skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- nexus s: no issues, after 2 years battery was meh
- nexus 4: the only issue was usb port after 2 years of use
- nexus 5x: no issues
- nexus 6p (owned by my girlfriend): strange issue with battery, the phone just shut off after 20% of use and showed 0%; after warranty repair the phone is still working and had no issues
- pixel 2xl (owned by my girlfriend): no issues per see, but was droped in the bus and the screen got cracks
- pixel 4: no issues so far
- pixel 5 (owned by my girlfriend): no issues so far

all of these phones I still own and store them in the boxes, they still are working.
Belgium to return Patrice Lumumba's tooth to murdered Congolese leader's family
None of that is the fault of the chicken. The sky would’ve fallen on the idiots in charge anyway. They’re just trying to shift the blame. This is the true moral of that particular fable.

Also, don’t go around tempering children; “seen but not heard” is dark ages, Victorian values nightmare fuel.
Actually low interest rates are one of the primary causes of monetary inflation due to how fractional reserve banking works.

The TLDR is this. I borrow a million dollars, and give it to you for a house. You deposit it, and your bank loans 97% of it to someone else. They deposit that, and loan 97% of that out again... ad infinitum.

Commonly this is called the "money multiplier."
Love this saying and from my experience, a lot of people actually do exactly this.

I've worked with many managers that used to be bad developers. Most of them were bad managers aswell.

I've also worked with a few managers that were still very good coders, they tended to be much more hands on and productive with their managing aswell.
That was wat I was worried about as well. Thank you for making it clear to me.
It does, and several teams seem lost in political battles trying to make their own stack the next UI while handwaving the chaos, yet Win32/Forms/MFC/WPF aren't going away, if one wants to code something today that will keep on running.

I bet Windows 11 will still provide the VB 6 runtime.
People who have a lot can afford to gamble.

People who have a little can’t afford to gamble.

People who have nothing can’t afford not to gamble.
Would be nice to have an example. 6h/40h software development doesn't really say much about scope and is highly dependent on your experience with the tools necessary to perform the task.
Being smart doesn't necessarily mean that you'll be able to deliver. Teams can suffer from having too little process as well as from too much.
You should donate to them because when you use them at those very rare times, they are your only option. They really care about preserving the past.

Also, who cares about the UI if you only use them rarely? You don't buy ice cream from ugly ice cream sellers either? :)
And as with the Pied Piper, it’s the fault of bad management.

Only an asshole blames the chicken. You had a high sensitivity early warning device, and muted it because you couldn’t handle the false positive rate? That is not the fault of the device.
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I get the need to safeguard condominiums and high-rises, but what is that to single or duplex home owners?
This article is very light and based roughly on the qualitative study linked in another comment. The study reads like a summary of Hacker News thoughts on tech hiring, which isn't much news to me.
The initial anti-body levels produced by Biontech are ridiculously high, something in the 10,000s, while other vaccines produce 1000 or 100. Any value above a few dozen or so is good.
So 20% of 10,000 after six months is not really worrisome.
Better get it done before 2024, when Mickey Mouse is due to enter the public domain!
By "serial hired hand" I think the article is taking about someone who is technically a contractor but gets repeatedly contacted by the same company for the same project over a period of years. They end with (almost) the same level code ownership as a regular employee. That's not what the parent comment was taking about.
Is this a Submarine, I wonder? http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

(Diff with https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2004... to see some interesting similarities. "Suits are back, and so is lumber.")
Windows is a mix of legacy C code, which started to be migrated into C++ around the Vista time (hence /kernel in VC++) and .NET/COM (WinRT is basically COM with some extras).

Modern kernel code makes use of WIL.

https://github.com/microsoft/wil
Yeah, drivers for mobile devices are already not upstreamed, and are mostly only available in the binary form.
A colleague used to call this "reading the manual in the bathroom".
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Instead of running full blown secondary HA instances for that, simply use ESPhome on a ESP32. I used that method to pick up the signals of a couple of bluetooth hygrometers in the cellar: https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2021-08/16-humidity_control_...
Opvia (YC S20) Is Hiring in London
It works well enough for Playstation developers.
Which is only the first half of the story for many installations.

If something at your place uses SSDP/MDNS/UPNP/etc to communicate/find_each_other, you'll then have to start doing multicast bridging/rewriting and other hacks. And for those, there is no one-recipe-fits-all.
Yeah, and who knows, soon might even manage to get to the moon, something we already did in 1969. But now better and cheaper (with tech made 50+ years after the last mission, it would a challenge not to do it better and cheaper - but is it half a century worth of better and cheaper? Considering the dreams then was a moon base and mission to mars coming in the next decades, something that never came to be).
Does running on efficiency cores actually save power in this case? Since it has to run longer.

