skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While I truly do appreciate the cooperative tone, as someone who never intends to set foot in an office again except by choice (outside of onboarding), I think this is a rare event that has reduced the power asymmetry and should be taken advantage of.

Why do you assume that this won't result in you being replaced?

Sure, employers are paying a premium for remote work for the moment. That's a great demand right now and you absolutely should take advantage of that. Supply will adjust to compensate--developers willing to take less are flocking into the system. Companies are adjusting to be able to deal with workers not in their local jurisdictions.

Once that shakes out (and it will happen quicker than you think)--why shouldn't I lay off your expensive salary? If you can be completely remote, what value do you bring over someone else completely remote who is a bit cheaper? This is the classic race to the bottom problem.

Apparently programmers learned nothing from outsourcing. Management doesn't really care about how good you are. Most programmers aren't geniuses working on world shattering problems. They're doing the same thing that a thousand other programmers have done before.

The only people likely to survive this well are, in fact, the people who have a genuine need to be in the office.
Those who are public also suffer for not concealing their identity. I’ve heard a number of times from celebrity interviews that people on the internet are cowards and ‘would never have the courage to say what they said in public’ - as if that’s irrational. We know the cost of honesty and opinions in our society. Our civilization works because we all work hard to preserve the peace via politeness.

However, important topics need to be discussed in a serious way. How do we do it without disturbing the peace? Anonymity is what works.

Lastly, it’s been a proven method of therapy. Confessional, things like support groups (AA), stuff like this is only possible because we honor this principle of concealment.

Blind app is literally a support group at the moment. Everyone there seems to be suffering from work stress. Compare each Blind post to the LinkedIn counter part, how can they be so different? The truth isn’t lining up, but I’m glad we get to see just how different the discourse becomes when your real life reputation is not constantly under threat.

Give people a chance to talk without having to look over their backs constantly.
They likely are making large capital investments, but that shouldn't show up all that much in operating numbers. Personnel expenses would though.
Dialing Innovations – Creating harmony with technology
How can DRM ever be perfect? It relies on your computer to be able to decrypt the data so it an never be "mathematically perfect" like regular encryption can be.

Current DRM is all about shoving the decryption part as deep in to a chip as possible and betting on the fact that it is physically too hard to extract that info. So it will always be exploitable with some amount of effort.
A surprising number of the older sites still exist, they're just entirely buried under spammy, low-quality, ad-supported game publication search results, so you'll never find them by searching [name of game], or that plus "review" or "guide" or "mods" or whatever.
Really detailed explanation! This is essentially it. While there's obviously a bunch more complexity, the essence of market making is just trying not to own a stock, but just buy and sell immediately.

Think about how when you go on holiday and want to change money. Admittedly it's becoming more online now, but when you go to a foreign exchange shop they will have a "we buy" and "we sell" price. They are essentially a market maker. They don't care about having a load of pounds, or dollars or rupees. They just want to buy low and sell high to you, and make the difference!
Depends if it's "lean" or "fat" FIRE.
Did you intentionally disable Settings > Privacy > Analytics & Improvements > Share iPhone Analytics ?

From <https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-...>

"At around the same time the file com.apple.CrashReporter.plist file was written in /private/var/root/Library/Preferences/, likely to disable reporting of crash logs back to Apple."
Wow. Ok. A lot to unpack here.

Sydney's current virus problems are due to a slow, reluctant, partial and piecemeal lockdown. Meanwhile, other states doing a rapid, hard, comprehensive lockdown have far fewer cases, with some that had to deal with infections spreading from Sydney already out of hard lockdown and just keeping an eye on things with masks required for a little extra time.

If Sky Australia is, in fact, using Sydney's disaster to question lockdowns (and your post isn't satire), they absolutely should be de-platformed.
In India you can buy yogurt in biodegradable clay pots.
This seems to be confirmed by the fact that most torrent sites have 4K copies of brand new streaming only content while no publicly known exploits exist.

Since you are running the exploit locally without affecting other peoples machines, I imagine it would be close to impossible to work out what exploit they are using.
Anybody building something that takes these principles into account? Particularly 3 (sense of accomplishment) and 7 (context).
> till

Let's replace "until" with "if".

