skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm kind of taking the bait in your message. but just saying things like:

> let's be honest, web devs are among the least educated, least sophisticated, most entitled

is just plain wrong and unnecessarily outrageous.

There is a huge pool of front-end web developers when compared to other "specializations" and many person coming to it from other professions, so I guess you could easily have a poor experience with some if you're unlucky, yet I both work with JS-people and C++-people and I cannot really say that one is less "educated" or even less "sophisticated" (whatever that means) than the other.

For sure, front-end devs are often less interested by the lower level technical details of a platform but they know how to code a maintainable and readable application with a complex state and a complex often-changing business logic and are even for the most part not afraid to learn another language, e.g. for personal projects: in my close colleagues some worked with elixir, another switched to go, I enjoy C++ and Rust...
At least in the bigger companies I worked with, JS and C++ devs also went to the same schools, they just had different interests in programming.

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As for the "this plays directly into Google's interests" part, sure, I agree with that sentence.

But even considering this, I and most people I know would agree that launching a web application leads to much less friction than running a native app: nothing to install/uninstall, easy interoperability with other websites, easy to share a given page with others, easy to copy/paste anything, automatic plugin support and it's also easier to modify and update features through user scripts...

I know this is not the more popular opinion here but I personally am happy for this continued push towards the web platform, even if does not come from pure intentions.
Exploring Code Review and Churn
It exists, but its market share is negligible. According to StatCounter, Firefox has a market share of 0.5% on mobile: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/world...

Even on desktop, Firefox is sliding towards irrelevancy, with just 7% market share.
I love watching these overhead in real time. For anyone not already familiar: https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/
Gplv3 doesn't protect against saas
I think OPs point is that this scenario is not the focus or point of the article.
Assuming N-bit ints:

result = pattern;
result <<= N-8;
result >>= N-1;

?
Yes that happened, but that's not called Finlandization. I know this is pedantry now but the term is pretty specific and not applicable to countries of roughly equal power.
Bezos offers to cover $2B in NASA costs for astronaut lunar lander contract
For an extra blessing of Peter Falk should look for Wim Wender's Wings of Desire. It's an incredibly touching addition to an already profound film.

https://youtu.be/u7s-H4EqP4I
What do siloing, de-siloing, silo mean in this industry?
I like the vision system in liteplacer, combine that with Index and you have a system that can do runs of 1-n.

I have lots of parts that would take more time to setup in the feeder than it would take to do the board by hand.

A 1" MDF board should make a fine base, aluminum is nice but not necessary.
Another issue that is skewing the data:

Early in the pandemic, the United States had an undertesting problem. Now we are overtesting those who are immune and asymptomatic. A person with immunity to the coronavirus will fight off an infection. But during and after the person’s exposure to the virus, it’s common for a low number of virus particles to be detectable in the nose. In medicine, we call this virus a “colonizer” — a pathogen that does not cause illness or spread the illness. It’s an incidental finding. But in today’s world of routine coronavirus testing of vaccinated people, these positive tests are inflating the number of positive cases in a misleading way.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/07/21/covid-test...
Any software dev worth their salt can drop down 1 level in the stack and be productive, if maybe less so. I'd wager most software devs could drop down 2 levels and fully grok everything that is happening.
The more you know the more you realize how little you know.
Burnell brushed this off herself during an after-dinner speech[1]. Title and description aside, the video is a decent watch.

[1] https://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/astr2030_12/sn/Bell.html
The author of the article, Jeff Vogel, is a few steps (25 years) ahead of you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stxVBJem3Rs (like the article, a humour-laced talk, enjoyable)
Their employer "confirmed their death to USA TODAY" [0].

[0] https://news.yahoo.com/respected-developer-died-suicide-expe...
I should have said, that is not what the article is talking about. This is about miscategorization.
Medical researches don't, typically. How would that work? "Oh, some pregnant women miscarry after taking this pill? Let's wait to see whether it happens to many, because correlation≠causation?"

Rather, they look for either a mechanism that links the potential cause and observed effect, or for a large enough number to get statistical confidence. And often they issue warnings such as "might want to not give x pill to y kind of people" soon after they start looking, as was done e.g. for the AZ vaccine.
I say this every time a post like this comes up...

Google is the web. Chrome is the web. It shouldn't be true, but it is.... almost.

Safari, or more specifically Apple's requirement that all web rendering on iOS be done using WebKit, is THE ONLY thing standing in the way of Chrome's market share being functionally 100%.

