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> I stopped reading at that point, as RP1 is turgid 80s-fan-boy scribblings and hardly a 'masterpiece'.

I almost stopped reading there as well. The irony of bemoaning peoples' lack of experience in the bigger world, while lauding Cline was almost too much. But I find the overall message a good one, and was willing to write off this one point of utterly myopic incompetence for the sake of the rest of the article. Perhaps he was trying to make it more relatable to a younger crowd (while, again ironically, referencing a book that wears it's 80's nostalgia proudly).

ETA: Nope. Nope nope nope. Just can't finish the article. He keeps referencing the steaming turd that is RPO. FFS, has he even heard of Neal Stephenson? Maybe "Neuromancer"? So much good fiction on the topic, and he has to reference the bottom of the barrel garbage.
Re: the facial recognition example: no shit
The US DOD uses a different system specifically for this reason!
If you're actually interested in figuring this out for yourself instead of attributing it to "marketing," compare and contrast with the situation of the Beaglebone boards. Those came out several years prior to the Raspberry Pi, get plenty of PR and press, have received really good updates through the years, have the direct backing of a major manufacturer, are very open, and have a more conventional SoC design. In short, we're talking about stuff that failed to hold back the Raspberry Pi onslaught even though it existed years before the Pi and even though it addresses the stuff you said you care about.

Basically, Pi users want different things than you want, and the Pi people were pretty good at delivering those things. I assume the attention to early education in addition to hackers and makers, and somehow persuading or inspiring some hackers to work on a Debian armhf port with user-friendly features at a time when most people already wanted armhf to just go away and die, were decisive. Those were what really set the Pi apart and served to bring in more and more developers and users. After that's it's a virtuous cycle of more and more content creation and enthusiasm surrounding the platform.
Friendship is a two-way street and you may find you have few friends after all if you insist that they jump through hoops to get a hold of you.
correction: rich teenager bedroom :-)
They've indeed just opened a facility for reusing nuclear waste locally[0] though in all fairness they have stored some waste in Sudan before[1].

0. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202109/1234033.shtml

1. https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/official-ch...
> GP is saying that it's surprising for Elizabeth Holmes to be more famous than Anne Wojcicki.

Who's Holmes? GP has probably been spending too much time on the grey web.
If you can refuse the on-call agreement and still keep your job, then it is okay. Otherwise, it is an option for employers to take away their employees' free time as they wish.

The cost of my time as an employee is not linear. Just because I am selling 8 hours of my time for X money, doesn't meant I would be happy to sell 16 hours for 2X money. And if I am taking a week of a vacation, it means I want to relax and walk somewhere in nature and be left alone. If you want someone available 365 days a year, hire two people.
I've been waiting for .NET 6 for the past year for the long term support. As much as I wanted to use .NET 5, I figured it would be best to only use LTS releases in production.
If folks are curious, my initial email back was:

“I’m responding to this out of abundance of charity, but given literally no identifying information in the email I think there is a high probability I am speaking to a script rather than a human.

What do you want to tell me about what application specifically?”

They responded that they were a human and asked whether there was a bug bounty. I sent them a one word No. They replied “Thanks” and that was the end of it.

I wrote the first email on the thought that it might have been an early career security researcher possibly poorly calibrated on how to reach a security contact, and if I write it in the future, I will probably revise the “human” language as it doesn’t travel as well as I intended it to.

Perhaps:

“It would be more effective in the future to include details about the report or at least about which application you are reporting about to route emails like this effectively.” followed by the query.
You couldn't be more wrong. The plea bargain was offered early in the case, Aaron thought he could fight it, but the case went on too long, and he ran out of money to fight it. Only after he had absolutely nothing left for the fight did he take his own life.
Not only lost productivity, but getting executive buy in to invest in WPF was difficult after Silverlight.

Kinda joking, kinda serious, but all the Microsoft UI changes in the last 10-15 years have definitely helped enterprise IT adopt internal web applications. :)
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thats 5x the avg net salary per month?
which one? :) there are 2 now...
A lot of people in the industry were turned off of Microsoft. Also academics tend to have FOSS-adjacent philosophies. IMO this really became a passion/pathology in the 2010s when it became viable and quite easy to live M$-free.

Another aspect is that M$ tools are used by millions, it's just that there's a selection bias for tried-and-true tool users to just quietly make things work. "Blue collar programmer" comes to mind. All the leading-edge churn, noise, and fatigue is the corner of the industry that generates tons of blog posts and HN links.

Most/all of their offerings seemed like legacy software/tools once IntelliJ, big JS projects, and SPAs became such a popular solution for software development on macOS and Ubuntu.

