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My first FP languages were Lisp, Caml Light and also used Prolog, have used most of the cool HN FP languages to some extent.

Doing maintenance of clever FP tricks isn't the same as one liners shell scripts.
We really need prescriptions for headphones to save people from themselves.
How often do goals get met, on time? If you can rely on estimates, and get good results, you've got a productive developer. The one time I managed someone as a programmer, I really, really lucked out, and he was great at it. We would discuss something that had to be done on Tuesday, I might get a question or two, otherwise nothing until he showed it to me done on Friday, and it was always up to snuff.
We won’t forget WeWork’s meltdown
If you apply that analogy backwards, I think it makes an interesting point.
This guy defrauded the company to the tune of millions of dollars. I am perfectly comfortable with big corporations and governments muscling people into compliance, where thing to comply with is “not stealing from the company”.

Imagine you run a business, and your employee just steals one of the company vehicles. Do you think you should have any recourse beyond firing them? I mean, it’s only a few tens of thousands of dollars worth of loss to you, so if you don’t want the government to go after the guy that stole millions from Netflix, why expect the government to help you recover some paltry car? It’s not violent offense after all, just property.

As it happens, fraud is a crime, and government prosecutes crime to deter it. This is perfectly reasonable, and how things have always worked.
The wrong glasses prescription can make your sight worse as well but you can still buy reading glasses and buy "prescription" glasses of any strength.
Try this one easy trick to stop forward declaring member functions in C++
Not the person you're replying to.

>> I was processing 16bit RAW images at full resolution.

>> ...using After Effects to render out full frame ProRes 4444.

Those are two different applications to most of us. No one is accusing you of making things up, just that the first post wasn't fully descriptive of your use case.
Given the latest news showing that 89% of stocks in the US are owned by the wealthiest 10% of Americans you aren't wrong, at all.
Another interpretation is "[because] I was a financially-insecure immigrant, I knew this deal would change my life [by clearly achieving the financial security I had been constantly worrying about and seeking to get][and therefore I was nervous that the deal might not happen]". It's not that the amount of money was larger for him than other people, but that having $125m/n founders was so clearly financially secure.
Jury awards are clearly their own wild wild west that deserves a thread. I'm wondering specifically about settlements with a government enforcement agency.
I personally like to go line by line in my solution and state the runtime of each line of code.
Then I add them together, and write out the limit notation showing as N->inf and how I can cancel certain variables out. Its a little bit of overkill but I've found it helps me stand out a bit during interviews.
“Web3 browser” heavily integrated with centralized Coil monetization network.

Reminds me of Brave.
It's not about the cost, it's about the availability.

Go look at the percent generated by source and you'll see how far off we are from phasing out fossil fuels. Couple this with the projected usage of electricity in the coming years and the outlook is that much bleaker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States#Ge...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/192872/total-electricity...
But do I want to store data in my microservices? Esp if I've scaled them horizontally. Maybe I have 4 or 8 or 20 instances, I don't want 20 copies of my cache. I want one copy in Redis. I might also want shared evictions/TTLs or other semantics on the data.
How can you ignore Android, the dominant platform, existing and providing these exact things for you? Why hasn't this magic-capitalism argument won or at least out-performed already?
Fantastic movie everyone here should watch. Supremely philosophical and funny.
Google certainly didn't design all of the IP blocks from scratch...
> Apple’s stated intents to actively incriminate you by scanning your photos on a personal device

More accurately put, their intent is to scan cloud photos for exact matches with known child pornography material (like every other cloud provider, including Google), and then have the case reviewed by a human only after multiple positives, and only then forwarding the case to law enforcement (based on photos you chose to upload to the cloud)
Couple thoughts:

- This wouldn't be a problem if we could have matter replicators like in Star Trek, so I'd have just a single box in my shed that could spit out the exact hammer I want, the exact tape measure I want, and whatever else I need, from nails to three-course dinner. The problem with factories and factory factories is the ridiculous amount of yak shaving that stands between your wish or design and its realization.

- The above is also true of frameworks: the issue is that they come front-loaded with accidental complexity.

- Where the reality deviates from the hammer story is that, past hammer factory factories, we didn't build universal tool factory factory factories - we've just made Hammer Factories as a Service.
never heard of navidrome! 10 minutes later I have it all setup and its amazing! thanks for the suggestion
for anyone looking to do this on their home setup take a look here, save you a lot of time: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome/issues/103
Do you mean contacts or glasses?
Do you understand how it's different when it's on their servers vs having the functionality to scan for anything they want on your phone?

We don't need to have this discussion again. Please go research the hundreds of thousands of discussions and blog posts about how what apple is proposing to do is entirely different.
the growth demanded by shareholders isn't always horizontal or incremental
Anyone else just stopped keeping track of what version of Android their phone is on?

