skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Predictions like these always overlook where 90% of the software lifecycle really takes place: legacy code.

Code-generators-for-the-masses my be able to create new code but it can't modify, extend, repair, or maintain old code. To change an app, all code generators require that you modify the app's configuration and then generate all new code. That works fine if you know what part of the configuration caused the failure. Otherwise the generator will continue to generate bad code and you're forever screwed. Anyone who generates code from high level specs but doesn't know how the code executes on the computer will be mystified by a misbehaving app or by error messages, and unable to diagnose, must less fix, problems that arise.

Think of a car that's designed and built by automation. If the automaton has no idea how to fix the car when a part fails during its lifetime, the only way it can repair the car is throw the whole car away and generate a new one. But with the problem undiagnosed, the same bad part will cause the second car to fail in the same way the first one did.

The software life cycle is about much more than writing new code.
yeah, in that case the Senior co-worker literally is the text book.

That being said, just reading the source code is under untilized these days. Engineers sometimes ask me how the system works, I send them to the repo. It's all right there, just have to learn to read the story it tells.

One risk is that often times the co-worker knows the business logic in "how it ought to be" not the reality of the underlying code. I've had engineers say "It works like X" and I have to say "well, only sometimes. The code says this..."
What do you mean by "people's actions"? If you mean voting, well, Democrats and Republicans get about the same number of votes in presidential elections, which does not seem to justify your view that "left" media bias just reflects the political leaning of the average American.
>Is that.. really the argument you're trying make here?

No? My argument is gold is a wildly impractical currency that does not align with the goals of contemporary society (new supply is randomly distributed to land owners, its extraction ruins valuable natural resources, it requires a significant amount of fossil fuels to move, etc.)

I really wonder, why when the average low-income American is in nominal debt at fixed interest rates [0] that HN thinks inflation is bad for them (it is in fact bad for upper middle class savers like the majority of HN, so maybe that's why).

[0]https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...
Never knew about axle counters. In the UK, they use a jumper cable to stop trains in an emergency.
Presumably they aren’t taking photographs of the passport and viewing them at some later date from personal computers.
I think of it more as I could work a few more years at my current high paying miserable job, or the same few years + 1 at a flexible (arguably less miserable) job.

For me at least, the goal has been to bank big cash early, then let the compounding do the heavy lifting towards the end. As I mentioned above, getting a 10% increase takes a lot more savings late in the game whereas the snowballing effect of compounding interest is stronger, so I'm coming out ahead just by staying afloat without dipping into my savings. I look at the work that appeals to digital nomads (pre-covid, this was work FAANG and other high paying jobs didn't widely offer), and it seems more valuable to spend some mobile years financing a nice adventure with the stability of a job that lets me work from home. It means a gradual transition to RE and that very little in my lifestyle should change once I pull the trigger. Personally I'm looking to reach FI /then/ transition to a remote/part time job as a way to reduce risk while offering some extra flexibility - everything I earn in that time should be gravy and it should allow me the freedom to travel and enjoy the experiences.
Furthermore, there are a lot of places where you can't even have an open fire and/or there isn't a lot of wood. Cool experiment but tents and other sleeping arrangements like hammocks are a pretty well-trod area where real innovations are mostly through using new materials--one disadvantage of which is that super-light gear in my experience is increasingly fragile.
The work procedures of the "e mailman" were captured in this documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x4_dozWkq0
Another decent barrier here is language. Europe has lots of different languages in use, and while a lot of people speak english it's far from universal.

It makes it quite tricky to offer services across the whole of Europe without a lot of investment.
I think in this sense "wealth" is just "number of units of currency in your bank account". Perhaps you mean you question what "value" actually is? I would definitely agree with that.
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Now you need to tell us which tent you own.
Being human to human, unless they're wearing tech that would allow them to scan/archive it, normally they just verify (eyeball it) and you get it back.

Here, with this system, they could verify and keep the data regardless of what I think is going on.
I agree, but there is a kernel of truth here, which is making programming more accessible by means of higher level constructs that are easy to use while also being less general. Excel is a great example, in that it opened up the world of macros and programming to a huge population. Yes, you still need technical skills and programming skills, but the entry bar is lowered in exchange for playing in a tighter sandbox. In many cases, this is a good tradeoff. All the no-code/low-code stuff is just marketing trying to promote this.
If you are a tech-oriented person (which I assume is the case as you're a HN reader) you can set up Mailinabox without much hassle. It does everything for you including the "e-mails don’t get bounced back or get flagged as spam" part.

https://mailinabox.email/
Not exactly. Fat cells primarily increase in volume in response to lipogenesis.

