skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it better if they stop maximizing profits and no one gets anything because not enough customers want to pay sustainable prices?

Look at software. Statistically no one spends even 10% of their paid software/content budget on free software/content
There's always going to be someone who makes more than you - if you got a job at Facebook, would you be satisfied or would you then just look at someone who hit it big at a startup and wish you were making that kind of money?

Your current gig is going to make your next gig easier. The FAANGs all seem to recruit each other's people if that's a thing you are interested in.

Do you like the work you're doing? You might hate it if you moved. The grass is not always greener.

I would also reconsider the idea that you're not at an elite company and these other peers are. I sincerely doubt the level of engineering is radically different among the big tech companies. Considering Google "elite" but not Amazon seems strange to me. As one anecdote, check out Steve Yegge's long blog posts about platforms - https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

Also, check out levels.fyi. The gap might not be as big as you think it is. You may be overvaluing outliers.

From looking at your other posts - in addition to other suggestions, you should probably avoid LinkedIn. Replace it with browsing this: https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin

Finally, do you have a mentor? Someone who you can talk to about this stuff, maybe someone outside your org?
Just because someone is counter culture doesn't make him right.

The only reason this post is even on HN has more to do with confirmation bias than any truth.
Jokes are usually deleted by mods. But I noticed if the mods like something, rules don't matter.
I am also using ddg, but I also use !g on 9/10 searches.
Spending that much more time on figuring something out due to the missing or incorrect search results is simply a price too high for me.
I would love it if it was just as good as google, but it simply isnt right now.

It's like comparing a car to a bicycle. I like bicycles, but when going cross country, it simply does not work.
I don't think author is correct. One more piece from someone who cannot imagine people being interesting in other things than computers. I don't see car enthusiasts lamenting (maybe they do, I just don't see them) that Joe Average has no idea how to tune a carburetor or change the brake fluid.

Once again some talk about the imagined war on "general purpose computing". You know who is interested in general purpose computing? People doing it. For others computer is just a tool helpful to write an email, retouch some photos, or compose some music. Do we see public WiFi where we have zero access to configuration, as the "war on general purpose networking"? Or do we not care as long as it works (snooping aside).
The TF2 example is especially. Seems a better solution, when facing the issue of updates leading to a worse experience to lower spec machines, would be to iterate and make TF3 or keep a classic TF2 (like they did for counter strike).

User base with low spec machines must not be with it, though, and people may have upgraded hardware over time. There's also the slew of new video games that complete for user attention/money.

Tons of factors to think about!
See the screenshot in the linked post. The software is advertising Steelseries Engine.
One area where DDG is _much_ worse is when it comes to localized results.

Say I want to find some hedge trimmers, and I search for "hekksaks" in DDG. Then I get some random videos, links to norwegian-to-english dictionaries and assorted useless pages.

If I turn the "Norway" slider on, sure I get decent enough results. But DDG remembers this, so when I later search for some programming related stuff it's awful again.

So I need to constantly flip that localized results option on and off, which is super annoying.

In comparison, Google shows great results without having toggle some option.
I want to add a personal anecdote to this very interesting article.

Basically as soon as I fully understood that all my voice communications were stored by the NSA, by my ISP (and can be accessed by my countries government without me knowing), and by various other institutions and secret services, I decided to record all my phone calls.

The rationale being that I could not prevent most of the world to listen to me, but at least in the event they would use what I said against me, I had a piece of the evidence and would be able to defend myself.

On a more practical level, everytime I call a big company they have a prerecorded message telling me that the conversation "could" be recorded (they definitely record all of them). And those company (ISPs, insurances, government...) will very often promise thing on the telephone and then not follow through as they know that it is very hard for most people to precisely recall the content of the phone call, even less to prove it.

So, it did put me in a weird spot legally as my country's laws specify that the consent must be explicitly requested to the receiver of the call to be allowed to record. The thing is that it is not illegal to record phone calls without an agreement. But such a recording cannot be shared or released and would not be receivable as an evidence in a court of law.

I was perfectly happy with this situation, as already being able to precisely recall what was said during a call would alleviate a lot of concerns.

Android recently removed (in v.10) the possibility to record phone calls (except to a few of their close friends apps, FB, MS...)

They unilaterally decided to interpret my countries laws as an interdiction to record phone calls. On top of that, they made no official announcements about that, not even a trace in a changelog here or there.

The worst in all that is that obviously, most people didn't understand that it was Google's decisions. So now if you go to a call recorder's app page you will see a mass of people claiming that the app is a scam https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appstar.ca... . They even managed to totally shift the blame on their partners.

