skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguably the non-technical issues are equally important and, according to the essay, those were the reasons they ended up choosing Rust going forwards.

>Pony [...] has a smaller community, and as a small startup we were better off not having to solve problems outside our core domain

>wealth of available libraries

>access to a large community that will guarantee ongoing future support

>a wide variety of tools

>much larger pool of engineers who are eager to learn and work in Rust, or who already have significant Rust experience

>more resources available for learning Rust, and more opportunities for participation in conferences, etc.

Didn't say that Pony was bad for some technical reason. It was/is bad choice for a startup to use due to being a relatively new, niche language.
Are you a full time software engineer in the United States ?

A decent programer can make at least 100k almost anywhere in the US. I'd expect anyone running a tech company to make more than their own developers.

You don't even need to be a good developer, you can use an easier language like Python or JavaScript. Honestly 90% of success in this industry is not being a jerk and showing up on time. I've seen developers outright confront C level execs and predictably it doesn't work out so well.

The other 10% is luck. Occasionally you'll have a bad manager, or you'll join a company which doesn't manage their money well. And the only thing you can do in that case is leave.
I get your point and thanks for the info -- I wasn't aware that ArcaOS was out there. It's a testament to how long it truly takes to make a technology go completely "extinct".

Like a lot of technology, once it's embedded into something important, it becomes hard to get rid of. But for 99.999% of us, it's a relic of the past (tense).

I'm not sure where OS/2 is used in production, today. I was surprised in the late 90s that the 2.x version was deployed at my first job more than DOS/Windows or Windows 95+ was. I remember finding out in the mid-00s that OS/2 was used in many ATM machines (and at one point may have been very common there)[0].

For most of us, it became past-tense when IBM stopped marketing it to consumers, later not marketing it to businesses and ultimately IBMs exit from the PC/server business. It's still alive much like AmigaOS is still alive. It died when large organizations, a lot of which were sold on the idea that it was "the next Windows" in the late 80s -- ones that believed "nobody gets fired for recommending IBM[1]" started deploying Windows 95.

[0] I'm guessing this is due to banks being large consumers of IBMs mainframe business, this didn't surprise me. The first company I worked at had a large liquid cooled mainframe that took up a floor of a datacenter, investment in COBOL programs/programmers and a whole department dedicated to supporting said device, its jobs, its software and its upgrades.

[1] This later became "Microsoft" but it originated, there.
Show HN: I just released my first arcade game on Steam
I had the exact same experience. I even had VX-REXX. I got a job building a satellite NOC based on OS/2 because I had it on my resume at the time. Loved it. Really loved it.
Menial work less satisfying than commanding or developing is a pretty satirical definition of volunteering.
I think that’s okay, I’m in the same position that I trust Apple more in handling this than the apps themselves. Eg I’ve read some interesting stories on how hard it is to cancel a NYTimes subscription.

What is - on my opinion - problematic is that apple prohibits alternative payment options. Eg I’d be happy to see (8€ per month with apple [pay now], 7€ per month direct [register on our website], but even that’s prohibited. That is Apple using its position as one of the 2 major phone offerings to prevent competition in a way that I consider monopolistic.
You're overreacting, it's not agent orange. It's a setting you can disable. It's also an open source browser with forks that disable the setting for you.

But this is exactly why I feel Mozilla and Firefox deserve more respect. If we're free to fork their code, then any such decision from their part to keep their funding should be met with respect from the user base.
A company that gets bad PR as the result of a court case might be able to get the ruling overturned but that does not trump the right of the public to know what transpires in the courts. And no, then Apple could not - and should not be able to - sue for damages because they are themselves recognizing the power of the courts as arbiters in these matters.

Similarly: if the ruling is upheld Apple does not get to pay more because they - apparently improperly - asked for the previous ruling to be kept secret.

Courts should operate in a transparent manner whenever possible otherwise the trust in the legal system will erode and that trumps the commercial interests of any single company, even one as large as Apple.
> The only way to make profit on bitcoin is to make someone else poorer by that amount. That's what makes it a ponzi - anything with this property that pretends to be an investment is one. Implementation details are irrelevant.

I'm really far from an expert in economics so I could be wrong but ain't that how the stock market works for non-dividends stocks?
GnuPG 2.2.32 (LTS) fixes a problem with Let's Encrypt
Cheaper and better solar cells on the horizon
> Then people complain nowadays when their build takes longer than 1 second.

My father wrote in Fortran during the 70's while at the university. He told me that he left the programs (stack of punched cards) with the "computer operator" on Friday and went back to get the "results" on Monday. Sometimes, the result was simply a syntax error message.
Common chemicals in electronics and baby products harm brain development
Feature comparison of ack, ag, Git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep
Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
they do - the first 1m$ only cost 15% - It's btw the same with the Google Play Store
they should make the rules broader, e.g. any industry where a single participant holds more than X% of the market must do things complying with A, B and C.
That might make sense for dealing with a company I've never heard of before, from which I'm just installing an app from the App Store.

