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One of the measures/trackers is the various spreadsheets that get opened. This certainly hurts the employees that have automated those aspects of their jobs. One of my initial roles had me inherit 15 different spreadsheet reports and over time I pushed all the report logic upstream so that I never had to open them. This made me much more productive whereas the tracking would show me as contributing very little.
Hi HN!

I love reading articles and news related to frontend and design, for a while I used an app called Vincent that promised to deliver high-quality articles, I really liked using it but unfortunately over time they stopped sending content until this year its creators decided to shut down the app.

Just at that time I was trying to think of an idea for an app that would allow me to practice even more my skills as a designer and as a programmer, so I decided that I could create an alternative app with my own design and with content curated by me (for now).

After working on the app for two months the first version is ready and I would like other people to test it and if possible give me feedback, I would really appreciate it!

Thanks!
How does H-Mart compare to Ranch 99? I've never thought of Ranch 99 as a "grimy and run-down". They're huge and clean and brightly lit.
It's worth having it in a central place especially with respect to tools needed to meet academic objectives.
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This is better then most rich businessman, actually. Many don't care if they create problems for society, if it means more money for them.
so the key question here is what a "mid-level" engineer can do for your company early. An engineer with 5 years of experience at FAANG will easily make ~200-250k, competitive scaling startups and public companies will compensate equivalently withing ~30% in liquid compensation.

If that engineer instead works for 100k and takes 100k in illiquid equity which may or may not be worth something in 10 years, they are losing well over a million dollars in opportunity. Given that 5 more years at a top-tier firm would double their compensation they could easily be giving up multiple millions. To be employee #5-50 this individual should be getting an equity option that would reasonably be worth millions in an exit scenario for it to make sense.

Most startups simply aren't competitive for this mid-level engineer given current compensation practices. Which leads to a sub-selection of talent for those who for various reasons aren't willing or able to work at a firm willing to pay that level of compensation. Bear in mind, if the engineer had liquid equity from a public corporation they would be able to leave equity in hand after 4 years.

Whether this is a problem or not is an interesting question for startup CEOs. Generally I've found success in software is more closely correlated to the quality of employees than the quantity, and historically companies with generous compensation practices seem to be the successful ones.
I don't care about your YouTube videos, I don't care about your governance, I don't care about your book, tell me what it is in non-marketing speak and show me a screenshot on the front page and shut up about everything else.

Tell me what it is, show me what it looks like, provide a "Hello, World!" API example for opening a window on the front page. Stop contributing to landing pages that jerk the consumer around.
Starlink will not have enough aggregate bandwidth, even when the full constellation is deployed, to be a factor when it comes to city planning for broadband.
The way the article talks about these cybercrime gangs makes them sound like a benevolent government or non profit. They're putting up restrictions? Gang representatives are talking to the press? What kind of world is this?
It’s a shame the WFH experiment is blended with the pandemic. It’s hard to decouple the “effectiveness of WFH” from the “pervasive impact of a global pandemic on all aspects of daily life”. I think a lot of people got a negative taste for WFH for reasons that are less WFH and more pandemic.
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Very much. My motivation to do anything in life is severely affected. I'm totally unable to do mundane work, or work for low rewards. There are prolonged periods when I'm unable to work at all.

My childhood was very unhappy.
Called it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27101406
Kind of a tangent, but I recently found out how much of a PITA EVs are when they wreck. Unlike gas tanks, batteries can start fires or even explode days after a wreck.

I suspect that alcohol fuel produced by carbon-neutral methods makes more sense for (hybrid electric motor) vehicles than batteries when you factor in the environmental costs of production and disposal.
Your approach sounds reasonable and well intended. But talking about family, dog, wellbeeing and career building on a weekly basis? Can you please explain what else you dicuss in those meetings?
Docker Swarm was closer to this but never really got the traction to become a serious contender. I really liked being able to use a compose-like file to deploy. It had a much smaller feature set than k8s and some gotchas, but I felt like it was a lot easier to grok than k8s.

The thing that led to my moving away from it was the lack of a mainstream hosted version.
Berkshire hathaway used to do a lot of this. Also, if the sellers want to retain upside, they can accept some portion of the purchase in stock from Moonshot
I imagine it went something like this

"OK, now that you have our attention, and the eyes of the entire international media apparatus are on us, here's how we're going to do this. We're going to send some integer number of million money dollars down this pipe, and you're going to turn that gas pipe back on like you said you would.

Then here's what happens next... we're going to give you an integer number of minutes running head start before the drone strikes start raining down on these 12 sites we've identified as likely candidates for your location, ... now how many millions was it that you were asking for from us again?"