If you care about the web, and one would presume that web developers would care deeply about the web, Safari ought to be your best friend, regardless of which of Google's "standards" it doesn't implement.
I can't deal with this article.. every paragraph contains a reference to the product these folks are trying to sell..
No, I am not joking, thank you. Classrooms make sense, hence their layouts.
James Rebanks: There Are No Winners in American Farming
Didn't The Telegraph endorse Boris Johnson? I'm not super well versed in UK politics, but as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is also the "Leader of the Conservative Party" right? And the Tory party merged with another party to form the Conservative party so are they now a wing or subset of the Conservative Party? Is Boris Johnson in the Tory subset?
> (ie, how do workers lock out feed to grid when working on lines etc)

Part of PTO is an inspection and one of the requirements to pass is that there's an ED on the exterior of your home so the power company can come by and disconnect you from the grid.

It's kind of the reverse of registering life support systems with the power company so they know not to shut off your power.
There's a lot of really low-effort articles written nowadays - maybe not so much for The Verge, but definitely for other platforms. They offer payment per word, and they can hire editors that also get paid per word of the article. But it's a race to the bottom, where people push to churn out as many articles as they can per day just to optimize income (or worse, to try and make ends meet).
this seems to suggest there's a lot more undiagnosed cases walking around in the wild than we know about.
Which aliens did you think of as a Deus Ex Machina?
A good way to do this is to make a Patreon where you drop content each month, and for old content make it available on Gumroad for the price of a month of Patreon.
https://archive.is/F9tZt
Perhaps they are unknown species! Hah, well, sorry my recommendation didn’t come through, I can imagine it performs better on common plants everyone takes pictures of, which is what I’m identifying when I walk around town.

Still, if you post the plants under a more general species other users can identify it mentally, adding to the data set.
It's the gig economy, moved to the internet. It's a race to the bottom as I said in another comment.
Yield Guild Games raises 12.5M in 31 Seconds to launch NFT games DAO
thanks for sharing your experience. i guess it's different for different people. i have heard stories of young men who had erectile dysfunction. They could not get an erection with their partner but could an erection with porn. quitting porn has helped many such people overcome ED. before anyone asks, this relation of erectile dysfunction to porn is not yet proven. hopefully there will be more studies on the same in coming years. so, i would say for some quitting porn in itself improved their life conditions.
I know (anecdotally) of one person who was in the hospital for an orthopedic surgery, caught Covid during their 3-day recovery stay, then got pneumonia and ended up having to stay for 10 days.
> The reason for Apple’s self-imposed limitations on PWA-related web APIs? They’ll tell you they’re for user privacy reasons, which may be valid in certain cases.

> But most of us know the dominant reason is because fully-capable PWAs would compete against the iOS App Store – robbing Apple of 30% cut in revenue it rakes in when an app is purchased, or an in-app purchase is executed.

The rest of us don't know this. Maybe the author can enlighten.

Honestly, my sense is that app stores have become mechanisms for delivering free content. Few pay for software anymore. I don't imagine Apple is really standing to lose much if a few apps went PWA.
My position is simply to be skeptical of these assertions. People throw around a lot of unsourced claims; skepticism is often a correct response. There's nothing for one to prove when one's own position is "I'm not convinced by your argument."

(For example, when the citation was provided on the claim a few layers upthread, it indeed was revealed to be wanting, as the bulk of its data relied on Internet polls).
Wtf can I run this on? A mainframe? Hahaha you have got to be joking IBM.
But we'll have that many more beach weekends. So it'll even out.
Poe's law is real...
So much entitled whining in this discussion. With friends like open source users, who needs enemies?

> Element is probably one of the worst matrix clients in terms of UX.

If you ask nicely, I'm sure they will give you back all the money that you paid for it.

But your point 2 is spot-on:

> 2) fix decryption issues

Part of the problem is that Matrix nukes your crypto keys every time you log out. This traces back to Element's heritage as a primarily web-based app, where there isn't really a great local, durable place to store your secrets. Not having local on-device storage is painful when the protocol encrypts messages to individual devices rather than to users.

The fix is to set up encrypted key backup, aka secure server-side storage. Then all your keys from all your "devices" (including real devices and web sessions) get safely stored in encrypted form on the server, where you can always find them. You have to use a second passphrase to generate the new key-encryption key, so it's a little annoying. But the fix is pretty magical. Suddenly everything just works!
Probably a lot. On another level, do you think there is a universal ordering of addictions, or might it depend somewhat on individual proclivities? Say, might ones real addiction be porn, and they use gambling as a less harming replacement?
The caveat being the maximum levels of practical harm are much larger for some addictions than others.
I've met plenty of NT people who have got too drunk or emotional in social settings and need support from others to stop making a scene. Is that functional behavior? Should they end themselves?

