skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you be willing to entertain that maybe they died because most people who used phones found those platforms to be weaker product offerings with the things they cared about and that your value system may have fundamentally differences?

Would you further entertain that the inability to perceive such realities and differences and manufacturers inability to navigate these preferences is a major determinant of success? (Microsoft failed here for instance and Amazon's fire is on life support. If piles of money were the primary cause we'd all be using Sharps, Psions, IBM Simons and AT&T Eo, there's something else to say, the failure of At&t hobbit, they had a solid monopoly position)

Capturing the consumer is tricky business and maemo simply wasn't the right it. Nor was Windows Mobile or FirefoxOS or WebOS or, ultimately, Palm or BlackBerry
Yeah, the entire car, engine and wheels thing really disconnected OOP from any practical use for me. It really took a long time before I understood how it applied to real code.

If real examples from a blog or accounting software had been used instead then I would likely have understood it a lot easier.
The value added by the desktop variant also seems very minimal. Anyone seen an open-source easy-to-use docker host for OS X?
I did try to bribe the traders and get on their good
side, but they always had

1. goods I didn't want

2. not enough money to buy my stuff

3. bad prices

Yeah, I didn't really enjoy that mechanic where you get on their good side, don't like it in real life either and I think that's what stopped me from maxing those skills.

I did, however, find a scamp in Caldera who would buy anything with a fixed original price and didn't require any flattery. He also had 5000 gold and when you maxed it out, you just waited for 24h
Some solid advice. Especially the part about having a good boss. Only 1 in 4 fits that bill in my experience, and landing a job with one makes all the difference for your career.

Also, being the solution guy/girl is good advice.

Once you have that experience you know what to look for in your career. Keep in touch with the good managers and colleagues, as that network is worth gold.
As a front-end developer I can agree with that.

Many times when I've wanted to install something for my needs, like forum engine or something similar, I was looking only for an PHP option.

Why?

Because it really is a copy-paste process with typing credentials to your database into dedicated file. No need to know any language/framework-specific commands, and no need to be overwhelmed by missing dependencies.

And in huge addition to that, simple PHP hosting is extremely cheap - for years I've been paying for my personal server ~$20 PER YEAR, where servers that enables you to use Node/Ruby etc. costs around at least $10 per month. This is a huge game changer for me.
it is speculative, but I agree
I never heard of the abstract/final thing, except maybe from one or two coworkers that don't produce much but talk about the language all day and will berate you about protected/private or ordering your "use" alphabetically.

It's true that the PHP community has a bit of an inferiority complex which result sometimes in abuse of patterns, like suddenly someday everyone wanted to do refactor everything with DDD/CQRS/etc for no good reason.
While I agree with most of this comment (the covid vaccine is the result of the world working for the betterment of society, succeeding where the "profit" motivation has utterly failed), the idea that HIV, malaria, and cancer such have not been treated because they're not "profitable" to cure has always struck me as verging on conspiracy. The first company to produce a definitive cure would no doubt make billions in profit. The problem is specifically with mRNA vaccines: the cost of research into it was so high with little guaranteed payoff.

The problem was that the risk-reward calculation was showing that none of the money invested into mRNA vaccines had turned a profit yet, so despite the promise of the technology and the fact that medicine at large would greatly benefit from a single breakthrough vaccine, no single company was willing to put in the investment since they wouldn't reap the full rewards. IP incentivizes selfish behavior, not collective behavior.
Lost me in the first paragraph.

There probably are legitimate arguments against IP (and patents and copyright are explicitly not property, anyway -- the whole field of law is dishonest to the core) but I know at the outset I won't find them here.
Huh, my knowledge is outta date. Thanks for correcting!
That's not true.

A sociopath knows that he's doing something wrong and chooses not to regret it.

A psychopath otoh has a low neural activity in the area of the brain usually associated with empathy.

The main point being that being a sociopath is learned behavior.

Cf. https://youtu.be/6dv8zJiggBs

(I agree that disliking norms are not sociopathic. The norms might be sociopathic.)

(Also: I'm not an expert, I could well be wrong.)
IP is designed to preserve the status quo - for rich countries to remain rich and for poor countries to remain poor.

That's why every country that successfully moved from poor to rich - did so by ignoring patents and other forms of IP.

Philosophical arguments make no difference, money talk. If you're poor you can't get rich without using other people's IP for free. So you will. If you're rich you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by supporting strict IP laws - so you will.
Does this change anything that the author has said? You haven't commented on whether or not you agree with them, you've just (rightly or wrongly) attacked their character.
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ok, so what does he do? he asked for advice. if you don't have any, no need to say anything that isn't constructive.

obviously he won't be able to solve his financial problems in any way without a job. if your assessment is "well he's screwed for the rest of his life" then a) I think you're wrong b) you can keep that to yourself
Global fast-food market is expected to reach $931.7B by 2027
FLoC Away from Chrome
It should be noted that this doesn't use any hardware-assisted virtualization acceleration.
> I probably would've been promoted by now.

