skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a more a case of what they want vs what they are willing to/forced to take in the current market.

I doubt they would openly consider that person, but when there is a candidate in front of them who has reasonably passed some questions and is willing to accept, I would hope they would budge.
I think there is an enormous opportunity here. If there were a web search service that prioritized your first four points I would use it, and I suspect a very large number of others would as well. It's going to be a little more tricky to turn this into a business, because you'll be selecting for users who are allergic to websites doing things for commercial reasons, but perhaps there is a way.

One can dream.
Square to Acquire Afterpay for $29b
Ok so CDC is lying about body weight stats, got it. No point in discussing with you further.
If a company is going to go bust in 6-12 months and the metrics wouldn't warant further investment. Then the senior leadership may opt to increase the burn rate to run out of money in 3-6 months with the hope that the extra headcount will solve the deathly problems coming up at the end of the year.

At the very least it can help drum up interest from investors based on "look at the new X we shipped, or look at how strong our team is"
Tbh that is the way to go. Be in a position where you have to tackle a few very important tasks, and outsource the little ones to others.
> I don’t understand how it can ever be secure unless you let some DRM representatives basically come and do inspections.

Oh god, that’s a level of hell I haven’t even imagined. I wonder if the future could ever become as dystopian as that for real. What it would take for that to happen, and how.
Strange, in my experience fonts look better on Windows at low DPI, and better on Mac at high DPI. I guess it's personal preferences. To me, at low DPI fonts on Mac look as if they had rough edges. At high DPI however fonts on Windows look like the edges are too soft.
I work for a Fortune 500 company who has announced that when people start going back into the office, it will be work from home M and F and in office the other three days… except for IT employees. I thought that was interesting they specifically said IT employees can stay remote. Now I’m wondering if this has anything to do with it.
I still think bitmap fonts are by far the most readable at smaller sizes on lower dpi displays - you can fit so much more code without having to scroll, and I don't find it any harder to read than large TTF fonts on the same screen.

TTF fonts at small sizes on newer ~200+ dpi screens are even better again though. I'd love to try coding on a high res color e-paper screen.
DRM is merely a symptom of the copyright disease. People actually want to believe data is scarce when it's not. When proven wrong, they make technology to force scarcity. It makes products and services worse for everyone and even then it barely works.

The only way to stop this is to abolish copyright.
You can offer a reverse proxy as a service with e2e encryption. But yeah the CDN part not so much.
... Technically for us at least the _gas_ company is different. In fact there are a number of companies providing gas.
This type of infrastructure is worth tooling out and productizing. I know a few places are doing it and it's hard to not have Software Engineers behind the scenes supporting clients.

Maybe you make it a SaaS so companies only need to hire daa scientists if you can optimize the ETL process.
> Now - me - I too can run a SQL dump, a find replace and an import. But - I'm running a business. I have about 50 clients, so about 150 sites (local/staging/live for each). My imperative is to be able to do these migrations with zero effort and in minimal time. I could do it manually, but the time it takes me would be non-trivial.

Or you could write a script to do so. I don't use automated tools, because they all sucks, have limitations, and the time you spend learning and fixing tools written by others (assuming you can) is more than the time you spend writing your own scripts.

Instead of spending all that money on a tool that you will have to continue to pay, how much would have you spent to make a tool like that by built exactly for your needs and how you wanted? Probably a tool like that, without useless features like a GUI (a tool meant to be used by a technician doesn't need one), could have been built in a week, or even less time.
I had an interview this week where the recruiter was flat out and honest when I asked them "what's one thing you'd change about this company?" (something I've been asking a lot lately and being very observant to how different company reps answer) and he told me that he lamented and would absolutely change the fact that his hiring managers aren't actively seeking out or even remotely interested in trying to hire more juniors.

Gotta say, I respect the hell outta that fella for being so honest about that, partially because I've observed the very same phenomenon.
Heck, a desktop application that launched from a hot key and immediately highlighted any possible buttons and input fields it can recognize on a screen/window and simulate click on selection is already very useful.
Right but it's a dutch auction right? Highest bidder pays second highest price.
How much are the delivery fees for this sort of products?
Unfortunately not true. The top of funnel at these companies is not very good at filtering.
Todos and reminders are different things.
Having a family increases the risk factors too. Kids can incur significant medical expenses which a more traditional job at a big company might be able to cover.
I think this is generally the place where you rebase. Right before things go into the develop branch.
Once freeloading reaches some tipping point, the system destabilizes and collapses.

We're well past the tipping point of freeloading:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432326
Another SmartGit fan here. Adding to your list:

- Want a diff between two commits from two different branches? Click one commit and Ctrl+click the other. All the diffs show up immediately.