Doesn't really matter how much it was, either, if it has really been seized already in less than 24 hours. Was it enough to convince the boss guy or gal to take the bait and risk revealing themselves? (Probably not, but IMHO that wasn't likely to happen anyway, at least not since the heat started getting turned up on them all.)
One thing that people say is that "Rust frontloads your problems". C++ might be a bit easier to get your head around to start with, but as the complexity of what you're building grows you will discover the 'joy' of debugging segfaults and race-conditions.

Rust has some type-system complexity to get your head around. It's not as painful as it looks (when you're just reading it rather than trying to do it) but there is a hump of understanding there that you have to get over. Once you've done that though, Rust then helps you so much more in dealing with the 'long tail' of difficult problems.

Another way of looking at it is that there are a load of things that you can silently get wrong in C++. There are good practices that help you not screw up e.g. you have to learn how to think about who has pointers to what and how long they live. Rust forces you to think about that stuff from day 1 - the compiler requires you to prove to it that everything is good. It's a bit painful to start with, but it's a good thing overall.
> I hope people aren't learning Rust as a status symbol

There was another reason for its existence??
Thank you for the great feedback, I really appreciate it.

- I changed the vague copy you mentioned to be a little more technical, but also hopefully clearer

- I added underlines and backgrounds to the other tabs in the code demo, so it's more obvious they're clickable

- I added an animated, muted video in place of the first example app screenshot as an experiment. Does this work better or worse for you?

- I made the testimonials have a fixed height on mobile, so there's no layout jank

- Remake is definitely unsure of its customer. I want to go after both those markets. Any suggestions to improve the copy (or sections you'd like to see) in this area?

Thank you so much!
> consider offering what the majority of them want

It's a big assumption that you know what the majority of developers want. And advocating for people who have never asked for your help is both arrogant and immoral in my opinion.
Is IO still going to be horrible here?

Docker on a linux VM, with all code on the linux VM, is significantly faster than Docker for Mac. Generally just because of IO.
Like calling divers that risk their lives to save children pedoes because his PR-stunt submarine didnt work?
Thanks for the response. That makes a ton of sense. Best of luck to you- I totally agree that the consumer vc space needs improvement. I don't know why YC decided to get into probably the most risky space that exists in the investing world!? but happy for you that they did, and perhaps it speaks to your experience which is very impressive.
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Bob is one end of end-to-end.
Monocultures are always bad, but I don't see any alternative services with this level of ease of use.

You're definitely overestimating the technical expertise/available time of a lot small time admins out there.

You don't see bots and spam on those forums either because they are actually using cloudflare, and you're just not seeing the captcha, or because in the backend they're feeding all their posts through akismet (in plain text). I don't think you're considering how many services see your posts, even when you don't trip a captcha.

email accounts are trivial to sign up for, especially for bots. I always recommend charging $1 (or local equivalent) for an account, that's a lot harder to fake.

My point in all this is that bitching that site is using cloudflare to not have to deal with crap, is a self centered view.

Saying "well it never happened to me, so it must never happen" is similarly self absorbed.

Maybe consider that your experience is not everyones experience
Emacs is like 10x the size of Vim (and also a lot bigger than nano). It’s rare that I ship a editor unless the OS already had one installed, but I don’t think I’d ship emacs if I needed one.

(Unless you mean for workstations or servers people constantly log into, as I’m thinking of containers).
I buy all my produce and a lot of meat at asian grocery stores. Way better selection of greens, cuts of meat, etc, and tends to be cheaper especially for produce.
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> there are also instances of refunds if they can't decrypt your files due to technical issues.

I would like to hear more about this, that sounds kind of hilarious.
"Ah, apologies, we'll get that back to you within 3 business days. Have a nice day, I hope you had backups"
Well that is weird. When googling for solutions, all I found was people saying it would never work, and smartass comments about using GitHub instead. So I gave up. Maybe I’ll give it another try. It was a very simple setup though, I don’t know what I could have been doing wrong.
What's weird about `fn evil_lincoln() { let _evil = println!("lincoln"); }`?
You can always tweak the CSS yourself or disable it altogether. Or use Lynx, in which this site looks fine.
Yeah, I read "10" and my brain automatically filled in "days" until I read "millions of years"
Could you please stop posting flamewar comments and/or unsubstantive comments to HN? We're trying for something other than this here.
"the analytics software takes into account whether an employee actually engages in a relevant task (which counts as work time) or merely procrastinates at their desk (not counted), by
monitoring which software tools the employee uses"

That's genuinely awful. I wonder to what extent employees are aware of the analytics, and how many people just set up macros look busy.
>I think it's still just pseudo-anonymity

Nope.

Monero, ZCash, and mimblewimble-based cryptos (grin, beam) are certainly not pseudo-anonymous, and tracking is darn near impossible if the users don't do anything stupid.
Iterator invalidation, like pointer invalidation, remains a thing. Iterators and pointers are normally treated as ephemeral, except where guarantees are provided.

