skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and not only foreigners. There are plenty of poor Emiratis in fact.

This comes as a surprise to a lot of people who never been to UAE.

The percentage of uber-rich natives is grossly overestated by the popular image of the country. Nor there are that many really rich expats, unless with businesses outside of UAE, and who only come there to spend.

UAE is not a good place to make money in, but it's often a first choice for MNCs to setup in the region, as anywhere else in the region is even worse.

Only 10%-15% of the UAE population is somewhat close to American middle income standards.
I wonder how many clicks it takes to open up a dialog with 6 or 8 tabs straight from W98 or NT4.
On some level I agree, but also: if I knew that visiting a URL[1] on the Internet Archive and then using "Save page as ..." in the browser would provide a working copy of the original for anyone who wants to play that, maybe I'd accept seven figures for it.

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20220210031511id_/https://www.po...
I think we are in agreement that corporations, governments, religions, etc. will use personal data to harm people. I am less convinced that DNA is the most "sensitive" personal data.
My boss doesn't know how much I'm paid. I like it that way. He communicates how he feels I'm doing to the people that need to know and it's working out ok.
Even if I don't consent to this, it is sufficient that some of my relatives do so to expose information about me. Thus individuals should not even be allowed to give such general consent, as they cannot possible give consent only for themselves.
Just to tag along (I was going to quote and write just about all the same things), but with two developers, the HUGE value-add is codebase knowledge.

If two people on a team regularly contribute to a repo, one person likes to work on feature A, and the other feature B, and all of a sudden, the feature B person leaves and never comes back, that will kill velocity. Even if feature A person has been doing code reviews, a code review is much different than being aware of the system and continuing to improve a feature. Now person A has to either read documentation (which is, for the sake of code writing, a 0 velocity), or take larger tours through the code to figure out why a feature is how it is, and what needs to be done.

So the big question for anyone is if they want to focus on velocity/lines per day, or consistently smooth development. You can get both of those things when everyone is doing their own tickets, but that will immediately stop as soon as there is a change in your team.

I don't think pairing is perfect, or mobbing for that matter, but it does give clients a more consistent/smooth experience if they are okay with paying more for quality than speed. It does take the right kind of people and the right kind of project, just like any problem and tool set.
I must emphatically disagree. On a single page, newreddit shows a fraction of the comments as oldreddit does. They expect you to manually click to expand dozens of "Read More" links and repeatedly suffer the associated loading times of their newly-bloated webpage. For reading comments, newreddit isn't just a disaster of implementation, it's a disaster of usability. It's obvious that their goal is to discourage commenting in order to get people back to scrolling the infinite feed, since that's where the ads are. But oldreddit, while it looks ugly, is (perhaps entirely by accident) an absolute dream for navigating large and highly branching conversations.
There really is a lot of "squinting" in here--is there an inside joke I missed?
Not use the internet including to check email or chats or messages or Google random stuff or map to anywhere on your phone?
is there any way to just tunnel the ssh traffic trough the bastion but let the ssh authentication be done from my computer instead?

that way i would not need to keep the keys in the bastion server at all.
Well, if you spend your time listening to rock music instead of working or if you spend all your money on drug-fueled concerts, it might be a problem. Just browsing on social media in itself does not hurt you at all. Excessive use and addiction is the problem. Same with books: They're usually seen as good, but just reading fantasy books all day is still not a great way to spend your time.

Now, obviously rock music and books probably have less addictive design than social media, but it's still true: Once it starts negatively impacting your live, it becomes a problem.
The Big Mac Index and the PPP Fallacy
Possibly people wishing the internet was back like it was in 2022, :D
You could say this of absolutely anything. Let's use assembler then so we know what we're doing. Oh no, wait, let's write the 0s and the 1s ourselves so we understand what the processor is doing. Even better, let's just put some voltage on some transistors so we understand the flow of the electricity.

At some point you need to accept the underlying stuff just works and build on top of existing layers. That's what DHH calls "conceptual compression" I think, and that's also how science works. Building everything from scratch so that you understand it doesn't work, specially in a business context and usually ends up in worse home-made frameworks.
Why did it collapse? I use reddit from time to time, but never for programming related stuff.

Did read HN for quite a while, not 15 years though and started spamming it just a few years ago.
> That's because Google sucks now, and the web sucks, and the entire ecosystem has quietly morphed from what it was 15 years ago into a dead botnet flying through space, populated by zombies. But based on your argument, that's just my nostalgia talking.

You're doing what you've done in all of your other comments; your building a strawman. The quality of google search results declining doesn't mean the web sucks, and I'm not blaming your nostalgia on that one, I'm blaming your attempt at building an emotive argument to a point that I'm not making.

> Your 30+ years means you were 14 when the iphone came out. I was 24.

