skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done quite a bit of Salesforce development in my career. First as a full-time employee at the start of my career, and later on as part-time side gigs. There are a lot of negative comments here about Salesforce, and they are mostly all valid. Salesforce is not the least bit sexy, and can often be frustrating for both developers and users. There are a couple of good things about it that I wanted to share though:

* A single developer can be incredibly productive at automating a company's business processes. Fresh out of college at my first job I was the only developer supporting hundreds of daily users across our sales, customer support, operations, and finance departments - most of whom were basically working out of Salesforce full-time. Salesforce also proved really adaptable for supporting all of the crazy sales campaigns or operations initiatives that management could dream up - often with quick turnaround times. For me there is no question that the Saleforce licensing costs (or some other low-code alternative) are worthwhile for most businesses vs. trying to build internal systems from scratch.

* Developers are in high demand, and I have received lots of requests from former colleagues looking for a Salesforce developer - even a decade after I moved away from full-time Salesforce development. When I have accepted these offers I've literally been told I can charge however much I want (although I do tend to keep it reasonable).

* You tend to have much more direct contact with your users than in other B2B or B2C development roles. And users are often super-appreciative of even simple changes. It really is a great feeling to see the difference that your work makes firsthand, and I have had some great working relationships with sales and support managers over the years.

* The core Salesforce platform (forms and data modeling, workflow, API integration, etc.) is actually an incredible piece of product design and engineering in my opinion. I know it's getting long in the tooth these days, but the team that built all of that deserves credit for getting so much of it right. All the stuff that Salesforce has built or acquired since then, unfortunately, has been much less impressive.

* Salesforce is expensive for sure, but not as bad as the pricing on their website would suggest. Apparently nobody pays the list price for Salesforce licenses, and a 50% discount from the list prices is not uncommon in my experience.

Ultimately I am glad I decided to get out of Salesforce development if only because the developer experience with almost any other programming language is just so much nicer. But I learned a lot from the experience - and I think those early interactions with users and firsthand experience of how business are run have made me a more well-rounded developer. I was also able to use the skills that I learned while doing Salesforce development to transition into a role building web applications, and pursue a more traditional development career.

And now as I am eyeing retirement, I am contemplating getting back into Salesforce consulting on a part-time basis.
Those two numbers are actually closer to each other than I expected.
They've been developing new technology and algorithms for many years to make chia possible, hardly a pump and dump.
I have a great deal of trouble imagining that weeding out blatant sexist pigs in five minutes flat is somehow worse than working alongside one for months while he tries to pretend he's not but still cannot manage to actually have one iota of respect for her.
That's a pretty awesome story to share. I may have to go find the one I was given many years ago too.
Hey Simon!

I love the concept of "learning in public" and I absolutely love what you've done here. So much so that I am now creating my own TIL page and have also decided to create a webpage listing links to TIL pages, with TILs sortable by category, interest, topic, person, date etc.

Your page will of course be the first on the list. If anyone else has a TIL page (or is planning to create one, or knows of any other great TIL pages) please reply with a link and/or follow me on Twitter @TILpages and I'll follow you back and find your page! Or you can use the email address in my bio. I'm excited! I think this will be a fun project.

P.S. And I just realised, Simon, that you are the co-creator of Django, the framework I am currently learning. Ha! What a beautiful coincidence. Only on HN could this happen.

Anyway, thanks for Django and for providing the inspiration for this project :)
yes, but it means that everything around us - the sun, the solar system, the Galaxy are also "hypervelocity" relative to any such object, thus making our own "hypervelocity" label not that special.
I hadn't thought of that angle but I've been (not seriously I hope) hating on extraverts lately for spreading covid. I can understand being driven to drink by one thing or another, but why does the drinking have to be in crowded bars? If it's just about alcohol, then drinking at home would work just as well. So the culprit must be extraversion, or so the thinking goes.
> While not having to think about the memory is going to make you more productive, that productivity comes at a heavy price.

I highly recommend "Code Optimization: Effective Memory Usage" if you want to think more about these problems
>No they are not for various, obvious technical reasons that should be apparent to anybody who both understands technology and the real world of driving.

Wanna explain to me why? From what I've seen, a driverless cars within the next 10 years is feasible, and a driverless car within the next 20 years seems likely.
Time dilation isn’t dramatic as you might think. For example, at 66% the speed of light, you only get a 1.3 (or 30%) time difference.

You have to get into the 90% range for something meaningful. Even at 96% the speed of light, it’s a 4x speed difference.

