skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This means nothing anymore. MSFT says that about everything they release and users are still often left with the feeling that they are guinea pigs testing a very unfinished product.

There is some truth to this but when it comes to the core .NET stuff that is pretty solid. However .NET core before version 2.0 was mess.

> Reading this makes me wonder who is still using Visual Studio. That IDE is so bad it's beyond believe.

That is your opinion man. Personally I really like VS.

> Why the hell do Windows developers need to install an entire new IDE in order to use the latest version of the .NET runtime? It's ridiculous beyond belief.

They aren't installing a whole IDE. It is an update to the existing VS 2019 version. The newest version of the IDE (which is 16.8) has support .NET 5.0. The vast majority of people that are using .NET core are using the latest Visual Studio 2019 already and this is a minor update (it takes maybe 10-20 minutes to install, so run the updater make a coffee and time you come back you should be good to go).

> Really shows that Visual Studio Code is the future. All you have to do is install the latest runtime and update the plugin so it shows you suggestions for all the latest language features. No need to install a new version of Visual Studio Code itself.

VS code and other alternative .NET IDEs doesn't support many of the things that are typically used around the .NET world e.g. SQL database projects don't work in Rider or VS Code (I just tried it with Rider) and I suspect that a lot of the tooling around that doesn't work. There probably a load of other stuff (that I don't use) that doesn't work either.

It really depends what you are doing.

> This might cause confusion. .NET 5 is basically .NET Core 3.2 but has been renamed to .NET 5 so that .NET Framework 4.x users can finally get convinced to move to .NET Core. They just dropped the Core to make it look more appealing to them, but it's still .NET Core.

I know a lot of people that don't work with Microsoft tech think we are all dumb but we aren't all that dumb. Moving projects from .NET Fullfat to .NET Core maybe a large undertaking (depending on the project) depending on how the project is strutured and what tech it uses.
Being in the global 0.1% or whatever doesn't necessarily make you feel rich or privileged, if you live in one of the most expensive cities in the world and have similar wealth to most people you know. You still end up competing hard for things that are limited in your locality: desirable housing, prestigious opportunities, a desirable partner, the best schools for your kids.

Traveling can help build perspective. Maybe someday moving somewhere less competitive.
These are just some initial metrics we picked for v1. Please suggest more by filing by a github issue here - https://github.com/ossf/scorecard/issues
Over time, we will add more real time metrics such as open vulnerabilities, etc
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> If you're really just after high payouts and nothing else, was going into IT even the best choice to begin with?

I don't know many other professions where high salaries are pretty much a given, without cutthroat competition among your peers?

You can get high payouts building a company, becoming a top lawyer or medical professional, but the investment in time, effort, and money is much higher, and the chances of success are lower.
I used to use a common hole punch to make a little disc from black electrical or black gaffers tape and use that to cover the toner windows because I found that Sharpie just wasn't opaque enough in all cases, especially with my Brother color laser.

And then I discovered the paint pens my wife uses for rock painting. Now, those really work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_Keepers
If you think Google's phone has less crapware, you're wrong. Try Samsung's phone and you will find Google's default apps are the crapware.

Crappy design with minimal feature set. Home app alone is unbearably uncustomizable as well.
It's e.g. not uncommon for people to go into some form of denial of their (new/worsens) mental illness, it they are simple not aware that a mental illness can have given effects.

This makes it super hard to differentiate between something causing mental illness and that something in some way making people being diagnosed with it.

E.g. the current works situation makes it much simpler for people to get depression and anxiety without being infected by Covid-19, but due to the circumstances if someone got a new (or worsens) mental illness and covid in 2020 it's likely that they will diagnosed the illness after having had covid even if it came from the world situation not the covid virus directly.

Example Unrelated to covid: I got diagnosed ~3years after it (slowly) started to mess up my life, but that was when it started to noticably affect my life. As far as I can tell before that I had it in a mild version for like and addition 7-10 years.

So the time where sunshine is diagnosed as mentally ill isn't necessary at all related to when that person got mentally ill.
I have been frustrated many times after stepping into a system function on iOS, only to be greeted with a mountain of assembly instructions. It was one of the first grievances I had with iOS development, coming from Android.

On the other hand, it's been a great opportunity to learn how ARM works!
But if you want to participate more in the elections than just R vs D, say, decide which candidate R or D should elect, then you land in a public registry, no?
Mysterious Bugs Were Used to Hack iPhones and Android Phones
He was also ordered to pay back 8.3M - but when is restitution paid back? If he waits until he gets out to cash out, he could be hugely in the green 9 years later.
Apple announces M1, its first-ever Apple silicon chip
Amen. If we don’t focus on the root cause it will be harder to solve the problem. And understand that we have actually solved it.

