skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In almost every country professional salaries are much lower, so looking only at doctors and thinking your argument is unique to them is flawed.

And no, debt does not affect salaries. It's the other way around - with the potential to make a lot more income, one is willing to get more debt to reach that goal. Higher salaries people cause more demand, and so prices go up.

If debt affected salaries, you'd expect your claim to play out on all fields, which it does not. Higher paying undergrad salaries don't correlate to more debt, for example.
Honestly the odds that was a fed are pretty high. The father had feds planting explosive in people’s mailboxes [0] and tried to pin it on some political group he didn’t like back in the 70’s. Feds were forced to confessed when one got busted doing it, quite literally red-handed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involvin...
They should focus on saving Firefox.

- Cut out all (or at the very least, most) initiatives that don't serve the goal of promoting Firefox's market share or sustainability going forward

- Donate the major money drains that aren't Firefox to the Apache Foundation or another worthy custodian

- Fire all inessential staff that don't want to work on Firefox.

- Get a CEO/upper management that are in it for the passion, not the money, and cut their salaries (bonuses tied directly to increase in Firefox market share).

- Make sure that all donations from now on are redirected to things that support Firefox development and nothing else, period.

- Make whatever partnerships are needed to have a steady stream of income, be that donation or selling out to Google or Bing.

Firefox is in trouble. Firefox is also Mozilla's raison d'être, and they should embrace that. We as a community, cannot afford to let Firefox languish until the only browsers in the world are Chromium derivatives. The diversity of truly independent browser engines is far too important to give up without a fight.
I’m unreasonably proud of setting up automated patching for NGINX to include PageSpeed: https://github.com/knyzorg/nginx-pagespeed

The whole project is basically just a ‘sed’ command, but piecing everything together (where to get the source code, how to build nginx, make Debian packages, publish packages, etc) was a major effort.

I found myself in the valley between people who didn’t know and had no means of learning, and those who knew and for whom it was obvious. I’ve learned a lot.
> The SEC doesn't do MLMs.

It does if they are selling securities (either as their main business or securities for their business).

The FTC does regular MLMs.

> Herbalife and Lularoe operate in broad daylight.

Herbalife was restructured to settle a pyramid-scheme lawsuit by the FTC. [0] And subsequently also settled a lawsuit from the SEC. [1]

LulaRoe has managed not to be sued by the FTC, but that seems mostly to be because that process is complaint driven and the complaints have instead either gone to state regulators or directly into private lawsuits; LulaRoe has a pile of direct- and class-action lawsuits from distributors, settled a State of Washington lawsuit for $4.75 million, has been sued by it's main supplier, etc.

[0] https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2016/07/restructured-herba...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2019/09/27/herbal...
How well does this play with virtual environments?
I assume the system is built so that app ID only has one current version, rather than region-specific versions. And rightly so - it would be really confusing behavior if the version of an app I have depends on which country I happened to be in when I downloaded it.
The "square" presumably refers to the place (like a town square) and not the streets themselves.
The alternative is no diagram at all, which sucks for understanding, or linking to an image that's likely just a binary blob which is now a hard dependency on your markdown file too. Mermaid is a great fit, it's a text description of common graph types and it's meant to be read, written, and understood by humans in text form.
Sometimes it’s raining
Shrink the problem generally and your worst case scenario cases get less problematic as well. Follow the 80/20 rule and help those most easily helped so society is more generally functional and our worst cases will be something we are more able to manage.
And that's a _good_ thing?
I do find it a bit ironic that this person says, "They have ruined web design"... have you seen your site? Anyway... other than that... pretty interesting article.
what about nmon? (press 'M' to see the frequencies)

for stress testing and monitoring you could try https://github.com/amanusk/s-tui
This is a fallacy I don't like. How about we solve both? Stopping bitcoin mining and drying using efficient technique if possible.

We should dry cloth by hanging it if we can. If people aren't doing it, then I think we should discourage it. It just becomes essential during rainy or winter season where we can't dry clothes. And with modern dense urban style of living, which I disdain, has made people dependence on such tools because there is less space for gardening, drying clothes etc… And drying cloth by hanging require rotation otherwise color may fade etc.

The problem with bitcoin is its incentive to burn energy. Miners are competition to burn energy. While drying clothes, we aren't in competition with each other. One is game, the other is not. That's a big difference, IMHO.

Yes, traditional financial system is also bad that it requires loads of server etc. to maintain. But again, there is no incentive to burn energy just to win probability games.

How about we acknowledge that bitcoin is really problematic. Just like with everything, it has some miniscule benefits like it provides a way to live in certain countries like Argentina. But, just like with engineering difficulties, we should be able to weight its advantage and disadvantage. Bitcoin is clearly a bane for this world.

