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It's not really fun being in those communities if you don't believe, or are gay. It's also hard to leave, as you might not have the resources to do so.

There are lots of things that need to be improved upon. I've seen enough miserable people, living alone, watching TV all day with no friends. Yes, for far too many this life is just the dregs.
I exited out when the authors claimed that “kombucha provides good set and setting.”
I hate CAPTCHAs as much as the next person, just pointing out the it is a service that Google provides and no site is required to implement it. So if you don't like CAPTCHAs then your beef is with site owners.
Yeah, I mean a LOT of people - scientists, software developers, etc - already struggle to do things correctly, let alone in a novel way. There's huge value in work that is not groundbreaking.

For the sciences for example: Repeat or (re) confirm someone else's theories. Repeatability is one of the most important parts of science, and if all the scientists only pushed to do something new, instead of double-checking others' work, science would become something ego-driven and vague.

For software development (my and most people on here's jobs), 99% of it is not building something new. Build something good first. Quality standards, testing, accessibility - how much software do you know that actually does that right?

I've worked with so many people during my consultancy stint (myself included I guess?) that would always pursue the latest and greatest - they wanted to innovate, they wanted something fresh and new. So rarely did they spend more than two years at any one customer. The worst offenders would swoop into a company, advise technology X, then fly off again without ever having to live with the consequences.

And that does not make you a better developer. It scratches your personal itch maybe, but you've caused potentially millions in lost productivity and the inevitable rewrite by more sane developers further down the line.

I'm trying at the moment to do things Right. Build software for the next ten years, instead of the next six months. I'm struggling a bit because the project is big and I'm just a solo developer, but I like to think the mindset is right. I mean I'm not doing anything new, it's just a CRUD application in the end, but it's important that it's done right due to the sheer amount of data (width, not so much amount).
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So frustrating to read that. Could no one even look at 'type' of cases? Tickets in a ticketing system typically have some sort of severity level associated. Taking 3 'critical' issues should be treated as at least important as taking 30 'low priority' issues.
Fun observation that everybody in this community consider it positive to be "independent minded".

But the author seem to fall into the same trap at the end:

When I wrote "The Four Quadrants of Conformism" I expected a firestorm of rage from the aggressively conventional-minded, but in fact it was quite muted. They sensed that there was something about the essay that they disliked intensely, but they had a hard time finding a specific passage to pin it on.

Isn't it much more likely that the conventional-minded people actually liked the essay because it confirmed their values and world-view? Presumable the essayist can't read minds, so this is just how he hopes they reacted.
> My prediction: This will lead to new users being turned away from established products from the anglosphere and develop their own alternatives.

Captchas will be localised long before that.
The article mentions politically extreme politicians being niche conformists, point #7. I find the difference between an extreme politician and moderate one is that the moderates advocate for their constituents, which requires two things: listening to their constituents and compromising on political ideals to attain an interest desirable to their constituents.

Extreme politicians instead tell you want your opinion is. That opinion is often a form of populism because otherwise nobody would give it the time of day. Extremes are only relevant when they have a following.
I am your target customer and would pay money for this. However, I don't want to install another app and would rather have this delivered through soundcloud and mixcloud, and pay for exclusive (secret) tracks through patreon or whatnot
The worst part is that none of these are results-based metrics. These are precisely the kind of things you would measure if you want to create lots of extra meetings and redundant communication.

It's also incredibly self-serving of MS. They have essentially defined "productivity" as how much time you spend using MS products.

I hope natural selection leads to the shuttering of all the companies which actually try to use this metric to optimize their organization.
Show HN: FakeFriday – check if BlackFriday offer is true discount (Polish)
In Poland where I live, most of Black Friday discounts aren't real. Most retailers rise their prices before Fake Friday and then make sales like "20% off". And the price stays the same.

Many people complained about this, so I've created tool that crawled websites of 5 top polish consumer electronics retailers and saved the prices over a time. And today any user can check what was the price of product before.

Eg lets look at this:
https://www.fakefriday.org/?s=Samsung+QLED+8K+QE75Q950TST

This TV was offered for 19999zl in october. In november it was priced 28990. And today it's 29999!

I did this to help people to spend money smarter. It's my side project. I made it anonymous, as I don't want to get any kind of fame or legal questions. Or make any money from it.

Both last and this year website got great media attention. Most vertical portals, radio stations and tv stations covered the subject and linked the site. Got hundreds of tweets and fb shares. Last year traffic peak was on Black Friday day and reached 100k users. Today it's already more than 40k users. On average one user makes 3 searches.

