skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people only see 1-2% of what a marketing department does. The primary goal of a marketing department is to inform and present information in a clear and attractive manner. A good marketing department is also an advocate for what the consumer wants based on research and consumer feedback.

Are there bad actors in marketing. Yes. A lot. Marketing agencies are full of them. Agencies, to generalize, only care about short-term results and selling the client on the next big idea. They won’t be around or have to live with the repurcuions of their bad actions. In fact, the clients are their customer and so they don’t really care about the client’s customers at all so long as the client is paying them. They just need superficial numbers to go up to show the client. They are screwing over the client and customers are unfortunately collateral damage, but the agencies, again, don’t really have to deal with that.

A lot of the most anti-consumer tactics do not work in the long-run. Most consumers aren’t so easily tricked into buying a product today and they most certainly won’t be tricked twice. It doesn’t take too long—usually—for the snake-oil salesman to get run out of town. They just do a lot of damage while around.
> write a program that copies standard input to standard output

This is pretty trivial in Java, just as in other languages. But most people don't ever need to learn the low level `System` methods needed to do it.

To me, this highlights the difference between a comprehensive approach to learning a language and a more piecemeal one. I learned Java by reading the canonical books from cover to cover, like Effective Java. But I think this is pretty rare.
For example, I recall interviewing many experienced Java programmers who didn't know what things like `protected` or `volatile` mean.
I built a client for their mobile API a while ago. Send it through Tor. That was the plan but I decided the project itself wasn’t worth it.
There is nothing new for the few experts out there (yes Segment has been doing it, yes others also, yes you can do it yourself). But Google proposes it, well, the adoption is not the same...

I agree with you on the legal doctrine
The further back you go, the further above average you needed to be just to touch a computer.
Nowhere did I say it was a consequence of capitalism.
The last part is why. The general stereotype of developers on the biz or design side is that they are smart but incredibly narrowly focused and refuse to comprehend anything outside their domain.
> But that Japanese experience is not just created by the teachers, the other students and their parents are a very big part of it.

As an example of the different overall culture, in Japan kids clean the schools (to varying degrees):

* https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/04/04/396621542/without...
Isn't it more rich kid working in a country, possibly very successful, without paying local taxes?
Captchas in general are user hostile and rude, when possible I back out and won’t use a website when I see them. If you give a company money when they fuck you, they are gonna keep fucking you.
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A "Fake it until you make it" story but "not a single client contract had been signed" how at that scale can "not a single" prospect sign up.
I can't find a link right now but I believe Kevin is in the process of implementing "move" in Yjs, so that if you copy and paste from a section or split it, it is a move rather than a delete and insert.

Agreed on tables, they are so much more complex and may need further operation types to ensure no dropped edits.

Obviously with Peritext you are implementing a very rich text focused CRDT. The way I see it is there are general purpose and domain specific CRDTs, Yjs being more general purpose but with a concept of 'marks' on strings for formatting. Ultimately we need both and I like the concept of one that covers both bases so you can have a db document that contains rich text fields along with more traditional structured data.

Without exactly domain specific CRDTs for your application you will always have to do some level of schema correction after merging documents.
NL, UK equipment ( Acorn Electron )
If you aren’t becoming a SWE you are probably waisting your time
It has been discussed on here before but if you aren’t making every attempt possible to become a software engineer, the amount of money and work/life balance you are forfeiting is going to far outweigh any other opportunity you’re pursuing.

If you’re in college, there is a good chance you should switch majors or at least figure out how to increase your chances of landing a dev job. (Maybe something like BIT?)

As someone who attempted to become a SWE for a few years now and failed miserably I have to say it is gut wrenching to see most people around me making absurds amount of money while I’m still stuck in the learning phase. But I hope that will chance soon.

If you can live knowing you have the opportunity to easily make well over 6 figures and work from anywhere but decide to do something else, power to you. I genuinely hope that in 10 years you have that same mentality but there’s a good chance you won’t.

TLDR: investing the majority of your time and money into becoming a software engineer provides the greatest return on money and work/life balance by an almost unfathomable margin.
Also no warning or any information to the effect that something is being prevented because of an OEM situation. Just no way to switch the two licenses between the two PC's.
The Cloud identity mystery was wonderful for me as a kid. It really had a lot of intrigue and mystique. Even when they explicitly explain it, something didn't seem to fit right. Something about imposter syndrome. Crisis Core helped establish a lot more context but the characters and settings really did feel like Kingdom Hearts 1.5.
They can take a controlling stake, stop the split, then issue a takeover for the rest, but they're unlikely to need to, the shareholders have already voted with their feet.
Yes, what would be needed would be a "reversed Clover", but, though there is some work in this space, I don't think that there is anything actually working (besides the much simpler int10h provider for EFI, needed for Windows 7 and 2008 on motherboards without CSM), here a few projects are listed:

http://reboot.pro/index.php?showtopic=22488

but, even if something will come out, it will likely need to be adapted/targeted to specific hardware, unless somehow it is possible to translate transparently UEFI functions to and from BIOS interrupts.