If you had compared drying clothes with 10x energy and increment of it as people dry more using machines, it would be analogous, but as of now your argument doesn't hold water.
Please don't cross into the flamewar style like this. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. You can make your substantive points without that.

We want curious conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've been doing this in other threads too (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30333616). Could you please not? Here's an old line from PG, which I love, that expresses what we actually want here: Comments should be written in the spirit of colleagues cooperating in good faith to figure out the truth about something, not politicians trying to ridicule and misrepresent the other side.
Per dang's nice request, let's open this up a bit and talk about why this is happening. It's now acceptable (and even lauded in the comments of this post) to doxx people with the wrong opinion. What changed to make otherwise reasonable people approve of this course of action? I want to know what societal switch flipped.

I've seen it posited that it's due to the pseudo-anonymity of the internet, but that doesn't seem to fully explain it. Something has fundamentally changed to allow this level of dehumanization towards the "others".
I have a company provided 6 month old Dell Precision 5750. It's the worst POS I've ever had the pleasure to work with.

I use it primarily to do remote desktop to my desktop at work. IOW: I don't stress it at all.

- I already had IT replace the SSD because it would boot Windows but the screen remained black.

- The trackpad is almost useless, with a lot of phantom clicks. Maybe that's because I've been spoilt by 15 years of MacBook trackpads.

- Speaking of the trackpad, when you press it to click, it started feeling weird after a few days, as if something mechanical came loose.

- After a few days of non-interrupted use (as in: not rebooting), the microphone stops working. Nothing else but a reboot fixes it, but I've just resigned to using MS Teams on my phone for voice and audio, and the laptop for screen sharing with volume set to 0.

- It never goes into a low power state. I'm only doing remote desktop and not running anything else, but if you'd go by the noise of the fan, you'd think it's mining crypto at peak performance. When you check the control panel, the CPU load is just a few percent.

- Recently it started hanging every few days, forcing another reboot.

But, hey, the 4K display is pretty good and it even has a touch screen. Which I'm reminded off whenever my finger accidentally hits it. (Touch screens on laptops are indeed useless.)
Github will render org-mode markdown, so I've been making my documentation with it, and rendering graphviz diagrams using dot notation and org-mode's source code rendering capability. The rendered images are stored in your repo and show up inline.
Where is the $100 million going to come from? Do they have that much money to spare? Or are their customers about to take a haircut?

On that topic, where does BlockFi's profit come from? They're offering 9% (previously 12%) interest on deposits. Are they really re-loaning that money to other people at the 20-30% interest rate required to produce those returns (high interest rates come with high default rates, so you need to overshoot your target by a lot to make up for defaults).
OSSPodcast: Episode 310 – Hayley Tsukayama from the EFF talks about privacy
Hi HN! This has been a fun side project to create a way to embed sprites in code as ASCII art. After defining a simple image encoding (PCEImage[0]), I ended up making this editor and adding a wobble animation effect (inspired by zep’s Wobblepaint[1]). Read more about the editor here[2].

If you create anything fun, you can share it as a link here (click Share Link and then copy the URL) or even submit a pull-request so I can include it as an example. Be careful clicking shared links here when you have a draft image - I try to save your work in progress in local storage but it’s currently too easy to accidentally overwrite it.

[0] https://memalign.github.io/p/pceimage.html

[1] https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=40058

[2] https://memalign.github.io/p/pceimage-editor.html
There are definitely some JS libraries for it that exist. I don’t know all the details but I often find myself Googling “graphviz online” and clicking the first link to quickly mock up diagrams. So in short, I’ve used it on the web before.
I wasn't aware of that, it's suprising and sad. Thanks for pointing that out.
About ".....old cell network radios don't exist anymore...."

I've often wondered if it would be possible to build some kind of proxy?? hardware/software to solve this problem. Maybe some combination of tx/rx modules for old and new networks. Maybe use a SDR for the old tx/rx module as it would only need to tx a short distance to the old phone
I have a vested interest in this domain now that I'm starting up in this space ... 99% of the money flowing into these are totally guidable and clueless people

Is your startup going after the consumers? If most prospective customers are clueless, and many of the remaining customers are sharks or early investors looking for suckers, that doesn't bode well for new companies in this space, even the ones that are trying to do things right.
No idea why this is being downvoted. This is the PROBLEM, people. Many Canadians support removing mandates but very few of us support removing the government through extra-legal mumbo-jumbo. We just had an election in Canada a few months ago and mandates were very much an issue that was debated and discussed.
http://www.falconpl.org/ is The Falcon Programming Language. Seems to have been active from 2011 to 2014 and then a bit in 2018. https://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/falcon-programming-lan... is about a language of the same name from 2008. It was a language Dr. Douglas W. Jones used to teach compiler construction at University of Iowa around 2013-2014 and possibly before (https://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~dwjones/compiler/spring13/fal...), later replaced by the similarly named Kestrel (https://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~dwjones/compiler/fall14/). The slides in https://www.nku.edu/~foxr/CSC407/NOTES/falcon mention at least two other languages named Falcon. I have no idea which of these might be the same languages or related to one another.