Otherwise that's a pretty ironic comment, given we are discussing an article titled "Your lifestyle has already been designed"
This New Yorker article was ostensibly about the controversy, but became embroiled itself...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/08/28/manifold-desti...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold_Destiny
What to Do When Everybody Returns to the Office–But You Remain Remote
On top of that, the IDE will let you run git directly in an authenticated session if you really desire. If a simple/dumb GUI wrapper around git is enough to scare off an experienced developer, then I have my doubts about their competence.
It's mostly done for review copies of content where only a handful of reviewers have the content.
I don’t know about most people but i have to relearn stuff if I don’t use it.

I use the basic git commands a lot but the wider set not very often.

So maybe I should learn Git from first principles every year? Like a cop would practice at the firing range?

But I’m doing that on my own time. But then what about the 1000 other things from Dockerfiles, to Relational database query plan optimisation, to the latest azure cloud offerings, to the newest React library for managing state, etc. etc.
Just to be clear I'm not saying it's not a problem, but:

> 249 meetings!

The parliament alone has more then 700 members, idk. if 249 for one of the largest tech companies is really that bad. The problem are less the number of meetings but a lot of other things around it.
> Time sink, especially with people talking about 4-5 stage interviews.

From friends who are at FAANGs, it sounds like the prep work has been about 100 hours. That's re-reading things like Sedgewick and burning all your spare time at things like leetcode.
Did the fed lobby for the end of regulations and then immediately tank the world economy with a pyramid scheme?

Blaming the fed for the bailout is like blaming firefighters for putting out a fire instead of the arsonist. That’s a pretty strange understanding of accountability.

While the world economy burned to the ground and families went hungry, the financial industry awarded their executives with billions of dollars in bonuses. If that isn’t greed, what is it?
The future of software engineering with Grady Booch [video]
More and more, "because security" has become the go-to reason, almost a thought-terminating cliche, for destroying freedom and privacy. It's really disturbing to see.
The OP is onviously using hyperbole, but there are certainly long term effects from encouraging people to spend beyond their means. For example, it makes people's financial position more precarious: if your income is mostly committed to monthly payments, you are in more danger of getting into trouble from a layoff, illness, etc. If a big portion of society is in this position (and they are) this is a concern.

I think people should be allowed to make their own choices, but I don't believe it's harmless to promote living beyond one's means.
I don't like Jack Dorsey.
Like anything, it’s a skill that you develop over time. Certainly at the start, you might find that cooking respectable meals takes more out of you than just ordering them. But at some point, with enough practice, this flips for most people.

Of course, there might also be some survivorship bias here. And food delivery changes things (but, so too does grocery delivery).
That’s article has zero content other than a couple quotes from Munger that say nothing more than “I agree”.

Agree with what?
- people doing things for non-commercial reasons

- people trying brand new formats instead of filling in templates

- curated hierarchy, rather than every site feeling like querying a database

- weird people doing weird stuff

- visitor counters
Could those long coding projects be a strategy to force you into sinking so much effort into the process that you're now in a weak negotiating position due to the sunk cost?

I admit I'm speaking from ignorance here, and am only curious to gain more insight into this.
I use a Todo app every day, starting in the morning. Almost all of my tasks are recurring, well defined, and relatively short. E.g. "triage email inbox every day", "vacuum house every week on Saturday", "upper body workout every second day", "renew passport every 10 years".

For me this works well, because:
* I don't forget to get things done
* I don't have to think about what I need to do, the app shows me a daily list
* I get a small feeling of accomplishment for every task I complete (gamificaion), and for finishing all my tasks (daily task inbox zero).

It works for me.
Why does a networking infrastructure product affect the browser visual UI in an way?

> A blind acquaintance of mine once lost his job because of a newly added requirement that he use an inaccessible application.

If this happens to you, please call a lawyer. This is an easy case to win.
As 3.10 is two months away from yeeting, this PEP665 would seem to be part of the 3.11 sizzle.

Packaging has long been a weaker suit for python. As with so many other language features (e.g. dataclasses) python seems to let a bunch of art settle in the wild and then offer a nicely refined PEP to capture and implement it.
MacOS > System Preferences> General > Untick 'use font smoothing when available'
Hopefully they don’t intend to let Afterpay’s market stagnate in complete isolation, otherwise acquiring would make less sense.

If they can take Afterpay’s product and scale it to their customer base and beyond, that should be worth it.
As an employee your contribution to the world is just a little more than your wage. Which, since you take your wage home, is just a little.
Yea our sites used to be DDOSed daily for 2 months. We're now getting a DDOS once or twice a week.