(Student Pilot and Mechanical Engineer here)
Seems to be unique to Brother cartridges.
HN is one of the very few places left where one can be openly anonymous without sounding like a 4Chan kook. We don't need to know people's professions/job or titles.

The truth is that players recognize players. The lawyers here can normally spot the other lawyers, and they can always spot the law students. I think it safe to assume the doctors, physicists and soldiers have similar abilities.
As a sanity check the "half as high" background number sounds high?

edit: scratch my mistaken numbers - but people would normally (without covid) get many mental illnesses per lifetime?
Can't speak for other places, but every time I've voted in-person in Wisconsin it has been through a procedure that doesn't involve the poll workers seeing my ballot after they give it to me. After getting a folder containing a ballot, I take it over to a closed stall to mark it and feed it directly into the scanning machine when I'm done. Safe, secure and results in immediately knowing that your ballot is valid and accepted.

As a sibling comment mentions, states and cities have a great deal of freedom in terms of the "how" of voting and some do it better than others.
More so Weird Al.

https://youtu.be/JE37e1eK2mY

Looks like Mountain Goats is a successor though.
Apple details the battery life of its new Arm-based MacBooks
How a top venture capitalist uses Airtable to track and widen his network
Whisky tasting using a bimetallic nanoplasmonic tongue
What a wonderful little retrospective. It's a nice walk down memory lane, and I really appreciate how clear and sensible his thinking was around handing off the project when the time was right.
If I sum up the number of engineers at Google/FB/Apple/Amazon/Netflix I’m already there and if I include engineers from successful unicorns and decacorns, plus older big companies like Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle, Intuit I’ve added way more people although probably not in the $500k range unless they are like directors. Then there are other groups like HFT/Prop trading/Hedge Funds but those are probably only a few thousand or maybe ten thousand.

Sorry, I meant these companies have experienced (10-20 years) engineers at $500k where younger employees could expect to rise up to that level, not that every employee at these companies are making $500k.
Obligatory appreciation post for dang.

Swift invisible action when facing bad faith actors; sporadic public call outs for quick attitude correction; and consistent helpful presence like multi-page reminders and clarifications on the inner workings of this forum.

I find your style of moderation to be the golden standard on how to foster a healthy online community.
I didn’t have a positive experience with my own contribution. While working with SSH keys in Go, I realized there was no existing method to calculate a key fingerprint. Seeing as this is a reasonably common operation, I opened a PR and added it.

I was told—with a straight face—that it was unnecessary because it’s simple enough to read the RFC and do it yourself.

It was eventually added, but that experience taught me a lot about the mentality of the maintainers behind the project.
That is not what the Thin Blue Line represents.
Now that is something I wish all the social media platforms would enforce on their moderator staff.

Every ban should be accompanied with at least one sentence of explanation, a quote from the relevant law or ToS, and the text or image (with a nice red circle if required) in question. If the content was illegal then a summary instead.

It should be a choice to view it, as public as the posting itself, and subject to comments also.

As best I can tell, Facebook bans are done by monkeys hitting buttons randomly to get through their queue as quickly as possible. I don't think Twitter is much better.
I’m convinced that most of the users on this site are sitting in their house that they rent with eight other people in their underwear eating beans out of a can.
More Science, Less Speculation on Covid Long-Haulers
> Even the founder probably got less than a mid/senior level FAANG employee would get (and the FAANG employee had no risk)

Not really... he's been working on the startup for 7 years. Let's assume he had an average salary of 150K during those years. Plus he got $3.7M on the acquisition (it's not clear from his post if that's what he takes home or if it's pre-tax). That's 4.75M.

Now let's assume a senior engineer in FAANG with a an average salary of $350K for 7 years. That's 2.45M. That's a very rough comparison and not taking into account taxes (the FAANG engineer is likely to pay more money in taxes overall).

But the bigger difference is how he spent those 7 years. He spent it building and managing his own company with all the freedom in the world. Compare that to a senior engineer in FAANG...

Update: someone in the comments mentioned he'll likely not need to pay any federal tax on the acquisition money. That makes a huge difference and the take home gap is much larger than my initial estimate.
It also makes it much easier to directly observe which systems work better and which systems don't. Imagine for a moment that the entire country was using the exact same ballot process in 2000: The punch system that lead to so much ambiguity in FL. Its one thing to look at a system and say in the abstract "this could be much more reliable." Its another entirely to say "Look at states X, Y, and Z: Their process is actually much more reliable".

I expect the same thing to happen after this election. Once things calm down, several states are going to improve their processes.
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New problem, hurricane now blows away the tower instead of snapping a cable.
This is technically true, but it's a difference of a 5 MB executable vs a 50 MB.
Since it is less incendiary to discuss, what if someone was wearing a Rastafarian style hat in places marijuana bills were on the ballot, is this a conflict?
You don't need to inject IOptions, you can inject the Settings class directly. I don't see an issue with those extra lines, VS generates them with one hotkey for me.
The Vaccine News Is Good. Here’s the Bad News
> Asserting that all property is theft and that the system is rigged.