Or that wasn't the goal, just for fun?
It's actually only easy for them to stop this because reverse engineering their code, extracting secrets, and then selling a product with those secrets is forbidden by law.
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Just for fun, I wonder what the betting odds are that the laws will change before then so it doesn't!
I'm getting imposter syndrome from reading these two posts. Just how much time did you guys spend on this?
> you're free to publish your propaganda but not without opposition

Not without illegal criminal acts you mean? You’re using euphemisms to excuse authoritarian actions by anti free speech digital thugs.

> Left-ish people are among the most tolerant people your can find, unless you tolerate intolerance. That's a hard line.

I’m sure this moral certainty sounds virtuous to you, but it is simply intolerant in the end. The use of malleable and subjective opinions as purity tests doesn’t make you right and doesn’t make these criminal actions ethical or moral.
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That covers suits against states, not against the US government.

The state exemption is apparently based on a sovereignity clause, though ... that seems somewhat twisted and wrong to me.

I'm thinking of ways that might exploit this.

Say, for the sake of argument, that a state government decided it wanted to host and provide legal cover for Sci-Hub.

Or an entity of state government. Maybe, say, the University of California Library.
> 3. It ignores second order effects. It assumes that forbidding prostitution will eliminate it and doesn’t consider the additional risk of harm resulting from pushing prostitution to the black market.

At it's heart this is an argument of pragmatism, but it is never checked to see if it actually works.

Like many prohibitions, the negative unintended consequences are worse than than the original problem they purport, but entirely fail to fix.
As someone who is rotating out of a consulting unit, I tend to agree. It is a very valuable experience, albeit one that may well lead to faster burnout.
That's mainly because we started exporting most of the wood to North America, creating our own shortage here in Europe. Hence, prices went up here too.
The Choice of a GNU Generation an Interview with Linus Torvalds (1993)
London Underground trains are getting faster
Correct, though the assertion here was that the Federal government has immunity.
A ~14 year bull market, interest rates, and the last decade+ of appreciation on real estate. Everyone is flush with cash and borrowing money against a home is free.
If you use the military to protect yourself why don't you want to sell them products to help them do their job? Are those people below you just because they do a job you don't want to do? Or do you think you don't need the military?
Notes for Linux Release 0.01
I actually mentioned Harry Potter because when I went to their website after unrestricted lending was announced, the first thing I saw was literally a carousel of the entire Harry Potter series, followed by Stephen King's Dark Tower novels.

There were some textbooks (almost exclusively college level ones), but they were located at the bottom of the page below the bodice-ripper "Romance" category. The unrestricted lending wasn't limited to certain categories or anything like that.
I see your point now. But either way, this was the original post:

> only real android competitor is manufactured by one company who doesn't allow even the end user to install apps not directly approved by Apple

Even if android and apple might be strongly separate segments of the smartphone market, since they are the only relevant ones at play (FirefoxOS is no more, harmony doesn't have significant market share and pure Linux is not a thing yet), they are the only competitiors of each other, because, even if not to frequently, we do observe people switching from apple to android and vice versa, people have no other alternative to get a mobile device to run their apps on.

Your point still stands, someone that's on android and want to leave android but doesn't like apple because they run the business in such a dramatic way, might feel like an OS monopoly, because Android and apple are so different from each other. Still, since both run out apps, both run browsers, both (usually) have cameras, etc etc, they are still competitiors, even if very weak ones (your car analogy doesn't apply here anymore, since smartphones and cars are very different, but it was a good analogy till now, but analogies only go so far).
If the packaging doesn't inform you of side effects from the medication then the doctor prescribing it should. The doctor can also limit refills to prevent overuse.

FYI - There are other side effects from long-term use of steroidal ointments.
Actually the reverse, building codes for most of the US are a joke. We continue to build horribly inefficient and uncomfortable homes because every extra penny is spent on square footage and extra McMansion features. When houses become financial instruments there is no incentive to make houses into good homes, despite building science folks jumping up and down for decades.