I believe that bare-metal DOS is going to become extinct and be relegated inside emulators or virtual machines.

In itself it would not be that bad if we had actually working/useful native EFI programs/shells, or grub (or grub4dos, now also in a grub4efi version) related ones but AFAIK - and for whatever reasons - these are very rare.
> This must be a cultural thing. I have seen two cyclists run red lights where I live in the past decade. I see motorists do the same thing every day.

Fair enough. I only have my own experience to go on. Since writing my original comment and this one, I walked to the supermarket and back. I saw no cars run red lights but 4 cyclists do it (out of 5).

> There are also some who refuse to respect the traffic regulations.

This was the point I was making - specifically that the "some" cyclists who don't follow the rules (at least in ways that put me as a pedestrian at risk) is in my experience significantly more than the number of drivers.

> But at the end of the day I consider the failure to reflect upon the dangers posed by far more dangerous motor vehicles and a desire to focus upon bicycles as ignorant, arrogant, or deliberate acts of malice.

OK, so let's assume that my observation that cyclists break the rules more frequently is based on an "ignorant, arrogant or deliberate [act] of malice" on my part.

Why do you think I would feel that way? I neither drive nor cycle, so it's not like I'm in the drivers' camp, bashing cyclists.
UK PM Boris Johnson to lift all remaining Covid restrictions in England
Be wealthy. Don’t have kids. One of the biggest quality of life hits based on other research I have read is having kids and not having enough money. Or just choose your partner well. Relationship satisfaction is relative anyhow. So even if it dips you can still be objectively happy.
I decided to learn Swift in a week and build an app to solve a problem I've been having for ages.

Basically what the app does is save and close all your apps in one click (or keystroke), and reopen them all later. The idea is to be able to clean up your desktop before screen sharing / making a screen recording, or just saving your workspace to switch off from work and come back another time (even by scheduling apps to open automatically some time later).

I wrote about how I developed and designed the app over here if curious: https://ckarchive.com/b/0vuwh9h4ron7
Your argument only makes sense if the content behind the captcha is also local and relevant to the user.
The principled way of "abstracting away the server" is in fact namespacing of all OS-managed resources ala containers. This opens up possibilities like automated process checkpointing and migration, or even seamless vertical scaling to a multi-node cluster (as opposed to a single server node) via a SSI (single system image) environment.
... we need crypto

Did someone say otherwise?

Crypto is an attempt to fulfill a broad yearning for financial freedom. The problem is, as it currently exists --- it just doesn't deliver.

Crypto doesn't displace trust, it misplaces it.

Instead of trusting government and regulated banks, you end up trusting the unregulated gatekeepers to the block chain --- the exchanges.

Who is making sure these gatekeepers are not self serving scammers and con artists? Why no one really.

In other words, block chain automates the accounting but it does nothing to eliminate *trust* as a central aspect of the monetary system. So the question simply becomes, who are you going to trust?

If government suddenly ceased to exist, the first thing people would do is re-invent it. Because left to their own devices, people are not trustworthy.
>You presented it as a (I presume good) example of your point. So I'm asking you because it definitly does not sound logical.

It doesn't sound logical to you that companies based in Sweden who endure some of the highest gas prices in the world does not want to compete with companies based out of eastern european companies with far cheaper gas - because they could just fill the tank outside of Sweden themselves?

As I said previously, I'm not a trucker myself, so I don't wanna go into the specifics, but that is one reason their union cites among others. And I don't find it THAT hard to imagine that no, it is not as simple as to just fill your tank outside of the country where the competition does.

> but that gap has also been largely plugged [1].

Your source is a proposal, critized by western unions as mentioned by your own posts. The proposal went through a compromise but is still being challenged in court by eastern european nations [1]. Anyway its too late, considering the EU is currently in a trucking crisis, that's what happens when you undercut a workforce for decades and suddenly demand increases rapidly.

>Its relevant because if it's a real problem Sweden can lower taxes on the gas prices in order to remain competitive. That's not something the EU needs to do.

And Sweden has high gas prices to try combat climate change, but it can lower those measures to be able to be competetive with the EU? How does this lead to an overall 'net benefit' through the EU, generally and individually, when the ecosystem collapses?