> I felt like that I should've got promoted after reporting those issues, especially since I found them within my frist two weeks.

> Even though I meet the qualifcations.

Your pattern of reasoning about your professional past seems to involve saying what you think "should have" happened as a result of your presupposition of deservedness, rather than considering how your approach might have effected the outcome negatively.

For example, finding a security bug in the first few weeks of a job is usually not a basis for promotion anywhere. Promotion is usually based on consistent dedication to improving something for the company or team over a long period of time.

This takes not only technical, but also emotional and interpersonal skills and awareness as others have mentioned, and the ability to balance your immediate personal desire for a promotion (which we all share) with the goals of the team or organization.

Basically, to progress in your career, you need both the grit to put your nose to the grindstone to stick through the tough part of any job, while also being open to others both in the technical and social sense, and developing a mindset of gratitude for all experiences, which is essential for learning.

Many of us have taken jobs we don't love, or that aren't at A-list employers, while simultaneously laying the groundwork for our personal growth. I spent a summer when in college literally filing the metal cases of networking equipment at a no-name network switch maker - effectively manual labor.

Sure, it wasn't a Google internship, but it sure taught me a lot about work, and I got to talk to some great network hardware and software engineers about their jobs. I work at Google today and sometimes when I have to do something that tests my need for instant gratification, I remember that experience and I'm grateful that I had it.
Yeah, they were even urged by some experienced hikers (who had microspikes etc.) to turn around near the trailhead due to treacherous conditions. Serious contenders for outdoors Darwin award.
Indeed it does have a true GPS satelite receiver. Actually, the iPhones are quite accurate.

The iPhone 12 utilizes the GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, and BeiDou constellations. Utilizing more satellites means determining location more quickly and returns better accuracy especially in marginal environments.
PHP is just very simple and powerful. Check out levels making 100k per month with a single php file: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1381709793769979906?s=21
I remember cause I refused to switch. When it first came out the argument was “it’s faster than Firefox”. I never got what that meant. What... a 200ms load time on Firefox was 180ms on chrome? Wow let me switch to skynet’s chrome! Pass
>Has anyone ever enjoyed a banner ad?

What about Evony, my lord?
My question, how is Google FloC different to Apple's Differential Privacy?

Why is everyone championing Apple while shooting down Google if they are doing the same thing.

Unless I am mistaken, I am reading a lot of double standards from people on the issue.
Terminal velocity is reached relatively quickly, in about 7 seconds IRC. You hit the ground at the same speed falling from a not so tall sky scraper as you do from the plane.

Surviving the impact is more about position, which material you are smashing into, and if you hit any objects right before hitting the ground in order to break your fall.
Meanwhile, limewash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewash) is cheap, simple, environmentally friendly, and extremely effective - and has been used for millennia all around the Mediterranean.
Which critical medical infrastructure requires 5nm to function well?
honestly with the rise of the web-app based phone app platforms (react/ionic etc) becoming almost "standard" the friction for porting to a hypothetical third platform goes down substantially.

Ignoring the branding law of duality (that generally only 2 brands occupy the supermajority of a product category) and looking only at technical barriers, now looks to be better than ever for a third platform to possibly arise - especially given the rise of ARM SoCs.
Decorators and type hints are not the same thing.
Lucky you to work for such wealthy organisations.

I happen to care for fellow developers, and outside our Fortune 500 customers orgs, I haven't seen anyone being so lucky, and even then, Apple hardware tends to stay at MBA levels, unless they are doing iOS development.

I have seen devs teams where iMacs are timeshared across teams.
You find a job, find find a place to live in.

It's not difficult. I moved thousands of kilometers and countries away on my own.
Maybe it has always been here.

Or, maybe it is cyclic, and has always been here, and the cycle we are in is all there is.

Reality itself expands, then contracts, oscillating forever.
Doodling on paper always helps. The more time spent with pen and paper first before typing starts, the smoother things go, and the less spaghetti to refactor later. Diagramming relationships of parts, program flow, data structures etc. I find everything much easier to think about with a picture of it in front of me. For the crux of an algorithm, I set/update the variables on paper to check it works. I can't imagine trying to do something complex without doing the planning on paper first. Once I think about it enough I find myself quickly writing the procedure/function down on paper. Typing it in becomes the first refactoring.
So your advice is "just stop being poor"?
My theory is that people have been conditioned to dirt poor audio quality from telephones, over many decades. Phone quality can still be bad.
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Saw this yesterday and thought it was a coincidence.

Finding someone using intuition and suncalc.

