skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Microsoft pivot VSCode to be a Visual Studio replacement then they will have a very serious problem. However as you say the refactorings are really good and the officially supported languages are supported really well.

VSCode continues to feel like a cheap alternative as opposed to the software I want to use to solve a problem. It takes the place in my life of the editor I use when I need something more complicated than Vim but isn't really project work.

The company seems to be doing very well and I read recently that the owners are now billionaires so I expect they'll be OK for this decade and probably the next as well. I expect the decline would be very slow if it happens at all.
You asked for the hardest, no good solutions to those:

- dev with low self-esteem causing social issues: problem ongoing, helping though: speaking about it, more focused tasks he can take ownership over and finish without that much communication and trouble.

- dev generally not nice to people (and not that compenent): people started avoiding him and he quit... Should not have come through the probation period, but I wasn't in change of that (see next point).

(it's also not that easy firing someone in germany btw)

- ownership of product and progress, but no say in direction (which changed every 2nd week) and not officially team lead: I quit.
Your public ip provided by mobile/celltowers already reveals your location quite accurately (even with all location services turned off.)
So it's definitely possible.

Google is an ad company, they sell your profile/interests and such to advertisers, it's their core business.
So it's not "stretching" at all...
I guess it could just be coincidence?

Have you ever noticed how you don't seem to see much of X, and then all of a sudden you see one X. And then you can't stop seeing X.

Though, googles probably spying on you.
I know my devices are (probably) not listening, but I can't explain it either. Neither of us searched for the product or saw it online or anything, we just discussed something and got ads about it a few minutes to hours later.

It's probably statistical to a certain extent: people of your specific demographic are interested in a certain thing, and you are talking about it the same as all of your peers are, and a statistically significant amount of your peers did Google for it such that now Google assumes that anyone in your demographic will be interested.

Of course that only metas the problem up one level, which is that Google knows enough about you to do this kind of analysis a) on your cohort and b) on you.
How would the card merchant know what specific product you bought though? Is that data transmitted too somehow?
Out of your 12 comments to far 4 have been flagged. That's a very high ratio and flags is a stronger 'this doesn't belong on this platform' than any downvote. If you believe downvotes send the author of a comment a message, check your own messages, too.
ACCA on currency [1]: "An entity’s functional currency is the currency of the primary economic environment in which the entity operates, normally the one in which it primarily generates and expends cash." So it seems it could be allowable for a US-firm to follow GAAP while accounting in crypto. Wasn't expecting that.

Perhaps I'm naive but since primary currency is no more than a convention in your bookkeeping software: find a firm willing to put BTC (or whichever) where usually there is USD?

One of the things to be mindful of is that tax accounting is not GAAP financial accounting. Say you close your book year in a period with high volatility in your cryptos price. This might materially impact your fiat numbers (if you have enough fiat costs). Your tax auditor might want to look twice at the reported fiat numbers.

[1] https://www.accaglobal.com/us/en/technical-activities/techni...
Walking a lot was the default norm for humans across the world before cars, etc, made it impossible to do what we need to do with just walking. Urban planners used to incorporate fitness into their designs and that seems to mostly be a thing of the past.

You can blame our couch potato physiques on modern life to a large degree. We don't have to quietly accept this. We can decide to redesign the world such that walking to run errands is much more the default norm again and then fitness can be incorporated into daily activities of living instead of being an extra burden on top of them.
What problem are you trying to solve?

Most (all?) accounting software can handle multiple currencies. Set up your preferred cryptocoin as a foreign currency and enjoy.

A lot of accounting has to be done to meet national legislation, especially for payroll and tax. So that has to be done in your local fiat currency anyway.
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I'm not that familiar with codecov but it seems to me way worse then that.

The "bash uploader" that was compromised is designed to curl and run a script on codecov's server. This script was compromised to in turn silently run a script from the attacker's server. This could have done anything but I doubt they just dumped ENV, probably opened a reverse shell to literally do anything they want as the user that originally invoked the script. This could be anything from stealing ~/.kube/config and ~/.ssh/id_rsa... If one of the 29,000 customers invoked as root it could be even worse, such as adding users and compromising entire platforms.
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The Difference Between Rich Founders and Poor Founders, from an Ex-VC
>I'd feel much more confident doing at least the bargaining part myself.