But the way I see it, it doesn't make sense when dealing with companies I have a preexisting relationship with, like my phone provider, energy provider, kids' school, work serices, all kinds of online entertainment providers, etc, etc. I may want to be able to interact with them through my phone, and there shouldn't be any third party controlling and profiting from that interaction.
https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/video/2021/crystalclose.mp4
I was pretty happy when my randomly generated imgur URL of a photo of a telephone cake I made ended up being xxTEL.

https://imgur.com/gallery/xXtEL
right, the company should be self sustaining and he shouldn't be burning through his savings
You do not need facial recognition to provide such services. This is completely wasted money in my opinion that could be spend on actual help.
Almost all of them are legitimate. Most of them are speculative, but that doesn't mean they're a scam.
FWIW, the "Leveling Tie" connection is for when you're using compression on a stereo signal - it ensures that the same level of gain reduction is applied to each side, to avoid disturbing the stereo image.
I think you misunderstood my argument. Customer here translates to 'the one who is in a billable relationship with a service provider'.
I mean, that you didn't experience this doesn't mean it's not a thing.

I've absolutely seen it from military families I know, and it's absolutely a known phenomenon. It's great it wasn't an issue for you, though!
The article is an Encyclopaedia entry about a specific thing. It's not an article about the general issues around retirements in Japan. it's about this one specific syndrome. It is not reasonable for it to discuss different topics that might have different causes, effects, etc.

If you wanted to raise that issue here that's fine, it's arguably on topic here to ask if there's a complementary syndrome affecting husbands and what that is and to discuss issues around it. That's fine, but this isn't an appropriate criticism of the article.
I used Paddle once, many years ago, with a unique "+" address, and still get spam to that address to this day. These days I don't buy software if Paddle is the only option. I always thought the name Paddle was something to do with the flood of spam you can expect.
Linux Finally Runs on Apple's M1-Based Computer Natively
Good question, I actually went through their budget report a few days ago. I'm not from the states but they seem to be spending over 300 million dollars a year on developer salaries alone. And considering they're HQ'd in Silicon Valley I guess that's not so strange.

The bulk of their income is from Google donating 450 million USD every year just to remain the default search choice. That shouldn't reflect poorly on Mozilla, it should make you question how Google can just throw 450 million dollars on remaining the default search choice in a browser with 1% market share.

It should make you question the massive monopoly that is Google, not Mozilla who are struggling to make open source software for people.
I personally haven't used it but Jane Street heavily uses OCaml and has written a blog post on this: https://blog.janestreet.com/using-python-and-ocaml-in-the-sa...
We certainly didn't win.
Do not use AWK for that. Perl is best suited for that, literally. It was born as a better version of AWK.

AWK is for tools less than 20 lines long. Anything more, use Perl, please.
In my mid sixties and I am getting as many head hunter hits as I have ever had. Everybody knows my age, I don't hide it. Thirty seven years as an active engineer, consciously avoided moving into management because I know I would not be a good manager, though I have had an excellent time mentoring over the duration of my career. Mentoring an individual is very different from managing a project and a team. My LinkedIn post shows my entire technical career back to 1984.

If anything, my experience is that 60 is the new 40.
Samsung To Mass Produce 2nm Chips in 2025
We’ll technically I don’t think they’re able to, but they can ban prepaid cards which I think is how they’re classified.
SRE Doesn’t Scale
I'm not sure I follow your short structure but you're mentioning other cryptocurrencies. Is there a clean bet where I sell Tethers and get dollars? (USDC are not dollars.)
Nope, occasionally exchanges will manipulate the price up to liquidate shorts - for instance the highest recorded trade price of USDT was about $1000 and dexes leave you at risk of flashbots and smart contract bugs.
Thunkable: Build powerful, native mobile apps without coding
It makes sense; before formal language humans still had to intuit “how much” food, water, sleep, would maintain life.

I sometimes wonder if romantic era language forced on the species by warlords is actually responsible for a lot of our cognitive dissonance and Duning-Kruger like traits.

After all, dimension, distance, weight, shape, color gradient, etc, are all right in front of us.

Ownership, theory, value stores, etc. all conceptual. Ideas defined by the dead and put upon the next generation to babysit or else!

We try to make concept concrete and ignore what’s happening literally.
An extremely simple thing like having two objects stored in a struct where one object has a reference to the other is a Herculean task in Rust. This is not a language designed for prototyping...
>And it also hit them that 90% of their socialization came through work, and that their friends that still work, need to prioritize their own spare time.

When Covid hit and I was WFH, I was hit with this fact. I HAD to learn new ways to socialize.

