skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What programming languages do others at your company know? Who will support this application in the future? Who would take over if you left the company?

I would work backwards from that and not necessarily whatever language is the most popular or highly voted response on HN or any other site.

You mentioned you’re going to hire additional devs. Are there other applications those devs would also work on or support? What are those applications written in? What type of development does this company normally do, I.e. consider their problem domain. If there’s a lot of ML work, for example, you could try to unify around Python. If they already have lots of JVM stuff, maybe Kotlin, Java, or even Scala make more sense.
Ok here’s what we can do: pass laws significantly reducing the places cars can go. Tax automobiles. Buy up used cars and destroy them to keep prices high and ensure cars use recent environment technology.

Then create public transit districts, which operate like school districts. Real estate is taxed, and the proceeds go to busses.

Areas with high real estate values will have excellent public transit. Those with lower real estate values will have worse transit.

The advantage is (1) support by middle and upper class voters, who are traditionally opposed to public transit, (2) funding sustainability, (3) money is kept in local communities.

The downside is a drastic increase in inequality.

I’m obviously joking … but do you see how discouraging cars would increase inequality unless it was combine with an extremely equitable political system? A political system America doesn’t have?
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> You can turn that stuff off.

You can't, really. De-Crapifying Windows 10 (and I imagine 11) is a never-ending task.

Doing it manually is exceedingly painful. Doing it even with Scripts is fraught with danger and may result in things just being broken because of stupid dependencies.

And then there's a good chance that you'll find it's been undone with the next Windows update. That chance goes to 100% over the course of a year or so.
(I'm still in school but) I realized one way to ease these things is to adopt a very strict consequentialist frame of reasoning morally because having radical politics was draining my energy when faced with how conservative the world is. That makes it very easy to do the harder tech side of things like infra or writing firmware. So Microsoft and Salesforce make sense in software and on the hardware side you can look at writing software for hard tech corps like chipmakers? Those companies outside wild vertical integration like Apple or AWS probably don't have the stellar margins of other FAANG but money really won't be that much of an object if you are looking to do this for like 5-10 more years than other people
Where are you that 2-3 years is short? At any company I have been with, 3 years would make you an absolute veteran.

This is for the usual reason of not getting raises, so veterans tend to be very underpaid.
Honing is different than sharpening. Sharpening removes material, like a pencil. Honing merely aligns material.

A honing steel doesn't remove material, a sharpening steel does.
It takes NASA 1 year to make a minor UI change and 1 day for SpaceX. According to astronauts who have worked for both organisations. So I am not sure that NASA is a good role model for how to run things.
Those cells are very dangerous to use. stick to LiFePO4 or LTO. Cobalt based chemistries can experience and awful thermal runaway when over charged. This can occur if you have a shorted fet in your BMS. Which can happen from inrush current or high voltage.
What specifically do you think is very weird? Everything you described seems normal and common.

I hope you recover soon.
The study says that they haven't. It doesn't make claims about what the future will be. "They don't" is too timeless a claim.
I've yet to see those "real things" described and would be interested to see it summed up so I can.
Low tech approach: I wonder if you could put a flashing LED in the camera's view, and sync that with the strain gauge data logging, kind of like an old fashioned move clapper board?
Not only that, users are reporting missing funds from the chivo wallet: https://cointelegraph.com/news/some-salvadorans-claim-funds-...

I think the solution is to buy more Bitcoin!

That seems to be the answer to everything in El Salvador.

They only lost like 20% by now and I think Mr. Bukele doesn't think there's enough hype for it.

4 December - https://mobile.twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/14670006213541...

26 November - https://mobile.twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/14643074227937...

27 October - https://mobile.twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/14534615879484...

20 September - https://mobile.twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/14398150126426...

His latest purchases seem to be less in value but more frequent.

What a mess. The real victims is the population of El Salvador :(
The real problem is that there are too many useless fights with trash mobs.
Removing most of them and keeping only the challenging and memorable ones would be a better thing.

Another option is an option to switch between real-time with pause and turn-based at will. The Pathfinder games do that.
Is this comparable or different than these "cryptographically verifiable" ledger DB services?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/le...

https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/
> OP’s entire post is defining ‘not a good company’ and asking what’s left…

Then maybe OP needs to pack up and leave the Earth, because there are no good companies and everyone is terrible and evil.

I jest, but seriously, he/she should get a grip. If OP thinks everything is terrible, maybe the problem isn't the companies...
No, they died because they didn't have enough oxygen transported to the brain and internal organs.
Yeah, and I used an app instead of sms on my phone for the 2fa token. Didn't make a lick of a difference...
> the same thing everyone else gets 30-50% cheaper 1 year later.

