skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the U.S. this "withholding" happens as well. Regular employee paychecks already lose a chunk of nominal income attributed to various buckets, federal and state and maybe local level. Toward the beginning of the next year comes the grand reconciliation though, where what you "really owe" gets computed, only roughly matching what already is withheld. There are so many rules, exclusions, exceptions, additions. They individually make some sense, or did at some point, but are very confusing, with implications that sometimes stretch over many years.
There is currently no reduction in infections among double vaccinated people in Israel. Waning protection against infection means that any study giving a single number for reduction is a snapshot of a situation in the past, not a predictor. Perhaps staggered booster administration in 3 month intervals could achieve a constant reduction approaching 90%.
My “desktop” of the last 8 1/2 is an MBP. Perfectly usable, does mail and web and zoom and a couple more things perfectly well. Only 8GB of ram, but Safari seems to become faster and require less resources with each update (Firefox …. Less so)

It still received the most recent OS updates.

Battery life is not as good at 8yrs - but still has a few hours of juice in it.

Overlooking the butterfly keyboard fiasco, Apple makes robust long lived hardware, and software to support it.

It’s market does not include the 3% “piecemeal” upgraders. But I suspect in “amount of time component is use” metrics it handily beats the wintel world (and the Android world)
It's intentional and normal. Academic papers traditionally write in plural form (regardless of co-authors) as it feels more inclusive towards the reader.
In the installation page they just say to download the prebuilt binaries for your system, no need to compile it your self
Who reads though?

We had a build prerequisite check that output "error: package xxx is out of date, run sudo apt upgrade - see wiki.local/XXX for more details"

They still copied the error to me and asked what to do. I said follow the instructions in the message. They said cool thanks and did so.
It is definitely not bubble sort, which only uses a single index comparing items next to each other in the array.
Honestly, I just want email, phone, ect, to only allow contacts from whitelists. (Kind of like how Facebook Messenger works.)
Taking my comment as right wing is interesting to me. Personally I have found that it transcends the left and right wing labels and applies generally to those in power, that is why I included things like sports and the Catholic Church was previously mentioned. Is it your observation that it occurs more in what you consider left wing organizations?
then you've probably never worked in the Chinese tech sector because it is the literal Wild West. The competitor manipulation story in this case is utterly believable to anyone who has ever seen in what kind of quasi feudal wars Chinese tech companies are often engaged, because there is virtually no government oversight. Regulators on the mainland were generally so far behind the curve that tech companies until very recently more or less did whatever they wanted, which accounts for their enormous growth over the last two decades.

About ten years ago there was the infamous "3Q war" where Tencent and Qihoo engaged in pretty ridiculous measures over the messenger market by blocking each others usage on consumer machines when the other one was installed, orchestrating fake media articles about pornography, police raids and at some point calling on users to go into a general strike. The war basically only ended because at some point the government stepped in and for the first time enforced anti-trust law.

This has changed to some degree but China's tech sector always was so hilariously under-regulated it makes most Western countries look socialist in comparison
A string format thing in Solaris CDE!
I believe the argument is that of "click bait". That it is deliberately being vague with "company that routers..." so that you have to click, and given the timing, in order to rid yourself of a wrong assumption.

So, it's not that the title is wrong. Just that it seems misleading.
Maybe I'm missing something, but why would any senders adopt this?
> I have a plan: You and me both get hired there, then you yell racist stuff at me, then I sue the company, then we split the $137M.

Tesla's case was tad more serious than one employee shouting random racist remarks at another employee.

The article mentions a long pattern of racism to the point it became a part of the company's culture, a few former employees who complained about the systemic problem, a company-enforced arbitration process that systematically brushed complains under the rug as standard operating procedure, and a problem so widespread that a shareholder felt compelled to raise the issue in the company's annual shareholder meeting.

