skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dropbox always feels like it peaked early and has steadily gotten worse as they try to add more and more features to it.

> I feel like they are missing the mark when it comes to marketing to consumers here.

I get the impression they're relying on name recognition and first mover advantage to keep the simple users flowing in, while all of the extra features and GUI fluff are built out to attract some other audience that makes decisions by counting up how many different features are listed on each product page.

These days, I'm just happy that I haven't had to force-kill the Dropbox client in many months. I wish there was some way to go back to the days where they just synced my files for me, let me share a few things, and I didn't have to fight with their GUI all the time.
I like how the story of the "amazing dev" above only tells about how he accomplished checking into work everyday and battling cancer. Every senior dev under 35 that I've hired has a much better narrative surrounding how well they work.

I also like your story about me, because there isn't a single person who works for me or with me that would describe me as an asshole. I'm just an asshole to morons in denial on this flaming turd of a "tech forum". If you don't plan for your expiration date in the programming trenches, then you won't see it coming when it hits you hard.

There's a reason the average age of a programmer is 39 just like there a reason why the average age of a construction worker is 38.
There is no hope. Do not try to manage your finances in any way. The only way to succeed is by pure random luck. Your actions make no difference at all.

By the way the LA times has some ads to show you for some shiny things you should buy instead of saving your money.
Have you considered rabbitmq or nats?
Does Airflow support streaming the outputs to downstream tasks? I tried to do something like this with Prefect but with Prefect you have to wait for the upstream task to finish before a downstream task can begin working.
The calculus is a bit more complicated than you make it out to be. People have to live where they can afford to live -and- get a job. Many lcol areas do not have many jobs. Especially if you have an expensive education that you are trying to pay off.

Some people might be able to take a pay cut and move somewhere cheap and come out ahead. But those options don't always exist. If you have $200k in student loans and a degree in biotechnology, good luck finding a job within 100 miles of cheap housing. More remote work opportunities might change this, but at least in the past, those were very rare. Housing is expensive in hcol areas for a reason. It's because there are lots of good paying jobs nearby. There is also a reason some areas have very cheap housing.
As I said I'm 25ish. It's a pretty mundane disease for people that age.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...
mumble mumble nix cough
Are you using the “Increase Contrast” setting on macOS? Another commenter reported similar symptoms because they had that setting enabled: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28133327. They said they fixed it by “[overriding] changing colors in the advanced colors menu.”
Or routinely carry out offensive military operations to bombard, assault or capture targets.
He is an opthalmologist not an optometrist. A md degree gives you the ability to practice medicine. Paul will have been trained on the whole body. The eye speciality is an added specialization. As an MD he should be able to do everything from basic first aid to general diagnosis to delivering a baby in a woman even with major complications should he have to. He may have to do some research and reading but he is authorized to do such things
My wife's grandfather did almost exactly this: navy pilot (I forget the exact details but he had at least one of those "firsts" like "landing on an aircraft carrier at night"), survived WWII, got out, was a teacher for 20+ years, and developed a keen interest in equities at exactly the right period for that.

As I understand it, the flipside of this was that not very many people in his (very early) cohort survived, in case someone is thinking of this as "easy government money".
Just a heads up you are double double shadow banned, even though the troll was the one in violation. Only down points count for you now. Keep up the fight. No sarcasm.
Can you solve recaptcha/hcaptcha?

It's not that useful without being able to do so.
Big fan of Mosh for what it does. But the fact that it can't render Unicode properly makes it really hard to work with some files remotely. IIRC there's a PR that fixes and has never been merged
This is disappointing. One of the reasons 1Password is much loved is because it's a high quality native application. It fits perfectly into macOS.

Even the best electron apps, suck as macOS (or windows or linux) citizens. There are little things that don't just work properly.
why hasn't someone just forked it and make a "mosh-alt"? seems like the most logical step to me.
> It’s not a complete import, you’ll get usernames and passwords but if you’ve done anything else with it (like say attaching software license files, scans of important documents, etc) they’ll be silently dropped.

It's not quite a silent dropping -- 1Password warns you with a popup during the export that it doesn't include them in the export file. BitWarden won't warn you, but in its defense the files aren't even present for it to skip...

https://imgur.com/a/cjMbWZT
Electric Aircraft at Oshkosh
i didn't know that, and that bums me out. is what's there good enough to not care that there aren't frequent updates?
Agreed. In the end 1Password has always been a subscription, just you paid "one-time" upgrades every two years to stay up-to-date with the latest version.

However the differential factor of 1Password, which was that it _didn't_ provide the storage if you didn't want it, has now gone away. Precisely why I chose 1Password when I started using it. I don't see the difference between this and any other password manager now.

