skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"true" limes (by which I mean, the Mexican limon is the species most often referred to by variations on "lime" in other places) have become fairly common in American groceries.

Which is fortunate, they're tastier than the lime-lemon "Persian" lime hybrid, whose main virtue seems to be size.

Key limes are the best though, I wish they would show up in my local grocery more often.
> I would love a startup that builds an entire business off of a fork of Firefox that's completely based on privacy, perhaps with some non-invasive monetization like:

Don't know if this is 100% accurate, but Tor?
great intro to canisters!
> React is clearly not dead.

> there is absolutely no technical need for Rails developers to use React anymore

The article is about React on top of Rails, not React in general. Leaving that out of the title makes this just clickbait.
> Tech workers are in so much demand that they don't really suffer such a disparity of negotiating power

> I would rather see more laws universally protecting intellectual workers like e.g. non-enforcability of non-compete clauses and alikes

One of this must be incorrect. If tech workers have good negotiating power, they should be able to get rid of non-compete clauses. If they can't, see, that's what union can do (at least try to negotiate) for you.
Same in Germany, lots of unions in tech.
Any country where tech workers are mistreated as a rule?
People who want money are opposed to unions. The people who want power sorely want unions.

Kickstarter and now Spotify have both been about editorial control. Not hours. Not wages. Not roles.
Your right though that candidates can get system design interviews, but "how many servers does it take to run gmail" is not anything like a system design interview. "How would you architect gmail" is. System design questions by their nature don't really have a correct answer. Your right though that candidates can get system design interviews.
"One of the few" or "the only". Using "one of the only" just fudges the point you're trying to make. Is it the only one, or is it one of only a few (and then list the other ones, too).
With the important difference you can actually demonstrate it for the point on a wheel.
Their FAQ section^0 says this:

> Overture flights will focus on 500+ primarily transoceanic routes that benefit from supersonic speeds—such as New York to London or San Francisco to Tokyo. Overture won't generate a sonic boom over land cruising at subsonic speeds. Its passengers won't even notice breaking through the "sound barrier," which will be inaudible and uneventful.

So I guess they haven't really solved physics. edit: in an economic way.

[0]: https://boomsupersonic.com/contact#faq-section
> Many software companies offer equity, which makes employers the shareholders. What's good for shareholders is also good for a lot of tech employees.

I am skeptical about this. At public companies, it seems like in general shareholders do an ineffective job at reigning in management. See e.g. all the discussions around executive pay, as well as the proportion of shares that are held through passive funds.

Within tech in some cases (e.g. FB) extra means were taken so that shareholders have even less control than is typical.

Within private companies, employees with vested options typically have far less visibility into company finances than do the VCs, and certainly don't have a board seat or the ability to vote. I.e. being an employee shareholder at a startup often gives you no ability to see whether management is actually working in your interest, and certainly no special input into corporate governance.
The tech industry has a bias for youth, which is mutually exclusive with experience. I don't know much about the medical industry, but I wager surgeons face less ageism once the gray hairs start coming in. With that age comes experience younger surgeons simply couldn't have.

Maybe that makes them better surgeons, or maybe not. But it seems to me that ageism in tech complicates comparisons to fields which value experience instead of youth.
regarding noexcept.
Honestly, `noexcept` is more documentation than anything else. Its specification merely guarantees that if the function does throw, you get a call to `std::terminate` (which aborts).
It's just another thing you cannot really really trust.
The theory is that they can reduce the supersonic shockwave to the point where supersonic flight over populated areas can be legalized again.
Without any deeper knowledge, there might also be a good amount of business travel between Australia/East Asia and the US West coast?
If you edit the .aws-build folder directly you will get instant results without having to build. I am sure it is not a best practice.
> How do public companies deal with unions when the workforce gets to where it no longer really needs to accomplish things?

Ask the manufacturing sector
The point of leetcode problems isn't to find out if you're a good software engineer. It's to find out if you're willing to spend hundreds of hours practicing tedious bullshit to get a job and google. If you can solve this in the interview you can become a good software engineer.
> If you can't get someone to treat you well, you can have your own software company paying your bills in 6 months, or VCs funding your startup.

What?

If that actually describes you, then yeah a union membership isn't for you. For the rest of us, this doesn't really apply though...
There are a couple big things that are probably useful context here.

The first is the different between core team and committers. The core team is much more like a steering committee than anything else. The core team is responsible for various policy issues, coordinating broader release activities, and handling disciplinary issues.

In contrast, committers are the ones that determine what code goes in and does not. The list of committers is about 30 people. And there are many people that work to contribute large pieces of code but not responsible for the final leg of committing.