Quoted from the article:

> Institutional Shareholder Services, the proxy advisory firm, recommended shareholders vote for Nia’s proposal, noting that Tesla has faced many serious allegations of sexual and racial harassment and discrimination over the years.
That is an alternative. However like you say, Google or iCloud - once you've decided its very difficult to change. Also I think most people aren't used to paying for cloud services like photo storage. I'm not sure what happens if you miss a few payments - do you lose your photos? If you die can anyone else get access? Maybe younger generations are more used to that.

Incidentally Google Cloud has lost some of my photos.
I get redirected to a page to subscribe.

> Become an FT subscriber to read: Facebook misled investors about its reach, whistleblower tells SEC
Show HN: PixLab – Machine Vision and Media Processing APIs
Sadly it's too small. It will produce only 200,000t p.a. in 2030 as Merkel said. That's only a a very small part of the 12,000,000t Kerosene that Germany needs p.a. alone.

Without dead serious reduction of meat production, the additional land use in Brazil or wherever they get the plants from, will make this just another environmental nightmare.
What are some good citations for background information in curiosity research?
https://hurl.dev/docs/installation.html

> Precompiled binary is available at hurl-1.3.1-x86_64-linux.tar.gz

https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl/releases/download/...

> For Debian / Ubuntu, Hurl can be installed using a binary .deb file provided in each Hurl release.

> hurl-bin package for Arch Linux and derived distros.

> An installer is available at hurl-1.3.1-win64-installer.exe

Just glancing at a few files, main.rs is already over 500 lines, which means shell would be impractical. C is a very difficult language to learn and to use correctly, so in the long-term there will be more Rust (and Go, and Python) programmers than C programmers. I think that is a good reason for projects to choose other languages.

In fact, one might equally ask why it wasn't written in Python - Python is safer than C, far easier, and performance doesn't sound critical for an HTTP debugger meant to be used interactively by a human.

We're probably already far past the point of "There are more competent Python programmers than competent C programmers."
isn't that bubble sort?
I've known a few of people over the years with some form of hard-to-diagnose autoimmune illness (ME/CF/...) and the hardest part seems to be getting a medical professional to take them seriously.
> It does when you consider EVs and fossil fuel plants efficiency

It does not if you consider all the intellectual capital and talent which is going into EVs, which are essentially a bandaid on an open wound.

EVs were never about climate change, they were always about having clean and much more livable city centers, moving the pollution elsewhere, during the electricity generation phase which happens where humans don't live, or if they live there the population density is way lower.

It's not like the goal is not worthy or doesn't deserve recognition...but you would call out a guy who hits an HR in the last game of the Minor Leagues and then goes on to claim that he won the MLB World Series.
There is really not that much junk mail in the traditional mail, in my experience. Probably it varies place to place, but it's much MUCH less than what I get in my gmail.
How to not waste maintainer time during Hacktoberfest and still get your t-shirt
I understand that. I also have gotten advice to dye my hair.

I will do neither. That's dishonest.

If no one values me for the skills and experience I have, then I have no interest in working with them (not "for," "with." -A big problem, in today's working world, is the attitude that companies are doing people a favor by hiring them. If someone hires me, they don't get me as a servant. I've worked way too long and hard to be treated that way. Another problem, is that asking for simple, basic, human respect, is considered "arrogant").

I am very, very honest. This was actually a big plus, at my last company. It got me a seat at the "inner table" of a highly conservative Japanese corporation; something few Westerners ever experience.

I refuse to be dishonest. I won't hide my age, experience, or weaknesses. I also won't exaggerate. People often tell me that I'm exaggerating. Then, they take the time to look at my track record (which is very available -people like to lob insults before actually checking to see if they apply). Things get quiet, after that.
Manager vs. IC: The false skill dilemma for engineers
> Not proudly, but often. Be nice.

Apologies. I struggle when people I respect seem to miss things that are obvious to me, I should have kept my tone in check better.

