skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you switch jobs, you're bringing your (outside) experience and ideas to your new employer, and they're paying a premium for that.

You don't have outside experience to offer your current employer, so they're not paying for it.

It's not (just) that the current employer is being stingy, an employee is actually more valuable to the new employer than they are to the current employer in some circumstances.
My planned summer reading list:

- High Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik

- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler

- Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann

How did you find the latter? I'm a FE developer, so quite keen to get my hands on in data.
This isn't how food grows. It doesn't require a robot.

Source: I grow food at home and share how on this YouTube channel - https://youtu.be/q3sR5wJwJoo
Reuploading is just a single shot upload of a few gigabytes.

Continual seeding to millions of peers is not.
Please don’t complain about paywalls.
How to Download Windows 11?
Regardless, both the attitude the repo maintainers have and the UX (for both users and developers) is totally different from smartphone app stores.
Terminal 1, which (partially) serves inter-European Star Alliance flights is just pretty bad in terms of seating, amenities, space, interior decoration and general chaos.

Compared with terminal 2F it's actually pleasant. 2F is a packed confused mess with no seating whatsoever. Well, there are some seats by my impression was 1 seat per 10 passengers.

My observation is that I'm livid in 100% of all cases flying from there once I'm boarding the plane. Wait time and accessibility (by RER or unreliable bus) are just awful.

Flying in is less bad (if you didn't check in luggage). Still, connectivity is pretty bad compared to other European airports. Just getting your ticket for the RER can be a frustrating experience.

One caveat: I never flew intercontinental or transferred there. It may be a better experience.
thanks, the IRC record is awesome - wish all the pastebins still worked.

i did read that page about the candidates -- it just seemed like the most obvious separator, '/', was not in that list, and it made me wonder.
No doubt the tech is interesting but conceptually this is pretty awful.

Anyone who has done it knows if you have irrigation sorted there is very little needed for seedlings to grow to full size. Even with no irrigation we’re only talking 5mins watering on dry days.

Adding all this electronics and metal to an otherwise organic and natural process is environmentally, economically and spiritually detrimental.
Slug lazers ~= small flock of ducks
Usually this happens when a post touches on some sensitive political topics; people then start flagging it for no reason, presumably because they just don't want to see the topic discussed.
Why the text terminal cursor is important for accessibility
I suspect our overall picture of early human development will have a type of availability bias to control for. The arid middle eastern climate / soil conditions are more conducive to the preservation of remains so that is what you tend to find. How representative these finds of what happened in the huge Eurasia region?

On the other hand the Africa / Asia land bridge would logically always have been an "interesting" area as the conduit for any population migrations.
That and the fact that I wanted to simplify my life led me to use by work laptop and phone for personal stuff. I feel great after I ditched my Linux Thinkpad that constantly required maintenance and personal time. Carrying 2 phones was getting on my nerves as well.

Of course, my employer is not strict about this and doesn’t care much. I realize other employers might see this otherwise.
The tide prompt for fish has an option to add a horizontal rule and spaces between each command
I read this one about 5 years ago, found it in the office library with a bunch of other books it was clear our managers had never read. It was eye opening in many ways (crap, nothing new in the world, literally everything I had tried to improve was also a problem 30-50 years earlier), but a very good read. Easy to take in small chunks since it's not really a narrative, you can go chapter-by-chapter or section-by-section through it as you have time.
May be I have been living in a bubble. I remember doing a “annual check up” in the US about 5 years ago, and that was super basic - blood pressure, sugar, cholesterol levels etc. they didn’t even do a detailed enough bloodwork to test for allergies. Definitely not looking for any disease vectors.

Now, I live in DK, and my visit to the GP would always go with my hard attempts to convince my GP that something is really wrong and I am not a crazy lunatic who is simply looking for attention. Although, I have never directly asked for a checkup(while being healthy) to look for disease vectors. I’ll ask and see what they say.

I’d prefer if this is outside of the general healthcare system though. I don’t want to occupy Doctors, and medical labs from people who are actually sick _now_ and need those tests, and attention.
A gigantic comet is currently inbound toward the Sun
The difference is that Apple runs the App Store and agreed to allow app developers to opt out of publishing their apps to the Mac App Store. In order to facilitate that they had to implement DRM.

Being able to run arbitrary code doesn't really mean you get to run other people's code without their permission, which is essentially what running those applications on a mac was. You can argue the merits of DRM and copyright of course, but ultimately that's not the same thing as "running arbitrary code." You can run the code and that code includes a check to make sure the platform is one that the developer approved of. If you find a way to remove that check it probably still runs.
I had this argument with my bank, who insisted that all payments must be confirmed with their app instead of their card reader code. They presented it as being more secure, which is not true as most people's phones a littered with app that are either easily exploitable or malicious by design. Chances that the average user's phone is compromised is very high.

