skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

Any EU citizen in our out of country has their PII protected by EU law, regardless of who processes that data.

A pop-up or ToU would not skirt the visitors rights, regardless of what the message said and regardless of the action the user took as a result of the message
I'm in Michigan and I've spoken with people who either can't hire or don't want to work because of the amount they get on unemployment. They would rather stay home and collect than contribute. Even in jobs that are naturally socially distant.

It's anecdotal, sure. I would love to see some studies on it or even just data.
I own what some consider one of the best APS-C DSLRs ever made, as well as a last-gen full-frame mirrorless camera.

They are very different. Even though that DSLR is eight years old, it gets battery life that any mirrorless camera can only dream of (>1000 shots without a battery grip). Even though the mirrorless has one of the better EVFs among it's peers, the resolution is not quite as good as the OVF, and it does have visible lag and smear that the OVF simply doesn't have (the EVF is a 85 Hz OLED with 1280x1024 pixels or something like that, iirc).

The DSLR has a faster AF if you are wildly out of focus, though the AF is overall much worse - the mirrorless has like 10x as many AF points, and they are all over the frame, and it has flawless video autofocus, as well as almost perfectly accurate autofocus.

The full-frame mirrorless is about the same size and weight as the APS-C DSLR. A full-frame DSLR would be quite a bit bigger and heavier.

The real difference is that you get a lot of stuff just like that in a mirrorless which are somewhat of a pain in a DSLR. Viewfinder magnification, good video AF, silent shooting with the viewfinder, customizable finder display, nightvision, histograms, distortion correction in the finder (critical for precise framing with ultra-wide lenses), focus peaking etc.

There are some differences which are pretty much purely hype. Things like eye AF for example pretty much only matter for people who mostly do "ultra-blurry background" portraits which have such a thin depth of field that when the iris of the eye is in focus, the eyelashes are already blurry. It's a very specific thing to do, but gets around 90 % of the air-time in "totally independent reviews I swear I'm not sponsored".

At the current top-end, DSLRs like the Nikon D6 are said (not that I would have any idea about that) to still have somewhat faster AF than comparably expensive mirrorless cameras.

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As for Sony, they inherited the A-mount when they bought Konica-Minolta. The A-mount was at that point in time already a legacy mostly-mechanical-with-some-electrical-bits-kind of mount (e.g. mechanical aperture control, mechanical autofocus through a coupling in the mount). The E-mount is a modern, fully electronic mount, though designed for APS-C (full-frame just barely fits into it). I think when the E-mount was introduced it should have been clear that anything A-mount is on the way out. Also, A-mount SLRs where never particularly high-end, so in terms of performance I'd expect them to be significantly below what Nikon and Canon offer, especially because it does not seem like there was much development on these after the E-mount was introduced.

Just like Nikon F is clearly on the way out with Nikon Z being around, an Canon EF being on the way out with Canon RF around, the same is true for the A-mount.
Why not? It worked in War Of The Worlds
> But contractors are usually hired for their existing skilsets where they can jump in and start contributing immediately. So you end up doing similar projects.

That's not been the case with our best contractors. Yes, in some cases, they were hired for skillsets they already had. But a couple of them we work with, we were happy to let them learn elixir on company time because they demonstrated solid polyglot skills. And that's paid off in spades.

I've had the same experience with my personal consulting agreements. People sometimes hire you for your experience, and know you'll still bring your judgement, experience, and problem solving mindset to the technology du jour and not start from scratch.
KDE Plasma and the GNOME desktop now have the feature built-in as an optional feature in display settings.
I can't speak for Japan, but in Thailand, Philippines etc. the intent of such girls is to find a long term partner and settle down.
"Why not blind yourself to relevant context" is not a really a great way to make good decisions.
Not so long ago I stumbled on https://data.disqus.com, which basically outlines what they were fined for. They should probably take that site down soon...
And the fact that he states that he uses the word in the right way doesn't make it right. In fact, I find the use of the word paradigm quite shallow and disconnected from the Kuhnian definition.
The fact that US leadership is worried about Chinese control over media, finance and communications networks but not the wholesale outsourcing over the past 30 years of manufacturing semiconductors and military hardware tells you that America is a joke country run by disloyal internationalists only interested in manipulating their way to the top and not building anything lasting for the people.
YOu get the most eye-friendly setup by going further in Accessibility settings and enabling VoiceOver. Start off with a slow speech setting, and try reading a few pages of text with it. I guess the most useful gesture for this is two-fingers-swipe-down, which will introduce VoiceOver to read all page elements from the current select one onwards

iBooks also has (or at least had last time I tried) pretty good VoiceOver support, will turn the pages automatically if you read with the mentioned two-fingers-swipe-down gesture.