The iPhone came out in 2007, not 2002. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt up to this point, but it's pretty clear that you're not arguing in good faith; you're building strawmen and tearing them down.

> Can't you kind of see that it's unusual, unprecedented, for all communication to suddenly flow through a new wall-to-wall ecosystem, mostly privately owned, (including the screens) going from nothing to full saturation within 10 years?

The goalposts are so far from where we started here that we're playing different sports. To answer your question, it's completely bizarre, and likely dangerous. Again I ask, what does that have to do with an addiction to screens and technology? Why is the content that they're publishing so much worse than the utter drivel generated by Fox News, the Daily Express, etc.

> literature (fuck, I wish there was literature)

now _this_ is your nostalgia talking. There is still excellent quality books being published, there are other forms of storytelling (podcasts, video games, movies) which are definitely not perfect, but neither was buying books at any time ever. For every To Kill a mockingbird, Lolita or The Road, there are hundreds if not thousands of terrible, forgettable books. The same is true of other mediums.

> the ability to conduct themselves in any fashion outside of a machine-mediated setting

That's not what's happening at all, and believing that it is is falling into the trap I've been talking about all along. People spending time in front of screens doesn't mean they can't conduct themselves outside of the worlds of technology. Young(er) people (than me) are still travelling, taking gap years, experiencing festivals, drugs, rediscovering theater, food, drink, etc. I'm not sure where you live (no need to share of course) but in my city there are numerous food markets where the majority of the attendees are under 35s (the demographic I fall into) experiencing a variety of things the world has to offer, prepared by people the same age as them and shared as an experience.
Here in Switzerland, most of the non-IT people I'm talking with are genuinely surprised that for instance project managers are paid less that developers. For them just hearing the word "manager" = big buck.
You can use the Scratch website on a Chromebook assuming that the school hasn't blocked it. I'd recommend using the website and not installing the desktop version. We use Chromebooks at the Code Club at our local library.

I would definitely let the child 'drive' and I would possibly sit nearby at the start but very much take a back seat as much as possible. I haven't investigated it properly myself yet, but in your situation I would look at Code Club World: https://codeclubworld.org/

At the Code Club we used these resources: https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/codeclub though it depends how good your child is at reading. We start Code Club with 8 year olds I think for that reason as well as the ability to follow instructions semi-independently, but some younger children are fine and if they have one-to-one help that sort of thing is less of an issue.
"I don't understand this comment. What I'm saying is that if the landlord find that renting out becomes unprofitable, they'll simply get out of that situation by selling it off."

So if previously the buyers consisted of 50% landlords, and 50% would-be residents, presumably now there will be fewer landlords buyers and the price will go down. Is the landlord selling at a loss?
Personally I've turned down jobs at places which require pair programming because it drains me. There's no way I can sustain it for very long.

I'm happy to do it occasionally to transfer knowledge, but it slows me down massively because it totally changes my thought processes when I'm constantly aware of another person there with me.

I wonder how significant the effect of mandating it is on the personalities you're able to hire. Many of my by far most productive developers have been introverts like me who'd likely not to consider jobs in those kinds of environments.
Venom? Characteristic wit of people who have no time for silliness :)
I really hope someone can made this info a wordpress theme+plugin, then add some auto deleted thread after X times, then cool!
No, it's about what people wear.
Almost all my math is from MIT OCW on YouTube and a bit of 3blue1brown.

I don’t think there’s any shame in that.

What’s your PhD in?
Yes, the years of experience metric greatly underestimates the value brought by rare synergies.

I'm a decent programmer/developer, but that isn't my primary worth to a company. My primary worth to a company is that I'm a competent developer with additional specializations in both high-level research and media relations/communications.
For the simple reason that in my opinion it's never "answering a simple question" but more often than not having a chat, with multiple messages and the expectation of responding quickly. The worst offenders are the ones who don't even ask a question but instead write "Hello?... Dude?... Are you there?..." Just state what you want and this will allow me to answer your question in a more efficient way.
Everyone wants to ban bitcoin mining, but nobody wants to tax carbon emissions and end industry subsidies.
I don't think that is good analogy. Driving race with driver and navigator are in completely different then anything related to programming or even pair programming.

That analogy is just yet another way how to shut up people who dont like the process.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. I know jacquesm is a very well-respected poster, but unless he's got diabetes himself, he's providing his opinion with absolutely no real-world-experience vs someone who has been managing diabetes with keto for two decades.