I've got hundreds of comments from users, thanking me for doing this site. One of the nicest to read was "The hero we don't deserve". So it makes me feel really good this tough time :)

Some technical background:
- Crawler is build in .NET, running on Windows as a desktop app. Stored data to SQL Database over the time. Had to update it few times during a year as retailers stores changed.

- Website is ASP.NET Core site. It's deployed to small instance on my hobby kubernetes. It uses local Lucene (Lucene.NET) index to search for product and display charts.

It builds index from scratch during deploy. It aggregates data from SQL and stores them in Lucene index, so it's finally only like 50MB of data.

One search takes 20ms on average. There is no additional cache.
CPU usage is below 1% (2Ghz vCore) and ram usage of this website is 130MB.
I also often notice a self-serving conclusion that you should quit your comfy corporate job (and perhaps create a startup?). In this particular essay, it's close to the bottom:

"Is there a way to cultivate curiosity? To start with, you want to avoid situations that suppress it. How much does the work you're currently doing engage your curiosity? If the answer is "not much," maybe you should change something."
Yep, and this resulted in me just searching duckduckgo for the stackoverflow page I wanted to find, instead.
What about high-frequency traders?

Profitable, technically challenging, but in a very real sense entirely pointless and contrived.
Of course the idea has plenty of merit; I'm just saying that social scientists have been aware of it for a long time, and it's a bit strange to describe it as "new". See e.g. [0] which is cited in the wiki article on cousin marriage.

[0] Woodley, Michael A.; Edward Bell (2013). "Consanguinity as a Major Predictor of Levels of Democracy: A Study of 70 Nations". Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 44 (2): 263–280. doi:10.1177/0022022112443855. S2CID 145714074.
I think if you pick apart Jobs’ vision statements, you can infer that he decided long ago on a type of customer he wanted to sell products to, as did Bill Gates.

While it’s news to me that he was numbers driven, I’m not necessarily surprised. Those numbers didn’t make him pander (much), while in other hands numbers often do.
I expect to see a video on "How to make edible dairy product that is absolutely nothing like Grana Padano" by the weekend.
First, the problem determines the solution. A team without leaders isn't better or worse. It's different. When one mode works better, use it. When the other, use the other. When something else, something else.

Second, the article shifts back and forth between leadership and management. I just posted to my blog about the difference, with a picture of an apple and an orange. While they overlap, they aren't the same. By no means am I suggesting one is better, only that big enough jobs require both.

Managers use skills like analysis, planning, record-keeping, and organization on readily measurable things, facts, figures, observable deliverables, and timelines. A successful manager creates compliance. Well-managed teams get the job done.

Leaders use skills like listening, vision, support, charisma, and credibility on intangibles, emotions, beliefs, stories, images, and symbols. A successful leader inspires. Well-led teams love their work.

Managers work in the system, improving it to meet the values and goals driving it, making it more efficient.

Leaders work on systems, adjusting them, leading them to align with values and goals they miss.

Managers use incentives—carrots and sticks—based on the outcome desired.

Leaders help others do what they already want to but haven't figured out how based on attracting and enlisting people whose goals and values align with the team and role.

Managers react to the values and goals set by leaders.

Leaders are proactive, figuring out what values and goals to prioritize.

A manager's skills transfer between companies and industries. A manager can succeed without caring about what the team does. Managers get people acting. An effective manager gives people the satisfaction of a job well done.

A leader must do what he or she leads others to. A leader believes in the cause. He or she can rarely succeed at leading what he or she doesn't care about, but the passion a leader feels for a cause makes the work rewarding and inspiring. An effective leader makes that inspiration infectious.

Well-managed, poorly-led teams and people may feel obliged to work hard at something they don't care about. They may work for material rewards but not value them. They measure their success by how much they do.
Well-led, poorly-managed teams and people may feel inspired and passionate but not know what to do. They may feel frustrated with a present inferior to a future vision they aren't moving toward. They may lack a meaningful measure of success.

Well-led, well-managed teams and people embrace the challenges and use the problems of today to motivate and propel them to a future they love by creating effective strategies and plans and acting effectively. They measure their success by how much they reach their potential.

Here's my blog post https://joshuaspodek.com/management-versus-leadership, but it's basically the above.
I was just responding the "feel pain" part. The process is certainly unpleasant for the chicks, but here I only focused on pain.

As for culling pre-hatch, I agree with the idea. Not only it is a win for animal welfare, but I believe it may end up being cheaper and more efficient for the farm.
> (“suspicious activity on your network” - I’m using a reputable, top-tier UK mobile provider)

So are a _lot_ of other people, for all kinds of purposes, including nefarious purposes.
They measure energy density by unit volume though. So a gas is always going to look poor by that measure.