All people around me that are not involved in tech have so many crap apps on their phone and think I'm weird for not even having Google Play or any other Google service on my phone. It's kinda like that xkcd on voting software, if you work in the business, you know how bad things really are.

https://xkcd.com/2030/
Ah hah, yes, the 39% was linear but needed to be log. Thanks for that, and all the other figures too.
I've yet to hear a good justification for why there is any accepted legal case for banning any work of fiction for things like "obscenity" in the US given the first amendment, nor other jurisdictions with similar foundational laws. It seems pretty cut and dry
Can you imagine if someone had kept their crypto wallet in this thing?
I'm not calling out Linux or Ubuntu here. I'm disappointed with all OS's, except with Mac OS which I didn't try. I can continue the story. After returning to Windows 7 which was great, guess what, Windows 8. I skipped this version, had just a customized 8.1 which was tolerable. Tried Debian, but I couldn't live with such a limited distro where my browser can't upgrade itself. Got Windows 10 which works fine, modified with Classic Shell because I can't stand new (not so new anymore) start menu.
Ubuntu is in VM for some Python work but I still don't dig the UX there. Mint is probably closest to good UX I can find because it doesn't try to force me to use my PC as a mobile device.
> they make the traditional "they" ambiguous and a bit confusing

I'd say you're technically right. I have occasionally read to the end of a sentence and thought, "Wait, that doesn't make sense", gone back and found the reason it didn't make sense is because I interpreted "they" as referring to a singular person when the author meant it to refer to a different plural antecedent and presumably hadn't realised that it would be ambiguous for some readers. (Or perhaps the other way around.) It doesn't happen very often, though. I agree that it doesn't seem likely that people will adopt one of the neopronouns, particularly since there's not even a clear favourite amongst the various proposals.
This, in my experience, is overwhelmingly to blame:

>“If an organisation needs an application to be released to make a specific deadline regarding market opportunity or new features, developers are often caught between hitting that no matter what or potentially delaying the fix of critical or high-risk vulnerabilities.” [said Simon Roe, Product Manager at Outpost24]

And:

>... dev teams are often measured by feature output, and security isn’t usually seen as a feature. “Unless security is viewed as a feature, it will be viewed as a tax,” according to Tim Mackey, Principal Security Strategist at the Synopsys CyRC (Cybersecurity Research Centre).
My guess:

Short term, maybe. Sales projections for electric cars in Europe are likely... optimistic.

Long term, yes (Northvolt and other competitors), because markets are fairly efficient at generating sufficient supply given a long enough window.
That’s not good enough for cancer because we dont even know how fast or slow it grows. Even if it cancer cells multiplied at the rate of a fetus that would be too fast for an annual physical. Congratulations, death.

Ideally something like a wearable computer or nanomachines in your blood stream automatically report anomalies for individualized treatment.
'This is a food bank now': Workers seized a McDonald's in France
Why wouldn't they? It's just a tool. When I write something by pen, do I get the copyright or does the company that made the pen? Me, obviously.
That’s not that true and the robot will hardly help.

The reason people don’t do it is that commercial farming is so efficient once you factor in costs growing your own is not cheaper than buying from supermarket.
https://archive.ph/Kbz5W
I mean, from my perspective, this is super useful, as I'm a fan of both boosting and mixed effects models.

Really interesting work.
The user-interface, planning your plot sure does gameify that aspect very much like a farm simulator. Heck, in today's times I shudder how much game/real-life cross-over and IP conflicts we see play out in the years too come.
> The ACLU will no longer support people on the Right in the name of Free Speech.

This is false[0]. After that, we appear to be getting into Godwin's law territory, so I'm gonna leave it alone.

[0] https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/defending-speech-w...
A map of meditation places for California
I remember when downloading 10MB was a serious commitment

shakes fist at clouds
Why only Europe has this "problem"?

Because the EU is the problem.

BRExit fixed the battery problem for the Brits and cost the British taxpayers and consumers precisely nought.
I wonder if they can also solve the child-slavery-within-cobalt-mines problem while they're at it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/md1526/im_terry_colli...
As far as I can tell there are no policies that prevent #2 from happening.

As for 1 and 3, the limited blast radius doesn't matter so much as long as you target the installs, which seems to be happening.

Also: sorry someone downvoted you, it wasn't me. I'm pretty much eternally logged out due to noprocrast so I rarely vote.
As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'
>The US also has a culture that considers hand-work to be distasteful and even evil, whereas mind-work as something to be aspired to.

It varies. Your statement is definitely true in most of the places the demographics on HN mostly live. But nobody is trying to build manufacturing facilities in those places.
Category theory for programmers is also a great read if one is into FP.