There might be security or technical reasons for removing this option, but looking at how hard they've been trying to get me into a subscription during the last couple of years I just think we're on a bad case of subscription-all-the-things here.
I always want to try alternative shells but I always come back to bash. I think Fish had the longest residency. I have yet to find the killer reason to never come back.

It’s a bit like programming languages. So much cool stuff out there but it’s hard for me to leave Python. Like Bash, everything works with it.

I’m curious what people’s “killer apps” are for permanently changing shells.
Thanks, will keep in mind for future projects
They have 2500 employees. Why does a single product company with a product that is mostly “done” need those many people?
This is a common claim -- but no one has yet provided any evidence to back it up. So I got curious and took a look in the TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks repo up on github. For the top rust frameworks (actix and ntex), the submissions are surprisingly short and easily comprehendable. Those two, at least, don't pull anything particularly tricky other than perhaps caching the initial portion of a successful HTTP response string (they all do that).

By the same token, there has not been any evidence I have seen to support the claim that the scripting language frameworks have not also done their best with their submissions.
Not sure if it’s not both.

In America, the SEC had been systematic defunded and weakened - over successive administrations.

The argument, in the years before 2008, was that more regulation only holds wealth creator back. Especially when the market self corrects itself.

To suggest otherwise was even nearly un-American.

The SEC policy had adapted to pursue slam dunk cases, ensuring that it’s resources were spent in achieving some form of guaranteed deterrence.

However things like CDOs and the rest were out of its reach.

This leads to the low oversight.

The self correcting aspect of the market was also more mythical than practical.

As a financial analyst we were encouraged to ensure that model predictions were within range of other firms.

Multiples out of range meant that you were likely wrong.

Faith in the market became a shortcut meaning “someone else has done the homework”.

With all the rating agencies beholden to the purchaser of the rating, you start setting up the dominos for 2008.
There are also minimum employee sizes before racial discrimination law kicks in, I think 15, or 5 if you’re in California, but that is from rapid googling.
This is only a rumor, but I've heard that collecting and fighting beetles and other insects is not an unusual pastime for many young Japanese boys.
The article touches on that a bit in the "Avoid being blocked" section. Sometimes user-agent isn't enough, I've run into other headers that can trigger a block or a change in behavior. The last one I ran into was gating on accept-language to not control the language, but serve up a honey-pot type page for automated crawlers.
mosh isn't an alternative shell, it's sort of like "rsh" or "ssh" except designed for mobile... and using SSH for authentication and session setup.
shut the fuck up, nigger
It was a solid couple days for me after the second shot, with a nasty fever and chills. Once, I can deal with, but I'm seriously not looking forward to the prospect of booster shots every 6-12 months. As someone in an extremely low risk demographic, the cost/benefit seems quite poor.
Is it even necessary? An app store could simply require that users make an account. That allows them to harvest your email at time of account creation, and provides users choice of which email address will be shared. And it's fully above-board.
The paper authors note that, statistically, the prevalence of this non-fatal side effect is very small, relative to the sometimes-fatal disease they're being vaccinated against:

> It is estimated that COVID-19 vaccination in males aged 12 to 29 years can prevent 11000 COVID-19 cases, 560 hospitalizations, 138 intensive care unit admissions, and 6 deaths compared with 39 to 47 expected myocarditis cases.
User agent spoofing, also chrome adjusts/fixes some html so sometimes copying css or xpath directly will not work and requires modification. Good to work in Jupyter notebook locally to test and optimize scrapers
I personally like posts like this; a sobering reminder of our own mortality: memento mori. It hopefully motivates us to thrive, flourish, and cherish what really matters -- friendship, kindness, humility, love -- and to leave the world a little better than we found it. And if you're curious, the Aaaron Winborn Award is still going strong[1]!

[1] https://www.drupal.org/community/cwg/aaron-winborn-award
> in the case of 1Password it's not just about being a password manager; it's also about syncing passwords between devices

This worked perfectly fine until they “fixed” it by removing Dropbox support, and now are apparently removing iCloud sync too
Is a site the size of Reddit really susceptible to DDoS attacks? And do you really think anti-mask/vaxers would have the technical ability to do that?
Speaking as a league player and a game developer, the audio cues are 100% cheating and also explicitly against Riot's ToS as stated here: https://support-leagueoflegends.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/artic...

The relevant excerpt:
"Exposing information that’s intentionally obfuscated (cooldowns or timers)"

As for all of the other match data mining, that's par for the course in competitive games these days.
I have wanted to visit and try it out ever since I heard about it.
> I suggested the concept be made available as being by devs, for devs, purposed as a personal coach, with no uplink to the mothership.

Ah yes, the classic "foot in the door" approach. Despite all the good intentions behind it, it still would end badly.
Good catch. I definitely do not want this. I don't even understand why it would be necessary.