Edit: I've written a bit more before on all of the non-code bits of Postgres - http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2017/10/31/postgres-the-non-co...
HTML templates should solve isomorphic web but don't
Declarative Key Management with NixOps, Pass, and Nix-Plugins
Just was curious and checked it. It seems that there is not much lemon in Meyer lemons:

(citron x (pomelo x mandarin))

I assume that, having a little pomelo blood could trigger the same chemical interactions shown in the article.
No, the conformal cyclic universe is weird in that there is no contraction that actually happens. Things keep expanding out into forever and that’s part of why the CCU works.

What happens is that the one universe becomes really boring-looking when you look at it from the perspective of one universe, so you use one of your mathematical freedoms (that everything looks the same under a conformal mapping) to shift your perspective. Conformal maps are their own interesting field of mathematics, let me tease you by saying that the usual Mercator map projection has this really nice property that if you zoom in on the map to get a "correct" close-up of any city, you get something that looks angle-for-angle correct at the city scale, you just have to zoom in less on, say, Bogota than Reykjavik because the poles are zoomed so much larger than the equator. By choosing other position-dependent scale factors you can instead get, say, the stereographic projection which has the same basic rule but now which direction is "north" always points to the center of a circle and now Bogota is bigger than Reykjavik, but they still both look "correct" locally, they are just out-of-scale at these longer distances. These angle-preserving deformations of space are called conformal maps. Actually, if you accelerate in any given direction the stars you see all crowd in towards the direction that you accelerate, but they do it conformally. So like the Pleiades will still look to first order like they look now as they squish in towards the direction you are going.

Anyway, there is a subset of physics called quantum field theory and a subset of this subset is called conformal field theory and during the heat death of the universe the QFT becomes a CFT and so you get this freedom to apply conformal mappings, the physics doesn't care and the equations stay the same. Penrose's idea is that if you choose the conformal mapping just right this heat death looks suggestively like a Big Bang for a different universe. So maybe from the perspective of this universe, the universe is ending in a heat death off at infinity, but maybe there is a perspective of a different universe where that same homogeneous ending was actually a homogeneous starting point. You redefine things like "distance" and "time" and stitch together the infinite future of one universe with the Big Bang of another. But like that other universe does not ever itself contract, the contraction comes in this redefinition of everything meaningful. The words of the old eon cease to have meaning and you use the words of the new eon.
True, and BI is part owned by Elon’s arch rival Jeff Bezos.
Tech workers are a subset of intellectual workers. Just because tech workers don't need those protections in GP's view doesn't mean other workers wouldn't benefit from them.
Not CT (IIRC) but see also "Domain Modeling Made Functional" - Scott Wlaschin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up7LcbGZFuo
Can't speak for all unions but my experience with a couple of unions has been like this. One place had a rule where you (the engineer) can only have 1 CAD drawing request out to the CAD department at a time. And of course the CAD department was backlogged. So in practice it means you're sitting around waiting for the draft to come back for 4 - 6 weeks doing practically nothing.
I think it is more likely that the economics killed Concord ($20k per seat), not the route, and it appears that Boom thinks like they can deliver a luxury, supersonic experience at a far cheaper, business class price.

And if transoceanic supersonic travel becomes popular, pressure will mount to define overland supersonic corridors, or manufacturers will invest to reduce the noise, or both.
It’s not hard to make a transparent proxy talk over udp to a POP and avoid TCP issues altogether. I did this for a satellite based internet service I ran back in 09, mostly for fun and profit. Never thought it could be something worth selling because it was so simple.
there is also ongoing research into making the boom less audible & turbulent over land, which would enable cross-country flights:

>Graves explains that SonicBAT is an unusual test in that it uses a typical military aircraft with its loud sonic boom to help engineers better understand the sounds from future quiet supersonic aircraft

>"We're hoping we can eventually lower sonic booms to a low rumble," he said. "The goal is to eventually accommodate jets that can fly from New York to Los Angeles in two hours."

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-supersonic-technology-desig...

I'd hope that Boom is also working on such an approach
It's a 1/3 scale prototype of their passenger jet.
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I'm talking even more directly, politicians' campaigns collect behavior data about my online activity, predict my political beliefs, my demographics, etc. They trade/sell them to their PACs, who then send clickbaitey emails and text messages, and make spammy phone calls to manipulate me to donate or vote for them. So much worse than Facebook.
“researchers from three Boston-based universities showed children are proficient at learning a second language up until the age of 18, roughly 10 years later than earlier estimates. But the study also showed that it is best to start by age 10 if you want to achieve the grammatical fluency of a native speaker“
If your tinnitus changes timbre when you stress your skull, such as clenching your jaw, it means the ringing is actually physical sound being generated by ringing hair cells in your ears: a sensitive microphone could pick up the sound. By my reading of TFA, that kind of tinnitus is not relieved by this method.
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The point of these problems is to find out how committed an applicant is. If you can ace them the interviewer knows that you have enough critical thinking skills to succeed and enough commitment skills to learn whatever you need.
They're clearly different.

