skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately yes, especially companies that are not IT but have a fair percentage of IT employees and salary bands; they don't like to have different salary bands between functions, like finance, marketing, IT, logistics, HR, etc. so there is a pressure to keep IT salaries in line with the other functions. Even if the IT guy with 2 years in the company brings 10 times more value than the 2 year bean counter, "equality, diversity and inclusion" is interpreted like "pay all people on the same salary band the same", especially when in finance/accounting you have mostly women* and in IT mostly men and you want, as a company CEO, to eliminate the "gender wage gap".

* At least in my country for most, if not all companies.
ADSL modems are a totally different beast. With *DSL, you have a point to point connection with the telephone company equipment. It doesn't make sense to limit speed with the customer premises equipment, since the company equipment can easily do it (usually by limiting the negotiated sync speeds) With cable, it's a broadcast medium, so it's a lot simpler to let the network equipment be simple and have the CPE limit speeds. OTOH, network equipment capabilities have increased a lot since the early days.
Programmers don’t have to go to expensive law school or medical school. Programmers don’t have to pass the bar. Programmers don’t have to work 80+ hours a week for years in residency. Programmers don’t have to work face to face with infected people and put themselves in harm’s way.

Times are, imo, much better for programmers than doctors or lawyers right now.
I've cashed out Monero and I've also sent Monero to someone else in exchange for cash in hand. At no point did I need to reveal to any party what address I received those XMR on. There is no KYC process that I know of which asks for "the address you received your XMR on".
Something is wrong with the numbers.

Among the 490 patients, 95 (19.4%) progressed to severe disease during the study period; 52 of 241 (21.6%) received ivermectin plus standard of care, and 43 of 249 (17.3%) received standard of care alone...

The 28-day in-hospital mortality rate was similar for the ivermectin and control groups (3 [1.2%] vs 10 [4.0%]...

If 52 received ivermectin and 3 died, that's about 5.8%. If 43 received standard care alone and 10 died, that's about 23.3%. So the actual mortality difference was 5.8% vs 23.3%.
I have re-occuring dreams that I am coding programs for DOS in Pascal or Assembler. I cannot make out any of the code.

I have never written a program in Pascal in my entire life.
SMTP protocol basics from scratch in Go: receiving email from Gmail
> Maybe using an archive.is-like service that renders the static page (as an image at the extreme)

A lot of companies are starting to use "browser isolation" which is essentially what you're saying. A proxy runs between the client and the server, but it does more than just direct TLS streams - it actually builds the DOM and executes the JS. The resulting web page is sent to the actual client browser, which might send back things like mouse and touch events to the proxy, which will then update the page.

I think most companies are using this as a malware protection thing, but it does hide the actual client IP address and fingerprint, and I imagine it would make tracking very difficult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_isolation
Apple's 1984 ad was promising liberation as a selling point
"with" and "defer" (Go) are nice but not crucial to me.
Superhero movies are the current optima in (audience appetite, profit, time to delivery, box office saturation / crowding out competition). It makes business sense, it just sucks for those trying to do something different, as it sucks the money out of the system. Opportunity cost favors capes.

Hollywood is going to change dramatically over the next few decades as more projects move to post production rendering pipelines and the entire film process gets upended. Maybe this will provide much needed air to those seeking to do new and unusual things.
I recently saw an ad on Facebook or Twitter for Amazon Alexa that said "what if Alexa could read minds?" and went on to dramatize the hypothetical.

I was absolutely gobsmacked as they say, it took me several minutes to come to terms with the idea that this was a genuine ad, not a parody, supposed to promote feelings of goodwill towards an always-listening assistant.

Perhaps their next ad will say "what if Alexa was linked directly to counterterrorism authorities" and dramatize something like the end of 1984...and then say "good thing it isn't yet, because the details need a bit of work".
I wouldn't say it's a giant runtime. A trimmed Hello World .NET app is ~11MB these days - not quite as good as Go, but you can make .NET apps that do quite a lot in under 20MB.

And sizes will be going quite a bit lower with NativeAOT this year.

https://www.awise.us/2021/06/05/smallest-dotnet.html
Wouldn't it be possible for a potential client-side blocker for this to intercept the gtag() method invoked on the client side ("Tag Manager web container"), even if that function is provided by a script hosted on the website owner's domain, as Google recommends[1]?

[1] https://developers.google.com/tag-platform/tag-manager/serve...
Sure, big pharma over does it sometimes but remember that people truly need these drugs sometimes and they are prescribed by well intentioned doctors.

I don't think you can compare a legitimate business publishing public accounting figures, operating within the law, subject to policy by elected officials with the illicit drug trade who's supply chains operate in the dark. These supply chains are probably responsible for thousands of deaths, human trafficking, and unfathomable suffering whose actors you have no possible way of mitigating their actions.