Best of luck to anyone who needs to learn this.
We don't know yet. We live in a world where the web is seeing increased centralization on a variety of fronts with Google and Facebook among those leading the charge.
Self directed IRAs under attack in proposed tax bill
But the Japanese syndrome is about the spouse of the retiree, not the retiree himself. I saw this with my parents - mom retired a few years before dad. When he eventually retired, he drove her nuts for a while. After 9 months or so, they found a new rhythm.

But I agree - the retiree needs a hobby for their own sanity. My parents took up nature photography. My father-in-law got serious about bowling.
That it would be a massive boon to Infosys and TCS…
Absolutely, and different RISCs coped with it in their own ways. ARM has 12-bit immediates which it treats as having a 8-bit and a 4-bit parts: the 8-bit part is extended into 32 bits and then rotated right twice the number in the 4-bit part. MIPS has 16-bit immediates and the 32-bit load is generally done by LUI then ORI (since MIPS zero-extends the immediates unlike RISC-V which sign-extends those). And RISC-V has 12- (for lower part of the word) and 20-bit (for the upper part) immediates.

The funny part is, there is now the "C" extension to RISC which introduces 16-bit instructions which are allowed to freely mix with 32-bit instructions — so now those 32-bit instructions can be 16-bit aligned and even be split between two physical memory pages which kinda kills the whole "but at least fixed-length encoding prevents Spectre-like exploits" argument.
For context, Sorted is one of the more prominent productivity apps in the Apple ecosystem. They also have what appears to be a pretty nice privacy policy, which would be my concern for these apps that want integration with your calendar information.

https://www.sortedapp.com/privacy
A ratchet is a good analogy. But let's not call it consent.
That is what they tell themselves. Did they sell the newspaper talking about the story? Did they run ads in the newspaper? No, their motive was profit and playing off people’s voyeurism.
Is anyone being forced to use The ZunePhone Pro 10 or the iPhone? Android dominates worldwide with a staggering 70%+ depending on who you ask.

I do agree that companies shouldn't be so powerful tho
Only if the VPN means you have a VPN and a jump box. If it's "VPN with direct access to several servers and no jump box" there's still only one layer to compromise.
oh, this is XML land then. Not convinced my point was wrong, though.
I commend the author. It’s not easy to take risks like this, especially when we are paid so much. In a world where money is so cheap I’m surprised more people aren’t taking calculated risks like this.

The opportunity cost maybe high to begin with, but if this doesn’t work I’m sure the author could also get a decently paid job again. He’s well qualified and has lots of experience, so there’ll be another job if he really needs one. Also having a Swiss passport provides a pretty soft landing if things really go wrong.
Anything wrong with Opera or Opera GX?
Agreed on all fronts. I spent some of my childhood running around in their simulation control room. It's a really old plant. I would have preferred to see a tech refresh, replacing DCPP with many small modular modern nuclear power plants spread evenly throughout the state. All states for that matter. Idaho is working on some for the military but it will probably be a while before those are deployed commercially. Wyoming is about to have some newer nuclear plants so there is hope but those are also a ways out.
Sometimes pacing makes a huge difference, actually, and you can smurf your performance metrics to a better place by cutting out times, day ranges, demographics, and so on.
How would you benefit from expert house cleaning in Toronto?
You will not have to fret over your home being too unclean with built-up grime if you have a reputable services provider for Commercial cleaning Etobicoke, on a regular basis. Coming especially after a long whole day of work to a gleaming house that seems so fresh is invaluable. Particularly when you consider that rather than sweeping and washing your rooms after supper, you may rest in your comfy recliner and watch your favorite series.
I enjoy that the author(OP) posted an article about how excited they are to build a product that doesn't have a landing page, social media page, or reference to on their own website.
Please, Firefox; just give me a way to pay you $10/month. Call it "Firefox Pro" and you get some new color themes or whatever, I don't care. I'm standing outside your window in the rain, waving cash at you, and you're still selling your body on the street-corner for quarters.
The consulting / building combo is a good way to keep earning moderately well while trying to build a new co.

Building revenue generation is not easy. If you're going all-in on the build, there may well come a point where if your revenues are not sufficient you will start to feel pain. If you can structure the development process to deliver revenue from as simple and maintainable a product as possible and quickly find a route to sales that would be ideal.

I would guess that in terms of surviving to long term viability there are far more not-so-great but quickly revenue-generating products than there are great products that were unfortunately slow to get recognised and generate revenue. With cash, further development is possible to clean a product up - without it, even great stuff will rot. There are tons of genius ideas that have been through successful (working) development but then just died because they never made money.