99.99% is 80x time difference.
99.999% is 240x time diff.

To have time speed up to the point of civilizations rising and falling in a matter of days, you’d need to be traveling at 99% (with a few 9s in the decimal places). Though at relative speeds that high, it would be difficult to actually see what’s happening.

Here’s a calculator that’ll show you time dilation at different speeds https://keisan.casio.com/exec/system/1224059993
Shift Your Negative Mood – Forever
If you’re a leader who identifies with being in an unhelpful or unconstructive mood often, this blog is for you.
I don't understand why most companies even bother. If they aren't going to be compliant in how they handle getting permission, why even pretend?

I think one reason is that we have reached a tipping point where website owners now view these banners as a signal of a "legitimate" website, without bothering to look into actual compliance.

Without enforcement, these things shouldn't exist. They are just a nuisance to everyone
Right no for sure. For instance people forked Bitcoin and suddenly everyone that held Bitcoin also held Bitcoin Cash. I can see the not too distant future where a dispute arises as to who owns a particular NFT though because of such kind of forks, possibly.
Anyone know the answer to why the treatment failed after 20 years of research and suddenly succeeded ?
You just need to let the star crash into your vehicle to get it up to speed, and then crash into another star to slow down. Building a vehicle (and passengers) to survive these events is left as an exercise for the reader.
Two short stories of his in that vein..."Profession" and "The Feeling of Power".

https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/vl/notes/asimov.html
What are you going to track without using some kind of holder?

Personally, I only bought one AirTag (along with an Apple leather keychain, for my keys). I don't generally lose items large enough to have some kind of pocket/holder for an AirTag (e.g. I don't ever lose my backpack which has a zippered compartment to hold random junk).
Not my experience. Clubhouse is more like C-tier people listening to B-tier people talking about A-tier people.

The thing about Clubhouse is that it doesn’t matter who is listening, it only matters who is talking. Unless you're an A-tier person, nobody will care if you're not there.

In that way Clubhouse is the same as podcasts.

None of this makes Clubhouse bad. It just means it’s not that different from recorded interviews for example.
It is absolutely a failure of regulators to regulate. It's not only a failure of regulators.

Designers of the tech are doing it because it's legal.

It's legal because regulators aren't enforcing laws in ways conducive to modern tech.
> There is nothing that makes an installed app, with higher permissions, more trustworthy than a web app.

Yes, there is. The fact the user has installed it.

> Getting rid of js altogether is just throwing away the web to make it something poorly performing and requires sending all data back to the server - so not really a serious option.

Not the web, just webapps. The web will perform better afterwards.

> Browsers only exist to allow interaction with websites, and as such they should follow specs and allow them to be used.

Yes, but those specs have to be sane. Which means even a completely untrusted party – that's what a random website is – cannot abuse them.

> Websites are more important than browsers by definition.

Nonsense, either is useless without the other. Websites are content, browsers define how they're viewed.
Sadly, there's nothing at burri.to but the name is taken
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You (and others) might be pleased to know that you can get the space pen as a Parker refill that fits many different pen bodies. You can also get the very popular uni jet stream ink in the same refill type. I suggest a Kaweco sport as the pen body of choice
Oh, I know. That one is for sillies
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> A truly innovative product would learn from the mistakes of predecessor platforms and would focus on things like privacy, security and accessibility.

These have been repeatedly demonstrated not to matter to large enough swaths of the population. That makes them irrelevant to growth unless you are targeting one of those particular niches.
But Bitcoin Cash has much lower unit value than Bitcoin, indicating people see them as different things. That seems to weigh heavily against your argument, rather than supporting it.
not rare at all.

COBOL still runs the world, despite what many on this board think.
Co-founder of Neuralink leaves the company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziff_Davis
Yeah I see your point, it's unfortunate there is not an automated pre-interview system (like GPT meets Eliza) that could flag these people such that actual women aren't exposed to their toxicity.
It sounds like news of historical Rome. The governor of a far trans mountain province. Generals sent there to protect the empire against even more distant threats. Shady deals between the governor and the generals. Hastily assembled legions made from local men, to put down protests against the empire's treatment of freed men.
What I like to see in a font are that the numbers are clear, stand out and that there are no confusion between zero and the letter 'o'. I like it that zeros have a slash through them. Likewise that the number one has to be distinct, similarly for the digit seven. Jetbrains has an excellent coding font for this purpose and I dig it totally.
As long as it doesn't mimic the browser. (Another reason why user agent strings and other ways websites can identify the user's browser are a bad idea).
Can’t tell if satire. Have you been to the grocery store lately?
Small engine repair shops may have a used shaft - or look for the same/similar mower on Craigslist with a dead engine - how my friend repaired a rototiller.
> and how solving the easy 50% is worth nothing

