skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps not, but that is the state of many buildings of this size in the US. I have seen many condo buildings that on the surface appear in much worse repair than the one in Miami that collapsed. If it is not a design, engineering, or construction flaw, and no unlikely external factor is found, a huge number of buildings need immediate attention. And from an engineer’s perspective the answer might be to over engineer buildings because no one is following proper building upkeep.
See also the Open Invention Network: https://openinventionnetwork.com/
Destined for Systems Analysis or Money Laundering.
Take my rich neighborhood for example. We chose this neighborhood for the tree cover. It's in Portland. Like the article says, I too immediately noticed the correlation between trees and wealth.

In my neighborhood, the trees (which are absolutely giant, given this is the PNW) are in people's yards and sidewalk medians. Above my house, my neighbors tree shades most of the roof and my backyard. Her tree spans almost three lots. My neighbor to my diagonal back has a similarly sized trees. Such trees take a lot of long term care. Looking at pictures of my neighbors tree, when she purchased the house twenty years ago, the tree was very small. Now it is huge.

In the poorer neighborhoods, the yards are not as well kept and are filled with cars. Trees get cut down because people deface them, drive into them (yes, they do), or don't tend to them (granted, it's expensive to hire an arborist to keep your insurance happy).

I saw this growing up in my lower middle class neighborhood in socal. Even though trees are more difficult to grow there, my family invested in our garden so we had more.

It takes long term effort and care to keep a nice garden. The same traits that lead to wealth. My parents sold their lower middle class house and purchased a home with many many trees on a hill.

It's personality and long term thinking
> "Where do you get the assumption from that Carmack knows people that fulfil these minimum requirements?"

The top names in any given field tend to know each other (it's a pretty small group and they network) and most of them got their degrees and other qualifications the traditional way. As for why he made the remark, IMO it's a self-deprecating joke about his being an outlier.
Ouch, that sucks big time. Probably the only thing you can do is to have your boss at least buy (or ask for donations for) SSDs. That would speed up compilations quite a bit.

More RAM could help, but since they're so old, not sure how easy it will be to find it now.
I don't think the "ugly" point is completely true, there's another optional level of signing that uses keys under control of the developer alone, approximating the APK model: https://developer.android.com/guide/app-bundle/code-transpar...
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Same. I just left them as downloadables on XDA forums and personal site.

Apple and Google can eat a d#%$
And forget your password and your data is all gone, never to be seen again.
Austin Meyer of XPlane fame did a good documentary on this a few years back.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/johngreath...

Basically Laminar got sued for having an application on the apple mobile store.

You Americans are crazy.
When we do a selfless act we experience the joy from our soul – that's what we're truly are: an eternal, complete drop in the infinite ocean of pure consciousness. Our ego (which makes us feel that we're separate from others) binds us in layers and layers of conditioning, of labels and engages us in selfish acts, which only brings suffering and stress. Read about this discourse from Buddha to understand what we're missing – The Fruits of the Contemplative Life: https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/DN/DN02.html
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Utterly meaningless article about the number of deaths. Without showing how that compares to normal, they might as well not mention it at all. Comparing to "a five day period" doesn't help because there's obviously going to be variation in the rate, seasonally at least.

The sad thing is there are going to be people who suck up this looks-like-knowledge and it to support their beliefs.
> I can’t imagine the […] people […] in Canada are accustomed

Absolutely not. I don’t live in Lytton, but close, and similarly hot. What is usually called a hot spell would be 34, 35, maybe 36 degrees. The last 3 days we’re well into the 40’s, approaching 50. I went out today and it was about 46 degrees. It hurt my eyes of all things. It’s brutally hot, and by the time I was done (I walked down to river to check temperature, maybe 20-30 minutes) I was spent. Not for this Canadian.

> houses

Well, we get hot summers, and cold winters, so houses should be well insulated (which serves both hot and cold) and air conditioners are common. So not completely unprepared, though it can be hard for A/C to keep up.

Edit:
As I think of it, the Fraser Valley was fantastically hot, as was the rest of the lower mainland, which is usually mild weather (typical “pacific north west”) and I think less likely to have A/C installed. The Interior/Okanagan (Incl Lytton) are used to long hot summers, but not 50 degrees.
Maybe is more irrelevant, than unimportant
I can tell you from my experience as a freelance, about more than 15 years ago. I actually did something even cooler: 3 day-weeks (12h/day) -- which is higher than 4d work week.

It was beyond awesome!

Unfortunately, it didn't last for more than roughly 2 years, since I made the insanely stupid decision to run the Romanian office of an international outsourcing company (all went downhill from there).