Now with VS Code, TypeScript, heavy dev in GitHub platform, cross-plat .NET, vcpkg, etc... and generally very powerful dev tooling, they actually have excellent offerings.

All that said, M$ clearly has a long road ahead of earning back good will in "high" tech corner of the industry and Academia.
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The US and Europe’s problem is that the major economic interests have become too powerful and entrenched. China’s government makes their economic interests kneel down before them, which has resulted in the greatest societal transformation in history. We in the West have weak pathetic governments happy to argue over which corrupt interest should get tens or hundreds of billions in loaned tax dollars to do nothing much this year, rather than destroy these corrupt power centers and transform society. Doesn’t help when society has been conditioned to resist any central planning. Frankly the only reason the West is wealthy is because Europe and then the US were able to take advantage of huge historical transformations (industrial revolution, WW2, natural resource discovery) to get where we are. Though you could argue China mostly took advantage of one that hurt us (offshoring/globalization). The question is whether they’ll be able to consciously guide their society into prosperity in the future.
Perceived cool factor, I think.

Both .NET/C# and Java are the core of Dark Matter Development [0]. They're what a huge chunk of developers and enterprise actually use but they're not cool and they don't get blogged about.

Obviously the history of EEE and Windows only legacy means there's a lot of hostility to anything .NET specifically amongst a subpopulation of developers. However I don't think it sufficiently explains the lack of noise about both Java and C#.

It's a bit of a shame because it would be nice to have more startup opportunities in .NET (or Java/Kotlin - rather than slow, dynamically typed, error-prone scripting language du-jour), there are some but they're a tiny minority.

It's hard not to get caught up in worrying about the future of one's favorite language/ecosystem but then I think over time the obvious benefits of the ecosystem will win people over, I hope.

[0]: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-un...
The Chinese government probably wants a local only edition of this that they can control better, in typical China fashion.
Haha, now imagine being in Germany. Shutting down nuclear power plants and also coal now. The stupidity there is on another level.
>They'd probably make the frontend app faster, less complicated and use less memory.

And while at that, get rid of those nasty frameworks.
It actually is a pretty large volume depending on what you're disposing of.

There's a common sleight of hand where you talk about nuclear waste and proponents will reply something like, 'You could fit all of the spent nuclear fuel from the US in a football field.' -- which is technically true if the waste was stacked 30 feet high. But the real sleight of hand is the switch between Waste <-> Fuel.

Nuclear fuel is something like 2% of the total volume of waste that must be dealt with. It's the highest activity waste and the most dangerous so it's given the most credence but there are orders of magnitude more waste generated that also must be safely stored away from humanity for dozens-hundreds of years. From the initial fuel processing biproducts, to activated components in reactors, to resins and claddings, just tons and tons of dangerous radioactive material. Then beyond that, there's another few orders of magnitude of low-level waste that is less dangerous still but can't be just buried in a dump.

There are processes to turn the liquid components into glass and encase the rest in iron and concrete but just add it to the list of things we haven't really "solved" in order to form a responsible nuclear civilization.
> between April and July last year, there was a drop of 37 per cent in the number of detected breast cancer cases, and a 23 per cent drop in detected bowel cancer cases compared to the three years prior.

While that is interesting, the overall trend seems to be pretty clear. In general, people got a whole lot less routine medical care in the past year and a half.
Giving your address to paypal doesn’t give paypal the addresses of everyone out to 3rd cousins (i.e. related via your great grandparents).

There’s a slight difference.
The article just talked about $TECHNOLOGY in a general form, it didn’t even limit the discussion to web technologies. Hence my comment.
I have seen that as well and it is impressive. But this is more than that. The code contained a string variable named accessToken with a string like "218276172612672-jash127hg27128h'(random data here, not the actual id), where 218276172612672 was the user id. When testing a function that required user id it not only suggested 218276172612672 but also did it with the full context participant.follow({twitterUserId:"218276172612672"})
Can't imagine why they'd choose anything other than just tunneling into one of their many mountain systems and leaving it there, safe from quite literally anything.
Ask HN: What do you consider a founding engineer?
I see a lot of ads for "founding engineer" lately (as I type this there is one on the front page), and it makes me curious what you all consider a founding engineer as opposed to just an engineer?

I'll put my opinion below so it can get voted on with the other opinions.
Graph of weekly per capita case rates of California and Florida [1] and also for all US regions.

Same for weekly death rates [2].

And here are cumulative case and death rates [3][4].

Florida has at all times done worse than California on cases except at the end of 2020/beginning of 2021 and the last 3 weeks. Similar on deaths.