Fair enough. If the winning move for you is not to play, that's hardly a bad choice. I don't think it would work for me.
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Really? I thought that the first time the "subscription" slide came up, they were actually trying to prove that these tactics (CAC) don't work. Ironic!
The conclusion of the article is quite mundane:

Rather than seeing any dramatic increase in programming productivity, we saw developers taking care of their housekeeping.

As Kan, our CTO, explained to me this morning: “ Facebook going down made developers clean their backyard”.
The author neglected to mentioned F. D. C. Willard as co-author, obviously.
India: The New 'Republic of Fear'
>Perfect for open source

Not really.

The software as a whole needs to be verified across a wide range of everchanging rules, some of which are going to be a judgement call even among experienced accountants.

Why would people be interested in working on this project? It certainly doesn't break any new ground. It's just a long and ongoing grind to implement tax code rules. If for some reason, I have a lifelong ambition to work on accounting software, I'm sure Intuit, SAP, and Oracle pay reasonably well.
> the anti-church media bias is flagrantly clear.

Most articles I have read today on that topic (in the French media) were talking about an “historic moment” and praising the church for recognizing the problem, admitting failure and starting such a study. Far from anti-church speech…
I really want to share this with my colleagues, because it's funny. But I really don't want anyone in management finding out that things like Haystack exist. What a shame.
Just speaking for ourselves, it doesn’t bother us.
Russia says Facebook outage shows why it needs internet sovereignty
People don't look at a surgeon aged 55 asking themselves why that surgeon failed to move on to the next level. Unfortunately the same isn't true at all for programmers, for some reason it's assumed to be an entry position. If the path to surgery would be through nursing experience, aging nurses would have a much lower standing amongst all their future surgeon peers than they have now.

Seen from this angle, the ageism seems to be an unsurprising outcome of the relatively informal qualification structure in software tech: apparently opportunity for all cannot come without a bit of stigmatization for those who refuse to strive for it.
Why we do allow submissions that link to paywalls? Am I allowed to submit an ad for my business too?
I'm not allowed to say "Google shills are annoying," but the richest man on Earth gets to inline ads for his propaganda rag.
Well in the mail you have to pay for the stamp. It's about a dollar. You could charge 10 cents...in fact, that's not a bad idea for a cryptocurrency.
That will probably cause it to lose a feeling of magic for the user. If the list of supported phrases is listed out, then you'll see it for what it is: a voice based CLI.
C) Or they're seeing more transactions that maybe be fraudulent, or not. And their users (sellers, and perhaps to some extent buyers) are asking such transactions be allowed. The increase is to cover the increase in risk.

Note: Not defending the increase. Only pointing out there's a possible upside for their market. Yes, at a slightly higher price.
Why does the paper have the title of a clickbaitey BuzzFeed article?
There is of course the compromise position of 0.5.
I just create a new account with a new email and you'll see the "flash sales" again.

Just use a temp email: https://temp-mail.org/en/
They're related, but I would say the first 2 are not the same thing.

If I want to know why rust happens, I'm curious about that effect and its mechanism.

If I think I know why rust happens, and I prove or disprove it, my goal wasn't to learn why it happens, but to prove myself right or wrong. If I'm disproven, I might not even choose to find out the real answer, but just stop.

The third thing is most closely related with the second, IMO, and I do have a hard time separating them, though there is more of a scientific bent to the last one.
I'll probably regret writing this but if you read the entire rant, the author had been trying get sixel support into VTE based terminals (GNOME terminal and family) but he was blocked, which isn't really surprising considering the "my way or the highway" approach of GNOME devs towards anything that they make. The recent theming fiasco is a good example for this.

He also tried getting sixel support in tmux but was rejected again. All he did was make a hard fork to get the feature that he wanted. That's it. The end. There are some things that Windows does better and some things that Linux does better. Generalizing your anecdotal experience and implying that one is entirely "better" than the other is what fundamentalism and fanaticism looks like.
Check the direction of the comparison, and check the bounds of the loops. It's not really bubble sort.
Today, average businesses spend months of engineering time dealing with day-one activities like installation, patching, and lifecycle management of the core services such as CI/CD tooling.

