skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me too. I have only had one job where I was specifically hired because of my broad range of skills and experience. It was with (at the time) a 6 person company. We grew and a couple of years later were merged with a much larger competitor.

Seems to me recruiters are only interested in people already doing exactly the job being advertised. As if somebody with lots of experience in lots of technologies suddenly can't come up to speed with a different product/tool.
> I don't get why people expect that they should pay nothing to watch their favourite content creators

Because they where offered up for free? And only now are charging?
> People commenting on MacOS UX often forget that people creating Mac GUI applications aren't magically better at doing UX than Linux users.

It's not magic. It's attraction. Just like magnets. People who _care_ about UX are more likely to use a Mac than any Linux distro. Independently but related, those who use a Mac are far more likely to care about UX than the average Linux user.

I say that as someone who dremels their phone and earbuds to make them easier to use, yet still prefers a Debian desktop.
>can't do and therefore just dismiss many solutions without thinking since you know the 99% can't do those thing

Is that assessment accurate to reality? How would we know if the bottleneck for most business is "my employees aren't good enough to solve hard technical problems" or "most of our problems aren't hard technical problems"?
People have been able to tune out of, skip or ignore advertising on every media platform since the beginning of time. There is no obligation, anywhere, on the part of the consumer to engage with advertising in exchange for content.
I don't mind sponsor slots - they directly pay the content creators and don't involved me to be stalked as I go about my life.

If the sponsored segments get irritating, and in some cases they have, I just go elsewhere. If I don't want the content enough to put of with the sponsor segment then I simply don't want the content enough.
This means the world would be full of complaints from macOS users, but for some reason, we only know about this detail because of that “shocking” Twitter thread.
>That's not defence. It fails the principle of least-surprise.

Only if the standard where anything else is a "surprise" is 2022 Linux.

Many (all?) other unices and macOS itself since forever work like that. Including Linux itself in the past [1]

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/270891/
It's $current_year, it's all that people care for. ...sadly.
I'd love to hear more about how you structure these partnerships? I doubt you are helping each other out for free?
The way I see it, browsers are already API-bloated. I just don’t see the justification for further developing a graphics API when another one based on more modern standards is already underway. It’s not like it’s a small effort.
Many years ago I turned down a great job in London. The high salary wasn't enough to compensate for the far greater cost of living in London.
Maybe. It's not like the market for native graphical debugging tools is overflowing with options either, which is why I didn't understand OP's point that well.

Additionally, with some careful coding you can already run WASM+WebGPU applications both natively (e.g. via wgpu-rs) and in the browser, so you can pick and choose the best tooling depending on your use case, so ultimately I guess that's going to be the way forward.
Thanks for clearing that up. I agree that those are even worse than TOTP. I'm not expecting to see Yubikeys used anytime soon in the largish enterprises that outsource their IT to the lowest bidder and leave the thinking about security to the information security committee. Just explaining that they need to spend 2x$25 for every employee will take at least five years!
Haha. They noticed your kvetching.

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The usual argument when a correlation goes against your theory is to say "aha! but what if the causation goes the other way?" and that's pretty much what the author does.

He sees higher education as a luxury good. Something that rich societies do when they become rich, because they are rich.

If you look at some of the top comments in this thread you might see some evidence in favor of his position. Most people are not trying to justify education spending because of practical concerns about growing the economy and attracting skilled immigrants[1]. They are saying that education has a higher value that cannot be measured in traditional economic terms[2].

[1] By the way, hasn't higher education traditionally been used to restrict immigration? They don't let you work in many rich countries if you don't have a college degree, and some rich countries have point-based systems that deduct points if you don't have a college degree. That sounds a lot like college attracts skilled immigrants, but if you look at the glass half empty it also discourages a lot of skilled immigrants who for some reason or another can't get a college degree.

[2] The author then spends many pages discussing social desirability bias and how people are reluctant to argue against maximizing spending for good things even long after the good thing reaches diminishing returns.
Yes - this needs editing into the title as it's quite significant.
That's a very long story, the in-a-nutshell version: walking at night in Amsterdam I spotted two guys hauling an Apple II, disk drives, a monitor and a bunch of expansion cards out of the back of a car, I asked what they were doing and they said that they were making some kind of computer vision device (this was in 1984, I was 19 at the time, what they were building was an eye tracker), I asked if I could tag along and they said ok, after an hour or so it was clear they had no clue what they were doing (trying to write some basic program to talk to their frame grabber) so I coded the whole thing up without an assembler by poking the machine code into some free RAM. This led to a longer term relationship, the one guy was an optics genius called Michiel Kassies, the other a guy that knew a lot about hardware, Karl Jungbauer who worked for NikHef (the dutch institute for Nuclear Physics) in their hardware department and who moonlighted in the tech scene in Amsterdam in his free time. Michiel knew Hugo, and when Hugo got the proposal to invest in Jan Sloots' fake video compressor he asked me to look it over for him, which I did.