I used to know this stuff, but these days couldn't care less.
Where are you getting this from? I have a Pixel 5. It doesn't have face unlock. Only the 4 did!
Before rushing in to purchase, note that in some regions, you can claim back a pair of Bose 700 after purchase of the Pixel (at no extra cost)...

eg:
https://pixel-offers.com/headphones/en-GB
"What's the matter, Colonel Sandurz? Chicken?"
Simplify the question of models/algorithms by pretending these models are simply cold hard scientific facts. The problems still remain - people will interpret them differently. Different people will combine those universal facts with their own differing moral values, to come up with different conclusions on how those facts should be used.

The solution is not to restrict the existence of models/algorithms/facts, but to make explicit the moral values they are combined with when determining policy.

The problem is that the models and algorithms are so complex and sizzly that it can make it more difficult to tease out the implicit moral values that are embedded in the policies that use them.
Two questions if you don't mind:

Do you charge one ear at a time so you are never without some level of hearing?

Can you comment on the Live Listen feature of AirPods?
If you have games, run them fullscreen. Fullscreen surfaces will get removed from composited desktop, scaled independently and can run at arbitrary resolutions.
I don't understand replies like this one I keep seeing on HN. I thought the controversy around what apple wanted to do was that it was happening on device and not in the cloud. The user you're replying to made that distinction so what gives?
Middlemen and gatekeepers are all over our medical industry. When I travel I am always surprised at how much easier it is to get drugs outside the US. Many prescription drugs here are over the counter elsewhere and much cheaper. I hope we start removing prescription gatekeeping more broadly, so I can stop paying hundreds for performative office visits that offer no value. It’s also a big time sink just to get some mundane antibiotic or skincare cream or whatever, when all that happens is that an FNP runs through the most basic Q&A script that can be self discovered online.
Brain surgeons gets sued and you get a public paper trail when they do a bad job. Also they often have a lot of data of all their performed surgeries they can refer to. Software engineers however fails silently and nobody will know. Lawyers, the other big profession that are paid a lot, also have a lot of data they can go by to prove that they deliver value.

Can you give a single profession that pays $200k+, isn't a manger job, doesn't have easily tracked metrics like doctor/lawyer, and doesn't have tests like the algorithm interview?
An earlier article has a bit more description of the complaint: https://archive.md/67DiB

For those curious about how this works, the company has to show it tried and couldn't hire a US resident, but they don't have to try very hard... so the company posts a brief job opening in a local newspaper. When nobody responds, because it's the newspaper, tada! Proof there was no American-based talent capable of filling the job.
Ah - I wasn't aware of that. That sucks.
Would you support speed limit enforcement by checking license plates at the beginning of a stretch of highway and at the end and auto-ticketing anyone who averaged over the speed limit?
It is remarkable the difference in awareness that android vs iOS releases produce. As a iOS user, i'm glad that iOS releases and features are pushed to me aggressively.
Newfoundland couple gets their dream home – by moving it on the water
Which is not quite accurate. AFAIK, the problem is that the tiny particles quickly destroy the turbine engines, not the rotor itself.
We can simultaneously acknowledge regurgitated news as an issue and DMCA notices as the wrong tool for dealing with that issue.
Unfortunately the AI listening to Google's AI will detect the tone and intended sentence and hang up before the first F can finish.
I think writing this in javascript would add some confusion, as people learning about this might have a hard time understanding exactly where the javascript is running.
The SSO Wall of Shame
> I read these sort of objections all the time and all I can think is that if we took the "change almost nothing about our tools - think of the juniors!" approach advocated by these folks, we'd still be writing C and the industry would be an order of magnitude smaller than it is.

I don't think that's what those people mean. What those people mean is "if you want something else than JS, use something else than JS". If you want pipes, you can already use OCaml, ReScript, F#. They compile to JS and work well.

> Thankfully, the silent majority seems to understand this just fine, which is why despite the tenor of the conversation around these (and other) parts, our tools do continue to get better and better as the years go by.

Which is also why brain power is lost of things like this or the walrus operator in Python. JS is a fine compilation target. If you really like |> and JS, you can use a babel plugin! I don't see the point of adding it to the base language.

Maybe if people stopped always using the most popular option available, we wouldn't need to constantly add stuff to this popular option, and could have a rich and diverse ecosystem.
Reading glasses can be exchanged or refunded at most stores if they are not suitable. I would hope the FDA specifies the same for OTC hearing aids.
Actuaries?
Samsung announced 5 years of Android updates months ago. Before that, it was 4 years of updates.
a bit of good news. corporations are now competing with homebuyers for homes, some 25% of homes are bought by blackrock and other outfits, bidding against you and me
Is this really a problem in practice? I've always had a valid prescription when I buy glasses, but at the glasses store I just flash them the prescription on my phone for a few seconds. It's a PDF on official looking letterhead, but I don't think there's any verification. I suppose it's probably not the best idea to fake an eyeglass prescription, but it certainly seems like it would be very easy to do.
I use it to parse crappy (non-standard) RSS feeds offline for an internal app I use. chrome-scraping would just be more of a pain (although I've done it before).
I'm the other DD guy (besides jacquesm, who btw is very knowledgable) that regularly posts here. Happy to answer any questions.