>My point is that local politicians are quick to point to the EU. However it wasn't local politicians that managed to for example get the mobile roaming fee's gone for good. If you want to have a laugh just look at the UK. Vodafone et al said the roaming costs wouldn't return after brexit. Yet somehow the roaming costs are back for UK citizens...

I was in UK when brexit came through and I still remember all the headlines about how severe and devastating the consequences were gonna be, yet I've still to see them realize. My question is, in the case of Vodafone, why wouldnt one company just not use roaming costs and undercut the competitors?

[1] https://www.europaportalen.se/2021/03/sverige-backar-nya-tra....
Outlook, Exchange and Active Directory?
These are buggy software packages from the 1990's right?
We've been off the lot for the longest time now. The PTSD is even almost gone.
Where the eff did this thread go on HN?! It is only 2 hours old, and was at #1 an hour ago. Now it’s not on the first 6 pages of HN. WTF?
Ask HN: Should I buy a used Notebook that has physically been in China?
Every answer before 30 minutes from now would be relevant to me beyond only curiosity. Thank you!
In fact you can, somewhat gruesomely, keep a rac alive long after it would normally perish by grafting body parts from other deceased racs onto it. There are even stories of necromancy whereby a rac thought long dead and buried could be exhumed and revived by feeding it fresh yrettab and cleaning its nostrils with a squirt of the potent restorative, 04dw.
I once saw a C header that defined "BEGIN" as {, "END" as } and other pascalisms. I find it difficult to understand how some people are so stubborn to change their model of thinking.
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We don't need "crypto," we need _Bitcoin_. Crypto is the scam he references here. It's clear that DHH has a very thin understanding of Bitcoin and is conflating arguments about the web3/crypto/defi/nft nonsense with it. _That_ is the psyop.

If people think Bitcoin and all of the other junk (sh*tcoins) are the same thing, you're just walking into the same trap as what precipitated the nightmare in Canada.

The thing to watch for is the push for CBDCs which are state-controlled cryptocurrencies which will give authoritarians perpetual hard-on levels of control. You think freezing a bank account is bad? Wait until they can make your money expire or prevent you from transacting with anyone they deem "bad actors."

Recommended: https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Altern...
True, but they are a redundant expense then.
Thanks!
I see the <cut> operator is actually explained in an older HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20502032
Breaking the Rules with Stateful Services
Just because you're standing up, and it's daily, doesn't mean your having a standup. You may just be part of a cargo cult.

A standup is a communication meeting, where only those actually doing the work should be communicating. Other people should listen in and ask questions afterwards. There are plenty of other opportunities for project managers and others to have an impact. Impeding the team's communication, even if well meaning, is counterproductive.

But, like most things, those who have power will always find a way to subvert available mechanisms to enhance their power, even when it costs more, takes longer, and pisses people off.
I bought some about a year ago and have been pleased with them.

I asked each optician:

- which brand will I get

- how will you do the measurements

as my understanding of the technology is that the measurements are critical.

I went with the Essilor Varilux X. I very much wanted the best fit I could get as I have double vision from amblyopia.
Some stuff about HyperNeWS and related things:

https://donhopkins.medium.com/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-go...
And with their knowledge moat they got lazy and built an industry where a lot of people dreaded getting taxis because of meters, getting ripped off, lack of accountability, etc.
They were not unpopular at all. They weren't for everyone, but most tech people I knew either had a palm or Psion.

And as others have mentioned, you could tether over cable or irda.

I used to check my email like that in the middle of nowhere when I was traveling in Australia.
In an alternative timeline, the Obama administration would have ctrl-Z’d the memorandum after the invasion and given Ukraine their nukes back.

Based on what we see with NK, it probably would have stabilized the region.
So... when I'm commuting to work it's a hobby?
Roads don't belong to cars lol.
Romania, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, basically most former eastern bloc countries that are also EU members.
IIRC Namecheap and GoDaddy were both named as "scammy" in TFA.
That is why working under a non-technical manager is a strong deal-breaker for me. Fortunately at Zoho where I work, the management culture is rooted with an engineering background. Even the CEO himself, works on hard problems like compilers and dev-friendly formal verification.

I don't think I'll survive a single sprint under a non-technical decision maker.
Great feedback thanks!

1. Will fix this! It's because I'm using jQuery draggable for moving the letters.
2. Same as above.
3. Thanks!
4. The score is letter values multiplied by word length (will make this more clear).
5. Yes this would be a great improvement.
6. Yes this would be good.
7. Will play around with this design.
8. Thanks!
it's only a status meeting for management if management insists on being there.

kick them out.
Honestly I was thinking similar but not exactly the same. More something with a VT-d memory map/port map so that the DOS application could potentially directly interface with legacy hardware without interfering or making the PIF incompatible. This has applications particularly in factories where they still use ISA interface cards with tooling etc. At the same time it would allow setting things like EGA/CGA compatibility requirements. Could you do it in the PIF? Probably, but I'd rather not risk breaking compatibility if possible. It's an idea only and would require research anyway assuming I actually had the time and energy to implement.
I know some quite clever people who could not solve this, for different reasons.