Hugo ended up investing in DadaData, a company founded by Jungbauer, a guy called Peter Domela-Nieuwenhuis and myself, after three weeks I realized these guys were more interested in their drugs than in running a business so I bailed out and founded MCS, which still continues today (though it has been renamed).

Over the years Hugo would come up with all kinds of weird ideas and occasionally he'd call. We lost touch prior to Greenmix, by which time his drug use became so bad that there we no more normal times.

It's pretty weird to see someone you respect initially slide off like that, I have always hated drugs and it made it pretty hard for me to be exposed to it without commenting on it and getting into arguments. Hugo really was a nice guy that lost it, his addiction to his dope and lifestyle eroded every sense of what was right and what wasn't. The path of destruction he left behind is a mile wide and even though he spent 12 months in jail I'm pretty sure there are lots of people around here that would happily piss on his grave.

Of course I'm sorry for all the investors that lost their money in his harebrained schemes, but I mostly pity his kid who saw his father slide down like that.

One of the funnier stories about Hugo: he was very much overweight and the doctor told him to get some exercise or that he'd die of a heart attack in short order. So he went bike shopping and picked out a very fancy racing bike. After 6 months of dutifully disappearing each day for two hours on his bike he complained that he didn't lose any weight. So I offered to ride with him to see what was going on. Hugo lived in Loosdrecht at the time, and from his house made a beeline to a pancake restaurant in Vreeland (a couple of km away from his house), where he ate two enormous pancakes, consumed copious amounts of expensive alcohol and then cycled leisurely back. So at least I understood why the weight loss program was a failure :), but he swore me to secrecy (which I am now breaking, but I don't think he'd mind).
I think people give too SEO too much credit. SEO is a big problem as long as there is only one big search engine, with one algorithm. That allows absurd specialization to abuse the idiosyncrasies of that search engine. That's just how it goes with monocultures though.

I've had very little problem identifying SEO spam by just not being Google and promoting other values than they do. Since the search engine spammers are very mindful to follow every one of google's best practices, then you can effectively find the rest of the internet by just punishing sites that do not, in some way, follow Google's rules.

Unencrypted HTTP? Bring it. Poorly optimized for mobile? Don't mind if I do. Weird looking URL? This is gonna be good! Et cetera etc.

You can also weed out a lot of this nonsense by looking at where websites created by humans link. Rarely do they link to spam.
Besides what fsloth replied, it is also 10 years too late, WebGL 2.0 is a subset of GL ES 3.0, released in 2010.

So in 10 years, no browser vendor ever thought it was worthwhile improving their developer tools to support 3D developers.

Firefox did have a toy debugger that they eventually killed and that was it.
It's still not clear why Apple SSD so slow. Surely there's more to it. May be other SSDs are cheating in firmware? Or may be it's just bug in Apple firmware? I'm really interested if there will be follow ups on Apple side.
>Scott became famous through the courageous manner of his death

For most of my life I was told it was Scott's fault for bad leadership. Recent research shows otherwise, and blames a bad lieutenant.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171005102638.h...

Fascinating stories, that gave me fuel to be an adventurer. Shackleton is one of my great heroes and I cannot recommend highly enough becoming familiar with the story of the Endurance. Crushed in ice, far from anywhere yet all survived. Incredible incredible tale.

https://www.history.com/news/shackleton-endurance-survival
Again, your feeling of duress might not extend to the majority of citizens and not all societies share the view that social compacts are antiquated
That's more of a for-pay library with a search engine.
The filesystem isn't executing anything so if anything you'd want the file manager or shell programmer to handle it. But yours is a terrible solution that would mean everyone else interacting with the filesystem to handle it too. Better to adjust the display code to treat extensions specially (if it doesn't already) and make sure that it is clear to the user what the real extension is.
> Audible's network effects can only be dislodged by people not listing their books on Audible at all; so this shouldn't have much of an effect.

This isn’t quite right and misses most of what’s going on.

Since a book that’s exclusive to A can’t appear on B - B can never get any network effects and thus can’t compete with A.

And if B did begin to get any network effects - through an innovative technique ( Eg when book depository made ground by offering free shipping) — A would take notice and simply buy B before it was a big enough threat.

Hence again - individuals and normal market forces can’t displace an established monopolist.

And the moat is huge.
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Google search is the dominant search globally.

What sucks is that they're spinning off traffic to their own services. But then again, nothing wrong with that. They own their traffic.

