skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is an interesting observation to compare longevity times for current widely-used IT tech:

Smartphones (since first iPhone) - 14 years.

Laptops (since first Apple Powerbook) - 30 years.

PCs (since first IBM PC) - 40 years.

C programming language will be 50 years old next year.

SQL will turn 50 in 2024
Version catalogs Sound Like an interesting feature to ne.
Otherwise read as "anyone who dare try to not be poor".
Sorry, but maven is an order of magnitude better than gradle. In most cases it just works and is blazing fast compared with the alternatives.
And even though I have an SSD in my laptop, I have a bunch of USB HDDs in my office for things like backup and ripped video. I expect my SDD mix to increase over time but I expect to keep using HDDs for non-performance critical work for the foreseeable future.
I guess I was sort of thinking of the workers as the raw material that can be put towards different things.
Clubhouse “Leak” Might Be a Simple Data Scrape
My first thought about Bloom filters is always what does this have to do with shaders.
Can this be explained, more simply, by saying that many different strings will be represented by a single hash?
I have the exact opposite experience. Been on tens if not 100+ Java projects over the last 20 years and 99% of developers I worked with moved away from Gradle after migrating to it from Maven. It's just harder to work with. Maven is super low-maintenance in comparison (and just works).
Exactly. If you're outside the US, you can only be a contractor, even if you work full-time for your company. There are no caps on how high a contractor's fee can be - that's not the case with employee salaries.

There are more fancy options, such as having a second, foreign company owned by you be the contractor - if you want to avoid personal income taxes in whatever country you live in. Beware of CFC regulations though.

For US founders, S Corps are better.
When I was last doing Java development ten years ago they had a groovy dsl, did they discontinue that?
She sued for pregnancy discrimination. Now she’s battling Google's lawyers
This is simply an example of an ecomonic/political system creating problems (in this case lack of capital needed to start a career), then creating "solutions" to those problems (debt, commodification of people as investments) that reinforce the system and enrich its key stakeholders.
The White Masks – San Francisco Deep House Set
Agreed. And even if the computer booted in 2 seconds, you would still have to start all the programs you had running again.

I am super happy that my computer unsleeps quicker than I can move my hand from the finger print sensor to the keyboard, but I also basically never reboot it.
A digitized a bunch of home movies, and one of the formats I settled on was DVDs. The latest Xbox and Playstation still play them, so I expect to be able to find readers for the next 20 years.

It's a lousy format, though. For files intended to be played on a computer, I used webm/vp9/opus. It seemed like browser-supported, royalty-free formats that play on everything not Apple would last a while.
In Photoshop / Photopea you can select a layer and add an effect such as stroke, shadow, etc. In Gimp, you can do the same with filters... The inconvenience to me is that filters are immediately rasterized, so the effect becomes harder to change.
That would be the goal. Malicious actors aren't going away anytime soon, so I would expect more and more devices in the future to use either encrypted or off standard DNS queries to different ports, if not downloading ads and uploading telemetry disguised as system upgrades. We'll likely get to a point in which we'll need to block connections address by address, in the hope they won't set up their malware on addresses and ports we can't block to keep the device functionality.
Ah yes. Everyone is corrupt, except the cryptocurrency saints.

Notice how you still need:

- jurisdiction (provided by "corrupt people")

- legal accountability (your words, not mine. Laws are provided by the very same "corrupt people")

- auditing (the laws and processes of an audit are also written by the very same "corrupt people")
ah thanks i didn't realize i had my institutional account logged in
I don't disagree! Rather, it's just that I expect AR glasses to have a fully-blacked-out mode when necessary, and those full-immersion times will just be one (small, I'm willing to bet) mode of the overall headset.

As a side note, my friend and I first made this bet back in the DK2 days, and I was ~60% confident I was correct. What pushed me in to the 90%+ region was playing with an Oculus Quest. The guardian mode, freedom from wires, hand tracking, pass-through mode, etc... Everything that felt like a real step forward was also something that will ultimately apply to AR glasses. It really made me think I was on the right track.
I feel like without having worked on UE4 blueprints I'm not getting a whole lot of comedy here. Yes, sure, some of these are messy or elaborate, but from hell? For all I know, half of these could be best practice blueprints and I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Yeah, i forgot to add my thoughts on PowerShell. It's great for Windows and nothing else. Its power isn't syntax (which is a bit weird) but the fact that it interfaces with all the Windows APIs. I can't really imagine it on any other platform. If you're on Windows and nowhere else, PS is superior to bash. Have you been using bash on Windows? If so, why? Cross-Platform?
I wish maven would have a proper way to resolve version conflicts and incremental builds
There really is no technical way to 100% prevent specific countries from using a given piece of software via the internet. Plenty of crypto platforms have claimed to ban US users (often with laughably weak techniques like IP block bans), only to be questioned by US authorities who basically say "OK, prove it (with KYC/AML)".
It's worth reading Tromp's paper on BLC: http://tromp.github.io/cl/LC.pdf