Houses are complicated systems that need to control heat, moisture, water, and power while removing waste. This whole thing needs to be structurally sound while burning slowly enough so that you have time to react and escape in case of a fire. These are the most important investments most people ever make, and for the most part we are all served the cheapest legally permissible house that consumes as much space as possible.
Merging two Flatpak (OSTree) repositories
What happens if a state decides ... say ... that it wants to host Sci-Hub?
Get someone you know to call the builder for a quote. Maybe they know you really want it so jacked up the price.
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Someone knows how to implement or want implement the Graph Algorithm listed at https://github.com/ZigRazor/CXXGraph/issues ?
> that they would have spotted this upfront

Of course they say that. What would you think if they said the opposite?
Ouch. Not at all the case. Stumbled upon this article and thought it was interesting. I fully agree with the opinions here that the author of the article writes some strange things as well, but still thought it was worth sharing..
Webcam feed.
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This has got to be the most obnoxious cookie banner created to date. Also, have you checked their “required cookies”? Most likely one giant GDPR violation.
What a wild coincidence!
Transportation costs seem high:

> It’s difficult to ship lumber overseas cost effectively: lumber is (or was) one of the least expensive materials on the planet. At $300 per 1000 board feet (the average price over the last 25 years), a 20 foot shipping container holds just $4500 worth of material. The cost of transporting a container across the ocean is $1700 dollars or more.

https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/lumber-price-faq
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"You asked about that stick by the side of the house? Yes, it applies a style to the house, keeping it straight. No, don't pull it out! Consequences will be... cascading!"

(I'll see myself out)
As much as it is good they're paying you to take on a longer project, most people that are currently employed can't take this project without being in conflict with their current job. (Or even having time for it)

I think tech companies are forgetting that firing people is an option.
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I don't think that's true.

You're a freelancer, that works for a US company.

A consultant is an advisor, that should have some specific technical or domain knowledge to advise people with.

In reality, everyone can call themself a consultant and i bet you can charge better money calling yourself consultant, even if you don't possess any specific knowledge and just work as a regular dev.
Daily Notes / #17
My stepdad was a software engineer and built our house growing up. The house was fabulous. The construction took 15 years of hard labor as a full time second job.
Oh, indeed ... and it is reproducible. Maybe they review your NSA track history manually in case you say 'No' to the cookies.

(btw: loading the widget itself took over 7 seconds)
I think the problem with tech hiring is the same as with a lot of problems in technology. The guys making the decisions just don't understand technology.
I think it comes up often because:

- A lot of people here dream of better shell languages

- Oil is very ambitious in that regard

- Oil has a lot of in depth and well written articles about itself, and shell languages in general

- Oil creator is active on HN
Oh, very interesting. Honestly, I have no problem receiving the information after all its trade value is exhausted. Not looking to trade in this area. Is expired info available for free somewhere?
Indeed. I also thought the ad hominem at the end was uncalled-for and unnecessary.

I'm very glad for the vaccine, it allowed me to start acting a bit more like a human again.

But words like "overwhelming" and "fully preventable" are their own kind of evil. Even a risk reduction as high as 90% only means your previous risk is now a tenth of what it was, but not zero or anything close to it.

This means people should still be using other measures to stop the spread, and perhaps words like "overwhelming" and "fully preventable" are enabling cavalier behaviours that are detrimental. One might even go as far as saying that people who enable such detrimental behaviours are a menace to society?

See? It's quite easy to reverse the ad hominem. Best to leave it out of a conversation altogether.
Please stop giving our authoritarian overlords ideas
Similar data for Italy (previous 30 days) https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/7021427/

And source https://www.epicentro.iss.it/en/coronavirus/sars-cov-2-integ...
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Shipping is so expensive, if you start shipping wood instead of sourcing it locally, then no wonder the price is going to go up even faster.

What should have been a good alternative here, is to prevent/taxe massively exports of wood from EU to NA. Prices would have stagnated near a peak in NA and we would have kept our wood supply at a moderated price, here.
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But I already have devices running linux-SBCs with "free" bluetooth in most rooms. Why should I need to add ESP32s just for that?

And what about the second-home-case I also mentioned?

Also, I use remote_homeassistant also for e.g HDMI-CEC-control of devices in other rooms/places, which ESPHome cannot do.

(I agree though, ESPhome@ESP32 is a viable solution for some subset of situations)
As others have pointed out there are certainly better sources for the same information.

My thinking was either the OP didn't read all of it (bad) or didn't find the tinfoil stuff shocking enough to completely disqualify the rest of the content from being worth reading (bad) or the OP simply agrees with the article author (bad).

The fourth alternative "Well the article was interesting and I didn't really think just one crazy tinfoil paragraph changes that" doesn't make any sense to me tbh.
As a first step, how about transparency?

Currently companies can do what they want in secret.

Perhaps they should be able to do what they want, but in the open so it can be examined and criticized.

That means their blacklists, algorithms, word lists, preferred user lists, and reasons for banning users become openly accessible.