I grow weary of hearing this recurring argument that the relatively minor side effects of a free market being compared to pure evil.
I suppose that's just what you get when you have two different but related things, and they both start with the same 4 letter word.
This is so frustrating for so many things - there’s rarely any reason shopping much beyond the discount store, the regular store, and the high price store - anything else will have the same options with slightly different things about them.

And this is true of more than just floor lamps.
"The difference is I felt guilty as hell when I sacricied things I could look forward to in my real life day for a one day 20 hour DOTA binge."

That's how I would feel too.... I just get the impression that most here don't have that sort of negativity toward video games (and the way they can pull you away from "real life" things) but meanwhile feel such hostility toward this.
Youtube via Brave on my iPad refuses to stream anything above 720p most of the time. As a result I just use it less.
Agreed. I found by the end I was better off rapidly tapping out the answers due to no penalty for incorrect guessed
>> The CEO’s job is to make as much profit as possible. Higher salaries mean less profit. It’s just how the game works.

I find this to be too simplified. The CEO's job is far beyond salaries alone.

>> Even if we enter some new dotcom bubble and a good chunk of our startup ecosystem dies off, demand for tech is spreading across all industries, businesses everywhere are digitizing their operations and these systems will need to be maintained somehow.

We're not in a bubble. We are in the information era, and cloud computing is helping drive this. The demand for programmers will go away when the human population saturates on robots and AI. We've barely scratched the surface.

The only other possible downturn I can think of is a social reaction to reject technology, and enter another type of 'dark age'.
It's software that lets you stream PCVR to your headset. You're right that it's not a headset or hardware, but getting to play Half Life: Alyx completely wireless made it absolutely worth the $20 I paid for it. YMMV, but if you've got a Quest, a decent router and beefy PC hardware, I consider it a no-brainer. Plus, the PC versions of a lot of these games are just better. VRChat doesn't have as many arbitrary restrictions, Beat Saber lets you load in arbitrary maps/songs to play with, and your game purchases aren't locked in to Facebook if you decide to switch to a better headset (ie. Valve Index) later down the line.
I am fascinated that the popular press has described this as Google adding privacy (which is how google describes it of course) where really it’s a massive escalation of their spying network.
What It Takes to Be a Good Teacher
Lawyers and doctors in the US effectively have union-style control on the supply of lawyers and doctors, via the Bar Association and AMA.

Developers have no such labor association. We also have headwinds like H1-Bs, that push down our wages.
Great start, I can see myself using this.

1. Add a checkbox for flexible start date

2. Ask how long of a vacation

For $10k I got 1 year in India. I'd have preferred 2 months in San Francisco.
A not quite obvious side effect of this - you should be aware of the vast majority of things you do that you are not in the top 5% - and don’t sweat it. Most things in life just need to be done, not done exceptionally well, so spend your effort on the things that matter.

For example, I shop pretty badly at the store, no list, no plan - not worth it to me to develop those, I can spend time elsewhere on the things I can be good at.
Yes, and perhaps analogous, the self driving levels help regulators, press, and general public differentiate between marketing puffery and substance.
The official Python VSCode extension from Microsoft is itself a further development of that one (indeed, you can still see that it's a fork on GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python).
I hear you, definitely can get tricky. But again, it isn't that hard.
Server side tracking based on what, server access logs? That's not particularly helpful compared to the info you get with clientside analytics libraries.
We have some nuclear power stations built long ago, a regulatory quagmire, loss of production expertise, and Toshiba / Westinghouse atomic power division bankrupt [1].

I'm afraid that making new nuclear power viable will take quite some effort. I hope that this effort will eventually be exerted.

[1]: https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/after-crippling...
I think it ends with everyone becoming a developer

Not in a million years. When I was 10 I got my first computer and spent 12-16 hours per day on it every day learning BASIC, 6502 Assembly and many other languages.

All the adults at the time thought, “this is how all kids will be from now on!”

Except none of my peers did it. The generation after me only had a small percentage of people truly interested in computers and it hasn’t grown much since then.

I’ve interviewed a couple hundred computer science graduates from top schools for jobs and the vast majority of them didn’t touch their first programming language until college.

And these are computer science graduates! A large percentage of the total population is outright technology hostile and proud of it.
I thought the 8008 manuals used hex, but, as kens points out in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30409889, the Datapoint manuals used octal.

My notes on the 8080 are at https://dercuano.github.io/notes/8080-opcode-map.html.
I find hyper quite nice to work with to build reverse proxies, mostly thanks to the HTTP client and server having common types for request, response, headers and body streams etc. I agree that it is only a decent lower level library rather than a full featured proxy framework though.
User agent strings tend to reveal the operating system and CPU architecture.
Pretty much. Most of the conscripts will rapidly realise that there is still plenty of jungle in Singapore.
The degree to which the OS deviates from the vanilla kernel behavior depends on the requirements of the processes being run in real-time.

