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> Another dislike is that full size keyboards are scorned and generally unavailable. Hey check it out, I’m a full sized adult doing full size job with my pc, so I actually do use the number pad, etc.

I got a short keyboard (no number pad) for the ergonomics. I've been battling ergonomics pains (mainly shoulder). After reading many articles one mentioned getting a shorter keyboard so you don't have to move your hand as far to transition from keyboard to mouse. I gave it a try and it does help. I do miss the number pad though!
> That didn't mean compulsory daily school attendance

"Compulsory" meant that children were required to be educated, either by parents or by a school, in reading. In Massachusetts, towns with at least 50 families were required to fund (either by tax or by school fees) a primary school. Towns with at least 100 families had to fund a grammar school that could prepare children for Harvard, which at that time was a religious school.

See http://lburlbaw.cehd.tamu.edu/edci658/webb%20hist%20of%20am%... page 93 for what a typical school master's duties were, in this case for Dorchester. You can see it was not once-a-week education.

Note that it was not compulsory to attend grammar school. But from what little I could tell, the children who went to primary school were going in winter, and not just one day per week. So I think you are talking about your country's historical experience?

But this article is about the US, and the US interpretation of the Prussian model, and as I point out, viewed through a specific lens that libertarians and charter- and home-school proponents often use - which somehow seems to minimize the parts of history which contradict their viewpoints.

BTW, the US allows home schooling, so does not have 'compulsory daily school attendance', strictly speaking.

> this Prussian model is exactly what education looks like in Europe today

I have no idea of what you are talking about. I have a friend who teaches at a comprehensive school in England. They do not have 100s of students in one classroom with one teacher. I know Germans and Swedes with school-age children, and their children are also not taught this way.

When you write "this is wrong", what do you mean? What were the other innovations on the Prussian model compared to other systems?

What you write seems to concern the downstream effect of education reform on, for example, the military. But that's a different aspect than what the quote was about.
I want one of these!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard
I mean, money in a bank account is also protected by the state: if the bank decides to just take your money, you can sue them.
We've had good success with making SD cards read-only. Of course this means that any data needs to be sent to a service for saving... YMMV.
Same, and its a better UX than the ACF cluster of fields while still getting the same end result to follow the design and branding of the site.
> I guess a moral of the story is, if you want to be a part of the "future", you are better off entering data for a company actually building the future, rather than hanging out with people who sit around talking about what it might be like.

Corollary: spend less time reading and writing comments on HN.
I started coding professionally in my mid-30's. I am in my early 50's. If I have ever been discriminated against because of my age, I am not aware of it, and don't care because I've always found work.

Now, I should mention that I did switch a few years back to doing consulting/temporary positions, although sometimes these "temporary" positions last over a year. This means two things:
1) I buy my own healthcare insurance (I recommend using healthsherpa.com to help do that), so it could be that employers don't worry about my age because they don't have to pay for my insurance
2) I am forced into a position of having to learn new things every year, whether it's a new industry or a new library/framework or a new language or whatever. This means I cannot become unwilling to try new things.

I do think it's true that you need to not activate the "he's too old to do new things" alarm bells, by being very circumspect about criticizing new trends. But this is probably a healthy habit to cultivate anyway; give the new trend a chance, at least.

Also, there is a difference in the respect given to older programmers relative to other industries. In most fields (e.g. doctor, lawyer, banker, even engineer) as you get older, you become higher status and your opinions are given greater respect. In programming, your opinion is worth about what anyone else's is. So, if you think that after programming for decades your opinion ought to be given more weight than the 23 year old's, you're in the wrong industry. But, I think the best teams have both young and old programmers, and it's healthy to be in a team where young people are willing to speak up and disagree with you.
https://zerodium.com/program.html

Google's SaaS apps aren't specifically in scope, but I'm not seeing exclusions, and I'm seeing potential parallel programs ("sensitive information disclosure: - MS Office (Word/Excel)") that could imply that they'd be comfortable buying SaaS Productivity Suite exploits as well.

I'm not OP. I'm only presenting this to counter the assertion that there's no market.
You don’t want to use brick in a seismic zone, reinforced concrete is overkill for a 2 storey house, and steel frame is not just overkill but also uses sticks and cardboard for nonstructural components.

As far as I can tell, almost every building in western USA that isn’t tall is wood frame construction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(construction)
Curious question, if you find a few vulnerabilities like this, does it mean that you could get hired by Google to do this internally?