I think hydrogen fuel will really become viable when it can be safely and easily stored in solid or liquid form, when I suspect it's energy density will look a lot better.
Terroir matters.

And most of the price difference results from cachet anyway. A benefit of living in France is that there are plenty of great wines available for less than 10 Euros. They don't get exported because, I'd imagine, it's probably not cost-effective to do so.
Regarding smart-locks, I don’t want remote (un)locking but I really would like to know whether the doors are actually locked - for peace of mind going to bed, or when driving off from home.
> This is why Golang uses goroutines. This is why Javascript made async/await. This is why project loom exists. This is why erlang uses erlang processes.

JavaScript async/await is different from the others. It requires two colors of functions [1], and it conflates how the code is written with how it's executed, so it has the same problem you were talking about at the start of your comment.

Also, JavaScript async/await is suboptimal in that it's ultimately built on top of unstructured callbacks. Or, as Nathaniel J. Smith put it in a post about Python's asyncio module, which has the same problem, "Your async/await functions are dumplings of local structure floating on top of callback soup, and this has far-reaching implications for the simplicity and correctness of your code." [2] That whole post is well worth a read IMO.

[1]: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...

[2]: https://vorpus.org/blog/some-thoughts-on-asynchronous-api-de...
That's my thinking, Amazon just seems to be a popular target. Even though they pay warehouse workers double the federal minimum wage at $15 and provide benefits.

From what I've read negative instances are isolated to specific managers which isn't really different from any other job and doesn't make for a systematic abuse of employees.

If I was an unskilled worker Amazon seems like a pretty good bet.
I don't think that io_uring is a bad API, developers just have to start using it.
One thing the article misses is that green hydrogen may in many cases be better used as the feedstock for other products such as green ammonia. Other than its use in fertilizer, ammonia can also be burned as a fuel. Using green ammonia as a fuel is one of our best bets for decarbonizing shipping, for example. And it has the additional advantage that we already have a fairly large scale distribution infrastructure for ammonia, so there's less of a chicken-and-egg bootstrap problem for early adopters. This Royal Society report is a pretty good introduction to the subject: https://royalsociety.org/-/media/policy/projects/green-ammon...
Reminded me of this talk. So many silly things leading to easy access.

"I'll Let Myself In: Tactics of Physical Pen Testers"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnmcRTnTNC8
Amazon protest reporting never seems to mention that 99.99% of employees don’t participate. NYC Fake News loves to report it when there are five people with signs in front of Amazon warehouse with 5000 workers inside.
Having an orchestra would have been cool. The company I worked for in 2000 had a smoking club and ham radio club. Same members in both. Hmm.
No. He'd get just as C&D'd if he taught people how to make "Kleenex-style tissues" from wood pulp or "Ford-style cars" from spare parts on eBay.
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Weird, it’s working ok for me on shitty mobile
Are there any commercial smart doorbells that don't require the cloud?
OpenPGP.js as such is a fine implementation, one in which I have more faith in terms of security than what came before. The TB implementation is more limited than Enigmail expert mode, which I think was part of their original plan: open PGP up for wider use.

It's a small team, and this was announced I think nearly a year ago. It's a pity that apparently the import isn't without issue, but I can see how they expect expert users to be able to fix any problems they encounter.

The whole multiple keychain-thing is or was not communicated clearly anywhere ever, I've stumbled on this before. That's part of the bad design though, a keychain file would have made so much more sense and be easier to reason about than configuring it through arcane gpg incantations. I steered clear of it, but I'm surprised that Enigmail supported it (did it?).

Anyway, one 'internal' ring is a very good idea, and I'm happy TB went that way. That was a very conscious decision, as Openpgp.js development is much more active and open, so don't count on this changing.

The new UI could use some polishing (one or zero click encryption please!) but generally I am happy, and happy that I don't need Enigmail anymore.
Ah yes, you're correct. Thanks.
Does anybody remember a page on, I think, CNET which had all the worst corporate anthems ever? The KPMG one was the worst.
Third-party providers licensed to provide Open Banking services (TTP)
IBM spent money on crazy stuff in the olden times. Early in my career I went to a 3 day dog and pony show at an IBM hotel outside of NYC.

I’m pretty sure the whole thing was an end run around ethics rules. My employer “paid” for the hotel, and the meals were charged at the GSA unreceipted per diem rate, so total cost was a bargain at <$100 night with steak dinners morning noon and night.
Having to compress it to 10,000psi to get a useful amount of energy, hydrogen embrittlement of steel, very wide upper and lower explosive limits, burns with a clear flame. I can't imagine hydrogen ever being used by consumers, it's just a complete liability.
More than 90% of hydrogen produced today comes from fossil fuels. If your intent is to reduce CO2, hydrogen is not the path you want to go.