Even without compelling them directly to change anything, compelling them to be transparent would help a lot.
Thank you for the extensive and thoughtful comment! This does help clarify your approach quite considerably. I wonder, since you are hoping to attract collaborators, whether there is some kind of formal spec for the language somewhere? For example, you mentioned parallel efforts: suppose I wanted to write a port to pure C; is there any way, short of reading every one of your posts and trying to contain the whole language in my head at once, for me to know exactly what I need to implement?

Something I've been trying to figure out: what is the exact relationship at present between OSH and Oil? When you say "OSH" do you mean the language, or the shell itself "oil shell"? If Oil is not something I can download, why exactly does that `const v = max(1, 2)` statement work in osh? It's clearly not just a Bash implementation, it's got other features. Is that a subset of Oil's features? Which subset?

Since you're also interested in other shells, you might have a look at pyp [1]. It captures a lot of the way I personally would like to use some future shell. If the features of pyp were integrated into the shell itself, you wouldn't need an external command, you could just (for example) pipe the output of one program into a python-like statement that mangles the incoming strings in some way, and pipe that out to some xargs-like program to use in a subshell. (The fact that you apparently can't use the pipe in what Xonsh calls "Python mode" is for me the central limiting feature of that shell.)

[1] https://github.com/hauntsaninja/pyp
The modern web in a nutshell: "We've had enough of so-called 'experts', we know better!".
Clearly multiple people in this thread and the original article itself. Maybe you’re looking in the wrong places?
Again, you're confusing two different things. You can still wrap error messages and have a stack trace.
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“The PHDA dataset was used in order to calculate the ASMRs by vaccination status and Table 3. One of the main strengths of the linked PHDA is that it combines a rich set of demographic and socio-economic factors from the 2011 Census and 2019 Patient Register with pre-existing conditions based on clinical records. This unique dataset was linked to NIMS and Test and Trace to allow us to analyse how ASMRs differ by vaccination status, when people were infected relative to vaccination, and examine the characteristics of people by vaccination status and infection date.

The PHDA contains data on approximately 79% of the population of England aged 10 years and over and includes 85.9% of all deaths of residents in England that occurred between 2 January 2021 and 2 July 2021 and were registered by 28 July 2021.“
I think most of what is wrong with technical hiring is bias and expectations:

- There is always an age bias. Younger==cheaper in every single HR department in the world, but tech experience (and output) often increments faster than age.

- Someone who’s spent a couple of years not coding because they decided to try management or consulting will get passed over because interviewers don’t really expect them to want to code anymore. Never mind if they actually consulted for and designed systems that are currently running in the Fortune 500.

- Timezones and “meeting quorums” are very tightly aligned in some hiring manager’s minds. If someone can’t make half the meetings because they’re offset four hours, managers get antsy.

- US/non-US is still a massive chasm. The first question I got from every FAANG interviewer was “when do you think you can relocate?”. And the pay differential is atrocious.

Remote helps a bit, but the age bias will get to us all.
I have the same complaint about the Bolt's radio. It seems the issue is that pressing the power button merely mutes the radio. If you can figure out how to actually turn off the radio when the car is on, it doesn't turn back on when the car is turned on.

The infotainment in mine also sometimes will not boot for a good 5-10 minutes. Why. I don't know.

Otherwise, I love the damn thing and wish it weren't a giant fire hazard.
> I really wish they hadn't dictated the end of YAML/declarative configurations.

Agree here. I wouldn't mind replacing YAML itself with some kind of other configuration language or stable configuration API as long as I'm able to use a IaC/declarative approach to create a immutable/disposable HA instance. But they seem to be going more and more toward GUI only configurations. Meaning if the application state is broken, you can only rely on (outdated) backups or doing everything manually through the GUI again.

This, together with the core team's hostile attitude towards alternative installation methods and other OSS projects like NixOS[0] has really turned me sour against what used to be a great and fun open source project to contribute to.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27505277
Particularly in the contract market - I often see the process for taking on a contractor or consultant play out the exact same way as for an employee, forgetting that the interview process is very flawed and you can send the consultant home at any point you feel like with zero comeback.

That said I’ve also seen companies pay contractors a month’s severance for no reason whatsoever too. A lot of places don’t seem to understand what they’re doing.
What global problem? The largest tech companies are either US or Chinese companies. The Chinese government is starting to take a hard line on Chinese tech giants. It's only the US government who hasn't made a move yet.

First result on Google: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-is-china-smashing-its-...

For other countries, it's hard to regulate foreign companies especially if legislation can't be enforced, or in some cases, those foreign companies just threaten to leave the market. Only the EU has unquestionable power (i.e. market size) to make US companies comply, and they have made various legislation and rulings that limit the power of these tech giants (eg. GDPR).