For example, to run hard real-time, high frequency (>10 kHz) tasks with low latency and jitter, one needs to disable CPU frequency scaling (among other things) when compiling the kernel. The result is higher power consumption.
That is why I mentioned changing your UA. Unfortunately, with JS that is not enough due to client-side hints and other information leaked.
"Imagine if we punished under-funded schools" with fines and reduced funding.

...

Oh wait that was the "No child left behind" which provided a mechanism to allow states to defund low income schools that they didn't want to support in the first place.
Using a shopping list would actually save you time to spend elsewhere rather than at a crappy grocery store :)
With 12-bit, 18-bit, or 36-bit words octal is pretty great. It just sucks with 8-bit bytes being grouped into 16-bit or 32-bit words.
I am claiming a very specific thing, a language fork. Your examples are entirely different things that have nothing to do with computer languages.
Some blockchain project offer grants for (completely legal) programming work, and some of them wont require real world identification.
I actually think high quality programmers will always be in high demand. Poor programmers will get found out sooner, as the general population becomes more technical.
If that were the case then Asians wouldn't comprise 50% of school populations where affirmative action is banned even though there are far more middle and upper class whites in those states (California, Washington).

I don't think you've experienced what "caring about education" truly means. I mean that you are held to a high standard from a very early age. No B's allowed or you get an ass-whooping. You are expected to rank highly in any competitions or standardized testing. You're expected to take the most challenging classes possible and do well in them. Your parents constantly compare you to those better than you and motivate you to become better than them.

Those are much higher standards than what you're proposing, which is to just give them tutoring. They're things that you don't get by funding more resources, but by a certain form of family cultural norms. You can't buy culture with money.
Very cool. I'm slightly confused by the term training though, isn't it more Inference than training? A model that in near realtime upscales images or creates a 3d reconstruction?
1997 called and want their outdated MS opinion back.

MS is one of the largest open source contributors these days. .Net is open source and cross-platform. They even have an open source Linux distribution. They actively contribute to Rust, webAssembly, the Linux kernel, and Kubernetes.
> Through one of the educational reforms for which I advocated as governor, Indiana prohibits the so-called social promotion of children from third to fourth grade until they pass a reading test...The reform worked, in a uniquely rapid and emphatic fashion. In the first post-reform cycle of national assessments, Indiana fourth-graders jumped from 27th to 14th. Two years later, the state ranked ninth...
So a little accountability can go a long way.

I'm not saying this is a bad idea, or that you should advance the grade level of kids who didn't learn how to read. But, those improvements to the tests scores are probably better explained by the fact that they just stopped testing the kids who were dragging down the average. The third graders who didn't learn to read were left in third grade, and they only tested the kids who went on to fourth.
If this is an attack from microwave transmissions, wouldn't that be detectable?

Definitely.

We will discover eventually that the Havana Syndrome is a workplace injury. The common denominator [all over the world] is that the victims are 'High-level natl security officials' and they are doing something or are having something done to them that is injuring them.
I don't think there are many protections in either case. I don't know what your experience is, but when people show up to work on my house they don't seem to do so without a lot of protections or regulations and I don't feel very worried about it. If your experience is different, please elaborate.

Larger point: The original post is by an old guy talking about how great things were in the old days. Even Adam Smith made fun of how it is human nature for people to think things are going to hell.

Economists do think over-regulation is a problem. But what they think is a problem is regulation that protect incumbents large and small (farm subsidies, accreditation). Getting sued by your house painter is silly.
This is such a childish view of the matter. Imagine if a scribe in medieval times wrote an article. "Times are great for people who know read and write now. How does it end?"
That's just a consequence of us sticking to 8-bit bytes (and derivative word sizes), no? Octal would have made a lot more sense if it was, say, 12-bit.
Does anyone know if there’s a way to switch to Dvorak and keep the modifiers relatively same - in other words the ctrl+c wouldn’t move when switching so it’s the same physical keys?

I suppose most of the time they’re picked for mnemonics rather than ease of typing but not all.
My go to is Christmas Vacation, as a dad helping make Christmas ‘happen’, that movie rings truer every year.
if you resell items, then you don't pay sales tax on them, so that part fits your description

VAT is not a sales tax because it's an income tax. That's what value added means, profit, income, the measure of the value you've added. Wether it gets hidden in the price or tacked on to a fake price makes little difference.
Pihole.
"I don't have the time or energy to block JavaScript and/or manually inspect each domain's requests to figure out if they use server-side tracking or not."

By default, I don't run JavaScript. I don't see blocking JS as a problem - in fact, it's a blessing as the web is blinding fast without it - and also most of the ads just simply disappear if JS is not running.