There really isn't any "public" info about tech DDs that I could share. The tech DD world is growing likely crazy so if you have a business and tech mind, you'll likely find companies hiring for roles, even if you don't have specific experience.

These are two books that might help you provide perspective on M&A/PE that you would learn if you got into DD:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1973918927/?coliid=IOSLH6YRD3CP6&c...

https://www.amazon.com/HBR-Guide-Buying-Small-Business-ebook...

For reference - I've done 250+ DDs myself and my firm has done over 500 over the last 6 years.
"Solo Founder" seems like a proxy that just acknowledges that Software Development is now a Profession.

We don't refer to Doctors, Lawyers, and Accountants as "Solo Doctors", etc...

They are simply people who have studied their area of expertise for years, are disciplined and principled in their approach, likely carry some form of E&O insurance to warrant their work, and are perfectly capable forming their own legal entity and opening their own "office".

Broadly speaking, these professionals belong to networks of other professionals, who occasionally collaborate on projects.

Reading the article in this context then, focusing on a niche makes perfect sense for any Professional.
I ordered an optometry kit from Amazon as my prescription changes by the hour most days.

Was very interesting to play around and helped me isolate the 2 prescriptions that my eyes drift back and forth from.

Something that eye doctors had given up on trying to help me.
Is it 5 years of Android updates or 5 years of security updates?
I guess now I'll just have to fall back on my copy of "Killing the Gilligan Within: Watch Your Way to Wellness" for my pop-culture-based self-improvement needs.
I last coded JS seriously in 2016 and I felt like I was losing my mind (though once things got working it was fun). Did things settle down since then?
how? In ruby you are supposed to use rubygems and bundler for dependencies, and things generally work fine, and it's been like that for a decade or so.

There have been a few version management tools (rvm, rbenv), but those were all "fine" and still are, AFAICT, and you don't strictly need them.

Meanwhile for inexplicable reasons in pythonland we keep reinventing package/version/environment management.

I had a friend who managed to mess up their local env this morning to the point of screwing up their OS install, and it reminded me of the XKCD on python env[0].

It's at least 3 years old, and things have not improved.

[0]https://xkcd.com/1987/
I would love to see this analysis for statins.

On a slightly related note, it seems many people don't know (aren't being told) the risks associated with not taking a drug and taking it. It seems like is just "the FDA ruled the benefits out weight the risks" and that gets applied to everyone. Just like generally safe is often misinterpreted as completely safe.
They deliver a terrible shopping experience whenever they launch anything. At this point I just assume it is intentional because there is no way Google can't handle the demand and connections to order
Benjamin Button Reviews The New MacBook Pro (2016)
> Pray tell what special skills a foreign "art director" has than an American doesn't?

If the position is for a company that specializes in French designs, I think it's likely that a French art director might have a better understanding of the domain than an American does.

I like how Hollywood gets a free pass on this. I wonder how it would look with American-only actors.
Then maybe you shouldn't do a startup? Not everyone can and should do a startup, lack of a good idea is probably a good reason.
Yay! I am cheering them on.

I believe I found Aerocameras youtube channel, which also contains links to website, Instagram, Facebook, and Linkedin

https://www.youtube.com/user/dreamsfactorysl
Security updates, I am afraid. At least that's what the launch video said.
I'd have all of them write a story about some problem they are interested in solving, the knowns and unknowns. For the first week or two, everyone would have to read a random subset of those papers, offering feedback for all, and help if they were interested.

Essentially I'd take the old 20% Friday idea from Google, and make it 100%, I'd take point on managing the herd of cats that results, until I found someone way better at it.

Personally, I'd try to run down every hint of over-unity in energy production I could find, like cold fusion, cavitation as an energy source, etc. I'd systematically make sure that none of them work within experimental bounds, and publish all the results.
Security updates are 5 years. At least that's what the launch video said.
Don't move the goal posts. On-device scanning has a qualitatively different privacy impact from scanning photos inside cloud storage.
If you do that, you throw out all the hinting and scaling code the font authors may have added.

Many fonts intentionally change weight slightly at small sizes, by scaling it afterwards you break this functionality.

Also, by scaling afterwards in compositor in sRGB space you create issues with brightness as the compositor (at least under Gnome) does not take gamma into account.

The amount of tradeoffs is extreme, compared to a few UI widgets getting slightly shifted around.