One of the brightest, quickest witted people I know experiences significant dyslexia and dyscalculia. She would fail at this and it would make her quietly angry at you for making her go through it.

I also know someone with a vision disorder who would struggle.

Hell, when I am tired, I would have to close one eye to pass -- I have this issue with quite a lot of captchas, and I am not legally vision-impaired. And I would be angry at the developer for making me struggle.

Furthermore, I think in a world with an ageing population it might be worth considering that puzzles like this are a bit like early dementia tests. It's worth thinking what data gets collected when the world is asked to perform brainteasers to gain access to essential functions.
> That's the whole point, and was the intention of the group.

That's a point you are making, and it's a point I completely agree with.

But don't dismiss the unrelated point that DHH is raising, which is a concern over the power to freeze anyone's assets without due process, and the power of crypto to prevent that from happening.

Even if DHH is categorically wrong that it's a "peaceful" protest or whatever, his core point still stands.
Nice didn't know this existed!
I think it's going to be important to recognize and block javascript/wasm by the bytecode it compiles down to. As far as I know we don't have this ability to "jump into" the process. ublock or umatrix can't be extended to do this currently. You could send the scripts the browser downloads to an outside service for fingerprinting, but doing this in the same browser isn't possible right now.

This wouldn't completely stop a server from generating code that compiles to slightly different bytecode. Then the move would be to identify side effects of the execution?

Cat and mouse...
Well if it does 50m back and he makes 10 million a year from his wine portfolio(probably more) in 5 years he'll get back to 0 on the 100 million so its a bet but it's not the end of the world. Also, at late life legacy matters most then money to accomplish what you want before the end of the biological clock.
>Obviously, faking employees, company history etc shows his dishonesty / con side of this

He also faked past work for 42 clients he never had, contractually promised visas and relocation to London, faked his own education and work history, faked a co-founder, and more.

You could, of course, bootstrap a company via hiring with a commission-only probationary period. But you would have to comply with minimum wage laws and other labor laws if they were actual employees.
Nice writeup, keep it up!
Why did it get worse after? Was it really not better in the first few years, before children?
Ask HN: How to track flying objects?
What technology can be used to track multiple flying objects in a space like football field and up to 100 ft above it? Attaching something lightweight to each object is fine. I would like to visualise an FPV drone race with computer graphics in realtime.

Any ideas are welcome thanks!
Maybe thats the difference between "having mastered something" and "doing something a long time"? I cannot imagine an experienced Java programmer that doesn't know what "protected" means, its use is fundamental and pervasive. As for "volatile", idk - not knowing it hints at that person not having a concept of thread-safety. I'd expect someone who claims to be a senior to maybe not give me the memory model implications, but at least having a rough idea of what it is used for.
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The Canadian Gubmint is issuing orders about seizing crypto assets too.

We need more economic freedom; "cryptocurrencies" are not suddenly a panacea to that end. They're still the scam riddled "but this is stupid at its very base" pyramid schemes they were all along.

See the precedent set by Emperor Norton; community currencies and other alternates can work too. What's needed is a government that admits limits to its powers to interfere with its citizens ability to transact. There's no technical means to make a government live up to that promise... Short of explosives.
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Not just anyone, only those with already existing natural talent.

If something comes very easy to you then you may believe that it's that easy for everyone. It's not. This is the fallacy of the author - he should try to get to 95th percentile doing something brand new that they don't have a natural talent for to understand how very wrong they are.

I found learning to programming extremely easy but my best friend just couldn't grasp it even though she tried much harder than I did and we were in exactly the same class. OTOH she bought a guitar and taught herself to play it without even trying whereas I couldn't play more than a couple notes even with years of music lessons.
I think they literally can’t change it now. People depend on all Jira’s and Confluence’s failure modes.

Better to build an entirely new product from scratch.
Thanks for the correction! I think I meant priority then - previously when turning into a side street, motor vehicles had priority over pedestrians waiting to cross, but now pedestrians waiting to cross have priority over motor vehicles turning in - is that right?
the "new" thing is that it's been pushed by Google, hence made a lot easier
It was clear this was going to happen for more than a decade now. I'm surprised it took them so long to really push for this. I'm just reiterating what I said back then: There's no point in wasting any time and resources into a stupid technical cat and mouse game to fix this. The only sensible way to deal with this stuff is through legislation.