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No pure “learning” experience will give you “serious” tech skills. Not to mention that 99% of tutorials and courses out there are for beginners.

Good Large-scale best practices are always born out of specific practical challenges

And the only way to face this kind of challenges is to join a real world project, team, company.

Try to score as complicated job as you can with your current skills (in terms of technical challenges) and then move up the ladder.
Ideal Geology for CO2 Storage
It is different in implementation, for better or worse. Instead of stack unwinding, it's a part of the return value.
Floods in Malaysia to worsen chip shortages
> the prices they reach when they arrive in Europe are sometimes even in bad taste

You can always import products yourself using a shipping forwarder like Tenso [0] or a purchase assistance service like Buyee [1].

[0]: https://www.tenso.com/en

[1]: https://buyee.jp/
You've responded with an ipse dixit and didn't provide any substantiation.

> Jesus only manifesting to a relatively (relative to all of humanity) small group of people doesn't invalidate or cast doubt on anything.

Of course it does. You now rely on the testimony of these small of group of people (who you do not even know the identities of), rather than Jesus himself, or witnessing him directly.
I have an Aeron, Embody, and Gesture. Yet, some of the $300-$400 mesh chairs at Staples feel better. Downside is I’ve never had one of those chairs last longer than 2-3 years before the mesh loosened up more than I’d like, but while they are good they are the best I’ve tried.
Tommy Caldwell, by some measures best rock climber ever, didn’t crawl until age of 2. That’s waaaay behind, and he worked out ok.

I know the feeling. Perhaps, if your little one is roughly on track, focus on giving it a meaningful life, not hitting milestones. Fun, new experiences, challenges etc. This is a regret-minimising approach to parenting (literally).
I am lost here, the mentioned bugs are a result of optimizations like speculative execution, branch prediction, prefetching etc.

These are language independent optimizations. For example, any language (that allow for loop like constructs) compiled to intel machine code and executed on intel processor will be exposed to these bugs, it is not C specific. Am I missing anything?
+1 on Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Chrome and Firefox both have decent password managers, so I use them.

People are only satisfied with the overall situation because there hasn't been a generic zero-day affecting major email providers or senders allowing mass exploitation of password reset flows.

Federated logins are probably the way to go, though. Folks who "don't trust cloud providers" to store their passwords are already trusting the same companies for their entire OS, possibly the hardware, and significant application stacks, or else they already have plenty of Free Software tools available to manage passwords.
you are not interpreting that correctly, these rules are for devices that themselves cause the risk of serious injury, the product did not create a risk, the child, without supervision of a parent, doing something they should have been previously been taught is dangerous, is where the risk comes from.

This Alexa result is little more than if the person had run the same search query in google. The results aren't guaranteed to be safe for the rest of the internet, why should this be any different.

If a child answers a phone, and someone on the other end tells them to harm themselves, the phone wouldn't be considered the risk.

It is always shocking to me, how people somehow think this $35 device, is some how going to protect children from the internet, and allow them to interact with it unsupervised.
This style (and linkedin posts) remind me of one of Edward Tufte's observations, that business presentations and toddler's books have around the same words per page.
ESP (extra sensory perception) coincidences have been too many in my life that I feel there must be a way for us to communicate telepathically.
Isn't the reason for widely used messaging/chat platforms not using open protocols also (roughly) the same?
There have been quite a few times in my life that I’ve met someone, talked to them, thought “I wonder if they were homeschooled,” and later had that thought confirmed.

As far as social skills go there’s no substitute for going through the wringer that is school. You deal with so much on a daily basis - forming new friendships, maintaining old ones, crushes, rejection, doing stupid things you’ll regret forever, personal social triumphs…

It’s all a bit much, but in a culture where almost everyone has done it the few that didn’t stand out.
It’s up to the CPSC to judge whether this event deserves further consideration. It’s not up to you, or the reporter, or any of us to judge so on their behalf.

A device put a child’s life at risk. The CPSC’s duty is to assess whether other children are at risk as well, and if they deem it necessary, seek redress from the manufacturer to mitigate that risk.

They may or they may not deem smart assistants emitting unregulated and unmonitored verbal commands to children to be sufficient a risk to seek redress against. That choice is theirs, not ours, and is no excuse to cease reporting of child safety events such as this one.
Perhaps I should have been upfront with the third point. I was trying to convey that, in my view, getting condemned to spam is the most compelling reason to not self host mail - and it's reason enough. The other common criticisms, by comparison, aren't that strong. If you're relying on your email to work, apply for jobs, or even just send things to friends using consumer services, you either have to sacrifice self hosting, or go through a lot of effort to obtain and build IP reputation.