What I'm trying to ask is: does this make the hiring process easier?
Even ~10 years ago the shitty shared hosting I used had a one-click WP install, so if they still do that, that’s an an option. Otherwise Bedrock+Trellis is fairly straightforward to setup on a VPS if you have time to do that.
NL as in the Netherlands?
Sonic Hedgehog (Genetics)
The "bad" part of the word "scaremongering" is the "mongering" part.

It's fine to be scared of things, and talking about scary things, but when you intentionally work to scare people for profit, that's a pretty shitty thing to do. At that point, you're no longer informing the public, you're trying to provoke a disproportionate and often irrational response for your own financial gain.
Thank you. I felt like I was the only one confused by the comparison.
The 1337 could be a nod to gamer culture because it stands for “leet” and may be popular with the folks who participate in bug bounties. Pure speculation on my part here.

EDIT: yep, looks like I missed all the other comments pointing this out, mobile app didn’t load them for some reason. Leaving the comment anyway.
The cheapest companies in London pay around 90-100k base, which is quite respectable. Your concern would be valid if the pay was really low but it is not. There are few companies that will significantly top that.

Sure, an employee might leave to Google for the money... if only Google had an office in London and they could get an interview and pass. It's not like it's going to invariably happen over the next 6 months. It's far fetched from the company to assume that.

In the meantime the candidate is out of a job because companies refuse to hire them (I don't know if that's ageism but that's certainly something) and the company gets no work done because it's understaffed.
Well, there's this [0] Scheme->C compiler, so if you were to port Cling [1] (C++ interpreter) to it, then you'd have achieved that goal pretty well. It'd be a large project, but practical to achieve.

[0] https://github.com/sph-mn/sph-sc

[1] https://github.com/root-project/cling
Stop worrying about PostgreSQL locks in your Rails migrations
In our codebase we have quite a busy DB, so migrations are dangerous for us. In the blogpost I linked we explain how we handle that on our side. The examples are in Ruby on Rails, but it should be easy enough to understand and to apply in another language.
"While you will now and then find some aspect of nmthematics defined rather sharply the only texturally agreed upon definition of mathematics is "mathematics is what mathematicians do", which is followed by "mathematicians are people who do mathematics." What is true about defining mathematics is also true about many other fields: there is often no dear, sharp definitiou of the field."

Here is my defintion:

Computer Science is the field of inquiry and knowledge of 'Computation' and all means, methodologies, formalisms, and constructs that enable 'Computation'.

[edit: And to anchor this in the broader context of human inquiry, we have the categorical triumvirate of Empirical, Deductive, and Computational inquiry.]
This probably is true. The industry has been growing quickly for decades so there will naturally be far more people with ten years' experience than thirty years', say. Most people who enter the industry are young, so you would expect the demographic to skew young.
If you have more than 5 years of experience, you should know the industry and not be paying much attention to formal job postings.

Similarly, companies do not typically hire for those positions through public job postings.
Also the Mississippi River Basin on 200 acres near Clinton, Mississippi (1:100 vertical and 1:2000 horizontal). [0]

In the absence of accurate computation modeling (either hardware or physics models) in the 1940s-70s, it's a pretty ingenious way to simulate complex hydraulic systems.

And as for Atlantropa, think about it in these terms: (a) a large, funded public-works program in Europe, just as the Nazi Party was gaining support and before the Spanish Civil War, (b) substantial amount of cheap, carbon-free energy for Europe and North Africa by now, & (c) a pan-European effort ~50 years before most EU structures.

You'd have a hard time convincing me that would have been doomed to turn out worse than actual history.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River_Basin_Mode...
Great to hear! Glad you enjoy.
In competition it shouldn't matter. If everyone glides less, it's just the same for everyone. What's the problem? A complete ban should be effective at the start of the next season.
Very interesting project! That is the first attempt I've seen at something I call "idiomatic code translation" - transpiling with result not only to be executed, but to be read and naturally included in existing codebases.

I've had similar idea on my mind since few years, but as for now the only output is a document explaining the goals [1], I'm still in exploration phase, as I want something more abstract, with more advanced language concepts implemented using macros (as in Turnstile+ does with dependent typing [2]).

[1] https://github.com/krcz/zygote
[2] https://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/stchang/popl2020/index.html
Good thing I signed right before the rent drop and can't break my lease
Design for repair isn't trivial.

It would force compromise on every other aspect of the product.

In the real world = more time (at every stage of the R&D and manufacturing process) + extra material costs (more tooling, more PCBA's, more screws, etc.).

I personally think that this issue will become a very big deal over the next decade or so, but at this point the market isn't applying enough pressure for the big companies to change their GtM processes.
macOS here — I never use the F-keys. I also always disable capslock because I never use that either. Having said that, I do make a lot of use of modifier+key for symbols such as quote marks, apostrophes, and dashes, so I'd love a keyboard where those characters are first class keys. Also, typing '#' is a pain on many (?) mac keyboards.
Stop it. Do you live in San Francisco? I don’t mean the Bay Area. Do you actually live in San Francisco?

