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Ask HN: Automation is going to affect our jobs soon, right?
So what strategies do you think are going to keep you relevant in the future?

Things like "no-code development platform" or NCDP will perhaps lessen the demand of web developers.
Unreal Engine and Unity have maybe lessened the demand for game engine and graphics programmers.
It might be wrong to extrapolate out of these 2 trends, but it looks like more and more software developer positions will become less demanded/requested as we're heading towards full automation. And the resulting jobs are going to be more and more boring. So you are going to configure something rather than code something up from scratch.

My strategy, albeit likely flawed, is:

- focus on fundamentals: so instead of learning a graphics API like OpenGL 2.1 or OpenGL 4.x, study the fundamental algorithms underlying hardware and software. IOW: write a rasterizer, a ray tracer from scratch with only the standard libraries of a given programming language. (E.g. write a pure C++ software rasterizer or ray tracer by only using the C++ STL. Then output the result into a simple image format like PPM.)
I mostly ignore the naysayers here telling me that I am wasting my time reinventing the wheel and what not, but I actually really enjoy that process of learning why and how something works in the deepest levels.

- focus on the core subjects that will give you the most bang for your buck: linear algebra has haunted me throughout my studies, so instead of resisting it, embrace it. You can't escape linear algebra really, if you are doing computer graphics, neural networks (back-propagation), Fourier transforms, image processing, probability theory. It's everywhere, and it is the most useful subject for computer science majors IMHO. Then maybe algorithms and formal and non-formal languages like (C, Japanese etc.). Everybody speaks English nowadays, so why not pick-up a new (human) language?

What are your personal strategies?
WSL1 was not a VM. WSL2 is a VM.
I don't need color for code. I need high resolution and to be able to stare at it for hours on end. Right now I get around this by having an ambient light sensors adjusting my monitors but it's buggy and error prone.

I look forward to having a red light setup for night coding like my father had for his photography dark room.
> Do any site operators actually block non-Google search engine crawlers because being listed DDG/Bing/etc isn't worth the extra cost of serving the crawler?

Many website operators do actually block crawlers from non Google search engines and it's because the cost of being crawled isn't worth it to them. Here's a good quote from one such webmaster:

As a webmaster I get a bit tired of constantly having to deal with the startup crawler du jour.

From law firms looking for DMCA violations to verticals search engines, to image aggregators, to company intelligence resellers… It feels to me that everybody and their brother has gotten into spidering sites.

With 10,000s of pages that have content that is only relevant to a targeted audience who is perfectly able to find us on the majors, I do not hesitate to block (and possibly ban) when I see an aggressive crawler that does not provide me or my customers with direct benefits.

Taken from http://www.skrenta.com/2008/04/cuill_is_banned_on_10000_site...

> Perhaps other search engines should spoof GoogleBot. Browsers have being doing that since forever spoofing Netscape (Mozilla), Safari, etc. for the same reason.

People have tried this and it doesn't work. Google provides ways to check to make sure traffic is coming from Google IP addresses and practitioners and academics study how to spot fake Googlebots.
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/...
https://blogs.akamai.com/2014/07/search-engine-impersonation...
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8421894

> This sounds like a common fallacy of people criticizing the free market.

I am asserting that crawling the web is a natural monopoly. This means that the free market has failed and that it is not possible for the market to heal itself in this regard. There is significant evidence that this is the case and I imagine you'll be hearing more and more about it soon.
I still feel we the Merb “merger” was less than a merger and more of funding being cut for Merb development. Not sure if Engine Yard didn’t see a future in Merb or what, but it felt weird after so much rhetoric about the modularity of Merb over Rails to just see Rails gobble up Merb in just a couple of months. Either way, I wish I never threw out my sandals and I still miss Ezra :(
Interesting! I just assumed Darcs development had stopped. Where can I read about this new Darcs 3 theory?

I think the next VCS needs to offer a value proposition other than just "better than Git", though. The easiest way to accomplish this would be to piggyback on something popular.

For example, if Microsoft started offering a new VCS system built into Visual Studio Code that were enabled for free by default and had awesome built-in integration (VSCode's current VCS integration is nearly useless, IMHO), then I think it could reasonably compete with Git, though it might require competing with Github. (Of course, Microsoft could do this with Github.)

Even with this, I don't think a better Darcs would suffice. For example, one thing that Git handles poorly is large files, and it doesn't do well with large repos, either. I think we'd need something like Darcs paired with awesome scalability (Perforce-style central server with partial client-side checkouts) combined with support for arbitrarily large files.
Yes check here the inkplate https://forum.ei2030.org/t/inkplate-6-an-open-source-hardwar...
Microsoft stole the idea of AppGet. The idea of AppGet is chocolatey that stores download urls in yaml files.
A slightly more accessible option right now is an AMOLED screen. If you work on applications with a black background, like a terminal or a text editor, it has some of the same benefits. Namely, there's no backlight as individual pixels get lighted on their own.