In general you do. The agent can make recommendations but at the end of the day it's your call as the buyer or seller.
Do you have links to the math books?
This happens a lot and what I find the strangest thing is that the ads are for things I just bought: travel I just booked, freezer I just bought etc. I do not need anything again that I just bought and so these ads are even of less use than they normally are...
I was the CTO.
And now you see why self driving cars aren't single developer hobby projects released in to the wild.

Also you may be overestimating human vision. I doubt normal drivers have 97% accuracy spotting all hazards on the road. We get by mostly on the fact that we keep hazards off the road whenever possible.
> [...] and all of these could be related to feature detection for an embedded video player, for example.

I agree the OP's analysis itself is a bit shallow, but I don't see how that can be related. If you embed a video and do not do anything with its output then WebGL is simply unrelated. In fact most of websites in question do not seem to use WebGL visibly. That fact combined with a direct check for WEBGL_debug_renderer_info and so on should flag a suspicion. Explicit alternative explanations would be needed to prove innocence.
How to make headless firefox undetectable to fingerprinting?
The market for this is SUPER limited unless you get at least adoption outside Cryto firms, and if a large enough market supported by existing players using their existing infrastructure modified. my 2cents
At risk of over-fitting these observations to this scenario, there seem to be a few common trends here which compound into situations like this one:

1. The move to cloud means the "edge corporate firewall" monitoring point is forgotten about. Devops infrastructure and similar is now running off-prem in the cloud, and the perimeter is now being written off as "zero trust" (but without actually adopting the right assumptions there)

2. The move away from fewer, better tested, releases means we see more risky distribution methods (curl-bash without hash pinning etc), and an encouragement to always pull the latest from upstream, rather than to internally vet and approve a pinned release.

3. A general trend towards more and more third party dependencies and external connections to enable basic functionality, meaning that everything assumes it runs in an internet-connected environment with DNS resolution and the ability to make requests to any hostname and IP the software chooses.

It feels like once again, as other commenters have pointed out, basic sandboxing principles and isolation would prevent this being an issue, coupled with internal vetting of what is being executed in sensitive environments. If the environment is properly limited to read-only access to code, your biggest risk is exfiltration, so you should be focused on preventing exfiltration of anything (environment, state, code, secrets), rather than leaving the barn door wide open.

In the same way we do W^X in memory, to prevent an exploit writing to memory, then executing it, perhaps we need data^network - you can either have internet access, or access sensitive information, but not both. This breaks the X-aaS model, but after SolarWinds, this, and many other such failures, maybe it's time to really re-think the wisdom of giving third parties just so much access to core systems.
It's pretty common. I once bought a fan online and had ads for that same fan follow me around for weeks. I believe they're called "retargeting" ads.
>VISA marketing

Why is this even a thing? Maybe I should just go back to buying everything with cash, it's impossible to keep up with all the crap we need to disable or hack around
10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Professional Software Engineer
I started walking three years ago at the age of 55 for ~2000 km per year since. There was Hypertension and a suspected heart problem at this time, so I was cautious about running. I also have a nice area of wood very close to my home.

It turned out quite well. I am officially heart-healthy today, blood pressure went down about 20-25 mm Hg, weight 10-15kg.

Regarding running - I do it the same way I do something for my upper body. Sometimes the body is longing for it, and than I do it. In the case of running: Long walks often give a certain stiffness, especially in the legs. When this happens, I simply include a few (1-3) kilometers during the walk.

I also learned, that it is far easier to sustain such a regime instead the more common forms of exercise. I think its more natural for all but a few people in the long run. Someone wrote here about running as hunting/fleeing which by origin is necessarily associated with stress. I think there is much truth in this.

The only part that becomes sometimes difficult, is the time demand. Doing the math: My 180 km / month are 12km (two hours) every other day. I had to aquire some additional discipline to make it happen.
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This is only my experience; you may find better guidance and alternatives elsewhere:

The opportunity for what you're suggesting is huge - perhaps that's what draws you to the idea.

In practice, technology systems tend to be easier to build if they have small initial milestones that eventually lead to the larger objectives.

Sometimes larger objectives are achieved by integrating with other systems that solve the same problem as yours for other industries, or where the two systems fit together to create something even better.

In other words: keep your overall vision in mind, but consider handling a small part of it so that you can make progress.

One idea might be to find a particular situation - like the farm water supplies you mention - perhaps within a particular geographic region, and prototype a solution there.

