skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While they often are, there’s no rule that web apps have to be a privacy nightmare.

Thanks to Hacker News¹, I recently came across Learn systemd by example². The site itself is hosted by Hetzner, a German hosting provider that take user privacy seriously³ and uses Cloudflare as a privacy-conscious CDN⁴. The only third-party resources it uses are Google fonts. Users of uMatrix⁵ or uBlock Origin⁶ can easily block these resources and the web app works perfectly fine without them.

I’d also use Wordle itself as an example of a reasonably user-privacy friendly web application. The only third-party resources it uses is Google Tag Manager (which is blocked by default by uMatrix).

I use Firefox with a number of web extensions (Firefox Multi-Account Containers⁷, Decentraleyes⁸, uMatrix, uBlock Origin, Privacy Redirect⁹). These all provide me, an end-user, much greater control over my online privacy than I’d have with a mobile app. I’ve also recommended Decentraleyes and uBlock Origin to non-technical friends as extensions they can install and not worry about configuration.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30071240

2. https://systemd-by-example.com/

3. https://www.hetzner.com/legal/privacy-policy

4. https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

5. https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

6. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#ublock-origin

7. https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers#readme

8. https://decentraleyes.org/

9. https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
I agree. Requests library is overkill for some simple use cases. Here are 2 short examples, using urllib and urllib3.

https://github.com/gabrielsroka/r/
Hello, i have written "the freelance guide", which unfortunately is written in swedish and is adapted to the swedish system and how things work here, but many parts are probably general as well. There are essentially 17 steps you need to take in order to become a freelancer and i explain them all here: https://annaleijon.se/frilansarguiden-hur-du-blir-frilansare...

I was a hired it consultant, but have now been self-employed for four years, which has been truly great! I create a lot of content on the topics of freelance, self-employment and tech. I have also started a forum in which anyone can ask questions around these topics: https://annaleijon.discourse.group/

Best of luck!!
DIYODE Magazine is good - variety of projects with full details:

https://diyodemag.com/
It's not worth taking seriously for app development where you gain advantages from the native experience. This rules it out as a primary app development platform for the majority of developers.

It's very strong for the many "good enough" scenarios that range from complete products in domains like pharma where users will tolerate user experience glitches as long as they can be using the same Pandas code behind the scenes on multiple OSes, or utility-level apps that need to run on multiple platforms. These are often tucked away in places that HN readers are averse to exploring from a career perspective.
I develop with that 49" curved Dell. Works really nice when you can fit 7-8 full height terminals side by side in single workspace.

And of course https://twitter.com/varjag/status/1120709771022221314
In the meantime, here's five hours of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxHa5KaMBcM
Eh... There is embellishment going on there, but the point on not disclosing someone is actually speaking to a machine as part of an experiment is a violation of research ethics. A seemingly minor one, but I'm a stickler for that sort of thing.

The microwave irradiation thing I'll pass on commenting on.
Stadia to Pivot to “Google Stream”
I have been using my 2016 55" B6 hooked up to my computer for years now, I write this on that screen. I babied it in the beginning. Nowadays I tend to forget it on. I have a tiny amount of burn in on the white subpixels from the top bar in windows due to previously having the default white layout. Turned on dark mode now to mitigate that. All other colors are fine. Completely invisible in regular usage.

Got scared by that and moved the taskbar to the side, no burn-in at the bottom though. I guess because that was a darker tone. Also used it at maximum OLED light until I noticed the first burn-in, so it's not like I was nice to it even though I babied it regarding static elements.

Sadly I can't find the "total hours on" setting on this one, seems to be removed from the settings.

> Glossy displays can be good for prettier colors but can have glare problems from other light sources. This post is about picking a monitor for software development, why would glossy be better than matte for that use?

Because I want clarity. Why put the perfectly crisp text and other elements through a blur filter??
I have one 4k monitor no scaling,so plenty of space one one screen. The main thing I use the width for is the browser dev tools: I can have the site fully open and network requests and responses. Also, even horizontally there's plenty of height to see lots of code. But I really don't want to have to many things on the screen at the same time. Except when doing things like copying from one window to another.
would like to talk about the paintpoints you experienced while doing data preparation and mining
Germany [1]

[1] https://www-stuttgarter--nachrichten-de.translate.goog/inhal...
I think that's inspirational. What was it, written in something like COBOL? I've had my codebases demolished by things like Express changing its API enough times that you might say I've got a little COBOL envy. Major respect to anything that's stood the test of time and continues to serve a useful purpose after all these years.
Where does one live in those two years while they are looking for this job? With no income they may end up in a shelter or their car, sleeping half on and off, mentally and physically exhausted. They then have a host of problems that come with being homeless. How many jobs hire homeless people?
> If we can solve self driving just 1 year earlier it’s equivalent to saving 30,000 American lives.