One of the primary hypotheses behind chemotherapy is to halt all cell division to let stress kill off more cancerous cells than healthy ones. The idea being that cancerous cells are more fragile than healthy ones, even though they proliferate faster and don't execute programmed cell death themselves as readily.
I was hoping it was a bundling of apps/data/content along more task/project/team/org lines as opposed to the very user-centric organizational structure.

Sadly for me, it seems like a re-brand like you said. It also seems like they may be planning on evolving the communication suites Email, Chat, Video Chat, to be a more integrated experience a la Microsoft Teams or Front?
Nope. I just try to keep it updated as I go. But in practice, I usually forget to update it and it just ends up becoming part of the release process.[1]

[1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/RELEASE-CH...
Not entirely, but sort of.

https://webkit.org
Yes and no. Companies like BKNG and Adyen are doing very very well in the Netherlands:

94B and 58B respectively, both comparatively new companies. It’s just less easy to scale up here than it is in the US with a huge economy and one language.

Prosus is also there on the first page
I'm pretty sure that all of the employees of the small specialized privately owned companies in Switzerland and Germany really appreciate the lack of giant companies, which historically use their power to erode worker's rights.
I disagree, she had previously Served in the Military and was working at a D.o.D (NSA JOINT) facility. She was also working within those walls during the Snowden leaks. It was probably the opposite, she was likely constantly inundated with the legal consequences of leaks and disclosures.

I would argue many people don't fully process the consequences of their actions regardless of age. That's a separate issue we have to solve for.

In this instance (right or wrong) she was found guilty, she admitted to the action, and she did the time. Hopefully she's able to find gainful employment moving forward.
They (Jan and the RH crew) have done several versions of this over the years, and the takeaway is that some gravel bikes feel slower due to geometry, rider position, Q factor, and so on, but the tire width isn’t a factor.

(I think one was testing the open vs firefly, with similar riding positions but drastically different wheels)
Same reason Blogger is immortal.
How did you systematically come to the conclusion that those "debates" shouldn't be had? Which straw broke the camel's back? Is it because Carlos on the internet , who writes for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Americas Quarterly, told you so? How do we take your guidelines and judgement and form it into a framework of rational thought where it then becomes generally applicable to the general population if your guidance wasn't available one day?
I don't particularly want to be remote. I haven't enjoyed it at all. But it is potentially opening up possibilities for me outside of the area I live in.

I'd be open to the idea if I could find a company that did a better job of it than my employer has. I suspect many others are in the same mindset, and that greatly weakens the negotiating position of employers in our industry -- even for recruiting people who don't necessarily want to be remote.
The HotOS'21 paper (Aleksey is one of the authors) is very much worth reading if you're building or maintaining large-scale distributed systems: https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s...

I wrote a blog post about this paper, too: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2021/05/24/metastable.html
> Edit: I forgot about man in the middle attacks from internet providers and governments who might modify the HTML and image payloads being transmitted to the end user. I guess HTTPS would be useful for prevent those types of exploits on static sites. So that pretty much means HTTPS should be on every site, if for no other reason than that.

Not just governments. I can get in my car and go to the three main shopping malls in my relatively large Portuguese city. I will very easily MITM a bunch of people there, no problem, using a variety of attacks. They won't realize that I'm now sucking all their traffic in and modifying it as I please.

After I've done that, if they visit any HTTP link, I can inject whatever I want there: crypto mining, download links to a modified/hacked version of their browser, social engineering attacks (phishing), cookie hijacking, etc. Notice how I can modify whatever HTTP page you have to link to websites you think are secure (banks, social media, websites), but that are modified (e.g. via sslstrip, or just by being similar-but-not-quite-the-same-hosts, etc)

Many months ago I went through this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25123366

It should be a duty for all sysadmins to make sure their sites are HTTPS. Sure, if they're only in an intranet, HTTPS is likely overkill. But any publicly hosted website should be forced to be HTTPS.

One single HTTP website leaves a person vulnerable to millions of attacks. Many of these are still present on the web with HTTPS -- but at least then they'll typically be done by the people running the HTTPS site, not by someone in the middle.
High taxes and bureaucracy everywhere in Europe.
Don't mine Bitcoin then, run GPU farms and rent them out to AI researchers.

Point is, surplus isn't really an issue.
Article yesterday says google uses AI to design chips in 6 hours, sounds like a long way is now yesterday.
Exactly,and to those "protected companies" you should add

The Federal reserve

The World-Bank

The IMF and in general all the Bretton-Woods establishment designed and operated to ensure US economic supremacy. It is just not "those silly old-fashioned Europeans" playing the protectionism game.
Don't worry, it will. :-)

While I do allow for breaking changes between major versions, I don't really see myself ever doing any kind of major breaking change. Especially one that subtly changes match semantics in a really major way.
The best way to work remotely for a FANG is to work at the headquarters for 1-3 years and then transfer to remote.