Now, the only option I'm left with if I want to be able to record calls again, seems to be to root my phone. Which obviously from a privacy focused perspective seems unacceptable (giving root access to all userland applications!)

So precisely as the article describe, I lost what I consider is a very important feature, I have no say or recourse in that and the issue is not big / mainstream enough to gather any attention.
> Some users want to put together their own computers and their own operating systems, and they will do too.

We'll see how feasible/affordable that is in 10 years. I'm afraid that consumer hardware is only going to get more and more locked down in the name of "security".
I grew up in an underground house, and it was not a good experience at all. It’s effectively like your entire house is a basement.
The comparison for me is more like a bicycle, which is really nice, but when going cross country, a car is required.
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PostgreSQL 13 RC1 Release Notes
Indeed. I was the first non-founder employee of a company many years ago, joining the two founders in a tiny office. There was never any confusion about this: they were the ones that had put in the work and formed the company, and I was the one hired in a normal process.

Are you a director? Were you included in the initial distribution of company equity? You're a founder.

Have an employment contract which does not specify "founder" as your job title? Not a founder.

Working for the company without clarification of role or contract? You're ... very optimistic and have great trust in humans.
Well, it happens but rarely does it happen exclusively in the West where there is a lot at stake. (Would be interested in counterexamples)

International law, as an attempt to tame excesses of diplomacy, is something that has lifted up the West. It's brought order and prosperity. This move is yet another jenga brick taken out of the liberal West, thereby weakening the EU. The EU really needs to bother...
I did not experience this. My iOS Bedtime alarm went off as expected even though it was moved to Health (and I didn't notice until seeing this article).
At least we were able to get refunds when that happened.
My, now decommissioned, Microsoft branch tried to move to the Spotify model.

Many of us worked on internal products, but never got to a level of flat partnership structure.
As a coder with kids, am I a software parent?
The thing of note isn't that the game is integrated to one sign in service it's that 5 years after purchase it now requires a different one.
I use DDG, I don't think I've ever used !g directly, but have used google a few times if I'm on a borrowed computer for instance, I'm shocked how bad the results are in google compared with DDG.

I use !gm a lot though.
Adjacent related:

This guy bought an underground rocket silo and is documenting the repair process: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd50A5qLv8FemVufSvDgkCQ

*I remember hearing about it on HN in a similar discussion some time ago and thought it might be relevant for some of the people in this thread.
"Why do you need breaks? We have really good engines."
Data Analytics Impacts Business
PostgreSQL 13 RC 1 Released
that's funny thanks for showing it :P
The person who designed the hard drive lock didn't get rich off it. Some VP did.
The thing to remember about Elixir/Erlang is that it gives you a lot of deployment options. There's this mix of concerns with deployment tooling to both support all of those options and be simple at the same time, which is tough to achieve.

Just as an example, with many Java App Servers you deploy your packaged java code and it automatically handles seamless deployment across the cluster with zero downtime. And there are lots of different server options.

With languages using K8's and Docker, you're deploying a configured container across a system that will help manage the same thing.

Distillery has been the standard for deployments with Elixir for a while now and supports everything. Releases are slowly rolling this functionality into the core, but don't currently support all of the options that you get with distillery.

But with the BEAM you've got clustering built in. You've got hot reloading options which literally deploy your new code in the middle of running code without so much as dropping a socket connection. You get the ability to roll that back too.

It's a little more complicated because it comes with a lot of very unique options that are built in instead of delegated to another system.
Agreed - I will note however how badly Microsoft has bungled this same story on Windows itself. They went from a very high productive and unified development story in mfc/winforms to a super fragmented space.

I am getting going with WPF. (But that was then followed by maybe Silverlight? Then HTML with bindings?). Now we have been told that UWP is the big future (basically Windows Phone framework?). Gah! XAML? I mean, we went from a drag and drop unified and simple and extendable dev experience that was actually fast to develop into this GUI nightmare - all produced by ONE company with total command and control over their developers.

It tells you something that google web browser is almost a more stable and targetable platform than the native Windows platform (chromium / electron). I mean, that is desparation right there. At least someone was smart enough at microsoft to just give up on IE even on their own platform!

If QT had a bit of a simpler onboarding flow or linux was more unified I think there actually is an opportunity to actually be a good standard for line of business apps that want snappy responsiveness etc. But I just can't believe how badly Microsoft has screwed up their GUI story for the developers they claim to care so much about.
Rooting your phone does not give root access to all of your apps. Is this why people keep acting like rooting is a security risk?