I really don't want to be forced to maintain separate e-mail accounts for app stores just to quarantine the inevitable flow of spam.
This is disappointing. I have been using 1Password for a long time. I'm not opposed to the subscription model per-se, particularly for critical software to ensure it is supported.

But I don't want or need my passwords in the cloud. I don't want or need it to be an electron app. I want a simple, lightweight, highly secure, with good UX password manager. 1Password used to fit that bill. With each successive change it moves away from that.
I know the feeling. But that doesn't mean that you were wrong, or that your advice was bad. It's safe to recommend your friends not to play the loterie if the goal is to derive predictable revenue. It doesn't mean that everyone lose at the game.

Your friend and people drawing conclusion from her anecdote will end up with beliefs typical of the Gettier problem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem
What's wrong with EventStore? https://www.eventstore.com/
Can you switch a Deleware C-corp to an LLC? Is it hard to do?
This really smacks of Magic Leap for me, which is far from a compliment. I think we all know how this story ends already.
I dunno about Microsoft Stream, but they've done game streaming with Xbox.
Are user-initiated app installations on par with Google's revenue generating path for app installations via the Play Store?

Do users still have to adjust arcane settings to use another app store or install an app without one?

Does Google still show users scary warnings and make competitors' apps seem as if they're broken or malicious, and still say the user is protected by Play Protect despite that the Play Store itself distributes the majority of Android malware[1]?

Is Google going to drop the mandate that all apps on the Play Store must use Google's billing system that gives them a 15% to 30% cut[1]? And how will Google treat apps that don't use Google's billing system as their payment method, considering how Google makes user-installed apps seem malicious?

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/play-store-identified-as-main-...
Geologists and paleontologist usually use multiple methods to estimate age. Carbon works well for young deposits. Uranium dating can be used for much older materials. As AlotOfReading mentioned Rhenium-Osmium. Sometimes they can use Oxygen ratios in inclusions in Zircon crystals. There are other more specialized measures. Using multiple methods can help calibrate each other.
> How many radiation hardened CPUs are in use today?

Whoosh. A radiation hardened PowerPC 750 operates no differently from a PowerPC 750 you'd find on Ebay. You are effectively saying "Yeah, but how many commercial temperature range processors are in use today?!" It is weird, because it is such a silly distinction to point to that you have to actually examine the manufacturer's packaging datasheet to spot the difference. But at the same time you have no problem conflating every processor using IP licensed by Arm Ltd as the same thing... they have at least 20 distinct architectures and it doesn't look like compatibility was ever much of a priority. The larger point being that the powerpc ISA is infinitely more coherent than the fractured mess Arm has going on, which is very likely the product of designers aligning the platform with disposable electronics. Do you really want to see that trend go beyond crappy cellphones designed to be thrown out every other year?

> ...one of the goals of Ingenuity was to see if a COTS processor could be used on Mars.

That has been said - but has never been explained why... because it is such a thoroughly covered concern that has had a huge amount of money spent on developing industry standards and commissioning incredibly comprehensive studies. So this justification is either an oversimplification to the point of being lie, or it is an indictment on their own work (and that of many others) with regard to the effects of radiation on electronic. Does Mars have some new kind of radiation that our highly controlled labs can't replicate? Of course not, it is a nonsensically wasteful way to test our understanding of radiation - at best.

> The fact that it's survived this long is really encouraging.

lol, the processor has no way of self diagnosing internal faults caused by ionizing radiation. That would be like celebrating your lack of cancer while on a smoke break at your job in an asbestos factory - and at the same time bragging about never getting medical checkups.
Yes, it can be any random stranger. Just because you have access to a Netflix account, that doesn't mean you get to see/use the payment card details for something else.

If you don't believe me, ask a Chinese friend to show you how easy it is to buy a Netflix account on Taobao.
Yup, and Toyota Tacomas and 4Runners, too, as another example. They (Wranglers) hold value spectacularly compared to other models from the brands.
It blows my mind that people voluntarily lock themselves into Apple ecosystems like this. This is the very same Apple that recently said it is going to inspect all your synced photos.

Even if you're mostly Apple today, it seems prudent to have some sort of exit strategy that doesn't involve massive switching costs.

I use a variety of platforms. I'm happy 1password switched to Electron; it means I have a Linux version that works super well. It even integrates with face recognition through Howdy.