The speech synth might need a little getting used to, but rest assured, what you're getting is way better then what people used to use in the 90s and earlier. Speech synths sounded a lot more unnatural then these days.
I am mentioning this because it is actually a built-in feature. No need to install third-party apps. Of course, strictly speaking, this is a screen reader developed for the blind, but that shouldn't stop anyone to benefit from it when it comes to giving your eyes a break.
"Conservative media" (AM radio, Fox mostly, and various periodicals) are still treated as an alternative to "media", by all sides.
The whole thing was not created by an anonymous developer 10 years ago. The building blocks used in bitcoin have been around for many years before this in things like hashcash. Furthermore distributed consensus is a topic researched for decades. The term cryptocurrency uses crypto as a base which has been researched for centuries. Bitcoin is a novel constuction around crypto primatives relying on economic incentive to solve distributed consensus. There are clearly domain experts here.
pkgbase? We split base up into packages and deploy binary updates via our package manager, pkg(8), instead of with patches distributed via freebsd-update(8). We have a lot of build knobs that can make some parts optional, and some of those get turned into their own pkgs that end-users can simply not install (or remove) rather than having to manually extricate those or rebuild with some knobs set.

You can find a better (though slightly outdated) description here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase
I think the problem is that big corporations always demand big returns in gaming not realizing for every smash hit there's usually many flops to middling successes. If they would stop trying to make just one product for one class of consumer and actually diversify their products then they'd have more reliable income rather than chasing fads like fools. It's been frustrating to see the likes of Activision, Ubisoft, and etc just constantly fail on something that doesn't really take much innovation nor really any 'vision' to achieve.
The soft real-time interests me. Are there ways to avoid garbage as with java to minimize GC driven latency.
Exactly.

Plus, you run the risk of either getting exploited yourself by the scammers, or feeling the pressure to act more dishonestly to keep up.
Build ServiceTitan ($250M ARR) with no code
So it's anecdotal at best, but where I live, anyone with an old portable sawmill sitting in a barn collecting rust has been getting them out, cleaning them up, and have started sawing again. I'm talking people who retired 20-30 years ago, or people who bought property with a mill on it and have literally never used it.
Wow, I would love to work somewhere with waterfall requirements-gathering processes and change-control documents. Across several employers, I've seen a lot of misdirected work that just makes future work harder.

Now of course the response is, why would I want to put up with that bureaucracy - won't it backfire on me? But it shouldn't be bureaucracy, it should be something driven by the engineers with the goal of shipping better products.

Which is the problem with advertising agile. When a company says they follow agile, what they often mean is that there are people whose job it is to make sure the agile process is followed, effectively making their own agile bureaucracy. That's what scares people.

I want to know that the company is going to get out of the way of practitioners and let us do big-design-up-front if we in our judgment as practitioners determine that a specific situation calls for it.
How do you think a UX person knows what works? It's not that they were born jedi's worthy of understanding good design and human intuition. They test, test, test, and you know what...they tested more.

Tracking what button or page layout works better from a conversion perspective is not a privacy issue. It's a user experience benefit.

Having a SaaS business and not understanding the exact user funnel, conversion, abandonment, etc. will directly translate into a loss of your job and/or the failure of your business.

This isn't about personal preference which you have every right to. This is about building a business, which is why we're all here, and understanding how to successfully delight our customers.
> To be blunt, it’s more likely that you’re simply not paying enough to be competitive

I get a lot of cold emails from recruiters and the jobs always seem to pay the same rate, which is no better than what I make.
There is a virtual world in there though. There's rules, objects, processes and people to talk to. There can both fooled apes and a nested world to explore. Occasionally we take something out the simulation and interface it into the real world, or physically replicate the best virtual iteration.

It might be low probability based on today's knowledge, but given that it's an option, that compute and algorithmic progress will continue to increase for the foreseeable future, those odds will continue to rise. The technosphere is the next abstraction that evolution will take place in and we've only had 50 years to get to know it. Give it 1000 years of civilization surviving and I can guarantee non-organic "life" will surpass all expectations.
I see this sentiment online, but using MS Teams at work, I have a great experience. 2-n way chat threads and video calls, team bulletin boards, and integrated apps like sharepoint, excel, custom internal software, etc.

I use slack, zoom, and discord for a mix of school and personal use, and appreciate what each of these offer, but wouldn’t wish to switch off of Teams for work. I do wish you could message yourself on Teams like slack. That’s a nice quick reference utility.