And I’ve already mentioned the performance issue in multiple other places in this thread.
Correct, but there have been known False positives that have hash collisions in this system. That is something to care about considering the trust in law enforcement is eroding day by day
Why does the thing from which we derive meaning have to be a job? Why can't UBI recipients create art, have hobbies, meaningfully interact with their community during their day? Our ancestors didn't sit around - they did all those things, too, and those things also gave them structure and meaning.
This is evergreen. MIT has been singing this tune for more than sixty years. Since Kevin Lynch's The Image of the City was published by MIT press in 1960. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Image_of_the_City

A great book (or as Bezos wants us to say, "a Goodread"). Highly recommended if you're interested in this sort of urban analysis. My architectural mentor, the late David Crane, FAIA was Lynch's research assistant while a grad student at Harvard;'s GSD. He's listed in the acknowledgements.
Do you have any peer reviewed sources proving that? So far I only found ideological ones preaching the trickle-down economics demagogy.

Neoliberalism is a failed experiment, we now live in the results of this failure, 40 years after it started. We either address this failure or we let it roll until it sparks a revolution, either way it needs fixing.
I wholeheartedly disagreed until I saw your point (I think). The post still has your name beside it and you disagree with someone changing your words. While I don't find it a big deal with this, I kinda agree in spirit. Maybe the poster name should be changed too. However, folks would then be upset about not getting their sweet, sweet karma.
It sounds a lot like the "open focus" training developed by the Princeton Biofeedback Center: https://openfocus.com/

I've done a fair amount of this. Also I've taken courses in primitive wilderness survival that emphasized a similar use of attention, though without using the same techniques as Princeton.
> Javascript's very OO, deep down in its bones

JavaScript, in its bones, is a mix between an impure functional programming language like Lisp and a prototype-oriented OOPL like Self; forcing Java-style class-oriented OOP into it is a lot more of an impedance mismatch with its “bones” than FP constructs that are common in the kind of FP languages that influenced it from the outset (though neither is a giant mismatch.)
Because there aren't any FDA regulations preventing you from building a DIY hearing aid?
> Except it does...?

These things are relative to one another. The way you present your case that we are all underpaid is very absolutist and lacks the nuance that someone can be underpaid in the grand scheme but overpaid at a smaller scale.

> The reason we're paid middle class wages (unlike, say, teachers) is because:

I don't really have the time to adequately address every one of those reasons, so all I have to say is that if economics were that straight forward and honest then we'd have a lot more millionaires and billionaires. At best, reason B is true absent any sort of incompetence or meaningful quality-control around production. When you consider how the revenue of many companies is not tightly coupled with productivity and profits, your perspective doesn't seem to add up.
1) >>> you find a problem you deal with on a daily basis. <<<

Agree with this. As they say - necessity is the mother of invention. A lot of the episodes I listened to on the Podcast - How I built this with Guy Raz - were about people getting frustrated with a problem they faced on a daily basis and deciding to fix it (usually starting quite small).

2) >>> This is probably why there are so many more startups pitching development tools than, for instance, something to make the lives of truckers a little easier. <<<

This makes sense if you're a developer or work in software. Eg, I'm a Product person who built tools on the side to scratch my itch. My platform was Google App Engine (GAE). When the GAE GUI was deprecated, I realized that I really found a GUI much more convenient and so built - https://nocommandline.com and in the process fixed stuff I didn't like about the old GUI.

I think the trick here is to set right expectation i.e. recognize that not every idea is going to be a Unicorn or a big business. It could remain 'just a side project' or turn out to be something that just brings you extra income (pay your rent, weekly gas bill, etc).
It was a class A (Tiffin Allegro).
One interesting thing to note is how much more high-budget Hollywood style Apple's event feels in comparison to Google's event. Having watched the two events on successive days, some things stand out -

Apple throws numbers repeatedly at you through out the presentation and you end up remembering quite a few useless statistics (55.7 billion transitors in M1 Max)

Apple makes a much bigger deal about each device with lots of close ups and pseudo x-raying of the product. Google just throws in a Pro with an extra camera that you can barely make out on the dark glass.

Apple spends several minutes talking about their SoC. Google says it spent years on Tensor and just leaves it as a shiny golden box.

The weirdest thing in the Google presentation is that several sections had presenters talking to a different camera than facing the screen. That just felt very strange.
> We always check the corporate registries to see if any of the legal entities the execs of a company are related to are making substantial turnover from either the company we are looking at, or a subsidiary. In 200+ DDs this has happened a handful of times.

Just to add a few points:

- This is much easier to do in Europe where entities are more public.

- I regularly see (probably 1 out of 20 deals) companies where there is some level of a conflict of interest between the owners/management and a 3rd party. The most typical one is where the CTO of a small ($3M revenue) software company also owns the outsourced dev group in India. The implications are numerous here.