Florida's third wave (which occurred AFTER over half their population was vaccinated) was way bigger than their second wave which occurred late 2022/early 2021, before vaccines were available.

In fact, Florida's post-vaccine third wave performance is worse than most state's pre-vaccine second wave.

In the last 3 months they went from around 25th in total per capita deaths to 6th.

[1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...

[2] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...

[3] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...

[4] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...
Because modern PC gaming anticheat software is worse than malware. They analyze everything you every do on your PC. They scan and upload your personal files.

If I have to have a separate machine for gaming to have some privacy I'm going to just buy a console.
You can buy access to the data from FlightAware. I've never been in a position to see the pricing, though I'm sure it's expensive.
Documentation can be a problem, the syntax itself for me never was.
Any idea why didn't the US keep to that plan?
Regardless of "cool or popular" there are legitimate reasons not to want to give Microsoft more power over computing infrastructure. For that matter, there are legitimate reasons not to want to give Google more power as well. In either case, the reasons go well beyond what's fashionable.
100% agree. his scores are incredible, nothing like his music.
This is just one point, but I started pirating games during college because of DRM, after whatever they used in Spore destroyed Windows so badly I had to do a full reinstall and lost a bunch of stuff. Before that I reliably bought all my games.

I don't pirate games anymore, but that's only because I stopped playing computer games entirely and stick to consoles, to avoid DRM screwing with my stuff.
A decision that broadly strikes down OSHA's "reasonably necessary or appropriate" language would likely affect legal frameworks far beyond OSHA and cause many years of widespread chaos and uncertainty for businesses. This would seem to be why courts repeatedly show reluctance to do that.
I once created a set of shell functions which I wanted to have a docstring-like functionality. The solution I came up with was to have each shell function start with the : command with a string as an argument. Since : is an actual command, not a comment, it was preserved as part of the function, and could be extracted at runtime using relatively simple parsing to do introspection.

Example:

foo(){
: "This is a docstring for the foo() function"
bar --verbose | baz --quiet
}

For those who don’t know: ":" is a shell built-in command which does nothing and ignores all arguments. It was the way in which shell scripts had comments before the modern syntax of using # for comments was introduced.
PepsiCo's fiscal year end is Dec 31, meaning their Q42021 is the calendar year Q4.

As Tesla has already stated that Semi production won't begin until 2022, either Tesla has made a material misstatement or ommission on its SEC filings (which, given Tesla's history is quite possible), or PepsiCo's CEO is out of the loop (which is just as likely).
I believe this to be an incorrect statement.

Evolution in insects is working on a much tighter time-frame, for example: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-evidence-peppe...

Also there are plenty of "beekeepers" who believe in shorter time frame adaptions, and are providing evolutionary cradles for such, e.g. https://www.apisarborea.org/

And of course many stories with anecdotal evidence from communities of bees in protected watersheds evolving (or perhaps activating prior) varroa mite resistant traits.
I don't think asking "just text me instead, I don't have Facebook" is really that high of a bar. Frankly, someone who's going to cut contact because they don't want to text me isn't really worth the effort in the first place.
>Are portuguese services really, really good at least?

That's problem: they're not. Or better yet, they're very inefficient and rely too much on humans. Our public Health Care Service (SNS) is praised in some circles - but at the cost of poor wages and overworked staff. Not to mention the interior is starting to crumble with no people to make up for it.
Surprisingly quickly, especially if you’ve ever done any… shenanagains… in reverse.
Thanks, that's helpful, although the iOS lock screen appears to be excluded.
Clarification: the data appears random to you.
Yeah it's not Pinterest, it's Google image search. It's been horrible for many years now, but really got bad when they stopped letting you go straight to the image and instead forcing you to the page the image is on.
> no use continuing to argue

To misquote Capt Picard responding to two parties complaining that they they'll never find common ground: "On the contrary. We've agreed that there is no use continuing to argue".
> while avoiding most of the 'newbie' mistakes (or making them on the weekend on their own time).

Why would one wait to make mistakes on their own time?
it sounds like any other outsourcing agency. They obviously exist and have a market, but it can be a difficult one.
I agree with the compile-time error checking part, but it's possible to have groups of key/value pairs (i.e. anonymous records) in a statically typed language where only specific keys are allowed, with specific value types for each key.
I consider a founding engineer someone who has at least 10% equity or at least 1/2 as much as any founder, whichever is less. I feel like the title "founder" requires you to have significant compensation based on the outcome of the company, and not just a paycheck. I don't think it has anything to do with responsibilities -- that the title should be based purely on equity.
Median housing prices have been consistently rising [0] since Zillow started their property buying program in 2018. In their most recent earnings report, Zillow announced $422M in Q3 losses from their home buying program and expects $240M to $265M in losses for homes they plan to buy in Q4 [1]. Rising sale prices coupled with big losses implies Zillow has been systematically paying above-market rates for homes, and there's a lot of evidence corroborating that hypothesis [2]. Maybe we're near a peak in home prices, but prices haven't started falling yet, and if Zillow was paying market rates, they wouldn't be losing money yet.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS

[1] https://investors.zillowgroup.com/investors/news-and-events/...