In this example Google independently developed a language and made it compatible with the JVM.

In the real world Google wanted Java and didn't like the licensing terms. So they copied the Java API and from that starting point built out their own version of Java.
My point is that it is a lot of people's problem. Mine isn't the only company using large-scale, off-the-shelf, really-very-normal firewall and network safety equipment and software. Just because you work at a start up, doesn't mean most people do. Lots of us work at banks, financial institutions, insurance companies. These companies make a lot more money than the average start up, and are risk averse and care a lot about compliance. They house a lot of "dark matter" developers and technology professionals.

The whole way this debate is going irks me. It's like there is two camps: those who think all the world is smart phones being used by people way out in the desert and everyone else. There are lots and lots of devices that have high speed, low latency connections. The people that use those devices are people, too. We should not over optimize for the remote smart phone user over everyone else.
Same here except that I'm using neovim. I recently retired the Linux server I used to remotely access from my Windows desktop to do dev work on.
Unfortunately, no control group. So they don't know if it was a placebo effect and/or some other factor...
This problem was used at my work years ago. We now have a hiring guild dedicated to making a better interview process. Multiple people said they were originally in the guild to prevent this problem from being used haha.
How much was that severance exactly?
i think google would save themselves the 90k/engineer if they could so this doesnt hold up. Also, to a worker it might be about not having to code for minimum wage because expats might, but Trump doesnt care about workers. he never worked a day in his life. It's about something else, namely your nations future.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day
While on some level I knew there must exist $120 T-shirts (and more expensive ones too, I'm sure), it's still kind of surreal to be presented with one.[1]

1: https://www.buyforlifeproducts.com/products/33
>On a more general note, anytime a problem admits a dynamic programming solution, there almost always is a graph based approach.

This concept was introduced to me back in my algorithms class and is pretty useful. For anyone looking for a longer explanation, page 167 of the textbook [0] has the nugget and some examples:

>Every dynamic program has an underlying dag (directed acyclic graph) structure: think of each node as representing a subproblem, and each edge as a precedence constraint on the order in which the subproblems can be tackled.

[0] - PDF: http://algorithmics.lsi.upc.edu/docs/Dasgupta-Papadimitriou-...
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Since Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are being investigated for anti-competitive behavior, I think that the collective of big tech companies should be relabeled as GAAF.

And let’s be honest, Netflix was always an outlier in those companies — they do business in a very different way.

To mark a move into a different tech era, shall we start referring to them as GAAF?
> ...but in the open source community is often used as an excuse to ignore what would otherwise be high priority bugs.

Key word here is community - it's not just up to the maintainers and regular contributors (who may already be overtaxed with both their day jobs and managing the software project for no pay). Users who have a particularly urgent itch to scratch have to step up - if they're not technical, perhaps put a bounty on the fix so someone else is financially motivated to fix it. Abusing (IMO) maintainers by screaming at them to hurry-up-and-fix-it is not helpful, especially since they are volunteering their free time.
I agree that negotiating power is not equal and situation is not perfect. Part of the reason is people being unaware, naive etc. to negotiate such a clause away in their contract.

But a law like in CA is much better solution for cases like that, than dealing with Unions, IMO.
Anti union messaging or just they are more common place? Lots of examples of unions with rigid rules, corrupt practices etc. But so far everyone only points to the screen actors guild as a counter example. Are there many other unions like it?
Unions are particularly effective when labor is commoditized and fungible. Less so when labor is not exchangeable (suppose it hinges on the question of if a guild more like a union or a cartel?). Programmers like to think they are unique and irreplaceable. Some of them are. Others, probably not so much.
So 3.5 years meets your standard. Good to know.

What about three years?

Two?

One?

We know zero higher education doesn't meet your standard, and 3.5 years does, so I'm trying to figure out where you draw the line.
If you wanted reduced latency, I think you would stick with HTTP/2 with onload on a Solarflare card.

Until there is dedicated hardware NICs I think you would find HTTP/3 has worse latency. That is until dedicated NIC accelerators come out on the market.
> Europe has a totally different union model that is interesting and seems to work better, but it isn't really an option in the US.

Can you say more about what prevents a union in that model from being formed in the US?
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> How does this seek to overcome the problem that killed Concorde

This did not single handedly killed the Concorde, there are plenty of routes with substantial flying time over unpopulated areas. Presumably if the cost of maintenance and the fuel consumption were lower it could still be flying.