A typical development team spends 30% of their time on managing software delivery services with a lot of ad-hoc human intervention activities involved.

So, engineering time costs a lot of money and I'd say regardless of company size this is worth it. Especially, during the time of talent pool shortcomings you want to spend engineering effort more wisely.
It depends. linux requires reboots if you update the kernel (kexec and kpatch are still experimental) and you should probably reboot if you update libc or other similar system software. I don't think any mainstream allows kernels or system software to be updated on the fly and without a reboot.
Did Aliens Build the Pyramids? and Other Racist Theories
Thanks for sharing! I'm planning to create a couple of courses next year and I considered using Udemy, because I use it quite a bit as a student, but I see I need to do some research before I lock myself in some platform.

By the way: ACG = A Cloud Guru?
Chinese police detective in exile reveals torture against Uyghurs he arrested
> Keeping taxes hard to pay is an important carrot in keeping the public mad about having to pay them in the first place. It's governance through dark patterns.

I am pretty sure the reason most people are mad about having to pay taxes is the thousands/tens of thousands/hundreds of thousands of dollars of their income that is taken from them.

On the high level, I always felt fortunate that I was in position to have to pay a lot of taxes. But it's pretty ridiculous. Case in point, we just bought a small, 100 year old house on a tiny lot. New York State didn't hesitate charging us a "mansion tax" on it. Believe me, it's no mansion. While there's a limit to how mad I am about that, it's not the paperwork that's annoying me.
I've started using "the royal we" in my company's internal wiki so that hopefully readers won't think too hard about who the author was. In my case, I'm worried about new employees thinking, "Oh this is Jelly's page, I can't edit it."
Imo does not approach the simplicity of sleep sort:
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithms/Sleep_sort

Also I am pretty sure I saw this algorithm before. Doesn't it have a name?
Ask HN: How do you deal with a low ball salary offer?
A friend of mine is starting a position at a new startup whose founder is a former colleague of him. He recommended me, we had a quick interview and I've already received an offer.

As the title says, the salary is almost half of what I'm earning at my current job so clearly I'm not considering it, but before rejecting the proposal it'd be nice to give it a shot and see if they can improve the offer. I'm pretty burned out from my current job and it'd be great to move to another place.

Have you dealt with a similar situation? How do you handled it and what was the outcome?
Eh, I have to diagree on that. A mathematician reading ∛x in code will immediately know what it means, but that isn't necessarily true when seeing cbrt(x). Julia was written for mathematicians, not programmers, and takes some getting used to.
Harbor, Keycloak, and Istio – A Good Dance Troupe – Make Enterprise K8s Simpler
It's so awful that a network created to withstand nuclear attack has not only evolved to have a bunch of centralized points of failure for itself, but even a bunch of services that serve as points of failure for wider society.
But then again physics risks following the (wrong) road taken by economics a while ago, when it decided that almost all modern human-activity can be in fact studied through the economics lens.
Your route and desktop are not an example of an internet connection. That's an intranet connection. I think that's what they mean -- for two devices to be connected on the internet there's always (at least) routers in between.
As headline grabbing as this is, a single event is not data. I'm sure there are other outliers in their data that they've not written a "X improves developer throughput by y%" articles about.