That strawman argument works if you completely ban all human drivers the moment we solve self-driving.

The big question is, when exactly do we consider self driving solved that it can ban replace drivers? All current evidence points it's very, very far away, if ever.
NumPy String-Indexed: Python library that gives ndarrays descriptive indexes
> interpreted languages with huge over-bloat like csharp, python, java, ruby

csharp and java, famously interpreted languages, unlike javascript.
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Pie charts are useful when there are large disparities between some of the data items. Like, here are our total expenses for last year, we spent 6% on administration, 14% on facilities, 11% on R&D, 33% on manufacturing, and 36% on sales and marketing. You can see at a glance, even with human eyesight's poor judgement of areas, what the dominating two expense areas are. Or, you know, here's a breakdown of the OS our dev team members use: 85% use Windows, 11% use macOS, 3% use Linux and 1% use "other".

Oftentimes they will be labelled as well with the exact percentage numbers which helps. It's not really a scientific visualization tool, but it adds punch to a presentation when you want to show that one or more subsegments of a whole really dominate the rest.
"I make around $0.9M-$1.2M per year today"

A startup is like a lottery when it comes to that kind of money. 99.99% chance you will not make that money with the startup. So if money is the main factor, you are better off staying with the current company. If you were making like 200K/Year, even then it is a tough call but at least was worth a discussion. 1M a year is not even worth a discussion.
No it is the same problem

Overcriminlization of society leads to people using this defense for more and more drag net style surveillance in order to "catch the criminals"

It has been studied and there is a good case to be made that the average person commits 3 felonies a day, there is no single person in the nation that know every single law, regulation, or ordinance one must follow, and some are written in such away criminal defense lawyers call them "catchall" felonies that are specifically designed for plea agreements, to get people to plead out to a "lesser" offense just so the felony would go away

Since the 90's we have expanded the number of "crimes" that classify as felony as well, when most people think about "felony" they think about violence, this is far from the case today when there are TONS and TONS of non-violence offenses that are classified as felonies.

Beyond drug laws, there are all manner of federal and state regulations that can be a felony
Data and compute power in the 70s probably would've limited the usefulness and led people to try other things (perhaps not even "probably" - that could be what really happened), though maybe it could've been revisited with success by the late 90s.

Makes you wonder if there are other abandoned techniques that might be worth circling back to nowadays...
These are now available: https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-27ep950
Do you advise just fiber from natural foods, or do you take a fiber supplement (like those that come in powder form)? I guess the supplement route won't give me the diverse fiber types you mention, am I right?
Your financial analysis is correct. However, if you have enough money you can choose to do things you enjoy. That is why a startup makes sense for experienced people, in many circumstances.
Python and Deprecations Redux
I really wish there were ways to fund more investigative efforts of journalism. I support my local newspaper but would be nice to have some sort of system of campaigns to support reasoned inquiry into those that have power beyond platitudes such as "ads bad".
In the UK we are actively planning in battery electric hybrid trains. The idea is that you can easily retrofit 90-95% of the line with overhead power, and use relatively small and cheap battery systems to cover the other 5%.
Does stackoverflow have an official status page?
There's been quite a few "python" in the browser/android/native kinds of things:

* pyjs / pyjamas
* brython
* kivy
* chaquopy
* pyqt
* pygtk
* ...

But the first big problem has always been delivering an experience that looks and feels right on the target platform. Do you use the native UI or do you use something else? The swing Java UI's of the 00's were so kludgy, and looked unprofessional because they implemented their own UI components.

The other big problem is that how does the code run? Is it transpiled to javascript or does it have to download a python interpreter that can run in the browser/android? It's not a big issue for like a native app for mac/windows, but for the browser it is. https://brython.org takes ~6 seconds to run a simple clock because it's downloading the interpreter. Wasm doesn't necessarily help here, since either you compile the code to directly run on wasm, or you need to bring along the wasm compiled interpreter.

An example of this is Jython. It needed to start the JVM, then run the python code in the python interpreter in the JVM. Very inception like, though I did enjoy writing unit tests this way. Mostly because unit tests didn't need to be compiled against a jar. And broken unit tests didn't need a full recompile.
Try to get your first client before even starting. Call people you know that might need help. Once you actually take the plunge, make sure you tell everybody you know and be visible where it counts, online and offline. Try to build a name. It takes time. A consultant broker or similar could help you find gigs at the start too. Good luck!
A distributed ledger could prevent the central banks from cooking the books. Anyone and everyone could audit the fed. Can’t have that.
How often do you buy a new monitor?
24" 4K or 27" 5K is ideal, though the latter are still fairly expensive if you buy them outside of getting a retina iMac. Frankly, if you develop on a mac and can choose/buy your own computer, the 27" retina iMac is a pretty sweet deal (though I'm curious how it will be refreshed this year). Dell has a 32" 8K now, but that is sort of too big and could cause neck strain if used for programming.
Gamers and business buyers drive the market. Neither care about pixel density.
There's no denying that money can go further in Mexico. But there are two aspects of nuance missing from this article.