I think it's a shame you can't reliably self host mail without jumping through hoops around IP reputation. But it's just the reality. You can be an idealist or you can be pragmatic.

In a similar vein, I now only ever use transactional email services (SES, Sendgrid) for automated emails. The sacrifice you make with self hosting is also significant in this context.
I think that's primarily because the HN commentariat tends to be working on projects that are cloud-native which tends to skew heavily towards AWS and GCP, whereas Azure's primary customer base is enterprises doing cloudification work.

I mean, sure, there's a bunch of inveterate microsoft haters on here (with varying levels of quality of reasoning for their hate), but I don't think their existence is the main driver of the lack of commenters using Azure.
I also don’t think it’s even necessary to prevent copyright infringement to achieve a goal of effectively steering people towards paid sources.

I often hear arguments that its “easier to pirate movies than use DRM’d software”. But I don’t think this is actually the case for the average non-tech-savvy person. If you can operate a torrent client or even know what one is, you are much savvier than the average Netflix/Roku/etc user.

DRM means that there isn’t a point-and-click app for my mom to send her sister a movie. This is the average person who buys movies. Not some geek on a tech forum.
People will always find something to use as a status symbol amongst each other and the rich will lord it over the poor. If you give them uniforms they will use something else purses, phones (or lack there of), what brand of cosmetics are used, the price of the car they ride in to school vs the bus, their bicyles price, people will find something.

we are nothing but smarter chimps. our basic psychology is tribalistic one with a strong dominance hierarchy. we are constantly looking for anything to put out selves above others and are constantly looking for social signals of dominance.
Nothing is perfect. If we required perfection to accept a technology, we'd still be workshopping fire.

I walk into my house and say "Alexa lights on" and my first floor lights turn on, it's magical. You get used to it to the point that using a light switch feels like changing the channel with a knob on a TV.
Pens aren't my thing, but I am impressed with the quality of the article considering its part of a commercial website. Compared to the low quality content marketing most companies put out this was a breath of fresh air.
This is a constant gripe for me. If you're going to play audio on your website, you really should provide a volume control.
I realized the truth of this this year, when I launched my own self-promotional website (just a portfolio site) and assiduously configured its email, which passes every single test on the range of spam-rating testers available.

Almost none of the mail gets through.

Now I am researching outsourcing the site's mail to one of the usual suspects: mxroute, FastMail, ProtonMail, Exchange, etc. Perfectly configured mail that no-one gets to read is worthless.
This is very impressive.

I use NoScript to block unnecessary JavaScript on websites, so I'm used to pages failing to load. But this article's nice scrolling 3D animation works fine on mobile with only the 'economist.com' domain allowed to run JS.

Talk about a refreshing change of pace.
I don't know how to reconcile them, and it's something I've been struggling to do for quite a while. Even when I was younger I didn't really believe, so going through the motions of spiritual practices I don't find particularly fulfilling to appease others is a familiar state of being. I sometimes find a nice feeling of belonging when I do these things, but that feeling is hard to maintain when my community hates my existence and would cast me out in a heartbeat if I was public about who I am.
Well, yes, ending freedom of movement was one of the reasons the UK population voted for Brexit in the referendum and then gave the Johnson government a massive majority in a general election in which ending freedom of movement was a key manifesto pledge. It wasn’t the Government; it was the people—that’s how democracy works.

I voted remain and made extensive use of freedom of movement, but the decision was made and there is no going back.
I mean you could at least start with an argument as to why it is the end of Java.

But as other have replied, no, it is not even a bump. I am not even sure why Log4J relate to the end of Java ecosystem. That is like saying heartbleed is the end of C.
I agree, but it should also be immutable, and only the former with the latter. Especially with the political scrubbing of past news articles.
> It has a few nice QOL improvements over BitWarden IMO

Mind sharing what in particular you found to be QOL improvements? I'm curious.
What other great life choices you made at age 9?
> I think you're getting really stuck on the trivial, hypothetical example I gave. Any company in any industry can be evil.

You’re now whitewashing your previous comment instead of standing by it. :)

The original topic is,
“Are there any good companies anymore?”

My response was that any company can be considered good or bad depending on what lens you use, and that applies equally to some of the most prestigious (or formerly prestigious) companies in the world just as it might to companies who aren’t household names.

That is a valid response.

>Lots of people are. Just move on and don't try to shut other people down.

The irony is that you don’t like what I have to say, so you’re actively trying to shut me down.

Censoring dissenting opinions because they don’t feed into the narrative you want. :)
You ping it. Recently the Canadian government did this to track everyone during covid.

