a ball-and-chain and the cataloguing workflow turns me upside-down. Image manipulation is blindingly good, however.