So assuming Boom fixes those 2 points, then not being able to go supersonic over land just lowers efficiency but does not mean it's not viable.
Definitely. I was totally put off by wsl1 when I could apt install foo, but foo wouldn’t run because shim X was missing. For one, no haskell based apps was working in the beginning, full stop. I also had problems with git-lfs losing files somehow. I stopped using it as fast as I could hit ctrl-D.
Talking with Matt Klein about “A Culture of Reliability”
> Oracle is claiming that even though source code defining the API is open source, they retain copyright to the API itself..

Are you sure they are claiming that? A weaker claim could be that Google's usage does not conform to the GPL. Indeed if you were correct and the ruling is in Oracle's favor then the GPL is broken as designed, I haven't heard anyone express that concern in connection with this case.
> or is it a one-off being used to spread fud

you replied to this with a one-off anecdote to spread fud
The situation around conventions is particularly bad. The nickel and dime-ing of the venues are part of it but, as you say, many of the work rules are pretty stereotypically outrageous. Not that everything is entirely unreasonable; at convention center scale, things would descend into chaos rapidly if booth staff and others started winging things. But it's pretty bad especially in places like NYC.

It's not universally bad but, as someone else said, organizations become about themselves and their leadership. A former GF was in a union and she had very few good things to say about hers. [ADDED: That is an anecdote. I state no opinion about unions generally.]
Unions can be a way for likeminded workers to pool together lobbying efforts. How would such a law right now be proposed and advanced? Certainly not by the lobbying arms of Big Tech.
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> Why bother putting laws in writing?

For reference and consistency.

The same reason judicial decisions (especially appellate ones) applying those laws are also put in writing, and the same reason that such decisions are binding on lower courts, and considered persuasive though not binding authority for other courts in applying the same law.
First thing I did after buying a PS4 Pro late-cycle was replace the internal HDD with a (bog-standard, massive, cheap) SSD. Considering how fast my games tend to load, I honestly wonder how the PS5 benchmarks compared to my SSDified PS4 Pro.
China. they've got the notorious "9-9-6" hours. "9 AM to 9PM, 6 days a week".
Having walked this same path, this blog resonates with me. To others reading, however, I would warn against the particular solution the author suggests.

I can’t help but notice the author’s attempts to find new external benchmarks against which to measure himself. I did the exact same thing, literally down to “what if I ran a marathon?”

It worked well temporarily, but it didnt get at the core issue for me: my listlessness stemmed from a disbelief in the value of the benchmark, not the inability to measure up. 10 miles vs 11 didn’t matter; what matters is doing something i believe is valuable. At the end of the day, running didn’t matter, nor did my job (consulting - lol). I needed to find what did matter to me, so that even if I didn’t stack up, I could still point to something and go - “yea, but that’s still objectively awesome”

For those reading this article and saying “this is me, now” I would encourage you to think less about competition and more about values. At the end of the day, competition is a means, not an end; a Surface-level proximal driver, not a core, distal cause.

The key question is: what do you care about right now? What good do you want to do?
Apple tends to sacrifice thermals for thinness.
There's a vaccine being developed by the French biotech Valneva. Its second phase 2 trial is ongoing.
https://valneva.com/research-development/lyme-disease/
Anyone who has ever worked events will tell you that is hardly a one-off anecdote.
Yeah but the Star Trek Experience was not a full sized starship. I'd think the absurdity of it all would bring in a lot of non-trekkies as well.
Well, there are other problems (even requiring encryption at all means some low-power clients can't use it because they lack the processing power), but X.509/WebPKI is the main one, followed by ciphersuite proliferation requiring dozens of times as much audited cryptographic code.
Have they fixed the filesystem performance issues yet? My speeds were faster on WSL1

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197
Thank you! Do you have some way to sign up for notifications for those sorts of releases?

I'm partially interested in this product and also very interested in the TK-01. I'd really love to have that machine but I don't want to pay $800 for a lemon.
Thanks for the response!

I understand it's not black/white and the current restructuring to focus on increasing revenue in the near future could be temporary and they could eventually refocus on improving the internet for people.

I'll still keep an eye out for that and if this is the case in the future, then I will definitely try my luck at applying then.
without commenting on the truth of the statement (I don't know, I've never talked to american programmer's unions), in the US, unions have traditionally backed anti union sentiment, for example, chinese exclusionary acts in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Not only but when industrial unions came to power, industrial workers were the highest demand profession.

United artists, AFTRA, WGA, DGA, all formed when their skills were in high demand. There's a natural employer/employee power dynamic that even Adam Smith talks about. If his fanboys only read his books they'd know that.