- Messed something up badly and you need to see the reflog? Click the Recyclable Commits checkbox, and everything in the reflog shows up just like any normal commit. And you can use the diff trick above on them.

- Wonder what's in your stashes that you forgot about? Click the Stashes checkbox and they all show up as normal commits. Because that's what a stash really is.

- Committed something to the wrong branch? Drag the branch markers to where you want them.
Although, you used to be able to watch it in Windows Edge in Wine.
Are they bowing to all, much like the dot-com era, or only to some?

I'd not mind seeing something that reaches a lot more down into the lower skill, lower cost of living areas where employers still are at an unfortunate advantage.
"Put more resources into it, like more investigators". Who would have thought.

I regret the 2 minutes I spent getting around their paywall.
I live in Ireland and get less than €70k as a senior dev. Ireland is considered to have relatively high
salaries for software developers, at least in a Europe.
Ah, I think a lot of the people questioning your choice to hand over the data are US based, where a warrant signed by a judge is legally binding, but a letter from a prosecutor has no such power.
Blender really has turned around in the last few years UX wise. It used to be the go to punching bag when complaining about OSS with bad UX.

See Krita for another OSS project with great UX.
I’ve been thinking about a similar problem I have on a regular basis: I audit a lot of code in many languages, sometimes I’m not even able to build solutions. my toolset pretty much includes git and rudimentary regex. A recent example is a PHP function which is insecure when it’s used at least 3 times in a string concat.

Any suggestion on an AST ‘framework’ that would help me parse code easier? Language specific or generic, even if it only sort-of fits (I don’t even know what I want).

Automated Code analysers exist, but I want something manual.
I do actually. If someone can describe to me what the (mechanical) difference is between a merge and rebase they’re likely to be better :P
I agree that our current copyright system is certainly out of hand, but it does serve a purpose. Out of curiosity, what system would you suggest in its stead?
Out of curiosity, do you think the recruiter would have gone to bat for the comp I was requesting if there wasn't an offer on the line, and I was just another candidate?

I've certainly had recruiters bring up the comp at the start, and I've indicated it was too low, and we've moved on. From the company's perspective, that probably makes a lot of sense, especially if they have no wiggle room. But from a candidate perspective? I've never had a company who wanted to hire me fail to meet my ask (with the caveat my ask has never been completely outside of market, even if it's outside of their own guidelines, and with the stipulation I was willing to take comp increases outside of just salary); if the role sounds good, the company sounds good, I'm willing to spend the time to make them want me before I ask about comp. If they come in high enough, great, no time wasted; if they come in low they have every reason to try and negotiate with me.
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Why couldn't they roll out their own competitior? Wouldn't that be a lot cheaper? I guess much more difficult to expand in the Aus market?
Write a script that deploys something to a fresh ec2 instance.. then you can say you used aws for your side project.

Aws is like 800 services, but under it all is ec2 and s3 -- just get familiar with those and the rest are conveniences.
Right. They are giving out interest free loans to people out of the goodness of their heart. What a swell company. Wait what? They make more profit when people fuck up? Well I am shocked.
>If you're an old school C programmer who knows how pointer arithmetic and memory allocation works

bonus points if you created a vuln or two :)
There have been tens of trillions of dollars and other currencies created from thin air the last year and a half. And more is being created currently. This isn’t just the US government. It’s basically all governments in the world.

EDIT:

Fed has been purchasing 120b of assets per month
https://cheddar.com/media/federal-reserve-to-keep-up-asset-p...

Federal government has spent at least 3.5 trillion on COVID-19.

EDIT2: More like 8.6 trillion. 2 trillion added by the bills passed early 2021.

https://datalab.usaspending.gov/federal-covid-funding/

That is the US. Then add all the other countries in the world.

That much extra money chasing the same amount of the goods and services, investments, etc…

So either we are in a bubble or currency has been devalued.

EDIT3:
Fed spending is about 25k per person in the US.
The point isn't RSS; it's that the demise of Google Reader coincided with a phase transition.

Not unlike the way AOL "killed" Usenet.

Overall, people don't scale. Any more than that joyous little stand-alone afternoon script in your favorite tool can survive blowing up to fully distributed, asynchronous cloud deployment.

The most fun I'm having in the age of social media is MeWe.
Oh, I’ll figure out the problem alright. One git status on the command line aught to tell me what it is.
What do you use as a daily task list app? I'm using TickTick on Android, but daily tasks is not its strong point.
The company you're talking about is AccessiBe, and the NFB's statement is here:

https://nfb.org/about-us/press-room/national-convention-spon...