I'm very tired of this message. Google has root to your phone and you don't. You think that puts you in a better position? (Not "you", the person I'm replying to- the rhetorical "you")
The approach suggested in the article is to use market forces, i.e. boycott products which move us closer to unwanted futures. This is challenging when the majority of products are headed in one direction, driven by market demand that companies can influence by advertising.

Another approach is to use regulatory power in democratic societies, e.g. to enact legislation for right to repair (https://www.ifixit.com/Right-to-Repair/Intro), or specific DMCA exemptions for owners to modify device firmware (https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/sep/16/dmca-exemptions-2...). These are necessary but insufficient steps to restore choice in functionality and freedom, which are sometimes placed in false opposition via vague threat models.

In practice, what has worked has been competition from smaller vendors. In a world of more complexity, we need more than GPD Pockets and kickstarters to lead the way with pioneering examples that can be copied by bigger companies. Without the creative force of a Steve Jobs, Apple depends on the broader market to experiment. Several iPad Pro features can be credited to MS Surface, including concessions (still poorly implemented) on a local file system. If we end up with a few monopolies, will innovation slow without competitors teaching consumers about alternatives?

There needs to be a commercial arena where engineers in smaller companies have economic incentives to develop prototypes that increase freedom without compromising security, which "appliances" can then copy. FPGAs and RISC-V have some promise for open hardware, but progress is slowed by closed software toolchains. There are no quick fixes, but pockets of general-purpose hardware success can be encouraged by legislation, engineering talent voting with their feet, and yes, commercial support by customers.
PostgreSQL 13 RC1 Release Notes

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/release-13.html
It’s amazing how much astroturfing happens in the comments of these Assange hearing threads.

Within minutes every time, the same tired, false, laughable comments deriding all criticism of Craig Murray and ignoring the written material show up.

Both of our comments add nothing to the discussion
That is a whole different discussion. If by application container you mean Tomcat then maybe. But if you mean Weblogic or Oc4j or WebSphere then hell no :-)

Then maybe you agree that Kubernetes brought some advantages that until recently only Java devs enjoyed to the rest of the world (PHP, Python etc)?
Give it a minute and some decent headphones...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSaKMpN3JC4
Features of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggest Sophisticated Laboratory Modification
Technology Connections is the bomb. I think I've watched all of his videos at this point, highly recommend his channel.
Windows 10 is a bucket of shit, it doesn't show me any notifications (I think it thinks I'm connected to a projector instead of a second monitor so it helpfully switches to "presentation mode"), but a few hours later it would flood me with the suppressed notifications from the whole day. Yay!

It also likes to fuck with my keyboard layout settings: the PCs at work come with German, French and Italian layouts (guess the country!), and that's the default for the "system", which is the configuration Windows uses at the login/lock screen, but I just use German and added English. Very often, Windows would decide that my keypresses should now be interpreted as French instead of English, despite the language icon saying "ENG"...
A ketamine IV is one of the few things [1] that can stop a cortical spreading depression. Makes me wonder whether these rhythms might potentially be beneficial to people with CSD (e.g. during migraine auras).

[1] Well, the only thing I know of, but I'm mostly ignorant on the subject
Yeah, I would mostly agree. I have noticed personally at my (largish) company a bit of a shift back towards centralized control, but only slightly. One thing that does seem very different now is that there is a lot more pressure on the vendors of SAST and other security products to support newer tech stacks. And if the big boys won't then there are always a huge number of smaller players ready to jump in to take advantage of that opening. The number of products just in the Serverless space offering "next-gen" WAF solutions is pretty amazing given how recent large scale adoption of Serverless stacks has been.
I don't consider her being in the conservative party the actual problem.

In Germany she's well known for nepotism and corruptness, even if until this day she successfully evaded the punishment. Not long ago there's been a claim that her phone contains important evidence in support of the accusation, but it turned out that data on the phone had been "accidentally" wiped.
Air is a wonderful thing. I bought my dream house a couple years ago, a supposedly passive solar earth berm house, built into the south slope of a hill in southwestern Wisconsin.

First, passive solar isn’t. It needs to be so well engineered, and even then you likely need active systems to transfer heat from the storage medium (eg fans and ducts blowing over a rock bed). My house has huge windows, but the sun shines on normal drywall and the wood floor of the upper level. And of course it’s still cool in late spring when the sun stops contributing much gain and it’s still hot in late July when it starts creeping through the windows again.

Second, it’s damp. Humidity spikes like hell in the summer. I have to run a dehumidifier to keep things below 60%, and I have no idea what I’d have to do to get things below 50%. All three levels are bermed, with a cinder block wall. With the west-east orientation, we can get some halfway decent ventilation on the upper level, but we aren’t high enough up the hill to be assured of a steady breeze (we’re down in the hollow), maybe 20 or 30 feet in elevation above our creek that mercifully drains heavy rains away.