[2] https://fortune.com/2021/11/03/zillow-house-flipping-overpai...
PEP 394 (which is now superseeded) clearly states that "python" shall invoke python2 and not python3

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/

"The python command should always invoke Python 2 (to prevent hard-to-diagnose errors when Python 2 code is run on Python 3)."

So there was indeed a time where the mentioned scenario was possible.

Edit: love those people who got to downvote reality. At no point was python pointing to either 2 or 3 will-nilly, but there was always a PEP specifying best practice behaviour.
The problem is that many people are trying very hard to mimic human intelligence and/or human behavior. It's important to try to educate people about why it's a bad idea to go all the way with that.
My guess is they do what generates the most ad clicks.
people are very quick to try to say things are really bad and describe it as doxing, but let's be clear: you drop your DNA everywhere all the time, there's no way you can prevent that. Your DNA is not private in any sense of the word.
Truck driving is a profession.
> Banks are reluctant to give mortgages when the roof is EOL, or the siding has dry rot or there is some black mold basically anywhere, etc.

but used cars seem to do fine, even though they can be similarly damaged?
you mean "meta" effects? they will come soon enough
It's a bit more ideological than practical. But there's just not really going to be a pleasant way out of climate change. If people won't stop eating burgers, they're really not going to like what comes next. Although they'll be dead and their kids will probably be dead before the bill comes fully due, so it really doesn't matter anyway.

Honestly, I believe that the effects of climate change are going to be way worse than anyone alive today can begin to imagine.

The way climate change will "fix" itself is through a massive population reduction and adaptation to an (as of today) unimaginable way of life over the course of a few centuries.

People alive today (and at pretty much any time in history) will do whatever they want and rationalize whatever actions they take in whatever way lets them sleep at night.

If there was some magic way to fix climate change that allowed us to keep living the way we are, sure go ahead and do that. It's not like we're going to change anyway.
I don't think that's the correct law -- Federal Property and Administrative Services Act, 40 U.S.C. 101 is about managing of Federal contractors and property. That is a separate vaccine mandate, which isn't really a mandate but a requirement that in order to contract with the federal government, you need to comply.

The OSHA ruling under discussion (the one that was blocked) is for all employers with 100 or more employees.
>This is following Israel's throwing
Palestinians out of their homes in East
Jerusalem back in May and replacing
them with settlers

that is a complete distortion of the facts. This was a perfectly legal eviction which made it's way through the court system over a number of years. The pa put a nationalist spin on it in order to distract from their failing election campaign and unfortunately, everyone fell for it. But it was never anything more than a rental dispute.
My first thought is this would be a great chores list for parents to set up for kids. Does it have "flag flipped at x'oclock" type logging? An option to require/allow an image, or flag-creator-approval would be cool too.
Want to game? Sit on sofa, press 1 button, game.
I'm not familiar with this - can you provide a short summary of what it is, or point towards a link please?
A little off topic. Why does HN trims the “how” from titles? It happened to me twice when pasting the title of a link submission. One needs to type it manually.

It might make the title less click-baity, but it's a completely different one.
At a large scale that's unarguably true. But that's as such a coarse resolution as to be less than useless. At higher resolutions, the scale of a human life, there's a nearly boundless fabric of meaning and mattering to be had.
Hacking has never been easier. Just type "username: thecupisblue, password:" and wait for autocomplete. :D
The point is the KFX format does have all that natively.
We live in Seattle, right under the flight path for our major airport. I hate it, its annoying enough to wake me up at times; one benefit of the early pandemic was much-reduced air traffic.

There are trains a few miles away that are fairly loud when the weather turns cold. Also wakes me up at night.

Noise pollution sucks, and if windmills are put up 500m from your house I think part of that process should involve the local homes is if all is that is true.

OTOH we live in a noisy world, are windmills any different?
Assuming you're on Windows, you can see all of a process's IO using a tool like Process Monitor: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/proc...

FYI: It's a firehose, but you should be able to filter it down to copilot and a path prefix. Then you'll know if it's being scanned.