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2020/12/03/using-the-su...
> I’m scared and I don’t know what to do.

I’m sorry. That really sucks.

It sounds like you could really do with some coaching.

I’m not the right person for that but perhaps if you asked for it, a better person would reach out!

heres some questions I would ask to gauge your interpersonal skills at an interview.

could you tell me about the last argument you had and how you resolved it?

where would you like to be in 5 years?

you had a strong opinion about a strategy for solving a problem and disagreed vehemently with a co-worked. it turns out, their strategy worked out great. what would you do next?
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>Would I be terribly downvoted if I said that I prefer targeted ads? I'd rather see GPUs than feminine hygiene products.

Would you be OK with an opt-in solution? If you want to be tracked and get "good" ads you install a browser extension and now you get your ads and now everyone is happy.
The thing is that you could argue that games are art, ML researchers are advancing sciences, and cloud services enable businesses to create value. I’m not saying crypto is utterly useless, but many people certainly think so.
OP seems fine to me. It's the social norms/environment that seem pathological here.

Who would have thought that if you interact with robots (read: computers) long enough you turn into one yourself, dear Americans...

It's a clown show. I do not envy OP.
I highly doubt that's an comparable comparison.

But anyway, even today people have hard time to distinguish unprocessed photo from one that was "enhanced" for social media purposes so imagine how hard for them will be to tell if video material was real or a generated one; hell, in time probably even experts will have hard time to tell the difference.

I can hardly see any benefits in deepfakes technology - there are more obvious threats that might affect our everyday life, our society and how we might perceive the truth in the future.
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>>You said you quit a job at EA, quit a job at IBM, dropped out of college your freshman year. You may have valid reasons for leaving each of these, but you have to see this from the manager's perspective: You had 3 different great opportunities that all came to a dead end at the beginning of your career. You need an alternate narrative.

Things like this are very important. Job hopping is a giant red flag for lots of companies.

Nobody wants to hire an employee whose replacement they have to hire under an year.
Because climate change needs to be mitigated as much as possible.
Yes, it's evident from the flagging on this post. The mere mention of "intellectual property" in the era of the pandemic causes people's minds to melt from the cognitive dissonance.

If both are true that 1) there is a deadly contagious virus and 2) the vaccine is the best way to prevent the spread of this virus, then the clear implication is that we should maximize the production of the vaccine and, so, that IP laws should be relaxed (especially so for publicly funded vaccines).

Really, millions might die in the developing world over this, but a lot of the people who posture the most about the virus seems to not really care at all about that. No surprise, decades of endless propaganda and general stupefaction have taken quite a toll on the frail American mind.
I hate the data-grabbing business model as much as the next hacker. Equally, I feel reluctant to burn with the holy wrath of anger. It is, and has been, no secret that this is how Google works. They give you great services for 0 money and all your data. What’s unclear or unethical about it? Take it or leave it.

What bothers me much more is Google’s et al crushing dominance over the competition, meaning that whatever shenanigans they come up with end up forced on {m,b}illions of users. This, and the sneaky hiding of data grabbing in “consent” boxes or 100 page ToS docs.
The impact of a wind farm is going to be very minimal compared to the waste heat generated by fossil fuel power plants. In my country (thanks to the Soviets!) a lot of the waste heat from electricity generation is captured and used to heat homes in nearby cities. One of the largest natural gas plants has a electricity output of 1800MW and a heat output of 5800MW - yet they still needed to build a massive artificial lake to provide additional cooling capacity.
Yes. Very likely just a bokeh effect. Even the light signal rate matches the airplane standard rate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g256IPFoqMg
>95% of the internet wouldn't exist without it.

And that would properly be a good thing.
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As far as I remember, this wasn't a "hack", but "booting into a new map" was a recommended technique in the SDK documentation to reduce loading times, simplify memory management and reduce the memory needed for code (e.g. you'd compile different "executables" for different parts of the game, like main menu vs singleplayer-mode vs multiplayer-mode).
The only shortage on PinePhone was a magnetometer but that chip has been replaced with an almost identical one, to no ill effect in the latest units.

The software not being "ready" as in "it's still beta" is more the issue.

Making a million and handing them out like smarties is all well and good, but you'll get 750,000 back with "<program> doesn't work".

The community is doing fantastic things, leaps and bounds. Pretty much everything works, but tinkering is still very much on the cards for owners.
To add to this they also blocked access to about:config on Android.

No access to extensions and blocking about:config was to me just heretic. Those two are the raison d'être of Firefox.

Nightly build thankfully reverted this babysitting of users but indeed we are still stuck with 'vetted' add-ons downgrade in the official Firefox release for Android.
When you actually read the article some were voting for AAP and also happened to Congress too. So another politically partisan headline.
Last I checked Chromium wasn't very different from Chrome feature wise. Is there a reason to tell them apart?
I'd love to debate the use of PHP vs. Ruby and Elixir, but your arguments basically are:

- The community is full of people who just care about hacking something together.