There is definitely a discussion to be had about property, smarter people than us have had it for at least 150 years (even more, if you include the discussion between Locke and Filmer), don't see anything that cynic about it. I'd go on to say that even Cynicism itself was a really interesting philosophical school [1]. I do agree that that there are some people on this website who still take the IQ thing seriously, but even there, I think that the majority regards it as bogus.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynicism_(philosophy)
Actually Visual Studio is quite fast again. It's just that Resharper does its very best to slow it down. I don't believe this will ever change. Well except maybe Microsoft will fully deprecate COM-based in-process extensions.
Thanks for actually giving real numbers here. I hate startups that spin fire-sale acquisitions into something more substantial than they are.

So I am super happy to see some real transparency with real numbers and a real talk about the earn out.
Is there anyone you are looking up to with regard to networking? Have you tried imagining what they would do in your situation? Would they do things differently? Or just more of what you do already? What would they do differently if they couldn't meet anyone in person?
We started to use F# with Elm and it works very well. Statically typed all the way.
It's a "campaign" on its own, but possibly all of those depending on context. I don't know what that exact context is, but it's not on me or the poll workers to know every political meme going around. A bastardized American flag is not just an American flag as you've asserted, but rather an overt political statement.
Reminds me -- it used to be that I could plug my Macbook air into a monitor and arrange my windows, and it would return them to that position whenever I'd disconnect and come back. That feature vanished as of ~2018 and you have to buy some app to get it back.
> The MSDN documentation has always been freely available

No, it hasn't. It was originally available exclusively to subscribers, and only on CD. MSDN started before the web existed.

Eventually, the documentation became free on the web.
In their defence, there is a default builder that would save you maybe 3-4 lines there, but I do generally agree with your point.

It is something that annoys me about .NET in general there is just decades of over-engineering cruft and once these practices emerge its difficult to get people to stop doing them. The problem only gets worse as time passes.
Golang 1.16 will revert how it releases memory to Linux
True, and our focus should be on correcting the societal failures that lead to people ending up there. Because prisons aren't going to away.

But we can all agree that we should help people who need it.
>You've inverted the dependency of the relationship. People don't buy Nabisco because it's at Target; they go to Target because it has Nabisco products, hopefully for cheaper than other stores.

This is true for smaller stores (eg the mom-and-pop corner store or even large stores), but once retailers get to the super-large sizes, eg Target/Walmart, the relationship flips. People go to Target first and buy Nabisco because its at Target. If Nabisco wasn't there, they buy something else, but they don't stop shopping at Target.

>Thus, stores absolutely pay for every item of inventory that appears on their shelves except for some new products that might have special consignment arrangements.

>Suppliers do not pay for better shelf placement. Stores determine that based on sell through and margin; the products that generate the best overall revenue get the best placement on the shelves.

This is 100% incorrect. As I mentioned in my previous comment, some stores may operate like this, but not all. I can tell you from personal expertise in this space, but also just from a simple Google search about how retailers operate (do a search for the terms: slotting allowance, shelf-space rental, pay-to-stay, pay-to-display). See below for some links to get you started. Big retailers do not own all of the products on its shelves, and they certainly do make arrangements where manufacturers can pay extra fees to get preferential endcap placement, shelf placement, and shelf space. I have even seen agreements where a manufacturer will literally own (rather than rent) a specific shelf in an important store and can do whatever they want with it, as long as they pay recurrent fees (it reminds me of someone owning a condo in a building and paying HOA fees).

Big retailers may of course choose to not sell a certain shelf placement to a specific product because they want to reserve it for another purpose (like another competing product), but as a general rule of the thumb, if you're willing to pay enough, you can have whatever shelf spot you want.

Big retailers will also charge fees to manufacturers for the transportation and storage of the product for when the product is being stored in the retailer's warehouses or being moved by the retailer's trucks (sound familiar to what Amazon does?). The reason they can do this is because the retailer doesn't own the product, the manufacturer still does. The retailer profits by facilitating the sale of the product.

In some situations, big retailers may indeed purchase a block of products, but in every scenario I have personal experience with, the agreement was always one in which the manufacturer was obligated to buy back any product which did not successfully sell in the store, which ultimately has the same effect as just renting shelf space.

Further reading:

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/718711109

https://www.vox.com/2016/11/22/13707022/grocery-store-slotti...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-grocers-wring-extra-cash-ou...

https://www.businessinsider.com/r-wal-mart-to-impose-charges...

https://cspinet.org/resource/rigged

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/rent-space-grocery-store-ven...
>20x times shorter

that's giant, but I don't think that "just" language / environment difference makes this huge difference
> There's no way in hell many of the people I've talked to on here about a bunch of different things would ever have those conversations with me, or any conversation probably, in person.