Access sales resource - effective sales resource (not easy to find) - as quickly as possible. If you're aiming for investment financing, remember that few things build investor confidence like existing sales and cash flow.
You didn't even mention kids, which adds a new dimension of stress.
The fees scale with revenue - what I'm saying is that Apple's own costs do not scale with the revenue they take from companies on the app store.

e.g. A single transaction of $10,000 does not Apple more than $100 other than the beforementioned financial transaction fee.
That's great! Given so many of Apple's customers prefer that, I'm sure the app makers will continue to accommodate you, and offer the two options at different prices. Since Apple being a middleman is so valuable to y'all, I'm sure you'll be happy to pay the 30% extra for that service.
Obligatory post
http://datassette.net/businessfunk/
So my resume concentrates on the last five years, with the prior 30+ being mere bullet items, in the event you want to ask. You are correct that no one really cares about what you have done outside the last five years.
> No word can actually harm you directly.

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" is something told to children in the playground who are too young to know better.

You might as well argue that there's no such thing as malware, because its entirely harmless until executed on a processor.
>an urgency that every hobby needs to be monetized as a side gig

Of course it needs to be monetized. This is America - if you are good at it, it must make money

BTW, this is SOLID sarcasm.
This is not his 1983 paper, but an updated version (May 14, 2021).

The abstract states:

This new long version of my 1983 paper suggests the goals you might have for your system—
Simple, Timely, Efficient, Adaptable, Dependable, Yummy (STEADY)—and techniques for
achieving them—Approximate, Incremental, Divide & Conquer (AID). It also gives some princi-
ples for system design that are more than just hints, and many examples of how to apply the ideas.

Lampson, for those who don't have heard of him, was one of the main forces behind the Xerox Alto (first PC with a graphical user interface) and WYSIWYG text editing (just to name a few, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler_Lampson).
>It instantly bring classiness level up a ton, but man is it expensive.

We have the final sale bill from when the family farm was auctioned off. I thought it would be neat to frame it for my dad, as a memento (it was a retirement, not a loss). Holy shit is custom framing expensive. I was shocked, SHOCKED I TELL YOU, to hear that it was going to be ~$300 for the right glass and frame that size.

I decided then that my woodworking needed to focus on framing if I ever wanted to make money. (and cutting boards/charcuterie boards)
Population studies run into different issues you want both. I recall an early study showing vaccination being significantly more effective, but that’s before current variants showed up etc.

Really you can’t draw accurate conclusions from any one study but multiple studies give you a better picture of what’s going on. Large numbers of people falsely believe they had COVID, people who survived COVID are healthier than the general population because the other option is death, the most common infection doesn’t get a strong immune response, vaccine recipients tend to be older and in worse health etc.

That said, an otherwise healthy person who got very sick from COVID and got multiple high quality tests verifying exposure likely does have a significantly better long term protection. But, that’s not representative of the general population that had COVID.
"Dropping your salary by over 75% to below poverty wages doesn't signal to me that you have "skin in the game"

Why not? Author remains exposed to the upside through equity but their downside was always limited by their comfortable salary

You might think that's a poor choice, and you might be right, but it's the very definition of skin in the game that poorer choices on their part leaves them more exposed to a poorer outcome.
Its not the language its the people, instagram is almost entirely run on python, if they can so can you. https://instagram-engineering.com/tagged/python
Failing to freelance in data visualization – reflections from calling it quits
>Huxley seems to be dead afraid of a society in which the monogamous family is washed away by technology and higher forms of social organization, without really making the case why hanging out in the reservation is supposed to be any good.

The case he makes is his horrifying depiction of the alternative to the monogamous family. You're correct in identifying his fears, but I personally don't see that they're unfounded. I can't help but feel an instinctual revulsion at "the monogamous family being washed away by technology and higher forms of social organization", its a profound loss of individuality
You can easily avoid such constructs in most cases though.
> I think it's a bit too early to break out the outrage cannon. This is just an automated system.

Maybe? I'm not in the ads space. I don't know if there are automated systems built in with "you now only have 16 hours to display the ads, display them even when they're less relevant".

> If you were an ad customer during this period and you feel you weren't getting your expected value, ask for a credit?

Why do customers need to do this when Facebook messed up, and had to learn about this, and look into performance, from a source other than Facebook?

> If you weren't - why are you so upset? Are you just looking for some excuse to feel angry at Facebook?

Y u mad bro? hasn't worked in quite a while.
> But my original point is that this change is hard also for men and this is not addressed in the article -- its very one sided.

You're surprised an article about wives is "very one sided"?
Tech companies engaging in monopolistic practices to destroy competition? You don't say.

It happened to me. If you're in the industry long enough, I'll wager it happens to you too.
Unless they have significant savings and/or some passive income, or they don't have family and can live with their parents or adopt a very frugal lifestyle, they will find their focus distracted by worries over everyday things like rent and bills. They are more likely to make poor short-term decisions, or have to supplement their income to do things like consulting or part-time work, to literally keep the lights on.

As an investor I'd be very concerned by this move.