I was unaware of this particular incident, but AccessiBe has had a bad reputation in the blind community for several months at least. Incidentally, I helped develop a browser extension to block AccessiBe and similar "accessibility overlays".
Distributed != watched. Actual consumption seems to be dominated by Netflix originals.

https://www.newsweek.com/netflix-shows-viewing-figures-most-...
I appreciate the cold game theory of your approach. Quite hilarious if others are following it too, although I don’t think so from what I’ve seen. (Edit: I was also reading it from the perspective of forcing companies to raise comp.)
Oh ok, well in that case by GDP (PPP) China has already surpassed the US.
is performance even an issue either the tool? I regularly see people complain about python speed but normally find it’s algorithmic as opposed to interpreter imposed..
> For the (slightly more) money?

Bud you said you make 110k and we’re originally responding to people talking about 300k, 500k, and more.

There is no reasonable way to look at ~300%+ increase in compensation as “slightly more”.

You’ve got a point about working for a company you believe in, but that’s part of your total comp. You chose a package that’s lower pay + fits your interests. When people drop the “fits your interests” requirement they are able to get more comp as part of the package
> changing rasterization strategies alters the bounding box of character textures

This is big problem on Windows, where the heavy-handed hinting means actual font size doesn't even come close to being linearly related to requested font size. So you can't even make the simple assumptions such as that the same UI layout will work if you render everything at 2x for a high DPI screen.
Not op. I've been using "habits" for recurring things
Jq has a playground that’s great for learning how to use it https://jqplay.org/

I often build my Jq steps in the playground before committing.
Ancient Roman ship laden with wine jars discovered off Sicily
Yeah, you're right. Maybe we should decimate Google's chrome team while we're at it.
I think computer programmers / nerds in general don't adequately appreciate how entirely terrible the average user is at using the basic features of their computer, its OS, and its software, let alone doing anything advanced with it. Probably they've forgotten how hard it was for them to initially learn what files and directories really are, how networks actually work, how to issue instructions and read output on the command line, et c.

I know people in non-nerd office jobs where "not completely shit at using an OS and office productivity programs" makes them seem like super-heroes to everyone else. Most people don't get it, and don't really care too (and I'm sympathetic to their POV—computers and software are, in practice, largely terrible frustration-engines)
Even the way you're phrasing it, sounds like PhDs don't get to a) exist without Facebook's blessing
Actually, the biggest afterpay's market is in US.
I wish folks saying they should have bought X company would actually name X company. Seriously - what was the company they should have purchased.

Elon already owned basically 22% of both companies. After they did the stock deal he owned 22% or whatever of the combined company. He already knew the folks / board / management of both companies.

Can you name the company he "should" have purchased?
I see you have a few posts on this thread and are obviously not a fan. I had not heard of afterpay before this thread, but I checked them out and I agree they are a predatory lender. Some people obviously feel differently, but I don't see (other than a bit of nice branding) how they are different than Money Mart or Easy Home or anyone else that gives you money you don't have, but makes sure to collect it one way or another.

Like I said elsewhere, people should be free to make their own choices, but this is certainly not a business model to be applauded.
I don't want to be that guy, but have you tried Rust? If so, what makes it not the C replacement for you?
Exactly. I’m not likely to see spending hot water, soap, and time cleaning my trash as a sensible use of resources. If plastics need to be clean for recycling, they’re not realistically recycled.
I guess this is one of the move by Afterpay higher up to fight the competition after knowing Apple and Paypal going into BNPL game as well
Is a classical 'testing your interests' hook. Probably for filling reports. Similar to

'What brand of sunglasses do you wear?'.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28029206

or the, always popular bunch of themes falling in the pattern: 'do you take drugs?/ what drugs have you experienced?'

or 'what diseases do you had?' also very popular theme.

In resume, Don't talk with the police but, would you mind to answer this bunch of questions about your personality on internet instead, please?.
I was a rubber stamp and found myself in high demand to interview in a location the company was trying to staff up rapidly.
Maybe patronage schemes? Crowdfunding? I have no idea. I just know that we can't go on like this.

The only way to enforce copyright in the 21st century is to destroy computing freedom. I'd rather sacrifice the entire copyright industry than have computers that only run software they approve.
Similar orgmode

Something very satisfying about viewing the flat file
An app to help get out of CC debt
What was X here? Did this involve any competing offers?

It seems so strange that they’d offer X and just after being asked would switch to 4X. That’s a huge range.
It's still the case that most of the total comp is from RSUs, and often the people making $500k+ are making that because of appreciation in the stock price. Their initial offer wasn't that high.
Yeah, everybody does it with wordpress now.
But all those workers that have moved on - where have they gone? I can understand restaurant workers moving on for example, but that should mean they have filled positions elsewhere. It just doesn’t seem like the numbers add up. But your comment about women staying home to care for children might be it.
Azure is down in Australia.
Hi, I am just commenting to mention a bug. When I look at page for The Smith's self titled album ( http://static.wiki/en/The_Smiths_(album) ) , the track listing section doesn't populate. Other than that, I love the simplicity and cleanness of the design
> I'm not judging you but I want to clarify, this was merely a request from a prosecutor, with no warrant covering it?