It is hard for me to imagine how "the compiler is well exercised and tested" could be perceived to mean the opposite. Explain?
Yes. Example: https://github.com/github/SoftU2F
I was going to point to error correction tape, however it seems that came out in 1989.

https://www.tombow.com/en/mamechishiki/修正テープの歴史/
They did get some free help from the US amplifying all of this and the media essentially tying DarkSide to the pipeline shutdown (even though they likely only set out for the business side).

Maybe now utilities going to the US for a similar reason will be in everyone's DR/IR plan (even if Colonial didn't reach out to the US admin).
A far fetched scenario:

If I were these guys (I am glad I am not),
You have just brought down far more interest
and heat from now just law enforcement but probably
at least a couple of intelligence services.

Arranging your own death would seem like a reasonable
thing to do.

All our money is gone, stolen.
All our servers are gone, grabbed by law enforcement.
We have nothing left.
Bye.

It would be interesting to follow the Bitcoins traversal
around the network.
Russia allows their FSB operatives to moonlight on the side. Darkside hackers could be government operatives and an attack on critical infrastructure is an act of war. It is the same as bombing the pipeline if infrastructure is disabled. I am sure the cyber insurance provider won’t pay and say it was an act of war by a foreign government. It always a grey area.
How I do this:
* Create a unidirectional push only sync between the phone and a remote
* Remote has a cron that syncs to backblaze regularly, and deletes from the server (this does not affect the phone)
* Delete from the phone whenever I want
I don't know about in Swift, but in programming languages in general, existential types are usually a concept different from dependent types.[0]

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/292274/what-is-an-existe...
So is everyone accepting this as truth? No suspicion of smokes and mirrors?
> Statements like this seem to point to ransomware activities being far more coordinated and "business-like" than they often get credit for.

It's just digital Privateering - Francis Drake with a laptop.

> If a market correction occurs...

The English solved it by expanding their Navy and enlisting those who would otherwise pirate. Seems like as good a solution as any here.
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My guess is the 'Farmers Market' in the names is just marketing/branding to get shoppers to associate it with fresh produce, like Harry's Farmers Market before they turned into Whole Foods.
Yeah I guess, as long as ETH stays around the current level.

But if you do hundreds of withdrawals from tornado, it's less anonymous, because the set of people that have deposited that range to tornado is much smaller than the set of people who did a handful of deposits. Instead of 10k, you might be one of a few dozen or less.

You could always send a million to a friend (through tornado) and have them cash out for a cut, and repeat that 100 times, if you have 100 friends. That would kill on-chain analysis.
Obviously its by not assuming someone is a CCP supporter unless they voice this opinion. I did not say anything to the effect of harm or violence against people who support the CCP. But I think a stronger level of national comfort discussing the CCP as a hostile state would be beneficial.

My thesis is this: a growing population of Americans believe the CCP is hostile. A very small minority of Americans are violent and act on appearance alone. A band of thugs should not get to set the tone that America is becoming racist against Asians. The reality is that a nation state is growing in moral and geopolitical transgressions, and that is what people are upset about.

You don't need to profile anyone. But if someone says "I hate the CCP" and harasses a Korean person. That person is awful, but it doesn't make this a collective struggle.

The presence of racists does not define a cultural consensus that hatred of asians is growing. If there's a 100% in hate crimes against asians, and a 10000% person increase in negative feelings towards the CCP, I guarantee you, nobody will feel more hostile towards the CCP that non-CCP aligned asians.
Worse, it needs to run on every version on every os. Windows 10 has an evergreen webview, but on Mac for compatibility reasons the webview is only updated with a new OS release.

Edit: This is not something you run into with electron. It's the reason electron apps are so big, they bundle the whole browser engine.
Haha, wow. It might as well be the ridiculousness channel.
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Looking for other folks in my boat who actually pulled the trigger to retire:

* “Young” - mid 40s

* Significant assets but non “fuck you” levels. I consider FU >$10M, so likely looking at people in the $5-9M range.

* Not doing some hyper austere FIRE lifestyle (burn rate of $125k-$150k annually - about $40k of this is mortgage that will end in ~20 years)

* No plans or need to make some “fun money” by consulting or what have you

All retirement calculators I use and fiends/family I consult seem to agree I should be able to retire. Firecalc’s Monte Carlo gives me zero failure cycles. Vanguard puts me at 98% success. Every light is green except my own financial advisors, who put us at ~80% success. I trust them, but also, I don’t feel like a financial planner ever got fired for saying “you should work more before you retire”

Has anyone been in the same situation and pulled the trigger? How’s it going if so?
If I'd just collected enough ransom to retire and never work again, I'd also put out a press release announcing I was out of business and someone seized all my shit and etc.
JP morgan is forcing me to come into office, i am still waiting for my second dose.