On occasions when I need JS (only about 3-5% of sites) it's just a matter of toggling it on and refreshing the page. I've been working this way for at least 15 years - that's when I first realized JS was ruining my web experience.

I'm now so spoilt by the advantages of the non-JS world that I don't think I could ever return. I'm always acutely reminded of the fact whenever I use someone else's machine.
In the US, the idea of "separation of church and state" is very imprecise. The actual law is the First Amendement to the US Constitution, and the various Supreme Court decisions that have interpreted and applied it.

Go read the text of the First Amendment, and tell me where you got the idea that the military can't provide chaplains or religious services, on an egalitarian basis, to people in the armed forces.

Religion is a critical part of the lives of huge numbers of human beings. While it's not for everyone, emotionally healthy, mature atheists and non-believers generally understand and accept that religious beliefs and practices have for our neighbors.

I'm an atheist. I'm also truly glad that the Air Force is providing space for worship, employing chaplains, and encouraging it's people to participate in their religious activities. Given the hardship and isolation of serving at Thule, I think the least we can do is to help them meet their religious needs.
Highly doubtful the method would continue to be called "gtag"; any js bundling / minification would replace that with a randomly generated string, and it's just as easy to randomize the server-side api endpoint url, making this virtually impossible to block (maybe a pattern analysis on the data being transmitted, but that can also be encrypted with random algorithms and keys, beyond recognition).
Why Do So Many Humans Need Glasses?
Re. big pharma, imagine how weary the roughly 400k families of people who dies feel.

"Three major drug distributors and the pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson have agreed to a $26 billion settlement with states to resolve thousands of lawsuits over the country's opioid crisis, officials announced Wednesday."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/4-companies-near-26-bil...

None of these executives were anonymous or ever had to be. They made a ton of money doing bad things, they'll keep most of the money and they'll never go to prison.

They way you deal with this is, obviously in my mind, through the rule of law and a robust functioning society that regulates commerce. Not wild-west free market.
>I think the "wouldn't it be nice to die?" angle was undeserved and highly biased

It is saying "wouldn't it be nice to be in a nursing home, if you had VR".
Having spent a good amount of time looking at potential JavaScript malware that ended up being repackaged GTM, I'm pretty confident anyone who says they're "blocking Google Tag Manager" has their head in the sand.
I love the idea of using underscore to represent partial currying.

Somewhat related, here's a similar PR for native support of this feature in Julia: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/24990.

In my opinion, I'd love to see this baked in as part of the language. Getting buy in from my team to use this in production is just not going to happen. But cool package though!
I remember this fact being cited a lot as well, but honestly I question it, as others said, boys toys have traditionally been much more building / schematic oriented. I honestly doubt there would be a huge discrepancy in kids today
I assume IE6 source code (mshtml.dll) was leaked along side with WinXP
Aren't browsers shifting to a per-domain cookie jar?

While you can never prevent one specific site from tracking you, this still doesn't (directly) allow your activity on Site A to be linked to activity on Site B, does it?

Of course, fingerprinting combined with IP addresses will ultimately allow something that comes very close to it, so the current state (a few hundred trackers per website, all ending up harmlessly incrementing the adblocker's counter) is better for privacy for power-users, but I'm not sure if this is the big "game over".
A couple of other gems in that file:

// Okay, bug 30784 time. It's possible that we only got 1
// measly byte in the last data block. Rare, but it does happen.
// In that case, the additional byte may still not supply us with
// enough bits for the next code, so, as Mars Needs Women, IE
// Needs Data.
if ( end >= _gifinfo.lastbit && !_gifinfo.get_done )
Better yet, put education on the blockchain. Each student gets a supply of school crypto which can be traded for schooling, or exchanged with other students. Some kids may not stay in school as long, but this way everyone gets equal value. Plus schools earn much more as the price of Educoin increases, which improves quality of education across the board.
Nerd sniping indeed.

This morning without putting a whole lot of effort into this, I was able to winnow it down to 27.32 bits per word without any other trickery like 5bit packing. You need at most 1 bit per word to identify the real words, so that's 27.32+1 bits without the bitpacking. Doing 6 bits per letter drops that by 25%.

Now having put too much effort in, I'm around 21.6 + 1 bits per word, (17 bit packed) just by using SSP.
Yes, I really wanted to buy something like that, the first time I heard about it.

But then, looking through stores, seeing these second-hand mini-sneses being at least 35 pounds, sometimes up to 100, even though I could definitely afford one while I was working full time in UK, just kinda left a really bitter taste in mouth.

Really? Are they really milking everything out of us? I had for a while forgot what name emulator on my phone I wanted to play some pokemon, worked fine. Why would they want to price their devices so high? Just because people can afford it?

I refuse to buy it, it's that simple.