Why did Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland see very similar percentage based increases at the same time? Why has the entire Bay Area?

Foreign investment. As soon as Vancouver passed legislation to curb foreign investment their real estate moved back to normal. 1 in 4 housing purchases in California are all cash. That number is even higher in SF.

I’m so tired of this uninformed nonsense getting peddled by people who have no idea what they are talking about. Stop it.

Edit: This being flagged means it’s time to type in a random password and end this account. Finally had enough listening to uninformed idiots and even more jerks that silently flag things to hide my comment because they are a jerk and a coward.
Most people tend to focus on the cost side of Eroom's law, but I find its most disturbing implication to be the other side: That between 1950 and 2010, we got ~100x worse at finding drugs that actually work.

That suggests that there's something deeply broken about the science, and not just about the regulation or the cost structure.
They are cool little projects. Fun for adults and perfect for kids too. I still might one day.
Because the suburbs and urban areas are cultural toilets.
I read this when it was new, and I"ve had a bookmark for it (and for the author's other work, Spiders) moved from browser to browser and computer to computer for more than 20 years.

It's really really good.
Yes, comment updated.
Except you did:

“I think that Nintendo might use Microkernels [in the Switch] according to reverse engeneering finds shows their massive potential for constrained devices.”

Maybe you hadn’t grokked that pjmlp was talking about the Switch (Nintendo’s current generation console) rather than the N64?

Either way, my other comment[0] also applies:

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25559670
I think it is still primarily an US issue. Facebook in other countries ( and including US ) are working really well for small business. Hence they do have a point with their ads.

The problem is politics getting into the centre of everything. After seeing and experiencing both side of the spectrum. I will still choose little to no moderation without a second thought. And Mark Zuckerberg isn't a genius in marketing or PR like Steve Jobs, his message isn't working out the way he intended.
Well, just to address the value of asteroids question--the Earth itself has many incredibly valuable minerals and metals; however, most of that material is extremely far below the surface, rendering it virtually inaccessible. In contrast, this material is readily accessible on smaller asteroids. While I personally doubt that the cost of transporting the material anywhere near Earth will make asteroid mining worth it in comparison to better exploiting the material already on Earth, that's the basic logic here.
What+Are+the+Treatments+for+Crohn’s+Disease?+|+Health+Lines
I also hope we're very close on good text-to-speech, which I think ought to be transformative. I have often lamented the transition from textual dialogue to voice actors, especially in RPGs, because it effectively limited the total amount of story available, and also killed of all sorts of interesting UIs that existed before based on keywords and even natural language. Coupled with something vaguely GPTish, you could have exponentially more in game flavour, leading to much deeper immersion (this coming from someone who collects all the books in Elder Scrolls games).
That's why there's a trend toward ortholinear keyboards at the small(est) end of things. It helps that they're also fully programmable.

Want a numpad? Switch to a different layout on the fly and have a numpad where you want it. Arrow keys? F-Keys? Why not have those on home row with another layout!

It can get gimmicky, but the impetus for it is that less overall finger/wrist movement == more ergonomic but I'm not fully convinced. Instead, I just prefer everything I can get on home row.
Indeed, and the rise of charter schools shows that it is very doable to run a private school on less than the amount of tax money allocated per-child.
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You could definitely find a place to sell it as no trust is necessary: it would be trivial to prove you have the exploit without revealing the details.
Oh, right...true.
Exactly -- there's a pervasive belief in the bay area that high rents are solely due to the evil cabal of landlords who meet every week in a dimly lit room and agree to charge sky-high rents while cackling maniacally and twirling their perfectly-waxed moustaches.

The sudden COVID-related rent price drop indicates that this theory is nonsense, and that the high rents are solely a function of supply and demand, but I'm sure that won't stop anyone from believing in it.
I am going with a Space Man's discarded sandwich foil wrap ended up on asteroid and we captured a piece of it!

Does this mean Lobo is real?! Oooooh man
I didn't know about that one. Are there other scale models of large, physical hydrodynamic systems out there?
So I made the huge mistake of replying after only reading a few panels, so all your criticisms are totally valid and I feel kind of silly now.

I think an alternate reading of the well-written story perhaps is how much of what we do is driven by dumb luck, and those just as smart and driven as we are here commenting are, through very little fault of their own, homeless and addicted because they just were not "in the right place at the right time" once or twice, or met the wrong person at a bad time in their life?