I've gotten huge gains from google alone in the past year, many going to my site (https://avsanpuru.com)

Nope, definitely not dying.
So? Did Linux do it like that before?

https://lwn.net/Articles/270891/
Can everyone please just stop using Amazon products already? I'm sick of hearing people complain about them and still say "but they're too convenient" or "I've no other option!".

You do.

Stop using Amazon and related products. Tell everyone you can to stop using Amazon and related products.
How many hundreds of millions of people use OSX over the years and never encountered any problems whatsoever?

This article is a non-issue, people just like to upvote Apple bashing.
A Google Cloud architecture diagramming tool
That doesn’t matter at all, I’m talking about investment. Why continue to develop the older API while a new one is already underway? Sorry I just think it’s a waste of time and resources. What is WebGL 2 going to give us that WebGPU isn’t promising to deliver?
True. They also didn't have any infrastructure in some regions so it makes sense to install the newest tech. But if too many people are happy with 4G, it may be difficult to establish new infrastructure.

I have 4G and very rarely use it. Most of the time on holidays. For IoT it just seems like a cost factor without too much benefit. I doubt our customers would even appreciate it if our devices don't use local nets to phone home.
>Perhaps real macs should be equipped with internal batteries to flush to disk in the case of power loss?

Or just add a UPS?
Right. Since it was limited to a few months only I believe they just accepted the loss, put out some ads with 3% discount etc. Same with the lower VAT for food products.

Probably also rounded down in favor for the customer but I can’t remember the details
Hiring managers read HN ? Recruiters I have come across think that all "hackers" are people in dark rooms, pilfering state secrets and mining cryptocurrencies.
Judging the benefits of anything only on the financial bottom line is risky. Many extremely valuable things are valuable because they are cheap to the point of irrelevancy. Which is why it is a valid question to ask whether the resources are worth it.

> For example, a democracy can only function if citizens are able to process complex information to base their voting decisions on.

It has worked pretty well for the last 2,500 years with voters possessing extremely questionable education. The main issue is whether a democracy has a culture of being graceful in both political victory and defeat.

> Education is correlated with health and longevity.

Correlation is not causation. Wealthy people tend to be healthy, long-lived and well educated. It might not be the education as much as having enough wealth for leisure and health.
So how long until someone starts mining bitcoin on my GPU whenever I visit their site?
I think that Haskell2010 could be the last Haskell standard. Modern Haskell has diverged to such a degree that it seems to be (almost) impossible to define a common standard. Even if they would, as long as there a over 100 language extension (increasing over time) there will be developers using them. Take a look at C++20, I think it's obvious that C++ is beyond repair at this point in time, even if you wouldn't add any more language features.

Sure, a new Haskell standard would allow for more compiler competition and that's a good thing, but it cannot fix the language. I think what we really need is a new language that picks all the good parts from Haskell, but has a very small syntactical core. Something like Go, but purely functional. You might say Rust or Elm. But Rust is too performance oriented and already quite big, hence more like a C++ replacement. And Elm is too domain specific and maybe a bit too simple (lacks ad-hoc polymorphism).

So maybe a general purpose Elm like language with ad-hoc polymorphism, but not as complex as Purescript, with a GC that compiles to binaries and WASM with a standard code formatter and very conservative regarding new language features, just like Golang.
React doesn’t stop you from writing messy and inconsistent code. I’d say it does bring structure to code that could be a lot worse without it though.
If you want proven tech, methane isn't much worse efficiency.
I love the Kindle but I hate its software. The fact that you have to come up with these hacks to workaround these issues...
I suspect you are in the wrong part of the thread so I'll answer you here.

I do not know, I lost contact with him and only read about him in the paper after that period.

He had some really unsavory characters hanging around him and that plus the drugs were the main reason for me to stop interaction with him. There are some rumors that the funds raised with Greenmix were used to finance drug transports, I have no clue if these are true or not but if they were it wouldn't surprise me even a little bit.
I fear "We're not a family" at this point is an oft copied mantra (I recall seeing this in GitLab's S1), same as Amazon's "missionaries over mercenaries" that's now prevalent (Coinbase, the most recent example), as well.
I read Michael Palin's book on HMS Erebus last year and in addition to being quite interesting all around, it went into great detail about the every day lives of sailors during that era based on the detailed logs kept by the ships.

The short answer: They were all expected to chip in and help entertain their fellow shipmates and keep up morale. In addition to music and songs, they'd write and perform skits, tell stories, have holiday contests between ships (usually they sailed in a group of at least two) and more.

Here's the man himself: https://youtu.be/KhsxTSbsVeo
A union election at the Amazon warehouse on Staten Island is set for March
I’d argue maybe .5% of people are working on something where this is even close to being a concern. Those people probably know what they need to use.