In San Francisco there are tech millionaires everywhere. Just like almost every other group, some are nice, gregarious, excited to talk to anyone; others are rude, snobbish and judgmental. You're likely underestimating yourself and others.
I'm not sure about the specifics of the method as described in the book, but time blocking is a pretty standard technique (if you google "time blocking" you'll get dozens of tutorials on it).

I've been blocking out time on my calendar for a year and a half now. It definitely adds value, as I know what I should be working on in order. Doing it on a digital calendar also means that I can move stuff around or add tasks quickly as plans (invariably) change.

When trying it as my only method of planning, I found that I was losing the bigger picture and losing track of key tasks. For instance, if I put some task to do for Friday but don't do it and forget to reschedule, it's just lost in my calendar. However, it works quite well with an external todo list, as a way to make it more concrete.

It can add or remove stress depending on how you use it. At first I blocked out too many things per day and would get stressed from not finishing them. Now, I block out maybe 2-3 main tasks which I can usually finish and feel good about spending time for myself in the evening.
Imagine a group of programmers unable to tell the difference between "violates the rules" and "hurts my political feelings"... yikes.
737MAX is not nor never has been dynamically/aerodynamically unstable. Full stop. No airliner is permitted to be unstable by FAA regulations. At no point in the flight envelope will the aircraft pitch up into a stall without pitch-up inputs, thus it is not unstable.

MCAS was used to augment flight stick characteristics, namely to simulate a linear relationship between flight-stick input force and pitch-up/AoA. This was, and always has been, about single-certification and pilot UX, not anything about the stability of the airplane. Having stick forces be somewhat lower than expected at high AoA does not make the plane unstable. The linear relationship is considered ideal, but many planes such as the 757 have a similar non-linear relationship. MCAS is not anti-stall.

Granted, this has widely been mis-reported. The real issue is that the MCAS system was made dramatically more powerful, and thus dangerous, over the course of development. Without a concomitant change to the reliability of MCAS inputs (namely the AoA sensors), this resulted in disaster.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/as-th...
Unfortunately the site doesn't let me read the post until I login or disable 'my adblocker', which I don't have enabled.
The next paragraph is what got me.

> When I asked the author how this happened, he failed to see any problem with citing a paper he never read while writing a paper outside his field, and was unaware of the difference between open access and predatory journals.
Apple Silicon M1 Launch Live [video]
It's a huge difference, and pretty much the heart of the matter: retailers pay for inventory, marketplaces do not.

Of course if you ignore the primary distinguishing factor they look the same. It's like how a non techie can look at a laptop and call it an ipad.
This thread has nothing to do with a level headed discussion on the "fairness" of equity (which doesn't even make sense). I was responding to a comment calling Josh a dick for finally getting paid for a company he built that adds value to thousands of customer's lives, instead of giving it to highly replaceable early engineers.

Average software engineer gets compensated with 6 figure income for 7 years leading to a $70k cash payout. What a jerk that Josh is.

Rise, proletariat, rise.
Record looks like scala case classes. I miss them; they save a lot of mucking about (like, loads). Immutability is an extra, it's the brevity it brings.
Anncient Unix also had chdir as the command name for cd. If I'm not mistaken it was changed to cd for v7 with the Bourne shell replacing the previous shell.
Reducing AWS Data Transfer Cost: Migration from Multi-AZ to Single AZ
No, I'm literally complaining about the misleading messaging surrounding .Net 5.0 "merging" .Net Framework and .Net Core. My post was very clear on that. Like this quote from the linked article:

> .NET 5.0 is the first release in our .NET unification journey. We built .NET 5.0 to enable a much larger group of developers to migrate their .NET Framework code and apps to .NET 5.0.
So you want to modify those instructions to crack DRM? Which of them? There is a lot of instructions (say, your few thousand) and even more combinations of instructions, you can't find another combination of instructions which would work.
Been in this case a couple jobs; both MSP jobs naturally. When you're burnt out you just don't see it. In both of my previous jobs the burnout also had a boss who was consistently micromanaging and saying you aren't working hard enough.

This is one of the weaknesses of government. A fundamental law that governments should have is that your employer cannot harm your health. Even in mental cases like burnout, the employer is almost certainly trading the employee's health for money. An employee's health is not something an employer should be allowed to trade.

In more physical injury, someone lifting 200lbs hurting their back or some ancient machine that lacks any safety features leading to injury. The employer is trading their employee's health in place of profits in not having safety.

Even with workplace safety measures, who ultimately pays is the government and therefore tax payers for these injuries. These bad employers get to keep their $.
M1 is the first Apple Silicon chip for the Mac