The plan is to eventually return to this, but in the current environment, it's pretty hard to do.
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As I tried to point out, a mere fact that someone is suing someone is not enough to conclude anything about which side is right; that’s why I was asking someone who seemed to have more context.

I’m not sure why people are reading too much into my honest question.
Don't lazily conflate procrastination with self-deception. Passing a task into the future can be done honestly, and must in order to tune your workflow as described here.

Being honest with your evaluation of your work doesn't mean that you have to blind yourself with it. There are people who need to keep moving, like Paul. There are people who need to rest to make any forward motion at all, but they aren't necessarily behind. Time may not turn one type of worker into another.
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It's ESPP up to a certain limit, so not as flexible of a choice
Why do you hate the global poor?
Markdown and a sensible directory structure has been working great for me. Put it somewhere synced to all the devices, and it's the quickest and easiest form to read and write anywhere. If I really need a nicely formatted copy I can produce one easily, but this is rare.

In the right editor syntax highlighting makes the structure obvious, and automatic formatting/linting keeps things sensible.

Any requirement for multimedia has been satisfied with links to local files or online sources.

The only issue has been collaboration, but in my experience it's easier to just use whatever my collaborators prefer. I can still have my own markdown as a searchable and familiar origin point, with links into whatever they are using.
No more browsers please.
Yes, I agree. But just to ask, wouldn't we consider that a form of AI testing, even just in very primitive form? We're begging the question for the very definition of AI. I would argue that your example is just the primordial version of what machine reasoned testing could potentially offer.
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It is if you make more money from the hijackers, and/or from marginalizing your 'difficult' employees.
I'd love to go back to 1999 and see everyone's reaction when I tell them that almost everyone in the 2020s uses a browser derived from Konqueror, and that you have your choice of Konqueror derivatives from Apple, Google, or Microsoft. Whoever named it was more prescient than they realized.
AOSP is neigh unusable in its own form without heavy modifications on a phone.

Going from "all phones" to "one brand and modified" is a significant barrier to sideloading.

Being concerned is valid given Google's history. It may not happen. It may happen. It may happen a long way now. But when has Google opened a service or product in a purely consumer friendly, community friendly way?
It should be pointed out that in a country like India or China it IS often the marketplaces legal responsibility to prevent counterfeit merchandise from being sold in their market. If you go into many malls for example there are signs up on the walls with a hotline to report people selling counterfeit merchandise. In India, they have a service you can contact that enforces returns/refunds of any counterfeit item that you purchase from a vendor (though usually mentioning the hotline and threatening to call it is more than enough to convince the vendor to give you a refund).
It's... Canada. BC. Shall we also fault Nepal for being unprepared for tsunamis?
Depends on your motive. Some people just make useful apps with no motivation beyond that.

Discussions about the old Internet made me go back to developing and using the web like its 1999. It's quite liberating.

If the tool is good it doesn't need the crap stores to hoist it up. I could care less about the tech unsavy.
What you do with the server/cluster after you take it out of service is up to you. Having automation like this to take things out of service means that you can immediately restore production workloads to full functionality.

I'm far more likely to ignore and work around a bug instead of doing a proper investigation when I've got pressure to get production back up because this server/cluster is a Special Snowflake that must be fixed in-place.

Hardware fails, and bugs happen. There's no getting around it. Automation to handle this case is a good part of any strategy for identifying, understanding, and fixing bugs.
Your post seems more nationalist than anything else.

I’ve worked at a geo-distributed company for a long while and let me tell you: The diversity of viewpoints and experiences will make your teams stronger, happier and more resilient. That culture needs to be consciously built though. That won’t happen in and of itself. But it’s so, so worth it.

To anyone else reading this: Don’t buy into the "us versus them" rhetoric. It will lead you down a dark path.
Luddites trying to protect crappy jobs.

Are electric car owners allowed to plug in their own cars in Oregon?
I recently quit taking statins. My decision was motivated by reading two books:

"Why We Get Fat" by Gary Taubes

https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About/dp/0307474259/

and

"The Big Fat Surprise" by Nina Teicholz

https://www.amazon.com/Big-Fat-Surprise-Butter-Healthy/dp/14...

Finding that statins would lengthen my lifespan by at most ~30 days or less really chapped my ass (i.e.,irritated me), given that so much time and effort went into prescribing/ordering/buying/taking/monitoring statins on a regular schedule, along with their attendant blood tests (Total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, triglycerides et al) and time spent listening to my fear-mongering physician:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=how+long+will+statins+lengthen...