Apple doesn’t need to defend anything.
I have used Notion before personally and it's a sweet bit of software. We're already an Atlassian shop, using Bitbucket, Jira and Confluence. Up until very recently we were barely using any of it but my team just moved from SVN to Git (about bloody time) so when we started using Bitbucket it started to ball rolling with the rest of the stuff.

I like the idea of any sharable decision or conclusion needing to be documented. We are a data warehouse for our organization and so we rely on business rules ALOT. So many of those business rules live only in the code with no explanation and no one remaining who can explain it.

I think we're at the turning point of beginning to think and work differently. I'm going to start with my small team of three, and once we get going then try expand it to the rest of the department. It is kinda hard as I don't really have the authority to enforce it, the best I can do is strongly suggest.
I run ads on nslookup.io (400 USD/month) and an API (100 USD/month). Stats are here: https://plausible.io/nslookup.io
I've only ever done this with my own signature (so, a one-time process), of which I have a scan and my workflow hasn't changed for 20 years, just the tools. as the other reply said, just inserting an image into a PDF is not a problem, and I still don't understand the use case of the camera. But in this case maybe I've had my signature available for longer than phones with cameras exist contributes to the fact?

I'm not saying you're wrong, but maybe all the office work I've done in my life is simply different.
Some of the Logitech mice (MX Anywhere 2) switch the 'clickiness' (rasterization) of the scrollwheel on and off instead of sending a button click.

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/eol/mx-anywhere-2s-mouse.910-...
I rather agree with you there.
“And now you have 3 problems”.

Sorry I had to make the joke! This is fine. Regex are a pain.
Is there a particular reason why this discussion is always a matter of all or nothing? And companies bounce back & forth between them unhappy with both?

Is there not a viable paradigm in the middle somewhere
It depends how you define targetted. An advert for Intel while I'm looking at a technical site is targetted in the traditional sense, like advertising sports equipment and beer in TV broadcasts of football (where the audience is likely to be interested in one, the other, or both), and I'm fine with that.

Like you I object to adverts that are targetted by stalking me as I go about my daily life, or buying & selling information gleaned about me by an entity performing such stalking. Targetting based on what I'm actively doing right now seems fine.

(and away from the targetting question, I also object to other dark patterns like pop-ups/-unders, auto-playing audio & video, etc.)
Not at all, any more than FOSS implies security.
Does that actually result in any meaningful differences between these countries in the debate?
this mean that is just too difficult for most of people
> which already exist (nslookup) so there is a proven demand but you made a cleaner solution.

100% this. I've completely moved away from trying to be novel. Pick a solution that is profitable, but you think you can improve. Execute it better and gain market share.
OSX defines _POSIX_SYNCHRONIZED_IO though, doesn't it? I don't have one at hand but IIRC it did.

At least the OSX man page admits to the detail.

The rationale in the POSIX document for a null implementation seems reasonable (or at least plausible), but it does not really seem to apply to general OSX systems at all. So even if they didn't define _POSIX_SYNCHRONIZED_IO it would be against the spirit of the specification.

I'm actually curious why they made fsync do anything at all though.
Those paragraphs are not demonstrations of ethics, but of technical competence.
> QML is practically electron

Nope. Electron is a whole browser under your seat, QML is a declarative language to instantiate C++ UI objects. The core logic of your application is written in C++/Qt instead of Javascript.

> QML still has only rudimentary support for AOT compilation

Fair point. But it shouldn't really matter in any application today, as your logic must reside in C++ models if you want to have real performance.
Canadians know that - they have only to look at dairy. Milk is probably fine from a consumer perspective (just not if you want to get into farming it), but whether deliberately or as a side-effect it cripples cheese.
> Why do you think GraphQL is so bad?

It is relatively bad compared to the alternatives (plain good old http apis)
To be fair, slack kinda messed up themselves. I am still astonished that they never built video calling.

Like MS did use their existing sales channels to stop slack growing, but if slack at least had feature parity with Teams then it would have been a harder sell.
I think "favor not being evil over making more money" is exactly how the "don't be evil" motto is commonly interpreted.
I get your point but it's not very practical.

Currently, a home is personal property and thus a market. The ownership of assets is a fundamental building block of a modern capitalist society.

The point of owning a home is to have a house to live in, which you like and can customize to your liking. Another point/benefit is to take control of your living expenses and to be independent from a landlord.

The fact that real estate prices are skyrocketing has nothing to do with the idea of home ownership, it's a side effect of an imbalance in supply and demand. Yes, some investors will abuse this imbalance to build wealth but the true root cause is the imbalance in itself that makes it possible.

It's not rocket science. You cannot keep cramming ever more people in the same area. Supply will never meet demand. No amount of policy or taxation will solve this. The only structural long term solution is to address the demand side. It should not be required for half the population to move into a handful of cities just to have a decent job.