If you can't take out your battery you need to cover that phone.
So fucking good it felt like the 90s again. :)
The red color of Mars is only inches deep
Observability in Chaos
I agree constraints can generate creativity, but is there evidence that constraints generate more of it? It seems like no. This is all difficult to quantify, but if I were to attempt to paraphrase history and try to quantify anyway, at least from a Western perspective, it seems like the cultural output of free "Westernized" countries vastly exceeds those from restricted places (Russia, China, etc), or it could simply be because we free countries mainly import and exchange with other free countries and just don't know what Russia or China or Iran are up to culturally. Without going out of my way to dive into Wiki or to find foreign shows/films, I can't say I come across Russian culture very frequently beyond rough stereotypes (or dash cam videos /s), and Chinese culture seems vastly misunderstood or is a complete unknown in the US. Neither really come up in the day to day, or even month to month of daily life. I probably encounter Japanese and European things daily.

As for the parent comment, I think he's alluding that pre-modern Japanese art and culture had a lot more overlap with pre-modern China's, which makes it somewhat less notable from a Chinese perspective (e.g. something like England vs Australia; different, but there's overlap).

But post WWII we see a massive divergence in cultural export and exchange (e.g. England or Australia vs the US). South Korea is another example (I've actually seen Japanese entertainment consortiums lamenting at the perception that the S. Korean entertainment industry seemed to be better funded and more able to export their culture). Just looking at Chinese history, the golden age of creativity and inventions seemed to occur when there were more freedoms (which I would argue is pretty much any era prior to the PRC since their control is unprecedented in conjunction with modern technology). Granted it was the olden times, so there were more things to be discovered, but it seemed like China back in the day was on a roll (off the top of my head, movable type, paper, matcha, bonsai, porcelain, celadon, silk, gunpowder)
I don't understand how you can be skeptical about lockdowns. The virus needs people to come in contact in order to spread. If you reduce contact you reduce spreading. It's the simple fact of the matter. Case closed.

Nobody denies lockdowns have damaging effects in other areas.

That leaves a discussion about what kinds of lockdowns are worth the benefits they bring. But seems to me the sub isn't geared towards finding that truth?
I have given it some thought, but I don't really know of any communities of reform Jews, my impression is that reform Jews are less community oriented than modern orthodox communities. Which isn't necessarily bad, it's just different.
was gonna say the same thing XD
Your experience must be far worst than mine because what you just decribed isn't that much different from what actually happens.

I should admit that I have only rented locally though from a fairly small office where the manager knew me by first name after 2 or 3 hires. The process became dramtically more efficient after this.
Most modern phones can't be turned off for real.

(Which is why my phone isn't modern. I can even easily remove the battery!)
> Either the 3 of us had the same malware/Chrome extension

Is stealing the master password this way possible in practice? As far as I know, Chrome extensions cannot inject e.g. JavaScript into tabs and toolbar popups that are owned by Chrome extensions. Random pages and extensions are able to send string/JSON messages to an extension but message sources usually have to be on an allow list + JavaScript `eval` should be disabled in the Chrome extension context.
> There has been much talk about component architectures but
only one true success: Unix pipes. It should be possible to
build interactive and distributed applications from piece parts.

Wouldn't Microsoft's COM be another success in that area? It was several years old and in widespread use in Windows at the time the article was written.
People pay to use the WhatsApp API? Why are they still on the sinking ship?
Back in a distant time, even in LA you could find an apartment for 600$.

Add in loans and it wasn't really hard. This is why I'm actually a defender of student loans, used correctly their the best thing ever.

At 18 you can do dozens of life destroying stupid things. You can have a kid you can't afford, drive drunk , etc. Taking out a loan for school isn't going to hurt even if it doesn't work out
> 2005 appliances were dead 10 years ago.

What a sad truth. I have a refrigerator I bought 8 years ago that's on its last legs. Barely cools, ices up constantly.

I am actively avoiding replacing it purely out of spite.

It's 30+ year old predecessor is still kicking in the basement. I'd probably just move it upstairs if it weren't a horrible shade of yellow-green.
I'm not saying Herman Millers are a scam, I'm saying that we purchase chairs for close to 20k employees, and great chairs do exist for $2-300.

And I get it, I buy for quality, too. But no one is passing up offers over the faux pas of being presented with an inferior chair.
It takes a person like this to design a language like Go, whose fundamental philosophy is that people cannot and do not want to learn anything new, ever. It takes that kind of cynicism to also view hardware with disdain and horror.
I just don't believe this is true.
I know this isn't reddit, but thank you so much for posting that. I was cruising through the comments looking to see if someone had beaten me to the punch. Nice work.
What was the “bad” reason you turned them down?
Businesses apparently do. Not regular users.
>If a child answers a phone, and someone on the other end tells them to harm themselves, the phone wouldn't be considered the risk.

You mean that the person on the other end of the phone would be considered the risk, right?