That may not help your current situation, but They are looking for the best talent anywhere in the world. They just would like remote workers to have experience working onsite with a team on a large project, preferably their own framework.

Otherwise - you should think hard on what your benefit is that a major employer would choose someone who needs training to get up to speed. For example, if you were really good at complexed systems, but didn't have specific experience - that could be very interesting to a FANG.

Hope that helps
Life was generally more dangerous and harder those days, and medical practice was terrible. Horses, for example, regularly killed people in those days (more than cars do), and their use is not the romantic image we have of them today.

If you can show that the railroad was built on blood, I'd be interested.
None of those companies were started in the last 15 years as far as I can tell.

The list is skewed by propped up high growth stocks with much more built in risk than we might imagine to their long term growth.

I don't see how Facebook necessarily has fat margins and growth for the next 20 years - they could conceivably go into decline.

All the measures are crude but Revenues might be the best, because frankly 'profits/earnings' are more of an investor thing, that doesn't take into consideration all the other members of the value chain.

Maybe 'Gross Margins' might be even better though difficult to determine, because Wallmart and Amazon (retail) operate on thinner margins, 'most of their sales' go down the value chain.

By 'Revenue' Germany is actually batting above it's weight, Europe could probably do to have some kind of continental winners in certain areas but that's a really hard thing to do. Even with EU integration ... nobody wants to give up their national champions.

The biggest negotiation ever that could happen in Europe would be for Germany/France/UK to maybe to agree on different sectors and allow/promote acquisitions along those lines. That will never happen of course. That could happen but more by large funds driving it to happen.
Personally I suck at leetcode questions, but nevertheless have snuck in to some of these so-called "top-tier" companies. And let me tell you!

These questions have fuck-all to do with the actual work the happens there. Sure, you can usually find someone to tell you how much rainwater accumulates into a random bar chart, but I see as much brain-dead code at the top as anywhere else. As much great code, too, FWIW. Everywhere, the key skills that make for a successful IC are the same, and they definitely don't require implementing splay trees or skip lists from scratch and without references. 99% of the time it's shuffling bits around and using hash maps.

Honestly the people I work with who advocate the hardest for leetcode are the ones who had to grind hard and, evidently, want others to suffer too. As if a sane process would mean their own suffering was in vain.
Free trade also implies putting monopolies in check which the USA is glad not to do as that seems key to own the top 50 of largest companies. Europe being more protectionist against foreign monopolies would actually improve free trade and competition and be good for everybody
amazing I always thought it was real Latin
If you can't assume that a website you upload a scan of your ID to isn't capturing details about it, then you can't assume that a bouncer checking your ID isn't wearing a surreptitious HMD, no? In both cases, you're submitting your PII to an unknown process that seems like it should be safe, but with no previous experience or brand-image there to tell you whether there's actually any proof that it's safe.
She was in the Air Force a full term before she was a contractor, and the UCMJ is beat into you in the military. Also, being in an intelligence squadron stationed at Ft Meade no less, she would have had tons of annual training on security requirements and their consequences. It's possible being younger meant she thought she was more likely to get away with it, but she certainly had enough briefings on the legal consequences to know what could happen if caught.
Fabrics are a really underappreciated aspect of a lot of modern outdoor gear, especially with respect to weight. My main objection, as I mentioned in another comment, is that durability is one of the tradeoffs. A few years ago I had one of the super light and compact sleeping pads develop a leak after literally about three days. It was replaced for free but that didn't help at the time.

I have a new very lightweight tent I bought shortly before pandemic. Looking to try it out this fall.
Profit concentration is not the same as wealth creation in the broader sense.

Google demolished the newspapers classified ads. While probably more effective than otherwise ... it didn't all come out of nowhere.
I've looked into induction, but:

1) It seems like you have to spend a lot to approach even a cheap gas stove, as far as cooking quality; and

2) Even on (say) Reddit threads full of people posting about how great they are, the same people comment a lot about how careful they have to be with the cooktop or how many times they've cracked and ruined(!!!) theirs and had to replace it.
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While the content in the Podesta emails was not of any interest in itself, the existence of the dump suggested there was something being revealed and Wikileaks hype and misleading editorializing around the leaks is how Pizzagate became a thing.

It's not schizophrenic - the reality is that false editorializing about a leak can deeply mislead people even if the real content of the leak is completely innocuous (e.g. someone ordering a pizza).
The app is now open source at the link in OP :)
Is it even possible to access US pension savings in your 30s or 40s?