Sounds something like a subpoena, not a request; these are (in many systems) issued and signed by attorneys, not judges. Now, if there is a legal argument that the material is not subject to subpoena, in the US a motion to quash is available, and something similar may be available in other systems, but they aren’t mere requests, they are obligatory unless successfully quashed.
I think we would be fine, my experience is the first 2-6 pages of any google search usually is paid advertising in some form.

A lot of information I search for has had no SEO performed on it so it gets buried in the results on the first pass.
Cloudflare is indispensable for a number of businesses, crypto exchanges especially off the top of my head.
Are all plastics equal harm?

I wonder if we just legislated taxes on plastics that local recycling centers can't utilize, if we could get the majority of the benefit of banning plastics with few of the downsides?

To what extent would greater standardization of plastics mitigate this issue (and make recycling more profitable)?
Family? Don't want kids.
Relationships? Hard to make much new friends once you're past college age.
Altruistic service to people? For what? So they could continue to be productive workers that consume the same things you consume anyway?
Mine aren’t even half baked, more like still raw. Maybe a hundred lines of code written between them. I love to talking about them though. The few “active” ones though are:

1. A user mode ISDN stack written primarily in Erlang, with bits of C and Java for certain components. This one is pretty ambitious but it will end up supporting both typical LAPD/Q.931 connections as well as Frame Relay and X.25 on both BRI and PRI interfaces. I’ve sunk more money that I should have on hardware for this project and still need more. At the interfaces level, though the stack will support DAHDI devices (if I can ever get it to work properly), the osmo-e1d interfaces, which is a neat price of hardware I found about about through HN[1], and whatever normal ISDN terminal adapters I can reverse engineer control protocols for (I imagine most are at least somewhat AT compatible). Biggest barrier for this project is just my laziness and unwillingness to write some of the more boilerplate stuff as well as handling the U-interfaces for BRI since it’s just not possible to get an actual ISDN BRI line anymore. I’ve wondered about hacking around it with NT1’s or U-interface expansions for Cisco routers, but I have my doubts it would work. I could also use some CO simulators but they’re rare and other line emulators are rather expensive. Its hard to get help when I get stuck because it’s just so niche. Can’t really reach out to most retro resources and most telecom stuff around those seem mostly analog/PSTN type stuff and more modern networking/telecom communities will likely just play 20 questions trying to figure out why I’m using an obsolete technology. Like I said it’s an ambitious project, and I’ve planned out extremely good design docs, reference applications including a H.320 video soft phone and a couple of APIs to interface with it (CAPI and JTAPI). I’ve probably mentioned this project so many times that people don’t actually believe I’m working on it though.

2. A custom DOCSIS modem, built on a limesdr. Unfortunately I only have a very old DOCSIS CMTS and cannot run this on a real line legally so it’ll be based on whatever DOCSIS version is supported by my CMTS. Haven’t done much work on this because there’s just so much setup to do. I need to reset the CMTS, set up the sdr, brush up on calculus, keep the manual for the CMTS and DOCSIS specs open to refer back to, etc. I also plan to make Linux and Windows (NDIS) drivers so you can connect the sdr directly to the coax and get a network interface.
Agree except the last example - the clarity of intent that you want a conditional compilation is lost. Also, non-optimized debug builds are affected.
Google wont let you login with old devices
You might find this interesting: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2012/01/prisoners-of-style-...
What's the difference between a religion and a corporation that someone devotes their life to? Other than scale.
1) Blind people are not "blocked from the internet". This is an accessibility issue with one of their security products. It's no different than an employer using other security measures that might limit usage for certain people, but it's the employer who makes the ultimate decision.

2) The reason people keep using Cloudflare is because it has the best product suite and pricing. There are competitors but none have approached the same features or (ironically) accessibility as CF.

3) Mission statements are nothing more than politics and PR. People put entirely too much faith in corporations and their associated mottos as if they're divine principles to live by. It's up to users to make their own rational decisions by weighing the risks, and in that regard, Cloudflare has actively helped fight censorship by helping improving connectivity and access to software, information, and privacy.
Oops, those costs should be per month, not per year... but now I can't edit the post.
If a glove comes into contact with a spinning blade, there is a good chance it will pull the rest of the glove, and the hand within it, right into the path of the blade.
Family ACA plan around here is about $1,800/m for coverage that still leaves you with (IIRC) about $23,000 in annual risk exposure ("max out-of-pocket"). So in a bad year you're out nearly the entire household after-tax median income for my city, between payments for care and your insurance premiums. That assumes you don't accidentally do anything "out of network", and the ACA plans have really shitty networks, so that'd be easy to do.