[1] https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...
No, not for $2.75bn.

At that cost they will be just repackaging Chinese, or Japanese materials, sans the cathode which they will be making, and which is the most expensive material in the battery.

Almost every battery maker outside of China don't do even that, and they just package ready made cathode/anode/separators into casings.
Non cobalt battery like LFP or Sodium iron batteries then.
Another Danish person here, your GP would never check you in any sort of fashion here, unless you already have (serious) symptoms.
“a hardware manufacturer should be bound by law to sell parts for any vehicle it sold in the past, as long as it exists”

Cars would get extremely expensive. Imagine Ford still having to supply model T wheels and engines.

They either would have to have kept a production line and employees knowing to operate it around, or have stocked ‘enough’ parts, where ‘enough’ is very hard to estimate up front. Also, stocked parts deteriorate, so for, for example, tyres, they would have to keep a production line running.

And that’s the easy case. At least Ford can ballpark know how many model T’s still exist. what if a car of a model that we thought didn’t exist anymore gets discovered in a barn?

And of course, that wouldn’t work in cases where manufacturers get bankrupt.
From what I can see, this just waters the plants? Is there any weed control (e.g. spraying with super-heated Clove oil)?
Flagging is a way to keep flame wars off HN. The actual reasons why people flag a post aren't important; what's important is that without the option to flag, these same people would almost certainly escalate a flame war instead as their passions get the better of them.

This can of course be abused by "flagging rings", but it's a small price to pay for a mostly civil and on-topic front page.
Pre fab?

We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out.
Nathan Seiberg on How Math Might Reveal Quantum Gravity
This uses Elixir with the Nerves IoT platform. Jose Valim blogged about it last year: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/08/20/embedded-elixir-at-f...
This describes the process of finding the dots:
https://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-reali...

There is an advantage if you are testing printers rather than reviewing a single scan as they describe - you can print the same content on two different printers and compare the output
Looks like it is Windows only. The absence of nVidia GPUs on Macs is really making Macs a weaker dev machine for ML work.
Scrape Yahoo Search with Python
I don't have much garden experience, and I could possibly imagine this thing surviving in a greenhouse. But on the outside I agree with you, at the least there will be some intervention required.
NorthVolt still uses Cobalt. Their process is just different. They state it clearly in the article.
Scrape Baidu Organic Search with Python
There just seems to be no way to square the curcle - if the backup is trully offline, it's clumbersome to make if thr backup is effortless, it's online and vulnerable.
Eric Evans' Domain-Driven Design. I've heard enough about DDD over the years that I figured I'd just go to the source. Liking it so far, I have some good takeaways but we'll see how effectively I'm able to use the ideas over the next couple years.

Martin Kleppmann's Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Based on the frequent praise it receives here, haven't gotten far yet. I have some project ideas (for personal and professional projects) that could benefit from reading through it.

Martin Fowler's 2018 update to Refactoring. I read the original one a long time ago. In context, we have a work lunch & learn series and I'm interested in doing some presentations on the topic of refactoring (why, how, and when in particular) so it seemed appropriate to refresh my memory on some specific terminology from the book as well as to see if it's an appropriate book to recommend to colleagues. My recollection of the first edition is that I'd recommend it to colleagues, but it's been so long I'd rather read it once more before actually recommending it.

I reread Robert C. Martin's Clean Code based on some recent discussion here where it was rather strongly dismissed by a fair number of people. I didn't recall it being bad, my reread confirmed it is not, in fact, bad. Java-heavy, which is now an unpopular style of OOP, but otherwise a very good book. I'd still recommend it to junior colleagues paired with some caveats about avoiding seeing the world in black & white. There is no singular Way of Programming, but learn various ways and find what works for you and your team.

There are some more, but it's almost 5am and I haven't been able to sleep so I don't recall everything that's in the book stack or ebook queue. These are the ones I'm most interested in at present.
Venice risks being put on endangered list if it doesn't ban cruise ships, UN
Great stuff. I respect your commitment to your users.
This is not true in the Netherlands. You don’t get any tests if there is nothing wrong.

Healthcare in this country scares me.
Google Fi VPN Starts Rolling Out to iPhone Users
And the remaining 19% simply don't know that they are doing it.
For me it will be Black Hat Go by as I'd like to learn Go and it seems like a fun way to do it in the cybersecurity setting.

[0] https://nostarch.com/blackhatgo
That may not be the case for much longer. The press release on their final financial report from last year:

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financia...