Your comment is very nearsighted and for some reason compares inability to "function" in a social setting with being "some vegetable" who is in a coma? What are you even talking about?
It's mentioned / shown in The Matrix as well, where everyone lives in a realistic simulation.
Apparently it's even worse: "Different machines can produce different Ct values for the same sample, and the same machine can give different Ct values for different samples from the same person." [1]

I'm not sure I even understand the statement, but I guess it means it could be that they (somehow) couldn't report them even if they wanted to.

[1] https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-updates/2020/11/pcr-test-re...
>(for valid if regrettable reasons)

Well now you got me curious. Why is that?
In layman's terms, sounds like it's something which is difficult to guess but not necessarily difficult to crack?
Welp, AWS certainly delivers and kicks ass. Jeff over Big Blue any day.
User can use free assets for Personal and Client projects.
As a farmer, always working from home, I realise I am exceptionally privileged not to be trapped in a tiny apartment during multi-month covid lockdowns. It must be hard to keep any balance when you are eating, sleeping, working and resting in the same box
What I do has little do to with Matrix masquerading as an open internet protocol while being fully owned by one commercial corporation. It is roughly the same to XMPP as AMP are to HTTP. That is the only reason I oppose it.

If it wasn't, I would not rule out developing a Matrix client (though doubtful, I don't really like the protocol and implementation)
This was Blue Origin's first launch with humans on board, but they've been flying their rocket for years. Bezos' flight was the 16th launch. They had one unintentional crash in 2015, and a few intentional aborts. Actually during their 15th launch, they did have crew onboard briefly while the rocket was fueled as part of the launch rehearsal, but they exited before liftoff.

SpaceX, for comparison, did not try launching humans until its 85th Falcon 9 mission. While several falcon 9s have failed to land, only one has ever failed in flight, on its 19th flight. The Falcon 9, unlike the New Shepard, is orbital capable.
Contention is that Gov and Agency have less than stellar credentials and the Org has board members that don't, on the face of it, seem aligned with saving the reef (because their interest in BigOil)
Since the inception of photography, all photographs have been lies [1,2]. The only remedy is critical thinking and awareness and skepticism on the part of the recipients, which is being outpaced by the technology.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolyte_Bayard#Self_Portrait...

[2] https://i.redd.it/nh45pwigrhc21.jpg
Yes that can help, but VMs are still either Linux or OSX or Windows, and they all require security or other updates that will eventually need to reboot the system. Also the processors are different.
yeah in that case just call journalism dead, instead of calling something else journalism
The reason not to do that is if you can get the same results for free or for a one-time cost. That’s the question GP is asking.
They don't really explain much about that 13%. So it's a bit misleading. How many of the 13% tested positive on day 3 for example. Testing positive on day 3 would still lead one to believe they had contracted covid prior to admission and covid illness could be contributing factor to their admission or even the primary reason. It seems more that the article wants to give the impression that the 13% entirely is comprised of post-admission covid positive being retroactively recategorized as covid admission. That may be true for some portion of the 13% but we have no way to know from this reporting. It's ironic that an article criticizing categorization/attribution being overly broad to do exactly that with the minority percentage that it hangs the entire thrust of its point upon.
There are plenty of companies that could acquire 1Password. Many of the FANG companies could do it as well as many of the big security focused giants.

The big differentiator for 1Password was not that they invented password management but that they made it easy for the average consumer to use it and then pivoted into supporting businesses. There are plenty of companies that would love to acquire this user base.
People in the US use either Paypal or Zelle for personal transfers. Zelle is a standard that's supported by most US banks. Otherwise, Paypal. But Patreon even though they take a cut is used more because it's easy to give people exclusive benefits.
The supercharger is a counter example.

It was built out over time while early adopters had the ability to charge at home. It explicitly didn’t require being built up all at once because people could charge at home.
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https://www.uihut.com/privacy?tab=1
My question as well.

I read it a bit like "well SHE was seen in a bar last Saturday so her account of the car accident is scarcely believable".
I don't buy Mozilla's/Apple's concerns for those APIs.

Sure if seems sketch to access USB from the web, but as a user if I'm trying to achieve something and I can't do it on the web, I'll end up installing a native app which has way more access to my system.

As a developer I would much rather be able to just deploy cool things on the web instead of having to package up native apps for every platform just to do things like read/write NFC tags, or send notifications to users who want them.
Yes, private federation is supported.
I’m usually entering contractor agreements (as a contractor) — guess I don’t need to generate one but might be good to have some kind of support when reading, like a way to compare different agreements and pick the best terms
Bullshit.

There is no science at all. None. It is pure fascism.

You want to see what happens to fascists?

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/sites/default/files/styles...
NB: Article author here.

Interesting idea with Simpson's rule! Perhaps we'll add another method...