There is no person inside of an Amazon Echo. Your question does not go to a call center where someone decides how to answer it. There are no human beings involved, it's all automated.
Hm, yes famous would have been the more clear word to use. I think they're great. The word infamous has always been blurry for me, since it's often used ironically, in which case it just means "famous" again.
> Outside of FAANG, do you frequently find candidates who stick around that long at companies?

Not the person you asked the question, but yes.

The most successful startups to IPO in the last 20 years include B2B companies like Service Now, Datadog, Crowdstrike, Workday, Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler etc. Count some others like MongoDB, AppDynamics, New Relic, Rubrik, Nutanix etc. These companies don't trend on Twitter, or are included in FAANG, but have had long periods of growth.

Many employees in those companies have stayed at those firms and have grown in their careers.

(Disclosure: I worked at AppDynamics for ~10 years).
To be fair, my last apartment in NYC was like that. Convenient trashcan right in the mailbox room. Though I suppose my mailbox didn't literally get filled daily. If that's the case in Japan, that's pretty bad.
Well, basically every river from the Sierra that goes into the Central Valley has been dammed or redirected, and yes many are now a trickle because of it, and the Bay and Sacramento River delta are saltier for it.

I think the pushback is about externalities, which I mentioned elsewhere. Fishermen [1], for example, suffer from the increased diversion of rivers that blocks spawning grounds, etc., demands for water conservation fall on already-relatively-thrifty households rather than profligate farmers, etc.

> Why are California's habitats considered so important versus the habitats and communities that lived near those rivers in the first place?

I'm not sure which "habitats and communities" you're referring to, there are several. But given my read of your stance on this whole thing, I presume you're thinking of the farming communities that now benefit from the vast cheap irrigation water that comes from these reservoirs (in wet years, anyway) -- and not the Native American populations that preceded them, nor the millennia of wildlife prior still.

If so, I think the idea is that the people who benefitted from nearly-free water at state and environmental expense can in fact adapt if the true cost of the water is suddenly expected of them -- or, even, is merely taken away from their heirs or corporate interests. The fish and birds, not so much.

Do we have an obligation to preserve natural diversity and preexisting ecological habitat? What about if it does -- or doesn't -- benefit society over time even as it exacts real costs on those who have so far benefited from prior policy?

I think ultimately these are philosophical questions.

> That doesn't even begin to touch the agricultural based consumption, which is equally significant.

Agreed, and this needs fixing. The "incentives matter" school in economics would probably argue that hiding the true cost of water leads to inefficiencies with respect to the harms caused by overuse. Your point on this is spot-on, though I think mere instrumentation is not enough, and prices should reflect costs. How you calculate those costs, though...

[1]: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-river-flows...
But what you're describing is noise-driven development. It's not an actual metric value until you've somewhat ruled out noise as the explanation.
Apple shuts all NYC stores to shoppers as Omicron cases surge
A FTTH new build mandate is a tax on the poor. Building a home in a rich area in an inner city would cost $5-10k or less to install fibre. Building a home in a poor rural area could result in over $100k of fibre installation costs.

Blanket policies like these often tend to beat down poor people.
It has two billion MAU.
WhatsApp is sinking?
At a price of over $0.13 per message in some regions it seems more cost effective to just automate the app yourself / use a third party binding then their business API.
My account was created 13 years ago.
On this theory, is the computer also a hazardous device? Because you could type this into a search engine and the same thing could happen?
> It feels like living in the Star Trek universe to me. I have a smart speaker in every room.

This is literally what these companies are preying on, don't you see?
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

positive -> vax infections 1/3 less likely than positive -> unvax - seems like it did prevent (some) infection for Delta at least.
The overlap in work required to build AWS Ground Station and to build a production ground station network for a constellation like Kuiper seems fairly minimal [1], but it does seem like an ok way to get their feet wet while they don’t have any real satellites of their own flying.

1. Kuiper uses a different RF band (Ka vs X or S), needs an order of magnitude more ground stations, doesn’t need all the *aaS infrastructure bits)
Not sure about others but I have successfully been able move many people over to signal from WhatsApp and fb messenger. And many friends have done the same too.
WhatsApp is still pretty big in India though.
Any big and valuable it business these days eventually comes down to marketing and aggressively competing for lowest acquisition cost.

And yet any of your mentioned areas has more positive effects than negative ones which you emphasize for some reason.

I guess you’re burned out or depressed or something. And trying to find the enemy outside to blame for it.

It’s a bit infantile position, but i hope my guess is totally wrong.

In such case - what exactly your “good” company should be doing to be considered good?
I’m glad I’m not the only person who views the design of go through that lens. It seems to me to be firmly rooted in the belief that developers are better off with weaker tools.