Falcon was also a computer system from Atari. Cheetah is also at least a computer system, a brand of drive, and a template system for Python. I don't know of languages called Cheetah or Quick. They may exist. "Quick" was part of the name for multiple programmers' tools and language implementations from Microsoft - QuickBasic, QuickC, QuickPascal, QuickAssembler... maybe more. They competed with the Borland Turbo C, Turbo Pascal, Turbo Assembler, Turbo Prolog, and Turbo Basic languages. This was back before MS switched to Visual C++, VisualBasic, etc.
No, apparently not:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation#Terminology
I miss writing in BASIC
Yes it is. See above reply about hybrid teams.
Thank you. That was amazing! And truly inspiring!

From the Epilogue -

"If you were to engage in elite sports please remember: it's about winning, but it is not solely about winning. All but one is obliged to lose. Under such circumstances I consider success to be measured by means of playing, and not by margin of winning. It is the strive for excellence, the sharing of love and the ability to inspire others to do the same, that to me above all, defines an athlete's success. The job is to lead the way by leading yourself."
I've been hearing about how GM and Toyota will beat Tesla since 2014.

GM delivered electric 26 cars last quarter. Toyota "hopes" to make 3.5m EVs in 2030.
I appreciate your polite and thoughtful response :) That being said, I don't really feel convinced that there is a difference. I think that just as open source software doesn't solve every need, the same goes with art and there will always be value for the people who can create original work and there will always be people who don't value that. Honestly, it sounds like a bullet dodged if you lost a contract to a client who thinks that way. They probably still wouldn't value you very highly and would likely be a bad client. That's my philosophy for freelance work. I feel like it's a common problem across industries. If what you do actually is more valuable than something available for free, it is no threat. Fundamentally someone will need your service if they can't actually get it for free. The people who think the free substitutes are better will probably learn that the hard way and there are others out there who will know better. And if what you do is not more valuable, then I think it's not a bad thing that you don't get paid, because you should make money for providing value. You gotta keep yourself marketable with valuable skills.
All of them. The science is clear on this. Anthropogenic global warming is real and is currently a major existential threat that is not being properly addressed because people are in denial about what's coming and ignoring what's already here.
> For privacy/security use a non-Android Linux-based phone.

The problem with this is that a lot of services don't make apps for this (banks, gov't services, messenger services, etc.) and that the value of such a phone is hugely reduced.

It's basically Microsoft Windows anno ~2000 all over again, except now we can "choose" between Android and iOS (marginally better, I suppose).
When reading "Transmeta", the first thing I'm thinking about is Linus - while I don't have a clue what they did besides "something something CPUs".
Can you elaborate further, with an example, how this is different from static polymorphism? I don't fully understand your argument where you say "it will dispatch to the method optimized for that" and then "you don't have to write a separate copy of your function for each new datatype". The two do not seem consistent with each other.
good idea but no one is playing :/

maybe try adding fake players so people don't leave right away ;)
otherwise people will just play wordle
Exactly, if you aren't willing to exploit Africans what are you even doing?
I’d make it work with the password manager in chrome, and tell everyone the dev tools are better. That’s what would make me seriously try it again.
I agree. In fact, "consumer welfare" is tantamount to repealing antitrust, and the growth of FAANG can be directly traced to this change in legal standard.

Literally every monopoly ever can be said to have a consumer welfare benefit. Competition is always at least a little anti-consumer - you have to consider alternatives and multiple business relationships, and consumers have a risk of those alternatives being inferior or outright harmful.

The problem is that nobody is ever purely a "consumer". There are no professional consumers whose entire life is just buying and using things[0]. "Consumer" is just a hat that people wear among many others. So whatever welfare consumers get from larger firms is mere compensation for welfare lost when those same people are either working for or operating the firms at the other end of the business. Even if someone isn't both a user and developer on Apple platforms, they are indirectly impacted when those developers are harmed by Apple's misconduct, and have to compensate in other ways, such as charging more money across-the-board or skimping on other things. (e.g. not shipping an Android version of their app because App Store compliance is taking up too much developer time)

[0] Though, the attitude I've gotten from some Apple users would imply that their entire life literally is just buying things on their iPhone.
I had similar issues with dell support and my XPS 13 a while ago. Absolutely no way that I'll be buying another dell.
Imo, the code review is not the place to over communicate your preferences. Do it on developers meeting. Do it in a chat. Do it on standup. Don't do it in random code reviews where people unlucky enough to get you as reviewer have to deal with different expectations then anybody else and spend hours discussing your personal preferences - without any real impact on general codebase because other reviewers and coders have different preferences.
It pains me that there's still no comprehensive user docs for kernel features. Everything from hybrid graphics to power-saving to cpu frequency scaling keeps changing from kernel to kernel, and you need a PhD in kernel hacking to know how to use any feature of a specific kernel. I've searched forums for weeks trying to gleam enough information to just get a graphics card to work.