When I faced my doctor down about this he fell back to saying that "you increase your probability of a heart attack by 17%". He neglected to say how significant it was that, in the last year alone, I had lost 15 pounds, increased my exercise level, now slept better and had improved my diet significantly. He went through the motions but I stood firm. In desperation he threw out "But high blood pressure is strongly correlated with increasing age and you can't turn the clock back!" I countered that my blood pressure is better than it's ever been and that I intend to reduce it further. Then I told him that the cholesterol hypothesis is dead [ed. the cholesterol hypothesis is the idea that cardiovascular disease is caused by high levels of cholesterol in the blood stream]:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=is+the+cholesterol+hypothesis+...

With that, he seemed dumbfounded and finally stopped selling me statins.

We've fallen back to a previous era where physicians in the USA are useless except for trauma intervention and as gatekeepers for antibiotics (and other newer drugs). If the USA would allow pharmacists to prescribe (as is done in Europe) we could save trillions of dollars. But physicians' prestige and power would be reduced to a shadow of what they are today. Time to put them back in their proper place.

Covid-19's revelations of the flawed advice of "experts" has been enlightening. Every expert source has failed in big ways: epidemiology is a laughing stock, the FDA, WHO and CDC have dropped the ball repeatedly, given flawed advice, reversed guidelines and in general, established a baseline of SNAFU FUBAR:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=SNAFU+FUBAR

But my physician is no better: he's been selling me bullshit for decades.

And now this article. Grrr! Good thing my blood pressure is under control!
build it back again!
"It's a civil matter"

The police are never going to bother trying to seriously curtail online fraud. There's a reason why so many scam calls try to trick vulnerable people into paying them with iTunes gift cards and Google Play gift codes. Even with the added friction and blatantly farcical nature of the scam they find it more profitable to try and get the funds that way. They undoubtedly lose plenty of victims who might have been tricked into sending it through Western Union, mailing cash, or a cashier's check. They're paying a steep price to funnel it through the app store between the platform fees and whatever they pay the merchant that's laundering the funds for them.

They do that because they know that Apple is never going to try to claw back funds and the police are never going to force Apple to return the money that's still sitting in their accounts. You can call Apple 30 minutes after giving the scammers the code and without fail "oh sorry, the funds are gone!" https://i.imgur.com/oijXbLD.jpeg

That's the status quo, the courts are your only remedy here and you're going to lose trying to sue Amazon over a fraudulent seller. Best case scenario you manage to get Amazon to identify the seller and find out they're in a foreign jurisdiction and for all practical reasons untouchable as far as legal recourse is concerned.
I'm not sure this is entirely related to your point, but I've recently been thinking that intelligence can be detrimental to promotion, in that intelligence produces questions and disagreements and non-conformity, which are all traits that make the job of Management more difficult.

Making life difficult for Management is unquestionably NOT a path towards promotion, and continues the rotating door of mediocre management. And mediocre management wants, desperately, to hold on to their position because they're aware, consciously or otherwise, of their mediocrity.

Having someone who can out-think you as a report is a threat to your position. Like you said: fear.
Hot take: if you're a mediocre dev, maybe be worried; if you're in a niche and have deep expertise you'll be fine.
Of course these technicalities can be a problem, but our conversation here is about absolute beginners, sometimes children engaging in a structured curriculum where the problems they face are ones in our control. In that context it's ok to oversimplify if we

1. Tell the student we're oversimplifying, and maintain their trust in us so that they'll follow along when we do so.

2. Revisit oversimplified explanations when they have enough knowledge and context to understand more detailed and correct explanation.

The point I've been making is that Javascript makes it easy to pace our explanations of complex programming topics while still allowing students to consistently writing working code. Most languages require a large amounts of either upfront understanding or faith in "magic incantations", both of which hinder learning (this is not a criticism of those languages, they were designed for professionals). So Javascript still manages pretty admirably, all things considered.
I'm not in SV. I'm not even in the US. Unlucky lol. Welcome back to earth.

Half your salary is still a massive raise for me and I'm pretty well paid by UK standards. Viva la WFH.

Putting a dent into global poverty is a good thing, by the way. Bonus if they're paying you less they can hire more people overall too, even better.
Yeah - in my experience 6-10 people per team is typical, often with one of them being dedicated QA. Having this, plus a separate central QA team is one way to address the pitfalls of embedded QA I was pointing out - they can cover for time away for team QA, or act as bench capacity.
Firefox doesn't even allow me use my own custom homepage from local file when I open new tab. First tab does allow that though. Talk about consistency.

They do not fix it for years now which for me means one thing: they do not understand how basic this functionality is and if so I think this 'mainstream' has lost it's sight.

For me as long as such idiocy exists in 'mainstream' I consider it doomed.
Because if you do not fix such basic things the next question is: what else you did not fix ..