"The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time".[1][2] — Tom Cargill, Bell Labs

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety–ninety_rule
All I remember Zenefits for is taking away some poor kid's job for asking about it on Quora.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/losing-job-offer-quora-uber-v...
On what grounds do they sue? You can't talk about hardware you bought?
But why fast forward? Doesn’t SR predict slower perceived time for objects moving relative to the observer?
Chesterton’s Fence: don’t ever take down a fence until you know why it was put up
> Inflating the number intentionally would be criminal fraud, plain and simple.

With the amount of Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000) out there, I doubt any case has proven this to be something you can bring charges against a company for.
... that’s when you decide to buy a lathe, and now you have a whole new hobby.
Delivering on an Architecture Strategy
I would say that ClubHouse produces intimacy as a service.

Intimacy as a sevice, the world's oldest profession... now backed by venture capital.
> DoD report to Congress

Reader beware. Reports to Congress are highly politicized -- both the Department itself and various bureaucrats within are kissing the ring in hopes of protecting/increasing funding. You can safely expect these reports to mention climate change, green energy, diversity, etc. much more often for the next four years. And guess what? The best office politicians serving life terms in the DoD will make sure those reports direct funds in ways that benefit their priorities.

POTUS in 2020 was protectionist, so DoD tells a story about how they and their private sector allies need money and tell it in a way that aligns with that protectionism. The main thesis about why money is needed matches the biases of the person with the pulpit, and then the report helpfully suggests exactly how to achieve that goal that we all of course agree should be the goal. In 2020, onshoring manufacturing. In 2021, maybe still onshoring but maybe play up the whole climate thing a lot more.

"Caveat Emptor" is merely a warning, not necessarily an indict of the product. Reader beware.
Slack uses Electron, doesn't it?
Spotify's Open Access Platform
I read it more as a plea that “we’re desperate”
This is the fundamental flaw of 80% thinking. The fact that SQLite continues to reach for more users is what has made it such a successful general-purpose tool.
English wiktionary had over 500k entries as of a few years back.

A "word family" is the term for the related forms of a word resulting from derivation, inflection, and other processes. Usually "conjugation" only refers to inflection of verbs whereas "declension" is used for inflection of nouns. And "lexeme" or "headword" are sometimes used to refer to some canonical form of a word family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexeme
Is time itself capped?
What3Words Isn't Safe for Work
As an "expert" in telecom, he should really know better. Nobody is under the illusion that regional telecom companies are some sort of tech hubs. Of course they're not. They don't have the economies of scale -- unless they become a gigantic monopoly such as AT&T and then get broken up anyway. Or, in the case of AT&T again, if they just helped create an entirely new industry so that they have to build everything themselves because there is nobody else to do it anyway. But this is just a historical curiosity. The telecom industry is obviously not in this state today.

What incentives does a small, geographically limited service provider has to spend so much on R&D? So that they can get try to make awkward licensing deals for their awesome tech if they strike gold and get to be the first to develop 5G? This makes very little sense. Telecom equipment vendors are an actual thing. They're just not that well known to public. For the optical backbone, you have the likes of Ciena, Juniper, Infinera, ADVA, etc. (More well-known Nokia and Cisco are also heavy players there.) These companies are all system integrators themselves, and have their own degree of vertical integration. There are component vendors which specialize even more, although they are increasingly getting gobbled up through consolidation in the sector. This is partly because people figured that it makes little sense to develop the same transceivers or modems at 10 different companies when you can instead merge them and combine the R&D budgets, patents, and manufacturing know-how. This is the same reason we don't have 20 CPU manufacturers. This is advanced stuff with high R&D costs. His argument seems to be that it'd be nice to just have more people work in this field at regional telecom companies, because then some areas like parts of Europe wouldn't be deprived of a tech sector. The reality is that we don't need a very large workforce to develop the most high-end stuff, and tech, especially the high-end non-consumer grade variety, really is a winner-takes-all market when it comes down to it.