Sadly, AMOLED hasn't progressed as quickly as we expected and big screens are both rare and expensive. Besides, eInk has some advantages like lower energy consumption.
Part of the reason for IRBs is of course to protect the institution. The other is to protect the subjects. I also don't recall saying that IRB review was some sort of "panacea". Please don't present clearly false claims like that.

Any real IRB board would see that this research clearly contains potential harmful outcomes to participants as a result of making public examples of them for the researcher's amusement. No ethical researcher "publishes" results without some attempt to shield the identities of the subjects. Sure, sometimes they screw that up, but revealing the identities of "researched stooges" seems to have been the primary intent here.

I must obtain IRB approval to conduct any research, even show people simple web/social content. Sometimes it is fast tracked for sure, but EVERYTHING that involves human subjects goes through IRB review at every institute/university I have ever worked with.
- beer drinking https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ibeer-free/id475905823
>I count switching DAW as a significant compromise.

That's why Ardour runs on more platforms that any other DAW, so you don't have to make that compromise :)
This is why there's an aggressive firewall between the ads and search organizations. The ranking team isn't even aware of revenue numbers by ACL.
Love the idea but 2K is a bit steep. I wouldn’t mind if this thing can last a decade. A dual monitor setup with this vertical sounds like a dream setup.

Seems like a trans reflective display? I always thought this type of screen had issues over 10” because of the inner membrane.
It does dominate image search which sucks. I instinctively add "-pinterest" to my search. I don't have this problem on text search.
> Of course, you can also do this by making copies manually, but that gets complicated if the program consists of more than file.

...and manual copies don't offer you the great automations that git provides you for free, like being able to tell when exactly each line has been changed last time (so you can check the whole context of how and why that change was made) or perform a binary search of a revision that introduced a bug. Even when working alone, these tools are invaluable.
A Kong D1 is just a keyboard- it can’t run Mainstage, store gigs of samples, or run a DAW...
Highly foccused tasks that only require text:

-E-mail
-Coding
-Research
-Writing

Benefits:
Zero distraction
Zero eyestrain
No Bluelight
Title needs "2010".
How is the refresh rate? Is this monitor different than my experience with the Kindle?
Applebot was able to get away with doing exactly this but I imagine that's because it's Apple and websites knew that Apple was about to send them enough traffic via Apple News to make it worth their while. I don't know if other search engine operators have tried this but I would imagine they would get caught by rate limiters set for non Google IP's and then they would be blocked.
No, middle is an index into a slice with an arbitrary offset. Unless (with probability ≈ 0.5^log(n)) you've picked the lower half every time before finding the element, that is not the correct index.
Any reason you can't hook him up with lineage OS?
What is the evolutionary value of killing the host (potentially) before transmission can occur? I’d have thought the sweet spot is weak enough to minimise fatality/maximise accidental transmission while strong enough to ensure minimal symptoms that result in increased transmission vectors (eg coughing)

But. I have no training.
I am not an expert and have no special knowledge of this particular situation.

In general, a "weaker" virus has an evolutionary advantage. Killing or disabling the host means fewer opportunities to spread.
You're right. People seem to have this misconception that the light from reflective displays like eInk is somehow different from that of emissive displays like LCD or OLED. Light is light. An LCD with _perfect_ calibration to the local lighting conditions would look indistinguishable from an eInk display, and thus we would expect it to have the same eye-strain reducing properties.

Put a different way: when light falls on an eInk "pixel" it gets absorbed and then re-emitted, modulo intensity. That's how we see the vast majority of surfaces in the world: they absorb light and then re-emit it, possibly changing its intensity and color (frequency). Technologies like OLED directly emit light; not reacting significantly to the ambient light that falls on them. But if one we able to measure the light falling on each individual pixel of an OLED, one could adjust each pixel to mimic the behavior of a physical object. It could "simulate" eInk, so to speak. If the mimicry is close enough, then there's no fundamental difference between the two. They'd both be emitting the same frequency and intensity of light.

In fact I recall a post, mostly likely here on HN: Someone took a high quality Apple display and rigged it with an array of ambient light sensors, put it in a decorative art frame and hung it on the wall. With some software and calibration they were able to get it to look convincingly like a real piece of art, fooling many of their guests.

eInk has been around for decades now and has remained an obscure niche. It's possible we'll see a renaissance for it, with the patents hopefully expiring? But there's no reason we shouldn't also be pursuing better ambient light calibration for our existing displays.