Jamie is forcing ppl to come into work and making up stupid anecdotes about how ppl are unproductive at home. Him being "fed up" means i have to risk my life. [1]

I don't understand how he is getting away with this.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/04/jamie-dimon-fed-up-with-zoom...
It was 3x on capacity, 60x on charging speed. Which, if true would solve the two main problems with electric vehicles.
I think DarkSide addressed this. They don't want to be viewed as a threat to society. They are thieves, they go after soft targets with deep pockets and ideally insurance, and they don't want to have the public or nation-states interested in them.

The game changed when the valves to the pipeline were closed as a precaution. They just went from thief to threat.
You could also argue that it puts you at risk of hiring someone from the other end of the spectrum: a knowledgeable senior dev that is more interested in writing over-engineered solutions for the fun of it, rather than matching the solution to the problem.

Rust is great and shows a lot of promise, but I think you need to have some strong arguments when using a lower-level systems language outside of a systems-focused context. Not saying it can't/shouldn't be done, but it's worrying to me when people stop thinking critically because of the hype.
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Preventive measures shouldn't be creating third-world-level shortages in basic supplies; those things are dangerous themselves. I'm not sure where the Northeast ends for you, but DC seems to have had serious shortages as late as 2 days ago: https://twitter.com/GasBuddyGuy/status/1392467605898907652
I was watching an episode of Nova on PBS about "Search for the Super Battery" and it was pretty enlightening. The basic lithium battery can store a lot of energy but due to dendrite formation it can short circuit and fail catastrophically. So they made some modifications to improve its safety while compromising other parameters and we get an lithium ion battery. But scientists are learning how to improve its safety without degrading other properties too much. They play around with different anode and cathode formulas and the separator membranes between them.
But if you get BTC through a mixer chances are they are tainted and you get yourself in trouble when withdrawing.
You keep claiming that the language team's knowledge of a feature drives that feature's adoption.

That's not accurate.

Popularity of a feature and enterprise demand drive it's adoption.

It doesn't really matter what the language team knows, it matters what the average developer knows since their collective wants are in large part what drives the language team.

There are hundreds of thousands of Java devs who only ever wrote Java and suddenly had to write Kotlin, and are now clambering for these feature improvements in Java.
Well, sometimes they're right. The hit company will likely call in some consultancy to institute a bunch of newer and better security protocols, then call it a day. If they really aren't hit again for another decade and staffing a department would cost $500k a year or more, were they wrong?

It's a gamble. It's easy to point fingers at the company that was caught out, but for the hundreds or thousands that aren't ransomed and aren't paying the extra money for security, they took that gamble and so far they've come out ahead not having spent all that money on prevention.

I'm not advocating that these companies to have less security or not do better on security, but the fact is a lot of them have made the objectively correct decision for themselves, which will continue to be correct right up until they're hit, if they ever are. The whole situation is analogous to health insurance in a way, and the same incentives are at play, along with similar consequences for individual companies and all of us as a whole, as providing easy targets for these groups allows them to thrive and grow and target others.
Lockdowns specifically, not just the pandemic.
Or c) still get sick even though they're vaccinated (bad luck or mutations)

I'd be very cautious to say that anti-vaxxers "deserve" the risk. A large part of the anti-vaxxers I know are people who've been down on their luck for a long time, have lost all hope in society and the government, are isolated, and have been convinced by people who prey on those weaknesses.
People keep peddling this "LTE/5G/Starlink will replace fiber" but its all shale oil salesmen and politicans unwilling to byte the bullet. RF physics prevents it
Ransomware-As-A-Platform. I wonder if they got the criminal-underground equivalent of VC-funding, or if they have something like Y-combinator to fund innovative criminal approaches and promote networking -- like evil-Kirk from the mirror universe, there could be a Saul Graham with a mustache writing essays about unlocking value and what you are not allowed to say in the ransomware community.
Agreed. The top comments on this thread are wrong, overconfident and silly. Read the article people.
Microservices are worth it, just not for every use case. It sounds like you're blaming Google for misleading PMs into using something they didn't need. However, Google made a great product for those who need it. It's not google's fault that PMs love cargo-culting.
She's doing good for the world; leave her alone.
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Hang on aren't we conflating two things in this thread? Or you quoted the wrong half of GP's comment perhaps? You can pattern match on an actual `bool`; if you use `Result<(), ()>` instead you'll have to match on `Ok(_)`/`Err(_)`, which is bad because one of your Boolean values is an 'error' now, and also because which one is is up to you (to remember)!