This is very true. I just got a previous-generation top-of-the-line CPU and GPU. It's way more power than I will ever need and if I went for latest gen I could have afforded barely mid-level for the same price[1]. Even taking into account the fact that latest gen is faster, I still got better performance for dollar (20-30% better depending on benchmarks).

[1] With regards to the CPU I'm factoring in the saving of not having to buy a new motherboard.
> It makes most people uncomfortable [...] mentally.

Citation needed.
Yes, that's definitely an option. But I'd like to choose books for their content, not for their publisher.
It is possible to find places. I work at a company were we're trying to match up charities with people wanting to donate through various means. It's a nice change of pace from the usual financial related places I worked at before.
I think thats fair, but thats also becomes a truism since no one sets out to over-architect things. My biggest annoyance with this series of posts that show up every few days on HN is just how disconnected they are from the actual challenges of software that people use on a daily basis.

The number of support tickets that I've seen in the past from users who:

Weren't able to see a button dead center on the page without adding a bit of animation

Didn't realize there was a form error above without an auto-scroll.

Help text that needed to be contextual so as to not overwhelm the user.

Dropdowns that are too unwieldy to navigate without a typeahead.

etc etc

All these require adding more javascript, more css, and more complexity to solve, but it would be ludicrous to say that 50% of users should just not use the service because we need to keep the code clean.
It's not photography specifically, but one of Japan's most revered historical figures is Fukuzawa Yukichi. In the 19th century, he spent many years traveling through the West, learned English and Dutch, and wrote a lot of books in Japanese about his experiences.

He "discovered" the West for Japan and brought knowledge back. They used that knowledge to help re-found the country after the Edo period ended; he's regarded as one of the founders of modern Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuzawa_Yukichi
You need to manually set the low voltage disconnect so that your batteries bms does not go into safety mode. then you won't have the first problem you stated.

What you need is more insulation. I've tested that battery and the internal heaters work great, but you should put it somewhere where the heat that is created stays in the battery.
> This makes no sense given that I can do it from my PC in the browser client.

> But then the PC isn't allowed to download video from the streaming service for offline viewing, while the mobile client is.

I believe that's why the restriction exists.
Similarly, I wrote to urge people who make websites to simulate slower connections: https://alanhogan.com/slow-it-down-gain-empathy
That's a matter of taste, but it's certainly not an unreasonable argument to make if you're purporting that Arch is such a system, which is implied by your post.
How much did the initial connection for yourself cost?
In my opinion, the implied framework of morality is bit too simplistic to arrive at a meaningful answer. Good and Bad are not objective outcomes that can be 'caused' by OKRs. Why not try to recognize the inherent balance of good / bad in all things and then focus on being a better person?

Advertising: Bad to advertise lies, good to advertise truth
E-commerce: Bad to sell consumption, good to sell solution
Crypto: Bad for the environment, good for personal empowerment
Finance: Bad for irresponsible spenders, good for people with low assets relative to cashflow
Drugs, gambling, etc: Bad for the long run, good for the short run.

Even God, a construction meant to represent pure goodness, is bad to half of yall
Alright here goes a dumb question.

How much is mathematical notation contributing to the idea that "math is hard" and preventing students to think of math as lego bricks in which you can use a set of functions to build newer functions?
I just got a 32”, 4K, 120hz monitor for $1000.
There are many small companies. After 14 years at a major telecom and two FAANGs, I now work for a small startup building software for freight rail operations. That doesn't seem to be on your list.
Better transportation option than what? And very environmentally friendly compared to what? You're replying to someone who's comparing it to _walking_ among other things. Scooters certainly are not more environmentally friendly than walking. Is it a better option than walking? I guess it might be when comparing the ease of range. Though its range is certainly worse than something like say biking.

How many people are moved by shared scooters over its lifetime and how much energy went into its production and maintenance? Depending on the answers to these questions, shared scooters could certainly be worse in general. These seem to be the sort of questions the original study is trying to address.
Ah, you're not talking about the one with Frank Skinner on it; I thought maybe it got revived recently.
> when you limit (not even block) JavaScript

Speaking as a web developer, blocker of JavaScript by default, uMatrix user, and extensive user script writer: limiting is vastly harder to deal with than blocking; your “even” is unjust. “No JavaScript” is easy to detect and cope with (even if it’s just to respond “nah, dude; JavaScript me, bro”), but coping with blocking some JavaScript requires you to consider what could be blocked and what to do about it in each case.

If you’re talking third-party scripts, then sure, developers should handle failure to load scripts/XHR/fetch, simply for normal people’s sake; for analytics especially there are well-trodden paths, though certainly occasionally you encounter sites that don’t tread them. (Note that when I say “third party” I mean the social concept of third party, not “different origin”, because it’s common to load first-party scripts from different origins—CDNs, &c.)