P.S. It's not accurate to say that eInk is a "reflective" display, as it does not primarily reflect light. Otherwise it would look like a mirror. But saying "emissive" versus "reflective" is common parlance for differentiating technologies like eInk from technologies like LCDs and OLEDs. Nitpicking the terminology is not particularly helpful though.
In other companies, you can build a personal + professional goodwill by inventing things and making breakthroughs. At Apple, the brand encapsulates your achievements without anything to show for it. You're dust at the end of your career in exchange for a salary and a stack of non-disclosure agreements that expire on upon your death.
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But does that translate to eink? Based on my experience with studying and notetaking, I think retention is better with paper because it's an object you're interacting with. The fact that text (whether I'm reading or writing it) is on a static location relative to the world seems to give it some extra anchor in my memory. Assuming I'm not completely imagining that effect, then an eink monitor wouldn't have any of those benefits.
What's the refresh rate?
I read the question as follows: how to rank so high like Pinterest does?

The answer is: you should not spend any second on SEO. It is time and money wasted if you are a SMB. Anything else, including taking a walk is better for your business than going into SEO optimization.

Your clients are people who buy your stuff. Search engine robot is not your client. After years of working with SEO it becomes clear for me, if you satisfy a robot, you don't satisfy your client. These are two different things.

The bright side is that when you will serve your clients, robots will catch up eventually. But it is search engine problem not something you should spend time on.

There is no magic bullet method to rank high. No special hack you can use. Everything you will read about SEO is smokes and mirrors. If you have million dollar company and did everything else right - sure, you can throw hundreds thousands dollars into SEO and pray search engine devs won't change their minds.

But as a SMB company, counting each dollar, just leave it. You won't win over search engines and people with bulk of money.

Spend your time and effort on clients. It is the only way to spend it right. If search engine will change mind - so be it. You won't be dependant on it. And your clients will come to you because they love your product, it is stronger than being number one in a twisted search ranking.
What makes it even more frustrating is the wrapped screen. It's hard to predict where you'll go, while the saucers can trick shot across the screen wrap with no problem.
It's certainly going in that direction. With reverse image search being replaced with "Search with Google Lense" on mobile, the most prominent results are now all Google shopping ads.
I don’t want to come off too harsh, so I’ll preface that I respect the author and mean all of what follows constructively.

With that said, this seems like a recipe for debugging nightmares. Getters and setters already make life difficult, hiding statefulness and complexity in a way that’s not apparent at the call site (you don’t even know it’s a call site!). Adding magic where sometimes a value is computed and sometimes it’s not amplifies those problems.

Maybe my FP is showing, but all of this could be much more easily accomplished with plain value type data structures and functions. Computed values can be derived either at construction time (ideal, fewer nullish properties and less chance of passing incomplete values off to something that expects them to be complete) or by passing the structure to a function (or calling a method if you must, but here `this` is just an implicit argument to allow access to other properties of the structure).

Replacing a computed value is as simple as constructing a new value structure with the value set explicitly.

All of that is a lot easier to reason about (in terms of just reading the source to see what it does), almost certainly has better performance characteristics, and definitely makes concurrency less complex.

These principles work very well in a general FP environment, but they can be applied to great benefit even in more imperative environments like JS.
I own some M1 and the arm version of Logic Pro X can load most x86 VST plugins without problems. A recompile is a bit more energy friendly but not strictly necessary.
The trend of darkmode adoption shows actually huge demand for eink: https://forum.ei2030.org/t/the-trend-in-darkmode-adoption-is...
Actually he wants minimum 8 figures.

https://milk.com/value/
30% of people infected not able to walk a block without losing breath and being exhausted for a day — that’s enough evidence to say the risk profile has changed.

Infection rate does not change outcome of recovery (unless it’s resource constrained like vents or meds) and to that point — we’ve walked back the immediacy of vents because they were actually harmful to recovery. So technically the resource management argument should be reduced in weight by some factor.
As far as I'm aware, the original argument was that this is the only time of the year when everyone is on vacation anyway.

When it's not taking place remotely (as it does this year), there's also an argument to be made for this time slot because exhibition halls are traditionally empty and thus cheap around this time of year.
They shouldn’t as they have no will whatsoever, nor it is “fighting” our immune system.

If any (will), it shouldn’t be killing its host.

These are anthropomorphic reasoning and antagonisms.
There's still say a billion year window. The jurassic was 200 million years ago. If some spacefaring civilization developed at that time on some other planet, and the galaxy could be colonized in a few million years, they could have done it a hundred times over since the dinosaurs.

The distances in the milky way are mind boggling. But the age of the Earth is even more so.
I occasionally do copyright searches for owners of images (it's a thing in online groups where "do not post images without permission" is a thing)
pinterest is full black hat when it comes to image ownership. It owns nothing it has on its site and without an account, there's no way to trace ownership using its links. And usually there's so many duplicates of the same images (without credit) that it swamps all search results.
Some $500 windows laptop are perfectly reliable, and some $3000 laptops are full of issues- unfortunately all I can do, is but one online, and return it if it has issues.

