skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What modern country doesn't have a police force?

If you actually look at the responses from people who live in high-crime areas, the data is clear. Virtually no one wants less police. Most want more.

I trust that more than activists with explicit political messages written in their manifestos.

> Police aren't individual actors - they protect each other, even when they have crossed a line. And it's all by choice.

This is largely due to systemic problems with unions, etc. Still unclear to me how calling a beat cop obscene words or having an ACAB attitude is going to solve that issue.
Of all the people I know who prefer to work in the office rather than WFH, it's always for reasons unrelated to the actual merits of WFH. For example, they live in a tiny apartment in the city with wife, kids, nanny, and need a place to go to get away during the day. Or in one interesting case someone wants a chance to hit on other employees.
First time, shame on you. Second time shame on [censored by dang].
Freenode is kind of like that nightclub that stopped being cool, stopped having good music and began watering down the drinks. Everyone's gone to the new place. Basically the same crew running it.
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You're not being conspiratorial at all. At some point in the last decade the Chrome organization decided that they would pull their own version of classic IE where between WebExtensions/Chrome Apps (their own conveniently proprietary "web" standards... at least they killed chrome apps) and massive piles of half-assed bespoke APIs that no competitor can afford to implement, they would ensure that Blink was the only "web" capable of running lots of new software.

While it wasn't the first example of this, I think Web Audio set the standard for this pattern - individual Chrome contributors making their best effort to design and implement a cool API, but then the org's scheduling and priorities result in it shipping before it's remotely ready and before other browser vendors have meaningfully contributed to the process. This early ship date combined with Google's market power results in applications building on top of these immature APIs, which means that other vendors have no choice but to implement and ship absolute garbage.

Web Audio is a great example because they kicked that steaming pile out the door in order to enable (Chrome-only, naturally) web ports of things like Angry Birds, even though in practice that API was barely usable for anything and had all sorts of undesirable characteristics that still aren't completely fixed nearly a decade later. At the time Mozilla was working on a design and implementation for an API that was actually good, but Google's unilateral move killed any chance of a good solution being shipped by multiple vendors.

Other Chrome-only APIs have been similar stories, though at least Native Client/Pepper - probably the worst example - failed because the doomed design and implementation made it impossible for it to even hit their own production targets and drove app developers (like Unity) away.

In some cases you can meaningfully argue that other vendors are just dragging their feet - Safari being the main example, where they simply have been years late to ship useful things that both FF and Chrome had - but in practice nobody else has the massive development resources Google has to waste on dead-end trash APIs and nobody wants to pay the cost of implementing something they'll have to throw out a year later with the knowledge that websites won't support their browser anyway.

The meaningful security/privacy concerns Apple and Mozilla use to reject new Google APIs are also a good example, because Google has the resources to just address these security issues via brute force. They can unilaterally deprecate an existing API and break tons of websites (Web Audio, video, etc) or just ship something busted and rapidly rework it to try and paper over the consequences (WebMidi etc being used for fingerprinting...)

In my time working on the nacl (then WebAssembly) team it became clear to me that most of the devs there weren't acting on malicious motives, the overall structure and priorities of Google as a whole just produced bad outcomes. Sadly with their de-facto monopoly there's no pressures to fix that.
Why does it always have to be one or the other? It’s silly.
Yes, otherwise it’ll be relegated to a research paper (maybe, because that’s also a form of promotion) in a journal.

How else would people hear about it?

In medicine, I believe, this is a large part of the reason for continuing education units.
You don't need to send your bio and photo over email anymore. (secret access)
I'd lay money it's not the engineers, but management. If management doesn't put performance as a top-tier requirement, there's no way to stuff enough features into a program for something like an office suite (already half-crippled by having to run in a browser) and keep the performance high. It's too much work for even the engineers who care to take it on in the cracks & edges around their other projects... it has to be something management prioritizes.

Seems like this is how all "enterprise-grade" software becomes a pain to use. Usability and performance get short shrift below getting the next 100 bullet-point-features and before you know it the only computers in the world that can run it decently are the developer's, where it still is frankly only on the edge of usability and far from where it would be a joy to use.
Does anyone know if this is true?
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Foundation_for_Researc...

That would make the source a lot less credible tbh.
Someone should remake Doom using today’s “best practises” coding standards and see how much performance it gives up.
I can’t imagine wanting to work for someone who thinks this way, and it’s certainly not a common mindset in my experience.
If you have the financial means to do so, I highly recommend taking a gap year. It was a very rewarding time for me - just working on projects that interested me (tech and non-tech) and at my own pace, instead of racing towards arbitrary deadlines set by the employer. It was also the time where I could actually learn some new skills, which is quite difficult when you have a full time job. I cannot wait for the next time I can take a year off!
You can't buy respect with all the pocket change in the world.