In the UK tax advantaged pension accounts cannot be accessed until you're 55 (and 58 for my generation)
Brilliant, thanks for sharing this! I'd love to know where it doesn't work.
In the case of your parent comment, where winter temps don't go below 40-50, they don't even need a fancy heat pump, just a regular A/C with a reversing valve, which are not much more expensive.
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This is speculation, but it could be a consequence of not wanting to lock the entire file. Where a normal application could place locks on segments of a file, a web app perhaps can't do this through this api.

Hence you have the choice between aborting on write and possible "garbage files" (i.e. partly overwritten) if you keep reading.
A little better than a coin flip.
I work for a FAANG. Among the many benefits we receive, a large chunk of our pay comes in the form of equity. When the price of the stock goes up, so does my effective pay. Also there is free food and stuff.
Breached as in someone else has control over the server.
If this looks preposterous, one way to see that it could be true is to look at which 80%.

80% of all types of software? No. 80% of the type of software you are building? No.

Almost all of a new category of software that is only economical to create because such tools exist? Perhaps, yes.

Small simple tools, things only needed for a couple of months, things that used to be spreadsheets or physical whiteboards. Things that are useful, and better digitised, but nowhere near worth the cost of building as custom software.

All kinds of companies of all sizes are full of such things. The domain is massive. Arbitrary dates aside, I think it's clear the trend is correct - we will see a lot of growth in this category of software and the tools used to build them.

I'm working on such a tool at Stacker (YC S20). If you're intrigued by what I've said, we're hiring! email's in my profile :-)
...that she refused to acknowledge, causing (at least) tens of deaths. I don't think we are obligated to show excessive respect in this case.
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How well does the I can’t remember excuse work in this case?

This actually is pretty bad. Password is not just for information revealing. It’s for proof of ownership and control of the accounts. Revealing the password means ceasing control of the accounts to police.
I’ve ridden their extra lights into some pretty ridiculous places, and commuted on them in a city, and they’re as trouble free as any other tire I’ve had. (In about 7k miles)

I would recommend taking them on technical single track, but they rock for any sort of road riding. They’re certainly fine for the gravel I’ve seen.

(And by trouble free, I mean no flats that I can blame on the tire or some damage to it. I’ve had one slow leaky valve that I had to change on a ride. I’d normally get a flat every 1-2 thousand miles or so with my older tires)
This seems like a really useful service but I am concerned this is going to normalize requiring identity info for sites which do not legally need it. I imagine the pretext for most will be fraud prevention, and while this might be true, I cannot see how this wouldn’t eventually be used for ad targeting and other “consumer is the product” funding models without regulation restricting it.
Deadly white-nose syndrome changed genes in surviving bats
Amazed @ Adobe - they maybe have 5 software products in their portfolio.
The entry bar got lowered back in the 80s with cheap home computers running BASIC. Lots of us learned on low-end low barrier to entry systems like that. There’s no gate keeping. Anyone who wants to learn programming has a wealth of tools and languages and resources to choose from, for free.

This is a replay of previous attempts to pretend to democratize programming and reduce the dependence on rare and expensive programmers. Those are real problems but I don’t think we get there by pretending that anyone can build a system out of software Lego blocks. The actual market here is VCs and C-suite managers looking at software dev labor costs, and misunderstanding (and getting misled) about the reasons for those costs.
Seconded. I'm working up to a 50 mile trip and I'd love some recommendations.
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I agree, but it is more the costumer facing tech that the EU does not do well.
All of FAANG started out as B2C tech products/services.

In these markets the EU is at a natural disadvantage compared to the US, China and maybe even Russia. It is much easier to grow if you have just one huge country that you can grow within before expanding internationally.
But then one should also ask, why hasn't such a B2C tech company emerged in Germany or France or Italy, all of which have sizable populations.
I guess the tech people in these countries where getting hired by traditional industries to work on boring industrial applications.
And the finance people were in no mood to finance a web search engine or a social network in those days.
We had lots of Amazons and lots of Facebooks but they never attempted to expand beyond the national borders of their respective countries. I guess some of them were relatively profitable, so maybe they thought they had a nice deal going on, until the American giants came knocking on the door.
My urologist in Colorado was Dr Peter Standard.
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yeah i'm sure we could have those breakneck speed railway construction in the middle of the open, unihabited plain for the majority of it and then for the incredibly dangerous stuff we could send in the marginalized at the time chinese/irish workers to handle unstable dynamite paid half that of other workers and ignoring any and all safety regulations and building codes of today.
Looks like dark mode, for one. I'm also personally curious if there's an effect in breaking the "what time-wasting website should I let the browser autocomplete" habit that is so easy to cultivate (is "frequently visited" a dark pattern?)
It's a little like igloos and snow caves. Fun to play around with once or twice but not really practical in general.