Lots of info about Lambda Calculus itself, the closely-related Combinatory Logic, and how Tromp arrived at his tiny little BLC. Pretty much a tour de force of mathematical logic.
THANK YOU SIR... been trying to find my way into post bop, just happened :)
Just use Maven. Could you point out what exactly in Maven makes it hard to use for you?
Prey?

That is a rediculous notion, NP are in high demand.
Sounds like you had a bad personal experience
That sounds like the right thing to do? You should only be profitable if you make constant improvements. The constant need for improvements is why we use capitalism at all. If you're going to stagnate and stay profitable by hiding your process, it might as well be run cheaper by the government
Like Charles Cooley said "I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am."
Monitoring some military sites wasn't part of it, unlike their nuclear facilities which were monitored 24/7 by IAEA. However, the IAEA inspectors could still request access to military locations. So it was kind of on-demand, but Iran had the right to refuse.

I'm not an expert, but most of the experts said it was the most comprehensive inspections regime on their supply chain, and any location in Iran except a few military sites which they could still request access.

The goal was to start cooperation and also the idea was to help an already weakened political party in Iran which is in favor of partnership with the west to gain more success, popularity, and public support, so over time the more conservative and anti-west parties and figures would lose their power and influence.

But we just gave their conservative parties the easiest propaganda excuse ("They don't honor their own agreement.").

Iran is actually quite reactive if you read their history. Iran is the devil we made, so everyone can make money out of it. Can you even count how much worth of arms sells are going to the Middle East every year? Not to mention oil market is on the table too. And those that are making big money will lobby everywhere to make sure that Iran remains "the threat". Peace with Iran isn't financially clever.
> A whole lot of his predictions didn't come to be in part because of his predictions.

That doesn't make any logical sense. At best it means self-contradictions: "The model fails because of itself".

> E.g. Germany got the worlds first modern healthcare and pensions insurance because Bismarck, terrified of a repeat of the uprisings of 1848 as Marxist and other revolutionary groups gained support, pushed through massive healthcare and pension reforms that became a blueprint for large parts of Europe.

And Marxists actively frowned upon those gradual increment in workers welfare because it directly contradicted a core tenet of Marxism that only a "real" revolution of the proletariat could increase workers' condition, which wasn't the case. Social democrats are not Marxist, were always frowned upon as "Marx-falsifiers" and even without Marxism, revolts, revolutions and civil wars happened well before Marx.

> But other than that, we don't really know whether or not he'll be right or wrong, because the core proposition of his predictions were that capitalism would start seeing crises once it had exhausted the ability to expand into new markets.

Sure, there never was a total lack of new markets but there was also many capitalist economies that did not have direct access to those markets and yet they never collapsed as Marx predicted. If anything, it means that it doesn't have that much of an impact on a capitalist economy's survival. And it's not like economists are not aware of scarcity of resources, labor and market, and in fact those factors come into play although not in a "total lack of new markets" but in a more gradual way.

> Whether or not he'll be right about capitalism "eating itself" by being so efficient that it will drive the price of labor towards zero and so destroy the very markets it depends on, is not something we can really tell until we see how capitalism behaves once most countries have taken the "easy gains" of a developing economy. Once growth in China, India and Africa flatlines, we'll be able to get a real idea.

Developing countries such as African countries and China and India are already seeing their remuneration increasing at tremendous rates, this can be seen by all metrics ranging from alphabetization rate going up to fertility rate going down. Yet the pre-Covid economy was soaring amid those factors. This goes directly against Marx predictions, those were not dampening the wellness of the global economy, and it's not like new populated continents were discovered. And a big factor for this, as it was for Malthusianism's failed predictions, was technology and automation, whose potential was never truly considered.
I'd really like to see a portable/handheld leverage this technology for on-the-go gaming.
This is great but the title is a little misleading for me. Perhaps "bloom filters explained in a poster"...