Even if keto "isn't for everybody" (and KetoType1 should have put a disclaimer), I'd certainly much rather take advice from someone with skin in the game.
People say it’s Windows that excels for development (because of Visual Studio), and gaming on Linux is not a huge problem anymore. And BSDs (FreeBSD and Dragonfly, in particular) do excel on the server side. I’d agree that it’s still the Year of MacOS on the Desktop, although Linux is catching up pretty quickly (while Windows is receding into sheer madness).
Bad Apple on a 32K EEPROM
You’re not alone. Using i3 allows me to work on muscle memory without going through an observe-interpret-respond loop with every move. It really is a shame that animated transitions in macOS are non-optional. Who decided that transitions help users? It’s like tacky jQuery fade and swipe transitions on everything.
Obviously if you eat fewer calories than you burn, you’ll lose weight. But the inverse is not necessarily true. It’s possible to consume more calories than you burn and still lose weight, because your body doesn’t necessarily utilize all calories consumed.
Why would someone be branded a conspiracy theorist for hiring a legal representative for what looks at first glance like a straightforward violation of the specific + informed + non-coerced consent requirement of GDPR with regard to the processing of personal data? One which is in the news because it is actively under investigation by the authorities?
In this case, EC2 precedes Elastic Inc. by 6 years and Elastic Cloud by 9, so can't blame Amazon for that one.
You are forgetting that the human body is nowhere near 100% efficient at burning fuel to put power into a pedal. To produce 400 watts of mechanical power, the body consumes about 4 times that amount of fuel (25% efficiency). Consuming 2000 kcal over 3 hours is thus closer to the more realistic 200W of power to the pedals, and even the higher ranges make sense if he's a good athlete. See this article: https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/2020/05/14/how-to-convert...
Wow, it's been that long? When I created my account about 8 years ago, it seemed like HN had been around for ages already!

Thank you to Dang and the HN team for keeping this site quality.
Hopefully! Chrome OS is very lightweight because everything uses the same underlying webview.
I've used that one in C++ quite a lot for const initializing variables that have awkward initialization steps, and it's probably my favourite of the options, but it's still nasty; having to declare the return type of the function removes one of my favourite things about golang!
Could only be applied to more recently allocated networks and they are already paying some sum per network per year (not that much depending on the region but a non-zero number).
However the worst offenders are legacy space that predate the modern RIR system and would be completely unaffected by this, since there is no mechanism to charge them.
https://www.longmores.law/articles/data-protection-issues-fo... (2014)
Big thanks to pg, dang, all the others involved and all the HN community.

Happy birthday!

P.S: I think it's one of those threads that can have the old /. or reddit feeling, posting messages without much substance but that do still feel good and even with an oldschool smiley ; )
As a Bay Area native who moved to Abu Dhabi / Dubai roughly four years ago, I have a lot of issues with the way the UAE is portrayed across sites like Hacker News and Reddit. A lot of them are in the comments for this story, focusing on all the negatives of the country, structural racism, human rights abuse, etc and we certainly have a right to raise these things (of which I actively fight against here every day). That being said however, this young country does also have many positives to it that go unnoticed by those across the world since they're rarely reported. They may be small, but they are accomplishments nonetheless, such as a couple years ago being the "Year of Tolerance" where the gov't focused on bring inclusivity in their own way to the country, or bringing the Pope to this country on his first ever visit to the Gulf, or even the religious centers that are being built in Abu Dhabi that celebrate Jewish, Muslim and Christian history. For a country hardly 50 years old, it's come a long way. Just this year, a lot of laws such as having children out of wedlock, marijuana / alcohol, not requiring a local partner for business, etc., have all been relaxed and this is just the beginning. They've also introduced a variety of labor laws (though I don't think they're being followed by the owners of these companies, but that's a qualm for another day)

I don't want to get across that this country is good or bad, but that it's _complex_ (just like most countries). I do personally believe that the leadership of the country is trying to make a positive impact, though it's usually in ways that aren't reported in the media and... that's all I want put out there, just to bring some nuance to the conversation.

Having said all that, going back to the long-form article, I will say only one thing, debt is something that's really scary to have here since AFAIK, it's illegal in Islam, so the credit card system tends to be strangely designed and if I was ever in debt to this country or any of these Arab countries, I'd stay far away from here.
This is actually really disappointing. Windows had its own best of class frameworks for how they used to make applications.

Now even it succumbs to glorified electron apps. Its a reflection of who is building it almost, there is just no passion for craft anymore.
holy shit are people with 5 years experience really making 200k!?
> Ambitious people like achieving goals.

Like coming in, making the biggest impact they can eg. do a large spectacular redesign, leave for 10% pay jump immediately and never sticking around for that maintenance nightmare that were hidden in the details?

Incentives will always be a tradeoff because you can't measure skill.
Interesting to know the root cause - would assume combustion engine cars ship with bare minimum amount of fuel, so wondering if it is EV batteries which are harder to contain.
Wow, this is a milestone indeed.