You can make yourself look like a fool though, and you have.
Following the article, the US per-capita energy spending is of 144$/annum, compared to 81$ for Europe.

However, the consumer price per kWh is higher in Europe (~20cts/kWh) than in the US (~12).

So the big difference here is that the US consumes more. Perhaps due to worse efficiency houses/appliances (dryer, ...)
China has been in (artificially) in demographic decline for a while most of the country remains dirt poor.

There is no such cultural determinism. Many countries won't stop having children as their economy grows, in fact the opposite is happening in many places around the world.
Just leaving this here: Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change? - Kurzgesagt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhAemz1v7dQ
At this point, still not making six figures but it's Germany, I'd prefer a nicer office/work environment over more money.

More space, more open-minded culture, fresh food for lunch (not even free but let's split cost)...

Things like these would probably benefit me (and my colleagues) more than paying us another X hundred Euro.
Did you know that you can "avoid" taxes by borrowing against your house instead of selling it?

But the taxes are due when you sell, anyway. All the borrowing does is delay the tax, it avoids nothing. You take some risk and may earn something. If you do earn something, the amount taxable increases, too.
the year isn't a knock on it for being "old", it's important context
Ha! Erlang, GPGPU, and FPGA
Indeed.

Outlook is not my preferred email client but having. Used it on both windows and Mac OS as groupware tool, it's still better than most things by Google.

It's just snappier, because it's native code. And outlook on Mac OS used to be gorgeous.

Excel is a jewel and a marvel of software engineering. Google sheets is good for doing just 2+2.

And so on. When it comes to office stuff, Microsoft software is just better.

Sadly, because it's all proprietary software, but it is was it it.
> Why can't you have the situational awareness that nobody is there just by looking with your eyes?

The entire setup of an army, all its communication mechanisms, and systems of control and safety measures, are focused on telling you about what is happening forward along the axis.

Trying to figure out if it's safe to fire backwards is going to be massively error-prone as nobody is set up to tell you this and asking it is going to cause massive confusion.

Also, you can hit things that you can't see, with ricochet and fall of shot.
You're referring to COBRA, and when my wife and I had a month lapse because of her switching jobs, it would have cost us $1300/month to continue her insurance. Not cheap.
> How is this a scalable approach to everyone in the society?

It is not, but let's not pretend most of us work to increase societal good. It just happens to be that our rent-seeking behavior is aligned with society's interests.
You can't.

On and off ramps for fiat are necessary and government would just go after the bank or blacklist the SWIFT code of the bank which is providing services to exchanges.
Here's a web app that compromises your SSH private key: use the discord client in chromium.

Their electron client is literally a remote administration toolkit, it has full access to FS (electron app) and it loads every script from their servers. On launch the desktop client opens websocket server for command and control listening.

They can just add something like require('fs').readFileSync(process.env.HOME + '/.ssh/id_rsa').toString() and send this to their servers, and you won't even notice that (since it doesn't require an update on client because the client is just a browser with full permissions that loads obfuscated code from their servers every time you launch it).
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Nuclear power is more expensive per KWh than renewables. Even more if you factor in nuclear waste storage. Why would you ever consider nuclear instead of renewables with this in mind?
Which means, unfortunately, that you actually have a $100 coffee maker, and not a $30 coffee maker, then.
How is it for Product Managers and Product Owners? I've seen a slight bump in the past few weeks, but (anecdotally from my monitoring) the number of listings was still higher under Trump in 2019:

https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=Technical+Product+Managers+%26...
> the most growth YoY [citation needed]

March 31, 2020: 75 million DAU [0]

March 31, 2021: 145 million DAU [1]

0: https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2020/04/30/mi...

1: https://twitter.com/jeffteper/status/1387141320519557120?s=2... (https://twitter.com/bdsams/status/1387146648678244356?s=20)
Audio only, screen sharing. Any tool will do.
They're too slow for action games like Doom.
> Someone who has been doing "independent consulting" for six months or a year is pretty transparently obfuscating that they were unemployed.

Lol, what? I did exactly that after getting pissed off with $LARGE_CRAPPY_EMPLOYER. Worked for 3-4 companies for 6-8 week periods over that time on a short term basis, and made more than $LARGE_CRAPPY_EMPLOYER by a factor n > 2, and did some work on a startup. But then $LARGE_EMPLOYER came along with an offer I couldn’t refuse.