I'm still having an issue where double-finger-touchpad-scrolling causes my X server to core dump, and I can't force the X server to actually dump a core file, because I can't run `ulimit` before the X server runs. You're kind of just shit out of luck as a Linux user.
Related. The author's love for their craft oozes through their work. If I'm not wrong every single illustration in the book is hand-drawn; like literally. Take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN1MsCXkPSA
If your tech can do that, I wonder if it may be more efficient to just throw neutron stars around to disrupt star formation
They do way too much that's not _Build the best browser in the world_.

Persona, Pocket, a whole bunch of non-technical stuff....

It adds up. I wish they would slim their team down dramatically and become a lean mean killing machine to build the best browser in the world. But unless they get sponsored by some billionaire I don't see that happening.
In my experience clear heat shrink tubing lasts a lot longer than tape.
I find it interesting that people who are against the mainstream technology trends (smartphones, social media, cloud computing, whatever else) of today will always make the argument that the technology available X years ago when they were most comfortable with it was the pinnacle and everything has gone downhill since.

While the author is singing praises of a desktop computer with XMPP and self-hosted websites, back then there was a similar movement of people ranting against all this "modern tech" and saying we should just read the newspaper, use telephones to communicate and go out of our houses more. He probably fondly looks back at his late night IRC sessions and LAN parties while there were people writing "I don't like Computers (1996)" articles.
My favourite distance measurement is neither metric nor imperial but nautical. A nautical mile is 1852 metres which approximates the distance of a minute of arc of the Earth's meridians. A cable's length is 1/10 of a nautical mile which (depending on the definition used) is in turn about 100 fathoms. I know all unit systems are arbitrary, but for some reason it feels a bit less contrived than miles or kilometres to me.

Having said that I've never actually used cables or fathoms in practice, only metres or feet for depth and nautical miles for distance.
Hackers Just Leaked the Names of 92,000 ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donors
Honnestly, there's a lot more people moving from Canada to the US than the reverse. Maybe there's a desire to embrace the American way (of course, the state media won't touch it!).

When hiring, we get a ton of resumes from Canada to transfer to the US but the reverse almost never happens.
I’d suggest looking around a bit… this stuff isn’t exactly a secret.

There was alot of very insightful writing during the New Deal era, where federal price supports were introduced. Later, in the late 60s/early 70s, stabilizing prices was a policy position taken to blunt the wartime inflation from Vietnam and the Cold War.

That’s not to say there aren’t any downsides. The destruction of Mexican corn agriculture post NAFTA is an example. The world could drown in the bounty of cheap American corn.
Same in Netherlands.
> might mean

None of the current 3 C++ programs use `std::unordered_map` they use `assoc_container.hpp`.

The current C program uses `khash.h`.

Someone who was interested in evaluating "Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages" would have to look at the authors public code archive and understand what they did.
> until the only browsers in the world are Chromium derivatives

Do you mean WebKit derivatives? Or are you predicting that Apple would switch to Chromium? (No way)
I"ll bite on this. I work in the financial markets and have alot of experience in market structure.

What evidence do you have of wash trading? How would you tell if something is a wash trade? How would you determine if someone is naked shorting? What evidence would you provide for something like this?
Choosing to not consume or disseminate a piece of content is not censorship. Censorship is when you attempt to make that choice for somebody else.
Chrome is just good enough for the average user.

Taking measures to appeal to a more enthusiast audience won’t do much for the numbers.

Only the masses will, and the masses moved long ago to Chrome because it was a 10x product. The alternative was awful. Not only this, but it was backed by Google, the world’s entrypoint to the internet.

Now, Chrome continues being “good enough” if not great.

For me, I have no reason to move, even being a reasonably privacy-conscious person.
This assumes, clothes can dry easily during winters or rainy season.

Also, in modern city we are starting to live densely. Some people live in 1 or 2 rooms and they don't have accessibility to dry their clothes. And drying clothes in room has its own problem like latent heat issue.
Convenience stores and gas stations in the US are frequent targets of armed robbery, which is what the security is for, not petty theft. (There may be some that count on camera shells as a deterrent rather than having live cameras, but if so it has nothing to do with whether the police investigate petty theft.)
Well, I still own an XPS 9360 which works wonderfully well under Linux. That's why at my current job I choose a top-of-the-line XPS 15 i9. Big mistake. That thing went through several support iterations (WiFi, motherboard ...) and it still locks up from time to time. I hate it.