First: there are often options that cost more than $5, in some cases significantly more. Some of these will cater to tourists, and/or locals with deep pockets who will pay more as a status symbol/reputational thing, and hence may not be worth the extra outlay from a quality perspective. Other times, paying more really does get you better service. Determining the difference between the two can be a challenge.

Second: because of the low local wages mentioned in the post, that $5 service may be executed by someone wishing to save you money in whatever way possible. This is completely well-meaning, of course. But when the electrician, plumber or whoever else comes up with the cheapest possible solution to your problem, you end up spending $5 over and over again, rather than just paying more upfront. In the worst case scenarios, the cheaper solutions may be unsafe or otherwise suboptimal.

Do your research, and gain good local contacts. You'll be fine, if not sometimes exhausted at the amount of specialist knowledge you're taking on just to increase the chances of having a job done well. But $5 is not always going to buy you what $50 or $500 would in the US.

Source: I live in Central Mexico.
I was so sad when increment sent its last issue in November
A string library for C. UTF-8 obviously.

Modern (fast and secure) Hash Tables for C.

Working on both, but not enough time.
From 1924-1992 the summer and winter games were held during the same year.
Is there anything like Naitilus or Quanta Magazine in print?
I am so terrified right now about the implications of this to a regular software engineer like myself. In 10 years we would be totally dispensable
Officers say their strategy has been to defuse tensions, but critics say that other demonstrations, including those by Indigenous peoples, are often met with force.

“It’s OK if angry white men do it, because they are politically aligned with you, but it’s not OK if Indigenous people peacefully protect their own rights,” Indigenous lawyer and professor Pam Palmater told APTN News
Add Fyne to the list, using Go.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Fyne%20-fine%20comments%3E0
The bollards are plainly visible in broad daylight, and wrapped with reflective tape. If you cannot see them, please stay off the road.
I got a 8k 55" tv for just under 1000 usd a while back and can't imagine spending a cent on anything less now. Maybe a 2x2 grid of 27" 4k's but I'd be annoyed by the bevels being right in the middle of my view.

Unfortunately I recently discovered it was a fluke of history, prices have gone up and I can't even seem to find 55" 8k anymore. I really hope someone puts the same panel in a consumer monitor with displayport inputs soon. I'd pay out of my own pocket to have this setup at work.
Featured in the opening of this episode of PBS’s “the Computer Chronicles” on mobile computing from 1995: https://youtu.be/S8Mgc8dYLr0
I glanced at the links, and there are inflation-adjusted figures included. See for example bullet 5 in the first link.
Amazingly, it's true, in countries like Mexico and the USA the death rate was an order of magnitude higher than in Australia: 0.23% and 0.27%, respectively, rather than 0.016%. But even in countries with good access to modern health care the rate was often pretty bad; Italy had 0.24%, the UK 0.23%, Spain 0.20%, and France also 0.20%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rates_...
Right. My point was more that in industries where there is some advantage to keeping a non SI unit, they are want to do so without major external pressure.

So, knots persist because lat lon persists. Home cooks persist with imperial in some places because nobody cares to reprint all recipes and measuring devices. Astrological units because at that scale... Nothing scales. And computers, because binary won. (Curious to consider if ternary had been the winner...)

I confess I am actually personally moved by some of the intuitive arguments for older measurements. Usually very physical based and very in tune with numbers actually used in an industry. It is odd to think of a sixteenth inch wrench, but it is just the natural result of dividing by two, four times, after all. (That is, you have a measuring rod, put a midpoint on there. Four times. Now, do the same for millimeters?). (granted, in the age of computers, any measurement is much easier to do at the machining level.)
Wouldn't you be able to trace that transaction back to the original wallet?
What do these people (like the twitter poster) think a protest is? It's supposed to be something people can't ignore.

The few that are loudly complaining about the protest appear to believe we should never speak up no matter how badly the government and our fellow citizens treat us. And instead of actually engaging with the subject of the protest - intrusive mandates and documentation requests - they would rather either complain about petty things like honking, or somehow imagine the government has lost control of the country because some truckers parked downtown for a few days. In any case, I think the freaking out by a select few we've seen over this is so ridiculous that it hopefully supports the trucker's case in the minds of normal people here
3440 x 1440 works well for me. Planning to stack another.
> The first example I see is expanded access to voting rights. Since when did this become a partisan issue?