Don’t project what “independent consulting” might mean for you onto everyone. It would be interview-ending if I caught a hiring manager suggested this was a euphemism, and I’d subsequently recommend every person that asked me about said company steered clear.
... there will be no new light water reactors built outside of China because a LWR can't possibly be competitive with renewables or fossil fuel with carbon capture.

The problem is that LWR works at low temperatures to drive a steam turbine. Modern fossil fuel plants use gas turbine generators (like airplane engines) that have a power density more than 10 times greater -- if airplanes were driven by steam turbines the whole fuselage would be a steam turbine and there would be no room for the passengers.

Even if they solved the problem that the $5 billion LWR that is supposed to be built in 3 years is really a $20 billion LWR built in 10 years, an LWR still not economic.

People quit building nuclear plants at the same time they quit building coal burners for the same reason -- steam turbines can't compete economically. Even if the heat was free, the balance of plant is too much.

If we switched to (say) a sodium cooled fast reactor or HTGR or a molten salt reactor it's possible nuclear could be competitive but any new reactor faces challenges in terms of materials, fuel fabrication, control...
Insurance in general typically has deductibles (auto, home, renters, etc). for which you are responsible for first before the insurance kicks in. This is beneficial since it allows for lower premiums and lets customers pay out of pocket for expenses that they can afford. As a concept, it only makes sense to purchase insurance for expenses that you cannot afford.

>So when you hear about those people who get lumped with $100k medical bills they still have to pay like $20k of that on top of your insurance?

It depends if the person was insured or not, and if the care was provided by healthcare providers who have contracts with the insurance company or not (referred to as being in network).

In the US, when you go to a healthcare provider, the first thing they will ask you to sign is a form acknowledging you know you are responsible for anything your insurance company does not pay for (unless you go to a vertically integrated healthcare / health insurance company like Kaiser Permanente). In fact, health insurance companies are better referred to as managed care organizations (MCOs) in the US.

What happens is people are not capable of knowing what healthcare services they need or do not need. They have no way to determine if they are being ripped of or not. So the MCOs employ legions of doctors and pharmacists and whatnot to double check the doctors performing the services. They also have enough knowledge about pricing healthcare procedures that they are more able to determine a "good" price to pay.

Anyway, after the ACA law, there is an out of pocket maximum for in network providers, so you would not get a $100k bill. the out of pocket maximum for individual / family is $8,550 / $17.1k in 2021:

https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/out-of-pocket-maximum-li...

So you would only be liable up to that amount at most in a calendar year for all healthcare you receive from an in network provider. Everything else is paid for by insurance.

>What happens if you can't afford the remaining percentage?

The healthcare provider can choose to go after you for it, since you signed the form that says you will pay them if insurance does not. If you feel your insurance denied the doctor inappropriately, you can appeal to a third party to determine if insurance is obliged to pay it (if it is evidence based medicine, then they most likely have to pay it).
Interesting. So how much did Lee pay for Freenode? Did that all go to Christel Dahlskjaer?
I think a lot of my deep thoughts come subconsciously. My biggest leaps of insight happen when I've taken some time - hours, maybe days - away from a problem.

I've found this to be true of many pursuits: programming, writing fiction, even things like "where should the fridge go when we redo the kitchen?"

What you're talking about, good responses in the moment, isn't about deep thought, it's about being witty. They're different problems.

And I suspect that a lot of the people you think are being clever in the moment are actually repeating fragments of conversations that they've had with themselves in private. This isn't universally true, of course, but I do think it plays a part.
What attracts you to Google Meet? I prefer Zoom personally (despite the privacy concerns), as I can have a meeting with someone without the fans on my 2017 MBP 13" going into liftoff, and the video feeds of the participants never freeze. Legitimately every Google Meet I've ever been a part of has either completely drained my battery, or frozen the video feeds of multiple participants, or both, even if there's just 1-2 other people.

Plus I kind of resent Google Calendar not having reasonable plugins for other video services (Jitsi, Zoom, etc.); feels anti-trusty to me.
This will definitely go against the general consensus here; but as a frontend developer the association of Google and web.dev has never been a mystery to me or my team.

I don't think it is even a case of hiding at all. just a short domain handy to be linked to during talks, presentations etc...
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Even a counterfeit that's "third-shift" manufacturing by the factory doing the genuine brand product might not covered by engineering assurances by the brand (which is part of the job it's supposed to do).

Or that third-shift might, although using the same tooling and having access to IP and processes, cut corners on sourcing or QA.

Or it might use the exact same everything, but skimp on the QA testing and culling.

Or (not third-shift) it might be from a genuine run, but have failed QA.

That's mostly just third-shift. The problems can get worse from there, even if the product at least initially appears to do the job it's supposed to do.
I had a buddy who disappeared for 6 months after our deployment, who we eventually found out was just hiking the Appalachian trail. It ended up being very helpful for him, and it’s something I’ve considered for myself on occasion.