This contains multiple paragraphs and figures. You couldn't screenshot a wikipedia page and claim the same!
Apple has state based branches registered in many states that it does business: https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca/C0806592/statemen...

These are so irrelevant to the California corporation that Apple has argued in court that there’s no corporate nexus in Delaware and so litigation there is not a valid venue: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/judge-single-apple-store-make...

It didn’t work, but the ruling was based more around the existence of a retail store there than anything else.
The move from Gradle back to Maven I've seen on all Java projects employing Gradle so far (and I worked on many such projects).
Thanks for the correction. I misremembered it as 1/6 the pressure of Earth's atmosphere which is obviously wrong. Yes 100Pa qualifies as "evacuated" by most reasonable definitions.
And then they made in unavailable again in Germany because Sky got exclusive licensing rights.

Luckily I had a year long subscription that has remained active.

Sky has neither individual cockpit streams nor English (and French, Dutch and Spanish) language commentary.
Just to note that in many cases the cable package is not equivalent to getting F1 TV or MLB TV to take two examples I have experience with. Both those lets you watch the events after the fact which many cable packages do not.
If you want this, (I don't advise it but you seem to have your heart set) the way to do it goes like this:

1. Generate a fresh root as you do today. Keep the resulting CA certificate for the root to one side, let's call this CA1

2. Create an intermediate CA certificate, this says there's a new CA, let's call it CA2 with a new private key, and this certificate gets to have constraints. Put all the constraints you've decided upon in here. Sign it using CA1 with your private key.

3. Destroy the private key for CA1.

4. Tell Firefox to trust root CA1.

5. You can now issue from CA2 and since it chains back to CA1 this is trustworthy, but only so long as it obeys the constraints. You can't issue from CA1 (which is fully trusted) because you destroyed the key.
Just be aware of the long and untransparent waiting queue; afaik orders from 2017 backers are still being processed.
I'd agree if you'd say that the Stuxnet operation was very sophisticated. That is, coming up with a plan, infecting the right machine in the right plant at the right time so an unknowing technician would accidentally become a carrier for it, then finding a way to make him drop by at the target next, learn enough about the target without having access to be able to write code to identify it with confidence among lots of similar machines etc, but most of that is classical intelligence work and has nothing to do with programming, tech, or Stuxnet specifically.

If someone sews on a hidden pocket to a jacket to be used in an extremely complex intelligence operation, that doesn't make it "the most sophisticated seam in history".
The Analogue Pocket[1] is exactly this (albeit proprietary). Out of the box it recreates GB, GBC, and GBA using the Altera Cyclone-V platform.

[1] https://www.analogue.co/pocket
If you take the long view, would the transparency push foreign governments to change to keep up?
If each individual would be treated like a public company, where others own a small part, it also makes sense for this individual to have a board. A group that protects the interests of both the individual and the investors. If this was true, decisions of the individual would have to pass the board and soon enough the individual would have their own advisors on what to do next: play a game of soccer with friends(injury risk) or go for a walk in the park. It's just fun to imagine a public individual's life.
Very interesting article. Some of these are shocking:

> Use Source Control: Do you not use source control?

How do professional companies not use source control in the year 2021? The mind boggles.

> Smaller Commits, Better Commit Logging: Submitting a 2GB 2000-file change to Perforce with the description "did some work" is terrible

Also quite surprising. If you are going to log your progress, you might aswell properly document what actually changed.

> Don't Ignore Your Lead Engineer if You Have One: If your lead engineer says that you need to spend $2,000 on SSDs or buy X license for Y, and your answer is immediately no because you believe your engineer is just trying to waste your budget, you either need to learn how to trust your engineer or find a new engineer. I have seen a company waste 70 man-hours a week simply because they had their workers on slow hard drives. Giving everyone faster SSDs would have cost the company ~60 man-hours in budget.

This one really hits home and something that I personally had to deal with. I had to complain and fight for a long time to get the company to actually buy a SSD (or another job critical piece of time-saving hardware). Usually its not management saying no to such requests, its more of a strong general attitude of saving money and keeping expenses low. I have quickly learned that this level of penny pinching is a red flag and you should bail out as fast as you can because it rarely gets better and that attitude is rarely limited to one department.

Also related: Sometimes its about money but in a very indirect way. The amount of time I had to waste waiting for slow builds to complete because the corporate Anti-virus scans every new generated file is staggering. What should be a 10 minute build was over 1 hour, all due to the mandated new corporate anti-virus. Corporate IT could not adjust the security policy because they are understaffed because management laid off 80% of the IT team causing a huge backlog of work which then cascades to every other part of the business. Then they wonder why they get negative feedback during workplace reviews.