If you’re blocking things at a finer grain than first-party/third-party divide, then you should expect things will often blow up. It’s not particularly reasonable for them to detect and work with your meddling.

A few years ago I had to use Dropbox from time to time. It was always fun whenever it dropped my session (never for any obvious reason) and forced me to log in again, as I had to tweak my whitelists almost every time as they’d have shifted their CAPTCHA thing around or added a new CAPTCHA service (they had three or four going at once!) or something. It would take literally twenty seconds after pressing the submit button before it would decide to actually let me in, even with no intercepted requests. Not sure what was going on with that. And if anything was blocked, then it’d probably just hang indefinitely, often even without any exception ever being thrown in the console! Definitely not a good experience, and they should detect that a necessary script failed to load and notify you, but eh, I reckon I brought it on myself by using fine-grained blocking.
something I've seen referenced elsewhere was to set up a mailing list for incoming recruitment requests:

https://twitter.com/JillWohlner/status/1418568163898368003

"I got my first 'im not looking right now, but please sign up to my mailing list to be notified when I am looking' from a candidate. The market is peak something!"
I've found that I tend to ignore any sites which aren't the traditional net/com/org or the well-known ccTLDs when they show up in search results. Perhaps because the majority of them seem to be used for hosting vapid SEO spam. It's an almost subconscious aversion trained by years of browsing experience, when assessing the trustfulness of a site, that "weird TLD" will be a negative weight.
I read the GP's "big" as popular, not bloated.
Which it is not. It is harder to forget it, but it's possible.
> Then presumably their strategy would also involve a confirmation message, so I would randomly choose my second message to either be "I agree with your strategy" or "I disagree" and then re-propose my strategy. It's all about being random in your choices.

What if their choice of (meta-)strategy for agreeing on the strategy is different?

Unless you can prove that only a single winning strategy exists (which every perfect logician will arrive at), you can't really assume that they will cooperate with whatever strategy or (meta-)*strategy you communicate. Sure, most humans will be on the same page as you very quickly as you go up meta-levels, but if you rely on human nature you also quickly get fallibility (see the host of bad answers in this thread) and not "perfect logicians".

> But if the turn counter has to be kept independently, then we need more information

Every time you have the opportunity to send a message, a new round begins (for both participants). Can you explain how this needs "more information"?
I'm not GP but as I understand it most religions contain an idea that selflessness is the highest good that a person can attain. Further they often maintain that only by becoming truly selfless can you make your spirit one with God (I don't specifically mean the Christian God here, just the concept of God). Becoming truly self-less literally means eliminating the self and its wants and impulses (really what is meant by this is typically something like the ego). Such an elimination has been called a "dying to self" or a mortification.

I will say that in my experience acting in selfless ways is indeed the most spiritually fulfilling thing you can do, regardless of your specific theology. The paradox is that you have to really be selfless: if you have any expectation of a reward (even a spiritual one) then you are in fact still acting for your self. Consequently the only true source of selflessness is love for others that exceeds love for yourself. Cultivate such love and you can't go wrong.
Isn't that what 2FA is for? An additional "PIN" that changes every couple of seconds.

Also, do not store your 2FA reset codes in the same account as your passwords.
Ok that one's now in my podcast queue, thanks!
Software engineers that replace things with functionally equivalent things don't get a lot of actual work done and typically aren't employed for very long either. So, the churn had to stop long ago from inside the average high performing company (and professional engineer's mindset). Only when things are really bad (as they were 6 years ago) is it worth rewriting everything. We've done that and it's not happening again. You can follow my work here: react.school
Java exposed the same abstract machine as a PDP-11 too. The key "PDP-11" thing is that all memory is treated as equally accessible, rather than the reality - i.e. that some memory is in caches on certain cores only and can therefore be accessed more efficiently on those cores.
Show HN: A Hugo shortcode to display code and output in your blog
This is exactly it - by limiting javascript you are choosing to be in a minority of users and then demanding to be catered to. You're just setting yourself up for disappointment.

These are businesses - they write code to generate profit. Their support of limited javascript has no impact on profit, so they won't do it.
Are you a CS professor? I wonder what the TT job market is right now, especially for older applicants.
I loved The Detectorists, a nice peaceful show to relax to.
Patagonia are pretty good.
> You don’t benefit your family and say it was charity.

Why not? What’s wrong with your family also benefitting when you give to your community?

Donating to your alma mater in no way exclusively benefits your family. It also provides scholarships for example. All of the most well endowed schools are very much looking for otherwise disadvantaged persons.
If you did an age-ban (anyone born after 2003 can't buy them), there'd probably be less younger smokers, because driving across the border takes time and money.
Yes and no. The brain is complicated, and we have a lot left to understand about it.

https://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20191119/they-had-half-thei...
Geocities was the centralised easy alternative to hosting your own website, that was what made it popular.
Me neither! The first one on this page that's got me excited.
> You will only notice when you run your code

How did you infer that that's not immediately?