The other approach is very similar to the LOCF (last observation carried forward) approach, except that it uses the distance to the next sample instead of distance to the previous. I'm sure there are reasons to do the other way, but for most things that use LOCF they record when the value changes so it makes more sense to carry it forward. And it works pretty well as well. These are all also other integral approximation techniques, and which to use probably depends mostly on use case.
Well, my thinking was that you would want to store the data cryptographically signed, on a block chain, for the same reasons (more or less) that NFTs exist on a blockchain. Predominately, the public ledger of ownership seems like an important aspect of digital content. Is it necessary for trust? Not at all, but it certainly doesn't hurt it?

Disclaimer: I am an armchair crypto fan. Not an authority.
Before clicking the link, I thought this was going to be a completely different science fiction story about (U.S.) congressmen who leave the business of legislative voting to AI copies (brain scans) of themselves while the original travels full-time to raise funds and votes. After a secret congressional hearing is held on a matter of national security, the scanned copies begin voting in ways counter-to or that don't make sense to the original versions, but the copes are not allowed to reveal what was in the content of that hearing that changed their minds.

I don't remember where I read that plot synopsis, so I might have some details wrong. (If it's a book I haven't read it, or it could have been someone's description of a story idea.)
The GPS helps with a “seen nearby” weight, but it shouldn’t exclude anything. Could be a factor of photography, with some plants it’s easier to get a nice canonical leaf shape than others. Taking a wide angle of a potted plant such that the whole plant is in frame might not provide enough detail, so there’s a learning curve in knowing how to photography for the algorithms benefit, kind of like learning how to phrase search queries for better Google results
(Not new)

Further discussion from a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23556015
Page 5 of this FCC filing indicates 3.5 million square kilometers, BUT that's assuming 1,150km altitude: https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/8174403/S...

But that may provide some information you find interesting.

Edit: this previous HN discussion also touches on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21325720
As someone who knows nothing about farming, those two seem so different in my mind. I’d love to hear your take on what the similarities are.
Firefox is my best friend ...

If Apple cared as much as they say about privacy, they should install Firefox as a default not because Safari has privacy issues but because then Firefox's market share can grow, which is good for privacy.
The second link doesn't mention "as-is", the first one does. I'll assume that's what you meant. It says,

> Though manufacturers cannot so easily escape liability, sellers can escape liability by informing the customer before the purchase that a product must be taken "as-is,” which means how the product was found when it was purchased in-store. “As-is” works because the buyer has an opportunity to inspect the product and decide whether to buy it given its condition.

On that analogy, Github and RedHat aren't liable, but the original author of the software still is.
I think there are a few reasons for this:

(1) Web dev is easier and more productive to learn incrementally than just about anything else - I personally learned how to do HTML and CSS long before I learned any other programming. That was the gateway that eventually led me into the CS field. A lot of others follow that path, but perhaps don't take it as far.

(2) Web dev is so ubiquitous and in such high demand that companies are willing to hire anyone who "knows enough to be dangerous" with this tech. That's actually a *good thing* IMO since it means a lot of people are getting good jobs with the chance to learn and grow into a career, instead of being stuck in worse jobs. But it does reinforce point 1 and lead to web devs skewing towards junior devs and away from formal CS education.

(3) Hackers are heroes in our culture. The agile, lean startup, MVP, indie hacker, low-code, etc. trends are all movements celebrating people who can just hack shit together that works right now as being fundamentally superior to artful engineering that builds elegant things at high cost and requiring much more time.

(4) General cultural trend toward "influence" as a career driver. There's almost nothing that opens doors for people today like having a popular blog or YouTube channel does, and peddling simple angry click-bait rants to the masses is an easier path to build a following than careful and considerate thought leadership.

All of these combine to create the mass of "whiny web devs" that you're complaining about.

Finally, to be fair, web dev is such a vast field encompassing so many people, I think you'd be surprised how many people working in web development (including myself, for example), share your exhaustion with the hipster-script-kiddies who think that building things just for Chrome is fine, that framework churn is exciting, that electron is just as better than native, etc. So I think your criticism is on point and justified, just be mindful that you're painting with a very broad brush and there are loads of web developers who aren't on this whiny "chrome is the only computing platform" bandwagon.
It was quite likely written on an Exabyte device [1], you may be able to find out which by looking at the type of tape used - MP tape was used on standard Exabyte drives, ME (shiny, evaporated metal) tape on 'Mammoth' drives. It could also be AIT [1], a Sony-proprietary format which competed with Exabyte.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070226174943/http://www.exabyt...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Intelligent_Tape
The computerization of bureaucracy is probably another big part - since the people processing paperwork have more productive ways to manage the information and processes they require, they can mandate more of it without falling over and requiring clerks that they cannot afford to hire.