I had self-built 3 desktops over 10 years and they have been rock solid. With a laptop there is an entire team of engineers to select and vet parts, I threw together random parts. It is still a mystery to me how that is possible.
I think the video in the post would let you compare for yourself
> making Google’s index of the web available for use by competitors

That does seem like a good idea since it amounts essentially to a database of stuff that Google does not own (by construction) and is of public utility.
You should try reading All men are mortal by Simone de Beauvoir : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Men_Are_Mortal

It is about a man who becomes immortal and experiences a lot of things. Without spoiling you, it turns out not to be as great as expected.

Apart from this there is the somewhat classical : "A famous quote tells us the three things every man should do during his time on earth: Plant a tree, have a son and write a book. The reason behind this quote is generally believed to be that we are only here for a short time and these three things will live on long after we have passed. It’s like leaving a legacy and in a sense achieving a kind of immortality."
What's the deal with refresh rate on eInk these days?
Space Invaders, and the bug that when restarting the machine you get 1 credit
They used to offer that functionality but removed it years ago.

I've been using this userscript since then. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-d...

It might be called Google Hit Hider by Domain but the author has expanded it to cover most major search engines over the years.
Looking for this answer. Anyone?
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Well, if I want to look at my colleagues' work without disturbing my uncommitted changes or merging my commits right at that very moment, I use `git fetch`.
As an ex mathematician, I can't handle the part where he claims mathematicians have only been studying imaginary numbers "in recent decades" and then goes on to say that Mandelbrot is the first person to rigorously study these kinds of systems. Made me die inside.
Still, you keep saying all that as if most websites even notice that they're being crawled, and that their operators are very aware exactly when by whom they're crawled. Like as if the admin gets a notification every time a crawler comes by or something, with precise details about it. I don't think it's nearly as serious as you're trying to make it look.
Wait, so the HN crowd is still on the "Covid-19 is a hoax" bandwagon?
Pintrest has the worst UI/UX of any website. It is a cancer of the internet, contributes nothing and allows re-aggregation and front-running in Google search as a feature. It baffles me why people use this piece of shit.
Not a precise answer, but they show video of a figure skater in the product reveal video and it looks usable!

Link with timestamp: https://youtu.be/A9qrURPAtnY?t=109
rc1 was just a few days ago, but preview1 was released in September.
Father Reginald Foster has died
After a substatial hardware upgrade though - those of us who are old enough remember when IBM PC's came with a empty chip socket for the Intel 8087
Exactly. Everybody always talks about turning tech companies into public utilities without really explaining what the utility would be. A public index of the web would be an amazing utility for many of the reasons in this thread and would spur on a ton of new innovation and businesses.

If you would like to read more about all this, please checkout https://knuckleheads.club
New FIREFLY series coming out, but not on TV
It is a hypothesis with a small prior, yes.

But when considering the data - that the strain has grown faster than all others in the UK at the time - the likelihood becomes significant. Not certain, but not worthy of your casual dismissal.

You dismiss their observational evidence as weak, but offer no further analysis. Please do so.
Although if you're targeted at all (I don't know what country this is and how much public info is available—phone numbers are very easily found in the US), it'd be trivial to spoof your caller ID and open it
I just wanted to mention that excluding strings has been broken for me off-and-on over the last month at least.

Not directly relevant to anything except how lame google has become.
Taxes already pay for social safety nets for every category you mentioned. The fundamental needs are already provided. You could try to make an argument for raising taxes to provide even more of those benefits, but don't try to say that we don't already have homeless shelters, foodbanks, welfare, and so on.
So next week I expect to see the wall-mounted, mahogany bezeled version that refreshes the front page of the NYT or the Times of India each hour. Perfect gift for that person who has everything.

(From a thread a month or so ago, where someone did this as a maker, now it's much more commercially viable)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873896/

> Trade-offs between different components of parasite fitness provide the dominant conceptual framework for understanding the adaptive evolution of virulence (Alizon et al. 2009).

...

> By far, the most widely studied trade-off involves transmission and virulence (Anderson and May, 1982; Frank, 1996; Alizon et al. 2009).
Question for someone familiar with this technology: how far are we from the holy grail of fully-wireless flexible color ePaper displays with embedded batteries? I had a project idea and was disappointed to learn that everything currently on the market requires a separate power source and a wired connection to whatever hardware is driving the display.
> but if you can’t tell anyone about it, does it matter?

This is also the case for folks that work on classified projects such at the NSA. There’s more to working than bragging about it to others.