Abstract bullshit considered as an overturn of a simple experimental evidence even a freshman could set up and measure.
Audible is abusing their dominant position to destroy competing audio book publishers. It’s not the agreement itself, but that it’s an agreement by the dominant player in the market.
Wordle tracks you more now that The New York Times owns it
Unfortunately, I have neither the proper information nor interest to dig into that specifically. My best recommendation is to look into why I might have said that, and decide if you care at all what I thought. If so, take actions to change what things that you have a desire to change.
Maybe sex isn't that great compared to new activities from a reward center perspective. Maybe the prevalence of circumcision in the US could explain why sex is less enticing than these other new activities.
Nope! The goal here was just more options & more connections for devs to platforms they like and use. We plan to keep expanding on this kind of stuff.
I can't find a definitive start, but essentially as soon as samples were being tested, it was conspiracy theory time. Even if it's not for DNA, I can assure you the swabs have many conspiracy theories behind them.

(Credentials: my wife is really into conspiracy theories)
Subverting user’s intentions by doing things like resetting the default browser on every update, or forcing you into their App Store ecosystem by making it like pulling teeth to download an app from the internet and run it.
Windows graphics/widget APIs were the only nice thing about it IMO.
What do you mean when you say “couldn't fit in the LOI”.

Aren’t LOI just written agreements? Your quote implies there’s a space limitation.
The particularly shitty part is that often people are/were REQUIRED to test themselves for COVID and people were stuck with whatever tests were available. So governments demanded people buy goods from private companies, and then the private companies abused their customers. It's like a giant shining example of why we're quickly becoming no-trust societies.

When I give my blood and DNA for MS trials, I get long consent forms and details, which I can alter. (I always cross out the parts that enable my data to be used for profit; if they want to know why I have benign MS, I hope they figure it out, but I want them to use my information to help people, not gouge them.)
Agree, used it for about half a year at a previous job. It tries to copy everything from everywhere and creates too many ways to do the same thing. The ecosystem is a lot smaller and many times I ended up on issue comments or readmes in chinese, which din't make it any easier. Also I got pretty pissed off with the 2 -> 3 transition, not as easy as they claim on big projects with real business pressure like to stop development for weeks during migration. Also Next.js is incredibly better (and better managed) than Nuxt. I'm never using it again.
just as the os under the ps3 and ps5
I don't know about higher level, more expensive stuff, but many popular microcontrollers (like the ESP8266 and ESP32) have SPI flash onboard, without any built-in wear leveling.
Man Who Lived in Small Apartment Owes Nintendo $14.5M
Good timing for the question. Last week I had corporate IT give me a Windows laptop after about 15 years of running Linux at work.

The days are gone when all I needed was a DHCP address on the network and I could do anything. Over the last couple of years we've added more layers of security at the network layer that would unexpectedly break me and corporate apps are increasingly tied into AD for authentication. Yes, these can all eventually be sorted out for a Linux workstation but without corporate support it became increasingly time-consuming and my harsh paymasters aren't interested in me spending time on that activity.

I think the last straw was when the Unix admins bailed and went to WSL for the desktop. They were my back-door resource for visibility on infrastructure changes that broke things for the non-Windows users.
>Accessible Perceptual Contrast Algorithm (APCA) by Andrew Somers is a WCAG 3 working draft and may change later.

It's too soon to use APCA. Use the current WCAG color contrast algorithm and standards.
I dunno, getting inspired and copying all the ideas, deciding that they can do a good enough job internally instead of hiring Keivan doesn’t sound like a bad thing in and of itself.

It’s the stringing along that makes my blood boil. After reading things like this, I’m thinking, what I’d do differently?

Maybe have them reimburse all my travel upfront. No money, no meetings.

Also, bill all the meetings and conversations. Up front, given their reputation from this story. They want to spend my time, better show how serious they are. No money, no meetings, no false hopes.

But they know young geeks can be excited that someone at THE Microsoft noticed them, like in the Hollywood success stories, and walk an extra mile. Who knows, I could have lost my shit 20 years ago. This straight up exploitation irks me to no end. Reminds me of rock stars bedding teenage fangirls and similar shit, maybe this is why.
imagination is not the same thing as visualisation. If you look at many modern TV shows, video games, and movies and only see what is explicitly put in front of you, that's on you, not the medium.
We all know that illegal discrimination happens. I was replying to the notion that this is a "new world". We have been living in that world for quite a while now. (That law was passed in 2008.)
That is interesting. I would like to hear more about jails and how they compare to containers on linux. This is the first time I’ve heard about nomad and I would like to here more. That the whole thing integrates with ZFS is news to me too.

It is sort of sad but BSD is bad at publishing news and tutorials. I wish there was something like lwn and the slew of endless tutorials to keep me up to date with what is going on in the BSD world. There is so little information or it is so hard to find for somebody in the Mac and Linux world that it might as well not exist at all.

And the thing is, if you “dev” on Mac or Linux and “deploy” on Linux, like a lot of us, you are a *NIX head and are interested in hearing what is new in the BSDs.