Edit: Some numbers, most of them are between 2k-5k requests per second. But we had some with 20k-30k rps.
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) recently held its annual convention virtually. One of their sponsorships was a company that provides a supposed drop-in solution for screen-reader accessibility. The solution is being widely adopted and does a very poor job fixing all but the most basic and predictable accessibility fails--and it discourages big companies from doing real work to make their products better and promote accessibility as part of their culture. There have been attempts by various accessibility professionals to engage the company, but their concerns were all dismissed and the company continues to make claims that simply are not true. The NFB investigated the company and its product, decided both it and its marketing were harmful to blind people and revoked the sponsorship.

My point--and I may be spitballing a bit here, but I think it's valid--is that CSUN made the choice to take money from a company that didn't do any real accessibility work. That reflects badly on CSUN just as much as it does anyone else, and from what I know of CSUN, a company like the one you're describing shouldn't have ever been represented.
> You can always keep your working branches on a personal remote

This kinda defeats the point again, to my view. I’m not familiar enough with gists to know if they would solve this.
That being honest, forthright, and taking responsibility for mistakes, is usually a terrible idea that will just get you fucked over, when you're not dealing with someone you consider a very close friend, was a truth I took a really long time to accept. I still don't like it. But there you go. I was taught, and internalized, something entirely wrong, turns out.
You sound like a BNPL marketer. The loan has late fees, the app is branded as a easy POS way to buy things with money you don't have. There is no credit check. You can sign up to a dozen of the services at once. It is credit, it has the same negative effects as credit.

BNPL is as bad for people as 20% apy credit cards are.
fyi The font on the upper left looks terrible on chromebook.
We're moving our software to the cloud, and the people in power had dismissed Google before discussions about which provider to go with even began, simply due to their reputation for killing off their products with short notice.

Probably a bit reactionary, but I'm not going to stick my neck out for Google on that one.
“On track” doesn’t mean much and based on population size, an equal GDP means 25% of GDP per capita which doesn’t sound quite as impressive.
Which boot loaders allow straight bluetooth keyboards to enter the bios configuration?
I suspect that to many C++ programmers, most initializations of structs have unpredictable side effects because of how complex they are ;)
Damn that's really sad actually =/

I and my partner don't have family either really. We have living families, but not the way most people consider family I think.

> There’s plenty of things I find interesting, just nothing that anyone would ever pay me to do. Maybe they aren’t commercially viable, maybe they’re not really career related things, or maybe I’m not smart/wealthy/educated enough to take them on.

This hits close to home for me. I got lucky with my interests/hobbies, but your scenario is identical to my partners.

6 years of a wildlife biology + animal behavior degree and she says she can't find a job doing what she wants.

I'm convinced it's possible, but that it would take a lot of hunting people down, knocking on doors, networking, emailing random people, basically taking every measure and avenue available.

I could also be wrong though, who knows.

But, she doesn't want me to do that and has something else she's doing so I go "Okey, if that's what you want."

I have no idea what it is you like to do, but if there's any earthly way for you to do it for a living, or make your living off of something tangential IMO you should quit tech and do that.

I'm sure you have pursued that at this point though.
I've had a pair of Electric Sunglasses for nearly 6 years and would recommend them. Made in Italy.

https://www.electriccalifornia.com/
Why would anyone like cops when they keep "records" on random citizens?
> I appreciate that you and others on this thread don't know me

mwcampbell has also been active on HN itself for a pretty long time, and reading over his past comments should make it pretty obvious that:

A) he knows what he's talking about.

B) he is putting in a lot of effort to be reasonable and accommodating to other people and businesses.

C) he is personally contributing to and supporting efforts to build products and tools to make things better, not just complaining.

mwcambell's response above is very charitable, and I applaud that; it's good to reach out to people diplomatically. But personally, I also feel like it really wouldn't require that much work for skeptics to go over a few of his past posts and to see for themselves whether or not he is the type of person who would "use the buzzwords to throw the mob at [Cloudflare]."

None of mwcambell's past or present advocacy efforts are secretive, he is probably one of the most recognizable blind/vision-impared advocates on HN right now. I'll risk being slightly less charitable than he is being, and I'll say that people can put in the 5 minutes of effort it would take to figure out whether or not he's a good faith actor -- especially in the context of suggestions to him that the blind community should go out and build their own Cloudflare competitor.
You picked the bottom of the range and didn’t add benefits. Top of the range with cost of benefits, which a contractor would have to pay for themselves is over $100 an hour. Keep in mind we pay for all certifications, exams, college degree programs, 21 days PTO which accumulates to even more, matching 401K, conferences with biz class travel, healthcare, etc.
DDOS gets more frequent when it becomes effective. Then it's just a matter of keeping you down.
Because it is integrated POS, and is even more frictionless than credit. You don't need a credit check, you can sign up to many BNPL providers at once, and you are presented with options in store and online to buy with 'x' right now and not pay a cent. It drives impulsive spending behaviours. It is all bad.
> - visitor counters