> If the compiler knows my code will crash, it should simply refuse to compile it until I fix it.

Sure but what if it doesn't know that, then I won't complain about the next best opportunity, which is pressing F5 once and seeing the code I just typed doesn't work as intended.

> Static types provide not just non crash guarantees

How about no?

> Ah, the famous fallacy "We can't reach 100% so let's just be content with 0%".

If using a void-pointer parameter once in a blue moon for some convenience (callback function pointer), how is that 0% and not 99%? I recognize I've written too many comments, seeing as the replies are starting to get extremely poor. Ignoring the rest.
No, citation wanted.

I'm not going to cite the sky being blue, tilt your neck.
How can he die for you before you are even born? Would you truly be ok for the sin of Adam and Eve to be blamed on you from the day of your birth, simply because they were your ancestors, had Jesus not come along?

How is his being put to death a good thing, earning humans salvation all around, when two people eating an apple is bad enough to damn countless generations?
> 5. Do not waste your time, but part as friends

It’s completely counter intuitive but that was my biggest take away from interviewing this year. You would think it’s the unqualified candidate that were the time waster.

Prospective employers will lead you on and waste your time with nonsense and hope of employment with numerous interviews until their bias either qualifies or filters you.

My recommendation: put your cards on the table at the very beginning and filter yourself out. There is no point in pretending it will be a beautiful marriage when they are an old man undergoing midlife crisis looking for a hot teenager. If, as an actual senior, that’s not what you want to be then it’s not going to work.
fully remote is not a benefit for most serious programmers, it's a choice.

I know many dozens of engineers that work fully remote and make >> $300k.
How'd they get past the 2FA, though?

Or does LP shoot an email if it detects a suspicious geo-IP login before the 2FA prompt?
It’s been done, I just don’t have the know-how to acquire the parts or properly do the soldering. I need a kit that says “throw away this, plug in here.”
https://9to5mac.com/2021/01/26/apple-5k-display-do-it-yourse...
This. I cringe every time I see a coworker log into some site using LastPass, 1Password, or really any other cloud-hosted password manager.
There are many tech companies that aren’t ad tech, crypto or encouraging unnecessary consumption. Look at the list of YC companies and you’ll find plenty (https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/). That’s not to say that non-YC companies aren’t worth working at. There are a lot of ways to make the world a better place through technology, like electrifying existing industries. Sorry you feel like tech has no answers for you. I’ve been there.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26166497
It is not the absence of belief in gods, it's the positive belief there is no god who put us here for a higher mystical purpose and plan, from which important ethical conclusions can be derived as listed by GP.
Of course there's issues, that's why it didn't happen!

But solutions do exist: open-source focusing on UI, standardisation, free static IPs, more open operating systems, etc
Note that the current Windows 10 LTSC has only 5 years support (instead of previously 10) and that it will be the last one based on Windows 10: https://winaero.com/microsoft-has-announced-windows-10-ltsc-...
My girlfriend had COVID in September. We started hanging out in November. I noticed that she would often end her sentences in a whisper instead of fully voicing them. At first I thought it was some kind of weird tic, and I asked her why she was doing it. She explained that since COVID, she often can't finish her sentences without running out of breath. She also has frequent chest pain. She's terrified of Omicron, and I can't blame her.
> If the vaccine was 90% efficient, you would expect the vaxed death to be 40%, not 84% (84% implies a 15% vaccine efficiency).

I'm not too sure how you arrived at your figures, but here's my back of the envelope calculation for the percentage of either expected deaths or expected cases coming from the vaccinated part of an age group:

V * (1 - E) / ((1 - V) + (V * (1 - E))

where V is the percentage of the age group that's vaccinated (~95% for >70yo) and E is the effectiveness against either death or symptomatic disease (which isn't exactly the same as a case, I know), i.e. only (1 - E) of the vaccinated population will face death or symptomatic disease.

Playing around with the effectiveness values, 87% of cases and 84% of deaths from the vaccinated in the >70yo group doesn't look impossible.
> export capital at usury rates at gunpoint

I'm sorry, what?
Ask HN: How much do you earn? (feel free to use throwaway account)
I saw this comment on another thread about Apple monitors that said people reading HN likely make +$300k. It blew my mind and made me curious.

I'm in grad school and I've heard some faculty make around $200k, but I've seen friend of mine who dropped out of PhD and his starting salary at a startup is $96k (more than x3 times as much as me, a grad student). All these figures are just too absurd for me.

Are most HN readers really earning vast amounts of money?