- Ruby/Elixir are fantastic, developer friendly, and have solid foundations.

The first happens with every popular scripting platform. Is JS community full of PhDs?

The second is highly subjective. Ruby is problematic, because it's supported by one framework which is showing its age, and the language itself has lagged behind in performance, which matters increasingly for web workloads. Elixir is a niche dialect of a niche language (Erlang). Don't get me wrong, Erlang is amazing. But you don't need Erlang to set-up a blog.

It seems the major reason going against PHP are:

- WordPress and the entire ecosystem around it sucks. Well, sure, but PHP has more frameworks with big mindshare like Symfony. It's not a "Ruby on Rails" situation.

- The meme about hating PHP is big. Everyone loves to hate PHP and Basic. Even when Visual Basic .NET evolved to be basically no different than C#, the meme of hating it lived on. Same with PHP.

The thing with memes is they're not rational. So fighting them with rational arguments is pointless. If peer approval matters to you, then code PHP in secret or don't code in it. If shipping projects matters more, PHP is a pretty good option for most websites.
What the OP said is completely incorrect. No idea or process must be published. You have the right to keep any idea a secret. However to patent the idea you must publish it.
The word "foobar" has a long, long history in computers:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/F/foo.html
Dataclass child can't inherit from a parent that has a default value set. How is this not a dealbreaker for most? That's literally the only reason I keep using pydantic instead of dataclasses.
Honestly, one great advantage it had was a good airport (and at least two other major hubs nearby for cheap transit flights with virtually no layover (e.g: there were ~25 flights a day to Doha at some point))

I made some great trips from Dubai - in Berlin now, every trip is a choice between crappy layovers or expensive airlines. There have been a few surprising exceptions (finnair being one)
The whole point is they do everything they can not to allow us to leave it.
With this finally being mentioned, it also needs to be said that they are quite enthusiastic about mowing down Congress on FB, and IG.

And that very much unlike other far more on the fringe parties. This was going on for far longer before Facebook's political engagement became known in the West.

It feels to me, Zuckerberg wants INC dead, and buried.

Wouldn't be against that myself. INC, is for all reasons, synonymic with corruption. But this will leave BJP with no counter whatsoever besides regional parties.
A carbon tax would be great, but I don’t know why you think governments couldn’t significantly discourage holding cryptocurrency?

A wealth tax on proof-of-work currencies would discourage legitimate businesses (that don’t cheat on taxes) from holding them.
Ha. This just occurred to me - Google is a search engine of websites for many people, but at the same time it is a search engine of people for many advertisers.

We thought we were looking for something but actually we were constantly searched.
Just ethical-design could do fine IMO.

> can't get addicted to

That would also mean not having dopamine injectors like Upvote, Like, Share etc. But these also serve as an important function as a feedback tool.

As an experiment I removed public display of vote points from my problem validation platform[1] which is themed on HN. Only the owner of the post, comment can see their points.

Apart from removing herd influence from the voting, I feel this has greatly reduced overall negativity i.e. especially discouraging someone from posting their problem however small or silly others might feel it to be.

What are the other possible dopamine-inhibitor changes for UI, which can let the users receive feedback without much friction?

[1] https://needgap.com
Did you work on 88K with DG/UX? I loved that OS. All my 88K work was done on a dumb Wyse 60 terminal logged into one, and I’d busily UUCP my files between the various machines depending on which ones I was working on.

But things are a bit different now, it’s much more convenient to work on a laptop, so most people do that. Maybe the pendulum will swing the other way and we’ll start timesharing again, with laptops as terminals instead of standalone machines, but even if that’s possible in theory, there are few providers of ARM in the cloud at the moment. It’s a chicken and egg problem and I think Linus is right, it’s going to take pressure from devs, most of whom IMO don’t care enough to make a difference.

The tipping point will be when deploying to x86 becomes annoying (for some measure of annoying). Right now, even though I’d personally like to deploy to ARM (or at least give it a red hot go), my cloud provider (Vultr) doesn’t support it yet, and I don’t personally plan to go ARM on my desktop until next year. But I’m a CPU enthusiast. Most people wouldn’t bother to go the the extra effort.
But Python has had this behavior for ever with default values:

class A:
def x(self, b=B()): # doesn't work
return B() # works
class B:
pass
What you fail to understand is that investment in IP is not the goal, so saying it would no longer be invested in is non-convincing.

You have to actually prove that research would slow down but your hypothetical scenarios are not proof.

I can just as easily assert that investment and research would happen with or without temporary exclusive legal rights as. Market forces still push for improvement even without exclusivity.