Good luck out there.
Except cops don’t really follow the law when it comes to policing the police. The widespread use of extra judicial punishment, the widespread use of someone being arrested with the sole charge of resisting arrest and other such tactics indicate that the notion of police merely enforcing laws is not correct. There are virtually no checks and balances when it comes to police being held accountable for their crimes and their lies on police reports and whatnot. There are systemic police abuses in the U.S. that largely go unpunished.
I thought there is not so much uranium:
https://phys.org/news/2011-05-nuclear-power-world-energy.htm....

5 years if all nuclear power.
I suspect the pervasiveness of HVAC in the US is also an aspect. They're pretty power-intensive and run all the time - you just don't really see them outside large offices in the UK, I'm not sure about elsewhere.
I wrote a URL handler on MacOS where I can configure rules to define which browser will actually open the URL. Rules can be configured based on a URL regex or currently open Slack workspace.

You can target different browsers, including profile (Chrome) or container (Firefox).

I hope to open source this at some point.
No, the manufacturer still quotes $4, with a 52-week lead time :-)
If you haven't seen a Neurologist in the last 18 months, there have been HUGE advancements in prescription drugs for migraines. Prior to 2019 drugs for epilepsy were given off label. Now there are monthly injections (you give them to yourself at home) that are specifically for migraines and target the CGRP:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcitonin_gene-related_peptid...

Note: I only vaguely understand the science, talk to a neurologist.
If you can stomach it, consider the sales side. You'll be allowed to WFH at pretty much any company and can't be replaced by someone in another city.
I'd be quite happy with a "remote work abroad" situation. I live in Australia and prefer being a night owl. I'd love to do Sysadmin work for a US or even EU company because it matches my natural schedule preference

It's probably impractical though with regard to payroll, taxes etc but the dream is nice
> and it immediately puts you at a huge disadvantage.

Great - it can add to the list of disadvantages I have with companies I would never want to work for.
Nuclear works when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow.

Renewables provide cheap energy at the margin (e.g. negative energy prices in Germany at peak hours) but cannot be counted on all the time.
US is located more to the south than Europe, so more spending on air conditioning in southern states can make quite a difference...
> This directly contradicts the fact that they voted against an additional mandatory week of holidays back in 2012

I agree with the argument, but to nitpick:

That was two additional weeks (from 4 to 6 weeks). I'm sure only 1 additional week would have succeed as a lot of employers are already giving 5 weeks.
Good on you. You will probably love it.

I’m about 15 months into my “gap year,” similar story (except no immigration). I traveled on the cheap, switched careers, found a new city I love (and is way cheaper), and settled down with my gf.

Word of warning: depending on what kind of friends and family you have, you might lose some people along the way. Taking a leap like that brought out a new side of people I thought I knew. Most were supportive, but some not at all. Focus on the “keepers” instead of the “haters,” stay positive, and enjoy it!
At a quarter the resolution.
Because you are right-wing Koch funded think-tank who wants to spread FUD about renewables?
Dryers in Europe are famously ineffective, and from what I gather even having them is rarer - many people still air dry on clotheslines etc. Plus, air conditioning is more common even in cooler areas of the US - I’m in the north but have and use central AC.

We should innovate ourselves out of this with solar, wind, nuclear rather than advocating for inferior living standards.
Air conditioning. It isn't really about efficientcy, though that is a concern. The simple fact is Europe doesn't need air conditioning most of the time. It is a major concern in the long term because as global warming gets worse, we will need more air conditioning to survive unless we start burying our homes.
The only reason reactors are dangerous is because everyone was still using the disaster plan from the 1960s. Cooling a melting reactor can be done very safely now if people put the effort in. This is a much cleaner solution than solar; wtf are we supposed to do with all of the solar cells every 10 years or so... landfill?

I completely agree with you
> I have worked more (and harder, quantifiable by sprint points if you must have a number) in the past year from home than in the entire rest of my career combined.

To be clear: out of all the sprint points you've ever completed, more than 50% of them were completed in the past 12 months? How long has your career been?
The anglo-centric view is really a USA-centric view. UK firms, for whatever reason, don't seem to feel obligated to pay more than 50-60k GBP per year, and they still manage to fill their cube farms.

And the foreigners who speak more than good enough English aren't going to be sufficiently cheaper than I am, if they're also great software engineers.
I disliked the headline, because it seemed to me that at the very least Renewables have a substantial role to play, even if nuclear is required for guaranteeing baseload.

This prompted me to have a look at the source and this may provide useful context https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Foundation_for_Researc...