With a normal house above ground, things can dry out from the outside and, especially, you can open enough windows and catch a breeze to air the house out. It is just a far more robust way to go. At a minimum I am going to need to redo the attic insulation, seal all the ceiling joints, and put in an ERV to provide greater ventilation and dehumidification, not to mention new AC/heat pump minisplits. I also think I may need to partially excavate the berm and throw in a proper French drain, and I’m worried that I should just do a full excavation of the back, two levels down, in order to apply proper sealing on the exterior, and perhaps throw some drains under the slab.

With building science today, you can build a frame house tight enough, a “pretty good house,” stick some solar panels on it, and use far less energy while maintaining comfort, and it doesn’t take nearly the engineering and careful building that a bermed or underground house does.

I love my little hobbit hole with the big windows. I’m fortunate to be a software engineer with good enough prospects and investments to be able to afford a minor folly on a second/eventual retirement home. I wouldn’t recommend it for someone trying to build equity with their primary home.
This is unusual not only because of the possible impact on the Northern Ireland peace treaty, but because it's an agreement that was only just made by the same government. Which makes the whole process look particularly stupid and insulting.

It's also the deliberateness that has upset people - breaching a complex agreement inadvertently is very different from setting out to do it deliberately.
First Google result: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/10/14/the-european-u...

>The people pushing for more integration are politicians and bureaucrats, not normal people.

That's simply not true. There are multiple civil society organizations pushing for a closer union. People are voting for parties that are explicitly pro-European.
If this doesn't work, then I think the most important thing is to implement the most simplistic basic solution as fast as possible and then explicitly ask for feedback. Hard-code whatever portions that take time, but you're not worried about (e.g. database portions). Focus on the parts that are vague that you don't understand and provide a _concrete_ realization of the those vague ideas. This shifts decision-making responsibility away from you.

As a plus this also gives you the ability to more effectively gauge the difficulty of the rest of the project. The things you thought were simple might be much worse. And then as long as you get concrete feedback, you'll be able to much better predict the amount of time and effort required going forward.
It would make sense, but different countries have way too different historical experience, cultural ties and business interests.

Hottest examples - Russia/Belarus/Ukraine, Greece/Turkey, Nordstream, the whole migrants-in-Mediteranean thing and so on.
I don’t think this bug would affect me since I have lots of redundancy for my mourning routines: 15 alarms on my private iPhone, 5 alarms on my work iPhone and one alarm on my physical alarm clock.

YMMV.

(Yeah that setup is a tad bit excessive but I find it useful when needing to catch the train at 06:25.)
Not to armchair quarterback this or anything but.... this sounds like a pretty simple problem to fix, WITHOUT spending a bunch of money. dig up a few feet of soil around the house (they said they have an excavator), put down a geo-membrane sloping away from the house, install a primary and backup drawdown well pumps (I forget the correct term, but its what is normally done around landfills and environmental hazard sites) to pump out water that manages to get through, and cover it all back up with proper surface drainage to remove as much water from the ground cover as possible. Water coming in the front door, may have to think about an above ground roof covering for that, or a removable storm shutter, or additional pumps. Keeping water out, even fixing old water infiltration problems, is civil engineering 101. They called a roofer and a concrete worker to fix a civil problem.
Yes! I get so frustrated by those for that reason.
https://old.reddit.com/r/steelseries/comments/ishp8t/unwante...

Fixed link to avoid Reddit’s horrible new interface.
A sizable percentage of people don't want to live in condos. And they aren't necessarily small, either.

>This do increase the price of real estate, but not that much relative to the bigger picture. The price of a "glitzy" fridge vs. a non glitzy fridge is going to be what, $500? $1,000?

That's an extreme understatement. A glitzy refrigerator might only had $500 but marble counters might add $20,000 or more. Same with flooring. The price difference on a house full of stick on vinyl and real hard wood might be an additional $20,000. Then you get to other cosmetics such as crown moldings, jacuzzi tubs, walk in showers, vaulted ceilings, heated towel racks, and more. You could take the exact same house structure, and through flooring, counters, and cosmetics alone you could easily jack the cost up by $60,000.

>Likewise, appreciation has occurred on older properties without these features

Not really. Houses get upgraded with better floorings, better counters, additions, and other renovations. Go find a house in your neighborhood built in the 1950s with no major additions, laminate counters, and cheap flooring. Good luck.