You talk about lives "warped by externalities" and man, ain't that the truth.
We banned incandescent lightbulbs and phased out CRT monitors over that time period, too.

"Deindustrialisation" is a meme, but people should be specific about what industries they think went and when; much of it happened in the 1980s, not the 2010s.

However, the decision to wreck the last of the mass car industry with Brexit isn't going to help.
I think it’s a perception. I’m a youngster in my business unit (500 engineers) at a spry 39.
Usually keep it for projects and keep my old phone as a spare if it still works (they usually just get very slow). I may end up recycling or giving old stuff away at some point, but that will be a while with my cycle times - my hardware tends to be quite old by the time it gets replaced. I think my desktop is 8 years old, laptop is 12, phone is the newest at 3 years old.
What? Vancouver’s prices are still rising.

Foreign investment is demand. A rise in demand is much more impactful if supply is static.
Just because a phobia isn't common doesn't give you the right to play therapist about it. I have a deep ingrained irrational fear of phone calls and exposure made it worse, those years I worked in phone support. Do you also tell people with depression to just get over it?

No, this is an idea that just isn't for some people, like me and the GP comment. That's ok. Not everything needs to be a cure, people are allowed to just avoid things that are optional and not fun for them. And not every idea has to appeal to everyone. To me and the GP, this idea is terrifying. No thanks.
It says something about the ratio of technology vs value.

old.reddit.com is full of warts (search is limited.. if not crippled), ui has zero fancy ergonomics.. sometimes full fledged bugs.. but the value isn't there. It was simple, flexible, fun, and on nice subs, you had nice convos. The end.

hn is still like that, improving secondary aspects won't make the convos better

less is more chapter 1209

ps: the only thing that I wished I had in HN was embedded articles .. so I don't comment without reading and I don't have to have a side tab for that. It's a bit lazy but that's the only recurring idea I had about HN.
anecdote: after 10y as a software engineer I came back to the academy to accomplish a PhD. Recently, I applied to a research intern position at Facebook and got the response:

"we only get people with less than 6 years experience for this position"

(My inside referrer got the response, as a job applicant I got not reponse)
India's leading sex columnist dies peacefully in bed
Just throwing out another related film: The Devil We Know (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_We_Know)
If the client-side encryption is in the browser, it would not help: this hijacks channel between two different parts of application, not the cloud storage connection.

Having native, non-web app would help here, but I don't think this is ever going to happen.
Study Proposes NMN as a Novel Therapeutic Approach to Combat Obesity
It will be interesting to see.

But I'm skeptical. Even nations that 'should' care about local production often don't, even in the face of obvious consequences and disadvantages. It seems like more often than not the price / market still leans towards cheaper and other concerns are just concerns that aren't addressed.
Specifically which law do people believe selling exploits violates? Off the top of my head I've only got "conspiracy"-like laws and international embargoes (depending on buyer).

Should it be illegal? Yeah, potentially. Is it? Unclear.
Over the years I’ve come to the realization that a number of “kitchens” in luxury apartments are clearly designed for making at most breakfast and otherwise looking pretty. It’s not all luxury apartments, not by a long shot, but a surprising number were unusable due to layout mistakes or a complete lack of equipment (on the owners side). The conclusion I came to is that the people who rented these units valued a pretty kitchen as an aesthetic item, not as a usable thing. I presume they must have mostly eaten out for all their meals.

Perhaps there’s a similar process at play here. If land is incredibly expensive and one intends to eat most of their meals out, it doesn’t actually make sense to rent a full kitchen. Might as well either cut rent and get a half kitchen, or save that space for activities you’ll actually do.
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2015 MBP, running Firefox. I've also experienced the lag on Chrome.

Right now I'm transcribing old Irish-language stories and giving a commentary about various features. I notice if the story gets too long, or if I get too many bullets in the list block, it starts to get super laggy. I've noticed it across both browsers. And the sad part is the "long" really isn't that long, about a page of stuff in Pages/Word.
Yup. I was part of a startup that raised in the millions. Of that, probably 30-50% went to office rent and the rent of the employees. Might as well be a direct line from investors into Bay Area landlords’ pockets.
Not to be "that guy" but DevOps doesn't really relate to the tag line. It's like saying "build-once run-anywhere c without lean / agile / six sigma". What's a C library got to do with a people management strategy?

> you won't need to configure a CI system to build separate binaries for each operating system

If that's where the DevOps part comes from, CI predates DevOps. DevOps is just a general strategy for coordinating work that incorporates CI among other things. And you'd still use CI with this because CI is more about an SDLC than portable builds.

I like the idea of the project. Is there a list of apps that use it?