Plus, measuring developer productivity by pull requests merged is a very noisy way to measure "throughput"
Should we also shut down schools, scouting programs, day cares, adoption, camping, etc? All of these have had almost exactly the same size and scope of scandal.
backblaze will silently sync up files, and it also backs up any external devices that you plug into your computer
In my experience, it depends on the company. At Facebook, 90% of my peers were younger than me (I was 30). At LinkedIn, right now, many of my peers are around the same age or older than me (I'm 35). I imagine in places like Microsoft or Oracle there are plenty of 40/50+ engineers who aren't worried about being kicked out.
I read the rant and did not see the windows-fanboyism you suggest, on the contrary, they wish that a big chunk of the terminals used in Linux get support for a feature, and they do not just complain, but they actually do something for making things better. So I'm not sure your rant is warranted nor makes it much sense in this context, or is this some copy-pasta I failed to recognize?
I was wondering this too and found: https://www.kubegres.io/#kubegres_compared

It seems like the big difference is that it uses the standard PostgreSQL Docker images and doesn't bundle together as many things as Zalando or Crunchy Data. They'd likely argue that makes it easier to learn and a smaller surface area for attacks or things to go wrong.

Crunchy Data includes lots of add-ons like pgBouncer, pgAdmin 4, pgMonitor, and a bunch more. That might be a lot for someone that just wants a simple replicated PostgreSQL setup.

But I don't know much about Kubegress. It's repository has only 67 commits and 3 contributors so it's not as widely used as something like Crunchy Data or Zalando which have thousands of commits and hundreds of contributors. Likewise, Crunchy Data and Zalando both have 2,000+ stars compared to 387 for Kubegress.

That's not necessarily a sign of quality and part of that could be that Kubegress had a bunch of development before being open-sourced, that being later to the game makes it harder to build community, and that creating something simple might not require as many commits since you're creating something simple.
Like deep diving TLS: https://www.udemy.com/course/ssl-tls-intro/
I used to work in IT. We had a system where every call would be sent to voicemail- "Please briefly describe the issue, and let us know how to contact you."- and would arrive in .mp3 attachment in an email inbox. Within 15 minutes someone would listen to the voicemail, transform it into a regular written ticket, and prioritize the issue that way. We never needed someone chain-linked to a phone receiver.
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Having lived in the tech software world from the late 1970s through 2012 I can say that age discrimination has always been a part of the software world but it is survivable. See other comments in this thread. I remember chats with my older co-workers about where are all the older programmers? I think part is discrimination but another part is that people burn out and go do something else. I have seen this in even the very best programmers I have worked with. By the way, this is not new to software. A common practice in the aerospace industry was to bid low for a contract and when you got it fire all the old guys and replace them with cheaper young guys.
Yea, don't do that. Being able to sell your story to other tech people why your past projects are fun, interesting and maybe hard makes life so much easier and for the most part makes working more fun too. That doesn't mean every moment has to be amazing and developing but if it rarely is you're painting yourself into a corner.
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No one else is funding other peoples money in any significant way. The problem with cash back and miles programs is consumers don’t realize the business they just bought something from is paying the fees which then amounts to the cash back. Essentially forcing the consumer to pay a higher price but it’s their own money coming back to them later. In the mean time the banks hold more cash in their pocket and earn interest until you redeem your rewards and benefit even more when people don’t use their rewards and points, some people never redeem them, similar to gift cards. Then the banks want to seem like the good guys giving your own money from the fees of stuff you bought back to you. It’s all a big unnecessary loop when the price of goods could have just been lower in the first place.
I admin'ed other machines at the time (DEC Alphas), but the guys who cared for the Sun systems ignored the package repo. I think it was because the packages were out of date. It also could have been because disk space was expensive, and they preferred to keep open source stuff in NFS to save space on the individual workstations.

As I recall, our locally compiled packages were kept in NFS, and there was a giant symlink tree that pointed to the latest version, but left the old version intact for backwards compat. Eg /opt/pkg/bin/gcc pointed to /opt/pkg/gcc-2.95.2/bin/gcc, but used to point to /opt/pkg/gcc-2.95.1
What is the day to day like?
No, bubble sort uses a single index to compare items that are next to each other, and also has the condition reversed (> vs <), which is part of the surprise that this sort still has the correct increasing order.
https://archive.ph/CyLaY