By the way, I also think subscription models are superior to buy-once. They align incentives for customers and developers better -- they got a bad rap thanks to Adobe charging silly amounts of money, but 1password isn't doing that.
New Age neo-hypertext document type (proprietary, of course) that supports collaboration using the Dropbox™ suite of services
Haha, that's devious but ultimately futile against a targeted scraper.
It's not going away any time soon, the app is still available for MacOS and the browser extensions work just fine. Eventually they will stop supporting them but that'll just mean at some point in the future a MacOS/firefox/chrome update will break the existing app and they won't fix it. That might be 2 months from now or it might be 2+ years.
I've found that the "weird dream" side effect is very dose responsive. Most melatonin supplements I see include doses much higher than are required, in the 3-5 mg range. Very small doses (as the OP mentioned, in the 200-400 microgram range) should be plenty as a sleep aid and (for me anyway) avoid the enhanced dreams.

I will sometimes take 5 mg when I wake up in the middle of the night in an attempt to induce lucid dreaming, although since I've fallen off of my dream journal my LD abilities are diminished (even with the melatonin).
The rate at which viruses reproduce is what allows you to see this, every biology freshman probably does the e-coli + arsenic experiment, it's a real eye opener as to how slow walking a treatment can actually create a resistant strain.
There is a long list of diseases that have been bought under control in the west. Take a look at the Global Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. Most of the health goals related to diseases are not diseases you see in the west. But the numbers outstrip covid.
My understanding is each task is supposed to idempotent, so I don't believe this is a valid use for Airflow.
This (very old) guide covers how to build ntpd with ATOM kernel-mode polling of the serial pins. Does this not sidestep the issue?
It was entirely possible, at least until a few years ago when housing skyrocketed beyond reach. The younger generations will not build wealth if they continue paying >50% their take home pay on rent.
In Alberta we had this guy named Weibo Ludwig. He was a pastor who, with his congregation went to homestead in northern Alberta, on a property near some natural gas wellheads.

His sheep started having miscarriages, and then later members of his congregation started having them as well. Efforts to address the matter through legal channels went nowhere so they blew up some wellheads.

As hated as he is in Alberta, he did more to prompt real environmental reform than, well, anybody.
CBSE followed similar methodology as described and was good too. But only select central schools were good at teaching it - the teachers there were well qualified, and some of them are a real gem too at teaching.
I didn't find the question to be rude.
It's a hard thing to quantify - how do you measure one person's feelings against another?

I feel like it's not unhealthy - exactly as you describe. I've spoken to many peers who all feel the same at one point or another.

So is it that we don't have impostor syndrome because we've normalized it? Or is it the same feelings but we are just better at dealing with them?

I think it's the latter. The more you know, the more you know you don't know. With seniority comes the burden of that knowledge. You can easily become lost - where you can no longer measure your output by direct lines of code written, and you also get exposed to more and more top minds that make you feel small.

I think the feelings are exactly the same that a junior engineer faces at their first job where they are overwhelmed and feel like everyone else is smarter than them.

The difference is that once you've been through it enough times, you have the confidence that the emotion isn't valid, and you have competence to fall back on eventually.
To get performance out of the hardware back in the day, you had to use every undocumented trick in the book, and do a lot of direct hardware access. The actual win32 calls probably work just fine, but the ancient hardware isn't there for screen I/O to function properly.
Cool, thanks for the links.
This won't happen. NZ keeping Covid out is down to good luck, not competence. On a long enough time scale NZ will face the same fate as those across the ditch.
Ah and I forgot to mention one of the ones I'm most happy about and which indirectly got generated through HN, a food start-up in America.
I use the term “Business Logic” when I talk about the code that decides what is now true when an event has happened. I real-time audio software it would be the logic that decides which sample to play next and what the (say) audio volume should be now. The non-logic code is the code that read events from the environment (user input) and changes the environment (the audio hardware).
Finney Global Competition
No serious engineering team would use this and if github have decided to do it, then count me out.
there are entire communities dedicated to hd rips. so yes.

keep in mind, they won't be small.
It sounds like you are not being challenged enough. Look for a new role or a new company?
> used by every major social media company.

Substantiate your comment with concrete, up-to-date sources otherwise your claim can be dismissed as baseless.

For example, in TikTok's own privacy policy: [0]

> "We may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information as defined under US laws, such as faceprints and voiceprints, from your User Content. Where required by law, we will seek any required permissions from you prior to any such collection."

Given that it has been admitted after a privacy lawsuit [1] which confirmed that all of this was the case, How is this not worse than the other social media companies that already collect your data, but in this case it also includes voiceprints?

On top of that, they were sued for billions for abusing under-age children's data of this year [2]. Then I asked you how long until they screw with their users again? [3]. No response or evidence from you obviously but after that question, it turns out it took them 22 days to do it again. [4]

So actually 'Yes'. My point still stands.

[0] https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy?lang=en

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/25/22301704/tiktok-92-millio...

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56815480

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27553242

[4] https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/news/tiktok-fined-v...