Also quite hilarious that to produce hydrogen(inefficiently)you must first produce electricity.

You know what you could have done instead? Skip the hydrogen step and just use the electricity.
This is also an excellent and interactive blog-post building up to the understanding of how rotors can replace quaternions in GA: https://marctenbosch.com/quaternions/
"But clarity is also this", followed by a screenshot of a booking that says "$73/night" even though the actual cost is $92/night (which it doesn't say - you have to work it out yourself).

I guess the author really _did_ work in advertising if they think that's clarity.
Wait, there is actually something like mandatory Active Shooter Training in US companies? For real?
"sang the songs during an interview"

For a moment there I thought this was some terrible new approach to technical interviews.
Ecosystem independence and the ability to fully function offline.
No, it's not, otherwise all those "homemade Nutella" recipes and such would all be illegal. It's not like this guy was going to sell the cheese as Grana Padano, so I really don't see the point the Consortium is trying to make, especially since the final product is just approximately similar to Grana Padano, and clearly not 100% exact. It's like as if Coca Cola went after all those cheap generic Colas only because they are clearly piggybacking on the big brand popularity of Coke to sell their product. I think that if someone buys cheap pre-grated knockoff Parmesan in a bottle, it's because they wouldn't have bought the real deal even if they had known it's better, and not because the knockoff exists. For instance, I know that certain brands of canned mackerel taste a bit better then the brands I usually buy, but I just don't care enough to spend extra cash on it. In the same way, I don't buy generic knockoff cheese because I care about it tasting worse then the real deal, and I consider it being worth the extra money.
The trouble with solar -> electricity -> hydrogen -> electricity and the like is that normal lithium ion batteries seem to do the job cheaper and better for most applications.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXBHY7uco0Y
No, Thunderbird 78 doesn't use OpenPGP.js - it uses RNP and Botan for OpenPGP.
Metallic Hydrogen Is Going to Change Everything
I've grown fond of Bloomberg's 5 Things
He hit the nail on the head but I think the framing of the investor's objective is not complete. The search for alpha is usually not about finding ideas that everyone thinks is bad but are actually good, although that does sometimes happen. Instead it's about finding totally undiscovered perspectives that lead to new insights into the market structure, market data or underlying market mechanisms that nobody considered before. There's large numbers of Easter Eggs that need to be unlocked. It's secret knoweledge, an unknown unknown.

The world of start-ups is a little different. It's more rare to have a totally novel idea that nobody has thought of. In that space I think his framing is spot on.

Regardless, there's enough similarities that I think it's fair to group them together.
> wind and solar energy can provide the electricity to power homes and electric cars, green hydrogen could be an ideal power source for energy-intensive industries like concrete and steel manufacturing

It's not a power source. It's a different battery. The sun is still the source in these cases.

Nothing works as well as reducing consumption and demand. While we'll always need power, we should always at least mention the higher goal of reducing demand.
Google's captcha basically does this:

Check if you are logged into google. (pretty much unavoidable in chrome). If you have a google account then they know your phone number is verified and getting a phone number usually requires government mandated identification.

Otherwise they use fingerprinting to identify you and correlate it with activity on google, youtube, google ads, etc.

If those two things fail then Google will give you an endless stream of captchas even if you answer all of them correctly. I often had to complete 20 captchas only for it to tell me "sorry". There was maybe a 1/3 chance that completing all 20 captchas let me through.

Meanwhile on a different browser where I'm logged into google I get through on first attempt. Google captchas are just a data mining operation. They have nothing to do with proving whether you are human. After all, if they have enough data about you they often give you the option to skip the captcha altogether. The captcha is a psychological attack on you to convince you to give Google more data.
My advisor (Finnish) told me almost every one’s last name is some form of “Järvi”; when the Finns were asked to pick a last name, the guidance was to use a profession or a major physical landmark near them. There are 10s of thousands of lakes (järvi)...
I remain utterly baffled that a single nation's licensing authority has unilaterally taken a decision that so negatively affects the entire planet, and especially humankind's ability to perform fundamental science - a matter of far greater import than "faster internet access to remote places".

I say this as someone who lives in a (somewhat) remote area that may vastly benefit from precisely such coverage (assuming it's at all affordable out here in the 3rd-world by the time it eventually becomes accessible.)
People can be very intelligent on one area, and not as much in others.

There are many scientists who have very high standards for proof and evidence in their professional life, but accept other theories as truth without a shred of evidence in their personal lives.