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A thing I quite liked: the hierarchy ranking of engineers and distinction between senior and lead engineer.

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Also, does anyone know of places where I can read similar war stories? These articles are always super interesting to read and learn from.
My philosophy is, whatever is bad, make people pay so much for it, that it will be (net-)positive. If they still do it, what's the problem?

> 1. Ultra-luxury properties are generally speaking bad for a city. They take up a disproportionate amount of space and tend to add nothing to the city. It's fine that they exist but we shouldn't be subsidizing their construction and continued existence;

I am not so sure about the first part, but I agree with the second. The proposal I made would in fact be a slightly progressive tax. I have no problem someone buys a $10million apartment in NYC and keeps it for a holiday in a year, if it say, costs $1 million in taxes per year and pays for a lot of other apartments, public transit, etc...

> 2. Providing rental units for people who live in the city is a better use of capital than parking foreign money. As such, both parking money and foreign investment should be taxed at a higher rate. Local landlords are better than remote landlords (since those local landlords are part of the city).

I have to disagree here. On two counts.

First, parking foreign money can be utilised to provide rental units who live in the city. We "only" have to frame the laws and tax code accordingly, and who cares then, what nationality the money has.

I also have to disagree on the assertion that local landlords are better than remote ones.
Local ones may care for the city, or they care more about earning more money, and know all the tricks in the book. Remote ones may not care much about the city, but they also may simply have no idea of the local market, and do not want any trouble.
You may guess, how my experiences were in that regard.

I think, we should not tax/punish people based on our prejudice we may have on them, but formulate a tax code, which punishes "bad behaviour" regardless of the nationality of the actor.
But there are already glasses like this? Google Glass, Epson Moverio, Magic Leap are the first few that enter my mind. And none of these seem to really be "taking off". Sure, there are niche applications that match the constraints of these, but it's not clear to me at what point your bet would be considered to have failed because of a lack of "taking off"...
But doesn't the "we weren't expecting it" excuse work much better for a physical attack? You always have to be vigilant of a cyberattack. It is neither "unprecedented" or "unexpected". Meanwhile the victim usually receives very little blame after a sneak military attack. "Israel launched an unprovoked military attack against a non-military target" seems like it would play better both domestically and internationally than what basically amounts to "they outsmarted us".
Time in Distributed Systems
The minimum wage hasn't kept up with other things (it feels to me that it should be $15-$25) and the overall trend of inequality is undeniable (the very top, both in terms of wealth and income, have done much better than the median person, who in turn has done much better than those near the bottom) but comparing minimum wage to bonus is highly misleading, as Wall Street comp has moved increasingly to a bonus-heavy structure, which means bonuses have grown much faster than salaries. And this is just an incredibly misleading way to frame this:

> But those paydays have been skyrocketing for decades. Since 1985, Wall Street traders' bonuses have grown 1,217% - and that's just part of their overall pay, which was more than $406,000 on average in 2019, according to data from DiNapoli's office.

There's insinuation here that bonuses have grown 1,217% and since that's just part of the pay, Wall Street employees did even better than what's implied by the growth rate But that's just bad math - the salary had to also grow by the same rate in order for the overall pay to have the same growth rate. I don't have this data but they probably do and it's unlikely that they would've cherry-picked the bonus data if the salaries show the same trend.

Also, given the increase in automation and outsourcing of non-critical functions to less expensive areas (even moving back office functions to New Jersey would contribute to the trend), it's likely that there are fewer low-paying jobs on Wall Street as compared to the past. For instance, if you look at the source data linked to in the article:

https://www.osc.state.ny.us/files/press/pdf/wall-street-bonu...

The total amount grew by less than the amount per person from 1985 to 2011 (despite Wall Street being a much bigger part of the economy that employs far more people) and this means the sample in 2011 is likely biased towards a more elite subset of finance professionals.
Funny you mention that. First of all, that's nothing new - years ago a simple external EEG was enough for users to move a mouse. Now available as off-the-shelf hardware and with OSS projects to boot [1]

Secondly, nothing that was shown (apart from being far from new, exciting or ground-breaking in any way) was independently verified so we just have to take their word for it...

I am not impressed at all.

[1] https://github.com/monkalynn813/Mindwave_controlling_cursor