Finding technical designers and developers can be really challenging; they're in high demand. On the other hand, it's easier to connect and collaborate on technical projects today than it ever has been in the past. Good luck!
Its cheaper to have an external group do the rewrite since they can maintain the code going forward.
What HN does now is very good. Posts and comments belong to the community, so they can't be edited or deleted after some time. Not allowing frequent multiple submission is a good heuristic, but if something important happened and there is no good new URL you can submit, you can either create a blog post / tweet announcing the new thing and submit that or message 'dang and ask to submit an old URL even though not enough time has passed.
I dare you to not kiss ass and not have friends when working in a factory and see how well you'll survive typical work politics.
Yes but if you miss a single note you end up with a long chain of missed notes. The hammer ons are only really useful for the really fast sections where you can't physically strum fast enough for that section.
The link mentions the differences, though they obviously target similar functionality.

One key difference is that there's no such thing as a Scoop "package", unlike with Chocolatey. You can't build a file that can be moved and installed offline, since Scoop downloads and extracts it from a URL. I suppose you could setup a local proxy and workaround it, but it's not the main use case.

I use both since Scoop is limited in the installers it supports, preferring Scoop when a program is available there.
Also google may read your email (if you are using gmail) - which contains your bank receipt (so seller), time and amount.
this is the same thing as those bullshit ai "colorizations" of cambodian genocide victims from a couple of days ago but with also nft wank added on top. awful
Even in Windows 10 you can still go to the "old style" (Windows 2000 days) settings screen and adjust for "best performance" which disables close to every UI enhancement Windows supports. Drop shadows on windows and desktop icons, drawing windows on resize (as you mentioned), taskbar animations, scrollbar animations and even small visual effects such as the subtle animations when you mouse over a control in a window.

Obviously not many people wish to disable everything but having the option to do so is great and something I wish macOS would let me do as there is way too much motion in macOS. Sure it was cute 15 years ago when the idea of a beautiful and fluid UI was impressive but in 2021 they annoy me or worse they make the whole system look crap when, for some reason, the animations lag.
The KGB changed its name. The staff and methods did not change.
I’m going to guess that the drug store sold your transaction information. Who they sell it to varies from chain to chain, but it’s common practice. For example, CVS in the states sells your purchase data.

If you want to avoid being tracked, use cash.
Your talk about VR is akin to popup books. It won't be the panacea that people think.

Mac Command+Space search (Spotlight?) is about as good as it gets for driving a ui these days.
The author would have you believe that it's an issue of personal morals, outlook and psychology.

I would say that these kinds of programs are manipulate and exploitative (beyond how salaried work is exploitative fundamentally). In the author's situation I would probably say I'm giving up on the bonus from the get-go; would not sacrifice any hours of sleep; and would just try to do a good job.

... or rather, I'd probably redouble my efforts to get people to unionize.
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You don't even need VR for a good filter. When I bought my house in the mid-90s, essentially pre-Web, I can't tell you how many houses I went to check out just the interiors of that that were a quick nope for various reasons. Even Google Street View would have saved me a ton of driving.
Absolutely -- although it's less manipulative than the phrase implies. It just refers to building up some level of trust, respect, and goodwill over time by being an honest, decent, and caring person. Then, when you find yourself having to make a decision that you know is the right call, but might not be well received, that trust and respect you've built up can be useful in helping your team digest the decision.
>It's not misleading at all. It's important to consider that a large group of human operators, using a separately large set of semi automated processes, are a large component of the current energy spend of aggregate financial activity - all those busy worker bees are using energy.

A lot of that is compliance though. Some (or maybe even most, I'm not in the industry) of that doesn't need to exist for the system to function - the banking system would work just fine without suspicious activity reports. I don't think it's an apples to apples comparison as these checks don't and can't exist in cryptocurrency.

That's just scratching the tip of the iceberg, as mentioned above the traditional financial system provides lots of services that cryptocurrencies can't provide or don't provide at any meaningful scale.
In NYC, there are multiple options for buyers and sellers that want to save on realtor fees. I just bought a condo and worked with Yoreevo who gave me back 2% of the purchase price at closing (meaning they only kept 1% for themselves). They provide all the same services, but make it up in scale
As far as I can tell its assembly language is designed for fast synthesis and check (e.g. all programs are known to terminate). There is a "miner" generating programs and checking against existing sequences 24/7, a Twitter bot is also available [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/lodaminer
A single solar panel should last you at least 10 years. How much does a 10 year supply of copper and zinc plates cost? I think you would have to stretch to insane lengths to find any case where this kind of power source is economical, sustainable or logical.
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Retargeting is generally done after you have shown interest in a product, but haven't converted yet. "Conversions" are always excluded if possible. It makes no sense to retarget a recent buyer.
> they spent a lot of time explaining that bonuses weren't guaranteed.