Since at least the fifteenth amendment (1870).
From someone who started this journey a few years ago before the pandemic:

1. (for now) Ignore all the "read this, study that". If your goal is to be "independent", then I take that to mean you want to make money. "Reading this, study that" does not immediately make you money. It's important, but not THE most important thing right now.

2. Network with other independents and get on jobs they are on. Focus on getting paid and making money as quickly as possible so you can start to get a feel for how much you can charge and how steady an income you get.

3. Let go of your fear of putting yourself out there or getting a "no". Don't worry about telling "everyone" you are independent. Focus on telling people / circles / influencers who are most related to your client base.

Again, I'm not saying the "read this, study that" advice is not important. My advice is that there is a lot out there and your single most important focus should be on your goal: getting paid for your work.

Keep running experiments, different rates, different jobs, different emails, different job boards and get hired. See what works, get paid, rinse and repeat.

If you're just looking for a quick and dirty solution, find the full-time posting of the job you want to do, and apply to the job with your cover letter being honest about how you want to help and work with them, but ask if they are open to a freelancer. You'd be surprised how many people will kick those tires and get you off and running.
I agree. But go beyond elementary school and you’ve completely lost me.
I started doing a lot of contracting through recruiters which could be anywhere from a few days work to 6-12 month longer contracts. This allowed me to meet a lot of different people in my industry/city and build a reputation as someone reliable. After that's done then it's a matter of growing those relationships and once the recruiter lock-in period ends you can start to approach them directly and offer your services. This can be either independent if you want or it could be with a team.

The most important thing in contracting is being reliable and showing up. So many contractors just don't show for work or leave before the signed end date so if you avoid that you're already ahead of the pack.
https://stackstatus.net

https://twitter.com/StackStatus

Neither says anything (at the time of writing).
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They are 60hz for $3K though. I was seriously considering trying one, but 120 HZ minimum does a lot for motion clarity. Same issue with the 32" version.

I guess I should also have specified in the "not selling my kidney" range considering that the C1 48" go around $1K.
This is where overhead electric is great, and why the Pennsylvania railroad ran full electric over the mountains back in the steam era. A coal train going down the mountain could mostly power the one going up.
>5. As far as I can tell, no one knows what to do about this.

You could just, y'know, drop the mandates and whatnot.
Damn, I guess I should become poor
Are you implying oranges and bananas were made with modern GMO methods?

I agree that the anti gmo/vaxx etc. crowd is quite irrational in many regards, but I can see a difference between traditional breeding plants - and directly editing DNA.
In a co-working space, I am currently running 4x27" Dell screens @ 2560x1440px.

Two stacked landscape + a portrait on each side. I split the screens in logical units with Powertoys FancyZones (I run Windows).

For the very limited space I have there + value for money, I could not be happier.

I prefer multiple monitors over a single large. Screensharing, managing windows just seems so much easier to me.

Pic: https://imgur.com/a/2yJDxod
After working for large organizations, compensation will be the least of your problems in a startup.
Thank you for noticing this as well! Further, if a software developer produces $100k per year in value, the company is likely underwater. Very few developers cost less than $100,000, especially when taxes, benefits, tooling, etc are all factored in.
It is interesting to read individual perspectives. This one is firmly for the non-working-class establishment, but there are many others who say the exact opposite.

In the days when we still had a reliable press with actual reporters on the ground, we'd know more. Nowadays it comes down to one side displaying five people with a confederate flag and the other side displaying five people with a placard calling the truckers "stupid inbreds" (Trudeau won't complain about the latter).
> When rumors for the C2 42" started coming I decided to ASAP when it launches this spring

If previous LG OLEDs are anything to go by, you’re gonna be disappointed using it as a regular computer monitor (gaming would be great though).

The automatic brightness limiting kicks in hard for regular PC usage.
> Instead of drawing all your passion from one place, ask yourself: What are the things that excite me outside of paid employment? How can I invest time, energy and attention in cultivating passion in that space?

For people with dependents, long commutes or other everyday facts of life, work can represent a very large percentage of useful waking hours. The appeal of finding passion in the workplace is especially strong when you can kill two birds with one stone. Also some passions are only really possible to experience in a professional environment - I can be an amateur car mechanic, but not an amateur media buyer, dentist or marriage counselor. I'm not sure this article really deals with either of these scenarios.
Putting the whole transgender thing to one side, taking up with a group that thinks

a) that clean energy is a myth.

b) that ending industrial civilization is a positive goal to aim for

Is not a good look for people trying to stop a mine, where I would assume more directly relevant arguments about the fragility of the local environment would be expected.

Are these people somehow making a living from being controversial?
They sound so utterly counterproductive to their stated goals that I'd be wondering who they were actually working for.
Wow those seem amazing! Like the perfect minimal office on the go??