I've kept those alive at w3counter.com since 2004 (before Google acquired Urchin and turned it into Google Analytics). It's not exactly an in-demand feature so I don't think it's even mentioned on the homepage, but after signing up, you can choose from a couple dozen counter styles, or the standard invisible tracking tag. Been working on redoing that site to re-launch it as a cookieless, zero-personal-data tracker later this year.

Actually I still host https://www.websitegoodies.com/ which I originally made in 1999, and that has a simple hit counter service too. So there are some counters I've been hosting for over 20 years.
Might not scale well if it heats up the localized conduction region or leaches out. The NYC subway use to need to be heated quite a bit because all the surrounding rock absorbed all the heat. Now, it’s saturated and requires massive cooling systems
But isn’t the way the disposable plastic bags are so cheap actually one of the sneaky ways they are bad? It’s definitely not good for the environment but is a hard to break out or local minima.
Cantrill did a talk on which he touches on C, C++ and Rust for systems programming [1].

His tl;dr being that Rust feels very much like a proper systems programming language, and more of a « better C » than C++.
I don't entirely know what to make of it, but my instinct is that something like C++ with such an opportunity space for baroque concoctions (leading to an obsession with design patterns) is just playing with fire.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjFM8vw3pbU
Jq cries out for a good O'Reilly cookbook.
Same for me. I started very recently but it improved my productivity very sharply (not just work, also hobbies (music) and cleaning). I use habitica (no affiliation).
It makes it the exec’s problem because all of their competent workers left and they can’t attract new talent.
what is it about leetcode that makes it a waste of time?
This is a major challenge in the Move Fast and Break Things javascript world of half baked UI frameworka that arent accessible.

The problem with AI screen readers (Android already has one) is that they provide a "good enough" solution that drains the interest in building server frameworms that really work.
About as much as any other country; that is, quite a bit, because there’s little obvious gain from downplaying it, and if it came out that they were downplaying it that could cause internal anxiety and strife. Like, no-one is handing out large cash prizes for “least covid-y country”; there just aren’t great incentives to lie.

And again, China has taken extremely aggressive, and very disruptive and expensive, measures on covid where it has shown up, some of which people wouldn’t put up with in democratic countries. It also has a respectable though not world-beating vaccination rate (a little higher than the US and the EU average), and encountered Delta pretty late (in the last week or so). You’d expect good performance based on this.

That said, it may not last; it does look like the Delta cat is now out of the bag, and experience elsewhere has been that suppression measures that are good enough for Alpha aren’t good enough for Delta (see Australia).

I wouldn’t in general trust China’s government much, but the incentives to lie here just don’t seem like they’re there, and their approach to managing covid seems like it should work, on paper.
I don't work at Cloudflare. I am merely trying to share my personal pragmatic point of view.

In this specific case I would argue that the problem is taken out of scope. The idea of browser isolation is to specifically replace the "smart" stream of data that is prone to attacks with a "dumb" pre-rendered version that is much more rigid. This eliminates the whole class of attacks by design.

Sure, it won't work for blind people. So if your organization employs them and you want to achieve comparable level of security, you set them up with a properly isolated VM, install the accessibility software there, and add an exception rule for that VM. Problem solved: the blind person has comparable experience to a regular browser, while the average level of security in the company has raised. If the employer specifically refuses to set up such a VM, it would be reasonable to demand it or sue them.

To put it into a perspective, a blind person cannot drive a car in regular traffic due to obvious reasons. So it's reasonable to provide them with alternate means of transportation, but it would be unreasonable to demand that all cars should be banned until they can accommodate blind drivers. It can be technically done if you make every car remote-drivable, but the cost and safety considerations make it completely unviable.
I don’t see the undefined behavior here?
It is interest free, and also has a repayment plan baked in. The credit card user is incentivized to pay it off each month, but the Afterpay user is incentivized to buy more stuff now.
Right. Afterpay, Affirm, Klarna, etc. are generally not used by well off and financially literate/prudent people. Just like gambling and lotteries. They are generally used by people that don’t need help screwing up their finances. While I do agree that people should be free to do what they want I think it should be presented with some realistic and frankly harsh warnings.