In Israeli labor law, if an employee repeatedly gets the same bonus regardless of any concrete criteria, then that bonus is considered as part of that employee's salary as though it had been part of the contract. This is due to many employers calling a part of the salary a "bonus" so as to avoid it counting towards retirement benefits and other allowances; and for the flexibility of being able to cut salaries without ostensibly having done so.
At the company I work for they invented a whole new process (yes, it's as bureaucratic as it sounds) for the two people who do Linux kernel development.

Because the LKML really doesn't like the standard corporate disclaimer (not just too long, but also not separated by "-- "), but company policy mandated it and company's mail server adds it automatically.

So these two colleagues got special IT treatment: the disclaimer is turned off, but they now got the obligation to manually add it whenever they mail somewhere external that is not LKML.

I certainly don't fault LKML, but I feel amused a little bit.
If you have a reasonably high income, I think the tradeof is actually never worth it, because the marginal happiness from money gets so low. Sure I could buy a yacht but that's not going to make me much happier. Buying a mansion by the sea would not really make me much happier either. Sure I might do it if I had the money because why not but that would not accept to work on weekends for a few years to get it even if it was guaranteed.
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Personally I found walking to improve my fitness/activity levels to such a degree that I will often naturally transition back into a regular jogging habit just to get rid of all the extra energy from the walks.
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I think what we will (need) to see in coming time is more security awareness wrt. development tooling and setup.

Management at a former employer quite rightly freaked out when they realised that their devs on a certain subcontinent were routinely pasting their code into external web-based prettifiers to format it nicely...
Sorry, but this applies only to non-fiction.

You can always make a usable app or non-fiction book, so you have one extra dimension of objectively measured value of your product. The first one, common to software and art, is the quality of the implementation.
It was a ~8 year old mix and mesh of tech was not really fixable. We also got too many requests for enterprise clients for Java. And that would have been impossible. We more than doubled in revenue after the rewrite because now we could go for fortune 500 countries.

It was a different time: the product was a combi of perl, php, c++. And then the business world, at least here, went over to java backends.
Okay, let's talk about those connotations.

"Human" is a perfectly evocative word that does make people's "hearts sing". You have the "human touch", humanitarianism, treating things humanely. It reflects our highest aspirations for ourselves, and your rejection of it reflects upon you.

"Man" connotes... well, men. It depicts a society where the real movers and shakers are men. No one really hears "man" and thinks "men and women" (or "women and men" - why should men come first?). Notably, they say they do, but this has been shown by experiment to be inaccurate. If you say "man", people can't help but picture one. Indeed I also notice you use gendered language everywhere, not just in the word "man" to mean humanity. You say "men of letters", for instance, and you take care to match the pronouns. Am I really meant to imagine women when you write that? Would "people" not do just as well?

Lastly - far from being a "fad", this debate was active in the 70s, and has been entirely resolved now; nobody uses "man" this way anymore, and it sticks out like a sore thumb when you do. It sounds archaic to the point of comical. Consider if the subtextual message you want to send with your word choices is "I stubbornly refuse to adapt to the times".

Douglas Hofstadter (you may have heard of him!) wrote a lot about this in the 80s and 90s - I challenge anyone to read what he wrote and fail to be convinced:
https://leeclarke.com/courses/intro/readings/Hofstadter_Chan...
Becoming rich doesn't change the way you are wired

This is like asking why Tom Brady keeps training.

Money are not meant to be spent, just like Lombardi Trophies are not meant to be looked at or held more than the 24hrs after winning it. Money , just like Lombardi Trophies or WSOP bracelets are a way to keep the score

These people, they pathologically refuse to eat the marshmallow, they live their whole life eating 1/1000000th of the marshmallow and postponing the optionality to eat the rest in the future.

Then they die.
The politicians are provably benefitting from the loopholes they help legislate. Individuals working at companies are very rarely (or never) benefitting from malicious actors attacking their company.