Why do you offer condolences for MS Teams though?
The author seems to live in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Maybe they moved there exactly because they didn't approve "reasonable expectations" thus called them "grim" and wrote an article about it? Because the article doesn't seem to criticize the status, but the expectations themselves, as in "you should have huge expectations in order to be happy". And this is maybe the entire difference we see also in other comments here: the nordic way of being content with less, or the american way of everything is possible. Thing is, we don't live in the world of hopes, so when you look around and see that actually not everything is possible, of course your happiness index takes a hit. While if you look around and see that you can have everything you put on your reasonable list, hey, you can take a break from whatever you're doing and just enjoy it.
> Another reason people dismiss new ideas is that it's an easy way to seem sophisticated. When a new idea first emerges, it usually seems pretty feeble. It's a mere hatchling. Received wisdom is full-grown eagle by comparison. So it's easy to launch a devastating attack on a new idea, and anyone who does will seem clever to those who don't understand this asymmetry.

I wonder if most people realize this? In my experience, it seems like a characteristic that defies intellect and education. Incredibly smart people are, if anything, someone's more dismissive of new ideas because of their confidence that it just won't work.
YES. Part-time jobs are getting more popular. Some people are looking for works that give them more free time. Look at GumRoad which offers part-time jobs with competitive salary ($100 - $150 per hour).
It is nice to see this sentiment I hope to continue to see more of it not only in words but action as well.

I've been taking a stand in my own life with friends about having hard conversations and not just drinking the coolaid of every inflammatory headline.

Its been very difficult to discussing with some friends that their views are far more radical than they realize.

Some time these conversations can be agonizing because ultimately you may not care "what side is correct" just that there is an honest discussion about the facts of the matter and even going into the facts of the matter can cause repulsive reactions.

Its strange the world we live in, in terms of discussions of ideas.
>In other words, do GDPR countries claim jurisdiction over non-GDPR countries' websites?

GDPR is not about web or technology. It applies for information on paper too, so there is no clever workaround with hosting your website somewhere else or other tricks.

In short if you don't want to respect GDPR then do what some websites do and reject users from EU.
If just having a disclaimer to not have to follow any kind of law, it will be a bit too easy to escape any kind of regulation, GDPR or not.
He didn't say "the accepted circle". Just domain experts.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin were domain experts - they were doing a PhD dissertation on mapping and indexing the web.

The other businesses you mention aren't all that crazy; they just needed good implementation.
Does CF workers use Deno? Or you’re just referencing those as two separate implementations of sandboxing?
I agree. Acquiring users is harder than building the product. I have done this many times.
Have 10 years of experience in multiple EU countries and my every base salary was below this, yes.
Didn't go into it because I have nothing to contribute being an amateur, but yep, anyone working with shipping pallets should read authoritative sources on safety first. If you don't see that HT stamp, move on. And luckily they're a lot of effort to disassemble to a point of discouragement.

Surface detail was a scroll saw and power-carving with a cheap rotary tool. Flex shaft, assortment of diamond coated burrs, and some patience. Just started getting into power carving and I have a long way to go, but enough can be done with just a hand file and sanding: https://i.imgur.com/kjLPtGu.jpg
I think this works for a small company, but large companies, that outsource their payment team, they probably don't care... They usually don't want to deal with anything weird from a vendor, or if they do, they'll screw something up with payment.
They have their routines for paying bills and services, it would be very inconvenient to pay ad hoc. And I’ve never even heard of next day payment, except maybe for manual labour.
On the other hand, geoblocking e.g. by ip address (and then completely not letting EU visitors access the website) would probably work, but somehow most companies don't want to do that.
First answer I've seen on this thread with an actual reason for the shut down
I've been contracting for 16 years, had a few perm jobs before that. While it's true that you get paid to do what you're already good at that's the case for everyone.

The difference is, as a contractor you can afford to take a few months off and become good at something else - then you'll get a job doing that instead.

You can also pick and choose your projects more freely and there's usually nothing stopping you having long term projects as well as short term gigs, often working for multiple clients at once.

In the US or elsewhere where health insurance is a thing I would probably go perm.

> Companies invest in training and take a chance on you doing something new inside in the company.

I literally LOL'd at this... If you're great at what you're doing, they're keeping you where you are - and "invest in training" could easily mean a 3 day workshop where you find you already know more than the instructor. No thanks.

In answer to the original question, offer more money than you think you can offer and set it up as a 3 month contract-to-perm situation (don't write that down anywhere if you're in the UK - they'll immediately be inside IR35) so you know it's a good match. Alternatively, skin in the game in the form of shares or whatever - but they'd have to be confident in the business, I've rejected that offer in the past.
Check this out! I happened to see these folks just launched a business doing exactly what you described. I doubt they have any traction but there's hope:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/04/fewcents-raises-1-6m-to-he...
I’m actually coming at this from a marketing based background. It’s just obvious to me how a photographer could take huge advantage of this, but of course they would need to know how to promote correctly.
i havent looked at this in depth or even glazed over it but it seems the system of punishment scaled up to prevent repetition should work just fine? you punish the crime by the illegally gathered evidence AND you punish those who gathered it - harshly enough to prevent repetition? if the evidence is fabricated one should enjoy a good few years behind bars?

naive i know :-)
What's the flipside, you want to play with cheaters?
How the Guardian website might have looked 200 years ago
Depends on how it comes about.