Another idiocy is that they push updates through your throat without option to stop checking for it or stopping dialog asking to update. It always appears when you do not want it to appear and breaks the flow of your work. I consider it a disrespect to a person who uses it. And again in my opinion as long as it exists I think it's doomed.
This might surprise you but Americans aren't the only people on this forum.

But I guess it's okay to leave us all out to pasture if it means you can concentrate just a bit more of wealth.
It's an established term. That's a fact. It's like calling all people a moron in America who use the term "truck" instead of "lorry".

You're free to insult the intelligence of everyone who doesn't share your extremist minority opinion, though.
Both the website, and product look very polished. I like the design.

Is this a competitor to PagerDuty? I'm curious what features you're offering to take on them as the incumbent in the space.

I've never actually used either software. The companies I've worked for all use their own in-house incident/oncall frameworks. But would love to know more!
> So what would be the point of hearing a confession if you could not offer absolution?

The actual confession is not a requirement to receive absolution. One receives absolution during last rites as well without a confession. The sacrament of reconciliation can also be celebrated communally with absolution offered to all gathered with no confession.

I said mother abbesses could hear confession, I never said they could confer absolution which is sacramental. I believe all religious communities, even male ones, confess to one another as the new testament command. Confession to others, not just a priest, is a good spiritual practice.

> This is still the case

I am of the opinion that the emphasis is such a material break from reality that the original teaching is not kept.

From Wikipedia (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbess)

Abbesses are, like abbots, major superiors according to canon law, the equivalents of abbots or bishops (the ordained male members of the church hierarchy who have, by right of their own office, executive jurisdiction over a building, diocesan territory, or a communal or non-communal group of persons—juridical entities under church law).
Well at least it'll curb some entitlement from the current IT crowd. A lot of IT people making 4x more than people of other professions assume that they are the cream of the crop and sincerely believe that their work is so hard that they deserve to have a 4 hour working day (because it is 'impossible' on being productive for a longer period of time in a day).

No. People in other areas work just as hard, or harder, it's just their industries are not that trendy. Just like IT was in 80s - and developers where geeks who were paid not much more than other white collar jobs.
It's inevitable the playing field will be leveled, and we never deserved the advantage to begin with.
The World Wide Web's inventor sold its original code for $5.4M
I don't see how this is not already happening pre-WFH: most big tech companies have offices in Ukraine, Belarus, India, China, etc with "low cost" tech workers.
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I feel like Mozilla's decision not to prioritize support for embedding Gecko ended up being a strategic error in the long-term. Other browsers using Blink don't add directly to Chrome's market share but having it embedded everywhere means that its quirks don't end up being perceived as Chrome-specific. If five different browsers all behave the same way and the sixth one differs, then the sixth one ends up looking like the odd one out, even if the reason the other five behave the same is that they're all sharing code.
That's all well and good until you're the one who loses your job. Then you can root for the non-US worker's family who got your job for half the salary. Enjoy your American-owned employer making more money for its stockholders and executives while it continues not paying taxes, to a country that doesn't federally provide basic social services.

There is something to be said for watching out for your community. The only reason to be hyper-free-market is if you're an owner of the means of production.

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To be clear, I also work for an international company and I have nothing against any colleagues. I simply think it's naive to not be wary of a sudden, further erosion of the middle class if companies dump the US as the primary source of high-skilled work.

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edit: I resent HN throttling posts for 40+ minutes, so I'll respond to corobo here: I am criticizing the US. I am suggesting that American companies will save money while letting their host country rot.
If jobs start going to other countries we should bring them back by investing in education and producing the best devs in the world. If we can't compete, good for whoever beats us.

Trying to hoard the jobs won't work in the long run anyway.
BC is certainly home to a lot of folks with no a/c, 'hike snowcap mountains in a sweater' type of people that've never experienced 40-45+ weather!
New Law Firm in Bundaberg, QLD
Slater and Gordon Lawyers in Bundaberg has now opened in the CBD area of Bundaberg near the corner of Barolin and Bourbong Streets. The historic Australia Post Building is in a focal point of the CBD area and our office is diagonally adjacent. Slater and Gordon also have legal offices in the Wide Bay and Fraser Coast regions located in Hervey Bay and Gympie.
This is fire county, so we’re perhaps more prepared than Nepal is for Tsunamis, but still Lytton apparently has 1 fire truck, there are fires all over the province so we’re not all just focusing on Lytton, and this swept the town in ~15 minutes. Sprinklers aren’t going to cut it. These are massive fires.
It doesn't help much to over engineer. Suppose we design the buildings to last 200 years. After 200 years, they start collapsing at the same rate as the rate of construction. If we built a new one every day, then after 200 years we'd have a new collapse every day.