Data center revenue at $6.7 billion. Gaming at $7.7 billion. But data center grew 124%, gaming 41%. If that keeps up, data center passes gaming this year.
Manually scrub through the first few seconds of the video - you’ll see that the start of the animation is different.
The terminology question is confused by the fact that, in the US, "liberal" means "leftist", whereas in much (all?) of Europe or maybe even the rest of the world, "liberal" is more associated with classical liberalism, i.e. closer to what is called "libertarian" in the US (although I do feel that libertarianism is like classical liberalism taken to the extreme).

In any case, classical liberalism was only developed in the 19th century, while the usage of "left" and "right" is slightly older: it dates back to the French Revolution where it just happened that opposing factions would sit at opposite ends of the assembly. Given the chaotic nature of the French Revolution, what these opposite ends would represent would change countless times, but in general, the left wing was more associated with progressivism and the will of the Third Estate and the right wing was more conservative. Communism didn't even exist at the time, although arguably the first proto-communist advocate, Gracchus Babeuf, did emerge later in the French Revolution (he was offed by the "left wing" itself, though).
Genome study reveals East Asian coronavirus epidemic 20k years ago
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Even for a business it is a decent sum. And they could grow with the market, since electric cars are still quite rare.
A big part of this is the fact that learning information (about a disease or condition) early is often NOT the same thing as learning information that will change a patient’s clinical outcome.
Most of LFP cathode material manufacturing is in China, and there are few small Japanese suppliers.
Whole area of having tests that give definitive answers in the field of health is the one area in which it can't get enough of. Biggest issue health wise many have is time from issue to getting a correct diagnoses, whatever the ailment.
Having a work phone that you cannot be reached on outside of standard work hours kind of defeats the purpose right? At least that is the sole reason I can think of that I would need a work phone in the first place.
NATO is looking to connect with startups
> Short term, maybe. Sales projections for electric cars in Europe are likely... optimistic.

Half of Europe has already announced phasing out ICE-based cars in the next 10-15 years, Audi has announced they're shifting off of ICEs. A shift towards fully electric is inevitable.
Most Mobile Apps Can Be Compromised in 15 Minutes or Less
It's not? Interesting. Literally hundreds of business listings popped up in Google Maps overnight, a few months ago, which appear very much scraped out of some registry - name, category, address, nothing else. Similarly with the """"place names"""" that seem to be based on people's personal remarks, and about as inaccurate.
Will be removed in the next release. Together with settings. Who needs settings. Our telemetry shows that it is not used.
I half expected this to just say “When it’s done” :D
"a former Tesla manager is building a battery factory" - that's it, that was the article.
Using CSS to Enforce Accessibility
Linguist here. There’s no right way to understand your own language. The language is what native speakers collectively think that the language is. If they (by the way, am I referring to op now or to the native speakers?) think that something sounds unnatural, then it is unnatural to them. You can’t be wrong about this, just as you can’t be wrong about whether it feels natural to hug someone you met five minutes ago.

Everything we as linguists can do is to say that x feels natural to this many people and unnatural to this many people. However, when writing something, if enough people think that something feels unnatural, maybe you should investigate if you can phrase things differently so that more people will accept it.
I don't understand why they didn't use lower case letters instead of special characters. Does anyone here know?
There are a limited number of hard drive manufacturers. All of them had reliability issues at some point. Like the IBM "deathstar" and the Seagate "failacuda", I don't know about an equivalent from WD. Reliability come and go, and you don't even know when you buy because problems can take years to develop, and it is dependent on usage.

Backblaze does a survey every quarter, here is the latest one https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1...

They are all in the same ballpark, with Seagate a bit worse than the others but not terrible like it was a few years ago. WD tends to be consistently in the middle of the pack.

The latest fail from WD (as a hard drive manufacturer) was when they sneaked inadequate SMR technology into "red" consumer-grade NAS drives. But others did more or less the same. Now, all manufacturers are transparent about the technology used and newer "red plus" drives from WD are CMR.

So I'd say, for now, I'd say WD is as good (or as bad) as any other and I would let price decide. For reliability, that's what RAID is for. And in any case, RAID or not, and no matter how reliable your disks are, if your data is precious, you need backups too.
Deleted coronavirus genome sequences trigger scientific intrigue
Agree. Long-run, a drone type machine may well become successful (flying around zapping weeds) but this is way over-engineered for what it does.
Despite being end-of-support in 2018, the device received its final firmware update in 2015 according to https://community.wd.com/t/action-required-on-my-book-live-a....

Four-year support for a device that is connected to the Internet is ridiculous. I bought a Synology device in late 2012 and it's still getting major release updates.
Or that some runaway automated internal process is treated as more authoritative than the owner, or...
You'll still have to travel a fairly long distance from the city to get away from the millions of other people escaping the city at the weekends. You won't find much quiet undisturbed nature close to a huge population centre.
The author appears to have written a follow-up comment recently[0].

It appears that they are technically unable to comply with the injunction.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27627626