In some places - Detroit is an example - people start leaving, the tax base dwindles, and by the time they realize the need to demolish things, the funds aren't there. In some cases, the city pulls in its borders and declares the former-city areas someone else's problem.

Here's a Detroit residential neighborhood suffering it now: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/eerie-images-of-detroits-m...
Thanks for the question. After thinking about it, I realize my intent wasn't as concrete as I thought it was. I think I consider worthwhile problems (probably a better word, and truer to what I intended) to be ones that have rewards outside of pure entertainment. For example, spending time on Candy Crush or Pacman doesn't seem to help anyone with anything other than those two games. Now one could argue that games like Factorio and Kerbal Space Program are more rewarding, and I would agree to an extent, but much of the time they are still solving toy problems. If one must use an abstraction of a problem to approach the realm of the problem due to limiting constraints, like not having access to a hangar of rockets, I am more understanding.
Because in much of the US, termites are a thing.
In pop psychology, this is usually the contrast between happiness and satisfaction. In articles that contrast the two, they imply that satisfaction is the preferable aim. Happiness is the fleeting emotion, satisfaction the long-lasting one. Happiness is the emotion that you really only notice if it is improving or decreasing, a steady state of happiness is not noticed.

The standard example is having kids -- kids often decrease instantaneous happiness levels but generally increase long term satisfaction.

Put standard pop psychology disclaimer here.
I don't see how that could be acceptable in macOS world.
Well if the people who lost their job do not have the right qualifications to work in the open positions, and are unlikely to get them you can have both (as it takes time (month, years) and often money (an unemployed person might not have)).

Also if the jobs are so badly payed that it's going in the direction of it being better to not work even if there is no money for unemployed people you also can have a labor shortage. (Just an example, so physical taxing job which which also has a high chance of damaging your clothes and doesn't provide clothes for you can make you cost more money due to increased living cost (clothes, more food) then you might earn.)

I'm not saying that any of this things are happening, just that you totally can have both high unemployment and a servere labor shortage , either due to qualifications or due to inhuman working conditions.
My team structures projects by breaking things up into small isolated components that can be reasoned about independently.

We'll often do it at the level of namespaces, where a namespace will describe a particular workflow or data transformation, and namespaces tend to be 500 lines or less. It's a similar idea to microservice architecture without the overhead of having to actually split the application up into separate processes.

We'll also often pull out code into libraries when we notice it being generally useful outside the original use case.

I find that there are a lot of benefits to structuring your code using small components instead of monolithically as tt's easier to reason about and reuse. Any large application can, and in my opinion, should be broken down into small parts that are then composed.
Ask HN: What to Do with My Money?
Hi All,
I'm a recent grad working as a software engineer in the US. I'm struggling to understand what I should be doing with all my excess capital? I have no expenses currently, meaning I do not pay rent, no car loan, etc. I have a large amount of cash saved up, and don't really know what to do with it. I was planning on buying a house, but the housing market is obviously very high and may not be a good investment at the current time. I do a small amount of active trading, but have not bought much of any longterm ETFs and index funds (mainly do options).
So long story short, I don't really want to buy a house or car right now due to inflated prices. What's the best way to utilize my cash if I don't need much of it in the foreseeable future?

Edit: By large amount of cash, I mean $50k+.
Edit2: No loans or debt of any kind.
I was expecting it to be about rigid zoning laws or HOAs or something else preventing cities from changing or adapting.
Yup that's the crux of the matter - saying that you don't want to talk politics is a political statement in favor of the status quo.
Some cities, yes. Jakarta comes to mind as a likely example. But if you look at photos of the areas of Jakarta that are submerged in water, it's clear that they weren't wealthy areas to begin with. I think wealthier cities like Shanghai or Miami will take a very different route.
What does the maintenance look like? Try to spray wd40 in between the concrete cracks? I can't really find anything about this anywhere.
It seems like this might map onto the "joy" / "happiness" distinction in English?

The term "happiness" has come to be understood as something closer to what "joy" originally meant, but stricto sensu it's closer in meaning to "contentment" than something like "elation".
Dynamic view of spike protein reveals new targets for Covid-19 treatments
But that's the point, you don't want to have to hope for the best when maintaining a wood based home. By the time you notice you have termites, it might be too late. Brick removes the guesswork.