There is nothing preventing a big telecom service providers from buying any of these system vendors. That would also be very expensive and subject to heavy regulatory scrutiny to ensure proper competition in the market (buying a system vendor and then blocking the sales or price gouging your competitors being a big no-no). But there again people figured out in the 80s and 90s that conglomerates are actually less, not more efficient. Everyone is better off specializing in their own thing. The tech inclined people end up joining those companies instead, and that's really for the best. Is he really arguing that innovation and tech doesn't exist in the field? Where does he think it comes from? Some unnamed office in Shenzhen? Besides Huawei or ZTE, not really.
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This is Hong Kong in 2001, quite different from China. Horse racing is also taken very serious in HK, so when you’re able to beat the odds, it wouldn’t be seen as luck, but rather all your hard work finally paying off.
We noticed this last winter. Previously a roll of Costco paper towels didn't fit in our holder until a few layers were used up. Suddenly - a new roll would fit.
The series:

Modern C++ for C Programmers

Introduction - https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cpp-intro/

Part 1 - https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/c++-1/

Part 2 - https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cpp-2/

Part 3 - https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cpp-3/

Part 4 - https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cpp-4/

Part 5 - https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cpp-5/

Part 6 - https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cpp-6/
Also, each proton in the interstellar medium would become a cosmic ray with energy ~120 MeV. At 1 proton/cm^3, the intensity of this radiation on the planet would be 270 kW/m^2 (more than 100x the intensity of sunlight). If this can penetrate the magnetosphere (not clear to me it could, although I bet auroras would be extreme) it would erode the atmosphere and create large amounts of radioactivity.
Every other time you throw "drill sergeant" into the mix people imagine instructions being belted out with profanity and insults.

I imagine there is an amusing parody sketch in there somewhere.
Isn't there a 1-1 correlation between black hole mass and angular momentum and spacetime curvature?
Al Capone was an American Citizen?
I doubt this one would get any traction given there's no way to tell between between a human and a bot request when the past 10k requests from a single IP all hit within 10 seconds of each other, likely indicating a bot. They're not going to outlaw a solution to a real problem when there's no other solution besides requiring an account or otherwise decreasing user privacy.
Same with Google Groups
Even 2500 words is enough to get some unfortunate combinations https://treasures-perspective.github.io/smut3words/
Interesting - will admit I use UMAP but have not tried Ivis.

Thanks for the suggestion!
Why is wax paper wrong? The only possible advantage to foil is that if you don't eat it all it's marginally easier to take home.

As for the other criteria. You say it's achievable but I challenge you to find a place in SF. I seriously was on a four year quest to find such a place. There are a few places that come close on like two or three criteria - EBX on divis and chandos in... Sacramento, come close, (except for the foil, which is universal), but otherwise it's just not as good.
"the range of activities you can engage in is effectively limited to the roundtrip range of the vehicle since there is such a high refueling time"

Whatever happened to the plan to have facilities where you can drop off your discharged batteries and immediately replace them with charged ones?
Windows Server 2019 has a much snappier UI then Windows 10 I've found (I recently spent a ton of time automating installs for both and boy did that become noticeable).

Then you look at the Windows 10 list of crapware and it becomes a lot clearer.
You are putting the private key on the server, it just happens to be encoded as data in the binary. It would not take an attacker long, looking at your executable in a sandbox, to figure out where it is - not matter how it is that you've obfuscated it.

From a threat modeling perspective, nothing you do will prevent an attacker that is able to run as your application user (or root) on your server. That's fine; The level of obfuscation you've put into place will (possibly) keep some of the script-kiddies who aren't targeting you directly from realizing they've stolen your key.

The attack you should be concerned about is on your distribution side: You can't copy that binary anywhere else without revealing your key. You can't put it in a docker image repository or a java package repository or even a s3 bucket - Because those become places that your key can be revealed. And you want to do those things. You want a copy of precisely the binary you deployed.
Call me skeptical but most of the documentaries on Netflix are just entertainment. Selective filtering of facts, build up to a “gotcha moment”, all wrapped up in a tidy bow.

They are about as balanced and factual as a Facebook.
> I can’t think of a legit use case where an app should get access to every single contact in my address book.

To manage your contacts? The permission to access all your contacts does need to exist, even if it's currently overused.
Milk and oJ still relatively normal, considering gas is up nearly 30% in my hood
You can just try attacking Apple's M1 since the technologies are quite similar.
This is absurdly cool (even if somewhat large-ish).
So for newspapers and whatnot, the bill is the problem, not charging your credit card. You can close your credit card to stop the payment, but you can never get out of a contract you signed.

Businesses probably need contracts in order to function, but they are overused in business-to-consumer transactions. That's the underlying problem that we should solve -- you should be able to walk away, no questions asked, from paying for a newspaper or magazine.
Some apps use it reasonably: they'll remember if you said no, but do want to provide more messaging around why they're asking.